cohenite

Nov 5, 2023 2:02 PM
OK, Punctuated Equilibrium has its points, but really, those points take up a miniscule percentage of the geologic record. The overall tendency has been to show steady change for 99%+ of the record.

Not really. Consider Heinrich and Dansgaard-Oeschger events which feature cooling and warming by up to 15C in less than 50 years.

OK. I surrender.
🙂
(Mind you, I wasn’t aware of the Heinrich and Dansgaard-Oeschger events – so there’s a newie.)

calli
Nov 5, 2023 8:45 AM

Fools rush in…
Yes.
And even bigger fools refuse to admit their mistakes.

The picture I have seen was not as clear as the one in the WA, and from the side only, I should have been more alert when I couldn’t link.

Sorry I spoke and being gullible but we all make mistakes, in the end who has the time and resources to completely verify every news item.

I envy those here who can be 24/7 on the ball and be right!?
Usually after.

Reader comment (Palmer_in_NC) from a Powerline article:

We reward victims … Further, we get to imagine we are morally virtuous for doing it…with the added bonus of supplanting God with ourselves as saviors.

There’s a payoff to all involved (except the taxpayer, of course, but they’re irrelevant).

They have late hours strippers joint in Toowoomba? They’re doing alright. Why didn’t Bob ever mention this?

Should imagine that, by the time Bruce Lehrman has finished with the Australian legal system, he’d be looking forward to a life of chastity, crushed ice and chamber music.

I deeply hope Mr Lehrmann has an alternative view. Namely:

That by the time he’s finished collecting millions from the ACT government, Fat Lisa and her hubby as well as Pallashay’s DPP for malicious prosecution, he will (and should) live a life of overt porkery of high-end strippers in a waterfront mansion – a lifestyle that makes Tiger Woods’ glory days look timid and bookish.

Great Meme.

Bruce:
My understanding was that as the solar cycles cooled and allowed a damming effect of planetary ice in one hemisphere, fresh water collected behind ice dams which would last a millennia or so, the cumulative periods of warming would eventually release the gigatons of fresh water into the seas, and generally screw things around.
But I’m not a meteorologist so I can’t give a more exact rationale…

Interesting Speedbox- yes the EA and AU did a lot of damage to the Falcon’s reputation. Nasser also got Ford to buy Volvo cars and land rover. Complete debacle. I think they even tried to badge engineer a Mondeo as a Jag. FMD.

And don’t forget the KA!

No worries, Gabor. I’m not in the habit of checking up on what commenters say (as in…is it factual). Had I bothered to look at the photo, my reaction would have been b/s. Sheer laziness on my part. Can’t begin to say how glad I am that the story was false.

I still think the young lady has a way to go politically, but can cross her off my list of deadbeats now. Thank goodness.

There have been learnings. Many…many of them. 😀

Where are Ford Rangers made. They are the biggest seller at the moment?

Trickler. Crazy indeed. Their ability to maintain momentum and to initiate bursts of accelleration while running at full boost is extraordinary. Very clever driving.

When I was a tyke, there was a woman a couple of farms down who raced Gnat cars. She was a champion level driver. Farmer’s wife and Mum to our mates who was a rev head. I was in absolute awe of her, or perhaps it was the effects of the ether that she blended into her home made fuel recipe.

Different times.

My AU 2 wagon is still going strong.

OK. Thanks Milton. Yeah my ex-missus subaru outback’s engine fully shat itself a couple of years back, and I bought her a 2010 Ford Fiesta 1.6 lt manual at an unders price. Top little car. Thailand made also I believe. That model won Wheels small car of the year.

Go for a drive out in the country. There’s nothing wrong with the enviromunt. Apart from those feckless wind towers everywhere. These people are deranged.

Where Are All the Ugly Women

I don’t go to the things, but apparently there aren’t many pogs at music festivals.

Maybe they were just killed straight out.

Good luck trying to gauge and assess all the various European form and what not. I’m sticking to Aussie form, and I reckon old Vow and Declare is best value. In best form of his career. That includes when he won it four years back. Of course Gold Trip and Without a Fight aren’t to be ignored, but they are both lumping some weight, whereas Vow and Declare is only on 53kg.

Rangers are very tinny with internal fittings & my last experience with one off road was less than desirable.

Years ago earlier model Ranger we had on the Carmichael Tenement was banished to drill sites north of the Carmichael river after too many dry boggings.

For mine exploration vehicles Hiluxes & Patrols
are much more practicable. They however are very popular and probably well suited to the market they service, I’ll give them that.

They do good work, those Siamese. Cheffed with a few of them over the time. Good crew, same with Filipinos.

Why are our law enforcers so afraid of them?

Remember which religious groups were allowed to congregate and which weren’t, only a couple of years ago?

Senior, super senior police are on executive contracts. Those contracts are signed off by governments.

That’s why.

Why are our law enforcers so afraid of them?

why where they brought here? Surely not canbra trying the old marxist divide and rule trick. Remember too that canbra is the leading exponent of multiculturalism which means there is no Australian culture.

Why are our law enforcers so afraid of them?
Because they, the muz, have religious certainty, community strength and die a martyr. What do our cops have? a sh’t job. Have a look at them on the street, they are barely out of the academy. Probies.
It will be interesting to watch the liberal progressive Australian Jews in all of this. Perhaps it is a dose of reality for them. A law degree just doesn’t cut it.

Federal electorate with the lowest YES vote was Maranoa, which covers a large swathe of SW Queensland. These are the folk I want to live among. Might pull up stumps and roll the swag and get there.

Parts of it doesn’t look too far from Toowoomba, so weekends at the pubs and strippers occasionally would suit.

Here’s the thing, and it’s been happening for a long time, but there’s now a very unholy alliance between the left and Islamists, just like there was in Iran before the Shah fell, and this alliance is working beautifully.

yes but they maybe overplaying their hand and exposing themselves for what they really are

Colleague had a Territory partly because his wife worked for Ford so there was some discount. Seemed ok, he used to take us down the road for lunch on Fridays. Had the same 4L falcon engine but there was a diesel too I believe.

As I mentioned, I reckon the EA did their reputation a lot of damage and the AU nailed it. We had a new XF many years ago and about 5 years into ownership it just stopped one day on the Hume near Yerrinbool. NRMA came and found a fuel blockage at the carby- no fuel filter had been fitted! Cost saving apparently. Rather disappointing.

OK Zulu, cheers.

Far out Durack is a big bastard electorate.

Old mate of mine where I used to live has a 1970 Monaro HT or HG. Bought it 1976.

First car I drove. On L’s. Never got a lesson just did it.

That stopped after I jammed the passenger side up against our front fence post while misjudging the driveway entrance. Oops. Dad wasn’t happy for three whole weeks until he did the same thing to the driver’s side door…

After that we got a 5 L Dodge ute, vomit green coloured.

Only stack I’ve ever had. Didn’t get my licence for another 5 years. 😀

Ridiculous laws being selectively enforced.

That is their purpose.

Also, there was a case a few years back where an activist took some community church leader to the HRC for hate-speech based on what was said at whatever they called their weekly service.

yes catch the fire ministries I think

Take the Pedant Challenge…

Steve Waterson in the Oz has just posted this…

I managed to find 59 in my first read through.

A young friend at the paper recently observed of some politician’s ludicrous thought bubble, “If he thinks that, he’s got another thing coming”.

I politely pointed out that the expression is “another think coming”, only to discover that my intervention condemned me as an orthographic, semantic and syntactic dinosaur. So it’s time to put that right, shake off the shackles of orthodoxy and join the new linguistic free-for-all.*

It was alarming, when we poured over the big dictionary, to find that change had past me by, and that for all intensive purposes my version had been supplanted by the misheard and, to my delicate ears, illogical “thing”.

It never seizes to amaze me how often supposably intelligent people make this kind of flagrant mistake, but heedless to say (as someone who’s never been adverse to offering my opinion, sort after or not), appraising them of their errors goes down like a damp squid.

Irregardless, the discussion peaked my curiosity, and wet my appetite for more. I don’t mean to infer that I possess any superior knowledge, and the iconoclast in me instinctively welcomes a flaunting of the rules, but I’ve always flattered myself that I had a decent grasp of the tenants of English usage.

I fancied it was my strong suite, and could go on about it at nauseam, albeit to little affect.

While we may not object to change per say, do we really want to give free reign to this abuse of language? Must we grin and bare it as we watch our noble – and somewhat unique – tongue stray into unchartered territory, decay into just another pigeon? It literally begs the question: is this borne of ignorance, or disinterest?

But when I began to canvas the views of other colleagues, I learnt I’m not the font of wisdom I imagined. Where I once looked in the mirror and saw the splitting image of Shakespeare, or at least Enid Blyton, now I see a boar pedalling the penultimate in arrogance, trying to proscribe to his fellows how they should speak.

A bit of discrete self-depreciation is in order. For in the mist of all the madness in the world, we should be reticent to heave scorn on people over an issue of limited importance, no matter the passions it might illicit.

It’s a mute point, of course; we all make mistakes, and few dare say we are beyond approach, or that our grammar always passes mustard. How rude to hone in on someone’s faults and turn them into some kind of escape goat for your own deep-seeded prejudices.

So I resolved as a matter of principal to change tact, bunker down and try to diffuse the situation. The battle is lost, anyway; we Jurassic remnants squandered our guilt-edged chances to defend the old ways, watched them flounder on the rocks of neglect as later generations, swift as lightening, administered the coup de gras.

It’s been a hard road to hoe, but there’s no future in being a sore looser. It’s a doggie-dog world, after all, and only the foolhearty would overestimate the will of the populous. Better to give up the goat and admit defeat, rather than skunk off in high dungeon.

“Here, here,” younger readers will cry, “hosted on his own petard, the know-all finally gets his just desserts!” (I don’t normally use explanation marks, but here it seems appropriate.)

So without further adieu, let me overcome my post-dramatic stress, uncurl myself from the feeble position on my chaise lounge, cry with the hoards “Vail, standard English!”, and start to tow the line. If everyone else thinks it makes perfect scents, who am I to say it stinks?

*A point for each incidence of success, up to a possible 80. And remember, as Samuel Johnson reputedly said, “a man who would make a pun would pick a pocket”.

Old mate back in the 80s has a Chevy Impala? 1963 build. It had three small rear tail-lights on each side. That was a beast.

Cheers Mark, I gave up counting. It’s a serious sign of decline.

How far can we turn back the clock?

I’m so surprised U.K. comedian Andrew Lawrence has not been arrested yet, what with the content of his monologues! He’s not funny ha-ha, but funny effin’-oath, mate!
Two and a half minutes, Youtube.
(H/T Cassie, I think, who linked to another of his vids several days ago).

They started off in Moyston, half way between Ararat and Halls Gap. Then took off up north to chance it, then got murdered.

Seems like you may have it a bit base over apex as well. “for all intensive purposes” should be “for all intents and purposes”.

Whoosh.

Whooooosh.

It was deliberately written like that to illustrate a point. The entire thing was deliberately written the way it was – to illustrate a point.

Whooooosh*. No wonder you’re enthralled by a convicted crook who said he built his own self-aware computer in the 1980s.

You sell Amway in your spare time, don’t you?

* I just know I’m going to have to explain this. The ‘whoosh’ is the writer’s whole point flying past without you noticing it.

Yes another one of the living dead that controls the US.

After all, Melbourne City Council is to spend rate-payers money erecting a statue to two aboriginals executed for murdering two shepherds near Narre Warren just 35km from Melbourne, so I guess I know the answer.

so the marxist melb city council is implying the murder is two shepherds was somehow a good thing? Andy Crapp starting to make 4 leaf clover look good (almost).

I wonder if we’re going to get another 79 posts from Johnny when he picks up each deliberate error that Steve Waterson made.

but ASX300 companies can suck

they are contemptible- passed an ANZ branch with the usual anti colonial message on display. Insult your customers, insult your country.

Cassie,

I have nothing but the most fervent admiration for your courage in ripping down those posters.

You may not feel it but you are brave in the fullest sense of the word. If you ever find yourself in Perth (and another Cat or Kitteh doesn’t snaffle you), it would be an honour to host you.

Born (as he is) to run

He’s right about this but.

57 Channels And Nothin’ On (1992)

And it’s gone downhill since then.

Upcoming attraction, starring Emily Blunt as Emily Blunt, and Ryan Gosling returning as Ryan Gosling.
Hell yeah I’m going to see it. If Hollywood serves up nothing but this dress-yer-disbelief-in-the-suspenders eye candy, consider me plugged in.

Ryan Gosling returning as Ryan Gosling.

He died well in Bladerunner 2049.

We won’t mention the one with Margot Robbie.