Bruce Tuncks

I reckon that lots of "believers" are nothing of the sort. Personally, I used to tick the "c of e " box because I reckoned this would keep me out of trouble the best. SO... here i modestly proclaim "Tuncksies test of true belief" which means that you need to do something which makes no sense in this world if you did not believe. Anonymously giving all your money to the poor would pass my test. Getting to be the headmaster of a church school fails for sure. Alas, I don't actually know anybody who truly believes.

Here's the trouble with autocrats... they have to murder to get in, then to stay in. So you are ruled by the best murderer around. But how do they change over? If this problem can be solved, it might be that autocrats will become more common. In Nth Korea, I notice that they have dealt with the problem of the old guy dying with pure denial!

Nope marty, but everything I plant goes brown. I call it brown thumbs as opposed to green ones.

my super power is brown thumbs. I read about people with green ones with envy.

I reckon this site is by far the best place to get good technical advice with the minimum of commercially-driven people. I have never been disappointed. And, there are questions which I reckon are non-trivial, ( like why do the democrats not support the least-objectionable republican ) which I really want to know about, and this is the best site around for that too.

Can somebody please explain this to me.... it seems to my uneducated mind that the most moderate of the republicans should be supported by the democrats and easily win the vote. Since there is nothing like this happening, I must be missing some information.

Thanks willedoo.

Me too ( as per nomadpete) old K... I always liked your posts.

A very long time ago, there was a religious guy came on here. I think he was ( properly and politely ) ridiculed out. I personally take some of the blame, I started to ask about the firmament etc, things which demonstrated those biblical writers limited education.

In Benghazi, there is a hotel called the "Omar Khayam" hotel and I have actually stayed there so this all must be correct huh.

I reckon that old Omar was the world's first athiest.... he wrote "And that inverted bowl we call the sky, "whereunder crawling cooped we live and die... Raise not your hands for IT to help, "for it rolls impotently on as thou and I" and, much later " Who is the potter,pray, and who the pot?" For many years, I thought that the translator was an atheist who only pretended to translate so he would not be killed for thinking such blasphemous stuff himself. But Fitzgerald was only one of many translators so that makes old Omar the world's first atheist. Here's a bit of trivia.... many more soldiers in WW1 had a copy of the rubaiyat of Omar Khayam than ever carried a bible, and quite right too, says I. WW1 marked the end of Christendom as a place on earth.

i thought it was "i before e except after c"

Low cars! I agree with u space. My last year's ford falcon has been replaced by a higher mitsubishi ASX, with the main difference being the height of the seat compared to the road. The SUV is a lot easier to get in n out of. I would not recommend anybody return to a low car after driving in a higher one.

Yep, right as usual nomad. Once the local GP was complaining to me and mum about his daughters..... we told him how we counted ....1. they were not in jail 2. they were not on drugs and 3. They still talked to us. 3 out of 3 not bad huh?

I agree with that Nomad, and many years ago when I was an accidental landlord, I found it out to my cost. One thing that I should have forseen was how the agent would see lots more of the tenants than the owners, and come to take their side.

Well wherever he got to live, it was better than the jail he avoided. I wonder if he ever got back with the now-rich wife...

Shearers are costing the farmer more than he gets for the wool around here, with meat sheep. This is a new thing, and old habits die slowly. And here's one for jerry... there was a farm "consultant" who was ripping off farmers. Just before he went broke, he had a divorce and she got all the assets, so there was none left for the dudded farmers. ( I don't think he deliberately set out to rip them off, I thought he decided he was smart enough to invest their money at high rates and pay them at the lower rate of safe investment, all the while pretending that the money was invested at the low rate.) I was always suspicious of the divorce, but in admiration of how clever an idea it was.

I hope the Chinese make electric cars cheaper in the future. Right now, you are paying a LOT more for being an early adopter. There is a lot less build in an electric car than an IC one. And there should be cheaper batteries one day too.

When I was in London my host took me to a restaurant, and I gradually got the message that he had paid a LOT for what I thought was a normal white wine. Yep those frogs know how to overcharge rich poms. But we in Australia are spoiled by the quality of what we drink. If a winemaker put poor quality stuff into a bottle, I doubt if he would be invited to the next industry meeting. Yes, they do make some bad stuff, but this is sent to the distillery, or at worst put into a cask.

I never understood just why " unwooded chardonnay " was more expensive, now I know it must taste better.

If you put "saracen's head" into google you will get quite a few, so you are correct OME.

I have to say that IF you are really employing a winemaker, you need to know a lot more about the candidates than where they were educated. We sure did graduate some dopes. But once I met a frenchman who had inherited a winery from his grandfather. He knew no chemistry, which is terrible for a countryman of Lavoisier, and he answered many questions with "We do it zat way because my grandfather did it zat way"... I would never have employed him.

I think you have a funny old system there. We have the Torrens title stuff, and you appreciate it when you go older than it goes. Once we tried to but a block at Kapunda, and the sale fell through when the seller couldn't prove he had the right to sell. Kapunda is a very old town.

OME, I do know of a Saracen's Head pub in Adelaide, Its on Carrington Street. But there must be others, which do you mean?

I agree Nev, but in cool areas like Europe, you are allowed to add sugar to the ferment, while in Australia, you are allowed to add acid but not sugar. Acid helps if there was too much sun and for good wine you need a balance, or so I've been told. Thanks for the comment about the yeast. I reckon you studied winemaking more than me.