Welp. It's beer o'clock on a Friday, so that means it's time to crack open one of these excellent ones named after our former Prime Minister, the late Rt. Hon. Bob Hawke, who once sculled a yard of beer in a Guinness World Record time of 11 seconds while studying at Oxford in the 50s. A good man.
That was quite a week...
That's not gone well:
Plane makes emergency landing at Sydney Airport after explosion
Annual (or thereabouts) whinge that the national team in the only sport that's truly loved in all parts of Australia is playing a game right now, and you can only watch it on a Murdoch outlet.
Fortunately, you can still listen to it on the radio because we still have a publicly owned broadcaster. Thank you ABC!
Almost mean to include Jamie in this, TBH. I'm with Uncle Roger on the Jamie Issue.
Adam and TinEats, on the other hand, never fail:
I was just reading the paper, and they mentioned this bloke, Albert Jacka VC, MC & Bar, who fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front in WWI.
I read about him in a university course on the history of Australians at war. He was quite a bloke, so I thought I'd share in case anyone's interested in military history:
You know it's finally proper summer in Australia when there's #Cricket on a Friday arvo.
It's Women's Big Bash League today, but any kind of cricket is my happy place π
Sometimes, I give the phishers points for novel efforts, but I almost feel insulted by this one.
It's not so much that, unlike this nonsense, the Australian Taxation Office typically tends to avoid using exclamation points in their missives, so it's something of a clue when there is one.
It's the laziness about the sender's address and the idiotic filename that "WillieHansonxx" wants me to click.
0/5, no stars, ππ.
Gibson Firebird > Marshall JTM Studio 20 with the volume up to 9 or so, with just a touch of plate reverb because I can't not π€·ββοΈ
It makes me think about the Beano album tone every time...
Enthusiast.
I like guitars a lot. Maybe too much.
I also do music production and mix engineering.