pmccarthy

Yes, absolutely fact free. It's like when my friend died of heart failure just after his first Covid injection. I can't help wondering.

Is there something special about nine pints? Did someone declare that ten pints was excessive? My first time in an English pub I had nine pints. Never again.

I should have made the title Victoria's Secret, because not many people know how serious it is. In a way it will be a good thing, because the other states and the Feds will have a chance to see how a treaty really works. Unfortunately, in my opinion, some of the so-called leaders are just in it for what they can get for themselves and close family. Some have criminal records or are known drug dealers. Some, perhaps many, have a tenuous claim to aboriginality. At present there is a fight to see who comes out in control or with veto rights on public lands. At the same time, as in the greater society, probably 90% are good people wanting to get on with their lives, but they are not the high-profile activists. If you ask me for hard evidence I probably don't have any, just my own experiences and observations and those of people around me.

As you may know, Victoria has gone alone in establishing a treaty with the original inhabitants. Some parts of our administration are paralysed, particularly Parks Victoria which is progressively surrendering control. Here is my own story, not related to Parks Vic. My daughter was partly burnt out by the bushfires in January and has been waiting for her block to be cleared. On the road outside her property is a gum tree which has old steps cut into it. The neighbour told her he cut them himself about 40 years ago. However, the Dja Dja Wurrung have identified it as a sacred tree. Thus, the land around it for a 10m radius is protected. The 10m radius comes one metre into my daughter's block. Contractors cannot enter her property until the property has been "blessed" by the Dja Dja Wurrung. She contacted the council to find out about the delay. They told her that lots of people are suffering the delay because the Dja Dja Wurrung are not doing blessings at present. It is nearly four months since the fire.

My grandpa had an electric mower in the 1950s, I have a photo of him mowing with it and I know where it is today. He ran over the cord a few times and gave it up.

That fire is too much of a coincidence.

Tasmania has always needed supplementary fossil fuel to supplement hydro power availability for the Bell Bay smelter, which uses about 25% of Tasmania’s power. Hydro is at capacity without new dams, which are unlikely to be built. The Basslink interconnector now smooths out supply. If the smelter closes Tasmania should not need any fossil fuel.

Barnaby French is a detective in a small village in Provence with a high murder rate.

I never thought you were real.

When I was a kid collecting stamps, Magyar Posta was the Hungarian post office. Magyar meant Hungarian. So how come their new guy has that name? Did he change his name to win votes?

Whenever I hear an old lady who sounds like my mum, I know she is from the Riverina

At the end of the Last Glacial Maximum (~21,000 years ago), sea levels were at their lowest. Between roughly 14,000 and 8,000 years ago, the majority of the rise occurred, with about 90 metres of sea level increase in just 6,000 years, corresponding to an average rate of roughly 15 mm per year. After this rapid rise, sea levels continued to increase more gradually, adding another 30–40 metres over the following several thousand years, reaching near-modern levels around 3,000 years ago. From about 3,000 years ago until the pre-industrial period, sea levels were relatively stable, with only minor fluctuations. From the IPCC report archive (archive.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg1/409.htm😞 Based on tide gauge data, the rate of global average sea level rise during the 20th century is in the range 1.0 to 2.0 mm/yr, with a central value of 1.5 mm/yr Based on the few very long tide gauge records, the average rate of sea level rise has been larger during the 20th century than the 19th century. No significant acceleration in the rate of sea level rise during the 20th century has been detected.

Yes, the left-wing loonies have been trying to bring down the economy. Fortunately, there is a growing awareness of the stupidity of net zero and Australia's policies. I am more comfortable now than I have been for ten years that we will have a sensible mix of renewable, coal, hydrocarbon and nuclear energy in our future.

But the question is still valid and the answer still revealing.