Carantoc forum posts in last 60 days

^ Meh. .... Maybe.

But thought MSN was saying the 'concept of Net Zero' is not a terrible ideal to aspire to. Net Zero implies we offset all carbon emissions and no longer rely on fossil fuels. Whether that works in practice is unlikely for decades.

In policy Net Zero means we do that on a domestic level, but whatever carbon we dig out of the ground and export/sell overseas - no matter how much - does not count towards our carbon output.

That is a flawed policy.

at least AFAHC.

I think I kinda got this idea by reading what he typed.


On a side note I think I saw MSN's mum sunbathing down at City Beach yesterday. Kinda of hard to tell, because somebody mentioned there was also a dead whale, not sure which I saw.

hilly said..
Can you explain this - n Dr Chalmers' ability to react to whatever the Guardian financial column is saying that morning and f*&^ing it all up .

don’t follow

Sorry for delay hilly, I missed this.

Not to get too political here but it was a snide comment about the gubberment and the Treasurer seemingly being very short term reactive of late and having thrown away much of whatever they seemed to believe in.

The government was elected on a platform of 'get wages moving', and then throughout 2025 all the treasury discussion was about productivity, productivity, productivity. I'd suggest the two are very closely linked.

In the December MYFO Chalmers was spruiking the next budget would be all about productivity, productivity, productivity. But then the public discourse (or should I say media headline of the minute) shifted to cost of living and housing in particular. So the great productivity budget, planned since the last election, engaged with acedmics, buisness, industry groups and stakeholders thoughout the 2025 productivy round tables was instantly thrown in the bin and we got CGT changes instead to address the great housing driven cossi-lives media headlines of the minute.

But it seems these CGT changes were dreamed up in the space of a few days and are now taking months, if not years to iron out the big holes in them. And the biggest being that CGT changes were essentially equal across the board, being CG on productive or non-productive assets treated the same still. If you increase or decrease tax equally surely it doesn't change the incentive in what to invest in.

Anyways, could go on but you get the point.

Rally against 'populism' in the morning and then abandon political ideology and reacting to newspaper headlines in the afternoon. And with no credible opposition I don't why Albo and Chalmers ain't better than that.

myscreenname said..
if you value formal governance, international diplomacy, stability, and the ability to run a massive federal apparatus debt:
Albo

Hey MSN,

I notice you had a minor typo there, I corrected it for you. No worries, easy to make.

Interesting notion hilly.

If it is about specifically the best 2IC, as opposed to the biggest F*&^wit in general, then I'd suggest that :

Chalmers brings the average of the rest of his team down
Bar-joy lifts the average of his team up

But I am not sure if it should be easy to be 2IC in either group given the very low bar set by the rest of the team, or if it would it be very hard given the low bar set by the rest of the team.

So I don't think raising or lowering the average of the rest of the team is much of an indicator as to either's ability or lack of it.

OmarShamgar said..
There's this thing called Google. You should give it a try.

Meh. I can think of better things to use Google for.

Arguing about whether an American who voted for Trump or Harris is smarter is a bit like arguing about which tastes better - dog **** or cat sht. To then search Google to find something that reinforces your pre-determined belief seems at bit neurotic.

Talking of neurotic - I am still gonna ask - that graph shows that groups of people who voted blue had more degrees on average.

I also reckon younger generations have more degrees on average, and that younger generations are also more likely to vote blue. I mean I bet if you replaced "degrees" in that chart with 'tattoos' or 'instagram accounts' you'd get the same distribution. Not sure that proves tattoos and instagram accounts are the primary cause of which way people vote.

OmarShamgar posted a chart that a former member of these forums has posted before......hhhmmmm what's up wid-dat ?

Wowser - really brings home how big Harris' loss was doesn't it. A few isolated blue dots against a tidal wave of red.

By the way, if you plotted the same chart but with average age of voter versus % of residents age 18+ with at least a four year degree in 2022, would it have much the same distribution ?


Anyways, back to more up to date topics..

cammd said..

Are members of this forum suggesting intelligence is related to ancestory.

No cammd, no. I do not think they are.

I believe they are implying (either deliberately or unconsciously) that intelligence is related to ethnicity and also that intelligence is directly inversely proportional to having the same political agenda as themselves.

Although intelligence, as we all know, is actually just a human construct.

cammd said..
Yawn, 10000 or 40000 the irony still remains, probably even more so.

Yeah sorry for being pedantic.

It is just that I thought the truth mattered.

Why does the truth matter you ask. Are you really that dumb ?

The irony sure does remain.

OmarShamgar said..
Ancient Greek, Roman, and Mesopotamian documents often mentioned gender change and third-gender roles. Ovid's "Metamorphoses" describes Tiresias living as both a man and a woman, also the transformation of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis into a single, dual-gendered being.

ummmm.... not entirely sure that version of the creation of the universe and the role of Gods and spirits in it's on-going existence is one that the NG Roman telescope is seeking to investigate.

If you reckon the 'scope is searching for the tell-tale signs of winged gods flying across the heavens to prove ancient Greek mythology as fact then maybe MSN is right to question the return on investment....

The GN Roman scope sets a new bar
In seeing space and time from afar
Although a FoV 100 times Hubble
May still give it trouble
Searching out the wit of OmarShamgar

OmarShamgar said..
I thought Carantoc was... busy, busy, busy.

You thought correct.

But Carantoc (as previously stated) can take 2 minutes from a busy day to point out when somebody on the internet needs to stand corrected.

And it doesn't take Carantoc more than 2 minutes to draft a couple of limericks and rhyme one word with another.

Mainly on account of Carantoc being such a distinguished and cunnin'-linguist.

OmarShamgar said..
I'm new here, but I now know about tools.

Not to be a persistent pedant - but I beg to differ, on all three points.

Although at least that is a slight improvement in wit on the original "it's a storm in a gimlet'.

Hence, I will punch this information into this forum once again - neither 'storm' nor 'gimlet' seem to make sense.

If you were trying to downplay the seriousness of allegations of sexual assault whilst mocking the alleged allegation somebody who played football for the Sydney Swans claimed to be a carpenter whilst snorting coke from a hooker's arse, I fail to see any double, let alone triple, entendre in the words.

Presumably the base of your statement is the well known phrase 'storm in a tea-cup' and it was an attempt to adapt that phrase, in a comical way, to suit the situation (albeit with blind disregard to the seriousness of the events and the physical and emotional wellbeing of the victims).

In which case I feel you would need to change both the 'storm' and 'tea-cup' to suit the situation, creating at least double but preferably many multiple interpretations for them, both individually and collectively.

I am not here to spoon feed everyone punchlines, but perhaps using a word such as 'flap' to replace 'storm' with the side reference to swans wings and a carpenter's tool that could either replace a tea-cup or the name of which had some phonetic similarity to something in the story - perhaps the name of the hotel chain or one of the persons involved, perhaps a sexual inuendo or even a reference to illicit drug consumption.

For somebody who may have frequented these forums before I feel that all the tools have been provide to create a witty retort on the topic myscreenname has nicely set-up for us, but the craftsmanship in your response was of .... well, lets just say it was more than just low quality.....

OmarShamgar said..
It's a storm in a gimlet.

That doesn't seem to make any sense. On so many levels.

Just FYI - if you want a witty pun on the subject I feel it would need to include both some play on the swan theme and the sexual innuendo theme.

So you might start with "Swans ?... more like gooses having a gander", but I don't think that would meet the high standards of wit on these forums.

So perhaps try winging it with some pond-erance of the ineptitude displayed by swans on ice, or the simple fact that ducks are less graceful than swans. Anything like that would have been swanderful.

But at the same time you can't go ruffling any feathers or you will get another red card, so don't stick your neck out too far and be bill-igerant.

Perhaps try something on the "what is red and white and ...." by combining the themes of the team uniform and a slapped arse covered in cocaine ?

Anyways...good luck with your endeavors.

hardpole said..
Nothing to see here

Yeah...that is what they want you to see.

But if you open your eyes you will see it. Right there, at the back.

The horizon, man, the horizon. Not a curve in sight. Flat, totally flat. Case closed.

myscreenname said..
I went to Perf once...

Need proof because I am calling bull on that claim.

MSN has never left the Shire.

He surfed the web once looking for investment property in Port Gregory, but that is as close as he ever got to Perth.

OmarShamgar said..
She seems so sad.

Ummmm.....Yeaaah. I don't doubt it.

So, let me get this straight.... in your , ...your... well let's just call it an 'enforced sabbatical' from these forums you got yourself a sux doll and named her Carantoc. I am not sure if I should be flattered or scared.

When your are both right in the midst of the thralls of er, um....'passion'.... do you call out my name ? It is no wonder she is sad, she is playing second fiddle to your one true fantasy....