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........firing some virtual reality 50 calibre sniper shots at Onetick..tick..tick......................................................

Farmers are becoming aware of the changes . They all keep records  and know exactly what's going on.

 

Yes they do. About a decade ago we were advised to stop sewing rye grass and plant demeta fescue to suit the higher, global warming, temperatures.

What happens to be waving its head on our paddocks this year? Rye grass.

 How do you compete with people who don't pay the correct rates? Some specialist coffee shop brand tried to do it by the rules in Melbourne and went broke. Low paid workers spend ALL of their income. Starve that section of the economy of money and you will get a recession. Isn't that what's happening NOW? Restaurants pay such low rates their staff could never eat out. Nev

 

What was its name?

........charged..........

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......very touch, and that’s when he gets into trouble.....

........who in realty needs Turbo to tie his shoelaces each morning.

However, the Captain is a good man at heart, and certainly not born with that dog in the manger streak you see in WA people.

Turbo had bought a Carbon Cub (possible avref) and spent yesterday doing low passes over a nearby airfield scraping each wingtip in turn on the ground as they do at Oskosh (avref?). He was irritated at how boring it was, and decided to sell it and buy something you could fly straight and at altitude, and would normally have let this slip by, but now must point out that in trying to correct the Captain, OneSack has made a mistake of his own; the name of the villain was actually Abo Fakir Bashir.

fakir is defined as a Muslim (or loosely Hindu) religious ascetic who lives soley on alms. In other words he works with his hands, so could be a tradie.

Fakirs are prevalent in the Middle East and South Asia (Western Australia)

AFB had a large family; there was his wife Mother Fakir, and six little Fakirs all attending the Fremantle Primary School. 

Unfortunately AFB had picked up a lot of WA habits and it was him who had put out the rumour about false invoices at Kapooka which Onetack might not know is a RAAF Base. That in turn triggered an investigation by Defence Minister Marie Celeste, a friend of Captains. The Minister decided on a fact finding mission to WA, and booked in to the Parmelia Hilton.......

.......but before he could pour what he was going to pour where he was going to pour or say what he intended to say, Turbo put a vicelike grip around his shoulders and said "Come with me old friend, we have an appointment forst thing in the morning....................."

Not many people know that at the real cutting edge of the grape harvester there are combs to guide the grapes into the cutters, and harvesting goes on 24 hours a day, so from time to time sleeping birds, possums and various spiders find their way in with the grapes which are then crushed. You can tell a wine where the bird poulation is high from its more fruity taste. There's no harm in this extra fauna load because after the grape juice has been crushed out it goes through the distilling process where all bacteria are killed.

It's important to keep that in mind when we explained that fiur years ago, Turbo, an avid follower of a green society and recycling wherever possible realised he could capture the excretions from the cats and pipe it into vats, which he had been selling to WA wineries in ever increasing quantities. You didn't have to grow grapes, you didn't have to crush grapes, so all the wineries had to do was pipe it from the vat to the distillery. The taste, once it had aged for a few years, was delicious, or that's what the wine makers said. It wasn't very woody, but the acidity made up for that. The forward thinking wineries which had bought Turbo's new propduct were owned by the Bashir family.......

.....being a lateral thinker fitted them with 10 hp Evinrude outboards, attached by a special harness. They got to the bakery about noon, and marched down the street. ABB saw them coming and fearlessly marched out into the street to face them.

The Seals went for their guns; ABB went for his buns.

It was over in six throws with the Seals laid out cold. 

There was general laughter from the verandahs along the street. "told you his scones were like rocks" said  Youseph Abdullah.

ABB turned to face..........

Since this has to be done when fires don't burn properly it would be a serious amount of smoke. Have seen the Sydney basin filled with smoke from just a few hazard reductions. 

 

This is a good point; these days we are aware that PM10 and PM2.5 particulates cause lung cancer and a lot of people die blaming smoking cigarette or passive smoke inhalation, but these particulates take their toll too.

Yes we could burn everything that can burn and end up with no carbon in the soil at all just like the Sahara desert where there are NO bushfires, just sandstorms that engulf everything. Nev

 

We don't have to go down that path.

People trot out the old "government/council should be burning the fuel load"  but the magnitude of doing that for every farm and every house is beyond our ability to pay (through taxes), and we then get some of the things you're alluding to.

Like the road toll, people think there's a single solution.

I was one of the people calling for more burning in the off season until I realised how impossible that was because of weather conditions when the material was dry enough to burn, with some fires getting out of control, or the fuel load not being suitable for burning when the weather was cold and wet etc. , but what drove it home was Ash Wednesday out in the grass areas of Western Victoria and the South East of South Australia. Before Roundup we burnt the paddocks every year, so had to keep the fuel load down with stock grazing. When summer fires did start, we could fight them from the front if we had to; they never got near the houses which had big lawns and lucerne as a buffer, and as a gauge, if you wanted to, you could run through the fire front without being burnt. In the Ash Wednesday fires high winds were the blow torch. I phoned my brother the night before, and his wife was packing the car to evacuate the house which was unheard of.  I phoned a friend in western Victoria and the phone was dead, phoned another one, same thing, phoned another one, same thing. All had lost their properties except one house which was saved. One of them received a phone call from a relative telling him the fire was going past his place towards my friends place 15 km away and to get out fast. By the time he and his wife got into the ute the fire was there and they had to charge down a dirt road until the felt the bitumen of the main road. In that particular fire, the fuel load became irrelevant.

In this weeks fires, embers, which normally fly up into the air and come down a kilometre or two ahead of the wire were reported to be travelling more than 30 km and starting new spot fires. What happens with a high fuel load is that where it is high you get a concentrated hot spot which tends to burn itself out. It's certainly dangerous as a radiation source next to a house or vehicle where most people are killed, but tends to be less relevant in a running fire.

What usually causes  bush and grass fires is not old growth but lightning, accidents (power lines touching trees, mower/slasher failures. angle grinders, welders etc.)

In recent years, governments have caused additional fires with the ridiculous pantomimes of Premier and Emergency services complete with deaf signer exciting the unbalanced in the community to go out and see what might happen if they light a small fire.

This was the case in Gippsland on Black Saturday when the TV channels broadcast that from the next day we were going to have severe bushfire conditions with the temperature going over 40 degrees. It was like a surf report to firebugs.

In the fires this week there was one report of 12 fires deliberately lit following the same high density circus from government, and then the Victorian government with no fires and a lot of green grass chimed in with a serious faced Premier warning us of dire risks.

Then we have the Climate Change brigade. Fires don't just happen on hot windy days; plenty of houses have been lost in autumn and spring during load reduction operations. The fuel load of dry sticks and grasses is ready to go at any time, and joined by dry grass in the dry season and can and has wiped out houses in all types of temperatures and at night, so even if you accept the science of climate change, matching big fires like Ash Wednesday, Black Saturday and this weeks NSW and Qld fires. A good wet season will usually produce a much bigger dry grass load, but the frequency of fires is based on who has an accident plus who deliberately lights one plus when lightning strikes.

The people who fight the fires on the trucks, the Councils which administer fire breaks, the people who lost homes could probably add a whole lot more to these comments, but just burning our paddocks to dry ground at the start of each summer is not the one single solution that some people claim.

Turbo humbly apologises for allegedly missing a joke which the Captain may or may not have cracked.  There have been times when Turbo has walked up to the Wagga Coffee Shop he sometimes condescends to visit to see him tittering beyond control as he rereads his old posts again and again, showing them to anyone who visits the shop. However he'd like the Captain to know that he does appreciate the hard work which goes into writing humour.

.....that all people born in WA were illegitimate, unclean, especially buldozer drivers.........

..........Pecan nuts they's brought across especially for Onetrick, and suggest they might help him lose weight; that should get him started.

Turbo had once been called a Wise Man from the East when he suggested the Bond Breweries truck bodies could be made two tonnes lighter by using body building methods pioneering in the eastern States in 1924, and he was so insnsed by the ingratitude that he had used his CIA contacts (bit don't tell anyone) to cut off all the major lines of credit to Alan Bond, and then they didn't need any new trucks. A credit squeeze in WA could work quite well. And he would get a Royal Commission into the treatment of Red Dogs as well; it was disgusting how they'd been let loose on the roads to fend for themselves, having to hitch rides with truckies until the truck hit a roo. He could further destabilise the government by pointing out that the eastern States had grass, and expose the wine watering that went on over there (well it might not be watered down, just poor quality grapes).......and that was for the first day, .....

....I think it's high time we stopped this wXXky pseudo-Froggie talk, and got back to the real NES - that is, the one where Onetrack invited The Rat (aka The Captain) to visit the Land of Paradise in the West, where the women are stunning, the blokes are laid back, everyone is nice to each other, and no-one ever criticises another blokes choice of aircraft."

 

However, The Rat, fearful, rubbish-tip-dwelling creature that he is - with a definite aversion to light - was fearful of being exposed to too much light in the Glorious West, and declined to visit.

 

It steadily became obvious that The Rat was intent on keeping up the old East-West hatreds, and stories of how the bogeymen would eventually come from the West to conquer the East, and enslave all the Eastern men, and cause all the Eastern women to become the concubines of the conquering Westerners.

 

While Onetrack mused on the potential in this scenario, he thought about the number of concubines he already owned, and decided it wasn't likely he needed any more - as owning a concubine was more expensive than owning an aircraft - and they made about as much whining noise, too.

 

But The Rat was still steadily spreading his anti-Western bile amongst the population of Sydernee, who are just about all Proper Real Easterners, anyway - and they took with gusto to his poisonous tale of the coming Western onslaught on the East - because it was in their national history, that the Dreaded Westerners had dismantled their fine Qing Dynasty system of Emperors and Vassals.

 

But The Rat had this cunning idea, that if he rallied the East against the West, he could become an Emperor - while Turdboy, Bone, and Onetrack, etc., would be turned into Vassals, under his control.

 

He cackled with glee at his marvellous scheme that he'd hatched, and decided it was...

 

....foolproof.  Unfortunately for him, he'd told Onetrick of his intentions while in a gin filled stupor one night, and of course now that Onetrick had spilled the beans on Wreckfline, it wasn't too long before Turbo and bill, not to mention Ho Ho found out.......

...Vous vilain garcon......

Mon Dieu! Je suis snaille?

My wife was once told at a service station that her radiator fan was faulty since it was not moving. This service station was on the north side of Gawler, while the repair place we knew of was on the south side.

 

So she drove across town to be told that the fan was electrical and it  only operated when it needed to. This was before mobile phones or I hope she would have rung me.

 

Anyway, should he have told her to walk  since the car could possibly be overheated and thus damaged from driving? The situation was very similar to that one in the court-case story, at least in the minds of the participants.

 

Should people who have no idea or interest in how their cars work  be licensed? What about planes?

 

Lawyers go through years at University followed by years of post graduate study and experience in order to answer your Dorothy Dix questions.

Not surprisingly we, the public aren't allowed to go off half cocked speculating on what the answers might be.

....was about to go further when a bystander threatened to choke him. "That's not a dress" he said, that's a surgical gown, and we are poor formers and graziers and dairy farmers lined up here waiting on Turbo to do cataract operations on our eyes. He never charges a cent for it, adn we think he is a Saint, and will not hear a word against him. Where do you come from?

And bull knew that if he said bone, he'd have a face like hamburger meat in ten seconds because in terms of rotten fruit, bone was known all over southern Australia as.........

Because of this litigation madness the cost of living has skyrocketed with everything from just household or property third party to business indemnity insurance costing prohibitive amounts, are the only people who benefit lawyers and legal representitives?

 

I can see your point if people are selling raffle tickets with 12,000 page disclaimers attached.

I think that apart from about six cases mentioned on this forum, the big time litigators seem to be graziers suing power companies after big fires.

I reckon that woman with the fan belt and the judge involved were awful.

 

How was  the mechanic guy at the first service station to know just how close that car was to failing? How was he going to get paid for his time if he was now responsible for this woman? 

 

Not all judges are smart people I know, and there are real idiots as well as mentally incompetent types in their ranks. Bring on Artificial Intelligence judges says me.

 

Just suppose there is a judge who is slowly going insane. What mechanisms are there to detect this before damage is done?  

 

Like Student Pilot, I'm not going to spend time finding the case details, and we're not lawyers so here's a hypothetical to think about:

The lady come in to the service station with the red light on and stem coming out of the overflow pipe.

She says "there's something wrong with the car, a red light came on.

The mechanic is full qualified, a member of VACC or whatever body says they know what they are doing, and has repaired cars for 40 years.

He asks her some questions, and she tells him she know nothing about cars, just that the red light came on.

(So she's established as having no ability to make a judgement on when to park the car to save the engine.)

He finds the problem is a broken fan belt and by the way the steam was flowing knows, or ought to have known that the best action was to shut the engine down until a new fan belt can be found.

However for whatever reason he tells her to drive to the other side of town to get one, without warning her that she could danage the engine.

So she, as the driver who has shown that she has no idea that driving a car with no fan belt could be a problem asks for the bill.

He who has established himself beyond doubt as being a professional mechanic who ought to know ("a carpenter knows how to use a hammer") not to drive a car with no fan belt tells her to do what he knows to be wrong.

The lady happens to be your wife.

You happen to be the mechanic.

What would you do?

.....and he did.

What bull didn't know was that Turbo was an Ancestry expert, and long ago had put the subject of bull's parentage, and why King Edward had prohibited the Bull family from using capital letters, and now he qietly explained these things and how it might be best to keep his mount shut.

He also explained how the grandfather of the Captain, who squandered his fortune and became penniless married into the Bingham family on terms that required him to marry one of the daughters, and that the Captain's father was Lord Lucan, who did a runner when England least expected it..........

"It's surprising" said Turbo "how fortunes can change in the family for better or worse, "and it would be most inauspicious (bad) if this came out right now. For a start he'd get a phone call from Trumpy to say 'You're fired', and Sally from the White House would stand up at the lectern and tell all the journalists the whole sordid story, and just in case people said 'well a lot of people do that', and She would then point to the 56 page Addendum I would supply, with the advice that they were free to use anything they found in it."

bull didn't quite know how he was going to put this to Captain;

........Hiillsong Scott flinched somewhat, then laughed, and said “We can forget about old times Nob, but I KNOW you’re a member of Hillsong and I hear your XXXXXXX raspy voice every time I start to sing and it makes me.......

.......attacked our loyal and generous Ally, the United States of America, at Midway........

My reply might have bin a bit fatuous.

I have better things to do than trawl online for legal cases which will require  the retention of a legal adviser just to try and find what is actually said in 50,000 words that could have been said in 20 words. We have reached a stage where US attorneys now envy Australia on litigation.

 

Why ask the question then?