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Outrageous! They've gone too woke. I just cant watch footy anymore

Sure there are a heap of causes, and nobody sane is saying that climate change is the sole cause of these events. Major bushfires and floods would still occur, what Climate Change does is just intensify everything, fires are that much worse, floods that are bigger, summers that are that much...

Yeah like last year's record breaking floods, or the time when the East Coast of Australia was on fire. You really are the worst sort of person. They're have been countless deaths, misery heaped upon misery, whole communities devasted and all you want to do is engage in denialism.

Yeah they've asked the questions, and then repeated the questions and then repeated the repeated questions. What they're asking are objective in nature - the answers are aptently never going to change - is that what the Australian electorate want? They're senators, both first term, both from qld...

I dont disagree about validating and auditing the data and holding the BOM to account. There were a few senators, from both political spectrums, wanting answers around issues, like maintenance of flood gauges, the coverage in remote ares - all perfectly good and reasonable. But Rennick and...

Argh, it was Senate estimates tonight, and that means senator Roberts and Rennick get their chance to show what "research" they have been conducting over the last six months, such as asking why their isn't an inquiry into why the BOM faked their figures. What are a pair of obsessed bozos.

Yeah, but when you really think about it - its quite an absurd idea and a lazy one at that. For starters, the game was quite brutal, and just as likely to result in injury - why would you do that as a cricketer. Did they even really need to get fitness, life then was really physical and the...

lol - concrete facts? Tom Brown's School Days massive popularity in the year before the first footy match? - concrete fact Talented sports man Thomas Wills being a product of school this novel? - concrete fact Thomas Wills oversaw and umpired the first match? - concrete fact First game of...

Yeah nah - more recent theories point at how at how incredibly popular the publication of "Tom Brown's School Days" was in 1857/1858. Books being the predominant form of entertainment back then. The book being about how Tom Brown went from being a snivelling little boy to becoming a man at the...

Footy has always had a lot of catching up to do - it was founded on a homophobic idealism promoting 'manliness'. And while that was never really promoted overtly, footy continued to be man's domain with footy culture being laddish, alcohol focused and a closed shop to outsiders. The...

Apples? What on earth on you talking about? You've given the quite absurd statement that hydrogen is many times more dangerous than a ammonia nitrate - a substance commonly used in bomb making. If you want to compare with petrol, be my guest, it is probably on a similar level - although most...

LOL - a 'small' market worth $200 billion annually and all you can come up with is a dozen industrial accidents over decades of use. I'll let you on a secret, fuel burns, that's what makes it fuel - of course there is a level of danger associated with it, just ask Max Pruss. But you need to...

Oh the humanity! That was ammonium nitrate - bit of a stretch to equate that with Hydrogen - or were you thinking of the Hindenburg?? Do you hide in the cellar every time a fuel-cell powered car drives by? So what? - that is the point, use excess energy created to generate Hydrogen - even if...

About a 1/5000. Roughly the amount of energy we get from the sun for an hour is more than all energy used by humans over a year. Not that Solar is the only renewable - you also have wind, tidal, biomass etc. Storage is a a big issue of course - you have your lithium iron batteries and your...

Apropos of nothing BigFooty's servers, databases etc are run 100% on renewable energy sources, primarily wind, no carbon emissions from this site

Adam Curtis's new doco 'Hypernomalisation' came out a couple of days ago, haven't watched it yet but it will be interesting if it is anything like his last one - bitter lake - r those interested:

You've obviously never heard of the Quincy agreement. The long standing agreement between the US and Saudi whereby the US prop up the Saudi regime with military assistance in exchange for securtiy of supply of oil. Without that SA probably would have changed considerably, maybe even become...

I thought this was going to be about the recently leaked memo from Powell to Bush that showed Blair had committed to war a year before the UK parliament vote http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/oct/18/chilcot-pressure-leaked-blair-bush-iraq-memo

Up our way there is a big community party at the local park every year. Everyone who has kids goes and they have a great time. Definitely a primary school age thing.

Proudhon was right! but then maybe so was Churchill

I'm not sure why people think the causal relationship between lead and crime is such a revelation, its well documentated that lead exposure in children leads to brain development issues that result in learning difficulties and higher antisocial behaviour. It has played a part ion decreasing...

The whole Snowden thing and wails of tears was interesting and probably wrapped up in a bit of a culture where subterfuge, mystery and lying politicians make the news and create angry mobs. And yet I was listening to a radio documentary n the BBC which was recorded a year or two before Snowden...

Watched Bitter Lake last night, the new documentary from Adam Curtis. It gives a pretty dent rundown on how and why radical Wahhabism was exported from Saudi Arabia and morphed firstly into al Qaeda and more lately Isis with a focus on Afghanistan. Curtis isn't without his faults, but visually...

Has anyone seen "Bitter Lake"? If you dont know it, it is a BBC documentary by Adam Curtis chronicling the rise of radical islamism from the WW2 meeting between FDR and the Saudi king through ts gestation in Afghanistan through to Isis today. It's not without its faults some may see political...

Your making it sound like he was being rational, its evident that the guy was a clinical paranoid delusional with possible schizophrenia and a history of violence. That he sought comfort from islam and it came to define him does not turn him into a pawn of a wider political movement. Most likely...

Its the cultural connotations that obtain on the way. In Australia a Paki has usuually meant genuinely that they are either a pakistani cricketer or they are from pakistan, in the uk, the connotations are entirely different and the term is really racist. Most pejorative terms are pretty...

Yeah, as a hostage taker you dont put up signs in arabic saying that allah is the only true god just because you think those arabic squiggles look great. That he is Muslim isn't really the issue, all sorts of nut cases think that god speaks to them in the guise of their preferred religion.. In...

Because he is a nut job. Seriously this whole thing reeks of a guy who isn't quite all there. Dont try and understand his reasoning, it is by definition unreasonable.

Of course not, it's Africa. Boko Haram have been killing school kids for years, but unless it's in the US then nobody cares unless celebrities cares.