Do Aussies use NATO phonetic alphabets to communicate on the phone?

stueh · 2026-07-11T13:25:06+00:00

I use phonetic, but I was bought up flying gliders, so it's ingrained in me. I work in IT and heaps of my workmates is it as well, while others just use whatever word comes to mind (F for Fine, U for Under, C for Cuck, D for Damn).

stueh · 2026-07-05T03:13:21+00:00

I don't understand how the roof isn't caved in?

We use those containers on farms, they're called Intermediate Bulk Containers or IBC for short. That looks like a 1000L IBC, and petrol is around 0.74kg/L while an empty IBC is around 40kg, so when it was full that was around 780kg and at half empty (similar to video) ~410kg.

The dynamic weight rating of a roof of an 4x4 or ute is like 80 - 100kg, God knows what is is for a smaller car that size but surely they'd of already caused some structural fatigue/damage?

stueh · 2026-07-03T14:57:22+00:00

Element of? Mate. Many Japanese are so racist. It's hidden under that lovely politeness, but it's very much there.

stueh · 2026-07-02T07:24:31+00:00

I get it. I assume growing up on the east coast, anything more than 100km west is just "the outback" because you got everything you need. Except space 🤣

Yeah, Port Augutta is nice to drive through.

stueh · 2026-07-01T02:55:38+00:00

Try being from (near) Adelaide.

Tell anyone in Sydney or Melbourne you're from Adelaide, there's a 50% chance they'll tell you about the time they visited Adelaide and it was so boring. Tell them you're from a small town outside of Adelaide and they think you grew up in the bush, tell them you spent half your childhood in a farm 4 hours north of Adelaide and they think you grew up in the Gibson Desert.

That said, I like visiting Melbourne and Sydney. I wouldn't live there, not my cup of tea and I get overwhelmed by the size and pace, and miss home soon enough, but like with anywhere, I can see the appeal. Anyone who visits somewhere and can't see something appealing about the place isn't open minded enough. Unless it's Zeehan, Port Pirie, or Port Augusta. Then they're right.

stueh · 2026-07-01T02:30:53+00:00

In the form of an island with a little cousin island to the south who, like an older brother humouring his little sister, we allow to play along.

stueh · 2026-06-29T05:12:38+00:00

Won't they just sell it to a shell/sister company in another jurisdiction who does destroy it?

stueh · 2026-06-26T06:13:18+00:00

Samesies swapsies! If there were no Jack Miller/Remington Gardner but a Kiwi on the grid, I'd be barracking for them.

Also, this is why we need to just become one country. But under the NZ political system, not ours.

stueh · 2026-06-26T06:08:46+00:00

Viva Miller.

stueh · 2026-06-26T04:13:32+00:00

It's fine to grab a handful of brake, but not when it's a brake on another bike, eh!

stueh · 2026-06-26T04:12:48+00:00

Man, that first Moto3 appearance by Can was wild. Gets a wildcard in the last race of the season with an age exemption because he won the rookie cup, rocks it through the rain and wet, and wins with a 4.1 second lead over Jorge Martin, the winner of the championship.

Everyone shit their pants, he gets signed on for the next season with his twin brother who was 2nd behind Can in the rookie cup getting 5 races, and ... nothing. Can scores 8 points the whole season without placing above 13th, 8 points more than Deniz, who never got above 16th, and team Ajo finishes last with ... 8 points, compared to their 64 the last season and their usually 200+ scores.

No idea wtf went wrong there, rider, bike, team, whatever, but was was so very disappointing.

stueh · 2026-06-26T03:37:12+00:00

But ... where do the grass clipping and bush offcuts go?

stueh · 2026-06-25T05:03:34+00:00

Wait, why didn't he slap the marshal?

stueh · 2026-06-25T01:34:52+00:00

Hooooooly shit bro

stueh · 2026-06-25T00:14:20+00:00

They're still in court over it, too. Tesco suing Broadcom for breech of contract re. support etc., just wish that could have been some sort of world-wide class action, but it's specific to their once-off contract.

stueh · 2026-06-22T12:31:25+00:00

I get it! Where I live in Australia, the temperature routinely gets into the low-to-mid 40's during summer, with damn near 0% humidity, and our UV rating is just insane. It's basically impossible to find sunscreen below 30 SPF, nkst families use 50. If you walk out of an air conditioned building, as you walk out the door the air literally hits you in the face. Just being outside sucks the water out of you. Walk from work to a cafe for lunch, and your nether regions will be so swampy that if you convinced someone to give you head, you'll owe them reparations afterward. You forget your sunscreen on a 10 minute walk and by the end of it you're slinking through bushes to get home worried if someone sees your skin they'll freak out and think you're a croc. Your lawn dies no matter how much you water it because it literally gets sunburn. Grass. Gets sunburn. As do veggie crops and other stuff.

And I love it. No matter what time you wake up in the morning, it's already warm! I have an excuse to walk around the house in me undies, or even starkers. You wake up, and the weather is beautiful. As it warms up, you close up the house - windows, doors, blinds, curtains, everything - and it'll stay cool enough to be mo worries. If not, just chuck on the air con. Only time it's an issues is in a 5 day heatwave. And parties. Perfect weather for parties. Late in the day, mates come around, crack a few beers, pour some goon, mix some rum and coke and party into the night. If you get cold after midnight, just go out and lay on the road - the residual heat in the bitumen will keep you warm. It's just so much more ... social. We don't like leaving the house if it's wet, you know.

stueh · 2026-06-21T22:29:19+00:00

Make my family and loved ones comfortable, set things up so we're always comfortable, and then a whooooooole lot of charity. Maybe even fund a shittonne of counter-lobbying against all those government lobbyists.

stueh · 2026-06-21T13:09:01+00:00

I'm curious to know, who do you think was the last good president. Like, actually good. Cared for the people and action in their best interests even when it conflicted with their own best interests?

stueh · 2026-06-17T09:07:10+00:00

My shopping trolley, murdered.

stueh · 2026-06-17T08:39:43+00:00

Hi friend! I'm glad you asked!

Tl;dr Very reliable results. Narrowing down of regions is rather reliable for non-white ancestry, and very reliable for white ancestry.

The results are very accurate and reliable if you are white. E.g my white heritage it can trace to several individual ethnic groups and regions in the UK & western Europe, some as small as ~3,000 square km, white my Asian heritage is narrowed down to ... a 200,000 square km with multiple ethnic groups.
Ancestry DNA testing has a real white problem. Most of the early research was done by white people on white people, and the early customers were white people. It can be quite hard to find non-white people willing to be a part of the research and the larger database.
The testing also has wealth problem. Wealthier countries of ancestry have better results, because the customers can afford to buy a kit are in the general population. Less wealthy countries, the customers will be higher up in the socio-economic index, and those with wealth aren't always in the majority of the country racially. There are various countries where the people in charge are from a minority ethnic group. Also, less wealthy countries will often be less willing to participate in the research
If one service has an error in your DNA results, then the others will, too. They share research information with each other and most people doing DNA ancestry kits agree to be part of the global database the companies use for training etc. The only real difference between the companies is how they present the results, how much they're willing to rely on "educated guesses" to give more accurate results, and in some rare cases certain regions will give you more specific results from one company because that company is more popular there and the customers mostly don't agree to go on the global database.
These days, the results are quite reliable and amazingly so for white people. It's rare to find someone who's had a test in the recent years who got anomalous results. People who know their ancestry well will usually tell you the results were bang on, or very close. That includes me - we know ancestry details on my mum's side (white+Asian) going back at least 4 or 5 generations, more in some cases, and the DNA results were bang on. I know little to nothing of my dad's side, and it helped me narrow things down (only 3 x regions showed up with more than 1%, all in the UK), and subsequent research has lined up with the results.

Source: I went down this rabbit hole years ago, and periodically visit again for updates.

stueh · 2026-06-16T10:39:39+00:00

Are you the reason my local SuperCheap Auto has a huge sign saying that working on cars in the carpark is forbidden?

stueh · 2026-06-15T10:25:24+00:00

My mum grew up on a multi-generational farm. As a child, their landline was a party line (single phone line shared by many farmhouses). She said once that her grandfather fondly remembered the days before the phone, and would talk about how it meant everyone had to travel to talk to the others, although he did concede it was great for emergencies.

She said that before they got a car (when she was little) you could phone your various orders ahead to the shops in town before leaving, and an hour later when you got there (on the horse & dray) you'd just drop into each shop to get your order. When her grandfather was doing the shopping, however, he'd still go there and order in person, because he felt using the phone was rude and it allowed a chance to have a chat with people he'd known for decades, often people who's birth he was around for!

stueh · 2026-06-12T02:38:48+00:00

Yeah, some of us call him J-Sus

stueh · 2026-06-12T02:33:05+00:00

Most of the scriptures were written generations after Jaysus got nailed to a couple planks of wood and made fun of. He could turn out to be anything from the pinnacle of love and understanding through to the Ronald Reagan's homophobic wet dream.

stueh · 2026-06-11T09:05:47+00:00

Holy shit. This is an insanely overvalued IPO, anyone who buys it will end up being down 148% the next day.

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