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Gotta start somewhere, even if it is second…
No.
You misinterpreted what I said. Given those factors previously mentioned, users are going to ignore temporary declines in quality, ignore middling improvements, and/or pass over substantial improvements in competitor products and Apple know this. Further, I wasn’t specifically referring to the iPhone as inferior, but that the laptops/ desktops prior to the M1/ M2 units were mid at best but they did have some pros in niche markets like video editing.
If it’s ‘very competitive market’ how are they making 90% of the profits from 10% of the share?
If people are happy to part with their money good luck to Apple, but that isn’t what is in contention, what’s in contention is whether the product is actually superior, not simply popular.
Could be the local Aboriginal Corporation has insisted that every shovel full of soil must be removed by hand and put through a fine sieve because artifacts.
Baffling!!!
Treated myself to a prezzie .. lotza building brick models of the TITANIC around but this is the 1st time I’ve come across .. sinking …..!
Lego are bringing out a Concorde in Lego shortly. Might be worth a look.
US cell phone market share
Apple’s market share of the cell phone market in the USA is greater than 50%.
In Australia, Apple’s share is north of 40%.
Does it come with flames pouring out of the engines?
Robert Sewell
Sep 11, 2023 10:57 AM
Cassie of Sydney
Jorge:
Looking at the chaotic Italian Parliament and economy, they haven’t done much for Italy.
Maybe they could demand them all back?
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Robert Sewell
Sep 11, 2023 11:16 AM
Yes, It’s his sandpit and he’ll defend it no matter what the Blogmeister says.
Robert Sewell
Sep 11, 2023 11:52 AM
JC:
You don’t speak for me, you arrogant prick.
Just shut up and don’t talk to me.
JC:
Someone who confuses a friendly hand of reconciliation with grovelling is someone with a wildly distorted sense of reality.
It goes along with your laughingly stupid accusation that:
You really are a twit.
No reference required – it’s free.
Just a half day at S&B on account of the dodgy knee…also painkillers and sharp tool’s don’t go well together.
Not a peep about the Voice…nothing. These girls swing Left, so the silence told me all I needed to know. If Yes, there would have been much…much volume and persuasion, for that it how they roll.
On Qantas, I wasn’t suggesting they had a “supercomputer”, just a serviceable ticketing system like other airlines. Or any other business that deals in high volumes and complex product mixes.
Not much more than the average Ministerial Media Advisor.
Doing anything to an existing bridge connected to an operating freeway is necessarily going to be fiddly and time consuming (although 4 years does sound a bit epic). You’re going to be dealing with the many risks of construction operations coming into contact with traffic, as well as minimizing disturbance to the traffic flow itself.
I’d also guess that pulling in the appropriate skilled resources is going to depend on whatever else is going on in motorway construction land – either locally or nationally. Governments (and government agencies with Governments up their backsides) tend not to think too much about practical resource constraints when they set forth with their signature infrastructure projects.
Apostrophe alert! Tools. They don’t own anything yet.
It wouldn’t be a moderated word as that shouldn’t bring up a internal server error. You’re comment posts to the moderation queue, it doesn’t disappear. If you’re getting internal server error there is something about the comment that WP/server isn’t processing correctly. Could be a combination of letters and/or punctuation. Best thing to do is just press the back button on your browser and see if the comment is still there, and email it to me.
Turtlehead is looking for ticks. Please do.
He posted this rambling crap on the old thread and re-jigged it here.
He doesn’t want to talk to me or about me, but that’s all he wants to do.
Sad and pathetic.
Calli,
I did a 9 month stint in the Reservations IT group in the late 80s so any info I have is waaaaay out of date. The system was written in IBM 360 assembly language with a few PL1 bolt ons. Nothing gets changed quickly in Assembly.
It’s gone now Dover. Not earth shattering, just something on the timing of sales and product availability.
I did use some formatting (em), but that’s all.
Diogenes, my airline experience is the same dates too. Everything has changed.
Oakeshot was a little behind the times.
There was a time when scientists were regarded as innocent weirdos. Nerds, geeks. Then they produced nukes and nuclear power; immediately they acquired status and respect. Thus, people for whom status and respect were important began, for the first time, to become scientists. Usually not physicists, because physics is hard, but scientists in name at least.
Filling science up with these greatly inferior minds has led to its collapse.
Known antivaxxer wins US Open tennis.
And what a joy that was.
Calli the problem is you were trying to post on the august blog when you should have been on the september blog. Hehe.
Oh goodie! My favourite Pommy cook Mary Berry is the star turn on my favourite show on SBS Food this arvo, Jamie (Oliver) & Jimmy’s Food Fight Club (Foxtel channel 171 at 3.30pm). Meantime, I’m off to the shops to stock up on food!
PS: CL, if you’re lurking, Mary Berry has a much smaller bottom than your pinup girl Nigella Lawson, but she knows twice as much about food.
Does it come with flames pouring out of the engines?
No, as it will be unburnt fuel and not flames. Those Olympus jet engines were very, very polluting. They also powered the Vulcan bomber that carried Britain’s nuclear deterrent.
I’m sure that Leggo is on the case. Maybe a Lego nuclear bomb is next……………….
Jamie (Oliver) & Jimmy’s Food Fight Club
Those two are Brillo. Having an Eatery at the end of Sarf’end Pier. Cushty.
A Lego set of Los Alamos Laboratories making Fat Man and Little Boy would be cool, but they’ve primarily avoided making anything militaristic.
You could even have Oppenheimer, FDR and Truman.
Jackie doesn’t say how she would have done it better.
The aversion to using modern technology seems like voodoo stuff, like “social distancing” and “wear TWO masks!”.
Graphite pencils were a mass-produced technology made to fairly specific tolerances.
Good lord even writing is a technology.
Cool funfact. One of my forebears is a Lego mini figure.
The grandsons think it’s cool anyway….
The system was written in IBM 360 assembly language with a few PL1 bolt ons. Nothing gets changed quickly in Assembly.
IBM Assembler language is the machine language and it is farking hard to get to grips with. You need to know your hexadecimals and what Register does what.
I did a 3 week course on it in April/May 1981. It took me 4 weeks to recover.
“He remarked how the indigenous people by offering the Voice were expressing their love to the Australian people.”
I’ve spoken to about half a dozen Aboriginal people that I know, and without fail they have told me to vote “No”, even before they knew I was going to anyway.
The scientific establishment’s decision to launch the biggest scientific fraud in history, global warmening, has not only destroyed science’s credibility, it has allowed hundreds of thousands of hare-brained political activists to call themselves “scientists” and signalled to STEM students that ideology, not scientific curiosity, will determine how far up the professional ladder they can climb.
It would have been even cooler if it was Darth Vader. Children can be so picky.
I’m a Delia Smith fan.
Tom at 12:04
Pretty much spot on (as usual).
I vaguely remember on the Sinc Cat a discussion of Joyce as CEO in which someone pointed out that not long after he arrived in the big seat the price of oil declined and airlines pocketed a nice windfall profit for several years afterwards.
Luck of the Irish if accurate.
I remember that Jorge. A lot of Joyce’s woes are union fracas coming home to roost too. I’m prepared to cut him some slack on that, as these guys wait years for revenge. And it’s been years in the making.
“A Lego set of Los Alamos Laboratories making Fat Man and Little Boy would be cool,…”
Trigger (and bad taste) warning.
Hiroshima optional extra?
Joyce and the Board showed more resolve on legacy IR issues than Dixon ever did. More than an element of payback in a lot of media about at moment.
“I remember that Jorge. A lot of Joyce’s woes are union fracas coming home to roost too. I’m prepared to cut him some slack on that, as these guys wait years for revenge. And it’s been years in the making.”
Correct, which is why Tony Sheldon, current Labor senator and ex-union hack, is out for revenge. He has been at the forefront of the pile on of Joyce.
Given the choice of Joyce or Sheldon, I choose Joyce.
Alan Joyce began pursuing social causes with the SSM campaign, before then he focused on business, and largely kept quiet. Maybe he got roped in because he’s a little homosexual Irishman. I don’t know but this I do know, he should have stuck to his knitting, which was making an airline profitable. His campaigning for SSM, and his subsequent cosying up to Labor and Albanese has tarnished him bigtime, and it hasn’t made him popular with any of the unions….they hate him, always have, always will.
Joyce’s woes prove that business shouldn’t dance with far-left social causes.
He must be the only public figure to take them on and win, Maggie Thatcher style. They haven’t said boo since then.
Put him in charge of the ABC.
Relying solely on digital resources for learning seems to result in teachers simply task setting for students rather than actually teaching them the content. This might also be a result of left wing ideologues loading up curricula with unproductive left shibboleths as administrative tasks that demonstrate fealty to the cause, like diversity days etc..
Task setting leaves students who don’t have a strong parental involvement or significant paid tutoring at a huge disadvantage, ironically entrenching the gap for the very demographics the left pretends to represent. After all, their children all go to private schools, almost exclusively.
On second thoughts, perhaps not.
After the last 3 years, I have come to think that the more chaotic the parliament is, the better …. much prefer them struggling to get anything done than have both parties agree to ruin my energy system, tax me more, lock me down, keep me safe etc etc etc….
“…I have come to think that the more chaotic the parliament is, the better…”
Indeed – divide and conquer! They keep trying it on us, so turn about is fair play, right?
Palaszczuk admits to ‘medical episode’
On the Australian’s internet page.
Concerned Qlder here. What could this be?
More importantly, is the Chook able to fend off Steven “idiot” Miles?
Rob Stokes, what a joke. So we have the NSW Liberals rehashing dopes, Andrew Constance and Rob Stokes.
Stokes endorsed for federal tilt in Mackellar
NSW Liberal Party president Jason Falinski said NSW Premier Chris Minns’ government was “flailing and failing” and offered support for former NSW cabinet minister Rob Stokes to take on the seat of Mackellar at the 2025 election.
Mr Falinski, who lost the federal seat in the 2022 election, said it wasn’t just the Liberal Party who had been in open criticism of “the left” and suggested the seat of Mackellar would be hotly contested in two-years time.
“What we are seeing in New South Wales is a flailing and failing Minns’ government that reminds us of the late stages of the Carr government,” Mr Falinski told Sky News.
“This is driving support for Labor in New South Wales through the floor and you are seeing a lot of people coming forward to take on the left whether they bed red, green or teal.”
He endorsed Mr Stokes as a “quality” candidate for the seat of Mackellar and to go head-to-head against independent MP Sophie Scamps.”
Yoorrook “truth telling” exposed for the farce and sham that it actually is.
Queen Anastasia news:
Shit hey? So a medical episode forced her to piss off to Italy. In addition to the spectre of a bushfire season from Hades. Yeah cool story.
Belgian didn’t have a government for months. I quite like that. Governments are a menace.
Andrew Giles said:
Huh?
Not to defend the indefensible, but these 8000 flights that were cancelled were only open for sale a “short” period after being cancelled so the only fliers affected would have only been those that bought during that 2 or 3 weeks period.
All bookings on the cancelled flights would have been moved or cancelled, but the majority would have purchased when the flight was still scheduled.
My guess is that the booking system is different to the “asset management’ system. The flights were cancelled in the asset system which did not then flow through to the sale/ booking platform.
Given the common complaint is that Qantas IT is run by work experience kiddies, this is no surprise.
Probably more incompetence than outright malice.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/poll-shock-48-percent-americans-under-30-support/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=2023-09-11
From the Gateway Pundit:
The 48 percent may have just worked out they wouldn’t be sending some other poor bugger – they would probably be sending themselves.
What exactly did he see on the ground by way of a response?
A great steaming pile of manure?
Truly Orwellian (the opposite of what he’s really saying)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/nike-permanently-closes-factory-store-democrat-run-portland/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=2023-09-10
Oh Noes!
Who will they get to drive them to another city to steal their stock?
I see that another predator dingo has been ‘humanely euthanised’ on Fraser Island. Note the cute picture illustrating the story.
These people either have NFI or are completely in thrall of the luvvies.
They then go on to berate tourists for not behaving appropriately.
Here’s the thing. I’m guessing ‘humanely euthanised’ did not send any sort of message to the rest of the pack.
And, that’s the only way to change their behaviour.
They need to be scared of humans. It’s not Disneyland, you idiots. They need to know that if they approach a human, they will (at a minimum) be peppered with shotgun pellets, if not have their heads blown off.
But alas, if I had to bet, humans will be restricted/banned from the island before realistic policies are implemented.
It is much more than that. The rot goes far beyond political issues. Post docs, adjunct positions, causalisation of academic staff, have becomes means to exploit individuals for institutional purposes. Encouraging people to go into science as a career is laudable but lowering the standards to make that possible has resulted in a net qualitative decrease in scientific endeavour. For example, all that crap about mindfulness therapy. They even take credit for it when Buddhists have been advocating it for centuries. Science has become far too institutionalised. A striking example of that is the way string theory, led by very brilliant people, completely distorted the research agenda for 30 years. In a forum discussion Weinstein goes after Greene full pelt for promoting a theory that the advocates promised would be the next big thing in physics and it has flopped. Ed Witten, the only physicist to win the Fields medal, was a chief proponent of it. Weinstein pointed out that if you weren’t doing string theory in your doctorate it was very difficult to get a position. Hossenfelder wrote a whole book about that issue.
That would be my initial thoughts too for what it’s worth. Although after the banking RC I wouldn’t take that to the … umm … bank.
Yes. This is the aboriginal industry’s idea of ‘Truth’.
Looks a lot like lies to me.
Anyone familiar with keeping chickens is well placed to speculate on likely Queensland political developments.
How did we get to the point where just because a person is (or claims to be) Aboriginal, everything they say is the ‘truth’?
It’s ridiculous on the face of it, and since Aborigines often argue vigorously among themselves about what the ‘truth’ is – witness those violent and long running inter-familial disputes – it is just the racism of low expectations again.
H B Bear
Sep 11, 2023 2:57 PM
Anyone familiar with keeping chickens is well placed to speculate on likely Queensland political developments.
As long as chickens keep laying eggs, I will be happy.
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King’s horse and all the King’s men…………….had eggs for breakfast.
I was working on the PL1 bolt ons. They had a 2 year maintenance backlog on the PL1 when I arrived, when I left I was fixing bugs as they came in.
I sat in on many structured walkthroughs of changes to Assembly code. Because I could speak “code” , but was not experienced with Assembly, we found more problems as they had to explain their code to their “mother in law” ie explain every line.
Cassie of Sydney
Sep 11, 2023 2:26 PM
Belgian didn’t have a government for months. I quite like that. Governments are a menace.
Italy with its many many Guv’ments in disarray still used to keep going when the next Guv’ment was being formed and then failed. LOL.
Indolent
Sep 11, 2023 11:05 AM
Why the Ruling Elite Is Anti-American | Constitution 101 Highlight
A very very good deconstruction of the Managerial Class and the perils it holds for us.
Doing anything to an existing bridge connected to an operating freeway is necessarily going to be fiddly and time consuming
NSW Rail is/has been putting an extra 1km heavy goods line in between Cabramatta & Warwick Farm which includes a bridge and is now into it’s 3rd year .. Bridge & line have been operational for past 3 months but they dug up so much of the street surrounds, as well it’ll be another year before it’s all open again …..
As Dover or Tom I think said earlier. Jimmy and Jamie’s Food Fight Club TV cooking programme is on soon.
Ch 33 – SBS Food at 3.30 pm.
They are good.
Italy is mired in heavy and sometimes contradictory regulation.
While the cat’s away …
Or, if you prefer, nature abhors a vacuum.
There are no easy solutions.
In dollars, not units. Apple is expensive.
Probably more incompetence than outright malice.
Billion dollar businesses that rip-off the customer are NOT entitled to “benefit of the doubt” .. they have enuf assets to ensure the system(s) function properly ..
If incompetence is the answer then a clean sweep of management is what is needed .. lotza folk on BIG money not doing their jerbs .
Upper echelon teabreaks in the Chairman’s Lounge need to be curtailed forthwith ……!
Good luck with that one, Albo.
Lot of Gen X and following waiting for the Grim Reaper to knock on a few Boomer doors. Might not be a vote winner.
They’re already on the bot from their parents – I have witnessed some of this stuff first hand. Why wait for mum and dad to die before you can lean on them?
On the other hand, I suspect these highly “altruistic” and caring generations don’t really like to share. Especially with the government.
Anything involving that sanctiminous git Jamie Oliver gets a thumb up the fundament from me. He was the male Michelle Obama, claiming that school food was causing chidren to die younger than their parents.
Listening to Canned Heat at Woodstock, On The Road Again. Magic.
It was amusing to read the media reports about the ultra chic Burning Man being turned into a muddy morass because it rained. Shades of Woodstock.
And, as it normal for festivals catering to those who care deeply about The Environment, huge mountains of trash were left behind for others to clean up.
“PS: CL, if you’re lurking, Mary Berry has a much smaller bottom than your pinup girl Nigella Lawson, but she knows twice as much about food.”
Aah Tom, you disappoint me. Do you truly believe you would rather look at Mary Berry’s bottom instead of Nigella’s? Also, while Mary is a good cook, she is a slave to margarine. Nigella is glorious BUTTER, all the way. 😀
Cassie, I used to admire Delia until she became a full on, loud and proud Remainer.
That said, I still make a Standing Rib Roast her way, and her Marmalade recipes are spot on.
Qantas.
Abject disregard for customers? … tick.
Playing fast and loose with refunds, hoping to wait customers out? … tick.
Stifling competition through troughing at the Chairman’s Lounge? … tick.
Fraud? … Good luck with that.
As for Lizzie’s experience, we are flying with another airline which uses Qantas Business lounge at Tullamarine.
Totally f-ckung atrocious.
The sort of cheap catering and hospitality you might expect at a cash-strapped government school speech night.
Joh, the “environmentalists” practise what Dickens called “telescopic philanthropy”.
The problem is always somewhere else, and requires subscriptions and much posturing.
Lucky Bundaberg! Soon, it could become Australia’s San Francisco or LA!
The permanent residents of Bundaberg must be elated that their town has become a magnet for homeless people.
A Taco Bell Marketing “expert”, has come up with a slogan to counter the “If you don’t Know, Vote No”, campaign which is really hitting home.
The “experts’”, slogan is, “if you Don’t Care, Vote Yeah”.
A definite winner. snork.
In this case have the chicken.
We made the mistake of tolerating a lot of stuff and nonsense put forward by the activists. We were too kind when we should have said, “Wait a minute, that’s just plain wrong.” Now, as the recent Heritage Act fiasco has revealed, the activists are deluded into thinking that we will never say, “We’re sick of your nonsense.” The No vote needs to be followed up with a few basic lessons for the activists in truth telling.
On that note, I’m off to the library.
Sancho Panzer:
Check your email.
Bignose needs some support.
I get that Johanna.
I treat Oliver’s show the same way I treat Nigella Lawson, who’s a looney left fruitcake: the minute it’s no longer about food, I’m off!
Footnote: In his Food Fight Club show, Jamie Oliver and his handyman mate Jimmy get around in a hot Ford Capri and, to show how cool they are, they spin the wheels every time they take off. It’s so juvenile undergraduate, evidently designed to appeal to 14-year-old boys, who somehow are in the demographic they’re aiming at.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Sep 11, 2023 3:28 PM
https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/tax/political-dynamite-prime-minister-urged-to-consider-inheritance-taxes/news-story/f116fa9b4d5d99124429fbfb0885ca21
Good luck with that one, Albo.
The CGT is already a pseudo Death Tax.
John Ruddick on The Corey Hotline recently pointed out that the ALP has had 1/25 referendums successfully passed; even Corey pointed out that Rudd has that stupid Local Government recognition referendum sunk because his government fell and it basically got pocket vetoed.
John Ruddick on the Corey Hotline.
Footnote: In his Food Fight Club show, Jamie Oliver and his handyman mate Jimmy get around in a hot Ford Capri and, to show how cool they are, they spin the wheels every time they take off. It’s so juvenile undergraduate, evidently designed to appeal to 14-year-old boys, who somehow are in the demographic they’re aiming at.
I used to have a Ford Capri. Great motors. Brmmm, brmmm……………………
Actually slow down there turbo.
A mint condition one in Australia fully optioned is very rare and worth a pretty penny, despite the generally bad reputation they have.
It’s not one of those models is it?
Johanna:
They’ve known for eight months the particular dingo is a risk to humans? And just ‘observed’? They would have needed to have a REALLY good excuse for the Magistrate if it had attacked a kid or a toddler – they have form for that, you know.
Oh come on, you lot.
You’d have to be miserable not to enjoy the vibe uplift from Jamie in the kitchen with Mary.
Though she looked rather thoughtful as he fiddled with the mushrooms for the Beef Wellington. Perhaps she wanted to slip a death cap into his slice.
Quite interesting that Matt Davies thinks UKR causalities are higher than the Russian milblogger, ayden. Davies certainly got the problems of this counteroffensive dead on early on, back in June 15, both in respect of the objectives of the operation and of the feints. But set that aside, what if the ledger really is somewhere roundabout 400K and the loss ratio is 8:1, this makes the ‘bleeding Russia white rationale’ a failure as well, especially when you consider that the result of the SMO so far is at least a doubling of its army as well as becoming more effective.
Johanna:
There’s a nasty little thought just popped into my head that banning humans – except for the odd few who have a cultural identity card – that says they are special and have a special kinship with the dingos that means special people are not in danger.
‘Shot of the Day’ on Michael Smith news.
Hilarious.
The permanent residents of Bundaberg must be elated that their town has become a magnet for homeless people.
They have to go somewhere. Lots here in Sydney. I just tell them to go to Tennis Elbow’s Electorate in the Inner West of Sydney. Go and park outside one of his many houses and look poor. Which they are BTW.
Aah Tom, you disappoint me. Do you truly believe you would rather look at Mary Berry’s bottom instead of Nigella’s? Also, while Mary is a good cook, she is a slave to margarine. Nigella is glorious BUTTER, all the way. ?
Cassie, I used to admire Delia until she became a full on, loud and proud Remainer.
That said, I still make a Standing Rib Roast her way, and her Marmalade recipes are spot on.”
Agree about Delia’s politics but her book “How to Cook” is a classic. I love watching her old programmes.
As for Jamie, I like his cooking and I have his recipe books and I love cooking his recipes. Yes, his school food zealotry was over the top but when you consider a lot of UK food, it’s abysmal.
As for Nigella, I’ll forgive her everything, even her leftist leanings. However, she comes from good stock, her late father was Maggie’s chancellor, her brother, Dominic Lawson, is a rock solid conservative (once edited the Speccie), and her brother’s wife is Rosa Monkton, sister to Christopher Monkton. Whilst all toffs, they aren’t luvvies.
As an aside, Dominic and Rosa’s daughter, Domenica Lawson, was born with down syndrome, and her godmother was Princess Diana. What’s interesting, in the recent fall out from the Nigel Farage bank cancelling and how it emerged that thousands of Britons have also had their bank accounts closed or were deemed ineligible for a bank account, this from Dominic Lawson….
And not just them, but their immediate family — which, typically, include the PEP’s ‘parents, siblings, spouse, children, in-laws, grandparents and grandchildren’.
Which is why my daughter Domenica, now 28, got caught up in this morass.
In 2016 we decided to open a bank account for her. She has Down’s Syndrome; this was not something she could do herself. But when my wife Rosa went to the Barclays in our nearest town (where Rosa had had an account for many years), she was told it would not be possible for Domenica to have an account. No reason was given.
Fortunately Rosa knew the manager there — the position now no longer exists, and the branch itself is about to close — and he said that he would look into the matter.
He came back to Rosa: ‘I’m really sorry, but it’s out of our hands. It’s because of money-laundering risks.
‘I know this sounds ridiculous, but it’s because of Domenica’s grandfather. He is a politically exposed person.’ This was a reference to Nigel Lawson, my late father, the former chancellor, who was by then a member of the House of Lords.
And to be fair to Jamie, I’ve never heard him discussing politics (happy to be corrected). Sure he spoke up about the dismal state of UK government school food, but unlike Michelle Obama, his food ideas were good. He wants to see more children eat their veg…and that’s a good thing. Veggies can be scrumptious.
It remains one of my life’s ambitions to do a medium rare beef Wellington in pastry without stuffing it up. Marvellous tucker. Mmmm.
“It remains one of my life’s ambitions to do a medium rare beef Wellington in pastry without stuffing it up. Marvellous tucker. Mmmm.”
I’ve done it!
I had to sit through a talk given by a 3rd party today at work. I knew I was in trouble when…
Introduced as receiving an award from UN,
Opened with acknowledgement to country,
Saw all global migration driven by climate change,
Used words like data researched evidence, Story telling is truth,
Lived experience, Truth is power, inclusion is choice…
The presenter was polished and smooth. If you had not been engaged with these issues via Cat, Sky, others then it all made complete sense and why would you not support it. I felt i was watching a living breathing swamp dweller whose organisation is hoovering up corporate ESG and taxpayers dollars.
We are gonna need a bigger boat or bucket and mop.
I assume all politicians and their families have this same problem when opening bank accounts? /sarc
The last time Australia had inheritance taxes/death duties, a farm which had been”in the family” for a hundred years had to be sold, following the deaths of the patriarch, and his son, within eighteen months, and a grieving widow was faced with getting a bank loan to pay for her husband’s funeral – all the bank accounts were in his name, and the estate was frozen, to be valued, from the time of his death…
I am a-political when it comes to good cooking. Pretty much all authors are represented on the bookshelf except Gordon Ramsay.
There’s always the risk that you will be abused if you make a mistake…like a Harry Potter “howler”. I can do without the stress.
I’m with Uncle Roger on Jamie Oliver.
Is that what they call a bum/boob lift these days?
Here are some of my favourite cooks and cookbook authors…
Delia Smith
Keith Floyd
Rick Stein
Claudia Roden
David Herbert (who suffers from TDS but I ignore it)
Nigella Lawson
Jamie Oliver
Evelyn Rose
Greta Anna
Gabriel Gate
My mother (who’s written recipes down for me)
My aunt, who taught my mother and I how to make Hungarian strudel and Dobos torte
A friend’s mother, who gave me her challah recipe which is full proof
Another friend’s mother, who passed away two years ago, her chiffon cake (made with 10 eggs) is the best chiffon cake recipe ever
My brother in law’s mother, who’s now suffering from dementia. She taught me how to make Piroshki (she’s White Russian).
There are others.
H B Bear
Sep 11, 2023 4:36 PM
I’m with Uncle Roger on Jamie Oliver.
The only problem with Jamie is that he is a ‘Gooner’.
“I assume all politicians and their families have this same problem when opening bank accounts? /sarc”
Odd that, I’m not aware of any UK Labour notables having their bank accounts closed.
On this issue Johanna I think banning humans from Fraser Island is an example of “Wait a minute, that’s just plain wrong.”
What’s a “gooner”, JR?
Sounds like a blackfella at an afternoon “Coolabah corroboree” on the nature strip outside the main pub in Katherine NT.
A good list Cassie but do any of them know the right ratio of butter to Vegemite or the exact moment to apply both so the toast doesn’t go soggy?
I think not!
Spreading himself too thin? He is just hungry for power and money, customers were as unimportant to him as to Joyce.
THIS is a “Gooner”.
What a deadset onion soup-drinking legend.
Robert Sewell
Sep 11, 2023 4:13 PM
There’s a nasty little thought just popped into my head that banning humans – except for the odd few who have a cultural identity card – that says they are special and have a special kinship with the dingos that means special people are not in danger.
Never say never but it would be a very brave move by any government to ban humans (except special ones) from Fraser Island. Thousands of ‘ordinary’ punters go there every weekend for camping/fishing/other recreation and to tell them they can’t ‘cos of dingos would provoke intense offense. To add salt into that wound, to then say only special people could go and the screams of outrage would be heard on Mars.
Cassie of Sydney
Sep 11, 2023 4:41 PM
You might like to add Antonio Carluccio
He’s passed on now but wonderful recipes. He had a restaurant in London which we visited in the 90’s. Magnificent food, simple but delicious. His sausages were epic! He did a great TV series travelling throughout Italy showcasing home cooking recipes with each “mamma” in their home kitchens in the various regions.
Bit late if the diff’s blown.
More on Qantas, Joyce would have been responsible for operational matters and customers while Goyder also had to consider shareholders so it looks like neither has done their job well.
For my many fans.
I was starting to get worried.
Gez, also just the right amount of butter and vegemite to make Vitaweet worms without side slippage.
It’s an art form perfected by hundreds of school children. I’d like to see Heston try it.
From the Hun
Speaking of Heston, I use his stock making technique. It uses powdered milk on the protein prior to roasting. Have to be careful though as it isn’t kosher. Frozen stock marked accordingly.
I have 2 family members ex-Q employees. Between 10 and over 30 years service – mid management ground staff and on the flight deck. Qantas under Joyce were essentially at war with their employees. After covid, it was common knowledge within Q that flights were being posted and seats sold, when they didn’t even know if they had crews or ground staff to make the flights happen. Joyce and the Exec team were roundly loathed , deeply. I think that animosity manifested itself in customer service. Unless someone else is paying, I tend to avoid them like the plague.But with Joyce out, will watch for any improvements.
Duck Fat Roasted Brussels Sprouts
“It remains one of my life’s ambitions to do a medium rare beef Wellington in pastry without stuffing it up. Marvellous tucker. Mmmm.”
Aah Tom, you keep disappointing me. sigh… Beef Wellington should be RARE! Bloody, bleeding like a stuck pig, RARE!
Feel better now I have that off my chest.
Also, what the hell is with the querty definitions of cooked steak these days? Medium rare, medium well etc, blah, blah. When I was working my way through the Restaurant scene, steak was cooked 3 ways only. Rare, medium and boot. Occasionally we would be asked for BLUE. Blue is great. Volcanic heat for the sear and only for sixty seconds a side. mmmmmmmmmm
Medium rare was brought into use in the late nineties for the pussies who were ashamed to be eating a boot when their friends had red juice pooling on the plate.
As for cookbooks, all I will say is “lots”. A few weeks back, in a second hand bookshop, I was so chuffed to find a copy of “Two Fat Ladies”. Sheer Joy.
Makka, Antonio Carluccio was a particular food hero of mine. Shed a tear when he passed.
Calli,
will you let us know how the Coulibiac is received when you make it for your family? I haven’t made it for years, but it was always a splendid casual dinner party dish that looked and ate as if you were serving Royalty. Easy to make was a bonus!
Beef Wellington à la Leongatha – it’s simply to die for.
Tom,
I don’t really find you disappointing. 😀
You just need educating, steak and bottom wise. 😀 😀
Please don’t stop posting toons!
Thanks for reminding me. It will probably be New Year before I get the opportunity.
More on Qantas
From reports I’ve heard , a disturbing number of Q’s staff were useless, parasitical union lackeys and senior management had to play hard in order to get decent results. Easy to recall that the most senior union parasite , Tony Sheldon, once said he wanted to see Q destroyed through union menace. We shouldn’t be surprised if senior management had a harsh view towards some of the staff. Mr. Sheldon is now and exalted Liars Party senator. Unsuccessfully attempt to destroy an iconic Australian company and after your union days, you’re promoted to full senator by the Liars Party.
Still reckon the UN job interview theory of the Italian Chooknection is more likely than the cosmetic theory.
So, Pogria, you like your beef still mooing. I like it pink.
We’ll agree to disagree.
PS: I spent around three years in my twenties as a vegetarian — part of my growing up.
Thank God I outlived that phase!
I didn’t like baby lambs born out of season being knocked on the head.
PPS: I’m a farmer’s son.
Cassie,
I had read about Nigella’s family and the problems Dominic and Rosa were having with the Banks. Reprehensible.
I have cooked many of her recipes. They truly are simple to make and delicious.
Her Christmas Goose with Mashed Potato Stuffing was a standout one year.
And her Brownie recipe is the best one I have tried. It is the only one I make now. I did fiddle with it a little to make it my own. That is what happens with pretty much every recipe I try.
Mount Warning.
I’ve been meaning to get something like a weekly post of a recipe for a Friday going. Would involve regular or non-regular posters writing about a loved recipe each week. Their own recipe, their mum’s, a favorite cook’s, and the like. I follow FischerKing on Twitter and he has fabulous recipes. The last of his I made was a burger with carmelised onions, Camembert cheese, roasted apples and mayo which was delicious.
Would people like that?
I understood clearly what you said. You accused Apple of “exploiting” its customers with what you opine is an inferior product. I’m a little humbler though, as I believe we should let the market decide, and while on the subject of markets giving their verdict, let’s take a look, prompted by Leon’s earlier comment about market share both here and the US (even though we were obviously talking about the global market). In my earlier response, I posted an out-of-date stat suggesting Apple had a 10% share of the market while enjoying 90% of the profits. That was a recollection from several years ago. No matter, as the most recent figures suggest, the firm now enjoys almost 30% of the global phone market. I hope that puts paid to the idea of your claim that Apple is exploiting its customers with an inferior product.
And how exactly are you coming up with these claims during a period of increasing market share, or should we ignore the market’s response and just go with your opinion?
Really, because the subject of your first Twitter paste was about smartphones and our first discussion cantered on the phone market.
I’m not sure one person’s opinion is enough. I’m happy to counter that and suggest their products are superior.
I think you ought to reconsider using the word “exploiting” in this instance when barriers to entry are very low.
and
FischerKing did one of these back in April. I’m going to try making one in a few weeks. Apparently, the water the salmon releases is treacherous for the pastry.
I saw another stat suggesting Apple has between 15 and 20% of the global phone market. Ignore the 30% and go with the lower figure I excerpted.
Antonio did a great show – His most memorable regional fare – Sardinian Casu Marzu
I’ll respond further later tonight, but, briefly, if you’re going to claim market share is determinative, 20% market share for iOS and the majority of phones run Android, pretty much indicates that the market thinks Apple/iOS isn’t worth the price to performance.
Looking forward to the blood pudding kipper trifle recipe.
speedbox ventured:
duncanm cautioned:
You may glimpse the future of Fraser Island in the Stradbroke Island of today. The local indigenous obtained control, closed half the camp sites, and doubled the fees on the remainder.
there’s more to food that is relevant here than there seems
it connects generations and it transcends cultures
it leap-frogs epochs … and yet we barely think twice when sup on warmed olives, charcuterie and a glass of pinot
or have a beer after work
for thousands of years we have husbanded and farmed … and transformed
and eating is the penultimate human gesture at the end of a very long supply chain
if your eye doesnt twinkle at the thought of nanna’s sausage rolls or mum’s marinara
you gotta ask yourself, “can you even cook bro?”
No idea what that is, but I trust Mediterranean cooking tradition — especially outside the non-Mafia Italian south!
I loved the guy. Never missed him on the tellie.
It’s the most expensive on the market. You need to explain the “exploiting its customers” comment as the rest of the missive is unimportant. How does Apple exploit its customers when it doesn’t have a commanding share of sales?
dover0beach
Sep 11, 2023 5:31 PM
Friedman Food Friday
or Freedom Food Friday, but I prefer the “fried” in Friedman being a food pun.
Tom, all good.
The best part about food, to me anyway, is if you cook it yourself. Cook it any bloody way you enjoy it most. As long as you cook it yourself. Even if you are only warming a can of beans, add some hot sauce and a few spices or seasonings to taste, and you have made it your own.
With your medium rare Wellington, invest in a good meat probe. As long as you have seared the meat well, the meat probe will tell you when it is done to your taste.
Hard to go wrong with a Wellington. The beauty of it also, it can be prepared in advance.
Dover’s Food Friday.
dover0beach
Sep 11, 2023 5:31 PM
I have a marvellous scrambled egg recipe…
Because they’re paying the premium for the brand and not, largely, the product.
Dover,
I will search out the recipe I have for Coulibiac. I can’t remember it having soggy pastry.
I also have made a, according to the recipe title, “Gourmet Seafood Pie”. It was excellent. Full of firm, white fish, prawns and scallops.
One of the few things I have still to cook, and have been wanting to for ages, is a whole octopus, slow cooked in a heavy pot, on its own. Apparently you add no liquid as it releases a large amount of its own. Soon, I hope.
Food is war.
Iron Chef – Season 1, Episode 1 (1993)
My favourite chef is Rokusaburo Michiba. He’s still with us aged 92.
Long may he cook.
“I did fiddle with it a little to make it my own. That is what happens with pretty much every recipe I try.”
Me too. When it comes to recipes you do inevitably tinker with them.
With my brownies, I add walnuts, I get my nuts from The Nut Shop in the Strand Arcade.
They’re fresh and really, really good.
Oh and another food hero….Charmain Solomon.
Is this argument about phones similar to claiming that Bosch or Miele exploit their dishwasher machine customers?
As a child I remember Mum making her own puff pastry, which she used for fish pie.
I have more blackfella blood in me than Professor Megan Davis.
She’s an identity bank robber who thinks we are as dumb as she is and won’t notice she’s as white as an English woman.
Would people like that?”
Yes please DB.
Another favourite food writer it the late Italian food writer, Marcella Hazan. Marcella was from Bologna and she married Victor Hazan, who came from an Italian Jewish family.
I have hundreds of cookbooks. I’m obsessed with shoes and cookbooks. I like to collect obscure books, particularly on Jewish food. I have some treasures, one of which is called the Cookbook of the Jews of Greece and the other is a cookbook on the Jews of Italy
The King of Hearts
He had four tarts
All on a Summer’s day
and four and twenty black birds
Or at least that’s what they say
seconded
we use her green bean sambal all the time … beans, garlic salt, shallots and olek
stack that on a schnitty with whole egg mayo and roast potatoes!
hmmm, or cumin honey apple cider coleslaw
wait, wait … the coleslaw and left over schnitty with cheese in a turkish bun dripping with russian dressing
Mind the mushrooms.
Test.
No idea, Rosie. My knowledge of whitegoods is poor. But I was looking at toaster this Father’s Day and I thought $200 or more for high end brand toasters was a bit steep.
We’ve got a Charmaine Solomon’s South East Asian cookbook from the ’80’s.
It has all manner of splatters on the favoured pages.
We regard it is as almost the equivalent of “Cookery, The Australian Way” for Asian staple dishes.
I live alone. I cook every night, from scratch. Sometimes I might buy a gourmet pie (I quite like the Simone Logue chicken pies). I’m having a Simone Logue chicken pie tonight because I have a friend coming over. I was taught to cook by my mother. My sister is a sensational cook, my brother also, and all their children cook.
It isn’t hard to cook, a simple stir fry, a grilled lamb cutlet, served with some nice peas and a spud baked in the oven. It doesn’t have to be fancy. I love my slow cooked brisket or a roast chook, but even they’re easy to prepare and cook.
I live in a nice, trendy apartment block here in Sydney’s inner-east, and yet I see and hear every night those food delivery people (usually Indians) buzzing other apartments, and I think to myself….why are they doing this? Surely it must cost a lot? I mean, I understand why some might do it occasionally, for convenience, people are tired, but every night or second night?
I’m glad I know how to cook, and I love cooking, but even more than that, I love eating and I love eating good, delicious food!
That’s probably too many. I have too many as well. I have put them on the banned list although it is not strictly enforced. One of the best is New York City Food which is as much a history book with recipes.
Tickety tick tick!
Another favourite of mine is Yotam Ottolenghi.
I had to be force fed a few of his dishes because I didn’t like the sound of them.
I am a bit of a salad dodger, but some of his salads are very tasty.
got an Asko steam oven here
damned thing has a mind of it’s own
if you don’t curse it properly when you open the door it will shut off or apply the kiddie lock just to shit you
dastardly thing
I imagine V-zug or Miele are of the same premium quality
just with different accents
should have bought a Fisher and Paykel
Interesting factoid.
The average number of pages looked at in a recipe book is under ten, and the average number of dishes cooked is 1-2.
Not sure how “they” know this, but not surprising.
We’ve probably got 80-100.
Dover
If you believe that Apple is being exploitive with the brand name then everything purchased by brand is exploitive. We may as well drop ourselves into Mao suits.
These were the arzeholes who turned off the ventilation fans, and sold the resultant footage of thirsty and heat stressed sheep.
Judith in the Oz on taxes vs spending.
What she doesn’t say is that the “break even point” where government spending is economically justified is where there is $140 benefit from spending each $100. This is because of the lost consumption and production possibilities as a consequence of the decision to raise $100 in taxes.
Once you see the economic costs of taxes, it should seriously focus the mind on whether all that spending is generating the benefits necessary to justify the taxes imposed.
Eg taxpayer assistance to families earing around $500, 000 pa to help with the cost of childcare.
Add your own targets.
Can’t beat a good quality roast chook.
You might spend over $20 for a home-schooled, free-range, corn fed, yada yada, but it keeps on giving, even if cooking for 1-2.
Next day, sangas with stuffing, lettuce and mayo.
Same with roast lamb.
Sandwiches with chutney next day, and maybe shepherd’s pie a couple of days later.
My oven still has a clock with those dials you push in to change. Was on the list to go to God but spared by my stroke. Definitely cheaper for me to buy ready made now. Usually ordering off the kids menu now.
Cassie, it may be hard to believe, but some of us have no idea about cooking. I wouldn’t include barbecuing nor frying egg and bacon, but anything else is impossible. I empathize with those people in the building because when wifey is away I exist on takeout. I also have a Greek restaurant close-by that will fix up a nice home cooked style meal.
Re abandoning da Voice vote.
I heard Nanny Neil Mitchell on about it this morning*.
Apparently it will cause “bitterness and division”.
You’re a bit late to the Bitterness and Division Party, Neil.
Suddenly, when it looks like the punters are about to serve up a Brexit Style wrong answer, it’s all off.
They wanted this vote.
Well, f-cking bring it on.
.
* Unable to escape him in the back-blocks of Japan.
good old St George ?
I struggle to understand how that bloody push-button timer managed to dominate white-goods the market
diabolical
if you can’t cook … then what use are you?
Bear, if you are looking for an oven which might be easy to work around, Neff make ovens with “slide and hide” door.
Even if you don’t have a disability it is way easier and safer to get larger items in and out.
We’ve got two.
One steam, one pyroletic.
You can’t have pyro cleaning with the steam oven.
The inbuilt meat thermometer is a beauty.
McCrann in the Oz about Joyce and Qantas>
JC should like this column.
Freeze the carcass and when you’ve got a few make your own stock.
Oops, bad me, cut that quote off a bit short.
Fits though.
Re blood sausage a few dozen threads back… Morcilla Colombiana for anyone a bit squeamish. The trick is Colombians put rice in the sausage. Rodiguez gets an uptick from a Colombian friend.
Maxi,
As the global chair, and only member of the ‘Bring Back Knobs’ revolutionay action liberation group, I invite you to fulfill an unpaid consultancy role in this growing movement.
Dover will provide contact details and passwords.
Yet another fashionable male homosexual with an iron grip on Australian government media cooking shows.
It’s almost as if, in order to get a gig, you have to be a pouve or a female fag hag.
PS: One of Maggie Beer’s cooking show colleagues on SBS Food is a pommy pouve (Simon someone whose surname I have forgotten), who has forgotten more about the food business than most chefs have ever learned.
Thanks Peter G, obviously Mac was reading what I was posting last evening and this morning against this putrid Q hysteria. 🙂
I actually thought the problem was bigger than what Mc describes with all the hysteria being demonstrated here by several hysterical drama queens.
And this was what all the drama was about? FMD. If this was my blog I’d punitively ban all those hysterical lady boys for a week after learning this.
Oh but I take it back, Joyce was a really hard taskmaster with the staff and deserves being treated as a fraud.
FMD.
dover0beach
Sep 11, 2023 6:00 PM
Well, it’s obvious to me.
Perhaps I’m not Soffisticated enuff to understand the Newance.
That settles it then.
Cassie,
I’m on my own again now and I still cook for myself. For days when I’m really not up to much because I’ve had a big day outside, one of my favourite quick meals is Cacio e Pepe. Simple as.
I have cookbooks from all creeds and countries. Italian being favourite, but I try everything from Japanese to Argentine Barbecue. I love all food.
I have several Jewish cookbooks, old and modern. I enjoy the inventiveness of Jewish cooking because of the Laws regarding food, I am always surprised at the combinations that work and are delicious.
I also make bulk soups and casseroles for the times when I am too tired to even boil water for pasta. Trusty old microwave. 😀
Think my cooking days are behind me now. I had a useful range of stuff that served me well before my stroke but lack of dexterity plus swallowing issues pushes it well into the too hard basket now. Can still eat a lot of stuff but need to be careful and have my thickened drink nearby if things go awry.
HBBear:
Why is your Gravatar a psychotic cow standing in a doorway?
Pogria
Please don’t take this the wrong way as it’s not meant to suggest anything.
That’s basically an all cheese sauce save for the pepe (pepper). It’s delicious, but the downside is that the sauce alone would be like 76,000 calories, and that doesn’t count the pasta. Do you exercise a lot?
A much lower price than risking his health, especially for someone who’s already earned more than enough to live in luxury the rest of his life.
Carbonara was always my go to. Or chorizo and scrambled egg. Gyudon another good quickie. With a wok on the stove a quick meal was never far away.
Animals Australia were the arzeholes with footage of dead lambs on the sheep ships. Any sheep farmer could have told them that you don’t supply ewes, let alone ewes in lamb or ewes with lambs at foot, to the live trade…
They starting to feel and acknowledge the wrath.
Jim Ferguson
@JimFergusonUK
#KlausSchwab is getting worried. His #WEF2030Agenda has been exposed by his own arrogance about having penetrated the cabinets with his WEF puppets like #Sunak in the #UK They now fear the masses rising in a #Revolution against the elitists and the #Globalist New World Order. He attacks #Brexit and criticises #Trump2024 They are becoming afraid.
I bought an iPhone because there was a particular piece of software that only runs on one.
in the end, we never adopted the software so I have a piece of crap phone with a good camera
don’t even get me started with how many ways it’s a piece of crap
I’ll give it to the missus cos she’s camera-ish
funny thing is that this is the second time around.
she still runs an iPhone 11 from my last foolhardy dalliance with Apple
Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater
Had a wife and could not keep her
So he put her in a pumpkin shell
And there he cooked her very well.