Banter TRTTT Part 16 - How good are fingerless gloves

[jb04]

Now that my neighbourhood observes Diwali I can keep the Christmas lights up for longer and longer.

 

[240volt]

Now that my neighbourhood observes Diwali I can keep the Christmas lights up for longer and longer.

All depends on what you call long,next door to me they don’t come down till almost February

 

[Andre]

I do know the Italians worked hard when they started coming here in the 60’-70’. They knew how to build houses properly in those days not like the shit you get now.
Also the Greeks and Eastern Europeans worked hard,as they are the ones that worked in the factories because that sort of work was considered the pits to your average Australian.
Working in a factory in Australia was considered worse than being unemployed in the 70’s.
Yes there has been trouble with something’s with there coming here but nothing like the crazy shit we now see unfolding on our doorsteps.

This has been building for sometime now with protesters on both sides throughout the city’s at a regular occurrence with some violent clashes.
Each side believes they’ve right and we as a nation is stuck between all of this.
What happened last week was inevitable, it was only a matter of time.
Things need to change now as there’s more guns in Australia now than before Port Arthur.
Hopefully the government will adopt more strick gun laws like what has been done in Western Australia.
It’s fking ridiculous that person living in a Sydney Suburb can legally own six guns.
We can’t as a nation just sit on our hands and say well maybe it won’t happen again if we say nothing and don’t upset anyone.

Previous migrant waves worked well, as there was a strong emphasis on the now looked down upon assimilation. When my dad's family moved to Australia in the early 50's he Anglicised his name (he was Dutch), didn't speak Dutch in public around non-Dutch, very much expected they'd become Australian's first, Dutch still to be celebrated and important, but second to now being an Aussie. All of them certainly expected to learn English if they didn't already know (in their cases they did). The kids coming across, or those born to those who came to Australia were expected by their parents to be a part of the broader Australian community.

You can see that in the reason we're here, football. How many Southern European kids of migrants took up the game from the 50's onwards. This Australian first, home country second, continued through the 60's, 70's, 80's, but started turning in the 90's to multiculturism. As if we weren't already getting this happening. The time I was at school during the late 70's through finishing start of 90's, it'd long since passed the point anyone looked twice at anyone who wasn't as pasty white as me.

What Multiculturism did, that, IMO, has been a contributing factor to tension in Australia, is flip it from Aussie first, origin second, to origin first, Aussie (if at all beyond where they happen to live) second. There's much more 'sticking to their own' amongst the latest immigrant waves, than earlier ones, and less of their kids going into the Australian sports and past times. You look at Houli, Aliir for AFL or Khawaji for Cricket, how few in comparison to (especially with Aussie Rules), the large numbers of earlier wave immigrant kids who took up the sport and became part of their local broader Australian community. The, if not encouragement, then certainly lack of pressure, to join the broader community that Multiculturism has enabled has been a negative for both those who've immigrated here and those who were already here. In case it's not clear from that, I'm pro-immigration (to the level to have population stability), but the good intentions to improve what was working for 30 or 40 years has made too many parts of it dysfunctional.

 

[jb04]

All depends on what you call long,next door to me they don’t come down till almost February

Still searching for any reason to take them down from Diwali 2023.

 

[NoddyHolder]

This thread's turning into facebook

Let me tell you why kids born in the 70s are the best...

 

[Grave Danger]

This thread's turning into facebook

The under 16 ban?

 

[NoddyHolder]

The under 16 ban?

I don't think anyone under 16 has been on facebook for 15 years

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

36ers collapse after looking like the best team and a shot of winning a championship.

Legit every SA professional mens Sports team are ass.

 

[240volt]

36ers collapse after looking like the best team and a shot of winning a championship.

Legit every SA professional mens Sports team are ass.

We used to be good in the Claxton shield in the 60’s

 

[Grave Danger]

We used to be good in the Claxton shield in the 60’s

SA Greatrex

 

[edgie]

Anyway, the world has literally been taken over by billionaire oligarchs, religion is old news now. Those guys are the real enemy

Lol remember how everyone was like **** yeah and thought there would be some uprising against CEO's and the oligarchy? And by everyone I mostly mean people that just seem to exist on the internet? Hard to believe they are real vessels of flesh and blood.

Anyway strike me roan that it was kinda a one off.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Man if it's AI that finally destroys Bitcoin and all that crypto rubbish it'll have actually achieved something. The schadenfreude is gonna be off the chain

Wait Im gonna need some context for this post

 

[SparklingAle69]

36ers collapse after looking like the best team and a shot of winning a championship.

Legit every SA professional mens Sports team are ass.

Except for the Redbacks who won everything last year.

 

[soafraid]

Wait Im gonna need some context for this post

Haha nothing specific. Trump came in as the "crypto president" with his pump and dump coin scam, and talk of a bit coin strategic reserve.
There was a big surge, but since then shitcoins have tanked, and Bitcoin is down 30% from all time highs. At this point the price is just bouncing around weekly liquidating people that are over leveraged. It's just blatant market manipulation.
Anyhoo all the tech bro hype has now switches to AI, with massive amounts of money flowing that way. Crypto basically has already failed as a use case for an "alternate currency", it only exists for plebs to think they can get rich "investing". Except it cant keep going up indefinitely, and all the usual tricks of using Tether money printers to make fake money, Michael Saylor throwing in another billion dollars once a week, doesn't seem to shift it at all.

The whole thing is nonsensical, so it could still go up based on zero logical reason, but probably the biggest thing is the tech bros moving on to the next bubble and throwing all their eggs into AI.

Anyway, there's been a lot of people bragging about how smart they are for buying imaginary digital coins with no intrinsic value, and I can't wait for the whole thing to turn into another Bored Ape NFT collapse where is all goes to zero..

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Haha nothing specific. Trump came in as the "crypto president" with his pump and dump coin scam, and talk of a bit coin strategic reserve.
There was a big surge, but since then shitcoins have tanked, and Bitcoin is down 30% from all time highs. At this point the price is just bouncing around weekly liquidating people that are over leveraged. It's just blatant market manipulation.
Anyhoo all the tech bro hype has now switches to AI, with massive amounts of money flowing that way. Crypto basically has already failed as a use case for an "alternate currency", it only exists for plebs to think they can get rich "investing". Except it cant keep going up indefinitely, and all the usual tricks of using Tether money printers to make fake money, Michael Saylor throwing in another billion dollars once a week, doesn't seem to shift it at all.

The whole thing is nonsensical, so it could still go up based on zero logical reason, but probably the biggest thing is the tech bros moving on to the next bubble and throwing all their eggs into AI.

Anyway, there's been a lot of people bragging about how smart they are for buying imaginary digital coins with no intrinsic value, and I can't wait for the whole thing to turn into another Bored Ape NFT collapse where is all goes to zero..

I do find it wild how people talk about the energy use of AI centres being so bad when "bitcoin mining" which offers almost nothing to the world has gone on so long.

 

[soafraid]

I do find it wild how people talk about the energy use of AI centres being so bad when "bitcoin mining" which offers almost nothing to the world has gone on so long.

As a footnote in history it's gonna sound pretty wild. "So, humans couldn't afford electricity for basic survival needs to heat or cool their homes, but you had thousands of computers running full bore doing meaningless calculations for invisible blocks that do absolutely nothing and have no utility beyond organised crime and money laundering? And society collectively was ok with this?"

 

[StueyDaDew]

Silver up to $100 Aud an oz.

Amazing.

 

[JimmyBC]

Except for the Redbacks who won everything last year.

I couldn't give two shits about the Adelaide 36ers but the NBL season isn't over & they are sitting top unless I've missed something.. Old mate giving up a bit early?

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Silver up to $100 Aud an oz.

Amazing.

Obviously this is just price manipulation by big werewolf

 

[StueyDaDew]

Obviously this is just price manipulation by big werewolf

I'm guessing, manipulated by the supply & demand of electronical & AI components that requires this precious mineral.

 

[68vette]

We used to be good in the Claxton shield in the 60’s

Adelaide Giants won the 2023 and 2024 ABL titles.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

I'm guessing, manipulated by the supply & demand of electronical & AI components that requires this precious mineral.

Thats just what the werewolves want you to think!

 

[Duckimus Prime]

What Multiculturism did, that, IMO, has been a contributing factor to tension in Australia, is flip it from Aussie first, origin second, to origin first, Aussie (if at all beyond where they happen to live) second. There's much more 'sticking to their own' amongst the latest immigrant waves, than earlier ones, and less of their kids going into the Australian sports and past times. You look at Houli, Aliir for AFL or Khawaji for Cricket, how few in comparison to (especially with Aussie Rules), the large numbers of earlier wave immigrant kids who took up the sport and became part of their local broader Australian community. The, if not encouragement, then certainly lack of pressure, to join the broader community that Multiculturism has enabled has been a negative for both those who've immigrated here and those who were already here. In case it's not clear from that, I'm pro-immigration (to the level to have population stability), but the good intentions to improve what was working for 30 or 40 years has made too many parts of it dysfunctional.

What happened is they took up the round ball game. I mean Socceroos teams with Mohammed Toure, Al Hasan Toure, Nestory Irankunda. Adelaide United have a constant run of new up coming African/Arabic kids coming through.

Australian basketball teams also have more and more black players that aren't taking import sports.

 

[edgie]

Why couldn't a bullet have hit Josh Frydenberg instead of any of the people they did hit?

 

[JimmyBC]

Why couldn't a bullet have hit Josh Frydenberg instead of any of the people they did hit?

Must be a good post festerz disliked it.