Capacitors at RF

Victoria Bitter is an excellent beer, as top-brewed lagers go. One of the A ustralian Fellows of the UK Royal Society that I happen to know happens to think that is an excellent beer and has been drinking for some decades, so it doesn't always trash your IQ or cognitive functioning.

Not that IQ is a particularly useful measure of cognitive functioning, as C live Sinclair demonstrates.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney

You do need to be reminded of your repulsive condition at regular intervals . It's not all that effective - you have had a lot of practice at ignoring informed criticism - but without a steady drip-feed of reminders about your numerous defects you might become as prolix as John Larkin.

Phil is merely living up to his responsibilities.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney

worse than fire ants?

fake news.

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  Jasen.

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** Except democracy.

The US and the UK could learn a lot and many are envious of how we do things. If the USA were to copy our voting system, none the present trauma would have ever happened.

The US is a fake democracy - dominated by the wealthy and powerful . Every important job in the country is *riddled * with party politics. Massive conflicts of interest abound.

You stupid yanks are about the "reap the whirlwind".

....... Phil

Cursitor Dope puked;

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** Better watch out for the "convict streak. Bite ya harder than a White Ppointer.

** These days, almost no-one. ** Likewise. Free settlers from Ireland and the UK.

Arrived in Tasmania in the 1860s during the gold rush. Ended up in Beaconsfield - where the underground mine still is.

Running a pub !!

...... Phil

It must be very expensive and tedious to travel (to somewhere civilized) from Australia. I wonder how many do. We have many visitors from europe and asia and south america here, but few Australians.

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John Larkin      Highland Technology, Inc 

The best designs are necessarily accidental.

How curious. The Dunblane massacre happened in the UK in the exact same year and had the exact same effects (handguns were banned following it). Synchronicity perhaps...Or perhaps not.

Don't quote me as having written something I didn't, you ignorant, drunken little shit.

Australians don't seem to be aware how the rest of the world truly sees them. This hilarious clip will give them a damn good idea, though:

Up yours, Bill.

lice.

Not exactly true.

Cursitor Doom doesn't seem to know that Barry Humphries is an a Australian. He studied at the University of Melbourne a few years before I did, and wa s responsible for a couple of extremely funny undergraduate pranks.

He's made a very successful stage career out of shaping foreign perceptions of Australians, and Australian's know him and like him - we don't take our selves all that seriously, and Barry Humphries has made a useful contributi ons to establishing that desirable state of mind. The UK and the USA hasn't been quite so fortunate. Tom Lehrer and Rowan Atkinson do what they can, b ut the Poms and the Yanks are less enthusiastic about seeing their own com ic potential.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney

als. It's not all that effective - you have had a lot of practice at ignori ng informed criticism - but without a steady drip-feed of reminders about y our numerous defects you might become as prolix as John Larkin.

All Australians seem to like Barry Humphries. I'm no exception. Cursitor Do om is the kind of dim halfwit who wouldn't know that.

Sir Les Patterson is a brilliant lampoon of a certain kind of Australian. B arry Humphries has lots of others.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney

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** I know one who is a dead ringer for Sir Les.

Former Ashfield councillor and my former LL, Colin Grinham.

One difference though, Sir Les is an uncouth fool but he wasn't malicious.

Humphries said he modeled the character on a club president he met once, a man who indulged all his base urges with no hesitation.

...... Phil

It takes about a day. It is tedious and it isn't cheap. We usually spend a month or so in Europe every year, but Covid-19 put paid to that in 2020.

Why would we bother? California is an inferior version of Australia. New York is much more exotic from our point of view. I've visited both, several times.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney

I spent a Christmas break in London, years back; there were LOTS of Australians at (for instance) the Barry Humphries stage show.

You must be blind. The DS likes to hide in the shadows and has historically been pretty good at that. However, the on-going debacle over the fixed "election" has enabled those with eyes to see the DS in action - not from the shadows this time, but fully exposed, with its arse hanging out, balls, prick, the lot. If you can't see that, Bill, I for one am not the least surprised, because you've never ackowledged any such thing in the past and have always acted as some sort of wouldbe self-appointed censor of all the news we get to hear from alternative sources. Thank god neither you nor anyone else has that power - thanks to the internet.

Well that's something to be grateful for, at least. IME with very few exceptions, Australians are thoroughly unpleasant to be around. They have a serious inferiority complex over being so far away and having no presence or influence on the international stage. They can't get noticed by doing anything laudable, so fall back on being obnoxious because at least they get attention that way - even if it's for all the wrong reasons. Anything's better than being ignored so far as Australians are concerned.

Of course I know who he is, you damn fool. I simply posted that link because that character of his is a perfect representation of how the rest of the world sees Australians: boorish, foul-mouthed drunks.

So do I: YOU. The one difference being the fictional character isn't using the kind of ill-tempered, foul-mouthed outbursts *YOU* are.