Damned heatwave!!

[Valkie]

Just got my shopping delivered so I'm fine but this is the second time the Coles delivery driver's eftpos machine wasn't working.

They expect me to verbalise my card over his device. The idiot supervisor on the other end says "we turn off the recording first" ... but what about the delivery driver standing right next to me?? Then the idiot supervisor says "fine we will just cancel the order".

Anyway I went outside and did it. "Customer service" is going to get an earful from me later

you're not one of these people that say that you luv the hot weather but then complain about the first hot day you get and hide in front of an air conditioner all day long like folks in Darwin are you?

anyways - you should have already paid for the groceries online before they got delivered - I don't know anyone who gets a delivery and then pays.

NO!! I HATE SUMMER!! Absolutely detest it and don't pretend otherwise. My beach bunny days are long behind me and I would gladly live where it snows. I think I only wore a THIN jumper twice this winter and couldn't wait to get home and take it off because I was too warm. I love the cold

Yeah well Coles online has the pay the driver option but I won't be using it again

I'm with you, I prefer winter to summer.

But living in really cold countries is not as great as you think.

I was in Finland for a couple of months a few years back.
It hit minus 25c, it were damn cold outside.
But my mate, Finnish, said it was a mild winter, the ocean hadn't frozen over.

In Canada just 2 years ago, it hit minus 32c , it was not quite cold enough to keep the kids home from school.

In these cold countries, you dress differently.
You wear reasonably light clothing indoors.
But you have seriously warm coats, pants, shoes hats and gloves when you head outside.
It's a real ritual, getting dressed.

Even in Shanghai, it gets pretty cold in winter, and the high humidity, even in winter makes it feel even colder.
I was standing in the factory in Nanjing, one day at midday,
It was minus 5, but it felt colder than Finland and Canada even though they were, technically, colder.

Australian winters are mild, where I live it rarely gets below 0 even overnight.
But I do live on the coast with a huge lake nearby, which acts as a heatsink.

Be careful what you wish for.
There is cold and then there is COLD

[Black Orchid]

I know what REAL cold is like and yes they dress differently. They have to. Even your nose hairs freeze and you feel like you are being stabbed inside your nose with a thousand needles. I still prefer it to the heat. You can build forts, zap around on snow mobiles and have fun in the snow.

Unless the sand and water start at your back fence there isn't much you can do in the heat. If you go to the beach nowadays you have to compete with a zillion people and then drive or walk home in the sweltering heat. Then wash all that salt off your body.

In winter you can add more layers of clothing to keep warm. In summer you can strip down to nothing and you will still be a melting ball of hot sticky sweat.

Give me the cold.

[sprintcyclist]

So now it's someone else's turn to burn ... currently in sunny sub tropical kweensland it's cloudy and not too bad ... but ....
Back in late Nov early Dec it hovered around 40c mots days for weeks, and I worked in it numerous times.
Had a couple of my surveillance cameras go down. Checked one of my newer/fancier cameras (which record temps) and it showed on the 2nd of Dec it was 48C at 2pm ... 27C at midnight .. and took til 4am next morning go down to 25C.
I figured that must have been the day I stayed wet all day.

Then we got rain and it stayed cloudy for a week (got 1 inch in the guage).
When you're a fruit picker you learn to curse the sunshine and worship the clouds.

' .............. When you're a fruit picker you learn to curse the sunshine and worship the clouds.............. '

I reckon that would be hard going.

[Serial Brain 9]

When me and the Mrs were younger we had a working in Mildura - we picked Grapes at Sultana Sam from the crack of sunlight till around 1pm

had the rest of the arvo off as it was to hot to work for a "normal" person and then we'd go do our own thing

got us a couple of hundred bucks a week back then -

fun fact - some of the aboriginals would be always hanging around down by the river under the trees - one day while having lunch we saw these two girls from the group go down for a swim in the river - so we thought

then they pulled out a bar of soap and had a bath

[Outlaw Yogi]

So now it's someone else's turn to burn ... currently in sunny sub tropical kweensland it's cloudy and not too bad ... but ....
Back in late Nov early Dec it hovered around 40c mots days for weeks, and I worked in it numerous times.
Had a couple of my surveillance cameras go down. Checked one of my newer/fancier cameras (which record temps) and it showed on the 2nd of Dec it was 48C at 2pm ... 27C at midnight .. and took til 4am next morning go down to 25C.
I figured that must have been the day I stayed wet all day.

Then we got rain and it stayed cloudy for a week (got 1 inch in the guage).
When you're a fruit picker you learn to curse the sunshine and worship the clouds.

' .............. When you're a fruit picker you learn to curse the sunshine and worship the clouds.............. '

I reckon that would be hard going.

Yeah, it can be ... apparently hardship is character building.

Pickers used to have a bad name ... with the police anyway ... Why?
Well they (generally) work hard and then play hard ... that is they had a reputation for drinking and fighting, and they're fit ... well fitter than the average copper anyway.
But this next generation (Y oh Y me) are way too soft ... so we have a regional city (Bundaberg) full of unemployed (welfare capital of Qld) surrounded by agriculture - tomatoes, zucchini, mangos, sweet potato, citrus ect ect .. heaps of stuff.
The result?
Us (supposedly hardarse) pickers are being replaced by Pacific Islanders.
The fed govt flies them in at taxpayers expense and pays the farmers $3k per islander to give them our jobs.
So pickers who can and are willing to work wind up on the dole like the speed/ice junkies in Bundy.

The Nats wanted to bring in a new O/S agricultural workers visa and the Libs rejected it because it would muck up the favouritism they're giving the Pacific Islanders, otherwise they'll let China build military bases all around the Pacific.
Morrison, to keep the Nats happy, said the farms must offer the jobs to Australians first.
So the Farming companies are advertising the jobs on the MyGov site and not accepting any Australian applicants so they qualify for subsidised Islanders.
So next time you buy a piece of fruit at the supermarket, just remember you've already paid for part of it via your taxes.

Meanwhile the heat wave's back ... cloudy days are in the high 30s, sunny days are in the low 40s.
Checked a camera yesterday, it was 47C on the 21st of Dec, and nights are around 23C-24C.

[Valkie]

My office overlooks a mechanical workshop.

I have seen the poor buggars sweltering in the heat.

Even I feel it, my office hit 23 the other day.

That's 0.5 reg higher than I set it for.

Disgraceful it are.

[sprintcyclist]

So now it's someone else's turn to burn ... currently in sunny sub tropical kweensland it's cloudy and not too bad ... but ....
Back in late Nov early Dec it hovered around 40c mots days for weeks, and I worked in it numerous times.
Had a couple of my surveillance cameras go down. Checked one of my newer/fancier cameras (which record temps) and it showed on the 2nd of Dec it was 48C at 2pm ... 27C at midnight .. and took til 4am next morning go down to 25C.
I figured that must have been the day I stayed wet all day.

Then we got rain and it stayed cloudy for a week (got 1 inch in the guage).
When you're a fruit picker you learn to curse the sunshine and worship the clouds.

' .............. When you're a fruit picker you learn to curse the sunshine and worship the clouds.............. '

I reckon that would be hard going.

Yeah, it can be ... apparently hardship is character building.

Pickers used to have a bad name ... with the police anyway ... Why?
Well they (generally) work hard and then play hard ... that is they had a reputation for drinking and fighting, and they're fit ... well fitter than the average copper anyway.
But this next generation (Y oh Y me) are way too soft ... so we have a regional city (Bundaberg) full of unemployed (welfare capital of Qld) surrounded by agriculture - tomatoes, zucchini, mangos, sweet potato, citrus ect ect .. heaps of stuff.
The result?
Us (supposedly hardarse) pickers are being replaced by Pacific Islanders.
The fed govt flies them in at taxpayers expense and pays the farmers $3k per islander to give them our jobs.
So pickers who can and are willing to work wind up on the dole like the speed/ice junkies in Bundy.

The Nats wanted to bring in a new O/S agricultural workers visa and the Libs rejected it because it would muck up the favouritism they're giving the Pacific Islanders, otherwise they'll let China build military bases all around the Pacific.
Morrison, to keep the Nats happy, said the farms must offer the jobs to Australians first.
So the Farming companies are advertising the jobs on the MyGov site and not accepting any Australian applicants so they qualify for subsidised Islanders.
So next time you buy a piece of fruit at the supermarket, just remember you've already paid for part of it via your taxes.

Meanwhile the heat wave's back ... cloudy days are in the high 30s, sunny days are in the low 40s.
Checked a camera yesterday, it was 47C on the 21st of Dec, and nights are around 23C-24C.

..................The Nats wanted to bring in a new O/S agricultural workers visa and the Libs rejected it because it would muck up the favouritism they're giving the Pacific Islanders, otherwise they'll let China build military bases all around the Pacific.
Morrison, to keep the Nats happy, said the farms must offer the jobs to Australians first.
So the Farming companies are advertising the jobs on the MyGov site and not accepting any Australian applicants so they qualify for subsidised Islanders.
So next time you buy a piece of fruit at the supermarket, just remember you've already paid for part of it via your taxes.
..................

what a difficult situation

[Serial Brain 9]

So now it's someone else's turn to burn ... currently in sunny sub tropical kweensland it's cloudy and not too bad ... but ....
Back in late Nov early Dec it hovered around 40c mots days for weeks, and I worked in it numerous times.
Had a couple of my surveillance cameras go down. Checked one of my newer/fancier cameras (which record temps) and it showed on the 2nd of Dec it was 48C at 2pm ... 27C at midnight .. and took til 4am next morning go down to 25C.
I figured that must have been the day I stayed wet all day.

Then we got rain and it stayed cloudy for a week (got 1 inch in the guage).
When you're a fruit picker you learn to curse the sunshine and worship the clouds.

' .............. When you're a fruit picker you learn to curse the sunshine and worship the clouds.............. '

I reckon that would be hard going.

Yeah, it can be ... apparently hardship is character building.

Pickers used to have a bad name ... with the police anyway ... Why?
Well they (generally) work hard and then play hard ... that is they had a reputation for drinking and fighting, and they're fit ... well fitter than the average copper anyway.
But this next generation (Y oh Y me) are way too soft ... so we have a regional city (Bundaberg) full of unemployed (welfare capital of Qld) surrounded by agriculture - tomatoes, zucchini, mangos, sweet potato, citrus ect ect .. heaps of stuff.
The result?
Us (supposedly hardarse) pickers are being replaced by Pacific Islanders.
The fed govt flies them in at taxpayers expense and pays the farmers $3k per islander to give them our jobs.
So pickers who can and are willing to work wind up on the dole like the speed/ice junkies in Bundy.

The Nats wanted to bring in a new O/S agricultural workers visa and the Libs rejected it because it would muck up the favouritism they're giving the Pacific Islanders, otherwise they'll let China build military bases all around the Pacific.
Morrison, to keep the Nats happy, said the farms must offer the jobs to Australians first.
So the Farming companies are advertising the jobs on the MyGov site and not accepting any Australian applicants so they qualify for subsidised Islanders.
So next time you buy a piece of fruit at the supermarket, just remember you've already paid for part of it via your taxes.

Meanwhile the heat wave's back ... cloudy days are in the high 30s, sunny days are in the low 40s.
Checked a camera yesterday, it was 47C on the 21st of Dec, and nights are around 23C-24C.

..................The Nats wanted to bring in a new O/S agricultural workers visa and the Libs rejected it because it would muck up the favouritism they're giving the Pacific Islanders, otherwise they'll let China build military bases all around the Pacific.
Morrison, to keep the Nats happy, said the farms must offer the jobs to Australians first.
So the Farming companies are advertising the jobs on the MyGov site and not accepting any Australian applicants so they qualify for subsidised Islanders.
So next time you buy a piece of fruit at the supermarket, just remember you've already paid for part of it via your taxes.
..................

what a difficult situation

I WOULD be sending the unemployed, starting with the long term unemployed, a letter that they had a job for the picking seasons in different areas - then get a bus and drive them there - a lot of the farmers had bungalo’s when we did it back then although we stayed in caravan parks - or just give them a tent...

Anyways.. if they don’t get on the bus they lose welfare for 6 months

[Black Orchid]

Depending how long they have been on welfare. If they worked for the past 20 and have only been on welfare for a short time ... NO!

If they have only lived here for say 5 years and have not worked at all ... YES!

[Black Orchid]

Temperatures are supposed to drop 10 degrees after Sunday. YAY!! Bring it on!!

There were some pretty freaky cloud formations yesterday but no storms. Well not near me.