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    When I lived with people who didn't smoke I used to open a window and point a fan blowing air out of the window, then you just blow your smoke into the back of the fan and it gets pumped outside.

     

    I've considered a ducted system before but I rent so it would be an eyesore not being able to conceal the duct work properly. If I owned the house I just put one big duct in the ceiling with a speed controlled exhaust fan and vent it through a ping pong ball scrubber to catch a bit of crap from the exhausted air.

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  2. Posted · Edited by Sallubrious

    That's about the stage where the king parrots start to take notice of mine and move in for the free raspberry jam flavoured goodness.

     

    I have a bunch of narrow phyllode acuminata seed just about ready now if anyone wants any.I couldn't be fucked mailing out seeds though, so if anyone wants to forward them on I can send nice bag of them to spread around.

     

    Edit: sorry to hijack your thread @Gimli I'd be happy send a batch to you that could throw in with your seeds when you send them out if you want.

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  3. Posted · Edited by Sallubrious

    12 hours ago, Crop said:

    Ha Sallubrious, please don't take offence, none intended. I tried to move past this post but DV a big deal at work at the moment. The cops can't charge the fella or put him on a AVO, unless wifey pressed charges and asked for an AVO. I reckon, it would be a good guess, wifey dosn't want that public knowledge. Mate did ya really have to mention the guys race. If ya think only aboriginal mob beat their wives, ya not paying attention, some races just hide it better.

     

    I'm not offended @Crop, it's a good point and I deliberated over the decision to write his race in that post

     

    I put it in there for context mostly, the fact the he is aboriginal was relevant because of the ramifications that I knew would come from reporting him to the cops. Now almost every Coori in the district sees me as a dog for doing so and wants payback. I've put a target on my head and my kids are getting a hard time at school.

     

    It wasn't meant to be derogatory in any way just a descriptive term. I don't see why I should have to filter my language through PC and basically lie through omission so I don't offend anyone if I'm not slandering his race with lies or false information.

     

    At least ten other people (mostly white) stood back and watched the assault happen and they would have happily stood there and watched until he killed her. If mentioning their race makes me racist then I can wear that but I know I'm only who gave enough of a fuck to do anything to protect her basic human rights.

     

    If someone does something like that they are embarrassment to their race, if he was Chinese, African, Russian, American or belonging to any other demographic I would have included that in my description too if I thought it was relevant to what happened and would happen as a consequence.

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  5. Posted · Edited by Sallubrious

    I woke this morning to the sound of a fight, which is a fairly common occurrence around here on a Sunday morning. I went outside to see the aboriginal guy across the road laying the boot into his wife's head while she was on the ground. Then he dragged her around the front yard by the hair, stopping every 10 metres or so to smack her around the head with a closed fist.

     

    I wanted to go over and step in but my Mrs held me back, getting involved in a domestic around here is seen as a dog act. Anyway my Mrs rang the cops and they carted him off.

     

    I'm expecting ramifications.............

     

    Edit : As expected, she won't press charges because she loves him. The cops charged him and put an AVO on him but they think he'll walk because there isn't enough evidence to convict him. If that's her attitude then she deserves whatever she gets. Who am I to stand in the way of true love.

     

    Blokes like that are lower than dog shit to me, If he has the balls to call me out for calling the police which I seriously doubt he will, I'll be looking forward to a having a man to man "talk"

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    No arguments here, I hate cats. A few of my neighbours collect the fucking things and let them roam free, ironically with hordes of cats everywhere we still have mouse and rat problem.

     

    I'm a dog owner and do the right thing, have my dog registered and keep it in a fenced yard but the cats around here are free range and they shit, piss and spew cat food all over my front yard and veranda. A different set of rules seem to apply to owners around here, the council just doesn't give a fuck.

     

    All that said one of the nieghbours cats is missing almost all of its fur along the top of its back and I was told a vet said someone must have set in on fire. I'm all for culling if it's done the right way and humanely but setting any animal on fire is just not on.

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  9. Posted · Edited by Sallubrious

    19 minutes ago, Glaukus said:

    Is there any legal issue around recording a phone call without advising that you are doing so? I thought that's why call centres make that statement before they start talking to you.

     

    I'm not too sure about that but she made the call in front of the manager and a few other workers, they were all stunned. It was business related and she made no effort to keep her end of the call private so it could be argued that was not a private call.

     

    I've been telling my mrs to document everything and install a  recording app on her phone but she never did, so it's a bit late now.

     

    Anyway she's not going back and she's actually happy again now.. It's as though a great weight has been lifted off her back.

     

    When she got the job she just wanted any job to get her job network provider off her back and she got a crap job. Now she plans to put the intention out there to get a good job. If you create something with unfocused intent you get random results.

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    This blew up again yesterday. It never really stopped but this time my mrs had had enough.

     

    On Sunday morning (which was a rostered day off) her supervisor rang her wanting her to work at 5am and we didn't hear the call because we were asleep & her phone was in the kitchen. Then at 8am she started abusing her by text message. My mrs called back and said she'd work if absolutely necessary and she copped a serve and was told not to bother coming in.

     

    Then Yesterday she had the day off so she could watch our kids make their speeches for next years school captains positions (they both blitzed it too, the head mistress told us they were the two best speeches she'd ever heard from primary school kids) and we were in a really good mood and then the fuckwit supervisor rang and abused her because she didn't notice something at work the day before. The call was a hate filled rant full of vitriol and it left my mrs in tears. She had the phone on speaker so I head every filthy insult the bitch hurled at her. I've never heard a male employer go to such extremes and I've worked for some real cunts, if a bloke used language like that 99% of the time it would be MMA smackdown time but a woman can hide behind the fact that most people don't hit women. I wanted to go over there and punch the bitch in the face myself.

     

    I'm sick of seeing her like this every day and the call was the last straw, so I told her to tell the bitch to shove the job up her arse. We don't have a contingency plan and it could financially ruin us but I had to have my mrs's back and support her. I just couldn't send her back into that situation.

     

    So we won't be having Christmas this year and possibly won't be able to afford food or rent either.

     

    I detest tyranny in all forms so that slut can get royally fucked. At least my mrs can claim her self respect back and not dread the thought of the phone ringing on her days off.

     

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  11. Posted · Edited by Sallubrious

     

    6 hours ago, waterboy 2.0 said:

    Holy shit.... Get that fertilizer off them plants ASAP

     

    Edit- fert burn

     

    Then soak the fuck out of them in copious amounts of fresh water two or three times, cross your fingers and toes and pray to the holy vine spirit for forgiveness.

     

    I'd say it' will still be too late for most of them even you do get all the prilled chemicals off them and leach out the excess salts.

     

    Acacias don't need to be fed heavily like most plants because they fix their own nitrogen from the atmosphere through bacteria that colonises their roots. A bit of fertiliser is OK but more is not better.

     

    It's a fairly common problem though, they look great in cool weather when well fed but when the weather warms up and the plants' metabolism ramps up they uptake more nutrients and fry themselves.

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  13. Posted

    31 minutes ago, Matt1208 said:

    I wouldn't mind buying a few rhizomes

     

    I mentioned AQIS above & not having imported live plant material before I assumed it was handled by them. I'm not sure how the process flows but it looks like the inspection is handled by through another sub dept of the dept of agriculture and goes through a post entry quarantine.(PEQ) I'm not sure if that's under the AQIS banner or not.

     

    Here's a link to the relevant webpage.

    http://agriculture.gov.au/import/goods/plant-products/how-to-import-plants

     

    Torsten would know more about this than most of us.

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  15. Posted · Edited by Sallubrious

    I got to the stage where I was having 100% success with Salvia cuttings when I was growing them.

     

    I found the old growth will root but not as well as new season growth. I used to take cuttings about 130-150mm long shorter cuttings are fine too, trim almost all the foliage off (except for the top few leaves) if the top leaves are large then I'd trim about 1/2 of them down to reduce transpiration. Small shoots are fine but try to get rid of most of the larger leaves.

     

    Then using cheap powdered rooting hormone I'd pot them in a mix of perlite and coir and then put them in 100% humidity under fluorescent lights. They root well in straight perlite but they tend to move around and fall over, so the coir was mostly to bind the perrlite together and keep them stabilised while they root. Mist them heavily after putting them in growing medium and once or twice every day, more if you can.

     

    Hardening them off needs to be done fairly slowly or they will wilt before your eyes(almost).

     

    All that said one, time my mum took a older woody cutting, left it in a caravan for 2 days in late December and didn't plant it until she got back to Queensland the next week. Then she shoved it into pot in the open air and the fucken thing grew like mad until the roos smashed it.

     

     

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  16. Posted

    I was gifted a stir plate (thanks @Change ) and all it needed was a new power chord.  When I pulled it apart a few ceramic insulators fell out because they'd cracked. They are not an off the shelf replacement part, so I have to make some more.

     

    I have some air dry clay (Reno Art) that can be fired at 1100 - 1300 deg C. which seems close to the temp range used for porcelain.

     

    Does anyone know if that type of clay will do the job?

     

    Also can I fire the parts I make in charcoal and do I need to bisque fire them first?

     

    I could rig up an air blower if I need to get it hotter, but being lazy I'd rather just bury them in the coals and dig them out when they're done

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    21 hours ago, DiscoStu said:

    Social media companies are obliged to delete or block any online "criminal offenses" such as libel, slander, defamation or incitement, within 24 hours of receipt of a user complaint -- regardless of whether or the content is accurate or not.

     

    I have no idea what the actual legislation involves, but if it's worded like that it's going to create some legal turmoil for years to come/

     

    It seems to contradict its own premise. On one hand they're saying incidences of libel and slander have to be removed within 24 hrs and then they say "regardless of whether the content is accurate or not"

     

    It's either slander or it's not. If it's not slander (true) then it's not a criminal offence anddoesn't fit the criteria for removal.

     

    If that gets challenged and upheld in Germany's high court system then that could be the end of free speech and all other democratic principles.

     

    Not being allowed to report on historically accurate facts seems like an attempt of mass mind control.

     

    I see mass riots in Germany if this type of state control keeps going the way it is.

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  19. Posted · Edited by Sallubrious

    15 hours ago, Anodyne said:

    In a society where the government relies on facial recognition for law enforcement (and other even less salutory activities), how long do you reckon the right to dress as you please will last? If this tech becomes widely used, then covering your face with a burqa, or bandana, or facepaint, or scruffy hair, becomes not only socially-unacceptable but downright suspicious potential-criminal type behaviour (remember that cops only need "reasonable suspicion" to detain & search you). I sometimes wear face-covering garments, for various reasons, and it is interesting to watch peoples' reactions to that - there is some curiosity, but an awful lot of hostility & fear. I would not like to see those prejudices given any more government support.

     

    I may have imagined this but haven't they already passed laws along these lines ?

     

    I'm sure I saw cops at a Melbourne rally dragging protesters out of the crowd and arresting them because they had head coverings - balaclavas, bandannas and t shirts etc.

     

    All this shit will become ubiquitous and there won't be many sanctuaries from it.

     

    We already have cops driving through carparks doing automated number plate scans, add the facial recognition and it will start to become like a broad scale military control mechanism.

     

    Maybe this type of big brother tech has the potential to help create more rouges like malcom naden and the stockos who use their bush smarts to drop off the grid and lurk in the shadows.

     

     

     

     

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  23. Posted

    2 hours ago, Skellum said:

     

    Is this still the belief present day 2017 regarding floribunda being a more consistent (and more abundant/ethical) acacia to hunt for vs obtusifolia?

    What I mean is, are quality obtusifolia phyllodes are less consistent/common than floribunda?

     

    Bait & switch ?

     

    Show me the tlc and GCMS on that extract from the link you supplied & I'll reconsider, but a full percentage point from something that's shown to yield nothing or close to nothing just seems like BS to me.

     

    Floribunda is a nice tree but unless your seeds are sourced from a known strain/cultivar, you'll just be spinning your wheels. The vast majority of it is pure bunk.

     

    That also applies to a lesser degree to ob's and acuminatas. Some acuminatas don't produce much until they are fully established trees (10 years +) & the ob's have a lot of seasonal variability, especially in young trees.

     

    I'd grow a patch of Phalaris from a known strain in preference to floribunda any day.

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  24. Posted

    It does look like some sort of bacterial infection, which can sometimes be secondary to a pest attack.

    I'd put a few leaves in a sealed ziplock bag and see if anything hatches out so you can identify it.

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    We just found out the cunt hasn't paid any of the workers super for 12 months. He prints it on the payslips and then just pockets it.

     

    So now I'm thinking it might be better to jump before she gets pushed, leaving a job because you aren't being paid properly is a lot different to just quitting without a good reason.

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