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Skriven 2010-02-21 17:49:42 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Glen Jamieson
Ärende: RE: GIDDAY  00219
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Hullo Glen!
->  
->  ->  HN> I have a friend in Bathurst who's favorite pastime
->  ->  HN> is either consuming stubbies, or taking the mickey out
->  ->  HN> of his mates! (grin)
->  -> 
->  -> Thus your knowledge of such a practice, which upsets some foreigners.
->  -> :)
->  -> 
Well, I'll confess, I also have Friends on Mt Nebo
In Queensland, Melbourne, and Sydney...and
even Brisbane! AND even a couple of Kiwi's!

->  HN> Foreingners are upset that I know about
->  HN> taking the mickey out of someone?? Why
->  HN> on earth would that upset them? (grin)
->  HN> nah...I'm just taking the mickey out 
->  HN> of you (grin)
-> 
-> Young MLoo is always accusing me of misinterpretation, so I could
-> hardly accuse you of doing such a thing!
-> 
I think Young MLoo likes taking the mickey out
of you as well!
 
->  ->  ->  HN> My gymnasium at school was a 
->  ->  ->  HN> former luftwaffe hanger...and still
->  ->  ->  HN> had lots of bullet holes in the
->  ->  ->  HN> roof and walls.
-> 
-> In Austria there is a gypsum mine with an underground lake, known as
-> the Seegrotte.  During WW2 Heinkel jet aircraft were made there, in
-> sections, then the bits were taken out and quickly assembled in the
-> night, ready to be flown off.  Unfortunately for the Luftwaffe, it was
-> all too little, too late.  Some months after I toured through there,
-> one of the tourist boats capsized and several people were drowned.
-> 
I went somewhere as a kid where there
was an underground lake with boat tours.
but funnily enough, the boats ran on rails
just below the surface of the water so 
they could not capsize!

->  -> Intermittent warfare has been a way of life for that region of Europe
->  -> for thousands of years.  Something that Australia has been isolated
->  -> from (except for the 64 air raids on northern Australia during WW2).
-> 
-> Coincidentally, today (19th) is the anniversary of the first Japanese
-> air raid on Darwin, in 1942.  Over 200 people were killed.
-> 
->  HN> It's been more than intermittent for our species
->  HN> pretty much ongoing somewhere since we discovered
->  HN> that bashing each other got us what we wanted.
-> 
-> It was probably at about the same time, or a bit earlier, that it was
-> discovered that the advantages of individuals cooperating enabled more
-> to be done than each working alone.  That was a bit hard on the
-> mammoths, who hadn't learnt that trick!

Mammoths may have been among the 
earliest of tool-users...when they
would pick up a caveman and bash
the other cavemen with him!!
  
->  ->  -> The above-mentioned, English born, Austrian resident friend makes
->  ->  -> model steam locomotives, and was very proud that his was faster 
than
->  ->  -> those of the other local model makers.  Now he has invited me to 
his
->  ->  -> 80th birthday party, so he can show me his latest steam 
speedster.
->  ->  ->
->  ->  HN> one of the fellows is very into making his
->  ->  HN> own little steam engines...he was a boeing
->  ->  HN> engineer before he retired and has lots
->  ->  HN> of machine making equipment in his home.
->  ->  HN> not a hobby an average bloke could take
->  ->  HN> up I suppose!
->  -> 
->  -> Perhaps there is something about model steam engines which appeals 
to
->  -> such people.  My friend used to work for English Electric on the
->  -> electronics for the Blue Steel nuclear rocket.
->  ->
Ack the dreaded blue steel.....nasty fuels
and very dangerous to prep.
Smartly the UK switched over to the Polaris
design for sub launces...speaking of subs
I see your lot is having quite a rough time
with yours!

->  HN> Seems like it would be just the thing
->  HN> for retired engineers to do, and since
->  HN> they like machining their own parts for
->  HN> the toys they make it pretty much puts it
->  HN> out of bounds for the rest of us! Are you 
->  HN> going to go to the 80th birthday party?
->  HN> You should get a steam engine of your own!
-> 
-> I will probably go to the party, and then on to Poland via Hungary.
-> My friend, Ivor, being an electronics man, has now equipped his steam
-> locomotive with radio remote controls of throttle, valve gear, etc.
->
Cool! do you know what gauge track he runs 
on?
  
->  -> the name, "Oz Harvest".  The idea is to collect good food which would
->  -> otherwise be wasted, and use it to feed homeless or disadvantaged
->  -> people who depend on charity organisations for their meals.
->  -> Some 20% of food purchased here finishes up thrown out, uneaten.
->  -> The law has had to be amended to absolve the donors from litigation.
->  -> Most sources are private functions, rather than restaurants, but now
->  -> some supermarkets are joining in and donating just time-expired
->  -> perishables.  These and other donated foods are on the Salvation Army
->  -> and other tables feeding homeless people within hours of the food
->  -> becoming available for collection by a fleet of refrigerated vans.
-> 
->  HN> It's good to help others, still I worry 
->  HN> about someone "fixing" something and making
->  HN> a lot of homeless people ill or worse.
-> 
-> Almost all of the donors are known businesses which have the food
-> ready for collection at known dates and times.  Supermarkets remove
-> slightly marked or fruit near its use-by date from display at the end
-> of each day and replace it with fresh.  The perfectly edible older
-> fruit is collected and delivered to the users.  I don't think anyone
-> here has thought of deliberately contaminating that food.  After all,
-> this is Australia, where such things are just Not Done!  (GD&R)
-> 
Sadly we do not have a monopoly on
demented citizenry, so it's only a matter
of time before someone thinks/acts on 
such a nasty idea.
chat with you soon!
hap 
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