Aussie Aircraft Thread

Here you are.
https://9now.nine.com.au/60-minutes/rip-hong-kong/9190dad7-22d5-4aea-9a8f-9d05b135c4f4

 

TV !!??

I'm celebrating electricity going on this week !!!

The log fire will be history

 

Move back down here JM...You’ll love it...Freezing cold and pissing down rain...

 

Neralee wouldn't get out of bed until 9am this morning because it was 15 degrees ..... bloody sook

Blue skies and water temp 21 degrees .... terrible here this time of year

 

Just don’t go swimming!...Lots of grey suits patrolling the beaches by the look of it...

 

Leichhardt is Sydney is where you watch out for arseholes in grey suits ...... was booked everytime I parked there (3 times)

 

I’m talking about the ones with dorsal fins...

 

I'm talking about the ones with no hearts or brains

 

I think Sydney airport has employed all of those ones...

 

Yeah I know, been stung by them as well at 11PM while it was raining

 

Were they male nurses dressed up?...

 

What else ?

Women are ok but you can't beat the real thing

 

You need help...

 

Thanks... I’m heartbroken about what’s happening in HK but cheesed off with the commentators wailing about lost democracy in HK when it never existed (never allowed during British rule and not put in place for the handover). Regina Ip is in government thanks to the ‘functional constituency’ electors; Jimmy Lai’s Apple Daily was hounded by the HK government since the day he started it; the young guy Law has run for cover (UK by the look of the interior) but if you looked behind him in the early protest shots there was a grey haired guy who is ‘Long Hair’ Leung, a democracy activist who was elected to government years ago (90s from memory) and who the HK government did everything they could to flatten him, numerous stints in jail etc. PRC has hammered the coffin nails that the Establishment in HK have been positioning for years... The protestors won a great victory with the withdrawal of the extradition law, unfortunately they then played into the hands of the anti-democrats in HK.

 

The protestors have not won anything
Their actions have resulted in the current laws being introduced
Their actions gave the PRC no choice but to act in the way that they have
The protesters acted in a way that was foolhardy and set their own cause back irreversibly



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They DID win the original fight as the extradition law was withdrawn, but you’re right they won the battle and lost the war by pushing for something that was never going to happen (democracy). I can’t help wonder who/what was egging them on - the old democratic leaders (Martin Lee, Long Hair Leung, Alan ?) would never taken them down that path and now 2 of those old guys have passed away...
Sadly, a lot of older people and most of the business community support the new law; not surprising when you look at the HK government.

 

Funnily enough Karen the Apple Daily reports what is happening With no censorship , but the SCMP is owned by Beijing so is very skewed...The protests have not helped HKG one bit. They were orchestrated by common thugs doing malicious damage...A lot of people arrested were not even HKG residents...I agree totally with David...They Fuchsed anything HKG had left...It will never be the same...

 

You hit the nail on the head David...I was there through the whole thing and even the HKG people were sick of the thugs....

 

Absolutely - HK gov’t has been trying to get rid of Apple daily since the day it was started. I’m not one for conspiracy theories but I would like to know what outside forces were prodding the protestors / undermined the steady voices.
As an aside, I still have my “stand down please sir” Giordano T shirt from 1989!

 

Just caught up with my cousin who's a Qantas pilot, he's flying the last 747 passenger flight on Friday, a joy flight from Sydney to Canberra. He'll be at 1500 feet over the war memorial to "dip a wing" then over the lake and home. Two weeks later he's taking the aircraft to Nevada to be parked in the desert. The end of an era for the airline and the country.

 

Pity it's not staying in Oz...Longreach.

 

sad...

 

You should take a trip down to check out the new light show they’ve installed (designed by some graphic designers I know) looks awesome.
The 747 called ‘Longreach’ was the usual HK ‘bus’ in the 80’s/90’s...

 

the final passenger flight of Longreach

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=208646510466474