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This is shameful:
ROBERTSON BARRACKS – EARTH HOUR
TO ALL BASE PERSONNEL,
I would like to tell you about an important global warming initiative – Earth Hour – taking place in Australia and around the world on Saturday, 29 March 2008.
From 8pm to 9pm on that date, major cities around the world will turn off their lights for one hour to raise awareness of climate change, and show that it is possible to take action on global warming. All households, communities and businesses are being invited to participate by turning off their lights at the time.
Our Department has registered to be involved in Earth Hour and to ensure our success I ask you to take two simple steps.
1. Turn off all non essential lights, monitors and computers not connected to the DSN/DRN.
2. Unplug all appliances and equipment in your office areas (except fridges and freezers) before you leave at the end of the week (Friday 28 March).
Don’t forget Step 3: receive your oestrogen injection, put on a party dress, and sing Sarah McLachlan songs all night with your army girlfriends.
The department is very mindful of Occupational Health and Safety issues and will ensure that all OH&S guidelines and standards are adhered to during the event. Emergency lighting and security systems will remain on as normal ...
Thanking you for your participation and cooperation.
Manager Base Services – Robertson Barracks
Defence Support Northern Territory / Kimberley
Via a disgusted serviceman, who emails: “This is Defence in Ruddtopia - symbolic gestures that really save the world.” Our embarrassed soldiers will be pleased to know they’re joined in this ferocious battle against lightbulbs by a kitty and puppy feeding company:
(Via J.F. Beck, who has an Earth Hour suggestion that might appeal to old wardogs)
UPDATE. A political statement such as has never been uttered before: “Get used to the Eukanuba, woofers.”
Political interferance in the armed forces by the ALP never!!
What a load of wankery.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 03 28 at 04:56 AM • permalinkShameless Self-Promotion Department: in honour of Earth Hour I’ve modified one of my T-shirts.
At least one Perth radio station is plugging the great turn-off like crazy. Funny though, I don’t they’re planning to turn off the transmitters…
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 03 28 at 05:04 AM • permalinkNot all news media support Earth Hour.
What a Hoax! Children and their big kid parents are being tricked into taking part in the Earth Hour farce again this Saturday night.
Robertson Barracks is named after Lieutenant General Sir Horace Robertson who as a Colonel, commanded the Darwin Mobile Force prior to WWII.
Robertson was a flamboyant and controversial figure in the army. Few of his contemporaries were neutral in their view of him. He was widely admired and heartily detested, but even those who did not like him conceded his great ability as a trainer of troops and as an administrator. His command in Libya suggests that he possessed considerable ability as a field commander as well.So it seems is Robertson Barracks controversial. Widely admired by some and heartily detested by others.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 28 at 05:20 AM • permalink#1- Sorry Old Bean, but please refer to this previous advice.
Purina sent me that bollocks this afternoon as well- they’ve been pestering me to swap my hounds over to their product, but htere’s less chance of that now than Phillip Adams winning this year’s Biggest Loser.
Get used to the Eukanuba, woofers.
BTW- I believe there’s not going to be too many messes in darkness on Saturday night, directive or no. And I believe the engineers at 1 Sqn at Amberley are going to be doing some engine testing as well.
Habib
I am glad that 1 SQN has (ahem) seen the light. Have you got your course out of the way yet?
If you recall our conversation at the Brekkie Ck, you may be interested in the recent D that RAAFAR OPSO and INTELO are interchangeable in Band 1 and 2 billets. The wheel turneth!
MarkL
CanberraAs for that garbage from Robertson, bet the base manager is a bloody pansy civvy contractor with loose arsehole and membership of the greens. With the South Alligator river so close, they should chuck the windjamming little knob-jockey into the bastard.
I just realised that I will probably be on the road during Earth Hour. This may make it difficult to put on all of my lights at the appropriate time so I may just leave them on all day to make up for this clash of calendars.
Before I am accused of piking out during this momentous occasion I do have a good excuse as I will be visiting my sister down on the south coast of NSW who is soon to undergo treatment, on the north coast of NSW, for pancreatic cancer.
In addition I will also use high beam where possible on the drive.
There is also a new facebook group
and event celebrating the Hour of Power. I know the protagonist so give him your support.For those of you who don’t wish to be personally responsible for drowning a polar bear AND still want to watch The Bill on Saturday night, I have the answer! Earth Hour offsets!
For just $10, a Zimbabwean household will go without electicity for 15 hours. Just for you! And yes, this is not a con. All households are connected to the grid and accounts are not in arrears.
And there’s more! For just a one off payment of $100, a Zimbabwean family will remain electicity free on your behalf for a whole lifetime*
To take advantage of this incredible offer call 13GOOSE. Now! First 100 callers also get 20 litres of dehydrated water. FREE!
*36 years
It’s not just the base commander at Robertson Barracks. I work at RAAF Williams and we got the same memo.
Posted by Young and Free on 2008 03 28 at 06:12 AM • permalinkHey Tim, how about a thread showing how much power us bloggers can use during earth hour. Pics of the best effort get to choose a free topic on the blog?
Posted by surfmaster on 2008 03 28 at 06:14 AM • permalinkNot a disease Kae, a cult, if these people ran a church you would be steering the children away from them.
Posted by surfmaster on 2008 03 28 at 06:25 AM • permalink#20
They see this as their “church”.
They lost their earlier “church” when the Berlin Wall fell.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 28 at 06:38 AM • permalinkOur cause is missing a hero.
We need desperately someone with qualities that can attract media attention and possess values that the greater public can relate to. Credibility.
This in turn will cause some of the lemmings to consider their love of mother earth in the current obsequious manner.
A Kekovich like personality comes to mind, but there has to be someone else. If he’s the only one in Australia, then we are miles behind on a share of mind basis.
We could be flogging a dead horse. The argument has to move beyond the blog.
I know the Base Services Manager at Robbo. He’s a civvy and (worse) a public servant. The only bigger envirotard is the Environmental Officer, also a civvy and a public servant. Robbo Bks is currently engaged in a program for relocating wild dingoes that stray onto the base and raid rubbish bins. They’re completely brazen and have no fear. They also come back as soon as they’ve been relocated. Can’t just shoot them of course, there would be real time training value in that. Defence have to pay contractors to come onto the base and humanely capture them, and then release them into the wild so they can come back. The danger is that they carry all sorts of nasties that are quite transferable to other dogs, specifically in this case, the Military Working Dogs the sappers use for explosive detection etc.
I sat in on a number of the Base Services Committee meetings. I suggested at one that we set Claymores for the f^$%ing plovers that attack people doing PT every morning. It was given the poo poo, more for the harming poor little birdies angle than the distinct possibility of peppering innocent joggers with 700 ball bearings travelling at warp speed.
Posted by Richard Sharpe on 2008 03 28 at 06:57 AM • permalinkWe got a very similar email at work today, except it contained this extra line:
2. Close all blinds around your workstation and nearby meeting rooms
I wonder why that is? My guess is the blinds are to be closed to block out any lights left on (either inadvertently or for safety reasons) in case they upset feeble-minded and easily offended passers-by.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2008 03 28 at 07:04 AM • permalink#27 kae sarcoptic mange is one of those diseases
Well, that explains certain peoples’ obsession with mirrors, doesn’t it?Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2008 03 28 at 07:10 AM • permalink#6 Lieut. General Sir Horace Clement Hugh Robertson was apparently quite a character, not afraid to call a spade a fucking shovel.
As British Commonwealth occupation commander in Japan from 1946 to 1951, Robertson upset American plans for a quiet observance of the third anniversary of the atomic destruction of Hiroshima, bluntly told Hiroshima’s citizens: “This disaster was your own fault . . . The punishment given to Hiroshima was only part of the retribution of the Japanese people as a whole.”
He wouldn’t have stood for this sort of nonsense.
Posted by Richard Sharpe on 2008 03 28 at 07:25 AM • permalink#31.
“This disaster was your own fault . . . The punishment given to Hiroshima was only part of the retribution of the Japanese people as a whole.”He wouldn’t have stood for this sort of nonsense.
Replace Hiroshima with New York and Japanese with American and you get a typical quote from Osama bin Laden.
Now he wouldn’t have stood for this sort of nonsense.
Posted by AlexanderH on 2008 03 28 at 07:36 AM • permalinkBryla ponders another use for a wombat. Used to consuming them in his taxi, he wonders if he has wasted opportunities.
He practices his Kiwi. ‘Hillo wimbat, fincy sim uction?’
The silence doesn’t deter him. He drags two road kill from the freezer and .... practices.
The big day arrives. April 25, Anzac Day 2008 and Bryla perfects the swan dive over the barbed wire at Pine Gap.
His large seed saving sack snags the last barb and he hangs precariously on the fence, one large ball on the free side and the other in American territory.
He’s now talking perfect Kiwi.
Don’t forget Step 3: receive your oestrogen injection, put on a party dress, and sing Sarah McLachlan songs all night with your army girlfriends.
Not Sarah McLachlan songs, “Dreams” by The Cranberries.
Posted by AlexanderH on 2008 03 28 at 07:42 AM • permalinkThere is a better link to the Hiroshima story here. I also like this bit In token of peace, doves fluttered, bells tolled and a poet was reciting an ode,when a squadron of R.A.F. Mustang fighters thundered overhead, drowning out his voice. There’s your symbolism chumps!
Posted by Richard Sharpe on 2008 03 28 at 07:44 AM • permalinkUmm- just what exactly did NYC and the US do to the Binster, besides indirectly provide the means to elevate his inbred family of goat pilots and sand goblins from running around the Rub al-Khali in persuit of dromderic desire to wealth, status and comfort? You really are a complete pillock.
#10- Still being stuffed around by Canberra, I was pencilled in for a course the weekend before Easter but the useless fuckers in CO didn’t issue orders, and still haven’t; at this stage I’m due to front the day after ANZAC day (great timing, wot?) provided they can collectively find their bottom with a laser sight. Little wonder they can only crew three subs- if that’s where they cut funding it probably will increase efficiency.
#35 Ahh, I can just feel the compassion and even a little nuance. I’m sure in the circles you run in an Australian soldier topping himself is a great source of snide little sniggers. Head tilt :)
Posted by Richard Sharpe on 2008 03 28 at 07:53 AM • permalinkI had two ‘leaders of men’ remind me late this arvo to turn everything off before I left, to abide by the Hour of Flower. I stayed late to go back into their offices and turned everything electrical back on again. When seemingly rational and intelligent humans can’t see this for the farce that it is, and abide purely because a piece of paper says so, then pack your shit up, this place is now officially royally rooted.
Anyone that’s rational thinking would scoff at this unless they are bitten by the CC bug.
Posted by Old school on 2008 03 28 at 08:58 AM • permalink#36
Wow, could you imagine someone doing that today?
Like many a Commonwealth occupation official, Robertson feels that U.S. policy in Japan has too much poetry, not enough punch.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2008 03 28 at 09:11 AM • permalink31.Richard Sharpe
I have obtained a rare recording of Lieut. General Sir Horace Clement Hugh Robertson giving his speech here.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 03 28 at 09:26 AM • permalinkThe only good cat is a dead cat.
Both of my cats agree—about the other cat.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2008 03 28 at 10:27 AM • permalinkWell, they can stop worrying about lightglobes and so on. Mick Hartley has chased down the cause of global warming - somebody left the door to hell open.
(via David Thompson’s blog)
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The ATO are heavily invoved as well. Got this today. I normally shut my computer down for the weekend, but have decided to leave it on. No doubt my IP address will be traced, I will be trialed and probably shot. It’s just the lot of heretics these days I’m afraid.From: Employee Communication
Sent: Friday, 28 March 2008 08:45
Subject: All Tax Office employees: Earth Hour 2008 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]TO: All Tax Office employees
SUBJECT: Earth Hour 2008
As you may have read in this week’s News Extra the Tax Office is participating in this year’s Earth Hour which takes place tomorrow, Saturday 29 March.
Before leaving the office today please do your bit and turn off all non-essential lights and electrical appliances such as electronic whiteboards and computer monitors.
More information on how you and your family can participate in the event can be found at http://www.earthhour.org.
John Cheney
Assistant Commissioner
Property and Security ServicesPosted by Whale Spinor on 2008 03 28 at 10:51 AM • permalinkLook, I’ll admit I’ve been drinking for the past 6 hours (vindaloo and cougar dont mix at all btw), but surely to God, this wondrous country of ours is well and truly F#cked if this happens to be the prevailing view in the ADF.
Apologies for not reading the above posts, but I’m just killing time ‘till the nearest nightclub opens.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 03 28 at 10:54 AM • permalinkWAY O/T, but in reference to my previous question to Old Tanker, Yes, they do shoot ‘cannister’ from the 120mm.
Last 5 seconds explain it all. I pity the fools.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 03 28 at 11:17 AM • permalink#55 Burbank
Explains a lot, doesn’t it?
=^0
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 03 28 at 11:18 AM • permalinkFunny…... I would be one of the oldest members here, I guess, and can just remember back when I was a little lad after the war, in suburban Melbourne. Very different. Not enough cars to cause traffic jams, although
the baker’s, milko’s and the iceman* carts slowed things down. There were a few 4WDs (SUVs)....still painted khaki, and mostly black market….. the SP bookie down the street had one. “Environment” was a word the radio Quiz Kids tried to spell, and the ABC represented the views of ordinary folk, who remembered the Depression….... Anyway, enough maudlin stuff. Turning off unneeded power was taught at home. It became as natural as breathing. It certainly wasn’t a mark of spiritual superiority….you just did it.So it is going to be very hard for me tonight to turn on every light and heat source in this big empty house -chicks have flown, mum’s away with her sister in Canada.
But I’ll give it a go!!!
* As I recall, the iceman cometh every two days, three or four in winter
#37 Habib.
That blows large lumpy chunks like Philip Adams’ wife.
Still, the whole bloody recruiting system is so f*cked up that it’s amazing we get any recruits at all. People get through it despite the recruiting system, not because of it.
I’m transferring my junior intelo to opso now. Their basic qual course (which I and two other blokes could modularise in a month) i9s apparently beyond human ability to modularise if ya ask DINTTC.
So it could be worse!
Where are you looking at WE posing? I gotta job for you here, if you like. Serious.
MarkL
CanberraI’m turning the pet heater up to 1500w in celebration.
#36 “...when a squadron of R.A.F. Mustang fighters thundered overhead”
Richard, I doubt if they could have been “RAF Mustangs” - more likely they would have been RAAF Mustangs from 81 Fighter Wing. 81 and the Yanks were the only ones flying Mustangs in Japan at that time.
Talk about your Aussie dump and burn!
Posted by Apparatchik on 2008 03 28 at 08:03 PM • permalink#72
Every song that whiny broad sang on Ally McBeal sounded the same.
Shame really, I’m sure they had meaningful words - they just all sounded the same.
I just couldn’t listen to them - especially in shops, I’d have to get out (I only watched a few eps of the show, it was too annoying, too)
Someone give Callista a sandwich, for God’s sake!#73 - I seem to remember watching one episode, the one with Our Songwriter’s tune in it. The ONLY thing I see in my memory is a jukebox. Can that be right?
Our Songwriter gave us the heave-ho a few years back, after her parents died & left her ALMOST everything they owned—seems she wanted the fishing gear & antique shotgun they left my hubby, too. Called us money-grubbing thieves, along with some real insults. Bitch does have a way with words, I should’ve saved the email.
In a daring night assault, Indonesian armor and infantry forces landed in strength at several locations along the Australian coast in the space of an hour…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 03 28 at 11:57 PM • permalinkHello my name is thefrollickingmole and Im a Sarah McLachlan-olic.
I have struggled with this condition for many years now and until this was brought up here, wasnt aware it had been contaminated by that horrendous mcbeal thing.
If her music reminds you to much of that show then let me point out her first movie soundtrack was this.
Quite a different kettle of fish to mcseal.“Plot Summary:Over the years, a child’s romantic ideals about death blossom into necrophilia, the study of embalming and the most profound relationship of her life.”
Its a bloody good movie, and is worth the price of the rental alone for the scenes between the morticans alone.
I mentioned this movie to a bloke who was working at a mortuary and he went v quiet….Just for those terrible insults a fatwa upon you Ulululululululu!!!
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 03 29 at 12:05 AM • permalinkOK - lay off Sarah and Dolores(Cranberries), would you. Two of my favourite female singers. If you don’t, I won’t turn on all the lights and fire up the Chinese two-stroke powered generator with some portafloods.
I asked the wife if she would protect me if I took the gennie and floods down to Green Point in Brighton (Vic) where they are urging people to gather to watch the city go dark. I wouldn’t want them falling over unseen rocks and stuff!
P.S. Vonda Shepard was the Ally singer.You folks think you know unlistenable? HA!
I’ll give you unlistenable!Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 03 29 at 05:09 AM • permalink
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