tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post8189069971790562283..comments2024-03-28T22:51:37.034+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the pond reluctantly joins Dame Slap in blaming ordinary Australians for everything that's wrong in the country, as we bid fair to become the Greece of the South Pacific ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-4389490182880232732018-04-06T13:38:01.742+10:002018-04-06T13:38:01.742+10:00I'm just waiting for the Dame to notice Americ...I'm just waiting for the Dame to notice America - where the natives are far more effective at all kinds of cheating and criminality than we naifs here in Oz - and to declare it 'the Greece of the North Atlantic', rescued from disaster only by the might of MAGA Man.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-7709657025676906042018-04-05T01:24:06.640+10:002018-04-05T01:24:06.640+10:00As for the slappy one, when 36% of the biggest cor...As for the slappy one, when 36% of the biggest corporations in Australia paid no tax last year, maybe some punter fudging his expense records isn't the biggest issue with sustaining tax revenues...FrankDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-89695596301988985942018-04-05T01:12:42.069+10:002018-04-05T01:12:42.069+10:00Just regarding the car porn of James Dean (odd nam...Just regarding the car porn of James Dean (odd name for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dean#Accident_and_aftermath" rel="nofollow">someone writing about high performance cars</a>), it's all well and good to jizz about a tricked up 50 year old design, but the Dodge Challenger just doesn't cut it. <br /><br />The manufacturers-claim-but-unverified 2.3 seconds for 0-60, is alright, but its still a tick slower than the independently-verified Tesla Model S (a little more expensive, but we aren't talking supercar prices here). And it's a lot slower than the new Roadster model launched at the end of last year, with a claimed-but-yet-to-be-tested 1.9 seconds. If you want to get off the line fast, the instant torque of an EV is a must.<br /><br />For the quarter-mile, the Dodge is fast, faster than any EV. For now. It's 9.65 seconds should be a record for street-legal production cars for...ooh, a few months, until the first Roadster 2020 rolls off the production line. That's reputed to be capable of a quarter mile in 8.9 seconds.<br /><br />Of course, petrol heads have never actually managed to keep up with real technological advances very well, but their beloved muscle cars getting blown away by faggy little EV's? Won't anyone think of the Summernats?FrankDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-53335733529418864062018-04-04T11:10:22.622+10:002018-04-04T11:10:22.622+10:00It's commendable that being employed by one of...It's commendable that being employed by one of Australia's most extensive masters of the black economy Dam Slap is able to pump out that gear.<br /><br />Does she cross her arms, legs, fingers and toes as she types?<br /><br />And the shrinkage error is just vintage Slappage innit? A word that's been in retail since I was a baby is suddenly part of the Marxist Leninist plot. If it suits the tottering narrative, lob it in Janet. What could go wrong?<br /><br />Liar loans. Logical extension of an unregulated market. Anyone know anyone in favour of unregulated markets? Oh...<br /><br /><br /><br />via collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14342963456605644101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-58714790003198458492018-04-04T09:05:34.358+10:002018-04-04T09:05:34.358+10:00Wau, a genuine Henny Penny moment from Dame Snap. ...Wau, a genuine Henny Penny moment from Dame Snap. Oh well, I guess if she didn't really overblow things she'd be too insignificant to be noticed.<br /><br />But a nice case of 'exaggeration psychology' I reckon:<br />Bill Knaus: "<i>Worry, anxiety, stress, and panic are often the <b>emotional expressions of catastrophic thinking</b>. Technically, catastrophizing is an exaggerating, irrational, style of thought where you painfully blow real or imagined disasters out of proportion. <b>Fortunately, catastrophic thinking is correctable</b></i>."<br /><br />https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/science-and-sensibility/201211/anxiety-and-exaggerations<br /><br />It's correctable, he says, so maybe there's hope for DS after all.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.com