Interesting stuff
@ indo,
Yep you're on the money. Developmental times can vary widely depending on the life history strategy of the particular species. For instance, some species lay in ephemeral ponds these have very short developmental times. Others lay in rivers or permanent water bodies, it's these that normally have the long developmental times and the tadpoles are often large in size (to avoid predation from fish/other predatory tadpoles and swim against currents). Then you've the outliers like gastric brooders and hip pouch frogs which are just bizarre.
Btw, yep this is "Interesting stuff", just dominated by doom and gloom...
I think from memory the ephemeral pond layers have, on average, much larger clutch sizes than the river layers. If it's something that interests you, look up the difference between "r" and "K" species, it'll change the way you look at animals in terms of how they reproduce.
Was 'Money' 'Uplift'?
But of course. He even got a welcome back from Pupkin.
Funny, that comment has been 'disappeared' as well.
I read them last night, and thought the 'money' one was 'on the money'. It was also quite funny.
Both didn't contain any vulgarity of the sort that seems out of place here. Especially compared to some who are still posting regardless.
Interesting.
I'm inquisitive by nature and occupation. There do seem to be some glaring inconsistencies regarding this.
Ha mate you couldn't surf the shit we get and take it serious and that's the point.Why so serious in all aspects from peoples views on politics through to whats currently the hot topic so so serious to the point of or close too extreme views being expressed.Where is the humor?all but gone.Lifty was all about humor if you couldn't see that your lacking.Who surfs on these threads on a regular basis?Like really surfs.Chases swells puts it all on the line has a red hot go.Not many I think to busy caught up in today's problems.We as surfers are selfish always have been always will and that carries on to our outlook elsewhere.
Was Uplift talking about frogs? Sorry, came in late.
A bigger picture look at the pandemic, honestly.
Talking Turkey
Shatners Basoon
Dale Cooper
Factotum
Pupkin
All the same person.
I believe he was talking about toads.
And Snuffy I would've thought the more someone's on here the less they're in the water.
COVID-19 and isolation has exacerbated everything on here.
Talking Turkey
Shatners Basoon
Dale Cooper
Factotum
Pupkin
All the same person.
yep
glad I didn't have to say it, it feels like I'm picking on him sometimes
I'm really not meaning to, it's just that his schtick is so shit
so slick, but so shit
I see a new swellnetonion coming soon
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Who cares who's who not me.We are all running behind a false name a mask.Whats the beef mate.?
Out surfed by who?What time sphere?Okay here we go .......Anyone !!!!in your prime what was or is your limit surfwise boundaries pushed a pinnacle moment in your surfing life.
Really ?
Mate , I’m about 10 beers in and don’t really give a fuck what metric you use . All I know is that Uplift is 70 years old and Facto’s prime is a shot at the island two decades ago.
I’m a fat fuck at the moment but give me a week’s heads up and I’ll surf either of those strange fucks into the ground.
It’s not going to be a proud victory. Like a flock of one armed penguins striking each other into oblivion.
Ha least your honest but really life surf highlight like little Leighton would say ......C'mon!!!!
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Only one Aussie surfer I can think of went switchfoot in waves like that
Snuffy, in 1980 I beat Cheyne Horan in a paddle battle for a three foot set wave at Burliegh. Been resting on that one since.
Haha yes!!!! Adam everyone runs at different levels ...gold.Blowin very impressive gets high and tight down the line there.
Yeah, nah, not that impressive TBH Blowin'. Wave looks about 4 to 5 ft, you say it's you surfing switch, could be anyone. You talk a big game but on that photo, if that's your peak, I was surfing bigger waves at my local with a bunch of old guys this week, one of them in his 70's.
I don't know Adam that wave is deceiving a bit of water over the reef more power than Indo quite technical last half.What do you mean you and Cheyne locking horns not impressive?
Just out of interest, you ever switchfoot pipe blowin?
Ha ...if. Adam thinks it’s an easy 4 ft then he’s an obvious kook. And a kook who’s never set foot outside his door.
Ha ...if. Adam thinks it’s an easy 4 ft then he’s an obvious kook. And a kook who’s never set foot outside his door.
What!!! You don't like backhand?
Ha, still can't see a wave over 6ft.
That top turn looked a bit boggy too.
Impress or STFU.
Some recognizable waves there good stuff.
I’ve only got this average sequence of my backhand at hand without trawling through other devices. Yes Adam....I am a C Grade surfer . I never denied this. Plenty of rail bogs . 
Just having some fun pokin' the bear Blowin'. Truth is it looks like you go alright. Hope u get a few tomorrow.
This is what is strange, Blowie me old China, how you're still on here when others get blocked, and comments 'disappeared', over sweet FA compared to your daily output.
You dribble bigoted nonsense (sober, mind) 24/7, and when boozed, like now, get all weird (well, more than normal) and start writing ridiculous cheques your sloppy fat arse cannot, and will never be able to, cash, and yet you get the blind eye treatment. No probs, see you all tomorrow, fellas, bright and early.
Strange.
Anyway, who really cares, am I right? Knock yourself out, punchy.
But, as I say, the real mystery is why you get the continuous free pass when your dribble is of such a different level of utter embarrassing shiteness on here? FOR YEARS.
It's got more than a few people flummoxed and intrigued.
Have you got incriminating photos? Serious mental issues that need tiptoeing around? Are you related and thus tolerated 'drunk uncle at Xmas' style? Surely not a major investor?
Ah well...the bets are off this post and moniker will get 'disappeared' too.
Shalom.
Dale....try just not being an obvious smart arse cock and work your way from there.
Exactly who is it that you think is impressed or bedazzled by your KRAZY KALEIDOSCOPE of KUNTS ? The fact that you think you’ve got it over others intellectually purely because you’ve registered under several different user names is an embarrassing fail.
Just be a normal person and say normal shit, Be genuine.
You don’t have to agree , just leave that whole contemptuous shtick behind.
Twiggy doing his bit...
Yeah, you're right blow in, I am contemptuous...of loudmouth bigots.
It's a true character fault of mine. Especially on here it seems.
Maybe it's you that needs to get genuine. Embrace your unconscious bias. Interrogate it. However it falls, it'll be good for everyone. Even you. Maybe.
Anyway, it is what it is (or has become).
I'm sure we can all live without each other.
On here.
Nice photos Blowin , those shots of the lefts in the West take me back.Spent the 80's and 90's in and around that area,great place , great times.Of course nothing's forever and am now in the tropics and have been cooking slowly.Put a fork in me,I'm done ha ha ha ha.
WTF.....Did Australia just get its labour party back ?
Incredible development.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/put-australian-jobs-first-labor-...
its like a brand new day across the media headlines
it might be stating the obvious, but the rate of change atm is through the roof
and it ain't all bad...
the change from labor is so profound and united is clear the intel. from above has a new agenda
@Dale -Cooper
Blowin IMHO goes over the top when it comes to China but that's his pet subject (we all seem to have one), he can take it and he can give it, but he also is a positive contributor to the forums, he also talks about surfing, music, fishing and other things and actually post some great well thought out stories from real life experiences.
Blindboy is the same deal, IMHO he is over the top in some of his views, i mean he has started between 10 to 20 anti Trump threads and as have seen lately can get in endless back and forth's that start to just get abusive.
But he also is a positive contributor even done some articles for the main page.
The person who was deleted (Herc/Uplift) whatever you want to call him, that seems to be banned (and possibly only regular poster to ever be banned if he is)
rarely brought anything positive to the forums bar the odd fitness post, but he would got involved in back and forth discussions with pretty much everyone and rarely could keep things civil and got extremely abusive, often pages of abuse.
If he posted here the other day it was obviously only to stir things up or have a go at someone.
Geez Blowin, Pretty insensitive going digital blackface don't you think?
Hahaha JQ, classic
how's america?
just saw a grandma protester on tv with a sign "kooks close beaches"
and...
"Surfing Not a Crime/Newsom is a Kook"
what weird hotbed of cross section you'd have a huntington beach protest...
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/huntington-beach-protesters-assail-cali...
America is a scary place even more so these days. Armed weeners protesting against a government trying to protect them from Coronavirus. The yokels want to go back to work even before the first wave of the pandemic is under control. So what happens if there are rolling pandemics in the land of the free and millions more are out of work, the hospitals are overwhelmed and vital supply chains break down? Very scary.
I saw that footage of the armed loonies Guy.
Scary shit indeed.
Wonder what would happen if the army rolled up to move them on?
Would the protesters be willing to kick it off and start shooting or would they puss out and run off?
I don't see those heavily armed lunatics taking a Trump election defeat well. The USA is crumbling and they are looking at second, third and fourth waves of Covid 19 over the next two years. Trump went from 65,000 - 100,000 deaths being the fatality target in a week. Nobody could be shocked when the fatalities go way beyond that and their economy continues to crash. Where is that muppet billythekid now to defend this insanity?
You’ve got to ask yourself what sort of mothrr fucking sick society allows its citizens to openly wear fully automatic assault rifles in public. Seriously.
And to think the mainstream political right here have been attempting to rush Australia to the full user pays health and education systems they have in the US. Hoping there is a major rethink here given what we and NZ have seem to the shining beacons in an otherwise bleak world right now.
We’ve done a great job after a slow start closing the boarders and the Ruby CV Princess.
Surprise! I'm still here! Then again, it is the weekend.
Indo, first things first. Uplift is not the only person to have comments 'disappeared' or to have been blocked.
Secondly, and with respect, your opinion, well, how can I put this...well, it's yours!
You of the 'creamy coffee' view of race in regards to Aboriginal Australians (Uplift's knowledge base of said subject was extensive and his commentary informative to say the least).
You of the infamous 'burqua bump' fantasy at the Dandenong markets.
You of the strange obsessive hatred of the prime minister of New Zealand, especially at the exact time of the Christchurch massacre.
That last one rightly went down like a lead balloon.
Tone deaf and a blind eye.
I only bring this up for those that have only relatively recently dipped their toes in these waters, and might take your IMHOs as some kind of gospel.
Speaking of blind eyes, that is the question. IMHO (fuck, what a shitty acronym) to equate BB or Uplift with ol' Booze In, your simpatico China plate, is a joke.
Look above. Has anyone else posted anything like sadly bragging about being 10 pints in, and then making vulgar and frankly weird sexualised comments about fellow commenters, then challenging them to either a surf off or fight in the carpark, but only after he gets in shape and loses a few kilos?
And he was serious!
Hang on, of course you can't read them now, as only the piss weak and infamous "." remains.
The "." you love Indo.
Now imagine if anyone else had coughed up that sort of sad, twisted nonsense. Would they still be here?
And how many times has this happened in the past?
To paraphrase Mental As Anything (!), too many times!
And the nips are getting bigger!
Yeah, it's a mystery alright. A lame one I'm guessing if the official denouement ever eventuates.
How quickly everything can change. Also worth noting is the way the ALP are now admitting that mass immigration and temporary work visas push down wages and undermine Australian working conditions. Not sure why they’ve started telling the truth after so many years of lies....whatever ever the reason, I’m grateful.
If the is genuine and the ALP doesn’t intend to grant PR to the 2.1 million temporary visa holders , then they’ve got my vote back.
Kristina Keneally writes in the SMH :
“The post-COVID-19 question we must ask now is this: when we restart our migration program, do we want migrants to return to Australia in the same numbers and in the same composition as before the crisis?
Our answer should be no. Our economic recovery must help all Australians get back on their feet, and to do that we need a migration program that puts Australian workers first.
Governments of all stripes have relied on high levels of migration to boost population to fuel economic growth. Arguably, at times this has been a lazy approach. Letting lots of migrants come to Australia is an easier way to drive economic growth than increasing productivity or investing in skills and training.
Australians can be proud of the role migration has played in our past. We are a nation built by permanent migrants – think of the Snowy Hydro scheme. But under John Howard, Australia started to favour temporary migration over permanent settlement, resembling more and more a guest worker nation.
Scott Morrison took this policy shift to its political conclusion. In a cynical move, Morrison capped permanent migration at 160,000 a year and claimed it as a “congestion busting” measure, but at the same time allowed temporary migration to soar to historically high levels.
Unlike permanent visas, temporary visas are uncapped. As at June 2019 there were 2.1 million temporary visa holders here. Australia hosts the second largest migrant workforce in the OECD, second in total number only to the US.
Australia will soon have an opportunity to do something we have never done before: restart a migration program.
Temporary migrants make up a larger part of the labour market than most Australians might realise. Migrant workers don't just pick fruit: one in five chefs, one in four cooks, one in six hospitality workers, and one in 10 nursing support and personal care workers in Australia hold a temporary visa.
As economist Stephen Koukoulas pointed out before the crisis, there are 725,000 unemployed and 1,150,000 underemployed Australians who, with the right training, would love to have these roles. "It explains why wages growth is dead - too many temporary work visas for this stage of the economic cycle," Koukoulas said.
It’s not just the number of temporary migrants that affects wages. The Coalition's migration policies actually encourage employers in certain geographic areas and some industries to pay temporary migrants a much lower wage than what Australians would earn doing the same job.
Who we bring in matters too. The shift to temporary migration means that our migrant intake is younger and lower skilled than it used to be, and this does not help our kids as they join a labour market with 11 per cent youth unemployment.
Temporary migration does offer Australia some benefits. In some industries, such as cyber security, where we can’t quickly skill up enough Australians to meet demand, temporary migration can fill gaps in the short term. In regional areas, horticulture relies on temporary migration to supply a seasonal workforce.
As a result of COVID-19, Australia will soon have an opportunity to do something we have never done before: restart a migration program. When we do, we must understand that migration is a key economic policy lever that can help or harm Australian workers during the economic recovery and beyond.
We must make sure that Australians get a fair go and a first go at jobs. Our post-COVID-19 economic recovery must ensure that Australia shifts away from its increasing reliance on a cheap supply of overseas, temporary labour that undercuts wages for Australian workers and takes jobs Australians could do.
We must also ensure that regional areas don't only get transient people, but community members who will settle down, buy houses, start businesses and send their kids to the local school.
Last year Boris Johnson restricted low-skilled, temporary migration. The Conservative British Prime Minster told businesses to invest instead in productivity and skills to provide better jobs for British citizens. Coming out of the COVID-19 crisis, Australia can seize the opportunity to do something similar for our citizens.
We don't need to wait for the borders to reopen to begin this work. Labour market gaps will emerge when the domestic economy reopens but migration stays shut. The next few months present a great chance for business, unions and the government to come together to identify coming skill shortages, and deliver training and reskilling opportunities to Australian workers so they can fill those jobs.
Finally, there is a hefty Productivity Commission report on migration that was given to then-treasurer Scott Morrison in 2016. It lays untouched. The Coalition government has never responded to the report’s recommendations, including that Australia would be better served by a migration program that sourced more higher-skilled, permanent workers. It found that such a shift would add greater value and growth to the economy while also improving the budget bottom line.
While this report was written well before the COVID-19 crisis, many of its recommendations may be even more relevant now.
Australia is the most successful multicultural nation on earth. It can stay that way in a post-COVID-19 world, but only if our migration program changes and responds to the current economic crisis to support Australians to get back to work in secure, well-paid jobs.“
GS, don't forget the Nioa instigated and LNP backed idea of relaxing Australia gun laws
"Indo, first things first. Uplift is not the only person to have comments 'disappeared' or to have been blocked."
Many people have had comments removed, I'm sure Blowin and BB may have had the odd one removed, so your point is?
As for being banned, i brought this up before with i think it was Stunet as i thought Talking turkey was banned and Stunet said no one has never been banned or he has never banned anyone (regular posters) or something to those words.
That said it does seem like Uplift has been banned it seems whenever he appears with some new name he is deleted, but IMHO thats fair enough for the times I've seen him re-appear its been straight back to abusing others with his first few post.
Personally im super relieved, because 90% of his post was just abusive, he couldn't have a mature discussion or debate with anyone, it was just personal attack after attack, no ones perfect we all get worked up at times, but he was just next level it wasn't just sometimes it was every post every day, and most of it didn't make sense, only time it wasnt abusive and made some sense was when he talked about fitness or health.
IMHO Swellnet are super fair when it comes to moderating, im sure if he could prove he wasn't going to just abuse people and bring down the forums, they would allow him to post here, but i think it's just a case of him just doing it all one too many times.
BTW. Thanks for remembering some of my post, even if you are misquoting the context they were posted in, if that's the worst people can throw at me from my previous post, im happy with that.
I'm wtfing as well at the ALP becoming a labour party again - surely not?
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/put-australian-jobs-first-lab...
Great wave pics upthread.
Have it cunts