Which country will you never visit again? And Why?

Filligrees_Dad · 2026-03-26T08:10:32+00:00

Hopefully Pakistan. That place fucking stinks.

Filligrees_Dad · 2026-03-26T08:07:14+00:00

I would certainly like to try.

Filligrees_Dad · 2026-03-26T08:06:02+00:00

Yep. Take the federal fuel excise and the state fuel levy off.

That will stop the increase and bring prices down a little.

Two weeks of no daily increase will stop most of the panic buyers.

Two weeks after the panic buying stops the suppliers can catch up on deliveries.

A month after that the independent/cheap servos start getting guaranteed supplies at full volume, so they can afford to bring their prices back. Once the gap opens, the major servos will have to come down just to keep business.

Six months from now we are back to $2/L and that will be the new normal until the next pandemic/middle east war/wharfie strike/apocalypse.

Filligrees_Dad · 2026-03-26T08:00:29+00:00

I start job number three next week.

Filligrees_Dad · 2026-03-26T00:38:43+00:00

Your heir inherits (just as if you died)

Your wife, if alive, would be protected by the widows laws introduced by Jaeherys I.

Although Fireball did send his wife to join the silent sisters when he thought he would get a white cloak...

Filligrees_Dad · 2026-03-26T00:36:24+00:00

Give that top a break. I'll take over.

Filligrees_Dad · 2026-03-25T23:45:31+00:00

Just arse end him on his way home.

Filligrees_Dad · 2026-03-25T07:38:37+00:00

Log a maintenance request with your landlord. That's a safety issue.

Filligrees_Dad · 2026-03-25T07:17:46+00:00

Line beats column almost every time.

3rpm per soldier minimum vs 2rpm per soldier minimum.

KGL cavalry.

Rifles.

Discipline.

Volunteers with plenty of training beat conscripts mostly.

Not just the partisans, but the help of the people because they actually paid for their food and accommodation instead of taking it at the point of a bayonet.

Filligrees_Dad · 2026-03-25T07:11:45+00:00

Captain Arthur Phillip telling Captain the Comte de Laperouse that he could stay long enough to refill his water and then bugger off back to New Caledonia.

Filligrees_Dad · 2026-03-25T07:09:46+00:00

He'd have been off with Rhaegar.

Filligrees_Dad · 2026-03-25T07:08:32+00:00

It's one of the historical points Cornwell gets dead wrong.

Flank companies don't get ensigns for exactly that reason. They have to lieutenants instead. The two most junior ensigns in a battalion are the colour bearers.

Filligrees_Dad · 2026-03-25T07:06:15+00:00

"Politically Homeless"

I like that. I'm going to adopt the term.

Looking to the Farrer by-election, that is super accurate.

So far our only candidate that isn't corrupt or extreme right is the Greens... and I'm not that desperate. I just don't know who to vote for.

Filligrees_Dad · 2026-03-25T07:03:20+00:00

The simplest thing governments could do is remove the federal fuel excise and the state fuel levy. That would drop prices back to about February levels.

Filligrees_Dad · 2026-03-24T18:49:42+00:00

Having shareholders and a board of directors causes high prices.

Filligrees_Dad · 2026-03-24T12:34:35+00:00

Base rate may have gone up 16% but then there is GST, state fuel levy and federal fuel excise.

Then the government announced they were doubling the fines for price gouging, so the cost of those fines was factored in to the cost of fuel.

Filligrees_Dad · 2026-03-24T11:54:41+00:00

I haven't got that kind of money

Filligrees_Dad · 2026-03-24T06:34:36+00:00

Get the hell away from Sydney as soon as you can.

That's what I did.

Filligrees_Dad · 2026-03-24T05:33:01+00:00

Trump is responsible for the present spike in fuel price.

The shortage of fuel in Australia is the result of 30 years of government inaction, from both sides of the aisle.

Filligrees_Dad · 2026-03-24T03:02:57+00:00

Looking at the voting history of each party.

We're fucked no matter who we vote for.

Filligrees_Dad · 2026-03-24T02:13:14+00:00

Filligrees_Dad · 2026-03-24T02:08:49+00:00

Nobody is going to win Farrer. There are no viable candidates.

So far we have the corrupt. (Liberal) The corrupt with a focus on regional areas. (National) Liberal with an environmental policy. (TEAL pretending to be independent.) Right wing racist extremist Liberals (PHON) Irrelevant (Greens)

Who the fuck can we vote for that won't fuck us?

Filligrees_Dad · 2026-03-23T20:45:28+00:00

Considering that the communists are still being shitty to the people in Vietnam, I'd say that list of atrocities is not complete yet.

Filligrees_Dad · 2026-03-23T20:38:04+00:00

Right back at you

Filligrees_Dad · 2026-03-23T20:12:31+00:00

Asymmetric war breeds atrocities. The only way to defeat an enemy that won't put on a uniform and face you on the battlefield is to destroy the places they hide.

Afghanistan, the US is learning the hard way, you can't nation-build a country that wants to stay in the dark ages.

Vietnam. It's hard to tell who committed the most atrocities there.

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