The Random thought thread

[willedoo]

1 hour ago, old man emu said:

The naming difference between the two forms of football came from what might be classed as social class sources.

 

The Rugby Football Union was established in London in 1871, uniting 21 clubs and officially standardizing the laws of the sport. So it was a joining together of a group of clubs, no doubt to enable a competition to be run.  In 1895, the sport split into two separate codes—rugby union and rugby league—over a dispute regarding "broken-time payments" (compensating working-class players for missing work to play). There's your social class factor. Very much a similar thing happened with cricket, with the non-paid players called The Gentlemen, and the professionals.

ome, I guess it's a similar story in NSW where you live. In Queensland, and I guess NSW, Union is the private school code. It's also the predominant football code played in rural areas. The reason behind that is that a lot of kids in rural areas go to boarding school due to the lack of nearby public schools. Some kids in the bush would have to travel for hours each day to get to a public school, so boarding school is often the only viable option. They play Union at boarding school and bring it home with them when they leave school. Country Rugby Union is a fairly casual affair. Most of them do it just for the social life. It's often the only social life for young people in some places. In some country towns if you're not a player or supporter or somehow involved with the football scene, you're right out of the loop.

[old man emu]

1 hour ago, willedoo said:

It's also the predominant football code played in rural areas.

Gilgandra doesn't have a Rugby team, but for some reason Gulargambone, up the road does have a lub and theGil boys play there. I agree that it is the Boarders who are the main players, but the local boys still do well. What is interesting is that the Aboriginal boys are not made welcome. That's why they play League.

[willedoo]

1 hour ago, old man emu said:

What is interesting is that the Aboriginal boys are not made welcome. That's why they play League.

That is interesting. One of the Aboriginal blokes I worked with in the oilfields was the captain of the Dubbo A grade Rugby League team, and the other Aboriginal people I worked with were all League supporters and some were players.

[old man emu]

For some reason, South Sydney is the preferred team here.

[willedoo]

2 hours ago, old man emu said:

For some reason, South Sydney is the preferred team here.

It's hard to figure team loyalties sometimes. A mate of mine I grew up with here in Queensland is a Manly supporter. I've never asked him why, but his father was originally from Sydney so maybe his dad played for Manly or was connected to the club.

[old man emu]

I don't follow AFL, but my Dad was born in Carlton Vic, so if anyone asks me which AFL team I follow, I say, 'Carlton'. I couldn't name one player in the current lineup. 

[willedoo]

I love old industrial machinery. Today I picked up this old J.S. Richardson drill on marketplace and couldn't resist it for $50. There's way more value than that in the steel, electric motor and other components. Good old drills, made in Sydney in the days when we manufactured stuff and employed Australians.

 

At some stage in it's career it's been converted from a pedestal drill to a wall mount. I already have a big industrial grade pedestal drill, so my first thought with this is to mount it like the second photo I've edited with a flip-around and a cutout. In other words, use the wall mounting plate as a base stand and do a bit of sideways stuff with it. I'll have a good look in the morning and check how that will fit with the gearbox oil level/ fill and drain plugs etc. in that orientation.

 

[willedoo]

Got a better pic of the old Richardson drill today. It's a heavy old thing, a lot of cast iron and heavy steel plate where the mount has been modified. This is the way I'll mount it as a horizontal drive if the gearbox lube works out. 

 

[old man emu]

This post is really random, but I figured you blokes would be interested to see the new procedures for flying into Bankstown now that Western Sydney Airport is operational. As you go through the video pause it and havea look at the VTC and see all the airspace changes. In the comments, someone says that new peocedures for departing Bankstown mean it taakes longer to even get to the runway. By the way, the ME in the title is not me.

 

 

[facthunter]

Think I'd like to do that in a sim a few times, first. Nev

[old man emu]

The flight in the video from St Helens Park to Bankstown was over my old stomping grounds, so I knew exactly where the aircraft was all the time, except the right hand circuit to 29. So the navigating wasn't a problem for me. My difficulty would be learning the radio work since when I flew at Bankstown years ago the amount of radio work was minimal. 

 

However, an experieinced pilot who took the time to study the documentation should catch on pretty quickly. Afterall, we have student pilots whose training base can be airports like Canberra where the student has to be as good with the radio as an airline pilot.

[facthunter]

I operated out of Bankstown too but It's quite complicated now. Far more effort than flying into a Major airport. You can't do too much Preparation.  A Visual of the Route will imprint it on the Mind. It IS VFR.   Any Pilot must be on top of the radio procedures for where you are. Nev

[red750]

Every nation is affected economically by the wars in Iran and Ukraine.

 

Then how come the UK has had zero interest rate rises this year, USA has had 1, Canada zero, New Zealand 2 and the EU 2, but Australia has now had 5?

[facthunter]

WE started from near  Zero rate of Interest, which is unsustainable and each increment has been small, resulting in a Large Number of increments. Now we are only slightly above what would be  considered Normal. Fuel Price rises are more than enough  to Produce high inflation  because transport costs flow through to Just about everything. Interest rate changes are a blunt Instrument but the Reserve Bank is not controlled by the Government and IF the RB Over-cook it it may Cause a recession which we don't want and will cause the Interest rate to be Lowered   I would not like to be in the R.B's shoes, if that happens but the Opposition will blame the Gov't for that also. Nev

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[old man emu]

One problem on the Economy with changing the interest rate, either up or down, is that the effects of the change do not immediately alter the inflation rate. I accept that the banks change their loan rates virtually as soon as the words fall from the lips of the RB's Director, but for the things that really affect the rate of inflation take some months to kick into play.

 

What are affecting the inflation rate, and which are things that our Government nor the Reserve Bank can control are the Middle East situation and terrorism conducted through the use of AI. 

[willedoo]

1 hour ago, red750 said:

Every nation is affected economically by the wars in Iran and Ukraine.

 

Then how come the UK has had zero interest rate rises this year, USA has had 1, Canada zero, New Zealand 2 and the EU 2, but Australia has now had 5?

The way the so called financial experts on the ABC radio explain that is that Australia had a much bigger underlying inflation problem than other countries before the war in the Middle East started. Because we were doing so much worse on inflation than other countries before the war, we started behind the eight ball and have a bigger job than the others to control it.

[Jerry_Atrick]

3 hours ago, red750 said:

Every nation is affected economically by the wars in Iran and Ukraine.

 

Then how come the UK has had zero interest rate rises this year, USA has had 1, Canada zero, New Zealand 2 and the EU 2, but Australia has now had 5?

The above answers are definitely some of the reason. Also, the UK debt is 96% if GDP and Australia's is around 33%. A small interest rate bump will compound UK's fiscal woes, while a small bump won't have the same marginal impact on Australia's. However, the BoE meet tomorrow and are expected to raise the rate anyway. Note, the UK and Aus inflation rate are about the same, so you can argue the UK have been kicking the can down the road. 

 

On the other hand, I am not sure in the current state of the economy, putting up interest rates is necessarily correct, either as energy inflation is probably putting the brakes on spending in other areas.