Weekend Gab Fest!

Due to the hot summer last year and the high temperature upstairs I decided to try and do something about it.

I always wondered what those whirlybird things were on roofs. Have you ever left your car in the sun on a hot day? The temperature inside is much higher than outside. Same thing happens in your roof space. It can get up to 50-60C in your roof space and then you are sleeping under this hot air all night unless you remove it. The whirlylbirds suck out the hot air and bring in the cooler air.

Well I got the motorised version and instead of being 30C upstairs at night after a hot day it is 24C. Not as good as an air conditioner but better than nothing. I could never work out even with the windows open upstairs never cooled down during the night. One summer last year it was 32C upstairs but 22C outside. Now I know. You need to suck out the hot air in your roof space.

Nope

Says on the bottle WINE OF AUSTRALIA/PRODUCT OF AUSTRALIA

No matter how bad it is you cannot complain for $2.99. I am guessing the glass bottle would at least cost $1

TB

Interesting Guardian link. My opinion is that we should have been running surplus budgets and reducing govt debt but Australia does not want to do that.

I would like to comment at that article but I have been banded from posting at The Guardian. Anybody know how I can get a new email address so I can sign up again?

Well I was thinking about getting a Hotmail address from microsoft but I am not sure what problems that could cause. eg can The Guardian tell what computer is making the post? If I get a new email address but my IP address is the same can The Guardian tell? They might ban me if they see comments coming from a computer/’IP address they previously banned

But it really annoys me I got banned from The Guardian because I got banned I suspect because people complained about my comments. Not because of abusive comments I made. And you should see what abusive comments The Guardian lets through against the Coalition. Lefties cannot tolerate a different opinion

I switched from Telstra to TPG after my first banning from The Guardian because TPG is $50/month cheaper for internet/mobile phone than Telstra. So I got a new email address and signed up again and had no problems until yesterday when I got banned again. But I suspect The Guardian can tell what computer posts come from. There is no hiding on the internet. Apparently every comment is saved forever.

It was funny when I started commenting again because people could tell it was me but I had a new name. I had to tell people I got banned and came back with a new name.

But I got banned because I said Swans stimulus spending is a waste of money and the Nobel prize winner Stiglitz is an idiot for saying Swan was magnificent during the GFC

Neil you got banned because you are a prattling twat!

Possible but I doubt it. Criticising Swans stimulus spending for not saving Australia is a no no at The Guardian. And saying Nobel prize winner Stiglitz is a fool for saying Swans stimulus saved Australia is a banning offense.

I just purchased some garlic cloves in brine from Aldi. Thought I might try it since the cloves are already peeled and all I have to do is crush them. However I noticed after I got home it said Product of China. Looks like we are importing more and more food from overseas just like we do for our manufactured products.

Should I trust food products from China?

Isn’t it beautiful that #scomofo rejects the nickname given to him by voters of #scottyfrommarketting but was the one who initially came up with his own nickname (yea, that’s not how it works)

Get out and shake some hands #scottyfrommarketting

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOcLo4tU8AITpSc?format=jpg&name=4096×4096

why do they lie, cheat and steal all the time?

Following on the great tradition

(How good’s opposition?

‘Labor, Labor, Labor.’)

the usual LNP victims the weak, the sick, the young, the old, the carers, the homeless, the disabled and the diggers …

Typical misleading and deceitful comment from a ALP supporter

Labor: The government is not doing enough on climate change!
Reporter: What should they be doing?
Labor: We’ll let you know in two years.

Probably informed by a …………. national conversation 😉

Oh, and to see how far back the libs have set us in regards to emissions

it’s not just twitter and the media.

Nope, it’s murdoch, sports rorts, palmer, and the influence his $60million will buy to trick people to vote against their own self interests

https://www.nation.co.ke/news/How-Raila-lost-last-two-elections/1056-5406504-li6jnwz/index.html

(note to self: pay the infuencers, they live up to their name)

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/24/726536757/episode-915-how-to-meddle-in-an-election

Not stoopid, but deceived

“Deceived”

Voter’s decided they didn’t like key policies that were uncosted. They weren’t informed of the economic impact, the effect on tax or even whether it would be effective.

Then their was the tax change on retirees. The ALP said – “if you don’t like it, don’t vote for us”

Voters noted the advice and didn’t vote for them. It’s a complete copy out to suggest that voters were fooled or deceived.

That ALP treated voters with contempt. So blame the ALP for the loss.

It’s absolute nonsense to suggest voters were deceived. For that to be true, it would mean people like TB and Tom R are more insightful (or something) than other voters.

That is clearly not the case

They weren’t informed of the economic impact, the effect on tax or even whether it would be effective.

Do you mean the libs policy? How much did that cost again?

I mean in their answers to the press, not the reality, which, for the policy, has turned out to be zilch, since they didn’t do shit, but the repercussions of not doing shit have been enormous

Yep, the ALP proposed an ambitious target for emission reduction. This was one of their key election commitments.

They didn’t know how much it would cost, or what the economic impact would be. But we now know that the objective was to have Australia take the moral high ground.

I mean…really? And reb, TB and Tom R think people were deceived into acting against their own interests!!

That was the ALP preaching to their choir, and presuming the result was a forgone conclusion.

And reb, TB and Tom R think people were deceived into acting against their own interests!!

yea, palmer spent $60million cos he likes his head on facebook ads, right 😉

Hey, at least the #crimeminister stopped people calling him #ScottyfromMarketing (for the time being at least)

And if not, why not?

Buggered if I know 😯

I’m working on a poem…

https://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?Word=Fuck off&typeofrhyme=perfect

I’m working on a poem…

The rhyme was supposed to be with f*** off, because that’s my preferred apology.

so it’s reasonable to ask which of the top emitters might have been persuaded to change their own domestic policy because of the more ambitious ALP target?

See, yor definition of ‘reasonable’ doesn’t really match any dictionary definition that I can come across.

On a totally related topic

‘A common and in my opinion a very improvident practice, which will probably be continued, is the constant burning of the forest and scrubs. This proceeding has only a temporary beneficial effect in regard to the improvement of the pasture by the springing up of young grass in places so cleared, for after a year or so the scrub and underwood spring up more densely than ever…’.

https://meanjin.com.au/blog/the-unlearned-country/

That looks like the performing arts centre Scotch College built with the stimulus cash from Swan

built with the stimulus cash from Swan

You mean the stimulus money that EVERYBODY got, regardless of class, voting intentions or religious disposition, that saved us from the GFC?

THAT stimulus money?

“I wish to register a complaint about this Python I bought not half an hour ago. He’s stone dead. He’s ceased to be. He’s expired and gone to meet his maker. He is no more. He is an ex-Python.”

….

“He came from nothing, he’s gone back to nothing. Whats he lost?… Nothing!

Worse things happen at sea ya know!”

lol tosy, coming from sky news and claiming other outlets are partisan ROFL

I’m not saying you’re wrong, the smh etc (even their abc) have gone to the darkside big time, they just don’t do the hyperbowl like murdor does.

yea, the Governments bugle will be the first to know 😉

Today. So?

OK Boomer

[facepalm]

Just sack the fucken lot

Guardian and the Saturday Paper are about the only two I can think of. Not perfect, but they at least try

It’s a whinge from the left. The fact is that tehre is far more access to a diversity of news, political analysis and commentary than ever before. Everyone can be a political commentator, even TB.

Just use google and you’ll see the diversity…

https://www.google.com/search?q=current+affairs%2C+politics%2C+political+comment%2C+news&rlz=1C5CHFA_enAU820AU830&oq=current+affairs%2C+politics%2C+political+comment%2C+news&aqs=chrome..69i57.17593j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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It’s about 40 years since I first visited the UK, I was amazed that each newspaper was clearly partisan. THere wasn’t even an attempt to appear non aligned.

People bought the newspapers that reinforced their political orientation, the papers didn’t change people’s vote.

Back then in Australia, Fairfax was left leaning and the HWT was for sport.

These days the media tends to look a little more like that of the UK 40 years ago. It;s crap to think that the public is so easily manipulated. People just read or listen to the media outlets that they will tend to agree with.
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And by the way, have a look at the anti Trump campaigns run by the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. Does anyone seriously think that they are doing anything other than reflecting the politics of California, and New York State?

Yea, apples and oranges

accounted for 23% of the newspaper titles in Australia.

Of course, the number of actual newpapers read, sold or given away is a different story, isn’t it.

News Corporation is the largest newspaper publisher in Australia, with a total audited circulation of 17.3 million newspapers, according to company figures — a 59 percent market share. (Its next closest competitor, Fairfax Media, had total audited distribution of 6.3 million papers, for 22 percent of the market.)

Let’s not forget that farfax is just a pale copy of ltdnews these days, and that before that, it was just a spruiker for the housing industry, and has always been anti-union.

I haven’t read much of the New Daily TB, but it doesn’t seem too bad from my limited exposure.

And what does it say about the other 77% of titles that, between them all, they have only a 41% market share?

It says that most of them our out in the sticks where murdoch doesn’t want/need to push his ignorance. As you highlighted, when it comes to cities, he has a far higher ‘title’ share there. I mean, in little old Adelaide, we have one print paper, which continues to congratulate itself on being the top one lol

It says they are not attractive to a broad audience.

Just because he killed the competition doesn’t mean it’s a good, or popular, paper. Consider the drop in circulation he’s experiencing.

Of course, his little deal with facebook will keep his influence over voters strong. 😉

Fuck you right wing racist pricks, really

The Australian Federal Police has confirmed it has dismissed an allegation author Bruce Pascoe had financially benefitted by falsely claiming he is Indigenous.

Mr Bolt has himself repeatedly questioned Mr Pascoe’s Indigenous heritage.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/claims-bruce-pascoe-lied-about-indigenous-heritage-dismissed-by-afp?cid=news:socialshare:twitter

So fragile and precious that someone writing a historical book shatters their world. Of course Aborigines couldn’t farm, savages [sarc]

what I found frustrating was actually finding any meaningful stats after 2013

If you don’t like the results, hide ’em 😉

Bad news consumers.

But Things … Can only Get Better.

… Can Only Get Better …

Power prices set to rise and blackouts increase as bushfire seasons become more ferocious
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-23/power-prices-rise-blackouts-increase-bushfire-season-intensifies/11890646

DAMN WIND MILLS