Forestry. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/29/tasmanian-forest-agreement-delivers-13bn-losses-in-giant-on-taxpayers?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

It takes a lot of money to f**k the forests but we keep on doing it.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-27/bom-and-nz-body-issue-joint-statement-on-marine-heatwave/9593618

The water is getting hotter. Upside snapper. Downside Ross river.

Basslink is f**ked again.

Yeah but keep in mind that 13 billion dollars has kept dozens of people employed.

But it’s a progressive state where it’s not frowned upon to buy a drink on Good Friday or have a flutter on the pokies.

dv said:

Yeah but keep in mind that 13 billion dollars has kept dozens of people employed.

And their dogs.

Is the water going to get warm enough to get Ross River Fever – Townsville stuff?

It hasn’t killed me though.

This kind of thing reflects the attitude of many, many people in Australia that are prepared to destroy all for the sake of a few jobs, when we could be paying these people much more for doing nothing. There is no end to this type of stupidity, which is why the future looks so dim.

Forestry is the most sustainable occupation in the world.

The only thing that f**ks forests is bushfires.

mollwollfumble said:

Forestry is the most sustainable occupation in the world.

The only thing that f**ks forests is bushfires.

The fire just down the road from us here the weekend before last (known as the Gazette fire, as distinct from the Cobden fire) started in a bluegum plantation. It’s lovely and clean amongst the charred trunks. I think they might be ruined for harvest. I don’t think they like dirty product.

dv said:

Yeah but keep in mind that 13 billion dollars has kept dozens of people employed.

There was a comment i heard about Britain’s ‘need’ to replace its Trident missile system with updated missiles.

Cost would be 167 billion pounds.

It was cited that the Trident update programme would maintain 20,000 jobs in Britain.

That’s 8 million pounds per job. Why not just give each of those 20,000 people two or three million pounds, and save the rest?

captain_spalding said:

dv said:

Yeah but keep in mind that 13 billion dollars has kept dozens of people employed.

There was a comment i heard about Britain’s ‘need’ to replace its Trident missile system with updated missiles.

Cost would be 167 billion pounds.

It was cited that the Trident update programme would maintain 20,000 jobs in Britain.

That’s 8 million pounds per job. Why not just give each of those 20,000 people two or three million pounds, and save the rest?

I like that idea. You could even give those 20,000 people useful jobs, like farming

mollwollfumble said:

captain_spalding said:

dv said:

Yeah but keep in mind that 13 billion dollars has kept dozens of people employed.

There was a comment i heard about Britain’s ‘need’ to replace its Trident missile system with updated missiles.

Cost would be 167 billion pounds.

It was cited that the Trident update programme would maintain 20,000 jobs in Britain.

That’s 8 million pounds per job. Why not just give each of those 20,000 people two or three million pounds, and save the rest?

I like that idea. You could even give those 20,000 people useful jobs, like farming

If I were the UK, I’d be making sure my nuclear weapons technology was tip-top.

mollwollfumble said:

Forestry is the most sustainable occupation in the world.

The only thing that f**ks forests is bushfires.

Napalm.

mollwollfumble said:

Forestry is the most sustainable occupation in the world.

If you don’t mind destroying numerous habitats and the flora and fauna that go to make it up. So good for the tree harvesters, but bloody awful for everything else.

PermeateFree said:

mollwollfumble said:

Forestry is the most sustainable occupation in the world.

If you don’t mind destroying numerous habitats and the flora and fauna that go to make it up. So good for the tree harvesters, but bloody awful for everything else.

When I first moved here there were a few family sawmillers around. They left trees so they could take them later. Some trees would be for the young fellows. They sold stakes in summer, sawdust and mill ends. They would sharpen your saw if you left it with them.

They shut down that world. Regulated it out of existence.

They practice unsustainable forestry. We lose money and environment. We lose in acres, in habitat and on the financial accounts. Yes. sustainable forestry exists but Tasmania is not the model. IF we were the model we could attain certification. But we can’t.

30th Anniversary of the Tale of Ruby Rose.There are a few screenings about the place that I might go and see if I was having a life.

the Movie show sort of liked it. a bit.

https://www.sbs.com.au/movies/video/11709507806/The-Tale-of-Ruby-Rose

sarahs mum said:

30th Anniversary of the Tale of Ruby Rose.There are a few screenings about the place that I might go and see if I was having a life.

the Movie show sort of liked it. a bit.

https://www.sbs.com.au/movies/video/11709507806/The-Tale-of-Ruby-Rose

I’ve never seen it, and it doesn’t seem to be available on DVD.

• I’ve never seen it, and it doesn’t seem to be available on DVD.

It’s a young girl’s strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk…

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

30th Anniversary of the Tale of Ruby Rose.There are a few screenings about the place that I might go and see if I was having a life.

the Movie show sort of liked it. a bit.

https://www.sbs.com.au/movies/video/11709507806/The-Tale-of-Ruby-Rose

I’ve never seen it, and it doesn’t seem to be available on DVD.

It was on VHS once. I borrowed it a few times form Video city. IT is a big screen movie though. Most of it shot in the Walls of Jerusalem and a bit around Golden Valley and Deloraine.

furious said:

• I’ve never seen it, and it doesn’t seem to be available on DVD.

It’s a young girl’s strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk…

Meet Cathy, who’s lived most everywhere,
From Zanzibar to Berkeley Square
But Patty’s only seen the sights
A girl can see from Brooklyn Heights

Melita Jurisic, who played the eponymous role in The Tale of Ruby Rose, played one of the Vuvalini in the recent Mad Max Fury Road.

dv said:

Melita Jurisic, who played the eponymous role in The Tale of Ruby Rose, played one of the Vuvalini in the recent Mad Max Fury Road.

I didn’t know that.

sarahs mum said:

dv said:

Melita Jurisic, who played the eponymous role in The Tale of Ruby Rose, played one of the Vuvalini in the recent Mad Max Fury Road.

I didn’t know that.