Old Koreelah

We’ve had our share of problems with beaurocracy, but have also been pleasantly surprised by some of the polite, efficient public servants we have contacted. It helps to have all your paperwork ready and be patient and polite.

Good point, Spacey. Being such a Clever Country, we strip nutrients from our poor soils (with huge losses in soil erosion) then ship them to our human feedlots (using vast amounts of non-renewable, imported fuels). Then we pump their nutrient-rich effluent through expensive pipes into the ocean.

During WWII the Caspian Sea route was vital to the Soviets resisting Hitler. After they invaded Iran, the Allies delivered 8 million tonnes of supplies through the Persian Corridor, much of it carried across Iran on hundreds of thousands of Studebaker trucks, before being loaded onto ships crossing the Caspian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Corridor We hoped Russia was so isolated they’d run out of ammo, but now Ukraine has more suffering ahead. Due to America’s treatment of Iran, they’re supplying lots of weapons and ammo to America’s enemy.

Unfortunately so true. How to keep a lid on the worst of human behaviour? Religion didn’t work. Western liberal democracies did a reasonable job of taming the beast, but now the likes of Trump, Murdoch and others have demonised the very basis of our tolerant, orderly society. Even the most civilized of us can quickly be turned nasty, as Goebels proved. https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/5-psychological-experiments-that-show-the-dark-side-of-human-nature-10aedf864bd5

The downside of living on the oldest, most stable, safest continent: tired old soils that don’t get regular doses of volcanic ash.

You sure about that Jerry? This article shows how easily one city in America was taken over by the far right: (Even more worrying, I recently overheard a group of Australians who were on the same trajectory.) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/21/california-journalist-far-right-takover-shasta-county

Too late Jerry! After I broke mine last August I was laying in a recovery ward full of other old farts with new hips. One old lady visitor wandered over to my bed and cheered me up immensely by saying her hubby had also broken his hip; and was dead inside six months!

Dutton, and the other headkickers before him don’t actually want answers- they are just feeding more headlines to the right-wing press, in the knowledge that most voters won’t have the interest or concentration span to listen to the answers.

For OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS the family has been manipulating democracy; first in Australia, then recently they moved to the big league. The attempted coup in Washington might have been their crowning achievement.

You don’t have to, Nev. Wherever you go- waiting rooms, foyers of businesses, train stations… -copies of the Daily Terrograph are laying there like snakes, ready to lower the quality of public knowledge.

Red I’m so disappointed to read that article you posted, especially in the lead up to this most important referendum. A scare campaign by the wealthy, who know how easy it has been to kill off almost every effort to fine-tune our Constitution. We heard the same rot thirty years ago during the Mabo case: “you’ll lose your house if blacks get landrights!” What lot of twaddle!

Agreed. Interesting to compare this forum with a couple of American ones, where ANY hint of politics us jumped on from a great height. Seems we Australians can talk politics and religion without coming to blows…or reaching for guns.

I fitted an indoor/outdoor weather station to my panel a decade ago. Reads temperature of cabin, air going into carby (quickly rises when carb heat is selected) and humidity- a useful indicator of icing conditions.

Who needs yet another gauge to look at? All we need is the bluddy choke mounted so it sticks out where you’ll notice it, like in the way of the throttle lever.

Not a video, but perhaps the best Indian Curry story: https://www.thestalkingdirectory.co.uk/threads/natal-curry-contest.841/ The stories following this one are also worth a re-read.

We came across the odd Japanese cyclist in our travels. One was very odd: he carried his beloved bike to the top of Uluru. Another was even more odd: miles from anywhere, he was pedalling this strange 5-wheeled contraption across the continent. At least it had a roof to protect him from the sun.

No recent talk of the canal from Ukraine, which is Crimea’s water lifeline.

I guess this belongs in this thread: This morning my grandie picked up my old faithfull and exclaimed: ”Wow, this is a cute old iPhone!”

Probably right Nev, but maybe what the fresh-faced new journo writes gets chopped by the editor. These days a lot of what’s printed is pretty much copied from “media releases” and you can’t blame our surviving newspapers for skimping on costly reporters when they can I too am guilty; next week our local paper should print my report on our Aero Club hosting the ASRA Nationals.

Statistics aside, every collision hurts. I haven’t cycled into our town for years and won’t allow my family to either, because of the increased traffic on the highway.

Agree totally Bruce, but who is gonna protect journos in a war zone? At least one side would like to hide what it’s up to and often deliberately target the reporters. Why has Julian Assange been deprived of freedom for decades? He broadcast footage of American troops killing journalists in Iraq.