Maybe Massalai was right after all

Price of PV panels seems to be coming down, 24V - 175W - - 1500mm x 800mm have come down some 30% from when I bought mine... Another 5 may be nice? but not really high on the needs list...

First is battery charger from Christie Engineering, (around Au$1500)
Then 60LPH watermaker, (more expensive)
Followed by mast & genoa... (lots more expensive)

Somewhere in the mix is proper fuel tanks? 2 x VOYAGER 600litre http://www.turtlepac.com/en/products/super-deck-tanks.html (the lot around $40K)

Nice to dream and hope - occasionally....
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Not here unfortunately, I can very easily be accosted by young women as I mind my own business in a bar. I once stopped my little motor bike to make a phone call and a girl sat on the back and said 'where you go'--I said 'im going home,' she said 'Ok I go too'. Im telling you I had to get a bit annoyed and shake the bike to get her off.

It was then that I saw what is was , really nice bit of kit with mini skirt.

Its not uncommon, the girls here want security,-- they know a young kid cant give that.

I am asked in every bar I go to why I am on my own and do I have a girl friend. It would need but a snap of the fingers to have one slide up next to me and take up position on my arm.

 

I don't know what's in the average bar well; I usually order my drinks by name if I'm out and about (and watch to see that it at least comes out of the right bottle...). But the generic bourbon I buy at a local grocery store isn't rotgut. Last month I poured a shot of it and a shot of Jim Beam, shuffled the glasses around until I lost track of which was which, then tasted them. I couldn't tell the difference.

Of course, I like my whiskey to taste like whiskey, and have a little bite. I know we're all supposed to love Maker's Mark and Old Fitzgerald for their smoothness, but to me they're too smooth and sweet. Maybe it's because both of them add wheat to the corn, instead of rye.

Masalai, do you folks down under drink bourbon, or do you stick to scotch?

 

Closest I've come to something like that was on my way to work, seven or eight years ago. I stopped at a truck stop to throw some beer in my ice chest, so I wouldn't have to stop when I got off. I don't know what she was doing down in the California desert, but the gal behind the cash register was an absolutely gorgeous Shoshone Indian in her mid-twenties.

When I set my beer on the counter she said, "I don't know why guys all drink beer; I don't like the way it tastes." I casually asked what she did like to drink, she answered, "Jack Daniels." I told her, "well, maybe I'll buy you some, someday" -- and she said, "I get off at 8:00...."

I'm still kicking myself for going on to work, instead of calling in sick. I have a soft spot for Shoshone women; I lived with one for about three years.

 

I suppose other guys have had similar circumstances, they say every dog has its day,---even if it is'nt true one could make it up --you know,--one for the boys.

 

Hi Troy,
I am not a great drinker, as I want to enjoy-to-the-max what is left in my time in this form... (other forms of being are yet to be known)...

On past history and observation EVERYTHING and anything - I have not gone for the "cheap and nasty" of anything but seen metholated-spirits (a cleaner?) and other concoctions used - including "petrol sniffing" - I cannot see the sense in self destruction at that level...

I will drink cheap, because sometimes it is quite drinkable - but if not to my liking I just pour it out...

The local 'bottle-shops' sell almost every kind of alcoholic drink legally consumable from all around the world... I reckon that there is more of them than places to fill up ones car/truck with fuel... Especially if Taverns and Sports Clubs are included... (They also have poker machines - locally called 'POKIES' and are not brothels... )

 

An interesting quote, especially when one considers the attribution.....
"The Wrap
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. - Vladimir Lenin"
http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/edition/russian-central-bank-aims-buy-100-tonnes-gold-2011

 

Hi frosty,
I have no great interest in getting "pissed-out-of-my-mind", but hard work seems to facilitate hard play and I have been known to drink many under the table in an all night session, then be fit and full of energy by work at 04:30h and go all day... - - - - Now, to walk past a brewery I would get quite inebriated on the inhalation of aromas only... The ageing process has its advantages and disadvantages... and the days still seem to fly past ... whilst enjoying the occasional spiritual / alcoholic encounter...

I am listening to a view on Europe - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzGJWtYnAdE&feature=youtu.be definitely a case of "he he he" but the Irish lilt of the interviewee makes for easy listening....

and this from China..... http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/2011/11/2011111274811311334.html - - Ooooooh that could be described by some as a kick in the groin ! - - - but a worthwhile learning experience not to be missed....

and a big by Gerald ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bl6oaEMzoE&feature=youtu.be which I will be watching soon... ALL IN THE NAME OF ENTERTAINMENT whilst I drink my Bundaberg GingerBeer, which is a present favourite (NON-ALCOHOLIC) - Geeees I need alkyhol now - farkinell.................. Oh well I am off to put more fuel in the boat..... Let the "economies" do whatever

However, I like the cheek of this silver medallion......

 

No one said the words "pissed out of my mind" my Dad does that, exagerates to the max some comment you might say. A nice drink at the end of the day and a good olde piss take from the boys makes life better.Im home by 9.30 most days , sometimes before dark.

It puts me in a mood to return home in a jolly mood, enjoy a meal and enjoy the wifes company. Not a lot of people can say that.

I thought it was only Muslims that has a total misunderstanding of alcahol. I live in a Mulsim country Malaysia half of the time and we had a great bar maid called Monelisa that would have a go, Damn I even saw her in a mini skirt one christmas, we gave her some pork once(she wanted to try ) she held it in her mouth like she was expecting it to explode.

She wanted to try some beer and again she swallowed a mouth full of it and hung on to the the bar incase she fell over, such was her brain washing from ------- village elders.

But she never had a fag out of her mouth,---- Ive given up trying to understand religion,--or should I say peoples interpretation of it.

 

Here is a cartoon, make of it what you will..... it came from here http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/edition/gold-bull-has-far-go-says-agnico-eagles-sean-boyd and also this quote

"The Wrap
The free market is a bathroom scale. We may not like what we see when we step on it, but we can't pass a law making ourselves weigh 165 pounds. Liberals and leftists think we can. - P.J. O'Rourke"
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can't drink Whiskey, stuff gives me a whopping hangover. Rum is my drink. That and a good IPA. But ole Sailor Jerry's is the top for me, Pirate rum was pretty good but the brand never got popular and its hard to find.

cheers
B

 

Interesting... So on the topic of reminiscing, My absolute favourite booze was a home brew brandy bottled around 1965... The locals on Penang Island, Malaysia, used to call it "Sumsu" and was as mellow and drinkable as I have ever tasted... A beautifully distilled blend of rice wine mixed with coconut nectar toddy - I am sure a petrol car would happily run on it.....

In the tropics, Gin and coconut water from the immature green coconuts made a refreshing drink for a hot tropical afternoon whilst watching the afternoon thunderstorm develop... One still needed several stiff drinks of gin & Indian Tonic Water for medicinal purposes as the tonic was liberally laced with quinine (antimalarial)... Does Schweppes tonic water still have quinine?....

http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/ed...-put-against-idiocy-political-cycle-kyle-bass has the best quote I have seen for some time ""Buying Gold is Just Buying a Put Against the Idiocy of the Political Cycle." - Kyle Bass"

and - - - "The Wrap - - - There is always free cheese in a mousetrap. - H. R. Gross [1899-1987], Member of Congress [1948-1974] [R] Iowa" - The links and everything is just too bloody scary... especially the link from China farkinell.....

Enjoy the cartoon....

 

Excuse me. All those 'entitlements' I'm so greedily expecting? I've been paying for them, ever since I started my first job when I was 14 years old.

I kept my end of the bargain, and helped the generation before me survive old age with a little dignity and security. By the time I retire, I'll have been paying through the nose for 52 years.

So excuse me for not feeling too friggen guilty about expecting the government to uphold its end of the deal.

 

Well it appears at least one Commodity Brokerage House had a consensus, and rather then allow their clients to take a fleecing they chose to "close their operation".

BCM Has Ceased Operations (Part 1)
Posted by Ann Barnhardt - November 17, AD 2011 10:27 AM MST

Dear Clients, Industry Colleagues and Friends of Barnhardt Capital Management,

It is with regret and unflinching moral certainty that I announce that Barnhardt Capital Management has ceased operations. After six years of operating as an independent introducing brokerage, and eight years of employment as a broker before that, I found myself, this morning, for the first time since I was 20 years old, watching the futures and options markets open not as a participant, but as a mere spectator.

The reason for my decision to pull the plug was excruciatingly simple: I could no longer tell my clients that their monies and positions were safe in the futures and options markets – because they are not. And this goes not just for my clients, but for every futures and options account in the United States. The entire system has been utterly destroyed by the MF Global collapse. Given this sad reality, I could not in good conscience take one more step as a commodity broker, soliciting trades that I knew were unsafe or holding funds that I knew to be in jeopardy.

The futures markets are very highly-leveraged and thus require an exceptionally firm base upon which to function. That base was the sacrosanct segregation of customer funds from clearing firm capital, with additional emergency financial backing provided by the exchanges themselves. Up until a few weeks ago, that base existed, and had worked flawlessly. Firms came and went, with some imploding in spectacular fashion. Whenever a firm failure happened, the customer funds were intact and the exchanges would step in to backstop everything and keep customers 100% liquid – even as their clearing firm collapsed and was quickly replaced by another firm within the system.

Everything changed just a few short weeks ago. A firm, led by a crony of the Obama regime, stole all of the non-margined cash held by customers of his firm. Let’s not sugar-coat this or make this crime seem “complex” and “abstract” by drowning ourselves in six-dollar words and uber-technical jargon. Jon Corzine STOLE the customer cash at MF Global. Knowing Jon Corzine, and knowing the abject lawlessness and contempt for humanity of the Marxist Obama regime and its cronies, this is not really a surprise. What was a surprise was the reaction of the exchanges and regulators. Their reaction has been to take a bad situation and make it orders of magnitude worse. Specifically, they froze customers out of their accounts WHILE THE MARKETS CONTINUED TO TRADE, refusing to even allow them to liquidate. This is unfathomable. The risk exposure precedent that has been set is completely intolerable and has destroyed the entire industry paradigm. No informed person can continue to engage these markets, and no moral person can continue to broker or facilitate customer engagement in what is now a massive game of Russian Roulette.

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