So Reagan’s VP did a Pence. What a disloyal deadshit. A Bush Milt, George Bush Signore was opposing the Reagan…
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Dot, there’s 6 tickets that have to be held by even the most basic bar staff.
Non bar staff can get away with usually 1 or 2 tickets.
I can get most new hires accredited for the job in under a week. (by giving them the answers to some of the tests)
The whole thing is utter bullshit.
Good advice re circuit breakers.
Modern switchboards are pretty safe.
Have one go at resetting after unplugging what you suspect might be the offending appliance.
If it trips out again, call a sparky.
Don’t risk burning the place down by pushing it.
I can remember people inserting two-inch nails in the old fuse boxes when the fuse wire kept burning out.
Yikes!
listen up folks … the B Comm knows how stuff really works
tbh JC, technically most of it actually is rocket science
It seems that, as part of Reconciliation Week, the front page of tomorrow’s “West Australian” is being printed in the Noongar dialect…..Words fail me, they honestly do.
I had an RSA and RCG in NSW when I was a “kid”, I got my security licence later.
I pissed myself laughing when in NSW the RSA & RCG started to be issued like a car driver’s licence/identity card. A East German style licence to pull beers and pour liquor & wine.
That’s actually quite something.
I’ve always wondered what writing system the Noongar used. Tomorrow we’ll find out.
well, CANbus and LON aren’t for the faint-hearted
still, a B Comm could work it out with a pencil I’m sure
I’m sure Musk is looking out for weekend motor mechanics and a/c repair schleps to send big rockets into space. Who needs rocket scientists and engineers afterall. Same thing really.
Correct, modern cars are 95% designed for ease of manufacture (this, and packaging efficiency is the principle driving force behind Front wheel drive, which is inferior dynamically in most sporting applications).
Maintenance and service is a minor priority, often requiring special tools or major dismantling.
Lol, the threshold is actually far lower.
To handle liquor, one is required to have an RSA. This means even a sealed can/bottle inside a storeroom.
That’s true even for older cars. I have a friend who had an 1989 Mazda 323 and you needed special tools to reach some of the nuts, hex bolts etc.
Just so we’re all clear on this. The 52 permits and licenses aren’t part of the “tickets” thing, right? We haven’t morphed from permits and licenses to “tickets”.
If not 20, how about 17?
Cats, it’s time to don a black turtleneck, some black stoves and a Soviet Grey Levi’s jacket while wielding a Cherry Red Gibbo …
I love it when sancho tries to sound all authoritative and technical
like today when he dodged the whole vapour-pressure thing and Bernoulli to explain where your petrol went as you open the fuel tank on your car
he’s a fair dinkum engineering Dr Watson
and of course, we all know that JC is like Sherlock Holmes, natch.
There will not be any of that, Cats.
Not having it, I tells ya.
The opinionated Black woman ~ Aunty
@Theblackfemini3
This child died yesterday
Did it hit the national news? NO
Compare driving front wheel to a rear wheel drive on a road packed with snow. Front wheel will suddenly not appear so inferior.
States Shut Down UN-Insurance Corp Plot to Kill Oil and Gas
yes … it is
New Research: Woke Campaigners Are Psychopathic Narcissists
The reality of tomorrow morning – a Strat and a Tele just ringing out, complemented by Chrissie’s magnificent vocals – clad as she is in a bleu denim Levi’s jacket … 🙂
Transgenderism and its War on Truth
Interesting so far. The 75 year old lady he meets @8:13 is head strong to say the least with plenty of stories to tell. @14:55 Anheuser-Busch / Bud Light is mentioned and states she cannot even give it away … even the Mexicans have ditched it. Not sure about the military drone commentary; It’s mostly young women behind the controls due to fast reflexes. Who knows?
Will carry on watching…
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27 May 2023 NEVADA
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John Kerry: Farmers Must Stop Growing Food to Meet ‘Net Zero’ Goals for ‘Emissions’
Okay then, go Tweet Musk that you can send up a old model Toyota into space. I’m sure he’ll want to get in touch with you.
Where Are Woodward and Bernstein When We Need Them
look … it was only ever a theory, that JC gets stupider every time he posts
Here. Trans.
I’ll even help you write the tweet.
How about 13 licenses and permits then?
LOL. I said ‘depends on the craft’ and here you want to set parameters to your own benefit. But leave that aside, if a surgeon is just a craftsmen much like an electrician, why isn’t an electrical engineer in the same class? Further, although a lot of run of the mill tasks don’t require high intelligence, I’m sure it helps with the not so run of the mill problems they may face. Moreover, what the craftmen has is ‘know how’ and a master craftsmen has that in a manner that is hard to duplicate because it is near impossible to put into words fully, because it’s a combination of physical and mental acuity and delicacy.
Demolished as total frauds by Tucker during his extraordinary defence of “Tricky Dicky“.
One of my best mates, who was an ultraconservative when we were at school, always maintained that Nixon had been set up.
Well guess what – he was correct.
Yet another reason why Tucker had to be removed from MudTel.
Telling the truth is verboten, proles.
Let alone unearthing it.
Collectivist shibboleths are sacred.
Okay, so you don’t want parameters then, so hit us with crafts that we can assume require very high level intelligence. But let’s not confuse engineering with toolies.
Dover, do you realize that the discussion has been about toolies and not engineers. Engineers, that is real ones and not those that pretend they are , are very smart people. We not talking about engineers.
You lost me after “further”, explain.
Hi Ivan,
it’s nice to hear from you again.
I know your mate JC thinks he’s being clever but sending a Yaris into space is a total waste of time because there is absolutely no parking on Mars.
Tell him that if he if he’s good for a million, instead of full of shit, that I’ll let him drive the spaceship on the way back
very funny smart-arse
Elon
who else thinks indians are stealing our petrol?
lol … sancho … what petrol?
I think it’s the Thai. Some look very Comanche-like.
The Wright brothers were high school drop outs who fixed bicycles for a living.
Apparently and allegedly, you bet.
Doctors and assorted ‘health professionals’ used to be massively over-represented in heroin addiction, because they (apparently) tended to believe that a) they knew what they were doing, unlike the mugginses from the western ‘burbs, and b) they believed wholeheartedly that their particular smack was both pure and obtained from a special source, which it never is – on both counts.
Instead of stealing cars and raiding grannies who’d just left ATMs though, the high-falutin’ ‘professionals’ just ended up in rehab instead of going to prison.
They still died, though. Vets were said to be notorious for offing themselves using high-powered animal anaestethics.
Crapping in the tanks, too.
Something happened tonight that hasn’t happened since 2019 or earlier: At dinner time someone complained about the tucker.
This didn’t carry much as weight as you’d first think, as it was before they’d even ordered.
After second course, the same person got everybody in their party (about 20 people) to applaud the staff, & applaud the food.
Didn’t make any difference to the girl who prepared the tucker, she’d already walked out sobbing.
She’d spent all the night before preparing carefully all sorts of delicacies, just for this party.
Some people are so callously cruel, & never get the punch in the face they deserve.
Great non-sequitur.
Elon Musk has a materials science degree from Stanford. So what?
Who knows who is stealing our fuel – our strategic reserve is in Louisiana & Texas, or was.
Sal… who is running the joint- you, or that d*ckhead ringmaster?
Driller wouldn’t answer the question about requiring 52 permits and licenses to run a hotel, so I did the next best thing. I asked AI and this is what it came up with.
What are the permits and licenses required to operate a Hotel in Queensland Australia.
It’s 9, according to AI. Only 43 to go.
and you have a B Comm … you idiot
I’ll tell you what JC
you refrain from taking gratuitous pot-shots at people
and I’ll refrain from humiliating you.
deal bitch?
I know, it’s embarrassing for him.
Not following you Wally?
I’m not Ashton’s, I’m a country pub.
At one cafe we frequented, one arsehole was lording it a bit, and so the fairly frail seventy-y-o proprietor simply stood alongside his chair with one open hand pointing out the door, for what felt like an hour, but was probably ten minutes. Excruciating, and i have no idea what the crux was that kicked it all off because they were all French, but the gent was not going to let any young turk tell him how to run his restaurant.
Of course I’ve got no skin in any game, so fair enough if you feel like I’m a sidelines urger… but immodest grandstanding pisses me off. I suppose the old days of discretion are gone.
…if I find out your joint has one of those hanging bells to ring when a tip comes in, though…
Oh okay, that sounds like a great deal. Let me think it over. Just a thought, isn’t it the other way around? Isn’t it you who contributes nothing to this site other than lame comments and stoushes with people? Therefore shouldn’t you be putting that proposition to yourself, you moron?
suit yourself
The Westfarmers boss seems to be not that popular based on comments under the Oz article. What a self opinionated jerk
Not done his brand much good.
UC Berkley @4:44 all black graduation ceremony. I reckon none of them have heard of Thomas Sowell … that goes for a lot of whiteys, too. He’s in his 90’s now so keeping out of the public eye is his right. He has enough published material in the public domain to counter this BS!
How ironic that segregation is back and applauded.
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Mark Dice:
Ultra Liberal Has Amazing Revelation
oic, yair. Wally I nearly told the bitch to stfu, had a helluva job keeping my tongue. She’s paying $660 per night for a dozen rooms tonight, & has booked 570 rooms between now & the end of winter.
That sorta keeps me from telling her what I really think.
However I’ll be on the phone to her boss in the morning, to get my story in first & bestest.
I’ve arranged for someone who’s fast with an abrasive retort to be at the front desk in the morning when the bitch checks out.
A couple of conversations this evening reminds me of this.
Fredo
My brother-in-law when living in Maine (where it snows a bit) would always take the RWD Suzuki Samurai in preference to his FWD Chevvy.
Mutts of the week…
Not really pushing the boat out too far, just hairy whippets really, but a bit tougher and shaggier. Should avoid the breed weakness of bad teeth.
Had a chat to the bird selling, she’s lovely farm girl… I’ll see what transport options look like in the morning.
My brother had a medical incident today which made me suddenly realise my “black dog” could be seen as self-indulgence. So, as much as I can without any pharmaceutical or otherwise assistance, I’m back! (Fragile but back!) Just give me a bit of space, OK?
hah!
just survived another earthquake
Finally had the earthquake experience!
Thanks dutchnosense.
Fark. 4.7
Was that what it was? I went outside and next door to find out if they felt it and they were asleep. I thought the house was about to come down.
Shit, I just combed through the news and there was another earthquake in Melbourne 2 weeks ago.
The young bloke behind all this is a JET. He’s since turned 18.
Go look up Backrooms on his channel from the start of the series. Creepy and freaky sh*t that has since been copied.
Meanwhile, check this out. No subtitles ( German )
This A.O.T is all new to me.
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Kane Pixels:
Attack on Titan – Declaration of War [Historical Footage]
Bruce
Front wheel drive may be better in snow conditions because the front end takes the weight of the engine and supposedly can offer better traction. Perhaps it may also depend on the car.
I’ve had really bad experiences with rear wheel drive in snow.
Unleash the eqrthquake!
Why would I need to having never said that all crafts require high intelligence?
JC, you included surgeons in with the ‘toolies’ so I’m not sure why engineers are excluded. Still, a lot of engineering is probably as run of the mill as whatever passes for a normal day for electricians or ‘lower’ craftsmen, why do you think they are more intelligent? What is it about their job? Is it because it is less manual?
Just think of what goes into learning any task. Even reading a recipe correctly requires background knowledge about simpler task that are just assumed at higher levels of mastery, also elements that are hard if not impossible to put into words, which is why it is so much easier to learn how to cook X by watching someone do it than to read a recipe.
Robert Stevenson, who designed a third of the English railroads and whose design for the Rocket inspired 150 years of locomotive designs, ex apprentice:
..
I love that line: he wanted his son to work for his living.
Even back then, practical folks who made real things understood that university degrees were mostly bullshit.
Then we could remember John Moses Browning, the son of a blacksmith, who designed most of the rifle configurations used to this day. Learnt his craft at his Daddy’s side.
Earthquake in Melbourne? Didn’t feel it at all but I’m on the ground floor. The last two I’ve been upstairs and felt them, rather uneasily.
Razeysays:
May 28, 2023 at 11:49 pm
Fark. 4.7
Nope, 3.8 Geo -Australia – 3.6 USBS.
No biggie.
Perhaps you can explain this then.
Then
I brought up surgeons in so far as they belong to guilds in part of a discussion that dealt with closed shops and the impact guilds have on prices. How else did you read what I said?
Okay, but what’s your point.
Let me elaborate a little further on the subject. I wasn’t suggesting individual toolies are smart or dumb. They could be very smart, but for the most part a lot of what they do doesn’t require exceeding smarts.
Perhaps the greatest engineer of all time, the man responsible for the invention of the modern assembly line, and thus for much of modernity, Henry Ford, started out as an apprentice machinist.
Great, let’s bring up one of two famous figures who started at the bottom rungs and made their way up the ladder. From this the obvious logical conclusion by Leadership is that all toolies are geniuses and they can easily invent things just like the Wright brothers.
Moreover, who exactly is preventing the next Wright brothers from inventing the next level plane?
And all machinists are Henry Ford. All fitter and turners can easily make the next level Concorde. This is an easily derived logical conclusion.
… The clash was like two bald men fighting over a comb.
EaRthQuaKe!!!
Royal Doulton in smithereens.
Pity.
Bought it when we traveled to England first class with Cunard back in 1962.
Why didn’t Dutchysense warn us?
I note the earthquake was nowhere near Caulfield or St Kilda East.
This has all the hallmarks of a Mossad operation.
I mean, who else could it be?
Johannes Leak. Brilliant.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Bob Moran. More here.
Andy Davey.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Al Goodwyn.
Michael Ramirez #2.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Indians is my bet.
The rotten apple in Queensland Health apart from the bureaucracy is the Ambulance and their alternative doctors from the ones on the phone to to those who put cannulas in children to help the doctors ain ED and fail are incompetent.
When the QLD. government have to get their mouth pieces to tell us not to take patients to ED but call the service as they did last week ,it must be presumed a lot of Queenslanders think the Ambulance personnel are a direct threat to life.
Playing Cat CATch-up and losing but saw Cassie’s Callic Somment at 9:45am yesterday. Perhaps we could have a Cassie’s Classic Comment thread — thank you Cassie, so eloquent and comprehensive.
Leak nails it!
As for your Royal Doulton figurine, Sancho…would you like me to find a replacement next month? Was it that horrible old lady with the balloons?
I’ll have you know I’m flying to the UK BC and doing Cunard to Iceland with an upper level Balcony Upgrade!
Envy me, serfs! 😀
Lots of tradie talk last night. Plenty of apprenticeships around…it’s keeping the buggers that’s difficult. They start, then go onto other things.
I was surprised at the advanced hydrology design in my son’s plumbing course – probably dumbed down these days to keep the certificates flowing. Even in my course I had to do some of it for wetland and drainage design. Don’t know about carpentry these days, most stuff is pre-fab these days, but some frames are site cut. You still have to learn it even if you don’t use it.
Pretty sure the only restrictions on numbers are at TAFE. You can only fit so many bums on seats. And getting teachers might be a problem too.
I’ll add another “these days” on account of insufficient coffee for proof reading. Can’t have too many repetitions.
Thanks Tom. Moran is something else. Brilliant art work plus brilliant commentary. He does some loathesome politicians just as they are.
There’s a giggleworthy piece in the Hun this morning creatively headlined:
This fairly floss sandwich, of course, speaks of Netty Australia strapping on the suicide vest and going KaBlam over what was originally a level of hesitation from indig nettyperson Donnell Wallam to wear a logo relating to bastard mining, and which became a poorly-thought-out virtue flag waving arrangement by the national team.
I am unsure whether the parallel drawn in the headline (and the piece) between that hilarious shitfest and Nicky Winmar was sufficiently thought through. Some discrepancies:
1. Nicky Winmar wasn’t a fringe player, perhaps hoping to retain selection through indigeneity rather than skill and work ethic;
2. Winmar wasn’t dropped due to form shortly afterwards;
3. St.Kilda suddenly didn’t have any money afterwards;
4. St.Kilda wasn’t sponsored by the Victorian Government post-event to prevent the sport’s national collapse; and
5. Winmar was actually racially abused, and had been for some time prior to his moment.
But yeah. Go with ‘Winmar moment’, you unimaginative and incorrect dunderheads.
Just read up on that Moran…it’s for the Freds new album.
They have a Twitter page also, and this was on it. Sounds about right.
Hunchback will be announcing an earthquake tax this morning. This is for our own good and will prevent any future earthquakes.
Netball is a scam invented by physiotherapists.
“Come play a game worse for your joints than tennis or AFL, but on wet concrete.”
Wow, just watched Warine Mundine totally berate ABC Breakfast TV host re their approach to the Voice & Supreme Court judge Ian Harrison for his intervention in the debate. He didn’t hold back about the prejudice and inverted racism of the ABC. Good for him. Great to see a guest tell the ABC to do their job properly.
Stupid Byzantines. This is what happens when you let the Indians into the pantry.
Jib Operator: j
Just stop, oil protestor.
Has anyone seen the book “When Scotland was Jewish”?
They seem to draw a very long bow on their theory but they back it up with DNA evidence.
For those (at least 7 so far) who may be stalled on my term Grundies because they are not of my rare vintage, here’s a clue for youse all.
In further Netty disaster news, the Collingwood Magpies netty team has folded.
Much anger because they took the gummint money for promoting wimmynses sport a few years ago.
Turns out all those things said by Eddie back then – “synergy”, “broaden supporter base”, “strengthen communidy ties” – turned out to be bullshit.
It lost games and money.
More weaselling from AEMO.
They announced that most of the submissions they received about the VNI West transmission line was either neutral or negative.
That would be 495 against and a few front organisations for the renewable sector loving the idea.
Six weeks was all the time allotted to this process for a proposal that appeared out of the blue in March. Six weeks for a three billion dollar build that crosses over a third of the state.
Leak absolutely nails it this morning.
Thank goodness for the secret ballot.
Some people though will be taken in by the threats and vote Yes to keep them quiet.
And that is an absolute crying shame for it will only make them worse, and bolder.
Surprised to hear about the earthquake but then I have been through a real one as I was in Italy when part of the Basillica in Assisi fell down . There were after shocks for the next month . However I did hear a weird noise like wind whooshing and could not work out what it was.
Not a word about the Mossad earthquake connection on the morning news.
Typical.
It was a real earthquake, just not strong enough to do much damage. 4.7.
I’m not going to be jealous of a being in a bigger one, to be honest.
Moreover, who exactly is preventing the next Wright brothers from inventing the next level plane?
The FAA, EASA, CASA and their counterparts in other countries. Read J. Storrs Hall “Where’s my Flying Car”. The bureaucracy is immense and you’ll run out of money before you can sell anything.
they’ve changed their minds and called it a 3.6. Someone got a cracked in the plaster.
Target Store Bomb Threats Sent By Angry Pro-Pride Left-Winger
After several days of telling the media that Target’s stores were under threat from people who objected to their selling LGBTQ+ and satanic merchandise an email that detailed a bomb threat was sent to media outlets… by an LGBTQ+ activist.
Meanwhile: Target has lost over $9 BILLION in value this past week from conservative boycotts.
Don’t worry Sancho, in ten years time the really smart people will be telling us what really happened.
Red shoes have been pulled on.
Tunnels have been formed.
Mysterious helicopters will appear.
Whether you have an engineering degree or not doesn’t determine who is an engineer. Plenty of excellent working engineers have not ever had a degree in engineering or at all.
At Lockheed, see Irv Culver, Harry Coombs.
Musk also doesn’t have an engineering degree but he is Chief Designer of SpaceX.
I used to know people who worked in southern California aerospace (TRW and Northrop) who said their company hiring was very impressed by people who had done things like build a boat, car, small aircraft etc, regardless of their “degree”.
Target in the US got rid of separate boys and girls clothing sections a few years ago.
Have they brought them back.
I’m surprised they still have separate men’s and women’s sections.
building a boat, car, small aircraft is where you learn the difference between the blueprints and what is actually needed to put something together that works
building a boat, car, small aircraft is where you learn the difference between the blueprints and what is actually needed to put something together that works
At a hotel restaurant in Kalgoorlie, a few years ago, a party of yobs thought it fine sport to reduce the waitress to tears – it was her second night in the job. Someone slipped out to fetch the manager. He walked in, and threw a Domino’s Piazza voucher in the middle of their table. “I don’t want to see you back. I’ve got customers banging on the door to eat here, and it’s difficult enough to find staff. Shut the door on your way out.”
So wait, I can identify as an engineer and assuage the engineer fetishists here?
People actually build entirely new cars, not just restore them?
That’s pretty wild.
I want a 10 dot point essay why the Miata/MX5 is actually a bad car seeing how opinionated people are here, you should have no trouble dissuading me from buying one.
I also like the VW Arteon, a new Prado is too pricey.
If plumbers can understand hydrology why can’t engineers understand the physical chemistry of (usually leaky) hydrogen containment?
Och vey!
Take heart, Zulu, a good female friend of mine, and my brother-in-law, have both received fairly dreadful diagnosis of cancer two years ago, but with treatments they are both now thriving and taking holidays and planning for a long future. They’ve both been through chemo treatments and one has had radiotherapy also and lost all her hair, but cures, or near to, are being announced with new treatments constantly. Much cancer is now considered a chronic illness rather than a death sentence. Bear with whatever is recommended until the sun shines brightly again for you both. It is always a concerning time. Hairy and I went through this with his prostate cancer and then with my suspected ovarian cancer. Both were investigated, my lesions turned out to be benign, his cancer treated with brachytherapy, and on we go. Best of luck to you both.
You should have seen that IKEA installer put together my three big new bookshelves with doors.
Talk about being on top of his job. Up went his portable table, onto it went some side panels, and he was away. So quick and efficient over something that years ago I recall Hairy and I struggling over.
Nothing like calling in the professionals no matter what the job.
Never get the Billy book case.
Trust me.
J.C:
Crossie:
The Oracle has spoken and you must not contradict it or you will be called stupid names for the next 5 years.
It’s so quiet around here I’m feeling sleepy. Going to crawl back to bed for an insomniac’s catch up.
The bother is having to email all who were expecting me to do things this morning and cancel out.
Thank you, LizzieB.
Lizzie:
Don’t forget the explorer socks if that heel fissure plays up again, Lizzie. Like I told you three years ago.*
*nag, nag, nag.
That would be good break out session for the ‘Woomba Helldrivers AGM. A few tickets still available. Don’t forget the hospitality package.
try the Havsta, much better
So wait, I can identify as an engineer and assuage the engineer fetishists here?
No, you need to design and/or make stuff that works as intended.
Albanese supports ACT Government on Calvary acquisition
29 May 2023
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has intervened in the increasingly bitter dispute over the ACT Government’s forced acquisition of Calvary Public Hospital Bruce, insisting it is not driven by religion. Source: Canberra Times.
The Labor leader, himself a Catholic, has stepped into the Calvary controversy just ahead of the expected passing of legislation in the Legislative Assembly to allow the Government to compulsorily acquire the hospital by July 3.
Canberra Health Services is expected to start running Calvary from that date.
Speaking of drainage: England reclaimed; how we became a nation of drainage engineers
ROTFLMA.
There’s the problem…right there.
People actually build entirely new cars, not just restore them?
There is a kit car industry. Don’t know enough to say about scratch built.
There is also a pretty thriving homebuilt light aircraft industry. Mostly kits with various levels of completed sub assemblies but also from plans and some scratch designed and built. Generally better, faster aircraft than Cessna/Piper/Beechcraft/Cirrus.
The “West Australian” is beating the big drum for a “Yes” vote in the forthcoming referendum about the Voice – Reconciliation is the soul of the nation, a “No” vote will set reconciliation back by decades, blah, blah, blah.
They aren’t allowing comments on any of the articles.
Albanese is as Catholic as Andrews.
How does building something using a kit make you an engineer?
Very good.
He’sa good boy, ma Luigi.
Kerry Stokes making sure those open doors stay open.
I can see the Catholic bishops sitting on their bunks in a re-education camp a decade hence, muttering with quiet desperation, “If only Anthony knew.”
go buy an Arduino and get back to us when you make it useful
God has seen enough. Eternal damnation coming to Victoriastan. I told you JC but did you listen?
Assignment work, open book, multiple repeats of failed modules.
Every child wins a prize.
Most plumbers work off rules of thumb and probably don’t know or remember the physics behind the rules.
a new Prado is too pricey
Check out the Ssang Yong line, especially the Musso at $38k
https://ssangyong.com.au/models/musso
I almost bought one about 18 months ago, but in the end decided my Mitsubishi Challenger is still running so well (after 21 years) that I’d be paying mostly for novelty and a new car smell.
Apparently SsangYong has sorted out its bankruptcy woes and will be around for a while yet.
ZK2A:
The ABC went to shit when James Dibble retired.
That’s when I stopped watching it.
🙂
Rand Paul
@RandPaul
Fake conservatives agree to fake spending cuts. Deal will increase mandatory spending ~5%, increase military spending ~3%, and maintain current non-military discretionary spending at post-COVID levels. No real cuts to see here.
Conservatives have been sold out once again!
and
Tom Fitton
@TomFitton
BREAKING: A few days after an IRS whistleblower further confirms corruption at the IRS to protect Joe and Hunter Biden, @SpeakerMcCarthy negotiates a deal with Joe Biden to preserve 70 of the $80 billion in new funding for the IRS.
Calvary on the cross
Now the left is coming after our church hospitals
Kevin Andrews – Spectator Australia -27 May 2023
The 120-year lease to Calvary still has 76 years to run. The government’s initial refusal to articulate a case for its proposed actions reveals how flimsy it is. It can more easily acquire the land than in the states because all property in the ACT is leased from the government and not owned as freehold title. It had sought last year to reduce the lease to 25 years, and then abruptly ended discussions. The belated claim that this is about providing a single network of healthcare ignores the fact that in many other places multiple providers cooperate to that end.
The belief that this proposal is about abortion – and euthanasia, which the ACT plans to introduce – is well-founded. Is the next institution to be acquired Clare Holland House, the praised palliative care service also operated by Calvary?
This is not a Catholic issue, nor even a Christian one. If the ACT government can acquire a well-functioning, viable hospital that is providing first-rate healthcare to the populace, what else can it acquire? Independent schools? Clubs with pokies? Greyhound and horse racing tracks? The premises of organisations that oppose its political views? This is a dangerous precedent which should be resisted by everyone who values the freedoms and toleration that our polity is built upon.
When ongoing respectful discussions about how we can live together and appropriate compromises are trumped by government dictates, authoritarianism has truly arrived.
The new bastion of freedom.
Cuban immigrants are joining the Russian army to fight in Ukraine in exchange for citizenship, a report says
ZK2A:
Is there a time frame for this pile of dung, or is it going to be a perpetual pebble in the shoe, designed to annoy most of Australia?
No through shortage of top end of the town funding.
Ron DeSantis’s Copycat Strategy Is Failing
Incumbent President Erdogan declares victory in Turkey
Corporates are generally the worst guests you can have.
They feel a suit & a high (in their opinion) income give them a free pass to insult staff & misbehave.
When they become insulting, my colleague across town (who has plenty of corporates) takes great delight in telling them dinner is off – for them – and to immediately settle their bill & get off his property, he actually tells them where on the lawn the boundary is.
Most of them have never in their life been told “No” by a hospitality venue & don’t take the loss of face very well. They’ve been told, in their own supercilious white collar language, that neither them, nor their money, nor their repeat custom are wanted, & that a business operator believes he’ll actually be better off without them.
A very insulting concept, which most corporates grasp.
True of most things – I can make money at X, I will go broke at Y. Seems simple until you have a go yourself. We made a reasonable living out of just this fact.
What a shock.
Carbon-credit Scammer Steps Down Amid Claims That Credits Are Worthless
In devastating news for Breakfast TV fans, Kochie has pulled the pin. Questions are already being asked about the Cash Cow’s role in all this.
Dot:
I want to put in a fireplace. Has to be done by a plumber and a builder.
Why?
The chimney – a 6″ pipe – goes through the roof.
Perhaps I should put it through an exterior wall…
A better standard of squalor in Russia, to be sure, but perhaps not as much cheer as Cuba.
Elsewhere Teh Paywallian Media Diary column reports Paramount and Channel 10 opt to keep Mrs Pirate Pete on ice till 2024. I hope this doesn’t mean the Pirate won’t have a book out for Christmas.
Again, why, given the qualifier, ‘probably depends on the craft’.
Fair enough, I was probably carrying over what you’ve said about surgeons previously.
That ‘smarts’ aren’t only of the ‘knowing that’ variety.
Sure, but as I said in earlier comment, same is true of those professions you may think require higher intelligence.
rosiesays:
May 29, 2023 at 8:04 am
It was a real earthquake, just not strong enough to do much damage. 4.7.
I’m not going to be jealous of a being in a bigger one, to be honest.
Incorrect by a full magnitude.
USGS – M 3.6 – 6 km N of Greenvale, Australia 3.6
Geoscience Australia – 3.8.
Nothing unusual for Oz.
So not only are people indignant when they read the article, but they are not given a chance to react. This will probably solidify the ‘No’ vote in those people’s minds.
Quite apart from the fact they have decided they had better now allow comments in the first place.
It is weird though – we now expect to be able to state our objections on the same page we read something. Unimaginable before the intertubes weaned us off dead-tree newspapers.
From what I’ve seen of Russia it’s perfectly fine.
Black Ball:
Cults. Something the 20thC perfected.
Jonestown is nothing compared to what the Green Cult will do or Communism did.
Surgeons are a little precious. I found out when I brought my own PEG to replace the one that had fallen out. It wasn’t really appreciated and I got the Department of Health one that we use in a modified form to this day. Nurses aren’t much different. As I went home with a shaved stomach that took weeks to regain its natural ursine hairy form.
I know PhDs who are as dumb as dogshit for whom conversation is regurgitating Marxist slogans like ‘grazing ruined this country’.
The “West Australian”.
Only useful for starting campfires. Watching the front page ( 3 quarters of it commonly being a Harvey Norman add ) is relaxing to watch.
Salvatore:
There is, but the Oracle of Wall Street saw a youtube video that put it on the right track.
Some of them are engineers, or identify as engineers too.
Better than identifying as or being an economist.
Re Jonestown. It is amazing how many names still pop up today.
“A roster of leaders who remain dominant figures in California politics today embraced Jones publically. Jerry Brown, then and now governor of the state, approvingly visited the Peoples Temple, and Senator Dianne Feinstein, who ascended to the mayoralty upon Moscone’s assassination, joined the Board of Supervisors in honoring Jones. Willie Brown, longtime speaker of the California state assembly, a mayor of San Francisco, and the mentor of Senator Kamala Harris, was especially lavish in his praise of Jones, calling him “a combination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Angela Davis, Albert Einstein, and Chairman Mao.””
https://www.city-journal.org/article/jim-jones-made-in-san-francisco
Words of wisdom, from Albo.
WA Newspapers was a great share back in the day. Threw off wads of cash and by and large returned to shareholders. Pretty much all downhill after Kerry Stokes came on board. Not all entirely his fault but it didn’t help.
“A better standard of squalor in Russia, to be sure, but perhaps not as much cheer as Cuba.”
Worse than the squalor and crime in San Francisco, Portland and other blue cities in the US?
Wasn’t half the front page today supposed to be in ‘language’ ?
I’ll give ‘em language.
And it’s been largely downhill since (thanks Nugget…Gough).
It couldn’t really have been worse if we’d left aboriginal affairs exclusively in the hands of the states. Aboriginal people themselves would have had one less level of government to navigate through.
The 1967 referendum was powerfully symbolic, a moment of national idealism. In that year, 90 per cent of Australians voted to remove a harmful, discriminatory relic.
And the current Labor Party now want to insert racial division back into the constitution. Never forget that it was the Labor Party that introduced the White Australia Policy.
Finally one for Groogs!
Mass Immigration & White Flight: White British to be a Minority by 2050s + Govt’s Net Migration Scam
and ‘most’ rocket-scientists are at the pointy end of their expertise
give us all another lecture on gas-liquid mixtures
It the vibe, Man. Just go with it.
Best ask a Cuban….they don’t appear to be that fussy for some reason.
Matrix Transform:
Yes, I just rolled my eyes and went back to the whole point that 1 in 20 fuel bowsers underdelivered fuel.
Then I decided it just wasn’t worthwhile pointing out that the Class Clown had just made my point about bowsers, and deleted the reply.
Never argue with idiots because they’ll always drag you down to their level…etc…
Yes the filth in us blue cities seems to be worse than anything I saw in Asia. I’ve seen San Pedro Street in LA.
China’s counterfeiting model beats Amazon, plus super low prices/Chinese people are the real victims
China Insights
The latest decision by the American multinational e-commerce giant Amazon once again highlights the many regulatory, market environment, and local competition challenges that foreign tech giants face in the Chinese market.
Can Temu and Shein from China really succeed in their challenge to Amazon with this money-burning model? We’ll wait and see.
Can we expect compromising photos of Kochie and Cash Cow to appear in the Daily Mail in coming days.
Voting with their inner tubes.
Kochie is too old for that stuff. Leave that to Karl and the in-laws.
I’m getting ads from Temu in my inbox.
The prices are extraordinarily low (like thequality?).
The expansion into Western markets must be costing them a fortune, which makes me think the online retail sector in China must be in dire straits.
That is not a chimney.
It’s a flue.
Please don’t join in if you can’t get the terminology right.
It will still need flashing (or edge sealing of some sort).
And good luck getting a decent draw out of that if you don’t extend it above the roofline.
This is why I said yesterday that professionals hate dealing with “gifted amateurs”. They don’t mind answering sensible questions or even taking suggestions, but they hate interminable questioning from numpties trying to solve a non-existent problem.
A good roof plumber will have that flashed in an hour or two.
The worst thing is a builder who will say, “Yeah, we can do that, mate …” and then under is breath “… but your fireplace won’t fkn work.”
Now I’m certain assembling a kit using an instruction manual doesn’t make you an engineer.
The architect-builder discussion.