nomadpete

I don't think I can carve a pressure cooker.

Would it help if I go down the paddock and chop down an old gum tree, to carve my new porridge bowl?

Did the moderator delete the comma after 'Harley' ?

It aint all bad down here. Note that we have a glut on the red wine market.

Gave you a sad emoticon because.... Now you are using fund manager skills to try to beat the professional gambling industry at it's own game. Tis high time you moved to a more relaxed life in the antipodese.

I'm not saying everything social media is bad. But it generally is at best a mixed bag.

The dog that adopts you is the one that will make life better.

The world of sushul medua doesn't tell you jack shit anything about a person's ethics. Or whether they are worth waking up next to, without knawing your arm off to prevent waking them up.

Well doesn't that help you to narrow the field a fair bit?

Some women are more honest than others.

I find it odd when I see a fast sunset on an American TV programme. The sun slants the wrong way down to the horizon. Our gliding club once had a very experienced pilot come back from europe and unwittingly popped out of the last thermal-of-the-day the wrong way (didn't check his compass), flew away from the strip before realising his mistake. Outlanded. At the time I didn't understand how that happened. Now I do.

Well, so far, the thread has highlighted one of the biggest systemic problems with DV. Unless you know personally how soul destroying a toxic relationship can be, there is no way to begin to understand that DV is the 'visible' tip of a mutually painful progressivly destructive relationship spiral. Jerry, your experience with youe ex girlfriend would be a simple starting pount of one type of a dangerous relationship. if I develop the progression, you might begin to see the potential long term pattern. DV is not the result of bad men who always go around hitting and killing women, except cases of extreme psychopathy. It is mor likely a outcome of long term psychological abuse. And it might be the female or the male that causes the physical harm in the end. It might also be either party that runs the mental abuse.

No offence intended OME.

Well I hope you wouldn't call him 'repurposed' ?

Fantastic progress! Nothing beats the satisfaction of clearing everything out and arriving at a clean slate to build from. Pity that the floor has to come up, was it rotten or eaten?

I disagree with your judgement. Your graph of homicides is a report on the worst case scenario of outcomes. OME is referring to one of several possible development pathways of abuses. Different entirely, and in no way accepting the poor behaviour exhibited by either contributing party. And, remember, EVERY conflict REQUIRES participation by BOTH parties. Again, that does not say he or she (depending on which one suffers worst) is to entitled to inflict harm to the other party in the difference of opinion.

You asked us to avoid specific personal cases. Therefore I cannot add to your argument.

That is unfaily sexist. In my experience, any gender might have this dangerous attitude lurking within an initially pleasant countenance.

Unfulfilled expectations, aggravated by inflexibility.

Great idea! That makes sense. Here I respect your view, but disagree. Sure, the NSM try to make money out of 'reporting'. But I feel that quite large mobs use the Australia Day issue as leverage to promote blame. If these people (demonstrators) really want to improve the lives of the people they claim to represent, why aren't they out in the bush working with the most needy communities to improve the presently destructive indigenous culture. By destructive culture I refer to normalised tribal and domestic violence, and the loss of moral compass. Personally, I cannot understand why we celebrate the visit by Capt Cook any more than the Dutch or French who also dropped in for brief visits. So the day has no significance to me whatsoever.

We seem happy to honour the travesty of the Anzacs in Gallipoli so a precedent has been set with that sort of thing. I would argue that the fallout of which you speak is actually a mixed bag. In my opinion a large proportion of the disadvantage is self inflicted. What would you do to make the lives better, of either the disadvantaged descendants of the indigenous, or even of the disadvantaged descendants of poorer 'invaders' ? Both these demographic groups frequently tend to find difficulty seizing the opportunities to better their lot. Would cancelling or renaming a public holiday on 26th Jan (or any other day) end discrimination and bring peace and good will to everyone? I doubt it would change anything at all.

I am not saying that past events had no impact or value. I acknowledge the impact of past decisions and actions. However I am saying that it is pointless laying blame on today's people for the past events. For instance I cannot blame the present German people or Japanese people for acts of war committed by their parents/grandparents. Likewise I am not responsible for the illegal declaration that the British made about terra nullius a couple of hundred years ago.

Whitefella law (the law of the land in modern times) has decreed that the first British settlement was established illegally. So somebody can declare an 'invasion day' to commemorate that if they wish. However, no living person in the country took part in any invasion. Following that thought, no living person can bear the blame for it. I refuse to be bothered by past injustices. Otherwise, where would I stop? Every person could choose to dredge up past injustices committed by or to previous generations. (No matter where those ancestors came from.) Let every person do the best they can with whatever they are born into, and with whatever opportunities present themselves along the way. I can't drive a car very far just by staring into the rear view mirror.

Is there any legislation that requires a pilot certificate endorsement for piloting a ultralight cat? Or any minimum wing area?

Onetrack did say he planned to go to Pyalong (?) In early May. So I guess he's still hitching his way east across the Nullabor about now.