Doh using 4 hour advantage hasn’t worked.

Jesus wept. With rage.

The Sydney Thunder were bowled out – as mentioned by BB at the tail of the OOT – for 15.

Fifteen runs. In 35 balls. The previous lowest ever BBL team score after God knows how many seasons was 57.

A tailender top scored with 4. To add insult to considerable injury, the team that bent them over the ute was from Adelaide.

Sydney Thunder, no hit and a lot of giggle.

https://twitter.com/Ausgrid/status/1603814086503866368
Power outage now around Narara (near Gosford, North of sydenee)
covered by Dobell and/or Robertson, both currently Labor feral electorates
nothing to see, move along.

calli, I think that the reason we had to rote learn 12 times tables was for the old currency and imperial measurements. I was too young for pounds, shillings and pence but can remember having to learn feet, yards, ounces and pounds, etc in primary school just before having to change over to metric measurements in 1974.

Being the first of the decimal currency generation I remember going to the corner store with 5 cents on a summer day and having to choose between spending the whole amount on a Paddle Pop or getting a Johnny Skybomber water ice block for 4 cents and a bag of lollies for the remainder.

Now you’re lucky if the shop assistant can make change without a calculator.

regression.

A big Carrington event will sort that out.

No, there was no “20 bob”. It was always a pound.

If someone stole a pound note, they’d be in a world of trouble. To a child it was a king’s ransom.

MEGHAN MCCAIN: Kiss America goodbye, Harry and Meghan, you’ve finally lost us: We’re covering our eyes, plugging our ears and screaming -please God, make it stop

I cannot stand Meghan McCain, but once you’ve lost the retard base, kiss your whining, grasping future goodbye.
As an aside, the 100 million dollar deals they had signed were on a contingency basis. If they don’t deliver for Netflix, they don’t receive. haha!

With the mental arithmetic learned at school I can usually tell the shop assistant how much change before she or he rings it up on the till.

I gave a young checkout lady the correct change a couple weeks ago since I wanted to use up some of the coins I had. She couldn’t add the coin total. Eventually after several tries at counting them she just believed me, put them into the tray and apologized that she’d had a mental blank. It was an interesting insight into what kids don’t learn at school these days.

Gosh, I feel old as Methuselah this morning.

There was also hundredweights and tons. I’m seeing those rotten tables bobbing about behind my eyes, all in minuscule 6pt. In ‘66 the money had converted, but the rest took a bit longer. And we were expected to know it and calculate it by the end of primary school. Long division and multiplication included.

Then, upon entering the hallowed halls of high school, we were presented with the dreaded Log Tables, green covered and oozing with columns and decimals. No calculators. Slide rule optional (I still have mine, tucked away in its plastic case).

All dripping with gender inequality and racism on account of white pages and phallic shapes.

Min asked last night about a definition of a “garden”. Here’s mine:

The Black Hole into which I throw money

Chains
1 Chain = 22 yards = 1 front paddock cricket pitch

1 chain x 10 chain is an acre

ABC assiduously avoiding the obvious religious nuttery of the Train family.
Their last uploaded video was about the devil coming to their property and seeing friends when they “get home”.
Anti Vaxx, SovCitz, right wing conspiracy theories and misinformation were the only topics of interest.
Answer?
More government snooping into the lives of supposedly free people.
The Trains thought big brother was coming to get them and the progressives want to make that a reality.
It’s for our own good.

So what’s the go with the cops out Tara way?

First they send FOUR officers to do a “welfare check”, when they already knew the “missing person” was there and in contact by phone with friends and relatives etc (means: were expecting trouble, or else have far too many cops out there), and then when the shyte hits the fan, the cops did not return fire, but cringed in the bushes someplace.

Contrast that piss-weak response with the following….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vquSVgO8H54….

Bearing in mind that the knife the perp in Airlie “lunged” at cops with was…wait or it…FOUR centimetres long it’s no wonder all these cops are acclaimed HEROES, eh what?

Nah, there’s plenty more to this story. PLUS….the deranged perps were anti-vaxxers! The SWAT squad wot got ’em were Pro-Vaxxers. Yay for the ah-so-thin blue line of heroes!

Nah, there’s plenty more to this story. PLUS….the deranged perps were anti-vaxxers! The SWAT squad wot got ’em were Pro-Vaxxers. Yay for the ah-so-thin blue line of heroes!

Indeed there is, my sympathy stops as they murdered their neighbour.

1 chain x 10 chain is an acre

How can you have your pudding if you don’t eat your meat?

callisays:
December 17, 2022 at 7:19 am
Cold and raining here today. If we’re going to anthropomorphise, this looks like being the “Shy Summer”.

Twenty bob (shillings) is a quid (pound). Twenty four pence, or two shillings, was my pocket money in 1962. A guinea was one pound plus one shilling. Children in primary school were expected to add up a three column sum which was not decimal but based on twelve pence to the shilling, twenty shillings to the pound.

IIRC, there was a Guinea coin (21 shillings/bob). Was that what was causing the confusion? The teacher might have brought one in to show the class.

Thanks Bush

JoNova has a good post titled “Fusion works, but uses a supernova budget to make a mini sun for a fraction of a second” – well worth a read.

People really must wake up to the fact that our governments not only don’t have our best interests at heart but are quite literally willing to kill us – in the name of health safety, of course.

Canadian medical industry in action:

OH, CANADA (15 Dec)

“In a prestigious medical journal, doctors from Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children laid out policies & procedures for administering medically assisted death to children, incl scenarios where the parents would not be informed until after the child dies…”

Yep they want to euthanize your children without your consent then maybe tell you about it afterwards.

Poso @JackPosobiec
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Many are saying this is one of the best policy statements Trump or any Republican has given on free speech
Full federal defunding of the Disinformation Archipelago
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1603857329984012289

IIRC, there was a Guinea coin (21 shillings/bob). Was that what was causing the confusion? The teacher might have brought one in to show the class.
A Primary School teacher in 1962 was paid 4 Pounds a day.
She wasn’t bringing a Pound to work every day and leaving it on her desk for some future jailbird to steal.

There was no Guinea coin or note.
Houses and Land were priced in Guineas at the time.

Before you comment, why not read the original comments,
rather than wade in like the low rent Troll you are?
Bottom line:
1. Aunty G is a grievance monger
2. Aborigines are heavily represented in the Prison Population.
Getting the cops off their backs hasn’t changed that.
3. Aunty G is either making it up or retelling something she heard.
No one ever said “20 Bob”, although 2 Bob converts to 20 cents.
The best interpretation is that because she’s an aboriginal figurehead, she’s allowed to get away with saying anything.

In 1962, 2 bob bought 3 mince pies [mutton] and a box of matches.
Or a packet of 20 Rothmans King size and a box of matches.
Teachers weren’t leaving 2 bob coins on their desks.
They weren’t even leaving halfpennies on the desk.

Bruce of Newcastle
Your thought on the fusion experiment in the US this week.

Louis – I am cautious about it since the method is inherently small scale and there’s a long long way before developing the engineering for a workable power plant. Fifty years I’d guess. It will also be extremely expensive in terms of capital cost – all the lasers plus the equipment, containment* and etc. Heat transfer almost certainly would have to be to a layer of liquid lithium, like the tokamak/stellarator type of fusion, and liquid lithium metal is not the easiest thing to handle. Leaks of liquid sodium metal caused the Japanese breeder reactor project to fail.

I would not invest in any company doing fusion, the projects will be money pits for the next generation at least. You’ll do your dough.

Having said that it’s a nice bit of work. I would like them to do something else like lithium deuteride, since that would be a whole lot easier than making tritium. World production of tritium is only about a kilo per year. Lithium deuteride is the main stuff that makes a hydrogen bomb go bang.

(* Feeding pellets of deuterium/tritium at a rate necessary to sustain power production is going to be tough to do, especially since tritium is highly radioactive.)

Labor’s price caps likely to come back and bite

Peter van Onselen is professor of politics and public policy at the University of Western Australia and Griffith University.

Oz

Richard Cranium

The guinea (/???ni?/; commonly abbreviated gn., or gns. in plural)[1] was a coin, minted in Great Britain between 1663 and 1814, that contained approximately one-quarter of an ounce of gold.[2] The name came from the Guinea region in West Africa, from where much of the gold used to make the coins was sourced.

It seems unlikely (unless teacher had a coin collector in the family) that such a coin ever appeared in the school room, nor that such a coin was ever stolen from the classroom, but (cunning trap) your Google-fu has deserted you again. There was indeed a guinea coin.

Try to learn to search, but learning to code would be well beyond your intellectual level.

Paranoid religious nutters

Quite so.

But…but…they were pushed, pushed into the nutterism by vax mandates something, something…

No they weren’t. They committed a cruel, wicked crime because they were cruel and wicked. And then gloated about it on social media, fully expecting that they would meet their Maker with extra brownie points.

No different to jihadis.

Why were the cops always turning up unannounced at Gareth Train’s house?
If it was anything remotely connected to Crime, such as Drugs, Domestic Violence, etc., the Murdoch Press woulda let us know by now.

So, what was the reason?
We know that Gareth Train had worked in Child Protection.
He wasn’t a Whistleblower, by any chance?

Richard Cranium

Your trolling at 0934 was not brief.

rosie says:
December 17, 2022 at 3:43 am
How to lose friends and alienate people Harry, Meghan and the unpopularity of radical progressivism

Interesting piece – more about the progressive bubble than the Harryghan train wreck.

Not quite true. There are at least two in Oz doing good work behind the scenes.

“Funny that there is only one billionaire out of hundreds who is not evil”

Roger, the Borg learned from the response to that Atlantic article.

Don’t even think about Amnesty. Don’t mention it.

Just pretend all the hyperbole and destructive behaviour of the past three years didn’t happen.

Worked for post war Japan.

Basically, Labor told a big lie on Power Prices, and it just got them over the line at the Election.
Similar to Trump’s big lie on Building The Wall.
How’d that work out for Trump?

Shy Ted squeaks:
December 17, 2022 at 9:54 am
Actually until 2021 they were employed and with no criminal convictions and with legal firearms.
Nathan Train had a NSW Gun Licence, Gareth Train and Stacey Train did not have guns.
Then they were all terminated, by state governments, from their long term employment for refusing the vax.

How much do you get paid for telling lies?

Nathan Train suffered a Cardiac Arrest at work and was resuscitated.
He never returned to work and was terminated.
Stacey Train quit over Vax Mandates.
Gareth Train owned the property, he had quit Children’s Services many years previously.

Has Norman Swan ever resurfaced?
Even Louise Milligan wasn’t reprimanded for her stuff, yet he nearly [?] got the bullet for saying Warnie and Kimberly Kitching died of COVID?

I’m thinking that he strayed too close to the truth, and that Warnie and Kitching were both COVID Vaccinated at least once.

Bear:

T20 crikkit, and the BBL in particular is like popcorn chicken. It’s pretty good and you can enjoy it at times – but it’s not a rare-medium-rare steak with all the trimmings, devoured at your leisure with Jessica Alba and Scarlett Johannson sitting across from you, naked.

The latter is Test cricket.

Has anyone else noticed that we no longer hear, in the mainstream press (or anywhere, for that matter) about “what’s trending on Twitter”…or the “Twitter is lighting up about…”

I guess it’s not the reliably Left/Green/Woke sewer it used to be.

To be clear, the two dead cops in Quenthland are not heroes. They were just going about their everyday stuff, and happened to be shot and killed without warning. That – despite what some of the papers say – does not a hero make.

These people, however, hit far closer to the mark (the Courier-Mail):

Local general-duties police officers formed a heavily armed extraction team to rescue their fallen colleagues, driving on to the Train family’s western Darling Downs property in the vehicle of the trio’s murdered neighbour while under fire.

Sixteen officers, directed by a sergeant from Dalby, decided not to wait for the arrival of the elite Special Emergency Response Team, who were travelling by road and helicopter, in case their colleagues were still alive.

They instead risked their own lives by travelling down the driveway while former school principals Nathaniel and Stacey Train and Nathaniel’s brother Gareth fired rifles in their direction.

Nobody left behind. It was extremely unlikely the two shot were still alive, but they went in anyway – right down the same driveway, and in the also-shot neighbour’s car. Impressive by any standard.

Mr Dare had arrived to see a second police car on fire and was shot as he attempted to call triple-0. It is understood the extraction team could not help Mr Dare and used his vehicle to drive towards the house, guns drawn, coming under fire as they did so.

They pulled their fallen colleagues into the car and drove back out to safety.

Richard Cranium

Nathan Train suffered a Cardiac Arrest at work and was resuscitated.
He never returned to work and was terminated.

“Terminated”? Not medically retired?

Has anyone else noticed that we no longer hear, in the mainstream press (or anywhere, for that matter) about “what’s trending on Twitter”

I’m not on Twitter. Be interesting to know what is trending on it nowadays, now that Elon has leveled the playing field somewhat. My impression from blogs and YouTube is that righties tend to make an effort to “like” something, as a courtesy. Whereas lefty stuff often either doesn’t attract eyeballs, or gets lots of downchecks. There’s also been the bot-upvote problem, and purchased follower numbers, which Twitter was guilty of allowing for lefties. Wasn’t KRudd accused of buying followers? He denied it, but admitted to having spambot followers.

On that topic I was amused by the latest Lefty must-read tome.

Nolte: Jemele Hill’s Memoir Sells Only 5,034 Copies (14 Dec)

Former television host Jemele Hill released her memoir last month titled “Uphill.” The book explores Hill’s self-purported journey in overcoming racism in America and she spent significant time promoting her new work across various networks. The New York Times published more than one fawning review to condone her bravery.

Even with a title like that it isn’t selling.