http://youtu.be/eaw4Em6nVpU
Making sense of 2017 (Hint: alcohol is a must)
Making sense of 2017 (Hint: alcohol is a must)
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Deep Throat Downer.
The fish-net honey trap
Tops TV! Made my day!
My favourite tweet today TV “trying to outdrink an Australian shows an appalling lack of strategy”.
Makes me proud….
Yeah noticed that Penny
I didn’t think drinking in a Wine Bar could get you in so much trouble , poor George Pop. …
Alexander Downer finishing the year on a high note, ( NY.Times ) ….
The wonderful timeless wit of the Goons, Mr Insider with a classic skit from years gone by called “What Time Is It Eccles?” What an era that was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tjHlFPTwVk
Finally got a chance to watch the video Jack. I’ll raise a glass to Bill and Mark tonight too.
Good man, TV.
yes, TV, we did that for Bill, and we watched the video of his book launch just a day or so earlier.
great man
Well done Alexander!! What else can one say? Now we understand the need to come home. Bloody glorious. 🙂
Sigh. The year ends as it began with many living in bizarro world. “Henry Blofeld says: December 27, 2017 at 3:21 pm.Thank god you and I live in QLD Milton those South Australian chaps certainly are doing it tough down there mega watt and mega $$$$$ wise. Cheers”
The price of power in QLD is $70 per MW/hr in SA it is $53 per MW/hr. But those from QLD think $70 is less than $53. No Surprises. Bizarro world up there.
Spot prices?
Sigh. The year begins as the last ended with QLD’ers living in bizzaro world SA has cheaper power than QLD, Vic and NSW for the last 6 months SA has had even cheaper power across domestic and commercial it has had lower increases over the last decade than the old coal states and the latest reports expects further price drops over the next 2 years due to Renewables. Data, stats, facts don’t matter. A new day a new year but the same old trogs denying everything that does not re-confirm their already held false fixed ideals. Very sad. Time for the cons to get smart in more ways than one. Not sure if that is possible. No surprises.
An issue Sir! Your penultimate sentence appears to infer that the conservatives are “smart” in one way. Without delving too deeply into semantics would you kindly elaborate on that impulse to place “smart” and “con” in such dubious proximity.
A happy new year to you Sir and do please , with all the enthusiasm you can muster, whop it up ’em.
I wasnt going to bother with it anymore, but one for the road:
https://www.qt.com.au/topic/power-outage/
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SA hasnt had a problem for over twelve months, one big storm, no problems since, yet Queensland cant seem to keep the lights on anywhere. Every time the wind blows and they have a bit of rain, its all off and all over. And have you seen their power poles? Talk about primitive. They look like treated pine, lol, could they really be? Dears, its called a ‘stobie’ (google it) and they have been around since the sixties! And yet somehow, in the scrambled little east coast brains they continue to scream on about us. Baffling really, so ‘backwoods’,. I think they (the pollies and others) keep pushing the ‘look at SA’ scam going just so people wont look at how shyte it is over there. So many power outs, so little publicity. One would have to wonder why.
Fair crack of the whip wraith, they invented the Stobie because there aren’t any trees in SA.
Ah Wraith, good to see that SA’s major export of preciousness is still in abundance.
Anyone who thinks the Stobie was a great invention should themselves be certified. It was not quite as TV suggests, a lack of trees, but more the voracious appetite of the local termites. How two pieces of railway like metal separated by a lump of concrete can be celebrated is beyond me. The extent of damage done by such poles to vehicles who collide with the them has to be seen to be believed. Then not long ago SA Power Networks were complaining about the cost of repairing the poles, up to $150k per pole. Incredible.
Now don’t get me started about the quaint local practice of reinforcing blue stone house walls with pieces of rail line, and pretending it is somehow aesthetically masterful.
I know it’s spectacular and all that, but $7million on fireworks in Sydney Harbour seems obscene.
That’s because fireworks are exactly that Boadicea; an obscene waste of money. Money that shoulda/coulda been directed to other areas like hospitals or education or heaven forbid I mention the poor & the rising homelessness.
But hey, wasting gazillions of dollars on sky explosives that terrify our pets & keeps the citizens minds turned off to those realities, is the only game in town.
Take care B & Happy New Year to you.
Bread and circuses for the mushies Bella/ Boadicea.
Thusly, render unto them heaps. Carpe annum.
And Carpe cerevisi for those so inclined.
I watched the Vic extravaganza last night from Shinboner territory and I thought for a bit that there were bombs IN the hospitals. In the park next door it seems. Bad luck if you’re in a critical condition and need plenty of rest.
Pets aside, I think that Sydney has a certain economic spinoff from the fireworks.
Yep, the tourist dollar TV a lot time their visit to Sydney especially to see the NYE fireworks before heading home.
Oops, Happy New Year everyone🎉
Its a piffling amount of money in the scheme of things. And again, why should everyone else have a crap time of it all just because we have poor and homeless. So over the cry babies. Upset? Go volunteer in a shelter or something, you’ll get the ‘warm fuzzies’ you are looking for in an emotional payoff, and you can leave the rest of us in peace.
People worried about pets shouldnt leave them on New Years, or at least secure them safely. Its called owner responsibility.
So life is a “crap time” without fireworks? Now I’m depressed.
Oh dear. Leave the rest of you in peace! What are you talking about exactly?
Don’t tell me the do-gooders are coming around banging on your door and demanding you focus on issues that you are uncomfortable with? Sacre bluey!
Call the police! Sue them for emotional injury! Don’t take it lying down wraith!
Great vid Jack, enjoyed it too much, you certainly sounded like you were enjoying it as well, despite the lack of “New”. Funny you mention the beer situation, stopped in at the local yesterday for a quick schooner and found Tooheys New the only real choice on tap, no Vic beer, which I have a liking for, and not even the dreaded “barbed wire beer” on tap, sorry Milton. Used to love XXXX Draught in bottles and stubbies, ah, halcyon days, must have gone when the ownership went from Bondie to over the pond. Had a schooner of Stella there last time it was just awful, and $8.50 thanks for coming.
Quite agree with James’ comment, (he seems quite the character!), that 2017 should be wiped off the calendar. Disastrous personally, and a lot of losses to the yartz. Guy who said “life is short, art is long” never said a truer word.
http://tinyurl.com/y8pmjv6o
Here’s hoping 2018 is a better year, and sincerely hope all on here had a great Christmas. If you go out tonight, don’t over indulge too much, it’s a crazy world out there. Better off staying at home or maybe going a few doors up the road to friends, which we will be doing. Cheers to all!
Likewise Mack. Go well in 2018.
Pots in Melbourne are over $6! I must be way out of touch?
I’ve not heard the term “pot” for years, maybe because it is a while since I’ve been in Victoria?
Anyway, I recall a sign in the pub in Tilba on the NSW South Coast many years ago (an area well frequented by Mexicans during holidays).
It went along the lines of – Here we serve middies, not pots, Pots are the things that babies s%^t in.
I drink Tun….28bux for a block of 30 cans ar Dan Murphys….cheap beer and tastes great to me I was always aKB can and VB drinker but this tastes so similar I thought I would save a few bux and so I have stuck with it.My favourite drink is Contreau with lemon juice and ice….absolute nectar from the Godz!
Agree with your sentiments Bella .. an obscene waste of money which could have been directed to health education food in tummies and roof over heads but hey throw the peasants some entertainment .. or rather it is ‘let them eat cake’ .. albeit once a year
Right on Desali. A bon bon tossed to the slack jawed custard brain “ooh ah” gawkers who encourage the producers of intellectually corrosive reality television. If they want fireworks they should stay home and get a bit of exercise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu1UXCdyNo0&list=RDwu1UXCdyNo0&t=6
Give ’em heaps.
I also loved the XXXX Draught in the bottles Mack. Used to have the little keg on the label. Oh the memories!
A very Happy New Year to everyone – and good health – especially to those amongst us who have been dealing with issues.
Thanks Jack for your tolerance of us lunatics
Will be sitting on a Sydney-Hobart yacht drinking wine (thanks to “you know who you are”) – with a front row seat for the fireworks and will have a mental toast to you all. Very windy today but hopefully will die down later.
Love and hisses
Boa
HNY, Yvonne.
Looks like Trump’s learning the true meaning of ‘Downer’. How weird can things get.
But all good, Brandis is on the way.