old man emu

It's gunna take you 5 hours and 7 minutes to get to Trundle from Toc.

Is a person who is in their seventies the right sort of person to lead a country whose population is mainly less than 35 years old? Which political party is engaged in succession planning? Which of them is training the youngr generation to take over the reins of government?

She's better than Da Vinci who onoy wrote right to left. What a wonderfully respectful way to treat a client, especially a client who would no doubt be somewhat anxious.

This should be a reply to a post in anothr thread, but I can't remember that thread. Anyway, a meteorological record was set yesterday when the barometric pressure was measured at something like 1044 hPcal in Tasmania. Can you imagine altimetry at that sort of QNH? You'd be landing at teh vbottom of a mine shaft.

According to some reports the USA team was way of their game. The poor fellow at teh centre of the controversy had a shocker. Despite the loss to Belgium, the tournament still carries yet another taint. One wonders how this worldwide game came to have one of the tournament's sponsors being a country that doesn't seem to be so strongly supported at the profesional level as all those other countries.

Don't forget that the Frenchman, La Perouse, arrived in Botany Bay just two days after the First Fleet. However, the British would have made in known that they claimed the east coast in 1770 through Cook.

It gets worserer. The player who was given the red card was what is known as a birthright citizen. He was born to an English couple who were holidaying in the USA. His mother was seven months' pregnant when she wanted to return to England at teh end of the holiday, but the airline declined to carry her due to the risk of an in-flight birth. So they remained in the USA and the player was born on US soil, granting him birthright citizenship. I don't know how he later became a member of the USA team as I don't know anything about his career. Trump's birthright Executive Order has just been thrown out by SCOTUS and Trump is fuming about that. Yet he has the gall to ask (demand?) FIFA organisers to put the red card penalty on hold so that this birthright player can represent the USA in the next round of competition. You've got to have some sympathy for the player being innocently caught up in this blanant act of corruption.

Trump has done a wonderful thing for ethical behaviour. Corruption used to be something hidden behind closed doors. Trump has thrown those doors wide open and brought it out into the open.

Oh, my goodness gracious me!

Today I picked up a kids' book which dealt with the the convicts. On the very first page was the usual story of overcrowded prisons etc., etc. The story on that page made me wonder how many people beleive that the Arab-Israeli situation only began in 2023, simply because those people have no knowledge of what has been happening in the area since 1919. I have read many of the comments peole have posted here. I believe that the comments were made in absolute good faith. However, in many I see a lack of knowledge of the sequence of events that lead to the sending of the First Fleet. I contend that the sending of the First Fleet was the culmination of a number of events that occurred amongst the European powers from 1756 to 1763. This was the period of the Seven Years War, which was probably the first global war since conflicts occurred in Europe, the Americas and India. By the late 1760s the French were nosing around Polynesia which the Spanish explored two hundred years before in 1568. The British knew about New Zealand and I have already mentioned the economic and strategic value of New Zealand flax and teh pines of Norfolk Island. The Americans were also whaling and trading in the vicinity of Australia.

Hypothetical" refers to something based on a theory rather than on real life or proven facts. It is typically used when you are exploring a possible scenario ("what if...") for the sake of discussion, debate, or problem. An hypothesis is about testing a question, while a thesis is about arguing a conclusion. So you are correct inlabelling what I put forward as an hypothetical concept.

My thesis is that the "history" we have been taught is not 100% correct. It is rue that the Revolutionary War with the 13 Colonies caused overcrowding in the hullks, but my thought is that we must look further afield into European history to see why a government would spend lots of money sending a few convicts from a large population of them into the unknown. It would have been cheaper for teh government to commission a few more hulks, snce these were ships that were no longer suitable to head to sea. Please remember that my initial post was more of an announcement of my thesis. At that time I simply had an idea. It is absolutely true that research must be done to get the evidence to either support the thesis, or to rebut it. I am not so ignorant as to not accept that I could be wrong. At the moment we are only at teh beginning of the search for an answer.

Also known as Murphy's Law.

That is the myth I am attacking. Britain had plenty of old ships it could use as prisons. They had hulks in many ports around England. A few more would not have mattered. Also, the hulks were not run by the Government. The running of the hulks was contracted out to private entrprise. Those operating prisons in hulks had to meet minimum standards of care. I'm not sure if the convicts were hired out to do work for the government, or if that work was simply part of their sentence to hard labour. The roadblock in the system was that Courts were sentencing people to transportation which meant that once convicted a person had to be held until a destination was available. The government was unable to send more convicts to the colony until word arrived from Governor Arthur Phillip that the new colony had survived. Concentrating the debate on the crowding in the hulks distracts from my thesis that the reason an effort was made to establish a presence in Australia was political. That presence was aimed at preventing other European powers from gaining footholds in new lands. If Britain colonised Australia, it provided locations for naval bases and the possible opportunity for the production of materials needed to maintain ships. Those ships could be used to block the activities of other powers.

There were no experiments in prison reform at that time. The call for prison reform wasn't heard until the mid 19th Century. The use of hulks was a convenient way to house prisoners without the need to go to the expense of building new gaols on land. The hulks were ships that could still float, but were condemned for use at sea. I thinbk, too that we don't have an idea of how big those hulks were and the available space to accommodate people. Also those prisoners provided a cheap source of labour to carry out tasks for the Government on the docks of England. Did you know that hulks were used in Sydney Harbour to hold the worst convicts? As in England, these convicts were taken off the hulks in chain gangs to do the more arduous work. I am of the opinion that most well-behaved convicts moved about the colony unfettered by chains. The pictures in the history books of convicts in chain gangs no doubt depict these hulk residents. I hope that you have used that link I posted to get a bit of truth about the use of hulks in Britain.