Re: The observation and asides thread
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2021 8:35 pm
Well that was a hell of a morning in Traralgon. I'm exhausted. And more bad weather to come as well. that sucks.
Well my car is a right off. Good old Holdens though. IT STARTED and the towy drove it out from the underground car park. He said it's definitely water logged.spot wrote: ↑Wed Jun 09, 2021 11:35 pm It looks very wet on the news channels. At least it's not fire this time. And if the wind has stopped, that's good too.
Lots to clear up though. Seven inches of rain overnight isn't going to just soak away. I like the understated tone of Victorian SES commander Jackson Bell - "it will be days to come in the clean up that’s for sure".
https://thenewdaily.com.au/weather/2021 ... eek-flood/
And "Authorities warned the floodwater is 'toxic' and urged people never to play or swim in floodwater" - is that down to mining, or is it just general?
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/breaki ... 1623307752
I was overtaken near Redruth by five police motorbikes riding in formation like a display team doing 70mph in the fast lane. There's only two lanes along that bit so they were pretty close to each other. The boy practically applauded, it certainly got his attention.Betty Boop wrote: ↑Wed Jun 09, 2021 1:49 pm G bloody 7
Not going anywhere far from home for the duration of this event, everywhere is crawling with police, is it over yet.
https://unherd.com/2021/06/the-prostitu ... X6S4iQDM0A
not sure that's a good idea under the global circumstances.G7 leaders sit awkwardly as ‘media circus’ pushed out of meeting room
World leaders attending the G7 summmit in Cornwall were forced to deal with an awkward moment on Friday, as members of the media were ushered out of the meeting room ahead of talks. Addressing the media, prime minister Boris Johnson said: “This is meant to be a fireside chat ... it’s turned into a gigantic media circus in which we have to greet each other several times.”
US president Joe Biden and German chancellor Angela Merkel are among those attending the event, which will see discussions take place on issues such as climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.
It was never a good idea pandemic or not. Would make an amazing comedy plot, no one would believe it.magentaflame wrote: ↑Sat Jun 12, 2021 8:45 pmnot sure that's a good idea under the global circumstances.G7 leaders sit awkwardly as ‘media circus’ pushed out of meeting room
World leaders attending the G7 summmit in Cornwall were forced to deal with an awkward moment on Friday, as members of the media were ushered out of the meeting room ahead of talks. Addressing the media, prime minister Boris Johnson said: “This is meant to be a fireside chat ... it’s turned into a gigantic media circus in which we have to greet each other several times.”
US president Joe Biden and German chancellor Angela Merkel are among those attending the event, which will see discussions take place on issues such as climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.
but it brings my mind back to the Chasers....
Spot you could have stunted this.
And, finally, sentencing. Five years in jail for one of the wantons, and four years for the other. For some reason they haven't been banned from driving for life, I believe they ought to have been.spot wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 7:11 amThe interim injunction now has a two year extension. That's a start.spot wrote: ↑Wed Aug 12, 2020 6:58 amAnd the council has, finally, reacted.spot wrote: ↑Sat Jul 11, 2020 4:13 am
And the selfish antisocial gits are out in force this weekend again. Same place, same people, same disruption. All the council says is oh soz, we couldn't get an injunction because of the virus. Nonsense, mister councillor, that's as idle inept an excuse as anyone ever came up with.
Steph Ansell, co-organiser of the event, disagrees with Cllr Taylor, arguing the car enthusiast community shouldn’t be “tarnished with the same brush”.
In a joint statement with Herts Car Society’s co-owner, Ty Dell, they said: “What happened last year at the Cruise-Herts meet was completely devastating.
“I witnessed it myself and would never want anything like that happening again. That being said, it was a freak, terrible accident caused by two people out of thousands.”
https://www.thecomet.net/news/stevenage ... -1-6740261
No Steph, it wasn't a freak, terrible accident caused by two people out of thousands. Go and look at the photos of the skid marks in the car park. Every meet you ever had ends up covered in skid marks like those, local residents have to suffer through it time after time, and that's the direct collective fault of the organizers. Do you know why I'm harping on? I have tinnitus and I'm constantly having to cover my ears with my hands when your blasted "car enthusiasts" drive up the main street, foot down, minimal muffling and filthy thousand-watt rap echoing off the shop-fronts. I have no idea why noise emissions aren't a standard part of the MOT, none of you should be on the road in the first place.
And not before time either.The future of car cruises in Stevenage will be decided at High Court later this month, as the council has applied for an injunction that would ban car cruising in the town.
Although certain hotspots have been used for car meets in the past, including Roaring Meg car park, Fairlands Valley and Monkswood Way, the injunction will seek to ban car meets in the entire district of Stevenage.
Steph Ansell, co-founder of Herts Car Society, believes this is another example of the car enthusiast community being “tarnished with the same brush”.
When was the last time the Herts Car Society had an event and didn't leave skid marks at the venue? Try to be honest, Steph. Your idealized picture of an event is not reality and you know it.
The future of illegal “car cruising” in Stevenage has taken a further hit, as a court extended its ban in the town for at least two more years.
Following a hearing on Monday, December 7, Luton County Court made the decision to extend the injunction against participating in a car cruise – namely to be a driver or passenger in a motor vehicle.
https://www.thecomet.net/news/luton-cou ... -1-6956877
Perhaps next time they could charge the organizers and other participants too.The council now have an injunction in place that will provide police with powers to prevent the kind of activity that caused the accident and we are working with them to enforce this legislation.
https://www.hertsad.co.uk/news/monkswoo ... ve-8052950
Video: Webs blanket southern Australia as spiders swarm to safety from floods
Thousands of spiders and their webs have blanketed bushland in Australia's state of Victoria, after heavy rain and flooding hit the region.
The spiders moved to higher ground to escape the saturated ground, local media reported, spinning giant cobwebs in order to shelter themselves from the damp.
https://metro.co.uk/video/webs-blanket- ... s-2441459/
Intrepid Change.org user launches petition to make Jeff Bezos' space trip one-way
https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/16/ ... eading-top
spot wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:20 am
You haven't mentioned this yet...
Video: Webs blanket southern Australia as spiders swarm to safety from floods
Thousands of spiders and their webs have blanketed bushland in Australia's state of Victoria, after heavy rain and flooding hit the region.
The spiders moved to higher ground to escape the saturated ground, local media reported, spinning giant cobwebs in order to shelter themselves from the damp.
https://metro.co.uk/video/webs-blanket- ... s-2441459/
yeah isn't it pretty. It's created a tourist attraction. ..nice eh? I'ts like spiders saying ...screw you silkworms
Joanne Anderson, the mayor of Liverpool, called on the committee to defer any decision for 12 months and said deletion would be "hugely unfair".
"We need [committee members] to see Bramley Moore Dock with their own eyes - physically or virtually," she said.
Ms Anderson said to strip the city of its World Heritage status would be a "missed opportunity in demonstrating to the world that heritage and regeneration are not mutually exclusive".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-m ... e-57556884
People wanted for planting in the fields for 6 weeks, start asap. Good rates of pay, own transport needed.
Betty Boop wrote: ↑Sat Jun 26, 2021 11:31 am Seen on facebook...
People wanted for planting in the fields for 6 weeks, start asap. Good rates of pay, own transport needed.
will they double in size??
(This is what they didn't refer to)
Black Widow reunited in 2007 after a 34-year hiatus and are touting a new studio album, the gleefully preposterous Sleeping with Demons. They remain very much the godfathers of occult rock, and their anthem Come to the Sabbat is the only song from that first era that had any discernible impact on the rock mainstream. Their supremely cheerful frontman Clive Jones is happy to admit to his own spiritualist beliefs and fascination with witchcraft, but also concedes that Black Widow abandoned the path of darkness fairly quickly after their 1970 debut seemed to cast its own shadow of negativity over their ambitions.
"After Sacrifice we had to change direction and I didn't want to do that, but we'd had lots of bad luck," he recalls. "We were banned by the BBC and they wouldn't play the records. We were going to tour in America but Charles Manson did what they called his 'black magic murders' and suddenly we weren't allowed in. Our management looked after Black Sabbath at the time, too, and sent them in our place. Now we're back to the black magic, but this time we wanted to show that black magic can be fun. It's not all worshipping the devil and sacrificing sheep."
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/ ... idow-ghost
Did the taxi driver reciprocate?magentaflame wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 7:24 am I just had one of those "teacher /mum" moments. I just said to my taxi driver... " luv ya bye"..............WTF?
Not even sure if he heard me....its just the fact that i knew id said it. Lolcars wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 9:03 amDid the taxi driver reciprocate?magentaflame wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 7:24 am I just had one of those "teacher /mum" moments. I just said to my taxi driver... " luv ya bye"..............WTF?
Wow, they lived just round the corner.spot wrote: ↑Wed Jun 30, 2021 6:26 am You need to be ancient to blink at this link on the BBC news website, but I definitely blinked.
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(This is what they didn't refer to)
Black Widow reunited in 2007 after a 34-year hiatus and are touting a new studio album, the gleefully preposterous Sleeping with Demons. They remain very much the godfathers of occult rock, and their anthem Come to the Sabbat is the only song from that first era that had any discernible impact on the rock mainstream. Their supremely cheerful frontman Clive Jones is happy to admit to his own spiritualist beliefs and fascination with witchcraft, but also concedes that Black Widow abandoned the path of darkness fairly quickly after their 1970 debut seemed to cast its own shadow of negativity over their ambitions.
"After Sacrifice we had to change direction and I didn't want to do that, but we'd had lots of bad luck," he recalls. "We were banned by the BBC and they wouldn't play the records. We were going to tour in America but Charles Manson did what they called his 'black magic murders' and suddenly we weren't allowed in. Our management looked after Black Sabbath at the time, too, and sent them in our place. Now we're back to the black magic, but this time we wanted to show that black magic can be fun. It's not all worshipping the devil and sacrificing sheep."
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/ ... idow-ghost
Excellent match, she played well.magentaflame wrote: ↑Sat Jul 10, 2021 2:37 pm ASH BARTY!!!! YOU GO GIRL!
"Take us through that last point"........
"I don't remember it"
She's so cute.
She's practiced at it. It's her superpower. If you've ever heard of Piers Morgan or late-onset Christopher Hitchens, they're three of a kind. All three fall into the same famous for being famous category as Donald Trump.magentaflame wrote: ↑Sun Jul 18, 2021 4:54 pm Some woman called katie hopkins? How to become the most hated woman on Australian soil. Bloody hell! Deport her immediately!
Well, there it went, they had the meeting at UNESCO and Liverpool has been delisted.spot wrote: ↑Mon Jun 21, 2021 4:45 pmHow does the constant traffic of a ninety thousand seat football stadium fit with a heritage site, for god's sake. Two years back "Liverpool City Council said it could preserve the area's character while carrying out regeneration"? How about not filling in the docks instead, they weren't just history, they were your asset.
The UN agency said development such as Liverpool Waters, a £5.5bn project by Peel Group to transform previously disused land, had led to a “serious deterioration and irreversible loss” to the area’s outstanding universal value along with “significant loss to its authenticity and integrity”.
It said that as a result of these projects the waterfront had “deteriorated to the extent that it has lost characteristics” that led to its inclusion on the world heritage list in 2004.
The proposal to build Everton’s new riverside football stadium at Bramley-Moore dock would “add to the ascertained threat of further deterioration and loss” of its historic value.
The decision was met with dismay by Liverpool city leaders. Joanne Anderson, the city mayor, said she was “hugely disappointed and concerned” and that the council would consider lodging an appeal.
She said it had been a decade since Unesco last visited the city “to see it with their own eyes” and it was “incomprehensible” that Unesco would rather see Bramley-Moore dock as a “derelict wasteland” than as a gleaming new football stadium that would attract hundreds of thousands of visitors.
She added: “Our world heritage site has never been in better condition having benefited from hundreds of millions of pounds of investment across dozens of listed buildings and the public realm.”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... age-status
Ahh yes ....Morgan and Hitchens. They do like to argue don't they? This Katie woman though....Vulgar I thought. Well if that's how she stays in the media I shall not talk nought about her again.spot wrote: ↑Mon Jul 19, 2021 12:02 amShe's practiced at it. It's her superpower. If you've ever heard of Piers Morgan or late-onset Christopher Hitchens, they're three of a kind. All three fall into the same famous for being famous category as Donald Trump.magentaflame wrote: ↑Sun Jul 18, 2021 4:54 pm Some woman called katie hopkins? How to become the most hated woman on Australian soil. Bloody hell! Deport her immediately!
eta: here we are, I've seen the report. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-57883692
She's easy enough to ignore in England. Words associated with her are "professional troll" and "pantomime villain". What else can I see... "reality TV's very own Adolf Hitler", lifetime Twitter ban, all sorts.
From 2015: "A petition calling on the Government to 'swap' Katie Hopkins for 50,000 refugees from Syria has won 10,000 backers in 24 hours. The petition was launched two days ago on Change.org but has rapidly picked up signatures over the past few hours."
And https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/ ... libel-case
So. She has to be vile to keep her name in front of an appalled public, because it's how she makes her living. She doesn't seem to be very good at that bit.
That's the case for every vaccine ever developed.magentaflame wrote: ↑Fri Aug 20, 2021 10:55 pm So you get both doses of the vaccine and you can still spread it, get sick and die...........I really didn't need to hear that.
Well, yes, you can still be exposed to the thing by infected people.magentaflame wrote: ↑Fri Aug 20, 2021 10:55 pm So you get both doses of the vaccine and you can still spread it, get sick and die...........I really didn't need to hear that.
Paul “Pen” Farthing, who founded an animal shelter in Kabul, has made it through the airport’s security and is awaiting a flight out of Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.
The former Royal Marine and his supporters had been campaigning to get his staff from the Nowzad charity shelter as well as their families, 140 dogs and 60 cats evacuated from the country in a plan he named Operation Ark.
In a tweet posted on Friday evening, the MoD said: “Pen Farthing and his pets were assisted through the system at Kabul airport by the UK armed forces. They are currently being supported while he awaits transportation.”
It added: “On the direction of the defence secretary, clearance for their charter flight has been sponsored by the UK government.”
The MoD did not mention the situation regarding Nowzad staff and their families.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... evacuation
The founder of an animal shelter in Afghanistan is "safe" after leaving the country, his charity has said.
Paul "Pen" Farthing was attempting to get his staff and rescue animals out of Kabul when they became caught up in Thursday's airport bomb blasts.
Mr Farthing's charity Nowzad confirmed he and his animals left the country on Saturday without his staff.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-58370218
In the recorded message, reportedly sent on Monday, Farthing threatened to “destroy” Quentin on social media if he did not help arrange the evacuation.
He said: “I just found out that is you blocking me getting this flight out of Afghanistan for my staff and the animals. So here’s the deal buddy. You either get me that fucking Isaf number and you get me permission to get on to that fucking airfield, or tomorrow morning I’m going to turn on you and the whole fucking country, and everybody else who’s invested in this rescue, is going to know it’s you, you, blocking this fucking move. Alright?”
He continued: “I will get my staff out of here and I’ll get so many other people out of here on this flight and then the dogs and cats are going in the cargo hold. Nobody can sit in the cargo hold, only the animals.”
Farthing demanded paperwork saying his staff had been “approved”, otherwise he was “going to spend the rest of my time fucking destroying you on social media and every other fucking platform I can find.”
He said he had served for 22 years in the Royal Marines and he was “not taking this bollocks from people like you who are blocking me”.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... evacuation
But speaking to LBC on Saturday, Foreign Affairs Select Committee chair Tom Tugendhat said: "The difficulty is getting people into and out of the airport and we've just used a lot of troops to bring in 200 dogs, meanwhile my interpreter's family are likely to be killed.
"As one interpreter asked me a few days ago 'why is my five-year-old worth less than your dog?'," the Conservative MP added.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-58370218
On Monday, Farthing told ITV’s Good Morning Britain: “I’m incredibly embarrassed about my language, I do apologise to everybody who’s listened to that. I was at the lowest point I could possibly be. I understand how the world works but emotions got the better of me, so for all those who had to listen to that I do apologise for my language.
“I should not have said it like that, but the sentiment, yes, I was just incredibly upset, angry, frustrated, it was the lowest point. I had no other option, I didn’t know what else to do.”
Farthing’s Operation Ark campaign attracted attention on social media but Wallace complained it was distracting from the focus on evacuating the most vulnerable out of Afghanistan.
Wallace previously said Ministry of Defence staff had faced abuse from Farthing’s supporters.
[...] Farthing added he was the only person on the flight but he was told there was “enough capacity” to get the remaining people in the airport out.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... evacuation
He said he wanted them and their direct family members evacuated with him and accepted as refugees in the UK.
"My staff don't deserve the fate that awaits them if they stay here in Afghanistan," Farthing told Reuters in an interview from Kabul.
"I had an opportunity, the fact that I am a British citizen, I'm going to use that to full effect - so I've said I'm not going until my staff leave this country," he continued.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-paci ... 021-08-20/
And we're on flood watch again apparently.spot wrote: ↑Wed Jun 09, 2021 11:35 pm It looks very wet on the news channels. At least it's not fire this time. And if the wind has stopped, that's good too.
Lots to clear up though. Seven inches of rain overnight isn't going to just soak away. I like the understated tone of Victorian SES commander Jackson Bell - "it will be days to come in the clean up that’s for sure".
https://thenewdaily.com.au/weather/2021 ... eek-flood/
And "Authorities warned the floodwater is 'toxic' and urged people never to play or swim in floodwater" - is that down to mining, or is it just general?
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/breaki ... 1623307752
That's a good public announcement site though. Round here the best you'd find is sporadic information in the local newspaper.magentaflame wrote: ↑Sat Sep 04, 2021 12:13 am And we're on flood watch again apparently.
https://emergency.vic.gov.au/public/eve ... F8547.html
Hopefully by Monday it'll be fine.
And local - we had the Gippsland radio lady on the news this morning telling how nobody knew Gippsland could do that, and it was the biggest since the British sailed into Botany Bay, and that even Tasmanians felt it.magentaflame wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 4:31 pm OOHHH ...earthquake Whilst I'm sitting here.
Noisy things aren't they?
magnitude 6....interesting we're not near any plates
What a nonsense.spot wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 12:03 amAnd local - we had the Gippsland radio lady on the news this morning telling how nobody knew Gippsland could do that, and it was the biggest since the British sailed into Botany Bay, and that even Tasmanians felt it.magentaflame wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 4:31 pm OOHHH ...earthquake Whilst I'm sitting here.
Noisy things aren't they?
magnitude 6....interesting we're not near any plates
Any Fracking sites near you?magentaflame wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 4:31 pm OOHHH ...earthquake Whilst I'm sitting here.
Noisy things aren't they?
magnitude 6....interesting we're not near any plates
magentaflame wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 3:12 pmWhat a nonsense.spot wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 12:03 amAnd local - we had the Gippsland radio lady on the news this morning telling how nobody knew Gippsland could do that, and it was the biggest since the British sailed into Botany Bay, and that even Tasmanians felt it.magentaflame wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 4:31 pm OOHHH ...earthquake Whilst I'm sitting here.
Noisy things aren't they?
magnitude 6....interesting we're not near any plates
All of these have their epicentre in Gippsland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_e ... _Australia
Alpine National Park 1904-04-10 5.0
Bass Strait 1946-09-15 6.2
Mt Hotham 1966-05-04 5.5
Boolarra, Victoria 1969-06-20 5.3
Wonnangatta, Victoria 1982-11-21 5.4
Mount Baw Baw 1996-09-25 5.0
Boolarra, Victoria 2000-08-29 5.0
Gippsland 2012-06-19 5.4
Mansfield, Victoria 2021-09-22 5.9
And that's not all of them.
The thing is, just because an epicentre might be on the other side of the state doesn't mean lots of other places won't feel it. On this very forum years ago I wrote how to get teenage boys off a couch.....just throw an earthquake at them. I still remember that wave through the floor boards. It may have been the 2012 one but I'm not sure.
Interestingly it's not the earthquake itself that does the damage but the depth that it happens at. This one was ten Km down. It's epicentre was in the mountains in the middle of nowhere.
My youngest ... god bless 'im. He spoke to his partners mother in Chile, afterward. She laughed at him for being scared of a little rumble lol. She could tell him a thing or two about earthquakes I'm sure. lol
The Australian city of Melbourne experienced its strongest earthquake in more than a century on Wednesday - but many people appeared surprisingly unfazed.
One resident said he thought the 5.9 magnitude quake was his neighbours doing a "high intensity workout".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-australia-58655306