pmccarthy
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Log fire here for the last week.
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If I am outside and it hails, I hail a taxi.
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Nah, it remembered unless you disconnected the battery or reset the system.
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Anti-vaxxers are the 21st Century Luddites
pmccarthy replied to old man emu's topic in General Discussion
My brother and his wife are coming to stay tomorrow. But they are not vaxed so we cannot go out. -
My son has a Tesla which maintains its inside temp while parked, by periodically running its electric air con. People warn him that he has left his engine running.
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And Prince Charles?
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A Clintonesque thought.
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I ran a small business that grew into a fairly large business. Our problem was never the government, but the large companies, insurance brokers and law firms that took months to pay their accounts for work we had done.
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There is no longer a party of the bosses. The major parties are all the same in that regard. And a large proportion of voters own small businesses, or aspire to, or work in one and want it to succeed. The old days of Bundy-punching assembly line workers are gone.
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It cleaned off grease and dirt without affecting my hair, which stayed attractive and luxuriant to suit my No2 short back and sides.
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For years at work I used Solvol on my hair, it worked well.
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They sacked one bloke for laziness, he was just going through the motions.
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The Chinese are ahead in quantum computing too, so may be able to break US codes soon.
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Do you have a museum or will you be opening one?
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I had to laugh when I heard that the coal mines in Inner Mongolia have been ordered to increase production by 50%. I have been around mine planning all my adult life and can tell you that an expansion like that takes several years to implement, even if the capital funds are immediately available.
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The proposals to use bio-sourced feedstocks for anything substantial are impractical, not just for monoculture problems but for the scale of land area that would be needed. The land would have to be diverted from other production or from natural vegetation.
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We had Peeler's Apples here until recently.
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Whispering Gums motel in Newstead, I can just imagine the old bloke at reception.
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There is nothing like the natural resources available worldwide to build all the items needed, like electric cars and batteries, in the “net zero” proposals. It is all a fantasy.
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I think if there are two grooms you are supposed to call one of them the bride.
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The tree was a big landmark for my family on our annual holiday journey to Sydney.
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In Broken Hill we used to say "more front than Pellew and Moore", the local department store. In Wagga it was "Hunters on the Hill and Spears around the corner". And don't forget "While I live I grow", the Anthony Horden slogan and the Port Jackson fig in Camden, that was poisoned.
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Have used them on WA charters as a passenger when we had an Esky full of cans in the back on the way home. A couple of decades ago.
