The No Longer Random Chat Thread I

[Gasometer]

Just finished watching Mr In Between. It’s the best Australian tv series I’ve ever seen.

Best ever

I ran into Damon H are a few years back at a restaurant and introduced myself and told him how much I loved his role in …








The Underground Railway

Fml.

 

[rickety]

Just casually strolled through my local Coles, shopping trolley just ahead of me, perusing the "I really can't wait until my local apple orchard starts selling again" apple section .... Coles worker sweeping the floor reeks of BO. C'mon mate, go and swipe some Brut 33, pop it under your shirt and try to mask that odour you freak!!

 

[ferball]

Presumably we can't even send them any resources

They should have resourced their own fire department properly.

It might not have made much difference in this instance but you never know.

 

[ferball]

Reckon thats the year we travelled up through wilcania, louth and back via the coast, the port mac fires were burning late august. Whole hunter was in drought. Still crazy though.

It sounds like it. Everything was tinder dry that year and had been since 2018 at least. There were crews from just North of Sydney in Northern NSW by August.

 

[ferball]

Cheers, I know nothing about mushrooms, I looked it up online and as far as I could tell the ones that kill you and the ones that are fun looked exactly the same.
It's worth noting she got that particular one off a friend who had stored it for about 4 years.
Anyway, she ate it and seems ok.

Four years. Well it could actually be a psilocibin one then.

I think psilocibon degrades over time. Like months at the most, but there are studies saying between 2 and 15 months shows little to no change so it may still have some concentration of psilocibin. One mushroom won't do much tho, especially at that age.

Microdosing has benefits from regular low dose use, you need a larger amount to get a threshold dose that might mean you have a fun time psychedelic experience. Maybe ten or twenty fresh ones...

Ego dissolution and all the scary/fun things that come with it usually need what used to be called a "heroic dose". That's high - fifty of those things, fresh in a pot boiled into soup.

Glad your friends is okay. Mushrooms are something you need to be careful with. That's why seeing them turn blue is a good test. Psilocibin degrades to psilocin that oxidises into a blue dye. That's a known chemical process and afaik psilocibin mushrooms don't contain dangerous toxins so its a simple easy test.

But I am also familiar with what those shrooms look like and how they grow, under what conditions etc etc. There may be other poisonous ones that also turn blue that I don't know about. So don't just rely on that if you or your friend plan on looking for them.

My mum went to uni with a proper mycologist. He'd go into the rainforest in tassie and find various fungi then feed himself and sometimes other people with them. He was a proper expert with a PhD in mycology. One day he made a mistake, cooked the wrong fungus and died.

 

[koshari]

It sounds like it. Everything was tinder dry that year and had been since 2018 at least. There were crews from just North of Sydney in Northern NSW by August.

yep, Warwick and Tenterfield had all but ran out of water and were trucking it in at the time. was the last very dry summer round here as well that year.

Our top dam that year pictured below,





same dam this season which is still a dry year by averages,

 

[koshari]

My mum went to uni with a proper mycologist. He'd go into the rainforest in tassie and find various fungi then feed himself and sometimes other people with them. He was a proper expert with a PhD in mycology. One day he made a mistake, cooked the wrong fungus and died.

thats the thing, you only need to make a mistake once. and if a person with that experience can trip up the chance is obviously pretty high.

 

[ferball]

yep, Warwick and Tenterfield had all but ran out of water and were trucking it in at the time. was the last very dry summer round here as well that year.

Our top dam that year pictured below,



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same dam this season which is still a dry year by averages,

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Yeah it was a bad year.

Its so dry at your place.

 

[koshari]

Yeah it was a bad year.

Its so dry at your place.

that was 2019 as you can see by the time stamp bottom right, and yes was dry, pretty dry now all though we just had 6mm come through, Sale down the road just got 34mm!

 

[ferball]

We were fighting fires between Drake and Tenterfield and had to either fill up from trucks or drive for an hour off the fire line back to Tabulum to one spot we could fill up on the Clarence river.

 

[Hojuman]

Hoj just home from lranian 40th birthday party;
. Food ✔
. Drinks ✔
. Stunning lranian girls ✔.
. Dancing ✔

Would do again

 

[bengrina]

I found a minor loop hole in one of the online gambling agencies that provides a matched bonus bet back up to $50 for a 3 leg same game multi. I opened an account in my name and my wife’s. I would then place 2 leg bets at very low odds and then the 3rd bet one for over the line one for under. One bet would get up totalling $100 to cover the losing bet but also 2 of the 3 leg multiplayer n the other would get up resulting in a matched bonus bet. Within 3 days this particular betting agency stopped allowing me access to the same game multi bet back.

 

[The Butcher]

Michael Lewis's latest podcast series on oline betting (u.s.a). It's not part of my world and i'm enjoying it soo far. In part it goes into the efforts made by online bookies to kick out or severely limit the more adept gamblers.

Against the Rules | Pushkin Industries

Michael Lewis takes a searing look at what's happened to fairness in his chart-topping podcast Against the Rules.

www.pushkin.fm

 

[Gasometer]

Gee I’m having a tough time waiting for some big beef tomatoes to vine ripen

 

[koshari]

Hoj just home from lranian 40th birthday party;
. Food ✔
. Drinks ✔
. Stunning lranian girls ✔.
. Dancing ✔

Would do again

 

[koshari]

Gee I’m having a tough time waiting for some big beef tomatoes to vine ripen

sheesh mine have only just flowered!

 

[Gasometer]

sheesh mine have only just flowered!

Pics coming tomorrow

 

[Hojuman]

Nail. Hit. Head Koshie !

 

[koshari]

Nail. Hit. Head Koshie !

lots of tinsel, a lead bass break, drummer wearing a straight jacket and women with glowing eyes, whats not to like

 

[Chadwiko]

They should have resourced their own fire department properly.

They did. It's a MAGA/Musk attack to suggest they didn't.

In the last 5 years, the budget for California fire fighting/wildfire management has nearly doubled from $2 billion to $3.8 billion. California has the single largest brigade of aerial firefighting resources in the world.

 

[koshari]

ferball said:


They should have resourced their own fire department properly.

They did. It's a MAGA/Musk attack to suggest they didn't.

In the last 5 years, the budget for California fire fighting/wildfire management has nearly doubled from $2 billion to $3.8 billion. California has the single largest brigade of aerial firefighting resources in the world.

you blokes have your own thread to argue in..

 

[Gasometer]

Ok I just saw a jet dropping fire ******ant on LA on CNN

 

[Gasometer]

On my god

R e t a r d ant ffs

 

[koshari]

On my god

R e t a r d ant ffs

Gaso pushing the boundaries of censorship again.

 

[ferball]

Ok I just saw a jet dropping fire ******ant on LA on CNN

Yeah, its dependent on the wind.

While conditions are favourable they'll use aerial suppression as much as they can, and they'll use that pink stuff we can 't name on areas of bushland that haven't burnt yet, but if you drop that stuff over an urban area it isn't going to find its way under eaves and onto window sills or meter boxes etc where embers typically lodge themselves before causing a house to catch fire.