Rostrum: Trash. Gutter Trash Edition

Just to ramble of kilter for a bit, but I’ve been listening to a few podcasts lately, and wondered if anyone else had any favourites they would like to share. I’m going for lot’s of walks recently, and found that listening helps the time go better, and more productive (so I tell myself)

Anyway, here’s a brief list of what I’m listening to, but would be happy to hear from anyone else for more.

They are not all political either

http://somethingwonky.com/
(obviously that is political 😉 )

http://www.dancarlin.com/
I don’t know what got me onto him, but he has some very interesting topics. I started listening to his Common Sense section, then decided to look into Hardcore History, and he has an (ongoing, I discovered) series titled “Blueprint for Armageddon”, which, to date, has been about the First World War. It is, in a word, inspiring. He brings the true savagery of that particular conflict into stark contrast with everything else it can be compared with. So far it is at number 4, and, at over three hours each episode, is still only at the Battle of the Somme. But, it has been mesmerising, although sometimes thoroughly depressing to listen in depth to what these men were asked to do to each other, and what they had to endure. I’m far from an expert on these things, so can’t say how it compares to to others, but has caused me to look even more into this period, and just how something like that could occur.

He does get political but, to my “lefty” mind, he plays things pretty down the middle.

http://thebuglepodcast.com/
hilarious, and political

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/safran/podcast/
very topical

ln fairness to Team Nanny Roxon, l thought l should tell you, 4corners this week will be an anti-baccy feature, starring your heroine, the one, the only, Nanny Roxon. 🙂

So tune in team, lets see Nanny Roxon give big-baccy the sound thrashing they truly deserve, and lets just see `how` effective our` Nanny`s military-grade packaging `really` is.

l`m game. Are You! 🙂

and lets just see `how` effective our` Nanny`s military-grade packaging `really` is.

It’s lookin’ good 😉

http://thekouk.com/blog/tobacco-consumption-hits-a-fresh-all-time-low.html

Maybe you need to take another stroll(er) ❓

””””””’The national accounts reveal that the volume of tobacco consumed fell 2.2 per cent in the September quarter to continue the broad down trend in tobacco consumption evident over many decades.

Despite population growth, the volume of tobacco consumed in aggregate terms has never been lower going all the way back to 1959 when the ABS started calculating the data.
http://thekouk.com/blog/tobacco-consumption-hits-a-fresh-all-time-low.html
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# First TomR, l`m pretty sure this is the same `kouk` link team nanny roxon dropped on earlier threads, which `still` backs my arguments, as `kouk` hasn`t linked to `any` sources, he only `paraphrases-or-quotes` from teh australian burro of surveys.

#Thus, teh-abs collects its `baccy-data` from white-market baccy sales. Without some type of attempt to include ATO-data of recent `black-market` busts and estimates of quantities or/and tax-free baccy, `kouks` calculations/analysis is incomplete because all it measures is `falling-sales` numbers, which do not tell us the `quit` numbers or transfer to `black-product`.

White-market falling sales numbers= quit numbers+black market transfers

(For Certain; The `Team` is automatic dogmatic, with no need of transitional, additional information. Falling Sale Numbers EQUALS Quit Numbers! The `Survey`s comprehensive! End of discussion! Youtube. Youtube. Picture!!)

The hard work may be starting to pay off for Alan Joyce and Qantas..

QANTAS is expecting to post an underlying net profit after tax of between $300 million and $350 million in the first six months of the 2015 financial year.
THE company said the turnaround in profit had been driven by the Qantas Transformation program announced 12 months ago, with all cost cutting and savings targets either met or exceeded.

http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/qantas-tips-300m-350m-half-year-profit/story-e6frfkur-1227148056890

This is sad.

To say the least reb

At least she has left a legacy to proud of.

Saw #Stella news on abc24, mark scott on now paying tribute

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http://www.news.com.au/finance/money/heartbreaking-lbc-call-london-man-describes-benefit-poverty/story-e6frfmci-1227150198383#itm=newscomau%7Cfinance%7Cnca-finance-plmnt-trending%7C1%7Csection-finance-markets%7Cindex%7Cmarkets&itmt=1418106680954#itm=newscomau%7Cfinance%7Cright-now-in-%7C0%7CHeartbreaking%20LBC%20call%3A%20London%20man%20describes%20benefit%20poverty%7Cindex%7Cmarkets&itmt=1418106680955
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forget teh christians
the govts of teh-west are full of`em, and they have their own style of misery/tewwa to inflict on others, or their own, `mikes` story is here too, and it seems the faster the super-rich grab more, the faster the number of `mikes` grows too

TB The known suspects should note this useful link-

ADVERSE AND AVERSE
Adverse means harmful or unfavourable: “Adverse market conditions caused the IPO to be poorly subscribed.” Averse refers to feelings of dislike or opposition: “I was averse to paying $18 a share for a company that generates no revenue.”
But hey, feel free to have an aversion to adverse conditions.

AFFECT AND EFFECT
Verbs first. Affect means to influence: “Impatient investors affected our rollout date.” Effect means to accomplish something: “The board effected a sweeping policy change.”
How you use effect or affect can be tricky. For example, a board can affect changes by influencing them and can effect changes by directly implementing them. Bottom line, use effect if you’re making it happen, and affect if you’re having an impact on something that someone else is trying to make happen.
As for nouns, effect is almost always correct: “Once he was fired he was given 20 minutes to gather his personal effects.” Affect refers to an emotional state, so unless you’re a psychologist you probably have little reason to use it.

IRREGARDLESS AND REGARDLESS
Irregardless appears in some dictionaries because it’s widely used to mean “without regard to” or “without respect to” … which is also what regardless means.
In theory the ir-, which typically means “not,” joined up with regardless, which means “without regard to,” makes irregardless mean “not without regard to,” or more simply, “with regard to.”
Which probably makes it a word that does not mean what you think it means.
So save yourself a syllable and just say regardless.

WHO’S AND WHOSE
“Whose password hasn’t been changed in six months?” is correct. Use the non-contracted version of who’s, like, “Who is (the non-contracted version of who’s) password hasn’t been changed in six months?” and you sound a little silly.

YOU’RE AND YOUR
One more. You’re is the contraction of you are. Your means you own it; the apostrophe in you’re doesn’t own anything.
For a long time a local non-profit displayed a huge sign that said, “You’re Community Place.”
Hmm. “You Are Community Place”? No, probably not.

http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/incorrectly-used-words-that-will-make-you-sound-dumb-at-work/story-fnkgbb6w-1227150983356?sv=3059c6081bec31ef2a86ed257abaae4b