Diing.
A pinch and a punch, first day of the month.
roughbarked said:
Diing.A pinch and a punch, first day of the month.
Not according to my calendar…
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
Diing.A pinch and a punch, first day of the month.
Not according to my calendar…
:)
Oh well. Someone else told me it was the first and I didn’t look at the calendar.
Morning pilgrims.
What news?
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims.
What news?
It’s not March quite yet. ;)
Hope all is well with you.
Peak Warming Man said:
What news?
It’s a round-up of local, national, and international events that are of significance to our lives. Often presented every half hour or so on the radio and at other periods on the telly.
I’m here to help.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims.
What news?
I’ve cut another bamboo shoot and extracted the edible bits. In a little while I’ll cut it up and boil it.
There are two more edible shoots that need doing today.
We have haircut appointments for 11 am.
Breakfast (scrambled eggs) will be soon.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
Diing.A pinch and a punch, first day of the month.
Not according to my calendar…
:)
Oh well. Someone else told me it was the first and I didn’t look at the calendar.
Not to worry. It’ll be March, somewhere, soon.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims.
What news?
I’ve cut another bamboo shoot and extracted the edible bits. In a little while I’ll cut it up and boil it.
There are two more edible shoots that need doing today.
We have haircut appointments for 11 am.
Breakfast (scrambled eggs) will be soon.
You’ll soon be eating it raw and developing white spots.
Ugh, it has been a morning!
Incident at school yesterday so I emailed the teacher and school with details. Getting Mini Me ready for school while she’s ready to tell me more details. Dad decides it’s a good time to call to say he’s been referred to the hospital for more tests for an elevated test result. Passing this info to my sister but I didn’t articulate it well so she’s freaking out.
Traffic heavy on the way to school because two P platers have had a car accident. Drive past the private school, there’s two kids outside the gate beating each other up. Call the school.
Walkies was fine, didn’t even need Ventolin today, but I mistimed a step and hurt my knee. After walkies with my friend I popped into Bunnings, where I park next to a work truck with a dog locked inside. Windows are cracked open a couple of centimetres. Although there’s plenty of shady parking spaces, dude has chosen to park in full sun – it’s already 28 degrees. Dog still there when I come back five minutes later so I call RACQ, who arrived quickly and before the owner came back.
Today’s gonna be one of those days I have vodka in my Milo lol.
Oh, and the invoice for the upcoming school excursion is $47. What?! Are they bringing home real gold or something??
Divine Angel said:
Passing this info to my sister but I didn’t articulate it well so she’s freaking out.
It’s not your responsibility for your sister’s reaction.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims.
What news?
I’ve cut another bamboo shoot and extracted the edible bits. In a little while I’ll cut it up and boil it.
There are two more edible shoots that need doing today.
We have haircut appointments for 11 am.
Breakfast (scrambled eggs) will be soon.
You’ll soon be eating it raw and developing white spots.
Nup.
Just relaxing, watching Pop Culture Jeopardy 😏
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:I’ve cut another bamboo shoot and extracted the edible bits. In a little while I’ll cut it up and boil it.
There are two more edible shoots that need doing today.
We have haircut appointments for 11 am.
Breakfast (scrambled eggs) will be soon.
You’ll soon be eating it raw and developing white spots.
Nup.
Eating bamboo raw is not good for humans; bamboo is mildly toxic. The toxin is destroyed by boiling. I boil for an hour to be thoroughly sure.
Well, that’s some weeding and mowing done. Those were part of yesterday’s agenda, but got put aside for more important things. Now to make some lemon/lime cordial for my bushwandering friend. Picked the lemons yesterday morning so they should have slightly softened to make them easier to squeeze.
buffy said:
Well, that’s some weeding and mowing done. Those were part of yesterday’s agenda, but got put aside for more important things. Now to make some lemon/lime cordial for my bushwandering friend. Picked the lemons yesterday morning so they should have slightly softened to make them easier to squeeze.
Walkies friend discovered a kaffir lime tree on the school grounds. Also pumpkins, and tomatoes. We’re trying to get the tuckshop to utilise them but so far, no luck. Lack of time and volunteers.
Police are investigating after retired actor Gene Hackman and his wife were found dead in their home under “suspicious” circumstances.
Here’s what we know about their deaths.
Warning: This story contains descriptions of the scene some readers may find confronting.
What happened to Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa?
Hackman, 95, his wife Betsy Arakawa, 65, and one of their three dogs were found dead by a maintenance worker who had arrived to do routine work at their Santa Fe home on Wednesday.
According to an affidavit prepared by police to support a search warrant, Hackman was found in the home’s mudroom — a small room near an entryway where shoes and jackets are stored.
A deputy observed that Hackman appeared to have fallen. A pair of sunglasses and a cane were on the floor nearby.
An aerial view of a three cars parked outside a building, where two officers speak
Santa Fe County deputies outside Hackman and Arakawa’s home. (AP: Roberto E Rosales)
Arakawa was found next to a fallen space heater in a bathroom, where an open prescription bottle and pills were scattered on a nearby countertop.
Police said a dead German shepherd was found in a bathroom closet. Two healthy dogs were also found on the property — one inside and one outside.
Investigators say they were dead for some time, noting mummification in Arakawa’s hands and feet.
That refers to when a body’s soft tissue has been preserved, often by environmental factors such as low humidity and cool conditions.
The search warrant affadavit stated “the death of the two deceased individuals to be suspicious enough in nature to require a thorough search investigation”.
It noted the home’s front door was “unsecured and opened”.
The maintenance workers told police they rarely saw the couple when conducting routine maintenance, and kept in contact primarily through text messages and phone calls with Ms Arakawa.
They said they last had contact with the couple two weeks prior.
A reporter stands with a tripod outside the entrance of a gated community. A sign reads ‘Santa Fe Summit’
A reporter stands outside the entrance to the gated community where Hackman and Arakawa lived. (Reuters: Andrew Hay)
How did they die?
Their cause of death has not yet been confirmed.
There was no indication they had been shot or had any wounds, nor any signs of an intruder.
At a press conference Thursday afternoon, Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said police had not ruled foul play out.
“What I did state was there was no obvious sign or indication of foul play; there was no immediate sign of foul play,” he told reporters.
“I haven’t ruled that out yet. This is an investigation, so we’re keeping everything on the table.
“I think the autopsy is going to tell us a lot, and any evidence we collect.”
Speaking to TMZ, Hackman’s daughter, Elizabeth Jean Hackman, suggested carbon monoxide poisoning may be to blame.
But there were no obvious signs of a gas leak.
The New Mexico Gas Co tested lines in and around the home, and the Fire Department found no signs of a carbon monoxide leak or poisoning.
“As of now, there are no signs or evidence indicating there were any problems associated to the pipes in and around the residence,” New Mexico gas company reportedly stated.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-28/gene-hackman-what-we-know-death/104993184
Divine Angel said:
buffy said:
Well, that’s some weeding and mowing done. Those were part of yesterday’s agenda, but got put aside for more important things. Now to make some lemon/lime cordial for my bushwandering friend. Picked the lemons yesterday morning so they should have slightly softened to make them easier to squeeze.
Walkies friend discovered a kaffir lime tree on the school grounds. Also pumpkins, and tomatoes. We’re trying to get the tuckshop to utilise them but so far, no luck. Lack of time and volunteers.
Use the Makrut Lime yourself. Leaves, fruit juice and skin taste similar in meals. Although the juice also adds a sweet-sourness to sauces.
That Gene Hackman tragedy just gets more weird. He’s fallen, she’s next to a space heater, and the dog died in a closet?
Michael V said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:You’ll soon be eating it raw and developing white spots.
Nup.
Eating bamboo raw is not good for humans; bamboo is mildly toxic. The toxin is destroyed by boiling. I boil for an hour to be thoroughly sure.
What happened to your Kim Chee making??
Divine Angel said:
That Gene Hackman tragedy just gets more weird. He’s fallen, she’s next to a space heater, and the dog died in a closet?
The dog died first, it was late, dark, cold. Let’s put it in the cupboard and deal with it in the morning. Morning never came…
Divine Angel said:
That Gene Hackman tragedy just gets more weird. He’s fallen, she’s next to a space heater, and the dog died in a closet?
Apparently she was near an open pill bottle of some kind.
furious said:
Divine Angel said:
That Gene Hackman tragedy just gets more weird. He’s fallen, she’s next to a space heater, and the dog died in a closet?
The dog died first, it was late, dark, cold. Let’s put it in the cupboard and deal with it in the morning. Morning never came…
You just know this is gonna be turned into a Netflix documentary
Divine Angel said:
That Gene Hackman tragedy just gets more weird. He’s fallen, she’s next to a space heater, and the dog died in a closet?
They could make a moofie out of that.
I feel like the space heater is significant somehow, but my brain can’t quite connect the dots.
lunch landed, before you ask i’m not saying, top secret of course, nice bowl of reheated top secret, can’t even give you hint, can’t mention the cheese in it and tomato sauce, don’t try to guess, i’ve sent my goons out, you’ll see their vehicle not far away from you idling, looking for something to decorate the grill of their car, they are quite artistic in unusual ways
Witty Rejoinder said:
Divine Angel said:
That Gene Hackman tragedy just gets more weird. He’s fallen, she’s next to a space heater, and the dog died in a closet?
Apparently she was near an open pill bottle of some kind.
Yeah, but that wouldn’t kill you.
Divine Angel said:
That Gene Hackman tragedy just gets more weird. He’s fallen, she’s next to a space heater, and the dog died in a closet?
so it’s suspicious now?
Dead dog in the closet is probably the key to all this.
Once the dog autopsy results come in, the mystery will either deepen or unravel.
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
That Gene Hackman tragedy just gets more weird. He’s fallen, she’s next to a space heater, and the dog died in a closet?
so it’s suspicious now?
Two dogs were fine, why do you ask
Bubblecar said:
Dead dog in the closet is probably the key to all this.Once the dog autopsy results come in, the mystery will either deepen or unravel.
Given the amount of time since the deaths, the dog may have simply starved or died of thirst in there.
That appears to be out in the open and Danishire is not very big.
I wonder what they thought it was?
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
That Gene Hackman tragedy just gets more weird. He’s fallen, she’s next to a space heater, and the dog died in a closet?
so it’s suspicious now?
dead sus.
Peak Warming Man said:
That appears to be out in the open and Danishire is not very big.
I wonder what they thought it was?
That is a picture of the real Stone henge
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
That appears to be out in the open and Danishire is not very big.
I wonder what they thought it was?
That is a picture of the real Stone henge
Work with me here.
dv said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
That Gene Hackman tragedy just gets more weird. He’s fallen, she’s next to a space heater, and the dog died in a closet?
so it’s suspicious now?
Two dogs were fine, why do you ask
there’s a joke about two dogs.
Woodie said:
Michael V said:
Michael V said:Nup.
Eating bamboo raw is not good for humans; bamboo is mildly toxic. The toxin is destroyed by boiling. I boil for an hour to be thoroughly sure.
What happened to your Kim Chee making??
Independent of bamboo. But I haven’t done kimchi for a while. I forget things so easily now.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
That appears to be out in the open and Danishire is not very big.
I wonder what they thought it was?
That is a picture of the real Stone henge
“An “extraordinary” timber circle believed to be thousands of years old and connected to Stonehenge in England has been discovered in the ground in Denmark.”
so it is a woodhenge. Probably connected to Stonehenge via Ley lines.
Michael V said:
Woodie said:
Michael V said:Eating bamboo raw is not good for humans; bamboo is mildly toxic. The toxin is destroyed by boiling. I boil for an hour to be thoroughly sure.
What happened to your Kim Chee making??
Independent of bamboo. But I haven’t done kimchi for a while. I forget things so easily now.
Do you have adequate supplies?
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
That appears to be out in the open and Danishire is not very big.
I wonder what they thought it was?
That is a picture of the real Stone henge
Work with me here.
The internet tells me that this new discovery is a timber construction. So, the analogy is getting weaker…
Probably Sussan Ley lines
ChrispenEvan said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
That Gene Hackman tragedy just gets more weird. He’s fallen, she’s next to a space heater, and the dog died in a closet?
so it’s suspicious now?
dead sus.
the pig was fine
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Dead dog in the closet is probably the key to all this.Once the dog autopsy results come in, the mystery will either deepen or unravel.
Given the amount of time since the deaths, the dog may have simply starved or died of thirst in there.
If the closet has doors, how did the dog get in there? It could be one of those open closets, in which case the dog may have gone in there to die, as dogs like to hide when they’re very unwell.
And was this bathroom closet in the same bathroom as the wife was found? Did the dog ingest some spilled pills? Are they going to do a necropsy on the dog?
I have so many questions. Seems like a case which would hit mainstream media even if the deceased wasn’t a famous actor.
dv said:
Probably Sussan Ley lines
Nice
Divine Angel said:
dv said:
Probably Sussan Ley lines
Nice
damn and yet when we made the one about light flight paths planes and geodesics it just went whoosh
Michael V said:
Woodie said:
Michael V said:Eating bamboo raw is not good for humans; bamboo is mildly toxic. The toxin is destroyed by boiling. I boil for an hour to be thoroughly sure.
What happened to your Kim Chee making??
Independent of bamboo. But I haven’t done kimchi for a while. I forget things so easily now.
Oh, I’ve got a perfectly good rationalization for that state of affairs. If I forgot it, it wasn’t important enough for me to remember it. It’s just my mind clearing out the frass.
:)
(I’ve been using this excuse for years and years.)
dv said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
That Gene Hackman tragedy just gets more weird. He’s fallen, she’s next to a space heater, and the dog died in a closet?
so it’s suspicious now?
Two dogs were fine, why do you ask
Divine Angel said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Dead dog in the closet is probably the key to all this.Once the dog autopsy results come in, the mystery will either deepen or unravel.
Given the amount of time since the deaths, the dog may have simply starved or died of thirst in there.
If the closet has doors, how did the dog get in there? It could be one of those open closets, in which case the dog may have gone in there to die, as dogs like to hide when they’re very unwell.
And was this bathroom closet in the same bathroom as the wife was found? Did the dog ingest some spilled pills? Are they going to do a necropsy on the dog?
I have so many questions. Seems like a case which would hit mainstream media even if the deceased wasn’t a famous actor.
Maybe the space heater fell and locked the dog in the closet?
Peak Warming Man said:
That appears to be out in the open and Danishire is not very big.
I wonder what they thought it was?
Ref, please.
I know about full moon lunacy but new moon lunacy is a new one.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
Woodie said:What happened to your Kim Chee making??
Independent of bamboo. But I haven’t done kimchi for a while. I forget things so easily now.
Oh, I’ve got a perfectly good rationalization for that state of affairs. If I forgot it, it wasn’t important enough for me to remember it. It’s just my mind clearing out the frass.
:)
(I’ve been using this excuse for years and years.)
Well I never, Buffy making a rationalisation: who’d have thought?
Divine Angel said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Dead dog in the closet is probably the key to all this.Once the dog autopsy results come in, the mystery will either deepen or unravel.
Given the amount of time since the deaths, the dog may have simply starved or died of thirst in there.
If the closet has doors, how did the dog get in there? It could be one of those open closets, in which case the dog may have gone in there to die, as dogs like to hide when they’re very unwell.
And was this bathroom closet in the same bathroom as the wife was found? Did the dog ingest some spilled pills? Are they going to do a necropsy on the dog?
I have so many questions. Seems like a case which would hit mainstream media even if the deceased wasn’t a famous actor.
reckon it was the lock downs and school closures, we bet those are what killed them all
Divine Angel said:
I know about full moon lunacy but new moon lunacy is a new one.
Next they’ll be saying that if you’re crazy, you’re crazy all the time.
Divine Angel said:
I know about full moon lunacy but new moon lunacy is a new one.
Haven’t encountered that one.
Witty Rejoinder said:
buffy said:
Michael V said:Independent of bamboo. But I haven’t done kimchi for a while. I forget things so easily now.
Oh, I’ve got a perfectly good rationalization for that state of affairs. If I forgot it, it wasn’t important enough for me to remember it. It’s just my mind clearing out the frass.
:)
(I’ve been using this excuse for years and years.)
Well I never, Buffy making a rationalisation: who’d have thought?
Anyway, much of the frass I’ve sorted through has contained ample good seed.
Woodie said:
Michael V said:
Woodie said:What happened to your Kim Chee making??
Independent of bamboo. But I haven’t done kimchi for a while. I forget things so easily now.
Do you have adequate supplies?
Of kimchi? No. I keep forgetting to make it.
Of bamboo? Plenty. Stil plenty and I gave my doctor (he’s Sri Lankan) a kilo yesterday. Probably have about 5 kg frozen.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
Woodie said:What happened to your Kim Chee making??
Independent of bamboo. But I haven’t done kimchi for a while. I forget things so easily now.
Oh, I’ve got a perfectly good rationalization for that state of affairs. If I forgot it, it wasn’t important enough for me to remember it. It’s just my mind clearing out the frass.
:)
(I’ve been using this excuse for years and years.)
Ha!
roughbarked said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Divine Angel said:
I know about full moon lunacy but new moon lunacy is a new one.
Next they’ll be saying that if you’re crazy, you’re crazy all the time.
Haven’t encountered that one.
oooh it’s almost as if insanity is independent of the time of month
Divine Angel said:
I know about full moon lunacy but new moon lunacy is a new one.
It’s just lunacy!
Witty Rejoinder said:
Divine Angel said:
I know about full moon lunacy but new moon lunacy is a new one.
Next they’ll be saying that if you’re crazy, you’re crazy all the time.
Nuh. I have bouts of it.
we apologise for posting in wrong thread
SCIENCE said:
we apologise for posting in wrong thread
I’ll forgive but I’ll never forget.
dv said:
SCIENCE said:we apologise for posting in wrong thread
I’ll forgive but I’ll never forget.
like an elephant
Gosh I love the DP at the school. She gets shit done. She called me to let me know the outcome of yesterday’s incident and I gotta say, it’s more than I expected, but I know she goes hardcore when needed. These two kids are absolute turds.
Divine Angel said:
Gosh I love the DP at the school. She gets shit done. She called me to let me know the outcome of yesterday’s incident and I gotta say, it’s more than I expected, but I know she goes hardcore when needed. These two kids are absolute turds.
what was ‘the incident’?
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
Gosh I love the DP at the school. She gets shit done. She called me to let me know the outcome of yesterday’s incident and I gotta say, it’s more than I expected, but I know she goes hardcore when needed. These two kids are absolute turds.
what was ‘the incident’?
Someone set fire to the education department…
furious said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
Gosh I love the DP at the school. She gets shit done. She called me to let me know the outcome of yesterday’s incident and I gotta say, it’s more than I expected, but I know she goes hardcore when needed. These two kids are absolute turds.
what was ‘the incident’?
Someone set fire to the education department…
heh
She’s got history with Turd Kid 1. Being a quiet, studious kid, Mini Me is strategically seated with lesser well-behaved kids. Last year Turd Kid 1 sat next to her and she came home stressed and upset every day until I raised it with the teacher and he got moved.
He frequents a playground we go to, so we stopped going there. He never tried anything while I was around.
TK1 ended up in her class again this year. Yesterday in PE they had a relief teacher. Turd Kid 1 and his friend Turd Kid 2 were deliberately bumping into Mini Me (hard), flicking the handles of the skipping rope to hit her, and slapping her arms. The relief teacher saw it and did nothing. They eventually moved on to hassle some other kid who called out to the relief teacher, who still ignored it.
Mini Me has an excursion coming up to the gold fields. She can dress as a pioneer or a gold digger so I’m gonna dress her like one of Rupert Murdoch’s wives.
Divine Angel said:
Mini Me has an excursion coming up to the gold fields. She can dress as a pioneer or a gold digger so I’m gonna dress her like one of Rupert Murdoch’s wives.
Hopefully she understands why.
Divine Angel said:
Mini Me has an excursion coming up to the gold fields. She can dress as a pioneer or a gold digger so I’m gonna dress her like one of Rupert Murdoch’s wives.
my relatives on the goldfields were a grocer and a governess.
Divine Angel said:
Mini Me has an excursion coming up to the gold fields. She can dress as a pioneer or a gold digger so I’m gonna dress her like one of Rupert Murdoch’s wives.
Or you could use a headband with a pie that fits on her ear
Cymek said:
Divine Angel said:
Mini Me has an excursion coming up to the gold fields. She can dress as a pioneer or a gold digger so I’m gonna dress her like one of Rupert Murdoch’s wives.
Or you could use a headband with a pie that fits on her ear
What?
kii said:
Cymek said:
Divine Angel said:
Mini Me has an excursion coming up to the gold fields. She can dress as a pioneer or a gold digger so I’m gonna dress her like one of Rupert Murdoch’s wives.
Or you could use a headband with a pie that fits on her ear
What?
A pie on ear
https://fortune.com/2025/02/25/what-happened-gpt-5-openai-orion-pivot-scaling-pre-training-llm-agi-reasoning/
Cymek said:
kii said:
Cymek said:Or you could use a headband with a pie that fits on her ear
What?
A pie on ear
I’m half asleep.
Divine Angel said:
She’s got history with Turd Kid 1. Being a quiet, studious kid, Mini Me is strategically seated with lesser well-behaved kids. Last year Turd Kid 1 sat next to her and she came home stressed and upset every day until I raised it with the teacher and he got moved.He frequents a playground we go to, so we stopped going there. He never tried anything while I was around.
TK1 ended up in her class again this year. Yesterday in PE they had a relief teacher. Turd Kid 1 and his friend Turd Kid 2 were deliberately bumping into Mini Me (hard), flicking the handles of the skipping rope to hit her, and slapping her arms. The relief teacher saw it and did nothing. They eventually moved on to hassle some other kid who called out to the relief teacher, who still ignored it.
I hate when teachers try that old put them near the good kids routine. What the actual fuck? You are the adult and you are paid to classroom manage, not some poor kid who is doing the right thing. If you put an apple with a rotten spot into a barrel of not rotten apples, that spot doesn’t go away. Ffs.
Glad the DP was all over it. Hopefully the relief teacher got a talking to. I must admit that when I went through the period of relief teaching just before I left the system all together I was less likely to say anything to kids doing the wrong thing, not that I would let them harm another student or do anything physical, but i would outsource the discipline by sending kids who were ratty to the DP from the first incident. But I was also so over being a part of the system that I probably had far fewer fucks to give than others.
Not very good foruming from me today:
The $19.6 billion pivot: How OpenAI’s 2-year struggle to launch GPT-5 revealed that its core AI strategy has stopped working
https://fortune.com/2025/02/25/what-happened-gpt-5-openai-orion-pivot-scaling-pre-training-llm-agi-reasoning/
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
She’s got history with Turd Kid 1. Being a quiet, studious kid, Mini Me is strategically seated with lesser well-behaved kids. Last year Turd Kid 1 sat next to her and she came home stressed and upset every day until I raised it with the teacher and he got moved.He frequents a playground we go to, so we stopped going there. He never tried anything while I was around.
TK1 ended up in her class again this year. Yesterday in PE they had a relief teacher. Turd Kid 1 and his friend Turd Kid 2 were deliberately bumping into Mini Me (hard), flicking the handles of the skipping rope to hit her, and slapping her arms. The relief teacher saw it and did nothing. They eventually moved on to hassle some other kid who called out to the relief teacher, who still ignored it.
I hate when teachers try that old put them near the good kids routine. What the actual fuck? You are the adult and you are paid to classroom manage, not some poor kid who is doing the right thing. If you put an apple with a rotten spot into a barrel of not rotten apples, that spot doesn’t go away. Ffs.
Glad the DP was all over it. Hopefully the relief teacher got a talking to. I must admit that when I went through the period of relief teaching just before I left the system all together I was less likely to say anything to kids doing the wrong thing, not that I would let them harm another student or do anything physical, but i would outsource the discipline by sending kids who were ratty to the DP from the first incident. But I was also so over being a part of the system that I probably had far fewer fucks to give than others.
Since the new principal came in, there’s been a huge focus on PBL. She’s completely overhauled the system. Of course, there’s always going to be shitty kids and shitty parents who just don’t care what their kids are up to, and can’t understand why the teachers aren’t pulling them into line.
Mayyyyyybe it’s just me but I don’t think six year olds should be watching Squid Game.
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
She’s got history with Turd Kid 1. Being a quiet, studious kid, Mini Me is strategically seated with lesser well-behaved kids. Last year Turd Kid 1 sat next to her and she came home stressed and upset every day until I raised it with the teacher and he got moved.He frequents a playground we go to, so we stopped going there. He never tried anything while I was around.
TK1 ended up in her class again this year. Yesterday in PE they had a relief teacher. Turd Kid 1 and his friend Turd Kid 2 were deliberately bumping into Mini Me (hard), flicking the handles of the skipping rope to hit her, and slapping her arms. The relief teacher saw it and did nothing. They eventually moved on to hassle some other kid who called out to the relief teacher, who still ignored it.
I hate when teachers try that old put them near the good kids routine. What the actual fuck? You are the adult and you are paid to classroom manage, not some poor kid who is doing the right thing. If you put an apple with a rotten spot into a barrel of not rotten apples, that spot doesn’t go away. Ffs.
Glad the DP was all over it. Hopefully the relief teacher got a talking to. I must admit that when I went through the period of relief teaching just before I left the system all together I was less likely to say anything to kids doing the wrong thing, not that I would let them harm another student or do anything physical, but i would outsource the discipline by sending kids who were ratty to the DP from the first incident. But I was also so over being a part of the system that I probably had far fewer fucks to give than others.
Since the new principal came in, there’s been a huge focus on PBL. She’s completely overhauled the system. Of course, there’s always going to be shitty kids and shitty parents who just don’t care what their kids are up to, and can’t understand why the teachers aren’t pulling them into line.
Mayyyyyybe it’s just me but I don’t think six year olds should be watching Squid Game.
I don’t this we should be pushing PBL at primary level. But that’s just me.
Divine Angel said:
Mini Me has an excursion coming up to the gold fields. She can dress as a pioneer or a gold digger so I’m gonna dress her like one of Rupert Murdoch’s wives.
send her dressed as Gina Rinehart
FNDC now called, and cheers unto all.
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
She’s got history with Turd Kid 1. Being a quiet, studious kid, Mini Me is strategically seated with lesser well-behaved kids. Last year Turd Kid 1 sat next to her and she came home stressed and upset every day until I raised it with the teacher and he got moved.He frequents a playground we go to, so we stopped going there. He never tried anything while I was around.
TK1 ended up in her class again this year. Yesterday in PE they had a relief teacher. Turd Kid 1 and his friend Turd Kid 2 were deliberately bumping into Mini Me (hard), flicking the handles of the skipping rope to hit her, and slapping her arms. The relief teacher saw it and did nothing. They eventually moved on to hassle some other kid who called out to the relief teacher, who still ignored it.
I hate when teachers try that old put them near the good kids routine. What the actual fuck? You are the adult and you are paid to classroom manage, not some poor kid who is doing the right thing. If you put an apple with a rotten spot into a barrel of not rotten apples, that spot doesn’t go away. Ffs.
Glad the DP was all over it. Hopefully the relief teacher got a talking to. I must admit that when I went through the period of relief teaching just before I left the system all together I was less likely to say anything to kids doing the wrong thing, not that I would let them harm another student or do anything physical, but i would outsource the discipline by sending kids who were ratty to the DP from the first incident. But I was also so over being a part of the system that I probably had far fewer fucks to give than others.
I mean the bad kids should just be rounded up and all put into the same class, or maybe even sent to different schools
A TA friend works in a very fancy private boys’ high school. I needed a behaviour management plan for a high school kid for an assignment so asked her for ideas. She said ohhhh no, she’s not allowed to deal with behaviours. That’s strictly the teacher’s job.
I’m like whaaaaat? Here I am dealing with a 6yo who stabbed two other kids with a compass.
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
She’s got history with Turd Kid 1. Being a quiet, studious kid, Mini Me is strategically seated with lesser well-behaved kids. Last year Turd Kid 1 sat next to her and she came home stressed and upset every day until I raised it with the teacher and he got moved.He frequents a playground we go to, so we stopped going there. He never tried anything while I was around.
TK1 ended up in her class again this year. Yesterday in PE they had a relief teacher. Turd Kid 1 and his friend Turd Kid 2 were deliberately bumping into Mini Me (hard), flicking the handles of the skipping rope to hit her, and slapping her arms. The relief teacher saw it and did nothing. They eventually moved on to hassle some other kid who called out to the relief teacher, who still ignored it.
I hate when teachers try that old put them near the good kids routine. What the actual fuck? You are the adult and you are paid to classroom manage, not some poor kid who is doing the right thing. If you put an apple with a rotten spot into a barrel of not rotten apples, that spot doesn’t go away. Ffs.
Glad the DP was all over it. Hopefully the relief teacher got a talking to. I must admit that when I went through the period of relief teaching just before I left the system all together I was less likely to say anything to kids doing the wrong thing, not that I would let them harm another student or do anything physical, but i would outsource the discipline by sending kids who were ratty to the DP from the first incident. But I was also so over being a part of the system that I probably had far fewer fucks to give than others.
I mean the bad kids should just be rounded up and all put into the same class, or maybe even sent to different schools
Can we sew something on their uniforms to make sure they’re on the right bus?
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:
Mini Me has an excursion coming up to the gold fields. She can dress as a pioneer or a gold digger so I’m gonna dress her like one of Rupert Murdoch’s wives.
send her dressed as Gina Rinehart
LOL
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
She’s got history with Turd Kid 1. Being a quiet, studious kid, Mini Me is strategically seated with lesser well-behaved kids. Last year Turd Kid 1 sat next to her and she came home stressed and upset every day until I raised it with the teacher and he got moved.He frequents a playground we go to, so we stopped going there. He never tried anything while I was around.
TK1 ended up in her class again this year. Yesterday in PE they had a relief teacher. Turd Kid 1 and his friend Turd Kid 2 were deliberately bumping into Mini Me (hard), flicking the handles of the skipping rope to hit her, and slapping her arms. The relief teacher saw it and did nothing. They eventually moved on to hassle some other kid who called out to the relief teacher, who still ignored it.
I hate when teachers try that old put them near the good kids routine. What the actual fuck? You are the adult and you are paid to classroom manage, not some poor kid who is doing the right thing. If you put an apple with a rotten spot into a barrel of not rotten apples, that spot doesn’t go away. Ffs.
Glad the DP was all over it. Hopefully the relief teacher got a talking to. I must admit that when I went through the period of relief teaching just before I left the system all together I was less likely to say anything to kids doing the wrong thing, not that I would let them harm another student or do anything physical, but i would outsource the discipline by sending kids who were ratty to the DP from the first incident. But I was also so over being a part of the system that I probably had far fewer fucks to give than others.
I mean the bad kids should just be rounded up and all put into the same class, or maybe even sent to different schools
There’s a number of schools popping up around here for those kids. Most of them only accept kids from grade 5, some are high school only.
Divine Angel said:
A TA friend works in a very fancy private boys’ high school. I needed a behaviour management plan for a high school kid for an assignment so asked her for ideas. She said ohhhh no, she’s not allowed to deal with behaviours. That’s strictly the teacher’s job.I’m like whaaaaat? Here I am dealing with a 6yo who stabbed two other kids with a compass.
where are you living now DA?
dv said:
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:I hate when teachers try that old put them near the good kids routine. What the actual fuck? You are the adult and you are paid to classroom manage, not some poor kid who is doing the right thing. If you put an apple with a rotten spot into a barrel of not rotten apples, that spot doesn’t go away. Ffs.
Glad the DP was all over it. Hopefully the relief teacher got a talking to. I must admit that when I went through the period of relief teaching just before I left the system all together I was less likely to say anything to kids doing the wrong thing, not that I would let them harm another student or do anything physical, but i would outsource the discipline by sending kids who were ratty to the DP from the first incident. But I was also so over being a part of the system that I probably had far fewer fucks to give than others.
I mean the bad kids should just be rounded up and all put into the same class, or maybe even sent to different schools
Can we sew something on their uniforms to make sure they’re on the right bus?
train…
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:
Mini Me has an excursion coming up to the gold fields. She can dress as a pioneer or a gold digger so I’m gonna dress her like one of Rupert Murdoch’s wives.
send her dressed as Gina Rinehart
Oh god I couldn’t traumatise her like that.
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:
A TA friend works in a very fancy private boys’ high school. I needed a behaviour management plan for a high school kid for an assignment so asked her for ideas. She said ohhhh no, she’s not allowed to deal with behaviours. That’s strictly the teacher’s job.I’m like whaaaaat? Here I am dealing with a 6yo who stabbed two other kids with a compass.
where are you living now DA?
Same place I’ve been living for almost 18 years.
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
She’s got history with Turd Kid 1. Being a quiet, studious kid, Mini Me is strategically seated with lesser well-behaved kids. Last year Turd Kid 1 sat next to her and she came home stressed and upset every day until I raised it with the teacher and he got moved.He frequents a playground we go to, so we stopped going there. He never tried anything while I was around.
TK1 ended up in her class again this year. Yesterday in PE they had a relief teacher. Turd Kid 1 and his friend Turd Kid 2 were deliberately bumping into Mini Me (hard), flicking the handles of the skipping rope to hit her, and slapping her arms. The relief teacher saw it and did nothing. They eventually moved on to hassle some other kid who called out to the relief teacher, who still ignored it.
I hate when teachers try that old put them near the good kids routine. What the actual fuck? You are the adult and you are paid to classroom manage, not some poor kid who is doing the right thing. If you put an apple with a rotten spot into a barrel of not rotten apples, that spot doesn’t go away. Ffs.
Glad the DP was all over it. Hopefully the relief teacher got a talking to. I must admit that when I went through the period of relief teaching just before I left the system all together I was less likely to say anything to kids doing the wrong thing, not that I would let them harm another student or do anything physical, but i would outsource the discipline by sending kids who were ratty to the DP from the first incident. But I was also so over being a part of the system that I probably had far fewer fucks to give than others.
I mean the bad kids should just be rounded up and all put into the same class, or maybe even sent to different schools
I worked with those kids in a dedicated school. But these were at the end and bound for detention. It’s what we do with the not quite that bad but still mainstream bad kids.. I’m not saying modelling behaviours and peer support aren’t important, just that the onus should not be on another child in a classroom.
Divine Angel said:
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:
A TA friend works in a very fancy private boys’ high school. I needed a behaviour management plan for a high school kid for an assignment so asked her for ideas. She said ohhhh no, she’s not allowed to deal with behaviours. That’s strictly the teacher’s job.I’m like whaaaaat? Here I am dealing with a 6yo who stabbed two other kids with a compass.
where are you living now DA?
Same place I’ve been living for almost 18 years.
ok, then I’m a bit confused.. I thought you were north side Brisbane, but then you said “trip to the gold fields” and I was a bit lost
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:I hate when teachers try that old put them near the good kids routine. What the actual fuck? You are the adult and you are paid to classroom manage, not some poor kid who is doing the right thing. If you put an apple with a rotten spot into a barrel of not rotten apples, that spot doesn’t go away. Ffs.
Glad the DP was all over it. Hopefully the relief teacher got a talking to. I must admit that when I went through the period of relief teaching just before I left the system all together I was less likely to say anything to kids doing the wrong thing, not that I would let them harm another student or do anything physical, but i would outsource the discipline by sending kids who were ratty to the DP from the first incident. But I was also so over being a part of the system that I probably had far fewer fucks to give than others.
I mean the bad kids should just be rounded up and all put into the same class, or maybe even sent to different schools
I worked with those kids in a dedicated school. But these were at the end and bound for detention. It’s what we do with the not quite that bad but still mainstream bad kids.. I’m not saying modelling behaviours and peer support aren’t important, just that the onus should not be on another child in a classroom.
It’s a bit like using the good kids as human shields.
The TA I shadowed last year hasn’t even finished her course yet and she’s already burned out. She got stuck with one kid last year who was so bad he went home every day at 10.30am. When his hours increased to 12pm, she burned out very quickly.
On the day I met this kid, he hit me because my Alice in Wonderland shirt was too scary.
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:I hate when teachers try that old put them near the good kids routine. What the actual fuck? You are the adult and you are paid to classroom manage, not some poor kid who is doing the right thing. If you put an apple with a rotten spot into a barrel of not rotten apples, that spot doesn’t go away. Ffs.
Glad the DP was all over it. Hopefully the relief teacher got a talking to. I must admit that when I went through the period of relief teaching just before I left the system all together I was less likely to say anything to kids doing the wrong thing, not that I would let them harm another student or do anything physical, but i would outsource the discipline by sending kids who were ratty to the DP from the first incident. But I was also so over being a part of the system that I probably had far fewer fucks to give than others.
I mean the bad kids should just be rounded up and all put into the same class, or maybe even sent to different schools
I worked with those kids in a dedicated school. But these were at the end and bound for detention. It’s what we do with the not quite that bad but still mainstream bad kids.. I’m not saying modelling behaviours and peer support aren’t important, just that the onus should not be on another child in a classroom.
ok gotcha.. so the bad kids should get put next to the “neither good, nor bad” kids?
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:
diddly-squat said:where are you living now DA?
Same place I’ve been living for almost 18 years.
ok, then I’m a bit confused.. I thought you were north side Brisbane, but then you said “trip to the gold fields” and I was a bit lost
Oh, the excursion is to some old timey place in Beenleigh where they do fossicking and such.
Soviet chess champion Boris Spassky dies at 88
The year 5s used to go on a 3 day camp to Gympie but they stopped doing that a few years ago.
Peak Warming Man said:
Soviet chess champion Boris Spassky dies at 88
One of the last Tsarists.
Divine Angel said:
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:
Mini Me has an excursion coming up to the gold fields. She can dress as a pioneer or a gold digger so I’m gonna dress her like one of Rupert Murdoch’s wives.
send her dressed as Gina Rinehart
Oh god I couldn’t traumatise her like that.
And a mask of the left as a coup de grace:
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:I mean the bad kids should just be rounded up and all put into the same class, or maybe even sent to different schools
I worked with those kids in a dedicated school. But these were at the end and bound for detention. It’s what we do with the not quite that bad but still mainstream bad kids.. I’m not saying modelling behaviours and peer support aren’t important, just that the onus should not be on another child in a classroom.
ok gotcha.. so the bad kids should get put next to the “neither good, nor bad” kids?
You are failing to understand. The original idea is that putting a naughty and disruptive child next to a compliant child will turn the naughty child good and puts the onus on the compliant child to participate in that process. That’s is the bullshit.
Where you place any child in a classroom should not be based on another child minding them… the teacher is paid to deal with all children appropriately. And primary school children if any peer based learning or mentorship occurs it should be natural not forced. So get your fucking head out of the sand for a moment and stop pretending that everything can be solved with the notion that everyone has the same opportunities.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Divine Angel said:
diddly-squat said:send her dressed as Gina Rinehart
Oh god I couldn’t traumatise her like that.
And a mask of the left as a coup de grace:
Is Reinhardt really a gold digger though? She’s an inheritance kid surely? Her step mom might be considered the gold digger
Divine Angel said:
Mini Me has an excursion coming up to the gold fields. She can dress as a pioneer or a gold digger so I’m gonna dress her like one of Rupert Murdoch’s wives.
Which gold fields?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/feb/28/the-national-gallery-censored-parts-of-an-artwork-about-silencing-indigenous-and-oppressed-peoples
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:I worked with those kids in a dedicated school. But these were at the end and bound for detention. It’s what we do with the not quite that bad but still mainstream bad kids.. I’m not saying modelling behaviours and peer support aren’t important, just that the onus should not be on another child in a classroom.
ok gotcha.. so the bad kids should get put next to the “neither good, nor bad” kids?
You are failing to understand. The original idea is that putting a naughty and disruptive child next to a compliant child will turn the naughty child good and puts the onus on the compliant child to participate in that process. That’s is the bullshit.
Where you place any child in a classroom should not be based on another child minding them… the teacher is paid to deal with all children appropriately. And primary school children if any peer based learning or mentorship occurs it should be natural not forced. So get your fucking head out of the sand for a moment and stop pretending that everything can be solved with the notion that everyone has the same opportunities.
Do you know what. I should not have said that last line. So I apologise for swearing at you. I should not take my own days frustrations out on you.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Soviet chess champion Boris Spassky dies at 88
One of the last Tsarists.
He was beaten in1972 by Bobby Fisher.
Fisher went mad and died at 64.
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:I worked with those kids in a dedicated school. But these were at the end and bound for detention. It’s what we do with the not quite that bad but still mainstream bad kids.. I’m not saying modelling behaviours and peer support aren’t important, just that the onus should not be on another child in a classroom.
ok gotcha.. so the bad kids should get put next to the “neither good, nor bad” kids?
You are failing to understand. The original idea is that putting a naughty and disruptive child next to a compliant child will turn the naughty child good and puts the onus on the compliant child to participate in that process. That’s is the bullshit.
Where you place any child in a classroom should not be based on another child minding them… the teacher is paid to deal with all children appropriately. And primary school children if any peer based learning or mentorship occurs it should be natural not forced. So get your fucking head out of the sand for a moment and stop pretending that everything can be solved with the notion that everyone has the same opportunities.
Would you not get two half bad kids as the universe tries to equalise.
Cymek said:
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:ok gotcha.. so the bad kids should get put next to the “neither good, nor bad” kids?
You are failing to understand. The original idea is that putting a naughty and disruptive child next to a compliant child will turn the naughty child good and puts the onus on the compliant child to participate in that process. That’s is the bullshit.
Where you place any child in a classroom should not be based on another child minding them… the teacher is paid to deal with all children appropriately. And primary school children if any peer based learning or mentorship occurs it should be natural not forced. So get your fucking head out of the sand for a moment and stop pretending that everything can be solved with the notion that everyone has the same opportunities.
Would you not get two half bad kids as the universe tries to equalise.
Classroom entropy.
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
She’s got history with Turd Kid 1. Being a quiet, studious kid, Mini Me is strategically seated with lesser well-behaved kids. Last year Turd Kid 1 sat next to her and she came home stressed and upset every day until I raised it with the teacher and he got moved.He frequents a playground we go to, so we stopped going there. He never tried anything while I was around.
TK1 ended up in her class again this year. Yesterday in PE they had a relief teacher. Turd Kid 1 and his friend Turd Kid 2 were deliberately bumping into Mini Me (hard), flicking the handles of the skipping rope to hit her, and slapping her arms. The relief teacher saw it and did nothing. They eventually moved on to hassle some other kid who called out to the relief teacher, who still ignored it.
I hate when teachers try that old put them near the good kids routine. What the actual fuck? You are the adult and you are paid to classroom manage, not some poor kid who is doing the right thing. If you put an apple with a rotten spot into a barrel of not rotten apples, that spot doesn’t go away. Ffs.
Glad the DP was all over it. Hopefully the relief teacher got a talking to. I must admit that when I went through the period of relief teaching just before I left the system all together I was less likely to say anything to kids doing the wrong thing, not that I would let them harm another student or do anything physical, but i would outsource the discipline by sending kids who were ratty to the DP from the first incident. But I was also so over being a part of the system that I probably had far fewer fucks to give than others.
Since the new principal came in, there’s been a huge focus on PBL. She’s completely overhauled the system. Of course, there’s always going to be shitty kids and shitty parents who just don’t care what their kids are up to, and can’t understand why the teachers aren’t pulling them into line.
Mayyyyyybe it’s just me but I don’t think six year olds should be watching Squid Game.
Which PBL?
Arts said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Divine Angel said:Oh god I couldn’t traumatise her like that.
And a mask of the left as a coup de grace:
Is Reinhardt really a gold digger though? She’s an inheritance kid surely? Her step mom might be considered the gold digger
She mainly digs iron ore. I would just like to see Reinhardt’s already bad name ridiculed by 9yos in the mask she tried to cancel.
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:
Mini Me has an excursion coming up to the gold fields. She can dress as a pioneer or a gold digger so I’m gonna dress her like one of Rupert Murdoch’s wives.
send her dressed as Gina Rinehart
In the white track suit.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Arts said:
Witty Rejoinder said:And a mask of the left as a coup de grace:
Is Reinhardt really a gold digger though? She’s an inheritance kid surely? Her step mom might be considered the gold digger
She mainly digs iron ore. I would just like to see Reinhardt’s already bad name ridiculed by 9yos in the mask she tried to cancel.
Sometimes we all just want to watch the world burn. Ok. Approved.
dv said:
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:I hate when teachers try that old put them near the good kids routine. What the actual fuck? You are the adult and you are paid to classroom manage, not some poor kid who is doing the right thing. If you put an apple with a rotten spot into a barrel of not rotten apples, that spot doesn’t go away. Ffs.
Glad the DP was all over it. Hopefully the relief teacher got a talking to. I must admit that when I went through the period of relief teaching just before I left the system all together I was less likely to say anything to kids doing the wrong thing, not that I would let them harm another student or do anything physical, but i would outsource the discipline by sending kids who were ratty to the DP from the first incident. But I was also so over being a part of the system that I probably had far fewer fucks to give than others.
I mean the bad kids should just be rounded up and all put into the same class, or maybe even sent to different schools
Can we sew something on their uniforms to make sure they’re on the right bus?
Star of Davids?
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:I hate when teachers try that old put them near the good kids routine. What the actual fuck? You are the adult and you are paid to classroom manage, not some poor kid who is doing the right thing. If you put an apple with a rotten spot into a barrel of not rotten apples, that spot doesn’t go away. Ffs.
Glad the DP was all over it. Hopefully the relief teacher got a talking to. I must admit that when I went through the period of relief teaching just before I left the system all together I was less likely to say anything to kids doing the wrong thing, not that I would let them harm another student or do anything physical, but i would outsource the discipline by sending kids who were ratty to the DP from the first incident. But I was also so over being a part of the system that I probably had far fewer fucks to give than others.
Since the new principal came in, there’s been a huge focus on PBL. She’s completely overhauled the system. Of course, there’s always going to be shitty kids and shitty parents who just don’t care what their kids are up to, and can’t understand why the teachers aren’t pulling them into line.
Mayyyyyybe it’s just me but I don’t think six year olds should be watching Squid Game.
Which PBL?
PBL = Positive Behaviours for Learning. It’s basically a reward system, kids get a merit chit for each good behaviour and at the end of the week a chit gets drawn out of the bucket to win a tuckshop voucher.
The multi tier system for undesirable behaviour is: time out chair, buddy class, reset room.
Yesterday I was idly wondering when I would be able to come off all the medication I am on…
This morning I genuinely forgot to take my medication…
Right now I think the answer to my musing is ‘not yet’.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:Since the new principal came in, there’s been a huge focus on PBL. She’s completely overhauled the system. Of course, there’s always going to be shitty kids and shitty parents who just don’t care what their kids are up to, and can’t understand why the teachers aren’t pulling them into line.
Mayyyyyybe it’s just me but I don’t think six year olds should be watching Squid Game.
Which PBL?
PBL = Positive Behaviours for Learning. It’s basically a reward system, kids get a merit chit for each good behaviour and at the end of the week a chit gets drawn out of the bucket to win a tuckshop voucher.
The multi tier system for undesirable behaviour is: time out chair, buddy class, reset room.
pffft room of mirrors in every school.
Arts said:
Yesterday I was idly wondering when I would be able to come off all the medication I am on…This morning I genuinely forgot to take my medication…
Right now I think the answer to my musing is ‘not yet’.
Always good to do the experiment
It’s a shame that are all this time we don’t have a good handle on the cause or remedy of classroom disruption. I think relatively few children have been marked by Satan to be forever evil.
Arts said:
Yesterday I was idly wondering when I would be able to come off all the medication I am on…This morning I genuinely forgot to take my medication…
Right now I think the answer to my musing is ‘not yet’.
Anti depressants ?
I still take mine, I ran out myself last night
Have more now.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:Since the new principal came in, there’s been a huge focus on PBL. She’s completely overhauled the system. Of course, there’s always going to be shitty kids and shitty parents who just don’t care what their kids are up to, and can’t understand why the teachers aren’t pulling them into line.
Mayyyyyybe it’s just me but I don’t think six year olds should be watching Squid Game.
Which PBL?
PBL = Positive Behaviours for Learning. It’s basically a reward system, kids get a merit chit for each good behaviour and at the end of the week a chit gets drawn out of the bucket to win a tuckshop voucher.
The multi tier system for undesirable behaviour is: time out chair, buddy class, reset room.
When I were lad we behaved ourselves otherwise we’d get the cane in primary school or the strap in high school.
We turned out alright.
Over.
Arts said:
Yesterday I was idly wondering when I would be able to come off all the medication I am on…This morning I genuinely forgot to take my medication…
Right now I think the answer to my musing is ‘not yet’.
Ha
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:Since the new principal came in, there’s been a huge focus on PBL. She’s completely overhauled the system. Of course, there’s always going to be shitty kids and shitty parents who just don’t care what their kids are up to, and can’t understand why the teachers aren’t pulling them into line.
Mayyyyyybe it’s just me but I don’t think six year olds should be watching Squid Game.
Which PBL?
PBL = Positive Behaviours for Learning. It’s basically a reward system, kids get a merit chit for each good behaviour and at the end of the week a chit gets drawn out of the bucket to win a tuckshop voucher.
The multi tier system for undesirable behaviour is: time out chair, buddy class, reset room.
I was thinking peer based… ignore my rantings.
Cymek said:
Arts said:
Yesterday I was idly wondering when I would be able to come off all the medication I am on…This morning I genuinely forgot to take my medication…
Right now I think the answer to my musing is ‘not yet’.
Anti depressants ?
I still take mine, I ran out myself last night
Have more now.
No Medication from my surgery.
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:I worked with those kids in a dedicated school. But these were at the end and bound for detention. It’s what we do with the not quite that bad but still mainstream bad kids.. I’m not saying modelling behaviours and peer support aren’t important, just that the onus should not be on another child in a classroom.
ok gotcha.. so the bad kids should get put next to the “neither good, nor bad” kids?
You are failing to understand. The original idea is that putting a naughty and disruptive child next to a compliant child will turn the naughty child good and puts the onus on the compliant child to participate in that process. That’s is the bullshit.
Where you place any child in a classroom should not be based on another child minding them… the teacher is paid to deal with all children appropriately. And primary school children if any peer based learning or mentorship occurs it should be natural not forced. So get your fucking head out of the sand for a moment and stop pretending that everything can be solved with the notion that everyone has the same opportunities.
I guess I just find the idea that there are “good” kids and “bad” kids a bit of generalization that isn’t particularly helpful. In my mind how the teacher deals with behavioral issues in the class is up to them and most likely also guided by school policy. and to be clear, I don’t think everyone has the same opportunities, I just think that everyone should be afforded the same opportunities.
Divine Angel said:
I hate consumes, that wouldn’t maximise my enjoyment.
Anyway I do hope mnm enjoys her gold digging and that all children are present and accounted for at the end of the day.
Divine Angel said:
Sly grog tent.
Divine Angel said:
So, if they lose their coin they can murder someone in their sleep for their licence? In keeping with the era…
Divine Angel said:
I reckon entertainer gives a bit of scope there.
Arts said:
Cymek said:
Arts said:
Yesterday I was idly wondering when I would be able to come off all the medication I am on…This morning I genuinely forgot to take my medication…
Right now I think the answer to my musing is ‘not yet’.
Anti depressants ?
I still take mine, I ran out myself last night
Have more now.No Medication from my surgery.
Ones that modify heart beat and blood pressure ?
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:Since the new principal came in, there’s been a huge focus on PBL. She’s completely overhauled the system. Of course, there’s always going to be shitty kids and shitty parents who just don’t care what their kids are up to, and can’t understand why the teachers aren’t pulling them into line.
Mayyyyyybe it’s just me but I don’t think six year olds should be watching Squid Game.
Which PBL?
PBL = Positive Behaviours for Learning. It’s basically a reward system, kids get a merit chit for each good behaviour and at the end of the week a chit gets drawn out of the bucket to win a tuckshop voucher.
The multi tier system for undesirable behaviour is: time out chair, buddy class, reset room.
Gosh.
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:ok gotcha.. so the bad kids should get put next to the “neither good, nor bad” kids?
You are failing to understand. The original idea is that putting a naughty and disruptive child next to a compliant child will turn the naughty child good and puts the onus on the compliant child to participate in that process. That’s is the bullshit.
Where you place any child in a classroom should not be based on another child minding them… the teacher is paid to deal with all children appropriately. And primary school children if any peer based learning or mentorship occurs it should be natural not forced. So get your fucking head out of the sand for a moment and stop pretending that everything can be solved with the notion that everyone has the same opportunities.
I guess I just find the idea that there are “good” kids and “bad” kids a bit of generalization that isn’t particularly helpful. In my mind how the teacher deals with behavioral issues in the class is up to them and most likely also guided by school policy. and to be clear, I don’t think everyone has the same opportunities, I just think that everyone should be afforded the same opportunities.
I mean, you had to know that I was using that term as a convenience rather than a label. I would have thought but I’ll be clearer in future.
Cymek said:
Arts said:
Cymek said:Anti depressants ?
I still take mine, I ran out myself last night
Have more now.No Medication from my surgery.
Ones that modify heart beat and blood pressure ?
Yes, and pain and fluid retention.
Arts said:
Yesterday I was idly wondering when I would be able to come off all the medication I am on…This morning I genuinely forgot to take my medication…
Right now I think the answer to my musing is ‘not yet’.
Ha!
Divine Angel said:
Well, there you go.
Arts said:
Cymek said:
Arts said:No Medication from my surgery.
Ones that modify heart beat and blood pressure ?
Yes, and pain and fluid retention.
I did once and I felt terrible.
Rose Girone was eight months pregnant when her husband, Julius Mannheim, was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp.
His release came after their child was born and on the proviso the family leave the country.
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At 113 years old, Ms Girone was believed to be the oldest living Holocaust survivor, according to non-profit Claims Conference.
She died at a nursing home in Long Island, New York, on Monday, local time, her daughter and fellow survivor Reha Bennicasa confirmed in a statement.
Per ABC News
Space trivia and the answers as sent in by members of the Planetary Society.
https://www.planetary.org/your-space-trivia
Divine Angel said:
Handsome amphibian.
Bubblecar said:
Divine Angel said:
Handsome amphibian.
Cane toad. They swim in the pond, and snack on grasshoppers which eat the plants, but so far they’ve not laid any spawn.
Divine Angel said:
Bubblecar said:
Divine Angel said:
Handsome amphibian.
Cane toad. They swim in the pond, and snack on grasshoppers which eat the plants, but so far they’ve not laid any spawn.
Ah.
Divine Angel said:
Bubblecar said:
Divine Angel said:
Handsome amphibian.
Cane toad. They swim in the pond, and snack on grasshoppers which eat the plants, but so far they’ve not laid any spawn.
Phew.
I check every day for spawn, cane toad or otherwise. With the fountain and cascade there’s running water all the time and they generally don’t like to lay eggs in running water. Also decreases mozzie larvae.
Bamboo: 463 g went into the pot. After boiling, 397 g was put into a container, now in the fridge. That’s >14% weight loss.
I’ll put some oyster sauce or something with about half of that, to have after we consume our chook and veg half-pie each. Should we want more food.
Divine Angel said:
I check every day for spawn, cane toad or otherwise. With the fountain and cascade there’s running water all the time and they generally don’t like to lay eggs in running water. Also decreases mozzie larvae.
:)
Good onya.
We haven’t had as many frogs calling as in recent years. Perhaps it’s been a bit dry.
My application for a pseudonym was granted by the Supreme Court of Victoria last Friday; they chose the name, but it’s not bizarre or strange in any way, which I think is a bit disappointing.
“Enūma Eliš (Akkadian Cuneiform: 𒂊𒉡𒈠𒂊𒇺, also spelled “Enuma Elish”), meaning “When on High”, is a Babylonian creation myth (named after its opening words) from the late 2nd millennium BCE and the only complete surviving account of ancient near eastern cosmology. It was recovered by English archaeologist Austen Henry Layard in 1849 (in fragmentary form) in the ruined Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (Mosul, Iraq). A form of the myth was first published by English Assyriologist George Smith in 1876; active research and further excavations led to near completion of the texts and improved translation.
Enūma Eliš has about a thousand lines and is recorded in Akkadian on seven clay tablets, each holding between 115 and 170 lines of Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform script. “
Not many people know that.
Over.
Peak Warming Man said:
“Enūma Eliš (Akkadian Cuneiform: 𒂊𒉡𒈠𒂊𒇺, also spelled “Enuma Elish”), meaning “When on High”, is a Babylonian creation myth (named after its opening words) from the late 2nd millennium BCE and the only complete surviving account of ancient near eastern cosmology. It was recovered by English archaeologist Austen Henry Layard in 1849 (in fragmentary form) in the ruined Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (Mosul, Iraq). A form of the myth was first published by English Assyriologist George Smith in 1876; active research and further excavations led to near completion of the texts and improved translation.
Enūma Eliš has about a thousand lines and is recorded in Akkadian on seven clay tablets, each holding between 115 and 170 lines of Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform script. “Not many people know that.
Over.
Well not many people now …because not many people are that old and Babylonian…
btm said:
My application for a pseudonym was granted by the Supreme Court of Victoria last Friday; they chose the name, but it’s not bizarre or strange in any way, which I think is a bit disappointing.
Well, J. Smith carries more credibility than Reginald Arthur Batshit.
btm said:
My application for a pseudonym was granted by the Supreme Court of Victoria last Friday; they chose the name, but it’s not bizarre or strange in any way, which I think is a bit disappointing.
btm is your real name. You just can’t handle it.
Arts said:
btm said:
My application for a pseudonym was granted by the Supreme Court of Victoria last Friday; they chose the name, but it’s not bizarre or strange in any way, which I think is a bit disappointing.
btm is your real name. You just can’t handle it.
Well, could you?
Arts said:
btm said:
My application for a pseudonym was granted by the Supreme Court of Victoria last Friday; they chose the name, but it’s not bizarre or strange in any way, which I think is a bit disappointing.
btm is your real name. You just can’t handle it.
I like to think it’s an abjad because I’ve always considered him a bit of an arse.
Arts said:
btm said:
My application for a pseudonym was granted by the Supreme Court of Victoria last Friday; they chose the name, but it’s not bizarre or strange in any way, which I think is a bit disappointing.
btm is your real name. You just can’t handle it.
I like to think it’s an abjad because I’ve always considered him a bit of an arse.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Arts said:
btm said:
My application for a pseudonym was granted by the Supreme Court of Victoria last Friday; they chose the name, but it’s not bizarre or strange in any way, which I think is a bit disappointing.
btm is your real name. You just can’t handle it.
I like to think it’s an abjad because I’ve always considered him a bit of an arse.
lol. very esoteric.
btm said:
Arts said:
btm said:
My application for a pseudonym was granted by the Supreme Court of Victoria last Friday; they chose the name, but it’s not bizarre or strange in any way, which I think is a bit disappointing.
btm is your real name. You just can’t handle it.
Well, could you?
I’m not an initial type. I’m a four letters, no surname kinda gal.
In other news the new AirPods are extremely good at blocking outside noises ..
And they have this neat feature that when you start talking it lowers the sound of whatever you are listening to and changes from blocking of noise to not.
ChrispenEvan said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Arts said:btm is your real name. You just can’t handle it.
I like to think it’s an abjad because I’ve always considered him a bit of an arse.
lol. very esoteric.
I try my best. :-)
Saw a plane going pretty low over the CBD for some reason
dv said:
Saw a plane going pretty low over the CBD for some reason
It’s double demerits weekend.
Just popping in to say “me not dead”.
It’s been a busy week…
Kingy said:
Just popping in to say “me not dead”.It’s been a busy week…
I know the feeling.
Velar?
Seriously?
dv said:
Velar?
Seriously?
Maybe the stereo plays Bolero backwards?
Um
Arts said:
dv said:
Saw a plane going pretty low over the CBD for some reason
It’s double demerits weekend.
I appreciate that joke…
dv said:
Um
furious said:
Arts said:
dv said:
Saw a plane going pretty low over the CBD for some reason
It’s double demerits weekend.
I appreciate that joke…
I’m here all night….
I was nicely mellow this end and started writing a poem, “Death is a Child”.
Death is a child, happy and wild as most kids perhaps;
But also like them, accepting of rhymes and rules,
As essential tools, to shape one’s days and ways.
…but then thought: this is surely well-worn cliché, and Googled “death is a child”
and Google’s AI confirmed, rather chillingly:
“Death is a child” is a metaphorical phrase that suggests death is something innocent, pure, and even somewhat unknowing, often used to convey the idea that death can be sudden, unexpected, and can take people at a young age, leaving a sense of vulnerability and helplessness, similar to how a child might be perceived.
Key points about this metaphor:
Innocence:
Children are often seen as innocent and pure, so comparing death to a child can soften the harsh reality of mortality and emphasize the idea of a natural, inevitable process.
Vulnerability:
A child is dependent on others and can be easily harmed, which can reflect the feeling of powerlessness in the face of death.
Suddenness:
Children are often associated with unexpected actions and behaviors, which can symbolize the suddenness and unpredictability of death.
Where you might see this used:
Poetry or literature:
Poets often use metaphors to explore complex themes, and “death as a child” could appear in a poem about loss or grief.
Philosophical discussions:
This metaphor could be used to discuss the nature of death in a more abstract way, pondering the idea of death as something that takes away life without fully understanding its actions.
dv said:
Um
2040 for the next one –
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/feb/28/planetary-parade-visible-february-28-how-to-see-planets-aligned
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BB7hHhmfy/
Boromir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFgug4QGTb0
Oh goody. My social security payment went in. I receive “Survivor’s Benefits”.
Feeling depressed this morning. Exhausted by all this waves hands around. Sleeping for a hundred years sound delightful right now.
Tried to find my vaccination records from my original Green Card application, must have filed them in my medical records.
sarahs mum said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFgug4QGTb0
It’s a lovely spot there, I wasn’t really aware of it.
So Angus is 44. I would have estimated some years younger.
If I have any criticism of his presentation, it’s not his Tasmanian accent, but that he sometimes doesn’t speak clearly and carefully enough.
Too many sentences fade away at the end, taking their words with them.
kii said:
Oh goody. My social security payment went in. I receive “Survivor’s Benefits”.
Feeling depressed this morning. Exhausted by all this waves hands around. Sleeping for a hundred years sound delightful right now.
Tried to find my vaccination records from my original Green Card application, must have filed them in my medical records.
Survivor benefit is such a strange term ( I looked it up). Sending you good vibes.
Sleep would be nice, Brain wont switch off – stewing over my narcissistic sister, and worrying about my unexpected high cholesterol result (7.2 ) I eat what I think is a very healthy diet and I exercise daily.
Found my medical paperwork from the US Dept of State Panel Physician. Re-vaccinated in 2006 for MMR, varicella, tetanus and diphtheria. I know I’ve had an update to my tetanus one since then, probably 2016.
Brindabellas said:
kii said:
Oh goody. My social security payment went in. I receive “Survivor’s Benefits”.
Feeling depressed this morning. Exhausted by all this waves hands around. Sleeping for a hundred years sound delightful right now.
Tried to find my vaccination records from my original Green Card application, must have filed them in my medical records.
Survivor benefit is such a strange term ( I looked it up). Sending you good vibes.
Sleep would be nice, Brain wont switch off – stewing over my narcissistic sister, and worrying about my unexpected high cholesterol result (7.2 ) I eat what I think is a very healthy diet and I exercise daily.
Has it been high before?
reading and watching various related
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharkovchanka
“Kharkovchanka (Russian: Харьковчанка) or Kharkivyanka (Ukrainian: Харків’янка, “Woman of Kharkiv”), code name: Manufacture 404S, is a model of Antarctic off-road vehicle made circa 1957–1958 in the Soviet Union, designed and built by the Kharkov Transport Engineering Plant, Ukraine: 8:14–15:46 and later manufactured in Kharkiv by the Malyshev Factory. Based on the AT-T tractor platform (itself based on the T-54 tank). In December 1959 two of them (“21” and “23”) were delivered to Antarctica and reached the South Pole. The massive off-road snow vehicle had a total of a small galley, toilet, oven, and eight beds..”
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 9 degrees at the back door and the sun is thinking about coming up in the next half hour. We are forecast a partly cloudy 26 degrees
I’m going to have breakfast with my bushwandering friend and then I’ll be out pottering in the garden again for some hours.
dv said:
Saw a plane going pretty low over the CBD for some reason
so zelensky really is playing wwiii
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 9 degrees at the back door and the sun is thinking about coming up in the next half hour. We are forecast a partly cloudy 26 degreesI’m going to have breakfast with my bushwandering friend and then I’ll be out pottering in the garden again for some hours.
Sounds good.
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Good morning to everybody.
22.6° C, 83% RH, overcast, (has been rainy a bit – outermost rain bands from TC Alfred) and light to moderate gusty breezes. BoM has a good chance of rain right throughout the day and a top of 29° C.
Agenda:
Washing up is done. C…O…F…F…E…E… is made and cooling. It may actually be cool enough to consume now. I’ll see. Two more bamboo shoots need to be harvested today, it it’s not too wet. They are both are green bamboo – the tastier type. I got 397 g from a yellow bamboo shoot yesterday. I’d also like to cut down and cut up some very tall dead bamboo stalks. (What is the correct word for the 10 metre high stalks?) Also, I have some guttering and PVC pipe that needs to be garaged before any gales start. And other things that need to be weighted down before the gales start. So plenty to keep me busy.
Planned Food:
Breakfast: Toast with a cheese slice, covered with re-heated Nepali curry, rice and yoghurt. That’ll finish up the very, very flavoursome, low kJ, bamboo and other vegetables curry.
Lunch: Not yet discussed, so nothing planned yet.
Dinner: Mrs V has chook pancakes planned. Something she saw in the Woolies recipes flier. Yesterday she scored a cheap cooked chook from IGA. We haven’t had one of those for months.
Citigroup erroneously credited $81 trillion to a customer’s account instead of $280 last April before reversing the transaction hours later, according to the Financial Times. The transfer was missed by two employees and detected by a third employee 90 minutes after it was posted, the report said. No funds left the bank, and it was disclosed as a “near miss” to the Federal Reserve and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, according to the report.
…
If it were me I’d have spent it all and high-tailed it to Brazil.
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 9 degrees at the back door and the sun is thinking about coming up in the next half hour. We are forecast a partly cloudy 26 degreesI’m going to have breakfast with my bushwandering friend and then I’ll be out pottering in the garden again for some hours.
Sounds good.
————————————————————————————————————————————
Good morning to everybody.
22.6° C, 83% RH, overcast, (has been rainy a bit – outermost rain bands from TC Alfred) and light to moderate gusty breezes. BoM has a good chance of rain right throughout the day and a top of 29° C.
Agenda:
Washing up is done. C…O…F…F…E…E… is made and cooling. It may actually be cool enough to consume now. I’ll see. Two more bamboo shoots need to be harvested today, it it’s not too wet. They are both are green bamboo – the tastier type. I got 397 g from a yellow bamboo shoot yesterday. I’d also like to cut down and cut up some very tall dead bamboo stalks. (What is the correct word for the 10 metre high stalks?) Also, I have some guttering and PVC pipe that needs to be garaged before any gales start. And other things that need to be weighted down before the gales start. So plenty to keep me busy.
Planned Food:
Breakfast: Toast with a cheese slice, covered with re-heated Nepali curry, rice and yoghurt. That’ll finish up the very, very flavoursome, low kJ, bamboo and other vegetables curry.
Lunch: Not yet discussed, so nothing planned yet.
Dinner: Mrs V has chook pancakes planned. Something she saw in the Woolies recipes flier. Yesterday she scored a cheap cooked chook from IGA. We haven’t had one of those for months.
Is that the hoisin chicken pancakes? They read well.
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/recipes/hoisin-chicken-pancakes
I’ve got some leftover cold chook in the fridge too. But I’ve requested fish and chips for tea tonight. I’m rather fond of the fish they are doing at the local takeaway.
dv said:
Um
The threat of JEV keeps me inside at that hour.
A man died from visiting our area.
roughbarked said:
dv said:
Um
The threat of JEV keeps me inside at that hour.
A man died from visiting our area.
why, it’s a mostly mild disease, you’ll be fine
buffy said:
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 9 degrees at the back door and the sun is thinking about coming up in the next half hour. We are forecast a partly cloudy 26 degreesI’m going to have breakfast with my bushwandering friend and then I’ll be out pottering in the garden again for some hours.
Sounds good.
————————————————————————————————————————————
Good morning to everybody.
22.6° C, 83% RH, overcast, (has been rainy a bit – outermost rain bands from TC Alfred) and light to moderate gusty breezes. BoM has a good chance of rain right throughout the day and a top of 29° C.
Agenda:
Washing up is done. C…O…F…F…E…E… is made and cooling. It may actually be cool enough to consume now. I’ll see. Two more bamboo shoots need to be harvested today, it it’s not too wet. They are both are green bamboo – the tastier type. I got 397 g from a yellow bamboo shoot yesterday. I’d also like to cut down and cut up some very tall dead bamboo stalks. (What is the correct word for the 10 metre high stalks?) Also, I have some guttering and PVC pipe that needs to be garaged before any gales start. And other things that need to be weighted down before the gales start. So plenty to keep me busy.
Planned Food:
Breakfast: Toast with a cheese slice, covered with re-heated Nepali curry, rice and yoghurt. That’ll finish up the very, very flavoursome, low kJ, bamboo and other vegetables curry.
Lunch: Not yet discussed, so nothing planned yet.
Dinner: Mrs V has chook pancakes planned. Something she saw in the Woolies recipes flier. Yesterday she scored a cheap cooked chook from IGA. We haven’t had one of those for months.
Is that the hoisin chicken pancakes? They read well.
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/recipes/hoisin-chicken-pancakes
I’ve got some leftover cold chook in the fridge too. But I’ve requested fish and chips for tea tonight. I’m rather fond of the fish they are doing at the local takeaway.
Yes, yes – I believe it is.
I’ll comment about the meal after I’ve eaten it.
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
dv said:
Um
The threat of JEV keeps me inside at that hour.
A man died from visiting our area.
why, it’s a mostly mild disease, you’ll be fine
Heh.
I woke up from a very exciting dream where I was folding washing.
Divine Angel said:
I woke up from a very exciting dream where I was folding washing.
LOLOLOL
Divine Angel said:
I woke up from a very exciting dream where I was folding washing.
Have you ever considered you’re a non-player character?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Divine Angel said:
I woke up from a very exciting dream where I was folding washing.
Have you ever considered you’re a non-player character?
I am a mother, of course I feel like that every day :) Say things a hundred times and no one hears you. Get sick for a week and the house falls apart.
Have you been watching ‘Survivor’ DA?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Have you been watching ‘Survivor’ DA?
Both Aust and US, yes.
Komrade King Krasnov is giving me Court of King Caractacus vibes.
Morning pilgrims, beautiful day in the Pearl.
Weather fine, track good.
Over.
Divine Angel said:
Komrade King Krasnov is giving me Court of King Caractacus vibes.
Ha!
Divine Angel said:
Komrade King Krasnov is giving me Court of King Caractacus vibes.
Let’s hope the song ends soon then.
dv said:
Um
I’ll need to go to Specsavers I reckon.
ChrispenEvan said:
dv said:
Um
I’ll need to go to Specsavers I reckon.
I hear the specsavers 10 inch lenses are good value, although a bit heavy for every day use.
The Golden Raspberry Awards have been awarded. The Razzies, honouring the year’s worst films, are usually handed out the day before the Oscars but were released a day early.
Madame Web led the pack with 7 nominations, winning three, including Worst Picture.
Another Quora quote, that raised a smile:
“What is the reason for the UK having a different word for “the” and spelling it differently compared to America?
People, this question was asked by the Quora Prompt Generator. It is a prime example of how incredibly stupid LLMs are, and why we call it Thickbot. There is no point in trying to answer it, either sensibly or jokingly, as that only confuses it more.
It does not understand what it is asking. It does not have anything with which to understand anything. It is simply a souped-up autocomplete. It sees that there are real questions asking “What is the reason for the UK having a different word for” and then it fills in a random next word. It does not know what “the” means, or indeed what “word” or “spelling” mean. They are just bunches of characters which are often grouped together in the data used to train it.”
The Rev Dodgson said:
Another Quora quote, that raised a smile:“What is the reason for the UK having a different word for “the” and spelling it differently compared to America?
People, this question was asked by the Quora Prompt Generator. It is a prime example of how incredibly stupid LLMs are, and why we call it Thickbot. There is no point in trying to answer it, either sensibly or jokingly, as that only confuses it more.
It does not understand what it is asking. It does not have anything with which to understand anything. It is simply a souped-up autocomplete. It sees that there are real questions asking “What is the reason for the UK having a different word for” and then it fills in a random next word. It does not know what “the” means, or indeed what “word” or “spelling” mean. They are just bunches of characters which are often grouped together in the data used to train it.”
They are pretty hurtful words.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Another Quora quote, that raised a smile:“What is the reason for the UK having a different word for “the” and spelling it differently compared to America?
People, this question was asked by the Quora Prompt Generator. It is a prime example of how incredibly stupid LLMs are, and why we call it Thickbot. There is no point in trying to answer it, either sensibly or jokingly, as that only confuses it more.
It does not understand what it is asking. It does not have anything with which to understand anything. It is simply a souped-up autocomplete. It sees that there are real questions asking “What is the reason for the UK having a different word for” and then it fills in a random next word. It does not know what “the” means, or indeed what “word” or “spelling” mean. They are just bunches of characters which are often grouped together in the data used to train it.”
“The” is the most commonly used word in the language. Is that repetition necessary because it does fuck all work?
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Another Quora quote, that raised a smile:“What is the reason for the UK having a different word for “the” and spelling it differently compared to America?
People, this question was asked by the Quora Prompt Generator. It is a prime example of how incredibly stupid LLMs are, and why we call it Thickbot. There is no point in trying to answer it, either sensibly or jokingly, as that only confuses it more.
It does not understand what it is asking. It does not have anything with which to understand anything. It is simply a souped-up autocomplete. It sees that there are real questions asking “What is the reason for the UK having a different word for” and then it fills in a random next word. It does not know what “the” means, or indeed what “word” or “spelling” mean. They are just bunches of characters which are often grouped together in the data used to train it.”
They are pretty hurtful words.
Have you asked the thickbot if it finds them hurtful?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Another Quora quote, that raised a smile:“What is the reason for the UK having a different word for “the” and spelling it differently compared to America?
People, this question was asked by the Quora Prompt Generator. It is a prime example of how incredibly stupid LLMs are, and why we call it Thickbot. There is no point in trying to answer it, either sensibly or jokingly, as that only confuses it more.
It does not understand what it is asking. It does not have anything with which to understand anything. It is simply a souped-up autocomplete. It sees that there are real questions asking “What is the reason for the UK having a different word for” and then it fills in a random next word. It does not know what “the” means, or indeed what “word” or “spelling” mean. They are just bunches of characters which are often grouped together in the data used to train it.”
Fair comment.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Another Quora quote, that raised a smile:
“What is the reason for the UK having a different word for “the” and spelling it differently compared to America?
People, this question was asked by the Quora Prompt Generator. It is a prime example of how incredibly stupid LLMs are, and why we call it Thickbot. There is no point in trying to answer it, either sensibly or jokingly, as that only confuses it more.
It does not understand what it is asking. It does not have anything with which to understand anything. It is simply a souped-up autocomplete. It sees that there are real questions asking “What is the reason for the UK having a different word for” and then it fills in a random next word. It does not know what “the” means, or indeed what “word” or “spelling” mean. They are just bunches of characters which are often grouped together in the data used to train it.”
straw man
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Another Quora quote, that raised a smile:
“What is the reason for the UK having a different word for “the” and spelling it differently compared to America?
People, this question was asked by the Quora Prompt Generator. It is a prime example of how incredibly stupid LLMs are, and why we call it Thickbot. There is no point in trying to answer it, either sensibly or jokingly, as that only confuses it more.
It does not understand what it is asking. It does not have anything with which to understand anything. It is simply a souped-up autocomplete. It sees that there are real questions asking “What is the reason for the UK having a different word for” and then it fills in a random next word. It does not know what “the” means, or indeed what “word” or “spelling” mean. They are just bunches of characters which are often grouped together in the data used to train it.”
Fair comment.
this is why a cheaper dirtier CHINA version can be just as good
sorry we mean how
>>Australia and Afghanistan are all set to play the crucial Group B game of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.
It was washed out, but you’d think they’d change the name of the stadium.
i’ll make my own coffee, one idiot in the kitchen is trouble plenty enough, consider how stupid having two spoons in the coffee is, or both trying to use the same spoon, where excessive sharing goes, everyone helping each other, bonkers silly it is
Afternoon everyone.
OK, I did the experiment. I et a jam doughnut and drank orange juice for breakfast. And I ran out of go faster than I do with an ordinary breakfast. Obviously quickly available sugar in the gut and bloodstream has no stamina…
(Yes, I learnt about low and high GI many years ago. But I was surprised how well it didn’t work today.)
Peak Warming Man said:
>>Australia and Afghanistan are all set to play the crucial Group B game of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.It was washed out, but you’d think they’d change the name of the stadium.
Like Gaddafi Oval or something?
Sovereign Union ·
WHY OLD THEORIES ON ABORIGINAL COUNTING JUST WON’T GO AWAY
My Australian-educated friends tell me they were taught at school that all Aboriginal people only counted one, two, three, four and ‘many’. While it might be the case for some communities, there is also abundant evidence in others of complex Aboriginal number systems extending to high numbers.
The Australian writer Dame Mary Gilmore, for example, commented in her 1934 book Old Days Old Ways: A Book of Recollections that:
‘The Aboriginal power to count or compute in his native state was as great as our own. I have seen partially trained native stockmen give the exact number of cattle in a group up to four or five hundred almost without a moment’s hesitation, yet authorities on the blacks continue to tell us that the Aboriginal only counted to ten or thereabouts.’
Wardaman senior elder Bill Yidumduma Harney, co-author of 2003’s Dark Sparklers: Yidumduma’s Wardaman Aboriginal Astronomy Northern Australia, explains how cattle are counted:
‘We go five and five all the way and then bunch it up. Go five and five is ten. Then count the number of tens. We call that Yigaga.
I have listed elsewhere many other examples of traditional Aboriginal people counting to high numbers.’
ORIGIN OF THE MYTH
So why do some people believe the generalised view that all Aboriginal people can’t count beyond four when there is abundant evidence to the contrary?
I suspect part of this myth has its roots in a distant colonial past when the British invaders maintained a belief, on which the “terra nullius’ concept was based, that Aboriginal people were barely human, without culture, civilisation or counting.
When my wife and I were in the Tiwi islands in 2005, the local children were competing to see who could hold their breath longest under water. Although my guidebook said they couldn’t count beyond four in their Tiwi language, they were clearly counting to 50 or 60 in a non-English language.
But the myth is reinforced by a linguistic debate about Aboriginal counting words. For example, the distinguished Australian linguist Barry Blake famously said in his 1981 book, Australian Aboriginal Languages: A General Introduction that:
No Australian Aboriginal language has a word for a number higher than four.
Blake’s statement refers to a linguistic nuance that does not include compound words such as “thirteen’ or “twenty-one’, so Blake would probably also say that, with the exception of the words “hundred’, “thousand’ and “million’, the English language does not have a word for a number higher than twelve.
But even Blake’s statement has counter-examples. In 1881, James Dawson, in his work The Languages and Customs of Several Tribes of Aborigines in the Western District of Victoria, reported that the Kuurn kopan noot (Gurnditjmara) language has a word for 20 (peep) and 100 (Baarbaanuung).
The Chaap wuurong (Djabwurrung) people had a number system extending to 28 – the number of days in a lunar month – each of which was identified as a place on the body, and as a verbal name which also described that part of the body.
These examples are obviously inconsistent with Blake’s statement, as he recently acknowledged to me:
Fair enough. These would be exceptions to my generalisation.
THE MYTH CONTINUES
But the real problem is that his original generalisation is often misinterpreted to mean all Aboriginal people can’t count beyond four or Aboriginal people don’t have a concept of numbers greater than four, both of which are obviously incorrect.
Even worse, respectable academic papers continue to be published that fly in the face of the evidence.
Last year researchers Kevin Zhou and Claire Bowen, from Yale University, argued in a paper that Aboriginal number systems vary, and could extend beyond ten, but still didn’t extend past 20, in conflict with the evidence I’ve mentioned above.
As a physicist, I am fascinated by the fact that the authors of this paper didn’t engage with the contrary evidence. They simply didn’t mention it. Why?
Although my training is in astrophysics, I have for the last few years studied Aboriginal Astronomy, on the boundary between the physical sciences and the humanities, and I am beginning to understand a major difference in approach between the sciences and the humanities.
WHAT THE DATA SAY
In physics, data rule supreme. The most brilliant theory by the most eminent physicist in the world can still be shot down by the lowliest graduate student if it is found to be in conflict with the data.
Of course, data may occasionally be disputed, but that process is explicit, calling for a re-examination of the data, or for the experiment in question to be repeated. A physics paper promoting a theory while simply ignoring conflicting data would not survive the peer-review process, or the subsequent derision.
In humanities, the data is often much more dependent on the skills and interpretation of the researcher.
Ethnographic information suffers from potential errors of misunderstanding, mistranslation and misinterpretation, so is fundamentally less reliable than taking a physical measurement with laboratory equipment or a telescope.
Ethnographic experiments are not repeatable. Once a subject has been exposed to the ethnographer, their answers are unlikely to vary. In physics terms, the ethnographer has collapsed the probability wave function.
So perhaps it isn’t surprising that papers written by scientists differ in their conclusion from those written by anthropologists and linguists. But which is right?
As a scientist, I will argue that the true answer is the one most firmly based on evidence. Presumably my linguist and anthropologist friends will disagree. And my post-modernist friends will question the notion of truth, and say we all have a valid narrative.
Sorry, but speaking as a scientist, if I can find a single reliable piece of evidence that is inconsistent with your theory, then your theory is Wrong. You might disagree. But please don’t ignore it.
- By Professor Ray Norris,, School of Computing, Engineering, and Mathematics, Western Sydney University 2016. As an astrophysicist, he has also undertaken extensive research of Aboriginal astronomy
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
>>Australia and Afghanistan are all set to play the crucial Group B game of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.It was washed out, but you’d think they’d change the name of the stadium.
Like Gaddafi Oval or something?
I was thinking more like PeterT Memorial Stadium.
sarahs mum said:
Sovereign Union ·
WHY OLD THEORIES ON ABORIGINAL COUNTING JUST WON’T GO AWAYMy Australian-educated friends tell me they were taught at school that all Aboriginal people only counted one, two, three, four and ‘many’. While it might be the case for some communities, there is also abundant evidence in others of complex Aboriginal number systems extending to high numbers.
The Australian writer Dame Mary Gilmore, for example, commented in her 1934 book Old Days Old Ways: A Book of Recollections that:
‘The Aboriginal power to count or compute in his native state was as great as our own. I have seen partially trained native stockmen give the exact number of cattle in a group up to four or five hundred almost without a moment’s hesitation, yet authorities on the blacks continue to tell us that the Aboriginal only counted to ten or thereabouts.’Wardaman senior elder Bill Yidumduma Harney, co-author of 2003’s Dark Sparklers: Yidumduma’s Wardaman Aboriginal Astronomy Northern Australia, explains how cattle are counted:
‘We go five and five all the way and then bunch it up. Go five and five is ten. Then count the number of tens. We call that Yigaga.
I have listed elsewhere many other examples of traditional Aboriginal people counting to high numbers.’ORIGIN OF THE MYTH
So why do some people believe the generalised view that all Aboriginal people can’t count beyond four when there is abundant evidence to the contrary?I suspect part of this myth has its roots in a distant colonial past when the British invaders maintained a belief, on which the “terra nullius’ concept was based, that Aboriginal people were barely human, without culture, civilisation or counting.
When my wife and I were in the Tiwi islands in 2005, the local children were competing to see who could hold their breath longest under water. Although my guidebook said they couldn’t count beyond four in their Tiwi language, they were clearly counting to 50 or 60 in a non-English language.
But the myth is reinforced by a linguistic debate about Aboriginal counting words. For example, the distinguished Australian linguist Barry Blake famously said in his 1981 book, Australian Aboriginal Languages: A General Introduction that:
No Australian Aboriginal language has a word for a number higher than four.
Blake’s statement refers to a linguistic nuance that does not include compound words such as “thirteen’ or “twenty-one’, so Blake would probably also say that, with the exception of the words “hundred’, “thousand’ and “million’, the English language does not have a word for a number higher than twelve.
But even Blake’s statement has counter-examples. In 1881, James Dawson, in his work The Languages and Customs of Several Tribes of Aborigines in the Western District of Victoria, reported that the Kuurn kopan noot (Gurnditjmara) language has a word for 20 (peep) and 100 (Baarbaanuung).
The Chaap wuurong (Djabwurrung) people had a number system extending to 28 – the number of days in a lunar month – each of which was identified as a place on the body, and as a verbal name which also described that part of the body.
These examples are obviously inconsistent with Blake’s statement, as he recently acknowledged to me:
Fair enough. These would be exceptions to my generalisation.THE MYTH CONTINUES
But the real problem is that his original generalisation is often misinterpreted to mean all Aboriginal people can’t count beyond four or Aboriginal people don’t have a concept of numbers greater than four, both of which are obviously incorrect.Even worse, respectable academic papers continue to be published that fly in the face of the evidence.
Last year researchers Kevin Zhou and Claire Bowen, from Yale University, argued in a paper that Aboriginal number systems vary, and could extend beyond ten, but still didn’t extend past 20, in conflict with the evidence I’ve mentioned above.
As a physicist, I am fascinated by the fact that the authors of this paper didn’t engage with the contrary evidence. They simply didn’t mention it. Why?
Although my training is in astrophysics, I have for the last few years studied Aboriginal Astronomy, on the boundary between the physical sciences and the humanities, and I am beginning to understand a major difference in approach between the sciences and the humanities.
WHAT THE DATA SAY
In physics, data rule supreme. The most brilliant theory by the most eminent physicist in the world can still be shot down by the lowliest graduate student if it is found to be in conflict with the data.Of course, data may occasionally be disputed, but that process is explicit, calling for a re-examination of the data, or for the experiment in question to be repeated. A physics paper promoting a theory while simply ignoring conflicting data would not survive the peer-review process, or the subsequent derision.
In humanities, the data is often much more dependent on the skills and interpretation of the researcher.
Ethnographic information suffers from potential errors of misunderstanding, mistranslation and misinterpretation, so is fundamentally less reliable than taking a physical measurement with laboratory equipment or a telescope.
Ethnographic experiments are not repeatable. Once a subject has been exposed to the ethnographer, their answers are unlikely to vary. In physics terms, the ethnographer has collapsed the probability wave function.
So perhaps it isn’t surprising that papers written by scientists differ in their conclusion from those written by anthropologists and linguists. But which is right?
As a scientist, I will argue that the true answer is the one most firmly based on evidence. Presumably my linguist and anthropologist friends will disagree. And my post-modernist friends will question the notion of truth, and say we all have a valid narrative.
Sorry, but speaking as a scientist, if I can find a single reliable piece of evidence that is inconsistent with your theory, then your theory is Wrong. You might disagree. But please don’t ignore it.
- By Professor Ray Norris,, School of Computing, Engineering, and Mathematics, Western Sydney University 2016. As an astrophysicist, he has also undertaken extensive research of Aboriginal astronomy
>And my post-modernist friends will question the notion of truth, and say we all have a valid narrative.
I’m glad I don’t have any post-modernist friends.
sarahs mum said:
Sovereign Union ·
WHY OLD THEORIES ON ABORIGINAL COUNTING JUST WON’T GO AWAYMy Australian-educated friends tell me they were taught at school that all Aboriginal people only counted one, two, three, four and ‘many’. While it might be the case for some communities, there is also abundant evidence in others of complex Aboriginal number systems extending to high numbers.
The Australian writer Dame Mary Gilmore, for example, commented in her 1934 book Old Days Old Ways: A Book of Recollections that:
‘The Aboriginal power to count or compute in his native state was as great as our own. I have seen partially trained native stockmen give the exact number of cattle in a group up to four or five hundred almost without a moment’s hesitation, yet authorities on the blacks continue to tell us that the Aboriginal only counted to ten or thereabouts.’Wardaman senior elder Bill Yidumduma Harney, co-author of 2003’s Dark Sparklers: Yidumduma’s Wardaman Aboriginal Astronomy Northern Australia, explains how cattle are counted:
‘We go five and five all the way and then bunch it up. Go five and five is ten. Then count the number of tens. We call that Yigaga.
I have listed elsewhere many other examples of traditional Aboriginal people counting to high numbers.’ORIGIN OF THE MYTH
So why do some people believe the generalised view that all Aboriginal people can’t count beyond four when there is abundant evidence to the contrary?I suspect part of this myth has its roots in a distant colonial past when the British invaders maintained a belief, on which the “terra nullius’ concept was based, that Aboriginal people were barely human, without culture, civilisation or counting.
When my wife and I were in the Tiwi islands in 2005, the local children were competing to see who could hold their breath longest under water. Although my guidebook said they couldn’t count beyond four in their Tiwi language, they were clearly counting to 50 or 60 in a non-English language.
But the myth is reinforced by a linguistic debate about Aboriginal counting words. For example, the distinguished Australian linguist Barry Blake famously said in his 1981 book, Australian Aboriginal Languages: A General Introduction that:
No Australian Aboriginal language has a word for a number higher than four.
Blake’s statement refers to a linguistic nuance that does not include compound words such as “thirteen’ or “twenty-one’, so Blake would probably also say that, with the exception of the words “hundred’, “thousand’ and “million’, the English language does not have a word for a number higher than twelve.
But even Blake’s statement has counter-examples. In 1881, James Dawson, in his work The Languages and Customs of Several Tribes of Aborigines in the Western District of Victoria, reported that the Kuurn kopan noot (Gurnditjmara) language has a word for 20 (peep) and 100 (Baarbaanuung).
The Chaap wuurong (Djabwurrung) people had a number system extending to 28 – the number of days in a lunar month – each of which was identified as a place on the body, and as a verbal name which also described that part of the body.
These examples are obviously inconsistent with Blake’s statement, as he recently acknowledged to me:
Fair enough. These would be exceptions to my generalisation.THE MYTH CONTINUES
But the real problem is that his original generalisation is often misinterpreted to mean all Aboriginal people can’t count beyond four or Aboriginal people don’t have a concept of numbers greater than four, both of which are obviously incorrect.Even worse, respectable academic papers continue to be published that fly in the face of the evidence.
Last year researchers Kevin Zhou and Claire Bowen, from Yale University, argued in a paper that Aboriginal number systems vary, and could extend beyond ten, but still didn’t extend past 20, in conflict with the evidence I’ve mentioned above.
As a physicist, I am fascinated by the fact that the authors of this paper didn’t engage with the contrary evidence. They simply didn’t mention it. Why?
Although my training is in astrophysics, I have for the last few years studied Aboriginal Astronomy, on the boundary between the physical sciences and the humanities, and I am beginning to understand a major difference in approach between the sciences and the humanities.
WHAT THE DATA SAY
In physics, data rule supreme. The most brilliant theory by the most eminent physicist in the world can still be shot down by the lowliest graduate student if it is found to be in conflict with the data.Of course, data may occasionally be disputed, but that process is explicit, calling for a re-examination of the data, or for the experiment in question to be repeated. A physics paper promoting a theory while simply ignoring conflicting data would not survive the peer-review process, or the subsequent derision.
In humanities, the data is often much more dependent on the skills and interpretation of the researcher.
Ethnographic information suffers from potential errors of misunderstanding, mistranslation and misinterpretation, so is fundamentally less reliable than taking a physical measurement with laboratory equipment or a telescope.
Ethnographic experiments are not repeatable. Once a subject has been exposed to the ethnographer, their answers are unlikely to vary. In physics terms, the ethnographer has collapsed the probability wave function.
So perhaps it isn’t surprising that papers written by scientists differ in their conclusion from those written by anthropologists and linguists. But which is right?
As a scientist, I will argue that the true answer is the one most firmly based on evidence. Presumably my linguist and anthropologist friends will disagree. And my post-modernist friends will question the notion of truth, and say we all have a valid narrative.
Sorry, but speaking as a scientist, if I can find a single reliable piece of evidence that is inconsistent with your theory, then your theory is Wrong. You might disagree. But please don’t ignore it.
- By Professor Ray Norris,, School of Computing, Engineering, and Mathematics, Western Sydney University 2016. As an astrophysicist, he has also undertaken extensive research of Aboriginal astronomy
They had no understanding of the square root of minus one.
sarahs mum said:
Sovereign Union ·
WHY OLD THEORIES ON ABORIGINAL COUNTING JUST WON’T GO AWAY
There were quinary (base five) systems in the top end.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:>And my post-modernist friends will question the notion of truth, and say we all have a valid narrative.
I’m glad I don’t have any post-modernist friends.
Alternative Facts
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
>>Australia and Afghanistan are all set to play the crucial Group B game of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.It was washed out, but you’d think they’d change the name of the stadium.
Like Gaddafi Oval or something?
I was thinking more like PeterT Memorial Stadium.
you only get memorial when you’re dead.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
>>Australia and Afghanistan are all set to play the crucial Group B game of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.It was washed out, but you’d think they’d change the name of the stadium.
Like Gaddafi Oval or something?
I was thinking more like PeterT Memorial Stadium.
You need to make a landmark speech somewhere to get things named after you.
sarahs mum said:
THE MYTH CONTINUES
But the real problem is that his original generalisation is often misinterpreted to mean all Aboriginal people can’t count beyond four or Aboriginal people don’t have a concept of numbers greater than four, both of which are obviously incorrect.
I have never heard of this myth.
ChrispenEvan said:
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:Like Gaddafi Oval or something?
I was thinking more like PeterT Memorial Stadium.
you only get memorial when you’re dead.
Lie down in a coffin and take a picture.
party_pants said:
sarahs mum said:THE MYTH CONTINUES
But the real problem is that his original generalisation is often misinterpreted to mean all Aboriginal people can’t count beyond four or Aboriginal people don’t have a concept of numbers greater than four, both of which are obviously incorrect.I have never heard of this myth.
It’s not only applied to Australian Aboriginal people, it’s applied to hunter gatherers in general, I think.
buffy said:
party_pants said:
sarahs mum said:THE MYTH CONTINUES
But the real problem is that his original generalisation is often misinterpreted to mean all Aboriginal people can’t count beyond four or Aboriginal people don’t have a concept of numbers greater than four, both of which are obviously incorrect.I have never heard of this myth.
It’s not only applied to Australian Aboriginal people, it’s applied to hunter gatherers in general, I think.
I have not heard of that either.
party_pants said:
buffy said:
party_pants said:I have never heard of this myth.
It’s not only applied to Australian Aboriginal people, it’s applied to hunter gatherers in general, I think.
I have not heard of that either.
Well, though Cook saw that people lived here, they still called it Terra nullius. When they did encounrter native inhabitants, they were seen as savages? A strange word because they didn’t ask the natives if they knew how many fingers they had. Simply categorised them as savages who are not numerous enough to stop the takeover.
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:
Sovereign Union ·
WHY OLD THEORIES ON ABORIGINAL COUNTING JUST WON’T GO AWAY…. he has also undertaken extensive research of Aboriginal astronomy
They had no understanding of the square root of minus one.
How do you know? They may have another way of getting there more quickly.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
>>Australia and Afghanistan are all set to play the crucial Group B game of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.It was washed out, but you’d think they’d change the name of the stadium.
Like Gaddafi Oval or something?
I was thinking more like PeterT Memorial Stadium.
Great idea. Is he willing to convert to the local religion?
This afternoon’s offering of Dr Who on ABC Entertains is “Smith and Jones”. Martha Jones and the hospital on the moon. I’ll be a bit picky over the next couple of weeks. I will definitely watch “Blink” again. But this series leads in the Sim Master episodes and I didn’t like Sim as The Master.
I’m off for a short read and siesta.
buffy said:
This afternoon’s offering of Dr Who on ABC Entertains is “Smith and Jones”. Martha Jones and the hospital on the moon. I’ll be a bit picky over the next couple of weeks. I will definitely watch “Blink” again. But this series leads in the Sim Master episodes and I didn’t like Sim as The Master.
I didn’t much like blink either, apart from the bit where he met them out the front of the shop. So, about five minutes of that series?
Finishing off the sake here. Must admit it’s not really my kind of tipple.
I’ll go and get some more wine before the BWS shuts (at 8), but right now I’m going to make another bucket of quinoa tabouli.
Tonight it’ll be served with diced chicken cooked with various herbs and spices in olive oil and lime juice.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
This afternoon’s offering of Dr Who on ABC Entertains is “Smith and Jones”. Martha Jones and the hospital on the moon. I’ll be a bit picky over the next couple of weeks. I will definitely watch “Blink” again. But this series leads in the Sim Master episodes and I didn’t like Sim as The Master.
I didn’t much like blink either, apart from the bit where he met them out the front of the shop. So, about five minutes of that series?
Each to their own I suppose, I thought Season Three was top notch, especially the second half.
Bubblecar said:
Finishing off the sake here. Must admit it’s not really my kind of tipple.I’ll go and get some more wine before the BWS shuts (at 8), but right now I’m going to make another bucket of quinoa tabouli.
Tonight it’ll be served with diced chicken cooked with various herbs and spices in olive oil and lime juice.
I thought you were going to make the sauce again for dumplings or something, so you’ll need more sake.
dv said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
This afternoon’s offering of Dr Who on ABC Entertains is “Smith and Jones”. Martha Jones and the hospital on the moon. I’ll be a bit picky over the next couple of weeks. I will definitely watch “Blink” again. But this series leads in the Sim Master episodes and I didn’t like Sim as The Master.
I didn’t much like blink either, apart from the bit where he met them out the front of the shop. So, about five minutes of that series?
Each to their own I suppose, I thought Season Three was top notch, especially the second half.
Upon rewatching, I got to enjoy it better.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
This afternoon’s offering of Dr Who on ABC Entertains is “Smith and Jones”. Martha Jones and the hospital on the moon. I’ll be a bit picky over the next couple of weeks. I will definitely watch “Blink” again. But this series leads in the Sim Master episodes and I didn’t like Sim as The Master.
I didn’t much like blink either, apart from the bit where he met them out the front of the shop. So, about five minutes of that series?
I watched some quite dire Dr Who the other night, from the Peter Davison years: Resurrection of the Daleks (which I don’t recall seeing on telly, but I wasn’t much of a Davison fan).
I gave up after the second episode. I might watch the rest tonight just to see how bad it gets. Have to sympathise with these critics:
>In Doctor Who: The Complete Guide, Mark Campbell awarded Resurrection of the Daleks two out of ten, describing it as “an ultra-violent, soulless remake of Earthshock. Beneath the technobabble, endless continuity references, silly hats and abysmally acted death scenes, there’s no sign of a plot.” In 2019, Paul Mount of Starburst described it as “a collision of clunky ideas artlessly welded together, dodgy dialogue, ropey characterisation and a plot that meandered and wandered Resurrection, with its stratospherically high body count and unremittingly grim tone, was far darker and messier than the show ever needed to be.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection_of_the_Daleks#Broadcast_and_reception
dv said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
This afternoon’s offering of Dr Who on ABC Entertains is “Smith and Jones”. Martha Jones and the hospital on the moon. I’ll be a bit picky over the next couple of weeks. I will definitely watch “Blink” again. But this series leads in the Sim Master episodes and I didn’t like Sim as The Master.
I didn’t much like blink either, apart from the bit where he met them out the front of the shop. So, about five minutes of that series?
Each to their own I suppose, I thought Season Three was top notch, especially the second half.
I did enjoy Blink, probably the only I’ve seen from that season.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Finishing off the sake here. Must admit it’s not really my kind of tipple.I’ll go and get some more wine before the BWS shuts (at 8), but right now I’m going to make another bucket of quinoa tabouli.
Tonight it’ll be served with diced chicken cooked with various herbs and spices in olive oil and lime juice.
I thought you were going to make the sauce again for dumplings or something, so you’ll need more sake.
I will but I’ll probably use dry sherry, which would work just as well in that sauce (which uses very little sake, about 30mls).
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Finishing off the sake here. Must admit it’s not really my kind of tipple.I’ll go and get some more wine before the BWS shuts (at 8), but right now I’m going to make another bucket of quinoa tabouli.
Tonight it’ll be served with diced chicken cooked with various herbs and spices in olive oil and lime juice.
I thought you were going to make the sauce again for dumplings or something, so you’ll need more sake.
I will but I’ll probably use dry sherry, which would work just as well in that sauce (which uses very little sake, about 30mls).
Can’t drink dry sherry so you may as well cook with it.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Finishing off the sake here. Must admit it’s not really my kind of tipple.I’ll go and get some more wine before the BWS shuts (at 8), but right now I’m going to make another bucket of quinoa tabouli.
Tonight it’ll be served with diced chicken cooked with various herbs and spices in olive oil and lime juice.
I thought you were going to make the sauce again for dumplings or something, so you’ll need more sake.
I will but I’ll probably use dry sherry, which would work just as well in that sauce (which uses very little sake, about 30mls).
OK. Thanks for that comment. I had intended to try that recipe.
I did a couple of pork sizzle steaks (cut in half), marinated in dry sherry, salt, pepper and cornflour the other night. They were most yummy. Much better (more flavoursome and juicier) than the plain sizzle steaks two nights before.
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:I thought you were going to make the sauce again for dumplings or something, so you’ll need more sake.
I will but I’ll probably use dry sherry, which would work just as well in that sauce (which uses very little sake, about 30mls).
Can’t drink dry sherry so you may as well cook with it.
I enjoy a good dry sherry, but in this case I actually meant to say: medium-dry. The shogayaki ginger sauce is quite sweet so medium-dry will work well.
Sake worked very well too of course, but since I’m not very keen on it as a drink, I can’t see me buying it often.
Bubblecar said:
As they used to say, it takes an acquired taste.
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:I will but I’ll probably use dry sherry, which would work just as well in that sauce (which uses very little sake, about 30mls).
Can’t drink dry sherry so you may as well cook with it.
I enjoy a good dry sherry, but in this case I actually meant to say: medium-dry. The shogayaki ginger sauce is quite sweet so medium-dry will work well.
Sake worked very well too of course, but since I’m not very keen on it as a drink, I can’t see me buying it often.
They don’t say how long you have to suffer to acquire it.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:I thought you were going to make the sauce again for dumplings or something, so you’ll need more sake.
I will but I’ll probably use dry sherry, which would work just as well in that sauce (which uses very little sake, about 30mls).
OK. Thanks for that comment. I had intended to try that recipe.
I did a couple of pork sizzle steaks (cut in half), marinated in dry sherry, salt, pepper and cornflour the other night. They were most yummy. Much better (more flavoursome and juicier) than the plain sizzle steaks two nights before.
Goodo. With my second batch of shogayaki, I marinated the thin pork loin slices in a mix of sake, soy (Kikkoman) and mirin seasoning for about three hours first.
The meat was extremely tender after that, more so than the first batch.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
This afternoon’s offering of Dr Who on ABC Entertains is “Smith and Jones”. Martha Jones and the hospital on the moon. I’ll be a bit picky over the next couple of weeks. I will definitely watch “Blink” again. But this series leads in the Sim Master episodes and I didn’t like Sim as The Master.
I didn’t much like blink either, apart from the bit where he met them out the front of the shop. So, about five minutes of that series?
“Blink” is the best episode ever.
There was a break in the rain, so I chopped down a green bamboo shoot and extracted the edible bits. They are soaking in water. Lunch (half a sausage roll) next. Mrs V is heating it right now.
Later: slice the bamboo and boil it. Probably after a lie down.
We have moved most of the potential projectiles from the yard. Mind you, if the wind gets above 80 km/h, there may be more of them. But I reckon up to 80 km/h, things should be OK.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:I will but I’ll probably use dry sherry, which would work just as well in that sauce (which uses very little sake, about 30mls).
OK. Thanks for that comment. I had intended to try that recipe.
I did a couple of pork sizzle steaks (cut in half), marinated in dry sherry, salt, pepper and cornflour the other night. They were most yummy. Much better (more flavoursome and juicier) than the plain sizzle steaks two nights before.
Goodo. With my second batch of shogayaki, I marinated the thin pork loin slices in a mix of sake, soy (Kikkoman) and mirin seasoning for about three hours first.
The meat was extremely tender after that, more so than the first batch.
:)
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
This afternoon’s offering of Dr Who on ABC Entertains is “Smith and Jones”. Martha Jones and the hospital on the moon. I’ll be a bit picky over the next couple of weeks. I will definitely watch “Blink” again. But this series leads in the Sim Master episodes and I didn’t like Sim as The Master.
I didn’t much like blink either, apart from the bit where he met them out the front of the shop. So, about five minutes of that series?
“Blink” is the best episode ever.
I also mentioned that it grew on me with reruns where I managed to see more of the whole thing.
Michael V said:
There was a break in the rain, so I chopped down a green bamboo shoot and extracted the edible bits. They are soaking in water. Lunch (half a sausage roll) next. Mrs V is heating it right now.Later: slice the bamboo and boil it. Probably after a lie down.
We have moved most of the potential projectiles from the yard. Mind you, if the wind gets above 80 km/h, there may be more of them. But I reckon up to 80 km/h, things should be OK.
Have to tie anything down? or did you move all that into shelter?
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
There was a break in the rain, so I chopped down a green bamboo shoot and extracted the edible bits. They are soaking in water. Lunch (half a sausage roll) next. Mrs V is heating it right now.Later: slice the bamboo and boil it. Probably after a lie down.
We have moved most of the potential projectiles from the yard. Mind you, if the wind gets above 80 km/h, there may be more of them. But I reckon up to 80 km/h, things should be OK.
Have to tie anything down? or did you move all that into shelter?
Moved what I thought was necessary.
I’m not sure we’re going to get Alfred here, but the breezes and rain are picking up a bit. Just the outer rain band so far. Even if we do get Alfred, it’s likely to be a Cat 1 storm.
sarahs mum said:
Sovereign Union ·
WHY OLD THEORIES ON ABORIGINAL COUNTING JUST WON’T GO AWAYMy Australian-educated friends tell me they were taught at school that all Aboriginal people only counted one, two, three, four and ‘many’. While it might be the case for some communities, there is also abundant evidence in others of complex Aboriginal number systems extending to high numbers.
The Australian writer Dame Mary Gilmore, for example, commented in her 1934 book Old Days Old Ways: A Book of Recollections that:
‘The Aboriginal power to count or compute in his native state was as great as our own. I have seen partially trained native stockmen give the exact number of cattle in a group up to four or five hundred almost without a moment’s hesitation, yet authorities on the blacks continue to tell us that the Aboriginal only counted to ten or thereabouts.’Wardaman senior elder Bill Yidumduma Harney, co-author of 2003’s Dark Sparklers: Yidumduma’s Wardaman Aboriginal Astronomy Northern Australia, explains how cattle are counted:
‘We go five and five all the way and then bunch it up. Go five and five is ten. Then count the number of tens. We call that Yigaga.
I have listed elsewhere many other examples of traditional Aboriginal people counting to high numbers.’ORIGIN OF THE MYTH
So why do some people believe the generalised view that all Aboriginal people can’t count beyond four when there is abundant evidence to the contrary?I suspect part of this myth has its roots in a distant colonial past when the British invaders maintained a belief, on which the “terra nullius’ concept was based, that Aboriginal people were barely human, without culture, civilisation or counting.
When my wife and I were in the Tiwi islands in 2005, the local children were competing to see who could hold their breath longest under water. Although my guidebook said they couldn’t count beyond four in their Tiwi language, they were clearly counting to 50 or 60 in a non-English language.
But the myth is reinforced by a linguistic debate about Aboriginal counting words. For example, the distinguished Australian linguist Barry Blake famously said in his 1981 book, Australian Aboriginal Languages: A General Introduction that:
No Australian Aboriginal language has a word for a number higher than four.
Blake’s statement refers to a linguistic nuance that does not include compound words such as “thirteen’ or “twenty-one’, so Blake would probably also say that, with the exception of the words “hundred’, “thousand’ and “million’, the English language does not have a word for a number higher than twelve.
But even Blake’s statement has counter-examples. In 1881, James Dawson, in his work The Languages and Customs of Several Tribes of Aborigines in the Western District of Victoria, reported that the Kuurn kopan noot (Gurnditjmara) language has a word for 20 (peep) and 100 (Baarbaanuung).
The Chaap wuurong (Djabwurrung) people had a number system extending to 28 – the number of days in a lunar month – each of which was identified as a place on the body, and as a verbal name which also described that part of the body.
These examples are obviously inconsistent with Blake’s statement, as he recently acknowledged to me:
Fair enough. These would be exceptions to my generalisation.THE MYTH CONTINUES
But the real problem is that his original generalisation is often misinterpreted to mean all Aboriginal people can’t count beyond four or Aboriginal people don’t have a concept of numbers greater than four, both of which are obviously incorrect.Even worse, respectable academic papers continue to be published that fly in the face of the evidence.
Last year researchers Kevin Zhou and Claire Bowen, from Yale University, argued in a paper that Aboriginal number systems vary, and could extend beyond ten, but still didn’t extend past 20, in conflict with the evidence I’ve mentioned above.
As a physicist, I am fascinated by the fact that the authors of this paper didn’t engage with the contrary evidence. They simply didn’t mention it. Why?
Although my training is in astrophysics, I have for the last few years studied Aboriginal Astronomy, on the boundary between the physical sciences and the humanities, and I am beginning to understand a major difference in approach between the sciences and the humanities.
WHAT THE DATA SAY
In physics, data rule supreme. The most brilliant theory by the most eminent physicist in the world can still be shot down by the lowliest graduate student if it is found to be in conflict with the data.Of course, data may occasionally be disputed, but that process is explicit, calling for a re-examination of the data, or for the experiment in question to be repeated. A physics paper promoting a theory while simply ignoring conflicting data would not survive the peer-review process, or the subsequent derision.
In humanities, the data is often much more dependent on the skills and interpretation of the researcher.
Ethnographic information suffers from potential errors of misunderstanding, mistranslation and misinterpretation, so is fundamentally less reliable than taking a physical measurement with laboratory equipment or a telescope.
Ethnographic experiments are not repeatable. Once a subject has been exposed to the ethnographer, their answers are unlikely to vary. In physics terms, the ethnographer has collapsed the probability wave function.
So perhaps it isn’t surprising that papers written by scientists differ in their conclusion from those written by anthropologists and linguists. But which is right?
As a scientist, I will argue that the true answer is the one most firmly based on evidence. Presumably my linguist and anthropologist friends will disagree. And my post-modernist friends will question the notion of truth, and say we all have a valid narrative.
Sorry, but speaking as a scientist, if I can find a single reliable piece of evidence that is inconsistent with your theory, then your theory is Wrong. You might disagree. But please don’t ignore it.
- By Professor Ray Norris,, School of Computing, Engineering, and Mathematics, Western Sydney University 2016. As an astrophysicist, he has also undertaken extensive research of Aboriginal astronomy
What the latest Aboriginal experts forget and rarely ever mention (that would place everything in context regarding Aboriginal counting) is their NEED to count more than four. It has NOTHING to do with intelligence and probably little different to when Europeans were Hunter/Gatherers too.
The importance of counting and recording only became important once people settled down to graze animals and/or grow crops, so then their need was to count and record their possessions. Aborigines trying to adapt to European ways needed to make note of numbers and so they learned. Is that so astounding? Or is that just the arrogance of white people in Australia?
dv said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
This afternoon’s offering of Dr Who on ABC Entertains is “Smith and Jones”. Martha Jones and the hospital on the moon. I’ll be a bit picky over the next couple of weeks. I will definitely watch “Blink” again. But this series leads in the Sim Master episodes and I didn’t like Sim as The Master.
I didn’t much like blink either, apart from the bit where he met them out the front of the shop. So, about five minutes of that series?
Each to their own I suppose, I thought Season Three was top notch, especially the second half.
I didn’t like Missy either. But I’ll pick up the Donna Noble episodes later.
You still around, Arts?
>>I didn’t like Missy
She was attacked by a mob of dogs when she was a lamb, now this.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
There was a break in the rain, so I chopped down a green bamboo shoot and extracted the edible bits. They are soaking in water. Lunch (half a sausage roll) next. Mrs V is heating it right now.Later: slice the bamboo and boil it. Probably after a lie down.
We have moved most of the potential projectiles from the yard. Mind you, if the wind gets above 80 km/h, there may be more of them. But I reckon up to 80 km/h, things should be OK.
Have to tie anything down? or did you move all that into shelter?
Moved what I thought was necessary.
I’m not sure we’re going to get Alfred here, but the breezes and rain are picking up a bit. Just the outer rain band so far. Even if we do get Alfred, it’s likely to be a Cat 1 storm.
Still nasty.
that went well, apparently the world has descended into everything being about overt power relations, that’s a long way to the right
transition said:
that went well, apparently the world has descended into everything being about overt power relations, that’s a long way to the right
Don’t ask me what’s right about it.
The mystery deepens.
Gene Hackman’s pacemaker recorded its “last event” nine days before the bodies were discovered. Both he and his wife tested negative for CO poisoning.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-01/gene-hackman-betsy-arakawa-negative-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/104998434
In an earlier report, I read the dog was found deceased in a cupboard near the wife.
Achy Breaky Heart {Crazy Frog Cover}
Kind of a weird story.
One of Australia’s smallest skinks has undergone a big genetic change in an attempt to fight the risk of extinction.
Biologists bred and released four tiny genetically modified Guthega skinks in an outdoor enclosure on Victoria’s High Country in December.
It is one step away before the tiny lizards are released into the greater wild when biologists are hopeful the offspring of the critters can be set free in about a year.
Guthega skinks are only found in Victoria’s Bogong High Plains and on Mount Kosciuszko in New South Wales.
dv said:
Achy Breaky Heart {Crazy Frog Cover}Kind of a weird story.
One of Australia’s smallest skinks has undergone a big genetic change in an attempt to fight the risk of extinction.
Biologists bred and released four tiny genetically modified Guthega skinks in an outdoor enclosure on Victoria’s High Country in December.
It is one step away before the tiny lizards are released into the greater wild when biologists are hopeful the offspring of the critters can be set free in about a year.
Guthega skinks are only found in Victoria’s Bogong High Plains and on Mount Kosciuszko in New South Wales.
WOW!!!
Divine Angel said:
The mystery deepens.Gene Hackman’s pacemaker recorded its “last event” nine days before the bodies were discovered. Both he and his wife tested negative for CO poisoning.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-01/gene-hackman-betsy-arakawa-negative-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/104998434
In an earlier report, I read the dog was found deceased in a cupboard near the wife.
According to the ABC News report you posted, it was:
“A German Shepherd was also discovered in a bathroom closet, near Ms Arakawa’s body.”
We are going to watch “Tripe” (a short movie from 1985) tonight. Bushwandering friend has recommended it.
buffy said:
We are going to watch “Tripe” (a short movie from 1985) tonight. Bushwandering friend has recommended it.
She’s also given us a disc of the 1998 film The Interview.
buffy said:
buffy said:
We are going to watch “Tripe” (a short movie from 1985) tonight. Bushwandering friend has recommended it.She’s also given us a disc of the 1998 film The Interview.
Fantastic movie! A tight, terse thriller.
Divine Angel said:
buffy said:
buffy said:
We are going to watch “Tripe” (a short movie from 1985) tonight. Bushwandering friend has recommended it.She’s also given us a disc of the 1998 film The Interview.
Fantastic movie! A tight, terse thriller.
Oh, and “Mama’s gone a’hunting” is also in the offerings she gave me. She also got a copy of the movie of Buffy the Vampire Slayer for me because my copy is on video, not DVD. We were originally discussing the Australian movies of the 1970s, which I saw quite a lot of, but somehow moved over to American stuff. I know she loves the ridiculous, so I suggested the Buffy movie. Turns out she is a fan of Donald Sutherland, so that worked well. Her husband was an American, Harvard linguist and they were folk singers. She knows a lot about Irish and Scottish ballads as well as American songs.
sarahs mum said:
Sovereign Union ·
WHY OLD THEORIES ON ABORIGINAL COUNTING JUST WON’T GO AWAYMy Australian-educated friends tell me they were taught at school that all Aboriginal people only counted one, two, three, four and ‘many’. While it might be the case for some communities, there is also abundant evidence in others of complex Aboriginal number systems extending to high numbers.
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Sorry, but speaking as a scientist, if I can find a single reliable piece of evidence that is inconsistent with your theory, then your theory is Wrong. You might disagree. But please don’t ignore it.
- By Professor Ray Norris,, School of Computing, Engineering, and Mathematics, Western Sydney University 2016. As an astrophysicist, he has also undertaken extensive research of Aboriginal astronomy
The “one, two, three, four, many” numbering is what I learnt. I even told others what I had learnt in primary school. But I was wrong.
When I was in my twenties, it was a commonly-held belief in north-western NSW that aborigines “had only just stopped swinging in the trees”, (evolution proves that)” and should they should all be “rounded up and sent back to the desert where they belong”.
An aboriginal friend at that time said he couldn’t grasp the racism. “If I cut my arm, and you cut yours, the same stuff runs out, doesn’t it?” Oh, and like a lot of young men in the town, he’d been initiated into manhood. He was proud of his scars.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Sovereign Union ·
WHY OLD THEORIES ON ABORIGINAL COUNTING JUST WON’T GO AWAYMy Australian-educated friends tell me they were taught at school that all Aboriginal people only counted one, two, three, four and ‘many’. While it might be the case for some communities, there is also abundant evidence in others of complex Aboriginal number systems extending to high numbers.
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Sorry, but speaking as a scientist, if I can find a single reliable piece of evidence that is inconsistent with your theory, then your theory is Wrong. You might disagree. But please don’t ignore it.
- By Professor Ray Norris,, School of Computing, Engineering, and Mathematics, Western Sydney University 2016. As an astrophysicist, he has also undertaken extensive research of Aboriginal astronomy
The “one, two, three, four, many” numbering is what I learnt. I even told others what I had learnt in primary school. But I was wrong.
When I was in my twenties, it was a commonly-held belief in north-western NSW that aborigines “had only just stopped swinging in the trees”, (evolution proves that)” and should they should all be “rounded up and sent back to the desert where they belong”.
An aboriginal friend at that time said he couldn’t grasp the racism. “If I cut my arm, and you cut yours, the same stuff runs out, doesn’t it?” Oh, and like a lot of young men in the town, he’d been initiated into manhood. He was proud of his scars.
We can only try to be better than our ancestors and see that our descendants are better still.
dv said:
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Sovereign Union ·
WHY OLD THEORIES ON ABORIGINAL COUNTING JUST WON’T GO AWAYMy Australian-educated friends tell me they were taught at school that all Aboriginal people only counted one, two, three, four and ‘many’. While it might be the case for some communities, there is also abundant evidence in others of complex Aboriginal number systems extending to high numbers.
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Sorry, but speaking as a scientist, if I can find a single reliable piece of evidence that is inconsistent with your theory, then your theory is Wrong. You might disagree. But please don’t ignore it.
- By Professor Ray Norris,, School of Computing, Engineering, and Mathematics, Western Sydney University 2016. As an astrophysicist, he has also undertaken extensive research of Aboriginal astronomy
The “one, two, three, four, many” numbering is what I learnt. I even told others what I had learnt in primary school. But I was wrong.
When I was in my twenties, it was a commonly-held belief in north-western NSW that aborigines “had only just stopped swinging in the trees”, (evolution proves that)” and should they should all be “rounded up and sent back to the desert where they belong”.
An aboriginal friend at that time said he couldn’t grasp the racism. “If I cut my arm, and you cut yours, the same stuff runs out, doesn’t it?” Oh, and like a lot of young men in the town, he’d been initiated into manhood. He was proud of his scars.
We can only try to be better than our ancestors and see that our descendants are better still.
Yes.
dv said:
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Sovereign Union ·
WHY OLD THEORIES ON ABORIGINAL COUNTING JUST WON’T GO AWAYMy Australian-educated friends tell me they were taught at school that all Aboriginal people only counted one, two, three, four and ‘many’. While it might be the case for some communities, there is also abundant evidence in others of complex Aboriginal number systems extending to high numbers.
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Sorry, but speaking as a scientist, if I can find a single reliable piece of evidence that is inconsistent with your theory, then your theory is Wrong. You might disagree. But please don’t ignore it.
- By Professor Ray Norris,, School of Computing, Engineering, and Mathematics, Western Sydney University 2016. As an astrophysicist, he has also undertaken extensive research of Aboriginal astronomy
The “one, two, three, four, many” numbering is what I learnt. I even told others what I had learnt in primary school. But I was wrong.
When I was in my twenties, it was a commonly-held belief in north-western NSW that aborigines “had only just stopped swinging in the trees”, (evolution proves that)” and should they should all be “rounded up and sent back to the desert where they belong”.
An aboriginal friend at that time said he couldn’t grasp the racism. “If I cut my arm, and you cut yours, the same stuff runs out, doesn’t it?” Oh, and like a lot of young men in the town, he’d been initiated into manhood. He was proud of his scars.
We can only try to be better than our ancestors and see that our descendants are better still.
It pretty much is in PNG though. In Pidgin English it goes onepella, toopella, tripella. That means one, two, many.
Spiny Norman said:
dv said:
Michael V said:The “one, two, three, four, many” numbering is what I learnt. I even told others what I had learnt in primary school. But I was wrong.
When I was in my twenties, it was a commonly-held belief in north-western NSW that aborigines “had only just stopped swinging in the trees”, (evolution proves that)” and should they should all be “rounded up and sent back to the desert where they belong”.
An aboriginal friend at that time said he couldn’t grasp the racism. “If I cut my arm, and you cut yours, the same stuff runs out, doesn’t it?” Oh, and like a lot of young men in the town, he’d been initiated into manhood. He was proud of his scars.
We can only try to be better than our ancestors and see that our descendants are better still.
It pretty much is in PNG though. In Pidgin English it goes onepella, toopella, tripella. That means one, two, many.
I suppose it would vary from language to language and there are a few hundred in that country. Biwat is listed as a language using a quinary system. https://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/channumerals/Biwat.htm
dv said:
I suppose it would vary from language to language and there are a few hundred in that country.
Yeah about 700 unique languages.
But most of the locals speak three languages – Pidgin English, Motu, and the language local to their area.
Just watched A Real Pain, written, produced, and directed by Jesse Eisenberg. It’s about two cousins who go to Poland to visit their recently deceased grandmother’s birthplace and the concentration camp she lived in.
It’s nominated for two Oscars: Best Original Screenplay, and Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Kieran Culkin. Having won both these awards at other screen ceremonies, it’s in for a good chance for both Oscars.
Spiny Norman said:
dv said:
Michael V said:The “one, two, three, four, many” numbering is what I learnt. I even told others what I had learnt in primary school. But I was wrong.
When I was in my twenties, it was a commonly-held belief in north-western NSW that aborigines “had only just stopped swinging in the trees”, (evolution proves that)” and should they should all be “rounded up and sent back to the desert where they belong”.
An aboriginal friend at that time said he couldn’t grasp the racism. “If I cut my arm, and you cut yours, the same stuff runs out, doesn’t it?” Oh, and like a lot of young men in the town, he’d been initiated into manhood. He was proud of his scars.
We can only try to be better than our ancestors and see that our descendants are better still.
It pretty much is in PNG though. In Pidgin English it goes onepella, toopella, tripella. That means one, two, many.
But “Tripella liklik pik” was three little pigs, not many little pigs. We listened to that record so many times when I was young.
Been no news update on NASA’s Perseverance site for nearly three months.
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance/stories/
Apparently older people are the biggest carrier of AIDS in the country.
Hearing aids, band aids etc.
Boom shiggy boom
Bubblecar said:
Been no news update on NASA’s Perseverance site for nearly three months.https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance/stories/
How ironic
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/18q39uZdoR/
Orson Welles as Falstaff
dv said:
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/18q39uZdoR/Orson Welles as Falstaff
Heh, convincing enough my lord.
dv said:
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/18q39uZdoR/Orson Welles as Falstaff
Dean Martin show, how ironic.
According to Wikipedia on Welles as Falstaff:
A Time review also criticized Welles, calling him “probably the first actor in the history of the theater to appear too fat for the role … he takes command of scenes less with spoken English than with body English”
dv said:
According to Wikipedia on Welles as Falstaff:
A Time review also criticized Welles, calling him “probably the first actor in the history of the theater to appear too fat for the role … he takes command of scenes less with spoken English than with body English”
Talk about bitchy.
https://www.news.com.au/sport/football/australian-coach-ange-postecoglou-outlawed-by-north-korean-dictator/news-story/c5eecada52f4522ac19f94cd6cf04780
Australian coach Ange Postecoglou outlawed by North Korean dictato
dv said:
Australian coach Ange Postecoglou outlawed by North Korean dictato
what is this fucking reporting
literally has fuck all to do with Australia but yeah
we presume that was dv’s point
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 12 degrees at the back door and overcast. We are forecast 22 degrees with a “possible morning shower”. We haven’t finished with the heat yet, we are forecast to go back to the low 30s Tuesday and Wednesday and then into the low-mid thirties Friday and Saturday.
Garden pottering, online plant IDing, knitting, sewing…all possible activities today.
22, heading for 29, possible shower. Humidity is 75% so after yesterday’s excitement I’m gonna take it easy, although we are due for a grocery shop. Will wait and see and keep the Ventolin handy.
Dreamed Mini Me had a birthday party and one of her friends had three arms. Her dad called the condition, “left round cusp” and I’m like, what the hell is that supposed to mean? The third arm was in the middle of her chest, and the girl’s name was Merida, like the Disney princess in the movie Brave.
25/50. I knew 4, correctly guessed one, and wrongly guessed the rest.
buffy said:
Sunday Quiz25/50. I knew 4, correctly guessed one, and wrongly guessed the rest.
yay! Beat buffy.
30/50
The Rev Dodgson said:
buffy said:
Sunday Quiz25/50. I knew 4, correctly guessed one, and wrongly guessed the rest.
yay! Beat buffy.
30/50
But we think you can do even better next time. You’ve scored 5% better than average.
SCIENCE said:
dv said:
Australian coach Ange Postecoglou outlawed by North Korean dictato
what is this fucking reporting
literally has fuck all to do with Australia but yeah
we presume that was dv’s point
the blinding sand-in-ya-eyes derrr in that page is the use of north korea as a distraction from the part sport plays in ideological influence in liberal countries, assists with the broader plurality of denials the libertarians hide their best work
Good morning everybody.
It’s 24.0° C, 72% RH, variable to gusty, light to fresh breezes and it’s mostly cloudy. BoM has forecast a top of 27° C and a very high chance of rain.
The gales predicted to start last night didn’t eventuate – Tropical Cyclone Alfred continued on a southerly path without diverting west, as the models had predicted. So the gales remain offshore. Current modelling has the cyclone u-turning and then travelling north-northwest in a couple of days’ time. That model has the cyclone crossing the coast just south of us.
Agenda: Lots of washing up from last night, first load done. Cook a curry.
Food: Breakfast or brunch – chicken and vegetable massaman curry with rice or noodles.
Dinner: Mrs V’s cheat’s roast chook. (She scored a cheap roast chook at IGA.)
Divine Angel said:
22, heading for 29, possible shower. Humidity is 75% so after yesterday’s excitement I’m gonna take it easy, although we are due for a grocery shop. Will wait and see and keep the Ventolin handy.Dreamed Mini Me had a birthday party and one of her friends had three arms. Her dad called the condition, “left round cusp” and I’m like, what the hell is that supposed to mean? The third arm was in the middle of her chest, and the girl’s name was Merida, like the Disney princess in the movie Brave.
What excitement was that?
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
22, heading for 29, possible shower. Humidity is 75% so after yesterday’s excitement I’m gonna take it easy, although we are due for a grocery shop. Will wait and see and keep the Ventolin handy.Dreamed Mini Me had a birthday party and one of her friends had three arms. Her dad called the condition, “left round cusp” and I’m like, what the hell is that supposed to mean? The third arm was in the middle of her chest, and the girl’s name was Merida, like the Disney princess in the movie Brave.
What excitement was that?
Spent a couple of hours in the ED. Out of the 7 symptoms of heart attack, I had 4, so I called an ambulance.
Turns out it was just my lungs playing up again. Those silly lungs. Heart is 100% completely fine.
buffy said:
Sunday Quiz25/50. I knew 4, correctly guessed one, and wrongly guessed the rest.
6/10 here.
So if the cyclone does swing by Brisbane, I’m now more concerned about my lungs than the cyclone!
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
22, heading for 29, possible shower. Humidity is 75% so after yesterday’s excitement I’m gonna take it easy, although we are due for a grocery shop. Will wait and see and keep the Ventolin handy.Dreamed Mini Me had a birthday party and one of her friends had three arms. Her dad called the condition, “left round cusp” and I’m like, what the hell is that supposed to mean? The third arm was in the middle of her chest, and the girl’s name was Merida, like the Disney princess in the movie Brave.
What excitement was that?
Spent a couple of hours in the ED. Out of the 7 symptoms of heart attack, I had 4, so I called an ambulance.
Turns out it was just my lungs playing up again. Those silly lungs. Heart is 100% completely fine.
Gosh!
Still, better safe than sorry.
That’s some excitement. Nay: concern.
Divine Angel said:
So if the cyclone does swing by Brisbane, I’m now more concerned about my lungs than the cyclone!
Your lungs sound horrible.
You’d better cut back on the durries.
;)
As I do more focused sort through my medical files I’m watching a lovely movie, Leonie. Beautiful to look at. I keep rewinding to examine details of the clothing etc.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
So if the cyclone does swing by Brisbane, I’m now more concerned about my lungs than the cyclone!
Your lungs sound horrible.
You’d better cut back on the durries.
;)
Covid, man. Don’t fuck around with it.
Dad had pneumonia back in 2011. The humidity got to him so he had to move inland. My sister jokes I’ll have to move in with him.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
So if the cyclone does swing by Brisbane, I’m now more concerned about my lungs than the cyclone!
Your lungs sound horrible.
You’d better cut back on the durries.
;)
Covid, man. Don’t fuck around with it.
Dad had pneumonia back in 2011. The humidity got to him so he had to move inland. My sister jokes I’ll have to move in with him.
As far as I am aware, neither of us has had COVID. More boosters soon though.
I’ve had pneumonia; knocked me around for a long, long while.
Divine Angel said:
22, heading for 29, possible shower. Humidity is 75% so after yesterday’s excitement I’m gonna take it easy, although we are due for a grocery shop. Will wait and see and keep the Ventolin handy.Dreamed Mini Me had a birthday party and one of her friends had three arms. Her dad called the condition, “left round cusp” and I’m like, what the hell is that supposed to mean? The third arm was in the middle of her chest, and the girl’s name was Merida, like the Disney princess in the movie Brave.
could be an AI dream.
35 degrees expected today and every day until next weekend.
ChrispenEvan said:
Mixed bag for the week.
Forecast here is showers and wind, temps 22-29 all week.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-02/hard-quiz-weekly-trivia/104994344
40/50
Most of these were pretty easy
dv said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-02/hard-quiz-weekly-trivia/10499434440/50
Most of these were pretty easy
Same. I got the first 8 right and bombed the last 2.
It’s Sunday.
transition said:
SCIENCE said:
dv said:
Australian coach Ange Postecoglou outlawed by North Korean dictato
what is this fucking reporting
literally has fuck all to do with Australia but yeah
we presume that was dv’s point
the blinding sand-in-ya-eyes derrr in that page is the use of north korea as a distraction from the part sport plays in ideological influence in liberal countries, assists with the broader plurality of denials the libertarians hide their best work
yeah turtles all the way down with great fleas on their backs and all that sure
ChrispenEvan said:
It’s Sunday.
Not in New Mexico!
ChrispenEvan said:
It’s Sunday.
LOL well you know gotta find something to do here while everyone else is getting indoctrinated in their culthouses sorry we mean churches
ChrispenEvan said:
It’s Sunday.
Eyes Pop!
ChrispenEvan said:
It’s Sunday.
Tomorrow is very exciting! First, it’s Oscars day, and secondly, my new phone is due to be delivered.
The Oscars are the epitome of pomp and ceremony, two of my very favourite things. And we all need favourite things in time like this.
ChrispenEvan said:
It’s Sunday.
Is it? I thought it was just like any other day of the week.
Witty Rejoinder said:
ChrispenEvan said:
It’s Sunday.
Not in New Mexico!
fuck it’s not even 2025 in new mexico.
Divine Angel said:
ChrispenEvan said:
It’s Sunday.
Tomorrow is very exciting! First, it’s Oscars day, and secondly, my new phone is due to be delivered.
The Oscars are the epitome of pomp and ceremony, two of my very favourite things. And we all need favourite things in time like this.
Do you follow Fashion Critical on FB or Insta – love her comments
Woodie said:
ChrispenEvan said:
It’s Sunday.
Is it? I thought it was just like any other day of the week.
it is just like humans, were all the same but we have different names.
Divine Angel said:
ChrispenEvan said:
It’s Sunday.
Tomorrow is very exciting! First, it’s Oscars day, and secondly, my new phone is due to be delivered.
The Oscars are the epitome of pomp and ceremony, two of my very favourite things. And we all need favourite things in time like this.
It’s the Mutual Backslap Society Gala of the year, hey what but.
Brindabellas said:
Divine Angel said:
ChrispenEvan said:
It’s Sunday.
Tomorrow is very exciting! First, it’s Oscars day, and secondly, my new phone is due to be delivered.
The Oscars are the epitome of pomp and ceremony, two of my very favourite things. And we all need favourite things in time like this.
Do you follow Fashion Critical on FB or Insta – love her comments
I’m not here for fashion. I’m here for Warren Beatty reading out the wrong movie.
I’m also here for Conclave winning Best Picture on the day the actual Pope dies 👀
Woodie said:
ChrispenEvan said:
It’s Sunday.
Is it? I thought it was just like any other day of the week.
Have had a lovely Sunday lunch. Had dad over – sat in the garden and had roast beef, horseradish and cheese on fresh crusty bread and pickled onions (dad’s favourite) paired with a lovely resiling, and followed by a chocolate drumstick ice cream. Sent Dad back to the aged care home very happy and ready for a snooze.
ChrispenEvan said:
Woodie said:
ChrispenEvan said:
It’s Sunday.
Is it? I thought it was just like any other day of the week.
it is just like humans, were all the same but we have different names.
like Lima and Golf and Bravo and Tango and Quebec and
Divine Angel said:
Brindabellas said:
Divine Angel said:Tomorrow is very exciting! First, it’s Oscars day, and secondly, my new phone is due to be delivered.
The Oscars are the epitome of pomp and ceremony, two of my very favourite things. And we all need favourite things in time like this.
Do you follow Fashion Critical on FB or Insta – love her comments
I’m not here for fashion. I’m here for Warren Beatty reading out the wrong movie.
I like to see who’s porked up since last year.
Divine Angel said:
ChrispenEvan said:
It’s Sunday.
Tomorrow is very exciting! First, it’s Oscars day, and secondly, my new phone is due to be delivered.
The Oscars are the epitome of pomp and ceremony, two of my very favourite things. And we all need favourite things in time like this.
Idolising celebrities is part of why we are in this shitfest.
Brindabellas said:
Woodie said:
ChrispenEvan said:
It’s Sunday.
Is it? I thought it was just like any other day of the week.
Have had a lovely Sunday lunch. Had dad over – sat in the garden and had roast beef, horseradish and cheese on fresh crusty bread and pickled onions (dad’s favourite) paired with a lovely resiling, and followed by a chocolate drumstick ice cream. Sent Dad back to the aged care home very happy and ready for a snooze.
Awwww.
Nice.
:)
Divine Angel said:
I’m also here for Conclave winning Best Picture on the day the actual Pope dies 👀
Ha!
Now that’d be a thing!
Anora is still the favourite, according to Sportsbet, despite not winning any major awards.
Kieran Culkin taking out Best Actor in a Supporting Role is paying 1.02. He was very good in A Real Pain.
Brindabellas said:
Woodie said:
ChrispenEvan said:
It’s Sunday.
Is it? I thought it was just like any other day of the week.
Have had a lovely Sunday lunch. Had dad over – sat in the garden and had roast beef, horseradish and cheese on fresh crusty bread and pickled onions (dad’s favourite) paired with a lovely resiling, and followed by a chocolate drumstick ice cream. Sent Dad back to the aged care home very happy and ready for a snooze.
kii said:
Divine Angel said:
ChrispenEvan said:
It’s Sunday.
Tomorrow is very exciting! First, it’s Oscars day, and secondly, my new phone is due to be delivered.
The Oscars are the epitome of pomp and ceremony, two of my very favourite things. And we all need favourite things in time like this.
Idolising celebrities is part of why we are in this shitfest.
“You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below” – 2nd Commandment.
Woodie said:
kii said:
Divine Angel said:Tomorrow is very exciting! First, it’s Oscars day, and secondly, my new phone is due to be delivered.
The Oscars are the epitome of pomp and ceremony, two of my very favourite things. And we all need favourite things in time like this.
Idolising celebrities is part of why we are in this shitfest.
“You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below” – 2nd Commandment.
Brindabellas said:
Woodie said:
ChrispenEvan said:
It’s Sunday.
Is it? I thought it was just like any other day of the week.
Have had a lovely Sunday lunch. Had dad over – sat in the garden and had roast beef, horseradish and cheese on fresh crusty bread and pickled onions (dad’s favourite) paired with a lovely resiling, and followed by a chocolate drumstick ice cream. Sent Dad back to the aged care home very happy and ready for a snooze.
Awww nice.
My brother came up from Tassie last weekend and we celebrated our mum’s 101st birthday over a couple of days. She was very happy with it all.
ruby said:
Brindabellas said:
Woodie said:Is it? I thought it was just like any other day of the week.
Have had a lovely Sunday lunch. Had dad over – sat in the garden and had roast beef, horseradish and cheese on fresh crusty bread and pickled onions (dad’s favourite) paired with a lovely resiling, and followed by a chocolate drumstick ice cream. Sent Dad back to the aged care home very happy and ready for a snooze.
Awww nice.
My brother came up from Tassie last weekend and we celebrated our mum’s 101st birthday over a couple of days. She was very happy with it all.
Wow – 101 is fantastic
Woodie said:
kii said:
Divine Angel said:Tomorrow is very exciting! First, it’s Oscars day, and secondly, my new phone is due to be delivered.
The Oscars are the epitome of pomp and ceremony, two of my very favourite things. And we all need favourite things in time like this.
Idolising celebrities is part of why we are in this shitfest.
“You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below” – 2nd Commandment.
Australian Idol is out then.
ruby said:
Woodie said:
kii said:Idolising celebrities is part of why we are in this shitfest.
“You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below” – 2nd Commandment.
Spews.
ruby said:
Brindabellas said:
Woodie said:Is it? I thought it was just like any other day of the week.
Have had a lovely Sunday lunch. Had dad over – sat in the garden and had roast beef, horseradish and cheese on fresh crusty bread and pickled onions (dad’s favourite) paired with a lovely resiling, and followed by a chocolate drumstick ice cream. Sent Dad back to the aged care home very happy and ready for a snooze.
Awww nice.
My brother came up from Tassie last weekend and we celebrated our mum’s 101st birthday over a couple of days. She was very happy with it all.
:)
Michael V said:
ruby said:
Woodie said:
“You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below” – 2nd Commandment.
Spews.
Trump Gazprom
It doesn’t look like anyone is panic buying in my part of the world… yet.
Divine Angel said:
It doesn’t look like anyone is panic buying in my part of the world… yet.
It’s not like it’s Easter Thursday.
Divine Angel said:
It doesn’t look like anyone is panic buying in my part of the world… yet.
I just did something I try to avoid but this week could not. Shop at Costco.
Normally I will go in the middle of the week and for the most part I can get in and out without too many humans around… today it was chaos. I sort of expected it but vastly underestimated how many humans will pack into a store on a hot Sunday to get their cheap terrible hotdog with never ending soda and 25 kilos of peanut butter.
I am safe now, but in recovery mode.
Hey Arts, how did you know you were having a heart episode?
I’ve brought the elephant ear pond plant inside, it was getting battered by the wind already. The cat is not happy that the plant is taking up space in his gecko-watching area.
Divine Angel said:
Hey Arts, how did you know you were having a heart episode?
I didn’t.
The emergency room doctor told me that what I thought was pneumonia (deduced by not being able to breathe properly and the feeling of drowning when I lay flat) was actually my heart valve not doing the right thing.
The next day I was being told I was having open heart surgery next week.
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
Hey Arts, how did you know you were having a heart episode?
I didn’t.
The emergency room doctor told me that what I thought was pneumonia (deduced by not being able to breathe properly and the feeling of drowning when I lay flat) was actually my heart valve not doing the right thing.The next day I was being told I was having open heart surgery next week.
Are you ok? Your family?
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
Hey Arts, how did you know you were having a heart episode?
I didn’t.
The emergency room doctor told me that what I thought was pneumonia (deduced by not being able to breathe properly and the feeling of drowning when I lay flat) was actually my heart valve not doing the right thing.The next day I was being told I was having open heart surgery next week.
Ha, I was the opposite. Yesterday I thought I was having a heart attack but it was only my lungs being unhappy with the humidity.
Anyway I’m glad we’re both ok.
Divine Angel said:
Anyway I’m glad we’re both ok.
Me too.
Do you have asthma?
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
Anyway I’m glad we’re both ok.
Me too.
Do you have asthma?
No, covid did something to my lungs so I have trouble with high humidity.
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
It doesn’t look like anyone is panic buying in my part of the world… yet.
I just did something I try to avoid but this week could not. Shop at Costco.
Normally I will go in the middle of the week and for the most part I can get in and out without too many humans around… today it was chaos. I sort of expected it but vastly underestimated how many humans will pack into a store on a hot Sunday to get their cheap terrible hotdog with never ending soda and 25 kilos of peanut butter.
I am safe now, but in recovery mode.
So what did you buy?
Divine Angel said:
It doesn’t look like anyone is panic buying in my part of the world… yet.
That’s good. Though why anybody would need to panic buy is beyond me.
Our cyclone plan includes inviting people around to eat when the power goes out. Stuff is likely to perish in the freezer before we can eat it all. We have a gas cooker. We likely don’t even need to stock up on water – the village’s water storage is about 150 metres above us. It’ll probably last a few days.
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
It doesn’t look like anyone is panic buying in my part of the world… yet.
I just did something I try to avoid but this week could not. Shop at Costco.
Normally I will go in the middle of the week and for the most part I can get in and out without too many humans around… today it was chaos. I sort of expected it but vastly underestimated how many humans will pack into a store on a hot Sunday to get their cheap terrible hotdog with never ending soda and 25 kilos of peanut butter.
I am safe now, but in recovery mode.
Phew.
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
Anyway I’m glad we’re both ok.
Me too.
Do you have asthma?
No, covid did something to my lungs so I have trouble with high humidity.
Aww that’s crappy. Sorry to hear. My mum has the same, but not because of covid because she’s old and the years of smoking…. But humidity knocks her around something shocking.
Neophyte said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
It doesn’t look like anyone is panic buying in my part of the world… yet.
I just did something I try to avoid but this week could not. Shop at Costco.
Normally I will go in the middle of the week and for the most part I can get in and out without too many humans around… today it was chaos. I sort of expected it but vastly underestimated how many humans will pack into a store on a hot Sunday to get their cheap terrible hotdog with never ending soda and 25 kilos of peanut butter.
I am safe now, but in recovery mode.
So what did you buy?
Not peanut butter.
Neophyte said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
It doesn’t look like anyone is panic buying in my part of the world… yet.
I just did something I try to avoid but this week could not. Shop at Costco.
Normally I will go in the middle of the week and for the most part I can get in and out without too many humans around… today it was chaos. I sort of expected it but vastly underestimated how many humans will pack into a store on a hot Sunday to get their cheap terrible hotdog with never ending soda and 25 kilos of peanut butter.
I am safe now, but in recovery mode.
So what did you buy?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Neophyte said:
Arts said:I just did something I try to avoid but this week could not. Shop at Costco.
Normally I will go in the middle of the week and for the most part I can get in and out without too many humans around… today it was chaos. I sort of expected it but vastly underestimated how many humans will pack into a store on a hot Sunday to get their cheap terrible hotdog with never ending soda and 25 kilos of peanut butter.
I am safe now, but in recovery mode.
So what did you buy?
Oh dear…
>>High doses (e.g., a spoonful) of nutmeg can cause intoxication which includes both stimulant and anticholinergic symptoms. Common CNS effects from nutmeg intoxication include anxiety, confusion, dizziness, drowsiness, and hallucinations. Incoherent speech, stupor and seizures can also occur with large ingestions.<<
Ref: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/nutmeg
Today I have been reading about the rehabilitation of astronauts and how they struggle to walk when they return to earth… and while I knew this, I was unaware of the extent for those who have been in space for a long period of time.. and now I feel somewhat good that even though my endurance sport days are probably behind me, I could beat a real life astronaut in a triathlon
Email from Mini Me’s basketball association: We understand the new allegations against a former coach may be upsetting. If you have any info please come forward, we thank you for your bravery, here are some resources etc etc.
Me: huh?
https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/crime/former-brisbane-basketball-coach-hit-with-additional-child-sexual-assault-charges/news-story/d0f0652cbae41e80cdefaa1b7d819777
Divine Angel said:
Email from Mini Me’s basketball association: We understand the new allegations against a former coach may be upsetting. If you have any info please come forward, we thank you for your bravery, here are some resources etc etc.Me: huh?
https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/crime/former-brisbane-basketball-coach-hit-with-additional-child-sexual-assault-charges/news-story/d0f0652cbae41e80cdefaa1b7d819777
Bloody.
Divine Angel said:
Email from Mini Me’s basketball association: We understand the new allegations against a former coach may be upsetting. If you have any info please come forward, we thank you for your bravery, here are some resources etc etc.Me: huh?
https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/crime/former-brisbane-basketball-coach-hit-with-additional-child-sexual-assault-charges/news-story/d0f0652cbae41e80cdefaa1b7d819777
Oof.
When I was an undergrad we had this tutor who was a little bit odd. He would spend the tutorial talking about himself and he was always the hero of the story… I think the kids these days call it ‘main character vibes’. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it but he was defiantly not genuine.
Anyway about a year after he was the tutor in my class and I had begun tutoring myself, he was arrested for possessing thousands of digital images (stills and video) of child pornography… his excuse was that they were research for a unit he was teaching…. Those of us in the know knew firstly that he did not teach that unit, and secondly, even if he did, there is no need to view or keep these images ‘for research’. I managed to do a whole thesis on unsolicited sexual images without ever seeing one dick pic.The follow up is that now I am the unit coordinator and lecturer for the unit he used as an excuse.. and I can say with confidence that I do not need to view, store, or access any images of child pornography to teach the unit well.
So there’s that.
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
Email from Mini Me’s basketball association: We understand the new allegations against a former coach may be upsetting. If you have any info please come forward, we thank you for your bravery, here are some resources etc etc.Me: huh?
https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/crime/former-brisbane-basketball-coach-hit-with-additional-child-sexual-assault-charges/news-story/d0f0652cbae41e80cdefaa1b7d819777
Oof.
When I was an undergrad we had this tutor who was a little bit odd. He would spend the tutorial talking about himself and he was always the hero of the story… I think the kids these days call it ‘main character vibes’. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it but he was defiantly not genuine.
Anyway about a year after he was the tutor in my class and I had begun tutoring myself, he was arrested for possessing thousands of digital images (stills and video) of child pornography… his excuse was that they were research for a unit he was teaching…. Those of us in the know knew firstly that he did not teach that unit, and secondly, even if he did, there is no need to view or keep these images ‘for research’. I managed to do a whole thesis on unsolicited sexual images without ever seeing one dick pic.The follow up is that now I am the unit coordinator and lecturer for the unit he used as an excuse.. and I can say with confidence that I do not need to view, store, or access any images of child pornography to teach the unit well.
So there’s that.
That story is a wild ride.
Possibility of 130kph gusts on Thursday, depending on Alfred.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-02/bass-strait-history-of-bassian-plain/104978718
Divine Angel said:
Possibility of 130kph gusts on Thursday, depending on Alfred.
Sounds exciting.
:)
Keep informed and safe.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Possibility of 130kph gusts on Thursday, depending on Alfred.
Sounds exciting.
:)
Keep informed and safe.
We have a plan if we need it: pack up and head to dad’s. I figure we won’t know much til Tuesday or even Wednesday 🤞🏼
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Possibility of 130kph gusts on Thursday, depending on Alfred.
Sounds exciting.
:)
Keep informed and safe.
We have a plan if we need it: pack up and head to dad’s. I figure we won’t know much til Tuesday or even Wednesday 🤞🏼
Good-oh. Sounds about right.
We’ve had a couple of pot plants blown over so far, but that’s about it. I think Alfred’s predicted to be closest to us tomorrow afternoon. We’ll in Gympie for Mrs V’s next skin radiotherapy session. Home again mid-late afternoon.
Currently sitting down at the foreshore at the art festival, providing a fire truck for the fireworks.
Kingy said:
Currently sitting down at the foreshore at the art festival, providing a fire truck for the fireworks.
That’s a pleasant change for you.
“A familiar bumper sticker reads, It’s hard to soar like an eagle when you’re surrounded by turkeys. Buddhism teaches that one’s environment reflects themselves. In Buddhist theory, if you’re surrounded by turkeys, you’re likely not the eagle you think yourself, but another turkey.”
LOL
Kingy said:
Currently sitting down at the foreshore at the art festival, providing a fire truck for the fireworks.
Volunteering with benefits. I approve.
:)
did ja see this arts?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-01/independent-forensics-laboratory-identify-remains-missing-people/104923390
sarahs mum said:
did ja see this arts?https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-01/independent-forensics-laboratory-identify-remains-missing-people/104923390
No, thanks
It’s about time there was an independent facility. The more we have the better.. however, I would be wary of their applicability in a courts. They would need to maintain fairly rigorous standards to hold up from a legal perspective. Whole cases can be thrown out due to procedural error.
From a victim perspective this is pretty good though for families.
Arts said:
sarahs mum said:
did ja see this arts?https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-01/independent-forensics-laboratory-identify-remains-missing-people/104923390
No, thanks
It’s about time there was an independent facility. The more we have the better.. however, I would be wary of their applicability in a courts. They would need to maintain fairly rigorous standards to hold up from a legal perspective. Whole cases can be thrown out due to procedural error.
From a victim perspective this is pretty good though for families.
i suppose there are mysteries where no crime is suspected,
sarahs mum said:
Arts said:
sarahs mum said:
did ja see this arts?https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-01/independent-forensics-laboratory-identify-remains-missing-people/104923390
No, thanks
It’s about time there was an independent facility. The more we have the better.. however, I would be wary of their applicability in a courts. They would need to maintain fairly rigorous standards to hold up from a legal perspective. Whole cases can be thrown out due to procedural error.
From a victim perspective this is pretty good though for families.
i suppose there are mysteries where no crime is suspected,
Sure, not on my radar though :)
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/mar/02/lithuanian-rower-attempting-to-cross-pacific-activates-emergency-beacon-off-queensland-near-cyclone-alfred
You still here, sm?
kii said:
You still here, sm?
youtubing….
sarahs mum said:
kii said:
You still here, sm?
youtubing….
I found something that might assist with Mrs Ohio misconceptions about Zelenskyy.
I’ll put it in the US politics thread.
kii said:
sarahs mum said:
kii said:
You still here, sm?
youtubing….
I found something that might assist with Mrs Ohio misconceptions about Zelenskyy.
I’ll put it in the US politics thread.
Ohio is a lost cause
sarahs mum said:
kii said:
sarahs mum said:youtubing….
I found something that might assist with Mrs Ohio misconceptions about Zelenskyy.
I’ll put it in the US politics thread.
Ohio is a lost cause
They usually are.
I read this last night before I went to sleep, thought of you. Then had a strange dream about Mrs Ohio lying down in the street and pissing herself. Make of that what you will.
sarahs mum said:
kii said:
sarahs mum said:youtubing….
I found something that might assist with Mrs Ohio misconceptions about Zelenskyy.
I’ll put it in the US politics thread.
Ohio is a lost cause
sometimes I can get through to mrs California. but mrs Ohio is lost. and she works at taco bells. she can’t be raking it in. I’ve given up on Ohio but I haven’t blocked. she’s the gauge to how bad it is.
yes. I read that bit earlier today.
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
kii said:I found something that might assist with Mrs Ohio misconceptions about Zelenskyy.
I’ll put it in the US politics thread.
Ohio is a lost cause
sometimes I can get through to mrs California. but mrs Ohio is lost. and she works at taco bells. she can’t be raking it in. I’ve given up on Ohio but I haven’t blocked. she’s the gauge to how bad it is.
yes. I read that bit earlier today.
mrs Ohio has two sons in the military who I believe are both trump supporters as well.
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
kii said:I found something that might assist with Mrs Ohio misconceptions about Zelenskyy.
I’ll put it in the US politics thread.
Ohio is a lost cause
sometimes I can get through to mrs California. but mrs Ohio is lost. and she works at taco bells. she can’t be raking it in. I’ve given up on Ohio but I haven’t blocked. she’s the gauge to how bad it is.
yes. I read that bit earlier today.
It’s like that. I still check what 2 former friends post publicly. Both of them are Evangelical and worship Reagan’s memory. Mostly because of their long-dead parent’s choices.
One of them actually said after 2016 that she didn’t like trump, but voted for him because “who else was there?’. She’s a rabid anti-choice bitch. She’s severely disabled from a car accident and was a SN teacher. She’s a single mother with an adult son who totally ignores her. What she can’t see is how trump hates her, she’s never connected her situation with his bigotry.
The other one rails against fentanyl, men raping children, animal abuse. I think her adult daughter has had a close call with fentanyl. Her two adult daughters were sexually abused by a former husband, and trump hates dogs.
I’m pissed with Brett’s cousin Betsy who would not vote for kamala… because she lies. ffs.
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:Ohio is a lost cause
sometimes I can get through to mrs California. but mrs Ohio is lost. and she works at taco bells. she can’t be raking it in. I’ve given up on Ohio but I haven’t blocked. she’s the gauge to how bad it is.
yes. I read that bit earlier today.
mrs Ohio has two sons in the military who I believe are both trump supporters as well.
Absolutely unbelievable. There are a lot of retired military speaking out against trump at the town halls. They don’t actually like losing their VA benefits.
kii said:
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:Ohio is a lost cause
sometimes I can get through to mrs California. but mrs Ohio is lost. and she works at taco bells. she can’t be raking it in. I’ve given up on Ohio but I haven’t blocked. she’s the gauge to how bad it is.
yes. I read that bit earlier today.
It’s like that. I still check what 2 former friends post publicly. Both of them are Evangelical and worship Reagan’s memory. Mostly because of their long-dead parent’s choices.
One of them actually said after 2016 that she didn’t like trump, but voted for him because “who else was there?’. She’s a rabid anti-choice bitch. She’s severely disabled from a car accident and was a SN teacher. She’s a single mother with an adult son who totally ignores her. What she can’t see is how trump hates her, she’s never connected her situation with his bigotry.
The other one rails against fentanyl, men raping children, animal abuse. I think her adult daughter has had a close call with fentanyl. Her two adult daughters were sexually abused by a former husband, and trump hates dogs.
what you gotta do is lie to them. Sow the seeds of some whacky counter-conspiracy theory like Trump is going to round them up and sell them into slavery in Russia. They’ll believe that more readily than they believe rational facts.
party_pants said:
kii said:
sarahs mum said:sometimes I can get through to mrs California. but mrs Ohio is lost. and she works at taco bells. she can’t be raking it in. I’ve given up on Ohio but I haven’t blocked. she’s the gauge to how bad it is.
yes. I read that bit earlier today.
It’s like that. I still check what 2 former friends post publicly. Both of them are Evangelical and worship Reagan’s memory. Mostly because of their long-dead parent’s choices.
One of them actually said after 2016 that she didn’t like trump, but voted for him because “who else was there?’. She’s a rabid anti-choice bitch. She’s severely disabled from a car accident and was a SN teacher. She’s a single mother with an adult son who totally ignores her. What she can’t see is how trump hates her, she’s never connected her situation with his bigotry.
The other one rails against fentanyl, men raping children, animal abuse. I think her adult daughter has had a close call with fentanyl. Her two adult daughters were sexually abused by a former husband, and trump hates dogs.
what you gotta do is lie to them. Sow the seeds of some whacky counter-conspiracy theory like Trump is going to round them up and sell them into slavery in Russia. They’ll believe that more readily than they believe rational facts.
I don’t talk to either of them anymore. They both have guns and like to talk about using them.
goodnight. perhaps. I’m gonna try to do the sleep thing.
kii said:
party_pants said:
kii said:It’s like that. I still check what 2 former friends post publicly. Both of them are Evangelical and worship Reagan’s memory. Mostly because of their long-dead parent’s choices.
One of them actually said after 2016 that she didn’t like trump, but voted for him because “who else was there?’. She’s a rabid anti-choice bitch. She’s severely disabled from a car accident and was a SN teacher. She’s a single mother with an adult son who totally ignores her. What she can’t see is how trump hates her, she’s never connected her situation with his bigotry.
The other one rails against fentanyl, men raping children, animal abuse. I think her adult daughter has had a close call with fentanyl. Her two adult daughters were sexually abused by a former husband, and trump hates dogs.
what you gotta do is lie to them. Sow the seeds of some whacky counter-conspiracy theory like Trump is going to round them up and sell them into slavery in Russia. They’ll believe that more readily than they believe rational facts.
I don’t talk to either of them anymore. They both have guns and like to talk about using them.
fairy nuff.
I am still “planning” on mass enslavement of MAGA supporters, but I haven’t quite figured out how yet. They deserve no better.
kii said:
party_pants said:
kii said:It’s like that. I still check what 2 former friends post publicly. Both of them are Evangelical and worship Reagan’s memory. Mostly because of their long-dead parent’s choices.
One of them actually said after 2016 that she didn’t like trump, but voted for him because “who else was there?’. She’s a rabid anti-choice bitch. She’s severely disabled from a car accident and was a SN teacher. She’s a single mother with an adult son who totally ignores her. What she can’t see is how trump hates her, she’s never connected her situation with his bigotry.
The other one rails against fentanyl, men raping children, animal abuse. I think her adult daughter has had a close call with fentanyl. Her two adult daughters were sexually abused by a former husband, and trump hates dogs.
what you gotta do is lie to them. Sow the seeds of some whacky counter-conspiracy theory like Trump is going to round them up and sell them into slavery in Russia. They’ll believe that more readily than they believe rational facts.
I don’t talk to either of them anymore. They both have guns and like to talk about using them.
Actually, the disabled one was the neighbour who threatened to shoot liberals. She’s since moved to Texas.
I became friends with her over a local issue involving a business, the city council and parking. I tried to support her at meetings, and I had a run in with the business owner who said that he’d pray for me…at a public meeting. After she pissed off to Texas I saw the guy and apologized to him for being unaware of just how unhinged she is. The issue was a valid one, but man was she fucking crazy about it…her hatred was profound.
Getting lost on the internet. I keep seeing posts about the classified documents being returned to trump. Photos of people carrying the boxes (new boxes) to the bottom of the airplane’s steps. No-one is using a handcart to bring the boxes across to the plane.
“The Department of Justice has just returned the boxes,” Trump said in a statement. “They are being brought down to Florida and will someday be part of the Trump Presidential Library,” he said, going on to claim that “justice finally won out” and that the investigation into his mishandling of presidential documents, including highly sensitive classified documents, was “merely an attack on a political opponent.”
LOLOLOL @ Trump Presidential Library
Windy and awful here.
Found another good movie, The Year of the Dog. Well, so far. The dog has eyes like Gracie Blue and I’m crying. Earlier I read something about how dogs ground us during distressing times. That’s so true.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 9 degrees at the back door and there is some light in the East. We are forecast a sunny 24 degrees today.
I haven’t decided which bit of garden gets my attention today.
Up early. I guess I’m a little nervous about Alfred. Forecast is no rain and a slight breeze – Alfred’s moving away from the coast today. Top of 29.
Today is Oscars Day and Phone Delivery Day and Shorts Delivery Day. I’m down to my last pair of shorts and unable to find anything suitable in Westfield, so I ordered online.
Today I will chat with my dad to confirm Cyclone Plan. He’s not the type to worry about these things. Even if the cyclone doesn’t come anywhere near me, I’m still concerned about my lungs. Not just the humidity, but the low pressure as well. I’ll stock up on another Ventolin just in case. I’ve been chatting to school mum friends who spent the weekend securing trampolines etc in their yards. They all camp frequently so have caravans, campers etc that they can escape in, with their pets. Local council is opening sandbag stations today. I expect the principal at Mini Me’s school is having a stressful time working with the DoE et al about what to do with the school. At least for today and tomorrow, it will be business as usual.
use to have this on VHS tape, see this is not complete, watching anyway and various others related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UObdTAcx3vI
Woomera The Silent Partner
transition said:
use to have this on VHS tape, see this is not complete, watching anyway and various others related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UObdTAcx3vI
Woomera The Silent Partner
maybe’s complete
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFPWlFD7utc
Watching the movie “Toast”. Mrs Potter calls young Nigel “buggerlugs”, the CC has it written as “boggier rocks”. I love CC.
transition said:
transition said:
use to have this on VHS tape, see this is not complete, watching anyway and various others related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UObdTAcx3vI
Woomera The Silent Partnermaybe’s complete
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFPWlFD7utc
related
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRESAT
“WRESAT, or Weapons Research Establishment Satellite, was Australia’s first satellite. It was named after its designer, the Weapons Research Establishment. WRESAT was launched on 29 November 1967 using a modified American Redstone rocket with two upper stages, known as a Sparta, from the Woomera Test Range in South Australia. The Sparta (left over from the joint Australian-US-UK Sparta program) was donated by the United States….”
Blue Ghost touches down on Moon.
Private lunar lander Blue Ghost aces moon touchdown with a special delivery for NASA
A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon Sunday, the latest in a string of companies looking to kickstart business on Earth’s celestial neighbor ahead of astronaut missions.
More…
Divine Angel said:
Up early. I guess I’m a little nervous about Alfred. Forecast is no rain and a slight breeze – Alfred’s moving away from the coast today. Top of 29.Today is Oscars Day and Phone Delivery Day and Shorts Delivery Day. I’m down to my last pair of shorts and unable to find anything suitable in Westfield, so I ordered online.
Today I will chat with my dad to confirm Cyclone Plan. He’s not the type to worry about these things. Even if the cyclone doesn’t come anywhere near me, I’m still concerned about my lungs. Not just the humidity, but the low pressure as well. I’ll stock up on another Ventolin just in case. I’ve been chatting to school mum friends who spent the weekend securing trampolines etc in their yards. They all camp frequently so have caravans, campers etc that they can escape in, with their pets. Local council is opening sandbag stations today. I expect the principal at Mini Me’s school is having a stressful time working with the DoE et al about what to do with the school. At least for today and tomorrow, it will be business as usual.
I wish you courage and health and may no one a bicycle steal your little dog.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Private lunar lander Blue Ghost aces moon touchdown with a special delivery for NASAA private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon Sunday, the latest in a string of companies looking to kickstart business on Earth’s celestial neighbor ahead of astronaut missions.
More…
From that link – “It carried a vacuum to suck up moon dirt for analysis …”
Wot?
Popped into Kmart to get a camping stove for mum. Managed to get the last one, but they were out of gas bottles. She can have one of ours. Also got a few candles (we already have a camping lantern) and some snacks to watch the Oscars.
I would rather be over prepared than under. I’ve not had to deal with a cyclone before.
Is this your first cyclone DA?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Is this your first cyclone DA?
Can you tell?
Spiny Norman said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Private lunar lander Blue Ghost aces moon touchdown with a special delivery for NASAA private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon Sunday, the latest in a string of companies looking to kickstart business on Earth’s celestial neighbor ahead of astronaut missions.
More…
From that link – “It carried a vacuum to suck up moon dirt for analysis …”
Wot?
The Lunar PlanetVac (LPV) is a vacuum-like device that will collect lunar soil samples for NASA. It’s designed to be faster and more efficient than traditional methods.
How it works
LPV uses pressurized gas to create a mini-tornado that stirs up lunar soil
The soil is then funneled into a collection chamber for analysis
LPV uses additional gas jets to sort and clean samples
LPV can take photos of the sample in seconds
LPV streams data back to Earth in real time
ChrispenEvan said:
Spiny Norman said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Private lunar lander Blue Ghost aces moon touchdown with a special delivery for NASAA private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon Sunday, the latest in a string of companies looking to kickstart business on Earth’s celestial neighbor ahead of astronaut missions.
More…
From that link – “It carried a vacuum to suck up moon dirt for analysis …”
Wot?
The Lunar PlanetVac (LPV) is a vacuum-like device that will collect lunar soil samples for NASA. It’s designed to be faster and more efficient than traditional methods.
How it works
LPV uses pressurized gas to create a mini-tornado that stirs up lunar soil
The soil is then funneled into a collection chamber for analysis
LPV uses additional gas jets to sort and clean samples
LPV can take photos of the sample in seconds
LPV streams data back to Earth in real time
Now it makes sense, ta.
Divine Angel said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Is this your first cyclone DA?
Can you tell?
Hah. A little. But certainly you’re allowed to be worried given your respiratory conditions even if your fear of a neighbor’s trampoline landing in your backyard might be a little far-fetched.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Divine Angel said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Is this your first cyclone DA?
Can you tell?
Hah. A little. But certainly you’re allowed to be worried given your respiratory conditions even if your fear of a neighbor’s trampoline landing in your backyard might be a little far-fetched.
Is it’s though?
Olive and Mabel’s Garden – Part 1.
link
Witty Rejoinder said:
Divine Angel said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Is this your first cyclone DA?
Can you tell?
Hah. A little. But certainly you’re allowed to be worried given your respiratory conditions even if your fear of a neighbor’s trampoline landing in your backyard might be a little far-fetched.
My neighbours don’t have any trampolines, but they do have a boat.
Divine Angel said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Divine Angel said:Can you tell?
Hah. A little. But certainly you’re allowed to be worried given your respiratory conditions even if your fear of a neighbor’s trampoline landing in your backyard might be a little far-fetched.
My neighbours don’t have any trampolines, but they do have a boat.
You may be the receptors of a new(used) boat but it may not arrive in launchable condition.
Divine Angel said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Divine Angel said:Can you tell?
Hah. A little. But certainly you’re allowed to be worried given your respiratory conditions even if your fear of a neighbor’s trampoline landing in your backyard might be a little far-fetched.
My neighbours don’t have any trampolines, but they do have a boat.
Since I constantly complain about the boat I don’t think I’m on the list.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Divine Angel said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Is this your first cyclone DA?
Can you tell?
Hah. A little. But certainly you’re allowed to be worried given your respiratory conditions even if your fear of a neighbor’s trampoline landing in your backyard might be a little far-fetched.
Trampolines do that in cyclones.
ChrispenEvan said:
Spiny Norman said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Private lunar lander Blue Ghost aces moon touchdown with a special delivery for NASAA private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon Sunday, the latest in a string of companies looking to kickstart business on Earth’s celestial neighbor ahead of astronaut missions.
More…
From that link – “It carried a vacuum to suck up moon dirt for analysis …”
Wot?
The Lunar PlanetVac (LPV) is a vacuum-like device that will collect lunar soil samples for NASA. It’s designed to be faster and more efficient than traditional methods.
How it works
LPV uses pressurized gas to create a mini-tornado that stirs up lunar soil
The soil is then funneled into a collection chamber for analysis
LPV uses additional gas jets to sort and clean samples
LPV can take photos of the sample in seconds
LPV streams data back to Earth in real time
so it’s an anti vacuum
Michael V said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Divine Angel said:Can you tell?
Hah. A little. But certainly you’re allowed to be worried given your respiratory conditions even if your fear of a neighbor’s trampoline landing in your backyard might be a little far-fetched.
Trampolines do that in cyclones.
They do but what category is Alfred in at the moment?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Hah. A little. But certainly you’re allowed to be worried given your respiratory conditions even if your fear of a neighbor’s trampoline landing in your backyard might be a little far-fetched.
Trampolines do that in cyclones.
They do but what category is Alfred in at the moment?
Forecast to make landfall as Category 2.
Divine Angel said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:Trampolines do that in cyclones.
They do but what category is Alfred in at the moment?
Forecast to make landfall as Category 2.
Quite sufficient to initiate a round of Trampoline Bingo.
Always wanted a trampoline? Check your back yard (and front yard, and roof) the morning after the storm.
Your wish may have come true.
ABC News:
How inept do you have to be to fail to make a profitable enterprise out of casinos?
Lots of people, bearing nothing but money, walking in the doors, and engaging in games where they’re almost certain to lose all of that money (which goes to your casino).
Even the few who win (outnumbered by hundreds, thousands of losers) will, eventually, lose all oftheir winnings, if they stay there and continue to play for long enough.
Basically, it’s people queuing up to give you money.
But, somehow, the business geniuses who run Star Casinos can’t make that work.
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/mar/02/lithuanian-rower-attempting-to-cross-pacific-activates-emergency-beacon-off-queensland-near-cyclone-alfred
been thinking about him and the people who will try to rescue him.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Hah. A little. But certainly you’re allowed to be worried given your respiratory conditions even if your fear of a neighbor’s trampoline landing in your backyard might be a little far-fetched.
Trampolines do that in cyclones.
They do but what category is Alfred in at the moment?
Cat 2.
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:
How inept do you have to be to fail to make a profitable enterprise out of casinos?
Lots of people, bearing nothing but money, walking in the doors, and engaging in games where they’re almost certain to lose all of that money (which goes to your casino).
Even the few who win (outnumbered by hundreds, thousands of losers) will, eventually, lose all oftheir winnings, if they stay there and continue to play for long enough.
Basically, it’s people queuing up to give you money.
But, somehow, the business geniuses who run Star Casinos can’t make that work.
Mango tits bankrupted casinos 6…?…times.
kii said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:
How inept do you have to be to fail to make a profitable enterprise out of casinos?
Lots of people, bearing nothing but money, walking in the doors, and engaging in games where they’re almost certain to lose all of that money (which goes to your casino).
Even the few who win (outnumbered by hundreds, thousands of losers) will, eventually, lose all oftheir winnings, if they stay there and continue to play for long enough.
Basically, it’s people queuing up to give you money.
But, somehow, the business geniuses who run Star Casinos can’t make that work.
Mango tits bankrupted casinos 6…?…times.
Well, there’s your answer: you have to be that inept.
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/mar/02/lithuanian-rower-attempting-to-cross-pacific-activates-emergency-beacon-off-queensland-near-cyclone-alfred
been thinking about him and the people who will try to rescue him.
Wasn’t it Lithuanian who had his leg chopped off in Tasmania doing something something? Or Latvian?
kii said:
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/mar/02/lithuanian-rower-attempting-to-cross-pacific-activates-emergency-beacon-off-queensland-near-cyclone-alfred
been thinking about him and the people who will try to rescue him.
Wasn’t it Lithuanian who had his leg chopped off in Tasmania doing something something? Or Latvian?
caught in rock on franklin river rapid.
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:
How inept do you have to be to fail to make a profitable enterprise out of casinos?
Lots of people, bearing nothing but money, walking in the doors, and engaging in games where they’re almost certain to lose all of that money (which goes to your casino).
Even the few who win (outnumbered by hundreds, thousands of losers) will, eventually, lose all oftheir winnings, if they stay there and continue to play for long enough.
Basically, it’s people queuing up to give you money.
But, somehow, the business geniuses who run Star Casinos can’t make that work.
To be fair, their business model included laundering money from all types of illegal syndicates. Greater surveillance has ripped those customers away.
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:
How inept do you have to be to fail to make a profitable enterprise out of casinos?
Lots of people, bearing nothing but money, walking in the doors, and engaging in games where they’re almost certain to lose all of that money (which goes to your casino).
Even the few who win (outnumbered by hundreds, thousands of losers) will, eventually, lose all oftheir winnings, if they stay there and continue to play for long enough.
Basically, it’s people queuing up to give you money.
But, somehow, the business geniuses who run Star Casinos can’t make that work.
To be fair, their business model included laundering money from all types of illegal syndicates. Greater surveillance has ripped those customers away.
kii said:
Watching the movie “Toast”. Mrs Potter calls young Nigel “buggerlugs”, the CC has it written as “boggier rocks”. I love CC.
I recall watching that some years ago. I liked it.
buffy said:
kii said:
Watching the movie “Toast”. Mrs Potter calls young Nigel “buggerlugs”, the CC has it written as “boggier rocks”. I love CC.
I recall watching that some years ago. I liked it.
It was interesting, Helen Bonham Carter is in it. The vegetable garden didn’t make sense as it appears that they ate canned vegetables.
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Spiny Norman said:From that link – “It carried a vacuum to suck up moon dirt for analysis …”
Wot?
The Lunar PlanetVac (LPV) is a vacuum-like device that will collect lunar soil samples for NASA. It’s designed to be faster and more efficient than traditional methods.
How it works
LPV uses pressurized gas to create a mini-tornado that stirs up lunar soil
The soil is then funneled into a collection chamber for analysis
LPV uses additional gas jets to sort and clean samples
LPV can take photos of the sample in seconds
LPV streams data back to Earth in real time
so it’s an anti vacuum
Yeah, calling it a vacuum-like device does seem to be pushing things a bit.
captain_spalding said:
kii said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:
How inept do you have to be to fail to make a profitable enterprise out of casinos?
Lots of people, bearing nothing but money, walking in the doors, and engaging in games where they’re almost certain to lose all of that money (which goes to your casino).
Even the few who win (outnumbered by hundreds, thousands of losers) will, eventually, lose all oftheir winnings, if they stay there and continue to play for long enough.
Basically, it’s people queuing up to give you money.
But, somehow, the business geniuses who run Star Casinos can’t make that work.
Mango tits bankrupted casinos 6…?…times.
Well, there’s your answer: you have to be that inept.
LOLOLOLOL 😆
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:
How inept do you have to be to fail to make a profitable enterprise out of casinos?
Lots of people, bearing nothing but money, walking in the doors, and engaging in games where they’re almost certain to lose all of that money (which goes to your casino).
Even the few who win (outnumbered by hundreds, thousands of losers) will, eventually, lose all oftheir winnings, if they stay there and continue to play for long enough.
Basically, it’s people queuing up to give you money.
But, somehow, the business geniuses who run Star Casinos can’t make that work.
To be fair, their business model included laundering money from all types of illegal syndicates. Greater surveillance has ripped those customers away.
And there’s been a crackdown in the PRC about Chinese gamblers going overseas on casino junkets.
Nods.
Michael V said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:To be fair, their business model included laundering money from all types of illegal syndicates. Greater surveillance has ripped those customers away.
And there’s been a crackdown in the PRC about Chinese gamblers going overseas on casino junkets.Nods.
And the lesson is: when you base your business model on illegal activities and shady customers, and try to run it, in the open, as a legitimate business, it can go very wrong.
I feel tired today. I’ve done some weeding and digging and planting. I think I wo’t do any more outside stuff. Might go and finish the book I’m reading and then make myself some lunch. Mr buffy has just headed off to Hamilton to attend an Old Farts of the Ambulance lunch. I’m not social enough to have wanted to go.
captain_spalding said:
And the lesson is: when you base your business model on illegal activities and shady customers, and try to run it, in the open, as a legitimate business, it can go very wrong.
Although the illegal tobacco trade seems to be making it work:
At the redoubt and a cow appears to have had twins.
According to the farmer none of the cows were joined this season but a bull has had his wicked way with at least one of them. Dunno how he got in or out.
It’s a bit late in the season, I’ll give him a call when I get home.
Peak Warming Man said:
At the redoubt and a cow appears to have had twins.
According to the farmer none of the cows were joined this season but a bull has had his wicked way with at least one of them. Dunno how he got in or out.
It’s a bit late in the season, I’ll give him a call when I get home.
The immaculate cowception.
Peak Warming Man said:
Dunno how he got in or out.
Usually from the rear.
nearly finished watching..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA9qmOIUYJA
Jeffrey Sachs Roaring Ukraine Speech At EU Parliament; Blasts U.S., Says ‘Not Putin’s Puppet’
I’m glad LoopMe has fully embraced dvsbl
Well, that was annoying. I wandered over to the Post Office to pay my car registration and got an “invalid transaction” on my credit card. I_think_ I hit the right button for credit, rather than debit. I had to use the household debit card and then transfer money around. I’ll call in to the Commbank on Wednesday when I’m in town and see what they have to say.
buffy said:
Well, that was annoying. I wandered over to the Post Office to pay my car registration and got an “invalid transaction” on my credit card. I_think_ I hit the right button for credit, rather than debit. I had to use the household debit card and then transfer money around. I’ll call in to the Commbank on Wednesday when I’m in town and see what they have to say.
You don’t use online banking on your computer? Not the app on a phone but on a browser on a computer?
Witty Rejoinder said:
buffy said:
Well, that was annoying. I wandered over to the Post Office to pay my car registration and got an “invalid transaction” on my credit card. I_think_ I hit the right button for credit, rather than debit. I had to use the household debit card and then transfer money around. I’ll call in to the Commbank on Wednesday when I’m in town and see what they have to say.
You don’t use online banking on your computer? Not the app on a phone but on a browser on a computer?
We need to support our local post office. Or we won’t have one.
dv said:
I’m glad LoopMe has fully embraced dvsbl
But surely their logic is t, not b.
buffy said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
buffy said:
Well, that was annoying. I wandered over to the Post Office to pay my car registration and got an “invalid transaction” on my credit card. I_think_ I hit the right button for credit, rather than debit. I had to use the household debit card and then transfer money around. I’ll call in to the Commbank on Wednesday when I’m in town and see what they have to say.
You don’t use online banking on your computer? Not the app on a phone but on a browser on a computer?
We need to support our local post office. Or we won’t have one.
No I mean you could glean what went wrong with the transaction using online banking instead of having to wait 2 days and attend a branch.
Witty Rejoinder said:
buffy said:
Witty Rejoinder said:You don’t use online banking on your computer? Not the app on a phone but on a browser on a computer?
We need to support our local post office. Or we won’t have one.
No I mean you could glean what went wrong with the transaction using online banking instead of having to wait 2 days and attend a branch.
It’s not the biggest problem in the world right now. I’ll go and speak to the people at the bank on Wednesday. And my credit card is a standalone, different bank from where my money lives. I’ve never bothered to online it. It’s got a low limit. But I’m pretty sure I still had some credit there.
Time for a read and siesta here.
I thought the folks at the Academy wanted to see an end to the use of ‘Oscar’ in any official capacity to refer to the ‘Academy Awards’. Not anymore going by today’s broadcast.
What crypt did they drag Mick Jagger out of?
Witty Rejoinder said:
I thought the folks at the Academy wanted to see an end to the use of ‘Oscar’ in any official capacity to refer to the ‘Academy Awards’. Not anymore going by today’s broadcast.
They gave up a long time ago.
Divine Angel said:
What crypt did they drag Mick Jagger out of?
What should he look like at 81?
Divine Angel said:
What crypt did they drag Mick Jagger out of?
Keith has had a hard life, but he’s hanging in there.
I was watching something from the mid 90s recently where the characters were excited about a Rolling Stones concert. Jokes abounded back then about their ages. If only they knew that in 30 years’ time, the band would have a newly released album and were still touring.
Divine Angel said:
I was watching something from the mid 90s recently where the characters were excited about a Rolling Stones concert. Jokes abounded back then about their ages. If only they knew that in 30 years’ time, the band would have a newly released album and were still touring.
It was about then that they were coined the ‘Strolling Bones’.
Divine Angel said:
What crypt did they drag Mick Jagger out of?
yeah, he has let himself go a bit.
Peak Warming Man said:
Divine Angel said:
What crypt did they drag Mick Jagger out of?
Keith has had a hard life, but he’s hanging in there.
Talk about seeing famous people, a mate of mine was at the Talk of the Town in London when a cab pulled up and Alex Higgins and Keith Richards fell out.
The rower was recued https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-03/lithuanian-rower-rescued-australian-navy-cyclone-alfred/105002022
roughbarked said:
The rower was recued https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-03/lithuanian-rower-rescued-australian-navy-cyclone-alfred/105002022
s
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
I’m glad LoopMe has fully embraced dvsbl
But surely their logic is t, not b.
that’s cancel culture
see this would have been a million times worse if it were a battery electric vehicle
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-02/lake-heights-boat-fuel-tank-explosion/105000378
I didn’t love Anora but thought Mikey Madison was the best part of it.
Divine Angel said:
I didn’t love Anora but thought Mikey Madison was the best part of it.
UK writer Stephen Volk sums it up…
My reaction to the Oscars in advance:
You’re kidding!
What, him?
What, her?
That’s pathetic.
Oh, do me a favour.
No, just no.
I hated that film so much.
Not in my opinion.
I didn’t know he was dead.
Oh, not a song.
Why can’t actors read cue cards?
They really need writers.
Blimey, he looks old.
Why are they laughing at that? Are they drunk?
Could they be any thinner?
I’ve never heard of that film.
Fair play. Good speech.
What time is it?
Is it a public holiday today?
Bubblecar said:
Is it a public holiday today?
For?
It does happen to be my father’s birthday.
Bubblecar said:
Is it a public holiday today?
It is Labour Day in WA today.
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Is it a public holiday today?
For?
It does happen to be my father’s birthday.
I’m just wondering why party_pants isn’t at work :)
I assume your father is no longer with us, or I’d wish him many happy returns.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
Is it a public holiday today?
It is Labour Day in WA today.
Ah.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
Is it a public holiday today?
It is Labour Day in WA today.
ah. Then it probably is a holiday. Them labourers always like a good picnic day.
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
Is it a public holiday today?
For?
It does happen to be my father’s birthday.
I’m just wondering why party_pants isn’t at work :)
I assume your father is no longer with us, or I’d wish him many happy returns.
He died in 1971, so yeah.
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
Is it a public holiday today?
It is Labour Day in WA today.
Ah.
We celebrate Labour Day by not doing any work. Strange tradition when you think about it, but I’ll take it.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:It is Labour Day in WA today.
Ah.
We celebrate Labour Day by not doing any work. Strange tradition when you think about it, but I’ll take it.
We do the same over here too. ;)
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:Ah.
We celebrate Labour Day by not doing any work. Strange tradition when you think about it, but I’ll take it.
We do the same over here too. ;)
But just not on the same day as you.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:It is Labour Day in WA today.
Ah.
We celebrate Labour Day by not doing any work. Strange tradition when you think about it, but I’ll take it.
For the first time the university is recognising state public holidays. So I also have the day off
Arts said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:Ah.
We celebrate Labour Day by not doing any work. Strange tradition when you think about it, but I’ll take it.
For the first time the university is recognising state public holidays. So I also have the day off
Which apparently, is a first.
kii said:
captain_spalding said:
kii said:Mango tits bankrupted casinos 6…?…times.
Well, there’s your answer: you have to be that inept.
Also he was denied a license for Star Casino in Darling Harbour, because…checks notes…his ties to the mafia.LOLOLOLOL 😆
Who is “Mango tits”?
Michael V said:
kii said:
captain_spalding said:Well, there’s your answer: you have to be that inept.
Also he was denied a license for Star Casino in Darling Harbour, because…checks notes…his ties to the mafia.LOLOLOLOL 😆
Who is “Mango tits”?
Orange Fitzgibbon.
so it’s always the Boeing 737s LOL of course it is
Back from Gympie.
Managed to buy a new sink plug that I haven’t been able to get for about the last 10 years. I will buy more if this one stoppers the hand basins and bath well.
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
Witty Rejoinder said:And there’s been a crackdown in the PRC about Chinese gamblers going overseas on casino junkets.
Nods.
And the lesson is: when you base your business model on illegal activities and shady customers, and try to run it, in the open, as a legitimate business, it can go very wrong.
Yes.
Michael V said:
kii said:
captain_spalding said:Well, there’s your answer: you have to be that inept.
Also he was denied a license for Star Casino in Darling Harbour, because…checks notes…his ties to the mafia.LOLOLOLOL 😆
Who is “Mango tits”?
Shitler.
(Trump)
captain_spalding said:
captain_spalding said:And the lesson is: when you base your business model on illegal activities and shady customers, and try to run it, in the open, as a legitimate business, it can go very wrong.
Although the illegal tobacco trade seems to be making it work:
Only if you can afford the fire-bombings.
Arts said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:Ah.
We celebrate Labour Day by not doing any work. Strange tradition when you think about it, but I’ll take it.
For the first time the university is recognising state public holidays. So I also have the day off
Wow. That is radical.
Michael V said:
Back from Gympie.Managed to buy a new sink plug that I haven’t been able to get for about the last 10 years. I will buy more if this one stoppers the hand basins and bath well.
There are some that are fractionally different to the stangard available plugs. You’d wonder why but it is true.
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
captain_spalding said:And the lesson is: when you base your business model on illegal activities and shady customers, and try to run it, in the open, as a legitimate business, it can go very wrong.
Although the illegal tobacco trade seems to be making it work:
Only if you can afford the fire-bombings.
Someone has the money for excessive use of accelerants.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
At the redoubt and a cow appears to have had twins.
According to the farmer none of the cows were joined this season but a bull has had his wicked way with at least one of them. Dunno how he got in or out.
It’s a bit late in the season, I’ll give him a call when I get home.
The immaculate cowception.
:)
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
Back from Gympie.Managed to buy a new sink plug that I haven’t been able to get for about the last 10 years. I will buy more if this one stoppers the hand basins and bath well.
There are some that are fractionally different to the stangard available plugs. You’d wonder why but it is true.
roughbarked said:
The rower was recued https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-03/lithuanian-rower-rescued-australian-navy-cyclone-alfred/105002022
Good news!
Anyway, I might go and celebrate Labour Day by doing some work in the shed.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
party_pants said:It is Labour Day in WA today.
Ah.
We celebrate Labour Day by not doing any work. Strange tradition when you think about it, but I’ll take it.
What do you think Labour Day is commemorating?
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:Ah.
We celebrate Labour Day by not doing any work. Strange tradition when you think about it, but I’ll take it.
What do you think Labour Day is commemorating?
It is to mark the adoption of the 8 hour day as the standard for working hours. So to celebrate the adoption of the 8 hour standard work day we work zero hours.
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:We celebrate Labour Day by not doing any work. Strange tradition when you think about it, but I’ll take it.
What do you think Labour Day is commemorating?
It is to mark the adoption of the 8 hour day as the standard for working hours. So to celebrate the adoption of the 8 hour standard work day we work zero hours.
Including a picnic holiday to honour the labourers.
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:What do you think Labour Day is commemorating?
It is to mark the adoption of the 8 hour day as the standard for working hours. So to celebrate the adoption of the 8 hour standard work day we work zero hours.
Including a picnic holiday to honour the labourers.
no such thing here.
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:It is to mark the adoption of the 8 hour day as the standard for working hours. So to celebrate the adoption of the 8 hour standard work day we work zero hours.
Including a picnic holiday to honour the labourers.
no such thing here.
It is one of the few genuine public holidays where there is nothing expected of people to
party_pants said:
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:Including a picnic holiday to honour the labourers.
no such thing here.
It is one of the few genuine public holidays where there is nothing expected of people to
But indeed they were used as picnic days and even select groups such as the butchers bakers and candlestick makers.. joke. They all seemed to have a picnic day.
Popped into Aldi. Busy but not packed (unlike the servos). No bread or pasta, low on long life milk. I didn’t walk past the toilet paper or water aisle.
Michael V said:
Back from Gympie.Managed to buy a new sink plug that I haven’t been able to get for about the last 10 years. I will buy more if this one stoppers the hand basins and bath well.
I also bought a new Yamaha Descant Recorder.
Spiny Norman said:
Michael V said:
kii said:Also he was denied a license for Star Casino in Darling Harbour, because…checks notes…his ties to the mafia.
LOLOLOLOL 😆
Who is “Mango tits”?
Shitler.
(Trump)
Ta.
Michael V said:
Michael V said:
Back from Gympie.Managed to buy a new sink plug that I haven’t been able to get for about the last 10 years. I will buy more if this one stoppers the hand basins and bath well.
I also bought a new Yamaha Descant Recorder.
Nice
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
Back from Gympie.Managed to buy a new sink plug that I haven’t been able to get for about the last 10 years. I will buy more if this one stoppers the hand basins and bath well.
There are some that are fractionally different to the stangard available plugs. You’d wonder why but it is true.
Left over from pre-si days.
No. It’s a “40 mm” plug. For a 40 mm drain. 42 mm bottom, tapering to 47 mm at the top. 25, 35, 38, 50, 52 mm have all been available, but not 40 for some reason. Anyway – good thing – I have one with three more to come next week.
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:Ah.
We celebrate Labour Day by not doing any work. Strange tradition when you think about it, but I’ll take it.
What do you think Labour Day is commemorating?
Michael V said:
Spiny Norman said:
Michael V said:Who is “Mango tits”?
Shitler.
(Trump)
Ta.
Aka “saggy yam tits”.
Michael V said:
Michael V said:
Back from Gympie.Managed to buy a new sink plug that I haven’t been able to get for about the last 10 years. I will buy more if this one stoppers the hand basins and bath well.
I also bought a new Yamaha Descant Recorder.
Learn ya some loverlee choons!! Go well with Mrs V’s banjo, hey what but!! hewhehehehe
Michael V said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:There are some that are fractionally different to the stangard available plugs. You’d wonder why but it is true.
Left over from pre-si days.No. It’s a “40 mm” plug. For a 40 mm drain. 42 mm bottom, tapering to 47 mm at the top. 25, 35, 38, 50, 52 mm have all been available, but not 40 for some reason. Anyway – good thing – I have one with three more to come next week.
Off of Temu?????
Woodie said:
Michael V said:
Tamb said:Left over from pre-si days.
No. It’s a “40 mm” plug. For a 40 mm drain. 42 mm bottom, tapering to 47 mm at the top. 25, 35, 38, 50, 52 mm have all been available, but not 40 for some reason. Anyway – good thing – I have one with three more to come next week.
Off of Temu?????
Divine Angel said:
Popped into Aldi. Busy but not packed (unlike the servos). No bread or pasta, low on long life milk. I didn’t walk past the toilet paper or water aisle.
Uh-oh.
Michael V said:
Michael V said:
Back from Gympie.Managed to buy a new sink plug that I haven’t been able to get for about the last 10 years. I will buy more if this one stoppers the hand basins and bath well.
I also bought a new Yamaha Descant Recorder.
That should annoy the neighbours. I’ve still got my Pan Recorder from primary school, and I’ve got my Dad’s Dolmetsch dolonite (plastic) one. I don’t play…
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Michael V said:
Back from Gympie.Managed to buy a new sink plug that I haven’t been able to get for about the last 10 years. I will buy more if this one stoppers the hand basins and bath well.
I also bought a new Yamaha Descant Recorder.
Nice
Ta
:)
My previous recorder disappeared some years back, and I have been threatening to get another. Now my balance is shot, so I can no longer ride motorbikes safely, I have bitten the bullet, so to speak.
I have various pear-wood recorders but I don’t play them in this current abode, they’re too loud when the neighbours are so close.
Michael V said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:There are some that are fractionally different to the stangard available plugs. You’d wonder why but it is true.
Left over from pre-si days.No. It’s a “40 mm” plug. For a 40 mm drain. 42 mm bottom, tapering to 47 mm at the top. 25, 35, 38, 50, 52 mm have all been available, but not 40 for some reason. Anyway – good thing – I have one with three more to come next week.
I like these ones:
And now you made me go and look, I probably should put it on the shopping list because the one in the kitchen is looking very perished now.
Woodie said:
Michael V said:
Michael V said:
Back from Gympie.Managed to buy a new sink plug that I haven’t been able to get for about the last 10 years. I will buy more if this one stoppers the hand basins and bath well.
I also bought a new Yamaha Descant Recorder.
Learn ya some loverlee choons!! Go well with Mrs V’s banjo, hey what but!! hewhehehehe
LOL
Woodie said:
Michael V said:
Tamb said:Left over from pre-si days.
No. It’s a “40 mm” plug. For a 40 mm drain. 42 mm bottom, tapering to 47 mm at the top. 25, 35, 38, 50, 52 mm have all been available, but not 40 for some reason. Anyway – good thing – I have one with three more to come next week.
Off of Temu?????
No. Bunnings. They’ve just started stocking them.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
Tamb said:Left over from pre-si days.
No. It’s a “40 mm” plug. For a 40 mm drain. 42 mm bottom, tapering to 47 mm at the top. 25, 35, 38, 50, 52 mm have all been available, but not 40 for some reason. Anyway – good thing – I have one with three more to come next week.
I like these ones:
And now you made me go and look, I probably should put it on the shopping list because the one in the kitchen is looking very perished now.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
Michael V said:
Back from Gympie.Managed to buy a new sink plug that I haven’t been able to get for about the last 10 years. I will buy more if this one stoppers the hand basins and bath well.
I also bought a new Yamaha Descant Recorder.
That should annoy the neighbours. I’ve still got my Pan Recorder from primary school, and I’ve got my Dad’s Dolmetsch dolonite (plastic) one. I don’t play…
:)
Michael V said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:There are some that are fractionally different to the stangard available plugs. You’d wonder why but it is true.
Left over from pre-si days.No. It’s a “40 mm” plug. For a 40 mm drain. 42 mm bottom, tapering to 47 mm at the top. 25, 35, 38, 50, 52 mm have all been available, but not 40 for some reason. Anyway – good thing – I have one with three more to come next week.
If you’re ever in dire need of such things or need an odd size I can 3D print one from polyurethane for you.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
Tamb said:Left over from pre-si days.
No. It’s a “40 mm” plug. For a 40 mm drain. 42 mm bottom, tapering to 47 mm at the top. 25, 35, 38, 50, 52 mm have all been available, but not 40 for some reason. Anyway – good thing – I have one with three more to come next week.
I like these ones:
And now you made me go and look, I probably should put it on the shopping list because the one in the kitchen is looking very perished now.
I used similar in the kitchen in Brisbane, but they don’t work in the hand basins and bath here. (I’ve tried several types.) We got one original plug with the house, and we’ve been swapping it around on a needs basis ever since.
Spiny Norman said:
Michael V said:
Tamb said:Left over from pre-si days.
No. It’s a “40 mm” plug. For a 40 mm drain. 42 mm bottom, tapering to 47 mm at the top. 25, 35, 38, 50, 52 mm have all been available, but not 40 for some reason. Anyway – good thing – I have one with three more to come next week.
If you’re ever in dire need of such things or need an odd size I can 3D print one from polyurethane for you.
Ta.
:)
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Michael V said:No. It’s a “40 mm” plug. For a 40 mm drain. 42 mm bottom, tapering to 47 mm at the top. 25, 35, 38, 50, 52 mm have all been available, but not 40 for some reason. Anyway – good thing – I have one with three more to come next week.
I like these ones:
And now you made me go and look, I probably should put it on the shopping list because the one in the kitchen is looking very perished now.
I used similar in the kitchen in Brisbane, but they don’t work in the hand basins and bath here. (I’ve tried several types.) We got one original plug with the house, and we’ve been swapping it around on a needs basis ever since.
That’s interesting…I’ve found them to pretty much universal. I’ve used them in both houses we have lived in, and at the Casterton house. I think we had one at the practice too. Sometimes you don’t get a good seal and the water slowly leaks out, but I suspect that is happening with the kitchen one when I am refreshing lettuce simply because the plug is rather old.
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:We celebrate Labour Day by not doing any work. Strange tradition when you think about it, but I’ll take it.
What do you think Labour Day is commemorating?
It is to mark the adoption of the 8 hour day as the standard for working hours. So to celebrate the adoption of the 8 hour standard work day we work zero hours.
It’s a public holiday to show the importance of such a development as being equal to religious holidays or foundation days and the like. Christmas has nothing to do with not working either.
So Anora did okay at the Academy Awards.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
buffy said:I like these ones:
And now you made me go and look, I probably should put it on the shopping list because the one in the kitchen is looking very perished now.
I used similar in the kitchen in Brisbane, but they don’t work in the hand basins and bath here. (I’ve tried several types.) We got one original plug with the house, and we’ve been swapping it around on a needs basis ever since.
That’s interesting…I’ve found them to pretty much universal. I’ve used them in both houses we have lived in, and at the Casterton house. I think we had one at the practice too. Sometimes you don’t get a good seal and the water slowly leaks out, but I suspect that is happening with the kitchen one when I am refreshing lettuce simply because the plug is rather old.
It’s because the PVC pipe fitting sits low in the basins and bath, so the seal has to be made on the down-curving ceramic and plastic. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
dv said:
So Anora did okay at the Academy Awards.
No Other Land won best Documentary Feature
A young Palestinian activist named Basel Adra has been resisting the forced displacement of his people by Israel’s military in Masafer Yatta, a region in the West Bank, since he was a child. He records the gradual destruction of his homeland, where Israeli soldiers are tearing down homes and evicting their inhabitants in order to create a military firing zone. He befriends Yuval, a Jewish Israeli journalist who helps him in his struggle. They form an unexpected bond, but their friendship is challenged by the huge gap between their living conditions: Basel faces constant oppression and violence, while Yuval enjoys freedom and security.
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Michael V said:No. It’s a “40 mm” plug. For a 40 mm drain. 42 mm bottom, tapering to 47 mm at the top. 25, 35, 38, 50, 52 mm have all been available, but not 40 for some reason. Anyway – good thing – I have one with three more to come next week.
I like these ones:
And now you made me go and look, I probably should put it on the shopping list because the one in the kitchen is looking very perished now.
I used similar in the kitchen in Brisbane, but they don’t work in the hand basins and bath here. (I’ve tried several types.) We got one original plug with the house, and we’ve been swapping it around on a needs basis ever since.
I’m reminded of the issues I had last year when trying to get a plug that worked for the kitchen sinks.
I am also reminded of the really weird description I saw on the Walmart site. Iirc it was like a love poem to a plug.
dv said:
So Anora did okay at the Academy Awards.
Ask people next year what won Best Picture 2025 and I’ll bet half the people won’t be able to remember
Neophyte said:
dv said:
So Anora did okay at the Academy Awards.Ask people next year what won Best Picture 2025 and I’ll bet half the people won’t be able to remember
It wasn’t terrible but not Best Picture-worthy.
Bloody. There has been just enough rain to set the flying termites off…
Termites? Cyclone? I wonder which is worse for our house.
Michael V said:
Bloody. There has been just enough rain to set the flying termites off…Termites? Cyclone? I wonder which is worse for our house.
Old El Paso
Michael V said:
Bloody. There has been just enough rain to set the flying termites off…Termites? Cyclone? I wonder which is worse for our house.
the cyclone and the termite are in cahoots… termites generally don’t compromise the structural integrity of the building they are residing in, despite how delicious it is.. but they get hungry and so they have submitted a request to destroy to Alfie, so they could feast on the remains of what was once a fine structure.
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Bloody. There has been just enough rain to set the flying termites off…Termites? Cyclone? I wonder which is worse for our house.
the cyclone and the termite are in cahoots… termites generally don’t compromise the structural integrity of the building they are residing in, despite how delicious it is.. but they get hungry and so they have submitted a request to destroy to Alfie, so they could feast on the remains of what was once a fine structure.
Uh-oh.
Michael V said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Bloody. There has been just enough rain to set the flying termites off…Termites? Cyclone? I wonder which is worse for our house.
the cyclone and the termite are in cahoots… termites generally don’t compromise the structural integrity of the building they are residing in, despite how delicious it is.. but they get hungry and so they have submitted a request to destroy to Alfie, so they could feast on the remains of what was once a fine structure.
Uh-oh.
sorry to be the one to break it to you… but you can rebuild.
Home is the hunter, home from the hill.
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:the cyclone and the termite are in cahoots… termites generally don’t compromise the structural integrity of the building they are residing in, despite how delicious it is.. but they get hungry and so they have submitted a request to destroy to Alfie, so they could feast on the remains of what was once a fine structure.
Uh-oh.
sorry to be the one to break it to you… but you can rebuild.
I don’t think I have the energy for that.
Michael V said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:Uh-oh.
sorry to be the one to break it to you… but you can rebuild.
I don’t think I have the energy for that.
then your only hope is that the submission was rejected.. good luck.
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:sorry to be the one to break it to you… but you can rebuild.
I don’t think I have the energy for that.
then your only hope is that the submission was rejected.. good luck.
Thanks.
Peak Warming Man said:
Home is the hunter, home from the hill.
You might be able to work that up into a funeral poem.
if anyone has ever shopped at UNIQLO they have the weirdest checkouts.
you place all the clothes in the box thing and the system automatically knows what you have… you do not have to line up the bar codes, you do not have to take off hangers (actually I have tested it and it doesn’t matter if you have the hangers off or on) you can have everything scrunched up, things hidden, but the machine still knows.
so how the hell does it do that?
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Bloody. There has been just enough rain to set the flying termites off…Termites? Cyclone? I wonder which is worse for our house.
the cyclone and the termite are in cahoots… termites generally don’t compromise the structural integrity of the building they are residing in, despite how delicious it is.. but they get hungry and so they have submitted a request to destroy to Alfie, so they could feast on the remains of what was once a fine structure.
we thought they are just experts at civil engineering to the point that they know just how much load bearing structure they can remove but they’re also greedy so they don’t leave you any safety factor
so the structure is porous and stays standing but knock on the door and
yeah
SCIENCE said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Bloody. There has been just enough rain to set the flying termites off…Termites? Cyclone? I wonder which is worse for our house.
the cyclone and the termite are in cahoots… termites generally don’t compromise the structural integrity of the building they are residing in, despite how delicious it is.. but they get hungry and so they have submitted a request to destroy to Alfie, so they could feast on the remains of what was once a fine structure.
we thought they are just experts at civil engineering to the point that they know just how much load bearing structure they can remove but they’re also greedy so they don’t leave you any safety factor
so the structure is porous and stays standing but knock on the door and
yeah
yes, I used a bit of poetic licence.
Arts said:
if anyone has ever shopped at UNIQLO they have the weirdest checkouts.you place all the clothes in the box thing and the system automatically knows what you have… you do not have to line up the bar codes, you do not have to take off hangers (actually I have tested it and it doesn’t matter if you have the hangers off or on) you can have everything scrunched up, things hidden, but the machine still knows.
so how the hell does it do that?
Majiq!
Michael V said:
Arts said:
if anyone has ever shopped at UNIQLO they have the weirdest checkouts.you place all the clothes in the box thing and the system automatically knows what you have… you do not have to line up the bar codes, you do not have to take off hangers (actually I have tested it and it doesn’t matter if you have the hangers off or on) you can have everything scrunched up, things hidden, but the machine still knows.
so how the hell does it do that?
Majiq!
so google and reddit tell me that it’s to do with RFID chips but some call them invisible raid chips.. so that really supports the majiq idea.
Arts said:
if anyone has ever shopped at UNIQLO they have the weirdest checkouts.you place all the clothes in the box thing and the system automatically knows what you have… you do not have to line up the bar codes, you do not have to take off hangers (actually I have tested it and it doesn’t matter if you have the hangers off or on) you can have everything scrunched up, things hidden, but the machine still knows.
so how the hell does it do that?
rfid
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:
if anyone has ever shopped at UNIQLO they have the weirdest checkouts.you place all the clothes in the box thing and the system automatically knows what you have… you do not have to line up the bar codes, you do not have to take off hangers (actually I have tested it and it doesn’t matter if you have the hangers off or on) you can have everything scrunched up, things hidden, but the machine still knows.
so how the hell does it do that?
Majiq!
so google and reddit tell me that it’s to do with RFID chips but some call them invisible raid chips.. so that really supports the majiq idea.
I told you it was rfid. i know stuff.
ChrispenEvan said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:Majiq!
so google and reddit tell me that it’s to do with RFID chips but some call them invisible raid chips.. so that really supports the majiq idea.
I told you it was rfid. i know stuff.
a lot of it is useless trivia stuff but occasionally one nugget of pure genius pops to the surface.
ChrispenEvan said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Arts said:so google and reddit tell me that it’s to do with RFID chips but some call them invisible raid chips.. so that really supports the majiq idea.
I told you it was rfid. i know stuff.
a lot of it is useless trivia stuff but occasionally one nugget of pure genius pops to the surface.
of course far be it from me to brag about it.
ChrispenEvan said:
ChrispenEvan said:
ChrispenEvan said:I told you it was rfid. i know stuff.
a lot of it is useless trivia stuff but occasionally one nugget of pure genius pops to the surface.
of course far be it from me to brag about it.
the floor is all yours
>>of course far be it from me to brag about it.
Brag about what?
Got it! There has been a mouse in the house evading my trap for a week or so. I was tying salami onto the trap…nup, he got the salami feast and didn’t get caught. This afternoon when I was lying on the bed reading he was scrabbling around under some furniture…I scared him out, but he came back. So I set the trap under the bed. He stayed away. Just now I fished the trap out from under the bed and put it on the kitchen bench with some tasty cheese on it. And he got careless…he is now dead and outside on the grass for the birds of the night. I didn’t expect him to come out while we are still up and the lights are still on.
I’ve reset the trap. I don’t know if he’s got friends or family.
I’m going to have a nice cup of tea (black and one), check on Alf and then to bed, perhaps to dream.
ChrispenEvan said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:Majiq!
so google and reddit tell me that it’s to do with RFID chips but some call them invisible raid chips.. so that really supports the majiq idea.
I told you it was rfid. i know stuff.
RFID?
Really Fucking Intelligent Data chips?
The Rev Dodgson said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Arts said:so google and reddit tell me that it’s to do with RFID chips but some call them invisible raid chips.. so that really supports the majiq idea.
I told you it was rfid. i know stuff.
RFID?
Really Fucking Intelligent Data chips?
Radio frequency identification
sarahs mum said:
Seems like a good idea.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Seems like a good idea.
i presume it would also rot down in a paddock instead of being a long-term problem.
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Seems like a good idea.
i presume it would also rot down in a paddock instead of being a long-term problem.
That’d be good.
I got a couple of round bales of sugar cane field-slash waste. That non-biodegradable mesh wrap was very difficult to deal with. It wasn’t just on the outside, but spirally wrapped into the bale. I guess if I’d used it all at once, it would’ve been easier.
This is a transcript of an ABC RN interview between Sally Sara and Darryl Cook, Director Fin Fish with the EPA on Friday 28 February 2025. Darryl Cook was interviewed a week earlier by Fran Kelly ABC RN on Friday 21 February 2025.
It is apparent that in the space of a week, Mr Cook has gained no further knowledge of the Verona Sands and Bruny Island incidents of washed up fish pieces/fish oil/ morts …
Most alarmingly he concedes antibiotics does indeed make it’s way into wild fish, and any testing to see the impact will take up to 6 months.
TRANSCRIPT
Sally Sara ABC RN
It’s been described as one of the worst mass mortality events ever to hit Tasmanian fisheries. Environment authorities are investigating the deaths of 1000s of fish in their pens, as well as carcasses and other biological waste washing up on Southern beaches, one of them, Huon agriculture has attributed the mass deaths to ricketsia bacteria disease, but little appears to be known about the disease or its wider implications.
Darryl Cook is director of fin fish at Tasmanian Environment Protection Authority, and joins me now. Darryl Cook, welcome to Radio National breakfast.
Darryl Cook Director Fin Fish EPA
Good morning.
Sally Sara ABC RN :41
What do you know? What’s the latest situation?
Darryl Cook Director Fin Fish EPA
Well, there’s certainly a significant mortality event that’s been going on in recent weeks. Company vets are saying there’s multiple factors that have contributed to that over the last few weeks, but in particular, more recently, it’s the warmer waters and the disease that you mentioned, on top of that, that’s really made this a larger event than the normal increase in mortalities that is usually seen in the salmon arms over the summer period.
Sally Sara ABC RN
What’s the EPA understanding of how many fish have died?
Darryl Cook Director Fin Fish EPA
Well, we don’t actually have those numbers in terms of the number of fish that have died. But interestingly, we’ve recently imposed new conditions from the environmental standards for marine fin fish farming that will require companies to report the monthly weight of mortalities to us going forward. So those reports will start coming in this month in March.
Sally Sara ABC RN
So just to be clear, the EPA currently doesn’t require those firms to provide any data on the number of fish deaths. Is that right?
Darryl Cook Director Fin Fish EPA
No, not until we issued those new conditions, which went out in either the end of January or early February. So so they do are required to do so now.
Sally Sara ABC RN
Why wasn’t that done earlier?
Darryl Cook Director Fin Fish EPA
Well, these conditions came out of the environmental standards, which were debated in Parliament middle of last year. So we waited for that debate to be over, and the standards were passed, and then we went through a process called statutory consultation, where we have to let the companies know what changes we’re making to their licenses, and they get an opportunity to comment, and then we finalize those, so they’ll finalized earlier this year. Does
Sally Sara ABC RN
Does the EPA know whether any disease, dying or dead fish have been processed for human consumption during this incident?
Darryl Cook Director Fin Fish EPA
Well, the dead fish are processed for other things, such as they can be rendered to the fish oil and the fish meal, or they can be converted in compost or spread on land as a fertilizer. But certainly, the dead fish are not going for anywhere, for for human consumption.
Sally Sara ABC RN
Do you monitor that?
Darryl Cook Director Fin Fish EPA
Do we monitor that? No, the company we we’re the Environment Protection Authority, so we’re looking after the environmental side of things, not the not the food side of things,
Sally Sara ABC RN
Okay, so in terms of the impact on wild fish, the strain of this disease hasn’t been divulged, but is it similar to what we’ve seen in New Zealand?
Darryl Cook Director Fin Fish EPA
Look fish diseases, the experts on that are Biosecurity Tasmania, so they know about which strain of the rickettsia like organism, and you know whether there are vaccines for it, and that sort of thing that, again, that’s not an Environment Protection Authority.
Sally Sara ABC RN
How can EPA protect the environment when you’re not sure what strain this is,
Darryl Cook Director Fin Fish EPA
Well, what, what we manage is we, what’s really important to us is the management of the mortalities. We call them morts, or the dead fish. They need to be get out, gotten out of the water quickly, and need to be taken through to approved facilities where that material can be either reused for a beneficial purpose or disposed of, for example, in a landfill. So that’s all got to be done in an appropriate manner. And that’s that’s what’s of critical importance to the EPA.
Sally Sara ABC RN
The EPA has sent samples of the dead fish and so called fat balls for testing. What are the results that you’ve had so far on this?
Darryl Cook Director Fin Fish EPA
So the results we’ve had so far are consistent with it being fish oil, and the EPA results to date have also shown that there was the antibiotic that had been used recently in one of the fish farms was not present in the EPA samples.
Sally Sara ABC RN
Does the EPA have data on the amount of antibiotics that’s fed to the salmon overall in that area?
Darryl Cook Director Fin Fish EPA
We do have, so antibiotics are used infrequently, but as I say, there was one farm that commenced just over two weeks ago, I think, commenced treating some of their fish to help them, the fish that run well. So that information is reported t o us, and then we issue a schedule of what’s called antibiotic residue monitoring requirements. So that monitoring is going on now to test how much antibiotic is in the on the seabed and in fish around those pens that have been treated. And we’ll continue that until it falls below a threshold that we’ve set, and then when that monitoring is over, there’ll be a report released about that residue monitoring event.
Sally Sara ABC RN
How much concern is there about those antibiotics being picked up by fish outside those pens? I understand it’s only a couple of percent of the antibiotics are retained by the salmon, and the rest passes through it can it can be contained in in pellets that fall to the bottom and are eaten by wild fish.
Darryl Cook Director Fin Fish EPA
Yeah, that can certainly happen, and that’s why our antibiotic residue monitoring program requires, requires them to try and capture a fish that has actually eaten one of those pellets that fell through the fish farm wasn’t eaten by a salmon, fell to the bottom, was eaten by another fish, for example, a flathead or something.
They’ll try and find a fish and then analyze its flesh for the amount of antibiotic that’s in it. And like I say, we’ll continue that until we know it’s the antibiotic residue levels are below our threshold, and usually that takes, say, three to six months, and then the then the monitoring finishes, and that report will be made public.
Sally Sara ABC RN
We’ll need to leave it there. Darryl Cook, thank you for your time this morning.
Darryl Cook Director Fin Fish EPA
No worries at all.
Sally Sara ABC RN
That’s Darryl Cook, the director of fin fish compliance at Tasmanians Environment Protection Authority and radio. National Breakfast has sought comment from both the Tasmanian and Federal environment ministers, and both refused an invitation to speak on the program.
How important is this?
I’ve been busy all day and haven’t had a chance to catch up on news and important stuff, let alone the minutiae of the holiday forum.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-03/senior-defence-official-jim-mcdowell-quits/105004926
Kingy said:
How important is this?I’ve been busy all day and haven’t had a chance to catch up on news and important stuff, let alone the minutiae of the holiday forum.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-03/senior-defence-official-jim-mcdowell-quits/105004926
Maybe he’s just gotten old and has had enough. He’s likely to be 70-73 years old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_McDowell
https://www.defence.gov.au/about/who-we-are/leaders/deputy-secretary-naval-shipbuilding-sustainment
Major dust storm warning for the next hour. This is fun. First emergency warning alert was sent out about an hour ago.
kii said:
Major dust storm warning for the next hour. This is fun. First emergency warning alert was sent out about an hour ago.
Uh-oh.
Grit…
Hope it is not too bad.
Cant’t sleep either, Mr V. So gunna watch a moofie on the biig screen.
BIg Buzby Berkley number . 42nd Street (1933). And a giant big bowl of hot pop corn. :)
……. and it keeps going up’n‘up’n‘up.
….. and it’s not due to hang a yooee for another 12 hours yet. We’ll see what it’ll do once it’s hung a yooee.
Michael V said:
kii said:
Major dust storm warning for the next hour. This is fun. First emergency warning alert was sent out about an hour ago.
Uh-oh.
Grit…
Hope it is not too bad.
All my windows are closed, but some cracks in various parts of the older sections of the house let in gritty dust. I don’t really care about that. Usually I worry about my recycle bin blowing over, but it’s empty right now.
LOLOLOL…just received a text message that I have an E-Z Toll violation. They want me to visit a website to enter my banking information.
Joke’s on them. I don’t drive and have never had any type of toll payment set-up.
kii said:
Major dust storm warning for the next hour. This is fun. First emergency warning alert was sent out about an hour ago.
P’raps some of our rain could dampen it down for ya, Aunty Kii.
Woodie said:
Cant’t sleep either, Mr V. So gunna watch a moofie on the biig screen.BIg Buzby Berkley number . 42nd Street (1933). And a giant big bowl of hot pop corn. :)
……. and it keeps going up’n‘up’n‘up.
….. and it’s not due to hang a yooee for another 12 hours yet. We’ll see what it’ll do once it’s hung a yooee.
That’s an awful lot of rain predicted for you.
How will Lismore cope?
Woodie said:
kii said:
Major dust storm warning for the next hour. This is fun. First emergency warning alert was sent out about an hour ago.
P’raps some of our rain could dampen it down for ya, Aunty Kii.
We’ve had no rain for so long that I forget when it was, trees are dying.
kii said:
Woodie said:
kii said:
Major dust storm warning for the next hour. This is fun. First emergency warning alert was sent out about an hour ago.
P’raps some of our rain could dampen it down for ya, Aunty Kii.
We’ve had no rain for so long that I forget when it was, trees are dying.
According to drought.gov this area is in extreme drought.
Hello non-sleepers.
Divine Angel said:
Hello non-sleepers.
hello. it’s getting busy.
Divine Angel said:
Hello non-sleepers.
G’d morning.
:)
Michael V said:
Woodie said:
Cant’t sleep either, Mr V. So gunna watch a moofie on the biig screen.BIg Buzby Berkley number . 42nd Street (1933). And a giant big bowl of hot pop corn. :)
……. and it keeps going up’n‘up’n‘up.
….. and it’s not due to hang a yooee for another 12 hours yet. We’ll see what it’ll do once it’s hung a yooee.
That’s an awful lot of rain predicted for you.
How will Lismore cope?
Likely to be some flooding, possibly major. if they get this much or more.
My forecast seems a bit of an understatement, but I’m no cyclonologist. Perhaps kii’s dry dust storm will be interacting with Alfred.
Woodie said:
Michael V said:
Woodie said:
Cant’t sleep either, Mr V. So gunna watch a moofie on the biig screen.BIg Buzby Berkley number . 42nd Street (1933). And a giant big bowl of hot pop corn. :)
……. and it keeps going up’n‘up’n‘up.
….. and it’s not due to hang a yooee for another 12 hours yet. We’ll see what it’ll do once it’s hung a yooee.
That’s an awful lot of rain predicted for you.
How will Lismore cope?
Likely to be some flooding, possibly major. if they get this much or more.
Kyogle?
Anyway, if buffy still reads every post, I have a book recommendation for her based on the half chapter I read before bed last night: The Naturalist of Amsterdam.
Michael V said:
Woodie said:
Michael V said:That’s an awful lot of rain predicted for you.
How will Lismore cope?
Likely to be some flooding, possibly major. if they get this much or more.
Kyogle?
Mt Warning is Byron Bay hinterland. Coastal.
Kyogle (and Casino) are Richmond River. Lismore is Wilson River. If both cop it, it’s bye by Coraki (where the two meet).
Woodie said:
Michael V said:
Woodie said:Likely to be some flooding, possibly major. if they get this much or more.
Kyogle?
Mt Warning is Byron Bay hinterland. Coastal.
Kyogle (and Casino) are Richmond River. Lismore is Wilson River. If both cop it, it’s bye by Coraki (where the two meet).
Ugh.
Looks like plans need to be made.
Could be dire right throughout your district.
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Here: not so wet. But we do have a weed trimmer blade symbol.
Divine Angel said:
My forecast seems a bit of an understatement, but I’m no cyclonologist. Perhaps kii’s dry dust storm will be interacting with Alfred.
Two weed trimmer blades!
Heck!
Michael V said:
Woodie said:
Michael V said:Kyogle?
Mt Warning is Byron Bay hinterland. Coastal.
Kyogle (and Casino) are Richmond River. Lismore is Wilson River. If both cop it, it’s bye by Coraki (where the two meet).
Ugh.
Looks like plans need to be made.
Could be dire right throughout your district.
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Here: not so wet. But we do have a weed trimmer blade symbol.
It’s likely to do the Clarence too.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
My forecast seems a bit of an understatement, but I’m no cyclonologist. Perhaps kii’s dry dust storm will be interacting with Alfred.
Two weed trimmer blades!
Heck!
BOM’s latest piccy has it hitting the northern tip of Bribie. As the crow flies, that’s less than 40kms from me.
Woodie said:
Michael V said:
Woodie said:Mt Warning is Byron Bay hinterland. Coastal.
Kyogle (and Casino) are Richmond River. Lismore is Wilson River. If both cop it, it’s bye by Coraki (where the two meet).
Ugh.
Looks like plans need to be made.
Could be dire right throughout your district.
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Here: not so wet. But we do have a weed trimmer blade symbol.
It’s likely to do the Clarence too.
Steve might get some nice compost renewal on his lower back yard.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
My forecast seems a bit of an understatement, but I’m no cyclonologist. Perhaps kii’s dry dust storm will be interacting with Alfred.
Two weed trimmer blades!
Heck!
BOM’s latest piccy has it hitting the northern tip of Bribie. As the crow flies, that’s less than 40kms from me.
As the cow flies too.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
My forecast seems a bit of an understatement, but I’m no cyclonologist. Perhaps kii’s dry dust storm will be interacting with Alfred.
Two weed trimmer blades!
Heck!
BOM’s latest piccy has it hitting the northern tip of Bribie. As the crow flies, that’s less than 40kms from me.
Bugger.
Fuck I hate Facebook memories. Four years ago I was waiting at the hospital while mr kii had a lung biopsy done. It’s painful enough dealing with the anniversaries of deaths, but reminders of the days leading up to it is fucking shitty stuff.
It’s a mixed bag though. I don’t want to forget it all, as his sisters were not with me (except via fluffy texts of prayers and fake love for me). Nor his friends or my family. I am the only witness to his pain and stoic acceptance of what was happening and his concerns for me.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:Two weed trimmer blades!
Heck!
BOM’s latest piccy has it hitting the northern tip of Bribie. As the crow flies, that’s less than 40kms from me.
As the cow flies too.
No, not really. Cow flies tend to hang around their dung.
kii said:
Fuck I hate Facebook memories. Four years ago I was waiting at the hospital while mr kii had a lung biopsy done. It’s painful enough dealing with the anniversaries of deaths, but reminders of the days leading up to it is fucking shitty stuff.
It’s a mixed bag though. I don’t want to forget it all, as his sisters were not with me (except via fluffy texts of prayers and fake love for me). Nor his friends or my family. I am the only witness to his pain and stoic acceptance of what was happening and his concerns for me.
:(
Better go start the washing up.
Michael V said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Divine Angel said:BOM’s latest piccy has it hitting the northern tip of Bribie. As the crow flies, that’s less than 40kms from me.
As the cow flies too.
No, not really. Cow flies tend to hang around their dung.
You obviously haven’t seen ‘Twister’:
:-)
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:
Witty Rejoinder said:As the cow flies too.
No, not really. Cow flies tend to hang around their dung.
You obviously haven’t seen ‘Twister’:
:-)
One of my favourite scenes from that movie.
kii said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:
No, not really. Cow flies tend to hang around their dung.
You obviously haven’t seen ‘Twister’:
:-)
One of my favourite scenes from that movie.
Flies Arrow Fruit Like Oettinger
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:
Witty Rejoinder said:As the cow flies too.
No, not really. Cow flies tend to hang around their dung.
You obviously haven’t seen ‘Twister’:
:-)
Ha!
No, no I haven’t.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:Seems like a good idea.
i presume it would also rot down in a paddock instead of being a long-term problem.
That’d be good.
I got a couple of round bales of sugar cane field-slash waste. That non-biodegradable mesh wrap was very difficult to deal with. It wasn’t just on the outside, but spirally wrapped into the bale. I guess if I’d used it all at once, it would’ve been easier.
we just enjoyed the pun
Michael V said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:No, not really. Cow flies tend to hang around their dung.
You obviously haven’t seen ‘Twister’:
:-)
Ha!
No, no I haven’t.
Just Wait Until Yous Hear Of
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:
Witty Rejoinder said:You obviously haven’t seen ‘Twister’:
:-)
Ha!
No, no I haven’t.
Just Wait Until Yous Hear Of
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 8 degrees at the back door, still dark. Sunup here is at 7.25am today. We are forecast a sunny 33 degrees today.
Bakery breakfast morning. I might set about shredding more paperwork from the practice this afternoon. Still running through the retention time for patient records. Only another 18 months to go to get to the 7 years and be all finished.
Divine Angel said:
Anyway, if buffy still reads every post, I have a book recommendation for her based on the half chapter I read before bed last night: The Naturalist of Amsterdam.
I don’t read every post, but I read yours….thanks for that. Looks worthwhile.
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
Anyway, if buffy still reads every post, I have a book recommendation for her based on the half chapter I read before bed last night: The Naturalist of Amsterdam.
I don’t read every post, but I read yours….thanks for that. Looks worthwhile.
We should have a “what book are you reading” thread.
The Rev Dodgson said:
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
Anyway, if buffy still reads every post, I have a book recommendation for her based on the half chapter I read before bed last night: The Naturalist of Amsterdam.
I don’t read every post, but I read yours….thanks for that. Looks worthwhile.
We should have a “what book are you reading” thread.
Perusing. ;)
Kingy said:
How important is this?I’ve been busy all day and haven’t had a chance to catch up on news and important stuff, let alone the minutiae of the holiday forum.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-03/senior-defence-official-jim-mcdowell-quits/105004926
Hard to say yet
Morning pilgrims.
I see the Don is still making waves, as is Alf and a bit of a kerfuffle in the middle east, nothing new there.
Over.
Postman knocked twice but I was still in bed. Now I have to collect my new baby saucepan from the PO, but not until “after 4:30 PM” according to the you have a parcel card.
The leader of the free world is in more than a spot of bother.
The latest detailed medical update said it has been caused by “significant accumulation of endobronchial mucus” on Monday.
Thoughts and prayers.
Jack Vettriano the well known Scottish painter has died.
The Rev Dodgson said:
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
Anyway, if buffy still reads every post, I have a book recommendation for her based on the half chapter I read before bed last night: The Naturalist of Amsterdam.
I don’t read every post, but I read yours….thanks for that. Looks worthwhile.
We should have a “what book are you reading” thread.
Hello
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
buffy said:I don’t read every post, but I read yours….thanks for that. Looks worthwhile.
We should have a “what book are you reading” thread.
At your service, sir:
For the love of bleeding arse pity, it is in the Index above.
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
buffy said:I don’t read every post, but I read yours….thanks for that. Looks worthwhile.
We should have a “what book are you reading” thread.
At your service, sir:
oh sure, in 2020.. when we all had all the time in the world to sit around and read books…
dv said:
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:We should have a “what book are you reading” thread.
At your service, sir:For the love of bleeding arse pity, it is in the Index above.
wait is it policing what people post in which thread time again
SCIENCE said:
dv said:
Michael V said:At your service, sir:
For the love of bleeding arse pity, it is in the Index above.
wait is it policing what people post in which thread time again
No but it’s “there’s a thread for the thing you are saying there should be a thread for and it is already in the Index” time again.
kii said:
Fuck I hate Facebook memories. Four years ago I was waiting at the hospital while mr kii had a lung biopsy done. It’s painful enough dealing with the anniversaries of deaths, but reminders of the days leading up to it is fucking shitty stuff.
It’s a mixed bag though. I don’t want to forget it all, as his sisters were not with me (except via fluffy texts of prayers and fake love for me). Nor his friends or my family. I am the only witness to his pain and stoic acceptance of what was happening and his concerns for me.
Love is.
MFW
Joanne Tracey last year Media Watch interviewed us with a view to including us in a story but then instead openly stole our quotes and information about our campaign, published a meme of ours unattributed (and with our logo even cut off), and even published the quotes of 4 or 5 men (and not a single woman) in their segment on Sandilands, despite the fact that it’s mostly women working to get him off air. They are 100% scum.
dv said:
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:We should have a “what book are you reading” thread.
At your service, sir:For the love of bleeding arse pity, it is in the Index above.
Apologies mr dv.
I thought I had checked your index, but it seems i didn’t.
The latest link is:
https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/topics/17626
Cyclone update from the school, posted 17 minutes ago:
We are open today.
I sure hope so, I dropped her off there three hours ago.
Dolly Parton’s husband, Carl Dean, has died.
kii said:
Dolly Parton’s husband, Carl Dean, has died.
that’s the end of a love story.
There’s bugger all bread and milk in Coles, LOL.
sarahs mum said:
kii said:
Dolly Parton’s husband, Carl Dean, has died.
that’s the end of a love story.
60 years
She’s such a sweetheart.
Peak Warming Man said:
There’s bugger all bread and milk in Coles, LOL.
Let them eat cake.
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
There’s bugger all bread and milk in Coles, LOL.
Let them eat cake.
are there eggs?
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
There’s bugger all bread and milk in Coles, LOL.
Let them eat cake.
are there eggs?
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
There’s bugger all bread and milk in Coles, LOL.
Let them eat cake.
are there eggs?
I didn’t check the eggs.
Peak Warming Man said:
There’s bugger all bread and milk in Coles, LOL.
Local Coles this morning was fully stocked, even eggs. They had a pallet of water bottles in the middle of the store lol. I was in there killing time before the chemist opened.
home sweet home from couple day down tuna city way, offspring had a birthday too
just unloaded shopping etc
hand in a packet of cheese and onion chips
more after coffee, debrief with brian for a while
I guess even nudists need to prepare for cyclones.
https://bsky.app/profile/walkaboutnude.bsky.social/post/3ljjdipfgsc2c
This link contains nudity. Click this link and you will see a naked guy. No clothes. At all. You have been warned.
>>The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) detected five of them near the San Andreas Fault, fueling ongoing fears of the long-anticipated “Big One”.
This generation of vipers has already had fire and brimstone visited upon them for rogering the golden calf.
Peak Warming Man said:
>>The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) detected five of them near the San Andreas Fault, fueling ongoing fears of the long-anticipated “Big One”.This generation of vipers has already had fire and brimstone visited upon them for rogering the golden calf.
Ref?
Mrs V has decided to put the washing out, despite recovering from a nasty and really very weird fall this morning.
Never tried arancini but it looks delish.
Michael V said:
Mrs V has decided to put the washing out, despite recovering from a nasty and really very weird fall this morning.
All good, I hope?
Michael V said:
Mrs V has decided to put the washing out, despite recovering from a nasty and really very weird fall this morning.
Weird? Elucidate please
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Mrs V has decided to put the washing out, despite recovering from a nasty and really very weird fall this morning.
All good, I hope?
We’ll find out after the washing is hung?
Peak Warming Man said:
Never tried arancini but it looks delish.
It’s okay
Peak Warming Man said:
Never tried arancini but it looks delish.
cough
“they” (anrancini is plural)
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Mrs V has decided to put the washing out, despite recovering from a nasty and really very weird fall this morning.
All good, I hope?
She seems OK now. Has a sore head and a sore arse.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Never tried arancini but it looks delish.
cough
“they” (anrancini is plural)
Mia culpa.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Mrs V has decided to put the washing out, despite recovering from a nasty and really very weird fall this morning.
All good, I hope?
She seems OK now. Has a sore head and a sore arse.
Both can be a worry.
Michael V said:
Mrs V has decided to put the washing out, despite recovering from a nasty and really very weird fall this morning.
OUCHY OUCHY!! Hurty bum bum?
dv said:
Michael V said:
Mrs V has decided to put the washing out, despite recovering from a nasty and really very weird fall this morning.
Weird? Elucidate please
She was standing, waiting for her tea to brew. We were talking, then stopped. She turned her mug on its side and fiddled with it for a few seconds, then fell over to her right, relatively stiffly. I couldn’t reach her as she fell.
She hit her head on two kitchen shelves, which certainly cushioned her fall. Her head and bum copped the brunt of it. She opened her eyes after a couple of seconds and commented that she had slipped. She didn’t slip (she was standing, not moving), and has no memory of her quite odd cup interactions.
I suspect some type of near-rigid fit.
Michael V said:
dv said:
Michael V said:
Mrs V has decided to put the washing out, despite recovering from a nasty and really very weird fall this morning.
Weird? Elucidate please
She was standing, waiting for her tea to brew. We were talking, then stopped. She turned her mug on its side and fiddled with it for a few seconds, then fell over to her right, relatively stiffly. I couldn’t reach her as she fell.
She hit her head on two kitchen shelves, which certainly cushioned her fall. Her head and bum copped the brunt of it. She opened her eyes after a couple of seconds and commented that she had slipped. She didn’t slip (she was standing, not moving), and has no memory of her quite odd cup interactions.
I suspect some type of near-rigid fit.
Suspect blood flow to the brain? Cartoid artery?
Michael V said:
dv said:
Michael V said:
Mrs V has decided to put the washing out, despite recovering from a nasty and really very weird fall this morning.
Weird? Elucidate please
She was standing, waiting for her tea to brew. We were talking, then stopped. She turned her mug on its side and fiddled with it for a few seconds, then fell over to her right, relatively stiffly. I couldn’t reach her as she fell.
She hit her head on two kitchen shelves, which certainly cushioned her fall. Her head and bum copped the brunt of it. She opened her eyes after a couple of seconds and commented that she had slipped. She didn’t slip (she was standing, not moving), and has no memory of her quite odd cup interactions.
I suspect some type of near-rigid fit.
Um….I’d be going to the hospital.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Mrs V has decided to put the washing out, despite recovering from a nasty and really very weird fall this morning.
All good, I hope?
She seems OK now. Has a sore head and a sore arse.
was it a trip or a slip?
Woodie said:
Michael V said:
Mrs V has decided to put the washing out, despite recovering from a nasty and really very weird fall this morning.
OUCHY OUCHY!! Hurty bum bum?
Yes, and scone, too.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
dv said:Weird? Elucidate please
She was standing, waiting for her tea to brew. We were talking, then stopped. She turned her mug on its side and fiddled with it for a few seconds, then fell over to her right, relatively stiffly. I couldn’t reach her as she fell.
She hit her head on two kitchen shelves, which certainly cushioned her fall. Her head and bum copped the brunt of it. She opened her eyes after a couple of seconds and commented that she had slipped. She didn’t slip (she was standing, not moving), and has no memory of her quite odd cup interactions.
I suspect some type of near-rigid fit.
Suspect blood flow to the brain? Cartoid artery?
Arthritis in the upper spinal column can interfere with the flow in the cartoid. Symptomsare identical to what you described. Of course there could be other causes but that is just one.
Woodie said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:All good, I hope?
She seems OK now. Has a sore head and a sore arse.
was it a trip or a slip?
He described a faint perhaps an airy fairy word for brain shutdown.
Michael V said:
dv said:
Michael V said:
Mrs V has decided to put the washing out, despite recovering from a nasty and really very weird fall this morning.
Weird? Elucidate please
She was standing, waiting for her tea to brew. We were talking, then stopped. She turned her mug on its side and fiddled with it for a few seconds, then fell over to her right, relatively stiffly. I couldn’t reach her as she fell.
She hit her head on two kitchen shelves, which certainly cushioned her fall. Her head and bum copped the brunt of it. She opened her eyes after a couple of seconds and commented that she had slipped. She didn’t slip (she was standing, not moving), and has no memory of her quite odd cup interactions.
I suspect some type of near-rigid fit.
FWIW, I highly recommend you take her to a doctor, or (preferably) a hospital.
btm said:
Michael V said:
dv said:Weird? Elucidate please
She was standing, waiting for her tea to brew. We were talking, then stopped. She turned her mug on its side and fiddled with it for a few seconds, then fell over to her right, relatively stiffly. I couldn’t reach her as she fell.
She hit her head on two kitchen shelves, which certainly cushioned her fall. Her head and bum copped the brunt of it. She opened her eyes after a couple of seconds and commented that she had slipped. She didn’t slip (she was standing, not moving), and has no memory of her quite odd cup interactions.
I suspect some type of near-rigid fit.
FWIW, I highly recommend you take her to a doctor, or (preferably) a hospital.
… as kii suggested.
Michael V said:
dv said:
Michael V said:
Mrs V has decided to put the washing out, despite recovering from a nasty and really very weird fall this morning.
Weird? Elucidate please
She was standing, waiting for her tea to brew. We were talking, then stopped. She turned her mug on its side and fiddled with it for a few seconds, then fell over to her right, relatively stiffly. I couldn’t reach her as she fell.
She hit her head on two kitchen shelves, which certainly cushioned her fall. Her head and bum copped the brunt of it. She opened her eyes after a couple of seconds and commented that she had slipped. She didn’t slip (she was standing, not moving), and has no memory of her quite odd cup interactions.
I suspect some type of near-rigid fit.
Oh dear…… 😮
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
dv said:Weird? Elucidate please
She was standing, waiting for her tea to brew. We were talking, then stopped. She turned her mug on its side and fiddled with it for a few seconds, then fell over to her right, relatively stiffly. I couldn’t reach her as she fell.
She hit her head on two kitchen shelves, which certainly cushioned her fall. Her head and bum copped the brunt of it. She opened her eyes after a couple of seconds and commented that she had slipped. She didn’t slip (she was standing, not moving), and has no memory of her quite odd cup interactions.
I suspect some type of near-rigid fit.
Suspect blood flow to the brain? Cartoid artery?
Unlikely.
kii said:
Michael V said:
dv said:Weird? Elucidate please
She was standing, waiting for her tea to brew. We were talking, then stopped. She turned her mug on its side and fiddled with it for a few seconds, then fell over to her right, relatively stiffly. I couldn’t reach her as she fell.
She hit her head on two kitchen shelves, which certainly cushioned her fall. Her head and bum copped the brunt of it. She opened her eyes after a couple of seconds and commented that she had slipped. She didn’t slip (she was standing, not moving), and has no memory of her quite odd cup interactions.
I suspect some type of near-rigid fit.
Um….I’d be going to the hospital.
She doesn’t want to be fussed over.
Michael V said:
Woodie said:
Michael V said:
Mrs V has decided to put the washing out, despite recovering from a nasty and really very weird fall this morning.
OUCHY OUCHY!! Hurty bum bum?
Yes, and scone, too.
I’d be arranging for her to get an examination.
My mother used to ask me to mow the lawn because it was tripping her up. I said, “mum the lawn has grown 2mm since the last cut”.
“I had to use a tree to climb up to my feet”.
But do you remember falling?
“No”.
Well see your doctor because it isn’t the lawn.
Cartoid interruption from arthritis in neck.
btm said:
btm said:
Michael V said:She was standing, waiting for her tea to brew. We were talking, then stopped. She turned her mug on its side and fiddled with it for a few seconds, then fell over to her right, relatively stiffly. I couldn’t reach her as she fell.
She hit her head on two kitchen shelves, which certainly cushioned her fall. Her head and bum copped the brunt of it. She opened her eyes after a couple of seconds and commented that she had slipped. She didn’t slip (she was standing, not moving), and has no memory of her quite odd cup interactions.
I suspect some type of near-rigid fit.
FWIW, I highly recommend you take her to a doctor, or (preferably) a hospital.
… as kii suggested.
So far we all have.
Woodie said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:All good, I hope?
She seems OK now. Has a sore head and a sore arse.
was it a trip or a slip?
Neither. She fell over, fairly stiffly.
Michael V said:
kii said:
Michael V said:She was standing, waiting for her tea to brew. We were talking, then stopped. She turned her mug on its side and fiddled with it for a few seconds, then fell over to her right, relatively stiffly. I couldn’t reach her as she fell.
She hit her head on two kitchen shelves, which certainly cushioned her fall. Her head and bum copped the brunt of it. She opened her eyes after a couple of seconds and commented that she had slipped. She didn’t slip (she was standing, not moving), and has no memory of her quite odd cup interactions.
I suspect some type of near-rigid fit.
Um….I’d be going to the hospital.
She doesn’t want to be fussed over.
Hmm. Well at least keep her under observation and pack an overnight bag?
Michael V said:
Woodie said:
Michael V said:She seems OK now. Has a sore head and a sore arse.
was it a trip or a slip?
Neither. She fell over, fairly stiffly.
Has she had fits before?
Michael V said:
dv said:
Michael V said:
Mrs V has decided to put the washing out, despite recovering from a nasty and really very weird fall this morning.
Weird? Elucidate please
She was standing, waiting for her tea to brew. We were talking, then stopped. She turned her mug on its side and fiddled with it for a few seconds, then fell over to her right, relatively stiffly. I couldn’t reach her as she fell.
She hit her head on two kitchen shelves, which certainly cushioned her fall. Her head and bum copped the brunt of it. She opened her eyes after a couple of seconds and commented that she had slipped. She didn’t slip (she was standing, not moving), and has no memory of her quite odd cup interactions.
I suspect some type of near-rigid fit.
Damn. Is she amenable to a medical consultation?
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
Woodie said:was it a trip or a slip?
Neither. She fell over, fairly stiffly.
Has she had fits before?
No.
roughbarked said:
btm said:
btm said:FWIW, I highly recommend you take her to a doctor, or (preferably) a hospital.
… as kii suggested.
So far we all have.
What?
kii said:
roughbarked said:
btm said:… as kii suggested.
So far we all have.
What?
Suggested she be examined by a doctor or at least a triage sister…
dv said:
Michael V said:
dv said:Weird? Elucidate please
She was standing, waiting for her tea to brew. We were talking, then stopped. She turned her mug on its side and fiddled with it for a few seconds, then fell over to her right, relatively stiffly. I couldn’t reach her as she fell.
She hit her head on two kitchen shelves, which certainly cushioned her fall. Her head and bum copped the brunt of it. She opened her eyes after a couple of seconds and commented that she had slipped. She didn’t slip (she was standing, not moving), and has no memory of her quite odd cup interactions.
I suspect some type of near-rigid fit.
Damn. Is she amenable to a medical consultation?
Unlikely.
We may have to wait until it happens again.
Michael V said:
kii said:
Michael V said:She was standing, waiting for her tea to brew. We were talking, then stopped. She turned her mug on its side and fiddled with it for a few seconds, then fell over to her right, relatively stiffly. I couldn’t reach her as she fell.
She hit her head on two kitchen shelves, which certainly cushioned her fall. Her head and bum copped the brunt of it. She opened her eyes after a couple of seconds and commented that she had slipped. She didn’t slip (she was standing, not moving), and has no memory of her quite odd cup interactions.
I suspect some type of near-rigid fit.
Um….I’d be going to the hospital.
She doesn’t want to be fussed over.
Just do it. One thing mr kii and I agreed upon was we’d call an ambulance if I was concerned about his symptoms. Different scenario, but fuck the “no fuss” thing.
roughbarked said:
kii said:
roughbarked said:So far we all have.
What?
Suggested she be examined by a doctor or at least a triage sister…
Did you? Just stop with the bullshit.
kii said:
roughbarked said:
kii said:
What?
Suggested she be examined by a doctor or at least a triage sister…
Did you? Just stop with the bullshit.
fight fight fight
kii said:
roughbarked said:
kii said:What?
Suggested she be examined by a doctor or at least a triage sister…
Did you? Just stop with the bullshit.
You read with blinkers on.
SCIENCE said:
kii said:
roughbarked said:
Suggested she be examined by a doctor or at least a triage sister…
Did you? Just stop with the bullshit.
fight fight fight
I know you’re quite far from the hospital but she might have a brain bleed.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Never tried arancini but it looks delish.
cough
“they” (anrancini is plural)
correct, anranius is the singular.
kii said:
SCIENCE said:kii said:
Did you? Just stop with the bullshit.
fight fight fight
I just can’t stand his utter crap postings. He’s delusional.
what about your utter crap trumplite posting
ChrispenEvan said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Never tried arancini but it looks delish.
cough
“they” (anrancini is plural)
correct, anranius is the singular.
sorry, anrancius.. forgot the c.
Michael V said:
dv said:
Michael V said:She was standing, waiting for her tea to brew. We were talking, then stopped. She turned her mug on its side and fiddled with it for a few seconds, then fell over to her right, relatively stiffly. I couldn’t reach her as she fell.
She hit her head on two kitchen shelves, which certainly cushioned her fall. Her head and bum copped the brunt of it. She opened her eyes after a couple of seconds and commented that she had slipped. She didn’t slip (she was standing, not moving), and has no memory of her quite odd cup interactions.
I suspect some type of near-rigid fit.
Damn. Is she amenable to a medical consultation?
Unlikely.
We may have to wait until it happens again.
when a person hits their head in a fall, this is a trip to the emergency room. All sorts of things might be going on that you cannot see and she cannot feel. She might not want a fuss, but I don’t think it’s wise to be a martyr in these situations.
Seriously, if had gone to the hospital sooner I would not have spent a week in agony and angry at myself for trying to ‘not make a fuss’
I hope she is ok, I really do, but better to be ok with evidence than know nothing and not be ok at all – of for it to all fall apart later tonight and then it be a rush trip.
Had my mugshot taken today. first time in ages.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Never tried arancini but it looks delish.
cough
“they” (anrancini is plural)
Mia culpa.
I dont think I’ve ever had arancini that I have liked.. they are a favourite on trays at parties as finger food…
ChrispenEvan said:
Had my mugshot taken today. first time in ages.
left and right?
I tried making arancini. They were good but fiddly and took forever to make.
ChrispenEvan said:
kii said:
SCIENCE said:fight fight fight
I just can’t stand his utter crap postings. He’s delusional.what about your utter crap trumplite posting
Such as?
You’ve had a problem with me since I called you out for hypocrisy. Others have noticed it.
Arts said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
cough
“they” (anrancini is plural)
Mia culpa.
I dont think I’ve ever had arancini that I have liked.. they are a favourite on trays at parties as finger food…
what if it’s plural functioning as singular
kii said:
ChrispenEvan said:
kii said:
I just can’t stand his utter crap postings. He’s delusional.
what about your utter crap trumplite posting
Such as?
You’ve had a problem with me since I called you out for hypocrisy. Others have noticed it.
oh c’m‘on this is not a competition and if it is then yous lot are not any competition we’re the best at hypocrisy so bring it on and we’ll outhypocritose any of yous
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/09/australian-50-note-typo-spelling-mistake-printed-46-million-times
I forgot about this.
It apparently holds the record for typo printed most times.
dv said:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/09/australian-50-note-typo-spelling-mistake-printed-46-million-timesI forgot about this.
It apparently holds the record for typo printed most times.
So not rare then.
dv said:
I forgot about this.
It apparently holds the record for typo printed most times.
though in broader terms of reprinted errors we suppose it’s nothing on that most printed book
The Maclaurin series is a special case of the Taylor series, which itself is a special case of the Laurent series. The Maclaurin and Taylor series are also special cases of the generalised hypergeometric series. Is the Laurent series also a special case of the generalised hypergeometric series? (I can’t find a definitive answer, but I don’t think so.)
Some black bloke sitting on his porch in a singlet in Louisiana whittling got sold a house and his debt got sold on until it was bundled with a lot of others and sold to an investment bank, and that led to the global financial crisis.
Things can spiral out of control pretty quickly.
They never did find out who that bloke was
Arts said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Had my mugshot taken today. first time in ages.
left and right?
full frontal. drivers licence.
btm said:
The Maclaurin series is a special case of the Taylor series, which itself is a special case of the Laurent series. The Maclaurin and Taylor series are also special cases of the generalised hypergeometric series. Is the Laurent series also a special case of the generalised hypergeometric series? (I can’t find a definitive answer, but I don’t think so.)
I don’t think it is but do you have a parameterisation worked out that would fill in the blanks?
dv said:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/09/australian-50-note-typo-spelling-mistake-printed-46-million-timesI forgot about this.
It apparently holds the record for typo printed most times.
actually it was deliberate to identify forgeries.
Gotta go to town. Run outa smokes, and check out how empty Woolies is, and empty it out a bit more. .
Arts said:
Michael V said:
dv said:Damn. Is she amenable to a medical consultation?
Unlikely.
We may have to wait until it happens again.
when a person hits their head in a fall, this is a trip to the emergency room. All sorts of things might be going on that you cannot see and she cannot feel. She might not want a fuss, but I don’t think it’s wise to be a martyr in these situations.
Seriously, if had gone to the hospital sooner I would not have spent a week in agony and angry at myself for trying to ‘not make a fuss’
I hope she is ok, I really do, but better to be ok with evidence than know nothing and not be ok at all – of for it to all fall apart later tonight and then it be a rush trip.
80 km in either direction is never a rush trip.
No, Mrs V won’t go this time. She will if it happens again. We’ve now had that discussion.
She’s also not driving the car to this afternoon’s sewing meeting either. Either a friend picks her up, or I drive, or she doesn’t go.
Woodie said:
Gotta go to town. Run outa smokes, and check out how empty Woolies is, and empty it out a bit more. .
PWMs tip, buy long life milk, gallons of it.
Honestly you can’t tell the difference, well I can’t.
Woodie said:
Gotta go to town. Run outa smokes, and check out how empty Woolies is, and empty it out a bit more. .
Good luck and Godspeed
Michael V said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:Unlikely.
We may have to wait until it happens again.
when a person hits their head in a fall, this is a trip to the emergency room. All sorts of things might be going on that you cannot see and she cannot feel. She might not want a fuss, but I don’t think it’s wise to be a martyr in these situations.
Seriously, if had gone to the hospital sooner I would not have spent a week in agony and angry at myself for trying to ‘not make a fuss’
I hope she is ok, I really do, but better to be ok with evidence than know nothing and not be ok at all – of for it to all fall apart later tonight and then it be a rush trip.
80 km in either direction is never a rush trip.
No, Mrs V won’t go this time. She will if it happens again. We’ve now had that discussion.
She’s also not driving the car to this afternoon’s sewing meeting either. Either a friend picks her up, or I drive, or she doesn’t go.
I understand and appreciate that you are both adults and can make the decision.. the last thing I’ll say is this…
if you read about that fall of sm, or Roughbarked, or anyone else on this forum… what advice would you give?
SCIENCE said:
Arts said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Mia culpa.
I dont think I’ve ever had arancini that I have liked.. they are a favourite on trays at parties as finger food…
what if it’s plural functioning as singular
I don’t think I have ever had “rice ball” or “meat ball”.
But sheeple will be sheeple.
Peak Warming Man said:
Woodie said:
Gotta go to town. Run outa smokes, and check out how empty Woolies is, and empty it out a bit more. .
PWMs tip, buy long life milk, gallons of it.
Honestly you can’t tell the difference, well I can’t.
don’t you have access to cows?
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:when a person hits their head in a fall, this is a trip to the emergency room. All sorts of things might be going on that you cannot see and she cannot feel. She might not want a fuss, but I don’t think it’s wise to be a martyr in these situations.
Seriously, if had gone to the hospital sooner I would not have spent a week in agony and angry at myself for trying to ‘not make a fuss’
I hope she is ok, I really do, but better to be ok with evidence than know nothing and not be ok at all – of for it to all fall apart later tonight and then it be a rush trip.
80 km in either direction is never a rush trip.
No, Mrs V won’t go this time. She will if it happens again. We’ve now had that discussion.
She’s also not driving the car to this afternoon’s sewing meeting either. Either a friend picks her up, or I drive, or she doesn’t go.
I understand and appreciate that you are both adults and can make the decision.. the last thing I’ll say is this…
if you read about that fall of sm, or Roughbarked, or anyone else on this forum… what advice would you give?
In my case I get myself to hospital.
Arts said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Woodie said:
Gotta go to town. Run outa smokes, and check out how empty Woolies is, and empty it out a bit more. .
PWMs tip, buy long life milk, gallons of it.
Honestly you can’t tell the difference, well I can’t.
don’t you have access to cows?
He doesn’t milk them.
Arts said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Woodie said:
Gotta go to town. Run outa smokes, and check out how empty Woolies is, and empty it out a bit more. .
PWMs tip, buy long life milk, gallons of it.
Honestly you can’t tell the difference, well I can’t.
don’t you have access to cows?
They aren’t milkers, and good luck getting between a cow and a calf to steal milk
Arts said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Woodie said:
Gotta go to town. Run outa smokes, and check out how empty Woolies is, and empty it out a bit more. .
PWMs tip, buy long life milk, gallons of it.
Honestly you can’t tell the difference, well I can’t.
don’t you have access to cows?
Cows do like to have their tits regularly fondled. But I’m not really into fondling tits.
roughbarked said:
In my case I get myself to hospital.
Even if you’re unconscious?
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:when a person hits their head in a fall, this is a trip to the emergency room. All sorts of things might be going on that you cannot see and she cannot feel. She might not want a fuss, but I don’t think it’s wise to be a martyr in these situations.
Seriously, if had gone to the hospital sooner I would not have spent a week in agony and angry at myself for trying to ‘not make a fuss’
I hope she is ok, I really do, but better to be ok with evidence than know nothing and not be ok at all – of for it to all fall apart later tonight and then it be a rush trip.
80 km in either direction is never a rush trip.
No, Mrs V won’t go this time. She will if it happens again. We’ve now had that discussion.
She’s also not driving the car to this afternoon’s sewing meeting either. Either a friend picks her up, or I drive, or she doesn’t go.
I understand and appreciate that you are both adults and can make the decision.. the last thing I’ll say is this…
if you read about that fall of sm, or Roughbarked, or anyone else on this forum… what advice would you give?
Dang Arts, you’re good.
kii said:
roughbarked said:In my case I get myself to hospital.
Even if you’re unconscious?
When I regain concsiousness.
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:80 km in either direction is never a rush trip.
No, Mrs V won’t go this time. She will if it happens again. We’ve now had that discussion.
She’s also not driving the car to this afternoon’s sewing meeting either. Either a friend picks her up, or I drive, or she doesn’t go.
I understand and appreciate that you are both adults and can make the decision.. the last thing I’ll say is this…
if you read about that fall of sm, or Roughbarked, or anyone else on this forum… what advice would you give?
Dang Arts, you’re good.
She is.
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:80 km in either direction is never a rush trip.
No, Mrs V won’t go this time. She will if it happens again. We’ve now had that discussion.
She’s also not driving the car to this afternoon’s sewing meeting either. Either a friend picks her up, or I drive, or she doesn’t go.
I understand and appreciate that you are both adults and can make the decision.. the last thing I’ll say is this…
if you read about that fall of sm, or Roughbarked, or anyone else on this forum… what advice would you give?
Dang Arts, you’re good.
It’s just fucking common sense.
roughbarked said:
kii said:
roughbarked said:In my case I get myself to hospital.
Even if you’re unconscious?
When I regain concsiousness.
that’s quitter talk.
Michael V said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:Unlikely.
We may have to wait until it happens again.
when a person hits their head in a fall, this is a trip to the emergency room. All sorts of things might be going on that you cannot see and she cannot feel. She might not want a fuss, but I don’t think it’s wise to be a martyr in these situations.
Seriously, if had gone to the hospital sooner I would not have spent a week in agony and angry at myself for trying to ‘not make a fuss’
I hope she is ok, I really do, but better to be ok with evidence than know nothing and not be ok at all – of for it to all fall apart later tonight and then it be a rush trip.
80 km in either direction is never a rush trip.
No, Mrs V won’t go this time. She will if it happens again. We’ve now had that discussion.
She’s also not driving the car to this afternoon’s sewing meeting either. Either a friend picks her up, or I drive, or she doesn’t go.
Back from dropping Mrs V off. Friend will likely bring her home.
Peak Warming Man said:
Woodie said:
Gotta go to town. Run outa smokes, and check out how empty Woolies is, and empty it out a bit more. .
PWMs tip, buy long life milk, gallons of it.
Honestly you can’t tell the difference, well I can’t.
I reckon it tastes like made-up dried milk, not at all like milk.
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:when a person hits their head in a fall, this is a trip to the emergency room. All sorts of things might be going on that you cannot see and she cannot feel. She might not want a fuss, but I don’t think it’s wise to be a martyr in these situations.
Seriously, if had gone to the hospital sooner I would not have spent a week in agony and angry at myself for trying to ‘not make a fuss’
I hope she is ok, I really do, but better to be ok with evidence than know nothing and not be ok at all – of for it to all fall apart later tonight and then it be a rush trip.
80 km in either direction is never a rush trip.
No, Mrs V won’t go this time. She will if it happens again. We’ve now had that discussion.
She’s also not driving the car to this afternoon’s sewing meeting either. Either a friend picks her up, or I drive, or she doesn’t go.
I understand and appreciate that you are both adults and can make the decision.. the last thing I’ll say is this…
if you read about that fall of sm, or Roughbarked, or anyone else on this forum… what advice would you give?
Same as you have all given me.
It will happen next time it occurs.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Woodie said:
Gotta go to town. Run outa smokes, and check out how empty Woolies is, and empty it out a bit more. .
PWMs tip, buy long life milk, gallons of it.
Honestly you can’t tell the difference, well I can’t.
I reckon it tastes like made-up dried milk, not at all like milk.
concur.
Woodie said:
Arts said:
Peak Warming Man said:PWMs tip, buy long life milk, gallons of it.
Honestly you can’t tell the difference, well I can’t.
don’t you have access to cows?
Cows do like to have their tits regularly fondled. But I’m not really into fondling tits.
LOL
ChrispenEvan said:
roughbarked said:
kii said:Even if you’re unconscious?
When I regain concsiousness.
that’s quitter talk.
I have been asked, at the triage, why didn’t I call an ambulance.
My only answer was that I could get myself here, so I did.
Michael V said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:80 km in either direction is never a rush trip.
No, Mrs V won’t go this time. She will if it happens again. We’ve now had that discussion.
She’s also not driving the car to this afternoon’s sewing meeting either. Either a friend picks her up, or I drive, or she doesn’t go.
I understand and appreciate that you are both adults and can make the decision.. the last thing I’ll say is this…
if you read about that fall of sm, or Roughbarked, or anyone else on this forum… what advice would you give?
Same as you have all given me.
It will happen next time it occurs.
Good.
roughbarked said:
ChrispenEvan said:
roughbarked said:When I regain concsiousness.
that’s quitter talk.
I have been asked, at the triage, why didn’t I call an ambulance.
My only answer was that I could get myself here, so I did.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
ChrispenEvan said:that’s quitter talk.
I have been asked, at the triage, why didn’t I call an ambulance.
My only answer was that I could get myself here, so I did.
I called an ambulance. It’s really hard to drive with a broken hip.
Yeah well I haven’t had one of those yet though I have had to get other people to drive a couple of times.
Divine Angel said:
I know you’re quite far from the hospital but she might have a brain bleed.
Yeah.
:(
roughbarked said:
ChrispenEvan said:
roughbarked said:When I regain concsiousness.
that’s quitter talk.
I have been asked, at the triage, why didn’t I call an ambulance.
My only answer was that I could get myself here, so I did.
The ED doctor asked me “why didn’t you come in last night?”
my reply “Because I’m stubborn”
I have called an ambulance a few times in the past and been told by the medicos that this was very much the right thing to do, in the circumstances involved.
And I had an ambulance called for me by the GP last year.
Doesn’t stop my hater in this forum from mocking and jeering at my “ambulance rides”.
dv said:
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:We should have a “what book are you reading” thread.
At your service, sir:For the love of bleeding arse pity, it is in the Index above.
That’s how I got the thread. Your Index. .
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
I know you’re quite far from the hospital but she might have a brain bleed.
Yeah.
:(
I don’t understand why both of you aren’t more concerned.
Bubblecar said:
I have called an ambulance a few times in the past and been told by the medicos that this was very much the right thing to do, in the circumstances involved.And I had an ambulance called for me by the GP last year.
Doesn’t stop my hater in this forum from mocking and jeering at my “ambulance rides”.
Was that for the ingrown hair in your groin?
dv said:
SCIENCE said:
dv said:For the love of bleeding arse pity, it is in the Index above.
wait is it policing what people post in which thread time again
No but it’s “there’s a thread for the thing you are saying there should be a thread for and it is already in the Index” time again.
That’s what I was hinting at.
kii said:
Bubblecar said:
I have called an ambulance a few times in the past and been told by the medicos that this was very much the right thing to do, in the circumstances involved.And I had an ambulance called for me by the GP last year.
Doesn’t stop my hater in this forum from mocking and jeering at my “ambulance rides”.
Was that for the ingrown hair in your groin?
This is what I mean by mocking and jeering by the resident psychopath.
Anyway Michael, whether she visits a doctor today or tomorrow, I wouldn’t wait around for the next unaccountable collapse of that kind.
One is enough to warrant investigation as soon as she can.
Bubblecar said:
kii said:
Bubblecar said:
I have called an ambulance a few times in the past and been told by the medicos that this was very much the right thing to do, in the circumstances involved.And I had an ambulance called for me by the GP last year.
Doesn’t stop my hater in this forum from mocking and jeering at my “ambulance rides”.
Was that for the ingrown hair in your groin?
This is what I mean by mocking and jeering by the resident psychopath.
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:when a person hits their head in a fall, this is a trip to the emergency room. All sorts of things might be going on that you cannot see and she cannot feel. She might not want a fuss, but I don’t think it’s wise to be a martyr in these situations.
Seriously, if had gone to the hospital sooner I would not have spent a week in agony and angry at myself for trying to ‘not make a fuss’
I hope she is ok, I really do, but better to be ok with evidence than know nothing and not be ok at all – of for it to all fall apart later tonight and then it be a rush trip.
80 km in either direction is never a rush trip.
No, Mrs V won’t go this time. She will if it happens again. We’ve now had that discussion.
She’s also not driving the car to this afternoon’s sewing meeting either. Either a friend picks her up, or I drive, or she doesn’t go.
I understand and appreciate that you are both adults and can make the decision.. the last thing I’ll say is this…
if you read about that fall of sm, or Roughbarked, or anyone else on this forum… what advice would you give?
you should have asked the forum if you needed to go to the hospital…
;)
Uh oh.
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:80 km in either direction is never a rush trip.
No, Mrs V won’t go this time. She will if it happens again. We’ve now had that discussion.
She’s also not driving the car to this afternoon’s sewing meeting either. Either a friend picks her up, or I drive, or she doesn’t go.
I understand and appreciate that you are both adults and can make the decision.. the last thing I’ll say is this…
if you read about that fall of sm, or Roughbarked, or anyone else on this forum… what advice would you give?
you should have asked the forum if you needed to go to the hospital…
;)
Exactly.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
I know you’re quite far from the hospital but she might have a brain bleed.
Yeah.
:(
so we know some doctors and we often talk to them and we can tell you the advice for someone over 40 years of age who has a seizure like episode culminating in a fall with head strike
get a CT from ED and potentially stay overnight for observation monitoring whatever
I suppose I’d better take the “after 4:30pm” instruction seriously, and not set off for the PO until 4:15.
I’ll use my new baby saucepan tonight to cook a third of a cup of rice (since one cup uncooked rice is enough for three people), but I haven’t decided what will accompany it.
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
ChrispenEvan said:that’s quitter talk.
I have been asked, at the triage, why didn’t I call an ambulance.
My only answer was that I could get myself here, so I did.
The ED doctor asked me “why didn’t you come in last night?”
my reply “Because I’m stubborn”
LOL
kii said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
I know you’re quite far from the hospital but she might have a brain bleed.
Yeah.
:(
I don’t understand why both of you aren’t more concerned.
I am concerned. Very concerned.
I don’t know why Mrs V isn’t.
Clearly my arguments are not strong enough.
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:80 km in either direction is never a rush trip.
No, Mrs V won’t go this time. She will if it happens again. We’ve now had that discussion.
She’s also not driving the car to this afternoon’s sewing meeting either. Either a friend picks her up, or I drive, or she doesn’t go.
I understand and appreciate that you are both adults and can make the decision.. the last thing I’ll say is this…
if you read about that fall of sm, or Roughbarked, or anyone else on this forum… what advice would you give?
you should have asked the forum if you needed to go to the hospital…
;)
Ha!
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:80 km in either direction is never a rush trip.
No, Mrs V won’t go this time. She will if it happens again. We’ve now had that discussion.
She’s also not driving the car to this afternoon’s sewing meeting either. Either a friend picks her up, or I drive, or she doesn’t go.
I understand and appreciate that you are both adults and can make the decision.. the last thing I’ll say is this…
if you read about that fall of sm, or Roughbarked, or anyone else on this forum… what advice would you give?
you should have asked the forum if you needed to go to the hospital…
;)
I was too sick to forum… hmm maybe that should have been my clue..
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
I know you’re quite far from the hospital but she might have a brain bleed.
Yeah.
:(
so we know some doctors and we often talk to them and we can tell you the advice for someone over 40 years of age who has a seizure like episode culminating in a fall with head strike
get a CT from ED and potentially stay overnight for observation monitoring whatever
If Alex was here…
Michael V said:
kii said:
Michael V said:Yeah.
:(
I don’t understand why both of you aren’t more concerned.
I am concerned. Very concerned.
I don’t know why Mrs V isn’t.
Clearly my arguments are not strong enough.
Another story from the archives…
In 2009 I had a severe allergic response to an unknown item. I took some Benadryl and waited to see if I needed the Epipen. I remember saying to mr kii…I’ll use the pen when I stop breathing. He looked worried.
The next day I saw the doctor who explained a few things. Mostly the confusion and distorted thinking that can set in as you experience a situation like that, ie not breathingproperly. Luckily the Benadryl was enough to stave off the anaphylaxis.
mr kii and I agreed that if something like that happened again, he’d just ignore me and administer the adrenaline. Then get me to the ER, as per the doctor’s instructions.
All that to say that sometimes unwell people are not always to be relied on for an objective opinion.
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
I know you’re quite far from the hospital but she might have a brain bleed.
Yeah.
:(
so we know some doctors and we often talk to them and we can tell you the advice for someone over 40 years of age who has a seizure like episode culminating in a fall with head strike
get a CT from ED and potentially stay overnight for observation monitoring whatever
Ta for “seizure like episode culminating in a fall.” They are the succinct words that my brain couldn’t find.
Tell Mrs V the forum had a vote and she lost.
kii said:
SCIENCE said:Michael V said:
Yeah.
:(
so we know some doctors and we often talk to them and we can tell you the advice for someone over 40 years of age who has a seizure like episode culminating in a fall with head strike
get a CT from ED and potentially stay overnight for observation monitoring whatever
If Alex was here…
If only.
kii said:
Michael V said:
kii said:I don’t understand why both of you aren’t more concerned.
I am concerned. Very concerned.
I don’t know why Mrs V isn’t.
Clearly my arguments are not strong enough.
Another story from the archives…
In 2009 I had a severe allergic response to an unknown item. I took some Benadryl and waited to see if I needed the Epipen. I remember saying to mr kii…I’ll use the pen when I stop breathing. He looked worried.
The next day I saw the doctor who explained a few things. Mostly the confusion and distorted thinking that can set in as you experience a situation like that, ie not breathingproperly. Luckily the Benadryl was enough to stave off the anaphylaxis.
mr kii and I agreed that if something like that happened again, he’d just ignore me and administer the adrenaline. Then get me to the ER, as per the doctor’s instructions.All that to say that sometimes unwell people are not always to be relied on for an objective opinion.
Ta.
We now have an agreement about how to handle a similar episode.
Divine Angel said:
Tell Mrs V the forum had a vote and she lost.
I told her similar about three hours ago.
:)
btm said:
Michael V said:She was standing, waiting for her tea to brew. We were talking, then stopped. She turned her mug on its side and fiddled with it for a few seconds, then fell over to her right, relatively stiffly. I couldn’t reach her as she fell.
She hit her head on two kitchen shelves, which certainly cushioned her fall. Her head and bum copped the brunt of it. She opened her eyes after a couple of seconds and commented that she had slipped. She didn’t slip (she was standing, not moving), and has no memory of her quite odd cup interactions.
I suspect some type of near-rigid fit.
FWIW, I highly recommend you take her to a doctor, or (preferably) a hospital.
Yes. She needs assessment/treatment for stroke almost certainly. Go to ED. Do not pass GO.
The new baby saucepan, snapped next to my usual stew cauldron.
I’m still back at about 2.00pm..I hope none of you Northerners have blown/floated away yet.
Michael V said:
kii said:
SCIENCE said:
so we know some doctors and we often talk to them and we can tell you the advice for someone over 40 years of age who has a seizure like episode culminating in a fall with head strike
get a CT from ED and potentially stay overnight for observation monitoring whatever
If Alex was here…
If only.
ah well look if they’re reluctant to go then this is presumably what Victorian doctors give their patients so we suggest calling an ambulance if any of the relevant concerns arise
https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/head-injuries-and-concussion
Seek urgent medical care if you have:
severe headaches
vomited more than twice
memory problems
blackouts
a seizure (fit or spasm of arms, legs or face)
difficulty staying awake
blood or clear fluid coming from your ears or nose
neck stiffness
numbness, tingling, pins and needles, or weakness in your arms or legs
confusion, slurred speech or unusual behaviour
blurred or double vision
dizziness
a high temperature, which may indicate the presence of infection
any other concerns.
This is the cat looking very unhappy that I took over his Gecko Watching Spot with a pond plant. Not long after this photo he decided the bucket the plant was in made a great drinking bowl.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Woodie said:
Gotta go to town. Run outa smokes, and check out how empty Woolies is, and empty it out a bit more. .
PWMs tip, buy long life milk, gallons of it.
Honestly you can’t tell the difference, well I can’t.
I reckon it tastes like made-up dried milk, not at all like milk.
It tastes burnt to me. Not sure why.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:PWMs tip, buy long life milk, gallons of it.
Honestly you can’t tell the difference, well I can’t.
I reckon it tastes like made-up dried milk, not at all like milk.
It tastes burnt to me. Not sure why.
It tastes worse than powdered milk, which you can at least mix to the strength you wish. The long-life skim milk seems very watery.
Bubblecar said:
The new baby saucepan, snapped next to my usual stew cauldron.
Nice.
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:
kii said:
If Alex was here…
If only.
ah well look if they’re reluctant to go then this is presumably what Victorian doctors give their patients so we suggest calling an ambulance if any of the relevant concerns arise
https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/head-injuries-and-concussion
Seek urgent medical care if you have:
severe headaches
vomited more than twice
memory problems
blackouts
a seizure (fit or spasm of arms, legs or face)
difficulty staying awake
blood or clear fluid coming from your ears or nose
neck stiffness
numbness, tingling, pins and needles, or weakness in your arms or legs
confusion, slurred speech or unusual behaviour
blurred or double vision
dizziness
a high temperature, which may indicate the presence of infection
any other concerns.
Thanks.
buffy said:
I’m still back at about 2.00pm..I hope none of you Northerners have blown/floated away yet.
Not for a day or two to come, Ms Buffy.
Divine Angel said:
Tell Mrs V the forum had a vote and she lost.
She won’t listen to the forum.
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
Tell Mrs V the forum had a vote and she lost.
She won’t listen to the forum.
Outageous!
dv said:
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
Tell Mrs V the forum had a vote and she lost.
She won’t listen to the forum.
Outageous!
Yes, yes it is.
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
ChrispenEvan said:that’s quitter talk.
I have been asked, at the triage, why didn’t I call an ambulance.
My only answer was that I could get myself here, so I did.
The ED doctor asked me “why didn’t you come in last night?”
my reply “Because I’m stubborn”
Yep. It pays to be honest.
Woodie said:
buffy said:
I’m still back at about 2.00pm..I hope none of you Northerners have blown/floated away yet.
Not for a day or two to come, Ms Buffy.
Ah, OK then. I’m safe to spend time away from the forum tomorrow then…
:)
Michael V said:
kii said:
Michael V said:Yeah.
:(
I don’t understand why both of you aren’t more concerned.
I am concerned. Very concerned.
I don’t know why Mrs V isn’t.
Clearly my arguments are not strong enough.
There comes a time when one must stand firm.
Interesting story.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
kii said:I don’t understand why both of you aren’t more concerned.
I am concerned. Very concerned.
I don’t know why Mrs V isn’t.
Clearly my arguments are not strong enough.
There comes a time when one must stand firm.
You cannot force anyone to do anything. You can make the alternative disagreeable. But that’s it. It’s up to the individual to decide.
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:I am concerned. Very concerned.
I don’t know why Mrs V isn’t.
Clearly my arguments are not strong enough.
There comes a time when one must stand firm.
You cannot force anyone to do anything. You can make the alternative disagreeable. But that’s it. It’s up to the individual to decide.
True.
buffy said:
Avalanche survivorsInteresting story.
Need to take a few deep breaths after reading that.
Anyway, I’m going to read some more of someone’s thesis that I started on earlier today. It’s about the plants of the grasslands of the volcanic plains in Victoria. So far I’ve learnt why there were few trees – it’s because of the type of soil which expands when wet and squishes roots and then dries out hard and cracks and exposes the roots to the air and dessicates them. (My summary is possibly not the most scientifically worded…)
The Horror of Fang Rock
Edwardian era lighthouse mystery. Shipwrecks, stuffy toffs, salty keepers. This is the only onscreen appearance of the Rutans, oft-mentioned enemies of the Sontarans. Colonel Skinsdale is played by Alan Rowe, who also played Lord Edward of Wessex in the forst Sontaran story, The Time Warrior. Rowe was the long term partner of Catweazle actor Geoffrey Bayldon.
Not one of the better 4th Doctor stories. Not dreadful but ordinary. Everyone dies except the Doctor and Leela so that’s unusual. I do remember the Rutan being in the form of the old keeper. “We can abandon this ridiculous shape.”
Leela’s eyes change colour because of a weapon’s flash. The real life explanation is that Louise Jameson found it difficult to work with the coloured contacts she’d worn in season 14.
Adelaide: The girl is very strange, too.
Skinsale: I don’t know about strange, but she’s not a bad looker.
Adelaide: Perfectly grotesque, in my view. Were you a long time in India, Colonel?
Skinsdale Long enough, my dear, to learn to appreciate nature.
Mr. Car,
Did i ever refer you to his Youtube channel?:
Townsends
A channel dedicated to exploring the 18th Century lifestyle.
Subscribe for hundreds of videos on 18th century living, cooking, clothing, and much more.
Our Website – http://townsends.us
Request a print catalog – http://www.townsends.us/catalog_request/
https://www.youtube.com/@townsends/videos
There’s some cookery there that even i would have a lash at.
captain_spalding said:
Mr. Car,Did i ever refer you to his Youtube channel?:
Townsends
A channel dedicated to exploring the 18th Century lifestyle.
Subscribe for hundreds of videos on 18th century living, cooking, clothing, and much more.
Our Website – http://townsends.us
Request a print catalog – http://www.townsends.us/catalog_request/
https://www.youtube.com/@townsends/videos
There’s some cookery there that even i would have a lash at.
his = this
dv said:
The Horror of Fang RockEdwardian era lighthouse mystery. Shipwrecks, stuffy toffs, salty keepers. This is the only onscreen appearance of the Rutans, oft-mentioned enemies of the Sontarans. Colonel Skinsdale is played by Alan Rowe, who also played Lord Edward of Wessex in the forst Sontaran story, The Time Warrior. Rowe was the long term partner of Catweazle actor Geoffrey Bayldon.
Not one of the better 4th Doctor stories. Not dreadful but ordinary. Everyone dies except the Doctor and Leela so that’s unusual. I do remember the Rutan being in the form of the old keeper. “We can abandon this ridiculous shape.”
Leela’s eyes change colour because of a weapon’s flash. The real life explanation is that Louise Jameson found it difficult to work with the coloured contacts she’d worn in season 14.
Adelaide: The girl is very strange, too.
Skinsale: I don’t know about strange, but she’s not a bad looker.
Adelaide: Perfectly grotesque, in my view. Were you a long time in India, Colonel?
Skinsdale Long enough, my dear, to learn to appreciate nature.
Have a few memories of that one. I do seem to recall it being a bit ho-hum.
captain_spalding said:
captain_spalding said:
Mr. Car,Did i ever refer you to his Youtube channel?:
Townsends
A channel dedicated to exploring the 18th Century lifestyle.
Subscribe for hundreds of videos on 18th century living, cooking, clothing, and much more.
Our Website – http://townsends.us
Request a print catalog – http://www.townsends.us/catalog_request/
https://www.youtube.com/@townsends/videos
There’s some cookery there that even i would have a lash at.
his = this
Looks like some interesting stuff there, ta.
‘Silent’ stand-up comedy (2 min 14 sec):
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:
captain_spalding said:
Mr. Car,Did i ever refer you to his Youtube channel?:
Townsends
A channel dedicated to exploring the 18th Century lifestyle.
Subscribe for hundreds of videos on 18th century living, cooking, clothing, and much more.
Our Website – http://townsends.us
Request a print catalog – http://www.townsends.us/catalog_request/
https://www.youtube.com/@townsends/videos
There’s some cookery there that even i would have a lash at.
his = this
Looks like some interesting stuff there, ta.
Made by people who clearly love what they’re doing.
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
roughbarked said:I have been asked, at the triage, why didn’t I call an ambulance.
My only answer was that I could get myself here, so I did.
The ED doctor asked me “why didn’t you come in last night?”
my reply “Because I’m stubborn”
Yep. It pays to be honest.
Ah, a fortune cookie response.
One of the first pictures from the Blue Ghost lander
dv said:
One of the first pictures from the Blue Ghost lander
Did you see the shadow pic?
Divine Angel said:
dv said:
One of the first pictures from the Blue Ghost lander
Did you see the shadow pic?
No
dv said:
Divine Angel said:
dv said:
One of the first pictures from the Blue Ghost lander
Did you see the shadow pic?
No
dv said:
Divine Angel said:
dv said:
One of the first pictures from the Blue Ghost lander
Did you see the shadow pic?
No
Divine Angel said:
dv said:
Divine Angel said:Did you see the shadow pic?
No
It’s nice
04 March 2025
Clients of a Sydney cosmetic clinic may have been exposed to blood borne viruses including hepatitis and HIV.
The South Eastern Sydney Local Health District is urging anyone who underwent procedures at the Ketthip Clinic on Sussex Street to get tested.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-04/cosmetic-patients-exposed-to-hepatitis-hiv-sydney-clinic-ketthip/105007712
Australis are 2/66 after 11.
Over.
Peak Warming Man said:
Australis are 2/66 after 11.
Over.
that would make it 12
“One of Victorian racing’s most famous families was in mourning on Monday after the death of Bernadette Payne.
She was the second-eldest sister of Melbourne Cup winner Michelle and one of 10 children raised by single father Paddy Payne snr after the family lost their mother, Mary, in a 1986 car accident.”
Micks I’d say.
It’s interesting to me what people don’t panic buy
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-04/tropical-cyclone-alfred-brisbane-forecast-queensland-nsw-live/105004752#live-blog-post-156721
Celery, I think. Watermelon.
So when was the last time a tropical cyclone made landfall on a capital city?
Darwin 1974?
party_pants said:
So when was the last time a tropical cyclone made landfall on a capital city?Darwin 1974?
Also Brisbane 1974, cyclone Wanda, it was a beauty.
Peak Warming Man said:
party_pants said:
So when was the last time a tropical cyclone made landfall on a capital city?Darwin 1974?
Also Brisbane 1974, cyclone Wanda, it was a beauty.
Well, you survived it OK. Did you get a free t-shirt?
Australia all out for 264 in the 50th over.
Over.
Peak Warming Man said:
Australia all out for 264 in the 50th over.
Over.
Thanks for the update. I was thinking this was tomorrow night for some reason.
Not sure whether these should go into the US Politics thread or, perhaps, another one … but, in the meantime…
Hitler phones Trump:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNltws-wXdM
Hitler reacts to the Trump-Zelenskyy argument
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP07-EJu098
Moved from the US politics thread.
Kingy said:
I was just watching Desert Drifter on youtube, his wife did an update at the end. He was in a bad car accident and got severe brain damage, and was taken off life support yesterday. No updates since.
Apart from that, his stuff was interesting. Just in case their god can’t help them, they have a Go Fund Me page with donations of nearly $500,000.
Morning.
Currently calm outside, barely a breath of wind. Although schools are open, Mini Me has decided she doesn’t want to go, and I won’t make her.
Today is really just a waiting game. It’s probably the worst part.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 11 degrees at the back door, lightly overcast, no wind. We are forecast a sunny 28 today.
My car is booked for a service in Hamilton today. Dropping off at 8.30am, then Mr buffy and I will go shopping and come home (in his ute). Then we will pick my car up again around 4.00pm when we go back to Hamilton for archery.
kii said:
Moved from the US politics thread.
Kingy said:
I was just watching Desert Drifter on youtube, his wife did an update at the end. He was in a bad car accident and got severe brain damage, and was taken off life support yesterday. No updates since.
Apart from that, his stuff was interesting. Just in case their god can’t help them, they have a Go Fund Me page with donations of nearly $500,000.
insufficient cynicism, money flowing from true believers is the way god helps them
Popped into Woolies for a couple of minor things. It was absolutely packed.
i’ll make my own breakfast, you seem distant, elsewhere, not suited to the task
transition said:
i’ll make my own breakfast, you seem distant, elsewhere, not suited to the task
Already had mine. At whatever distance.
transition said:
i’ll make my own breakfast, you seem distant, elsewhere, not suited to the task
landed steaming hot
back from the magic faraway farm, land of happy ruminant
roughbarked said:
transition said:
i’ll make my own breakfast, you seem distant, elsewhere, not suited to the task
Already had mine. At whatever distance.
you’ve always been distant, rb
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:
i’ll make my own breakfast, you seem distant, elsewhere, not suited to the task
Already had mine. At whatever distance.
you’ve always been distant, rb
I was closer at one time.
transition said:
i’ll make my own breakfast, you seem distant, elsewhere, not suited to the task
Not suited to the task?
How dare you?
I’ll have you know I am the most frequent and the most successful maker of my own breakfast in the history of the universe.
The Rev Dodgson said:
transition said:
i’ll make my own breakfast, you seem distant, elsewhere, not suited to the task
Not suited to the task?
How dare you?
I’ll have you know I am the most frequent and the most successful maker of my own breakfast in the history of the universe.
Speaking of breakfasts being made by others…
My youngest son made me breakfast when he was about 8. He emptied a bottle of soy sauce into a saucepan and boiled noodles in it.
It was disgusting.
DONT PANIC
OVER
Peak Warming Man said:
DONT PANIC
OVER
Are your storm preparations finished?
Are you much above sea level?
Peak Warming Man said:
DONT PANIC
OVER
Do you need a different colored light bulb for that?
Greetings
Peak Warming Man said:
DONT PANIC
OVER
HAVE YOU GOT YOUR TOWEL?!
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
DONT PANIC
OVER
HAVE YOU GOT YOUR TOWEL?!
Hoopy froods know where their towels are.
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
DONT PANIC
OVER
HAVE YOU GOT YOUR TOWEL?!
Hoopy froods know where their towels are.
And I particularly need to know where my Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses are. My sister had us in fits of laughter some years ago when she described needing them to drive in the car with our father driving. She was right…
An interesting spammy thing. I nearly clicked on the link but then saw the phone number.
Spiny Norman said:
An interesting spammy thing. I nearly clicked on the link but then saw the phone number.
Austrailia oline
Divine Angel said:
Spiny Norman said:
An interesting spammy thing. I nearly clicked on the link but then saw the phone number.
Austrailia oline
Yeah that too, ta.
Copilot exits airplane mid flight without parachute! (Bizarre ATC audio)
On July 29, 2022, at 1404 eastern daylight time, a Casa 212-200, N497CA, was substantially damaged in an accident near Raeford, North Carolina. The pilot-in-command (PIC) was uninjured, while the second-in-command (SIC) sustained fatal injuries during a diversion to Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU), Durham, North Carolina. The flight was a skydiving operation under Part 91 regulations.
After completing two skydiving runs, the plane descended to Raeford West Airport (NR20) for a third group of skydivers. The SIC was flying the approach when the plane descended below the tree line and the right main landing gear (RMLG) struck the runway. The PIC took over, confirmed RMLG damage, and diverted to RDU.
Enroute to RDU, the SIC became upset about the hard landing, opened his window, and felt sick. He lowered the aft ramp, left his seat, removed his headset, apologized, and exited the airplane without a parachute. The PIC notified air traffic control and continued to RDU, where he made an emergency landing. The plane veered off the runway and came to rest in the grass, sustaining substantial damage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4yd8qgffzo
Fark!!!!
Spiny Norman said:
An interesting spammy thing. I nearly clicked on the link but then saw the phone number.
And the web-site: Spelling (missing n) and dot net (not dot gov dot au).
Ian said:
From little things big things grow.
Ian said:
I have a few bits of mammoth tusk. From Alaska.
Shhh…
Back now.
Had to drop everything, got to the pharmacist.
Then, it was off to the showground to fill about 15 sandbags and bring them home. Neighbour advised us that, in the 2011 event, there was some water intrusion from stormwater flow across the ground, and that having some sandbags for doorways would be wise.
Next, to Bunnings, to exchange the LP gas bottle.
captain_spalding said:
Back now.Had to drop everything, got to the pharmacist.
Then, it was off to the showground to fill about 15 sandbags and bring them home. Neighbour advised us that, in the 2011 event, there was some water intrusion from stormwater flow across the ground, and that having some sandbags for doorways would be wise.
Next, to Bunnings, to exchange the LP gas bottle.
Good luck. Pics from my local Bunnings this morning show absolute chaos. People had to park in the Harvey Norman carpark across the road.
Divine Angel said:
Good luck. Pics from my local Bunnings this morning show absolute chaos. People had to park in the Harvey Norman carpark across the road.
I’ve no doubt that anywhere in coastal S.E. Qld has reverted to the Law of the Jungle by now.
Not quite so many signs of panicking masses around here.
Yet.
I mentioned here a few days ago that I had trouble with my credit card at the local Post Office. I went into the bank this morning. No problems with my account, it’s not been emptied out or anything. The lady looked at my last few transactions on the card and they were what they should have been. The conclusion is that either (a) I did a muddled old lady thing and pressed Cheque instead of Credit (feasible, I was chatting at the time) or (b) the system blipped and couldn’t confirm the account (also feasible, the interwebby/phony line thingies here are a bit jittery at times). Anyway, no problems. I’ll be using the card later this afternoon when I pick up my car from servicing.
buffy said:
I mentioned here a few days ago that I had trouble with my credit card at the local Post Office. I went into the bank this morning. No problems with my account, it’s not been emptied out or anything. The lady looked at my last few transactions on the card and they were what they should have been. The conclusion is that either (a) I did a muddled old lady thing and pressed Cheque instead of Credit (feasible, I was chatting at the time) or (b) the system blipped and couldn’t confirm the account (also feasible, the interwebby/phony line thingies here are a bit jittery at times). Anyway, no problems. I’ll be using the card later this afternoon when I pick up my car from servicing.
I still don’t understand why you don’t just get access to your account online.
The bank just looks up the electronic records that you could see for yourself at the click of a mouse, without going anywhere.
kii said:
Ian said:
I have a few bits of mammoth tusk. From Alaska.
Shhh…
Plenty for sale on the internet. I assume it’s legal.
Michael V said:
kii said:
Ian said:
I have a few bits of mammoth tusk. From Alaska.
Shhh…
Plenty for sale on the internet. I assume it’s legal.
There were plenty of tusks emerging from the ice during the years that mr kii’s friend was there. We had a whole tusk on the welding table for a few months,
I don’t know if I have to declare the bits, small, already wrapped.
kii said:
There were plenty of tusks emerging from the ice during the years that mr kii’s friend was there. We had a whole tusk on the welding table for a few months,
I don’t know if I have to declare the bits, small, already wrapped.
I doubt that they could get you for having parts of an endangered animal.
I mean, ‘extinct’ is ‘extinct’.
captain_spalding said:
kii said:There were plenty of tusks emerging from the ice during the years that mr kii’s friend was there. We had a whole tusk on the welding table for a few months,
I don’t know if I have to declare the bits, small, already wrapped.
I doubt that they could get you for having parts of an endangered animal.
I mean, ‘extinct’ is ‘extinct’.
The walrus jaw and the slice of walrus tusk…maybe, maybe not.
I had some antlers from Alaska but could only take them if I had documents to specify what/where etc.
I gave the jaw back to Mr PTSD.
kii said:
captain_spalding said:
kii said:There were plenty of tusks emerging from the ice during the years that mr kii’s friend was there. We had a whole tusk on the welding table for a few months,
I don’t know if I have to declare the bits, small, already wrapped.
I doubt that they could get you for having parts of an endangered animal.
I mean, ‘extinct’ is ‘extinct’.
The walrus jaw and the slice of walrus tusk…maybe, maybe not.
I had some antlers from Alaska but could only take them if I had documents to specify what/where etc.
I gave the jaw back to Mr PTSD.
Probably wise.
From what i’ve seen on those ‘Border Security’ TV shows, Customs people can get quite tizzified about things like jaws.
captain_spalding said:
kii said:
captain_spalding said:I doubt that they could get you for having parts of an endangered animal.
I mean, ‘extinct’ is ‘extinct’.
The walrus jaw and the slice of walrus tusk…maybe, maybe not.
I had some antlers from Alaska but could only take them if I had documents to specify what/where etc.
I gave the jaw back to Mr PTSD.
Probably wise.
From what i’ve seen on those ‘Border Security’ TV shows, Customs people can get quite tizzified about things like jaws.
It was decorated with carvings by an Inuit dude.
kii said:
captain_spalding said:
kii said:The walrus jaw and the slice of walrus tusk…maybe, maybe not.
I had some antlers from Alaska but could only take them if I had documents to specify what/where etc.
I gave the jaw back to Mr PTSD.
Probably wise.
From what i’ve seen on those ‘Border Security’ TV shows, Customs people can get quite tizzified about things like jaws.
It was decorated with carvings by an Inuit dude.
In which case, it’srather more of a pity that you felt unable to retain it. But, i expect that Australian Customs people would have not been satisfied without considerable and ‘suitable’ documentation.
I no longer do the Michael Curl quick cryptic in the Washington Post now that the paper has gone Nazi, but these seem to be the same crosswords in this archive:
https://simplydailypuzzles.com/daily-cryptic/archive.html
captain_spalding said:
kii said:
captain_spalding said:Probably wise.
From what i’ve seen on those ‘Border Security’ TV shows, Customs people can get quite tizzified about things like jaws.
It was decorated with carvings by an Inuit dude.
In which case, it’srather more of a pity that you felt unable to retain it. But, i expect that Australian Customs people would have not been satisfied without considerable and ‘suitable’ documentation.
Originally it was sent to us for safe keeping and I loved it, I asked if the guy could get us another one. The jaws are not very common, as you might expect. Anyway Mr PTSD gave it to us. I returned it to him after mr kii died, as I figured you wouldn’t be able to smuggle it in to Australia….I mean…what….?
Went outside to tape a garbage bag to a window. Humidity is so high I’m having trouble breathing. Didn’t even do anything strenuous!
(One of the windows has a crack, taped it up to prevent moisture and wind.)
Divine Angel said:
Went outside to tape a garbage bag to a window. Humidity is so high I’m having trouble breathing. Didn’t even do anything strenuous!(One of the windows has a crack, taped it up to prevent moisture and wind.)
You forgot to take the garbage out of it.
kii said:
captain_spalding said:
kii said:The walrus jaw and the slice of walrus tusk…maybe, maybe not.
I had some antlers from Alaska but could only take them if I had documents to specify what/where etc.
I gave the jaw back to Mr PTSD.
Probably wise.
From what i’ve seen on those ‘Border Security’ TV shows, Customs people can get quite tizzified about things like jaws.
It was decorated with carvings by an Inuit dude.
In less enlightened days, if he carved 3.141592 on it, it’d be eskimo pi.
Spot the walrus.
Do ever feel sick from the stress of someone’s actions you know will end badly, possible dying.
The perspective they have of the world coloured by mental health issues.
Their version of events differ from what happened
I am at loss to know what to do.
My daughter lost custody of her son to DCP.
She acts in ways that aren’t appropriate
I’m used to it, its like becoming somewhat immune to trauma
Other people are shocked and scared by it.
She will fight them and get nowhere.
She tried to fix these fucked up men as she wants to a life that doesn’t exist.
Her home life is unstable and so is she.
I don’t even like the idea of this little boy going to live with her.
I am somewhat negatively influenced by work as I read about what men do to woman and children.
She fits into the category.
She gets angry as I can’t change the system
She won’t listen to me and wants me to join her in finding some loophole so she doesn’t have to comply.
I always knew if would end up like this, its quite horrible.
Cymek said:
Do ever feel sick from the stress of someone’s actions you know will end badly, possible dying.
The perspective they have of the world coloured by mental health issues.
Their version of events differ from what happened
I am at loss to know what to do.
My daughter lost custody of her son to DCP.
She acts in ways that aren’t appropriate
I’m used to it, its like becoming somewhat immune to trauma
Other people are shocked and scared by it.She will fight them and get nowhere.
She tried to fix these fucked up men as she wants to a life that doesn’t exist.
Her home life is unstable and so is she.
I don’t even like the idea of this little boy going to live with her.
I am somewhat negatively influenced by work as I read about what men do to woman and children.
She fits into the category.She gets angry as I can’t change the system
She won’t listen to me and wants me to join her in finding some loophole so she doesn’t have to comply.
I always knew if would end up like this, its quite horrible.
sounds rough, sorry
Bubblecar said:
I no longer do the Michael Curl quick cryptic in the Washington Post now that the paper has gone Nazi, but these seem to be the same crosswords in this archive:
thanks
we’re sure there can be limitless 爱gen episodes soon
Cymek said:
Do ever feel sick from the stress of someone’s actions you know will end badly, possible dying.The perspective they have of the world coloured by mental health issues.
Their version of events differ from what happened
I am at loss to know what to do.
My daughter lost custody of her son to DCP.
She acts in ways that aren’t appropriate
I’m used to it, its like becoming somewhat immune to trauma
Other people are shocked and scared by it.She will fight them and get nowhere.
She tried to fix these fucked up men as she wants to a life that doesn’t exist.
Her home life is unstable and so is she.
I don’t even like the idea of this little boy going to live with her.
I am somewhat negatively influenced by work as I read about what men do to woman and children.
She fits into the category.She gets angry as I can’t change the system
She won’t listen to me and wants me to join her in finding some loophole so she doesn’t have to comply.
I always knew if would end up like this, its quite horrible.
Oh cymek my heart hurts for all of you.
It’s fucked up.
Cymek said:
Do ever feel sick from the stress of someone’s actions you know will end badly, possible dying.The perspective they have of the world coloured by mental health issues.
Their version of events differ from what happened
I am at loss to know what to do.
My daughter lost custody of her son to DCP.
She acts in ways that aren’t appropriate
I’m used to it, its like becoming somewhat immune to trauma
Other people are shocked and scared by it.She will fight them and get nowhere.
She tried to fix these fucked up men as she wants to a life that doesn’t exist.
Her home life is unstable and so is she.
I don’t even like the idea of this little boy going to live with her.
I am somewhat negatively influenced by work as I read about what men do to woman and children.
She fits into the category.She gets angry as I can’t change the system
She won’t listen to me and wants me to join her in finding some loophole so she doesn’t have to comply.
I always knew if would end up like this, its quite horrible.
i remember you predicting it.
sorry it has all turned out this way for you.
Oh Cymek, I’m so sorry. It sucks so much. Ultimately you can lead a horse to water… doesn’t make it any easier though.
sarahs mum said:
Cymek said:
Do ever feel sick from the stress of someone’s actions you know will end badly, possible dying.The perspective they have of the world coloured by mental health issues.
Their version of events differ from what happened
I am at loss to know what to do.
My daughter lost custody of her son to DCP.
She acts in ways that aren’t appropriate
I’m used to it, its like becoming somewhat immune to trauma
Other people are shocked and scared by it.She will fight them and get nowhere.
She tried to fix these fucked up men as she wants to a life that doesn’t exist.
Her home life is unstable and so is she.
I don’t even like the idea of this little boy going to live with her.
I am somewhat negatively influenced by work as I read about what men do to woman and children.
She fits into the category.She gets angry as I can’t change the system
She won’t listen to me and wants me to join her in finding some loophole so she doesn’t have to comply.
I always knew if would end up like this, its quite horrible.
i remember you predicting it.
sorry it has all turned out this way for you.
I will do what I can but the little boys safety is what is important.
It may mean giving him up until she is stable
Cymek said:
sarahs mum said:
Cymek said:
Do ever feel sick from the stress of someone’s actions you know will end badly, possible dying.The perspective they have of the world coloured by mental health issues.
Their version of events differ from what happened
I am at loss to know what to do.
My daughter lost custody of her son to DCP.
She acts in ways that aren’t appropriate
I’m used to it, its like becoming somewhat immune to trauma
Other people are shocked and scared by it.She will fight them and get nowhere.
She tried to fix these fucked up men as she wants to a life that doesn’t exist.
Her home life is unstable and so is she.
I don’t even like the idea of this little boy going to live with her.
I am somewhat negatively influenced by work as I read about what men do to woman and children.
She fits into the category.She gets angry as I can’t change the system
She won’t listen to me and wants me to join her in finding some loophole so she doesn’t have to comply.
I always knew if would end up like this, its quite horrible.
i remember you predicting it.
sorry it has all turned out this way for you.
I will do what I can but the little boys safety is what is important.
It may mean giving him up until she is stable
you could apply for visitation.
Hey MV, how’s Mrs V?
Cymek said:
Do ever feel sick from the stress of someone’s actions you know will end badly, possible dying.The perspective they have of the world coloured by mental health issues.
Their version of events differ from what happened
I am at loss to know what to do.
My daughter lost custody of her son to DCP.
She acts in ways that aren’t appropriate
I’m used to it, its like becoming somewhat immune to trauma
Other people are shocked and scared by it.She will fight them and get nowhere.
She tried to fix these fucked up men as she wants to a life that doesn’t exist.
Her home life is unstable and so is she.
I don’t even like the idea of this little boy going to live with her.
I am somewhat negatively influenced by work as I read about what men do to woman and children.
She fits into the category.She gets angry as I can’t change the system
She won’t listen to me and wants me to join her in finding some loophole so she doesn’t have to comply.
I always knew if would end up like this, its quite horrible.
Man.
That sucks.
Cymek said:
sarahs mum said:
Cymek said:
Do ever feel sick from the stress of someone’s actions you know will end badly, possible dying.The perspective they have of the world coloured by mental health issues.
Their version of events differ from what happened
I am at loss to know what to do.
My daughter lost custody of her son to DCP.
She acts in ways that aren’t appropriate
I’m used to it, its like becoming somewhat immune to trauma
Other people are shocked and scared by it.She will fight them and get nowhere.
She tried to fix these fucked up men as she wants to a life that doesn’t exist.
Her home life is unstable and so is she.
I don’t even like the idea of this little boy going to live with her.
I am somewhat negatively influenced by work as I read about what men do to woman and children.
She fits into the category.She gets angry as I can’t change the system
She won’t listen to me and wants me to join her in finding some loophole so she doesn’t have to comply.
I always knew if would end up like this, its quite horrible.
i remember you predicting it.
sorry it has all turned out this way for you.
I will do what I can but the little boys safety is what is important.
It may mean giving him up until she is stable
Good luck with it all Cymek. I hope whatever happens is in the best interests of all, especially the child.
Divine Angel said:
Hey MV, how’s Mrs V?
Absolutely fine.
Down at the library right now, to walk home.
We just had a heap of vaccinations at the Pharmacy.
Re: US Politics 2025
I’m imposing a personal media ban on anything involving US politics.
The only exception I’ll make is happy news, e.g., deaths of the main offenders.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Hey MV, how’s Mrs V?
Absolutely fine.
Down at the library right now, to walk home.
We just had a heap of vaccinations at the Pharmacy.
Good to hear.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Hey MV, how’s Mrs V?
Absolutely fine.
Down at the library right now, to walk home.
We just had a heap of vaccinations at the Pharmacy.
Goodo
Bubblecar said:
Re: US Politics 2025I’m imposing a personal media ban on anything involving US politics.
The only exception I’ll make is happy news, e.g., deaths of the main offenders.
Best I can do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eRe-nHujXQ
Bubblecar said:
Re: US Politics 2025I’m imposing a personal media ban on anything involving US politics.
The only exception I’ll make is happy news, e.g., deaths of the main offenders.
I choose to stay informed.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Re: US Politics 2025I’m imposing a personal media ban on anything involving US politics.
The only exception I’ll make is happy news, e.g., deaths of the main offenders.
I choose to stay informed.
I find it stressful and depressing, with no redeeming aspects.
Given that I’m just as powerless to do anything about it whether I’m informed or not, there’s no virtue or advantage in staying informed.
Spiny Norman said:
Bubblecar said:
Re: US Politics 2025I’m imposing a personal media ban on anything involving US politics.
The only exception I’ll make is happy news, e.g., deaths of the main offenders.
Best I can do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eRe-nHujXQ
:)
SCIENCE said:
Cymek said:
Do ever feel sick from the stress of someone’s actions you know will end badly, possible dying.
The perspective they have of the world coloured by mental health issues.
Their version of events differ from what happened
I am at loss to know what to do.
My daughter lost custody of her son to DCP.
She acts in ways that aren’t appropriate
I’m used to it, its like becoming somewhat immune to trauma
Other people are shocked and scared by it.She will fight them and get nowhere.
She tried to fix these fucked up men as she wants to a life that doesn’t exist.
Her home life is unstable and so is she.
I don’t even like the idea of this little boy going to live with her.
I am somewhat negatively influenced by work as I read about what men do to woman and children.
She fits into the category.She gets angry as I can’t change the system
She won’t listen to me and wants me to join her in finding some loophole so she doesn’t have to comply.
I always knew if would end up like this, its quite horrible.
sounds rough, sorry
:(
kii said:
Michael V said:
kii said:I have a few bits of mammoth tusk. From Alaska.
Shhh…
Plenty for sale on the internet. I assume it’s legal.
There were plenty of tusks emerging from the ice during the years that mr kii’s friend was there. We had a whole tusk on the welding table for a few months,
I don’t know if I have to declare the bits, small, already wrapped.
Possibly.
captain_spalding said:
kii said:There were plenty of tusks emerging from the ice during the years that mr kii’s friend was there. We had a whole tusk on the welding table for a few months,
I don’t know if I have to declare the bits, small, already wrapped.
I doubt that they could get you for having parts of an endangered animal.
I mean, ‘extinct’ is ‘extinct’.
But it is ivory.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Re: US Politics 2025I’m imposing a personal media ban on anything involving US politics.
The only exception I’ll make is happy news, e.g., deaths of the main offenders.
I choose to stay informed.
I find it stressful and depressing, with no redeeming aspects.
Given that I’m just as powerless to do anything about it whether I’m informed or not, there’s no virtue or advantage in staying informed.
It infiltrates normal Facebook pages so I unfollow them.
Watch stuff on baby elephants being cute instead
Bubblecar said:
I no longer do the Michael Curl quick cryptic in the Washington Post now that the paper has gone Nazi, but these seem to be the same crosswords in this archive:https://simplydailypuzzles.com/daily-cryptic/archive.html
They’re the cryptics I’ve been trying to train myself on.
I wets down upwind again, had to do’t myself, roughbarked was meant to, said he’d do’t, but unreliable cazy lunt, i’m going to sack him, tell him his services are no longer required, just between you and me the guy is not the most useful specimen of a human being
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
kii said:There were plenty of tusks emerging from the ice during the years that mr kii’s friend was there. We had a whole tusk on the welding table for a few months,
I don’t know if I have to declare the bits, small, already wrapped.
I doubt that they could get you for having parts of an endangered animal.
I mean, ‘extinct’ is ‘extinct’.
But it is ivory.
I always thought how cool it would be say to touch an object and know its history.
It’s dead now for example the tusk but once belonged to magnificent creature and you could see if alive.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
I no longer do the Michael Curl quick cryptic in the Washington Post now that the paper has gone Nazi, but these seem to be the same crosswords in this archive:https://simplydailypuzzles.com/daily-cryptic/archive.html
They’re the cryptics I’ve been trying to train myself on.
Goodo. You should soon find them quick and easy :)
The Canadian Globe & Mail now has free versions of the Times daily cryptic, which can be more challenging:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/puzzles-and-crosswords/cryptic-crossword/
Cymek said:
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:I doubt that they could get you for having parts of an endangered animal.
I mean, ‘extinct’ is ‘extinct’.
But it is ivory.
I always thought how cool it would be say to touch an object and know its history.
It’s dead now for example the tusk but once belonged to magnificent creature and you could see if alive.
Rocks are like that. Their histories are written in them. Reading them takes care and patience. Mostly, bits are missing, but sometimes the stories are magnificent.
I’m glad I ended up doing that for a living.
Dull Men’s Centre
2 March at 08:51 ·
I’ve collected and catalogued a complete set of bread tabs. By “complete set”, I mean every day of the year, including February 29th. I wonder if others have travelled down this crusty road.
My favourite aspect of bread tabs is that they are not sentimental – they just have a job to do – so Valentines Day may be blue or yellow. I also love the surprising variety of shapes and dating techniques. There’s an attractiveness about them. I could go on…
I’m attaching my November page. Those of you with a keen eye will notice the inclusion of the extremely rare November 31st bread tab. Enjoy
——
Brennan Stubbs It’s actually a species lol. There’s a whole subreddit and topic on this about different species and sub species of bread clips. Not even kidding. They’re called occlupinids. Very fun rabbit hole to go down I suggest everyone check it out.
Dull Men’s Centre
2 March at 08:51 ·
I’ve collected and catalogued a complete set of bread tabs. By “complete set”, I mean every day of the year, including February 29th. I wonder if others have travelled down this crusty road.
My favourite aspect of bread tabs is that they are not sentimental – they just have a job to do – so Valentines Day may be blue or yellow. I also love the surprising variety of shapes and dating techniques. There’s an attractiveness about them. I could go on…
I’m attaching my November page. Those of you with a keen eye will notice the inclusion of the extremely rare November 31st bread tab. Enjoy
——
Brennan Stubbs It’s actually a species lol. There’s a whole subreddit and topic on this about different species and sub species of bread clips. Not even kidding. They’re called occlupinids. Very fun rabbit hole to go down I suggest everyone check it out.sarahs mum said:
Dull Men’s Centre
2 March at 08:51 ·
I’ve collected and catalogued a complete set of bread tabs. By “complete set”, I mean every day of the year, including February 29th. I wonder if others have travelled down this crusty road.
My favourite aspect of bread tabs is that they are not sentimental – they just have a job to do – so Valentines Day may be blue or yellow. I also love the surprising variety of shapes and dating techniques. There’s an attractiveness about them. I could go on…
I’m attaching my November page. Those of you with a keen eye will notice the inclusion of the extremely rare November 31st bread tab. Enjoy——
Brennan Stubbs It’s actually a species lol. There’s a whole subreddit and topic on this about different species and sub species of bread clips. Not even kidding. They’re called occlupinids. Very fun rabbit hole to go down I suggest everyone check it out.
Who’d have imagined…
dear God my back is rogered, crippled by the sciatic monster, hurts that yuck feel all the ways down my legs into my feet
need a wheelchair
let me try another lot of two minute noodles, put water in the saucepan this time, don’t they stink burnt
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
I no longer do the Michael Curl quick cryptic in the Washington Post now that the paper has gone Nazi, but these seem to be the same crosswords in this archive:https://simplydailypuzzles.com/daily-cryptic/archive.html
They’re the cryptics I’ve been trying to train myself on.
Goodo. You should soon find them quick and easy :)
The Canadian Globe & Mail now has free versions of the Times daily cryptic, which can be more challenging:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/puzzles-and-crosswords/cryptic-crossword/
Ta.
I find those archived cryptics difficult. I was doing about 3 or 4 a day, but getting nothing else done. I improved my times by about 20% or so, as I got to understand some of the clues. I rarely get every word out.
The only cryptic clues I understand are, “because it’s lettuce”, and “cheese made backwards”.
sarahs mum said:
Dull Men’s Centre
2 March at 08:51 ·
I’ve collected and catalogued a complete set of bread tabs. By “complete set”, I mean every day of the year, including February 29th. I wonder if others have travelled down this crusty road.
My favourite aspect of bread tabs is that they are not sentimental – they just have a job to do – so Valentines Day may be blue or yellow. I also love the surprising variety of shapes and dating techniques. There’s an attractiveness about them. I could go on…
I’m attaching my November page. Those of you with a keen eye will notice the inclusion of the extremely rare November 31st bread tab. Enjoy——
Brennan Stubbs It’s actually a species lol. There’s a whole subreddit and topic on this about different species and sub species of bread clips. Not even kidding. They’re called occlupinids. Very fun rabbit hole to go down I suggest everyone check it out.
That chap has lovely handwriting.
I have read about collecting these before. Interesting.
transition said:
dear God my back is rogered, crippled by the sciatic monster, hurts that yuck feel all the ways down my legs into my feetneed a wheelchair
let me try another lot of two minute noodles, put water in the saucepan this time, don’t they stink burnt
Ha!
Sorry about your crippling pain.
Divine Angel said:
The only cryptic clues I understand are, “because it’s lettuce”, and “cheese made backwards”.
Cos, Edam.
:)
Cymek said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
I choose to stay informed.
I find it stressful and depressing, with no redeeming aspects.
Given that I’m just as powerless to do anything about it whether I’m informed or not, there’s no virtue or advantage in staying informed.
It infiltrates normal Facebook pages so I unfollow them.
Watch stuff on baby elephants being cute instead
eh hoarses four coarses, shills for pills
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Dull Men’s Centre
2 March at 08:51 ·
I’ve collected and catalogued a complete set of bread tabs. By “complete set”, I mean every day of the year, including February 29th. I wonder if others have travelled down this crusty road.
My favourite aspect of bread tabs is that they are not sentimental – they just have a job to do – so Valentines Day may be blue or yellow. I also love the surprising variety of shapes and dating techniques. There’s an attractiveness about them. I could go on…
I’m attaching my November page. Those of you with a keen eye will notice the inclusion of the extremely rare November 31st bread tab. Enjoy——
Brennan Stubbs It’s actually a species lol. There’s a whole subreddit and topic on this about different species and sub species of bread clips. Not even kidding. They’re called occlupinids. Very fun rabbit hole to go down I suggest everyone check it out.That chap has lovely handwriting.
I have read about collecting these before. Interesting.
wow nice
transition said:
dear God my back is rogered, crippled by the sciatic monster, hurts that yuck feel all the ways down my legs into my feetneed a wheelchair
let me try another lot of two minute noodles, put water in the saucepan this time, don’t they stink burnt
I’d suggest total sensory deprivation and backup drugs.
While listening for updates on the cyclone on ABC local radio I came across The West Report, lol.
That paragon of left wing nutters Michael West has a has managed to inveigle himself into the halls of Auntie.
He now has a regular gig on the ABC, lol.
Peak Warming Man said:
While listening for updates on the cyclone on ABC local radio I came across The West Report, lol.
That paragon of left wing nutters Michael West has a has managed to inveigle himself into the halls of Auntie.
He now has a regular gig on the ABC, lol.
he balances the rightwing mob at auntie.
Peak Warming Man said:
While listening for updates on the cyclone on ABC local radio I came across The West Report, lol.
That paragon of left wing nutters Michael West has a has managed to inveigle himself into the halls of Auntie.
He now has a regular gig on the ABC, lol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_West_
So this ex-contributor to the Australian is a left wing nutter?
Interesting.
(I’ve never heard of him, so I’m not saying he is not a left wing nutter, I don’t know).
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
While listening for updates on the cyclone on ABC local radio I came across The West Report, lol.
That paragon of left wing nutters Michael West has a has managed to inveigle himself into the halls of Auntie.
He now has a regular gig on the ABC, lol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_West_
So this ex-contributor to the Australian is a left wing nutter?
Interesting.
(I’ve never heard of him, so I’m not saying he is not a left wing nutter, I don’t know).
He used to post on the old forum.
He’s a nutter alright.
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
While listening for updates on the cyclone on ABC local radio I came across The West Report, lol.
That paragon of left wing nutters Michael West has a has managed to inveigle himself into the halls of Auntie.
He now has a regular gig on the ABC, lol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_West_
So this ex-contributor to the Australian is a left wing nutter?
Interesting.
(I’ve never heard of him, so I’m not saying he is not a left wing nutter, I don’t know).
He used to post on the old forum.
He’s a nutter alright.
I don’t remember him on the old forum.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
While listening for updates on the cyclone on ABC local radio I came across The West Report, lol.
That paragon of left wing nutters Michael West has a has managed to inveigle himself into the halls of Auntie.
He now has a regular gig on the ABC, lol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_West_
So this ex-contributor to the Australian is a left wing nutter?
Interesting.
(I’ve never heard of him, so I’m not saying he is not a left wing nutter, I don’t know).
he is pro labor. not sure about left wing nutter. but he is a journo and he does do research.
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
I mentioned here a few days ago that I had trouble with my credit card at the local Post Office. I went into the bank this morning. No problems with my account, it’s not been emptied out or anything. The lady looked at my last few transactions on the card and they were what they should have been. The conclusion is that either (a) I did a muddled old lady thing and pressed Cheque instead of Credit (feasible, I was chatting at the time) or (b) the system blipped and couldn’t confirm the account (also feasible, the interwebby/phony line thingies here are a bit jittery at times). Anyway, no problems. I’ll be using the card later this afternoon when I pick up my car from servicing.
I still don’t understand why you don’t just get access to your account online.
The bank just looks up the electronic records that you could see for yourself at the click of a mouse, without going anywhere.
I was going in to Hamilton for the shopping, so it was not an extra trip. And I needed someone who understands the system to try to work out what had happened.
ChrispenEvan said:
very sinister
Peak Warming Man said:
While listening for updates on the cyclone on ABC local radio I came across The West Report, lol.
That paragon of left wing nutters Michael West has a has managed to inveigle himself into the halls of Auntie.
He now has a regular gig on the ABC, lol.
He used to be the chief business correspondent for ‘The Australian’. I doubt he is the one who has changed.
transition said:
I wets down upwind again, had to do’t myself, roughbarked was meant to, said he’d do’t, but unreliable cazy lunt, i’m going to sack him, tell him his services are no longer required, just between you and me the guy is not the most useful specimen of a human being
My hands are tied.
Not allowed to get my wounds wet.
transition said:
dear God my back is rogered, crippled by the sciatic monster, hurts that yuck feel all the ways down my legs into my feetneed a wheelchair
let me try another lot of two minute noodles, put water in the saucepan this time, don’t they stink burnt
You cooked them for four minutes didn’t you.
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:
very sinister
LOL
Second semi final.
NZ 362/6 after 50 overs, SA yet to bat.
Over.
Peak Warming Man said:
Second semi final.
NZ 362/6 after 50 overs, SA yet to bat.
Over.
Seems like a good score. Will take some good batting to chase down.
party_pants said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Second semi final.
NZ 362/6 after 50 overs, SA yet to bat.
Over.
Seems like a good score. Will take some good batting to chase down.
If they get them they defiantly deserve the win.
Peak Warming Man said:
party_pants said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Second semi final.
NZ 362/6 after 50 overs, SA yet to bat.
Over.
Seems like a good score. Will take some good batting to chase down.
If they get them they defiantly deserve the win.
Looks like India v NZ for the final – dare I say it.
Found the cat chasing a baby cane toad. Must have hitched a ride on something we dragged in from outside.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 12 degrees at the back door. Still dark. Our overnight wind gusts have only been to the high forties. I’m sure it’s windier than that for you up northerer. We are forecast a cloudy 23 today. Looking at mid thirties again for Saturday and Sunday. We are no way out of the bushfire season yet.
I’m going to Casterton this morning to get meat for the freezer.
This afternoon’s plans:
Clean Rosie the Robot Roomba’s inner guts.
Shuffle around and supervise Rosie the Robot Roomba.
Sort stuff that is piled on the dining table.
Eat fish sticks.
Morning pilgrims, it’s quite a nice day in the pearl, sunny with occasional showers.
Might get a haircut today.
Over.
Divine Angel said:
Found the cat chasing a baby cane toad. Must have hitched a ride on something we dragged in from outside.
Bloody.
Good morning everybody.
It’s 25.2° C, 66% RH, mostly cloudy (was overcast), and there are gusty light to fresh south-westerly to westerly breezes, feeding TC Alfred’s north. BoM predicts small amounts of rain and plenty of wind, and a top of 29° C. It has also put TC Alfred back on it’s original path after a six-hour loop excursion, with no time-of-landfall delay. It’s still unpredictable.
Agenda: Wait and clean stuff inside. Make a set of shopping lists. Mrs V wants to wash the bed linen. I don’t think that’s a great idea. We’ll have that discussion again soon. Both of us have very tender upper arms after all the vaccines we received yesterday. Sleep was poor and may have to be supplemented.
Food: Mrs V’s low kJ day. I’ll have left-over fried rice on toast with cheese for breakfast, and reheated remnant barbeque chook bits for lunch. We’ll combine our efforts for a tomato-ginger-egg flower soup for dinner.
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody.It’s 25.2° C, 66% RH, mostly cloudy (was overcast), and there are gusty light to fresh south-westerly to westerly breezes, feeding TC Alfred’s north. BoM predicts small amounts of rain and plenty of wind, and a top of 29° C. It has also put TC Alfred back on it’s original path after a six-hour loop excursion, with no time-of-landfall delay. It’s still unpredictable.
Agenda: Wait and clean stuff inside. Make a set of shopping lists. Mrs V wants to wash the bed linen. I don’t think that’s a great idea. We’ll have that discussion again soon. Both of us have very tender upper arms after all the vaccines we received yesterday. Sleep was poor and may have to be supplemented.
Food: Mrs V’s low kJ day. I’ll have left-over fried rice on toast with cheese for breakfast, and reheated remnant barbeque chook bits for lunch. We’ll combine our efforts for a tomato-ginger-egg flower soup for dinner.
Hopefully you won’t get hit too badly. At least you’re on the north side and that’s usually a bit less worse than the southern side.
Spiny Norman said:
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody.It’s 25.2° C, 66% RH, mostly cloudy (was overcast), and there are gusty light to fresh south-westerly to westerly breezes, feeding TC Alfred’s north. BoM predicts small amounts of rain and plenty of wind, and a top of 29° C. It has also put TC Alfred back on it’s original path after a six-hour loop excursion, with no time-of-landfall delay. It’s still unpredictable.
Agenda: Wait and clean stuff inside. Make a set of shopping lists. Mrs V wants to wash the bed linen. I don’t think that’s a great idea. We’ll have that discussion again soon. Both of us have very tender upper arms after all the vaccines we received yesterday. Sleep was poor and may have to be supplemented.
Food: Mrs V’s low kJ day. I’ll have left-over fried rice on toast with cheese for breakfast, and reheated remnant barbeque chook bits for lunch. We’ll combine our efforts for a tomato-ginger-egg flower soup for dinner.
Hopefully you won’t get hit too badly. At least you’re on the north side and that’s usually a bit less worse than the southern side.
Yeah
We tidied the yard and relocated potential (Cat 1-2) projectiles about a week ago, when Alfred was predicted to landfall around here. So that’s good.
We’ll fill the bath and two clean buckets later today. And we’ll check the batteries in our torches and head lights. Basically so we have blackout resilience. We always have plenty of food and more than sufficient toilet paper. No need to panic buy for just three days or so.
I picked up a pack of 8 rolls of loo paper the other day just in case… which might come in handy with mum here now.
Michael V said:
Spiny Norman said:
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody.It’s 25.2° C, 66% RH, mostly cloudy (was overcast), and there are gusty light to fresh south-westerly to westerly breezes, feeding TC Alfred’s north. BoM predicts small amounts of rain and plenty of wind, and a top of 29° C. It has also put TC Alfred back on it’s original path after a six-hour loop excursion, with no time-of-landfall delay. It’s still unpredictable.
Agenda: Wait and clean stuff inside. Make a set of shopping lists. Mrs V wants to wash the bed linen. I don’t think that’s a great idea. We’ll have that discussion again soon. Both of us have very tender upper arms after all the vaccines we received yesterday. Sleep was poor and may have to be supplemented.
Food: Mrs V’s low kJ day. I’ll have left-over fried rice on toast with cheese for breakfast, and reheated remnant barbeque chook bits for lunch. We’ll combine our efforts for a tomato-ginger-egg flower soup for dinner.
Hopefully you won’t get hit too badly. At least you’re on the north side and that’s usually a bit less worse than the southern side.
Yeah
We tidied the yard and relocated potential (Cat 1-2) projectiles about a week ago, when Alfred was predicted to landfall around here. So that’s good.
We’ll fill the bath and two clean buckets later today. And we’ll check the batteries in our torches and head lights. Basically so we have blackout resilience. We always have plenty of food and more than sufficient toilet paper. No need to panic buy for just three days or so.
Well done.
Divine Angel said:
I picked up a pack of 8 rolls of loo paper the other day just in case… which might come in handy with mum here now.
How high are you above sea level?
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
I picked up a pack of 8 rolls of loo paper the other day just in case… which might come in handy with mum here now.
How high are you above sea level?
Depends on the quality of the weed.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
I picked up a pack of 8 rolls of loo paper the other day just in case…
How high are you above sea level?
Pretty sure loo rolls don’t work too well in lieu of sandbags.
But, I have sandbags. Just in case.
kii said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
I picked up a pack of 8 rolls of loo paper the other day just in case…
How high are you above sea level?
Pretty sure loo rolls don’t work too well in lieu of sandbags.
But, I have sandbags. Just in case.
Loo rolls work fabulously for that purpose.
Just not for very long.
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
I picked up a pack of 8 rolls of loo paper the other day just in case… which might come in handy with mum here now.
How high are you above sea level?
Depends on the quality of the weed.
Hardy-har-har.
:)
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:How high are you above sea level?
Depends on the quality of the weed.
Hardy-har-har.
:)
Being high below sea level is very risky.
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:Depends on the quality of the weed.
Hardy-har-har.
:)
Being high below sea level is very risky.
Nitrogen narcosis.
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:Depends on the quality of the weed.
Hardy-har-har.
:)
Being high below sea level is very risky.
:)
those windly monsters continues
up couple time lastnight
done wet upwind’n inner yard too
dust I damps am fights’t
with firehose do KL put out a few
transition said:
those windly monsters continues
up couple time lastnight
done wet upwind’n inner yard too
dust I damps am fights’t
with firehose do KL put out a few
Southerly winds for a change, but it’s very still on my island.
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
those windly monsters continues
up couple time lastnight
done wet upwind’n inner yard too
dust I damps am fights’t
with firehose do KL put out a few
Southerly winds for a change, but it’s very still on my island.
26.4 degrees, 22km/h breeze from the east. 37%R/H. Clear and sunny.
There’s a British show on Netflix called Toxic Town about the Corby poisonings case in 2009.
Might check it out.
dv said:
There’s a British show on Netflix called Toxic Town about the Corby poisonings case in 2009.
Might check it out.
I watched it. Very worthwhile.
Speaking of carrots.
A friend I had in art college overdosed on carrot juice. She went from a diet of fairy bread for dinner…i am not kidding…to drink massive amounts of carrot juice. She turned orange, which was amusing as she has red hair and wore it in an afro at that stage of her life.
kii said:
Speaking of carrots.
A friend I had in art college overdosed on carrot juice. She went from a diet of fairy bread for dinner…i am not kidding…to drink massive amounts of carrot juice. She turned orange, which was amusing as she has red hair and wore it in an afro at that stage of her life.
Did she suffer any ill effects from so much carrot juice?
dv said:
There’s a British show on Netflix called Toxic Town about the Corby poisonings case in 2009.
Might check it out.
An interesting read about it, thanks – I had no idea until you alerted us.
Divine Angel said:
kii said:
Speaking of carrots.
A friend I had in art college overdosed on carrot juice. She went from a diet of fairy bread for dinner…i am not kidding…to drink massive amounts of carrot juice. She turned orange, which was amusing as she has red hair and wore it in an afro at that stage of her life.
Did she suffer any ill effects from so much carrot juice?
I remember sores on her legs.
kii said:
Speaking of carrots.
A friend I had in art college overdosed on carrot juice. She went from a diet of fairy bread for dinner…i am not kidding…to drink massive amounts of carrot juice. She turned orange, which was amusing as she has red hair and wore it in an afro at that stage of her life.
I’ve seen that carotene colouring happen with a teenage girl – daughter of friends.
I’m back. I have freezered the meat and the sausage rolls, and the bakery at Casterton had chicken and mushroom pasties. They have also gone into the freezer. Altogether a good morning’s drive.
dv said:
There’s a British show on Netflix called Toxic Town about the Corby poisonings case in 2009.
Might check it out.
thanks
Mum’s insisting she’s never heard of, nor tasted, sarsaparilla. I’m like, I can assure you, you absolutely have. And you don’t like it.
Just received a nice text from Sophie, whoever she is.
Happy Birthday Bubblecar! (various festive emoji)
Thank you for being part of our community and making such a positive difference to the lives of so many. It’s inspirational.
(more party and balloon emojis)
(It’s not actually my birthday, which is on the 3rd of the 6th, not the 6th of the 3rd. I suspect this is from one of the charities I donate to but they’ve got my birthday muddled)
Bubblecar said:
Just received a nice text from Sophie, whoever she is.Happy Birthday Bubblecar! (various festive emoji)
Thank you for being part of our community and making such a positive difference to the lives of so many. It’s inspirational.
(more party and balloon emojis)
(It’s not actually my birthday, which is on the 3rd of the 6th, not the 6th of the 3rd. I suspect this is from one of the charities I donate to but they’ve got my birthday muddled)
What is the email address? Wouldn’t that tell you where it is from?
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Just received a nice text from Sophie, whoever she is.Happy Birthday Bubblecar! (various festive emoji)
Thank you for being part of our community and making such a positive difference to the lives of so many. It’s inspirational.
(more party and balloon emojis)
(It’s not actually my birthday, which is on the 3rd of the 6th, not the 6th of the 3rd. I suspect this is from one of the charities I donate to but they’ve got my birthday muddled)
What is the email address? Wouldn’t that tell you where it is from?
It’s a phone SMS message. I don’t recognise the number.
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Just received a nice text from Sophie, whoever she is.Happy Birthday Bubblecar! (various festive emoji)
Thank you for being part of our community and making such a positive difference to the lives of so many. It’s inspirational.
(more party and balloon emojis)
(It’s not actually my birthday, which is on the 3rd of the 6th, not the 6th of the 3rd. I suspect this is from one of the charities I donate to but they’ve got my birthday muddled)
What is the email address? Wouldn’t that tell you where it is from?
It’s a phone SMS message. I don’t recognise the number.
Looking back through the messages, it’s probably from the breast cancer one, who sometimes send me texts from NBCF, sometimes from random phone numbers.
But they always mention breast cancer. Maybe they thought that wouldn’t be quite the right tone on my birthday :)
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:What is the email address? Wouldn’t that tell you where it is from?
It’s a phone SMS message. I don’t recognise the number.
Looking back through the messages, it’s probably from the breast cancer one, who sometimes send me texts from NBCF, sometimes from random phone numbers.
But they always mention breast cancer. Maybe they thought that wouldn’t be quite the right tone on my birthday :)
Are they a Merkin organisation?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:It’s a phone SMS message. I don’t recognise the number.
Looking back through the messages, it’s probably from the breast cancer one, who sometimes send me texts from NBCF, sometimes from random phone numbers.
But they always mention breast cancer. Maybe they thought that wouldn’t be quite the right tone on my birthday :)
Are they a Merkin organisation?
Strayan. I’d never give money to the Great Satan.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:It’s a phone SMS message. I don’t recognise the number.
Looking back through the messages, it’s probably from the breast cancer one, who sometimes send me texts from NBCF, sometimes from random phone numbers.
But they always mention breast cancer. Maybe they thought that wouldn’t be quite the right tone on my birthday :)
Are they a Merkin organisation?
Bubblecar said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:Looking back through the messages, it’s probably from the breast cancer one, who sometimes send me texts from NBCF, sometimes from random phone numbers.
But they always mention breast cancer. Maybe they thought that wouldn’t be quite the right tone on my birthday :)
Are they a Merkin organisation?
Strayan. I’d never give money to the Great Satan.
Tell a lie, I regularly donate money to Wikipedia and Internet Archive, both of which are US-based.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:What is the email address? Wouldn’t that tell you where it is from?
It’s a phone SMS message. I don’t recognise the number.
Looking back through the messages, it’s probably from the breast cancer one, who sometimes send me texts from NBCF, sometimes from random phone numbers.
But they always mention breast cancer. Maybe they thought that wouldn’t be quite the right tone on my birthday :)
Why would they even have a birthday date? I doubt I’ve ever given a date of birth to a charity.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:It’s a phone SMS message. I don’t recognise the number.
Looking back through the messages, it’s probably from the breast cancer one, who sometimes send me texts from NBCF, sometimes from random phone numbers.
But they always mention breast cancer. Maybe they thought that wouldn’t be quite the right tone on my birthday :)
Why would they even have a birthday date? I doubt I’ve ever given a date of birth to a charity.
There are two charities that take money monthly from my account, and I’m pretty sure date of birth was part of the standard data when they signed me up.
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Just received a nice text from Sophie, whoever she is.Happy Birthday Bubblecar! (various festive emoji)
Thank you for being part of our community and making such a positive difference to the lives of so many. It’s inspirational.
(more party and balloon emojis)
(It’s not actually my birthday, which is on the 3rd of the 6th, not the 6th of the 3rd. I suspect this is from one of the charities I donate to but they’ve got my birthday muddled)
What is the email address? Wouldn’t that tell you where it is from?
It’s a phone SMS message. I don’t recognise the number.
Text them back, asking who it is.
Then after they have replied satisfactorily, (if you want) apprise them of your actual birthday’s date.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:What is the email address? Wouldn’t that tell you where it is from?
It’s a phone SMS message. I don’t recognise the number.
Text them back, asking who it is.
Then after they have replied satisfactorily, (if you want) apprise them of your actual birthday’s date.
I’d rather keep contact to a minimum. They’re prone to begging for a larger donation.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:It’s a phone SMS message. I don’t recognise the number.
Text them back, asking who it is.
Then after they have replied satisfactorily, (if you want) apprise them of your actual birthday’s date.
I’d rather keep contact to a minimum. They’re prone to begging for a larger donation.
Ah. So the mystery remains.
You shouldn’t have told us about it. I’ll be thinking about the mystery incessantly until I stop thinking about it incessantly.
This afternoon’s Dr Who offering on ABC Entertains is “The Lazarus Experiment”. Beginning shortly.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:Text them back, asking who it is.
Then after they have replied satisfactorily, (if you want) apprise them of your actual birthday’s date.
I’d rather keep contact to a minimum. They’re prone to begging for a larger donation.
Ah. So the mystery remains.
You shouldn’t have told us about it. I’ll be thinking about the mystery incessantly until I stop thinking about it incessantly.
I’ve stopped thinking about it incessantly.
I realise I am very concerned about the possibility of a storm surge seriously affecting DA and family.
kii said:
LOL
Relos tell me there was an earthquake in the Tville area a couple of days ago, mag 4
Talking about birthdays, Michelangelo is 550 years old today.
Fred Stolle has died, he was part of the Golden Age of Aussie tennis.
The postman didn’t come today, and probably got a full days pay.
It.s like Kamahl’s left hand.
Jesus Kamahl is in the nervous nineties.
Might place next week’s Coles order this evening, to give them plenty of time to tell me they have no eggs.
Bubblecar said:
Might place next week’s Coles order this evening, to give them plenty of time to tell me they have no eggs.
Makes more sense to do it next week, to give them time to get more eggs in.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Might place next week’s Coles order this evening, to give them plenty of time to tell me they have no eggs.
Makes more sense to do it next week, to give them time to get more eggs in.
You’re right and anyway, I thought today was Friday.
All day long I’ve been thinking it’s Friday.
Bubblecar said:
Might place next week’s Coles order this evening, to give them plenty of time to tell me they have no eggs.
Went to Coles up the hill today.
They had just about everything. Milk, bread, eggs, toilet paper.
No UHT milk, and there’d obviously been a run on the bottled water, but, other than that, no sign of panic buying.
No more people in there than you’d usually find at that time on a Thursday, no crowd at the checkouts.
Came home, dug out the four hurricane lanterns i’ve had since the 1990s, washed the dust off them, cleaned their glasses, checked their wicks, filled them with kero, tested them, they’re fine, ready to serve in the hour of need.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Might place next week’s Coles order this evening, to give them plenty of time to tell me they have no eggs.
Went to Coles up the hill today.
They had just about everything. Milk, bread, eggs, toilet paper.
No UHT milk, and there’d obviously been a run on the bottled water, but, other than that, no sign of panic buying.
No more people in there than you’d usually find at that time on a Thursday, no crowd at the checkouts.
Came home, dug out the four hurricane lanterns i’ve had since the 1990s, washed the dust off them, cleaned their glasses, checked their wicks, filled them with kero, tested them, they’re fine, ready to serve in the hour of need.
I was just in Coles at Wynnun, no bread, no milk, no meat.
Didn’t check if they had eggs.
But they had what I wanted, lolly water, slam it down fast lolly water.
Bubblecar said:
Might place next week’s Coles order this evening, to give them plenty of time to tell me they have no eggs.
Try ordering some bananas. Then they can say “Yes…. we have no bananas. We have no bananas today”
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
Might place next week’s Coles order this evening, to give them plenty of time to tell me they have no eggs.
Try ordering some bananas. Then they can say “Yes…. we have no bananas. We have no bananas today”
The good thing about the cyclone not hitting FNQ is bananas won’t be $35 a kilo.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
Might place next week’s Coles order this evening, to give them plenty of time to tell me they have no eggs.
Went to Coles up the hill today.
They had just about everything. Milk, bread, eggs, toilet paper.
No UHT milk, and there’d obviously been a run on the bottled water, but, other than that, no sign of panic buying.
No more people in there than you’d usually find at that time on a Thursday, no crowd at the checkouts.
Came home, dug out the four hurricane lanterns i’ve had since the 1990s, washed the dust off them, cleaned their glasses, checked their wicks, filled them with kero, tested them, they’re fine, ready to serve in the hour of need.
Goodo. I prefer smokeless lamp oil to kero, much less stinky. But it’s a bit pricey.
Bubblecar said:
Might place next week’s Coles order this evening, to give them plenty of time to tell me they have no eggs.
Perhaps you could get some chooks – then you’d have all the eggs you’ll ever want.
Neophyte said:
Bubblecar said:
Might place next week’s Coles order this evening, to give them plenty of time to tell me they have no eggs.
Perhaps you could get some chooks – then you’d have all the eggs you’ll ever want.
I’m not allowed pets on this property.
Fancy a gin & lime. But there’s no gin so I’ll have a glass ice water with a squirt of lime in it.
sarahs mum said:
Bastards.
sarahs mum said:
Bloody!
much irony
“So he dressed up with a tool belt and cargo pants and a high-vis yellow vest.”
Mr Clark said the young man with the gun was dressed up to avoid attention.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-06/avalon-airport-man-firearm-incident/105019482
Where is that meme thread? If only we had some sort of index in a convenient place ….
i do not know how to use a phone.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1EKL27t71M/
sarahs mum said:
i do not know how to use a phone.https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1EKL27t71M/
LOL
OK so let us get this straight let’s say we know someone who likes to watch Mythbusters blowing things up
and then we know someone else who likes the same kind of thing, and who also works on a farm and uses fertiliser on the crops and uses diesel in the tractor
so we decide that instead of getting bored of hearing the same thing from them for the 427839th time we just tell them to talk to each other
are we criminals then
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:
i do not know how to use a phone.
LOL
see back in the 1980s this would never have been a problem you would have the mouse right there at the workstation
sarahs mum said:
i do not know how to use a phone.https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1EKL27t71M/
LOLOL
:)
The conference this year is in Brisbane… I have been to Brisbane several times and once in summer, and if I recall the humidity is pretty savage around beginning of December. So I might pass it up this year.
Arts said:
The conference this year is in Brisbane… I have been to Brisbane several times and once in summer, and if I recall the humidity is pretty savage around beginning of December. So I might pass it up this year.
Beginning of December is usually not too bad. January and February are generally much worse.
Michael V said:
Arts said:
The conference this year is in Brisbane… I have been to Brisbane several times and once in summer, and if I recall the humidity is pretty savage around beginning of December. So I might pass it up this year.Beginning of December is usually not too bad. January and February are generally much worse.
Hmm don’t take this personally, but I think I’m going to need the opinion of someone who is not acclimatised.
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:
The conference this year is in Brisbane… I have been to Brisbane several times and once in summer, and if I recall the humidity is pretty savage around beginning of December. So I might pass it up this year.Beginning of December is usually not too bad. January and February are generally much worse.
Hmm don’t take this personally, but I think I’m going to need the opinion of someone who is not acclimatised.
Sob.
Shatter cones were found. They are not found anywhere else other than impact sites.
Michael V said:
Shatter cones were found. They are not found anywhere else other than impact sites.
Very interesting.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Shatter cones were found. They are not found anywhere else other than impact sites.
Very interesting.
nice one, thanks
SCIENCE said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Shatter cones were found. They are not found anywhere else other than impact sites.
Very interesting.
nice one, thanks
The paper:
I haven’t had a chance to catch up with things on the forum, but was just at the fire station to welcome home the crew that has been at the Windy Harbour Fire today.
A new crew is heading down there again at 6am tomorrow.
The perimeter is around 300km. It’s ugly, but at least there is not a lot of assets in the way.
Unless you have one of the assets in the way.
Kingy said:
I haven’t had a chance to catch up with things on the forum, but was just at the fire station to welcome home the crew that has been at the Windy Harbour Fire today.A new crew is heading down there again at 6am tomorrow.
The perimeter is around 300km. It’s ugly, but at least there is not a lot of assets in the way.
Unless you have one of the assets in the way.
Just cyclone watch here
Hey… I just read that there’s a cyclone hanging around near qld. So I thought I’d do the right thing and let you all know.
Arts said:
Hey… I just read that there’s a cyclone hanging around near qld. So I thought I’d do the right thing and let you all know.
Thanks.
Arts said:
Hey… I just read that there’s a cyclone hanging around near qld. So I thought I’d do the right thing and let you all know.
There’s a what? Where?
kii said:
Arts said:
Hey… I just read that there’s a cyclone hanging around near qld. So I thought I’d do the right thing and let you all know.
There’s a what? Where?
Those things that make air particles move around much faster than they should, somewhere near the coast of Australia.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 15 degrees at the back door. Mildly breezy. Still dark. We are forecast 32 degrees with cloud clearing. We are forecast to be in the 30s for the next 5 days.
I’ll do some gardening when it’s light. Then it will get too warm for me and I’ll do inside stuff.
Emergency Alert!!!
Dust Storm until 5:00pm Be ready for sudden drop to zero visiblity.
They always say to pull over if driving, put vehicle in park, turn lights off and take your foot off the brake.
I understand all that about being safe if driving, but why turn off your lights? I suppose I could Google it, but fuck it! What do I pay you nerds for if not for ANSWERS!!!
Tau.Neutrino said:
Is there life out there? The existence of other technological species is highly likely
We have discussed this stuff in some detail here before.
In my opinion the Drake Equation is worthless. It contains probabilities that we have no way of assigning a number to.
The truth is we have no idea how likely it is there are other “technological species” out there.
The density might be many 1000’s per galaxy.
Might be 1 per billion observable universes.
Or something outside that range.
Arguing with a Lauren Boebert supporter about trump rambling on about “transgender mice”. She reckons that he didn’t say that. Faaark…so much dumb.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Is there life out there? The existence of other technological species is highly likely
We have discussed this stuff in some detail here before.
In my opinion the Drake Equation is worthless. It contains probabilities that we have no way of assigning a number to.
The truth is we have no idea how likely it is there are other “technological species” out there.
The density might be many 1000’s per galaxy.
Might be 1 per billion observable universes.
Or something outside that range.
Ok, not thread worthy.
Tau.Neutrino said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Is there life out there? The existence of other technological species is highly likely
We have discussed this stuff in some detail here before.
In my opinion the Drake Equation is worthless. It contains probabilities that we have no way of assigning a number to.
The truth is we have no idea how likely it is there are other “technological species” out there.
The density might be many 1000’s per galaxy.
Might be 1 per billion observable universes.
Or something outside that range.
Ok, not thread worthy.
That’s just my opinion :)
kii said:
Emergency Alert!!!
Dust Storm until 5:00pm Be ready for sudden drop to zero visiblity.They always say to pull over if driving, put vehicle in park, turn lights off and take your foot off the brake.
I understand all that about being safe if driving, but why turn off your lights? I suppose I could Google it, but fuck it! What do I pay you nerds for if not for ANSWERS!!!
https://azdot.gov/adot-blog/why-you-should-turn-your-vehicles-lights-when-pulling-aside-dust
kii said:
kii said:
Emergency Alert!!!
Dust Storm until 5:00pm Be ready for sudden drop to zero visiblity.They always say to pull over if driving, put vehicle in park, turn lights off and take your foot off the brake.
I understand all that about being safe if driving, but why turn off your lights? I suppose I could Google it, but fuck it! What do I pay you nerds for if not for ANSWERS!!!
https://azdot.gov/adot-blog/why-you-should-turn-your-vehicles-lights-when-pulling-aside-dust
They should know I suppose.
My learning for today.
The Rev Dodgson said:
kii said:
kii said:
Emergency Alert!!!
Dust Storm until 5:00pm Be ready for sudden drop to zero visiblity.They always say to pull over if driving, put vehicle in park, turn lights off and take your foot off the brake.
I understand all that about being safe if driving, but why turn off your lights? I suppose I could Google it, but fuck it! What do I pay you nerds for if not for ANSWERS!!!
https://azdot.gov/adot-blog/why-you-should-turn-your-vehicles-lights-when-pulling-aside-dust
They should know I suppose.
My learning for today.
It certainly seems odd. I’d‘ve thought flashing hazard lights would indicate “don’t drive here” to other road users.
Arts said:
Hey… I just read that there’s a cyclone hanging around near qld. So I thought I’d do the right thing and let you all know.
they’re having a cyclone. a tropical cyclone.
ChrispenEvan said:
Arts said:
Hey… I just read that there’s a cyclone hanging around near qld. So I thought I’d do the right thing and let you all know.
they’re having a cyclone. a tropical cyclone.
In the sub-tropics, too.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Is there life out there? The existence of other technological species is highly likely
https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/are-we-alone-in-the-universe-revisiting-the-drake-equation/
Link.
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
kii said:https://azdot.gov/adot-blog/why-you-should-turn-your-vehicles-lights-when-pulling-aside-dust
They should know I suppose.
My learning for today.
It certainly seems odd. I’d‘ve thought flashing hazard lights would indicate “don’t drive here” to other road users.
I mean, that’s what I thought. Then I wondered if the light did weird defraction stuff with the dust causing visual disturbances.
So the answer is it’s Americans just being dumb fucks.
ChrispenEvan said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Is there life out there? The existence of other technological species is highly likely
https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/are-we-alone-in-the-universe-revisiting-the-drake-equation/
Link.
Hmmm.
Removing one of the factors from the Drake Equation, and pretending that gives us enormous insight, never seen before, is pretty extreme hype, even by pop-sci standards.
ChrispenEvan said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Is there life out there? The existence of other technological species is highly likely
https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/are-we-alone-in-the-universe-revisiting-the-drake-equation/
Link.
A speculative study finds a new answer to the question: will we find intelligent alien life?
kii said:
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:They should know I suppose.
My learning for today.
It certainly seems odd. I’d‘ve thought flashing hazard lights would indicate “don’t drive here” to other road users.
I mean, that’s what I thought. Then I wondered if the light did weird defraction stuff with the dust causing visual disturbances.
So the answer is it’s Americans just being dumb fucks.
I doubt the weird diffraction notion, so it’s likely just your final thought…
I hope your dust storm passes quickly without giving you much curry.
Michael V said:
kii said:
Michael V said:It certainly seems odd. I’d‘ve thought flashing hazard lights would indicate “don’t drive here” to other road users.
I mean, that’s what I thought. Then I wondered if the light did weird defraction stuff with the dust causing visual disturbances.
So the answer is it’s Americans just being dumb fucks.
I doubt the weird diffraction notion, so it’s likely just your final thought…
I hope your dust storm passes quickly without giving you much curry.
it explains why it is a good idea to turn your lights off.
ChrispenEvan said:
Michael V said:
kii said:I mean, that’s what I thought. Then I wondered if the light did weird defraction stuff with the dust causing visual disturbances.
So the answer is it’s Americans just being dumb fucks.
I doubt the weird diffraction notion, so it’s likely just your final thought…
I hope your dust storm passes quickly without giving you much curry.
it explains why it is a good idea to turn your lights off.
Ha!
Morning pilgrims.
The moon lander is on its hood.
Over.
Michael V said:
kii said:
Michael V said:It certainly seems odd. I’d‘ve thought flashing hazard lights would indicate “don’t drive here” to other road users.
I mean, that’s what I thought. Then I wondered if the light did weird diffraction* stuff with the dust causing visual disturbances.
So the answer is it’s Americans just being dumb fucks.
I doubt the weird diffraction notion, so it’s likely just your final thought…
I hope your dust storm passes quickly without giving you much curry.
*fixed
Yeah, the weird diffraction notion has just always bounced around in my head. Like a plastic bottle trapped in the trash can corner at Walmart during a wind storm.
ChrispenEvan said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Is there life out there? The existence of other technological species is highly likely
https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/are-we-alone-in-the-universe-revisiting-the-drake-equation/
Link.
A speculative study finds a new answer to the question: will we find intelligent alien life?
“Two researchers have revised the Drake equation”
They really haven’t though. They’ve out their own estimates of the parameters into it.
ChrispenEvan said:
Michael V said:
kii said:I mean, that’s what I thought. Then I wondered if the light did weird defraction stuff with the dust causing visual disturbances.
So the answer is it’s Americans just being dumb fucks.
I doubt the weird diffraction notion, so it’s likely just your final thought…
I hope your dust storm passes quickly without giving you much curry.
it explains why it is a good idea to turn your lights off.
Yes, I read that. It just seems stupid.
dv said:
ChrispenEvan said:
ChrispenEvan said:https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/are-we-alone-in-the-universe-revisiting-the-drake-equation/
Link.
A speculative study finds a new answer to the question: will we find intelligent alien life?
“Two researchers have revised the Drake equation”
They really haven’t though. They’ve out their own estimates of the parameters into it.
Well they did also remove one of the parameters.
But I agree it is very hypee.
dv said:
ChrispenEvan said:
ChrispenEvan said:https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/are-we-alone-in-the-universe-revisiting-the-drake-equation/
Link.
A speculative study finds a new answer to the question: will we find intelligent alien life?
“Two researchers have revised the Drake equation”
They really haven’t though. They’ve out their own estimates of the parameters into it.
thing is i don’t believe they use it as anything but a gedanken. they know the limitations.
archeologists in Iran have discovered a sword that is likely to have
belonged to one of the nephilim warriors.
ChrispenEvan said:
dv said:
ChrispenEvan said:A speculative study finds a new answer to the question: will we find intelligent alien life?
“Two researchers have revised the Drake equation”
They really haven’t though. They’ve out their own estimates of the parameters into it.
thing is i don’t believe they use it as anything but a gedanken. they know the limitations.
Quite possibly they do, but that’s not how the article reads.
ChrispenEvan said:
archeologists in Iran have discovered a sword that is likely to have
belonged to one of the nephilim warriors.
They were big guys, those nephilim warriors.
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
kii said:https://azdot.gov/adot-blog/why-you-should-turn-your-vehicles-lights-when-pulling-aside-dust
They should know I suppose.
My learning for today.
It certainly seems odd. I’d‘ve thought flashing hazard lights would indicate “don’t drive here” to other road users.
https://www.racv.com.au/about-racv/newsroom/dust-storm-driving-tips.html the link
The Rev Dodgson said:
ChrispenEvan said:
archeologists in Iran have discovered a sword that is likely to have
belonged to one of the nephilim warriors.
They were big guys, those nephilim warriors.
Greek Islands ·
Jeroen Geerts ·
On the Greek islands, a car lives a different life than it does back home. While we replace our four-wheelers every three years because the onboard computer warns us that the windscreen washer fluid is running low, cars there are treated like a Greek yiayia treats her antique kitchenware: it just has to keep working, no matter what.
The result? A colourful collection of tin dinosaurs on wheels, once gleaming as they rolled out of a Korean or Japanese factory, but now as old as Methuselah’s driving licence. The paintwork? A murky mix of faded factory coats, hand-painted touch-ups, and stains of unknown origin. The mirrors? If they’re still there, they dangle precariously from a combination of duct tape and hope. The horn? Always works, whether you press it or not.
And who drives them? Everyone. You’ll see a cardiologist with six diplomas in a Fiat Panda whose boot is held shut with a piece of string. The mayor gets into a rust-coloured Peugeot 205 with no shame, its rear window replaced by a bin bag. The local bank manager? He parks his 1980s Nissan Sunny effortlessly beside a goat pen and pushes the door open with his shoulder, because the handle has been missing since 2004.
A car here is no status symbol. It’s a survival tool. It must conquer winding mountain roads riddled with potholes so deep you’d think Zeus himself had aimed a thunderbolt at them. It must endure heat, salt, and time without ever knowing the luxury of a car wash. And above all, it must keep going, no matter the sounds it makes or the parts that fall off along the way.
Tourists are horrified when they step into a taxi where the seat belts are purely decorative and the passenger seat is held in place by a strategically placed brick. But the driver, a man who looks like he should have died four times already, simply presses the accelerator and glides along the cliffside roads as if gravity were merely an opinion and Newton a village fool.
The best part? No one cares. An islander laughs at the stress of a foreigner who panics over the lack of a working speedometer. “Why would you want to know how fast you’re going?” he asks, as he takes a bend that seems to shift you into another dimension.
Cars on the Greek islands live by their own philosophy: it doesn’t matter how you look, as long as you keep moving forward. Of course, some Greeks drive shiny cars as status symbols, but on the islands, they are mostly seen as tragic comedies.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:They should know I suppose.
My learning for today.
It certainly seems odd. I’d‘ve thought flashing hazard lights would indicate “don’t drive here” to other road users.
https://www.racv.com.au/about-racv/newsroom/dust-storm-driving-tips.html the link
OK, so it’s lights of in America, and (hazard) lights on everywhere else.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:They should know I suppose.
My learning for today.
It certainly seems odd. I’d‘ve thought flashing hazard lights would indicate “don’t drive here” to other road users.
https://www.racv.com.au/about-racv/newsroom/dust-storm-driving-tips.html the link
what must be remembered is that the USA tail light operation is different to the Australian system. Maybe that makes a difference.
ChrispenEvan said:
Greek Islands ·
Jeroen Geerts ·On the Greek islands, a car lives a different life than it does back home. While we replace our four-wheelers every three years because the onboard computer warns us that the windscreen washer fluid is running low, cars there are treated like a Greek yiayia treats her antique kitchenware: it just has to keep working, no matter what.
The result? A colourful collection of tin dinosaurs on wheels, once gleaming as they rolled out of a Korean or Japanese factory, but now as old as Methuselah’s driving licence. The paintwork? A murky mix of faded factory coats, hand-painted touch-ups, and stains of unknown origin. The mirrors? If they’re still there, they dangle precariously from a combination of duct tape and hope. The horn? Always works, whether you press it or not.
And who drives them? Everyone. You’ll see a cardiologist with six diplomas in a Fiat Panda whose boot is held shut with a piece of string. The mayor gets into a rust-coloured Peugeot 205 with no shame, its rear window replaced by a bin bag. The local bank manager? He parks his 1980s Nissan Sunny effortlessly beside a goat pen and pushes the door open with his shoulder, because the handle has been missing since 2004.
A car here is no status symbol. It’s a survival tool. It must conquer winding mountain roads riddled with potholes so deep you’d think Zeus himself had aimed a thunderbolt at them. It must endure heat, salt, and time without ever knowing the luxury of a car wash. And above all, it must keep going, no matter the sounds it makes or the parts that fall off along the way.
Tourists are horrified when they step into a taxi where the seat belts are purely decorative and the passenger seat is held in place by a strategically placed brick. But the driver, a man who looks like he should have died four times already, simply presses the accelerator and glides along the cliffside roads as if gravity were merely an opinion and Newton a village fool.
The best part? No one cares. An islander laughs at the stress of a foreigner who panics over the lack of a working speedometer. “Why would you want to know how fast you’re going?” he asks, as he takes a bend that seems to shift you into another dimension.
Cars on the Greek islands live by their own philosophy: it doesn’t matter how you look, as long as you keep moving forward. Of course, some Greeks drive shiny cars as status symbols, but on the islands, they are mostly seen as tragic comedies.
The island of St Helena has a very steep, slow climb from sea level to the tablelands where most people live. Most of the climb is in second gear which fails after a few months. Very frustrating.
ChrispenEvan said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:It certainly seems odd. I’d‘ve thought flashing hazard lights would indicate “don’t drive here” to other road users.
https://www.racv.com.au/about-racv/newsroom/dust-storm-driving-tips.html the link
what must be remembered is that the USA tail light operation is different to the Australian system. Maybe that makes a difference.
Tamb said:
ChrispenEvan said:
roughbarked said:https://www.racv.com.au/about-racv/newsroom/dust-storm-driving-tips.html the link
what must be remembered is that the USA tail light operation is different to the Australian system. Maybe that makes a difference.
Please explain.
This
Tamb said:
ChrispenEvan said:
roughbarked said:https://www.racv.com.au/about-racv/newsroom/dust-storm-driving-tips.html the link
what must be remembered is that the USA tail light operation is different to the Australian system. Maybe that makes a difference.
Please explain.
we have a separate tail light for indicating and a combined stop/tail light. the yanks system, from what i have seen, uses the red tail light as an indicator as well as a tail light.
The Rev Dodgson said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Is there life out there? The existence of other technological species is highly likely
https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/are-we-alone-in-the-universe-revisiting-the-drake-equation/
Link.
Hmmm.
Removing one of the factors from the Drake Equation, and pretending that gives us enormous insight, never seen before, is pretty extreme hype, even by pop-sci standards.
we thought it was all just one big self stimulatory exercise anyway
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
ChrispenEvan said:what must be remembered is that the USA tail light operation is different to the Australian system. Maybe that makes a difference.
Please explain.This
That.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
It certainly seems odd. I’d‘ve thought flashing hazard lights would indicate “don’t drive here” to other road users.
https://www.racv.com.au/about-racv/newsroom/dust-storm-driving-tips.html the link
OK, so it’s lights of in America, and (hazard) lights on everywhere else.
shrug imperialists still exercising imperialism in mensurations
kii said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
Please explain.
This
That.
thus
kii said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:Please explain.
This
That.
Yeah, probably this or that.
ChrispenEvan said:
archeologists in Iran have discovered a sword that is likely to have
belonged to one of the nephilim warriors.
thumb thumb thumb n thumb thumb e thumb thumb thumb p thumb …………………..
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:
kii said:
roughbarked said:
This
That.
thus
Yeah, probably this or that.
yous forget
thothers
Peak Warming Man said:
ChrispenEvan said:
archeologists in Iran have discovered a sword that is likely to have
belonged to one of the nephilim warriors.
thumb thumb thumb n thumb thumb e thumb thumb thumb p thumb …………………..
Right then, from memory the Nephilim were giants and warriors who are mentioned in the Bible in Genesis and Numbers. They were the offspring of rebellious angels and human women.
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:
thus
Yeah, probably this or that.
yous forget
thothers
Lol
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
ChrispenEvan said:
archeologists in Iran have discovered a sword that is likely to have
belonged to one of the nephilim warriors.
thumb thumb thumb n thumb thumb e thumb thumb thumb p thumb …………………..
Right then, from memory the Nephilim were giants and warriors who are mentioned in the Bible in Genesis and Numbers. They were the offspring of rebellious angels and human women.
Lucifer is a particularly rebellious angel.
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
ChrispenEvan said:
https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/are-we-alone-in-the-universe-revisiting-the-drake-equation/
Link.
Hmmm.
Removing one of the factors from the Drake Equation, and pretending that gives us enormous insight, never seen before, is pretty extreme hype, even by pop-sci standards.
we thought it was all just one big self stimulatory exercise anyway
Sure but honestly there are still factors in the Drake equation that we can’t meaningfully estimate.
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
ChrispenEvan said:
archeologists in Iran have discovered a sword that is likely to have
belonged to one of the nephilim warriors.
thumb thumb thumb n thumb thumb e thumb thumb thumb p thumb …………………..
Right then, from memory the Nephilim were giants and warriors who are mentioned in the Bible in Genesis and Numbers. They were the offspring of rebellious angels and human women.
dv said:
SCIENCE said:The Rev Dodgson said:
Hmmm.
Removing one of the factors from the Drake Equation, and pretending that gives us enormous insight, never seen before, is pretty extreme hype, even by pop-sci standards.
we thought it was all just one big self stimulatory exercise anyway
Sure but honestly there are still factors in the Drake equation that we can’t meaningfully estimate.
My point exactly :)
dv said:
SCIENCE said:The Rev Dodgson said:
Hmmm.
Removing one of the factors from the Drake Equation, and pretending that gives us enormous insight, never seen before, is pretty extreme hype, even by pop-sci standards.
we thought it was all just one big self stimulatory exercise anyway
Sure but honestly there are still factors in the Drake equation that we can’t meaningfully estimate.
if we know that then i’m lead to believe they know that.
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:thumb thumb thumb n thumb thumb e thumb thumb thumb p thumb …………………..
Right then, from memory the Nephilim were giants and warriors who are mentioned in the Bible in Genesis and Numbers. They were the offspring of rebellious angels and human women.
Lucifer is a particularly rebellious angel.
From Ken Ham Answers “Who Were the Nephilim?”
ChrispenEvan said:
archeologists in Iran have discovered a sword that is likely to have
belonged to one of the nephilim warriors.
O………….K…………
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:They should know I suppose.
My learning for today.
It certainly seems odd. I’d‘ve thought flashing hazard lights would indicate “don’t drive here” to other road users.
https://www.racv.com.au/about-racv/newsroom/dust-storm-driving-tips.html the link
Seems so, in Victoria.
Michael V said:
ChrispenEvan said:
archeologists in Iran have discovered a sword that is likely to have
belonged to one of the nephilim warriors.
O………….K…………
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
SCIENCE said:
we thought it was all just one big self stimulatory exercise anyway
Sure but honestly there are still factors in the Drake equation that we can’t meaningfully estimate.
My point exactly :)
maybe but we’re just a bit tired of the popular representation of the whole thing as look wow an equation oh they estimated the probability of something by taking the probabilities of a bunch of supposedly statistically independent things and then multiplying them all together in a big fat linear mashup like dude what’s the Kendrick equation yo
but we suppose this is just cranky old boomer talk
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
Sure but honestly there are still factors in the Drake equation that we can’t meaningfully estimate.
My point exactly :)
maybe but we’re just a bit tired of the popular representation of the whole thing as look wow an equation oh they estimated the probability of something by taking the probabilities of a bunch of supposedly statistically independent things and then multiplying them all together in a big fat linear mashup like dude what’s the Kendrick equation yo
but we suppose this is just cranky old boomer talk
you try telling other boomers that and they won’t believe you!
The Rev Dodgson said:
kii said:
roughbarked said:This
That.
Yeah, probably this or that.
anyway, Quora says this, for Arizonans.
Safety Concerns: Reduced visibility makes it difficult for drivers to see the road and other vehicles, increasing the risk of accidents. Parking safely helps avoid collisions. Avoiding Confusion: Leaving headlights on can create confusion for other drivers, as they may mistake parked vehicles for moving ones. Turning off lights helps to clarify that a vehicle is stationary. Preventing Dust Accumulation: Dust can settle on vehicle surfaces, including lights and windows, which can further impair visibility when the storm passes. Parking and turning off lights can help reduce this accumulation. Emergency Response: Keeping roads clear allows emergency vehicles to navigate through the area more efficiently if needed.>“But using our method we can tell exactly how low that probability would have to be for us to be the ONLY civilization the Universe has produced. We call that the pessimism line.”
Seems odd that this is still the predominant attitude. Knowing all the suffering that goes on on this planet, you’d think the idea that we’re the only civilization might be regarded as “optimistic” by now.
Looks like King Island cheese has been rescued.
King Island Dairy to continue after Saputo finds new owner for assets
Tasmanian cheesemaker King Island Dairy has been sold after more than a year on the market and the threat of closure hanging over it.
In an email sent to staff, current owner Saputo announced it had entered a binding agreement to sell the dairy to newly formed entity King Island Dairy 2 Pty Ltd.
Saputo did not name those involved in the new entity but said it was being led by “two experienced Australian businessmen with supply chain and manufacturing expertise”.
“The buyer will make their own announcement in the coming days,” Saputo said.
“The sale includes the King Island Dairy facility and brand, the on-site cheese store and two local farms that provide a guaranteed milk supply.”
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
Sure but honestly there are still factors in the Drake equation that we can’t meaningfully estimate.
My point exactly :)
maybe but we’re just a bit tired of the popular representation of the whole thing as look wow an equation oh they estimated the probability of something by taking the probabilities of a bunch of supposedly statistically independent things and then multiplying them all together in a big fat linear mashup like dude what’s the Kendrick equation yo
but we suppose this is just cranky old boomer talk
Fair to say that those researchers are not like us.
Just to count them down:
I think these, we can make reasonable estimates of:
R∗ = the average rate of star formation in our Galaxy.
fp = the fraction of those stars that have planets.
ne = the average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets.
This one, is in the middle ground. We can think of physical tests or computer simulated tests to make estimates but are not in a real position to perform such tests yet. Some people in this field are fairly bullish about abiogenesis because life arose quite soon on Earth after conditions became suitable but there is only so much we can do with n=1 statistics.
fl = the fraction of planets that could support life that actually develop life at some point.
The rest, no clue. Can’t even propose experiments to test it:
fi = the fraction of planets with life that go on to develop intelligent life (civilizations).
fc = the fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space.
L = the length of time for which such civilizations release detectable signals into space.
In fact, we can reasonably say that we know more about N, the variable that we supposedly trying to calculate, than we know about L, fc or fi. After all, N can’t be less than 1, and we also know it can’t be as high as ten billion, say, or we’d be absolutely inundate with spacechat.
Bubblecar said:
>“But using our method we can tell exactly how low that probability would have to be for us to be the ONLY civilization the Universe has produced. We call that the pessimism line.”Seems odd that this is still the predominant attitude. Knowing all the suffering that goes on on this planet, you’d think the idea that we’re the only civilization might be regarded as “optimistic” by now.
Also the fact that they say Universe implies they didn’t read the notes about the DE, which is very specifically about the Galaxy.
ChrispenEvan said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:It certainly seems odd. I’d‘ve thought flashing hazard lights would indicate “don’t drive here” to other road users.
https://www.racv.com.au/about-racv/newsroom/dust-storm-driving-tips.html the link
what must be remembered is that the USA tail light operation is different to the Australian system. Maybe that makes a difference.
What’s the difference?
dv said:
SCIENCE said:The Rev Dodgson said:
My point exactly :)
maybe but we’re just a bit tired of the popular representation of the whole thing as look wow an equation oh they estimated the probability of something by taking the probabilities of a bunch of supposedly statistically independent things and then multiplying them all together in a big fat linear mashup like dude what’s the Kendrick equation yo
but we suppose this is just cranky old boomer talk
Fair to say that those researchers are not like us.
Just to count them down:
I think these, we can make reasonable estimates of:
R∗ = the average rate of star formation in our Galaxy.
fp = the fraction of those stars that have planets.
ne = the average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets.This one, is in the middle ground. We can think of physical tests or computer simulated tests to make estimates but are not in a real position to perform such tests yet. Some people in this field are fairly bullish about abiogenesis because life arose quite soon on Earth after conditions became suitable but there is only so much we can do with n=1 statistics.
fl = the fraction of planets that could support life that actually develop life at some point.The rest, no clue. Can’t even propose experiments to test it:
fi = the fraction of planets with life that go on to develop intelligent life (civilizations).
fc = the fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space.
L = the length of time for which such civilizations release detectable signals into space.In fact, we can reasonably say that we know more about N, the variable that we supposedly trying to calculate, than we know about L, fc or fi. After all, N can’t be less than 1, and we also know it can’t be as high as ten billion, say, or we’d be absolutely inundate with spacechat.
Seems to me that fl should be divided into:
fl1: Fraction of planets with life that go on to develop complex life with the potential to develop thought processes capable of developing a technological civilization.
fl2: Fraction of those planets that actually do develop a technological civilization.
since both of those numbers might be very small.
As mentioned before, they are leaving out L, so we don’t have to worry about that one.
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
Sure but honestly there are still factors in the Drake equation that we can’t meaningfully estimate.
My point exactly :)
maybe but we’re just a bit tired of the popular representation of the whole thing as look wow an equation oh they estimated the probability of something by taking the probabilities of a bunch of supposedly statistically independent things and then multiplying them all together in a big fat linear mashup like dude what’s the Kendrick equation yo
but we suppose this is just cranky old boomer talk
Fair.
5/10. I didn’t know many of them at all. I knew the NRL one (I know, how did I know that?!), the Mardi Gras one, the Shrove Tuesday one and the cyclone one. The other one I got right because my guessing method worked after I ditched an obviously wrong option.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
>“But using our method we can tell exactly how low that probability would have to be for us to be the ONLY civilization the Universe has produced. We call that the pessimism line.”Seems odd that this is still the predominant attitude. Knowing all the suffering that goes on on this planet, you’d think the idea that we’re the only civilization might be regarded as “optimistic” by now.
Also the fact that they say Universe implies they didn’t read the notes about the DE, which is very specifically about the Galaxy.
But they are calculating the probability for life any time, anywhere, not for life that might be detected by us.
Bubblecar said:
>“But using our method we can tell exactly how low that probability would have to be for us to be the ONLY civilization the Universe has produced. We call that the pessimism line.”Seems odd that this is still the predominant attitude. Knowing all the suffering that goes on on this planet, you’d think the idea that we’re the only civilization might be regarded as “optimistic” by now.
Given that it is near certain that we will not be able to interact in any way with any other intelligent entities out there, it seems strange to me to describe either possibility as optimistic or pessimistic.
buffy said:
ABC news quiz5/10. I didn’t know many of them at all. I knew the NRL one (I know, how did I know that?!), the Mardi Gras one, the Shrove Tuesday one and the cyclone one. The other one I got right because my guessing method worked after I ditched an obviously wrong option.
7/10
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
>“But using our method we can tell exactly how low that probability would have to be for us to be the ONLY civilization the Universe has produced. We call that the pessimism line.”Seems odd that this is still the predominant attitude. Knowing all the suffering that goes on on this planet, you’d think the idea that we’re the only civilization might be regarded as “optimistic” by now.
Given that it is near certain that we will not be able to interact in any way with any other intelligent entities out there, it seems strange to me to describe either possibility as optimistic or pessimistic.
So it’s near certain now? I thought we were saying it’s just unknown.
Bubblecar said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
>“But using our method we can tell exactly how low that probability would have to be for us to be the ONLY civilization the Universe has produced. We call that the pessimism line.”Seems odd that this is still the predominant attitude. Knowing all the suffering that goes on on this planet, you’d think the idea that we’re the only civilization might be regarded as “optimistic” by now.
Given that it is near certain that we will not be able to interact in any way with any other intelligent entities out there, it seems strange to me to describe either possibility as optimistic or pessimistic.
So it’s near certain now? I thought we were saying it’s just unknown.
I’m saying the lower bound probability is unknown. We can put some reasonable numbers to an upper bound probability, which given the tiny number of stars within a range we could communicate with, would be a very small number.
Here’s an impressive image of them from iNaturalist.
(Putting it in Chat so we don’t fill up the cyclone thread with kidney-shaped objects).
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Given that it is near certain that we will not be able to interact in any way with any other intelligent entities out there, it seems strange to me to describe either possibility as optimistic or pessimistic.
So it’s near certain now? I thought we were saying it’s just unknown.
I’m saying the lower bound probability is unknown. We can put some reasonable numbers to an upper bound probability, which given the tiny number of stars within a range we could communicate with, would be a very small number.
I agree that humanity is very unlikely to encounter any ET civilisation.
Bubblecar said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:So it’s near certain now? I thought we were saying it’s just unknown.
I’m saying the lower bound probability is unknown. We can put some reasonable numbers to an upper bound probability, which given the tiny number of stars within a range we could communicate with, would be a very small number.
I agree that humanity is very unlikely to encounter any ET civilisation.
… and even if we do, they will probably be hundreds or thousands of light years away, so we won’t be able to communicate with them.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I’m saying the lower bound probability is unknown. We can put some reasonable numbers to an upper bound probability, which given the tiny number of stars within a range we could communicate with, would be a very small number.
I agree that humanity is very unlikely to encounter any ET civilisation.
… and even if we do, they will probably be hundreds or thousands of light years away, so we won’t be able to communicate with them.
The Internet tells me that there are 109 stars within 20 light years of Earth.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I’m saying the lower bound probability is unknown. We can put some reasonable numbers to an upper bound probability, which given the tiny number of stars within a range we could communicate with, would be a very small number.
I agree that humanity is very unlikely to encounter any ET civilisation.
… and even if we do, they will probably be hundreds or thousands of light years away, so we won’t be able to communicate with them.
The universe is infinite, like my wisdom.
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:I agree that humanity is very unlikely to encounter any ET civilisation.
… and even if we do, they will probably be hundreds or thousands of light years away, so we won’t be able to communicate with them.
The universe is infinite, like my wisdom.
But the observable universe is very finite.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
… and even if we do, they will probably be hundreds or thousands of light years away, so we won’t be able to communicate with them.
The universe is infinite, like my wisdom.
But the observable universe is very finite.
nearly infinite
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
>“But using our method we can tell exactly how low that probability would have to be for us to be the ONLY civilization the Universe has produced. We call that the pessimism line.”Seems odd that this is still the predominant attitude. Knowing all the suffering that goes on on this planet, you’d think the idea that we’re the only civilization might be regarded as “optimistic” by now.
Also the fact that they say Universe implies they didn’t read the notes about the DE, which is very specifically about the Galaxy.
But they are calculating the probability for life any time, anywhere, not for life that might be detected by us.
But why
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:Also the fact that they say Universe implies they didn’t read the notes about the DE, which is very specifically about the Galaxy.
But they are calculating the probability for life any time, anywhere, not for life that might be detected by us.
But why
because even the most diligent cosmologist needs a little fun and release from the tedium of actual work.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
ABC news quiz5/10. I didn’t know many of them at all. I knew the NRL one (I know, how did I know that?!), the Mardi Gras one, the Shrove Tuesday one and the cyclone one. The other one I got right because my guessing method worked after I ditched an obviously wrong option.
7/10
6 here
ChrispenEvan said:
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:But they are calculating the probability for life any time, anywhere, not for life that might be detected by us.
But why
because even the most diligent cosmologist needs a little fun and release from the tedium of actual work.
What Have The Actual Works Of Diligent Cosmologists Ever Given The Average Guy On The Street Then Eh
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:
dv said:But why
because even the most diligent cosmologist needs a little fun and release from the tedium of actual work.
What Have The Actual Works Of Diligent Cosmologists Ever Given The Average Guy On The Street Then Eh
nice pictures.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
ABC news quiz5/10. I didn’t know many of them at all. I knew the NRL one (I know, how did I know that?!), the Mardi Gras one, the Shrove Tuesday one and the cyclone one. The other one I got right because my guessing method worked after I ditched an obviously wrong option.
7/10
6 here
4/10 here. I even got the cricket one wrong.
JudgeMental said:
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:because even the most diligent cosmologist needs a little fun and release from the tedium of actual work.
What Have The Actual Works Of Diligent Cosmologists Ever Given The Average Guy On The Street Then Eh
nice pictures.
Opened vast vistas formerly unseen.
ChrispenEvan said:
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:But they are calculating the probability for life any time, anywhere, not for life that might be detected by us.
But why
because even the most diligent cosmologist needs a little fun and release from the tedium of actual work.
I mean I too engage in recreational pondering but I would never think it worthy of publication.
dv said:
ChrispenEvan said:
dv said:
But why
because even the most diligent cosmologist needs a little fun and release from the tedium of actual work.
I mean I too engage in recreational pondering but I would never think it worthy of publication.
quitter talk who doesn’t want to be famous
SCIENCE said:
dv said:
ChrispenEvan said:
because even the most diligent cosmologist needs a little fun and release from the tedium of actual work.
I mean I too engage in recreational pondering but I would never think it worthy of publication.
quitter talk who doesn’t want to be famous
Those who aren’t?
dv said:
ChrispenEvan said:
dv said:But why
because even the most diligent cosmologist needs a little fun and release from the tedium of actual work.
I mean I too engage in recreational pondering but I would never think it worthy of publication.
https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2015.1418
Link”:https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2015.1418
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
ChrispenEvan said:because even the most diligent cosmologist needs a little fun and release from the tedium of actual work.
I mean I too engage in recreational pondering but I would never think it worthy of publication.
https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2015.1418
fixated
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:Also the fact that they say Universe implies they didn’t read the notes about the DE, which is very specifically about the Galaxy.
But they are calculating the probability for life any time, anywhere, not for life that might be detected by us.
But why
You’d have to ask them, but it seems to be because they don’t want to guess a value for L.
Looking at dishwashers today.
Prices seem to be about $1000-2500 and they all look the same and have 41/2-5 stars.
So what do I get if I fork out more than $1000?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Looking at dishwashers today.Prices seem to be about $1000-2500 and they all look the same and have 41/2-5 stars.
So what do I get if I fork out more than $1000?
Extra buttons?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Looking at dishwashers today.Prices seem to be about $1000-2500 and they all look the same and have 41/2-5 stars.
So what do I get if I fork out more than $1000?
Possibly a lot more complexity. My older sister bought a very expensive new dishwasher recently and it took ages to fathom how to work it.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Looking at dishwashers today.Prices seem to be about $1000-2500 and they all look the same and have 41/2-5 stars.
So what do I get if I fork out more than $1000?
Woodie!
Paging Woodie!
Bubblecar said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Looking at dishwashers today.Prices seem to be about $1000-2500 and they all look the same and have 41/2-5 stars.
So what do I get if I fork out more than $1000?
Possibly a lot more complexity. My older sister bought a very expensive new dishwasher recently and it took ages to fathom how to work it.
Chatting with her on the phone, she bought the second-most expensive Bosch (well over $1000) and now that she knows how to work it, it’s extremely efficient and very quiet.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Looking at dishwashers today.Prices seem to be about $1000-2500 and they all look the same and have 41/2-5 stars.
So what do I get if I fork out more than $1000?
Mr Dodgson, SIr. With respect.
About 4 years ago (22nd March 2021) I bought the cheapest one I could find. $349. It’s now $379. Not much of a price increase in 4 years, considering.
I’m really impressed with it. No probs or issues. It has a good range of cycles (“eco” take 2 1/2 hours, coz it doesn’t use the water heater) and “rapid” takes about 1/2 hr.
It doesn’t have a stainless steel interior, but that doesn’t seem to be an issue. Everything comes out sparkling clean.
Highly recommended, specially or the price.
Woodie said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Looking at dishwashers today.Prices seem to be about $1000-2500 and they all look the same and have 41/2-5 stars.
So what do I get if I fork out more than $1000?
Mr Dodgson, SIr. With respect.
About 4 years ago (22nd March 2021) I bought the cheapest one I could find. $349. It’s now $379. Not much of a price increase in 4 years, considering.
I’m really impressed with it. No probs or issues. It has a good range of cycles (“eco” take 2 1/2 hours, coz it doesn’t use the water heater) and “rapid” takes about 1/2 hr.
It doesn’t have a stainless steel interior, but that doesn’t seem to be an issue. Everything comes out sparkling clean.
Highly recommended, specially or the price.
But does it have a remote control and the internet.
Woodie said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Looking at dishwashers today.Prices seem to be about $1000-2500 and they all look the same and have 41/2-5 stars.
So what do I get if I fork out more than $1000?
Mr Dodgson, SIr. With respect.
About 4 years ago (22nd March 2021) I bought the cheapest one I could find. $349. It’s now $379. Not much of a price increase in 4 years, considering.
I’m really impressed with it. No probs or issues. It has a good range of cycles (“eco” take 2 1/2 hours, coz it doesn’t use the water heater) and “rapid” takes about 1/2 hr.
It doesn’t have a stainless steel interior, but that doesn’t seem to be an issue. Everything comes out sparkling clean.
Highly recommended, specially or the price.
Thanks Woodie.
I’ve obviously been looking in the wrong places :)
The Rev Dodgson said:
Woodie said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Looking at dishwashers today.Prices seem to be about $1000-2500 and they all look the same and have 41/2-5 stars.
So what do I get if I fork out more than $1000?
Mr Dodgson, SIr. With respect.
About 4 years ago (22nd March 2021) I bought the cheapest one I could find. $349. It’s now $379. Not much of a price increase in 4 years, considering.
I’m really impressed with it. No probs or issues. It has a good range of cycles (“eco” take 2 1/2 hours, coz it doesn’t use the water heater) and “rapid” takes about 1/2 hr.
It doesn’t have a stainless steel interior, but that doesn’t seem to be an issue. Everything comes out sparkling clean.
Highly recommended, specially or the price.
Thanks Woodie.
I’ve obviously been looking in the wrong places :)
Yeah like what? They start around $330 and you’d have to be barmy to think about going near $1000 unless it’s for a commercial kitchen.
Peak Warming Man said:
Woodie said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Looking at dishwashers today.Prices seem to be about $1000-2500 and they all look the same and have 41/2-5 stars.
So what do I get if I fork out more than $1000?
Mr Dodgson, SIr. With respect.
About 4 years ago (22nd March 2021) I bought the cheapest one I could find. $349. It’s now $379. Not much of a price increase in 4 years, considering.
I’m really impressed with it. No probs or issues. It has a good range of cycles (“eco” take 2 1/2 hours, coz it doesn’t use the water heater) and “rapid” takes about 1/2 hr.
It doesn’t have a stainless steel interior, but that doesn’t seem to be an issue. Everything comes out sparkling clean.
Highly recommended, specially or the price.
But does it have a remote control and the internet.
:)
No. Bells and whistles are not part of the package.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Woodie said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Looking at dishwashers today.Prices seem to be about $1000-2500 and they all look the same and have 41/2-5 stars.
So what do I get if I fork out more than $1000?
Mr Dodgson, SIr. With respect.
About 4 years ago (22nd March 2021) I bought the cheapest one I could find. $349. It’s now $379. Not much of a price increase in 4 years, considering.
I’m really impressed with it. No probs or issues. It has a good range of cycles (“eco” take 2 1/2 hours, coz it doesn’t use the water heater) and “rapid” takes about 1/2 hr.
It doesn’t have a stainless steel interior, but that doesn’t seem to be an issue. Everything comes out sparkling clean.
Highly recommended, specially or the price.
Thanks Woodie.
I’ve obviously been looking in the wrong places :)
I can attest that it cleans stuff well.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Looking at dishwashers today.Prices seem to be about $1000-2500 and they all look the same and have 41/2-5 stars.
So what do I get if I fork out more than $1000?
My dishwasher is 15 years old next month. A Maytag. We have hard water, I sometimes run a cleaner thingy in it. Maytag is one of the better American brands, but we sure didn’t spend a lot of money on it.
Peak Warming Man said:
Woodie said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Looking at dishwashers today.Prices seem to be about $1000-2500 and they all look the same and have 41/2-5 stars.
So what do I get if I fork out more than $1000?
Mr Dodgson, SIr. With respect.
About 4 years ago (22nd March 2021) I bought the cheapest one I could find. $349. It’s now $379. Not much of a price increase in 4 years, considering.
I’m really impressed with it. No probs or issues. It has a good range of cycles (“eco” take 2 1/2 hours, coz it doesn’t use the water heater) and “rapid” takes about 1/2 hr.
It doesn’t have a stainless steel interior, but that doesn’t seem to be an issue. Everything comes out sparkling clean.
Highly recommended, specially or the price.
But does it have a remote control and the internet.
They’re yet to invent a remote control that will load and unload a dishwasher, although some may claim they already have one. It’s called a wife. hehehehehehehe 😁😮
The Rev Dodgson said:
Woodie said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Looking at dishwashers today.Prices seem to be about $1000-2500 and they all look the same and have 41/2-5 stars.
So what do I get if I fork out more than $1000?
Mr Dodgson, SIr. With respect.
About 4 years ago (22nd March 2021) I bought the cheapest one I could find. $349. It’s now $379. Not much of a price increase in 4 years, considering.
I’m really impressed with it. No probs or issues. It has a good range of cycles (“eco” take 2 1/2 hours, coz it doesn’t use the water heater) and “rapid” takes about 1/2 hr.
It doesn’t have a stainless steel interior, but that doesn’t seem to be an issue. Everything comes out sparkling clean.
Highly recommended, specially or the price.
Thanks Woodie.
I’ve obviously been looking in the wrong places :)
We’ve been through 3 of the expensiver ones, would not recommend. Each Miele, smeg and Bosch we bought have crapped out within 2 years.
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Woodie said:Mr Dodgson, SIr. With respect.
About 4 years ago (22nd March 2021) I bought the cheapest one I could find. $349. It’s now $379. Not much of a price increase in 4 years, considering.
I’m really impressed with it. No probs or issues. It has a good range of cycles (“eco” take 2 1/2 hours, coz it doesn’t use the water heater) and “rapid” takes about 1/2 hr.
It doesn’t have a stainless steel interior, but that doesn’t seem to be an issue. Everything comes out sparkling clean.
Highly recommended, specially or the price.
But does it have a remote control and the internet.
They’re yet to invent a remote control that will load and unload a dishwasher, although some may claim they already have one. It’s called a wife. hehehehehehehe 😁😮
Just buy two , fill one and take from the clean one. Need fewer cupboards as well.
poikilotherm said:
Woodie said:
Peak Warming Man said:But does it have a remote control and the internet.
They’re yet to invent a remote control that will load and unload a dishwasher, although some may claim they already have one. It’s called a wife. hehehehehehehe 😁😮
Just buy two , fill one and take from the clean one. Need fewer cupboards as well.
Or if you’re into Kosher cooking.
**For kosher kitchens, dishwashers should be designated for either meat or dairy, and ideally, you should have separate machines for each or consult with a Rabbi for guidance on using a single dishwasher for both.
Sabbath Mode:
Some dishwasher manufacturers include a “Sabbath Mode” or “Kosher Consumer-Friendly Mode” that disables controls and lights, allowing the dishwasher to be opened and loaded on Shabbos and Yom Tov. **
Just do a Google search on “Kosher Diswashers” for further info.
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Woodie said:Mr Dodgson, SIr. With respect.
About 4 years ago (22nd March 2021) I bought the cheapest one I could find. $349. It’s now $379. Not much of a price increase in 4 years, considering.
I’m really impressed with it. No probs or issues. It has a good range of cycles (“eco” take 2 1/2 hours, coz it doesn’t use the water heater) and “rapid” takes about 1/2 hr.
It doesn’t have a stainless steel interior, but that doesn’t seem to be an issue. Everything comes out sparkling clean.
Highly recommended, specially or the price.
Thanks Woodie.
I’ve obviously been looking in the wrong places :)
Yeah like what? They start around $330 and you’d have to be barmy to think about going near $1000 unless it’s for a commercial kitchen.
Barmy Dodgson sits on a fence in the village chewing a piece of straw and says mornin to everybody.
Woodie said:
poikilotherm said:
Woodie said:They’re yet to invent a remote control that will load and unload a dishwasher, although some may claim they already have one. It’s called a wife. hehehehehehehe 😁😮
Just buy two , fill one and take from the clean one. Need fewer cupboards as well.
Or if you’re into Kosher cooking.
**For kosher kitchens, dishwashers should be designated for either meat or dairy, and ideally, you should have separate machines for each or consult with a Rabbi for guidance on using a single dishwasher for both.
Sabbath Mode:
Some dishwasher manufacturers include a “Sabbath Mode” or “Kosher Consumer-Friendly Mode” that disables controls and lights, allowing the dishwasher to be opened and loaded on Shabbos and Yom Tov. **Just do a Google search on “Kosher Diswashers” for further info.
God gets annoyed if you don’t clean your dishwasher just the way He likes it. Oy.
NSW Police have charged veteran broadcaster Alan Jones with an additional offence relating to an 11th alleged victim.
Mr Jones was arrested in November last year after an investigation into a number of alleged indecent assaults and sexual touching incidents between 2001 and 2019.
The 83-year-old has now been charged with 35 offences in total after being issued a court attendance for an additional count of assault with act of indecency relating to an 11th complainant.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-07/broadcaster-alan-jones-fresh-assault-charge-eleventh-victim/105023898
well….. that’s the dishes done. Well, the dishwasher stacked and put on, anyway.
Woodie said:
well….. that’s the dishes done. Well, the dishwasher stacked and put on, anyway.
Well, I also feel I’ve achieved something. Somehow I’d uploaded my Dec/Jan/Feb photos to iNaturalist but not backed them up to my external storage thingy. All done now. So all of those are in three places. On this computer. At iNat. And on the external thingy.
I might go and prepare some food for tea.
Settles in with a cup of coffee for a change, and some shapes and cheese.
Over.
CAR’N SWANNIES!!!!! 🦢🦢🦢🦢🦢🦢
Turning a dollar store fibre optic wand into a low resolution display.
i suppose someone might be interested.
I will be missing out on a democracy sausage tomorrow as I did a postal vote last week… ah postal votes are the best… you don’t have to be around other people apart from when you drop the envelope into a postbox. 📮
The system works.
Arts said:
I will be missing out on a democracy sausage tomorrow as I did a postal vote last week… ah postal votes are the best… you don’t have to be around other people apart from when you drop the envelope into a postbox. 📮The system works.
No reason you can’t have a sausage at home if you want one.
Haven’t seen these biscuits in the shops for many years.
sarahs mum said:
Arts said:
I will be missing out on a democracy sausage tomorrow as I did a postal vote last week… ah postal votes are the best… you don’t have to be around other people apart from when you drop the envelope into a postbox. 📮The system works.
No reason you can’t have a sausage at home if you want one.
That’s true. But I think I’ll just forget and not feel like I’ve missed out on anything.
Bubblecar said:
Haven’t seen these biscuits in the shops for many years.
They aren’t biscuits, it’s sewing stuff.
sarahs mum said:
Turning a dollar store fibre optic wand into a low resolution display.i suppose someone might be interested.
I think that person needs a higher resolution hobby.
Arts said:
sarahs mum said:
Arts said:
I will be missing out on a democracy sausage tomorrow as I did a postal vote last week… ah postal votes are the best… you don’t have to be around other people apart from when you drop the envelope into a postbox. 📮The system works.
No reason you can’t have a sausage at home if you want one.
That’s true. But I think I’ll just forget and not feel like I’ve missed out on anything.
If you like, I can post a photo of mine, and you can C & P and repost it on your social media to all your other friends.
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:
Haven’t seen these biscuits in the shops for many years.
They aren’t biscuits, it’s sewing stuff.
They were biscuits in the Dreaming.
Boy made us blueberry pancakes today so that’s nice.
Been a big day.
Finished work at 6:30 pm, got 10 minutes at home and then had to go to the fire station to greet todays crew coming home from the Windy Harbour fire.
I’ve had trucks down there for two weeks and it’s not going out anytime soon. The fire perimeter is around 300km so far. We escorted out some of the locals through the fireground a couple of days ago. Today our crew did a backburn along the road to try and contain it.dv said:
Boy made us blueberry pancakes today so that’s nice.
that is nice.
Kingy said:
Been a big day.Finished work at 6:30 pm, got 10 minutes at home and then had to go to the fire station to greet todays crew coming home from the Windy Harbour fire.
I’ve had trucks down there for two weeks and it’s not going out anytime soon. The fire perimeter is around 300km so far. We escorted out some of the locals through the fireground a couple of days ago. Today our crew did a backburn along the road to try and contain it.
That’s a huge undeveloped area.
Any idea how it started – was it lightning strikes?
dv said:
Boy made us blueberry pancakes today so that’s nice.
When I went, they didn’t have blueberry pancakes, I had to get buttermilk…
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
Been a big day.Finished work at 6:30 pm, got 10 minutes at home and then had to go to the fire station to greet todays crew coming home from the Windy Harbour fire.
I’ve had trucks down there for two weeks and it’s not going out anytime soon. The fire perimeter is around 300km so far. We escorted out some of the locals through the fireground a couple of days ago. Today our crew did a backburn along the road to try and contain it.That’s a huge undeveloped area.
Any idea how it started – was it lightning strikes?
Yes, multiple lightning strikes. There was around 50 fires started that day by lightning. Most were controlled and contained, but a couple were in deep bush and we could not reach them.
Hence now they are still going well.
Steve Gadd
4 March at 13:22 ·
In previous articles I have deconstructed Putin’s Ukraine=Nazi narrative and I have examined longstanding beliefs and statements by Putin that indicate he sees restoring the Russian empire as his destiny. Due to some rather silly Russia-as-victim-of-Nato posts though, I want to lay out clearly the ways in which Putin and his apologists claim that NATO forced Russia into the invasions of Ukraine in 2014 and 2022 and that the Ukraine War began as a proxy war between NATO and Russia. I will first present these reasons. Then I will provide fact checks on each point. As usual please feel free to fact-check claims made in my arguments. I am more interested in truth than in winning a rhetorical battle.
NATO’s Actions and Russia’s Decision to Invade Ukraine
The Eastward Expansion Fear/Rationale
NATO’s Eastward Expansion: Pro-Russian critics argue that NATO’s expansion into Eastern Europe, including former Soviet states, threatened Russia’s security interests.
Fact: Interestingly, in 2000, Vladimir Putin discussed the possibility of Russia joining NATO with then-President Bill Clinton. Clinton reportedly said he personally had “no objection” to the idea, although Putin reported that some members of the U.S. delegation was quite nervous about the discussion.
Broken Promises Rationale
There is a belief that the West, the EU, or NATO broke promises made to Russia. This is largely based on the claim that Western leaders assured ‘Russia’ in the 1990s that NATO would not expand eastward, but this promise was allegedly broken.
Fact: The negotiations over the reunification of Germany took place in 1990. The key event was the signing of the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany, also known as the Two Plus Four Agreement, on September 12, 1990. This treaty involved the two German states (East and West Germany) and the four Allied powers (the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France). The treaty paved the way for German reunification, which was officially completed on October 3, 1990.
During these negotiations, there were discussions and assurances given by Western leaders to Soviet officials about NATO’s expansion. However, these assurances were not formalized into a binding legal agreement.
Note: This was an agreement with the Soviet Union, not the Russian Federation, which is a very different legal entity. Agreements made with the Soviet Union needed to be considered null when that entity ceased to exist. NATO had to forge new arrangements with 15 new sovereign entities whose interests, policies, and borders were not those of the old Soviet Union. Ukraine’s interests, like those of the other 14 new nations, and interactions with the West were never going to equate with the interests of the old Soviet Union.
Putin’s own overtures in 2000 regarding the Russian Federation joining NATO make this point moot. If the Russian Federation had subsequently been accepted as a NATO member, NATO would have stretched to the Sea of Japan.
Importantly, Russia broke the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, in which Russia had promised to make no territorial claims on Ukraine provided Ukraine gave up its nuclear missiles and warheads. This was one of the most important treaties of the post-Soviet era. If Ukraine had kept these, it would have remained the country with the third-largest nuclear arsenal.
NATO’s Expanding Military Presence Rationale.
NATO Troops and Exercises: The presence of NATO troops and military exercises near Russia’s borders are seen by some as provocative and a direct threat to Russian security.
Facts
Where are the NATO bases most proximate to the Russian Federation? What do they do? Where are Russian bases and what warheads and missiles do they have pointed at the West?
NATO Missile Bases Near Russia:
• Defensive Nature: NATO’s missile defence bases in Poland and the Baltic states, such as the Aegis Ashore sites in Poland and Romania, are primarily designed for defensive purposes. They are part of a missile system built to intercept incoming attacks, though they could be retooled for offensive purposes.
Lets compare these with Russian bases at NATOs borders.
Russian Missile Bases Near European Borders:
• Kaliningrad: Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania, hosts significant military presence, including Iskander-M missiles.
• Murmansk: Located in the Arctic region, home to several military bases strategically important for Russia’s Northern Fleet.
• Belarus: Russia has a military presence in Belarus, including Iskander-M launchers and missiles.
Note Russia has long had more long range and nuclear capable missiles close to NATO borders than visa-versa.
NATO unfairly supports Ukraine, Rationale:
Facts.
NATO’s support for Ukraine, including military aid and training, is viewed by some as an attempt to bring Ukraine into the Western sphere of influence, which Russia perceives as a threat.
Military Aid to Ukraine:
• Post-2014 Invasion (Before 2020):
Non-lethal Aid: Medical supplies, body armor, helmets, and other non-lethal equipment.
Defensive Lethal Aid: In 2018, the United States began providing Ukraine with Javelin anti-tank missiles. Ukraine was supplied with these anti-tank missiles in 2018, after the 2014 invasion. These did not have cross-border potential.
• Post-2022 Invasion: The West began providing military aid to Ukraine shortly after Russia’s invasion on February 24, 2022. This aid included equipment, training, and other capabilities necessary for Ukraine’s defense.
Training and Advisory Missions: Western countries, including the United States, Canada, Poland, and the United Kingdom, provided training and advisory support to the Ukrainian military.
Stages in NATO’s Stance on Providing Weapons to Ukraine from 2022
• Initial Caution: NATO and its member countries were initially cautious about escalating the conflict and focused on providing non-lethal aid and defensive support.
• Increased Support: NATO began to increase its support, including providing more advanced weaponry and military assistance as the situation in Ukraine worsened.
The Attack on The Russian Economy Rationale:
This involves the claim that Europe was trying to damage Russia’s economic growth, forcing Russia to gain new resources in Eastern Ukraine.
Fact:
The EU and Russia were mutual beneficiaries of trade and resources. Europe had a disincentive to be belligerent towards Russia. This explains that rather than being proactively aggressive towards Russia after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, it reacted slowly. First stage sanctions against Russia and military aid for Ukraine were modest.
The Russian economy has experienced several periods of strength over the past 20 years. One notable period was in the early 2010s. Specifically, in 2012, Russia’s GDP reached approximately $2.21 trillion, and in 2013, it peaked at around $2.29 trillion. Rather than being held back by the West, Russia has benefited greatly from trade with the West.
Russian Supply Chains:
• Energy Dependence: Many European countries, especially Germany, relied heavily on Russian natural gas and oil.
• Economic Ties: Russia was a significant trade partner for the European Union.
• Political Considerations: Some European countries were cautious about escalating tensions with Russia.
• Supply Chain Disruptions: The war in Ukraine and subsequent sanctions on Russia exacerbated existing supply chain disruptions.
It should suffice to say that none of the reasons given for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine regarding NATO or Europe being at fault hold up to scrutiny. If you disagree with any point do not post a video or article;——there are too many on all sides, covering too much ground for me to transcribe point by point in order to test their veracity. If you disagree please provide a fact-checked refutation of any points above in a way that can be verified. Avoid generalities but be specific to that point.
Kingy said:
Been a big day.Finished work at 6:30 pm, got 10 minutes at home and then had to go to the fire station to greet todays crew coming home from the Windy Harbour fire.
I’ve had trucks down there for two weeks and it’s not going out anytime soon. The fire perimeter is around 300km so far. We escorted out some of the locals through the fireground a couple of days ago. Today our crew did a backburn along the road to try and contain it.
G’donya Kingy.
dv said:
Boy made us blueberry pancakes today so that’s nice.
Yummo.
:)
Michael V said:
Kingy said:
Been a big day.Finished work at 6:30 pm, got 10 minutes at home and then had to go to the fire station to greet todays crew coming home from the Windy Harbour fire.
I’ve had trucks down there for two weeks and it’s not going out anytime soon. The fire perimeter is around 300km so far. We escorted out some of the locals through the fireground a couple of days ago. Today our crew did a backburn along the road to try and contain it.G’donya Kingy.
And here we are having a bushfire antithesis.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Kingy said:
Been a big day.Finished work at 6:30 pm, got 10 minutes at home and then had to go to the fire station to greet todays crew coming home from the Windy Harbour fire.
I’ve had trucks down there for two weeks and it’s not going out anytime soon. The fire perimeter is around 300km so far. We escorted out some of the locals through the fireground a couple of days ago. Today our crew did a backburn along the road to try and contain it.G’donya Kingy.
And here we are having a bushfire antithesis.
Yeah. Kinda weird, I suppose, but it’s a big country.
BOM’s taking its sweet time with the 4am update
Divine Angel said:
BOM’s taking its sweet time with the 4am update
Possibly because the physical structure of the storm has changed, so the analysis and words have to change, too.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
BOM’s taking its sweet time with the 4am update
Possibly because the physical structure of the storm has changed, so the analysis and words have to change, too.
Seems I am wrong. It’s still a Cat 1.
Jobs: make coffee, do some of the washing up.
Back soon.
Michael V said:
Jobs: make coffee, do some of the washing up.Back soon.
Coffee made; drawing and cooling.
First tranche of washing up done.
Anyway…
I’ve been totally distracted by the walrus jaw. I knew I had detailed photos of it somewhere. I’ve found them!
kii said:
Anyway…
I’ve been totally distracted by the walrus jaw. I knew I had detailed photos of it somewhere. I’ve found them!
Wow!
Green with envy.
https://www.newsweek.com/buvaisar-saitiev-dead-moscow-falling-window-2038742
Michael V said:
kii said:
Anyway…
I’ve been totally distracted by the walrus jaw. I knew I had detailed photos of it somewhere. I’ve found them!
Wow!
Green with envy.
I returned it to Mr PTSD, who gave it to mr kii after we admired it. It’s from Alaska. There’s no way I could ship it home as it has no paperwork or certification etc.
kii said:
Michael V said:
kii said:
Anyway…
I’ve been totally distracted by the walrus jaw. I knew I had detailed photos of it somewhere. I’ve found them!
Wow!
Green with envy.
I returned it to Mr PTSD, who gave it to mr kii after we admired it. It’s from Alaska. There’s no way I could ship it home as it has no paperwork or certification etc.
Oh, pity.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 15 degrees at the back door, quiet and still. Sunup today is after 7.30am. We are forecast a sunny 35 degrees today, and staying in the mid thirties for the next week by the look of it.
I will have breakfast with my bushwandering friend, perhaps pull out a few weeds, make sure the fire buckets are full, put on a couple of low use sprinklers for the birds and then spend most of the day inside, I expect.
Michael V said:
Jobs: make coffee, do some of the washing up.Back soon.
I just had a couple of microwaved HCBs……. and a cuppla swigs of Woolies Brand orange/mango juice drink.
kii said:
https://www.newsweek.com/buvaisar-saitiev-dead-moscow-falling-window-2038742
The Orange Shitgibbon hasn’t had anyone defenestrated …………………… yet……… that we know of.
Hackman’s wife, Betsy Arakawa, died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.
Bet that’ll get the conspiracy nuts frothing.
kii said:
Hackman’s wife, Betsy Arakawa, died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.
Bet that’ll get the conspiracy nuts frothing.
seminatural deaths are such a blessing these days
Actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease and suffered from advanced Alzheimer’s disease at the time of his death late last month. Authorities said his wife Betsy Arakawa died of a rare virus a full week before Hackman. The Santa Fe medical examiner said it was “possible” Hackman was unaware of his wife’s death.
SCIENCE said:
kii said:
Hackman’s wife, Betsy Arakawa, died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.
Bet that’ll get the conspiracy nuts frothing.
seminatural deaths are such a blessing these days
Actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease and suffered from advanced Alzheimer’s disease at the time of his death late last month. Authorities said his wife Betsy Arakawa died of a rare virus a full week before Hackman. The Santa Fe medical examiner said it was “possible” Hackman was unaware of his wife’s death.
Hmmm. Call me skeptical.
Arts said:
SCIENCE said:kii said:
Hackman’s wife, Betsy Arakawa, died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.
Bet that’ll get the conspiracy nuts frothing.
seminatural deaths are such a blessing these days
Actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease and suffered from advanced Alzheimer’s disease at the time of his death late last month. Authorities said his wife Betsy Arakawa died of a rare virus a full week before Hackman. The Santa Fe medical examiner said it was “possible” Hackman was unaware of his wife’s death.
Hmmm. Call me skeptical.
So, what does the skeptic in you say?
Michael V said:
Arts said:
SCIENCE said:seminatural deaths are such a blessing these days
Actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease and suffered from advanced Alzheimer’s disease at the time of his death late last month. Authorities said his wife Betsy Arakawa died of a rare virus a full week before Hackman. The Santa Fe medical examiner said it was “possible” Hackman was unaware of his wife’s death.
Hmmm. Call me skeptical.
So, what does the skeptic in you say?
It just doesn’t really add up for me. The whole things seems to be the oddest set of circumstances, and we don’t really like those. It’s not impossible, just weird. Also I want to know how the dog died.
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:Hmmm. Call me skeptical.
So, what does the skeptic in you say?
It just doesn’t really add up for me. The whole things seems to be the oddest set of circumstances, and we don’t really like those. It’s not impossible, just weird. Also I want to know how the dog died.
She died, he wasn’t aware of that, the dog was accidentally locked in a cupboard/small room.
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:Hmmm. Call me skeptical.
So, what does the skeptic in you say?
It just doesn’t really add up for me. The whole things seems to be the oddest set of circumstances, and we don’t really like those. It’s not impossible, just weird. Also I want to know how the dog died.
The last theory I read was Gene fell from a heart episode, the pacemaker recorded its last pace. The missus ran to get his pills but slipped, knocking over the heater. And the dog died from starvation.
But that doesn’t add up either because the pills were hers, not his. And why was the dog in a closet?
How would agent “possibly” be unaware of his wife’s death if she died a week earlier?
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:So, what does the skeptic in you say?
It just doesn’t really add up for me. The whole things seems to be the oddest set of circumstances, and we don’t really like those. It’s not impossible, just weird. Also I want to know how the dog died.
The last theory I read was Gene fell from a heart episode, the pacemaker recorded its last pace. The missus ran to get his pills but slipped, knocking over the heater. And the dog died from starvation.
But that doesn’t add up either because the pills were hers, not his. And why was the dog in a closet?
How would agent “possibly” be unaware of his wife’s death if she died a week earlier?
There were other dogs in the house, I read earlier, who didn’t die…. I don’t know…. I mean it could have happened the way they are saying, but it just doesn’t sit right with me. I’ll remain skeptical.
the last thing I need is a sad fucking lamp
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1B9qc5CX8V/
kii said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:So, what does the skeptic in you say?
It just doesn’t really add up for me. The whole things seems to be the oddest set of circumstances, and we don’t really like those. It’s not impossible, just weird. Also I want to know how the dog died.
She died, he wasn’t aware of that, the dog was accidentally locked in a cupboard/small room.
Sorry, I got interrupted by my roof nearly being blown off by another dust storm.
I meant to add…he may have missed vital heart medication which contributed to his death.
Hackman may have accidentally locked the dog in the cupboard in confusion. The front door was open, the other dogs were outside.
I suppose we’ll know all the details when the miniseries is made.
Ok ok what if the dog, who had hantavirus, bit her and that’s why she locked the dog in a cupboard. Called Gene, who was away somewhere, he comes home and coincidentally has a heart episode as soon as he walks in.
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:So, what does the skeptic in you say?
It just doesn’t really add up for me. The whole things seems to be the oddest set of circumstances, and we don’t really like those. It’s not impossible, just weird. Also I want to know how the dog died.
The last theory I read was Gene fell from a heart episode, the pacemaker recorded its last pace. The missus ran to get his pills but slipped, knocking over the heater. And the dog died from starvation.
But that doesn’t add up either because the pills were hers, not his. And why was the dog in a closet?
How would agent “possibly” be unaware of his wife’s death if she died a week earlier?
It’s a bit of a puzzle. Though she was was very ill.. he had severe Alzhiemers.. the dog was Australian..
Hmmmmmm
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:Hmmm. Call me skeptical.
So, what does the skeptic in you say?
It just doesn’t really add up for me. The whole things seems to be the oddest set of circumstances, and we don’t really like those. It’s not impossible, just weird. Also I want to know how the dog died.
He with dementia could have unwittingly put the dog in the cupboard…
Ohhh I didn’t realise he had dementia.
surely the advanced Alzheimer’s disease makes a whole heap of random notmakesense stuff very possible
Divine Angel said:
Ok ok what if the dog, who had hantavirus, bit her and that’s why she locked the dog in a cupboard. Called Gene, who was away somewhere, he comes home and coincidentally has a heart episode as soon as he walks in.
There’s that word we don’t really like. Coincidence.
Google tells me that dogs aren’t known to pass hantavirus on to humans and they don’t experience clinical illness.
Time for another update on why are people so fucking stupid.
When cooking why don’t more people roll their sleeves up?
Sort of watching Meghan chopping tomatoes with a puffy white shirt on and loose cuffed sleeves.
That British baking show always has people rolling dough out with their sleeves dragging through the flour and dough.
kii said:
kii said:
Arts said:It just doesn’t really add up for me. The whole things seems to be the oddest set of circumstances, and we don’t really like those. It’s not impossible, just weird. Also I want to know how the dog died.
She died, he wasn’t aware of that, the dog was accidentally locked in a cupboard/small room.
Sorry, I got interrupted by my roof nearly being blown off by another dust storm.
I meant to add…he may have missed vital heart medication which contributed to his death.
Hackman may have accidentally locked the dog in the cupboard in confusion. The front door was open, the other dogs were outside.
I suppose we’ll know all the details when the miniseries is made.
And then it’ll be mostly mad-up stuff anyway.
Ian said:
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:It just doesn’t really add up for me. The whole things seems to be the oddest set of circumstances, and we don’t really like those. It’s not impossible, just weird. Also I want to know how the dog died.
The last theory I read was Gene fell from a heart episode, the pacemaker recorded its last pace. The missus ran to get his pills but slipped, knocking over the heater. And the dog died from starvation.
But that doesn’t add up either because the pills were hers, not his. And why was the dog in a closet?
How would agent “possibly” be unaware of his wife’s death if she died a week earlier?
It’s a bit of a puzzle. Though she was was very ill.. he had severe Alzhiemers.. the dog was Australian..
Hmmmmmm
Yes, the key bit of the whole thing. An Australian dog.
kii said:
Ian said:
Divine Angel said:The last theory I read was Gene fell from a heart episode, the pacemaker recorded its last pace. The missus ran to get his pills but slipped, knocking over the heater. And the dog died from starvation.
But that doesn’t add up either because the pills were hers, not his. And why was the dog in a closet?
How would agent “possibly” be unaware of his wife’s death if she died a week earlier?
It’s a bit of a puzzle. Though she was was very ill.. he had severe Alzhiemers.. the dog was Australian..
Hmmmmmm
Yes, the key bit of the whole thing. An Australian dog.
Week, now we are getting somewhere. :)
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
Ok ok what if the dog, who had hantavirus, bit her and that’s why she locked the dog in a cupboard. Called Gene, who was away somewhere, he comes home and coincidentally has a heart episode as soon as he walks in.
There’s that word we don’t really like. Coincidence.
Google tells me that dogs aren’t known to pass hantavirus on to humans and they don’t experience clinical illness.
Coincidences do happen.
Our cyclone viewing was a show about wills. The one we watched last night was about Hank Williams and how his daughter coincidentally found a relative in a newspaper article. Without finding that relative, she wouldn’t have confirmed she was Hank’s daughter.
Arts said:
kii said:
Ian said:It’s a bit of a puzzle. Though she was was very ill.. he had severe Alzhiemers.. the dog was Australian..
Hmmmmmm
Yes, the key bit of the whole thing. An Australian dog.
Week, now we are getting somewhere. :)
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
Ok ok what if the dog, who had hantavirus, bit her and that’s why she locked the dog in a cupboard. Called Gene, who was away somewhere, he comes home and coincidentally has a heart episode as soon as he walks in.
There’s that word we don’t really like. Coincidence.
Google tells me that dogs aren’t known to pass hantavirus on to humans and they don’t experience clinical illness.
heh they tell us poliomyelitis infection is mild in the vast majority of children too
kii said:
Time for another update on why are people so fucking stupid.
When cooking why don’t more people roll their sleeves up?
Sort of watching Meghan chopping tomatoes with a puffy white shirt on and loose cuffed sleeves.
That British baking show always has people rolling dough out with their sleeves dragging through the flour and dough.
all right we admit it but honestly we don’t roll our sleeves up while cooking because we don’t wear long sleeves
Tamb said:
Arts said:
kii said:Yes, the key bit of the whole thing. An Australian dog.
Week, now we are getting somewhere. :)
Was it an Australian dog or a breed of Australian dogs?
Kelpie-X.
Michael V said:
Tamb said:
Arts said:Week, now we are getting somewhere. :)
Was it an Australian dog or a breed of Australian dogs?Kelpie-X.
Apparently the attempted hijacker’s name is Shaun ¡
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-07/barry-clark-avalon-airport-jetstar-staff-sydney/105024476
classic Auzzi Bazza story though
My favourite coincidence:
I was wandering around my local cemetery one day, and came across a gravestone where three children of different ages and two different last names died on the exact same date. Two siblings and their cousin.
Google told me nothing, the local papers gave no clues, the Qld papers had no mention of how these kids died or funeral details. Nothing.
A few months later, I was at a different cemetery on a tour with the historical society. I was having a chat with the librarian and mentioned this gravestone I’d seen. A guy behind me said, “I’m married to their aunt,” and introduced me to his wife.
Turns out, the kids were playing in the bay. One got into trouble, the other two tried to save him, and all three drowned.
SCIENCE said:
kii said:
Time for another update on why are people so fucking stupid.
When cooking why don’t more people roll their sleeves up?
Sort of watching Meghan chopping tomatoes with a puffy white shirt on and loose cuffed sleeves.
That British baking show always has people rolling dough out with their sleeves dragging through the flour and dough.
all right we admit it but honestly we don’t roll our sleeves up while cooking because we don’t wear long sleeves
Try harder.
Divine Angel said:
My favourite coincidence:I was wandering around my local cemetery one day, and came across a gravestone where three children of different ages and two different last names died on the exact same date. Two siblings and their cousin.
Google told me nothing, the local papers gave no clues, the Qld papers had no mention of how these kids died or funeral details. Nothing.
A few months later, I was at a different cemetery on a tour with the historical society. I was having a chat with the librarian and mentioned this gravestone I’d seen. A guy behind me said, “I’m married to their aunt,” and introduced me to his wife.
Turns out, the kids were playing in the bay. One got into trouble, the other two tried to save him, and all three drowned.
Michael V said:
Tamb said:
Arts said:Week, now we are getting somewhere. :)
Was it an Australian dog or a breed of Australian dogs?Kelpie-X.
And you don’t want to cross a Kelpie
Ian said:
Michael V said:
Tamb said:Was it an Australian dog or a breed of Australian dogs?
Kelpie-X.
And you don’t want to cross a Kelpie
kii said:
SCIENCE said:
kii said:
Time for another update on why are people so fucking stupid.
When cooking why don’t more people roll their sleeves up?
Sort of watching Meghan chopping tomatoes with a puffy white shirt on and loose cuffed sleeves.
That British baking show always has people rolling dough out with their sleeves dragging through the flour and dough.
all right we admit it but honestly we don’t roll our sleeves up while cooking because we don’t wear long sleeves
Try harder.
good point, often we cook in the nude so you really don’t want to know about any sleeves we could be rolling up
SCIENCE said:
kii said:
SCIENCE said:
all right we admit it but honestly we don’t roll our sleeves up while cooking because we don’t wear long sleeves
Try harder.
good point, often we cook in the nude so you really don’t want to know about any sleeves we could be rolling up
Don’t ask about how he makes doughnuts.
Tamb said:
Divine Angel said:
My favourite coincidence:
I was wandering around my local cemetery one day, and came across a gravestone where three children of different ages and two different last names died on the exact same date. Two siblings and their cousin.
Google told me nothing, the local papers gave no clues, the Qld papers had no mention of how these kids died or funeral details. Nothing.
A few months later, I was at a different cemetery on a tour with the historical society. I was having a chat with the librarian and mentioned this gravestone I’d seen. A guy behind me said, “I’m married to their aunt,” and introduced me to his wife.
Turns out, the kids were playing in the bay. One got into trouble, the other two tried to save him, and all three drowned.
A bit like Mr & Mrs Sibeen.
we’d forgotten where one of our friends* was buried but we knew approximately what the view was from there so when we pretty much gave up looking for it we almost sat down right on the spot
*: fine whatever you dudes associates or something
NMDOH has confirmed that a 65-year-old woman from Santa Fe County has died of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, marking the first reported case in New Mexico this year.
Hantavirus is a severe respiratory illness caused by the Sin Nombre virus, which is transmitted through contact with infected rodents, or their urine, droppings, or saliva. The virus can become airborne when disturbed, posing risk of inhalation. There is no evidence of human-to-human transmission in New Mexico.
Read the news release at https://www.nmhealth.org/news/awareness/2025/3/?view=2189
(Copy & paste URL into web browser)
@followers
Ian said:
Michael V said:
Tamb said:Was it an Australian dog or a breed of Australian dogs?
Kelpie-X.
And you don’t want to cross a Kelpie
Nah.
We had a kelpie for around 14 years. He was a lovely dog.
SCIENCE said:
kii said:
SCIENCE said:
all right we admit it but honestly we don’t roll our sleeves up while cooking because we don’t wear long sleeves
Try harder.
good point, often we cook in the nude so you really don’t want to know about any sleeves we could be rolling up
LOL
Weird dream. My son was somehow selected to conduct an interview for a man seeking a job in the hotel industry. I figured this would be beyond my son’s capacity so I went with him to the hotel and talked to some of the staff to try to get an idea what was going on. My son and I then went to the rather swanky hotel lobby to sit on the comfy couches and wait for the guy tonshow up. He arrived in a nice suit, we were more casually dressed. Me boy just sat dumb while I asked some generic questions, “what do you think is one thing the industry needs to do to adapt”, “what changes would you make to the running of this establishment” etc so that I could at least have enough information to write a report.
Michael V said:
Ian said:
Michael V said:Kelpie-X.
And you don’t want to cross a Kelpie
Nah.
We had a kelpie for around 14 years. He was a lovely dog.
my red cloud was lovely too. ball, lemon and water daft though.
SCIENCE said:
Tamb said:
Divine Angel said:
My favourite coincidence:
I was wandering around my local cemetery one day, and came across a gravestone where three children of different ages and two different last names died on the exact same date. Two siblings and their cousin.
Google told me nothing, the local papers gave no clues, the Qld papers had no mention of how these kids died or funeral details. Nothing.
A few months later, I was at a different cemetery on a tour with the historical society. I was having a chat with the librarian and mentioned this gravestone I’d seen. A guy behind me said, “I’m married to their aunt,” and introduced me to his wife.
Turns out, the kids were playing in the bay. One got into trouble, the other two tried to save him, and all three drowned.
A bit like Mr & Mrs Sibeen.
we’d forgotten where one of our friends* was buried but we knew approximately what the view was from there so when we pretty much gave up looking for it we almost sat down right on the spot
*: fine whatever you dudes associates or something
good idea to put some marker on a close by tree so you know where you’ve buried the bodies.
dv said:
Weird dream. My son was somehow selected to conduct an interview for a man seeking a job in the hotel industry. I figured this would be beyond my son’s capacity so I went with him to the hotel and talked to some of the staff to try to get an idea what was going on. My son and I then went to the rather swanky hotel lobby to sit on the comfy couches and wait for the guy tonshow up. He arrived in a nice suit, we were more casually dressed. Me boy just sat dumb while I asked some generic questions, “what do you think is one thing the industry needs to do to adapt”, “what changes would you make to the running of this establishment” etc so that I could at least have enough information to write a report.
What changes to the hotel industry do you think you’ll adopt?
Ian said:
dv said:
Weird dream. My son was somehow selected to conduct an interview for a man seeking a job in the hotel industry. I figured this would be beyond my son’s capacity so I went with him to the hotel and talked to some of the staff to try to get an idea what was going on. My son and I then went to the rather swanky hotel lobby to sit on the comfy couches and wait for the guy tonshow up. He arrived in a nice suit, we were more casually dressed. Me boy just sat dumb while I asked some generic questions, “what do you think is one thing the industry needs to do to adapt”, “what changes would you make to the running of this establishment” etc so that I could at least have enough information to write a report.
What changes to the hotel industry do you think you’ll adopt?
I’m happy to admit I know nothing about it.
Microsoft tell me that because they are committed to improving my Microsoft 365 subscription they are retiring their Skype service.
How jolly decent of them.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Microsoft tell me that because they are committed to improving my Microsoft 365 subscription they are retiring their Skype service.
How jolly decent of them.
and ¿ charging yous more for the privilege
kettle’s on, beat you to it, deprived you the opportunity to demonstrate your generousness, what a good person you are
i’m all smug about that, dented your status didn’t I, shortly ago you were a force of nature, now you’re grain of sand being blown around by the wind
take that
I was just reading that the cabbage was invented by a bloke named Charles Bomputer.
btm said:
I was just reading that the cabbage was invented by a bloke named Charles Bomputer.
I don’t think he ever got it fully working though.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease a full week after his wife died from hantavirus in their New Mexico hillside home, likely unaware that she was dead because he was in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease, authorities revealed Friday.
Both deaths were ruled to be from natural causes, chief medical examiner Dr. Heather Jarrell said alongside state fire and health officials at a news conference.
“Mr. Hackman showed evidence of advanced Alzheimer’s disease,” Jarrell said. “He was in a very poor state of health. He had significant heart disease, and I think ultimately that’s what resulted in his death.”
Authorities didn’t suspect foul play after the bodies of Hackman, 95, and Betsy Arakawa, 65, were discovered Feb 26. Immediate tests for carbon monoxide poisoning were negative.
Investigators found that the last known communication and activity from Arakawa was Feb. 11 when she visited a pharmacy, pet store and grocery before returning to their gated neighborhood that afternoon, Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said Friday.
https://apnews.com/article/gene-hackman-death-betsy-arakawa-investigation-c94b2cb4d5d7aec9a1a39a81b46dbdf9
Bubblecar said:
btm said:
I was just reading that the cabbage was invented by a bloke named Charles Bomputer.
I don’t think he ever got it fully working though.
btm said:
I was just reading that the cabbage was invented by a bloke named Charles Bomputer.
That’s kind of funny
Tamb said:
Reminds me. I’m having Brussels sprouts for dinner.
There, there…
There, there…
dv said:
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease a full week after his wife died from hantavirus in their New Mexico hillside home, likely unaware that she was dead because he was in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease, authorities revealed Friday.Both deaths were ruled to be from natural causes, chief medical examiner Dr. Heather Jarrell said alongside state fire and health officials at a news conference.
“Mr. Hackman showed evidence of advanced Alzheimer’s disease,” Jarrell said. “He was in a very poor state of health. He had significant heart disease, and I think ultimately that’s what resulted in his death.”
Authorities didn’t suspect foul play after the bodies of Hackman, 95, and Betsy Arakawa, 65, were discovered Feb 26. Immediate tests for carbon monoxide poisoning were negative.
Investigators found that the last known communication and activity from Arakawa was Feb. 11 when she visited a pharmacy, pet store and grocery before returning to their gated neighborhood that afternoon, Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said Friday.
https://apnews.com/article/gene-hackman-death-betsy-arakawa-investigation-c94b2cb4d5d7aec9a1a39a81b46dbdf9
Ah. Still sounds very odd. Why wasn’t she in hospital?
dv said:
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease a full week after his wife died from hantavirus in their New Mexico hillside home, likely unaware that she was dead because he was in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease, authorities revealed Friday.Both deaths were ruled to be from natural causes, chief medical examiner Dr. Heather Jarrell said alongside state fire and health officials at a news conference.
“Mr. Hackman showed evidence of advanced Alzheimer’s disease,” Jarrell said. “He was in a very poor state of health. He had significant heart disease, and I think ultimately that’s what resulted in his death.”
Authorities didn’t suspect foul play after the bodies of Hackman, 95, and Betsy Arakawa, 65, were discovered Feb 26. Immediate tests for carbon monoxide poisoning were negative.
Investigators found that the last known communication and activity from Arakawa was Feb. 11 when she visited a pharmacy, pet store and grocery before returning to their gated neighborhood that afternoon, Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said Friday.
https://apnews.com/article/gene-hackman-death-betsy-arakawa-investigation-c94b2cb4d5d7aec9a1a39a81b46dbdf9
Earlier I posted the NMDOH’s announcement of the first death for 2025 from hantavirus, which didn’t name her.
captain_spaulding..I posted some photos the walrus jaw in chat. It was you or Rev What’s His Name who expressed some interest?
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease a full week after his wife died from hantavirus in their New Mexico hillside home, likely unaware that she was dead because he was in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease, authorities revealed Friday.Both deaths were ruled to be from natural causes, chief medical examiner Dr. Heather Jarrell said alongside state fire and health officials at a news conference.
“Mr. Hackman showed evidence of advanced Alzheimer’s disease,” Jarrell said. “He was in a very poor state of health. He had significant heart disease, and I think ultimately that’s what resulted in his death.”
Authorities didn’t suspect foul play after the bodies of Hackman, 95, and Betsy Arakawa, 65, were discovered Feb 26. Immediate tests for carbon monoxide poisoning were negative.
Investigators found that the last known communication and activity from Arakawa was Feb. 11 when she visited a pharmacy, pet store and grocery before returning to their gated neighborhood that afternoon, Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said Friday.
https://apnews.com/article/gene-hackman-death-betsy-arakawa-investigation-c94b2cb4d5d7aec9a1a39a81b46dbdf9
Ah. Still sounds very odd. Why wasn’t she in hospital?
Well we will probably never know. Maybe she didn’t want to leave her sick husband.
I mean Hackman had an 8 digit fortune so they could certainly afford home care but human motivation is often obscure.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease a full week after his wife died from hantavirus in their New Mexico hillside home, likely unaware that she was dead because he was in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease, authorities revealed Friday.Both deaths were ruled to be from natural causes, chief medical examiner Dr. Heather Jarrell said alongside state fire and health officials at a news conference.
“Mr. Hackman showed evidence of advanced Alzheimer’s disease,” Jarrell said. “He was in a very poor state of health. He had significant heart disease, and I think ultimately that’s what resulted in his death.”
Authorities didn’t suspect foul play after the bodies of Hackman, 95, and Betsy Arakawa, 65, were discovered Feb 26. Immediate tests for carbon monoxide poisoning were negative.
Investigators found that the last known communication and activity from Arakawa was Feb. 11 when she visited a pharmacy, pet store and grocery before returning to their gated neighborhood that afternoon, Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said Friday.
https://apnews.com/article/gene-hackman-death-betsy-arakawa-investigation-c94b2cb4d5d7aec9a1a39a81b46dbdf9
Ah. Still sounds very odd. Why wasn’t she in hospital?
Well we will probably never know. Maybe she didn’t want to leave her sick husband.
I mean Hackman had an 8 digit fortune so they could certainly afford home care but human motivation is often obscure.
And the dead dog in the closet. Less of a mystery now we know that Hackman had advanced Alzheimer’s.
kii said:
captain_spaulding..I posted some photos the walrus jaw in chat. It was you or Rev What’s His Name who expressed some interest?
It was me, although Rev. might have also been interested.
transition said:
kettle’s on, beat you to it, deprived you the opportunity to demonstrate your generousness, what a good person you arei’m all smug about that, dented your status didn’t I, shortly ago you were a force of nature, now you’re grain of sand being blown around by the wind
take that
Sob.
chicken curry tonight with dahl and rice. i got legs. i know how to use them.
I went to breakfast with my ‘ladies who lunch’, then took the dog for a five k walk, got rained on, then it warmed up, passed a couple of polling booths where I could smell the democracy sausage in action, came home, showered… and now I’m exhausted…. I just don’t have the stamina I used to have, but new Arts knows the world isn’t going fall apart just because I’m taking a rest.
fsm said:
“the country’s most economical lunch”
:)
cute kitten
https://64.media.tumblr.com/4808d91186a530cb4f90b90cbee0f72a/tumblr_nnla55YEH91s748a0o1_500.gif
The ‘Relativity Special’ – pedaling at 90rpm would theoretically achieve ~2.7x the speed of light.
The duct tape ad writes itself.
Arts said:
The duct tape ad writes itself.
shopped.
fsm said:
The ‘Relativity Special’ – pedaling at 90rpm would theoretically achieve ~2.7x the speed of light.
Fuck that. It’s got no brakes.
JudgeMental said:
cute kittenhttps://64.media.tumblr.com/4808d91186a530cb4f90b90cbee0f72a/tumblr_nnla55YEH91s748a0o1_500.gif
Cute, maybe, but how many paws does that cat have?
dinner will be…is served
transition said:
dinner will be…is served
and that is absolutely delicious
multitasked to bring you that
transition said:
transition said:
dinner will be…is served
and that is absolutely delicious
multitasked to bring you that
Meat and taters with carrot and gravy, good score.
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
transition said:
dinner will be…is served
and that is absolutely delicious
multitasked to bring you that
Meat and taters with carrot and gravy, good score.
40C tomorrow, a mongrel
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:and that is absolutely delicious
multitasked to bring you that
Meat and taters with carrot and gravy, good score.
40C tomorrow, a mongrel
Nasty. Too hot for my liking here but not that bad: 30 tomorrow and 33 on Monday, which is a higher max for this village than we had all summer.
The open bottle of medicine was thyroid meds.
buffy said:
Whoops.Defence force personnel injured after two army vehicles collide in northern NSW
Not too sure where they got 19 ambulances from……… in Lismore.
I just checked the windowsill in the bathroom. The window was open all day. The grit from the earlier dust storm was really thick and turned to mud as I wiped it down with a few damp paper towels.
I hate dust storms.
kii said:
Trust a man to ruin IWD. Thanks Alfred.
kii said:
But how can we men enjoy our international day when we have to share it with:
Women’s Entrepreneurship Day
and
World Toilet Day
???
New Tri service vehicle (TSV) roll out in the UK
Someone I used to work with has posted on fb for the first time since Christmas Day 2020.
I happen to know that between then and now, her husband was arrested and jailed for inappropriate child images in his possession. When he was released, a neighbour found out and distributed flyers around the neighbourhood about him.
I am watching The Acolyte. Pretyy good. Was pleasantly surprised to see Indra Ové.
Expecting some nice smells in this house shortly. I’ve just put a loaf tin of bread dough in the oven.
Bubblecar said:
Expecting some nice smells in this house shortly. I’ve just put a loaf tin of bread dough in the oven.
Good
Bubblecar said:
Expecting some nice smells in this house shortly. I’ve just put a loaf tin of bread dough in the oven.
Is it turned on or is this just to get it used to the surroundings.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Expecting some nice smells in this house shortly. I’ve just put a loaf tin of bread dough in the oven.
Is it turned on or is this just to get it used to the surroundings.
It’s on 200 fan-forced. Half an hour of that, then I’ll take it out and cover the top with foil, give it another 20 minutes on 180.
JudgeMental said:
New Tri service vehicle (TSV) roll out in the UK
Yeah, yeah.
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
New Tri service vehicle (TSV) roll out in the UK
Yeah, yeah.
Probably AI generated bullshit.
But seriously… “right you firefighters, take down that ladder and pack up quick, we got an ambulance patient in the back that needs to go to the hospital ASAP!”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/08/south-carolina-firing-squad
Odd that they shoot the chest. If it were me I’d much prefer headshots.
So, IWD has arrived in the USA. My fb memories has a few interesting posts from previous IWDs.
Remember this fucking shithead?
Here’s a perfect one.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 18 degrees at the back door, it is still dark, and I can hear the crickets. We are forecast 35 degrees with a possible shower developing. And the next two days are forecast for 36. This has been a hot Summer, after quite a few mild ones.
I’ll go out and check the fire buckets again when it is light. I topped them all to brimming yesterday morning, but they evaporated an inch or so during the day. A couple of low use sprinklers for the birds should go on, and I’ll fill the dog paddling basin. The Pug is not enjoying the heat. The aircon will go on again once the outside temp reaches about 20. I may sew something.
Forecast is wet and breezy here. Lots of people without power this morning after the strong winds overnight. Jellybean slept next to me all night instead of in her usual spot. I’d made a little nest for her to sleep in.
In other news, was having a chat with Snake Boy last night, my old housemate. He’s just gotten a job as a prison guard lol. He thinks he’s a lot tougher than he is.
Divine Angel said:
Forecast is wet and breezy here. Lots of people without power this morning after the strong winds overnight. Jellybean slept next to me all night instead of in her usual spot. I’d made a little nest for her to sleep in.In other news, was having a chat with Snake Boy last night, my old housemate. He’s just gotten a job as a prison guard lol. He thinks he’s a lot tougher than he is.
My only memory of him is watching him – from a bit of distance in your loungeroom – holding his pet and asking me, “do you want to touch my snake?”
“No thanks.”
Unrelated, just saw this and it amusing me.
My sister’s had a close encounter. A tree came down on the pool equipment, very narrowly missing the house.
making my own breakfast, stay seated, no need to leap up unnecessarily keen to please, i’m already pleased you’re not helping, that’s enough, plenty helpful
sounds like it’s all boiling over there, oven-top
Too hot outside for me now.
Morning pilgrims.
A bit of a wild day out there.
Raining with gusty squalls and as black as the inside of cat.
Over.
If we average out PWM and buffy’s weather, it’d be a pleasant day for all.
15/50. I new Number 3 and Number 6. I guessed the Billie Eilish one correctly. Everything else was a random guess.
Divine Angel said:
My sister’s had a close encounter. A tree came down on the pool equipment, very narrowly missing the house.
Oooh. Images?
dv said:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/08/south-carolina-firing-squadOdd that they shoot the chest. If it were me I’d much prefer headshots.
bigger target.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
My sister’s had a close encounter. A tree came down on the pool equipment, very narrowly missing the house.
Oooh. Images?
She’s unwilling to go outside right now.
buffy said:
ABC Sunday quiz15/50. I new Number 3 and Number 6. I guessed the Billie Eilish one correctly. Everything else was a random guess.
I beat buffy.
That’s good enough for me :)
20/50
buffy said:
ABC Sunday quiz15/50. I new Number 3 and Number 6. I guessed the Billie Eilish one correctly. Everything else was a random guess.
5/10 here.
Well excuse me for not knowing the anatomy of an armadillo.
Divine Angel said:
Well excuse me for not knowing the anatomy of an armadillo.
I shoulda cropped that.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
ABC Sunday quiz15/50. I new Number 3 and Number 6. I guessed the Billie Eilish one correctly. Everything else was a random guess.
5/10 here.
70/100
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
My sister’s had a close encounter. A tree came down on the pool equipment, very narrowly missing the house.
Oooh. Images?
Having a water emergency at the moment: I’ve run out of CO2 for the SodaStream.
Divine Angel said:
Having a water emergency at the moment: I’ve run out of CO2 for the SodaStream.
Just extract some from the air around you.
win/win.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
My sister’s had a close encounter. A tree came down on the pool equipment, very narrowly missing the house.
Oooh. Images?
She’s unwilling to go outside right now.
Fair call.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Divine Angel said:
Having a water emergency at the moment: I’ve run out of CO2 for the SodaStream.
Just extract some from the air around you.
win/win.
Burning More Fossil Fuels Will Solve This
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
My sister’s had a close encounter. A tree came down on the pool equipment, very narrowly missing the house.
Oooh. Images?
She’s unwilling to go outside right now.
Fair call.
then how do they know that a tree came down in the pool zone if there’s nobody outside to see it
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
She’s unwilling to go outside right now.
Fair call.
then how do they know that a tree came down in the pool zone if there’s nobody outside to see it
Security camera. She hasn’t isolated the footage to a frame to show me
dv said:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/08/south-carolina-firing-squadOdd that they shoot the chest. If it were me I’d much prefer headshots.
The prisoner is usually hooded, which adds complexity to a lethal headshots. Sometimes there is a bit of paper or cloth over the heart for aim. Chest shots are also preferred because of disfigurement and mass.
Arts said:
dv said:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/08/south-carolina-firing-squadOdd that they shoot the chest. If it were me I’d much prefer headshots.
The prisoner is usually hooded, which adds complexity to a lethal headshots. Sometimes there is a bit of paper or cloth over the heart for aim. Chest shots are also preferred because of disfigurement and mass.
Can the prisoner make requests in this regard?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-09/hard-quiz-weekly-trivia/104871270
30/50 in the HQ
dv said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-09/hard-quiz-weekly-trivia/10487127030/50 in the HQ
Same here!
I mean…
+1
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims.
A bit of a wild day out there.
Raining with gusty squalls and as black as the inside of cat.
Over.
Arts said:
dv said:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/08/south-carolina-firing-squadOdd that they shoot the chest. If it were me I’d much prefer headshots.
The prisoner is usually hooded, which adds complexity to a lethal headshots. Sometimes there is a bit of paper or cloth over the heart for aim. Chest shots are also preferred because of disfigurement and mass.
Reminds me of Ned Kelly’s final words before he was hung “shoot straight ya bastards”
Peak Warming Man said:
Arts said:
dv said:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/08/south-carolina-firing-squadOdd that they shoot the chest. If it were me I’d much prefer headshots.
The prisoner is usually hooded, which adds complexity to a lethal headshots. Sometimes there is a bit of paper or cloth over the heart for aim. Chest shots are also preferred because of disfigurement and mass.
Reminds me of Ned Kelly’s final words before he was hung “shoot straight ya bastards”
Wrong.
kii said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Arts said:The prisoner is usually hooded, which adds complexity to a lethal headshots. Sometimes there is a bit of paper or cloth over the heart for aim. Chest shots are also preferred because of disfigurement and mass.
Reminds me of Ned Kelly’s final words before he was hung “shoot straight ya bastards”
Wrong.
Peak Warming Man said:
Arts said:
dv said:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/08/south-carolina-firing-squadOdd that they shoot the chest. If it were me I’d much prefer headshots.
The prisoner is usually hooded, which adds complexity to a lethal headshots. Sometimes there is a bit of paper or cloth over the heart for aim. Chest shots are also preferred because of disfigurement and mass.
Reminds me of Ned Kelly’s final words before he was hung “shoot straight ya bastards”
Sounds like a Cunk factoid :)
party_pants said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Arts said:The prisoner is usually hooded, which adds complexity to a lethal headshots. Sometimes there is a bit of paper or cloth over the heart for aim. Chest shots are also preferred because of disfigurement and mass.
Reminds me of Ned Kelly’s final words before he was hung “shoot straight ya bastards”
Sounds like a Cunk factoid :)
bingbot on Cunk:
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What is Cunk?
The word “cunk” is often deployed as a descriptor for someone deemed clueless or foolish. It derives from British slang and is closely associated with the comedic persona of Philomena Cunk, a character played by British comedian Diane Morgan on the mockumentary series “Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe” and its sequel, “Cunk on Britain.” As the character delivers absurd commentary on serious topics, the term has grown to describe not only the character herself but also anyone exhibiting similarly clueless behavior.”
Divine Angel said:
Having a water emergency at the moment: I’ve run out of CO2 for the Soda Stream.
Bugger!
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Having a water emergency at the moment: I’ve run out of CO2 for the Soda Stream.
Bugger!
it’s been 149 years and 6 days since the kentucky meat shower.
JudgeMental said:
it’s been 149 years and 6 days since the kentucky meat shower.
The Skeleton Key Chronicles
Yesterday marked 149 years since the Kentucky Meat Shower. That’s right, on March 3, 1876, Mary Crouch was outside making soap when she reported seeing a remarkable sight. Pieces of meat, measuring approximately 2“x2” falling from the sky. This well-documented event witnessed by multiple people occurred for several minutes between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. in an area approximately the size of a football field area near Olympia Springs in Bath County. The meat underwent analysis shortly after the event by a Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton who stated the meat was most likely lung tissue from either a horse or a human infant, saying they were indiscernable. Additional analysis determined two samples of the meat being identified as lung tissue, three as muscle, and two as cartilage most likely that of mutton or venison. At the time, the story was front page news, spawning multiple theories as to what could have caused the meat to fall from the sky. Many speculated the bits were carrion most likely dropped by birds overhead but others believed it was something more dire. The source remains a mystery to this day. Just last year, the Bath County History Museum opened an exhibit dedicated to the Kentucky meat shower where they display a piece of preserved meat along with historical materials related to the event.
JudgeMental said:
it’s been 149 years and 6 days since the kentucky meat shower.
I forgot to get you anything
dv said:
JudgeMental said:
it’s been 149 years and 6 days since the kentucky meat shower.
I forgot to get you anything
Tamb said:
dv said:
JudgeMental said:
it’s been 149 years and 6 days since the kentucky meat shower.
I forgot to get you anything
If it were chicken meat I’d suspect fowl play.
Hennies from heaven.
JudgeMental said:
it’s been 149 years and 6 days since the kentucky meat shower.
Probably a “coordinated bout of projectile vulture vomit”.
Nice
Ian said:
JudgeMental said:
it’s been 149 years and 6 days since the kentucky meat shower.
Probably a “coordinated bout of projectile vulture vomit”.
Nice
I’d say it was a rotting animal carcass buried in a shallow grave that suddenly exploded from the buildup of gas from decomposition.
Bubblecar said:
Tamb said:
dv said:I forgot to get you anything
If it were chicken meat I’d suspect fowl play.
Hennies from heaven.
It’s raining hen.
Watch us grow.
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
I’m one of them, we’re all one of them.
So it’s not just me:
>On any given day, humans make an estimated 300 decisions about food.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2025-03-09/are-extreme-diets-keto-carnivore-good-for-you/104994240
Peak Warming Man said:
Watch us grow.
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/I’m one of them, we’re all one of them.
I kind of thought the growth rate would bounce back from the Covid crash but it kind of didn’t.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Watch us grow.
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/I’m one of them, we’re all one of them.
I kind of thought the growth rate would bounce back from the Covid crash but it kind of didn’t.
People don’t want babies in these harsh end times.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Watch us grow.
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/I’m one of them, we’re all one of them.
I kind of thought the growth rate would bounce back from the Covid crash but it kind of didn’t.
Just reading through my history book, after the great flood there was only a boat load of us and most of the boat was taken up with animals.
Bubblecar said:
So it’s not just me:>On any given day, humans make an estimated 300 decisions about food.
What the heck does that even mean?
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
So it’s not just me:>On any given day, humans make an estimated 300 decisions about food.
What the heck does that even mean?
It means as it sounds.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Watch us grow.
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/I’m one of them, we’re all one of them.
I kind of thought the growth rate would bounce back from the Covid crash but it kind of didn’t.
Just reading through my history book, after the great flood there was only a boat load of us and most of the boat was taken up with animals.
They made a few mistakes with the sleeping arrangements; they should never have put the unicorns in with the tigers.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
So it’s not just me:>On any given day, humans make an estimated 300 decisions about food.
What the heck does that even mean?
It means as it sounds.
Sounds false. On a regular day I’m making maybe four decisions about food. If it is a grocery day I suppose it would be higher, like I suppose each grocery item could count as a decision, which pushes it into dozens, not hundreds.
The Rev Dodgson said:
buffy said:
ABC Sunday quiz15/50. I new Number 3 and Number 6. I guessed the Billie Eilish one correctly. Everything else was a random guess.
I beat buffy.
That’s good enough for me :)
20/50
Quiz Completed!
Didn’t know Magaret Brown.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:What the heck does that even mean?
It means as it sounds.
Sounds false. On a regular day I’m making maybe four decisions about food. If it is a grocery day I suppose it would be higher, like I suppose each grocery item could count as a decision, which pushes it into dozens, not hundreds.
we don’t make any decisions we just eat habitually
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
I kind of thought the growth rate would bounce back from the Covid crash but it kind of didn’t.
Just reading through my history book, after the great flood there was only a boat load of us and most of the boat was taken up with animals.
They made a few mistakes with the sleeping arrangements; they should never have put the unicorns in with the tigers.
Yeah. Bad mistake, that one.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:What the heck does that even mean?
It means as it sounds.
Sounds false. On a regular day I’m making maybe four decisions about food. If it is a grocery day I suppose it would be higher, like I suppose each grocery item could count as a decision, which pushes it into dozens, not hundreds.
Not necessarily conscious decisions. For example, when you have a bit of lamb on your fork but instead of pushing that into your mouth, you first heap some of the mash and gravy onto it as well, a decision has been made to combine those tastes in one mouthful.
So, anyway…
This dude was once a lamb.
Social media posts reported seeing what is believed to be space junk over southern New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.
What’s next?
Astronomer David Finlay said footage led him to believe some of the debris may have survived re-entry and will be found on properties in Victoria.
The Sandman was an Australian comedic act from last century,
I enjoyed his body of work, so on this wet and miserable Sundy afternoon I decided to google up some of his material.
But alas no, all I got was some American dude singing and not very well.
Peak Warming Man said:
The Sandman was an Australian comedic act from last century,
I enjoyed his body of work, so on this wet and miserable Sundy afternoon I decided to google up some of his material.
But alas no, all I got was some American dude singing and not very well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Abbott_(comedian)
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The Sandman was an Australian comedic act from last century,
I enjoyed his body of work, so on this wet and miserable Sundy afternoon I decided to google up some of his material.
But alas no, all I got was some American dude singing and not very well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Abbott_(comedian)
From a few years ago:
The Sandman & Flacco Comeback Tour — Kind Of
Described as the sad history of two old minor celebrities, this is a show that will make you laugh out loud, especially if you’re familiar with the particular schtick of The Sandman and Flacco from their many TV and radio outings from 1994-2011. It will be Steve Abbott & Paul Livingstone that take to the Murrah Hall stage for this revival, re-examination and reprisal that has fanboys like Simon Lauder very chuffed.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/southeastnsw-breakfast/sandman-&-flacco/13933674
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The Sandman was an Australian comedic act from last century,
I enjoyed his body of work, so on this wet and miserable Sundy afternoon I decided to google up some of his material.
But alas no, all I got was some American dude singing and not very well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Abbott_(comedian)
From a few years ago:
The Sandman & Flacco Comeback Tour — Kind Of
Described as the sad history of two old minor celebrities, this is a show that will make you laugh out loud, especially if you’re familiar with the particular schtick of The Sandman and Flacco from their many TV and radio outings from 1994-2011. It will be Steve Abbott & Paul Livingstone that take to the Murrah Hall stage for this revival, re-examination and reprisal that has fanboys like Simon Lauder very chuffed.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/southeastnsw-breakfast/sandman-&-flacco/13933674
He now lives on Bruny Island, Tasmania.
From last year:
Flacco and the Sandman ride again
Two of Australia’s great comedy characters are returning to the stage, as creators Paul Livingston (Flacco) and Stephen Abbott (The Sandman) tour a new show called Forevelyn.
They’ve been rehearsing on Bruny Island, because Stephen now lives there.
They told Joel Rheinberger where the characters came from and how one of their best sketches went wrong on live TV, due to a chilli-laced prop.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/hobart-your-afternoon/flacco-and-the-sandman/104414990
Peak Warming Man said:
The Sandman was an Australian comedic act from last century,
I enjoyed his body of work, so on this wet and miserable Sundy afternoon I decided to google up some of his material.
But alas no, all I got was some American dude singing and not very well.
His name was Stephen Abbott
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The Sandman was an Australian comedic act from last century,
I enjoyed his body of work, so on this wet and miserable Sundy afternoon I decided to google up some of his material.
But alas no, all I got was some American dude singing and not very well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Abbott_(comedian)
From a few years ago:
The Sandman & Flacco Comeback Tour — Kind Of
Described as the sad history of two old minor celebrities, this is a show that will make you laugh out loud, especially if you’re familiar with the particular schtick of The Sandman and Flacco from their many TV and radio outings from 1994-2011. It will be Steve Abbott & Paul Livingstone that take to the Murrah Hall stage for this revival, re-examination and reprisal that has fanboys like Simon Lauder very chuffed.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/southeastnsw-breakfast/sandman-&-flacco/13933674
Excellent. Those two were great. Flacco in particular…
With a rat sporran :)
I swear Paul Livingstone got inspiration for Flacco’s voice from my parents’ neighbour in Wombarra. I think she was Yugoslavian.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The Sandman was an Australian comedic act from last century,
I enjoyed his body of work, so on this wet and miserable Sundy afternoon I decided to google up some of his material.
But alas no, all I got was some American dude singing and not very well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Abbott_(comedian)
From a few years ago:
The Sandman & Flacco Comeback Tour — Kind Of
Described as the sad history of two old minor celebrities, this is a show that will make you laugh out loud, especially if you’re familiar with the particular schtick of The Sandman and Flacco from their many TV and radio outings from 1994-2011. It will be Steve Abbott & Paul Livingstone that take to the Murrah Hall stage for this revival, re-examination and reprisal that has fanboys like Simon Lauder very chuffed.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/southeastnsw-breakfast/sandman-&-flacco/13933674
I was just wondering about those two yesterday.
Good to see them out and about.
Sigh, I had so much work to do on my day off…
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Watch us grow.
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/I’m one of them, we’re all one of them.
I kind of thought the growth rate would bounce back from the Covid crash but it kind of didn’t.
:)))
The only thing going down, yet the population continues to rise.
Kingy said:
Sigh, I had so much work to do on my day off…
Sorry.
That other Moonyoonooka lander didn’t go so well, got mooned. Moonied.
Tau.Neutrino said:
That other Moonyoonooka lander didn’t go so well, got mooned. Moonied.
It did manage to take a fallen-over selfie.
Tau.Neutrino said:
That other Moonyoonooka lander didn’t go so well, got mooned. Moonied.
They need a better approach with landings.
Too many are falling over.
If they get get out of that phase then that would be good.
Bubblecar said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
That other Moonyoonooka lander didn’t go so well, got mooned. Moonied.
It did manage to take a fallen-over selfie.
Nice picture of its feet.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
That other Moonyoonooka lander didn’t go so well, got mooned. Moonied.They need a better approach with landings.
Too many are falling over.
If they get get out of that phase then that would be good.
Maybe automation just isn’t as good as a highly trained human pilot.
party_pants said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
That other Moonyoonooka lander didn’t go so well, got mooned. Moonied.They need a better approach with landings.
Too many are falling over.
If they get get out of that phase then that would be good.
Maybe automation just isn’t as good as a highly trained human pilot.
Sometimes it is, sometimes it’s not.
party_pants said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
That other Moonyoonooka lander didn’t go so well, got mooned. Moonied.They need a better approach with landings.
Too many are falling over.
If they get get out of that phase then that would be good.
Maybe automation just isn’t as good as a highly trained human pilot.
Just as well these people were not running the maned moon landings.
Peak Warming Man said:
party_pants said:
Tau.Neutrino said:They need a better approach with landings.
Too many are falling over.
If they get get out of that phase then that would be good.
Maybe automation just isn’t as good as a highly trained human pilot.
Just as well these people were not running the maned moon landings.
Aye.
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
party_pants said:Maybe automation just isn’t as good as a highly trained human pilot.
Just as well these people were not running the maned moon landings.
Aye.
I don’t think that’s a real photo. The horsies aren’t wearing spacesuits.
damn imagine if people could get their shit together and manufacture autonomous vehicles that could do something skilled like visit the far side of the moon
School’s closed tomorrow. Sigh. Mini Me is going stir crazy being locked inside for several days now.
SCIENCE said:
damn imagine if people could get their shit together and manufacture autonomous vehicles that could do something skilled like visit the far side of the moon
But it is blacker than the inside of a cat there. How do you expect your robot to see?
I don’t understand what it is about Trump that would make someone do this. Did anyone have giant Reagan cutouts? No one would have giant Duttons in their front yard.
I’m not watching the coverage of the floods up North. Year to date we have had 34mm. Our long term average (1883-2025) for the period is 114. For 2024 we managed 514mm. Long term annual average is 709. We are feeling very dry here. There is actually some rain falling in the middle of the West of the state, but it seems to be skirting us. Maybe later.
I’ve been very tired today. I don’t like runs of a week over mid thirties temperatures. Although we have dropped under 20 at night. And we are almost to the end of daylight saving. I seem to always be tired as we run out daylight saving.
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:damn imagine if people could get their shit together and manufacture autonomous vehicles that could do something skilled like visit the far side of the moon
But it is blacker than the inside of a cat there. How do you expect your robot to see?
Now the world has gone to bed
Darkness won’t engulf my head
I can see by infra-red
How I hate the night
Now I lay me down to sleep
Try to count electric sheep
Sweet dream wishes you can keep
How I hate the night
Divine Angel said:
I don’t understand what it is about Trump that would make someone do this. Did anyone have giant Reagan cutouts? No one would have giant Duttons in their front yard.
I am mildly curious about what such a rich country needs to be saved from.
Divine Angel said:
I don’t understand what it is about Trump that would make someone do this. Did anyone have giant Reagan cutouts? No one would have giant Duttons in their front yard.
“No one would have giant Duttons in their front yard.”
Someone does:
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
I don’t understand what it is about Trump that would make someone do this. Did anyone have giant Reagan cutouts? No one would have giant Duttons in their front yard.
I am mildly curious about what such a rich country needs to be saved from.
From themselves, i should say.
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
I don’t understand what it is about Trump that would make someone do this. Did anyone have giant Reagan cutouts? No one would have giant Duttons in their front yard.
I am mildly curious about what such a rich country needs to be saved from.
From themselves, i should say.
Yes, but we’ve got an outside perspective. Many of them don’t seem to be able to stand outside and look at the big picture.
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:I am mildly curious about what such a rich country needs to be saved from.
From themselves, i should say.
Yes, but we’ve got an outside perspective. Many of them don’t seem to be able to stand outside and look at the big picture.
Many of them are unaware that the picture extends beyond the US borders.
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
I don’t understand what it is about Trump that would make someone do this. Did anyone have giant Reagan cutouts? No one would have giant Duttons in their front yard.
I am mildly curious about what such a rich country needs to be saved from.
They seem to have a fondness for snake oil salesmen.
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:From themselves, i should say.
Yes, but we’ve got an outside perspective. Many of them don’t seem to be able to stand outside and look at the big picture.
Many of them are unaware that the picture extends beyond the US borders.
We have seen examples of this phenomena.
captain_spalding said:
Divine Angel said:
I don’t understand what it is about Trump that would make someone do this. Did anyone have giant Reagan cutouts? No one would have giant Duttons in their front yard.
“No one would have giant Duttons in their front yard.”
Someone does:
Good lord where is that?
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
Divine Angel said:
I don’t understand what it is about Trump that would make someone do this. Did anyone have giant Reagan cutouts? No one would have giant Duttons in their front yard.
“No one would have giant Duttons in their front yard.”
Someone does:
Good lord where is that?
Tasmania, i understand.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:“No one would have giant Duttons in their front yard.”
Someone does:
Good lord where is that?
Tasmania, i understand.
Ghastly.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:Good lord where is that?
Tasmania, i understand.
Ghastly.
It’s the Big Spud in Sassafras, which was built decades ago by Jeremy Rockliff (current Tas premier) and his father.
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:damn imagine if people could get their shit together and manufacture autonomous vehicles that could do something skilled like visit the far side of the moon
But it is blacker than the inside of a cat there. How do you expect your robot to see?
I dispute that. It’s balck at night, and sunlight during the day. One moon day = 14 earth day in length =
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:I am mildly curious about what such a rich country needs to be saved from.
From themselves, i should say.
Yes, but we’ve got an outside perspective. Many of them don’t seem to be able to stand outside and look at the big picture.
It’s a play on “God Save America” which in indoctrinated in people at school.
Most people in USA do not see the bigger picture – it’s not on their TVs and radios. That USA is the most important country on earth is a given.
There have of course been two successful lunar farside landings with rovers: Chang’e 4 and Chang’e 6. The latter was also a sample return mission.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:damn imagine if people could get their shit together and manufacture autonomous vehicles that could do something skilled like visit the far side of the moon
But it is blacker than the inside of a cat there. How do you expect your robot to see?
I dispute that. It’s black at night, and sunlight during the day. One moon day = 14 earth days in length =
= 14 × 12 Earth hours long = 168 Earth hours.
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:From themselves, i should say.
Yes, but we’ve got an outside perspective. Many of them don’t seem to be able to stand outside and look at the big picture.
Many of them are unaware that the picture extends beyond the US borders.
Definitely.
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:Tasmania, i understand.
Ghastly.
It’s the Big Spud in Sassafras, which was built decades ago by Jeremy Rockliff (current Tas premier) and his father.
Gosh.
Something for Tasmanians to be proud of?
All I know is that Big Rooster was originally to be called Big Cock but it got hit on the head.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:Ghastly.
It’s the Big Spud in Sassafras, which was built decades ago by Jeremy Rockliff (current Tas premier) and his father.
Gosh.
Something for Tasmanians to be proud of?
It was just an advertising sign for the Rockliff family potato and veg shop on that site (they were/are farmers).
It toppled in high winds a few years ago but has since been re-erected.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-16/strong-winds-topple-tasmanias-big-potato/102981012
Divine Angel said:
I don’t understand what it is about Trump that would make someone do this. Did anyone have giant Reagan cutouts? No one would have giant Duttons in their front yard.
Trump has no good qualities, like the owner.
dv said:
Arts said:
dv said:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/08/south-carolina-firing-squadOdd that they shoot the chest. If it were me I’d much prefer headshots.
The prisoner is usually hooded, which adds complexity to a lethal headshots. Sometimes there is a bit of paper or cloth over the heart for aim. Chest shots are also preferred because of disfigurement and mass.
Can the prisoner make requests in this regard?
As in head or chest? I doubt it. The action of execution is up to the professionals who do it (in this case the firing squad, but the hangmen, the doctor etc). But they can sometimes choose which method is used…. Depends on the state
I wonder how many people have ever seen Partick and erroneously assumed it was a typo for Patrick.
dv said:
I wonder how many people have ever seen Partick and erroneously assumed it was a typo for Patrick.
I always think of partick thistle FC from when dad did the pools.
dv said:
I wonder how many people have ever seen Partick and erroneously assumed it was a typo for Patrick.
Patrick takes a wicket with three consecutive balls,
https://www.google.com/search?q=pat+cummings+hat+trick&oq=pat+cummings+hat+trick&gs_lcrp=EgRlZGdlKgYIABBFGDkyBggAEEUYOdIBCTE0OTQ5ajBqMagCALACAQ&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Hmm…VicEmergency has got a fire pinned on the map right where our shed at the bush block is located. Might have to go for a drive in the morning.
buffy said:
Hmm…VicEmergency has got a fire pinned on the map right where our shed at the bush block is located. Might have to go for a drive in the morning.
oh no.
buffy said:
Hmm…VicEmergency has got a fire pinned on the map right where our shed at the bush block is located. Might have to go for a drive in the morning.
Oh dear.
Divine Angel said:
buffy said:
Hmm…VicEmergency has got a fire pinned on the map right where our shed at the bush block is located. Might have to go for a drive in the morning.
Oh dear.
With a bit of luck they haven’t been completely accurate with the pin. The shed is not connected to electricity. So if there’s a fire it must be lightning. The tractor, the Jimny and the Redback rideon slasher are in there. My bush mower is still here at home from when we took it to its doctor a couple of months ago and I haven’t needed it over there since.
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
buffy said:
Hmm…VicEmergency has got a fire pinned on the map right where our shed at the bush block is located. Might have to go for a drive in the morning.
Oh dear.
With a bit of luck they haven’t been completely accurate with the pin. The shed is not connected to electricity. So if there’s a fire it must be lightning. The tractor, the Jimny and the Redback rideon slasher are in there. My bush mower is still here at home from when we took it to its doctor a couple of months ago and I haven’t needed it over there since.
Keep us informed about your morning findings.
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
buffy said:
Hmm…VicEmergency has got a fire pinned on the map right where our shed at the bush block is located. Might have to go for a drive in the morning.
Oh dear.
With a bit of luck they haven’t been completely accurate with the pin. The shed is not connected to electricity. So if there’s a fire it must be lightning. The tractor, the Jimny and the Redback rideon slasher are in there. My bush mower is still here at home from when we took it to its doctor a couple of months ago and I haven’t needed it over there since.
Good luck. Shame the shed isn’t fitted with a surveillance camera you could remotely operate.
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:Oh dear.
With a bit of luck they haven’t been completely accurate with the pin. The shed is not connected to electricity. So if there’s a fire it must be lightning. The tractor, the Jimny and the Redback rideon slasher are in there. My bush mower is still here at home from when we took it to its doctor a couple of months ago and I haven’t needed it over there since.
Good luck. Shame the shed isn’t fitted with a surveillance camera you could remotely operate.
Don’t be giving her ideas now, ya hear.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:With a bit of luck they haven’t been completely accurate with the pin. The shed is not connected to electricity. So if there’s a fire it must be lightning. The tractor, the Jimny and the Redback rideon slasher are in there. My bush mower is still here at home from when we took it to its doctor a couple of months ago and I haven’t needed it over there since.
Good luck. Shame the shed isn’t fitted with a surveillance camera you could remotely operate.
Don’t be giving her ideas now, ya hear.
Probably not necessary for one use every 20 years or so. We can go for a drive.
This was in one of the documents for my son’s food science subject. That third sentence is a real headscratcher.
dv said:
This was in one of the documents for my son’s food science subject. That third sentence is a real headscratcher.
Let me get out my red marker and send it back to the teacher.
dv said:
This was in one of the documents for my son’s food science subject. That third sentence is a real headscratcher.
The first sentence isn’t all that good either. And an Apostrophe Nazi my come by soon.
Assessment: 2/10. Rewrite and resubmit.
should be a law against it.
sarahs mum said:
should be a law against it.
Not only is that hideous, it’s gross.
Reminds me of an old Yugoslav aunt mum used to drag me to when I was a kid … she had like a carpet door mat in front of the toilet… I never stepped on it… just the thought. (Shudder).
sarahs mum said:
should be a law against it.
OMFG!
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
should be a law against it.
OMFG!
be alright on those cold mornings.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
should be a law against it.
OMFG!
be alright on those cold mornings.
though to be truthful i’m more interest in the wooden aubergine and what its purpose is.
sarahs mum said:
should be a law against it.
Looks like a funerary toilet.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
should be a law against it.
OMFG!
be alright on those cold mornings.
NO.
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:OMFG!
be alright on those cold mornings.
NO.
I have very sensitive buttocks.
JudgeMental said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:OMFG!
be alright on those cold mornings.
though to be truthful i’m more interest in the wooden aubergine and what its purpose is.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
should be a law against it.
OMFG!
be alright on those cold mornings.
get a Japanese dunny with a heated seat.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:be alright on those cold mornings.
NO.
I have very sensitive buttocks.
TMI
JudgeMental said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:OMFG!
be alright on those cold mornings.
though to be truthful i’m more interest in the wooden aubergine and what its purpose is.
It looks like a sex toy.
there – I said it out loud
party_pants said:
JudgeMental said:
JudgeMental said:be alright on those cold mornings.
though to be truthful i’m more interest in the wooden aubergine and what its purpose is.
It looks like a sex toy.
there – I said it out loud
My first thought as well. but apparently you can use it at bar mitzvahs.
JudgeMental said:
party_pants said:
JudgeMental said:though to be truthful i’m more interest in the wooden aubergine and what its purpose is.
It looks like a sex toy.
there – I said it out loud
My first thought as well. but apparently you can use it at bar mitzvahs.
I don’t understand how.
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
party_pants said:It looks like a sex toy.
there – I said it out loud
My first thought as well. but apparently you can use it at bar mitzvahs.
I don’t understand how.
Me either
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
party_pants said:It looks like a sex toy.
there – I said it out loud
My first thought as well. but apparently you can use it at bar mitzvahs.
I don’t understand how.
used as a club in s&m play.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:My first thought as well. but apparently you can use it at bar mitzvahs.
I don’t understand how.
used as a club in s&m play.
At bar mitzvahs?
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
party_pants said:It looks like a sex toy.
there – I said it out loud
My first thought as well. but apparently you can use it at bar mitzvahs.
I don’t understand how.
what happens at Bar Mitzvah stays at Bar Mitzvah
party_pants said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:OMFG!
be alright on those cold mornings.
get a Japanese dunny with a heated seat.
One thing I liked about the Japanese dunnys is the tap and sink on top; you wash your hands with the water that fills the cistern.
party_pants said:
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:My first thought as well. but apparently you can use it at bar mitzvahs.
I don’t understand how.
what happens at Bar Mitzvah stays at Bar Mitzvah
I guess it is having whole platters of fake plastic food to make it look like you are rich and wealthy, while you serve the guests hotdogs with mustard.
AussieDJ said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:I don’t understand how.
used as a club in s&m play.
At bar mitzvahs?
here’s a nice pink one made from some flexible plastic of some description
party_pants said:
JudgeMental said:
JudgeMental said:be alright on those cold mornings.
though to be truthful i’m more interest in the wooden aubergine and what its purpose is.
It looks like a sex toy.
there – I said it out loud
Isn’t everything a sex toy if you’re game enough?
Arts said:
party_pants said:
JudgeMental said:though to be truthful i’m more interest in the wooden aubergine and what its purpose is.
It looks like a sex toy.
there – I said it out loud
Isn’t everything a sex toy if you’re game enough?
Hold that thought, I’ll get back to you later.
Right now I seem to have lost the remote and can’t think where I put it last.
This arvos entertainment.
Fire chief doing his bit.
Kingy said:
This arvos entertainment.
Fire chief doing his bit.
Well done. Were there marshmallows on the end of that fork?
Bubblecar said:
Kingy said:
This arvos entertainment.
Fire chief doing his bit.
Well done. Were there marshmallows on the end of that fork?
No, but we had some salad rolls delivered.
My plans for today are now plans for next Sunday.
Maybe.
Kingy said:
Bubblecar said:
Kingy said:
This arvos entertainment.
Fire chief doing his bit.
Well done. Were there marshmallows on the end of that fork?
No, but we had some salad rolls delivered.
My plans for today are now plans for next Sunday.
Maybe.
How would you rate your fire season so far? Better or worse than previous years?
Woke up and thought something was very wrong.
My phone said 7:30am, I usually wake at/before 6am to take my thyroid medication.
Initially I blamed the Fred and Rosemary West series I watched last night.
The problem is I had completely forgotten that DLS started today. First time I have failed to know that the stoopid thing is starting or ending.
At least the hair cut I gave myself looks better in the morning light. I really thought that I had fucked it up. I cut approx. 20cms off.
I read some more about the Russian asset in the Oval Office. The process started in 1977, according to one account of the history.
I remember when a former colleague at the bookstore confidently told me that Obama was a sleeper terrorist, in 2008. I knew she was a wack job, but wow.
A few years later I found out that her brother had married an Afghani woman whilst overseas, he had something to do with the military and when he finally tried to return to the USA, he had to wait in Mexico before being allowed to enter. It was a whole thing.
kii said:
I read some more about the Russian asset in the Oval Office. The process started in 1977, according to one account of the history.I remember when a former colleague at the bookstore confidently told me that Obama was a sleeper terrorist, in 2008. I knew she was a wack job, but wow.
A few years later I found out that her brother had married an Afghani woman* whilst overseas, he had something to do with the military and when he finally tried to return to the USA, he had to wait in Mexico before being allowed to enter. It was a whole thing.
I found the court documents. He was on a No Fly list and had a case, with others, featuring the ACLU, Mueller and Eric Holder. Plus it sounds like he entered the US illegally via road from Mexico. This was in 2010. He was a US Military veteran, interesting. Maybe Obama IS a sleeper terrorist.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 17 degrees at the back door, dark and still. We are forecast a mostly sunny 35 degrees. And 35 again tomorrow.
Just checked VicEmergency and the fire out Digby way is not apparently at our block as we thought last night from the map, but about 3km away as the crow flies. The pin in the map has been moved. They are still working on it, present status is “contained” to a couple of hectares. It’s in the State Forest. We will stay home, they don’t need extra vehicles in the way.
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 17 degrees at the back door, dark and still. We are forecast a mostly sunny 35 degrees. And 35 again tomorrow.Just checked VicEmergency and the fire out Digby way is not apparently at our block as we thought last night from the map, but about 3km away as the crow flies. The pin in the map has been moved. They are still working on it, present status is “contained” to a couple of hectares. It’s in the State Forest. We will stay home, they don’t need extra vehicles in the way.
Good to hear.
We almost got 10mm overnight.
Forecast is periods of heavy rain this morning, easing around lunchtime. Apparently we had a severe storm overnight. I wear earplugs cos Mr Mutant snores, and didn’t hear a thing. It’s not light enough yet to check the yard’s water level.
School is open for supervision only, and Mr Mutant’s company has a prod zero day, so we’re looking at moving things outside again depending on weather and water levels.
Geez Alfred, we’re over you, go away. (Issued last night)
Divine Angel said:
Geez Alfred, we’re over you, go away. (Issued last night)
Seriously!?
They label the storms like that? Or are people just that dumb? Don’t answer that.
WTF!
PS – I think I have seen this before, but with just one storm being picked on.
Michael V said:
dv said:
This was in one of the documents for my son’s food science subject. That third sentence is a real headscratcher.
The first sentence isn’t all that good either. And an Apostrophe Nazi my come by soon.
Assessment: 2/10. Rewrite and resubmit.
Big seeds have little seeds
Within their shells, to grow them.
And small seeds have smaller still,
And so, ad infinotum.
Hoping there’s some death metal in there somewhere, just for a change.
And I’m back inside. Getting too hot outside now. I have fed and watered the chooks, pulled out some weeds, pulled out a pile of kikuyu, put on three low use sprinklers for the birds. Inside stuff for the rest of the day. I’m glad we didn’t need to go over to the bush block.
Gah, library is still closed. I have a reservation waiting.
Morning pilgrims, there’s a lot of road closures.
Hanrahan was right all along.
can anyone get through this paywall?
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-vs-canada-51st-state-wildest-threats.html
sarahs mum said:
can anyone get through this paywall?https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-vs-canada-51st-state-wildest-threats.html
Since Donald Trump won a second term in the White House, one of his most bizarre fixations has been on Canada, the United States’ next-door neighbor and closest ally. It seemingly began after the election, when the president floated the idea of annexing Canada in meeting with Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau. Though this appeared to be a joke at the time, it was then seemingly elevated to the level of serious policy. Trump has continued to call Canada the “51st state” and Trudeau its “governor,” and the president has taken an increasingly adversarial approach toward the Great White North, with reports emerging that he is said to be mulling dramatic shifts in the two nations’ long-standing relationship on matters of trade and national security. Trump has of course repeatedly threatened to impose tariffs against our northern neighbor, and this week levied and then partially paused tariffs against Canada and Mexico but took specific aim at Canada and alleged that Trudeau was using the issue to “stay in power.” On Friday, he threatened Canada with new tariffs again, this time a 250 percent tax on dairy.
As the dynamic between the United States and Canada continues to fray, here’s a look at some of the wildest threats and claims Trump and his aides have reportedly made.
Annex Canada using “economic force” … for its minerals?
In early January, Trump was asked by a reporter whether he would use military force to annex Canada and make it the 51st state. He responded that he would use “economic force.”
In February, the Toronto Star reported on a series of comments from Justin Trudeau talking about his conversations with Trump that were captured on a hot mic. Per the outlet, Trudeau told a room full of Canadian business leaders at the Canada-U.S. Economic Summit that Trump’s words stem from a desire to obtain Canada’s critical minerals. “They’re very aware of our resources, of what we have, and they very much want to be able to benefit from those,” he said. “But Mr. Trump has it in mind that one of the easiest ways of doing that is absorbing our country, and it is a real thing.”
Earlier this week, Trudeau drew a connection between Trump’s previously announced 25 percent tariffs against Canada and his ongoing mantra about making Canada the 51st state. “What he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy because that’ll make it easier to annex us,” he told reporters at a press conference Tuesday.
Redraw the U.S.-Canada border
Trump has reportedly taken his talk about annexing Canada to new heights. The New York Times reported that the president spoke to Trudeau in early February and questioned the validity of the 1908 treaty that established the border between Canada and the United States and that he wanted to “revise the boundary.” The new report echoes similar reporting in the Toronto Star where Trudeau said the treaty was raised by Trump in their conversations, prompting a rebuttal from the prime minister:
According to sources, Trudeau said he replied to Trump that the treaty was replaced by the Canadian Constitution. He also reminded the president that Trudeau’s father, former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, had patriated the constitution from Great Britain to make it clear that Canada has sovereignty over its own territory.
Redistribute the Great Lakes (and take Canada’s water)
The phone call between not-yet-confirmed Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick and Canadian finance minister Dominic LeBlanc, reported by the Times, also broached the subject of the Great Lakes, the five massive freshwater lakes (Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario) that lie along the northern border and contain 21 percent of the world’s freshwater supply. Lutnick reportedly told LeBlanc that Trump is interested in tossing the standing agreements between the two nations on control of the bodies of water.
During the 2024 campaign, Trump on two occasions seemed to suggest using British Columbia’s water in California, as the Toronto Star has reported.
Remove Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance
In February, the Financial Times reported that Peter Navarro, a senior White House adviser, was advocating for Canada’s removal from the Five Eyes, the international intelligence alliance. The coalition, whose origins stretch back as far as World War II, consists of information sharing between the intelligence agencies of the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. Though Navarro denied the FT’s reporting, a new report suggests that the proposal is still being considered in the White House’s circle.
According to the New York Times, Lutnick spoke on the phone with LeBlanc and laid out numerous grievances that Trump had toward Canada. One issue top of mind for Trump was the Five Eyes alliance that, Lutnick claims, Trump wished to remove Canada from.
Cancel NORAD
Per the Times report, Lutnick also told LeBlanc that Trump was reconsidering military cooperation, including the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) — the long-standing partnership that aims to protect the continent from outside threats like nuclear missile attacks. Since then, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has apparently tried to assure Canada that this was not going to happen, according to the Times’ sources.
The fentanyl blame game
As part of his trade-war rhetoric, Trump has repeatedly accused Canada of not doing enough to curb the flow of illegal fentanyl into the U.S. across the northern border — which is his primary public justification for imposing high tariffs on Canada. There’s no evidence to support these claims, as CFR notes:
Canada plays virtually no role in the U.S. fentanyl influx, especially compared to the other countries. The country contributes less than 1 percent to its southern neighbor’s street fentanyl supply, as both the Canadian government and data from the DEA
JudgeMental said:
sarahs mum said:
can anyone get through this paywall?https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-vs-canada-51st-state-wildest-threats.html
Since Donald Trump won a second term in the White House, one of his most bizarre fixations has been on Canada, the United States’ next-door neighbor and closest ally. It seemingly began after the election, when the president floated the idea of annexing Canada in meeting with Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau. Though this appeared to be a joke at the time, it was then seemingly elevated to the level of serious policy. Trump has continued to call Canada the “51st state” and Trudeau its “governor,” and the president has taken an increasingly adversarial approach toward the Great White North, with reports emerging that he is said to be mulling dramatic shifts in the two nations’ long-standing relationship on matters of trade and national security. Trump has of course repeatedly threatened to impose tariffs against our northern neighbor, and this week levied and then partially paused tariffs against Canada and Mexico but took specific aim at Canada and alleged that Trudeau was using the issue to “stay in power.” On Friday, he threatened Canada with new tariffs again, this time a 250 percent tax on dairy.
As the dynamic between the United States and Canada continues to fray, here’s a look at some of the wildest threats and claims Trump and his aides have reportedly made.
Annex Canada using “economic force” … for its minerals?
In early January, Trump was asked by a reporter whether he would use military force to annex Canada and make it the 51st state. He responded that he would use “economic force.”
In February, the Toronto Star reported on a series of comments from Justin Trudeau talking about his conversations with Trump that were captured on a hot mic. Per the outlet, Trudeau told a room full of Canadian business leaders at the Canada-U.S. Economic Summit that Trump’s words stem from a desire to obtain Canada’s critical minerals. “They’re very aware of our resources, of what we have, and they very much want to be able to benefit from those,” he said. “But Mr. Trump has it in mind that one of the easiest ways of doing that is absorbing our country, and it is a real thing.”
Earlier this week, Trudeau drew a connection between Trump’s previously announced 25 percent tariffs against Canada and his ongoing mantra about making Canada the 51st state. “What he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy because that’ll make it easier to annex us,” he told reporters at a press conference Tuesday.
Redraw the U.S.-Canada border
Trump has reportedly taken his talk about annexing Canada to new heights. The New York Times reported that the president spoke to Trudeau in early February and questioned the validity of the 1908 treaty that established the border between Canada and the United States and that he wanted to “revise the boundary.” The new report echoes similar reporting in the Toronto Star where Trudeau said the treaty was raised by Trump in their conversations, prompting a rebuttal from the prime minister:
According to sources, Trudeau said he replied to Trump that the treaty was replaced by the Canadian Constitution. He also reminded the president that Trudeau’s father, former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, had patriated the constitution from Great Britain to make it clear that Canada has sovereignty over its own territory.
Redistribute the Great Lakes (and take Canada’s water)
The phone call between not-yet-confirmed Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick and Canadian finance minister Dominic LeBlanc, reported by the Times, also broached the subject of the Great Lakes, the five massive freshwater lakes (Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario) that lie along the northern border and contain 21 percent of the world’s freshwater supply. Lutnick reportedly told LeBlanc that Trump is interested in tossing the standing agreements between the two nations on control of the bodies of water.
During the 2024 campaign, Trump on two occasions seemed to suggest using British Columbia’s water in California, as the Toronto Star has reported.
Remove Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance
In February, the Financial Times reported that Peter Navarro, a senior White House adviser, was advocating for Canada’s removal from the Five Eyes, the international intelligence alliance. The coalition, whose origins stretch back as far as World War II, consists of information sharing between the intelligence agencies of the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. Though Navarro denied the FT’s reporting, a new report suggests that the proposal is still being considered in the White House’s circle.
According to the New York Times, Lutnick spoke on the phone with LeBlanc and laid out numerous grievances that Trump had toward Canada. One issue top of mind for Trump was the Five Eyes alliance that, Lutnick claims, Trump wished to remove Canada from.
Cancel NORAD
Per the Times report, Lutnick also told LeBlanc that Trump was reconsidering military cooperation, including the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) — the long-standing partnership that aims to protect the continent from outside threats like nuclear missile attacks. Since then, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has apparently tried to assure Canada that this was not going to happen, according to the Times’ sources.
The fentanyl blame game
As part of his trade-war rhetoric, Trump has repeatedly accused Canada of not doing enough to curb the flow of illegal fentanyl into the U.S. across the northern border — which is his primary public justification for imposing high tariffs on Canada. There’s no evidence to support these claims, as CFR notes:
Canada plays virtually no role in the U.S. fentanyl influx, especially compared to the other countries. The country contributes less than 1 percent to its southern neighbor’s street fentanyl supply, as both the Canadian government and data from the DEA
thanks Boris. nothing new in there.:)
Facebook post: all libraries closed today
First comment: any word re libraries opening today?
This afternoon’s ABC Entertains Dr Who offering is “Blink”. Best ever episode.
sees 41C for friday and saturday, how wonderful, some warm weather, dry too, all helps with getting the washing dry quickly
transition said:
sees 41C for friday and saturday, how wonderful, some warm weather, dry too, all helps with getting the washing dry quickly
From 36 to 39 are this week’s expexted max’s.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
sees 41C for friday and saturday, how wonderful, some warm weather, dry too, all helps with getting the washing dry quickly
From 36 to 39 are this week’s expexted max’s.
no problems getting your washing dry
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:
sees 41C for friday and saturday, how wonderful, some warm weather, dry too, all helps with getting the washing dry quickly
From 36 to 39 are this week’s expexted max’s.
no problems getting your washing dry
None whatsoever.
Woo hoo school is open tomorrow
roughbarked said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:From 36 to 39 are this week’s expexted max’s.
no problems getting your washing dry
None whatsoever.
i’m having cornflakes
I thought you should know
Divine Angel said:
Woo hoo school is open tomorrow
So stir-craziness will end?
Did you get any flooding inside?
We got to Gympie and back OK. Didn’t achieve much (other than the Radiotherapy), because it was bucketing down in Gympie. I got sopping wet.
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:no problems getting your washing dry
None whatsoever.
i’m having cornflakes
I thought you should know
Haven’t had one cornflake in at least fifty or sixty years.
Dunno why.
Thought you should know.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Woo hoo school is open tomorrow
So stir-craziness will end?
Did you get any flooding inside?
We got to Gympie and back OK. Didn’t achieve much (other than the Radiotherapy), because it was bucketing down in Gympie. I got sopping wet.
How’d your house fare?
In other news, I read some news today, I dared
Donald has a lot of big nukes, doesn’t want to use them, enough to destroy the world a hundred times over, well, with help from russia, a war, an exchange, a heated exchange
lot of nukes, who needs them, waste of money making more too, already too many plenty enough a lot
Donald has nukes
perhaps I saw that writ on the ABC, i’m not sure, it could be an erroneous inexactitude, a wrong
Donald has nukes
roughbarked said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:None whatsoever.
i’m having cornflakes
I thought you should know
Haven’t had one cornflake in at least fifty or sixty years.
Dunno why.
Thought you should know.
you need to get out more, go to the shop, get a cornflake, get reacquainted
don’t forget the milk
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Woo hoo school is open tomorrow
So stir-craziness will end?
Did you get any flooding inside?
We got to Gympie and back OK. Didn’t achieve much (other than the Radiotherapy), because it was bucketing down in Gympie. I got sopping wet.
How’d your house fare?
No problems. No flooding. Very little rain. Not much wind.
I’ll have to stand up a couple of potted plants and rake the leaves off the grass in the courtyard in a few days. And bring stuff back out of the shed.
3 minute British Pathé colour documentary.
The river police had pleasing little wooden boats in those days.
River Police – Rescue (1957)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuM_PNrEElU
Bubblecar said:
3 minute British Pathé colour documentary.The river police had pleasing little wooden boats in those days.
River Police – Rescue (1957)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuM_PNrEElU
Nice model of the same type of boat. From the Bassett-Lowke catalogue, 1961.
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:i’m having cornflakes
I thought you should know
Haven’t had one cornflake in at least fifty or sixty years.
Dunno why.
Thought you should know.
you need to get out more, go to the shop, get a cornflake, get reacquainted
don’t forget the milk
But I’m a Weetbix kid.
Bubblecar said:
3 minute British Pathé colour documentary.The river police had pleasing little wooden boats in those days.
River Police – Rescue (1957)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuM_PNrEElU
Beautiful little launch.
Would like very much to have one just like it.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:So stir-craziness will end?
Did you get any flooding inside?
We got to Gympie and back OK. Didn’t achieve much (other than the Radiotherapy), because it was bucketing down in Gympie. I got sopping wet.
How’d your house fare?
No problems. No flooding. Very little rain. Not much wind.
I’ll have to stand up a couple of potted plants and rake the leaves off the grass in the courtyard in a few days. And bring stuff back out of the shed.
by about three metres.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
3 minute British Pathé colour documentary.The river police had pleasing little wooden boats in those days.
River Police – Rescue (1957)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuM_PNrEElU
Beautiful little launch.
Would like very much to have one just like it.
Have you got the Captain’s hat at the ready?
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:
3 minute British Pathé colour documentary.The river police had pleasing little wooden boats in those days.
River Police – Rescue (1957)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuM_PNrEElU
Beautiful little launch.
Would like very much to have one just like it.
Have you got the Captain’s hat at the ready?
I don’t even have my old service hat any more. I believethatr someone stole it from a storage bin in the under-house area of the first place we lived after arriving in Qld.
And i sold my sword to another officer before i left the service.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:How’d your house fare?
No problems. No flooding. Very little rain. Not much wind.
I’ll have to stand up a couple of potted plants and rake the leaves off the grass in the courtyard in a few days. And bring stuff back out of the shed.
We got a bit over nine mm and got a branch that didn’t hit the house.
Just think of all that firewood for winter, Mr Barked. 😁
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:Beautiful little launch.
Would like very much to have one just like it.
Have you got the Captain’s hat at the ready?
I don’t even have my old service hat any more. I believethatr someone stole it from a storage bin in the under-house area of the first place we lived after arriving in Qld.
And i sold my sword to another officer before i left the service.
Dear oh dear.
Oh well You are mightier with the pen.
Woodie said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:No problems. No flooding. Very little rain. Not much wind.
I’ll have to stand up a couple of potted plants and rake the leaves off the grass in the courtyard in a few days. And bring stuff back out of the shed.
We got a bit over nine mm and got a branch that didn’t hit the house.
Just think of all that firewood for winter, Mr Barked. 😁
There’s a few barbies in that bit of firewood. 😁
Coming off my TV. AFP police are holding a press release suggesting that the caravan with explosives and other plots are orchestrated from inside prisons in order to blackmail their way out of jail before they have to pass GO.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Woo hoo school is open tomorrow
So stir-craziness will end?
Did you get any flooding inside?
We got to Gympie and back OK. Didn’t achieve much (other than the Radiotherapy), because it was bucketing down in Gympie. I got sopping wet.
No flooding inside
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Woo hoo school is open tomorrow
So stir-craziness will end?
Did you get any flooding inside?
We got to Gympie and back OK. Didn’t achieve much (other than the Radiotherapy), because it was bucketing down in Gympie. I got sopping wet.
No flooding inside
Excellent news.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Woo hoo school is open tomorrow
So stir-craziness will end?
Did you get any flooding inside?
We got to Gympie and back OK. Didn’t achieve much (other than the Radiotherapy), because it was bucketing down in Gympie. I got sopping wet.
No flooding inside
That’s good.
Forget your wet weather gear Micheal?
ah Lost Perth always reminds me of things from my childhood, some of which I would like to forget.
We used to have a Lion park.. just like the safari, drive through versions of Africa… (possibly smaller). I remember going there in the old family Kingwood… me (the youngest) sitting in the very back (no seatbelts).
then I remembered the sign they had up.. which I’m sure was humorous to adults at the time, but it still annoyed me then and now..
Sewage expected to overflow into flood water, Queensland water authority warns
Look, this is both gross and important. In QLD the Seqwater authority is warning that sewage is expected to overflow into some flood water:
We’re experiencing wastewater overflows and releases from some of our wastewater infrastructure due to a range of reasons including increased flows from wet weather, power outages or critical components of pump stations having been removed as part of preparation works.
We’re reminding people to avoid contact with flood water and local waterways following wet weather. During wet weather events, waterways can be impacted by a range of sources including diluted wastewater, debris, animal waste and stormwater run-off.
Drinking water remains safe.
—
Oh shit
Ian said:
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:So stir-craziness will end?
Did you get any flooding inside?
We got to Gympie and back OK. Didn’t achieve much (other than the Radiotherapy), because it was bucketing down in Gympie. I got sopping wet.
No flooding inside
That’s good.
Forget your wet weather gear Micheal?
No. It’s gone mouldy and I need new stuff. I’ve tried a few places, and nothing suits my needs.
roughbarked said:
Coming off my TV. AFP police are holding a press release suggesting that the caravan with explosives and other plots are orchestrated from inside prisons in order to blackmail their way out of jail before they have to pass GO.
and here it is on Justin https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-10/nsw-police-strike-force-pearl-caravan-dural-arrests/105032876
waves to Mr V.
That Temu re-chargable radio is still going strong on it’s original charge.
No. I haven’t had it on continuously, but it’d be up to at least 15+ hours so far.
How long it lasts is, of course, entirely dependant on the volume level.
The volume is currently set at sufficient to hear it quote OK from the kitchen bench when over at the pooter desk.
How long it would last on 2 * C size batteries, I don’t know.
Arts said:
ah Lost Perth always reminds me of things from my childhood, some of which I would like to forget.We used to have a Lion park.. just like the safari, drive through versions of Africa… (possibly smaller). I remember going there in the old family Kingwood… me (the youngest) sitting in the very back (no seatbelts).
then I remembered the sign they had up.. which I’m sure was humorous to adults at the time, but it still annoyed me then and now..
Not the Kingswood! I’ve just Pea-Beau’d the mud flaps.
Woodie said:
waves to Mr V.That Temu re-chargable radio is still going strong on it’s original charge.
No. I haven’t had it on continuously, but it’d be up to at least 15+ hours so far.
How long it lasts is, of course, entirely dependant on the volume level.
The volume is currently set at sufficient to hear it quote OK from the kitchen bench when over at the pooter desk.
How long it would last on 2 * C size batteries, I don’t know.
I’m gonna add one to my Temu cart. Never had any issues with Temu stuff, apart from things I knew weren’t going to work. (Bought a pack of skin tag things which were supposed to dissolve skin tags. At a dollar, I wasn’t expecting them to work, and they didn’t)
Hervy Bay mayor upset about no flood warning?!
ABC news item.
Woodie said:
waves to Mr V.That Temu re-chargable radio is still going strong on it’s original charge.
No. I haven’t had it on continuously, but it’d be up to at least 15+ hours so far.
How long it lasts is, of course, entirely dependant on the volume level.
The volume is currently set at sufficient to hear it quote OK from the kitchen bench when over at the pooter desk.
How long it would last on 2 * C size batteries, I don’t know.
Well, that’s amazing!
Especially as Temu claims a much shorter time.
Divine Angel said:
Woodie said:
waves to Mr V.That Temu re-chargable radio is still going strong on it’s original charge.
No. I haven’t had it on continuously, but it’d be up to at least 15+ hours so far.
How long it lasts is, of course, entirely dependant on the volume level.
The volume is currently set at sufficient to hear it quote OK from the kitchen bench when over at the pooter desk.
How long it would last on 2 * C size batteries, I don’t know.
I’m gonna add one to my Temu cart. Never had any issues with Temu stuff, apart from things I knew weren’t going to work. (Bought a pack of skin tag things which were supposed to dissolve skin tags. At a dollar, I wasn’t expecting them to work, and they didn’t)
Do you both have one of these? $2.60 Gret for charging multiple devices in the car.
USB charger for the car cigarette lighter plughole. here
Divine Angel said:
Woodie said:
waves to Mr V.That Temu re-chargable radio is still going strong on it’s original charge.
No. I haven’t had it on continuously, but it’d be up to at least 15+ hours so far.
How long it lasts is, of course, entirely dependant on the volume level.
The volume is currently set at sufficient to hear it quote OK from the kitchen bench when over at the pooter desk.
How long it would last on 2 * C size batteries, I don’t know.
I’m gonna add one to my Temu cart. Never had any issues with Temu stuff, apart from things I knew weren’t going to work. (Bought a pack of skin tag things which were supposed to dissolve skin tags. At a dollar, I wasn’t expecting them to work, and they didn’t)
I’m glad glad you two are finding Temu ok. I went looking at some stuff there and thought it all looked very dodgy.
You see a lot of posts like.. Temu sells crap… Temu just want to harvest your data…
Woodie said:
Divine Angel said:
Woodie said:
waves to Mr V.That Temu re-chargable radio is still going strong on it’s original charge.
No. I haven’t had it on continuously, but it’d be up to at least 15+ hours so far.
How long it lasts is, of course, entirely dependant on the volume level.
The volume is currently set at sufficient to hear it quote OK from the kitchen bench when over at the pooter desk.
How long it would last on 2 * C size batteries, I don’t know.
I’m gonna add one to my Temu cart. Never had any issues with Temu stuff, apart from things I knew weren’t going to work. (Bought a pack of skin tag things which were supposed to dissolve skin tags. At a dollar, I wasn’t expecting them to work, and they didn’t)
Do you both have one of these? $2.60 Gret for charging multiple devices in the car.
USB charger for the car cigarette lighter plughole. here
Mrs V pointed out to me the other day that the car has built-in USB charging ports.
Woodie said:
Divine Angel said:
Woodie said:
waves to Mr V.That Temu re-chargable radio is still going strong on it’s original charge.
No. I haven’t had it on continuously, but it’d be up to at least 15+ hours so far.
How long it lasts is, of course, entirely dependant on the volume level.
The volume is currently set at sufficient to hear it quote OK from the kitchen bench when over at the pooter desk.
How long it would last on 2 * C size batteries, I don’t know.
I’m gonna add one to my Temu cart. Never had any issues with Temu stuff, apart from things I knew weren’t going to work. (Bought a pack of skin tag things which were supposed to dissolve skin tags. At a dollar, I wasn’t expecting them to work, and they didn’t)
Do you both have one of these? $2.60 Gret for charging multiple devices in the car.
USB charger for the car cigarette lighter plughole. here
I don’t have a cigarette lighter in my car. It has multiple USB charging ports already.
Ian said:
Divine Angel said:
Woodie said:
waves to Mr V.That Temu re-chargable radio is still going strong on it’s original charge.
No. I haven’t had it on continuously, but it’d be up to at least 15+ hours so far.
How long it lasts is, of course, entirely dependant on the volume level.
The volume is currently set at sufficient to hear it quote OK from the kitchen bench when over at the pooter desk.
How long it would last on 2 * C size batteries, I don’t know.
I’m gonna add one to my Temu cart. Never had any issues with Temu stuff, apart from things I knew weren’t going to work. (Bought a pack of skin tag things which were supposed to dissolve skin tags. At a dollar, I wasn’t expecting them to work, and they didn’t)
I’m glad glad you two are finding Temu ok. I went looking at some stuff there and thought it all looked very dodgy.
You see a lot of posts like.. Temu sells crap… Temu just want to harvest your data…
Never had any issue with Temu stuff. ‘cept dodgy 512GB micro SD cards for $5. They are 32GB, and work fine if you create a 32 GB partition on them.
Ian said:
Divine Angel said:
Woodie said:
waves to Mr V.That Temu re-chargable radio is still going strong on it’s original charge.
No. I haven’t had it on continuously, but it’d be up to at least 15+ hours so far.
How long it lasts is, of course, entirely dependant on the volume level.
The volume is currently set at sufficient to hear it quote OK from the kitchen bench when over at the pooter desk.
How long it would last on 2 * C size batteries, I don’t know.
I’m gonna add one to my Temu cart. Never had any issues with Temu stuff, apart from things I knew weren’t going to work. (Bought a pack of skin tag things which were supposed to dissolve skin tags. At a dollar, I wasn’t expecting them to work, and they didn’t)
I’m glad glad you two are finding Temu ok. I went looking at some stuff there and thought it all looked very dodgy.
You see a lot of posts like.. Temu sells crap… Temu just want to harvest your data…
Same can be said for Kmart.
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
ah Lost Perth always reminds me of things from my childhood, some of which I would like to forget.We used to have a Lion park.. just like the safari, drive through versions of Africa… (possibly smaller). I remember going there in the old family Kingwood… me (the youngest) sitting in the very back (no seatbelts).
then I remembered the sign they had up.. which I’m sure was humorous to adults at the time, but it still annoyed me then and now..
Not the Kingswood! I’ve just Pea-Beau’d the mud flaps.
that show and this sign were written by the same people
Woodie said:
Divine Angel said:
Woodie said:
waves to Mr V.That Temu re-chargable radio is still going strong on it’s original charge.
No. I haven’t had it on continuously, but it’d be up to at least 15+ hours so far.
How long it lasts is, of course, entirely dependant on the volume level.
The volume is currently set at sufficient to hear it quote OK from the kitchen bench when over at the pooter desk.
How long it would last on 2 * C size batteries, I don’t know.
I’m gonna add one to my Temu cart. Never had any issues with Temu stuff, apart from things I knew weren’t going to work. (Bought a pack of skin tag things which were supposed to dissolve skin tags. At a dollar, I wasn’t expecting them to work, and they didn’t)
Do you both have one of these? $2.60 Gret for charging multiple devices in the car.
USB charger for the car cigarette lighter plughole. here
Ooo.. one of them is Super!
Ian said:
Divine Angel said:
Woodie said:
waves to Mr V.That Temu re-chargable radio is still going strong on it’s original charge.
No. I haven’t had it on continuously, but it’d be up to at least 15+ hours so far.
How long it lasts is, of course, entirely dependant on the volume level.
The volume is currently set at sufficient to hear it quote OK from the kitchen bench when over at the pooter desk.
How long it would last on 2 * C size batteries, I don’t know.
I’m gonna add one to my Temu cart. Never had any issues with Temu stuff, apart from things I knew weren’t going to work. (Bought a pack of skin tag things which were supposed to dissolve skin tags. At a dollar, I wasn’t expecting them to work, and they didn’t)
I’m glad glad you two are finding Temu ok. I went looking at some stuff there and thought it all looked very dodgy.
You see a lot of posts like.. Temu sells crap… Temu just want to harvest your data…
I have bought a lot of thing from temp, mostly stuff for the dioramas I build, but also lamps and gifts and various household items… but I’m happy with all of it, always delivered efficiently, no issues at all… so I dont really know what the bad publicity is about from a personal perspective
Michael V said:
Woodie said:
Divine Angel said:I’m gonna add one to my Temu cart. Never had any issues with Temu stuff, apart from things I knew weren’t going to work. (Bought a pack of skin tag things which were supposed to dissolve skin tags. At a dollar, I wasn’t expecting them to work, and they didn’t)
Do you both have one of these? $2.60 Gret for charging multiple devices in the car.
USB charger for the car cigarette lighter plughole. here
Mrs V pointed out to me the other day that the car has built-in USB charging ports.
Newer cars do have a USB port in them, but it’s usually just the one? Maybe another for the back seat?
The Golden Girl only has cigarette lighter plugs. One up front, and another just inside the back tailgate. The Golden Girl is 20 years old next year.
Divine Angel said:
Woodie said:
Divine Angel said:I’m gonna add one to my Temu cart. Never had any issues with Temu stuff, apart from things I knew weren’t going to work. (Bought a pack of skin tag things which were supposed to dissolve skin tags. At a dollar, I wasn’t expecting them to work, and they didn’t)
Do you both have one of these? $2.60 Gret for charging multiple devices in the car.
USB charger for the car cigarette lighter plughole. here
I don’t have a cigarette lighter in my car. It has multiple USB charging ports already.
Way kewlies. 😁 A car battery should be able to charge quite a few devices, quite a few times, before needing to start the car.
Arts said:
Ian said:
Divine Angel said:I’m gonna add one to my Temu cart. Never had any issues with Temu stuff, apart from things I knew weren’t going to work. (Bought a pack of skin tag things which were supposed to dissolve skin tags. At a dollar, I wasn’t expecting them to work, and they didn’t)
I’m glad glad you two are finding Temu ok. I went looking at some stuff there and thought it all looked very dodgy.
You see a lot of posts like.. Temu sells crap… Temu just want to harvest your data…I have bought a lot of thing from temp, mostly stuff for the dioramas I build, but also lamps and gifts and various household items… but I’m happy with all of it, always delivered efficiently, no issues at all… so I dont really know what the bad publicity is about from a personal perspective
I did get sent someone else’s stuff once. Told them, and they resent my stuff, and said to just keep the erroneously sent stuff.
On the other hand, the number of things I’ve thrown out or returned to Kmart for a refund in the past three years is absurd.
Woodie said:
Divine Angel said:
Woodie said:Do you both have one of these? $2.60 Gret for charging multiple devices in the car.
USB charger for the car cigarette lighter plughole. here
I don’t have a cigarette lighter in my car. It has multiple USB charging ports already.
Way kewlies. 😁 A car battery should be able to charge quite a few devices, quite a few times, before needing to start the car.
My car has USB ports, but it also has the “lighter” port, without the actual lighter. But these things have long since been used for multiple other purposes…
Arts said:
Ian said:
Divine Angel said:I’m gonna add one to my Temu cart. Never had any issues with Temu stuff, apart from things I knew weren’t going to work. (Bought a pack of skin tag things which were supposed to dissolve skin tags. At a dollar, I wasn’t expecting them to work, and they didn’t)
I’m glad glad you two are finding Temu ok. I went looking at some stuff there and thought it all looked very dodgy.
You see a lot of posts like.. Temu sells crap… Temu just want to harvest your data…I have bought a lot of thing from temp, mostly stuff for the dioramas I build, but also lamps and gifts and various household items… but I’m happy with all of it, always delivered efficiently, no issues at all… so I dont really know what the bad publicity is about from a personal perspective
OK.. but I’ve never heard of temp.
These are useful too. $20.
Plug it in, set your kwh rate (in cents) and it will tell you how much your lecky is costing for whatever is plugged into it.
furious said:
Woodie said:
Divine Angel said:I don’t have a cigarette lighter in my car. It has multiple USB charging ports already.
Way kewlies. 😁 A car battery should be able to charge quite a few devices, quite a few times, before needing to start the car.
My car has USB ports, but it also has the “lighter” port, without the actual lighter. But these things have long since been used for multiple other purposes…
Yes cigarette lighters have many uses, I use one on the Triton to plug in the big tank pump for driving around and poisoning the environment.
You can kill a lot of lantana with that.
Peak Warming Man said:
furious said:
Woodie said:Way kewlies. 😁 A car battery should be able to charge quite a few devices, quite a few times, before needing to start the car.
My car has USB ports, but it also has the “lighter” port, without the actual lighter. But these things have long since been used for multiple other purposes…
Yes cigarette lighters have many uses, I use one on the Triton to plug in the big tank pump for driving around and poisoning the environment.
You can kill a lot of lantana with that.
The Big Red Tractor has one on it as well.
Woodie said:
theseThese are useful too. $20.
Plug it in, set your kwh rate (in cents) and it will tell you how much your lecky is costing for whatever is plugged into it.
Oh that reminds me… Is is safe to turn our solar back on? Turned it off for Alfred’s arrival.
ummmm…..the radio just gave up. Have had to plug it back in for charge again. No waiting to use it, once I plugged it back in again.
I got this set of Alice in Wonderland garden ornaments from Temu.
Woodie said:
ummmm…..the radio just gave up. Have had to plug it back in for charge again. No waiting to use it, once I plugged it back in again.
It knew you were boasting about it.
Divine Angel said:
Woodie said:
theseThese are useful too. $20.
Plug it in, set your kwh rate (in cents) and it will tell you how much your lecky is costing for whatever is plugged into it.
Oh that reminds me… Is is safe to turn our solar back on? Turned it off for Alfred’s arrival.
I’d suggest it’s OK. It’s mostly water ingress into the inverter, if flooded while you’re not there, is the major concern.
Woodie said:
Divine Angel said:
Woodie said:
theseThese are useful too. $20.
Plug it in, set your kwh rate (in cents) and it will tell you how much your lecky is costing for whatever is plugged into it.
Oh that reminds me… Is is safe to turn our solar back on? Turned it off for Alfred’s arrival.
I’d suggest it’s OK. It’s mostly water ingress into the inverter, if flooded while you’re not there, is the major concern.
I thought it had something to do with feeding power back into the grid while people were working on it or something.
Woodie said:
theseThese are useful too. $20.
Plug it in, set your kwh rate (in cents) and it will tell you how much your lecky is costing for whatever is plugged into it.
Yeah. I bought one years ago (non Temu crap)
Divine Angel said:
Woodie said:
Divine Angel said:Oh that reminds me… Is is safe to turn our solar back on? Turned it off for Alfred’s arrival.
I’d suggest it’s OK. It’s mostly water ingress into the inverter, if flooded while you’re not there, is the major concern.
I thought it had something to do with feeding power back into the grid while people were working on it or something.
““So if Energex are saying that they need you to turn your solar off for the safety of Energex workers that’s a noble thing to say, but it’s a bit like saying that you shouldn’t drive your car because the airbags might not work,” he said.
“They’re designed to do what they do, and when the grid is not stable, the inverters will disconnect from the grid by themselves. You don’t have to touch them.”
Woodie said:
Divine Angel said:
Woodie said:I’d suggest it’s OK. It’s mostly water ingress into the inverter, if flooded while you’re not there, is the major concern.
I thought it had something to do with feeding power back into the grid while people were working on it or something.
““So if Energex are saying that they need you to turn your solar off for the safety of Energex workers that’s a noble thing to say, but it’s a bit like saying that you shouldn’t drive your car because the airbags might not work,” he said.
“They’re designed to do what they do, and when the grid is not stable, the inverters will disconnect from the grid by themselves. You don’t have to touch them.”
Okely dokely then.
Peak Warming Man said:
furious said:
Woodie said:Way kewlies. 😁 A car battery should be able to charge quite a few devices, quite a few times, before needing to start the car.
My car has USB ports, but it also has the “lighter” port, without the actual lighter. But these things have long since been used for multiple other purposes…
Yes cigarette lighters have many uses, I use one on the Triton to plug in the big tank pump for driving around and poisoning the environment.
You can kill a lot of lantana with that.
picked up a couple 44s of agent orange cheap didn’t ya, guy down the secondhand shop drained the tanks on a huey helicopter
Divine Angel said:
Woodie said:
Divine Angel said:I thought it had something to do with feeding power back into the grid while people were working on it or something.
““So if Energex are saying that they need you to turn your solar off for the safety of Energex workers that’s a noble thing to say, but it’s a bit like saying that you shouldn’t drive your car because the airbags might not work,” he said.
“They’re designed to do what they do, and when the grid is not stable, the inverters will disconnect from the grid by themselves. You don’t have to touch them.”
Okely dokely then.
Mr buffy turned ours off when we changed to generator a few weeks ago during fires. Then we forgot to turn it on again for about a week. The monthly power bill was a little higher than usual, less power put back into the grid, but also we’ve had the bore going more than usual because of the hot dry weather. I try to use it when the sun is on the panels though.
There is rain and lightning at Penola…might get some of that in an hour or two.
spiny-cheek talks songy speak says cool change is here, just outside near the antenna
buffy said:
There is rain and lightning at Penola…might get some of that in an hour or two.
Has it happened yet?
Last week DV mentioned a show on Netflix.. and I thought it sounded interesting, but now I can’t remember what the show was.
Arts said:
Last week DV mentioned a show on Netflix.. and I thought it sounded interesting, but now I can’t remember what the show was.
And you expect me to remember?
You’re dreaming.
Michael V said:
Arts said:
Last week DV mentioned a show on Netflix.. and I thought it sounded interesting, but now I can’t remember what the show was.
And you expect me to remember?
You’re dreaming.
nope, I was hoping that DV would see the post and remind me
Arts said:
Last week DV mentioned a show on Netflix.. and I thought it sounded interesting, but now I can’t remember what the show was.
From: dv
ID: 2257373
Subject: re: Chat March 2025
There’s a British show on Netflix called Toxic Town about the Corby poisonings case in 2009.
Might check it out.
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:
Last week DV mentioned a show on Netflix.. and I thought it sounded interesting, but now I can’t remember what the show was.
And you expect me to remember?
You’re dreaming.
nope, I was hoping that DV would see the post and remind me
He dislikes being discussed in the third-person so I don’t like your chances…
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:
Last week DV mentioned a show on Netflix.. and I thought it sounded interesting, but now I can’t remember what the show was.
And you expect me to remember?
You’re dreaming.
nope, I was hoping that DV would see the post and remind me
Ah.
You can now buy pugs in the Modelu model figure range, 3 different poses in a pack.
Bubblecar said:
You can now buy pugs in the Modelu model figure range, 3 different poses in a pack.
So when’s PWM’s birfday?
Arts said:
Last week DV mentioned a show on Netflix.. and I thought it sounded interesting, but now I can’t remember what the show was.
I think it was the one I mentioned a week or so ago, but I can’t remember what it was.
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:
Last week DV mentioned a show on Netflix.. and I thought it sounded interesting, but now I can’t remember what the show was.
From: dv
ID: 2257373
Subject: re: Chat March 2025
There’s a British show on Netflix called Toxic Town about the Corby poisonings case in 2009.
Might check it out.
there was another one ‘‘apocalypse” or something like that.
kii said:
Arts said:
Last week DV mentioned a show on Netflix.. and I thought it sounded interesting, but now I can’t remember what the show was.
I think it was the one I mentioned a week or so ago, but I can’t remember what it was.
The Devil’s Hour with Peter Capaldi.
kii said:
kii said:
Arts said:
Last week DV mentioned a show on Netflix.. and I thought it sounded interesting, but now I can’t remember what the show was.
I think it was the one I mentioned a week or so ago, but I can’t remember what it was.
The Devil’s Hour with Peter Capaldi.
Also Toxic Town.
It’s 4am, my brain is gluggy.
AussieDJ said:
buffy said:
There is rain and lightning at Penola…might get some of that in an hour or two.
Has it happened yet?
It has now. And it’s enough rain to actually call it rain. Pathetic compared to the NSW and Queensland stuff, but even a couple of mm is wonderful for us at this stage. I watered the garden around 6.00pm too…
Just stumbled across this on Youtube.
These days, when you hear about our Navy sending a ‘boarding party’ to investigate a merchant ship,, it’sall helicopters, and abseiling, and kevlar armour, and tactital vests, gosh-know-what-all.
This is what i knew:
Bubblecar said:
You can now buy pugs in the Modelu model figure range, 3 different poses in a pack.
Do they smell like a Real Pug?
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:
Last week DV mentioned a show on Netflix.. and I thought it sounded interesting, but now I can’t remember what the show was.
From: dv
ID: 2257373
Subject: re: Chat March 2025
There’s a British show on Netflix called Toxic Town about the Corby poisonings case in 2009.
Might check it out.
thank you!
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
You can now buy pugs in the Modelu model figure range, 3 different poses in a pack.
Do they smell like a Real Pug?
They struggle to breathe let alone smell…
Witty Rejoinder said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:And you expect me to remember?
You’re dreaming.
nope, I was hoping that DV would see the post and remind me
He dislikes being discussed in the third-person so I don’t like your chances…
since when?
more cornflakes, in cold milk
anyone sees roughbarked pass it on, he has to know
in other news the voices in my head are telling me to drown the cornflakes, just quietly, i’ve been keeping that from my therapist
JudgeMental said:
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:
Last week DV mentioned a show on Netflix.. and I thought it sounded interesting, but now I can’t remember what the show was.
From: dv
ID: 2257373
Subject: re: Chat March 2025
There’s a British show on Netflix called Toxic Town about the Corby poisonings case in 2009.
Might check it out.there was another one ‘‘apocalypse” or something like that.
no I think the first one you mentioned was the one.. although I thought it was a one word title… but I have been known to be wrong occasionally..
in any case, it looks like a British equivalent of Erin Brockovich… same sort of story.. I might give it a go
Witty Rejoinder said:
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
You can now buy pugs in the Modelu model figure range, 3 different poses in a pack.
Do they smell like a Real Pug?
They struggle to breathe let alone smell…
Hei Long is having difficulties now he is old and the weather is hot. I have to make sure to keep him inside under the aircon, and if he trundles off outside I dunk him in the dog paddling pool and then bring him inside again. This is the hottest Summer we’ve had for a few years. And he is now very old for a Pug.
Arts said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Arts said:nope, I was hoping that DV would see the post and remind me
He dislikes being discussed in the third-person so I don’t like your chances…
since when?
That was a facetious comment.
kii said:
kii said:
Arts said:
Last week DV mentioned a show on Netflix.. and I thought it sounded interesting, but now I can’t remember what the show was.
I think it was the one I mentioned a week or so ago, but I can’t remember what it was.
The Devil’s Hour with Peter Capaldi.
cant find that one..
Witty Rejoinder said:
Arts said:
Witty Rejoinder said:He dislikes being discussed in the third-person so I don’t like your chances…
since when?
That was a facetious comment.
since when?
I almost bought cornflakes today… becuase I have been craving honey joys… but then I didnt buy them becuase I always eat all the honey joys.. and that’s not exactly healthy ..
but I cannot get rid of this craving, so I might just eat all the honey joys.
Arts said:
I almost bought cornflakes today… becuase I have been craving honey joys… but then I didnt buy them becuase I always eat all the honey joys.. and that’s not exactly healthy ..but I cannot get rid of this craving, so I might just eat all the honey joys.
Once (sometimes twice) a year I make chocolate crackles. And boy are they noisy things in the fridge…
been teaching honeyeaters to clean out fence sprinkler nozzles, skeptics said it couldn’t be done, but there you have it, yes evidence, I wont be discouraged by the unbelievers
Arts said:
I almost bought cornflakes today… becuase I have been craving honey joys… but then I didnt buy them becuase I always eat all the honey joys.. and that’s not exactly healthy ..but I cannot get rid of this craving, so I might just eat all the honey joys.
Buy one of those cereal variety packs they use at motels and you could make a tiny amount of honey joys, and a couple of chocolate crackles, and whatever the CWA recommends you do with the Special K and so on…
for some reason facebook offers me this.
Dyanna Sawyer
12h ·
I’ve just moved to Hamilton and bought a home built in 1915. I found these personal items behind the old fireplace in the bedroom.
The identity of the fellow is written on the back of the photo so if he is anyone’s ancestor I am happy to pass it on.
If the Horticultural Society would like the member ticket please let me know! I think it’s pretty cool and it gave me such a buzz 🙂
buffy said:
Arts said:
I almost bought cornflakes today… becuase I have been craving honey joys… but then I didnt buy them becuase I always eat all the honey joys.. and that’s not exactly healthy ..but I cannot get rid of this craving, so I might just eat all the honey joys.
Once (sometimes twice) a year I make chocolate crackles. And boy are they noisy things in the fridge…
Many a time in my youth I’ve been sick on them, it’s the copha you see.
Over.
Trying out signage for my fictional industry.
Which looks better, light lettering or dark?
transition said:
been teaching honeyeaters to clean out fence sprinkler nozzles, skeptics said it couldn’t be done, but there you have it, yes evidence, I wont be discouraged by the unbelievers
:)
Bubblecar said:
Trying out signage for my fictional industry.Which looks better, light lettering or dark?
top reads easier.
sarahs mum said:
for some reason facebook offers me this.Dyanna Sawyer
12h ·
I’ve just moved to Hamilton and bought a home built in 1915. I found these personal items behind the old fireplace in the bedroom.
The identity of the fellow is written on the back of the photo so if he is anyone’s ancestor I am happy to pass it on.
If the Horticultural Society would like the member ticket please let me know! I think it’s pretty cool and it gave me such a buzz 🙂
:)
Bubblecar said:
Trying out signage for my fictional industry.Which looks better, light lettering or dark?
My choice: lighter background.
Bubblecar said:
Trying out signage for my fictional industry.Which looks better, light lettering or dark?
The top one stands out like a bulls balls but the bottom one looks more industrial.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Trying out signage for my fictional industry.Which looks better, light lettering or dark?
The top one stands out like a bulls balls but the bottom one looks more industrial.
It seems we’re all agreed, ta.
Bubblecar said:
Trying out signage for my fictional industry.Which looks better, light lettering or dark?
Named for actress Margaret Tyzack?
Bubblecar said:
Trying out signage for my fictional industry.Which looks better, light lettering or dark?
I prefer the bottom one
Neophyte said:
Bubblecar said:
Trying out signage for my fictional industry.Which looks better, light lettering or dark?
Named for actress Margaret Tyzack?
No, it was just a name that popped into my head some time ago as a vaguely nostalgic industrial name.
Apparently there was actually a Tyzack steel firm, maker of knives and cutlery, but my fictional one is a soap and candle manufacturer that expanded into detergents and various chemical products.
How do you clear a flooded engine?
1: Crank the engine with the accelerator pedal pushed to the floor.
2: Continue cranking the engine (for up to 10 seconds) until you hear the engine trying to start.
3:Once the engine’s started, allow it to rev up for a second or two, then hold it at a higher-than-normal idle speed for a few more seconds
Peak Warming Man said:
How do you clear a flooded engine?
1: Crank the engine with the accelerator pedal pushed to the floor.
2: Continue cranking the engine (for up to 10 seconds) until you hear the engine trying to start.
3:Once the engine’s started, allow it to rev up for a second or two, then hold it at a higher-than-normal idle speed for a few more seconds
Yeah. Nah!
Peak Warming Man said:
How do you clear a flooded engine?
1: Crank the engine with the accelerator pedal pushed to the floor.
2: Continue cranking the engine (for up to 10 seconds) until you hear the engine trying to start.
3:Once the engine’s started, allow it to rev up for a second or two, then hold it at a higher-than-normal idle speed for a few more seconds
I think that the points might be wet.
Peak Warming Man said:
How do you clear a flooded engine?
1: Crank the engine with the accelerator pedal pushed to the floor.
2: Continue cranking the engine (for up to 10 seconds) until you hear the engine trying to start.
3:Once the engine’s started, allow it to rev up for a second or two, then hold it at a higher-than-normal idle speed for a few more seconds
Be best to get the car outa the flood first, though, wouldn’t it, hey what but?
I had an Austin Champ once; it had 4 gears forward and 4 reverse (or was it 6?), 2-wheel- or 4-wheel-drive, and a waterproof Rolls-Royce engine with a snorkel. It could literally be driven underwater.
Arts said:
I almost bought cornflakes today… becuase I have been craving honey joys… but then I didnt buy them becuase I always eat all the honey joys.. and that’s not exactly healthy ..but I cannot get rid of this craving, so I might just eat all the honey joys.
I have never heard of honey joys before, so I looked it up. I thought it was maybe some type of sweetened boxed cereal. Like coco pops but different. But I was wrong. It is a kids party sweet treat.
Whilst my education has improved (thank you), I doubt I will be making or eating any.
sarahs mum said:
for some reason facebook offers me this.Dyanna Sawyer
12h ·
I’ve just moved to Hamilton and bought a home built in 1915. I found these personal items behind the old fireplace in the bedroom.
The identity of the fellow is written on the back of the photo so if he is anyone’s ancestor I am happy to pass it on.
If the Horticultural Society would like the member ticket please let me know! I think it’s pretty cool and it gave me such a buzz 🙂
Looks like Facebook might read your computer.
Bubblecar said:
Trying out signage for my fictional industry.Which looks better, light lettering or dark?
Light.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Arts said:
I almost bought cornflakes today… becuase I have been craving honey joys… but then I didnt buy them becuase I always eat all the honey joys.. and that’s not exactly healthy ..but I cannot get rid of this craving, so I might just eat all the honey joys.
Buy one of those cereal variety packs they use at motels and you could make a tiny amount of honey joys, and a couple of chocolate crackles, and whatever the CWA recommends you do with the Special K and so on…
That’s is very sensible…. But I don’t like chocolate crackles.
Look, you’ve convinced me, next time I go shopping I’ll buy a big box of cornflakes, make honey joys, and then blame you for everything that goes wrong afterwards.
Peak Warming Man said:
How do you clear a flooded engine?
1: Crank the engine with the accelerator pedal pushed to the floor.
2: Continue cranking the engine (for up to 10 seconds) until you hear the engine trying to start.
3:Once the engine’s started, allow it to rev up for a second or two, then hold it at a higher-than-normal idle speed for a few more seconds
LOL
Michael V said:
Arts said:
I almost bought cornflakes today… becuase I have been craving honey joys… but then I didnt buy them becuase I always eat all the honey joys.. and that’s not exactly healthy ..but I cannot get rid of this craving, so I might just eat all the honey joys.
I have never heard of honey joys before, so I looked it up. I thought it was maybe some type of sweetened boxed cereal. Like coco pops but different. But I was wrong. It is a kids party sweet treat.
Whilst my education has improved (thank you), I doubt I will be making or eating any.
You’ve never had honey joys? Your entire childhood was deprived, I’m afraid.
Michael V said:
Arts said:
I almost bought cornflakes today… becuase I have been craving honey joys… but then I didnt buy them becuase I always eat all the honey joys.. and that’s not exactly healthy ..but I cannot get rid of this craving, so I might just eat all the honey joys.
I have never heard of honey joys before, so I looked it up. I thought it was maybe some type of sweetened boxed cereal. Like coco pops but different. But I was wrong. It is a kids party sweet treat.
Whilst my education has improved (thank you), I doubt I will be making or eating any.
Yes, I had to look it up, too.
And, like you, I doubt that I’ll be making or eating any.
Arts said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Arts said:
I almost bought cornflakes today… becuase I have been craving honey joys… but then I didnt buy them becuase I always eat all the honey joys.. and that’s not exactly healthy ..but I cannot get rid of this craving, so I might just eat all the honey joys.
Buy one of those cereal variety packs they use at motels and you could make a tiny amount of honey joys, and a couple of chocolate crackles, and whatever the CWA recommends you do with the Special K and so on…
That’s is very sensible…. But I don’t like chocolate crackles.
Look, you’ve convinced me, next time I go shopping I’ll buy a big box of cornflakes, make honey joys, and then blame you for everything that goes wrong afterwards.
mum used to make a similar dessert but with golden syrup. it was done in a flan base.
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Buy one of those cereal variety packs they use at motels and you could make a tiny amount of honey joys, and a couple of chocolate crackles, and whatever the CWA recommends you do with the Special K and so on…
That’s is very sensible…. But I don’t like chocolate crackles.
Look, you’ve convinced me, next time I go shopping I’ll buy a big box of cornflakes, make honey joys, and then blame you for everything that goes wrong afterwards.
mum used to make a similar dessert but with golden syrup. it was done in a flan base.
https://www.masoncash.co.uk/recipe/cornflake-cake
no jam though from what i remember.
btm said:
I had an Austin Champ once; it had 4 gears forward and 4 reverse (or was it 6?), 2-wheel- or 4-wheel-drive, and a waterproof Rolls-Royce engine with a snorkel. It could literally be driven underwater.
5 gears (IIRC) and forward-reverse diff.
Lucky you. They were great fun, I’ve been told. I’d love to own one.
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:
I almost bought cornflakes today… becuase I have been craving honey joys… but then I didnt buy them becuase I always eat all the honey joys.. and that’s not exactly healthy ..but I cannot get rid of this craving, so I might just eat all the honey joys.
I have never heard of honey joys before, so I looked it up. I thought it was maybe some type of sweetened boxed cereal. Like coco pops but different. But I was wrong. It is a kids party sweet treat.
Whilst my education has improved (thank you), I doubt I will be making or eating any.
You’ve never had honey joys? Your entire childhood was deprived, I’m afraid.
I have memories of eating something that should have that flavour (yes, I looked up the recipe), but I had no name for them. Probably because I’ve never heard a name for them. Maybe because I don’t remember. I certainly have no memory of Mum ever making them and distributing them to us.
JudgeMental said:
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:That’s is very sensible…. But I don’t like chocolate crackles.
Look, you’ve convinced me, next time I go shopping I’ll buy a big box of cornflakes, make honey joys, and then blame you for everything that goes wrong afterwards.
mum used to make a similar dessert but with golden syrup. it was done in a flan base.
https://www.masoncash.co.uk/recipe/cornflake-cake
no jam though from what i remember.
Nice
Michael V said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:I have never heard of honey joys before, so I looked it up. I thought it was maybe some type of sweetened boxed cereal. Like coco pops but different. But I was wrong. It is a kids party sweet treat.
Whilst my education has improved (thank you), I doubt I will be making or eating any.
You’ve never had honey joys? Your entire childhood was deprived, I’m afraid.
I have memories of eating something that should have that flavour (yes, I looked up the recipe), but I had no name for them. Probably because I’ve never heard a name for them. Maybe because I don’t remember. I certainly have no memory of Mum ever making them and distributing them to us.
They were generally party food… a treat.. but occasionally people would make them for school fete’s. Along with the less desirable chocolate crackles and the teeth breaking toffee with hundreds and thousands on them.
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:You’ve never had honey joys? Your entire childhood was deprived, I’m afraid.
I have memories of eating something that should have that flavour (yes, I looked up the recipe), but I had no name for them. Probably because I’ve never heard a name for them. Maybe because I don’t remember. I certainly have no memory of Mum ever making them and distributing them to us.
They were generally party food… a treat.. but occasionally people would make them for school fete’s. Along with the less desirable chocolate crackles and the teeth breaking toffee with hundreds and thousands on them.
Oh, now you’re talking.
(I remember all three of them, maybe it’s a Perth thing)
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:You’ve never had honey joys? Your entire childhood was deprived, I’m afraid.
I have memories of eating something that should have that flavour (yes, I looked up the recipe), but I had no name for them. Probably because I’ve never heard a name for them. Maybe because I don’t remember. I certainly have no memory of Mum ever making them and distributing them to us.
They were generally party food… a treat.. but occasionally people would make them for school fete’s. Along with the less desirable chocolate crackles and the teeth breaking toffee with hundreds and thousands on them.
i preferred choc crackles.
Michael V said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:I have never heard of honey joys before, so I looked it up. I thought it was maybe some type of sweetened boxed cereal. Like coco pops but different. But I was wrong. It is a kids party sweet treat.
Whilst my education has improved (thank you), I doubt I will be making or eating any.
You’ve never had honey joys? Your entire childhood was deprived, I’m afraid.
I have memories of eating something that should have that flavour (yes, I looked up the recipe), but I had no name for them. Probably because I’ve never heard a name for them. Maybe because I don’t remember. I certainly have no memory of Mum ever making them and distributing them to us.
I didn’t do any sweets cooking with Mum, although I was asked to stir the Christmas cake and Christmas pudding mixtures so they didn’t burn. Whilst Mum wasn’t watching, I had to sample them. I suppose that’s where my love of uncooked cake mixtures came from.
Dessert was either canned or home-preserved fruit, or Dad’s home-made uncooked rolled oats mixture. In 1965, we found Bircher Muesli in Europe, and realised that Dad’s dessert had a name.
I have only rarely had dessert after muesli became a breakfast thing.
Arts said:
JudgeMental said:
JudgeMental said:mum used to make a similar dessert but with golden syrup. it was done in a flan base.
https://www.masoncash.co.uk/recipe/cornflake-cake
no jam though from what i remember.
Nice
all too sweet for me these days.
Michael V said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:You’ve never had honey joys? Your entire childhood was deprived, I’m afraid.
I have memories of eating something that should have that flavour (yes, I looked up the recipe), but I had no name for them. Probably because I’ve never heard a name for them. Maybe because I don’t remember. I certainly have no memory of Mum ever making them and distributing them to us.
I didn’t do any sweets cooking with Mum, although I was asked to stir the Christmas cake and Christmas pudding mixtures so they didn’t burn. Whilst Mum wasn’t watching, I had to sample them. I suppose that’s where my love of uncooked cake mixtures came from.
Dessert was either canned or home-preserved fruit, or Dad’s home-made uncooked rolled oats mixture. In 1965, we found Bircher Muesli in Europe, and realised that Dad’s dessert had a name.
I have only rarely had dessert after muesli became a breakfast thing.
boiled fruit cake in the pot. so much better than the actual cake.
party_pants said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:I have memories of eating something that should have that flavour (yes, I looked up the recipe), but I had no name for them. Probably because I’ve never heard a name for them. Maybe because I don’t remember. I certainly have no memory of Mum ever making them and distributing them to us.
They were generally party food… a treat.. but occasionally people would make them for school fete’s. Along with the less desirable chocolate crackles and the teeth breaking toffee with hundreds and thousands on them.
Oh, now you’re talking.
(I remember all three of them, maybe it’s a Perth thing)
Any peanut brittle at those parties or fetes?
When I was growing up, there were no honey joys – we called ‘em cornflake crackles.
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:
Michael V said:I have memories of eating something that should have that flavour (yes, I looked up the recipe), but I had no name for them. Probably because I’ve never heard a name for them. Maybe because I don’t remember. I certainly have no memory of Mum ever making them and distributing them to us.
I didn’t do any sweets cooking with Mum, although I was asked to stir the Christmas cake and Christmas pudding mixtures so they didn’t burn. Whilst Mum wasn’t watching, I had to sample them. I suppose that’s where my love of uncooked cake mixtures came from.
Dessert was either canned or home-preserved fruit, or Dad’s home-made uncooked rolled oats mixture. In 1965, we found Bircher Muesli in Europe, and realised that Dad’s dessert had a name.
I have only rarely had dessert after muesli became a breakfast thing.
boiled fruit cake in the pot. so much better than the actual cake.
:)
Goopy sweet fruity flour. Yum. I do love getting “the scrape”.
Uncooked Anzac biscuit mixture is pretty good, too.
Neophyte said:
When I was growing up, there were no honey joys – we called ‘em cornflake crackles.
It seems that there a range of names for them, none of which I remember.
Neophyte said:
When I was growing up, there were no honey joys – we called ‘em cornflake crackles.
They tended to be fund-raising type stuff. Not really made at home.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:I didn’t do any sweets cooking with Mum, although I was asked to stir the Christmas cake and Christmas pudding mixtures so they didn’t burn. Whilst Mum wasn’t watching, I had to sample them. I suppose that’s where my love of uncooked cake mixtures came from.
Dessert was either canned or home-preserved fruit, or Dad’s home-made uncooked rolled oats mixture. In 1965, we found Bircher Muesli in Europe, and realised that Dad’s dessert had a name.
I have only rarely had dessert after muesli became a breakfast thing.
boiled fruit cake in the pot. so much better than the actual cake.
:)
Goopy sweet fruity flour. Yum. I do love getting “the scrape”.
Uncooked Anzac biscuit mixture is pretty good, too.
the boiled fruit cake before the flour goes in is the best. the fruit swollen in the butter and plonk and spice.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 19 degrees at the back door and still dark. We had lightning, thunder, wind and rain during the night. Sleep was a bit disrupted by the weather and the dogs. Long is having trouble with the heat and panting a lot. Bruna got spooked about 1.00am by something – probably the wind gusts hitting the 60s and banging doors that we had opened for some coolth. Storms don’t usually bother them. Today we are forecast 35 degrees with a possible storm.
Bakery breakfast with our archery friend from Hamilton this morning. He was at an archery tournament (2025 National Field Championships) over the weekend and got a silver medal. Which sounds good until you know there were only two competitors in his event. He did shoot well though. There are a lot fewer people in the groups once you reach the older age groups, it’s not unusual for him to have only one or two competitors at a tournament. The rest of the day will probably be spent avoiding the heat. Again.
party_pants said:
Arts said:
Michael V said:I have memories of eating something that should have that flavour (yes, I looked up the recipe), but I had no name for them. Probably because I’ve never heard a name for them. Maybe because I don’t remember. I certainly have no memory of Mum ever making them and distributing them to us.
They were generally party food… a treat.. but occasionally people would make them for school fete’s. Along with the less desirable chocolate crackles and the teeth breaking toffee with hundreds and thousands on them.
Oh, now you’re talking.
(I remember all three of them, maybe it’s a Perth thing)
Nah, it’s a 1950s thing (probably earlier) that was so good it just kept going into your childhood too. Sometimes the toffee was stickjaw.
:)
buffy said:
party_pants said:
Arts said:They were generally party food… a treat.. but occasionally people would make them for school fete’s. Along with the less desirable chocolate crackles and the teeth breaking toffee with hundreds and thousands on them.
Oh, now you’re talking.
(I remember all three of them, maybe it’s a Perth thing)
Nah, it’s a 1950s thing (probably earlier) that was so good it just kept going into your childhood too. Sometimes the toffee was stickjaw.
:)
Stickjaws were so good. I loved the slightly darker ones that had a more pronounced vinegary back taste.
Morning holdiay people.
28 degrees currently, the minimum was 22. Max expected today is to be 35.
Managed to drive the ute yesterday wearing the splint in an attempt to be less reliant upon others. Mrs rb and a neighbour have been driving me to all appointments. Tomorrow makes the first month since surgery. Maybe this week the physio will give me a bikini splint.
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 19 degrees at the back door and still dark. We had lightning, thunder, wind and rain during the night. Sleep was a bit disrupted by the weather and the dogs. Long is having trouble with the heat and panting a lot. Bruna got spooked about 1.00am by something – probably the wind gusts hitting the 60s and banging doors that we had opened for some coolth. Storms don’t usually bother them. Today we are forecast 35 degrees with a possible storm.Bakery breakfast with our archery friend from Hamilton this morning. He was at an archery tournament (2025 National Field Championships) over the weekend and got a silver medal. Which sounds good until you know there were only two competitors in his event. He did shoot well though. There are a lot fewer people in the groups once you reach the older age groups, it’s not unusual for him to have only one or two competitors at a tournament. The rest of the day will probably be spent avoiding the heat. Again.
A silver medal is still a silver medal!
Damp at the moment. If there’s rain today it will be light. Depending on lungs I’ll move things outside again. Hoping to get some washing done.
Watching 1923 Season 2, eating fishsticks and trying to do my tax return.
Morning pilgrims.
Nothing of substance to report.
Over.
kii said:
buffy said:
party_pants said:Oh, now you’re talking.
(I remember all three of them, maybe it’s a Perth thing)
Nah, it’s a 1950s thing (probably earlier) that was so good it just kept going into your childhood too. Sometimes the toffee was stickjaw.
:)
Stickjaws were so good. I loved the slightly darker ones that had a more pronounced vinegary back taste.
:)
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/marco-rubio-german-dam/
dv said:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/marco-rubio-german-dam/
but who blew it up was it totally not the DPRNA saboteurs again
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims.
Nothing of substance to report.
Over.
What?
No breakfast?
dv said:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/marco-rubio-german-dam/
One of these days I will laugh too much and choke on my afternoon tea.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims.
Nothing of substance to report.
Over.
What?
No breakfast?
ah substaenance
kii said:
dv said:
One of these days I will laugh too much and choke on my afternoon tea.
Don Don Curing All Ills With Laughter The Best Medicine
Hello
Divine Angel said:
Storms and lighting are always cool to view
Cymek said:
Hello
Greetings
Divine Angel said:
Lovely image!
:)
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Lovely image!
:)
She did well in that photo.
Here at Perth train station, police have cordoned off Wellington St for some reason.
Divine Angel said:
It was indeed spectacular. And not very noisy here, about 30km south.
dv said:
Here at Perth train station, police have cordoned off Wellington St for some reason.
Uh-oh.
I hope you don’t get caught in the crossfire.
dv said:
Here at Perth train station, police have cordoned off Wellington St for some reason.
Good luck.
My mum always used to complain about people calling railway stations “train stations”.
Talking about railway stations, here’s an impressive 5 minute vid of preserved GWR Clun Castle hauling a long train out of King’s Cross, London.
First a dull preserved diesel hauls the train into the station with the steam loco at the end, but when the steam exhaust gets going as the train departs, it stirs the blood.
The Castle class were sleek, fast and powerful express locos, like sports cars of the rails.
7029 ‘Clun Castle’ Makes a Deafening Departure from Kings Cross! First time since 1967! – 07/10/23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUznqVjm78c
Michael V said:
dv said:
Here at Perth train station, police have cordoned off Wellington St for some reason.
Uh-oh.
I hope you don’t get caught in the crossfire.
Not sure if they have been getting security incidents at some of the train stations
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Here at Perth train station, police have cordoned off Wellington St for some reason.
Good luck.
My mum always used to complain about people calling railway stations “train stations”.
How do you feel about it? I think “train station” is probably more common in Aust.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Here at Perth train station, police have cordoned off Wellington St for some reason.
Good luck.
My mum always used to complain about people calling railway stations “train stations”.
How do you feel about it? I think “train station” is probably more common in Aust.
Train station seems to be the favoured modern term (in UK too) so there’s not much point complaining.
But personally I prefer “railway station”.
Blocking off Wellington St kind of gridlocked the CBD.
https://www.reddit.com/r/perth/comments/1j8f19d/cant_park_there_mate/
And that’s why I like rail transport.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:Good luck.
My mum always used to complain about people calling railway stations “train stations”.
How do you feel about it? I think “train station” is probably more common in Aust.
Train station seems to be the favoured modern term (in UK too) so there’s not much point complaining.
But personally I prefer “railway station”.
LOLOLOL….no one actually cares.
kii said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:How do you feel about it? I think “train station” is probably more common in Aust.
Train station seems to be the favoured modern term (in UK too) so there’s not much point complaining.
But personally I prefer “railway station”.
LOLOLOL….no one actually cares.
Well dv cares enough to ask me about it, which is why I politely answered.
And then of course you butted in to remind us that you keenly follow my every word, despite “not caring” :)
kii said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:How do you feel about it? I think “train station” is probably more common in Aust.
Train station seems to be the favoured modern term (in UK too) so there’s not much point complaining.
But personally I prefer “railway station”.
LOLOLOL….no one actually cares.
so is it tram lines or light rail
Bubblecar said:
kii said:
Bubblecar said:Train station seems to be the favoured modern term (in UK too) so there’s not much point complaining.
But personally I prefer “railway station”.
LOLOLOL….no one actually cares.
Well dv cares enough to ask me about it, which is why I politely answered.
And then of course you butted in to remind us that you keenly follow my every word, despite “not caring” :)
LOL
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:Good luck.
My mum always used to complain about people calling railway stations “train stations”.
How do you feel about it? I think “train station” is probably more common in Aust.
Train station seems to be the favoured modern term (in UK too) so there’s not much point complaining.
But personally I prefer “railway station”.
Bubblecar said:
kii said:
Bubblecar said:Train station seems to be the favoured modern term (in UK too) so there’s not much point complaining.
But personally I prefer “railway station”.
LOLOLOL….no one actually cares.
Well dv cares enough to ask me about it, which is why I politely answered.
And then of course you butted in to remind us that you keenly follow my every word, despite “not caring” :)
Dear oh dear oh dear….tsk tsk….lolol!
Butted in? Is this a private conversation you two are having?
SCIENCE said:
kii said:
Bubblecar said:Train station seems to be the favoured modern term (in UK too) so there’s not much point complaining.
But personally I prefer “railway station”.
LOLOLOL….no one actually cares.
so is it tram lines or light rail
Trams more or less by definition run on guideways shared by general traffic, whereas light rail is on separated lines.
Obv, exceptions exist. E.g. approximately 30% of Melbourne’s tramlines are separated from general traffic.
Quite a lot of debris around the place this morning. The roads were clear, branches etc had been moved to the side of the road. Ibis House had so much rain the poop had been washed off the roof. (Ibis House is a 2 storey house near the school which attracts ibises. I’ve seen ~50 birds on top of this house, whose roof is absolutely covered in bird poop.)
The local pool had its shade sails torn off.
These pics are near the library.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Here at Perth train station, police have cordoned off Wellington St for some reason.
Good luck.
My mum always used to complain about people calling railway stations “train stations”.
How do you feel about it? I think “train station” is probably more common in Aust.
I grew up in Box Hill in Melbourne. We always just called it the station. Everyone knew what you meant.
buffy said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:Good luck.
My mum always used to complain about people calling railway stations “train stations”.
How do you feel about it? I think “train station” is probably more common in Aust.
I grew up in Box Hill in Melbourne. We always just called it the station. Everyone knew what you meant.
Exactly.
kii said:
buffy said:
dv said:How do you feel about it? I think “train station” is probably more common in Aust.
I grew up in Box Hill in Melbourne. We always just called it the station. Everyone knew what you meant.
Exactly.
kii said:
buffy said:
dv said:How do you feel about it? I think “train station” is probably more common in Aust.
I grew up in Box Hill in Melbourne. We always just called it the station. Everyone knew what you meant.
Exactly.
Perth station is divided into buses and trains.
The main part is trains, the buses are outside the main complex.
Cymek said:
kii said:
buffy said:I grew up in Box Hill in Melbourne. We always just called it the station. Everyone knew what you meant.
Exactly.
Perth station is divided into buses and trains.
The main part is trains, the buses are outside the main complex.
Tamb said:
kii said:
buffy said:I grew up in Box Hill in Melbourne. We always just called it the station. Everyone knew what you meant.
Exactly.
Always railway station, tram & bus stop.
Bus terminal. Airport lounge. Ship yard.
Helicopter pad. Car park. Ferry wharf. Spaceship docking station. Skateboard ramp. Horse stables.
Tamb said:
Cymek said:
kii said:Exactly.
Perth station is divided into buses and trains.
The main part is trains, the buses are outside the main complex.
With a taxi rank in the mix as well.
Yes
kii said:
Tamb said:
kii said:Exactly.
Always railway station, tram & bus stop.Bus terminal. Airport lounge. Ship yard.
Helicopter pad. Car park. Ferry wharf. Spaceship docking station. Skateboard ramp. Horse stables.
Cymek said:
Tamb said:
Cymek said:Perth station is divided into buses and trains.
The main part is trains, the buses are outside the main complex.
With a taxi rank in the mix as well.Yes
Personally I think our train system is extremely decent.
Problems occasionally as machines and equipment do malfunction.
State government has implemented many concessions and incentives to use it
Often free or discounted fares.
Its greatly expanded over the last 10 years and is being upgraded now
Cymek said:
Cymek said:
Tamb said:With a taxi rank in the mix as well.
Yes
Personally I think our train system is extremely decent.
Problems occasionally as machines and equipment do malfunction.State government has implemented many concessions and incentives to use it
Often free or discounted fares.Its greatly expanded over the last 10 years and is being upgraded now
In Queensland, public transport fares have been set at 50 cents per trip for all modes of transport, including trains, buses, ferries, and light rail. This fare structure was introduced as a six-month trial starting August 5, 2024, and has since been made permanent due to its success
Tamb said:
Cymek said:
Cymek said:Yes
Personally I think our train system is extremely decent.
Problems occasionally as machines and equipment do malfunction.State government has implemented many concessions and incentives to use it
Often free or discounted fares.Its greatly expanded over the last 10 years and is being upgraded now
In Queensland, public transport fares have been set at 50 cents per trip for all modes of transport, including trains, buses, ferries, and light rail. This fare structure was introduced as a six-month trial starting August 5, 2024, and has since been made permanent due to
its success
Due to the political party turfing it out not being elected/reelected.
Tamb said:
Cymek said:
kii said:Exactly.
Perth station is divided into buses and trains.
The main part is trains, the buses are outside the main complex.
With a taxi rank in the mix as well.
Taxi rank!
Cymek said:
kii said:
buffy said:I grew up in Box Hill in Melbourne. We always just called it the station. Everyone knew what you meant.
Exactly.
Perth station is divided into buses and trains.
The main part is trains, the buses are outside the main complex.
and a police station.
Remember oceangate?
There is an upcoming documentary on Netflix this year.
The documentary will be called Titan.
Stockton Rush was an explorer and got the bottom of things.
JudgeMental said:
Cymek said:
kii said:Exactly.
Perth station is divided into buses and trains.
The main part is trains, the buses are outside the main complex.
and a police station.
That latter was always the cop shop.
Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has been arrested at Manila’s International Airport on order of the International Criminal Court, the Philippine government has said.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-11/ex-philippine-president-rodrigo-duterte-arrested/105037542
dv said:
Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has been arrested at Manila’s International Airport on order of the International Criminal Court, the Philippine government has said.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-11/ex-philippine-president-rodrigo-duterte-arrested/105037542
sure fine all right then why didn’t they arrest him in HK then aren’t CHINA good at this shit
Tau.Neutrino said:
Remember oceangate?There is an upcoming documentary on Netflix this year.
The documentary will be called Titan.
Stockton Rush was an explorer and got the bottom of things.
It would be interesting to see a computer simulation of Titan to see how many times it could dive with that design.
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
Cymek said:Perth station is divided into buses and trains.
The main part is trains, the buses are outside the main complex.
and a police station.
That latter was always the cop shop.
Not for everyone.
kii said:
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:and a police station.
That latter was always the cop shop.
Not for everyone.
Tamb said:
kii said:
roughbarked said:That latter was always the cop shop.
Not for everyone.
I’ve heard banks referred to as money shops.
… and then there is the bus shop.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tamb said:
kii said:Not for everyone.
I’ve heard banks referred to as money shops.… and then there is the bus shop.
kii said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tamb said:I’ve heard banks referred to as money shops.
… and then there is the bus shop.
Listened to the short wave radio today, lots of strange atmospheric noises.
Particles dissipating in the upper atmosphere, transmitted by the Sun I think.
My change today contained my first Charles III coin. It was a 20c.
Tamb said:
My change today contained my first Charles III coin. It was a 20c.
Is the portrait reasonably accurate?
Bubblecar said:
Tamb said:
My change today contained my first Charles III coin. It was a 20c.
Is the portrait reasonably accurate?
A very cute and tiny mouse popped his head up over my desk while I was sitting here quietly working.. he was very polite but moved back down below the top of the desk as soon as I tried to lean closer to him.
I don’t keep open food in my office, it’s against the rules of the campus – but you can have packaged food – and I do have some packets of biscotti in my desk drawer… I checked and the biscotti was untouched and packets in tact – I told you he was a polite mouse. I also clean my coffee mug every day and wash my cutlery every day.. so I can only assume the mouse was visiting from an adjacent office, became very disappointed in the lack of offerings I had and has now moved on.
I sort of don’t want to tell anyone because I know they will attempt to exterminate the mouse… but I put a ticket in anyway – because it’s the right thing to do and not everyone is as accepting of mice in their workspace as I am.
I am secretly hoping the little fella has gone somewhere else .. maybe criminology and law wasn’t his area of interest after all.
Arts said:
A very cute and tiny mouse popped his head up over my desk while I was sitting here quietly working.. he was very polite but moved back down below the top of the desk as soon as I tried to lean closer to him.I don’t keep open food in my office, it’s against the rules of the campus – but you can have packaged food – and I do have some packets of biscotti in my desk drawer… I checked and the biscotti was untouched and packets in tact – I told you he was a polite mouse. I also clean my coffee mug every day and wash my cutlery every day.. so I can only assume the mouse was visiting from an adjacent office, became very disappointed in the lack of offerings I had and has now moved on.
I sort of don’t want to tell anyone because I know they will attempt to exterminate the mouse… but I put a ticket in anyway – because it’s the right thing to do and not everyone is as accepting of mice in their workspace as I am.
I am secretly hoping the little fella has gone somewhere else .. maybe criminology and law wasn’t his area of interest after all.
I’m truly sorry Man’s dominion
Has broken Nature’s social union,
An’ justifies that ill opinion,
Which makes thee startle,
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,
An’ fellow-mortal!
Arts said:
A very cute and tiny mouse popped his head up over my desk while I was sitting here quietly working.. he was very polite but moved back down below the top of the desk as soon as I tried to lean closer to him.I don’t keep open food in my office, it’s against the rules of the campus – but you can have packaged food – and I do have some packets of biscotti in my desk drawer… I checked and the biscotti was untouched and packets in tact – I told you he was a polite mouse. I also clean my coffee mug every day and wash my cutlery every day.. so I can only assume the mouse was visiting from an adjacent office, became very disappointed in the lack of offerings I had and has now moved on.
I sort of don’t want to tell anyone because I know they will attempt to exterminate the mouse… but I put a ticket in anyway – because it’s the right thing to do and not everyone is as accepting of mice in their workspace as I am.
I am secretly hoping the little fella has gone somewhere else .. maybe criminology and law wasn’t his area of interest after all.
More or less the same story for the beginning of Walt Disney’s empire (except he didn’t put a ticket in)…
fivethirtyeight doesn’t exist now.
hell weren’t we(0,1,1) all talking about rat poison here just the other day
dv said:
fivethirtyeight doesn’t exist now.
must have got lost when the clocks got adjust for DST.
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
fivethirtyeight doesn’t exist now.
must have got lost when the clocks got adjust for DST.
TATE says:
“On March 5, 2025, the Walt Disney Company shut down 538 and laid off about 15 employees. ABC News announced that it would continue to provide polling data and analysis outside of the 538 brand.”
Arts said:
A very cute and tiny mouse popped his head up over my desk while I was sitting here quietly working.. he was very polite but moved back down below the top of the desk as soon as I tried to lean closer to him.I don’t keep open food in my office, it’s against the rules of the campus – but you can have packaged food – and I do have some packets of biscotti in my desk drawer… I checked and the biscotti was untouched and packets in tact – I told you he was a polite mouse. I also clean my coffee mug every day and wash my cutlery every day.. so I can only assume the mouse was visiting from an adjacent office, became very disappointed in the lack of offerings I had and has now moved on.
I sort of don’t want to tell anyone because I know they will attempt to exterminate the mouse… but I put a ticket in anyway – because it’s the right thing to do and not everyone is as accepting of mice in their workspace as I am.
I am secretly hoping the little fella has gone somewhere else .. maybe criminology and law wasn’t his area of interest after all.
:)
In other news, I had the test tis afternoon, and the doctor tells me that I’m not demented.
This is good.
Michael V said:
In other news, I had the test tis afternoon, and the doctor tells me that I’m not demented.This is good.
I knew it
dv said:
Michael V said:
In other news, I had the test tis afternoon, and the doctor tells me that I’m not demented.This is good.
I knew it
:)
I didn’t. I do now.
Michael V said:
In other news, I had the test tis afternoon, and the doctor tells me that I’m not demented.This is good.
That is excellent news.
JudgeMental said:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/635398402445022
dural caravan presser. short.
well were they or weren’t they
The extraordinary accusation was disputed by Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Paterson, who said he, the shadow attorney-general and staff from Mr Dutton’s office were briefed the day after the plot became public. The opposition leader said on February 6 he had not received briefings, but suggested this afternoon he had been kept up to speed in conversations with the head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.
fknel
Michael V said:
dv said:
Michael V said:
In other news, I had the test tis afternoon, and the doctor tells me that I’m not demented.
This is good.
I knew it
:)
I didn’t. I do now.
good stuff
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
In other news, I had the test tis afternoon, and the doctor tells me that I’m not demented.This is good.
That is excellent news.
Ta.
:)
Michael V said:
dv said:
Michael V said:
In other news, I had the test tis afternoon, and the doctor tells me that I’m not demented.This is good.
I knew it
:)
I didn’t. I do now.
:)
waves to Mr Norman, Sir.
I finally wangled out KODI and use of the “TV Shows” function.
Bloody ‘ell!!!
You’ve got to name you ripped .iso or mp4 etc correctly.
First of all, add the source (folder) as “TV Shows” and use the add-on “TMDb TV shows” as the information provider.
Name your .iso or .mp4 etc according to the following
:
TV show_S01e01e02e030e4 etc.
Say Red Dwarf, Series (s) 1, episode(e) 1 – 6 DVD.
File name RED DWARF_S01e01e020e30e40e5e06.iso
Then “scan to library”.
It’ll automatically set up all your icons, summaries, genres, indexing etc under “TV Shows”
twas a bugger of a thing to work out.
Are Volcanoes Behind Oxygen We Breathe?
It is widely believed that Earth’s atmosphere has been rich in oxygen for about 2.5 billion years due to a relatively rapid increase in microorganisms capable of performing photosynthesis. Researchers, including those from the University of Tokyo, provide a mechanism to explain precursor oxygenation events, or “whiffs,” which may have opened the door for this to occur. Their findings suggest volcanic activity altered conditions enough to accelerate oxygenation, and the whiffs are an indication of this taking place.
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What you getting me for Zeiss Loupes Day?
Earth’s Oldest Impact Crater Was Just Found In Australian Outback
Researchers from the Curtins School of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the Geological Survey of Western Australia announced the discovery of Earth’s oldest meteorite impact crater, located in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed about 3.5 billion years ago, making it the oldest known by more than a billion years (the previous record holder being the Vredefort structure in South Africa).
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dv said:
What you getting me for Zeiss Loupes Day?
I already own a Zeiss Loupe, and I’m not giving it away to anybody.
party_pants said:
dv said:
What you getting me for Zeiss Loupes Day?
I already own a Zeiss Loupe, and I’m not giving it away to anybody.
Wow pretty selfish
We May Have Finally Laid Eyes on The Universe’s Very First Stars
In the primordial darkness, after the Big Bang, nothing drifted but a vast sea of hydrogen and helium. It wasn’t until stars came along, born from crushing densities in that clumping gas, that heavier elements emerged, forged by the fusion in their powerful hearts.
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dv said:
party_pants said:
dv said:
What you getting me for Zeiss Loupes Day?
I already own a Zeiss Loupe, and I’m not giving it away to anybody.
Wow pretty selfish
Some things are just not for sharing.
You can rob my grave if you like, but I’ll have a gypsy woman place a curse on it.
Ghosts of the radio universe’: Astronomers have discovered a slew of faint circular objects
Radio astronomers see what the naked eye can’t. As we study the sky with telescopes that record radio signals rather than light, we end up seeing a lot of circles.
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dv said:
What you getting me for Zeiss Loupes Day?
That’s 2 days.
dv said:
party_pants said:
dv said:
What you getting me for Zeiss Loupes Day?
I already own a Zeiss Loupe, and I’m not giving it away to anybody.
Wow pretty selfish
For a moment there, I thought that was a comment on the excavator shellfish/crab/thing.
Just got home from BFAC meeting. Lots going on, but a lot of things are revolving around the Chesapeake fire. It just won’t die.
It’s been going for over a Month, and is continually jumping containment lines. We’ve had crews and trucks down there for around half of that time, escorted the civvies out last week, and have run out of vollies to send.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-11/windy-harbour-bushfire-one-month-south-coast-wa/105031902
Today in crazy land:
1. trying to identify receipts for tax return, the switcher-roo American dates vs normal dates thingy has just done my head in.
2. My parcel was delivered to the incorrect address, again. The PO guy was helpful, the GPS coordinates get my place confused with the usual place in the street behind me. At least it’s not an important delivery like the time MY GREEN CARD WAS SITTING AT THE WRONG ADDRESS FOR FUCKING WEEKS!!!! Pardon me.
3.The Bandaid on my right pointer fingertip makes it hard to type.
4. I just realised that talking to the PO guy is the first time that I have spoken to someone in weeks. I think the last time was the guy from the nearby dojo dropped by to see how I am. He’s the first local person who has checked in on me for years.
dv said:
Michael V said:
In other news, I had the test tis afternoon, and the doctor tells me that I’m not demented.This is good.
I knew it
Me too.
Michael V said:
dv said:
Michael V said:
In other news, I had the test tis afternoon, and the doctor tells me that I’m not demented.This is good.
I knew it
:)
I didn’t. I do now.
Clearly ir was. worth the exercise to do the tests. You’ll feel more at ease now.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 18 degrees at the back door. Dark and still. Sunup is around 7.30am. We are forecast a partly cloudy 30 degrees today.
I can hear a tawny frogmouth amongst the maggies and other birds outside at the moment. Not sure if it’s in the backyard or further afield. Their call is quite penetrating and difficult to locate. I will do the supermarket shopping first thing this morning and see about getting some new tyres on my Suzuki. It’s been an expensive few weeks carwise – registration, insurance, servicing and now tyres. February is my most expensive vehicular month.
Morning. 21 degrees here and light is creeping through the shadows. Hopefully today the physio will cut my splint down.
It’s bin day but we haven’t untied the rope holding the gate together through the cyclone so the bins haven’t been put out yet.
Mini Me starts NAPLAN today but also has clarinet so it’s an early start for her. She’s stressing about fitting in breakfast and got cranky at me because she thought having a shower was “stuffing around” like I told her not to do this morning.
99% humidity so a walk looks unlikely but I’ll give it a go anyway.
Divine Angel said:
It’s bin day but we haven’t untied the rope holding the gate together through the cyclone so the bins haven’t been put out yet.Mini Me starts NAPLAN today but also has clarinet so it’s an early start for her. She’s stressing about fitting in breakfast and got cranky at me because she thought having a shower was “stuffing around” like I told her not to do this morning.
99% humidity so a walk looks unlikely but I’ll give it a go anyway.
Tip. Walk slowly. ;)
Divine Angel said:
It’s bin day but we haven’t untied the rope holding the gate together through the cyclone so the bins haven’t been put out yet.Mini Me starts NAPLAN today but also has clarinet so it’s an early start for her. She’s stressing about fitting in breakfast and got cranky at me because she thought having a shower was “stuffing around” like I told her not to do this morning.
99% humidity so a walk looks unlikely but I’ll give it a go anyway.
How old is she?
kii said:
Divine Angel said:
It’s bin day but we haven’t untied the rope holding the gate together through the cyclone so the bins haven’t been put out yet.Mini Me starts NAPLAN today but also has clarinet so it’s an early start for her. She’s stressing about fitting in breakfast and got cranky at me because she thought having a shower was “stuffing around” like I told her not to do this morning.
99% humidity so a walk looks unlikely but I’ll give it a go anyway.
How old is she?
10
Divine Angel said:
kii said:
Divine Angel said:
It’s bin day but we haven’t untied the rope holding the gate together through the cyclone so the bins haven’t been put out yet.Mini Me starts NAPLAN today but also has clarinet so it’s an early start for her. She’s stressing about fitting in breakfast and got cranky at me because she thought having a shower was “stuffing around” like I told her not to do this morning.
99% humidity so a walk looks unlikely but I’ll give it a go anyway.
How old is she?
10
Wow. Did she have a shower the night before?
Maybe sign her up for time management classes?
Divine Angel said:
It’s bin day but we haven’t untied the rope holding the gate together through the cyclone so the bins haven’t been put out yet.Mini Me starts NAPLAN today but also has clarinet so it’s an early start for her. She’s stressing about fitting in breakfast and got cranky at me because she thought having a shower was “stuffing around” like I told her not to do this morning.
99% humidity so a walk looks unlikely but I’ll give it a go anyway.
Fuck NAPLAN. Opt out
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
It’s bin day but we haven’t untied the rope holding the gate together through the cyclone so the bins haven’t been put out yet.Mini Me starts NAPLAN today but also has clarinet so it’s an early start for her. She’s stressing about fitting in breakfast and got cranky at me because she thought having a shower was “stuffing around” like I told her not to do this morning.
99% humidity so a walk looks unlikely but I’ll give it a go anyway.
Fuck NAPLAN. Opt out
NAPLAN is a good idea, it helps schools understand where they need to focus on to improve delivery of specific parts of their curriculum. It also helps government coordinate the allocation of funding. Having a few students opt out isn’t an issue, but it’s a bit like herd immunity, as soon you end up in a situation where a significant proportion opt out the results are no longer representative and that could be detrimental to student outcomes.
diddly-squat said:
NAPLAN is a good idea, it helps schools understand where they need to focus on to improve delivery of specific parts of their curriculum. It also helps government coordinate the allocation of funding. Having a few students opt out isn’t an issue, but it’s a bit like herd immunity, as soon you end up in a situation where a significant proportion opt out the results are no longer representative and that could be detrimental to student outcomes.
But, don’t some school administrators fear that poor NAPLAN results will suggest that they’re doing a poor job, and that causes them to embark on programmes meant to paper over the gaps in their school’s performance/resources/abilities, giving a false impression of what’sneeded and where it’s needed?
captain_spalding said:
diddly-squat said:NAPLAN is a good idea, it helps schools understand where they need to focus on to improve delivery of specific parts of their curriculum. It also helps government coordinate the allocation of funding. Having a few students opt out isn’t an issue, but it’s a bit like herd immunity, as soon you end up in a situation where a significant proportion opt out the results are no longer representative and that could be detrimental to student outcomes.
But, don’t some school administrators fear that poor NAPLAN results will suggest that they’re doing a poor job, and that causes them to embark on programmes meant to paper over the gaps in their school’s performance/resources/abilities, giving a false impression of what’s needed and where it’s needed?
it’s a bit hard to “paper over” issues associated with literacy and numeracy, especially when you can track the progress of specific cohorts as the test undertaken on an annual basis by year 3, 5, 7 and 9 students.
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
It’s bin day but we haven’t untied the rope holding the gate together through the cyclone so the bins haven’t been put out yet.Mini Me starts NAPLAN today but also has clarinet so it’s an early start for her. She’s stressing about fitting in breakfast and got cranky at me because she thought having a shower was “stuffing around” like I told her not to do this morning.
99% humidity so a walk looks unlikely but I’ll give it a go anyway.
Fuck NAPLAN. Opt out
NAPLAN is a good idea, it helps schools understand where they need to focus on to improve delivery of specific parts of their curriculum. It also helps government coordinate the allocation of funding. Having a few students opt out isn’t an issue, but it’s a bit like herd immunity, as soon you end up in a situation where a significant proportion opt out the results are no longer representative and that could be detrimental to student outcomes.
Funding is no longer dictated by poor NAPLAN results or number of students with diagnoses. It’s now allocated depending on student numbers on Day 8.
Qld LNP keep promising increased funding and incentives, it has yet to occur or even have anything other than concepts of a plan.
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
It’s bin day but we haven’t untied the rope holding the gate together through the cyclone so the bins haven’t been put out yet.Mini Me starts NAPLAN today but also has clarinet so it’s an early start for her. She’s stressing about fitting in breakfast and got cranky at me because she thought having a shower was “stuffing around” like I told her not to do this morning.
99% humidity so a walk looks unlikely but I’ll give it a go anyway.
Fuck NAPLAN. Opt out
NAPLAN is a good idea, it helps schools understand where they need to focus on to improve delivery of specific parts of their curriculum. It also helps government coordinate the allocation of funding. Having a few students opt out isn’t an issue, but it’s a bit like herd immunity, as soon you end up in a situation where a significant proportion opt out the results are no longer representative and that could be detrimental to student outcomes.
How predictable of you. I would be for a national test if they ranged it.. but giving the same test to inner city Sydney private school kids and to outback school of the air kids to marginalised kids is inequitable.
Of course you are on the side of corporate so your response is predictable
Divine Angel said:
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:Fuck NAPLAN. Opt out
NAPLAN is a good idea, it helps schools understand where they need to focus on to improve delivery of specific parts of their curriculum. It also helps government coordinate the allocation of funding. Having a few students opt out isn’t an issue, but it’s a bit like herd immunity, as soon you end up in a situation where a significant proportion opt out the results are no longer representative and that could be detrimental to student outcomes.
Funding is no longer dictated by poor NAPLAN results or number of students with diagnoses. It’s now allocated depending on student numbers on Day 8.
Qld LNP keep promising increased funding and incentives, it has yet to occur or even have anything other than concepts of a plan.
The LNP lying?? Imagine my surprise.
NAPLAN is a seriously shitty thing. It doesn’t work and takes up far too much time. A lot of the schools just get the kids to cheat on the test for it anyway so it’s often meaningless. Gillard was told multiple times that it was a terrible plan but she introduced it anyway.
That comes from several teachers, the people that do actually know what’s going on.
captain_spalding said:
diddly-squat said:NAPLAN is a good idea, it helps schools understand where they need to focus on to improve delivery of specific parts of their curriculum. It also helps government coordinate the allocation of funding. Having a few students opt out isn’t an issue, but it’s a bit like herd immunity, as soon you end up in a situation where a significant proportion opt out the results are no longer representative and that could be detrimental to student outcomes.
But, don’t some school administrators fear that poor NAPLAN results will suggest that they’re doing a poor job, and that causes them to embark on programmes meant to paper over the gaps in their school’s performance/resources/abilities, giving a false impression of what’sneeded and where it’s needed?
Yes sometimes… or the poor performing school is then scrutinised over a period of time, sub committees are created wasting a school with already stretched resources time and teaching (no, the department does not provide the resources they come from within the school) to comply.
The other big issue is that our education systems are state based, but we want to rely on national testing. It doesn’t make sense.
Schools with poor NAPLAN results and poor student outcomes know what the problem is: kids. With the growth of schools for “disengaged students”, their main aim is just to get kids learning something.
Spiny Norman said:
Divine Angel said:
diddly-squat said:NAPLAN is a good idea, it helps schools understand where they need to focus on to improve delivery of specific parts of their curriculum. It also helps government coordinate the allocation of funding. Having a few students opt out isn’t an issue, but it’s a bit like herd immunity, as soon you end up in a situation where a significant proportion opt out the results are no longer representative and that could be detrimental to student outcomes.
Funding is no longer dictated by poor NAPLAN results or number of students with diagnoses. It’s now allocated depending on student numbers on Day 8.
Qld LNP keep promising increased funding and incentives, it has yet to occur or even have anything other than concepts of a plan.
The LNP lying?? Imagine my surprise.
NAPLAN is a seriously shitty thing. It doesn’t work and takes up far too much time. A lot of the schools just get the kids to cheat on the test for it anyway so it’s often meaningless. Gillard was told multiple times that it was a terrible plan but she introduced it anyway.
That comes from several teachers, the people that do actually know what’s going on.
NAPLAN used to be held in August, it’s now in March. Reminds me of the scene in Willy Wonka where the teacher says they’ll now be tested on things before they’ve been taught them.
Divine Angel said:
Schools with poor NAPLAN results and poor student outcomes know what the problem is: kids. With the growth of schools for “disengaged students”, their main aim is just to get kids learning something.
My kids school had poor literacy NAPLAN results …. Because most of our students were international.. we were situated near a university and so many international student gaining degrees brought their families and their kids went to our school. For three to four years only…. So now let’s test children in English. Our poor naplan results were a case of the school population being transient.
Spiny Norman said:
Divine Angel said:
diddly-squat said:NAPLAN is a good idea, it helps schools understand where they need to focus on to improve delivery of specific parts of their curriculum. It also helps government coordinate the allocation of funding. Having a few students opt out isn’t an issue, but it’s a bit like herd immunity, as soon you end up in a situation where a significant proportion opt out the results are no longer representative and that could be detrimental to student outcomes.
Funding is no longer dictated by poor NAPLAN results or number of students with diagnoses. It’s now allocated depending on student numbers on Day 8.
Qld LNP keep promising increased funding and incentives, it has yet to occur or even have anything other than concepts of a plan.
The LNP lying?? Imagine my surprise.
NAPLAN is a seriously shitty thing. It doesn’t work and takes up far too much time. A lot of the schools just get the kids to cheat on the test for it anyway so it’s often meaningless. Gillard was told multiple times that it was a terrible plan but she introduced it anyway.
That comes from several teachers, the people that do actually know what’s going on.
Just imagine if one or two of us here worked as teachers in all the levels and actually knew what was going on… also imagine that at least one of them had kids who also went through the system…. I mean who knew experience and professional knowledge might count for something.
Yesterday I was lecturing in my statistics unit and someone bought up NAPLAN. And I only said I didn’t like it for many reasons, but I am not willing to go down that rabbit hole today.
I was pretty proud of myself for my restraint.
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:Fuck NAPLAN. Opt out
NAPLAN is a good idea, it helps schools understand where they need to focus on to improve delivery of specific parts of their curriculum. It also helps government coordinate the allocation of funding. Having a few students opt out isn’t an issue, but it’s a bit like herd immunity, as soon you end up in a situation where a significant proportion opt out the results are no longer representative and that could be detrimental to student outcomes.
How predictable of you. I would be for a national test if they ranged it.. but giving the same test to inner city Sydney private school kids and to outback school of the air kids to marginalised kids is inequitable.
Of course you are on the side of corporate so your response is predictable
what does “on the side of corporate” even mean in this context – we’re talking about a government initiative.
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
Schools with poor NAPLAN results and poor student outcomes know what the problem is: kids. With the growth of schools for “disengaged students”, their main aim is just to get kids learning something.
My kids school had poor literacy NAPLAN results …. Because most of our students were international.. we were situated near a university and so many international student gaining degrees brought their families and their kids went to our school. For three to four years only…. So now let’s test children in English. Our poor naplan results were a case of the school population being transient.
One of my school mum friends was born and raised in the UK. She sat one of the first standardised tests over here. One of the questions was something about “the teacher shouted the students new pens” and my friend was completely confused what that phrase meant.
Spiny Norman said:
Divine Angel said:
diddly-squat said:NAPLAN is a good idea, it helps schools understand where they need to focus on to improve delivery of specific parts of their curriculum. It also helps government coordinate the allocation of funding. Having a few students opt out isn’t an issue, but it’s a bit like herd immunity, as soon you end up in a situation where a significant proportion opt out the results are no longer representative and that could be detrimental to student outcomes.
Funding is no longer dictated by poor NAPLAN results or number of students with diagnoses. It’s now allocated depending on student numbers on Day 8.
Qld LNP keep promising increased funding and incentives, it has yet to occur or even have anything other than concepts of a plan.
The LNP lying?? Imagine my surprise.
NAPLAN is a seriously shitty thing. It doesn’t work and takes up far too much time. A lot of the schools just get the kids to cheat on the test for it anyway so it’s often meaningless. Gillard was told multiple times that it was a terrible plan but she introduced it anyway.
That comes from several teachers, the people that do actually know what’s going on.
Schools are actively helping their students cheat on NAPLAN? seriously?
diddly-squat said:
Spiny Norman said:
Divine Angel said:Funding is no longer dictated by poor NAPLAN results or number of students with diagnoses. It’s now allocated depending on student numbers on Day 8.
Qld LNP keep promising increased funding and incentives, it has yet to occur or even have anything other than concepts of a plan.
The LNP lying?? Imagine my surprise.
NAPLAN is a seriously shitty thing. It doesn’t work and takes up far too much time. A lot of the schools just get the kids to cheat on the test for it anyway so it’s often meaningless. Gillard was told multiple times that it was a terrible plan but she introduced it anyway.
That comes from several teachers, the people that do actually know what’s going on.
Schools are actively helping their students cheat on NAPLAN? seriously?
Only the school with the most to lose with they reputation.
diddly-squat said:
Spiny Norman said:
Divine Angel said:Funding is no longer dictated by poor NAPLAN results or number of students with diagnoses. It’s now allocated depending on student numbers on Day 8.
Qld LNP keep promising increased funding and incentives, it has yet to occur or even have anything other than concepts of a plan.
The LNP lying?? Imagine my surprise.
NAPLAN is a seriously shitty thing. It doesn’t work and takes up far too much time. A lot of the schools just get the kids to cheat on the test for it anyway so it’s often meaningless. Gillard was told multiple times that it was a terrible plan but she introduced it anyway.
That comes from several teachers, the people that do actually know what’s going on.
Schools are actively helping their students cheat on NAPLAN? seriously?
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
Spiny Norman said:The LNP lying?? Imagine my surprise.
NAPLAN is a seriously shitty thing. It doesn’t work and takes up far too much time. A lot of the schools just get the kids to cheat on the test for it anyway so it’s often meaningless. Gillard was told multiple times that it was a terrible plan but she introduced it anyway.
That comes from several teachers, the people that do actually know what’s going on.
Schools are actively helping their students cheat on NAPLAN? seriously?
Only the school with the most to lose with they reputation.
OK, so let me get this straight; you are telling me there is a national cheating conspiracy underway where teachers, administrators and students at elite schools are all involved and they have managed to keep it a secret?
Divine Angel said:
diddly-squat said:
Spiny Norman said:The LNP lying?? Imagine my surprise.
NAPLAN is a seriously shitty thing. It doesn’t work and takes up far too much time. A lot of the schools just get the kids to cheat on the test for it anyway so it’s often meaningless. Gillard was told multiple times that it was a terrible plan but she introduced it anyway.
That comes from several teachers, the people that do actually know what’s going on.
Schools are actively helping their students cheat on NAPLAN? seriously?
Not in my experience. Some kids are given more time depending on diagnosis, but there’s no cheating as such.
I’ve talked to a couple of (ex) teachers that say otherwise. It’s not exactly rampant but it does happen.
Just be be clear here, I don’t think that NAPLAN is perfect, but I think offers a net benefit to student outcomes.
I’m sure it does happen, I’ve just never seen it.
Divine Angel said:
I’m sure it does happen, I’ve just never seen it.
Yep. :(
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:Schools are actively helping their students cheat on NAPLAN? seriously?
Only the school with the most to lose with they reputation.
OK, so let me get this straight; you are telling me there is a national cheating conspiracy underway where teachers, administrators and students at elite schools are all involved and they have managed to keep it a secret?
If 9/11 and the fake moon landings were kept secret this would be a doddle.
Being wealthy they probably hired the Illuminati
Divine Angel said:
I’m sure it does happen, I’ve just never seen it.
it would seem that the only reported incidence of cheating on NAPLAN was last year at a school in WA, where teachers handed out written assistance sheets to students instead of blank paper.
I mean if the claim that there is a coordinated program of cheating is real, then there are a lot of people (adults, kids and teenagers) that are knowingly complicit and are also knowingly covering it up. You’ll have to excuse my skepticism here, IME kids aren’t great at keeping secrets and parents are outstanding at being outraged at schools… but hey, if anyone has evidence of this, it would be a great way to highlight the deficiencies of NAPLAN testing.
Cymek said:
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:Only the school with the most to lose with they reputation.
OK, so let me get this straight; you are telling me there is a national cheating conspiracy underway where teachers, administrators and students at elite schools are all involved and they have managed to keep it a secret?
If 9/11 and the fake moon landings were kept secret this would be a doddle.
Being wealthy they probably hired the Illuminati
finally, the Voice of Reason
diddly-squat said:
Cymek said:
diddly-squat said:OK, so let me get this straight; you are telling me there is a national cheating conspiracy underway where teachers, administrators and students at elite schools are all involved and they have managed to keep it a secret?
If 9/11 and the fake moon landings were kept secret this would be a doddle.
Being wealthy they probably hired the Illuminati
finally, the Voice of Reason
you’re on a roll this week cymek, handsome devil one day voice of reason the next.
JudgeMental said:
diddly-squat said:
Cymek said:If 9/11 and the fake moon landings were kept secret this would be a doddle.
Being wealthy they probably hired the Illuminati
finally, the Voice of Reason
you’re on a roll this week cymek, handsome devil one day voice of reason the next.
LOL
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:
I’m sure it does happen, I’ve just never seen it.
it would seem that the only reported incidence of cheating on NAPLAN was last year at a school in WA, where teachers handed out written assistance sheets to students instead of blank paper.
I mean if the claim that there is a coordinated program of cheating is real, then there are a lot of people (adults, kids and teenagers) that are knowingly complicit and are also knowingly covering it up. You’ll have to excuse my skepticism here, IME kids aren’t great at keeping secrets and parents are outstanding at being outraged at schools… but hey, if anyone has evidence of this, it would be a great way to highlight the deficiencies of NAPLAN testing.
I do know of one incident years ago were a primary school.
Tried to encourage the parents of student with Fragile X to have him transferred
They were worried he would bring the NAPLAN average down.
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:Schools are actively helping their students cheat on NAPLAN? seriously?
Only the school with the most to lose with they reputation.
OK, so let me get this straight; you are telling me there is a national cheating conspiracy underway where teachers, administrators and students at elite schools are all involved and they have managed to keep it a secret?
I was joking, but way to go from 0 – 100
FTR it’s kind of impossible to ‘cheat’ as such for NAPLAN, but it is possible to coach students… some might call it practice, but in my experience, the months leading up to NAPLAN the curriculum has an awful lot of ‘practice’ embedded.
I also want to be clear that NAPLAN does not help the students, it is for the schools and the Education departments benefit..
Controversial neurosurgeon Charlie Teo has agreed to pay an undisclosed settlement figure to the children and husband of a patient who died soon after he operated on her incurable brain tumour.
Teo, who did not offer a defence, had previously been found guilty of professional misconduct over the operation in question.
Two years ago, Teo’s disciplinary hearing was told that in September 2018 a Perth woman was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour known as a glioblastoma.
Perth neurosurgeons had told her that her life expectancy was 12 to 18 months and that any attempt to remove the tumour would be futile and “of no benefit whatsoever”.
“I have not recommended open resection of her tumour which would be high risk for causing neurological deficits without significantly improving her long-term outcome,” Professor Charles Lind wrote in his initial report.
The desperate family turned to Teo. The woman’s husband told the Health Care Complaints Commission hearing that he took contemporaneous notes during a consultation with Teo in Sydney in October 2018. He said Teo said there was a 5 per cent risk of death and a 50 per cent risk of minor complications, such as a wonky eye and tingling down one side.
Teo offered hope to the mother of three, saying that with surgery she might live to see her six-year-old reach his 18th birthday.
But the operation, which was performed the day after the consultation, was a disaster. The woman did not regain consciousness. She was taken by helicopter to Perth, where she died in April 2019.
The Professional Standards Committee found that Teo’s decision to operate on the Perth woman was unethical and improper and that “there is no directly relevant statistical data, medical literature and/or clinical guidelines to support the type of surgery proposed to Patient A”.
The findings against him include that he lacked insight and judgment and failed to properly explain the risks of operations.
Delivering his orders in the NSW Supreme Court on Tuesday, Justice David Davies said Teo gave the woman certain advice about the risks associated with the operation.
“In the events that occurred, the risks were alleged to have been understated, and the deceased died within about six months of the operation, and she never properly recovered from that operation,” Davies said.
Her widower and three children sued Teo last May for the mental harm caused by the advice given by him and the operation he performed.
Her husband had sought compensation of $533,757. According to his statement of claim, he said he had developed PTSD and alcohol use disorder that a psychiatrist attributed to the death of his wife.
His three children, who had suffered from depression and anxiety, had been seeking a total of more than $1 million.
Teo reached an earlier confidential settlement with the father and the eldest of the children, who is now an adult. The court needed to approve the settlement terms agreed for the two younger children, who are still minors.
In the absence of a defence from Teo, a key issue for the court to determine was how much of their mental harm was caused by the surgeon and how much by the death of their mother, whose condition was terminal before she consulted Teo.
But Davies said he was satisfied with the reasons given by their lawyer and expert advice provided by a psychiatrist that the agreed amount was “entirely appropriate”.
Paywalled from The Sydney Morning Herald
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:Only the school with the most to lose with they reputation.
OK, so let me get this straight; you are telling me there is a national cheating conspiracy underway where teachers, administrators and students at elite schools are all involved and they have managed to keep it a secret?
I was joking, but way to go from 0 – 100
I was just confirming my understanding of your comment.. in all honesty there is very little that would not surprise me in terms of what people believe when it come to what some people here say…
Like I said, I think NAPLAN isn’t perfect, but I do think it offers a net benefit to student outcomes. I think being a teacher would suck arse and I’m incredibly grateful for what they do.
Arts said:
I also want to be clear that NAPLAN does not help the students, it is for the schools and the Education departments benefit..
I agree – I’d be happy if individual results were not even shared.
Arts said:
FTR it’s kind of impossible to ‘cheat’ as such for NAPLAN, but it is possible to coach students… some might call it practice, but in my experience, the months leading up to NAPLAN the curriculum has an awful lot of ‘practice’ embedded.I also want to be clear that NAPLAN does not help the students, it is for the schools and the Education departments benefit..
^ This is what happens. They are drilled in specific areas that just happen to be pretty much exactly the same as the NAPLAN tests. The problem is that it burns up too much time and other areas of the regular curriculum are either shortened or just left out.
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:Only the school with the most to lose with they reputation.
OK, so let me get this straight; you are telling me there is a national cheating conspiracy underway where teachers, administrators and students at elite schools are all involved and they have managed to keep it a secret?
I was joking, but way to go from 0 – 100
Trap set. Trap sprung.
diddly-squat said:
I think being a teacher would suck arse …
In my experience (and I have worked from k-12 in both public and private) it’s a bit like any job in that if you have good work colleagues and good leadership the sucky parts of the job (like dealing with parents) are bearable.
But The leadership is often not very supportive.. in far too many cases the leadership are people who did not do so well in the classroom… we used to have a saying that if you cant teach kids we’ll promote you…
so in these cases, you have pressure from the department, the leadership, the parents, and the students… it’s difficult to sustain that over years. The few rewards are usually far too few to be worth it and the pay is not equitable to the workload (both emotional and physical). If you can detach from all that, great, you may get longevity. If you want to use the same curriculum over and over for many years (as I have seen numerous times) then you likely arent working outside your paid hours. but none of that really makes for great teachers – just adequate ones.
SO yes, I agree, it sucks arse almost every day.
Spiny Norman said:
Arts said:
FTR it’s kind of impossible to ‘cheat’ as such for NAPLAN, but it is possible to coach students… some might call it practice, but in my experience, the months leading up to NAPLAN the curriculum has an awful lot of ‘practice’ embedded.I also want to be clear that NAPLAN does not help the students, it is for the schools and the Education departments benefit..
^ This is what happens. They are drilled in specific areas that just happen to be pretty much exactly the same as the NAPLAN tests. The problem is that it burns up too much time and other areas of the regular curriculum are either shortened or just left out.
a great majority of schools prep students for exams so they know what to expect and to help them adapt to exam style conditions.. I wouldn’t call this cheating.
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
I think being a teacher would suck arse …SO yes, I agree, it sucks arse almost every day.
Thinking about the recent nut allergy incident.
diddly-squat said:
Spiny Norman said:
Arts said:
FTR it’s kind of impossible to ‘cheat’ as such for NAPLAN, but it is possible to coach students… some might call it practice, but in my experience, the months leading up to NAPLAN the curriculum has an awful lot of ‘practice’ embedded.I also want to be clear that NAPLAN does not help the students, it is for the schools and the Education departments benefit..
^ This is what happens. They are drilled in specific areas that just happen to be pretty much exactly the same as the NAPLAN tests. The problem is that it burns up too much time and other areas of the regular curriculum are either shortened or just left out.
a great majority of schools prep students for exams so they know what to expect and to help them adapt to exam style conditions.. I wouldn’t call this cheating.
often the NAPLAN ‘practice’ is done at the expense of the rest of the curriculum. Because you still have KPI’s to reach set by the ed department – they don’t endorse all the NAPLAN ‘practice’ but it gets done anyway and the curriculum suffers because there isn’t enough time to do both.. but teachers are pressured by admin to make sure students are NAPLAN ready.
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
I think being a teacher would suck arse …In my experience (and I have worked from k-12 in both public and private) it’s a bit like any job in that if you have good work colleagues and good leadership the sucky parts of the job (like dealing with parents) are bearable.
But The leadership is often not very supportive.. in far too many cases the leadership are people who did not do so well in the classroom… we used to have a saying that if you cant teach kids we’ll promote you…so in these cases, you have pressure from the department, the leadership, the parents, and the students… it’s difficult to sustain that over years. The few rewards are usually far too few to be worth it and the pay is not equitable to the workload (both emotional and physical). If you can detach from all that, great, you may get longevity. If you want to use the same curriculum over and over for many years (as I have seen numerous times) then you likely arent working outside your paid hours. but none of that really makes for great teachers – just adequate ones.
SO yes, I agree, it sucks arse almost every day.
heart emoji to all teachers
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
I think being a teacher would suck arse …In my experience (and I have worked from k-12 in both public and private) it’s a bit like any job in that if you have good work colleagues and good leadership the sucky parts of the job (like dealing with parents) are bearable.
But The leadership is often not very supportive.. in far too many cases the leadership are people who did not do so well in the classroom… we used to have a saying that if you cant teach kids we’ll promote you…so in these cases, you have pressure from the department, the leadership, the parents, and the students… it’s difficult to sustain that over years. The few rewards are usually far too few to be worth it and the pay is not equitable to the workload (both emotional and physical). If you can detach from all that, great, you may get longevity. If you want to use the same curriculum over and over for many years (as I have seen numerous times) then you likely arent working outside your paid hours. but none of that really makes for great teachers – just adequate ones.
SO yes, I agree, it sucks arse almost every day.
The leadership within our offices is fantastic.
Our team leaders, manager and assistant director are all actually caring and hard working
As it get down and down the gritty jobs like cleaning up and helping moving things for example.
If we need time off for personal reasons its never a problem
Its a pity everyone doesn’t get this sort of support.
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
Spiny Norman said:^ This is what happens. They are drilled in specific areas that just happen to be pretty much exactly the same as the NAPLAN tests. The problem is that it burns up too much time and other areas of the regular curriculum are either shortened or just left out.
a great majority of schools prep students for exams so they know what to expect and to help them adapt to exam style conditions.. I wouldn’t call this cheating.
often the NAPLAN ‘practice’ is done at the expense of the rest of the curriculum. Because you still have KPI’s to reach set by the ed department – they don’t endorse all the NAPLAN ‘practice’ but it gets done anyway and the curriculum suffers because there isn’t enough time to do both.. but teachers are pressured by admin to make sure students are NAPLAN ready.
shrugs – there is a shit load of time in school that is not dedicated to direct teaching of the curriculum.
diddly-squat said:
heart emoji to all teachers
Idiot.
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:a great majority of schools prep students for exams so they know what to expect and to help them adapt to exam style conditions.. I wouldn’t call this cheating.
often the NAPLAN ‘practice’ is done at the expense of the rest of the curriculum. Because you still have KPI’s to reach set by the ed department – they don’t endorse all the NAPLAN ‘practice’ but it gets done anyway and the curriculum suffers because there isn’t enough time to do both.. but teachers are pressured by admin to make sure students are NAPLAN ready.
shrugs – there is a shit load of time in school that is not dedicated to direct teaching of the curriculum.
is there? that’s news to teachers everywhere
Morning pilgrims.
The day is set fair, the roads should be clear to head home.
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:often the NAPLAN ‘practice’ is done at the expense of the rest of the curriculum. Because you still have KPI’s to reach set by the ed department – they don’t endorse all the NAPLAN ‘practice’ but it gets done anyway and the curriculum suffers because there isn’t enough time to do both.. but teachers are pressured by admin to make sure students are NAPLAN ready.
shrugs – there is a shit load of time in school that is not dedicated to direct teaching of the curriculum.
is there? that’s news to teachers everywhere
start with student free days – our primary school has four of them per year – move those to over the school holiday period
I’m back, the shopping has been put away and I’ve had a chocolate and vanilla milkshake and a chocolate eclair for morning tea. I should think about some lunch. The temperature is heading 30wards. I don’t think I’ll go to fling arrows in the Big Tin Shed this afternoon. It will be very warmed up from the last 5 days of over 30s temps. And tomorrow is forecast 27, followed by another 33 and a 37. I think we might be able to call this a Heat Wave. But Monday next week!! Oh blessed high of 17!
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:shrugs – there is a shit load of time in school that is not dedicated to direct teaching of the curriculum.
is there? that’s news to teachers everywhere
start with student free days – our primary school has four of them per year – move those to over the school holiday period
I found it was inconvenient to have my car serviced every 5000 km, so I just booked 20 services on consecutive days after 100000 km.
dv said:
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:is there? that’s news to teachers everywhere
start with student free days – our primary school has four of them per year – move those to over the school holiday period
I found it was inconvenient to have my car serviced every 5000 km, so I just booked 20 services on consecutive days after 100000 km.
if only there were four evenly spaced school holiday breaks throughout the year.
diddly-squat said:
dv said:
diddly-squat said:start with student free days – our primary school has four of them per year – move those to over the school holiday period
I found it was inconvenient to have my car serviced every 5000 km, so I just booked 20 services on consecutive days after 100000 km.
if only there were four evenly spaced school holiday breaks throughout the year.
Perhaps it requires the students to have been in attendance for feedback on problems, etc
Cymek said:
diddly-squat said:
dv said:I found it was inconvenient to have my car serviced every 5000 km, so I just booked 20 services on consecutive days after 100000 km.
if only there were four evenly spaced school holiday breaks throughout the year.
Perhaps it requires the students to have been in attendance for feedback on problems, etc
Student free days are days that teachers use mainly for the delivery of professional development and for matters of school related administration and management. For the most part, these days are generally held inside the normal school term.
What I’m suggesting is that one or more of these days gets moved to over the (nominal 12 week long) school holiday period.
Watching Chaos – The Manson Murders.
One of the trump women I know grew up not far from a place where Manson had one of his houses. It was during the period when he was recruiting followers. She would have been in her teens. Her father, a bit of a wacko himself, knew of Manson’s weird behaviors and warned his 3 teenagers to stay away from the place.
I could read the news, see what the high functioning big man is doing, more of the same actualizing the psychopathy i’d expect, not going to desist until the earth has a new orbit
transition said:
I could read the news, see what the high functioning big man is doing, more of the same actualizing the psychopathy i’d expect, not going to desist until the earth has a new orbit
that wouldn’t be the end of it of course
dv said:
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:is there? that’s news to teachers everywhere
start with student free days – our primary school has four of them per year – move those to over the school holiday period
I found it was inconvenient to have my car serviced every 5000 km, so I just booked 20 services on consecutive days after 100000 km.
why waste time breathing when you can just blow yourself up at the end
watching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr5EWpdSP8Q
The Heat: One-on-one with Jeffrey Sachs
Cymek said:
diddly-squat said:
dv said:
I found it was inconvenient to have my car serviced every 5000 km, so I just booked 20 services on consecutive days after 100000 km.
if only there were four evenly spaced school holiday breaks throughout the year.
Perhaps it requires the students to have been in attendance for feedback on problems, etc
funny, everyone knows that coal power stations have to be base loaded because it takes time to crank them up and wind them down, obviously teachers aren’t coal powered so all they need is to free base and they’ll be fine
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
Spiny Norman said:^ This is what happens. They are drilled in specific areas that just happen to be pretty much exactly the same as the NAPLAN tests. The problem is that it burns up too much time and other areas of the regular curriculum are either shortened or just left out.
a great majority of schools prep students for exams so they know what to expect and to help them adapt to exam style conditions.. I wouldn’t call this cheating.
often the NAPLAN ‘practice’ is done at the expense of the rest of the curriculum. Because you still have KPI’s to reach set by the ed department – they don’t endorse all the NAPLAN ‘practice’ but it gets done anyway and the curriculum suffers because there isn’t enough time to do both.. but teachers are pressured by admin to make sure students are NAPLAN ready.
going to go out on a limb here and throw the idea out there that maybe parents can teach their kids some basic skills
Arts said:
FTR it’s kind of impossible to ‘cheat’ as such for NAPLAN, but it is possible to coach students… some might call it practice, but in my experience, the months leading up to NAPLAN the curriculum has an awful lot of ‘practice’ embedded.
I also want to be clear that NAPLAN does not help the students, it is for the schools and the Education departments benefit..
wait but if schools and education departments exist to help students then doing benefit for schools and education departments could even do benefit for helping students are we right
captain_spalding said:
diddly-squat said:
NAPLAN is a good idea, it helps schools understand where they need to focus on to improve delivery of specific parts of their curriculum. It also helps government coordinate the allocation of funding. Having a few students opt out isn’t an issue, but it’s a bit like herd immunity, as soon you end up in a situation where a significant proportion opt out the results are no longer representative and that could be detrimental to student outcomes.
But, don’t some school administrators fear that poor NAPLAN results will suggest that they’re doing a poor job, and that causes them to embark on programmes meant to paper over the gaps in their school’s performance/resources/abilities, giving a false impression of what’sneeded and where it’s needed?
nobody’s ever heard of Goodhart’s law
I harvested another green bamboo shoot. Cut up it weighed 836 g. I expect to box up about 750 g after boiling for an hour.
SCIENCE said:
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:a great majority of schools prep students for exams so they know what to expect and to help them adapt to exam style conditions.. I wouldn’t call this cheating.
often the NAPLAN ‘practice’ is done at the expense of the rest of the curriculum. Because you still have KPI’s to reach set by the ed department – they don’t endorse all the NAPLAN ‘practice’ but it gets done anyway and the curriculum suffers because there isn’t enough time to do both.. but teachers are pressured by admin to make sure students are NAPLAN ready.
going to go out on a limb here and throw the idea out there that maybe parents can teach their kids some basic skills
if they have the basic skills.
i understand all points of view re naplan. one thing i appreciate is that the Tas govt had to shut up about the excellence of our education and accept they had been caught out with widespread illiteracy.
Was wanting to visit the IGA for some dinner supplies but intermittent thunder and rain have dissuaded me. Don’t fancy being cleft in two by furious sky gods.
So it’ll be another rather spartan quinoa mix tonight.
I’m a little teapot
Short and stout
Here is my handle
Here is my spout
When I get all steamed up
Then I shout!
Tip me over
Pour me out
Taps fingers on desk.
Waiting on call from urologist. I was call the other day and told to expect a phone call after 2pm today.
First hour gone.
Still, I’ve drained the boiled bamboo shoot slices. The 836 g ended up as 731 g. About a 12.5% weight loss. They are in the fridge cooling now. I’ll have to devise a couple of meals for them. Thai curry, Chinese meals, Korean meals, Indian curry. Plenty to choose from. Might look at Korean this time. Followed by Thai. Maybe Laotian. Perhaps Malay.
I’ve done a couple of different Chinese meals, a Nepali meal, a Thai curry (Massaman) and an Indian curry already with some of the shoots I have harvested.
Divine Angel said:
I’m a little teapot
Short and stout
Here is my handle
Here is my spoutWhen I get all steamed up
Then I shout!
Tip me over
Pour me out
Divine Angel said:
I’m a little teapot
Short and stout
Here is my handle
Here is my spoutWhen I get all steamed up
Then I shout!
Tip me over
Pour me out
I have always wanted to get an assassins teapot..
Michael V said:
Taps fingers on desk.Waiting on call from urologist. I was call the other day and told to expect a phone call after 2pm today.
First hour gone.
Still, I’ve drained the boiled bamboo shoot slices. The 836 g ended up as 731 g. About a 12.5% weight loss. They are in the fridge cooling now. I’ll have to devise a couple of meals for them. Thai curry, Chinese meals, Korean meals, Indian curry. Plenty to choose from. Might look at Korean this time. Followed by Thai. Maybe Laotian. Perhaps Malay.
I’ve done a couple of different Chinese meals, a Nepali meal, a Thai curry (Massaman) and an Indian curry already with some of the shoots I have harvested.
Goodo, quite a variety.
Reminds me, when I do visit the IGA tomorrow I have to get some curry powder for kedgeree. For some reason Coles doesn’t stock my usual kedgeree powder (Clive of India Hot).
Divine Angel said:
I’m a little teapot
Short and stout
Here is my handle
Here is my spoutWhen I get all steamed up
Then I shout!
Tip me over
Pour me out
The Hillgrove Gold mine’s safety officer carried the nick-name “Teapot”. He’d lost most of his right arm in an industrial accident.
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
I’m a little teapot
Short and stout
Here is my handle
Here is my spoutWhen I get all steamed up
Then I shout!
Tip me over
Pour me out
I have always wanted to get an assassins teapot..
Ooh-ahh.
Speaking of gold, Mini Me’s teacher invited me to go on their Gold Rush excursion in a fortnight.
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
I’m a little teapot
Short and stout
Here is my handle
Here is my spoutWhen I get all steamed up
Then I shout!
Tip me over
Pour me out
I have always wanted to get an assassins teapot..
Have you looked on Temu
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Taps fingers on desk.Waiting on call from urologist. I was call the other day and told to expect a phone call after 2pm today.
First hour gone.
Still, I’ve drained the boiled bamboo shoot slices. The 836 g ended up as 731 g. About a 12.5% weight loss. They are in the fridge cooling now. I’ll have to devise a couple of meals for them. Thai curry, Chinese meals, Korean meals, Indian curry. Plenty to choose from. Might look at Korean this time. Followed by Thai. Maybe Laotian. Perhaps Malay.
I’ve done a couple of different Chinese meals, a Nepali meal, a Thai curry (Massaman) and an Indian curry already with some of the shoots I have harvested.
Goodo, quite a variety.
Reminds me, when I do visit the IGA tomorrow I have to get some curry powder for kedgeree. For some reason Coles doesn’t stock my usual kedgeree powder (Clive of India Hot).
That was the brand used in the Chinese restaurant I worked in as a teenager.
I do keep some here.
Divine Angel said:
Speaking of gold, Mini Me’s teacher invited me to go on their Gold Rush excursion in a fortnight.
Cool.
Divine Angel said:
Speaking of gold, Mini Me’s teacher invited me to go on their Gold Rush excursion in a fortnight.
What does Mini-Me think of that?
Divine Angel said:
Speaking of gold, Mini Me’s teacher invited me to go on their Gold Rush excursion in a fortnight.
watcha gunna wear?
Woodie said:
Divine Angel said:
Speaking of gold, Mini Me’s teacher invited me to go on their Gold Rush excursion in a fortnight.
What does Mini-Me think of that?
She’s used to me hanging around. I volunteered in her classes for years, did placement there, and library training too. Most of the kids in her grade know me haha.
Do any of you have a favorite rice salad recipe? I’m wanting some variety from our usual lettuce and tomato, or chickpea salad or Greek salad. I don’t seem to have a rice salad recipe.
sarahs mum said:
Divine Angel said:
Speaking of gold, Mini Me’s teacher invited me to go on their Gold Rush excursion in a fortnight.
watcha gunna wear?
I think I’d die if I wore something old timey.
buffy said:
Do any of you have a favorite rice salad recipe? I’m wanting some variety from our usual lettuce and tomato, or chickpea salad or Greek salad. I don’t seem to have a rice salad recipe.
Nagi says: “So rice as a salad? Hmm. I don’t think that even exists in Japan. And I can’t think of a single rice salad from any Asian country – anyone care to enlighten me??”
…but she does offer this Cowboy Rice Salad which looks and sounds tasty.
https://www.recipetineats.com/cowboy-rice-salad/
Divine Angel said:
sarahs mum said:
Divine Angel said:
Speaking of gold, Mini Me’s teacher invited me to go on their Gold Rush excursion in a fortnight.
watcha gunna wear?
I think I’d die if I wore something old timey.
Handmaid?
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Do any of you have a favorite rice salad recipe? I’m wanting some variety from our usual lettuce and tomato, or chickpea salad or Greek salad. I don’t seem to have a rice salad recipe.
Nagi says: “So rice as a salad? Hmm. I don’t think that even exists in Japan. And I can’t think of a single rice salad from any Asian country – anyone care to enlighten me??”
…but she does offer this Cowboy Rice Salad which looks and sounds tasty.
https://www.recipetineats.com/cowboy-rice-salad/
Yes, I looked at that. It didn’t grab me.
buffy said:
Do any of you have a favorite rice salad recipe? I’m wanting some variety from our usual lettuce and tomato, or chickpea salad or Greek salad. I don’t seem to have a rice salad recipe.
I’ve never made a rice salad.
Potato salad, pasta salad, couscous salad, yes.
I’d imagine rice salad to be similar: Rice + mayonnaise + salad stuff.
The stubborn stupidity from people about the current measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico makes me beyond angry. Pathetic self-importance about their lack of knowledge about a dangerous virus.
Anyway…
The Manson movie was interesting, I kept dozing off though.
I kept thinking about the things that are happening with MAGA and how people have had their brains hijacked.
Was trying to find my recipe for Mexican rice salad but no luck, so here’s a different one.
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Do any of you have a favorite rice salad recipe? I’m wanting some variety from our usual lettuce and tomato, or chickpea salad or Greek salad. I don’t seem to have a rice salad recipe.
I’ve never made a rice salad.
Potato salad, pasta salad, couscous salad, yes.
I’d imagine rice salad to be similar: Rice + mayonnaise + salad stuff.
I might just stick with a potato salad. Tomorrow is forecast to be a bit cooler than the 30+ we’ve been enduring (14-27) so we’ll have our pork kievs then with Greek salad made yesterday. While the oven is on I’ll put together a zucchini and sweet potato bake to use over the hotter days of Friday/Saturday.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Do any of you have a favorite rice salad recipe? I’m wanting some variety from our usual lettuce and tomato, or chickpea salad or Greek salad. I don’t seem to have a rice salad recipe.
Nagi says: “So rice as a salad? Hmm. I don’t think that even exists in Japan. And I can’t think of a single rice salad from any Asian country – anyone care to enlighten me??”
…but she does offer this Cowboy Rice Salad which looks and sounds tasty.
https://www.recipetineats.com/cowboy-rice-salad/
Yes, I looked at that. It didn’t grab me.
Cold dirty rice would work well with a few more salady things in it, but again that’s American so you may not like it.
buffy said:
Do any of you have a favorite rice salad recipe? I’m wanting some variety from our usual lettuce and tomato, or chickpea salad or Greek salad. I don’t seem to have a rice salad recipe.
I used to make brown rice, toasted sunflower seeds and brown lentils. Olive oil, vinegar, fresh garlic and parsley.
Very tasty and nutty.
Divine Angel said:
Was trying to find my recipe for Mexican rice salad but no luck, so here’s a different one.
Hmm, cabbage and rice sounds OK. There is some remnant cabbage in the fridge. If I made my usual coleslaw mix (cabbage/carrot/onion/tasty cheese) with mayonnaise and added in some cooked rice and chopped red capsicum (did I mention I finally, after umpteen years, have managed to grow a capsicum to red stage?). I reckon that would work.
Thanks for the inspiration everyone.
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
Was trying to find my recipe for Mexican rice salad but no luck, so here’s a different one.
Hmm, cabbage and rice sounds OK. There is some remnant cabbage in the fridge. If I made my usual coleslaw mix (cabbage/carrot/onion/tasty cheese) with mayonnaise and added in some cooked rice and chopped red capsicum (did I mention I finally, after umpteen years, have managed to grow a capsicum to red stage?). I reckon that would work.
Sounds good to try.
The thing that confuses me about that re pie is draining the rice. Rice shouldn’t need to be drained.
Divine Angel said:
The thing that confuses me about that re pie is draining the rice. Rice shouldn’t need to be drained.
Depending on how you do rice, I’d a-thunk it was a standard part of the procedure
Divine Angel said:
The thing that confuses me about that re pie is draining the rice. Rice shouldn’t need to be drained.
I watch a lot of asian restaurant shows. they never drain the rice as there is no water left.
I only add enough water for the rice to absorb. By the time the water’s absorbed, the rice is cooked. Is that not how you’re supposed to do it?
Divine Angel said:
I only add enough water for the rice to absorb. By the time the water’s absorbed, the rice is cooked. Is that not how you’re supposed to do it?
I don’t use the absorption method. I know a lot of people do. I boil the rice and then drain, and sometimes rinse it also.
warms up a bit, more, keeps going more for quite a few days, peaks with couple 41Cs
larry come up to me a while ago, just standing there like wanted a pat, been in and out of his bath, but I reckoned his look was read my mind how about you wet the yard down and maybe squirt me some too, so did that
not much of a mind reading dog, but got a bit of wants his read
transition said:
warms up a bit, more, keeps going more for quite a few days, peaks with couple 41Cslarry come up to me a while ago, just standing there like wanted a pat, been in and out of his bath, but I reckoned his look was read my mind how about you wet the yard down and maybe squirt me some too, so did that
not much of a mind reading dog, but got a bit of wants his read
there he is, ninety something, heading for a hundred, old, feels the heat, and cold
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Do any of you have a favorite rice salad recipe? I’m wanting some variety from our usual lettuce and tomato, or chickpea salad or Greek salad. I don’t seem to have a rice salad recipe.
I’ve never made a rice salad.
Potato salad, pasta salad, couscous salad, yes.
I’d imagine rice salad to be similar: Rice + mayonnaise + salad stuff.
Mit frozen peas/carrots/corn (cooked of course) some mayo, and a tad of curry powder all stirred in, refrigerate, and serve. Last time I made that it all went. Once chilled, add the mayo and curry powder gradually to taste.
Neophyte said:
Divine Angel said:
The thing that confuses me about that re pie is draining the rice. Rice shouldn’t need to be drained.
Depending on how you do rice, I’d a-thunk it was a standard part of the procedure
I use a rice cooker. Perfect every time. No draining required.
Woodie said:
Neophyte said:
Divine Angel said:
The thing that confuses me about that re pie is draining the rice. Rice shouldn’t need to be drained.
Depending on how you do rice, I’d a-thunk it was a standard part of the procedure
I use a rice cooker. Perfect every time. No draining required.
I use ordinary saucepans with the absorption method, which also requires no draining.
Divine Angel said:
I only add enough water for the rice to absorb. By the time the water’s absorbed, the rice is cooked. Is that not how you’re supposed to do it?
Absorption method. I eyeball it or cover the rice with enough water up to my first knuckle.
But, nowadays I microwave a bag of frozen rice with mixed veggies, add butter, garlic paste, sliced almonds, salt to taste, and sometimes a can of tuna in olive oil.
Divine Angel said:
I only add enough water for the rice to absorb. By the time the water’s absorbed, the rice is cooked. Is that not how you’re supposed to do it?
That is how I do it, yes. On low heat.
Bubblecar said:
Divine Angel said:
I only add enough water for the rice to absorb. By the time the water’s absorbed, the rice is cooked. Is that not how you’re supposed to do it?
That is how I do it, yes. On low heat.
…which is exactly the same way I cook quinoa.
So anyway a guy I went out with a couple of times before I met Mr Mutant is now a wrestler. Not the career path I saw for him but sure, whatever.
Bucketing down here. Much rainier than BoM predicted.
We’ve had a rash of small(ish) fires out here in SouthWest Victoria over the last few days. I can smell Budj Bim National Park burning. Also close to that is Lake Condah. That’s where the Aboriginal stone fish traps are. So far that fire is 548 hectares.
Bubblecar said:
Bucketing down here. Much rainier than BoM predicted.
i had a few mls. and much booming.
Divine Angel said:
So anyway a guy I went out with a couple of times before I met Mr Mutant is now a wrestler. Not the career path I saw for him but sure, whatever.
well are they making the world a better place at least
saturday now 42C, up a degree, willyweather says
i’m on temperature trends microwatch
can’t get enough of the heat
anyway if I survive friday and saturday there are beautiful cool days afterward
Divine Angel said:
So anyway a guy I went out with a couple of times before I met Mr Mutant is now a wrestler. Not the career path I saw for him but sure, whatever.
steroids and meths?
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Bucketing down here. Much rainier than BoM predicted.
i had a few mls. and much booming.
and a couple more short heavy falls.
Watching movie ‘Is Paris Burning?’ (1966).
An actor portrays Count von Arnim, who was adjutant to General von Choltitz, in command of the ‘defence’of Paris.
The name von Arnim may be vaguely familiar to some of us.
The South African-born acto Piero von Arnim was the character in the ‘Uncle Sam’ deodorant commercials of the early 1970s, and i understand that Count von Arnim was a relative, perhaps an uncle.
We need technology that can deal with tailgating.
Fed up.
Tau.Neutrino said:
We need technology that can deal with tailgating.
Fed up.
it’s called shoes
Tau.Neutrino said:
We need technology that can deal with tailgating.Fed up.
Flick the headlights on and off.
They’ll interpret it as brake lights.
But, then, sometimes more cosidered methods are needed.
There was a lady who drove a distinctive Toyota, who i’d encounter in my way to and from work.
She was so obviously a danger to herself and other road users, and destined to have a serious ‘traffic incident’, that the best course was to resolve to not be part of it.
When i saw her ahead of or behind me, i’d pull over, and count slowly to 30, and then proceed.
SCIENCE said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
We need technology that can deal with tailgating.
Fed up.
it’s called shoes
It’s called bad driving.
Trying to push the car in front to go over the speed limit.
That is not good driving.
Tau.Neutrino said:
We need technology that can deal with tailgating.Fed up.
On my rally car I used to have a good reversing light.
130 Watts in fact, and if the person behind me provoked me enough I’d flick a switch to turn it on, then they’d just slow right down. Not being able to see can do that.
Spiny Norman said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
We need technology that can deal with tailgating.Fed up.
On my rally car I used to have a good reversing light.
130 Watts in fact, and if the person behind me provoked me enough I’d flick a switch to turn it on, then they’d just slow right down. Not being able to see can do that.
I had one likw that on the back of my Hillman Hunter in 1975. I did the same thing. The bitch called the cops and they were on my doorstep an hour later.
oooh we know we know the best solution is to roll coal
that’ll learn’em good
Woodie said:
Spiny Norman said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
We need technology that can deal with tailgating.Fed up.
On my rally car I used to have a good reversing light.
130 Watts in fact, and if the person behind me provoked me enough I’d flick a switch to turn it on, then they’d just slow right down. Not being able to see can do that.
I had one likw that on the back of my Hillman Hunter in 1975. I did the same thing. The bitch called the cops and they were on my doorstep an hour later.
‘Did that happen, Constable? How awful. I was trying to use the windscreen washer, and i think i pushed the wrong switch.’
Woodie said:
Spiny Norman said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
We need technology that can deal with tailgating.Fed up.
On my rally car I used to have a good reversing light.
130 Watts in fact, and if the person behind me provoked me enough I’d flick a switch to turn it on, then they’d just slow right down. Not being able to see can do that.
I had one likw that on the back of my Hillman Hunter in 1975. I did the same thing. The bitch called the cops and they were on my doorstep an hour later.
Back in the good old days when they actually did stuff. I was very tempted to make a bet with the local Police station boss as to how long I could driver around for without using indicators before I got pulled over. I’d never do it of course but I don’t have the slightest doubt it’d be years at least.
We don’t see a lot of police cars on the road around here.
Spiny Norman said:
Woodie said:
Spiny Norman said:On my rally car I used to have a good reversing light.
130 Watts in fact, and if the person behind me provoked me enough I’d flick a switch to turn it on, then they’d just slow right down. Not being able to see can do that.
I had one likw that on the back of my Hillman Hunter in 1975. I did the same thing. The bitch called the cops and they were on my doorstep an hour later.
Back in the good old days when they actually did stuff. I was very tempted to make a bet with the local Police station boss as to how long I could driver around for without using indicators before I got pulled over. I’d never do it of course but I don’t have the slightest doubt it’d be years at least.
We don’t see a lot of police cars on the road around here.
Spiny Norman said:
Back in the good old days when they actually did stuff. I was very tempted to make a bet with the local Police station boss as to how long I could driver around for without using indicators before I got pulled over. I’d never do it of course but I don’t have the slightest doubt it’d be years at least.
We don’t see a lot of police cars on the road around here.
I once sent a letter to the boss cocky of Bundaberg police, querying whether or not the operators of the speed cameras in the area were familiar with how to deploy the ‘warning’ signs that were needed at the time (i.e. not flat against a picket fence and partially concealed by vegetation), in line with the police traffic manual.
And also in line with how the then-current Qld police minister had assured Parliament that the signs were deployed everywhere.
Coincidentally, deployment of those signs became much more conformal shortly thereafter.
Divine Angel said:
Last Friday I took Mini Me to the park 5kms away, saw three cop cars on the way. They were probably doorknocking vulnerable properties for the imminent cyclone.
Might have been Bob-a-Job week.
Tau.Neutrino said:
We need technology that can deal with tailgating.Fed up.
Yeah, I hate it. Probly best to do nothing apart from increasing your gap to the vehicle in front.
OTOH, I have been known to accelerate and brake, using the hand brake, in an erratic manner.. usually does the trick.
captain_spalding said:
Divine Angel said:Last Friday I took Mini Me to the park 5kms away, saw three cop cars on the way. They were probably doorknocking vulnerable properties for the imminent cyclone.
Might have been Bob-a-Job week.
a bobbie fer yer jobbie.
Tau.Neutrino said:
SCIENCE said:Tau.Neutrino said:
We need technology that can deal with tailgating.
Fed up.
it’s called shoes
It’s called bad driving.
Trying to push the car in front to go over the speed limit.
That is not good driving.
Is this on single lane each way roads?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
SCIENCE said:it’s called shoes
It’s called bad driving.
Trying to push the car in front to go over the speed limit.
That is not good driving.
Is this on single lane each way roads?
Yes, we have mostly a single lane between Ballarat and Creswick with not many places to overtake.
Bit late for the roosters isn’t it?
Tau.Neutrino said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Tau.Neutrino said:It’s called bad driving.
Trying to push the car in front to go over the speed limit.
That is not good driving.
Is this on single lane each way roads?
Yes, we have mostly a single lane between Ballarat and Creswick with not many places to overtake.
In that case I’d probably try take down their number plate and report them to the police or at the very least suggest there is a lot of speeding going on on this particular road.
Vanessa Wallace Artist
1m ·
Meta have lost the plot. Apparently you can’t say, ‘c.o.c.k of the Mersey
- which was rowing component which used to be part of the Mersey / Devonport regatta.
Nor can you discuss the desexing of a male canine and use the word t.e.s.t.i.c.l.e but gonad is ok…..
Meanwhile I’m seeing hate speech, abuse and low level porn images popping up in my feeds ! Not to mention abuse I’ve coped of late…
WTAF !
sarahs mum said:
Vanessa Wallace Artist
1m ·
Meta have lost the plot. Apparently you can’t say, ‘c.o.c.k of the Mersey
- which was rowing component which used to be part of the Mersey / Devonport regatta.
Nor can you discuss the desexing of a male canine and use the word t.e.s.t.i.c.l.e but gonad is ok…..
Meanwhile I’m seeing hate speech, abuse and low level porn images popping up in my feeds ! Not to mention abuse I’ve coped of late…
WTAF !
Can you say ‘dick of the Mersey’?
‘Schwanz of the Mersey’?
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:
Vanessa Wallace Artist
1m ·
Meta have lost the plot. Apparently you can’t say, ‘c.o.c.k of the Mersey
- which was rowing component which used to be part of the Mersey / Devonport regatta.
Nor can you discuss the desexing of a male canine and use the word t.e.s.t.i.c.l.e but gonad is ok…..
Meanwhile I’m seeing hate speech, abuse and low level porn images popping up in my feeds ! Not to mention abuse I’ve coped of late…
WTAF !
Can you say ‘dick of the Mersey’?
Seems it’s becoming a load of bollocks.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Is this on single lane each way roads?
Yes, we have mostly a single lane between Ballarat and Creswick with not many places to overtake.
In that case I’d probably try take down their number plate and report them to the police or at the very least suggest there is a lot of speeding going on on this particular road.
Yes on this road zI have seen speed cameras once, and that’s over 4 years, I’m sure there would have been more.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Is this on single lane each way roads?
Yes, we have mostly a single lane between Ballarat and Creswick with not many places to overtake.
In that case I’d probably try take down their number plate and report them to the police or at the very least suggest there is a lot of speeding going on on this particular road.
Rear-facing dashcam, upload footage and dob them in via an app. Doable with today’s tech.
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Yes, we have mostly a single lane between Ballarat and Creswick with not many places to overtake.
In that case I’d probably try take down their number plate and report them to the police or at the very least suggest there is a lot of speeding going on on this particular road.
Rear-facing dashcam, upload footage and dob them in via an app. Doable with today’s tech.
Yes, something lIke that.
Time and gps stamped, picture sent over 4,5 g mobile.
Tau.Neutrino said:
We need technology that can deal with tailgating.Fed up.
We have the technology.
Pull over and let them pass.
Simple. Costs nothing. They wont run in to you and they can go on their merry way without extra antagonism.
Tau.Neutrino said:
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:In that case I’d probably try take down their number plate and report them to the police or at the very least suggest there is a lot of speeding going on on this particular road.
Rear-facing dashcam, upload footage and dob them in via an app. Doable with today’s tech.
Yes, something lIke that.
Time and gps stamped, picture sent over 4,5 g mobile.
Unless it’s pretty serious the Police will do nothing.
Seen that many times.
Michael V said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
We need technology that can deal with tailgating.Fed up.
We have the technology.
Pull over and let them pass.
Simple. Costs nothing. They wont run in to you and they can go on their merry way without extra antagonism.
Yep, just let them be an arsehole somewhere else. Not worth the drama.
sarahs mum said:
Vanessa Wallace Artist
1m ·
Meta have lost the plot. Apparently you can’t say, ‘c.o.c.k of the Mersey
- which was rowing component which used to be part of the Mersey / Devonport regatta.
Nor can you discuss the desexing of a male canine and use the word t.e.s.t.i.c.l.e but gonad is ok…..
Meanwhile I’m seeing hate speech, abuse and low level porn images popping up in my feeds ! Not to mention abuse I’ve coped of late…
WTAF !
Hopefully that’s another who’ll stop using Facebook etc.
Spiny Norman said:
Michael V said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
We need technology that can deal with tailgating.Fed up.
We have the technology.
Pull over and let them pass.
Simple. Costs nothing. They wont run in to you and they can go on their merry way without extra antagonism.
Yep, just let them be an arsehole somewhere else. Not worth the drama.
I find if I do that, I don’t get worked up and I can feel like I’ve been magnanimous.
Check out this rear dash cam footage.
Should I keep trying to locate my missing parcel from yesterday’s postal delivery?
It’s gusty and dusty again today, I should close the bathroom window before the whole room gets another coating of gritty dust.
Need to do more work on my tax return.
I’d like to catch up with the gardener today about a few more hours help with getting my stuff ready to be packed and shipped. Plus the garden needs work – dead things and live weeds. A few weeks back he said that he’d have some free time. He’s been working off a “debt” from me giving him equipment (a heavy-duty ladder, shelving units etc.)
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 15 degrees at the back door, still and dark. Actually feels a bit cold. e are forecast a partly cloudy 27.
Breakfast with my bushwandering friend. Then I need to mow again around the overspray areas of the veggie garden. Water + hot weather makes grass grow.
Night of broken sleep, so doubtless I’ll be getting some more before the Coles delivery which will be between 4:15 and 5:15.
But first, visit the IGA for the non-Coles items.
BACK and about to assemble an egg & saveloy break-my-fast.
sarahs mum said:
when are you coming home kii?
Aiming for an attempt before summer. I can’t cope with another summer here, plus I am trying to avoid the end of summer there. Acclimatizing to sea level and humidity is going to be rough. Plus it is really hard to leave my little home to an unknown future place to live. It’s 15 years today that we bought this place.
kii said:
sarahs mum said:when are you coming home kii?
Aiming for an attempt before summer. I can’t cope with another summer here, plus I am trying to avoid the end of summer there. Acclimatizing to sea level and humidity is going to be rough. Plus it is really hard to leave my little home to an unknown future place to live. It’s 15 years today that we bought this place.
make it so. i wish you some peace and happiness in your future. you deserve it.
sarahs mum said:
kii said:
sarahs mum said:when are you coming home kii?
Aiming for an attempt before summer. I can’t cope with another summer here, plus I am trying to avoid the end of summer there. Acclimatizing to sea level and humidity is going to be rough. Plus it is really hard to leave my little home to an unknown future place to live. It’s 15 years today that we bought this place.
make it so. i wish you some peace and happiness in your future. you deserve it.
Ta.
I’m currently still trying to add needed websites and passwords to my laptop. Who knew that years of writing this information (in various coded formats) to post-it notes or scraps of paper, and filing them in a book (specifically designed for such information) would be such a stupid idea? To be fair the lines in the book are too close for my generous handwriting.
Managed a full walk today! Once I got up the little hill outside the school and was ok, I knew the rest of the route would be a breeze as it’s all flat.
More washing today.
Dropped into Woolies to get bread. Most of their shelves are empty: not just fruit & veg, fridge/freezer, eggs, but snacks, soft drink (plenty of bottled water though), commercial bread, cakes, and hot chooks. Wondering what happened to the Premier’s promise of 24/7 deliveries for two weeks after the cyclone and the supermarket bosses assuring us there was plenty of stock in the warehouses.
Divine Angel said:
Managed a full walk today! Once I got up the little hill outside the school and was ok, I knew the rest of the route would be a breeze as it’s all flat.More washing today.
Dropped into Woolies to get bread. Most of their shelves are empty: not just fruit & veg, fridge/freezer, eggs, but snacks, soft drink (plenty of bottled water though), commercial bread, cakes, and hot chooks. Wondering what happened to the Premier’s promise of 24/7 deliveries for two weeks after the cyclone and the supermarket bosses assuring us there was plenty of stock in the warehouses.
Promises and assurances kept.
Lots of deliveries to the distribution centres/warehouses, plenty of stock at those locations.
At your supermarket and mine…well…
On the other hand, i went to a slightly-more-distant Coles yesterday, and it was a hive of activity.
The lady at the deli counter said that the truck had just arrived, and it was all-hands-on-deck to get the stuff unloaded and on the shelves.
“Even the managers have taken their hands out of their pockets, and are pitching in’, she said.
Sorry, Bubblercar
Some items you ordered are out of stock
Pacifically, the half cabbage. No subtitute available.
So I’ll have to check the IGA for cabbage. I need some for the home-made pork dim sims I’ll be making next week.
If I went to a slightly-more-distant supey which had a chance of being fully stocked, I’d end up in Kilcoy.
Divine Angel said:
If I went to a slightly-more-distant supey which had a chance of being fully stocked, I’d end up in Kilcoy.
quelle horreur
Divine Angel said:
If I went to a slightly-more-distant supey which had a chance of being fully stocked, I’d end up in Kilcoy.
I went to that one yesterday because it stocks some things that our nearest Coles seems to eschew. Like Hong Kong Kitchen dim sims, and Uncle Toby’s Oat Flakes.
Many a time I’ve stopped at that IGA on my way to dad’s.
no produce shortage here… eggs, smallgoods and cabbage a plenty
Hello
Cymek said:
Hello
Greetings
“Keir Starmer makes personal plea for MPs to back him on benefits cuts”
Pensioners getting too much free money, and don’t get me started on the so called handicapped.
Maar-ing done. Took longer than I expected. Now too warm outside. I’ll have some lunch, a read and siesta and then watch Dr Who at 2.45pm. It’s one of the Simm Master episodes, but….Captain Jack! Gotta watch Captain Jack episodes.
Do you reckon dreams mean anything in real life.
Not the content, but perhaps symbolism for events, feelings you are experiencing.
I had a really vivid dream last night involving a spider
I would be out and about somewhere, one location the shops from when I was younger.
It would come out of nowhere and crawl up onto my face and just sit one side of my mouth taking food as I ate.
It didn’t harm me, my mind thought it was a wolf spider or huntsman, weird as I could feel it moving in the dream
“Prime ministers’ ‘chums’ could be blocked from entering House of Lords”
I think the chaps might have something to say about that nonsense.
“Conservative peer Lord Norton of Louth wants to tighten the rules around the conferment of peerages so they are given on merit.”
Good Lord, what is he thinking.
I think the chaps will have him straight out to lunch, no mucking around.
Cymek said:
Do you reckon dreams mean anything in real life.Not the content, but perhaps symbolism for events, feelings you are experiencing.
I had a really vivid dream last night involving a spider
I would be out and about somewhere, one location the shops from when I was younger.
It would come out of nowhere and crawl up onto my face and just sit one side of my mouth taking food as I ate.
It didn’t harm me, my mind thought it was a wolf spider or huntsman, weird as I could feel it moving in the dream
lights pipe
Peak Warming Man said:
“Prime ministers’ ‘chums’ could be blocked from entering House of Lords”I think the chaps might have something to say about that nonsense.
“Conservative peer Lord Norton of Louth wants to tighten the rules around the conferment of peerages so they are given on merit.”
Good Lord, what is he thinking.
I think the chaps will have him straight out to lunch, no mucking around.
Will it be retrospective then¿
International Rescue is on its way to recover Lady Penelopy.
https://youtu.be/UGdV6e2tgVU
Peak Warming Man said:
International Rescue is on its way to recover Lady Penelopy.
https://youtu.be/UGdV6e2tgVU
Coles truck is here. Name: Gero again.
Bubblecar said:
Coles truck is here. Name: Gero again.
Gone again. Must be delivering somewhere else first.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Coles truck is here. Name: Gero again.
Gone again. Must be delivering somewhere else first.
He’s back again.
The Invisible Enemy
Another Tom Baker story that I don’t rate highly. I didn’t remember this one much apart from vague recollections of the Doctor’s face flaking up because of a virus, and the fact that K9 joins the crew.
I will say they did a pretty good job guessing the appearance of the surface of Titan, given that this was made before any spacecraft had neared the Saturnian system. Apart from that, it’s pretty dodgy from a scientific standpoint, even by the standards of the series. They clone the Doctor and Leela and shrink them down, injecting them into the original Doctor’s body. Somehow the minatures can still feel what the bigguns are feeling. (Not sure what people in the 1970s thought cloning was.) They treat the mind/brain barrier as though it is some physical location in the body. Leela is immune to the virus because she is instinctual not intellectual: that’s just rude.I think they used the same incidental music in this story as was used in the BBC dub of Monkey, produced around the same time.
The colony uses some phonetic form of English spelling, e.g. Isolayshn.
They leave the nautical themed TARDIS interior and go back to using a plain white jobby.
Leela: “ White’s not a colour.”
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Coles truck is here. Name: Gero again.
Gone again. Must be delivering somewhere else first.
He’s back again.
Is it Gero again or Back again.
Sociable chap. When I enquired as to his health, he replied, “There’s air in my lungs and blood in my veins, so I suppose I can’t complain.”
dv said:
The Invisible EnemyAnother Tom Baker story that I don’t rate highly. I didn’t remember this one much apart from vague recollections of the Doctor’s face flaking up because of a virus, and the fact that K9 joins the crew.
I will say they did a pretty good job guessing the appearance of the surface of Titan, given that this was made before any spacecraft had neared the Saturnian system. Apart from that, it’s pretty dodgy from a scientific standpoint, even by the standards of the series. They clone the Doctor and Leela and shrink them down, injecting them into the original Doctor’s body. Somehow the minatures can still feel what the bigguns are feeling. (Not sure what people in the 1970s thought cloning was.) They treat the mind/brain barrier as though it is some physical location in the body. Leela is immune to the virus because she is instinctual not intellectual: that’s just rude.I think they used the same incidental music in this story as was used in the BBC dub of Monkey, produced around the same time.
The colony uses some phonetic form of English spelling, e.g. Isolayshn.
They leave the nautical themed TARDIS interior and go back to using a plain white jobby.
Leela: “ White’s not a colour.”
Don’t really recall that one. Might have skipped it because I didn’t like Leela.
Bubblecar said:
Sociable chap. When I enquired as to his health, he replied, “There’s air in my lungs and blood in my veins, so I suppose I can’t complain.”
Better than the other way around, for sure
So the USA ‘wildlife warrior’ who filmed herself taking a baby wombat from its mother is ‘having her visa looked at’
Australia is outraged at her actions.
Arts said:
So the USA ‘wildlife warrior’ who filmed herself taking a baby wombat from its mother is ‘having her visa looked at’Australia is outraged at her actions.
she should go through the courts before she is deported.
Pissin’ down
Arts said:
So the USA ‘wildlife warrior’ who filmed herself taking a baby wombat from its mother is ‘having her visa looked at’Australia is outraged at her actions.
I heard her described as a “hunting influencer”
dv said:
The Invisible EnemyAnother Tom Baker story that I don’t rate highly. I didn’t remember this one much apart from vague recollections of the Doctor’s face flaking up because of a virus, and the fact that K9 joins the crew.
I will say they did a pretty good job guessing the appearance of the surface of Titan, given that this was made before any spacecraft had neared the Saturnian system. Apart from that, it’s pretty dodgy from a scientific standpoint, even by the standards of the series. They clone the Doctor and Leela and shrink them down, injecting them into the original Doctor’s body. Somehow the minatures can still feel what the bigguns are feeling. (Not sure what people in the 1970s thought cloning was.) They treat the mind/brain barrier as though it is some physical location in the body. Leela is immune to the virus because she is instinctual not intellectual: that’s just rude.I think they used the same incidental music in this story as was used in the BBC dub of Monkey, produced around the same time.
The colony uses some phonetic form of English spelling, e.g. Isolayshn.
They leave the nautical themed TARDIS interior and go back to using a plain white jobby.
Leela: “ White’s not a colour.”
Did they use bubble wrap or something similar for the virus or infected people ?
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
So the USA ‘wildlife warrior’ who filmed herself taking a baby wombat from its mother is ‘having her visa looked at’Australia is outraged at her actions.
I heard her described as a “hunting influencer”
apparently (according to Reddit – the source of all knowledge) her account shows her in all sorts of ‘situations’ – one of them being posing with killed animals in Africa – so already I don’t care for her actions… therefore I don’t really give a shit what she calls herself
sarahs mum said:
Arts said:
So the USA ‘wildlife warrior’ who filmed herself taking a baby wombat from its mother is ‘having her visa looked at’Australia is outraged at her actions.
she should go through the courts before she is deported.
Yes. Stupid bitch. Send her to Christmas Island to scrub loos.
Of course Australia is outraged, Arts.
Got a letter from Telstra today and they are pleased to inform me that my $25 plan is to be replaced with a $50 plan.
Cymek said:
dv said:
The Invisible EnemyAnother Tom Baker story that I don’t rate highly. I didn’t remember this one much apart from vague recollections of the Doctor’s face flaking up because of a virus, and the fact that K9 joins the crew.
I will say they did a pretty good job guessing the appearance of the surface of Titan, given that this was made before any spacecraft had neared the Saturnian system. Apart from that, it’s pretty dodgy from a scientific standpoint, even by the standards of the series. They clone the Doctor and Leela and shrink them down, injecting them into the original Doctor’s body. Somehow the minatures can still feel what the bigguns are feeling. (Not sure what people in the 1970s thought cloning was.) They treat the mind/brain barrier as though it is some physical location in the body. Leela is immune to the virus because she is instinctual not intellectual: that’s just rude.I think they used the same incidental music in this story as was used in the BBC dub of Monkey, produced around the same time.
The colony uses some phonetic form of English spelling, e.g. Isolayshn.
They leave the nautical themed TARDIS interior and go back to using a plain white jobby.
Leela: “ White’s not a colour.”Did they use bubble wrap or something similar for the virus or infected people ?
Looks more like fish flakes?
dv said:
Pissin’ down
we have thunder and lightning… I was about to call it a day and go home but the wet stuff convinced me not to walk to my car.
Arts said:
dv said:
Pissin’ down
we have thunder and lightning… I was about to call it a day and go home but the wet stuff convinced me not to walk to my car.
although the way the lights are flickering, we might be forced to go home…
Peak Warming Man said:
Got a letter from Telstra today and they are pleased to inform me that my $25 plan is to be replaced with a $50 plan.
Well no wonder they’re pleased.
Peak Warming Man said:
Got a letter from Telstra today and they are pleased to inform me that my $25 plan is to be replaced with a $50 plan.
at least someone is happy
dv said:
Cymek said:
dv said:
The Invisible EnemyAnother Tom Baker story that I don’t rate highly. I didn’t remember this one much apart from vague recollections of the Doctor’s face flaking up because of a virus, and the fact that K9 joins the crew.
I will say they did a pretty good job guessing the appearance of the surface of Titan, given that this was made before any spacecraft had neared the Saturnian system. Apart from that, it’s pretty dodgy from a scientific standpoint, even by the standards of the series. They clone the Doctor and Leela and shrink them down, injecting them into the original Doctor’s body. Somehow the minatures can still feel what the bigguns are feeling. (Not sure what people in the 1970s thought cloning was.) They treat the mind/brain barrier as though it is some physical location in the body. Leela is immune to the virus because she is instinctual not intellectual: that’s just rude.I think they used the same incidental music in this story as was used in the BBC dub of Monkey, produced around the same time.
The colony uses some phonetic form of English spelling, e.g. Isolayshn.
They leave the nautical themed TARDIS interior and go back to using a plain white jobby.
Leela: “ White’s not a colour.”Did they use bubble wrap or something similar for the virus or infected people ?
Looks more like fish flakes?
Does yeah, was many years ago since I saw.
Contact has been made what they said when infected wasn’t it
Peak Warming Man said:
Got a letter from Telstra today and they are pleased to inform me that my $25 plan is to be replaced with a $50 plan.
you lucky bastard.
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
So the USA ‘wildlife warrior’ who filmed herself taking a baby wombat from its mother is ‘having her visa looked at’Australia is outraged at her actions.
I heard her described as a “hunting influencer”
apparently (according to Reddit – the source of all knowledge) her account shows her in all sorts of ‘situations’ – one of them being posing with killed animals in Africa – so already I don’t care for her actions… therefore I don’t really give a shit what she calls herself
I wish we had some dangerous critters in Australia.
Cymek said:
dv said:
Cymek said:Did they use bubble wrap or something similar for the virus or infected people ?
Looks more like fish flakes?
Does yeah, was many years ago since I saw.
Contact has been made what they said when infected wasn’t it
Yes I think they used Contact to make the facial prosthetics
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:I heard her described as a “hunting influencer”
apparently (according to Reddit – the source of all knowledge) her account shows her in all sorts of ‘situations’ – one of them being posing with killed animals in Africa – so already I don’t care for her actions… therefore I don’t really give a shit what she calls herself
I wish we had some dangerous critters in Australia.
Maybe she’ll try to nick a cassowary egg
dv said:
Cymek said:
dv said:Looks more like fish flakes?
Does yeah, was many years ago since I saw.
Contact has been made what they said when infected wasn’t it
Yes I think they used Contact to make the facial prosthetics
I use that to cover my Dr Who books.
Peak Warming Man said:
Got a letter from Telstra today and they are pleased to inform me that my $25 plan is to be replaced with a $50 plan.
My telco got bought out by Amaysim, who squeeze an extra month into the year. So I will be leaving when the takeover happens at the end of the month.
They offered me $15/m for 12gb. When I asked about it on Reddit, someone replied their offer was $20/m for 110gb.
Nick Duigan MLC
8h ·
Work is underway to assess impacts after more than 17,800 lightning strikes hit the state yesterday ⚡️⚡️
Aircraft support has been deployed and we are utilising our latest technology and Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service remote area crews to ensure rapid response.
Thanks to all three of our fire agencies Tasmania Fire Service PWS, and Sustainable Timber Tasmania, for their ongoing efforts. 💪💪
Re: Gene Hackman’s and Betsy Arakawa’s deaths
“ The couple owned three dogs. While two of the dogs survived, Zinna, an Australian kelpie mix, was found dead in a crate in the bathroom near Arakawa’s body.
Zinna had undergone a medical procedure on February 9, which may explain why she was kept in the crate.”
A crate is very different to a cupboard.
Arts said:
dv said:
Pissin’ down
we have thunder and lightning… I was about to call it a day and go home but the wet stuff convinced me not to walk to my car.
Funda here too.
Divine Angel said:
Re: Gene Hackman’s and Betsy Arakawa’s deaths
“ The couple owned three dogs. While two of the dogs survived, Zinna, an Australian kelpie mix, was found dead in a crate in the bathroom near Arakawa’s body.
Zinna had undergone a medical procedure on February 9, which may explain why she was kept in the crate.”A crate is very different to a cupboard.
yes, that is the first I read that it was in a crate and the reason why, so I guess the poor thing starved to death? :(
this snippet had me perplexed
…plank owner of SEAL team II…
William Goines was a plank owner of SEAL Team 2, meaning he was a member of the original crew that established the team,
i’m very fond of the internet.
sarahs mum said:
Nick Duigan MLC
8h ·
Work is underway to assess impacts after more than 17,800 lightning strikes hit the state yesterday ⚡️⚡️Aircraft support has been deployed and we are utilising our latest technology and Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service remote area crews to ensure rapid response.
Thanks to all three of our fire agencies Tasmania Fire Service PWS, and Sustainable Timber Tasmania, for their ongoing efforts. 💪💪
That’s a shedload of strikes.
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
Re: Gene Hackman’s and Betsy Arakawa’s deaths
“ The couple owned three dogs. While two of the dogs survived, Zinna, an Australian kelpie mix, was found dead in a crate in the bathroom near Arakawa’s body.
Zinna had undergone a medical procedure on February 9, which may explain why she was kept in the crate.”A crate is very different to a cupboard.
yes, that is the first I read that it was in a crate and the reason why, so I guess the poor thing starved to death? :(
No great mystery after all, just a set of extremely unfortunate events
Shopping packed away, time for a well earned tin of DAB before marinating some chops.
sarahs mum said:
Arts said:
So the USA ‘wildlife warrior’ who filmed herself taking a baby wombat from its mother is ‘having her visa looked at’
Australia is outraged at her actions.
she should go through the courts before she is deported.
vaguely remember there was some case like this 6 or so years ago
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:
dv said:
Pissin’ down
we have thunder and lightning… I was about to call it a day and go home but the wet stuff convinced me not to walk to my car.
Funda here too.
I think you’ll find there’s a h in Funda
Peak Warming Man said:
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:we have thunder and lightning… I was about to call it a day and go home but the wet stuff convinced me not to walk to my car.
Funda here too.
I think you’ll find there’s a h in Funda
Fundah
Arts said:
Peak Warming Man said:
JudgeMental said:Funda here too.
I think you’ll find there’s a h in Funda
Fundah
but only when you want to be posh
Arts said:
Peak Warming Man said:
JudgeMental said:Funda here too.
I think you’ll find there’s a h in Funda
Fundah
Da na na na na na Fundah!
Fundabirds are go.
What about funder or fundar?
Arts said:
Peak Warming Man said:
JudgeMental said:Funda here too.
I think you’ll find there’s a h in Funda
Fundah
Fundahup.
Peak Warming Man said:
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:we have thunder and lightning… I was about to call it a day and go home but the wet stuff convinced me not to walk to my car.
Funda here too.
I think you’ll find there’s a h in Funda
sorry Fundha.
Now i just have that Imagine Dragons song in my head
The other day a friend posted on social media, a menu from a fancy restaurant she’d gone to. I read through the menu thinking, there’s not a single dish on it that I’d eat 😂 I’m extremely fussy when it comes to food.
Divine Angel said:
The other day a friend posted on social media, a menu from a fancy restaurant she’d gone to. I read through the menu thinking, there’s not a single dish on it that I’d eat 😂 I’m extremely fussy when it comes to food.
Can’t see anything on there I wouldn’t eat.
For all you green people out there.
I got the news letter for THe Atlas of Living Things and it had this link in there,
https://ecoassets.org.au/ecoassets-2024-update/#more-983
Bubblecar said:
Divine Angel said:
The other day a friend posted on social media, a menu from a fancy restaurant she’d gone to. I read through the menu thinking, there’s not a single dish on it that I’d eat 😂 I’m extremely fussy when it comes to food.
Can’t see anything on there I wouldn’t eat.
I’dn’t‘ve guessed that a tallow candle was a foodstuff.
Bubblecar said:
Divine Angel said:
The other day a friend posted on social media, a menu from a fancy restaurant she’d gone to. I read through the menu thinking, there’s not a single dish on it that I’d eat 😂 I’m extremely fussy when it comes to food.
Can’t see anything on there I wouldn’t eat.
i could eat. Bit affronted at having to order the steak and the gravy and the spuds seperately.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Divine Angel said:
The other day a friend posted on social media, a menu from a fancy restaurant she’d gone to. I read through the menu thinking, there’s not a single dish on it that I’d eat 😂 I’m extremely fussy when it comes to food.
Can’t see anything on there I wouldn’t eat.
I’dn’t‘ve guessed that a tallow candle was a foodstuff.
They’re made from choice fat cut from steaks + goose fat etc. As they burn they melt onto the plate and you dip focaccia or other bread into drippings.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:Can’t see anything on there I wouldn’t eat.
I’dn’t‘ve guessed that a tallow candle was a foodstuff.
They’re made from choice fat cut from steaks + goose fat etc. As they burn they melt onto the plate and you dip focaccia or other bread into drippings.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:Can’t see anything on there I wouldn’t eat.
I’dn’t‘ve guessed that a tallow candle was a foodstuff.
They’re made from choice fat cut from steaks + goose fat etc. As they burn they melt onto the plate and you dip focaccia or other bread into drippings.
Good lord.
Couple of side dishes I’d eat though, I guess that counts.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Divine Angel said:
The other day a friend posted on social media, a menu from a fancy restaurant she’d gone to. I read through the menu thinking, there’s not a single dish on it that I’d eat 😂 I’m extremely fussy when it comes to food.
Can’t see anything on there I wouldn’t eat.
I’dn’t‘ve guessed that a tallow candle was a foodstuff.
adds a romantic touch to your dining experience.
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Can’t see anything on there I wouldn’t eat.
I’dn’t‘ve guessed that a tallow candle was a foodstuff.
adds a romantic touch to your dining experience.
so a Roman candle then
SCIENCE said:
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
I’dn’t‘ve guessed that a tallow candle was a foodstuff.
adds a romantic touch to your dining experience.
so a Roman candle then
are they the ones that lean?
dinner will be delicious, i’ll tell you that much
JudgeMental said:
SCIENCE said:JudgeMental said:
adds a romantic touch to your dining experience.
so a Roman candle then
are they the ones that lean?
transition said:
dinner will be delicious, i’ll tell you that much
there ya go, oh forgot tomato sauce, fixed that
I could reads the news, see if trump’s lot have worked russia into a deal yet cough
transition said:
transition said:
dinner will be delicious, i’ll tell you that much
there ya go, oh forgot tomato sauce, fixed that
Good to see you getting plenty of meat into you.
JudgeMental said:
JudgeMental said:
SCIENCE said:
so a Roman candle then
are they the ones that lean?
skinny, lean, nice one
One comment describes the new dwarfs as “woke CGI crap”
Divine Angel said:
One comment describes the new dwarfs as “woke CGI crap”
Even Sleepy?
Bubblecar said:
Even Sleepy?
Lol
Divine Angel said:
One comment describes the new dwarfs as “woke CGI crap”
Well they do look like they are awake.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Divine Angel said:
One comment describes the new dwarfs as “woke CGI crap”
Well they do look like they are awake.
Other than Sleepy of course :)
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/texas-tech-university-fires-why-green-flames-came-out-of-manholes-in-lubbock-explained-article-118960776
Green fire at Texas Tech
dv said:
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/texas-tech-university-fires-why-green-flames-came-out-of-manholes-in-lubbock-explained-article-118960776Green fire at Texas Tech
I would have guessed ‘too much Tex-Mex takeaway food’.
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/texas-tech-university-fires-why-green-flames-came-out-of-manholes-in-lubbock-explained-article-118960776Green fire at Texas Tech
I would have guessed ‘too much Tex-Mex takeaway food’.
Were they burning police officers?
furious said:
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/texas-tech-university-fires-why-green-flames-came-out-of-manholes-in-lubbock-explained-article-118960776Green fire at Texas Tech
I would have guessed ‘too much Tex-Mex takeaway food’.
Were they burning police officers?
different copper.
Cymek said:
Do you reckon dreams mean anything in real life.Not the content, but perhaps symbolism for events, feelings you are experiencing.
I had a really vivid dream last night involving a spider
I would be out and about somewhere, one location the shops from when I was younger.
It would come out of nowhere and crawl up onto my face and just sit one side of my mouth taking food as I ate.
It didn’t harm me, my mind thought it was a wolf spider or huntsman, weird as I could feel it moving in the dream
Probably a spider on your face in your sleep, IRL.
Peak Warming Man said:
Got a letter from Telstra today and they are pleased to inform me that my $25 plan is to be replaced with a $50 plan.
That’s some inflation.
dv said:
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:apparently (according to Reddit – the source of all knowledge) her account shows her in all sorts of ‘situations’ – one of them being posing with killed animals in Africa – so already I don’t care for her actions… therefore I don’t really give a shit what she calls herself
I wish we had some dangerous critters in Australia.
Maybe she’ll try to nick a cassowary egg
Ha!
:)
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Got a letter from Telstra today and they are pleased to inform me that my $25 plan is to be replaced with a $50 plan.
That’s some inflation.
Similar to my Vodafone plan.
For a few years it’s been about $40 per month. Then about two months ago they told me it was now $44 per month. Then about a week ago they told be it was now $48 a month. Might have to my ineffectual displeasure by moving to a different company.
Divine Angel said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Got a letter from Telstra today and they are pleased to inform me that my $25 plan is to be replaced with a $50 plan.
My telco got bought out by Amaysim, who squeeze an extra month into the year. So I will be leaving when the takeover happens at the end of the month.
They offered me $15/m for 12gb. When I asked about it on Reddit, someone replied their offer was $20/m for 110gb.
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:
dv said:
Pissin’ down
we have thunder and lightning… I was about to call it a day and go home but the wet stuff convinced me not to walk to my car.
Funda here too.
FundaMental.
Great potential handle.
Spiny Norman said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Got a letter from Telstra today and they are pleased to inform me that my $25 plan is to be replaced with a $50 plan.
That’s some inflation.
Similar to my Vodafone plan.
For a few years it’s been about $40 per month. Then about two months ago they told me it was now $44 per month. Then about a week ago they told be it was now $48 a month. Might have to my ineffectual displeasure by moving to a different company.
Kogan use the Vodafone network and have good plans.
Divine Angel said:
Spiny Norman said:
Michael V said:That’s some inflation.
Similar to my Vodafone plan.
For a few years it’s been about $40 per month. Then about two months ago they told me it was now $44 per month. Then about a week ago they told be it was now $48 a month. Might have to my ineffectual displeasure by moving to a different company.
Kogan use the Vodafone network and have good plans.
Ta!
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
Peak Warming Man said:I think you’ll find there’s a h in Funda
Fundah
Da na na na na na Fundah!
Batman on the Fundah Box?
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:Fundah
Da na na na na na Fundah!
Batman on the Fundah Box?
You’ve been… fundahstruck!
Speaking of food, me lad made cinnamon scrolls the other day. 9/10.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:Da na na na na na Fundah!
Batman on the Fundah Box?
You’ve been… fundahstruck!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ao-iNPPUc
Thunderstruck by Steve’n‘Seagulls
dv said:
Speaking of food, me lad made cinnamon scrolls the other day. 9/10.
That’s longer than a couple of days ago.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Speaking of food, me lad made cinnamon scrolls the other day. 9/10.
That’s longer than a couple of days ago.
Never forget
Speaking of a couple of days, haven’t heard from Tamb in that time.
Coupla days, bewdiful.
Divine Angel said:
The other day a friend posted on social media, a menu from a fancy restaurant she’d gone to. I read through the menu thinking, there’s not a single dish on it that I’d eat 😂 I’m extremely fussy when it comes to food.
Seems fine to me.
Divine Angel said:
Coupla days, bewdiful.
Hehe.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
The other day a friend posted on social media, a menu from a fancy restaurant she’d gone to. I read through the menu thinking, there’s not a single dish on it that I’d eat 😂 I’m extremely fussy when it comes to food.
Seems fine to me.
OK, for me, seafood tower, then carpaccio,then the beef wellington, with some potatoes as the chef dictates, and with a dab of hot English mustard on the side.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Bubblecar said:Can’t see anything on there I wouldn’t eat.
I’dn’t‘ve guessed that a tallow candle was a foodstuff.
They’re made from choice fat cut from steaks + goose fat etc. As they burn they melt onto the plate and you dip focaccia or other bread into drippings.
Yum.
:)
dv said:
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/texas-tech-university-fires-why-green-flames-came-out-of-manholes-in-lubbock-explained-article-118960776Green fire at Texas Tech
Blocked, for some reason or other.
What caused the green flames?
Michael V said:
dv said:
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/texas-tech-university-fires-why-green-flames-came-out-of-manholes-in-lubbock-explained-article-118960776Green fire at Texas Tech
Blocked, for some reason or other.
What caused the green flames?
Texas Tech Fires: Why ‘Green Flames’ Came Out Of Manholes In Lubbock | EXPLAINED
Several building at Texas Tech University in Lubbock were evacuated on Wednesday after officials confirmed that an explosion in a manhole caused multiple fires. The campus was also hit with a widespread power outage. Emergency officials were called just after 7 PM local time. They found ‘green flames’ shooting out of manholes, a Lubbock Fire official said during a press conference.
Several building at Texas Tech University in Lubbock were evacuated on Wednesday after officials confirmed that an explosion in a manhole caused multiple fires. The campus was also hit with a widespread power outage. Emergency officials were called just after 7 PM local time. They found ‘green flames’ shooting out of manholes, a Lubbock Fire official said during a press conference.
“It’s too early to say exactly what we’re dealing with there,” Lubbock Fire Captain Jon Tunnell said. He did not reveal the cause of these fires and discoloration of the flames. No injuries have been reported so far.
While there is no specific explanation behind the green flames, they likely resulted from a chemical reaction involving copper compounds. When copper – commonly found in electrical wiring, pipes, or utility infrastructure – burns or reacts with heat, it emits a distinctive green glow.
Underground settings, like manholes, have electrical systems or utility lines. A fire could spark from an electrical fault, gas leak, or chemical spill. If copper wiring or components were present it is likely that a green-tinted light could be seen.
At Texas Tech, Lincoln Fire and Rescue responded to alerts about a gas leak within the Engineering Key area. Officials evacuated the Engineering Key and HSC facilities. The Texas Tech library closed operations at 9:20 PM local time.
“This is an emergency notification from Texas Tech University in Lubbock. An explosion at a substation has caused power outages at Texas Tech University and Health Sciences Center. The Engineering key has been evacuated. We ask that the public avoid the campuses.,” the university said in a statement on X, platform formerly known as Twitter.
A song from Cinderella claims:
Salago-doola
Menchika-boola
Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!
Put ‘em together and what have you got?
Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!
This suggests that salago-doola and menchika-boola cancel each other out on addition.
dv said:
A song from Cinderella claims:
Salago-doola
Menchika-boola
Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!
Put ‘em together and what have you got?
Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!This suggests that salago-doola and menchika-boola cancel each other out on addition.
Not necessarily. Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo might just be the name of the S-doola, M-boola alloy, mentioned in the third line not as a unique ingredient but the result of the combination.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:A song from Cinderella claims:
Salago-doola
Menchika-boola
Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!
Put ‘em together and what have you got?
Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!This suggests that salago-doola and menchika-boola cancel each other out on addition.
Not necessarily. Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo might just be the name of the S-doola, M-boola alloy, mentioned in the third line not as a unique ingredient but the result of the combination.
Hmm
Been surveying the night from the front porch. Very peaceful out there with quietly contented frog songs, and slowly drifting clouds hiding a bright moon, which will be full tomorrow.
Bubblecar said:
Been surveying the night from the front porch. Very peaceful out there with quietly contented frog songs, and slowly drifting clouds hiding a bright moon, which will be full tomorrow.
What a coincidence. There is a full moon predicted here for tomorrow too.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
Been surveying the night from the front porch. Very peaceful out there with quietly contented frog songs, and slowly drifting clouds hiding a bright moon, which will be full tomorrow.
What a coincidence. There is a full moon predicted here for tomorrow too.
You can have it after we’ve played with it for a while.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:Da na na na na na Fundah!
Batman on the Fundah Box?
You’ve been… fundahstruck!
:)
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
dv said:
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/texas-tech-university-fires-why-green-flames-came-out-of-manholes-in-lubbock-explained-article-118960776Green fire at Texas Tech
Blocked, for some reason or other.
What caused the green flames?
Texas Tech Fires: Why ‘Green Flames’ Came Out Of Manholes In Lubbock | EXPLAINED
Several building at Texas Tech University in Lubbock were evacuated on Wednesday after officials confirmed that an explosion in a manhole caused multiple fires. The campus was also hit with a widespread power outage. Emergency officials were called just after 7 PM local time. They found ‘green flames’ shooting out of manholes, a Lubbock Fire official said during a press conference.
Several building at Texas Tech University in Lubbock were evacuated on Wednesday after officials confirmed that an explosion in a manhole caused multiple fires. The campus was also hit with a widespread power outage. Emergency officials were called just after 7 PM local time. They found ‘green flames’ shooting out of manholes, a Lubbock Fire official said during a press conference.
“It’s too early to say exactly what we’re dealing with there,” Lubbock Fire Captain Jon Tunnell said. He did not reveal the cause of these fires and discoloration of the flames. No injuries have been reported so far.
While there is no specific explanation behind the green flames, they likely resulted from a chemical reaction involving copper compounds. When copper – commonly found in electrical wiring, pipes, or utility infrastructure – burns or reacts with heat, it emits a distinctive green glow.
Underground settings, like manholes, have electrical systems or utility lines. A fire could spark from an electrical fault, gas leak, or chemical spill. If copper wiring or components were present it is likely that a green-tinted light could be seen.
At Texas Tech, Lincoln Fire and Rescue responded to alerts about a gas leak within the Engineering Key area. Officials evacuated the Engineering Key and HSC facilities. The Texas Tech library closed operations at 9:20 PM local time.
“This is an emergency notification from Texas Tech University in Lubbock. An explosion at a substation has caused power outages at Texas Tech University and Health Sciences Center. The Engineering key has been evacuated. We ask that the public avoid the campuses.,” the university said in a statement on X, platform formerly known as Twitter.
Ta.
Good morning Holidayers. A lovely 12 degrees at the back door right now. We are forecast a mostly sunny 30 today, then 36 tomorrow and then we have a run of forecasts for days under 30. I’m happy about that. Well, not today and tomorrow, but the cooling down bit.
I’ll take the car to Hamilton for an 8.30 tyre fitting and then see how hot it is by the time I get home. I’ve always got things to do in the garden if it’s cool enough. Couch/kikuyu causes never ending work (especially with this hot weather and the fact I water the veggie garden with overspray onto the grassed area). Such an invasive grass.
Mostly sunny, heading for 28.
Came up on Facebook memories today the GP I lodged a complaint about in 2021 had his license suspended. The most recent update I got, papers have been lodged and he’s headed to tribunal. I should look up QCAT to see if anything’s happened with that yet.
Also exoplanets confirmed around Barnard’s Star, that’s pretty cool.
Costco: coffins and rotisserie chickens in the same aisle.
Do not fuck with Costco.
Well, that was my first laugh for the day…nearly 3pm.
experts say nature will eventually send sand back to the coastline
sure it’s fine we’ll also one day all be part of a unified supercontinent again
SCIENCE said:
experts say nature will eventually send sand back to the coastline
sure it’s fine we’ll also one day all be part of a unified supercontinent again
I doubt I’ll be still here for that latter.
Divine Angel said:
Also exoplanets confirmed around Barnard’s Star, that’s pretty cool.
they’re pretty close in eh
Morning Pilgrims.
It’s a corker day in old Brisbane town, there’s a bit of a nip in the air.
bosky
PRONUNCIATION:
(BAH-skee)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Densely wooded; covered in trees and shrubs.
2. Pertaining to forests or wooded areas.
ETYMOLOGY:
From bosk (bush), from Latin bosca. Earliest documented use: 1616.
USAGE:
“The coastal trainline passed a seashore in places … as lush and bosky as the Great Bear Rainforest.”
J.R. Patterson; Easy Beauty and the Bosom of Friendship Is What You Get from Wexford; The Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada); Oct 12, 2022.
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others. -Douglas Adams, author (11 Mar 1952-2001)
JudgeMental said:
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others. -Douglas Adams, author (11 Mar 1952-2001)
Well that’s his opinion.
It’s Sibeen and Albert Einstein’s birthday today.
Peak Warming Man said:
It’s Sibeen and Albert Einstein’s birthday today.
I wonder if Sibeen has put Albert straight on a few things yet?
JudgeMental said:
boskyPRONUNCIATION:
(BAH-skee)MEANING:
adjective:
1. Densely wooded; covered in trees and shrubs.
2. Pertaining to forests or wooded areas.ETYMOLOGY:
From bosk (bush), from Latin bosca. Earliest documented use: 1616.USAGE:
“The coastal trainline passed a seashore in places … as lush and bosky as the Great Bear Rainforest.”
J.R. Patterson; Easy Beauty and the Bosom of Friendship Is What You Get from Wexford; The Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada); Oct 12, 2022.
bosky is the brand name of expensive fuel stoves. i have always lusted for one. the entire top is a griddle and a surface for pots. its heats water and radiators through the house. it runs on wood and electricity. if you set the oven for 350 and fail to keep up with the wood the electricity kicks in
JudgeMental said:
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others. -Douglas Adams, author (11 Mar 1952-2001)
Great comment.
Some reporters ought to heed that notion.
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others. -Douglas Adams, author (11 Mar 1952-2001)
Great comment.
Some reporters ought to heed that notion.
nah but rhetoric is better then logic
“Sir Keir Starmer dramatically scrapped NHS England today as he launched a striking assault on the ‘flabby, unfocused and over-cautious’ state. The PM used a speech to deliver a damning verdict on the performance of the public sector, saying huge expansion in numbers had not worked. He announced that NHS England, which oversees individual hospital trusts, will be abolished altogether, saying it would bring health provision back under ‘democratic control’.”
You need a Knight of the Relm, one of the chaps, to sort out these………these freeloaders.
Greetings
Today I have treated myself to a treat, a meat pie and a apple turnover with cream for morning tea.
Over.
Cymek said:
Greetings
Hello.
Curses
I purchased a portable nutra bullet for work
Put all the ingredients in, pressed the button.
It ran for about a second and then no power
I didn’t bring the charger so its barely mixed.
Lucky its fully sealed so I can take it home.
No breakfast
I’m back. My car has new shoes.
buffy said:
I’m back. My car has new shoes.
Goodo.
Peak Warming Man said:
“Sir Keir Starmer dramatically scrapped NHS England today as he launched a striking assault on the ‘flabby, unfocused and over-cautious’ state. The PM used a speech to deliver a damning verdict on the performance of the public sector, saying huge expansion in numbers had not worked. He announced that NHS England, which oversees individual hospital trusts, will be abolished altogether, saying it would bring health provision back under ‘democratic control’.”You need a Knight of the Relm, one of the chaps, to sort out these………these freeloaders.
Far canal!
Even the Tories wouldn’t try that.
I have zero illusions, I would suck at Survivor. The only way I’d get anywhere is to Steven Bradbury my way through.
Peak Warming Man said:
Today I have treated myself to a treat, a meat pie and a apple turnover with cream for morning tea.
Over.
Now you won’t want any lunch.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
“Sir Keir Starmer dramatically scrapped NHS England today as he launched a striking assault on the ‘flabby, unfocused and over-cautious’ state. The PM used a speech to deliver a damning verdict on the performance of the public sector, saying huge expansion in numbers had not worked. He announced that NHS England, which oversees individual hospital trusts, will be abolished altogether, saying it would bring health provision back under ‘democratic control’.”You need a Knight of the Relm, one of the chaps, to sort out these………these freeloaders.
Far canal!
Even the Tories wouldn’t try that.
Note that what’s happening here is a renationalisation of the NHS operations.
Under previous governments, a second layer of bureacracy was created to keep NHS spending decisions out of direct control of the national government. This actually led to inefficiency and graft. Starmer is abolishing this layer and bringing NHS spending under direct government control.
Can see some criminals have a survival instinct
Caught with trafficeable quantity of meth, refused access to phone.
dv said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
“Sir Keir Starmer dramatically scrapped NHS England today as he launched a striking assault on the ‘flabby, unfocused and over-cautious’ state. The PM used a speech to deliver a damning verdict on the performance of the public sector, saying huge expansion in numbers had not worked. He announced that NHS England, which oversees individual hospital trusts, will be abolished altogether, saying it would bring health provision back under ‘democratic control’.”You need a Knight of the Relm, one of the chaps, to sort out these………these freeloaders.
Far canal!
Even the Tories wouldn’t try that.
Note that what’s happening here is a renationalisation of the NHS operations.
Under previous governments, a second layer of bureacracy was created to keep NHS spending decisions out of direct control of the national government. This actually led to inefficiency and graft. Starmer is abolishing this layer and bringing NHS spending under direct government control.
Yes, NHS England isn’t the NHS.
Divine Angel said:
I have zero illusions, I would suck at Survivor. The only way I’d get anywhere is to Steven Bradbury my way through.
I’m not really familiar with the show but I would think that key to survival is keeping a cool head and being aware of the physical environment.
dv said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
“Sir Keir Starmer dramatically scrapped NHS England today as he launched a striking assault on the ‘flabby, unfocused and over-cautious’ state. The PM used a speech to deliver a damning verdict on the performance of the public sector, saying huge expansion in numbers had not worked. He announced that NHS England, which oversees individual hospital trusts, will be abolished altogether, saying it would bring health provision back under ‘democratic control’.”You need a Knight of the Relm, one of the chaps, to sort out these………these freeloaders.
Far canal!
Even the Tories wouldn’t try that.
Note that what’s happening here is a renationalisation of the NHS operations.
Under previous governments, a second layer of bureacracy was created to keep NHS spending decisions out of direct control of the national government. This actually led to inefficiency and graft. Starmer is abolishing this layer and bringing NHS spending under direct government control.
Ah. Quite different to what it sounded.
dv said:
Divine Angel said:
I have zero illusions, I would suck at Survivor. The only way I’d get anywhere is to Steven Bradbury my way through.
I’m not really familiar with the show but I would think that key to survival is keeping a cool head and being aware of the physical environment.
Strategy as to who to vote out at what time, before you’re voted out.
This week in Australian Survivor, a guy tore his biceps tendon during a challenge. Medical team took him for scans etc and decided he could stay in the game but couldn’t do challenges.
Divine Angel said:
dv said:
Divine Angel said:
I have zero illusions, I would suck at Survivor. The only way I’d get anywhere is to Steven Bradbury my way through.
I’m not really familiar with the show but I would think that key to survival is keeping a cool head and being aware of the physical environment.
Strategy as to who to vote out at what time, before you’re voted out.
This week in Australian Survivor, a guy tore his biceps tendon during a challenge. Medical team took him for scans etc and decided he could stay in the game but couldn’t do challenges.
So who does the voting? The team members or the public?
Are there separate competing teams or is the whole group just trying to achieve an objective?
Divine Angel said:
I have zero illusions, I would suck at Survivor. The only way I’d get anywhere is to Steven Bradbury my way through.
Interestingly, it was Bradbury and his coach’s strategy to stick behind and hope for falls. Falls occur often during overtaking manoeuvres in speed skating. Bradbury was in (IIRC) his fourth Olympics, and not quite as capable of the huge burst of acceleration needed to win at the front. At the semi-final, he got to the final the same way (from the back after a fall).
dv said:
Divine Angel said:
dv said:I’m not really familiar with the show but I would think that key to survival is keeping a cool head and being aware of the physical environment.
Strategy as to who to vote out at what time, before you’re voted out.
This week in Australian Survivor, a guy tore his biceps tendon during a challenge. Medical team took him for scans etc and decided he could stay in the game but couldn’t do challenges.
So who does the voting? The team members or the public?
Are there separate competing teams or is the whole group just trying to achieve an objective?
They start out in two or three tribes (teams). They do challenges for reward or immunity. Lose immunity challenge, your tribe goes to tribal council where the tribe votes someone out.
At a certain point, the teams merge and they play for individual immunity. At that point, people voted off form a jury. At the end there’s only three people left in the game. The jury votes for someone to win the prize money.
dv said:
Divine Angel said:
dv said:I’m not really familiar with the show but I would think that key to survival is keeping a cool head and being aware of the physical environment.
Strategy as to who to vote out at what time, before you’re voted out.
This week in Australian Survivor, a guy tore his biceps tendon during a challenge. Medical team took him for scans etc and decided he could stay in the game but couldn’t do challenges.
So who does the voting? The team members or the public?
Are there separate competing teams or is the whole group just trying to achieve an objective?
dude… really?
dv said:
Divine Angel said:
dv said:I’m not really familiar with the show but I would think that key to survival is keeping a cool head and being aware of the physical environment.
Strategy as to who to vote out at what time, before you’re voted out.
This week in Australian Survivor, a guy tore his biceps tendon during a challenge. Medical team took him for scans etc and decided he could stay in the game but couldn’t do challenges.
So who does the voting? The team members or the public?
Are there separate competing teams or is the whole group just trying to achieve an objective?
The sponsors.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Michael V said:Far canal!
Even the Tories wouldn’t try that.
Note that what’s happening here is a renationalisation of the NHS operations.
Under previous governments, a second layer of bureacracy was created to keep NHS spending decisions out of direct control of the national government. This actually led to inefficiency and graft. Starmer is abolishing this layer and bringing NHS spending under direct government control.
Yes, NHS England isn’t the NHS.
OK, thanks.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
Divine Angel said:Strategy as to who to vote out at what time, before you’re voted out.
This week in Australian Survivor, a guy tore his biceps tendon during a challenge. Medical team took him for scans etc and decided he could stay in the game but couldn’t do challenges.
So who does the voting? The team members or the public?
Are there separate competing teams or is the whole group just trying to achieve an objective?
The sponsors.
diddly-squat said:
dv said:
Divine Angel said:Strategy as to who to vote out at what time, before you’re voted out.
This week in Australian Survivor, a guy tore his biceps tendon during a challenge. Medical team took him for scans etc and decided he could stay in the game but couldn’t do challenges.
So who does the voting? The team members or the public?
Are there separate competing teams or is the whole group just trying to achieve an objective?
dude… really?
Really what?
Do you expect somebody to watch a show they are not interested in to get a handle on the rules?
For me, it seems to be reasonable to ask a person who knows.
Michael V said:
diddly-squat said:
dv said:So who does the voting? The team members or the public?
Are there separate competing teams or is the whole group just trying to achieve an objective?
dude… really?
Really what?
Do you expect somebody to watch a show they are not interested in to get a handle on the rules?
For me, it seems to be reasonable to ask a person who knows.
Yeah, I have better things to distract me than a reality tv show. Watching paint dry is always an option.
In any case, this week’s US Survivor featured unprecedented situations in tribal council. Just when I thought Aust Survivor was superior in every way lol.
kii said:
Michael V said:
diddly-squat said:dude… really?
Really what?
Do you expect somebody to watch a show they are not interested in to get a handle on the rules?
For me, it seems to be reasonable to ask a person who knows.
Yeah, I have better things to distract me than a reality tv show. Watching paint dry is always an option.
IMHO, and I’ve said it before, reality tv* has gotten us into a huge mess – like evil presidents and Instagram influencers trying to steal a joey wombat.
*though the British baking show was okay, at least people didn’t always present as fucking psychopaths.
kii said:
Michael V said:
diddly-squat said:dude… really?
Really what?
Do you expect somebody to watch a show they are not interested in to get a handle on the rules?
For me, it seems to be reasonable to ask a person who knows.
Yeah, I have better things to distract me than a reality tv show. Watching paint dry is always an option.
With what else is on offer with some top notch shows you have to love that sort of set up
Cymek said:
kii said:
Michael V said:Really what?
Do you expect somebody to watch a show they are not interested in to get a handle on the rules?
For me, it seems to be reasonable to ask a person who knows.
Yeah, I have better things to distract me than a reality tv show. Watching paint dry is always an option.
With what else is on offer with some top notch shows you have to love that sort of set up
What else is on offer? Gosh, so many better things to do. Like digging holes, filling them up, and digging them again.
Cymek said:
kii said:
Michael V said:Really what?
Do you expect somebody to watch a show they are not interested in to get a handle on the rules?
For me, it seems to be reasonable to ask a person who knows.
Yeah, I have better things to distract me than a reality tv show. Watching paint dry is always an option.
With what else is on offer with some top notch shows you have to love that sort of set up
What else is on offer? Gosh, so many better things to do. Like digging holes, filling them up, and digging them again.
Othello, now in previews at the Barrymore Theatre, has made Broadway history!
Starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, the production has shattered the record for the highest-grossing play, earning $2,818,297 in just eight performances. It even outgrossed musical mainstays Wicked and Hamilton this week.
Directed by Tony winner Kenny Leon, Othello officially opens on March 23 for a limited run through June 8.
***
Who’d have thought a 400 year old play would still be drawing audiences enough to break Broadway records?
captain_spalding said:
Cymek said:
kii said:Yeah, I have better things to distract me than a reality tv show. Watching paint dry is always an option.
With what else is on offer with some top notch shows you have to love that sort of set up
What else is on offer? Gosh, so many better things to do. Like digging holes, filling them up, and digging them again.
Pfft I outsource that to my dog.
captain_spalding said:
Cymek said:
kii said:Yeah, I have better things to distract me than a reality tv show. Watching paint dry is always an option.
With what else is on offer with some top notch shows you have to love that sort of set up
What else is on offer? Gosh, so many better things to do. Like digging holes, filling them up, and digging them again.
I moved a hole from one end of a paddock to the other, I moved it in manageable distances of 10 meters, took me most of the day.
Tamb said:
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:So who does the voting? The team members or the public?
Are there separate competing teams or is the whole group just trying to achieve an objective?
The sponsors.
That’s why I don’t watch producer-driven TV.
I don’t watch any of these “I Married a Fuckwit in the Jungle” TV shows either.
Woodie said:
Tamb said:
Peak Warming Man said:The sponsors.
That’s why I don’t watch producer-driven TV.I don’t watch any of these “I Married a Fuckwit in the Jungle” TV shows either.
But what about Iron Chef?
Woodie said:
Tamb said:
Peak Warming Man said:The sponsors.
That’s why I don’t watch producer-driven TV.I don’t watch any of these “I Married a Fuckwit in the Jungle” TV shows either.
lol
Woodie said:
Tamb said:
Peak Warming Man said:The sponsors.
That’s why I don’t watch producer-driven TV.I don’t watch any of these “I Married a Fuckwit in the Jungle” TV shows either.
Making stupid people famous 🙄
cough…trump…cough
Michael V said:
diddly-squat said:
dv said:So who does the voting? The team members or the public?
Are there separate competing teams or is the whole group just trying to achieve an objective?
dude… really?
Really what?
Do you expect somebody to watch a show they are not interested in to get a handle on the rules?
For me, it seems to be reasonable to ask a person who knows.
The show has been running, and has been a part of popular culture for a quarter of a century.
buffy said:
Woodie said:
Tamb said:That’s why I don’t watch producer-driven TV.
I don’t watch any of these “I Married a Fuckwit in the Jungle” TV shows either.
But what about Iron Chef?
Woodie said:
Tamb said:
Peak Warming Man said:The sponsors.
That’s why I don’t watch producer-driven TV.I don’t watch any of these “I Married a Fuckwit in the Jungle” TV shows either.
Can I use that.
Divine Angel said:
dv said:
Divine Angel said:Strategy as to who to vote out at what time, before you’re voted out.
This week in Australian Survivor, a guy tore his biceps tendon during a challenge. Medical team took him for scans etc and decided he could stay in the game but couldn’t do challenges.
So who does the voting? The team members or the public?
Are there separate competing teams or is the whole group just trying to achieve an objective?
They start out in two or three tribes (teams). They do challenges for reward or immunity. Lose immunity challenge, your tribe goes to tribal council where the tribe votes someone out.
At a certain point, the teams merge and they play for individual immunity. At that point, people voted off form a jury. At the end there’s only three people left in the game. The jury votes for someone to win the prize money.
I wonder whether there would be a market for a version with no voting. Just individuals or small teams who week by week have challengers and the slowest or worst just get eliminated by some objective measure.
diddly-squat said:
dv said:
Divine Angel said:Strategy as to who to vote out at what time, before you’re voted out.
This week in Australian Survivor, a guy tore his biceps tendon during a challenge. Medical team took him for scans etc and decided he could stay in the game but couldn’t do challenges.
So who does the voting? The team members or the public?
Are there separate competing teams or is the whole group just trying to achieve an objective?
dude… really?
Could you express this question with more words, please.
Couldn’t care less about the love ones or the stupid families ones. I really only watch Survivor, Ink Master, and that glass blowing one on Netflix.
There used to be one called My Strange Addiction which was interesting. A woman who loved smelling urine-filled baby nappies, someone who loved munching on couch foam, another who ate laundry detergent, a woman who only ate burger snacks to the point where she took a whole suitcase on holiday filled with burger snacks just in case they didn’t sell them at her destination.
OK, I’m going to read. Probably siesta. ABC Entertains offers the Titanic episode of Dr Who this afternoon at 2.25. Wasn’t a bad episode. We will watch.
captain_spalding said:
:)
Peak Warming Man said:
It’s Sibeen and Albert Einstein’s birthday today.
I wonder if Sibeen has put Albert straight on a few things yet?
diddly-squat said:
Michael V said:
diddly-squat said:dude… really?
Really what?
Do you expect somebody to watch a show they are not interested in to get a handle on the rules?
For me, it seems to be reasonable to ask a person who knows.
The show has been running, and has been a part of popular culture for a quarter of a century.
Uh huh, S1E1 premiered on this day in 2000. (Today in the US, that is.)
dv said:
diddly-squat said:
dv said:So who does the voting? The team members or the public?
Are there separate competing teams or is the whole group just trying to achieve an objective?
dude… really?
Could you express this question with more words, please.
It’s surprising to me that you don’t know how the show works as it’s been running in a wide variety formats and and syndications for 25 years. Have you never seen a tribal council before or never seen a meme regarding “the tribe has spoken”?
Divine Angel said:
Othello, now in previews at the Barrymore Theatre, has made Broadway history!Starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, the production has shattered the record for the highest-grossing play, earning $2,818,297 in just eight performances. It even outgrossed musical mainstays Wicked and Hamilton this week.
Directed by Tony winner Kenny Leon, Othello officially opens on March 23 for a limited run through June 8.
***
Who’d have thought a 400 year old play would still be drawing audiences enough to break Broadway records?
Shakespeare was a pretty good playwright, not many people know that side of him.
Divine Angel said:
diddly-squat said:
Michael V said:Really what?
Do you expect somebody to watch a show they are not interested in to get a handle on the rules?
For me, it seems to be reasonable to ask a person who knows.
The show has been running, and has been a part of popular culture for a quarter of a century.
Uh huh, S1E1 premiered on this day in 2000. (Today in the US, that is.)
One is allowed to discontinue contact with a child whose behaviour borders on psychotic and whose language is vile aren’t we
My daughter is still having a go at me for not supporting her bid to try and force DCP to return custody of her son.
She believes her behaviour is perfectly fine as she says she is neurodiverse.
They want her to not tell a three year old very adult conversations of which I wont mention.
Not call everyone and anyone a c…
So much more a three old should not be subjected to.
Her version or recall of events doesn’t match others people so how do you even start to do anything.
She stresses me to the point I feel ill and cry as its so difficult and I’m helpless to do anything.
I’ve blocked her as I need a break from it all
Sorry need to gets it off my chest.
I’m told I’m allowed to look after myself otherwise I’m not good to anyone.
diddly-squat said:
dv said:
diddly-squat said:dude… really?
Could you express this question with more words, please.
It’s surprising to me that you don’t know how the show works as it’s been running in a wide variety formats and and syndications for 25 years. Have you never seen a tribal council before or never seen a meme regarding “the tribe has spoken”?
No.
Going by Wikipedia, the peak viewership of the show was around 1 million, so perhaps 5% of Australians have seen the show. I have nothing against it: each to their own, I’m glad something has brought others some entertainment. But I am baffled by your incredulity that you’ve encountered someone in the other 95% of the community.
diddly-squat said:
Michael V said:
diddly-squat said:dude… really?
Really what?
Do you expect somebody to watch a show they are not interested in to get a handle on the rules?
For me, it seems to be reasonable to ask a person who knows.
The show has been running, and has been a part of popular culture for a quarter of a century.
Not all of us give a shit about popular culture.
dv said:
Divine Angel said:
Othello, now in previews at the Barrymore Theatre, has made Broadway history!
Starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, the production has shattered the record for the highest-grossing play, earning $2,818,297 in just eight performances. It even outgrossed musical mainstays Wicked and Hamilton this week.
Directed by Tony winner Kenny Leon, Othello officially opens on March 23 for a limited run through June 8.
***
Who’d have thought a 400 year old play would still be drawing audiences enough to break Broadway records?
Shakespeare was a pretty good playwright, not many people know that side of him.
so if we livestreamed our games of reversi we could make the big bucks
Cymek said:
One is allowed to discontinue contact with a child whose behaviour borders on psychotic and whose language is vile aren’t weMy daughter is still having a go at me for not supporting her bid to try and force DCP to return custody of her son.
She believes her behaviour is perfectly fine as she says she is neurodiverse.
They want her to not tell a three year old very adult conversations of which I wont mention.
Not call everyone and anyone a c…
So much more a three old should not be subjected to.
Her version or recall of events doesn’t match others people so how do you even start to do anything.
She stresses me to the point I feel ill and cry as its so difficult and I’m helpless to do anything.
I’ve blocked her as I need a break from it allSorry need to gets it off my chest.
I’m told I’m allowed to look after myself otherwise I’m not good to anyone.
Dude, that sucks and I’m sorry…
There are no rules on who you can, or can’t, talk to. Those are your decisions to make for whatever reason you decide.
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
I’m back. My car has new shoes.
Goodo.
dv said:
diddly-squat said:
dv said:Could you express this question with more words, please.
It’s surprising to me that you don’t know how the show works as it’s been running in a wide variety formats and and syndications for 25 years. Have you never seen a tribal council before or never seen a meme regarding “the tribe has spoken”?
No.
Going by Wikipedia, the peak viewership of the show was around 1 million, so perhaps 5% of Australians have seen the show. I have nothing against it: each to their own, I’m glad something has brought others some entertainment. But I am baffled by your incredulity that you’ve encountered someone in the other 95% of the community.
I mean you, of all people, are more of a social observer than most – that is what surprised me.
dv said:
Divine Angel said:
dv said:So who does the voting? The team members or the public?
Are there separate competing teams or is the whole group just trying to achieve an objective?
They start out in two or three tribes (teams). They do challenges for reward or immunity. Lose immunity challenge, your tribe goes to tribal council where the tribe votes someone out.
At a certain point, the teams merge and they play for individual immunity. At that point, people voted off form a jury. At the end there’s only three people left in the game. The jury votes for someone to win the prize money.
I wonder whether there would be a market for a version with no voting. Just individuals or small teams who week by week have challengers and the slowest or worst just get eliminated by some objective measure.
I guess Gilligan’s Island was the first survivor show.
dv said:
Divine Angel said:
dv said:So who does the voting? The team members or the public?
Are there separate competing teams or is the whole group just trying to achieve an objective?
They start out in two or three tribes (teams). They do challenges for reward or immunity. Lose immunity challenge, your tribe goes to tribal council where the tribe votes someone out.
At a certain point, the teams merge and they play for individual immunity. At that point, people voted off form a jury. At the end there’s only three people left in the game. The jury votes for someone to win the prize money.
I wonder whether there would be a market for a version with no voting. Just individuals or small teams who week by week have challengers and the slowest or worst just get eliminated by some objective measure.
There is, it’s called “Alone”
diddly-squat said:
dv said:
diddly-squat said:dude… really?
Could you express this question with more words, please.
It’s surprising to me that you don’t know how the show works as it’s been running in a wide variety formats and and syndications for 25 years. Have you never seen a tribal council before or never seen a meme regarding “the tribe has spoken”?
I glanced at a tribal council about 25 years ago. It was so fake that I wanted to stick pins in my eyeballs.
I’ve heard the catchphrase and understand the context, but it’s so stupid that I want to scream.
Oh Cymek 😢
It’s important to take care of yourself, for many reasons. Going NC with your daughter is one of the hardest things you’ll ever do. She sounds manipulative and it’s perfectly ok for you to remove yourself from that.
captain_spalding said:
Cymek said:
kii said:Yeah, I have better things to distract me than a reality tv show. Watching paint dry is always an option.
With what else is on offer with some top notch shows you have to love that sort of set up
What else is on offer? Gosh, so many better things to do. Like digging holes, filling them up, and digging them again.
:)
Cymek said:
One is allowed to discontinue contact with a child whose behaviour borders on psychotic and whose language is vile aren’t weMy daughter is still having a go at me for not supporting her bid to try and force DCP to return custody of her son.
She believes her behaviour is perfectly fine as she says she is neurodiverse.
They want her to not tell a three year old very adult conversations of which I wont mention.
Not call everyone and anyone a c…
So much more a three old should not be subjected to.
Her version or recall of events doesn’t match others people so how do you even start to do anything.
She stresses me to the point I feel ill and cry as its so difficult and I’m helpless to do anything.
I’ve blocked her as I need a break from it allSorry need to gets it off my chest.
I’m told I’m allowed to look after myself otherwise I’m not good to anyone.
How old is she?
Divine Angel said:
Othello, now in previews at the Barrymore Theatre, has made Broadway history!Starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, the production has shattered the record for the highest-grossing play, earning $2,818,297 in just eight performances. It even outgrossed musical mainstays Wicked and Hamilton this week.
Directed by Tony winner Kenny Leon, Othello officially opens on March 23 for a limited run through June 8.
***
Who’d have thought a 400 year old play would still be drawing audiences enough to break Broadway records?
:)
Not me.
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
Divine Angel said:They start out in two or three tribes (teams). They do challenges for reward or immunity. Lose immunity challenge, your tribe goes to tribal council where the tribe votes someone out.
At a certain point, the teams merge and they play for individual immunity. At that point, people voted off form a jury. At the end there’s only three people left in the game. The jury votes for someone to win the prize money.
I wonder whether there would be a market for a version with no voting. Just individuals or small teams who week by week have challengers and the slowest or worst just get eliminated by some objective measure.
I guess Gilligan’s Island was the first survivor show.
Thought the first peoples had been doing it for more than 50,000 years?
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
Cymek said:With what else is on offer with some top notch shows you have to love that sort of set up
What else is on offer? Gosh, so many better things to do. Like digging holes, filling them up, and digging them again.
:)
I do a lot of that.
diddly-squat said:
Michael V said:
diddly-squat said:dude… really?
Really what?
Do you expect somebody to watch a show they are not interested in to get a handle on the rules?
For me, it seems to be reasonable to ask a person who knows.
The show has been running, and has been a part of popular culture for a quarter of a century.
So?
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
dv said:I wonder whether there would be a market for a version with no voting. Just individuals or small teams who week by week have challengers and the slowest or worst just get eliminated by some objective measure.
I guess Gilligan’s Island was the first survivor show.
Thought the first peoples had been doing it for more than 50,000 years?
I don’t believe that there has been a TV series about it though.
dv said:
Cymek said:
One is allowed to discontinue contact with a child whose behaviour borders on psychotic and whose language is vile aren’t weMy daughter is still having a go at me for not supporting her bid to try and force DCP to return custody of her son.
She believes her behaviour is perfectly fine as she says she is neurodiverse.
They want her to not tell a three year old very adult conversations of which I wont mention.
Not call everyone and anyone a c…
So much more a three old should not be subjected to.
Her version or recall of events doesn’t match others people so how do you even start to do anything.
She stresses me to the point I feel ill and cry as its so difficult and I’m helpless to do anything.
I’ve blocked her as I need a break from it allSorry need to gets it off my chest.
I’m told I’m allowed to look after myself otherwise I’m not good to anyone.
How old is she?
29
Dr Who has been running for about a million years and I know fk all about that.
JudgeMental said:
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:I guess Gilligan’s Island was the first survivor show.
Thought the first peoples had been doing it for more than 50,000 years?
I don’t believe that there has been a TV series about it though.
I don’t have a TV so this is just speculation on my part.
Cymek said:
One is allowed to discontinue contact with a child whose behaviour borders on psychotic and whose language is vile aren’t weMy daughter is still having a go at me for not supporting her bid to try and force DCP to return custody of her son.
She believes her behaviour is perfectly fine as she says she is neurodiverse.
They want her to not tell a three year old very adult conversations of which I wont mention.
Not call everyone and anyone a c…
So much more a three old should not be subjected to.
Her version or recall of events doesn’t match others people so how do you even start to do anything.
She stresses me to the point I feel ill and cry as its so difficult and I’m helpless to do anything.
I’ve blocked her as I need a break from it allSorry need to gets it off my chest.
I’m told I’m allowed to look after myself otherwise I’m not good to anyone.
Yourself has to come first or indeed you aren’t much use if you aren’t up to scratch.
JudgeMental said:
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:I guess Gilligan’s Island was the first survivor show.
Thought the first peoples had been doing it for more than 50,000 years?
I don’t believe that there has been a TV series about it though.
;) Actually, you should watch more SBS… wait..
Divine Angel said:
Dr Who has been running for about a million years and I know fk all about that.
I remember when it started. B&W. I was about 9.
Divine Angel said:
Dr Who has been running for about a million years and I know fk all about that.
I mean, I know he’s a time lord (whatever that is) who has a companion and regenerates every time there’s a new actor and he gets chased by garbage bin-looking things. But that’s it.
JudgeMental said:
Divine Angel said:
Dr Who has been running for about a million years and I know fk all about that.
I remember when it started. B&W. I was about 9.
diddly-squat said:
dv said:
diddly-squat said:It’s surprising to me that you don’t know how the show works as it’s been running in a wide variety formats and and syndications for 25 years. Have you never seen a tribal council before or never seen a meme regarding “the tribe has spoken”?
No.
Going by Wikipedia, the peak viewership of the show was around 1 million, so perhaps 5% of Australians have seen the show. I have nothing against it: each to their own, I’m glad something has brought others some entertainment. But I am baffled by your incredulity that you’ve encountered someone in the other 95% of the community.
I mean you, of all people, are more of a social observer than most – that is what surprised me.
Well I can’t know everything.
From DA’s description the format would probably annoy me so I probably was wise to give it a swerve.
I’d be down for a show of the type I described before. A number of teams each with a given territory are given a task. E.g. construct a shelter using what they can find in their environment. At the end of the week the shelters are tested for various criteria: internal dimensions, resistance to rain and wind. The team that made the worst one gets eliminated. Next week: make handaxes from chert and cut as much timber as you can within an hour using those axes.
Cymek said:
One is allowed to discontinue contact with a child whose behaviour borders on psychotic and whose language is vile aren’t weMy daughter is still having a go at me for not supporting her bid to try and force DCP to return custody of her son.
She believes her behaviour is perfectly fine as she says she is neurodiverse.
They want her to not tell a three year old very adult conversations of which I wont mention.
Not call everyone and anyone a c…
So much more a three old should not be subjected to.
Her version or recall of events doesn’t match others people so how do you even start to do anything.
She stresses me to the point I feel ill and cry as its so difficult and I’m helpless to do anything.
I’ve blocked her as I need a break from it allSorry need to gets it off my chest.
I’m told I’m allowed to look after myself otherwise I’m not good to anyone.
Difficult.
I feel sorry for you.
:(
dv said:
Divine Angel said:
Othello, now in previews at the Barrymore Theatre, has made Broadway history!Starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, the production has shattered the record for the highest-grossing play, earning $2,818,297 in just eight performances. It even outgrossed musical mainstays Wicked and Hamilton this week.
Directed by Tony winner Kenny Leon, Othello officially opens on March 23 for a limited run through June 8.
***
Who’d have thought a 400 year old play would still be drawing audiences enough to break Broadway records?
Shakespeare was a pretty good playwright, not many people know that side of him.
He had a way with words and his sonnets weren’t bad too.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May…………
Tamb said:
JudgeMental said:
Divine Angel said:
Dr Who has been running for about a million years and I know fk all about that.
I remember when it started. B&W. I was about 9.
Music by the BBC Radiophonic (something)?
workshop
Michael V said:
diddly-squat said:
Michael V said:Really what?
Do you expect somebody to watch a show they are not interested in to get a handle on the rules?
For me, it seems to be reasonable to ask a person who knows.
The show has been running, and has been a part of popular culture for a quarter of a century.
So?
Well like many long-running parts of popular culture it has been to avoid if, over the past 25 years, you have watched even small amounts of commercial TV. The ads alone have been almost ubiquitous.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯Divine Angel said:
Dr Who has been running for about a million years and I know fk all about that.
but do you know how they travel around the universe and through time?
dv said:
diddly-squat said:
dv said:No.
Going by Wikipedia, the peak viewership of the show was around 1 million, so perhaps 5% of Australians have seen the show. I have nothing against it: each to their own, I’m glad something has brought others some entertainment. But I am baffled by your incredulity that you’ve encountered someone in the other 95% of the community.
I mean you, of all people, are more of a social observer than most – that is what surprised me.
Well I can’t know everything.
From DA’s description the format would probably annoy me so I probably was wise to give it a swerve.
I’d be down for a show of the type I described before. A number of teams each with a given territory are given a task. E.g. construct a shelter using what they can find in their environment. At the end of the week the shelters are tested for various criteria: internal dimensions, resistance to rain and wind. The team that made the worst one gets eliminated. Next week: make handaxes from chert and cut as much timber as you can within an hour using those axes.
I hope the timber is ethically sourced.
JudgeMental said:
Tamb said:
JudgeMental said:I remember when it started. B&W. I was about 9.
Music by the BBC Radiophonic (something)?workshop
JudgeMental said:
Divine Angel said:
Dr Who has been running for about a million years and I know fk all about that.
I remember when it started. B&W. I was about 9.
Think it was already on TV when I first saw it because we didn’t get a TV until I was 14.
dv said:
diddly-squat said:
dv said:No.
Going by Wikipedia, the peak viewership of the show was around 1 million, so perhaps 5% of Australians have seen the show. I have nothing against it: each to their own, I’m glad something has brought others some entertainment. But I am baffled by your incredulity that you’ve encountered someone in the other 95% of the community.
I mean you, of all people, are more of a social observer than most – that is what surprised me.
Well I can’t know everything.
From DA’s description the format would probably annoy me so I probably was wise to give it a swerve.
I’d be down for a show of the type I described before. A number of teams each with a given territory are given a task. E.g. construct a shelter using what they can find in their environment. At the end of the week the shelters are tested for various criteria: internal dimensions, resistance to rain and wind. The team that made the worst one gets eliminated. Next week: make handaxes from chert and cut as much timber as you can within an hour using those axes.
Add a bit of bullshit and that’s the program.
dv said:
diddly-squat said:
dv said:No.
Going by Wikipedia, the peak viewership of the show was around 1 million, so perhaps 5% of Australians have seen the show. I have nothing against it: each to their own, I’m glad something has brought others some entertainment. But I am baffled by your incredulity that you’ve encountered someone in the other 95% of the community.
I mean you, of all people, are more of a social observer than most – that is what surprised me.
Well I can’t know everything.
From DA’s description the format would probably annoy me so I probably was wise to give it a swerve.
I’d be down for a show of the type I described before. A number of teams each with a given territory are given a task. E.g. construct a shelter using what they can find in their environment. At the end of the week the shelters are tested for various criteria: internal dimensions, resistance to rain and wind. The team that made the worst one gets eliminated. Next week: make handaxes from chert and cut as much timber as you can within an hour using those axes.
check out Alone.. it’s a proper survival show… kinda like Naked and Afraid, but better.. ;)
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
Divine Angel said:
Dr Who has been running for about a million years and I know fk all about that.
I remember when it started. B&W. I was about 9.
Think it was already on TV when I first saw it because we didn’t get a TV until I was 14.
Looxury.
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:
Dr Who has been running for about a million years and I know fk all about that.
but do you know how they travel around the universe and through time?
I’m gonna guess the tardis.
diddly-squat said:
dv said:
diddly-squat said:I mean you, of all people, are more of a social observer than most – that is what surprised me.
Well I can’t know everything.
From DA’s description the format would probably annoy me so I probably was wise to give it a swerve.
I’d be down for a show of the type I described before. A number of teams each with a given territory are given a task. E.g. construct a shelter using what they can find in their environment. At the end of the week the shelters are tested for various criteria: internal dimensions, resistance to rain and wind. The team that made the worst one gets eliminated. Next week: make handaxes from chert and cut as much timber as you can within an hour using those axes.
check out Alone.. it’s a proper survival show… kinda like Naked and Afraid, but better.. ;)
Agree.
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
Divine Angel said:
Dr Who has been running for about a million years and I know fk all about that.
I remember when it started. B&W. I was about 9.
Think it was already on TV when I first saw it because we didn’t get a TV until I was 14.
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:I remember when it started. B&W. I was about 9.
Think it was already on TV when I first saw it because we didn’t get a TV until I was 14.
Looxury.
Is that when you needed a licence for tv?
Divine Angel said:
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:
Dr Who has been running for about a million years and I know fk all about that.
but do you know how they travel around the universe and through time?
I’m gonna guess the tardis.
you’re Smarter Than a Fifth Grader
kii said:
diddly-squat said:
Michael V said:
Really what?
Do you expect somebody to watch a show they are not interested in to get a handle on the rules?
For me, it seems to be reasonable to ask a person who knows.
The show has been running, and has been a part of popular culture for a quarter of a century.
Not all of us give a shit about popular culture.
oh c’m‘on only losers aren’t part of the cool crowd
I watched early Doctor Who, saw a few later ones in the early 2000s, watched Blink.
I lost interest a long the line.
dv said:
diddly-squat said:
dv said:
No.
Going by Wikipedia, the peak viewership of the show was around 1 million, so perhaps 5% of Australians have seen the show. I have nothing against it: each to their own, I’m glad something has brought others some entertainment. But I am baffled by your incredulity that you’ve encountered someone in the other 95% of the community.
I mean you, of all people, are more of a social observer than most – that is what surprised me.
Well I can’t know everything.
From DA’s description the format would probably annoy me so I probably was wise to give it a swerve.
I’d be down for a show of the type I described before. A number of teams each with a given territory are given a task. E.g. construct a shelter using what they can find in their environment. At the end of the week the shelters are tested for various criteria: internal dimensions, resistance to rain and wind. The team that made the worst one gets eliminated. Next week: make handaxes from chert and cut as much timber as you can within an hour using those axes.
isn’t that just Year 10 work experience and engineering challenge
And on another topic.
Had a full on eye test yesterday. All working well & OK for license renewal. It was the first time I was able to drive to Atherton too.
I did actually watch a few eps of one of those elimination shows once, called True Beauty. The premise was that the contestants were being judged on their beauty and modelling assignments etc. In fact, throughout the show they are all subjected to various tests of their compassion, modesty, cooperation etc. Each week someone is dropped out for failing these (supposedly off camera but actually on hidden camera) tests. Some very beautiful people could be seen to crack the shits with disbelief when given their marching orders. Then in the exit room, the lights dim, the music changes, and they are shown their sins on screen. Might be something as simple as not helping someone who has fallen off a bicycle.
Naturally the contestants had to be kept in a communications blackout in the village to keep this secret.
i’m here for you
diddly-squat said:
dv said:
Divine Angel said:They start out in two or three tribes (teams). They do challenges for reward or immunity. Lose immunity challenge, your tribe goes to tribal council where the tribe votes someone out.
At a certain point, the teams merge and they play for individual immunity. At that point, people voted off form a jury. At the end there’s only three people left in the game. The jury votes for someone to win the prize money.
I wonder whether there would be a market for a version with no voting. Just individuals or small teams who week by week have challengers and the slowest or worst just get eliminated by some objective measure.
There is, it’s called “Alone”
Thanks for the heads up, I’ll check it.
dv said:
elimination shows once,
does tennis count
dv said:
diddly-squat said:
dv said:I wonder whether there would be a market for a version with no voting. Just individuals or small teams who week by week have challengers and the slowest or worst just get eliminated by some objective measure.
There is, it’s called “Alone”
Thanks for the heads up, I’ll check it.
on SBS I think
Tamb said:
And on another topic.
Had a full on eye test yesterday. All working well & OK for license renewal. It was the first time I was able to drive to Atherton too.
Excellent!
:)
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:I remember when it started. B&W. I was about 9.
Think it was already on TV when I first saw it because we didn’t get a TV until I was 14.
My Grandparents had an early TV. An Admiral 24”
Mrs rb’s grandmother had colour TV. We got that TV when she died so in effect we didn’t get colour TV until 1985.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:Think it was already on TV when I first saw it because we didn’t get a TV until I was 14.
My Grandparents had an early TV. An Admiral 24”Mrs rb’s grandmother had colour TV. We got that TV when she died so in effect we didn’t get colour TV until 1985.
what is this TV thing, never heard of it
SCIENCE said:
kii said:
diddly-squat said:
The show has been running, and has been a part of popular culture for a quarter of a century.
Not all of us give a shit about popular culture.
oh c’m‘on only losers aren’t part of the cool crowd
Must have always been a loser then.
Tamb said:
And on another topic.
Had a full on eye test yesterday. All working well & OK for license renewal. It was the first time I was able to drive to Atherton too.
Cool. :)
Michael V said:
Tamb said:
And on another topic.
Had a full on eye test yesterday. All working well & OK for license renewal. It was the first time I was able to drive to Atherton too.
Excellent!
:)
Tamb said:
And on another topic.
Had a full on eye test yesterday. All working well & OK for license renewal. It was the first time I was able to drive to Atherton too.
Thats great.
transition said:
i’m here for you
diddly-squat said:
dv said:
diddly-squat said:There is, it’s called “Alone”
Thanks for the heads up, I’ll check it.
on SBS I think
Cool, should be a good streaming experience then.
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:My Grandparents had an early TV. An Admiral 24”
Mrs rb’s grandmother had colour TV. We got that TV when she died so in effect we didn’t get colour TV until 1985.
what is this TV thing, never heard of it
It’s a really great educational tool that can subvert most of the people most of the time.
transition said:
i’m here for you
Praise the Lord.
dv said:
diddly-squat said:
dv said:Thanks for the heads up, I’ll check it.
on SBS I think
Cool, should be a good streaming experience then.
Yes. SBS in demand.
There is nothing real about Reality TV. It’s about as real as Home & Away.
As for being popular culture? To me, it is not popular, and certainly has no culture.
kii said:
Woodie said:
Tamb said:That’s why I don’t watch producer-driven TV.
I don’t watch any of these “I Married a Fuckwit in the Jungle” TV shows either.
Making stupid people famous 🙄
cough…trump…cough
i’ve watched some mAFS. there is a woman called AWHINA but it is pronounced ATHENA. For the life of me I do not understand.
sarahs mum said:
kii said:
Woodie said:I don’t watch any of these “I Married a Fuckwit in the Jungle” TV shows either.
Making stupid people famous 🙄
cough…trump…cough
i’ve watched some mAFS. there is a woman called AWHINA but it is pronounced ATHENA. For the life of me I do not understand.
That show???? And they reckoned same sex marriage was gunna ruin the traditional sanctity of “marriage”. 🙄
dv said:
I did actually watch a few eps of one of those elimination shows once, called True Beauty. The premise was that the contestants were being judged on their beauty and modelling assignments etc. In fact, throughout the show they are all subjected to various tests of their compassion, modesty, cooperation etc. Each week someone is dropped out for failing these (supposedly off camera but actually on hidden camera) tests. Some very beautiful people could be seen to crack the shits with disbelief when given their marching orders. Then in the exit room, the lights dim, the music changes, and they are shown their sins on screen. Might be something as simple as not helping someone who has fallen off a bicycle.
Naturally the contestants had to be kept in a communications blackout in the village to keep this secret.
People think that Melania Trump is a good and intelligent person/good FLOTUS because she has a certain beauty/style.
They are fooled by her outward appearance.
diddly-squat said:
Michael V said:
diddly-squat said:The show has been running, and has been a part of popular culture for a quarter of a century.
So?
Well like many long-running parts of popular culture it has been to avoid if, over the past 25 years, you have watched even small amounts of commercial TV. The ads alone have been almost ubiquitous.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think that might be it. I haven’t watched Australian free-to-air TV since we departed for Spore some 16 years ago, and have been streaming-only since we came back. Lost was probably the last show I watched by commercial broadcast TV.
CTTOI I think my son would be completely unfamiliar with the concept of commercial broadcast TV. ie would be unable to name one TV show in that category.
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:
kii said:
Not all of us give a shit about popular culture.
oh c’m‘on only losers aren’t part of the cool crowd
Must have always been a loser then.
it’s almost as if there are different cultures and different countries and different coolies and they have different opportunities and different interests and different experiences and then somehow along the way one of these has flipped from being “oh you know about our xyz that’s great” to “what how can you not know about our zyx you fool” but anyway for us we’re happy to have low expectations of all of yous and don’t expect yous to know anything at all
dv said:
diddly-squat said:
Michael V said:
So?
Well like many long-running parts of popular culture it has been to avoid if, over the past 25 years, you have watched even small amounts of commercial TV. The ads alone have been almost ubiquitous.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯I think that might be it. I haven’t watched Australian free-to-air TV since we departed for Spore some 16 years ago, and have been streaming-only since we came back. Lost was probably the last show I watched by commercial broadcast TV.
CTTOI I think my son would be completely unfamiliar with the concept of commercial broadcast TV. ie would be unable to name one TV show in that category.
child abuse
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:
oh c’m‘on only losers aren’t part of the cool crowd
Must have always been a loser then.
it’s almost as if there are different cultures and different countries and different coolies and they have different opportunities and different interests and different experiences and then somehow along the way one of these has flipped from being “oh you know about our xyz that’s great” to “what how can you not know about our zyx you fool” but anyway for us we’re happy to have low expectations of all of yous and don’t expect yous to know anything at all
After all, expectations usually end in disappointment. Better not to have any.
Heat 3 in the CrossFit Open tomorrow..
Gonna be a tough one…
diddly-squat said:
Heat 3 in the CrossFit Open tomorrow..Gonna be a tough one…
What are you? MTG?
diddly-squat said:
Heat 3 in the CrossFit Open tomorrow..Gonna be a tough one…
TWENTY MINUTES?!?
Well… good luck 👍🏼
Divine Angel said:
diddly-squat said:
Heat 3 in the CrossFit Open tomorrow..Gonna be a tough one…
TWENTY MINUTES?!?
Well… good luck 👍🏼
I think finishing will be a challenge at those barbell weights
Tamb said:
Michael V said:
Tamb said:
And on another topic.
Had a full on eye test yesterday. All working well & OK for license renewal. It was the first time I was able to drive to Atherton too.
Excellent!
:)
Another good thing was that the tests etc were covered by Medi(what ever it is) so no charge to me.
You can thank the Labor Party for including optometry in Medicare, way back when.
Oh goody!
We might have flying mud at midnight!
I’ve watched very little television since the 1980s, and I didn’t watch much then.
Mind you I watched lots of telly as a child. Probably why I now think of it as more a childhood thing, like eating sugary breakfast cereals.
diddly-squat said:
Heat 3 in the CrossFit Open tomorrow..Gonna be a tough one…
looks like it .. do you get eliminated if you don’t complete it in time? does form come into it?
Apparently Ellenbrook caught a torrential downpour leading to major flooding yesterday, while surrounding areas only caught 20 mm or so.
diddly-squat said:
Heat 3 in the CrossFit Open tomorrow..Gonna be a tough one…
Do that standing on my head.
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
Heat 3 in the CrossFit Open tomorrow..Gonna be a tough one…
looks like it .. do you get eliminated if you don’t complete it in time? does form come into it?
it’s a workout for time, so fastest time wins and in the event you don’t complete within the time cap, you get ranked on the number of reps you complete.
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
Heat 3 in the CrossFit Open tomorrow..Gonna be a tough one…
looks like it .. do you get eliminated if you don’t complete it in time? does form come into it?
it’s a workout for time, so fastest time wins and in the event you don’t complete within the time cap, you get ranked on the number of reps you complete.
ah, neat.
My daughter and her boyfriend have caught the gym bug and are beginning to get right into all the additional aspects of being a gym ‘junkie’. Yesterday she was on a zoom meeting where someone was giving some sort of seminar (the attendance counted towards whatever arbitrary points system they are giving for the current boot camp) … it was abysmal..
The person was saying things like – You should miss your kids sports to go to the gym, the kids wont care if you aren’t there… you shouldn’t worry about their schedule and needs (ie cooking dinner) if it interrupts your ability to get to the gym… which I found really shocking.. and, quite frankly, terrible advice. I told my daughter that I thought she was an arsehole.
Then they started going on about perimenopause and menopause and shamed those who allowed it to change their physique. There are, apparently, no excuses to allow this process to alter your body shape.. what’s a little hormonal imbalance ?
It was really quite terrible … I am all for fitness and the gym and seeking advice from trained professionals, but this advice was shitty and potentially damaging to relationships and the wellbeing of children. And trying to use the shame tactic to get someone to a gym is fucked up.
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:looks like it .. do you get eliminated if you don’t complete it in time? does form come into it?
it’s a workout for time, so fastest time wins and in the event you don’t complete within the time cap, you get ranked on the number of reps you complete.
ah, neat.
My daughter and her boyfriend have caught the gym bug and are beginning to get right into all the additional aspects of being a gym ‘junkie’. Yesterday she was on a zoom meeting where someone was giving some sort of seminar (the attendance counted towards whatever arbitrary points system they are giving for the current boot camp) … it was abysmal..
The person was saying things like – You should miss your kids sports to go to the gym, the kids wont care if you aren’t there… you shouldn’t worry about their schedule and needs (ie cooking dinner) if it interrupts your ability to get to the gym… which I found really shocking.. and, quite frankly, terrible advice. I told my daughter that I thought she was an arsehole.
Then they started going on about perimenopause and menopause and shamed those who allowed it to change their physique. There are, apparently, no excuses to allow this process to alter your body shape.. what’s a little hormonal imbalance ?
It was really quite terrible … I am all for fitness and the gym and seeking advice from trained professionals, but this advice was shitty and potentially damaging to relationships and the wellbeing of children. And trying to use the shame tactic to get someone to a gym is fucked up.
but, that aside, good luck
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:looks like it .. do you get eliminated if you don’t complete it in time? does form come into it?
it’s a workout for time, so fastest time wins and in the event you don’t complete within the time cap, you get ranked on the number of reps you complete.
ah, neat.
My daughter and her boyfriend have caught the gym bug and are beginning to get right into all the additional aspects of being a gym ‘junkie’. Yesterday she was on a zoom meeting where someone was giving some sort of seminar (the attendance counted towards whatever arbitrary points system they are giving for the current boot camp) … it was abysmal..
The person was saying things like – You should miss your kids sports to go to the gym, the kids wont care if you aren’t there… you shouldn’t worry about their schedule and needs (ie cooking dinner) if it interrupts your ability to get to the gym… which I found really shocking.. and, quite frankly, terrible advice. I told my daughter that I thought she was an arsehole.
Then they started going on about perimenopause and menopause and shamed those who allowed it to change their physique. There are, apparently, no excuses to allow this process to alter your body shape.. what’s a little hormonal imbalance ?
It was really quite terrible … I am all for fitness and the gym and seeking advice from trained professionals, but this advice was shitty and potentially damaging to relationships and the wellbeing of children. And trying to use the shame tactic to get someone to a gym is fucked up.
Holy shit. That program sounds horrific.
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:looks like it .. do you get eliminated if you don’t complete it in time? does form come into it?
it’s a workout for time, so fastest time wins and in the event you don’t complete within the time cap, you get ranked on the number of reps you complete.
ah, neat.
My daughter and her boyfriend have caught the gym bug and are beginning to get right into all the additional aspects of being a gym ‘junkie’. Yesterday she was on a zoom meeting where someone was giving some sort of seminar (the attendance counted towards whatever arbitrary points system they are giving for the current boot camp) … it was abysmal..
The person was saying things like – You should miss your kids sports to go to the gym, the kids wont care if you aren’t there… you shouldn’t worry about their schedule and needs (ie cooking dinner) if it interrupts your ability to get to the gym… which I found really shocking.. and, quite frankly, terrible advice. I told my daughter that I thought she was an arsehole.
Then they started going on about perimenopause and menopause and shamed those who allowed it to change their physique. There are, apparently, no excuses to allow this process to alter your body shape.. what’s a little hormonal imbalance ?
It was really quite terrible … I am all for fitness and the gym and seeking advice from trained professionals, but this advice was shitty and potentially damaging to relationships and the wellbeing of children. And trying to use the shame tactic to get someone to a gym is fucked up.
A Social Media Influencer”??? Says it all ,really.
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:it’s a workout for time, so fastest time wins and in the event you don’t complete within the time cap, you get ranked on the number of reps you complete.
ah, neat.
My daughter and her boyfriend have caught the gym bug and are beginning to get right into all the additional aspects of being a gym ‘junkie’. Yesterday she was on a zoom meeting where someone was giving some sort of seminar (the attendance counted towards whatever arbitrary points system they are giving for the current boot camp) … it was abysmal..
The person was saying things like – You should miss your kids sports to go to the gym, the kids wont care if you aren’t there… you shouldn’t worry about their schedule and needs (ie cooking dinner) if it interrupts your ability to get to the gym… which I found really shocking.. and, quite frankly, terrible advice. I told my daughter that I thought she was an arsehole.
Then they started going on about perimenopause and menopause and shamed those who allowed it to change their physique. There are, apparently, no excuses to allow this process to alter your body shape.. what’s a little hormonal imbalance ?
It was really quite terrible … I am all for fitness and the gym and seeking advice from trained professionals, but this advice was shitty and potentially damaging to relationships and the wellbeing of children. And trying to use the shame tactic to get someone to a gym is fucked up.
Holy shit. That program sounds horrific.
yes, luckily my daughter is smarter than that and she ignored all of that bad advice.. she said “if nothing else, then she at least got the attendance point for the boot camp” (the meeting was just some random, not her trainer or anything – but was part of the boot camp – I told Miss J to let her trainer know about the content so they can choose someone better next time)
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:ah, neat.
My daughter and her boyfriend have caught the gym bug and are beginning to get right into all the additional aspects of being a gym ‘junkie’. Yesterday she was on a zoom meeting where someone was giving some sort of seminar (the attendance counted towards whatever arbitrary points system they are giving for the current boot camp) … it was abysmal..
The person was saying things like – You should miss your kids sports to go to the gym, the kids wont care if you aren’t there… you shouldn’t worry about their schedule and needs (ie cooking dinner) if it interrupts your ability to get to the gym… which I found really shocking.. and, quite frankly, terrible advice. I told my daughter that I thought she was an arsehole.
Then they started going on about perimenopause and menopause and shamed those who allowed it to change their physique. There are, apparently, no excuses to allow this process to alter your body shape.. what’s a little hormonal imbalance ?
It was really quite terrible … I am all for fitness and the gym and seeking advice from trained professionals, but this advice was shitty and potentially damaging to relationships and the wellbeing of children. And trying to use the shame tactic to get someone to a gym is fucked up.
Holy shit. That program sounds horrific.
yes, luckily my daughter is smarter than that and she ignored all of that bad advice.. she said “if nothing else, then she at least got the attendance point for the boot camp” (the meeting was just some random, not her trainer or anything – but was part of the boot camp – I told Miss J to let her trainer know about the content so they can choose someone better next time)
Kind of sounds like that person needs an intervention…
dv said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:Holy shit. That program sounds horrific.
yes, luckily my daughter is smarter than that and she ignored all of that bad advice.. she said “if nothing else, then she at least got the attendance point for the boot camp” (the meeting was just some random, not her trainer or anything – but was part of the boot camp – I told Miss J to let her trainer know about the content so they can choose someone better next time)
Kind of sounds like that person needs an intervention…
Zealots of any sort are always tiresome, and often potentially dangerous.
Photobucket is going to delete my membership.
It’s been telling me this for oh! at least 6 years.
I suppose retweeting doesn’t necessarily imply endorsement
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:looks like it .. do you get eliminated if you don’t complete it in time? does form come into it?
it’s a workout for time, so fastest time wins and in the event you don’t complete within the time cap, you get ranked on the number of reps you complete.
ah, neat.
My daughter and her boyfriend have caught the gym bug and are beginning to get right into all the additional aspects of being a gym ‘junkie’. Yesterday she was on a zoom meeting where someone was giving some sort of seminar (the attendance counted towards whatever arbitrary points system they are giving for the current boot camp) … it was abysmal..
The person was saying things like – You should miss your kids sports to go to the gym, the kids wont care if you aren’t there… you shouldn’t worry about their schedule and needs (ie cooking dinner) if it interrupts your ability to get to the gym… which I found really shocking.. and, quite frankly, terrible advice. I told my daughter that I thought she was an arsehole.
Then they started going on about perimenopause and menopause and shamed those who allowed it to change their physique. There are, apparently, no excuses to allow this process to alter your body shape.. what’s a little hormonal imbalance ?
It was really quite terrible … I am all for fitness and the gym and seeking advice from trained professionals, but this advice was shitty and potentially damaging to relationships and the wellbeing of children. And trying to use the shame tactic to get someone to a gym is fucked up.
sounds like a a bit of a tosser
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:ah, neat.
My daughter and her boyfriend have caught the gym bug and are beginning to get right into all the additional aspects of being a gym ‘junkie’. Yesterday she was on a zoom meeting where someone was giving some sort of seminar (the attendance counted towards whatever arbitrary points system they are giving for the current boot camp) … it was abysmal..
The person was saying things like – You should miss your kids sports to go to the gym, the kids wont care if you aren’t there… you shouldn’t worry about their schedule and needs (ie cooking dinner) if it interrupts your ability to get to the gym… which I found really shocking.. and, quite frankly, terrible advice. I told my daughter that I thought she was an arsehole.
Then they started going on about perimenopause and menopause and shamed those who allowed it to change their physique. There are, apparently, no excuses to allow this process to alter your body shape.. what’s a little hormonal imbalance ?
It was really quite terrible … I am all for fitness and the gym and seeking advice from trained professionals, but this advice was shitty and potentially damaging to relationships and the wellbeing of children. And trying to use the shame tactic to get someone to a gym is fucked up.
Holy shit. That program sounds horrific.
yes, luckily my daughter is smarter than that and she ignored all of that bad advice.. she said “if nothing else, then she at least got the attendance point for the boot camp” (the meeting was just some random, not her trainer or anything – but was part of the boot camp – I told Miss J to let her trainer know about the content so they can choose someone better next time)
My only suggestion is try before your buy.. any reasonable gym will offer a trial period to see if it works for you…
Also, I think group fitness classes are by far and away the best type of underlying fitness activity you can do.
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:looks like it .. do you get eliminated if you don’t complete it in time? does form come into it?
it’s a workout for time, so fastest time wins and in the event you don’t complete within the time cap, you get ranked on the number of reps you complete.
ah, neat.
My daughter and her boyfriend have caught the gym bug and are beginning to get right into all the additional aspects of being a gym ‘junkie’. Yesterday she was on a zoom meeting where someone was giving some sort of seminar (the attendance counted towards whatever arbitrary points system they are giving for the current boot camp) … it was abysmal..
The person was saying things like – You should miss your kids sports to go to the gym, the kids wont care if you aren’t there… you shouldn’t worry about their schedule and needs (ie cooking dinner) if it interrupts your ability to get to the gym… which I found really shocking.. and, quite frankly, terrible advice. I told my daughter that I thought she was an arsehole.
Then they started going on about perimenopause and menopause and shamed those who allowed it to change their physique. There are, apparently, no excuses to allow this process to alter your body shape.. what’s a little hormonal imbalance ?
It was really quite terrible … I am all for fitness and the gym and seeking advice from trained professionals, but this advice was shitty and potentially damaging to relationships and the wellbeing of children. And trying to use the shame tactic to get someone to a gym is fucked up.
Bloody!
Peak Warming Man said:
Photobucket is going to delete my membership.
It’s been telling me this for oh! at least 6 years.
that’s what I keep saying
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:Holy shit. That program sounds horrific.
yes, luckily my daughter is smarter than that and she ignored all of that bad advice.. she said “if nothing else, then she at least got the attendance point for the boot camp” (the meeting was just some random, not her trainer or anything – but was part of the boot camp – I told Miss J to let her trainer know about the content so they can choose someone better next time)
My only suggestion is try before your buy.. any reasonable gym will offer a trial period to see if it works for you…
Also, I think group fitness classes are by far and away the best type of underlying fitness activity you can do.
I dont know when I am allowed to lift weights again, but my walking on the treadmill is back to presurgery speed, tilt action, and time. I did like a good strength training class.. (I hope they have held my spot in the back corner)
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:yes, luckily my daughter is smarter than that and she ignored all of that bad advice.. she said “if nothing else, then she at least got the attendance point for the boot camp” (the meeting was just some random, not her trainer or anything – but was part of the boot camp – I told Miss J to let her trainer know about the content so they can choose someone better next time)
My only suggestion is try before your buy.. any reasonable gym will offer a trial period to see if it works for you…
Also, I think group fitness classes are by far and away the best type of underlying fitness activity you can do.
I dont know when I am allowed to lift weights again, but my walking on the treadmill is back to presurgery speed, tilt action, and time. I did like a good strength training class.. (I hope they have held my spot in the back corner)
Excellent!
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:yes, luckily my daughter is smarter than that and she ignored all of that bad advice.. she said “if nothing else, then she at least got the attendance point for the boot camp” (the meeting was just some random, not her trainer or anything – but was part of the boot camp – I told Miss J to let her trainer know about the content so they can choose someone better next time)
My only suggestion is try before your buy.. any reasonable gym will offer a trial period to see if it works for you…
Also, I think group fitness classes are by far and away the best type of underlying fitness activity you can do.
I dont know when I am allowed to lift weights again, but my walking on the treadmill is back to presurgery speed, tilt action, and time. I did like a good strength training class.. (I hope they have held my spot in the back corner)
My FIL just has a triple bypass. I think he is going to struggle big time when he goes home as he doesn’t sit still very well and he and my MIL run a cattery so there will probably be a pressure on him (or at least he will feel a pressure to) help out.
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:My only suggestion is try before your buy.. any reasonable gym will offer a trial period to see if it works for you…
Also, I think group fitness classes are by far and away the best type of underlying fitness activity you can do.
I dont know when I am allowed to lift weights again, but my walking on the treadmill is back to presurgery speed, tilt action, and time. I did like a good strength training class.. (I hope they have held my spot in the back corner)
My FIL just has a triple bypass. I think he is going to struggle big time when he goes home as he doesn’t sit still very well and he and my MIL run a cattery so there will probably be a pressure on him (or at least he will feel a pressure to) help out.
the laying around doing nothing was a mental barrier that was difficult to get over ime.
our hunting influencer has ‘voluntarily’ left Australia and is kind of upset that she is getting hate online.. “I get hundreds of death threats for picking up an animal. WTF? Imagine someone goes up to your child and curses at them? Let’s have some respect.”
I mean, I’m not a fan of death threats – to anyone – but this individual asking for respect is a bit much.
Imagine someone going up to your child and snatching them from you…
Arts said:
our hunting influencer has ‘voluntarily’ left Australia and is kind of upset that she is getting hate online.. “I get hundreds of death threats for picking up an animal. WTF? Imagine someone goes up to your child and curses at them? Let’s have some respect.”I mean, I’m not a fan of death threats – to anyone – but this individual asking for respect is a bit much.
Imagine someone going up to your child and snatching them from you…
Imagine getting hundreds of death threats for doing something fkn stupid and disrespectful, then asking for respect.
Bye 👋
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-14/weekly-news-quiz/105042914
6/10 in the quiz
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
our hunting influencer has ‘voluntarily’ left Australia and is kind of upset that she is getting hate online.. “I get hundreds of death threats for picking up an animal. WTF? Imagine someone goes up to your child and curses at them? Let’s have some respect.”I mean, I’m not a fan of death threats – to anyone – but this individual asking for respect is a bit much.
Imagine someone going up to your child and snatching them from you…
Imagine getting hundreds of death threats for doing something fkn stupid and disrespectful, then asking for respect.
Bye 👋
I think making death threats to someone, or wishing someone dead, is entirely unacceptable on every possible level.
Arts said:
our hunting influencer has ‘voluntarily’ left Australia and is kind of upset that she is getting hate online.. “I get hundreds of death threats for picking up an animal. WTF? Imagine someone goes up to your child and curses at them? Let’s have some respect.”I mean, I’m not a fan of death threats – to anyone – but this individual asking for respect is a bit much.
Imagine someone going up to your child and snatching them from you…
Hmm The Johnny Depp, Pistol and Boo thing revisited.
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
our hunting influencer has ‘voluntarily’ left Australia and is kind of upset that she is getting hate online.. “I get hundreds of death threats for picking up an animal. WTF? Imagine someone goes up to your child and curses at them? Let’s have some respect.”I mean, I’m not a fan of death threats – to anyone – but this individual asking for respect is a bit much.
Imagine someone going up to your child and snatching them from you…
Imagine getting hundreds of death threats for doing something fkn stupid and disrespectful, then asking for respect.
Bye 👋
I think making death threats to someone, or wishing someone dead, is entirely unacceptable on every possible level.
Jeremy Bentham says no.
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
our hunting influencer has ‘voluntarily’ left Australia and is kind of upset that she is getting hate online.. “I get hundreds of death threats for picking up an animal. WTF? Imagine someone goes up to your child and curses at them? Let’s have some respect.”I mean, I’m not a fan of death threats – to anyone – but this individual asking for respect is a bit much.
Imagine someone going up to your child and snatching them from you…
Imagine getting hundreds of death threats for doing something fkn stupid and disrespectful, then asking for respect.
Bye 👋
I think making death threats to someone, or wishing someone dead, is entirely unacceptable on every possible level.
eh I ain’t exactly praying that Putin sees his next birthday
dv said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-14/weekly-news-quiz/1050429146/10 in the quiz
I also got 6
dv said:
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:Imagine getting hundreds of death threats for doing something fkn stupid and disrespectful, then asking for respect.
Bye 👋
I think making death threats to someone, or wishing someone dead, is entirely unacceptable on every possible level.
eh I ain’t exactly praying that Putin sees his next birthday
I’d happily terminate the monster myself, given the chance, but I suppose that’s entirely unacceptable on every possible level.
Divine Angel said:
dv said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-14/weekly-news-quiz/1050429146/10 in the quiz
I also got 6
40/50 here.
Bloody crossword clues! ‘Not able to run away to get married’. Answer: cantaloupe.
Divine Angel said:
Bloody crossword clues! ‘Not able to run away to get married’. Answer: cantaloupe.
That is a dad joke
Divine Angel said:
Bloody crossword clues! ‘Not able to run away to get married’. Answer: cantaloupe.
Heh. Usually a clue like that would be worded like: “Unable to run away and marry, by the sound of it.”
Bubblecar said:
Divine Angel said:
Bloody crossword clues! ‘Not able to run away to get married’. Answer: cantaloupe.
Heh. Usually a clue like that would be worded like: “Unable to run away and marry, by the sound of it.”
…and they would work in a reference to melon.
“Sounds like Lon and me won’t be able to run away and marry.”
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
diddly-squat said:I think making death threats to someone, or wishing someone dead, is entirely unacceptable on every possible level.
eh I ain’t exactly praying that Putin sees his next birthday
I’d happily terminate the monster myself, given the chance, but I suppose that’s entirely unacceptable on every possible level.
I quite like this view of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eRe-nHujXQ
Anyway FNDC is duly called, for those fancying a drink but awaiting permission.
Spiny Norman said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:eh I ain’t exactly praying that Putin sees his next birthday
I’d happily terminate the monster myself, given the chance, but I suppose that’s entirely unacceptable on every possible level.
I quite like this view of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eRe-nHujXQ
Heh.
Can’t find the Chess thread.
https://youtu.be/ZNnIsmHjcjE
Spiny Norman said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:eh I ain’t exactly praying that Putin sees his next birthday
I’d happily terminate the monster myself, given the chance, but I suppose that’s entirely unacceptable on every possible level.
I quite like this view of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eRe-nHujXQ
that’s just the trolley problem
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
diddly-squat said:I think making death threats to someone, or wishing someone dead, is entirely unacceptable on every possible level.
eh I ain’t exactly praying that Putin sees his next birthday
I’d happily terminate the monster myself, given the chance, but I suppose that’s entirely unacceptable on every possible level.
if you can prove that they are a female relative of yours that has bought shame on the family, there are some countries where killing them would be entirely acceptable at least on a legal level.
Peak Warming Man said:
Can’t find the Chess thread.
https://youtu.be/ZNnIsmHjcjE
maybe I should put it in the index
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:eh I ain’t exactly praying that Putin sees his next birthday
I’d happily terminate the monster myself, given the chance, but I suppose that’s entirely unacceptable on every possible level.
if you can prove that they are a female relative of yours that has bought shame on the family, there are some countries where killing them would be entirely acceptable at least on a legal level.
It Trump mishandles you would it be acceptable to yell “Get your hands of me, you, damn, dirty, ape!”
I’m not an expert on domestic violence, but I think it needs to be looked at on multiple fronts to reduce it. Here are some thoughts.
Some of these fronts are huge and nation wide.
Redesigning homes with rooms with 2 doors. This allows people to walk away.
Teaching emotional skills that can give people direction in an argument.
Create more awareness of emotional intelligence and how to stay in control during an argument.
Early detection of social problems.
Placing more teaches with psychology skills in schools.
Police taking court orders more seriously and listening to family members concerns on violence.
More awareness of coercive, intimidation, and bullying behaviours.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Can’t find the Chess thread.
https://youtu.be/ZNnIsmHjcjE
maybe I should put it in the index
Yep.
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:eh I ain’t exactly praying that Putin sees his next birthday
I’d happily terminate the monster myself, given the chance, but I suppose that’s entirely unacceptable on every possible level.
if you can prove that they are a female relative of yours that has bought shame on the family, there are some countries where killing them would be entirely acceptable at least on a legal level.
That’s not quite the same as putting a vile mass-murdering dictator out of his misery.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Can’t find the Chess thread.
https://youtu.be/ZNnIsmHjcjE
maybe I should put it in the index
We did discuss this one in the chess thread last September
https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/topics/17681/
I mean, there are certainly some people I wouldn’t be sad about when they shuffle off this mortal coil. But wishes of death and rape and other horrible things isn’t in my nature.
dv said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Can’t find the Chess thread.
https://youtu.be/ZNnIsmHjcjE
maybe I should put it in the index
We did discuss this one in the chess thread last September
https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/topics/17681/
I got it wrong.
dv said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Can’t find the Chess thread.
https://youtu.be/ZNnIsmHjcjE
maybe I should put it in the index
We did discuss this one in the chess thread last September
https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/topics/17681/
Anyway he explains it quite well.
Bubblecar said:
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:I’d happily terminate the monster myself, given the chance, but I suppose that’s entirely unacceptable on every possible level.
if you can prove that they are a female relative of yours that has bought shame on the family, there are some countries where killing them would be entirely acceptable at least on a legal level.
That’s not quite the same as putting a vile mass-murdering dictator out of his misery.
I mean, death is death
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
dv said:maybe I should put it in the index
We did discuss this one in the chess thread last September
https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/?main=https%3A//tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/topics/17681/
I got it wrong.
Don’t feel bad, I couldn’t get it and nor could Grandmaster Agadmator, whose video PWM has linked. It’s probably the most difficult chess puzzle I’ve ever seen.
OTOH his video says Engines Can’t Solve and that doesn’t seem to be true. I use an app called Analyze This which uses some modification of the Stockfish engine. It took a few minutes but it did eventually find the mate in 12.
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:
Arts said:if you can prove that they are a female relative of yours that has bought shame on the family, there are some countries where killing them would be entirely acceptable at least on a legal level.
That’s not quite the same as putting a vile mass-murdering dictator out of his misery.
I mean, death is death
and justifiable homicide is justifiable homicide
dv said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-14/weekly-news-quiz/1050429146/10 in the quiz
7/10. I missed seeing the quiz until now. I must have been too intent on doing Amanita identifications on iNat.
dv said:
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:That’s not quite the same as putting a vile mass-murdering dictator out of his misery.
I mean, death is death
and justifiable homicide is justifiable homicide
if you can convince others of it .. but just because you don’t like them isn’t exactly justifiable (in our society thank goodness)
Arts said:
dv said:
Arts said:I mean, death is death
and justifiable homicide is justifiable homicide
if you can convince others of it .. but just because you don’t like them isn’t exactly justifiable (in our society thank goodness)
Stringing em up with piano wire from the nearest telegraph pole is too good for em I say.
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:
Arts said:if you can prove that they are a female relative of yours that has bought shame on the family, there are some countries where killing them would be entirely acceptable at least on a legal level.
That’s not quite the same as putting a vile mass-murdering dictator out of his misery.
I mean, death is death
Someone must have a genetic connection to putin, just use that.
Arts said:
dv said:
Arts said:I mean, death is death
and justifiable homicide is justifiable homicide
if you can convince others of it .. but just because you don’t like them isn’t exactly justifiable (in our society thank goodness)
Of course.
But the many millions of people who would gladly kill Putin would not be doing so “just because they don’t like him”, as I’m sure you understand.
I’m thinking about becoming an.influensa.
Sometimes I really do wonder about you little computer people.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:That’s not quite the same as putting a vile mass-murdering dictator out of his misery.
I mean, death is death
Someone must have a genetic connection to putin, just use that.
Surely putin must have a distant aunt somewhere, use her to declare putin has shamed the family.
Arts said:
dv said:
Arts said:I mean, death is death
and justifiable homicide is justifiable homicide
if you can convince others of it .. but just because you don’t like them isn’t exactly justifiable (in our society thank goodness)
I wanna hear Luigi’s defence.
Peak Warming Man said:
I’m thinking about becoming an.influensa.
An influenza influencer.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Arts said:I mean, death is death
Someone must have a genetic connection to putin, just use that.
Surely putin must have a distant aunt somewhere, use her to declare putin has shamed the family.
Even if they are deceased.
Peak Warming Man said:
Arts said:
dv said:and justifiable homicide is justifiable homicide
if you can convince others of it .. but just because you don’t like them isn’t exactly justifiable (in our society thank goodness)
Stringing em up with piano wire from the nearest telegraph pole is too good for em I say.
hang ‘em High.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100086547586854
English Enjoyed
these guys have a humorous and enjoyable take on correct English.
just had a covid booster. no ill effects. as usual. had some skin cancers froze off. need two excised. getting shingles vaccine next week. BP good. Looks like I’ll be around for a while yet.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Arts said:I mean, death is death
Someone must have a genetic connection to putin, just use that.
Surely putin must have a distant aunt somewhere, use her to declare putin has shamed the family.
I don’t think there are any honour killing laws in Russia
JudgeMental said:
just had a covid booster. no ill effects. as usual. had some skin cancers froze off. need two excised. getting shingles vaccine next week. BP good. Looks like I’ll be around for a while yet.
Excellent!
I’m not due for my covid booster til the end of May but am hoping to get one before our overseas trip next month.
JudgeMental said:
just had a covid booster. no ill effects. as usual. had some skin cancers froze off. need two excised. getting shingles vaccine next week. BP good. Looks like I’ll be around for a while yet.
Well done.
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
dv said:and justifiable homicide is justifiable homicide
if you can convince others of it .. but just because you don’t like them isn’t exactly justifiable (in our society thank goodness)
I wanna hear Luigi’s defence.
I dont know if NY has justifiable homicide laws but even if they do, shooting someone in the back is not going to cut it.
Divine Angel said:
JudgeMental said:
just had a covid booster. no ill effects. as usual. had some skin cancers froze off. need two excised. getting shingles vaccine next week. BP good. Looks like I’ll be around for a while yet.
Excellent!
I’m not due for my covid booster til the end of May but am hoping to get one before our overseas trip next month.
where you going?
Divine Angel said:
JudgeMental said:
just had a covid booster. no ill effects. as usual. had some skin cancers froze off. need two excised. getting shingles vaccine next week. BP good. Looks like I’ll be around for a while yet.
Excellent!
I’m not due for my covid booster til the end of May but am hoping to get one before our overseas trip next month.
new doc as well. old one has retired. he’s a pom.
Divine Angel said:
JudgeMental said:
just had a covid booster. no ill effects. as usual. had some skin cancers froze off. need two excised. getting shingles vaccine next week. BP good. Looks like I’ll be around for a while yet.
Excellent!
I’m not due for my covid booster til the end of May but am hoping to get one before our overseas trip next month.
I had the Covid, flu and shingle shots in August last year.
Arts said:
🇳🇨 🇻🇺 🛳️
Divine Angel said:
JudgeMental said:
just had a covid booster. no ill effects. as usual. had some skin cancers froze off. need two excised. getting shingles vaccine next week. BP good. Looks like I’ll be around for a while yet.
Excellent!
I’m not due for my covid booster til the end of May but am hoping to get one before our overseas trip next month.
where you going?
Arts said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:Someone must have a genetic connection to putin, just use that.
Surely putin must have a distant aunt somewhere, use her to declare putin has shamed the family.
I don’t think there are any honour killing laws in Russia
Probably not a lot of honour left in Russia, these days.
Divine Angel said:
JudgeMental said:
just had a covid booster. no ill effects. as usual. had some skin cancers froze off. need two excised. getting shingles vaccine next week. BP good. Looks like I’ll be around for a while yet.
Excellent!
I’m not due for my covid booster til the end of May but am hoping to get one before our overseas trip next month.
Where ya goin’?
Ummmm…….. Is it the Ides of March yet?
What should I beware of?
Woodie said:
Ummmm…….. Is it the Ides of March yet?What should I beware of?
back stabbers.
Woodie said:
Ummmm…….. Is it the Ides of March yet?What should I beware of?
Senators.
Woodie said:
Ummmm…….. Is it the Ides of March yet?What should I beware of?
The blood moon. Awoooooooo!
Woodie said:
Ummmm…….. Is it the Ides of March yet?What should I beware of?
Measles, Japanese encephalitis, monkey pox and the usual respiratory diseases.
from heidi’s B&B
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-03-13/march-lunar-eclipse-australia-partial-blood-moon/105036274
sarahs mum said:
from heidi’s B&B
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-03-13/march-lunar-eclipse-australia-partial-blood-moon/105036274
Eclipse was blocked by trees this end. In fact the full moon is still behind trees but will join us before long.
poikilotherm said:
Woodie said:
Ummmm…….. Is it the Ides of March yet?What should I beware of?
Measles, Japanese encephalitis, monkey pox and the usual respiratory diseases.
Ooh-ah!
sarahs mum said:
from heidi’s B&B
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-03-13/march-lunar-eclipse-australia-partial-blood-moon/105036274
Nice.
It was cloudy here.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
from heidi’s B&B
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-03-13/march-lunar-eclipse-australia-partial-blood-moon/105036274
Nice.
It was cloudy here.
I’ve got a house in the way so by the time Luna had risen over the house, the eclipse was over. I could have gone down to Redcliffe but it’s not really worth it for a few minutes of the end of an eclipse.
nice cup of tea, watch the moon rise
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-14/putrid-fatberg-pulled-from-perth-sewer/105053298
transition said:
nice cup of tea, watch the moon rise
there it is, at second-last meter reads out the farm, I finks it mights fall on me, but mr moon said wouldn’t dat ‘cause he’s my friend
transition said:
transition said:
nice cup of tea, watch the moon rise
there it is, at second-last meter reads out the farm, I finks it mights fall on me, but mr moon said wouldn’t dat ‘cause he’s my friend
:)
transition said:
transition said:
nice cup of tea, watch the moon rise
there it is, at second-last meter reads out the farm, I finks it mights fall on me, but mr moon said wouldn’t dat ‘cause he’s my friend
Big o’l harvest moon’
Peak Warming Man said:
transition said:
transition said:
nice cup of tea, watch the moon rise
there it is, at second-last meter reads out the farm, I finks it mights fall on me, but mr moon said wouldn’t dat ‘cause he’s my friend
Big o’l harvest moon’
here ya go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2MtEsrcTTs
Neil Young – Harvest Moon
and one my daughter’s favorite songs, I like it a lot too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An2a1_Do_fc
NEIL YOUNG – OLD MAN
A few shots of the moon tonight. It was a bit cloudy and hazy here.
fsm said:
A few shots of the moon tonight. It was a bit cloudy and hazy here.
Well done. Quite a big chunk gone there.
sarahs mum said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-14/putrid-fatberg-pulled-from-perth-sewer/105053298
I was wondering where Clive Palmer went.
Kingy said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-14/putrid-fatberg-pulled-from-perth-sewer/105053298
I was wondering where Clive Palmer went.
Is the name Swedish?
dv said:
Kingy said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-14/putrid-fatberg-pulled-from-perth-sewer/105053298
I was wondering where Clive Palmer went.
Is the name Swedish?
Clive or Zuni?
You never hear much about Sardinia. Makes you forget it’s there.
Bubblecar said:
You never hear much about Sardinia. Makes you forget it’s there.
But here’s a story from late last year:
A picturesque town in Sardinia is trying to lure Americans fleeing Trump with 1-euro houses
To any millennial or gen Z struggling to buy a house or fatigued office worker trapped in the corporate rat race, it sounds like a deal too good to be true: a slice of Italy for as little as one euro ($1.62).
For less than the price of a latte, an outsider can theoretically secure the keys to a terra cotta casa nestled in a picturesque town on a Mediterranean island. No $100,000 deposit or eye-watering bank loan required.
Of course, there is a catch. The homes on offer for next to nothing in the Sardinian town of Ollolai are in need of some TLC. Or to use the more technical term, a complete renovation.
It’s been a busy week, so I haven’t had the chance to pop in much. I hope you’ve all been behaving yourself.
I was trying to finish a building site in Margaret River today, but the property developer left some short steel pegs behind in the dead grass and my first truckload of sand found one of them and it tore the sidewall out of the trailer tire. So that’s another $900 to spend on Monday morning:(
Meanwhile, :) I had a grant approved for the fire brigade which allowed us to buy a scenario training kit ($1200). When it’s wet and cold during winter, we can set it up and teach our mid level firefighters how to manage a fireground, so that when the grownups aren’t there, they can make their way through it without making too many beginners mistakes.Bubblecar said:
You never hear much about Sardinia. Makes you forget it’s there.
From memory Sardinia is a large Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea. It has nearly 2,000km of coastline at a guess, sandy beaches and a mountainous interior crossed with hiking trails. Its rugged landscape is dotted with thousands of nuraghi – mysterious Bronze Age stone ruins shaped like beehives I think. One of the largest and oldest nuraghi is Su Nuraxi in Barumini, dating to 1500 B.C or there abouts..
Kingy said:
It’s been a busy week, so I haven’t had the chance to pop in much. I hope you’ve all been behaving yourself.I was trying to finish a building site in Margaret River today, but the property developer left some short steel pegs behind in the dead grass and my first truckload of sand found one of them and it tore the sidewall out of the trailer tire. So that’s another $900 to spend on Monday morning:(
Meanwhile, :) I had a grant approved for the fire brigade which allowed us to buy a scenario training kit ($1200). When it’s wet and cold during winter, we can set it up and teach our mid level firefighters how to manage a fireground, so that when the grownups aren’t there, they can make their way through it without making too many beginners mistakes.
Yes we’ve all been behaving ourselves, apart from that………………that Bubblecar chap.
Bubblecar said:
You never hear much about Sardinia. Makes you forget it’s there.
Yes, a lot of people don’t even know where sardines were invented, let alone the size of the production lines in the sardine factories.
Peak Warming Man said:
Kingy said:
It’s been a busy week, so I haven’t had the chance to pop in much. I hope you’ve all been behaving yourself.I was trying to finish a building site in Margaret River today, but the property developer left some short steel pegs behind in the dead grass and my first truckload of sand found one of them and it tore the sidewall out of the trailer tire. So that’s another $900 to spend on Monday morning:(
Meanwhile, :) I had a grant approved for the fire brigade which allowed us to buy a scenario training kit ($1200). When it’s wet and cold during winter, we can set it up and teach our mid level firefighters how to manage a fireground, so that when the grownups aren’t there, they can make their way through it without making too many beginners mistakes.Yes we’ve all been behaving ourselves, apart from that………………that Bubblecar chap.
I’m not surprised. He should have an ankle bracelet to keep him out of the pubs and starting fights when he’s had too many cheap but surprisingly tasty quiches.
Kingy said:
It’s been a busy week, so I haven’t had the chance to pop in much. I hope you’ve all been behaving yourself.I was trying to finish a building site in Margaret River today, but the property developer left some short steel pegs behind in the dead grass and my first truckload of sand found one of them and it tore the sidewall out of the trailer tire. So that’s another $900 to spend on Monday morning:(
Meanwhile, :) I had a grant approved for the fire brigade which allowed us to buy a scenario training kit ($1200). When it’s wet and cold during winter, we can set it up and teach our mid level firefighters how to manage a fireground, so that when the grownups aren’t there, they can make their way through it without making too many beginners mistakes.
I hope you sent the bill to the property developer.
Does the training kit involve real fire?
Bubblecar said:
You never hear much about Sardinia. Makes you forget it’s there.
I sometimes think of it because of discussion of the strange nature of the Sardinian language. Quite different from Italian, and not especially closely related to it, it is phonetically more similar to Latin than any other existing Romance language.
Bubblecar said:
Kingy said:
It’s been a busy week, so I haven’t had the chance to pop in much. I hope you’ve all been behaving yourself.I was trying to finish a building site in Margaret River today, but the property developer left some short steel pegs behind in the dead grass and my first truckload of sand found one of them and it tore the sidewall out of the trailer tire. So that’s another $900 to spend on Monday morning:(
Meanwhile, :) I had a grant approved for the fire brigade which allowed us to buy a scenario training kit ($1200). When it’s wet and cold during winter, we can set it up and teach our mid level firefighters how to manage a fireground, so that when the grownups aren’t there, they can make their way through it without making too many beginners mistakes.I hope you sent the bill to the property developer.
Does the training kit involve real fire?
The training kit doesn’t involve actual fire, just fake fire. I’ll post a pic shortly from my phone of the kit we borrowed late last year.
What we do is set up a “village” on a map, and the Incident Controller takes a pic of it, then moves into another room.
At that point, a fire starts somewhere and begins to spread. The first responders on scene report in with what they are seeing, and the IC starts to draw what he thinks is happening on a whiteboard. The IC then has to call in extra resources as necessary, and updates the map with the new information that is coming in from the “fireground”.
Once the exercise is over, the IC compares his map with the actual situation and compares differences due to wrong information communication. Then we try to improve our methods and remove our mistakes.
Kingy said:
Bubblecar said:
Kingy said:
It’s been a busy week, so I haven’t had the chance to pop in much. I hope you’ve all been behaving yourself.I was trying to finish a building site in Margaret River today, but the property developer left some short steel pegs behind in the dead grass and my first truckload of sand found one of them and it tore the sidewall out of the trailer tire. So that’s another $900 to spend on Monday morning:(
Meanwhile, :) I had a grant approved for the fire brigade which allowed us to buy a scenario training kit ($1200). When it’s wet and cold during winter, we can set it up and teach our mid level firefighters how to manage a fireground, so that when the grownups aren’t there, they can make their way through it without making too many beginners mistakes.I hope you sent the bill to the property developer.
Does the training kit involve real fire?
The training kit doesn’t involve actual fire, just fake fire. I’ll post a pic shortly from my phone of the kit we borrowed late last year.
What we do is set up a “village” on a map, and the Incident Controller takes a pic of it, then moves into another room.
At that point, a fire starts somewhere and begins to spread. The first responders on scene report in with what they are seeing, and the IC starts to draw what he thinks is happening on a whiteboard. The IC then has to call in extra resources as necessary, and updates the map with the new information that is coming in from the “fireground”.
Once the exercise is over, the IC compares his map with the actual situation and compares differences due to wrong information communication. Then we try to improve our methods and remove our mistakes.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
You never hear much about Sardinia. Makes you forget it’s there.
I sometimes think of it because of discussion of the strange nature of the Sardinian language. Quite different from Italian, and not especially closely related to it, it is phonetically more similar to Latin than any other existing Romance language.
There you are then, TIL.
Kingy said:
Bubblecar said:
Kingy said:
It’s been a busy week, so I haven’t had the chance to pop in much. I hope you’ve all been behaving yourself.I was trying to finish a building site in Margaret River today, but the property developer left some short steel pegs behind in the dead grass and my first truckload of sand found one of them and it tore the sidewall out of the trailer tire. So that’s another $900 to spend on Monday morning:(
Meanwhile, :) I had a grant approved for the fire brigade which allowed us to buy a scenario training kit ($1200). When it’s wet and cold during winter, we can set it up and teach our mid level firefighters how to manage a fireground, so that when the grownups aren’t there, they can make their way through it without making too many beginners mistakes.I hope you sent the bill to the property developer.
Does the training kit involve real fire?
The training kit doesn’t involve actual fire, just fake fire. I’ll post a pic shortly from my phone of the kit we borrowed late last year.
What we do is set up a “village” on a map, and the Incident Controller takes a pic of it, then moves into another room.
At that point, a fire starts somewhere and begins to spread. The first responders on scene report in with what they are seeing, and the IC starts to draw what he thinks is happening on a whiteboard. The IC then has to call in extra resources as necessary, and updates the map with the new information that is coming in from the “fireground”.
Once the exercise is over, the IC compares his map with the actual situation and compares differences due to wrong information communication. Then we try to improve our methods and remove our mistakes.
Sounds a useful exercise.
Kingy said:
Kingy said:
Bubblecar said:I hope you sent the bill to the property developer.
Does the training kit involve real fire?
The training kit doesn’t involve actual fire, just fake fire. I’ll post a pic shortly from my phone of the kit we borrowed late last year.
What we do is set up a “village” on a map, and the Incident Controller takes a pic of it, then moves into another room.
At that point, a fire starts somewhere and begins to spread. The first responders on scene report in with what they are seeing, and the IC starts to draw what he thinks is happening on a whiteboard. The IC then has to call in extra resources as necessary, and updates the map with the new information that is coming in from the “fireground”.
Once the exercise is over, the IC compares his map with the actual situation and compares differences due to wrong information communication. Then we try to improve our methods and remove our mistakes.
So it’s like tabletop wargaming, but more worthy.
transition said:
transition said:
nice cup of tea, watch the moon rise
there it is, at second-last meter reads out the farm, I finks it mights fall on me, but mr moon said wouldn’t dat ‘cause he’s my friend
Nice.
:)
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
You never hear much about Sardinia. Makes you forget it’s there.
I sometimes think of it because of discussion of the strange nature of the Sardinian language. Quite different from Italian, and not especially closely related to it, it is phonetically more similar to Latin than any other existing Romance language.
I think Latin is still spoken around the norther borders of Italy.
fsm said:
A few shots of the moon tonight. It was a bit cloudy and hazy here.
Well done.
:)
Kingy said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-14/putrid-fatberg-pulled-from-perth-sewer/105053298
I was wondering where Clive Palmer went.
LOL
Kingy said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-14/putrid-fatberg-pulled-from-perth-sewer/105053298
I was wondering where Clive Palmer went.
Maybe it’s an amalgamation of Clive and Gina.
Kingy said:
It’s been a busy week, so I haven’t had the chance to pop in much. I hope you’ve all been behaving yourself.I was trying to finish a building site in Margaret River today, but the property developer left some short steel pegs behind in the dead grass and my first truckload of sand found one of them and it tore the sidewall out of the trailer tire. So that’s another $900 to spend on Monday morning:(
Meanwhile, :) I had a grant approved for the fire brigade which allowed us to buy a scenario training kit ($1200). When it’s wet and cold during winter, we can set it up and teach our mid level firefighters how to manage a fireground, so that when the grownups aren’t there, they can make their way through it without making too many beginners mistakes.
Bugger.
Good.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
You never hear much about Sardinia. Makes you forget it’s there.
I sometimes think of it because of discussion of the strange nature of the Sardinian language. Quite different from Italian, and not especially closely related to it, it is phonetically more similar to Latin than any other existing Romance language.
islands are like that.
The rare de Havilland DH99 Wasp long range bomber. It was largely based on its predecessor the
de Havilland Mosquito with the addition of two engines with triple stage superchargers optimised
for high altitude. It was capable of flying at 55,000 feet and 499mph with an 8,000lb bomb load.
JudgeMental said:
The rare de Havilland DH99 Wasp long range bomber. It was largely based on its predecessor the
de Havilland Mosquito with the addition of two engines with triple stage superchargers optimised
for high altitude. It was capable of flying at 55,000 feet and 499mph with an 8,000lb bomb load.
might be worth a drone attempt at it now. But at 55,000 feet with 1940’s technology and unguided bombs, dropping anything from that high is a Hail Mary play
JudgeMental said:
The rare de Havilland DH99 Wasp long range bomber. It was largely based on its predecessor the
de Havilland Mosquito with the addition of two engines with triple stage superchargers optimised
for high altitude. It was capable of flying at 55,000 feet and 499mph with an 8,000lb bomb load.
Sounds like fake news.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_de_Havilland_aircraft
Though it would have been fkn awesome if it were real. It may have needed to carry fuel tanks instead of bombs.
Kingy said:
JudgeMental said:
The rare de Havilland DH99 Wasp long range bomber. It was largely based on its predecessor the
de Havilland Mosquito with the addition of two engines with triple stage superchargers optimised
for high altitude. It was capable of flying at 55,000 feet and 499mph with an 8,000lb bomb load.
Sounds like fake news.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_de_Havilland_aircraft
Though it would have been fkn awesome if it were real. It may have needed to carry fuel tanks instead of bombs.
I’m with you, Kingy.
Michael V said:
Kingy said:
JudgeMental said:
The rare de Havilland DH99 Wasp long range bomber. It was largely based on its predecessor the
de Havilland Mosquito with the addition of two engines with triple stage superchargers optimised
for high altitude. It was capable of flying at 55,000 feet and 499mph with an 8,000lb bomb load.
Sounds like fake news.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_de_Havilland_aircraft
Though it would have been fkn awesome if it were real. It may have needed to carry fuel tanks instead of bombs.
I’m with you, Kingy.
The Supercharged V12 Merlin Spitfire was fkn awesome. Two of those engines in a wooden plane that was only slightly heavier would have been even awesomer. A four engine Spitfire would have invoked automatic orgasms from nuns. The enemy would have surrendered before it was even built.
JudgeMental said:
The rare de Havilland DH99 Wasp long range bomber. It was largely based on its predecessor the
de Havilland Mosquito with the addition of two engines with triple stage superchargers optimised
for high altitude. It was capable of flying at 55,000 feet and 499mph with an 8,000lb bomb load.
Yes, it isn’t real.
Kingy said:
Kingy said:
Bubblecar said:I hope you sent the bill to the property developer.
Does the training kit involve real fire?
The training kit doesn’t involve actual fire, just fake fire. I’ll post a pic shortly from my phone of the kit we borrowed late last year.
What we do is set up a “village” on a map, and the Incident Controller takes a pic of it, then moves into another room.
At that point, a fire starts somewhere and begins to spread. The first responders on scene report in with what they are seeing, and the IC starts to draw what he thinks is happening on a whiteboard. The IC then has to call in extra resources as necessary, and updates the map with the new information that is coming in from the “fireground”.
Once the exercise is over, the IC compares his map with the actual situation and compares differences due to wrong information communication. Then we try to improve our methods and remove our mistakes.
Jesus Christ. For $1200 I can make five of those things.
Look out! The Yanks are calling today as Pi Day.
It being 3.14 in their peculiar calendar notation.
:)
Arts said:
Kingy said:
Kingy said:The training kit doesn’t involve actual fire, just fake fire. I’ll post a pic shortly from my phone of the kit we borrowed late last year.
What we do is set up a “village” on a map, and the Incident Controller takes a pic of it, then moves into another room.
At that point, a fire starts somewhere and begins to spread. The first responders on scene report in with what they are seeing, and the IC starts to draw what he thinks is happening on a whiteboard. The IC then has to call in extra resources as necessary, and updates the map with the new information that is coming in from the “fireground”.
Once the exercise is over, the IC compares his map with the actual situation and compares differences due to wrong information communication. Then we try to improve our methods and remove our mistakes.
Jesus Christ. For $1200 I can make five of those things.
I can send you a purchase order for 5 scenario training kits if you are serious.
It’s harder than you think.
My pics don’t really do it justice, I’ll get better ones next week.
AussieDJ said:
Look out! The Yanks are calling today as Pi Day.It being 3.14 in their peculiar calendar notation.
:)
It, of course, is still Friday the 14th in their part of the world.
How does that warning go?
Secure all loose objects when strong winds are expected.
Found an old friend last week.
well look if you want to get all ISO 8601 about it then 20250315 is how it goes today
JudgeMental said:
JudgeMental said:
The rare de Havilland DH99 Wasp long range bomber. It was largely based on its predecessor the
de Havilland Mosquito with the addition of two engines with triple stage superchargers optimised
for high altitude. It was capable of flying at 55,000 feet and 499mph with an 8,000lb bomb load.
Yes, it isn’t real.
but they say it should be
AussieDJ said:
How does that warning go?
Secure all loose objects when strong winds are expected.
The incident was, of course, caused by the helicopter’s proximity to the ground.
Which is just as well, as losing the tail rotor at any appreciable height comes under the heading of ‘nil-survivability situations’.
Kingy said:
Someone got this idea from a play mat for kids.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 18 degrees at the back door. Crickets are chirping. Maggies are starting It’s over and hour to sunup yet. Today we are forecast a partly cloudy 37. Then we finally get a reprieve back down out of the thirties. We’ve been over 30 degrees for max temp since 7th March, with one exception, yesterday only got to 27. And we are even forecast some rain – maybe even up to 15mm – for tomorrow. We’ve had 35% of the long term rain average for year to date. Enough of my weather grumbles.
So this morning I’ll eat breakfast with my bushwandering friend and then I expect I’ll spend the day inside. I might refine my Amanita identification skills. I’m reasonably confident with 4 or 5 Amanitas now.
kii said:
Kingy said:
Someone got this idea from a play mat for kids.
And they also included elements of Fuzzy Felt and those collections of plastic farm items.
Woodie said:
Ummmm…….. Is it the Ides of March yet?What should I beware of?
My mother was born on the ides of March.
roughbarked said:
Woodie said:
Ummmm…….. Is it the Ides of March yet?What should I beware of?
My mother was born on the ides of March.
The Ides of March would not work for me:
I’d never March for 15 days.
No sir; too lazy, you see.
JudgeMental said:
JudgeMental said:
The rare de Havilland DH99 Wasp long range bomber. It was largely based on its predecessor the
de Havilland Mosquito with the addition of two engines with triple stage superchargers optimised
for high altitude. It was capable of flying at 55,000 feet and 499mph with an 8,000lb bomb load.
Yes, it isn’t real.
AussieDJ said:
Look out! The Yanks are calling today as Pi Day.It being 3.14 in their peculiar calendar notation.
:)
Posted at 5 minutes to midnight!
Bit of a bloody belated warning that!
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Woodie said:
Ummmm…….. Is it the Ides of March yet?What should I beware of?
My mother was born on the ides of March.
The Ides of March would not work for me:
I’d never March for 15 days.
No sir; too lazy, you see.
:)
I rode a pushbike for four days once but march for one day, Nup.
Slight chance of a shower now, heading for a sunny top of 29. Mini Me has basketball this morning. She’s also overdue for a new bike so she’s looking at bikes today, and it’s grocery shopping day too. She’s too tall for her bike, keeps hitting her knees on the handlebars. She and Mr Mutant love going for long bike rides and they haven’t been able to do that for a while.
Michael V said:
kii said:
FMD
ah but consider these interpretations
She’s a homeschooled creationist who got her education from christian universities. She likely adheres to the belief that humans are superior to other animals in every way and are on this earth solely for our sustenance and entertainment.
It’s ragebait for clicks and views.
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:
kii said:
FMD
ah but consider these interpretations
She’s a homeschooled creationist who got her education from christian universities. She likely adheres to the belief that humans are superior to other animals in every way and are on this earth solely for our sustenance and entertainment.
It’s ragebait for clicks and views.
She didn’t get me to click.
I have doubts about what she states as fact though yes, it is true that farming has had a devastating effect upon native fauna and flora.
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:Michael V said:
FMD
ah but consider these interpretations
She’s a homeschooled creationist who got her education from christian universities. She likely adheres to the belief that humans are superior to other animals in every way and are on this earth solely for our sustenance and entertainment.
It’s ragebait for clicks and views.
She didn’t get me to click.
I have doubts about what she states as fact though yes, it is true that farming has had a devastating effect upon native fauna and flora.
She?
Isn’t it better to know who these fuckwits are than to be ignorant of who you are dealing with?
Kingy said:
Arts said:
Kingy said:
Jesus Christ. For $1200 I can make five of those things.
I can send you a purchase order for 5 scenario training kits if you are serious.
It’s harder than you think.
My pics don’t really do it justice, I’ll get better ones next week.
It’s felt and blocks. Literally. VR simulations must exist. Though they may be pricey, I guess, and outside a volunteer organise actions budget. Still I’m shocked that this set costs that much… maybe it’s bigger and has more parts than I can see….
Sam Jones, US wombat snatching influencer, is spotted in Scotland.
JudgeMental said:
Sam Jones, US wombat snatching influencer, is spotted in Scotland.
Feeding herself to the myth.
Perth has been battling with the polyphagous shot-hole borer for some time… years and lost many of our very mature trees to it… there has been some gag order on allowing the general public to know exactly where this pest has been seen… we have lost the battle I’m afraid and councils who signed an nda now want that lifted some people can see and report. none of this is news
I was surprised to read that Perth has the lowest canopy spread of all the capitals…. I mean I know we can’t compete with Canberra, but Sydney? Brisbane? Adelaide? That is a surprise
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
Sam Jones, US wombat snatching influencer, is spotted in Scotland.
Feeding herself to the myth.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
Sam Jones, US wombat snatching influencer, is spotted in Scotland.
Feeding herself to the myth.
That would be a myth-take.
Sure would.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
Sam Jones, US wombat snatching influencer, is spotted in Scotland.
Feeding herself to the myth.
That would be a myth-take.
Dear oh dear.
The Church of Scotland has started work on installing
Scalextric tracks in their churches in an effort to appeal
to younger folk
Morning Pilgrims, weather fine track good.
Over.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning Pilgrims, weather fine track good.
Over.
Yeah,
Summary Max 40 Partly cloudy.
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning Pilgrims, weather fine track good.
Over.
Yeah,
Summary Max 40 Partly cloudy.
That’s hot for March, it’s nice nad cool in the Pearl.
AussieDJ said:
Look out! The Yanks are calling today as Pi Day.It being 3.14 in their peculiar calendar notation.
:)
The Pides of March
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning Pilgrims, weather fine track good.
Over.
Yeah,
Summary Max 40 Partly cloudy.
That’s hot for March, it’s nice nad cool in the Pearl.
It is fairly usual here to have the heat continue well into March.
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:Yeah,
Summary Max 40 Partly cloudy.
That’s hot for March, it’s nice nad cool in the Pearl.
It is fairly usual here to have the heat continue well into March.
“Lindsay Hoyle was last night embroiled in a new row after recruiting a former lobbyist who gave him several all-expenses-paid junkets.
The Commons Speaker appointed Albert Poggio as an adviser and gave him a parliamentary pass, allowing him access to Commons libraries, bars and restaurants and the highest-ranking politicians and officials in Westminster.”
According to Hoyle it’s OK.
But giving him access to the bars is a bit rich, I don’t think the chaps will be happy about that, not happy at all.
Peak Warming Man said:
“Lindsay Hoyle was last night embroiled in a new row after recruiting a former lobbyist who gave him several all-expenses-paid junkets.
The Commons Speaker appointed Albert Poggio as an adviser and gave him a parliamentary pass, allowing him access to Commons libraries, bars and restaurants and the highest-ranking politicians and officials in Westminster.”According to Hoyle it’s OK.
But giving him access to the bars is a bit rich, I don’t think the chaps will be happy about that, not happy at all.
Depends on whether or not he’s buying.
Divine Angel said:
Slight chance of a shower now, heading for a sunny top of 29. Mini Me has basketball this morning. She’s also overdue for a new bike so she’s looking at bikes today, and it’s grocery shopping day too. She’s too tall for her bike, keeps hitting her knees on the handlebars. She and Mr Mutant love going for long bike rides and they haven’t been able to do that for a while.
She does need a new bike, that’s for sure.
Peak Warming Man said:
“Lindsay Hoyle was last night embroiled in a new row after recruiting a former lobbyist who gave him several all-expenses-paid junkets.
The Commons Speaker appointed Albert Poggio as an adviser and gave him a parliamentary pass, allowing him access to Commons libraries, bars and restaurants and the highest-ranking politicians and officials in Westminster.”According to Hoyle it’s OK.
But giving him access to the bars is a bit rich, I don’t think the chaps will be happy about that, not happy at all.
And he sounds like one of those Mediterranean chaps, a wog, that won’t do, won’t do at all,
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Slight chance of a shower now, heading for a sunny top of 29. Mini Me has basketball this morning. She’s also overdue for a new bike so she’s looking at bikes today, and it’s grocery shopping day too. She’s too tall for her bike, keeps hitting her knees on the handlebars. She and Mr Mutant love going for long bike rides and they haven’t been able to do that for a while.
She does need a new bike, that’s for sure.
or raise the handlebars.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Slight chance of a shower now, heading for a sunny top of 29. Mini Me has basketball this morning. She’s also overdue for a new bike so she’s looking at bikes today, and it’s grocery shopping day too. She’s too tall for her bike, keeps hitting her knees on the handlebars. She and Mr Mutant love going for long bike rides and they haven’t been able to do that for a while.
She does need a new bike, that’s for sure.
or raise the handlebars.
or shorten her legs.
JudgeMental said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:She does need a new bike, that’s for sure.
or raise the handlebars.
or shorten her legs.
Most bikes have some leeway on raising seats and handlebars.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:That’s hot for March, it’s nice nad cool in the Pearl.
It is fairly usual here to have the heat continue well into March.
21°C here
It should be better tomorrow. It may even spit a bit.
Sunday 16 March
Summary Min 26 Max 36 Possible shower. Windy. Possible rainfall: 0 to 1 mm Chance of any rain: 40%
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
It is fairly usual here to have the heat continue well into March.
21°C hereIt should be better tomorrow. It may even spit a bit.
Sunday 16 MarchSummary Min 26 Max 36 Possible shower. Windy. Possible rainfall: 0 to 1 mm Chance of any rain: 40%
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:
kii said:
FMD
ah but consider these interpretations
She’s a homeschooled creationist who got her education from christian universities. She likely adheres to the belief that humans are superior to other animals in every way and are on this earth solely for our sustenance and entertainment.
It’s ragebait for clicks and views.
Oh, sorry.
My fault entirely.
JudgeMental said:
Sam Jones, US wombat snatching influencer, is spotted in Scotland.
LOL
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:
“Lindsay Hoyle was last night embroiled in a new row after recruiting a former lobbyist who gave him several all-expenses-paid junkets.
The Commons Speaker appointed Albert Poggio as an adviser and gave him a parliamentary pass, allowing him access to Commons libraries, bars and restaurants and the highest-ranking politicians and officials in Westminster.”According to Hoyle it’s OK.
But giving him access to the bars is a bit rich, I don’t think the chaps will be happy about that, not happy at all.
Depends on whether or not he’s buying.
Stand down, I just found out that Lindsay Hoyle is a Knight of the Relm, it’s Sir Lindsay Hoyle.
Everything is kosher, everything is spiffing, nothing to see here.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
Sam Jones, US wombat snatching influencer, is spotted in Scotland.
Feeding herself to the myth.
That would be a myth-take.
:)
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning Pilgrims, weather fine track good.
Over.
Any tips?
Michael V said:
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:
FMD
ah but consider these interpretations
She’s a homeschooled creationist who got her education from christian universities. She likely adheres to the belief that humans are superior to other animals in every way and are on this earth solely for our sustenance and entertainment.
It’s ragebait for clicks and views.
Oh, sorry.
My fault entirely.
disagree, the fault is with the wildlife abuser, we’re not suggesting there is a good and simple way to deal with these malicious agents, if you call them out you give them traffic and if you don’t call them out you let them gain traffic
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:
SCIENCE said:
ah but consider these interpretations
She’s a homeschooled creationist who got her education from christian universities. She likely adheres to the belief that humans are superior to other animals in every way and are on this earth solely for our sustenance and entertainment.
It’s ragebait for clicks and views.
Oh, sorry.
My fault entirely.
disagree, the fault is with the wildlife abuser, we’re not suggesting there is a good and simple way to deal with these malicious agents, if you call them out you give them traffic and if you don’t call them out you let them gain traffic
She should be sentenced to a few hours of hard labour doing shit dirty job, which should be streamed online as a public humiliation.
I continues wetting down the yard
hot hotly day, but fortunate thing we’re not nearer the sun, the good Lord did the math, put the earth just the right distance away
anyways bullshit aside, hot day, windy, turning ugly, lot of dust been getting with gusts
don’t fret though, i’m okay, i’ve seen worse, like that time I was stuck out in the gobi desert, helicopter crash landed, I was the only survivor, I only had a couple litres of water, my compass got broken in the crash, I walked for days mostly at night, fighting the demons of hopelessness, I knew I was lost, chances of survival slim
another time maybe, that story
and look coffee landed
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:That’s hot for March, it’s nice nad cool in the Pearl.
It is fairly usual here to have the heat continue well into March.
21°C here
fair weather mongrel you are, max 43C here today, expected
but if I truthly tells though nice change arrives later, yeah, let me have a little insane giggle, 24max tomorrow, 90% chance 5-10mm rain
peak rain is at 4:30am
don’t tell anyone but i’m a little bit excited, i’m just going to slip outside and slam the car door on my head a few times until I calm down
i’ll be back later
Happy sympatric day
Lots of upside down Nigerian flags in the neighbourhood today, seems to be some kind of festival in the park.
Over the past ten years or so my blood pressure’s been going up; I’m not sure why (not diet, I’m a cyclist, so not sednetary, though I am a little overweight (BMI around 28), no stress) and neither is my gp. He’s given me some drugs to try to control it, and Thursday I saw him to see whether the drugs are working. I rode my bicycle to his surgery (about 45 minutes ride), so I expected my bp to at least start off high; he sent me to the treatment room to lie down, and had the attending nurses check my bp every 10 minutes.
Start: 121/95
10 m: 168/110
20 m: 177/120
So it started off normal, and got worse while I was recumbent. This seems counterintuitive (or something.) My gp is puzzled, too. He wants me to try some new drugs, and we’ll try the same test in a couple of weeks, but it seems very strange for my bp to increase while I’m resting.
dv said:
Happy sympatric dayLots of upside down Nigerian flags in the neighbourhood today, seems to be some kind of festival in the park.
hard to tell if it is upside down or not
party_pants said:
dv said:
Happy sympatric dayLots of upside down Nigerian flags in the neighbourhood today, seems to be some kind of festival in the park.
hard to tell if it is upside down or not
That supposed ‘distress signal’ of flying the flag upside down is a tough one around Nigeria.
Sailor: Captain, that Nigerian vessel seems to be on fire, sinking, and surrounded by sharks! Should we help them?
Captain: (examines vessel’s flag through telescope): Nah, they’re not signalling distress, they’ll be fine.
captain_spalding said:
party_pants said:
dv said:
Happy sympatric dayLots of upside down Nigerian flags in the neighbourhood today, seems to be some kind of festival in the park.
hard to tell if it is upside down or not
That supposed ‘distress signal’ of flying the flag upside down is a tough one around Nigeria.
Sailor: Captain, that Nigerian vessel seems to be on fire, sinking, and surrounded by sharks! Should we help them?
Captain: (examines vessel’s flag through telescope): Nah, they’re not signalling distress, they’ll be fine.
If they signal that they have $60 million on board ,and that half it’s yours if you send over your bank account details, it might be a different story.
btm said:
Over the past ten years or so my blood pressure’s been going up; I’m not sure why (not diet, I’m a cyclist, so not sednetary, though I am a little overweight (BMI around 28), no stress) and neither is my gp. He’s given me some drugs to try to control it, and Thursday I saw him to see whether the drugs are working. I rode my bicycle to his surgery (about 45 minutes ride), so I expected my bp to at least start off high; he sent me to the treatment room to lie down, and had the attending nurses check my bp every 10 minutes.Start: 121/95
10 m: 168/110
20 m: 177/120So it started off normal, and got worse while I was recumbent. This seems counterintuitive (or something.) My gp is puzzled, too. He wants me to try some new drugs, and we’ll try the same test in a couple of weeks, but it seems very strange for my bp to increase while I’m resting.
Consider “White Coat Syndrome”.
Neophyte said:
captain_spalding said:
party_pants said:
hard to tell if it is upside down or not
That supposed ‘distress signal’ of flying the flag upside down is a tough one around Nigeria.
Sailor: Captain, that Nigerian vessel seems to be on fire, sinking, and surrounded by sharks! Should we help them?
Captain: (examines vessel’s flag through telescope): Nah, they’re not signalling distress, they’ll be fine.
If they signal that they have $60 million on board ,and that half it’s yours if you send over your bank account details, it might be a different story.
:)
captain_spalding said:
:)
Maybe it’s caused by the caffeinated beverage in the image…
Here’s one I heard earlier:
Hard times create strong leaders, strong leaders create good times, good times create weak leaders, weak leaders create hard times.
We also watched The Orville. Quite good.
dv said:
We also watched The Orville. Quite good.
All of them? We are fond of The Orville here.
btm said:
Over the past ten years or so my blood pressure’s been going up; I’m not sure why (not diet, I’m a cyclist, so not sednetary, though I am a little overweight (BMI around 28), no stress) and neither is my gp. He’s given me some drugs to try to control it, and Thursday I saw him to see whether the drugs are working. I rode my bicycle to his surgery (about 45 minutes ride), so I expected my bp to at least start off high; he sent me to the treatment room to lie down, and had the attending nurses check my bp every 10 minutes.Start: 121/95
10 m: 168/110
20 m: 177/120So it started off normal, and got worse while I was recumbent. This seems counterintuitive (or something.) My gp is puzzled, too. He wants me to try some new drugs, and we’ll try the same test in a couple of weeks, but it seems very strange for my bp to increase while I’m resting.
Exercise releases hypotensive chemicals.
“An acute fall in BP minutes or hours after exercise,13 known as post-exercise hypotension,14 is seen in hypertensive and pre-hypertensive subjects15 and also in normotensive individuals, although to a lesser degree. I”
Anyway, time for a little read and siesta here. Quite warm outside, but overcast.
buffy said:
dv said:
We also watched The Orville. Quite good.
All of them? We are fond of The Orville here.
There’s good rumours of a fourth season being made this year.
buffy said:
Anyway, time for a little read and siesta here. Quite warm outside, but overcast.
You go and have a nice lie-down.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Anyway, time for a little read and siesta here. Quite warm outside, but overcast.
You go and have a nice lie-down.
Yeah well, I read, I decided to nap…and then my brain said..“you know you didn’t hang the washing out, don’t you”….
got up this morning to find that youtube had that no adblocker crap. looked just now and it has gone. thanks ublock.
Oh okay Cote d’Ivoire
Spiny Norman said:
buffy said:
dv said:
We also watched The Orville. Quite good.
All of them? We are fond of The Orville here.
There’s good rumours of a fourth season being made this year.
Yes all of them. I find the psychology of Isaac interesting.
I don’t blame them for taking their time on the fourth season, better to get it quite right rather than rush it. Great emotional maturity in the series, by the standards of the genre. Obviously plenty for the fourth season to wrap up, with Anaya and also the relationship with Moclus.
Read the comments. Warnings, people driving too fast.
We had some very strong gusts here earlier.
“Prayers up for all involved!” Lolol….dumbfuckers.
dv said:
Spiny Norman said:
buffy said:All of them? We are fond of The Orville here.
There’s good rumours of a fourth season being made this year.
Yes all of them. I find the psychology of Isaac interesting.
I don’t blame them for taking their time on the fourth season, better to get it quite right rather than rush it. Great emotional maturity in the series, by the standards of the genre. Obviously plenty for the fourth season to wrap up, with Anaya and also the relationship with Moclus.
They dismantled all the sets after S3 but have been rebuilding since mid January. Seth et al didn’t know if there was going to be a fourth season. I hear Adrienne Palicki isn’t returning, I don’t think her divorce from the dude who plays Gordon was amicable.
dv said:
Oh okay Cote d’Ivoire
What did that country do?
Michael V said:
btm said:
Over the past ten years or so my blood pressure’s been going up; I’m not sure why (not diet, I’m a cyclist, so not sednetary, though I am a little overweight (BMI around 28), no stress) and neither is my gp. He’s given me some drugs to try to control it, and Thursday I saw him to see whether the drugs are working. I rode my bicycle to his surgery (about 45 minutes ride), so I expected my bp to at least start off high; he sent me to the treatment room to lie down, and had the attending nurses check my bp every 10 minutes.Start: 121/95
10 m: 168/110
20 m: 177/120So it started off normal, and got worse while I was recumbent. This seems counterintuitive (or something.) My gp is puzzled, too. He wants me to try some new drugs, and we’ll try the same test in a couple of weeks, but it seems very strange for my bp to increase while I’m resting.
Consider “White Coat Syndrome”.
I’ve asked about that. The gp says we should see if the drugs work; if not we can try some 24-hour monitoring and see what that reveals.
Traffic is horrendous today. It’s like everyone’s coming out of a coma at the same time and decided to go for a drive. The queue to et into Westfield was very long.
poikilotherm said:
btm said:
Over the past ten years or so my blood pressure’s been going up; I’m not sure why (not diet, I’m a cyclist, so not sednetary, though I am a little overweight (BMI around 28), no stress) and neither is my gp. He’s given me some drugs to try to control it, and Thursday I saw him to see whether the drugs are working. I rode my bicycle to his surgery (about 45 minutes ride), so I expected my bp to at least start off high; he sent me to the treatment room to lie down, and had the attending nurses check my bp every 10 minutes.Start: 121/95
10 m: 168/110
20 m: 177/120So it started off normal, and got worse while I was recumbent. This seems counterintuitive (or something.) My gp is puzzled, too. He wants me to try some new drugs, and we’ll try the same test in a couple of weeks, but it seems very strange for my bp to increase while I’m resting.
Exercise releases hypotensive chemicals.
“An acute fall in BP minutes or hours after exercise,13 known as post-exercise hypotension,14 is seen in hypertensive and pre-hypertensive subjects15 and also in normotensive individuals, although to a lesser degree. I”
Thanks poik; that’s unexpected (to me.)
Michael V said:
dv said:
Oh okay Cote d’Ivoire
What did that country do?
They adopted a flag of 3 vertical stripes of orange, white and green, with orange on edge nearest the pole. The Irish flag is very similar but wth green on the pole edge.
btm said:
Michael V said:
btm said:
Over the past ten years or so my blood pressure’s been going up; I’m not sure why (not diet, I’m a cyclist, so not sednetary, though I am a little overweight (BMI around 28), no stress) and neither is my gp. He’s given me some drugs to try to control it, and Thursday I saw him to see whether the drugs are working. I rode my bicycle to his surgery (about 45 minutes ride), so I expected my bp to at least start off high; he sent me to the treatment room to lie down, and had the attending nurses check my bp every 10 minutes.Start: 121/95
10 m: 168/110
20 m: 177/120So it started off normal, and got worse while I was recumbent. This seems counterintuitive (or something.) My gp is puzzled, too. He wants me to try some new drugs, and we’ll try the same test in a couple of weeks, but it seems very strange for my bp to increase while I’m resting.
Consider “White Coat Syndrome”.
I’ve asked about that. The gp says we should see if the drugs work; if not we can try some 24-hour monitoring and see what that reveals.
I certainly have that issue. And for at least 55 years. About 20 years ago (after my doctor suggested it), I started measuring and recording my BP daily, in the morning before coffee or breakfast. That helped him make the diagnosis. At the surgery, my BP is 20-60 mmHg higher than measured in the morning.
Divine Angel said:
Traffic is horrendous today. It’s like everyone’s coming out of a coma at the same time and decided to go for a drive. The queue to et into Westfield was very long.
Bugger.
party_pants said:
Michael V said:
dv said:
Oh okay Cote d’Ivoire
What did that country do?
They adopted a flag of 3 vertical stripes of orange, white and green, with orange on edge nearest the pole. The Irish flag is very similar but wth green on the pole edge.
Gosh. I wouldn’t have guessed that that was what dv was commenting on.
Michael V said:
party_pants said:
Michael V said:What did that country do?
They adopted a flag of 3 vertical stripes of orange, white and green, with orange on edge nearest the pole. The Irish flag is very similar but wth green on the pole edge.
Gosh. I wouldn’t have guessed that that was what dv was commenting on.
His original comment was on some St Patrick’s day event in the local park. I think the actual St Pat’s day is Monday, but they seem to have just picked the nearest weekend.
JudgeMental said:
got up this morning to find that youtube had that no adblocker crap. looked just now and it has gone. thanks ublock.
I use Ghostery, Malwarebytes, Ublock and Pihole.
Haven’t had a Youtube ad problem for years.
On Windows 10/chrome I don’t get any ads on FTA streaming services either. (Sbs Ondemand, ABC Iview, 7+, 9Now, 10 Play.
Rather ironically, on Raspberry PI/Chromium (with same adblockers) SBS Ondemand and ABC Iview tell me I’m using an adblocker and won’t play anything. The commercial TV streaming services play fine on my Raspberry PI/Chromium with no ads.
ABC Iview? Adblocker and won’t play considering it’s a streaming service with no ads anyway??? Go figure.
dv said:
Spiny Norman said:
buffy said:All of them? We are fond of The Orville here.
There’s good rumours of a fourth season being made this year.
Yes all of them. I find the psychology of Isaac interesting.
I don’t blame them for taking their time on the fourth season, better to get it quite right rather than rush it. Great emotional maturity in the series, by the standards of the genre. Obviously plenty for the fourth season to wrap up, with Anaya and also the relationship with Moclus.
I tried “The Orville” time after time after time. But it didn’t take.
dv said:
Spiny Norman said:
buffy said:All of them? We are fond of The Orville here.
There’s good rumours of a fourth season being made this year.
Yes all of them. I find the psychology of Isaac interesting.
I don’t blame them for taking their time on the fourth season, better to get it quite right rather than rush it. Great emotional maturity in the series, by the standards of the genre. Obviously plenty for the fourth season to wrap up, with Anaya and also the relationship with Moclus.
I think Isaac is my favorite character.
btm said:
Michael V said:
btm said:
Over the past ten years or so my blood pressure’s been going up; I’m not sure why (not diet, I’m a cyclist, so not sednetary, though I am a little overweight (BMI around 28), no stress) and neither is my gp. He’s given me some drugs to try to control it, and Thursday I saw him to see whether the drugs are working. I rode my bicycle to his surgery (about 45 minutes ride), so I expected my bp to at least start off high; he sent me to the treatment room to lie down, and had the attending nurses check my bp every 10 minutes.Start: 121/95
10 m: 168/110
20 m: 177/120So it started off normal, and got worse while I was recumbent. This seems counterintuitive (or something.) My gp is puzzled, too. He wants me to try some new drugs, and we’ll try the same test in a couple of weeks, but it seems very strange for my bp to increase while I’m resting.
Consider “White Coat Syndrome”.
I’ve asked about that. The gp says we should see if the drugs work; if not we can try some 24-hour monitoring and see what that reveals.
Shouldn’t they do a 24 hour monitor before instigating treatment?
buffy said:
btm said:
Michael V said:Consider “White Coat Syndrome”.
I’ve asked about that. The gp says we should see if the drugs work; if not we can try some 24-hour monitoring and see what that reveals.
Shouldn’t they do a 24 hour monitor before instigating treatment?
Probably, but as noted, the medication doesn’t seem to be working anyway.
I read a description of Vance that called him “evil Care Bear”. Now when I see a photo of him it’s all that I can think about.
Woodie said:
JudgeMental said:
got up this morning to find that youtube had that no adblocker crap. looked just now and it has gone. thanks ublock.
I use Ghostery, Malwarebytes, Ublock and Pihole.
Haven’t had a Youtube ad problem for years.
On Windows 10/chrome I don’t get any ads on FTA streaming services either. (Sbs Ondemand, ABC Iview, 7+, 9Now, 10 Play.
Rather ironically, on Raspberry PI/Chromium (with same adblockers) SBS Ondemand and ABC Iview tell me I’m using an adblocker and won’t play anything. The commercial TV streaming services play fine on my Raspberry PI/Chromium with no ads.
ABC Iview? Adblocker and won’t play considering it’s a streaming service with no ads anyway??? Go figure.
Oh….. and Facebook Purity.
Dunno which of those dies the blocking on what, though , hey what but.
However, since I’ve had this forum browser tab open, Ublock is up to a count of 13K. (Malwarebytes 430, and Ghostery 3.)
Woodie said:
JudgeMental said:
got up this morning to find that youtube had that no adblocker crap. looked just now and it has gone. thanks ublock.
I use Ghostery, Malwarebytes, Ublock and Pihole.
Haven’t had a Youtube ad problem for years.
On Windows 10/chrome I don’t get any ads on FTA streaming services either. (Sbs Ondemand, ABC Iview, 7+, 9Now, 10 Play.
Rather ironically, on Raspberry PI/Chromium (with same adblockers) SBS Ondemand and ABC Iview tell me I’m using an adblocker and won’t play anything. The commercial TV streaming services play fine on my Raspberry PI/Chromium with no ads.
ABC Iview? Adblocker and won’t play considering it’s a streaming service with no ads anyway??? Go figure.
Ihavent got a youtube blocker, I get all the youtube ads, I love em.
YouTube are starting to roll out an annoying feature where you need to answer a question about the ad before you can continue to the content.
Divine Angel said:
YouTube are starting to roll out an annoying feature where you need to answer a question about the ad before you can continue to the content.
have you seen it?
Woodie said:
Divine Angel said:
YouTube are starting to roll out an annoying feature where you need to answer a question about the ad before you can continue to the content.
have you seen it?
Just once. A car ad, the answer was “white”.
btm said:
buffy said:
btm said:I’ve asked about that. The gp says we should see if the drugs work; if not we can try some 24-hour monitoring and see what that reveals.
Shouldn’t they do a 24 hour monitor before instigating treatment?
Probably, but as noted, the medication doesn’t seem to be working anyway.
You may be interested in the heart risk calculator if you haven’t already done it. The GP I saw had it on his computer. You need a few bits of information.
Woodie said:
Divine Angel said:
YouTube are starting to roll out an annoying feature where you need to answer a question about the ad before you can continue to the content.
have you seen it?
I don’t bother watching youtube content any more; if I want to see something I use yt-dlp to download the video then watch it locally. If I like it, I keep it; otherwise I delete it. No ads, no pointless crap. yt-dlp is a command-line program, though, so it’s not for everyone, although there are gui front-ends for it.
buffy said:
btm said:
buffy said:Shouldn’t they do a 24 hour monitor before instigating treatment?
Probably, but as noted, the medication doesn’t seem to be working anyway.
You may be interested in the heart risk calculator if you haven’t already done it. The GP I saw had it on his computer. You need a few bits of information.
Thanks buffy; I haven’t got enough information to do it now, but I’ll ask about it next time I see the gp.
In an apology posted to Instagram on Saturday, Ms Jones said she had been trying to protect the wombat and said she has since received threats against her life by people angered by her actions.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-15/sam-jones-us-influencer-apologises-for-snatching-wombat-video/105055984
If she wasn’t so pretty, she’d be a checkout chick by now.
She’s ranked like 1000 int the world now.
Peak Warming Man said:
If she wasn’t so pretty, she’d be a checkout chick by now.
She’s ranked like 1000 in the world now.
She’s still a US Open notch on her belt though.
Better than me. Much, much better.
Peak Warming Man said:
If she wasn’t so pretty, she’d be a checkout chick by now.
She’s ranked like 1000 int the world now.
Being a relatively unsuccessful golfer or tennis player is somehow strangely lucrative so she probably pays her way.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
If she wasn’t so pretty, she’d be a checkout chick by now.
She’s ranked like 1000 int the world now.Being a relatively unsuccessful golfer or tennis player is somehow strangely lucrative so she probably pays her way.
She simply has to wear their brands and they pay her to do so.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Peak Warming Man said:
If she wasn’t so pretty, she’d be a checkout chick by now.
She’s ranked like 1000 int the world now.Being a relatively unsuccessful golfer or tennis player is somehow strangely lucrative so she probably pays her way.
She’s 22 years old with a career prize money of 4 million dollars. She’s earned $240000 prizemoney just in the first two months of this year.
She’s ranked 55, which is pretty great, really.
I don’t think a change of physiognomy would have changed any of that and I don’t see what PWM is getting at.
Divine Angel said:
dv said:
Spiny Norman said:There’s good rumours of a fourth season being made this year.
Yes all of them. I find the psychology of Isaac interesting.
I don’t blame them for taking their time on the fourth season, better to get it quite right rather than rush it. Great emotional maturity in the series, by the standards of the genre. Obviously plenty for the fourth season to wrap up, with Anaya and also the relationship with Moclus.
They dismantled all the sets after S3 but have been rebuilding since mid January. Seth et al didn’t know if there was going to be a fourth season. I hear Adrienne Palicki isn’t returning, I don’t think her divorce from the dude who plays Gordon was amicable.
These days they should be able to complete the series without ever requiring them to be on set at the same time, even if they share scenes.
Probably get the first autumn mice sneaking in next week. Monday we have a max of 16 and min of 5.
Bubblecar said:
Probably get the first autumn mice sneaking in next week. Monday we have a max of 16 and min of 5.
We discovered the cat is useless with rodents. He only likes catching cockroaches, skinks, and geckos.
Divine Angel said:
Bubblecar said:
Probably get the first autumn mice sneaking in next week. Monday we have a max of 16 and min of 5.
We discovered the cat is useless with rodents. He only likes catching cockroaches, skinks, and geckos.
My cat used to catch them outside and then them bring them inside the house to play with.
Bubblecar said:
Probably get the first autumn mice sneaking in next week. Monday we have a max of 16 and min of 5.
You’ll need a good wooly spencer from next week, then, hey what but. Have you had yours in moth balls for the duration?
Divine Angel said:
Bubblecar said:
Probably get the first autumn mice sneaking in next week. Monday we have a max of 16 and min of 5.
We discovered the cat is useless with rodents. He only likes catching cockroaches, skinks, and geckos.
You won’t be able to claim tax benefits for a working cat.
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
Probably get the first autumn mice sneaking in next week. Monday we have a max of 16 and min of 5.
You’ll need a good wooly spencer from next week, then, hey what but. Have you had yours in moth balls for the duration?
Friday 21 March
Summary Min 17 Max 36.
No wooly spencer required.
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
Probably get the first autumn mice sneaking in next week. Monday we have a max of 16 and min of 5.
You’ll need a good wooly spencer from next week, then, hey what but. Have you had yours in moth balls for the duration?
There are various pullovers waiting in drawers, but no stinky moth balls.
party_pants said:
Divine Angel said:
Bubblecar said:
Probably get the first autumn mice sneaking in next week. Monday we have a max of 16 and min of 5.
We discovered the cat is useless with rodents. He only likes catching cockroaches, skinks, and geckos.
My cat used to catch them outside and then them bring them inside the house to play with.
Cat isn’t allowed outside, but he’s worked out a system.
Wait until Jellybean knocks at the door to come in. Human opens door, cat sneaks out between Jellybean’s legs. Freedom!
If he does manage to escape to the great outdoors, he’s under strict supervision outside so he doesn’t get injured, lost, or injure/kill wildlife. We have a lot of blue tongues around which we don’t want to harm.
Do we have a thread to post pics from Blue Ghost?
Divine Angel said:
Do we have a thread to post pics from Blue Ghost?
Not specifically
Bubblecar said:
Probably get the first autumn mice sneaking in next week. Monday we have a max of 16 and min of 5.
I’ve already dispatched some mice in the last month. One of them was a very clever little mouse that got me to provide supper for some days before it set off the trap while eating. And I was tying the bait salami on with cotton too.
Babakiueria (Barbeque Area) is a 1986 Australian satirical film on relations between Aboriginal Australians and Australians of European descent.
Bubblecar said:
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
Probably get the first autumn mice sneaking in next week. Monday we have a max of 16 and min of 5.
You’ll need a good wooly spencer from next week, then, hey what but. Have you had yours in moth balls for the duration?
There are various pullovers waiting in drawers, but no stinky moth balls.
Did you pack bay leaves around them instead? We found Mum’s cupboards had bay leaves in amongst the clothes.
Spiny Norman said:
Babakiueria (Barbeque Area) is a 1986 Australian satirical film on relations between Aboriginal Australians and Australians of European descent.
I watched that several times at school.
dinner will be
Divine Angel said:
Spiny Norman said:
Babakiueria (Barbeque Area) is a 1986 Australian satirical film on relations between Aboriginal Australians and Australians of European descent.I watched that several times at school.
A bit after my time at school so I’ve yet to watch it. It came recommended.
transition said:
dinner will be
there ya go, schnitzel there, sounds german or something doesn’t it, and always have a cordial in a cognac glass, gives it some class
transition said:
transition said:
dinner will be
there ya go, schnitzel there, sounds german or something doesn’t it, and always have a cordial in a cognac glass, gives it some class
But, can you tell a Cottees from a Bickfords?
captain_spalding said:
transition said:
transition said:
dinner will be
there ya go, schnitzel there, sounds german or something doesn’t it, and always have a cordial in a cognac glass, gives it some class
But, can you tell a Cottees from a Bickfords?
oh definitely!
transition said:
captain_spalding said:
transition said:there ya go, schnitzel there, sounds german or something doesn’t it, and always have a cordial in a cognac glass, gives it some class
But, can you tell a Cottees from a Bickfords?
oh definitely!
captain_spalding said:
transition said:
captain_spalding said:But, can you tell a Cottees from a Bickfords?
oh definitely!
brown goshawk to keeps ya company, down other end of dam earlier, having drink and cooling off
Spiny Norman said:
Divine Angel said:
Spiny Norman said:
Babakiueria (Barbeque Area) is a 1986 Australian satirical film on relations between Aboriginal Australians and Australians of European descent.I watched that several times at school.
A bit after my time at school so I’ve yet to watch it. It came recommended.
I too recommend it.
Going to get a hamburger from the Pelicans Nest.
Over.
Peak Warming Man said:
Going to get a hamburger from the Pelicans Nest.
Over.
That’ll be alright.
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Probably get the first autumn mice sneaking in next week. Monday we have a max of 16 and min of 5.
I’ve already dispatched some mice in the last month. One of them was a very clever little mouse that got me to provide supper for some days before it set off the trap while eating. And I was tying the bait salami on with cotton too.
A highly effective way to bait a mouse trap is to smear peanut butter over the trap trigger. Less fuss and mess too.
PermeateFree said:
buffy said:
Bubblecar said:
Probably get the first autumn mice sneaking in next week. Monday we have a max of 16 and min of 5.
I’ve already dispatched some mice in the last month. One of them was a very clever little mouse that got me to provide supper for some days before it set off the trap while eating. And I was tying the bait salami on with cotton too.
A highly effective way to bait a mouse trap is to smear peanut butter over the trap trigger. Less fuss and mess too.
He/she also managed a couple of meals of peanut butter without triggering the trap. It’s not a hair trigger, but it’s not a particularly sticky trap either. Just a very clever mouse – who ultimately became owl food…nice and fresh. He partook before we had turned out the lights one night, so I waited a couple of minutes to ensure he was dead and then threw the body out the front door onto the grass.
ABC News:
Ooh, i wonder if there’s any way that we could manage to lose the rest of the circus to Melbourne, too?
Time for Death in Paradise. I’ll be back later.
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Going to get a hamburger from the Pelicans Nest.
Over.
That’ll be alright.
LOL
“A man has been charged after a wild police chase through the outer suburbs of Perth.
Footage supplied by the Police Air Wing showed the car driving through Warnbro, Waikiki and Rockingham about 9.20am, allegedly speeding, driving on the wrong side of the road, and running red lights.”
Was Boris coming into town today.?
Peak Warming Man said:
“A man has been charged after a wild police chase through the outer suburbs of Perth.
Footage supplied by the Police Air Wing showed the car driving through Warnbro, Waikiki and Rockingham about 9.20am, allegedly speeding, driving on the wrong side of the road, and running red lights.”Was Boris coming into town today.?
it wasn’t me and anyway you can’t prove it.
This game gives the most frustrating clues!
‘May make funeral arrangements’
Answer: florist
settles in to a cuppla hi def Harry Potter moofies on the big screen with surround sound played on my new Kodi system
BTW, I have no idea why anyone would want to go to Hogwarts. The weather is atrocious.
Woodie said:
settles in to a cuppla hi def Harry Potter moofies on the big screen with surround sound played on my new Kodi systemBTW, I have no idea why anyone would want to go to Hogwarts. The weather is atrocious.
I wouldn’t have picked you for a Harry fan.
Woodie said:
settles in to a cuppla hi def Harry Potter moofies on the big screen with surround sound played on my new Kodi systemBTW, I have no idea why anyone would want to go to Hogwarts. The weather is atrocious.
What’s the food and accomm. like?
Divine Angel said:
Woodie said:
settles in to a cuppla hi def Harry Potter moofies on the big screen with surround sound played on my new Kodi systemBTW, I have no idea why anyone would want to go to Hogwarts. The weather is atrocious.
I wouldn’t have picked you for a Harry fan.
waves and points wand at Ms Angel
EXPECTORATE PETROLEUM!!!!
captain_spalding said:
Woodie said:
settles in to a cuppla hi def Harry Potter moofies on the big screen with surround sound played on my new Kodi systemBTW, I have no idea why anyone would want to go to Hogwarts. The weather is atrocious.
What’s the food and accomm. like?
Woodie said:
settles in to a cuppla hi def Harry Potter moofies on the big screen with surround sound played on my new Kodi systemBTW, I have no idea why anyone would want to go to Hogwarts. The weather is atrocious.
Puts arm around Woodie, I think you best sit down, I’ve got something to tell you about Hogwarts.
captain_spalding said:
Woodie said:
settles in to a cuppla hi def Harry Potter moofies on the big screen with surround sound played on my new Kodi systemBTW, I have no idea why anyone would want to go to Hogwarts. The weather is atrocious.
What’s the food and accomm. like?
The tucker is rather good, actually.
Woodie said:
Divine Angel said:
Woodie said:
settles in to a cuppla hi def Harry Potter moofies on the big screen with surround sound played on my new Kodi systemBTW, I have no idea why anyone would want to go to Hogwarts. The weather is atrocious.
I wouldn’t have picked you for a Harry fan.
waves and points wand at Ms Angel
EXPECTORATE PETROLEUM!!!!
Need a lozenge for that expectorate?
Hey MV…did you notice ABC tomorrow night has a new series of Darby and Joan and a new series of Unforgotten.
Divine Angel said:
Woodie said:
settles in to a cuppla hi def Harry Potter moofies on the big screen with surround sound played on my new Kodi systemBTW, I have no idea why anyone would want to go to Hogwarts. The weather is atrocious.
I wouldn’t have picked you for a Harry fan.
I shouted myself Harry Pooter Bluray and 4K UHD, and Star Wars I – VI box sets. To go with the other 270+ moofies I’ve now got catalogued and loaded on the Kodi system.
… I’ve never seen any of the Star Wars moofies 👀
Divine Angel said:
… I’ve never seen any of the Star Wars moofies 👀
The first Star Wars moofie is now nearly 50 years old.
Woodie said:
Divine Angel said:
… I’ve never seen any of the Star Wars moofies 👀
The first Star Wars moofie is now nearly 50 years old.
The new subwoofer is enough to shatter the neighbour’s windows, hey what but!
Woodie said:
Divine Angel said:
… I’ve never seen any of the Star Wars moofies 👀
The first Star Wars moofie is now nearly 50 years old.
As am I!
“There’s been a fourth withdrawal from the 2025 Players Championship.
Wyndham Clark made the decision after nine holes Friday. He shot an even-par 72 in Thursday’s first round but triple-bogeyed the second hole Friday, then bogeyed the third and fifth to make the turn in 40 before backing out.”
Wyndham, what sort of a busted arse name is that.
Peak Warming Man said:
“There’s been a fourth withdrawal from the 2025 Players Championship.
Wyndham Clark made the decision after nine holes Friday. He shot an even-par 72 in Thursday’s first round but triple-bogeyed the second hole Friday, then bogeyed the third and fifth to make the turn in 40 before backing out.”Wyndham, what sort of a busted arse name is that.
Golfers don’t use their real names, for fear of the tax man.
party_pants said:
Peak Warming Man said:
“There’s been a fourth withdrawal from the 2025 Players Championship.
Wyndham Clark made the decision after nine holes Friday. He shot an even-par 72 in Thursday’s first round but triple-bogeyed the second hole Friday, then bogeyed the third and fifth to make the turn in 40 before backing out.”Wyndham, what sort of a busted arse name is that.
Golfers don’t use their real names, for fear of the tax man.
You’re lying.
buffy said:
Hey MV…did you notice ABC tomorrow night has a new series of Darby and Joan and a new series of Unforgotten.
Ta. I knew about Unforgotten (they’ve been advertising it), but I didn’t know about Darby and Joan. I look forward to it.
Just finished the old Vera that I’d seen before but couldn’t remember much about.
Divine Angel said:
Woodie said:
Divine Angel said:
… I’ve never seen any of the Star Wars moofies 👀
The first Star Wars moofie is now nearly 50 years old.
As am I!
Truly?
Gosh. Where has all that time gone?
Peak Warming Man said:
“There’s been a fourth withdrawal from the 2025 Players Championship.
Wyndham Clark made the decision after nine holes Friday. He shot an even-par 72 in Thursday’s first round but triple-bogeyed the second hole Friday, then bogeyed the third and fifth to make the turn in 40 before backing out.”Wyndham, what sort of a busted arse name is that.
The name of a small town in NW WA.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
“There’s been a fourth withdrawal from the 2025 Players Championship.
Wyndham Clark made the decision after nine holes Friday. He shot an even-par 72 in Thursday’s first round but triple-bogeyed the second hole Friday, then bogeyed the third and fifth to make the turn in 40 before backing out.”Wyndham, what sort of a busted arse name is that.
The name of a small town in NW WA.
Also wrote “Day Of The Triffids”, among others.
Another win for geology’s Theory of Everything
Plate tectonics could explain continental plateaus and mini mass extinctions
Feb 19th 2025|Boston
Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around—explained the origins of mountain ranges, ocean trenches, volcanoes and earthquakes. It also explained why continents drift over the planet’s surface and thus, from time to time, come together to form an all-embracing supercontinent.
Mountain ranges, ocean trenches, volcanoes and earthquakes are, however, things that happen mainly where plates abut. Plate tectonics is not as good at explaining events and features elsewhere, particularly in continental interiors. These are often dominated by extensive highlands called plateaux, which differ in form from mountain ranges and are frequently bounded by giant escarpments. But, as he told the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston, Tom Gernon of Southampton University thinks he can bring these puzzling geographical features into the ambit of plate tectonics as well. His team’s calculations suggest they are caused by waves that ripple through Earth’s mantle, the layer below the crust, when continents divide. They may even be responsible for some of the “mini” mass extinctions which punctuate the fossil record.
His work began with a different, more eye-catching question: explaining how diamonds are propelled to the surface. Diamonds are crystals of carbon compressed into that form by the high pressure found in the upper mantle. Those discovered at the surface have been carried there by unusual, explosive volcanoes called kimberlite pipes, which traverse the crust from bottom to top, erupting at ground level.
Dr Gernon and his colleagues proposed that the rifting of continental plates sets in motion a slow-moving wave through the semi-liquid rock of the mantle. (Really slow-moving: they estimate it travels at about 15-20km per million years.) This wave of hot rock ablates the bottom of the crust, forming gas-charged magmas that erupt violently as kimberlite pipes.
They then followed up this work by asking what other consequences their newly discovered waves might have. The answers, when they ran their model on a computer, were giant escarpments with plateaux behind them. These features were formed by a process known as isostatic rebound, in which the travelling wave removed the crust’s underside, causing the rock above to rise, rather as a balloon rises when its crew jettison ballast.
All this rapidly emerging highland will, though, be subject to immediate erosion. And that is where the extinctions come in. Really big extinctions, such as those at the end of the Permian and Cretaceous periods, have big, sudden causes (huge volcanic eruptions and collision with an asteroid respectively). But these are interspersed by numerous smaller catastrophes that particularly affect the oceans, and are associated with reduced levels of oxygen.
This reduction of oxygen seems to happen because organic matter is being created in greater than normal quantities, and then decomposing, sucking that element out of the water. Dr Gernon thinks this is a result of pulses of erosion caused by plateau uplift fertilising the oceans with phosphorus. That causes life to bloom, increasing the amount of organic matter available for decomposition. He argues, in particular, that the pattern of these mini mass extinctions during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods supports his hypothesis.
It all, then, fits very nicely together. Geology’s Theory of Everything continues successfully to defend its title.
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/02/19/another-win-for-geologys-theory-of-everything?
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 17 degrees at the back door. There have been some showers of rain during the night. I estimate we might have managed about 2mm since around 1.00am. Our forecast for today is for 21 degrees, showers and becoming windy.
I think I will do some sewing today. I need to clear off my desk/cutting table and do some cutting out.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Another win for geology’s Theory of Everything
Plate tectonics could explain continental plateaus and mini mass extinctionsFeb 19th 2025|Boston
Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around—explained the origins of mountain ranges, ocean trenches, volcanoes and earthquakes. It also explained why continents drift over the planet’s surface and thus, from time to time, come together to form an all-embracing supercontinent.
Mountain ranges, ocean trenches, volcanoes and earthquakes are, however, things that happen mainly where plates abut. Plate tectonics is not as good at explaining events and features elsewhere, particularly in continental interiors. These are often dominated by extensive highlands called plateaux, which differ in form from mountain ranges and are frequently bounded by giant escarpments. But, as he told the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston, Tom Gernon of Southampton University thinks he can bring these puzzling geographical features into the ambit of plate tectonics as well. His team’s calculations suggest they are caused by waves that ripple through Earth’s mantle, the layer below the crust, when continents divide. They may even be responsible for some of the “mini” mass extinctions which punctuate the fossil record.
His work began with a different, more eye-catching question: explaining how diamonds are propelled to the surface. Diamonds are crystals of carbon compressed into that form by the high pressure found in the upper mantle. Those discovered at the surface have been carried there by unusual, explosive volcanoes called kimberlite pipes, which traverse the crust from bottom to top, erupting at ground level.
Dr Gernon and his colleagues proposed that the rifting of continental plates sets in motion a slow-moving wave through the semi-liquid rock of the mantle. (Really slow-moving: they estimate it travels at about 15-20km per million years.) This wave of hot rock ablates the bottom of the crust, forming gas-charged magmas that erupt violently as kimberlite pipes.
They then followed up this work by asking what other consequences their newly discovered waves might have. The answers, when they ran their model on a computer, were giant escarpments with plateaux behind them. These features were formed by a process known as isostatic rebound, in which the travelling wave removed the crust’s underside, causing the rock above to rise, rather as a balloon rises when its crew jettison ballast.
All this rapidly emerging highland will, though, be subject to immediate erosion. And that is where the extinctions come in. Really big extinctions, such as those at the end of the Permian and Cretaceous periods, have big, sudden causes (huge volcanic eruptions and collision with an asteroid respectively). But these are interspersed by numerous smaller catastrophes that particularly affect the oceans, and are associated with reduced levels of oxygen.
This reduction of oxygen seems to happen because organic matter is being created in greater than normal quantities, and then decomposing, sucking that element out of the water. Dr Gernon thinks this is a result of pulses of erosion caused by plateau uplift fertilising the oceans with phosphorus. That causes life to bloom, increasing the amount of organic matter available for decomposition. He argues, in particular, that the pattern of these mini mass extinctions during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods supports his hypothesis.
It all, then, fits very nicely together. Geology’s Theory of Everything continues successfully to defend its title.
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/02/19/another-win-for-geologys-theory-of-everything?
Thanks.
Morning. Heading for 20 here, showers and wind easing, but not easing for some time I’ll wager.
Our 80% chance of showers yesterday didn’t happen at all, but our 90% chance today has already delivered some puddles.
You lot are up early.
Sunny and 29 today. Didn’t do the grocery shopping yesterday so will do it today. I also want to replace a pond plant, and get a pothos for the living room.
OK, first small batch of tomato sauce for the season is cooking. Tomato/onion/apple/ginger simmering away. I should find the bottles and jars and make sure they get washed. But the sauce won’t be ready to put into them for hours, so no great rush. This is only a 1kg of tomatoes batch. I usually do several small batches rather than a Big Sauce Making Day. Because that is how my tomatoes dribble in from the garden. Not a huge crop this year. I think it’s actually been a bit too hot for them.
Good morning everybody.
Currently it is 21.2° C, and 77% RH. It is fine and calm and there are scattered light, low clouds. The clouds now beautifully yellow in places coloured by the just-risen sun. BoM forecasts a top of 2° C and a small chance of rain right throughout the day.
Planned: washing up. Breakfast or brunch – cheat’s jianbing – flatbread with egg cooked onto it, laden with spicy sauce, yoghurt and lettuce. Dinner: individual cottage pies with veges and extra mash. Pies are to be made with leftover spiced tomato and minced meat pasta sauce
I found a great reality show….The Righteous Gemstones. I’m laughing so much.
Divine Angel said:
You lot are up early.Sunny and 29 today. Didn’t do the grocery shopping yesterday so will do it today. I also want to replace a pond plant, and get a pothos for the living room.
What type of Pothos?
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody.Currently it is 21.2° C, and 77% RH. It is fine and calm and there are scattered light, low clouds. The clouds now beautifully yellow in places coloured by the just-risen sun. BoM forecasts a top of 2° C and a small chance of rain right throughout the day.
Planned: washing up. Breakfast or brunch – cheat’s jianbing – flatbread with egg cooked onto it, laden with spicy sauce, yoghurt and lettuce. Dinner: individual cottage pies with veges and extra mash. Pies are to be made with leftover spiced tomato and minced meat pasta sauce
A top of 2 degrees???
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
You lot are up early.Sunny and 29 today. Didn’t do the grocery shopping yesterday so will do it today. I also want to replace a pond plant, and get a pothos for the living room.
What type of Pothos?
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody.Currently it is 21.2° C, and 77% RH. It is fine and calm and there are scattered light, low clouds. The clouds now beautifully yellow in places coloured by the just-risen sun. BoM forecasts a top of 2° C and a small chance of rain right throughout the day.
Planned: washing up. Breakfast or brunch – cheat’s jianbing – flatbread with egg cooked onto it, laden with spicy sauce, yoghurt and lettuce. Dinner: individual cottage pies with veges and extra mash. Pies are to be made with leftover spiced tomato and minced meat pasta sauce
A top of 2 degrees???
Bad editing by me. 29° C.
(The 9 key is one of several “work when they want to” keys on this laptop.)
30/50. I did know 5,7 and 9.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
You lot are up early.Sunny and 29 today. Didn’t do the grocery shopping yesterday so will do it today. I also want to replace a pond plant, and get a pothos for the living room.
What type of Pothos?
Hoping they have Snow Queen, but I’m rather flexible on this.
Looks nice.
And remember – once you have one, you can easily make more. Also: do not allow it to escape into the garden; it will take over and is difficult to be rid of.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:What type of Pothos?
Hoping they have Snow Queen, but I’m rather flexible on this.Looks nice.
And remember – once you have one, you can easily make more. Also: do not allow it to escape into the garden; it will take over and is difficult to be rid of.
I have two others. I’ve wrapped the stringy bits around the main part to make it a bushier plant.
Just remembered my dream.
I was sandbagging, and a guy from the LNP offered to help. Without waiting for me to answer, he just started putting sandbags around, but in places I didn’t need or want them. He wouldn’t listen to me when I said the sandbags didn’t need to go there because they were blocking the drain I needed clear.
Weird sort of post-Alfred PTSD dream if that’s what it was.
Speaking of PTSD, last night on the Brisbane subreddit, a few people mentioned witnessing a suicide in the city. I can’t imagine how awful that would be.
Divine Angel said:
Just remembered my dream.I was sandbagging, and a guy from the LNP offered to help. Without waiting for me to answer, he just started putting sandbags around, but in places I didn’t need or want them. He wouldn’t listen to me when I said the sandbags didn’t need to go there because they were blocking the drain I needed clear.
Weird sort of post-Alfred PTSD dream if that’s what it was.
Speaking of PTSD, last night on the Brisbane subreddit, a few people mentioned witnessing a suicide in the city. I can’t imagine how awful that would be.
Yeah.
:(
:(
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:Hoping they have Snow Queen, but I’m rather flexible on this.
Looks nice.
And remember – once you have one, you can easily make more. Also: do not allow it to escape into the garden; it will take over and is difficult to be rid of.
I have two others. I’ve wrapped the stringy bits around the main part to make it a bushier plant.
Interesting idea.
We have one on the back fence (growing from a big pot). It was variegated, but is now mostly plain. We have another in water near the bath tub (pale pink due to stress) and yet another on the back verandah which is variegated and with pink new shoots. The bath plant is a cutting from the verandah plant.
buffy said:
ABC weekend quiz30/50. I did know 5,7 and 9.
Score: 40 / 50
🎉🎉 Excellent work!
You’re an expert, scoring 25% better than average.
I brought in several plants last weekend to protect from Alfred, they’re trying to recover from being inside for a few days. My sister gave me some rain lilies which aren’t looking well, and I have a pot of snake plants which are also looking a bit meh. My pond elephant ear did really well inside though. Lots of new growth over those few days.
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
ABC weekend quiz30/50. I did know 5,7 and 9.
Score: 40 / 50
🎉🎉 Excellent work!
You’re an expert, scoring 25% better than average.
25/50. I knew the McDonald’s answer and still clicked the wrong one.
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
ABC weekend quiz30/50. I did know 5,7 and 9.
Score: 40 / 50
🎉🎉 Excellent work!
You’re an expert, scoring 25% better than average.
Score: 40 / 50
Quiz Completed! NFI about Rove or the golden arches.
Divine Angel said:
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
ABC weekend quiz30/50. I did know 5,7 and 9.
Score: 40 / 50
🎉🎉 Excellent work!
You’re an expert, scoring 25% better than average.
25/50. I knew the McDonald’s answer and still clicked the wrong one.
I had to guess Kerri-Ann would say that. Who’d a guessed I knew anything about her?
Divine Angel said:
I brought in several plants last weekend to protect from Alfred, they’re trying to recover from being inside for a few days. My sister gave me some rain lilies which aren’t looking well, and I have a pot of snake plants which are also looking a bit meh. My pond elephant ear did really well inside though. Lots of new growth over those few days.
Divine Angel said:
This game gives the most frustrating clues!‘May make funeral arrangements’
Answer: florist
Looks easy when you give the answers.
buffy said:
ABC weekend quiz30/50. I did know 5,7 and 9.
Matched Buffy today.
But only with PWM scoring.
15/50
kii said:
I found a great reality show….The Righteous Gemstones. I’m laughing so much.
I’m sure the US Government gets its inspiration from The Righteous Gemstones.
Jeff Tiedrich – This Week in Stupid
ABC News:
The lass has issues.
After all, her parents named her after a supermarket.
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:
The lass has issues.
After all, her parents named her after a supermarket.
What’s your first name?
kii said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:
The lass has issues.
After all, her parents named her after a supermarket.
What’s your first name?
Permewans.
captain_spalding said:
kii said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:
The lass has issues.
After all, her parents named her after a supermarket.
What’s your first name?
Permewans.
Captain Permewans Spalding
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:
The lass has issues.
After all, her parents named her after a supermarket.
Never mind about her, I only have eyes for Aryna Sabalenka ……….sigh.
Well, that was fun. It’s still drizzling here (which is a Very Good Thing). Mr buffy has taken Bruna for a walk around to get the newspaper. The Pug has regained considerable sprightliness now it’s not so hot today. He wanted to go too. I know he can’t make the distance. So after they had disappeared around the corner I put his lead on him, walked him out the front gate, over the road to the fence of the Botanic Gardens, faffed about for a couple of minutes under the trees in the gardens and brought him home again. He is quite convinced he has been for a walk. He’s not sure if he got a party pie in the process, but he seems content now. He will sleep for the rest of the day.
kii said:
captain_spalding said:
kii said:What’s your first name?
Permewans.
Captain Permewans Spalding
Close friends get to call him T.C.
Providing it’s with dignity
buffy said:
Well, that was fun. It’s still drizzling here (which is a Very Good Thing). Mr buffy has taken Bruna for a walk around to get the newspaper. The Pug has regained considerable sprightliness now it’s not so hot today. He wanted to go too. I know he can’t make the distance. So after they had disappeared around the corner I put his lead on him, walked him out the front gate, over the road to the fence of the Botanic Gardens, faffed about for a couple of minutes under the trees in the gardens and brought him home again. He is quite convinced he has been for a walk. He’s not sure if he got a party pie in the process, but he seems content now. He will sleep for the rest of the day.
…dream of party pies dancing in his head.
buffy said:
Well, that was fun. It’s still drizzling here (which is a Very Good Thing). Mr buffy has taken Bruna for a walk around to get the newspaper. The Pug has regained considerable sprightliness now it’s not so hot today. He wanted to go too. I know he can’t make the distance. So after they had disappeared around the corner I put his lead on him, walked him out the front gate, over the road to the fence of the Botanic Gardens, faffed about for a couple of minutes under the trees in the gardens and brought him home again. He is quite convinced he has been for a walk. He’s not sure if he got a party pie in the process, but he seems content now. He will sleep for the rest of the day.
You’re such a good pup mama
Divine Angel said:
buffy said:
Well, that was fun. It’s still drizzling here (which is a Very Good Thing). Mr buffy has taken Bruna for a walk around to get the newspaper. The Pug has regained considerable sprightliness now it’s not so hot today. He wanted to go too. I know he can’t make the distance. So after they had disappeared around the corner I put his lead on him, walked him out the front gate, over the road to the fence of the Botanic Gardens, faffed about for a couple of minutes under the trees in the gardens and brought him home again. He is quite convinced he has been for a walk. He’s not sure if he got a party pie in the process, but he seems content now. He will sleep for the rest of the day.
You’re such a good pup mama
I have, myself, just returned from a brief visit with the Barely-Domesticated Wolf tothe park at the end of the street, where the morning poo was attended to (properly disposed of).
He had no interest in exploring further, and demonstrated a desire to go home.
Yesterday, we got half-way across the park, when he stopped suddenly (‘as if he’d seen a ghost’), and steadfastly refused to move forward, or to the left or right, and would only consent to go home again.
There was no-one, and nothing out of the ordinary, in sight. At least, in my sight.
just watching goats jump fences on youtube
has four out farm of neighbors I reckoned they were jumping good high fences
anyways for sure, just sees one jumps up on horse back then over the fence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCM1A8Cukro
Horse assists goat jump over fence
transition said:
just watching goats jump fences on youtubehas four out farm of neighbors I reckoned they were jumping good high fences
anyways for sure, just sees one jumps up on horse back then over the fence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCM1A8Cukro
Horse assists goat jump over fence
and now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAaUtKq8Seg
Funniest Goats | 30 Minutes
buffy said:
Well, that was fun. It’s still drizzling here (which is a Very Good Thing). Mr buffy has taken Bruna for a walk around to get the newspaper. The Pug has regained considerable sprightliness now it’s not so hot today. He wanted to go too. I know he can’t make the distance. So after they had disappeared around the corner I put his lead on him, walked him out the front gate, over the road to the fence of the Botanic Gardens, faffed about for a couple of minutes under the trees in the gardens and brought him home again. He is quite convinced he has been for a walk. He’s not sure if he got a party pie in the process, but he seems content now. He will sleep for the rest of the day.
Content in the knowledge that he’s had a good walk and a party pie.
captain_spalding said:
Divine Angel said:
buffy said:
Well, that was fun. It’s still drizzling here (which is a Very Good Thing). Mr buffy has taken Bruna for a walk around to get the newspaper. The Pug has regained considerable sprightliness now it’s not so hot today. He wanted to go too. I know he can’t make the distance. So after they had disappeared around the corner I put his lead on him, walked him out the front gate, over the road to the fence of the Botanic Gardens, faffed about for a couple of minutes under the trees in the gardens and brought him home again. He is quite convinced he has been for a walk. He’s not sure if he got a party pie in the process, but he seems content now. He will sleep for the rest of the day.
You’re such a good pup mama
I have, myself, just returned from a brief visit with the Barely-Domesticated Wolf tothe park at the end of the street, where the morning poo was attended to (properly disposed of).
He had no interest in exploring further, and demonstrated a desire to go home.
Yesterday, we got half-way across the park, when he stopped suddenly (‘as if he’d seen a ghost’), and steadfastly refused to move forward, or to the left or right, and would only consent to go home again.
There was no-one, and nothing out of the ordinary, in sight. At least, in my sight.
I’ve diagnosed The Pug with dementia. And I really thought he was on the way out in the last week. He was off his food – unusual for him. But turns out it was just the heat. I didn’t do it well myself either, but I’ve never liked hot weather.
captain_spalding said:
Divine Angel said:
buffy said:
Well, that was fun. It’s still drizzling here (which is a Very Good Thing). Mr buffy has taken Bruna for a walk around to get the newspaper. The Pug has regained considerable sprightliness now it’s not so hot today. He wanted to go too. I know he can’t make the distance. So after they had disappeared around the corner I put his lead on him, walked him out the front gate, over the road to the fence of the Botanic Gardens, faffed about for a couple of minutes under the trees in the gardens and brought him home again. He is quite convinced he has been for a walk. He’s not sure if he got a party pie in the process, but he seems content now. He will sleep for the rest of the day.
You’re such a good pup mama
I have, myself, just returned from a brief visit with the Barely-Domesticated Wolf tothe park at the end of the street, where the morning poo was attended to (properly disposed of).
He had no interest in exploring further, and demonstrated a desire to go home.
Yesterday, we got half-way across the park, when he stopped suddenly (‘as if he’d seen a ghost’), and steadfastly refused to move forward, or to the left or right, and would only consent to go home again.
There was no-one, and nothing out of the ordinary, in sight. At least, in my sight.
A peculiar smell?
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
Divine Angel said:You’re such a good pup mama
I have, myself, just returned from a brief visit with the Barely-Domesticated Wolf tothe park at the end of the street, where the morning poo was attended to (properly disposed of).
He had no interest in exploring further, and demonstrated a desire to go home.
Yesterday, we got half-way across the park, when he stopped suddenly (‘as if he’d seen a ghost’), and steadfastly refused to move forward, or to the left or right, and would only consent to go home again.
There was no-one, and nothing out of the ordinary, in sight. At least, in my sight.
A peculiar smell?
Ah, perhaps. I’d forgotten about dogs’ vastly superior olfactory sense.
Meanwhile I caught myself explaining to Jellybean the exact reason I opened the front door. She was concerned, you see.
I don’t have a dog. Or a cat. I am petless.
JudgeMental said:
I don’t have a dog. Or a cat. I am petless.
That famous polar explorer didn’t have a canine companion.
You know: Dogless Mawson.
Divine Angel said:
Meanwhile I caught myself explaining to Jellybean the exact reason I opened the front door. She was concerned, you see.
Ha!
captain_spalding said:
JudgeMental said:
I don’t have a dog. Or a cat. I am petless.
That famous polar explorer didn’t have a canine companion.
You know: Dogless Mawson.
I’d expect that kind of thing from Boris.
Divine Angel said:
captain_spalding said:
JudgeMental said:
I don’t have a dog. Or a cat. I am petless.
That famous polar explorer didn’t have a canine companion.
You know: Dogless Mawson.
I’d expect that kind of thing from Boris.
It’s his day off.
Divine Angel said:
captain_spalding said:
JudgeMental said:
I don’t have a dog. Or a cat. I am petless.
That famous polar explorer didn’t have a canine companion.
You know: Dogless Mawson.
I’d expect that kind of thing from Boris.
It’s almost like they set this one up.
I hesitated to put this in the US politics. But there are big storms killing people in America right now. Mr buffy’s response…“didn’t he just kill the weather bureau? How do the warnings happen now?” I wonder where FEMA is at staff wise now.
buffy said:
I hesitated to put this in the US politics. But there are big storms killing people in America right now. Mr buffy’s response…“didn’t he just kill the weather bureau? How do the warnings happen now?” I wonder where FEMA is at staff wise now.
MMW this coming US summer will be absolutely brutal, weather-wise.
captain_spalding said:
kii said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:
The lass has issues.
After all, her parents named her after a supermarket.
What’s your first name?
Permewans.
Can we call you Mitre for short?
buffy said:
I hesitated to put this in the US politics. But there are big storms killing people in America right now. Mr buffy’s response…“didn’t he just kill the weather bureau? How do the warnings happen now?” I wonder where FEMA is at staff wise now.
And NOAA (many staff seemingly randomly dismissed, likely because the agency published stuff about climate change).
buffy said:
I hesitated to put this in the US politics. But there are big storms killing people in America right now. Mr buffy’s response…“didn’t he just kill the weather bureau? How do the warnings happen now?” I wonder where FEMA is at staff wise now.
A meteorologist I follow on Facebook has been putting out warnings.
Divine Angel said:
buffy said:
I hesitated to put this in the US politics. But there are big storms killing people in America right now. Mr buffy’s response…“didn’t he just kill the weather bureau? How do the warnings happen now?” I wonder where FEMA is at staff wise now.MMW this coming US summer will be absolutely brutal, weather-wise.
What’s MMW, please?
Nothing comes to mind, and my brief search for an explanation turned up nothing.
captain_spalding said:
Divine Angel said:
buffy said:
I hesitated to put this in the US politics. But there are big storms killing people in America right now. Mr buffy’s response…“didn’t he just kill the weather bureau? How do the warnings happen now?” I wonder where FEMA is at staff wise now.MMW this coming US summer will be absolutely brutal, weather-wise.
What’s MMW, please?
Nothing comes to mind, and my brief search for an explanation turned up nothing.
Mark my words
kii said:
buffy said:
I hesitated to put this in the US politics. But there are big storms killing people in America right now. Mr buffy’s response…“didn’t he just kill the weather bureau? How do the warnings happen now?” I wonder where FEMA is at staff wise now.A meteorologist I follow on Facebook has been putting out warnings.
Meteorologist Nick Humphrey
Divine Angel said:
captain_spalding said:
Divine Angel said:MMW this coming US summer will be absolutely brutal, weather-wise.
What’s MMW, please?
Nothing comes to mind, and my brief search for an explanation turned up nothing.
Mark my words
Oh, thanks. Not up to speed on the ‘urban dictionary’.
Thought it might be some weather-related phenomenon or database.
Or some sort of wrestling league.
Anyway, a harsh summer in the US will, of course, ultimately be found to be the fault of Joe Biden and/or Barack Obama.
kii said:
kii said:
buffy said:
I hesitated to put this in the US politics. But there are big storms killing people in America right now. Mr buffy’s response…“didn’t he just kill the weather bureau? How do the warnings happen now?” I wonder where FEMA is at staff wise now.A meteorologist I follow on Facebook has been putting out warnings.
Meteorologist Nick Humphrey
That’s good. A Google suggests he’s using X as well. But he is only going to be able to use the available information and I suspect that is going to be getting weaker.
captain_spalding said:
Anyway, a harsh summer in the US will, of course, ultimately be found to be the fault of Joe Biden and/or Barack Obama.
Obama’s tan suit is the root of all climate change.
buffy said:
kii said:
kii said:A meteorologist I follow on Facebook has been putting out warnings.
Meteorologist Nick Humphrey
That’s good. A Google suggests he’s using X as well. But he is only going to be able to use the available information and I suspect that is going to be getting weaker.
I don’t know how this all works, but can independent meteorologists get information from other countries? Oooo…like Mexico, Canada, Cuba…?
buffy said:
kii said:
kii said:A meteorologist I follow on Facebook has been putting out warnings.
Meteorologist Nick Humphrey
That’s good. A Google suggests he’s using X as well. But he is only going to be able to use the available information and I suspect that is going to be getting weaker.
Does he use a table and chook entrails?
captain_spalding said:
Anyway, a harsh summer in the US will, of course, ultimately be found to be the fault of Joe Biden and/or Barack Obama.
Or it will just be flatly denied that it happened at all.
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:
Anyway, a harsh summer in the US will, of course, ultimately be found to be the fault of Joe Biden and/or Barack Obama.Or it will just be flatly denied that it happened at all.
“The best summer, the greatest summer, people are saying…”
JudgeMental said:
Sea eagle.
JudgeMental said:
Love it!
:)
Peak Warming Man said:
JudgeMental said:
Sea eagle.
See the eagle riding a broom!
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
JudgeMental said:
Sea eagle.
See the eagle riding a broom!
Talk softly and carry a big stick.
Ideas for interstellar travel do not seem to have changed since I was a child.
dv said:
Ideas for interstellar travel do not seem to have changed since I was a child.
That’s probably because the laws of physics haven’t changed much in that time.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
party_pants said:
dv said:
Ideas for interstellar travel do not seem to have changed since I was a child.
That’s probably because the laws of physics haven’t changed much in that time.
Sure but one might have hoped that someone would have come up with a significantly improved design.
dv said:
party_pants said:
dv said:
Ideas for interstellar travel do not seem to have changed since I was a child.
That’s probably because the laws of physics haven’t changed much in that time.
Sure but one might have hoped that someone would have come up with a significantly improved design.
What’s the point?
Interstellar travel (within a single human lifetime) requires faster than light travel. Right now our understanding of the laws of physics says this is not possible for any object with mass. So designing new spaceships is just tinkering around the edges of known failure expecting a different outcome.
Peak Warming Man said:
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
That’s so cool man
party_pants said:
dv said:
party_pants said:That’s probably because the laws of physics haven’t changed much in that time.
Sure but one might have hoped that someone would have come up with a significantly improved design.
What’s the point?
Interstellar travel (within a single human lifetime) requires faster than light travel. Right now our understanding of the laws of physics says this is not possible for any object with mass. So designing new spaceships is just tinkering around the edges of known failure expecting a different outcome.
I was thinking more of an unmanned probe.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
That’s so cool man
It’s an ancient Corinthian saying, the ancients knew.
Went back to bed and dreamt that the ex-Ross bro-in-law had gone senile and was spending money on all kinds of unlikely stuff, including some old soldier’s Peloponnesian War diary for $1000, despite him not being at all interested in such things.
Looking up the Peloponnesian War, it actually took place in 431- 404 BCE, so he’d scored a real bargain there.
Bubblecar said:
Went back to bed and dreamt that the ex-Ross bro-in-law had gone senile and was spending money on all kinds of unlikely stuff, including some old soldier’s Peloponnesian War diary for $1000, despite him not being at all interested in such things.Looking up the Peloponnesian War, it actually took place in 431- 404 BCE, so he’d scored a real bargain there.
Was your conscious self aware of the war by that name?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bubblecar said:
Went back to bed and dreamt that the ex-Ross bro-in-law had gone senile and was spending money on all kinds of unlikely stuff, including some old soldier’s Peloponnesian War diary for $1000, despite him not being at all interested in such things.Looking up the Peloponnesian War, it actually took place in 431- 404 BCE, so he’d scored a real bargain there.
Was your conscious self aware of the war by that name?
I was aware of the name, but I couldn’t have told you when it took place (I looked it up upon awakening, not in the dream).
Bubblecar said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Bubblecar said:
Went back to bed and dreamt that the ex-Ross bro-in-law had gone senile and was spending money on all kinds of unlikely stuff, including some old soldier’s Peloponnesian War diary for $1000, despite him not being at all interested in such things.Looking up the Peloponnesian War, it actually took place in 431- 404 BCE, so he’d scored a real bargain there.
Was your conscious self aware of the war by that name?
I was aware of the name, but I couldn’t have told you when it took place (I looked it up upon awakening, not in the dream).
Cool. I have had instances in dreams where I knew some arcane knowledge that upon waking I know I would not have been able to recall in everyday life.
Time for a read. I cut out a pair of shorts this morning but I’m not inspired to start sewing them together at the moment. I was going to cut out some black slacks too, but I found the leftover length of stretch gabardine from when I made my Funeral Dress was not quite enough. I’ll have to buy some more material.
dv said:
Ideas for interstellar travel do not seem to have changed since I was a child.
just that people don’t talk about steam powered rockets anymore.
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
Ideas for interstellar travel do not seem to have changed since I was a child.
just that people don’t talk about steam powered rockets anymore.
Hydrogen is a better propellent for thermal rockets
dv said:
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
Ideas for interstellar travel do not seem to have changed since I was a child.
just that people don’t talk about steam powered rockets anymore.
Hydrogen is a better propellent for thermal rockets
It’s going to be slow progress until we discover the spice on Rigel 4.
Bubblecar said:
Went back to bed and dreamt that the ex-Ross bro-in-law had gone senile and was spending money on all kinds of unlikely stuff, including some old soldier’s Peloponnesian War diary for $1000, despite him not being at all interested in such things.Looking up the Peloponnesian War, it actually took place in 431- 404 BCE, so he’d scored a real bargain there.
Huh! Definitely a bargain.
Not so here.
I went back to bed also and dreamt that Mrs V had decided that on the next service of her car she was going to get it fitted with alloy wheels. Thousands of dollars down the gurgler and a massive, massive, massive argument.
I awoke feeling that the entire time I was asleep I had been having this argument with her. I’m now quite drained. Not refreshed at all.
The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have
Is yours.
The love that I have
Of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours.
A sleep I shall have
A rest I shall have
Yet death will be but a pause.
For the peace of my years
In the long green grass
Will be yours and yours and yours
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Went back to bed and dreamt that the ex-Ross bro-in-law had gone senile and was spending money on all kinds of unlikely stuff, including some old soldier’s Peloponnesian War diary for $1000, despite him not being at all interested in such things.Looking up the Peloponnesian War, it actually took place in 431- 404 BCE, so he’d scored a real bargain there.
Huh! Definitely a bargain.
Not so here.
I went back to bed also and dreamt that Mrs V had decided that on the next service of her car she was going to get it fitted with alloy wheels. Thousands of dollars down the gurgler and a massive, massive, massive argument.
I awoke feeling that the entire time I was asleep I had been having this argument with her. I’m now quite drained. Not refreshed at all.
Damn. Yes some dreams can leave you pretty exhausted.
Bubblecar said:
Went back to bed and dreamt that the ex-Ross bro-in-law had gone senile and was spending money on all kinds of unlikely stuff, including some old soldier’s Peloponnesian War diary for $1000, despite him not being at all interested in such things.
Looking up the Peloponnesian War, it actually took place in 431- 404 BCE, so he’d scored a real bargain there.
lights pipe
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Went back to bed and dreamt that the ex-Ross bro-in-law had gone senile and was spending money on all kinds of unlikely stuff, including some old soldier’s Peloponnesian War diary for $1000, despite him not being at all interested in such things.
Looking up the Peloponnesian War, it actually took place in 431- 404 BCE, so he’d scored a real bargain there.lights pipe
Probably got a lot of money for it at the end of “Bargain Hunt”.
OK off to the shops before it starts raining again.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-16/hard-quiz-weekly-trivia/105031260
20/50 in the hq
BACK after scoring a nice big half cabbage in the IGA.
JudgeMental said:
dv said:
Ideas for interstellar travel do not seem to have changed since I was a child.
just that people don’t talk about steam powered rockets anymore.
Not after that fellow who was going up in his steam rocket to prove the earth was flat?
dv said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-16/hard-quiz-weekly-trivia/10503126020/50 in the hq
5/10 here.
Bubblecar said:
BACK after scoring a nice big half cabbage in the IGA.
Did you buy it too.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK after scoring a nice big half cabbage in the IGA.
Did you buy it too.
Of course.
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK after scoring a nice big half cabbage in the IGA.
Did you buy it too.
Of course.
He’s lying, he won it in a card game.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-16/hard-quiz-weekly-trivia/10503126020/50 in the hq
5/10 here.
I think there might be something wrong with their scoring system.
btm said:
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-16/hard-quiz-weekly-trivia/10503126020/50 in the hq
5/10 here.
I think there might be something wrong with their scoring system.
Yeah, I only got 15/50 toady. Stupid Quiz.
kii said:
Ha!
Someone called Lando is leading the GP.
NHOH
Peak Warming Man said:
Someone called Lando is leading the GP.
NHOH
He’s been around for years.
party_pants said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Someone called Lando is leading the GP.
NHOH
He’s been around for years.
I don’t follow it much since Murray Walker died.
Caught this fellow nibling on my newly planted broccoli.
roughbarked said:
Caught this fellow nibling on my newly planted broccoli.
The utter bastard.
roughbarked said:
Caught this fellow nibling on my newly planted broccoli.
did it taste good
roughbarked said:
Caught this fellow nibling on my newly planted broccoli.
Do they usually eat vegetation?
roughbarked said:
Caught this fellow nibling on my newly planted broccoli.
I think you to put up a “No Lizards in the Broccoli Patch” sign.
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
Caught this fellow nibling on my newly planted broccoli.
did it taste good
I’m sure.
Anyway, they are nibblers. They take a bite of a leaf here and then sit for a while before moving off or finding another plant to nibble a bit of. It isn’t going to cause the broccoli a problem.
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
Caught this fellow nibling on my newly planted broccoli.
Do they usually eat vegetation?
Yes. They eat quite a bit of veg. They mainly eat veg. They will also eat flying termites and any of that sort of yucker they can get. Young crickets etc.
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
Caught this fellow nibling on my newly planted broccoli.
I think you to put up a “No Lizards in the Broccoli Patch” sign.
:) In this yard there’s at least five bearded dragons on average. Just outside the yard, there are many more.
The striped skinks do eat snails and slugs which is why I can’t use snail bait.
I photographed a bogeye or shingleback, eating the skeleton of a dead mudlark baby, months after it died.
kii said:
I actually felt the need to check on the egg story because it is so absurd. Not from this post, but from earlier ones. And I found it’s for real. Just read an amusing Reddit where Danish people were explaining about how America insists on eggs being washed and generally won’t accept eggs from Europe but in Europe they are not washed. I was taught many years ago by a chook fancybreeds judge about the difference between chook eggs and duck eggs. If you are going to consume the eggs, you must wash duck eggs. But you must not wash chook eggs because you remove the protective coating on the egg.
We can all recognise the young Elvis but who are the other blokes?
buffy said:
kii said:
I actually felt the need to check on the egg story because it is so absurd. Not from this post, but from earlier ones. And I found it’s for real. Just read an amusing Reddit where Danish people were explaining about how America insists on eggs being washed and generally won’t accept eggs from Europe but in Europe they are not washed. I was taught many years ago by a chook fancybreeds judge about the difference between chook eggs and duck eggs. If you are going to consume the eggs, you must wash duck eggs. But you must not wash chook eggs because you remove the protective coating on the egg.
Yes, I remember seeing something about his too. European unwashed eggs don’t need to be refrigerated either and are sold at room temp. Washed USA eggs need to be refrigerated because they have lost the protective coating.
Lando wins.
buffy said:
kii said:
I actually felt the need to check on the egg story because it is so absurd. Not from this post, but from earlier ones. And I found it’s for real. Just read an amusing Reddit where Danish people were explaining about how America insists on eggs being washed and generally won’t accept eggs from Europe but in Europe they are not washed. I was taught many years ago by a chook fancybreeds judge about the difference between chook eggs and duck eggs. If you are going to consume the eggs, you must wash duck eggs. But you must not wash chook eggs because you remove the protective coating on the egg.
I read something about this yesterday I think, saw this as a nice summary of the insanity.
party_pants said:
Lando wins.
Lando from Temperamental Chucklefuck and Friends?
party_pants said:
buffy said:
kii said:
I actually felt the need to check on the egg story because it is so absurd. Not from this post, but from earlier ones. And I found it’s for real. Just read an amusing Reddit where Danish people were explaining about how America insists on eggs being washed and generally won’t accept eggs from Europe but in Europe they are not washed. I was taught many years ago by a chook fancybreeds judge about the difference between chook eggs and duck eggs. If you are going to consume the eggs, you must wash duck eggs. But you must not wash chook eggs because you remove the protective coating on the egg.
Yes, I remember seeing something about his too. European unwashed eggs don’t need to be refrigerated either and are sold at room temp. Washed USA eggs need to be refrigerated because they have lost the protective coating.
Next thing you know they’ll be going nuts about raw milk wait oh shit¿¡
kii said:
party_pants said:
Lando wins.
Lando from Temperamental Chucklefuck and Friends?
Lando Norris from Monaco. Born in the UK, currently lives in Monaco, as most top motor racing drivers do for tax reasons.
roughbarked said:
We can all recognise the young Elvis but who are the other blokes?
FIIK.
FIIC
kii said:
buffy said:
kii said:
I actually felt the need to check on the egg story because it is so absurd. Not from this post, but from earlier ones. And I found it’s for real. Just read an amusing Reddit where Danish people were explaining about how America insists on eggs being washed and generally won’t accept eggs from Europe but in Europe they are not washed. I was taught many years ago by a chook fancybreeds judge about the difference between chook eggs and duck eggs. If you are going to consume the eggs, you must wash duck eggs. But you must not wash chook eggs because you remove the protective coating on the egg.
I read something about this yesterday I think, saw this as a nice summary of the insanity.
i posted a YouTube about it.
party_pants said:
kii said:
party_pants said:
Lando wins.
Lando from Temperamental Chucklefuck and Friends?
Lando Norris from Monaco. Born in the UK, currently lives in Monaco, as most top motor racing drivers do for tax reasons.
Ah, Lando from Temperamental Chucklefuck and Friends is a black cat with kidney issues.
bastard
Gout, competing in the men’s under 20 final at the Queensland Championships in Brisbane, ran 19.98 with the assistance of a 3.6-metre per second wind. A tailwind of 2.0m/s or under is needed for a time to be declared legal.
sarahs mum said:
kii said:
buffy said:I actually felt the need to check on the egg story because it is so absurd. Not from this post, but from earlier ones. And I found it’s for real. Just read an amusing Reddit where Danish people were explaining about how America insists on eggs being washed and generally won’t accept eggs from Europe but in Europe they are not washed. I was taught many years ago by a chook fancybreeds judge about the difference between chook eggs and duck eggs. If you are going to consume the eggs, you must wash duck eggs. But you must not wash chook eggs because you remove the protective coating on the egg.
I read something about this yesterday I think, saw this as a nice summary of the insanity.
i posted a YouTube about it.
That’s the one.
Bunnings, and grocery shopping done. They were out of water hyssop so I got a memory herb instead. It will spread over the pond, providing shade to curb excessive algae growth. Unless the grasshoppers get to it like they did the hyssop. I’ve removed the lomandra where the little buggers were hiding so hopefully that’s one problem solved. I know cane toads sat in the hyssop but I don’t know if they were eating the plant or the grasshoppers.
Mr Mutant bought a banana plant. Bunnings were also out of pothos plants so I got a syngonium, which is similar. https://www.lovethegarden.com/au-en/growing-guide/how-grow-care-syngonium
Aldi were out of eggs so I’ll try Costco tomorrow. Got everything else though, including toilet paper which we were out of and I didn’t panic buy last weekend for Alfred’s arrival.
roughbarked said:
We can all recognise the young Elvis but who are the other blokes?
The one in the front standing looks like Jerry Lee Lewis.
roughbarked said:
We can all recognise the young Elvis but who are the other blokes?
Million Dollar Quartet
I assume this is how blind people view the world.
party_pants said:
buffy said:
kii said:
I actually felt the need to check on the egg story because it is so absurd. Not from this post, but from earlier ones. And I found it’s for real. Just read an amusing Reddit where Danish people were explaining about how America insists on eggs being washed and generally won’t accept eggs from Europe but in Europe they are not washed. I was taught many years ago by a chook fancybreeds judge about the difference between chook eggs and duck eggs. If you are going to consume the eggs, you must wash duck eggs. But you must not wash chook eggs because you remove the protective coating on the egg.
Yes, I remember seeing something about his too. European unwashed eggs don’t need to be refrigerated either and are sold at room temp. Washed USA eggs need to be refrigerated because they have lost the protective coating.
Are the Australian eggs washed?
i just cracked open a can of milo. first in many years. it’s milled more now. hardly any crunchy bits.
roughbarked said:
party_pants said:
buffy said:I actually felt the need to check on the egg story because it is so absurd. Not from this post, but from earlier ones. And I found it’s for real. Just read an amusing Reddit where Danish people were explaining about how America insists on eggs being washed and generally won’t accept eggs from Europe but in Europe they are not washed. I was taught many years ago by a chook fancybreeds judge about the difference between chook eggs and duck eggs. If you are going to consume the eggs, you must wash duck eggs. But you must not wash chook eggs because you remove the protective coating on the egg.
Yes, I remember seeing something about his too. European unwashed eggs don’t need to be refrigerated either and are sold at room temp. Washed USA eggs need to be refrigerated because they have lost the protective coating.
Are the Australian eggs washed?
no.
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
We can all recognise the young Elvis but who are the other blokes?
The one in the front standing looks like Jerry Lee Lewis.
Think you might be right.
sarahs mum said:
i just cracked open a can of milo. first in many years. it’s milled more now. hardly any crunchy bits.
Hopefully it still makes a marvellous difference.
Ian said:
roughbarked said:
We can all recognise the young Elvis but who are the other blokes?
Million Dollar Quartet
Appears to be spot on. Well spotted. Now I know.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
i just cracked open a can of milo. first in many years. it’s milled more now. hardly any crunchy bits.
Hopefully it still makes a marvellous difference.
Not sure why because I used to love the suff but it goes hard in the tin these days.
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
i just cracked open a can of milo. first in many years. it’s milled more now. hardly any crunchy bits.
Hopefully it still makes a marvellous difference.
Not sure why because I used to love the suff but it goes hard in the tin these days.
oh. i’ll try to hit it hard then.
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:Hopefully it still makes a marvellous difference.
Not sure why because I used to love the suff but it goes hard in the tin these days.
oh. i’ll try to hit it hard then.
Ah the last tin I got was a coles or woolies substitute. Maybe that’s why.
Not saying I’m getting stoopert but I saw an ad for KFC that said KFC FLG and it took me a mo to work out what FLG stands for.
dv said:
Not saying I’m getting stoopert but I saw an ad for KFC that said KFC FLG and it took me a mo to work out what FLG stands for.
Wow. I think your grey cells might be showing their age? You are usually free with acronyms.
That’s a bit windy for here.
So who was in the discussion the tother night about no till farming?
this cole the cornstar you tube talks about it…the practice, the machinery and the results and drawbacks. they do a corn soybean rotation.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
That’s so cool man
Then I take one of the books and flick through it to try and read, I put it aside and take up another one. There are passages in it that I have marked, I look through it, flick through the pages, take out more books. There is already a pile beside me. Others join it more quickly now – single sheets of paper, exercises, books, letters.
I stand silent in front of them as if I were on trial dispirited. Words, words, words – they can’t reach me.
Slowly I put the books back in their places on the shelves. It’s over.
All Quiet on the Western Front.
Russel Coight is one of Australia’s everyday heroes, a knock about bloke who knows how the bush works, the sort of bloke that every bloke wants to be.
Here is some of his body of work in what I call The Coight Files.
https://youtu.be/ywLoz1XmjkY
sarahs mum said:
So who was in the discussion the tother night about no till farming?this cole the cornstar you tube talks about it…the practice, the machinery and the results and drawbacks. they do a corn soybean rotation.
I wasn’t, but when I were a lad, we were just in the throes of starting that. I haven’t looked at the vid you linked to, but in the early 80’s there were new chemicals that could kill weeds and allow crops to grow unimpeded. We didn’t know how dangerous they were at the time.
But it meant that we didn’t have to plow the ground three times to kill weeds before we planted a crop, so it saved time and money. After that we were able to plant a crop, then spray weeds, and if the season was sorta ok, we might even get an income that year.
PermeateFree said:
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
That’s so cool man
Then I take one of the books and flick through it to try and read, I put it aside and take up another one. There are passages in it that I have marked, I look through it, flick through the pages, take out more books. There is already a pile beside me. Others join it more quickly now – single sheets of paper, exercises, books, letters.
I stand silent in front of them as if I were on trial dispirited. Words, words, words – they can’t reach me.
Slowly I put the books back in their places on the shelves. It’s over.
All Quiet on the Western Front.
That sounds like a passage of a book that I haven’t yet read, which is likely titled in your last sentence.
sarahs mum said:
So who was in the discussion the tother night about no till farming?this cole the cornstar you tube talks about it…the practice, the machinery and the results and drawbacks. they do a corn soybean rotation.
That was me. I was a little embarrassed that I’d never heard of it.
Kingy said:
sarahs mum said:
So who was in the discussion the tother night about no till farming?this cole the cornstar you tube talks about it…the practice, the machinery and the results and drawbacks. they do a corn soybean rotation.
I wasn’t, but when I were a lad, we were just in the throes of starting that. I haven’t looked at the vid you linked to, but in the early 80’s there were new chemicals that could kill weeds and allow crops to grow unimpeded. We didn’t know how dangerous they were at the time.
But it meant that we didn’t have to plow the ground three times to kill weeds before we planted a crop, so it saved time and money. After that we were able to plant a crop, then spray weeds, and if the season was sorta ok, we might even get an income that year.
pre emergent and post emergent herbicides.
When these guys are harvesting corn the entire plant is shredded and left in the field. one thing i didn’t realise was that that layer stops the fertilisers from getting down into the root zone.
Going Once, Going Twice: 165,000 Tons of Rice
The Japanese government held a rare auction this week to make up for a rice shortage that an official called “truly unthinkable.”
By Kiuko Notoya and Yan Zhuang
Kiuko Notoya reported from Tokyo, and Yan Zhuang from Seoul.
Published March 13, 2025
The results of a rare, closely watched auction in Japan that ended this week are about to be released. But there were no paintings or antique cars on the auction block.
The government is selling 165,000 tons of rice — equivalent to roughly two billion bowls — from its emergency stockpile to make up for over 200,000 tons that some Japanese news media say have “disappeared.”
But there’s more to the story.
Japan doesn’t have enough rice, a pillar of its diet. A shortage forced supermarkets to implement buying limits, and soaring prices have driven restaurants to hike prices of everyday food. Things have gotten so dire that, for the first time, the government is tapping its emergency stockpile in an effort to drive down prices.
“Something truly unthinkable is happening, so we must return the current abnormal situation to normal,” Taku Eto, the agriculture minister, told reporters last month, referring to the crisis and the three-day auction that ended on Wednesday.
How did this happen?
Rice started to become scarce in Japan last summer. Experts have attributed that to a confluence of factors, including record summer heat in 2023 that hurt the harvest and natural disaster warnings last August that caused panic buying.
Japan also strictly limits rice production in order to keep prices high and support domestic rice growers, meaning minor disruptions to the supply chain can have disproportionately large impacts.
An 11-pound bag of rice now costs nearly 4,000 yen ($27), double the price a year earlier. As prices began to rise last year, the authorities warned against panic buying, saying that Japan’s fall harvest would replenish stocks and reduce prices.
Only one of those two predictions came true. Even though the harvest brought in more rice than the previous year’s crop, Japan’s distributors had less to sell in 2024.
What happened?
“Nobody knows,” said Shuji Hisano, a professor at Kyoto University’s graduate school of economics.
But experts inside and outside the government think they have a pretty good idea.
It has become harder to track rice distribution in Japan because policy changes have given growers more ways to sell rice without going through the traditional major distributors, Professor Hisano said. That trend, plus strict limits on rice production, means that even slight fluctuations in supply and demand can trigger speculative buying and stockpiling.
Speculators are most likely hoarding rice because they think prices will keep rising, said Masayuki Ogawa, an assistant professor of agricultural economics at Utsunomiya University.
“Some businesses and individuals have started to deal in rice as a money game,” he said.
Will this auction help?
We’ll find out in the coming weeks and months.
The government’s decision to sell a portion of its strategic rice reserves at auction was historic. In the past, the stockpile has been reserved for shoring up supplies in the case of natural disasters or crop failures. This is the first time it’s been used to address distribution issues.
The government set aside 231,000 tons to be released, to match the national shortfall. That figure represents more than a fifth of Japan’s total emergency stockpile, which isstored in over 300 locations.
Distributors bid on the first 165,000 tons in the auction, and the results — to be announced on Friday — will show how many tons of it have been sold. The government has said it hopes the rice will start flowing to wholesalers and supermarkets, and that the remaining 66,000 tons will be auctioned off later.
For a nation that runs on rice — the average Japanese person consumed about 110 pounds of rice per year as of 2022, compared with 27 pounds per year for the average American — the uncertainty over rice supplies is disquieting.
“Rice is an integral part of Japanese people’s lives,” Takao Iizuka, 62, said from his store in Tokyo. “I think because there are concerns over whether or not rice is available, Japanese people are worried right now.”
Mr. Iizuka sells rice raw by the bag, and cooked in the form of rice balls with pickled plums, salmon and other fillings. Last month, he was forced to raise the price of his $1 rice balls by about 20 percent to keep up with the soaring prices of their main ingredient.
Now he worries, for the first time in the three decades he has worked at the store, about whether he will be able to source enough rice to last through the next harvest. One of his suppliers told him in January that they had already run out of rice for the year.
“This is the first time I’ve felt this sense of anxiety,” he said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/world/asia/japan-rice-prices-auction.html
dv said:
Not saying I’m getting stoopert but I saw an ad for KFC that said KFC FLG and it took me a mo to work out what FLG stands for.
Care to enlighten?
I have no idea.
Michael V said:
dv said:
Not saying I’m getting stoopert but I saw an ad for KFC that said KFC FLG and it took me a mo to work out what FLG stands for.
Care to enlighten?
I have no idea.
finger licking good.
https://www.facebook.com/100007488427956/videos/501010819548031/
inverell.
‘We were going to the pool to drop money off for son to get a feed, and we saw a bull wagon at the pool. We than saw them talking to a couple of parents so we went to see what was going on. And apparently there were a couple of boys not listening and than they have just gone and kicked everyone out that was Aborignal. Adults included, and tried to justify by saying it was just for the day. We could all come back tomorrow’
Kingy said:
PermeateFree said:
dv said:That’s so cool man
Then I take one of the books and flick through it to try and read, I put it aside and take up another one. There are passages in it that I have marked, I look through it, flick through the pages, take out more books. There is already a pile beside me. Others join it more quickly now – single sheets of paper, exercises, books, letters.
I stand silent in front of them as if I were on trial dispirited. Words, words, words – they can’t reach me.
Slowly I put the books back in their places on the shelves. It’s over.
All Quiet on the Western Front.
That sounds like a passage of a book that I haven’t yet read, which is likely titled in your last sentence.
All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit. ‘In the West, nothing new’) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers’ extreme physical and mental trauma during the war as well as the detachment from civilian life felt by many upon returning home from the war. It is billed by some as “the greatest war novel of all time”.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
dv said:
Not saying I’m getting stoopert but I saw an ad for KFC that said KFC FLG and it took me a mo to work out what FLG stands for.
Care to enlighten?
I have no idea.
finger licking good.
Ta.
sarahs mum said:
https://www.facebook.com/100007488427956/videos/501010819548031/inverell.
‘We were going to the pool to drop money off for son to get a feed, and we saw a bull wagon at the pool. We than saw them talking to a couple of parents so we went to see what was going on. And apparently there were a couple of boys not listening and than they have just gone and kicked everyone out that was Aborignal. Adults included, and tried to justify by saying it was just for the day. We could all come back tomorrow’
Bloody!
PermeateFree said:
Kingy said:
PermeateFree said:Then I take one of the books and flick through it to try and read, I put it aside and take up another one. There are passages in it that I have marked, I look through it, flick through the pages, take out more books. There is already a pile beside me. Others join it more quickly now – single sheets of paper, exercises, books, letters.
I stand silent in front of them as if I were on trial dispirited. Words, words, words – they can’t reach me.
Slowly I put the books back in their places on the shelves. It’s over.
All Quiet on the Western Front.
That sounds like a passage of a book that I haven’t yet read, which is likely titled in your last sentence.
All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit. ‘In the West, nothing new’) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers’ extreme physical and mental trauma during the war as well as the detachment from civilian life felt by many upon returning home from the war. It is billed by some as “the greatest war novel of all time”.
Thanks, I’ve not had the chance to read it.
Kingy said:
PermeateFree said:
Kingy said:That sounds like a passage of a book that I haven’t yet read, which is likely titled in your last sentence.
All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit. ‘In the West, nothing new’) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers’ extreme physical and mental trauma during the war as well as the detachment from civilian life felt by many upon returning home from the war. It is billed by some as “the greatest war novel of all time”.
Thanks, I’ve not had the chance to read it.
I couldn’t get into it.
In my day off, I managed to get some video together from the recent fire here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHZwbnQlQow
I’ll probly get in trouble for posting it online, but I’m hoping that you are not going to post it on social media.
Kingy said:
In my day off, I managed to get some video together from the recent fire here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHZwbnQlQow
I’ll probly get in trouble for posting it online, but I’m hoping that you are not going to post it on social media.
I’m not sure posting things to Youtube is a great way of keeping things off social media.
Kingy said:
In my day off, I managed to get some video together from the recent fire here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHZwbnQlQow
I’ll probly get in trouble for posting it online, but I’m hoping that you are not going to post it on social media.
A pink splodge!
:)
Witty Rejoinder said:
Kingy said:
In my day off, I managed to get some video together from the recent fire here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHZwbnQlQow
I’ll probly get in trouble for posting it online, but I’m hoping that you are not going to post it on social media.
I’m not sure posting things to Youtube is a great way of keeping things off social media.
It’s largely anonymous, apart from a location tag.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Kingy said:
In my day off, I managed to get some video together from the recent fire here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHZwbnQlQow
I’ll probly get in trouble for posting it online, but I’m hoping that you are not going to post it on social media.
I’m not sure posting things to Youtube is a great way of keeping things off social media.
It’s private. Only the holiday forum has the link.
lol
Kingy said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Kingy said:
In my day off, I managed to get some video together from the recent fire here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHZwbnQlQow
I’ll probly get in trouble for posting it online, but I’m hoping that you are not going to post it on social media.
I’m not sure posting things to Youtube is a great way of keeping things off social media.
It’s private. Only the holiday forum has the link.
lol
And the helmet cam is from my own helmet. It was an “interesting” day out.
Good morning Holidayers. Definitely cool this morning – 6 degrees at the back door. We are forecast a cloudy 19. But heading back to 30 on Wednesday.
Dogs to the vet this morning for annual checks and vaccination.
Woke up early cos I thought I heard my alarm. It’s only a bird outside the window. Windy and 31 today with the chance of a shower later tonight.
Mini Me’s early viola band today.
Divine Angel said:
Woke up early cos I thought I heard my alarm. It’s only a bird outside the window. Windy and 31 today with the chance of a shower later tonight.Mini Me’s early viola band today.
Good thing you live in Qld and don’t have to worry about adjusting the bird outside the window for daylight saving.
Neophyte said:
Divine Angel said:
Woke up early cos I thought I heard my alarm. It’s only a bird outside the window. Windy and 31 today with the chance of a shower later tonight.Mini Me’s early viola band today.
Good thing you live in Qld and don’t have to worry about adjusting the bird outside the window for daylight saving.
Adjusting the microwave clock is hard enough.
roughbarked said:
That’s a bit windy for here.
weak they had twice that in BNE and everyone stayed alive
Kingy said:
sarahs mum said:
So who was in the discussion the tother night about no till farming?this cole the cornstar you tube talks about it…the practice, the machinery and the results and drawbacks. they do a corn soybean rotation.
I wasn’t, but when I were a lad, we were just in the throes of starting that. I haven’t looked at the vid you linked to, but in the early 80’s there were new chemicals that could kill weeds and allow crops to grow unimpeded. We didn’t know how dangerous they were at the time.
But it meant that we didn’t have to plow the ground three times to kill weeds before we planted a crop, so it saved time and money. After that we were able to plant a crop, then spray weeds, and if the season was sorta ok, we might even get an income that year.
It was a ploy by Monsanto to take all your money.
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:
So who was in the discussion the tother night about no till farming?this cole the cornstar you tube talks about it…the practice, the machinery and the results and drawbacks. they do a corn soybean rotation.
That was me. I was a little embarrassed that I’d never heard of it.
You weren’t a farmer so you can forget that shame.
Kingy said:
PermeateFree said:
Kingy said:That sounds like a passage of a book that I haven’t yet read, which is likely titled in your last sentence.
All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit. ‘In the West, nothing new’) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers’ extreme physical and mental trauma during the war as well as the detachment from civilian life felt by many upon returning home from the war. It is billed by some as “the greatest war novel of all time”.
Thanks, I’ve not had the chance to read it.
The movie has been on SBS heaps of times.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Kingy said:
In my day off, I managed to get some video together from the recent fire here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHZwbnQlQow
I’ll probly get in trouble for posting it online, but I’m hoping that you are not going to post it on social media.
I’m not sure posting things to Youtube is a great way of keeping things off social media.
It is on social media for anyone to find.
Kingy said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Kingy said:
In my day off, I managed to get some video together from the recent fire here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHZwbnQlQow
I’ll probly get in trouble for posting it online, but I’m hoping that you are not going to post it on social media.
I’m not sure posting things to Youtube is a great way of keeping things off social media.
It’s private. Only the holiday forum has the link.
lol
I see.
roughbarked said:
Kingy said:
Witty Rejoinder said:I’m not sure posting things to Youtube is a great way of keeping things off social media.
It’s private. Only the holiday forum has the link.
lol
I see.
+1
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
That’s a bit windy for here.
weak they had twice that in BNE and everyone stayed alive
Yeah yeah.
I’m really only worried about the maralinga isotpe dust that kicks up every time there’s a puff of a breeze.
1953.
Bubblecar said:
1953.
Is that rocket in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Walkies by myself this morning because my walkies friend flaked on me. It’s a semi regular occurrence. She had a “huge day” yesterday and is keeping the kids home from school for a recovery day. So I listened to a playlist of songs from 1989 and pondered what the lyrics would be for a 2020s version of We Didn’t Start the Fire.
Soon I will go to the library to return the most depressing book I’ve ever read, then go to Costco in search of eggs. Woolies had none when I popped in for bread this morning.
I’ve suspected the cat was sitting in my pot plant. Now I have proof. Yes, he’s been peeing it in.
Divine Angel said:
I’ve suspected the cat was sitting in my pot plant. Now I have proof. Yes, he’s been peeing it in.
Bugger.
Divine Angel said:
I’ve suspected the cat was sitting in my pot plant. Now I have proof. Yes, he’s been peeing it in.
I presume he has a little tray?
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:Wrong link :)
ta.
It’s another interesting one, ta.
Divine Angel said:
o I listened to a playlist of songs from 1989 and pondered what the lyrics would be for a 2020s version of We Didn’t Start the Fire.
ponder no more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LkVKCWL0U4
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:ta.
It’s another interesting one, ta.
i thought you might like the bit centred around the women’s prison…
https://www.domain.com.au/news/incredible-preston-time-capsule-retro-house-for-sale-1359097
watcha reckon about that one car?
sarahs mum said:
https://www.domain.com.au/news/incredible-preston-time-capsule-retro-house-for-sale-1359097
watcha reckon about that one car?
I prefer to only have one car. I hope the next replacement can be an electric one.
sarahs mum said:
https://www.domain.com.au/news/incredible-preston-time-capsule-retro-house-for-sale-1359097
watcha reckon about that one car?
Heh. Has some quirky charm :)
Could do with a tree or two in the garden.
Hello
Saint Paddys day today.
A good excuse to get pissed and talk shorthand.
Peak Warming Man said:
Saint Paddys day today.
A good excuse to get pissed and talk shorthand.
I’m already green.
Peak Warming Man said:
Saint Paddys day today.
A good excuse to get pissed and talk shorthand.
I’m going back to bed after lunch. Another night of inadequate sleep.
Peak Warming Man said:
Saint Paddys day today.
A good excuse to get pissed and talk shorthand.
You need an excuse?
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Saint Paddys day today.
A good excuse to get pissed and talk shorthand.
I’m already green.
that’s not easy.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/17/teachers-school-students-culture-misogyny-classrooms-quarterly-essay-jess-hill
well that is depressing.
dv said:
LOL
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/17/teachers-school-students-culture-misogyny-classrooms-quarterly-essay-jess-hillwell that is depressing.
Particularly if you have grandchildren growing up in this world.
Pleased to report Costco had plenty of eggs.
Anyone else having trouble connecting to Youtube?
Divine Angel said:
Pleased to report Costco had plenty of eggs.
just watched a you tube that said eggs were $12 a doz in the states. that’s a lot in aus dollars.
captain_spalding said:
Anyone else having trouble connecting to Youtube?
Are you using adblockers?
captain_spalding said:
Anyone else having trouble connecting to Youtube?
no.
Cymek said:
Hello
Hello
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
Anyone else having trouble connecting to Youtube?
Are you using adblockers?
The one built into the Brave browser, which has not been a problem with Youtube for the few years i’ve been using that browser.
No luck when using Microsoft Edge, either.
sarahs mum said:
captain_spalding said:
Anyone else having trouble connecting to Youtube?
no.
Just played this on Utube tequila makes her clothes fall off. No probs.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
Anyone else having trouble connecting to Youtube?
Are you using adblockers?
The one built into the Brave browser, which has not been a problem with Youtube for the few years i’ve been using that browser.
No luck when using Microsoft Edge, either.
I often get flaky connections but the only times it hasn’t worked were because I was blocking certain google scripts.
Tamb said:
sarahs mum said:
captain_spalding said:
Anyone else having trouble connecting to Youtube?
no.
Just played this on Utube tequila makes her clothes fall off. No probs.
‘fraid that never worked for me.
Youtube appears to have taken a dislike to my VPN.
sarahs mum said:
Divine Angel said:
Pleased to report Costco had plenty of eggs.
just watched a you tube that said eggs were $12 a doz in the states. that’s a lot in aus dollars.
But but but I read that eggs had fallen in price by 4 cents!
I think I was a Buddhist in a past life.
Divine Angel said:
sarahs mum said:
Divine Angel said:
Pleased to report Costco had plenty of eggs.
just watched a you tube that said eggs were $12 a doz in the states. that’s a lot in aus dollars.
But but but I read that eggs had fallen in price by 4 cents!
US egg prices now average $4.90 per doz, down from all-time high of $8.64.
NBC News, 15 mar 2025
Divine Angel said:
I think I was a Buddhist in a past life.
Don’t remember any past life. :(
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
sarahs mum said:no.
Just played this on Utube tequila makes her clothes fall off. No probs.
‘fraid that never worked for me.
Jaysus fucking hell! The old men are saying stupid things again.
Divine Angel said:
I think I was a Buddhist in a past life.
I was a ships cat, good times…..good times.
Divine Angel said:
Pleased to report Costco had plenty of eggs.
Are they from Denmark, too?
Peak Warming Man said:
Divine Angel said:
I think I was a Buddhist in a past life.
I was a ships cat, good times…..good times.
Trim?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-10/history-of-trim-matthew-flinders-adventure-cat/9231672
captain_spalding said:
Anyone else having trouble connecting to Youtube?
I haven’t tried this morning.
Peak Warming Man said:
Divine Angel said:
I think I was a Buddhist in a past life.
I was a ships cat, good times…..good times.
were you trim in those days?
Divine Angel said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Divine Angel said:
I think I was a Buddhist in a past life.
I was a ships cat, good times…..good times.
Trim?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-10/history-of-trim-matthew-flinders-adventure-cat/9231672
snap a rooney.
I have a photo somewhere of a taxidermied ship’s cat. Pretty sure it wasn’t Trim.
Divine Angel said:
I think I was a Buddhist in a past life.
Why?
Divine Angel said:
I have a photo somewhere of a taxidermied ship’s cat. Pretty sure it wasn’t Trim.
missing presumed eaten.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
Anyone else having trouble connecting to Youtube?
Are you using adblockers?
The one built into the Brave browser, which has not been a problem with Youtube for the few years i’ve been using that browser.
No luck when using Microsoft Edge, either.
I’m using Opera – much the same under the bonnet I think – and it’s working fine with the built-up VPN running.
Spiny Norman said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:Are you using adblockers?
The one built into the Brave browser, which has not been a problem with Youtube for the few years i’ve been using that browser.
No luck when using Microsoft Edge, either.
I’m using Opera – much the same under the bonnet I think – and it’s working fine with the built-up VPN running.
Hmm…don’t really trust ‘free’ VPNs.
‘Free’ VPNs, including those built in to browsers, are quite likely to sell your information/history to anyone who’s willing to cough up the readies.
captain_spalding said:
Spiny Norman said:
captain_spalding said:The one built into the Brave browser, which has not been a problem with Youtube for the few years i’ve been using that browser.
No luck when using Microsoft Edge, either.
I’m using Opera – much the same under the bonnet I think – and it’s working fine with the built-up VPN running.
Hmm…don’t really trust ‘free’ VPNs.
‘Free’ VPNs, including those built in to browsers, are quite likely to sell your information/history to anyone who’s willing to cough up the readies.
We use SurfShark. Got it when they had a promo deal going.
captain_spalding said:
Spiny Norman said:
captain_spalding said:The one built into the Brave browser, which has not been a problem with Youtube for the few years i’ve been using that browser.
No luck when using Microsoft Edge, either.
I’m using Opera – much the same under the bonnet I think – and it’s working fine with the built-up VPN running.
Hmm…don’t really trust ‘free’ VPNs.
‘Free’ VPNs, including those built in to browsers, are quite likely to sell your information/history to anyone who’s willing to cough up the readies.
Yeah I know, but on this laptop it’s the only one I have. On my desktop PC I run a proper VPN and that’s been fine, though I haven’t tried it this morning. Have to wait until I get home.
I picked this one (ExpressVPN) as it’s pretty good with not sharing info and I’ve set it to a country that will just laugh at Australia if they ask for data on me.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
I think I was a Buddhist in a past life.
Why?
Well, it was a joke, but I think Buddhism has a lot of interesting principles. For example, the ability to not be bogged down by the shit storm swirling around you and seeking happiness from within.
Spiny Norman said:
captain_spalding said:
Spiny Norman said:I’m using Opera – much the same under the bonnet I think – and it’s working fine with the built-up VPN running.
Hmm…don’t really trust ‘free’ VPNs.
‘Free’ VPNs, including those built in to browsers, are quite likely to sell your information/history to anyone who’s willing to cough up the readies.
Yeah I know, but on this laptop it’s the only one I have. On my desktop PC I run a proper VPN and that’s been fine, though I haven’t tried it this morning. Have to wait until I get home.
I picked this one (ExpressVPN) as it’s pretty good with not sharing info and I’ve set it to a country that will just laugh at Australia if they ask for data on me.
I use Express VPN, too.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
I think I was a Buddhist in a past life.
Why?
Well, it was a joke, but I think Buddhism has a lot of interesting principles. For example, the ability to not be bogged down by the shit storm swirling around you and seeking happiness from within.
everything that arises, passes away.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
I think I was a Buddhist in a past life.
Why?
Well, it was a joke, but I think Buddhism has a lot of interesting principles. For example, the ability to not be bogged down by the shit storm swirling around you and seeking happiness from within.
Sure – after one reaches Nirvana.
I’m still a long, long way from that.
Divine Angel said:
I have a photo somewhere of a taxidermied ship’s cat. Pretty sure it wasn’t Trim.
Trim was a legend in the ships cat world.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
I think I was a Buddhist in a past life.
Why?
Well, it was a joke, but I think Buddhism has a lot of interesting principles. For example, the ability to not be bogged down by the shit storm swirling around you and seeking happiness from within.
Also, I thought you might be somehow obliquely referencing the rocket and the blind person’s nipples…
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:Why?
Well, it was a joke, but I think Buddhism has a lot of interesting principles. For example, the ability to not be bogged down by the shit storm swirling around you and seeking happiness from within.
Sure – after one reaches Nirvana.
I’m still a long, long way from that.
It’s a step on the way to enlightenment. Which would be nice, but it seems like a lot of effort.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:Well, it was a joke, but I think Buddhism has a lot of interesting principles. For example, the ability to not be bogged down by the shit storm swirling around you and seeking happiness from within.
Sure – after one reaches Nirvana.
I’m still a long, long way from that.
It’s a step on the way to enlightenment. Which would be nice, but it seems like a lot of effort.
I think part of the dogma is that it should be no effort. No effort at all.
kii said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:Just played this on Utube tequila makes her clothes fall off. No probs.
‘fraid that never worked for me.
Jaysus fucking hell! The old men are saying stupid things again.
It never worked because I never attempted it. Again accusations are in the mind of the accuser.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:Sure – after one reaches Nirvana.
I’m still a long, long way from that.
It’s a step on the way to enlightenment. Which would be nice, but it seems like a lot of effort.
I think part of the dogma is that it should be no effort. No effort at all.
That’s just silly, everything requires effort. You can practice skills until the cows come home but it still requires effort to keep doing those learned skills because the situation changes. Like driving. You’re using the same skills you learned x years ago and have used every day, but each time you drive there’s a million variables which all require some sort of effort to navigate.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:It’s a step on the way to enlightenment. Which would be nice, but it seems like a lot of effort.
I think part of the dogma is that it should be no effort. No effort at all.
That’s just silly, everything requires effort. You can practice skills until the cows come home but it still requires effort to keep doing those learned skills because the situation changes. Like driving. You’re using the same skills you learned x years ago and have used every day, but each time you drive there’s a million variables which all require some sort of effort to navigate.
Noticing that you are breathing requires effort?
roughbarked said:
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:I think part of the dogma is that it should be no effort. No effort at all.
That’s just silly, everything requires effort. You can practice skills until the cows come home but it still requires effort to keep doing those learned skills because the situation changes. Like driving. You’re using the same skills you learned x years ago and have used every day, but each time you drive there’s a million variables which all require some sort of effort to navigate.
Noticing that you are breathing requires effort?
being aware of your breathing but not controlling it does require effort. this is the basis of vipassana mediation.
JudgeMental said:
roughbarked said:
Divine Angel said:That’s just silly, everything requires effort. You can practice skills until the cows come home but it still requires effort to keep doing those learned skills because the situation changes. Like driving. You’re using the same skills you learned x years ago and have used every day, but each time you drive there’s a million variables which all require some sort of effort to navigate.
Noticing that you are breathing requires effort?
being aware of your breathing but not controlling it does require effort. this is the basis of vipassana mediation.
OK.
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
roughbarked said:Noticing that you are breathing requires effort?
being aware of your breathing but not controlling it does require effort. this is the basis of vipassana mediation.
OK.
normally you aren’t aware. it is just a technique to clear your mind of extraneous thoughts. probably a form of self hypnosis.
kii said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:Just played this on Utube tequila makes her clothes fall off. No probs.
‘fraid that never worked for me.
Jaysus fucking hell! The old men are saying stupid things again.
Not me.
But, the day isn’t over yet.
JudgeMental said:
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:being aware of your breathing but not controlling it does require effort. this is the basis of vipassana mediation.
OK.
normally you aren’t aware. it is just a technique to clear your mind of extraneous thoughts. probably a form of self hypnosis.
Hadn’t thought of it in that way until you suggested hypnosis. Wonder if anyone has investigated that angle?
captain_spalding said:
kii said:
roughbarked said:‘fraid that never worked for me.
Jaysus fucking hell! The old men are saying stupid things again.
Not me.
But, the day isn’t over yet.
Try harder.
Please note: we’ve already had the tired old “rocket in your pocket” observation from a young woman, so no repeats of that one.
Please and thank you.
captain_spalding said:
kii said:
roughbarked said:‘fraid that never worked for me.
Jaysus fucking hell! The old men are saying stupid things again.
Not me.
But, the day isn’t over yet.
In the meantime there’s always grumbling old men.
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
roughbarked said:OK.
normally you aren’t aware. it is just a technique to clear your mind of extraneous thoughts. probably a form of self hypnosis.
Hadn’t thought of it in that way until you suggested hypnosis. Wonder if anyone has investigated that angle?
The Transcendental Meditation people did about 50 or 60 years ago. IIRC, there were differences.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
I think I was a Buddhist in a past life.
Why?
Well, it was a joke, but I think Buddhism has a lot of interesting principles. For example, the ability to not be bogged down by the shit storm swirling around you and seeking happiness from within.
I think if I had to choose a religious group it would probably be the Quakers.
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:Why?
Well, it was a joke, but I think Buddhism has a lot of interesting principles. For example, the ability to not be bogged down by the shit storm swirling around you and seeking happiness from within.
I think if I had to choose a religious group it would probably be the Quakers.
Well you’ve got the bonnets.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:Well, it was a joke, but I think Buddhism has a lot of interesting principles. For example, the ability to not be bogged down by the shit storm swirling around you and seeking happiness from within.
I think if I had to choose a religious group it would probably be the Quakers.
Well you’ve got the bonnets.
…and they’ve got the oats.
Anyway, I’ve etten some buttered Cheds for lunch and now I might go and read for a bit. This morning the dogs behaved themselves admirably at the vet’s. Bruna is vaccinated. We all agreed The Pug is getting old. And I’ve done some weeding on the grave of one of our previous bitches. Mr buffy has taken a phone call to tell him to turn up for his initial consultation with an endocrinologist in Warrnambool tomorrow morning. Need to get his diabetic medications better sorted. He’s having gut problems, probably due to one of them.
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:Why?
Well, it was a joke, but I think Buddhism has a lot of interesting principles. For example, the ability to not be bogged down by the shit storm swirling around you and seeking happiness from within.
I think if I had to choose a religious group it would probably be the Quakers.
I had good friends who were Quakers. Sadly they have passed since I last saw them. Very nice if eccentric peoople. Friendly sharing and without prejudices.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:Well, it was a joke, but I think Buddhism has a lot of interesting principles. For example, the ability to not be bogged down by the shit storm swirling around you and seeking happiness from within.
I think if I had to choose a religious group it would probably be the Quakers.
Well you’ve got the bonnets.
Well spotted.
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:I think if I had to choose a religious group it would probably be the Quakers.
Well you’ve got the bonnets.
…and they’ve got the oats.
not me, i’ve sown all mine.
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:I think if I had to choose a religious group it would probably be the Quakers.
Well you’ve got the bonnets.
…and they’ve got the oats.
I like the idea of silent services. Where you just sit around quietly. And anyone can speak if they have something to say. And from Wikipedia “Quakers were known to use thee as an ordinary pronoun, refuse to participate in war, wear plain dress, refuse to swear oaths, oppose slavery, and practice teetotalism.” They were also rather involved in women’s suffrage.
But I don’t really feel need of a religion.
JudgeMental said:
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:Well you’ve got the bonnets.
…and they’ve got the oats.
not me, i’ve sown all mine.
So, none left at all?
buffy said:
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:Well you’ve got the bonnets.
…and they’ve got the oats.
I like the idea of silent services. Where you just sit around quietly. And anyone can speak if they have something to say. And from Wikipedia “Quakers were known to use thee as an ordinary pronoun, refuse to participate in war, wear plain dress, refuse to swear oaths, oppose slavery, and practice teetotalism.” They were also rather involved in women’s suffrage.
But I don’t really feel need of a religion.
“…and practice teetotalism.”
I was on board, right up to that point.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:Well, it was a joke, but I think Buddhism has a lot of interesting principles. For example, the ability to not be bogged down by the shit storm swirling around you and seeking happiness from within.
I think if I had to choose a religious group it would probably be the Quakers.
Well you’ve got the bonnets.
My bonnets are a different design from Quaker bonnets. And nowhere near plain enough.
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:I think if I had to choose a religious group it would probably be the Quakers.
Well you’ve got the bonnets.
My bonnets are a different design from Quaker bonnets. And nowhere near plain enough.
Zebra stripes and all.
The ‘silent services’ thing is cool.
You might hear an interesting viewpoint. You might hear something which helps you identify someone as a real dill.
Even if no-one says anything through the whole she-bang, you’ve at least had some quiet meditation.
JudgeMental said:
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:being aware of your breathing but not controlling it does require effort. this is the basis of vipassana mediation.
OK.
normally you aren’t aware. it is just a technique to clear your mind of extraneous thoughts. probably a form of self hypnosis.
it just shuts out the noise, which we could all do with a little practice of.. in a way it’s diversion from thinking about other things by concentrating on something so inane in us that concentrating on it takes effort and practice.
Arts said:
JudgeMental said:
roughbarked said:OK.
normally you aren’t aware. it is just a technique to clear your mind of extraneous thoughts. probably a form of self hypnosis.
it just shuts out the noise, which we could all do with a little practice of.. in a way it’s diversion from thinking about other things by concentrating on something so inane in us that concentrating on it takes effort and practice.
innate not inane… the Apple text predictor is stupid
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:Well, it was a joke, but I think Buddhism has a lot of interesting principles. For example, the ability to not be bogged down by the shit storm swirling around you and seeking happiness from within.
I think if I had to choose a religious group it would probably be the Quakers.
Well you’ve got the bonnets.
LOLOL
I wouldn’t choose any religious group or cult or social group or team in general.
Arts said:
JudgeMental said:
roughbarked said:OK.
normally you aren’t aware. it is just a technique to clear your mind of extraneous thoughts. probably a form of self hypnosis.
it just shuts out the noise, which we could all do with a little practice of.. in a way it’s diversion from thinking about other things by concentrating on something so inane in us that concentrating on it takes effort and practice.
This is basically how I had always seen it.
Arts said:
Arts said:
JudgeMental said:normally you aren’t aware. it is just a technique to clear your mind of extraneous thoughts. probably a form of self hypnosis.
it just shuts out the noise, which we could all do with a little practice of.. in a way it’s diversion from thinking about other things by concentrating on something so inane in us that concentrating on it takes effort and practice.
innate not inane… the Apple text predictor is stupid
Gotta keep an eye on that. ;)
Arts said:
JudgeMental said:
roughbarked said:OK.
normally you aren’t aware. it is just a technique to clear your mind of extraneous thoughts. probably a form of self hypnosis.
it just shuts out the noise, which we could all do with a little practice of.. in a way it’s diversion from thinking about other things by concentrating on something so inane in us that concentrating on it takes effort and practice.
yep, it is hard as the mind like wandering. did a 10 day vipassana course ages ago.
Arts said:
I wouldn’t choose any religious group or cult or social group or team in general.
I’ve actively avoided all that since I was a teen.
Arts said:
I wouldn’t choose any religious group or cult or social group or team in general.
exactly, just do some crosswords or latin squares or something
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
kii said:
Jaysus fucking hell! The old men are saying stupid things again.
Not me.
But, the day isn’t over yet.
In the meantime there’s always grumbling old men.
exactly speaking of stupid things there’s always z <- -z
JudgeMental said:
roughbarked said:
JudgeMental said:
being aware of your breathing but not controlling it does require effort. this is the basis of vipassana mediation.
OK.
normally you aren’t aware. it is just a technique to clear your mind of extraneous thoughts. probably a form of self hypnosis.
‘sif we’rn’t normally aware
Arts said:
I wouldn’t choose any religious group or cult or social group or team in general.
“I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member” – Groucho Marx
SCIENCE said:
JudgeMental said:
roughbarked said:
OK.
normally you aren’t aware. it is just a technique to clear your mind of extraneous thoughts. probably a form of self hypnosis.
‘sif we’rn’t normally aware
There’s a wide spectrum of awareness.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Pleased to report Costco had plenty of eggs.
Are they from Denmark, too?
d’n‘o’ but yeah we heard some big outlets had massive stocks and we just added O(10) to our O(10) collection so we should be good for another few days
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Pleased to report Costco had plenty of eggs.
Are they from Denmark, too?
d’n‘o’ but yeah we heard some big outlets had massive stocks and we just added O(10) to our O(10) collection so we should be good for another few days
Supermarkets here: eggs, yes, for about 15 mins after opening time.
Independent greengrocer: all the (locally-sourced) eggs you want, all day long.
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:
well that is depressing.
Particularly if you have grandchildren growing up in this world.
plenty of shitty behaviour out there but this part should make anyone skeptical
The Independent Education Union in Victoria says violence from students against female teachers is also escalating. This has become more pronounced since Covid lockdowns, along with a noticeable deterioration in students’ mental health and an increase in other problematic behaviours. That’s something Daniel Principe, who delivers education to boys, has noticed “absolutely everywhere”. “Attention spans, resilience, distractibility and more sexualised language. Covid was such an overdose of screen time and everything that goes with that, and we are now seeing some of the consequences of it.”
actually no we fully agree, autism causes fascism, lockdowns cause misogyny, screen time causes sexual assault, it’s obvious
Arts said:
I wouldn’t choose any religious group or cult or social group or team in general.
Over the years I have certainly learned my lesson about social groups and teams, and never wanted to be in a religious group/cult.
NASA’s latest space weather mission, PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere), has officially gone online, marking a major leap forward in our ability to monitor and predict solar activity. With four synchronized small satellites working together, PUNCH will provide unprecedented 3D views of the Sun’s corona and track how the solar wind—the stream of charged particles constantly flowing from the Sun—evolves as it moves through space.
Launched aboard Elons SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on March 11, 2025, alongside NASA’s SPHEREx observatory, PUNCH is now fully operational. Over the next two years, this network of satellites will capture real-time data to help scientists understand and predict space weather events—solar storms that can disrupt satellites, interfere with power grids, and even threaten astronaut safety.
Peak Warming Man said:
NASA’s latest space weather mission, PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere), has officially gone online, marking a major leap forward in our ability to monitor and predict solar activity. With four synchronized small satellites working together, PUNCH will provide unprecedented 3D views of the Sun’s corona and track how the solar wind—the stream of charged particles constantly flowing from the Sun—evolves as it moves through space.
Launched aboard Elons SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on March 11, 2025, alongside NASA’s SPHEREx observatory, PUNCH is now fully operational. Over the next two years, this network of satellites will capture real-time data to help scientists understand and predict space weather events—solar storms that can disrupt satellites, interfere with power grids, and even threaten astronaut safety.
It might be able to make contact with the Tesla that he landed on the sun several years ago.
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
NASA’s latest space weather mission, PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere), has officially gone online, marking a major leap forward in our ability to monitor and predict solar activity. With four synchronized small satellites working together, PUNCH will provide unprecedented 3D views of the Sun’s corona and track how the solar wind—the stream of charged particles constantly flowing from the Sun—evolves as it moves through space.
Launched aboard Elons SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on March 11, 2025, alongside NASA’s SPHEREx observatory, PUNCH is now fully operational. Over the next two years, this network of satellites will capture real-time data to help scientists understand and predict space weather events—solar storms that can disrupt satellites, interfere with power grids, and even threaten astronaut safety.
It might be able to make contact with the Tesla that he landed on the sun several years ago.
Seems it didn’t end up in the sun.
“The car, mounted on the rocket’s second stage, was launched on an escape trajectory and entered an elliptical heliocentric orbit crossing the orbit of Mars. The orbit reaches a maximum distance from the Sun at aphelion of 1.66 astronomical units (au).”
Wikipedia.
With mailing a package
Can you still supply your own box (ie a shoe box) and go the post office and get it weighed and sent
Or do you need to buy one from them
Cymek said:
With mailing a packageCan you still supply your own box (ie a shoe box) and go the post office and get it weighed and sent
Or do you need to buy one from them
You can supply your own box as long as it is wrapped.
my sister said there was a memorial service today for grant tambling. he was married to my cousin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Tambling
https://thenightly.com.au/australia/victoria/joanna-kathlyn-kinman-woman-wanted-to-sell-dead-mans-toes-found-in-dog-vomit-c-18067034
Blood hell
Some people here might be interested in the RACGP guidelines for what to question in terms of tests etc.
Choosing Wisely Australia® is part of a global healthcare initiative to improve the safety and quality of healthcare.
Just when you think it’s safe to put everything outdoors after a cyclone…
Divine Angel said:
Just when you think it’s safe to put everything outdoors after a cyclone…
Our last Big Gust was 80km/hr on Monday 10th between 7 and 8 in the evening. We’ve had some nice gentle not very windy days since then. Just as well really, as the maximum temps have been into the 30s and we are dry and crispy and burny.
buffy said:
Some people here might be interested in the RACGP guidelines for what to question in terms of tests etc.Choosing Wisely Australia® is part of a global healthcare initiative to improve the safety and quality of healthcare.
did it work
If the Houties keep launching missiles into the Red Sea, they’ll make many enemy Yemeni anemones.
SCIENCE said:
buffy said:
Some people here might be interested in the RACGP guidelines for what to question in terms of tests etc.
Choosing Wisely Australia® is part of a global healthcare initiative to improve the safety and quality of healthcare.
did it work
maybe there can be a therapeutic choosing wisely
Hyperbaric chambers are pressurized, tubelike devices that people lie or sit in for treatment, depending on the type of chamber. The therapy involves breathing in air that consists of 100% oxygen, which helps the body heal more quickly but also creates a highly combustible environment. The treatment method has been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration to help over a dozen conditions including carbon monoxide poisoning, severe wounds and decompression sickness in scuba divers.
The Oxford Center’s website lists over 100 conditions it says it treats, including many that the FDA has not approved for hyperbaric oxygen therapy, such as cancer, dyslexia, Alzheimer’s, Lyme disease and autism — though it is not illegal to use hyperbaric chambers for these purposes. In a statement to NBC News, an attorney for the Oxford Center said the center was “disappointed” by the charges filed against four staff members.
Thomas Cooper was killed Jan. 31 when a fire broke out in a hyperbaric chamber at the Oxford Center, an alternative medicine clinic in the Detroit suburb of Troy. On Monday, the Oxford Center founder and CEO and three of her employees were charged in Thomas’ death.
Jesus and Satan were arguing about who was better on the computer. They had been going at it for days, and frankly, God was tired of hearing all the bickering.
Finally fed up, God said, “THAT’S IT! I have had enough. I will set up a test that will run for two hours, and from those results, I will judge who does the better job. So Satan and Jesus sat down at the keyboards and typed away.
They moused.
They faxed.
They e-mailed.
They e-mailed with attachments.
They downloaded.
They did spreadsheets!
They wrote reports.
They created labels and cards.
They created charts and graphs.
They did some genealogy reports.
They did every job known to man.
Jesus worked with heavenly efficiency, and Satan was faster than hell. Then, ten minutes before their time was up, lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, thunder rolled, rain poured, and, of course, the power went off. Satan stared at his blank screen and screamed every curse word known in the underworld!
Jesus just sighed………..
Finally, the electricity returned, and each of them restarted their computer. Satan started searching frantically, screaming, “It’s gone! It’s all GONE! I lost everything when the power went out!”
Meanwhile, Jesus quietly started printing out all of his files from the past two hours of work.
Satan observed this and became irate. ‘Wait!” He screamed. “That’s not fair! He cheated! How come he has all of his work and I don’t have any?”
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God just shrugged and said, “JESUS SAVES.”
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
NASA’s latest space weather mission, PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere), has officially gone online, marking a major leap forward in our ability to monitor and predict solar activity. With four synchronized small satellites working together, PUNCH will provide unprecedented 3D views of the Sun’s corona and track how the solar wind—the stream of charged particles constantly flowing from the Sun—evolves as it moves through space.
Launched aboard Elons SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on March 11, 2025, alongside NASA’s SPHEREx observatory, PUNCH is now fully operational. Over the next two years, this network of satellites will capture real-time data to help scientists understand and predict space weather events—solar storms that can disrupt satellites, interfere with power grids, and even threaten astronaut safety.
It might be able to make contact with the Tesla that he landed on the sun several years ago.
Seems it didn’t end up in the sun.
“The car, mounted on the rocket’s second stage, was launched on an escape trajectory and entered an elliptical heliocentric orbit crossing the orbit of Mars. The orbit reaches a maximum distance from the Sun at aphelion of 1.66 astronomical units (au).”
Wikipedia.
My guess is that in about 5 years, Elon is going to try to fuck around trying to cutoff Mars in traffic and find out.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Jesus and Satan were arguing about who was better on the computer. They had been going at it for days, and frankly, God was tired of hearing all the bickering.
Finally fed up, God said, “THAT’S IT! I have had enough. I will set up a test that will run for two hours, and from those results, I will judge who does the better job. So Satan and Jesus sat down at the keyboards and typed away.
They moused.
They faxed.
They e-mailed.
They e-mailed with attachments.
They downloaded.
They did spreadsheets!
They wrote reports.
They created labels and cards.
They created charts and graphs.
They did some genealogy reports.
They did every job known to man.Jesus worked with heavenly efficiency, and Satan was faster than hell. Then, ten minutes before their time was up, lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, thunder rolled, rain poured, and, of course, the power went off. Satan stared at his blank screen and screamed every curse word known in the underworld!
Jesus just sighed………..
Finally, the electricity returned, and each of them restarted their computer. Satan started searching frantically, screaming, “It’s gone! It’s all GONE! I lost everything when the power went out!”
Meanwhile, Jesus quietly started printing out all of his files from the past two hours of work.
Satan observed this and became irate. ‘Wait!” He screamed. “That’s not fair! He cheated! How come he has all of his work and I don’t have any?”
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.
.
.
.
.
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God just shrugged and said, “JESUS SAVES.”
TIL Jack Thompson is 84. I’d have guessed he was mid-seventies.
Divine Angel said:
TIL Jack Thompson is 84. I’d have guessed he was mid-seventies.
What did you think of SPT?
Divine Angel said:
TIL Jack Thompson is 84. I’d have guessed he was mid-seventies.
Bunkie and Lee kept him young.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Divine Angel said:
TIL Jack Thompson is 84. I’d have guessed he was mid-seventies.
What did you think of SPT?
Hit and miss. It hasn’t finished yet.
I will say this though, and it’s very important so listen carefully:
The movie She Devil, starring Roseanne Barr and Meryl Streep, has very little in common with the novel it was based on. The novel is called The Life and Loves of a She-Devil. The main thing pissing me off about the novel is that it keeps switching from first to third person. Grr!
When it rains it pours: today I stopped receiving new emails on my Optusnet account. Using webchat we determined that it was because I had run out of storage space even though I hadn’t received any of the usual mailbox storage quota warnings saying I was running out of storage. Deleted some extraneous emails and loe and behold I was able to load all the new emails I hadn’t received since the early hours of the morning and all was once again well with the world.
Cut to 30 minutes ago and the updated Optusnet portal I had been informed was coming soon had arrived for yours truly and fiddlesticks, it’s all very slick looking but there’s nary a stored email, folder or anything else to be found. Thankfully this is restricted to my Chromebook with my Optusnet email still working properly on my phone using my usual email client. Looks like I’ll be chatting with a nice Filipino girl on web chat tomorrow as well to navigate the quirks of using an email address that is almost 30 years old. Bless.
OTOH, the film Mermaids, starring Cher and Winona Ryder, followed the novel very closely. Few scenes were removed for the film, probably for timing and pacing reasons. Bob Hoskins’ character, Lou Landry, was expanded for the film.
Car vs tree near Yallingup.
FRS have called heli rescue, cut patient out of car, and ambo’s have transerred to local footy oval.
First helimbulance broke down on the way and returned to base, second one sent from Perth. Just done a couple of low passes overhead and now landing on the oval.
Kingy said:
Car vs tree near Yallingup.FRS have called heli rescue, cut patient out of car, and ambo’s have transerred to local footy oval.
First helimbulance broke down on the way and returned to base, second one sent from Perth. Just done a couple of low passes overhead and now landing on the oval.
A double helicopter job, expensive.
Bubblecar said:
Kingy said:
Car vs tree near Yallingup.FRS have called heli rescue, cut patient out of car, and ambo’s have transerred to local footy oval.
First helimbulance broke down on the way and returned to base, second one sent from Perth. Just done a couple of low passes overhead and now landing on the oval.
A double helicopter job, expensive.
Not the ideal time for a rescue helicopter to break down.
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:
Kingy said:
Car vs tree near Yallingup.FRS have called heli rescue, cut patient out of car, and ambo’s have transerred to local footy oval.
First helimbulance broke down on the way and returned to base, second one sent from Perth. Just done a couple of low passes overhead and now landing on the oval.
A double helicopter job, expensive.
Not the ideal time for a rescue helicopter to break down.
Better than just when it is taking off with the patient onboard.
Kingy said:
party_pants said:
Bubblecar said:A double helicopter job, expensive.
Not the ideal time for a rescue helicopter to break down.
Better than just when it is taking off with the patient onboard.
Well, that is even less ideal
The Rev Dodgson said:
Jesus and Satan were arguing about who was better on the computer. They had been going at it for days, and frankly, God was tired of hearing all the bickering.Finally fed up, God said, “THAT’S IT! I have had enough. I will set up a test that will run for two hours, and from those results, I will judge who does the better job. So Satan and Jesus sat down at the keyboards and typed away.
They moused.
They faxed.
They e-mailed.
They e-mailed with attachments.
They downloaded.
They did spreadsheets!
They wrote reports.
They created labels and cards.
They created charts and graphs.
They did some genealogy reports.
They did every job known to man.Jesus worked with heavenly efficiency, and Satan was faster than hell. Then, ten minutes before their time was up, lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, thunder rolled, rain poured, and, of course, the power went off. Satan stared at his blank screen and screamed every curse word known in the underworld!
Jesus just sighed………..
Finally, the electricity returned, and each of them restarted their computer. Satan started searching frantically, screaming, “It’s gone! It’s all GONE! I lost everything when the power went out!”
Meanwhile, Jesus quietly started printing out all of his files from the past two hours of work.
Satan observed this and became irate. ‘Wait!” He screamed. “That’s not fair! He cheated! How come he has all of his work and I don’t have any?”
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
God just shrugged and said, “JESUS SAVES.”
Uh-oh.
Witty Rejoinder said:
today I stopped receiving new emails on my Optusnet account.
Thanks for the reminder to check my O/net account. I don’t use it much these days – it’s more of a repositiory for spam emails than anything else. But, it’s still handy to keep, occasionally.
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
party_pants said:Not the ideal time for a rescue helicopter to break down.
Better than just when it is taking off with the patient onboard.
Well, that is even less ideal
I was just checking out the details of the emergency fire near Ledge Point this morning.
It started at 1am, and despite multiple calls to multiple volunteer brigades, almost none of them answered the phone at that time. Only one brigade managed a crew of two. Also multiple calls to machinery contractors at the same time went unanswered. By 3 am the fire was big and close to town, things were getting desperate when a few more bleary eyed vollies turned out. Incident Control requested the flamethrower and drones at 3:40am. They had to divert night crew vollies from a nearby bushfire to assist. It was intense for a while.
I just fell down a dark and disturbing rabbit hole.
On a fb post from an Estonian group I saw a woman post a comment about how she born near where my father grew up, but now living in the US. Not unusual, especially with her age group.
So I looked at her profile, she’s in her late 80s. She seems to be an educated and intelligent person. Attended a US uni at 18, in 1955.
Some of her public posts over the past few years show that she supports women’s rights, marched in 2017 in the Women’s March. She reads interesting books – including Bandy Lee’s book on the danger of trump. Late last year she posted something positive about Liz Cheney.
Then she comments about how she watched FOXNews to see the other side of things. Watched last year’s RNC. Very critical of the speakers and the message.
Not long afterwards her public posts degenerate into a mess of trump support.
“Trump is very good with what he does at these mass gatherings! A long time ago, before WWII when I lived in free Republic of Estonia, there was this political guy in Austria/Germany who had very similar rallies!”
“Trump is very good at what he does! He is a good liar, good pretender, good misuser and distorter, a good hack!”
Her friends start to question if her account has been hacked. She also reveals that her daughter has moved her closer to where she lives, because of concerns.
She seems to be very physically fit and strong, but her brain has gone off the rails. She votes.
kii said:
I just fell down a dark and disturbing rabbit hole.On a fb post from an Estonian group I saw a woman post a comment about how she born near where my father grew up, but now living in the US. Not unusual, especially with her age group.
So I looked at her profile, she’s in her late 80s. She seems to be an educated and intelligent person. Attended a US uni at 18, in 1955.
Some of her public posts over the past few years show that she supports women’s rights, marched in 2017 in the Women’s March. She reads interesting books – including Bandy Lee’s book on the danger of trump. Late last year she posted something positive about Liz Cheney.
Then she comments about how she watched FOXNews to see the other side of things. Watched last year’s RNC. Very critical of the speakers and the message.
Not long afterwards her public posts degenerate into a mess of trump support.
“Trump is very good with what he does at these mass gatherings! A long time ago, before WWII when I lived in free Republic of Estonia, there was this political guy in Austria/Germany who had very similar rallies!”
“Trump is very good at what he does! He is a good liar, good pretender, good misuser and distorter, a good hack!”
Her friends start to question if her account has been hacked. She also reveals that her daughter has moved her closer to where she lives, because of concerns.
She seems to be very physically fit and strong, but her brain has gone off the rails. She votes.
bloody murdoch.
Trying to find which box of files I have my superannuation information in. It’s just a few pages.
TL;DR I’m gonna scream.
My back now hurts from moving heavy boxes to search through various documents, and cleaning the bathroom floor (procrastination).
I really thought I had left out a copy of my super information.
I know my membership number, but can’t access the account unless they text me a code to a mobile phone. My phone can’t receive it, my younger son’s phone is on the list to receive texts, but hasn’t received any. The time differences don’t help and the codes are only valid for a short time, like 5 minutes. I can’t call them because my cell phone can’t do overseas calls, and I can’t use the other option of a landline. It’s there, but I don’t have a plug-in phone for it.
So, I sent them a customer inquiry via their website for assistance.
The email I received back has a long list of security info that I need to provide – fine, I can provide that information. Except for the investment options, which my brain has deemed irrelevant in the grand scheme of things so it has thrown that away into the incinerator.
It’s not urgent, but just like my Australian bank, I have to receive a text message code to my US cell phone and that’s not an option.
Witty Rejoinder said:
When it rains it pours: today I stopped receiving new emails on my Optusnet account. Using webchat we determined that it was because I had run out of storage space even though I hadn’t received any of the usual mailbox storage quota warnings saying I was running out of storage. Deleted some extraneous emails and loe and behold I was able to load all the new emails I hadn’t received since the early hours of the morning and all was once again well with the world.Cut to 30 minutes ago and the updated Optusnet portal I had been informed was coming soon had arrived for yours truly and fiddlesticks, it’s all very slick looking but there’s nary a stored email, folder or anything else to be found. Thankfully this is restricted to my Chromebook with my Optusnet email still working properly on my phone using my usual email client. Looks like I’ll be chatting with a nice Filipino girl on web chat tomorrow as well to navigate the quirks of using an email address that is almost 30 years old. Bless.
Hah and now the interface has regressed back to the old format.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 8 degrees at the back door, still and dark. We are forecast a sunny 23 today.
Bakery Breakfast this morning. Mr buffy sees the endocrinologist at 11.00am. He says he doesn’t need me to accompany him to Warrnambool. So I’ll do some gardening again. The FOGO bin has just been emptied, so I can start on filling it again. It’s the time of year to tidy and trim the bearded irises.
Morning. We’re also heading for 23, sunny. My sleeping’s still hit and miss so I’m not sure of the day’s plan.
I think it’s supposed to be 27 and sunny today. Despite the heat, it does feel vaguely autumnal. Maybe it’s the changing light.
We have ants everywhere. Several people on the Brisbane subreddit are complaining about a rat infestation after Alfred so I should be grateful we only have ants. My sister gave me some ant sand and some goo which the ants take back to their nest. I am losing this war against ants in my plants: ants have been found nesting in the roots of my Aglaonema plant in my study. I have washed and repotted that plant so many times in the past couple of years! All the plants now have ant sand in their saucers, and I often find dead ants in there. Time for a top up, methinks. We also have ants in the pantry. They are different ants to the ones in my study. Ugh.
Divine Angel said:
I think it’s supposed to be 27 and sunny today. Despite the heat, it does feel vaguely autumnal. Maybe it’s the changing light.We have ants everywhere. Several people on the Brisbane subreddit are complaining about a rat infestation after Alfred so I should be grateful we only have ants. My sister gave me some ant sand and some goo which the ants take back to their nest. I am losing this war against ants in my plants: ants have been found nesting in the roots of my Aglaonema plant in my study. I have washed and repotted that plant so many times in the past couple of years! All the plants now have ant sand in their saucers, and I often find dead ants in there. Time for a top up, methinks. We also have ants in the pantry. They are different ants to the ones in my study. Ugh.
Sympathies. Only a few harmless ants here, but this morning I spotted a family of juvenile redbacks on the laundry window frame and sprayed them.
Bubblecar said:
Divine Angel said:
I think it’s supposed to be 27 and sunny today. Despite the heat, it does feel vaguely autumnal. Maybe it’s the changing light.We have ants everywhere. Several people on the Brisbane subreddit are complaining about a rat infestation after Alfred so I should be grateful we only have ants. My sister gave me some ant sand and some goo which the ants take back to their nest. I am losing this war against ants in my plants: ants have been found nesting in the roots of my Aglaonema plant in my study. I have washed and repotted that plant so many times in the past couple of years! All the plants now have ant sand in their saucers, and I often find dead ants in there. Time for a top up, methinks. We also have ants in the pantry. They are different ants to the ones in my study. Ugh.
Sympathies. Only a few harmless ants here, but this morning I spotted a family of juvenile redbacks on the laundry window frame and sprayed them.
I prefer ants.
Witty Rejoinder said:
When it rains it pours: today I stopped receiving new emails on my Optusnet account. Using webchat we determined that it was because I had run out of storage space even though I hadn’t received any of the usual mailbox storage quota warnings saying I was running out of storage. Deleted some extraneous emails and loe and behold I was able to load all the new emails I hadn’t received since the early hours of the morning and all was once again well with the world.Cut to 30 minutes ago and the updated Optusnet portal I had been informed was coming soon had arrived for yours truly and fiddlesticks, it’s all very slick looking but there’s nary a stored email, folder or anything else to be found. Thankfully this is restricted to my Chromebook with my Optusnet email still working properly on my phone using my usual email client. Looks like I’ll be chatting with a nice Filipino girl on web chat tomorrow as well to navigate the quirks of using an email address that is almost 30 years old. Bless.
I didn’t even know Optusnet had a portal which has been updated. Everything working as normal on my Outlook.
Fortean Times magazine is gonna love this. They normally focus on fish and frogs falling from the sky.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/hundreds-of-corellas-dead-in-suspected-mass-poisoning-in-newcastle/news-story/cf3527693b0167284f144f291435f99b
Divine Angel said:
Fortean Times magazine is gonna love this. They normally focus on fish and frogs falling from the sky.https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/hundreds-of-corellas-dead-in-suspected-mass-poisoning-in-newcastle/news-story/cf3527693b0167284f144f291435f99b
I’ve seen a shower of frogs falling from the sky; at the start of a thunderstorm in Italy in June 1999. They were (nearly) all alive, though, and not dead birds.
“There are still a couple more days of heavy rainfall to come,” senior forecaster Patch Clapp said.
Patch Clapp, what a fantastic name.
Watching “In My Skin”. So, that’s cheering me up.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/nov/09/in-my-skin-review-raw-coming-of-age-tale-is-a-total-tv-gem
btm said:
Divine Angel said:
Fortean Times magazine is gonna love this. They normally focus on fish and frogs falling from the sky.https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/hundreds-of-corellas-dead-in-suspected-mass-poisoning-in-newcastle/news-story/cf3527693b0167284f144f291435f99b
I’ve seen a shower of frogs falling from the sky; at the start of a thunderstorm in Italy in June 1999. They were (nearly) all alive, though, and not dead birds.
Having actually seen this phenomenon, how do you think it was caused?
Just having a listen to A Sailor’s Life on Youtoob, and now they have stuck a bloody add in the middle.
Have they got artificial stupidity deciding these things now, or what?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Just having a listen to A Sailor’s Life on Youtoob, and now they have stuck a bloody add in the middle.Have they got artificial stupidity deciding these things now, or what?
Sounds like it is time to shut down on using youtube. If no one sees the ads, they’ll go broke right?
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Just having a listen to A Sailor’s Life on Youtoob, and now they have stuck a bloody add in the middle.Have they got artificial stupidity deciding these things now, or what?
Sounds like it is time to shut down on using youtube. If no one sees the ads, they’ll go broke right?
you prefer to be uninformed then
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Just having a listen to A Sailor’s Life on Youtoob, and now they have stuck a bloody add in the middle.Have they got artificial stupidity deciding these things now, or what?
Sounds like it is time to shut down on using youtube. If no one sees the ads, they’ll go broke right?
Just give me a year or five to download everything, then I’ll give them a miss.
Divine Angel said:
Humidity is only 69% so walkies was fine today. Walkies friend was back onboard and we talked about Adolescence on Netflix. I also tried to give a synopsis of Severance but since no one understands what’s going on in that show, it’s a pointless exercise.
spoiler alert
Admittedly I’m two episodes behind but it seems increasingly clear that they created the Severance procedure so that people could go through physically or emotionally painful life events without having to actually experience them.
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:
Humidity is only 69% so walkies was fine today. Walkies friend was back onboard and we talked about Adolescence on Netflix. I also tried to give a synopsis of Severance but since no one understands what’s going on in that show, it’s a pointless exercise.
spoiler alert
Admittedly I’m two episodes behind but it seems increasingly clear that they created the Severance procedure so that people could go through physically or emotionally painful life events without having to actually experience them.
And exploited the person who created the procedure, but then again that person was always exploited for Lumon’s purposes. Since the S2 finale is called Cold Harbor, that could reveal a few things.
Mark’s innie could concentrate on the super secret work without distraction.
I need to rewatch Gemma’s procedure, I feel like I’m missing several pieces of the puzzle. My brain’s not quite connecting the dots with that. I get it was perfecting the procedure by having her lose her memory and emotions between rooms, but there’s something bugging me about it that I can’t quite put my finger on.
I watched the first episode of “Boat Story” on ABC on Sunday night.
Interesting. Read some reviews this morning. Seems people either love it or hate it. Not much middle ground. I will be watching more episodes.
Michael V said:
I watched the first episode of “Boat Story” on ABC on Sunday night.Interesting. Read some reviews this morning. Seems people either love it or hate it. Not much middle ground. I will be watching more episodes.
Never heard of it.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Just having a listen to A Sailor’s Life on Youtoob, and now they have stuck a bloody add in the middle.Have they got artificial stupidity deciding these things now, or what?
something to cheer you up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOUqHr9tcVY
Silent Letter Day
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
I watched the first episode of “Boat Story” on ABC on Sunday night.Interesting. Read some reviews this morning. Seems people either love it or hate it. Not much middle ground. I will be watching more episodes.
Never heard of it.
I hadn’t either until it came on the telly after “Unforgotten”, which followed “Darby and Joan”. I don’t remember seeing any ads.
Divine Angel said:
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:
Humidity is only 69% so walkies was fine today. Walkies friend was back onboard and we talked about Adolescence on Netflix. I also tried to give a synopsis of Severance but since no one understands what’s going on in that show, it’s a pointless exercise.
spoiler alert
Admittedly I’m two episodes behind but it seems increasingly clear that they created the Severance procedure so that people could go through physically or emotionally painful life events without having to actually experience them.
And exploited the person who created the procedure, but then again that person was always exploited for Lumon’s purposes. Since the S2 finale is called Cold Harbor, that could reveal a few things.
Mark’s innie could concentrate on the super secret work without distraction.
I need to rewatch Gemma’s procedure, I feel like I’m missing several pieces of the puzzle. My brain’s not quite connecting the dots with that. I get it was perfecting the procedure by having her lose her memory and emotions between rooms, but there’s something bugging me about it that I can’t quite put my finger on.
yeah, the Gemma episode was the last episode I watched. the tests seem intent on finding out of there is any ‘leakage’ in memories between the various innies…
My Awesome Life from March 17th 2017
The time US President Cheeto Puss-Puss revealed his budget blueprint. Here’s a summary.
If you’re young, you will be kept poor and stupid, this will better encourage you to become cannon-fodder in the future wars he will inevitably start.
People with lots of money will be given lots of money as a reward for having lots of money.
Elderly, sick, immigrants, teachers, scientists, educators, environmental experts, the homeless, African Americans, Native Americans, LGBTI Americans, tired, poor and huddled masses – you will be issued with a bag of dicks, which you are encouraged to eat at your earliest convenience.
Greetings
transition said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Just having a listen to A Sailor’s Life on Youtoob, and now they have stuck a bloody add in the middle.Have they got artificial stupidity deciding these things now, or what?
something to cheer you up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOUqHr9tcVY
Silent Letter Day
Ih enjhoyed thath. :)
The Rev Dodgson said:
transition said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Just having a listen to A Sailor’s Life on Youtoob, and now they have stuck a bloody add in the middle.Have they got artificial stupidity deciding these things now, or what?
something to cheer you up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOUqHr9tcVY
Silent Letter DayIh enjhoyed thath. :)
Tamb said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
transition said:something to cheer you up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOUqHr9tcVY
Silent Letter DayIh enjhoyed thath. :)
The worst word is queue. Which is Q followed by 4 silent letters.
Probably y v q 4 x s long these daa
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tamb said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Ih enjhoyed thath. :)
The worst word is queue. Which is Q followed by 4 silent letters.Probably y v q 4 x s long these daa
Should have said “proble” of course.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tamb said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Ih enjhoyed thath. :)
The worst word is queue. Which is Q followed by 4 silent letters.Probably y v q 4 x s long these daa
pretty sure wsteshr has more silent letters though sure proportionally it’s less
Bloody cyclonical floods..
I just got in from cutting up some of the tree that was brought by the southerly buster yesterday arvo. It brought down the power line to the house. Essential energy were pretty quick at sorting it.
Battling little black ant invasion. They seem to think that the standard lamp next to my arm chair is a preferred housing option.
Black snakes on the move…
Ian said:
Bloody cyclonical floods..I just got in from cutting up some of the tree that was brought by the southerly buster yesterday arvo. It brought down the power line to the house. Essential energy were pretty quick at sorting it.
Battling little black ant invasion. They seem to think that the standard lamp next to my arm chair is a preferred housing option.
Black snakes on the move…
I also have the ant problem. Thankfully no snakes or rodents but I’m on the lookout. Luckily that tree missed your house!
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
I watched the first episode of “Boat Story” on ABC on Sunday night.Interesting. Read some reviews this morning. Seems people either love it or hate it. Not much middle ground. I will be watching more episodes.
Never heard of it.
I hadn’t either until it came on the telly after “Unforgotten”, which followed “Darby and Joan”. I don’t remember seeing any ads.
There have been ads. Both on ABC free to air, and on iView. We chose not to watch it.
Ian said:
Bloody cyclonical floods..I just got in from cutting up some of the tree that was brought by the southerly buster yesterday arvo. It brought down the power line to the house. Essential energy were pretty quick at sorting it.
Battling little black ant invasion. They seem to think that the standard lamp next to my arm chair is a preferred housing option.
Black snakes on the move…
Bloody!
buffy said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:Never heard of it.
I hadn’t either until it came on the telly after “Unforgotten”, which followed “Darby and Joan”. I don’t remember seeing any ads.
There have been ads. Both on ABC free to air, and on iView. We chose not to watch it.
Had I seen ads, I feel that they would likely have put me off, so I’m glad I didn’t see them.
How’s your iView machine working? (Last I heard, it was difficult to use, or something. Whatever it was, it didn’t make me want to rush out and buy one.)
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Michael V said:I hadn’t either until it came on the telly after “Unforgotten”, which followed “Darby and Joan”. I don’t remember seeing any ads.
There have been ads. Both on ABC free to air, and on iView. We chose not to watch it.
Had I seen ads, I feel that they would likely have put me off, so I’m glad I didn’t see them.
How’s your iView machine working? (Last I heard, it was difficult to use, or something. Whatever it was, it didn’t make me want to rush out and buy one.)
There are some operator problems. But mostly it’s working.
;)
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Just having a listen to A Sailor’s Life on Youtoob, and now they have stuck a bloody add in the middle.Have they got artificial stupidity deciding these things now, or what?
Sounds like it is time to shut down on using youtube. If no one sees the ads, they’ll go broke right?
you prefer to be uninformed then
I’m well enough informed without youtube.
Michael V said:
I watched the first episode of “Boat Story” on ABC on Sunday night.Interesting. Read some reviews this morning. Seems people either love it or hate it. Not much middle ground. I will be watching more episodes.
Was watching. Think I fell asleep. Do that often enough. Might have to watch the repeats.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
I watched the first episode of “Boat Story” on ABC on Sunday night.Interesting. Read some reviews this morning. Seems people either love it or hate it. Not much middle ground. I will be watching more episodes.
Never heard of it.
I hadn’t either until it came on the telly after “Unforgotten”, which followed “Darby and Joan”. I don’t remember seeing any ads.
There have been ads. >You must have missed them.
Divine Angel said:
Ian said:
Bloody cyclonical floods..I just got in from cutting up some of the tree that was brought by the southerly buster yesterday arvo. It brought down the power line to the house. Essential energy were pretty quick at sorting it.
Battling little black ant invasion. They seem to think that the standard lamp next to my arm chair is a preferred housing option.
Black snakes on the move…
I also have the ant problem. Thankfully no snakes or rodents but I’m on the lookout. Luckily that tree missed your house!
Thanks. But it’s well clear of the house. There’s about a 70 m run over the paddock where it went down. Thence UG line…
Still, another mess to clean up sometime.
I see the Adelaide hills orchardists have got lorikeets too. I had a few…and then about 5 days ago the whole tree got stripped. I’ve got about half a dozen Granny Smiths netted, but that was all. The lories started with the Red Delicious, moved on to the Jonathans and then started on the not yet ripe Grannies. I have got a bowl of Red Delicious and a bowl of Jonathans inside.
I was going to garden this morning. Didn’t happen. I thought “Before I go out there, I’ll just sweep the back hallway”. Then I discovered that there had been a pissing episode on the gardening shoes at the back door at some stage recently that I’d not noticed, so I ended up not just moving and brushing mats and sweeping the floor, but moving the mats, moving furniture (shelves and stuff) and washing the floor and resetting everything. Now I have to do a bit more dusting and tidying out there.
buffy said:
I see the Adelaide hills orchardists have got lorikeets too. I had a few…and then about 5 days ago the whole tree got stripped. I’ve got about half a dozen Granny Smiths netted, but that was all. The lories started with the Red Delicious, moved on to the Jonathans and then started on the not yet ripe Grannies. I have got a bowl of Red Delicious and a bowl of Jonathans inside.
They love apples. Stripped my neighbours tree and tried to strip mine but I binned all the fruit with fruit fly anyway.
Cockatoos are the likely suspects here. Completely stripped my sister’s avocado tree.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
buffy said:There have been ads. Both on ABC free to air, and on iView. We chose not to watch it.
Had I seen ads, I feel that they would likely have put me off, so I’m glad I didn’t see them.
How’s your iView machine working? (Last I heard, it was difficult to use, or something. Whatever it was, it didn’t make me want to rush out and buy one.)
There are some operator problems. But mostly it’s working.
;)
Ta. What type is it again?
buffy said:
I see the Adelaide hills orchardists have got lorikeets too. I had a few…and then about 5 days ago the whole tree got stripped. I’ve got about half a dozen Granny Smiths netted, but that was all. The lories started with the Red Delicious, moved on to the Jonathans and then started on the not yet ripe Grannies. I have got a bowl of Red Delicious and a bowl of Jonathans inside.
Bummer.
Griffith University criminologist Justin Ready said there had been an increase in private companies in Australia using body-worn cameras.
“I think people are looking for ways to provide a deterrent for individuals who are engaging in violent behaviour on their properties,” Dr Ready said.
However, he said there was no evidence the devices prevented crime.
Dr Ready said the devices were also largely ineffective if people were unaware their interaction was being filmed.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-18/westfield-body-worn-cameras-bondi-junction-stabbing/105061280
***
Er, I thought it was mostly used as evidence when the person was charged with assault.
Divine Angel said:
Griffith University criminologist Justin Ready said there had been an increase in private companies in Australia using body-worn cameras.“I think people are looking for ways to provide a deterrent for individuals who are engaging in violent behaviour on their properties,” Dr Ready said.
However, he said there was no evidence the devices prevented crime.
Dr Ready said the devices were also largely ineffective if people were unaware their interaction was being filmed.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-18/westfield-body-worn-cameras-bondi-junction-stabbing/105061280
***
Er, I thought it was mostly used as evidence when the person was charged with assault.
Knowing that there will be recorded evidence, may provide a small measure of deterrence.
Re: will Prince Harry lose his visa due to admission of past drug use
Mr Trump’s remarks on the issue have been vague.
But in February, as president, Trump told the New York Post that he won’t seek to have Harry removed from the country.
“I don’t want to do that,” he said. “I’ll leave him alone. He’s got enough problems with his wife. She’s terrible.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-18/prince-harry-visa-application-drug-use-admission-us-explainer/105066008
***
LOL!!
Divine Angel said:
Re: will Prince Harry lose his visa due to admission of past drug useMr Trump’s remarks on the issue have been vague.
But in February, as president, Trump told the New York Post that he won’t seek to have Harry removed from the country.
“I don’t want to do that,” he said. “I’ll leave him alone. He’s got enough problems with his wife. She’s terrible.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-18/prince-harry-visa-application-drug-use-admission-us-explainer/105066008
***
LOL!!
He’s disgusting. That Trump idiot.
Divine Angel said:
Re: will Prince Harry lose his visa due to admission of past drug useMr Trump’s remarks on the issue have been vague.
But in February, as president, Trump told the New York Post that he won’t seek to have Harry removed from the country.
“I don’t want to do that,” he said. “I’ll leave him alone. He’s got enough problems with his wife. She’s terrible.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-18/prince-harry-visa-application-drug-use-admission-us-explainer/105066008
***
LOL!!
Translation into MAGA: she’s black.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Re: will Prince Harry lose his visa due to admission of past drug useMr Trump’s remarks on the issue have been vague.
But in February, as president, Trump told the New York Post that he won’t seek to have Harry removed from the country.
“I don’t want to do that,” he said. “I’ll leave him alone. He’s got enough problems with his wife. She’s terrible.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-18/prince-harry-visa-application-drug-use-admission-us-explainer/105066008
***
LOL!!
Translation into MAGA: she’s black.
and a woman.
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Re: will Prince Harry lose his visa due to admission of past drug useMr Trump’s remarks on the issue have been vague.
But in February, as president, Trump told the New York Post that he won’t seek to have Harry removed from the country.
“I don’t want to do that,” he said. “I’ll leave him alone. He’s got enough problems with his wife. She’s terrible.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-18/prince-harry-visa-application-drug-use-admission-us-explainer/105066008
***
LOL!!
Translation into MAGA: she’s black.
and a woman.
Could be worse…he’s saving the N-word….Nasty.
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Re: will Prince Harry lose his visa due to admission of past drug useMr Trump’s remarks on the issue have been vague.
But in February, as president, Trump told the New York Post that he won’t seek to have Harry removed from the country.
“I don’t want to do that,” he said. “I’ll leave him alone. He’s got enough problems with his wife. She’s terrible.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-18/prince-harry-visa-application-drug-use-admission-us-explainer/105066008
***
LOL!!
Translation into MAGA: she’s black.
and a woman.
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Re: will Prince Harry lose his visa due to admission of past drug useMr Trump’s remarks on the issue have been vague.
But in February, as president, Trump told the New York Post that he won’t seek to have Harry removed from the country.
“I don’t want to do that,” he said. “I’ll leave him alone. He’s got enough problems with his wife. She’s terrible.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-18/prince-harry-visa-application-drug-use-admission-us-explainer/105066008
***
LOL!!
Translation into MAGA: she’s black.
and a woman.
IDK about that.. I think you’ll find it’s because she’s one of the best lawyers in the city
diddly-squat said:
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:Translation into MAGA: she’s black.
and a woman.
IDK about that.. I think you’ll find it’s because she’s one of the best lawyers in the city
What?
Hi Rev
Would you be able to most this article for me?
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2471899-gravity-may-arise-from-quantumness-of-space/
kii said:
diddly-squat said:
sarahs mum said:and a woman.
IDK about that.. I think you’ll find it’s because she’s one of the best lawyers in the city
What?
+1
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Re: will Prince Harry lose his visa due to admission of past drug useMr Trump’s remarks on the issue have been vague.
But in February, as president, Trump told the New York Post that he won’t seek to have Harry removed from the country.
“I don’t want to do that,” he said. “I’ll leave him alone. He’s got enough problems with his wife. She’s terrible.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-18/prince-harry-visa-application-drug-use-admission-us-explainer/105066008
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LOL!!
Translation into MAGA: she’s black.
and a woman.
I didn’t think of that.
Neophyte said:
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:Translation into MAGA: she’s black.
and a woman.
Could be worse…he’s saving the N-word….Nasty.
I didn’t think of the N-word either.
I o ly find it funny because it’s an utterly stupid thing to say. As though Harry”s major problem in life is having Maghan as his missus.
sarahs mum said:
kii said:
diddly-squat said:IDK about that.. I think you’ll find it’s because she’s one of the best lawyers in the city
What?
+1
We all know that diddly-squat is an idiot 🙄 probably thinks he’s clever or something something about something.
diddly-squat said:
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:Translation into MAGA: she’s black.
and a woman.
IDK about that.. I think you’ll find it’s because she’s one of the best lawyers in the city
Huh?
Michael V said:
diddly-squat said:
sarahs mum said:and a woman.
IDK about that.. I think you’ll find it’s because she’s one of the best lawyers in the city
Huh?
she has one of the best lawyers.
she’s is a contraction of she has
hth.
Michael V said:
diddly-squat said:
sarahs mum said:and a woman.
IDK about that.. I think you’ll find it’s because she’s one of the best lawyers in the city
Huh?
Oh, I get it. Meghan was an actor who acted the part of a lawyer in a series about the law.
I suppose you are thinking that Trump finds real life and acting indistinguishable.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
diddly-squat said:IDK about that.. I think you’ll find it’s because she’s one of the best lawyers in the city
Huh?
she has one of the best lawyers.
she’s is a contraction of she has
hth.
No. Sorry. It doesn’t.
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:Huh?
she has one of the best lawyers.
she’s is a contraction of she has
hth.
No. Sorry. It doesn’t.
seeing as you don’t get a simple meme i am not surprised.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Hi RevWould you be able to most this article for me?
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2471899-gravity-may-arise-from-quantumness-of-space/
I can do better than that. I’ll post all of it:
Gravity may arise from quantumness of space
Scientists have long sought the particle that carries the force of gravity, but a new theoretical model tosses out that idea entirely – and shows how it could be tested in experiments
By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan
17 March 2025
Do gravity-carrying particles need to exist in order to explain how gravity arises?
All the fundamental forces are thought to be carried by a particle, but a new mathematical model suggests gravity may be a striking exception. Building on a decades-old idea, researchers have revealed a path towards understanding this possibility in detail and testing it experimentally.
Manthos Karydas at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in California says that gravity stands out from the other fundamental forces. One reason for this is that our current best theory of gravity, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, contains exotic objects like black holes where gravity behaves wildly differently than it does anywhere else we know of.
Black holes also exhibit strange properties when it comes to their thermodynamics, the laws that govern their temperature, energy and entropy. Other researchers had previously identified this connection as a possible hint at gravity’s true nature, and the team behind the new work was guided by the same intuition.
Karydas and his colleagues have constructed a gravitational model that reproduces how we experience gravity in our world, but ditches gravitons, the supposed particle carriers of gravity, altogether.
“The rules are, you have to make the model capable of reproducing everything you’ve observed so far. For example, you still need the Earth to orbit the sun stably,” says team member Daniel Carney, also at LBNL.
He says their model accomplishes this – reproducing the gravity that we “know and love” – by considering a situation analogous to a pair of massive pistons with a gas between them. Here, the laws of thermodynamics dictate that gas particles should move to maximise their collective entropy, assuming a very disordered configuration, which eventually makes the pistons move too. Effectively, the pistons are subject to what is known as an entropic force arising from the gas.
The researchers derived equations for gravity as an entropic force, with two massive objects playing the role of pistons and the gas being a collection of quantum bits, or the smallest objects that can carry quantum information. It is commonly thought that two objects gravitationally attract each other by exchanging gravitons, but in this model gravitational attraction emerges from the space around them being filled with quantum objects.
Karydas says this is the first time the idea, which was originally put forward in 1995, has been developed in enough detail to make predictions for specific physical scenarios, including several laboratory experiments that are currently being built.
He and his team calculated what researchers may measure in these experiments, which will probe whether gravity can link two objects through quantum entanglement, as well as other experiments examining random fluctuations called noise that should arise due to how the force of gravity is distributed across space. They completed these calculations for several different versions of their model so that it can be either fully ruled out or further refined based on future experimental findings.
“The kind of question we were driven by was: ‘So what? What does change in what we can observe?’,” says team member Jacob Taylor at the University of Maryland.
Denys Bondar at Tulane University in Louisiana says the connection to realistic experiments is often difficult to achieve for novel models of gravity, so the new work presents a significant step forward in the debate about gravity’s true nature. “Over the last decade, we have tremendous progress in not only quantum, but also gravitational measurements, so I am very optimistic that we will soon have more inputs from experimentalists,” he says.
Carney says he and his colleagues also must work on many more mathematical tests for their model, such as teasing out how it may reproduce all the features of general relativity.
Reference
arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2502.17575
Michael V said:
Michael V said:
diddly-squat said:IDK about that.. I think you’ll find it’s because she’s one of the best lawyers in the city
Huh?
Oh, I get it. Meghan was an actor who acted the part of a lawyer in a series about the law.
I suppose you are thinking that Trump finds real life and acting indistinguishable.
Well, it’s difficult for him, as he’s shit at both.
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Michael V said:Had I seen ads, I feel that they would likely have put me off, so I’m glad I didn’t see them.
How’s your iView machine working? (Last I heard, it was difficult to use, or something. Whatever it was, it didn’t make me want to rush out and buy one.)
There are some operator problems. But mostly it’s working.
;)
Ta. What type is it again?
fetch
Sorry, went away to do more cleaning and watch Dr Who.
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:Huh?
she has one of the best lawyers.
she’s is a contraction of she has
hth.
No. Sorry. It doesn’t.
It does, y’know.
If we say ‘she’s got a good lawyer’, we’re just contracting ‘she has got a good lawyer’.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:she has one of the best lawyers.
she’s is a contraction of she has
hth.
No. Sorry. It doesn’t.
seeing as you don’t get a simple meme i am not surprised.
Oooh!
Having a shot at one of my disabilities, eh?
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
Michael V said:Huh?
Oh, I get it. Meghan was an actor who acted the part of a lawyer in a series about the law.
I suppose you are thinking that Trump finds real life and acting indistinguishable.
Well, it’s difficult for him, as he’s shit at both.
LOL
Michael V said:
Michael V said:
diddly-squat said:IDK about that.. I think you’ll find it’s because she’s one of the best lawyers in the city
Huh?
Oh, I get it. Meghan was an actor who acted the part of a lawyer in a series about the law.
I suppose you are thinking that Trump finds real life and acting indistinguishable.
That’s what I was thinking.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
buffy said:There are some operator problems. But mostly it’s working.
;)
Ta. What type is it again?
fetch
Sorry, went away to do more cleaning and watch Dr Who.
Thanks.
:)
Michael V said:
Michael V said:
diddly-squat said:IDK about that.. I think you’ll find it’s because she’s one of the best lawyers in the city
Huh?
Oh, I get it. Meghan was an actor who acted the part of a lawyer in a series about the law.
I suppose you are thinking that Trump finds real life and acting indistinguishable.
so diddly’s comment makes perfect sense then? good to see he isn’t an idiot.
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
Michael V said:Huh?
Oh, I get it. Meghan was an actor who acted the part of a lawyer in a series about the law.
I suppose you are thinking that Trump finds real life and acting indistinguishable.
so diddly’s comment makes perfect sense then? good to see he isn’t an idiot.
Divine Angel said:
Griffith University criminologist Justin Ready said there had been an increase in private companies in Australia using body-worn cameras.“I think people are looking for ways to provide a deterrent for individuals who are engaging in violent behaviour on their properties,” Dr Ready said.
However, he said there was no evidence the devices prevented crime.
Dr Ready said the devices were also largely ineffective if people were unaware their interaction was being filmed.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-18/westfield-body-worn-cameras-bondi-junction-stabbing/105061280
***
Er, I thought it was mostly used as evidence when the person was charged with assault.
yes.. I’m hoping that the comment was taken out of context.. because any criminologist with half a brain knows why people wear body cameras.
Thanks Rev.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Thanks Rev.
I hadn’t considered that some (a lot of?) Forumites would not realise that there was an ‘old’ bridge, and that the current bridge is the ‘new’ bridge.
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Thanks Rev.
I hadn’t considered that some (a lot of?) Forumites would not realise that there was an ‘old’ bridge, and that the current bridge is the ‘new’ bridge.
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Thanks Rev.
I hadn’t considered that some (a lot of?) Forumites would not realise that there was an ‘old’ bridge, and that the current bridge is the ‘new’ bridge.
Nah I’m referring to the ‘New Scientist’ article Rev kindly posted.
Made a dr appointment for the first time in several years. There’s a bulk billing, no appointments needed clinic nearby that I’ve been using, but it’s now so popular that the wait time is about four hours.
So I’ve chosen a practice that I stopped going to when I was pregnant with Mini Me because the dr there wouldn’t give me a pertussis vax even though it was recommended. That Dr has since left.
They’ve sent me a link to describe why I’m seeing the dr, which I think saves a ton of time once I get there and they can have everything ready before my arrival.
And here’s your reminder that whatever bits you have, get ‘em checked.
Divine Angel said:
Made a dr appointment for the first time in several years. There’s a bulk billing, no appointments needed clinic nearby that I’ve been using, but it’s now so popular that the wait time is about four hours.So I’ve chosen a practice that I stopped going to when I was pregnant with Mini Me because the dr there wouldn’t give me a pertussis vax even though it was recommended. That Dr has since left.
They’ve sent me a link to describe why I’m seeing the dr, which I think saves a ton of time once I get there and they can have everything ready before my arrival.
And here’s your reminder that whatever bits you have, get ‘em checked.
Mr buffy saw an endocrinologist this morning and his medications have been rearranged. He will be using insulin and an oral medication and get rid of the Ozempic and Janumet. We are hoping this will fix the gut problems he has been having lately. He’s had them for a long time, but they are getting worse. Suspect getting more sensitized to the medications.
Hope it all works well for Mr buffy’s tummy.
Divine Angel said:
Hope it all works well for Mr buffy’s tummy.
Me too.
Right you people who drink alcohol. When I was cleaning up I found a bottle of Boston Bay Riesling (2008). I used to drink Riesling in small quantities. (sometimes with orange juice…). I think I’ll open it and see if it is still drinkable. It still looks to be clear.
I also found a bottle of Wolf Blass Red Label Chardonnay (2005). I suspect that is going to be horrible. But I might give it a try at some stage. It’s so old now a few more weeks won’t matter.
Both bottles have been stored on their sides in an area that is relatively dark and cool(ish).
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Hope it all works well for Mr buffy’s tummy.
Me too.
So do I. It’s getting hard to handle.
buffy said:
Right you people who drink alcohol. When I was cleaning up I found a bottle of Boston Bay Riesling (2008). I used to drink Riesling in small quantities. (sometimes with orange juice…). I think I’ll open it and see if it is still drinkable. It still looks to be clear.I also found a bottle of Wolf Blass Red Label Chardonnay (2005). I suspect that is going to be horrible. But I might give it a try at some stage. It’s so old now a few more weeks won’t matter.
Both bottles have been stored on their sides in an area that is relatively dark and cool(ish).
Good luck. That’s pretty old for chardy but the riesling might be very good.
Divine Angel said:
Hope it all works well for Mr buffy’s tummy.
+1
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
Made a dr appointment for the first time in several years. There’s a bulk billing, no appointments needed clinic nearby that I’ve been using, but it’s now so popular that the wait time is about four hours.So I’ve chosen a practice that I stopped going to when I was pregnant with Mini Me because the dr there wouldn’t give me a pertussis vax even though it was recommended. That Dr has since left.
They’ve sent me a link to describe why I’m seeing the dr, which I think saves a ton of time once I get there and they can have everything ready before my arrival.
And here’s your reminder that whatever bits you have, get ‘em checked.
Mr buffy saw an endocrinologist this morning and his medications have been rearranged. He will be using insulin and an oral medication and get rid of the Ozempic and Janumet. We are hoping this will fix the gut problems he has been having lately. He’s had them for a long time, but they are getting worse. Suspect getting more sensitized to the medications.
I will go and the the cardiologist for the first time ever next week… I am hoping they will say I can come off all the remaining meds I am on, and I will stop feeling light headed everytime I get up.
I still take some pain medication but that’s only because I am so sick of feeling pain and discomfort that it’s just nice to not be reminded what has happened. I could live with the discomfort but why should I when we have drugs to help?
Arts said:
I still take some pain medication but that’s only because I am so sick of feeling pain and discomfort that it’s just nice to not be reminded what has happened. I could live with the discomfort but why should I when we have drugs to help?
Exactly my attitude with childbirth lol. Fuck those people who say pain is part of the process. Gimme all the drugs!
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:I still take some pain medication but that’s only because I am so sick of feeling pain and discomfort that it’s just nice to not be reminded what has happened. I could live with the discomfort but why should I when we have drugs to help?
Exactly my attitude with childbirth lol. Fuck those people who say pain is part of the process. Gimme all the drugs!
I’ll be getting pain relief friday morning. no, i’m not giving birth. getting a thing cut out of my ankle by the Queen of Melanomas.
My cousin died from melanoma a year or so ago. Early thirties, didn’t see a dr til it was too late. Died a month later. It’ll get ya.
Divine Angel said:
My cousin died from melanoma a year or so ago. Early thirties, didn’t see a dr til it was too late. Died a month later. It’ll get ya.
these aren’t the really bad ones but can be if left too long. I forget what type they are.
Arts said:
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
Made a dr appointment for the first time in several years. There’s a bulk billing, no appointments needed clinic nearby that I’ve been using, but it’s now so popular that the wait time is about four hours.So I’ve chosen a practice that I stopped going to when I was pregnant with Mini Me because the dr there wouldn’t give me a pertussis vax even though it was recommended. That Dr has since left.
They’ve sent me a link to describe why I’m seeing the dr, which I think saves a ton of time once I get there and they can have everything ready before my arrival.
And here’s your reminder that whatever bits you have, get ‘em checked.
Mr buffy saw an endocrinologist this morning and his medications have been rearranged. He will be using insulin and an oral medication and get rid of the Ozempic and Janumet. We are hoping this will fix the gut problems he has been having lately. He’s had them for a long time, but they are getting worse. Suspect getting more sensitized to the medications.
I will go and the the cardiologist for the first time ever next week… I am hoping they will say I can come off all the remaining meds I am on, and I will stop feeling light headed everytime I get up.
I still take some pain medication but that’s only because I am so sick of feeling pain and discomfort that it’s just nice to not be reminded what has happened. I could live with the discomfort but why should I when we have drugs to help?
I am still on my two medicines for lowering blood pressure and slowing heart rate.
Yeah my cousin had symptoms for about a year. Never noticed changes because the spots were on his back, but felt non-specific unwell for a year before he died.
JudgeMental said:
Divine Angel said:
My cousin died from melanoma a year or so ago. Early thirties, didn’t see a dr til it was too late. Died a month later. It’ll get ya.
these aren’t the really bad ones but can be if left too long. I forget what type they are.
squamous.
what’s this all about then
Is it mouldy poo or did a dog eat a bird?
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:
diddly-squat said:IDK about that.. I think you’ll find it’s because she’s one of the best lawyers in the city
Huh?
she has one of the best lawyers.
she’s is a contraction of she has
hth.
no, my comment was in regard to Trump mistaking her for the character she plays on TV
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:I still take some pain medication but that’s only because I am so sick of feeling pain and discomfort that it’s just nice to not be reminded what has happened. I could live with the discomfort but why should I when we have drugs to help?
Exactly my attitude with childbirth lol. Fuck those people who say pain is part of the process. Gimme all the drugs!
Please step right this way Ms Casey
diddly-squat said:
JudgeMental said:
Michael V said:Huh?
she has one of the best lawyers.
she’s is a contraction of she has
hth.
no, my comment was in regard to Trump mistaking her for the character she plays on TV
yes. my comment still stands as another interpretation though.
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:I still take some pain medication but that’s only because I am so sick of feeling pain and discomfort that it’s just nice to not be reminded what has happened. I could live with the discomfort but why should I when we have drugs to help?
Exactly my attitude with childbirth lol. Fuck those people who say pain is part of the process. Gimme all the drugs!
Please step right this way Ms Casey
Please enjoy all drugs equally
https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#448bf9773d78 tells me that Musk is still well over $100 billion ahead of No. 2 (Bezos).
Divine Angel said:
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:Exactly my attitude with childbirth lol. Fuck those people who say pain is part of the process. Gimme all the drugs!
Please step right this way Ms Casey
Please enjoy all drugs equally
but, but, some I enjoyed more than others.
JudgeMental said:
diddly-squat said:
JudgeMental said:she has one of the best lawyers.
she’s is a contraction of she has
hth.
no, my comment was in regard to Trump mistaking her for the character she plays on TV
yes. my comment still stands as another interpretation though.
yes..
SCIENCE said:
what’s this all about then
27 8 by 10 colour glossy photographs with the circles and the arrows?
captain_spalding said:
SCIENCE said:what’s this all about then
27 8 by 10 colour glossy photographs with the circles and the arrows?
Where’s the po lice cars?
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
SCIENCE said:what’s this all about then
27 8 by 10 colour glossy photographs with the circles and the arrows?
Where’s the po lice cars?
You only have to ask.
You know that you can get anything you want.
Divine Angel said:
My cousin died from melanoma a year or so ago. Early thirties, didn’t see a dr til it was too late. Died a month later. It’ll get ya.
:(
Mrs V’s brother died from melanoma. Spread to his brain.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
My cousin died from melanoma a year or so ago. Early thirties, didn’t see a dr til it was too late. Died a month later. It’ll get ya.
:(
Mrs V’s brother died from melanoma. Spread to his brain.
Yeesh!
SCIENCE said:
what’s this all about then
A bit more context would be useful. Perhaps somebody’s scribbled green emu footprints over a photo of leaves and rock.
Michael V said:
SCIENCE said:what’s this all about then
A bit more context would be useful. Perhaps somebody’s scribbled green emu footprints over a photo of leaves and rock.
Emus can be a problem.
Green emus are real trouble.
captain_spalding said:
SCIENCE said:what’s this all about then
27 8 by 10 colour glossy photographs with the circles and the arrows?
I can’t see any circles.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:27 8 by 10 colour glossy photographs with the circles and the arrows?
Where’s the po lice cars?
You only have to ask.
You know that you can get anything you want.
At Alice’s Restaurant?
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
SCIENCE said:what’s this all about then
27 8 by 10 colour glossy photographs with the circles and the arrows?
I can’t see any circles.
Well, no-one ever said that every one of the 27 had both circles AND arrows.
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:27 8 by 10 colour glossy photographs with the circles and the arrows?
I can’t see any circles.
Well, no-one ever said that every one of the 27 had both circles AND arrows.
Oh. I suppose not.
I have seen emu footprints carved onto horizontal rock outcrops around Sydney. The emu markings guided me to other carved rock faces. One of these trails went from French’s Forest to Narrabeen, roughly following Middle Creek via Oxford Falls (Wakehurst Parkway).
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:I can’t see any circles.
Well, no-one ever said that every one of the 27 had both circles AND arrows.
Oh. I suppose not.
I have seen emu footprints carved onto horizontal rock outcrops around Sydney. The emu markings guided me to other carved rock faces. One of these trails went from French’s Forest to Narrabeen, roughly following Middle Creek via Oxford Falls (Wakehurst Parkway).
Wow, that must have been a fascinating hike (no sarcasm).
Divine Angel said:
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:Exactly my attitude with childbirth lol. Fuck those people who say pain is part of the process. Gimme all the drugs!
Please step right this way Ms Casey
Please enjoy all drugs equally
Total sensory deprivation.
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:Well, no-one ever said that every one of the 27 had both circles AND arrows.
Oh. I suppose not.
I have seen emu footprints carved onto horizontal rock outcrops around Sydney. The emu markings guided me to other carved rock faces. One of these trails went from French’s Forest to Narrabeen, roughly following Middle Creek via Oxford Falls (Wakehurst Parkway).
Wow, that must have been a fascinating hike (no sarcasm).
Yes it was. All easy walking – no cliffs despite the ups and downs.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:27 8 by 10 colour glossy photographs with the circles and the arrows?
Where’s the po lice cars?
You only have to ask.
You know that you can get anything you want.
Excepting Alice.
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:I can’t see any circles.
Well, no-one ever said that every one of the 27 had both circles AND arrows.
Oh. I suppose not.
I have seen emu footprints carved onto horizontal rock outcrops around Sydney. The emu markings guided me to other carved rock faces. One of these trails went from French’s Forest to Narrabeen, roughly following Middle Creek via Oxford Falls (Wakehurst Parkway).
Awesome.
Today’s the first day in about five or six months I haven’t had the fan on.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
Divine Angel said:
SCIENCE said:
what’s this all about then
Is it mouldy poo or did a dog eat a bird?
27 8 by 10 colour glossy photographs with the circles and the arrows?
Where’s the po lice cars?
You only have to ask.
You know that you can get anything you want.
A bit more context would be useful. Perhaps somebody’s scribbled green emu footprints over a photo of leaves and rock.
Emus can be a problem.
Green emus are real trouble.
I can’t see any circles.
At Alice’s Restaurant?
Well, no-one ever said that every one of the 27 had both circles AND arrows.
Oh. I suppose not.
I have seen emu footprints carved onto horizontal rock outcrops around Sydney. The emu markings guided me to other carved rock faces. One of these trails went from French’s Forest to Narrabeen, roughly following Middle Creek via Oxford Falls (Wakehurst Parkway).
Wow, that must have been a fascinating hike (no sarcasm).
Yes it was. All easy walking – no cliffs despite the ups and downs.
Excepting Alice.
Awesome.
yeah sorry we just went out for a stroll and in one area there were heaps of these little downy red tipped feathers but it didn’t look like combat so we just wondered if it was a big moult or we need to learn how better to look for evidence of combat
we added the green arrows to mark out the feathers more visibly
A good reminder for me to stop worrying about all my treasures that are packed away. One day I can start again.
Anya is a twister of wire & words. Repurposer of unloved books. Finder of forgotten things.
Anya is the creator & curator of a compendium of curious creatures discovered during explorations and adventurings.
She works from a teeny tiny workshop which is stuffed to the rafters with boxes of bits & drawers of bobs. The creatures live in the nooks & crannies and cause mischief at night……it’s either that or she’s a little bit messy….. .
Interesting perspective on the rambling speeches, I hadn’t considered this before.
Lee Goodman:
“Maybe it’s the drugs.
The hours-long monologues at rallies, remarkable for someone his age. Maybe they are fueled by some substance that gives him energy, that make it impossible for him to stop talking until it wears off and he has to crash.
The incoherent stream-of-consciousness babble that makes one wonder if he knows or cares what he is saying. Jumping from topic to topic, abandoning logic and ignoring truth, shifting mid-sentence from present to past and back until no one knows if he is talking about what is going on now or something he saw in a movie as a child. Leaving us wondering if he could find his way home if someone wasn’t driving him.
The policy shifts, imposing and withdrawing orders with no apparent regard for the consequences of what he is doing. The inconsistencies from one day to another, from one moment to another, then laughing it off and poking fun at those around him. Calling people names, then saying what wonderful people they are, not pausing before firing someone for failing to show obeisance, not hesitating to hire people whom he excoriated the day before.
The insistence that he always be the center of attention, oblivious to the feelings of others. Euphoric when the cameras are on him, pouting when he has to listen to anyone else, shifting in his seat, restless to regain control of the situation. Storming out of rooms, then turning back to deliver an insult or a threat. Throwing tantrums as if he was a petulant toddler.
The frequent trips back to his walled private compound, where he can do things unobserved, unrecorded in government logs and diaries. Where he can perhaps obtain substances from people unknown and unreported. Where he can sleep off whatever has been coursing through him. Where he can spend hours recuperating in isolation, on a golf course, distant enough from the cameras and microphones, not having to answer questions or appear to be alert or mentally competent.
Maybe it’s the drugs, having taken their toll over so many years, causing irreversible damage, making him dependent, rendering him susceptible to manipulation without his even knowing it. Leaving him unconcerned that he has turned over his duties to people who are unelected, unaccountable.
Maybe he isn’t deliberately trying to help Russia dominate, to allow fanatics to eviscerate federal agencies, to enable people with anti-social agendas to reverse decades of progress on civil rights, to empower those who have too much power already. Maybe he just doesn’t care about anything other than getting his next fix so he can feel good. Maybe he’s just another addict, but one who happens to be in an exceptional situation.
Maybe his rhetoric about fentanyl is just a ruse, like a fundamentalist preacher railing about child abuse to conceal his own abusive behavior. Maybe his attacks on immigrants, on our longstanding European allies, on environmentalists, on whatever jumps into his addled mind at any particular moment, are nothing more than a distraction from his own deterioration.
Maybe the makeup and hair dye aren’t just vanity. Maybe they are a manifestation of an internal struggle to reconcile a disjointed, dysfunctional reality with a more pleasing chemically induced view of the world. Like an aging starlet spending hours in front of the mirror trying to recreate lost glamour.
Maybe it’s the drugs.”
kii said:
Interesting perspective on the rambling speeches, I hadn’t considered this before.Lee Goodman:
“Maybe it’s the drugs.
The hours-long monologues at rallies, remarkable for someone his age. Maybe they are fueled by some substance that gives him energy, that make it impossible for him to stop talking until it wears off and he has to crash.
The incoherent stream-of-consciousness babble that makes one wonder if he knows or cares what he is saying. Jumping from topic to topic, abandoning logic and ignoring truth, shifting mid-sentence from present to past and back until no one knows if he is talking about what is going on now or something he saw in a movie as a child. Leaving us wondering if he could find his way home if someone wasn’t driving him.
The policy shifts, imposing and withdrawing orders with no apparent regard for the consequences of what he is doing. The inconsistencies from one day to another, from one moment to another, then laughing it off and poking fun at those around him. Calling people names, then saying what wonderful people they are, not pausing before firing someone for failing to show obeisance, not hesitating to hire people whom he excoriated the day before.
The insistence that he always be the center of attention, oblivious to the feelings of others. Euphoric when the cameras are on him, pouting when he has to listen to anyone else, shifting in his seat, restless to regain control of the situation. Storming out of rooms, then turning back to deliver an insult or a threat. Throwing tantrums as if he was a petulant toddler.
The frequent trips back to his walled private compound, where he can do things unobserved, unrecorded in government logs and diaries. Where he can perhaps obtain substances from people unknown and unreported. Where he can sleep off whatever has been coursing through him. Where he can spend hours recuperating in isolation, on a golf course, distant enough from the cameras and microphones, not having to answer questions or appear to be alert or mentally competent.
Maybe it’s the drugs, having taken their toll over so many years, causing irreversible damage, making him dependent, rendering him susceptible to manipulation without his even knowing it. Leaving him unconcerned that he has turned over his duties to people who are unelected, unaccountable.
Maybe he isn’t deliberately trying to help Russia dominate, to allow fanatics to eviscerate federal agencies, to enable people with anti-social agendas to reverse decades of progress on civil rights, to empower those who have too much power already. Maybe he just doesn’t care about anything other than getting his next fix so he can feel good. Maybe he’s just another addict, but one who happens to be in an exceptional situation.
Maybe his rhetoric about fentanyl is just a ruse, like a fundamentalist preacher railing about child abuse to conceal his own abusive behavior. Maybe his attacks on immigrants, on our longstanding European allies, on environmentalists, on whatever jumps into his addled mind at any particular moment, are nothing more than a distraction from his own deterioration.
Maybe the makeup and hair dye aren’t just vanity. Maybe they are a manifestation of an internal struggle to reconcile a disjointed, dysfunctional reality with a more pleasing chemically induced view of the world. Like an aging starlet spending hours in front of the mirror trying to recreate lost glamour.
Maybe it’s the drugs.”
Good find.
The dusty gritty wind is back, and something is loose on my roof.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 9 degrees at the back door, quiet and still. We are forecast a sunny 30 degrees today. Overnight I finally caught the Clever Mouse. It has been taking the bait from the trap for some time without triggering the trap. It must have got careless at last.
Supermarketing this morning. Mr buffy will go with me to get some blood tests done and pick up his new drug regime from the pharmacy. Archery this afternoon.
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
Excepting Alice.
Awesome.
yeah sorry we just went out for a stroll and in one area there were heaps of these little downy red tipped feathers but it didn’t look like combat so we just wondered if it was a big moult or we need to learn how better to look for evidence of combat
we added the green arrows to mark out the feathers more visibly
It is usually sone by a cat but occasionally it has been done by a raptor. Sounds like it used to be a parrot.
Overcast and a high of 25. Walkies by myself again as walking friend has made breakfast plans. I’ll be listening to the playlist from 1989 again.
Mini Me has her dance concert at assembly this afternoon so I’ll be going to that. After school I have a dr appointment and that’s about it really. For the past two days I’ve received job rejection emails but I didn’t expect those applications to get anywhere anyway. Maybe I can make it three days in a row!
My letterbox is full of dirt.
Morning pilgrims.
A bull must have got in and had his wicked way.
They were outside my window this morning.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims.
A bull must have got in and had his wicked way.
They were outside my window this morning.
Should fill your freezer nicely.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims.
A bull must have got in and had his wicked way.
They were outside my window this morning.
Should fill your freezer nicely.
They’ll go in sideways.
kii said:
My letterbox is full of dirt.
Why my letterbox is full of dirt.
kii said:
My letterbox is full of dirt.
Mine’s full of bugs. I can’t remember the last time we got actual mail in there, it’s all real estate and religious shit. I wonder what would happen if I just got rid of it altogether?
kii said:
kii said:
My letterbox is full of dirt.Why my letterbox is full of dirt.
… That’s actually quite an impressive windstorm. I read about its effects on Texas; NM was not mentioned in the article.
kii said:
kii said:
My letterbox is full of dirt.Why my letterbox is full of dirt.
Bugger.
I am beginning to hate wind-blown grit.
I hope the wind settles down for you.
Divine Angel said:
kii said:
kii said:
My letterbox is full of dirt.Why my letterbox is full of dirt.
… That’s actually quite an impressive windstorm. I read about its effects on Texas; NM was not mentioned in the article.
About 4 days ago Texas was hit really hard, around Amarillo.
Michael V said:
kii said:
kii said:
My letterbox is full of dirt.Why my letterbox is full of dirt.
Bugger.
I am beginning to hate wind-blown grit.
I hope the wind settles down for you.
Stop whinging. I don’t even have a letterbox.
Tamb said:
Michael V said:
kii said:Why my letterbox is full of dirt.
Bugger.
I am beginning to hate wind-blown grit.
I hope the wind settles down for you.
Stop whinging. I don’t even have a letterbox.
I’m not whinging, I’m stating facts. There is a dust storm warning. The wind is blowing dirt into my letterbox, making it full of dirt.
kii said:
Tamb said:
Michael V said:Bugger.
I am beginning to hate wind-blown grit.
I hope the wind settles down for you.
Stop whinging. I don’t even have a letterbox.
I’m not whinging, I’m stating facts. There is a dust storm warning. The wind is blowing dirt into my letterbox, making it full of dirt.
kii said:
Tamb said:
Michael V said:Bugger.
I am beginning to hate wind-blown grit.
I hope the wind settles down for you.
Stop whinging. I don’t even have a letterbox.
I’m not whinging, I’m stating facts. There is a dust storm warning. The wind is blowing dirt into my letterbox, making it full of dirt.
There was time when young boys were encouraged to push Grit into letterboxes.
Tamb said:
Michael V said:
kii said:Why my letterbox is full of dirt.
Bugger.
I am beginning to hate wind-blown grit.
I hope the wind settles down for you.
Stop whinging. I don’t even have a letterbox.
Oi!
Neither do I.
To the Post Office for mail…
Michael V said:
Tamb said:
Michael V said:Bugger.
I am beginning to hate wind-blown grit.
I hope the wind settles down for you.
Stop whinging. I don’t even have a letterbox.
Oi!
Neither do I.
To the Post Office for mail…
Same here. But I do get plenty of red dust. Heaps of it.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
Tamb said:Stop whinging. I don’t even have a letterbox.
Oi!
Neither do I.
To the Post Office for mail…
Same here. But I do get plenty of red dust. Heaps of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_On_(British_TV_series)
Watching this. It’s hysterical. Also – Peter Capaldi.
Don’t let Allllex watch it.
New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum’s message today.
Random cow.
Well yeah, it’s not a real storm until a cow flies by.
An interesting theory re: Severance. Ricken is a goat’s outie.
Evidence: he has a goatee, lots of goat-related things in his house, The You You Are could be called The Ewe You Are…
kii said:
New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum’s message today.
Random cow.
Another fine mess. Thanks, Joe Biden!
Elon has returned the astronauts safely to their home planet.
Peak Warming Man said:
Elon has returned the astronauts safely to their home planet.
Now imagine you’re one of the astronauts. You hear Musk is sending up a rescue rocket. In this hypothetical, you’re completely aware of his actions on Earth. Who knows when the next rescue may be possible?
Your moral dilemma: be rescued by Musk or stay in space indefinitely?
Divine Angel said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Elon has returned the astronauts safely to their home planet.
Now imagine you’re one of the astronauts. You hear Musk is sending up a rescue rocket. In this hypothetical, you’re completely aware of his actions on Earth. Who knows when the next rescue may be possible?
Your moral dilemma: be rescued by Musk or stay in space indefinitely?
I’d come back but graffiti the inside of the capsule with choice words.
Divine Angel said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Elon has returned the astronauts safely to their home planet.
Now imagine you’re one of the astronauts. You hear Musk is sending up a rescue rocket. In this hypothetical, you’re completely aware of his actions on Earth. Who knows when the next rescue may be possible?
Your moral dilemma: be rescued by Musk or stay in space indefinitely?
Declare you have seceded from Earth and are now an independent principality.
Open trade talks with the Chinese.
Divine Angel said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Elon has returned the astronauts safely to their home planet.
Now imagine you’re one of the astronauts. You hear Musk is sending up a rescue rocket. In this hypothetical, you’re completely aware of his actions on Earth. Who knows when the next rescue may be possible?
Your moral dilemma: be rescued by Musk or stay in space indefinitely?
I bet they will take weeks to be able to walk properly again.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/quick-smart/would-you-fall-in-love-with-an-ai-chatbot-/104839258?
A school dad I know lost his wife to cancer 2 years ago. Fancying himself a master coder, he’s built (or modified) an AI chatbot with his wife’s name and “taught” it to say things his late wife would say. So yes, he’s fallen in love with an AI chatbot.
He’s also used AI to produce songs and release them on Spotify. Angry songs, he’s angry at the government, particularly Centrelink.
If you too want to play around with AI music, we’ve used https://suno.com/home for fun. Any subject, any style, any genre. Make a song about how much your pet loves to chase rabbits in their dream. Make a song about your garden or your dinner or your hatred for the world.
Neophyte said:
Divine Angel said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Elon has returned the astronauts safely to their home planet.
Now imagine you’re one of the astronauts. You hear Musk is sending up a rescue rocket. In this hypothetical, you’re completely aware of his actions on Earth. Who knows when the next rescue may be possible?
Your moral dilemma: be rescued by Musk or stay in space indefinitely?
Declare you have seceded from Earth and are now an independent principality.
Open trade talks with the Chinese.
Peak Warming Man said:
Elon has returned the astronauts safely to their home planet.
Thank Trump for that!
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Elon has returned the astronauts safely to their home planet.
Thank Trump for that!
So people would have used some kind of spacecraft but EM wanted to handle this one personally.
Divine Angel said:
An interesting theory re: Severance. Ricken is a goat’s outie.Evidence: he has a goatee, lots of goat-related things in his house, The You You Are could be called The Ewe You Are…
except ewes are sheep?
Does he drive a jeep?
When Trump sells NASA to Elon there’ll be cars on the moon, cars on Mars, it’ll be cars all the way down.
Divine Angel said:
An interesting theory re: Severance. Ricken is a goat’s outie.Evidence: he has a goatee, lots of goat-related things in his house, The You You Are could be called The Ewe You Are…
I’m not exactly sure how that would work… but funny
Divine Angel said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Elon has returned the astronauts safely to their home planet.
Now imagine you’re one of the astronauts. You hear Musk is sending up a rescue rocket. In this hypothetical, you’re completely aware of his actions on Earth. Who knows when the next rescue may be possible?
Your moral dilemma: be rescued by Musk or stay in space indefinitely?
Well, this is what Butch Wilmore had to say about it. I’ve no idea if this reflects his actual views, but even if he is betraying his own ethics I don’t blame him at all for saying it. Stuck in outer space with your fate in the hands of a couple of maniacs is not a good place to be.
“Obviously we’ve heard some of these uh different things that have been said I can tell you at the outset we have all of us have the utmost respect for Mr Musk and obviously respect and admiration for our president of the United States uh Donald Trump we appreciate them we appreciate all that they do for us of our human space flight, for our Nation um and and we’re thankful that they are in the positions they’re in um the words they’ve said, politics I mean that’s part of life we understand that and there’s an important reason why we have a political system in the political system that we do have and we’re behind it 100% um we know what we’ve lived up here we know that the ins and outs and the specifics that they may not be privy to and I’m sure that they have some issues that they are dealing with information that they have that we are not privy to so when I think about your question um that’s part of life we are on board with it we support our nation we support our nation’s leaders and we’re thankful for them.”
On the BBC last night they had a program on a Russian cosmonaut who almost died doing a space walk.
It was very interesting.
Peak Warming Man said:
On the BBC last night they had a program on a Russian cosmonaut who almost died doing a space walk.
It was very interesting.
the message from ground control that saved him
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JudgeMental said:
Peak Warming Man said:
On the BBC last night they had a program on a Russian cosmonaut who almost died doing a space walk.
It was very interesting.
the message from ground control that saved him
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Ta.
esselte said:
Divine Angel said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Elon has returned the astronauts safely to their home planet.
Now imagine you’re one of the astronauts. You hear Musk is sending up a rescue rocket. In this hypothetical, you’re completely aware of his actions on Earth. Who knows when the next rescue may be possible?
Your moral dilemma: be rescued by Musk or stay in space indefinitely?
Well, this is what Butch Wilmore had to say about it. I’ve no idea if this reflects his actual views, but even if he is betraying his own ethics I don’t blame him at all for saying it. Stuck in outer space with your fate in the hands of a couple of maniacs is not a good place to be.
“Obviously we’ve heard some of these uh different things that have been said I can tell you at the outset we have all of us have the utmost respect for Mr Musk and obviously respect and admiration for our president of the United States uh Donald Trump we appreciate them we appreciate all that they do for us of our human space flight, for our Nation um and and we’re thankful that they are in the positions they’re in um the words they’ve said, politics I mean that’s part of life we understand that and there’s an important reason why we have a political system in the political system that we do have and we’re behind it 100% um we know what we’ve lived up here we know that the ins and outs and the specifics that they may not be privy to and I’m sure that they have some issues that they are dealing with information that they have that we are not privy to so when I think about your question um that’s part of life we are on board with it we support our nation we support our nation’s leaders and we’re thankful for them.”
superior orders is so good to have
Peak Warming Man said:
When Trump sells NASA to Elon there’ll be cars on the moon, cars on Mars, it’ll be cars all the way down.
‘e means ‘kas
Ford Model T – Motoring Over Ben Nevis (1911) Rare Footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaNgYhvmtzA
As publicity stunts go, this 1911 ascent up all 1,344 meters of Britain’s highest peak in a Ford Model T takes some beating – fancy taking a Prius for a spin on the moon? The idea was to show that this ‘affordable’ assembly line American car could more than match the hand-crafted British models (note the American flag at the end of the film). Interestingly, the film starts at the snowy summit and seems to capture the tricky descent rather than the climb.
Behind the wheel was Henry Alexander Jr, the son of Scotland’s first Ford dealer, and between the 9th and the 13th of May, with much planning, the steady ascent was made. Looking at the churning tyres and the odd spot of dynamite along the way the prevailing thought is perhaps “You did it!… But please don’t do it again.”
Is “patting as a reward” or just our assumption, or does it even cause discomfort to the horse? Horses are generally very sensitive to touch. Different riders use different forces to “reward” them. From a light pat to a strong slap. A small team of scientists from the University of Nottingham Trent set out to investigate the different effects of patting and scratching horses while riding or handling them.
In the first part of the study, 16 Grand Prix dressage riders at the London 2012 Olympic Games were analyzed. The aim was to find out how and when riders pat their horses, and to monitor the horses’ subsequent reactions. Fifteen riders patted their horses, and twelve of them remained patting for an average of 1 minute. A significant percentage of the horses responded to the patting. The most common response was to speed up their pace or to trot. Such a response could indicate that the patting was unpleasant for the horse. It could also be a reaction to losing contact and dropping the reins.
The second part of the study involved a group of five well-behaved riding ponies and five relatively calm horses. All ten horses were patted and scratched four times for 30 seconds. The responses to the patting and scratching were significantly different. The patting caused the horses to withdraw from the touch, the whites of the eyes to be visible, and the breathing to be rapid. The response to the scratching seemed to be much more effective as a form of praise, with the horses most often lowering their heads, moving their upper lips, and exhibiting similar responses associated with the horse relaxing.
Previous research has shown that scratching the withers reduces a horse’s heart rate and can therefore be a useful calming aid in stressful situations.
Emily Hancock, Sarah Redgate and Carol Hall of Nottingham Trent University. 2014.
esselte said:
Ford Model T – Motoring Over Ben Nevis (1911) Rare Footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaNgYhvmtzA
As publicity stunts go, this 1911 ascent up all 1,344 meters of Britain’s highest peak in a Ford Model T takes some beating – fancy taking a Prius for a spin on the moon? The idea was to show that this ‘affordable’ assembly line American car could more than match the hand-crafted British models (note the American flag at the end of the film). Interestingly, the film starts at the snowy summit and seems to capture the tricky descent rather than the climb.
Behind the wheel was Henry Alexander Jr, the son of Scotland’s first Ford dealer, and between the 9th and the 13th of May, with much planning, the steady ascent was made. Looking at the churning tyres and the odd spot of dynamite along the way the prevailing thought is perhaps “You did it!… But please don’t do it again.”
watching that, cheers
sarahs mum said:
Is “patting as a reward” or just our assumption, or does it even cause discomfort to the horse? Horses are generally very sensitive to touch. Different riders use different forces to “reward” them. From a light pat to a strong slap. A small team of scientists from the University of Nottingham Trent set out to investigate the different effects of patting and scratching horses while riding or handling them.
In the first part of the study, 16 Grand Prix dressage riders at the London 2012 Olympic Games were analyzed. The aim was to find out how and when riders pat their horses, and to monitor the horses’ subsequent reactions. Fifteen riders patted their horses, and twelve of them remained patting for an average of 1 minute. A significant percentage of the horses responded to the patting. The most common response was to speed up their pace or to trot. Such a response could indicate that the patting was unpleasant for the horse. It could also be a reaction to losing contact and dropping the reins.
The second part of the study involved a group of five well-behaved riding ponies and five relatively calm horses. All ten horses were patted and scratched four times for 30 seconds. The responses to the patting and scratching were significantly different. The patting caused the horses to withdraw from the touch, the whites of the eyes to be visible, and the breathing to be rapid. The response to the scratching seemed to be much more effective as a form of praise, with the horses most often lowering their heads, moving their upper lips, and exhibiting similar responses associated with the horse relaxing.
Previous research has shown that scratching the withers reduces a horse’s heart rate and can therefore be a useful calming aid in stressful situations.
Emily Hancock, Sarah Redgate and Carol Hall of Nottingham Trent University. 2014.
Did it mention if the horses associated patting with a command to increase speed ?
I wouldn’t want to be in the situation some of these offenders are in.
Caught with millions of dollars worth of meth.
So you would get jail regardless of any circumstances.
Also then the possibility of retribution for being caught and losing it all
Didn’t give phone access so there is that.
Says no good reason to not allow, so protecting ones life from revenge for dobbing in others doesn’t count.
Cymek said:
I wouldn’t want to be in the situation some of these offenders are in.Caught with millions of dollars worth of meth.
So you would get jail regardless of any circumstances.
Also then the possibility of retribution for being caught and losing it all
Didn’t give phone access so there is that.
Says no good reason to not allow, so protecting ones life from revenge for dobbing in others doesn’t count.
Just use it when they’re close¡
esselte said:
Ford Model T – Motoring Over Ben Nevis (1911) Rare Footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaNgYhvmtzA
As publicity stunts go, this 1911 ascent up all 1,344 meters of Britain’s highest peak in a Ford Model T takes some beating – fancy taking a Prius for a spin on the moon? The idea was to show that this ‘affordable’ assembly line American car could more than match the hand-crafted British models (note the American flag at the end of the film). Interestingly, the film starts at the snowy summit and seems to capture the tricky descent rather than the climb.
Behind the wheel was Henry Alexander Jr, the son of Scotland’s first Ford dealer, and between the 9th and the 13th of May, with much planning, the steady ascent was made. Looking at the churning tyres and the odd spot of dynamite along the way the prevailing thought is perhaps “You did it!… But please don’t do it again.”
I walked to the top of Ben Nevis and back in one day at 11 years old. It’s a difficult walk. Yes, I know people run it. We saw one of those in training whilst we were walking.
Michael V said:
I walked to the top of Ben Nevis and back in one day at 11 years old. It’s a difficult walk. Yes, I know people run it. We saw one of those in training whilst we were walking.
The one that always annoyed me is Mt. Olympus.
The ‘ancient Greeks’ believed that all of the gods lived up there.
Ascending Mt. Olympus, according to those who know, is apparently a not-too-tiring overnight hike.
But, it seems, absolutely none of the ancient Greeks could be arsed to spend a night in a tent (or whatever) to go and have a gawk at the gods.
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:I walked to the top of Ben Nevis and back in one day at 11 years old. It’s a difficult walk. Yes, I know people run it. We saw one of those in training whilst we were walking.
The one that always annoyed me is Mt. Olympus.
The ‘ancient Greeks’ believed that all of the gods lived up there.
Ascending Mt. Olympus, according to those who know, is apparently a not-too-tiring overnight hike.
But, it seems, absolutely none of the ancient Greeks could be arsed to spend a night in a tent (or whatever) to go and have a gawk at the gods.
In tonight’s Hard Quiz, there’s a question about which is harder to climb: Ben Nevis or Mt Olympus.
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:I walked to the top of Ben Nevis and back in one day at 11 years old. It’s a difficult walk. Yes, I know people run it. We saw one of those in training whilst we were walking.
The one that always annoyed me is Mt. Olympus.
The ‘ancient Greeks’ believed that all of the gods lived up there.
Ascending Mt. Olympus, according to those who know, is apparently a not-too-tiring overnight hike.
But, it seems, absolutely none of the ancient Greeks could be arsed to spend a night in a tent (or whatever) to go and have a gawk at the gods.
Maybe there was an apprehended violence order – If you went to check, the gods would likely become violent.
Divine Angel said:
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:I walked to the top of Ben Nevis and back in one day at 11 years old. It’s a difficult walk. Yes, I know people run it. We saw one of those in training whilst we were walking.
The one that always annoyed me is Mt. Olympus.
The ‘ancient Greeks’ believed that all of the gods lived up there.
Ascending Mt. Olympus, according to those who know, is apparently a not-too-tiring overnight hike.
But, it seems, absolutely none of the ancient Greeks could be arsed to spend a night in a tent (or whatever) to go and have a gawk at the gods.
In tonight’s Hard Quiz, there’s a question about which is harder to climb: Ben Nevis or Mt Olympus.
You have been given advance warning of the question. Did they give you the answer too?
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
captain_spalding said:The one that always annoyed me is Mt. Olympus.
The ‘ancient Greeks’ believed that all of the gods lived up there.
Ascending Mt. Olympus, according to those who know, is apparently a not-too-tiring overnight hike.
But, it seems, absolutely none of the ancient Greeks could be arsed to spend a night in a tent (or whatever) to go and have a gawk at the gods.
In tonight’s Hard Quiz, there’s a question about which is harder to climb: Ben Nevis or Mt Olympus.
You have been given advance warning of the question. Did they give you the answer too?
Yes.
Spoiler: it was a tie breaker question. The episode is already on iview, I watched it this morning.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:In tonight’s Hard Quiz, there’s a question about which is harder to climb: Ben Nevis or Mt Olympus.
You have been given advance warning of the question. Did they give you the answer too?
Yes.
Spoiler: it was a tie breaker question. The episode is already on iview, I watched it this morning.
Oh. Care to share?
We’re out this evening.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:You have been given advance warning of the question. Did they give you the answer too?
Yes.
Spoiler: it was a tie breaker question. The episode is already on iview, I watched it this morning.
Oh. Care to share?
We’re out this evening.
I guess the answer isn’t a spoiler. Mt Olympus.
Where ya going? Romantic date?
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:Yes.
Spoiler: it was a tie breaker question. The episode is already on iview, I watched it this morning.
Oh. Care to share?
We’re out this evening.
I guess the answer isn’t a spoiler. Mt Olympus.
Where ya going? Romantic date?
Some restaurant or café in the village where Mrs V saw goat curry on the menu.
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
I walked to the top of Ben Nevis and back in one day at 11 years old. It’s a difficult walk. Yes, I know people run it. We saw one of those in training whilst we were walking.
The one that always annoyed me is Mt. Olympus.
The ‘ancient Greeks’ believed that all of the gods lived up there.
Ascending Mt. Olympus, according to those who know, is apparently a not-too-tiring overnight hike.
But, it seems, absolutely none of the ancient Greeks could be arsed to spend a night in a tent (or whatever) to go and have a gawk at the gods.
Maybe there was an apprehended violence order – If you went to check, the gods would likely become violent.
alternatively consider it may have been the first instance of the monkeys ladder watercannon parable
disclaimer we reckon the parable is a load of bs but yeah
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
The one that always annoyed me is Mt. Olympus.
The ‘ancient Greeks’ believed that all of the gods lived up there.
Ascending Mt. Olympus, according to those who know, is apparently a not-too-tiring overnight hike.
But, it seems, absolutely none of the ancient Greeks could be arsed to spend a night in a tent (or whatever) to go and have a gawk at the gods.
Maybe there was an apprehended violence order – If you went to check, the gods would likely become violent.
alternatively consider it may have been the first instance of the monkeys ladder watercannon parable
disclaimer we reckon the parable is a load of bs but yeah
I have no idea which parable you are referring to.
Michael V said:
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:
Maybe there was an apprehended violence order – If you went to check, the gods would likely become violent.
alternatively consider it may have been the first instance of the monkeys ladder watercannon parable
disclaimer we reckon the parable is a load of bs but yeah
I have no idea which parable you are referring to.
https://www.google.com/search?q=monkeys+ladder+watercannon&oq=monkeys+ladder+watercannon
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:Oh. Care to share?
We’re out this evening.
I guess the answer isn’t a spoiler. Mt Olympus.
Where ya going? Romantic date?
Some restaurant or café in the village where Mrs V saw goat curry on the menu.
Very nice 😊 Enjoy!
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:Oh. Care to share?
We’re out this evening.
I guess the answer isn’t a spoiler. Mt Olympus.
Where ya going? Romantic date?
Some restaurant or café in the village where Mrs V saw goat curry on the menu.
Lucky ducks, sounds good.
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:
SCIENCE said:
alternatively consider it may have been the first instance of the monkeys ladder watercannon parable
disclaimer we reckon the parable is a load of bs but yeah
I have no idea which parable you are referring to.
https://www.google.com/search?q=monkeys+ladder+watercannon&oq=monkeys+ladder+watercannon
OK.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:I guess the answer isn’t a spoiler. Mt Olympus.
Where ya going? Romantic date?
Some restaurant or café in the village where Mrs V saw goat curry on the menu.
Very nice 😊 Enjoy!
Ta.
I’m back – Young NBN contractor came this afternoon and replaced the wall thingie and the roof thingie. We are faster now. And the lights on the wall thingie are all green. Haven’t had that for months.
buffy said:
I’m back – Young NBN contractor came this afternoon and replaced the wall thingie and the roof thingie. We are faster now. And the lights on the wall thingie are all green. Haven’t had that for months.
Glad your thingies work betterer 😀
buffy said:
I’m back – Young NBN contractor came this afternoon and replaced the wall thingie and the roof thingie. We are faster now. And the lights on the wall thingie are all green. Haven’t had that for months.
Sounds like thingie equilibrium has been achieved.
Inspired by DA’s post of Monarch butterflies, I’ve just resurrected a jigsaw-making program I wrote about 15 years ago and made a jigsaw out of the photo. It took me longer than I expected to solve it (10 minutes 48 sec.)
btm said:
Inspired by DA’s post of Monarch butterflies, I’ve just resurrected a jigsaw-making program I wrote about 15 years ago and made a jigsaw out of the photo. It took me longer than I expected to solve it (10 minutes 48 sec.)
How many pieces?
buffy said:
I’m back – Young NBN contractor came this afternoon and replaced the wall thingie and the roof thingie. We are faster now. And the lights on the wall thingie are all green. Haven’t had that for months.
:)
Divine Angel said:
btm said:
Inspired by DA’s post of Monarch butterflies, I’ve just resurrected a jigsaw-making program I wrote about 15 years ago and made a jigsaw out of the photo. It took me longer than I expected to solve it (10 minutes 48 sec.)
How many pieces?
only 2, but I lost the original picture :)
15×15; I can choose a total number of pieces or specify x×y (number or pieces wide by number high).
btm said:
Divine Angel said:
btm said:
Inspired by DA’s post of Monarch butterflies, I’ve just resurrected a jigsaw-making program I wrote about 15 years ago and made a jigsaw out of the photo. It took me longer than I expected to solve it (10 minutes 48 sec.)
How many pieces?
only 2, but I lost the original picture :)
15×15; I can choose a total number of pieces or specify x×y (number or pieces wide by number high).
Sounds fun! Pretty sure any number of pieces would drive me insane
I wonder whether I should watch Avenue 5. I like Hugh Laurie but I never really hear people talking about it.
dv said:
A woman goes to a psychiatrist and the psychiatrist draws a horizontal line and asks her what she sees. She says that’s a naked man laying down. He draws a vertical line and same question. She says that’s a naked man standing up. He draws a ninety degree angle, same question. That’s a naked man sitting down. Psychiatrist said your problem is you’re hopelessly oversexed. She says me oversexed, you’re the one drawing all the nasty pictures.
dv said:
I wonder whether I should watch Avenue 5. I like Hugh Laurie but I never really hear people talking about it.
Okay then.
Totally avoid, it’s utter garbage.
Back from the restaurant/bar/café.
(Burp.)
Oh, excuse me.
Mrs V had the goat curry and yellow vegetable rice – tomatoes, corn etc. I had crispy-batter chicken wings with a very hot spicy sauce. We shared. Both meals were very tasty. Both were really too large for one person. We brought some chicken wings home for Ron. We’ll be going there again, and likely sharing one meal.
:)
btm said:
Inspired by DA’s post of Monarch butterflies, I’ve just resurrected a jigsaw-making program I wrote about 15 years ago and made a jigsaw out of the photo. It took me longer than I expected to solve it (10 minutes 48 sec.)
Nice.
:)
Michael V said:
Back from the restaurant/bar/café.(Burp.)
Oh, excuse me.
Mrs V had the goat curry and yellow vegetable rice – tomatoes, corn etc. I had crispy-batter chicken wings with a very hot spicy sauce. We shared. Both meals were very tasty. Both were really too large for one person. We brought some chicken wings home for Ron. We’ll be going there again, and likely sharing one meal.
:)
:)
I cleaned 3 x roofs off, not sure what the big man has in mind re rain, tough job ya know deciding what goes where
and coffee landed, made it myself
sm, Did you see that I found out that most of the houses in the photo you posted last night still exist? I am gobsmacked!
Michael V said:
sm, Did you see that I found out that most of the houses in the photo you posted last night still exist? I am gobsmacked!
i did see. I wonder how much restumping has been done.
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:
sm, Did you see that I found out that most of the houses in the photo you posted last night still exist? I am gobsmacked!
i did see. I wonder how much restumping has been done.
i admit the Brisbane isn’t in my usual trawl for images but that photo appealed on an arty level.
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:
sm, Did you see that I found out that most of the houses in the photo you posted last night still exist? I am gobsmacked!
i did see. I wonder how much restumping has been done.
I’d guess a lot.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:
sm, Did you see that I found out that most of the houses in the photo you posted last night still exist? I am gobsmacked!
i did see. I wonder how much restumping has been done.
I’d guess a lot.
i did try to imagine the Acro props needed.
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:i did see. I wonder how much restumping has been done.
I’d guess a lot.
i did try to imagine the Acro props needed.
digging the holes to put the stumps in. hard enough these days but back then…getting the horses together to deliver the poles.
Michael V said:
Back from the restaurant/bar/café.(Burp.)
Oh, excuse me.
Mrs V had the goat curry and yellow vegetable rice – tomatoes, corn etc. I had crispy-batter chicken wings with a very hot spicy sauce. We shared. Both meals were very tasty. Both were really too large for one person. We brought some chicken wings home for Ron. We’ll be going there again, and likely sharing one meal.
:)
:)
About to make a batch of tabouli for tomorrow and the days ahead.
27 expected tomorrow which will presumably be our last actual hot day for some months.
dv said:
A death row prisoner once requested a single black olive as his last meal. Allegedly he swallowed it whole so he could grow into a tree after being buried.
I just watched a clip about the getting lost game (i bought one for Sarah for Christmas)
the people had drawn a card that said, ‘follow a blue car.’ so they followed a blue car for almost half an hour. they were undercover cops.
sarahs mum said:
I just watched a clip about the getting lost game (i bought one for Sarah for Christmas)the people had drawn a card that said, ‘follow a blue car.’ so they followed a blue car for almost half an hour. they were undercover cops.
Heh. I wonder if following a stranger’s car just for fun could constitute some kind of offence.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
I just watched a clip about the getting lost game (i bought one for Sarah for Christmas)the people had drawn a card that said, ‘follow a blue car.’ so they followed a blue car for almost half an hour. they were undercover cops.
Heh. I wonder if following a stranger’s car just for fun could constitute some kind of offence.
they did not flesh out the story. i wanted more of the story.
sarahs mum said:
the people had drawn a card that said, ‘follow a blue car.’ so they followed a blue car for almost half an hour. they were undercover cops.
Speaking of blue cars. I spoke to a couple of officers who were sitting in an unmarked police car earlier today. Their car, which was blue, was parked in the next bay when I pulled up outside a local 7/11. I normally wouldn’t have spoken to them except that they’d drawn attention to themselves by having their blue and red warning lights operating. After watching them for a couple of minutes, I wandered over and asked them why the lights were on. At that point, they turned them off. Distraction, perhaps. Who knows?
Just doing my civic duty.
Also got a chance to eye off all the antennas the car was festooned with.
AussieDJ said:
sarahs mum said:the people had drawn a card that said, ‘follow a blue car.’ so they followed a blue car for almost half an hour. they were undercover cops.
Speaking of blue cars. I spoke to a couple of officers who were sitting in an unmarked police car earlier today. Their car, which was blue, was parked in the next bay when I pulled up outside a local 7/11. I normally wouldn’t have spoken to them except that they’d drawn attention to themselves by having their blue and red warning lights operating. After watching them for a couple of minutes, I wandered over and asked them why the lights were on. At that point, they turned them off. Distraction, perhaps. Who knows?
Just doing my civic duty.Also got a chance to eye off all the antennas the car was festooned with.
civic duty.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
I just watched a clip about the getting lost game (i bought one for Sarah for Christmas)the people had drawn a card that said, ‘follow a blue car.’ so they followed a blue car for almost half an hour. they were undercover cops.
Heh. I wonder if following a stranger’s car just for fun could constitute some kind of offence.
Nope
Arts said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
I just watched a clip about the getting lost game (i bought one for Sarah for Christmas)the people had drawn a card that said, ‘follow a blue car.’ so they followed a blue car for almost half an hour. they were undercover cops.
Heh. I wonder if following a stranger’s car just for fun could constitute some kind of offence.
Nope
Unless they asked you to stop and you persist.
My old man said “Foller the van,
And don’t dilly dally on the way”.
Off went the van wiv me ‘ome packed in it,
I followed on wiv me old cock linnet.
But I dillied and dallied, dallied and I dillied
Lost me way and don’t know where to roam.
Well you can’t trust a special like the old time coppers
When you can’t find your way ‘ome.
What a gem this series of Getting On is. The original BBC one. Brilliant stuff.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 15 degrees at the back door, still and quiet. There are maggies awake. And crickets. We are forecast 26 degrees with “showers increasing”. That’s good.
I’ll have breakfast with my bushwandering friend and then I should check some of the spouting and clean out before it rains.
Morning. Neighbour’s rooster blathering on.
Currently 26 degrees, 56% R/H. About to rain shortly by thte looks of the radar.
Forecast for the rest of Thursday
Summary Max 35 Showers increasing. Chance of any rain: 90%
Good morning everybody.
It’s raining lightly, 18.0° C, 99% RH, probably overcast and calm. BoM forecasts showers all day and a top of 28° C.
Mrs V’s low kJ day today, so food decisions will be made after she wakes. Although, I’ll likely have the small doggy bag of chicken wings left over from last night’s restaurant splurge at some stage.
Currently raining and a top of 28 expected. Not sure how the rain will impact the school’s cross country day today.
Divine Angel said:
Currently raining and a top of 28 expected. Not sure how the rain will impact the school’s cross country day today.
Hopefully it won’t. IIRC we used to run school cross-country in all sorts of weather.
raining lightly, just looking at rainwater sample straight out the gutter pipes before connect pipes. Did wash roofs off and gutters etc out yesterday evening, but wait while keep flushing, get rid or dilute the paint from colorbond roof and whatever else, try again in a moment
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Currently raining and a top of 28 expected. Not sure how the rain will impact the school’s cross country day today.
Hopefully it won’t. IIRC we used to run school cross-country in all sorts of weather.
Yes. However, it rains more in Brisbane than in the Riverina.
transition said:
raining lightly, just looking at rainwater sample straight out the gutter pipes before connect pipes. Did wash roofs off and gutters etc out yesterday evening, but wait while keep flushing, get rid or dilute the paint from colorbond roof and whatever else, try again in a moment
getting there, slowly
transition said:
transition said:
raining lightly, just looking at rainwater sample straight out the gutter pipes before connect pipes. Did wash roofs off and gutters etc out yesterday evening, but wait while keep flushing, get rid or dilute the paint from colorbond roof and whatever else, try again in a moment
getting there, slowly
Rather dirty for rainwater. Keep flushing.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Currently raining and a top of 28 expected. Not sure how the rain will impact the school’s cross country day today.
Hopefully it won’t. IIRC we used to run school cross-country in all sorts of weather.
This is a school who kept kids inside every playtime all last week because there’s an uprooted tree on the grounds from Alfred. Didn’t damage anything.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
transition said:
raining lightly, just looking at rainwater sample straight out the gutter pipes before connect pipes. Did wash roofs off and gutters etc out yesterday evening, but wait while keep flushing, get rid or dilute the paint from colorbond roof and whatever else, try again in a moment
getting there, slowly
Rather dirty for rainwater. Keep flushing.
that’s a high power LED torch
i’m does the science, master RB
go check rain gauge, not much
anyway gives me an idea how much rain is required after I wash roofs and gutters with fire hose
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:getting there, slowly
Rather dirty for rainwater. Keep flushing.
that’s a high power LED torch
i’m does the science, master RB
go check rain gauge, not much
anyway gives me an idea how much rain is required after I wash roofs and gutters with fire hose
Science is good. :)
roughbarked said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:
Rather dirty for rainwater. Keep flushing.
that’s a high power LED torch
i’m does the science, master RB
go check rain gauge, not much
anyway gives me an idea how much rain is required after I wash roofs and gutters with fire hose
Science is good. :)
no rain here
roughbarked said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:Rather dirty for rainwater. Keep flushing.
that’s a high power LED torch
i’m does the science, master RB
go check rain gauge, not much
anyway gives me an idea how much rain is required after I wash roofs and gutters with fire hose
Science is good. :)
that’s ~.8mm rain
there is some shit colorbond up there, not proper stuff, me brother give it to me way back, lot of suspended whatever be that, shit paint
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:
that’s a high power LED torch
i’m does the science, master RB
go check rain gauge, not much
anyway gives me an idea how much rain is required after I wash roofs and gutters with fire hose
Science is good. :)
no rain here
Not here yet either but the clouds have made the sunrise almost nothing. It is quite dull oout there.
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:that’s a high power LED torch
i’m does the science, master RB
go check rain gauge, not much
anyway gives me an idea how much rain is required after I wash roofs and gutters with fire hose
Science is good. :)
that’s ~.8mm rain
there is some shit colorbond up there, not proper stuff, me brother give it to me way back, lot of suspended whatever be that, shit paint
It doesn’t stay bonded forever.
This afternoon’s task:
Checked the hard copy file of my Social Security payments.
I have all the letters from the start of my employment here. Though I seem to remember one letter that I left out on a bench near the open door of the store room/laundry and a rain squall got it wet and muddy.
After careful consideration I am keeping all the file, just in case President fElon decides to imprison me.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:Science is good. :)
that’s ~.8mm rain
there is some shit colorbond up there, not proper stuff, me brother give it to me way back, lot of suspended whatever be that, shit paint
It doesn’t stay bonded forever.
cheap paint fades with sun and whatever
about what I thought, 1mm just does it, 2mm do the job properly
and that’s after a good thorough wash with the fire hose beforehand
in other news I reckons we may get a nice sunrise
kii said:
This afternoon’s task:Checked the hard copy file of my Social Security payments.
I have all the letters from the start of my employment here. Though I seem to remember one letter that I left out on a bench near the open door of the store room/laundry and a rain squall got it wet and muddy.
After careful consideration I am keeping all the file, just in case President fElon decides to imprison me.
It’s honestly mindblowing that this scenario is within the realm of possibility. Absolutely insane and I’m sorry you have to deal with all of that shit and stress.
Divine Angel said:
kii said:
This afternoon’s task:
Checked the hard copy file of my Social Security payments.
I have all the letters from the start of my employment here. Though I seem to remember one letter that I left out on a bench near the open door of the store room/laundry and a rain squall got it wet and muddy.
After careful consideration I am keeping all the file, just in case President fElon decides to imprison me.
It’s honestly mindblowing that this scenario is within the realm of possibility. Absolutely insane and I’m sorry you have to deal with all of that shit and stress.
yeah hope you (kii) get out safely
SCIENCE said:
Divine Angel said:
kii said:
This afternoon’s task:
Checked the hard copy file of my Social Security payments.
I have all the letters from the start of my employment here. Though I seem to remember one letter that I left out on a bench near the open door of the store room/laundry and a rain squall got it wet and muddy.
After careful consideration I am keeping all the file, just in case President fElon decides to imprison me.
It’s honestly mindblowing that this scenario is within the realm of possibility. Absolutely insane and I’m sorry you have to deal with all of that shit and stress.
yeah hope you (kii) get out safely
also one of the schools we do stuff with is planning to send some students for a team for some kind of competition there, likely to be more than one ETHNIC in the team so we’re wishing them good luck and we don’t mean specifically for their competition either
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Currently raining and a top of 28 expected. Not sure how the rain will impact the school’s cross country day today.
Hopefully it won’t. IIRC we used to run school cross-country in all sorts of weather.
This is a school who kept kids inside every playtime all last week because there’s an uprooted tree on the grounds from Alfred. Didn’t damage anything.
So they didn’t play on the toppled tree?
I suppose I can understand that. Or, put another teacher on plaground duty to be tree-sentry, until it is removed. Still, I suppose there are rules about these things.
Perhaps there’s a new rule about rain and cross-country events since I went to school. I suppose that that’s likely. I last went in a school cross-country event about 1970. Bloody! That’s 55 years ago. Half a century + 10% will do that…
One of my school mum friends is heading over there in June, taking the fam to Disneyland. I mean, I get it, it’s on my bucket list too, buuuuuuuuut not at the moment.
Morning. Heading for 27 but “showers increasing” from afternoon onwards.
So I’ll visit the shops quite early. I need new toothpaste and more calamine lotion (I’ve just used the last while mixing up a new batch of my Pinko anti-itch cream).
Also fancy some fishcakes or suchlike to accompany tabouli for dinner. And maybe get a bottle of scotch.
The adventures of my parcel with the USPS (one of trump’s cronies has really fucked up the system for years and years):
Shipping label created March 9 at vendor’s office: Flower Mound, TX
Accepted at USPS office March 13, Flower Mound, TX
Arrived on March 13, Dallas TX
Accepted at USPS distribution centre El Paso, TX on March 16
(The next stop should be my local PO here in NM)
No updates as until just now.
In Transit to Next Facility March 18
Arrived in South Houston, TX March 19
SCREAMS……..
Divine Angel said:
One of my school mum friends is heading over there in June, taking the fam to Disneyland. I mean, I get it, it’s on my bucket list too, buuuuuuuuut not at the moment.
I don’t think I would either.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
One of my school mum friends is heading over there in June, taking the fam to Disneyland. I mean, I get it, it’s on my bucket list too, buuuuuuuuut not at the moment.
I don’t think I would either.
Gosh that reads badly. Please add the words “go” between “would” and “either”.
Thank you.
Divine Angel said:
kii said:
This afternoon’s task:Checked the hard copy file of my Social Security payments.
I have all the letters from the start of my employment here. Though I seem to remember one letter that I left out on a bench near the open door of the store room/laundry and a rain squall got it wet and muddy.
After careful consideration I am keeping all the file, just in case President fElon decides to imprison me.
It’s honestly mindblowing that this scenario is within the realm of possibility. Absolutely insane and I’m sorry you have to deal with all of that shit and stress.
Ta. I keep wondering what mr kii would say/do.
In the spirit of reducing my files (again) I am going to shred the paperwork that he had accumulated for his VA requests for a higher disability consideration. Before he died he finally had that higher rating. It’s a hugely convoluted system of percentages and eligibility for a lower tax scale on his disability military payments.
He put so much work into it and I don’t need it, but it’s hard to part with it.
I also plan on shredding the huge file of his application for his Australian visa. So much paperwork and we did did so much work on it.
SCIENCE said:
Divine Angel said:
kii said:
This afternoon’s task:
Checked the hard copy file of my Social Security payments.
I have all the letters from the start of my employment here. Though I seem to remember one letter that I left out on a bench near the open door of the store room/laundry and a rain squall got it wet and muddy.
After careful consideration I am keeping all the file, just in case President fElon decides to imprison me.
It’s honestly mindblowing that this scenario is within the realm of possibility. Absolutely insane and I’m sorry you have to deal with all of that shit and stress.
yeah hope you (kii) get out safely
Thanks.
It’s like waiting to get up the nerve to jump into the very murky and dark cold water of the big swimming pool at Bondi during swimming classes. The waves are crashing over the sea wall, the cloud is overcast, it’s cold and I have poor eye sight.
After successfully doing that awful jump and getting my certificate, I had to go back the following year to redo the whole thing because my asthmatic older brother failed to do the big jump and didn’t get his certificate. Mother didn’t want him to feel like a failure or something something.
Gosh, that was a memory I had nearly suppressed.
Thanks SCIENCE for the therapy session.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:Hopefully it won’t. IIRC we used to run school cross-country in all sorts of weather.
This is a school who kept kids inside every playtime all last week because there’s an uprooted tree on the grounds from Alfred. Didn’t damage anything.
So they didn’t play on the toppled tree?
I suppose I can understand that. Or, put another teacher on plaground duty to be tree-sentry, until it is removed. Still, I suppose there are rules about these things.
Perhaps there’s a new rule about rain and cross-country events since I went to school. I suppose that that’s likely. I last went in a school cross-country event about 1970. Bloody! That’s 55 years ago. Half a century + 10% will do that…
The tree is cordoned off. Still there, but everyone was going a bit stir crazy with kids on wet weather restrictions even though it wasn’t raining. There’s actually three trees down at the school: one hit the bike storage area where kids aren’t allowed to play anyway, one right in front of the year 1 block, and one near the top playground.
As for running in the rain, it’s probably more to prevent injury than anything else.
As expected, AI has trouble drawing accurate Daleks.
The school has been using AI koalas in their fb posts lately. The koalas look like they’ll eat your face if you don’t do what they say. Dead, soulless eyes just waiting… waiting… waiting…
Divine Angel said:
The school has been using AI koalas in their fb posts lately. The koalas look like they’ll eat your face if you don’t do what they say. Dead, soulless eyes just waiting… waiting… waiting…
Sounds like they didn’t use the adorable setting. Or they did but it failed.
Phil English
“That’s not what your mum said when I was ploughing her, Thomas.” Said Terence.
Phil Smith
Phil English “You can’t say that about my mother,” said Thomas.
“Oh yes? Are you going to come over here and make me take it back?” said Terence.
“Right, I’m going to jolly well sort you out!” said Thomas.
“Leave it!” said Annie.
“It’s not worth it!” said Clarabell.
But Thomas was just too cross and his mind was made up. His wheels span, he leaned to the left as hard as he could… and derailed, damaging himself and his carriages quite badly, and injuring his passengers, burning his driver and fireman with spilled hot coals! Thomas felt very sorry for himself.
“Hold on; I’m a locomotive! I don’t even have a mother!”
And Terence laughed and laughed and laughed, rolling away as fast as his tracks would carry him, which wasn’t really very fast at all.
JudgeMental said:
Phil English
“That’s not what your mum said when I was ploughing her, Thomas.” Said Terence.
Phil Smith
Phil English “You can’t say that about my mother,” said Thomas.
“Oh yes? Are you going to come over here and make me take it back?” said Terence.
“Right, I’m going to jolly well sort you out!” said Thomas.
“Leave it!” said Annie.
“It’s not worth it!” said Clarabell.
But Thomas was just too cross and his mind was made up. His wheels span, he leaned to the left as hard as he could… and derailed, damaging himself and his carriages quite badly, and injuring his passengers, burning his driver and fireman with spilled hot coals! Thomas felt very sorry for himself.
“Hold on; I’m a locomotive! I don’t even have a mother!”
And Terence laughed and laughed and laughed, rolling away as fast as his tracks would carry him, which wasn’t really very fast at all.
Unusual use of “span”.
JudgeMental said:
He couldn’t really go shopping looking like that, so I suppose he sends the gold to PayPal and shops online.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Currently raining and a top of 28 expected. Not sure how the rain will impact the school’s cross country day today.
Hopefully it won’t. IIRC we used to run school cross-country in all sorts of weather.
This is a school who kept kids inside every playtime all last week because there’s an uprooted tree on the grounds from Alfred. Didn’t damage anything.
Nothing a bit of reflective tape tied to some witches hats wouldn’t fix… maybe a bit of extra patrolling by a teacher?
That would mean,of course, that the teachers might need to get their coffee and sip it outside. No, the better solution is site wide lockdowns. Yes, we are wrong to question the authority if the education system.
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Phil English
“That’s not what your mum said when I was ploughing her, Thomas.” Said Terence.
Phil Smith
Phil English “You can’t say that about my mother,” said Thomas.
“Oh yes? Are you going to come over here and make me take it back?” said Terence.
“Right, I’m going to jolly well sort you out!” said Thomas.
“Leave it!” said Annie.
“It’s not worth it!” said Clarabell.
But Thomas was just too cross and his mind was made up. His wheels span, he leaned to the left as hard as he could… and derailed, damaging himself and his carriages quite badly, and injuring his passengers, burning his driver and fireman with spilled hot coals! Thomas felt very sorry for himself.
“Hold on; I’m a locomotive! I don’t even have a mother!”
And Terence laughed and laughed and laughed, rolling away as fast as his tracks would carry him, which wasn’t really very fast at all.
Unusual use of “span”.
spurned
Michael V said:
JudgeMental said:
Phil English
“That’s not what your mum said when I was ploughing her, Thomas.” Said Terence.
Phil Smith
Phil English “You can’t say that about my mother,” said Thomas.
“Oh yes? Are you going to come over here and make me take it back?” said Terence.
“Right, I’m going to jolly well sort you out!” said Thomas.
“Leave it!” said Annie.
“It’s not worth it!” said Clarabell.
But Thomas was just too cross and his mind was made up. His wheels span, he leaned to the left as hard as he could… and derailed, damaging himself and his carriages quite badly, and injuring his passengers, burning his driver and fireman with spilled hot coals! Thomas felt very sorry for himself.
“Hold on; I’m a locomotive! I don’t even have a mother!”
And Terence laughed and laughed and laughed, rolling away as fast as his tracks would carry him, which wasn’t really very fast at all.
Unusual use of “span”.
And when the Phil’s showed up. Chaos reigned.
Morning Pilgrims.
Nothing to report of any great moment.
Over.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning Pilgrims.
Nothing to report of any great moment.
Over.
I can report that the 90% chance of rain today, has just passed us by.
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning Pilgrims.
Nothing to report of any great moment.
Over.
I can report that the 90% chance of rain today, has just passed us by.
Well, it is raining now int Brisbane.
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning Pilgrims.
Nothing to report of any great moment.
Over.
I can report that the 90% chance of rain today, has just passed us by.
Well, it is raining now int Brisbane.
Tamb said:
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:I can report that the 90% chance of rain today, has just passed us by.
Well, it is raining now int Brisbane.
Very small news: I was bitten on the arm by a jumping ant. It hurt.
I’ll inform the media.
Tamb said:
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:I can report that the 90% chance of rain today, has just passed us by.
Well, it is raining now int Brisbane.
Very small news: I was bitten on the arm by a jumping ant. It hurt.
They can be mongrels. I was bitten on the hand, right on a lantana scratch by one of those. My hand swelled up overnight and in the morning was like a glove that had been blown up like a balloon. Very painful.
I was supposed to leave the exploration camp that morning. I couldn’t drive a motor vehicle safely for three days. Let alone one where I had an hour’s low-range, steep and very winding dirt tracks, before three hours on normal roads with a bogey trailer full of gear.
It took two weeks for the swelling and pain to finally go.
I feel for you.
Michael V said:
Tamb said:
Peak Warming Man said:Well, it is raining now int Brisbane.
Very small news: I was bitten on the arm by a jumping ant. It hurt.They can be mongrels. I was bitten on the hand, right on a lantana scratch by one of those. My hand swelled up overnight and in the morning was like a glove that had been blown up like a balloon. Very painful.
I was supposed to leave the exploration camp that morning. I couldn’t drive a motor vehicle safely for three days. Let alone one where I had an hour’s low-range, steep and very winding dirt tracks, before three hours on normal roads with a bogey trailer full of gear.
It took two weeks for the swelling and pain to finally go.
I feel for you.
BACK with some nice beef, pepper & Worcester bangers.
Also, for a treat, since I haven’t bought them for years: a box of Maltesers.
Bubblecar said:
BACK with some nice beef, pepper & Worcester bangers.Also, for a treat, since I haven’t bought them for years: a box of Maltesers.
They’d be all gone once the box was opened if it were me.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
BACK with some nice beef, pepper & Worcester bangers.Also, for a treat, since I haven’t bought them for years: a box of Maltesers.
They’d be all gone once the box was opened if it were me.
It’s a 400gm box so you’d be feeling a bit queasy.
According to news outlets the stranded astronauts splashed down in the gulf of America.
Tamb said:
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:I can report that the 90% chance of rain today, has just passed us by.
Well, it is raining now int Brisbane.
Very small news: I was bitten on the arm by a jumping ant. It hurt.
The pain lasts and lasts.
Bubblecar said:
Tamb said:
Peak Warming Man said:Well, it is raining now int Brisbane.
Very small news: I was bitten on the arm by a jumping ant. It hurt.
The pain lasts and lasts.
i watched a euro wasp kill one the other day. (they were outside and I watched through the window)
Peak Warming Man said:
According to news outlets the stranded astronauts splashed down in the gulf of Mexico, and dolphins greeted them.
Wonderful footage of the dolphins swimming around the module.
news com report discussing MAFS.
“The source claims that things have become serious between Burfoot and Rice and that the bridge has already quit life in Australia and moved to Tasmania to pursue their romance.”
sarahs mum said:
news com report discussing MAFS.“The source claims that things have become serious between Burfoot and Rice and that the bridge has already quit life in Australia and moved to Tasmania to pursue their romance.”
I hope they obtained appropriate visas.
Tamb said:
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:I can report that the 90% chance of rain today, has just passed us by.
Well, it is raining now int Brisbane.
Very small news: I was bitten on the arm by a jumping ant. It hurt.
Bite it back.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Tamb said:Very small news: I was bitten on the arm by a jumping ant. It hurt.
The pain lasts and lasts.
i watched a euro wasp kill one the other day. (they were outside and I watched through the window)
The worst sting I’ve had was from a European wasp.
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:The pain lasts and lasts.
i watched a euro wasp kill one the other day. (they were outside and I watched through the window)
The worst sting I’ve had was from a European wasp.
me too.
sarahs mum said:
news com report discussing MAFS.“The source claims that things have become serious between Burfoot and Rice and that the bridge has already quit life in Australia and moved to Tasmania to pursue their romance.”
Binges.
Oh, that MAFS.
Well I hope they behave themselves in Tasmania so you don’t have to deport them.
Rain held off for the races. Glad I wasn’t racing, the 200m from where I parked my car to the school grounds left me quite breathless and my Ventolin ran out. That gate is closed during the day, so I have to walk the long way round. Standing outside the main school gate catching my breath, a school mum gave me a lift to my car.
Fuck covid, man. Really wrecked my lungs. Completely fine yesterday, no need for Ventolin at all.
sarahs mum said:
news com report discussing MAFS.“The source claims that things have become serious between Burfoot and Rice and that the bridge has already quit life in Australia and moved to Tasmania to pursue their romance.”
1. what is MAFS?
2. TIL that Tasmania is not part of Australia
3. “between Burfoot and Rice and that the bridge has already quit life “ makes no sense.
MAFS = Married At First Sight.
Arts said:
sarahs mum said:
news com report discussing MAFS.“The source claims that things have become serious between Burfoot and Rice and that the bridge has already quit life in Australia and moved to Tasmania to pursue their romance.”
1. what is MAFS?
2. TIL that Tasmania is not part of Australia
3. “between Burfoot and Rice and that the bridge has already quit life “ makes no sense.
In the end, we are all Bubblecar
Divine Angel said:
MAFS = Married At First Sight.
I see.
Neophyte said:
Arts said:
sarahs mum said:
news com report discussing MAFS.“The source claims that things have become serious between Burfoot and Rice and that the bridge has already quit life in Australia and moved to Tasmania to pursue their romance.”
1. what is MAFS?
2. TIL that Tasmania is not part of Australia
3. “between Burfoot and Rice and that the bridge has already quit life “ makes no sense.In the end, we are all Bubblecar
I’ll try to be better
Arts said:
sarahs mum said:
news com report discussing MAFS.“The source claims that things have become serious between Burfoot and Rice and that the bridge has already quit life in Australia and moved to Tasmania to pursue their romance.”
1. what is MAFS?
2. TIL that Tasmania is not part of Australia
3. “between Burfoot and Rice and that the bridge has already quit life “ makes no sense.
there you go. quality journalism.
Arts said:
Neophyte said:
Arts said:1. what is MAFS?
2. TIL that Tasmania is not part of Australia
3. “between Burfoot and Rice and that the bridge has already quit life “ makes no sense.In the end, we are all Bubblecar
I’ll try to be better
TIL hat MAFS is Australia’s highest rated FTA TV show.
Arts said:
Neophyte said:
Arts said:1. what is MAFS?
2. TIL that Tasmania is not part of Australia
3. “between Burfoot and Rice and that the bridge has already quit life “ makes no sense.In the end, we are all Bubblecar
I’ll try to be better
I just skimmed the post and ignored it. Because I didn’t know what it was either. And I didn’t really care.
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:
Neophyte said:In the end, we are all Bubblecar
I’ll try to be better
TIL hat MAFS is Australia’s highest rated FTA TV show.
I don’t watch FTA TV so you’ll have to forgive my ignorance on “highest rated”, “middle rate’ and ‘low rating” shows and everything in between.
Anyway, I’ve cleaned some spouting and now it is mildly ‘raining” and we have runoff into the medium tank. I’ve also got the “dark” wash out on the line, so that is getting rinsed. The “light” wash is about to finish. Some of it can go outside, the things that matter will have to go on the clotheshorse inside so they don’t get tannin splotted from the big gum trees.
I’ve also done some weeding.
I’ve got stuff to read. I need to revise my mycology stuff because now it has rained and the soil is still damp, there will probably be mushrooms and stuff soon.
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:I’ll try to be better
TIL hat MAFS is Australia’s highest rated FTA TV show.
I don’t watch FTA TV so you’ll have to forgive my ignorance on “highest rated”, “middle rate’ and ‘low rating” shows and everything in between.
same.. the last thing I watched on FTA TV was the test cricket
buffy said:
Arts said:
Neophyte said:In the end, we are all Bubblecar
I’ll try to be better
I just skimmed the post and ignored it. Because I didn’t know what it was either. And I didn’t really care.
there are some people on this forum whom I still enjoy a conversation with, and often their posts are interesting. Besides, now I know what MAFS is – some days learning looks different
The only telly I’ve watched so far this year was some of the Mardi Gras coverage, as far as I recall.
as a side note.. when other read acronyms like FTA… does your brain ‘say’ the words or the letters?
Arts said:
as a side note.. when other read acronyms like FTA… does your brain ‘say’ the words or the letters?
letters
Arts said:
buffy said:
Arts said:I’ll try to be better
I just skimmed the post and ignored it. Because I didn’t know what it was either. And I didn’t really care.
there are some people on this forum whom I still enjoy a conversation with, and often their posts are interesting. Besides, now I know what MAFS is – some days learning looks different
there will be a standardized national test later in the day
buffy said:
Arts said:
Neophyte said:In the end, we are all Bubblecar
I’ll try to be better
I just skimmed the post and ignored it. Because I didn’t know what it was either. And I didn’t really care.
I don’t ignore sarahs mum, as she is a friend.
Arts said:
as a side note.. when other read acronyms like FTA… does your brain ‘say’ the words or the letters?
words
i wouldn’t watch it even if i had a tv. which i don’t.
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:
buffy said:I just skimmed the post and ignored it. Because I didn’t know what it was either. And I didn’t really care.
there are some people on this forum whom I still enjoy a conversation with, and often their posts are interesting. Besides, now I know what MAFS is – some days learning looks different
there will be a standardized national test later in the day
lol… fuck you
one for words, one for letters
Bubblecar said:
buffy said:
Arts said:I’ll try to be better
I just skimmed the post and ignored it. Because I didn’t know what it was either. And I didn’t really care.
I don’t ignore sarahs mum, as she is a friend.
…although I do usually skip her posts in the US Politics threads, as I skip all the posts there.
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:there are some people on this forum whom I still enjoy a conversation with, and often their posts are interesting. Besides, now I know what MAFS is – some days learning looks different
there will be a standardized national test later in the day
lol… fuck you
heart hands
Arts said:
one for words, one for letters
though i really don’t do either. i just “see” it as fta and I guess my brain knows what it means.
Arts said:
1. what is MAFS?
I have NFI.
It took me ages to work out what MKR was when that was all the rage in here.
Dirty toys update:
The first little Peckett has now been yet more rusted. Note that its cap-top whistle has been accidentally broken off and lost.
But I’ve ordered a new brass whistle for it, and a little bell, from an online supplier of bells and whistles.
Peak Warming Man said:
Arts said:
1. what is MAFS?I have NFI.
It took me ages to work out what MKR was when that was all the rage in here.
what about FLG?
i posted because of the quality of the journalism not of the quality of the tv show. there was a time when there were editors. now photographers write by lines and there are no checks (according to a friend who worked at the mockery.)
I’ll just crawl back into my corner.
Arts said:
one for words, one for letters
Letters
sarahs mum said:
i posted because of the quality of the journalism not of the quality of the tv show. there was a time when there were editors. now photographers write by lines and there are no checks (according to a friend who worked at the mockery.)I’ll just crawl back into my corner.
It was a worthy post, ignore them :)
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:
Arts said:there are some people on this forum whom I still enjoy a conversation with, and often their posts are interesting. Besides, now I know what MAFS is – some days learning looks different
there will be a standardized national test later in the day
lol… fuck you
When I was at school I was a girly swot, usually ranking in the top 10 in my level. I miserably failed a test on one occasion and I remember it because of that. It was about advertising on commercial TV. I knew absolutely nothing about the ads as we did not watch commercial TV. We had a time limit imposed on how much TV could be watched, never in the morning (unless you were home sick) and with 6 people in the household, you had to learn to negotiate what would be watched. Parents had right of veto – they got to watch the things they wanted.
Hello
Obvs I watch Survivor which is FTA, but I watch through the app on the TV and not actually TV. Two reasons:
1. Quality is better via app
2. I can’t find the actual TV remote
buffy said:
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:there will be a standardized national test later in the day
lol… fuck you
When I was at school I was a girly swot, usually ranking in the top 10 in my level. I miserably failed a test on one occasion and I remember it because of that. It was about advertising on commercial TV. I knew absolutely nothing about the ads as we did not watch commercial TV. We had a time limit imposed on how much TV could be watched, never in the morning (unless you were home sick) and with 6 people in the household, you had to learn to negotiate what would be watched. Parents had right of veto – they got to watch the things they wanted.
in my household sport won every time.
buffy said:
Arts said:
diddly-squat said:there will be a standardized national test later in the day
lol… fuck you
When I was at school I was a girly swot, usually ranking in the top 10 in my level. I miserably failed a test on one occasion and I remember it because of that. It was about advertising on commercial TV. I knew absolutely nothing about the ads as we did not watch commercial TV. We had a time limit imposed on how much TV could be watched, never in the morning (unless you were home sick) and with 6 people in the household, you had to learn to negotiate what would be watched. Parents had right of veto – they got to watch the things they wanted.
Last year Mini Me did a unit about media literacy at school. They got to watch old ads on YouTube. Ads like, “not happy, Jan!”
Most kids these days have never seen ads on tv.
Cymek said:
Hello
hello hello.
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
one for words, one for lettersLetters
I read the letters. Mostly I don’t know what they stand for. Sometimes I will look it up. Generally I don’t bother and just move on. It is irrelevent who has posted it. If I’m going to have to faff around to work out what it is about…there are better things in the world to be going on with. I may be a bit Granny Weatherwax…“I can’t be having with all that”
JudgeMental said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Arts said:
1. what is MAFS?I have NFI.
It took me ages to work out what MKR was when that was all the rage in here.
what about FLG?
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
Arts said:lol… fuck you
When I was at school I was a girly swot, usually ranking in the top 10 in my level. I miserably failed a test on one occasion and I remember it because of that. It was about advertising on commercial TV. I knew absolutely nothing about the ads as we did not watch commercial TV. We had a time limit imposed on how much TV could be watched, never in the morning (unless you were home sick) and with 6 people in the household, you had to learn to negotiate what would be watched. Parents had right of veto – they got to watch the things they wanted.
in my household sport won every time.
We practically never watched sport. Probably why I’m not greatly interested. I was trained to “find something to do”. I have been known in my adult years to have had the TV on for marathons, in the days when I was doing some running and I at least knew a few of the names of runners.
Because my parents never spoke to each other unless absolutely necessary, they had separate spaces, thus we had two TVs in the house. Except we weren’t allowed to watch dad’s tv.
sarahs mum said:
Cymek said:
Hello
hello hello.
gotta love the humblebragging.
Divine Angel said:
buffy said:
Arts said:lol… fuck you
When I was at school I was a girly swot, usually ranking in the top 10 in my level. I miserably failed a test on one occasion and I remember it because of that. It was about advertising on commercial TV. I knew absolutely nothing about the ads as we did not watch commercial TV. We had a time limit imposed on how much TV could be watched, never in the morning (unless you were home sick) and with 6 people in the household, you had to learn to negotiate what would be watched. Parents had right of veto – they got to watch the things they wanted.
Last year Mini Me did a unit about media literacy at school. They got to watch old ads on YouTube. Ads like, “not happy, Jan!”
Most kids these days have never seen ads on tv.
yep.. although there are ads now appearing on streaming services
I usually brain the words… but verbalise the letters… I think this is because when I was learning some difficult terminology that often got letterised (I remember that weather guy going off at the old place because we weren’t using the term acronym correctly LOL what a thing to get mad at) I forced myself to say the whole words as I was reading so I would remember what they were.
JudgeMental said:
Arts said:
one for words, one for lettersthough i really don’t do either. i just “see” it as fta and I guess my brain knows what it means.
+1
JudgeMental said:
gotta love the humblebragging.
Oh lord, it’s hard to be humble…
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:
buffy said:When I was at school I was a girly swot, usually ranking in the top 10 in my level. I miserably failed a test on one occasion and I remember it because of that. It was about advertising on commercial TV. I knew absolutely nothing about the ads as we did not watch commercial TV. We had a time limit imposed on how much TV could be watched, never in the morning (unless you were home sick) and with 6 people in the household, you had to learn to negotiate what would be watched. Parents had right of veto – they got to watch the things they wanted.
Last year Mini Me did a unit about media literacy at school. They got to watch old ads on YouTube. Ads like, “not happy, Jan!”
Most kids these days have never seen ads on tv.
yep.. although there are ads now appearing on streaming services
Years ago we used to VPN Hulu from the US. Man the Yanks have weird ads. It amused me to see people frolicking through a meadow while the VO said things like, “side effects may include explosive diarrhoea, coma, and death” in a soothing tone.
Divine Angel said:
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:Last year Mini Me did a unit about media literacy at school. They got to watch old ads on YouTube. Ads like, “not happy, Jan!”
Most kids these days have never seen ads on tv.
yep.. although there are ads now appearing on streaming services
Years ago we used to VPN Hulu from the US. Man the Yanks have weird ads. It amused me to see people frolicking through a meadow while the VO said things like, “side effects may include explosive diarrhoea, coma, and death” in a soothing tone.
I use a VPN for Tubi and also get amused by the US based ads
Arts said:
JudgeMental said:
gotta love the humblebragging.
Oh lord, it’s hard to be humble…
JudgeMental scoffs at our feeble attempts, knowing we’ll never beat his award-winning non-ownership of a telly set.
Divine Angel said:
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:Last year Mini Me did a unit about media literacy at school. They got to watch old ads on YouTube. Ads like, “not happy, Jan!”
Most kids these days have never seen ads on tv.
yep.. although there are ads now appearing on streaming services
Years ago we used to VPN Hulu from the US. Man the Yanks have weird ads. It amused me to see people frolicking through a meadow while the VO said things like, “side effects may include explosive diarrhoea, coma, and death” in a soothing tone.
i remember watching the morning news in New York. ad after ad on prescription medications.
JudgeMental said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Arts said:
1. what is MAFS?I have NFI.
It took me ages to work out what MKR was when that was all the rage in here.
what about FLG?
Flange.
Divine Angel said:
Rain held off for the races. Glad I wasn’t racing, the 200m from where I parked my car to the school grounds left me quite breathless and my Ventolin ran out. That gate is closed during the day, so I have to walk the long way round. Standing outside the main school gate catching my breath, a school mum gave me a lift to my car.Fuck covid, man. Really wrecked my lungs. Completely fine yesterday, no need for Ventolin at all.
Bloody.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Rain held off for the races. Glad I wasn’t racing, the 200m from where I parked my car to the school grounds left me quite breathless and my Ventolin ran out. That gate is closed during the day, so I have to walk the long way round. Standing outside the main school gate catching my breath, a school mum gave me a lift to my car.Fuck covid, man. Really wrecked my lungs. Completely fine yesterday, no need for Ventolin at all.
Bloody.
Nah, no blood 😉
Cymek said:
Hello
Greetings
Tamb said:
JudgeMental said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Arts said:
1. what is MAFS?I have NFI.
It took me ages to work out what MKR was when that was all the rage in here.
what about FLG?
I’m a scientist. FTL is more my thing.
:)
I’m going to watch Flow an animated Latvian cat movie.
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
one for words, one for lettersLetters
Either; sometimes letters, sometimes words.
JudgeMental said:
gotta love the humblebragging.
Which lot?
kii said:
I’m going to watch Flow an animated Latvian cat movie.
I thought it was okay. A bit different to most movies which was a pleasant change.
Arts said:
I usually brain the words… but verbalise the letters… I think this is because when I was learning some difficult terminology that often got letterised (I remember that weather guy going off at the old place because we weren’t using the term acronym correctly LOL what a thing to get mad at) I forced myself to say the whole words as I was reading so I would remember what they were.
Oh, Steve, I guess.
Yep, that’d be like him.
Spiny Norman said:
kii said:
I’m going to watch Flow an animated Latvian cat movie.
I thought it was okay. A bit different to most movies which was a pleasant change.
I wanna see it just so I know why it won the Oscar over The Wild Robot.
Bubblecar said:
Arts said:
JudgeMental said:
gotta love the humblebragging.
Oh lord, it’s hard to be humble…
JudgeMental scoffs at our feeble attempts, knowing we’ll never beat his award-winning non-ownership of a telly set.
Perhaps he was referencing himself…
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
one for words, one for lettersLetters
Either; sometimes letters, sometimes words.
Arts said:
I usually brain the words… but verbalise the letters… I think this is because when I was learning some difficult terminology that often got letterised (I remember that weather guy going off at the old place because we weren’t using the term acronym correctly LOL what a thing to get mad at) I forced myself to say the whole words as I was reading so I would remember what they were.
In medical dramas they say GSW which is what they’d write on the notes, but it’s fewer syllables to say gunshot wound.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Rain held off for the races. Glad I wasn’t racing, the 200m from where I parked my car to the school grounds left me quite breathless and my Ventolin ran out. That gate is closed during the day, so I have to walk the long way round. Standing outside the main school gate catching my breath, a school mum gave me a lift to my car.Fuck covid, man. Really wrecked my lungs. Completely fine yesterday, no need for Ventolin at all.
Bloody.
Nah, no blood 😉
Oh.
Ah well.
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
I usually brain the words… but verbalise the letters… I think this is because when I was learning some difficult terminology that often got letterised (I remember that weather guy going off at the old place because we weren’t using the term acronym correctly LOL what a thing to get mad at) I forced myself to say the whole words as I was reading so I would remember what they were.
In medical dramas they say GSW which is what they’d write on the notes, but it’s fewer syllables to say gunshot wound.
They’d all know what GSW stood for in the US.
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
I usually brain the words… but verbalise the letters… I think this is because when I was learning some difficult terminology that often got letterised (I remember that weather guy going off at the old place because we weren’t using the term acronym correctly LOL what a thing to get mad at) I forced myself to say the whole words as I was reading so I would remember what they were.
In medical dramas they say GSW which is what they’d write on the notes, but it’s fewer syllables to say gunshot wound.
I remember in high school a maths teacher who used to say “i.e.” instead of “that is”, until I pointed out that when spoken, it’s not an abbreviation.
Tamb said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:Letters
Either; sometimes letters, sometimes words.
Once I know what the letters mean I simply recognise the “shape”.
Unfortunately, FTA needs context. It has at least one other, quite unrelated meaning.
Oh, and “bridge” was meant to be “bride”, I think.
I am keen on the “first use show both the full words and the contraction” notion, as per scientific publications. eg: “The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was abandoned after Trump imposed tariffs in Australian goods.”
Michael V said:
Tamb said:
Michael V said:Either; sometimes letters, sometimes words.
Once I know what the letters mean I simply recognise the “shape”.Unfortunately, FTA needs context. It has at least one other, quite unrelated meaning.
Oh, and “bridge” was meant to be “bride”, I think.
I am keen on the “first use show both the full words and the contraction” notion, as per scientific publications. eg: “The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was abandoned after Trump imposed tariffs in Australian goods.”
ah… bride.
ta.
Michael V said:
Tamb said:
Michael V said:Either; sometimes letters, sometimes words.
Once I know what the letters mean I simply recognise the “shape”.Unfortunately, FTA needs context. It has at least one other, quite unrelated meaning.
Oh, and “bridge” was meant to be “bride”, I think.
I am keen on the “first use show both the full words and the contraction” notion, as per scientific publications. eg: “The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was abandoned after Trump imposed tariffs in Australian goods.”
so, as sm said, poor journalism.
Michael V said:
I am keen on the “first use show both the full words and the contraction” notion, as per scientific publications. eg: “The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was abandoned after Trump imposed tariffs in Australian goods.”
I agree with you in principle, but then we wouldn’t be able to ask about it on random closed internet forums, and then discuss it between food addictions and weather reports.
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
I usually brain the words… but verbalise the letters… I think this is because when I was learning some difficult terminology that often got letterised (I remember that weather guy going off at the old place because we weren’t using the term acronym correctly LOL what a thing to get mad at) I forced myself to say the whole words as I was reading so I would remember what they were.
In medical dramas they say GSW which is what they’d write on the notes, but it’s fewer syllables to say gunshot wound.
Not as bad as doub-ell-you doub-ell-you doub-ell-you instead of worldwideweb.
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Tamb said:Unfortunately, FTA needs context. It has at least one other, quite unrelated meaning.
Oh, and “bridge” was meant to be “bride”, I think.
I am keen on the “first use show both the full words and the contraction” notion, as per scientific publications. eg: “The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was abandoned after Trump imposed tariffs in Australian goods.”
so, as sm said, poor journalism.
Michael V said:
I am keen on the “first use show both the full words and the contraction” notion, as per scientific publications. eg: “The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was abandoned after Trump imposed tariffs in Australian goods.”
I agree with you in principle, but then we wouldn’t be able to ask about it on random closed internet forums, and then discuss it between food addictions and weather reports.
LOLOL
:)
I could read some news, bombast is a new type of explosive being trialed all over the world, i’m studying the hoodoo of bombast
We’re probably all familiar with the amusing appellations that sometimes appear on emails we receive from various sources; the bank that addresses you by first name and initial, the charity that starts with ‘hello’ and only your surname and so on. However I really don’t know what to think of this though: the ‘Washington Post’ addresses me as ‘Hello UNKNOWN’…
I just picked up a poke bowl.. normally I stick with chicken, but today I thought Id go for ‘tuna’ since it looked like there was tomato in it..
dear reader, it was not tomato, it was tuna… raw and chunked.. which is not to my liking (and now I am questioning all my life choices today..
now I am eating a bowl of salad. I am debating if I should put the tuna in the garden for the birds…Witty Rejoinder said:
We’re probably all familiar with the amusing appellations that sometimes appear on emails we receive from various sources; the bank that addresses you by first name and initial, the charity that starts with ‘hello’ and only your surname and so on. However I really don’t know what to think of this though: the ‘Washington Post’ addresses me as ‘Hello UNKNOWN’…
LOL
Witty Rejoinder said:
We’re probably all familiar with the amusing appellations that sometimes appear on emails we receive from various sources; the bank that addresses you by first name and initial, the charity that starts with ‘hello’ and only your surname and so on. However I really don’t know what to think of this though: the ‘Washington Post’ addresses me as ‘Hello UNKNOWN’…
Just wait until you fill out a form at a new doctor’s office and the receptionist calls you back to ask if your first name is a spelling mistake.
Arts said:
I just picked up a poke bowl.. normally I stick with chicken, but today I thought Id go for ‘tuna’ since it looked like there was tomato in it..dear reader, it was not tomato, it was tuna… raw and chunked.. which is not to my liking (and now I am questioning all my life choices today..
now I am eating a bowl of salad. I am debating if I should put the tuna in the garden for the birds…
Michael V said:
Tamb said:
Peak Warming Man said:Well, it is raining now int Brisbane.
Very small news: I was bitten on the arm by a jumping ant. It hurt.They can be mongrels. I was bitten on the hand, right on a lantana scratch by one of those. My hand swelled up overnight and in the morning was like a glove that had been blown up like a balloon. Very painful.
I was supposed to leave the exploration camp that morning. I couldn’t drive a motor vehicle safely for three days. Let alone one where I had an hour’s low-range, steep and very winding dirt tracks, before three hours on normal roads with a bogey trailer full of gear.
It took two weeks for the swelling and pain to finally go.
I feel for you.
28 days it took for all signs on a bite on one finger to go.
Tamb said:
Michael V said:
Tamb said:Very small news: I was bitten on the arm by a jumping ant. It hurt.
They can be mongrels. I was bitten on the hand, right on a lantana scratch by one of those. My hand swelled up overnight and in the morning was like a glove that had been blown up like a balloon. Very painful.
I was supposed to leave the exploration camp that morning. I couldn’t drive a motor vehicle safely for three days. Let alone one where I had an hour’s low-range, steep and very winding dirt tracks, before three hours on normal roads with a bogey trailer full of gear.
It took two weeks for the swelling and pain to finally go.
I feel for you.
It’s one of the reasons I wear undies with small leg openings. That would really hurt.
Doesn’t have any sway when you either sit on a nest or set up your swag on one.
Bubblecar said:
Arts said:
I just picked up a poke bowl.. normally I stick with chicken, but today I thought Id go for ‘tuna’ since it looked like there was tomato in it..dear reader, it was not tomato, it was tuna… raw and chunked.. which is not to my liking (and now I am questioning all my life choices today..
now I am eating a bowl of salad. I am debating if I should put the tuna in the garden for the birds…
this tuna was chunked
sarahs mum said:
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:i watched a euro wasp kill one the other day. (they were outside and I watched through the window)
The worst sting I’ve had was from a European wasp.
me too.
No European wasps here but I’ll put the sting- pain level from a female wingless wasp or velevt ant up there with scorpion and centipede.
kii said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
We’re probably all familiar with the amusing appellations that sometimes appear on emails we receive from various sources; the bank that addresses you by first name and initial, the charity that starts with ‘hello’ and only your surname and so on. However I really don’t know what to think of this though: the ‘Washington Post’ addresses me as ‘Hello UNKNOWN’…
Just wait until you fill out a form at a new doctor’s office and the receptionist calls you back to ask if your first name is a spelling mistake.
I often have to teach them with phonetics.
Arts said:
I just picked up a poke bowl.. normally I stick with chicken, but today I thought Id go for ‘tuna’ since it looked like there was tomato in it..dear reader, it was not tomato, it was tuna… raw and chunked.. which is not to my liking (and now I am questioning all my life choices today..
now I am eating a bowl of salad. I am debating if I should put the tuna in the garden for the birds…
Here pspspsps.
roughbarked said:
kii said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
We’re probably all familiar with the amusing appellations that sometimes appear on emails we receive from various sources; the bank that addresses you by first name and initial, the charity that starts with ‘hello’ and only your surname and so on. However I really don’t know what to think of this though: the ‘Washington Post’ addresses me as ‘Hello UNKNOWN’…
Just wait until you fill out a form at a new doctor’s office and the receptionist calls you back to ask if your first name is a spelling mistake.
I often have to teach them with phonetics.
Um…no. I handwrote my name on a form. She was transcribing my information into the computer. Nothing about the pronunciation.
I can’t beliieve you don’t know how to spell your own name.
Divine Angel said:
I can’t beliieve you don’t know how to spell your own name.
Bloody ethics! Although it’s not just them; what sort of ‘Age of Aquarius’ parents calls their child Keir?
kii said:
roughbarked said:
kii said:Just wait until you fill out a form at a new doctor’s office and the receptionist calls you back to ask if your first name is a spelling mistake.
I often have to teach them with phonetics.
Um…no. I handwrote my name on a form. She was transcribing my information into the computer. Nothing about the pronunciation.
Oh. OK.
mine has a letter that can sound silent or not.
The record price for a bull sold in Tasmania has been smashed by a stud in Longford.
“Uppercut” from the property Cluden Newry was sold for an eye-watering $275,000 to a Victorian buyer.
—-
i’d like him to have a straighter back for that price.
Some documents people sign are routine for them but foreboding for the person whom they relate to.
I get warrants of commitment which authorise the prison to imprison someone.
23 years minimum this one.
sarahs mum said:
The record price for a bull sold in Tasmania has been smashed by a stud in Longford.
“Uppercut” from the property Cluden Newry was sold for an eye-watering $275,000 to a Victorian buyer.
—-i’d like him to have a straighter back for that price.
fsm said:
sarahs mum said:
The record price for a bull sold in Tasmania has been smashed by a stud in Longford.
“Uppercut” from the property Cluden Newry was sold for an eye-watering $275,000 to a Victorian buyer.
—-i’d like him to have a straighter back for that price.
ta. better photo. i suppose the real end game is what hangs on the hook.
sarahs mum said:
The record price for a bull sold in Tasmania has been smashed by a stud in Longford.
“Uppercut” from the property Cluden Newry was sold for an eye-watering $275,000 to a Victorian buyer.
—-i’d like him to have a straighter back for that price.
Roger.
Peak Warming Man said:
sarahs mum said:
The record price for a bull sold in Tasmania has been smashed by a stud in Longford.
“Uppercut” from the property Cluden Newry was sold for an eye-watering $275,000 to a Victorian buyer.
—-i’d like him to have a straighter back for that price.
Roger.
What a load of bull.
Spose I should go to this webinar. It’s on trauma informed care and targeted at mental health clinicians but maybe I’ll get something out of it too.
Divine Angel said:
Spose I should go to this webinar. It’s on trauma informed care and targeted at mental health clinicians but maybe I’ll get something out of it too.
Can’t do enough interesting courses.
I had a visitor on the kitchen bench when I was preparing food. Possibly came in with the tomatoes I chopped up for sauce. I’ll put the pictures onto iNaturalist and find out which one it is.
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL—Adopting an affected speech pattern upon reentering Earth’s atmosphere, an astronaut aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule reportedly returned from the International Space Station with an annoying space accent Monday.
“He was only in space for, like, nine months, and that is not long enough to pick up an accent,” said NASA mission coordinator Sheila Malone, who told reporters how the astronaut now made unnatural guttural sounds when pronouncing certain vowels and was always telling everyone they just had to go to space the first chance they got.
“Dude, he’s from Ohio. He doesn’t need to go on and on about how he can’t get use to the food here because it’s not the same as it is in space, or how they have some expression they use aboard the ISS that he can’t possibly explain to us because we’ve never been there and just wouldn’t get it. Worst of all, he keeps making a big deal of dropping things while talking about how ‘crazy’ it is that objects just fall to the ground here, as if gravity were something he hadn’t been familiar with his whole life. It’s so fucking obnoxious.”At press time, sources reported the astronaut was lecturing co-workers on the proper way to pronounce Andromeda.
buffy said:
I had a visitor on the kitchen bench when I was preparing food. Possibly came in with the tomatoes I chopped up for sauce. I’ll put the pictures onto iNaturalist and find out which one it is.
It has an interesting pattern. Should be recognisable.
JudgeMental said:
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL—Adopting an affected speech pattern upon reentering Earth’s atmosphere, an astronaut aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule reportedly returned from the International Space Station with an annoying space accent Monday.“He was only in space for, like, nine months, and that is not long enough to pick up an accent,” said NASA mission coordinator Sheila Malone, who told reporters how the astronaut now made unnatural guttural sounds when pronouncing certain vowels and was always telling everyone they just had to go to space the first chance they got.
“Dude, he’s from Ohio. He doesn’t need to go on and on about how he can’t get use to the food here because it’s not the same as it is in space, or how they have some expression they use aboard the ISS that he can’t possibly explain to us because we’ve never been there and just wouldn’t get it. Worst of all, he keeps making a big deal of dropping things while talking about how ‘crazy’ it is that objects just fall to the ground here, as if gravity were something he hadn’t been familiar with his whole life. It’s so fucking obnoxious.”At press time, sources reported the astronaut was lecturing co-workers on the proper way to pronounce Andromeda.
Yeah, yeah.
The Socceroos are leading 5-1 at half time against Indonesia.
Over.
Peak Warming Man said:
The Socceroos are leading 5-1 at half time against Indonesia.
Over.
Good.
Just watched the doco series about Sherri Papini. What a nut job.
Professor and authoritarianism scholar Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about dictators and fascism. Why do people support dictators? How do dictators come to power? What’s the difference between a dictatorship, an autocracy, and authoritarianism? What are the most common personality traits found in tyrants and dictators? Is Xi Jinping a dictator? How do dictators amass wealth? Professor Ben-Ghiat answers these questions and many more on Tech Support: Dictator Support.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6fALsenmw
Divine Angel said:
Just watched the doco series about Sherri Papini. What a nut job.
Oh yeah…. Attention seeking behaviours abound.
Histrionic personality disorder used to be confined to an immediate vicinity, but social media allows us all the view the spectacular psychosis.sarahs mum said:
Professor and authoritarianism scholar Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about dictators and fascism. Why do people support dictators? How do dictators come to power? What’s the difference between a dictatorship, an autocracy, and authoritarianism? What are the most common personality traits found in tyrants and dictators? Is Xi Jinping a dictator? How do dictators amass wealth? Professor Ben-Ghiat answers these questions and many more on Tech Support: Dictator Support.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6fALsenmw
interesting collection of just so stories though
Arts said:
as a side note.. when other read acronyms like FTA… does your brain ‘say’ the words or the letters?
both in superposition
Just got home from the outernet.
9 hours earthworks, 2 hours at a function at an aged care centre that was under threat at the recent bushfire, and 2 hours at Youth in Emergency Services (YES Cadets) at the fire station.
We were showing them the burnt bush out the back of the fire station and explaining that there are still hotspots burning even after over a month, a few of them rolled their eyes but like it was scripted, one of them spotted a little plume of smoke and upon further investigation, there were quite a few nearby. We rolled out the firetruck and let them have a go at firefighting with a genuine situation. Some of them looked quite sooty afterwards and we’re not quite sure if we’ll get in trouble again, but fuck it, that’s how you learn. You can’t keep kids in nappies and cotton wool and expect them to grow up.
They loved it. Then we went inside to play with the brand new scenario training kit. I’ll post a couple of pics from my phone shortly…
Kingy said:
Just got home from the outernet.9 hours earthworks, 2 hours at a function at an aged care centre that was under threat at the recent bushfire, and 2 hours at Youth in Emergency Services (YES Cadets) at the fire station.
We were showing them the burnt bush out the back of the fire station and explaining that there are still hotspots burning even after over a month, a few of them rolled their eyes but like it was scripted, one of them spotted a little plume of smoke and upon further investigation, there were quite a few nearby. We rolled out the firetruck and let them have a go at firefighting with a genuine situation. Some of them looked quite sooty afterwards and we’re not quite sure if we’ll get in trouble again, but fuck it, that’s how you learn. You can’t keep kids in nappies and cotton wool and expect them to grow up.
They loved it. Then we went inside to play with the brand new scenario training kit. I’ll post a couple of pics from my phone shortly…
SCIENCE said:
Arts said:
as a side note.. when other read acronyms like FTA… does your brain ‘say’ the words or the letters?
both in superposition
Mostly in letters, but if the letters spell a pronounceable sequence then that word.
eg.
FTA = Eff Tee Ay
FAT32 = fat thirty two
CPTPP = as per the individual letters
ASEAN = AS-ee-an
NATO = NAY-toe
Kingy said:
Just got home from the outernet.9 hours earthworks, 2 hours at a function at an aged care centre that was under threat at the recent bushfire, and 2 hours at Youth in Emergency Services (YES Cadets) at the fire station.
We were showing them the burnt bush out the back of the fire station and explaining that there are still hotspots burning even after over a month, a few of them rolled their eyes but like it was scripted, one of them spotted a little plume of smoke and upon further investigation, there were quite a few nearby. We rolled out the firetruck and let them have a go at firefighting with a genuine situation. Some of them looked quite sooty afterwards and we’re not quite sure if we’ll get in trouble again, but fuck it, that’s how you learn. You can’t keep kids in nappies and cotton wool and expect them to grow up.
They loved it. Then we went inside to play with the brand new scenario training kit. I’ll post a couple of pics from my phone shortly…
Excellent, though I scanned your post and at first I thought the old people were helping put out hotspots and getting sooty. I pictured cranky old women in cotton nighties and grumpy old men in slippers and summer PJs getting sassy with you.
kii said:
Kingy said:
Just got home from the outernet.9 hours earthworks, 2 hours at a function at an aged care centre that was under threat at the recent bushfire, and 2 hours at Youth in Emergency Services (YES Cadets) at the fire station.
We were showing them the burnt bush out the back of the fire station and explaining that there are still hotspots burning even after over a month, a few of them rolled their eyes but like it was scripted, one of them spotted a little plume of smoke and upon further investigation, there were quite a few nearby. We rolled out the firetruck and let them have a go at firefighting with a genuine situation. Some of them looked quite sooty afterwards and we’re not quite sure if we’ll get in trouble again, but fuck it, that’s how you learn. You can’t keep kids in nappies and cotton wool and expect them to grow up.
They loved it. Then we went inside to play with the brand new scenario training kit. I’ll post a couple of pics from my phone shortly…
Excellent, though I scanned your post and at first I thought the old people were helping put out hotspots and getting sooty. I pictured cranky old women in cotton nighties and grumpy old men in slippers and summer PJs getting sassy with you.
That sounds like a fun prompt for the AI image generator. Maybe chuck in a few kittens in PJ’s. I’m up for it. :)
Kingy said:
kii said:
Kingy said:
Just got home from the outernet.9 hours earthworks, 2 hours at a function at an aged care centre that was under threat at the recent bushfire, and 2 hours at Youth in Emergency Services (YES Cadets) at the fire station.
We were showing them the burnt bush out the back of the fire station and explaining that there are still hotspots burning even after over a month, a few of them rolled their eyes but like it was scripted, one of them spotted a little plume of smoke and upon further investigation, there were quite a few nearby. We rolled out the firetruck and let them have a go at firefighting with a genuine situation. Some of them looked quite sooty afterwards and we’re not quite sure if we’ll get in trouble again, but fuck it, that’s how you learn. You can’t keep kids in nappies and cotton wool and expect them to grow up.
They loved it. Then we went inside to play with the brand new scenario training kit. I’ll post a couple of pics from my phone shortly…
Excellent, though I scanned your post and at first I thought the old people were helping put out hotspots and getting sooty. I pictured cranky old women in cotton nighties and grumpy old men in slippers and summer PJs getting sassy with you.
That sounds like a fun prompt for the AI image generator. Maybe chuck in a few kittens in PJ’s. I’m up for it. :)
That can be someone else’s job. I’m supposed to be trying to focus on Important Things like shredding more paperwork, doing the chores and something something or something.
Cemetery Arts ·
Alan Maulana · 19 March at 12:43 ·
Highgate Cemetery is a cemetery in north London, England, which opened in 1839. It was one of seven “great garden cemeteries” in London at the time. What is unique about this cemetery is the architecture of its dog tombstones.
kii said:
Kingy said:
kii said:Excellent, though I scanned your post and at first I thought the old people were helping put out hotspots and getting sooty. I pictured cranky old women in cotton nighties and grumpy old men in slippers and summer PJs getting sassy with you.
That sounds like a fun prompt for the AI image generator. Maybe chuck in a few kittens in PJ’s. I’m up for it. :)
That can be someone else’s job. I’m supposed to be trying to focus on Important Things like shredding more paperwork, doing the chores and something something or something.
packing another box.
‘Don’t call it zombie deer disease’: scientists warn of ‘global crisis’ as infections spread across the US
A contagious, fatal illness in deer, elk and moose has taken hold in the US and is now reaching other countries. While it has not infected humans yet, the risk is growing
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/20/chronic-wasting-disease-spread-zombie-deer-global-us-aoe
sarahs mum said:
kii said:
Kingy said:That sounds like a fun prompt for the AI image generator. Maybe chuck in a few kittens in PJ’s. I’m up for it. :)
That can be someone else’s job. I’m supposed to be trying to focus on Important Things like shredding more paperwork, doing the chores and something something or something.
packing another box.
I really need to create some type of order in the house. The back part of the house is a staging area of things for the moving company to pack and a corner for various crap to donate. The main computer is also back there. The front part of the house is where I mostly live. A few stacks of files on the dining table that I am currently checking through, again, and shredding more of it. The kitchen cupboards are mostly sorted into small boxes for the movers to pack. The bedroom has no storage for clothes so I have washing baskets, boxes and suitcases around the room. I donated the chests of drawers a few years ago to a local thrift store that raises money for abandoned cats and dogs. Remember the kitten that I rescued? He went to them for the adoption process and found a good home.
I’m waiting for the gardener to help me with the last of the stuff in my studio and the boxes etc I have stored in mr kii’s workshop. Then the movers can be called.
i’m up to watching LAOTY no 7.
and thought mr car might like this one.
Just ordered this new graphics card, which should get me cooking with gas in no time.
https://www.centrecom.com.au/asus-dual-geforce-rtx-4060-v2-oc-edition-8gb-gddr6-graphics-card
sarahs mum said:
i’m up to watching LAOTY no 7.
and thought mr car might like this one.
Might have some appeal if I could ignore the competitive aspects, but that’s unlikely :)
I have a deep loathing for art competitions and awards etc.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
i’m up to watching LAOTY no 7.
and thought mr car might like this one.
Might have some appeal if I could ignore the competitive aspects, but that’s unlikely :)
I have a deep loathing for art competitions and awards etc.
i like watching how the contestants solve the problems. I think i would ignore victory altogether. only one did that.
I’m with you about judging. i seldom agreed with the marking people at art school.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
i’m up to watching LAOTY no 7.
and thought mr car might like this one.
Might have some appeal if I could ignore the competitive aspects, but that’s unlikely :)
I have a deep loathing for art competitions and awards etc.
i like watching how the contestants solve the problems. I think i would ignore victory altogether. only one did that.
I’m with you about judging. i seldom agreed with the marking people at art school.
problem…tide is coming in and victory keeps getting bigger.
ah. this is victory.
they are painting warrior.
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:Might have some appeal if I could ignore the competitive aspects, but that’s unlikely :)
I have a deep loathing for art competitions and awards etc.
i like watching how the contestants solve the problems. I think i would ignore victory altogether. only one did that.
I’m with you about judging. i seldom agreed with the marking people at art school.
problem…tide is coming in and victory keeps getting bigger.
Heh.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 10 degrees at the back door, dark and still. We are forecast a cloudy 21 today.
Going to the bush this morning.
Clear and 28 today.
Apparently there’s a movie being filmed nearby, in Caboolture. Stars Chuck Norris, Brian Austin Green, Vanilla Ice, and John Jarratt. It’s called Zombie Plane. Sounds awesomely terrible and I can’t wait to see it.
Was going to wish youse a Happy Equinox but I missed it, it was yesterday.
So um, Happy Equinox +1.
The eggs I usually get have risen from $7.12 to $8.17 for 18 googies. I haven’t bought them for a month, as I had a few cartons already. I have noticed that they have been “out of stock” since I last bought them.
Morning Pilgrims.
Its overcast with occasionally sunny breaks in the Pearl of the South Specific.
Over
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
i’m up to watching LAOTY no 7.
and thought mr car might like this one.
Might have some appeal if I could ignore the competitive aspects, but that’s unlikely :)
I have a deep loathing for art competitions and awards etc.
i like watching how the contestants solve the problems. I think i would ignore victory altogether. only one did that.
I’m with you about judging. i seldom agreed with the marking people at art school.
I have a piece of scratch-etched and inked polished marble slab (bench-top offcut). It shows four art judges in Klu-Klux-Klan garb sitting around a table examining a lump of dog shit. The title also (etched and inked below the image) “The Art Gallery Establishment”.
It made me laugh, so I had to buy it. The artist sold it to me, heavily discounted because I laughed.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:Might have some appeal if I could ignore the competitive aspects, but that’s unlikely :)
I have a deep loathing for art competitions and awards etc.
i like watching how the contestants solve the problems. I think i would ignore victory altogether. only one did that.
I’m with you about judging. i seldom agreed with the marking people at art school.
I have a piece of scratch-etched and inked polished marble slab (bench-top offcut). It shows four art judges in Klu-Klux-Klan garb sitting around a table examining a lump of dog shit. The title also (etched and inked below the image) “The Art Gallery Establishment”.
It made me laugh, so I had to buy it. The artist sold it to me, heavily discounted because I laughed.
:)
Divine Angel said:
Was going to wish youse a Happy Equinox but I missed it, it was yesterday.So um, Happy Equinox +1.
:)
Ta.
Divine Angel said:
Clear and 28 today.Apparently there’s a movie being filmed nearby, in Caboolture. Stars Chuck Norris, Brian Austin Green, Vanilla Ice, and John Jarratt. It’s called Zombie Plane. Sounds awesomely terrible and I can’t wait to see it.
Turns out a friend’s daughter is an extra in it 😂 She’s in a scene with Vanilla Ice.
Only 1 in 5 Qlders use the digital drivers license app.
I don’t use it cos the app doesn’t work. Can’t sign up, doesn’t like my credentials, won’t accept anything. Completely useless.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-21/digital-licence-app-queensland-government-services-products/105073482
Five outta ten for me.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-21/weekly-news-quiz-march-21/105074962
Divine Angel said:
Five outta ten for me.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-21/weekly-news-quiz-march-21/105074962
Same here.
Hello
Divine Angel said:
Five outta ten for me.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-21/weekly-news-quiz-march-21/105074962
15/50 here.
Cymek said:
Hello
G’Day there.
According to science (long may it live in rigorous protocols) the secret to happiness is KINDNESS.
“Acts of generosity predict happiness even more than earning a higher salary”
If you don’t believe that then take you wrath out on Dr Lara Aknin from Simon Fraser University.
Arts said:
According to science (long may it live in rigorous protocols) the secret to happiness is KINDNESS.“Acts of generosity predict happiness even more than earning a higher salary”
If you don’t believe that then take you wrath out on Dr Lara Aknin from Simon Fraser University.
There’s a saying; You get what you give.
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
According to science (long may it live in rigorous protocols) the secret to happiness is KINDNESS.“Acts of generosity predict happiness even more than earning a higher salary”
If you don’t believe that then take you wrath out on Dr Lara Aknin from Simon Fraser University.
There’s a saying; You get what you give.
is it cause or effect
Has anyone seen Snow Woke and the Seven Pronouns?
Peak Warming Man said:
Has anyone seen Snow Woke and the Seven Pronouns?
I don’t even know what the 7 pronouns are.
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
According to science (long may it live in rigorous protocols) the secret to happiness is KINDNESS.“Acts of generosity predict happiness even more than earning a higher salary”
If you don’t believe that then take you wrath out on Dr Lara Aknin from Simon Fraser University.
There’s a saying; You get what you give.
Nope.
I try to be kind not expecting anything in return. It only leads to disappointment and low self esteem.
I also don’t buy into the “be kind because you don’t know what they’re going through” because that implies I’m allowed to be nasty if they’re peachy keen.
Peak Warming Man said:
Has anyone seen Snow Woke and the Seven Pronouns?
Not yet.
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
According to science (long may it live in rigorous protocols) the secret to happiness is KINDNESS.“Acts of generosity predict happiness even more than earning a higher salary”
If you don’t believe that then take you wrath out on Dr Lara Aknin from Simon Fraser University.
There’s a saying; You get what you give.
that only works if we want to blame victims…
Divine Angel said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
According to science (long may it live in rigorous protocols) the secret to happiness is KINDNESS.“Acts of generosity predict happiness even more than earning a higher salary”
If you don’t believe that then take you wrath out on Dr Lara Aknin from Simon Fraser University.
There’s a saying; You get what you give.
Nope.
I try to be kind not expecting anything in return. It only leads to disappointment and low self esteem.
I also don’t buy into the “be kind because you don’t know what they’re going through” because that implies I’m allowed to be nasty if they’re peachy keen.
It isn’t for deep thoughts.
You simply give what you give.
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
According to science (long may it live in rigorous protocols) the secret to happiness is KINDNESS.“Acts of generosity predict happiness even more than earning a higher salary”
If you don’t believe that then take you wrath out on Dr Lara Aknin from Simon Fraser University.
There’s a saying; You get what you give.
that only works if we want to blame victims…
I wasn’t thinking of it that way.
Divine Angel said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
According to science (long may it live in rigorous protocols) the secret to happiness is KINDNESS.“Acts of generosity predict happiness even more than earning a higher salary”
If you don’t believe that then take you wrath out on Dr Lara Aknin from Simon Fraser University.
There’s a saying; You get what you give.
Nope.
I try to be kind not expecting anything in return. It only leads to disappointment and low self esteem.
I also don’t buy into the “be kind because you don’t know what they’re going through” because that implies I’m allowed to be nasty if they’re peachy keen.
I think the point is that no-one is peachy keen… that everyone is a fractured being.
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
roughbarked said:There’s a saying; You get what you give.
Nope.
I try to be kind not expecting anything in return. It only leads to disappointment and low self esteem.
I also don’t buy into the “be kind because you don’t know what they’re going through” because that implies I’m allowed to be nasty if they’re peachy keen.
I think the point is that no-one is peachy keen… that everyone is a fractured being.
I’ll certainly buy that. :)
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
roughbarked said:There’s a saying; You get what you give.
Nope.
I try to be kind not expecting anything in return. It only leads to disappointment and low self esteem.
I also don’t buy into the “be kind because you don’t know what they’re going through” because that implies I’m allowed to be nasty if they’re peachy keen.
I think the point is that no-one is peachy keen… that everyone is a fractured being.
The bingbot tells me that peachy keen means:
Extremely good, exactly right; all right
That’s 3 different things, isn’t it?
Arts said:
According to science (long may it live in rigorous protocols) the secret to happiness is KINDNESS.“Acts of generosity predict happiness even more than earning a higher salary”
If you don’t believe that then take you wrath out on Dr Lara Aknin from Simon Fraser University.
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
According to science (long may it live in rigorous protocols) the secret to happiness is KINDNESS.
“Acts of generosity predict happiness even more than earning a higher salary”
If you don’t believe that then take you wrath out on Dr Lara Aknin from Simon Fraser University.
There’s a saying; You get what you give.
that only works if we want to blame victims…
It’s The American Way ¡
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
roughbarked said:There’s a saying; You get what you give.
that only works if we want to blame victims…
I wasn’t thinking of it that way.
that’s why trite saying like that are harmful… I mean, sure the intent is to create a mindset that promotes kindness and generosity, but the underlying message is if you do that it’s because you intend to get something in return and/or if you get bad things you must have put badness out there somewhere…. which is really shitty thinking.
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
roughbarked said:
There’s a saying; You get what you give.
Nope.
I try to be kind not expecting anything in return. It only leads to disappointment and low self esteem.
I also don’t buy into the “be kind because you don’t know what they’re going through” because that implies I’m allowed to be nasty if they’re peachy keen.
I think the point is that no-one is peachy keen… that everyone is a fractured being.
we don’t care we’ll still shit on fascist billionaires
Arts said:
According to science (long may it live in rigorous protocols) the secret to happiness is KINDNESS.“Acts of generosity predict happiness even more than earning a higher salary”
If you don’t believe that then take you wrath out on Dr Lara Aknin from Simon Fraser University.
I was once a kind and generous person, and happy, then too many fuckers just ignored me when I could have done with some kindness and/or generosity. So everyone can just fuck off.
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:that only works if we want to blame victims…
I wasn’t thinking of it that way.
that’s why trite saying like that are harmful… I mean, sure the intent is to create a mindset that promotes kindness and generosity, but the underlying message is if you do that it’s because you intend to get something in return and/or if you get bad things you must have put badness out there somewhere…. which is really shitty thinking.
Fair.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
Nope.
I try to be kind not expecting anything in return. It only leads to disappointment and low self esteem.
I also don’t buy into the “be kind because you don’t know what they’re going through” because that implies I’m allowed to be nasty if they’re peachy keen.
I think the point is that no-one is peachy keen… that everyone is a fractured being.
The bingbot tells me that peachy keen means:
Extremely good, exactly right; all right
That’s 3 different things, isn’t it?
wait until you discover the saurus
kii said:
Arts said:
According to science (long may it live in rigorous protocols) the secret to happiness is KINDNESS.
“Acts of generosity predict happiness even more than earning a higher salary”
If you don’t believe that then take you wrath out on Dr Lara Aknin from Simon Fraser University.
Hahahaha…LOLOLOLOL…snortI was once a kind and generous person, and happy, then too many fuckers just ignored me when I could have done with some kindness and/or generosity. So everyone can just fuck off.
so it’s true people do give what they get
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
roughbarked said:There’s a saying; You get what you give.
Nope.
I try to be kind not expecting anything in return. It only leads to disappointment and low self esteem.
I also don’t buy into the “be kind because you don’t know what they’re going through” because that implies I’m allowed to be nasty if they’re peachy keen.
I think the point is that no-one is peachy keen… that everyone is a fractured being.
Yesterday I watched a webinar about trauma informed care. The host ran a couple of surveys to see who had trauma and where it stemmed from. Obvs the results are skewed because it was mostly mental health clinicians attending, and one tends to operate in that space when they hold their own trauma…
But anyway it was interesting to see how trauma presents in people, which was the bit I was interested in. Working with kids means you’re subjected to all sorts of backgrounds.
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
According to science (long may it live in rigorous protocols) the secret to happiness is KINDNESS.“Acts of generosity predict happiness even more than earning a higher salary”
If you don’t believe that then take you wrath out on Dr Lara Aknin from Simon Fraser University.
There’s a saying; You get what you give.
Chinese fortune cookie time.
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:Nope.
I try to be kind not expecting anything in return. It only leads to disappointment and low self esteem.
I also don’t buy into the “be kind because you don’t know what they’re going through” because that implies I’m allowed to be nasty if they’re peachy keen.
I think the point is that no-one is peachy keen… that everyone is a fractured being.
I’ll certainly buy that. :)
Oh Dog I read that as “everyone is a fractured bean.
Divine Angel said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
According to science (long may it live in rigorous protocols) the secret to happiness is KINDNESS.“Acts of generosity predict happiness even more than earning a higher salary”
If you don’t believe that then take you wrath out on Dr Lara Aknin from Simon Fraser University.
There’s a saying; You get what you give.
Nope.
I try to be kind not expecting anything in return. It only leads to disappointment and low self esteem.
I also don’t buy into the “be kind because you don’t know what they’re going through” because that implies I’m allowed to be nasty if they’re peachy keen.
Are the people nice people ?
I understand as I try my best with my eldest daughter and is gets nastiness back.
She isn’t mental stable though.
People also exploit kindness unfortunately
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:I think the point is that no-one is peachy keen… that everyone is a fractured being.
I’ll certainly buy that. :)
Oh Dog I read that as “everyone is a fractured bean.
You know what your mother said about beans in your ears?
However, I do reserve the right to call people cnuts when they leave their shopping trolleys in car spaces.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Arts said:
I think the point is that no-one is peachy keen… that everyone is a fractured being.
I’ll certainly buy that. :)
Oh Dog I read that as “everyone is a fractured bean.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:I’ll certainly buy that. :)
Oh Dog I read that as “everyone is a fractured bean.
You know what your mother said about beans in your ears?
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:Nope.
I try to be kind not expecting anything in return. It only leads to disappointment and low self esteem.
I also don’t buy into the “be kind because you don’t know what they’re going through” because that implies I’m allowed to be nasty if they’re peachy keen.
I think the point is that no-one is peachy keen… that everyone is a fractured being.
Yesterday I watched a webinar about trauma informed care. The host ran a couple of surveys to see who had trauma and where it stemmed from. Obvs the results are skewed because it was mostly mental health clinicians attending, and one tends to operate in that space when they hold their own trauma…
But anyway it was interesting to see how trauma presents in people, which was the bit I was interested in. Working with kids means you’re subjected to all sorts of backgrounds.
When I moved from the classroom to MSB, and learned of some of the students living realities, it was tough to think about. The more involved I got with students at risk and had to deal with the Department of Child services and the juvenile justice system, the more hardened I had to become. Not harsh, but learning compartmentalisation for that role was vital.
Cymek said:
Divine Angel said:
roughbarked said:
There’s a saying; You get what you give.
Nope.
I try to be kind not expecting anything in return. It only leads to disappointment and low self esteem.
I also don’t buy into the “be kind because you don’t know what they’re going through” because that implies I’m allowed to be nasty if they’re peachy keen.
Are the people nice people ?
I understand as I try my best with my eldest daughter and is gets nastiness back.
She isn’t mental stable though.
People also exploit kindness unfortunately
доверяй, но проверяй
Cymek said:
People also exploit kindness unfortunately
Hell yes. Those people get a curt, “no more soup for you” and I cut them out of my life. Zero regrets. You overstep my boundaries, you’re dead to me.
Divine Angel said:
Even when they’ve left you a two dollar coin?
However, I do reserve the right to call people cnuts when they leave their shopping trolleys in car spaces.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:I’ll certainly buy that. :)
Oh Dog I read that as “everyone is a fractured bean.
You know what your mother said about beans in your ears?
I don’t think she said anything about that.
She said something about having bees in your bonnet, whatever that means.
Divine Angel said:
However, I do reserve the right to call people cnuts when they leave their shopping trolleys in car spaces.
That’s a pet hate of mine too.. it tells me something about the person.. like the people who leave their rubbish at the seats in movie theatres. Hmmm maybe they are the same people…
kii said:
Arts said:
According to science (long may it live in rigorous protocols) the secret to happiness is KINDNESS.“Acts of generosity predict happiness even more than earning a higher salary”
If you don’t believe that then take you wrath out on Dr Lara Aknin from Simon Fraser University.
Hahahaha…LOLOLOLOL…snortI was once a kind and generous person, and happy, then too many fuckers just ignored me when I could have done with some kindness and/or generosity. So everyone can just fuck off.
Oh, and before some smart arse says I shouldn’t be kind etc expecting something in return, then you really don’t know me and never have.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:Oh Dog I read that as “everyone is a fractured bean.
You know what your mother said about beans in your ears?
I don’t think she said anything about that.
She said something about having bees in your bonnet, whatever that means.
or bats in your belfry?
kii said:
Arts said:
According to science (long may it live in rigorous protocols) the secret to happiness is KINDNESS.“Acts of generosity predict happiness even more than earning a higher salary”
If you don’t believe that then take you wrath out on Dr Lara Aknin from Simon Fraser University.
Hahahaha…LOLOLOLOL…snortI was once a kind and generous person, and happy, then too many fuckers just ignored me when I could have done with some kindness and/or generosity. So everyone can just fuck off.
So we are allowed to think of ourselves aren’t we
My example at the moment is my youngest daughter doesn’t want to live at home.
Her mum is difficult apart from the hoarding and other behaviour
My daughter wants or suggested to live with me.
I have a room in a shared house, its basic as but that doesn’t worry me in the slightest
Tts suits me perfectly fine and I don’t want to leave.
A house would cost 3 times as much and I have no furniture or appliances apart from a tv
The shared house has it all.
Her grandparents have a big lovely house with spare bedrooms she could live in.
They could offer her a room.
Divine Angel said:
However, I do reserve the right to call people cnuts when they leave their shopping trolleys in car spaces.
Drown the bastards slowly in quicksand, which is anything but quick.
roughbarked said:
Divine Angel said:Even when they’ve left you a two dollar coin?
However, I do reserve the right to call people cnuts when they leave their shopping trolleys in car spaces.
most of our shopping centres don’t have that system… even the Costco here (which had the unlocking the cart system) removed it after a while…
Giant sunfish washes up on Western Australia’s southern coast
Is something unusual to see.
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:I think the point is that no-one is peachy keen… that everyone is a fractured being.
Yesterday I watched a webinar about trauma informed care. The host ran a couple of surveys to see who had trauma and where it stemmed from. Obvs the results are skewed because it was mostly mental health clinicians attending, and one tends to operate in that space when they hold their own trauma…
But anyway it was interesting to see how trauma presents in people, which was the bit I was interested in. Working with kids means you’re subjected to all sorts of backgrounds.
When I moved from the classroom to MSB, and learned of some of the students living realities, it was tough to think about. The more involved I got with students at risk and had to deal with the Department of Child services and the juvenile justice system, the more hardened I had to become. Not harsh, but learning compartmentalisation for that role was vital.
I scored a TA job at a school for disenfranchised kids, but declined the offer before I’d even started after hearing a former teacher there got a desk hurled at her, breaking five ribs. I couldn’t deal with the stress of what might happen to me every day. I’m a sensitive soul.
Cymek said:
kii said:
Arts said:
According to science (long may it live in rigorous protocols) the secret to happiness is KINDNESS.“Acts of generosity predict happiness even more than earning a higher salary”
If you don’t believe that then take you wrath out on Dr Lara Aknin from Simon Fraser University.
Hahahaha…LOLOLOLOL…snortI was once a kind and generous person, and happy, then too many fuckers just ignored me when I could have done with some kindness and/or generosity. So everyone can just fuck off.
So we are allowed to think of ourselves aren’t we
My example at the moment is my youngest daughter doesn’t want to live at home.
Her mum is difficult apart from the hoarding and other behaviour
My daughter wants or suggested to live with me.
I have a room in a shared house, its basic as but that doesn’t worry me in the slightest
Tts suits me perfectly fine and I don’t want to leave.
A house would cost 3 times as much and I have no furniture or appliances apart from a tv
The shared house has it all.
Her grandparents have a big lovely house with spare bedrooms she could live in.
They could offer her a room.
How old is your daughter?
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:I think the point is that no-one is peachy keen… that everyone is a fractured being.
Yesterday I watched a webinar about trauma informed care. The host ran a couple of surveys to see who had trauma and where it stemmed from. Obvs the results are skewed because it was mostly mental health clinicians attending, and one tends to operate in that space when they hold their own trauma…
But anyway it was interesting to see how trauma presents in people, which was the bit I was interested in. Working with kids means you’re subjected to all sorts of backgrounds.
When I moved from the classroom to MSB, and learned of some of the students living realities, it was tough to think about. The more involved I got with students at risk and had to deal with the Department of Child services and the juvenile justice system, the more hardened I had to become. Not harsh, but learning compartmentalisation for that role was vital.
For sure, the terrible situations people are in.
Broken people from a system that doesn’t that have resources to cope.
Divine Angel said:
However, I do reserve the right to call people cnuts when they leave their shopping trolleys in car spaces.
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
roughbarked said:
Cymek said:
kii said:Hahahaha…LOLOLOLOL…snort
I was once a kind and generous person, and happy, then too many fuckers just ignored me when I could have done with some kindness and/or generosity. So everyone can just fuck off.
So we are allowed to think of ourselves aren’t we
My example at the moment is my youngest daughter doesn’t want to live at home.
Her mum is difficult apart from the hoarding and other behaviour
My daughter wants or suggested to live with me.
I have a room in a shared house, its basic as but that doesn’t worry me in the slightest
Tts suits me perfectly fine and I don’t want to leave.
A house would cost 3 times as much and I have no furniture or appliances apart from a tv
The shared house has it all.
Her grandparents have a big lovely house with spare bedrooms she could live in.
They could offer her a room.How old is your daughter?
She is 18 1/2
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
Yesterday I watched a webinar about trauma informed care. The host ran a couple of surveys to see who had trauma and where it stemmed from. Obvs the results are skewed because it was mostly mental health clinicians attending, and one tends to operate in that space when they hold their own trauma…
But anyway it was interesting to see how trauma presents in people, which was the bit I was interested in. Working with kids means you’re subjected to all sorts of backgrounds.
When I moved from the classroom to MSB, and learned of some of the students living realities, it was tough to think about. The more involved I got with students at risk and had to deal with the Department of Child services and the juvenile justice system, the more hardened I had to become. Not harsh, but learning compartmentalisation for that role was vital.
I scored a TA job at a school for disenfranchised kids, but declined the offer before I’d even started after hearing a former teacher there got a desk hurled at her, breaking five ribs. I couldn’t deal with the stress of what might happen to me every day. I’m a sensitive soul.
surely it’s just a fun opportunity to learn and practice that jiujitsu everyone knows and loves
Cymek said:
So we are allowed to think of ourselves aren’t we
My example at the moment is my youngest daughter doesn’t want to live at home.
Her mum is difficult apart from the hoarding and other behaviour
My daughter wants or suggested to live with me.
I have a room in a shared house, its basic as but that doesn’t worry me in the slightest
Tts suits me perfectly fine and I don’t want to leave.
A house would cost 3 times as much and I have no furniture or appliances apart from a tv
The shared house has it all.
Her grandparents have a big lovely house with spare bedrooms she could live in.
They could offer her a room.
I didn’t know you had separated from your wife. Good for you!
I don’t know what the solution is with your daughter, but I send you strength and courage ✨
Cymek said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:Yesterday I watched a webinar about trauma informed care. The host ran a couple of surveys to see who had trauma and where it stemmed from. Obvs the results are skewed because it was mostly mental health clinicians attending, and one tends to operate in that space when they hold their own trauma…
But anyway it was interesting to see how trauma presents in people, which was the bit I was interested in. Working with kids means you’re subjected to all sorts of backgrounds.
When I moved from the classroom to MSB, and learned of some of the students living realities, it was tough to think about. The more involved I got with students at risk and had to deal with the Department of Child services and the juvenile justice system, the more hardened I had to become. Not harsh, but learning compartmentalisation for that role was vital.
For sure, the terrible situations people are in.
Broken people from a system that doesn’t that have resources to cope.
All things considered, some people are just nasty.
The horrible things they do to others.
They may have had a bad upbringing, but its shocking what some of them do.
I stopped reading some of it as its so very nasty.
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
Divine Angel said:Even when they’ve left you a two dollar coin?
However, I do reserve the right to call people cnuts when they leave their shopping trolleys in car spaces.
most of our shopping centres don’t have that system… even the Costco here (which had the unlocking the cart system) removed it after a while…
Not long ago the local Woolies had notices around the store requesting patience as, over time, all their trolleys had been stolen. I expected them to bring in coin trolleys but nope. Two hundred brand new trolleys which are, again, slowly disappearing.
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
Even when they’ve left you a two dollar coin?
most of our shopping centres don’t have that system… even the Costco here (which had the unlocking the cart system) removed it after a while…
Not long ago the local Woolies had notices around the store requesting patience as, over time, all their trolleys had been stolen. I expected them to bring in coin trolleys but nope. Two hundred brand new trolleys which are, again, slowly disappearing.
so it’s like free bicycles, if they keep getting stolen then it just means they haven’t supplied enough of them yet
roughbarked said:
Giant sunfish washes up on Western Australia’s southern coast
Is something unusual to see.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-21/scawfell-island-sunskink-lizard-discovered-mackay/105069732
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:Yesterday I watched a webinar about trauma informed care. The host ran a couple of surveys to see who had trauma and where it stemmed from. Obvs the results are skewed because it was mostly mental health clinicians attending, and one tends to operate in that space when they hold their own trauma…
But anyway it was interesting to see how trauma presents in people, which was the bit I was interested in. Working with kids means you’re subjected to all sorts of backgrounds.
When I moved from the classroom to MSB, and learned of some of the students living realities, it was tough to think about. The more involved I got with students at risk and had to deal with the Department of Child services and the juvenile justice system, the more hardened I had to become. Not harsh, but learning compartmentalisation for that role was vital.
I scored a TA job at a school for disenfranchised kids, but declined the offer before I’d even started after hearing a former teacher there got a desk hurled at her, breaking five ribs. I couldn’t deal with the stress of what might happen to me every day. I’m a sensitive soul.
I could probably furnish a home with the stings I had thrown at me.. but I also knew that they weren’t really throwing it at me, its was displacement of aggression, however inappropriate… they weren’t actually angry at me. But I also saw a lot of people only last one day in the STAR program.
Divine Angel said:
Cymek said:So we are allowed to think of ourselves aren’t we
My example at the moment is my youngest daughter doesn’t want to live at home.
Her mum is difficult apart from the hoarding and other behaviour
My daughter wants or suggested to live with me.
I have a room in a shared house, its basic as but that doesn’t worry me in the slightest
Tts suits me perfectly fine and I don’t want to leave.
A house would cost 3 times as much and I have no furniture or appliances apart from a tv
The shared house has it all.
Her grandparents have a big lovely house with spare bedrooms she could live in.
They could offer her a room.I didn’t know you had separated from your wife. Good for you!
I don’t know what the solution is with your daughter, but I send you strength and courage ✨
Thanks
I was also trying to help my eldest daughter with getting her son back from DCP.
The problem is she has mental problems and is very nasty and inappropriate.
I will only go so far to help and not excuse her behaviour as a 3 year old is the important person in this equation.
I told her certain behaviour is expected in a civilised society
She got very angry and threatened and insulted me
Like very disgusting and vile comments.
She wants nothing to do with me now
She blames it on neurodiversity which is a cope out.
Its not an excuse to scream at people, be violent and using disgusting insults.
She had a diagnosis of Narcissistic Personality Disorder when she had to go to court years ago.
Cymek said:
kii said:
Arts said:
According to science (long may it live in rigorous protocols) the secret to happiness is KINDNESS.“Acts of generosity predict happiness even more than earning a higher salary”
If you don’t believe that then take you wrath out on Dr Lara Aknin from Simon Fraser University.
Hahahaha…LOLOLOLOL…snortI was once a kind and generous person, and happy, then too many fuckers just ignored me when I could have done with some kindness and/or generosity. So everyone can just fuck off.
So we are allowed to think of ourselves aren’t we
My example at the moment is my youngest daughter doesn’t want to live at home.
Her mum is difficult apart from the hoarding and other behaviour
My daughter wants or suggested to live with me.
I have a room in a shared house, its basic as but that doesn’t worry me in the slightest
Tts suits me perfectly fine and I don’t want to leave.
A house would cost 3 times as much and I have no furniture or appliances apart from a tv
The shared house has it all.
Her grandparents have a big lovely house with spare bedrooms she could live in.
They could offer her a room.
Are you still making substantial payments for your mortgage? If not surely you could afford a two bedroom flat near her school?
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:When I moved from the classroom to MSB, and learned of some of the students living realities, it was tough to think about. The more involved I got with students at risk and had to deal with the Department of Child services and the juvenile justice system, the more hardened I had to become. Not harsh, but learning compartmentalisation for that role was vital.
I scored a TA job at a school for disenfranchised kids, but declined the offer before I’d even started after hearing a former teacher there got a desk hurled at her, breaking five ribs. I couldn’t deal with the stress of what might happen to me every day. I’m a sensitive soul.
I could probably furnish a home with the stings I had thrown at me.. but I also knew that they weren’t really throwing it at me, its was displacement of aggression, however inappropriate… they weren’t actually angry at me. But I also saw a lot of people only last one day in the STAR program.
Absolutely, it was never going to be about me. I just didn’t want to end up in hospital by the end of the day. I can’t traumatise my own young childlike that.
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:
Cymek said:So we are allowed to think of ourselves aren’t we
My example at the moment is my youngest daughter doesn’t want to live at home.
Her mum is difficult apart from the hoarding and other behaviour
My daughter wants or suggested to live with me.
I have a room in a shared house, its basic as but that doesn’t worry me in the slightest
Tts suits me perfectly fine and I don’t want to leave.
A house would cost 3 times as much and I have no furniture or appliances apart from a tv
The shared house has it all.
Her grandparents have a big lovely house with spare bedrooms she could live in.
They could offer her a room.How old is your daughter?
She is 18 1/2
She’s old enough to offer to help her grandparents with their chores in exchange for a room?
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
roughbarked said:Even when they’ve left you a two dollar coin?most of our shopping centres don’t have that system… even the Costco here (which had the unlocking the cart system) removed it after a while…
Not long ago the local Woolies had notices around the store requesting patience as, over time, all their trolleys had been stolen. I expected them to bring in coin trolleys but nope. Two hundred brand new trolleys which are, again, slowly disappearing.
They dump them everywhere. The main irrigational canal gets quite a few.
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
Giant sunfish washes up on Western Australia’s southern coast
Is something unusual to see.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-21/scawfell-island-sunskink-lizard-discovered-mackay/105069732
That too.
Arts said:
According to science (long may it live in rigorous protocols) the secret to happiness is KINDNESS.“Acts of generosity predict happiness even more than earning a higher salary”
If you don’t believe that then take you wrath out on Dr Lara Aknin from Simon Fraser University.
Which – the recipient or the giver (of kindness) gets the happiness?
Michael V said:
Arts said:
According to science (long may it live in rigorous protocols) the secret to happiness is KINDNESS.“Acts of generosity predict happiness even more than earning a higher salary”
If you don’t believe that then take you wrath out on Dr Lara Aknin from Simon Fraser University.
Which – the recipient or the giver (of kindness) gets the happiness?
If you aren’t happy to give, isn’t that being a scrooge?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Cymek said:
kii said:Hahahaha…LOLOLOLOL…snort
I was once a kind and generous person, and happy, then too many fuckers just ignored me when I could have done with some kindness and/or generosity. So everyone can just fuck off.
So we are allowed to think of ourselves aren’t we
My example at the moment is my youngest daughter doesn’t want to live at home.
Her mum is difficult apart from the hoarding and other behaviour
My daughter wants or suggested to live with me.
I have a room in a shared house, its basic as but that doesn’t worry me in the slightest
Tts suits me perfectly fine and I don’t want to leave.
A house would cost 3 times as much and I have no furniture or appliances apart from a tv
The shared house has it all.
Her grandparents have a big lovely house with spare bedrooms she could live in.
They could offer her a room.Are you still making substantial payments for your mortgage? If not surely you could afford a two bedroom flat near her school?
Maybe
It’s also that I don’t really want to do this at the moment.
I’m trying to save money so I can perhaps get a loan and find a place to buy in 5 years or so.
I also have a misconduct order against me because of the circumstances of me separating.
I was very angry the day I got taken to the hospital for suicide concerns and can’t talk to them for two years.
My behaviour was out of line I’ll admit that, not violent just words, not even threats just wished my wife would die
I’m trying to be better than I was.
We should have seperated years ago.
I accept my part I wish though that others would admit they also were part of the problem
That is the problem the victim part when its not true.
My children know what their mother is like.
She also has undiagnosed mental problems besides hoarding.
People whose version of events don’t match what happen so nothing ever changes.
Cymek said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Cymek said:So we are allowed to think of ourselves aren’t we
My example at the moment is my youngest daughter doesn’t want to live at home.
Her mum is difficult apart from the hoarding and other behaviour
My daughter wants or suggested to live with me.
I have a room in a shared house, its basic as but that doesn’t worry me in the slightest
Tts suits me perfectly fine and I don’t want to leave.
A house would cost 3 times as much and I have no furniture or appliances apart from a tv
The shared house has it all.
Her grandparents have a big lovely house with spare bedrooms she could live in.
They could offer her a room.Are you still making substantial payments for your mortgage? If not surely you could afford a two bedroom flat near her school?
Maybe
It’s also that I don’t really want to do this at the moment.
I’m trying to save money so I can perhaps get a loan and find a place to buy in 5 years or so.
I also have a misconduct order against me because of the circumstances of me separating.
I was very angry the day I got taken to the hospital for suicide concerns and can’t talk to them for two years.
My behaviour was out of line I’ll admit that, not violent just words, not even threats just wished my wife would die
I’m trying to be better than I was.
We should have seperated years ago.
I accept my part I wish though that others would admit they also were part of the problem
That is the problem the victim part when its not true.
My children know what their mother is like.
She also has undiagnosed mental problems besides hoarding.
People whose version of events don’t match what happen so nothing ever changes.
No good. By rights you’re entitled to half the value of the family home.
Divine Angel said:
However, I do reserve the right to call people cnuts when they leave their shopping trolleys in car spaces.
Ha.
I use tnuc (backwards…) to add another dimension to my name-calling.
Calling them the name of some old king is not my thing.
Michael V said:
Arts said:
According to science (long may it live in rigorous protocols) the secret to happiness is KINDNESS.
“Acts of generosity predict happiness even more than earning a higher salary”
If you don’t believe that then take you wrath out on Dr Lara Aknin from Simon Fraser University.
Which – the recipient or the giver (of kindness) gets the happiness?
isn’t that the beauty of giving in that it offers old el paso
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:
According to science (long may it live in rigorous protocols) the secret to happiness is KINDNESS.“Acts of generosity predict happiness even more than earning a higher salary”
If you don’t believe that then take you wrath out on Dr Lara Aknin from Simon Fraser University.
Which – the recipient or the giver (of kindness) gets the happiness?
If you aren’t happy to give, isn’t that being a scrooge?
Not the answer to my question about the research.
I did hears few bird outside the inside
was white-browed scrub wren
then a peaceful dove on road reserve
butcherbird nears’t chook pen
then various honeyeaters couple type
yes’t new holland one of them
‘n’ singing honeyeater songy too were
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
roughbarked said:Even when they’ve left you a two dollar coin?most of our shopping centres don’t have that system… even the Costco here (which had the unlocking the cart system) removed it after a while…
Not long ago the local Woolies had notices around the store requesting patience as, over time, all their trolleys had been stolen. I expected them to bring in coin trolleys but nope. Two hundred brand new trolleys which are, again, slowly disappearing.
People in Caboolture be like…
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:most of our shopping centres don’t have that system… even the Costco here (which had the unlocking the cart system) removed it after a while…
Not long ago the local Woolies had notices around the store requesting patience as, over time, all their trolleys had been stolen. I expected them to bring in coin trolleys but nope. Two hundred brand new trolleys which are, again, slowly disappearing.
People in Caboolture be like…
Chuck Norris is currently filming a zombie movie in Caboolture.
Divine Angel said:
However, I do reserve the right to call people cnuts when they leave their shopping trolleys in car spaces.
It’s a sin. Now listen to what Joyce Meyer has to say and obey God and put your shopping trolley back.
How are you supposed to serve God properly if you can’t even do that?
Divine Angel said:
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:Not long ago the local Woolies had notices around the store requesting patience as, over time, all their trolleys had been stolen. I expected them to bring in coin trolleys but nope. Two hundred brand new trolleys which are, again, slowly disappearing.
People in Caboolture be like…
Chuck Norris is currently filming a zombie movie in Caboolture.
They would make a good zombie protection fence if welded or chained together
Brand new 60k-seat stadium for Brisbane Olympics to be built after lengthy review: report
https://www.foxsports.com.au/more-sports/brand-new-60kseat-stadium-for-brisbane-olympics-to-be-built-after-lengthy-review-report/news-story/8d04dd369dbe87869c2170242bd911eb
…
Good.
Woodie said:
Divine Angel said:However, I do reserve the right to call people cnuts when they leave their shopping trolleys in car spaces.
It’s a sin. Now listen to what Joyce Meyer has to say and obey God and put your shopping trolley back.
How are you supposed to serve God properly if you can’t even do that?
Sinner: Bless me father for I have sinned, I……………….I left me shopping trolly in a car park space.
Priest: Say three Hail Mary’s and an Our Father, you are forgiven, go and sin no more.
Sinner: And I stole a little old lady’s pension money to buy drugs.
Priest: Make that four Hail Marys
Divine Angel said:
Five outta ten for me.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-21/weekly-news-quiz-march-21/105074962
Me too. But about three of them were guesses that worked.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Brand new 60k-seat stadium for Brisbane Olympics to be built after lengthy review: reporthttps://www.foxsports.com.au/more-sports/brand-new-60kseat-stadium-for-brisbane-olympics-to-be-built-after-lengthy-review-report/news-story/8d04dd369dbe87869c2170242bd911eb
…
Good.
Well, who’d have guessed that one, hey what but.
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
Five outta ten for me.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-21/weekly-news-quiz-march-21/105074962
Me too. But about three of them were guesses that worked.
I’m sure they were educated guesses.
Steady lads.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Brand new 60k-seat stadium for Brisbane Olympics to be built after lengthy review: reporthttps://www.foxsports.com.au/more-sports/brand-new-60kseat-stadium-for-brisbane-olympics-to-be-built-after-lengthy-review-report/news-story/8d04dd369dbe87869c2170242bd911eb
…
Good.
There’s a protest to save Victoria Park in Brissy this weekend.
Peak Warming Man said:
Woodie said:
Divine Angel said:However, I do reserve the right to call people cnuts when they leave their shopping trolleys in car spaces.
It’s a sin. Now listen to what Joyce Meyer has to say and obey God and put your shopping trolley back.
How are you supposed to serve God properly if you can’t even do that?
Sinner: Bless me father for I have sinned, I……………….I left me shopping trolly in a car park space.
Priest: Say three Hail Mary’s and an Our Father, you are forgiven, go and sin no more.
Sinner: And I stole a little old lady’s pension money to buy drugs.
Priest: Make that four Hail Marys
LOL
:)
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
Five outta ten for me.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-21/weekly-news-quiz-march-21/105074962
Me too. But about three of them were guesses that worked.
I’m sure they were educated guesses.
Nup, random clicks.
:)
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:Which – the recipient or the giver (of kindness) gets the happiness?
If you aren’t happy to give, isn’t that being a scrooge?
Not the answer to my question about the research.
the giver…
Anyway, I’ve got a few photos to process from my wander in the bush. The only fungus I found was a Southern Cinnabar Polypore. I resorted to photographing lichens. About 25mm rain since the first of January doesn’t cut it.
Back from the cancer clinic after getting a horrible little growth cut from my ankle by the lovely Vanessa. Was like something from a horror scifi movie. I told them to make sure it was dead so it wouldn’t mutate and end the human race.
Divine Angel said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Brand new 60k-seat stadium for Brisbane Olympics to be built after lengthy review: reporthttps://www.foxsports.com.au/more-sports/brand-new-60kseat-stadium-for-brisbane-olympics-to-be-built-after-lengthy-review-report/news-story/8d04dd369dbe87869c2170242bd911eb
…
Good.
There’s a protest to save Victoria Park in Brissy this weekend.
I suppose Heritage Listing provides very little protection.
Dude uses ChatGPT to see what it knows about him. AI gives false info. Dude sues the creators of ChatGPT.
“The fact that someone could read this output and believe it is true, is what scares me the most.”
To be fair, how many people are going to ask ChatGPT for info on him?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-21/norwegian-man-files-complaint-chatgpt-false-claims-killed-sons/105080604
Arts said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:If you aren’t happy to give, isn’t that being a scrooge?
Not the answer to my question about the research.
the giver…
Thank you.
Obviously I give too little. I’d better up my game.
For shits and giggles, I asked Chat GPT what it knows about me.
Divine Angel is a fiction author known for her engaging short stories. She has contributed to platforms like Medium, where her works have been featured in publications such as Quick Fiction. Her storytelling often delves into unique perspectives and thought-provoking narratives.
Some of her notable works include:
“Slide”: A story that opens with a funeral held outdoors after a morning rain, setting a somber and reflective tone.
“Call me Chloe”: This piece presents a character who reflects on her identity and the implications of her father’s dark past, exploring themes of self-discovery and inherited legacy.
“My Mother’s Keeper”: A narrative that intertwines domestic life with personal introspection, highlighting the complexities of familial relationships.
Beyond her writing, DA describes herself as a Disney enthusiast and an advocate for the joys of afternoon naps, adding a personal touch to her public persona.
For a comprehensive collection of her writings and insights, you can visit her Medium profile.
Divine Angel said:
For shits and giggles, I asked Chat GPT what it knows about me.Divine Angel is a fiction author known for her engaging short stories. She has contributed to platforms like Medium, where her works have been featured in publications such as Quick Fiction. Her storytelling often delves into unique perspectives and thought-provoking narratives.
Some of her notable works include:
“Slide”: A story that opens with a funeral held outdoors after a morning rain, setting a somber and reflective tone.
“Call me Chloe”: This piece presents a character who reflects on her identity and the implications of her father’s dark past, exploring themes of self-discovery and inherited legacy.
“My Mother’s Keeper”: A narrative that intertwines domestic life with personal introspection, highlighting the complexities of familial relationships.
Beyond her writing, DA describes herself as a Disney enthusiast and an advocate for the joys of afternoon naps, adding a personal touch to her public persona.
For a comprehensive collection of her writings and insights, you can visit her Medium profile.
- It seems to have pulled all of this information from Medium, but it makes a great profile piece if I ever need to write about myself again.
I find the precise of google searches ot be quite interesting.. but also the summaries that AI gives to facebook comments… it actually saves me a lot of time to not read the comments
Oh yeah, the fb comments AI is great.
Flowers were in short supply at the bush today. Have a shelf fungus and some assorted lichens. I quite like the coloured tips on the last one.
buffy said:
Flowers were in short supply at the bush today. Have a shelf fungus and some assorted lichens. I quite like the coloured tips on the last one.
Speaking of mushrooms
I see a lot growing in peoples lawns
Seeing as unless one is knowledgeable in regards to them its not a good idea to eat them.
I have wondered if they grow from spores in mush compost put on the lawn.
Divine Angel said:
Dude uses ChatGPT to see what it knows about him. AI gives false info. Dude sues the creators of ChatGPT.“The fact that someone could read this output and believe it is true, is what scares me the most.”
To be fair, how many people are going to ask ChatGPT for info on him?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-21/norwegian-man-files-complaint-chatgpt-false-claims-killed-sons/105080604
Doesn’t matter. What matters is that this stuff occurs, and seemingly regularly. Other examples were given.
Divine Angel said:
For shits and giggles, I asked Chat GPT what it knows about me.Divine Angel is a fiction author known for her engaging short stories. She has contributed to platforms like Medium, where her works have been featured in publications such as Quick Fiction. Her storytelling often delves into unique perspectives and thought-provoking narratives.
Some of her notable works include:
“Slide”: A story that opens with a funeral held outdoors after a morning rain, setting a somber and reflective tone.
“Call me Chloe”: This piece presents a character who reflects on her identity and the implications of her father’s dark past, exploring themes of self-discovery and inherited legacy.
“My Mother’s Keeper”: A narrative that intertwines domestic life with personal introspection, highlighting the complexities of familial relationships.
Beyond her writing, DA describes herself as a Disney enthusiast and an advocate for the joys of afternoon naps, adding a personal touch to her public persona.
For a comprehensive collection of her writings and insights, you can visit her Medium profile.
- It seems to have pulled all of this information from Medium, but it makes a great profile piece if I ever need to write about myself again.
Ha!
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Dude uses ChatGPT to see what it knows about him. AI gives false info. Dude sues the creators of ChatGPT.“The fact that someone could read this output and believe it is true, is what scares me the most.”
To be fair, how many people are going to ask ChatGPT for info on him?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-21/norwegian-man-files-complaint-chatgpt-false-claims-killed-sons/105080604
Doesn’t matter. What matters is that this stuff occurs, and seemingly regularly. Other examples were given.
That’s appalling, sue them for heaps.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Dude uses ChatGPT to see what it knows about him. AI gives false info. Dude sues the creators of ChatGPT.“The fact that someone could read this output and believe it is true, is what scares me the most.”
To be fair, how many people are going to ask ChatGPT for info on him?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-21/norwegian-man-files-complaint-chatgpt-false-claims-killed-sons/105080604
Doesn’t matter. What matters is that this stuff occurs, and seemingly regularly. Other examples were given.
Hmm, I suppose a potential employer could find that info. Otherwise it seems to be the Streisand Effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
As for Google AI recommending gluing cheese to pizza, if you follow that advice it’s on you.
PWM will be beside himself with worry about Heathrow.
buffy said:
Flowers were in short supply at the bush today. Have a shelf fungus and some assorted lichens. I quite like the coloured tips on the last one.
Is the first lichen the edible spice lichen that is harvested in India?
Divine Angel said:
For shits and giggles, I asked Chat GPT what it knows about me.Divine Angel is a fiction author known for her engaging short stories. She has contributed to platforms like Medium, where her works have been featured in publications such as Quick Fiction. Her storytelling often delves into unique perspectives and thought-provoking narratives.
Some of her notable works include:
“Slide”: A story that opens with a funeral held outdoors after a morning rain, setting a somber and reflective tone.
“Call me Chloe”: This piece presents a character who reflects on her identity and the implications of her father’s dark past, exploring themes of self-discovery and inherited legacy.
“My Mother’s Keeper”: A narrative that intertwines domestic life with personal introspection, highlighting the complexities of familial relationships.
Beyond her writing, DA describes herself as a Disney enthusiast and an advocate for the joys of afternoon naps, adding a personal touch to her public persona.
For a comprehensive collection of her writings and insights, you can visit her Medium profile.
- It seems to have pulled all of this information from Medium, but it makes a great profile piece if I ever need to write about myself again.
I didn’t even know you were a Medium level author :)
Witty Rejoinder said:
PWM will be beside himself with worry about Heathrow.
Problems with the baggage system again?
Woodie said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
PWM will be beside himself with worry about Heathrow.
Problems with the baggage system again?
If only…
Facebook reviews of pseudo scientific devices
Do you reckon the thousands of positive reviews are people just fooled into thinking they work or completely fake or both.
Woodie said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
PWM will be beside himself with worry about Heathrow.
Problems with the baggage system again?
A fire took out the substation supplying the airport, no backup.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Woodie said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
PWM will be beside himself with worry about Heathrow.
Problems with the baggage system again?
A fire took out the substation supplying the airport, no backup.
Guess they will be thinking about that now.
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Flowers were in short supply at the bush today. Have a shelf fungus and some assorted lichens. I quite like the coloured tips on the last one.
Is the first lichen the edible spice lichen that is harvested in India?
I don’t know what the lichens are. I’m about to upload them to iNaturalist and see if I get any suggestions.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Woodie said:Problems with the baggage system again?
A fire took out the substation supplying the airport, no backup.
Guess they will be thinking about that now.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Woodie said:Problems with the baggage system again?
A fire took out the substation supplying the airport, no backup.
Guess they will be thinking about that now.
No backup, it was dark and there was no wind.
ChrispenEvan said:
Back from the cancer clinic after getting a horrible little growth cut from my ankle by the lovely Vanessa. Was like something from a horror scifi movie. I told them to make sure it was dead so it wouldn’t mutate and end the human race.
Glad you made sure of that.
Divine Angel said:
For shits and giggles, I asked Chat GPT what it knows about me.Divine Angel is a fiction author known for her engaging short stories. She has contributed to platforms like Medium, where her works have been featured in publications such as Quick Fiction. Her storytelling often delves into unique perspectives and thought-provoking narratives.
Some of her notable works include:
“Slide”: A story that opens with a funeral held outdoors after a morning rain, setting a somber and reflective tone.
“Call me Chloe”: This piece presents a character who reflects on her identity and the implications of her father’s dark past, exploring themes of self-discovery and inherited legacy.
“My Mother’s Keeper”: A narrative that intertwines domestic life with personal introspection, highlighting the complexities of familial relationships.
Beyond her writing, DA describes herself as a Disney enthusiast and an advocate for the joys of afternoon naps, adding a personal touch to her public persona.
For a comprehensive collection of her writings and insights, you can visit her Medium profile.
- It seems to have pulled all of this information from Medium, but it makes a great profile piece if I ever need to write about myself again.
Seems like a good report.
buffy said:
Flowers were in short supply at the bush today. Have a shelf fungus and some assorted lichens. I quite like the coloured tips on the last one.
Very interested in this one. Have you got an ID yet?
ChrispenEvan said:
Back from the cancer clinic after getting a horrible little growth cut from my ankle by the lovely Vanessa. Was like something from a horror scifi movie. I told them to make sure it was dead so it wouldn’t mutate and end the human race.
You know the forum rule, you shoulda taken pics.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Flowers were in short supply at the bush today. Have a shelf fungus and some assorted lichens. I quite like the coloured tips on the last one.
Very interested in this one.
That is a Cladonia. Possibly C. verticillata. I’ve seen that one before. None of my observations are at Research Level, but several only need one more expert to get them there. I cannot ID it reliably myself as I’m not confident on lichens.
Divine Angel said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Back from the cancer clinic after getting a horrible little growth cut from my ankle by the lovely Vanessa. Was like something from a horror scifi movie. I told them to make sure it was dead so it wouldn’t mutate and end the human race.
You know the forum rule, you shoulda taken pics.
Selfie!
https://www.betootaadvocate.com/headlines/tasmanians-fear-that-experimenting-with-nuclear-power-will-cause-locals-to-become-one-headed/
Kingy said:
https://www.betootaadvocate.com/headlines/tasmanians-fear-that-experimenting-with-nuclear-power-will-cause-locals-to-become-one-headed/
ha ha.
For those who speak English, arm yourself with urban dictionary when you read the description.
https://www.realestate.com.au/property-unit-qld-coorparoo-441332484
Seems dv has disappeared. Did he mention he was going walkabout?
Bubblecar said:
Seems dv has disappeared. Did he mention he was going walkabout?
He said he was going outside, said he may be awhile.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Seems dv has disappeared. Did he mention he was going walkabout?
He said he was going outside, said he may be awhile.
Great Scott! The only man live to report this!
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Seems dv has disappeared. Did he mention he was going walkabout?
He said he was going outside, said he may be awhile.
Did we find out what happened to Mollwollfumble ?
Divine Angel said:
For those who speak English, arm yourself with urban dictionary when you read the description.https://www.realestate.com.au/property-unit-qld-coorparoo-441332484
the pics don’t seem to live up to the hype.
Cymek said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Seems dv has disappeared. Did he mention he was going walkabout?
He said he was going outside, said he may be awhile.
Did we find out what happened to Mollwollfumble ?
AFAIK, no.
sarahs mum said:
Divine Angel said:
For those who speak English, arm yourself with urban dictionary when you read the description.https://www.realestate.com.au/property-unit-qld-coorparoo-441332484
the pics don’t seem to live up to the hype.
I’ll say!
Michael V said:
Cymek said:
Peak Warming Man said:He said he was going outside, said he may be awhile.
Did we find out what happened to Mollwollfumble ?
AFAIK, no.
There was some suggestion he’s now in Africa, but I can’t vouch for the veracity of that.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Cymek said:Did we find out what happened to Mollwollfumble ?
AFAIK, no.
There was some suggestion he’s now in Africa, but I can’t vouch for the veracity of that.
OK thanks
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Flowers were in short supply at the bush today. Have a shelf fungus and some assorted lichens. I quite like the coloured tips on the last one.
Very interested in this one.
That is a Cladonia. Possibly C. verticillata. I’ve seen that one before. None of my observations are at Research Level, but several only need one more expert to get them there. I cannot ID it reliably myself as I’m not confident on lichens.
Thanks. :)
Divine Angel said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Back from the cancer clinic after getting a horrible little growth cut from my ankle by the lovely Vanessa. Was like something from a horror scifi movie. I told them to make sure it was dead so it wouldn’t mutate and end the human race.
You know the forum rule, you shoulda taken pics.
Unfortunately I am not one to take my phone with me. It was in the car.
Oh hey Perthians, I have good news for you
Michael V said:
Cymek said:
Peak Warming Man said:He said he was going outside, said he may be awhile.
Did we find out what happened to Mollwollfumble ?
AFAIK, no.
He went mad so we shot him.
Divine Angel said:
For those who speak English, arm yourself with urban dictionary when you read the description.https://www.realestate.com.au/property-unit-qld-coorparoo-441332484
:))))
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Seems dv has disappeared. Did he mention he was going walkabout?
He said he was going outside, said he may be awhile.
I heard he went mad and they had to shoot him.
Divine Angel said:
For those who speak English, arm yourself with urban dictionary when you read the description.https://www.realestate.com.au/property-unit-qld-coorparoo-441332484
Fred Dagg lives!!!!
ChrispenEvan said:
Divine Angel said:
For those who speak English, arm yourself with urban dictionary when you read the description.https://www.realestate.com.au/property-unit-qld-coorparoo-441332484
Fred Dagg lives!!!!
to illuminate that comment
Fred Dagg on Real Estate
25 May 2007 in Humour, Language, Marketing, Notes by Stilgherrian | 2 comments
I’ve finally found the text for the famous “Real Estate” speech by Fred Dagg, aka John Clarke. Lifted from Eric Lindsay’s blog, where it was shameless plagiarised…
Gidday.
Now the Fred Dagg Careers Advice Bureau has already done more than enough to secure its place in the social history of this once great nation, but I think this report is probably amongst its more lasting achievements.
In essence it outlines how to go about the business of being a real estate agent, and as things stand at the moment if you’re not a real estate agent, then you’re probably being a fool to yourself and a burden to others.
Like so many other jobs in this wonderful society of ours, the basic function of the real estate agent is to increase the price of the article without actually producing anything, and as a result it has a lot to do with communication, terminology, and calling a spade a delightfully bucolic colonial winner facing north and offering a unique opportunity to the handyman.
If you’re going to enter the real estate field you’ll need to acquire a certain physical appearance which I won’t bore you with here, but if you’ve got gold teeth and laugh-lines around your pockets, then you’re through to the semis without dropping a set.
But the main thing to master, of course, is the vernacular, and basically this works as follows:
There are three types of houses:
Glorious commanding split-level ultra-modern dream homes, which are built on cliff faces;
Private bush-clad inglenooks, which are built down holes;
and very affordable solid family houses in much sought after streets, which are old gun-emplacements with awnings.
A cottage is a caravan with the wheels taken off.
A panoramic, breathtaking, or magnificent view is an indication that the house has windows, and if the view is unique, there’s probably only one window.
I have here the perfect advertisement for a house, so we’ll go through it and I’ll point out some of the more interesting features, so here we go, mind the step.
‘Owner transferred reluctantly instructs us to sell’ means the house is for sale.
‘Genuine reason for selling’ means the house is for sale.
‘Rarely can we offer’ means the house is for sale.
‘Superbly presented delightful charmer’ doesn’t mean anything really, but it’s probably still for sale.
‘Most attractive immaculate home of character in prime dress-circle position’ means that the thing that’s for sale is a house.
‘Unusual design with interesting and solidly built stairs’ means that the stairs are in the wrong place.
‘Huge spacious generous lounge commands this well serviced executive residence’ means the rest of the house is a rabbit-warren with rooms like cupboards.
‘Magnificent well-proportioned large convenient block with exquisite garden’ means there’s no view, but one of the trees had a flower on it the day we were up there.
‘Privacy, taste, charm, space, freedom, quiet, away from it all location in much sought-after cul-de-sac situation’ means that it’s not only built down a hole, it’s built at the very far end of the hole.
‘A must for all you artists, sculptors and potters’ means that only a lunatic would consider living in it.
’2/3 bedrooms with possible in-law accommodation’ means it’s got two bedrooms and a tool shed.
‘Great buy, ring early for this one, inspection a must, priced to sell, new listing, see this one now, all offers considered, good value, be quick, inspection by appointment, view today, this one can’t last, sole agents, today’s best buy’ means the house is for sale, and if ever you see ‘investment opportunity’ turn away very quickly and have a go at the crossword.
Divine Angel said:
Oh hey Perthians, I havegoodnews for you
Chuck Chunder of the Space Patrol?
ChrispenEvan said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Divine Angel said:
For those who speak English, arm yourself with urban dictionary when you read the description.https://www.realestate.com.au/property-unit-qld-coorparoo-441332484
Fred Dagg lives!!!!
to illuminate that comment
Fred Dagg on Real Estate
25 May 2007 in Humour, Language, Marketing, Notes by Stilgherrian | 2 commentsI’ve finally found the text for the famous “Real Estate” speech by Fred Dagg, aka John Clarke. Lifted from Eric Lindsay’s blog, where it was shameless plagiarised…
Gidday.
Now the Fred Dagg Careers Advice Bureau has already done more than enough to secure its place in the social history of this once great nation, but I think this report is probably amongst its more lasting achievements.
In essence it outlines how to go about the business of being a real estate agent, and as things stand at the moment if you’re not a real estate agent, then you’re probably being a fool to yourself and a burden to others.
Like so many other jobs in this wonderful society of ours, the basic function of the real estate agent is to increase the price of the article without actually producing anything, and as a result it has a lot to do with communication, terminology, and calling a spade a delightfully bucolic colonial winner facing north and offering a unique opportunity to the handyman.
If you’re going to enter the real estate field you’ll need to acquire a certain physical appearance which I won’t bore you with here, but if you’ve got gold teeth and laugh-lines around your pockets, then you’re through to the semis without dropping a set.
But the main thing to master, of course, is the vernacular, and basically this works as follows:
There are three types of houses:
Glorious commanding split-level ultra-modern dream homes, which are built on cliff faces;
Private bush-clad inglenooks, which are built down holes;
and very affordable solid family houses in much sought after streets, which are old gun-emplacements with awnings.
A cottage is a caravan with the wheels taken off.A panoramic, breathtaking, or magnificent view is an indication that the house has windows, and if the view is unique, there’s probably only one window.
I have here the perfect advertisement for a house, so we’ll go through it and I’ll point out some of the more interesting features, so here we go, mind the step.
‘Owner transferred reluctantly instructs us to sell’ means the house is for sale.
‘Genuine reason for selling’ means the house is for sale.
‘Rarely can we offer’ means the house is for sale.
‘Superbly presented delightful charmer’ doesn’t mean anything really, but it’s probably still for sale.
‘Most attractive immaculate home of character in prime dress-circle position’ means that the thing that’s for sale is a house.
‘Unusual design with interesting and solidly built stairs’ means that the stairs are in the wrong place.
‘Huge spacious generous lounge commands this well serviced executive residence’ means the rest of the house is a rabbit-warren with rooms like cupboards.
‘Magnificent well-proportioned large convenient block with exquisite garden’ means there’s no view, but one of the trees had a flower on it the day we were up there.
‘Privacy, taste, charm, space, freedom, quiet, away from it all location in much sought-after cul-de-sac situation’ means that it’s not only built down a hole, it’s built at the very far end of the hole.
‘A must for all you artists, sculptors and potters’ means that only a lunatic would consider living in it.
’2/3 bedrooms with possible in-law accommodation’ means it’s got two bedrooms and a tool shed.
‘Great buy, ring early for this one, inspection a must, priced to sell, new listing, see this one now, all offers considered, good value, be quick, inspection by appointment, view today, this one can’t last, sole agents, today’s best buy’ means the house is for sale, and if ever you see ‘investment opportunity’ turn away very quickly and have a go at the crossword.
:)
Divine Angel said:
Oh hey Perthians, I havegoodnews for you
Makes ya wanna chuck.
Michael V said:
ChrispenEvan said:
ChrispenEvan said:Fred Dagg lives!!!!
to illuminate that comment
Fred Dagg on Real Estate
25 May 2007 in Humour, Language, Marketing, Notes by Stilgherrian | 2 commentsI’ve finally found the text for the famous “Real Estate” speech by Fred Dagg, aka John Clarke. Lifted from Eric Lindsay’s blog, where it was shameless plagiarised…
Gidday.
Now the Fred Dagg Careers Advice Bureau has already done more than enough to secure its place in the social history of this once great nation, but I think this report is probably amongst its more lasting achievements.
In essence it outlines how to go about the business of being a real estate agent, and as things stand at the moment if you’re not a real estate agent, then you’re probably being a fool to yourself and a burden to others.
Like so many other jobs in this wonderful society of ours, the basic function of the real estate agent is to increase the price of the article without actually producing anything, and as a result it has a lot to do with communication, terminology, and calling a spade a delightfully bucolic colonial winner facing north and offering a unique opportunity to the handyman.
If you’re going to enter the real estate field you’ll need to acquire a certain physical appearance which I won’t bore you with here, but if you’ve got gold teeth and laugh-lines around your pockets, then you’re through to the semis without dropping a set.
But the main thing to master, of course, is the vernacular, and basically this works as follows:
There are three types of houses:
Glorious commanding split-level ultra-modern dream homes, which are built on cliff faces;
Private bush-clad inglenooks, which are built down holes;
and very affordable solid family houses in much sought after streets, which are old gun-emplacements with awnings.
A cottage is a caravan with the wheels taken off.A panoramic, breathtaking, or magnificent view is an indication that the house has windows, and if the view is unique, there’s probably only one window.
I have here the perfect advertisement for a house, so we’ll go through it and I’ll point out some of the more interesting features, so here we go, mind the step.
‘Owner transferred reluctantly instructs us to sell’ means the house is for sale.
‘Genuine reason for selling’ means the house is for sale.
‘Rarely can we offer’ means the house is for sale.
‘Superbly presented delightful charmer’ doesn’t mean anything really, but it’s probably still for sale.
‘Most attractive immaculate home of character in prime dress-circle position’ means that the thing that’s for sale is a house.
‘Unusual design with interesting and solidly built stairs’ means that the stairs are in the wrong place.
‘Huge spacious generous lounge commands this well serviced executive residence’ means the rest of the house is a rabbit-warren with rooms like cupboards.
‘Magnificent well-proportioned large convenient block with exquisite garden’ means there’s no view, but one of the trees had a flower on it the day we were up there.
‘Privacy, taste, charm, space, freedom, quiet, away from it all location in much sought-after cul-de-sac situation’ means that it’s not only built down a hole, it’s built at the very far end of the hole.
‘A must for all you artists, sculptors and potters’ means that only a lunatic would consider living in it.
’2/3 bedrooms with possible in-law accommodation’ means it’s got two bedrooms and a tool shed.
‘Great buy, ring early for this one, inspection a must, priced to sell, new listing, see this one now, all offers considered, good value, be quick, inspection by appointment, view today, this one can’t last, sole agents, today’s best buy’ means the house is for sale, and if ever you see ‘investment opportunity’ turn away very quickly and have a go at the crossword.
:)
I see he doesn’t mention “retains original features”…….ie……. a dump.
Seems I’ve had a change of plans for this evening. A school mum friend was supposed to see a play which has been cancelled at the last minute due to illness, so she’s holding an impromptu movie night at her house.
The zombie apocalypse starts in the U. S. A. and all tourism stops. They starve.
Divine Angel said:
Oh hey Perthians, I havegoodnews for you
I suggest this establishment be boycotted.
We just had to catch a couple of goats, put them on leads and walk them around to the takeaway shop.
The background. We back on to the takeaway shop. They have a couple of goats in their backyard. Goats climb. There is an old car in the backyard, pushed up against the dividing fence. It’s taken the goats a couple of weeks to work it out, but…
I announced that I was not happy that their goats came in to my veggie garden. Fortunately I was in the backyard when they invaded, so basically no damage.
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
Oh hey Perthians, I havegoodnews for you
I suggest this establishment be boycotted.
+1
I read a while ago that America now owns Cadbury, so I have started sampling the Choceur range from Aldi. This week it was the Coffee and Cream block. Oh, thank you Europe.
Shame about the expanding waistline though.
Divine Angel said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Back from the cancer clinic after getting a horrible little growth cut from my ankle by the lovely Vanessa. Was like something from a horror scifi movie. I told them to make sure it was dead so it wouldn’t mutate and end the human race.
You know the forum rule, you shoulda taken pics.
Oh, I broke that too.
Here:
ruby said:
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
Oh hey Perthians, I havegoodnews for you
I suggest this establishment be boycotted.
+1
I read a while ago that America now owns Cadbury, so I have started sampling the Choceur range from Aldi. This week it was the Coffee and Cream block. Oh, thank you Europe.
Shame about the expanding waistline though.
I take the 40g Choceur mini dark in my pack. And I like their dark mint creme too. Moser Roth is also good, and in the packs there are several smaller bars. That dark mint is also good. I’m not really keen on other flavours.
Michael V said:
Cymek said:
Peak Warming Man said:He said he was going outside, said he may be awhile.
Did we find out what happened to Mollwollfumble ?
AFAIK, no.
Seems last heard of he was in Africa?
buffy said:
ruby said:
buffy said:I suggest this establishment be boycotted.
+1
I read a while ago that America now owns Cadbury, so I have started sampling the Choceur range from Aldi. This week it was the Coffee and Cream block. Oh, thank you Europe.
Shame about the expanding waistline though.
I take the 40g Choceur mini dark in my pack. And I like their dark mint creme too. Moser Roth is also good, and in the packs there are several smaller bars. That dark mint is also good. I’m not really keen on other flavours.
Oh, and I have been known to buy Whittakers from Woolies. It’s NZ. Their dark mint block is good, although not often in our local shop. I also used to eat their small bar that was dark chocolate and peanuts.
buffy said:
buffy said:
ruby said:+1
I read a while ago that America now owns Cadbury, so I have started sampling the Choceur range from Aldi. This week it was the Coffee and Cream block. Oh, thank you Europe.
Shame about the expanding waistline though.
I take the 40g Choceur mini dark in my pack. And I like their dark mint creme too. Moser Roth is also good, and in the packs there are several smaller bars. That dark mint is also good. I’m not really keen on other flavours.
Oh, and I have been known to buy Whittakers from Woolies. It’s NZ. Their dark mint block is good, although not often in our local shop. I also used to eat their small bar that was dark chocolate and peanuts.
There are some interesting non-Cadbury chocolates in Aldi.
Woodie said:
Michael V said:
ChrispenEvan said:to illuminate that comment
Fred Dagg on Real Estate
25 May 2007 in Humour, Language, Marketing, Notes by Stilgherrian | 2 commentsI’ve finally found the text for the famous “Real Estate” speech by Fred Dagg, aka John Clarke. Lifted from Eric Lindsay’s blog, where it was shameless plagiarised…
Gidday.
Now the Fred Dagg Careers Advice Bureau has already done more than enough to secure its place in the social history of this once great nation, but I think this report is probably amongst its more lasting achievements.
In essence it outlines how to go about the business of being a real estate agent, and as things stand at the moment if you’re not a real estate agent, then you’re probably being a fool to yourself and a burden to others.
Like so many other jobs in this wonderful society of ours, the basic function of the real estate agent is to increase the price of the article without actually producing anything, and as a result it has a lot to do with communication, terminology, and calling a spade a delightfully bucolic colonial winner facing north and offering a unique opportunity to the handyman.
If you’re going to enter the real estate field you’ll need to acquire a certain physical appearance which I won’t bore you with here, but if you’ve got gold teeth and laugh-lines around your pockets, then you’re through to the semis without dropping a set.
But the main thing to master, of course, is the vernacular, and basically this works as follows:
There are three types of houses:
Glorious commanding split-level ultra-modern dream homes, which are built on cliff faces;
Private bush-clad inglenooks, which are built down holes;
and very affordable solid family houses in much sought after streets, which are old gun-emplacements with awnings.
A cottage is a caravan with the wheels taken off.A panoramic, breathtaking, or magnificent view is an indication that the house has windows, and if the view is unique, there’s probably only one window.
I have here the perfect advertisement for a house, so we’ll go through it and I’ll point out some of the more interesting features, so here we go, mind the step.
‘Owner transferred reluctantly instructs us to sell’ means the house is for sale.
‘Genuine reason for selling’ means the house is for sale.
‘Rarely can we offer’ means the house is for sale.
‘Superbly presented delightful charmer’ doesn’t mean anything really, but it’s probably still for sale.
‘Most attractive immaculate home of character in prime dress-circle position’ means that the thing that’s for sale is a house.
‘Unusual design with interesting and solidly built stairs’ means that the stairs are in the wrong place.
‘Huge spacious generous lounge commands this well serviced executive residence’ means the rest of the house is a rabbit-warren with rooms like cupboards.
‘Magnificent well-proportioned large convenient block with exquisite garden’ means there’s no view, but one of the trees had a flower on it the day we were up there.
‘Privacy, taste, charm, space, freedom, quiet, away from it all location in much sought-after cul-de-sac situation’ means that it’s not only built down a hole, it’s built at the very far end of the hole.
‘A must for all you artists, sculptors and potters’ means that only a lunatic would consider living in it.
’2/3 bedrooms with possible in-law accommodation’ means it’s got two bedrooms and a tool shed.
‘Great buy, ring early for this one, inspection a must, priced to sell, new listing, see this one now, all offers considered, good value, be quick, inspection by appointment, view today, this one can’t last, sole agents, today’s best buy’ means the house is for sale, and if ever you see ‘investment opportunity’ turn away very quickly and have a go at the crossword.
:)
I see he doesn’t mention “retains original features”…….ie……. a dump.
I’m sure that there’s so much more in the Real Estate Agent’s descriptions bag…
Michael V said:
Woodie said:
Michael V said::)
I see he doesn’t mention “retains original features”…….ie……. a dump.
I’m sure that there’s so much more in the Real Estate Agent’s descriptions bag…
What a character he was.
Divine Angel said:
Seems I’ve had a change of plans for this evening. A school mum friend was supposed to see a play which has been cancelled at the last minute due to illness, so she’s holding an impromptu movie night at her house.
Cool.
We watched “The Witches of Eastwick” last night.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Seems I’ve had a change of plans for this evening. A school mum friend was supposed to see a play which has been cancelled at the last minute due to illness, so she’s holding an impromptu movie night at her house.
Cool.
We watched “The Witches of Eastwick” last night.
Is my memory correct? Was Cher on of those witches?
roughbarked said:
Divine Angel said:ChrispenEvan said:
Back from the cancer clinic after getting a horrible little growth cut from my ankle by the lovely Vanessa. Was like something from a horror scifi movie. I told them to make sure it was dead so it wouldn’t mutate and end the human race.
You know the forum rule, you shoulda taken pics.
Oh, I broke that too.
Here:
buffy said:
We just had to catch a couple of goats, put them on leads and walk them around to the takeaway shop.The background. We back on to the takeaway shop. They have a couple of goats in their backyard. Goats climb. There is an old car in the backyard, pushed up against the dividing fence. It’s taken the goats a couple of weeks to work it out, but…
I announced that I was not happy that their goats came in to my veggie garden. Fortunately I was in the backyard when they invaded, so basically no damage.
Lucky.
buffy said:
buffy said:
ruby said:+1
I read a while ago that America now owns Cadbury, so I have started sampling the Choceur range from Aldi. This week it was the Coffee and Cream block. Oh, thank you Europe.
Shame about the expanding waistline though.
I take the 40g Choceur mini dark in my pack. And I like their dark mint creme too. Moser Roth is also good, and in the packs there are several smaller bars. That dark mint is also good. I’m not really keen on other flavours.
Oh, and I have been known to buy Whittakers from Woolies. It’s NZ. Their dark mint block is good, although not often in our local shop. I also used to eat their small bar that was dark chocolate and peanuts.
Ooo, I thought Whittakers was another US brand. Thank you, I shall buy theirs too.
I did get one of the Aldi dark chocolate varieties a couple of weeks ago, and like the size of the mini packs to pop into the bushwalking backpack.
ruby said:
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
Oh hey Perthians, I havegoodnews for you
I suggest this establishment be boycotted.
+1
I read a while ago that America now owns Cadbury, so I have started sampling the Choceur range from Aldi. This week it was the Coffee and Cream block. Oh, thank you Europe.
Shame about the expanding waistline though.
Is there an online list of Aldi stock and prices?
Michael V said:
ruby said:
buffy said:I suggest this establishment be boycotted.
+1
I read a while ago that America now owns Cadbury, so I have started sampling the Choceur range from Aldi. This week it was the Coffee and Cream block. Oh, thank you Europe.
Shame about the expanding waistline though.
Is there an online list of Aldi stock and prices?
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Seems I’ve had a change of plans for this evening. A school mum friend was supposed to see a play which has been cancelled at the last minute due to illness, so she’s holding an impromptu movie night at her house.
Cool.
We watched “The Witches of Eastwick” last night.
Is my memory correct? Was Cher on of those witches?
Yes.
ruby said:
buffy said:
buffy said:I take the 40g Choceur mini dark in my pack. And I like their dark mint creme too. Moser Roth is also good, and in the packs there are several smaller bars. That dark mint is also good. I’m not really keen on other flavours.
Oh, and I have been known to buy Whittakers from Woolies. It’s NZ. Their dark mint block is good, although not often in our local shop. I also used to eat their small bar that was dark chocolate and peanuts.
Ooo, I thought Whittakers was another US brand. Thank you, I shall buy theirs too.
I did get one of the Aldi dark chocolate varieties a couple of weeks ago, and like the size of the mini packs to pop into the bushwalking backpack.
Michael V said:
buffy said:
We just had to catch a couple of goats, put them on leads and walk them around to the takeaway shop.The background. We back on to the takeaway shop. They have a couple of goats in their backyard. Goats climb. There is an old car in the backyard, pushed up against the dividing fence. It’s taken the goats a couple of weeks to work it out, but…
I announced that I was not happy that their goats came in to my veggie garden. Fortunately I was in the backyard when they invaded, so basically no damage.
Lucky.
Hmmm. Goats at the takeaway shop eh.
MV was talking about goat curry. Hmmmm.
ruby said:
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
Oh hey Perthians, I havegoodnews for you
I suggest this establishment be boycotted.
+1
I read a while ago that America now owns Cadbury, so I have started sampling the Choceur range from Aldi. This week it was the Coffee and Cream block. Oh, thank you Europe.
Shame about the expanding waistline though.
You’ll have to boycott more than Cadbury to avoid Mondelez products.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
ruby said:+1
I read a while ago that America now owns Cadbury, so I have started sampling the Choceur range from Aldi. This week it was the Coffee and Cream block. Oh, thank you Europe.
Shame about the expanding waistline though.
Is there an online list of Aldi stock and prices?
There are only partial lists and motherhood statements in there.
Witty Rejoinder said:
ruby said:
buffy said:I suggest this establishment be boycotted.
+1
I read a while ago that America now owns Cadbury, so I have started sampling the Choceur range from Aldi. This week it was the Coffee and Cream block. Oh, thank you Europe.
Shame about the expanding waistline though.
You’ll have to boycott more than Cadbury to avoid Mondelez products.
Thanks Witty. I’m going to miss Twisties, that’s for sure. Have not been that keen on Toblerone, but now out for sure. Anything else on their product list is a bit meh anyway. Blergh to Oreos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mondelez_International_brands
ruby said:
Michael V said:
buffy said:
We just had to catch a couple of goats, put them on leads and walk them around to the takeaway shop.The background. We back on to the takeaway shop. They have a couple of goats in their backyard. Goats climb. There is an old car in the backyard, pushed up against the dividing fence. It’s taken the goats a couple of weeks to work it out, but…
I announced that I was not happy that their goats came in to my veggie garden. Fortunately I was in the backyard when they invaded, so basically no damage.
Lucky.
Hmmm. Goats at the takeaway shop eh.
MV was talking about goat curry. Hmmmm.
Ha!
It was a good curry, too. $22. Enough to feed two non-gluttonous adults.
Michael V said:
ruby said:
Michael V said:Lucky.
Hmmm. Goats at the takeaway shop eh.
MV was talking about goat curry. Hmmmm.
Ha!
It was a good curry, too. $22. Enough to feed two non-gluttonous adults.
:)))
The local Nepalese place does goat curry, it is on my list of new places to go.
I found a top Vietnamese place a few weeks back….I have been searching for somewhere that does a lemon grass beef as good as one I had 25 years ago at Sydney’s Chinatown…..bingo! One happy Ruby
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:Is there an online list of Aldi stock and prices?
There are only partial lists and motherhood statements in there.
ruby said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
ruby said:+1
I read a while ago that America now owns Cadbury, so I have started sampling the Choceur range from Aldi. This week it was the Coffee and Cream block. Oh, thank you Europe.
Shame about the expanding waistline though.
You’ll have to boycott more than Cadbury to avoid Mondelez products.
Thanks Witty. I’m going to miss Twisties, that’s for sure. Have not been that keen on Toblerone, but now out for sure. Anything else on their product list is a bit meh anyway. Blergh to Oreos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mondelez_International_brands
I like Twisties, but don’t eat them often. Can’t usually get dark Toblerone and that’s the only one I’d eat. Don’t mind Oreos, but rarely buy them. Can I still use Philly though? It’s made in South Australia…
ruby said:
Michael V said:
ruby said:Hmmm. Goats at the takeaway shop eh.
MV was talking about goat curry. Hmmmm.
Ha!
It was a good curry, too. $22. Enough to feed two non-gluttonous adults.
:)))
The local Nepalese place does goat curry, it is on my list of new places to go.
I found a top Vietnamese place a few weeks back….I have been searching for somewhere that does a lemon grass beef as good as one I had 25 years ago at Sydney’s Chinatown…..bingo! One happy Ruby
:)
buffy said:
ruby said:
Witty Rejoinder said:You’ll have to boycott more than Cadbury to avoid Mondelez products.
Thanks Witty. I’m going to miss Twisties, that’s for sure. Have not been that keen on Toblerone, but now out for sure. Anything else on their product list is a bit meh anyway. Blergh to Oreos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mondelez_International_brands
I like Twisties, but don’t eat them often. Can’t usually get dark Toblerone and that’s the only one I’d eat. Don’t mind Oreos, but rarely buy them. Can I still use Philly though? It’s made in South Australia…
peers over glasses sternly
No. No more Philly (though it’s good to know it is made here)
I looked up what you can substitute, and found this bit of advice-
Ten tried-and-true cream cheese swaps are thick strained yogurt, sour cream, Neufchâtel cheese, vegan cream cheese, mascarpone, ricotta, cottage cheese, fresh goat cheese, butter, and silken tofu
Mwhaha…..silken tofu for you and kryten. He’ll be thrilled I’m sure.
ruby said:
buffy said:
ruby said:Thanks Witty. I’m going to miss Twisties, that’s for sure. Have not been that keen on Toblerone, but now out for sure. Anything else on their product list is a bit meh anyway. Blergh to Oreos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mondelez_International_brands
I like Twisties, but don’t eat them often. Can’t usually get dark Toblerone and that’s the only one I’d eat. Don’t mind Oreos, but rarely buy them. Can I still use Philly though? It’s made in South Australia…
peers over glasses sternly
No. No more Philly (though it’s good to know it is made here)
I looked up what you can substitute, and found this bit of advice-
Ten tried-and-true cream cheese swaps are thick strained yogurt, sour cream, Neufchâtel cheese, vegan cream cheese, mascarpone, ricotta, cottage cheese, fresh goat cheese, butter, and silken tofu
Mwhaha…..silken tofu for you and kryten. He’ll be thrilled I’m sure.
Dammit…I have to have Philly! The factory has been there for yonks. It keeps locals in jobs. Admittedly I don’t use a huge amount of it. I’ve got three packs in the fridge at the moment because I want to make a baked cheesecake. That will be portioned and frozen and last us for quite a while.
buffy said:
ruby said:
buffy said:I like Twisties, but don’t eat them often. Can’t usually get dark Toblerone and that’s the only one I’d eat. Don’t mind Oreos, but rarely buy them. Can I still use Philly though? It’s made in South Australia…
peers over glasses sternly
No. No more Philly (though it’s good to know it is made here)
I looked up what you can substitute, and found this bit of advice-
Ten tried-and-true cream cheese swaps are thick strained yogurt, sour cream, Neufchâtel cheese, vegan cream cheese, mascarpone, ricotta, cottage cheese, fresh goat cheese, butter, and silken tofu
Mwhaha…..silken tofu for you and kryten. He’ll be thrilled I’m sure.
Dammit…I have to have Philly! The factory has been there for yonks. It keeps locals in jobs. Admittedly I don’t use a huge amount of it. I’ve got three packs in the fridge at the moment because I want to make a baked cheesecake. That will be portioned and frozen and last us for quite a while.
I wonder if the Aldi cream cheese is local.
Michael V said:
ruby said:
Michael V said:Ha!
It was a good curry, too. $22. Enough to feed two non-gluttonous adults.
:)))
The local Nepalese place does goat curry, it is on my list of new places to go.
I found a top Vietnamese place a few weeks back….I have been searching for somewhere that does a lemon grass beef as good as one I had 25 years ago at Sydney’s Chinatown…..bingo! One happy Ruby
:)
I discovered a couple of months ago that there is a specialty butcher in Mount Gambier. Haven’t got there yet. It’s 150km away. But I think we might go for an “old person’s drive” one day and check them out.
https://foxschookhouse.com.au/
buffy said:
ruby said:
buffy said:I like Twisties, but don’t eat them often. Can’t usually get dark Toblerone and that’s the only one I’d eat. Don’t mind Oreos, but rarely buy them. Can I still use Philly though? It’s made in South Australia…
peers over glasses sternly
No. No more Philly (though it’s good to know it is made here)
I looked up what you can substitute, and found this bit of advice-
Ten tried-and-true cream cheese swaps are thick strained yogurt, sour cream, Neufchâtel cheese, vegan cream cheese, mascarpone, ricotta, cottage cheese, fresh goat cheese, butter, and silken tofu
Mwhaha…..silken tofu for you and kryten. He’ll be thrilled I’m sure.
Dammit…I have to have Philly! The factory has been there for yonks. It keeps locals in jobs. Admittedly I don’t use a huge amount of it. I’ve got three packs in the fridge at the moment because I want to make a baked cheesecake. That will be portioned and frozen and last us for quite a while.
Keeping locals in jobs is good. I’m still miffed that I can no longer buy Australian made condensed milk.
Here you go, a recipe to make your own cream cheese. Looks quite straight forward to do. Quite a lot of milk to make one cup of cheese, no wonder it is calorie dense.
https://smittenkitchen.com/2020/09/homemade-cream-cheese/
buffy said:
Michael V said:
ruby said::)))
The local Nepalese place does goat curry, it is on my list of new places to go.
I found a top Vietnamese place a few weeks back….I have been searching for somewhere that does a lemon grass beef as good as one I had 25 years ago at Sydney’s Chinatown…..bingo! One happy Ruby
:)
I discovered a couple of months ago that there is a specialty butcher in Mount Gambier. Haven’t got there yet. It’s 150km away. But I think we might go for an “old person’s drive” one day and check them out.
https://foxschookhouse.com.au/
Onya.
I’ve been to that site before. Looks interesting.
Home from work. Had to decline another two earthworks jobs today, just too much in front of me already, booked out till late May or early June.
There was a bushfire in Margaret River today only a few hundred meters away from my job site where my toys machines are. I pulled up behind a light tanker that was refilling at a hydrant and behold, it was the Margs Captain who recognised me and came over to my truck and we had a chat about it. They had just barely pulled it up before it took hold in the bush reserve.
Once I got to the job site, the helitaks were still circling and I was waving and trying to get them to drop some water on the dry sand that I was working with, but no luck. I should have had my radio with me.
Kingy said:
Home from work. Had to decline another two earthworks jobs today, just too much in front of me already, booked out till late May or early June.There was a bushfire in Margaret River today only a few hundred meters away from my job site where my
toysmachines are. I pulled up behind a light tanker that was refilling at a hydrant and behold, it was the Margs Captain who recognised me and came over to my truck and we had a chat about it. They had just barely pulled it up before it took hold in the bush reserve.Once I got to the job site, the helitaks were still circling and I was waving and trying to get them to drop some water on the dry sand that I was working with, but no luck. I should have had my radio with me.
:)
As it turns out, Caterpillar don’t honour their warranty on their machines. I bought a $100,000 machine and not long afterwards, there was a problem. Coincidentally, their sales rep rang me asking if there was anything he could do for me. I replied, yes, I have a problem with my new machine and it is under warranty. He replied that it is not his problem and suggested that I call the parts department. Thanks for the help that you offered, knobhead.
After many emails and phone calls to get the warranty problem sorted out, it was obvious that they were not interested in dealing with it.
Today I bought a $110,000 excavator from Kubota.
Caterpillar saved themselves about $300 by being shitcunts.
I wonder if the morons at Caterpillar will eventually work out that they can’t just shit on their customers and expect them to come back.
Next month I will also buy a $100,000 positrack from Kubota instead of Caterpillar.
Kingy said:
As it turns out, Caterpillar don’t honour their warranty on their machines. I bought a $100,000 machine and not long afterwards, there was a problem. Coincidentally, their sales rep rang me asking if there was anything he could do for me. I replied, yes, I have a problem with my new machine and it is under warranty. He replied that it is not his problem and suggested that I call the parts department. Thanks for the help that you offered, knobhead.After many emails and phone calls to get the warranty problem sorted out, it was obvious that they were not interested in dealing with it.
Today I bought a $110,000 excavator from Kubota.
Caterpillar saved themselves about $300 by being shitcunts.
I wonder if the morons at Caterpillar will eventually work out that they can’t just shit on their customers and expect them to come back.
Next month I will also buy a $100,000 positrack from Kubota instead of Caterpillar.
do let them know.
Kingy said:
As it turns out, Caterpillar don’t honour their warranty on their machines. I bought a $100,000 machine and not long afterwards, there was a problem. Coincidentally, their sales rep rang me asking if there was anything he could do for me. I replied, yes, I have a problem with my new machine and it is under warranty. He replied that it is not his problem and suggested that I call the parts department. Thanks for the help that you offered, knobhead.After many emails and phone calls to get the warranty problem sorted out, it was obvious that they were not interested in dealing with it.
Today I bought a $110,000 excavator from Kubota.
Caterpillar saved themselves about $300 by being shitcunts.
I wonder if the morons at Caterpillar will eventually work out that they can’t just shit on their customers and expect them to come back.
Next month I will also buy a $100,000 positrack from Kubota instead of Caterpillar.
I take it you have researched the Kubota user’s forum for feedback??
Kingy said:
As it turns out, Caterpillar don’t honour their warranty on their machines. I bought a $100,000 machine and not long afterwards, there was a problem. Coincidentally, their sales rep rang me asking if there was anything he could do for me. I replied, yes, I have a problem with my new machine and it is under warranty. He replied that it is not his problem and suggested that I call the parts department. Thanks for the help that you offered, knobhead.After many emails and phone calls to get the warranty problem sorted out, it was obvious that they were not interested in dealing with it.
Today I bought a $110,000 excavator from Kubota.
Caterpillar saved themselves about $300 by being shitcunts.
I wonder if the morons at Caterpillar will eventually work out that they can’t just shit on their customers and expect them to come back.
Next month I will also buy a $100,000 positrack from Kubota instead of Caterpillar.
Caterpillar in the US needs to know that the local franchisee is not doing the right thing. (They don’t take kindly to that sort of nonsense.) You should let them know with an email that says what you said above.
Michael V said:
Kingy said:
As it turns out, Caterpillar don’t honour their warranty on their machines. I bought a $100,000 machine and not long afterwards, there was a problem. Coincidentally, their sales rep rang me asking if there was anything he could do for me. I replied, yes, I have a problem with my new machine and it is under warranty. He replied that it is not his problem and suggested that I call the parts department. Thanks for the help that you offered, knobhead.After many emails and phone calls to get the warranty problem sorted out, it was obvious that they were not interested in dealing with it.
Today I bought a $110,000 excavator from Kubota.
Caterpillar saved themselves about $300 by being shitcunts.
I wonder if the morons at Caterpillar will eventually work out that they can’t just shit on their customers and expect them to come back.
Next month I will also buy a $100,000 positrack from Kubota instead of Caterpillar.
Caterpillar in the US needs to know that the local franchisee is not doing the right thing. (They don’t take kindly to that sort of nonsense.) You should let them know with an email that says what you said above.
+1
Sydney ‘science nerd’ may face jail for importing plutonium in bid to collect all elements of periodic table
Emmanuel Lidden, 24, to learn fate after breaching nuclear non-proliferation laws by shipping samples of radioactive material to parents’ suburban home
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/21/emmanuel-lidden-sydney-science-nerd-importing-plutonium-ntwnfb
sarahs mum said:
Sydney ‘science nerd’ may face jail for importing plutonium in bid to collect all elements of periodic table
Emmanuel Lidden, 24, to learn fate after breaching nuclear non-proliferation laws by shipping samples of radioactive material to parents’ suburban homehttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/21/emmanuel-lidden-sydney-science-nerd-importing-plutonium-ntwnfb
How odd (and stupid).
sarahs mum said:
Sydney ‘science nerd’ may face jail for importing plutonium in bid to collect all elements of periodic table
Emmanuel Lidden, 24, to learn fate after breaching nuclear non-proliferation laws by shipping samples of radioactive material to parents’ suburban homehttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/21/emmanuel-lidden-sydney-science-nerd-importing-plutonium-ntwnfb
Well yeah, but you gotta have a bit of common sense and awareness of the world. You can’t just declare yourself a collector and expect the rules to be waived.
Kingy said:
As it turns out, Caterpillar don’t honour their warranty on their machines. I bought a $100,000 machine and not long afterwards, there was a problem. Coincidentally, their sales rep rang me asking if there was anything he could do for me. I replied, yes, I have a problem with my new machine and it is under warranty. He replied that it is not his problem and suggested that I call the parts department. Thanks for the help that you offered, knobhead.After many emails and phone calls to get the warranty problem sorted out, it was obvious that they were not interested in dealing with it.
Today I bought a $110,000 excavator from Kubota.
Caterpillar saved themselves about $300 by being shitcunts.
I wonder if the morons at Caterpillar will eventually work out that they can’t just shit on their customers and expect them to come back.
Next month I will also buy a $100,000 positrack from Kubota instead of Caterpillar.
Also, the new dodgily built in Mexico Caterpillar skidsteer is leaking hydraulic oil.
GAGF.
Kingy said:
Kingy said:
As it turns out, Caterpillar don’t honour their warranty on their machines. I bought a $100,000 machine and not long afterwards, there was a problem. Coincidentally, their sales rep rang me asking if there was anything he could do for me. I replied, yes, I have a problem with my new machine and it is under warranty. He replied that it is not his problem and suggested that I call the parts department. Thanks for the help that you offered, knobhead.After many emails and phone calls to get the warranty problem sorted out, it was obvious that they were not interested in dealing with it.
Today I bought a $110,000 excavator from Kubota.
Caterpillar saved themselves about $300 by being shitcunts.
I wonder if the morons at Caterpillar will eventually work out that they can’t just shit on their customers and expect them to come back.
Next month I will also buy a $100,000 positrack from Kubota instead of Caterpillar.
Also, the new dodgily built in Mexico Caterpillar skidsteer is leaking hydraulic oil.
GAGF.
you’ve blown a seal.
ChrispenEvan said:
Kingy said:
Kingy said:
As it turns out, Caterpillar don’t honour their warranty on their machines. I bought a $100,000 machine and not long afterwards, there was a problem. Coincidentally, their sales rep rang me asking if there was anything he could do for me. I replied, yes, I have a problem with my new machine and it is under warranty. He replied that it is not his problem and suggested that I call the parts department. Thanks for the help that you offered, knobhead.After many emails and phone calls to get the warranty problem sorted out, it was obvious that they were not interested in dealing with it.
Today I bought a $110,000 excavator from Kubota.
Caterpillar saved themselves about $300 by being shitcunts.
I wonder if the morons at Caterpillar will eventually work out that they can’t just shit on their customers and expect them to come back.
Next month I will also buy a $100,000 positrack from Kubota instead of Caterpillar.
Also, the new dodgily built in Mexico Caterpillar skidsteer is leaking hydraulic oil.
GAGF.
you’ve blown a seal.
No I didn’t, I was just eating an icecream.
Kingy said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Kingy said:Also, the new dodgily built in Mexico Caterpillar skidsteer is leaking hydraulic oil.
GAGF.
you’ve blown a seal.
No I didn’t, I was just eating an icecream.
LOL, Mr Walrus, i was just thinking the same, but too polite to mention it.
party_pants said:
Kingy said:
ChrispenEvan said:you’ve blown a seal.
No I didn’t, I was just eating an icecream.
LOL, Mr Walrus, i was just thinking the same, but too polite to mention it.
the old jokes are the best jokes.
ChrispenEvan said:
party_pants said:
Kingy said:No I didn’t, I was just eating an icecream.
LOL, Mr Walrus, i was just thinking the same, but too polite to mention it.
the old jokes are the best jokes.
You don’t even have to tell them ;)
ChrispenEvan said:
party_pants said:
Kingy said:No I didn’t, I was just eating an icecream.
LOL, Mr Walrus, i was just thinking the same, but too polite to mention it.
the old jokes are the best jokes.
+1
Kingy said:
Kingy said:
As it turns out, Caterpillar don’t honour their warranty on their machines. I bought a $100,000 machine and not long afterwards, there was a problem. Coincidentally, their sales rep rang me asking if there was anything he could do for me. I replied, yes, I have a problem with my new machine and it is under warranty. He replied that it is not his problem and suggested that I call the parts department. Thanks for the help that you offered, knobhead.After many emails and phone calls to get the warranty problem sorted out, it was obvious that they were not interested in dealing with it.
Today I bought a $110,000 excavator from Kubota.
Caterpillar saved themselves about $300 by being shitcunts.
I wonder if the morons at Caterpillar will eventually work out that they can’t just shit on their customers and expect them to come back.
Next month I will also buy a $100,000 positrack from Kubota instead of Caterpillar.
Also, the new dodgily built in Mexico Caterpillar skidsteer is leaking hydraulic oil.
GAGF.
___
Sunshine, get used to it. I think it is the future.
I’ve spent 35 years in business and now is the time for me to retire soon or I’ll go tropo.
I’m so sick of the gouging and failure of customer service.
Time wasted on the phone with robots.
It’s like they think you are lucky to even own their product.
party_pants said:
ChrispenEvan said:
party_pants said:LOL, Mr Walrus, i was just thinking the same, but too polite to mention it.
the old jokes are the best jokes.
You don’t even have to tell them ;)
I’m sorry, I forgot which number joke that was.
Next time I’ll just post joke #46, but I think it was earlier than that.
Meanwhile in Brazil, the government is clearing a swathe of the Amazon rainforest for a road to get 50,000 delegates to the next UN climate change conference – COP30 – to held, weirdly, in the remote city of Belem in November.
Bulldozing the Amazon rainforest is a fitting way to mark 30 years of failure, of annual gabfests that have released colossal amounts of carbon dioxide from the mouths of the well-meaning, and burned tonnes of aviation fuel to get them there, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions not one bit.
In those three decades, human use of fossil fuels has increased 54 per cent.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
Divine Angel said:You know the forum rule, you shoulda taken pics.
Oh, I broke that too.
Here:
I dont think many would beat my scar.
Divine Angel said:
Oh hey Perthians, I havegoodnews for you
There used to be a similar restaurant in Perth. With pizza and fucked up puppetry. I went there for my birthday one year.
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
Oh hey Perthians, I havegoodnews for you
There used to be a similar restaurant in Perth. With pizza and fucked up puppetry. I went there for my birthday one year.
Puppetry of the penis?
Kingy said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
Oh hey Perthians, I havegoodnews for you
There used to be a similar restaurant in Perth. With pizza and fucked up puppetry. I went there for my birthday one year.
Puppetry of the penis?
You’re thinking of the sausage restaurant.
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
Oh hey Perthians, I havegoodnews for you
There used to be a similar restaurant in Perth. With pizza and fucked up puppetry. I went there for my birthday one year.
Fuck no!
A seriously horrible and creepy place.
dv’s back.
sarahs mum said:
dv’s back.
Was he ever really gone? Or was someone panicking?
A Facebook group for my primary school has a photo of my younger sister’s 2nd grade class. She’s front and centre, holding the information board, probably because of her nearly white blonde very long hair. Her little hands on the edges of the board look like mine. That hair was the bane of my existence a lot of my childhood. She screamed when mother tried to brush it, she flipped it like a whip when it was wet from swimming.
A lot of her personal things were lost in a flood one year. She lived in Lismore at the time.
sarahs mum said:
dv’s back.
dv’s back, tell a friend
guess who’s back
guess who’s back
guess who’s back
i’ve created monster …
party_pants said:
sarahs mum said:
dv’s back.
dv’s back, tell a friend
guess who’s back
guess who’s back
guess who’s backi’ve created monster …
Sorry, let me post a link, and I fucking love it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gGmq_lH_l8
link
kii said:
A Facebook group for my primary school has a photo of my younger sister’s 2nd grade class. She’s front and centre, holding the information board, probably because of her nearly white blonde very long hair. Her little hands on the edges of the board look like mine. That hair was the bane of my existence a lot of my childhood. She screamed when mother tried to brush it, she flipped it like a whip when it was wet from swimming.
A lot of her personal things were lost in a flood one year. She lived in Lismore at the time.
I held the sign once for the class photo. From my experience where you were placed was strictly by height. I was the tallest of the shortest kids, so was in the middle. My best friend was always the tallest – so she was in the middle of back row.
party_pants said:
party_pants said:
sarahs mum said:
dv’s back.
dv’s back, tell a friend
guess who’s back
guess who’s back
guess who’s backi’ve created monster …
Sorry, let me post a link, and I fucking love it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gGmq_lH_l8
link
Very nice version. She’s gorgeous.
kii said:
party_pants said:
party_pants said:dv’s back, tell a friend
guess who’s back
guess who’s back
guess who’s backi’ve created monster …
Sorry, let me post a link, and I fucking love it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gGmq_lH_l8
link
Very nice version. She’s gorgeous.
Such a great voice, plenty more related content if you want to explore further.
Anyway, i must be away bedwards, early start on Fridays and nearly falling asleep in my armchair now.
sarahs mum said:
dv’s back.
Just a bit busy
sarahs mum said:
Kingy said:
As it turns out, Caterpillar don’t honour their warranty on their machines. I bought a $100,000 machine and not long afterwards, there was a problem. Coincidentally, their sales rep rang me asking if there was anything he could do for me. I replied, yes, I have a problem with my new machine and it is under warranty. He replied that it is not his problem and suggested that I call the parts department. Thanks for the help that you offered, knobhead.After many emails and phone calls to get the warranty problem sorted out, it was obvious that they were not interested in dealing with it.
Today I bought a $110,000 excavator from Kubota.
Caterpillar saved themselves about $300 by being shitcunts.
I wonder if the morons at Caterpillar will eventually work out that they can’t just shit on their customers and expect them to come back.
Next month I will also buy a $100,000 positrack from Kubota instead of Caterpillar.
do let them know.
With 8×10 colour glossy photographs.
sarahs mum said:
Meanwhile in Brazil, the government is clearing a swathe of the Amazon rainforest for a road to get 50,000 delegates to the next UN climate change conference – COP30 – to held, weirdly, in the remote city of Belem in November.Bulldozing the Amazon rainforest is a fitting way to mark 30 years of failure, of annual gabfests that have released colossal amounts of carbon dioxide from the mouths of the well-meaning, and burned tonnes of aviation fuel to get them there, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions not one bit.
In those three decades, human use of fossil fuels has increased 54 per cent.
Humans. The more I see of them the less I llike.
Arts said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:Oh, I broke that too.
Here:
I dont think many would beat my scar.
I’d wager that you are correct.
Partly cloudy, chance of showers this afternoon, top of 29.
Divine Angel said:
Max 28 Sunny. Chance of any rain: 0%
Partly cloudy, chance of showers this afternoon, top of 29.
Sunny. Light winds.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 7 degrees at the back door, still and quiet and dark. Sunup around 7.40 today, so another half an hour or so to go. We are forecast a partly cloudy 22 today.
Breakfast with my bushwandering friend. I need to mow some grass again today.
roughbarked said:
Divine Angel said:Max 28 Sunny. Chance of any rain: 0%
Partly cloudy, chance of showers this afternoon, top of 29.
Sunny. Light winds.
Expecting rain every day for the next week here. Ah crap, that means excursion day too. Blergh.
Divine Angel said:
roughbarked said:
Divine Angel said:Max 28 Sunny. Chance of any rain: 0%
Partly cloudy, chance of showers this afternoon, top of 29.
Sunny. Light winds.
Expecting rain every day for the next week here. Ah crap, that means excursion day too. Blergh.
Morning pilgrims.
It’s cool and vary foggy at the redoubt.
Over.
TIDBIT OR TITBIT?
While both “tidbit” and “titbit” refer to a small, tasty piece of food or interesting information, “tidbit” is the more common and generally accepted spelling in North America, while “titbit” is more common in the UK.
Here’s a more detailed breakdown:
I don’t recall hearing or reading titbit.
Divine Angel said:
I don’t recall hearing or reading titbit.
Well you have now.
It is the correct English word, and the Merkin version is not to be countenanced.
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
dv’s back.
Just a bit busy
How dare you have a life.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Divine Angel said:
I don’t recall hearing or reading titbit.
Well you have now.
It is the correct English word, and the Merkin version is not to be countenanced.
Cool.
Pratly cloudy 23 expected here. Mostly a reading day but I will visit the IGA later to get a potato or two and a lump of flesh, as I fancy a roast dinner tonight.
Shame our IGA only stocks the same old beef, lamb, pork or chicken. Wouldn’t mind a lump of camel or goat. Even horse would be an interesting change.
Who here subscribes to New Scientist website?
Bubblecar said:
Pratly cloudy 23 expected here. Mostly a reading day but I will visit the IGA later to get a potato or two and a lump of flesh, as I fancy a roast dinner tonight.Shame our IGA only stocks the same old beef, lamb, pork or chicken. Wouldn’t mind a lump of camel or goat. Even horse would be an interesting change.
buy some pork and beef mice and make a meat loaf. eggs, breadcrumbs, onion. and some flavourings to make the change.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Pratly cloudy 23 expected here. Mostly a reading day but I will visit the IGA later to get a potato or two and a lump of flesh, as I fancy a roast dinner tonight.Shame our IGA only stocks the same old beef, lamb, pork or chicken. Wouldn’t mind a lump of camel or goat. Even horse would be an interesting change.
buy some pork and beef mice and make a meat loaf. eggs, breadcrumbs, onion. and some flavourings to make the change.
mince. not mice. no one wants to eat mice.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Divine Angel said:
I don’t recall hearing or reading titbit.
Well you have now.
It is the correct English word, and the Merkin version is not to be countenanced.
Me: pronounced “titbit”, written “tidbit”.
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Divine Angel said:
I don’t recall hearing or reading titbit.
Well you have now.
It is the correct English word, and the Merkin version is not to be countenanced.
Me: pronounced “titbit”, written “tidbit”.
Good.
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Pratly cloudy 23 expected here. Mostly a reading day but I will visit the IGA later to get a potato or two and a lump of flesh, as I fancy a roast dinner tonight.Shame our IGA only stocks the same old beef, lamb, pork or chicken. Wouldn’t mind a lump of camel or goat. Even horse would be an interesting change.
buy some pork and beef mice and make a meat loaf. eggs, breadcrumbs, onion. and some flavourings to make the change.
Aldi have mixed pork and beef mince on sale this week for $10 a kilo.
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Pratly cloudy 23 expected here. Mostly a reading day but I will visit the IGA later to get a potato or two and a lump of flesh, as I fancy a roast dinner tonight.Shame our IGA only stocks the same old beef, lamb, pork or chicken. Wouldn’t mind a lump of camel or goat. Even horse would be an interesting change.
buy some pork and beef mice and make a meat loaf. eggs, breadcrumbs, onion. and some flavourings to make the change.
mince. not mice. no one wants to eat mice.
Maybe mice meat is exactly the change he needs to his menu?
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Pratly cloudy 23 expected here. Mostly a reading day but I will visit the IGA later to get a potato or two and a lump of flesh, as I fancy a roast dinner tonight.Shame our IGA only stocks the same old beef, lamb, pork or chicken. Wouldn’t mind a lump of camel or goat. Even horse would be an interesting change.
buy some pork and beef mice and make a meat loaf. eggs, breadcrumbs, onion. and some flavourings to make the change.
mince. not mice. no one wants to eat mice.
Have you ever smelt roast mouse? It’s a very mouth-watering smell.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:buy some pork and beef mice and make a meat loaf. eggs, breadcrumbs, onion. and some flavourings to make the change.
mince. not mice. no one wants to eat mice.
Have you ever smelt roast mouse? It’s a very mouth-watering smell.
argh, you reminded me of a house once lived in that every time the stove warmed up it stank of mouse.
Right then…et a bacon and egg roll for breakfast in readiness for maar-ing. Front yard first. Then start on the back.
Divine Angel said:
Who here subscribes to New Scientist website?
raises hand.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Divine Angel said:
Who here subscribes to New Scientist website?
raises hand.
Would you be willing to repost an article for me please
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2472159-were-finally-learning-how-perimenopause-profoundly-changes-the-brain/
Divine Angel said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Divine Angel said:
Who here subscribes to New Scientist website?
raises hand.
Would you be willing to repost an article for me please
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2472159-were-finally-learning-how-perimenopause-profoundly-changes-the-brain/
No pictures, but I don’t think they add much:
The hormonal upheaval in the run-up to menopause can cause cognitive difficulties. But researchers are also finding that this can be a critical window for protecting long-term brain health
By Linda Geddes
20 March 2025
The first sign something was amiss was the tiredness. Then I started forgetting where I had left my phone or keys, only to find them in the fridge or kitchen cupboard. The breaking point came when I went to make a cup of tea before an important interview, only to return 45 minutes later to a string of increasingly irritated emails asking why I wasn’t on the call. I had been potting houseplants instead.
As a woman in my early 40s, I was aware of this thing called perimenopause looming. But were my symptoms related to this, or just a product of getting older, or simply down to the mental load of juggling work, family and social demands?
New evidence finally reveals how male and female brains really differ
Teasing out what is perimenopause and what is just life is difficult, but the run-up to menopause can bring some alarming symptoms – not least cognitive ones, such as difficulty recalling names, trouble concentrating and putting keys in the fridge.
“We now know that up to 62 per cent of all perimenopausal and postmenopausal women report these , which can be so severe as to spark fears around early-onset dementia,” says Lisa Mosconi, director of the Women’s Brain Initiative at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York.
Though long ignored or dismissed as inevitable consequences of ageing, the neurological manifestations of menopause are finally drawing scientific interest. It is increasingly clear brain changes occur during this period – and that some can ultimately be positive. More than that, these changes demonstrate that menopause may offer a crucial window for protecting brain health. The question is how.
Your brain on hormones
Menopause occurs when a person with a uterus stops menstruating and their ovaries stop producing significant amounts of oestrogen and progesterone, the two main sex hormones that regulate female reproduction. This usually happens between the ages of about 45 and 55, but it can also happen earlier, whether naturally or because of the removal or impairment of the ovaries. Perimenopause is the warm-up to this transition, beginning up to a decade before a woman’s final period.
The brain is closely connected to the ovaries via a network of glands, and many brain regions possess receptors for reproductive hormones, allowing those hormones to directly influence brain function, development and cognition. The most studied of these is oestradiol, the primary form of the oestrogen hormone that is produced during women’s reproductive years. In the brain, it protects neurons from damage, stimulates the growth of new ones and interacts with neurotransmitters involved in concentration, processing information and regulating emotions.
Neuroscientist-turned-entrepreneur Emilė Radytė is using brain stimulation to explore how things like premenstrual syndrome and period pain impact the brain
“During menopause we have this profound loss of oestradiol in particular, and these oestrogen receptors in the brain, they’re sort of starved for attention,” says Liisa Galea, who studies sex hormones and cognition at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Canada.
However, these hormones don’t simply disappear overnight. “It’s a very volatile process where the system fails, then a kind of backup generator kicks in and works for a while, and then the system fails again, which is why you have these massive and very volatile hormonal fluctuations,” says Claudia Barth, a neuroscientist at Diakonhjemmet Hospital in Oslo, Norway.
Hormonal roller-coaster
The brain doesn’t respond well to such fluctuations. “We don’t like hormonal surges, we don’t like hormonal withdrawal,” says Pauline Maki, director of the Women’s Mental Health Research Program at the University of Illinois in Chicago. “That variability also likely contributes to the memory problems that many women experience during perimenopause.”
The “brain fog” that many women report during perimenopause is real: studies consistently demonstrate that there is a small but measurable decline in the ability to learn, and to recall both new information, such as recently made appointments, and previously known information, such as your spouse’s name. While cognitive performance remains within normal limits for most women during this phase – and on par with men of the same age – around 1 in 10 experience clinically significant impairment. The transition is also accompanied by structural changes in the brain. “We and others have found alterations in brain structure, metabolism, connectivity and biochemistry in many parts of the brain, including regions vulnerable to Alzheimer’s,” says Mosconi.
But are the symptoms of cognitive impairment, as well as the structural changes to the brain, temporary, or could they have longer-term consequences? Answering this question has taken decades, in part because of the chronic lack of funding for research into women’s health. “People will say, ‘It’s a niche area; it’s not important to study because it only happens to a subset of the population’,” says Galea. “Which is hilarious, because we are 50 per cent of the population.”
The field also experienced a significant setback in the early 2000s, after a major trial exploring the effects of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) nearly brought research into the menopausal brain to a standstill.
Investigating HRT
For women going through menopause, HRT involves taking a combination of oestrogen and progestogen, a hormone that mimics progesterone and reduces the risk of uterine cancers; because oestrogen can, over time, encourage the problematic build-up of the uterine lining and increase cancer risk, oestrogen alone is only offered to women who have had their uterus removed. Through the 1980s and 90s, small studies indicated that oestrogen replacement improved memory and reduced anxiety in menopausal women; observational research suggested HRT might be protective against Alzheimer’s disease, which is twice as common in women as it is in men and tends to result in more severe symptoms. In 2000, Maki and her colleague Susan Resnik found that oestrogen replacement therapy boosted blood flow in areas of the brain associated with memory performance, more so than in women not taking exogenous oestrogen; this was, she says, the first direct evidence linking sex hormones and memory function in women.
Meanwhile, the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) trials, a large-scale effort to establish whether HRT was beneficial for long-term health, were under way. Maki, who was involved with this work, expected these studies to confirm the beneficial effects of hormone therapy. Instead, in July 2000, WHI investigators announced that they were stopping the main trial three years early: data suggested that HRT was associated with a small but significant increase in the risk of cardiovascular disease and breast cancer, while an ancillary study found a substantial increase in the risk of dementia and cognitive decline.
Should you take HRT? Here’s how to think clearly about the risks
Hormone replacement therapy has a bad reputation because of potential risks to long-term health. A new look at the evidence could change our relationship with HRT – and the menopause
“This wasn’t just a study of a few people – it was thousands of people, billions of dollars, published in a high-impact journal. So it was big news,” says Michael Craig, a consultant psychiatrist at the National Female Hormone Clinic at the Maudsley Hospital in London. The effect was immediate: “Overnight, everyone came off HRT, and the funding for this area disappeared.”
Though the failed trials set HRT research back, they did reveal important nuances in how sex hormones work in the brain. We now know that the type of oestrogen matters significantly. That used in the WHI trials was derived from the urine of pregnant horses and mostly consisted of oestrone, a relatively weak form of the hormone. Galea’s research has since shown that giving oestrone to rats that had their ovaries removed to mimic menopause reduced the number of new neurons in the hippocampus, an area of the brain involved in memory-making, learning and emotional regulation. Giving oestradiol, which binds more strongly to oestrogen receptors than other forms of the hormone, however, increased them. Further animal studies show that administering progestogen alongside oestradiol inhibits that neuronal growth – painting a complex picture of both the effect of sex hormones on the brain and how to manipulate that effect.
The WHI study also demonstrated that the timing of HRT is significant. When the study launched, most women started the therapy in their early 50s. But most of the trial participants, who hadn’t previously been on HRT, were in their 60s and 70s, sometimes decades past their last period. This was largely for statistical reasons: if you want to establish whether HRT prevents age-related conditions such as Alzheimer’s and cardiovascular disease, you will be waiting a long time to find out if your participants are only just starting to go through menopause at the time of their recruitment.
A critical window
More recent evidence indicates, however, that there might be a “window of opportunity” for preventing dementia, and that some HRT is beneficial if started at the onset of menopause symptoms or soon after. A 2023 systematic review examining data from 51 studies found that women who started oestrogen-only therapy within 10 years of their final menstruation were at significantly decreased risk of Alzheimer’s later in life, compared with women who didn’t have HRT.
“The theory is that during this period, the brain may be more receptive to the positive effects of exogenous oestrogen on brain health, potentially slowing cognitive decline,” says Mosconi, the senior study author. “Starting hormone therapy much later, specifically more than a decade after menopause, does not seem to provide the same cognitive benefits and could carry higher risks.”
How a new kind of vaccine could lead to the eradication of Alzheimer’s
Promising new vaccines are designed to be given to patients at risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. If they perform well in clinical trials, they have the potential to one day rid society of dementia
In the decades since the end of the WHI trials, a tide of evidence has swept away many of the concerns about the safety of HRT – particularly for modern formulations – while menopause awareness campaigns and celebrity endorsements have encouraged greater discussion about the risks and benefits of the therapy. Most research since the WHI study has underscored that HRT, especially in women starting the therapy before age 65, is unlikely to increase dementia or cognitive impairment risks, and that other health risks of HRT should be weighed against its overall benefits. And though research into HRT’s effects on cognitive symptoms is ongoing, many women report that the therapy gave them back their sense of self.
Nuvelle continuous pills in their blister pack. This is a hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drug.
However, the idea of prescribing HRT for dementia prevention alone isn’t yet recommended – not least because it is unclear who would benefit. For one thing, oestrogen-only therapy, which seems to carry the most protective benefits, is recommended solely for women who have had a hysterectomy. And though around two-thirds of women who go through menopause experience cognitive challenges during that time, only around 20 per cent of them go on to develop Alzheimer’s. In most cases, the memory deficits many women experience during the menopause transition eventually resolve themselves.
“Obviously in the moment, it sucks for the woman who is having a hard time adjusting, but after it’s done, the brain should be able to recover,” says Nicole Gervais, a neuroscientist at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
Who is at risk – and how to help them
But for some women – particularly those whose brains might be more vulnerable to the menopausal drop in oestradiol – recovering from what should be temporary challenges might be more difficult. Identifying these women will help researchers determine who may be at a higher risk of developing dementia and investigate whether targeted interventions, including HRT, could help.
So far, studies suggest that both early and induced menopause may be associated with a higher risk of dementia, compared with women who experience it naturally in their 40s or 50s. Menopause can be induced surgically, by the removal of the ovaries, or medically, in the course of treating other conditions. “They also experience more severe menopause symptoms, probably because the brain experiences more of a shock,” says Gervais. Those carrying genetic risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease may also be less resilient during the time around menopause. For some women, chronic stress and sleep deprivation – whether as a result of the demands of life or associated with changes during this transition, or both – can also play a role in the development of dementia.
“Menopause offers a valuable opportunity to identify and address these vulnerabilities before the disease has a chance to take hold,” says Mosconi.
Amyloid plaques in the brain of someone with Alzheimer’s disease. The condition has also been linked to too much cholesterol in brain cells, slowing brain signalling
Gene variant that raises Alzheimer’s risk may boost fertility in women
The genetic variant APOE4 substantially raises the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, but it has also been linked to women having more children in an Indigenous group in Bolivia
One promising approach could be to focus on specific symptoms. Hot flushes are a common menopause symptom thought to stem from the effects of declining oestrogen on the brain region that controls body temperature. Maki’s research suggests that more severe hot flushes, particularly if they continue for many years, are associated with poorer memory performance, tiny stroke-like lesions in the brain and the accumulation of proteins associated with Alzheimer’s disease. This may imply that hot flushes directly impact memory circuits in the brain; treating hot flushes might affect the progression of cognitive decline.
Researchers are also investigating selective oestrogen receptor modulators (SERMs), drugs that mimic the effects of the hormone in some parts of the body, but not others. Mosconi is currently involved in trials of PhytoSERM, which is designed to trigger oestrogen receptors in the brain without affecting those in the uterus. If effective, this could negate the need for women to take progesterone and raise the possibility of using oestrogen protectively.
Not just oestrogen and progesterone
Besides oestrogen, other hormones are also affected by the menopause transition, including follicle stimulating hormone (FSH). FSH stimulates the ovaries to mature eggs each month and to produce oestrogen; as women’s supply of eggs dwindles and levels of oestrogen drop, FSH levels climb higher in response and remain elevated even once menopause is over. Animal studies have suggested that this hormonal shift could contribute to post-menopausal weight gain and bone loss, prompting efforts to develop an FSH-blocking antibody to improve bone health and reduce weight gain. However, FSH receptors are also abundant in the brain – implying that FSH also plays a role in cognitive function.
Over the past five years, Mone Zaidi at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and neuroscientist Keqiang Ye at Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology in China have been exploring whether FSH-blocking antibodies could also influence the development of Alzheimer’s in mice that are bred to be genetically prone to the disease. So far, their data seems to suggest that it does. Zaidi and Ye’s studies in female mice that had their ovaries removed showed that FSH accelerated the buildup of amyloid beta plaques and tau tangles associated with Alzheimer’s in their brains, speeding up cognitive decline; blocking FSH, however, decreased Alzheimer’s symptoms in the mice.
We may finally know how cognitive reserve protects against Alzheimer’s
Why does mental effort lead to a more resilient brain that can withstand dementia and decline? We are now discovering the mechanisms behind this cognitive reserve, opening up new ways to boost it
“We’re not disputing that reduced oestrogen may contribute to memory loss, but high levels of FSH post-menopause may also play a direct role in memory loss, particularly spatial memory and recognition memory,” says Zaidi, who hopes to begin safety trials of the antibody in humans later this year.
Ye points out that there is a period during early perimenopause when oestrogen levels are relatively stable, but FSH is rising sharply: “During this period, there is a transient decline in cognitive performance, especially verbal memory,” he says. It is possible that FSH, rather than oestrogen, is to blame.
Most experts agree that conventional HRT, particularly when initiated at the start of menopausal symptoms, is an effective way of combating the short-term cognitive symptoms associated with perimenopause. Early initiation of HRT could also help keep FSH levels in check, says Ye.
Don’t fear the menopause
After my morning spent repotting plants and not on my work call, I started speaking with older female friends about the problems that I had been experiencing. They reassured me that it wasn’t, in fact, early-onset dementia; several suggested trying HRT. I have been taking oestrogen and progestogen for the past two years and I am pleased to report that I am feeling much more like my old self – and haven’t discovered any keys nested amongst the yoghurt pots for some time.
These four common medicines could help prolong your life
Taking Viagra, HRT, a statin or a painkiller was linked to a slightly lower chance of people dying over a 12-year study, suggesting the drugs may have life-extending properties
That said, HRT isn’t a solution for everyone, which is why exploring alternatives such as blocking FSH is important. There are also non-hormonal ways that women can reduce their risk of developing dementia, including eating more healthily, getting regular exercise, reducing stress and alcohol consumption, and not smoking. Helpfully, these same strategies can reduce many troublesome menopause symptoms.
However, despite its challenges, menopause isn’t some looming monster we should fear. In fact, the neuronal rewiring that occurs during this transition might even be beneficial, with women emerging from it enjoying a more stable mood and improved emotional well-being.
“Many experts, myself included, believe that menopause is actually a renovation project on the brain,” says Mosconi. “After menopause, all those neurons and connections between neurons that were needed to support ovulation and enable a pregnancy are no longer needed and can be discarded. It’s the brain’s chance to get ‘leaner and meaner’, if you will. This can lead to some glitches – but also has some advantages.”
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2472159-were-finally-learning-how-perimenopause-profoundly-changes-the-brain/
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The hormonal upheaval in the run-up to menopause can cause cognitive difficulties. But researchers are also finding that this can be a critical window for protecting long-term brain health
By Linda Geddes
20 March 2025
The first sign something was amiss was the tiredness. Then I started forgetting where I had left my phone or keys, only to find them in the fridge or kitchen cupboard. The breaking point came when I went to make a cup of tea before an important interview, only to return 45 minutes later to a string of increasingly irritated emails asking why I wasn’t on the call. I had been potting houseplants instead.
As a woman in my early 40s, I was aware of this thing called perimenopause looming. But were my symptoms related to this, or just a product of getting older, or simply down to the mental load of juggling work, family and social demands?
New evidence finally reveals how male and female brains really differ
Teasing out what is perimenopause and what is just life is difficult, but the run-up to menopause can bring some alarming symptoms – not least cognitive ones, such as difficulty recalling names, trouble concentrating and putting keys in the fridge.
“We now know that up to 62 per cent of all perimenopausal and postmenopausal women report these , which can be so severe as to spark fears around early-onset dementia,” says Lisa Mosconi, director of the Women’s Brain Initiative at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York.
Though long ignored or dismissed as inevitable consequences of ageing, the neurological manifestations of menopause are finally drawing scientific interest. It is increasingly clear brain changes occur during this period – and that some can ultimately be positive. More than that, these changes demonstrate that menopause may offer a crucial window for protecting brain health. The question is how.
Your brain on hormones
Menopause occurs when a person with a uterus stops menstruating and their ovaries stop producing significant amounts of oestrogen and progesterone, the two main sex hormones that regulate female reproduction. This usually happens between the ages of about 45 and 55, but it can also happen earlier, whether naturally or because of the removal or impairment of the ovaries. Perimenopause is the warm-up to this transition, beginning up to a decade before a woman’s final period.The brain is closely connected to the ovaries via a network of glands, and many brain regions possess receptors for reproductive hormones, allowing those hormones to directly influence brain function, development and cognition. The most studied of these is oestradiol, the primary form of the oestrogen hormone that is produced during women’s reproductive years. In the brain, it protects neurons from damage, stimulates the growth of new ones and interacts with neurotransmitters involved in concentration, processing information and regulating emotions.
Neuroscientist-turned-entrepreneur Emilė Radytė is using brain stimulation to explore how things like premenstrual syndrome and period pain impact the brain
“During menopause we have this profound loss of oestradiol in particular, and these oestrogen receptors in the brain, they’re sort of starved for attention,” says Liisa Galea, who studies sex hormones and cognition at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Canada.
However, these hormones don’t simply disappear overnight. “It’s a very volatile process where the system fails, then a kind of backup generator kicks in and works for a while, and then the system fails again, which is why you have these massive and very volatile hormonal fluctuations,” says Claudia Barth, a neuroscientist at Diakonhjemmet Hospital in Oslo, Norway.
Hormonal roller-coaster
The brain doesn’t respond well to such fluctuations. “We don’t like hormonal surges, we don’t like hormonal withdrawal,” says Pauline Maki, director of the Women’s Mental Health Research Program at the University of Illinois in Chicago. “That variability also likely contributes to the memory problems that many women experience during perimenopause.”The “brain fog” that many women report during perimenopause is real: studies consistently demonstrate that there is a small but measurable decline in the ability to learn, and to recall both new information, such as recently made appointments, and previously known information, such as your spouse’s name. While cognitive performance remains within normal limits for most women during this phase – and on par with men of the same age – around 1 in 10 experience clinically significant impairment. The transition is also accompanied by structural changes in the brain. “We and others have found alterations in brain structure, metabolism, connectivity and biochemistry in many parts of the brain, including regions vulnerable to Alzheimer’s,” says Mosconi.
But are the symptoms of cognitive impairment, as well as the structural changes to the brain, temporary, or could they have longer-term consequences? Answering this question has taken decades, in part because of the chronic lack of funding for research into women’s health. “People will say, ‘It’s a niche area; it’s not important to study because it only happens to a subset of the population’,” says Galea. “Which is hilarious, because we are 50 per cent of the population.”
The field also experienced a significant setback in the early 2000s, after a major trial exploring the effects of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) nearly brought research into the menopausal brain to a standstill.
Investigating HRT
For women going through menopause, HRT involves taking a combination of oestrogen and progestogen, a hormone that mimics progesterone and reduces the risk of uterine cancers; because oestrogen can, over time, encourage the problematic build-up of the uterine lining and increase cancer risk, oestrogen alone is only offered to women who have had their uterus removed. Through the 1980s and 90s, small studies indicated that oestrogen replacement improved memory and reduced anxiety in menopausal women; observational research suggested HRT might be protective against Alzheimer’s disease, which is twice as common in women as it is in men and tends to result in more severe symptoms. In 2000, Maki and her colleague Susan Resnik found that oestrogen replacement therapy boosted blood flow in areas of the brain associated with memory performance, more so than in women not taking exogenous oestrogen; this was, she says, the first direct evidence linking sex hormones and memory function in women.Meanwhile, the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) trials, a large-scale effort to establish whether HRT was beneficial for long-term health, were under way. Maki, who was involved with this work, expected these studies to confirm the beneficial effects of hormone therapy. Instead, in July 2000, WHI investigators announced that they were stopping the main trial three years early: data suggested that HRT was associated with a small but significant increase in the risk of cardiovascular disease and breast cancer, while an ancillary study found a substantial increase in the risk of dementia and cognitive decline.
Should you take HRT? Here’s how to think clearly about the risks
Hormone replacement therapy has a bad reputation because of potential risks to long-term health. A new look at the evidence could change our relationship with HRT – and the menopause“This wasn’t just a study of a few people – it was thousands of people, billions of dollars, published in a high-impact journal. So it was big news,” says Michael Craig, a consultant psychiatrist at the National Female Hormone Clinic at the Maudsley Hospital in London. The effect was immediate: “Overnight, everyone came off HRT, and the funding for this area disappeared.”
Though the failed trials set HRT research back, they did reveal important nuances in how sex hormones work in the brain. We now know that the type of oestrogen matters significantly. That used in the WHI trials was derived from the urine of pregnant horses and mostly consisted of oestrone, a relatively weak form of the hormone. Galea’s research has since shown that giving oestrone to rats that had their ovaries removed to mimic menopause reduced the number of new neurons in the hippocampus, an area of the brain involved in memory-making, learning and emotional regulation. Giving oestradiol, which binds more strongly to oestrogen receptors than other forms of the hormone, however, increased them. Further animal studies show that administering progestogen alongside oestradiol inhibits that neuronal growth – painting a complex picture of both the effect of sex hormones on the brain and how to manipulate that effect.
The WHI study also demonstrated that the timing of HRT is significant. When the study launched, most women started the therapy in their early 50s. But most of the trial participants, who hadn’t previously been on HRT, were in their 60s and 70s, sometimes decades past their last period. This was largely for statistical reasons: if you want to establish whether HRT prevents age-related conditions such as Alzheimer’s and cardiovascular disease, you will be waiting a long time to find out if your participants are only just starting to go through menopause at the time of their recruitment.
A critical window
More recent evidence indicates, however, that there might be a “window of opportunity” for preventing dementia, and that some HRT is beneficial if started at the onset of menopause symptoms or soon after. A 2023 systematic review examining data from 51 studies found that women who started oestrogen-only therapy within 10 years of their final menstruation were at significantly decreased risk of Alzheimer’s later in life, compared with women who didn’t have HRT.“The theory is that during this period, the brain may be more receptive to the positive effects of exogenous oestrogen on brain health, potentially slowing cognitive decline,” says Mosconi, the senior study author. “Starting hormone therapy much later, specifically more than a decade after menopause, does not seem to provide the same cognitive benefits and could carry higher risks.”
How a new kind of vaccine could lead to the eradication of Alzheimer’s
Promising new vaccines are designed to be given to patients at risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. If they perform well in clinical trials, they have the potential to one day rid society of dementiaIn the decades since the end of the WHI trials, a tide of evidence has swept away many of the concerns about the safety of HRT – particularly for modern formulations – while menopause awareness campaigns and celebrity endorsements have encouraged greater discussion about the risks and benefits of the therapy. Most research since the WHI study has underscored that HRT, especially in women starting the therapy before age 65, is unlikely to increase dementia or cognitive impairment risks, and that other health risks of HRT should be weighed against its overall benefits. And though research into HRT’s effects on cognitive symptoms is ongoing, many women report that the therapy gave them back their sense of self.
Nuvelle continuous pills in their blister pack. This is a hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drug.
However, the idea of prescribing HRT for dementia prevention alone isn’t yet recommended – not least because it is unclear who would benefit. For one thing, oestrogen-only therapy, which seems to carry the most protective benefits, is recommended solely for women who have had a hysterectomy. And though around two-thirds of women who go through menopause experience cognitive challenges during that time, only around 20 per cent of them go on to develop Alzheimer’s. In most cases, the memory deficits many women experience during the menopause transition eventually resolve themselves.
“Obviously in the moment, it sucks for the woman who is having a hard time adjusting, but after it’s done, the brain should be able to recover,” says Nicole Gervais, a neuroscientist at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
Who is at risk – and how to help them
But for some women – particularly those whose brains might be more vulnerable to the menopausal drop in oestradiol – recovering from what should be temporary challenges might be more difficult. Identifying these women will help researchers determine who may be at a higher risk of developing dementia and investigate whether targeted interventions, including HRT, could help.So far, studies suggest that both early and induced menopause may be associated with a higher risk of dementia, compared with women who experience it naturally in their 40s or 50s. Menopause can be induced surgically, by the removal of the ovaries, or medically, in the course of treating other conditions. “They also experience more severe menopause symptoms, probably because the brain experiences more of a shock,” says Gervais. Those carrying genetic risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease may also be less resilient during the time around menopause. For some women, chronic stress and sleep deprivation – whether as a result of the demands of life or associated with changes during this transition, or both – can also play a role in the development of dementia.
“Menopause offers a valuable opportunity to identify and address these vulnerabilities before the disease has a chance to take hold,” says Mosconi.
Amyloid plaques in the brain of someone with Alzheimer’s disease. The condition has also been linked to too much cholesterol in brain cells, slowing brain signalling
Gene variant that raises Alzheimer’s risk may boost fertility in women
The genetic variant APOE4 substantially raises the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, but it has also been linked to women having more children in an Indigenous group in BoliviaOne promising approach could be to focus on specific symptoms. Hot flushes are a common menopause symptom thought to stem from the effects of declining oestrogen on the brain region that controls body temperature. Maki’s research suggests that more severe hot flushes, particularly if they continue for many years, are associated with poorer memory performance, tiny stroke-like lesions in the brain and the accumulation of proteins associated with Alzheimer’s disease. This may imply that hot flushes directly impact memory circuits in the brain; treating hot flushes might affect the progression of cognitive decline.
Researchers are also investigating selective oestrogen receptor modulators (SERMs), drugs that mimic the effects of the hormone in some parts of the body, but not others. Mosconi is currently involved in trials of PhytoSERM, which is designed to trigger oestrogen receptors in the brain without affecting those in the uterus. If effective, this could negate the need for women to take progesterone and raise the possibility of using oestrogen protectively.
Not just oestrogen and progesterone
Besides oestrogen, other hormones are also affected by the menopause transition, including follicle stimulating hormone (FSH). FSH stimulates the ovaries to mature eggs each month and to produce oestrogen; as women’s supply of eggs dwindles and levels of oestrogen drop, FSH levels climb higher in response and remain elevated even once menopause is over. Animal studies have suggested that this hormonal shift could contribute to post-menopausal weight gain and bone loss, prompting efforts to develop an FSH-blocking antibody to improve bone health and reduce weight gain. However, FSH receptors are also abundant in the brain – implying that FSH also plays a role in cognitive function.Over the past five years, Mone Zaidi at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and neuroscientist Keqiang Ye at Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology in China have been exploring whether FSH-blocking antibodies could also influence the development of Alzheimer’s in mice that are bred to be genetically prone to the disease. So far, their data seems to suggest that it does. Zaidi and Ye’s studies in female mice that had their ovaries removed showed that FSH accelerated the buildup of amyloid beta plaques and tau tangles associated with Alzheimer’s in their brains, speeding up cognitive decline; blocking FSH, however, decreased Alzheimer’s symptoms in the mice.
We may finally know how cognitive reserve protects against Alzheimer’s
Why does mental effort lead to a more resilient brain that can withstand dementia and decline? We are now discovering the mechanisms behind this cognitive reserve, opening up new ways to boost it“We’re not disputing that reduced oestrogen may contribute to memory loss, but high levels of FSH post-menopause may also play a direct role in memory loss, particularly spatial memory and recognition memory,” says Zaidi, who hopes to begin safety trials of the antibody in humans later this year.
Ye points out that there is a period during early perimenopause when oestrogen levels are relatively stable, but FSH is rising sharply: “During this period, there is a transient decline in cognitive performance, especially verbal memory,” he says. It is possible that FSH, rather than oestrogen, is to blame.
Most experts agree that conventional HRT, particularly when initiated at the start of menopausal symptoms, is an effective way of combating the short-term cognitive symptoms associated with perimenopause. Early initiation of HRT could also help keep FSH levels in check, says Ye.
Don’t fear the menopause
After my morning spent repotting plants and not on my work call, I started speaking with older female friends about the problems that I had been experiencing. They reassured me that it wasn’t, in fact, early-onset dementia; several suggested trying HRT. I have been taking oestrogen and progestogen for the past two years and I am pleased to report that I am feeling much more like my old self – and haven’t discovered any keys nested amongst the yoghurt pots for some time.These four common medicines could help prolong your life
Taking Viagra, HRT, a statin or a painkiller was linked to a slightly lower chance of people dying over a 12-year study, suggesting the drugs may have life-extending propertiesThat said, HRT isn’t a solution for everyone, which is why exploring alternatives such as blocking FSH is important. There are also non-hormonal ways that women can reduce their risk of developing dementia, including eating more healthily, getting regular exercise, reducing stress and alcohol consumption, and not smoking. Helpfully, these same strategies can reduce many troublesome menopause symptoms.
However, despite its challenges, menopause isn’t some looming monster we should fear. In fact, the neuronal rewiring that occurs during this transition might even be beneficial, with women emerging from it enjoying a more stable mood and improved emotional well-being.
“Many experts, myself included, believe that menopause is actually a renovation project on the brain,” says Mosconi. “After menopause, all those neurons and connections between neurons that were needed to support ovulation and enable a pregnancy are no longer needed and can be discarded. It’s the brain’s chance to get ‘leaner and meaner’, if you will. This can lead to some glitches – but also has some advantages.”
quoting below, from that above, here’s the link that was supplied, in that is the page originally quoted from, not by me
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2472159-were-finally-learning-how-perimenopause-profoundly-changes-the-brain/
“..However, despite its challenges, menopause isn’t some looming monster we should fear. In fact, the neuronal rewiring that occurs during this transition might even be beneficial, with women emerging from it enjoying a more stable mood and improved emotional well-being.
“Many experts, myself included, believe that menopause is actually a renovation project on the brain,” says Mosconi. “After menopause, all those neurons and connections between neurons that were needed to support ovulation and enable a pregnancy are no longer needed and can be discarded. It’s the brain’s chance to get ‘leaner and meaner’, if you will. This can lead to some glitches – but also has some advantages…”
transition said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Divine Angel said:Would you be willing to repost an article for me please
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2472159-were-finally-learning-how-perimenopause-profoundly-changes-the-brain/
No pictures, but I don’t think they add much:
The hormonal upheaval in the run-up to menopause can cause cognitive difficulties. But researchers are also finding that this can be a critical window for protecting long-term brain health
By Linda Geddes
20 March 2025
The first sign something was amiss was the tiredness. Then I started forgetting where I had left my phone or keys, only to find them in the fridge or kitchen cupboard. The breaking point came when I went to make a cup of tea before an important interview, only to return 45 minutes later to a string of increasingly irritated emails asking why I wasn’t on the call. I had been potting houseplants instead.
As a woman in my early 40s, I was aware of this thing called perimenopause looming. But were my symptoms related to this, or just a product of getting older, or simply down to the mental load of juggling work, family and social demands?
New evidence finally reveals how male and female brains really differ
Teasing out what is perimenopause and what is just life is difficult, but the run-up to menopause can bring some alarming symptoms – not least cognitive ones, such as difficulty recalling names, trouble concentrating and putting keys in the fridge.
“We now know that up to 62 per cent of all perimenopausal and postmenopausal women report these , which can be so severe as to spark fears around early-onset dementia,” says Lisa Mosconi, director of the Women’s Brain Initiative at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York.
Though long ignored or dismissed as inevitable consequences of ageing, the neurological manifestations of menopause are finally drawing scientific interest. It is increasingly clear brain changes occur during this period – and that some can ultimately be positive. More than that, these changes demonstrate that menopause may offer a crucial window for protecting brain health. The question is how.
Your brain on hormones
Menopause occurs when a person with a uterus stops menstruating and their ovaries stop producing significant amounts of oestrogen and progesterone, the two main sex hormones that regulate female reproduction. This usually happens between the ages of about 45 and 55, but it can also happen earlier, whether naturally or because of the removal or impairment of the ovaries. Perimenopause is the warm-up to this transition, beginning up to a decade before a woman’s final period.The brain is closely connected to the ovaries via a network of glands, and many brain regions possess receptors for reproductive hormones, allowing those hormones to directly influence brain function, development and cognition. The most studied of these is oestradiol, the primary form of the oestrogen hormone that is produced during women’s reproductive years. In the brain, it protects neurons from damage, stimulates the growth of new ones and interacts with neurotransmitters involved in concentration, processing information and regulating emotions.
Neuroscientist-turned-entrepreneur Emilė Radytė is using brain stimulation to explore how things like premenstrual syndrome and period pain impact the brain
“During menopause we have this profound loss of oestradiol in particular, and these oestrogen receptors in the brain, they’re sort of starved for attention,” says Liisa Galea, who studies sex hormones and cognition at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Canada.
However, these hormones don’t simply disappear overnight. “It’s a very volatile process where the system fails, then a kind of backup generator kicks in and works for a while, and then the system fails again, which is why you have these massive and very volatile hormonal fluctuations,” says Claudia Barth, a neuroscientist at Diakonhjemmet Hospital in Oslo, Norway.
Hormonal roller-coaster
The brain doesn’t respond well to such fluctuations. “We don’t like hormonal surges, we don’t like hormonal withdrawal,” says Pauline Maki, director of the Women’s Mental Health Research Program at the University of Illinois in Chicago. “That variability also likely contributes to the memory problems that many women experience during perimenopause.”The “brain fog” that many women report during perimenopause is real: studies consistently demonstrate that there is a small but measurable decline in the ability to learn, and to recall both new information, such as recently made appointments, and previously known information, such as your spouse’s name. While cognitive performance remains within normal limits for most women during this phase – and on par with men of the same age – around 1 in 10 experience clinically significant impairment. The transition is also accompanied by structural changes in the brain. “We and others have found alterations in brain structure, metabolism, connectivity and biochemistry in many parts of the brain, including regions vulnerable to Alzheimer’s,” says Mosconi.
But are the symptoms of cognitive impairment, as well as the structural changes to the brain, temporary, or could they have longer-term consequences? Answering this question has taken decades, in part because of the chronic lack of funding for research into women’s health. “People will say, ‘It’s a niche area; it’s not important to study because it only happens to a subset of the population’,” says Galea. “Which is hilarious, because we are 50 per cent of the population.”
The field also experienced a significant setback in the early 2000s, after a major trial exploring the effects of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) nearly brought research into the menopausal brain to a standstill.
Investigating HRT
For women going through menopause, HRT involves taking a combination of oestrogen and progestogen, a hormone that mimics progesterone and reduces the risk of uterine cancers; because oestrogen can, over time, encourage the problematic build-up of the uterine lining and increase cancer risk, oestrogen alone is only offered to women who have had their uterus removed. Through the 1980s and 90s, small studies indicated that oestrogen replacement improved memory and reduced anxiety in menopausal women; observational research suggested HRT might be protective against Alzheimer’s disease, which is twice as common in women as it is in men and tends to result in more severe symptoms. In 2000, Maki and her colleague Susan Resnik found that oestrogen replacement therapy boosted blood flow in areas of the brain associated with memory performance, more so than in women not taking exogenous oestrogen; this was, she says, the first direct evidence linking sex hormones and memory function in women.Meanwhile, the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) trials, a large-scale effort to establish whether HRT was beneficial for long-term health, were under way. Maki, who was involved with this work, expected these studies to confirm the beneficial effects of hormone therapy. Instead, in July 2000, WHI investigators announced that they were stopping the main trial three years early: data suggested that HRT was associated with a small but significant increase in the risk of cardiovascular disease and breast cancer, while an ancillary study found a substantial increase in the risk of dementia and cognitive decline.
Should you take HRT? Here’s how to think clearly about the risks
Hormone replacement therapy has a bad reputation because of potential risks to long-term health. A new look at the evidence could change our relationship with HRT – and the menopause“This wasn’t just a study of a few people – it was thousands of people, billions of dollars, published in a high-impact journal. So it was big news,” says Michael Craig, a consultant psychiatrist at the National Female Hormone Clinic at the Maudsley Hospital in London. The effect was immediate: “Overnight, everyone came off HRT, and the funding for this area disappeared.”
Though the failed trials set HRT research back, they did reveal important nuances in how sex hormones work in the brain. We now know that the type of oestrogen matters significantly. That used in the WHI trials was derived from the urine of pregnant horses and mostly consisted of oestrone, a relatively weak form of the hormone. Galea’s research has since shown that giving oestrone to rats that had their ovaries removed to mimic menopause reduced the number of new neurons in the hippocampus, an area of the brain involved in memory-making, learning and emotional regulation. Giving oestradiol, which binds more strongly to oestrogen receptors than other forms of the hormone, however, increased them. Further animal studies show that administering progestogen alongside oestradiol inhibits that neuronal growth – painting a complex picture of both the effect of sex hormones on the brain and how to manipulate that effect.
The WHI study also demonstrated that the timing of HRT is significant. When the study launched, most women started the therapy in their early 50s. But most of the trial participants, who hadn’t previously been on HRT, were in their 60s and 70s, sometimes decades past their last period. This was largely for statistical reasons: if you want to establish whether HRT prevents age-related conditions such as Alzheimer’s and cardiovascular disease, you will be waiting a long time to find out if your participants are only just starting to go through menopause at the time of their recruitment.
A critical window
More recent evidence indicates, however, that there might be a “window of opportunity” for preventing dementia, and that some HRT is beneficial if started at the onset of menopause symptoms or soon after. A 2023 systematic review examining data from 51 studies found that women who started oestrogen-only therapy within 10 years of their final menstruation were at significantly decreased risk of Alzheimer’s later in life, compared with women who didn’t have HRT.“The theory is that during this period, the brain may be more receptive to the positive effects of exogenous oestrogen on brain health, potentially slowing cognitive decline,” says Mosconi, the senior study author. “Starting hormone therapy much later, specifically more than a decade after menopause, does not seem to provide the same cognitive benefits and could carry higher risks.”
How a new kind of vaccine could lead to the eradication of Alzheimer’s
Promising new vaccines are designed to be given to patients at risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. If they perform well in clinical trials, they have the potential to one day rid society of dementiaIn the decades since the end of the WHI trials, a tide of evidence has swept away many of the concerns about the safety of HRT – particularly for modern formulations – while menopause awareness campaigns and celebrity endorsements have encouraged greater discussion about the risks and benefits of the therapy. Most research since the WHI study has underscored that HRT, especially in women starting the therapy before age 65, is unlikely to increase dementia or cognitive impairment risks, and that other health risks of HRT should be weighed against its overall benefits. And though research into HRT’s effects on cognitive symptoms is ongoing, many women report that the therapy gave them back their sense of self.
Nuvelle continuous pills in their blister pack. This is a hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drug.
However, the idea of prescribing HRT for dementia prevention alone isn’t yet recommended – not least because it is unclear who would benefit. For one thing, oestrogen-only therapy, which seems to carry the most protective benefits, is recommended solely for women who have had a hysterectomy. And though around two-thirds of women who go through menopause experience cognitive challenges during that time, only around 20 per cent of them go on to develop Alzheimer’s. In most cases, the memory deficits many women experience during the menopause transition eventually resolve themselves.
“Obviously in the moment, it sucks for the woman who is having a hard time adjusting, but after it’s done, the brain should be able to recover,” says Nicole Gervais, a neuroscientist at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
Who is at risk – and how to help them
But for some women – particularly those whose brains might be more vulnerable to the menopausal drop in oestradiol – recovering from what should be temporary challenges might be more difficult. Identifying these women will help researchers determine who may be at a higher risk of developing dementia and investigate whether targeted interventions, including HRT, could help.So far, studies suggest that both early and induced menopause may be associated with a higher risk of dementia, compared with women who experience it naturally in their 40s or 50s. Menopause can be induced surgically, by the removal of the ovaries, or medically, in the course of treating other conditions. “They also experience more severe menopause symptoms, probably because the brain experiences more of a shock,” says Gervais. Those carrying genetic risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease may also be less resilient during the time around menopause. For some women, chronic stress and sleep deprivation – whether as a result of the demands of life or associated with changes during this transition, or both – can also play a role in the development of dementia.
“Menopause offers a valuable opportunity to identify and address these vulnerabilities before the disease has a chance to take hold,” says Mosconi.
Amyloid plaques in the brain of someone with Alzheimer’s disease. The condition has also been linked to too much cholesterol in brain cells, slowing brain signalling
Gene variant that raises Alzheimer’s risk may boost fertility in women
The genetic variant APOE4 substantially raises the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, but it has also been linked to women having more children in an Indigenous group in BoliviaOne promising approach could be to focus on specific symptoms. Hot flushes are a common menopause symptom thought to stem from the effects of declining oestrogen on the brain region that controls body temperature. Maki’s research suggests that more severe hot flushes, particularly if they continue for many years, are associated with poorer memory performance, tiny stroke-like lesions in the brain and the accumulation of proteins associated with Alzheimer’s disease. This may imply that hot flushes directly impact memory circuits in the brain; treating hot flushes might affect the progression of cognitive decline.
Researchers are also investigating selective oestrogen receptor modulators (SERMs), drugs that mimic the effects of the hormone in some parts of the body, but not others. Mosconi is currently involved in trials of PhytoSERM, which is designed to trigger oestrogen receptors in the brain without affecting those in the uterus. If effective, this could negate the need for women to take progesterone and raise the possibility of using oestrogen protectively.
Not just oestrogen and progesterone
Besides oestrogen, other hormones are also affected by the menopause transition, including follicle stimulating hormone (FSH). FSH stimulates the ovaries to mature eggs each month and to produce oestrogen; as women’s supply of eggs dwindles and levels of oestrogen drop, FSH levels climb higher in response and remain elevated even once menopause is over. Animal studies have suggested that this hormonal shift could contribute to post-menopausal weight gain and bone loss, prompting efforts to develop an FSH-blocking antibody to improve bone health and reduce weight gain. However, FSH receptors are also abundant in the brain – implying that FSH also plays a role in cognitive function.Over the past five years, Mone Zaidi at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and neuroscientist Keqiang Ye at Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology in China have been exploring whether FSH-blocking antibodies could also influence the development of Alzheimer’s in mice that are bred to be genetically prone to the disease. So far, their data seems to suggest that it does. Zaidi and Ye’s studies in female mice that had their ovaries removed showed that FSH accelerated the buildup of amyloid beta plaques and tau tangles associated with Alzheimer’s in their brains, speeding up cognitive decline; blocking FSH, however, decreased Alzheimer’s symptoms in the mice.
We may finally know how cognitive reserve protects against Alzheimer’s
Why does mental effort lead to a more resilient brain that can withstand dementia and decline? We are now discovering the mechanisms behind this cognitive reserve, opening up new ways to boost it“We’re not disputing that reduced oestrogen may contribute to memory loss, but high levels of FSH post-menopause may also play a direct role in memory loss, particularly spatial memory and recognition memory,” says Zaidi, who hopes to begin safety trials of the antibody in humans later this year.
Ye points out that there is a period during early perimenopause when oestrogen levels are relatively stable, but FSH is rising sharply: “During this period, there is a transient decline in cognitive performance, especially verbal memory,” he says. It is possible that FSH, rather than oestrogen, is to blame.
Most experts agree that conventional HRT, particularly when initiated at the start of menopausal symptoms, is an effective way of combating the short-term cognitive symptoms associated with perimenopause. Early initiation of HRT could also help keep FSH levels in check, says Ye.
Don’t fear the menopause
After my morning spent repotting plants and not on my work call, I started speaking with older female friends about the problems that I had been experiencing. They reassured me that it wasn’t, in fact, early-onset dementia; several suggested trying HRT. I have been taking oestrogen and progestogen for the past two years and I am pleased to report that I am feeling much more like my old self – and haven’t discovered any keys nested amongst the yoghurt pots for some time.These four common medicines could help prolong your life
Taking Viagra, HRT, a statin or a painkiller was linked to a slightly lower chance of people dying over a 12-year study, suggesting the drugs may have life-extending propertiesThat said, HRT isn’t a solution for everyone, which is why exploring alternatives such as blocking FSH is important. There are also non-hormonal ways that women can reduce their risk of developing dementia, including eating more healthily, getting regular exercise, reducing stress and alcohol consumption, and not smoking. Helpfully, these same strategies can reduce many troublesome menopause symptoms.
However, despite its challenges, menopause isn’t some looming monster we should fear. In fact, the neuronal rewiring that occurs during this transition might even be beneficial, with women emerging from it enjoying a more stable mood and improved emotional well-being.
“Many experts, myself included, believe that menopause is actually a renovation project on the brain,” says Mosconi. “After menopause, all those neurons and connections between neurons that were needed to support ovulation and enable a pregnancy are no longer needed and can be discarded. It’s the brain’s chance to get ‘leaner and meaner’, if you will. This can lead to some glitches – but also has some advantages.”
and I like the positivity below, nice work, could do with a brain renovation project my selfquoting below, from that above, here’s the link that was supplied, in that is the page originally quoted from, not by me
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2472159-were-finally-learning-how-perimenopause-profoundly-changes-the-brain/
“..However, despite its challenges, menopause isn’t some looming monster we should fear. In fact, the neuronal rewiring that occurs during this transition might even be beneficial, with women emerging from it enjoying a more stable mood and improved emotional well-being.
“Many experts, myself included, believe that menopause is actually a renovation project on the brain,” says Mosconi. “After menopause, all those neurons and connections between neurons that were needed to support ovulation and enable a pregnancy are no longer needed and can be discarded. It’s the brain’s chance to get ‘leaner and meaner’, if you will. This can lead to some glitches – but also has some advantages…”
toxic
Arts – have you followed the case of Karen Read?
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
Pratly cloudy 23 expected here. Mostly a reading day but I will visit the IGA later to get a potato or two and a lump of flesh, as I fancy a roast dinner tonight.Shame our IGA only stocks the same old beef, lamb, pork or chicken. Wouldn’t mind a lump of camel or goat. Even horse would be an interesting change.
buy some pork and beef mice and make a meat loaf. eggs, breadcrumbs, onion. and some flavourings to make the change.
mince. not mice. no one wants to eat mice.
OK I will do some kind of fancy meatloaf, to serve with roast vegetables and gravy.
kii said:
Arts – have you followed the case of Karen Read?
Nope
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
buy some pork and beef mice and make a meat loaf. eggs, breadcrumbs, onion. and some flavourings to make the change.
mince. not mice. no one wants to eat mice.
OK I will do some kind of fancy meatloaf, to serve with roast vegetables and gravy.
is this meant to be the 爱 imagery thread
Arts said:
kii said:
Arts – have you followed the case of Karen Read?
Nope
The forensic evidence is interesting, in particular the victim’s injuries. The impact of the blizzard on evidence.
The trial ended in a mistrial, a new trial is set for April.
I just watched the recently released documentary about it.
kii said:
Arts said:
kii said:
Arts – have you followed the case of Karen Read?
Nope
The forensic evidence is interesting, in particular the victim’s injuries. The impact of the blizzard on evidence.
The trial ended in a mistrial, a new trial is set for April.
I just watched the recently released documentary about it.
On Netflix?
Arts said:
kii said:
Arts said:Nope
The forensic evidence is interesting, in particular the victim’s injuries. The impact of the blizzard on evidence.
The trial ended in a mistrial, a new trial is set for April.
I just watched the recently released documentary about it.
On Netflix?
Max.
Turns out Max will be available in Australia from March 31. Currently Max-produced shows are on Binge, but not for much longer.
Just realised I’ve never watched a polo match, only bits and pieces in tv shows and movies.
Divine Angel said:
Just realised I’ve never watched a polo match, only bits and pieces in tv shows and movies.
Polo is a spiffing sport.
Nothing the chaps like better than a pint of beer followed by a good chukka.
I learn from the mistakes of people who take my advice.
ChrispenEvan said:
I learn from the mistakes of people who take my advice.
so you’re a management consultant
ChrispenEvan said:
I learn from the mistakes of people who take my advice.
Farming it out like…
George Forman has died, he was 76.
Peak Warming Man said:
George Forman has died, he was 76.
Still got one of his well draining grills.
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
George Forman has died, he was 76.
Still got one of his well draining grills.
They were all the rage for a while, songs were written about them.
Peak Warming Man said:
George Forman has died, he was 76.
I think he named all his sons George.
Divine Angel said:
Peak Warming Man said:
George Forman has died, he was 76.
I think he named all his sons George.
George fiveman, george sixman, george sevenman…
lunch will be, shortly
transition said:
lunch will be, shortly
Nothing like a nice shortly.
transition said:
lunch will be, shortly
car be in later to the check i’m eating properly, he checks on the old people, sort of food police, there will be no malnutrition (add hitler voice)
transition said:
transition said:
lunch will be, shortly
car be in later to the check i’m eating properly, he checks on the old people, sort of food police, there will be no malnutrition (add hitler voice)
And a proper steak knife.
transition said:
transition said:
lunch will be, shortly
car be in later to the check i’m eating properly, he checks on the old people, sort of food police, there will be no malnutrition (add hitler voice)
Well done, and you didn’t forget the gravy.
BACK. Decided against meatloaf in the end, ‘cos the IGA only had beef mince and it was rather overpriced.
So I got one of the Wayside Butchery’s Hen Kyivs, which will go nicely enough with roast roots (taters, carrots, turnip).
Bubblecar said:
BACK. Decided against meatloaf in the end, ‘cos the IGA only had beef mince and it was rather overpriced.So I got one of the Wayside Butchery’s Hen Kyivs, which will go nicely enough with roast roots (taters, carrots, turnip).
Turnip it up, Turnip up.
I’ve started reading the chapter on poisonous fungi. I’ve read through all the possible ways different fungi might kill…the particular chemicals, the symptoms etc. I’m now up to the profiles of particular ones. The first one is deathcap. But right now we are going to watch the Dr Who episode about the library. It’s the introduction of River Song.
buffy said:
I’ve started reading the chapter on poisonous fungi. I’ve read through all the possible ways different fungi might kill…the particular chemicals, the symptoms etc. I’m now up to the profiles of particular ones. The first one is deathcap. But right now we are going to watch the Dr Who episode about the library. It’s the introduction of River Song.
Uh Oh.
party_pants said:
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
George Forman has died, he was 76.
Still got one of his well draining grills.
They were all the rage for a while, songs were written about them.
It simply turned up here. I knew enough about him to not investigate further.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
I’ve started reading the chapter on poisonous fungi. I’ve read through all the possible ways different fungi might kill…the particular chemicals, the symptoms etc. I’m now up to the profiles of particular ones. The first one is deathcap. But right now we are going to watch the Dr Who episode about the library. It’s the introduction of River Song.
Uh Oh.
I’m sure it is only about research with buffy.
Peak Warming Man said:
George Foreman has died, he was 76.
Pretty old for a grill. You can buy another at an electrical appliance store.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
George Foreman has died, he was 76.
Pretty old for a grill. You can buy another at an electrical appliance store.
Probably haven’t used it in 30 years.
Divine Angel said:
Peak Warming Man said:
George Forman has died, he was 76.
I think he named all his sons George.
Gosh!
What a thing to do.
buffy said:
I’ve started reading the chapter on poisonous fungi. I’ve read through all the possible ways different fungi might kill…the particular chemicals, the symptoms etc. I’m now up to the profiles of particular ones. The first one is deathcap. But right now we are going to watch the Dr Who episode about the library. It’s the introduction of River Song.
Chapter 8?
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
I’ve started reading the chapter on poisonous fungi. I’ve read through all the possible ways different fungi might kill…the particular chemicals, the symptoms etc. I’m now up to the profiles of particular ones. The first one is deathcap. But right now we are going to watch the Dr Who episode about the library. It’s the introduction of River Song.
Uh Oh.
Yeah. It’s venomous.
Michael V said:
buffy said:
I’ve started reading the chapter on poisonous fungi. I’ve read through all the possible ways different fungi might kill…the particular chemicals, the symptoms etc. I’m now up to the profiles of particular ones. The first one is deathcap. But right now we are going to watch the Dr Who episode about the library. It’s the introduction of River Song.
Chapter 8?
Indeed. Alison and Tom have written a magnificent book. I did read it cover to cover when I bought it, but as we are about to enter the fungus season, and The Great Aussie Fungi Hunt is on over April, I’m doing a bit of revising. Their stuff is so good for this.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
buffy said:
I’ve started reading the chapter on poisonous fungi. I’ve read through all the possible ways different fungi might kill…the particular chemicals, the symptoms etc. I’m now up to the profiles of particular ones. The first one is deathcap. But right now we are going to watch the Dr Who episode about the library. It’s the introduction of River Song.
Chapter 8?
Indeed. Alison and Tom have written a magnificent book. I did read it cover to cover when I bought it, but as we are about to enter the fungus season, and The Great Aussie Fungi Hunt is on over April, I’m doing a bit of revising. Their stuff is so good for this.
:)
i just watched…
Pilot father and mom Black Out Mid-Flight! ATC Guides Daughter to a MIRACLE Landing!
link
and it made me appreciate a good air traffic controller.
I’m the first to admit that there are a lot of things that I don’t understand about social media, but I absolutely refuse to clear my ignorance on watching someone else watch something and commenting on it. I mean what fresh hell is that?
Arts said:
I’m the first to admit that there are a lot of things that I don’t understand about social media, but I absolutely refuse to clear my ignorance on watching someone else watch something and commenting on it. I mean what fresh hell is that?
Some people obviously have too much time on their hands and not enough of their own thoughts in their heads.
buffy said:
Arts said:
I’m the first to admit that there are a lot of things that I don’t understand about social media, but I absolutely refuse to clear my ignorance on watching someone else watch something and commenting on it. I mean what fresh hell is that?Some people obviously have too much time on their hands and not enough of their own thoughts in their heads.
You Tubers get paid per view of their content. It can be hard to come up with original content day after day on the same topic. Watching and commenting on some other person’s work is relatively easy.
Arts said:
I’m the first to admit that there are a lot of things that I don’t understand about social media, but I absolutely refuse to clear my ignorance on watching someone else watch something and commenting on it. I mean what fresh hell is that?
I don’t get reaction videos, or unboxing videos.
buffy said:
Arts said:
I’m the first to admit that there are a lot of things that I don’t understand about social media, but I absolutely refuse to clear my ignorance on watching someone else watch something and commenting on it. I mean what fresh hell is that?Some people obviously have too much time on their hands and not enough of their own thoughts in their heads.
It’s the “main character” syndrome, where one thinks everyone else is interested in them.
Divine Angel said:
buffy said:
Arts said:
I’m the first to admit that there are a lot of things that I don’t understand about social media, but I absolutely refuse to clear my ignorance on watching someone else watch something and commenting on it. I mean what fresh hell is that?
Some people obviously have too much time on their hands and not enough of their own thoughts in their heads.
It’s the “main character” syndrome, where one thinks everyone else is interested in them.
we mean even before this online social media thing we’re pretty sure authors and writers and performers and journalists and reporters and publishers and stuff were copying each other and referencing each other and so on and so forth
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
I’m the first to admit that there are a lot of things that I don’t understand about social media, but I absolutely refuse to clear my ignorance on watching someone else watch something and commenting on it. I mean what fresh hell is that?I don’t get reaction videos, or unboxing videos.
I watch tool or equipment unboxing videos just to see what bespoke knife they use to cut the packing tape.
It was fun to watch the young ‘uns melting down on Reddit when TikTok got banned in the US for a couple of days.
I understand the regulation of emotions and disassociation by using phones and social media, but these kids were acting like their entire universe had crumbled beneath their feet.
Divine Angel said:
It was fun to watch the young ‘uns melting down on Reddit when TikTok got banned in the US for a couple of days.
I understand the regulation of emotions and disassociation by using phones and social media, but these kids were acting like their entire universe had crumbled beneath their feet.
so we should ban all them video share funsies and the emails will be hilarious
Divine Angel said:
Arts said:
I’m the first to admit that there are a lot of things that I don’t understand about social media, but I absolutely refuse to clear my ignorance on watching someone else watch something and commenting on it. I mean what fresh hell is that?I don’t get reaction videos, or unboxing videos.
Or the ones where people are talking about something then say what they are wearing… today I’m going to Walmart and I am wearing this cute little top from Whatzit paired with these…..
Divine Angel said:
It was fun to watch the young ‘uns melting down on Reddit when TikTok got banned in the US for a couple of days.I understand the regulation of emotions and disassociation by using phones and social media, but these kids were acting like their entire universe had crumbled beneath their feet.
I saw a video of an adult man having a breakdown because dad destroyed his gaming machine due to him not going out and getting a job. The breakdown was unhinged, but the parents also need be better… I guess it’s the result of a long term set of frustrations when you adult son still lives at home and does no adulting, but still. It was honestly a difficult watch.
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
It was fun to watch the young ‘uns melting down on Reddit when TikTok got banned in the US for a couple of days.I understand the regulation of emotions and disassociation by using phones and social media, but these kids were acting like their entire universe had crumbled beneath their feet.
I saw a video of an adult man having a breakdown because dad destroyed his gaming machine due to him not going out and getting a job. The breakdown was unhinged, but the parents also need be better… I guess it’s the result of a long term set of frustrations when you adult son still lives at home and does no adulting, but still. It was honestly a difficult watch.
I just witnessed one of Mini Me’s friends having an epic meltdown. Just chatting with the mum now to make sure she’s doing ok. The kid has calmed down.
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
It was fun to watch the young ‘uns melting down on Reddit when TikTok got banned in the US for a couple of days.I understand the regulation of emotions and disassociation by using phones and social media, but these kids were acting like their entire universe had crumbled beneath their feet.
I saw a video of an adult man having a breakdown because dad destroyed his gaming machine due to him not going out and getting a job. The breakdown was unhinged, but the parents also need be better… I guess it’s the result of a long term set of frustrations when you adult son still lives at home and does no adulting, but still. It was honestly a difficult watch.
People can make money through gaming these days.
party_pants said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
It was fun to watch the young ‘uns melting down on Reddit when TikTok got banned in the US for a couple of days.I understand the regulation of emotions and disassociation by using phones and social media, but these kids were acting like their entire universe had crumbled beneath their feet.
I saw a video of an adult man having a breakdown because dad destroyed his gaming machine due to him not going out and getting a job. The breakdown was unhinged, but the parents also need be better… I guess it’s the result of a long term set of frustrations when you adult son still lives at home and does no adulting, but still. It was honestly a difficult watch.
People can make money through gaming these days.
exactly he was probably a progamer and they just destroyed his livelihood
party_pants said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
It was fun to watch the young ‘uns melting down on Reddit when TikTok got banned in the US for a couple of days.I understand the regulation of emotions and disassociation by using phones and social media, but these kids were acting like their entire universe had crumbled beneath their feet.
I saw a video of an adult man having a breakdown because dad destroyed his gaming machine due to him not going out and getting a job. The breakdown was unhinged, but the parents also need be better… I guess it’s the result of a long term set of frustrations when you adult son still lives at home and does no adulting, but still. It was honestly a difficult watch.
People can make money through gaming these days.
I don’t think this is what was happening here
think hears silvereye alarm call earlier, i’ll looks it up, not far apart, young butcherbird was very vocal
Arts said:
I’m the first to admit that there are a lot of things that I don’t understand about social media, but I absolutely refuse to clear my ignorance on watching someone else watch something and commenting on it. I mean what fresh hell is that?
They’ve even made a TV show out of it….Gogglebox, I think it’s called.
Arts said:
I’m the first to admit that there are a lot of things that I don’t understand about social media, but I absolutely refuse to clear my ignorance on watching someone else watch something and commenting on it. I mean what fresh hell is that?
I’ve watched reaction videos, and whether or not they are any good rather depends on how insightful their comments and analysis is.
dv said:
Arts said:
I’m the first to admit that there are a lot of things that I don’t understand about social media, but I absolutely refuse to clear my ignorance on watching someone else watch something and commenting on it. I mean what fresh hell is that?
I’ve watched reaction videos, and whether or not they are any good rather depends on how insightful their comments and analysis is.
so added value is … added value
Bunnings review for chicken wire.
Microcars
Brütsch Mopetta: The World’s Cutest Microcar-Before it was cool.
Brütsch Mopetta: the quirkiest car of the 50s
The Champion ZF Microcar: The 6 HP “Beast” That Time Forgot.
Just got home from work, my phone has been pinging for the past 2 hours. Right now some shitbag is lighting multiple fires in dense bushland down near Nannup. 13 fires so far, they only have 5 fire brigades.
I had work to do tomorrow, and I reckon it ain’t gonna get done.
!
!
Kingy said:
Just got home from work, my phone has been pinging for the past 2 hours. Right now some shitbag is lighting multiple fires in dense bushland down near Nannup. 13 fires so far, they only have 5 fire brigades.I had work to do tomorrow, and I reckon it ain’t gonna get done.
!
Throw the shitbag in jail.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Kingy said:
Just got home from work, my phone has been pinging for the past 2 hours. Right now some shitbag is lighting multiple fires in dense bushland down near Nannup. 13 fires so far, they only have 5 fire brigades.I had work to do tomorrow, and I reckon it ain’t gonna get done.
!
Throw the shitbag in jail.
If I find him first, no-one else will find him ever again.
Kingy said:
Just got home from work, my phone has been pinging for the past 2 hours. Right now some shitbag is lighting multiple fires in dense bushland down near Nannup. 13 fires so far, they only have 5 fire brigades.I had work to do tomorrow, and I reckon it ain’t gonna get done.
!
crap.
I wonder what’s going on with the price of glue.
Earlier today I went down to my local BWS and bought a carton of beer. The carton felt a bit flimsy as I picked it up off the stack, so I held it from the bottom and not the handle on top. The guy at the checkout noticed it too and said careful how you carry it – looks a bit flimsy etc. I had already noticed, so I carried it out to the car carefully. By the time I got home, the box had collapsed and half the cans were rolling around loose in the boot. Pretty dismal IMHO, the box was not strong enough to go from the cool room to the checkout, thence to carpark, and thence the few metres from my garage to the kitchen fridge,
is glue suddenly that expensive that they can’t make a carton that will hold together for just a few minutes?
party_pants said:
I wonder what’s going on with the price of glue.Earlier today I went down to my local BWS and bought a carton of beer. The carton felt a bit flimsy as I picked it up off the stack, so I held it from the bottom and not the handle on top. The guy at the checkout noticed it too and said careful how you carry it – looks a bit flimsy etc. I had already noticed, so I carried it out to the car carefully. By the time I got home, the box had collapsed and half the cans were rolling around loose in the boot. Pretty dismal IMHO, the box was not strong enough to go from the cool room to the checkout, thence to carpark, and thence the few metres from my garage to the kitchen fridge,
is glue suddenly that expensive that they can’t make a carton that will hold together for just a few minutes?
maybe got some cheap from tesla.
ChrispenEvan said:
party_pants said:
I wonder what’s going on with the price of glue.Earlier today I went down to my local BWS and bought a carton of beer. The carton felt a bit flimsy as I picked it up off the stack, so I held it from the bottom and not the handle on top. The guy at the checkout noticed it too and said careful how you carry it – looks a bit flimsy etc. I had already noticed, so I carried it out to the car carefully. By the time I got home, the box had collapsed and half the cans were rolling around loose in the boot. Pretty dismal IMHO, the box was not strong enough to go from the cool room to the checkout, thence to carpark, and thence the few metres from my garage to the kitchen fridge,
is glue suddenly that expensive that they can’t make a carton that will hold together for just a few minutes?
maybe got some cheap from tesla.
Fuck Adolf Musk and his minor daily inconveniences I say!
Kingy said:
Just got home from work, my phone has been pinging for the past 2 hours. Right now some shitbag is lighting multiple fires in dense bushland down near Nannup. 13 fires so far, they only have 5 fire brigades.I had work to do tomorrow, and I reckon it ain’t gonna get done.
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Far canal!
Fucking hell. By Time is cluttered with the stoopid snake heading.
FFS, fucking over-the-top shit.
I’m trying to find a particular post in the US politics thread that dv responded to.
Waits for some nong to complain about all the US politics posts.
kii said:
Fucking hell. By Time is cluttered with the stoopid snake heading.
FFS, fucking over-the-top shit.
I’m trying to find a particular post in the US politics thread that dv responded to.
Waits for some nong to complain about all the US politics posts.
exactly right you’re all fuckers and fuckwits and fucking arseholes and this is totally normal
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 10 degrees at the back door, dark and still. We are forecast a mostly sunny 24 degrees today. Looks like we are likely to sit in the mid twenties most of the week, going for a 29 on Friday as the forecast stand at present. Really nothing in the forecast of rain, so it’s back to watering the veggies again tonight.
Today I need to cut down the spent loganberry canes and tie up the new ones for next season. I’ll do one of the raspberries too. But the Autumn raspberry is not ready for cutting down yet.
Weather app shows the thunderstorm symbol but doesn’t mention storms. Expecting showers today and the rest of the week.
25/50. I knew Q1, Q4 and Q7. Everything else was guessing.
buffy said:
Sunday quiz25/50. I knew Q1, Q4 and Q7. Everything else was guessing.
I also knew 1, 4, and 7, and guessed the rest
Score: 35 / 50
⭐⭐️ Nice job!
But we think you can do even better next time. You’ve scored 21% better than average.
Heading for 21 here, uneventful weather.
I’ve been up all night immersed in my own sparkling company, but bed will beckon soon.
Back in 1982 mr kii had a hearing evaluation done whilst in the military. The examiner’s family name was Pardon.
I’ve been smiling at the obvious jokes he would have made about that.
Shredding more of his service related medical records. I thought I’d broken the replacement shredder that I bought 4 years ago,
Morning Pilgrims.
It’s a rainy day in ol’ Brisbane town.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning Pilgrims.
It’s a rainy day in ol’ Brisbane town.
Still dry here. Good thing too, Mr Mutant and Mini Me have gone out for a breakfast picnic.
kii said:
Fucking hell. By Time is cluttered with the stoopid snake heading.FFS, fucking over-the-top shit.
I’m trying to find a particular post in the US politics thread that dv responded to.
Waits for some nong to complain about all the US politics posts.
we need a new US politics thread. It takes ages to load.
sarahs mum said:
I want to make my nails rounder, not flatter. What Temu thing do I use to do that?
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
I want to make my nails rounder, not flatter. What Temu thing do I use to do that?
i have no idea. my knowledge on medieval toenail punishment is scant.
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
I want to make my nails rounder, not flatter. What Temu thing do I use to do that?
i have no idea. my knowledge on medieval toenail punishment is scant.
I have no idea why anyone thinks that their toenails need to be more flat.
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
I want to make my nails rounder, not flatter. What Temu thing do I use to do that?
i have no idea. my knowledge on medieval toenail punishment is scant.
:)
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:I want to make my nails rounder, not flatter. What Temu thing do I use to do that?
i have no idea. my knowledge on medieval toenail punishment is scant.
I have no idea why anyone thinks that their toenails need to be more flat.
Fashion.
Remember Japanese women’s feet?
Michael V said:
One of my toenails could do with some of that. Dropped a log on it decades ago. Podiatrist told me that toenails never forget.
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:I want to make my nails rounder, not flatter. What Temu thing do I use to do that?
i have no idea. my knowledge on medieval toenail punishment is scant.
:)
All your thoughts and prayers have worked.
Peak Warming Man said:
All your thoughts and prayers have worked.
My thoughts and prayers to the US now incur a 25% tariff.
Right then. I’m going to go and do some more mycology reading and possibly finish “Carpe Jugulum” (Pratchett) as I’m almost to the end.
https://youtu.be/BIG_GVE-KiE
The lying bastard.
Peak Warming Man said:
https://youtu.be/BIG_GVE-KiEThe lying bastard.
Shirley Jones is 90, still going strong.
Anyone want to buy the pub here in Penshurst?
https://www.commercialrealestate.com.au/property/92-bell-street-penshurst-vic-3289-2019767558
buffy said:
Anyone want to buy the pub here in Penshurst?https://www.commercialrealestate.com.au/property/92-bell-street-penshurst-vic-3289-2019767558
Bloody hell, that’s cheap.
Divine Angel said:
buffy said:
Anyone want to buy the pub here in Penshurst?https://www.commercialrealestate.com.au/property/92-bell-street-penshurst-vic-3289-2019767558
Bloody hell, that’s cheap.
It probably needs work. You will notice there are no photos of the bathrooms, or the “renovated” kitchen.
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
buffy said:
Anyone want to buy the pub here in Penshurst?https://www.commercialrealestate.com.au/property/92-bell-street-penshurst-vic-3289-2019767558
Bloody hell, that’s cheap.
It probably needs work. You will notice there are no photos of the bathrooms, or the “renovated” kitchen.
I’m not sure where the “huge offstreet carpark” is either. Seems to be invisible to me, and I live behind the pub. They may be referring to the area near the old bluestone stables (unstable) which is the smokers area/occasional outside barbecue area.
We stayed in this renovated pub in Sydney (pretty sure it was haunted). The bathroom was hilariously small with the dodgiest paint job ever. Inside the door was white, then painted green til the shower, which was white until the corner, then green again. I’m average height and had to sit sideways on the loo because my knees hit the wall.
Divine Angel said:
We stayed in this renovated pub in Sydney (pretty sure it was haunted). The bathroom was hilariously small with the dodgiest paint job ever. Inside the door was white, then painted green til the shower, which was white until the corner, then green again. I’m average height and had to sit sideways on the loo because my knees hit the wall.
That red tiled bit past the toilet is the shower.
Divine Angel said:
Divine Angel said:
We stayed in this renovated pub in Sydney (pretty sure it was haunted). The bathroom was hilariously small with the dodgiest paint job ever. Inside the door was white, then painted green til the shower, which was white until the corner, then green again. I’m average height and had to sit sideways on the loo because my knees hit the wall.
That red tiled bit past the toilet is the shower.
I’d imagine that’s surely violating some basic regulations or other.
buffy said:
Anyone want to buy the pub here in Penshurst?https://www.commercialrealestate.com.au/property/92-bell-street-penshurst-vic-3289-2019767558
I guess that it is leasehold.
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Anyone want to buy the pub here in Penshurst?https://www.commercialrealestate.com.au/property/92-bell-street-penshurst-vic-3289-2019767558
I guess that it is leasehold.
Or possibly not. The first sentence in that ad:
Falk & Co are thrilled to offer the opportunity to purchase the Freehold and Business Assets with vacant possession of the Penshurst Hotel.(my emphasis.)
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Anyone want to buy the pub here in Penshurst?https://www.commercialrealestate.com.au/property/92-bell-street-penshurst-vic-3289-2019767558
I guess that it is leasehold.
It says freehold and business assets. I was surprised too. I’d imagine the building alone would be worth more than that. But it is a legal problem type/argumentative sale. Who knows. It really does need quite a lot of expensive renovation.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Anyone want to buy the pub here in Penshurst?https://www.commercialrealestate.com.au/property/92-bell-street-penshurst-vic-3289-2019767558
I guess that it is leasehold.
It says freehold and business assets. I was surprised too. I’d imagine the building alone would be worth more than that. But it is a legal problem type/argumentative sale. Who knows. It really does need quite a lot of expensive renovation.
Aye, it’s a bit of a dump inside.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Anyone want to buy the pub here in Penshurst?https://www.commercialrealestate.com.au/property/92-bell-street-penshurst-vic-3289-2019767558
I guess that it is leasehold.
It says freehold and business assets. I was surprised too. I’d imagine the building alone would be worth more than that. But it is a legal problem type/argumentative sale. Who knows. It really does need quite a lot of expensive renovation.
And just by the way. No pictures of the kitchen. Which was renovated a few years ago when the current owners bought it. And according to the local gossip, was stripped out when the legal arguments started a couple of years ago. And one of the parties was then required to replace the kitchen. The original equipment may or may not have been reinstalled…
buffy said:
buffy said:
Michael V said:I guess that it is leasehold.
It says freehold and business assets. I was surprised too. I’d imagine the building alone would be worth more than that. But it is a legal problem type/argumentative sale. Who knows. It really does need quite a lot of expensive renovation.
And just by the way. No pictures of the kitchen. Which was renovated a few years ago when the current owners bought it. And according to the local gossip, was stripped out when the legal arguments started a couple of years ago. And one of the parties was then required to replace the kitchen. The original equipment may or may not have been reinstalled…
legal arguments Not touching it with a 40 ft pole.
btm said:
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Anyone want to buy the pub here in Penshurst?https://www.commercialrealestate.com.au/property/92-bell-street-penshurst-vic-3289-2019767558
I guess that it is leasehold.
Or possibly not. The first sentence in that ad:
Falk & Co are thrilled to offer the opportunity to purchase the Freehold and Business Assets with vacant possession of the Penshurst Hotel.(my emphasis.)
Ta.
I completely missed that.
If I were younger, I’d consider it.
buffy said:
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Anyone want to buy the pub here in Penshurst?https://www.commercialrealestate.com.au/property/92-bell-street-penshurst-vic-3289-2019767558
I guess that it is leasehold.
It says freehold and business assets. I was surprised too. I’d imagine the building alone would be worth more than that. But it is a legal problem type/argumentative sale. Who knows. It really does need quite a lot of expensive renovation.
Ta. I looked several times, but missed that, somehow.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
buffy said:It says freehold and business assets. I was surprised too. I’d imagine the building alone would be worth more than that. But it is a legal problem type/argumentative sale. Who knows. It really does need quite a lot of expensive renovation.
And just by the way. No pictures of the kitchen. Which was renovated a few years ago when the current owners bought it. And according to the local gossip, was stripped out when the legal arguments started a couple of years ago. And one of the parties was then required to replace the kitchen. The original equipment may or may not have been reinstalled…
legal arguments Not touching it with a 40 ft pole.
It’s a small town. We chatted with the party who put in money and now wants it back because of disagreements. Seems valid. But just one side. The other party has had several business failures over quite some years. I suspect it was doomed.
I think you would want a very thorough building inspection done before considering buying it. My “plans” would include stripping off all the added on bits, back to the original bluestone building. Which is probably quite sound. And then possibly boutiquing it. But I’m not sure that would work in a town this small. At this point they have a solid core of around a dozen, maybe 20 drinkers, it’s bar only, no food. So it’s got a lot of building up to be done to get it back to where it was before COVID when we used to frequent it for meals on a Friday night.
Tau.Neutrino said:
MicrocarsBrütsch Mopetta: The World’s Cutest Microcar-Before it was cool.
Brütsch Mopetta: the quirkiest car of the 50s
The Champion ZF Microcar: The 6 HP “Beast” That Time Forgot.
Ta.
so they’re worried someone will fire bomb whoever takes over
Image of the Fendahl
A humanoid skull turns out to be 12 million old, per potassium-argon dating. Guided evolution, telepathic fields, blah blah blah.
The first three Tom Baker seasons were top tier. We’ve now have three “meh” stories in a row in his fourth season.
The first story in which the sonic screwdriver’s inability to work on wood becomes an issue.
dv said:
Image of the FendahlA humanoid skull turns out to be 12 million old, per potassium-argon dating. Guided evolution, telepathic fields, blah blah blah.
The first three Tom Baker seasons were top tier. We’ve now have three “meh” stories in a row in his fourth season.
The first story in which the sonic screwdriver’s inability to work on wood becomes an issue.
They did go downhill at this stage. You can see Tom Baker losing interest too, and just going through the motions with what by now were his stock character mannerisms.
dv said:
Image of the FendahlA humanoid skull turns out to be 12 million old, per potassium-argon dating. Guided evolution, telepathic fields, blah blah blah.
The first three Tom Baker seasons were top tier. We’ve now have three “meh” stories in a row in his fourth season.
The first story in which the sonic screwdriver’s inability to work on wood becomes an issue.
Hah! It was a problem in The Library too. Free to air has just done those two episodes.
MV…don’t forget Darby and Joan tonight. And Unforgotten. And I think you watched the third one last week too?
A friend’s brother has won this year’s Bald Archies with a Dutton portrait, titled ‘Despicable Ploy’
Dutton was a popular subject with 6 artists portraying him. There are 3 Ginas as well.
https://baldarchy.com.au/2025-finalists#_
Did you know that in Alabama, there is a whiteboard that looks like a normal whiteboard sitting against two walls and meeting at the corner… but you can pull at it and it turns into a bullet proof room big enough to hold an entire class of children…. Also the littlest child can do the transformation no adult needed … and that, ladies and gentlemen, is what the actual fuck is wrong with America today.
Stay tuned for tomorrow’s episode of TAFIWWAT.
Arts said:
Did you know that in Alabama, there is a whiteboard that looks like a normal whiteboard sitting against two walls and meeting at the corner… but you can pull at it and it turns into a bullet proof room big enough to hold an entire class of children…. Also the littlest child can do the transformation no adult needed … and that, ladies and gentlemen, is what the actual fuck is wrong with America today.Stay tuned for tomorrow’s episode of TAFIWWAT.
https://giffords.org/stories/guns-are-now-the-leading-cause-of-death-for-american-kids/
Aurora Australis Tasmania ·
Steve Parsons · 1h ·
Here’s just one of many but it’s a bit of a favourite with the cloud. Northern Tassie, 01:30 23rd Mar 25. First decent aurora with the new Samsung S25 Ultra. Goes alright!
buffy said:
MV…don’t forget Darby and Joan tonight. And Unforgotten. And I think you watched the third one last week too?
Ta.
Surprisingly, I hadn’t forgotten.
Yes. “Boat Story”. It was interesting.
Might have to give it a miss though – we’re off to Gympie for more radiation therapy for Mrs V’s skin cancers. I’ll see how tired I feel. In any case, it’s repeated twice next week.
ruby said:
A friend’s brother has won this year’s Bald Archies with a Dutton portrait, titled ‘Despicable Ploy’
Dutton was a popular subject with 6 artists portraying him. There are 3 Ginas as well.
https://baldarchy.com.au/2025-finalists#_
Cool.
:)
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1AMKpzY8iE/
The modern cultists
Arts said:
Did you know that in Alabama, there is a whiteboard that looks like a normal whiteboard sitting against two walls and meeting at the corner… but you can pull at it and it turns into a bullet proof room big enough to hold an entire class of children…. Also the littlest child can do the transformation no adult needed … and that, ladies and gentlemen, is what the actual fuck is wrong with America today.Stay tuned for tomorrow’s episode of TAFIWWAT.
TAFIWWAT ??
sarahs mum said:
Aurora Australis Tasmania ·
Steve Parsons · 1h ·
Here’s just one of many but it’s a bit of a favourite with the cloud. Northern Tassie, 01:30 23rd Mar 25. First decent aurora with the new Samsung S25 Ultra. Goes alright!
Noice.
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Aurora Australis Tasmania ·
Steve Parsons · 1h ·
Here’s just one of many but it’s a bit of a favourite with the cloud. Northern Tassie, 01:30 23rd Mar 25. First decent aurora with the new Samsung S25 Ultra. Goes alright!
Noice.
Missed it, even though I was up all night :(
Notes from home
The boss lady asked on a Youtube video what is the best place to shoot black cockatoos and she got stuck with a community standards breach notice.
The boy has some notes to prepare for his computing subject, and there’s a section on defragmentation but … and correct me if I’m wrong … I don’t think that is a concept relevant to modern computers with SSD.
Michael V said:
Arts said:
Did you know that in Alabama, there is a whiteboard that looks like a normal whiteboard sitting against two walls and meeting at the corner… but you can pull at it and it turns into a bullet proof room big enough to hold an entire class of children…. Also the littlest child can do the transformation no adult needed … and that, ladies and gentlemen, is what the actual fuck is wrong with America today.Stay tuned for tomorrow’s episode of TAFIWWAT.
TAFIWWAT ??
‘Bullet proof’ is something that i take with a very large grain of salt.
I’ve seen things that were touted as ‘bullet proof’. And so they were.
Until someone switched to a a larger, or sometimes smaller, calibre or type of ammunition from a different weapon.
Oops, sorry, not so bullet proof now.
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:
Did you know that in Alabama, there is a whiteboard that looks like a normal whiteboard sitting against two walls and meeting at the corner… but you can pull at it and it turns into a bullet proof room big enough to hold an entire class of children…. Also the littlest child can do the transformation no adult needed … and that, ladies and gentlemen, is what the actual fuck is wrong with America today.
Stay tuned for tomorrow’s episode of TAFIWWAT.
TAFIWWAT ??
‘Bullet proof’ is something that i take with a very large grain of salt.
I’ve seen things that were touted as ‘bullet proof’. And so they were.
Until someone switched to a a larger, or sometimes smaller, calibre or type of ammunition from a different weapon.
Oops, sorry, not so bullet proof now.
ready to bullet proof this
Finish this glass of wine, then 60 minutes of repose is called for.
After that, a night of exploring unknown horizons, as pilot of an AI inter-dimensional vessel.
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:
Did you know that in Alabama, there is a whiteboard that looks like a normal whiteboard sitting against two walls and meeting at the corner… but you can pull at it and it turns into a bullet proof room big enough to hold an entire class of children…. Also the littlest child can do the transformation no adult needed … and that, ladies and gentlemen, is what the actual fuck is wrong with America today.Stay tuned for tomorrow’s episode of TAFIWWAT.
TAFIWWAT ??
‘Bullet proof’ is something that i take with a very large grain of salt.
I’ve seen things that were touted as ‘bullet proof’. And so they were.
Until someone switched to a a larger, or sometimes smaller, calibre or type of ammunition from a different weapon.
Oops, sorry, not so bullet proof now.
Stand down. Apparently having a safe room in a school is a good thing…. The need to have one might be the other side of the coin… but you know Safe rooms for everyone!!,
Arts said:
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
TAFIWWAT ??
‘Bullet proof’ is something that i take with a very large grain of salt.
I’ve seen things that were touted as ‘bullet proof’. And so they were.
Until someone switched to a a larger, or sometimes smaller, calibre or type of ammunition from a different weapon.
Oops, sorry, not so bullet proof now.
Stand down. Apparently having a safe room in a school is a good thing…. The need to have one might be the other side of the coin… but you know Safe rooms for everyone!!,
shrug all those defibrillators is probably some wokist conspiracy so everyone should go around ripping them out and dunking them in the nearest water body
dv said:
Notes from homeThe boss lady asked on a Youtube video what is the best place to shoot black cockatoos and she got stuck with a community standards breach notice.
The boy has some notes to prepare for his computing subject, and there’s a section on defragmentation but … and correct me if I’m wrong … I don’t think that is a concept relevant to modern computers with SSD.
There must still be quite a few hard drives in use though, surely.
SCIENCE said:
Arts said:
captain_spalding said:
‘Bullet proof’ is something that i take with a very large grain of salt.
I’ve seen things that were touted as ‘bullet proof’. And so they were.
Until someone switched to a a larger, or sometimes smaller, calibre or type of ammunition from a different weapon.
Oops, sorry, not so bullet proof now.
Stand down. Apparently having a safe room in a school is a good thing…. The need to have one might be the other side of the coin… but you know Safe rooms for everyone!!,
shrug all those defibrillators is probably some wokist conspiracy so everyone should go around ripping them out and dunking them in the nearest water body
Word
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
Notes from home
The boss lady asked on a Youtube video what is the best place to shoot black cockatoos and she got stuck with a community standards breach notice.
The boy has some notes to prepare for his computing subject, and there’s a section on defragmentation but … and correct me if I’m wrong … I don’t think that is a concept relevant to modern computers with SSD.
There must still be quite a few hard drives in use though, surely.
our understanding is that traditional magnetic storage is still less volatile slash more stable than SSD for now so they should still be used and defragmentation may still be relevant
Anyway. I can’t sit here and argue with you lot about firearms and iced cream…. I am going out to have dinner with my daughter. Enjoy your evenings.
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
Notes from homeThe boss lady asked on a Youtube video what is the best place to shoot black cockatoos and she got stuck with a community standards breach notice.
The boy has some notes to prepare for his computing subject, and there’s a section on defragmentation but … and correct me if I’m wrong … I don’t think that is a concept relevant to modern computers with SSD.
There must still be quite a few hard drives in use though, surely.
really don’t need to defrag fat32. ntfs, the old system, you probably do.
2hr nap, i’m back now, returned to the world of wakefulness, not my favorite, more second favorite, or even third, I more like asleepness and various twilight states
and coffee and toast landed, I should be able to chew the toast unassisted after I dunk it, won’t be needing volunteers to chew my food today, so have a rest
ChrispenEvan said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
Notes from homeThe boss lady asked on a Youtube video what is the best place to shoot black cockatoos and she got stuck with a community standards breach notice.
The boy has some notes to prepare for his computing subject, and there’s a section on defragmentation but … and correct me if I’m wrong … I don’t think that is a concept relevant to modern computers with SSD.
There must still be quite a few hard drives in use though, surely.
really don’t need to defrag fat32. ntfs, the old system, you probably do.
OK, didn’t know that.
Not that I’ve defragged anything for years.
The Rev Dodgson said:
ChrispenEvan said:
The Rev Dodgson said:There must still be quite a few hard drives in use though, surely.
really don’t need to defrag fat32. ntfs, the old system, you probably do.
OK, didn’t know that.
Not that I’ve defragged anything for years.
ntfs you probably don’t need to defrag as it stores files differently so fragging doesn’t occur,
ChrispenEvan said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
ChrispenEvan said:really don’t need to defrag fat32. ntfs, the old system, you probably do.
OK, didn’t know that.
Not that I’ve defragged anything for years.
ntfs you probably don’t need to defrag as it stores files differently so fragging doesn’t occur,
my memory probably needs defragging.
The Rev Dodgson said:
ChrispenEvan said:
The Rev Dodgson said:There must still be quite a few hard drives in use though, surely.
really don’t need to defrag fat32. ntfs, the old system, you probably do.
OK, didn’t know that.
Not that I’ve defragged anything for years.
you could be a secret defragmenter
ChrispenEvan said:
ChrispenEvan said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
ChrispenEvan said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
Notes from home
The boss lady asked on a Youtube video what is the best place to shoot black cockatoos and she got stuck with a community standards breach notice.
The boy has some notes to prepare for his computing subject, and there’s a section on defragmentation but … and correct me if I’m wrong … I don’t think that is a concept relevant to modern computers with SSD.
There must still be quite a few hard drives in use though, surely.
really don’t need to defrag fat32. ntfs, the old system, you probably do.
OK, didn’t know that.
Not that I’ve defragged anything for years.
ntfs you probably don’t need to defrag as it stores files differently so fragging doesn’t occur,
my memory probably needs defragging.
yeah we were a bit thrown by that mix up there, we thought ntfs just prevented the fragmentation better, but eventually it still happens
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:
ChrispenEvan said:
ntfs you probably don’t need to defrag as it stores files differently so fragging doesn’t occur,
my memory probably needs defragging.
yeah we were a bit thrown by that mix up there, we thought ntfs just prevented the fragmentation better, but eventually it still happens
According to this link hard drives still need defragging, but it’s all done automatically so you don’t need to worry about it:
https://datarecovery.com/rd/why-you-dont-need-to-defrag-hard-drives-anymore/
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:ChrispenEvan said:
my memory probably needs defragging.
yeah we were a bit thrown by that mix up there, we thought ntfs just prevented the fragmentation better, but eventually it still happens
According to this link hard drives still need defragging, but it’s all done automatically so you don’t need to worry about it:
https://datarecovery.com/rd/why-you-dont-need-to-defrag-hard-drives-anymore/
I used to like defragging and watching the blocks get moved around.
Divine Angel said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:yeah we were a bit thrown by that mix up there, we thought ntfs just prevented the fragmentation better, but eventually it still happens
According to this link hard drives still need defragging, but it’s all done automatically so you don’t need to worry about it:
https://datarecovery.com/rd/why-you-dont-need-to-defrag-hard-drives-anymore/
I used to like defragging and watching the blocks get moved around.
i were just thinking the same thing.
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:ChrispenEvan said:
my memory probably needs defragging.
yeah we were a bit thrown by that mix up there, we thought ntfs just prevented the fragmentation better, but eventually it still happens
According to this link hard drives still need defragging, but it’s all done automatically so you don’t need to worry about it:
https://datarecovery.com/rd/why-you-dont-need-to-defrag-hard-drives-anymore/
Well what it says is “The bottom line is that SSDs don’t require defragmentation” and I would assume that SSDs make up 99% of the market now.
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:
Did you know that in Alabama, there is a whiteboard that looks like a normal whiteboard sitting against two walls and meeting at the corner… but you can pull at it and it turns into a bullet proof room big enough to hold an entire class of children…. Also the littlest child can do the transformation no adult needed … and that, ladies and gentlemen, is what the actual fuck is wrong with America today.Stay tuned for tomorrow’s episode of TAFIWWAT.
TAFIWWAT ??
‘Bullet proof’ is something that i take with a very large grain of salt.
I’ve seen things that were touted as ‘bullet proof’. And so they were.
Until someone switched to a a larger, or sometimes smaller, calibre or type of ammunition from a different weapon.
Oops, sorry, not so bullet proof now.
Sure by what is “TAFIWWAT” ?
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:TAFIWWAT ??
‘Bullet proof’ is something that i take with a very large grain of salt.
I’ve seen things that were touted as ‘bullet proof’. And so they were.
Until someone switched to a a larger, or sometimes smaller, calibre or type of ammunition from a different weapon.
Oops, sorry, not so bullet proof now.
Sure by what is “TAFIWWAT” ?
the actual fuck is wrong with America today
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:‘Bullet proof’ is something that i take with a very large grain of salt.
I’ve seen things that were touted as ‘bullet proof’. And so they were.
Until someone switched to a a larger, or sometimes smaller, calibre or type of ammunition from a different weapon.
Oops, sorry, not so bullet proof now.
Sure by what is “TAFIWWAT” ?
the actual fuck is wrong with America today
Thank you.
(I likely won’t remember, nor will I be able to work it out, so please don’t be peeved if I ask for help again.)
I took the REO out to the farm today, it’s been sitting on the trailer since I bought it a year ago and I haven’t had the time to work on it. At least it’s undercover now.
I need the car/plant trailer tomorrow.
Kingy said:
I took the REO out to the farm today, it’s been sitting on the trailer since I bought it a year ago and I haven’t had the time to work on it. At least it’s undercover now.I need the car/plant trailer tomorrow. The planks are the replacement running boards.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 11 degrees at the back door and getting light. We are forecast a partly cloudy 23 today.
I haven’t decided what is on my agenda yet.
Humidity is currently 88% so walkies seem unlikely but I’ll see how I go when I get to my walking friend’s place. Forecast is showers and a top of 28.
Parent-teacher interview this afternoon. It’s always, “she’s doing well” so I’m not sure why I bother lol.
Kingy said:
Kingy said:
I took the REO out to the farm today, it’s been sitting on the trailer since I bought it a year ago and I haven’t had the time to work on it. At least it’s undercover now.I need the car/plant trailer tomorrow. The planks are the replacement running boards.
make a good ratrod
Kingy said:
Kingy said:
I took the REO out to the farm today, it’s been sitting on the trailer since I bought it a year ago and I haven’t had the time to work on it. At least it’s undercover now.I need the car/plant trailer tomorrow. The planks are the replacement running boards.
Looks to have reasonable rubber considering its age.
Divine Angel said:
Humidity is currently 88% so walkies seem unlikely but I’ll see how I go when I get to my walking friend’s place. Forecast is showers and a top of 28.Parent-teacher interview this afternoon. It’s always, “she’s doing well” so I’m not sure why I bother lol.
I never did….
If there is a problem, they tell you without the interview… so they seem redundant in this day and age of constant reporting, with school aps ect.
Morning pilgrims, rainy old day in Brisbane town.
Over.
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
Humidity is currently 88% so walkies seem unlikely but I’ll see how I go when I get to my walking friend’s place. Forecast is showers and a top of 28.Parent-teacher interview this afternoon. It’s always, “she’s doing well” so I’m not sure why I bother lol.
I never did….
If there is a problem, they tell you without the interview… so they seem redundant in this day and age of constant reporting, with school aps ect.
We don’t have a school app apart from one to order from tuck shop, uniforms, school events like discos etc. High school has one.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning pilgrims, rainy old day in Brisbane town.
Over.
Good.
Thought I heard sirens this morning. But I was wearing ear plugs so thought it was remnants of a dream.
“ Serious traffic crash, Deception Bay
QPS Media on Mar 24, 2025 @ 7:13am
Police are investigating a serious traffic crash at Deception Bay this morning, March 24.
Initial investigations indicate at 4.50am a crash has occurred involving a vehicle and bicycle on Deception Bay Road.
The male bike rider was transported to hospital in a critical condition.
The driver of the Hyundai, a 51-year-old Morayfield man, was not physically injured.
The Forensic Crash Unit is investigating the circumstances of the crash.
Police are appealing for witnesses or anyone with relevant information, dashcam or CCTV vision, to come forward.”
Anyway, I’d better take the dog out for a walk so he can look for more grottiness.
Greetings
Cymek said:
Greetings
Cymek said:
Greetings
Hello
Tamb said:
Cymek said:
Greetings
Morning Cymek.
G’day.
DA, have you seen the season finale of Severance yet?
My agenda turned out to be…feed the chooks, go to the post office to see if there was a parcel I had missed picking up (there wasn’t), email Diggers to tell them that the parcel they emailed me 10 days ago that it had been sent has not arrived, weed out and cut back beard irises on Bess’ grave. And replace the toilet seat. This involved the use of two pairs of pliers, one in each hand, working out which way to turn them to undo the wing nut on the underneath while straddling the toilet (not a lot of room in that room), being very patient while I undid both of them to the end of the long bolts. I knew it would be unpleasant under there…it was. Cleaning, cleaning, cleaning. And then putting the new seat on. I think I have worth and can now do some knitting and reading for the rest of the day.
diddly-squat said:
DA, have you seen the season finale of Severance yet?
Yes.
Divine Angel said:
diddly-squat said:DA, have you seen the season finale of Severance yet?
Yes.
did you like it? I thought it was quite cool where Marks was talking to himself – hard to see how the innies have any chance at a real life but I obviously Lumon still needs them
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:
diddly-squat said:DA, have you seen the season finale of Severance yet?
Yes.
did you like it? I thought it was quite cool where Marks was talking to himself – hard to see how the innies have any chance at a real life but I obviously Lumon still needs them
Speaking of televisor programs, I was thinking I should probably watch Twin Peaks at some stage
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:
diddly-squat said:DA, have you seen the season finale of Severance yet?
Yes.
did you like it? I thought it was quite cool where Marks was talking to himself – hard to see how the innies have any chance at a real life but I obviously Lumon still needs them
I did like it. I liked that we got some answers; I feared it was going to be a Lost situation. Gemma’s arc is heartbreakingly cruel.
Gotta say my favourite part was the choreography and merriment. Milchik got the moves.
dv said:
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:Yes.
did you like it? I thought it was quite cool where Marks was talking to himself – hard to see how the innies have any chance at a real life but I obviously Lumon still needs them
Speaking of televisor programs, I was thinking I should probably watch Twin Peaks at some stage
outstanding choice – however before that may I suggest (if you haven’t already seen them) True Detective S01, 1883 and Chernobyl
Divine Angel said:
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:Yes.
did you like it? I thought it was quite cool where Marks was talking to himself – hard to see how the innies have any chance at a real life but I obviously Lumon still needs them
I did like it. I liked that we got some answers; I feared it was going to be a Lost situation. Gemma’s arc is heartbreakingly cruel.
Gotta say my favourite part was the choreography and merriment. Milchik got the moves.
loved the waffle card
all that said, it seems like what Lumon is trying to do it so create 100% subservient employees
The waffle card and no waffles! Ripped off. Not even a watermelon Mark face to celebrate.
I also loved outie Dylan’s note to innie Dylan. Oof.
Season 3 is officially confirmed and Irving will return for it but who knows in what capacity.
Divine Angel said:
The waffle card and no waffles! Ripped off. Not even a watermelon Mark face to celebrate.I also loved outie Dylan’s note to innie Dylan. Oof.
Season 3 is officially confirmed and Irving will return for it but who knows in what capacity.
hopefully we don’t have to wait 3 years for it
Divine Angel said:
The waffle card and no waffles! Ripped off. Not even a watermelon Mark face to celebrate.I also loved outie Dylan’s note to innie Dylan. Oof.
Season 3 is officially confirmed and Irving will return for it but who knows in what capacity.
What the hell are you talking about?
Peak Warming Man said:
Divine Angel said:
The waffle card and no waffles! Ripped off. Not even a watermelon Mark face to celebrate.I also loved outie Dylan’s note to innie Dylan. Oof.
Season 3 is officially confirmed and Irving will return for it but who knows in what capacity.
What the hell are you talking about?
https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/posts/2264248/
diddly-squat said:
dv said:
diddly-squat said:did you like it? I thought it was quite cool where Marks was talking to himself – hard to see how the innies have any chance at a real life but I obviously Lumon still needs them
Speaking of televisor programs, I was thinking I should probably watch Twin Peaks at some stage
outstanding choice – however before that may I suggest (if you haven’t already seen them) True Detective S01, 1883 and Chernobyl
Yeah TD and Chernobyl are in the queue. Not heard of 1883 but I’ll add it too.
dv said:
diddly-squat said:
dv said:Speaking of televisor programs, I was thinking I should probably watch Twin Peaks at some stage
outstanding choice – however before that may I suggest (if you haven’t already seen them) True Detective S01, 1883 and Chernobyl
Yeah TD and Chernobyl are in the queue. Not heard of 1883 but I’ll add it too.
I found TD unwatchable.
dv said:
diddly-squat said:
dv said:Speaking of televisor programs, I was thinking I should probably watch Twin Peaks at some stage
outstanding choice – however before that may I suggest (if you haven’t already seen them) True Detective S01, 1883 and Chernobyl
Yeah TD and Chernobyl are in the queue. Not heard of 1883 but I’ll add it too.
1883 is, I reckon as close to perfect as TV drama gets. It’s absolutely captivating…
Writing a conference paper and just noticed that Word now offers the services of copilot, so I gave it a go.
It came up with almost a word for word copy of the abstract I had just completed.
Not impressed so far.
btm said:
dv said:
diddly-squat said:outstanding choice – however before that may I suggest (if you haven’t already seen them) True Detective S01, 1883 and Chernobyl
Yeah TD and Chernobyl are in the queue. Not heard of 1883 but I’ll add it too.
I found TD unwatchable.
season 1? the other seasons are utter shite.. but season 1 is amazing
btm said:
dv said:
diddly-squat said:outstanding choice – however before that may I suggest (if you haven’t already seen them) True Detective S01, 1883 and Chernobyl
Yeah TD and Chernobyl are in the queue. Not heard of 1883 but I’ll add it too.
I found TD unwatchable.
I try to avoid tdous tv.
Peak Warming Man said:
Divine Angel said:
The waffle card and no waffles! Ripped off. Not even a watermelon Mark face to celebrate.I also loved outie Dylan’s note to innie Dylan. Oof.
Season 3 is officially confirmed and Irving will return for it but who knows in what capacity.
What the hell are you talking about?
https://youtu.be/v1-W54M8FVc?si=XrtEMCzgGiQeAEGx
The Rev Dodgson said:
Writing a conference paper and just noticed that Word now offers the services of copilot, so I gave it a go.It came up with almost a word for word copy of the abstract I had just completed.
Not impressed so far.
It was obviously watching you over your shoulder…
Unfortunately things are added to my viewing queue faster than I can watch so probably I’ll die with like 2000 hours of high quality TV left to see. I miss the 1980s, when there were like 20 shows on TV and they were all shit.
diddly-squat said:
btm said:
dv said:Yeah TD and Chernobyl are in the queue. Not heard of 1883 but I’ll add it too.
I found TD unwatchable.
season 1? the other seasons are utter shite.. but season 1 is amazing
Yes, I only tried s1.
btm said:
diddly-squat said:
btm said:I found TD unwatchable.
season 1? the other seasons are utter shite.. but season 1 is amazing
Yes, I only tried s1.
Rust is one of my all time favorite characters…
dv said:
Unfortunately things are added to my viewing queue faster than I can watch so probably I’ll die with like 2000 hours of high quality TV left to see. I miss the 1980s, when there were like 20 shows on TV and they were all shit.
Me with books.
dv said:
Unfortunately things are added to my viewing queue faster than I can watch so probably I’ll die with like 2000 hours of high quality TV left to see. I miss the 1980s, when there were like 20 shows on TV and they were all shit.
Invincible is a good animation if you watch The Boys (which isn’t animation) similar ultraviolent, anti super hero, flawed people.
The drama is really well done
Cymek said:
dv said:
Unfortunately things are added to my viewing queue faster than I can watch so probably I’ll die with like 2000 hours of high quality TV left to see. I miss the 1980s, when there were like 20 shows on TV and they were all shit.
Invincible is a good animation if you watch The Boys (which isn’t animation) similar ultraviolent, anti super hero, flawed people.
The drama is really well done
Yeah I’m familiar
dinner will be.
transition said:
dinner will be.
lunch actually.
dv said:
Unfortunately things are added to my viewing queue faster than I can watch so probably I’ll die with like 2000 hours of high quality TV left to see. I miss the 1980s, when there were like 20 shows on TV and they were all shit.
I’m running out of 1950s radio programs.
dv said:
Unfortunately things are added to my viewing queue faster than I can watch so probably I’ll die with like 2000 hours of high quality TV left to see. I miss the 1980s, when there were like 20 shows on TV and they were all shit.
And a man of your means should be able to hire someone to watch them for you.
There’s a scene in the film, My Stepmother is an Alien where the alien stepmum puts her arm into an open book and “reads” it that way. Wish I had that skill. It would save so much time, particularly reading textbooks and the like.
my reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunting
could read some news now, check that gravity is behaving itself, generally very reliable, though’s always threatening a magnetic reversal, imagine that, mess with ya compass and more
there ya go
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal
and i’ll briefly has a look at world news, you stay there, i’ve got ths
Divine Angel said:
There’s a scene in the film, My Stepmother is an Alien where the alien stepmum puts her arm into an open book and “reads” it that way. Wish I had that skill. It would save so much time, particularly reading textbooks and the like.
One wonders if the human brain could handle compressed information or speed up input.
I’d assume no
transition said:
my reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunting
From wiki, some examples of taunting.
that was alright, in the acid bath now, has me another I reckons will
Peak Warming Man said:
transition said:
my reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TauntingFrom wiki, some examples of taunting.
akanbe lieve it
i’ll has a really strong coffee, strong enough to kill a horse, very small sickly horse with a coffee allergy perhaps, then I may have a power nap, I brief coma, wakeful interrupt, that sort of thing
then back to Dad’s Falcoln, the car, an automobile, needs spark plugs I thinks, missing on one cylinder, could be plug leads, or hopefully not something more serious, an update later regard that, stay tuned
Hot dogs (2) in a bread roll with cheese and onion and T sauce, washed down with a slam it down fast libation.
Over.
Peak Warming Man said:
Hot dogs (2) in a bread roll with cheese and onion and T sauce, washed down with a slam it down fast libation.
Over.
Having just seen a post on Reddit about cigarette advertising, I still recall an ad for the brand my mum smoked. It was this one:
Advertising has such a huge impact that one can read your libation and know exactly what you’re drinking.
Divine Angel said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Hot dogs (2) in a bread roll with cheese and onion and T sauce, washed down with a slam it down fast libation.
Over.
Having just seen a post on Reddit about cigarette advertising, I still recall an ad for the brand my mum smoked. It was this one:
Advertising has such a huge impact that one can read your libation and know exactly what you’re drinking.
Tamb said:
Divine Angel said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Hot dogs (2) in a bread roll with cheese and onion and T sauce, washed down with a slam it down fast libation.
Over.
Having just seen a post on Reddit about cigarette advertising, I still recall an ad for the brand my mum smoked. It was this one:
Advertising has such a huge impact that one can read your libation and know exactly what you’re drinking.
Were they the ones with the asbestos filters?
No. That was Kent Microfine.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
Divine Angel said:Having just seen a post on Reddit about cigarette advertising, I still recall an ad for the brand my mum smoked. It was this one:
Advertising has such a huge impact that one can read your libation and know exactly what you’re drinking.
Were they the ones with the asbestos filters?No. That was Kent Microfine.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:Were they the ones with the asbestos filters?
No. That was Kent Microfine.
Yes. Now that you remind me. Stupid Tamb.
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:No. That was Kent Microfine.
Yes. Now that you remind me. Stupid Tamb.
You not stupid. Only getting on a bit.
dv said:
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:Yes.
did you like it? I thought it was quite cool where Marks was talking to himself – hard to see how the innies have any chance at a real life but I obviously Lumon still needs them
Speaking of televisor programs, I was thinking I should probably watch Twin Peaks at some stage
Back during my first stint at university, we went to blockbuster and hired every VCR tape of the entire Twin Peaks series. Then we spent the next three days, not sleeping and watching the whole series.. we were binging before we even knew what binge watching was… I think we called them viewing parties. Anyway.. it’ was a heavy weekend and I’m pretty sure one shouldn’t watch anything by lynch with that intensity. 10/10 would recommend though
so we’ve discovered that The Rev Dodgson really has no excuse, this is from our 1972 curriculum document
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:Yes. Now that you remind me. Stupid Tamb.
You not stupid. Only getting on a bit.
Sadly, more than just a bit.
Only at the same rate as all of us.
AussieDJ said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
You not stupid. Only getting on a bit.
Sadly, more than just a bit.
Only at the same rate as all of us.
disagree we move quick and dig deep
AussieDJ said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:You not stupid. Only getting on a bit.
Sadly, more than just a bit.Only at the same rate as all of us.
Arts said:
dv said:
diddly-squat said:did you like it? I thought it was quite cool where Marks was talking to himself – hard to see how the innies have any chance at a real life but I obviously Lumon still needs them
Speaking of televisor programs, I was thinking I should probably watch Twin Peaks at some stage
Back during my first stint at university, we went to blockbuster and hired every VCR tape of the entire Twin Peaks series. Then we spent the next three days, not sleeping and watching the whole series.. we were binging before we even knew what binge watching was… I think we called them viewing parties. Anyway.. it’ was a heavy weekend and I’m pretty sure one shouldn’t watch anything by lynch with that intensity. 10/10 would recommend though
Kind of a shame it was before the WWW became popular. I’m sure the chat would have been nuts
SCIENCE said:
so we’ve discovered that The Rev Dodgson really has no excuse, this is from our 1972 curriculum document
I wasn’t going to allow him any leeway anyway.
Cymek said:
Divine Angel said:
There’s a scene in the film, My Stepmother is an Alien where the alien stepmum puts her arm into an open book and “reads” it that way. Wish I had that skill. It would save so much time, particularly reading textbooks and the like.
One wonders if the human brain could handle compressed information or speed up input.
I’d assume no
No. Piece from March Scientific American on this subject:
buffy said:
Cymek said:
Divine Angel said:
There’s a scene in the film, My Stepmother is an Alien where the alien stepmum puts her arm into an open book and “reads” it that way. Wish I had that skill. It would save so much time, particularly reading textbooks and the like.
One wonders if the human brain could handle compressed information or speed up input.
I’d assume no
No. Piece from March Scientific American on this subject:
Well, you only have to cast your memory back to the old movie ‘Forbidden Planet’ (which included Leslie Nielsen in its cast).
One of the explorers hooked himself up to a teaching machine, a relic of the planet’s long-departed civilisation.
Fried his brain.
He said something like ‘for one moment, i knew everything’, and then he died.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/what-happened-to-the-mars-helicopter/vi-AA1BnD5B?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=560c86898abe453ab64c59bc61ae7ee4&ei=29
The story and life of Ingenuity, it’s life and death on Mars and all the interesting things that happened to it in-between.
It was a low budget piece of kit, most of its components were taken out of ordinary smart phone.
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:
Cymek said:One wonders if the human brain could handle compressed information or speed up input.
I’d assume no
No. Piece from March Scientific American on this subject:
Well, you only have to cast your memory back to the old movie ‘Forbidden Planet’ (which included Leslie Nielsen in its cast).
One of the explorers hooked himself up to a teaching machine, a relic of the planet’s long-departed civilisation.
Fried his brain.
He said something like ‘for one moment, i knew everything’, and then he died.
Old science fiction trope – there are some things man was not meant to know.
Or don’t go messing with tech you know nothing about.
Or something like that.
dv said:
Arts said:
dv said:Speaking of televisor programs, I was thinking I should probably watch Twin Peaks at some stage
Back during my first stint at university, we went to blockbuster and hired every VCR tape of the entire Twin Peaks series. Then we spent the next three days, not sleeping and watching the whole series.. we were binging before we even knew what binge watching was… I think we called them viewing parties. Anyway.. it’ was a heavy weekend and I’m pretty sure one shouldn’t watch anything by lynch with that intensity. 10/10 would recommend though
Kind of a shame it was before the WWW became popular. I’m sure the chat would have been nuts
ah well, one day future humans will look back at the archives of this forum and think the same.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Tamb said:Were they the ones with the asbestos filters?
No. That was Kent Microfine.
Yes. Now that you remind me. Stupid Tamb.
get’t into ya, mate, puts hairs on ya chest
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_(cigarette)
Kent is a cigarette brand made by the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. It was formerly made by Lorillard Tobacco, which was bought out by R. J. Reynolds in 2015. Kent was one of the first popular filtered cigarette brands
From 1952 to 1956, the Micronite filter in Kent cigarettes was made of crocidolite asbestos, which is the most carcinogenic type of asbestos. The filter had the asbestos exposed on the mouthpiece. This caused smokers to inhale large amounts of asbestos directly into their lungs. Despite being perhaps the most dangerous cigarette ever made, Lorillard advertised Kent as “the greatest health protection in cigarette history”. In 1956, Lorillard quietly changed the filter material from asbestos to cellulose acetate, which is a semi-synthetic plastic made from cotton or tree pulp. Early versions of the cellulose acetate filter were dyed blue to match the appearance of the former asbestos filter, but the blue dye was removed around 1959
transition said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:No. That was Kent Microfine.
Yes. Now that you remind me. Stupid Tamb.get’t into ya, mate, puts hairs on ya chest
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_(cigarette)
Kent is a cigarette brand made by the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. It was formerly made by Lorillard Tobacco, which was bought out by R. J. Reynolds in 2015. Kent was one of the first popular filtered cigarette brands
From 1952 to 1956, the Micronite filter in Kent cigarettes was made of crocidolite asbestos, which is the most carcinogenic type of asbestos. The filter had the asbestos exposed on the mouthpiece. This caused smokers to inhale large amounts of asbestos directly into their lungs. Despite being perhaps the most dangerous cigarette ever made, Lorillard advertised Kent as “the greatest health protection in cigarette history”. In 1956, Lorillard quietly changed the filter material from asbestos to cellulose acetate, which is a semi-synthetic plastic made from cotton or tree pulp. Early versions of the cellulose acetate filter were dyed blue to match the appearance of the former asbestos filter, but the blue dye was removed around 1959
Thank you.
I might explain my SIL’s 50 years of cancer.
AussieDJ said:
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:You not stupid. Only getting on a bit.
Sadly, more than just a bit.Only at the same rate as all of us.
I beg to differ, Mr DJ. If I may.
A 20 yo ages (gets on a bit) 10% in the next two years, whereas a 40 yo only ages (gets on a bit) 5% in the same two years.
A 100 yo ages just 2% in the same time period.
Therefore a 20 yo “gets on a bit” at five times the rate of a 100 yo. 😁
Tamb said:
transition said:
Tamb said:Yes. Now that you remind me. Stupid Tamb.
get’t into ya, mate, puts hairs on ya chest
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_(cigarette)
Kent is a cigarette brand made by the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. It was formerly made by Lorillard Tobacco, which was bought out by R. J. Reynolds in 2015. Kent was one of the first popular filtered cigarette brands
From 1952 to 1956, the Micronite filter in Kent cigarettes was made of crocidolite asbestos, which is the most carcinogenic type of asbestos. The filter had the asbestos exposed on the mouthpiece. This caused smokers to inhale large amounts of asbestos directly into their lungs. Despite being perhaps the most dangerous cigarette ever made, Lorillard advertised Kent as “the greatest health protection in cigarette history”. In 1956, Lorillard quietly changed the filter material from asbestos to cellulose acetate, which is a semi-synthetic plastic made from cotton or tree pulp. Early versions of the cellulose acetate filter were dyed blue to match the appearance of the former asbestos filter, but the blue dye was removed around 1959
Thank you.
I might explain my SIL’s 50 years of cancer.
https://csts.ua.edu/micronite/
SCIENCE said:
so we’ve discovered that The Rev Dodgson really has no excuse, this is from our 1972 curriculum document
But I didn’t go to school in NSW.
And I’d finished school by ’72 anyway.
NASA has made the difficult decision to turn off two science instruments aboard the Voyager spacecraft, ensuring that the longest-running space mission in history continues well into the 2030s. As power levels aboard the twin probes dwindle, mission engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are taking extreme measures to stretch every remaining watt of energy, allowing Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 to continue their pioneering journey through interstellar space.
Launched in 1977, the Voyager probes remain the farthest human-made objects from Earth, with Voyager 1 now more than 15 billion miles away and Voyager 2 over 13 billion miles away. These latest power-saving efforts are a testament to the remarkable engineering behind these spacecraft, which have far outlived their original missions.
A Strategic Shutdown to Preserve the Mission
According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, engineers turned off Voyager 1’s cosmic ray subsystem experiment on February 25 and will shut down Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle instrument on March 24. With this change, each probe will continue operating three science instruments, focusing on gathering valuable data about interstellar space.
Both spacecraft run on radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), which convert the heat from decaying plutonium into electricity. However, they lose about 4 watts of power per year, requiring careful energy management to keep the probes operational.
Suzanne Dodd, Voyager project manager at JPL, emphasized the importance of these energy-saving steps: “The Voyagers have been deep-space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible. But electrical power is running low. If we don’t turn off an instrument on each Voyager now, they would probably have only a few more months of power before we would need to declare end of mission.”
A Scientific Legacy Beyond the Solar System
Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in 2012, becoming the first human-made object to leave the heliosphere, the protective bubble created by the Sun’s solar wind. Voyager 2 followed in 2018, offering scientists their first comparative data set on how our solar system interacts with the vast space beyond.
Even with some instruments now powered down, the Voyagers will continue transmitting data that no other spacecraft can provide. Their remaining instruments will still monitor magnetic fields, plasma waves, and cosmic particles, helping scientists understand the boundaries of our solar system.
Patrick Koehn, Voyager program scientist at NASA Headquarters, praised the mission’s longevity: “The Voyager spacecraft have far surpassed their original mission to study the outer planets. Every bit of additional data we have gathered since then is not only valuable bonus science for heliophysics but also a testament to the exemplary engineering that has gone into the Voyagers—starting nearly 50 years ago and continuing to this day.”
—————————————————————————-
And today they can’t even land a craft on the moon without putting it on its hood.
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:
so we’ve discovered that The Rev Dodgson really has no excuse, this is from our 1972 curriculum document
But I didn’t go to school in NSW.
And I’d finished school by ’72 anyway.
fine then but did you do school in metric or did you join in at the time of the Great Conversion in NSW and surrounds
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:
so we’ve discovered that The Rev Dodgson really has no excuse, this is from our 1972 curriculum document
But I didn’t go to school in NSW.
And I’d finished school by ’72 anyway.
fine then but did you do school in metric or did you join in at the time of the Great Conversion in NSW and surrounds
I can’t imagine metric would have been hard to learn.
Its designed to be easy to understand and makes so much more sense that imperial especially in a scientific standpoint.
Cymek said:
SCIENCE said:The Rev Dodgson said:
But I didn’t go to school in NSW.
And I’d finished school by ’72 anyway.
fine then but did you do school in metric or did you join in at the time of the Great Conversion in NSW and surrounds
I can’t imagine metric would have been hard to learn.
Its designed to be easy to understand and makes so much more sense that imperial especially in a scientific standpoint.
I worked it all out by the jingle, now I’ve forgotten the jingle, so I’ve got to work it long hand.
Feeling “forgiven by God” satisfies the need for internal resolution, resulting in fewer apologies to other people.
https://www.psypost.org/feeling-forgiven-by-god-can-reduce-the-likelihood-of-apologizing-psychology-study-finds/
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:
so we’ve discovered that The Rev Dodgson really has no excuse, this is from our 1972 curriculum document
But I didn’t go to school in NSW.
And I’d finished school by ’72 anyway.
fine then but did you do school in metric or did you join in at the time of the Great Conversion in NSW and surrounds
Dude has been reading scientific and technical documents for more than half a century. He should have good enough pattern recognition skills to have picked this up.
Former WWE wrestler Kane, now mayor of a town in Tennessee, has challenged Tim Walz to a wrestling match after Walz commented he would kick any Trump’s supporter’s ass.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/wwe-legend-kane-now-tennessee-mayor-challenges-tim-walz-charity-wrestling-match-after-gov-s-bold-claim
dv said:
SCIENCE said:The Rev Dodgson said:
But I didn’t go to school in NSW.
And I’d finished school by ’72 anyway.
fine then but did you do school in metric or did you join in at the time of the Great Conversion in NSW and surrounds
Dude has been reading scientific and technical documents for more than half a century. He should have good enough pattern recognition skills to have picked this up.
what is this in relation to?
I has cordigal, lime cordigal, not had lime since last time I did, which was a while quite a while not sure exactly how long but not recent
two glasses just finished second, same glass I refills it to save dishes, but truth said I get a new glass regularly because the flies shit on the glass and sit nearby and giggle when I have a drink
and snags in the frypan being reheated, have them in bread, folded bread, folded at the corners, opposite corners makes two triangles up against each other, well it would if there wasn’t a sausage between, anyway it’s always interesting, just occasionally it creates a wormhole and I speed through time to an unexpected place and time
that’s how I originally came to be here and in this forum, a wormhole in a folded bread around a sausage. I usually don’t bother telling people how it came to happen, people just look at me like I am weird or something, so I more keep it to myself these days
and look the sausages have landed
Parent teacher interview went well. Mini Me is above average in everything, including maths, so maybe she’s not so mini Me after all.
Divine Angel said:
Parent teacher interview went well. Mini Me is above average in everything, including maths, so maybe she’s not so mini Me after all.
Good to hear.
G’darvo.
Back from Gympie. Had luntch at the Phoenix Hotel. Very pleasant meal. Will go there again. Met with our friends who have moved to the Sunshine Coast. (Gympie is about halfway between us.)
Mrs V got some more radiotherapy done. I checked out stuff at K-mart. We bought stuff at Aldi, including a water- & fire-resistant safe. We’ve been looking at Bunnings for similar. This was a bit smaller and a bit over one third of the price, while being a known brand. We also bought minced meat (on special @ $10/kg).
Michael V said:
G’darvo.Back from Gympie. Had luntch at the Phoenix Hotel. Very pleasant meal. Will go there again. Met with our friends who have moved to the Sunshine Coast. (Gympie is about halfway between us.)
Mrs V got some more radiotherapy done. I checked out stuff at K-mart. We bought stuff at Aldi, including a water- & fire-resistant safe. We’ve been looking at Bunnings for similar. This was a bit smaller and a bit over one third of the price, while being a known brand. We also bought minced meat (on special @ $10/kg).
Ha, we bought the same safe from Aldi.
Michael V said:
G’darvo.Back from Gympie. Had luntch at the Phoenix Hotel. Very pleasant meal. Will go there again. Met with our friends who have moved to the Sunshine Coast. (Gympie is about halfway between us.)
Mrs V got some more radiotherapy done. I checked out stuff at K-mart. We bought stuff at Aldi, including a water- & fire-resistant safe. We’ve been looking at Bunnings for similar. This was a bit smaller and a bit over one third of the price, while being a known brand. We also bought minced meat (on special @ $10/kg).
How much Michael?
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
G’darvo.Back from Gympie. Had luntch at the Phoenix Hotel. Very pleasant meal. Will go there again. Met with our friends who have moved to the Sunshine Coast. (Gympie is about halfway between us.)
Mrs V got some more radiotherapy done. I checked out stuff at K-mart. We bought stuff at Aldi, including a water- & fire-resistant safe. We’ve been looking at Bunnings for similar. This was a bit smaller and a bit over one third of the price, while being a known brand. We also bought minced meat (on special @ $10/kg).
Ha, we bought the same safe from Aldi.
:)
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
G’darvo.Back from Gympie. Had luntch at the Phoenix Hotel. Very pleasant meal. Will go there again. Met with our friends who have moved to the Sunshine Coast. (Gympie is about halfway between us.)
Mrs V got some more radiotherapy done. I checked out stuff at K-mart. We bought stuff at Aldi, including a water- & fire-resistant safe. We’ve been looking at Bunnings for similar. This was a bit smaller and a bit over one third of the price, while being a known brand. We also bought minced meat (on special @ $10/kg).
How much Michael?
$149
Divine Angel said:
Parent teacher interview went well. Mini Me is above average in everything, including maths, so maybe she’s not so mini Me after all.
Ha!
Noice.
:)
Divine Angel said:
Parent teacher interview went well. Mini Me is above average in everything, including maths, so maybe she’s not so mini Me after all.
Cool. At least some of it must come from you. ;)
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
G’darvo.Back from Gympie. Had luntch at the Phoenix Hotel. Very pleasant meal. Will go there again. Met with our friends who have moved to the Sunshine Coast. (Gympie is about halfway between us.)
Mrs V got some more radiotherapy done. I checked out stuff at K-mart. We bought stuff at Aldi, including a water- & fire-resistant safe. We’ve been looking at Bunnings for similar. This was a bit smaller and a bit over one third of the price, while being a known brand. We also bought minced meat (on special @ $10/kg).
How much Michael?
$149
How much do they hold?
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:How much Michael?
$149
How much do they hold?
depends on the face value of the notes you put in them.
ChrispenEvan said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:$149
How much do they hold?
depends on the face value of the notes you put in them.
Ha. I knew that was coming. :)
Peak Warming Man said:
NASA has made the difficult decision to turn off two science instruments aboard the Voyager spacecraft, ensuring that the longest-running space mission in history continues well into the 2030s. As power levels aboard the twin probes dwindle, mission engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are taking extreme measures to stretch every remaining watt of energy, allowing Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 to continue their pioneering journey through interstellar space.
Launched in 1977, the Voyager probes remain the farthest human-made objects from Earth, with Voyager 1 now more than 15 billion miles away and Voyager 2 over 13 billion miles away. These latest power-saving efforts are a testament to the remarkable engineering behind these spacecraft, which have far outlived their original missions.
A Strategic Shutdown to Preserve the Mission
According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, engineers turned off Voyager 1’s cosmic ray subsystem experiment on February 25 and will shut down Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle instrument on March 24. With this change, each probe will continue operating three science instruments, focusing on gathering valuable data about interstellar space.Both spacecraft run on radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), which convert the heat from decaying plutonium into electricity. However, they lose about 4 watts of power per year, requiring careful energy management to keep the probes operational.
Suzanne Dodd, Voyager project manager at JPL, emphasized the importance of these energy-saving steps: “The Voyagers have been deep-space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible. But electrical power is running low. If we don’t turn off an instrument on each Voyager now, they would probably have only a few more months of power before we would need to declare end of mission.”A Scientific Legacy Beyond the Solar System
Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in 2012, becoming the first human-made object to leave the heliosphere, the protective bubble created by the Sun’s solar wind. Voyager 2 followed in 2018, offering scientists their first comparative data set on how our solar system interacts with the vast space beyond.Even with some instruments now powered down, the Voyagers will continue transmitting data that no other spacecraft can provide. Their remaining instruments will still monitor magnetic fields, plasma waves, and cosmic particles, helping scientists understand the boundaries of our solar system.
Patrick Koehn, Voyager program scientist at NASA Headquarters, praised the mission’s longevity: “The Voyager spacecraft have far surpassed their original mission to study the outer planets. Every bit of additional data we have gathered since then is not only valuable bonus science for heliophysics but also a testament to the exemplary engineering that has gone into the Voyagers—starting nearly 50 years ago and continuing to this day.”
—————————————————————————-And today they can’t even land a craft on the moon without putting it on its hood.
:)
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:
Cymek said:One wonders if the human brain could handle compressed information or speed up input.
I’d assume no
No. Piece from March Scientific American on this subject:
Well, you only have to cast your memory back to the old movie ‘Forbidden Planet’ (which included Leslie Nielsen in its cast).
One of the explorers hooked himself up to a teaching machine, a relic of the planet’s long-departed civilisation.
Fried his brain.
He said something like ‘for one moment, i knew everything’, and then he died.
Similar to Fred Hoyle’s “The Black Cloud”.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
NASA has made the difficult decision to turn off two science instruments aboard the Voyager spacecraft, ensuring that the longest-running space mission in history continues well into the 2030s. As power levels aboard the twin probes dwindle, mission engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are taking extreme measures to stretch every remaining watt of energy, allowing Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 to continue their pioneering journey through interstellar space.
Launched in 1977, the Voyager probes remain the farthest human-made objects from Earth, with Voyager 1 now more than 15 billion miles away and Voyager 2 over 13 billion miles away. These latest power-saving efforts are a testament to the remarkable engineering behind these spacecraft, which have far outlived their original missions.
A Strategic Shutdown to Preserve the Mission
According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, engineers turned off Voyager 1’s cosmic ray subsystem experiment on February 25 and will shut down Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle instrument on March 24. With this change, each probe will continue operating three science instruments, focusing on gathering valuable data about interstellar space.Both spacecraft run on radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), which convert the heat from decaying plutonium into electricity. However, they lose about 4 watts of power per year, requiring careful energy management to keep the probes operational.
Suzanne Dodd, Voyager project manager at JPL, emphasized the importance of these energy-saving steps: “The Voyagers have been deep-space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible. But electrical power is running low. If we don’t turn off an instrument on each Voyager now, they would probably have only a few more months of power before we would need to declare end of mission.”A Scientific Legacy Beyond the Solar System
Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in 2012, becoming the first human-made object to leave the heliosphere, the protective bubble created by the Sun’s solar wind. Voyager 2 followed in 2018, offering scientists their first comparative data set on how our solar system interacts with the vast space beyond.Even with some instruments now powered down, the Voyagers will continue transmitting data that no other spacecraft can provide. Their remaining instruments will still monitor magnetic fields, plasma waves, and cosmic particles, helping scientists understand the boundaries of our solar system.
Patrick Koehn, Voyager program scientist at NASA Headquarters, praised the mission’s longevity: “The Voyager spacecraft have far surpassed their original mission to study the outer planets. Every bit of additional data we have gathered since then is not only valuable bonus science for heliophysics but also a testament to the exemplary engineering that has gone into the Voyagers—starting nearly 50 years ago and continuing to this day.”
—————————————————————————-And today they can’t even land a craft on the moon without putting it on its hood.
:)
NASA’s plutonium problem.
captain_spalding said:
buffy said:
Cymek said:One wonders if the human brain could handle compressed information or speed up input.
I’d assume no
No. Piece from March Scientific American on this subject:
Well, you only have to cast your memory back to the old movie ‘Forbidden Planet’ (which included Leslie Nielsen in its cast).
One of the explorers hooked himself up to a teaching machine, a relic of the planet’s long-departed civilisation.
Fried his brain.
He said something like ‘for one moment, i knew everything’, and then he died.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:How much Michael?
$149
How much do they hold?
Dunno off the top of my head, but more than I need, for the few important documents that I need to preserve through a fire.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
G’darvo.Back from Gympie. Had luntch at the Phoenix Hotel. Very pleasant meal. Will go there again. Met with our friends who have moved to the Sunshine Coast. (Gympie is about halfway between us.)
Mrs V got some more radiotherapy done. I checked out stuff at K-mart. We bought stuff at Aldi, including a water- & fire-resistant safe. We’ve been looking at Bunnings for similar. This was a bit smaller and a bit over one third of the price, while being a known brand. We also bought minced meat (on special @ $10/kg).
Ha, we bought the same safe from Aldi.
:)
is the combination the same
Spiny Norman said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
NASA has made the difficult decision to turn off two science instruments aboard the Voyager spacecraft, ensuring that the longest-running space mission in history continues well into the 2030s. As power levels aboard the twin probes dwindle, mission engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are taking extreme measures to stretch every remaining watt of energy, allowing Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 to continue their pioneering journey through interstellar space.
Launched in 1977, the Voyager probes remain the farthest human-made objects from Earth, with Voyager 1 now more than 15 billion miles away and Voyager 2 over 13 billion miles away. These latest power-saving efforts are a testament to the remarkable engineering behind these spacecraft, which have far outlived their original missions.
A Strategic Shutdown to Preserve the Mission
According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, engineers turned off Voyager 1’s cosmic ray subsystem experiment on February 25 and will shut down Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle instrument on March 24. With this change, each probe will continue operating three science instruments, focusing on gathering valuable data about interstellar space.Both spacecraft run on radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), which convert the heat from decaying plutonium into electricity. However, they lose about 4 watts of power per year, requiring careful energy management to keep the probes operational.
Suzanne Dodd, Voyager project manager at JPL, emphasized the importance of these energy-saving steps: “The Voyagers have been deep-space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible. But electrical power is running low. If we don’t turn off an instrument on each Voyager now, they would probably have only a few more months of power before we would need to declare end of mission.”A Scientific Legacy Beyond the Solar System
Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in 2012, becoming the first human-made object to leave the heliosphere, the protective bubble created by the Sun’s solar wind. Voyager 2 followed in 2018, offering scientists their first comparative data set on how our solar system interacts with the vast space beyond.Even with some instruments now powered down, the Voyagers will continue transmitting data that no other spacecraft can provide. Their remaining instruments will still monitor magnetic fields, plasma waves, and cosmic particles, helping scientists understand the boundaries of our solar system.
Patrick Koehn, Voyager program scientist at NASA Headquarters, praised the mission’s longevity: “The Voyager spacecraft have far surpassed their original mission to study the outer planets. Every bit of additional data we have gathered since then is not only valuable bonus science for heliophysics but also a testament to the exemplary engineering that has gone into the Voyagers—starting nearly 50 years ago and continuing to this day.”
—————————————————————————-And today they can’t even land a craft on the moon without putting it on its hood.
:)
NASA’s plutonium problem.
Ta.
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:Ha, we bought the same safe from Aldi.
:)
is the combination the same
NFI.
The thing is that the fire-and-water-resistance is need to stop important documents burning. eg: Home Insurance policy. Mostly, the documents are of no use to anybody else.
Spiny Norman said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
NASA has made the difficult decision to turn off two science instruments aboard the Voyager spacecraft, ensuring that the longest-running space mission in history continues well into the 2030s. As power levels aboard the twin probes dwindle, mission engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are taking extreme measures to stretch every remaining watt of energy, allowing Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 to continue their pioneering journey through interstellar space.
Launched in 1977, the Voyager probes remain the farthest human-made objects from Earth, with Voyager 1 now more than 15 billion miles away and Voyager 2 over 13 billion miles away. These latest power-saving efforts are a testament to the remarkable engineering behind these spacecraft, which have far outlived their original missions.
A Strategic Shutdown to Preserve the Mission
According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, engineers turned off Voyager 1’s cosmic ray subsystem experiment on February 25 and will shut down Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle instrument on March 24. With this change, each probe will continue operating three science instruments, focusing on gathering valuable data about interstellar space.Both spacecraft run on radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), which convert the heat from decaying plutonium into electricity. However, they lose about 4 watts of power per year, requiring careful energy management to keep the probes operational.
Suzanne Dodd, Voyager project manager at JPL, emphasized the importance of these energy-saving steps: “The Voyagers have been deep-space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible. But electrical power is running low. If we don’t turn off an instrument on each Voyager now, they would probably have only a few more months of power before we would need to declare end of mission.”A Scientific Legacy Beyond the Solar System
Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in 2012, becoming the first human-made object to leave the heliosphere, the protective bubble created by the Sun’s solar wind. Voyager 2 followed in 2018, offering scientists their first comparative data set on how our solar system interacts with the vast space beyond.Even with some instruments now powered down, the Voyagers will continue transmitting data that no other spacecraft can provide. Their remaining instruments will still monitor magnetic fields, plasma waves, and cosmic particles, helping scientists understand the boundaries of our solar system.
Patrick Koehn, Voyager program scientist at NASA Headquarters, praised the mission’s longevity: “The Voyager spacecraft have far surpassed their original mission to study the outer planets. Every bit of additional data we have gathered since then is not only valuable bonus science for heliophysics but also a testament to the exemplary engineering that has gone into the Voyagers—starting nearly 50 years ago and continuing to this day.”
—————————————————————————-And today they can’t even land a craft on the moon without putting it on its hood.
:)
NASA’s plutonium problem.
watching that, excellent educational video
Cymek said:
Divine Angel said:
There’s a scene in the film, My Stepmother is an Alien where the alien stepmum puts her arm into an open book and “reads” it that way. Wish I had that skill. It would save so much time, particularly reading textbooks and the like.
One wonders if the human brain could handle compressed information or speed up input.
I’d assume no
sure it can, especially if it’s lossy compression
for example, helpful people sometimes post a transcript of a video, so that fast readers can simply get the declarative information out quickly, rather than waiting 5 times the time watching some talking head grind it out
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
transition said:
my reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TauntingFrom wiki, some examples of taunting.
akanbe lieve it
hence why communists use the raised clenched fist
wait
bloody science has the wookie syndrome. he’s gone click happy.
ChrispenEvan said:
bloody science has the wookie syndrome. he’s gone click happy.
sorry we’re just switching to the desk platform so we can answer your other question sheesh calm down
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:
bloody science has the wookie syndrome. he’s gone click happy.
sorry we’re just switching to the desk platform so we can answer your other question sheesh calm down
no, I’m mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take it anymore!
ChrispenEvan said:
SCIENCE said:ChrispenEvan said:
bloody science has the wookie syndrome. he’s gone click happy.
sorry we’re just switching to the desk platform so we can answer your other question sheesh calm down
no, I’m mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take it anymore!
Tell that to Clive Palmer.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
G’darvo.Back from Gympie. Had luntch at the Phoenix Hotel. Very pleasant meal. Will go there again. Met with our friends who have moved to the Sunshine Coast. (Gympie is about halfway between us.)
Mrs V got some more radiotherapy done. I checked out stuff at K-mart. We bought stuff at Aldi, including a water- & fire-resistant safe. We’ve been looking at Bunnings for similar. This was a bit smaller and a bit over one third of the price, while being a known brand. We also bought minced meat (on special @ $10/kg).
How much Michael?
$149
Ta.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:$149
How much do they hold?
Dunno off the top of my head, but more than I need, for the few important documents that I need to preserve through a fire.
We’ve got my antique safe. Not a combination, a key. Got two copies of the key. One is in another fireproof box. Between the fireproof box and the safe, my family jewellery (mostly sentimental, some good silver stuff that I have bought over the years) and important papers like passports, birth certificates etc would hopefully be OK from fire.
walks down reads the water meter, sees friend in tree
transition said:
walks down reads the water meter, sees friend in tree
i like him.
sarahs mum said:
transition said:
walks down reads the water meter, sees friend in tree
i like him.
still gots bit of dinner around his beak
yawn tiredness monsters is getting me
none leaks at the meter, lady did math while back about time utility people reads it so know what the damage is going to be
buffy said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:How much do they hold?
Dunno off the top of my head, but more than I need, for the few important documents that I need to preserve through a fire.
We’ve got my antique safe. Not a combination, a key. Got two copies of the key. One is in another fireproof box. Between the fireproof box and the safe, my family jewellery (mostly sentimental, some good silver stuff that I have bought over the years) and important papers like passports, birth certificates etc would hopefully be OK from fire.
I’d love to have one like that.
I did, sort of, when I worked in the Police Department.
transition said:
walks down reads the water meter, sees friend in tree
Barn owl?
MAFS.
“I was trying to renovate him because he’s the house I want to live in the future. But maybe he isn’t a chair. Maybe he is a door.”
Big day out. Finished the housepad in Margaret River, got back to the depot, changed trucks and travelled to Busso to pick up a new excavator. Can’t get it out of the truck until I finish fixing the loading ramps. The batteries on the angle grinder ran out of puff and are now on charge here. Hopefully tomorrow morning I’ll fix the other loading ramp and can start the new earthworks job that I bought the excavator for.
Pic shortly…
Kingy said:
Big day out. Finished the housepad in Margaret River, got back to the depot, changed trucks and travelled to Busso to pick up a new excavator. Can’t get it out of the truck until I finish fixing the loading ramps. The batteries on the angle grinder ran out of puff and are now on charge here. Hopefully tomorrow morning I’ll fix the other loading ramp and can start the new earthworks job that I bought the excavator for.Pic shortly…
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 10 degrees at the back door, dark, still, maggies are calling. We are forecast cloud clearing for 25 degrees today. It’s definitely Autumn.
Bakery Breakfast with Hamilton friend today, then a haircut and then some verandah sitting and chatting.
Showers and a top of 27. Autumn doesn’t usually arrive til after Anzac Day here.
Kingy said:
Kingy said:
Big day out. Finished the housepad in Margaret River, got back to the depot, changed trucks and travelled to Busso to pick up a new excavator. Can’t get it out of the truck until I finish fixing the loading ramps. The batteries on the angle grinder ran out of puff and are now on charge here. Hopefully tomorrow morning I’ll fix the other loading ramp and can start the new earthworks job that I bought the excavator for.Pic shortly…
Oh. New-new, as in brand new.
Well done.
:)
Morning Pilgrims, loos like rain again.
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning Pilgrims, loos like rain again.
Only if you stand in them.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning Pilgrims, loos like rain again.
Only if you stand in them.
and pull the chain?
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Morning Pilgrims, loos like rain again.
Only if you stand in them.
and pull the chain?
Each to their own, but I’ll use the shower if I want to simulate rain thanks.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:Only if you stand in them.
and pull the chain?
Each to their own, but I’ll use the shower if I want to simulate rain thanks.
golden
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:Only if you stand in them.
and pull the chain?
Each to their own, but I’ll use the shower if I want to simulate rain thanks.
Tends to wash all over.
Humidity is 74%, the clouds look very heavy, a bit of sprinkly rain. Managed a full walk today without need for Ventolin so I’m wondering where the cutoff is for humidity to be “too high” for walkies.
Divine Angel said:
Humidity is 74%, the clouds look very heavy, a bit of sprinkly rain. Managed a full walk today without need for Ventolin so I’m wondering where the cutoff is for humidity to be “too high” for walkies.
Someone posted this yesterday NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft: ‘Every day could be our last.’, but I can’t find it. It basically says that NASA has shut down one of the instruments on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 “to save power.” Both spacecraft are powered by RTGs which derive their power from the decay of 238Pu, which has a half-life of 87.7 years. The power generated at launch was 470W (both craft have 3 RTGs, with a combined output of 470W.) They were launched in 1977, 48 years ago, so the plutonium has been decaying for just over half a half-life (43.85 years,) so the available power should be just under 70% of the original 470W, or about 325W. This assumes that electrical power output is directly proportional to the heat generated by the decay of the fuel, which is consistent with everything I’ve been able to find on RTGs.
Reducing the power drain won’t change the rate the plutonium decays, so won’t save any power and won’t extend the life of the RTGs, so I can’t see the point of turning off any instruments.
btm said:
Someone posted this yesterday NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft: ‘Every day could be our last.’, but I can’t find it. It basically says that NASA has shut down one of the instruments on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 “to save power.” Both spacecraft are powered by RTGs which derive their power from the decay of 238Pu, which has a half-life of 87.7 years. The power generated at launch was 470W (both craft have 3 RTGs, with a combined output of 470W.) They were launched in 1977, 48 years ago, so the plutonium has been decaying for just over half a half-life (43.85 years,) so the available power should be just under 70% of the original 470W, or about 325W. This assumes that electrical power output is directly proportional to the heat generated by the decay of the fuel, which is consistent with everything I’ve been able to find on RTGs.Reducing the power drain won’t change the rate the plutonium decays, so won’t save any power and won’t extend the life of the RTGs, so I can’t see the point of turning off any instruments.
Some of them require heaters to function properly and there probably just isn’t enough power to go around for all of them to be working all the time. They didn’t plan for the probe to be still functioning after this many decades, hence underestimating how much power it’d need a good half century after launch.
btm said:
Someone posted this yesterday NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft: ‘Every day could be our last.’, but I can’t find it. It basically says that NASA has shut down one of the instruments on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 “to save power.” Both spacecraft are powered by RTGs which derive their power from the decay of 238Pu, which has a half-life of 87.7 years. The power generated at launch was 470W (both craft have 3 RTGs, with a combined output of 470W.) They were launched in 1977, 48 years ago, so the plutonium has been decaying for just over half a half-life (43.85 years,) so the available power should be just under 70% of the original 470W, or about 325W. This assumes that electrical power output is directly proportional to the heat generated by the decay of the fuel, which is consistent with everything I’ve been able to find on RTGs.Reducing the power drain won’t change the rate the plutonium decays, so won’t save any power and won’t extend the life of the RTGs, so I can’t see the point of turning off any instruments.
So we can’t assume that they know what they’re doing?
Greetings
btm said:
Someone posted this yesterday NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft: ‘Every day could be our last.’, but I can’t find it. It basically says that NASA has shut down one of the instruments on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 “to save power.” Both spacecraft are powered by RTGs which derive their power from the decay of 238Pu, which has a half-life of 87.7 years. The power generated at launch was 470W (both craft have 3 RTGs, with a combined output of 470W.) They were launched in 1977, 48 years ago, so the plutonium has been decaying for just over half a half-life (43.85 years,) so the available power should be just under 70% of the original 470W, or about 325W. This assumes that electrical power output is directly proportional to the heat generated by the decay of the fuel, which is consistent with everything I’ve been able to find on RTGs.Reducing the power drain won’t change the rate the plutonium decays, so won’t save any power and won’t extend the life of the RTGs, so I can’t see the point of turning off any instruments.
Guess:
If the amount of power generated drops below the amount of power needed by currently active hardware, the main processor might drop out and be hard to reactivate. They are keeping ahead of the decline in output, with some safety margin.
Spiny Norman said:
btm said:
Someone posted this yesterday NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft: ‘Every day could be our last.’, but I can’t find it. It basically says that NASA has shut down one of the instruments on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 “to save power.” Both spacecraft are powered by RTGs which derive their power from the decay of 238Pu, which has a half-life of 87.7 years. The power generated at launch was 470W (both craft have 3 RTGs, with a combined output of 470W.) They were launched in 1977, 48 years ago, so the plutonium has been decaying for just over half a half-life (43.85 years,) so the available power should be just under 70% of the original 470W, or about 325W. This assumes that electrical power output is directly proportional to the heat generated by the decay of the fuel, which is consistent with everything I’ve been able to find on RTGs.Reducing the power drain won’t change the rate the plutonium decays, so won’t save any power and won’t extend the life of the RTGs, so I can’t see the point of turning off any instruments.
Some of them require heaters to function properly and there probably just isn’t enough power to go around for all of them to be working all the time. They didn’t plan for the probe to be still functioning after this many decades, hence underestimating how much power it’d need a good half century after launch.
That’s possible, but the thermocouples on the RTGs (at launch) were at 1273/573 K (hot/cold) (1000/300° C), so the craft could have been heated directly by that heat.
I knew the second part, and think it’s a tribute to the original engineers that they’re still working after almost 50 years, and are still in contact with Earth over such a long distance.
Bubblecar said:
btm said:
Someone posted this yesterday NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft: ‘Every day could be our last.’, but I can’t find it. It basically says that NASA has shut down one of the instruments on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 “to save power.” Both spacecraft are powered by RTGs which derive their power from the decay of 238Pu, which has a half-life of 87.7 years. The power generated at launch was 470W (both craft have 3 RTGs, with a combined output of 470W.) They were launched in 1977, 48 years ago, so the plutonium has been decaying for just over half a half-life (43.85 years,) so the available power should be just under 70% of the original 470W, or about 325W. This assumes that electrical power output is directly proportional to the heat generated by the decay of the fuel, which is consistent with everything I’ve been able to find on RTGs.
Reducing the power drain won’t change the rate the plutonium decays, so won’t save any power and won’t extend the life of the RTGs, so I can’t see the point of turning off any instruments.
So we can’t assume that they know what they’re doing?
uh last we checked power is a product of potential and current so pretty sure turning off a current draw will allow a generator to maintain the potential required for other draws to function but the real person we need for this is sibeen we’re sorry
btm said:
Someone posted this yesterday NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft: ‘Every day could be our last.’, but I can’t find it. It basically says that NASA has shut down one of the instruments on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 “to save power.” Both spacecraft are powered by RTGs which derive their power from the decay of 238Pu, which has a half-life of 87.7 years. The power generated at launch was 470W (both craft have 3 RTGs, with a combined output of 470W.) They were launched in 1977, 48 years ago, so the plutonium has been decaying for just over half a half-life (43.85 years,) so the available power should be just under 70% of the original 470W, or about 325W. This assumes that electrical power output is directly proportional to the heat generated by the decay of the fuel, which is consistent with everything I’ve been able to find on RTGs.Reducing the power drain won’t change the rate the plutonium decays, so won’t save any power and won’t extend the life of the RTGs, so I can’t see the point of turning off any instruments.
From the link.
I thought the same
Divine Angel said:
Humidity is 74%, the clouds look very heavy, a bit of sprinkly rain. Managed a full walk today without need for Ventolin so I’m wondering where the cutoff is for humidity to be “too high” for walkies.
I suspect there might be quite a bit more to your body’s reaction than just a particular % RH.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Humidity is 74%, the clouds look very heavy, a bit of sprinkly rain. Managed a full walk today without need for Ventolin so I’m wondering where the cutoff is for humidity to be “too high” for walkies.
I suspect there might be quite a bit more to your body’s reaction than just a particular % RH.
The humidity may even be confirmation bias?
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Humidity is 74%, the clouds look very heavy, a bit of sprinkly rain. Managed a full walk today without need for Ventolin so I’m wondering where the cutoff is for humidity to be “too high” for walkies.
I suspect there might be quite a bit more to your body’s reaction than just a particular % RH.
I think so too, but I haven’t worked it out yet.
After dad had pneumonia in 2011, his lungs didn’t like the high humidity so he moved inland. My sister got married in Bali in 2014, and dad had no issues over there. In conclusion, it’s a mystery.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Humidity is 74%, the clouds look very heavy, a bit of sprinkly rain. Managed a full walk today without need for Ventolin so I’m wondering where the cutoff is for humidity to be “too high” for walkies.
I suspect there might be quite a bit more to your body’s reaction than just a particular % RH.
I think so too, but I haven’t worked it out yet.
After dad had pneumonia in 2011, his lungs didn’t like the high humidity so he moved inland. My sister got married in Bali in 2014, and dad had no issues over there. In conclusion, it’s a mystery.
Back in he day when all of that stuff was called consumption, the doctors would advise moving to a drier climate.
Well, tuberculosis is on the rise again…
Good thing the LNP are cracking down on youth crime…
“A 17-year-old girl has been charged after a man was shot in North Lakes last night, March 24.
Emergency services were called to a carpark on Lakefield Drive around 9.40pm to reports a man had been shot in the arm, also impacting his chest, after an interaction with a group of four people – who police will allege were three men and a teenage girl.
A 42-year-old man was transported to Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital in a serious but stable condition.
A crime scene was declared and investigations led police to arrest a teenage girl in Riverview around 2am this morning.
A 17-year-old Windsor girl has been charged with one count each of attempt to murder, possessing dangerous drugs, unlawful possession of weapons and authority required to possess explosives.
She has been refused police bail and is due to appear in Ipswich Childrens Court today, March 25.
The three men, who police believe were also allegedly involved in the incident, remain outstanding, however investigations indicate there is no threat to public safety.
The car driven by the alleged offenders, an Audi Q5, has been seized by police.
Investigations are ongoing.“
btm said:
Someone posted this yesterday NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft: ‘Every day could be our last.’, but I can’t find it. It basically says that NASA has shut down one of the instruments on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 “to save power.” Both spacecraft are powered by RTGs which derive their power from the decay of 238Pu, which has a half-life of 87.7 years. The power generated at launch was 470W (both craft have 3 RTGs, with a combined output of 470W.) They were launched in 1977, 48 years ago, so the plutonium has been decaying for just over half a half-life (43.85 years,) so the available power should be just under 70% of the original 470W, or about 325W. This assumes that electrical power output is directly proportional to the heat generated by the decay of the fuel, which is consistent with everything I’ve been able to find on RTGs.Reducing the power drain won’t change the rate the plutonium decays, so won’t save any power and won’t extend the life of the RTGs, so I can’t see the point of turning off any instruments.
With only a fraction of the power available, only a corresponding fraction of the experiments and data transmission can be run reliably.
btm said:
Spiny Norman said:
btm said:
Someone posted this yesterday NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft: ‘Every day could be our last.’, but I can’t find it. It basically says that NASA has shut down one of the instruments on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 “to save power.” Both spacecraft are powered by RTGs which derive their power from the decay of 238Pu, which has a half-life of 87.7 years. The power generated at launch was 470W (both craft have 3 RTGs, with a combined output of 470W.) They were launched in 1977, 48 years ago, so the plutonium has been decaying for just over half a half-life (43.85 years,) so the available power should be just under 70% of the original 470W, or about 325W. This assumes that electrical power output is directly proportional to the heat generated by the decay of the fuel, which is consistent with everything I’ve been able to find on RTGs.Reducing the power drain won’t change the rate the plutonium decays, so won’t save any power and won’t extend the life of the RTGs, so I can’t see the point of turning off any instruments.
Some of them require heaters to function properly and there probably just isn’t enough power to go around for all of them to be working all the time. They didn’t plan for the probe to be still functioning after this many decades, hence underestimating how much power it’d need a good half century after launch.
That’s possible, but the thermocouples on the RTGs (at launch) were at 1273/573 K (hot/cold) (1000/300° C), so the craft could have been heated directly by that heat.
I knew the second part, and think it’s a tribute to the original engineers that they’re still working after almost 50 years, and are still in contact with Earth over such a long distance.
They have to place the RTG’s some distance from the main body of the probe so as to avoid any radioactive interference. But otherwise, yeah it would have helped. I watched a video on the use of plutonium for RTG’s a few days ago and they produce mainly alpha radiation, which is stopped pretty easily by many materials. But I would assume they know what they’re doing though.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Humidity is 74%, the clouds look very heavy, a bit of sprinkly rain. Managed a full walk today without need for Ventolin so I’m wondering where the cutoff is for humidity to be “too high” for walkies.
I suspect there might be quite a bit more to your body’s reaction than just a particular % RH.
I think so too, but I haven’t worked it out yet.
After dad had pneumonia in 2011, his lungs didn’t like the high humidity so he moved inland. My sister got married in Bali in 2014, and dad had no issues over there. In conclusion, it’s a mystery.
It takes a long time to make a reasonable recovery from pneumonia. More than a year for me. And I never got to 100% recovery. I had my pneumonia and recovery in a low-humidity environment, so I had no noticeable breathing problems that required Ventolin or similar.
Breathing is no problem here where the RH is always high, but it’s nearly 36 years ago that I contracted pneumonia.
roughbarked said:
btm said:
Someone posted this yesterday NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft: ‘Every day could be our last.’, but I can’t find it. It basically says that NASA has shut down one of the instruments on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 “to save power.” Both spacecraft are powered by RTGs which derive their power from the decay of 238Pu, which has a half-life of 87.7 years. The power generated at launch was 470W (both craft have 3 RTGs, with a combined output of 470W.) They were launched in 1977, 48 years ago, so the plutonium has been decaying for just over half a half-life (43.85 years,) so the available power should be just under 70% of the original 470W, or about 325W. This assumes that electrical power output is directly proportional to the heat generated by the decay of the fuel, which is consistent with everything I’ve been able to find on RTGs.Reducing the power drain won’t change the rate the plutonium decays, so won’t save any power and won’t extend the life of the RTGs, so I can’t see the point of turning off any instruments.
“o save energy for further interstellar exploration, mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) deactivated Voyager 1’s cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Feb. 25. On March 24, they will shut down the low-energy charged particle instrument onboard Voyager 2.”.From the link.
I thought the same
Are they in stand by mode and shutting them down means they die permanently
Some may require more power than is available so killing them would allow the less power intense instruments to work ?
Cymek said:
roughbarked said:
btm said:
Someone posted this yesterday NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft: ‘Every day could be our last.’, but I can’t find it. It basically says that NASA has shut down one of the instruments on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 “to save power.” Both spacecraft are powered by RTGs which derive their power from the decay of 238Pu, which has a half-life of 87.7 years. The power generated at launch was 470W (both craft have 3 RTGs, with a combined output of 470W.) They were launched in 1977, 48 years ago, so the plutonium has been decaying for just over half a half-life (43.85 years,) so the available power should be just under 70% of the original 470W, or about 325W. This assumes that electrical power output is directly proportional to the heat generated by the decay of the fuel, which is consistent with everything I’ve been able to find on RTGs.Reducing the power drain won’t change the rate the plutonium decays, so won’t save any power and won’t extend the life of the RTGs, so I can’t see the point of turning off any instruments.
“o save energy for further interstellar exploration, mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) deactivated Voyager 1’s cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Feb. 25. On March 24, they will shut down the low-energy charged particle instrument onboard Voyager 2.”.From the link.
I thought the same
Are they in stand by mode and shutting them down means they die permanently
Some may require more power than is available so killing them would allow the less power intense instruments to work ?
wait so if the demand on a grid exceeds the stable supply then you can have a black out so instead it’s better to have a brown out are we right
Divine Angel said:
Well, tuberculosis is on the rise again…
just appeared in my feed.
Anti-tuberculosis poster, G. Dorival and G. Capon, 1918
Il faut vaincre la tuberculose comme le plus malfaisant des
reptiles We must overcome TB as the most harmful of reptiles.
Just reading a “spill the tea” thread on Reddit and it is glorious.
My celeb encounters:
Divine Angel said:
Just reading a “spill the tea” thread on Reddit and it is glorious.My celeb encounters:
- stood behind Paul Mercurio at Bowral cinema for one of the Harry Potter movies.
- Peter Garrett was a regular client at the physical therapy place I worked at in Mittagong.
- upsold doughnuts to Liam Hemsworth. He paid by card and I said the machine required a signature. He knew what I was doing and happily provided an autograph which I stuck on the wall.
- walked straight past Mark Ruffalo at the airport because I thought it couldn’t be him (it was, and a coworker got a pic with him when he stopped for coffee)
- served Greg Evans, Mat Rogers, the blue Wiggle and Leo Sayer while working at the doughnut place
- my sister is friends with a nephew of Mel Gibson. Mel’s sister lost her house in the Blue Mts bushfires a few years ago and Mel did fuck all to help out. So when Mel lost his house in the LA fires earlier this year, it kinda seemed like karma.
- a friend from TAFE slept with Russell Crowe. He gave himself a pep talk during their encounter: “go Russ, go Russ, go Russ… atta boy, Russ”.
My celeb encounter was with Luciano Pavarotti on Bali.
We were both there on holidays & I walked past him on my way to the beach.
I nodded to him and he waved me over to his table. His English is adequate but his accent is difficult.
We had a few beers together & a very enjoyable time.
Divine Angel said:
Just reading a “spill the tea” thread on Reddit and it is glorious.My celeb encounters:
- stood behind Paul Mercurio at Bowral cinema for one of the Harry Potter movies.
- Peter Garrett was a regular client at the physical therapy place I worked at in Mittagong.
- upsold doughnuts to Liam Hemsworth. He paid by card and I said the machine required a signature. He knew what I was doing and happily provided an autograph which I stuck on the wall.
- walked straight past Mark Ruffalo at the airport because I thought it couldn’t be him (it was, and a coworker got a pic with him when he stopped for coffee)
- served Greg Evans, Mat Rogers, the blue Wiggle and Leo Sayer while working at the doughnut place
- my sister is friends with a nephew of Mel Gibson. Mel’s sister lost her house in the Blue Mts bushfires a few years ago and Mel did fuck all to help out. So when Mel lost his house in the LA fires earlier this year, it kinda seemed like karma.
- a friend from TAFE slept with Russell Crowe. He gave himself a pep talk during their encounter: “go Russ, go Russ, go Russ… atta boy, Russ”.
I once met Roger Braintree.
I met John Meillon at a protest in 1989. And I met Dr K if that counts.
dv said:
I met John Meillon at a protest in 1989. And I met Dr K if that counts.
Both at the same protest?
Divine Angel said:
Just reading a “spill the tea” thread on Reddit and it is glorious.My celeb encounters:
- stood behind Paul Mercurio at Bowral cinema for one of the Harry Potter movies.
- Peter Garrett was a regular client at the physical therapy place I worked at in Mittagong.
- upsold doughnuts to Liam Hemsworth. He paid by card and I said the machine required a signature. He knew what I was doing and happily provided an autograph which I stuck on the wall.
- walked straight past Mark Ruffalo at the airport because I thought it couldn’t be him (it was, and a coworker got a pic with him when he stopped for coffee)
- served Greg Evans, Mat Rogers, the blue Wiggle and Leo Sayer while working at the doughnut place
- my sister is friends with a nephew of Mel Gibson. Mel’s sister lost her house in the Blue Mts bushfires a few years ago and Mel did fuck all to help out. So when Mel lost his house in the LA fires earlier this year, it kinda seemed like karma.
- a friend from TAFE slept with Russell Crowe. He gave himself a pep talk during their encounter: “go Russ, go Russ, go Russ… atta boy, Russ”.
I saw a dishevelled clive palmer at canberra airport.
Divine Angel said:
Just reading a “spill the tea” thread on Reddit and it is glorious.My celeb encounters:
- stood behind Paul Mercurio at Bowral cinema for one of the Harry Potter movies.
- Peter Garrett was a regular client at the physical therapy place I worked at in Mittagong.
- upsold doughnuts to Liam Hemsworth. He paid by card and I said the machine required a signature. He knew what I was doing and happily provided an autograph which I stuck on the wall.
- walked straight past Mark Ruffalo at the airport because I thought it couldn’t be him (it was, and a coworker got a pic with him when he stopped for coffee)
- served Greg Evans, Mat Rogers, the blue Wiggle and Leo Sayer while working at the doughnut place
- my sister is friends with a nephew of Mel Gibson. Mel’s sister lost her house in the Blue Mts bushfires a few years ago and Mel did fuck all to help out. So when Mel lost his house in the LA fires earlier this year, it kinda seemed like karma.
- a friend from TAFE slept with Russell Crowe. He gave himself a pep talk during their encounter: “go Russ, go Russ, go Russ… atta boy, Russ”.
Hmmm…
I worked with John Landis, Dan Aykroyd, Joe Morton, and several other well-known actors and musicians on the set of Blues Brothers 2000
Also worked with Terry Jones, John Waters, Robert Wise, and Dr K (I’ve still got Dr K’s phone number somewhere) under different circumstances.
I met Steve Martin; he’s a real prick irl (well, he was to me, but that could say more about me than him.)
I didn’t sleep with any of them, though.
Divine Angel said:
Just reading a “spill the tea” thread on Reddit and it is glorious.My celeb encounters:
- stood behind Paul Mercurio at Bowral cinema for one of the Harry Potter movies.
- Peter Garrett was a regular client at the physical therapy place I worked at in Mittagong.
- upsold doughnuts to Liam Hemsworth. He paid by card and I said the machine required a signature. He knew what I was doing and happily provided an autograph which I stuck on the wall.
- walked straight past Mark Ruffalo at the airport because I thought it couldn’t be him (it was, and a coworker got a pic with him when he stopped for coffee)
- served Greg Evans, Mat Rogers, the blue Wiggle and Leo Sayer while working at the doughnut place
- my sister is friends with a nephew of Mel Gibson. Mel’s sister lost her house in the Blue Mts bushfires a few years ago and Mel did fuck all to help out. So when Mel lost his house in the LA fires earlier this year, it kinda seemed like karma.
- a friend from TAFE slept with Russell Crowe. He gave himself a pep talk during their encounter: “go Russ, go Russ, go Russ… atta boy, Russ”.
btm said:
Divine Angel said:
Just reading a “spill the tea” thread on Reddit and it is glorious.My celeb encounters:
- stood behind Paul Mercurio at Bowral cinema for one of the Harry Potter movies.
- Peter Garrett was a regular client at the physical therapy place I worked at in Mittagong.
- upsold doughnuts to Liam Hemsworth. He paid by card and I said the machine required a signature. He knew what I was doing and happily provided an autograph which I stuck on the wall.
- walked straight past Mark Ruffalo at the airport because I thought it couldn’t be him (it was, and a coworker got a pic with him when he stopped for coffee)
- served Greg Evans, Mat Rogers, the blue Wiggle and Leo Sayer while working at the doughnut place
- my sister is friends with a nephew of Mel Gibson. Mel’s sister lost her house in the Blue Mts bushfires a few years ago and Mel did fuck all to help out. So when Mel lost his house in the LA fires earlier this year, it kinda seemed like karma.
- a friend from TAFE slept with Russell Crowe. He gave himself a pep talk during their encounter: “go Russ, go Russ, go Russ… atta boy, Russ”.
Hmmm…
I worked with John Landis, Dan Aykroyd, Joe Morton, and several other well-known actors and musicians on the set of Blues Brothers 2000
Also worked with Terry Jones, John Waters, Robert Wise, and Dr K (I’ve still got Dr K’s phone number somewhere) under different circumstances.
I met Steve Martin; he’s a real prick irl (well, he was to me, but that could say more about me than him.)
I didn’t sleep with any of them, though.
I saw Troy Buswell in the courts and he was teased by someone in the courts waiting area.
btm said:
Divine Angel said:
Just reading a “spill the tea” thread on Reddit and it is glorious.My celeb encounters:
- stood behind Paul Mercurio at Bowral cinema for one of the Harry Potter movies.
- Peter Garrett was a regular client at the physical therapy place I worked at in Mittagong.
- upsold doughnuts to Liam Hemsworth. He paid by card and I said the machine required a signature. He knew what I was doing and happily provided an autograph which I stuck on the wall.
- walked straight past Mark Ruffalo at the airport because I thought it couldn’t be him (it was, and a coworker got a pic with him when he stopped for coffee)
- served Greg Evans, Mat Rogers, the blue Wiggle and Leo Sayer while working at the doughnut place
- my sister is friends with a nephew of Mel Gibson. Mel’s sister lost her house in the Blue Mts bushfires a few years ago and Mel did fuck all to help out. So when Mel lost his house in the LA fires earlier this year, it kinda seemed like karma.
- a friend from TAFE slept with Russell Crowe. He gave himself a pep talk during their encounter: “go Russ, go Russ, go Russ… atta boy, Russ”.
Hmmm…
I worked with John Landis, Dan Aykroyd, Joe Morton, and several other well-known actors and musicians on the set of Blues Brothers 2000
Also worked with Terry Jones, John Waters, Robert Wise, and Dr K (I’ve still got Dr K’s phone number somewhere) under different circumstances.
I met Steve Martin; he’s a real prick irl (well, he was to me, but that could say more about me than him.)
I didn’t sleep with any of them, though.
The thread said Steve Martin is bi. Also said Grimes made a love potion for Musk to fall in love with her.
…everything I read was very much taken with grains of salt.
Divine Angel said:
Just reading a “spill the tea” thread on Reddit and it is glorious.My celeb encounters:
- stood behind Paul Mercurio at Bowral cinema for one of the Harry Potter movies.
- Peter Garrett was a regular client at the physical therapy place I worked at in Mittagong.
- upsold doughnuts to Liam Hemsworth. He paid by card and I said the machine required a signature. He knew what I was doing and happily provided an autograph which I stuck on the wall.
- walked straight past Mark Ruffalo at the airport because I thought it couldn’t be him (it was, and a coworker got a pic with him when he stopped for coffee)
- served Greg Evans, Mat Rogers, the blue Wiggle and Leo Sayer while working at the doughnut place
- my sister is friends with a nephew of Mel Gibson. Mel’s sister lost her house in the Blue Mts bushfires a few years ago and Mel did fuck all to help out. So when Mel lost his house in the LA fires earlier this year, it kinda seemed like karma.
- a friend from TAFE slept with Russell Crowe. He gave himself a pep talk during their encounter: “go Russ, go Russ, go Russ… atta boy, Russ”.
Like many people I grew up visiting my friends in their homes, their famous family members were in the kitchens or in their studios. I saw some well-known Australian art being made in the studios and had sandwiches made by them. Charles Blackman’s son, Arthur Boyd’s niece and others.
I was George Smilovici’s girlfriend for 3 years during my high school years.
I smoked lots of dope with Damien Lovelock and George.
I stood behind Bob Geldof at a bar at Sydney Airport.
A friend I worked with in the Blue Mtns was a regular groupie for bands Simon and Garfunkel, often had sex with Paul Simon.
I helped Kim Basinger at the bookstore, we had a long chat about books for kids.
Oh, I worked with Noni Hazlehurst when she opened the child care centre I was running and chatted with John Jarratt about stuff as we stood on the hill and watched the festivities.
ChrispenEvan said:
I saw a dishevelled clive palmer at canberra airport.
You only need to say ‘i saw Clive Palmer’.
The ‘dishevelled’ part is taken as read.
kii said:
Oh, I worked with Noni Hazlehurst when she opened the child care centre I was running and chatted with John Jarratt about stuff as we stood on the hill and watched the festivities.
Mum worked in a fruit shop in Hazelbrook which Noni frequented.
Chatting with Kim Basinger about kids books sounds awesome.
I shared a linch table with Maggie Tabberer.
Two blokes i knew were in ‘Apocalypse Now’.
captain_spalding said:
I shared a linch table with Maggie Tabberer.Two blokes i knew were in ‘Apocalypse Now’.
“…lunch table…”
(sigh)
I saw Trump at the Perth zoo, he was peeing off the top of the climbing frame in the orangutan enclosure.
I also thought I meet his hair piece but it was a dead rat.
Cymek said:
I saw Trump at the Perth zoo, he was peeing off the top of the climbing frame in the orangutan enclosure.I also thought I meet his hair piece but it was a dead rat.
LOL oh you
captain_spalding said:
I shared a linch table with Maggie Tabberer.Two blokes i knew were in ‘Apocalypse Now’.
I went to school with the Tabberer daughters.
Norman Gunstan had a meal with me at one of his Darwin shows.
ChrispenEvan said:
Norman Gunstan had a meal with me at one of his Darwin shows.
Did he give you shaving tips?
Divine Angel said:
kii said:
Oh, I worked with Noni Hazlehurst when she opened the child care centre I was running and chatted with John Jarratt about stuff as we stood on the hill and watched the festivities.
Mum worked in a fruit shop in Hazelbrook which Noni frequented.
I shopped in that shop during the late 80s and early 90s. Son #2 liked to run out the door when he was a toddler.
kii said:
Divine Angel said:
kii said:
Oh, I worked with Noni Hazlehurst when she opened the child care centre I was running and chatted with John Jarratt about stuff as we stood on the hill and watched the festivities.
Mum worked in a fruit shop in Hazelbrook which Noni frequented.
I shopped in that shop during the late 80s and early 90s. Son #2 liked to run out the door when he was a toddler.
Mum would have been there late 90s, I think.
captain_spalding said:
captain_spalding said:
I shared a linch table with Maggie Tabberer.Two blokes i knew were in ‘Apocalypse Now’.
“…lunch table…”
(sigh)
Time for a lay-me-down before dinner.
If anyone wants me, tell them “He’s gone for a wander through the dolls’ graveyard”.
puts on jumper
I cut a bread roll in two (lengthwise.
Then flattened them out by pushing down with my hands.
Then popped them in the toaster.
then buttered them and topped them with plum jam.
Then one slipped out of my grasp and landed on the floor butter/jam side down.
Still I got to have one, washed down with a cup of tea (black and one)
Over.
Leon making a cutlery objét, completely zooted with noted incubator Shivan Gillis, as a security officer tries to come to terms with his choices.
kii said:
Leon making a cutlery objét, completely zooted with noted incubator Shivan Gillis, as a security officer tries to come to terms with his choices.
He does look like he’s rethinking his life.
“Hmmm, would I die for this prat ?”, “I could snap his neck so easily”
Cymek said:
kii said:
Leon making a cutlery objét, completely zooted with noted incubator Shivan Gillis, as a security officer tries to come to terms with his choices.
He does look like he’s rethinking his life.
“Hmmm, would I die for this prat ?”, “I could snap his neck so easily”
He could die a hero¡
I think Boomers and older Gen X need to think of a better intensifier than “on steroids”.
dv said:
I think Boomers and older Gen X need to think of a better intensifier than “on steroids”.
I’m not
on steroids.
dv said:
I think Boomers and older Gen X need to think of a better intensifier than “on steroids”.
Hulking out ?
roughbarked said:
dv said:
I think Boomers and older Gen X need to think of a better intensifier than “on steroids”.
I’m not
on steroids.
how about “on meth” then or is it too millennial
Cymek said:
dv said:
I think Boomers and older Gen X need to think of a better intensifier than “on steroids”.
Hulking out ?
I like going postal
kii said:
Leon making a cutlery objét, completely zooted with noted incubator Shivan Gillis, as a security officer tries to come to terms with his choices.
Was that description written by AI?
dv said:
I think Boomers and older Gen X need to think of a better intensifier than “on steroids”.
Was gonna say I’ve never said that but then remembered I’m practically a millennial.
Cymek said:
Cymek said:
dv said:
I think Boomers and older Gen X need to think of a better intensifier than “on steroids”.
Hulking out ?
I like going postal
I’ll settle for woke.
Divine Angel said:
dv said:
I think Boomers and older Gen X need to think of a better intensifier than “on steroids”.
Was gonna say I’ve never said that but then remembered I’m practically a millennial.
This is an example of what I’m talking up
https://youtu.be/pvUemlDoaok?si=CQ7zoBCRePlrKsAZ
Disney’s new Snow White film currently sitting on a rating of 1.9/10 on IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6208148/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Divine Angel said:
Disney’s new Snow White film currently sitting on a rating of 1.9/10 on IMDbhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt6208148/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
apparently the seven dwarves are no more due to the ban on dei.
And in breaking news, I’ve decided not to go to the P&C meeting tonight. Gonna be a long day tomorrow and I needs my beauty sleep.
Divine Angel said:
Disney’s new Snow White film currently sitting on a rating of 1.9/10 on IMDbhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt6208148/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
“While a new “Snow White” movie doesn’t automatically extend the copyright of the original story, Disney’s live-action remakes, including the new “Snow White” movie, are often seen as a way to keep characters and stories under their control, even as they enter the public domain”
Google search on “new version snow white extend copyright”
ChrispenEvan said:
Divine Angel said:
Disney’s new Snow White film currently sitting on a rating of 1.9/10 on IMDbhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt6208148/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
apparently the seven dwarves are no more due to the ban on dei.
Of Gadot’s performance, one critic wrote “She can’t sing, she can’t act, she even had trouble just standing there.”
dv said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Divine Angel said:
Disney’s new Snow White film currently sitting on a rating of 1.9/10 on IMDbhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt6208148/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
apparently the seven dwarves are no more due to the ban on dei.
Of Gadot’s performance, one critic wrote “She can’t sing, she can’t act, she even had trouble just standing there.”
Can she bowl??? 😮
Woodie said:
Divine Angel said:
Disney’s new Snow White film currently sitting on a rating of 1.9/10 on IMDbhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt6208148/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
“While a new “Snow White” movie doesn’t automatically extend the copyright of the original story, Disney’s live-action remakes, including the new “Snow White” movie, are often seen as a way to keep characters and stories under their control, even as they enter the public domain”
Google search on “new version snow white extend copyright”
Disney are experts in extending copyright law. They also use characters nearing copyright expiry as a trademark; it’s why Steamboat Mickey is seen at the beginning of newer films.
Once upon a time Disney had The Vault: they would release movies on video/DVD for a limited time so people who saw the original film could introduce their kids to it. With Disney+ and on-demand streaming of (almost) their entire catalogue, they’ve switched to remaking their greatest films into live action to continue cashing in on nostalgia.
Just back from the cardiologist, where Mrs S had an electro-cardiogram done.
That will be relayed to the clinical physician, who we see next week.
If assessment is favourable, she may then be able to again see the surgeon, to organise an operation to relieve pressure on the nerve which is being compressed between two vertebrae, causing her constant and severe pain.
The op had been scheduled for early last December, but she collapsed with a pulmonary embolism on the day before the surgery was to happen.
In a way, this was good luck, as all assessments suggest that, had the op gone ahead, the undetected P.E. would have meant almost certain death for her.
Now, after months of waiting and blood-thinners, it seems that the P.E. has shrunk quite considerably, and hopes for surical relief can be again entertained.
captain_spalding said:
Just back from the cardiologist, where Mrs S had an electro-cardiogram done.That will be relayed to the clinical physician, who we see next week.
If assessment is favourable, she may then be able to again see the surgeon, to organise an operation to relieve pressure on the nerve which is being compressed between two vertebrae, causing her constant and severe pain.
The op had been scheduled for early last December, but she collapsed with a pulmonary embolism on the day before the surgery was to happen.
In a way, this was good luck, as all assessments suggest that, had the op gone ahead, the undetected P.E. would have meant almost certain death for her.
Now, after months of waiting and blood-thinners, it seems that the P.E. has shrunk quite considerably, and hopes for surical relief can be again entertained.
Well good luck for Mrs Spalding.
dv said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Divine Angel said:
Disney’s new Snow White film currently sitting on a rating of 1.9/10 on IMDbhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt6208148/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
apparently the seven dwarves are no more due to the ban on dei.
Of Gadot’s performance, one critic wrote “She can’t sing, she can’t act, she even had trouble just standing there.”
Shades of Fred Astaire’s screen test.
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:
Just back from the cardiologist, where Mrs S had an electro-cardiogram done.That will be relayed to the clinical physician, who we see next week.
If assessment is favourable, she may then be able to again see the surgeon, to organise an operation to relieve pressure on the nerve which is being compressed between two vertebrae, causing her constant and severe pain.
The op had been scheduled for early last December, but she collapsed with a pulmonary embolism on the day before the surgery was to happen.
In a way, this was good luck, as all assessments suggest that, had the op gone ahead, the undetected P.E. would have meant almost certain death for her.
Now, after months of waiting and blood-thinners, it seems that the P.E. has shrunk quite considerably, and hopes for surical relief can be again entertained.
Well good luck for Mrs Spalding.
Also. :)
captain_spalding said:
dv said:
ChrispenEvan said:apparently the seven dwarves are no more due to the ban on dei.
Of Gadot’s performance, one critic wrote “She can’t sing, she can’t act, she even had trouble just standing there.”
Shades of Fred Astaire’s screen test.
Hey, she’s ex-Israeli Army – she can probably strip and reassemble an AK-47 in no time flat.
Neophyte said:
captain_spalding said:
dv said:Of Gadot’s performance, one critic wrote “She can’t sing, she can’t act, she even had trouble just standing there.”
Shades of Fred Astaire’s screen test.
Hey, she’s ex-Israeli Army – she can probably strip and reassemble an AK-47 in no time flat.
‘Can’t sing, can’t act, can kill you in 23 different ways.’
captain_spalding said:
Just back from the cardiologist, where Mrs S had an electro-cardiogram done.That will be relayed to the clinical physician, who we see next week.
If assessment is favourable, she may then be able to again see the surgeon, to organise an operation to relieve pressure on the nerve which is being compressed between two vertebrae, causing her constant and severe pain.
The op had been scheduled for early last December, but she collapsed with a pulmonary embolism on the day before the surgery was to happen.
In a way, this was good luck, as all assessments suggest that, had the op gone ahead, the undetected P.E. would have meant almost certain death for her.
Now, after months of waiting and blood-thinners, it seems that the P.E. has shrunk quite considerably, and hopes for surical relief can be again entertained.
That’s a wild ride. Glad she’s doing better
sarahs mum said:
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:
Just back from the cardiologist, where Mrs S had an electro-cardiogram done.That will be relayed to the clinical physician, who we see next week.
If assessment is favourable, she may then be able to again see the surgeon, to organise an operation to relieve pressure on the nerve which is being compressed between two vertebrae, causing her constant and severe pain.
The op had been scheduled for early last December, but she collapsed with a pulmonary embolism on the day before the surgery was to happen.
In a way, this was good luck, as all assessments suggest that, had the op gone ahead, the undetected P.E. would have meant almost certain death for her.
Now, after months of waiting and blood-thinners, it seems that the P.E. has shrunk quite considerably, and hopes for surical relief can be again entertained.
Well good luck for Mrs Spalding.
Also. :)
+1
captain_spalding said:
Neophyte said:
captain_spalding said:Shades of Fred Astaire’s screen test.
Hey, she’s ex-Israeli Army – she can probably strip and reassemble an AK-47 in no time flat.
‘Can’t sing, can’t act, can kill you in 23 different ways.’
especially if you are under 12.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
Peak Warming Man said:Well good luck for Mrs Spalding.
Also. :)
+1
+ 1 too.
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:Also. :)
+1
+ 1 too.
Thanks, everyone.
It’s been a rough few months, especially for Mrs S, but, i can tell you, it’s no picnic watching someone you love live in pin (as others here know only too well).
Nothing’s certain yet, but hope does glimmer.
my reading, while watching documentaries about woomera
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-test_peroxide
“High-test peroxide (HTP) is a highly concentrated (85 to 98%) solution of hydrogen peroxide, with the remainder consisting predominantly of water. In contact with a catalyst, it decomposes into a high-temperature mixture of steam and oxygen, with no remaining liquid water. It was used as a propellant of HTP rockets and torpedoes, and has been used for high-performance vernier engines.
Properties
Hydrogen peroxide works best as a propellant in extremely high concentrations (roughly over 70%). Although any concentration of peroxide will generate some hot gas (oxygen plus some steam), at concentrations above approximately 67%, the heat of decomposing hydrogen peroxide becomes large enough to completely vaporize all the liquid at standard pressure………………..”
Neophyte said:
captain_spalding said:
dv said:Of Gadot’s performance, one critic wrote “She can’t sing, she can’t act, she even had trouble just standing there.”
Shades of Fred Astaire’s screen test.
Hey, she’s ex-Israeli Army – she can probably strip and reassemble an AK-47 in no time flat.
transition said:
my reading, while watching documentaries about woomerahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-test_peroxide
“High-test peroxide (HTP) is a highly concentrated (85 to 98%) solution of hydrogen peroxide, with the remainder consisting predominantly of water. In contact with a catalyst, it decomposes into a high-temperature mixture of steam and oxygen, with no remaining liquid water. It was used as a propellant of HTP rockets and torpedoes, and has been used for high-performance vernier engines.
Properties
Hydrogen peroxide works best as a propellant in extremely high concentrations (roughly over 70%). Although any concentration of peroxide will generate some hot gas (oxygen plus some steam), at concentrations above approximately 67%, the heat of decomposing hydrogen peroxide becomes large enough to completely vaporize all the liquid at standard pressure………………..”
I worked with it – not directly but with the various machinery that was used to contain & move it around – and it’s really dangerously nasty stuff.
Who would have thought it? The UK – home of the deep-fried Mars bar, river sewage and Hull – has the worst life expectancy of anywhere in western Europe.
Those born in the wards of Great Britain and Northern Ireland can expect to live for 80.9 years, compared to the average of 81.5 years across the 27 countries in the EU.
transition said:
my reading, while watching documentaries about woomerahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-test_peroxide
“High-test peroxide (HTP) is a highly concentrated (85 to 98%) solution of hydrogen peroxide, with the remainder consisting predominantly of water. In contact with a catalyst, it decomposes into a high-temperature mixture of steam and oxygen, with no remaining liquid water. It was used as a propellant of HTP rockets and torpedoes, and has been used for high-performance vernier engines.
Properties
Hydrogen peroxide works best as a propellant in extremely high concentrations (roughly over 70%). Although any concentration of peroxide will generate some hot gas (oxygen plus some steam), at concentrations above approximately 67%, the heat of decomposing hydrogen peroxide becomes large enough to completely vaporize all the liquid at standard pressure………………..”
Will it dissolve body.
Asking for a friend.
Peak Warming Man said:
Who would have thought it? The UK – home of the deep-fried Mars bar, river sewage and Hull – has the worst life expectancy of anywhere in western Europe.
Those born in the wards of Great Britain and Northern Ireland can expect to live for 80.9 years, compared to the average of 81.5 years across the 27 countries in the EU.
still, 0.6 of a year is neither here nor there really.
Seems all sides agree on this one:
The Guardian says: “Snow White review – toe-curlingly terrible live-action remake”
The Australian says: “Believe the anti-hype. Disney’s Snow White really is that bad”
Peak Warming Man said:
Who would have thought it? The UK – home of the deep-fried Mars bar, river sewage and Hull – has the worst life expectancy of anywhere in western Europe.
Those born in the wards of Great Britain and Northern Ireland can expect to live for 80.9 years, compared to the average of 81.5 years across the 27 countries in the EU.
I’ll need a ruling on the bounds of Western Europe.
Spiny Norman said:
transition said:
my reading, while watching documentaries about woomerahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-test_peroxide
“High-test peroxide (HTP) is a highly concentrated (85 to 98%) solution of hydrogen peroxide, with the remainder consisting predominantly of water. In contact with a catalyst, it decomposes into a high-temperature mixture of steam and oxygen, with no remaining liquid water. It was used as a propellant of HTP rockets and torpedoes, and has been used for high-performance vernier engines.
Properties
Hydrogen peroxide works best as a propellant in extremely high concentrations (roughly over 70%). Although any concentration of peroxide will generate some hot gas (oxygen plus some steam), at concentrations above approximately 67%, the heat of decomposing hydrogen peroxide becomes large enough to completely vaporize all the liquid at standard pressure………………..”
I worked with it – not directly but with the various machinery that was used to contain & move it around – and it’s really dangerously nasty stuff.
and now documentaries continues
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireflash
“Fireflash was the United Kingdom’s first air-to-air guided missile to see service with the Royal Air Force. Constructed by Fairey Aviation, the missile utilised radar beam riding guidance. Fireflash had relatively limited performance and required the launching aircraft to approach the target from a limited angle astern.
The approximately 300 production Fireflash missiles were mostly expended as a training weapon to familiarize RAF pilots with missile firing. It was declared operational very briefly in 1957, thus becoming the RAF’s first operational air-to-air missile, but was quickly replaced by the de Havilland Firestreak the next year…”
I heard they want to demolish the Gabba. Have to be a billion dollars worth of land there to offset the cost of the new stadium.
Witty Rejoinder said:
I heard they want to demolish the Gabba. Have to be a billion dollars worth of land there to offset the cost of the new stadium.
Somebody might want to redevelop it into a greyhound racing track.
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
I heard they want to demolish the Gabba. Have to be a billion dollars worth of land there to offset the cost of the new stadium.
Somebody might want to redevelop it into a greyhound racing track.
Is this some WE-centric reference about the Waca i’m supposed to understand? :-)
Making various slide shows of my Graveyard of the Dolls AI image series, and I’m going to compose an ambient soundtrack for them and upload to Choob.
Trouble is, linking these images at decently high resolution makes for damn big MP4 files. But can’t be helped I suppose.
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
I heard they want to demolish the Gabba. Have to be a billion dollars worth of land there to offset the cost of the new stadium.
Somebody might want to redevelop it into a greyhound racing track.
Is this some WE-centric reference about the Waca i’m supposed to understand? :-)
talking of capital gains.. I had a look at the Victoria Park re-development and here is where the apartment we bough last year is…
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
I heard they want to demolish the Gabba. Have to be a billion dollars worth of land there to offset the cost of the new stadium.
Somebody might want to redevelop it into a greyhound racing track.
Is this some WE-centric reference about the Waca i’m supposed to understand? :-)
No.
in the 1970s and 80s the Gabba had a dog track around the outside in between the boundary and the grandstands. The redevelopment that removed the dog track was controversial at the time.
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:Somebody might want to redevelop it into a greyhound racing track.
Is this some WE-centric reference about the Waca i’m supposed to understand? :-)
No.
in the 1970s and 80s the Gabba had a dog track around the outside in between the boundary and the grandstands. The redevelopment that removed the dog track was controversial at the time.
Interesting. Couldn’t recall that at all.
diddly-squat said:
talking of capital gains.. I had a look at the Victoria Park re-development and here is where the apartment we bough last year is…
i bought some tshirts.
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:Somebody might want to redevelop it into a greyhound racing track.
Is this some WE-centric reference about the Waca i’m supposed to understand? :-)
No.
in the 1970s and 80s the Gabba had a dog track around the outside in between the boundary and the grandstands. The redevelopment that removed the dog track was controversial at the time.
from
https://historyofgreyhoundracing.com/opening-night-at-the-gabba-first-gm-john-hicks/
Witty Rejoinder said:
I heard they want to demolish the Gabba. Have to be a billion dollars worth of land there to offset the cost of the new stadium.
I think your valuation of the ‘Gabba’s land is extraordinarily optimistic.
Michael V said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
I heard they want to demolish the Gabba. Have to be a billion dollars worth of land there to offset the cost of the new stadium.
I think your valuation of the ‘Gabba’s land is extraordinarily optimistic.
Even if they were to allow 4-6 thirty storey apartment towers to be built there?
9 minute slide show of Graveyard of the Dolls images, no music. Just a first try.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
I heard they want to demolish the Gabba. Have to be a billion dollars worth of land there to offset the cost of the new stadium.
I think your valuation of the ‘Gabba’s land is extraordinarily optimistic.
Even if they were to allow 4-6 thirty storey apartment towers to be built there?
It would make it much more difficult to kick a goal.
Or are the apartment towers now the goal posts?
Bubblecar said:
9 minute slide show of Graveyard of the Dolls images, no music. Just a first try.
Set the Quality to 1080 for best resolution.
If you don’t want to sit through 9 minutes of it, you can speed it up to double time :)
Witty Rejoinder said:
Michael V said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
I heard they want to demolish the Gabba. Have to be a billion dollars worth of land there to offset the cost of the new stadium.
I think your valuation of the ‘Gabba’s land is extraordinarily optimistic.
Even if they were to allow 4-6 thirty storey apartment towers to be built there?
Oh, total redeveloped value? Maybe. Dunno.
Showery top of 26 today. It’s excursion day! Have to be at school by 7.15am and will get back to the school by 3.30pm. Long day.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 12 degrees at the back door, some light in the East. We are forecast a partly cloudy 23.
Suupermarketing this morning, archery this afternoon.
Morning Pilgrims.
Nothing of any moment to report.
Over.
Partly cloudy 24 expected here. The new graphics card might be arriving today, or tomorrow, according to the PO tracker.
Either way I don’t think I’ll install it until the weekend. I need to read up on what to do. Haven’t changed a graphics card for many years.
So it’s mostly housework today, the major adventure being the putting out of the bins.
Bubblecar said:
Partly cloudy 24 expected here. The new graphics card might be arriving today, or tomorrow, according to the PO tracker.Either way I don’t think I’ll install it until the weekend. I need to read up on what to do. Haven’t changed a graphics card for many years.
So it’s mostly housework today, the major adventure being the putting out of the bins.
Do you have a back up computer?
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Partly cloudy 24 expected here. The new graphics card might be arriving today, or tomorrow, according to the PO tracker.Either way I don’t think I’ll install it until the weekend. I need to read up on what to do. Haven’t changed a graphics card for many years.
So it’s mostly housework today, the major adventure being the putting out of the bins.
Do you have a back up computer?
Yes.
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Partly cloudy 24 expected here. The new graphics card might be arriving today, or tomorrow, according to the PO tracker.Either way I don’t think I’ll install it until the weekend. I need to read up on what to do. Haven’t changed a graphics card for many years.
So it’s mostly housework today, the major adventure being the putting out of the bins.
Do you have a back up computer?
Yes.
As seen in this snap, the back-up computer (right, under the printer desk) lives next-door-but-one to the “new” computer (left).
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:Do you have a back up computer?
Yes.
As seen in this snap, the back-up computer (right, under the printer desk) lives next-door-but-one to the “new” computer (left).
As the old saying goes, “you have everything that opens and shuts”.
i’ll make my own breakfast, you’re no good at it, endless disappointment that way, I wouldn’t let you look after my budgie
transition said:
i’ll make my own breakfast, you’re no good at it, endless disappointment that way, I wouldn’t let you look after my budgie
You’re right, I’ve never blended rice bubbles with grated carrot before, I’d probably get it wrong.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:Do you have a back up computer?
Yes.
As seen in this snap, the back-up computer (right, under the printer desk) lives next-door-but-one to the “new” computer (left).
Roger.
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
i’ll make my own breakfast, you’re no good at it, endless disappointment that way, I wouldn’t let you look after my budgie
You’re right, I’ve never blended rice bubbles with grated carrot before, I’d probably get it wrong.
you’re nasty in the morning, i’m not talking to you ever again, how do you feel about that, i’m going to alienate you into extinction, take that, pommie lowlife come out here to australia ruin the place
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
i’ll make my own breakfast, you’re no good at it, endless disappointment that way, I wouldn’t let you look after my budgie
You’re right, I’ve never blended rice bubbles with grated carrot before, I’d probably get it wrong.
i’m an expert with grated raw beet.
gots windly monsters out there, had to get up lastnight just after crawled into be and wet down upwind south east, nots like dust, might gives me obstructive pulmonary obstructionism, sneaks up on me one day
Well Ken the postman has visited, but he only delivered a few tiny railway toys*, no new graphics card.
*a new brass bell & whistle and some brass ladders.
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
i’ll make my own breakfast, you’re no good at it, endless disappointment that way, I wouldn’t let you look after my budgie
You’re right, I’ve never blended rice bubbles with grated carrot before, I’d probably get it wrong.
i’m an expert with grated raw beet.
Tamb said:
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:You’re right, I’ve never blended rice bubbles with grated carrot before, I’d probably get it wrong.
i’m an expert with grated raw beet.
A member of the beet generation?
and the beat goes on…
cleaned out my handbag and found a scrabble piece. An M3. I do not own a scrabble set.
sarahs mum said:
cleaned out my handbag and found a scrabble piece. An M3. I do not own a scrabble set.
just 99 tiles to go
sarahs mum said:
cleaned out my handbag and found a scrabble piece. An M3. I do not own a scrabble set.
Now try and remember the last time your handbag and a scrabble set were in the same room, ;)
sarahs mum said:
cleaned out my handbag and found a scrabble piece. An M3. I do not own a scrabble set.
Your grandkids?
sarahs mum said:
cleaned out my handbag and found a scrabble piece. An M3. I do not own a scrabble set.
Could be an omen.
roughbarked said:
sarahs mum said:
cleaned out my handbag and found a scrabble piece. An M3. I do not own a scrabble set.
Now try and remember the last time your handbag and a scrabble set were in the same room, ;)
um. shall try harder.
kii said:
sarahs mum said:
cleaned out my handbag and found a scrabble piece. An M3. I do not own a scrabble set.
Your grandkids?
i don’t think so.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
cleaned out my handbag and found a scrabble piece. An M3. I do not own a scrabble set.
Could be an omen.
that’s it. a sign.
sarahs mum said:
cleaned out my handbag and found a scrabble piece. An M3. I do not own a scrabble set.
Grandkids, hey.
Hello
Cymek said:
Hello
Greetings.
Peak Warming Man said:
Cymek said:
Hello
Greetings.
sarahs mum said:
cleaned out my handbag and found a scrabble piece. An M3. I do not own a scrabble set.
It’s a sign from god that you should buy an antique submachinegun.
I’m back from shopping. We took the dogs to the bakery for their weekly shared Party Pie. I et an eclair. I think the baker should stop making those… Shopping has been put away. I think I’ll do some more mycology note taking this afternoon before going to archery. I’m picking the useful bits out of a book now. Then I’ll add them in to my personal notes later.
Looking at the specs of the new $500 NVIDIA graphics card that’s coming tomorrow, it’s a bit depressing. It actually has less RAM than my existing AMD card: 8GB vs 10GB.
But apparently NVIDIA has other advantages over AMD which may compensate, and of course it should be very much quicker at AI processing, which is optimised for NVIDIA.
Bubblecar said:
Looking at the specs of the new $500 NVIDIA graphics card that’s coming tomorrow, it’s a bit depressing. It actually has less RAM than my existing AMD card: 8GB vs 10GB.But apparently NVIDIA has other advantages over AMD which may compensate, and of course it should be very much quicker at AI processing, which is optimised for NVIDIA.
Yeah they Nvidia cards are generally better than AMD cards for several things. For example I used to run an AMD card in my PC and it was okay for Solidworks, but in the last rebuild I fitted an Nvidia 3070 and it’s much better as Solidworks is built to take advantage of Nvidia hardware. It’s also built for Intel cpu’s and I have an AMD 3700X, but it seems to still run just fine.
The AMD cpu’s are (typically) better at multi-core type processing, the Intel’s are better at single-core grunt, and Solidworks only runs on a single core at a time.
Watching The Residence on Netflix. Lol…LOLOL 😆 those Australians 😆
Spiny Norman said:
Bubblecar said:
Looking at the specs of the new $500 NVIDIA graphics card that’s coming tomorrow, it’s a bit depressing. It actually has less RAM than my existing AMD card: 8GB vs 10GB.But apparently NVIDIA has other advantages over AMD which may compensate, and of course it should be very much quicker at AI processing, which is optimised for NVIDIA.
Yeah they Nvidia cards are generally better than AMD cards for several things. For example I used to run an AMD card in my PC and it was okay for Solidworks, but in the last rebuild I fitted an Nvidia 3070 and it’s much better as Solidworks is built to take advantage of Nvidia hardware. It’s also built for Intel cpu’s and I have an AMD 3700X, but it seems to still run just fine.
The AMD cpu’s are (typically) better at multi-core type processing, the Intel’s are better at single-core grunt, and Solidworks only runs on a single core at a time.
I have an Intel 6-core CPU. It’ll be interesting to compare the NVIDIA games performance and so on with my current AMD card.
https://theconversation.com/are-labels-like-autism-and-adhd-more-constraining-than-liberating-a-clinician-argues-diagnosis-has-gone-too-far-247138
sarahs mum said:
https://theconversation.com/are-labels-like-autism-and-adhd-more-constraining-than-liberating-a-clinician-argues-diagnosis-has-gone-too-far-247138
Do seem to be vast numbers of people supposedly on this or that “spectrum” these days.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
https://theconversation.com/are-labels-like-autism-and-adhd-more-constraining-than-liberating-a-clinician-argues-diagnosis-has-gone-too-far-247138
Do seem to be vast numbers of people supposedly on this or that “spectrum” these days.
I’m sure if given the chance my mother would have had me medicated through childhood.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
https://theconversation.com/are-labels-like-autism-and-adhd-more-constraining-than-liberating-a-clinician-argues-diagnosis-has-gone-too-far-247138
Do seem to be vast numbers of people supposedly on this or that “spectrum” these days.
LOLOLOLOL 😆
sarahs mum said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
https://theconversation.com/are-labels-like-autism-and-adhd-more-constraining-than-liberating-a-clinician-argues-diagnosis-has-gone-too-far-247138
Do seem to be vast numbers of people supposedly on this or that “spectrum” these days.
I’m sure if given the chance my mother would have had me medicated through childhood.
I wish I had been assessed, and medicated if necessary, during my childhood.
Well I’m a happy chappie.
Been talking to ChatGPT about some ideas for rocket engines, it’s interested in looking at some CAd files of them so it can do some CFD analysis for me.
Spiny Norman said:
Well I’m a happy chappie.
Been talking to ChatGPT about some ideas for rocket engines, it’s interested in looking at some CAd files of them so it can do some CFD analysis for me.
Heh.
Rather sad clue in today’s Times crossword, reminded me of sibeen.
Child in frivolous programme (5)
Finally home. Great excursion, lots of fun. It was very steep and slippery with unstable gravel and tree roots everywhere so my knee is very unhappy right now. I think all the kids found “gold” so they were happy.
Divine Angel said:
Finally home. Great excursion, lots of fun. It was very steep and slippery with unstable gravel and tree roots everywhere so my knee is very unhappy right now. I think all the kids found “gold” so they were happy.
Must have been salted if all the kids found some. Voltaren for the knee?
Per my post last night about a Tesla in the local Westfield, I happen to know the centre manager there (he’s a school parent). I asked if every Westfield had a Tesla or just them, and it’s just them. They’ve had many complaints but the rent for that space is sky high sooooo money always wins.
I didn’t mention some of the complaints were me using fake names and email addresses 🫢
roughbarked said:
Divine Angel said:
Finally home. Great excursion, lots of fun. It was very steep and slippery with unstable gravel and tree roots everywhere so my knee is very unhappy right now. I think all the kids found “gold” so they were happy.
Must have been salted if all the kids found some. Voltaren for the knee?
Rocks painted gold lol.
I actually have some snake oil placebo cream for my knee. It’s amazing stuff and I won’t hear a word against it.
Divine Angel said:
Per my post last night about a Tesla in the local Westfield, I happen to know the centre manager there (he’s a school parent). I asked if every Westfield had a Tesla or just them, and it’s just them. They’ve had many complaints but the rent for that space is sky high sooooo money always wins.I didn’t mention some of the complaints were me using fake names and email addresses 🫢
well as an anti-Tesla activist, you can now forget entry to the good ol’ U.S of A
Divine Angel said:
roughbarked said:
Divine Angel said:
Finally home. Great excursion, lots of fun. It was very steep and slippery with unstable gravel and tree roots everywhere so my knee is very unhappy right now. I think all the kids found “gold” so they were happy.
Must have been salted if all the kids found some. Voltaren for the knee?
Rocks painted gold lol.
I actually have some snake oil placebo cream for my knee. It’s amazing stuff and I won’t hear a word against it.
How many snakes go into a bottle?
Divine Angel said:
Per my post last night about a Tesla in the local Westfield, I happen to know the centre manager there (he’s a school parent). I asked if every Westfield had a Tesla or just them, and it’s just them. They’ve had many complaints but the rent for that space is sky high sooooo money always wins.I didn’t mention some of the complaints were me using fake names and email addresses 🫢
they could always donate a separate space for some kind of inclusivity display
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:
Per my post last night about a Tesla in the local Westfield, I happen to know the centre manager there (he’s a school parent). I asked if every Westfield had a Tesla or just them, and it’s just them. They’ve had many complaints but the rent for that space is sky high sooooo money always wins.I didn’t mention some of the complaints were me using fake names and email addresses 🫢
well as an anti-Tesla activist, you can now forget entry to the good ol’ U.S of A
Divine Angel said:
roughbarked said:
Divine Angel said:
Finally home. Great excursion, lots of fun. It was very steep and slippery with unstable gravel and tree roots everywhere so my knee is very unhappy right now. I think all the kids found “gold” so they were happy.
Must have been salted if all the kids found some. Voltaren for the knee?
Rocks painted gold lol.
I actually have some snake oil placebo cream for my knee. It’s amazing stuff and I won’t hear a word against it.
Placebos are really weird. They work even if you know they’re placebos. If you pay for it, it works better than if it’s free; if you’re offered two, one at a higher price than the other, the more expensive one will work better — even if you know they’re both placebos.
dinner will be.
transition said:
dinner will be.
Sounds filling.
transition said:
dinner will be.
Already scoffed this end, a fine casserole.
That’s my belly full and no mistake.
btm said:
Divine Angel said:
roughbarked said:Must have been salted if all the kids found some. Voltaren for the knee?
Rocks painted gold lol.
I actually have some snake oil placebo cream for my knee. It’s amazing stuff and I won’t hear a word against it.
Placebos are really weird. They work even if you know they’re placebos. If you pay for it, it works better than if it’s free; if you’re offered two, one at a higher price than the other, the more expensive one will work better — even if you know they’re both placebos.
That’s the gist of luxury beauty brands.
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
dinner will be.
Already scoffed this end, a fine casserole.
That’s my belly full and no mistake.
i’m going to eat now, probably be safe you seem to have satiated, won’t take my food off me like ya usually do, ya bully, here I am all emaciated
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
dinner will be.
Already scoffed this end, a fine casserole.
That’s my belly full and no mistake.
i’m going to eat now, probably be safe you seem to have satiated, won’t take my food off me like ya usually do, ya bully, here I am all emaciated
Bangers & mash, and is that a hint of green or just onions?
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
Bubblecar said:Already scoffed this end, a fine casserole.
That’s my belly full and no mistake.
i’m going to eat now, probably be safe you seem to have satiated, won’t take my food off me like ya usually do, ya bully, here I am all emaciated
Bangers & mash, and is that a hint of green or just onions?
burnt onions
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
Bubblecar said:Already scoffed this end, a fine casserole.
That’s my belly full and no mistake.
i’m going to eat now, probably be safe you seem to have satiated, won’t take my food off me like ya usually do, ya bully, here I am all emaciated
Bangers & mash, and is that a hint of green or just onions?
might be dark green food colouring?
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:i’m going to eat now, probably be safe you seem to have satiated, won’t take my food off me like ya usually do, ya bully, here I am all emaciated
Bangers & mash, and is that a hint of green or just onions?
burnt onions
Ah.
btm said:
Divine Angel said:
roughbarked said:
Must have been salted if all the kids found some. Voltaren for the knee?
Rocks painted gold lol.
I actually have some snake oil placebo cream for my knee. It’s amazing stuff and I won’t hear a word against it.
Placebos are really weird. They work even if you know they’re placebos. If you pay for it, it works better than if it’s free; if you’re offered two, one at a higher price than the other, the more expensive one will work better — even if you know they’re both placebos.
The best part is that the more it hurts the more effective it is¡
btm said:
Divine Angel said:
roughbarked said:Must have been salted if all the kids found some. Voltaren for the knee?
Rocks painted gold lol.
I actually have some snake oil placebo cream for my knee. It’s amazing stuff and I won’t hear a word against it.
Placebos are really weird. They work even if you know they’re placebos. If you pay for it, it works better than if it’s free; if you’re offered two, one at a higher price than the other, the more expensive one will work better — even if you know they’re both placebos.
:)
transition said:
Bubblecar said:
transition said:
dinner will be.
Already scoffed this end, a fine casserole.
That’s my belly full and no mistake.
i’m going to eat now, probably be safe you seem to have satiated, won’t take my food off me like ya usually do, ya bully, here I am all emaciated
Are you sure that isn’t just the picture you put up yesterday with the plate (or the picture) rotated through 90 degrees? Looks the same to me.
Turns out I’m smarter than a bus load of fifth graders. Whilst stuck in traffic, the bus driver gave the kids a few riddles. None of the kids got any right but I got them all right.
There are 100 seats on the bus. If I have a box of tickets with 8 on them, how many do I have to give out? (Basically, how many times does 8 appear if counting to 100)
What has four letters, sometimes has nine letters, but never has three and five letters.
It’s my son’s birthday today. I call it his half minute birthday. How old is he?
When I was two, my sister was half my age. I’m fifty, how old’s my sister?
How many numbers are in the alphabet? (Actually most of the kids got that right. Most.)
Divine Angel said:
What has four letters, sometimes has nine letters, but never has three and five letters.
yes
buffy said:
transition said:
Bubblecar said:Already scoffed this end, a fine casserole.
That’s my belly full and no mistake.
i’m going to eat now, probably be safe you seem to have satiated, won’t take my food off me like ya usually do, ya bully, here I am all emaciated
Are you sure that isn’t just the picture you put up yesterday with the plate (or the picture) rotated through 90 degrees? Looks the same to me.
it’s my job to bore you
and i’ve wet down upwind, and inner yard also
transition said:
buffy said:
transition said:i’m going to eat now, probably be safe you seem to have satiated, won’t take my food off me like ya usually do, ya bully, here I am all emaciated
Are you sure that isn’t just the picture you put up yesterday with the plate (or the picture) rotated through 90 degrees? Looks the same to me.
it’s my job to bore you
and i’ve wet down upwind, and inner yard also
as compensation here is a picture of larry shortly moments not too long ago, he was just rolling making motorbike sounds, I think you would have been impressed if you were
“It’s my son’s birthday today. I call it his half minute birthday. How old is he?”
Had to look that one up.
Got it now.
The Rev Dodgson said:
“It’s my son’s birthday today. I call it his half minute birthday. How old is he?”Had to look that one up.
Got it now.
That one stumped me for a good number of minutes… until I said it out loud.
The Rev Dodgson said:
“It’s my son’s birthday today. I call it his half minute birthday. How old is he?”Had to look that one up.
Got it now.
30 I suppose
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
“It’s my son’s birthday today. I call it his half minute birthday. How old is he?”Had to look that one up.
Got it now.
30 I suppose
bloody engineers quoting 1 significant figures
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
“It’s my son’s birthday today. I call it his half minute birthday. How old is he?”Had to look that one up.
Got it now.
30 I suppose
Incorrect.
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
“It’s my son’s birthday today. I call it his half minute birthday. How old is he?”Had to look that one up.
Got it now.
30 I suppose
32
Divine Angel said:
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
“It’s my son’s birthday today. I call it his half minute birthday. How old is he?”Had to look that one up.
Got it now.
30 I suppose
Incorrect.
Then 32
dv said:
Divine Angel said:
dv said:30 I suppose
Incorrect.
Then 32
Bingo
there ya go, for buffy, looking for some excitement. I walked down there, was a peregrine studying the dinner menu
transition said:
there ya go, for buffy, looking for some excitement. I walked down there, was a peregrine studying the dinner menu
I saw two pelicans today. I was driving along and thinking “those are rather enormous birds flying over Bulrush Swamp”. Then they flew over my car and I could ID them. Didn’t have the camera with me.
Coming down the mountain on the dirt road to the redoubt this afternoon, it was raining heavily, came round a corner and there was a D9 or some such working on the road.
I was only going very slowly but got caught up in his mush and slipped off the road into a ditch.
Anyway the bloke pulled me out, no damage done.
It all happened in slow motion, I was lucky.
Peak Warming Man said:
Coming down the mountain on the dirt road to the redoubt this afternoon, it was raining heavily, came round a corner and there was a D9 or some such working on the road.
I was only going very slowly but got caught up in his mush and slipped off the road into a ditch.
Anyway the bloke pulled me out, no damage done.
It all happened in slow motion, I was lucky.
You were just about due a new ute.
DV: As discussed a week or two back:
Tesla’s headwinds are strengthening—protests, slowing sales, and a rough ride in Europe and China. But not everyone’s betting against the EV giant. Ark Investment’s Cathie Wood is doubling down, predicting Tesla shares will soar to $2,600 in five years, driven by a robotaxi revolution. Elon Musk’s fans seem to agree—they’re scooping up Tesla shares like never before. Boom or bust, the clock is ticking for the company.
Witty Rejoinder said:
DV: As discussed a week or two back:Tesla’s headwinds are strengthening—protests, slowing sales, and a rough ride in Europe and China. But not everyone’s betting against the EV giant. Ark Investment’s Cathie Wood is doubling down, predicting Tesla shares will soar to $2,600 in five years, driven by a robotaxi revolution. Elon Musk’s fans seem to agree—they’re scooping up Tesla shares like never before. Boom or bust, the clock is ticking for the company.
The whole Tesla show is driven by some hyped up future ‘what if’ scenario and never based upon solid business fundamentals in the here and now. That is the Tesla business model.
Peak Warming Man said:
Coming down the mountain on the dirt road to the redoubt this afternoon, it was raining heavily, came round a corner and there was a D9 or some such working on the road.
I was only going very slowly but got caught up in his mush and slipped off the road into a ditch.
Anyway the bloke pulled me out, no damage done.
It all happened in slow motion, I was lucky.
I hope you didn’t damage the D9 with the Triton. They’re expensive to repair.
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
DV: As discussed a week or two back:Tesla’s headwinds are strengthening—protests, slowing sales, and a rough ride in Europe and China. But not everyone’s betting against the EV giant. Ark Investment’s Cathie Wood is doubling down, predicting Tesla shares will soar to $2,600 in five years, driven by a robotaxi revolution. Elon Musk’s fans seem to agree—they’re scooping up Tesla shares like never before. Boom or bust, the clock is ticking for the company.
The whole Tesla show is driven by some hyped up future ‘what if’ scenario and never based upon solid business fundamentals in the here and now. That is the Tesla business model.
Not disagreeing. Just providing a ref for the ‘self driving’ ambitions baked into Tesla’s market cap.
Witty Rejoinder said:
DV: As discussed a week or two back:Tesla’s headwinds are strengthening—protests, slowing sales, and a rough ride in Europe and China. But not everyone’s betting against the EV giant. Ark Investment’s Cathie Wood is doubling down, predicting Tesla shares will soar to $2,600 in five years, driven by a robotaxi revolution. Elon Musk’s fans seem to agree—they’re scooping up Tesla shares like never before. Boom or bust, the clock is ticking for the company.
Okay but TSLA is still down 40% since the start of the year so such “fans” are not too common.
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
DV: As discussed a week or two back:Tesla’s headwinds are strengthening—protests, slowing sales, and a rough ride in Europe and China. But not everyone’s betting against the EV giant. Ark Investment’s Cathie Wood is doubling down, predicting Tesla shares will soar to $2,600 in five years, driven by a robotaxi revolution. Elon Musk’s fans seem to agree—they’re scooping up Tesla shares like never before. Boom or bust, the clock is ticking for the company.
The whole Tesla show is driven by some hyped up future ‘what if’ scenario and never based upon solid business fundamentals in the here and now. That is the Tesla business model.
Not disagreeing. Just providing a ref for the ‘self driving’ ambitions baked into Tesla’s market cap.
it should be so easy to kill Teslsa stock. If a few countries just pre-emptively ban such technology from any foreign company as a potential security risk.
Peak Warming Man said:
Coming down the mountain on the dirt road to the redoubt this afternoon, it was raining heavily, came round a corner and there was a D9 or some such working on the road.
I was only going very slowly but got caught up in his mush and slipped off the road into a ditch.
Anyway the bloke pulled me out, no damage done.
It all happened in slow motion, I was lucky.
I’ll say.
party_pants said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
party_pants said:The whole Tesla show is driven by some hyped up future ‘what if’ scenario and never based upon solid business fundamentals in the here and now. That is the Tesla business model.
Not disagreeing. Just providing a ref for the ‘self driving’ ambitions baked into Tesla’s market cap.
it should be so easy to kill Teslsa stock. If a few countries just pre-emptively ban such technology from any foreign company as a potential security risk.
I like your thinking.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/26/miniature-dachshund-valerie-lost-kangaroo-island-south-australia-found-alive
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/18ibmKPdYV/
Fuck
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/26/miniature-dachshund-valerie-lost-kangaroo-island-south-australia-found-alive
Well I hope she is having a nice time.
dv said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/26/miniature-dachshund-valerie-lost-kangaroo-island-south-australia-found-alive
Well I hope she is having a nice time.
i think they are optimistic to think she has been surviving on road kill. they are hunting dogs.
Peak Warming Man said:
Coming down the mountain on the dirt road to the redoubt this afternoon, it was raining heavily, came round a corner and there was a D9 or some such working on the road.
I was only going very slowly but got caught up in his mush and slipped off the road into a ditch.
Anyway the bloke pulled me out, no damage done.
It all happened in slow motion, I was lucky.
Did you do any damage to the ditch?
Still receiving my Survivor’s Benefits from SSA.
I’m a good little orphan! LOLOL….it’s a joke.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 11 degrees at the back door, dark and still. We are forecast 25 degrees with a shower or two clearing.
Heading over to the bush covenant this morning for a wander with my bushwandering friend. Mr buffy has decided to come too. He will trundle around on the bracken slasher rideon while we wander. Then we will all have a picnic lunch.
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 11 degrees at the back door, dark and still. We are forecast 25 degrees with a shower or two clearing.Heading over to the bush covenant this morning for a wander with my bushwandering friend. Mr buffy has decided to come too. He will trundle around on the bracken slasher rideon while we wander. Then we will all have a picnic lunch.
That sounds pleasant.
Heading for 23 here, mostly sunny. I’ll be visiting the shops for non-Coles items. Coles delivery will be some time after 2pm.
Before then, I’ll be hoovering a few rooms and various other light housework.
Very wet at the redoubt, I’ll be leaving early, hope the road is passable.
More showers and a top of 25 today.
Dreamed I needed a fasciotomy on my leg and had a gnarly scar because of it.
Divine Angel said:
More showers and a top of 25 today.Dreamed I needed a fasciotomy on my leg and had a gnarly scar because of it.
Internets say:
A fasciotomy is a surgical procedure where the fascia (a tough connective tissue layer) is cut to relieve pressure within a muscle compartment, primarily used to treat acute or chronic compartment syndrome, a condition where pressure buildup restricts blood flow and can cause tissue damage.
Bubblecar said:
Divine Angel said:
More showers and a top of 25 today.
Dreamed I needed a fasciotomy on my leg and had a gnarly scar because of it.
Internets say:
A fasciotomy is a surgical procedure where the fascia (a tough connective tissue layer) is cut to relieve pressure within a muscle compartment, primarily used to treat acute or chronic compartment syndrome, a condition where pressure buildup restricts blood flow and can cause tissue damage.
Peak Warming Man said:
Very wet at the redoubt, I’ll be leaving early, hope the road is passable.
Drive carefully, you can’t afford to write off another vehicle.
SCIENCE said:
Bubblecar said:
Divine Angel said:
More showers and a top of 25 today.
Dreamed I needed a fasciotomy on my leg and had a gnarly scar because of it.
Internets say:
A fasciotomy is a surgical procedure where the fascia (a tough connective tissue layer) is cut to relieve pressure within a muscle compartment, primarily used to treat acute or chronic compartment syndrome, a condition where pressure buildup restricts blood flow and can cause tissue damage.
Talking about food, Coles have informed me they won’t be arriving until “between 7pm and 8pm”.
So unless I want a late dinner I’ll have get something from the IGA.
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Very wet at the redoubt, I’ll be leaving early, hope the road is passable.
Drive carefully, you can’t afford to write off another vehicle.
Getting out of the redoubt is the hard part, I’ll take it steady.
Right I’m out of here.
Peak Warming Man said:
Right I’m out of here.
Good luck and Godspeed
Good morning everybody.
Take care PWM. Even when you get back up to the top tar.
It’s 18.1° C, 99% RH, overcast, pouring rain and gentle to fresh breezes. I’ll be most surprised if the ORB has less in it than yesterday (61 mm) at 9 am. BoM forecasts a top of 24° C and rain all day.
Leftover rice and curry on toast for breakfast for me. Mrs V will have low kJ stuff on toast, I imagine. Lunch? Who knows? Dinner: tomato, ginger, egg flower soup, IIRC.
More indoors unplanned work today.
Oz Post has confirmed that the new graphics card will be delivered today but it has to be signed for, so I’ll wait for Ken to visit before I go galivanting anywhere. He shouldn’t be long.
Bubblecar said:
Oz Post has confirmed that the new graphics card will be delivered today but it has to be signed for, so I’ll wait for Ken to visit before I go galivanting anywhere. He shouldn’t be long.
…AND he’s just delivered it, along with a new Japanese-style cabbage grater.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Oz Post has confirmed that the new graphics card will be delivered today but it has to be signed for, so I’ll wait for Ken to visit before I go galivanting anywhere. He shouldn’t be long.
…AND he’s just delivered it, along with a new Japanese-style cabbage grater.
Presumably so you can take your revenge on the graphics card if its performance proves to be disappointing.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Oz Post has confirmed that the new graphics card will be delivered today but it has to be signed for, so I’ll wait for Ken to visit before I go galivanting anywhere. He shouldn’t be long.
…AND he’s just delivered it, along with a new Japanese-style cabbage grater.
Good-oh.
What is the grater like?
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Oz Post has confirmed that the new graphics card will be delivered today but it has to be signed for, so I’ll wait for Ken to visit before I go galivanting anywhere. He shouldn’t be long.
…AND he’s just delivered it, along with a new Japanese-style cabbage grater.
Presumably so you can take your revenge on the graphics card if its performance proves to be disappointing.
Heh.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
Oz Post has confirmed that the new graphics card will be delivered today but it has to be signed for, so I’ll wait for Ken to visit before I go galivanting anywhere. He shouldn’t be long.
…AND he’s just delivered it, along with a new Japanese-style cabbage grater.
Good-oh.
What is the grater like?
Just one of these ones. Apparently every Japanese kitchen has one.
OK off to the shops, let’s go.
Bubblecar said:
OK off to the shops, let’s go.
I’ll just stay at home and browse the Internet, maybe do some work, if you don’t mind.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:…AND he’s just delivered it, along with a new Japanese-style cabbage grater.
Good-oh.
What is the grater like?
Just one of these ones. Apparently every Japanese kitchen has one.
Ah. A mandolin.
Ta.
Let us know how it works, please.
:)
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
OK off to the shops, let’s go.
I’ll just stay at home and browse the Internet, maybe do some work, if you don’t mind.
I’m not going outside. It’s raining heavily and windy and generally quite miserable.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:Good-oh.
What is the grater like?
Just one of these ones. Apparently every Japanese kitchen has one.
Ah. A mandolin.
Ta.
Let us know how it works, please.
:)
My father made one in the 70s, to shred cabbage for his sauerkraut preparation. set-up in the laundry,
kii said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:Just one of these ones. Apparently every Japanese kitchen has one.
Ah. A mandolin.
Ta.
Let us know how it works, please.
:)
My father made one in the 70s, to shred cabbage for his sauerkraut preparation. set-up in the laundry,
:)
When I make kimchi, I cut the cabbage with a knife.
I should make some more – I haven’t for a while now.
This one’s for Bill. No I didn’t post this.
.
Divine Angel said:
This one’s for Bill. No I didn’t post this.
Ha! I’d forgotten about the terrifying smiley loaf!
Hello
Cymek said:
Hello
Howdy
with some assistance the Cartela is refloated.
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Bubblecar said:
OK off to the shops, let’s go.
I’ll just stay at home and browse the Internet, maybe do some work, if you don’t mind.
I’m not going outside. It’s raining heavily and windy and generally quite miserable.
Alfred 2.0
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I’ll just stay at home and browse the Internet, maybe do some work, if you don’t mind.
I’m not going outside. It’s raining heavily and windy and generally quite miserable.
Alfred 2.0
Anyway it’s currently dry but cool and overcast here. No wind.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
The Rev Dodgson said:I’ll just stay at home and browse the Internet, maybe do some work, if you don’t mind.
I’m not going outside. It’s raining heavily and windy and generally quite miserable.
Alfred 2.0
Nah. Just a cold, rainy, windy, miserable grey day.
:(
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:I’m not going outside. It’s raining heavily and windy and generally quite miserable.
Alfred 2.0
Nah. Just a cold, rainy, windy, miserable grey day.
:(
blue skies here.
The word “retarded” is a moderately common technical term in signal processing and it’s not so great to get flagged for its use.
kii said:
Still receiving my Survivor’s Benefits from SSA.I’m a good little orphan! LOLOL….it’s a joke.
It’s a hard knock life
dv said:
The word “retarded” is a moderately common technical term in signal processing and it’s not so great to get flagged for its use.
Facebork?
dv said:
The word “retarded” is a moderately common technical term in signal processing and it’s not so great to get flagged for its use.
and chemistry
SCIENCE said:
dv said:
The word “retarded” is a moderately common technical term in signal processing and it’s not so great to get flagged for its use.
and chemistry
And car engine ignition timing.
my reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_the_Great
“Catherine II (born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst; 2 May 1729 – 17 November 1796), most commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the reigning empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. She came to power after overthrowing her husband, Peter III. Under her long reign, inspired by the ideas of the Enlightenment, Russia experienced a renaissance of culture and sciences, which led to the founding of many new cities, universities, and theatres, along with large-scale immigration from the rest of Europe and the recognition of Russia as one of the great powers of Europe….”
The Twister – Caught in the Storm
Documentary about the twister that hit Joplin, Missouri in 2011.
Just a bit amazing.
Anyway, Obama spoke at the local high school graduation in 2012. A nice reminder about what a normal man he is. I cried.
The gay guy who survived. The Rapture dominated his younger years and he worried about being gay and not being raptured. Fuck
kii said:
The Twister – Caught in the Storm
Documentary about the twister that hit Joplin, Missouri in 2011.Just a bit amazing.
Anyway, Obama spoke at the local high school graduation in 2012. A nice reminder about what a normal man he is. I cried.
The gay guy who survived. The Rapture dominated his younger years and he worried about being gay and not being raptured. Fuck
I saw a cartoon a long time ago, based around the premise that ‘Rapture’ was a misprint, and when the day came, a lot of people simultaneously suffered abdominal hernias.
transition said:
my readinghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_the_Great
“Catherine II (born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst; 2 May 1729 – 17 November 1796), most commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the reigning empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. She came to power after overthrowing her husband, Peter III. Under her long reign, inspired by the ideas of the Enlightenment, Russia experienced a renaissance of culture and sciences, which led to the founding of many new cities, universities, and theatres, along with large-scale immigration from the rest of Europe and the recognition of Russia as one of the great powers of Europe….”
and…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightened_absolutism
“Enlightened absolutism, also called enlightened despotism, refers to the conduct and policies of European absolute monarchs during the 18th and early 19th centuries who were influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment, espousing them to enhance their power. The concept originated during the Enlightenment period in the 18th and into the early 19th centuries. An enlightened absolutist is a non-democratic or authoritarian leader who exercises their political power based upon the principles of the Enlightenment. Enlightened monarchs distinguished themselves from ordinary rulers by claiming to rule for their subjects’ well-being. John Stuart Mill stated that despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.
Enlightened absolutists’ beliefs about royal power were typically similar to those of regular despots, both recognizing that they were destined to rule. Enlightened rulers may have played a part in the abolition of serfdom in Europe…”
kii said:
The Twister – Caught in the Storm
Documentary about the twister that hit Joplin, Missouri in 2011.Just a bit amazing.
Anyway, Obama spoke at the local high school graduation in 2012. A nice reminder about what a normal man he is. I cried.
The gay guy who survived. The Rapture dominated his younger years and he worried about being gay and not being raptured. Fuck
Would be hard to reconcile that.
I don’t suppose anyone told him if you are a good man, you being gay is irrelevant
captain_spalding said:
kii said:
The Twister – Caught in the Storm
Documentary about the twister that hit Joplin, Missouri in 2011.Just a bit amazing.
Anyway, Obama spoke at the local high school graduation in 2012. A nice reminder about what a normal man he is. I cried.
The gay guy who survived. The Rapture dominated his younger years and he worried about being gay and not being raptured. Fuck
I saw a cartoon a long time ago, based around the premise that ‘Rapture’ was a misprint, and when the day came, a lot of people simultaneously suffered abdominal hernias.
:)
captain_spalding said:
kii said:
The Twister – Caught in the Storm
Documentary about the twister that hit Joplin, Missouri in 2011.Just a bit amazing.
Anyway, Obama spoke at the local high school graduation in 2012. A nice reminder about what a normal man he is. I cried.
The gay guy who survived. The Rapture dominated his younger years and he worried about being gay and not being raptured. Fuck
I saw a cartoon a long time ago, based around the premise that ‘Rapture’ was a misprint, and when the day came, a lot of people simultaneously suffered abdominal hernias.
This was better than rupture…have your organs and bones eaten by a fungal infection.
Zygomycosis
Days after the tornado occurred, several of the tornado’s victims began to show strange symptoms. Upon looking into them, doctors determined that these victims had contracted zygomycosis, a fungal infection that causes blisters and ulcers before the affected areas turn black.
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
kii said:
The Twister – Caught in the Storm
Documentary about the twister that hit Joplin, Missouri in 2011.Just a bit amazing.
Anyway, Obama spoke at the local high school graduation in 2012. A nice reminder about what a normal man he is. I cried.
The gay guy who survived. The Rapture dominated his younger years and he worried about being gay and not being raptured. Fuck
I saw a cartoon a long time ago, based around the premise that ‘Rapture’ was a misprint, and when the day came, a lot of people simultaneously suffered abdominal hernias.
:)
Reminded here of the Palmer Roadside Billboard back there with the arse trumpets.
Home is the hunter, home from the hill
Peak Warming Man said:
Home is the hunter, home from the hill
It was the thoughts and prayers I sent. Thank me later.
kii said:
captain_spalding said:
kii said:
The Twister – Caught in the Storm
Documentary about the twister that hit Joplin, Missouri in 2011.Just a bit amazing.
Anyway, Obama spoke at the local high school graduation in 2012. A nice reminder about what a normal man he is. I cried.
The gay guy who survived. The Rapture dominated his younger years and he worried about being gay and not being raptured. Fuck
I saw a cartoon a long time ago, based around the premise that ‘Rapture’ was a misprint, and when the day came, a lot of people simultaneously suffered abdominal hernias.
This was better than rupture…have your organs and bones eaten by a fungal infection.
Zygomycosis
Days after the tornado occurred, several of the tornado’s victims began to show strange symptoms. Upon looking into them, doctors determined that these victims had contracted zygomycosis, a fungal infection that causes blisters and ulcers before the affected areas turn black.
Yuk.
Peak Warming Man said:
Home is the hunter, home from the hill
Safe and sound, I hope.
How were the dirt sections?
Planned outage for maintenance on our NBN next Wednesday, from 8-5. Yay 😒
Divine Angel said:
Planned outage for maintenance on our NBN next Wednesday, from 8-5. Yay 😒
Damnation.
Email from Coles. Various substitutions in today’s order, but I’m happy with them, especially the eggs, which are now the ones I originally ordered but was told they were out of stock.
What you ordered: Coles Baby Sugarloaf Cabbage
What we’ve substituted: Coles Half Savoy Cabbage
What you ordered: Coles Free Range Eggs 12 Pack 600g
What we’ve substituted: Coles Free Range Eggs 12 Pack 700g
What you ordered: Sandhurst Capers Baby Wine Vinegar 110g
What we’ve substituted: Coles Baby Capers 110g
apparently scavengers reject salmon fat balls.
sarahs mum said:
apparently scavengers reject salmon fat balls.
It’s the fish fat balls that the scavengers reject…
sarahs mum said:
apparently scavengers reject salmon fat balls.
Is that one of the DOGE kids?
Trust me, if more of you watched Severance, you’d find this bloody hilarious.
https://fb.watch/yAv4qLwR6o/?
sarahs mum said:
The hoard is likely to be one of the largest hoards that we’ve ever encountered not just in
Britain but perhaps in Europe. Find of a lifetime. My initial reaction was this is an exciting
discovery, but it was only really when we went back to excavate the the hoard and we opened up a much
larger area that I think Peter and I and all of the team realised we’re on to something really
exciting. When we had opened up and we realised there was much more material than we originally
could see we understood that this was a hoard that was, you know, of a kind of scale and size that
you know is exceptional for Britain and probably even Europe. The hoard includes over 800 individual
items and that’s lots of different kind of material. The vast majority of that material
is what we call horse harness. Those things like bridle bits and bits of decoration for horses or
ponies as they really were in the Iron Age. What’s unusual about the hoard is it also includes lots
of pieces of the vehicles that came with them, so the bits that held the wheels on and actually
the tires themselves. We have 28 iron tires from those vehicles. What we’ve also discovered
from this hoard which again makes it very unusual is it looks like those vehicles are perhaps four – wheeled
wagons rather than the sort of two – wheeled chariots that most people are perhaps
a bit more familiar with from the British Iron Age. It also included two vessels, a cauldron and
a wine mixing bowl and also some things like iron spearheads, so a whole collection of material.
The bowl is really interesting because it’s decorated with coral. We think that coral probably comes
from the Mediterranean. It’s very unusual for an object like that to have coral decoration on
it and what that tells us is the kind of links and connections that people had you know across Europe
to be able to get the material to decorate an object in that way and it’s an incredibly
elaborate object, so this is something that would have impressed anybody in Iron Age Britain who
could see and use that kind of vessel. In terms of the dating of the material we’re still waiting on
scientific dating to be exactly sure when it dates from. We can look at the material that we
have at the moment and it probably dates from the early to mid – 1st century AD so that’s a
few decades perhaps before the Roman conquest of Northern Britain. So Peter Heads found the
first signal of the find whilst metal detecting in the field with the landowner’s permission
and we’re really grateful to him for being really efficient at reporting the find and working with
Durham University with a plan to excavate it and take it through the treasure process. I was
amazed when I kind of heard about the find. Tom rang me in the morning to say what had
been found. I’d worked on Iron Age sites before. When I started my career I worked on a chariot
burial site and as Tom explained what had been found I kind of realised how important it was.
I was able then to get in touch with our commissions team in Historic England. We all
understood just how important this was both for the university, for the British Museum, for Historic England
and for the nation. The deposit at Melsonby actually consisted of two deposits.
One larger one, but also this separate deposit. We were able to and fortunate to be able to
excavate that as a block so we could remove that from site and excavate that in the laboratory.
That’s really useful because that means we can do it under even more careful conditions.
For a conservator, it’s not really the size that matters. What’s most important are the materials
that something’s made of and in this case the find is made of a lot of metals. They take up salts in
the ground and that can cause them to corrode very rapidly, so we need to stabilise them as quickly as
possible. With the block we could see in the field that we had a series of very fragile copper alloy
tubes and they would be damaged if we excavated them, so in that case we wrapped it in plaster
bandage and then lifted it out of the ground. The first thing was to try to understand what
was inside it, so we took it to Southampton and had it CT scanned there which gave us a sense of
what we might encounter. We’ve now decided that whilst we’ve removed the soil from around the
block, that we won’t remove all the items from it because they’re fused together in a kind of
bundle of objects and that’s really interesting because it shows how they were deposited in the
ground, probably in some kind of wrapping or bag. So we can see exactly how these things were kind
of deposited in one go, and so we’re hoping that that will stay together as a block where you
can see the finds in it but not actually prized apart. The process of actually excavating those
finds of finding more and more elaborate objects and exciting objects you know, I think all of us
were quite awestruck as we were digging it that this just went on and on. So my reaction to the find
when it was discovered is a feeling of awe. Awe in both senses of the word. Wonder, because it’s quite
incredible to have all this material preserved together and to be able to excavate it, but
also a slight feeling of fear. This is an awful lot of material that we’ve got to record to you
know, be responsible for. Our working theory at the moment is that it’s been gathered together and
maybe heated in a sort of big bonfire or perhaps a pire, and this has deliberately destroyed the items
and then they’ve been thrown into this big ditch, and so some of them broken further through this
process and then there were stones put into the ditch as well and that’s damaged them even more.
And why this happened you know is something that you could debate for for many years but we
think it’s it’s a deliberate taking these items out of circulation. So stopping those vehicles from
being used, stopping the harness from being worn by the animals and showing that you’ve got the
wealth and power to be able to destroy that much material. This find in terms of the significance
for understanding Iron Age Britain is, it’s high up there it because we have the context information
So although sometimes it can seem like a wealth of objects is really important for giving us
new information, it’s how those objects went together, what happened to them, how they’ve been
buried, their environment that is significant in this case. One of the interesting aspects of this
hoard, is that it’s from northern Britain, it’s from Yorkshire. Now we tend to think when we’re Iron
Age scholars that it’s the wealthy material, the wealthy individuals were in the south of
Britain. It’s now clear that we have individuals who are incredibly wealthy and have incredible
connections, probably across northern Britain, perhaps across Europe, that they can amass this
amount of wealth and then destroy it and deposit it within a ditch. It’s worth remembering that
the kind of material we have, it looks impressive now but in the Iron Age this is the most valuable
kind of material you can have. So seven wagon vehicles potentially. This is a huge amount of
wealth, so whoever’s depositing this material is destroying an incredible amount of valuable
objects. So they’re potentially deliberately saying they can consume if you like this kind of wealth
and just destroy it perhaps as part of an event like a funeral. Research on the hoard at Melsonby
is only really just beginning. A hoard of this kind of scale takes significant work to just document
all the finds that need to be photographed, x-rayed and recorded and all of that material needs to be
conserved, so we need to stabilise it so that that material doesn’t corrode or degrade any
further before it gets deposited in the museum. That takes a considerable amount of time
and painstaking work, so it’s actually taken 2 years to undertake that work before we can
then actually analyse a lot of that material. The hoard at Melsonby is incredibly significant and will
lead to lots of re-evaluation for understanding of Iron Age Britain. This find isn’t just nationally
important, it’s internationally important. What I want to see happen to this hoard is, I’d love to
see it go on display. I’d love to the public to be able to see it, to be able to appreciate it,
to be amazed by it. I want the public to just understand how rich the past was, how rich the
detail is, but also it’s all about telling stories. You tell us what you think happened, what
you think happened at the event that led to these things being deposited in the ground. What do you
think was going on? What can you see in this block? And I hope it’s kind of displayed in that spirit
Divine Angel said:
Trust me, if more of you watched Severance, you’d find this bloody hilarious.https://fb.watch/yAv4qLwR6o/?
that’s just scary
The Sun Makers
Now this one I remember very well. A satire, and one of the better stories from Doctor Who Season 15.
In the distant future, The Company has depleted the resources of Earth and Mars. The Company has now set up shop on Pluto. Most humans live in abject servitude to The Company, dwelling in Megropolises (cubic cities 1 km high) with heat and light provided by six artificial suns. The Doctor and Leela spark a revolution.
Richard Leech plays the obsequious Hade, and his flattery epithets for The Collector become more absurd as the story draws on. “Your Orotundity, my MegroGuards are outnumbered by the rabble.”
One feature that this story shares with other DW class warfare stories, unfortunately in my view, is that the ruling class turn out to be aliens. The Collector is from (sigh) the planet Usurius.
MANDREL: But I think it could work. And what have we got to lose?
DOCTOR: Only your claims.
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:
Trust me, if more of you watched Severance, you’d find this bloody hilarious.https://fb.watch/yAv4qLwR6o/?
that’s just scary
Did your outie not enjoy that?
Divine Angel said:
diddly-squat said:
Divine Angel said:
Trust me, if more of you watched Severance, you’d find this bloody hilarious.https://fb.watch/yAv4qLwR6o/?
that’s just scary
Did your outie not enjoy that?
that person’s outie is a monster
sarahs mum said:
It’s very impressive.
But such large numbers of small ornate bits of debris, very hard to identify, remind me much of the ambient bits and pieces of scatter I’ve been generating in AI scenes.
captain_spalding said:
sarahs mum said:
apparently scavengers reject salmon fat balls.
It’s the fish fat balls that the scavengers reject…
LOL
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Interesting, thanks.
I’ve always wondered what future archaeologists would make of the mess we’ve left behind.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Interesting, thanks.
I’ve always wondered what future archaeologists would make of the mess we’ve left behind.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
sarahs mum said:
Interesting, thanks.
I’ve always wondered what future archaeologists would make of the mess we’ve left behind.
add that our layer contains lots of dug up layers from other times.
sarahs mum said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:Interesting, thanks.
I’ve always wondered what future archaeologists would make of the mess we’ve left behind.
add that our layer contains lots of dug up layers from other times.
Indeed. Plus the fact that our rubbish covers up quite a lot.
Meanwhile, North Korean media reports Kim Jong Un has watched tests of his country’s first AI-equipped suicide drones.
He reportedly said AI capability should be a top priority in weapons development.
North Korea also officially unveiled an airborne early-warning aircraft.
Top of 38 expected today, which is certainly on the high-end for late March.
dv said:
Top of 38 expected today, which is certainly on the high-end for late March.
It has been a warm one.
Divine Angel said:
Trust me, if more of you watched Severance, you’d find this bloody hilarious.https://fb.watch/yAv4qLwR6o/?
is she the same woman who does the what hole does this fit. that’s right, the square hole.
ChrispenEvan said:
Divine Angel said:
Trust me, if more of you watched Severance, you’d find this bloody hilarious.https://fb.watch/yAv4qLwR6o/?
is she the same woman who does the what hole does this fit. that’s right, the square hole.
looking at both together, it isn’t. the facial expression were similar.
ChrispenEvan said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Divine Angel said:
Trust me, if more of you watched Severance, you’d find this bloody hilarious.https://fb.watch/yAv4qLwR6o/?
is she the same woman who does the what hole does this fit. that’s right, the square hole.
looking at both together, it isn’t. the facial expression were similar.
It’s not
Imagine the memorials Trump will get when he dies.
I have to commend me boy’s school for giving balanced information on the benefits and potiential harms of processed food.
I think this is a bit weird, but each to their own. Although every time I make scrambled eggs I recall the weird way my ex’s parents made it: in boiling water. The first time he saw me make scrambled eggs he said, “that’s not how you scramble eggs” and I’m like, “I assure you, it most certainly is”.
my scrambled eggs like Dad made it.
half a cup of milk per egg. beat well. pour into buttered frypan, pepper and salt, perhaps chopped parsley, and put on lid. cook until you think you can smell eggs cooked. remove from pan in toast sized pieces.
result is like a quichey custard. so much better than rubbery egg balls…
dv said:
ChrispenEvan said:
ChrispenEvan said:is she the same woman who does the what hole does this fit. that’s right, the square hole.
looking at both together, it isn’t. the facial expression were similar.
It’s not
is that not what i said?
ChrispenEvan said:
dv said:
ChrispenEvan said:looking at both together, it isn’t. the facial expression were similar.
It’s not
is that not what i said?
What am I, your stenographer?
Also one is an Australian actress in an Australian Bureau of Statistics video and the other popular American YouTuber Alison Burke (tired_actor). Which is which will be left as an exercise for the reader.
Divine Angel said:
I think this is a bit weird, but each to their own. Although every time I make scrambled eggs I recall the weird way my ex’s parents made it: in boiling water. The first time he saw me make scrambled eggs he said, “that’s not how you scramble eggs” and I’m like, “I assure you, it most certainly is”.
How on earth does one cook scrambled eggs in boiling water?
dv said:
ChrispenEvan said:
dv said:It’s not
is that not what i said?
What am I, your stenographer?
Also one is an Australian actress in an Australian Bureau of Statistics video and the other popular American YouTuber Alison Burke (tired_actor). Which is which will be left as an exercise for the reader.
You just needed to read my correction which you quoted to see i admitted my error. it is neither surgery nor science rocket related or otherwise.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
I think this is a bit weird, but each to their own. Although every time I make scrambled eggs I recall the weird way my ex’s parents made it: in boiling water. The first time he saw me make scrambled eggs he said, “that’s not how you scramble eggs” and I’m like, “I assure you, it most certainly is”.
How on earth does one cook scrambled eggs in boiling water?
https://youtube.com/shorts/f3g4Ax1afOQ?si=peYeF6BlnHy9TR39
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
I think this is a bit weird, but each to their own. Although every time I make scrambled eggs I recall the weird way my ex’s parents made it: in boiling water. The first time he saw me make scrambled eggs he said, “that’s not how you scramble eggs” and I’m like, “I assure you, it most certainly is”.
How on earth does one cook scrambled eggs in boiling water?
https://youtube.com/shorts/f3g4Ax1afOQ?si=peYeF6BlnHy9TR39
I’m not a fan of this method. Even after draining it still tastes very watery. FTR he preferred my pan-scrambled milky eggs.
Divine Angel said:
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:How on earth does one cook scrambled eggs in boiling water?
https://youtube.com/shorts/f3g4Ax1afOQ?si=peYeF6BlnHy9TR39
I’m not a fan of this method. Even after draining it still tastes very watery. FTR he preferred my pan-scrambled milky eggs.
So maybe I am still a part of his life if he continues to pan-scramble his eggs.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
I think this is a bit weird, but each to their own. Although every time I make scrambled eggs I recall the weird way my ex’s parents made it: in boiling water. The first time he saw me make scrambled eggs he said, “that’s not how you scramble eggs” and I’m like, “I assure you, it most certainly is”.
How on earth does one cook scrambled eggs in boiling water?
https://youtube.com/shorts/f3g4Ax1afOQ?si=peYeF6BlnHy9TR39
OK, ta.
TIL
Not that dissimilar to making egg flour soup, I suppose.
ChrispenEvan said:
dv said:
ChrispenEvan said:is that not what i said?
What am I, your stenographer?
Also one is an Australian actress in an Australian Bureau of Statistics video and the other popular American YouTuber Alison Burke (tired_actor). Which is which will be left as an exercise for the reader.
You just needed to read my correction which you quoted to see i admitted my error. it is neither surgery nor science rocket related or otherwise.
Very well. That is indeed what you said.
Divine Angel said:
Divine Angel said:
Divine Angel said:https://youtube.com/shorts/f3g4Ax1afOQ?si=peYeF6BlnHy9TR39
I’m not a fan of this method. Even after draining it still tastes very watery. FTR he preferred my pan-scrambled milky eggs.
So maybe I am still a part of his life if he continues to pan-scramble his eggs.
Which is what the original post was about. The circles of life…
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
I think this is a bit weird, but each to their own. Although every time I make scrambled eggs I recall the weird way my ex’s parents made it: in boiling water. The first time he saw me make scrambled eggs he said, “that’s not how you scramble eggs” and I’m like, “I assure you, it most certainly is”.
How on earth does one cook scrambled eggs in boiling water?
https://youtube.com/shorts/f3g4Ax1afOQ?si=peYeF6BlnHy9TR39
I’m very sorry but you’re going to prison now.
dv said:
ChrispenEvan said:
dv said:What am I, your stenographer?
Also one is an Australian actress in an Australian Bureau of Statistics video and the other popular American YouTuber Alison Burke (tired_actor). Which is which will be left as an exercise for the reader.
You just needed to read my correction which you quoted to see i admitted my error. it is neither surgery nor science rocket related or otherwise.
Very well. That is indeed what you said.
glad i’m not completely delulu.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Divine Angel said:I’m not a fan of this method. Even after draining it still tastes very watery. FTR he preferred my pan-scrambled milky eggs.
So maybe I am still a part of his life if he continues to pan-scramble his eggs.
Which is what the original post was about. The circles of life…
life is linear.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
I think this is a bit weird, but each to their own. Although every time I make scrambled eggs I recall the weird way my ex’s parents made it: in boiling water. The first time he saw me make scrambled eggs he said, “that’s not how you scramble eggs” and I’m like, “I assure you, it most certainly is”.
How on earth does one cook scrambled eggs in boiling water?
https://youtube.com/shorts/f3g4Ax1afOQ?si=peYeF6BlnHy9TR39
that is something blooming hesterthal would come up with.
ChrispenEvan said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:So maybe I am still a part of his life if he continues to pan-scramble his eggs.
Which is what the original post was about. The circles of life…
life is linear.
Pretty bloody bumpy for something linear.
dv said:
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:How on earth does one cook scrambled eggs in boiling water?
https://youtube.com/shorts/f3g4Ax1afOQ?si=peYeF6BlnHy9TR39
I’m very sorry but you’re going to prison now.
isn’t that what they feed patients in hospital
Back from taking the Barely-Domesticated Wolf across town to t’vitnery for his regular arthritis injection. Then to Coles for vital supplies.
We’ve got a locked-in rain-depression here, so traffic progress was slow, but, i’m pleased to say, that was partly due to most people making obvious efforts to be extra cautious in the wet conditions.
captain_spalding said:
Back from taking the Barely-Domesticated Wolf across town to t’vitnery for his regular arthritis injection. Then to Coles for vital supplies.We’ve got a locked-in rain-depression here, so traffic progress was slow, but, i’m pleased to say, that was partly due to most people making obvious efforts to be extra cautious in the wet conditions.
That’s good. We have had 146 mm in the 48 hours to 9 am today. And it is continuing.
captain_spalding said:
Back from taking the Barely-Domesticated Wolf across town to t’vitnery for his regular arthritis injection. Then to Coles for vital supplies.We’ve got a locked-in rain-depression here, so traffic progress was slow, but, i’m pleased to say, that was partly due to most people making obvious efforts to be extra cautious in the wet conditions.
Pfft not here. I live on a corner and many idiots are taking the corner way too fast, using the corner as a slip n slide. One moron was mere inches from hitting the postal delivery van parked next door.
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
Back from taking the Barely-Domesticated Wolf across town to t’vitnery for his regular arthritis injection. Then to Coles for vital supplies.We’ve got a locked-in rain-depression here, so traffic progress was slow, but, i’m pleased to say, that was partly due to most people making obvious efforts to be extra cautious in the wet conditions.
That’s good. We have had 146 mm in the 48 hours to 9 am today. And it is continuing.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
Back from taking the Barely-Domesticated Wolf across town to t’vitnery for his regular arthritis injection. Then to Coles for vital supplies.We’ve got a locked-in rain-depression here, so traffic progress was slow, but, i’m pleased to say, that was partly due to most people making obvious efforts to be extra cautious in the wet conditions.
That’s good. We have had 146 mm in the 48 hours to 9 am today. And it is continuing.
Wow! Redcliffe observations say about 6mm since 9am yesterday; my pond isn’t even at the top yet let alone overflowing.
All three of the large dams which supply Toowooba’s water are now at 100% capacity.
captain_spalding said:
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:That’s good. We have had 146 mm in the 48 hours to 9 am today. And it is continuing.
Wow! Redcliffe observations say about 6mm since 9am yesterday; my pond isn’t even at the top yet let alone overflowing.All three of the large dams which supply Toowooba’s water are now at 100% capacity.
‘Toowooba’, inded.
captain_spalding said:
captain_spalding said:
Divine Angel said:Wow! Redcliffe observations say about 6mm since 9am yesterday; my pond isn’t even at the top yet let alone overflowing.
All three of the large dams which supply Toowooba’s water are now at 100% capacity.
‘Toowooba’, inded.
‘Inded’, indeed.
captain_spalding said:
captain_spalding said:
Divine Angel said:Wow! Redcliffe observations say about 6mm since 9am yesterday; my pond isn’t even at the top yet let alone overflowing.
All three of the large dams which supply Toowooba’s water are now at 100% capacity.
‘Toowooba’, inded.
LOLOL
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
Back from taking the Barely-Domesticated Wolf across town to t’vitnery for his regular arthritis injection. Then to Coles for vital supplies.We’ve got a locked-in rain-depression here, so traffic progress was slow, but, i’m pleased to say, that was partly due to most people making obvious efforts to be extra cautious in the wet conditions.
That’s good. We have had 146 mm in the 48 hours to 9 am today. And it is continuing.
Wow! Redcliffe observations say about 6mm since 9am yesterday; my pond isn’t even at the top yet let alone overflowing.
No BOM readings at Rainbow Beach for this morning. I suppose it was too wet for the reader-person. Yesterday’s morning reading was 35.6 mm. My ORB was 61 mm.
captain_spalding said:
Back from taking the Barely-Domesticated Wolf across town to t’vitnery for his regular arthritis injection. Then to Coles for vital supplies.We’ve got a locked-in rain-depression here, so traffic progress was slow, but, i’m pleased to say, that was partly due to most people making obvious efforts to be extra cautious in the wet conditions.
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:
Back from taking the Barely-Domesticated Wolf across town to t’vitnery for his regular arthritis injection. Then to Coles for vital supplies.We’ve got a locked-in rain-depression here, so traffic progress was slow, but, i’m pleased to say, that was partly due to most people making obvious efforts to be extra cautious in the wet conditions.
The traffic was pretty good coming home, apart from a few idiots doing 110 and passing everybody when it was pouring rain and poor visibility.
In general, I think road users are more responsible now than when I was young.
Peak Warming Man said:
Home is the hunter, home from the hill
Thank goodness for that. Did you need heavy equipment assistance?
captain_spalding said:
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:That’s good. We have had 146 mm in the 48 hours to 9 am today. And it is continuing.
Wow! Redcliffe observations say about 6mm since 9am yesterday; my pond isn’t even at the top yet let alone overflowing.All three of the large dams which supply Toowooba’s water are now at 100% capacity.
Well, send some down here – ours are at 30% and would be even less if they hadn’t turned the crank to get the desalination plant going.
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Home is the hunter, home from the hill
Thank goodness for that. Did you need heavy equipment assistance?
Ummm……no.
Michael V said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Michael V said:
Which is what the original post was about. The circles of life…
life is linear.
Pretty bloody bumpy for something linear.
Life Is Geodesic Unless You Do Work
Peak Warming Man said:
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:
Back from taking the Barely-Domesticated Wolf across town to t’vitnery for his regular arthritis injection. Then to Coles for vital supplies.
We’ve got a locked-in rain-depression here, so traffic progress was slow, but, i’m pleased to say, that was partly due to most people making obvious efforts to be extra cautious in the wet conditions.
The traffic was pretty good coming home, apart from a few idiots doing 110 and passing everybody when it was pouring rain and poor visibility.
In general, I think road users are more responsible now than when I was young.
that’s what 爱 is for
Drew Struzan is in the final stages of Alzheimer’s. You mightn’t know his name, but you’ve surely seen his artwork, as he’s created some iconic movie posters.
Coles delivery expected sometime within the next hour. Or so.
Bubblecar said:
Coles delivery expected sometime within the next hour. Or so.
paces up and down
Divine Angel said:
Drew Struzan is in the final stages of Alzheimer’s. You mightn’t know his name, but you’ve surely seen his artwork, as he’s created some iconic movie posters.
Poor bugger.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Coles delivery expected sometime within the next hour. Or so.
paces up and down
Relax, pour yourself a scotch. I’m about to do the same.
Divine Angel said:
Drew Struzan is in the final stages of Alzheimer’s. You mightn’t know his name, but you’ve surely seen his artwork, as he’s created some iconic movie posters.
He said the digital revolution and use of PhotoShop wiped out about three quarters of his business.
LOL
Talking about scotch, I’ve just been listening to my Danse Macabre, which is mostly a fine dance of death but does include this little chant towards the end, in faux-Scottish:
Why flow thy tears, Nan?
Where has thy Babby gan?
He’s gan to fight in the wars
And nay, he never cam hame.
Damn all the lords
And damn ye, the devils
That rule in our name!
Neophyte said:
Divine Angel said:
Drew Struzan is in the final stages of Alzheimer’s. You mightn’t know his name, but you’ve surely seen his artwork, as he’s created some iconic movie posters.
He said the digital revolution and use of PhotoShop wiped out about three quarters of his business.
Just Wait Until He Hears About Stable Diffusion Andor Other 爱gen Functions
Peak Warming Man said:
LOL
shrug we got trolled when that magic show got disrupted by one of the magicians diving 14 stories
Bubblecar said:
Talking about scotch, I’ve just been listening to my Danse Macabre, which is mostly a fine dance of death but does include this little chant towards the end, in faux-Scottish:Why flow thy tears, Nan?
Where has thy Babby gan?
He’s gan to fight in the wars
And nay, he never cam hame.Damn all the lords
And damn ye, the devils
That rule in our name!
All I think of is Jonathon Creek.
Neophyte said:
Divine Angel said:
Drew Struzan is in the final stages of Alzheimer’s. You mightn’t know his name, but you’ve surely seen his artwork, as he’s created some iconic movie posters.
He said the digital revolution and use of PhotoShop wiped out about three quarters of his business.
I was just reading about his poster for Back to the Future 3, when the studio decided at the last minute they wanted Mary Steenburgen’s character added at the last minute. With no time to redo, he drew her character and taped it to the existing illustration.
Divine Angel said:
Neophyte said:
Divine Angel said:
Drew Struzan is in the final stages of Alzheimer’s. You mightn’t know his name, but you’ve surely seen his artwork, as he’s created some iconic movie posters.
He said the digital revolution and use of PhotoShop wiped out about three quarters of his business.
I was just reading about his poster for Back to the Future 3, when the studio decided at the last minute they wanted Mary Steenburgen’s character added at the last minute. With no time to redo, he drew her character and taped it to the existing illustration.
His poster for The Thing was done literally overnight.
just checking in make sure nobody has accidentally posted the nuclear launch codes in the forum
and look markets are in a dive, how tariffic
i’ll go read some news check the inertia of the insanity continues
transition said:
just checking in make sure nobody has accidentally posted the nuclear launch codes in the forumand look markets are in a dive, how tariffic
i’ll go read some news check the inertia of the insanity continues
That’s OK. I don’t know any launch codes.
transition said:
just checking in make sure nobody has accidentally posted the nuclear launch codes in the forumand look markets are in a dive, how tariffic
i’ll go read some news check the inertia of the insanity continues
Didn’t even need codes for them in the 60s. Stupid safety guards…
And…I’ve caught up. In the meantime I’ve done a load of washing, hung it out and brung it in. Chopped up a couple of kg of tomatoes + quince + onion + MVs ginger and added garlic and ginger powder and that lot is doing the first boil for another batch of tomato sauce. I might hive some of this lot off and add herbs and reduce it down to use as pasta sauce. It freezes well. Oh, and there was some washing up done. Now I’ve got half a dozen photos from the bush to download from my camera and attempt to ID. It was very, very dry in the bush. We didn’t see any snakes, nor any flaars, nor any fungi.
buffy said:
And…I’ve caught up. In the meantime I’ve done a load of washing, hung it out and brung it in. Chopped up a couple of kg of tomatoes + quince + onion + MVs ginger and added garlic and ginger powder and that lot is doing the first boil for another batch of tomato sauce. I might hive some of this lot off and add herbs and reduce it down to use as pasta sauce. It freezes well. Oh, and there was some washing up done. Now I’ve got half a dozen photos from the bush to download from my camera and attempt to ID. It was very, very dry in the bush. We didn’t see any snakes, nor any flaars, nor any fungi.
Wont be long before Mr Buffy has to fire up the log splitter.
The summer sun is fading
As the year grows old
And darker days are drawing near
Bubblecar said:
Talking about scotch, I’ve just been listening to my Danse Macabre, which is mostly a fine dance of death but does include this little chant towards the end, in faux-Scottish:Why flow thy tears, Nan?
Where has thy Babby gan?
He’s gan to fight in the wars
And nay, he never cam hame.Damn all the lords
And damn ye, the devils
That rule in our name!
I had a 78 recording of Danse Macabre when I was a teen. I loved it.
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
And…I’ve caught up. In the meantime I’ve done a load of washing, hung it out and brung it in. Chopped up a couple of kg of tomatoes + quince + onion + MVs ginger and added garlic and ginger powder and that lot is doing the first boil for another batch of tomato sauce. I might hive some of this lot off and add herbs and reduce it down to use as pasta sauce. It freezes well. Oh, and there was some washing up done. Now I’ve got half a dozen photos from the bush to download from my camera and attempt to ID. It was very, very dry in the bush. We didn’t see any snakes, nor any flaars, nor any fungi.
Wont be long before Mr Buffy has to fire up the log splitter.
The summer sun is fading
As the year grows old
And darker days are drawing near
‘cept…tomorrow is forecast a mostly sunny 31 degrees and the rain situation is getting quite desperate. Many dry dams. Wetlands dried out almost completely. Sitting on less than 50% of longterm average rain for Jan to Mar. And 2024 only managed 72% of the longterm average. We need a really good break.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Talking about scotch, I’ve just been listening to my Danse Macabre, which is mostly a fine dance of death but does include this little chant towards the end, in faux-Scottish:Why flow thy tears, Nan?
Where has thy Babby gan?
He’s gan to fight in the wars
And nay, he never cam hame.Damn all the lords
And damn ye, the devils
That rule in our name!I had a 78 recording of Danse Macabre when I was a teen. I loved it.
This is not that one :)
It’s me playing lute, fiddle, keyboards, percussion, church organ etc. With a vocal break.
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
And…I’ve caught up. In the meantime I’ve done a load of washing, hung it out and brung it in. Chopped up a couple of kg of tomatoes + quince + onion + MVs ginger and added garlic and ginger powder and that lot is doing the first boil for another batch of tomato sauce. I might hive some of this lot off and add herbs and reduce it down to use as pasta sauce. It freezes well. Oh, and there was some washing up done. Now I’ve got half a dozen photos from the bush to download from my camera and attempt to ID. It was very, very dry in the bush. We didn’t see any snakes, nor any flaars, nor any fungi.
Wont be long before Mr Buffy has to fire up the log splitter.
The summer sun is fading
As the year grows old
And darker days are drawing near
‘cept…tomorrow is forecast a mostly sunny 31 degrees and the rain situation is getting quite desperate. Many dry dams. Wetlands dried out almost completely. Sitting on less than 50% of longterm average rain for Jan to Mar. And 2024 only managed 72% of the longterm average. We need a really good break.
Qld is hogging it all.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Talking about scotch, I’ve just been listening to my Danse Macabre, which is mostly a fine dance of death but does include this little chant towards the end, in faux-Scottish:Why flow thy tears, Nan?
Where has thy Babby gan?
He’s gan to fight in the wars
And nay, he never cam hame.Damn all the lords
And damn ye, the devils
That rule in our name!I had a 78 recording of Danse Macabre when I was a teen. I loved it.
This is not that one :)
It’s me playing lute, fiddle, keyboards, percussion, church organ etc. With a vocal break.
Nice.
:)
I cannot remember the artists who did my (1930s) record.
buffy said:
Peak Warming Man said:
buffy said:
And…I’ve caught up. In the meantime I’ve done a load of washing, hung it out and brung it in. Chopped up a couple of kg of tomatoes + quince + onion + MVs ginger and added garlic and ginger powder and that lot is doing the first boil for another batch of tomato sauce. I might hive some of this lot off and add herbs and reduce it down to use as pasta sauce. It freezes well. Oh, and there was some washing up done. Now I’ve got half a dozen photos from the bush to download from my camera and attempt to ID. It was very, very dry in the bush. We didn’t see any snakes, nor any flaars, nor any fungi.
Wont be long before Mr Buffy has to fire up the log splitter.
The summer sun is fading
As the year grows old
And darker days are drawing near
‘cept…tomorrow is forecast a mostly sunny 31 degrees and the rain situation is getting quite desperate. Many dry dams. Wetlands dried out almost completely. Sitting on less than 50% of longterm average rain for Jan to Mar. And 2024 only managed 72% of the longterm average. We need a really good break.
Have some of mine, buffy. Or all of it from yesterday and today.
buffy said:
‘cept…tomorrow is forecast a mostly sunny 31 degrees and the rain situation is getting quite desperate. Many dry dams. Wetlands dried out almost completely. Sitting on less than 50% of longterm average rain for Jan to Mar. And 2024 only managed 72% of the longterm average. We need a really good break.
I just adore rain on a tin roof, Ms Buffy. All cosyed up in bed safe and sound and snug Something primeval Something in our genes.
Woke up this morning to tinkles on the tin. I said to myself, I did. I said “I’ll get out of bed when it stops raining”.
It’s still raining. So all you lot can imply what you like out of that, hey what but!! 😎
Coles truck is here. Name: Jenny again.
Woodie said:
buffy said:‘cept…tomorrow is forecast a mostly sunny 31 degrees and the rain situation is getting quite desperate. Many dry dams. Wetlands dried out almost completely. Sitting on less than 50% of longterm average rain for Jan to Mar. And 2024 only managed 72% of the longterm average. We need a really good break.
I just adore rain on a tin roof, Ms Buffy. All cosyed up in bed safe and sound and snug Something primeval Something in our genes.
Woke up this morning to tinkles on the tin. I said to myself, I did. I said “I’ll get out of bed when it stops raining”.
It’s still raining. So all you lot can imply what you like out of that, hey what but!! 😎
Perhaps that is why I’m getting so tired. No incentive to stay in bed. And also, I always get tired towards the end of daylight saving time.
Mr buffy is watching QI rather than the Budget Reply Speech. And I’m in here at the computer looking at the Forum and plants.
Bubblecar said:
Coles truck is here. Name: Jenny again.
Did you ask Jenny in fora nice cuppa and a digestive oval?
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
Coles truck is here. Name: Jenny again.
Did you ask Jenny in fora nice cuppa and a digestive oval?
Unfortunately he was in a hurry, but I did note that he was a healthy-looking specimen.
buffy said:
Mr buffy is watching QI rather than the Budget Reply Speech. And I’m in here at the computer looking at the Forum and plants.
Mr Mutant is doing a trading course. Mini Me is watching The Simpsons. I’m foruming and playing SQworble.
Bubblecar said:
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
Coles truck is here. Name: Jenny again.
Did you ask Jenny in fora nice cuppa and a digestive oval?
Unfortunately he was in a hurry, but I did note that he was a healthy-looking specimen.
So you’d let him hold ya down, if he asked you nicely???😮
Janet Jackson has been rated by some pundit as the 14th best female singer of all time, I don’t think she even existed.
Peak Warming Man said:
Janet Jackson has been rated by some pundit as the 14th best female singer of all time, I don’t think she even existed.
That’s what THEY want you to think
1 hour documentary video.
Interesting day, there was a paddock fire about km from my house as I was coming home form work. I skirted around and avoided the area, but got home and watched the water bomber planes and helicopters fly around. That was mildly interesting.
party_pants said:
Interesting day, there was a paddock fire about km from my house as I was coming home form work. I skirted around and avoided the area, but got home and watched the water bomber planes and helicopters fly around. That was mildly interesting.
numlock on = 2 km
party_pants said:
party_pants said:
Interesting day, there was a paddock fire about km from my house as I was coming home form work. I skirted around and avoided the area, but got home and watched the water bomber planes and helicopters fly around. That was mildly interesting.
numlock on = 2 km
A likely story.
Showery and 25 today. The school cancelled sports this afternoon due to sodden grounds and more rain. Council has canceled several outdoor events scheduled for this weekend.
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 10 degrees at the back door and there is light in the East. We are forecast a mostly sunny 31 today.
I’ve got some produce to pick this morning, beans, tomatoes, maybe a little broccoli. Perhaps some weeding. And I have to finish cooking some more tomato sauce. I’ll divide this batch into some sauce (spices) and some pasta sauce (herbs).
Good morning everybody.
We have a regional blackout (not surprising considering the rain here – 162 mm, 9 am yesterday to 7 am today). I am using Mrs V’s mobile phone as a modem. (The mobile network is using its emergency backup power supply, I imagine.)
Anyway, I’ll be off-line until Energex fixes the problem.
Michael V said:
Good morning everybody.We have a regional blackout (not surprising considering the rain here – 162 mm, 9 am yesterday to 7 am today). I am using Mrs V’s mobile phone as a modem. (The mobile network is using its emergency backup power supply, I imagine.)
Anyway, I’ll be off-line until Energex fixes the problem.
A lot of rain, good luck.
I must have been paying attention. 10/10. Two were guesses that I seemed to have an inkling about. The last one and the fossil one. Why aren’t these questions numbered?
I’m back. Energex has fixed the electricity supply. Less than three hours. Good work by them.
:)
buffy said:
ABC news quizI must have been paying attention. 10/10. Two were guesses that I seemed to have an inkling about. The last one and the fossil one. Why aren’t these questions numbered?
6/10 here.
Michael V said:
I’m back. Energex has fixed the electricity supply. Less than three hours. Good work by them.:)
That’s pretty slick.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
I’m back. Energex has fixed the electricity supply. Less than three hours. Good work by them.:)
That’s pretty slick.
Someone must have given them a good talking to after the previous bit of rain.
buffy said:
ABC news quizI must have been paying attention. 10/10. Two were guesses that I seemed to have an inkling about. The last one and the fossil one. Why aren’t these questions numbered?
9/10 here stuffed up the excise one
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
I’m back. Energex has fixed the electricity supply. Less than three hours. Good work by them.:)
That’s pretty slick.
Someone must have given them a good talking to after the previous bit of rain.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
I’m back. Energex has fixed the electricity supply. Less than three hours. Good work by them.:)
That’s pretty slick.
Yes.
Credit where credit is due.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
I’m back. Energex has fixed the electricity supply. Less than three hours. Good work by them.:)
That’s pretty slick.
Someone must have given them a good talking to after the previous bit of rain.
gas lighted firming would have prevented this
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
I’m back. Energex has fixed the electricity supply. Less than three hours. Good work by them.:)
That’s pretty slick.
Yes.
Credit where credit is due.
outage fix times depend entirely on the cause. some are easier than others. i get text messages on outages and estimated times of repair. most times it comes in under, sometimes it proves to be harder and i get a new update time.
In the final episode of The Last of Us, Joel and Ellie encounter a giraffe. I thought the CGI for the giraffe looked terrible, comically amateurish, and it was surprising for a show with such high production values.
It was a real giraffe.
Masai giraffe just look weird.
buffy said:
ABC news quizI must have been paying attention. 10/10. Two were guesses that I seemed to have an inkling about. The last one and the fossil one. Why aren’t these questions numbered?
Score: 9 / 10
🏆🏆 Perfect, incredible, amazing!
I’m not sure how they can call it perfect when I got one wrong.
ChrispenEvan said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:That’s pretty slick.
Yes.
Credit where credit is due.
outage fix times depend entirely on the cause. some are easier than others. i get text messages on outages and estimated times of repair. most times it comes in under, sometimes it proves to be harder and i get a new update time.
Whatever it was (short circuit, blown fuse, broken wires, blown transformer etc), it was at least half an hour’s drive from Gympie, and I expect that the crews had to be mustered first.
I think that they did a great job.
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No text messages here – perhaps Energex could take a leaf from your supplier.
dv said:
In the final episode of The Last of Us, Joel and Ellie encounter a giraffe. I thought the CGI for the giraffe looked terrible, comically amateurish, and it was surprising for a show with such high production values.It was a real giraffe.
Masai giraffe just look weird.
that’s pretty funny
dv said:
In the final episode of The Last of Us, Joel and Ellie encounter a giraffe. I thought the CGI for the giraffe looked terrible, comically amateurish, and it was surprising for a show with such high production values.It was a real giraffe.
Masai giraffe just look weird.
Mostly, we see reticulated giraffes.
Michael V said:
dv said:
In the final episode of The Last of Us, Joel and Ellie encounter a giraffe. I thought the CGI for the giraffe looked terrible, comically amateurish, and it was surprising for a show with such high production values.
It was a real giraffe.
Masai giraffe just look weird.
Mostly, we see reticulated giraffes.
Next someone will be telling us we just patched together a bunch of animals as a stitch up and called it a platypus or some other hoax.
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:
dv said:
In the final episode of The Last of Us, Joel and Ellie encounter a giraffe. I thought the CGI for the giraffe looked terrible, comically amateurish, and it was surprising for a show with such high production values.
It was a real giraffe.
Masai giraffe just look weird.
Mostly, we see reticulated giraffes.
Next someone will be telling us we just patched together a bunch of animals as a stitch up and called it a platypus or some other hoax.
LOL
Hello
Cymek said:
Hello
Greetings
Cymek said:
Hello
Cymek said:
Hello
Nanu-nanu.
Someone should tell Bruna that when I’ve got my hands deep into the rushes in the garden, she should not have her tail in there and move it just as I reach in…my brain went “SNAKE!” Even though I knew I was standing right beside her…
buffy said:
Someone should tell Bruna that when I’ve got my hands deep into the rushes in the garden, she should not have her tail in there and move it just as I reach in…my brain went “SNAKE!” Even though I knew I was standing right beside her…
Heh.
Tamb said:
Cymek said:
Hello
G/day Western person
I too enjoy sucking on a chilean dog at the warmwater port yehaw
dv said:
Tamb said:
Cymek said:
Hello
G/day Western personI too enjoy sucking on a chilean dog at the warmwater port yehaw
not many blokes would be so frank.
which war you might ask?
I’m having a bit of a dilemma. I guess you can call it a dilemma.
We’re in catchment for High School A. I do not want Mini Me to go to High School A, for a number of reasons. Mini Me wants to go to High School B, which is strict about not accepting out-of-catchment students, but all her friends are going there. So I’d chosen High School C, which isn’t as strict and a fine school. Kids she knows, but isn’t friends with, will go to that school.
Yesterday I learned about High School B’s Program of Excellence for the Arts. For the POE, they accept out-of-catchment students, so this is the only way she could attend the school. This school also has a STEM Institute, but if she’s accepted into the POE, she’s ineligible to study STEM in-depth at their Institute. At High School C, they lack an Institute but they do have a STEM pathway.
On a totally different note:
When I sat down I discovered my shorts were blood soaked. Not a good thing.
Investigation revealed that I’d been victim of leech attack. My shorts & undies were covered with dried blood.I suspect a Tiger leech. They can reach 40 mm. 
Tamb said:
On a totally different note:
When I sat down I discovered my shorts were blood soaked. Not a good thing.
Investigation revealed that I’d been victim of leech attack. My shorts & undies were covered with dried blood.I suspect a Tiger leech. They can reach 40 mm.
bivalirudin
Divine Angel said:
I’m having a bit of a dilemma. I guess you can call it a dilemma.We’re in catchment for High School A. I do not want Mini Me to go to High School A, for a number of reasons. Mini Me wants to go to High School B, which is strict about not accepting out-of-catchment students, but all her friends are going there. So I’d chosen High School C, which isn’t as strict and a fine school. Kids she knows, but isn’t friends with, will go to that school.
Yesterday I learned about High School B’s Program of Excellence for the Arts. For the POE, they accept out-of-catchment students, so this is the only way she could attend the school. This school also has a STEM Institute, but if she’s accepted into the POE, she’s ineligible to study STEM in-depth at their Institute. At High School C, they lack an Institute but they do have a STEM pathway.
So she’s good at CAPA, won’t do STEM in school, and all good¿
Divine Angel said:
I’m having a bit of a dilemma. I guess you can call it a dilemma.We’re in catchment for High School A. I do not want Mini Me to go to High School A, for a number of reasons. Mini Me wants to go to High School B, which is strict about not accepting out-of-catchment students, but all her friends are going there. So I’d chosen High School C, which isn’t as strict and a fine school. Kids she knows, but isn’t friends with, will go to that school.
Yesterday I learned about High School B’s Program of Excellence for the Arts. For the POE, they accept out-of-catchment students, so this is the only way she could attend the school. This school also has a STEM Institute, but if she’s accepted into the POE, she’s ineligible to study STEM in-depth at their Institute. At High School C, they lack an Institute but they do have a STEM pathway.
Having to decide your kid’s path in education (STEM vs arts) at age 11 is pretty bloody stupid, in my humble opinion.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Divine Angel said:
I’m having a bit of a dilemma. I guess you can call it a dilemma.
We’re in catchment for High School A. I do not want Mini Me to go to High School A, for a number of reasons. Mini Me wants to go to High School B, which is strict about not accepting out-of-catchment students, but all her friends are going there. So I’d chosen High School C, which isn’t as strict and a fine school. Kids she knows, but isn’t friends with, will go to that school.
Yesterday I learned about High School B’s Program of Excellence for the Arts. For the POE, they accept out-of-catchment students, so this is the only way she could attend the school. This school also has a STEM Institute, but if she’s accepted into the POE, she’s ineligible to study STEM in-depth at their Institute. At High School C, they lack an Institute but they do have a STEM pathway.
Having to decide your kid’s path in education (STEM vs arts) at age 11 is pretty bloody stupid, in my humble opinion.
what if they’ve already expressed a strong preference andor it’s also only 6 years of formal attendance
The Rev Dodgson said:
Divine Angel said:
I’m having a bit of a dilemma. I guess you can call it a dilemma.We’re in catchment for High School A. I do not want Mini Me to go to High School A, for a number of reasons. Mini Me wants to go to High School B, which is strict about not accepting out-of-catchment students, but all her friends are going there. So I’d chosen High School C, which isn’t as strict and a fine school. Kids she knows, but isn’t friends with, will go to that school.
Yesterday I learned about High School B’s Program of Excellence for the Arts. For the POE, they accept out-of-catchment students, so this is the only way she could attend the school. This school also has a STEM Institute, but if she’s accepted into the POE, she’s ineligible to study STEM in-depth at their Institute. At High School C, they lack an Institute but they do have a STEM pathway.
Having to decide your kid’s path in education (STEM vs arts) at age 11 is pretty bloody stupid, in my humble opinion.
That’s what I think too, but here we are. Having advanced music under her belt would qualify her for high level maths anyway.
Divine Angel said:
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
SCIENCE said:
Divine Angel said:
I’m having a bit of a dilemma. I guess you can call it a dilemma.
We’re in catchment for High School A. I do not want Mini Me to go to High School A, for a number of reasons. Mini Me wants to go to High School B, which is strict about not accepting out-of-catchment students, but all her friends are going there. So I’d chosen High School C, which isn’t as strict and a fine school. Kids she knows, but isn’t friends with, will go to that school.
Yesterday I learned about High School B’s Program of Excellence for the Arts. For the POE, they accept out-of-catchment students, so this is the only way she could attend the school. This school also has a STEM Institute, but if she’s accepted into the POE, she’s ineligible to study STEM in-depth at their Institute. At High School C, they lack an Institute but they do have a STEM pathway.
So she’s good at CAPA, won’t do STEM in school, and all good¿
Having to decide your kid’s path in education (STEM vs arts) at age 11 is pretty bloody stupid, in my humble opinion.
what if they’ve already expressed a strong preference andor it’s also only 6 years of formal attendance
That’s what I think too, but here we are. Having advanced music under her belt would qualify her for high level maths anyway.
OK so maybe we’re stupid but have any ones considered transfers or extracurriculars¿
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Divine Angel said:
I’m having a bit of a dilemma. I guess you can call it a dilemma.
We’re in catchment for High School A. I do not want Mini Me to go to High School A, for a number of reasons. Mini Me wants to go to High School B, which is strict about not accepting out-of-catchment students, but all her friends are going there. So I’d chosen High School C, which isn’t as strict and a fine school. Kids she knows, but isn’t friends with, will go to that school.
Yesterday I learned about High School B’s Program of Excellence for the Arts. For the POE, they accept out-of-catchment students, so this is the only way she could attend the school. This school also has a STEM Institute, but if she’s accepted into the POE, she’s ineligible to study STEM in-depth at their Institute. At High School C, they lack an Institute but they do have a STEM pathway.
Having to decide your kid’s path in education (STEM vs arts) at age 11 is pretty bloody stupid, in my humble opinion.
what if they’ve already expressed a strong preference andor it’s also only 6 years of formal attendance
So she’s “above average” for most of her subjects, with a keen interest in music, which is what we’d be going for in the POE (other subjects for the POE include general sport, rugby league, visual arts, and drama).
At the moment she just wants to go to high school with her friends. Doesn’t care how she gets there.
Divine Angel said:
I’m having a bit of a dilemma. I guess you can call it a dilemma.We’re in catchment for High School A. I do not want Mini Me to go to High School A, for a number of reasons. Mini Me wants to go to High School B, which is strict about not accepting out-of-catchment students, but all her friends are going there. So I’d chosen High School C, which isn’t as strict and a fine school. Kids she knows, but isn’t friends with, will go to that school.
Yesterday I learned about High School B’s Program of Excellence for the Arts. For the POE, they accept out-of-catchment students, so this is the only way she could attend the school. This school also has a STEM Institute, but if she’s accepted into the POE, she’s ineligible to study STEM in-depth at their Institute. At High School C, they lack an Institute but they do have a STEM pathway.
You’ll just have to move then into the catchment of choice.
Tamb said:
On a totally different note:
When I sat down I discovered my shorts were blood soaked. Not a good thing.
Investigation revealed that I’d been victim of leech attack. My shorts & undies were covered with dried blood.I suspect a Tiger leech. They can reach 40 mm.
Bar-steward.
We have no staff today and of course all the weird stuff happens in regards to the courts.
Lucky I can multi task the various requests coming through.
Divine Angel said:
SCIENCE said:The Rev Dodgson said:
Having to decide your kid’s path in education (STEM vs arts) at age 11 is pretty bloody stupid, in my humble opinion.
what if they’ve already expressed a strong preference andor it’s also only 6 years of formal attendance
So she’s “above average” for most of her subjects, with a keen interest in music, which is what we’d be going for in the POE (other subjects for the POE include general sport, rugby league, visual arts, and drama).
At the moment she just wants to go to high school with her friends. Doesn’t care how she gets there.
Does she have any interest in STEM?
Cymek said:
We have no staff today and of course all the weird stuff happens in regards to the courts.Lucky I can multi task the various requests coming through.
cause or effect
Divine Angel said:
SCIENCE said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Having to decide your kid’s path in education (STEM vs arts) at age 11 is pretty bloody stupid, in my humble opinion.
what if they’ve already expressed a strong preference andor it’s also only 6 years of formal attendance
So she’s “above average” for most of her subjects, with a keen interest in music, which is what we’d be going for in the POE (other subjects for the POE include general sport, rugby league, visual arts, and drama).
At the moment she just wants to go to high school with her friends. Doesn’t care how she gets there.
oh then sounds like POE is the way to go, further STEM at school probably isn’t that important
but disclaimer we probably haven’t been to any of those schools, and going to school with friends may or may not be an unfamiliar concept here
btm said:
Divine Angel said:
SCIENCE said:what if they’ve already expressed a strong preference andor it’s also only 6 years of formal attendance
So she’s “above average” for most of her subjects, with a keen interest in music, which is what we’d be going for in the POE (other subjects for the POE include general sport, rugby league, visual arts, and drama).
At the moment she just wants to go to high school with her friends. Doesn’t care how she gets there.
Does she have any interest in STEM?
Yes. She loves coding, is currently working with Mr Mutant to code their own game, wants to build a robot. Whether she would be interested in the STEM Institute is a different matter. And at the moment, a moot point.
Or, as SCIENCE suggested, we could just move.
SCIENCE said:
Divine Angel said:
SCIENCE said:
what if they’ve already expressed a strong preference andor it’s also only 6 years of formal attendance
So she’s “above average” for most of her subjects, with a keen interest in music, which is what we’d be going for in the POE (other subjects for the POE include general sport, rugby league, visual arts, and drama).
At the moment she just wants to go to high school with her friends. Doesn’t care how she gets there.
oh then sounds like POE is the way to go, further STEM at school probably isn’t that important
but disclaimer we probably haven’t been to any of those schools, and going to school with friends may or may not be an unfamiliar concept here
Being an only child, her friend group is extremely important to her, although I have no doubt she will make better new friends at high school regardless of where she attends.
Tamb said:
On a totally different note:
When I sat down I discovered my shorts were blood soaked. Not a good thing.
Investigation revealed that I’d been victim of leech attack. My shorts & undies were covered with dried blood.I suspect a Tiger leech. They can reach 40 mm.
Bloody hell!
Tamb said:
On a totally different note:
When I sat down I discovered my shorts were blood soaked. Not a good thing.
Investigation revealed that I’d been victim of leech attack. My shorts & undies were covered with dried blood.I suspect a Tiger leech. They can reach 40 mm.
Yuck. No sign of the offender?
Bubblecar said:
Tamb said:
On a totally different note:
When I sat down I discovered my shorts were blood soaked. Not a good thing.
Investigation revealed that I’d been victim of leech attack. My shorts & undies were covered with dried blood.I suspect a Tiger leech. They can reach 40 mm.
Yuck. No sign of the offender?
Kudos to these people getting blown around by harsh winds on a frozen lake. It looks terrifying.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/s/2ZHw1Z9r2v
Divine Angel said:
Kudos to these people getting blown around by harsh winds on a frozen lake. It looks terrifying.https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/s/2ZHw1Z9r2v
Tamb said:
Divine Angel said:
Kudos to these people getting blown around by harsh winds on a frozen lake. It looks terrifying.https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/s/2ZHw1Z9r2v
I did this during my first trip to Lake Baikal in Russia: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10156408199139988
Were you sailing?
Divine Angel said:
SCIENCE said:Divine Angel said:
So she’s “above average” for most of her subjects, with a keen interest in music, which is what we’d be going for in the POE (other subjects for the POE include general sport, rugby league, visual arts, and drama).
At the moment she just wants to go to high school with her friends. Doesn’t care how she gets there.
oh then sounds like POE is the way to go, further STEM at school probably isn’t that important
but disclaimer we probably haven’t been to any of those schools, and going to school with friends may or may not be an unfamiliar concept here
Being an only child, her friend group is extremely important to her, although I have no doubt she will make
betternew friends at high school regardless of where she attends.
FWIW, when S (also an only child) was advancing from primary school to high school, she also wanted to stick with her then-current group of friends; I pointed that neither of us had any friends from primary school. She eventually accepted that, and made a bunch of new friends at high school. She’ll be 28 next month; none of her current friends group are from primary school, a few from high school, but most from university or non-education activities.
Peak Warming Man said:
Tamb said:
Divine Angel said:
Kudos to these people getting blown around by harsh winds on a frozen lake. It looks terrifying.https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/s/2ZHw1Z9r2v
I did this during my first trip to Lake Baikal in Russia: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10156408199139988Were you sailing?
btm said:
Divine Angel said:
SCIENCE said:oh then sounds like POE is the way to go, further STEM at school probably isn’t that important
but disclaimer we probably haven’t been to any of those schools, and going to school with friends may or may not be an unfamiliar concept here
Being an only child, her friend group is extremely important to her, although I have no doubt she will make
betternew friends at high school regardless of where she attends.
FWIW, when S (also an only child) was advancing from primary school to high school, she also wanted to stick with her then-current group of friends; I pointed that neither of us had any friends from primary school. She eventually accepted that, and made a bunch of new friends at high school. She’ll be 28 next month; none of her current friends group are from primary school, a few from high school, but most from university or non-education activities.
i got separated from all my friends. It took me a long time…a couple of years to get over it. even then I was still a distance from new friends and lacked out of school social. yeah. it was a good school but i still felt distanced.
Divine Angel said:
SCIENCE said:Divine Angel said:
So she’s “above average” for most of her subjects, with a keen interest in music, which is what we’d be going for in the POE (other subjects for the POE include general sport, rugby league, visual arts, and drama).
At the moment she just wants to go to high school with her friends. Doesn’t care how she gets there.
oh then sounds like POE is the way to go, further STEM at school probably isn’t that important
but disclaimer we probably haven’t been to any of those schools, and going to school with friends may or may not be an unfamiliar concept here
Being an only child, her friend group is extremely important to her, although I have no doubt she will make
betternew friends at high school regardless of where she attends.
when I left school I had no further contact with anyone I knew there. They weren’t worth knowing.
btm said:
Divine Angel said:
SCIENCE said:oh then sounds like POE is the way to go, further STEM at school probably isn’t that important
but disclaimer we probably haven’t been to any of those schools, and going to school with friends may or may not be an unfamiliar concept here
Being an only child, her friend group is extremely important to her, although I have no doubt she will make
betternew friends at high school regardless of where she attends.
FWIW, when S (also an only child) was advancing from primary school to high school, she also wanted to stick with her then-current group of friends; I pointed that neither of us had any friends from primary school. She eventually accepted that, and made a bunch of new friends at high school. She’ll be 28 next month; none of her current friends group are from primary school, a few from high school, but most from university or non-education activities.
I know. But at 10/11, friends are the most important people in her life.
But I know neither they nor their mums, who I’m “friends” with, are gonna be long term relationships.
ChrispenEvan said:
Divine Angel said:
SCIENCE said:oh then sounds like POE is the way to go, further STEM at school probably isn’t that important
but disclaimer we probably haven’t been to any of those schools, and going to school with friends may or may not be an unfamiliar concept here
Being an only child, her friend group is extremely important to her, although I have no doubt she will make
betternew friends at high school regardless of where she attends.
when I left school I had no further contact with anyone I knew there. They weren’t worth knowing.
So Smithers what are you doing these days, I heard you were in banking.
Any idea what the chap Boris is doing now, heard he went to one of the colonies.
Can I get you a drink, gin and tonic?
I think I’ve got like, 2 primary school friends in my Facebook friends list. A few high school friends, a couple of uni (but I did online uni), a few work friends, family, school mums. And forumers.
Divine Angel said:
I think I’ve got like, 2 primary school friends in my Facebook friends list. A few high school friends, a couple of uni (but I did online uni), a few work friends, family, school mums. And forumers.
In other school news, me boy is doing okay in computing but I was surprised to learn he had no idea what CPU stands for.
dv said:
Divine Angel said:
I think I’ve got like, 2 primary school friends in my Facebook friends list. A few high school friends, a couple of uni (but I did online uni), a few work friends, family, school mums. And forumers.
In other school news, me boy is doing okay in computing but I was surprised to learn he had no idea what CPU stands for.
Does he go all GUI at the mention of it?
dv said:
Divine Angel said:
I think I’ve got like, 2 primary school friends in my Facebook friends list. A few high school friends, a couple of uni (but I did online uni), a few work friends, family, school mums. And forumers.
In other school news, me boy is doing okay in computing but I was surprised to learn he had no idea what CPU stands for.
I thought that was in the first 10 minutes of computer class.
dv said:
Divine Angel said:
I think I’ve got like, 2 primary school friends in my Facebook friends list. A few high school friends, a couple of uni (but I did online uni), a few work friends, family, school mums. And forumers.
In other school news, me boy is doing okay in computing but I was surprised to learn he had no idea what CPU stands for.
Even I know that.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Divine Angel said:
I think I’ve got like, 2 primary school friends in my Facebook friends list. A few high school friends, a couple of uni (but I did online uni), a few work friends, family, school mums. And forumers.
In other school news, me boy is doing okay in computing but I was surprised to learn he had no idea what CPU stands for.
Even I know that.
Which reminds me, I’ll be installing the new graphics card either tomorrow or Sunday.
More likely Sunday, as I suspect I may be a little hungover tomorrow.
Which reminds me, FNDC is now called.
dv said:
Divine Angel said:
I think I’ve got like, 2 primary school friends in my Facebook friends list. A few high school friends, a couple of uni (but I did online uni), a few work friends, family, school mums. And forumers.
In other school news, me boy is doing okay in computing but I was surprised to learn he had no idea what CPU stands for.
Well no-one uses Classical Pressure Units much outside the USA these days.
dv said:
Divine Angel said:
I think I’ve got like, 2 primary school friends in my Facebook friends list. A few high school friends, a couple of uni (but I did online uni), a few work friends, family, school mums. And forumers.
In other school news, me boy is doing okay in computing but I was surprised to learn he had no idea what CPU stands for.
News from the Egg Board.
Peak Warming Man said:
News from the Egg Board.
Just the one? As the saying goes, “One egg’s not enough, you won’t know you’ve had it.”
Peak Warming Man said:
News from the Egg Board.
So, to reduce the supposed shortage, we need a Carousel…
dv said:
Divine Angel said:
I think I’ve got like, 2 primary school friends in my Facebook friends list. A few high school friends, a couple of uni (but I did online uni), a few work friends, family, school mums. And forumers.
In other school news, me boy is doing okay in computing but I was surprised to learn he had no idea what CPU stands for.
For dv (and son): Do-It Yourself, by Bill Sutton.
Nikola Tesla was accused of cheating in his final-year engineering exams because he finished much too quickly. On closer, face-to-face inspection, it was discovered that he’d memorised the log tables.
I don’t have an official rain bucket but the pond is full and the rain lilies are blooming.
“Hominy is a food made from dried corn kernels that have been treated with an alkali, a process called nixtamalization, to remove the husks and make the kernels tender and plump. It’s a staple in Mexican cuisine and is used in dishes like pozole and menudo.”
Over.
Peak Warming Man said:
“Hominy is a food made from dried corn kernels that have been treated with an alkali, a process called nixtamalization, to remove the husks and make the kernels tender and plump. It’s a staple in Mexican cuisine and is used in dishes like pozole and menudo.”Over.
On the other hand…
A homily (from Greek ὁμιλία, homilía) is a commentary that follows a reading of scripture, giving the “public explanation of a sacred doctrine” or text. The works of Origen and John Chrysostom (known as Paschal Homily) are considered exemplary forms of Christian homily.
Bubblecar said:
Peak Warming Man said:
News from the Egg Board.
Just the one? As the saying goes, “One egg’s not enough, you won’t know you’ve had it.”
“Go to work on an egg” was a UK ad line created by Fay Weldon when she was in that line of work.
dv said:
Divine Angel said:
I think I’ve got like, 2 primary school friends in my Facebook friends list. A few high school friends, a couple of uni (but I did online uni), a few work friends, family, school mums. And forumers.
In other school news, me boy is doing okay in computing but I was surprised to learn he had no idea what CPU stands for.
“He can look at a computer…” Deevs responded, trailing off. “I turn off his laptop, I said, ‘Oh good,’ and I go back five minutes later, he’s got his laptop, I say, ‘How do you do that?’ ‘None of your business, dad.’”
dv said:
Divine Angel said:
I think I’ve got like, 2 primary school friends in my Facebook friends list. A few high school friends, a couple of uni (but I did online uni), a few work friends, family, school mums. And forumers.
In other school news, me boy is doing okay in computing but I was surprised to learn he had no idea what CPU stands for.
Do you also tell him to never fight uphill?
The Queensland Police Service (QPS) have released a photo of Ipswich Patrol Inspector Jay Notaro, as search efforts in New South Wales to locate him were formally suspended this afternoon, March 28.
A three-day long air and land search in the Broken Head, Cape Byron and Ballina areas have been unsuccessful in locating 45-year-old Inspector Notaro or any more of his belongings.
Acting Commissioner of Police, Shane Chelepy APM, said his thoughts were with Jay’s loved ones at this time, and expressed his thanks to those who helped in the search.
“This is an incredibly difficult time for our organisation, and our thoughts are with Jay’s family, friends and colleagues as we continue to navigate this tragic situation,”
“I want to sincerely thank our NSW Police counterparts, and everyone involved in the search for their tireless commitment and professionalism under highly challenging and emotional circumstances.
“I know this situation has impacted many across the QPS and the community.”
The QPS remains in close contact and supportive of Inspector Notaro’s family and will continue to provide them with any updates.
Neophyte said:
dv said:
Divine Angel said:
I think I’ve got like, 2 primary school friends in my Facebook friends list. A few high school friends, a couple of uni (but I did online uni), a few work friends, family, school mums. And forumers.
In other school news, me boy is doing okay in computing but I was surprised to learn he had no idea what CPU stands for.
Do you also tell him to never fight uphill?
Or ride a horse that has a hard mouth?
dinner will be.
captain_spalding said:
Neophyte said:
dv said:In other school news, me boy is doing okay in computing but I was surprised to learn he had no idea what CPU stands for.
Do you also tell him to never fight uphill?
Or ride a horse that has a hard mouth?
or run in a straight line to get away from hoop snakes.
ChrispenEvan said:
captain_spalding said:
Neophyte said:Do you also tell him to never fight uphill?
Or ride a horse that has a hard mouth?
or run in a straight line to get away from hoop snakes.
It’s a wonder that kids these days survive to adulthood, lacking this kind of wisdom.
ChrispenEvan said:
captain_spalding said:
Neophyte said:Do you also tell him to never fight uphill?
Or ride a horse that has a hard mouth?
or run in a straight line to get away from hoop snakes.
or get involved in a land war in Asia?
btm said:
ChrispenEvan said:
captain_spalding said:Or ride a horse that has a hard mouth?
or run in a straight line to get away from hoop snakes.
or get involved in a land war in Asia?
Oh, i can vouch for that one. Africa, too.
Plane crashes at Avalon Airshow
By Brittany Busch and Chris Zappone
Updated March 28, 2025 — 6.05pm
A plane has crashed, and emergency services are on scene at the Avalon Australian International Airshow south-west of Melbourne.
Images from the event show a crumpled orange propeller plane with fire rescue vehicles and ambulances on the scene while patrons watch.
The six-day event is scheduled to run at the airfield, north of Geelong, until March 30.
More to come
Witty Rejoinder said:
Plane crashes at Avalon Airshow
By Brittany Busch and Chris Zappone
Updated March 28, 2025 — 6.05pmA plane has crashed, and emergency services are on scene at the Avalon Australian International Airshow south-west of Melbourne.
Images from the event show a crumpled orange propeller plane with fire rescue vehicles and ambulances on the scene while patrons watch.
The six-day event is scheduled to run at the airfield, north of Geelong, until March 30.
More to come
A Roulette?
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Plane crashes at Avalon Airshow
By Brittany Busch and Chris Zappone
Updated March 28, 2025 — 6.05pmA plane has crashed, and emergency services are on scene at the Avalon Australian International Airshow south-west of Melbourne.
Images from the event show a crumpled orange propeller plane with fire rescue vehicles and ambulances on the scene while patrons watch.
The six-day event is scheduled to run at the airfield, north of Geelong, until March 30.
More to come
A Roulette?
Not a Roulette. Not their colour scheme.
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Plane crashes at Avalon Airshow
By Brittany Busch and Chris Zappone
Updated March 28, 2025 — 6.05pmA plane has crashed, and emergency services are on scene at the Avalon Australian International Airshow south-west of Melbourne.
Images from the event show a crumpled orange propeller plane with fire rescue vehicles and ambulances on the scene while patrons watch.
The six-day event is scheduled to run at the airfield, north of Geelong, until March 30.
More to come
A Roulette?
they’re red
Divine Angel said:
dv said:
Divine Angel said:
I think I’ve got like, 2 primary school friends in my Facebook friends list. A few high school friends, a couple of uni (but I did online uni), a few work friends, family, school mums. And forumers.
In other school news, me boy is doing okay in computing but I was surprised to learn he had no idea what CPU stands for.
I thought that was in the first 10 minutes of computer class.
Me too.
Maybe he missed that day.
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Plane crashes at Avalon Airshow
By Brittany Busch and Chris Zappone
Updated March 28, 2025 — 6.05pmA plane has crashed, and emergency services are on scene at the Avalon Australian International Airshow south-west of Melbourne.
Images from the event show a crumpled orange propeller plane with fire rescue vehicles and ambulances on the scene while patrons watch.
The six-day event is scheduled to run at the airfield, north of Geelong, until March 30.
More to come
A Roulette?
they’re red
Single seat biplane doing an aerobatics display according to 7 News.
btm said:
dv said:
Divine Angel said:
I think I’ve got like, 2 primary school friends in my Facebook friends list. A few high school friends, a couple of uni (but I did online uni), a few work friends, family, school mums. And forumers.
In other school news, me boy is doing okay in computing but I was surprised to learn he had no idea what CPU stands for.
For dv (and son): Do-It Yourself, by Bill Sutton.
He’s very computer literate generally. This must just be his British Museum.
After making a paltry 95 in the first innings Queensland have recovered to be all out for 445 in the second in the shield final against SA.
Over.
Peak Warming Man said:
After making a paltry 95 in the first innings Queensland have recovered to be all out for 445 in the second in the shield final against SA.
Over.
South Australia need 270 for victory.
Peak Warming Man said:
After making a paltry 95 in the first innings Queensland have recovered to be all out for 445 in the second in the shield final against SA.
Over.
Not a bad effort. SA need 270 to win, with 2 days remaining, Going to be a result wither way – weather forecast looks good.
BREAKING: An earthquake with a 7.7 magnitude rocked Southeast Asia on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey.
The epicenter of the quake was in Mandalay, Myanmar, per the USGS.
Reports are emerging of the quake being felt as far south as Bangkok in Thailand.
Read more: https://abcnews.link/VmwGvvH
Divine Angel said:
BREAKING: An earthquake with a 7.7 magnitude rocked Southeast Asia on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey.The epicenter of the quake was in Mandalay, Myanmar, per the USGS.
Reports are emerging of the quake being felt as far south as Bangkok in Thailand.
Read more: https://abcnews.link/VmwGvvH
Why has the USGS not yet been shut down?
captain_spalding said:
Divine Angel said:
BREAKING: An earthquake with a 7.7 magnitude rocked Southeast Asia on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey.The epicenter of the quake was in Mandalay, Myanmar, per the USGS.
Reports are emerging of the quake being felt as far south as Bangkok in Thailand.
Read more: https://abcnews.link/VmwGvvH
Why has the USGS not yet been shut down?
pro bono
Divine Angel said:
BREAKING: An earthquake with a 7.7 magnitude rocked Southeast Asia on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey.The epicenter of the quake was in Mandalay, Myanmar, per the USGS.
Reports are emerging of the quake being felt as far south as Bangkok in Thailand.
Read more: https://abcnews.link/VmwGvvH
7.7 is a bigen.
Peak Warming Man said:
Divine Angel said:
BREAKING: An earthquake with a 7.7 magnitude rocked Southeast Asia on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey.The epicenter of the quake was in Mandalay, Myanmar, per the USGS.
Reports are emerging of the quake being felt as far south as Bangkok in Thailand.
Read more: https://abcnews.link/VmwGvvH
7.7 is a bigen.
That’s what she said
Smells like tomato sauce in this house. Again. I think this will be enough sauce making for this season. I also made some Italian style pasta sauce which is cooling so I can package it and freeze it.
Divine Angel said:
I don’t have an official rain bucket but the pond is full and the rain lilies are blooming.
:)
captain_spalding said:
Divine Angel said:
BREAKING: An earthquake with a 7.7 magnitude rocked Southeast Asia on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey.The epicenter of the quake was in Mandalay, Myanmar, per the USGS.
Reports are emerging of the quake being felt as far south as Bangkok in Thailand.
Read more: https://abcnews.link/VmwGvvH
Why has the USGS not yet been shut down?
The provide the geological maps that point to where Trump’s mates can “drill, baby, drill”.
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:
Divine Angel said:
BREAKING: An earthquake with a 7.7 magnitude rocked Southeast Asia on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey.The epicenter of the quake was in Mandalay, Myanmar, per the USGS.
Reports are emerging of the quake being felt as far south as Bangkok in Thailand.
Read more: https://abcnews.link/VmwGvvH
Why has the USGS not yet been shut down?
pro bono
Their web-site says:
Who We Are
Created by an act of Congress in 1879, the USGS provides science for a changing world, which reflects and responds to society’s continuously evolving needs. As the science arm of the Department of the Interior, the USGS brings an array of earth, water, biological, and mapping data and expertise to bear in support of decision-making on environmental, resource, and public safety issues.
The Rev Dodgson said:
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:Why has the USGS not yet been shut down?
pro bono
Their web-site says:
Who We Are
Created by an act of Congress in 1879, the USGS provides science for a changing world, which reflects and responds to society’s continuously evolving needs. As the science arm of the Department of the Interior, the USGS brings an array of earth, water, biological, and mapping data and expertise to bear in support of decision-making on environmental, resource, and public safety issues.
After all, even Trump cannot tell the earth where to shake. with a stroke of a sharpie.
I’m 45 minutes into Mufasa. It’s not great.
300+ mm of rain is driving ants inside. They are crawling en masse over everything, including me. It’s very annoying.
Divine Angel said:
I’m 45 minutes into Mufasa. It’s not great.
A probable retreat coming up?
Divine Angel said:
I’m 45 minutes into Mufasa. It’s not great.
Is it the diversity hire they roped in for the title role? You can be honest…
Michael V said:
300+ mm of rain is driving ants inside. They are crawling en masse over everything, including me. It’s very annoying.
Ick. We haven’t had anywhere near that much but we’re supposed to have heavy rain tomorrow. Had two texts from the council, a warning about severe weather and another with a flood warning.
Then sunny and 32 on Sunday so I can catch up with the laundry before another week of rain.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Divine Angel said:
I’m 45 minutes into Mufasa. It’s not great.
Is it the diversity hire they roped in for the title role? You can be honest…
Even Lin-Manuel Miranda’s songs are below average. Poor narrative, ignores canon, bizarre dynamics, strange framing. The humour and warmth from The Lion King is completely missing.
Michael V said:
300+ mm of rain is driving ants inside. They are crawling en masse over everything, including me. It’s very annoying.
I that from the official bucket.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
300+ mm of rain is driving ants inside. They are crawling en masse over everything, including me. It’s very annoying.
I that from the official bucket.
I got a shade of GLOWIE there, cloud ants.
I don’t mind ants as long as they stay outside.
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
300+ mm of rain is driving ants inside. They are crawling en masse over everything, including me. It’s very annoying.
I that from the official bucket.
I got a shade of GLOWIE there, cloud ants.
I don’t mind ants as long as they stay outside.
I’m the same with snakes.
Outside: OK.
Inside: .410 shotgun!
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:I that from the official bucket.
I got a shade of GLOWIE there, cloud ants.
I don’t mind ants as long as they stay outside.
I’m the same with snakes.
Outside: OK.
Inside: .410 shotgun!
Too much gun for inside.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:I that from the official bucket.
I got a shade of GLOWIE there, cloud ants.
I don’t mind ants as long as they stay outside.
I’m the same with snakes.
Outside: OK.
Inside: .410 shotgun!
That makes holes in the walls and floors!
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:I got a shade of GLOWIE there, cloud ants.
I don’t mind ants as long as they stay outside.
I’m the same with snakes.
Outside: OK.
Inside: .410 shotgun!
That makes holes in the walls and floors!
Not as bad as a 12 gauge.
And i know of people who’ve used such.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:I got a shade of GLOWIE there, cloud ants.
I don’t mind ants as long as they stay outside.
I’m the same with snakes.
Outside: OK.
Inside: .410 shotgun!
That makes holes in the walls and floors!
Though I have seen people use 12 gauge with as little disregard for the homestead.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:I’m the same with snakes.
Outside: OK.
Inside: .410 shotgun!
That makes holes in the walls and floors!
Not as bad as a 12 gauge.
And i know of people who’ve used such.
Me too. But hey they usually missed the snake anyway
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:I’m the same with snakes.
Outside: OK.
Inside: .410 shotgun!
That makes holes in the walls and floors!
Though I have seen people use 12 gauge with as little disregard for the homestead.
pairs of rolled up socks, thrown, to guide the snake towards and exit.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:That makes holes in the walls and floors!
Not as bad as a 12 gauge.
And i know of people who’ve used such.
Me too. But hey they usually missed the snake anyway
Amateurs.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:That makes holes in the walls and floors!
Not as bad as a 12 gauge.
And i know of people who’ve used such.
Me too. But hey they usually missed the snake anyway
At that range with a 12 gauge, you really do want to be accurate.
ChrispenEvan said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:That makes holes in the walls and floors!
Though I have seen people use 12 gauge with as little disregard for the homestead.
pairs of rolled up socks, thrown, to guide the snake towards and exit.
Smart fella.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:Not as bad as a 12 gauge.
And i know of people who’ve used such.
Me too. But hey they usually missed the snake anyway
Amateurs.
People who know how to use guns always know their limitations.
People who aren’t aware of that are in serious trouble.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:Me too. But hey they usually missed the snake anyway
Amateurs.
People who know how to use guns always know their limitations.
People who aren’t aware of that are in serious trouble.
You need to not only know the limitations of the weapon (a most valid point), but also its capabilities.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:Amateurs.
People who know how to use guns always know their limitations.
People who aren’t aware of that are in serious trouble.
You need to not only know the limitations of the weapon (a most valid point), but also its capabilities.
that is why i used non-lethal socks. they had just been washed…
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:Amateurs.
People who know how to use guns always know their limitations.
People who aren’t aware of that are in serious trouble.
You need to not only know the limitations of the weapon (a most valid point), but also its capabilities.
No argument there. I was starting from the bottom up.
ChrispenEvan said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:People who know how to use guns always know their limitations.
People who aren’t aware of that are in serious trouble.
You need to not only know the limitations of the weapon (a most valid point), but also its capabilities.
that is why i used non-lethal socks. they had just been washed…
Bluddy ‘eck, Do you know about how snakes tongue the air?
roughbarked said:
ChrispenEvan said:
captain_spalding said:You need to not only know the limitations of the weapon (a most valid point), but also its capabilities.
that is why i used non-lethal socks. they had just been washed…
Bluddy ‘eck, Do you know about how snakes tongue the air?
That’s why i used clean socks!!!!
ChrispenEvan said:
roughbarked said:
ChrispenEvan said:that is why i used non-lethal socks. they had just been washed…
Bluddy ‘eck, Do you know about how snakes tongue the air?
That’s why i used clean socks!!!!
Hah. You ferget, they have all sorts of malarky going on with the chemical taints that leaves in the air like.
ChrispenEvan said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:That makes holes in the walls and floors!
Though I have seen people use 12 gauge with as little disregard for the homestead.
pairs of rolled up socks, thrown, to guide the snake towards and exit.
can’t you just use a hair dryer
roughbarked said:
ChrispenEvan said:
roughbarked said:Bluddy ‘eck, Do you know about how snakes tongue the air?
That’s why i used clean socks!!!!
Hah. You ferget, they have all sorts of malarky going on with the chemical taints that leaves in the air like.
So please, blow holes you can push a six pack through and stll miss the snake, me but by all means. But please please don’t throw me the washed socks.
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:
roughbarked said:Though I have seen people use 12 gauge with as little disregard for the homestead.
pairs of rolled up socks, thrown, to guide the snake towards and exit.
can’t you just use a hair dryer
Cold blooded, move towards heat.
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:
ChrispenEvan said:pairs of rolled up socks, thrown, to guide the snake towards and exit.
can’t you just use a hair dryer
Cold blooded, move towards heat.
Simply use dirty socks. They smell a bit mousey and look like a moving rodent. They’ll waste their valuable venom on your socks and all you lose is a pair of socks.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
SCIENCE said:can’t you just use a hair dryer
Cold blooded, move towards heat.
Simply use dirty socks. They smell a bit mousey and look like a moving rodent. They’ll waste their valuable venom on your socks and all you lose is a pair of socks.
wait if they’re cold blooded we thought if you freeze them then they stay where they are but if you heat them then they get moving
SCIENCE said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:Cold blooded, move towards heat.
Simply use dirty socks. They smell a bit mousey and look like a moving rodent. They’ll waste their valuable venom on your socks and all you lose is a pair of socks.
wait if they’re cold blooded we thought if you freeze them then they stay where they are but if you heat them then they get moving
I wouldn’t go so ar as to freeze them when the cold shoulder is ample enough.
Chocolate consumption declines, potato chips and red meat increase
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-28/2025-food-consumption-report-abs/105106950
Well, with the rise in the cost of cocoa, some chocolate suppliers are turning to decreasing cocoa in their products and using cheaper alternatives, like vegetable oils. Thus, the resulting chocolate tastes shitty. That, as well as price increases for ordinary chocolate. A regular block of Aldi’s Choceur went up to almost $5 per block. Used to be just over $3. Currently sitting around $4.
sarahs mum said:
You couldn’t call it elegant, but I’m sure it does what it says on the tin.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/mar/28/myanmar-earthquake-thailand-bangkok-mandalay-latest-news-updates
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/mar/28/myanmar-earthquake-thailand-bangkok-mandalay-latest-news-updates
That building collapse video is quite terrifying.
I question the validity of this study. Nobody’s gonna spend half an hour cooking an egg.
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
You couldn’t call it elegant, but I’m sure it does what it says on the tin.
It’s a thing of modern magical beauty!
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/mar/28/myanmar-earthquake-thailand-bangkok-mandalay-latest-news-updates
That building collapse video is quite terrifying.
There is one place you do not want to be, is in a building during an earthquake.
Divine Angel said:
I question the validity of this study. Nobody’s gonna spend half an hour cooking an egg.
Sounds like the University of Naples Federico II needs to find more things for its scientists to do.
Divine Angel said:
I question the validity of this study. Nobody’s gonna spend half an hour cooking an egg.
You know since I eat maybe two boiled eggs a year on average over a decade.
I probably shouldn’t give a fuck or expect you to as well
except that I cannot consider treating an egg to that experience.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
300+ mm of rain is driving ants inside. They are crawling en masse over everything, including me. It’s very annoying.
Ick. We haven’t had anywhere near that much but we’re supposed to have heavy rain tomorrow. Had two texts from the council, a warning about severe weather and another with a flood warning.
Then sunny and 32 on Sunday so I can catch up with the laundry before another week of rain.
Good luck with that.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
300+ mm of rain is driving ants inside. They are crawling en masse over everything, including me. It’s very annoying.
I that from the official bucket.
Yes. The ORB.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
300+ mm of rain is driving ants inside. They are crawling en masse over everything, including me. It’s very annoying.
Ick. We haven’t had anywhere near that much but we’re supposed to have heavy rain tomorrow. Had two texts from the council, a warning about severe weather and another with a flood warning.
Then sunny and 32 on Sunday so I can catch up with the laundry before another week of rain.
Good luck with that.
It almost got here today but prominently on the ABC rainfalll pics, my area completely missed out.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
300+ mm of rain is driving ants inside. They are crawling en masse over everything, including me. It’s very annoying.
I that from the official bucket.
Yes. The ORB.
You are talking about much of my yearly average.
Divine Angel said:
I question the validity of this study. Nobody’s gonna spend half an hour cooking an egg.
Unwarranted personal story, when I first moved out of home I didn’t know how to boil an egg. I knew there was a timer. So I boiled a pot of water, set the timer for 6 minutes and then dropped the cold eggs in the boiling water. They cracked and exploded. So I soon figured out to boil them from cold, wait till the water was boiling and then set the timer for a few minutes depending on how well I wanted them done.
This sound like adding cold eggs to boiling water….
Anyway, I use chocolate eggs, WhoTF still uses real eggs for Easter?
yesterday’s news…
Study casts doubt on gluten as cause of gut ailments among non-coeliacs
Research finds people with self-declared gluten sensitivity experienced symptoms whether or not they ate gluten
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/27/gluten-intolerant-intolerance-non-coeliac-disease
party_pants said:
Divine Angel said:
I question the validity of this study. Nobody’s gonna spend half an hour cooking an egg.
Unwarranted personal story, when I first moved out of home I didn’t know how to boil an egg. I knew there was a timer. So I boiled a pot of water, set the timer for 6 minutes and then dropped the cold eggs in the boiling water. They cracked and exploded. So I soon figured out to boil them from cold, wait till the water was boiling and then set the timer for a few minutes depending on how well I wanted them done.
This sound like adding cold eggs to boiling water….
Anyway, I use chocolate eggs, WhoTF still uses real eggs for Easter?
It’s from a UK magazine. I guess real eggs are still a thing over there.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-28/wa-measles-outbreak-grows/105110164
Divine Angel said:
I question the validity of this study. Nobody’s gonna spend half an hour cooking an egg.
I think this is more than what I cook for a meal. I find stuff like this interesting, even if I don’t understand the process of changes.
Anyway, this was posted on some FB page a while ago and I saw one derp rage about DOGE rooting out stoopid research like this and how “…it’s a waste of US$$ and fuck this!!!” So I pointed out the obvious – not US$$.
kii said:
Divine Angel said:
I question the validity of this study. Nobody’s gonna spend half an hour cooking an egg.
Scientists claim they’ve cracked the secret code for perfect boiled eggs this Easter – cook them for 32 minutes.
The recipe, developed by the University of Naples Federico II, takes a room-temperature egg and switches it between a saucepan of 100°C boiling water and a bowl of 30°C water every two minutes.
The result should be a perfect ‘creamy’ consistency throughout, because the white cooks at 85°C while the yolk cooks at 65°C.
Chemical analysis of the finished eggs also suggested they contained more polyphenols, a type of micronutrients which have lots of health benefits thanks to their anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.I think this is more than what I cook for a meal. I find stuff like this interesting, even if I don’t understand the process of changes.
Anyway, this was posted on some FB page a while ago and I saw one derp rage about DOGE rooting out stoopid research like this and how “…it’s a waste of US$$ and fuck this!!!” So I pointed out the obvious – not US$$.
yeah apart from amerikkkun’s thinking they own the world so it must be usd shit fuk’em
we vaguely remember it mentioned before and the correct solution was to run it on a PCR setup
Divine Angel said:
I question the validity of this study. Nobody’s gonna spend half an hour cooking an egg.
Scientism at its finest.
poikilotherm said:
Divine Angel said:
I question the validity of this study. Nobody’s gonna spend half an hour cooking an egg.
Scientism at its finest.
nobody uses slow cookers except fascists in the DPRNA trying to gain power
Last night I read about a technique to prevent nightmares, so I tried it before bed. Didn’t work: I dreamed Skeptic Pete died, someone I worked with was shot in the face, and I was stabbed by a woman who was attempting to steal my car.
Anyway heavy rain is forecast today with a top of 26.
Divine Angel said:
Last night I read about a technique to prevent nightmares, so I tried it before bed. Didn’t work: I dreamed Skeptic Pete died, someone I worked with was shot in the face, and I was stabbed by a woman who was attempting to steal my car.Anyway heavy rain is forecast today with a top of 26.
Are such violent dreams the norm for you?
Divine Angel said:
Last night I read about a technique to prevent nightmares, so I tried it before bed. Didn’t work: I dreamed Skeptic Pete died, someone I worked with was shot in the face, and I was stabbed by a woman who was attempting to steal my car.
Anyway heavy rain is forecast today with a top of 26.
yeah but just remember how much worse it would have been if you didn’t use the technique
Good morning Holidayers. Presently 14 degrees at the back door, starting to get light. I’ve fed the dogs and the chooks and given the miniature horse that is part of the pack an apple. We are forecast a cloudy 21 today.
Going to the bakery for breakfast with my bushwandering friend. Then some weeding.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Divine Angel said:
Last night I read about a technique to prevent nightmares, so I tried it before bed. Didn’t work: I dreamed Skeptic Pete died, someone I worked with was shot in the face, and I was stabbed by a woman who was attempting to steal my car.Anyway heavy rain is forecast today with a top of 26.
Are such violent dreams the norm for you?
Watched Queer staring Daniel Craig. I liked it. Great soundtrack. The 1950s postcard style scenes are gorgeous. Pastel colours of views, street scenes. The people in Mexico. Lovely well done.
Divine Angel said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Divine Angel said:
Last night I read about a technique to prevent nightmares, so I tried it before bed. Didn’t work: I dreamed Skeptic Pete died, someone I worked with was shot in the face, and I was stabbed by a woman who was attempting to steal my car.Anyway heavy rain is forecast today with a top of 26.
Are such violent dreams the norm for you?
No! That’s why I was surprised I had three in one night. Didn’t watch or read anything violent before bed either.
I regularly had nightmares before receiving therapy for C-PTSD. Things way out of my control. Stuff like that.
Were your nightmares related to the cause of your PTSD?
SCIENCE said:
kii said:
Divine Angel said:
I question the validity of this study. Nobody’s gonna spend half an hour cooking an egg.
Scientists claim they’ve cracked the secret code for perfect boiled eggs this Easter – cook them for 32 minutes.
The recipe, developed by the University of Naples Federico II, takes a room-temperature egg and switches it between a saucepan of 100°C boiling water and a bowl of 30°C water every two minutes.
The result should be a perfect ‘creamy’ consistency throughout, because the white cooks at 85°C while the yolk cooks at 65°C.
Chemical analysis of the finished eggs also suggested they contained more polyphenols, a type of micronutrients which have lots of health benefits thanks to their anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.I think this is more than what I cook for a meal. I find stuff like this interesting, even if I don’t understand the process of changes.
Anyway, this was posted on some FB page a while ago and I saw one derp rage about DOGE rooting out stoopid research like this and how “…it’s a waste of US$$ and fuck this!!!” So I pointed out the obvious – not US$$.
yeah apart from amerikkkun’s thinking they own the world so it must be usd shit fuk’em
we vaguely remember it mentioned before and the correct solution was to run it on a PCR setup
The belief that the USA is the best place and the only place is entrenched in the MAGAs I know.
Divine Angel said:
Were your nightmares related to the cause of your PTSD?
I mean, were the nightmares the same subject?
Divine Angel said:
Were your nightmares related to the cause of your PTSD?
Mine is C-PTSD – lots of traumatic events that built on existing stress reactions. Childhood abuse, DV (witnessing it as a child and experiencing it as an adult), unresolved grief over various deaths, difficult childbirth, the bushfires in the mountains etc.
My response to any traumatic event is “programmed” into my brain – dreams and digestive tract issues.
Nightmares about train travel with lots of suitcases was a popular one. Loss of control is the main theme and being alone.
kii said:
Divine Angel said:
Were your nightmares related to the cause of your PTSD?
Mine is C-PTSD – lots of traumatic events that built on existing stress reactions. Childhood abuse, DV (witnessing it as a child and experiencing it as an adult), unresolved grief over various deaths, difficult childbirth, the bushfires in the mountains etc.
My response to any traumatic event is “programmed” into my brain – dreams and digestive tract issues.
Nightmares about train travel with lots of suitcases was a popular one. Loss of control is the main theme and being alone.
I really only have nightmares, distressing dreams, when I’m running a fever when I’ve got the flu etc. Dreams where I am faced with insurmountable tasks like your bags on a train. When I was about 7yo I had a dream where I had to read the letters of a huge pile of alphabet blocks, or more recently where they topic of my dream was to manage the Cambodian peace process. My normal dreams are always imaginative but I never find them distressing.
My only recently recurring dream is talking to my cousin.
IRL we haven’t spoken in 18 months after he asserted women who claim to be SA’d by celebrities are either making it up or wildly exaggerating. I set boundaries regarding the end of the conversation, he broke them repeatedly, we haven’t spoken since. We used to talk every day.
kii said:
Divine Angel said:
Were your nightmares related to the cause of your PTSD?
Mine is C-PTSD – lots of traumatic events that built on existing stress reactions. Childhood abuse, DV (witnessing it as a child and experiencing it as an adult), unresolved grief over various deaths, difficult childbirth, the bushfires in the mountains etc.
My response to any traumatic event is “programmed” into my brain – dreams and digestive tract issues.
Nightmares about train travel with lots of suitcases was a popular one. Loss of control is the main theme and being alone.
Sorry, I didn’t know what C-PTSD was, had to look it up. Apologies. Have those themes eased with therapy?
Witty Rejoinder said:
kii said:
Divine Angel said:
Were your nightmares related to the cause of your PTSD?
Mine is C-PTSD – lots of traumatic events that built on existing stress reactions. Childhood abuse, DV (witnessing it as a child and experiencing it as an adult), unresolved grief over various deaths, difficult childbirth, the bushfires in the mountains etc.
My response to any traumatic event is “programmed” into my brain – dreams and digestive tract issues.
Nightmares about train travel with lots of suitcases was a popular one. Loss of control is the main theme and being alone.
I really only have nightmares, distressing dreams, when I’m running a fever when I’ve got the flu etc. Dreams where I am faced with insurmountable tasks like your bags on a train. When I was about 7yo I had a dream where I had to read the letters of a huge pile of alphabet blocks, or more recently where they topic of my dream was to manage the Cambodian peace process. My normal dreams are always imaginative but I never find them distressing.
Mmm…childhood fever dreams.
My father being hauled away by a giant whale as I stood on a flimsy wooden pier. That was repeated often. Dad was the stable parent, though emotionally damaged from WWII stuff in Estonia etc.
I once actually crawled out under the side wall of our family tent during a nightmare about being responsible for my 2 younger siblings and a million wrapped Xmas presents I had to hide from everyone as they suffocated. me.
Camping at Jimmy’s Beach in the 1960s was such fun after that…I DONT WANT TO CRAWL AWAY FROM THE TENT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT!!
Divine Angel said:
kii said:
Divine Angel said:
Were your nightmares related to the cause of your PTSD?
Mine is C-PTSD – lots of traumatic events that built on existing stress reactions. Childhood abuse, DV (witnessing it as a child and experiencing it as an adult), unresolved grief over various deaths, difficult childbirth, the bushfires in the mountains etc.
My response to any traumatic event is “programmed” into my brain – dreams and digestive tract issues.
Nightmares about train travel with lots of suitcases was a popular one. Loss of control is the main theme and being alone.
Sorry, I didn’t know what C-PTSD was, had to look it up. Apologies. Have those themes eased with therapy?
Yes.
I didn’t know about C-PTSD until I worked with therapist here. She really helped me and also did the ND assessments.
Morning Pilgrims, no Doomben meeting today because of the weather.
It’s only drizzling at the moment.
Recent widespread heavy rainfall will flood inland lakes in the coming weeks and months.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-29/australia-weather-qld-deluge-reaches-nsw/105109136
Divine Angel said:
Recent widespread heavy rainfall will flood inland lakes in the coming weeks and months.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-29/australia-weather-qld-deluge-reaches-nsw/105109136
And the pelicans will be right onto it.
Oh terrific, I can hear my roof leaking 😒
Deev’s Index isn’t working for me today, I was looking for the Pandemic 2025 thread to post this in -
Next-generation, inhaled COVID-19 vaccine enters phase-2 clinical trial
Researchers at McMaster University have started a phase-2 clinical trial on a next-generation, inhaled COVID-19 vaccine.
The AeroVax study, supported by $8M in funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), will test needle-free vaccines developed to provide protection from SARS-CoV-2.
Led by Fiona Smaill and Zhou Xing, members of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research (IIDR) at McMaster, the multi-centre trial will evaluate the new vaccine in a broad study group, while also confirming safety.
Findings from pre-clinical studies and the soon-to-be-published data from the phase-1 trial indicate that McMaster’s inhaled vaccine is more effective at inducing immune responses than traditional injected vaccines are, because it directly targets the lungs and upper airways — where the virus first enters the body.
i’m up arisen rose from the dead
I was horizontal in bed
Larry bark dogspeak get up said
so vertical bleary eyed
gets dressed boots on what I did
moldy gone that bread
done coffee have salada instead
Some more vide of the powerful earthquake in Bangkok.
Bloody terrifying.
Spiny Norman said:
Some more vide of the powerful earthquake in Bangkok.
Bloody terrifying.
Yep, scary.
I think swimming pools atop skyscrapers acts as a dampener to the sway of the building.
Olive and Mabel’s Garden – Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPT0rLah9p0
Peak Warming Man said:
Spiny Norman said:
Some more vide of the powerful earthquake in Bangkok.
Bloody terrifying.Yep, scary.
I think swimming pools atop skyscrapers acts as a dampener to the sway of the building.
Quite possibly.
Divine Angel said:
Oh terrific, I can hear my roof leaking 😒
Bugger.
Our living room roof started started leaking yesterday – we have a bucket and towel under that. I’d better go check how full it is soon. It’s leaking from a downlight fitting.
All the rooms on the northern side of the house are wet – really, really wet too. We rarely close those windows, because the rain is so rarely blown from the norther quadrant. Not last night.
We have woken up to two soaking wet beds, carpet and much other soaked stuff too. Buggrit. Buggrit. Buggrit.
We’ve tidied, wiped and cleaned what we can in the last two hours. Fans are on.
I’ll be interested to see what the ORB captured.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Oh terrific, I can hear my roof leaking 😒
Bugger.
Our living room roof started started leaking yesterday – we have a bucket and towel under that. I’d better go check how full it is soon. It’s leaking from a downlight fitting.
All the rooms on the northern side of the house are wet – really, really wet too. We rarely close those windows, because the rain is so rarely blown from the norther quadrant. Not last night.
We have woken up to two soaking wet beds, carpet and much other soaked stuff too. Buggrit. Buggrit. Buggrit.
We’ve tidied, wiped and cleaned what we can in the last two hours. Fans are on.
I’ll be interested to see what the ORB captured.
Bugger indeed.
The ORB will be pretty full I reckon.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Oh terrific, I can hear my roof leaking 😒
Bugger.
Our living room roof started started leaking yesterday – we have a bucket and towel under that. I’d better go check how full it is soon. It’s leaking from a downlight fitting.
All the rooms on the northern side of the house are wet – really, really wet too. We rarely close those windows, because the rain is so rarely blown from the norther quadrant. Not last night.
We have woken up to two soaking wet beds, carpet and much other soaked stuff too. Buggrit. Buggrit. Buggrit.
We’ve tidied, wiped and cleaned what we can in the last two hours. Fans are on.
I’ll be interested to see what the ORB captured.
ORB: 277 mm.
Four-day total: 585 mm.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Oh terrific, I can hear my roof leaking 😒
Bugger.
Our living room roof started started leaking yesterday – we have a bucket and towel under that. I’d better go check how full it is soon. It’s leaking from a downlight fitting.
All the rooms on the northern side of the house are wet – really, really wet too. We rarely close those windows, because the rain is so rarely blown from the norther quadrant. Not last night.
We have woken up to two soaking wet beds, carpet and much other soaked stuff too. Buggrit. Buggrit. Buggrit.
We’ve tidied, wiped and cleaned what we can in the last two hours. Fans are on.
I’ll be interested to see what the ORB captured.
Dang. Times like this an aircon on dry mode is very handy.
Michael V said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Oh terrific, I can hear my roof leaking 😒
Bugger.
Our living room roof started started leaking yesterday – we have a bucket and towel under that. I’d better go check how full it is soon. It’s leaking from a downlight fitting.
All the rooms on the northern side of the house are wet – really, really wet too. We rarely close those windows, because the rain is so rarely blown from the norther quadrant. Not last night.
We have woken up to two soaking wet beds, carpet and much other soaked stuff too. Buggrit. Buggrit. Buggrit.
We’ve tidied, wiped and cleaned what we can in the last two hours. Fans are on.
I’ll be interested to see what the ORB captured.
ORB: 277 mm.
Four-day total: 585 mm.
Holy cow!
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Oh terrific, I can hear my roof leaking 😒
Bugger.
Our living room roof started started leaking yesterday – we have a bucket and towel under that. I’d better go check how full it is soon. It’s leaking from a downlight fitting.
All the rooms on the northern side of the house are wet – really, really wet too. We rarely close those windows, because the rain is so rarely blown from the norther quadrant. Not last night.
We have woken up to two soaking wet beds, carpet and much other soaked stuff too. Buggrit. Buggrit. Buggrit.
We’ve tidied, wiped and cleaned what we can in the last two hours. Fans are on.
I’ll be interested to see what the ORB captured.
Dang. Times like this an aircon on dry mode is very handy.
Yeah. Unfortunately that won’t be happening here. We’ll survive though. Much worse things happen in Myanmar.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:Bugger.
Our living room roof started started leaking yesterday – we have a bucket and towel under that. I’d better go check how full it is soon. It’s leaking from a downlight fitting.
All the rooms on the northern side of the house are wet – really, really wet too. We rarely close those windows, because the rain is so rarely blown from the norther quadrant. Not last night.
We have woken up to two soaking wet beds, carpet and much other soaked stuff too. Buggrit. Buggrit. Buggrit.
We’ve tidied, wiped and cleaned what we can in the last two hours. Fans are on.
I’ll be interested to see what the ORB captured.
Dang. Times like this an aircon on dry mode is very handy.
Yeah. Unfortunately that won’t be happening here. We’ll survive though. Much worse things happen in Myanmar.
Yeah..
Still, Buggrit.
Divine Angel said:
Michael V said:
Michael V said:Bugger.
Our living room roof started started leaking yesterday – we have a bucket and towel under that. I’d better go check how full it is soon. It’s leaking from a downlight fitting.
All the rooms on the northern side of the house are wet – really, really wet too. We rarely close those windows, because the rain is so rarely blown from the norther quadrant. Not last night.
We have woken up to two soaking wet beds, carpet and much other soaked stuff too. Buggrit. Buggrit. Buggrit.
We’ve tidied, wiped and cleaned what we can in the last two hours. Fans are on.
I’ll be interested to see what the ORB captured.
ORB: 277 mm.
Four-day total: 585 mm.
Holy cow!
yeah. what she said.
Ian said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:Dang. Times like this an aircon on dry mode is very handy.
Yeah. Unfortunately that won’t be happening here. We’ll survive though. Much worse things happen in Myanmar.
Yeah..
Still, Buggrit.
:)
for buffy, just turned image upside down from yesterday’s, and previous day, don’t tell anyone
Australia is doing reasonably well in this metric
dv said:
Australia is doing reasonably well in this metric
In terms of citations/head, we’re doing bloody well, aren’t we?
The Rev Dodgson said:
dv said:
Australia is doing reasonably well in this metric
In terms of citations/head, we’re doing bloody well, aren’t we?
I think we can be proud of our achievements within our weight range yes.
transition said:
for buffy, just turned image upside down from yesterday’s, and previous day, don’t tell anyone
No, that one is different…must be from a couple of weeks ago.
clearest image yet…
ChrispenEvan said:
clearest image yet…
right
did you catch this buffy?
Olive and Mabel’s Garden – Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPT0rLah9p0
ChrispenEvan said:
clearest image yet…
Uh huh
ChrispenEvan said:
clearest image yet…
Yeah, yeah.
sarahs mum said:
did you catch this buffy?Olive and Mabel’s Garden – Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPT0rLah9p0
Thanks for reminding me…I flew past your post earlier. Been a bit busy today.
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:
did you catch this buffy?Olive and Mabel’s Garden – Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPT0rLah9p0
Thanks for reminding me…I flew past your post earlier. Been a bit busy today.
:)
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:
did you catch this buffy?Olive and Mabel’s Garden – Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPT0rLah9p0
Thanks for reminding me…I flew past your post earlier. Been a bit busy today.
:)
And I flinched when he walked past the gorse…automatic reaction here “get rid of it!”
The rain has finally stopped so I’m gonna get a head start on some washing. Even if there’s drizzle later it’ll be ok.
Divine Angel said:
The rain has finally stopped so I’m gonna get a head start on some washing. Even if there’s drizzle later it’ll be ok.
Hot and sunny 38 C here. Wasgunna do some shed stuff but it’s too hot outside.
South Aus 6-269 needing 1 run to win
Well done them, thoroughly deserved etc…
buffy said:
sarahs mum said:
buffy said:Thanks for reminding me…I flew past your post earlier. Been a bit busy today.
:)
And I flinched when he walked past the gorse…automatic reaction here “get rid of it!”
me too. but it is a native there.
he mentioned the coconut smell. i saw a cordial made from gorse petals and they talked about the coconut flavour.
Apparently 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy.
btm said:
Apparently 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy.
And what happens to all the data they’ve collected…?
Divine Angel said:
btm said:
Apparently 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy.
And what happens to all the data they’ve collected…?
It’s being sold on. A Judge has ruled that that’s OK.
I don’t expect Trump to appeal that.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
btm said:
Apparently 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy.
And what happens to all the data they’ve collected…?
It’s being sold on. A Judge has ruled that that’s OK.
I don’t expect Trump to appeal that.
a few days ago I read something that suggested that people who felt so inclined should delete their data.
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
And what happens to all the data they’ve collected…?
It’s being sold on. A Judge has ruled that that’s OK.
I don’t expect Trump to appeal that.
a few days ago I read something that suggested that people who felt so inclined should delete their data.
^
sarahs mum said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:And what happens to all the data they’ve collected…?
It’s being sold on. A Judge has ruled that that’s OK.
I don’t expect Trump to appeal that.
a few days ago I read something that suggested that people who felt so inclined should delete their data.
But is their data actually deleted and/or destroyed?
Divine Angel said:
btm said:
Apparently 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy.
And what happens to all the data they’ve collected…?
That’s a major issue in the US at the moment; a lot of people are trying to get their data removed, but 23andMe are trying to sell it.
Hey MV…there is an (apparently) new episode of Father Brown on ABC just after 6.00pm. Odd time for them to be showing it, but there you are.
Kangaroos are out and about after the rain.
Divine Angel said:
Kangaroos are out and about after the rain.
got any in yer top paddock?
ChrispenEvan said:
Divine Angel said:
Kangaroos are out and about after the rain.
got any in yer top paddock?
Nah they slid off my cracker.
Divine Angel said:
Kangaroos are out and about after the rain.
Our were closer to the house during the rain… which is now about finished… for a little bit.
buffy said:
Hey MV…there is an (apparently) new episode of Father Brown on ABC just after 6.00pm. Odd time for them to be showing it, but there you are.
Oh. I’ll likely miss it. Other things to do.
Michael V said:
buffy said:
Hey MV…there is an (apparently) new episode of Father Brown on ABC just after 6.00pm. Odd time for them to be showing it, but there you are.
Oh. I’ll likely miss it. Other things to do.
It’s on iView. It’s a pretty silly episode, but they do tend to be.
Divine Angel said:
btm said:
Apparently 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy.
And what happens to all the data they’ve collected…?
Let’s start the bidding…..
‘Evening all. just got home from work.
Is it FNDC yet?
Kingy said:
‘Evening all. just got home from work.Is it FNDC yet?
Kingy said:
‘Evening all. just got home from work.Is it FNDC yet?
started 28 hours ago.
Divine Angel said:
Kingy said:
‘Evening all. just got home from work.Is it FNDC yet?
I know you’re in the past but it’s SNDC
Well I’m enjoying a glass of wine and some u-tube, so I guess you are allowed to as well.
Snow White continues its downward slide. Last Monday it was rated 1.9 on IMDb, it’s now at 1.5. However, it’s only been out for 9 days and has over 225,000 ratings and a low box office attendance & takings.
Therefore, it seems people are hating on Snow White without actually seeing it.
The current lowest-rated film on IMDb is Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas, at 1.3. I have seen this movie, and can confirm it is total shit.
Divine Angel said:
Snow White continues its downward slide. Last Monday it was rated 1.9 on IMDb, it’s now at 1.5. However, it’s only been out for 9 days and has over 225,000 ratings and a low box office attendance & takings.Therefore, it seems people are hating on Snow White without actually seeing it.
The current lowest-rated film on IMDb is Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas, at 1.3. I have seen this movie, and can confirm it is total shit.
Disney was flying high a few years back with their animation and live action remakes, the MCU and their ‘Star Wars’ stable of projects but it’s been a few lean years. At least’ Moana 2’ was successful.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Divine Angel said:
Kingy said:
‘Evening all. just got home from work.Is it FNDC yet?
I know you’re in the past but it’s SNDCWell I’m enjoying a glass of wine and some u-tube, so I guess you are allowed to as well.
It’s hot and muggy here. Ms Kingy is making a potato bake for dinner.
I’m gonna check out the river flows into lake eire shortly.
Divine Angel said:
Snow White continues its downward slide. Last Monday it was rated 1.9 on IMDb, it’s now at 1.5. However, it’s only been out for 9 days and has over 225,000 ratings and a low box office attendance & takings.Therefore, it seems people are hating on Snow White without actually seeing it.
The current lowest-rated film on IMDb is Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas, at 1.3. I have seen this movie, and can confirm it is total shit.
Cameron claims that his movie is actually great, but the poor reception and rating on IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic are due to atheist conspiracies hatched on rettit.
Divine Angel said:
Snow White continues its downward slide. Last Monday it was rated 1.9 on IMDb, it’s now at 1.5. However, it’s only been out for 9 days and has over 225,000 ratings and a low box office attendance & takings.Therefore, it seems people are hating on Snow White without actually seeing it.
The current lowest-rated film on IMDb is Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas, at 1.3. I have seen this movie, and can confirm it is total shit.
What’s wrong with it?
btm said:
Divine Angel said:
Snow White continues its downward slide. Last Monday it was rated 1.9 on IMDb, it’s now at 1.5. However, it’s only been out for 9 days and has over 225,000 ratings and a low box office attendance & takings.Therefore, it seems people are hating on Snow White without actually seeing it.
The current lowest-rated film on IMDb is Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas, at 1.3. I have seen this movie, and can confirm it is total shit.
Cameron claims that his movie is actually great, but the poor reception and rating on IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic are due to atheist conspiracies hatched on rettit.
Bloody atheists :)
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
Snow White continues its downward slide. Last Monday it was rated 1.9 on IMDb, it’s now at 1.5. However, it’s only been out for 9 days and has over 225,000 ratings and a low box office attendance & takings.Therefore, it seems people are hating on Snow White without actually seeing it.
The current lowest-rated film on IMDb is Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas, at 1.3. I have seen this movie, and can confirm it is total shit.
What’s wrong with it?
DA will supply a full report once it starts streaming somewhere.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Arts said:
Divine Angel said:
Snow White continues its downward slide. Last Monday it was rated 1.9 on IMDb, it’s now at 1.5. However, it’s only been out for 9 days and has over 225,000 ratings and a low box office attendance & takings.Therefore, it seems people are hating on Snow White without actually seeing it.
The current lowest-rated film on IMDb is Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas, at 1.3. I have seen this movie, and can confirm it is total shit.
What’s wrong with it?
DA will supply a full report once it starts streaming somewhere.
And remember when DA becomes a national celebrity by winning ‘Hard Quiz’ with her chosen subject of ‘Disney Trivia’ you can say you knew her way back when.
Are all these rivers flowing into South Australia?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_(2025_film)#Controversies
Divine Angel said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_(2025_film)#Controversies
Hardly controversies…storms in a teacup maybe.
Neophyte said:
Divine Angel said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_(2025_film)#Controversies
Hardly controversies…storms in a teacup maybe.
+ seventy billion!
Kingy said:
Are all these rivers flowing into South Australia?
I’m guessing that Lake Eyre might get a drink in a few months.
Divine Angel said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_(2025_film)#Controversies
did anyone ever complain that Gimli wasn’t played by a real dwarf?
sarahs mum said:
Divine Angel said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_(2025_film)#Controversies
did anyone ever complain that Gimli wasn’t played by a real dwarf?
No…
Kingy said:
Are all these rivers flowing into South Australia?
I dunno. I just saw our great and glorious leader pop up on an ad saying “Australia is turning a corner.” Well, if he’s right and he often is, then if we’re going fast enough the resultant force may well have all of that water sloshing over to Perth.. or Sydney. Who can say?
sarahs mum said:
Divine Angel said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_(2025_film)#Controversies
did anyone ever complain that Gimli wasn’t played by a real dwarf?
we mean is the current consensus that characters can only be portrayed by themselves or is this all getting a bit too restrictive
SCIENCE said:
sarahs mum said:
Divine Angel said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_(2025_film)#Controversies
did anyone ever complain that Gimli wasn’t played by a real dwarf?
we mean is the current consensus that characters can only be portrayed by themselves or is this all getting a bit too restrictive
Yes, currently there is a push for charactera to play their own subdivision, unless they are straight white male, then anyone can play that part..
furious said:
SCIENCE said:
sarahs mum said:
did anyone ever complain that Gimli wasn’t played by a real dwarf?
we mean is the current consensus that characters can only be portrayed by themselves or is this all getting a bit too restrictive
Yes, currently there is a push for charactera to play their own subdivision, unless they are straight white male, then anyone can play that part..
well OK whatever though we would have thought that in a creative andor performing art then the quality of the portrayal would be more important than the classification of the substrate but fucked if we know we’re just SCIENCE so we suppose we got no horse in this race war
sarahs mum said:
Divine Angel said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_(2025_film)#Controversies
did anyone ever complain that Gimli wasn’t played by a real dwarf?
I knew a guy nicknamed “Gimli”. He was known for going apeshit* when really stoned and dancing around the campfire. As far as I know he is still referred to as Gimli by some of his old friends. He wasn’t a dwarf.
*I never witnessed this
i think i would prefer snow white to be fair. but this could be done in post-production these days.
An observation:
In just about every film/series I watch people use their keys to open the front door to their home, they then walk in and put the keys in a bowl/basket, or on the table near the door. Often they have a bag with them, which they then leave on a chair or table or somewhere not near their keys.
Why?
I always put my keys back into the shoulder bag I just took them out of, and then hang the bag on the hook near the door. mr kii always had his keys on a brass carabiner attached to his jeans belt loop. He had lots of keys, but liked to have them close at hand. Padlocks on equipment etc.
Does anyone here do the bowl thing?
kii said:
An observation:
In just about every film/series I watch people use their keys to open the front door to their home, they then walk in and put the keys in a bowl/basket, or on the table near the door. Often they have a bag with them, which they then leave on a chair or table or somewhere not near their keys.Why?
I always put my keys back into the shoulder bag I just took them out of, and then hang the bag on the hook near the door. mr kii always had his keys on a brass carabiner attached to his jeans belt loop. He had lots of keys, but liked to have them close at hand. Padlocks on equipment etc.
Does anyone here do the bowl thing?
Well I dont
dv said:
kii said:
An observation:
In just about every film/series I watch people use their keys to open the front door to their home, they then walk in and put the keys in a bowl/basket, or on the table near the door. Often they have a bag with them, which they then leave on a chair or table or somewhere not near their keys.Why?
I always put my keys back into the shoulder bag I just took them out of, and then hang the bag on the hook near the door. mr kii always had his keys on a brass carabiner attached to his jeans belt loop. He had lots of keys, but liked to have them close at hand. Padlocks on equipment etc.
Does anyone here do the bowl thing?
Well I dont
It just doesn’t make any sense. I’ve never lived with another person who does the bowl thing.
kii said:
An observation:
In just about every film/series I watch people use their keys to open the front door to their home, they then walk in and put the keys in a bowl/basket, or on the table near the door. Often they have a bag with them, which they then leave on a chair or table or somewhere not near their keys.Why?
I always put my keys back into the shoulder bag I just took them out of, and then hang the bag on the hook near the door. mr kii always had his keys on a brass carabiner attached to his jeans belt loop. He had lots of keys, but liked to have them close at hand. Padlocks on equipment etc.
Does anyone here do the bowl thing?
No.
I have all my important keys on the same keyring bunch: house, car and work keys. They go in a drawer. In the same drawer I have the padlock keys and window keys etc all on other key-rings, plus my spares.
kii said:
An observation:
In just about every film/series I watch people use their keys to open the front door to their home, they then walk in and put the keys in a bowl/basket, or on the table near the door. Often they have a bag with them, which they then leave on a chair or table or somewhere not near their keys.Why?
I always put my keys back into the shoulder bag I just took them out of, and then hang the bag on the hook near the door. mr kii always had his keys on a brass carabiner attached to his jeans belt loop. He had lots of keys, but liked to have them close at hand. Padlocks on equipment etc.
Does anyone here do the bowl thing?
Not a bowl, but I’ve got a shelf just inside the door, and I put my keys and sunglasses on that shelf. The door won’t lock without the key, so I can’t go out without my keys.
Bruce Linder, from March 29th 2020.
The entire PLANET is under attack from a killer virus. . The nation’s workforce just shed 3.3 million jobs in 30 days. . Two-thirds of Americans are confined to their homes. . We’re on the cusp of a human catastrophe hitherto unseen in decades, if not centuries. . And this fucking maniac is fixated on his popularity. . Demands for competent leadership from his party: 🦗 🦗 🦗 🦗
My comment: I knew reality TV shows would be involved in the destruction of the world.
party_pants said:
kii said:
An observation:
In just about every film/series I watch people use their keys to open the front door to their home, they then walk in and put the keys in a bowl/basket, or on the table near the door. Often they have a bag with them, which they then leave on a chair or table or somewhere not near their keys.Why?
I always put my keys back into the shoulder bag I just took them out of, and then hang the bag on the hook near the door. mr kii always had his keys on a brass carabiner attached to his jeans belt loop. He had lots of keys, but liked to have them close at hand. Padlocks on equipment etc.
Does anyone here do the bowl thing?
No.
I have all my important keys on the same keyring bunch: house, car and work keys. They go in a drawer. In the same drawer I have the padlock keys and window keys etc all on other key-rings, plus my spares.
A drawer, IMO, is the same as a bowl/tray or on the table. Do you take a bag with you each time you leave the house?
btm said:
kii said:
An observation:
In just about every film/series I watch people use their keys to open the front door to their home, they then walk in and put the keys in a bowl/basket, or on the table near the door. Often they have a bag with them, which they then leave on a chair or table or somewhere not near their keys.Why?
I always put my keys back into the shoulder bag I just took them out of, and then hang the bag on the hook near the door. mr kii always had his keys on a brass carabiner attached to his jeans belt loop. He had lots of keys, but liked to have them close at hand. Padlocks on equipment etc.
Does anyone here do the bowl thing?
Not a bowl, but I’ve got a shelf just inside the door, and I put my keys and sunglasses on that shelf. The door won’t lock without the key, so I can’t go out without my keys.
Again, bowl etc., but having a door that won’t lock without the key is a good.
Morning all, heading for a nice temperate max of 16 here, cloudy.
I’ve been up for several hours and have already:
a) Successfully removed the AMD graphics card.
b) Successfully installed the new Nvidia graphics card.
c) Successfully downloaded and installed its drivers.
d) Successfully reinstalled Fooocus, configured for the new card.
e) Successfully verified that AI image generation is now a zillion times faster on my machine, fully justifying all the expense and bother :)
furious said:
SCIENCE said:sarahs mum said:
did anyone ever complain that Gimli wasn’t played by a real dwarf?
we mean is the current consensus that characters can only be portrayed by themselves or is this all getting a bit too restrictive
Yes, currently there is a push for charactera to play their own subdivision, unless they are straight white male, then anyone can play that part..
I guess the universe has balanced itself from the old days when white males could play any part.
ChrispenEvan said:
furious said:
SCIENCE said:we mean is the current consensus that characters can only be portrayed by themselves or is this all getting a bit too restrictive
Yes, currently there is a push for charactera to play their own subdivision, unless they are straight white male, then anyone can play that part..
I guess the universe has balanced itself from the old days when white males could play any part.
But what about the effeminate men who used to play all the female roles in Shakespeare’s time? WHAT ABOUT THEM?
Witty Rejoinder said:
ChrispenEvan said:
furious said:Yes, currently there is a push for charactera to play their own subdivision, unless they are straight white male, then anyone can play that part..
I guess the universe has balanced itself from the old days when white males could play any part.
But what about the effeminate men who used to play all the female roles in Shakespeare’s time? WHAT ABOUT THEM?
they’re dead, man. All dead.
kii said:
An observation:
In just about every film/series I watch people use their keys to open the front door to their home, they then walk in and put the keys in a bowl/basket, or on the table near the door. Often they have a bag with them, which they then leave on a chair or table or somewhere not near their keys.Why?
I always put my keys back into the shoulder bag I just took them out of, and then hang the bag on the hook near the door. mr kii always had his keys on a brass carabiner attached to his jeans belt loop. He had lots of keys, but liked to have them close at hand. Padlocks on equipment etc.
Does anyone here do the bowl thing?
No
Mostly sunny with a top of 31 today. Humidity is sitting at 99%. Going to get on top of the washing, because it’s more showers all week.
Currently wearing Homer Simpson pyjamas. Technically they’re men’s pyjamas but don’t tell anyone.
New t-shirt and my “meh” sticker.
Ooops…sideways.
Divine Angel said:
kii said:
An observation:
In just about every film/series I watch people use their keys to open the front door to their home, they then walk in and put the keys in a bowl/basket, or on the table near the door. Often they have a bag with them, which they then leave on a chair or table or somewhere not near their keys.Why?
I always put my keys back into the shoulder bag I just took them out of, and then hang the bag on the hook near the door. mr kii always had his keys on a brass carabiner attached to his jeans belt loop. He had lots of keys, but liked to have them close at hand. Padlocks on equipment etc.
Does anyone here do the bowl thing?
No
I only shut and lock my front and back door if I am going to be away overnight and when I go to bed. If I’m just going shopping they remain open.
I generally keep my wallet and keys in the same place when I am at home. No bowl though.
Witty Rejoinder said:
I generally keep my wallet and keys in the same place when I am at home. No bowl though.
So does no-one else leave their keys in their pocket?
Witty Rejoinder said:
I generally keep my wallet and keys in the same place when I am at home. No bowl though.
Same.
We’ve had our car 7 years now, and were given two sets of fobs for it. Within six months Mr Mutant had lost his fob so we’ve only got mine now. It needs to stay in the same place every time. It’s a house rule.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
I generally keep my wallet and keys in the same place when I am at home. No bowl though.
So does no-one else leave their keys in their pocket?
It’s an excellent way to put them through the washing machine, damaging both clothes and the machine.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
I generally keep my wallet and keys in the same place when I am at home. No bowl though.
So does no-one else leave their keys in their pocket?
Only when I walked Gracie, then I’d put them straight back in my bag. I do have a set that I carry around with me if I go out to the workshop or the laundry – both doors need keys, the same ones as the house.
Witty Rejoinder said:
I generally keep my wallet and keys in the same place when I am at home. No bowl though.
I carry everything in a shoulder bag. Keys get put back in it. Phone is in it rather than a pocket.
Good morning Holidayers. I slept in a bit this morning. Unusual for me. It’s 14 degrees at the back door and there has been maybe 0.5mm of rain during the night. We are forecast a partly cloudy 21 degrees.
I might sew. But I do need to clean out and set aside my fire waterbuckets so they can dry out and be stacked away for the Winter. And wind up the hose in the front yard that has been out and ready for some months. And I can see some suckers on the Big White Rose out the front…might as well cut them off and donate them to the FOGO bin while I’m out the front.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
I generally keep my wallet and keys in the same place when I am at home. No bowl though.
So does no-one else leave their keys in their pocket?
They don’t stay in a pocket any longer than into Bunnings and out.
Divine Angel said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
I generally keep my wallet and keys in the same place when I am at home. No bowl though.
So does no-one else leave their keys in their pocket?
It’s an excellent way to put them through the washing machine, damaging both clothes and the machine.
and the fobs too.
Witty Rejoinder said:
I generally keep my wallet and keys in the same place when I am at home. No bowl though.
A mate of mine used to be in the insurance game. He said that a lot of cars were stolen when parked at home simply by the thieves carefully sticking their head in the front door and having a quick look for the car keys, as they’d often be on a hook or bowl, etc, near there.
We’ve hidden our keys extremely well, it’d take hours to find them.
Spiny Norman said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
I generally keep my wallet and keys in the same place when I am at home. No bowl though.
A mate of mine used to be in the insurance game. He said that a lot of cars were stolen when parked at home simply by the thieves carefully sticking their head in the front door and having a quick look for the car keys, as they’d often be on a hook or bowl, etc, near there.
We’ve hidden our keys extremely well, it’d take hours to find them.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-21/emma-lee-lovell-murder-trial-north-lakes-boxing-day/104497508
This article doesn’t mention it, but the woman was stabbed because the teens were looking for car keys to take the car. Failing to find the keys led to her being murdered.
Divine Angel said:
Spiny Norman said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
I generally keep my wallet and keys in the same place when I am at home. No bowl though.
A mate of mine used to be in the insurance game. He said that a lot of cars were stolen when parked at home simply by the thieves carefully sticking their head in the front door and having a quick look for the car keys, as they’d often be on a hook or bowl, etc, near there.
We’ve hidden our keys extremely well, it’d take hours to find them.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-21/emma-lee-lovell-murder-trial-north-lakes-boxing-day/104497508
This article doesn’t mention it, but the woman was stabbed because the teens were looking for car keys to take the car. Failing to find the keys led to her being murdered.
Your car or your life? I’d hand them the car key.
Divine Angel said:
Spiny Norman said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
I generally keep my wallet and keys in the same place when I am at home. No bowl though.
A mate of mine used to be in the insurance game. He said that a lot of cars were stolen when parked at home simply by the thieves carefully sticking their head in the front door and having a quick look for the car keys, as they’d often be on a hook or bowl, etc, near there.
We’ve hidden our keys extremely well, it’d take hours to find them.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-21/emma-lee-lovell-murder-trial-north-lakes-boxing-day/104497508
This article doesn’t mention it, but the woman was stabbed because the teens were looking for car keys to take the car. Failing to find the keys led to her being murdered.
Well yeah I guess there can be a downside to it. It’d have to be pretty rare though.
My wallet goes on the kitchen dresser, or in the kitchen dresser drawer if I have visitors and want a tidier look. My keys go in a small Japanese enamelled wooden bowl on the kitchen dresser.
Last year, four huh school,kids who used to go to mini me’s school stole a car. They filmed themselves in the act of stealing this car, and driving it around, then dumping it.
Being the geniuses they are, they also left the phone inside the car with all of the footage intact.
I think the owner found the car before the police did, and, being the geniuses the owners are, they posted the footage to Facebook before referring to police.
Anyway the teens only got a slap on the wrist.
I have next to no use for keys. There are 2 that live in my shoulder bag..
I should delete one.
We don’t do the bowl for keys thing either. My mother kept her keys in her handbag. My father kept his on top of the fridge in the kitchen (I think). My keys live in my handbag, it has a side zipped pocket for them. I have the keys are on three rings…one for each car and one for the house. There used to be a fourth, with the keys to the practice, the practice safe key and the keys to the house in Casterton which was the visiting practice. Mr buffy’s keys live on a key rack, which is not just inside either door. There is another key rack on the inside of the back door (on the door itself) where miscellaneous other keys are kept. There used to be a set to Auntie Annie’s, extra sets of keys to the shed at the covenant, various keys to the garage shed here, keys to our wire and security doors (which we don’t lock) a key for the fireproof box, and some that could be called miscellaneous.
My keyring holds, car key with included fob, shed key, key to BUs house in Perth which he no longer owns, mates house key. Plus a small transistor heatsink, a heart from Community home care and a tag with Thank You Vollie from the same place, a spanner for my tyre pressure sensors, a small spectacle screwdriver, and a tag with my name and phone number. These are all attached to a circle of cord that I made in 1980 whilst sitting around the kitchen table in Vine Street, East Perth. This hangs on a hook by the back door. another hook there holds another shed key. Key to the back door is in the lock on the inside. Key to the front door is probably on a hook in the back room along with other keys.
kii said:
An observation:
In just about every film/series I watch people use their keys to open the front door to their home, they then walk in and put the keys in a bowl/basket, or on the table near the door. Often they have a bag with them, which they then leave on a chair or table or somewhere not near their keys.Why?
I always put my keys back into the shoulder bag I just took them out of, and then hang the bag on the hook near the door. mr kii always had his keys on a brass carabiner attached to his jeans belt loop. He had lots of keys, but liked to have them close at hand. Padlocks on equipment etc.
Does anyone here do the bowl thing?
My mother had a basket near the door where she kept keys.
I’m not saying where we put keys, as this is the internet. But it’s not in a bowl by the door.
Michael V said:
kii said:
An observation:
In just about every film/series I watch people use their keys to open the front door to their home, they then walk in and put the keys in a bowl/basket, or on the table near the door. Often they have a bag with them, which they then leave on a chair or table or somewhere not near their keys.Why?
I always put my keys back into the shoulder bag I just took them out of, and then hang the bag on the hook near the door. mr kii always had his keys on a brass carabiner attached to his jeans belt loop. He had lots of keys, but liked to have them close at hand. Padlocks on equipment etc.
Does anyone here do the bowl thing?
My mother had a basket near the door where she kept keys.
I’m not saying where we put keys, as this is the internet. But it’s not in a bowl by the door.
Excellent response!
I always enter this house by the back door because amongst the bunch of keys the estate agents gave me for this place, none of them open the (double) front doors. But there are several that don’t open anything at all. Only the back door and garage keys seem to be functional.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
I generally keep my wallet and keys in the same place when I am at home. No bowl though.
So does no-one else leave their keys in their pocket?
I don’t. They wear pockets out and if heavy, drag pants down.
Divine Angel said:
Spiny Norman said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
I generally keep my wallet and keys in the same place when I am at home. No bowl though.
A mate of mine used to be in the insurance game. He said that a lot of cars were stolen when parked at home simply by the thieves carefully sticking their head in the front door and having a quick look for the car keys, as they’d often be on a hook or bowl, etc, near there.
We’ve hidden our keys extremely well, it’d take hours to find them.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-21/emma-lee-lovell-murder-trial-north-lakes-boxing-day/104497508
This article doesn’t mention it, but the woman was stabbed because the teens were looking for car keys to take the car. Failing to find the keys led to her being murdered.
Heck!
ChrispenEvan said:
My keyring holds, car key with included fob, shed key, key to BUs house in Perth which he no longer owns, mates house key. Plus a small transistor heatsink, a heart from Community home care and a tag with Thank You Vollie from the same place, a spanner for my tyre pressure sensors, a small spectacle screwdriver, and a tag with my name and phone number. These are all attached to a circle of cord that I made in 1980 whilst sitting around the kitchen table in Vine Street, East Perth. This hangs on a hook by the back door. another hook there holds another shed key. Key to the back door is in the lock on the inside. Key to the front door is probably on a hook in the back room along with other keys.
Divine Angel said:
Last year, four huh school,kids who used to go to mini me’s school stole a car. They filmed themselves in the act of stealing this car, and driving it around, then dumping it.Being the geniuses they are, they also left the phone inside the car with all of the footage intact.
I think the owner found the car before the police did, and, being the geniuses the owners are, they posted the footage to Facebook before referring to police.
Anyway the teens only got a slap on the wrist.
‘Ken what?
Bubblecar said:
I always enter this house by the back door because amongst the bunch of keys the estate agents gave me for this place, none of them open the (double) front doors. But there are several that don’t open anything at all. Only the back door and garage keys seem to be functional.
All this is very interesting but just so yous all know, we have our bank account details passwords PINs written down on the inner side of our front door, on our trousers tags, underneath our frying pan, and in some of our cereal bowls.
SCIENCE said:
All this is very interesting but just so yous all know, we have our bank account details passwords PINs written down on the inner side of our front door, on our trousers tags, underneath our frying pan, and in some of our cereal bowls.
that isn’t much help without your address!!!
I don’t use a handbag, I go out with one key (for the car) and my phone. The key sits on a purpose built shelf nowhere near the door.
So I suppose a quasi bowl
SCIENCE said:
All this is very interesting but just so yous all know, we have our bank account details passwords PINs written down on the inner side of our front door, on our trousers tags, underneath our frying pan, and in some of our cereal bowls.
All the people paranoid about revealing key spots, seriously? If I’m coming to rob your house of your keys to get your car, quite frankly neither knowing or nor knowing isn’t going to stop me. People are habitual and enjoy convenience so your keys are probably not in a spot I wouldn’t think of (or don’t keep my own keys).
Also if you want my car come get it. I don’t fucking care, that’s what I pay insurance for… it’s just a car.
Arts said:
SCIENCE said:
All this is very interesting but just so yous all know, we have our bank account details passwords PINs written down on the inner side of our front door, on our trousers tags, underneath our frying pan, and in some of our cereal bowls.
All the people paranoid about revealing key spots, seriously? If I’m coming to rob your house of your keys to get your car, quite frankly neither knowing or nor knowing isn’t going to stop me. People are habitual and enjoy convenience so your keys are probably not in a spot I wouldn’t think of (or don’t keep my own keys).
Also if you want my car come get it. I don’t fucking care, that’s what I pay insurance for… it’s just a car.
sure but what spots should we think of
SCIENCE said:
Arts said:
SCIENCE said:
All this is very interesting but just so yous all know, we have our bank account details passwords PINs written down on the inner side of our front door, on our trousers tags, underneath our frying pan, and in some of our cereal bowls.
All the people paranoid about revealing key spots, seriously? If I’m coming to rob your house of your keys to get your car, quite frankly neither knowing or nor knowing isn’t going to stop me. People are habitual and enjoy convenience so your keys are probably not in a spot I wouldn’t think of (or don’t keep my own keys).
Also if you want my car come get it. I don’t fucking care, that’s what I pay insurance for… it’s just a car.
sure but what spots should we think of
SCIENCE said:
All this is very interesting but just so yous all know, we have our bank account details passwords PINs written down on the inner side of our front door, on our trousers tags, underneath our frying pan, and in some of our cereal bowls.
Heh.
A Frankston manor built for Australia’s eighth Prime Minister, Stanley Bruce has hit the market with a $2.7 to $2.9m million price tag.
The circa 1926 built ten bedroom, six bathroom residence at 34 Pine Hill Drive, Frankston, has been painstakingly restored by its owner of 14 years with materials sourced from across Australia.
https://www.realestate.com.au/news/like-the-lodge-a-prime-ministers-former-home-for-sale/
lovely.
sarahs mum said:
A Frankston manor built for Australia’s eighth Prime Minister, Stanley Bruce has hit the market with a $2.7 to $2.9m million price tag.The circa 1926 built ten bedroom, six bathroom residence at 34 Pine Hill Drive, Frankston, has been painstakingly restored by its owner of 14 years with materials sourced from across Australia.
https://www.realestate.com.au/news/like-the-lodge-a-prime-ministers-former-home-for-sale/
lovely.
Does look a very pleasant residence.
gots’t windly monsters, makes wind, upsets larry lastnight, lady tired now, grumpy bordering psychotic, I be careful helps her maintain humor, so the devil not takes over
in other news i’m going to go make a gate, well adjustments to it, to existing gate, additions i’ll put it that way, not electrification, nothing that serious, no razor wire, not quite
anyway been lovely chatting, catching up, really have to go now
transition said:
gots’t windly monsters, makes wind, upsets larry lastnight, lady tired now, grumpy bordering psychotic, I be careful helps her maintain humor, so the devil not takes overin other news i’m going to go make a gate, well adjustments to it, to existing gate, additions i’ll put it that way, not electrification, nothing that serious, no razor wire, not quite
anyway been lovely chatting, catching up, really have to go now
Today in: Life’s Not Fair
https://www.newspapers.com/article/herald-and-review/40985132/
Divine Angel said:
Today in: Life’s Not Fair
https://www.newspapers.com/article/herald-and-review/40985132/
That’s strange. The grave-stone is in a very modern-style and doesn’t mention their surname.
Gout Gout has been upstaged by rival Lachie Kennedy in the 200m at the Maurie Plant meet in Melbourne.
Must be very difficult to run at all with double gout.
Ian said:
Gout Gout has been upstaged by rival Lachie Kennedy in the 200m at the Maurie Plant meet in Melbourne.Must be very difficult to run at all with double gout.
That’s not how his name is pronounced. Supposed to be spelt Guot Guot and it’s pronounced Gwot Gwot. A translation mistake.
ah so more athletes with trans’ problems again
I suppose all you southerners will be wanting to come back on Queensland Standard time soon, we’ll see.
Peak Warming Man said:
I suppose all you southerners will be wanting to come back on Queensland Standard time soon, we’ll see.
Time, as God meant it to be.
When will the heathen southerners see the error of their ways?!
Anyway…
…up, dressed, bed made, breakfast, washing up, out for perambulations with Mrs S and Barely-Domesticated Wolf (incl. wheelchair for Mrs S, when pain becomes too much), home, laundry initiated, floors vacuumed, hard floors washed, laundry hung out, mops and buckets washed out.
Now contemplating close-quarters combat with grass in the front lawn.
MIL is on a 250km hike through Portugal and Spain. Yesterday she walked 26kms and has to maintain 16kms/day to finish on time.
I think she’s nuts, but I am impressed she’s able and willing to do it.
Divine Angel said:
MIL is on a 250km hike through Portugal and Spain. Yesterday she walked 26kms and has to maintain 16kms/day to finish on time.I think she’s nuts, but I am impressed she’s able and willing to do it.
A good effort that, how old is she.
Peak Warming Man said:
Divine Angel said:
MIL is on a 250km hike through Portugal and Spain. Yesterday she walked 26kms and has to maintain 16kms/day to finish on time.I think she’s nuts, but I am impressed she’s able and willing to do it.
A good effort that, how old is she.
Yes, i was about to ask the same.
captain_spalding said:
Anyway……up, dressed, bed made, breakfast, washing up, out for perambulations with Mrs S and Barely-Domesticated Wolf (incl. wheelchair for Mrs S, when pain becomes too much), home, laundry initiated, floors vacuumed, hard floors washed, laundry hung out, mops and buckets washed out.
Now contemplating close-quarters combat with grass in the front lawn.
You deserve it.
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Divine Angel said:
MIL is on a 250km hike through Portugal and Spain. Yesterday she walked 26kms and has to maintain 16kms/day to finish on time.I think she’s nuts, but I am impressed she’s able and willing to do it.
A good effort that, how old is she.
Yes, i was about to ask the same.
I was thinking that. but I was raised to consider it impolite to ask after a woman’s age.
Divine Angel said:
MIL is on a 250km hike through Portugal and Spain. Yesterday she walked 26kms and has to maintain 16kms/day to finish on time.I think she’s nuts, but I am impressed she’s able and willing to do it.
+1
Peak Warming Man said:
Divine Angel said:
MIL is on a 250km hike through Portugal and Spain. Yesterday she walked 26kms and has to maintain 16kms/day to finish on time.I think she’s nuts, but I am impressed she’s able and willing to do it.
A good effort that, how old is she.
Divine Angel said:
MIL is on a 250km hike through Portugal and Spain. Yesterday she walked 26kms and has to maintain 16kms/day to finish on time.I think she’s nuts, but I am impressed she’s able and willing to do it.
+1
nuts is a USA road trip.
sarahs mum said:
Divine Angel said:
MIL is on a 250km hike through Portugal and Spain. Yesterday she walked 26kms and has to maintain 16kms/day to finish on time.I think she’s nuts, but I am impressed she’s able and willing to do it.
+1
nuts is a USA road trip.
A school mum friend is doing that in June. Booked before last year’s election.
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:A good effort that, how old is she.
Yes, i was about to ask the same.
I was thinking that. but I was raised to consider it impolite to ask after a woman’s age.
I promise that, i’ve i should ever meet a lady who’s wearing a t-shirt or cap emblazoned with the words ‘Divine Angel’s Mother-in-Law’, i will not let on that i’m aware of her age.
Divine Angel said:
MIL is on a 250km hike through Portugal and Spain. Yesterday she walked 26kms and has to maintain 16kms/day to finish on time.I think she’s nuts, but I am impressed she’s able and willing to do it.
the pilgrim walk?
Divine Angel said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Divine Angel said:
MIL is on a 250km hike through Portugal and Spain. Yesterday she walked 26kms and has to maintain 16kms/day to finish on time.I think she’s nuts, but I am impressed she’s able and willing to do it.
A good effort that, how old is she.
68
26k in a day, I doffs me cap to her.
Divine Angel said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Divine Angel said:
MIL is on a 250km hike through Portugal and Spain. Yesterday she walked 26kms and has to maintain 16kms/day to finish on time.I think she’s nuts, but I am impressed she’s able and willing to do it.
A good effort that, how old is she.
68
Yikes, older than me! I’m impressed. I really don’t know if i could walk 16km a day, day after day.
ChrispenEvan said:
Divine Angel said:
MIL is on a 250km hike through Portugal and Spain. Yesterday she walked 26kms and has to maintain 16kms/day to finish on time.I think she’s nuts, but I am impressed she’s able and willing to do it.
the pilgrim walk?
Ja.
Divine Angel said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Divine Angel said:
MIL is on a 250km hike through Portugal and Spain. Yesterday she walked 26kms and has to maintain 16kms/day to finish on time.I think she’s nuts, but I am impressed she’s able and willing to do it.
the pilgrim walk?
Ja.
Is that the one with the truly terrifying ‘path’ along the face of a sheer cliff?
captain_spalding said:
Divine Angel said:
ChrispenEvan said:the pilgrim walk?
Ja.
Is that the one with the truly terrifying ‘path’ along the face of a sheer cliff?
Yes. The whole trail is around 800kms IIRC but she’s only doing part of it, so I don’t know if she’s doing that particular part.
captain_spalding said:
Divine Angel said:
Peak Warming Man said:A good effort that, how old is she.
68Yikes, older than me! I’m impressed. I really don’t know if i could walk 16km a day, day after day.
She walks at least 5kms every day, 10-15kms on Sundays. Sometimes 20 if she gets lost lol.
Divine Angel said:
captain_spalding said:
Divine Angel said:Ja.
Is that the one with the truly terrifying ‘path’ along the face of a sheer cliff?
Yes. The whole trail is around 800kms IIRC but she’s only doing part of it, so I don’t know if she’s doing that particular part.
I walk the west highland way and Offas path, well part thereof, got waylaid by various pubs along the way.
Divine Angel said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Divine Angel said:
MIL is on a 250km hike through Portugal and Spain. Yesterday she walked 26kms and has to maintain 16kms/day to finish on time.I think she’s nuts, but I am impressed she’s able and willing to do it.
the pilgrim walk?
Ja.
I think that’s the one that badchap did last year.
kii said:
Divine Angel said:
ChrispenEvan said:the pilgrim walk?
Ja.
I think that’s the one that badchap did last year.
Indeed it is. I asked her for advice when I found out MIL was thinking of doing it.
Divine Angel said:
captain_spalding said:
Divine Angel said:Ja.
Is that the one with the truly terrifying ‘path’ along the face of a sheer cliff?
Yes. The whole trail is around 800kms IIRC but she’s only doing part of it, so I don’t know if she’s doing that particular part.
Well, if it includes the cliff part (hope it doesn’t), she might well end up doing less of it than she expects.
ChrispenEvan said:
Divine Angel said:
MIL is on a 250km hike through Portugal and Spain. Yesterday she walked 26kms and has to maintain 16kms/day to finish on time.I think she’s nuts, but I am impressed she’s able and willing to do it.
the pilgrim walk?
PeterT Ministries has a stall along that path, he sells pieces of Mary Mckiillops bark hut.
Divine Angel said:
sarahs mum said:
Divine Angel said:
MIL is on a 250km hike through Portugal and Spain. Yesterday she walked 26kms and has to maintain 16kms/day to finish on time.I think she’s nuts, but I am impressed she’s able and willing to do it.
+1
nuts is a USA road trip.
A school mum friend is doing that in June. Booked before last year’s election.
Travel insurance…
Peak Warming Man said:
ChrispenEvan said:
Divine Angel said:
MIL is on a 250km hike through Portugal and Spain. Yesterday she walked 26kms and has to maintain 16kms/day to finish on time.I think she’s nuts, but I am impressed she’s able and willing to do it.
the pilgrim walk?
PeterT Ministries has a stall along that path, he sells pieces of Mary Mckiillops bark hut.
LOL
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
sarahs mum said:+1
nuts is a USA road trip.
A school mum friend is doing that in June. Booked before last year’s election.
Travel insurance…
She might not be covered unless the travel advice changes. She’d probably still go anyway.
20/50. I knew 4 and 9.
Tamb said:
SCIENCE said:Arts said:
All the people paranoid about revealing key spots, seriously? If I’m coming to rob your house of your keys to get your car, quite frankly neither knowing or nor knowing isn’t going to stop me. People are habitual and enjoy convenience so your keys are probably not in a spot I wouldn’t think of (or don’t keep my own keys).
Also if you want my car come get it. I don’t fucking care, that’s what I pay insurance for… it’s just a car.
sure but what spots should we think of
Bloke I know got sick of having his car stolen so he installed a large python under the front seat.
Yeah but they’d run away leaving the door open, the python escapes and somebody else sees a free car sitting there with the keys in it.
buffy said:
Sunday Quiz20/50. I knew 4 and 9.
I got 10/50. I only knew the one about warship paint.
Divine Angel said:
Today in: Life’s Not Fair
https://www.newspapers.com/article/herald-and-review/40985132/
Car crash on their honeymoon. I knew a couple who did that. Married one day both dead the next.
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Today in: Life’s Not Fair
https://www.newspapers.com/article/herald-and-review/40985132/
That’s strange. The grave-stone is in a very modern-style and doesn’t mention their surname.
Shroyer.
Peak Warming Man said:
Divine Angel said:
Peak Warming Man said:A good effort that, how old is she.
6826k in a day, I doffs me cap to her.
Shouldn’t take more than four hours. For me anyway.
buffy said:
Sunday Quiz20/50. I knew 4 and 9.
Q7 is a trick question because he’s presumed to have died in a different manner earlier in the series.
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Divine Angel said:68
26k in a day, I doffs me cap to her.
Shouldn’t take more than four hours. For me anyway.
Blimey
party_pants said:
buffy said:
Sunday Quiz20/50. I knew 4 and 9.
I got 10/50. I only knew the one about warship paint.
Score: 35 / 50
Quiz Completed! guesses were mostly good but not all.
Divine Angel said:
buffy said:
Sunday Quiz20/50. I knew 4 and 9.
Q7 is a trick question because he’s presumed to have died in a different manner earlier in the series.
Never watched it. or maybe watched it once and never went back.
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:26k in a day, I doffs me cap to her.
Shouldn’t take more than four hours. For me anyway.
Blimey
Well it is half that from town to here and I’ve often walked it in two hours.
kii said:
Ian said:
Gout Gout has been upstaged by rival Lachie Kennedy in the 200m at the Maurie Plant meet in Melbourne.Must be very difficult to run at all with double gout.
That’s not how his name is pronounced. Supposed to be spelt Guot Guot and it’s pronounced Gwot Gwot. A translation mistake.
Ta. Didn’t know that.
I looked the name up a couple of years ago, but couldn’t get a pronunciation.
captain_spalding said:
Anyway……up, dressed, bed made, breakfast, washing up, out for perambulations with Mrs S and Barely-Domesticated Wolf (incl. wheelchair for Mrs S, when pain becomes too much), home, laundry initiated, floors vacuumed, hard floors washed, laundry hung out, mops and buckets washed out.
Now contemplating close-quarters combat with grass in the front lawn.
OMG! I’ve gotten very tired just reading all that.
Divine Angel said:
MIL is on a 250km hike through Portugal and Spain. Yesterday she walked 26kms and has to maintain 16kms/day to finish on time.I think she’s nuts, but I am impressed she’s able and willing to do it.
Which walk?
sarahs mum said:
Divine Angel said:
MIL is on a 250km hike through Portugal and Spain. Yesterday she walked 26kms and has to maintain 16kms/day to finish on time.I think she’s nuts, but I am impressed she’s able and willing to do it.
+1
nuts is a USA road trip.
Yes.
haircut and shave now, I will evolve, rapid evolution
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
Anyway……up, dressed, bed made, breakfast, washing up, out for perambulations with Mrs S and Barely-Domesticated Wolf (incl. wheelchair for Mrs S, when pain becomes too much), home, laundry initiated, floors vacuumed, hard floors washed, laundry hung out, mops and buckets washed out.
Now contemplating close-quarters combat with grass in the front lawn.
OMG! I’ve gotten very tired just reading all that.
How did you get on with your leak, Michael.
roughbarked said:
Divine Angel said:
Today in: Life’s Not Fair
https://www.newspapers.com/article/herald-and-review/40985132/
Car crash on their honeymoon. I knew a couple who did that. Married one day both dead the next.
Somebody didn’t read the link provided.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
Divine Angel said:
Today in: Life’s Not Fair
https://www.newspapers.com/article/herald-and-review/40985132/
That’s strange. The grave-stone is in a very modern-style and doesn’t mention their surname.
Shroyer.
Sigh.
transition said:
haircut and shave now, I will evolve, rapid evolution
You’ll need a bath now.
roughbarked said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Divine Angel said:68
26k in a day, I doffs me cap to her.
Shouldn’t take more than four hours. For me anyway.
Holy!
kii said:
Ian said:
Gout Gout has been upstaged by rival Lachie Kennedy in the 200m at the Maurie Plant meet in Melbourne.Must be very difficult to run at all with double gout.
That’s not how his name is pronounced. Supposed to be spelt Guot Guot and it’s pronounced Gwot Gwot. A translation mistake.
April fools is couple of days away..
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gout_Gout
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
Anyway……up, dressed, bed made, breakfast, washing up, out for perambulations with Mrs S and Barely-Domesticated Wolf (incl. wheelchair for Mrs S, when pain becomes too much), home, laundry initiated, floors vacuumed, hard floors washed, laundry hung out, mops and buckets washed out.
Now contemplating close-quarters combat with grass in the front lawn.
OMG! I’ve gotten very tired just reading all that.
How did you get on with your leak, Michael.
The rain stopped. Not a lot in the floor bucket.
I’m not allowed onto the roof to check where it’s leaking. (But I can guess.) It’s never leaked noticeably before, and the rain was the heaviest over a longish period that we have seen.
I might get the painter to repair it some time. Goop it up and paint over the goop. Not really a priority, though.
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:OMG! I’ve gotten very tired just reading all that.
How did you get on with your leak, Michael.
The rain stopped. Not a lot in the floor bucket.
I’m not allowed onto the roof to check where it’s leaking. (But I can guess.) It’s never leaked noticeably before, and the rain was the heaviest over a longish period that we have seen.
I might get the painter to repair it some time. Goop it up and paint over the goop. Not really a priority, though.
The wind may have blown it into a gap which is otherwise obscure.
Today’s mid afternoon ABC Entertains episode of Dr Who is Waters of Mars. Not a bad episode.
Peak Warming Man said:
Michael V said:
Peak Warming Man said:How did you get on with your leak, Michael.
The rain stopped. Not a lot in the floor bucket.
I’m not allowed onto the roof to check where it’s leaking. (But I can guess.) It’s never leaked noticeably before, and the rain was the heaviest over a longish period that we have seen.
I might get the painter to repair it some time. Goop it up and paint over the goop. Not really a priority, though.
The wind may have blown it into a gap which is otherwise obscure.
Possibly. It was pretty windy.
The Rev Dodgson said:
buffy said:
Sunday Quiz20/50. I knew 4 and 9.
25/50 :)
Didn’t know any.
Well, maybe 4.
What did you make of the building collapse in Bangkok Rev.
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
buffy said:
Sunday Quiz20/50. I knew 4 and 9.
25/50 :)
Didn’t know any.
Well, maybe 4.
What did you make of the building collapse in Bangkok Rev.
That properly designed buildings are not supposed to collapse like that in an earthquake.
I hope it was due to seismic strengthening measures not having been completed, rather than designers saving a few bucks by ignoring building code requirements.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Divine Angel said:
Today in: Life’s Not Fair
https://www.newspapers.com/article/herald-and-review/40985132/
Car crash on their honeymoon. I knew a couple who did that. Married one day both dead the next.
Somebody didn’t read the link provided.
That’d be me.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:25/50 :)
Didn’t know any.
Well, maybe 4.
What did you make of the building collapse in Bangkok Rev.
That properly designed buildings are not supposed to collapse like that in an earthquake.
I hope it was due to seismic strengthening measures not having been completed, rather than designers saving a few bucks by ignoring building code requirements.
Yeah. It was partially completed.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:25/50 :)
Didn’t know any.
Well, maybe 4.
What did you make of the building collapse in Bangkok Rev.
That properly designed buildings are not supposed to collapse like that in an earthquake.
I hope it was due to seismic strengthening measures not having been completed, rather than designers saving a few bucks by ignoring building code requirements.
30/50 here, mostly guesses
dv said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Peak Warming Man said:What did you make of the building collapse in Bangkok Rev.
That properly designed buildings are not supposed to collapse like that in an earthquake.
I hope it was due to seismic strengthening measures not having been completed, rather than designers saving a few bucks by ignoring building code requirements.
30/50 here, mostly guesses
Yeah, I’d go even more, like 35/50 that it was ignoring building codes.
Settling in to watch Witness for the Prosecution starring Marlene Dietrich and Tyrone Power.
Looks like some rich people have been playing with bitcoin recently:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Looks like some rich people have been playing with bitcoin recently:
Even knowing that, I’d dearly love to have one to sell at that price.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Looks like some rich people have been playing with bitcoin recently:
Even knowing that, I’d dearly love to have one to sell at that price.
Sure.
If anyone here has more bitcoin than they know what to do with, I’d be happy to help them out.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Looks like some rich people have been playing with bitcoin recently:
Even knowing that, I’d dearly love to have one to sell at that price.
Sure.
If anyone here has more bitcoin than they know what to do with, I’d be happy to help them out.
Will you settle for ethereum?
Divine Angel said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:Even knowing that, I’d dearly love to have one to sell at that price.
Sure.
If anyone here has more bitcoin than they know what to do with, I’d be happy to help them out.
Will you settle for ethereum?
Sure, it does seem to be in a bit of a decline at the moment, but beggars can’t be choosers.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Divine Angel said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Sure.
If anyone here has more bitcoin than they know what to do with, I’d be happy to help them out.
Will you settle for ethereum?
Sure, it does seem to be in a bit of a decline at the moment, but beggars can’t be choosers.
:)
Divine Angel said:
Settling in to watch Witness for the Prosecution starring Marlene Dietrich and Tyrone Power.
I see dead people.
We had some lightning last night. Multiple fires, a few nearby but our brigade not called out yet. The Large Air Tankers are mobile, one is heading North presumably to the Lancelin fire, the other is loading retardant and getting ready to taxi.
LOL, rain
ChrispenEvan said:
LOL, rain
pfft. looks like my weather chart most times any rain is about.
Anyhow…
…in addtion to this morning’s efforts, i have now mowed and trimmed both the front and back lawns, done another load of washing, and fixed the window handle on the Rodeo ute.
I am now Officially Goofing Off for a bit, before taking the Wolf on his pre-dinner constitutional, and preparing dinner for him and for us.
captain_spalding said:
Anyhow……in addtion to this morning’s efforts, i have now mowed and trimmed both the front and back lawns, done another load of washing, and fixed the window handle on the Rodeo ute.
I am now Officially Goofing Off for a bit, before taking the Wolf on his pre-dinner constitutional, and preparing dinner for him and for us.
After that, can you come over to my place? Can’t push the mower yet.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
Anyhow……in addtion to this morning’s efforts, i have now mowed and trimmed both the front and back lawns, done another load of washing, and fixed the window handle on the Rodeo ute.
I am now Officially Goofing Off for a bit, before taking the Wolf on his pre-dinner constitutional, and preparing dinner for him and for us.
After that, can you come over to my place? Can’t push the mower yet.
Motor mower or push mower?
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
Anyhow……in addtion to this morning’s efforts, i have now mowed and trimmed both the front and back lawns, done another load of washing, and fixed the window handle on the Rodeo ute.
I am now Officially Goofing Off for a bit, before taking the Wolf on his pre-dinner constitutional, and preparing dinner for him and for us.
After that, can you come over to my place? Can’t push the mower yet.
Motor mower or push mower?
It has a Honda on it.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:After that, can you come over to my place? Can’t push the mower yet.
Motor mower or push mower?
It has a Honda on it.
I’m presuming that that’s the engine that drives it, and not some motor bike that’s fallen on top of it.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:After that, can you come over to my place? Can’t push the mower yet.
Motor mower or push mower?
It has a Honda on it.
My neighbour mowed it last.
It is getting a bot long for mostly one hand push.
Hope to see neighbour this next week.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:Motor mower or push mower?
It has a Honda on it.
I’m presuming that that’s the engine that drives it, and not some motor bike that’s fallen on top of it.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:Motor mower or push mower?
It has a Honda on it.
My neighbour mowed it last.
It is getting a bot long for mostly one hand push.
Hope to see neighbour this next week.
Must be annoying for you.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:It has a Honda on it.
I’m presuming that that’s the engine that drives it, and not some motor bike that’s fallen on top of it.
You’s one clever dude.
I mean, I’d love a ride-on but I’m sure I can make up a seat for my articulated slasher that I purchased decades past from a local school. It has an 11hp Honda and is self driven with an articulated seat on big wheels which the headmaster didn’t include in the sale because he was going to turn it into a trailer for a proper ride-on.
So, yeah I have walked behind it because it does also come with handlebars. It does need a good service now and that also includes repairing paneling that saves the user from being sprayed with shrapnel.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:It has a Honda on it.
My neighbour mowed it last.
It is getting a bot long for mostly one hand push.
Hope to see neighbour this next week.
Must be annoying for you.
At least my lawn only needs mowing once a month.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:My neighbour mowed it last.
It is getting a bot long for mostly one hand push.
Hope to see neighbour this next week.
Must be annoying for you.
At least my lawn only needs mowing once a month.
and against the trends, I’ve always minimalised lawn space.
Flooding yet to reach isolated parts of western Queensland like Thargomindah, says premier… Don’t actually know much about western Qld other than when it is wet, it is wet.
Divine Angel said:
Settling in to watch Witness for the Prosecution starring Marlene Dietrich and Tyrone Power.
That was an excellent film. The VO at the end made me promise not to give away the ending though, so no spoilers from me.
roughbarked said:
Flooding yet to reach isolated parts of western Queensland like Thargomindah, says premier… Don’t actually know much about western Qld other than when it is wet, it is wet.
Yeah like:
Flooding yet to reach isolated parts of western Queensland like Thargomindah, says premier
A scientist did a study on how much rainbows weigh.
Apparently they are pretty light.
Kingy said:
A scientist did a study on how much rainbows weigh.Apparently they are a pretty light.
Very and I did fix your statement.
Kingy said:
A scientist did a study on how much rainbows weigh.Apparently they are pretty light.
Damn
roughbarked said:
Kingy said:
A scientist did a study on how much rainbows weigh.Apparently they are a pretty light.
Very and I did fix your statement.
But now the joke doesn’t work.
Divine Angel said:
roughbarked said:
Kingy said:
A scientist did a study on how much rainbows weigh.
Apparently they are a pretty light.
Very and I did fix your statement.
But now the joke doesn’t work.
maybe it’s self deprecating humour
Kingy said:
A scientist did a study on how much rainbows weigh.Apparently they are pretty light.
LOL
:)
Kingy said:
A scientist did a study on how much rainbows weigh.Apparently they are pretty light.
If ya weigh a whale at the whale way station, where do you weigh a pie??
Over the rainbow. 😁
Woodie said:
Kingy said:
A scientist did a study on how much rainbows weigh.Apparently they are pretty light.
If ya weigh a whale at the whale way station, where do you weigh a pie??
Over the rainbow. 😁
Ha!
:)
Something I noticed in the movie today was how “old” people looked. The guy who played Carter was in his fifties (circled). He died in his 90s.
In Exhibit B, we see an actor known for playing geriatric characters, and an Indian dude whom I’ve never heard of but is apparently 51 in the pic.
Divine Angel said:
Something I noticed in the movie today was how “old” people looked. The guy who played Carter was in his fifties (circled). He died in his 90s.
And today I learned that Elsa Lanchester and Charles Laughton, the two other actors pictured, were married. Both nominated for Oscars for this film, neither won. Apparently Charles here was in love with Tyrone Power, who also starred in this movie and not pictured here.
Divine Angel said:
Something I noticed in the movie today was how “old” people looked. The guy who played Carter was in his fifties (circled). He died in his 90s.
James Spader seems to have got younger.
Since we are talking films, today I visited a long forgotten activity and watched the movie Locked.
The choc tops are the same
The seats were not the same
The movie was interesting enough but in the end it was just saying that all people have the potential to be both good and bad. Which is not news.
Still, I didn’t hate it.
Arts said:
Since we are talking films, today I visited a long forgotten activity and watched the movie Locked.The choc tops are the same
The seats were not the sameThe movie was interesting enough but in the end it was just saying that all people have the potential to be both good and bad. Which is not news.
Still, I didn’t hate it.
But did it entertain you?
Just on my Facebook. hehehehehe
Michael V said:
Arts said:
Since we are talking films, today I visited a long forgotten activity and watched the movie Locked.The choc tops are the same
The seats were not the sameThe movie was interesting enough but in the end it was just saying that all people have the potential to be both good and bad. Which is not news.
Still, I didn’t hate it.
But did it entertain you?
It kept me occupied for just over 90mins
Woodie said:
Just on my Facebook. hehehehehe
LOL
Michael V said:
Woodie said:
Just on my Facebook. hehehehehe
LOL
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me.
Arts said:
Since we are talking films, today I visited a long forgotten activity and watched the movie Locked.The choc tops are the same
The seats were not the sameThe movie was interesting enough but in the end it was just saying that all people have the potential to be both good and bad. Which is not news.
Still, I didn’t hate it.
I recently watched the late 1940s Humphrey Bogart film ‘Dead Reckoning’.
Sort of a private eye film that didn’t involve private eyes. Was most entertaining. Had a Veronica Lake clone (Lisbeth Scott) in it.
Arts said:
Michael V said:
Arts said:
Since we are talking films, today I visited a long forgotten activity and watched the movie Locked.The choc tops are the same
The seats were not the sameThe movie was interesting enough but in the end it was just saying that all people have the potential to be both good and bad. Which is not news.
Still, I didn’t hate it.
But did it entertain you?
It kept me occupied for just over 90mins
Oh, good.
I’ll be watching some shows on ABC TV. That’ll both occupy and hopefully entertain me.
In the mean time, I’d better go shape and cook some sausages for dinner. A repeat of last night – Ćevapčići – Balkans Skinless Sausages, served with flat bread and a yoghurt and onion sauce.
I’ve cooked tomorrow night’s dinner: Penang curry with chunks of beef, bamboo and potato. I’ll add some other veges tomorrow night.
Woodie said:
Just on my Facebook. hehehehehe
Good to know
OK, i’m not too proud to ask:
does anyone know how to stop rice sticking to the rice cooker?
I do wash it as thoroughly as i can, before i put it in the cooker.
captain_spalding said:
OK, i’m not too proud to ask:does anyone know how to stop rice sticking to the rice cooker?
I do wash it as thoroughly as i can, before i put it in the cooker.
cook the rice in a muslin cloth. it is what asian restaurants do.
Maybe the problem is the cooker.
ChrispenEvan said:
captain_spalding said:
OK, i’m not too proud to ask:does anyone know how to stop rice sticking to the rice cooker?
I do wash it as thoroughly as i can, before i put it in the cooker.
cook the rice in a muslin cloth. it is what asian restaurants do.
Noted.
Well and truly noted.
Thanks.
ChrispenEvan said:
captain_spalding said:
OK, i’m not too proud to ask:does anyone know how to stop rice sticking to the rice cooker?
I do wash it as thoroughly as i can, before i put it in the cooker.
cook the rice in a muslin cloth. it is what asian restaurants do.
Don’t be fooled by those Muslins
dv said:
Maybe the problem is the cooker.
If you mean the appliance: probably not.
If you mean the person operating it: perhaps.
captain_spalding said:
OK, i’m not too proud to ask:does anyone know how to stop rice sticking to the rice cooker?
I do wash it as thoroughly as i can, before i put it in the cooker.
It/was it a non-stick cooker bowl?
Do not put the non-stick rice cooker bowl in the dishwasher. It won’t remain non-stick for very long.
Woodie said:
captain_spalding said:
OK, i’m not too proud to ask:does anyone know how to stop rice sticking to the rice cooker?
I do wash it as thoroughly as i can, before i put it in the cooker.
It/was it a non-stick cooker bowl?
Do not put the non-stick rice cooker bowl in the dishwasher. It won’t remain non-stick for very long.
Woodie, it is a non-stick bowl (or apparently/supposedly so). And we don’t have a dishwasher. Not a machine that washes dishes, anyway.
Did a search for ‘cooking rice in muslin’.
A whole lot of new info there.
captain_spalding said:
Woodie said:
captain_spalding said:
OK, i’m not too proud to ask:does anyone know how to stop rice sticking to the rice cooker?
I do wash it as thoroughly as i can, before i put it in the cooker.
It/was it a non-stick cooker bowl?
Do not put the non-stick rice cooker bowl in the dishwasher. It won’t remain non-stick for very long.
Woodie, it is a non-stick bowl (or apparently/supposedly so). And we don’t have a dishwasher. Not a machine that washes dishes, anyway.
What ratio rice:water do you use?
Woodie said:
captain_spalding said:
Woodie said:It/was it a non-stick cooker bowl?
Do not put the non-stick rice cooker bowl in the dishwasher. It won’t remain non-stick for very long.
Woodie, it is a non-stick bowl (or apparently/supposedly so). And we don’t have a dishwasher. Not a machine that washes dishes, anyway.
What ratio rice:water do you use?
Put the washed rice in. Spread it about. Note the thickness of the layer of rice. Add water until it has same ‘thickness’ of water on top of rice.
Advice?
captain_spalding said:
Woodie said:
captain_spalding said:Woodie, it is a non-stick bowl (or apparently/supposedly so). And we don’t have a dishwasher. Not a machine that washes dishes, anyway.
What ratio rice:water do you use?
Put the washed rice in. Spread it about. Note the thickness of the layer of rice. Add water until it has same ‘thickness’ of water on top of rice.
Advice?
For one cup of rice, I use 2 cups of water. Never less than 2 cups of rice. What I don’t use, stays in the bowl, and gets put in the fridge. Wooden spoon to get some out easily next time. If I tip the bowl over, and tap, it still all falls out in one lump the shape of the bowl. Smash it up a bit, and reheat in microwave.
Woodie said:
captain_spalding said:
Woodie said:What ratio rice:water do you use?
Put the washed rice in. Spread it about. Note the thickness of the layer of rice. Add water until it has same ‘thickness’ of water on top of rice.
Advice?
For one cup of rice, I use 2 cups of water. Never less than 2 cups of rice. What I don’t use, stays in the bowl, and gets put in the fridge. Wooden spoon to get some out easily next time. If I tip the bowl over, and tap, it still all falls out in one lump the shape of the bowl. Smash it up a bit, and reheat in microwave.
I told the forum I was going to reheat rice and everyone jumped on me.
Divine Angel said:
Something I noticed in the movie today was how “old” people looked. The guy who played Carter was in his fifties (circled). He died in his 90s.
In Exhibit B, we see an actor known for playing geriatric characters, and an Indian dude whom I’ve never heard of but is apparently 51 in the pic.
And speaking of actors…I just spent some time working out who the actor was in “Unforgotten” that I just watched who I was sure was one of the actors from The Bill. It was Andrew Paul, who played Dave Quinnan for 713 episodes. He’s definitely older now. (He’s a couple of years younger than me)
Peak Warming Man said:
Woodie said:
captain_spalding said:Put the washed rice in. Spread it about. Note the thickness of the layer of rice. Add water until it has same ‘thickness’ of water on top of rice.
Advice?
For one cup of rice, I use 2 cups of water. Never less than 2 cups of rice. What I don’t use, stays in the bowl, and gets put in the fridge. Wooden spoon to get some out easily next time. If I tip the bowl over, and tap, it still all falls out in one lump the shape of the bowl. Smash it up a bit, and reheat in microwave.
I told the forum I was going to reheat rice and everyone jumped on me.
not me. i reheat rice all the time. well, not all the time. only when i have freezer curry, rice and dahl to microwave.
ChrispenEvan said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Woodie said:For one cup of rice, I use 2 cups of water. Never less than 2 cups of rice. What I don’t use, stays in the bowl, and gets put in the fridge. Wooden spoon to get some out easily next time. If I tip the bowl over, and tap, it still all falls out in one lump the shape of the bowl. Smash it up a bit, and reheat in microwave.
I told the forum I was going to reheat rice and everyone jumped on me.
not me. i reheat rice all the time. well, not all the time. only when i have freezer curry, rice and dahl to microwave.
It’s not unusual for me to cook extra rice when I’m doing it, fridge some and eat it for breakfast with milk and sugar. Sometimes warmed up, sometimes cold.
And while we are on food…I’ve just roasted/baked some tomatoes to make roast tomato soup. I seem to recall it was one of sibeen’s favorites.
Peak Warming Man said:
Woodie said:
captain_spalding said:Put the washed rice in. Spread it about. Note the thickness of the layer of rice. Add water until it has same ‘thickness’ of water on top of rice.
Advice?
For one cup of rice, I use 2 cups of water. Never less than 2 cups of rice. What I don’t use, stays in the bowl, and gets put in the fridge. Wooden spoon to get some out easily next time. If I tip the bowl over, and tap, it still all falls out in one lump the shape of the bowl. Smash it up a bit, and reheat in microwave.
I told the forum I was going to reheat rice and everyone jumped on me.
Well don’t forget FATTOM and the 2 hr 4 hr rule
Peak Warming Man said:
Woodie said:
captain_spalding said:Put the washed rice in. Spread it about. Note the thickness of the layer of rice. Add water until it has same ‘thickness’ of water on top of rice.
Advice?
For one cup of rice, I use 2 cups of water. Never less than 2 cups of rice. What I don’t use, stays in the bowl, and gets put in the fridge. Wooden spoon to get some out easily next time. If I tip the bowl over, and tap, it still all falls out in one lump the shape of the bowl. Smash it up a bit, and reheat in microwave.
I told the forum I was going to reheat rice and everyone jumped on me.
Well, that’s silly.
Even i know that you need cold rice, ideally a day old, to make fried rice.
Youtube:How To Make Cheap Potato Vodka At Home
I may be gone for some time.
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
Something I noticed in the movie today was how “old” people looked. The guy who played Carter was in his fifties (circled). He died in his 90s.
In Exhibit B, we see an actor known for playing geriatric characters, and an Indian dude whom I’ve never heard of but is apparently 51 in the pic.
And speaking of actors…I just spent some time working out who the actor was in “Unforgotten” that I just watched who I was sure was one of the actors from The Bill. It was Andrew Paul, who played Dave Quinnan for 713 episodes. He’s definitely older now. (He’s a couple of years younger than me)
Ta.
I had a feeling it was somebody from “The Bill”.
Peak Warming Man said:
Woodie said:
captain_spalding said:Put the washed rice in. Spread it about. Note the thickness of the layer of rice. Add water until it has same ‘thickness’ of water on top of rice.
Advice?
For one cup of rice, I use 2 cups of water. Never less than 2 cups of rice. What I don’t use, stays in the bowl, and gets put in the fridge. Wooden spoon to get some out easily next time. If I tip the bowl over, and tap, it still all falls out in one lump the shape of the bowl. Smash it up a bit, and reheat in microwave.
I told the forum I was going to reheat rice and everyone jumped on me.
When and why?
captain_spalding said:
Youtube:How To Make Cheap Potato Vodka At HomeI may be gone for some time.
I’m already watching that one right now. Before you posted it. Fkn spying algorithms.
Kingy said:
captain_spalding said:
Youtube:How To Make Cheap Potato Vodka At HomeI may be gone for some time.
I’m already watching that one right now. Before you posted it. Fkn spying algorithms.
i am all the sundry dross you are offered.
Hi SM. Did you post something from Heather Cox Richardson today? I can’t recall seeing it.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Hi SM. Did you post something from Heather Cox Richardson today? I can’t recall seeing it.
no. i didn’t. i didn’t see anything come up. shall go and check.
sarahs mum said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Hi SM. Did you post something from Heather Cox Richardson today? I can’t recall seeing it.
no. i didn’t. i didn’t see anything come up. shall go and check.
Thanks.
sarahs mum said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Hi SM. Did you post something from Heather Cox Richardson today? I can’t recall seeing it.
no. i didn’t. i didn’t see anything come up. shall go and check.
Heather Cox Richardson
8h ·
March 29, 2025 (Saturday)
I actually had things to say tonight, but slept most the day and cannot seem to wake up enough to write coherently. Guessing we’re all tired.
Let’s take the night off, and regroup tomorrow.
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Hi SM. Did you post something from Heather Cox Richardson today? I can’t recall seeing it.
no. i didn’t. i didn’t see anything come up. shall go and check.
Heather Cox Richardson
8h ·
March 29, 2025 (Saturday)
I actually had things to say tonight, but slept most the day and cannot seem to wake up enough to write coherently. Guessing we’re all tired.
Let’s take the night off, and regroup tomorrow.
Photo from California’s Mount Tamalpais, earlier this month
AussieDJ said:
sarahs mum said:
sarahs mum said:no. i didn’t. i didn’t see anything come up. shall go and check.
Heather Cox Richardson
8h ·
March 29, 2025 (Saturday)
I actually had things to say tonight, but slept most the day and cannot seem to wake up enough to write coherently. Guessing we’re all tired.
Let’s take the night off, and regroup tomorrow.
Photo from California’s Mount Tamalpais, earlier this month
missed that bit. ta.
sarahs mum said:
AussieDJ said:
sarahs mum said:Heather Cox Richardson
8h ·
March 29, 2025 (Saturday)
I actually had things to say tonight, but slept most the day and cannot seem to wake up enough to write coherently. Guessing we’re all tired.
Let’s take the night off, and regroup tomorrow.
Photo from California’s Mount Tamalpais, earlier this month
missed that bit. ta.
You probably didn’t, but the text was in square brackets which don’t reproduce here.
AussieDJ said:
sarahs mum said:
AussieDJ said:Photo from California’s Mount Tamalpais, earlier this month
missed that bit. ta.
You probably didn’t, but the text was in square brackets which don’t reproduce here.
ah.
sarahs mum said:
Kingy said:
captain_spalding said:
Youtube:How To Make Cheap Potato Vodka At HomeI may be gone for some time.
I’m already watching that one right now. Before you posted it. Fkn spying algorithms.
i am all the sundry dross you are offered.
Nah, you are one of the unexpected bonuses.
The Model K was an early 2-bit binary adder built in 1937 by Bell Labs scientist George Stibitz as a proof of concept, using scrap relays and metal strips from a tin can. The “K” in “Model K” came from “kitchen table”, upon which he assembled it.
10 minutes ago…
“Magnitude-7.1 earthquake hits Tonga, tsunami threat issued”
dv said:
The Model K was an early 2-bit binary adder built in 1937 by Bell Labs scientist George Stibitz as a proof of concept, using scrap relays and metal strips from a tin can. The “K” in “Model K” came from “kitchen table”, upon which he assembled it.
Kingy said:
dv said:
The Model K was an early 2-bit binary adder built in 1937 by Bell Labs scientist George Stibitz as a proof of concept, using scrap relays and metal strips from a tin can. The “K” in “Model K” came from “kitchen table”, upon which he assembled it.
Kingy said:
10 minutes ago…“Magnitude-7.1 earthquake hits Tonga, tsunami threat issued”
dv said:
Kingy said:
dv said:
The Model K was an early 2-bit binary adder built in 1937 by Bell Labs scientist George Stibitz as a proof of concept, using scrap relays and metal strips from a tin can. The “K” in “Model K” came from “kitchen table”, upon which he assembled it.
Kingy said:
sarahs mum said:
Kingy said:I’m already watching that one right now. Before you posted it. Fkn spying algorithms.
i am all the sundry dross you are offered.
Nah, you are one of the unexpected bonuses.
What about me?
Actor Richard Chamberlain has died at the age of 90.
I used to watch him in the 1960s TV series, Dr Kildare.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-31/richard-chamberlain-dies-aged-90/105114924
AussieDJ said:
Actor Richard Chamberlain has died at the age of 90.I used to watch him in the 1960s TV series, Dr Kildare.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-31/richard-chamberlain-dies-aged-90/105114924
I mostly know him from Shogun and Thorn Birds
AussieDJ said:
Actor Richard Chamberlain has died at the age of 90.I used to watch him in the 1960s TV series, Dr Kildare.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-31/richard-chamberlain-dies-aged-90/105114924
Also. TBH I thought he had already gone.
Good morning Holidayers. Eleven degrees at the back door. No wind, not much light yet. We are forecast a partly cloudy 21.
I think I will dig over part of the veggie patch today which has lots of dill seedlings coming up.
kii said:
Wasn’t someone here enquiring about dishwashers?
:)
We went for a boring old-fashioned one.
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Eleven degrees at the back door. No wind, not much light yet. We are forecast a partly cloudy 21.I think I will dig over part of the veggie patch today which has lots of dill seedlings coming up.
Same here though I cannot do any serious digging for a good while until my hand heals.
I have got a patch I’d dug over beforehand. I’ve been planting broccoli, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts. Today I’ve got quite a few yellow beetroot seedlings to deal with. Then I have to try and pot up the finger lime seedlings.
Proper thread.
Morning pilgrims.
The day is set fair, might even fit in a spot of mowing.
Over.
axis of evil. 👿👹💀💩🐷🦨🐿️
ChrispenEvan said:
axis of evil. 👿👹💀💩🐷🦨🐿️
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/31/a-female-donald-trump-how-gina-rinehart-is-pushing-trumps-message-australia-ntwnfb
ChrispenEvan said:
axis of evil. 👿👹💀💩🐷🦨🐿️
One more facelift on that one and she’ll have a beard!!
ChrispenEvan said:
axis of evil. 👿👹💀💩🐷🦨🐿️
Couldn’t look sleezier if he was trying.
“The Three Sisters (Spanish: tres hermanas) are the three main agricultural crops of various indigenous people of Central and North America: squash, maize (“corn”), and climbing beans (typically tepary beans or common beans). In a technique known as companion planting, the maize and beans are often planted together in mounds formed by hilling soil around the base of the plants each year; squash is typically planted between the mounds. The cornstalk serves as a trellis for climbing beans, the beans fix nitrogen in their root nodules and stabilize the maize in high winds, and the wide leaves of the squash plant shade the ground, keeping the soil moist and helping prevent the establishment of weeds.”
Beans, squash and corn.
Got it.
ChrispenEvan said:
axis of evil. 👿👹💀💩🐷🦨🐿️
trumpettes sounds like Clive Palmer is in it too?
i use 5.5 units of electricity on average per day. which is $2.85 per day on average.
kii said:
Wasn’t someone here enquiring about dishwashers?
when we were kids if we dropped a dish while washing the dishes, mum would be less mad if we hadn’t washed it yet (so we didnt waste water)
I dont know how she would feel about this one.
hello
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Eleven degrees at the back door. No wind, not much light yet. We are forecast a partly cloudy 21.I think I will dig over part of the veggie patch today which has lots of dill seedlings coming up.
Same here though I cannot do any serious digging for a good while until my hand heals.
I have got a patch I’d dug over beforehand. I’ve been planting broccoli, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts. Today I’ve got quite a few yellow beetroot seedlings to deal with. Then I have to try and pot up the finger lime seedlings.
We are still in the Time of the Cabbage White Butterfly. What Brassicas I’ve got have very fenestrated leaves. I’ve put some seed in pots in my butterfly proof cage, so I’m hoping to have something to plant out when it finally rains and kills off the butterflies.
Just checked…Tatsoi and sprouting broccoli are germinating, celery and January King cabbages are still considering their options…
Woodie said:
ChrispenEvan said:
axis of evil. 👿👹💀💩🐷🦨🐿️
One more facelift on that one and she’ll have a beard!!
Well, I was too polite to comment on that…but I will say this…who thought there could be a picture where Gina looked like the normal one…
(Possibly not a polite comment either)
:)
buffy said:
Woodie said:
ChrispenEvan said:
axis of evil. 👿👹💀💩🐷🦨🐿️
One more facelift on that one and she’ll have a beard!!
Well, I was too polite to comment on that…but I will say this…who thought there could be a picture where Gina looked like the normal one…
(Possibly not a polite comment either)
:)
I think a little impoliteness about Gina and her mates is quite permissible.
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
Good morning Holidayers. Eleven degrees at the back door. No wind, not much light yet. We are forecast a partly cloudy 21.I think I will dig over part of the veggie patch today which has lots of dill seedlings coming up.
Same here though I cannot do any serious digging for a good while until my hand heals.
I have got a patch I’d dug over beforehand. I’ve been planting broccoli, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts. Today I’ve got quite a few yellow beetroot seedlings to deal with. Then I have to try and pot up the finger lime seedlings.
We are still in the Time of the Cabbage White Butterfly. What Brassicas I’ve got have very fenestrated leaves. I’ve put some seed in pots in my butterfly proof cage, so I’m hoping to have something to plant out when it finally rains and kills off the butterflies.
Just checked…Tatsoi and sprouting broccoli are germinating, celery and January King cabbages are still considering their options…
The cabbage moth have already laid eggs likely enough but I’ll dose them with BT.
i’s back from an ambulatory ambulation, see man putting out the calicivirus for the nearby oryctolagus cuniculus, i’m just now reading about it so don’t confuse me with someone properly learned
I did see a very healthy specimen run past the newly installed sign, I cheered it on, go oryctolagus cuniculus go! I said, and further of the encouragements I said break into your local vets and get you and your friends a vaccination
possibly i’ve broken a law encouraging oryctolagus cuniculus to do such a thing
transition said:
i’s back from an ambulatory ambulation, see man putting out the calicivirus for the nearby oryctolagus cuniculus, i’m just now reading about it so don’t confuse me with someone properly learnedI did see a very healthy specimen run past the newly installed sign, I cheered it on, go oryctolagus cuniculus go! I said, and further of the encouragements I said break into your local vets and get you and your friends a vaccination
possibly i’ve broken a law encouraging oryctolagus cuniculus to do such a thing
Did you use a translator? If not it probably didn’t understand a word of it.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
i’s back from an ambulatory ambulation, see man putting out the calicivirus for the nearby oryctolagus cuniculus, i’m just now reading about it so don’t confuse me with someone properly learnedI did see a very healthy specimen run past the newly installed sign, I cheered it on, go oryctolagus cuniculus go! I said, and further of the encouragements I said break into your local vets and get you and your friends a vaccination
possibly i’ve broken a law encouraging oryctolagus cuniculus to do such a thing
Did you use a translator? If not it probably didn’t understand a word of it.
of course I spoke in rabbitese, i’m not an idiot
roughbarked said:
transition said:
i’s back from an ambulatory ambulation, see man putting out the calicivirus for the nearby oryctolagus cuniculus, i’m just now reading about it so don’t confuse me with someone properly learnedI did see a very healthy specimen run past the newly installed sign, I cheered it on, go oryctolagus cuniculus go! I said, and further of the encouragements I said break into your local vets and get you and your friends a vaccination
possibly i’ve broken a law encouraging oryctolagus cuniculus to do such a thing
Did you use a translator? If not it probably didn’t understand a word of it.
Oh, that oryctolagus cuniculus:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_rabbit
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:
i’s back from an ambulatory ambulation, see man putting out the calicivirus for the nearby oryctolagus cuniculus, i’m just now reading about it so don’t confuse me with someone properly learnedI did see a very healthy specimen run past the newly installed sign, I cheered it on, go oryctolagus cuniculus go! I said, and further of the encouragements I said break into your local vets and get you and your friends a vaccination
possibly i’ve broken a law encouraging oryctolagus cuniculus to do such a thing
Did you use a translator? If not it probably didn’t understand a word of it.
of course I spoke in rabbitese, i’m not an idiot
Ah.
Quite the linguist then?
roughbarked said:
transition said:
roughbarked said:Did you use a translator? If not it probably didn’t understand a word of it.
of course I spoke in rabbitese, i’m not an idiot
Ah.
Quite the linguist then?
well, yes, I stay modest about my special abilities, don’t want excite envy in lesser examples of the human species, giftless people, talentless sorts
Last week of DLS here.. :(
And I went out to dig over some veggie patch. And I did that. And then I got the crowbar out to see if I could move an apparently large rock I clanged on the other day while digging. I had a vague recollection of clanging on this one some time ago and just burying it again. Couldn’t budge it with the crowbar. I don’t know how big it is. It’s right on the fenceline, so after Mr buffy also failed to even nudge it a bit I just buried it again. It’s got about a foot of soil over the top of it. I’ve planted a lemon thyme on top. It doesn’t need too much depth.
I think a prophylactic ibuprofen might be in order. Digging and then rocklet picking makes my finger joints ache.
i’ll make my own coffee
transition said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:of course I spoke in rabbitese, i’m not an idiot
Ah.
Quite the linguist then?
well, yes, I stay modest about my special abilities, don’t want excite envy in lesser examples of the human species, giftless people, talentless sorts
Do you know many of these?
WOO HOO, WOW WEE and gubbermint departments with knobs on!! 😮😮💲💲
I do love thins OAP bizzo. I really do.
Car rego is due this week. $649.00.
So I goes off the Services NSW to get my OAP concession. Pay nuffin from now on. WOO HOO!!
Savings? $649.00 this year. 😁
Now………… wait for it.
Are you waiting?
I went on the OAP 6 months or so ago.
Not only do I not pay rego again, I got a rego refund of last year (pro rata since I went on the OAP) $280.
Now…… wait for it again……………..
I paid a 10 year drivers licence when I renewed it whatever how many years ago. Well BMD. They pro rata refunded that as well!! $104.
So I didn’t have to pay $649, and I came out of there with $385!! A net return on the day of $1034!!!
Wadda yas reckon? Not bad for a day’s work for an OAP, hey what but!!
Problem is…………………. the cheque for the $384 is in the mail.
Woodie said:
WOO HOO, WOW WEE and gubbermint departments with knobs on!! 😮😮💲💲I do love thins OAP bizzo. I really do.
Car rego is due this week. $649.00.
So I goes off the Services NSW to get my OAP concession. Pay nuffin from now on. WOO HOO!!
Savings? $649.00 this year. 😁
Now………… wait for it.
Are you waiting?
I went on the OAP 6 months or so ago.
Not only do I not pay rego again, I got a rego refund of last year (pro rata since I went on the OAP) $280.
Now…… wait for it again……………..
I paid a 10 year drivers licence when I renewed it whatever how many years ago. Well BMD. They pro rata refunded that as well!! $104.
So I didn’t have to pay $649, and I came out of there with $385!! A net return on the day of $1034!!!
Wadda yas reckon? Not bad for a day’s work for an OAP, hey what but!!
Problem is…………………. the cheque for the $384 is in the mail.
i mumbled something at you a couple of months ago about getting a refund.
Woodie said:
WOO HOO, WOW WEE and gubbermint departments with knobs on!! 😮😮💲💲I do love thins OAP bizzo. I really do.
Car rego is due this week. $649.00.
So I goes off the Services NSW to get my OAP concession. Pay nuffin from now on. WOO HOO!!
Savings? $649.00 this year. 😁
Now………… wait for it.
Are you waiting?
I went on the OAP 6 months or so ago.
Not only do I not pay rego again, I got a rego refund of last year (pro rata since I went on the OAP) $280.
Now…… wait for it again……………..
I paid a 10 year drivers licence when I renewed it whatever how many years ago. Well BMD. They pro rata refunded that as well!! $104.
So I didn’t have to pay $649, and I came out of there with $385!! A net return on the day of $1034!!!
Wadda yas reckon? Not bad for a day’s work for an OAP, hey what but!!
Problem is…………………. the cheque for the $384 is in the mail.
Can’t open the champers until it is all in the bank.
I think all the people writing articles about how there are going to be no jobs because of AI need to face off in arena against all the people writing articles about how there aren’t going to be enough people to fill all the jobs because of the ageing population.
dv said:
I think all the people writing articles about how there are going to be no jobs because of AI need to face off in arena against all the people writing articles about how there aren’t going to be enough people to fill all the jobs because of the ageing population.
maybe we just need to teach the robots how to care for elderly people, then all will be well with the universe…
dv said:
I think all the people writing articles about how there are going to be no jobs because of AI need to face off in arena against all the people writing articles about how there aren’t going to be enough people to fill all the jobs because of the ageing population.
Well I might be old but surely if there are jobs, I can get one. Trouble is, to keep my free rego and other OAP stuff, I can only earn 10 grand I think.
diddly-squat said:
dv said:
I think all the people writing articles about how there are going to be no jobs because of AI need to face off in arena against all the people writing articles about how there aren’t going to be enough people to fill all the jobs because of the ageing population.
maybe we just need to teach the robots how to care for elderly people, then all will be well with the universe…
I’m not sure I want robots keeping Trump alive.
roughbarked said:
diddly-squat said:
dv said:
I think all the people writing articles about how there are going to be no jobs because of AI need to face off in arena against all the people writing articles about how there aren’t going to be enough people to fill all the jobs because of the ageing population.
maybe we just need to teach the robots how to care for elderly people, then all will be well with the universe…
I’m not sure I want robots keeping Trump alive.
Stephen Miller has rights
dv said:
roughbarked said:
diddly-squat said:maybe we just need to teach the robots how to care for elderly people, then all will be well with the universe…
I’m not sure I want robots keeping Trump alive.
Stephen Miller has rights
Not keeping him alive any longer than ordained either.
dv said:
I think all the people writing articles about how there are going to be no jobs because of AI need to face off in arena against all the people writing articles about how there aren’t going to be enough people to fill all the jobs because of the ageing population.
crazy thought running 爱 is a job
crazy thought ageing populations die and then require no further work
dv said:
I think all the people writing articles about how there are going to be no jobs because of AI need to face off in arena against all the people writing articles about how there aren’t going to be enough people to fill all the jobs because of the ageing population.
I have often thought the same.
I may even have said as much here on occasion.
diddly-squat said:
dv said:
I think all the people writing articles about how there are going to be no jobs because of AI need to face off in arena against all the people writing articles about how there aren’t going to be enough people to fill all the jobs because of the ageing population.
maybe we just need to teach the robots how to care for elderly people, then all will be well with the universe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roujin_Z
Cymek said:
diddly-squat said:
dv said:
I think all the people writing articles about how there are going to be no jobs because of AI need to face off in arena against all the people writing articles about how there aren’t going to be enough people to fill all the jobs because of the ageing population.
maybe we just need to teach the robots how to care for elderly people, then all will be well with the universe…
Nice we’ll have to brush up on our popular cultural knowledge.
SCIENCE said:
Cymek said:
diddly-squat said:
maybe we just need to teach the robots how to care for elderly people, then all will be well with the universe…
Nice we’ll have to brush up on our popular cultural knowledge.
I remember it as an amusing anime
My digging in the garden today yielded a little glass bottle (5.5cm tall) which cleaned up quite nicely in a bleach bath.
I suspect some sort of medicine bottle. It’s been buried >25 years (that is how long we have been here) and having spoken to someone who lived in this house in the 1960s, I know he didn’t know there was a bluestone drain buried where I dug it up from. So it’s from the mid 1900s, probably a lot earlier.
Woodie said:
WOO HOO, WOW WEE and gubbermint departments with knobs on!! 😮😮💲💲I do love thins OAP bizzo. I really do.
Car rego is due this week. $649.00.
So I goes off the Services NSW to get my OAP concession. Pay nuffin from now on. WOO HOO!!
Savings? $649.00 this year. 😁
Now………… wait for it.
Are you waiting?
I went on the OAP 6 months or so ago.
Not only do I not pay rego again, I got a rego refund of last year (pro rata since I went on the OAP) $280.
Now…… wait for it again……………..
I paid a 10 year drivers licence when I renewed it whatever how many years ago. Well BMD. They pro rata refunded that as well!! $104.
So I didn’t have to pay $649, and I came out of there with $385!! A net return on the day of $1034!!!
Wadda yas reckon? Not bad for a day’s work for an OAP, hey what but!!
Problem is…………………. the cheque for the $384 is in the mail.
Cool.
Send the cheque to Temu. They can send you stuff.
;)
buffy said:
My digging in the garden today yielded a little glass bottle (5.5cm tall) which cleaned up quite nicely in a bleach bath.
I suspect some sort of medicine bottle. It’s been buried >25 years (that is how long we have been here) and having spoken to someone who lived in this house in the 1960s, I know he didn’t know there was a bluestone drain buried where I dug it up from. So it’s from the mid 1900s, probably a lot earlier.
The thread for the lid appears to be very coarse.
Peak Warming Man said:
The thread for the lid appears to be very coarse.
Standard for the time.
There’s a paddock alongside the park at the end of our street, with a four-strand wire fence to keep the horses in the paddock.
Some long-buried rubbish, along the fence, had been ‘surfaced’ by decades of soaking and drying and soaking and drying. Mostly glass fragments, and little bits of china, but i found amongst it a small, intact, white glass jar which turned out to be a Marmite jar from the 1920s or 1930s.
Its thread is similarly large and simple.
ABC News:
‘The trial heard the woman arranged to hire a van the day before a meeting with her child in December 2022, which was organised with the Department of Communities and Justice.
The woman then handed the care worker a “statement of notice” with her thumb print for identification, indicating she did not recognise the court’s authority, before driving away with her unrestrained child in the back of the van…
…The trial heard the “statement of notice” the woman handed to the care worker asserted she was “a living being sovereign to this land” who “hereby renounce and reject my former engagement with the courts… and their kronies (sic)… and disregard all orders as null and void”.’
Do these wackos hold gee-up sessions where they tell each other about the ‘magic and secret’ form of declaring your sovereignty, which, when you pronounce it, means that ‘the authorities’ can only throw up their hands in despair, and say ‘you got us, mate/lady, we’re powerless in the face of that statement’?
Do they tell each other anecdotes about how it worked, just like that, for a friend’s brother-in-law’s niece’s boyfriend’s best mate?
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:
‘The trial heard the woman arranged to hire a van the day before a meeting with her child in December 2022, which was organised with the Department of Communities and Justice.
The woman then handed the care worker a “statement of notice” with her thumb print for identification, indicating she did not recognise the court’s authority, before driving away with her unrestrained child in the back of the van…
…The trial heard the “statement of notice” the woman handed to the care worker asserted she was “a living being sovereign to this land” who “hereby renounce and reject my former engagement with the courts… and their kronies (sic)… and disregard all orders as null and void”.’
Do these wackos hold gee-up sessions where they tell each other about the ‘magic and secret’ form of declaring your sovereignty, which, when you pronounce it, means that ‘the authorities’ can only throw up their hands in despair, and say ‘you got us, mate/lady, we’re powerless in the face of that statement’?
Do they tell each other anecdotes about how it worked, just like that, for a friend’s brother-in-law’s niece’s boyfriend’s best mate?
I assume that when the spells fail (as they always do), they tell each other that’s because the legal system is completely corrupt and deliberately contravening “common law” or whatever stupid terms they use.
It’s why they’re regarded as one of the more dangerous groups of nutcases – they tend to be immune to reason and each failure sets them harder against the state.
Bubblecar said:
I assume that when the spells fail (as they always do), they tell each other that’s because the legal system is completely corrupt and deliberately contravening “common law” or whatever stupid terms they use.
It’s why they’re regarded as one of the more dangerous groups of nutcases – they tend to be immune to reason and each failure sets them harder against the state.
When they try the ‘magic spell’, and it doesn’t work…
…it’s like the bloke who was conscripted into the army:
From the time he was in recruit camp, he’d pick up any piece of paper he came across, look at it, and say ‘no, that’s not it’.
He did this for weeks, months. Any piece of paper, pick it up, examine it, say ‘nope, not it’, and toss it aside.
He was sent for psychiatric examination. The behaviour (see piece of paper, look at it, ‘no, that’s not it’) was carefully observed.
The docs decided that he was harmless, but obviously unfit for military service.
So, he was discharged. They gave him his discharge documents, he looked at them, and exclaimed ‘that’s it!’.
Helen Archdale, the famous British suffragette, was the mother of Betty Archdale, the test cricketer, and Alexander Archdale, the Australian actor.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:I assume that when the spells fail (as they always do), they tell each other that’s because the legal system is completely corrupt and deliberately contravening “common law” or whatever stupid terms they use.
It’s why they’re regarded as one of the more dangerous groups of nutcases – they tend to be immune to reason and each failure sets them harder against the state.
When they try the ‘magic spell’, and it doesn’t work…
…it’s like the bloke who was conscripted into the army:
From the time he was in recruit camp, he’d pick up any piece of paper he came across, look at it, and say ‘no, that’s not it’.
He did this for weeks, months. Any piece of paper, pick it up, examine it, say ‘nope, not it’, and toss it aside.
He was sent for psychiatric examination. The behaviour (see piece of paper, look at it, ‘no, that’s not it’) was carefully observed.
The docs decided that he was harmless, but obviously unfit for military service.
So, he was discharged. They gave him his discharge documents, he looked at them, and exclaimed ‘that’s it!’.
Heh.
dv said:
Helen Archdale, the famous British suffragette, was the mother of Betty Archdale, the test cricketer, and Alexander Archdale, the Australian actor.
Never heard of them.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:I assume that when the spells fail (as they always do), they tell each other that’s because the legal system is completely corrupt and deliberately contravening “common law” or whatever stupid terms they use.
It’s why they’re regarded as one of the more dangerous groups of nutcases – they tend to be immune to reason and each failure sets them harder against the state.
When they try the ‘magic spell’, and it doesn’t work…
…it’s like the bloke who was conscripted into the army:
From the time he was in recruit camp, he’d pick up any piece of paper he came across, look at it, and say ‘no, that’s not it’.
He did this for weeks, months. Any piece of paper, pick it up, examine it, say ‘nope, not it’, and toss it aside.
He was sent for psychiatric examination. The behaviour (see piece of paper, look at it, ‘no, that’s not it’) was carefully observed.
The docs decided that he was harmless, but obviously unfit for military service.
So, he was discharged. They gave him his discharge documents, he looked at them, and exclaimed ‘that’s it!’.
Reminds me of Lenny Bruce, who, aged 16, joined the US Navy (voluntarily) at the start of USA’s entry to WW2. He served honourably throughout the war, but when he asked to be released when it was over was refused. He looked at the regulations and found he could be invalided out under certain conditions, so started wearing women’s clothes, both on and off duty. Eventually they gave him a section 8 discharge.
His activities were the model for Corporal Klinger in the TV show M*A*S*H.
>>A Paris court has convicted French far-right leader Marine Le Pen of embezzling money from the European parliament.<<
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:
‘The trial heard the woman arranged to hire a van the day before a meeting with her child in December 2022, which was organised with the Department of Communities and Justice.
The woman then handed the care worker a “statement of notice” with her thumb print for identification, indicating she did not recognise the court’s authority, before driving away with her unrestrained child in the back of the van…
…The trial heard the “statement of notice” the woman handed to the care worker asserted she was “a living being sovereign to this land” who “hereby renounce and reject my former engagement with the courts… and their kronies (sic)… and disregard all orders as null and void”.’
Do these wackos hold gee-up sessions where they tell each other about the ‘magic and secret’ form of declaring your sovereignty, which, when you pronounce it, means that ‘the authorities’ can only throw up their hands in despair, and say ‘you got us, mate/lady, we’re powerless in the face of that statement’?
Do they tell each other anecdotes about how it worked, just like that, for a friend’s brother-in-law’s niece’s boyfriend’s best mate?
They just need to get together in large enough organised groups, with enough military equipment and training in how to use them, to assert their “sovereignty”. Doing it in dribs and drabs won’t ever work.
From this week’s New Scientist back page:
Occasionally when Elon Musk turns up in the news, Feedback is unaccountably reminded of the 1818 sonnet Ozymandias. It’s strange how the mind works.
Anyway, the Norwegian branch of carmaker Kia posted an advert on Instagram showing a photo of one of its electric cars, complete with a bumper sticker that read “I bought this after Elon went crazy”. Apparently this was not centrally approved and the advert has since been taken down, so it would be a real shame if anyone started making these stickers.
The Rev Dodgson said:
From this week’s New Scientist back page:Occasionally when Elon Musk turns up in the news, Feedback is unaccountably reminded of the 1818 sonnet Ozymandias. It’s strange how the mind works.
Anyway, the Norwegian branch of carmaker Kia posted an advert on Instagram showing a photo of one of its electric cars, complete with a bumper sticker that read “I bought this after Elon went crazy”. Apparently this was not centrally approved and the advert has since been taken down, so it would be a real shame if anyone started making these stickers.
“I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cgm873rlkz9o
Nurses in China hold babies during earthquake.
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:I assume that when the spells fail (as they always do), they tell each other that’s because the legal system is completely corrupt and deliberately contravening “common law” or whatever stupid terms they use.
It’s why they’re regarded as one of the more dangerous groups of nutcases – they tend to be immune to reason and each failure sets them harder against the state.
When they try the ‘magic spell’, and it doesn’t work…
…it’s like the bloke who was conscripted into the army:
From the time he was in recruit camp, he’d pick up any piece of paper he came across, look at it, and say ‘no, that’s not it’.
He did this for weeks, months. Any piece of paper, pick it up, examine it, say ‘nope, not it’, and toss it aside.
He was sent for psychiatric examination. The behaviour (see piece of paper, look at it, ‘no, that’s not it’) was carefully observed.
The docs decided that he was harmless, but obviously unfit for military service.
So, he was discharged. They gave him his discharge documents, he looked at them, and exclaimed ‘that’s it!’.
LOLOL
:)
buffy said:
>>A Paris court has convicted French far-right leader Marine Le Pen of embezzling money from the European parliament.<<
Well, well, well.
(The story of the three holes in the ground.)
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:
‘The trial heard the woman arranged to hire a van the day before a meeting with her child in December 2022, which was organised with the Department of Communities and Justice.
The woman then handed the care worker a “statement of notice” with her thumb print for identification, indicating she did not recognise the court’s authority, before driving away with her unrestrained child in the back of the van…
…The trial heard the “statement of notice” the woman handed to the care worker asserted she was “a living being sovereign to this land” who “hereby renounce and reject my former engagement with the courts… and their kronies (sic)… and disregard all orders as null and void”.’
Do these wackos hold gee-up sessions where they tell each other about the ‘magic and secret’ form of declaring your sovereignty, which, when you pronounce it, means that ‘the authorities’ can only throw up their hands in despair, and say ‘you got us, mate/lady, we’re powerless in the face of that statement’?
Do they tell each other anecdotes about how it worked, just like that, for a friend’s brother-in-law’s niece’s boyfriend’s best mate?
They just need to get together in large enough organised groups, with enough military equipment and training in how to use them, to assert their “sovereignty”. Doing it in dribs and drabs won’t ever work.
hey the last one lasted almost 250 years so not a bad gig
Michael V said:
buffy said:
>>A Paris court has convicted French far-right leader Marine Le Pen of embezzling money from the European parliament.<<
Well, well, well.
(The story of the three holes in the ground.)
totally not interfering just free speeching
“More and more European capitals are going down the path of trampling over democratic norms. Of course, we do not want to interfere in France’s internal affairs, we have never done so … But in general, our observations of European capitals show that they are not at all reluctant to go beyond democracy during the political process.”
captain_spalding said:
ABC News:
‘The trial heard the woman arranged to hire a van the day before a meeting with her child in December 2022, which was organised with the Department of Communities and Justice.
The woman then handed the care worker a “statement of notice” with her thumb print for identification, indicating she did not recognise the court’s authority, before driving away with her unrestrained child in the back of the van…
…The trial heard the “statement of notice” the woman handed to the care worker asserted she was “a living being sovereign to this land” who “hereby renounce and reject my former engagement with the courts… and their kronies (sic)… and disregard all orders as null and void”.’
Do these wackos hold gee-up sessions where they tell each other about the ‘magic and secret’ form of declaring your sovereignty, which, when you pronounce it, means that ‘the authorities’ can only throw up their hands in despair, and say ‘you got us, mate/lady, we’re powerless in the face of that statement’?
Do they tell each other anecdotes about how it worked, just like that, for a friend’s brother-in-law’s niece’s boyfriend’s best mate?
i’d expect some simple (and distorted) ‘libertarian’ notions incline denial of the state, which translates into something like or substitutes as I am the state, jumps from ought be to am, if and when it can, fortunately though in libertarian culture there are police and a real state to limit the delusion, otherwise most of us might unconsciously conspire to deny the existence of the state
