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[bum]

http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/understanding-the-brain-of-a-man-with-no-conscious-memory/

Our brains are dumb. **** brains.

 

[Cocko]

Kooinda:

What a great brewery and you guys are making some amazing beers! - well done. sincerely, we have all watched you come of age and are proud.

Ok, PACKAGING:

Are you ******* serious with the six pack plastic top holdy thing? Seriously WTF?

I am looking at other beers because I feel safer carrying them.

Explain?

 

[bum]

The labels look shithouse too.

SHITHOUSE.

 

[Cocko]

Supreme case swap labels... at best.

Everything aside, the beer is great but **** me sideways...

The six pack thingy? - WTF?? Who are they serving with this?

The environmentalist? Because it is made from HDPE 2..

The beer lover? Because I am scared to carry it..

Their price per carton?

When EVERY other beer in using cardboard?

Anyways...

What ever.. I say bad call Kooi.

 

[brettprevans]

How's the head this morning CM2?

Supreme case swap labels... at best.

Everything aside, the beer is great but **** me sideways...

The six pack thingy? - WTF?? Who are they serving with this?

The environmentalist? Because it is made from HDPE 2..

The beer lover? Because I am scared to carry it..

Their price per carton?

When EVERY other beer in using cardboard?

Anyways...

What ever.. I say bad call Kooi.

Hows the head this morning cocko?

 

[jyo]

Didn't know it was common practice for kids to swing multicoloured glow sticks around at a Dawn Service. Maybe people are getting ANZAC Day and Straya Day mixed up.

Maybe I'm just getting old.

 

[bum]

When I said goodbye to a couple of people yesterday (separately), they both wished me a "Happy ANZAC Day". Uh...you too?

There will probably be cards soon.

 

[jyo]

Man, really? That's just strange.

Oh yeah, and there were heaps of these young folk recording it on their fandangled twitterbook mobile thingies.

Something has been lost.

 

[Cocko]

Hows the head this morning cocko?

Yep, cloudy to say the least...

 

[Lecterfan]

jyo, on 25 Apr 2013 - 10:26 AM, said:
Something has been lost.

This isn't a reply specifically for jyo, just the comment made me think.

I'm not sure it's been irretrievably lost...but certainly with fewer and fewer vets left from the pre-media wars to remind us of the immediacy and brutality of war and the values and ideals that are fought for, it becomes dissociated from reality by several steps for younger kids now. While we have continually had diggers across the globe for the last few decades in a variety of peace-keeping (and other) roles, we no longer need to dwell on these situations as we can change the channel and watch cooking shows instead. The images from the desert storm now look primitive and ridiculous compared to what we can achieve with even the most rudimentary of PC war games. There is a level of dissociation between war and War, and the inexorable occurrence and outcome(s) of the latter.

As a lefty-commo-pinko-poofo-hippy people expect me to have problems with ANZAC day, but I fiercely support it in my own way (discussing it in tutorials with the next generation of uni students, writing about it, donating to relevant bodies), and believe strongly that it is a commemoration of something far more important to all human beings than any religious 'holiday' ever could be. Also far more important to Australians than a day about simplistic National pride.

In some ways, the silver lining might be that kids with glow sticks have not had to deal with the grim realities of such global conflicts, and hopefully they never will. But even that silver lining is tainted by the fact that all the modern day horrors are no less significant due to the sheer numbers of people involved, and we must remember those who continue in certain roles throughout the world (and not just those from our little slice of the hemisphere) and honour the memories, values and ideals (the real ones, not the superficial ones...not the rights of white people, but of human rights; not the freedom from tyranny of country X, but from the freedom of tyranny in all its forms) that those before us and those will come after us serve(d) for.

Lest we forget.

 

[punkin]

Didn't know it was common practice for kids to swing multicoloured glow sticks around at a Dawn Service. Maybe people are getting ANZAC Day and Straya Day mixed up.

Maybe I'm just getting old.

Dawn service has always been a solemn and grateful time for me and my son as well since he was a small boy (now 27). I really resent the tv cameras shining lights in our small town service. I would be pretty negative about glow sticks as well.

A couple of years ago a middle aged woman turned up wearing an Australian flag as a cape, i felt like punching her in the face.

I'm not religous and i'm a million miles from nationalist, but i love my country and am eternally grateful of the freedoms i have. These people don't represent the way i feel though and they bring shame to me and to my idea of Australia as it is and should be.

 

[AndrewQLD]

Didn't know it was common practice for kids to swing multicoloured glow sticks around at a Dawn Service. Maybe people are getting ANZAC Day and Straya Day mixed up.

Maybe I'm just getting old.

I see your point, on the other hand at least they were there to show their respect.

 

[brettprevans]

Dawn service has always been a solemn and grateful time for me and my son as well since he was a small boy (now 27). I really resent the tv cameras shining lights in our small town service. I would be pretty negative about glow sticks as well.

A couple of years ago a middle aged woman turned up wearing an Australian flag as a cape, i felt like punching her in the face.

I'm not religous and i'm a million miles from nationalist, but i love my country and am eternally grateful of the freedoms i have. These people don't represent the way i feel though and they bring shame to me and to my idea of Australia as it is and should be.

geez I wish that would hit the mainstream media and hit home a few truths.

 

[mckenry]

Away from Anzac Day....
A Chilean couple, that are friends of ours are out here visiting. Their English (hers anyway) is top notch and his is good. Far better than my Spanish. So anyway, we're out with a group of friends, 10 of us and the Chilean girl says "I feel like dick" - and there is this instant silence, where we all dont know where to look, until I say "I think something was lost in translation"
Turns out, she directly translated their saying, for the same thing we would say when feeling a bit crook "I feel like shit"
We had a good laugh..

 

[jyo]

I see your point, on the other hand at least they were there to show their respect.

Great posts, guys.

Yeah they were there, which truly is great, but I can't stand the way the meaning of ANZAC Day is becoming eroded and diluted with commercialism and and a loss of understanding of the true meaning- to honour the Fallen.

There were kids sitting on the playground and heaps of kids (ages approx 8-12) had climbed up onto a 3 metre high wall about 10 metres away from the memorial so they could get a better look, swinging their legs the whole way through the service. Children will do what they are allowed to do.

You stand (if able bodied) during an ANZAC service. No other way about it. And your parents don't allow you to swing a dollar glow stick around during 1 minutes silence. I'm talking older kids, not toddlers.

Whether it's 2012 or 2057, the simple etiquette and standards of respect should not be allowed to become lost. It was an otherwise heartfelt, highly respectful and well run service. Gets me every time.

Cheers.

 

[brettprevans]

My 6 yr old wanted to come with me this morning off her own back. Stood through service tge asked if we could have o to another. So Iput on tge gallipoli service when we got home. She then watched the afl ceromony and was pretty much quiet the entire time.

Your damn right about kids doing what they are allowed to do ie the way in which they are raised.

 

[brettprevans]

Away from Anzac Day....
A Chilean couple, that are friends of ours are out here visiting. Their English (hers anyway) is top notch and his is good. Far better than my Spanish. So anyway, we're out with a group of friends, 10 of us and the Chilean girl says "I feel like dick" - and there is this instant silence, where we all dont know where to look, until I say "I think something was lost in translation"
Turns out, she directly translated their saying, for the same thing we would say when feeling a bit crook "I feel like shit"
We had a good laugh..

In argintinian our the direct translation lfor what they call a bikini is 'dental floss'. A mate of mine had quite a few exchange students stay with his family when we were growing up.

 

[brettprevans]

Cats obviously feeling better. 4 mice in 3 days. All small ones but still he's earning his keep keeping those fkrs away from my grain. Im gonna lwt him into the brew room tomorrow for a recon/search and destroy mission.

 

[Liam_snorkel]

Awesome. Must have found a nest.

 

[brettprevans]

He got another one last night so yup must be a nest. Lazy bugger is still snoozing. As soon as hes up im sending him on the misson