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Post by Beno on Jan 3, 2023 15:05:31 GMT 10
I just got an evaluation on my place. more than doubled in value in 3 years. Hope the kids earn more than the minimum wage.
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Post by Beno on Jan 1, 2023 13:11:39 GMT 10
Best: I have two both economics based. 1A was to start a side business which will raise my income significantly and allow great tax deductions. 1B was to keep my mouth shut at work after being shut down repeatedly by the boss for having new ideas. this went on for 4 years the things went to crap recently and we were eventually restructured. My boss got all pissy and spat the dummy big time and left as he didn’t get things his way. I piped up to the director who thankfully is a listener and gave 15 mins of wisdom on how to turn the pile o poop into fertiliser. I got old mates job and a $25k payrise.
worst. Using black builders plastic to kill weeds in my soaked garden. It’s still recovering but at least it is producing.
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Post by Beno on Dec 31, 2022 20:16:24 GMT 10
. I see massive inflation as the $150 per hour gardeners splash their cash. If gardeners are making $150 an hour (or more) I see myself and everyone in agriculture buying a mower and quitting the industry. F#ck food production ... you can all starve ... We're cutting lawns for the property investors from now on. Right place, right time and it ain't in SA.
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Post by Beno on Dec 31, 2022 14:30:22 GMT 10
Never heard of pepe the frog until joey mentioned it. I also heard somewhere the swastika was appropriated by the third reich and the peoples who used it before them want to be able to use it again in its cultural practices. Weird stuff going on.
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Post by Beno on Dec 30, 2022 20:31:17 GMT 10
This seems to be ramping up. there have been a number of “vandalism” attacks on their grids. sounds easy enough to do just send a few projectiles through the transformers and lights out. I can’t fathom why anyone would do this. The grid would be nearly impossible to protect if a group with serious intent wanted to do bad things.
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Post by Beno on Dec 27, 2022 18:28:25 GMT 10
2023 will bring boundless opportunities for those who want to make a go of it. whether with you hands or your brain there are heaps of jobs and business ideas to make some serious coin. My income will rise between $20-60k if things go as i have planned and that’s without a payrise from me day job. No one is available to do the basics around here, cleaners can get $50-70 an hour cash in hand, $40+ an hour jobs going un filled a neighbour whos son mows lawns in Brissy sometimes gets $500 an hour to tend rich boys lawns. My useless inlaw brother keeps turning down $150 an hour to mow and tend he local sports complex.
Prices will stabilise but will be higher than pre covid, interest rates as well, there will be pay rises but it will be shambolic as some get good ones and others not so good, long wait times for services, less focus on minority rule, poor government continues but potentially better long term strategies developed. We won’t get back into bed with China but may resume some trade. No large wars but some local scuffles.
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Post by Beno on Dec 23, 2022 11:11:34 GMT 10
or cause one lol.
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Post by Beno on Dec 23, 2022 11:11:19 GMT 10
I know of several devices that could prevent a divorce!
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Post by Beno on Dec 23, 2022 11:10:11 GMT 10
Its a case of Sacred Cow Syndrome. Kids today are untouchable and they know it. Children are not sacred cows - it harms them in the long run to have them think that. Parents are not to blame for the actions of their children in most cases - public 'gangs' are but a tiny fraction of the huge raft of social problems that this generation of children is responsible for. There are PLENTY of good parents out there getting severely fu*ked over by their kids. The Education Departments and the entire sector of the "Mental Health" Industry that is aimed at children need to stop making children completely unaccountable for their actions and the consequences thereof and be supportive of parents instead of undermining them and offering them completely useless advice promoting 'behaviour modification processes' that fail everywhere they have been tried. I was in a training seminar a little while ago, and I quote word for word ( I even wrote it down as I was so shocked ) "when it comes to children, DO NOT CORRECT BAD BEHAVIOUR" I kid you not!!! Context would help. what situation had the kids been exposed to to make that trainer say that?
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Post by Beno on Dec 21, 2022 6:37:17 GMT 10
I’ve noted a lot more aggression but not physical, more with the way people talk. It’s probably more assertiveness than aggression too.I think it is a possible side effect of the lockdowns but can’t be sure. People are getting sick of the BS around the woke and over represented minorities being plugged on social media and told that weird shit is normal.
I’m witnessing a whole generation of kids being destroyed by phones, social media and lack of physical activity. Learning outcomes appear to be ok but schools are highly feminised in the primary school years leading to negative outcomes for boys and probably the girls too when it comes time to choose a hetero partner who is not a hopeless POS later in life. That’s what makes me aggro.
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Post by Beno on Dec 19, 2022 17:53:10 GMT 10
I don’t think you get it. Blockies are a diverse group of people just wanting to be left alone. They are both rich and poor, educated and not, latte or international roast. It’s the basic lack of understanding of this that lead to the article written by the ABC and perpetuated by some here. Most would never know how wealthy some are. Just because they live in a shed and drive an old nissan ute doesn’t mean squat. Maybe it's a lost in translation thing then, because where I come from blockies absolutely were NOT cashed up professionals. Where I come from that list is genuinely the opposite of the type of person that would be called a blockie. Where I'm from blockies are NOT a diverse group. They are largely the same. Bought a chunk of land or inherited it from family, paranoid to hell (probably because of all the weed they were growing rofl) and generally twitchy as a poorly wired bomb. If you're saying that a 'normal blockie' where ya'll are from is retirees and high income professionals who just want to be left alone then I can see your point. But I'll stand by my "That type ain't the type that these murderers are". Gotta compare apples to apples. Sadly, these mongrels represent much closer to my experience of blockies than I'd like to acknowledge. But also I think we can all agree that International Roast is for degenerates who deserve hard time in a workhouse for their preferences. I’ve live across the country in many places a d blockies are a diverse group. My sample size is statistically significant. I’m not referring to the murderers but all blockies in general like the article appears to degrade.
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Post by Beno on Dec 19, 2022 11:20:59 GMT 10
My "blockie" neighbours are next door two Macquarie Bank Executives, other side two Corporate Lawyers, across the road a retired CEO and next to him...........Oops...............two retired school teachers........shit I wonder if they could be anti-vaxxer type domestic tewwowists or even worse "latte sipping" tree changers? The largest most over the top place in our little valley is owned by a retired Family Court Judge , I didn't know judging work paid so well.......or does it? I hate to break it to you, but that's not a rap-sheet of blockies. That's a list of very privileged people. Bankers, lawyers, CEO, judge... They are not blockies. They're retirees. Or cashed up holiday homers. Or homesteaders. And sure, they should expect some modicum of peace and privacy because they're functioning members of society who can be trusted to breath and walk at the same time without tripping over. Blockies are something else entirely. We had several around where I grew up and I don't discriminate several of their kids were friends. Good kids. VERY hard lives. But it was real damn hard to maintain a friendship with children who only came to school a couple of random days a week because the parents couldn't be bothered to get their kids to the end of the drive for the schoolbus to pick them up. The blockies I knew were the complete polar opposite of your neighbours, they're not even in the same universe. And clearly the ones that murdered those cops weren't either. I don’t think you get it. Blockies are a diverse group of people just wanting to be left alone. They are both rich and poor, educated and not, latte or international roast. It’s the basic lack of understanding of this that lead to the article written by the ABC and perpetuated by some here. Most would never know how wealthy some are. Just because they live in a shed and drive an old nissan ute doesn’t mean squat.
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Post by Beno on Dec 18, 2022 23:38:22 GMT 10
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Post by Beno on Dec 18, 2022 8:44:28 GMT 10
“From afar, it seems unremarkable -- a dilapidated house on a wooded 40-hectare block. But the rural block at Tara, west of Brisbane, has been catapulted into the national consciousness after two police officers and a neighbour were gunned down at the scrubby property at Wieambilla on Monday. Sold off by company Washington Developments in the 1970s and 80s, there are countless numbers of these rural blocks — with the majority having no power or water — across the Western Downs. And while many people choose them for the affordability and lifestyle, there are concerns such subdivisions can lead to social dislocation and under-privilege.”link
”"But they also need to be visible in our society and that's a responsibility that we have as a whole, to make sure they are visible and to acknowledge the good things that they do contribute to the communities." here it is in raw form. Independent people away from all the bells and whistles getting stigmatised cause they aren”t all latte sippers although some are! It’s pretty diverse but most have a desire to be left the fark alone.
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Post by Beno on Dec 10, 2022 14:17:18 GMT 10
I’ll be surviving on meat and associated organs if i could pick only 1 thing.
I read somewhere that during the lean times in Ireland the hard working peasants ate large amounts of potato. This was due to the fact they needed to to extract as much nutrition from them as possible to avoid starvation. They are low in many nutrients so had to each much more despite maxing out other nutrients such as carbs etc. Liebigs law of the minimum states you can only grow as much as the most limiting nutrient will allow [he was talking about plants] but this also applies to animals to a certain degree too.
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Post by Beno on Dec 6, 2022 22:17:30 GMT 10
Got some corn, beans and zucchinis in yesterday. Has anyone got ideas on how to use 200L HDPE drums for growing potatoes? I’ve got 2 options, cut across on the x axis or along the Y axis. X axis would give consistent soil depth but reduced surface area. Cutting on the y axis would give more surface area but less consistent soil depth. I’m thinking y axis to give more surface area and keeping a closer eye on watering and fertilisers. How many drums do you have to use? Why not try both ways and see which one works best? I would probably cut along the X axis, only half fill with soil, put potatoes in and cover with soil. As the plants grow, you can add more soil to keep the growing tubers covered, which then encourages more tubers to grow. Depends where you are too. Too much sun on the sides of the drums can heat the soil too much and damage or stunt the growing tubers. JMO. Good luck. Good points rosebud. I might just try both and compare. If worst case happens then i have some extra water and feed troughs for the stock.
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Post by Beno on Dec 6, 2022 17:43:50 GMT 10
2.5 hrs away. Toowoomba is nice.
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Post by Beno on Dec 6, 2022 17:41:28 GMT 10
I’d like another buy back. I have a few crappy rifles i wanna offload for 3x the price i paid for them😄
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Post by Beno on Dec 6, 2022 12:34:00 GMT 10
Got some corn, beans and zucchinis in yesterday.
Has anyone got ideas on how to use 200L HDPE drums for growing potatoes? I’ve got 2 options, cut across on the x axis or along the Y axis. X axis would give consistent soil depth but reduced surface area. Cutting on the y axis would give more surface area but less consistent soil depth. I’m thinking y axis to give more surface area and keeping a closer eye on watering and fertilisers.
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Post by Beno on Dec 6, 2022 9:32:22 GMT 10
The NSW FAR keep changing their “fact sheets”. No information is provided sent to individual licence holders when these arbitrary changes are made. There are new “rules” for storing a rifle in your shed if it's not attached to your primary residence. The commissioners “powers” are real wild west.
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