Time for a new thread … being the first day of the month and so on and so forth.

Etc.

Peak Warming Man said:

Interesting footage and story behind it.
https://youtu.be/ie3SrjLlcUY

Thanks. Bookmarked for later.

Good morning Holidayers. Presently 5 degrees at the back door, overcast, there have been some showers overnight. We are forecast 15 degrees with showers increasing.

Supermarketing this morning, archery this afternoon.

Morning. Heading for 15 again, showers and wind.

Once again, there was little sleep for muggins. So I thought I might as well get up and make today’s mega wallaby-veg-quinoa mix, since it’s mostly for freezing.

But first, a cup of tea.

Cloudy and a top of 27.

The Britex needs to be returned within the hour. Grocery shopping also on the agenda. This afternoon Mini Me has a robotics activity at the library.

Divine Angel said:

Cloudy and a top of 27.

The Britex needs to be returned within the hour. Grocery shopping also on the agenda. This afternoon Mini Me has a robotics activity at the library.

Robotics activities at school?

Youngest grandson visited yesterday and showed me his latest creative effort at school, which was an on-line computer game.

What is the world coming to?

The 2025 Astrophotography Prize Explores the Wonders of Deep Space

Some very nice images.

Divine Angel said:

Cloudy and a top of 27.

The Britex needs to be returned within the hour. Grocery shopping also on the agenda. This afternoon Mini Me has a robotics activity at the library.

I hope she’s being taught Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics.

btm said:

Divine Angel said:

Cloudy and a top of 27.

The Britex needs to be returned within the hour. Grocery shopping also on the agenda. This afternoon Mini Me has a robotics activity at the library.

I hope she’s being taught Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics.

Also how to interact with a robot that has a brain the size of a planet.

Bubblecar said:

Once again, there was little sleep for muggins. So I thought I might as well get up and make today’s mega wallaby-veg-quinoa mix, since it’s mostly for freezing.

Decided that was too big an ask after so little sleep. So I just chopped up some of the vegetables and mixed them together with herbs for the raw flavours to mingle, in the fridge.

I’ll do all the rest after adequate kip.

Scientists spot a baby planet being born in real time (photo)

Tau.Neutrino said:

Scientists spot a baby planet being born in real time (photo)

Interesting. Never seen anything quite like that before.

Morning pilgrims, overcast today, chance of a storm this arvo the dart throwers reckon.

The Rev Dodgson said:

btm said:

Divine Angel said:

Cloudy and a top of 27.

The Britex needs to be returned within the hour. Grocery shopping also on the agenda. This afternoon Mini Me has a robotics activity at the library.

I hope she’s being taught Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics.

Also how to interact with a robot that has a brain the size of a planet.

Once they put an emotional chip into Data he fell apart.

Divine Angel said:

Cloudy and a top of 27.

The Britex needs to be returned within the hour. Grocery shopping also on the agenda. This afternoon Mini Me has a robotics activity at the library.

Does mini-me ever do reeding righting and rifmetic?

Bubblecar said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Scientists spot a baby planet being born in real time (photo)

Interesting. Never seen anything quite like that before.

This bit explains it

What makes AB Aurigae b particularly interesting is that, unlike other directly imaged young planets which orbit in cleared gaps in their disks, AB Aurigae b remains buried within its birth disk. This allows us to observe the actual feeding process as the planet accumulates mass from its surroundings.

Bubblecar said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Scientists spot a baby planet being born in real time (photo)

Interesting. Never seen anything quite like that before.

Way kewlies. Real time you say? Will it be finished by lunchtime?

Woodie said:

Divine Angel said:

Cloudy and a top of 27.

The Britex needs to be returned within the hour. Grocery shopping also on the agenda. This afternoon Mini Me has a robotics activity at the library.

Does mini-me ever do reeding righting and rifmetic?

She’s quite good at all three.

Warmin’ up a bit.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Bubblecar said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Scientists spot a baby planet being born in real time (photo)

Interesting. Never seen anything quite like that before.

This bit explains it

What makes AB Aurigae b particularly interesting is that, unlike other directly imaged young planets which orbit in cleared gaps in their disks, AB Aurigae b remains buried within its birth disk. This allows us to observe the actual feeding process as the planet accumulates mass from its surroundings.

Another interesting bit

The observations of AB Aurigae b’s challenge standard models of planet formation. Located so far from its star, the planet likely formed through a process where dense regions of the disk rapidly collapse under their own gravity rather than the core accretion method that formed Jupiter and Saturn.

Woodie said:

Warmin’ up a bit.

Oh that reminds me, I need to get a portable, handheld fan for playground duty. I hear they’re fantastic.

Woodie said:

Bubblecar said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Scientists spot a baby planet being born in real time (photo)

Interesting. Never seen anything quite like that before.

Way kewlies. Real time you say? Will it be finished by lunchtime?

Ten to twenty million years or so.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Woodie said:

Bubblecar said:

Interesting. Never seen anything quite like that before.

Way kewlies. Real time you say? Will it be finished by lunchtime?

Ten to twenty million years or so.

That’s a long lunch.

Woodie said:

Warmin’ up a bit.

It could be a nasty bushfire season this year what with all the rain over winter.
Over.

Peak Warming Man said:

Woodie said:

Warmin’ up a bit.

It could be a nasty bushfire season this year what with all the rain over winter.
Over.

Much of SEQ is under a total fire ban for the next week. Last time I heard, we were forecast a wet summer. Hope no more cyclones down this way!

Divine Angel said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Woodie said:

Warmin’ up a bit.

It could be a nasty bushfire season this year what with all the rain over winter.
Over.

Much of SEQ is under a total fire ban for the next week. Last time I heard, we were forecast a wet summer. Hope no more cyclones down this way!

As per usual, we are under total fire ban until the end March.

Anyone for a Tardis trip this Sunday? Dr Who is offering a free trip one hour forward.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10478259/EDEN-CONFIDENTIAL-Eccentric-gun-nut-Sir-Benjamin-Slade-father-age-75.html

It was a girl, so he’ll want to get his skates on if the Slade Baronetcy

Greetings

Cymek said:

Greetings

Hello.

The first animals on Earth may have been sea sponges, chemical fossils suggest

Le pissoir.

roughbarked said:

Divine Angel said:

Peak Warming Man said:

It could be a nasty bushfire season this year what with all the rain over winter.
Over.

Much of SEQ is under a total fire ban for the next week. Last time I heard, we were forecast a wet summer. Hope no more cyclones down this way!

As per usual, we are under total fire ban until the end March.

Wee need a fire permit to set fire to anything. I think it’s NSW statewide. here

so… ryan williams eh?

roughbarked said:

Le pissoir.

From Google Street View:

Arts said:

so… ryan williams eh?

The bacon guy?

Witty Rejoinder said:

Arts said:

so… ryan williams eh?

The bacon guy?

That’s Sir Francis isn’t it ?

Witty Rejoinder said:

Arts said:

so… ryan williams eh?

The bacon guy?

the bacon guy…

Arts said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Arts said:

so… ryan williams eh?

The bacon guy?

the bacon guy…

What has he done

Cymek said:

Arts said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

The bacon guy?

the bacon guy…

What has he done

I mean I hadn’t really heard of him, but he is allegedly a popular influencer… (side note – why the hell do people idolise other people? I just don’t get it.. anyway) he was allowed to sprout his views on a newish sky news live show hosted by some sensation kid media person with conservative stance, and he said stuff that was Islamophobic… while wearing bacon taped to his shirt (the bacon thing is kind of stupid, but he decided he was making a point, I guess) I mean it was not just stuff, it was pretty shitty rhetoric. The host attempted to downplay, then had to be told to apologise live on air, then made another apology/retraction the next day.

Bottom line – Bacon guy got tons of views for his appearance that he keeps putting out there in snippits on his socials.
Sensation kids producer gets fired
sensation kid gets their show cancelled, but still will make appearances on Sky outlets
Big boss of sky news is mad.

made for a good media watch segment.

The Rev Dodgson said:

roughbarked said:

Le pissoir.

From Google Street View:

Needs a paint.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Anyone for a Tardis trip this Sunday? Dr Who is offering a free trip one hour forward.

I’m in. Although I’ll have to be back by 5th of April 2026.

Witty Rejoinder said:

Arts said:

so… ryan williams eh?

The bacon guy?

Fried bacon now.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Anyone for a Tardis trip this Sunday? Dr Who is offering a free trip one hour forward.

Us flat-earthers don’t believe in DLS.

Witty Rejoinder said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Anyone for a Tardis trip this Sunday? Dr Who is offering a free trip one hour forward.

Us flat-earthers don’t believe in DLS.

What brother Witty said.

Arts said:

Cymek said:

Arts said:

the bacon guy…

What has he done

I mean I hadn’t really heard of him, but he is allegedly a popular influencer… (side note – why the hell do people idolise other people? I just don’t get it.. anyway) he was allowed to sprout his views on a newish sky news live show hosted by some sensation kid media person with conservative stance, and he said stuff that was Islamophobic… while wearing bacon taped to his shirt (the bacon thing is kind of stupid, but he decided he was making a point, I guess) I mean it was not just stuff, it was pretty shitty rhetoric. The host attempted to downplay, then had to be told to apologise live on air, then made another apology/retraction the next day.

Bottom line – Bacon guy got tons of views for his appearance that he keeps putting out there in snippits on his socials.
Sensation kids producer gets fired
sensation kid gets their show cancelled, but still will make appearances on Sky outlets
Big boss of sky news is mad.

made for a good media watch segment.

oh dear, mixing up internet content with live TV.

I’m back. It was, of course, inevitable that I would take the wrong USB thingy off the computer when I put the new mouse on, and lose my keyboard…but I was alert to that particular trick of the computer!

https://www.instagram.com/officialstickreviews

Wholesome fun

On Sean Connery’s glorious inability or unwillingness to put on any kind of accent no matter what role he was playing.

dv said:

On Sean Connery’s glorious inability or unwillingness to put on any kind of accent no matter what role he was playing.

In the opening scene of Red October, when speaking Russian I believe he uses a Russian accent, or his voiceover does,
Over.

Tau.Neutrino said:

The first animals on Earth may have been sea sponges, chemical fossils suggest

title doesn’t do it justice since it’s for ages been seen as pretty likely that first animals on Earth may have been sea sponges

SCIENCE said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

The first animals on Earth may have been sea sponges, chemical fossils suggest

title doesn’t do it justice since it’s for ages been seen as pretty likely that first animals on Earth may have been sea sponges

I soak up information.

Peak Warming Man said:

SCIENCE said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

The first animals on Earth may have been sea sponges, chemical fossils suggest

title doesn’t do it justice since it’s for ages been seen as pretty likely that first animals on Earth may have been sea sponges

I soak up information.

oh so that’s why they’re call undifferentiated tissues

SCIENCE said:

Peak Warming Man said:

SCIENCE said:

title doesn’t do it justice since it’s for ages been seen as pretty likely that first animals on Earth may have been sea sponges

I soak up information.

oh so that’s why they’re call undifferentiated tissues

‘…undifferentiated tissues’?

Isn’t that when you only want one, but somehow manage to pull 8 or 9 out of the box?

captain_spalding said:

SCIENCE said:

Peak Warming Man said:

I soak up information.

oh so that’s why they’re call undifferentiated tissues

‘…undifferentiated tissues’?

Isn’t that when you only want one, but somehow manage to pull 8 or 9 out of the box?

That’s a very apt description

Cymek said:

captain_spalding said:

SCIENCE said:

oh so that’s why they’re call undifferentiated tissues

‘…undifferentiated tissues’?

Isn’t that when you only want one, but somehow manage to pull 8 or 9 out of the box?

That’s a very apt description

sheesh

Parazoa (Parazoa, gr. Παρα-, para, “next to”, and ζωα, zoa, “animals”) is an obsolete subkingdom that is located at the base of the phylogenetic tree of the animal kingdom in opposition to the subkingdom Eumetazoa; they group together the most primitive forms, characterized by not having proper tissues or where, in any case, these tissues are only partially differentiated. It generally includes a single phylum, Porifera, which lack muscles, nerves and internal organs, which in many cases resembles a cell colony rather than a multicellular organism itself. All other animals are eumetazoans and agnotozoans (Agnotozoans are possibly paraphyletic or even nonexistent in studies), which do have differentiated tissues.

Erin Patterson’s deadline for appeal ends at midnight on October 6th.
Her defence team (with new barrister) will appear in court on Thursday to appeal her sentence and conviction. They will likely apply for an extension on appeal. She is on her third barrister – probably because Colin Mandy is too expensive, and she has a freeze on her assets and is expected to apply for legal aid for the appeal.

Her birthday was yesterday.

I found some of her records from her study at a certain WA university.

Archery time.

Arts said:

Erin Patterson’s deadline for appeal ends at midnight on October 6th.
Her defence team (with new barrister) will appear in court on Thursday to appeal her sentence and conviction. They will likely apply for an extension on appeal. She is on her third barrister – probably because Colin Mandy is too expensive, and she has a freeze on her assets and is expected to apply for legal aid for the appeal.

Her birthday was yesterday.

I found some of her records from her study at a certain WA university.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Divine Angel said:

Also, you can’t pay your taxes in crypto, but if the ATO finds out you have significant crypto assets, they will come after you to pay taxes for it.

The same applies to property or share ownership, or any other store of value other than money.

what is money

JudgeMental said:

Bubblecar said:

dv said:

kii said:

Bubblecar said:

dv said:

Ate too much on the weekend

Got the trots?

Birthday cakes?

Na just feeling eeeeh

Birthday Indian food and then Birthday American food

Happy Belated Birthday, anyway :)

pepto bismol.

except the real Americans are Indians so

wait

SCIENCE said:

JudgeMental said:

Bubblecar said:

dv said:

dv said:

kii said:

Bubblecar said:

dv said:

Ate too much on the weekend

Got the trots?

Birthday cakes?

Na just feeling eeeeh

Birthday Indian food and then Birthday American food

Happy Belated Birthday, anyway :)

pepto bismol.

except the real Americans are Indians so

wait

sorry fkd up the quo thing but all fixed now

SCIENCE said:

SCIENCE said:

JudgeMental said:

pepto bismol.

except the real Americans are Indians so

wait

sorry fkd up the quo thing but all fixed now

I noted that as I would never post Happy Belated Birthday, anyway :)

Peak Warming Man said:

dv said:

On Sean Connery’s glorious inability or unwillingness to put on any kind of accent no matter what role he was playing.

In the opening scene of Red October, when speaking Russian I believe he uses a Russian accent, or his voiceover does,
Over.

When I hear an actor playing a Kiwi without saying “fush and chups”, I reach for my gun.

Bubblecar said:

Peak Warming Man said:

dv said:

On Sean Connery’s glorious inability or unwillingness to put on any kind of accent no matter what role he was playing.

In the opening scene of Red October, when speaking Russian I believe he uses a Russian accent, or his voiceover does,
Over.

When I hear an actor playing a Kiwi without saying “fush and chups”, I reach for my gun.

You know what New Zealanders use pugs for?

Hanging clothes on the line.

Carpet was Britex’d two days ago, the cat has already vomited on it.

Divine Angel said:

Carpet was Britex’d two days ago, the cat has already vomited on it.

Normalcy is restored.

Divine Angel said:

Carpet was Britex’d two days ago, the cat has already vomited on it.

Building up a good rich batch of sick for that very purpose.

Oh my… as a uni student, I can get a discount on a range of products and services. Everything from Pizza Hut to Temu to Dyson to Qatar Airways to sex toys to clothes and if I’d enrolled before my eye test last week I could have saved 20% on my new glasses.

load very hard wood that was, hard as stone + some sand, kept me on the chain tensioner, used litre of oil maybe or more, extra oil on the chain

and look at that, dinner landed

WTF does that mean.

Peak Warming Man said:

WTF does that mean.

it means the widdershins lanes are still open.

Peak Warming Man said:

WTF does that mean.

All proper cities have ringroads that bypass the airport.

Peak Warming Man said:

WTF does that mean.

edited by hugh lexdysic janus

Peak Warming Man said:

WTF does that mean.

AA Motorway signs explained:

On the M25, ‘A’ means clockwise and ‘B’ anticlockwise.

https://www.theaa.com/breakdown-cover/advice/driver-location-signs

From 1 year ago:

“Anthony Albanese pokes fun at a former ministerial colleague and makes a risque Dolly Parton joke on Spicks And Specks, leaving ABC viewers divided”

Daily Mail.

And now he’s gone and done it again!

Peak Warming Man said:

WTF does that mean.

It’s a ringroad. The clockwise lanes are closed.

After 12 years on operation, BrightSource Energy’s solar power plant at Ivanpah California will be closing in 2026. The facility uses fields of heliostats that focus on receivers that generate electrical power from steam turbines.
The facility will be replaced by now-conventional photovoltaic panels. The change is somewhat indicative of the revolution in PV production. When Ivanpah was designed in 2010, photovoltaics ran around $5 per watt installed. They are now $0.30 per watt, and it is cheaper to replace the heliostats and turbines with photovoltaics than to continue to maintain them.

Bubblecar said:

Peak Warming Man said:

WTF does that mean.

AA Motorway signs explained:

On the M25, ‘A’ means clockwise and ‘B’ anticlockwise.

https://www.theaa.com/breakdown-cover/advice/driver-location-signs

so A for Bytheclock

and B for Anticlockwise

fine

Divine Angel said:

Oh my… as a uni student, I can get a discount on a range of products and services. Everything from Pizza Hut to Temu to Dyson to Qatar Airways to sex toys to clothes and if I’d enrolled before my eye test last week I could have saved 20% on my new glasses.

so they really are pushing the nerdy look then

SCIENCE said:

Bubblecar said:

Peak Warming Man said:

WTF does that mean.

AA Motorway signs explained:

On the M25, ‘A’ means clockwise and ‘B’ anticlockwise.

https://www.theaa.com/breakdown-cover/advice/driver-location-signs

so A for Bytheclock

and B for Anticlockwise

fine

I’ve been driving for 60 years, here and in the UK and I’ve never come across an anticlockwise round about.
Over.

Peak Warming Man said:

SCIENCE said:

Bubblecar said:

AA Motorway signs explained:

On the M25, ‘A’ means clockwise and ‘B’ anticlockwise.

https://www.theaa.com/breakdown-cover/advice/driver-location-signs

so A for Bytheclock

and B for Anticlockwise

fine

I’ve been driving for 60 years, here and in the UK and I’ve never come across an anticlockwise round about.
Over.

is that a roundabout way of saying you don’t realise that this isn’t a roundabout?

Oh I DO like this fly trap.

https://x.com/i/status/1973280786616033335

ChrispenEvan said:

Peak Warming Man said:

SCIENCE said:

so A for Bytheclock

and B for Anticlockwise

fine

I’ve been driving for 60 years, here and in the UK and I’ve never come across an anticlockwise round about.
Over.

is that a roundabout way of saying you don’t realise that this isn’t a roundabout?

Yes, a rounabout way and a curmudgeon way.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-01/prostate-cancer-drug-plutetium-unavailable-in-public-hospitals/105817548

Thats a bit of a bummer for those affected.

Would facists be calm if they didn’t worry about other people?

Today is Julie Andrews’ 90th birthday.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Would facists be calm if they didn’t worry about other people?

As long as they own the libs

Divine Angel said:

Today is Julie Andrews’ 90th birthday.

Is too. Many happy returns Dame Julie :)

Divine Angel said:

Today is Julie Andrews’ 90th birthday.

The hills are alive and so is Julie, well done her.

dv said:

After 12 years on operation, BrightSource Energy’s solar power plant at Ivanpah California will be closing in 2026. The facility uses fields of heliostats that focus on receivers that generate electrical power from steam turbines.
The facility will be replaced by now-conventional photovoltaic panels. The change is somewhat indicative of the revolution in PV production. When Ivanpah was designed in 2010, photovoltaics ran around $5 per watt installed. They are now $0.30 per watt, and it is cheaper to replace the heliostats and turbines with photovoltaics than to continue to maintain them.

Interesting.

I wonder, do the reflector type concentrating types use glass mirrors. is there a cheap plastic alternative to glass mirrors that might substantially reduce the cost of the mirrors.

SCIENCE said:

Bubblecar said:

Peak Warming Man said:

WTF does that mean.

AA Motorway signs explained:

On the M25, ‘A’ means clockwise and ‘B’ anticlockwise.

https://www.theaa.com/breakdown-cover/advice/driver-location-signs

so A for Bytheclock

and B for Anticlockwise

fine

No
A for Advancing

and B for Backwards

obviously.

The Rev Dodgson said:

SCIENCE said:

Bubblecar said:

AA Motorway signs explained:

On the M25, ‘A’ means clockwise and ‘B’ anticlockwise.

https://www.theaa.com/breakdown-cover/advice/driver-location-signs

so A for Bytheclock

and B for Anticlockwise

fine

No
A for Advancing

and B for Backwards

obviously.

The confusion comes from giving major roads numbers instead of names. Divide the ring road into north, south, seat and west sections, and give each one a name.

transition said:

Peak Warming Man said:

WTF does that mean.

edited by hugh lexdysic janus

I find that picture to be just a little bit puzzling.

Presumably, the congested lanes are the ones that are closed, due to the accident.

But, if the curve of the road, as shown in the picture, is indicative of the layout of the road, then those lanes are the ones going in an anti-clockwise direction.

Perhaps just a quirk of the road layout in that particular location?

Peak Warming Man said:

I’ve been driving for 60 years, here and in the UK and I’ve never come across an anticlockwise round about.
Over.

I’ve seen a couple of people here in Australia who thought that they could use one in an anti-clockwise manner.

captain_spalding said:

transition said:

Peak Warming Man said:

WTF does that mean.

edited by hugh lexdysic janus

I find that picture to be just a little bit puzzling.

Presumably, the congested lanes are the ones that are closed, due to the accident.

But, if the curve of the road, as shown in the picture, is indicative of the layout of the road, then those lanes are the ones going in an anti-clockwise direction.

Perhaps just a quirk of the road layout in that particular location?

I noticed that too. maybe a reversed pic for some reason.

captain_spalding said:

transition said:

Peak Warming Man said:

WTF does that mean.

edited by hugh lexdysic janus

I find that picture to be just a little bit puzzling.

Presumably, the congested lanes are the ones that are closed, due to the accident.

But, if the curve of the road, as shown in the picture, is indicative of the layout of the road, then those lanes are the ones going in an anti-clockwise direction.

Perhaps just a quirk of the road layout in that particular location?

If the road is closed, no cars are allowed on it, hence it is empty. The other direction is busy, if congested, probably running like usual.

ChrispenEvan said:

captain_spalding said:

transition said:

edited by hugh lexdysic janus

I find that picture to be just a little bit puzzling.

Presumably, the congested lanes are the ones that are closed, due to the accident.

But, if the curve of the road, as shown in the picture, is indicative of the layout of the road, then those lanes are the ones going in an anti-clockwise direction.

Perhaps just a quirk of the road layout in that particular location?

I noticed that too. maybe a reversed pic for some reason.

The date/time stamp is the right way around.

ChrispenEvan said:

captain_spalding said:

transition said:

edited by hugh lexdysic janus

I find that picture to be just a little bit puzzling.

Presumably, the congested lanes are the ones that are closed, due to the accident.

But, if the curve of the road, as shown in the picture, is indicative of the layout of the road, then those lanes are the ones going in an anti-clockwise direction.

Perhaps just a quirk of the road layout in that particular location?

I noticed that too. maybe a reversed pic for some reason.

that would put them on the wrong side. no wonder there was a crash. maybe a ringroad isn’t necessarily a circle.

party_pants said:

captain_spalding said:

transition said:

edited by hugh lexdysic janus

I find that picture to be just a little bit puzzling.

Presumably, the congested lanes are the ones that are closed, due to the accident.

But, if the curve of the road, as shown in the picture, is indicative of the layout of the road, then those lanes are the ones going in an anti-clockwise direction.

Perhaps just a quirk of the road layout in that particular location?

If the road is closed, no cars are allowed on it, hence it is empty. The other direction is busy, if congested, probably running like usual.

A possibility. A definite possibility.

the M2 isn’t a ringroad as such, it is one part, the western side, of a ringroad network.

ChrispenEvan said:

the M2 isn’t a ringroad as such, it is one part, the western side, of a ringroad network.

incorrect.

One would assume, that if there is a crash near Heathrow, only that part of it would be closed to allow emergency and recovery vehicles in. Not the whole of the ring road. So the open section shortly after Heathrow would still be open and have very light traffic, which would slowly build as each intersection adds more traffic.

captain_spalding said:

Peak Warming Man said:

I’ve been driving for 60 years, here and in the UK and I’ve never come across an anticlockwise round about.
Over.

I’ve seen a couple of people here in Australia who thought that they could use one in an anti-clockwise manner.

recently went into a car park where you’re directed to go around the other way, seemed dangerous

captain_spalding said:

party_pants said:

captain_spalding said:

I find that picture to be just a little bit puzzling.

Presumably, the congested lanes are the ones that are closed, due to the accident.

But, if the curve of the road, as shown in the picture, is indicative of the layout of the road, then those lanes are the ones going in an anti-clockwise direction.

Perhaps just a quirk of the road layout in that particular location?

If the road is closed, no cars are allowed on it, hence it is empty. The other direction is busy, if congested, probably running like usual.

A possibility. A definite possibility.

yeah we thought this what party_pants said

SCIENCE said:

captain_spalding said:

party_pants said:

If the road is closed, no cars are allowed on it, hence it is empty. The other direction is busy, if congested, probably running like usual.

A possibility. A definite possibility.

yeah we thought this what party_pants said

I’m glad you all agree with my lone voice crying in the wilderness.

Mysteriously, the National Breast Cancer Foundation has stopped taking money out of my account each month.

I must have signed up for a limited period. I thought it was forever.

Oh well, I’m not going to complain.

party_pants said:

SCIENCE said:

captain_spalding said:

A possibility. A definite possibility.

yeah we thought this what party_pants said

I’m glad you all agree with my lone voice crying in the wilderness.

it is a pic of the traffic jam. most likely explanation is that the caption should have read anticlockwise.

ChrispenEvan said:

party_pants said:

SCIENCE said:

yeah we thought this what party_pants said

I’m glad you all agree with my lone voice crying in the wilderness.

it is a pic of the traffic jam. most likely explanation is that the caption should have read anticlockwise.

I was referring just to SCIENCE, since they were speaking in the plural form :)

captain_spalding said:

That joke was old when The Two Ronnies were still in their cots.

Bubblecar said:

captain_spalding said:

That joke was old when The Two Ronnies were still in their cots.

You have to take them out and give them some air now and then, or they go mouldy.

Finally made it home and having some nosh.

Got a callout this arvo for a structure fire. Someone thought it would be a good idea to start welding in the roof space of a haybale home and didn’t understand why there was smoke coming from the ridge capping afterwards.

A lumberjack walks into a bar and says. “I’d like a lager.”
The bartender rolls his eyes and gives him a lager.

Next a sailor walks into the bar and says, “I’d like a port.”
The bartender rolls his eyes and pours him a glass of port wine.

Soon after, a frog jumps onto the bar. Before the frog can speak, the bartender says, “Let me guess, you’ll take any beer that’s hoppy?”

“Actually,” says the frog, “I’d like a Bijou. Equal parts gin, green Chartreuse, and sweet vermouth, stirred and strained into a Nick & Nora glass, with an orange twist expressed and discarded.”

The bartender looks confused, but manages to make the frog his drink. The frog proceeds to sit there for hour after hour, not even touching the drink or taking one sip. The frog just looks around and seems to be getting more frustrated by the second. Finally, the bartender asks, “What’s the deal? You had me make this drink eight hours ago and haven’t even tasted it.”

“Sorry,” says the frog. “I just wanted to order something that seemed like I go to bars all the time so you wouldn’t kick me out. The truth is, this is my first time ever going to a bar and it’s not what I hoped for.”

“What were you hoping for?” asks the bartender.

The frog sighs, lets out a long croak, and says, “Bar flies.”

btm said:

A lumberjack walks into a bar and says. “I’d like a lager.”
The bartender rolls his eyes and gives him a lager.

Next a sailor walks into the bar and says, “I’d like a port.”
The bartender rolls his eyes and pours him a glass of port wine.

Soon after, a frog jumps onto the bar. Before the frog can speak, the bartender says, “Let me guess, you’ll take any beer that’s hoppy?”

“Actually,” says the frog, “I’d like a Bijou. Equal parts gin, green Chartreuse, and sweet vermouth, stirred and strained into a Nick & Nora glass, with an orange twist expressed and discarded.”

The bartender looks confused, but manages to make the frog his drink. The frog proceeds to sit there for hour after hour, not even touching the drink or taking one sip. The frog just looks around and seems to be getting more frustrated by the second. Finally, the bartender asks, “What’s the deal? You had me make this drink eight hours ago and haven’t even tasted it.”

“Sorry,” says the frog. “I just wanted to order something that seemed like I go to bars all the time so you wouldn’t kick me out. The truth is, this is my first time ever going to a bar and it’s not what I hoped for.”

“What were you hoping for?” asks the bartender.

The frog sighs, lets out a long croak, and says, “Bar flies.”

Ribit, chirp, hoot :)

Jane Goodall has died, aged 91.

dv said:

Jane Goodall has died, aged 91.

Yes, she had a long and full life, well played Jane.

Mostly sunny 31 today 🥵

Mini Me has a friend coming over and we’re going to the circus.

Good morning Holidayers. Presently 3 degrees at the back door. It’s been squally during the night. We are forecast 13 degrees with showers.

Bakery Breakfast with my bushwandering friend this morning at 8.00am. No wandering today, we are fair weather wanderers.

Divine Angel said:

Mostly sunny 31 today 🥵

Mini Me has a friend coming over and we’re going to the circus.

I thought that we were already in it.

But, i hope tat the kids and you have a good time. Looks like a nice day to go to the circus.

dv said:

Jane Goodall has died, aged 91.

She was due to speak to university students and help plant thousands of trees in wildfire-hit areas in California on the day of her death. Dying is one way to avoid the task at hand.

Rescued chimpanzee thanks Jane Goodall by giving her a hug.

https://x.com/i/status/1973459081991159887

Just talking to Spocky about Goodall, she says she met Goodall when she had a conference here years ago, and talked to her for a while. A lovely person, Spocky says.

Ian said:

Spiny Norman said:

Rescued chimpanzee thanks Jane Goodall by giving her a hug.

https://x.com/i/status/1973459081991159887

Just talking to Spocky about Goodall, she says she met Goodall when she had a conference here years ago, and talked to her for a while. A lovely person, Spocky says.

Wow, what a wonderful experience for Spocky. (BTW send her my love!)

Ian said:

Ian said:

From the Internet:

“The primatologist was away in Africa at the time, but when she returned and got her hands on the copy of the cartoon, she found it amusing and personally met Larson, establishing a friendship with him.

“I thought it was very funny. And I think if you make a Gary Larson cartoon, boy you’ve made it,” she said. When Larson published the fifth volume of his anthology ‘The Far Side Gallery 5’, Goodall wrote the preface to the book describing her take on the ‘Jane Goodall Tramp’ controversy. She went on to appreciate Larson and praised his creativity that often draws comparisons between human and animal behavior.

Goodall and Larson came to an agreement that also enabled all profits from the sale of shirts featuring the ‘Jane Goodall Tramp’ cartoon to go to her institute. But in a twisted version of events, it seems that Larson did get reprimanded for his cartoon when he went to visit the Gombe National Park in 1988 with Goodall. There, he met a chimp by the name Frodo, who Goodall described as a ‘bully’ and the primate made it clear that he wasn’t a fan of ‘Far Side’. Without warning, he pounced on Larson, who was taken off guard and the cartoonist was left with several scratches and bruises on his body. “

The Rev Dodgson said:

Ian said:

Ian said:

From the Internet:

“The primatologist was away in Africa at the time, but when she returned and got her hands on the copy of the cartoon, she found it amusing and personally met Larson, establishing a friendship with him.

“I thought it was very funny. And I think if you make a Gary Larson cartoon, boy you’ve made it,” she said. When Larson published the fifth volume of his anthology ‘The Far Side Gallery 5’, Goodall wrote the preface to the book describing her take on the ‘Jane Goodall Tramp’ controversy. She went on to appreciate Larson and praised his creativity that often draws comparisons between human and animal behavior.

Goodall and Larson came to an agreement that also enabled all profits from the sale of shirts featuring the ‘Jane Goodall Tramp’ cartoon to go to her institute. But in a twisted version of events, it seems that Larson did get reprimanded for his cartoon when he went to visit the Gombe National Park in 1988 with Goodall. There, he met a chimp by the name Frodo, who Goodall described as a ‘bully’ and the primate made it clear that he wasn’t a fan of ‘Far Side’. Without warning, he pounced on Larson, who was taken off guard and the cartoonist was left with several scratches and bruises on his body. “

instant karma.

Brindabellas said:

Spiny Norman said:

Rescued chimpanzee thanks Jane Goodall by giving her a hug.

https://x.com/i/status/1973459081991159887

Just talking to Spocky about Goodall, she says she met Goodall when she had a conference here years ago, and talked to her for a while. A lovely person, Spocky says.

Wow, what a wonderful experience for Spocky. (BTW send her my love!)

Spocky says hey back.

roughbarked said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Ian said:

From the Internet:

“The primatologist was away in Africa at the time, but when she returned and got her hands on the copy of the cartoon, she found it amusing and personally met Larson, establishing a friendship with him.

“I thought it was very funny. And I think if you make a Gary Larson cartoon, boy you’ve made it,” she said. When Larson published the fifth volume of his anthology ‘The Far Side Gallery 5’, Goodall wrote the preface to the book describing her take on the ‘Jane Goodall Tramp’ controversy. She went on to appreciate Larson and praised his creativity that often draws comparisons between human and animal behavior.

Goodall and Larson came to an agreement that also enabled all profits from the sale of shirts featuring the ‘Jane Goodall Tramp’ cartoon to go to her institute. But in a twisted version of events, it seems that Larson did get reprimanded for his cartoon when he went to visit the Gombe National Park in 1988 with Goodall. There, he met a chimp by the name Frodo, who Goodall described as a ‘bully’ and the primate made it clear that he wasn’t a fan of ‘Far Side’. Without warning, he pounced on Larson, who was taken off guard and the cartoonist was left with several scratches and bruises on his body. “

instant karma.

Evidence that whilst chimps may not have the intelligence of Jane Goodall, they can certainly match that of an executive director.

roughbarked said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Ian said:

From the Internet:

“The primatologist was away in Africa at the time, but when she returned and got her hands on the copy of the cartoon, she found it amusing and personally met Larson, establishing a friendship with him.

“I thought it was very funny. And I think if you make a Gary Larson cartoon, boy you’ve made it,” she said. When Larson published the fifth volume of his anthology ‘The Far Side Gallery 5’, Goodall wrote the preface to the book describing her take on the ‘Jane Goodall Tramp’ controversy. She went on to appreciate Larson and praised his creativity that often draws comparisons between human and animal behavior.

Goodall and Larson came to an agreement that also enabled all profits from the sale of shirts featuring the ‘Jane Goodall Tramp’ cartoon to go to her institute. But in a twisted version of events, it seems that Larson did get reprimanded for his cartoon when he went to visit the Gombe National Park in 1988 with Goodall. There, he met a chimp by the name Frodo, who Goodall described as a ‘bully’ and the primate made it clear that he wasn’t a fan of ‘Far Side’. Without warning, he pounced on Larson, who was taken off guard and the cartoonist was left with several scratches and bruises on his body. “

instant karma.

Gunna get you.

Peak Warming Man said:

dv said:

Jane Goodall has died, aged 91.

Yes, she had a long and full life, well played Jane.

anyway that’s someone we have heard of

The Rev Dodgson said:

roughbarked said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

From the Internet:

“The primatologist was away in Africa at the time, but when she returned and got her hands on the copy of the cartoon, she found it amusing and personally met Larson, establishing a friendship with him.

“I thought it was very funny. And I think if you make a Gary Larson cartoon, boy you’ve made it,” she said. When Larson published the fifth volume of his anthology ‘The Far Side Gallery 5’, Goodall wrote the preface to the book describing her take on the ‘Jane Goodall Tramp’ controversy. She went on to appreciate Larson and praised his creativity that often draws comparisons between human and animal behavior.

Goodall and Larson came to an agreement that also enabled all profits from the sale of shirts featuring the ‘Jane Goodall Tramp’ cartoon to go to her institute. But in a twisted version of events, it seems that Larson did get reprimanded for his cartoon when he went to visit the Gombe National Park in 1988 with Goodall. There, he met a chimp by the name Frodo, who Goodall described as a ‘bully’ and the primate made it clear that he wasn’t a fan of ‘Far Side’. Without warning, he pounced on Larson, who was taken off guard and the cartoonist was left with several scratches and bruises on his body. “

instant karma.

Evidence that whilst chimps may not have the intelligence of Jane Goodall, they can certainly match that of an executive director.

how good is it for decent scientists to have a sense of humour

Divine Angel said:

dv said:

Jane Goodall has died, aged 91.

She was due to speak to university students and help plant thousands of trees in wildfire-hit areas in California on the day of her death. Dying is one way to avoid the task at hand.

she was at Perth Zoo a couple of years ago, she came into the Primate kitchen for a visit and signed the wall. I had a chance to talk with her, she was very interested in my research, she mentioned some behavioural studies I had already read with primates and said that’s what I was doing and we talked about human violent behaviours… she said it’s nice to talk about something other than chimps for a while. I said “is it that much different though?” and we laughed.. nice lady.

Greetings

Arts said:

Divine Angel said:

dv said:

Jane Goodall has died, aged 91.

She was due to speak to university students and help plant thousands of trees in wildfire-hit areas in California on the day of her death. Dying is one way to avoid the task at hand.

she was at Perth Zoo a couple of years ago, she came into the Primate kitchen for a visit and signed the wall. I had a chance to talk with her, she was very interested in my research, she mentioned some behavioural studies I had already read with primates and said that’s what I was doing and we talked about human violent behaviours… she said it’s nice to talk about something other than chimps for a while. I said “is it that much different though?” and we laughed.. nice lady.

I said a couple but it was actually just last year (I have been through a life shift this year so everything seems like a long time ago)

SCIENCE said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

roughbarked said:

instant karma.

Evidence that whilst chimps may not have the intelligence of Jane Goodall, they can certainly match that of an executive director.

how good is it for decent scientists to have a sense of humour

Intelligence works well for a sense of humour.
Its why I’m so funny

I have never met anyone who was/is famous. Just thought you all should know that.

ChrispenEvan said:

I have never met anyone who was/is famous. Just thought you all should know that.

You are not alone.

roughbarked said:

ChrispenEvan said:

I have never met anyone who was/is famous. Just thought you all should know that.

You are not alone.

Looks around room. I am.

roughbarked said:

ChrispenEvan said:

I have never met anyone who was/is famous. Just thought you all should know that.

You are not alone.

I met John Howard once.

The Rev Dodgson said:

roughbarked said:

ChrispenEvan said:

I have never met anyone who was/is famous. Just thought you all should know that.

You are not alone.

I met John Howard once.

Well, I’ll still talk to you.

Morning

Ian said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

roughbarked said:

You are not alone.

I met John Howard once.

Well, I’ll still talk to you.

Not the ex-PM of course.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Ian said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

I met John Howard once.

Well, I’ll still talk to you.

Not the ex-PM of course.

:)

Saw this number plate today. Someone’s got the hots for Prince William

ChrispenEvan said:

roughbarked said:

ChrispenEvan said:

I have never met anyone who was/is famous. Just thought you all should know that.

You are not alone.

Looks around room. I am.

A few famous people bought Krispy Kremes. The most famous I met was Liam Hemsworth. He used his card to pay and I cheekily said the machine was asking for a signature. He laughed but obliged and the receipt was on the wall until the day I left.

Arts said:

Arts said:

Divine Angel said:

She was due to speak to university students and help plant thousands of trees in wildfire-hit areas in California on the day of her death. Dying is one way to avoid the task at hand.

she was at Perth Zoo a couple of years ago, she came into the Primate kitchen for a visit and signed the wall. I had a chance to talk with her, she was very interested in my research, she mentioned some behavioural studies I had already read with primates and said that’s what I was doing and we talked about human violent behaviours… she said it’s nice to talk about something other than chimps for a while. I said “is it that much different though?” and we laughed.. nice lady.

I said a couple but it was actually just last year (I have been through a life shift this year so everything seems like a long time ago)

Is it a sucky life shift? Because those suck, those sucky shifts.

Divine Angel said:

ChrispenEvan said:

roughbarked said:

You are not alone.

Looks around room. I am.

A few famous people bought Krispy Kremes. The most famous I met was Liam Hemsworth. He used his card to pay and I cheekily said the machine was asking for a signature. He laughed but obliged and the receipt was on the wall until the day I left.

Nicely done!

Divine Angel said:

ChrispenEvan said:

roughbarked said:

You are not alone.

Looks around room. I am.

A few famous people bought Krispy Kremes. The most famous I met was Liam Hemsworth. He used his card to pay and I cheekily said the machine was asking for a signature. He laughed but obliged and the receipt was on the wall until the day I left.

I used to fly the Prime Minster of PNG in the Cessna Citation jet from Port Moresby to Lae & back a fair bit.
I remember one time we were taxying out in Moresby and the tower asked us to turn around to head back to the tarmac to pick up the minister of transport (or someone like that), so I told Pius Wingti that and he told me no, we’ll just be leaving now thanks.
I turned around and said with a grin, “it’s good to be the boss”.
He laffed.

I also stood behind Paul Mercurio at Bowral cinema for one of the Harry Potter movies

ChrispenEvan said:

roughbarked said:

ChrispenEvan said:

I have never met anyone who was/is famous. Just thought you all should know that.

You are not alone.

Looks around room. I am.

Sigh.

The Rev Dodgson said:

roughbarked said:

ChrispenEvan said:

I have never met anyone who was/is famous. Just thought you all should know that.

You are not alone.

I met John Howard once.

I got an “Aarr g’day” from Bob Hawke but he declined to sit down and have a drink with us because his bladder was urgently directiing him through the dunny door. When he came out he declined again, apparently having an important liasion in another room of the hotel/motel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Catalaunian_Plains

The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (or Fields), also called the Battle of the Campus Mauriacus, Battle of Châlons, Battle of Troyes or the Battle of Maurica, took place on June 20, 451 AD, between a coalition, led by the Roman general Flavius Aetius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I, against the Huns and their vassals, commanded by their king, Attila. It proved to be one of the last major military operations of the Western Roman Empire, although Germanic foederati composed the majority of the coalition army. The exact strategic significance is disputed. Historians generally agree that the siege of Aurelianum was the decisive moment in the campaign and stopped the Huns’ attempt to advance any further into Roman territory or establish vassals in Roman Gaul. However, the Huns looted and pillaged much of Gaul and crippled the military capacity of the Romans and Visigoths. Attila died only two years later, in 453. After the Battle of Nedao in 454, the coalition of the Huns and the incorporated Germanic vassals gradually disintegrated.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Ian said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

I met John Howard once.

Well, I’ll still talk to you.

Not the ex-PM of course.

I’m good mates with Tony Greig and spent time with him while in Tasmania recently. He was captain of my cricket team too.

ChrispenEvan said:

I have never met anyone who was/is famous. Just thought you all should know that.

I baffled Prince Charles.

January, 1988, at Sydney Opera House. Bicentennial fol-de-rol, with Charles and Diana in attendance.

There was half-a-dozen WRANs (Womens’ Royal Australian Naval Service) people there. Their uniform, at that time (the loss of which i lament, as it was easily the best-looking female service (in fact, forget ‘female’, just the best of all) uniform in Australia) included a black shoulder-strap handbag.

They were called upon to fulfil some task, but it wasn’t one where they could take their handbags.

‘What will we do with our bags?’, they asked. ‘Give ‘em to me’, i said, ‘and i’ll find somewhere safe to stow them’. So, they gave me their bags, and i asked an Opera House person about where i could stash them.

I was directed ‘downstairs’, and went down to the area underneath the big steps at the back of the OH. It’s a driveway/tunnel arrangement, where cars can arrive and deposit people at the lower-level entrance.

I’d just got there, juggling several rather large handbags, when a large car pulls up, and there’s Prince Charles looking at me out of the window.

He was clearly puzzled, asking himself why this officer is standing around down here with six handbags in his arms. I could not salute without losing the handbags all over the paving, so i just had to retreat to the nominated storage area as fast as possible.

Then, i had to hie me back upstairs again, to attend to my own tasks.

Not too long after, Charles and Diana etc. approached the area where i was ‘posted’, and they stopped, maybe two arms-lengths away. Charles looked around, and there was every indication that he recognised me, and i’m sure he was itching to ask ‘what was all that with the handbags, down below?’.

But, then, they had to move on, and the chance was lost. So, if that counts as ‘meeting’ someone…

captain_spalding said:

ChrispenEvan said:

I have never met anyone who was/is famous. Just thought you all should know that.

I baffled Prince Charles.

January, 1988, at Sydney Opera House. Bicentennial fol-de-rol, with Charles and Diana in attendance.

There was half-a-dozen WRANs (Womens’ Royal Australian Naval Service) people there. Their uniform, at that time (the loss of which i lament, as it was easily the best-looking female service (in fact, forget ‘female’, just the best of all) uniform in Australia) included a black shoulder-strap handbag.

They were called upon to fulfil some task, but it wasn’t one where they could take their handbags.

‘What will we do with our bags?’, they asked. ‘Give ‘em to me’, i said, ‘and i’ll find somewhere safe to stow them’. So, they gave me their bags, and i asked an Opera House person about where i could stash them.

I was directed ‘downstairs’, and went down to the area underneath the big steps at the back of the OH. It’s a driveway/tunnel arrangement, where cars can arrive and deposit people at the lower-level entrance.

I’d just got there, juggling several rather large handbags, when a large car pulls up, and there’s Prince Charles looking at me out of the window.

He was clearly puzzled, asking himself why this officer is standing around down here with six handbags in his arms. I could not salute without losing the handbags all over the paving, so i just had to retreat to the nominated storage area as fast as possible.

Then, i had to hie me back upstairs again, to attend to my own tasks.

Not too long after, Charles and Diana etc. approached the area where i was ‘posted’, and they stopped, maybe two arms-lengths away. Charles looked around, and there was every indication that he recognised me, and i’m sure he was itching to ask ‘what was all that with the handbags, down below?’.

But, then, they had to move on, and the chance was lost. So, if that counts as ‘meeting’ someone…

You made eye contact. :)

roughbarked said:

You made eye contact. :)

And it wasn’t the last time.

Later, after much official nonsense, Chas and Di got into an open car, and tootled off somewhere.

By this time, i was positionned outside of the OH, near to where they got into the car. I was saluting, of course, and Chas returned the salute, probably thinking ‘there’s that goober with the handbags, again’.

It was at this time that this picture was taken:

That picture is sometimes cited as evidence of Diana’s ‘deep unhappiness’.

This is twaddle.

I can tell you that it was a rather hottish and very windy January day in Sydney, with the wind producing some very strong gusts.

What we see in this picture is Diana’s reaction to copping one of those rather fierce gusts of hot wind right in the face, and trying to keep her hat on her head.

I don’t think that i was even a metre farther away from her than is that policeman on the other side of the car. I know it was a wind gust, because it was one of several times in the day where i damn near lost my own hat.

A few second later, this picture was taken:

but the people who claim the first image as evidence of sadness never mention that.

She may well have been very sad, but she did a masterful job of not displaying it on the day.

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

You made eye contact. :)

And it wasn’t the last time.

Later, after much official nonsense, Chas and Di got into an open car, and tootled off somewhere.

By this time, i was positionned outside of the OH, near to where they got into the car. I was saluting, of course, and Chas returned the salute, probably thinking ‘there’s that goober with the handbags, again’.

It was at this time that this picture was taken:

That picture is sometimes cited as evidence of Diana’s ‘deep unhappiness’.

This is twaddle.

I can tell you that it was a rather hottish and very windy January day in Sydney, with the wind producing some very strong gusts.

What we see in this picture is Diana’s reaction to copping one of those rather fierce gusts of hot wind right in the face, and trying to keep her hat on her head.

I don’t think that i was even a metre farther away from her than is that policeman on the other side of the car. I know it was a wind gust, because it was one of several times in the day where i damn near lost my own hat.

A few second later, this picture was taken:

but the people who claim the first image as evidence of sadness never mention that.

She may well have been very sad, but she did a masterful job of not displaying it on the day.

LOL, those two pics were taken years apart, I mean, one was B&W and the other in colour!!!

ChrispenEvan said:

LOL, those two pics were taken years apart, I mean, one was B&W and the other in colour!!!

Well, you see, they had the area around the Opera House divided into ‘monochrome’ and ‘polychrome’ sections, and they’d turned off all of the colour in the ‘monochrome’ sections, so that the newspaper photographers could set their cameras to optimise for their black-and- white afternoon editions.

Pic 1 in the ‘mono’ section, Pic 2 just over the boundary into the ‘poly’ section.

Not many people know that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTnGI6Knw5Q

Link

Bohemian Rhapsody Played by 100+ year old fairground organ

a beautiful organ but the music leaves a little to be desired.

captain_spalding said:

ChrispenEvan said:

I have never met anyone who was/is famous. Just thought you all should know that.

I baffled Prince Charles.

January, 1988, at Sydney Opera House. Bicentennial fol-de-rol, with Charles and Diana in attendance.

There was half-a-dozen WRANs (Womens’ Royal Australian Naval Service) people there. Their uniform, at that time (the loss of which i lament, as it was easily the best-looking female service (in fact, forget ‘female’, just the best of all) uniform in Australia) included a black shoulder-strap handbag.

They were called upon to fulfil some task, but it wasn’t one where they could take their handbags.

‘What will we do with our bags?’, they asked. ‘Give ‘em to me’, i said, ‘and i’ll find somewhere safe to stow them’. So, they gave me their bags, and i asked an Opera House person about where i could stash them.

I was directed ‘downstairs’, and went down to the area underneath the big steps at the back of the OH. It’s a driveway/tunnel arrangement, where cars can arrive and deposit people at the lower-level entrance.

I’d just got there, juggling several rather large handbags, when a large car pulls up, and there’s Prince Charles looking at me out of the window.

He was clearly puzzled, asking himself why this officer is standing around down here with six handbags in his arms. I could not salute without losing the handbags all over the paving, so i just had to retreat to the nominated storage area as fast as possible.

Then, i had to hie me back upstairs again, to attend to my own tasks.

Not too long after, Charles and Diana etc. approached the area where i was ‘posted’, and they stopped, maybe two arms-lengths away. Charles looked around, and there was every indication that he recognised me, and i’m sure he was itching to ask ‘what was all that with the handbags, down below?’.

But, then, they had to move on, and the chance was lost. So, if that counts as ‘meeting’ someone…

I didn’t actually meet Tammy Fraser while she was the first lady but I did tell her to fuck off and she immediately apologized . I was unloading the ambulance with her father on the stretcher, a rather large western district grazier, when she flew out from behind me and through herself on the stretcher. Needles to say my knees buckled under the extra weight and I told Tammy to fuck off. Realizing what she had done she immediately stood up

Funny to think that Dr KK is probably the most famous person I’ve met in real life.

Tell a lie, probably Harrison Schmitt is, though it was no more than an exchange of greetings.

dv said:

Funny to think that Dr KK is probably the most famous person I’ve met in real life.

Has the good Dr made an appearance here, after he was (recently) told about the Forum’s existence?

dv said:

Funny to think that Dr KK is probably the most famous person I’ve met in real life.

I got him to sign The Book Of Orange (Volume 2) when he was passing through on a book promo visit several years back…pointed out that Neddles and I would not be a twosome if not for him.

Bushfire a couple of klicks away..

Ian said:

Bushfire a couple of klicks away..

This.. not the plane

dv said:

Tell a lie, probably Harrison Schmitt is, though it was no more than an exchange of greetings.

Seems nutters come in all sorts.

Witty Rejoinder said:

dv said:

Tell a lie, probably Harrison Schmitt is, though it was no more than an exchange of greetings.

Seems nutters come in all sorts.

Sometimes it just takes gentle encouragement to get them out of their shell

Got multiple plane and helo now..

we met ourselves

roughbarked said:

ChrispenEvan said:

I have never met anyone who was/is famous. Just thought you all should know that.

You are not alone.

wait you met mija ¿ damn

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

Cymek said:

SCIENCE said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Evidence that whilst chimps may not have the intelligence of Jane Goodall, they can certainly match that of an executive director.

how good is it for decent scientists to have a sense of humour

Intelligence works well for a sense of humour.
Its why I’m so funny

twice exceptional

Ian said:

Bushfire a couple of klicks away..

Oooh!

Stay safe!

This thunderstorm has just passed. The hail (up to 5 cm – but mostly around 1 cm) has now almost all melted. It was quite intense for 20 minutes or so though.

Started a new medication last night.
Had a dream that Obama trotted down some rough steps on the side of a hill, wearing a tan suit, followed by SS Agents, and then he dived into the water swam down to a fat shark and punched it in the guts.

Michael V said:

Ian said:

Bushfire a couple of klicks away..

Oooh!

Stay safe!

Thanks, I will.

It’s only a piddling little fire and they half the big wing operating 😁

Very funky looking controller plane

Ian said:

Very funky looking controller plane

And finally.. the big gun

Went to the circus. A dude was on the Wheel of Death and all I’m thinking is, Yay physics!

This is a generic pic, not one I took today.

kii said:

Started a new medication last night.
Had a dream that Obama trotted down some rough steps on the side of a hill, wearing a tan suit, followed by SS Agents, and then he dived into the water swam down to a fat shark and punched it in the guts.

The fat shark representing Trump ?

Divine Angel said:

Went to the circus. A dude was on the Wheel of Death and all I’m thinking is, Yay physics!

This is a generic pic, not one I took today.

They have one with the guy releasing the bowling ball on a string at head level to demonstrate he’s safe, except instead of releasing it he pushes it

Ian said:

Very funky looking controller plane

Cessna Citation V (C560) became the latest aircraft to join the NSW RFS fleet in May 2021. The plane, to be operated by Coulson Aviation on behalf of the NSW RFS, will perform lead plane work for water-bombing aircraft, conduct line scanning and transport crews.

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First time I’ve seen this one up close.

Ian said:

Ian said:

Very funky looking controller plane

Cessna Citation V (C560) became the latest aircraft to join the NSW RFS fleet in May 2021. The plane, to be operated by Coulson Aviation on behalf of the NSW RFS, will perform lead plane work for water-bombing aircraft, conduct line scanning and transport crews.

—

First time I’ve seen this one up close.

They’re quite pleasant to fly. Not very fast but everything else works well.

Oooo

kii said:

Started a new medication last night.
Had a dream that Obama trotted down some rough steps on the side of a hill, wearing a tan suit, followed by SS Agents, and then he dived into the water swam down to a fat shark and punched it in the guts.

sounds like good drugs!

Cymek said:

kii said:

Started a new medication last night.
Had a dream that Obama trotted down some rough steps on the side of a hill, wearing a tan suit, followed by SS Agents, and then he dived into the water swam down to a fat shark and punched it in the guts.

The fat shark representing Trump ?

Trump’s terrified of sharks, remember/ He’d rather be electromocuted by the boat’s battery than face the shark.

Neophyte said:

Cymek said:

kii said:

Started a new medication last night.
Had a dream that Obama trotted down some rough steps on the side of a hill, wearing a tan suit, followed by SS Agents, and then he dived into the water swam down to a fat shark and punched it in the guts.

The fat shark representing Trump ?

Trump’s terrified of sharks, remember/ He’d rather be electromocuted by the boat’s battery than face the shark.

Yes, I’d forgotten about that.

At the redoubt, it’s quite warm, enjoying the gloaming.

Microlightning might provide long-sought explanation for will-o’-the-wisps

For centuries, people have described strange blue balls of light floating around in marshes, wetlands, and even cemeteries. It’s no surprise that these mysterious flames, termed “will-o’-the-wisps” or ignis fatuus, have spurred countless ghostly explanations, but even the more scientific theories were speculative in nature and lacked experimental support.

More…

Peak Warming Man said:

At the redoubt, it’s quite warm, enjoying the gloaming.

At home…it’s not Quite Warm here, by any stretch of the imagination. It seems it’s about 10 degrees, with an apparent temperature of about 4 degrees. We are inside, and the woodheater has been going since this morning. There has been rain and wind intermittently all day.

I’ve managed to do some cleaning of stuff in the kitchen that I’d been putting off.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Microlightning might provide long-sought explanation for will-o’-the-wisps

For centuries, people have described strange blue balls of light floating around in marshes, wetlands, and even cemeteries. It’s no surprise that these mysterious flames, termed “will-o’-the-wisps” or ignis fatuus, have spurred countless ghostly explanations, but even the more scientific theories were speculative in nature and lacked experimental support.

More…

I’ve never witnessed Microlightning and this is the first time I have heard of it.
A bit excited.
Still excited over the baby planet in its protodisk.
So doubles excited 😊

Spiny Norman said:

Ian said:

Ian said:

Very funky looking controller plane

Cessna Citation V (C560) became the latest aircraft to join the NSW RFS fleet in May 2021. The plane, to be operated by Coulson Aviation on behalf of the NSW RFS, will perform lead plane work for water-bombing aircraft, conduct line scanning and transport crews.

—

First time I’ve seen this one up close.

They’re quite pleasant to fly. Not very fast but everything else works well.

I reckon low, slow (and quiet) is desirable for fire control work….

you speed freak 😝

buffy said:

We are inside, and the woodheater has been going since this morning. There has been rain and wind intermittently all day.

We’re also inside, and the aircon has been going since this morning. It’s been sunny all day with a top of 31.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Microlightning might provide long-sought explanation for will-o’-the-wisps

For centuries, people have described strange blue balls of light floating around in marshes, wetlands, and even cemeteries. It’s no surprise that these mysterious flames, termed “will-o’-the-wisps” or ignis fatuus, have spurred countless ghostly explanations, but even the more scientific theories were speculative in nature and lacked experimental support.

More…

I guess static qualifies as microlightning, but this is a bit different.

I’ve got the Merrie Melodies cartoon theme stuck in my head.

Divine Angel said:

buffy said:

We are inside, and the woodheater has been going since this morning. There has been rain and wind intermittently all day.

We’re also inside, and the aircon has been going since this morning. It’s been sunny all day with a top of 31.

How was the circus?

Been chilly and wet all day here, most of which I’ve spent sleeping since my hours are haywire again.

We’ve been downgraded..

The area to the south of us including an old quarry on a big hill hasn’t burnt for a long time.. fire is probly a good thing..

Divine Angel said:

Went to the circus. A dude was on the Wheel of Death and all I’m thinking is, Yay physics!

This is a generic pic, not one I took today.

Looks a bit scary.

Were there clown sightings?

Bubblecar said:

Divine Angel said:

buffy said:

We are inside, and the woodheater has been going since this morning. There has been rain and wind intermittently all day.

We’re also inside, and the aircon has been going since this morning. It’s been sunny all day with a top of 31.

How was the circus?

Not as hot under the big top as I expected.

The first act was the family who own it. The dad (in his thirties) cracked some whips and their two young kids had a go as well. Clowns, jugglers, etc. Act 1 finished with a dude swinging high enough to touch the sides of the big top before “falling” into the rope he was swinging from. Pretty sure I stopped breathing a few times during his performance.

Act 2 opened with the wheel of death which was awesome. The dude on that was the owner again. More clowns, jugglers, fire, silk gymnastics etc, and finished with motorbikes inside a globe. One of the riders was just 14 years old (also a clown and a juggler).

Ian said:

We’ve been downgraded..

The area to the south of us including an old quarry on a big hill hasn’t burnt for a long time.. fire is probly a good thing..

Well that must be welcome.

>Watch and Act

So you’re there observing it there while declaiming:

Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Divine Angel said:

Bubblecar said:

Divine Angel said:

We’re also inside, and the aircon has been going since this morning. It’s been sunny all day with a top of 31.

How was the circus?

Not as hot under the big top as I expected.

The first act was the family who own it. The dad (in his thirties) cracked some whips and their two young kids had a go as well. Clowns, jugglers, etc. Act 1 finished with a dude swinging high enough to touch the sides of the big top before “falling” into the rope he was swinging from. Pretty sure I stopped breathing a few times during his performance.

Act 2 opened with the wheel of death which was awesome. The dude on that was the owner again. More clowns, jugglers, fire, silk gymnastics etc, and finished with motorbikes inside a globe. One of the riders was just 14 years old (also a clown and a juggler).

Sounds a decent variety.

Divine Angel said:

Bubblecar said:

Divine Angel said:

We’re also inside, and the aircon has been going since this morning. It’s been sunny all day with a top of 31.

How was the circus?

Not as hot under the big top as I expected.

The first act was the family who own it. The dad (in his thirties) cracked some whips and their two young kids had a go as well. Clowns, jugglers, etc. Act 1 finished with a dude swinging high enough to touch the sides of the big top before “falling” into the rope he was swinging from. Pretty sure I stopped breathing a few times during his performance.

Act 2 opened with the wheel of death which was awesome. The dude on that was the owner again. More clowns, jugglers, fire, silk gymnastics etc, and finished with motorbikes inside a globe. One of the riders was just 14 years old (also a clown and a juggler).

did they have any animals?

Gone home now.

Arts said:

Divine Angel said:

Bubblecar said:

How was the circus?

Not as hot under the big top as I expected.

The first act was the family who own it. The dad (in his thirties) cracked some whips and their two young kids had a go as well. Clowns, jugglers, etc. Act 1 finished with a dude swinging high enough to touch the sides of the big top before “falling” into the rope he was swinging from. Pretty sure I stopped breathing a few times during his performance.

Act 2 opened with the wheel of death which was awesome. The dude on that was the owner again. More clowns, jugglers, fire, silk gymnastics etc, and finished with motorbikes inside a globe. One of the riders was just 14 years old (also a clown and a juggler).

did they have any animals?

No

Ian said:

Gone home now.

Well that’s a bit of excitement for your afternoon. Hopefully it stays under control now.

Divine Angel said:

Arts said:

Divine Angel said:

Not as hot under the big top as I expected.

The first act was the family who own it. The dad (in his thirties) cracked some whips and their two young kids had a go as well. Clowns, jugglers, etc. Act 1 finished with a dude swinging high enough to touch the sides of the big top before “falling” into the rope he was swinging from. Pretty sure I stopped breathing a few times during his performance.

Act 2 opened with the wheel of death which was awesome. The dude on that was the owner again. More clowns, jugglers, fire, silk gymnastics etc, and finished with motorbikes inside a globe. One of the riders was just 14 years old (also a clown and a juggler).

did they have any animals?

No

good

Ian said:

Gone home now.

That’s the way, put it out with blood.

Arts said:

Divine Angel said:

Arts said:

did they have any animals?

No

good

They could put one of the kids in a monkey suit.

apparently the ability to roll your tongue isnt down to just one gene… or maybe not even any.. or maybe just genes that express themselves in different ways with different abilities.. but in any case, if you can roll your tongue, but your parents can’t, they are probably still your parents…

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/genetic-myth-textbooks-get-wrong

Arts said:

apparently the ability to roll your tongue isnt down to just one gene… or maybe not even any.. or maybe just genes that express themselves in different ways with different abilities.. but in any case, if you can roll your tongue, but your parents can’t, they are probably still your parents…

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/genetic-myth-textbooks-get-wrong

I read that the other day. Mini Me and I can roll our tongues, but Mr Mutant can’t.

dinner will be.

Arts said:

Divine Angel said:

Bubblecar said:

How was the circus?

Not as hot under the big top as I expected.

The first act was the family who own it. The dad (in his thirties) cracked some whips and their two young kids had a go as well. Clowns, jugglers, etc. Act 1 finished with a dude swinging high enough to touch the sides of the big top before “falling” into the rope he was swinging from. Pretty sure I stopped breathing a few times during his performance.

Act 2 opened with the wheel of death which was awesome. The dude on that was the owner again. More clowns, jugglers, fire, silk gymnastics etc, and finished with motorbikes inside a globe. One of the riders was just 14 years old (also a clown and a juggler).

did they have any animals?

I was going to ask that. I saw the Great Moscow Circus over 20 years ago.. they still had some good horse acts in the show. The same Wheel of Death was brilliant.

the dude doing the motorbike globe and swinging on the thing to touch the sides is originally from the Moscow Circus.

Bubblecar said:

Ian said:

We’ve been downgraded..

The area to the south of us including an old quarry on a big hill hasn’t burnt for a long time.. fire is probly a good thing..

Well that must be welcome.

>Watch and Act

So you’re there observing it there while declaiming:

Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Watching.. taking photos. Acting.. drinking beer.

No declaiming.

:)

i’ll make coffee

transition said:

i’ll make coffee

That’s a might bold assertion, given that none of us can say for certain what even the next few minutes of our futures might hold.

captain_spalding said:

transition said:

i’ll make coffee

That’s a might bold assertion, given that none of us can say for certain what even the next few minutes of our futures might hold.

I’m extremely tempted to indulge in ThNDC but since I’m responsible for someone else’s child, I shall refrain.

Arts said:

apparently the ability to roll your tongue isnt down to just one gene… or maybe not even any.. or maybe just genes that express themselves in different ways with different abilities.. but in any case, if you can roll your tongue, but your parents can’t, they are probably still your parents…

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/genetic-myth-textbooks-get-wrong

My paternal gma could roll her tongue and make hooting sounds with it, so when my father found that I could roll my tongue he encouraged me to make hooting sounds.
Always entertaining.

Countries with MORE HOMICIDES in the WORLD

1990-2021 animated graphic 5 min

I see death cap is launching an appeal, kind of a waste of time and tax payers money.

Tau.Neutrino said:

I see death cap is launching an appeal, kind of a waste of time and tax payers money.

Everyone’s entitled to an appeal.

Divine Angel said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

I see death cap is launching an appeal, kind of a waste of time and tax payers money.

Everyone’s entitled to an appeal.

How’s that?

Tau.Neutrino said:

I see death cap is launching an appeal, kind of a waste of time and tax payers money.

Isn’t she paying for it herself?

party_pants said:

Divine Angel said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

I see death cap is launching an appeal, kind of a waste of time and tax payers money.

Everyone’s entitled to an appeal.

How’s that?

Hmm, google is giving me conflicting information. Some sites say there’s no automatic right to appeal whereas others say one has the right to appeal within a certain number of days.

The common thread is that you can only appeal if you can prove there’s been a legal error.

party_pants said:

Divine Angel said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

I see death cap is launching an appeal, kind of a waste of time and tax payers money.

Everyone’s entitled to an appeal.

How’s that?

Everyone’s entitled to apply to appeal, but it’s up to the courts to decide whether there are sufficient grounds for an appeal to be heard.

Anyway I thought there was an automatic right for appeal.

Divine Angel said:

party_pants said:

Divine Angel said:

Everyone’s entitled to an appeal.

How’s that?

Hmm, google is giving me conflicting information. Some sites say there’s no automatic right to appeal whereas others say one has the right to appeal within a certain number of days.

The common thread is that you can only appeal if you can prove there’s been a legal error.

The certain number of days has been extended. By law just recently

Patterson is using legal aid for this appeal and has an another barrister

You can appeal anything to do with the judicial and or legal process. I’m interested in the take they use for this one.

Arts said:

Divine Angel said:

party_pants said:

How’s that?

Hmm, google is giving me conflicting information. Some sites say there’s no automatic right to appeal whereas others say one has the right to appeal within a certain number of days.

The common thread is that you can only appeal if you can prove there’s been a legal error.

The certain number of days has been extended. By law just recently

Patterson is using legal aid for this appeal and has an another barrister

You can appeal anything to do with the judicial and or legal process. I’m interested in the take they use for this one.

You can ask the court to hear an appeal, but the court can say “Nah”.

Bubblecar said:

Arts said:

Divine Angel said:

Hmm, google is giving me conflicting information. Some sites say there’s no automatic right to appeal whereas others say one has the right to appeal within a certain number of days.

The common thread is that you can only appeal if you can prove there’s been a legal error.

The certain number of days has been extended. By law just recently

Patterson is using legal aid for this appeal and has an another barrister

You can appeal anything to do with the judicial and or legal process. I’m interested in the take they use for this one.

You can ask the court to hear an appeal, but the court can say “Nah”.

The court needs to listen to the grounds of the appeal first.

it was just another one of my obscure cricket jokes…

:)

Bubblecar said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

I see death cap is launching an appeal, kind of a waste of time and tax payers money.

Isn’t she paying for it herself?

Her assests have been frozen so she is turning to Legal aid,

Divine Angel said:

I’m extremely tempted to indulge in ThNDC but since I’m responsible for someone else’s child, I shall refrain.

I’m enjoying a glass of Fever-Tree Mediterranean tonic water, with no gin in it.

Bubblecar said:

Divine Angel said:

I’m extremely tempted to indulge in ThNDC but since I’m responsible for someone else’s child, I shall refrain.

I’m enjoying a glass of Fever-Tree Mediterranean tonic water, with no gin in it.

How’s ya malaria goin’?

Divine Angel said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

I see death cap is launching an appeal, kind of a waste of time and tax payers money.

Everyone’s entitled to an appeal.

Particularly if it’s a banana.

Witty Rejoinder said:

Bubblecar said:

Divine Angel said:

I’m extremely tempted to indulge in ThNDC but since I’m responsible for someone else’s child, I shall refrain.

I’m enjoying a glass of Fever-Tree Mediterranean tonic water, with no gin in it.

How’s ya malaria goin’?

It’s only medicinal when it has gin in it.

Tau.Neutrino said:

I see death cap is launching an appeal, kind of a waste of time and tax payers money.

How about we offer her double or nothing?

She wins her appeal: she gets out.

She loses her appeal: sentence gets doubled.

Or she’s on bread and water Mon – Fri, for the whole of her sentence.

Something like that.

captain_spalding said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

I see death cap is launching an appeal, kind of a waste of time and tax payers money.

How about we offer her double or nothing?

She wins her appeal: she gets out.

She loses her appeal: sentence gets doubled.

Or she’s on bread and water Mon – Fri, for the whole of her sentence.

Something like that.

I don’t think it works like that.

party_pants said:

captain_spalding said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

I see death cap is launching an appeal, kind of a waste of time and tax payers money.

How about we offer her double or nothing?

She wins her appeal: she gets out.

She loses her appeal: sentence gets doubled.

Or she’s on bread and water Mon – Fri, for the whole of her sentence.

Something like that.

I don’t think it works like that.

No.

But, maybe it could work like that.

captain_spalding said:

party_pants said:

captain_spalding said:

How about we offer her double or nothing?

She wins her appeal: she gets out.

She loses her appeal: sentence gets doubled.

Or she’s on bread and water Mon – Fri, for the whole of her sentence.

Something like that.

I don’t think it works like that.

No.

But, maybe it could work like that.

I don’t trust juries.

I think the system should always be tipped in favour of preventing an innocent person being wrongly convicted having a decent chance to appeal. Better for two guilty men to go free rather than one innocent man convicted… and all that.

Just read a New Scientist article about narcissism and the associated symptoms.

Guess who it made me think of.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Just read a New Scientist article about narcissism and the associated symptoms.

Guess who it made me think of.

Was it someone here?

The Rev Dodgson said:

Just read a New Scientist article about narcissism and the associated symptoms.

Guess who it made me think of.

We need a clue, Trump, Musk, Morrison……….

party_pants said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Just read a New Scientist article about narcissism and the associated symptoms.

Guess who it made me think of.

Was it someone here?

No, an American person of much greater fame.

Someone bringing peace between far distant nations across the world, and returning the USofA to its former greatness.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Just read a New Scientist article about narcissism and the associated symptoms.

Guess who it made me think of.

Yourself, you self-obsessed narcissist, you?

The Rev Dodgson said:

party_pants said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Just read a New Scientist article about narcissism and the associated symptoms.

Guess who it made me think of.

Was it someone here?

No, an American person of much greater fame.

Someone bringing peace between far distant nations across the world, and returning the USofA to its former greatness.

nup, can’t think who

A cooler top of 26 today, sunshine all the way 😎

I have a webinar this morning which counts towards my PD hours. I can hear Mini Me and her friend talking, thankfully they didn’t wake up too early.

Morning. Max of 15 but only a medium chance of showers today, so I may venture to the shops.

Apart from that there’s housework and music practice. Hopefully the mandolin strings will turn up today so I can replace the broken string.

But right now, a cup of tea.

Hey Rev, would you mind posting that narcissism article you read please?

Divine Angel said:

Hey Rev, would you mind posting that narcissism article you read please?

I’m tempted to say that I have more important things to do, but it seems that I don’t.

Looking back, the signs were obvious: an extreme need for control, a pathological tendency to exaggerate and an almost comical sense of superiority.

My family member claimed to know more than everyone about everything, no matter the topic. He claimed to have the makings of a world-class teacher, doctor, writer or athlete, while also boasting about his modesty. Any disagreement would result in shouty rants or violent outbursts.

Family friends could barely believe it when I told them. “When he meets us, he acts like charm personified,” is how one put it. These were all classic traits of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), a condition characterised by a disregard for the feelings of others combined with an extreme sense of self-importance, often manifesting in interpersonal abuse. At the time, however, I had no way to make sense of this family member’s behaviour – this was before the conversation around narcissism had reached its current level of social saturation.

“We really didn’t have the language in the mainstream – it wasn’t on the radar like it is now,” says Sarah Davies, a clinical psychologist and author of Raised by Narcissists and How to Leave a Narcissist… For Good. “I remember Googling the search term ‘narcissistic abuse’ and coming up with just seven results.”

The profusion of interest in NPD has raised awareness and given people who have experienced narcissistic abuse a vocabulary to talk about it. But it has also been accompanied by the spread of misinformation, which may prevent those with the condition and the people they hurt from getting the support they need.

In love with oneself
Humanity’s interest in excessive self-admiration has been evident since the Roman poet Ovid popularised the mythological Narcissus, who was cursed by the gods to fall in love with his own reflection. In the late 19th century, the term “narcissistic” was initially applied to cases of excessive masturbation. By the mid-1920s, the term came to describe a more general personality disorder, but it would take another 50 years for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) to include NPD.

Narcissism is considered one side of the “dark triad”, a trio of personality traits that can drive callous and cruel behaviour

NPD, according to its DSM definition, is characterised by grandiosity, a desperate need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others. People with the condition frequently overestimate their abilities and inflate their accomplishments. The bloated ego comes with a sense of entitlement, a need for praise and constant attention, and a feeling of alienation – in the narcissist’s view, it would be impossible for other mortals to recognise the problems that come with being so extraordinary. Narcissists are also often preoccupied with envy, either being very envious of other people or convinced that other people are envious of them. Finally – and perhaps most damagingly – many of them manipulate and exploit others, with little regard for the hurt they cause. The consequences can be emotional and physical abuse.

“Not every narcissist is abusive,” says Davies, while also noting that recognising narcissistic abuse can be challenging – narcissists may be very skilled in manipulation and gaslighting. Narcissism is also considered one side of the “dark triad”, a trio of personality traits that can drive callous and cruel behaviour. Psychopathy, characterised by impulsivity and a lack of empathy, and Machiavellianism, marked by manipulative and sometimes amoral attitudes, make up the other sides.

Psychologists often use a self-reported questionnaire called the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) to measure narcissistic traits in the general population. A formal diagnosis of NPD typically involves an in-depth conversation with a health practitioner. However, someone with a problematic sense of superiority may reject the very idea that they need treatment, making them unlikely to seek help for a problem they don’t believe they have. “A true narcissist will believe that any issues are somebody else’s fault,” says Davies.

This can make it hard to estimate the total number of people living with NPD, and studies of the general population have provided mixed results. The National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions offers the largest sample. Between 2001 and 2002, researchers conducted face-to-face interviews with 34,653 US residents. They identified 2148 people with NPD, giving an estimated prevalence of 6.2 per cent. Other, smaller surveys have tended to find lower rates, meanwhile, with an average prevalence of 1 per cent across the various studies.

The precise figure may be a moot point, however, since most psychologists would agree that NPD represents the extreme end of a behavioural spectrum that exists in everyone. “To some extent and in certain contexts, these traits can even be adaptive,” says Emmi Koskinen at the University of Helsinki in Finland. In moderation, a belief in oneself can motivate us to achieve great things, and there is nothing wrong with being assertive about our needs and wants. “However, when become more pronounced, they tend to lead to interpersonal difficulties and negative consequences for both the individual and those around them,” says Koskinen.

Though the definition of NPD in the DSM cites a lack of empathy as intrinsic to the condition, researchers point out that the relationship between empathy and narcissism is complex. For example, one 2023 analysis of several studies found that while affective empathy – feeling what others are feeling – was impaired in people with NPD, cognitive empathy, or knowing what others are feeling, was not. The implication is that people with narcissism might be aware of others’ feelings – they just might use that information for their own self-serving ends, or they don’t care.

This lack of concern for other people’s emotions is in stark contrast to their preoccupation with their own feelings. Narcissists are often easily offended. In 2015, for instance, Christopher Cascio at the University of Wisconsin and his colleagues asked people to play a computer game in which three players pass a ball to each other. Unbeknownst to the participants, the other two players were controlled by the computer – and they slowly began to ignore the human. In most people, the resulting feelings of social exclusion led to heightened activity in areas of the brain known to process distress, including the anterior insula, and the extent of that activity seemed to correlate with their scores on the NPI. The more narcissistic they were, the more distress they felt.

Such findings have led researchers to speculate that narcissism arises from a heightened concern about social evaluation, with the self-aggrandising behaviour serving as a defence against a bruised ego.

Along these lines, Koskinen and her colleagues recently asked participants to take the NPI before splitting them into pairs to talk about life’s highs and lows, such as times they felt admired or ashamed. Meanwhile, electrodes on their fingers measured how much they were sweating, an indication of how much stress they felt. The higher a person scored on the NPI self-evaluation, the more they perspired during the more intimate parts of the conversation. They cared so much about impressing the other person that it was seriously stressing them out.

This heightened attention to others’ reactions was evident in a series of studies, also published earlier this year, that examined narcissists’ perceptions of ostracism. In one experiment, Christiane Büttner at the University of Basel, Switzerland, asked online volunteers to consider a series of fictitious scenarios exploring perceptions of social exclusion. People scoring higher on a questionnaire measuring narcissism were significantly more likely to read situations as intentionally exclusionary, compared with participants with lower levels of the trait.

“Any perceived threat to their status or recognition is deeply aversive”

“Any perceived threat to their status or recognition is deeply aversive,” says Büttner. This bias was evident in people’s reflections on their lives when participants were asked to keep track of their social interactions each day for two weeks. The more-narcissistic participants reported experiencing greater social ostracism in their daily exchanges – when asked to recall how many times they had been excluded over the past 14 days, they overestimated the number of incidents they had recorded. This suggests that their memory is biased towards feelings of exclusion.

You might think that being excluded would decrease someone’s delusions of grandeur, yet a further study suggested that the opposite is true. Analysing data from a 14-year study, Büttner found that people’s sense of being ostracised could predict a rise in their narcissistic traits over the following 12 months. She speculates that feeling socially excluded “triggers self-enhancing defences” to protect them from the pain.

The problem is that, thanks to their antisocial behaviours, people who already display narcissistic traits to begin with are also more likely to be ostracised. The result may be a self-perpetuating cycle. “If exclusion is repeated or chronic, individuals might begin to compensate by inflating their self-image, becoming more self-focused, or engaging in more attention-seeking or antagonistic behaviours,” says Büttner.

Shrinking the narcissistic gender gap
While the DSM doesn’t differentiate between different flavours of narcissism, many psychologists argue that it can be separated into at least two subtypes, depending on the way it manifests. Grandiose, or overt, narcissists seem more outwardly confident and are more likely to boast and brag. Vulnerable, or covert, narcissists appear more introverted. They secretly see themselves as special, but they are less likely to show off and may instead seek reassurance from others.

“Vulnerable narcissists are more softly spoken, more shy, more brittle, appear to have lower self-esteem, so that you would never initially consider this person as being very narcissistic,” says Ava Green, a forensic psychologist at City St George’s, University of London. “But once you get to know them, you see beneath that facade of vulnerability there are these underlying traits: expectations of entitlement to special treatment, fantasies about themselves, and the exploitation of other people.”

Similarly, a grandiose narcissist may seem more outwardly confident, says Green, “but they are constantly yearning for other people’s attention to boost or regulate their own self-esteem, so there’s always an underlying vulnerability”. At their core, she says, they are the same – vulnerable narcissists may have escaped our attention in the past, she says, but “we shouldn’t underestimate the amount of harm they can do other people”.

“The type of abuse doesn’t differ between the grandiose and vulnerable subtypes, it just depends on individual circumstances,” says Green. The DSM assessment places far more emphasis on the type of behaviour seen with grandiose narcissism than with vulnerable narcissism. This might be a bigger blind spot than it first seems: grandiose expressions of the behaviour are more commonly seen in men, whereas women might be more likely to exhibit vulnerable features. This may explain why up to 75 per cent of people diagnosed with NPD are men. Green and her colleagues found that this apparent gender gap shrinks when you consider the subtypes – women score more highly than men on vulnerable narcissism.

“It isn’t the fact that narcissism is a gender-specific trait,” says Green. “Women exhibit these features too, but in a way that’s not captured by the grandiose assessments.” She points out that the different subtypes often align with cultural gender norms for men and women. It may seem more socially acceptable for a man to ebulliently boast about his skills and abilities, for instance, whereas a woman is expected to act more passively in public.

Social media narcissists in the selfie era
Much of the recent conversation around narcissism has taken place online – fitting, because narcissism is now often most visible on social media platforms. Large studies have shown that narcissism scores can predict how often people share material with others, although it is still unclear whether this is limited to grandiose types.

Some experts have even claimed that social media may be driving up the incidence of narcissism, though the evidence supporting this is scant. “I’m not saying it’s impossible, but I don’t think we have a lot of good data yet,” says René Mõttus, who researches personality at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Social media may not be changing the prevalence of NPD, but it has certainly helped to raise awareness of the condition and the damage that it can wreak on our relationships. Therapist Ramani Durvasula, for instance, hosts the popular Navigating Narcissism podcast; she has more than three-quarters of a million followers on Instagram. Lee Hammock, meanwhile, is a recovering narcissist with more than half a million Instagram followers who has undergone years of therapy to overcome his solipsistic tendencies. At the time of writing, more than 1 million Instagram posts have been tagged with #narcissism.

The quality of the online discourse can be mixed. “Increased awareness and discussion is really helpful, but the information is not always clinically reliable,” says Davies. The term narcissism is now being used to describe any emotionally immature behaviour, she says, which may lead people to misdiagnose the underlying problems they are facing. “We’ve got to be a bit more careful about these sweeping generalisations.”

Davies is particularly worried about the number of unqualified influencers dishing out advice. “All sorts of people are sharing their experiences and, worryingly, offering services to help others heal from narcissistic abuse, even though they have not been trained to do so,” she says. “It’s quite ironic, because that is actually quite a narcissistic thing to do.”

If you are or have been the victim of narcissistic abuse, Davies recommends looking for authoritative sources, such as the UK charity See Through NPD, and seeking support from trained professionals. “Therapy can really help you to make sense of what you’ve been through,” she says. (If you are in the US, the National Domestic Violence Hotline can help.)

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Though narcissists have a reputation for being very difficult to treat or change, some case studies suggest that they can respond to talking therapy. In 2024, for instance, a team led by Igor Weinberg at Harvard Medical School published a paper on eight patients who underwent treatments such as psychodynamic therapy, which helps people to explore the effects of early childhood experiences, or dialectical behaviour therapy, which helps people to manage difficult emotions. After up to five years, the patients no longer met the clinical diagnosis of NPD, and many reported positive life changes, such as gaining employment or getting married.

Some leopards, it seems, can change their spots – but it remains to be seen how common this is. The individual needs to acknowledge their faults, after all, which won’t come easily to someone who doesn’t believe they have any. As I found after decades of interactions with my family member, there is often no reasoning with a narcissist. In their eyes, they can do no wrong, and we are simply better off without them in our lives.

David Robson is the author of The Laws of Connection: 13 social strategies that will transform your life (Canongate).

Thank you Rev.

drank that coffee all by myself, unassisted

well done me, figjam

I could read some news, you stay there

that last sentence is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read.

Morning pilgrims, glorious day at the redoubt.

Divine Angel said:

Hey Rev, would you mind posting that narcissism article you read please?

you might read this, if interested in variously psychopathy, moderate also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacognition

Peak Warming Man said:

Morning pilgrims, glorious day at the redoubt.

looks like a nice day here too

sharpen a chainsaw chain later, get to the bigger hard wood I brought back

but lot of ‘paperwork’ also, and whippering, grass continues to grow

Good morning Holidayers. Presently 8 degrees at the back door, with misty rain. We are forecast 18 degrees with a shower or two.

I will be forced to be rather inactive today as my knee is still refusing to comply with instructions. So lying about and reading might just have to be the order of the day.

And in other news yesterday Google’s Gemini AI told me that an actor height was 6’1 or 180cm. They had a great little company for a while there.

Witty Rejoinder said:

And in other news yesterday Google’s Gemini AI told me that an actor height was 6’1 or 180cm. They had a great little company for a while there.

Obviously, the thing is still an infant.

I got the sport ones wrong 8/10

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-03/abc-weekly-news-quiz-october-3/105843780

Divine Angel said:

I got the sport ones wrong 8/10

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-03/abc-weekly-news-quiz-october-3/105843780

Got one sport lucky guess because the name has been heard on the news a lot this year? Didn’t get the other one but I had no idea about the fat bear. So 8/10.

Divine Angel said:

I got the sport ones wrong 8/10

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-03/abc-weekly-news-quiz-october-3/105843780

7/10. Four guesses, one of which was correct. Two sport questions and the robot were wrong guesses, the bear one landed.

They say it is going to get to 22 degrees but it hasn’t got to 14 yet.

roughbarked said:

Divine Angel said:

I got the sport ones wrong 8/10

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-03/abc-weekly-news-quiz-october-3/105843780

Got one sport lucky guess because the name has been heard on the news a lot this year? Didn’t get the other one but I had no idea about the fat bear. So 8/10.

I specifically remembered the name of fat bear because I thought it would be in the news quiz today.

Divine Angel said:

roughbarked said:

Divine Angel said:

I got the sport ones wrong 8/10

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-03/abc-weekly-news-quiz-october-3/105843780

Got one sport lucky guess because the name has been heard on the news a lot this year? Didn’t get the other one but I had no idea about the fat bear. So 8/10.

I specifically remembered the name of fat bear because I thought it would be in the news quiz today.

It is supposed to be a trivia quiz. So I probably should take note of all trivia?

Cloud pics

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I like the sound of a wool and cotton mix fabric

buffy said:

I like the sound of a wool and cotton mix fabric

Me too.

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

I like the sound of a wool and cotton mix fabric

Me too.

Well wool and cotton are woody words, but mix is a tinny word, so I just don’t know.

roughbarked said:

Divine Angel said:

roughbarked said:

Got one sport lucky guess because the name has been heard on the news a lot this year? Didn’t get the other one but I had no idea about the fat bear. So 8/10.

I specifically remembered the name of fat bear because I thought it would be in the news quiz today.

It is supposed to be a trivia quiz. So I probably should take note of all trivia?

My mum doesn’t call me the queen of useless trivia for nuthin, you know. Like how Buckingham Palace has 78 bathrooms.

The Rev Dodgson said:

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

I like the sound of a wool and cotton mix fabric

Me too.

Well wool and cotton are woody words, but mix is a tinny word, so I just don’t know.

Blend was the word used in the article.

Divine Angel said:

roughbarked said:

Divine Angel said:

I specifically remembered the name of fat bear because I thought it would be in the news quiz today.

It is supposed to be a trivia quiz. So I probably should take note of all trivia?

My mum doesn’t call me the queen of useless trivia for nuthin, you know. Like how Buckingham Palace has 78 bathrooms.

So how many holes does it take to fill Albert Hall?

buffy said:

I like the sound of a wool and cotton mix fabric

Yes, sounds promising too.

Greetings

Cymek said:

Greetings

Happy Friday

I just phoned my optometrist; before the call is answered there’s a brief message asking that callers be respectful and polite with their interlocutor.

What kind of society have we become when this kind of message is required?

roughbarked said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

roughbarked said:

Me too.

Well wool and cotton are woody words, but mix is a tinny word, so I just don’t know.

Blend was the word used in the article.

Much woodier :)

btm said:

I just phoned my optometrist; before the call is answered there’s a brief message asking that callers be respectful and polite with their interlocutor.

What kind of society have we become when this kind of message is required?

Especially in that situation, its not hospital emergency

btm said:

I just phoned my optometrist; before the call is answered there’s a brief message asking that callers be respectful and polite with their interlocutor.

What kind of society have we become when this kind of message is required?

Not everybody is polite.

NSW Police operation unfolding in Panania, south-west Sydney. Wollongbar Avenue in Panania.

Looks like they are surrounding a house with a possible fugitive?

btm said:

I just phoned my optometrist; before the call is answered there’s a brief message asking that callers be respectful and polite with their interlocutor.

What kind of society have we become when this kind of message is required?

because people are dicks to others, especially when they think they can get away with it.. or sometimes they are just having a bad day… or sometimes they are just dicks.

roughbarked said:

NSW Police operation unfolding in Panania, south-west Sydney. Wollongbar Avenue in Panania.

Looks like they are surrounding a house with a possible fugitive?

Desi? I was just thinking yesterday we havent heard much about him..

Arts said:

roughbarked said:

NSW Police operation unfolding in Panania, south-west Sydney. Wollongbar Avenue in Panania.

Looks like they are surrounding a house with a possible fugitive?

Desi? I was just thinking yesterday we havent heard much about him..

That thought did cross my mind as well.

roughbarked said:

Arts said:

roughbarked said:

NSW Police operation unfolding in Panania, south-west Sydney. Wollongbar Avenue in Panania.

Looks like they are surrounding a house with a possible fugitive?

Desi? I was just thinking yesterday we havent heard much about him..

That thought did cross my mind as well.

Update: Police sources have told the ABC a member of the public reported seeing four people, one of which appeared to be carrying a gun, enter a home on the street earlier this morning.

It was understood the four persons of interest have likely left the home, but officers believe there may still be someone left inside the residence.

roughbarked said:

NSW Police operation unfolding in Panania, south-west Sydney. Wollongbar Avenue in Panania.

Looks like they are surrounding a house with a possible fugitive?

Surely Dezi didn’t make it all the way up there.

Bubblecar said:

roughbarked said:

NSW Police operation unfolding in Panania, south-west Sydney. Wollongbar Avenue in Panania.

Looks like they are surrounding a house with a possible fugitive?

Surely Dezi didn’t make it all the way up there.

The Bingbot says:

The police operation in Panania, Sydney, is a significant event that has drawn public attention. The operation is ongoing, and the public is urged to avoid the area. Tactical police officers and armed personnel are present, and the operation is being led by specialist police and officers from the Bankstown Area Command. The situation remains fluid, and updates are being provided as more details emerge. The police operation is a response to a reported incident involving a man seen with a gun on a Sydney suburban street. The public is advised to stay away or remain indoors to ensure their safety during this operation.

I am sick today.. to state my truth I started feeling sick on Wednesday, but I went to work yesterday anyway, but it all started going downhill after lunch.. and last night was rough, even though I forced myself to stay up and do some writing (trying to do a Q Sort). This morning I unleashed a litany of sneezes (unusual for me) and my chest is heavy and lots of coughing… so I guess that means I am coming down with something… hopefully this wont last long, and I can still do sporadic amounts of work – even though I spent the last hour reading reddit. So the plan is working out a treat so far.

Arts said:

I am sick today.. to state my truth I started feeling sick on Wednesday, but I went to work yesterday anyway, but it all started going downhill after lunch.. and last night was rough, even though I forced myself to stay up and do some writing (trying to do a Q Sort). This morning I unleashed a litany of sneezes (unusual for me) and my chest is heavy and lots of coughing… so I guess that means I am coming down with something… hopefully this wont last long, and I can still do sporadic amounts of work – even though I spent the last hour reading reddit. So the plan is working out a treat so far.

Did you take a RATs?

Microsoft are upping the subscription of the software formally known as Office by 30%.

A bit much, but not much we can do about it.

Cymek said:

Greetings

Belated good mornings.

Arts said:

I am sick today.. to state my truth I started feeling sick on Wednesday, but I went to work yesterday anyway, but it all started going downhill after lunch.. and last night was rough, even though I forced myself to stay up and do some writing (trying to do a Q Sort). This morning I unleashed a litany of sneezes (unusual for me) and my chest is heavy and lots of coughing… so I guess that means I am coming down with something… hopefully this wont last long, and I can still do sporadic amounts of work – even though I spent the last hour reading reddit. So the plan is working out a treat so far.

Damn. That’s what comes of mixing with other humans.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Microsoft are upping the subscription of the software formally known as Office by 30%.

A bit much, but not much we can do about it.

Or you could switch to Open Office.

Bubblecar said:

Arts said:

I am sick today.. to state my truth I started feeling sick on Wednesday, but I went to work yesterday anyway, but it all started going downhill after lunch.. and last night was rough, even though I forced myself to stay up and do some writing (trying to do a Q Sort). This morning I unleashed a litany of sneezes (unusual for me) and my chest is heavy and lots of coughing… so I guess that means I am coming down with something… hopefully this wont last long, and I can still do sporadic amounts of work – even though I spent the last hour reading reddit. So the plan is working out a treat so far.

Damn. That’s what comes of mixing with other humans.

Mr arts bought it home.. he mixes with other humans…

btm said:

I just phoned my optometrist; before the call is answered there’s a brief message asking that callers be respectful and polite with their interlocutor.

What kind of society have we become when this kind of message is required?

In NM and Texas I often saw notices in reception areas of medical offices asking people to be respectful of the staff.

Our friends have left for Brisbane via the bus, after visiting for the last ten days or so. We had a lovely time. Roger cooked some fantastic Sri Lankan curries while they were here. Last night I cooked “Golden Beef”. That name comes from a meal I ordered at a Chinese restaurant in Brisbane. I replicated the meal, which everybody thought was the standout meal that night.

Michael V said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Microsoft are upping the subscription of the software formally known as Office by 30%.

A bit much, but not much we can do about it.

Or you could switch to Open Office.

Not unless I want to dump my last 30 years work and start from scratch.

Oh good, I’ve been waiting for MV to reappear so I can post this

Michael V said:

Our friends have left for Brisbane via the bus, after visiting for the last ten days or so. We had a lovely time. Roger cooked some fantastic Sri Lankan curries while they were here. Last night I cooked “Golden Beef”. That name comes from a meal I ordered at a Chinese restaurant in Brisbane. I replicated the meal, which everybody thought was the standout meal that night.

Well, don’t keep me in suspense.

Recipe, please!

The Rev Dodgson said:

Michael V said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Microsoft are upping the subscription of the software formally known as Office by 30%.

A bit much, but not much we can do about it.

Or you could switch to Open Office.

Not unless I want to dump my last 30 years work and start from scratch.

Well, the Open Office spreadsheet looks and behaves like Excel. It can read Excel documents and save as Excel documents in both the *.xls and *.xlsx formats.

Our local Chinese restaurant just got turned into a kebab shop, run by the same people.

Divine Angel said:

Oh good, I’ve been waiting for MV to reappear so I can post this

LOL

Michael V said:

Our friends have left for Brisbane via the bus, after visiting for the last ten days or so. We had a lovely time. Roger cooked some fantastic Sri Lankan curries while they were here. Last night I cooked “Golden Beef”. That name comes from a meal I ordered at a Chinese restaurant in Brisbane. I replicated the meal, which everybody thought was the standout meal that night.

Splendid.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Michael V said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Microsoft are upping the subscription of the software formally known as Office by 30%.

A bit much, but not much we can do about it.

Or you could switch to Open Office.

Not unless I want to dump my last 30 years work and start from scratch.

Although I’m sort of doing that already, converting VBA stuff to Python, but reading about the code for running Python from Open Office, sounds like it still needs a bit of work:

https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Using_Python_on_Windows

Michael V said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Michael V said:

Or you could switch to Open Office.

Not unless I want to dump my last 30 years work and start from scratch.

Well, the Open Office spreadsheet looks and behaves like Excel. It can read Excel documents and save as Excel documents in both the *.xls and *.xlsx formats.

Rev’s issue is that it can’t handle VB scripting. It can handle other, more advanced scripting, like python and lua, but Rev’s too old to learn them.

Michael V said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Michael V said:

Or you could switch to Open Office.

Not unless I want to dump my last 30 years work and start from scratch.

Well, the Open Office spreadsheet looks and behaves like Excel. It can read Excel documents and save as Excel documents in both the *.xls and *.xlsx formats.

It won’t run VBA code, which makes it more or less useless for me.

It’s smoky..

Fire over about 95 acres still “not controlled” this morning.

RFS irregular helo started circling early…

Like

Airbus H125

I was wondering how you were doing this morning, Ian.

Divine Angel said:

I was wondering how you were doing this morning, Ian.

Still breathing.. with difficulty

btm said:

Michael V said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Not unless I want to dump my last 30 years work and start from scratch.

Well, the Open Office spreadsheet looks and behaves like Excel. It can read Excel documents and save as Excel documents in both the *.xls and *.xlsx formats.

Rev’s issue is that it can’t handle VB scripting. It can handle other, more advanced scripting, like python and lua, but Rev’s too old to learn them.

I’ve been using Python from Excel for about 10 years :)

?

Ian said:

?

What’s that saying? There are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky.

Divine Angel said:

Ian said:

?

What’s that saying? There are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky.

Dunno. When has the RFS ever had to work underwater?

Underworld figure Tony Mokbel has had two convictions set aside by the Victorian court of appeal, in the most significant case yet involving the gangland lawyer and police informer Nicola Gobbo.

The court of appeal handed down its judgment on Friday morning in relation to several appeals filed by Mokbel.

He was successful in overturning his convictions for trafficking not less than a large commercial quantity of MDMA and for incitement to import a commercial quantity of MDMA.

So far today I’ve:

a) Washed up the washing up, cleaned all kitchen surfaces and the interior of the microwave.

b) Laundered a load of laundry and hung it up.

c) Cleaned the lavatory.

Now looking forward to lunch, after which I’ll have a bit more sleep. Then get up and have a shower and either visit the shops, or don’t.

“A formal diagnosis of NPD typically involves an in-depth conversation with a health practitioner.”

Oh goody…a post about NPD.

No, Bubblecar, I will never forget or forgive you for your vile and offensive attack on me.

Then there are the other forum members who said nothing and continued to act like it was all cool.

Anyway…

Ian said:

?

Wikipedia says:

In 1961 Donald Reid designed and built a single-seat craft (32.83 ft or 10 m length) capable of flight and underwater movement, the Reid Flying Submarine 1 (RFS-1). A 65 hp (48 kW) engine mounted on a pylon provided propulsion for flight; a 750 W (1 hp) electric motor in the tail provided underwater propulsion. The pilot used an aqualung for breathing underwater. The first full-cycle flight was demonstrated on 9 June 1964. Reid, his craft, and his son (the test pilot) appeared on the U.S. game show “I’ve Got A Secret” on March 15, 1965.

Well, that’s the termite man booked in. All day Sunday 12th Oct.

That includes treating the current infestation and renewing all the barriers that were put in 15 years ago.🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜

Woodie said:

Well, that’s the termite man booked in. All day Sunday 12th Oct.

That includes treating the current infestation and renewing all the barriers that were put in 15 years ago.🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜

Good luck.

I have some sort of wood-eater living in at least one of my dressers. I know because I keep baking tins in the lower cupboard and often find little scatters of very fine sawdust in the top one.

For Captain Spalding if he’s around.

Talk about a prank: In 1986, someone dropped greased pigs onto the USS Kennedy from a plane over the Mediterranean.
https://x.com/i/status/1973782449084838075

Nothing says “footy finals food” like fruit

captain_spalding said:

Michael V said:

Our friends have left for Brisbane via the bus, after visiting for the last ten days or so. We had a lovely time. Roger cooked some fantastic Sri Lankan curries while they were here. Last night I cooked “Golden Beef”. That name comes from a meal I ordered at a Chinese restaurant in Brisbane. I replicated the meal, which everybody thought was the standout meal that night.

Well, don’t keep me in suspense.

Recipe, please!

Effectively it is beef and onion in XO Sauce. The beef is thinly sliced and velveted. The onion is coarsely cut to roughly match the size of the beef.

XO sauce is expensive because of the array of dried and fermented shellfish in it, so I only use a little. I add garlic, ginger, chillis, Korean chilli flakes and Bull Head Sha Cha (barbecue) sauce. The Bull Head Sha Cha sauce has a somewhat similar flavour profile because its major component is ground up, dried (fermented?) brill fish.

I’ll write it up some time with measurements (I don’t usually measure) and stick the recipe in the recipe thread.

Last night I used:

550g of beef, velveted, (cornflour, salt, pepper, dry sherry, water)
3 brown onions,
about half an 80 g jar of Lee Kum Kee Seafood XO sauce,
about 3 tablespoons of Bull Head Sha Cha (barbecue) sauce,
about 1.5 tablespoons of kimchi chilli flakes (for red colouring)
5 cloves of garlic
about 25 g fresh ginger
3 malaquetinha chillis (that might be about one supermarket chilli)

Divine Angel said:

Our local Chinese restaurant just got turned into a kebab shop, run by the same people.

Ha!

The Rev Dodgson said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Michael V said:

Or you could switch to Open Office.

Not unless I want to dump my last 30 years work and start from scratch.

Although I’m sort of doing that already, converting VBA stuff to Python, but reading about the code for running Python from Open Office, sounds like it still needs a bit of work:

https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Using_Python_on_Windows

Oh. I see.

btm said:

Michael V said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Not unless I want to dump my last 30 years work and start from scratch.

Well, the Open Office spreadsheet looks and behaves like Excel. It can read Excel documents and save as Excel documents in both the *.xls and *.xlsx formats.

Rev’s issue is that it can’t handle VB scripting. It can handle other, more advanced scripting, like python and lua, but Rev’s too old to learn them.

Ouch!

In other news………

Benny Boy says “WOOF” 🐕

Had his first visit to Aunty Vet yesterday.

Got his microchip (which he didn’t like at all and yelped and yelped) and his vaccinations.

He just loves car rides. 🚙

Benny Boy is booked in next Thursday to become “Benny It”. Everyone has the right to choose their own pronouns these days😮.

I’ve sat Benny Boy down and had a man to man talk about what is going to happen to his favourite licking spot, and how he isn’t going to be able to lick there any more. He didn’t seem too fussed actually.

I’ve got a pensioner discount voucher for $200 to subsidise his o.p.e.r.a.t.i.o.n. I’m not saying the word in Benny Boy’s presence. I don’t want to induce any anxiety about it.

I mean, my anxiety would go through the roof, if I knew I was having my nuts cut off!!

Please feel free to wish Benny Boy all the best for his transition to the pronoun of his choice.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Michael V said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Not unless I want to dump my last 30 years work and start from scratch.

Well, the Open Office spreadsheet looks and behaves like Excel. It can read Excel documents and save as Excel documents in both the *.xls and *.xlsx formats.

It won’t run VBA code, which makes it more or less useless for me.

Bummer.

Ian said:

Divine Angel said:

I was wondering how you were doing this morning, Ian.

Still breathing.. with difficulty

Bummer.

Ian said:

?

Has anyone seen it flying?

Ian said:

Divine Angel said:

I was wondering how you were doing this morning, Ian.

Still breathing.. with difficulty

Helicopter with cable and water bag dangling flew over mine yesterday, headed in your direction. The wind at mine has died down quite a bit since yesterday.

Woodie said:

In other news………

Benny Boy says “WOOF” 🐕

Had his first visit to Aunty Vet yesterday.

Got his microchip (which he didn’t like at all and yelped and yelped) and his vaccinations.

He just loves car rides. 🚙

Benny Boy is booked in next Thursday to become “Benny It”. Everyone has the right to choose their own pronouns these days😮.

I’ve sat Benny Boy down and had a man to man talk about what is going to happen to his favourite licking spot, and how he isn’t going to be able to lick there any more. He didn’t seem too fussed actually.

I’ve got a pensioner discount voucher for $200 to subsidise his o.p.e.r.a.t.i.o.n. I’m not saying the word in Benny Boy’s presence. I don’t want to induce any anxiety about it.

I mean, my anxiety would go through the roof, if I knew I was having my nuts cut off!!

Please feel free to wish Benny Boy all the best for his transition to the pronoun of his choice.

Sending healing vibes for a quick recovery.

I suppose you haven’t yet mentioned the cone of shame he’ll have to wear