old man emu

8 minutes ago, willedoo said:

I can't see Cook as any more of an invasion

Yeah, but that's your opinion based on a knowledge of Cook's mission and a logical approach to history. There's lots of people who don't accept that knowledge and lack the ability to discuss it logically.

Lieutenant James Cook first landed at Kurnell, on the southern banks of Botany Bay, in what is now Silver Beach, on Sunday 29 April 1770. A day or two later, the first recorded shootings of Aboriginals occurred, when attempts to communicate through a Tahitian travelling with Cook, failed. It is considered that the Aboriginal people thought the Whites were spirits who travelled the sea in a boat under a captured cloud. The two Gweagal men were ghostbusters.

The Gweagal (also spelt Gwiyagal) are a clan of the Dharawal people who occupied the south shore between Botany Bay/Georges River and the saltwater bays and estuaries of Port Hacking. They also used the fresh water resources of the upper Hacking River, Heathcote Creek and the Woronora River. Evidence from Curracurrang, an area in the Royal National Park, shows occupation dates from about 8,200 years before present, but that site may have be in the country of another Dharawal clan.

The dates obtained for earliest occupation fall into the geological period known as the Holocene (11.7 thousand years ago to today), otherwise commonly known as the post-glacial period. From that time, the sea levels  worldwide were rising. From Aboriginal stories, it is reasonable to conclude that at the beginning of the Holocene,  the coastal plain extended further to the east over the continental shelf. Also from certain Aboriginal stories relating to astronomy, it is concluded that humans were occupying the continent as far south as Tasmania before 10,000 years ago. As the sea level rose and inundated the coastal plain, the occupants moved west, stopping when sea levels somewhat stabilised to their present position. Other Aboriginal stories tell of people coming by canoe from the east, which would support that movement. 

A similar situation is known to have occurred with the inundation of Doggerland. At the beginning of the Holocene, the area between mainland Europe and the eastern coast of Great Britain formed the northwest corner of an icy continent. Warming climate exposed a vast continental shelf for humans to inhabit. Further warming and rising seas gradually flooded low-lying lands. Some 8,200 years ago, a catastrophic release of water from a North American glacial lake and a tsunami from a submarine landslide off Norway inundated whatever remained of Doggerland.

So, we are back to the old argument - Invasion Day: 26th January or 29th April?

Kissing her would be like kissing a barbed wire fence.

2 hours ago, red750 said:

Just needs barbie Q sauce for that extra +

58 minutes ago, nomadpete said:

They mount on a DIN rail which is the standard in meter boxes.

I DIN-un know that.

10 minutes ago, willedoo said:

It looks like they screw flat against the wall.

They slot right into a fuse box. They connect to a busbar (I think). This is like my fuse box, but I have circuits with both light and power coming off the same circuit breaker. It must be the OK thing to do because it was my electrician who did it, and he was keen to tell me that his licence was too important to him to do anything shonky.

10 hours ago, Litespeed said:

If it's a obvious assault rather than a play incident the player should be immediately arrested.

You misunderstand the legal meaning of "arrest". Its meaning is quite simple - "to stop". It comes  from Old French arester "to stay, stop" (12c., Modern French arrêter), from Vulgar Latin *arrestare "to stop, restrain". When you are pulled in at an RBT site, you are actually being arrested.  Pass the screening test and the need for your arrest is over and you are released. It is only after one is arrested can they be detained if required.

In the case of an on-field assault, the umpire/referee stops the assault and calls up the alleged offender. That's an arrest. The rules of the game allow the umpire/referee to expel the alleged offender from the field. Thereafter, action can be taken against the offender, either under the Laws of the game or by the criminal system, or both.

4 minutes ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

there is precedent where Leigh Matthews was charged with GBH

I couldn't recall the exact incident when I wrote my previous post, but the one you quote is probably it. Grievous Bodily Harm would be the correct offence to charge with for a broken jaw. It is amazing that in this day and age you get into more trouble for calling an opposing player a monkey that for giving a black eye. 

27 minutes ago, Litespeed said:

Any cop who won't charge a violent player immediately is basically a coward and should hand in their badge, they are a big part of the problem.

Slight legal problem: When a person sets out to play a body contact sport, the law of assault (for the most part) ceases to exists. Each player, fully knowing that the game will involved body contact, agrees to allow it. It's the same with boxing, wrestling, and the Asian martial arts.

A bit of biffo in a tackle, or a head-high, and whatever is similar in AFL, is an offence covered by the rules of the game, and is dealt with by the controlling official. Any hitting incident that occurs "off the ball" and which results in an injury that requires an extended recovery period could be prosecuted criminally or civilly. However, there is no need for a pitch invasion by the constabulary to effect and arrest.

When I had my hovel rewired and a new fuse box installed, the electrician installed RCBs on every circuit at my request. I have Clipsal RCBO220/30S devices which are compact and efficient devices designed to enhance electrical safety in residential settings. It combines the functionality of a Residual Current Device (RCD) and a Miniature Circuit Breaker (MCB) into a single unit.

The only problem it created was that the old hot water heater would trip the circuit. The heater was yonks old, and so I installed a new one.

2 hours ago, nomadpete said:

Random thought....Is Alcoholism a cause, or a symptom of mental health issues?

I'd say that it is a symptom. How common is the phrase,"drowning one's sorrows"? The reason for alcoholism is that alcohol has been an accepted part of the diet since it was first discovered. In fact, if it wasn't for fermented drinks, urbanisation would have failed due to water-borne diseases. It is easy to obtain. The problem with its use is its abuse, which can under certain circumstances lead to alcoholism. 

Obviously, if one becomes an alcoholic due to Problem No. 1, then Problems 2, 3 & 4 can flow from it. Unfortunately there are a lot of newly man-made substances which can be accessed to deal with physical and mental health issues. Remember "A cup of tea; a Bex, and a good lie down", or The Rolling Stones' "Mother's Little Helper"? We've had pot and heroin and cocaine, and now we have the synthetics.

41 minutes ago, nomadpete said:

I wish I could have blamed it on drugs but a cause in my cases.

The use of alcohol might be something that belongs to older generations, which did not have the access to stimulant drugs which seem to be the norm amongst the younger generation. Alcohol does lead to the lessening of the social inhibitions that control "normal" behaviour, and coupled with the reasons for using it as a source of mental distress relief can lead to the situations you describe. Also, alcohol eventually is a sedative.

However, the current drug of choice by the generation which is now in its twenties and in the early stages of relationships, is a stimulant. Coupled with the mental distresses that would cause a person to continue to use it, turns the user into an irrational, over-powerful monster. It is those people who are committing the violence.

7 hours ago, Marty_d said:

Also reduce access to real violence online

I've been saying that for a while. Basically, there should be a complete ban on anything coming out of the USA that contains depictions of violence. That includes movies, TV shows, video games and music. We don't need to have our society polluted by what is a cancer in the US society. 

As for ankle bracelets, unfortunately there are not enough police on duty at any one time to deal with those alerts. What might work is something like those anti-barking collars that once were used on dogs. The ankle bracelet could be programed with a geofence, and include a device that gives the wearer a shock like a cattle prod if they crossed into the defined space. There could also be a device given to the protected person, a bit like a remote car lock thingy, that the protected person could use to shock the baddie if they kept coming.

I wonder how many of these domestic violence crimes are committed as a result of the offender being in drugs. I would see drug use being a reason for a young woman to end a relationship with someone who is unable to provide the expected domestic tranquility that women innately need.

This week's domestic murder in Forbes, NSW has had me wondering about the male culture the alleged offender was mixing in. Are our young men so inured to being violent in domestic situations that they won't try to check it in members of their group. 

However, I have a feeling that these blokes who do these things are so way out of it that they would be excluded from any circle of friends they may have had in the past.

Once again, however, we have an example of a serious offender at large on bail after having been charged with rape, assault and even sticking a finger up at the Court by breaching a Court ordered AVO. Elsewhere I have presented the criteria to be considered when granting bail. It is obvious in the Forbes matter that the protection of the victim was not given heed to.

4 hours ago, kgwilson said:

These STCs are tradeable and are purchased by industries to offset their emissions.

That sounds a lot like what happens with playing the stock market. Shares are traded but the trade does not produce anything that has a use. The person who initially gets the STC hasn't really produced anything. Then that person can sell them to a polluter, who continues to pump out pollutants, but can claim that they are not doing so. At the end of the process, no less pollution has been produced.

In other words, it's a flim-flam operation.

Ah! Rental property ownership - the American Dream. Why try to get into someone's nickers when you can screw them in the hip pocket.

What a lot of these landlords need, having forced long term, regularly paying tenants out by jacking up the rent, is to rent the place out to people who don't pay the rent beyond the first month, wreck the place, then disappear into the night. 

The place I rented for many years in Sydney from 2016 was probably built in the mid-90s. That means an average 25-year mortgage would have been paid off in 2015. From then on, the landlord would have been receiving, at least 75% of the weekly rent, after agent's fees, insurance and rates. Happily the rent wasn't raised and the only repairs were the replacement of the hot water service and oven. The rent did go up $50 just before I moved out, and another $150 afterwards. I had a good landlord.

3 hours ago, octave said:

I know someone who is disgusted by fat people.

I was the fat kid at school, and am still too heavy. However, I've lived my three score and ten as a large person, but I was never as massive as so many people I see.  Both my kids are amongst the massive, and I said to my son recently, I'd rather be looking up at you from my grave, than looking down at you in yours. I am afraid that they won't see seventy because their hearts will give out. But suggest to them that they should rip the weight off before they reach 45 and they will howl you down.

3 minutes ago, facthunter said:

OME Which one had the Lord high executioner and we have a little list and there's none of them be missed?  Nev

That is The Mikado. 

The fun of G & S is that the rhythm of Sullivan's lyrics lend itself so readily to having others adapted to Gilbert's music.

Here's the song you are asking about, I've got a little list with a somewhat contemporary lyric with Australian references.

1 hour ago, red750 said:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13334467/Why-single-photo-Australian-suburb-sparked-huge-debate-future-country.html?ito=social-facebook

30 minutes ago, octave said:

It simply is none of my business and has zero effect on my life.

30 minutes ago, octave said:

My son employs someone who has transitioned. They are a valued talented employee

I suppose what a person does, if they follow the principle of "if you don't bother me, I won't bother you". How would you react to a raving vegan nymphomaniac? It's the vegan thing that would get on my goat. In my opinion, what we should be concentrating on is the very thing that is important to octave's son - a person whose talent in the business in which they are employed is highly valued. 

When I was working for the aircraft maintenance mob, we had a client who had transitioned. I got along quite well with that person, but I think it was because we could talk about the scientific research the person was doing. I can't remember what the field was, but I had enough of an inkling about it to discuss it in generalities. 

30 minutes ago, octave said:

OME I think it is a bit of an old fashioned notion that gay couples split into masculine and feminine roles.

Not old fashioned, but I will admit to being ignorant of the dynamics of those relationships. Why am I ignorant of them? Simply because I have never had the opportunity to engage with such couples. Not from not wanting to, but simply lack of opportunity. I used t work with a gay guy, but our work was what took up out time. I don't even know if he was in a relationship. It didn't matter, although he knew my wife and kids.

1 hour ago, Marty_d said:

is that really a "choice"

To undergo "gender realignment" is a major, major step to take. Obviously it is one's choice to whether they take that step, or are quite satisfied simply to appear as the stereotype of the gender they feel they are. 

It is unfortunate that having to deal with such a situation of wrong sex in the wrong body must be a plague on the mind. I wonder how it impacts a person's ability to earn a living and otherwise contribute to society.

But, I have to ask, why is it that male homosexuals who adopt the "wife" role in a relationship, don't seem to worry whether they are male or female. From what I see of such couples, bot retain masculine appearance.

Well, the arguments in the Matter of Tickle -v- Giggle have been presented and final statements made. The matter is now under consideration by the Judge and we await his judgement.

Due to the behaviour of transgender activists in and around the Court earlier in the preparations for the trial, the Judge banned the live streaming of what was going on. After a quick search today, I can only offer a few links to reports, both of which seem to be from supporters of the app's creator.

https://www.womensforumaustralia.org/tickle_v_giggle_hearing_highlights

https://www.binary.org.au/tickle_v_giggle_hearing_concludes

https://bioedge.org/gender/transgender/tickle-v-giggle-australian-court-to-decide-who-are-women-and-who-are-not/

I don't know if I am getting this wrong, but I have a feeling that the lesbian community might be on the side of Giggle. Despite a lesbian's sexual preference, she is still a "she" and is at as much risk of male physical abuse as any heterosexual female.

What I found interesting in one of those referenced links was the comment that Tickle's complaint had the whiff of "entitlement". That because of a personal choice that person (I decline to use an identifying pronoun) the person was entitled to full access to all things the rest of society allocates to persons defined by their genetic makeup.

4 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

With the house comes a fully self-contained 2br cottage, a coachouse (with vehicle nspection pit), a share of the local community pub, and for a little more, as many of the garden implements as they want.

Wow! The perfect Escape to the Country fodder. House with holiday let; outbuildings and close to the local pub. All it needs is for the village to have a Norman church dedicated to an eccentric Saxon hermit. 

A belief in an afterlife seems to be something inherent in mammals (and birds) which live in small groups where each member recognises all others. When one of the group dies the rest gather and perform some sort of behaviour that we humans anthropomorphise as something grief for the loss. Note that that behaviour does not apply to dead members of other groups.

As human society developed, there were the mundane things of survival and the celebratory things. After a lifetime where the mundane was ever so much more than the celebratory, is it any wonder that the main hope of life after death was a time of fun and games? Look at the ancient Mediterranean cultures. Their afterlife was one of relaxation in pleasant surroundings. For the Vikings it was music and feasting. For Hindus, it is another go on the roundabout.

However for Christians it's all harps and hallelujahs. Christ said that his heavenly father would build a house in heaven for those who died in His grace. No talk of choir practice all day long. It must have been one of those misogynistic, sourpuss Fathers of the Church sometime in the First Millennium who decided to foist that sitting on clouds playing the harp and getting a Handel on a boring song on the faithful.

As for the Muslims and their 72 virgins, remember that virginity is like a party balloon - one prick and it's gone.