nomadpete

Moving on from betting about London bricks, I thought it would be nice to record some of the witticisms that I have heard. I discovered to my great disappointment that few younger folk have heard the humerous sayings that were common when I 'wore a younger mans shirt.' Im sure you guys would have some to add.

"DRIFT! DRIFT!", I cry. That's not a funny video! Time to start a new thread devoted to obscure witticisms!

Great idea - and you can pass it around the rest of us titeasses when you finish reading it....

Those export losses might give Putler a mild worry but are unlikely to bother the punters much. Until there are queues of cars waiting to buy their ration of petrol, the plebs will not really wake up to the folly. So far, the only impact on the important punters has been a creeping awareness of the numbers of crying widows.

Although old Harleys have rigid frames at the back, they do have well sprung saddles. Probably fine for the speeds they were expected to be doing.

Is there some sort of coincidence.... all the talk about Messers Harley and Davidson's motorcycles - appears in the GRIPES thread?

Today........ Lovely blue skies. Pleasant 25 degrees. Water tanks are all full. Nice breeze, although down the river they were getting 38kts gusts. Trimmed a couple of pine trees - my kind of gardening. Love my chainsaw! Now a nice cheese n crackers with a glass of red whilst watching twilight settle upon us. No hard work, just luvin' life!

C'mon. Show me the POSITIVES.....

All this fuss.... My linux showed it ok. So did my android phone, using (free) Collabora Office. Just another reason to avoid Micro$oft

Back in 1953 Australia adopted Zellweiger power line control to switch customers hot water systems OFF during peak grid power periods. So the authorities have been controlling stuff for quite a while! Nobody semmed to mind because it cut down their electricity bill (and, like the newer air conditioner controls, it was not compulsory anyway). The zellweiger system was crude but effective. We have all heard it from time to time through rattly laminations of ceiling fans, beeping a code to stagger the start and finish time of off peak hot water systems. Now we have smart meters which can control a lot more loads in the home and it is helping stabilise the grid. Australians have generally had one of the best reliable electricity systems in the world. When I worked in East Timor back in 2000, it was only the Australian do-gooders who complained about daily power outages. And there were people from 63 different nations there at the time. Aussies take too much for granted.

I hope that doesn't make you feel discriminated!

And all the whingers will be wishing they could bring back the good old days when the whole electricity system was run by the government and it worked. But they used to whinge about the government running a rolling ten year advance design plan that kept ahead of demand and prevented such collapses. They will have forgotten that they were the ones who used to call that "gold plating the grid".

My better half asked "how would anybody know if it was his wife they put in jail?"

Aural sex is easier on my back.

Sorry, Peter, but they already do. And people want them to, so they can get lower electricity bills. None of this happens without your consent.

To their credit, ABC at least provided a source so you can look up where they got their misinformation from. The commercial news usually just give an unverified scarey headline, to get the clicks.

I'm always happy to get those pics. Otherwise I'd never know when to slow down at school zones.

OK, some of us believe ABC sometimes has better, less hysterical reporting than the commercial news outlets. Historically it has proven so. In some cases such as this, they fall for producing misleading clickbait headlines and poorly researched news. The bottom line is.... before I get excited about a news story, I first like to reread the wording, looking for signs of gaps or assumption. Then I do a quick google of critical parts of the story. That is my BS filter process. It's annoying and a bit tedious, but it saves me a lot of wasted outrage. Unfortunately, ABC has been whittled down over recent years. I used to value it greatly because both liberal and labor governments equally accused them of bias. Which confirmed the results of numerous investigations into alleged political bias - such investigations never found bias in the past.

Oops, I rather think this demand is about 200 years too late.

Point one... The state owned grid operator is Powerlink. They do not operate the off peak switching of anybody's hot water or aircons to. Point 2... The switching only happened to customers who had signed up voluntarily to a cut price off peak deal that clearly identified the reduced electricity cost was due to occassional REDUCTION of their aircon settings. These settings only happened during periods of extreme demand (not all day, etc.) Point 3... Why complain about this? It did not CUT anybody's air conditioner OFF. Further, some users reported they were surprised that their aircons had been switched to "economy" mode so often, because they didn’t really notice.

Sadly, I notice that over the last couple of years, our ABC seems to have lost its gonads. I don't think that having a womens magazine editor run it was a good choice. (Edit) Please don't call me sexist.

So I'm guessing you don't completely admire the man's business acumen?

Sounds like a re introduction of the old luxury tax that was removed by a taxation simplification back around 1970.

Who are the 4 jokers watching from behind the glass?

Oh, when I saw the title of the thread, I thought we were going to be talking about Victa and the recoil zipstarter. I remember the ad .... "Zip on the doo dah....." Do I get a prize for the fastest thread hijack of the year?