Roger February 6, 2025 8:39 pm Reply to Steve trickler Quite possible. Which might bring on a constitutional referendum. But that…
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It maybe small in the scheme of things but the cost of the knock on effects are probably orders on…
Which might bring on a constitutional referendum on freedom of speech. But that won’t prevent people being unjustly prosecuted and…
And I love this one:
Miriam? 🙂
May have already been posted- from The Daily Mail;
The giant squid pops up again.
The Killarney plant-horse shooting fiasco won’t have done much for unknown shooters being allowed onto pastoral runs.
Feelthebern:
I had no idea this was Ozzy Osbourne.
I’ve heard this only about a million times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_KGKF7l5lg
Breasts.
That is all.
George Christensen
COVID: The inquiry you wanted.
Somehow I doubt you will see much about this on the evening news.
Most of the time shooters were welcomed. The place was so remote and they would usually tell you if they came across fresh tyre tracks and stuff.
The fake news propaganda coming from the pro-Ukraine crew is vomitus.
yep- it’s like Pravda-Izvestia in the 70s now.
Why not. That’s where he belongs.
https://twitter.com/BreakingIEN/status/1507371292835692562
Not the biggest KSA oil facility, but still big. Direct hit!
I think we have established that individual results at A&E may vary.
The key thing is to manage your expectations.
It is not first come, first served and it is decidedly not “squeaky wheel gets the oil”.
Mrs P went recently on a weekend (GP not open) with an irritating and painful (but not life threatening) complaint. Immense frustration to get to #2 or #3, then get bumped down the queue because someone turns up with a heart attack or stroke or with a limb hanging off.
Of course, she is not a princess, so doesn’t complain when others are prioritised ahead of her.
Silly thing was, the triage nurse correctly diagnosed what it was and hinted that the doctor would probably suggest a certain over-the-counter medication.
Turns out she was right, but she isn’t authorised to diagnose and discharge.
However, if you take her verbal wink and nod and leave voluntarily, all good.
This evil old creature still around they really are evil
Memsahib had quite a wait, while three cases of severe burns were processed ahead of her. It subsequently emerged that a local meth plant had exploded….
Best things for wounds is Mercurochrome, works the best, just don’t overdose on it like Jack London did.
Yes, I think we may have grossly overstated the size of the problem here. I can’t imagine too many land-owners throwing around permissions like confetti to total strangers.
I agree with this, to the extent that I believe in a multi polar world. A one world monopolist government, which they are hard at work to impose (including the effective destruction of the US) would be the worst of all outcomes. Also, know them by their enemies. At this point, who can doubt that Russia’s enemies are ours.
Top Ender:
Are we able to have carrier launched refuelling from our ships?
If not, how about large helicopter refuellers with the F35s in near vertical flight or V22 Ospreys?
Would the ski jump put too much stress on a V22, negating its ability to carry enough fuel to make it a worthwhile proposition?
Just thinking out loud.
Exactly Sancho
I remember waiting from 5 pm to 4am with a little boy with a bent bone in his arm too many years ago.
Three other hospitals on ambulance by pass, late night GP we nicked out to at suggestion by triage nurse sent us back to hospital as too complicated a break, intern slapped on a cast, unhappy mother took little boy to private paediatric orthopaedic a few days later who had to (painfully) adjust the bone to get it to set in correct position.
Nothing new in crap emergency experiences.
Fink predicts end to globalisation.
Heart breaking news.
A blast from the not so distant past.
No wonder Our Man in Kiev got dropped for Zelenskyy.
Dunno Winston.
But I’ve toured the Canberra-class carriers – had a personal guide as I was writing about them for a magazine article. They look most capable of greater things.
Fair points, Mark F M.
Also, know them by their enemies. At this point, who can doubt that Russia’s enemies are ours.
correct- the fact that our vile political-media establishment hates Putin so much says a great deal
Areff:
The Kackler has to go first because if it ascends to the Big Chair, it means Hillary won’t be the First Evah Lady President.
I don’t think ‘lady’ is the correct description for that foul mouthed, corrupt, harridan.
From the absolute fucking arsehole who uses the votes accruing to shareholders that aren’t really his, to influence company boards in a progressive way. Investment management was never intended for this sort of abuse.
Yea naaa. Australia is not ever going back to making shoes and rejuvenating the rage trade in Flinders Lane or Collingwood.
What we may see is open trade among the liberal democracies while shutting down the fuckheads.
Barbara Boxer even looks venomous- people actually voted for her?
A friend of mines fit and healthy 32 year old son suddenly died 2 weeks ago.
Waiting autopsy results.
I went to his wedding last April. Can still see his happy happy face.
Devastated. And the poor poor parents.
Funeral Tuesday and of course the number or mourners are limited.
Awful just awful.
Hug your kids.
Just a question for the we make nafthink crowd. Australian manufacturing is about 7% of GDP. When one considers the three components of investment are limited resources, how would you add more manufacturing to the economic mix when mining takes up 15% of GDP, which is multiples more than anywhere else in the rich West? What would you forcibly squeeze out because the cake can’t be bigger than 100%. Incidentally, mining wages place those employees in the top 3% of the world rich.
Anyone have an answer?
Only ONE nurse in the whole of an Emergency Treatment Wing of a Major Hospital thanks to Covid Mandates.
This is a dangerous breakdown of our Health system.
Caused by Govt putting Totalitarian/’covid’ Control above the health & safety of it’s citizens.
oh but we have a little pack of Pro-Jabbers who desperately have to try make it about anything but because … ?
Who do they serve?
Start by sequestering a portion of all national oil and gas production for domestic use at controlled favorable pricing, to the extent that our energy prices are cut by at least 25%. It would help to make sumfink.
Timbo, I’m lucky to count him as a friend. He has a wicked sense of humour
He’d need very bit of it, poor ba$tard
If you want to talk about economic efficiency how about pissing off all the renewbull subsidies to oligarchs. How much public money has been flushed down the toilet in the last 25 years because of the globull warming hoax? How much productive investment has been sabotaged by marxist agitators started with Bob Brown and the Franklin Dam?
I know a lot of Australian clothing was made by Asian ladies working at home which I think the unions stopped.
Bob Brown one of the earlier meja anti heros.
Toyota used to export Camrys to the Middle East from Melbourne.
Just on a happy note, in May the Australian electorate will vote for more of this shit from the liars or the liars light.
We are blessed.
Just had a skim through the bios of the new SA govt. (note: “skim” through, not an exhaustive investigation)
The only one who has ever had a job is the Premier, as a shelf stacked & then a checkout boy.
The CV is the Deputy Premier is downright alarming, she’s never been in the real world, not from birth.
The state may be fuked.
I read, in an old BRW in the nineties, that Australia exported more cars, in 1964, then it did at the time the article was written.
Unions currently trying like blazes to do the same thing to fruit picking. i.e. eliminate it.
I thought one of the states was. However, why would we need more oil&gas when we’re on our way to zero “emissionalities” by 2050?
Shades of numberwang thinking you should get immediate treatment no matter what you have. This mindset helped Labore win in SA.
In the West, the risk of dying at 50 is about 14%.
That would be cumulative risk to age 50, not in the year you are 50. Includes early childhood deaths, young hoons in cars etc. I’m a little surprised it is that high although a high school newsletter in 2015 had a departed roll which was around 20% at age 67.
And build several new giga dams that generate and sell power at controlled prices with a target of reducing our domestic energy costs by 25% min. If we can borrow zillions to piss away on abos , foreign aid , renewballs and space, we can borrow to generate cheap power and irrigate this wide brown land.
Makka
Just keep in mind all the sectors add up to 100% , by definition.
That means some sector has to become smaller in order to allow manufacturing to expand.
What are you waiting for? Go.
The punters have been taught to hate cheap and abundant energy.
Tom,
The Whitch Finder General (aka Ray Hadley) is going to demand an inquiry as to why an unvaxxed allowed to win a horse race. Would like to have the jockey give his speech after the race and say something like “I would like to thank the owner, trainer and the horse for letting me use his horse de-wormer”.
Winston,
Was also thinking about buying Jeremy’s Razor because the ad and sentiment behind it is so good. However shipping cost would be an issue and clearly they don’t want the hassle. Going to have enough sales in USA without having to worry about overseas sales.
Spoke with long time friend who is an unjabbed lifesaver. Was looking like he was going to be an ex lifesaver by end of the month if did not get jabbed. 2 weeks ago they cancelled the mandate much to the annoyance of some who had taken the jab just to remain in lifesaving. He is just finishing running a 6 week course because the vaccinated person withdrew because of high chance of catching Covid from the kids. Unjabbed in NSW are now out of lifesaving as not changed their policy. One of the Qld lifesavers who was unjabbed and going to have to leave was former ironman Trevor Hendy who is President of Southport Surf Life Saving. You know organisations have lost the plot when willing to lose a lifelong member of that calibre. If it is anything like what is happening in the schools they would have noticed the high number of Covid cases amongst lifesavers but am guessing with very few serious cases as generally going to be fit and healthy.
Unfortunately Govt Minister in Qld talking about Covid today was saying all should get the booster.
NZ update. Apparently the Teachers and Health Workers have taken their judicial review to High Court (same judge as decided in favour of cops and Defence) and are now waiting for his decision. Let us not forget UK Health dropped their health worker mandate.
Whilst we have had protests it is simply amazing how many are going along with the jab, jab, jab policies. Never seen a Union boss speak out and question it.
Protect the elderly but let people make their own decisions. Why should a 90 year old be prevented from going to a cafe for not taking a vaccine or four ? Let them enjoy their final years without coercing them to be vaxxed.
Incidentally has anybody ever seen a web page with stats / graphs showing Qld Covid cases with hospitalisations, ICU, deaths preferably with age groups and vaccinated info. Have seen the NSW Health ones which were very good but not seen similar for Qld.
Hooray! WAs mud-spattered No.1 jockey Willie Pike – exiled by the Marxist McClown regime because he refused to get the experimental Kung Flu jab – wins the Group 3 Neville Sellwood Stakes (2000m) on Mount Popa ($3.80 – T: Hawkes) at Sydney’s Rosehill on Tancred Stakes day.
Where’s Cassie? I may have missed her, but Control F for two pages back, no Cassie.
I have seen a lot of TV ads calling for more blood donors. The ad says that half of their bookings are cancelled, why would that be?
TE, we didn’t buy the reinforced thermally insulated decks for our helicopter carriers. Nor any CIWS although good luck with that with a ship attack Kalibr coming at you at Mach 2.9 (around 1 km/sec).
The things are also an outstanding, huge, radar target.
The Osprey could gain a little from the ski jump I guess as it only needs to get to translational lift.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/navy-hopes-landing-tweaks-will-increase-osprey-cargo-capacity-1.390493
I don’t know what speed that is for Osprey. For helicopters it seems quite low around 20 to 30 knots IIRC. Osprey may be a bit faster.
Yes it is cumulative.
Makka
Just keep in mind all the sectors add up to 100% , by definition.
That means some sector has to become smaller in order to allow manufacturing to expand.
LOL! Anyone want to point out the fallacy?
If you have 7% manufacturing and increase that by half you get a 103.5% economy which you renormalise to 100%.
Even if you simply take some government drones and put them on an assembly line instead, the economy gets larger.
TE,
Does the Navy actually have any flying helicopters at the moment ? How about the Naval Aviation School in Nowra that was a few years ago commanded by the female whose trade was lawyering. The one who did not want her command to march 500m in the ANZAC day parade. Who are they training and for what ?
The pie can grow and the manufacturing sector can also by $’s but still retain similar % of the pie. Increased self sufficiency is the aim along with higher portion of our GDP going to wages. There are warehouses of fks I couldn’t give for corporates who have screwed us over for decades. But as an incentive, divert the many wasted billions on foreign aid, abos, Canberra bureaucrats , duplicated Govt wastage toward incentives for manufacturers to re-tool with state of the art world class equipment and export incentive structures to support.
It won’t happen I know. Our political parties are far more concerned about how they appeal to women and the gender freak show.
The shift in gross merchandise trade over the last 20 years is incredible. US led sanctions then would have been murderous. Now, much less so.
Dunno why these idiots are pushing for zero emissions by 2050, I thought the world was going to end in about 8 years…odd.
That depends.
Years ago when in QLD with the fam, then 12 month old granddaughter came down with the ENT infection that had earlier afflicted her two older sisters. Knowing that she needed antibiotics, we took her to the ER in local hospital* and waited, waited, waited while curious baby sat quietly on my knee, keenly watching everything going on around her.
Suspecting that we were not high on the list (because Grandy was so well behaved) I made her lie back in my arms so that she couldn’t see anything but the ceiling. Instantly, indignant ear-piercing shrieks that threatened to go on for ever… and a doctor at our sides agreeing that yes, severe upper respiratory requiring antibiotics.Now please take that tiny monster and go!
*It was the hospital where I was born, many moons ago. Not saying where because it might dox me. 🙂
Reduce the services sector.
Australian manufacturing is about 7% of GDP. When one considers the three components of investment are limited resources, how would you add more manufacturing to the economic mix when mining takes up 15% of GDP, which is multiples more than anywhere else in the rich West?
/puts on asbestos suit….
Treating property a little less gently.
Vast swathes of GDP are tied up in property because its a solid, reliable income earner and asset.
https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/how-australia-s-property-obsession-warps-the-economy-20210506-p57pbp
And it appears that the hankering to become a property investor is fairly widespread. There are about 2.2 million property investors in Australia, or around 20 per cent of Australian households. And roughly 60 per cent of these investors are aged over 50.
According to Westpac, which is the country’s biggest lender for investment properties, 64 per cent of its investment property portfolio consists of clients who own one property, 25 per cent own two investment properties, and 7 per cent own three properties.
In addition, it’s likely that demand for housing will rise as immigration resumes. AMP’s Oliver points out that we’re experiencing the lowest population growth since 1917.
“And that has probably reduced the underlying demand for housing stock by around 100,000 units a year.”
Perversely enough this has to happen by being less scummy to small business.
Why try and set up a small manufacturing business when all 3 levels of government see you as a a cow to be milked or a blight on their landscape to be zoned into penury?
https://business.gov.au/planning/business-plans/starting-a-business-checklist
Spot of safe cracking this arvo!
Brought an old bank vault door, no keys, managed to get it open, helps when you have access to the back side!
Must be really old, internal mechanism has lots of rivets and the frame is made exactly as you would if it was made from timber, it has mortise and tenon joints!
Happy anniversary, calli.
Every year together is better than the last, isn’t it.
I love being married.
Makka
What are you after? If it’s making cars then that is just silly feel good jingoism.
How One Ukrainian Billionaire Funded Hunter Biden, President Volodymyr Zelensky, And The Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion
Also went burning off, took a nice series of photos:
https://imgur.com/gallery/lLqBnsl
RickW
Do you think it will satisfy the new VIC gun safe laws?
Way back when, some drunken swampy in ER in Perth, decided his mate wasn’t being seen quickly enough. He was shouting the odds, and threw a punch at the male orderly.
Guess who found out – the hard way – that Special Air Service Regiment used to send their medical orderlies to said ER to gain experience “at the coal face?”
Bourne 1879 the “lady” commander was at Cresswell not Albatross.
Albo won’t have any problems holding Grayndler, he won over 50% of first preferences last time so it didn’t go to preferences. Even if it does go to preferences, he’ll get the bulk of the Liberal Party preferences so that will keep him in front of his Green challenger.
Indeed. Why is “earth hour” always held at a convenient time in the evening when hardly anyone is busy? Just so they can switch lights off and show how virtuous they are.
It should be held in the middle of a work day, everything in the country that uses electricity shut off, including fridges and freezers. Also every device manufactured using electricity, so no phones or laptops, etc.
Let them make a real statement and go without the benefits of Western science and industry. Time they found out what it would mean to actually live in the pre-industrial world they romantically imagine was so lovely.
Why stop at earth hour? Make it earth day.
If they want to feel virtuous, they should suffer for it!
What are you after? If it’s making cars then that is just silly feel good jingoism.
ok how do the subsidies/protection of the Australian automobile industry compare to amounts spent on rubbish electricity generation and welfare leaches?
Do you think it will satisfy the new VIC gun safe laws?
That’s what it’s being used for, so hopefully!!!
(Btw, what are the new laws?)
Why stop at earth hour? Make it earth day.
If they want to feel virtuous, they should suffer for it!
“Oh, Master, make me chaste and celibate – but not yet!” Those words do appear – as da mihi castitatem et continentam, sed noli modo – in book eight, chapter seven of Augustine’s Confessions
Do we actually pay for abortions in Australia?
wtf?
Investigators should know that doctors and clinics will go out of their way not to recognise an injury as due to mRNA vaxxes. One of my adult sons had severe synovitis in both wrists developing in the week after his second Pfizer jab, an autoimmune reaction that my medico sister says she has seen occasionally from jabs during her many years of medical practice (she’s now retired and no longer keeps a Provider Number so can’t write a certificate for him). My son has suffered for months with it, with gradual but incomplete improvement, but with no hope of compensation because there is no medical recognition of it as a vaxx injury. Many others must be in this situation too.
Earth Hour is always a Saturday Night.
The lights will go out in the CBD high rises for an hour, which isn’t a bad thing.
Consider also investment in Australia now- seems like our vile banks won’t invest in coal mines. Pretty sad state of affairs that it’s left to the Indians to come to the rescue.
I don’t get point miltonf, sorry.
If our ruling class wasn’t so effete and treacherous, an Australian company would be starting the Carmichael mine and selling the coal to India.
The lights will go out in the CBD high rises for an hour, which isn’t a bad thing.
That’s right, no one will see you fuck a donut.
‘Oooman rites lawyers suddenly are all for woman bashers rights to be upheld…
Critics slam draft immigration bill that would make it easier to deport family violence offenders
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-26/character-test-law-draft-to-make-it-easy-to-deport-dv-offenders/100941084
…
A joint submission signed by 17 legal and support services that work with victim-survivors of family violence has been made to the government, calling for the bill to be scrapped.
Guess which agencies and groups should just be delisted from receiving any funding next year.
Imagine not believing all women and putting them at risk of more violence.
…
She said some individuals had faced deportation for traffic offences, including at least 55 New Zealanders.
Hmmm a telling lack of detail on those “traffic offences”.
Not one of mine. 😀
RickW,
My point is opponents of Australian manufacturing complain about subsidies, how do these compare to money given to welfare leaches and wind ‘farms’ etc.
This is perfect! Back to the 1920’s.
Maybe I can dig out some whale oil for the lamps, too! At least that is what the label will say.
You can get this if you want to pay the price. I think the US is about 14% of GDP and they are getting close. The patients time is usually the least valuable thing in a major modern hospital.
in a hi-rise, the lights are already off in the middle of a Saturday nite
what are they gonna do, turn off the signage and security lighting?
Im not an opponent of Australian manufacturing just looking for a realistic salution, miltonfs.
A renaissance of bespoke manufacturing due to CnC’s is already happening. I’d rather see assistance towards them.
Some bloke got posted to Cerberus as Supply Officer was delighted
to find the ex birdie CO hated marching, so no Divisions.
JCsays:
March 26, 2022 at 4:54 pm
Just a question for the we make nafthink crowd. Australian manufacturing is about 7% of GDP. When one considers the three components of investment are limited resources, how would you add more manufacturing to the economic mix when mining takes up 15% of GDP, which is multiples more than anywhere else in the rich West? What would you forcibly squeeze out because the cake can’t be bigger than 100%. Incidentally, mining wages place those employees in the top 3% of the world rich.
Anyone have an answer?
I’ll have a go.
We can’t go back to the “subsidise everything” mode, but there are some things we must be able to do.
That we rely to a large degree on Chynerr for basis pharmaceuticals is insane. We don’t need to make everything, but we really must have some capability, unless we wish to return to 19th Century medicine.
We are sitting on lakes of oil, but have only a limited local supply, mostly imported. We have to exploit our own resources, and be able to refine enough to keep the economy (and the ADF) moving. Relying on Chynerr for the so-called “renewables that are incapable of providing reliable, continuous, power is also insane. Keep the coal fires burning.
Basic food processing is an essential capability, unless we want to go back to grinding our own flour, and baking our own bread. Canning plants, and other processing must be at least partly local.
We need to be able to provide the basic ammunition needs of the ADF. We will never be capable of designing and building the full range of top technology and weapons, but we should be able to produce basics like rocket propellant.
I’m sure others will add their thoughts.
In AFL news the west coast Illeagles are living up to their name.
Thirteen players unable to play due to COVID
All bets are off!
( in Arnie voice) The vaccines do nuffing
Ditto for me.
Someone with a great sense of humour and an exceptionally quick wit has just gone to the gym.
He forgets our anniversary, has done for over forty years now, but I still love being married to him.
JC
I thought one of the states was. However, why would we need more oil&gas when we’re on our way to zero “emissionalities” by 2050?
Because that insane target will never be reached, at least with a functioning economy?
JCsays:
March 26, 2022 at 5:23 pm
Makka
Just keep in mind all the sectors add up to 100% , by definition.
That means some sector has to become smaller in order to allow manufacturing to expand.
I’m happy to see a significant reduction in the government administration sector.
somebody pays maybe hundreds of $k per year for those signs
and if nanna trips on the carpet when the foyer lights are out your’e gonna have problems
also, no building manager is gonna pay somebody to change the time schedules or pay to change em back
we do automated systems … lemme check a few buildings to see if anybody has changed the schedules or made ‘exception’ entries for d’earth hour.
And if wish lists above was granted they would not need assistance.
“I fight torries, it’s what I do, it’s what I do …”
This drooling cretinous imbecile is more electable than Teats Peanuthead, how, exactly? 😕
The sentences above, are in no way to be interpreted as any kind of endorsement of Goose Morristeen and the Gliberals, thanks Cats.
Goodness gracious me…
The greens have gone the full Uni undergraduate.
Never go the full uni undergraduate…
The Greens will:
Put in place a new Corporate Super-Profits Tax of 40% on big corporations
Introduce an annual extra 6% wealth tax on billionaires
Tax the mega-profits of big corporations earning over $100m annually
Crackdown on multinational tax avoidance
End government handouts to the billionaires and the big corporations, like the fossil fuel industry
This ad is awesome in in mongoloidism.
https://youtu.be/76DNMjqSUA8
Plus theres more!
Greens pledge to abolish student debts as election pledge
Boambee John nails it: oil, food, drugs – that’s the essential manufacturing mix.
All run on coal-fired power. Plus keeping some steel and aluminium smelting.
And some rubber for tyres.
Train up more engineers – mechanical, civil, electrical, computer.
Teach children at desks, by rote at first for the basics. Remove woke curriculum.
Encourage optimism and patriotism and self-reliance.
Train all men (and some women) in basic weapons use for self-defense.
well here you go
a quick cross-section of building control systems over the internets
and this is how many scheduling exceptions I found
commercial towers = 0
residential towers = 0
shopping centres = 0
cop shops = 0
television studios = 0
maggot farms = 0
I suppose I could turn them all off if I felt like it
because Ed Case reckons it’s a good thing
but nah … motivation = 0
Rockdoctor:
(I will no longer be calling you Wokdoctor because ‘bad’.)
…and so will the Chinese – taking the odd angry shot at our blokes to provoke a reaction.
Don’t put it past the pricks. They’d love to see body bags coming home to Australia, they’d be ramping up the funding for the Greenies and Antiwar suckers.
But keep those renewables subsidy oligarchs! Their obscene rent-seeking profits are pure.
Before manufacturing or anything besides mining dirt can flourish, we must stop wasting taxpayer money on rent seeking , govt funded, subsidized to buggery sectors and lower our energy costs. We borrow to fund wasteful Govt operating and welfare related expenses. We are sitting on a yuuuuge bounty of energy and we gift ourselves the highest energy costs on the planet. So what I’m after is creating the right economic environment. Not this fkd up parasitic green abortion we live in.
Just putin’ it out there, Cats, while it’s still early in the evening.
Last night, I inadvertently unearthed a film clip featuring an aesthetically pleasing young woman who hails from this continent. I’ve always loved Confidence Man’s music, but had never bothered to watch one of their videos, investigate who they were, or attempt to find anything about their personnel.
Well, all I have to say is, Pwhoooaaarrrr … 😕
Look out, Miss Ellie.
There’s a new siren on this Planet*.
*PTP
Id add Fertilizer to the list Lizzie.
We float on an ocean of the raw materials but dont make nuffink of it because we locked away the gas needed.
https://fertilizer.org.au/Fertilizer-Industry/Fertilizer-Production
/cue spooky music..
Phosphate rock is treated with concentrated (90 to 93 %) sulfuric acid to produce a mixture of phosphoric acid and gypsum. Filtration removes the gypsum to leave green, wet-process or merchant grade phosphoric acid containing about 22 % phosphorus.
Also a sensible chuckle for the literary minded.
(I promise its not Amy Schumer in a bikini again)
Happy Anniversary, btw, Calli.
I did give you one of my special upticks for extra congratulatory sparkle.
In solid 18c gold and diamond studded.
No half measures when it really matters. 🙂
Surprised there wasn’t some crafty banker doing the Scrooge McDuck,
given their latent anti-semitism.
another nail in the coffin for commercial real-state valuations
The Greens are retarded
GPT delivers 2021 NPAT of $1,422.8 million and final distribution of 9.9 cents per security
There’s a proposal to manufacture fertilizer on the Burrup – the local indigenous are complaining it will destroy their cave paintings and their song – lines…..only in Australia….
Barry:
(I will longer be calling you ‘Bazza’ because ‘bad’).
Thanks for the reminder – I shall light up everything I’ve got for the occasion.
Agree Makka.
If we can’t field a crew of local pickers then there is something fundamentally wrong.
Lizzie is back, back, baybee, back*!
*A good thing and about bloody time.
TheFrolickingMole:
(I will no longer be calling you TFM or the Frolicking Moll because ‘bad’.)
I’ve attended a couple of 16 -20 year old sudden deaths that turned out to be natural cardiac events, but shit. That must have been hard on the sister and the family.
Ummm, …Matrix ConcernTroll, aka TotalDumbarse, there’ll be a lights out in all CBD office buildings for 1 hour tonight.
You can bet your balls on it, if you’ve got any?
There is. Our public education system is fundamentally WRONG for many people. We are wasting far too much time and money teaching our kids meaningless shit by ill qualified teachers from an increasingly woke and irrelevant curriculum. We are walking ourselves into economic disaster.
natural cardiac events
If I had to make a guess at the most likely cause that would be it.
Something goes dicky with the electrics, spiral into AF and dead in minutes.
Makka
Then education reform should be main focus and drop expectations for quick fixes.
Pedro the Loafer:
You’d have to run that over with a tank to kill it.
We’ve already arrived 30 years ago.
The cause isn’t the curriculum but insisting that every student complete High School.
In the great days of Australia 60 years [2 generations] ago, students who wanted to attend High School had to sit an Exam and Pass to do so.
Look at the Admissions Register of Qld Schools up to 1962, it shows that most students left at grade 8 or earlier and of those that sat the High School Exam, half didn’t make it.
Well said.
Bespoke,
If we had the political will , social determination and the subject expertise deployed to the tasks, there’s no reason why all these issues couldn’t be addressed concurrently.
New carpet in the house and that involves trimming all the doors so they don’t drag on the thick pile my wife picked.
A Makita cordless saw with a 1mm blade and a very steady hand does the trick.
Beware the very fine saw dust. I finally found a practical use for those stupid blue covid muzzles.
Increasing our GDP ??,…I see big growth in Mental Health, Aged Care And Gender Studies.
Thanks guys. The flowers are lovely and just what I like most – proteas and leucadendrons, asiatic lilies and euc and acacia foliage. He always gets it right.
Fortysix years tomorrow. But I’ve known him all my life, he took me to my first school dance a gazillion years ago!
On the washing up for Miss Candles – there must always be consequences. Lectures do absolutely nothing. There’s an ad for car insurance doing the rounds with mum sitting doggo while the daughter runs through all the scenarios on getting Mum’s car to drive. Without a word, daughter reaches the logical conclusion…perhaps she could get a job and her own car!
I like that ad…very much.
Sanch Panzer:
We were never given the reason for its disappearance from the RFDS Medical Chest, but your answer above is probably the reason. Logic doesn’t have to enter into it.
I wore a crinoline and fichu, of course.
Failure, unrelenting tax hoovering and mediocrity, writ large. Certain collectivists were gifted the dregs of a “public education system” in this country that bore some resemblance to its intended purpose.
Then, being the greedy stupid malevolent imbeciles that they are, they shut it off for those that followed them.
Because, you know, the revolution, man. Those filthy stupid proles shall not be allowed to question our wisdom, such as it is (not).
To easily distracted by toxic maternalism.
Ah yes, “earth hour”. Thanks for reminding me to turn on everything in the house that sucks electrickery, for one glorious hour, Perfesser Eddles.
Doin’ it for the planet, again. 🙂
Did the same with a Ozito multi tool. Likely not as tidy though. Gez.
You train them, like dogs. At least it works.
The cleanskin Makita cordless saw cost $300 but I’ve been looking for an excuse to buy one for ages.
I’ve got quite a few Makita power tools so the batteries were on hand.
The finish is great and the fine blade doesn’t disturb the paint. A quick once over with fine grit paper and you’d never know I’ve been there.
“It’s time”, to quote The Great Man.
The boss has Makita and I’m free to borro enytime if needed.
MiltonF:
I have a couple of whale oil candles in my possession. I bring them out when Greenies are about.
(OK, they’re just Kmart candles but I made up a couple of paper wrappers and brushed sardine oil on them. But they look and smell like the real deal – honestly!)
It’s Never Time to be forcibly injected with Mr Pfizer’s Potions, but that’s your future if you elect Albanese, old Bear.
This incessant biblical bucketing down is getting very tiresome, thanks God.
You’ve proved Perfesser Dim Flummery very wrong (again).
Please leave us out your mighty smitings (for a change), we asks ya. 🙁
JC, are you playing the ingenue? You must know that if manufacturing is 7% of GDP that has nothing to do with it growing. The economy is not fixed, if say manufacturing doubles then GDP would increase without any negative effects on any other sector. The pie gets bigger and we’re all better off.
The big problem in the short to medium term is that when we sent our manufacturing offshore, all those skilled jobs went with it. There’s hundreds of thousands of young men working in building. Thirty years ago many of them would’ve worked in manufacturing, instead of skilled manufacturing trades they’ve become building tradesmen. If our housing and commercial demand collapses, there’s going to be many young disgruntled men and that’s never good.
Gez.
No straight edge clamped on as a guide?
Hang on – Perfesser Eddles does not appear to be a fanboi of the Albansleazey.
Has he been chowing down on some magical mushies or something similar?
We refloored a Queenslander a few years ago – and I had to trim off a bunch of doors.
I used a multi tool with a piece of new flooring and a ply shim to get a straight guide. After fiddling around a bit with the first one it worked really well – although I burned up about $100 worth of blades.
We’ve been watching the second season of The Sinner on Netflix. Not a bad show with a few twists and turns to keep you guessing along the way.
I see one of the lead cast is an actress named Carrie Coon.
Obviously named after racist cheese.
Gez
Beware the very fine saw dust. I finally found a practical use for those stupid blue covid muzzles.
I’ve been using them for a major hand sanding job I have been doing.
Sancho Panzer says:
March 26, 2022 at 7:35 pm
Gez.
No straight edge clamped on as a guide?
A pencil line and a good eye. The house is old enough that the doors don’t benefit from a straight edge. I measured from the top and averaged out the odd lengths. It’s a good guess with each frame.
LOL – just rib him, gently of course, about being a Springsteen fan. He’ll be posting some awesome clips of the e-street band playing with Chuckles Berry before you know it.
If I don’t beat him to it, of course! 🙂
Only Socialists believe that, and I never took JC for one.
Bluddee hell – a personage one might not want to mess with.
AKA, Li’l Stevie of the e-street band.
Oh, Ed …
I could log into the surveillance cameras I suppose
but, why would I bother, I’ve already checked the lighting schedules and besides, I can download footage from the NVR’s anytime I want
listen mate, you go with ABC news if you like
anything to avoid a gypsum spike
If JC is a Springsteen fan then I declare war on him too.
So when do these big fat cats get cancelled and renamed?
And before that we had some big factories producing clothes, my grandmother worked in one of those in the Latrobe Valley for years when I was young.
Before Saturday Fight Night…
Visited all the rellies today, those residing in the lovely little cemetery* in the village where my family settled in the 1830’s.
Very emotional talking again with Mum and Dad, Sister, two sets of grandparents, Great Aunt Rose, Grandma Emma and Great Aunts, Freida, Mona, Lana and many more.
I tend to shun excursions and any public places these days, but Daughter talked (nagged) me into it and so we all turned out; three generations to honour our extraordinary ancestors who fled religious persecution in Prussia to start a new life – a proud legacy – in this wonderful country.
Okay, done with the soppy sentiment. Let the fights begin!
*Best Man and I have purchased our final real estate in this sweet little place. I doubt that there will be much rest, though. As Son said 45 years ago, when attending a big family do, “They’re a bunch of yackety yacks.”
Lol bespoke, on multi-tools and not very neat cuts.
30 months ago, I gave myself a bone deep “paper cut” on a half moon multi blade which was turned off! lateral cut in the side of my wrist luckily, 2 drops of blood was it.
Spent 2 days hanging around RPA waiting my turn for a quick clean up, inspection and stitch up.
First night I went home and returned to rejoin the queue ie start again, and at 6 pm that night was told to go home, but as I was leaving an embarrassed doc told me there was a bed available and if I spent the night there I would keep my place in the queue.
I took the bed, rang the wife and we wandered up to the Courthouse for a steak and a few beers.
Operated on at 4pm the next afternoon.
Fast forward to yesterday where I paid for day surgery (more complex) at Sydney Private, where surgeon/dope fees were $900 and hospital fees over $1800.
2 points I guess, multi tools are great but not too neat and the public health system is a bottomless trough.
Spokes – he doesn’t like to admit it.
It’s the Noo Joisey factor.
Anyway, I’m not having it. As much as I’d like to protest otherwise, Goose Springsteen and his E-Street Band have gifted us some mighty characters and some magical musical moments.
It would be unnecessarily churlish to deny it.
Still one of the great Rock ‘n’ Roll anthems of our lives.
Clad in a Brando, a pair of 501’s and a white Haynes t-shirt while wielding a Tele.
As far as I’m concerned, it doesn’t get much better than that while existing on this planet, Cats. 🙂
Probably only a matter of time.
Actually named after the raccoon, which some thought it resembled, or was even a cross with.
As I’ve mentioned before, my wife has one. It really is the gentle giant of the feline world.
Zipster:
Here.
The US government is at war with its citizens. There is NO other explanation.
I’d remind the O’Biden/Harris Administration that “a country is only three meals away from violent revolution.” Mao Tse Tung.
I think a high rotation viewing of the Pelosi Ice Cream Refrigerator would be a good reminder of the way these bastards think about us.
Where are the wukkas going to come from to work in the proposed factories ?
As the Graffiti said Wogs turn the Cogs
Gonna need more wogs
err, unless wielding a cherry red Strat … 🙂
I’m in a declaring war mood, Rabz. Delta’s on the list.
I’ll grant this, when listening to AM on a transistor radio in the summer of 1975/6 and this came on, the hairs on the back of your neck stood up.
Makka:
This giant Squid?
Rog – dancing around in the kitchen (while doing the dishes) with my erstwhile sister, looking out on a Sydney night sky in 1975.
As vivid as yesterday.
Oi! I didn’t do nuffin!
Shame on you pickin’ on a poor, helpless li’l ol’ granny like me.
ZK2A:
I would have waited too, just for the entertainment…
I presume you meant to say “one of the three components is limited (human) resources” ? If not, then for some reason you seem to be arguing that we can’t have more manufacturing because its a zero-sum game, which is bull.
Manufacturing ‘aint what it used to be. There’s no reason we can’t make things with minimal labour input.. and you get more value add from making stuff. Think how much more we’d make out of our bauxite if we exported it all as ingots.
Yeah; I was lying in bed looking at a full moon through the window with the radio on.
some of you lot need to get your heads out of the 1950’s
I could log into the surveillance cameras I suppose
but, why would I bother, I’ve already checked the lighting schedules and besides, I can download footage from the NVR’s anytime I want
Whatever.
Lights in CBD office buildings are still going off at 8 pm and switching on again at 9 pm.
JC:
The cake gets bigger, you fool.
Doing it by eye Gez.
Courageous.
I did one last year when new 20mm tiles went in.
The doors are that sort of timber veneer where they take four successive matching slices and lay them with matched corners at the centre of the door. More common technique in furniture.
Anyway, I was shit scared of tearing the veneer with the saw. It is close to 100 years old.
Scored it along the line several times with a utility knife and used a blade with about 100 tpi … very, very slowly.
No problems but sweating bullets that it was going to tear or chip the veneer.
There can be some entertainment in said ER when some of the patients are wearing handcuffs and have a police escort..
Springsteen.
I can usually see why people like musks I dont.
But Bwuce and his boys have always been the shouty monotone band for me.
Music thank you spellwrecker.
That’s what my Mil said.
Whilst I have (sadly) not watched Carlson since his capitulation on the night of the Biden ‘election’, this is absolutely true and its true throughout the west – even here in Australia, the use of our militarised police force (and the military themselves) to violently oppress the people is proof of that.
Springsteen.
I can usually see why people like musks I dont.
But Bwuce and his boys have always been the shouty monotone band for me.
Springsteen’s singing voice sounds to me like he’s struggling against a severe case of constipation.
I think the first time I heard it was at a party at a house of a young lady who was playing it on her HMV reccud player at volume 11.
I was quite taken with it and asked her who it was.
Obviously I misheard (with Clarence’s screeching sax in my ear) because I was convinced for weeks afterwards that I had been listening to Bruce Flintstone.
MiltonF:
Only the foetus.
This is not a subject us mere mortals should be dabbling in.
We need an expert.
Has anyone got John Hewson’s number?
LOL.
Formative R ‘n’ R moments, part eleventy gazillion …
When one is tired of R ‘n’ R, Cats, one is tired of existence. To butcher a hackneyed phrase. 😕
Pancho, any relation to Fred?
Three things which made that band:-
.1 The woodwind section (i.e. Mr Clemmons).
.2 The piano played by Mr. Bittan.
.3 Mr. Lofgren’s guitar (I still rate Mr. Flintstone as the third best guitarist in the band).
Hiho, Cats!
Have spent the afternoon engaged in gratuitous Garage Nastism at the Model Railway Club in Bayswater- First properly working locomotive after several years of periodic tinkering and wagon-building, so I’m pretty chuffed (Honk!).
Anything interesting happen while I was out? And is SRR still convinced that all of Ukraine’s currently-living population and defenders consist solely of these kinds of upstanding and stalwart fellows?
#RAAAARGH-Heil!*
*(Far less gauche than being in a powersuit…)
Even at the time I thought it an unusual choice of stage name for an aspiring rocker.
They are very charming and hilarious little native parrots.
And if you feed them strawberries, they go from their usually peppery odour to being quite sweet.
Loose Windscreen
… a dinobore getting shouty.
Gee, well hold the audio talky thingee, peoples – we’re not here to discuss the technical minutiae – it’s all about the rawness of the moment.
OK – it’s been commercialised out of all recognition, but R ‘n’ R (that’s good R ‘n’ R) will still give you a good ol’ punch in the internals, while transporting you off to a mystical place with an HBOT (or preferably, several)
This is a good thing, not something to be dismissive of. 🙂
Get back on him ‘duk. He is coming around. He’s had people on discussing the steal in Wisconsin. A couple of months and he’ll be 100% on board.
LOL
Russians With Attitude
@RWApodcast
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8m
Mass surrender at a command post near Kiev – 61 Ukrainian officers & soldiers
Could be an interesting development.
Nope …..Once trust is broken…
That bizarre Glibertarian imbecile “iampeter” used to refer to the Tucker as “Tucker CarlMarxon”.
He was obviously barking mad (to everyone except himself) but somewhat weird and fascinating in a slow motion train wreck sort of way.
Perfesser Davidson eventually blew his stack and banned the brain damaged monomaniacal imbecile.
For those of us crying out for some “contrary o’pinions” imagine this blogue being blessed with him and Syphilis von Spuddentropp.
Reconsidering, are we?
The Loss of Force Z – Why send battleships against aircraft?
Finally worked out why my internet connection, that I mentioned the other day, is playing up something shocking .. not the browser or Windows upgrades doing it but the provider network upgrade to G5 .. seems lotza sites just aren’t reacting to G5 upgrade too well .. some load as per usual whilst others are either very slow or won’t work at all with specific browsers .. bloody nuisance but seems I’m gonna have to live with using 3 browsers (Brave, Chrome & Edge) instead of one (Brave) .. for the time being ….!
Thanks for that link.
4. The lyrics actually made sense.
BTW While Clemmons was good the Danish jazz saxophonist Jan Garbarek is so much better which is why he often played with the likes or Jarrett and Haden. His playing on Arbour Zena is magnificent.
Bespoke:
Close – if governments would get the hell out of the way and stopped assuming the world would die if they weren’t there to guide it, and just. stopped. trying. to . pick. winners, the economy would be better off.
That is a very very very low bar.
It that is an example of great, no wonder the genre is unlistenable noise.
Thank you Timothy Nielsen,
I am going to steal that. That description, can be applied to many singers and in some cases is more appropriate than my “he sounds like he is moaning about his testicles being torn off while crossing a barbed wire fence”
Makka:
Fortunately, it is self correcting.
When economic disaster occurs, we all suffer – even the wealthy. And Greenies.
Cheers Winston
KHARKIV
The False Flag Will Happen In Kiev
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Scheduled for Mar 27, 2022
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The Frolicking Mole:
Second is EMD with a ventricle full of clots.
Third would be structural issues like Aortic Aneurysm.
Fourth – Spontaneous Cardiac Tamponade from blunt trauma.