As of August, industrial production expanded by 4.5% year-over-year, indicating steady but not extraordinary growth.OK, so how does that wash…
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Only one thing I want to see on Inauguration Day-ZZ Topp playing an eighteen-minute medley from the foredeck of the…
Bother! I thought you left out “to”. With Kevni it has to be total surrender with penalties.
want -> won’t
we stopped using ANZ systems are archaic garbage
He’s only there because he wants to get into her knickers..
with an under-bite like that, he won’t be chewing though any time soon
Eco-pests are the very definition of useless eaters.
If eco-activists wanted to make themselves truly useful they would learn how to dive, so they could emulate that Nord Stream attack. Throwing soup at a painting will do nothing.
mUnty, you make me chuckle with your metaphors
Apropos earlier comment re Alex on Truss and Conservatives, Alex said the suspicion that the fix was in arose because this was all unravelling while Kwarteng was away in Washington. What a shambles.
And I’m not sure it recovers. German fertility rate is almost bad as Italy and Japan.
Italy 1.27 births per woman (2019) 47.3
Germany 1.54 births per woman 46
Japan 1.36 births per woman (2019) median age 49
Germany isn’t going to race back from this slump. The population isn’t young and adaptable.
Ironically for nations of old geezers they ought to be the least concerned about gerbil warming.
Seriously – this is an actual personage?
Nigel Farage: After 12 years of Tory misrule, we need a realignment in British politics.
https://gettr.com/vision/p1u8zo2d64d
When Labor get voted in they will finish off the UK .
Yes, yes, releasing methane into the atmosphere is certainly the remedy for climate change. Next, monty will propose sabotaging a nuclear plant that leads to a melt down.
There has only been 45 US Presidents of the USA
Anyway, “Sliante” to all you hairy mob. South 32 dividend has gone into my private account – I’ve invested part of it in some quality Scotch, and a couple of interesting books. That’s the dividend season over for another six months….
Sacre bleu! It is indeed.
Could “the Torries”* be any more ridiculous if they tried?
*Fought incessantly by the Albansleazey since he began existing in council housing as the ‘umble bastard of an italian waiter on a cruise ship, which he’s been too modest to repeatedly remind everyone on this planet about …
Oh hang on, the staggeringly stupid hideously uglee illiterate innumerate anti scientific fact and evidence free gargoyle has been doing exactly that – who’da thunk it, I asks ya? 😕
I’m certain that there are definite shenanagins afoot. It’s clear, after the two calls Ive made, that the call centre responders are simply reading responses from a script. They were offering identical platitudes to ‘acknowledge’ my concerns and defuse the situation but did not once respond to my concerns in any reasonable way. Simply regurgitated the company line. It was infuriating.
Were you ever asked to provide photo ID to PayPal? Any other Cats asked to provide a passport or licence to keep their account working?
Albo sees himself as the reincarnation of Labor politicians like John Curtin and Arthur Augustus Calwell…
Various Nigerian Princes with way too much (imaginary) moolah will be dining out on the Kwarteng’s non existent credentials for many many moons to come. 🙂
And Queenslanders will be among the best investors of this “unleashed loot” on the planet (again) …
The UK might have to get into high seas piracy to pay off their debts.
His Pirate Holiness Wallee N’jdagoogoo der Qwuarlinee II* appointed as the new Chancellor of the Exchequer by Liz Truss in a desperate attempt to restore some credibility to her stupid, stupid government …
*First of ‘is name, Lord of the high Seas, Consumer of any and all seafood that appears in his vision, etc …
JC – Zelensky has painted himself into a corner, in part on the back of US/EU assurances they will support Ukraine by pledging that he won’t negotiate with Russia; that all Ukraine must be free of Russian soldiers, forever; guarantee of Ukraine sovereignty over all territory including the Donbass and Crimea; guaranteed ongoing reparations beyond the transfer of frozen Russian fx to Ukraine (about $US300Bn), and so on. Many world leaders are cheering him on (esp. Biden) and he has ‘rock star’ status and access to forums where he wouldn’t normally get in the door.
Everything forward is ‘crystal ball gazing’ but we all know for certain that the world, economically at least, is in for a very rocky time for at least the next 12-24 months and easily more. This winter in Europe will be brutal and the economic shocks are amplified. It’s public record that people are beginning to protest in France and Germany over rising costs, lack of energy and polls in Germany suggest that 50% of Germans think the sanctions are hurting Germany far more than they are hurting Russia. Who will crack first? Dunno, but under Russian law, Putin can remain in office until 2028. Can Europe outlast him? And even if they can, who comes next?
Daily Mail.
Snork, snork…….
Of course it is. They may LARP as radicals but this is entirely in keeping with the energy policy direction of the Regime.
Three large US banks reported this evening. Results were pretty good, or rather excellent when you think about the bad shape psychology is in at the moment.
NOT HAVING IT, I TELLS YA! 😕
This needs to go deep into the new thread.
nope .
just clicked cancel and it was done
In the Pell trial the judges put aside time to go somewhere and inspect his robes.
Perhaps Britneh could dress up and meet them in somebody’s office.
Due diligence and all that.
Stop this planet, I want off, for the good of everyone else. Just wanting to be left alone, FFS.
Pluto looks noice. 🙂
Wouldn’t take long, it’s not as if she’s got to put on anything else except slip the dress over her head.
On second thoughts, there’s not a hope in hell of Britters getting into that dress today.
She’d be twice the girl she was back then.
Fucking speechless …
Yerg.
Looking at the Daily Mail pics in the earlier links – try that now and she’d need several cans of WD40 for that.
Snap Sal.
And they are absolutely right.
‘Girt’ hurts everyone.
Girt hurts, love scars
Girt wounds and marks
Any heart
Not tough or strong enough
To take a lot of pain, take a lot of pain
Girt is like a cloud
Holds a lot of rain
Girt hurts
Ooh, ooh, Girt hurts
I’m young, I know, but even so
I know a thing or two
I learned from you
I really learned a lot, really learned a lot
Girt is like a flame
It burns you when it’s hot
Girt hurts
Ooh, ooh, girt hurts
Some fools think of happiness
Blissfulness, togetherness
Some fools fool themselves, I guess
They’re not foolin’ me
I know it isn’t true
I know it isn’t true
Girt is just a lie
Made to make you blue
Girt hurts
Ooh, ooh, girt hurts
Ooh, ooh, girt hurts
I know it isn’t true
I know it isn’t true
Girt is just a lie
Made to make you blue
Girt hurts
Ooh, ooh, girt hurts
Ooh, ooh, girt hurts …
Liar myth making runs deep. Ever since you find yourself seated under the Tree of Knowledge.
Memories from the playpen, courtesy of my gran, who sang it in a reedy contralto:
Ching Chong Chinaman
Had a penny doll
He washed it,
Dressed it
And called it Pretty Pol
I don’t remember “singing” the national dirge (or being semi obliged to) at anything while I was at school.
The kiddies should remain as grateful.
Does anyone else see the irony here?
For what it’s worth, one of the local schoolchildren was asked if they knew what “National Sorry Day”
was about.
“Yes – that’s when the Aboriginal kids say “Sorry” for beating us up after school, and stealing our bikes…”
New thread up, ladies and gentlemen of the Cat.
Miss Maggie Dodgers, Cats:
Want want … 🙂
Friday night. Time for a voice like I’ve never heard before; a FIVE–octave range!
rickw:
As part of the USAAF/RAF disassembling of the German production effort, bearings were changed in type for tank turrets. Initially ball bearings were used but after the raids and the damage done, they were changed to roller bearings.
So my question is this – why not use roller bearings in the first place? Surely a roller bearing has greater surface area to enable heavy loads to turn?
There may be a very simple reason for this, but my limited knowledge of machining and engineering is failing me.
An interesting paper on Sweden, SKF and bearings for Nazi Germany:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03585522.1975.10407803
why not use roller bearings in the first place? Surely a roller bearing has greater surface area to enable heavy loads to turn?
Ball bearings can handle both axial and radial loads. To achieve the same with a roller bearing arrangement can be difficult. The normal way this is done is to have rollers where the length is the same as the diameter and they are fed into the race in alternating orientations.
Given the ring diameter on the tanks, the load bearing capacity was probably not the limiting factor, so balls were probably initially selected because they were easier to assemble. A bit of googling shows that most German tanks used different methods to space out the balls, this seems to support the idea that there was no particular problem with ball bearings being able to support the loads.
Apparently you can buy old German tank turret balls:
https://relicsfromthefront.co.uk/products/ni34
Fixing EV range anxiety:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHhf223jGIE
m0ntysays:
October 14, 2022 at 10:24 pm
I mean, four words for you: Four Seasons Total Landscaping. The writing in this movie is terrible. The characters are not believable, the relationships are ridiculous, the dialogue is insane gibberish.
If it was an actual movie it would have been canned at the concept stage.
Just as the “gay” Son of Superman movies was? Oh, sorry, it went ahead to be produced.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
October 14, 2022 at 10:41 pm
looks like a young Nick Cave … and some blue-haired skank
He’s only there because he wants to get into her knickers..
Is she wearing knickers?
We have just arrived in the Mariott at LAX and viewing Trumps’ election speech with a rum and coke (me) and a beer (Hairy) after a long trip with a change in Atlanta. We are impressed. I told you he was the only candidate and the real hope, says Hairy, and I have to agree with him at the moment. Two years though, a lot can happen, but right now Trump is trumps. Hairy wins.