Interesting stuff
AndyM wrote:This one's for Stu
"Paul Kelly's 'How To Make Gravy' is set to become a Christmas film"
Essential viewing for all the family.
https://www.abc.net.au/doublej/music-reads/music-news/how-to-make-gravy-...
It’s still a pretty epic song but it’s so overdone now that you can really only stomach it on Chrissy day after you’ve had a couple of beers. I still get caught up in the sentiment though it’s well enough to not need to hear it for another 12 months.
A film? You’re fucking joking right?
What Orwell failed to Predict was that we'd buy the Cameras ourselves
and that our Biggest Fear would be that nobody was watching..
udo wrote:What Orwell failed to Predict was that we'd buy the Cameras ourselves and that our Biggest Fear would be that nobody was watching..
Nice...
Between the competing dystopian visions of Orwell (1984) and Huxley (Brave New World), the former gets the quotes and the kudos, but it's the latter that is more accurate.
It's easier to rule people through pleasure and desire than it is through fear.
Just ask the advertising industry.
Keep the aspidistra flying, Stuart!
rooftop tribute...tbb is adding another secret surfer to the swellnet DIY Wavetrain set.
Was blown away with critters making & surfing own waves.
Mother Duck can surf up to 80 ducklings straight or figure 8 by number / weight / age / season.
So these ducklings surf all manner of swift turns / patterns / Speed / Deep or inshore sized waves.
This explains their expert surfing ability in Oceans / Shore breaks / River Floods / Drains / Wave Pools.
https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/physics-why-ducklings-swi...
tbb isolates & the pool represents pond life with reflection on little airborne critters surfing microwaves
Crew can relate to fishing out Bees & odd insects "seemingly" drowning in the Pool.
Then noting many are well alive...
tbb admits to pathetically falling for this gig...Oh! Poor bee needs a rescue...gee thanx hero human...Wot!
One day thought...this is no accident as bees looked quite adept in the pool.
Seeing (rooftop's) Ducks reminded tbb to backtrack to these water loving Bees.
Reminder! See how Mother Duck makes or trails custom Waves for offspring...superb wizardry.
Whereas The Bodybashin' Biolocomotion Bees need to first pedal their own waves to then surf ashore!
No! Bees are not exactly built for speed...but neither is Mother Duck & she's got super cool Surf Skills!
Speed : 3 bodylengths /sec (or) 5-10m in 2-5mins...Enough to surf ashore but not across a large pool.
So if you see a bee near shore it's surfin' but out the back > 10m from shore...might need rescuing!
Try a dried leaf on a Stalk as a firm scoop as it can then slot in the Garden (In the breeze / sun).
Not near Spiders or too easy for birds...Usually insects dry out in 30m -1hr to fly off...done this heaps!
Don't be surprised if rescued insects fly back & hang as a play mate...more so Dragonflies / Wasps.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1908857116
https://vp.nyt.com/video/2019/11/18/83808_1_18tb-surfingbees-vid01_wg_10...
Seems that some bees may dive bomb to rid or drown a Bug...seen a tussle a few times.
Might consider the Bees cleanse themselves of rival contraband before entering the Hive.
Bees do indulge in alternate rich droppings that Queen might not be too fond of...(This tastes like shit!)
Biolocomotion family WOTD ~~^~~~~/\~~~~/|~~~~ /(~~~~/(`~~~~ /(C..[buzz)... /(C`[buzz)
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1069.2461&rep=r...
Holy phuk
Go .25 speed full screen
Like tallboys on the Tirpitz
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10778291/US-Air-Force-successfu...
The experiment used Joint Direct Attack Munition, a guidance kit that converts unguided bombs into all-weather precision-guided munition
Optimist....it will happen
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a35788050/dyson-sphere-digital-...
Something to sell dumb rich people.
How quickly life can change. One minute you’re sitting pretty with the sun on your back and the next….
Quick and brutal. Stumpy seemed a bit non-plussed but clearly felt discretion was the better part etc....
Holy shit! Do those fuckers even feel pain?
They just get on the sled and reset.
jeezus..lotsmore to/in this
https://abcnews.go.com/US/ghastly-effect-drought-bodies-emerging-lake-me...
Sixteen day forecast for Plengkung. Pace yourselves, young wave pigs.
Faaaark
Up the playback speed to 1:25....
Billy Morris on Camel:
Hows the wild quiver
"Calling a man ‘bald’ is sexual harassment, employment tribunal rules"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/13/calling-a-man-bald-is-sexu...
Never a dull moment.
The West - killing itself with its own stupidity.
It would be hilarious if you weren't smack in the middle of it, and bound to go down the gurgler too.
Exactly I.B.
Gonna get exponentially sillier and more difficult to navigate too, I reckon.
I know that it's become almost a joke, or a reference to gag on, but 1984 does spring to mind again and again - as it has the last two years.
The dystopian bit is deadly serious, but often you just have to half laugh, half cry, at the sheer madness of it. As GO said "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."
Everything has been turned upside down, inside out, and we all know it. All the woke loonies know it full well, yet keep coming up with more insane stuff, like the Guardian article above.
WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Yeah it’s mad, we’re in a post-truth world where people are free to reject objective facts and ignore definitions for objects and words.
Tribes are choosing their own truth based on ideology alone and it’s already at the point where we have no common ground for discussion.
Fucked up.
Wow ,, sexual harassment for calling someone a 'bald [email protected]#&' .?
I hope my neighbour doesn't read about this. I could be up for quite a bill.
Another Saudi apologist scumbag
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-12/greg-norman-slammed-for-jamal-kha...
san Guine wrote:Another Saudi apologist scumbag
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-12/greg-norman-slammed-for-jamal-kha...
Hard to understand why he is in bed with the Saudi’s. He doesn’t need the money, maybe the adulation and ego stroking is being missed?
He is gooooone from now. Forever a toxic apologist.
“You will own nothing and you’ll be happy”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/20/sri-lanka-fertiliser-ban-p...
This video is well worth watching
Here's an interview from everyones favourite tech billionaire
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/may/15/bill-gates-vaccines-read...
Bill Gates…..ugghh.
Billionaires should outlawed. He was specifically asked a question about that and he was surprisingly unstoked on the idea.
Although he explicitly said that rich people should pay more tax.
That’s what he said. Is he then volunteering 49% of his earnings in order to display that his virtue is more than just skin deep?
Or does he employ the imperative of the super rich and decide that his contributions to society are “philanthropy “ and to be disposed at his personal whim?
Wouldn’t we all like to legally evade regular taxation and be loudly praised for spending whatever subsequent amount we chose on whichever pet project we found amusing? Particularly if that expenditure allowed us a controlling I influence on society despite the resultant diminution of democracy which may occur.
Billionaires are just like us you know.
If I was a billionaire I would not be anything like you or I.
I’d have have someone even suggesting as much assassinated by a satellite shooting laser beams with the raising of an eyebrow to one of my subordinates.
Gates is quite a big douche.....he does a lot of good but...epstein
"Wouldn’t we all like to legally evade regular taxation and be loudly praised for spending whatever subsequent amount we chose on whichever pet project we found amusing? Particularly if that expenditure allowed us a controlling I influence on society despite the resultant diminution of democracy which may occur."
Yes please.
Joseph-- you Idiot
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/might-be-fake-joe-r...
Mining for a climate solution: why going renewable means getting our hands dirty. 4 Corners.
“I can’t believe it’s monkey pox season already. I still have my Ukraine decorations up.”
“I can’t believe it’s global famine season already. I still have my monkey pox decorations up.”
Patrick wrote:Mining for a climate solution: why going renewable means getting our hands dirty. 4 Corners.
That was a very good link Patrick. Worked in every area mentioned in the program so pretty personal feelings, especially after long treks in the Tarkine.
And yet, the potential for Australia in a carbon 0 world, and geopolitically, is immense. What a time. I'd say go for it, but all Tarkine into World Heritage.
DudeSweetDudeSweet wrote:“I can’t believe it’s global famine season already. I still have my monkey pox decorations up.”
nobody expects a Spanish Inquisition...
I haven’t watched the show but Margaret’s review is gold.
I wonder why I haven’t been there in 15 years
https://www.facebook.com/ABCTV/videos/the-only-byron-baes-review-you-nee...
seeds wrote:I haven’t watched the show but Margaret’s review is gold.
I wonder why I haven’t been there in 15 years
https://www.facebook.com/ABCTV/videos/the-only-byron-baes-review-you-nee...
Yeah I saw her review the other day. Brilliant :-)
That was a lovely review. I suspect soulless superficial rat humans might be the answer.
Have it cunts