nomadpete

Tut tut. Prioritise, man! I just returned from the campground loo. Sun is just coming up. I then sat in front of the heater with my cuppa. Thus I am forum scrolling without incident. Also, this is random enough to be in the random thread!

We can thank privatisation for that.

I wish I knew that..... back when a British SAS mob visited our gliding club and showed us how to make them.

OK. Congratulations we have hit the bottom of the barrel. Please can we now start in the other direction?

Yes, spud guns have been MIA since at least the 80's when I couldn't find one for my kids. They seemed harmless enough.

I moved our sailboat from Port Huon to kettering. A calm day. Started at first light, ghosted out of port through fog, then the sun came up, making beautiful shadows through the fog as it lifted. All in all, a lovely day sail. At one point, I went around a fish farm the was being relocated by slow moving tugboat - it was being followed by a couple of lazy fur seals - they were following their food source. Unfortunately I didn't catch any huge mulloway.

Litespeed, are you making this up just to make me jealous? How do lures work in the dark? Whatcha gunna do when ya get sick and tired of eating fish.... and blue swimmers.... and prawns?

What? Have they discovered hot running water?

The only time I need to know about anyone's sexual preference is when I am looking for sex

Whilst I agree with most of that, I do not agree with the labelling. The whole alphabet labelling business is causing discrimination. In my opinion, the whole of humanity has a tendency towards having all kinds of individual preferences. When one makes a label identification (eg - ' I identify as a....'), then that label is taked by everyone within earshot as being the most important thing about that person. One's sexual preference should only be a small detail of an individual's personality. Not the most obvious thing about them.

Sorry, Only Queenslanders over 40 years of age understand that remark.

Only Queenslanders understand that statement

I watch those shows to get a glimpse of cars I have owned, and household trivia that we dont see anymore.

I disagree. For too long we have tried to restrict the choice to 50% ofthe population. Now we have more to choose from. Choosing a life partner shouldn't be only about breeding - there's been far to much of that lately anyway.

Y'all just sayin that

I can see it now.... The government promoting 'shower with a friend... on your front lawn'.... Evaporative coolers waste water, but real aircons make distilled water.

Are we still comitted to purchasing F-35's?

None of that report made sense. A mystery source of radiation, significant enough to invoke a 'state of emergency ', and it was discovered by a boy? And the source was placed in a safe container and removed, but they don't know what the source was?

I'm trying to suggest you are putting the cart before the horse. If the predictions play out, there might not be enough water to sustain the population, let alone trying to find extra to water the garden. Trying to minimise the cost of putting food on the table pales when there is not enough water to drink. As I pointed out, our reserves seem to only last through the average 10 or 12 year drought. Now we are warned to expect much worse. Then what? Water security vital.

Note that BOM are warning of possible 'megadroughts'. None of our water supply infrastructure will cope with a 20 year drought. Do you think our governments are scrambling to build water supplies to ensure our survival through a 20 year drought? Queensland nearly ran out after a ten year low rainfall, and they cancelled building further dams, in spite of constant population growth.

That is a great idea. But only if there is water available for said veggie patch.

I happen to have an old Iphone 6, what app do you use to turn it into a dashcam?

I have Onetrack's problem. My neweish phone is too long for any of my pockets and keeps trying to leap onto the pavement. Clothing simply isn't made to accommodate new phones. All my 'tradie clothing - pants, coats,etc, all have phone pockets in them - made just right for last year's phones.

For those who have modest needs, a solar can be arranged cheaply. As long as it is mostly low voltage. I have seen old panels that have been removed from a home for upgrading, selling for upwards of $25 for a 200 watt panel. A couple of these, charging a couple of second hand old fashioned lead acid batteries, gives plenty of power for lighting and phone/laptop/power tool charging. Maybe not luxury, but still affordable. Next step will be a small chest freezer to use as a fridge - run direct off another couple of panels via an old 240v inverter, it should chill down during the day and hold the cold overnight. My friend had already accumulated most of the stuff but didn't know how to set it up. He is tickled pink just having electric lights for the first time in 4 years living in his shack.

I don't believe you