Neil Capey

Picture of a book written by Brigadier Officer

Nominative determinism?

Linguistic prescriptivism is so last century. Less is perfectly acceptable.

Just tested this. Robert de Niro's credits don't include his appearance on Off Menu, so I'd call that a fail.

Australia's floral emblem!

Here's another Acacia sp in flower. Google Lens can't quite decide what species but is sure it's a Wattle, possibly Golden Wattle, possibly Coastal Wattle, possibly Gossamer Wattle.

Yellow Acacia flowers in full bloom

Australian Blackwood tree in foreground, and in background.

Multiple trunks of a single Blackwood tree showing the bark pattern

Trying to learn the species of the trees in my garden. I'm pretty sure this one is an Australian Blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon). When it's in flower, I get the worst hay fever: I'm allergic to my own home. Oh well.

You could use their name

Nobody messes with Neil

The most effective Australian government of the past 20 years, measured by number of bills passed, was Julia Gillard's minority government. Minority governments work: in general, good policies pass, bad policies get voted down. That safety valve doesn't exist with majority governments.

Warmuz was a goalie. Not much width, you'd probably have to go with Madueke, Kiwomye and Tavares up front, and four centre-backs in defence.

It's called Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap.

Yeah, I would never do that

Nurse! He's out of his room again!

The relevant section from Fowler's MEU 3rd edition. Do with it as you wish.

Octopi is the worst of the three valid plurals. Best is octopodes, coming from the Greek.

Tell that to Malcolm X

Brechin, population 7,230.

Horseshit has the stress on the first syllable so it's 'a horseshit', not 'an horseshit'. Try to keep up.

The rule in British English is 'an' before words beginning with 'h' if the stress is on the second syllable, e.g. an hotel, an historic, a history, a horse. Others dialects may have a different rule.

SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

I have a pair outside the back door for when I'm taking the bins out. They're like slippers for the garden.

I think Bob Dylan made this point himself.

When I cut my own hair, I go for the one on the left because it's easier - just stick gaffer tape on the back of your head and shave everything below it.

Should've got another web developer in the January window

Why not both? Zinny as an inverted right wing.

What would Grace Tame do? - The Shot Grace Tame wore our Fuck Murdoch T-shirt to meet the Prime Minister. Let's just acknowledge how much that rocks.

Here's me. 'What would Grace Tame do?'

Wow, 19 years ago.

Callistemon are all in flower. This is the best they've looked for a few years; they must've enjoyed the dry winter and spring. They are loud with bees and White-naped Honeyeaters.

Agreed. In the old twitter, I could wake up in Australia and follow the previous night's game with 100 tweets from minute zero to minute 90 without knowing the score. Here it'll be 100 posts from minute 90 to minute zero. Less fun.

A snake is just a long gorilla

- Charles Darwin