Nungali

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  1. Stranger things

    You would have to ask Lairg about that ... he can gauge the emotional sensitivity of piston rings
  2. Stranger things

    One can go to far with that .... by smashing the bastard ! Or just do it your phone , now there is a stranger thing A DOP in the film industry had a habit of it ..... has a little temper tantie and smashes the phone ... HIS phone . Something didnt go his way or he got annoyed , take his phone out and throw it against the wall , or something similar . His PA would retrieve the card and relevant bits and stick them in one of his 'spares ' After a while the Aussie crew began to wonder how many he would smash and some betting went around .... but that meant some people were now trying to get him to smash his phone - tricky business as if you did something wrong (or not ) it could be instant layoff . So one had to .... cover one's arse ' so speak * . ( Eg NOT telling him one of his brilliant ideas will not work , just sit back and watch the F up and then ....... phone smash ! I cant remember the end tally - certainly double figures , over twenty something I think .
  3. Stranger things

    and the reverse ..... me coaxing a chainsaw to start and run perfectly after everyone else could not .... and swore and cursed at it . I step in and '' Do you want me to do it for you ?'' amidst much eye raising and huffing , but not from my Indigenous teacher , he was laughing and - knowing me ' ' here we go ! ( meaning he is used to my 'antics' ) .... < pat pat > ''Awwwww ... poor little chainsaw, everyone being mean and abusing you, but I won;t I like you ! Good little chainsaw < pat pat > You will start for me won;t you . '' and the others are ''Fer Gawd's sake ... etc '' .... went first pull and ran like a dream
  4. Stranger things

    VERY lifelike ! as ..... that looks just like me coming home from the pub with two mates !
  5. Stranger things

    Xpeng Iron man - he can do tai chi !
  6. Yes-But-Mind vs. Don't-Know-Mind

    Did you like the answers you got ? .
  7. Yes-But-Mind vs. Don't-Know-Mind

    and mainly over the head in the position of the Sahasrara Chakra ; which had its origin in the nimbus or halo which had its origin in Zoroastrianism ; but a nasty person had snakes coming out their shoulders ;
  8. String theory: scientists are trying new ways to verify the idea that could unite all of physics Published: November 13, 2025 https://theconversation.com/string-theory-scientists-are-trying-new-ways-to-verify-the-idea-that-could-unite-all-of-physics-268149 before we know it , Supersymmetry might be making a comeback .
  9. The ultimate unpopular opinions

    Oooooo ... 'unpopular' . - these posts should have an unpopular rating score ..... a URS index . eg .....
  10. The ultimate unpopular opinions

    That 'standard' translation gives lots of possible translations and meanings ..... but I like that . let's see what my fav chapter reveals ; The Dao generates oneness, oneness generates twoness, twoness generates threeness, threeness generates all things (1). Everything shoulders yin and embraces yang1 (2), surging qi æ°” [energy, vital energy, material] forms a harmony (3). {What people hate [to be], is the orphan, the widower, the unworthy, and kings and rulers take them as their names. Thus things are sometimes diminished as they are benefited, or are benefitted as they are diminished. What people teach I also teach. The overly bold do not get their [timely] death, I use them as fathers of teaching.}
  11. Now you have given me an image of old3bob , bottle in hand , staggering around the yard at 4 am and trying to swat the stars while yelling ; ''Damn fireflies ! '' .
  12. As a lad , passenger in a car late at night with my friend and his parents ... I had been watching 5 UFOs for some time , low altitude, just ahead of us to the side and in formation and occasionally ducking behind a line of trees along the road . It became too much so I eventually said something about it , which of course , everyone thought I was cuckoo , but I insisted and I guess something in my manner made them curious or whatever . But every time I would ; ''Look! There they are ! '' they would duck behind the trees again . Eventually I realized that it was a damp night and power lines ran alongside the road on the far side of the line of trees and the car headlights were shining on five lines , making little blobs of light moving along with the car in 'formation' .
  13. ... you chopped off my 2nd ' so you might enjoy it ' and the smile , thus removing the context of your 'quote' . Your images remind me of something . Do you know what my prime motive originally was for enrolling at Sydney Uni (aside from the free education policy ) ? It was because I loved the old buildings ( that some of these pictures remind me off ) So, of course , all my lectures where in a different type of 'new' building and surrounds ( that look like the other pictures ) # 'Old' architecture is fairly rare in Sydney ..... I imagine myself as some sort of student . chillin' out on the lawn and studying ........ something .. . .... and being'cool' . but instead I ended up in some post 60s experiment in brutalist architecture surrounded by no nature and next to a major feed road .... of course, that's all been fixed up now ..... [ We could run a similar thread on the development of Australian architecture .... something bad happened there post 70s as well ! ] Not a substitute at all ... an 'adjunct', perhaps . There is that 'nature of reality' question again Its also not like that now , as far as overall 'admissions' go .... here since the 80s women enrollments significantly outnumber men and regarding the 'white majority ' .... if you are indigenous , you are guaranteed a place ; Since 2024, all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in Australia are guaranteed a Commonwealth supported place at a university of their choice for non-medical courses (and will be for medical courses from 2026). . When I enrolled my 'admission ticket' depended on two things then ; was 1. Australian citizen , 2. Over 28 . That was it .
  14. Yes . One of the original pop 'scientific' east meets west works ( conceptually ), so you might enjoy it . It isnt a good source to learn modern physics though .... so you might enjoy it .
  15. The ultimate unpopular opinions

    I'd love to know where it is too ! ..... Cobie's bookcase ?
  16. If you got you own kingdom

    Of course there was .... ... where did you think Menelek the First came from ?
  17. If you got you own kingdom

    No thanks ..... I prefer real women .
  18. If you got you own kingdom

    ..... I would entertain visitors ;
  19. I'm convinced its the flares ...... ever since we stopped wearing them ..... nothing ! .
  20. Painful ? Unfortunately science has not greatly advanced 'Preparation H ' since 1935 , when the unfortunately named George Sperti used sunburn cream for ..... 'something else' .
  21. So, whats your idea or theory on that ..... why was 70s so special ( aside from the flares ) OR what happened since the 70s ? Dont tell me we hit that point again ! ; Lord Kelvin ; '' "There is nothing new to be discovered in physics". .