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Fidel wouldn’t be too proud of his boy.
To everyone else who responded to Gabor, when you get cataracts done in both eyes one is done with near…
At the specialist with the old man, up for a new hip… 5-6 months wait on public ( not too…
That the plant at Kwinana?
David Vance ??
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Must watch. Superb.
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This is great.
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Posted on 5:21 AM · Jan 10th, 2022
Lol!
You’re an expert at fucking tools, eh?
Right, has a tool mufti arisen this evening. We need a tool mufti.
Did a renovation of a Victorian property just before I sold it. $88 Ozito belt sander from Craigieburn Bunnings that I killed within a week, meh it did what I needed done in sanding a loungeroom with glued wooden panelling over horsehair plaster. Pain in rear was constant adjustments to belt to stop it flying off or being eaten that more expensive brands don’t have to the same extent. In all honesty I wasn’t expecting much and it lasted longer than expectations but I certainly wouldn’t be using it if I was professionally engaged in that work. A relatives DeWalt drills and even an old Makita circular saw were much better quality that I had on loan.
Has Novak been re-arrested?
Is that confirmed yet?
Not really…
I tried it once, but it hurt too much.
On Twitter. I think it’s bullshit.
Did a lot of domestic reno with Ozito but wouldn’t use them for work
Novak Djokovic’s win over the Australian government is “poetic justice” for a government deserving “comeuppance and then some,” according to The Institute of Public Affairs’ Gideon Rozner.
“For its horrible and cruel mismanagement of our international and domestic borders for the last two years,” Mr Rozner said.
“This is a comeuppance the government deserved for leaving expats stranded … criminalising Australian citizens from returning to their own home.
“The government deserved an utter humiliation over this, and they got it.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly12gJOCR1g
Sure.
Guys doing that work used specialised tools not found in Bunnings, the brand isn’t Ozito but it isn’t DeWalt, Milwaukee or Makita either.
I give to you… Grigory!
(No seriously, it’s your turn to kick the troll 😉 ).
The next step is to report the Ministers to the International Court of Justice and remove the AO from Australia. Violation of human rights is the worst thing in the world.
Funny how most of the tradies and fitters and sparkies I know and work with swear by Milwaukee and Makita, Grigory…
Annual Lamb Add.
A bloody classic, but sadly all to true:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck8CO6zGFB0
Wrong.
For the sort of use ameters like me use a drill for, ozito is OK. The best bit is the
price. If you only use it a couple of times a year that matters. If it dies after ten times I don’t care, cause that is five years.
If I was using it frequently I would get dewalt or makita.
A lot of tradies used Ozito for a while. They would blow them up and avail themselves of the Bunnings replacement policy – over and over again.
Then Bunnings beefed up their “trade vs domestic” usage policy.
Tradies stopped using them overnight.
I brought one of these because I accidentally left my main drill at the farm.
Gave it an absolute flogging drilling holes in steel and it’s still going:
https://www.bunnings.com.au/xu1-500w-13mm-hammer-drill_p0011398?gclid=CjwKCAiAz–OBhBIEiwAG1rIOppLgDgFNXjaAsp65nLIvsHrNjeogWmnO2vYgYp7Ztof4W2gfl0S0xoCtZUQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
Even if they let him stay, they are trying to make it impossible for him to win. Just think how much they’ve interfered with his training, not to mention his diet and his peace of mind. Cretins.
Vikpol dogs being dogs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSwNJvqS9mI
Just watching The Bicycle Thief. In one scene the driver of a truck is on the right side of the vehicle, unlike Europe today. In 1948 did Italy drive like Britain?
PS – It’s great to be able to view classics on Beamafilm.
So, easier than cordless then? If you’re trying to find an angle for attack, you’re just being a dick.
I have Ryobi 18V battery kit- The drill has been in semi-regular use for some 5 years, and the leaf blower and whipper-snipper are pretty good and long-lasting too.
The mower did not last well against a substantial lawn, and has been replaced with a Victa petrol model.
The Ryobi soldering station is pretty grouse for hobby work, though.
A work colleague of mine also has Ryobi kit, but purchased cheap Ryobi-compatible Chinese cells. He had them overheat, swell and start to explode one afternoon while charging, but managed to get them clear of his shed before the really bad things happened.
I use the proprietary cells alone, for that reason.
Even if they let him stay, they are trying to make it impossible for him to win. Just think how much they’ve interfered with his training, not to mention his diet and his peace of mind. Cretins.
Yes, but they also made him really pissed of. I think he would want this win more than any other.
Rukshan reporting on Facebook that ScoMo and Hawke have folded.
First smart thing they have done in a long time.
Yep,
and a cockhead like you would charge half an hour, each time.
A hostile crowd will make him play even better too. The bonus is it will make Australia look even worse.
What would you call what’s been done to us over the past two years?
I think the girls should start discussing irons so JC doesn’t feel left out.
Go around any new housing estate or renovation job and find the bloke using 240 volt or petrol tools.
Exceptions might be demo saws, conc mixers and compound mitre saws.
Can’t think of much else.
But what would 500,000 tradesmen know, eh Googlery?
BTW, how are Painie, Burny and Wader going?
Nick Kyrgios said yesterday there was no way he wanted to draw to play Djoker after this.
I bought an Ozito compound mitre saw when I did all the cedar trims on a reno years ago.
dont trust the angles
make your protractor and it works fine
lent it somebody
and made damned sure I never asked for it back
Yeah, complete removal of our natural rights they had no right to take. The blame rests squarely on the Australian bedwetting sheep that let them do it. And now we pay the price of their cowardice.
Hopefully there will be a class action and we can sue the .gov back to the stone age and hang the bastards high.
Katzenjammer says:
January 10, 2022 at 10:15 pm
Hmmmm.
Sweden before the great switch from LHD to RHD in 1967? A pommy vehicle on Euro soil? RHD to be on the kerbside for deliveries? (Rural US vehicles have occasionally been RHD for that reason, so the driver can stuff mailboxes from the driver’s seat.)
Sorry Dover,
Accidentally reported Johanna’s comment after 4pm. My fat clumsy finger again. Apologies.
Pretty clearly it’s all about Djokovic’s low key Covi/Vax stance which is:
He ain’t getting it.
That the Government would go to this much trouble and lose so much skin amongst it’s own voters raises the question:
All the Celebs that are Yay/Vax, what are they being allowed to get away with because they toed the line?
horses for courses
if yr a cabinet maker the Makita is excellent
if yr a sparky putting in tek screws, drilling 20mm holes and 100mm plaster holes for downlights then deWalt kicks arse
if yr drilling double brick with a 30mm SDS and firing percussives to hang 100s of meters of conduit then, Hilti is yr go to
second best hammer drill I ever owned was a Hitach … the Hilti shits all over it
I justified buying a Bosch when I was laying a new deck (based on what I would save doing it myself).
Accurate and cuts clean.
No blade deviation or wobble.
I can shave an almost transparent wafer thin sliver of the end of a piece and it won’t slide off or tear.
That and DeWalt drills and drivers were the weapons of choice.
Looking forward to capsicum spray used on the AO crowd to keep the Serbs quiet during serves.
Should be a hoot.
Another example of Maximum Leaders nazi storm troopers.
I was particularly useful after Cyclone Marcus a few years back.
Got out there with the electric chain saw to cut up downed palm trees.
Then realised that the power outage meant no power.
Slunk quietly back to the shed.
A good theme for a Speccy or Quadrant article.
Alex Hawke was seriously considering cancelling Djoker’s visa, using ministerial discretion, presumably on character or public interest grounds.
Let’s have a look at the rogue’s gallery of pond-scum which he hasn’t deported despite overwhelming evidence that they should be gone.
I’ll bet there is a choice lot of child molesters, drug dealers, standover men and rapists still parked at the bottom of his in-tray while he gives them all “due consideration” (ie caves in to any spiv lobbyist who suggests that there might be an electoral backlash among 500 of the crook’s “communidy” if he gets turfed).
The only thing I don’t like on my Bosch saw is the laser guide.
Re-set it twice and it was out of whack again in five minutes.
Turned it off and never bothered with it again.
I rate my deWalts
by god they’ve had a flogging and they [mostly] keep on going
guy I work with runs only Hilti
where mine kept going, he had trigger and chuck problems
on the other hand, he goes down South Melbourne somewhere and they fix em
whereas mine when they’re dead need replacing.
the real difference is the big bastards with the SDS chuck.
my deWalt is a limp lettuce leaf compared to his Hilti … that thing just churns thru concrete like butter and is a glory to use.
dover can we have a dedicated power tools thread?
It just dawned on me why Googlery sticks with his 240v mains powered tools.
You can’t strangle old women with a cordless.
Succession.
The show with the bloke who does the thing to the other one, and the bloke who had a hat once, I think.
Apologies. Haven’t seen it. I was feeling a bit left out.
It’s nice that Ed’s special interest is… tools.
One for cordless.
Another one for flint axes, bronze age hammers, iron age foundry tools and 240v corded tools.
So, after all that, which is the best brand of power tool?
And Joker is such a clear and present danger to Australia, what with the ‘vax’ holding back a torrent of 80% deadly COVID disease! We need to protect Australia!!
Horses for courses it seems.
Depends if you are doing it all day, every day for a job, or hanging a picture once every six months.
OTOH if you want to tie up victims, lots of power leads are the go.
cordless garrote
I still use 240v tools becuase I’m a tight bastard.
That and I have very large yard and trimming the hedge/ edging I need 75m of power cable. I would probably need a $1000 in batteries to do the whole lot. A 25m cable is $17.
I recently joined the 21st century and replaced my 1973 orange workhorse Black and Decker drill with a lighter weight battery version Makita.
The bit snapped on the very first hole I drilled and it was 2 weeks of serious faffing to extract the remnant from the drawer front. And I needed male assistance in the shape of my BIL
I also have a little XU1 sander that has been a solid performer for 6 years. Cost me all of $25.
Mind you, as someone up thread pointed out, using them a couple of times a year is hardly wearing them out.
Thermomix.
value for money
for home use
Ryobi aint too bad
This XUI brand sounds promising.
got a Ryobi chainsaw on a stick and its a ripper
Sancho just won the internets for the day.
The Beer whisperer – glad to see you back!
JC that is damned near implausible.
John H – you’re right, another John H did downshift in his early 30s.
I had a similar idea but my proposed income source was so overregulated I just gave up.
ScoMo as Milo Kerrigan?
I found out today that the members of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra are paid in excess of $100,000 per year. Not including overtime, and with minimum breaks, a 32 hour working week and six weeks’ leave.
Play the tuba and realise your dreams. The career guidance bloke never told me that.
You are a wicked man. I cut up old guttering at my Mum and Dad’s when Dad got too sick and the blade nearly flying off made so scared for my life I vomited in my mouth and went into a cold sweat.
Go a few km east of the Opera House and you can find talented (but expensive) pink oboe players, both male and female.
This is ridiculous and has got nothing to do with national security, a character test or the influx of criminals and indigent?
What else can you say other than Ruddock and Howard junked the executive government’s prerogative rights over immigration.
The bloke who bangs the cymbals at the end. $100K.
Extremely good mail.
Dot
Take it up with them. They suggest 1000 K loaded battery pack means only one monthly charge. 1000 K equals 12,000 K annual average.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/mercedes-benz-to-show-game-changing-concept-ev-with-621-miles-of-range-01640195730
Are they lying? You tell me.
I have never seen a tradie use Ozito.
Enough.
Thanks, Zulu. Had to see the glorious takes on the Djokovic debacle. Always great for plagiarizing for Twitter smackdowns.
More here, Dot.
Our version of Bill Nye, the science guy , said it couldn’t be done. Battery tech had reached the zenith. FMD
“Novax Djokorvic Hostage Of The Communist State of Dan Andrews!”
Video: Australian Tennis Officials Order Group To Hand Over Novak Djokovic Signs In Arena Or Leave
Tennis Australia demanded to confiscate the group’s signs because they were deemed “inappropriate”
Paul Joseph Watson
https://summit.news/2022/01/10/video-australian-tennis-officials-order-group-to-hand-over-novak-djokovic-signs-in-arena-or-leave/
Dot, it’s pretty clear that the only tool Grigory has ever used is a shovel. Oh, and a rake.
I suspect the Volkswagen folks and their chipping of their diesel vehicles for the EU and US’ emissions regulators will have nothing on the fury of folks who purchased the thing, when the batteries are found not to match the hyped performance under ‘normal’ conditions.
That said folks will have desperately wanted to believe the marketing spiel and/or be particularly susceptible to anything from Organic Mung Beans to electric cars to ethically farmed gypsum, so long as it broadly complies with The Narrative is so inevitable as to pass unnoticed…
The Exposé News
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OneAmerica Life Insurance data confirms Covid-19 Vaccinated 18 to 64-year-olds are 50% more likely to die than Unvaccinated people
OneAmerica Life Insurance data confirms Covid-19 Vaccinated 18 to 64-year-olds are 50% more lik
There are several sources for Covid-19 and overall mortality data. There is the government. There are the funeral directors. There are the churches and there ar
https://gettr.com/post/pnackxc6c4
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Posted on 2:38 AM · Jan 10th, 2022
Rex
You’re painting scenario of the future, which i need to remind you hasn’t occurred yet. Arguing that VW lied means Mercedes is lying isn’t realistic. If they achieve this , do you agree it changes everything? Yes or no?
My music teacher told me that it was a good gig to fall back on of other work’s quiet.
But he was more of a pops orchestra guy.
Now all we need is short charging times, a high number of charging cycles, along with reliable baseload power…like nuke.
Even at scale, what is the price and cost of those batteries?
JC-
If the Seeing Eye QWERTY survives its first European or North American winter without dying in the arse and/or makes its advertised 621 miles +/- 0.5mi., I will be impressed.
But I will personally take it seriously once it survives regular, rough normie usage, day in and day out for at least 15+ years. The effective design life of everything else mechanical and non-mechanical in the car.*
And for all the blatter about space-age and Formula One tech and materials, Mercedes is still relying on a variation of the Lithium-Ion battery.
Chemical science has yet to better the mix of power storage and delivery to weight ratio of this type of cell. Despite its very well known operating limitations, fire and explosion risks and disposal difficulties.
* This is why I mentioned the Model A motor earlier. Survivors have run for many decades with less than stellar maintenance and storage. And then can be restored to good order to run longer under more diligent caretakers.
I defy anyone to do that with a Prius in 10-20 years’ time. Or any of the overgrown golf buggies masquerading as serious electric-powered motor vehicles in major cities these days, for that matter.
(And no, keeping an immaculate Tesla Roadster in perfectly controlled conditions in a garage and taking ot for a spin on a quiet Sunday every so often to ensure the battery hasn’t crapped itself does not count…)
Dot
I was speaking to a salesmen at Mercedes Benz. They sell their own branded contraption which charges the car in 27 minutes to 80% at home. You can also purchase a “snake” which wonders toward the car as soon as you arrive home and plugs in the car.
Agree, JC, that ‘Succession’ isn’t for everyone. You have to have an interest in corporate high flying as well as familial dynamics. Shouldn’t be too big an ask around here, but maybe it is.
As for sound quality, it is fine, most of what you may not hear is completely guessable anyway – sit close if your hearing is getting on a bit, and it improves with a second viewing. Also online discussions can elucidate a few things you may have missed or misheard.
Rogan Loy is not miscast nor knock-kneed: Brian Cox is almost universally acclaimed in the role by many who know more about moguls and than or I do, and Elizabeth Murdoch has commented that she identifies with Shiv. I once shared a lift with Sir Frank Packer. We got held up between floors. It was like sharing a lift with my dad. My own dad, in familial terms, was as endearing as Rogan Loy is, so they get that right imho. Through Hairy I have met socially some movers and shakers who were similarly unpleasant. Others could just put on a good front while sliding in the knife or going divide and rule. As a copywriter on the way up in the early sixties credit squeeze, I lived through a corporate takeover myself by a big US advertising conglomerate, emerging as a promoted survivor.
Blood in the corridors stuff.
Won’t bother people here anymore with one of the best shows of the decade. I think it will go another season and after that it should end. The fate of becoming a soapie looms otherwise. It’s not there yet.
missed a word: than you or I do.
Power tools.
Being a cheap ass I grabbed a couple of ozitoes for home handywork.
Angle grinder managed to cut 1&1/2 star pickets before it shot blue flames out the cooling slits and singed my arm hair off.
Seriously handy stuff is some of the car extraction stuff run of battery packs.
You can tell there is as shitload of gears as the same batteries you use for other power tools drive the jaws of life through a doorframe withou missing a beat.
About 1 kg heavier and slightly longer than the hydraulic units but no hoses or seperate motor running it.
Utterly unworkable.
Elon Musk’s electric cars were and are a useful side hustle for milking US and other national government subsidies if the rockets and launching contracts failed.
Though SpaceX is so far up on the Government body and its competitors now, he could wrap up all of Tesla’s operations down into being a mere battery supplier tomorrow, focus his efforts exclusively on the rockets and still come out well ahead on brand penetration.
I won’t comment on whether the batteries themselves are any good, as I do not know. But given the ‘TESLA’ branding on every made-for-TV installation you see on e
practically every home improvement and motoring show out there, he has the good marketing angle cornered.
Today, in fact, the WSJ reported that Teslas were losing approx, 20% of their power because it’s very cold in the north east presently.
You’re not going to have a problem with the mechanics because an electric engine is shit simple – about 26 parts.
Okay.
It’s been on the improve year to year.
Are you saying there won’t be any antique cars of they’re electric? I think that’s bullshit.
It will be easier than it is now, if the problem is the engine.
I’m frankly sick of hearing this crap as I’ve heard it since Tesla went public and it’s now a trillion dollar company. Just stop.
I still enjoy the power surge of roaring up Heartbreak Hill in the Q5 when I need to overtake, and no way do I think an electric car could do it for me yet. Drove a Jaguar hybrid in Norway, not bad, but not the same thing. New car time soon and while it may not be an Audi, more likely a Merc, it won’t be a plug in.
Impressive JC, but not mass adoption stuff yet.
Well I’m 100% cool with a foreigner from Serbia coming here to fight for freedom. I’m 100% against Muslims coming here to fight for Islamic State. We should award Djoko with the Australian Open trophy and deport or jail the terrorist.
I respectfully disagree.
EU amd US bugmen wanted (and still do) to throttle private and commercial vehicle usage ten years ago on the grounds of proportional emissions (both carbon dioxide, and sulphur and nitrox particulates for diesel vehicles) in their respective jurisdictions. Tier 0- Tier 4 emissions rules were intended to progressively squeeze folks out of older equipment and force them into new stuff. If they could afford the enforced regular upgrades, then at least the bugmen could still be satisfied. If not, then well… [Shrug].
One of the chickens that unexpectedly came to roost from these dictates, is the California supply chain debacle we are currently experiencing. California’s EPA and Pete Buttigeig’s Federal one have collusively dictated that if you want to drive a commercial truck of pretty much any size in California, and to serve the container ports of Long Beach or Port of Los Angeles, it must be less than 8 years old and current tier-compliant. Albeit there is a sort of sliding scale in place. It punishes owner-drivers and small operators in favour of big companies with the budgets to keep turning over entire truck fleets.
Toyota and Mitsubishi tried to match the demands for their private vehicles, and immediately gave up trying to play the games. Despite knowing the demands were unworkable Volkswagen chose to cheat. This would give them the market share the others had voluntarily forfeited amongst the Stepfords and Homer Paxtons of this world, if you get my meaning.
If the same types of people are demanding electric cars that are luxurious and not…so…American, then any Euro prestige marque with dollar signs in their eyes and the desire for the cachet of ‘bestest’ and ‘longest-ranged’ would ‘creatively interpret’ the brief in order to get ahead.
I knew a talented musician, very keen to join the mso but competition very fierce.
I am half way to my destination at the right bus stop waiting for the right bus.€16.50 to sassari and €6.70 to Santa Teresa.
Can’t complain.
Lunch was a €2 sadwich, as we like to call them.
Don’t be impatient. If they achieve this it will be an enormous milestone. Sure, the vehicle won’t priced at the riff raff price point.
I found out today that the members of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra are paid in excess of $100,000 per year.
Dare I say it, the MSO- ASO, WASO, every one- would disappear as soon as the flow of taxpayer subsidies was cut off. “The Arts” are a shocking money pit for the gala enjoyment of a very small slice of jet-set seatwarmers.
For me all brands of power tools are like my first missus. Somethings are not built by God to be together.
Rex
Leave it for the future. Tesla has met some incredible milestones. You would have been broke by now betting large bucks against Tesla.
JC there is an engineer on Youtube who has done a number of reviews on EVs generally and Tesla in particular. With 3 million + subscribers he does rather well out of Youtube and is often given cars to review and test drive. Nice gig!
He states EVs are far better around town than ICEs. For long trips recharging is a pain but the weekend drive to the country is manageable with an EV. Maintenance wise EVs are very good but of course there is the battery replacement problem but I think they will extend battery life. According to him the grid question is not as severe as some here argue. He uses the example of how the spread of air conditioning didn’t collapse the grid yet it required an extra 20% of power.
I’ll trust that engineer over anyone here because he does the numbers. Sure he might be biased but at least his quantifications can be subject to further analysis whereas what people write on blogs is an unverifiable opinion. Also, he’s a quantity and math nut. Obviously loves the stuff.
I think EVs for town usage are a much better option. They have excellent performance and seem like a great deal of fun to drive. The big drawback for many though is ideally you need a home charging kit.
Apple is a big brand with big dollars and big price tags. Its products are sometimes good, oftentimes shit and predominantly exclusive to a cult-like following.
But their marketing was always superb, and having a charismatic eccentric (or his cultural memory) increases the allure.
I do not see Teslas with the frequency or mechanical reliability of my Hyundai Getz or its myriad of cheaper and more expensively-priced equivalents.
If Tesla is the Apple of the motoring world, then Hyundai and Toyota and even Havil and Great Wall are the Android devices. Be they Samsung, Oppo, Nokia, Huawei, etc. Much more prevalent and varied, intuitive across all platforms regardless of brand and not trapping you into a single brand in perpetuity.
I’d have gone broke betting against the Soviet Union in 1923, 1941 or 1954, 56 or 68 too.
A good brand or good management ultimately means nothing if the bedrock technology is ultimately flawed.
James Watt and Robert Stephenson are long gone, but externally-heated steam boilers as a technology are still here. The heat sources are different, but they are still used.
Battery electric vehicles have their uses, but by 1908 they were for niche commercial work only. They are back only because about 35 years ago some stooge manipulated another bunch of stooges into believing we would cook ourselves to death unless we didn’t have to look directly at the emissions we were causing.
Having a good record of making money only means you are good at making money. Not necessarily that you have changed the world forever with your ‘thing.’ Look to Boeing, which consciously chose not to innovate and risk a new model of jetliner after the runaway success of its 737 in the late 70s. It is now losing out masively to Airbus’ new A32o variants, which are effectively new aircraft and not an old frame stretched past its engineering limits.
no wonder Musk is rich
Good to watch TV series, some a bit dated now: The Good Life, To the Manor Born, Black Books, Blackadder, Faulty Towers, Yes Minister, The Simpsons (early on), Married With Children, Fast Forward, House of Cards, The Godfather, Peep Show, The IT Crowd, Mad Men, The Office (British only), Downton Abbey, The Crown, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Fauda, The Last Kingdom, Norsemen (a spoof on Vikings), Succession.
Also some good historical series – e.g. a very good interpretation of Hillary Mantell’s Cromwell, true to the books; Philippa Gregory’s The White Queen and Red Queen series, Plantagenet series, etc.
Probably should watch The Sopranos, The Wire and a few others I should recall but don’t.
Never bothered with Game of Thrones, detective and fantasy stuff, ‘woke’ dystopias like The Handmaid’s Tale and similar science fiction (read and loved Dune though), middle class familial ‘comedies’ like stuff on growing old together or that twittering Bucket show, or simlar American shows.
THIRD Former Scientist Pleads Guilty To Stealing American Biomed Tech Secrets For China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRYDHTqlXUA
Re Djokovic:
Hizzoner upheld Joker’s appeal today, on procedural grounds. i.e. Border Farce denied him a reasonable chance to object to his visa being cancelled.
Leaving the substantive matters unresolved. i.e. whether his exemption is valid & whether he is eligible for entry to Australia sans vaccination. This is what the Minister is now contemplating using to cancel for a 2nd time Joker’s visa. [pending feedback from focus groups & some quiet polling]
Yep, cancel his visa, coz ineligble & unvaxxed, blah blah blah.
Mentioned by Joker’s barristers (but AFAIK not yet mentioned anywhere on the Cat) is that his 408 visa was granted without no legal conditions on it regarding his vaccination status.
This may present Scomo & co with some difficulty upholding a case that “Joker broke his visa conditions before he even arrived by not being vaccinated!”
He’s a master at PR. He is like Steve Jobs, taking credit for things he didn’t do. Everyone seems to think he created paypal. He didn’t, there were others involved but all we hear is that he invented paypal. He probably didn’t even do the serious coding because he hired a computer genius friend for x.com, the company he had which later merged with another to create paypal. His hyperloop idea is not original and is unrealistic. It’s actually nuts. His idea about colonising Mars is ridiculous but makes good PR; it SciFi with a big Fi component and SFA Sci component.
fmd … again … the smartest cvnts in the room believe all sorts of gibber
build shit, or fix shit
everybody else is a waste of time and space
This makes as much sense as anything else being shopped around re: Novak Djokovic –
The People unifier?
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Lol this was NEVER about Djokovic being vaxxed or not. This is payback from Rio Tinto current and former executives pissed at Djokovic’s role in holding up their $2.4 billion lithium mine deal in Serbia.
***
It’s real.
https://gettr.com/post/pnhb3zadad
Dover as an unvaccinated chemo patient ( put previous comment down to todays chemo brain) . I do support Novak and thank him for going through the hoops on behalf of the ünclean”.
I have 4 vaccinated support workers 3 tested positive one negative. These young people were vaccinated about September last year. Three months seems ludicrous to someone who nursed Polio patients .But allowing people to die in agony because some one has criminalised and denied drugs to the dying seems like legalised euthanasia.
Johannes Leak.
Peter Broelman.
Warren Brown.
Graeme Bandeira.
Christian Adams.
Steve Bright.
Morten Morlamd. More here.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Steve Kelley.
Gary Varvel.
Lisa Benson.
On Saturday, mobile sports betting became legal in NY.
In the first 12 hours, there were 5.8mill transactions.
Bunch on degenerate gamblers.
h/t Tony Soprano.
Leak on fire, again.
Years ago I was member of model flying club and when electrics became popular all was good until a small group started to demand electric only events and free charging. In contrast the transition to 2.5 radios was adopted with little fuss.
That’s 2.4 radios.
Postcard.
The train trip to Sassari was picturesque as requested.
A two carriage train, before we left a couple of TV news types filmed something at the front carriage and two police travelled part of the way, no-one asked for passes.
Mostly sheep country and I’m pretty sure I saw several of the ‘nuraghe’ unless someone else was fond of building dry stone towers.
Despite the towers and the many dry stone walls it was very stony country, in some fields the stones were piled in hillocks. A lot of backbreaking work.
There was an even smaller train waiting at Sassari (I have a feeling that is a name for limestone cliffs of which Sassari had many) going to Porto Torres so I had some regrets not opting to get the ferry from there.
I did find the somewhat confusing bus depot, didn’t realise it was a ‘local’ bus, my €6.7 was for a ten zone ticket, which explained why it took it took so long to travel 100km, l was just getting a little antsy when the bus turned up 5 minutes late. (It’s the only one you see)
Not to worry, there was a half hour delay after a potential passenger had an altercation with the driver and the carbinieri were called.
It was though, a delightful ride through various pink and yellow sea side towns (one with a castle) along the Mediterranean; there is a string of islands off Porto Torres and eventually a fantastic view across to the mountains of Corsica.
The entire bus ride was absolutely smashing, on a narrow twisting and turning main road.
For the last hour and a half I was the only passenger, and I was very grateful my airbnb host came and collected me from the bus station.
Was getting dark as we came into Santa Teresa Gallura and a mighty cold wind blowing. Though my glimpse of the harbour suggests it is just as spectacular as the rest.
Very quiet when I went for a walk, as clearly a summer sea side resort town.
And my ground floor flat really is a ground floor flat this time, with a door that opens directly on to the street.
ABC says supply shortages are due to 30% of Australia’s truck drivers being off sick or isolating.
We’re not far off a permanent solution to that problem.
https://www.canadianminingjournal.com/news/hexagon-and-partner-create-worlds-first-automated-road-train/
When companies are automating semi trailer convoys for mine sites and Tesla is heading towards level 5 autonomy on public roads, I’m surprised trains haven’t been fully automated already.
Hilti good, but the best Hammer Drill I ever used was a Milwaukee that needed a meral wedge to hold the bit in.
Incredible power, the wedges didn’t last all that long.
Special mention for a 9 inch Black & Decker angle grinder that I bought at a flea market.
The seller was an old Rigger who’d used it to cut the lifting lugs off beams.
Old B &D, metal body, no guard, really smooth, incredible power.
Following on fromGrand Master Leak ,Peter Broleman gave me a laugh. Thanks Tom
Wally mentioned the $100,000 per year triangle players at the MSO overnight and their funding sources.
On sources- mine tells me that their mountain of cash consists of roughly half through subsidies by Gummint (naturally), most of the rest from philanthropy and the remainder through ticket sales.
Their ‘working’ conditions come from the union, and my man tells me they are quite the squeaky militant types. They’re affiliated with the MEAA, and it will come as no surprise that this is the union designed for and run by alleged journalists.
This Sydney weather is the worst.
Lows of 22-23 overnight.
90% humidity.
Tops of 28 with with storms.
For a week or so now.
Players comfort (h/t 12 man) is less than ideal.
Do MSO get free parking?
SSO managed to get that twenty something years ago, then it became a FBT issue which then magically disappeared.
Good for some.
QLD weather has come to Sydney!
In other developments, Jesse Watters takes over the Fox News Primetime slot just before Carlson’s show – a deserved promotion although it spells the end of Watters World, the highest rating program in that weekend spot.
Meanwhile over at the Beeb, Hard Talk did another soft serve to an activist determined to continue to harangue Americans about their sinful past: you know, slavery, statues, and all that. The host is a complete hypocrite and the program has no ethical basis.
Dunno about parking bern.
They probably all drive Teslas and get free charging stations.
Demented pisswreck Hinch on Se7en along with some gap-toothed dyed-blonde nobody, who by the way appears to be trying and failing to look like the chick from Roxette both telling everybody how much the Australian public hates Serbian tennis players, and Djokovic in particular.
You can smell the shrillness coming off the TV screen.
If you don’t believe people here, perhaps talk to the people who run the grid.
The largest distributor in Victoria (Powercor/CitiPower):
https://www.powercor.com.au/for-your-home/solar-and-other-technologies/electric-vehicles/
You think Air Conditioning doesn’t cause problems? If there is one thing that the electricity sector monitors like a hawk, 24/7, it’s the temperature…to the decimal place. Why? Because people people turn on AC and heaters as the temperature moves in either direction away from ‘comfortable’, and every fraction of a degree makes an enormous difference. What does that do to the grid?
Ask yourself this, why do we have rolling blackouts during summer? Why do transformers explode regularly during summer? Why do powerlines droop below there safe heights during summer? Why do fuses blow during summer? Why did they have to stagger the boosting times for electric hot water heaters during the night (so they didn’t all come on at midnight)?
In essence, already the grid cannot cope with AC’s if everyone uses them. Imagine if every house has two cars concurrently sucking off the system for eight hours every night.
A guy who reviews cars says the grid and supply to your house isn’t an issue…FMD. And Gillard whinged about a ‘gold plated’ grid. The next one will need to be platinum coated, and we’ll be paying to build it.
FBT was part of Keating’s envy attack on business in the mid 1980s. Labor eventually learned to love businesses, at least the ones they were involved in.
Unions have been a good earner for them, and did damage to the Howard government in 2007. The teachers have been good for the Dems in USA, and they need to reform their donations rules.
Likewise they need to look at how all those shonky D.A. people and blue state governors got elected.
Win,
I wish you well through your chemo. Regarding your helpers, were the ones that tested positive still allowed to care for you? Also, a damned huge “you rock!”, for being unstabbed whilst going through chemo. Not to belittle your decision, it must have been a tough one, but any body going through what you are would be at the forefront of knowing what is good for their body.
I missed this last week.
The freak mayor of Chicago extended the “permits for al fresco dining” until March.
Yep, Chicago in January is the first place I think of when it comes to al fresco dining.
News’ Clickbait Central:
Kate Middleton’s Secret Double Life Revealed!
Knuckle Dragger,
do you think there may be a way a lot of us here can show Djoker that we are behind him, that filth on the MSM do NOT speak for most Australians. If anyone here knows an email address or somewhere we can mail OUR opinions so we can wish him well?
Jimmy Dore on a rare funny bit from the extreme left Daily Show taking the piss out of the CDC.
https://rumble.com/vs85bm-suddenly-liberals-are-mocking-the-cdc.html
Jimmy now limits his youtube content due to the fascist rules they now have.
One for Catholic Cats to keep an eye on.
Pope Moves to Reorganize Vatican Doctrine Office (Newsmax, 10 Jan)
Gravitas Plus: How Big Pharma pushes dangerous drugs and reaps profits
Pogria,
The Eastern Euro community here apparently made their views well known in Mongyang streets yesterday afternoon. As for what the poor old skips need to do to wave the Djokovic flag I’m not sure.
In any event, and as others have mentioned this isn’t about Djokovic. It’s about further exposing the hypocrisy, incompetence and how far out of their lanes various governments in this country are, and how strident they get trying to disguise their inability to walk back the Armageddon they promised us.
Time to go full BRADBURY .. withdraw ALL Federal funding for the Oz Open, ban spectators & make all participants wear masks whilst on court (players, ball boys & judges)…… ya noze ya wants too .. it’s the SCIENCE! .. sadly, BRADBURY ain’t got the cojons to do any of it .. LOL!
Yesterday the Mayor of New York signed a bill giving 800 000 non US citizens the right to vote in NY state .. you’ll be hard pushed trying to find mention of it in the media today ……
Will omicron finally free us from the COVID-19 shackles?
How sad, the “two” mothers of the child with Neimann Pick disease who passed away this week have decided to jump on the stabby bandwagon.
Also, don’t forget to make your donations in Sebatians’ name to the refugee clinic….
Lovely stories overnight on how over the past two weeks, Tom Brady demanded plays that would feed players so they could hit their contract incentives.
Gronk got a $US500k bonus because of it.
The now sacked Antonio Brown was literally a handful of plays away from $US1mill but he stormed off.
Total mental patient.
Trying not to be a pedant, but some sometimes words used matter. Australia has been abusing our civil liberties, not our human rights. This is why Australia hasn’t been called out by international human rights organisations.
There is a distinct difference between human and civil rights, and ascribing what is actually a civil right as a human right is a key weapon used by the Left to inculcate progressive ideals into society.
Agree KD, it is just so frustrating.
Funny thing, my parents were from over the border. Serbs were considered mortal enemies.
And I’ll add, new subdivisions here in Victoria (for God knows how many years) only required infrastructure to provide each property 32amps of supply, and they didn’t over engineer.
My oven alone uses 32amps of supply.
How do you think a system built to this specification is going to deal with two hungry EVs in every garage, along with the standard electrical appliances?
It’s a fairytale, or a nightmare, depending on where you are in the process.
I’m an engineer and I think electric cars are crap. Toyota hybrids not so bad. Taxi drivers seem to like them. As for lawyers like tls and Trumble playing at being engineers- what could better illustrate what is wrong with the country.
Amps and volts are yukky details that self styled higher minds don’t need to be concerned with
milton, didn’t you used to be green?
You’re now brown.
How does that work?
You’re avatar, obviously.
Not your politics.
Yeah, but are your qualifications “subject to further analysis” or are you spouting “an unverifiable opinion”.
Me green? Not Bob Brown style green that’s for sure. My position is you’ll never beat the safety, convenience and energy density of a tank of petrol or diesel. The advances with direct injection and higher compression petrol engines are phenomenal
Personally, I’m a Bosch Blue kind of guy – heavy duty enough for work around the farm. Ten years ago, everything I used had its own petrol/2 stroke engine…or I had to truck the bloody heavy petrol generator with me for 240v tools. Things have changed, but.
The only problem with battery tools, in my experience, is that you can’t interchange batteries across brands. So once you’re BB, you’re BB for life.
Today…I still use petrol powered water pumps … but they don’t move, they just sit and I feed them with petrol when I need them…I doubt they make a battery that’d transfer 5000 gallons of water from a dam to a tank , up a 100m head. If they do, I bet it would take some carrying around!
I also use diesel tractors and utes (well, you’d not get far with a battery powered tractor, now would you) and a petrol powered aeroplane…
ftb @ 4:48am
Was scrolling up and inadvertently reported your ‘Leak on fire’ comment.
?
You sonofabitch.
Now with link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txuWGoZF3ew
How do you think a system built to this specification is going to deal with two hungry EVs in every garage, along with the standard electrical appliances?
Most of rural Australia is still single phase.
That 1000km range EV Merc:
Constant 70km/h on level ground
Jockey-sized driver
No aircon
No stereo, no touchsceen etc
No toolkit, no safety gear, no books
50 psi in the tyres
James Newburrie with the last word on Kraut EV’s.
Really a mute point as the gov couldn’t care less about human rights or civil liberties.
Constant 70km/h on level ground
Jockey-sized driver
No aircon
No stereo, no touchsceen etc
No toolkit, no safety gear, no books
50 psi in the tyres
Tape over any drag point (windscreen wipers, door handles, fuel flap, bonnet/boot panel joins)
No floor / boot mats
No change in console
While a lot of farmers, miners truckies and train drivers are around, I have a question.
In a few weeks I will be moving and the new place has something I have always wanted. A Rayburn fuel stove!!! What I need to know is, does anybody here know where I can purchase bulk coal. I know it has to be Anthracite coal for the stove, so that has to be considered. I have been googling and it is as though information on coal for personal use has been cancelled. Surprise, surprise. The only info I came across was a fella who did regular runs with coal up and down the coast, but the last post was over two years ago. Many comments on the page since then but no answers.
I know I can use wood, and I will for the stove and the wood heaters, but coal takes up less space and burns hotter and longer, and the small bits would be easier to feed into the stove. The Rayburn also has the hot water jacket attached which is a bonus.
All info gratefully received, thanks.
Colesworth shortages mostly due to suppliers/manufacturers having half or more of their employees in isolation because the life saving vaccines are so effective at preventing the spread of Covid everyone seems to have it.
Mass Formation: Deployed on You After Over 200 Years of Study.
Today in “factchecking the factcheckers”, junior academics cited by Forbes, Associated Press, Reuters and The Independent have just not done their homework concerning the work of Professor Dr. Mattias Desmet of the University of Ghent in Belgum. All I can say about this is that I hope that their naive, ignorant, grandstanding statements to the press are brought up during their future Academic Tenure and Advancement reviews.
But there has been an amazingly coordinated effort to shoot the messenger and actively character assassinate (or “defenstrate”) me as a surrogate while avoiding any reference to the highly credentialed academic Professor Dr. Mattias Desmet who actually developed the theory and has documented the extensive evidence in an upcoming academic book. So, what can we learn from this in the short term?
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/mass-formation-deployed-on-you-after?r=ta0o1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Bandeira & Broelman today, Tom. Anything on Djokovic hits the mark.
Today in “factchecking the factcheckers”, junior academics cited by Forbes, Associated Press, Reuters and The Independent have just not done their homework concerning the work of Professor Dr. Mattias Desmet of the University of Ghent in Belgum. All I can say about this is that I hope that their naive, ignorant, grandstanding statements to the press are brought up during their future Academic Tenure and Advancement reviews.
But there has been an amazingly coordinated effort to shoot the messenger and actively character assassinate (or “defenstrate”) me as a surrogate while avoiding any reference to the highly credentialed academic Professor Dr. Mattias Desmet who actually developed the theory and has documented the extensive evidence in an upcoming academic book. So, what can we learn from this in the short term?
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/mass-formation-deployed-on-you-after?r=ta0o1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
“HTsays:
January 11, 2022 at 7:39 am
Razey says:
January 10, 2022 at 10:04 pm
The next step is to report the Ministers to the International Court of Justice and remove the AO from Australia. Violation of human rights is the worst thing in the world.
Trying not to be a pedant, but some sometimes words used matter. Australia has been abusing our civil liberties, not our human rights. This is why Australia hasn’t been called out by international human rights organisations.
There is a distinct difference between human and civil rights, and ascribing what is actually a civil right as a human right is a key weapon used by the Left to inculcate progressive ideals into society.”
Excellent comment. This explains the almost total silence of our respective “Human Rights” organisations (I always need a bucket near me when I write those words). The left are happy to see our civil liberties trashed and obliterated.
My new cooker draws 52 amps total. On the power tools I recall my mate had panasonic drill drivers, cost a bomb at the time, never broke, batteries lasted forever. He also had makita 1/4 inch drills, cost $79.00. I saw one at bunnings recently over $300. Thats some price increase in 10 years. Maybe a bit longer but even so. Years ago when I was building my yacht I used B&D junk. Seconds from their place in Osboune Park. $20 a pop. The fibreglass would clog up the cooling and overheat.
“Novak Djokovic’s win over the Australian government is “poetic justice” for a government deserving “comeuppance and then some,” according to The Institute of Public Affairs’ Gideon Rozner.
“For its horrible and cruel mismanagement of our international and domestic borders for the last two years,” Mr Rozner said.
“This is a comeuppance the government deserved for leaving expats stranded … criminalising Australian citizens from returning to their own home.
“The government deserved an utter humiliation over this, and they got it.””
Beautifully said by Gideon Rozner and 100% correct. I watched Rozner speak these words on Sky last night. I’ve always found Rozner impressive. If Rozner becomes the next head of the IPA, I’ll rejoin. Rozner actually believes in and speaks up for free speech and freedom.
I bet Gideon votes for the Lib Dems.
Good read.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/mass-formation-deployed-on-you-after?r=ta0o1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
A few thoughts:
When tradies are using cordless power tools on site, how many spare battery packs are on the chargers?
200watt hours/kilogram isn’t stunning. Li-ion batteries have been available to buy with 230 W-h/kg for at least 5 years. At least 300 W-h/kg is the holy grail. More would be better. Think of a fully charged cell as a stick of Dynamite.
When charged to 100% Li-ion batteries corrode internally. Best not to charge over 90% or even 80%.
Also don’t fully discharge them below 20%. So you get about 60% of nameplate capacity for long term use and conservation. Best stored at around 40% of capacity so not available for immediate use at full capacity.
LiFePO4 cells are safer than Li-ion but you’ll only get about 60% of the capacity of Li-ion. The rest of the cautions apply.
We have an entire ecosystem of oil exploration/production/refining/distribution and retail outlets and 150 years of refining IC engines. They are pretty good, need little routine servicing and the cars are lighter by not having a 500Kg battery pack. Less wear and tear on springs, shockers, tyres.
If electric cars were good and I know they are improving they do not need mandates and subsidies and will naturally eventually replace IC cars. It is crazy and expensive to throw away infratructure that isn’t at end of life.
“Let’s have a look at the rogue’s gallery of pond-scum which he hasn’t deported despite overwhelming evidence that they should be gone.”
Classic example…..Man Monis. By the time Man Monis walked into the Lindt cafe in 2014 he’d been charged by NSW Police for the murder of his ex-wife. He’d been charged with over 40 counts of sexual assault and he’d previously been convicted for sending abusive letters to the relatives of Defence Force personnel who had died in conflict.
Could someone post today’s Robert Gottleibsen Oz article please?
Pogria
You’re looking for the good old briquettes.
They’re now sold as BBQ fuel in small packages. I don’t know if you can get them in the good sized pressed bricks that I remember Nan using her stove and the big bags they came in.
Eyrie,
bloody well said.
My understanding is that coal for fuel for us regular plebs is now illegal in NSW. Cannot be purchased.
Re omnicron, and 30% of everyone off sick, does this mean that in a months time or so, these 30% of people will be back at work, or will they then “catch” omnicron again?
Barnaby on SKY.
Backing down on the Djoker. Someone with two brain cells has told him to give his talking arse a rest.
“Novak Djokovic’s win over the Australian government is “poetic justice” for a government deserving “comeuppance and then some,” according to The Institute of Public Affairs’ Gideon Rozner
The “then some” will be the election results.
BBS – this should work. For the RG article.
Farmer Gez,
I have seen the brickettes, they are available at barbecue places in large bags, but the price is rather prohibitive if you want to use them on an everyday basis. Good for the weekly barbecue, but in winter, the stove would be on non-stop and banked at night at a slightly higher burn to heat the water.
What I am after is just your basic rough coal that comes in 100 kilo to half tonne bags. The kind of thing you would scoop into a bucket and keep next to the stove.
Thanks very much for your tip though. Any and all tips much appreciated.
As somebody who knows nothing about cars other than fuel goes in the hatch in the back and air goes into the 4 rubber rings in the corners, I wonder if they would be better going for the 2nd car market , ie something no bigger than say a mazda 2. This seems the perfect use case and the technology seems mature enough.
If I could get such a beast for under 35k, that would be Mrs D’s next car no questions asked.
I dont think so, even though I want to believe it will happen.
Most Australians are weak cowards and love being told what to do. They will vote for whoever promises to abuse the unvax’d the hardest.
What I am after is just your basic rough coal that comes in 100 kilo to half tonne bags. The kind of thing you would scoop into a bucket and keep next to the stove.
Good lord Pogria!
Are you running a stove or a steam train?
“In any event, and as others have mentioned this isn’t about Djokovic. It’s about further exposing the hypocrisy, incompetence and how far out of their lanes various governments in this country are, and how strident they get trying to disguise their inability to walk back the Armageddon they promised us.”
Quite so, this country is now a complete joke. Mark Steyn (as always) nails it on GBNews overnight……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yy4LpVb92Y
Mark Steyn: Decision to ‘make example’ of Djokovic was a ‘political stunt’
Oh and I love the description of Oz as…”East Germany with koalas”. Soooooo appropriate. I would just add “East Germany with koalas and empty supermarket shelves”.
Pogria
I know I can use wood, and I will for the stove and the wood heaters, but coal takes up less space and burns hotter and longer, and the small bits would be easier to feed into the stove.
One of my early bosses flew in Bomber Command. They lived in Nissen huts with coal stoves for heating, but coal was rationed. Walking back from the village pub one night, they noticed broken bits of bitumen by the road, so collected them and tossed them in the stove to supplement the coal. Worked a treat, they went outside and theirs was the only hut with no snow on the roof, and the flue was glowing red!
On 240v vs battery – heavy duty tools used constantly, particularly outdoors. Plate compacters, brick saws, grinders, helicopters, concrete mixers – electric or petrol. Green field sites – take a genset, and a jerry can – most do.
Same with commercial landscaping tools – petrol. The batteries just don’t give you a full day’s power. All the little shitty stuff – battery. Arborists still have a full array of petrol saws for the high work – dangerous, but that’s why you pay them the big bucks.
Things will change, and I’m old school and long out of it all. Always amused to hear the air turn blue when a battery ran out and the replacement wasn’t recharged. And no one had a charged compatible.
Don’t get me started on power leads – especially on wet sites and joined together. And cutting through them on a regular basis.
Now, in the dull post building world, I even have to have the lead for my sewing machine tagged to use it in the Community Centre. Safety first! Next they’ll be tagging scissors because *dangerous*. 😀
hzhousewife,
that puts a spanner in the works! Bloody hell, everything is banned these days. I remember when they tried to ban wood fires in the Blue Mountains area, particularly Springwood. Fortunately, that was overturned at the time.
I will keep trying though. Once I am at the farm permanently, I will ask around. Someone in the area might know. In the meantime, wood is readily available and I will continue to use it of course.
Cassie
Excellent comment. This explains the almost total silence of our respective “Human Rights” organisations (I always need a bucket near me when I write those words). The left are happy to see our civil liberties trashed and obliterated.
Perhaps, but it doesn’t explain the deep silence of the various Councils for Civil Liberties (or Sybil Liberties as one talk back character used to call them).
Novak Djokovic saga shows legal system fails to protect citizens from bureaucrats
Farmer Gez, LOL!!!
I reckon a half tonne would keep me going for a couple of winters. It is easy to store. Although, I do love me some steam train.
Boambee Jofn
that is a great yarn! I love hearing tales like that. I spent the first five years of my life in a Nissen hut at Villawood.