Open Thread – Weekend 21 Aug 2021


The Blind Leading the Blind, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1568

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Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 27, 2021 12:55 pm

America’s favorite doughnut company and coffeehouse chain Krispy Kreme, Inc. warned this week that higher costs for donut ingredients, such as flour, butter, milk, oil, and sugar, are forcing the company to raise prices in September.

That tremor you just felt was mOnster fainting.
But, hey, it’s only donuts, right?
It’s not like those ingredients are used in anything else.

duncanm
duncanm
August 27, 2021 12:59 pm

America’s favorite doughnut company and coffeehouse chain Krispy Kreme, Inc. warned this week that higher costs for donut ingredients, such as flour, butter, milk, oil, and sugar, are forcing the company to raise prices in September.

there’s flour in a Krispy Kreme. Who knew ?

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
August 27, 2021 12:59 pm

Another example of the ruling elite using an oxymoron to “justify” an argument.

Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley said “parents are not in the dark” about plans for when children can return to school, even though no date has been put forward or vaccination targets.

Arky
August 27, 2021 1:01 pm

The National Executive understands the repercussions of this bill could be to change our name, however there are other options open.

..
Ohh, ohh, ohhhh. Let me! Let me!
The Loathsome Dolts Party?
The Licentious Diddlers Party?
The Loquacious Dilettantes Party?
The Lawyer Douchenozzles Party?

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
August 27, 2021 1:01 pm

OK I’ll ask the stupid question.
Who or what do people here mean when they refer to The Cathedral?

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 27, 2021 1:06 pm

and a man in his 90s.

Taken so young.
So much of his life in front of him.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 27, 2021 1:08 pm

Imagine if the LDP dovetailed these actions by the big parties to limit their vote into the policy of making the exemptions list public.
You know, the exemptions list for the maaaaates of the big parties.
What a killer one-two for the LDP to use.
If they’re meeting tonight, what a great time to raise it.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 27, 2021 1:31 pm

The Taliban may be 95% illiterate hill billies.
But that 5%, western educated, technically proficient, with decent military experience in multiple countries?
Yeah, they’re the ones you need to worry about.

If you don’t have a dark sense of foreboding about the next few days in Kabul, I’d like to know what you’re smoking.

Woolfe
Woolfe
August 27, 2021 1:31 pm

Virginia Nicholls gone from Twitter

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 27, 2021 1:45 pm

I’m actually shocked that Alan Joyce told Sneakers to get fucked yesterday.
Since the 1990’s corporations have talked tough to LNP governments (because they are pussies) & given massages to the ALP governments (lest they lose out in Gillard style “oh we’ll have to have a look at that now won’t we”).

Zipster
Zipster
August 27, 2021 2:19 pm

If you don’t have a dark sense of foreboding about the next few days in Kabul, I’d like to know what you’re smoking.

I have a dark sense of foreboding about the next 100 years, not that I expect to be alive for most of it. I worry about my kids and grandkids.

Mrs Zippy refuses to believe that the US was so incompetent to leave all those weapons behind without a reason.

I thought about it, did beijing biden leave those planes and helicopters and systems behind so the chicoms could get their hands on them? I am sure the taliban will be only too happy to sell a plane or helicopter and bits of tech for hard yellow dollars. gives beijing biden plausible deniability.

calli
calli
August 27, 2021 2:21 pm

Old School Conservative says:
August 27, 2021 at 1:01 pm
OK I’ll ask the stupid question.
Who or what do people here mean when they refer to The Cathedral?

We oldies call it “the Powers That Be”.

But “Cathedral” sounds sexier. 😀

Seriously though, it also has overtones of religious fervour which is quite applicable – think climate change, ruinables, intersectional politics, race baiting and the like. All now come under, and are approved by, another old fashioned term – The Establishment.

If you prefer sci-fi, you might prefer…The Borg. Resistance is futile, assimilation inevitable.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 27, 2021 2:55 pm

The reality is that America lost its war in Afghanistan more than a decade ago, roughly around the time when CIA officers began bribing aging warlords with Viagra. The Americans knew all about the young boys the tribal leaders kept in their camps; because the sex drug helped Afghan elders rape more boys more often, they were beholden to America’s clandestine service. Losing Afghanistan then is the least of it. When you choose to adopt a foreign cohort’s cultural habits, customs for which the elders of your own tribe would ostracize and perhaps kill you, you have lost your civilization.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/assabiya-lee-smith

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 27, 2021 2:57 pm

“Cathedral” sounds sexier.

Apt, too. The cathedrals were once called “universities” and the local worship centres used to be “schools”. Now both are inhabited by druids of various seniority.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 27, 2021 3:03 pm

Lest you think I’m wrong, this:

Harvard’s new chaplain is an atheist — and ‘Good Without God’ (26 Aug)

Betcha it* believes in all the faddish stuff like global warming, qwerty and BLM.

(* He’s apparently a he, but the first photo looks very androgynous.)

Lysander
Lysander
August 27, 2021 3:06 pm

Hmm I do much prefer this site…

Lysander
Lysander
August 27, 2021 3:22 pm

Hah! Thanks Top Ender!!! As a long-time student of politics and political operator I never had any idea why he was called “Sneakers” McGowan.

Cos he was so far up his bosses that you could only see his sneakers!!! 😛

Tom
Tom
August 27, 2021 3:32 pm

Harvard’s new chaplain is an atheist

Thanks, Bruce o’ Newk — laughed out loud.

Anything goes when you get serious about depravity.

Lysander
Lysander
August 27, 2021 3:39 pm

Harvard’s new chaplain is an atheist

Obviously straight out of Yes Prime Minister playbook..

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 27, 2021 3:40 pm

Tom – Ironically Harvard was established originally as a bible college training pastors. I suppose at least we can give thanks he isn’t a Satanist.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 27, 2021 3:48 pm

Cos he was so far up his bosses that you could only see his sneakers!!! ?

Now you see what you get when you appoint someone on his ability to kiss arses.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 27, 2021 3:56 pm

Beautifully trolled..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKP7NY6z388

Or is it…???

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 27, 2021 4:02 pm

Harvard is just another institution that has been taken over so its credibility cache can be squandered on passing progressive fads.

Afterward it will be a sepulchre to the progressive ‘spirit’, but not causes because they will have changed by then, although there will need to be need to be expiation of the ghosts of ‘old white men’. And the bequests will have dried up – the people going through there now think philanthropy is where you make the government take money from rednecks and give it to pampered victim groups that are not themselves short of money like QWERTYs.

Another venerable institution killed off.

Lefties cannot create anything worthwhile. When they try it is stunted and warped, and needs to be kept alive with other people’s money and sustained PR. They cannot inspire. They cannot truly unite because each one of them thinks they are the centre of the universe. When they work together it is because each thinks they are using the others to advance their cause, and so long as their causes align they can have force. It is like the seawater – waves can carry enormous force crashing against the base of a cliff, but it doesn’t pile up and become cliff-like. But over millennia it can undercut a cliff and bring in crashing down the its level.

Arky
August 27, 2021 4:02 pm

From Bruce’s link:

“There is a rising group of people who no longer identify with any religious tradition but still experience a real need for conversation and support around what it means to be a good human and live an ethical life,”

..
Umm, why?
If there’s no God, there’s no rules, just do whatever the fuck you like, idiots. What does it matter?
If you’re an atheist, and you want to know what rules to obey, you want the law faculty, not the chaplain.
Morons. Don’t even have the courage to embrace the ultimate point of their beliefs.

Woolfe
Woolfe
August 27, 2021 4:07 pm

Sooooo, How much Hunter Biden “Art” will China buy for each piece of military hardware left in Afghanistan ? Don’t forget, Ten Percent for the Big Guy.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 27, 2021 4:09 pm

Umm, why?

I’ve tried to explain this to you several times, Arky, with no success. Buddha explained it too, long ago.

If you see someone doing something cheap and contemptible, you are so made that you’ll despise them. This applies when you are the person doing it. Despising yourself is very unpleasant and precludes your being happy. So don’t do it.

Arky
August 27, 2021 4:10 pm

Atheist progressive idiots seem to have missed the actual point of the atheism is that it all just comes down to power.
How deluded do you have to be to think that without some ultimate power over us all, that life doesn’t then devolve into a complex power struggle between individuals and coinciding interests?
Ohh, that’s too cold and scary and nasty. I want some fuzzy recognition of my feelings, without having to attach it to anything.
Go read Machiavelli or Sun Tzu or Plato.
Jeez I wish I was an atheist. I’d fuck all of them.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
August 27, 2021 4:15 pm

Thanks calli.

Zipster
Zipster
August 27, 2021 4:17 pm

I am told there is some sort of super spreader event on the goldie. Masses of selfish morons not social distancing or wearing masks. Who do these people think they are, why are they not cowering in their bedrooms?

Someone please restore my faith in government and tell me the riot squat is preparing batons and pepper spray to restore order!

Arky
August 27, 2021 4:18 pm

Despising yourself is very unpleasant

..
If I fail and do something “despicable” it’s despicable in relation to the judeo christian beliefs I was raised with. That’s why I find it despicable, and why others around me find it also despicable.
If I had been raised in Soweto, I might consider, say, putting a lit tire around some chicks neck admirable, and so would those around me. If I was raised in other parts of the world I might find chucking some poor, frightened bum bandit off a building “admirable” not “contemptable”.
You can’t explain your reasons for your fuzzy feelings about the things you find admirable, because they come directly from a late Judeo- Christian morality with which you and I were indoctrinated.
The difference is, I’m glad I was so indoctrinated, even as I recognise the indoctrination, while you fool yourself that you have avoided or rid yourself of that indoctrination.

cohenite
August 27, 2021 4:18 pm

I don’t know how Rita doesn’t turn around and smack reece between his evil fucking eyes. Reece doing the it’s all Trump’s fault in afshitistan. What an arsehole he is.

srr
srr
August 27, 2021 4:18 pm

I have mentioned it before but I’ll mention it again; some years ago I crossed paths with an Australian working on the problem of bio-weapons being designed to target Jews.
Unfortunately the genius of man isn’t limited to the saintly, yet man keeps denying God’s Word in order to worship canny men, sacrificing their own lives & that of their children to do so.

Indolent says:
August 27, 2021 at 3:06 pm

struth says:
August 27, 2021 at 9:49 am

Getting the Jews first
point.https://www.bitchute.com/video/WsvhxBD4k1uZ/?fbclid=IwAR3woLzg-rIZ0MnwRLWoImOzZp8QijnCHITTZS9ArYoiW1T1hd-BT3I9o3c

This is a link to the Dr. Zelenko presentation to Israeli politicians that someone was looking for yesterday.

It’s well worth viewing. He is sharp and to the

srr
srr
August 27, 2021 4:24 pm

“There is a rising group of people who no longer identify with any religious tradition but still experience a real need for conversation and support around what it means to be a good human and live an ethical life,”

And yet somehow, Peter, ‘parents can kill their unwanted children up to two years old, give or take’, Singer is still held up as a Guru of Ethics who makes God unnecessary.

Zipster
Zipster
August 27, 2021 4:31 pm

Atheist progressive idiots seem to have missed the actual point of the atheism is that it all just comes down to power.

No it doesn’t, even chimps have a notion of fairness. I don’t have time now but there are studies that are worth a read.

Arky
August 27, 2021 4:36 pm

No it doesn’t, even chimps have a notion of fairness.

..
The most powerful chimp doesn’t.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
August 27, 2021 4:37 pm

feelthebern says:
August 27, 2021 at 2:55 pm

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/assabiya-lee-smith

thanks for that feelthebern.

A great read.

min
min
August 27, 2021 4:39 pm

Hi all old Cats now on the new site , I was missing Tom so here I am .
Posted on the other site that doctor granddaughter was at hospital that had Covid so was told to stay home and get tested and remain isolation for 2weeks . This lasted only a couple of days before she was called back to work so I suspected a doctor shortage . See today frontline staff at hospitals are now exempt from isolation.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
August 27, 2021 4:44 pm

Zipster says:
August 27, 2021 at 4:31 pm
No it doesn’t, even chimps have a notion of fairness.

How do you know that chimps don’t have some spiritual side / innate beliefs?

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
August 27, 2021 4:45 pm

Speaking of the decline of Universities:

Up to four times as many university students use commercial contract cheating services than previously estimated, according to a new study, and researchers say the most likely users are those with a non-English first language.

The study of 4098 students at Australian tertiary institutions, surveyed at the end of last year, estimates 7.9 per cent of students pay commercial sites to ghost write assignments for them and 11.4 per cent use file-sharing sites where they can access other students’ work. Both practices are regarded as cheating.

From The Oz, with an interesting analysis of the methodology of the study. Apparently the participants were fed drugs – the Bayesian Truth Serum. (joke)

Arky
August 27, 2021 4:47 pm

Let’s give the chimps the run of the government.
They couldn’t do it in a less moral way that the current cocksuckers.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 27, 2021 4:48 pm

Go read Machiavelli or Sun Tzu or Plato.

Machiavelli….After you finish the prince, you’ll go what’s all the hubbub about.
Sun Tzu….Can be summarised into less than a dozen quotes or a 5min video.

Plato…now yah talkin’.
Plato be some good shit (Plato rolling in his grave when being described lot that).
Then roll straight from that into Marcus Aurelius & then you’ve got a party.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 27, 2021 4:52 pm

& if you want to dip your hand into a bucket of shit but find a couple of gold watches, Nietzsche aint bad for a walk on the wild side.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 27, 2021 4:55 pm

A meme i memed..

comment image

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 27, 2021 4:56 pm

If you want to see a dementia riddled old man not dealing, just look at the interaction between Biden & Doocy at the end of the press conference today.
Angry old man gets asked genuine question & gets really snarky.

Arky
August 27, 2021 4:56 pm

Nietzsche was pretty good for a cuckolded, syphilitic lunatic.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 27, 2021 5:00 pm

Donald Trump Jr rants on the Anthony Cumia show for 30 mins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVJk51h7G84

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 27, 2021 5:11 pm

I bet Plato never wrote anything as politically instructive as this.

I was now completely terrified, however since I was alone with her in the dark, I gave her a good hump. Even though I found her thighs flabby, her genitals greasy and her breath stinking a bit, my lust was so desperate that I went ahead and gave it to her anyway.”

When their liaison was over, Machiavelli managed to find a lamp and was able to shine a light on the woman:

“My God, she was so ugly that I almost dropped dead… a tuft of hair, half white and half black, the top of her head was bald which allowed you to see several lice taking a stroll… Her eyebrows were full of nits; one eye looked down and the other up. Her tear ducts were full of mucus… her nose was twisted into a peculiar shape, the nostrils were full of snot and one of them was half missing. Her mouth looked like Lorenzo de Medici’s, twisted on one side and drooling since she had no teeth to keep the saliva in her mouth. Her lip was covered with a thin but rather long moustache…”

When the woman spoke to him, Machiavelli was struck by her “stinking breath” and:

“…heaved so much that I vomited all over her.”

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 27, 2021 5:13 pm

You can’t explain your reasons for your fuzzy feelings about the things you find admirable, because they come directly from a late Judeo- Christian morality with which you and I were indoctrinated.

This isn’t true, Arky. My devout Catholic granny tried. She told me I had a conscience, and I checked carefully and discovered she was right, but it didn’t work the way she said it did. She thought it would lead me to faith, but it led in the opposite direction. It won’t let me buy your bullshit, for example.

The fact that yours is so scruffy means you still have some moral development to go. I guess we all do. That’s why some muslims think throwing poofs off tall buildings is ok. Other Muslims would disagree, as with so many theological matters.

I’m sorry that you need a God to be your master, and that enslaving yourself to an ideology is necessary to your well-being. It isn’t for mine.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 27, 2021 5:21 pm

And Arky, the belief that human beings have no intrinsic nature and we’re all socially conditioned is a bit of Marxist dogma which you seem to have bought.

So a certain amount of indoctrination is definitely possible. And you’ve been the victim of it.

Zipster
Zipster
August 27, 2021 5:21 pm

Chimps Have a Sense of Fairness

Do they have spirituality? not sure what that would mean for a chimp. not sure how we could even test that. Clearly they have beliefs but its not like they can tell us about them.

Arky having a sense of fairness doesn’t preclude dominance and hierarchical games for the best females. These are rarely to the death. Nor does it preclude chimp tribes waging war on other tribes. It also doesn’t preclude acting selfish, violent or ignoring the sense. It’s there as some form of built-in wiring, like hunger or sex drives. A chimp doesn’t fuck anything that moves, just because it has a sex drive. There is a complex hierarchy to consider, consequences, alliances, signals the female gives. etc.

Chimps can be taught very rudimentary sign language, but their ability to communicate this way is limited. They are simply not wired for language like a human is.

Arky
August 27, 2021 5:25 pm

and that enslaving yourself

..
Rather me do it than someone else.
And all too well I know I need enslaving. I’d kill everyone and everything if I allowed myself off my leash.

cohenite
August 27, 2021 5:25 pm

Biden the chimp and his fellow grubby primates in the msm now peddling the bullshit that ISISk (obviously part of the alphabet group) are different from the talifucks, who can be trusted for security. It’s also a view put forward by such swamp creatures as keith fucking suter, which is the talifucks are better then ISISk. In fact ISISk are made up of ex talifucks!

This attack was approved by the talifucks to establish their credentials and punish the yanks.

Also in the conspiratorial field, biden deliberately left the high tech gear there to enable the chunks.

Biden should be removed, yadda, yadda.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 27, 2021 5:32 pm

Rather me do it than someone else.
And all too well I know I need enslaving. I’d kill everyone and everything if I allowed myself off my leash.

It’s good to know that, relatively at least, I’m a nice guy.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
August 27, 2021 5:33 pm

Operation Protect Joe Biden is in full swing. (The Express)

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 27, 2021 5:37 pm

I wonder what the women of Kabul would think about this story?

White House, Nancy Pelosi Ignore Deadly Kabul Bombings, Celebrate ‘Women’s Equality Day’ (26 Aug)

Breathtaking mindblowing hypocrisy. I don’t have words which suit, certainly not polite ones.

Shy Ted
Shy Ted
August 27, 2021 5:38 pm

Re the Old Coast super-spreader event, big fair/carnival. Thousands attending, 95% unmasked. Happy smiling faces everywhere. Multiple entrances only one with poor sod holding up the QR code and, yes, masked types “doing the right thing”. 1 fat plod on a bicycle doing whatever it is they do. God bless ’em all.

Dot
Dot
August 27, 2021 5:39 pm

*If you don’t have a dark sense of foreboding about the next few days in Kabul, I’d like to know what you’re smoking.*

Didn’t you also say our allies were Viagra addled boy rapers?

Arky
August 27, 2021 5:39 pm

It’s good to know that, relatively at least, I’m a nice guy.

..
Pretty sure you are again, deluding yourself there a tiny bit.

cohenite
August 27, 2021 5:40 pm

Good video posted at the other Cat about that hideous skank pelosi pissed; space chook won’t let it be published there:

https://woodstermangotwood.blogspot.com/2021/08/drunk.html

Shy Ted
Shy Ted
August 27, 2021 5:40 pm

Meanwhile in the US Deomncrat ladies struggling to hold it together.
DrunkNancy
Jen Planski
It’s The Truman Show.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 27, 2021 5:41 pm

No it doesn’t, even chimps have a notion of fairness.

And:
..

The most powerful chimp doesn’t.

Damn straight. Always has been, is, and always will be.

Shy Ted
Shy Ted
August 27, 2021 5:43 pm

And quite the best story you will ever read. From Massachusetts. With genuine Massachusetts surnames.

rosie
rosie
August 27, 2021 5:45 pm

Maybe your grannie isn’t done with you yet DrBG

Zipster
Zipster
August 27, 2021 5:47 pm

For anyone interested google has just cracked another important piece of the AI puzzle. Musk is building an exaflop computer and expects a 10 exaflop computer soon.

I am standing by my prediction that we will hit the singularity with 1 or 2 decades.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
August 27, 2021 5:47 pm

Blood and red wine stains and a fridge full of booze were found at the “totally trashed” Mornington Airbnb where star jockey Jamie Kah partied in breach of lockdown laws.
Can ride.
Can party.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 27, 2021 5:55 pm

feelthebernsays:

August 27, 2021 at 1:45 pm

I’m actually shocked that Alan Joyce told Sneakers to get fucked yesterday.

It does run against recent form, that is true.
But the Toxic Dwarf has just taken a $2 billion haircut.
Now, board members and instos who love virtue signaling over stuff like climate change aren’t going to break cover to give Sneakers a clip.
But they will have read the dwarf his horoscope …

“Do not spend a shitload pulling a bunch of A380s out of mothballs and put our non-stop routes in the hands of that fucking idiot McGowan”.

Sneakers is fucking clueless.
“Oooooh. But we’ve spent $15 meg upgrading Perth Airport.”
Firstly, does he know how much it costs to re-commission an A-380 out of long term storage and get crews current again?
Secondly, does he understand the commercial reality that he and his mates have visited on private businesses in blowing up their investments on a whim?
And thirdly, suck it up, princess.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 27, 2021 6:14 pm

Firstly, does he know how much it costs to re-commission an A-380 out of long term storage and get crews current again?

Kick the tires, fill it with fuel, whats good for the datsun 18b is good enough for planes.

Secondly, does he understand the commercial reality that he and his mates have visited on private businesses in blowing up their investments on a whim?

Well hes saved them, saved them all!!! Its their own faults if they havent planned for contingencies like 2 years of near zero income.

And thirdly, suck it up, princess.
That bit im sure he can handle.

Zipster
Zipster
August 27, 2021 6:19 pm

The most powerful chimp doesn’t.

The chimps notion of fairness is more like a child’s, hey you got more than me, give me some. Not so much as, hey you got less than me, take some of mine. From an evolutionary perspective the first step is likely a prerequisite for the next step.

When we were at an overseas zoo we visited a gorilla enclosure. There was a large male in with several females. The male had a pile of food in front of him which he was snacking on. A female got up from a distance and started sashaying in a gorillas version of a sexy walk. She moved closer to the male, but not looking at him or moving directly towards him, really in what might be described as an offhanded manner.

The male gorilla gave her a sideways glance and with both arms pulled all his food in closer to himself and continued eating. We laughed. He knows exactly what she’s up to.

Harlequin Decline
August 27, 2021 6:33 pm

I’ve been out of corporate life for a bit but I still find this 2014 Dilbert lawyer cartoon funny.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 27, 2021 6:38 pm

I bet Plato never wrote anything as politically instructive as this.

Wince! I’m right now reading an alternative history SF called 1632 (with occasional forays to various Kittens). It’s a lot of fun! But your comment, Mole, reminds me of a classic of the genre: Lest Darkness Fall. Specifically when the accidental time traveler guy is seduced by his cleaning lady…

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 27, 2021 6:39 pm

Maybe your grannie isn’t done with you yet DrBG

Well, she did promise that when she got to heaven she’d look down at me and take appropriate action. If she’s right and I’m wrong, that’s where she is right now.

I began to think there might be something in it once, when I went out with a succession of girls all of whom turned out to be good Catholics, but the supply dwindled. Later I met a bad Catholic girl, but I put this down to good luck rather than grannie’s last try.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 27, 2021 6:43 pm

Can ride.
Can party.

Elegant. Exact. Accurate!

I saw the story earlier, OSC, and thought: she’s a grade-A feral bogan. As a denizen of a suburb full of feral bogans I have to be impressed, but it was a bit hard on the poor AirBnB person whose apartment it was.

Zipster
Zipster
August 27, 2021 6:46 pm

And on another point, just because you have god on your side, how does that preclude you from waging war? How many religious wars has just the European microcosm seen? Many even with the same god.

Delta A
Delta A
August 27, 2021 6:55 pm

And on another point, just because you have god on your side, how does that preclude you from waging war?

It is not God who wages war, Zipster. It is man, hiding behind God to broadcast his righteousness, whilst decimating his fellow man.

God would not count these men as being on His side.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 27, 2021 6:59 pm

And on another point, just because you have god on your side, how does that preclude you from waging war?

A belief in God doesn’t prevent you from being a vicious bastard if you’re made that way. Note carefully, Arky.

Delta A
Delta A
August 27, 2021 7:00 pm

Best man tried his new spaetzle maker tonight.

Yum!

Wouldn’t have thought it possible, but his superb specialty dish just got so much better.

Dot
Dot
August 27, 2021 7:01 pm

Everyone check out the recently passed “Electoral Reform Bill”.

We’ve been screwed harder and longer than a 50 m tall flatpack cabinet.

Diogenes
Diogenes
August 27, 2021 7:01 pm

Oh dear, they are resurrecting the old Meadow Lea jingle for the vax ad. All I can think of is the version we wrote when I was on my FA1 course (we did a few others as well)…
“Corporal’s dead,
Sergeant’s too,
Sir’s brains make we wanna spew,
I wanna be evacuated”

Arky
August 27, 2021 7:02 pm

A belief in God doesn’t prevent you from being a vicious bastard if you’re made that way.

..
We’re all made that way.
I’m not an outlier.

miltonf
miltonf
August 27, 2021 7:06 pm

So what’s the nub of the Electoral reform bill?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 27, 2021 7:06 pm

The many factors to consider in a wave of epidemic curves and the eventual end-game.
Analyse data, don’t just react to it.

Arky
August 27, 2021 7:07 pm

For sure, we have been domesticated a bit.
But that’s hardly “moral” when you consider the number of people you have to waste in order to breed the domestic version of the human.

rickw
rickw
August 27, 2021 7:09 pm

Sooooo, How much Hunter Biden “Art” will China buy for each piece of military hardware left in Afghanistan ? Don’t forget, Ten Percent for the Big Guy.

The Chicoms struggle to innovate, communist shithole and inventive are almost an oxymoron. They will be so happy that they have so much gear to copy……

rickw
rickw
August 27, 2021 7:11 pm

We’re all made that way.
I’m not an outlier.

Agree.

calli
calli
August 27, 2021 7:17 pm

Some of us are particularly and uniquely horrible.

The most horrible thing though is finding out.

srr
srr
August 27, 2021 7:20 pm

Indolent says:
August 27, 2021 at 6:32 pm

Nine out of the last ten FDA Commissioners have gone on to work for pharmaceutical companies.
Facts about FDA corruption : conspiracy (reddit.com)
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/pbcum5/facts_about_fda_corruption/

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
August 27, 2021 7:20 pm

Wow.
I just put Sinistra delenda est into DuckDuckGo to look for a translation.
3 of the top 6 links were to “New Catallaxy”.
Super stuff.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 27, 2021 7:23 pm

We’re all made that way.
I’m not an outlier.

I daresay I’m capable of killing you , eating you, then ravishing your wife and daughter. But I have a powerful instinct to protect women and children, no lust for little girls, and I’d have to be awfully hungry to eat you. On balance, I’d prefer a scotch fillet and chips.

It’s true we all have some rather nasty impulses at times and have to choke them off. I’ve learnt that giving in to them leads to unpleasant consequences, so I choke them pretty successfully.

Mostly.

I don’t let them wild because I’m afraid of what God might do to me, which seems to be what keeps yours in check. Just common prudence does it for me.

srr
srr
August 27, 2021 7:23 pm

Indolent says:
August 27, 2021 at 6:35 pm

No amount of obedience will give you your lives back.

Status / Gab Social
https://gab.com/threesevens/posts/106815039023457745

What we’ve been saying here for months.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 27, 2021 7:25 pm

Also, I just don’t have any deep urge to conduct human sacrifices or throw poofs off tall buildings.

I guess I was born lucky.

HD
HD
August 27, 2021 7:25 pm

Test.

Dot
Dot
August 27, 2021 7:31 pm

The dubiously named Electoral Reform Bill makes the party size threshold 1500, but it says older parties have to give permission for newer parties to use a common term in their names.

This is a shafting; the LDP have fought to keep their name and the Liberal terminator bots couldn’t kill us off. Believe me, the scum like Tony Abbott tried.

Maybe you newly enamoured libertarian loving conservatives will get to vote for the LDP under the Liberty & Democracy Party we hate and you love.

When you add this up with Cormann’s killing off of genuine PR & sabotage like Cory Bernardi’s “Australian Conservatives” honey trap, the Liberal and National Parties are acting – no, showing their true Stalinist colours.

Cassie of Sydney
August 27, 2021 7:31 pm

I see Mrs Nong is furiously cutting and pasting comments from Dash Cat.

Cassie of Sydney
August 27, 2021 7:34 pm

“Maybe you newly enamoured libertarian loving conservatives will get to vote for the LDP under the Liberty & Democracy Party we hate and you love.”

Dot, I’m not newly enamoured. I voted for David Leyonhjelm in the senate in 2013 and in 2016

Dot
Dot
August 27, 2021 7:37 pm

Cassie you horrible person.

You nearly stopped Arthur Sinodinos being a Senator.

How dare you?!

rosie
rosie
August 27, 2021 7:39 pm

Thanks Lizzie for the Dr Dhand link.
I almost never watch videos but I watched Candace Owens slavery video this morning (thanks bg) , and shared with fam and a couple of Dr Dhand’s which I also shared. His criticism of the FDA approval of Pfizer was very interesting.

calli
calli
August 27, 2021 7:39 pm

See? We’re all uniquely horrible!

cohenite
August 27, 2021 7:40 pm

The dubiously named Electoral Reform Bill makes the party size threshold 1500, but it says older parties have to give permission for newer parties to use a common term in their names.

Better get in quick with the fuck all commies and muzzies party name then.

Zipster
Zipster
August 27, 2021 7:41 pm

God would not count these men as being on His side.

No such thing as a just war?

rosie
rosie
August 27, 2021 7:41 pm

Yet more and more international evidence that people have their ‘lives back’.

Sure they should never have had freedoms removed in the first place.
Thank goodness for countries like Sweden.

rosie
rosie
August 27, 2021 7:46 pm

Told you yesterday as soon as the first post landed it was the feathered one at dash.

Where’s my winnings Mr Bookmaker?

Harlequin Decline
August 27, 2021 7:46 pm

Seems my 2014 Dilbert link didn’t even make it, trying again-

Link

areff
areff
August 27, 2021 7:47 pm

It appears there are no Aborigines in WA who aren’t white.

Seriously, any of the four could have sat a lunch counter in the old Deep South without being noticed.

Dot
Dot
August 27, 2021 7:49 pm

Khorne sez:

All wars are justified. In fact, peace requires justification.

Khaine sez:

War? We just do this for fun, don’t we?

miltonf
miltonf
August 27, 2021 7:50 pm

thanks Dot

Dot
Dot
August 27, 2021 7:52 pm

Sugar Khaine give Khorne Flakes their sweet taste.

Khorne Flakes! They’re bloody good!

MatrixTransform
August 27, 2021 7:53 pm

the missus tries to send me a funny pic:

like the Nirvana album cover with the baby and the dollar.

except it was Dan Andrews floating in the pool naked chasing a dollar

she tries the TXT several times … message failed.

Apple says your data stays on your phone.

she’s probably already listed in a database for Mong abuse

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 27, 2021 7:53 pm

The LDP are no johnny-come-lately on the political scene and should fight hard for the right to still use their name. It’s been good for many years and many elections so far. It can’t just be washed away by fiat now. If membership numbers are an issue, then maybe I’ll join, even though I swore off minor parties after the Aust Cons debacle. I am increasingly liking most of the LDP policies.

MatrixTransform
August 27, 2021 7:53 pm

oops … except it was Dan Andrews floating in the pool naked chasing a donut

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 27, 2021 7:56 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKke9Ksc32c

Up round the Kimberley might be different, areff, in fact it definitely is even as low down as in Broome.
I seen ’em meself.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 27, 2021 7:57 pm

erk. That was the copy/past for my last comment, not this one. I was replying above to areff’s comment about the unlikeliest aboriginies in WA.

MatrixTransform
August 27, 2021 7:58 pm

Someone please restore my faith in government and tell me the riot squat is preparing batons and pepper spray to restore order!

The Polis are front-line health care workers

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 27, 2021 8:08 pm

Only one Aperol spritzer so far and I am already showing capable of messing things up.

And now, Hairy and I have been day-camping in the garage only going home after 4pm. We’ve set our smallish but remote from the house garage up as a comfortable retreat with camp kitchen and a day bed as well as cane chairs, while the tiler does some contactless work on our verandahs to complete a job started before lockdown. Absolutely essential, I assure you. I can’t stand looking at it any more. Paddy the Irish tiler’s comment was dis was da foist toime de Oirish have been given da kay to da big house while de Engerlish are pushed out to loive in da garridge.

Come and have a look at yer new neighbours, he says to the man next door, as we huddle down on a very cold day before the heater as he raised the garage door to display us.

I am trying now to work out how to tell him he is going to have to remove a few tiles that are wrong.
He doesn’t take kindly to female supervision but Hairy has passed the job on to me regardless.
Wish me luck.

calli
calli
August 27, 2021 8:25 pm

He doesn’t take kindly to female supervision but Hairy has passed the job on to me regardless.

😀

Tough. She who pays the piper calls the tune.

Rip em up, danno.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 27, 2021 8:28 pm

Thank goodness for countries like Sweden.

Yes. For an experiment I put “Captain Gars” in to DDG some minutes ago.
I got the Gustavus Adolphus wiki.
Perfect!

Sweden is no longer that country, sadly.

Eyrie
Eyrie
August 27, 2021 8:33 pm

“War? We just do this for fun, don’t we?”

SAC (Strategic Air Command) during the Cold War had the motto “Peace is our Profession”. A popular addition in the Alert Shack apparently was ” War is Just A Goddam Hobby”.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 27, 2021 8:33 pm

areffsays:

August 27, 2021 at 7:47 pm

It appears there are no Aborigines in WA who aren’t white.

Seriously, any of the four could have sat a lunch counter in the old Deep South without being noticed.

Do not adjust your sets.
If Rosa Parks had the pallor of some Aborigines I see on TV she could have been driving the bus, no questions asked.

rickw
rickw
August 27, 2021 8:35 pm

My phone just randomly popped up a series of photos from two years ago. That simple normalcy has been completely extinguished.

Australia is at the ragged edge of not a virus, but The Great Reset, so the elite can Build Back Better to their liking, at your expense.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
August 27, 2021 8:38 pm

In Australia, the word “Liberal” is as a filth as the word “Labor”.

rickw
rickw
August 27, 2021 8:46 pm

In Australia, the word “Liberal” is as a filth as the word “Labor”.

If they want they stinking Liberal or Labor brands, let them have it.

Liberty is a nice substitute given that Liberal means internationalist commie scum.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
August 27, 2021 8:50 pm

He doesn’t take kindly to female supervision but Hairy has passed the job on to me regardless.

obviously you cannot explain yourself to a physical worker and Hairy wants nothing to do with you blaming the workers for your original fk ups.

Thats ok.

Your a woman.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
August 27, 2021 9:07 pm

this is COVID, and variants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
August 27, 2021 9:13 pm

the communists have controlled Australia since Federation.

But they are Fabians.

Karl Marx wrote his crap in the British Library.

No one has destroyed his grave nor statues in London.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
August 27, 2021 9:26 pm

People laughed when @Struth said there will be supply chain disruptions.

I said inflation will go through the roof.

Enjoy.

Dot
Dot
August 27, 2021 9:28 pm

Diner serves up “a side of science” and economics gives them the lesson of a lifetime.

https://youtu.be/C-Bt-VF9O2o

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
August 27, 2021 9:29 pm

Australia is an International Socialist country.

Prove me wrong.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
August 27, 2021 9:31 pm

The UN controls Australia.

Prove me wrong.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
August 27, 2021 9:33 pm

I cannot wait and actually demand that all coal fired power stations be shut down….. NOW.

Arky
August 27, 2021 9:40 pm

Also, I just don’t have any deep urge to conduct human sacrifices or throw poofs off tall buildings.

..
Sure, for now, but it’s there in you somewhere, as indicated by the fact that individuals designed 99.999% with the same architecture of you, do such, and much worse, with a incredible frequency throughout history and down to this very second, that tells us you’re quite, quite fully capable of it.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
August 27, 2021 9:40 pm

The Great Reset presupposes that a country cannot pay its debts from their Tax Slaves.

Interesting that Australia has destroyed ‘small business’ and borrowed a trillion, or 2, to prop up politicians, public servants and fk heads.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
August 27, 2021 9:47 pm

I want to sue The Australian Commonwealth for loss of trade.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 27, 2021 9:57 pm

FlyingPigssays:

August 27, 2021 at 9:26 pm

People laughed when @Struth said there will be supply chain disruptions.

They did.
Thanks for the reminder.
It is just over a year since it was predicted that we would see depleted supermarket shelves within a week (two weeks tops).

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 27, 2021 9:58 pm

obviously you cannot explain yourself to a physical worker and Hairy wants nothing to do with you blaming the workers for your original fk ups.

It not exactly a case of blaming Paddy. It’s just that there’s a ridge of metal under a new external door where the weather brushes attach and it is quite invisible – although quite audible scraping the tiles when you try to fully open the door. Not my fuck up at all. And I’m perfectly fine with physical workers. Why wouldn’t I be? I’ve been one myself many a time in me yoof. Hairy just wants me to calm ruffled Irish feathers with some smiles and eyelash batting, which I can very effectively do by pointing out how no-one knew about this hidden ridge and we of course will pay for any extra time and tiles needed to remedy the situation and that worse things happen at sea, etc.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 27, 2021 10:25 pm

What sort of door is it Lizzie.
Metal or timber?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 27, 2021 10:32 pm

I have Irish, and I have feathers. Ruffled!
And Scots, and feathers.
And English bits also feathery.
No Welsh though. Not even gull feathers. Many a Frenchman rued Welsh gull-feathers.
Sometimes the currawongs and the cockies leave me feathers, which I gather up and give to my old mum. She’s an artist, and does excellent things with them.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
August 27, 2021 10:37 pm

I actually believe that the 50 million diaspora Irish descendants should go and kick the shit out of the crapheads currently infesting Ireland.

Rabz
August 27, 2021 10:39 pm

Peeples – could we unite these competing  blogues, FFS?

The non collectivists – all over the place because they object to a millimetre’s difference.

It has to stop, I tells ya.  ?

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
August 27, 2021 10:40 pm

Splitters!
h/t Life Of Brian

Rabz
August 27, 2021 10:43 pm

And the emojis are working a treat – except when they don’t, which would be all the time.

Bludee hell! ?

Rabz
August 27, 2021 10:45 pm

Splitters – in the face of a police state, mate! ?

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
August 27, 2021 10:47 pm

It is just over a year since it was predicted that we would see depleted supermarket shelves within a week (two weeks tops).

but it did happen and its actually happening.

notice that Struth did not lay out the when and how… he merely flagged it.

show me that Coles and Woolworths did not increase their plane loads of supplies to Chyna?

Which mob controls the Australian food chain?

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
August 27, 2021 10:54 pm

Won’t we all laugh when the meat from all the government licensed abattoirs is flown to Chyna and you in your sanctimonious Capital Cities eat rats and slugs!

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 27, 2021 10:55 pm

Sure, for now, but it’s there in you somewhere, as indicated by the fact that individuals designed 99.999% with the same architecture of you, do such, and much worse, with a incredible frequency throughout history and down to this very second, that tells us you’re quite, quite fully capable of it.

I think you’ll find if you read carefully that the number of people who enjoy conducting human sacrifices and throwing Poofs off buildings is actually quite small, and that the numbers are largely augmented by those who go along to get along. Just as most ppl are not especially devout in their religion, but don’t wish to be singled out as backsliders by those who are devout. So they watch the sacrifices and burnings at the stake but their enthusiasm is for not being the next sacrifice or victim. They want to be in the gang, but not to lead it.

But I’m sure you’re every bit as evil as you say you are. I’m glad therefore that the fear of God inhibits you. It doesn’t inhibit me, so my admirable restraint in not conducting human sacrifices by the light of the full moon must have another explanation. Mine is that I don’t think I should enjoy it. It sounds messy and unhygienic.

Rabz
August 27, 2021 10:55 pm

OK – enough*

These two blogues need to be experiencing a phenomenon known as “Unity”, sooner rather than later.

*FFS, I hate spelling that word correctlee, I tells ya – it’s correctlee spelled “enuff”, as good ol’ JC would vouch (among others) … 🙂

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
August 27, 2021 10:55 pm

Urban Socialists.

Spurgeon Monkfish III
August 27, 2021 10:58 pm

Err, Hello?

srr
srr
August 27, 2021 10:58 pm

Donald Trump on Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal: “Single Most Embarrassing Moment in the History of Our Country”

In an exclusive two-hour-long interview with Breitbart News at his golf club in northern New Jersey, former President Donald Trump discussed President Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. The interview took place on Wednesday evening, a day before the …
https://www.lotuseaters.com/donald-trump-on-bidens-afghanistan-withdrawal-single-most-embarrassing-27-08-2021
By Josh Ferme
27th Aug at 12:25 pm

Spurgeon Monkfish III
Spurgeon Monkfish III
August 27, 2021 10:59 pm
FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
August 27, 2021 10:59 pm

Cities consume the majority of natural resources and all they, the cities, produce is piss, shit and rubbish.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 27, 2021 10:59 pm

It sounds messy and unhygienic.

Also, to be candid, I should feel very silly. The druid outfit is, I presume, mandatory.

Arky
August 27, 2021 10:59 pm

BG, you are deluded as to both your own nature and the reality of this world.

srr
srr
August 27, 2021 11:01 pm

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #207
Carl Benjamin , Lotus Eater , Jonathan Wong and Vicki Cartner
Published an hour ago

https://www.lotuseaters.com/the-podcast-of-the-lotus-eaters-207-27-08-21

Carl and Callum discuss the recent terror attack in Kabul, the descent of Afghanistan into chaos, and the profound weakness of the Biden government.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 27, 2021 11:02 pm

Cities consume the majority of natural resources and all they, the cities, produce is piss, shit and rubbish.

Those who live there vote Green, and lecture the rest of us about the need to adopt an environmentally sustainable life style……

Arky
August 27, 2021 11:05 pm

… and it isn’t a trivial delusion.
It’s the same delusion that sees idiot libertarians welcoming refos from shitholes, sees people utilise prostitutes oblivious to the fact that the women have pimps who take all the money (if you actually thought about the nature of that trade for more than 30 seconds you would understand why that has to work that way), sees people imagine that the police should be given lots of power, and which sees prisons as venues for “rehabilitation”.

Arky
August 27, 2021 11:07 pm

which sees prisons as venues for “rehabilitation”.

..
Instead of what they really are: a means to keep violent creeps away from the more domesticated humans.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
August 27, 2021 11:08 pm

Australian Capital Cities, a minuscule fraction of the Australian island continent, want to control the lot…

Spurgeon Monkfish III
Spurgeon Monkfish III
August 27, 2021 11:10 pm

Cities in this stupid, stupid country have become semi open air prison kamps over the last two decades.

Happee about this development are we? 🙁

Rabz
August 27, 2021 11:11 pm

Cities in this stupid, stupid country have become semi open air prison kamps over the last two decades.

Happee about this development are we? ?

Rabz
August 27, 2021 11:14 pm

Dover – this blogue is almost top drawer except for the abuse of those poor li’l emojiis.

You know yo want to set them free, Squire!

cohenite
August 27, 2021 11:14 pm

Boy, it’s hard to get praise around here.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
August 27, 2021 11:14 pm

I don’t have a garage nor a truck nor a train.

LOL… but I have thought for 50 years how you could take over Australia.

The current scum are doing well in their takeover effort!

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 27, 2021 11:24 pm

It’s the same delusion that sees idiot libertarians welcoming refos from shitholes, sees people utilise prostitutes oblivious to the fact that the women have pimps who take all the money (if you actually thought about the nature of that trade for more than 30 seconds you would understand why that has to work that way), sees people imagine that the police should be given lots of power, and which sees prisons as venues for “rehabilitation”.

I don’t believe any of those things, Arky. You aren’t talking about me, you have a most peculiar image of me which is a very poor fit to the reality. I don’t feel any interest in talking about myself but I’m really not the least bit like your strawman.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
August 27, 2021 11:26 pm

If an Australian Politician calls themselves a ‘Liberal’ then I immediately identify them as an American style ‘progressive’.

Arky
August 27, 2021 11:28 pm

I don’t believe any of those things, Arky.

..
I didn’t say you did.
I said you shared the underlying delusion of human goodness.
We’re rotten. Absolutely rotten, all of us. You too.
The fact that you don’t recognise this basic fact of human nature makes you more dangerous, not less, as the listed errors of those who share the delusion demonstrates.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
August 27, 2021 11:31 pm

DrBeauGan

do you get your cigars rolled on the thighs of humans???

Lazlo
Lazlo
August 27, 2021 11:35 pm

Headingley, Leeds, current temperature 16C, flanneled fools in long wooly jumpers, large noisey crowd.

No COVID panic, no global warming, normality. It can be done. All it takes is Imagination – Imagine there’s no COVID, it isn’t hard to do…

Rabz
August 27, 2021 11:37 pm

DrBeauGan

A legendary figure in the unrelenting stroogle against fascism in this stupid, stupid country! 🙂

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
August 27, 2021 11:38 pm

Imagine No Big Cities
Dennis Prager Posted: Aug 24, 2021

https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2021/08/24/nis-prager-n2594620

Remember John Lennon’s silly song, “Imagine”?

Well, here’s my (much shorter) version.

Imagine if some of the biggest cities in America seceded from their states. Imagine Illinois without Chicago, Pennsylvania without Philadelphia, California without Los Angeles or San Francisco, New York state without New York City, or Texas without Houston, Dallas or San Antonio.

Those states would lose a major tax base and some of their best orchestras and other artistic institutions. But the gains in quality of life would completely offset any financial or artistic losses.

Big cities have been and continue to be centers of destructive ideas, and the people living in them are generally coarser and often just plain meaner. Of course, there are decent individuals in big cities and obnoxious people outside of big cities. But having a greater proportion of nice to obnoxious is more likely in smaller cities and other non-urban areas. Everyone reading this knows that one is more likely to be treated warmly when entering a store or dining in a restaurant in Cooperstown, New York, than in Brooklyn, New York; in Laramie, Wyoming, than in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

As regards bad and destructive ideas, big cities almost hold a monopoly.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
August 27, 2021 11:43 pm

Imagine Victoria without the weight of Melbourne.

Imagine NSW without the weight of Sydney.

Imagine Queensland without the weight of Brisbane,

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 27, 2021 11:44 pm

We’re rotten. Absolutely rotten, all of us. You too.

I don’t think it’s as simple as that. Most people are capable of behaving atrociously in a crowd. That’s because most people are natural slaves who need someone else to tell them what to do, think and feel. If the guy who tells them is a homicidal lunatic, they’ll be homicidal lunatics, just to keep in with the crowd. If it’s Jesus Christ in charge, they’ll behave charitably and decently.

I’m poor slave material, otherwise known as an arrogant, antisocial bastard. I prefer to work things out for myself. If I felt an urge to conduct a human sacrifice, I’d carefully figure out how to get away with it. But I don’t.

Perhaps I really am a nicer person than you are. It’s a dreadful thought, but I’m brave enough to consider the possibility.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
August 27, 2021 11:44 pm

Imagine Australia without the weight of Canberra.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
August 27, 2021 11:46 pm

What bad modern idea did not originate in a big city?

Arky
August 27, 2021 11:48 pm

Dunno how accurate the maths is on this BG, I think they have horribly understated Mao’s contribution.
Zoom in on the bottom left corner for the percentage of world population wiped out by various “events” i.e. homicidal people:
https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 27, 2021 11:48 pm

DrBeauGan

do you get your cigars rolled on the thighs of humans???

Probably not, fp. They’ve run out of virgins in Cuba. And non-virgins tend to have hairy legs which ruins the flavour.

Lazlo
Lazlo
August 27, 2021 11:48 pm

Talking slavery, Mick Jagger now much regrets recording Brown Sugar. Notwithstanding, it is one of the greatest riffs of all time (Mick Taylor).

Arky
August 27, 2021 11:49 pm

This part, I meant:
Wars and Other Atrocities in the Very Long Run

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
August 27, 2021 11:50 pm

I am so looking forward to the closure of coal and gas fired power stations and watching the green luddites make their coffee.

Arky
August 27, 2021 11:50 pm

comment image

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
August 27, 2021 11:53 pm

Probably not, fp. They’ve run out of virgins in Cuba. And non-virgins tend to have hairy legs which ruins the flavour.

An Islam bloke can get you a slave.

What color skin??

Rabz
August 28, 2021 12:00 am
DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 28, 2021 12:00 am

Dunno how accurate the maths is on this BG, I think they have horribly understated Mao’s contribution.

Relatively few Maos, lots of Red Guards.

I used to think the world would be a better place if more ppl thought for themselves, but having seen some of them try and fail for lack of the requisite wet-ware, I’ve come to doubt it.

Maybe if someone invents a way of doubling the IQ of everybody then gets them to think for themselves it might work. Hell, just adding forty points to everyone might do it. We seem to be going in the opposite direction.

MatrixTransform
August 28, 2021 12:06 am

Boy, it’s hard to get praise around here.

I saw it
couldn’t tell if it was deep deep sarcasm or holy truth

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 28, 2021 12:11 am

Technology of killing people has advanced considerably, Arky. Genghis Khan would have done more if he’d had nukes. Also, population has gone up since medicine got some science in it, so the moderns have an advantage in straight body count.

I don’t think we’re intrinsically better people than our ancestors, but we are much wealthier so can afford to be kinder. We’re probably more cowardly and more detached from reality, which allows crowds to go insane more readily.

John H.
John H.
August 28, 2021 12:17 am

Arkysays:
August 27, 2021 at 11:28 pm
I don’t believe any of those things, Arky.

..
I didn’t say you did.
I said you shared the underlying delusion of human goodness.
We’re rotten. Absolutely rotten, all of us. You too.
The fact that you don’t recognise this basic fact of human nature makes you more dangerous, not less, as the listed errors of those who share the delusion demonstrates.

The fact that you entertain that misunderstanding of human nature makes you very dangerous because it gives you license to behave like a sociopathic killer. Most human beings are not inherently violent, do not wish harm on others, and have recognised that co-operation is a better long term strategy. The known history of human evolution points to ever increasing co-operation and a decline in violence on a per capita basis.

John H.
John H.
August 28, 2021 12:18 am

Happy to see this because while everyone was thinking REM sleep was about cognition I have long thought it was about brain cleansing. Not proven yet but it makes sense to me.
Why the dreaming phase matters
Why the dreaming phase matters (medicalxpress.com)

Given that reduced blood flow in the brain and decreased REM sleep are correlated with the development of Alzheimer’s disease, which involves the buildup of waste products in the brain, it may be interesting to address whether increased blood flow in the brain capillaries during REM sleep is important for waste removal from the brain. This study lays preliminary groundwork for future investigations into the role of adenosine A2a receptors in this process, which could ultimately lead to the development of new treatments for conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.

Dot
Dot
August 28, 2021 12:21 am

*sees people utilise prostitutes oblivious to the fact that the women have pimps who take all the money*

So it’s slavery? Okay, explain Only Fans, Sugar Babies and sex worker tax returns.

You have thought about this for about three seconds, which you have smugly said wrong-thinkers do.

Streetwalkers maybe.

Arky
August 28, 2021 12:22 am

ever increasing co-operation and a decline in violence on a per capita basis.

..
Sounds incredibly effeminate.

Dot
Dot
August 28, 2021 12:23 am

“We’re rotten. Absolutely rotten, all of us.”

No, we’re not.

Stop projecting. Your thesis is also heretical.

John H.
John H.
August 28, 2021 12:24 am

Arkysays:
August 28, 2021 at 12:22 am
ever increasing co-operation and a decline in violence on a per capita basis.

..
Sounds incredibly effeminate.

You are very dangerous.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 28, 2021 12:29 am

You are very dangerous.

Don’t worry, John H, you’ve seen him in his videos. If you see him coming, you can hide.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 28, 2021 12:29 am

The known history of human evolution points to ever increasing co-operation and a decline in violence on a per capita basis.

I put that down to affluence. Nothing more. Humans are violent bastards. They have to be, in order to survive, and they will do anything to remove another food drain because if you’re hungry enough yu’ll do anything.

Take the electricity and food away, and your average punters will be killing each other in the street with mallets inside 36 hours.

Arky
August 28, 2021 12:30 am

explain Only Fans, Sugar Babies and sex worker tax returns.

..
Very, very, very recent developments. And temporary ones.
The life of a prostitute for the vast majority of history starts in a cathouse doing it in return for food and board, with the madam handling all the money, then once the prostitute is old, infected or otherwise not required, out into street prostitution. Street prostitutes get managed by street pimps.
I dare say a minority of chicks with some business sense can for a time make money doing it. But it’s a minority.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 28, 2021 12:31 am

Don’t worry, John H, you’ve seen him in his videos. If you see him coming, you can hide.

Also, he’s told you he’s an evil shit. Now dot is a nice guy you could trust…

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 28, 2021 12:31 am

I’m not saying they should do this.

I’m saying they can, and would do this.

Arky
August 28, 2021 12:31 am

You are very dangerous.

..
You sound harmless.
It’s not a compliment.

Arky
August 28, 2021 12:33 am

Also a bit humourless.
Also not a compliment.

Megan
Megan
August 28, 2021 12:35 am

Take the electricity and food away, and your average punters will be killing each other in the street with mallets inside 36 hours

Been saying this for years. One good solar flare to take out all the servers on the planet and the affluent West will violently fall apart. Ancient Ukrainian grannies, Mongolian camel herders and remote African tribesmen will continue life as usual.

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