Lizzie. They’re in your cupboard. Back home in Australia.
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The APS does not have the capability to implement something like National Competition Policy anymore.
They are covered because they are probably ashamed of what they’re doing. I bet they don’t want their mums to…
Well said! I hope Peter Dutton doesn’t seem Fraser as a role model!
“The UKR have essentially become a marionette of the US and the use of these new weapons manifests this because…
It certainly is, Dover! And a beautiful picture it is too.
The big strategic payoff for Labor is that they automatically become ‘The Only Party That Can Work With The Voice’.
When the Voice reaches deep into Executive Government, and the process of government is filled with grit and spanners, this will have profound electoral consequences for Right of Centre parties.
Come elections, the Voice will express its position on party platforms – with the implied and actual promise that ‘unacceptable’ government will become unworkable government.
Stiff shit if your platform isn’t generous enough on the payola.
And…a perfect advertisement for Advanced Hair Studio.
😀
Good stuff. What are your tools?
Tasco Japan 42 x 6-24 scope on CZ 455. Got the scope about 15 years ago from a club member who was selling off his gear as he was getting too old. They aren’t made anymore.
Doves – your administration of this esteemed blogue is mighty and much appreciated.
We’ve had our differences in the past, yet you never hold a grudge.
That’s the mark of a spiritually sound man.
Eyrie:
Noice.
Cronkers, don ‘t disappoint me by suggesting I ought to listen to the nonsense from that inept doofus. Wokeism has peaked and is currently being sent into the sewer where it belongs. There’s good stuff happening in the world and stop being so miserable.
Rabz:
For Gods sake Rabz, look at that poor girls ankles! Give her a feed FFS!
What is it with you and these skeletal women?
🙂
Wesfarmers went over to the dark side some time ago. You can see where Kate picked it up from. Red Fred wouldn’t have helped.
Farmer Gez, I kept this little interplay and repost it to remind you. The thing I picked up is that AEMO has not met its own timelines as set out in its annual report.
Many thanks. I have found this in the AEMO library https://aemo.com.au/-/media/files/electricity/nem/planning_and_forecasting/rsig/reliability-forecast-guidelines.pdf?la=en
I note that it hasn’t been updated since 26 February, 2021. A lot has happened since then in the supply of energy and there isn’t a more recent version logged which I find rather disturbing. My interest is in whether AEMO has factored in a contingency plan in case the unplanned occurs, as you would if you were a logistics planner for say a major military exercise. I’m thinking of events such as:
flooding of Qld coal mine
interconnecting cables btn Tas and mainland out of action
Tas hydro down
Major storm, dust storm or bushfire taking out solar panels and turbines on mass scale or transmission lines and interconnectors down
Also new infrastructure or maintenance infrastructure delayed
I will read the report with interest. I am not an engineer so if others out there can help would appreciate.
I will report back.
Farmer Gezsays:
April 21, 2023 at 11:32 am
AEMO has morphed from a functional operator into a massive quango as government has resourced and empowered the body to keep them at arms length from decisions that will directly impact on the voters.
Victoria has basically passed all direct decision making to AEMO, unlike other states. The “experts” defence from the covid calamity.
The management and function of AEMO needs review to understand what influence big business and investors (foreign) have in their deliberations. They claim to be working for best outcomes of energy consumers but there’s no evidence that they have ever sought customer opinion or preference regarding these huge generation and transmission projects.
an impressive intellect … if you measure between the horns
You’re welcome. Didn’t I tell you Illy is the best coffee around.
HBBear:
That Wesfarmers tripe – what a dunny load of unmitigated emotional blackmail. What the Hell has his opinion on the voice got to do with Wesfarmers and his customer base?
Or does he want to be Australias Bud Lite?
Of course you’d disagree for one very obvious reason trans, which being Sunday, we won’t discuss. But we can if you want to. 🙂 Stick to repairing ac units and being a miserable dirtbag as that’s all you good for.
Can we have another one of those woe-is-me threads over the next week and I think it’s time?
Bobby S – since when has being into slimbos become a source of opprobrium, I asks ya?
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
May 28, 2023 at 6:22 pm
Wesfarmers boss Michael Chaney says foreign investors will question if Australia’s a ‘fair place’ if voice referendum fails
Cultural cringe combined with groveling to “international opinion”. What a sleazy, gutless, set our “leaders” are.
There’s good stuff happening in the world and stop being so miserable.
Detail and evidence please; and don’t refer to cute owls as they are protected by copyright and my manly presence.
Andre Antunes:
After the Pig Calling Contest, here’s the Husband Calling Contest… but it’s a Blues/Rock’n’Roll song
Title: Husband Calling Boogie (Come on Roy Boy)
Husband Calling Contest
We must give Lidia Thorpe a platform and we must ensure we signal boost her message.
Classics.
—–
Andre Antunes:
The most brutal mosh pit ever happened at a Pastor Chris Oyakhilome sermon.
Song title: Take it
The Most Metal Moment Ever
A statue. Life-sized x 20. In every CBD.
yee-har
Sure, but not in any order
1. The Bud-Lite abortion has sent every major corporation in the US that serves the nation scrambling to make sure that shit doesn’t happen to them.
2. ESG has been reversing since about the middle of last year, with investors turning a jaundiced eye to that bullshit.
3. Large red states are taking the hammer to CRT and wokesim without stopping.
4. Even parents in blue states are challenging school boards about the crap they’re trying to ram down kids throats.
5. One of the major social networks (Twitter) has opened up, and the state of infestation has been revealed to the public.
6. SCOTUS reversed Roe v. Wade
7. Woke entertainment is being shunned by the public as they don’t want to see woke crap anymore. Check out Disney’s stock price. In 2021, Disney’s stock price was $189 a share. It’s now down to $88. It’s halved.
8. SCOTUS acted again, these are now two cases, significantly rolling back the administrative state. This is big.
9. It’s small but also significant. Greece has returned its centre-right government, which has done wonders for the economy.
I can offer more if you want, but my rate is 900 bucks an hour, which is the same as yours, right?
Trans
Go text elsewhere, you dickhead. Lord, you’re freaking useless.
“International opinion?” Australia? Isn’t that where there are all the mountains, they wear leather shorts and yodel a lot?
I would program it to lie, wouldn’t you? It’s the logical thing to do. You want unbiased intelligence use your own. The original search engines were as good as it gets, everything else since then has been programmed to mislead.
Rotary International convention opening .12000 people from over 100 countries.
White than me aboriginal does a welcome to country.Rambles on for 15 minutes then says until 1967 they could be kept as pets and were covered by the Flora and Fauna Act.
FMD nothing like trashing your own country with bullshit in front of visitors.
Google has certainly been going backwards for years. Apps haven’t done the Internet any favours generally.
Some more about the artificial intelligence and lying, since our own minds are the best we have at present Elon Musk wants to implant chips in our brains so he can hack us. Improvement on our own brains is not possible with current technology but it certainly is possible to hobble them.
Ross Eastgate has done a good job sticking it to “General for life” Campbell.
Careerism is wokism but with deadly implications.
Why not? Linda Burney got away with that claim in the New South Wales Parliament.
Cheney’s struggling for a straw. Wants to shoot his mouth off but clumsily tries to justify his words by linking it to international investors. Mate you not fooling me and are transparent….
Hot tip, stand for Parliament if you want to stray outside mining, retail commerce or even Geology. Looking at what WA elects you would probably have half a chance (Sorry to and not directed at Perf Cats who despise creatures like this).
I’m just wondering whether each of us will have to program our own search engines if we want them to do what we want. Will they be something we will buy or get from our cluey children and grandchildren?
Chris says:
May 28, 2023 at 5:49 pm
Tidy.
Nice results indeed.
But no need for that much accuracy in real life unless in a special circumstance, like a sniper or some such, the muzzle loaders had done their fair share of damage over their time.
You might start thinking about not voting for a government that strangles housing supply and imposes red and green tape on building.
Public servants, police, teachers and nurses among those now struggling with Canberra’s rising cost of living
Red and green tape are one thing.
The average tax component of the final sale price of new housing is 40 – 45%.
Cronkers, One more thing happened this weekend, but being a regional, you obviously were not aware of what just occurred. The GOP House has not moved an inch from their position, and this time they gave the Hiden a budget they put together and refused to accede to any major demand from the Administration. At this point, it looks like the GOP has won the negotiations. It’s the first time in decades that budget and spending initiatives have returned to the house where they belong.
That’s a freebie, and I won’t charge.
Dan the empty coffers man.
Land tax on the venue has risen to a staggering $1000 per day, and is predicted to double in the next few years.
I see RSL Vic have rolled out a special indigenous remembrance ceremony at The Shrine for ‘reconciliation’ week.
Whilst I respect and appreciate their service, as far as I am concerned we honour ALL who served on Anzac Day (and Nov 11). What’s next, an LGBT only remembrance ceremony in the ‘Pride’ months?
This division and trivialisation of society depresses me immensely – I expected better from the RSL – clearly just another skin suit now.
Cassie at 9.45am. I’ve just popped in here, busy today, before we watch Outsiders over dinner.
Brilliant, Cassie. You’ve aced it. It’s just what Hairy calls it – cowardice at senior levels everywhere.
LT – Aust
@LT_Aust
I was discussing the Voice Referendum with my wife who is a retired Australian History Teacher who taught at several secondary schools.
She sends us all a warning, if your home is built on land that is subsequently deemed to be a sacred indigenous site, be prepared to lose it.
Bands was calling for a million new homes to be built, apparently it will increase rental costs and drive housing prices higher.
What?
the greens; consistently inconsistent
Ross Eastgate has done a good job on “General for life” Morrisson.
Careerism is wokism with deadly consequences.
In the crony hothouse of ADF ambition, careerists who are generally ignorant of political reality happily comply with whatever is the latest new thing that will get them noticed.
Dinner party promotion boards.
The ADF is increasingly looking like the post WWII US military careerist culture that led to starched fatigues, spit shined boots, and defeat in Vietnam.
From what I have read it’s actually the opposite, all these companies are still going full steam ahead and sponsoring the Pride Month activities in the US in all major cities.
Since then, regulation by the state has destroyed what was once an enjoyable hobby and cultural foundation stone.
lol, in other Hairy news – I have bought him a pair of ugh boots to use as slippers in the coming winter on Thursday, and a fleecy top to wear too, as I worry about him in these cold months. He really dislikes the cold.
I never thought I’d ever own a pair of Ughs, he says. You are trying and succeeding to turn me into a bogan.
Yes, he’s wearing it all without further complaint while he cooks a roast dinner for us.
It’s only taken forty years.
Bobby, they’re goils, FFS.
Sirens. Luring us onto the rocks.
The exquisite li’l faces we’ll envision just before we’re off to meet our maker.
As a militant atheist, it pains me to state this – there must be a god, as he created beautiful women.
But, there are no thugs in our ‘oose, I tells ya! 🙂
Max Blumenthal Details What Elites Are HIDING At Secretive Bilderberg Meetings
Is he transitioning?
That’s not opposite Muddy.
Well, let them have Pride Month, and if they end up with a bloke pretending he’s a woman holding a can of booze in the bath, they’re going to cop it too.
This division and trivialisation of society depresses me immensely – I expected better from the RSL – clearly just another skin suit now.
yep more marxist identity politics
A life-size cardboard cutout with audio performing a “Welcome to Centrelink” in every office.
I was about to say they can alway move from Canberra and then realised that everywhere else in Australia is just as bad. It’s wall to wall Labor/Greens across the commonwealth. Tasmanian Libs are just as bad.
Ugg boots!!!Liz, WTF have you done!
JC,
everybody wishes that your pea-brained wanking apocrypha could out-pace the legislation
but it isn’t
… and that’s saying something
I have news for her, it’s everywhere not just so-called sacred sites that will be targeted.
Oh yeah, the wanking thing again, Trans. From the God Oracle and the fastest lip on a construction site.
I can offer more if you want, but my rate is 900 bucks an hour, which is the same as yours, right?
Useful list but meaningless until scum like biden, shrillary, obuma, rub and tug, turtle etc are put in stocks.
My rate is $250 per hour more than anyone who does work for me.
As an unvaxxx’d, I’m not part of the vaxxx’d economy. So why do I have to pay for Dictator Dan’s debt?
Perhaps his customers should organise another boycott of his firm.
I have news for her, it’s everywhere not just so-called sacred sites that will be targeted.
Correct.
I see Amanda Stoker on Sky is DeSantis curious. Silly woman.
But recall what I said. I didn’t say they’ve been crushed. I said they’ve peaked.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
May 28, 2023 at 7:09 pm
Cultural cringe combined with groveling to “international opinion”.
“International opinion?” Australia? Isn’t that where there are all the mountains, they wear leather shorts and yodel a lot?
And the National Anthem is Edelweiss.
In that case, don’t put it up. It is a stupid idea put up by a stupid man.
If it gets up it will ruin the country. Same, so you say, if it doesn’t.
So get rid of it now. Withdraw. There will not be a referendum to change the constitution.
That would be good news.
Cronkite, I’ve also have my doubts the Voice bullshit will make it through.
Sydney harbour frontage is in for a beating.
Every rock will tell its own story.
Luna Drive-in , well, well, well, never thought it would STILL be going! Clearly it almost isn’t. Fond memories.
Also, I can hear Bruce Ruxton saying “not my RSL”.
Dotsays:
May 28, 2023 at 7:19 pm
Red and green tape are one thing.
The average tax component of the final sale price of new housing is 40 – 45%.
Ans htis is the killer. Governments are too stupid to consider whether making housing substantially cheaper might reduce the cosyt of their social services ot the budget.
Ooops, sorry. I forgot that employees in social services are a core Liars voting group.
Nobody is stopping the Pride Month but giving money to promote these activities is a red rag to customers of those companies. Why should customers spend their hard earned that will be given to causes they don’t like. That’s why boycotts will continue and will bite hard.
And this …. cost of …
Proof read!
They are a necessity down here with a large part of the population. The brand has diversified greatly as a result, the local ugg emporium has a fabulous bridal section.
S’ok, he won’t wear them out in public. Or when we’re entertaining.
And he still won’t hear of pajamas. A pair of the old Qantas skippy ones is strictly for hospital.
Crossie
If the punters are seriously offended they will do what they’ve done to Anheuser and now Target. It’s the punters who will decide a boycott.
Every waterfront property will be in the firing line and they will have a point. Aborigines very likely fished so would have remained close to water. Outer western Sydney probably not so much. I certainly don’t see them claiming Mt Druitt.
Total mystery why Keating, Abbott, Rudd, Gillard, etc. all quietly shoved the “Voice” down the conveyor belt for a future PM to deal with.
I’ve a feeling AnAl is too dense to realise that he’s grabbed a nettle-bush with both hands.
lol. In hospital, he only wears the tops not the bottoms.
He maintains his modesty sheltering under the blankets.
NSW plod such fine examples of law & order .. woman rings up a domestic violence .. plod takes 3 hours to get there .. then can’t find the flat so leave and it’s 20 hours later before they find the body ……
un-bloody-believable .. if she wasn’t dead inside the 3 hours plod has a lot to answer for ….. even without the flat number (unusual as that’d be something the 000 receiver would ask for) why weren’t they door knocking well inside 3 hours ?
Norfolk Street is less than 1 km from Liverpool’s main plod shop with a coupla hundred plod.. FFS!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12132839/Womans-body-Liverpool-unit-man-charged-domestic-violence-offences.html
I’ve also have my doubts the Voice bullshit will make it through.
It’s win/win for rub and tug and the rest of the commies because either way they win: if the screech gets up the constitution is changed and its open slather for the commies; if it doesn’t it’s still open slather on the basis we’re incurably racist and anything and everything is justified to right this wrong.
Eyrie notes pleasant day & no wind.
Here on the Central Tablelands – yes, blue sky most of the day but brisk breeze telling us that winter is on its way. First fires of the year. We bought a log splitter recently, so it is easier to keep the fire supplied now. Just beautiful how it warms the whole house. Husband is recovering from the flu & a warm house makes it easier.
Franksays:
May 28, 2023 at 7:45 pm
Ugg boots!!!Liz, WTF have you done!
They are a necessity down here with a large part of the population. The brand has diversified greatly as a result, the local ugg emporium has a fabulous bridal section.
Ugg merkins?
Outer western Sydney probably not so much. I certainly don’t see them claiming Mt Druitt.
And too much effort needed to learn all the necessary languages out here in Fairfield, English being 4th .. plus they wouldn’t want be trying any queue -jumping in the local CentreLinks (Fairfield/Cabramatta) .. LOL!
Naaa, I’m not buying the win win argument, Cronkers. If the squeaky voice doesn’t make it through, the last thing they’d want to do (Liars Party) is start calling us wacists. The electorate won’t stand for that bullshit. Of course there will be those who make the claim like Coconut Head, but so what?
If the vote doesn’t make it through, the Albanian and the rest of those turkeys will begin to look like losers. Add in the inflation/cost of living turmoil and they could end up being a one termer or a serious shellacking.
Isn’t that a little too much information that we just don’t need?
We found hunting boomerangs on our old farm in outer Mt. Druitt.
The Western freeway goes over it now, so tolls may be tripled to compensate.
Haven’t found any artifacts in Vaucluse. But twig fishhooks don’t last so well.
Fishing line are artifactually out, but you can’t argue with song lines.
Like Rainbow Serpents, those things live in anything, everywhere.
Vote Yes and we’re stuffed. Simples.
Meaning ‘Shit that I project onto foreign opinion of Australia’.
The vile swine of the ABC calling us racist against Indians for instance, when a certain refugee subculture discovered Indians are tasty victims. Megaphone into Indian media, created by our own fifth column.
Tut tut, JC, that is information as required by the presence of only the top.
Which is there demonstrating a creative response to the necessity of PJ’s.
I expect a pajama wearer such as yourself would indeed be shocked to the core.
But that’s life. It takes all sorts, and I guess I am just one of them. So’s Hairy.
A modest chap, who lives life to the full, his way.
Possibly, I tend to avoid the women’s lingerie section in the interests of decorum.
Old news, but amusing:
Sponsor A Hollywood Celebrity For $8 A Month.
(YouTube – just over one minute).
I don’t even own a pair. Please.
Crossie at 7:16 – there are that many tracking apps, cookies and algorithms it hardly makes sense to talk of “the internet” anymore. What any two people see on a given page is unlikely to be the same.
Watch it, Boambee John. Can’t have any of that.
JC will be on your case and provide a great opportunity for Grundy upticks.
What do you take to hospital, JC? Honest question. lol.
that a dumb tradie like me out-classes an deep thinker like you pretty much every time you open your stupid trap?
wit, humour, and depth are not your forte are they mate?
I’m baffled why you continually draw attention to it
have you got any other tricks or are you completely 2-dimensional like your wank-buddy sancho?
…do try not to make too much of a mess in his sock-drawer
ps. JC. I did like your piece about how we were over the top of the woke curve and on the way down.
Good to get a cheerful opinion midst all of the doom. I think you’re right too, for America.
For Australia, not so much. Not yet. And Britain still has far to go.
I ask for and wear two gowns. One facing the back and the other facing front ways. All good. I’m aware that wearing one gown can leave the rear exposed.
Meanwhile we are wrecking our civilisation by going full speed ahead on Green energy. All that other stuff is obfuscation.
Whoops, wrong copy and paste. The last comment goes with this.
Arguably that is the best part of being in hospital. Especially when you go to the cafeteria for a morning coffee and some banana bread.
So the resident ABC ghoul, Laura Herpes Shingle, who appears on the 7.30 report in her regular cushy gig, who always looks like a creepy ghostly spectre straight out of a Mary Frankenstein book, exchanged test message with La Knickerless. It begs the question, what else? The plot thickens. Eighteen months it came to light how Annabel Scab offered her home here in Sydney so Louse Nilligan could interview Jo Dyer about her ludicrous, ridiculous claims about Christian Porter, and then later Annabel Scab feigned ignorance and pretended that she knew nothing about anything. Just remember, we pay for this. Their ABC, always partisan, always biased. I feel physically sick.
Yep. Three Grundy upticks already, and it hasn’t been long at all.
Such preciousness on display. The offenderati live amongst us.
Who knew?
Dude! LOL.
Yea I know, it’s obvious , right?
They don’t appear to be yours either, champ.
You’re baffled 100% of the time you’re here, which is why you think you can get away with stupid assertions.
Both of us are multi-dimensional and you’re just a moron with nothing to add to any discussion except when it’s a woe-is-me or just stoush trolling.
Okay. Now just go away.
Very good, tugging at the heartstrings.
Uncommonly well said, Cassie. It’s been many years since I watched Derek Jacobi as the Emperor Claudius on the A.B.C. I think the last show I watched was “The Bill.”
JCsays:
May 28, 2023 at 8:09 pm
I expect a pajama wearer such as yourself would indeed be shocked to the core.
I don’t even own a pair. Please.
Is this another “Too much information” moment?
Just saw a Rice Bubbles TV advert featuring a drag queen. Rice Bubbles isn’t a bad name for a drag queen, so there’s that. At least it will remind me to buy something else.
“Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
May 28, 2023 at 7:21 pm”
Thank you Lizzie.
Hey Trans
Go on, make us laugh a little. Give us a couple of sentences with the words nebulous, post hoc and ex-ante like you did recently. You know you want to.
That was freaking hilarious.
Whenever there’s a story or a controversy around a right of centre politician or political party, all you have to do is scratch lightly and you’ll find their ABC is involved, intricately. It’s a fifth column that successive Coalition governments have just thrown more of our money at.
Yes the disgusting antics of these highly paid ABC wimmin. It’s ancien regime level grotesqueness.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
May 28, 2023 at 8:38 pm
Their ABC, always partisan, always biased.
Uncommonly well said, Cassie. It’s been many years since I watched Derek Jacobi as the Emperor Claudius on the A.B.C. I think the last show I watched was “The Bill.”
Which went downhill rapidly once Burnside was written out.
I don’t know too many dumb tradies. Many are quiet well off.
It’s a fifth column that successive Coalition governments have just thrown more of our money at.
yes and Howard could have done something about it in 2004.
Miltonfsays:
May 28, 2023 at 8:49 pm
It’s a fifth column that successive Coalition governments have just thrown more of our money at.
yes and Howard could have done something about it in 2004.
Do I detect a faint odour of Turdballs in that failure to act?
Quiet so, Razey. Quiet so.
Yes in my experience skilled trades are in high demand and well paid (as they should be).
“Which went downhill rapidly once Burnside was written out.”
Yep, it certainly did.
Milt, it’s like the surgery business. They’re guilds and limit the intake which means the market is screwed over and therefore consumers pay through the nose.
There’s nothing a tradie does that’s super-intelligent. It’s process and discipline. If the market supply wasn’t restricted by the guilds they wouldn’t be earning as much.
Never support guild structures as they exist to screw over consumers.
JC … you don’t get screwed over because we collude
you get screwed over because you’re to stupid to do it yourself
tradies are like surgeons? lol
only in so much as removing money from your wallet requires stealth, cunning and skill
I was recently told by a friend his son-in-law is an anesthetist. He grosses $2 million a year. Being on that side of the medical profession means his carrying costs would be very low, as he doesn’t require much of an office filled with admin sheilas like the others. If there ever was a job that would be “ex’ed” by computers, it’s that one.
Sick to the back teeth of all these CEO’s of sports organisations and public companies etc attempting to swing the “yes” vote their way.
What big wheels like Chaney say re the voice is totally irrelevant.
They will have ONE vote on the referendum, the rest is just noise.
Very annoying noise.
Bring on the blasted referendum, the sooner the better.
It’s a happy life if you pay for tradies far more often than surgeons.
You’re not smart enough to collude.
Perhaps.
No you moron. I didn’t say toolies are like surgeons. I suggested both operate through guilds thereby restricting labor supply.
Nice try at trying to explain yourself by adding to an assertion. This is the first time.
How does that include you though because you appear to be as cunning and stealthy as any regular retard?
look seriously,
tradies are not on the same level as surgeons
you could for instance JC, reset your own circuit-breaker or say change a tap-washer
do not … under any circumstances … attempt your own lobotomy
unless of course, you already did
which tbh, would explain a lot
Probably depends on the craft. Also, I’m not sure the skill required in a craft can be reduced to process and discipline for the reasons Oakeshott and Polanyi have elaborated.
Not so sure about that analogy. If the surgeon removes a growth that doesn’t return, would you be happier having a plumber fix a dunny or with the surgeons work?
However have a crack at a self-colostomy.
‘Tis a bit like the vaxxx. The Overlords tell the sheep, and the sheep do, without questioning it.
Sometimes you shouldn’t reset the circuit breaker unless someone who really knows what they’re doing comes in and checks things. Taps these days really don’t have washers unless they’re for washing machines and the like and you’re just better off replacing the whole damned thing. Otherwise the mixer units are modular and just get turfed when they go to pot.
Any so called consoivative, will not be able to stay home …
and plug in and turn on and cop out …
while not being able to lose themselves on scagg and skip out for a slab of beer during the seemingly interminable ad breaks because …
The (long overdue) Revolution Will Not Be Televised, I tells ya …
🙂
Hey longhorn,
I love jerking your chain
… all year remember?
Okay, give some examples of a run of the mill trade that requires high level intelligence. Don’t pick some esoteric trade that few ever ever heard of.
JC earlier
This stuff has been floated in various guises for more than 20 years … ESG, Triple Bottom Line, yada yada.
And it fails every time.
Because the immutable truth is, everybody invests money to make money.
Everybody.
Ignore the virtue signals coming out of their mouths.
Follow the money.
My platitude still stands.
there’s not a specialist in the world intrepid enough to tackle a problem of that magnitude
You hearing me, Pol – no one will give a rodent’s if Eddles’ Jane finally got it on with another wally.
Because – a large sea and many fish. Or something.
why?
It’s not a bloody analogy JC
To quote Tony Abbott, when the Voice gets up, the Aussie idea of a ‘fair go’ will be ‘dead, buried, cremated’.
Does that include the freebies he hooks into from the medicine cabinet?
I read somewhere that anaesthetists have a yuuuge problem with addictions.
Mostly alcohol and opioids.
I remember thinking that the latter might relate to a fairly free access (compared with Joe Citizen).
Why?
Good god man!
Well, I was blundering around, barely above ground, when a self-colostomy just came around, I tells ya! 😕
I didn’t say it was, but explain why.
Good lord some of this is pure protectionism and the rules make zero sense.
https://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/trades-and-businesses/licensing-and-qualifications
You can’t really be an industrial cleaner without a licence, you can’t have a small efficient business cleaning drains because it’s “plumbing work” (stupid, it’s nothing like setting up the pipes before a concrete pour or gas fitting, or fixing gutters); a bloke could work for three years on Snowy Hydro 2.0 on all kinds of very large, counterbalanced, earthmoving plant but he couldn’t put out a shingle and dig ditches for plumbers or holes for pool builders on much smaller equipment, perhaps carted around on a truck so small it doesn’t even require a truck licence; he needs a ticket and licence for earthmoving however…the RPL for the course is four years work experience…NSW doesn’t require carpet and vinyl laying qualifications but without it they can’t lay rubber backed carpet tiles or lay cork; vinyl laying (actually cutting) is the hardest; but they can’t lay linoleum. You also need additional qualifications in addition to the graffiti removal course to “apply protective surfaces” to tiles or polished concrete. After two days training (the dangerous goods course) and an automatic competency assessment (you can get as much or as little training as you please); you’re “ready” to drive a 23 CML vehicle and 9 tonne CML trailer as a HR truck fully laden with TNT, RDX or nitroglycerin.
looks like we got a sock-race going on
wait for it …
wait …
I’m not explaining why.
It obvious.
Sanchez
I’ve heard that too about a lot of them being junkies.
lol
Thats best part of 2 MOA. My 455 in 22LR gets under 1 MOA using standard CCI 1080s, have you tried that?
I don’t think that is totally the case.
Surgeons and KCs definitely work on the guild model.
The shortage of tradies is more driven by societal preference for kids to get tertiary quals over a trade.
Gez
I don’t understand where you’re coming from. You’d be happier getting a schlep to clean your drains than a surgeon removing a tumor that doesn’t return. Okay, horses for courses. Perhaps you’d be happier. I shouldn’t be judgemental.
There’s nothing a tradie does that’s super-intelligent.
Rubbish. Try electrical troubleshooting.
There’s a very interesting show on Australia Story about a women undertaking experimental psychedelic drug therapy to help her cope with a terminal condition.
Now I want to visit Shepparton just for the best vanilla slice in Australia as seen on Paul Murray’s Sky program.
And defeat in both significant other conflict since then also…… Iraq & Afghanistan.
I would include Gulf War 1 as a defeat also, because ‘winning the war’ (whupping Saddams army) was followed by ‘losing the peace’ …. Saddam remained in power, necessitating a second crack a decade later.
Junkies.
Harsh word that.
But I definitely read a study on that.
Medical types were up there, and anaesthetists were the clubhouse leader.
I wondered how much was attributable to an alignment of the personality type drawn to the job having susceptibility to addiction, and how much was simply opportunity and access (coupled with a belief they can control it, of course).
think like a machine.
or worserer
think like the clown that programmed the machine in the first instance
I’ve heard and also read that the trade schools have quotas and limit the numbers in other ways too. However, if you’re right then the higher prices we’re seeing is the market doing it’s thing and encouraging young to move to the trades.
Here’s the thing, though.
Tradies in Australia are a very expensive luxury whereas the charge rates don’t appear anywhere near as high in the US. Similar societal pressures would be there too I’d imagine.
Watching something on Jonestown. FMD what a horrific event.
IIRC, Clive James once wrote something funny about it; can’t quite recall the quote exactly.
‘A police procedural about a lost wallet.’ Something like that.
The key word is terminal.
As long as it isn’t ridiculously expensive on the PBS, and doesn’t impact me, go for it.
but you said it was guilds just a little while ago
… or are you and sancho having a reach-around again ?
Yes, I’ve had experience with that, and we called an electrical engineer because two electricians couldn’t figure what was wrong. Don’t confuse the jobs of electrical, mechanical, structural engineers with schleps say tagging wires to a switch board and it’s not the same job.
We have a electronic engineer do our maintenance on the home’s systems – both entertainment and regular electrical.
And look what happened – they put Pol Dot in charge!
Alright, I wanna know something from you people …
Do you like hippees?
Do you trust hippees?
Do you want them near your kiddees?
Have you evah been a member of the communist partee, I asks ya!
I want to spill the blood of a hippee … 😕
Anyway, “Sliante” to all you horrible mob.
Madame Zulu’s medical team is in conference tomorrow, to determine what road she goes down with treatment. We shall see!
Yes I did, you retarded zombie. Sanchez countered my suggestions about the guilds and I conceded that if he was correct then the market is sending out signals to hire more apprentices.
There has been a lot of it of late, it seems, except everyone but me 😕
some tradies have a creative bent above and beyond basic trade skills
some
but a lot are paint-by-numbers types
aircon guys are the worst
crapping on about the black art of “balancing the system”
which involves playing with baffles and holding hands over outlets until it “feels right”
frauds
you should phone RMIT
Dot (above) has discovered Australia is over-credentialled. To operate a pub in regressive Qld, I require 55 separate licences & permits (I’ve actually lost count, but that number sounds about right)
Allowing for building certification & similar – so’s people are comforted that the place won’t fall down around them, that leaves approximately 54 totally unnecessary licences/permits.
Jiyza/Dangeld, Po-taytoe/Po-tarto
A couple of years ago, the big thing in corporate world America was micro-dosing on heroin by execs.
ZK2A at 9:48.
That’s a bugger just when she appeared to be out of the woods.
Good luck this time!
I could be wrong, however I’ve a feeling there could be a bit more to anaesthesia than simply holding a chloroform-soaked hankie over the patient’s face.
Dot says:
May 28, 2023 at 9:23 pm
you could for instance JC, reset your own circuit-breaker or say change a tap-washer
Usually the last item you plugged in is the culprit, so remove it and reset.
As to the tap washers?
Bunnings have all the replacement cartridges for mixers and tap washers for the rest. 10 minutes job, not counting travel to get them.
Tradies have to know a lot of theoretical stuff the average Joe doesn’t even think about.
Too numerous to mention, but carpenters, electricians, metal trades, the list is long.
Drinketh of the Kool Aid, Peoples
You know you want to …
Yes, I know it was not an event that should be made light of, Cats.
Facts:
Jim Jones was a Democrat
The vast majority of peoples who died at Jonestown were black.
And I have to go and beg my GP for a prescription for Panadeine Forte for my arthritis when Panadol Osteo just doesn’t cut it. The saving grace is that there are good periods between flare-ups.
Works well for fairground tent boxing though. Some local is going better than you forecast against one of your main men, & it’s early in the night.
At the end of the round rush over to the local & give him a quick helpful wipe down with a special towel*
In the second round it will be clear that the local has “run out of wind” & is tiring.
* make bluddee sure that nobody else gets a whiff of it.
Replaced the alternator on the missus Aurion last week.
Fkn Toyota.
Had to remove the following to get to the alternator:
Airbox.
Radiator fan unit.
An entire rat’s nest of air lines and electrical connectors.
Radiator hoses (fkn all of them).
Thermostat housing.
Idler pulley.
Serpentine belt.
Removed all visible bolts to the alternator, and voila! It did not budge an inch. Much, much swearing and blindly crawling my hands all over impossible to see nooks and crannies I discovered the last 14mm bolt tucked hard up between the block and the alternator. Removing it required just the correct extension socket combined with an angle coupling and smashing my hand and wrist into a tiny gap getting torn up on various sharp bits. Finally, in triumph I lifted that bolt skyward in my bloodied hand and yelled at it “You M——-F———er”.
It got its revenge. Putting the bastard back in was twice as difficult.
Sure, I’m doing it for fun for an occasional treat,but as an everyday job? F*** off. These modern cars are complex 3D jigsaw puzzles not designed with even routine maintenance in mind.
They ain’t your daddy’s Torana.
Perhaps, but even emergency alerts are now relayed by the computer what to do.
If you’re not sure ( “I could be wrong”) then why not spend a little time and read up on it or ask in order to reach a reasoned conclusion?
Thank you.
ergo, democrats are mass murderers of black people …
Again.
This is Soviet regime stuff. FMD!
the Kanye – gaol …
Leadership
I don’t know if you’re aware, but engine diagnosis on modern cars is done with computers. The rest – taking motors apart and then putting them together economically is a learned job. It’s not rocket science as you’re inferring.
The complex mathematics in hydrology are often one helluva shock for a kid who thought he’d become a plumber, coz schoolroom sums give him brain-hurties. What could possibly be difficult about screwing pipes together?
“Watching something on Jonestown. FMD what a horrific event.
You should read “Cult City, Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and the 10 Days That Shook San Francisco”, a real life horror movie.
You don’t need to conjure up fictional figures such as Count Dracula, Frankenstein when you have real life figures of Jim Jones, Charlie Manson and others.
better hope that a complete schlep like me didn’t program it
Look, he’s me asking.
Would you mind say listing 20 of these separate licenses and permits?
“democrats are mass murderers of black people …”
Indeed, when the Demonrats aren’t enslaving them, they’re murdering them.
It gets worse, apply to second hand European EFI TDI cars.
here’s