nomadpete

Scarey

The correct answer in my household is "Yes Dear"

But it isn't all that comforting to be one of USoA's friends, either.

Perhaps it is time to refer to MrT as "crooked Trump". Unlike Hilary, he really is a convicted crook.

Those algorithms are great at feeding everyone's personal echo chamber. The world might be a nicer place if the algorithms fed balace and thought provoking stuff.

Sad because I was looking forward to sharing a Wolfie or two but doubt I'll ever get to 'the old country'. If I was a betting man, my money was on you all falling in love with the finished reno and ending up staying there!

Would you do any better if you ran a book on what/when/if the heritage people approve of new windows or plaster or drains of trees.....

That is indeed good news.

That's a tough one to find a celebratory aspect of. Although I don't know her, I hope the business and the health works out well for her.

It's going to feel a lot more spacious when it's done.

Nah, whichever way I look at it, it still looks like a demolition site.

I don't resemble that remark!

Home made. Next to the tank entry, I fitted a 90mm tee piece, pointing down. Then a dead end piece of 90mm downpipe with a screw cap at the bottom. Leaving the seal out of the screw cap makes it leak slowly. When it rains, the vertical trap fills with the first runoff, then all following rain flows across the tee, into the tank. When the rain stops, the trap slowly drains itself. (Resets). Every so often I remove the screw cap and discard the accumulated muck that it has caught. No skeletons so far!

Good onya OME. I got one of those first fish diverters too. Where do ya get the dead bird diverter to go with it? Incidentally, it is a good idea to put a self closing flap on the tank overfow pipe. The frogs will appreciate a way to escape the tank when they grow up.

Starting to look a lot less like a demolition site, Jerry

Wait a minute, I m not sure we have NHS in this country. Isn't that a Great Britain malaise? Wow. Can you get a new EV on NHS? That would be nice. (Basically, what has NHS got to do with EV's, or EV propaganda?)

C'mon Spacy, your shopping lists are not all in scientific notation (Metric)

Yes, but I was disappointed to see that we watered down the standard, way poorer than the european standards, to lower than the USofA standards. Do Australians have more robust cardiovascular systems than European's? Is it OK for us to have dirtier air than Americans are entitled to?

I am cautiously avoiding saying anything on social media that could come back on me. But I did find some interesting insights into social media ownerships and possible influences/connections, in the Wiki article I mentioned.

OME's propaganda issue seems to be about his interpretation of media statements regarding vehicle motors. Particularly his thoughts about excessive promotion of EV's and also the new fuel efficiency standards of ICE's. My impression differs from his. I do not see massive swings towards EV's. I do notice new cars on the road. But I don't see a majority of EV's. Further, when I talk to new car owners they all seem pretty happy with their new car compared to their old one - whether it's ICE or EV. I don't see much propaganda about it. Unless you call all the new car ads 'propaganda'. As for the new fuel efficiency standards, I think our weak new rules show up our weak willed government. It makes sense to make the best use of a finite resource (petroleum), it makes sense to cut down the many poisonous exhaust gasses. It's not just about CO2. We are still have one of the world's worst standards for vehicle pollution. But I didn't notice much propaganda about it, either way.

Whatever happened to the paranoid terror posed by 'reds under the bed', that served USofA for so many years? The commies are our best buddies now?

I'll let the foregoing two posts go through to the keeper. Moving on to topic, I suggest Goebbels WOULD be gobsmacked if he read the Wiki explantion of the history of T rump M edia and Tech G roup. I found it most interesting, and went down the rabbit hole of also looking up the names mentioned therein. One piece of trivia: I think I would be delighted if I had an accountant who managed to reduce my tax to about $200, when a company I have 62% ownership of, posts a turnover of nearly 60 million but less than 40 people on the payroll.

This thread is "...I like Donald Trump " The guardian reports that some very important people like Don:- "Kremlin spokesman decries ‘elimination … of political rivals’ while Hungarian prime minister calls Trump ‘a man of honour’ " If that doesn't ring a bell (as opposed to the usual dogwhistle) to MAGA enthusiasts, nothing will.

Well that makes the Saab a smaller target. But are they any good at detecting 'incoming!'

Marty it's unfair to expect an expoliceman to associate ballgags with handcuffs..... unless they happen to be an ex vice squaddy. Anyway the cuffs in the funny pic don't look like the playtime kind - no soft fluffy padding.