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Post by Beno on Feb 17, 2019 16:55:46 GMT 10
what a legend. That’s awesome mate well done.
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Post by Beno on Feb 10, 2019 7:38:57 GMT 10
2000mm of rain? Holy cow. This year we only just made it over 300! (Our alledged average is 450mm) Wheat still yielded 3T/Ha though. yep 2000mm. its a bit more than surrounding towns due to topograpghy and proximity to the coast. I didnt see more than three clear, rain free days for six months a few years ago. i know how miserable the brits must get. too much rain sucks! i’d prefer the 600-800mm rain belt myself if i had the chance of buying a place.
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Post by Beno on Feb 10, 2019 7:16:23 GMT 10
of the original 3 seeds I put in I have just one healthy seedling so far. one seed got confused and sent its root up and its shoot down. It didn't survive. One seed just has not germinated. Looking forward to seeing what happens in the larger plot. thats weird. i thought geotropism was strong in most edible plants. natural selection in process😀 even though your area would grow chickpeas it’s still important to see what will grow on he margins particularly if it all gos belly up and you need to rely more heavily on what you can produce. i’ve grown a small crop of cotton and wheat to harvest in far north coast nsw....an area that averages about 2m of rain a year in the coastal hills. it’s fun experimenting like this.
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Post by Beno on Jan 1, 2019 19:42:11 GMT 10
Sure, I’m not having go at the people - if you are subsistence living I’m sure you lose focus and I’m sure much of the preventive information has been delivered in a way that is poorly understood. Trash control - no effort made to mange waste, consequently huge problems with rats and insects = disease vectors. Surface water control - you are in a country with malaria and you have multiple sources of stagnant water in your back yard. You or your family have bad respiratory illness - everyone smokes aweful Chinese cigarettes and cooks with wood or charcoal or kero inside the house with bad ventilation - despite education programmes to the contrary. Water - let me count the ways........ dirty water used for cooking and hygiene with no effort to clean it. The ‘clean’ water from wells and streams isn’t really clean by any public health definition - the NGOs deliver ways to make the water more potable - but no one uses them. Long drop toilets with drainage fields which clear run into the drinking water. The shitting in the street / public patients is gross, but at a fundamental level shows lack of connecting poo with disease. Wounds - why would you clean a wound? Just leave it visibly contaminated. What harm will that do. Clinic nurse tells you to keep wound clean, well she is woman so doesn’t know shit so I will do what I like. These people aren’t stupid, but illiterate from a public and preventive health perspective - and I think the bulk of the public in Aus/NZ would fall into the same traps - because they are lazy and also illiterate from a public health perspective - what saves us is having a working ‘big brother’ public health structure over the top of us protecting us. All of these issues can be managed with a very basic knowledge and I think as prepper ‘ survivalists - having an awareness will make a difference to outcomes. Wow it must be frustrating to see all that let alone work with the results. I noticed the same thing with preventive info in Sri Lanka where a lot of the public notifications are televised in English but approx only 10% of the population speak it. Those 10% are generally wealthy or educated and don’t need the advice.
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Post by Beno on Jan 1, 2019 11:28:13 GMT 10
bce1 can you give some examples of the basic healthcare that was lacking? I assume not covering wounds, not washing and lack of refrigeration are up there as key issues?
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Post by Beno on Dec 5, 2018 16:18:10 GMT 10
add a poorly executed Brexit and most of the ingredients are in the pot ready to boil.
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Post by Beno on Dec 3, 2018 20:44:20 GMT 10
They are trying to bring in blood alcohol level limits to boaties in the NT. Not sure of the reason why they are doing this but it’s probably some mexican making their mark on the NT during their 6 month stint up north.
Boat ramps were a favorite spot for the cops when cap’n piss pot got out of his 570 top ender and got into his landcruiser to pull it out of the water. The rule of the road kicked in as soon as they get in the drivers seat.
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Post by Beno on Dec 3, 2018 20:31:40 GMT 10
All that over increased fuel costs. Wow. Sometimes small things are the tipping point for something much bigger. France has been on edge for years now, somethings gotta give.
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Post by Beno on Dec 3, 2018 15:10:43 GMT 10
If it is for 72hour emergency kit or an inch (i am not coming home) bag, long-term wilderness bag.... I go for 100l bergen with everything including the kitchen sink including the pantry. I don't care if I only can only make 5km a day in SHTF bugout, at least it is survivable. I also use trolleys, wheelbarrows, bicycles, carts etc... That is if all motorized vehicle transport is no longer available. Worse comes to the worst one can always dump equipment. Something crazy like this: www.military1st.com.au/14035001-teesar-backpack-100l-olive.htmlI agree to a lot of this. If i have to bug out then bad stuff is happening. That means i want a heavy duty large pack to not only carry what is in it but also other “stuff” i collect along the way. If shtf and i come across a stash of cans, meds, gear or what ever, i’ll be wanting more than a man-bag to carry it all. That said, the original contents of the my bob is relatively small and kept to the basics. Generally the capacity to carry more stuff if required apeals to me and i train for it. If you don’t train to carry weight then a man-bag would be the way to go. Shearing a vertrbrae disc while bugging out with a massive pack would be detrimental to your survival. I like internal frames. I have never used an external frame and don’t see the need. I would like to try one one day to see what the difference is.
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Post by Beno on Nov 28, 2018 7:03:18 GMT 10
how about the “justification” for the alcopops tax? now a lot of teens are pinging off their heads with eyes popping out of their heads cause it’s cheaper.
However that law actually did me a favour. I stopped drinking woodstock bourbon pre mix cans. That crap was baterry acid. Thanks .gov for saving my stomach lining.
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Post by Beno on Nov 27, 2018 16:04:04 GMT 10
Doesn't WAPOL use drones to catch people riding their bikes without helmets? In Western Australia, it’s illegal to possess more than 50 kilograms of potatoes.. Your stuffed Pete lol WA seems to be the home of the nanny state and not just with firearm laws Spuds??? No more than 50kg??? What is the reasoning behind that? Next it will be illegal to have more than 3 days of food in your household ( gotta be dependent on the Govt now don't we ). more than 3 days food, some guns, ammo for the guns, a camo shirt = right wing extremist= illegal and should be shunned in the community. I cringe when the media covers an arrest of a firearms user and report that such and such had several hundred/ thousand rounds of ammo in their possession. I sometimes shoot 400-500 rounds of .22 in an afternoon. it makes sense for me to buy in bulk.
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Post by Beno on Nov 25, 2018 8:00:57 GMT 10
Wiktionary. Nanny state (derogatory) A state whose government institutions are authoritative and over-paternalistic, interfering with and controlling people's lives. [from the mid-20th c.
I thought i’d start a thread on what are some of the most stupid or nanny like laws out there. Keep it light hearted if you can cause this thread could cause serious depression if we can’t have a laugh.
I was reading about the French riots today and why all the protesters were wearing Hi Viz jackets. There is a law in France that every vehicle must have hi viz jacket in the passenger compartment of their vehicle so in the event of a breakdown they can put this on whilst inside their vehicle before they get out to fix a flat etc. They are also required to carry a spare bulb kit and a reflective triangle. Saftey Steve would be proud.
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Post by Beno on Nov 25, 2018 7:32:38 GMT 10
heh heh, that screw drive contraption would make mince meat out of the zombie hordes. The wamah turns better than a landcruiser, but then again so does the USS george washington aircraft carrier.
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Post by Beno on Nov 23, 2018 18:58:33 GMT 10
my biggest concern is that we (.gov) already know who the bad guys are but seem powerless to do anything to prevent them from doing harm. so essentially the government is willingly or at least knowingly putting us in harms way by not doing anything other than monitoring them. Now they want to monitor me and everyone else to save me from the bad guys they know are already bad...crikey. A lot of that will be to do with either ongoing investigations to ensure enough solid evidence to make it so they don't get a slap on the wrist and walk out with a good behavior bond or they are watching them trying to find out who the big boys are calling the shots so they can go after them.
The reason that smokes/alcohol/fast cars are not banned is because the government earns billions annually out of each of them.
That sounds about right. Too bad if that person being investigated jumps the gun and kills people first. The news has suggested that the gov could deport dual citizens back to their other country of origin if convicted of terrorism offences. The stateless citizen issue could be averted by sending a convicted terrorist back to their grandparents country of origin...interesting.
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Post by Beno on Nov 21, 2018 20:16:45 GMT 10
my biggest concern is that we (.gov) already know who the bad guys are but seem powerless to do anything to prevent them from doing harm. so essentially the government is willingly or at least knowingly putting us in harms way by not doing anything other than monitoring them. Now they want to monitor me and everyone else to save me from the bad guys they know are already bad...crikey.
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Post by Beno on Nov 18, 2018 8:58:53 GMT 10
a wet line and indirect attack might have had different results.
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Post by Beno on Nov 15, 2018 22:11:11 GMT 10
so now we can use record cold weather events to debunk the climate scientists but not the other way around?
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Post by Beno on Nov 15, 2018 22:10:47 GMT 10
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Post by Beno on Nov 14, 2018 20:17:12 GMT 10
good now we get to steal some tech from the chinese for once 😜
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Post by Beno on Nov 12, 2018 6:29:18 GMT 10
I wonder which Chinese Province Mr Andrews represents in the Victorian Parliament? Nodong province.
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