Greg Boeser
1st Sergeant
Have you checked for a dagger?
What Annoyed You Today?
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Bucksnort101
2nd Lieutenant
First thing I checked for.
at6
1st Sergeant
People running around without masking up or taking any precautions with Covid Cooties spreading like Crab Lice in a commune locally.
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
That's picturesque!
ARTESH
Chief Master Sergeant
Destroying Iran, piece by piece... 35 Historical heritage buildings are about to demolish in Shiraz, to enlarge a religious site!!!
MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
Today I went for a covid PCR test - for the second time.
Friday afternoon the local hospital told me they could test me then but not process the test before Wednesday. I needed the result by 4pm today to show I am clear for surgery later in the week.
I was told I should drive to Bundaburg and could get the test done there 8-12 seven days a week and results within 48 hours.
Turns out that all except 3 hospitals in our region (2.5 times the size of Wales) have a seven day a week collection.
The three that only do Monday to Friday are all in the three major centres.
Apparently Qld Health logic is that residents of large population centres only get covid Monday to Friday but need the results within 48 hours and small town residents can get covid any day of the week and do not need the results for four or five days..
End result is my surgery is now September 16th.
Phuque or words to that effect
Friday afternoon the local hospital told me they could test me then but not process the test before Wednesday. I needed the result by 4pm today to show I am clear for surgery later in the week.
I was told I should drive to Bundaburg and could get the test done there 8-12 seven days a week and results within 48 hours.
Turns out that all except 3 hospitals in our region (2.5 times the size of Wales) have a seven day a week collection.
The three that only do Monday to Friday are all in the three major centres.
Apparently Qld Health logic is that residents of large population centres only get covid Monday to Friday but need the results within 48 hours and small town residents can get covid any day of the week and do not need the results for four or five days..
End result is my surgery is now September 16th.
Phuque or words to that effect
Viking1066
Senior Master Sergeant
Having to explain to my children that their uncle is creep and excludes them from family functions because he doesn't like my wifes skin color. Thank God my nieces don't take after his pig headed nalgas.
It's also a shame that as siblings we only get together for sad events. My biological dad is in pretty bad shape, so we don't know how much longer he is going to be with us. I am not as close to him as my older brothers because he abandoned my mother when I was very young and it took me awhile to forgive him. This doesn't annoy as much as my moron brother, phony that he is, does!
It's also a shame that as siblings we only get together for sad events. My biological dad is in pretty bad shape, so we don't know how much longer he is going to be with us. I am not as close to him as my older brothers because he abandoned my mother when I was very young and it took me awhile to forgive him. This doesn't annoy as much as my moron brother, phony that he is, does!
MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
You know, there has been a COVID testing station in the parking lot of the local shopping mall, 2 miles away, for I guess over a year now. I have no idea how long it takes you to get results. I am pretty sure I got the B4/B5 variant back in June. At the time I assumed it was my sinus allergies acting up but in retrospect it was much different than that. B4/B5 is even more contagious than the earlier variants but seems to have milder symptoms. I dearly hope the people unleashed this horrible burden on us reap the whirlwind, and with extreme prejudice.
Viking1066
Senior Master Sergeant
Sorry for the gripe. It's something that can't be discussed freely with my brother.
cvairwerks
Staff Sergeant
As my Italian buddies used to say, "Is not to worry"... At least your family hasn't accused you of stealing inheritances, and a couple of murders to get them....That's why my wife's last living sibling is no longer mentioned or communicated with. Seems that after a few years of his and his wife's garbage talk about me, the rest of her family figured out that they didn't need to deal with their lies and garbage anymore.
MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
Unfortunately in Qld, and most other Aus states, all restrictions were lifted and all the shopping centre and other similar testing stations were closed last Xmas and people were told to use impossible to get (at that time) PSA tests because PCR tests cost too much . Mask mandates etc were scrapped. On the day they were closed the total death toll from covid in Qld was 8 people in almost two years. Two weeks later it jumped by 7 in one day. Since then the death toll is in the 6 to 22 range almost every day. Aus went from one of the lowest covid infection rates and death rates in the world to one of the highest and have stayed at or near the top of the infection rate ever since. Hospitals are overloaded and it is not uncommon for ambulances to sit outside a hospital for 12 hours with a patient on board because there is no room in the hospital for the patient. One that made the news recently was 22 hours in a ramped ambulance before he was moved to the Emergency ward and another 9 days in hospital before he got the MRI the doctor had called the ambo's for as the doctor suspected a severe and agressive cancer. The doctor was right and the patient is past treatment. Maybe not nine days earlier but we will never know.
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Our first 30C+ day of the year. The media is acting like It's a National disaster. Liveblog on the National agency had to keep us updated how everybody is suffering. Also "heatplans" are in place to deal with the situation. We're flooded with articles about how everything is warming up and we'll have to expect more of there' this "extreme weather".
I'm not a global warming denier and I feel we can do more to protect the environment, but why all the panicking and negativity? I mean, it's not that we never had warm days over 30 degrees in summer before in the last few centuries or so. It's just one freaking day.
I'm not a global warming denier and I feel we can do more to protect the environment, but why all the panicking and negativity? I mean, it's not that we never had warm days over 30 degrees in summer before in the last few centuries or so. It's just one freaking day.
MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
In 1975 I was in OK and we had a week of temperatures where it got to at least 109F every day.
But it was a dry heat so you did not notice you were in danger of expiring.
But it was a dry heat so you did not notice you were in danger of expiring.
MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
yep
We had that same crap here about 5 or 6 years back when Sydney broke a temperature record that was 150 years old by 0.1C.
There is absolutely no doubt that mankind is doing damage to the environment, and that a lot of the damage needs to be prevented, but the alarmists are full of it.
My immediate questions were
We had that same crap here about 5 or 6 years back when Sydney broke a temperature record that was 150 years old by 0.1C.
There is absolutely no doubt that mankind is doing damage to the environment, and that a lot of the damage needs to be prevented, but the alarmists are full of it.
My immediate questions were
- 150 years ago how many building air conditioners were belching heat into the Sydney atmosphere
- 150 years ago how many vehicle exhausts were belching heat into the Sydney atmosphere
- 150 years ago how many vehicle radiators were belching heat into the Sydney atmosphere
- 150 years ago how many vehicle air conditioners were belching heat into the Sydney atmosphere
- 150 years ago how many car exhausts were belching heat into the Sydney atmosphere
- 150 years ago how many people were radiating heat into the Sydney atmosphere (as part of the 1957 International Geophysical Year science program in my class we had to determine how much heat the average student radiated. I was 13 then and the average student radiated more heat than a 100 watt incandescent light bulb - given the average modern adult is double our weight in 1957, and the amount of heat radiated was directly proportional to the individual students weights, the modern senior student/adult radiates about double what our class members did.) Sydney's population grew from 100,000 to 4 million in that period so 40x the population - or 4,000% if you prefer percentages.
- 150 years ago how many blacktop roads were absorbing solar energy then radiating heat back into the Sydney atmosphere
- 150 years ago how many dark coloured roof tiles were absorbing solar energy then radiating heat back into the Sydney atmosphere
- etc
- If the temperature is only 0.1C hotter now, how much cooler would it have been without all the above modern heat sources.
Snautzer01
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GrauGeist
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They do the "heat hype" here, too, but Redding has always had extreme high summer temps, often rivaling Death Valley.
The two highest recorded highs, were 118°F (47C), which occurred several timesover the past century, most recently ten years ago and 121°F (49C) which occurred around 1911.
There are quite a few people, however, that claim that the heat is a recent thing and that recorded temperatures a hundred years ago are wrong because they didn't have the ability to accurately measure temperatures...
Interestingly enough, dendrochrinologists (the science of reading tree rings) have pointed out that California's droughts have been mild for the past 150 years compared to the centuries prior.
The last extended drought, was in the mid-1800's, before that, was a 35 year drought (which almost caused Spain to abandon Alta California).
But currently, we're being bombarded by claims of "historic and unprecented" temps and drought.
It gets a bit tiresome, to be honest.
The two highest recorded highs, were 118°F (47C), which occurred several timesover the past century, most recently ten years ago and 121°F (49C) which occurred around 1911.
There are quite a few people, however, that claim that the heat is a recent thing and that recorded temperatures a hundred years ago are wrong because they didn't have the ability to accurately measure temperatures...
Interestingly enough, dendrochrinologists (the science of reading tree rings) have pointed out that California's droughts have been mild for the past 150 years compared to the centuries prior.
The last extended drought, was in the mid-1800's, before that, was a 35 year drought (which almost caused Spain to abandon Alta California).
But currently, we're being bombarded by claims of "historic and unprecented" temps and drought.
It gets a bit tiresome, to be honest.
cvairwerks
Staff Sergeant
Supposed to be 108F today. Was out picking up some electrolyte freezer pops for the house and crunched the messed up knee again. Heard Debby Boone singing quite loudly for a few minutes until I could see straight again....
Viking1066
Senior Master Sergeant
Thank the maker it wasn't followed by Pat BooneSupposed to be 108F today. Was out picking up some electrolyte freezer pops for the house and crunched the messed up knee again. Heard Debby Boone singing quite loudly for a few minutes until I could see straight again....
MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
150 years ago how many air conditioners were belching heat next to weather monitoring stations that had been located in open fields decades before?
E.G., Twin Pines Farm becomes Lone Pine Mall.
The most severe Florida winter in recorded history was 2010.
PlasticHero
Senior Airman
My good news about the shoulder was undone this morning as I fell on my walk. Totally my fault as there was a smooth sidewalk. Broken collarbone but not displaced so no surgery, just go home and put the sling YOU JUST TOOK OFF back on. no idea yet what the recovery period will be but docs weren't too concerned. Updates after I see my ortho doc. (I am so clumsy)
