Listen up. I was not having a go at you. You came in guns blazing re whether I support/non-support Clive and I answered your question.

I would not trust Big Cloive out of sight on a dark night. However, that is significantly further than I trust any of the other political careerists currently on offer.

Could also ditch the ridiculous emission standards being driven by the Eurotrash as well & have no need for adblue

Last I checked, better than 80% of the rail motive power in this country does not require AdBlue. And that includes the museum pieces and chuff-chuffs that the tourists like to photograph…

Not a bad wrap up of the insanity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW6M3YrvGjc

Wasn’t pee also used in tanning leather?

Traditionally.

Until more concentrated, industrial processes of generating urea came about.

If that does come to fruition it will be a reversal of 800 years of English history

I think it has come to fruition Roger, how many laws, principles and declarations have been bulldozed during this pretend crisis?

Just replied to an email from Liberal candidate for Cowan, Vince Connolly. His email banged on about Labor lies and Medicare cuts and GST cuts!

My reply

Hi Vince,

I have stood for public office twice (unsuccessfully) namely the 2016 and 2019 federal elections as a senate candidate for WA.
This email from you and what it’s about, demonstrates clearly to me why I can’t vote for your party anymore.
The failure to make sure that mandatory vaccines and vaccines passports would not happen are a failure. The excuse that there was nothing you could do is BS.
My prediction is that the next federal election will result in a massive vote shift away from both Labor and Liberal.
My wish is that the minor parties on the right have the balance of power.
Finally, give yourself an uppercut.

Yes, fullers used urine. So did the tanners who produced vellum from sheepskins.

Stinky business. Definitely an “outside the city walls” occupation.

Remember the hum of O’Riordan Street Mascot? Before it all became gentrified.

custard, despite your reply I’m sure they’re spending stupid amounts of money on all sorts of expert to tell them where they’re going wrong. Can’t listen to what people are telling them, which is pretty much the problem to start with.

Vive la reesistance

Are the freedom fighters from the NT going to rescue us or is all up to Popular Front for the Liberation of Viktoristan?

Popular Front for the Liberation of Viktoristan?

What about the People’s Front?

Or the Popular Peoples’ Front?

#Splitters!

So where do they store three months worth of date rolls for 120 men/women/confused?

Submarines on a war patrol often store a “false floor” in many passageways; ie: tins of food all of the same height, with some sort of flooring over the top. Has to be worked out carefully, as you don’t want stuff which can break up and get into the pumps if you are trying to save the boat in a damage control situation.

Over time all of the stores get consumed, so you can get rid of the false floor. In the same way there is more room provided by firing off torpedoes, with the reloads getting used up.

A rather odd design feature in WWII and before had stores, including torpedoes, stored outside the pressure hull. The submarine was basically the watertight pressure hull, with a deck above it – the outer casing – with a framework of struts and so on to hold it up. There were hatches and the like to open up compartments. They were “free-flooding” which meant they were open to the sea overall, although some could be wateright; eg: if you had an aircraft hangar, as some WWII boats had.

So the outer deck was a series of slats which meant the seawater drained through it, and all sorts of materials stored between the outer and inner hulls. I was doing some work on the I-124 design (the Japanese 80-man sub sunk outside Darwin Harbour) the other day, and you can see the bulges in the outer casing where two torpedo reloads were stored forward of the deck gun.

That all started disappearing when sonar became more and more effective. The more weird bits you have protruding off the streamlined “albacore” hull the more noisier the boat is on sonar. Just like cars, submarines became more and more streamlined, but in their case not just for speed and fuel efficiency but to become electronically quieter as well.

Hey, Tractor Kelly has resigned/retired.

Now she can return to her first one; Rock ‘n’ Roll impresario for some womens collective core outfit.

Lets take over the Collie council and declare independence from McClown based on producing stuff thats useful from coal

The coal itself is still useful, too. Though slow-burning, highly friable (making it a bugger to store) and prone to sparking.

The WAGR used to admix it with imported Newcastle coal in the summer months to cut down on spark-throwing and the attendant bushfire risk.

WAGR
West Australian Government Railway

So that’s the reason for the spark.

I traveled that train service a lot. Fond memories.

The coal itself is still useful, too. Though slow-burning, highly friable (making it a bugger to store) and prone to sparking.

Where can I get coal dust in VIC? Need it for foundry sand.

All hail Dr Flyingduk!

As predicted: Third test NEGATIVE.

Giving up on getting tested, no way I’m going to test positive by accident or any other means. Useless pissweak bloody pox.

Well that fucks the route to a 6 month stay on vaccination.

So that’s the reason for the spark.

Only railway organisation I’ve ever seen that went to the trouble of having draft retarders in the chimney- A mesh screen attached to a wire and counterweight that flips shut and partially chokes the fire when the firehole door is open.

The idea was to minimise the risk of slacks and coal dust on the incoming shovel load being get ignited in mid-air, sucked straight through the tubes and out the chimney as flying sparks.

Most other railways worldwide didn’t go to the trouble of having an extra device on top of the usual mesh spark arrestors and the like in the smokebox. But then again, they weren’t running Collie coal…

Rex, could have had a contract at Collie once. FIFO from the East Coast (especially FNQ) killed it and I wasn’t interested in moving west in the boom.

Geology of Collie looks interesting, nomenclature indicates the sediment deposition wasn’t entirely uniform. All sitting on a Precambrian base. Reminds me of drilling in SA, once we hit the green lithologies of the Adelaide basement that was TD, they were Cambrian era.

Cheers, something to delve into this weekend when I get bored.

And if any middle class liberal objects, ask him if he’d be happy for his daughter to be employed thus.

Does this mean that Centrelink can force you to accept employment in a brothel yet?

H/T to Jeremy Hans again for spotting a typical piece of chicanery from Andrews and co. They announced today a public consultation on oversight of the police, as follow up to the Gobbo royal commission – with submissions due by the beginning of February. That is, when everybody is distracted by Christmas dinner (is it still legal to say Christmas in Victoria?) and the beach. Typical Socialist Left sham.

Geology of Collie looks interesting, nomenclature indicates the sediment deposition wasn’t entirely uniform. All sitting on a Precambrian base. Reminds me of drilling in SA, once we hit the green lithologies of the Adelaide basement that was TD, they were Cambrian era.

Cheers, something to delve into this weekend when I get bored.

If it helps, when Bennett Brook Railway imported its two South African Railways NG15s in 1983, some of the SA fuel was found still in the tenders.

Geological examination and comparison revealed that the fuel these things had been running on in Port Elizabeth was almost identical to the profile of Collie coal.

Now, I have fired some real shit in South Africa, including (presumably) Wolverkrans coal that was little more than flammable slag. It was hard to reconcile the similarities of the fuel, given that Collie coal’s friability extends even to its clinkers (You can disintegrate even a big one with a sneeze).

This guy really knows his stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ2KhjAu3ME

Rex, Moura has some coal like that. Vitreous and so friable only the best & careful drillers could core it. I hated sampling it as it was so fragile. Saw some wicked gas kicks in that area too. One I have on film. Another we were still getting above LEL CH4 readings on the gas meter at 20m from the collar a week later.

Too bad about the faulting in the area that essentially trapped a number of rod strings and made it unviable. We were looking at it for Metallurgical coal.

sfw says:
December 3, 2021 at 4:14 pm

Clive Palmer is looking to challenge Andrews Pandemic Bill in court, he’ll take it all the way, using his own money. Now I know a lot here despise him but he is about the only one doing anything about it and using his own money. So tell me again how bad he is.

He’s also the only one who has taken the WA Government to the court over their shut the border policy. The Federal Government should have jointly appeared with Clive to protect the Federal Constitution, they did nothing.

It’s good that Clive gave it a shot, our governments, state and Federal, are determined to continue their tyranny.

Aussie Cossack, reckons our only submarine is in Holbrook! 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67AB4pZL3wc

Rickw, one hole I was supervising we lost 20K litres all with drilling muds in the space of an afternoon. Hole dry. Driller fairly experienced was scratching his head, didn’t feel like a fault, I saw nothing in the chips indicating as much. However the fluids were going somewhere and the only conclusion from both of us was a fault. He was worried the client would quibble on the usage of additives and standby to send the water truck away. I was happy to vouch for this one. Client was relaxed about it, I guess expected but we lost the rod string a couple of days later when the hole bridged trapping it solid.

I know why Anglo kept to Dawson and avoided that area.

Not a bad wrap up of the insanity:

2022 says hold my beer

15 degrees.

I don’t think this is survivable.

Well said custard.
Those uppercuts are in severe deficit. We may have to outsource.

Bugger. The mints don’t offer the bottle of water on hot days; the driver may.

Prohibits property owners from refusing to rent their properties for legal sex work, in order to prevent discrimination against sex workers – Clause 36.

Sorry mate, I don’t want jizz all over the carpet…it’s because I have crippling OCD, it’s not discrimination. As an NDIS recipient, can you blow me on my Medicare card?

Disruptors will eventually be outlawed and your pensions forfeited.

Justice demands it. It will be peaceful, democratic and the public, except for a few anti Australian fascist crackpots, will cheer wildly.

A Painted Dog poll conducted for The West Australian

Leftwits. Paid by Leftwits. Polling Leftwits, to shill and gaslight for the Leftiest of the Leftwits.

Sing with me Cats! Its starting to look a lot / Like an Election Year…

Dr BG

There is a protest happening in Perth tomorrow at Elizabeth Quay starting 10.00am

Thanks custard.