Grumpy Old Nasho

Is that an insult? Are you getting me mixed up with someone else? The topic is Solar/Wind power and what it's costing us.

No, I'm in Mid-West NSW, with a supply of candles in my pantry. They get used at a rapid rate because four are used at a time for lengthy outages. Memories come flooding back how my Grandmother, living by herself, in the fifties, without electricity, just candles after sunset in the evenings. And here I am, living the same way on many occasions, in 2026 modernity. Although, now I have small portable LED lights as well as candles.

$0.3699 There's other charges as well, all the funny money they rip out of you.

I've filled 23 1/2 pages of a medium size writing pad with dates and times of blackouts since 2015 - twenty lines per page, and each line represents a blackout. Moreover, I can't see an end to these blackouts. And there's no end to charging more for power.

When is solar and wind power going to be cheaper than fossil fuel power? Why aren't politicians jailed for misleading consumers?

We are being ripped off, that's what's happening. We foolishly believe that "clean" energy is cheaper, but it's more expensive than what fossil fuel power was.

We have solar and wind generation farms, yet my latest quarterly bill is as high, or higher, than many bills I got before wind and solar. Does this prove that "cheap" electricity from wind and solar is a hoax?

Pauline Hanson was jailed for the same thing.

In the article ... "You only really appreciate your freedom when you’ve had it taken away" That's how I felt when I was conscripted. Here's a young bloke being dragged away for conscription. The Fed Government made sure he lost his freedom for two years - or go to jail for two years. In the article, it says Karen's husband's visa ran out - why didn't he try to get it renewed straight away? Look what happened to them. They got detained for months. What we've got to do now, is make sure those female ISIS muslims and their kids are kept out of Australia. Albanese said "They made their bed, now they've got to lay in it"

Yes, until the UK military embarks on another adventure into an Islamic nation ... things change then, the mildest muslim can self-radicalize. And don't forget that British soldier, Lee Rigby, back from Afghanistan, killed and nearly beheaded by 2 muslims on a London street. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/two-muslim-converts-guilty-killing-uk-soldier-lee-rigby-london-flna2D11775017 A soldier would be well advised not to trust muslims at home or in the battle zone. Friendly muslims killed allied troops .... https://www.newsweek.com/afghanistan-green-blue-killings-explained-64561

One thing we can't afford to do is include muslims in the crews of the new nuclear submarines.

I moved to the bush to get away from it all. I don't even vote anymore, it's not worth my time voting for idiot politicians who bring in murdering muslims and then blame everyone except themselves for the Bondi massacre. And now they're letting in more Islamic wives of ISIS terrorists just because they're Australian citizens. Would Mars bump into Planet Earth if their citizenship was revoked ... to the stupid far-left Labor party, it would.

Watch this model ornithopter turn continually to the left without a trimmed rudder. Amazing!

What's the aerodynamics behind it?

One Nation is picking up in the polls - why do you think that is?

The major parties are past their use-by date, their ideological psyches are exhausted and.. irrelevant going forward. They are still fighting like cats and dogs breaching hate speech laws. Nothing about those dinosaur parties makes sense anymore. They are demented, irrational, and with no sense of Aussie "brotherhood". They give money away like it's confetti. The Taliban got $50mil. Muslims in OZ got $27mil. Stolen generations are getting millions in compensation, but conscripts are getting nothing. Trump made idiots of school boys Albanese and Kevin Rudd. 15 Jews shot dead by muslims and idiot Albanese blamed the far right, there's something very twisted about Albanese's brain, it's not quite all there. More idiocy from the major parties yet to come, be ready for it.

Sounds like you were part of the problem.

Did they get their 20c/hour extra for being super grunts? That's all I got for my trade skills, and I can't quite remember if it was even that much. My pay disappeared in a flash with no chance of saving anything. The pay was far less than I got from my job in civilian life. Us Nashos should have formed a union to fight for better pay and conditions. I remember a barracks we stayed in, at Broadmeadows Vic, it had no glass in the windows. Mosquitoes swarmed in, even getting under our sheets. They were so thick, I got up one night and lit four mosquito coils to fill the donga with smoke. We breathed that for the rest of the night. The Public never knew it, but new barracks were built only for Basic training camps. Parents visiting to see Marching Out parades at basic training camps couldn't miss seeing those brand new buildings and fooled into thinking that their conscripted sons were getting a good deal - like hell - all other camps were dilapidated WW2 wooden or corrugated iron shacks. A pig farmer wouldn't keep his pigs in them.

Facebook would have moderators and censors. Somethings might be just a little too sensitive for the public to learn about.

And I thought I was grumpy.

Well why was he there?

A 1950s camera with Lanthanum glass lens - more than 10 times the price of the same camera with lesser quality glass (AU$1,100) The prices vary from AU$7,000 to AU$15,000 - too much for the average Joe

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-23/riverina-principal-to-stand-aside-antisemitism-investigation/106260992 The antisemitism law will be tested on this Imam as well, I've read where the law is retrospective.

Well that post will test the new amendments in the hate speech law - watch out!

I've always considered the major parties as the worst offenders of hate speech. They hate Pauline Hanson, and they hate anyone who opposes them. They hate conservative foreign visitors who want to give talks to audiences here. And they hate Trump. In your thread "What is Trump up to now", you'd better watch what you say. You won't be able to advocate for his death anymore.