Interesting stuff
You're bullshitting again blowin. That photo isn't from Wuhan. It's from St Louis in the USA. Here's the link.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/mayor-sends-city-w...
You've got to be one of the biggest bullshit artists on the net I've ever seen. Why anyone takes you seriously is beyond me.
Stu that freeflight looks unreal! I have a quad fish in storage with a similar fin setup to yours, had some of the best waves on my life on a little known point break in SEQ (I think they call it nationals). Could I make a suggestion for the rabbit hole, in waves under 3ft, try M7 leaders and G3000 (or similar) trailers. G1000's also suffice, but I need to shed a couple of kgs for those. M5's won't work as too small, has to be the M7. Not very exotic I know but results should speak for themselves. I'm actually stocked up on toeside M7's as I snap maybe one or two a year on bottom turns, always have spares on me. For me the performance is worth the inconvenience though. Wish there was a way to fix them
As an aside, Spain's lockdown extended to 9th May now. Apparently one parent is allowed to take their child for an hour of exercise but all other activities prohibited.
Vic Local.....ummm, yeah .
It’s called humour.
You should try it.
Sorry , mate. I’ll make sure to dumb it down and walk you through things in future. Just in case you were wondering.....that tampon I put up on the Victorian surf forecast didn’t fall out of your purse either. It was also a stock photo from google used to provide a handy image.
PS And before you get all excited....that submarine might not be Cambodian either.
FFS
Give it rest VL. Blowin and everyone else knows that photo wasn't from Wuhan. Geez mate, where is your sense of humour?
Go Vic Local you righteous mutha!
@viclocal, dont you think the writing on a Chinese bin would be in Chinese? Not to mention the look of the houses and I dont see a rickshaw in sight! jeeze mate, just sitting around waiting to kick the can down the road...
So it was racist humour. Not exactly funny, but thanks for the clarification.
I've been struck down with Coopersvirus . It somehow spread from the bottle shop to my fridge and then to all parts of my house . I've been finding empties in the strangest places.
See my post below.
Really VL. Racist humour? It was a bit trashy, but not racist.
Coopersvirus. One I wish I could catch.
Kyle Bass has some interesting views about the beloved CCP and its role in the world. Cuddly Panda Bear it is not.
Kyle is a deeply knowledgeable hedge fund manager who does not mince words.
It will change or confirm your views on aspects of the world forever.
@ mattlock, I think it's called casual racism, used in a joke here.
This one was interesting too: "that tampon I put up on the Victorian surf forecast didn’t fall out of your purse either"
"You've got to be one of the biggest bullshit artists on the net I've ever seen. Why anyone takes you seriously is beyond me."
Does anyone that's been on here longer than 5 minutes* take blow in seriously?
*fellow travelling bigots and useful idiots excluded.
Viclocal, I’m interested in your view here, on a spectrum from not much at all to fucken outright in your face don’t you think we covertly/overtly all give refuge to the racism genie? I think it’s simply hotwired into our DNA and based on the way you routinely express yourself here you’re hardly enlightened. So what % are you going to put yourself down for? If what I’m saying is true all the more reason for genuine leadership in this space and not the populist claptrap we’ve had for a decade or more.
Jared Diamond theorises that different colour skins in human beings possibly eventuated in peoples attraction to others that look similar to themselves. This may be the hotwiring you are referring to Guy.
@ mattlock, never heard of him but a quick search later and he sounds interesting, particularly the Europe hypothesis, will read more, cheers. Isn't the jury still still out on how/why whiteness evolved in humans? It was thought to be an environmental adaptation for some while but that got scrapped recently didn't it?
I like your handle VL, threatening to shoot me dead, hehe that’s funny
frog, nothing much new in that video. Neither the US nor China have anything to be proud of in their initial management of the virus. In terms of the WHO, they have to be precise in their language so when they tweeted on Jan 14;
“preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission”.
That is all they meant, emphasis on the word "clear". No scientist would take that to mean that there was no evidence at all. In fact the WHO had warned on Jan 10 that precautions against such transmission should be taken. In terms of the international flights allowed to leave Wuhan the ultimate responsibility rests with the country of destination. In the case of the US this was handled extremely badly and large numbers of travellers flying directly from Wuhan were allowed to enter the US without isolation. China disclosed the existence of the disease as early as New Year's Eve. Since then 430,000 people have travelled from China to the US and very limited screening has taken place. The major part of the US epidemic is their own fault.
And I will let you know another thing for free Cromwell: things are going to get much worse in the USA, largely due to Trump and his idiotic fan club. These anti-lockdown protests / virus sharing rallies are only going to grow with the orange idiot giving them tacit support.
What we are seeing is the rapid collapse of a super power. China has been on the rise for the last 3 decades and US hegemony has been declining for two decades, but Trump has massively accelerated the trends. What a disaster.
Eye colour & iris size is far more polarising than skin or hair colour.
Population / Industrialisation / Biggest 24/7 cities, comes down to eye size / colour.
So much so that we earthlings even envisage Aliens with overly large irises.
tbb will gladly share the fascinating evolution of who goes where...soon enough!
Can't see the forest for the trees, and don't that just make yer brown eyes blue!
Pretty sure the crew would rather hear it from this smouldering hot chick...enjoy!
& again you say...exactly what tbb was thinking...
Lost for words now...Yes!..as you were saying...
Acid makes your pupils really, really yuge. Irises disappear!
Speaking of such...
I love it when you learn something new every day.
Great track TBB, it's in my rotation.
And Willie's got the visine...
Thanx! Great we're all on the same page for a sec...a lot of mixed messages now!
Patriots with Guns on the streets is the growing concern.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2020/04/16/TELEMMGLPICT0002...
Hawaii finally closed their beaches (The Last to do so I think!)
https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-intl-04-17-...
Same time Florida reopened Beaches to massive crowds...(Same US / Poles Apart)
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/17/coronavirus-latest-updates.html
Shows wot little control the Pres' has...makes it up as he goes...(Don't need comics!)
Lot of criticism of the WHO recently- i reckon they were pretty good.
Speaking of i's.
There’s an American girl who’s been having regular sex with a Chinese guy for a few years . They’re not close but it seems to be convenient for both of them.
The Chinese guy contracts AIDS through his filthy habits . He starts getting symptoms and goes to a doctor. The Doctor says “ Yes , you have AIDS . You must tell the American girl. “ The Doctor tells a few other people about the Chinese guy’s condition.
The Chinese guy threatens the Doctor and says that if he doesn’t tell everyone that he was lying about him having AIDS then he will beat him up. The Doctor signs a fake confession under duress stating that the Chinese guy doesn’t have AIDS. The Doctor then dies from AIDS he caught off the Chinese guy.
By now the Chinese guy has full blown symptoms and the American girl suspects something. But the Chinese guy knows another Doctor and convinces him to tell the girl that he’s not sure if he’s got AIDS or not. This other Doctor is an AIDS specialist and despite realising that the Chinese guy is showing every symptom he decides to tell every girl the Chinese guy knows that maybe it’s AIDS and maybe it’s not AIDS but that they should all keep having sex with the Chinese guy because to not have sex with him is racist.
The American girl suspects something but still trusts the Chinese guy and has sex with him again. The Chinese guy is saying “ It’s OK , baby . I don’t have AIDS “ and fucks the American girl even though he has now stopped having sex with his wife who he really loves. The Chinese guy has stopped physical contact with anyone he cares about in order to protect them but he still insists on having sex with the American girl.
When the American girl finally says that she is not having sex with the Chinese guy - and she’s already starting to show possible symptoms of AIDS - the Chinese guy gets angry at her and says that she should keep having sex with him . He threatens to not give her any more presents unless she keeps having sex with him like she has for years.
When the American girl finally stops having sex with the Chinese guy , the Chinese guy tells everyone that she stopped having sex with him because she was racist.
This is a perfect analogy for how the virus was maliciously spread by the Chinese government.
Blowin, you wanted some sort of restart then you post material that is offensive, does not address the facts and is, at best, a very, very weak analogy. My version of the restart is I don't wind you up, you don't wind me up. I post my views and you post yours. You want to make it personal? Not interested.
There’s nothing personal. Nothing insulting. You made a statement about the relative culpability of the US and China which I thought was completely out of line. It’s an analogy and it’s very accurate. Not sure how you can find it offensive.
C'mon, can we leave it out?
This sentence, "Blindboy just blamed the American girl for getting AIDS", is a personal attack which isn't necessary. Wind it back to BB's last few comments and he's made no mention of other commenters so maybe follow that lead?
The whole issue is hugely complex, and still largely unknown, it cant be distilled down to bite-sized analogies, however convenient people think they may be.
Cool story, hey?
Anyway, how did the doctor 'catch' AIDS off the Chinese chap again?
Jeez, you'd think someone who reckons their brother is a homosexual, and has fought the good fight against the ill-informed in the past, would have at least a smidgin of knowledge about HIV, let alone some empathy and understanding and sensitivity?
Then again, that's all dependent on shtuff you've written on here in the past, blow in.
It could be said on here that the definition of insanity is reading and writing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
Or was that inanity?
Serenity now!
Yew!
I stand by my analogy .
And I take offence when someone tries to shift blame from the Communist dictatorship responsible for a global plague onto other nations who are the victims.
When the Chinese government stopped domestic flights from Wuhan and continued international flights from Wuhan , their actions were not just irresponsible, they were malicious. This is not in doubt. When the US tried to stop the flights from Wuhan , the Chinese government said it was an act of racism. This is also malicious.
The entire world is devastated. Thousands of people are dying.
I’m not going to accept apologists for CCP wrong-doing or blame shifting onto those innocent nations where lives are being unnecessarily lost.
Blindboy’s quote “.... In terms of the international flights allowed to leave Wuhan the ultimate responsibility rests with the country of destination.”
Can you even imagine if Sydney had been the source of the infection and we KNEW it was so bad that we needed to stop flights from Sydney to Perth , Darwin , Melbourne etc because we knew that allowing flights to these other Australian cities would spread the virus uncontrollably......but we still let planes fly to China .
And when China made moves to stop the flights at their end we insisted they continue allowing plane loads of potential plague carriers into their country because to try and protect themselves was racist !
I swear , you can’t draw China in a more selfish, malicious and dangerous light.
Australia would never do it because we are not evil.
That’s what happened. These facts are not in dispute.
I take offence when someone tries to spin the truth so that China appears less culpable than it is for this global pandemic.
Well you shouldn't take offence, it's just a forum. I don't agree with lots of things you or other people on here say, but taking umbrage at every utterance is futile. Worse is when they're then distorted into a personal attack.
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Nah , if there’s one thing I truly do take offence to it’s the massaging of China’s image after they’ve fucked everything for everyone in the world .
I don’t even hold that judge judgement about the virus escaping from the lab from a culture of poor quality control or even came from Stone Age cultural practices at a wet market . That I can live with .
But when the virus is then spread due to lying , coverups and face saving I start to get very upset.
For this to then be spread to every corner of the globe using deceit , premeditated strategy and then the old tactic of “ racist “ accusations used to hide their evil I fucking hate the bastards.
And the final insult .....China is now spreading official misinformation campaigns about the origins of the virus. Their diplomats are officially blaming the US for the virus.
And so I sit here .....can’t drive 50 kms for a surf or I get a $1000 fine . Watch everyone around me losing their minds with stress because theyve got no money and can’t work . Wondering if I’ll ever get to travel again. Wondering how long till I can hug my parents again. Wondering when I can ever see my brother and friends again.
And this isn’t even considering the possibility that people I know and love may get sick or even die ......all because the Chinese government is an evil bunch of mafia fucks who really need to hang.
It's a forum. What he's typed there, or anywhere else, has absolutely no bearing on your current situation. None.
By typing in response all your doing is gratifying your urge to get angry and then ramping it up until Ben and I have to intervene, yet again.
It's a forum. One that gets held up by some people as a place where all voices can be heard. Sometimes you just have to be quiet and listen. You don't have to agree. But attacking every utterance and turning them into personal attacks is the surest way to fuck the whole thing up.
I have a duty to reveal that CCP propaganda for what it is .
The bearing it has on my situation is that the CCP needs to be held account for their culpability in creating my situation and any misinformation spread on the internet that China acted with good intentions or that they didn’t act maliciously is generating doubt which could undermine the effort needed to rid our society of their evil regime .
This isn’t a differing of opinion , this isn’t a personal spat . This is a campaign to rehabilitate Australia’s enemy after they’ve ruined our lives.
I’m not going to be quiet and listen.
I didn’t even offend him. I placed his perspective within an analogy . There’s nothing rude about that. If you know he is trying to get the forum shut down why not just ban him ?
Your duty to reveal CCP propaganda...?
You kidding?
It's a surf forum.
Fuck , whatever .
It’s a public forum. Not just a surf forum. If you don’t think you have a duty as a citizen of Australia to voice the truth about China then good luck. You don’t have to get freaky , just don’t condone them and don’t accept it when people try to whitewash their evil.
As long as people KNOW that the CCP are scum who would have us all die without a scintilla of concern.....I can leave it at that.
"...I can leave it at that."
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INTERESTING STUFF:
His Nʉmʉ tekwapu (Comanche) name, properly transliterated, was Po-cha-na-quar-hip which meant "erection that won't go down". He came to prominence after the Council House Fight when he led the Comanches on the Great Raid of 1840.
http://www.nativeamericanlinks.com/chiefs.htm
aka ~ Buffalo Hump
It's not your criticism of the CCP that people get the shits with Blowin. It's your obvious racism and "facts" that are quite simply pure bullshit. And then there's the threats of violence. I don't know why Swellnet tolerate your crap on their site. I would have de-platformed you years ago.
Take your shit to Stormfront where you'll be clapped and cheered by your fellow travellers.
There’s a bit of backstory for you Vic Local.
Is there a correlation between him having an erection that won't go down and how he got his nickname 'buffalo hump'?
Fark.
Not sure if this whole thing is sad or funny...
‘The entire world is devastated.’...
‘I have a duty to reveal that CCP propaganda for what it is.’...
‘As long as people KNOW that the CCP are scum who would have us all die without a scintilla of concern.’...
Blowin try take a step back and read all your posts over. Pretend you are not ‘blowin’ or whoever u actually think you are... seriously. Give it a try. No. Serious;)
Consider you don’t know much... Actually u may have absolutely no fuckin idea what you are talking about, what you are even thinking and, more so, what you are attempting to articulate...
It’s kind of weird every time I read any thread there is a barrage of comments pretty much telling us how things are and how, according to you, we should be responding/behaving etc. You also seem to decide that people who wish not to agree or join your imaginary crusade are being offensive? Wow...
Anyway, seems like typical CCP aligned tactics and measures. It actually seems like it is having the same effect... ;)
Seems like nobody really wants it nor wants to be told how it is...
Maybe kind of like how I’m talking to you now ;);)
(Don’t worry me not Chinese!)
For all your bravado and great ol tales of surf and neckin pingas and all that... well, maybe there is something lingering in the recesses of your mind. Who knows? Maybe there is a lil instability that fires up every time something simply pisses u off? Maybe u shouldn’t read the news? Maybe u could understand what u are being told by some or any or all media may or may not be entirely accurate - who fuckin knows?
Maybe drawing conclusions about things is a dangerous pastime ? Maybe there are thousands of other things to do and be passionate about and u (being so Aussie centric and all) why don’t u pour your passion into the indigenous cause. You know the people whose country u seem to be so valiantly defending... ;)
Just curious tho...
Who asked you to perform this ‘duty’ or have u just taken it upon yourself - kind of like a religious zealot - to be the almighty one who has wisdom beyond every one else’s perception of world events? I share your disgust at the CCP, truly... it’s just... dunno bout your whole CCP vibe ay... it’s the vibe ;)
Just sayin ;)
"things are going to get much worse in the USA, largely due to Trump and his idiotic fan club."
It is a chance though for natural selection to work its magic
Speaking of which.
The Origin Of COVID-19
There are three main hypotheses about the origin of COVID-19. The first is the most commonly given. Briefly this is that its immediate direct ancestor was a bat virus. One virus that has been found in bats (RaTG13) is 96% similar to COVID-19 but lacks the specific features to enable it to infect humans. This virus, or one similar to it, then entered another species in which it evolved the specific capability to infect humans. It is not possible at this stage to identify that species with any certainty but it would have needed to have a high population density to evolve these features so rapidly.
The second hypothesis is that the evolution of the virus occurred mainly in the human population. In this case the virus most probably came directly from Pangolins but infected humans repeatedly before it evolved to become pathogenic. The existence of two strains in humans is possible evidence for this pathway.
The third hypothesis, which has made headlines this week in the US is that the virus was released accidentally from a research lab which had been growing corona viruses in human tissue. The structure of the virus shows that it was not genetically manipulated but it is possible that it evolved in the human tissue culture.
The evidence is not conclusive enough to confirm or deny any of these hypotheses but the evidence of significant evolution in the virus structure makes the lab scenario implausible.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9
The interesting thing about the link I provided above was not so much the virus stuff that is discussed everywhere but little snippets about how the CCP operates internationally:
e.g. the new head of investment for the largest public pension fund in the United States has deep ties to the CCP and would be in a powerful position to influence investment decisions of hard working USA citizens to favour a certain panda bear populated country. Xi views all former peoples from his country who have migrated as being firstly loyal to the motherland - whether they like it or not. With the reach on technology these days they all sit observed and potentially as points of leverage to be influenced if it suits. Their vision is vast and world spanning.
Have it cunts