nomadpete

Haven't you leant the most basic rule of renovating yet? BEWARE of taking any 'simple job' into your own hands. Our simplest jobs are like big government projects - with similar cost and completion blowouts.

Which one? The loud one with the coat tails or the loud one riding on them?

Yes, thinking about USA's leadership is a bit like pondering the Russian head of state. In either case, plan 'B' is more frightening than plan 'A'.

Yeah, we usually book accommodation for the night if we go to Hobart. It's a big journey. Fortythree k's is a long drive for us!

I went on self improvement training - all about the "Win - Win" method of negotiation. One guy wasn't convinced. He said: "In every negotiation somebody wins, somebody loses. The only exception is a 69." Even the women laughed.

Its fine to show a feeling about an issue. Its equally fine to debate whatever has been said. Lots of stuff is agreed with. Some stuff is not. That is how discussions work. And the forum is a discussion. Not a place to expect every comment to be automatically cheered on. The very nature of the discussions here has taught me a great deal.

I like your post except for this comment - I doubt yhat DJT has ever cared about leaving a legacy. He only cares about instant by instant adulation, wealth and power.

Nowadays, (at least it seems) the ABC has trended toward the commercial news outlets style - and coincidentally allegedly has more ex merdok staff. They definitely have dropped their standards over the past years. I didn't like them having an ex magazine boss running the place. Just my opinion, though.

Errr, Jerry, We have Wolfie here, a safe distance from all that.....

Maybe so. But it takes real skills to make a really profitable one..... without getting into trouble. Proof? Consider skyentology... or The RC industry.

Lets see, if rent averages 1k per week, thats $52,000 p.a. for rent. So, you aren't expecting to live very long?

Crikey its wet! For a day we had a taste of almost summer. It was 25 degrees yesterday. Then misty drizzle set in. Today its 10 degrees and Tassie has flood warnings for the top half of the state. And it looks like even you mainland mob can have some rain too. We share!

It does somewhat reduce the 'thrown-in-the-deep-end' learning process that was standard back in the past. But it is costly. Something like $1000 worth of fuel. And I recall my gliding instructor warning me to log some instructor hours when reach a hundred hours because thats when over confidence and carelessness kicks in.

Not yet. But ask me again after the great wall of Mexico is finished.

Thanks, Will. Thats rational, sensible and fair. You are setting a new standard for social media!

Make a note to remind the FBI to check DJT's bathroom in 4 years time.

Wille said... "do we have to supply Mr. Zuckerturd with drivers license details or a birth certificate. If not what's to stop kids under 16 working around the restrictions. " No need. Artificial Intelligence will take one look at the user and using biometrics, instantly assess the age of the user. Along with their ethnicity, financial status, mental risk factor, police records, home address, and credit rating. Sort of like a Smart Blue Card.

Thanks. Couldn't see it on the phone screen until I blew the pic up a lot.

Sign I saw at a remote pub in Gulf Country.... sorry but I lost the pic. Here's the deal. You keep your dog out of my pub. I'll keep my bullet out of your dog. Not everyone likes to have dogs underfoot in a crowded pub.

They'd have to go together - aren't they joined at the hip?

I would ony add that setting personal boundaries and resistance to peer pressure is absent from most families. This aggravates all flavors of bullying not just the current acceptance of giving all kids open slather to everything a smartphone offers. Culture cannot be legislated.

When it comes to trying to reason "WHY", I find myself agreeing to everyone's comments. I'm sure they all apply to some extent at least. I am looking for a major factor that would have appealed to the majority of voters. The 77 million that Marty mentioned. I suspect the common cord that DJT struck was the almost universal distrust that everyone shares for the faceless bureaucracy that regulates everybody. Hollywood has been promoting this for ever. Anecdotes abound. Sure there are bureaucratic Departments that need reinventing. Top heavy departments can hold back the country. But Nobody gets up and says what a good job a good bureaucracy did about something. Nobody says how bad things get when we don't have regulation. Along comes DJT running rough shod over 'official process'. Drain the swamp! Throw out the rules! Hurrah! Average punters do know he is erratic but overlook that because just maybe he might make changes - the Dems only offered 'more of the same-old'.

Yeah, in the good old days, individuality and creativity was acceptable. When I learned to drive (the process has only taken 65 years so far), you could develop your own bad habits. I was a city boy so my skills were learned in Sydney traffic, starting out unlicenced in a unregistered Lloyd Hartnett. Motor cycle licence? - pay $15 at MRD, and off you go. Still alive after 3 months? Return to MRD and collect your licence. These days a learner MUST suffer 100 hours of logged under tuition from mum or dad. It takes that long to embed all mum and dad's bad habits. I'm proud to say I got my own bad habits my own way.

I hear a lot of O's are made by hand.

The way things are going, you might get to find out sooner rather than later 😞