kgwilson

NZ is a lot like Tassie. Surrounded by sea it rarely gets very cold near the coast where most people live. Frosty mornings in Winter but not enough to freeze water pipes. It has been said that NZ is caught in perpetual Spring. The mountains in the South and surrounding areas get snow and there used to be natural ice skating lakes but they have not frozen over for a long time now. The huge land mass here makes for some big extremes in temperature right up in to the tropics

Prigozhin has announced the Wagner group will be leaving Bakhmut on 10 May due to his ongoing feud with the Russian military who have not been supplying him with the ammunition he wants. He is screaming at Shoigu & Gerazimovin in a video uploaded to Telegram that shows bodies of his Soldiers behind him & in another he has a paper in his hand apparently for Shoigu advising of the withdrawl with about 50 Wagner mercenaries standing behind him. We'll see if this is true. Also in anticipation of the Ukrainian counter attack Russia has begun to evacuate civilians from the Zaporizhzhia area around the nuclear power plant This is a big concern for the international nuclear energy watchdog as many of these people are required to keep the plant running.

You don't need a lot of power to run fuel pumps. The amount of sunshine they get out West makes it the perfect place for solar power generation. A good sized battery pack will run the pumps, shop and roadhouse over night without too much of a problem. The diesel would then just be used as a backup. My friend who owns Palmers Island airfield near Yamba runs his house, farm sheds, and airfield from his solar system he put in over 10 years ago. It cost less than getting hooked up to the grid & that includes his backup diesel generator which incidentally he only ever has used to make sure it still works.

100% a false flag event. The desperation seems to be worsening daily.

Well documented history only spoiled by abominable pronunciation of Maori names. I think they use a Chatbot to turn text to language hence that terrible pronunciation & American accent.

In Trumps conception all of the sperm that got there were dumb. The smart ones bailed out when they figured out what the end result would be.

In 1915 the population of NZ was only 1.1 million & 10% served overseas, way more than anywhere else. There are some wonderful stories of the Maori boys at Gallipoli who always performed a Haka before going in to battle. Scared the crap out of the Turks but they got shot to bits like the rest of our lot due to the crap idea and tactics employed. The Maoris invented guerilla warfare but were prevented from using such tactics there.

The red one looks to have a giant bottle of plonk on top or maybe it's a molotov cocktail. Good to fry a few jihadists.

There is no age limit, just competency and medically fit. I read an article somewhere about a bloke from Victoria who was still flying a Tiger Moth at 96.

In the march quarter the spot price for Electricity in South Australia and Victoria went negative a number of times as there was so much generation from renewables. That makes coal fired coal super expensive as the plants can't be slowed or stopped and the costs (and polluants) contine as normal. "The low level of demand, and the big increase in large scale wind and solar meant that the number of negative or zero pricing events increased dramatically. These zero and negative pricing events occurred in one in eight dispatch periods across the main grid in the first quarter, and in more than half the time in the daylight hours in South Australia and Victoria. Between 9am and 5pm, wholesale electricity prices in South Australia, which averaged nearly 80 per cent wind and solar over the quarter, were zero or negative in 60 per cent of dispatch intervals, and 55 per cent of intervals in Victoria, which has the next strongest share of wind and solar in its grid." https://reneweconomy.com.au/record-wind-and-solar-deliver-lower-prices-loosen-coal-and-gas-dominance-over-grid/

Wasn't it a 1920s Indian Scout (heavily modified) that Burt Munro broke the world speed record on that still stands?

I don't think honorable is a word that can describe any religion. They all need your money and then set about using it for purposes other than what they tell you.

I have a number of friends in the Ulysses club. Their motto is "Grow old disgracefully". You have to be 40+ to join. Ulusses is the largest social club in Australia. They ride everything usually large and expensive including a lot of Harleys and love motorcycling & often do charity runs etc.

I wonder if Honda gave them any sponsorship or bikes to ride?

Yes I agree, it is all about "What's in it for Me" from Xi.

While the counter attack is imminent but no-one other than the Ukrainians know when or where, there have been a few thing happening as a precursor. Ukraine has crossed the Dneiper in the Kherson region and a long line of Russian defensive trench systems appears abandoned. Russian supply depots in different towns seem to get attacked every few days by Ukrainian artillery or missiles probably due information received from local partisans & marine drones have attacked Russian Navy ships in Sevastopol again. Now Xi Jinping has been on the phone to Zelenskyy apparently for 2 hours to try to get a peace deal under way. Zelenskyy is saying positive things about the call while proclaiming it can only occur once Russia retreats behind its borders as he has always said & China has now publicly stated that it supports preservation of the original national boundaries. Things are beginning to get very interesting.

I was told a long tome ago that 90% of Harley Davidsons ever made were still on the road. The rest made it home.

I remember the banana boat song from when I was a kid. The song was released in 1956. I just looked it up. It is a traditional Jamaican folk song with the verses repeated multiple times with "Day-o, day-o" and "Day, is a day, is a day, is a day, is a day, is a day-o" interspersed throughout. I've never forgotten it. A great man, musician and civil rights activist. He was a vocal critic of G W Bush and Trumps policies. Work all night on a drink of rum (Daylight come and we want go home) Stack banana 'til the morning come (Daylight come and we want go home) Come Mister tally man, tally me banana (Daylight come and we want go home) Lift six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch (Daylight come and we want go home) A beautiful bunch of ripe banana (Daylight come and we want go home) Hide the deadly black tarantula (Daylight come and we want go home)

If he does run & win he'll be 85 by the end of his term. Having a geriatric in the top job surely is not a good idea though infinitely better than having an orange complete nutcase liar there I guess.

LNPs lobby groups paid and paid handsomly to keep them in power. Lobby groups like the fossil fuel industry want the pound of flesh they have paid for and the LNP rolls over every time. The moderates saw this but there were too many on the right to stop it, the squabbling began to get worse, the Independents arose from the ashes & the rest is history. Dutton & Ley are living in a differnt world now where their support base is reducing daily and they still continue with the same baseless rhetoric.

Dame Edna was more famous than Barry himself. Personally I thought Sir Les was his most hilarious character. Barry was a legend. RIP.

I keep saying it but will again. Every initiative from governments and various authorities to date has failed. If the No vote gets up that is a vote for failure. The Voice may not be a perfect solution but I think it is an important first step. The scare mongering from the political Right has shown their lack of understanding and fear that their power might be usurped. Almost every time Dutton & his puppet Price, open their mouths the drivel is almost immediately debunked.

Their only good use in years gone by was for fish & chip wrapping. Now they are no good for this either.

The other voting machine company Smartmatic has a $US2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox so they may settle for a similar of maybe larger amount.

BTW Robert Gottliebsen is a wealthy right wing business and investment commentator who works for the Murdoch press. His comments and attitude are entirely predictable.