Jerry_Atrick

I did say, 😉

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The first though that came to my mind was lucky fella that ended up with her... OK.. I am Aussie born and bred - moved out here when I was 30 (and a bit).. But, I have to say.. *cough and ahem, together*, at the risk of pitchforks greeting me next time I arrive at tulla.. er.. English women (or more accurately, women that live in England - even the Aussies).. are.. *ahem, cough*.. on a pro-rata basis, *ahem, cough* a bit more attractive that their Aussie counterparts (actually, when Aussie and Kiwi girls come out here, they realise they have competition and smarten up quick smart)... I think the sun down there does things... and Maccas doesn't help... Although, I have to be honest, London has a concentration that even competes with Sweden... In my last contract, I had to wirk in London 5 days a week. I ended up sharing a flat rental with an Aussie single lady about my age. Everyone asked my partner what she thought about it.. "Oh, she's an Aussie - no worries!" Sorry fellas.. though in Aussie girl's defence, they are effein highly strung here... Ask my how I know!

Not F16s, but at RNAS Yeovilton you can fly in with PPR and they have F35s now (in days gone by Harriers were the go). So in theory, you could be #2 behind one...

Really?!? They may turn off being responsive to you, but those phones and devices track your every move.. and I would not put it past them if they still listen to you. Remember, Google's chrome would clandestinely film you when you were surfing the web (if your laptop/desktop had a web cam). These tech giants amass petabytes of data every day, apply algorithms and either directly sell it or sell their advertising platform to make squillions. They are not going to stop recording what you do because you "turn off" their features. Yep.. People in the [positive] limelight always seem to get away with a lot more. This is [at least] the second time David Beckham managed to avoid speeding - this time only by almost 20mph above a 40mph speed limit - almost 50% faster... https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/david-beckham-dodges-speeding-charge-after-letter-gets-lost-in-post-a3947731.html The first time, it was well over 100mph in a 70mph limit- his defence - he thought the police were chasing him. If you or I used either of the defences he put forward, I wonder where we would be. Both Google and Apple offered up their tracing apps to the government here, and both were rejected. The contact tracing here was billed by BoJo as going ot be best in the world and it ended up a crappy phone app, and a broken spreadsheet operated by PA Consulting and some consultants being paid £7K/day - that is right - £7K (almost $14k). Aussie's track and trace system was being hailed by the press as the one we should have gone for... so if you think Australia's is bad... come here.. But then, we are getting 30-odd thousand new cases a day and over 100 deaths.. It is the new normal here.

Read my mind, Peter... I guess the cost might be prohibitive comapred ot the returns messrs Fox et al get...

OK.. So I am lost again.. The airfield's not closing; presumably the coffee shop has permission to operate at the airfield; and the council is not allowing the coffee chop to attract passers-by for their custom? I have to admit, I don't know that area too much, but looking at it on Google Maps, it isn't a small grass farm strip and has a warbirds business and a school by the looks of it. Why would a council not want a business to attract custom? It's not like it is competing with anyone. Also, isn't the government hot on road safety, one of the things being take a break to stop fatigue? Surely a convenient stop at a coffee shop would provide weary drivers one more option? Sheesh, Every time I try to finalise plans to return, someone finds something that makes me think twice!

Thanks Turbs for explaining.. I didn't realise the airfield was closing down..

Maybe I read this wrong.. .Are the council saying they can't attract customers from outside the airfield to the airfield? Even if they coffee shop was included as something that made up an airfield, how would that have changed the council decision/direction about what I guess is putting up signage to attract customers to the coffee shop from outside the airfield? If so, there is something very wrong - and airfield is, at the end of the day, just another industrial/commercial site to situate businesses and it sounds, well, just nuts.

Not a FB user, so can't see it...

Gard Darnit.. Never trust Google again.. I used to live in Melton and visited the airfield quite a few times.. Only time I have seen a tiger snake in the wild - well a half a Tiger Snake - presume the Kookas got to it.. Absolutely carp airfield when I visited.. But a nice C172.. No cafe, though!

Isn't YMEL Tullamarine? Bloody hope the runway's not in poor condition. I have to admit, the on airfield fayre is much better over here than in Aus - in general.. I still tell people who are going on road trips to skip the motorway (highway) services and head for local GA/Rec airfields. However, there have been a few where,unf., the on-airfield providers were not patronised enough... Don't use 'em, you lose 'em.

Absolutely agree.. The other bit to remember is to look at the decision of the High Court in the context of precedent, where constitutional challenges are brought (usually the full bench is the definitive interpretation). The ADF (like many other countries' defence forces) are often deployed for humanitarian aid. This isn't S&R, and isn't military operations (in the sense of war, anyway). The aid can be foreign or domestic.. https://news.defence.gov.au/topic/disaster-relief-humanitarian-assistance They even help with cleaning up afterwards: https://ajem.infoservices.com.au/items/AJEM-26-03-05

In the UK, as long as parliament passed a law or the direction to murder civilians was authorised under an act of parliament, then, no, it wasn't illegal (although, in all honesty, there is a case to say the UK parliament is illegal or has no authority - all to do with William of Orange, or something like that). Although academics and the legal profession believe the UK has a constitution, the doctrine of parliamentary supremacy means that the courts will not challenge a law made by parliament. Therefore, the massacre of coal miners was performed under parliamentary laws, then, it is not illegal.

Oh boy.. Why a small stretch of land gathers so much attention when so many other wars are going on in the same area, resulting in hundreds of thousands, if not millions of deaths and suffering, I will never know... But, this has been discussed ad-nauseam on the sister site, originally in a couple of other threads, and of laterly, this one: https://www.socialaustralia.com.au/topic/1477-israel/ I originally was of the opinion most people are today, but after the discussion started in other threads on the sister site,I did a bit of research, and now I am not so sure.. When asking peoples' views of the occupied territories, it may pay to ask the son of a Hamas founder, a video of which is in the second page the the thread there. He has had first hand experience inside and outside of the territories - and had a privileged life inside the territories, so, had a vested interest of maintaining the status quo... My personal opinion (although not asked of) is that it is really complicated and takes a lot of research to get to the bottom of; But, in terms of recent history, there would appear to have been many carrots dangled to allow a 2 state solution..

Third time lucky, eh, FB? 1st Try some conspiracy story about celebrating diversity month amid the chaos - untrue (oh, and that article originally had the photo, which is why I looked it up). Second attempt to conflate two statements into a contradiction when they were just two statements that could have been true and occurred coincidentally.. Finally, you've hit the jackpot that Biden is a crackpot.. though there is no "wokeism" involved, that fascist leaning leaders would solve; just a stuff up.. sort of... This is the actual quote: ""But, look – but no one's being killed right now, God forgive me if I'm wrong about that, but no one's being killed right now." It either shows a remarkable likeness to his predecessors indifference to the truth, or that Biden is a) suffering dementia; or b) simply not up to date with what is going in. The article I took this from is here: https://news.yahoo.com/biden-says-apos-no-one-141659367.html, where it goes on to say, "Nevertheless, Biden asserted to Stephanopoulos that the Taliban is providing "safe passage for Americans to get out." So, it could (and I stress, could) be that when Biden was making the remark, rather than referring to people dying resulting from being crushed on their way to the airport or from falling off hanging onto the aircraft as it took off, it may (and I stress, may) be that Biden was referring to being killed by the Taliban. Of which, at the time, there was no evidence (to my knowledge, anyway). So, he may not be crazy, lying, or any of the above with respect to that comment. But, to be honest, as politics is the grubbiest of the nobly grubby professions, I think he did knowingly lie, or at least use the truth in a context that made it an outright lie. I don't think anyone, even dedicated democrats, are making out this was the only way out, or even that the US (and RoW) should have pulled out. This is a monumental cock-up of magnanimous proportions. In this test of his presidency, it is (in my opinion), a big fail, bordering on criminal. But he isn't the only one to have stuffed up... Trumps withdrawal from Syria wasn't exactly a shining light on leaving a country such that the population the US were protecting were safe. So, almost fascists quelling wokeism (as if it is bad, anyway), is also probably not the answer. It has made a real dent in his popularity and probably cemented further cynicism to the claim "America is back" to working with its allies. As someone who considers themselves centrist (libertarian even), one can only condemn what he has done and how he has handled it. Even that "bastion of wokesim", the BBC, has poured scorn on him, my favourite being this one: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/58243158. Does it mean he is unfit to be president? No more so than his predecessor; in fact he is still more fit, IMHO. Unf, there are currently no real alternatives. So, FB.. third time lucky - and with a Brietbart quote, too.. Go to the top of the class 😉

Yes... Quote from General, probably taken out of context against the reporting of people fleeing to the airport... Still not sure of your point. General says that at that point in time, the Taliban aren't interfering with their operations, which may have been true, and at the same time people are panicking and wanting to get to the airport - which may have also been true... So, what is the point? How have the two been connected, except by the word "meanwhile"?? Hard to draw any conclusions. Then the stuff about pride month celebrations. The original photo with the article, since taken down was found to be a fake: https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-kabul-photoshop-idUSL1N2PO1FB And there is no record of Biden celebrating pride month at the Kabul embassy - virtually or in person: https://factba.se/biden/calendar And even if he did, was does "celebrating mean"... It could have been a call about ensuring diversity, including those of the Afgnan population is respected when determining who gets to leave. A snippet from a dodgy news site is a bit of a worry for you to rely on for your news sources.

^^^^^^^ OK.. And your point is?

Yeah.. maybe.. but that size 5 rolling pin has since made an appearnace 😉

Went to the village pub for dinner this eve.. Was really wierd walking into an area with other people and no mask. We were outsude the whole time, which made me a little more comfy. Apart from the bar staff, most people over 50... and all jabbed... Makes me thing with Delta, the bar staff should be jabbed, too. They were mainly under 25. Back to the aviation theme.. Turns out being the only private pilot in the village (there is one rotor PPL in the next village) works a treat with the young bar staff...

Depends on how big an inheritance you are leaving them

I was reading similar re Pfizer.. And apparently, there can be other complications that aren't apparent in the AZ vaccine (yet!). These can include anaphylactic shock and some diseases I have never heard of (although extremely rare): https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/997050/Temporary_Authorisation_HCP_Information_BNT162_12_0_UK_clean.pdf As to why the government needs to line US billionaires pockets? Well, I don't think there is an intention to do it; the press have latched onto the blood clotting thing and pollies are creatures of the knee jerk reaction to maintain popularity (or stop the slide into unpopularity). No one was knocking Pfizer at the time... and they still don't seem to be saying it is much the muchness as AZ.. .

Got the jab, yet? If so, take comfort that once the magical number (is it 80%) have, they are likely to stop the lockdowns and life will get back to normal - more or less. We did it at 65% and to be honest, when they lifted the restrictions, I thought they were nuts, but apparently the hospitalisation and deaths numbers are much better than the modelled numbers despite the increases in infections.So, if you know people who are uhmming and ahhing over it, encourage them to do it.. Also over here, to get younger people to do it, the government is looking at providing incentives: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58044088 (The Department of Health said other incentives could include "vouchers or discount codes for people attending pop-up vaccine sites and booking through the NHS, social media competitions and promotional offers for restaurants". If you haven't got the jab, get it.. you're holding up the process.

Hi Alan, Do you have a link - I was on the BBC website and couldn't find the article. Over here, the reports are the vaccine is less effective against Delta, but there is evidence it is still quite effective: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/delta-variant-vaccine-covid-uk-b1898190.html "The vaccines have been shown to provide good protection against severe disease and death from Delta, especially after two doses, but there is less data on whether vaccinated people can still transmit it to others. "Some initial findings ... indicate that levels of virus in those who become infected with Delta having already been vaccinated may be similar to levels found in unvaccinated people," PHE said in a statement."" This indicates that the vaccines still reduce the effects, but may be as transmissible as without the vaccine. This article states the effectiveness against the delta variant is less effective, but inline: https://inews.co.uk/news/health/delta-variant-patients-hospitalised-covid-strain-fully-vaccinated-1139140 Have to remember with these stats (55% unvaccinated, and 35% vaccinated) is against an increasingly higher proportion of the population that is vaccinated; therefore if greater than 50% of the population is vaccinated (which it is), there will be statistical skew because of the comparison of different numbers of the population. In other words, there are many more people here vaccinated than not; therefore the number of hospitlaised is likely to be over-represented. To correct this, they should state the numbers should state that 35% of the hispitalised cases represents x% of the vaccinated population; while 55% of the hospitalised cases represents y% of the unvaccinated population. And probably further qualify it by age group, as the under 40s have a lower proportion of their population vaccinated as opposed to oldies in my age group. Of course, they could look at underlying health issues and other characteristics with correlations of the vaccinated hospitalisations to try and work out what the likely comorbid causes are so people can take further protection.

Yes.. maybe the family will wonder why he found himself in IMC? I know I twice suffered pressonitis and to this day still can't fathom it.. especially the second time, which did scare the carp out of me.