nomadpete

Intolerance will NOT be tolerated

7 hours ago, old man emu said:

When was the last time you stepped on chewing gum on a footpath? 

 

My Mum asked me to get her some chewing gum for her as she suffers from "dry mouth" and chewing gum keeps her mouth moist with saliva. I tries to find some at the supermarket, but could hardly find any.

OME, go to a pharmacy and get her some Aque mouth spray.

12 hours ago, facthunter said:

Called the "ROARING 40's". Strong westerly winds.  Nev

I'd never thought much about that old saying about "roaring 40s" before.

But now I realised that 40 degrees south also = 40 kts. Which sure does roar through our trees.

And I just re-read David Lewis's book 'Ice Bird' about sailing around antarctica. He tells me 50 degrees south = 50 kts.

10 hours ago, old man emu said:

I wish you Southerners and East Costers would share a bit of that wet weather into my neck of the woods. It's been dry here for a lonhg time. 

Be careful what you wish for......

But I  hope you get some gentle rain. We can easily spare it.

Ancient wisdom not found in an old church:-

Go placidly amid the noise and waste,
and remember what comfort there is, in owning a piece thereof.
Avoid quiet and passive persons, unless you are in need of sleep.
Rotate your tires.
Speak glowingly of those greater than yourself
and heed well their advice, even though they be turkeys.
Know what to kiss... and when.
Consider that two wrongs never make a right... but that three might.
Wherever possible, put people on hold.
Be comforted that in the face of all aridity and disillusionment,
and despite the changing fortunes of time,
there is always a big future in AI.

Remember the Pueblo.
Strive at all times to bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate.
Know yourself. If unsure, call the FBI.
Exercise caution in your daily affairs,
especially with those persons closest to you.
Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls
would scarcely get your feet wet.
Fall not into love, therefore; it sticks to your face.

Gracefully surrender the things of youth -
birds, clean air, tuna, Taiwan,
and let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Hire people with hooks.
Take heart amid the deepening gloom
that your dog is finally getting enough cheese,
and reflect that whatever misfortune may be your lot,
it could only be worse in USA.

You are a fluke of the Universe.
You have no right to be here,
and whether you can hear it or not,
the Universe is laughing behind your back.

Therefore, make peace with your god,
whatever you conceive him to be:
hairy thunderer or cosmic muffin.
With all its hopes, dreams, promises, and urban renewal,
the world continues its downhill path.
 

We - Marty & I - are 43 degrees south which means interesting weather is the norm. Since this is not the Gripes thread, I  failed to mention the (one) warm day was accompanied by gusts of 40kts+ and rain showers. Which has been  cycling daily for a couple of months, without the sunshine. All next week is expected to be the same.

Here's a positive....

After months of grey, wet days of 5 - 10 degrees, Yesterday was a sunny 26 degrees! 

Thank you Simpson Desert for sending us some warmth!

Old news, allegedly from Trump Facebook page. But probably fake....

A drunk and a draft-dodger walk into a crowded room…sorry, the joke is too revolting, I cannot go on.

2 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

Indeed... as it is with alchies and others with, sadly, addictive personalities or in desperate situations.

I know many who bet every week on a virtual impossibility - the lotto - and yet most don't fall prey to gambling. 

 

For me this is a challenge - last year I got a healthy return and started pushing the edge of stats and paid. Even though I invested £50, I see it as a loss of £350, which was it's peak value. 

 

This year I thought I would wait and get more stats measured before predicting, and it paid off.. 

 

But I am not doing this out of a financial imperative.. my partner and I would still gave gone out for dinner.. just not to the same restaurant

 

Hey Jerry.

Nothing personal!

The road to misery is paved by gamblers....

Here's a Random Thought for ya.....

Why is China referred to as a 'developing country' (that term was used in the news tonight), when its economy is growing ever larger,

But USA is not?

Thank you mods, for putting out the garbage.

That plumber is going to track you down.....

Banks and cash.

A long time ago when I had a small retail business, I watched a teller (what DO they tell), count my takings. They were really fast, they double checked, and they didn't make mistakes.

Contrast that with recent experience. We were'tidying up' my mother-in-law's home. We ferreted out some long forgotten cash she had hidden from the burglars. After a lot of lifting up furniture, etc, we totalled over 17,000 in notes, put away over the years in many places, and another 600 in coins. The old dear was a squirrel in a past life!

To the bank we go. What with modern automated counting this won't take long!

Coins, ok.

Notes, well when they are all neatly stored in small piles secured by ageing elastic bands..... no. It took most of the afternoon to separate and count by hand.

Automation has no way to deal with sticky decaying rubber bands around notes.

We're still waiting for a call from the money laundering division of ATO.

2 hours ago, facthunter said:

Conspiracy Theorists. They are everywhere. Nev

That's your conspiracy theory!

3 hours ago, octave said:

I was a little surprised to receive this email from Vicroads this morning.   Nice one Vicroads, since I have neither sold nor otherwise disposed of the car.  My wife was out in the car at the time, so I did wonder if she had sold the car and done a runner!  Anyway the fix is in the works.

 

I would be very concerned. Seems like they are stealing your car's  identity. Make sure you park in tonight, so it doesn't go to it's new owners during the night.

8 hours ago, Marty_d said:

Isn't that what the "chemtrails" are doing?

No no no! Don'tlisten to this false news.

Eceyone knows it's the vaccine microchips that do it!

20 minutes ago, onetrack said:

The Kidston Pumped Hydro project is approaching completion and is one of the largest renewable energy projects in Qld. However, the way they're going about it, seems complex and unnecessarily costly to me.

I can't see why they need to install major tunnels through hard rock, I would have thought large diameter piping would have sufficed. But perhaps the durability of the piping was unsatisfactory for the long-term.

 

https://www.waterpowermagazine.com/analysis/lessons-from-excavating-the-250mw-kidston-pumped-storage-project/?cf-view

Take a look at Wivenhoe dam / Splityard Ck pumped hydro storage. In Qld.

It is piped, was built in 1980 by the forward thinking state owned power station commission. It has a low head I think about 65mtrs at lowest. It has been in service all this time with low ongoing maintenance costs.

It has two turbines totalling 600Mw. Which is available on demand within seconds.

Sadly, the governments (& privateers) have made no significant steps to building such infrastructure which is needed to support the renewable power generation.

It is foolish and ridiculously expensive to rely solely on privately owned batteries to back up the grid.

The only exception might be off grid personal household solar/battery. At present pricing, there is an amortisation of 20 years on this (for my home), which proves that at that level, solar is not only viable, it is financially cheaper than wholesale grid supplied electricity.

I don't believe the arguments against solar on cost grounds will stand up in the long term.

9 hours ago, red750 said:

Now he's going to have a UFC Rumble in front of the White House on 

4 July, 2026.

 

For Pete's sake!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just when you think 'it can't possibly get any worse'....

The circus really is coming into town!

Will they have gilded carriage rides, too?

Thread title:

'Albo to the Rescue'

Albo (Trump lite) is unlikely to Rescue anything other than foreign owned salmon farms and fossil fuel interests.

44 minutes ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

I was lost 4 words

Really?

Which 4?

17 minutes ago, Marty_d said:

I'd never heard of Kirk before he got shot, and as far as I'm concerned he's just one out of 5000 odd per year that gets killed by gun in the US. I mourn every innocent child killed in Sandy Hook much more than some idiot who apparently thought it was fair for people to be killed by guns in order for whack jobs to get to keep their AR-15's.

 

The bad thing about this is how it's an absolute gift for Dicktator Donny.

Based on this killing, it's obvious that everyone on the "loony left" (ie normal people) is a dangerous criminal and he is justified in making restrictive laws and "executive orders" to keep them from doing or saying anything that may offend the delicate feelings of "patriotic americans" (ie raving right wing nut jobs and anyone who licks his arse).

I saw reporting somewhere that he is even insisting on America's allies setting up specific "left wing extremist" task forces. Despite all evidence that the vast majority of extremist violence comes from conservatives.

 

The hypocrisy is astounding.

For years frothing right-wingers have called for violence against anyone they don't agree with. Many people working for family planning clinics have been murdered. Trump himself has denigrated and abused anyone who doesn't agree with him.

Yet anyone who dares to point out the truth about this Kirk character, or refuse to treat him like some kind of saint, is facing real world consequences over there. Losing their jobs, being cancelled, receiving death threats. All the stuff that conservatives have been complaining about the "woke" crowd, they are doing a hundred fold.

 

The US needs to stop using "free" in any description of itself. There is no free speech, no freedom to think for yourself, no freedom to poke fun at the disgraceful actions of its executive branch. It's fast becoming a repressive, authoritarian theocracy. 

 

As an independent country we should be extricating ourselves from close ties with the US, including the disastrous AUKUS pact, until such time that they reverse everything Trump has done, put the rabid Republicans into minority and prove to the world that freedom has returned.

So, tell me....

Did you put all that in your letters to MP's?

Better than a mural, I believe it was a timeline showing the relationship seemed to be more than just a fleeting meeting.

I think the poms did well. Charles gave a speech. Professionally as expected.

Anyone who looked closely would have seen the King cringe when Trumpet was stumbling to read his crazy speech. And many in the world (including USA) were laughing at his rambling, halting efforts.

And Chump asserted that he was the first US pres to get invited to visit?

Ha!

Anyway, all that is not about the Kirk story.

I think all the brooha and martydom about Kirk highlights the shameful absence of outrage over previous assassination of politicians and spouses who happened to be Democrats.