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THE BLAIR FRIDGE PROJECT
Enough of global warming - let’s hear it for local cooling! Email your most personal and intimate refrigerator images for a Cooling Gallery to be posted next week. Here’s mine, featuring pre-liberation Iraqi currency, a postcard from Guantanamo Bay, a can of wine, something called “Shito”, Campbell’s tins by Barney Greinke, and Danny Dolphin (“Julian O’Neill’s Latest Victim”):
UPDATE. A fine batch of hot reader fridges has already arrived; keep ‘em coming. Also, enjoy the very latest Detective Paco mystery.
On topic, I’d have to send 6 photos- we have four fridges and two freezers at the moment, and there’s two of us in the house. Another two if you count our wasteful getaway in the hills behind the sunshine coast, where there’s a fridge and freezer running despite the fact we haven’t been up there since november.
Off topic, I had an interview with the skip of 23 Sqn at Amberley last Sunday, followed up with a lengthy discussion with a Flt Lt (charming gal, from my old stamping ground of Yepoon). I apparently pass all muster thus far, and provided I pass the medical and physical they’re going to offer me a spot as an officer cadet in training to be an OpsO- the RAF equivalent is squadron adjudant.
Only mustered at 23 while in training, then when commissioned I have to nominate a sqadron to be assigned to- you are an operational officer part-time, same as a full timer.
I’ve got the choice of 1 and 6 Sqn, both with Pigs (F111s), to be rearmed with F35 JSFs when they become available, 37Sqn which has been moved up from Richmond and is being kitted out with the new C17 Globemaster heavies or a new Sqn which will be operating the new A300/200 multirole fueler/transports.
While I see this as a civic duty, it all looks pretty interesting as well, and as an OpsO I can put my hand up for any deployment I’m available for, so there’s more opportunity for an old fart like me to get their hand in than with the army.
Don’t know which to put my hand up for yet, but it’s at least 12 months before I’m qualified anyway. I’m sort of leaning towards the pigs at the moment because fighter control and sending expensive things to drop explodey things on naughty people is rather appealing, the C17s have a bit going for them as well- in the last 10 years 37Sqn’s been to Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Timor Este, The Solomons and Aceh- I suppose you don’t have to kill people to do some good, but it often helps.
I’ll update if anyone’s interested.
In the words of the late Big Kev, I’m excited!
(And it takes a bit to excite this jaded old fossil).
Ash_
I understand where your sympathies lie. I didn’t read the whole forum, so, am not sure of the whole, but, I believe having experience as a mother, and as a single girl in dire straits, all I can say is, my body, myself, my choice.
As the ultimate nurturer of what our body is made for, no one is going to tell me what I think, feel or decide.
As for the decisions women have to make, they are their’s alone. No man has a right to influence that decision. Many forget that these choices would not be neccessary if men took on some of the burden, nay, responsibility, for birth control. It takes TWO to produce a child.
Other women also, have no right to decide, influence or debate another woman’s decision.
Pogria, basically his argument started off as abortion is fine because babies don’t feel pain.
Then it moved to babies only feel pain outside of the womb. And they’re not human until they’re born either.
It’s been well argued by others, but today he annoyed me sufficiently that I had to point out how wrong he was.
My baby is a human. I don’t care what he says.
#13 Uh oh. Not going to touch an abortion debate at this time of night. It’s bedtime for me.
Before I go, though, for the record and having not much to do with anything, I never had any strange cravings. I did drink about a litre of chocolate milk a day when I was pregnant, but that was about it.
And well done, Habib. You da man.
Big expensive toys that blow things up are way cool.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 06 09 at 10:13 AM • permalinkMight have to re-name as Biggles.
I’m already working on a script based on my upcoming exploits, titled “Biggles Flies Undone”
They’ve got a good aero club at Amberley as well, and I can refresh my private pilots licence for about a grand in a Piper Tomahawk. I know I’m too old and wonky for flight training, but it would be nice to have a functional ticket, and I might be able to weasel into the historic wing as well. I’ve been thinking about buying one of these, and I couldn’t think of a better spot to knock it together.
(Under no circumstances should this be divulged to my significant other).
It’s a deal Nilk. I wouldn’t normally touch one either, I was just sufficiently annoyed by him saying an unborn baby isn’t a human.
I think the cravings are kind of freaking Jesse out. I sent him out for Big Macs the other day, then I opened the bun and slathered it with nutella and honey before I ate it. Maybe Jesse has a point.
Ash_,
what I’m clumsily trying to say is, you made the decision to have a baby. Of course it’s human, of course it feels. I’ve been through that.
But, if you had made the decision not to have a baby, why should you have to explain or make excuses for yourself?
I know this a “grey” area, but, at the risk of being howled down by others, I am PRO CHOICE.
And, in case any of you are wondering, I am also in favour of the Death Penalty.
And stem cell research.
And I’m a blood and bone marrow donor. And when I’m dead, they can have whatever they can use. All this because IT’S MY CHOICE.
Might have to cultivate a ‘tache as well- used to have quite a respectable handlebar, but my old man had one like Jimmy Edwards.
Tally ho!
Have a gander at this video and see if you can tell it’s a bloody replica. They’re built at Brookfield, about 10 kms frm my place, and use a V6 Isuzu (a little ironic). I could fly the bugger to Sydney in less than three hours, unless there was some Hun to deal with.
Ash_,
the Death penalty is my personal belief. I don’t believe it deters people from committing heinous crimes. I believe we should put them down because they have forfeited their right to live in society.
Why should we support, in comfort, disgusting creatures such as Ivan Milat, Valmae Beck, Martin Bryant etc, when our elderly are being treated as dispensible and worthless.
The average prisoner costs thirty thousand a year to keep. One of the disgusting murderers mentioned above can cost up to a hundred thousand a year to keep. Not to mention all the appeals for parole and reduced sentences. None of which is available to the average working Aussie.
An aged pensioner receives approximately twelve to thirteen thousand a year. Aged pensioners are still useful to society and fill huge gaps in our volunteer needs.
And even if they aren’t useful anymore, we owe them. They made us what we are.
We owe murdering scumbags NOTHING.
Oh, Habib, if you ever make it to this continent, will you take me for a fly? My dad had a couple Ercoupes - he even let me fly one when he took me to Medicine Hat (Alberta) from our home in Montana one day. He used to land on the road out at Fresno Dam Reservoir & “drive” around to see the sites. I really miss flying…
So it’s On Topic, soon as I find my camera, I’ll take a pic of my poor one-and-only fridge. Doesn’t have to be clean, does it?
Given what my politics are alleged to be, maybe I’d be better represented by getting one of these- may not go over so well at the mess, what?
Congratulations, Habib! Hope the exams turn out well for you…I never did flight operations, but the ops section in any well run unit can be an exciting (or at least interesting) place to be. And that replica Spitfire looks cool. I expect that it comes without armament. Alas, governments are so touchy about things that go bang.
MentalFloss! Good to see you sitting up! My thoughts (such as they are) are with you.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 06 09 at 11:21 AM • permalinkThe two major problems with stripper names, Pogria, are that 1) they’re stripper names, and 2) I know that Jesse will get his children’s names tattooed on his left arm.
I don’t want to sit in court for weeks at Jesse’s murder trial because someone thought that the tattoo meant that Jesse was in love with a stripper, which would be a pretty nasty slur against his daughter.
#282 paco
Habib: I suspect both the moustache AND the Spitfire would look great on you.
I always assumed he had one (the ‘stache, not the Spit). A chap with his way with words ought to have a big bushy mustache.
;^)
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 06 09 at 12:28 PM • permalink#78,
Spiny, I know I’ve shown this before, but in honour of our newest Defender, I give you Habib! and his moustachio.
Ash_,
I was born here and I had white blonde hair and green eyes.
They still called me a “black greasy wog”.
That was in the seventies. Most of the kids who called me that are now toothless grannies and grandads still living in the same houseo estate they grew up in.
I’m doing fine. I’m a great believer in Karma and that the greatest revenge is to Live Well.
#91 Ash: Don’t think spiders, think the wife of His Late Majesty George III. The city of Charlotte, North Carolina, is named for her, and there’s even a statue of her outside the airport (a very nice sculpture, incidentally, although it looks like she’s standing on a bowling ball and trying to maintain her balance after being punched in the solar plexus. Curious, come to think of it).
I once worked with a (very) lovely young lass whose nickname in school was “hoover”. I’m sure you can guess why. A couple of years later, she married a good friend of mine whose last name is, yep, you guessed it, Hoover.
Ah, the quirky twists of fate…
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 06 09 at 01:21 PM • permalinkFWIW, my #104 is directed to Ash_’s #101.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 06 09 at 01:22 PM • permalink#98 Ash: See for yourself.
#99: Fair to middlin’. Celebrating Mrs. Paco’s birthday today. Unfortunately, she’s a bit under the weather from asthma; hasn’t kept her out of her garden, though.
#108 paco
You mean she was defeated in her campaign for a second term as class president?
Despite receiving 100% of the male vote.
;^)
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 06 09 at 01:30 PM • permalink#112, RebeccaH:
Well, there have been women over the years but I am reasonably sure that none of them actually knew my name since I made it a habit back in my younger days to never wear my dog tags when out and about.
And since the days when dog tags were no longer part of my dress code, I have made it a habit to never take my ID out with me, just in case I need to lie to someone for some reason.
Also, I have always tried to make it a habit to keep my prowling to women that don’t do well with the English language and/or can’t afford passports.
So, yeah, that kind of caught me off guard for just a sec. I was going through my head to see if I could figger which one of the sneeky wenches was faking “no speekee engleese”.
Ash,
A true story on the dangers of naming.
When my mum was preggers with me my ratbag uncle suggested the name Teresa. Mum loved it and for a couple of months that was dead set to have been my name if i was a girl.
My last name is fairly similar to Teekle. What do you shorten Teresa down to?
Tess!
I would have been Tess Teekle.He didnt get invited to the christening.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 06 09 at 06:44 PM • permalink#66 Ash, I like the first one. Mind you, my froglet didn’t get named until after she was born. Not until she was a day old.
I couldn’t find any names I liked, but did manage to get two that I could warm to.
Then through the day I pretty much decided. Her father got the opportunity to agree with me, and I told everyone later.
When I look at how she is and other names I was leaning towards, I’m glad she is who she is.
My girl is nothing like a Ruth or a Georgia, which were my original preferences.
Don’t sweat on it and worry about it later. You have a few weeks up your sleeve to decide what to call her after she’s born anyway.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 06 09 at 07:50 PM • permalinkll stripper’s names sound like dogs or hippies!!
OK, guys, next up on the pole, it’s the bodacious Rex Moonbeam!
Needs work…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 06 09 at 09:20 PM • permalinkYou call that a fridge? My lunch box is bigger than that thing. Is Australia one of those full-sized refrigerator-deprived nations?
Posted by Shaky Barnes on 2007 06 09 at 10:28 PM • permalinkDr. Alice—you daydream about shooting your coworkers in the thigh?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 06 09 at 11:19 PM • permalinkPaco,
What Ash said. :) And some days I do indeed dream about shooting coworkers in the thigh. I will say that last year’s Season Five was quite good but this season was not only unbelievable but really, really bad. Season One is probably the best of the bunch. Of course, though, I will wind up watching Season 7 next year, junkie that I am.1.618
Take care of yourself, just remember living is allways better than the only alternative youve got.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 06 10 at 12:46 AM • permalink1.618
It’s frustrating to see (or should that be read?) someone such as yourself in any kind of trouble, when there’s so little one can do to help. I’ve met a lot of great people who haven’t deserved the dismal cards life chose to deal them. Guess the easier-said-than-done trick is to throw away the ones you don’t want and keep drawing from the deck; those aces will pop up sometime. (And if it was that simple, I’d be out of a job!) Anyway, enough platitudes. Don’t forget about us, OK?
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