I really like the ‘thumbs up’ sign feature. It saves so much cutting and pasting merely to add +1

My son went to the Seymour Bunnings the other day to get some framing pine for a homeproject. He last bought some earlier this year at $1.75 (or so) lineal metre. Yesterday is was $3.90/metre and they were out of stock. Only a sample point but scary.

Quartermain suffers from the delusion that Andrews is normal.
As they used to say “you’d have to tie a chop around his neck to get the dog to play with him.”

sfw, there is a lot of inflation around. I rang for an Indian Curry last nite using an old menu from a year ago. Meals priced at $18 have now moved up to $26. I know that times are tough for restaurants and I don’t mind paying the extra, but the rises do seem fairly steep and I wonder if they will remain high later.

I told youse steel wholesale had risen over 40% in the last year. The Americans have been whinging about lumber prices for over a year, and the cost of fuel since old dementia started ruling them.

The time to lock in a contracted building price has come and gone. The kids are so indebted via mortgages that even a tiny interest rate rise will cause huge distress. Can’t say I didn’t warn them to reduce debt while they could.

Get ready for the inflation vortex.

Well done, Dover.

Don’t get me wrong; I’m not one of these “Oh, it’s just the flu” supporters.

You’re right, it’s only about half as deadly as a decent flu.

sfw (from 0733)

I just priced wood planking to replace my lanai deck.

Where I am it seems that due to inflation of commodity prices synthetic wood is now cheaper than real wood, never requires re-staining, and will still be here when cockroaches have inherited the earth.

Easiest decision I’ve made in eons.

When you see the intensive breeding farms as in that vid the possibility of disease outbreaks is obvious.

In the case of pigs, those intensive breeding farms and the farm quarantine aspects of pig production keeping it all disease free is what keeps us all in bacon.I would never eat wild pig myself.

The risk of course is if the African Swine fever gets into a piggery, it’s 80% mortality. In a couple of days. Because of Australia’s quarantine practices(ports and on farm), we are less likely to get ASF or Foot and Mouth disease. But it would only take one breach and we are talking $B and $B. Apparently for ASF the big risks is families sneaking in infected meat from Asia then fed to the family pig (a bigger risk in Darwin than elsewhere would you believe), or island hopping on local boats across the TSIs with pigs brought as gifts or trade.
Interesting as to how it might propagate if that is the case, how well it would spread in the feral population, and how it could get into a modern Australian piggery. It kills ferals very quick, which might limit spread.

On the “I see dead people” level…or sillier? 😀

@sancho p thank God for that.

Lol. A couple of lines and I’ve flushed out another one at DashCat. Could be Bird. The usual subject.

Sancho at 8.34am, that sounds like another Graeme Bird Trojan horse. Dover is aware what a cunning, determined and demented arsehole he is.

Indolentsays:
August 29, 2021 at 8:24 am
More people died of suicide in 2020 in Australia than they did of the covid flu.

Any figures? That might be something useful to drum into people’s heads.

Morrison once stated he wanted the suicide rate to be zero.

Up to 2019.

https://www.aihw.gov.au/suicide-self-harm-monitoring/data/deaths-by-suicide-in-australia/suicide-deaths-over-time

I can’t take a blog seriously until I am banned.

Time to call up Ray Martin, Slugs & Grubs and dig for the old box of SKS longarms.

Hmmmm. Must rememorise the lyrics to Bringing in Sheaves.

Imagine if Bird always was a puppet of Faulty’s.

That would be too funny.

Sancho at 8.38am, my girl Jamie Kah got on the piss last Wednesday night because she’s having boyfriend issues. Sadly, she will lose most of the next year’s income because she has been banned from riding for the entire spring carnival. Moral of the story: don’t get on the piss when you’re feeling emotionally fragile — especially hard when you’re a good-looking chick.

Eric Clapton Releases New Song Pushing Back Against COVID Dictates and Totalitarian Government, “This Has Gotta Stop”
August 28, 2021 | Sundance | 140 Comments

It’s good to have slowhand on team freedom. Legendary singer and songwriter Eric Clapton has released a new song in defense of freedom as the totalitarian dictates of the various COVID authorities destroy the lives of people everywhere. WATCH:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/08/28/eric-clapton-releases-new-song-pushing-back-against-covid-dictates-and-totalitarian-government-this-has-gotta-stop/

Kah should get some tips from Higgins. Not not this one, the other one.

If you’re going to commit an indiscretion, do it in PH. In a minister’s office. Then cry “murder” a couple of years later.

Like Cluedo, but without a body. Keeps everyone guessing and you don’t need any evidence. They’ll love you for it.

It wasn’t me.

I believe that is correct however.

You would have to doxx yourself to begin an action unless you got suppression orders. How could you justify that?

Plus, so many people have also used their real names they can’t claim their privacy has been breached.

“My online persona has been defamed”

1. Is that even possible? (Probably not).
2. What is the quantum of damages? (Likely zero).

As The Donald says…..”missing me yet?”

Farmer Gezsays:
August 29, 2021 at 9:05 am
94 for TaliDan today.
Public executions to begin on Monday.

We haven’t seen Perry the Very Tedious One babbling on about the “Iron Pyrites” standard for a while. Is that because his dream boy Dan of the Dead has (again) stumbled into a new disaster?

The testing rates in NSW are off the chart.
I’m sure the payment you are entitled to while sitting at home waiting for your covid result has nothing to do with it.

Where I am it seems that due to inflation of commodity prices synthetic wood is now cheaper than real wood, never requires re-staining, and will still be here when cockroaches have inherited the earth.

If this gets a lot of direct sunlight it may not be the go. Local pub installed this under a shade clothed area. Was like sitting above a frying pan even on only moderately sunny days.

Was like sitting above a frying pan even on only moderately sunny days.

Try using it as decking in full sunlight. Little ones get out if the pool, bare feet – burnt and blistered soles. Even I can’t walk on it without shoes. The only sensible application in most of Australia is on the dingy “dead side” of the house.

In Hermit Kingdom news:

Majority of voters back vaccine passports, mandatory jabs for high-risk workers

Luckily only 48% agree with making The Jab mandatory for all.

So government deficits don’t seem to matter after all? Makes me wonder wonder why I have been punitively taxed for decades.

Australians are a sick, sad people.

August 28th
NSW
129,182 tests
138,694 vaccinations

Victoria
51,030 tests
73,938 vaccinations.

Testing up the nose on the nose in Danistan.

Alex Berenson has been permanently suspended by twitter.
He got a lot of stuff wrong.
He made a lot of corrections to his errors.
He owned up when he was deleting a tweet because it was wrong.
But he’s been more right than Fauci.
Who’s done more damage?

Things that need to occur.
Full disclosure of which social media influencers were paid to promote government policies re COVID19 & vaccines.
Not doing so is the same as Alan Jones & cash-for-comment.
AJ’s enemies still bring that up.

Full disclosure of the exemptions list (travel, quarantine & work).

LOL

Sam Vankin just made a video saying if you are vaccine hesitant, you’re a narcissistic, selfish, etc psychopath.

Pull ‘im out of the oven lads, he’s cooked.

Yes Bern.

Disagree with diet “experts” that have never done anything physical past 25 and hold the precautionary principle for COVID vaccines and you’re a granny killing psycho.

They have the footage of George Bush Snr throwing up on the Japanese PM ready to go.

Ah well, the Japanese shot him down in 1944 and he narrowly avoided capture on an island infamous for Japanese cannibalism of Allied POWS, possibly including his crew.

So fair play to him.

Seriously.

That was one of the best WIPs I’ve ever seen. Superb quality, with an all-star cast.

Dual podium goes to the Time cover meme and Rex ‘reading’ in bed.

Honourable mentions to Dog Day in Australia, the G7 toon (also from earlier in the week), and the before and after Taliban pieces.

Referring to the corrupt political class as the ‘Cathedral’ has overtones of implicating the Catholic Church, the negative connotations being that the Church is the ‘seat’ of the corrupters. It’s unclear whether this effect is intentional or not.

2dogs says:
August 29, 2021 at 7:05 am
My prediction of huge inflation after the restrictions are lifted is coming true in the US.
Not here in Oz yet because we are still under restrictions.

Therefore we will never have inflation in Australia.
QED.

Thanks for WIP Tom.
My favourite was “Official Portrait of 46”.
Pathos, humour, truth, and sickening despair all in one cartoon. Excellent stuff.

You mean I can’t freeze a childhood like a gym membership?

Ah, a little search on DDG tells me Jamie Kah was NOT banned from the Victorian Spring Racing Carnival for getting drunk and trashing an AirBnB.

Jamie Kah WAS banned from the Victorian Spring Racing Carnival for the heinous crime of breaching Victoria’s coronavirus protocols and Melbourne’s night-time curfew.

So the Stewards have fallen hook line and sinker for Chairman Dan’s insane vitriol against those who “do the wrong thing”.

Yet another example of fear driving stupid and excessive responses to the lies and violence emanating from our Australian governments. Once the feardemic spreads into the population, governments can sit back and let their dirty work get done by others.

The stewards are pawns in a dirty game. Their vindictive ruling is approaching the callousness of the 4 year ban on Dawn Fraser in 1964. I hope Kah appeals and gets some light shone on the inordinate punishment.

Brad Hazzard’s wiki edited to illuminate his genius and righteousness.

Nothing NSFW there.

I’m disappointed.

No VC.

Snap calli!

You’e correct, of course. No Ugandan decorations.

Quicks Draw McGraw strikes again.

No medal for you, Baba Louie.

Andrews condemning Victorians to more LockDan.
Desperate sicko bringing on performing seals from sport and medicine to scare the children and chain the adults.
Sheiks being thanked for the encore.
I’m ashamed and humiliated to be a Victorian.

There was also a time when he specifically asked to be addressed as ‘Peter’

Glaringly obvious bait.

Much like his attempts to have a crack at a Senate seat, for which he would use the public cash that came with it for The Cause rather than the intended necessary administration.

Funny old nuffy he is.

The reason why it’s uncharted waters is because there has never been a period of time where there’s been in real life isolation at the same time there has been such ubiquitous use of social media (fake life).

Like all dislocations, there will be ones that will adapt and thrive.
But it’s hard seeing how 2 years of disrupting education won’t result in a generation of social issues.
Social issues that we probably don’t even know exist at this time.

JCsays: August 29, 2021 at 11:13 am
And how is our mental health system intending to cope with re-occurrence of mental health problems these poor kids are probably going to experience into the future. A puff of smoke won’t disappear them.
Because 98% of mental health issues suffered because of lock-down will be gone once lockdowns end. There’s a term for what they are suffering. It’s called situational depression. Once the lockdowns pass so will lockdown induced depression.

Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. On every count. These are already chronic conditions and the brain chemistry has already changed to perpetuate. These are the brains of children and the chemistry is being determined right now and for the last 20 months. The stress chemicals such as cortisol are dominant. The pleasure chemicals are being inhibited. Receptors will fade away. Children are being biologically trained towards a fear response much as Pavlov’ dogs with rewards. From hereon all that will be needed will be the “promise” of a threat and they’ll start salivating “please Mr gummint, save us again” and they’ll do exactly as conditioned.

It’s time the media fwits started experiencing some anxiety. On a regular basis. They’re all betas. Won’t be hard. Just a harsh word in passing. Sound of the horn if you see them. No conversation necessary. Think “wait til your father gets home” from your childhood.

I wish I shared JC’s confidence that 98% of mental health issues will disappear as soon as lockdowns and restrictions are lifted. BTW, I’d love to know how he came up with that number.

Since there is no end in sight, I don’t see how anyone can make predictions, let alone about such a fuzzy concept as ‘mental health.’

What I can say with rock solid confidence is that children and teenagers have had their lives made miserable for no good reason.

It would be fair to say harden up if the reasons for a lockdown and compulsory vaccinations were not even more weak themselves.

So no. I am not a “pussy” for not getting vaccinated.

If you think I am killing your granny, you are delusional and need a Homer Paxton – one shot of Clonazepam, one shot of Thorazine.

Sure kids are resilient. It is their development that is being messed with.

Maybe what this is about is the creation of something along the lines of the movie “In Time”, with available technology.

The objective of the vaccine is not to kill you (mostly) but to create a dependence on the vaccine. Israel and Iceland are of course now lining up for their third or fourth jab in a two jab program. Now they will always need jabs.

If you take the initial jabs, and then realise what this is all about, you lose your social credit and then lose your access to the next vaccine that you need to survive, then your demise is inevitable.

The more I think about it, the more the objective seems to be to create dependence, and through that, control.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Time

Joe Morrison has abandoned the Vicghani’s to the TaliDan.

Just off the phonecall from Legal Aid lawyer, re a charge of noncompliance with Mask Orders during air travel.
I’m pleading guilty to expedite the proceedings and will cop the hopefully minimal fine.
Talking with her about my GP’s advice, and advice from another consulting GP, about whether the risk of a recurrent bacterial throat infection outweighed the risk of catching the scamdemic, and/or outweighed the risk of transmitting the scamdemic to the planeload, who were 50% unmasked kids.
My GP weaselled out of an exemption commitment, saying that he probably couldn’t hold up the argument in front of a panel of peers, despite taking me through a tonsillectomy and out the other side, and knowing full well about bacterial pnuemonia in the masks of Spanish Flu.
The Legal Aid lawyer (female, I’d guess 50’s, “partner” but no kids, horses and dogs) started the phonecall asking me if I would get vaccinated and evaded my polite point about the wildly varying official advice over time. Ended the phonecall a bit choked up about the horrors that the WZV and scamdelta had wrought upon her Victorians and the breathless stuff she’d learnt from… Radio National. Despite me politely mentioning the wildly varying official reports of “tests”, “cases”, “hospitalisations” and “deaths”.
…
So, these two-the GP and the LA- are meant to be the peak of the enlightenment, educated by the longstanding intellectual rigours of University, and informed and honed by the experience of long Practice.
But they’re both like, totally, teenage girls when it comes to peer pressure.

Sorry Ted, I’m not buying it. Situational depression is just that. Once you’re away from the situation that makes you depressed, you won’t suffer the impact of situational depression.

JC, I have been discussing this issue frequently with my daughter following a suicide in her class.

One of the threads through this may be family collapse leading to greater impact on the kids. One of the top performers in her class virtually stopped attending school, the backdrop to this was the collapse of the family business due to the impact of lockdowns and all the ensuing impact on the kids parents.

We’ve got to get cops and prosecutors to walk off the job.

It might be the only way.