Experience suggests that this will lead to a shortfall in numbers to operate the new acquisitions.

Fair point but there are technology advancements that require less personnel to achieve better outcomes. For instance our 4500 tonne, 133 metre DDG’s (Guided Missile Destroyers) had a crew of 333. The Air Warfare Destroyers which replaced them are 7700 tonnes, 147metres, far more versatile, better armed, far superior sensors and have a crew of 186 (plus 16 air crew).

DiL has discovered all the crap for her Phd has been surpassed, most upset. I asked her if all the previous studies were crap in that case. Stone cold silence. Too be fair to her the field she wanted to do had no browny points for the professorial staff. She does the practical work outside of the university with much success.

@Roger
Jan 7, 2024 7:19 PM

That’s great, Mark.

Just remember the local Christian church of your denomination is there and could benefit from another person in the pews occasionally.

Absolutely !!! I feel a hunger ? an affinity? I so want to reconnect… WE NEED EACH OTHER !!!

JC
Jan 7, 2024 5:29 PM
Crazy Karen
Give it a go.. don’t hold back. I’m game. Careful with the acid.
You disturbed dickhead.

Why would you use acid to get rid of a body? Surely an alkaline does a better job?
Buying 20kg of Caustic Soda is a lot less noticeable than an equivalent amount of dissolver acid.

Why bother with acid or alkali?

Why would you use acid to get rid of a body? Surely an alkaline does a better job?
Buying 20kg of Caustic Soda is a lot less noticeable than an equivalent amount of dissolver acid.

These body shop operators need to learn them some chemistry. If you want to dissolve 70 kg of human you ain’t going to do that with 20 kg of caustic soda. Moles and stoichiometry are your friend.

Phew, sea breeze is just starting to push in, here in the NE of the SW of WA… might not have been the highest temp of the year, but lack of air movement has made a pretty punishing afternoon, hence me sitting here in the office, all a-mutter on the pixels. Wife n kids are in Albany with her parents, both of which have skated through some pretty debilitating accidents and episodes without getting any closer to the door of assisted living.
Very tempted to crack a tinnie. Committed to slow-roasting some beef ribs which have been marinading, which will add another layer of sizzle to an already par-boiled house.. I’d go down the beach, but I’d have to tie up the doggo and leave her home… Sal the Champion Camp Dog has broken a toe, like rangey whippet crosses can tend to, yet I know as soon as the sun goes down she’s going to put on a grin and a wiggle and thrash her body like it’s a car she’s stolen, like rangey whippet crosses tend to. And I’ve got an horse to faff with.
Ok, midstrength it is. I’ll wash the dog, with premium horse shampoo, that’ll be fun, she can get the speed trials out of her system early and then snooze on the floorboards while I spin some psych-rock rekkids.

My mate is getting some work done to a heritage building. Dealing with hysterical heritage officers has just about done him in. Finally after 10 years he is removing an add on that wasn’t in the original drawings or the improvements done by the architect shortly after. There is a small side entrance that is rotten but he is not allowed to replace it until it falls down. It has site fencing around it to stop bits falling on people. In the 60’s it was cement plastered which trapped the salty moisture in the limestone. The hysterical officers can’t even read the blueprints. They just liked it the way it was coz they’d always known it that way. Pressure was brought to bear (not a polar bear, HBBEAR) through the son of the local media baron. Still not optimum but a start.

Why would you use acid to get rid of a body? Surely an alkaline does a better job?

Too noticeable, buying it all in one go. Acid is in fact preferred, as long as you are prepared to stir the body within the mixture periodically.

Step 1: Buy and install a pool.
2: Buy smaller quantities of hydro acid at various businesses and stockpile them over time.
3: Then, and only then immerse body in acid (not in the pool).
4: Stir vigorously with a stout stick every fortnight for 26 fortnights.
5: Job done. Use remnants of substance as weed killer for the following year.
6: In the unlikely event you are then spoken to by the authorities, say ‘of course I bought hydro. I needed it to sort the pool out’.

Unblurred photo of 29-year-old Hayden Skinner, the one that broke into the old folks home for some granny action.

Currently in Coffs Harbour.

Ad on the TV for Nambucca Heads RSL. Looks nice and on a river not far from the sea

Unfortunately they have gone with the tagline “from the river to the sea”

Have they tried not being shit?
Its a radical proposal, but generally being not shit gains votes.

‘The mood is heating up’: Germany fears strikes will play into hands of far right
Angry protests by farmers, hauliers and railway workers risk being exploited by populists such as Alternative für Deutschland

The symbolism that German farmers chose to express their discontent with the government in the first days of the new year was as unambiguous as it was ominous: by the side of rural roads across the country, there were sightings of makeshift gallows dangling traffic-light signs, a reference to the colours of the three governing parties.

The chilling sculptures are harbingers of unprecedented cross-sector protests and strikes hitting German roads and railways from Monday, and speak of a dramatic change of mood in a country long feted for its consensus-seeking approach to industrial relations, especially compared with its more traditionally strike-prone neighbour France.

I Do not belive any man made institution has the authority to get between Me and my Almighty .and my Salvation.

That’s biblical Mark, don’t worry about it.

I was very happy to hear this morning that Shia LaBeouf has become a Christian. He was a guy who wandered over the Earth for a long while, but God appears to have called him home. Interesting arc: I liked what he did in Constantine, which is a graphic novel movie with a Catholic flavour, but after that he went full lefty TDS. Then he had a role as a Catholic monk a couple years ago. Being steeped in the Bible seems to’ve helped him come out of the wilderness. Best wishes Mr LaBeouf.

Jesus made it simple as possible, yet it’s still a very hard thing for a lot of people to wrap their brains around.

Trust and Obey

Evening Cats from Roma.

Blew a rear axel seal north of Clermont on a s%$# section of the Gregory Developmental rd * but more later. Partial leak but enough to wet tyres and need top ups. Sunday & no-one is open so awesome. 4L of 80W-90 at Emerald bought and have been drip feeding the diff all day.

Tomorrow to find a mechanic…

Real villians, government.Gregory & Carnarvon Developmental roads dreadful. Worse than my last trip 3 years ago. Get black soil is a thorny issue for engineering but nothing has been done other than formalize the drop to 80km/h . Now the neglect has metastasized to the verges that have obvious rut marks from rain run off. Some lovely new tempory signs warning you of the drop off. Wonder how many front bumpers were ripped off/damaged by a car pulling off the road for this to occur?

Carnarvon Dev rd sth Rolleston to near Carnarvon Range still very rough.

Oky doc WTF is all our fuel excises going? Really. We spent untold millions on a doomed referendum for a vanity project. We are throwing bad money after good at Ukraine. I won’t even go into other waste like QANGO’s.

Anyway will have an extra day or two twiddling thumbs at Roma as a result. Upside, blown thru this place heaps but never looked around, will be doing that in our down time. Remenants of 2 recent bushfires Carters Towers and near the Carnarvon Range seen in January too in Queensland! Further south you get more water seen however.

* I know the area and it’s s&%$ rating so was below 80km/h and driving to conditions but was taken back how bad it is now.

Digger
Jan 7, 2024 7:48 PM
Experience suggests that this will lead to a shortfall in numbers to operate the new acquisitions.

Fair point but there are technology advancements that require less personnel to achieve better outcomes. For instance our 4500 tonne, 133 metre DDG’s (Guided Missile Destroyers) had a crew of 333. The Air Warfare Destroyers which replaced them are 7700 tonnes, 147metres, far more versatile, better armed, far superior sensors and have a crew of 186 (plus 16 air crew).

Given the known problems with recruitment and retention, we need to move to crewless ships and submersibles as soon as we can. Unfortunately, I suspect that not much of the new acquisition funds will be directed that way. I suspect that the RN is also planning to follow that course.

On that subject, the RN is about to pay off two Type 23 frigates, reducing the escort force (destroyers and frigates) to 15 vessels, six destroyers and nine frigates. Both LPDs are also being paid off. The RN (including the RM) is now down to about 30,000 uniformed personnel. Good luck to the RAN if they intend to try to recruit from there.

Wasn’t that mercury accumulation and nervous system poisoning?

Winston – yes, but mercury and zinc have similar chemistry. The zinc in the Derwent oysters came from the Risdon zinc refinery. At Minamata the company was using mercuric sulfate as a catalyst for manufacturing acetaldehyde. Wastewater contained mercury – which was accumulated in shellfish that the locals ate.

These days the legislation is tight. I did a job for the Pirie lead smelter once to upgrade their effluent treatment plant. The copper level we had to meet for their wastewater was lower than the naturally occurring level in sea water. So by discharging our wastewater we were making the natural ocean cleaner.

@ P
Jan 7, 2024 8:37 PM

I can understand .. but that doesnt even remotely describe my life … not to put too fine a point… that is so Gay … Jesus is here for all of us …

I have nearly died a few times and eventually I will do it once to frequently and forever … for good … Jesus was always there even when I was an Atheist and perhaps I am still one ..

But What Else have We ?

https://youtu.be/lAa7RV9mmRU

Digger:

Fair point but there are technology advancements that require less personnel to achieve better outcomes. For instance our 4500 tonne, 133 metre DDG’s (Guided Missile Destroyers) had a crew of 333. The Air Warfare Destroyers which replaced them are 7700 tonnes, 147metres, far more versatile, better armed, far superior sensors and have a crew of 186 (plus 16 air crew).

That’s a fair comparison, but does it leave enough crew for damage control? I would assume it does, but has the question come up?

I should say that zinc is nearly harmless, since it is essential for the “zinc finger” enzyme which reads DNA. But that’s then the problem with mercury and lead – they have similar chemistry and can interfere in the zinc biochemistry. Being bivalent they can also interfere with calcium chemistry, which is important to nerve function – which is why lead and mercury also affect the nervous system.

Minamata disease may’ve been more about dimethylmercury though – a very very nasty chemical.

@Knuckle Dragger
Jan 7, 2024 8:40 PM

No that wasnt my point… what I am suggesting is you might like to look to more Life affirming themes…

LOL. Very funny how these claims are made a week after RUS launched the largest drone/ missile attack of the war over several nights

Russia is now looking to evacuate Belgorod.

Russia Offers to Evacuate Citizens From Belgorod Amid Ukrainian Attacks (6 Jan)

That’s the problem with indiscriminate strikes against civilian targets – the enemy also gets to return serve.

The Ukrainians are very good in the drone tech space. Not so good in the cruise missile department, but drones are cheap.

Grey Ranga:

My mate is getting some work done to a heritage building.

I’d comment about stupid, over the top bureaucracy and the damage they’re doing to the country, but I’ll probably get accused of allowing people to drive on both the left and right side of the highways or some such stupidity.

@ Knuckle Dragger
Jan 7, 2024 8:40 PM

there isnt a “pipe” nor has there ever been … I dont know why you should fly this kite?

Perhaps you think it might amuse your adherents ( if there are any) to make me wilt under you pathetic attempt at badinage.

Fact .. I was in Jail …

Fact … I know about how people try to dispose of the evidence of their crimes.

None of this stuff is funny or worthy of polite conversation… it is disgusting …

and that you try to make light of such stuff belittles you Sir …

M

Bill Ackman is proof yet again that you can have money, but you can’t buy class.

Um, Monty, Ackman is a lefty billionaire who has been supporting lefties like Harvard and Planned Parenthood.

He’s one of yours son, but he’s also Jewish – which leads to a bit of an intersectional crisis given the Left has suddenly gotten their antisemitic jackboots on so enthusiastically lately.

Fact … I know about how people try to dispose of the evidence of their crimes

Sure.

None of this stuff is funny or worthy of polite conversation

That’s right. Because it’s fake. An act.

A ruse. A subterfuge. Actually, it is funny.

@@ Knuckle Dragger
Jan 7, 2024 8:40 PM

Wanna know what Sparky ? I got the bloke with the garage problem properly held to account …

Wanna know something else … most blokes in jail are better Citizens than I reckon you are…

M

‘From the river to the sea’ has stirred the imaginations of the Sydney Uni

Yeah, not happy with my old uni. Even the Chemistry Department has completely converted to the climate religion – going on the glossies they send me. Not ever going to donate to them, the Uni alumni begging letters I receive get binned instantly.

My mate is getting some work done to a heritage building.
“Heritage” listing private property reeks of serfdom. The hoops and strictures which England puts on its various graded houses and gardens should never have outlived King John.
There’s also strictures put on Italian buildings in various primo tourist areas which virtually lead to a depopulation of rural areas and an ingress of absentee DINKS and weekenders. I worked on a few dodgy buildings being made into dwellings- one was a grand old pile which had been converted to a piggery, and was being converted back, and one was a stinking 300-y-o dovecote- because it was impossible to add to the rooflines of anything standing, let alone build anything new.

Ah yes Bruce, the Washington Examiner.

Here you go Monty, the quote is delicious:

Uh, no. Ackman is a noted liberal, not a conservative. He is a massive donor to abortion provider Planned Parenthood, to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic National Committee, and to Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer, Richard Blumenthal, and Bob Menendez, among others. For the Associated Press to misstate a basic, easily checkable fact about Ackman’s political allegiances, in favor of the apparent assumption that “billionaire” and “conservative” are synonymous, is journalistic sloppiness of epic proportions.

Donating to Bob Menendez, say it ain’t so! Monty, you can go verify all of that as you desire. The Planned Parenthood bit came up immediately when I looked.

It’s funny that the Left is now anathemising all their Jewish hitherto allies. Red pill scripts (kosher of course) are in short supply in the Big Apple.

The conflict in eastern Europe has gone beyond appalling.

Yeah, Mark, it is. Ego so often drives such things. I’ve read about analogous circumstances in history, from Pompey to Mussolini to Ethiopia/Eritrea and Iran/Iraq. Only utter exhaustion seems to create the right circumstance for a peace deal.

Upthread, some lamenting about the growth of Islam and speculation that it’s because parents no longer educate children about Christianity.

Too often, we are given an undemanding faith. Not understood is that we can’t approach the Father by ourselves. He hears us only insofar as we are joined to His Son. In particular we do as all other religions do, we obey a human instinct, we offer a sacrifice; we join ourselves to His sacrifice and unite ourselves to Him by eating His body and drinking His blood offered for us. In doing this we become most fully ourselves.

This sort of thing ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTvwnQ4dI1Y

You don’t need any qualifications to be president of Harvard, JC. It’s a largely ceremonial position, the donors run the show.

Ackman is dumb as a post, but has connections from money. He’d be perfect for the job.

unite ourselves to Him by eating His body and drinking His blood

Yeuk. You’re disgusting.

Of course you worship Ackman, JC. You could only dream of that volume of rent.

@ JohnJJJ
Jan 7, 2024 9:46 PM

my sentiments entirely …

May i share an anecdote ?… from when i was in jail .. make of it what you will…

Bloke I was in jail with put a frontier between him and me … You know Electronics and Mathematics and all that stuff but I am just a down trodden bloke told I was stupid .. et gosh ectera… ~big snivel~ Poor Me … But the guy could do Suduko … now why the gosh any one would bother with that shit I have no clue … But I said to him .. If you brain is wired up to do that I can teach you proper Mathematics. .. and I did …I got Him thorough all the Cartesian stuff… it is gosh easy .. and he did … and it was. But then Calculus is a gosh piece of gosh . Which it is ..

Its all about infintesimals etc … No gosh bovver … and He got that for True ..

But that was where it got interesting … He began to realise that He was always perfectly capable of grasping High School Maths ..it flat out isnt hard … and he was doing very well ..

Just that He had made a determination that Maths at that Level was “not for the likes of Him” ..and he had been told it wasnt for the likes of Him … OK well by whom ? Did you ever try to get a grip on the subject with your own resources… Because I havent had any difficulty coaching you ? … Being the thicko you so clearly are I thought I might have “signed a check I couldn’t cash” just to make a point about level of education .. I am probably stupider than you are …if things can be measured like this … So why cant you do Calculus ? It isnt because you cant ..beacuse you are doing it now … Who told you you couldn’t ? I dont reckon it was any one else but you’re self … Because you clearly can. And If I hadnt coached you you could have done it for your self with some motivation. Only motivation we had Is on a notional bet. If I wasnt in jail to stick a boot up your arse you could have easily done it for yourself .

So “In the Final Analysis” nothing was stopping you from becoming adept at Calculus except for some lack of a conception of self worth ( council for the prosecutor … nah he was gosh up in a bunch of other directions ..) (Council for the Defence .. well there is a least one corner knocked of the pathetic piece of gosh … which he was ..at least he is now ready to encompass differentials. ) … AFAIK Old Mate never sucked one gosh in Jail… Call that a Win ?

That’s a fair comparison, but does it leave enough crew for damage control? I would assume it does, but has the question come up?

I think the Falkland’s War changed a lot of thinking and response to damage control. For instance every sailor now wears a personal 8 minute air supplied respirator during action stations so there is an expectation of less debilitating casualties. The Brits lost about 360 sailors during the war and the vast majority of those perished because of toxic gases and fumes as a result of fires started by unspent Exocet rocket fuel. The Brits also learned that having the main firefighting pumps and fire abatement equipment for the engine room located in the engine room was very counter productive and resulted in casualties and the loss of vessels.

I think damage control is still reasonably well covered because every sailor in the RAN must learn and pass pretty stringent training in firefighting and damage control on a repetitive basis. Relying solely on specialist damage control teams is counter productive to a degree because one hit can eradicate 50% or more of a ships response capability and the other team may be prevented from responding because of damage or their own commitments.

This is one reason for my optimism. All this has been made possible because Musk bought Twitter and turned it into a free speech machine. The old guard would’ve have choked off Ackman as soon as he got started.

I remember all the shrieks and outrage from the left when Musk bought Twitter, because it was the end of democracy or something.

Previously, the left had said that leftist social media platform owners like Zuckerberg could do as they liked, because, “as a private business it was their right to do so.”
Then when Musk came along the left did a complete U-turn.

@ Bruce of Newcastle
Jan 7, 2024 9:58

Just as I was pretending to my case manager I cant speak English … only Russian “Priviete” I was pretending that I was still only alive in the 80s … Catweazle .. By the Sword Divided .. Rumpole of the Bailey … The Expert … back when writers wrote and actors acted.

My Case Manager is a lady of infinite patience …

Demanded Beluga Caviar and gallons of VodKa “Chicks HuH … never satisfied !!?? ” …. do you know I might be able to rush her off to St P ? Go Fund Me for the aiplane ticket ? HUH ?

It is a match made in Heaven …

https://youtu.be/75JjflWKs98

CL 6/1 @ 10:03pm
Fascinating comment.
All I have ever read was how it was all Romes fault.
Please explain your understanding of the schism between Rome and Constinople and why Constantinople was left alone to defend against the Turks.
Thanks.

Damage control in the RAN is taught very well.

They have artificial ships with all sorts of way to allow sudden flooding. You are shown how to stop the leaks using massive baulks of wood; long bracing beams, and smaller bits which you happily bang into the holes while getting very wet.

There’s also firefighting where you get to do all of the positions in the team: attack hose, waterwall, thermal camera etc. They set real fires in pans of diesel and you have to go into the artificial ship and drag out “the body” which is a dummy.

Not too good if you do the course in winter though.

@Top Ender
Jan 7, 2024 11:23 PM

Fire fighting is terrifying and if it isn’t , we need you to go home.

I can only speak about bush fires.. if you have the kit you can punch a hole in a wall of fire. But only if there is a good reason to do so…

I had some dealings with dwellings and didnt like it … I once talked a mad women out from under her bed ,, into Safety … as it happened we got the fire away from her house… But if we hadnt and if it did …

Fires are like that.

Gonna needa bigger bath.

Disposing of bodies via porcine means is quick and efficient. According to Bricktop.

Jewish leaders take on hate clerics amid government, law enforcement inaction

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9:33PM January 7, 2024
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Radical hate preachers face being hauled in front of the nation’s courts and human rights tribunals in a new legal push by Jewish leaders, who said they can no longer rely on governments and police to prosecute against anti-Semitism.

Excellent.