Death of another Australian industry.

[red750]

Australia's last white paper manufacturer is closing. The plant is located in the Latrobe Valley. Restrictions on logging are quoted as the reason. Paper supplies (writing paper, printer paper, exercise books, envelopes, etc.) will be sourced from overseas, primarily China. Prices wil inevitably increase. The only paper produced here will be recycled paper.

[spacesailor]

They Can make brown paper for the Old type shopping bags. using the Old growth forest.

spacesailor

[red750]

Back about 1994, I visiited that paper mill, well, the offices at least. I worked for a company that produced a software package for managing hazardous goods data, Materials Safety Data Sheets. I had to instal the software on their computer.

[pmccarthy]

We will have another toilet paper emergency come next pandemic.

[onetrack]

It's alright - after the Great Toilet Paper Scramble of 2020, every Australian household now has enough toilet paper in storage, to keep them going until the year 2065.

[spacesailor]

Not really! .

We don't get a ' news paper ' anymore .

SO , lack of alternate toilet paper . LoL

spacesailor

[pmccarthy]

As the Hindu clergyman said "now let us spray".

 

[onetrack]

Right after the Vindaloo meal purchased from a street vendor in Kolkata?

[facthunter]

Delhi Belly?  Just add water or salad Nev

[Bruce Tuncks]

There are very few places where it is safe to eat a salad. Gosh its nice to live in one. I personally got the runs from a restaurant in Cairo and it was awful, and there was nothing uncooked in sight.

[onetrack]

I believe red cordial is the best treatment for "Delhi Belly", and the cordials with a high percentage of rasperry juice are best. Cottees cordial used to be the recommended one, but many reckon Cascade rasperry juice cordial is better.

There's something in the chemical and sugar content that kills the bugs. I hate to think what else the red cordial kills in your stomach.

[facthunter]

Don't you ever "sigh" for the fleshpots of Egypt?. These days if you stay long your Goose will be cooked. It's OFF my destination list.  Nev

[Jerry_Atrick]

I spent two weeks in Hyderabad.. I ate the local fayre for all but one meal.. inclduding from street vendors. The stuff was so cooked from the street vendors, that if I only ate it, I would have died of malnutrition as anything useable was cooked out of it. But, the only time I got sick was when I ordered, on the Sunday, a roast chicken from the hotel.. Apparently western food is ordered so infrequently, that it sits in the warmer for days or even a week before they throw it out.

[onetrack]

I've never sighed for any fleshpots and I wouldn't know a fleshpot if I saw one, and I certainly couldn't imagine Egypt as providing anything resembling a fleshpot. I've been to Cairo, and it's not a place I want to revisit.

[Yenn]

Try Singapore. The best fleshpot, or at least it was when I worked there in 98 and 71/2. Food is perfectly safe.

[Jerry_Atrick]

Death of on Aussie industry and a birth of a death industry in Aus: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-01-18/droneshield-selling-drone-counter-measures-detection-guns/101852562

 

[Marty_d]

On 20/01/2023 at 11:52 AM, Bruce Tuncks said:

There are very few places where it is safe to eat a salad. Gosh its nice to live in one.

You live in a salad?  Is it the Waldorf?

[old man emu]

Nope. Great Caesar's (ghost) 

[pmccarthy]

Either way, he is in his salad days.

[Bruce Tuncks]

There was an american celebrity and his wife who were trying to be careful in Mexico. No salads!  No drinking water that was not from a bottle...  They nearly died though, and their source of infection turned out to be the ice cubes .

[facthunter]

It's normally lead poisoning from a pistol.  Nev

[Bruce Tuncks]

It was in Acapulco I remember, at a swish hotel. Yep, they sure have lots of murders there... I read of a girl being promoted to police chief but she was killed like her predecessors I think.