Sancho:

This all works fine if:-
a) there is bonhomie and good humour among shifts and station crews to pick up shortfalls; and
b) handover documentation between shifts and down the line is meticulous.

I would add that each station has at least ONE person who is experienced at the previous and following station.
I won’t talk of a lady patient who fell in the bathroom, went through A&E and up to Cardiac Stepdown with a shortened and rotated L leg. Who was then moved to orthopaedics for an impacted # Neck of femur but because she had a dodgy (at her age expected ) rhythm. It happens that not obvious signs are missed when pressure is applied for throughput.
Unfortunately the fact that experienced employees cost more than new ones is a factor in not retaining the experienced ones.

I just heard that Albanese and Wong are not going to attend the Leggoland wedding.

OK. Don’t supportourt allies in the Red Sea, but a Royal Wedding? Jeez who are these people?

I have a wife who is short. The answer is to ask someone taller.

I think that Colesworths should have a tall “floor walker” on duty at all times.

Jack Reacher

JC

Only thing is the delivery system eventually kills you stone deadsky.

So does being born.

Cassie:

I don’t want creeps like him in female only spaces. He is NOT a female, he is a transvestite, a freak, an offensive freak.

He is daring you to do something about it.
That way he can scream his anger and frustration out at you with no danger of being pulled up, and the chance of getting sympathy – its passive aggressive behaviour.
There’s a lot of it around because it’s rewarded.
Muslims love it – they can present themselves as being the victims in just about every scenario you can think of.

JC
Jan 12, 2024 8:17 PM
Assume that 80% black on white and black on Hispanic violent crime is committed by black males, and the female/male is a 50/50 split. This means that violent criminals from the male cohort (6.5% of the population) is responsible for ~40% of violent crime.

Those numbers are both racist and sexist. Join me in the Gulag, where I am serving time for being heightist (see Old Lefty at 2011).

Bourne1879
Jan 12, 2024 7:31 PM
Unless we deploy an entire Brigade – at a minimum – it’s a waste of time and resources.
We desperately need to get combat experience at at least that level to get ALL functions of a battlegroup experience as an integrated group.
There’s no point in getting an infantry company experience at warfare if the supporting arms continue to be untested.

I had a Ting Tings mondegreen and still reckon it makes a better lyric…

They call me “hell”
They call me Sexy
They call me “her”
They call me Jane
That’s not my name

So what’s the take away re US air strikes today against Yemen?

It has a small land area, probably quite economical in terms of required tonnage.

Winston Smith
Jan 12, 2024 8:30 PM
Bourne1879
Jan 12, 2024 7:31 PM
Unless we deploy an entire Brigade – at a minimum – it’s a waste of time and resources.
We desperately need to get combat experience at at least that level to get ALL functions of a battlegroup experience as an integrated group.

That kind of experience is highly perishable.

As an example, when the Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact essentially broke up in 1989, the Canadian Mechanised Brigade Group in NATO was effectively at minimum notice to fight World War III. Just 18 months later, when Saddam invaded Kuwait, the Canadians contemplated offering a force to support the task of chucking him out. The Canadian Defence Department/Canadian Forces advised that they could not provide a force that would be ready to fight on short notice.

Put aside that we could not deploy an entire brigade at short notice, and have not been able to do so for many years. We might be better off providing large numbers of NCOs and junior to mid-level officers to be integrated into allied units. They could gain experience and pass on the lessons after they return.

Billie:

Dot
Our main weapon Is surprise !

Our chief weapon is surprise, surprise and fear, fear and surprise. Our *two* weapons are fear and surprise, and ruthless efficiency. Our *three* weapons are fear and surprise and ruthless efficiency and an almost fanatical dedication to the pope.

It’s too early for Single malt.
Or even Married malt.
And all the red is in the garage for the carpeters arriving in the next couple of weeks.
So what to drink?
My Sister sister buys me a bottle of cheap red every Christmas because I once said to her “You don’t know red wine until you’ve drunk your first thousand bottles.” This has become a ritual where I have to drink a bottle of wine and give a report on it.
This years is Henschke 2022 Henry’s Seven.
Perhaps I should have brought it down to room temperature – mind you, room temperature is 29c.
OK.
fridge for twenty minutes….
….
Smooth.
Mind you, after six schooners of XXXX Bitter, everything is smooth.
Mum used to say that red wine has all the opportunity to breathe between the pouring and the mouth. Make sure the flies don’t get it first.

Lots of flavour.
Blackberry.
Bitumen.
And rounding off with a broad palette of … something.
I think my Sister sister hates me.
Just joking, it’s not bad. I’ve done a couple of pork somethings and it’s OK. Is it acceptable to dip the pork rib thingies into the glass? or am I supposed to do something else?

Coles & Woollies margins are approx. 3% pre booze, fuel & all the other stuff they’ve bought & sold outside grocery.
Aldi is speculated to be double that.

On my way back from the Blue Mountains today, I dropped into the Costco at Mardsen Park to get a couple of things.
I popped into the booze section to check some prices.
Absolutely heaving.

feelthebern

Jan 12, 2024 9:32 PM
It’s too early for Single malt.

How about Glenfiddich Japanese adventure?
Who’s got 2500 for a bottle to see if it lives up to the hype?

Is there a Brisbane branch of the New Catallaxy Files Scotch Whisky Appreciation Society that’s prepared to enter a Rich Bastard Scotch Appreciation session?
Venue: Breakfast Creek Hotel. Do they still have a mid day cask session? It’s been a while since I’ve been on the Council New Mains gang.

Rabz

Jan 12, 2024 9:38 PM
Winston – you just cannot appreciate athletic li’l Rock Chicks – they’ll eat when they need to – e.g. when utterly exhausted after dancing and performing for eight hours straight.

Rabz;
I’m >70. I cannot keep up with 20 year olds.
I’m a firm believer in “Walking down and fukking them all, not galloping down and fukking a couple.”

Boambee John
Jan 12, 2024 9:50 PM
Winston
My point is that the NCO level is where the combat/specialist skills are needed. We desperately need to get that upskilling and sorting out of inappropriate NCO’s done.
This is not happening.
Which is why I suggested including NCOs in the program.
Perhaps it has changed, but my sense is that such “exciting” exchange postings tend to be reserved for officers, and senior ones at that. That is quite the wrong approach. NCOs, junior and mid-level (up to and including Majors) is the way to go, to get value from the program.

I missed that – my apologies.
I believe the NCO corps is the backbone of any fighting force.
The ability of the Wehrmacht in one of the longest retreats in modern warfare due to the ability of the NCO level to train up and galvanise raw recruits, and the ability to train the subaltern class of officers into effective battlefield commanders was responsible for lengthening the war for another 18 months.
Sometimes tragedy ensues from excellence.

Beery:
When a religion dictates which foot may be put first when you enter a temple, it is no longer a religion – it is a cult.

Steyn wrote a column many moons ago about the Holocaust becoming increasingly less* about Jews and more about pinkos, wooftahs, gypsies, trade onionists and the occasional intellectually disabled imbecile – oh – and with the odd Jew in there trying to claim credit for the whole thing …

That’s the contemporary iteration of Holocaust denial – universalisation of the Holocaust, removing Jews from it. Holocaust denial today has become denial of the uniqueness of the Jewish Holocaust.

Perhaps it has changed, but my sense is that such “exciting” exchange postings tend to be reserved for officers, and senior ones at that. That is quite the wrong approach. NCOs, junior and mid-level (up to and including Majors) is the way to go, to get value from the program.

I was a Chief when I had a 2 year 8 month exchange from 1982 to 1985 with the USN. I was based in Hawaii and served with EOD Group-1. It was a magnificent time in my 20 year career and resulted in some significant travel to 15 states, experimental diving to 90 metres at Panama City Florida, completed a Navy and Marine Corps parachute course at Lakehurst New Jersey, I conducted a port breakout mine clearance exercise in Subic Bay in the Philippines, I located and disposed of some unexploded depth charges in the entrance channel to Pearl Harbour, relocated a sunken USN submarine chaser/patrol craft which was once commanded by L Ron Hubbard in the entrance channel to San Diego, I was fortunate enough to get inside the Trieste Deep Submergence Vessel which went to the bottom of the Marianas Trench (35,800ft) in 1960 before it was decommissioned in 1984. I designed and built a new fly-away helium/oxygen diving gas support system which was introduced navy wide, I held the position of Command Master Diver, Work Centre Supervisor and Senior Chief of the Command. The whole experience was certainly exciting, challenging, rewarding and fulfilling.

Upon return to Australia I was not interviewed or debriefed for one minute. No one in the RAN was interested in what I learned or did… Pathetic.

Terrific email from Tony Thomas – a three part Quadrant set on the Cronulla riots (skips), revenge riots (Lebs) and the media aftermath (anti-Australian Human Rights tribunal, ABC, etc.

I was steaming.

Hmm. Out of Glenfiddich.
Christmas, however meant one had been added to the cupboard. Thanks Father Out Law!
Panic over. Splash! Aaaaah.