Old Koreelah

Right on, Yenn! Two huge chemical-laden pads trying to contain layers of bulky filling, which might actually contain some actual food. Designed to encourage the worst in eating manners, promote obesity and clogged arteries… My wife recently brought me home a chicken burger, almost all of which I wasted. There were a few morsels of edible stuff in there if you were desperate.

Few politicians dare challenge the gambling lobby in Australia. They’ve seen what happened to Andrew Wilkie and Nick Xenaphon.

Why isn’t that POS behind bars?

I suspect that’s part of voter supression. In America huge numbers of minorities can never vote, because they’ve served time- often for minor drug crimes that many whites seem to get away with.

Those worried about disposing of old EV batteries should relax. They’ll still have lots of life left and will be snapped up by consumers to install in their homes, where they can soak up surplus daytime energy ready to sell at high prices on the spot market.

Recently our VRA unit was called to assist the SES with a flood evacuation. It’s been years since I walked in floodwaters. I’d forgotten the force of knee-deep water doing about 3m/sec. Won’t be doing that again. Anything build on a flood plain needs bluddy good foundations.

Don’t forget what happened 80 years ago; despite suffering enormously under Stalin’s chaotic and genocidal regime, they fought for it against the Nazi invader.

I read recently of the growing problem of artifical bits surviving cremations and proposals to harvest these expensive spare parts for re-use before we go into the furnace. Although an organ donor, I thought most of my bits might be too worn out to be of interest, but maybe a few near-new bearings might be attractive.

Bugger! I’d hoped my new hip joint would see me thru a few more decades. The dilemna now is how much work to inflict on the new bearing (which unlike all the natural ones, isn’t self-repairing.) it needs regular loading to induce the growth and maintenance of associated muscles, tendons, etc, but I sure don’t want to wear it out. Interesting result of my hip replacement: the clever surgeons made my left leg slightly longer. Both legs are finally the same length. I now walk without a limp! This is fifty years after the first of five operations on my left knee, which is still doing its job.

About time someone set up bait accounts to entrap the scammers, in the spirit of the Paul Newman/Robert Redfor movie The Sting. I hope that our Signals Directorate are about to hammer the bastards.

Target must have been nearby. I know nothing of the aiming sytems of those field guns but the blokes up ahead expect absolute precision. I presume after each shot, which moves the whole gun around, the crew re-check the sights. There was a story about how most British guns during The Great War were fitted with optical sights made by Carl Zeiss and traded to the Allies via the Swiss.

Those blokes sent to fix the H2 leak must have had faith in the safety systems. Walking under those lethal rocket motors not long before they unleashed a firestorm that would kill anything nearby and deafen humans miles away.

The understatement of the century! I often tried to figure out that old Australian saying “never trust a man who doesn’t drink”. Perhaps the one advantage of getting someone blotto is that thier filters are removed, revealing the real underlying character for all to see. For most voters, that would be sufficient, but trump’s dumb followers seem to be immune to reason, decency and common sense.

Pete would that have been Clermont? Visiting a nephew who lives there, I dicovered the town had been relocated after a bad flood. It worked there because they had elevated land nearby, but quite a few towns and villages on broad floodplains don’t.

The Turks know how to cope with religious cults: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63668818

Nev I totally agree. It’s heartwarming to hear flood or fire victims pick themselves up and vow to rebuild, but where? In the same spot so it can all happen again? Please explain (Sorry for sounding like that One Notion redhead.)

Farmers on the Liverpool Plains tell me they’ve had eight floods this year! Those who fluked getting a crop into ground now need to fluke a few dry weeks to hervest it. Farming has become quite a complex gamble.

Merdok doesn’t have mates; just useful idiots.

He stacked the Supreme Court and his lackeys have won the lower house. Expect them to block anything the Democrats try to do, just like they did to Obama. (He tried to reach compromises with the Republicans but they openly said they’d don’t do deals; they’d rather bugger up their country than do deals with the Libs.)

Red you’ve coined a new turn of phrase : as the missile flies. My sister spent a few months in rural Croatia with her hubby’s folks, where she was treated like royalty. She loved it, despite the language barrier and privations due to the war. While joining in the farmwork, she often watched Serb missiles passing over on the way to Zagreb.

A cartoon version of an old favourite:

Never underestimate the cruelty of Russian leaders. After The Great Patriotic War, trainloads of soviet soldiers who had somehow survived Nazi POW camps were taken straight to Siberian labour camps. There are many stories of returning prisoners being shot on the docks.

The gully I referred to above is new and enormous, extending hundreds of metres across the plains. Thousands of tonnes of soil lost.

Well that explains it! I’d love a dollar for each message I’ve left which has never been answered. Local government is the worst.

On the broad plains south of Gunnedah is a multi-span concrete bridge. A few years after it was built, someone had a look underneath: two long concrete piles were hanging in space over a deep gully gouged out by recent floods. (Given the many heavy trucks which had passed over it, this is a tribute to how over-engineered it was!) The engineers had built the road surface above the plain. Shallow floodwater that normally spread out over the plains were now channelled into a narrow gap where the bridge had been installed. The water sped up, cutting a gully several metres deep.