Bronte Beach was on the news last night. Packed to the hilt with Pommy/Euro backpackers and whatnot. No mueslis.
Open Thread – Tues 28 June 2022
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- No, it is not all of the above, stupid!
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Don’t shit me.
Nice lady.Would be great as kindergarten president.Opposition leader not to much
“In more than 500 remote Indigenous communities across Australia drinking water isn’t routinely tested and often it isn’t safe to…
Dunno – I got married in the Eighties…….Five years later, the Creature From the Black Lagoon was gone, demanding half…
I’ve long said that incarceration with only bread and water and a Bible would be a fine deterrent to all such crims. She might learn a thing or two and it’d be a vegan friendly option as well.
We are well out of those subs, areff. French engineering is like Italian driving or German toilet suites – avoided wherever possible as an affront to civilisation. Once in my first marriage we had a Renault R4 (not my idea), a very weird car that had a gearstick on the dashboard, which you pulled in and out, and it only got worse from there.
Last French car Hairy and I drove was a large C4 hire car, an ‘alternative’ we didn’t ask for, in the UK sometime in the last ten years, can’t remember exactly when (Hairy would recall), but the bonnet clip was feeble and the whole bonnet flew up at speed on the freeway, shattering the windscreen and nearly doing us both in. We crawled in the damaged car, Hairy driving with his head out of the driver’s side window, to the edge of the freeway and waited death by a hurtling truck until help arrived an hour later. They put the car onto a big carry truck, and with me and Hairy exhausted in the acrid cabin with its kindly but loquatious and odorous driver, as he slowly wended us from near Wales back to Heathrow to pick up a replacement.
Hideous day. Bugger French engineering.
This!
Vicki I had a similar problem with outlook email. As soon as I signed up with Gab outlook wanted me to confirm my password every time. At the same time YouTube started to muck me around asking if I meant to look at a non-approved, slightly right of centre, video. Do you always look at this sort of thing. I sent them both complaints. Nothing changed with outlook but YouTube never tried it on again.
I think we are close to the ‘public outrage’ stage. But the institutions are now so invested in renewables/storage that it will take some pretty compelling social and economic destruction before nukes come onto the political radar.
Even then the global renewables sector is sandbagging against nuclear along the lines that every new reactor – no matter how small and safe – will be exactly like Chernobyl and Fukushima. But worse.
Australia will likely be in line behind Burkina Faso for its first modular unit.
Takei is every liberal right now. We see you.
Frank I doubt anyone can drink that much. That said some blokes have no taste.
Smokin’ hot eh? she best not go too near the fire though
Doc Faustus:
Nowhere near it, Doc.
It’s going to take statewide power rationing before the peasants wake up to the problem.
Talking about damaged cars, I narrowly avoided getting the Audi Q5, and maybe me too, put out of action the other day. I was driving from the Northern Beaches at the end of the Wakehurst Parkway, putting a bit of turbo on into order to catch the orange at the lights at the bottom of that Oxford Grammar hill. So I was roaring up after a tradies’ van with roof racks, when suddenly a stepladder broke loose and flew clunk onto the roadway in front of me. I managed to swerve it and continue on as the tradies now over the hill started to reverse back. If I had been any closer it would have landed on the Audi and made quite a mess of the bonnet and the windscreen and perhaps of me too if I had swerved the wrong way. Luckily I was driving quite sedately, I said to Hairy when I told him about it.
That’s what you always say, he notes, recalling a certain incident near to there I had with a bus.
Honest to God, I was merging and the bus simply pushed in, taking out my wing mirror. He simply played camera advantage. I had no case and simply paid my $900 repair bill; the bus was unscathed.
Elon apparently has been absent from his twitter account for a week. Has he been banned?
Twitter Suspends Jordan Peterson After He Tweets ‘Ellen Page Just Had Her Breasts Removed’ (30 Jun, via Instapundit)
Page turned. Dr Peterson is obviously not a leg man.
Dunno why anyone would buy a European car, they’re grossly overpriced for what they are, you can lose one third of the purchase price just driving out of the showroom, after three to five years their trade in value is crap and they (especially French) are not particularly reliable and cost a mint to repair. The best cars in the world today are Japanese and Korean, nothing comes close in value and reliability, resale holds up well for most models, especially Landcruisers.
My 2010 Ford Ranger is ok, assembled in Thailand, but next time I’d buy an Isuzu or HiLix if I can afford it. The current Ranger has 440,000 km on it, had a reconditioned transmission at 320,000 and a head gasket at 400,000, plus a turbo at 360,000. I can’t complain but the price of diesel is making it expensive to work and travel, a round trip to Melbourne to see Mum in hospital costs about $200. I take my wifes Hyundai Kona when I can, it’s not a great drive but uses less than half the fuel, petrol too.
Pox news.
Biden Admin To Deploy 1.6 Million Doses Of Monkeypox Vaccines In “Enhanced” Strategy (30 Jun)
Bert And Ernie Both Contract Monkeypox (29 Jun, via Instapundit)
The Bee is being very naughty with the latter story. Bad Bee!
Remember the good old days when MMT was a theory and not tried in practice with the worlds reserve currency… good times, good times.
I have a poorly thought out theory that the USA, thanks to its reserve currency status, is whats crashed the global economy.
In effect theyve been able to offshore their inflation to every currency in the world.
Powell says there is ‘no guarantee’ Fed can tamp down inflation without hurting the job market
Fed chair says failing to stabilize prices puts the economy at greater risk than a recession
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned Wednesday that there is “no guarantee” the central bank will be able to bring inflation to heel without sacrifices in the job market, while reiterating policymakers’ aim to achieve a soft landing in their effort to rein in surging prices.
Speaking at the European Central Bank’s policy conference in Portugal, Powell said that supply and demand are “really out of balance in many parts of the U.S. economy,” and pointed to the labor market as “being a big example of that.”
He said those imbalances need to be evened out in order to bring inflation down.
“We think that there are pathways for us to achieve that, to achieve the path back to 2% inflation while still retaining sustaining a strong labor market. We believe we can do that. That is our aim,” Powell said, before adding, “There’s no guarantee we can do that.”
Notice what this dickhead doesnt talk about.
Energy prices.
And the deliberate and willful trashing of existing sources for renew-balls so beloved by spivs.
God Bless the Bee!
I’m going to go put this up on Meme of the Day #49 to upset that troll that calls itself a ‘Trained Oberver.’ 🙂
https://babylonbee.com/news/witness-claims-trump-cried-out-witness-me-while-jumping-from-car-to-sacrifice-himself-to-explode-democrats-war-rig
Two years on, the destruction of America by the Marxist radicals who stole the 2020 election is now beyond belief.
It is possible only because the news media, which is supposed to be the public’s eyes and ears, has disowned the job it was designed for: it overtly supports the Democratic Party’s use of the FBI to round up and, in some cases, jail opponents of the Biden regime, anyone who questions what the regime is doing and whether the 2020 presidential election was legitimate.
The news media (in Australia as well as America, I might add) has become the mouthpiece for the Democratic Party and supports turning America into a fascist one-party state propped up by Chinese Communist Party-style sham “elections”.
With the J6 committee as the main focus of the show trial of the Democratic Party’s political opponents, today’s edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight names the dozens of Trump administration officials the regime has rounded up since January 2021.
Winston: I don’t disagree, but this isn’t a suddenly developing thing for me. The present outcomes – exactly as they are panning out – have been coming, clear and apparent, for 15+ years. So, for me at least, in this slo-mo train crash, “close” is a year, or two.
We’ve seen a huge step change in wholesale electricity pricing in the first half of 2022 – and this is just now starting to show up in punters’ household bills. This particular genie isn’t going back in the bottle – it’s deliberately setting the stage for the roll-out of more renewables with huge returns.
As someone posted last night, we’re seeing the first community impacts explicitly driven by outrageous power price increases.
When Liddell finally closes next April, and another 1500MW is pulled out of the system, get ready for more ‘price support’ for renewables and less system reliability.
That’s where shit will likely start hitting the fan.
This is why Albanese and Bowen are running around like chooks, building legislative and political sandbags around “the energy crunch that Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison caused by Tory inaction”.
Cassidy Hutchinson and Brittany Higgins should get together to discuss book ideas.
“How many
shotsbottles of neat spirits would that take.”FIFY
Do all blacks wear blackface or just Clarence Thomas?
“Do all blacks wear blackface or just Clarence Thomas?”
Maybe it’s just the ones that marry white girls.
Anyone else get an email from AGL about the price increases from 1st August?
we were fucked ages ago
what you’re feeling are Braxton-Hicks contractions
Australia is somewhere in the intestines, slowly making it’s way to the rectum.
“Rectum? Damn near killed ’em!”.
h/t Chris Farley’s telling of an ubiquitous joke.
this will be a trigger for the invasion of taiwan
People won’t get angry until they can’t afford their power bills.
Then watch Labor government across the land scramble for a short term political fix.
Blaming the Liberals won’t cut the mustard.
Not slagging…just the way I see her.
Back in the day my path and Henry’s used to cross occasionally.
Ukraine war: Nato declares Russia ‘direct threat’ to security
Renault R4
the dashboard Lizzie was talking about:
http://www.klassiekerweb.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Renault_4_interieur.jpg
The Frogs do wine, food and women OK. The rest? Blah.
Anyone else get an email from AGL about the price increases from 1st August?
This morning .. duuuuuuuh!
“Rectum? Damn near killed ’em!”.
That line is as old as the hills.
What a nasty human being George Takei turned out to be.
Collection House in administration.
Who would have thunk it.
Not suggesting you were; just that I was poking at the traditional Queensland Women’s Weekly approach to commenting on the Government.
Oh My…
Rolly-Royce’s Small Modular Reactor would like to know your location… 😉
Hopefully the Taiwanese have a dead man’s switch for the chip foundries so the Chinese don’t get them if it goes down.
Feck! Rolls Royce.
Otherwise it sounds like some sort of jovial Cockney shady businessman and part-time gangster…
Guilty as charged.
The staffer/toady that wrote the smokin’ hot thing is not the most subtle when it comes to the black arts.
Not quite. Smouldering discontent judging by what I have been hearing at the barbers and supermarket queues.
Takei has been a known creep for a long time.
Anthony Cumia on J6 & the Trump limo hijacking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vplJpIigBB8
The limo hilarity begins at the 31min mark.
A reassuring message from Chris Bowen@Bowenchris:
“The Albanese Government updating Australia’s emission reduction target sends an important signal to all Australians; we’re all in the together.”
Is there a noun missing between the and together?
Tintarella di Lunasays:
June 30, 2022 at 11:53 am
Meanwhile, many people are commenting that the Palacechook’s new hair colour makes her look smokin’ hot…
These people need to book an appointment at Specsavers asap. And then book an appointment at a shrink at the same time.
PS, not safe for work.
Rogersays:
June 30, 2022 at 2:07 pm
A reassuring message from Chris Bowen@Bowenchris:
“The Albanese Government updating Australia’s emission reduction target sends an important signal to all Australians; we’re all in the together.”
Is there a noun missing between the and together?
The word ‘together’ needs to be replaced with the word ‘shite’…………………………….
An ordering fail:
“...we’re in the all together.“
Would anybody honestly bat an eyelid if the government wonks and politicians (of both sides) who invented, employed and have hid behind that slogan were publicly rounded up and beaten to death with the still-living bodies of the people who originally wrote, produced and performed that awful song?
And the entire bloody mess cremated so as not to poison our poor and precious carrion birds?
#NADT
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
June 30, 2022 at 11:36 am
Any Cats care to suggest what the cops should have supplied as reading material.
I’ve long said that incarceration with only bread and water and a Bible would be a fine deterrent to all such crims. She might learn a thing or two and it’d be a vegan friendly option as well.
In solitary confinement for at least a month to start with too.
Liz Cheney hugging star witness. Always happens.
Vicki, big MEA CULPA re the BBQ dates. I got an email from Jupes saying 9th was out but 10th was OK but thought it was from another Cat who comes to pub drinks. When an email is just a mass of letters it is easy to get confused if they are not in your contacts under a recognisable Cat handle. Well, that’s my excuse for muddle headedness anyway. So I am changing the BBQ date to the Sunday 10th and hope you and others can come then. I’ve asked people to email and let me know and I will have to call it then by return email. I will let you know here or by your email (if I have it) when all is confirmed/abandonned.
Stockhead tells it:
POWERLESS: Why renewable energy won’t stop your power bill rising for at least another decade
Translation: Electricity prices are going up and will stay up, Bowen Baby. Do you like electricity in your economy? Well, nobody’s gunna fuckn invest big bikkies in falling prices, dontcha know…
But it’s not all bad news. In fact it’s rather good news:
Be lucky like a Robber Baron.
Chortle all the way to the bank.
Nobody gives a shit…
Too cheap to meter.
Wot a walk down memory lane those pics were, areff.
Get a load of that bumper bar held on with two struts, and the clunky knob on that bent handle. I recall the knob more than the bumper bar (and no rude comments about that, you guys).
Ours was also in that pale baby poo fawn beige. Must have been purchased in early 1974 (note the century, JC) as we were both enthused with all things Parisienne after a good trip to Paris on the way home from Sri Lanka via the UK. Came back First Class with our little baby, upgraded from Economy by Qantas (those were the days) for no apparent reason on Christmas Day 1973. In a 747, with Santa on board with toys for bub. Ho ho ho, the other passengers thought we were hippie rock stars!
I drove it halfway to Canberra once when a clunking noise started in one wheel base. It got worse and worse rounding Lake George and we staggered into town to a garage. I recall this was before my then husband learned to drive, so it all fell on me to deliver us safely. I taught him to drive on it later. Perhaps that explains a lot about events after that. 🙂
Who wins, also takes the spoils.
The S&P 500 was 139 in April 1942. It reached 279 in Dec 1945.
It was went up 100% in those few years.
https://www.macrotrends.net/2324/sp-500-historical-chart-data
Any Cats and Kittehs interested in old cars, don’t forget to visit the Car Museum in Forbes whenever you are over that way. An absolutely fascinating and extremely large collection of antique and vintage vehicles, each era styled by ex shop-window models dressed in the clothing of the era.
Something for everyone there.
The Global Times had a column on referencing Australia for the first time in two weeks.
It was a big fuck you Australia.
This is contrary to the columns the Australian media have been running for the past month.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202206/1269366.shtml
I am Liz.
Must have been nostalgic recalling the days of the horse and buggy and seeing the first “horseless carriage” ~ 1890.
Speaking of shop-window models, I was once one of those, a real one.
Aged 17, in Ipswich, Queensland, hired for a week from a model agency in Brisbane in 1960 to stand in a window and spruik the new sewing machines. Mike in hand, dressed in a tight electric blue shiny dress with flaring panels at each side, blonde and very bright blue eyed and looking like a young Marilyn. Certainly made the locals gawp.
Well, it was a job and I was broke.
Then I went down to Surfers Paradise and modelled bikinis for Paula Stafford.
Met a British artist who was briefly on holiday while there, famous, I found out later. He was like no-one I’d ever met before, a card-carrying member of the intellectual beat generation, he drove a blue volkswagen which in my book trumped the sleazebag guy with the Porsche, and I was hooked. Decided to go to Sydney and get a job in advertising, because that was where he worked. The job turned out well, the love of my life a dismal failure. Deary me.
Believe it not, Lizzie, someone with peculiar tastes in cars took an R4, lowered it, and did God-knows-what to the engine. Used to see it a bit about Richmond, although you’d be more likely to hear it first, sport exhaust and all. From a standing start at the lights, it took off like a burnt dick.
Why an R4 would capture anyone’s imagination is beyond me.
Last time we were all in it together the government ended up ordering us to get injected under threat of losing our jobs.
Why an R4 would capture anyone’s imagination is beyond me.
Because it was fully sick.
If you weren’t too interested in performance motoring the RAV4 was still powering (sort of) along after 200k kms, possibly 60k of those without oil. If you needed to go fast take the CBR.
Reminding me about latter 19 century to about 1920. We think we’re in a techno world with technology traveling at the speed of knots. I think we’re temporarily stalled.
Imagine just after the US Civil war.
1. Steamship
2. Telephone
3. Telegraph
4. Cars
5. electricity
7… I’d actually put this up the top.
The medicalization of birth and the introduction of forceps hugely reducing the death rate at birth. (men)
Did I miss anything from that period?
Tractors and trucks perhaps.
whoops
Production line…
Occasional horse and buggy still being used around St. Marys and Mt. Druitt when I was a child and teen there, JC. Surely you remember them too because you are no spring chicken yourself? Shame your memory for locating centuries is going, but them’s the breaks for the grumpy male aged.
Testosterone gets low.
As for those early cars, my brother-in-law had a wrecking yard and we saw plenty of amazing old cars come in, while on the streets in the 50’s there were still old Humbers and Chevvies and Morgans driving around next to the A Model Fords. Tin Lizzie was the name the man up the road gave to his newer model ford, which had very smart running boards on it, perched precariously on which we used to ride on down to the shops.
Jupes has rellies who came from St. Marys and he is familiar with that territory.
We Westies pop up everywhere. Some of us, especially Jupes, are quite good looking too.
Life Insurance CEO Reveals Deaths Are Up 40% Among Working People: “Just unheard of”
Speaking of shop-window models, I was once one of those, a real one.
I am a former model.
A hand model actually. I used to feature regularly with my right hand tipping harpic in a dunny.
They weren’t interested in the rest of me, but they liked my hand.
I was having a great day until I saw Zipster’s post.
Lizzie, the 10th is still fine with us. I have sent an email to Dover with my contact details as I haven’t heard from him with yours.
Haaa, the Seinfeld man hands episode.
JCsays:
June 30, 2022 at 3:13 pm
I saw something which took a similar tack, in relation to the current century.
It started by proposing a list of candidates for the top 6 innovations of the 19th nd 20th century, being something like:
19th:
steel ships with engine propulsion
telephone/telegraph
electric light
photography
antiseptics
internal combustion engine
20th
heavier than air flight
computers
nuclear energy
motion pictures/radio/tv
antibiotics
gene technology
There may be other candidates but the real point was to compare with the 21st century. We’re over a fifth of the way in, and have we produced even a single new thing (not just incremental improvements) as momentous as any of the 6 greatest of the previous two centuries?
…
Selfie stick?
To some extent only, JC. Still a lot of home and midwife birthing. Conquering childhood diseases probably helped more, innoculation, early sulpha drugs, and later penicillin, in Australia but not Britain nutrition and housing improved for the working classes.
The First World War was such a disaster, arriving at a time of tremendous Edwardian impetus towards greater social equality and more opportunity for poorer people in the newer technological landscape. It set everything back and caused a generation of bitter widows and unmarried menless women and emotionally damaged men as well as the Versailles Treaty setting things up fine for the next bomb show.
Peaky Blinders anyone?
Actually the “hand model” description is Les Patterson talking about his wife, Lady Gwen who was also a former hand model.
21st century inventions:
TikTok.
Case closed.
Thanks Tim
How could I forget, the Wright bros.
Slightly longer version of the Man Hands episode..
With prices up between $200 and $300 per MW hour compared with historical prices of around $50 or $60 per MW hour, GNX managing director James Harding said these increases have gone straight through to the company’s bottom line.
“We are lucky, at Jemalong we get the spot price all the time (together with the value of green certificates), while Kidston is under long term offtake, and we get the floor price there – so when prices are really high like they are now, we benefit from the upside.”
Spivs gunna spiv
together with the value of green certificates = The tax on baseload power generation which is given to us instead.
How spivvy??
Heres what they claim from their page
https://genexpower.com.au/
469,446 Tonnes of CO2 Saved
times it by this.
Australia’s carbon price has fallen 4.7 per cent to $54.50 a tonne over the past fortnight yet trading volumes of carbon units have surged, indicating the market is stabilising after a massive bull run last year pushed the price up by 210 per cent.
$25,584,807 of sweet, sweet cash taken directly from those coal powered stations who are evil and wicked for not spending $25,584,807 on maintenance…
The grocer still used a horse and cart in Willoughby when I was a child.
Then he upgraded to a small van.
But it was never the same. Especially for the lucky recipients of the horse’s bounty for the veggie garden.
Dr Faustus:
Nor is it a sudden development for me. This has been on the horizon for a decade at least.
And as Tom states above:
I’ve been saying for years the major protection a democracy has is the media but it is also our Achilles Heel. Nowhere is it more obvious that this has been a planned take down of the West in the seduction of the media and our schools. Entryism has delivered us into the hands of the Technocrats who fail to see that while they plunder the intellectual and physical wealth of the Middle Classes, they also destroy the markets that create that wealth.
It’s like watching a 3 year old stick forks in powerpoints saying “This time I’ll do it right”.
It often gets referred to, the time from the Wright brothers to setting foot on the moon.
And the lack of a similar leap forward since 1969.
I wonder if it was the Boer War in which the first signs of rot entered by stealth.
A great, highly mechanised nation, a bastion of freedom and the mother of parliaments, making war on farmers over gold and diamonds.
If the speed of progression hadn’t stopped dead we would have visited the nearest star by now. 🙂
The World Wide Web underlies the explosion of computer applications technology and the media coalescence in communications. The INTERNET, baby. It had hardly started at the turn of the 21st century. In 2000AD I ran a course for CEO’s on ‘using the internet’ and the first question for some of them was ‘how do you turn this thing on’. Now a mobile phone carries the world in your pocket. Welcome to the brave new world of surveillance applications.
That’s not ‘nothing’.
J’accuse, I say to Hairy. It’s all your fault, you and your packet switching experiments.
ps. the five year old Audi Q5 had a CD slot in the coms system. Not so my new Sporty Beamer.
We’re all connected now, and you put your iphone on a rack where it charges and feeds in your music.
A hand model actually. I used to feature regularly with my right hand tipping harpic in a dunny.
A far more successful campaign than the one using the nail model scraping the bowl clean.
Missed the 19th century invention of steam railways.
Cartman is so right.
It was the filthy hippies that ruined everything.
Dunno, but something like 60% of British men wanting to serve were rejected for health reasons. Principally caused by shocking diet.
The ‘speed of progression’ is pacing up, guys, not slowing down.
Depends where you are looking.
Yep Steam railways, Eyrie. Incredible add.
” I think we’re temporarily stalled.”
Eric Weinstein has said he same thing.
The internet is most definitely 20th century.
Had steamships though. Same principle, different mode.
Railways and telegraph certainly changed America, opened it up, and made Railroad Barons whose daughters then propped up the wealth of the British aristocracy, having a hard time in the 1990’s recession.
Sorry, errata, this centuries thing is catching, it was the 1890’s recession that hit the aristos badly in the UK. I typed 1990’s recession out of habit.
It was Paul Keatings 1990’s recession that just about finished off Australia. Luckily, it ended.
Antiseptics, cameras, sewing machines, batteries, escalators and lifts. Vulcanised rubber, rifles and breech loaders, dynamite.
The list is enormous.
And typewriters! 🙂
Important advances in the 20th century:
– TV remote control
– screw tops for wine bottles
– wine casks
– widget in cans of Guinness
– selfie stick
You might want to link the printing press through to the typewriter and Babbage’s calculator to modern computing. Without the precursors you don’t get the latter.
A case of *just add electricity*.
And the lack of a similar leap forward since 1969.
Coincidence that the woman’s lib movement took off around then?
I think not.
When did the Japanese turn the bidet into a day out?
20th or 21st century?
Worthy of a mention.
Rudyard Kipling could sense where it might all be going in 1897:
God of our fathers, known of old,
Lord of our far-flung battle line,
Beneath whose awful hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine —
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!
The tumult and the shouting dies;
The Captains and the Kings depart:
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!
Far-called, our navies melt away;
On dune and headland sinks the fire:
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!
Judge of the Nations, spare us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!
If, drunk with sight of power, we loose
Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe,
Such boastings as the Gentiles use,
Or lesser breeds without the Law—
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!
For heathen heart that puts her trust
In reeking tube and iron shard,
All valiant dust that builds on dust,
And, guarding, calls not Thee to guard;
For frantic boast and foolish word—
Thy Mercy on Thy People, Lord!
Rudyard Kipling, Recessional, 1897
Bern, toilet paper was invented in the C19 too.
British Perforated Paper Company.
One ply.
The Reuters dealing system came out in 1978 or so. It was a very old fashioned (now) boxy computer with a dark background and the print was green.
It was called the intranet and in many ways the genesis of the internet. At first, I couldn’t get what was the big deal about the internet as we had been using screens for news and keyboards to communicate for over a decade.
Only mainly in academia, and still in the early developmental stages.
Convergence was just a word no-one except boffins understood at that time.
Silicon valley was just commencing its overdrive and then its collapse and regrouping. Getting ahead of itself sorting out clix and brix. Remember the dot.com millionaires? I do. We used to host them at our place in those crazy days.
Mobile technology was in its infancy. Hairy was involved strongly in developing that through the 1990’s, in and out of Silicon Valley, but it was early days, much of it restricted to research labs and academic conferences, most of it international which is why we travelled a lot back then.
The full explosion of this technology was only just becoming apparent and it hasn’t stopped developing in major ways in all industries and technologies ever since. That’s not a stall.
There may be something of an economic and political stall. That’s different.
Developments are still underway, moving to energy technology now, a misguided track?
It may or may not be.
Quick, ramp up project fear again, or people will start to wonder just how incompetent the various governments are at managing health.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2022/jun/30/australia-news-live-anthony-albanese-oecd-climate-cooperation-teachers-rail-strike-nsw-wages-jobs-economy-covid
Announcing the review in Canberra, health minister Mark Butler said that Jane Halton – who led the national review of hotel quarantine earlier in the pandemic and is co-chair of the Covax initiative – will conduct the independent review “as a matter of some urgency”.
Butler said the review will “take stock of current contracts and the existing supplies we have in country of vaccines and treatments” for all different age groups.
He has also asked Halton “to cast forward and to provide us with some advice about likely developments in (Covid variants and treatments) over the rest of 2022 and into 2023”. Halton will also be asked to advise the government if she believes any existing arrangements should be altered.
Butler stressed that the review is “not about looking back and examining the rights and wrongs of the former government’s approach to negotiating these contracts in the first place”. Rather, he said, it is to “ensure that arrangements that might have been fantastic three months ago are fit-for-purpose for the rest of this year and into next year”.
Butler said there is no deadline for the review, but that the government wants it conducted “in weeks, not many months” due to the urgency of the risk posed by emerging variants and subvariants of Covid. He said:
We are determined as a government to stay on the front foot in the fight against this virus and ensure that the Australian community has priority access to the best possible vaccine protection against this virus and all of its variants, and the best possible cutting-edge treatments to prevent severe illness and death for vulnerable Australians.”
…
As posted earlier, Australia’s drugs regulator the Therapeutic Goods Administration [TGA] today provisionally approved the Pfizer vaccine in children from six months old.
Provisional determination is just the first step in the registration process and it means that Pfizer is now eligible to apply for registration of their vaccine for children under five.
I read one time that the components for the Iphone were available around 1990 or so. It would have cost upwards of US$5million.
Like some of my students in that course then, JC? Speed was the big change, and flexibility creating communication convergence and interactivity, and most of all – capacity. It was difficult to get people to imagine the effects of being able to store and transfer such huge amounts of data instantaneously.
Remember when the FAX machine seemed marvellous?
Fax! Loooxury! Try Telex! 😀
One ply toilet paper?
Surely there was never such a thing.
May as well use some leaves.
When you could get them to work!
HM the Queen sent the first royal email in 1976.
And shiny. Thin and shiny. Railway Station special, we used to call it, when household stuff became softer and thicker.
To celebrate the end of the financial year I’m drinking a Bunderberg ginger beer.
I haven’t had soft drink for over a month.
Crikey you can taste the sugar.
LED technology is also a 21st century advance.
It’s everywhere now.
I’ve grown it – Bushman’s toilet paper.
Might come in useful again.
Hey, a reason to celebrate tonight.
It doesn’t take much excuse.
I think the biggest thing that’s occurred in the last 30 odd years is fall in real cost of almost every good and component etc. To measure that, CL one put up a comment that in the period between 2005 to 2010, we had land filled junk and rubbish comparable to all previous human history.
Perhaps I’m getting older and things that shouldn’t concern are, but the junk we throw away – packaging mainly is just incredible. A lot of people are doing the same these days too – throwing away so much crap.
The packaging in the US is beyond silly. Just recently when we were there, I’d buy a baguette in the morning. They were baked with too pointy ends and you were given two bags end to end to hold the bread. I asked why they just didn’t buy slightly longer bags and I was told that two bags was better.
It all came to an end when they were able to convince large segments of society that those technological leaps were built exclusively on the exploitation of the ‘workers’ and/or native populations.
It was thereafter seen as a source of shame rather than pride. Like putting a handbrake on whilst doing 100km/h.
Another Guess the American Ethnicity
Massive Brawl Breaks Out Aboard Carnival Cruise Over Allegations of Cheating (VIDEO)
A massive brawl broke out aboard the Carnival Magic cruise just before 2 am Tuesday morning over allegations of cheating.
An estimated 60 people were involved in the melee that lasted over one hour!
Fox News reported that allegations of a threesome aboard the cruise angered their significant others.
According to the New York Post, security aboard the ship called the Coast Guard to help escort the vessel to shore.
From the Comments – Lots of Hints
– Every single time.
– Be interesting to find out if the threesome involved 3 different genders
– Quite possible! There are 57 to choose from
– Same crowd. Same behavior.
– Looks more like a waffle house than a cruise ship
– They’re passionate people…and they are big boned.
– They have that extra muscle in the calf area.
It cost around 75 bucks a roll when it first came out. 🙂
I had looked at mentioning that, but since JC had started his quip by mentioning everyrhing developed post- [US] Civil War, by which time the steam locomotive and railways certainly had matured at an incredibly rapid rate, I didn’t specify it.
I will add in the following- The automatic train brake system. Be it the English vacuum system or George Westinghouse’s compressor and triple-valve system.
And the Janney (or ‘knuckle’) coupler.
By 1891, multiple fatal accidents had occurred worldwide due to overspeeding trains and a lack of fast-acting, failsafe means of stopping them. And coupling incidents with the extant hollow links and metal pins cost lives and maimed and unusable manpower.
Between industry-wide urging and adoption (with a little legal pushing in the US) and major public outcry in the UK leading to political change, automatic brakes made trains faster, safer and more reliable. Enabling the swift and efficient transport networks that underpinned the Western nations’ economic prosperity at the start 9f the 20th Century, and set up the networks many colonised nations still use to this day.
The knuckle coupler’s adoption cut shunting fatalities and injury rates amongst American railroads by over 91% within their first few years of adoption. And by making them (and automatic air brake equipment) the universal standard for any freight wagons US railroads (all private companies) wished to send over each others’ networks (aka ‘interchange’ traffic), they set themselves up as the model of efficiency and speed everyone else has been trying to emulate since.
Marxism- An even bigger retrograde force than Islam…
It often gets referred to, the time from the Wright brothers to setting foot on the moon.
And the lack of a similar leap forward since 1969.
I think the “race to the stars” lost it’s sparkle after the “Armstrong walk” .. everything else in space was too far away to be “trod on” and anyone going to the Moon afterwards had a “been there, dun that before” moment! .. LOL!
OldOzzie, some chap on twitter called that ship Carnival’s “Ghetto of the Seas”.
Important advances in the 20th century:
Elastic waisbands on trousers for “ample” people.
I’d also list the electrical relay switch as a big deal.
Practically everything that used or uses electrons to do things relies on some form of it…
As Jerry Seinfeld said, “I’m just not an orgy guy.”
The shuttle explosion I think totally killed all hope. It was a pretty big deal in the US, I think.
Arguably so.
I think Friedrich Engles remarked that revolutions always begin with a call for free love.
That would mark the late 1960s as the beginning of the end.
If Captain Cook hadn’t destroyed everything he found when he first got here, Australia would resemble Wakanda by now.
lol
Gold. P & O run a few of those out of Sydney. It’s all fun till the Coroner subpoenas you.
say that slowly.
So you were the real deal with a hand job?
Good on you, say I. But I wouldn’t put it out quite like that at a party. People are so …. 🙂
A model I knew used to trade on her eyes; they were fabulous. The rest of her face, not so much.
Hand models are not unknown, they are one of the more usual bit players in the modelling world.
Australia would resemble Wakanda by now.
Curse those 150 marines and their super death muskets of dooooom!
More from the J6 hearings and evidence Cass Hutchinson recounted about Trump. Just damning.
JCsays:
June 30, 2022 at 4:05 pm
Bern, toilet paper was invented in the C19 too.
British Perforated Paper Company.
One ply.
It cost around 75 bucks a roll when it first came out. ?
Sheet……………..
It cost around 75 bucks a roll when it first came out.
You think thats bad, imagine being the poor charlady whos job it was to wash and dry the stuff for reuse.
LOL, it’s the over reach that gets you.
The J6 hearings are now a meme generator.
No doubt the DOJ will have the stasi knocking down doors to stop it.
PS, Ray Epps is still living large.
So you were the real deal with a hand job?
Soap and water, Lizzie!
What has happened to the Eastern Suburbs?
Perth City Council has pulled down the greatest piece of art since Monet – the Ore Obelisk.
I have sent a message to Mayor Bazz to sort his stupid CEO out.
What was a simple piece of engineering 50 years ago is now a “complex and difficult task.” And who are these stakeholders of which she speaks? Anti-mining zealots no doubt.
JC
Perhaps I’m getting older and things that shouldn’t concern are, but the junk we throw away – packaging mainly is just incredible. A lot of people are doing the same these days too – throwing away so much crap.
I think it was Boob Carr who was waxing eloquent about the evils of excessive food packaging at one time.
A week or so later there was a deliberate food contamination scare, when some idiot claimed to have poisoned some food in a supermarket. Carr immediately seamlessly switched to berating the food manufacturers for not providing suitable “tamper-evident” packaging.
The media lapped up both stories, without noticing (or perhaps, not wanting to comment on) the contradiction.
A blast from the past Peter Nattrass. When the Perf Lord Mayor still had pulling power.
Surely a giant iron ore obelisk has a natural home in the giant Sneakers?
We are determined as a government to stay on the front foot in the fight against this virus and ensure that the Australian community has priority access to the best possible vaccine protection against this virus and all of its variants, and the best possible cutting-edge treatments to prevent severe illness and death for vulnerable Australians.”
If anything needs a truly independent review then this is it. We won’t get it though. This virus is really just another virus like the Flu. So treat this the same way and learn to live with it.
Firstly, do not waive away the legal rights of redress when negotiating any contract with Big Pharma or any Pharma for that matter.
Curse those 150 marines and their super death muskets of dooooom!
Q: How do you know you need rescuing?
A: When the continent that you occupy can be invaded and held with 150 men.
bern
PS, Ray Epps is still living large.
That’s the bloke I was thinking of a couple of days ago.
Clearly seen on screen, urging people to enter the Capitol, name known, might have been briefly in custody, but quickly released. The FBI spent huge amounts of time scanning cctv coverage, and pushing out photos to identify and arrest people who were ushered into the Capitol by attendants. Then pursued them, arrested them, held them without bail for months, but this character just disappears.
Epps alone destroy the [unarmed] insurrection “narrative”, by his simple existence.
Sorry about that, m0nty-fa.
The only thing hippies are responsible for is the backwards 19th century schemozzle that replaced our electricity grid. It might as well have been designed by a dope-smoking zombie disappearing into a smoke haze in a hookah shop in Nimbin.
Marxism- An even bigger retrograde force than Islam…
Yep, golden ages of technology, engineering and freedom:
Islam: 0.5
Marxism: 0
Marxism- An even bigger retrograde force than Islam…
yes I was thinking the other day that it’s no exaggeration to call marx the anti Christ
Does Fabianism have its roots in marxism?
Eyriesays:
June 30, 2022 at 3:36 pm
Missed the 19th century invention of steam railways.
– Hornby OO model railways
– Meccano
– Airfix models
– Scalextric model cars and track
– Space Invaders and other Games
– TV tennis………………Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. NO !!!!
Fuck Cassidy Hutchinson
Throw that cunt in prison
She doesn’t understand how much
Goddamned Trump means to me
props to David Allen Coe
Aldous Huxley wrote about soap having the biggest benefit for human health, up to that point. Not sure which century he was talking about. Sewers probably need a mention too. All the sexy stuff.
Regarding technological advancements. Why is it that the Concorde, a plane that first flew in the late 60s has never been bettered?
Interestingly, as a youth Marx wrote poetry that was full of imagery of death, Satan & hell.
One example: The Fiddler
The Fiddler saws the strings,
His light brown hair he tosses and flings.
He carries a sabre at his side,
He wears a pleated habit wide.
“Fiddler, why that frantic sound?
Why do you gaze so wildly round?
Why leaps your blood, like the surging sea?
What drives your bow so desperately?”
“Why do I fiddle? Or the wild waves roar?
That they might pound the rocky shore,
That eye be blinded, that bosom swell,
That Soul’s cry carry down to Hell.”
“Fiddler, with scorn you rend your heart.
A radiant God lent you your art,
To dazzle with waves of melody,
To soar to the star-dance in the sky.”
“How so! I plunge, plunge wihout fail
My blood-black sabre into your soul.
That art God neither wants nor wists,
It leaps to the brain from Hell’s black mists.
“Till heart’s bewitched, till senses reel:
With Satan I have struck my deal.
He chalks the signs, beats time for me,
I play the death march fast and free.
“I must play dark, I must play light,
Till bowstrings break my heart outright.”
The Fiddler saws the strings,
His light brown hair he tosses and flings.
He carries a sabre at his side,
He wears a pleated habit wide.
Putting draught Guinness in cans was a retrograde step – and probably racist.
The widget things didn’t really make it any better.
The zip fastener, though, made gentlemen’s relief a more relaxed experience.
HAHAHAHA!
Ian watching Mark Dice now and some lunatic on CNN said…”we have made a strong case that the former President was responsible for….NINE ELEVEN!…
Norm MacDonald wants justice.
9/11 was a national tragedy
I am, not talking to Ian. 🙂
H B Bearsays:
June 30, 2022 at 4:32 pm
Surely a giant iron ore obelisk has a natural home in the giant Sneakers?
Dear Mr bear.
We are educated sophisticates and men and ladies of refinement and culture now, at least within the 10km radius “golden circle” of the CBD.
No simple rock phallus thrusting itself up into the bosom of Gaias own sky is suitable as a symbol anymore.
Thats why the silver plated 100foot high statue of sneakers and his rhinestone encrusted rotating codpiece which symbolically sprays his munificence, in the form of milk and honey, towards the benighted “other staters” on the hour every hour is the better fit.
9/11 Airlines.
Another great Norm bit.
Air conditioning?
If the speed of progression hadn’t stopped dead we would have visited the nearest star by now. ?
No need to as we can see it every sunny day. It’s called the Sun. Too hot to visit by humans anyway so just send a robot/machine in a rocket powered tin can.
WA is pretty uppity for a state that was lucky enough to sit on top a fuck ton of iron ore.
One could make the case that WA are the Saudi’s of Australia.
Too hot to visit by humans anyway
Just go at night.
Boom tsch.
Ooooh, them’s fightin’ words.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/normal-civic-life-has-become-an-emergency?utm_source=email
Now read on…
monty will be in here any moment now telling us that talking about this is creepy but the act itself is perfectly fine.
It is funny that the American left thinks the right is all white supremacists.
If there is one Supreme Court Justice people on the right love and trust, its Clarence Thomas.
Yes, and Western Australia had statesmen, the likes of Charles Court, and David Brand, who believed in the mining sector, and had some vision for Western Australia’s future – not like today, where the Darling Range is the highest mountain range in Australia – no -one in Perth can see over it.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
June 30, 2022 at 8:27 am
Mr Tedious is tedious.
W.H.O. Chief Tedros Turns on U.S. over ‘Backwards’ SCOTUS Abortion Ruling (29 Jun)
I hope you like making do with less money, because Trump and De Santis are going to defund you. Get woke go broke, as they say.
Another FW1 with NFI who doesn’t understand the Rule of Law and the US Constitution. Fark off you muppet. WHO the fark do you think you are? An ‘eggs spurt’ I suspect………………………..
Lizzie:
Turn all your lights off and walk through your house – sometimes it’s like a Christmas tree exploded.
And shiny. Thin and shiny. Railway Station special, we used to call it, when household stuff became softer and thicker.
Boarding school special. It didn’t wipe – it smeared.
Frightening stuff Roger
monty will be in here any moment now telling us that talking about this is creepy but the act itself is perfectly fine.
‘Montypox virus’ will also think it’s cool as he likes battery powered stuff. Batteries for the Electricity Grid anyone? It pays to be ‘ever ready’.
Well, I just saw the Saudis intercepted a ballistic missile over their country about half an hour ago. It blew it up before it landed. I get the ceasefire is over then….
Was way back in the ’90’s when I was last in WA but I do remember being told a big fish story by another Geo that if Alcoa had their way they would strip mine the whole of the Darling Range. I do remember the places we went had the tell tale pisolites. Funny as soon as you got over the other side different environment with farmers fields as far as the eye could see.
Why is it that the Concorde, a plane that first flew in the late 60s has never been bettered?
There are some fundamental problems. One of the big determinants of the economics of transport is lift/drag ratio. Yes it applies for land and sea transport too. Best is large bulk carrier ships.
A good modern airliner is up around 18 or so. Earlier things like the Boeing 707 were actually slightly better as the engine nacelles were smaller but modern turbofans have much better propulsive efficiency and fuel efficiency. A supersonic transport might get an L/D of 6 or 7 which translates directly into fuel burn. Factor in turn around time at each end and it just doesn’t pay. There is also a problem in that the range of an aircraft also depends on lift/drag. Very difficult to make a super Concorde which could go non stop LA/Sydney
Because the Boeing 747* and everything that has succeeded it can operate for about 1% of the cost per seat.
Fear not, a new-generation SST (supersonic transport) is on the way.
*The 747 was designed at the same time as the Concorde was being conceived — the reason the jumbo has an odd-shaped upstairs bubble at the front. Boeing figured the 747 would quickly be replaced by a faster SST and it needed to be designed as a passenger-less freighter that could load and unload large containers through the nose.
Funny as soon as you got over the other side different environment with farmers fields as far as the eye could see.
That was a megacity pre-Cook.
It wasn’t in our out house. Newspaper. One painful ply, torn directly from yesterday’s Courier Mail, or cut neatly, joined with string sewn with a bag needle, as my impeccably genteel mother did every morning.
I first saw shiny white toilet paper at our local swimming pool, which is also where I first saw a (yank the chain) flushing toilet. It terrified me, particularly when the bowl filled and water was still gushing in.
Sewerage was connected when I was 10. But even then, Mother was cooking still on the old double oven wood stove, rain, frost or vicious outback Queensland summers.
WA has a rich history of removing excess wealth from Eastern Staters and the Old Country.
feelthebernsays:
June 30, 2022 at 4:54 pm
Too hot to visit by humans anyway
Just go at night.
Boom tsch.
Funny, cos’ that’s wot’ the Irish said……………………………………
JC is concerned about too much packaging, me too. I’m more concerned about too much information. We are swamped by it but our level of comprehension has withered. Peoples inability to focus on what they truly want and which direction they are travelling. Too many choices has caused brain fog and like kids in the candy store want everything. We have experts on everything trotted out day after day expounding the latest theory to get their face in front of the camera and another grant. Most of which are of no real concern to any of us and like most theories are proved false. Politicians like this because if it furthers their cause by promoting a certain direction or diverting our gaze from some other failure. Most likely the latter. Our biggest failure is not calling out these political nunces. Nobody is responsible, I was given the best advice but it turned out to be incorrect. Notice the language, not my fault, nothing to see here, the pay goes on. We will have to have an inquiry, in about three years when everyone has forgotten and there are more pressing inquiries like who’s rooting who and who’s not paying. Like the inquiry into the millions paid to run the quarantine security by shit fer brains Dan of the dead. The Mafia are rank amateurs compared to government. It shows how easy life is for most Australians thinking they have been saved. 3 days without power will be enough I hope. Not holding my breath.
The internet grew out of ARPAnet which was a DoD thing in the US.The World Wide Web software came along in 1995 which made the net easily useable by anyone.
Sorry, the net is firmly a 20th century invention.
Poseidon shares, anyone?
Discrete Multi-Tone Modulation
you’d prolly know it as ADSL
Most Marxist scholars write it off as a youthtful folly. As they would.
Winston, I wonder how much of the degradation in media comes back to it becoming a profession with uni degrees etc. rather than a working class job as I understand it was for a long time.
The bright eyed, bushy tailed uni graduates looking to change the work and land their watergate moment, vs. the somewhat cynical view of the working class of who’s getting rich off it and who’s getting screwed perhaps?
Yep- Distributed communications network protocol that was meant to ensure the US Air Force’s ICBM installations could continue to communicate with their central release authority, despite any number of nodes being knocked out by Soviet nuclear strikes.
A degree of technical sophistication the Soviets themselves never really enjoyed.
Ironic that Newcrest shares close at a 12 month low in the highest inflationary environment for 40 something years.
Dotsays:
June 30, 2022 at 4:50 pm
HAHAHAHA!
Ian watching Mark Dice now and some lunatic on CNN said…”we have made a strong case that the former President was responsible for….NINE ELEVEN!…
They will most probably blame the Don for SEVEN ELEVEN as well. Everything is so way overpriced.
as long as you’re vewwwy careful
As a mate who lives in Thailand puts it:
All hail the bum gun!
Delta A, I’m so old I can remember black and white TV.
Thanks to Al Gore who “invented the internet” 😛
Interesting; currently, at peak hour, NSW is getting 94% of it electricity from coal and gas, the rest from hydro.
Now, what shall we do with kean and the turtle?