Interesting stuff

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Blowin started the topic in Friday, 21 Jun 2019 at 8:01am

Have it cunts

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Supafreak Saturday, 4 Feb 2023 at 4:31pm
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what the fuck is with this balloon?

why wouldn't you take it out / capture it?

shit don't add up...

big time!

And Blinken has canceled visit for the time being but will reschedule for another time . He said it was unacceptable and irresponsible , that gave me a chuckle . https://news.yahoo.com/us-halts-blinken-china-visit-160453120.html

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blackers Saturday, 4 Feb 2023 at 4:51pm

Here's something else to see in your sky.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/04/the-green-comet-how-to-s...

"The comet should be visible between 10pm and midnight. “The best rule of thumb is to look towards the north,” Webb said. “If people look due north, and then once they spot it, it will be travelling in an upwards direction towards Mars, which looks like a big bright red spot on the sky."

Here's hoping for clear skies next week.

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Distracted Sunday, 5 Feb 2023 at 8:56pm

Sets always arrive at the wrong time
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-64526480

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Westofthelake Sunday, 5 Feb 2023 at 9:16pm
Distracted wrote:

Sets always arrive at the wrong time
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-64526480

Jesus that was heavy

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Craig Monday, 6 Feb 2023 at 9:08am

So so heavy. Old mate should have jumped earlier. Lucky to not get knocked out!

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freeride76 Monday, 6 Feb 2023 at 9:12am

ballsy rescue 10 miles out to sea

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seeds Monday, 6 Feb 2023 at 12:05pm

Turns out old mate was wanted by the cops and had stolen the boat.

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Craig Monday, 6 Feb 2023 at 12:26pm

Agh I see. What a grub.

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Westofthelake Monday, 6 Feb 2023 at 1:24pm
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Turns out old mate was wanted by the cops and had stolen the boat.

Talk about karma crashing down.

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blackers Monday, 6 Feb 2023 at 1:45pm
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seeds Monday, 6 Feb 2023 at 1:57pm

Geez he looks like Jordan. Related?
In the 80’s we would scurf on sailboards all around Darwin Harbour and across to Mandorah. Jetty jumping off Mandorah jetty. Fuck that these days with the croc population.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-30/nt-croc-stats/101814564

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Robwilliams Wednesday, 8 Feb 2023 at 11:47pm

Port Macquarie regional surfers.

Break wall development. Riptide Mag, Damian King
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3hzch85R1I8n7LH80j4GH2?si=3k8X6OkCS2-g9...

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Stuart Lickspittler Saturday, 11 Feb 2023 at 11:23am
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sypkan Saturday, 11 Feb 2023 at 12:17pm

yeh, those cookers are so cooked...

pointing out reality and stuff

a 'reality' that, it would seem, is already slowly under way...

stuart factoless-spittler, are you ok?

I know you've will-shat yourself a few times of late... and i know you've probably been balls deep into the dashboard... (those fukn russians ay!)

but some things just are...

they are not even a secret... anymore...

it's on google dude, free yourself with 'facts'... (as your wonderful little phizer-prop piece advised yesterday)

you might still feel powerless, a llack of control... but acceptance is everything...

(you've never been good at that)

sending love, power, and energy

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sypkan Saturday, 11 Feb 2023 at 12:21pm

in all seriousness...

you're better than this

I know you are

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sypkan Saturday, 11 Feb 2023 at 12:36pm

and, in all seriousness again...

I'm not totally against the london zoning thingy, ...or the 15 minute city thingy...

it would seem that's the future... of sorts...

it's all about the way 'they' are doing it

it has an air of class war to it don't you think?

a bit top down, and a bit digital 'facism' like in nature possibly...

all things you are concerned about?

or not...

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Island Bay Saturday, 11 Feb 2023 at 1:19pm

I am. Against the 15min city thing, that is.

To hell with them.

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sypkan Saturday, 11 Feb 2023 at 1:39pm
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I am. Against the 15min city thing, that is.

To hell with them.

it's ok it they build it...

build it and they will come and all that

it's about how 'they' enforce it

and, we've had a glimpse into that...

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Island Bay Saturday, 11 Feb 2023 at 2:43pm

Exactly.

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frog Wednesday, 15 Feb 2023 at 1:28pm

If any proposal for building 70 huge towers off any coast was proposed for any other purpose than wind power it would lead to local and national protests from all sides of the political and environmental spectrum on multiple grounds.

Bob Brown is no fan.

https://bobbrown.org.au/story/offshore-windfarms/

Now replicate the port MacDonnell proposal all around our coasts a thousand times ....

Must be better options.

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AndyM Tuesday, 21 Feb 2023 at 2:01pm

Anyone got any thoughts on the call to either not reprint Ronald Dahl’s books or to re-write parts of them?

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stunet Tuesday, 21 Feb 2023 at 2:18pm

I think his name is much better rewritten as Ronald.

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zenagain Tuesday, 21 Feb 2023 at 2:46pm

I always wondered if they forgot the ‘n‘ on his birth certificate and it just kinda stuck?

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icandig Tuesday, 21 Feb 2023 at 2:54pm
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Anyone got any thoughts on the call to either not reprint Ronald Dahl’s books or to re-write parts of them?

I'm in the middle of reading 'The Invisible Man', for the first time. A book from 1897. He wrote the term 'I worked like a nigger' in it. When I read it, I did a double take, but it was the vernacular of the time and to change it would be to mess with H.G. Wells' creation.

If Cardi B can write about WAP and every second RAP song uses the N word, then 'who gives a flying **ck about Rohald Dahl using words like 'fat' or 'ugly'?

The world has gone PC mad.

Not that I'm a massive fan, but check out some of Ricky Gervais' thoughts on offending people.

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stunet Tuesday, 21 Feb 2023 at 2:59pm

What if, like Ronald's birth certificate, it was simply a typo and he meant to say that Augustus Gloop was fast?

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andy-mac Tuesday, 21 Feb 2023 at 3:04pm

My 2 cents worth. Keep them as they were written, geez if you are going to be offended don't read them. If in a school situation, let the kids know the historical context etc. My daughter loved reading 'The Twits' and they want to leave out words such as fat and ugly???
Anyway reckon what Ricky says is spot on, his stand up on Netflix nails it.

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zenagain Tuesday, 21 Feb 2023 at 3:26pm

Or he meant to say Mike TV was a smart-arsed little prick.

I‘m sure I read that in the book somewhere?

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icandig Tuesday, 21 Feb 2023 at 4:03pm
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What if, like Ronald's birth certificate, it was simply a typo and he meant to say that Augustus Gloop was fast?

Fast at eating, which is why he was fat.

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AndyM Tuesday, 21 Feb 2023 at 5:37pm
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I think his name is much better rewritten as Ronald.

Shit

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tubeshooter Tuesday, 21 Feb 2023 at 6:09pm

Steve Hughes nailed it.

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icandig Tuesday, 21 Feb 2023 at 8:16pm
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Steve Hughes nailed it.

Yep. Seen it before, but good to re-watch. Perfect.

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blackers Tuesday, 21 Feb 2023 at 9:28pm

We've got a set of the audio books of Ro(n)ald's collected works on CD. Our kids loved them. Mind you I swear like Al Swearengen from Deadwood so it was all a bit mild. Probs best to leave them where they are, but its a commercial decision, so let them live with the consequences of it.

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sypkan Wednesday, 22 Feb 2023 at 2:08am
AndyM wrote:

Anyone got any thoughts on the call to either not reprint Ronald Dahl’s books or to re-write parts of them?

it's just weird...

isn't the whole point of calling gloop boy fat to teach kids a lesson not to eat 10 chocolate bars a day?

it is just more sheltering of kids (adults?) from reality...

kids stories, stories... nearly always have a subtle moral message, now, a certain cohort is working so hard on sanitising the world you cannot even call a glutonous fat kid fat... its a form of insanity...

then, at the other end of the scale, disney has gone full wokeazoid...

and has given up on any subtleties...

its gone full angry shouting in your face hate filled propaganda...

(with little kid's entertaiment value it would seem)

https://m.

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gsco Thursday, 23 Feb 2023 at 3:57pm

Selfie of the year so far, not sure if it'll be topped: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/22/pentagon-pilot-selfie-chin...

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seeds Thursday, 23 Feb 2023 at 5:16pm
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seeds Thursday, 23 Feb 2023 at 5:19pm

Here’s another weather one. I’ve never seen anything like this.
https://apple.news/A9TFThzP6TRGaRnmDKyLQ-Q

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Craig Sunday, 26 Feb 2023 at 1:21pm

Fark!!!

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Craig Sunday, 26 Feb 2023 at 1:25pm

Seeds, see those scuddy features all the time just ahead of southerly busters etc and severe thunderstorms. When you see them, almost spinning and growing on themselves, you know the air is really unstable with mixing air masses.

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seeds Sunday, 26 Feb 2023 at 1:40pm
Craig wrote:

Seeds, see those scuddy features all the time just ahead of southerly busters etc and severe thunderstorms. When you see them, almost spinning and growing on themselves, you know the air is really unstable with mixing air masses.

Cheers. I’m gunna keep an eye out.

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seeds Sunday, 26 Feb 2023 at 1:42pm
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Fark!!!

https://twitter.com/i_ameztoy/status/1629476443162804224

Holy shit. No chance for the poor buggers.

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Island Bay Sunday, 26 Feb 2023 at 3:23pm

Awful

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udo Sunday, 26 Feb 2023 at 5:17pm

Silly Boy

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batfink Sunday, 26 Feb 2023 at 5:57pm
Craig wrote:

Seeds, see those scuddy features all the time just ahead of southerly busters etc and severe thunderstorms. When you see them, almost spinning and growing on themselves, you know the air is really unstable with mixing air masses.

Agree Craig. My wife and I coined them ‘dementors’ quite a few years ago, and apparently so did others who saw this photo. They are pretty regular, at least over the water as a storm front gathers. Probs have quite a few photos of them, having taken more photos of clouds than anything else on my phone.

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batfink Sunday, 26 Feb 2023 at 6:04pm

Double post. The iPad froze!

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batfink Sunday, 26 Feb 2023 at 6:03pm
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Silly Boy

Farkin hell. The world is such a weird place.

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blackers Sunday, 26 Feb 2023 at 8:18pm
batfink wrote:
udo wrote:

Silly Boy

Farkin hell. The world is such a weird place.

I like the way the driver made sure the kid didnt fall whilst getting off the bus before sending him on his way with a right hook.

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gsco Monday, 27 Feb 2023 at 2:57pm

Caloundra bar nearly completed closed now, some great pics in the article: https://www.sunshinecoastnews.com.au/2023/02/24/sand-jam-images-show-cho...