kgwilson

Blackadder has the best explanation

In 1982 I was the Meet Director for the NZ Hang Gliding Champs & one of the sponsors was the local Lada Dealer & I got a new Niva to drive around in. The takeoff point was at the top of the Kaimai range of mountains & there was a pretty steep winding track to get there. The Niva was a very capable 4WD & outperformed most other 4WDs of its day. The problem was the interior was made of cheap plastic and had terrible fittings, seats etc. Within a couple of days both the interior door handles broke off, the rear view mirror fell off and a lot of other things crapped out but it never stopped. The Dealer didn't make any comments when I took it back with bits missing and things not working. That was just normal for a Niva.

Wagners have finally taken Bahkmut after about 10 months and the loss of around 70,000 troops. The word is that after securing some trenches they are going to move out. This whole saga is completely crazy. The entire city has been reduced to rubble. Nothing is left so they have gained nothing but a bit of ground. When the counter offensive happens the Ukrainians will most likely just go around it and cut off whoever is left there (probably Russian army conscripts) defending a complete wasteland.

The Belarusian batallion of the Ukraine army is a lot smaller than the Belarusian Army in Belarus, but is better equipped and better trained. If Lukashenko went & Putin wasn't able to prop his lackeys up I reckon there would be a lot of desertion of Belarusians across to the Ukrainian side. Either that or the opposition that really won the last election would form a new democratic government & Putin would become even more isolated.

The West has supplied a lot of equipment to Ukraine but at one stage, I think after the offensive last Summer, Russia was the largest donor of military hardware to Ukraine. It was very handy too as Ukraine already had trained personnel to use it.

Who was the idiot who designed that suburb?

The failure rate of a lot of the mass produced stuff was massive. Car companies were building planes and barely or partly trained people were doing the work. Desperate times called for desperate measures. Over 15,000 US airmen were killed in training in the US alone during WW2 partly attributable to poorly made aircraft. The German war production was amazing as they produced more aircraft in 1944 than ever before. Of course they had enslaved millions from the conquered countries including hundreds of thousands of engineers and skilled manufacturing personnel. For the Nazis it was Total War and anything goes. The allies couldn't and wouldn't emulate this so went for overwhelming production of everything where Quality Control was not a major consideration. During the Battle of Britain none of this was in place and the British produced twice as many aircraft then as the Germans did.

Yamamotos "Sleeping Giant" quote never happened except in the movie Tora,Tora,Tora. The film director reckoned he found it in Yamamotos diary but was never able to produce the diary, nor can anyone else, American or Japanese, recall it or find it. As well the screenwriter from the movie "Pearl Harbor" readily admitted he copied the line from Tora, Tora, Tora. But as they say never let the truth get in the way of a good story especially one that bolsters the American ego.

He and others have conned the gullible religious nutters that inhabit the southern US states and laughs all the way to the bank. The US has hundreds of these and are all bouyed bythe main stream religions who run the country in the guise of political parties. They are so obsessed they print "In god we trust" on all their bank notes.

NZ is a lot like Tassie. Surrounded by sea it rarely gets very cold near the coast where most people live. Frosty mornings in Winter but not enough to freeze water pipes. It has been said that NZ is caught in perpetual Spring. The mountains in the South and surrounding areas get snow and there used to be natural ice skating lakes but they have not frozen over for a long time now. The huge land mass here makes for some big extremes in temperature right up in to the tropics

Prigozhin has announced the Wagner group will be leaving Bakhmut on 10 May due to his ongoing feud with the Russian military who have not been supplying him with the ammunition he wants. He is screaming at Shoigu & Gerazimovin in a video uploaded to Telegram that shows bodies of his Soldiers behind him & in another he has a paper in his hand apparently for Shoigu advising of the withdrawl with about 50 Wagner mercenaries standing behind him. We'll see if this is true. Also in anticipation of the Ukrainian counter attack Russia has begun to evacuate civilians from the Zaporizhzhia area around the nuclear power plant This is a big concern for the international nuclear energy watchdog as many of these people are required to keep the plant running.

You don't need a lot of power to run fuel pumps. The amount of sunshine they get out West makes it the perfect place for solar power generation. A good sized battery pack will run the pumps, shop and roadhouse over night without too much of a problem. The diesel would then just be used as a backup. My friend who owns Palmers Island airfield near Yamba runs his house, farm sheds, and airfield from his solar system he put in over 10 years ago. It cost less than getting hooked up to the grid & that includes his backup diesel generator which incidentally he only ever has used to make sure it still works.

100% a false flag event. The desperation seems to be worsening daily.

Well documented history only spoiled by abominable pronunciation of Maori names. I think they use a Chatbot to turn text to language hence that terrible pronunciation & American accent.

In Trumps conception all of the sperm that got there were dumb. The smart ones bailed out when they figured out what the end result would be.

In 1915 the population of NZ was only 1.1 million & 10% served overseas, way more than anywhere else. There are some wonderful stories of the Maori boys at Gallipoli who always performed a Haka before going in to battle. Scared the crap out of the Turks but they got shot to bits like the rest of our lot due to the crap idea and tactics employed. The Maoris invented guerilla warfare but were prevented from using such tactics there.

The red one looks to have a giant bottle of plonk on top or maybe it's a molotov cocktail. Good to fry a few jihadists.

There is no age limit, just competency and medically fit. I read an article somewhere about a bloke from Victoria who was still flying a Tiger Moth at 96.

In the march quarter the spot price for Electricity in South Australia and Victoria went negative a number of times as there was so much generation from renewables. That makes coal fired coal super expensive as the plants can't be slowed or stopped and the costs (and polluants) contine as normal. "The low level of demand, and the big increase in large scale wind and solar meant that the number of negative or zero pricing events increased dramatically. These zero and negative pricing events occurred in one in eight dispatch periods across the main grid in the first quarter, and in more than half the time in the daylight hours in South Australia and Victoria. Between 9am and 5pm, wholesale electricity prices in South Australia, which averaged nearly 80 per cent wind and solar over the quarter, were zero or negative in 60 per cent of dispatch intervals, and 55 per cent of intervals in Victoria, which has the next strongest share of wind and solar in its grid." https://reneweconomy.com.au/record-wind-and-solar-deliver-lower-prices-loosen-coal-and-gas-dominance-over-grid/

Wasn't it a 1920s Indian Scout (heavily modified) that Burt Munro broke the world speed record on that still stands?

I don't think honorable is a word that can describe any religion. They all need your money and then set about using it for purposes other than what they tell you.

I have a number of friends in the Ulysses club. Their motto is "Grow old disgracefully". You have to be 40+ to join. Ulusses is the largest social club in Australia. They ride everything usually large and expensive including a lot of Harleys and love motorcycling & often do charity runs etc.

I wonder if Honda gave them any sponsorship or bikes to ride?

Yes I agree, it is all about "What's in it for Me" from Xi.

While the counter attack is imminent but no-one other than the Ukrainians know when or where, there have been a few thing happening as a precursor. Ukraine has crossed the Dneiper in the Kherson region and a long line of Russian defensive trench systems appears abandoned. Russian supply depots in different towns seem to get attacked every few days by Ukrainian artillery or missiles probably due information received from local partisans & marine drones have attacked Russian Navy ships in Sevastopol again. Now Xi Jinping has been on the phone to Zelenskyy apparently for 2 hours to try to get a peace deal under way. Zelenskyy is saying positive things about the call while proclaiming it can only occur once Russia retreats behind its borders as he has always said & China has now publicly stated that it supports preservation of the original national boundaries. Things are beginning to get very interesting.