1 hour ago, Biffen said:

Also Mount Ben Lomond.

The famous founder of our city formed a long line of men with guns there and they marched towards the ocean, shooting men,women and children wherever they stood.

Hard to find any tourist markers pointing this out.

 

Also worth researching Cape Grim on the west coast for the same reason. 

Best be careful or we'll have Demonland's Bolt fans calling us the black arm band lefties

Thanks Uncle Bitter. I'll write a detailed report on the Spirit of Tasmania when I get back. I know you will be dying to hear about what I get at the duty free shops.

When you get there adjust your watch back 1 hour for daylight savings, then the date back 30 years.

8 hours ago, special robert said:

I am into nature Moony big time. In fact I think the only hope for saving nature is a new party I am going to form a new party....'The Green Fascist party.' I haven't discussed my idea with Pauline Hanson yet but I think she will love me. The Greens are just too wishy washy now and need a new strong leader. I have some great sketch ideas for uniforms....Green with high boots (synthetic, look alike leather.)

Yes Biff TV...it's awful here. The best tv in the world is in Italy. They have stacks of great shows...like game shows and stuff, with funny presenters and lots of girls. If only we could get Silvio Berlisconi to take over the ABC here I would be rapt.

Govenor Arthur... late 1830 to ordered a massive six-week military offensive known as the Black Line, in which 2200 civilians and soldiers formed a series of moving cordons stretching hundreds of kilometres across the island in order to drive Aboriginal people from the colony's settled districts to the Tasman Peninsula in the southeast, where it was intended they would remain permanently confined.^[5][6][7]  (Wikipedia)

Yes the Black Line or the Black War.

Graziers were reporting raids upon properties and Aboriginal tribes sought retribution for their women who had been stolen or " purchased".

Batman controlled the line from Launceston to the ocean with the intention of driving any survivors out to Flinders Island to the N/E

It was here that Batman grew his ruthless reputation and gained support as a selector in the new colony of Victiria.

Touchingly, he took care of a young Aboriginal boy who's parent he had shot. He was all heart.

9 hours ago, special robert said:

Thanks Uncle Bitter. I'll write a detailed report on the Spirit of Tasmania when I get back. I know you will be dying to hear about what I get at the duty free shops.

Thank you Special. It seems you're not such a bad fellow after all.

It so happens that I will making my first ever trek to Taswegia in early February so a report of your tailblazing trailblazing activities will be most helpful I'm sure.

5 hours ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

Thank you Special. It seems you're not such a bad fellow after all.

It so happens that I will making my first ever trek to Taswegia in early February so a report of your tailblazing trailblazing activities will be most helpful I'm sure.

Maybe you could take special along in the Merc for that road trip you have been promising him for 3 years?

16 hours ago, special robert said:

Thanks Uncle Bitter. I'll write a detailed report on the Spirit of Tasmania when I get back. I know you will be dying to hear about what I get at the duty free shops.

Probably little Tasmanian Devil dolls.

On ‎1‎/‎9‎/‎2017 at 1:35 PM, Biffen said:

Maybe you could take special along in the Merc for that road trip you have been promising him for 3 years?

I notice Biffen that you are very generous with my assets!

I have previously refused Special any access to the Merc on the basis of his poverty. Now I'll grant you he seems a decent enough chap for one of that ilk but his need to stowaway on the "Princess" suggests little change in his state of penury.

 

On ‎12‎/‎20‎/‎2016 at 8:18 AM, Bitter but optimistic said:

Haven't heard much from the good Doctor of late.

I suppose he's preparing for the festive season. I understand it's a very big deal in Hopping Dicks and really draws the community together.

Apparently the Summer Solstice will do that. The body painting is supposed to be quite complex  but I believe the good pagans of Hopping Dicks simply get a few spray cans of Dulux from the local Bunnings and go at it furiously so that they can get straight into the naked dancing.

The bizarre sexual rituals that follow are supposed to be worth a look also but evidently they have considerable difficulty finding virgins for sacrifice in those parts.

It is rumoured that the good Doctor's alchemic skills provides "secret herbs and spices" which makes the barbequed possum something special when washed down with a cask of Aldi red.

Still haven't heard from the good doc and he doesn't appear to handing out his usual indiscriminate thrashings.

Is it possible the doc cavorted a little too enthusiastically during the abovementioned rites of summer and did himself a mischief?

Interesting info about the history of Tasmania, thanks demonlanders. You learn something every day!  I can't recall too much about Australian history from school. The only thing I remember is that Matthew Flinders sailed down the east coast from Sydney.  He entered Port Phillip bay through the heads and went on to mount Martha. That surprised me because I had thought Martha had stayed home in England.

1 hour ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

Still haven't heard from the good doc and he doesn't appear to handing out his usual indiscriminate thrashings.

Is it possible the doc cavorted a little too enthusiastically during the abovementioned rites of summer and did himself a mischief?

What's that thing about doing unto others? I tend to prefer that direction. First anyway. 

Have been enjoying myself of late poking feathers at Crusader Biffin and reading about nineteenth century s-x crimes in Vienna. No connection of course.

18 minutes ago, Dr John Dee said:

What's that thing about doing unto others? I tend to prefer that direction. First anyway. 

Have been enjoying myself of late poking feathers at Crusader Biffin and reading about nineteenth century s-x crimes in Vienna. No connection of course.

how's your nbn thingy with that new satellite, doc? SkyMuster II or something

see fttn is changing to fttc (c=curb i.e. the existing concrete thingy in your nature strip) for us city slickers (some time this century)

43 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

how's your nbn thingy with that new satellite, doc? SkyMuster II or something

see fttn is changing to fttc (c=curb i.e. the existing concrete thingy in your nature strip) for us city slickers (some time this century)

The more things change the more they go backwards, daisy. We get by jumping from satellite to a Telstra mobile broadband service to using an iPhone as a hotspot. But there was a 7:30 report thing a while ago on a bloke who has to put his iPhone in a plastic bag and hoist it up a tree to get any sort of internet so I can't complain (and no one would listen anyway).

Good to know that things are moving so fast in the metropoli though.

3 minutes ago, Dr John Dee said:

The more things change the more they go backwards, daisy. We get by jumping from satellite to a Telstra mobile broadband service to using an iPhone as a hotspot. But there was a 7:30 report thing a while ago on a bloke who has to put his iPhone in a plastic bag and hoist it up a tree to get any sort of internet so I can't complain (and no one would listen anyway).

Good to know that things are moving so fast in the metropoli though.

yeah, i saw that report. very impressed with his resourcefulness. must be a bushy thing. but seriously, have they talked to you about moving you to the new satellite? it did sound like a big improvement for satellite nbn, but maybe it is reserved for other areas or some such other bureaucracy? 

If they get 5g working nbn is officially dead in the water. It was unofficially dead before it started lol

Anyone else noticed the really big elephant ?

11 hours ago, daisycutter said:

yeah, i saw that report. very impressed with his resourcefulness. must be a bushy thing. but seriously, have they talked to you about moving you to the new satellite? it did sound like a big improvement for satellite nbn, but maybe it is reserved for other areas or some such other bureaucracy? 

We're completely in the dark about the new satellite and it doesn't seem to have helped ease the load on the existing one. We have outage after outage, only some of them planned. Assuming the wet arrives soon we'll probably need to connect to the web via semaphore.

6 hours ago, beelzebub said:

If they get 5g working nbn is officially dead in the water. It was unofficially dead before it started lol

Hope you're right 'bub. Will we have to rely on Telstra to get it working though?

A communications engineer has told me that Telsta is overcharging the NBN access its infrastructure and pits, which are full of asbestos and disconnected lines.

Privatised Telstra is now destroying its own competition through arbitrage and sabotage.

7 hours ago, beelzebub said:

If they get 5g working nbn is officially dead in the water. It was unofficially dead before it started lol

What a waste of a lazy $50 Billion

Blind Freddy with no tech knowledge could have predicted the eventual delivery system and it wasnt going to be Green fibre in the ground to the home or node 

What an absolute joke

Blind Freddy was never consulted !!

Our Bitter correspondent has asked me to inform you that he is taking a week off to practice his diction and cultural awareness.

It seems a typo made in poor taste has offended someone worried in case of somebody getting offended.

Bitters was guilty of stereotyping our Asianneighbours ability to pronounce the letter r.

I suppose the decades he's spent teaching Asian children English  must have been interspersed with some Hey Hey it's Saturday!!

I did buy lunch at a shop called " wok and lol" today and funnily enough it was busy with customers and not a single placard in sight.

In conclusion I think the punishment is just  for such an archaic evocation.

I expect he will be flagellating himself  vigorously in contrition.

8 minutes ago, Biffen said:

Our Bitter correspondent has asked me to inform you that he is taking a week off to practice his diction and cultural awareness.

It seems a typo made in poor taste has offended someone worried in case of somebody getting offended.

Bitters was guilty of stereotyping our Asianneighbours ability to pronounce the letter r.

I suppose the decades he's spent teaching Asian children English  must have been interspersed with some Hey Hey it's Saturday!!

I did buy lunch at a shop called " wok and lol" today and funnily enough it was busy with customers and not a single placard in sight.

In conclusion I think the punishment is just  for such an archaic evocation.

I expect he will be flagellating himself  vigorously in contrition.

a good opportunity for him to swot up on his van demon accent and colloquialisms before he invades the apple isle with his appalling solecism

36 minutes ago, Biffen said:

Our Bitter correspondent has asked me to inform you that he is taking a week off to practice his diction and cultural awareness.

It seems a typo made in poor taste has offended someone worried in case of somebody getting offended.

Bitters was guilty of stereotyping our Asianneighbours ability to pronounce the letter r.

I suppose the decades he's spent teaching Asian children English  must have been interspersed with some Hey Hey it's Saturday!!

I did buy lunch at a shop called " wok and lol" today and funnily enough it was busy with customers and not a single placard in sight.

In conclusion I think the punishment is just  for such an archaic evocation.

I expect he will be flagellating himself  vigorously in contrition.

Did you mean he will be frogging himself?

Not that there's anything wrong with that....

9 hours ago, Biffen said:

Our Bitter correspondent has asked me to inform you that he is taking a week off to practice his diction and cultural awareness.

It seems a typo made in poor taste has offended someone worried in case of somebody getting offended.

Bitters was guilty of stereotyping our Asianneighbours ability to pronounce the letter r.

I suppose the decades he's spent teaching Asian children English  must have been interspersed with some Hey Hey it's Saturday!!

I did buy lunch at a shop called " wok and lol" today and funnily enough it was busy with customers and not a single placard in sight.

In conclusion I think the punishment is just  for such an archaic evocation.

I expect he will be flagellating himself  vigorously in contrition.

Hmm, this looks suspiciously like posting by proxy, another clever effort by BBO to slip past any scrupulous mods who might visit here. That's highly unlikely I suppose.

More alarming is the information that he's been allowed to teach anyone anything. I though proponents of Dickensian education techniques had been shuffled off into administrative jobs long ago.

Anyway, didn't you say in another thread that you were off for a souvlaki at lunchtime yesterday?