Only if he builds a new road to the house.
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Yes, but that would be counter propagandical.
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I’m not sure McSweeney is Test standard at the moment. He could be down the track, but not now. Throwing…
I agree. The platforms themselves need to isolate Australians as a group. The screams of fury would be audible on…
COINTELPRO is still alive and well.
From memology 101 – US Glowie Feds are literally picked up from their fake protests in U Hauls with covered over number plates.
https://youtu.be/EcFOkv6w1u4
Pfizer CEO: 2 shots ‘offer very limited protection, if any’
Check the compliance on the lift and the certificate of electrical safety, it will let you know.
Ivan Denisovichsays:
January 11, 2022 at 6:03 pm
The one about Archbishop Morandi seemed relevant to Catholic Cats, so I posted the story this morning without editorializing.
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2022/01/10/papal-indulgence-and-the-style-of-god/
I may have asked this before – if so, apologies.
If Pope Francis really was the Antichrist, like some fundamentalist Protestant sects say he is, what exactly would he be doing differently?
Dr. Peter McCullough Reveals the Six Things Everyone Should Have in Their ‘Over-the-Counter Toolbox’ During the Age of Covid
You def have 3 phase then JC- probably a 32A outlet so a good start. If you want my advice stick to petrol but it’s your money. Most likely an elevator would use a 3 phase induction motor.
They use gravitons, dummy.
Going to their seminaries to learn very poor, non biblically based theology.
In times past, Rabz, gifted people went into politics.
Now only grifters do.
I’m not sure we want JC doing his own electrical investigations. Let’s leave him as mUnty’s dining companion.
I’m looking at the spec and it says the max ac power for charge is 7.4kW
but then the max dc power is quoted as 110kW
so yeah, assuming the battery management charges at a constant rate.
with the single phase 7.5 kW charger from dead flat to max ponies would be 10hours … 10 and a bit
with the three phase 22kW charger from dead flat to max ponies would be 3hours … 3 and a bit
where’s all the hype gone about ‘Gone in 40 minutes’?
0-100kmh in 5.1 seconds … meh
Alfa-Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio 2.9 V6 Bi Turbo – 3.8 seconds
LOL. Is this was Rexy has been calling me all this time? 😉
Glowie
very hot female. Most Glowies tend to make guys go crazy.
mostly seen with alot of friends and are a friendly person to most everyone. they have really nice eys usually hazel.
“Glowie, is so hot”
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Glowie
Umm….why does anyone take COVID seriously anymore??!
Been out and about. Succession marathon.
Going out and about. After-party.
I have a genuine question in relation to Lizzie’s 11th century church though. What is in danger of, and why does it need saving?
Surely it’s not getting bulldozed – it’s 1200 years old. Here it would be heritage listed to the point you couldn’t fart near it.
0-100kmh sub 9 seconds
No it wasn’t. That was NOT your point. Here let me repeat your dishonest comment one more time.
1. There was never any reasonable assumption that the lock down would apply to transport. Ever!
2. There was never any need they had to be “dropped” because it was never going to happen.
3. The dunny paper shortage was not caused by transportation issues. It was caused by a sudden demand shock and supply being unable to absorb (note the pun) the sudden increase in massive demand.
4. Lastly, you’re a dishonest fruitcake.
I fully agree that Australian pollimuppets are grifters, narcissists and psychopaths but a brief view of PJ Media or Breitbart would convince you that the US ones are too. And Canadian ones. And NZ ones. It’s the metastasizing of a political-media class in all these and more countries. It requires courageous outsiders like Trump and Farage to take on this parasitic, corrupt cast and attempt to blast them out.
BREAKING: Military Documents About Gain of Function Contradict Fauci Testimony Under Oath
From the same article. We will never get out of this. Mandates forever.
Given the ability of SARS-CoV-2 to jump across various species, it appears likely that global populations will face additional animal-derived variants until the pandemic is well under control. Our study thus emphasizes the need for viral surveillance and sequencing in animals, especially those in close contact with humans. Furthermore, computational characterization of the spike RBD in animals and identification of their potentials to interact with human ACE2 will likely help to prevent future outbreaks of dangerous SARS-CoV-2 variants.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1673852721003738
Thanks Matrix.
Why imply any meaning?
Why not just take what was posted at the time?
I just went back and read it.
It mentions none of the qualifiers which have been attributed to the Original Prediction.
None.
Zero.
Zip.
Nada.
I also have copies of the posts where St Ruth admits he got that wrong.
My deli has run out of Spanish anchovies.
St Ruth was right.
Anyone else alarmed/concerned about the leaking of documents by the Feds (I assume) to the press/media re Djokovic ???
I can’t get left hand thread wheelnuts for the ’55 Chevy I am restoring.
St Ruth was right.
Speaking of which, Farage is reportedly re-entering the political fray due to Boris’s betrayals and incompetence.
“WolfmanOzsays:
January 11, 2022 at 6:39 pm
Anyone else alarmed/concerned about the leaking of documents by the Feds (I assume) to the press/media re Djokovic ???”
Ah yes……shades of what happened to George Pell.
The limited edition Babe Ruth 1932 World Series baseball card I ordered on E-Bay hasn’t turned up.
St Ruth was right.
Your faith in the likelihood of Australian politicians to not do anything stupid is touching, Dunning Krugman.
These are the same politicians who ordered the police to bash grannies, & to fine struggling small businesses $10,000 because the chef’s wife dropped in for a cup of tea an hour after closing time when they were still cleaning up.
Your iron-clad faith in Australian politicians is naive.
Agree.
The LDP are closet NeoCons.
NeoCons were originally out and out Marxists.
My hobby shop is all out of drive wheels for 1:32 scale Flying Scotsman model locomotives.
St Ruth was right.
0-100km/h in 8.5s for my direct injection twin turbo so I’m told. Not spectacular but fun.
Your comment is more in line with that of a small-picture public servant, say a parking meter inspector, or a Border Farce drone.
Lift your game. 🙂
Razey:
That’s the base issue here.
The Health Orders, which allow the idiots to get away with chucking our civil liberties down past the S bend, are what need to go.
#nohealthorders
“My deli has run out of Spanish anchovies.”
Spanish anchovies are the best….from Cantabria. In fact Spanish canned goods are always excellent….peppers, tomatoes, artichokes, olives etc.
The Leftorium shop at Chadstone is all out of left handed moustache cups.
St Ruth was right.
I went to a different Colesworth today.
meat section empty
dunny paper nearly empty
I could still buy cheese
St Ruth was right
Don’t run to the shop on those sore knees Cassie.
Making joke to illustrate point.
Careful observers will note that the leaked documents, & the current subtle steering of the narrative by the feds, makes any mention of vaccination exemption.
Funny about that.
Oh dear. If you could just see yourself out.
Oh?
He predicted we would run out of dunny paper 17 months out from August 2020?
I didn’t see that.
I read that too Roger. BloJo was always an unlikely hero. Just another bLiAR-grey may-cameroon clone.
err, Rog – thinking of buying another guitar, but of the Les Paul style – budget $2,500 – $3,500.
If you can’t come up with a sensible suggestion then it’s a Telecaster American Professional II*. I still regret selling my previous Tele.
*Not necessarily in Miami Bleu, but it would contrast nicely with the Strat.
“Don’t run to the shop on those sore knees Cassie.”
Sancho…knowing my rehab would be long and painful (and it is), I stocked up before I went into hospital. Tomorrow I’m off to the doctor to get a new script for some Ken Done.
Should have been:
None of the leaked documents, nor the current narrative switch.
Its all about minor procedural matters now.
The focus groups must have been scathing.
Bluddee hell – the legendary Lake Placid Bleu … 🙂
I’m imagining Cassie running on sore knees.
Use your feet woman!
For content, look around at how some others in your industry have written up their profile.
How to technically do it – just follow the prompts.
My hobby shop is all out of drive wheels for 1:32 scale Flying Scotsman model locomotives.
I can machine you some up, how many do you need?!
Make sure you see some money, can’t be too careful with these Nigerians placing orders via the dark web.
For content, look around at how some others in your industry have written up their profile.
Thanks Gab!
Haha, I was thinking Arky’s Model A could do it in 9 seconds, but that’s not quite right. The ones at the bottom of the list are fun but. A lot of money for not much performance! Not quite at the bottom, but near to it, was this one:
Always slow is our Toowoomba friend.
miltonf says:
January 11, 2022 at 6:44 pm
0-100km/h in 8.5s for my direct injection twin turbo so I’m told. Not spectacular but fun.
Milton – the current champion is the Porsche 919 Hybrid with a time of 1.9s. The Audi R18 e-Tron Quattro is nearly there at 2.0s whilst the Tesla Model S Plaid is a relatively pedestrian 2.3s.
8.5s is modest I agree- but I wanted a car that would take 91 octane with a stick shift
And fair enough.
SloMo will be the laughing stock at the next G20. Poots will be putting a Post-It with “Kick Me” on his back during the photo op.
If he hasn’t learnt ‘verify then trust’, stuff him.
He’s our Brandon. It will be fun.
Anyone else alarmed/concerned about the leaking of documents by the Feds (I assume) to the press/media re Djokovic ???
#SWAMP@WORK
Rabz, my suggestion is that when you go to try out Les Pauls, also try SGs and see what you think. I would think an SG would suit a Strat player better than an LP.
And do give them a good try out before buying. Last time I sampled Les Pauls I played three in the shop and there was only one I would have considered buying. Gibson’s QC has been notoriously bad, although they’ve recently run a new broom through their operation so that may have improved things.
As we know, you can’t go wrong with a Tele. Would you consider one with one or two humbuckers? That way you’re getting a wider tonal palette to complement your Strat’s single coils. But you still get the harmonic richness from the longer scale length compared with a Gibson.
Oh, and another suggestion, in that price range check out PRS. Some people say they’re the best of both worlds. I have one and I’m impressed with it.
Tennis Australia would be dead without Guvvie Funding, so:
The Heroic Djoker will get a series of poor line calls and get stitched up early.
The situation reminds me of when Jack Nicklaus played in the Australian Open, the year before David Graham won.
Anyway, a bevy of clowns made a big deal over Nicklaus receiving an appearance fee, he went on to win anyway, but never returned.
Jim Killen and Fred Daly –
Farewell Parliament House – Sunday May 8, 1988
This was shown on ABC TV at 7:30 pm on the evening before New Parliament House opened in Canberra. Sir James Killen wanders through Old Parliament House, as we all can now. He speaks to Gough Whitlam, John Gorton, Fred Daly and others.
Ahem.
A manual and not even a turbo. My poor critter is only the 2 L version though, but same year, manual also, and I feed it 91 ULP. Pretty amazing when you see the all the slower Jags and whatnot and think of their cost.
Thanks for that, P.
By the way, the Formula 1 RB11 Red Bull race car achieved an incredible 0 to 100 in 1.7s. It could reach 300km/h in under 10s.
Sitting at the top of the tree are the top fuel dragsters which get to 100km/h in about 0.8s and reach 450km/h in 4.0 s. On the negative side, dragsters handle very badly and that nitro jungle juice mix they use for fuel can be a problem.
There was never.. repeat NEVER… any possibility ANY government was going to prevent the transportation system from operating at anything but full steam.
FYI
The fuel industry is struggling with the same manpower shortages as the transportation industry, and currently can’t get ANY exemptions.
They won’t intentionally shut down the transportation industry, but they might accidentally do it because they’re really fucking dumb.
Struth barely posts here anymore but boy he lives in a couple of peoples heads.
He was 70% right about everything from the very start which is enough. You’d have to be somewhat retarded to think the transport industry hasn’t been heavily impacted by this nonsense. Also Melbourne had rationing for a period when it was in lockdown, it does people well to remember that citizens of fresh communist regimes always have excuses why that the food is now scarce – it’s always “hoarders” they say, shuffling nervously, never the system they live under failing.
Also he was one of the first people in Australia to protest, all by himself April 2020 he wandered down to his local war memorial, back when half the people hen pecking him were still hiding under their mattresses and screaming at people and standing on their driveways like cucks. And didn’t that earn some henpecking from the sisterhood faux concern trolling about “keeping memorials sacred”. In fact that entire little episode, and his urging to join him and leave your house and do something – was what started the angry little cult movement against him.
Then a year later we cheered as thousands of protesters battled their way to the Shrine in Melbourne and the protest movement blew up with rolling street fights and then became a mass movement. Oh boy, what an awkward moment that was around here from the people who spent a year fake pearl clutching about struths appeals to get out and do something like protest at your local memorial.
Some of the hen-peckers here, who never will stop rewriting their own embarrasing part in that whole thing (one even attempting to get struth banned with near hysterical bedwetting about his tone), never did go to any protest though. Even though the protests marched right past their front doors, not even once it was completely safe to do so.
Funny old world.
Number 10 Seed for the Australian Open:
Hubert Hurkacz.
Don’t attempt to say that if feeling nauseous.
Chicks don’t appreciate being quick of the line, BoN. A jag represents along comfortable ride similar to my station wagon.
Twostix:
Don’t tell anyone I told you, but:
Struth and Sancho are the same person.
Whether Sancho writes the scripts or Struth does or it’s outsourced, I can’t say for certain.
Makes my chemist’s heart glad that stuff does*.
Serious amounts of energy packed into those molecules.
I hope Johanna has been enjoying Summernats!
* I made nitrobutane in the lab once, but that was hairy enough.
It’s so pathetic.
ABC running Covid kiddie jab propaganda with its usual twist.
Child of colour with gay daddies is over the moon excited at the prospect of getting a needle shoved into her arm.
Sick people preying on kids.
This is because of the big upsurge in covid cases, I guessing no?
Doubt the Feds are backgrounding against Dokovic; I expect they are in the foetal position wishing this would all go away.
Judging by the deep dive investigative stuff reported out of the US and Germany, it looks like the international media is trying to pump the issue for max controversy.
Think I might be selling myself short re m/s/s- I’ll do some more research.
Coles & Woollies would prefer you to shop online at this time.
In metro areas it goes out from distribution hubs.
He makes LGB/FJB look completely compus mentus.
Rick
In any event, think we’re peaking in Omni. This should be the worst of it and the numbers should be collapsing over the next two weeks tops.
Malcolm head to toe in RM Williams was more authentic than Albo in an Akubra.
BoN – Apparently the top fuel cars get 1000hp (745kw) per cylinder!
It’s so pathetic.
ABC running Covid kiddie jab propaganda with its usual twist.
Child of colour with gay daddies is over the moon excited at the prospect of getting a needle shoved into her arm.
Sick people preying on kids.
The rotten stinking ABC is a like a grotesque parody only they’re deadly serious.
In any event, think we’re peaking in Omni.
Which is a problem JC.
We need weeks more of this to catch up with waves that have gone through the rest of the world.
Australia will have to do what everyone else is doing.
No isolation for close contacts, no testing unless symptomatic.
If you can’t see it is isn’t there.
supply chain article
LOl
“Speaking of which, Farage is reportedly re-entering the political fray due to Boris’s betrayals and incompetence.”
Blojob, like Morrison, has complete ignored, disparaged, debased, smeared, sneered and ridiculed those very people who voted for him…….particularly those who live in the red wall constituencies. Instead the Conservatives have pursued and spruiked endless Covid porn, lockdowns, net zero emissions and tax increases. Blojob and his government have been silent over the trashing of British culture and history, they were silent when BLM protesters defaced and vandalised statues and they’ve been completely unwilling to fight any culture war. Now the news is that Downing Street, with Boris and Carrie in attendance, had a party during lockdown last year…….fucking hypocrites.
Ed case
Comedy post of the day.
This is because of the big upsurge in covid cases, I guessing no?
Yes, the problem is:
Case Surge
+ Unvaxxed Stood Down
+ Unvaxxed Fired
= Large Numbers Not Working
Speedy – No wonder the engines don’t last long. The metal must burn as fast as the fuel/oxy.
The amazing thing is all that torque can be delivered to the ground successfully over such a small area. Rubber compounds are equally serious chemistry in this stuff. Amazing performance specs.
Got the coffee lady to make me a flat white.
3/10
No doubt the Cafe latte is just as bad though.
Quite a gift for them in the heart of a slow news northern winter.
I think co-morbidities is their explanation for the death of fully vaxxed people.
Naturally, the death of unvaxxed people is blamed on the lack of vax!
Rick
Wouldn’t both states and federal transport ministers be on top of the transport situation? They’re not very bright, but surely not this dumb.
We need weeks more of this to catch up with waves that have gone through the rest of the world.
The tail will probably last 2-3 longer than the Omni surge itself because it impacts all along the supply chain. eg. Cancellation of sheep sales because abattoirs at well below capacity.
The Australian Fresh Produce Alliance (AFPA) has called on state and territory governments to make immediate changes to the isolation requirements for food, transport and distribution workers that are close contacts.
“According to the AFPA, the fresh produce industry supply chain – particularly the transport and distribution sectors – has faced a critically low workforce since the beginning of 2022 due to Covid cases and isolation requirements for close contacts.”
covid hits Australian supply chain
Abattoirs running on 30-50% of kill.
Demand from the US is sky high and yet markets have stalled.
Food, it’s so last century.
“Psays:
January 11, 2022 at 7:04 pm”
Thanks for that P. My grandparents were quite friendly with Bill and Barbara Wentworth, who was also a great raconteur. I remember, as a young girl, we would and visit Bill and Barbara at their home on the northern beaches. My father loved listening to Bill……because he was such a Liberal party maverick…….when the Liberal party allowed mavericks. Now, under Scumbag Morrison, the Liberals side with Labor and the Greens to denounce their own.
Wouldn’t both states and federal transport ministers be on top of the transport situation? They’re not very bright, but surely not this dumb.
I heard today that they’d been requesting exemptions but none had been received. Probably they recognise the problem, but because they’re so wedded to bureaucracy, it will take days or a week to grant.
Also, the Governments have been copping it from the unions on Da Worker Safety so they’re probably going to request mountains of hard evidence before they approve.
The laughs will come at a price. Just like the Slapper.
Never heard of it.
What’s it’s history, something the Duopoly thought up last week?
rosie says:
January 11, 2022 at 7:31 pm
Got the coffee lady to make me a flat white.
3/10
No doubt the Cafe latte is just as bad though.
Don’t do that Rosie, it makes my brain hurt.
Breaking news is that Bozo hosted a garden party at No. 10 for governmetn hacks last northern summer at a time when Britons were limited to socialising outdoors with only one other person.
It’s not that he held the party, it’s the disdain for ordinary people that is unforgiveable.
Like Trump, Farage has his weak points, but I hope he steals the red wall converts from the Tories, who don’t deserve them.
Bruce of Newcastle says:
January 11, 2022 at 7:30 pm
The amazing thing is all that torque can be delivered to the ground successfully over such a small area. Rubber compounds are equally serious chemistry in this stuff. Amazing performance specs.
Yes. In my former life I’ve been aware of the effort and money the tyre companies spend to create the various racing compound tyres which was both extraordinary and deeply held propriety secrets. Ditto with fuel. I can’t imagine how much money Shell spend on their various research efforts but it would be very substantial.
“Breaking news is that Bozo hosted a garden party at No. 10 for governmetn hacks last northern summer at a time when Britons were limited to socialising outdoors with only one other person.
It’s not that he held the party, it’s the disdain for ordinary people that is unforgiveable.
Like Trump, Farage has his weak points, but I hope he steals the red wall converts from the Tories, who don’t deserve them.”
Well said.
Weirdly the unions seem rather to like having 2 weeks paid leave for suffering the sniffles. And any wukka who might’ve been within cooee of a sniffler.
Unions push to extend pandemic leave payments (Sky News, 11 Jan)
Funny how this stuff happens. It’s almost like union wukkas don’t much like wukking. They like the pay though.
Was it the flat white or the cafe latte that did that?
Melbournians don’t travel to Italy for the fantastic coffee that is for sure.
We do it to to sit in bars listening to 70s and 80s rock anthems.
The most extraordinary thing about the whole Djokovic thing was how unnecessary it was. Border Farce waves him through and the media and Koch-heads spend the next month laying into Chairman Dan. Instead SloMo and the Feds unwrap the Acme package.
I am struggling to think of a bigger own goal in Australian politics.
Breaking news is that Bozo hosted a garden party at No. 10 for governmetn hacks last northern summer at a time when Britons were limited to socialising outdoors with only one other person.
Another exemption blowing up big time.
I believe the last word from the National Cabinet on this matter was “We are monitoring the situation closely.” We’re in safe hands.
Joh for PM. Gifted Hawke with a landslide.
Stix
You’re so preachy these days. It’s not a good look.
Gibsons are lovely pieces of furniture with all the flamed maple tops but pretty expensive for what you get otherwise.
Have a look at PRS, they do Les Paul style called the McCarty which looks good. The Pauls Guitar in particular (a lot of other models do too) gives you coil taps so you can get the Telecaster or the twin humbucker thing. They do coil tapping better than most, it is a matter of if the neck shape appeals.
Don’t get 24 frets if you have a choice though, there is more value in having the neck pickup further away from the bridge pickup in terms of tonal variation than having two frets that never get used.
No, it’s not funny.
That’s a stupid thing to say.
In many Abattoirs and Processing Works, The Union has zero members, but Government and The Courts only recognise the relevant Industry Union as representing the employees.
John Howard’s fingerprints are all over that.
Please refresh me on the stages of clusterfarq, Doesn’t “Monitoring the situation closely” come before “Task Force is being formed to investigate & report”?
This is half the problem with fruit picking:
Ed gets something right (Amazed)
Sing along Rosie.
Ti amo
In sogno, ti amo
In aria, ti amo…
All this guitar talk. It’s as though you’re examining the points of a living thing, like a horse or dog. Or a car. Or a desirable woman.
It’s all rather fascinating for a non-muso.
Not sure there was any love for Joh inside the Lieborals. Closer to what Fat Clive is going to do to them this time really IMO.
Yet my hovercraft is full of eels – this is sounding like the “End Times”, Cats! 😕
Anyone – St Ruth?
Only because of two factors:
1/. John Howard, Ian Sinclair, & the like, seeing Joh as more of a threat “to democracy” (to their jobs) than the ALP.
2/. Hawke calling an election while Joh was overseas.
Joh was likely to win, or at least embed his place (Trump style) in national politics, for policy reasons including, but not limited to:
1/. 25% ceiling on income tax.
2/. Referendum required to increase tax.
He’d have been (similar to) Trump, just thirty years earlier & on the other side of the world.
Ed – That’s the first time I’ve heard that Sally McManus head of the ACTU is an abattoir wukka. I do know she is capable of flensing any pollie and spilling lots of bodily fluids and internal organs though.
Watching the situation unfold but are powerless to do anything about it. Anybody who has been in a car accident knows the feeling.
It’s perhaps no accident that a guitar – well, the acoustic versions, anyway – is shaped like a woman’s body.
No, but he had support from people who should’ve known better.
Teeth and fetlocks, teeth and fetlocks. Always the same.
Salvatore lamely tries to salvage a few shreds of credibility by agreeing with my comment.
[Not amazed].
Fact check: misleading
If registering a car in Qld that was registered interstate you have to get it inspected.
Thanks Rog and Frank. Research begins in earnest tomorrow morning. 🙂
Sal, I’m not saying Joh didn’t have some good policies.
But his manner was never going to win over the urban masses south of the border.
Not sure about this. Really too long ago and not my jurisdiction to comment. Certainly put the kybosh on Howard. My understanding was Hawke got parachuted in at the last minute and that it was a “drovers dog” election.
JC,
Having C-Bus doesn’t tell you anything about the capacity of the main supply into your property. Your sparky would be basing his advice on other factors.
I am St Ruth!!!
Roger says:
January 11, 2022 at 7:59 pm
Or a desirable woman.
It’s perhaps no accident that a guitar – well, the acoustic versions, anyway – is shaped like a woman’s body.
Whatever rocks your boat Roger.
Are you a serial OhFender?
No room on the Groogs bandwagon. Shoo.
Are wukkas still getting paid to isolate?
Keep us updated please, R.
But remember, the key is buying a guitar that you are happy with, regardless of what others say or even what brand is on the headstock.
The Liars certainly looked after Bill Hayden for going quietly.
Just finished speaking to a Daycare manager. They are on the verge of shutting up shop due to lack of staff (due to Covid ‘furloughing’).
Not being able to put their kids in daycare should have a nice knock on effect for ‘essential’ workers. A perfect storm.
The momentum builds.
This was ’87, Bear, not ’83.
Hawke didn’t win a Landslide in 1987, he just squeaked home.
The significance of the win was that 6 months earlier he looked like a goner
and Howard looked like a certainty.
Er…you might have to be a guitarist to appreciate their design, Gez.
It all shapes the sound, down to the mm.
Update on our employee who had the severe reaction to the Pfeizer shot.
The WA health system has gone the full Captain Kurtz.
Missing a lot here but basically. The bloke has a long history of issues with medications and is extremely limited in what he can take.
After his clot shot his BP spiked. And to add insult to injury it appears to have sensitised him to his BP medication so he breaks out in a rash using it.
The line from the healthmong is “ well maybe a different clot shot won’t set you off.
So sometime in the next couple of months he has to go to Perth to have a second shot which will almost certainly set him off again.
It’s disgusting medical abuse and it was obvious during the call there was no criteria which would grant an exemption for him.
Correct. However, wasn’t it Bill Hayden who made the “drover’s dog” comparison?
Why yes, yes they are.
Amazon Cuts COVID-19 Paid-Leave To 40 Hours For US Employees, Following Walmart (10 Jan)
That would be five full days pay for sniffles, or contact with someone with sniffles. Down from 10 days. And Amazon are famously the employer from hell who makes employees pee in bottles.
With a very long neck, no head and six ears.
And the Windsors are Battenbergs.
Yes, but in ’83.
You’re in daycare?
There will not be any of that, I tells ya! “?
Couple of good gags today.
Robert Durst died today after only serving 3 months of a life sentence.
That’s white privilege for you.
It all shapes the sound, down to the mm.
Yeah Roger and like a woman, when the speakers are hooked up you can get a lot of high pitched unpleasant feedback.
I can see my comment about the acoustic guitar body was too rarefied for this blog.
At least Picasso would get it.
Sick stuff. Twitter is full of these ABC people either overjoyed they jabbed their kid or hysterical they can’t get an appointment yesterday. It’s a doomsday cult.
Just finished speaking to a Daycare manager.
Were you complaining about your grade?
The quip – “a drover’s dog could lead the Labor Party to victory” – was made by Bill Hayden after he was replaced by Bob Hawke as Labor leader on the eve of the 1983 federal election.
healthmong
Hope muddy’s keeping the definitions up to date!
Snap.
LOL.
The 1987 election – called after Hawke was granted a “double dissolution” over the “Australia Card” – which was hardly mentioned during the campaign?
Top of the page.
GET FUCKED BARNABY.
The reality of 1983 was that Fraser and his advisers were [allegedly] in a huddle that morning and decided to call an Election 9 months early.
Unbeknownst to them, the Labor Party Caucus met and dumped Hayden.
Fraser then called a Presser to announce the Poll, totes unaware that he would be facing Bob Hawke, a Media Darling and allegedly the most poplar man in the Village.
Now, if all that sounds unbelievable, keep in mind that our LameStreamMedia have accepted it unquestioningly for the past 39 years.
Diogenes says:
January 11, 2022 at 8:02 pm
Fun fact: In most of Qld a roadworthy certificate/inspection is not required, at any time, ever.
Fact check: misleading
If registering a car in Qld that was registered interstate you have to get it inspected.
Yes, and (officially) you cannot privately advertise any car for sale unless the vehicle has a recent RWC (<3 months). In practice, cars are sometimes advertised prior to the RWC but the new owner cannot register their ownership without the RWC. No buyer with any sense would hand over their money without seeing the RWC before payment.
Vehicles sold by registered dealers have a separate legislated requirement.
The only difference between QLD and some other states is that no RWC is required to reregister a car each year. Only on sale or 'importation' to QLD.
The momentum builds.
In Victoria we only have mongmentum!
At the risk of offending many…here goes.
In days past, some would write JMJ at the top of each page.
If I am so lucky to make a page turn in the future, I shall use GFB from now on.
Roger says:
January 11, 2022 at 8:21 pm
I can see my comment about the acoustic guitar body was too rarefied for this blog.
That’s flouncing talk, that’s what that is.
Hawke woulda lost if he hadda tried to get a Mandate for the Australia Card
Since he enjoyed being Prime Minister, he didn’t raise it as an issue.
I meant in Australia Bruce.
OK.
It seems cash is still available for positive tests.
Some factors in play:-
.1 Positive tests get paid to isolate. Yeah, yeah it says PCR but I’ll bet RAT tests will work. Who is going to knock that back?
.2 The isolation period is now five days I think. Not 14. The payment hasn’t changed. Hmmm. Amortising a payment over five days is way better than 14. Especially if you are working in a distribution centre or abattoir.
.3 It’s summer. Drink summer beer. Take a few days off.
.4 Who puts the . before the number in a list?
So apart from everything I was close?
miltonfsays:
January 11, 2022 at 6:36 pm
I fully agree that Australian pollimuppets are grifters, narcissists and psychopaths but a brief view of PJ Media or Breitbart would convince you that the US ones are too. And Canadian ones. And NZ ones. It’s the metastasizing of a political-media class in all these and more countries. It requires courageous outsiders like Trump and Farage to take on this parasitic, corrupt cast and attempt to blast them out.
But who is our potential Trump or Farage? Latham has the courage, but lacks any support base. Who else is there?
The TV has been stuck on a channel for ages and Kim Kardashian has popped up.
She’s says she’s got so much to do and achieve in life.
In years to come we’ll look back at Kim’s great achievements in wonder.
How, why, WTF?
Until relatively recently, South Australia was one of the last States/Territories where no RWC is required whatsoever. Nil, zip, nada. For the entire life of the car.
(That may have changed in the past couple of years).
Fuck that brings back memories of big trouble with the nuns.
We used to write AMDG at the top of each page (which I was led to believe meant “All My Deeds for God”.
One day the eagle-eyed Sister Maria spotted AMDS on the top of my page.
“What’s does this mean?” she demanded.
“All My Deeds for Sancho” I replied.
Six of the best.
For telling the truth.
While there will be huge benefits from taking petrol-guzzling cars off the road, the arrival of EVs – which need to be charged either at home or at public charging stations – creates a range of new headaches, not the least for the electricity grid.
The Reliable Affordable Clean Energy for 2030 Cooperative Research Centre (RACE for 2030) found if the additional load of new EVs was spread evenly across the day it would represent a modest increase in demand of 3 to 4 per cent.
“However, if all EVs were to be plugged in during the evening peak, when most people return home, with each drawing 7kW, the instantaneous load could be over 30 GW, virtually doubling peak electricity demand,” the report found.
“Clearly this would be very expensive to accommodate. For this reason, ways to ensure EVs are charged in ways that not only avoid significant detrimental impacts on the grid but can in fact improve the performance of the grid are vital.”
The RACE for 2030 report, whose research partners include CSIRO, Monash University, UNSW, RMIT and Curtin University, has collated international research on EVs, plus also issued a call to arms for new research to help resolve some barriers to uptake in Australia.
1. Gee, doubling our peak electricity demand doesn’t sound too good. Clearly it IS a problem.
2. In an attempt to overcome this problem, the authorities are going to use YOUR car as an inherent component of the grid to stabilise a system full of intermittent renewables. To do so, they are going to control WHEN, WHERE and IF you charge your vehicle. Clearly everyone charging overnight is off the table.
A vehicle once provided you freedom. Moving forward it’s going to limit your ability travel, dependant on government charging restrictions. This doesn’t look promising for the spontaneity of we freedom loving Australians [sarc off].
Kinda reminds me of the healthcare system which was developed to provide for our health needs. A healthcare system, the well-being (or otherwise) of which, now dictates our freedoms.
And so it goes.
“My deli has run out of Spanish anchovies.”
Try Bombay Duck as a substitute?
https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/electric-vehicle-revolution-puts-pressure-on-energy-grid-20211105-p596cc
In my defence I couldn’t even vote in the 83 election.
Another one.
New York misheard Biden & started a Beg Back Better policy.
I have a Billy Wentworth story.
Late 70’s, a camping store on Parramatta Rd somewhere around Leichhardt. I’m buying a lightweight Canadian-made 4 man hiking tent.
I don’t know why but where you paid was at a table with chairs.
As I approached the table, a shop assistant and Billy were already seated. Billy was attempting to pay for camping equipment with a personal cheque. The twenty-something assistant was very sceptical.
Billy, “You don’t who I am?”, he said politely.
Assistant, “Err.”
Billy, “I used to be a minister in the Commonwealth government. ”
Assistant, “Uh, uh.”
Billy, “Here’s my drivers licence.”
Assistant, “Mmm.”
Billy, “Here’s my gold travel pass.” Hands over medallion in plastic sleeve.
Assistant, (to me, waiting patiently) “Do you know of Mr Wentworth?”
Me, “Yes, of course. He is who he says he is.”
Assistant, “Thank you. Mr Wentworth, please write your cheque.”
In my defence I couldn’t even vote in the 83 election.
Pants required to vote?
The only difference between QLD and some other states is that no RWC is required to reregister a car each year. Only on sale or ‘importation’ to QLD.
Victoria same. Change name (Except close family last time I did it), state or reregistration need RW. Had a relative that used to be a licenced RW tester who checked out my cars informally.
Interesting side note, during Kennett Gov there was a push on for annual RW like NSW & NT. Government looked at it, the cost to set up bureaucracy to manage it, cost to road users and then the figures of crashes involving unroadworthy vehicles. They decided Vic Pol blitzes were a more effective way to move vehicles off the road whose drivers think steering by vice grips locked to the steering shaft is acceptable. That came from a uniformed member years back before Vic Pol became hopelessly compromised.
Mater, you are quite right, but your rational approach has no place in modern Australia.
Now it’s all about demanding something & getting others to pay for it.
There are Monsters.
Many wear socks with sandals.
German metal core. WTF?
… and people who want to piss off JC.
And from Monash:
A typical EV plugged in at home will draw several times more than a typical household’s average load. If the EV charging coincides with peak electricity demand (e.g. on hot evenings when air conditioners are running) this could cause real problems for the distribution network.
However, if the EVs are charging during the middle of the day, when we already are seeing low wholesale electricity prices, then charging of EVs can help balance the grid, smooth out wholesale electricity price fluctuations, and improve the overall efficiency of the network.
However, if an ad hoc approach is taken, it is likely that EVs will largely be charged overnight at people’s homes rather than during the day.
The new RACE for 2030 CRC has launched a project to review the current state-of-the-art of research on the impacts and opportunities of widespread uptake of EVs on the electricity grid.
Researchers will work with industry representatives from a broad range of network operators, energy retailers, charging infrastructure companies as well as government and regulatory bodies to identify a set of critical questions that need to be addressed in order to facilitate a smooth transition to EVs.
Take note of the bolded sections.
Government and regulating bodies dictating your access to the fuel for your car.
Obviously this is going to end well.
Picasso on blondes – a print of this is displayed in the cottage, bought from the museum in ’96 …
However, it looks nothing like her! 😕
In 1983, I had the sheer pleasure of telling Bob Hawke, to his face, that there was no way I’d ever vote for him at the forthcoming election. I despised that man.
JCsays:
January 11, 2022 at 7:33 pm
Rick
Wouldn’t both states and federal transport ministers be on top of the transport situation? They’re not very bright, but surely not this dumb.
Remember, they are advised by bureaucrats who think that fuel comes from road tankers, and don’t know how to change a tyre.
While driving trucks around outback Queensland …
I don’t see any problems with EVs and the electrical supply grid.
The planning has already been done & the government is actively pursuing it. What is it, you ask??
You peasants will own nothing and you will be happy.
The elite will own the fancy EVs, the small number of which will cause the existing grid no problems at all.
Watching “The Ourlaw Josie Wells”.
The last of the holdouts. (Well it is fiction based on Gone for Texas”. People like Berry Benson were unreconstructed).
A parable for our times.
Rockdoctor says:
January 11, 2022 at 8:39 pm
I can beat that Dr. I lived in SA much of my life and following a car accident, the vehicle was found to have disc brake pads made from wood!! Yep, the aspiring stunt driver thought that a sufficiently hard wood is a ‘close enough’ substitute and had made perfect replica pads from wood.
I shit you not.
Yep, the aspiring stunt driver thought that a sufficiently hard wood is a ‘close enough’ substitute and had made perfect replica pads from wood.
Ahead of the times, asbestos free!
So apparently, some poor li’l cats are stuck in Taronga Zoo, to be gaped at incessantly by unsympathetic collectivist yuppie imbeciles. It’s an outrage, I tells ya.
CL had the right idea – just set them free in the outback. They couldn’t be any more obnoxious than saltys, rabbits, buffalo, camels, pigs and cane toads … 😕
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
January 11, 2022 at 8:22 pm
The 1987 election – called after Hawke was granted a “double dissolution” over the “Australia Card” – which was hardly mentioned during the campaign?
Just like whatever it was that Turdbull used to justify a DD in 2016 wasn’t mentioned during the campaign?
I’ll stand my ground on this one.
More from Monash:
“The effects of charging on the grid will be a function of how and when they’re used (or not), how our planning systems allow for their uptake, and how our everyday lives shape and are shaped by EVs. This is why social science and legal research will be central to ensuring we’re planning effectively, not just for the grid, but for a future we want to live in,” said UNSW’s Associate Professor Amelia Thorpe.
Now I’d be really scared, if it weren’t for the fact that some car reviewer off YouTube said that charging electric cars wasn’t an issue for the grid…because air conditioners (or some such shit).
This is why social science and legal research will be central to ensuring we’re planning effectively, not just for the grid, but for a future we want to live in
Seeing as you’ve all done such a fucking magnificent job of managing COVID…..
Speedboxsays:
January 11, 2022 at 8:51 pm
The Herald-Sun years ago had a photographer walking around car parks on a number of days, unsure Broady or Sunshine but you get the drift. They ran the story as a front page, that I do remember. Driving absolute bombs myself at the time even I thought WTF especially the vice grips. As most of Melbourne had trams and narrow arterials like Sydney rd I was amazed someone would even try.
Coles introduces new nationwide buying limits on certain products
By Marina Trajkovich
8:31pm Jan 11, 2022
Coles has introduced new buying limits for certain groceries as staff shortages and supply chain issues caused by COVID-19 continue to impact stock availability.
Customers will now only be allowed to purchase one packet of toilet paper, while packets of paracetamol, ibuprofen and aspirin will have a limit of two per buyer.
“Product availability in our stores has been impacted due to pandemic related supply chain disruptions,” the supermarket giant said on Facebook on Tuesday…….
Empty shelves have become commonplace across the eastern states, particularly in NSW……
He added it was unclear when supply processes would return to normal, as staff members were forced into isolation by the Omicron wave……
The current shortages have impacted fresh food as well as unperishable goods.
Last week, Coles introduced buying limits for meat in all states except Western Australia.
Shoppers will be limited to two packs of chicken breast or chicken thighs from the meat department, or six fillets from the deli.
Mincemeat and sausage purchases will also be limited to two packs per customer.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-supermarket-supply-shortage-coles-introduces-new-nationwide-buying-limits-on-groceries/6d8949ab-eb72-4999-aeb3-557404626eb3?ref=BP_RSS_ninenews_0_coles-introduces-new-nationwide-buying-limits-on-certain-product_110122
2016? Wasn’t that where Turdbull threw away Tony Abbott’s 13 seat majority?
Ok Salvatore but this is relevant:
https://www.qld.gov.au/transport/registration/roadworthy
On that same link I see the law recently changed:
The safety certificate rules have recently been reviewed and updated. From 1 September 2021, vehicle owners are no longer required to obtain and display a safety certificate before a vehicle is offered for sale. This includes when a vehicle is offered for sale on a dealer’s lot, advertised online, or a ‘for sale’ sign is displayed on the vehicle.
It is still a requirement for the seller to obtain a safety certificate before disposing of a vehicle. Penalties may apply if a safety certificate is not obtained before selling a registered vehicle.
Therefore, my comments upthread are partially out of date. The law has finally caught up with the practice of advertising a car prior to securing a RWC.