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Interstellar simply lacked credibility.
You’ve been talking tough guy shit all afternoon head prefect but I draw the line at that snufflebodge.
Interstellar is a great movie, one of the top 5 best S-F movies of all time. This scene alone makes it worthwhile:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hf_XkgE1d0
As well there is a subtle anti-alarmist theme running through the whole thing. There was a really good review of the thing on the old Australian Climate Sceptics blog, now closed, and we’re still looking for it in the transfer to the new blog.
I see JC has had fun while I was gone.
You have to understand it from my point of view old feller. There’s not really anything in this for me. There’s no thrill of any physical threat from you, the days when you could frighten anything more intimidating than a particularly fluffy custard mousse are long behind you, and I doubt you were much in the day. Which makes all the macho language you run with on here as funny as hell.
Geeze I wish people could see you. It’s hard when only those of us who have met you are in on the joke.
And you’re really quite stupid too.
It’s hard talking with someone with such a limited vocabulary, so actual argument is no real challenge either.
Let’s be honest, you have nothing.
Carry on, Old Mother JC.
“Interstellar is a great movie, one of the top 5 best S-F movies of all time. This scene alone makes it worthwhile:”
Thank you…and I love the fact that the film explores one of Einstein’s theories – worm holes – which is something that will enable space travel…it such things exist.
We were in New Orleans two years ago. Went for a cruise on the river, and drove across their levee plains on the raised road a few times.
A decent hurricane would see most of the city CBD – which features a lot of tourist hotels, cafes with bandstands etc – under water.
Run away now!
I wouldn’t hold too much store in what you read about PTSD. It’s entirely theoretical, heavily biased in selecting candidates for research and who knows how many people out there just live with it. Treatment outcomes are as individual as the individual. Many people don’t want to go through the therapeutic process. No two people’ trauma are the same and it seems the degree of trauma bears no relation to the severity of the event.
Some years ago now I was coerced into organising Critical Incident Stress Debriefing sessions which was the latest revolutionary cure. Effing nightmare and clearly harmful. Which is pretty much what the research showed years later , then it was abandoned.
Same with the resilience of children. Watch any episode of David Attenborough and see what childhood is for the animals, sorting out the pecking order, toughening up, rolling in the dirt and being exposed to all sorts of germs for the immune system to do what it does. This is what’s normal not the abomination that childhood and adolescence is today. Sunshine, fresh air, exercise and pain sets you up for life.
Watched Oblivion last night. On my sci-fi scale it’s a 7/10.
That’s about right. The science is not crash hot, removing all the water would make the air unbreathable but that aside it’s one of Cruise’s best S-F efforts, Edge of Tomorrow being the best.
Interesting exploration of cloning and recovered memory. Cruise looks about 30, the freak.
It’s the clean living.
Peoples – please tell me that the bird is not here, I asks ya!
His work on the other blogue is enough to drive one spare …
Afraid the window of opportunity for that is past. Bridges and causeways are all closed now.
The smart ones left yesterday.
Lizzie it was surprising the number of persons who had actually come hundreds of kilometres to Melbourne from country Victoria to protest – they had left their cars in the suburbs and took trams into the cbd. Admirable resolve.
*A correspondent writes:*
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Duck me turn on Nein! News of you need a laugh…
Fair dinkum a nurse saying they are overworked because it takes 6 people to turn over a COVID patient and then when they need to turn them back over it takes another 6 people
They must be housing the most obese people ever discovered!
“Cruise looks about 30, the freak.”
I met him in the late 90s……he was cute but short.
Shy Ted has my nomination for Post of the Day.
The physics is all wrong. It’s obviously filmed on earth under 1 gravity not the reduced gravity they claim. Look at the waves and the splashing.
Graeme Bird and Pete Sawyer.
Turn, turn, turn …
Depends which way it goes, but I think my rellies are only going to get a thorough drenching and a bit of wind with the bayou flooding the low ground. They are used to all that. A gator or two in the house maybe. *shrugs*
Will still be keeping my ‘weather eye’ out for them.
The Interstellar wave scene is a favourite of mine, too.
It’s a recurring motif is a lot of movies and I wonder if it has anything to do with this:
Tolkien experienced it and formed a mythology (again) around it. We see it in disaster movies. Some of us dream of it. We seem to recognise it and say…I know this!
It’s a curiosity.
Says something about obesity being a factor in getting serious Covid. Probably need six due to the PPE requirements about minimal touching of the patient, hands only not so much arms and body of nurses put into the roll.
The eye of the storm is going to pass just to the west of New Orleans proper which puts the city in the absolutely worst possible quadrant.
Storm surge in the area is forecast at 15 feet.
Taliban Morning Show
So, Gooooood Morning, Afghanistan, I’m your host Mohammad Ka-lishni-Kov or as some like to call me, ‘Freakin’ Big Beard’.
It’s sooooo good to be back with you after the loooong break. And goodness, I do mean loooong. Not your usual 30 second CM break by any means. No, sir, Omar! But who’s counting, eh? Anyone can be away for 20 years, right? But don’t worry, we’ll soon be properly thanking the guys responsible for that. Yup, very, very soon. And if you already see spray paint on your doors, you’ll know who we mean.
Now, for those of you thinking we are the same old, same old Taliban – boy, have I got news for you.
We are ‘21st century Taliban’ and we did our homework, we did our Focus Groups’ surveys and we know now just what you want, or should I say, we now know what you need to want. But patience, patience. We’ll get back to flogging and child marriages to dirty old men in our ‘Here’s Kabul Today’ corner of the program. So, keep your eyes peeled for that – or we might do it for you. Hey, no, just a little levity there. Chill, people. Uh, oh, too, late. Afaziz there, actually did peel some eyelids off. Naughty, naughty Afaziz, you have to wait for the gun you know. Oh, you did. You peeled his eyes off with your gun. Right. Well, let’s not be quite so hasty in future, eh. That’s why we have kangaroo courts, OK?
Now, don’t forget, we are looking to feature your videos on the program, and if you have questions for any of guest former cave dwellers, we are waiting to hear from you. And don’t forget to include your address and the time you will be at home too, so we can send a special prize to the winner of the most revealing questions.
Coming up next, our long-term screen beauty, Niloofar, will give you the WhatsApp address to send your questions to.
Before that, though, we must consider, that renegade bunch of no-gooders at Kabul airport, ISIS-Korasan, right? What a bunch of losers, yeah? They didn’t care who they killed. Talk about lack of moral clarity, wow! Soooo glad we are not cut from the piece of sackcloth. Pariahs, to the core! Glad we, at least, are sticking to the straight and narrow. The day you catch us doing something like that, you can string us up by our womenfolk and throw all the stones you want. Boy, let that bloodletting begin. Yeah, or maybe not.
So, with that said, Niloofar, over to you for the WhatsApp address….
AD: Silently Gestures….
Host: What?
AD: She’s covered up.
Host: What? Oh, for Christ’s sake. I mean, yes, of course, Allah be praised, you won’t actually be able to see Niloofar, of course, under her burqa. Oops, sorry forgot that. So, Niloofar, let’s hear it from you…
AD: And voice.
Host: What?
AD: No, voice.
Host: FFS, oh, yeah, right, of course, Goddit. OK, now, we know you all wouldn’t want to be immorally aroused by her voice, either, so we will be substituting Niloofar’s voice with your favorite Imman, ‘Gratingz.’ That should be a real treat for you lovers of the Top Ten Chanters of the Call to Prayer. Bet you can’t get enough of that, right? So, stay tuned.
Coming up next, though is our Special Report, ‘Your Prayers Are Answered.’ In this segment, we are going to show you just how wonderful a medieval belief system can be when it comes to fixing the problems of the modern world. And in our first report, we are going over to the little-known, Afghan National Nuclear Power Generation System, now fittingly renamed the ‘Oh My God, It’s A Nuclear Power Station!’ Our reporter on the ground, in fact, ‘Ground Zero’, very soon quite probably, is Aziz Dimwit. Aziz, can you hear me? What’s the situation like there?
Aziz: Well, Mohammed, since our brave and fanatical fighters had to execute the chief technician and her assistants here as they were all women and, shame on them, working, there is some concern that our divinely inspired warriors might have been a little hasty in their judgment when they machined-gunned everyone in the main control room.
And, that is also why you might be having a little difficulty in hearing me over the rather insistent alarm bells that are, quite frankly, ramping up a terrible headache I have after last night’s overindulgence in peppermint tea at the ‘Martyr’s All-You-Can-Slaughter-Is-Yours Buffet and No-Dance Family Get-Together.’ No family allowed, though, of course. But boy, was that ever a riotous loll-on-the-cushions and choke on the hookah event or what?
Now, I think I should warn you that the fervent prayers we are offering up here at the ‘Oh My God It’s A Nuclear Power Station’ are perhaps taking a little longer to be answered today than we might have hoped, but what with all the other calls being made on Allah’s time at the moment it’s probably only natural. There’s almost certainly a switchboard of some sort and menu options you have to go through to get to the Great Man, so let’s just be patient, OK? In the meantime, if you have any leverage with the helicopter pilot on the roof of your building you might want to think about initiating your evacuation plan very soon. Looking forward to seeing you with all the virgins in the place where working women..aren’t……allowed, er, probably?? Oh, wait a moment, that..doesn’t..make….a lot of sens……….
Video and audio are suddenly replaced by a static buzz and microwave background….
Back to the studio…
Host: Bejesus, the dear prophet! Well, that was shorter than I’d expected. And it seems that with my heli warming up that’s all the time we have today. Stay tuned for the next program, ‘When Immans Make Lunch Doilies’ followed by ’Tell Us Your Associations With The Last Government And We Will Let You Keep Your Hands.’ Or maybe not. So, enjoy the afterlife, suckers.
Allah Be Prised…Away From His Nintendo.
Imman Outof-Power
A psycho-analyst or maybe even a Primal Screamer would probably put it down to being born, breaking free from the uterine amniotic wave or some such. It is certainly a deep-seated meme in many cultures, that of the ‘drowning lands’, as Britain’s Scilly Isles used to be called as the furthest of that chain slowly fell back into the sea. Atlantis may be an ancient cultural memory of the Dogger Bank collapse which obliterated the land bridge between Britain and the Continent, or memories of past tsunamis in other parts of the globe. Sea levels have risen and fallen, sometimes dramatically in one go, as great lake dam entrances were breached by earthquake or climatic changes. Early humans must have self-selected for those who could tell marvellous tales of such things to impress on children.
Well, yes. Nice if they could have had the real thing! 😀
C.S. Lewis had some good descriptions of low gravity waves in his stories. And not a physicist at all.
The Doggerland breach is interesting, Lizzie. Like the one proposed at Gibraltar. And the draining of Lake Bonneville.
Greenies seem to think the earth is static. It’s dangerous and never ever safe.
New Orleans will go under again, not because of some mysterious CO2 fu, but because it’s in a horrible place. Just like Venice. It’s reason for being there is also its great weakness.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/08/28/cardin-there-are-a-few-hundred-u-s-citizens-in-afghanistan-most-of-them-probably-have-made-a-decision-to-stay/
The Dems should name them.
Poor old Glad.
Eric Clapton – This Has Gotta Stop
Just like when I was gone this afternoon?
I’m not in the least interested in your point of view. I’m only interested in what you have to say.
Look, you fucking idiot, it’s always with the physical threats with you when you cornered like a mangy rat. You’ve done it to others too.. too may times. You’re younger than me by age and you don’t fucking scare me. No one has and a slob like you never will.
I didn’t start the macho language you dishonest oversized worm. You did and I responded to never try to threaten me again.
Okay , the personal again. That’s manly, to be gossiping about people behind their back.
You don’t feature in any of my discussions, you ridiculous clown as you’re a non-entity.
Okay then don’t ever talk to me again. No great shakes. It’s not as though you create a void. You haven’t yet for anyone I guess.
You’re a former math teacher pretending to be some kind of big time Physics/Math Professor. Fuck off. And also stop pretending you’re the blog owner. It’s offensive to the host, you dipshit.
I always tagged you for being a sack of shit. It was always my hunch about you that you couldn’t be trsuted with anything.
Now fuck off and don’t ever talk to me again.
Same is true of The Martian. Gravity on Mars is one third of that on Earth and twice that of the moon. Ppl and things just don’t move that way in low gravity. Also the light and the shadows were wrong, and having our moon visible in one wide angle shot didn’t help.
Both movies were fun but had as much credibility as Flash Gordon.
Boo Hoo Hoo.
Wahh wahhh wahhhhhh.
Pathetic.
You’re basically a woman JC.
A soft and emotional woman.
Sad is the best word to describe, fuckhead. Just fucking sad.
And again, don’t ever pretend you’re the blog owner here either with me or anyone else or I’ll drop in you like a ton of bricks. You piece of lowrent shit, going personal and threatening people. You obese clown.
Have a tissue luv.
Is there someone here who can drive you home?
You’re all upset.
I didn’t see Steve Kates post till just now.
“This Has Gotta Stop”
Really? Aren’t you the one who claims to be severely depressed and can’t function properly. Didn’t you have to ask the previous blog owner to keep you from the site as you didn’t want to aggravate your problem with Egg? How fucking weak is that.
Bluddee hell – stoushes breaking out all over the place!
And I thought baby sitting bird over at Yob Cat was difficult …
No stoush here, Rabz. It’s a kill zone for a loudmouth fat slob.
Don’t lash out with your womanly emotions dear.
Calm yourself.
Lol! You saw the clip I posted the other day?
Also, plants would behave differently. The spud tops would have had greater internodal lengths – they’d likely reach the ceiling!
The physics is all wrong. It’s obviously filmed on earth under 1 gravity not the reduced gravity they claim. Look at the waves and the splashing.
The waves in Interstellar are a product of the huge tidal effects of the near-by black hole. The planet is not quite tidally locked with the black hole; if it were the huge wave would not move. If it had no degree of tidal lock the planet would be molten and have no water. The wave is theoretically plausible as are many other aspects of the movie.
Old Mother JC.
Calm…calm. Calm yourself.
Deep breath.
Breath sweetheart.
Do movie goers really want 100% accurate research, or just a ripping yarn?
I can’t see people spending up big to watch pure documentaries.
Unlike you right coming back after your “walk” and getting all stoushy again? Tell us, did you lay off 15 kilos at least? Mr. Tuxedo. You quality blogger.
The pretend blog owner.
Old Mother, seriously, calm, you’ll pop a fuffer valve.
Oh God!
..
Oh no, what is it? The womanly menopause? Suddenly dizzy? Hot flushes?
I told you to calm down.
I can’t see people spending up big to watch pure documentaries.
I’d pay good money to watch a doco about the women in Trump’s life.
I also like docos on dinosaurs; and actors from the golden age of Hollywood.
After 72 days in Schlockdown, Bird is probably more sane than I am.
?
Here’s one Cronkers. Are you now looking for a proportional discount?
It’s not just plans.
It is all the freakin’ certifications and crossover between who might be responsible for giving approval.
Example.
We have just put in for a building permit.
There was a debate about whether we needed to get an energy assessment report.
The point was, industry professionals weren’t 100% sure of the criteria, and there is nothing definitive online.
Eventually a guy at the building surveyors gave me some hints as to what I should send him to get a waiver.
Here’s one Cronkers. Are you now looking for a proportional discount?
Let me rephrase it: the women in their prime in Trump’s life.
Arky’s recent comments have a one vote against them. He’s either doing a write in ballot for each or that nasty , yapping Chihuahua (Eyrie) is voting for him.
Quality debate upthread.
Top notch.
“In New Orleans in 2018. They appeared to have done a heap of work around the river. I wouldn’t trust it. I’d get out.”
Living at or below sea level is a bad idea. The lesson is about to be reinforced.
I don’t want to fight anymore JC.
Text me your address and I’ll send you some nice flowers, a bottle of sherry and a hot water bottle to help you regulate your temperature, you poor old dear.
What do you like? Daffodils?
Quality debate upthread.
Top notch.
It’ll get even better when doc replies to my tidal forces comment.
Hey Bloguemaster Dover – could we have some functioning li’l faces, please?
Oh.my.God.
Eye bleach. STAT!
What do you like? Daffodils?
That’ll do, I’m starting to get jealous.
Panzer
Dover aside as I’m not referring to him.
It’s not a debating site. It’s an agreeing site. Yesterday the slob deleted a reasonable comment because it didn’t agree with his ridiculous nonsense.
Makka, made a comment, which I also kind of disagreed with and he went flipout on steroids calling me a C..t because a had the temerity to question him on his assertion.
Don’t worry though. This shit is quickly going to come to an end. It’s a teething problem.
calli, thanks for the reminder. I must go back and re-read C.S.Lewis.
My faves in my younger days were Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov, Blish and later SF’s poet, the late, great, Poul Anderson.
On Blish, Travis J.I.Corcoran has a nice homage to “Cities in Flight” in the Aristillus stories. You may like Mike Martin and his company Morlock Engineering.
🙂 😉 🙁 😉
Stop harassing me, you loon. No one cares about you say and you’re not funny. Stick with your morbid, depressed shtick. It suits you.
Do movie goers really want 100% accurate research, or just a ripping yarn?”
I vote for a ripping yarn.
You offer to help an old dear, and all you get is abuse.
Oh well.
One tries. One tries.
Calli and others pinched them all. We get left with these….
????????
I was teasing here the other day about Morlocks and Elois but everyone was too polite to roast me.
I took evasive action too.
😛
Here’s a tune to calm some very cross people down …
Born to run (out of other peoples’ money)
[insert bemused look emoji here]
There’s more than one way to skin a Cat.
Got it all out of your system?
Have a scone and a cup of tea and a nice natter with nice Mr. Arky.
[sympathetic smile]
Pimms?
Do movie goers really want 100% accurate research, or just a ripping yarn?
My dear fellow, if you want Ripping Yarns, cross the Andes by Frog…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JX-sUg_QQuE
I’ve posted this on Dash-Cat but since Arky has taken flak from JC/RC where I am concerned, regrettably, I feel I need to now post this here. To clear the air.
_____________________________________
The intention of this post is not to curry favour or seek allegiances.
JC/RC seems to have some emotional problems for which, he needs professional counselling.
His constant harassment of numerous contributors over many years – on the original Cat; this forum and now, Dover’s New Catallaxy is pretty nauseating.
Poor widdle JC/RC felt the need to carry his vendetta (I call it stalking) across to New Cat. I have ignored JC/RC’s rantings about me there, which has obviously enraged him. (I didn’t take his bait!) I have respect for Dover. Apparently, JC/RC doesn’t.
I don’t expect for one second, readers would be bothered in the slightest to revisit the thread where poor JC/RC melts down and subsequently launches a barrage of attacks upon me – lasting weeks, so I will save you the hassle:
The thread in question relates to Adam D’s opening of this particular Cat. The majority of posters are in praise and support of Adam’s effort to get a Cat up and running at very short notice
Let’s throw the window open, allowing the stench to escape and the truth flood in.
I won’t be linking to the thread. JC/RC can do that, if he has the balls.
Here we have JC/RC questioning Adam’s bona fides.
At 6.32 pm JC/RC said this:- “Can I ask…
I’ve been commenting at the Cat since about 2004. I knew Jason Soon as he was was reasonably well known in the Ozblogosphere. After he decided to give it in, Sinclair took over the site until now.
Who is “Adam” and what are his beliefs? A decent bio would be great to introduce himself.
The first time I’ve heard of Adam was when there was initial discourse between him and Dot. Now it just appears to be an Adam show. Who is he?”
Yes, I defended Adam D and I am now a target for JC/RC’s vitriol for this!
At 6.59 pm I said “Ruprecht says:
August 1, 2021 at 6:48 pm
“Rosie’s clue is correct”
And it matters? How and why?
Adam has done all of us a massive service – for which I am very, very grateful. Those questioning his bona fides – fark orf.”
At 7.11 pm JC/RC says this: “JMH
You fuck off. Doubly. You obviously don’t understand the query even though it’s clear enough that a 5 year old would understand. You moron.
At one stage monster wanted to take over the site by hosting it. How did you feel about posting there?”
I fired back at JC/RC at 7.24 pm, obviously ruffling his not so lustrous plumage “You fuck off yourself, you twat. Monster’s “attempt’ to host the site was a clear shitestir and has nothing to do with calling for Adam’s credentials. You gormless wannabe. Now piss off and do not respond to me again.” (My bold)
More abuse from JC/RC at 7.44 pm “JMH
I’ll respond anytime I want fuckhead. I would like to know who is this Adam. You obviously don’t care because you’re shallow imbecile.
Stop pretending you can dominate a discussion, you flea-rake
Fuck off and stop talking.”
LOL me trying to dominate the discussion! Too bloody funny.
My reply at 7.56 pm was “English is not your first language, obviously. I said do not respond to me and I meant it.
At 7.59 pm JC/RC then launched this ethnic attack on me. (My bold)
“JMH
Thanking KC doesn’t support you argument, you good little German fuckhead.
My comment about Monster taking over hosting the site was a parallel argument asking how would you feel if you found out later who he was. You moron. Get off your knees as it’s disgusting.
A major Australian right wing blog is essentially being taken over by someone I don’t know much about and neither do you. Before telling people to fuck off after blowing the new guy it’s best to find out who he is.
You dickhead.”
JC/RC to this day, is still raging about my so-called ethnic slur against him – but lookie above! The hypocrisy is scalding!
JC/RC went on to attack other posters for standing up for Adam.
And on and on it went for weeks. The all-knowing JC/RC seems to think I am a poster by the name of Marcus Adonis and (PMSL) living in Queensland. Poor deluded ‘tard.
I do not expect the rabid cur to acknowledge his hypocrisy nor manipulation of the truth, nor do I expect an apology. Gutless grubs don’t admit when they are wrong.
Unless you are Dutch.
No surprise that a population of shiftless descendants of French losers, mud grubbers in search of food and former slaves is one of the most chronically corrupt and dysfunctional States in the US. And among the poorest, despite abundant natural resources both organic and inorganic.
I’ve been to Louisiana. It is dripping (often literally) with charm and culture, but anyone who lives there needs to have a foolproof system for looking after themselves, because sure as hell you can’t rely on anyone else to do it.
[insert bemused look emoji here]
There’s more than one way to skin a Cat.
This is fun!
[Utter Devious Bastard Face]
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GfCqnHgXwBo
[Utter Devious Bastard Face Intensifies]
[Also several minutes demonic cackling. And farts.]
Arks – you really are a controversial personage.
A truculent ol’ man of the wrong white crowd, with that silly accent, existing in Mosquebourne, expounding on matters educational in his garage, when not imagining himself in a starring role in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
While looking for stoushes, here, there and everywhere.
We are blessed and not in a good way.
I’ve read a little bit of Poul Anderson but couldn’t really take to him. A bit too much like “fantasy” for me. Not my cup of tea.
..
Oh no. You have me all wrong.
I like JC.
He’s a sweet, dear old thing.
Oh God
It’s JMH the host groveller.
I never knew JMH existed until the other Cat opened.
Yes, it’s very true that I asked for Adam to provide bio as we’d never heard of him.
JMH then replied that anyone asking for his boba fides should fuck off.
This is clownship on a grand scale
Adam actually did do the right thing and told us about himself. All good
A short while later JMH began a stoush with typical Queensland aplomb. He went for the ethnic slurs which is always a winner.
Yesterday he joined a posse. Recall what I said, Doc?
Ripping Yarns – The Trials Of Eric Oulthwaite. Eric checked the rain gauge daily in Denley More – ’cause it were always raining. And Howard Moulson got new shovel – a Spear & Jackson No. 5.
His mother made the best black pudding – even the white bits were black
Yep, calli. The two flashes.
I generally like ripping yarns, but the suspension of disbelief can falter when confronted with the ludicrously inapposite. Like the propeller pushing air into a sail in the Barbarella movie.
Cohenite, the question of the depth of the water being dragged by the companion arises in the tsunami. If the sea is shallow enough to walk in, a hundred metre wave is preposterous.
This is what existing in an age of collective global insanity does to people.
Bonkers. Stark and staring.
Thank goodness nothing changes in my cottage.
Who was it that kept the Racing Vultures, Beaky and Julian?
I once got to slip an answer like that into a conversation, when a manager of mine spotted my flat cap, and (in line with his youth experiences in his native England) asked me if I kept pigeons…
Can I open up this as a question to whomever would like to answer.
Does anyone see a problem with asking AdamD at the time to provide a bio about himself? like lots of other people I’d never heard of him. In fact people had him confused with Adam from the Netherlands .
..
Oh, that’s just terrible. i know. I know.
Here, let me help you back to your favourite chair. Where’s your blanket?
“Living at or below sea level is a bad idea. The lesson is about to be reinforced.
Unless you are Dutch.”
Holland doesn’t have Tropical Cyclones/Hurricanes/Typhoons (all same thing in different parts of the world).
I’ve looked into this but I don’t think the problem is my end. You get them via your operating system.
?????
Seeing as we were handing over email addys I saw no reason why not JC.
Ok, I see what’s happening.
[Calming, sympathetic smile]
For Arky, remembering his historical affections for such things:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9k0ety5Vado
yet nobody can find the inflation ?
“Holland doesn’t have Tropical Cyclones/Hurricanes/Typhoons (all same thing in different parts of the world).”
It does have severe North Sea storms. That was a problem back in the early 1950’s when the dykes collapsed causing thousands of deaths.
err, ?
Where is this?
Grate. So what do I have to do, I asks ya?
Hey Arky
Earlier on today, you went off against Dot because you thought wrongly at time he was taking sides.
What was the comment.. “holding his cock”, right?
And now
Consistency is not your Aron point, is it.
As I said don’t ever pretend you own this blog.
..
Oh my. That’s quite out of line isn’t it?
Are you OK?
Would you like me to cut the crusts off these sandwiches nurse left?
No.
Which is why I used an untraceable email via a VPN.
Nasty. Eastern quadrants don’t seem as developed as the western and the eye seems elliptical. Probably tighten up on approach if all the conditions are right and they are especially wind shear.
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/sat/satlooper.php?region=09L&product=ir
HWRF has it dropping to 945mb on crossing. Makes it a borderline Cat 3/4 Hurricane. Still very nasty in an area below sea level…
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=hwrf®ion=09L&pkg=ref&runtime=2021082900&fh=18
Feel for the people but in an area below sea level WTF you still doing there. Storm surge in front of this will be substantial and the dying wetlands protecting New Orleans have probably died off even further since Katrina.
See what you interstate Cats have been missing out on at the Melbourne get togethers.
You poor, poor dear thing.
“vlad reduxsays:
August 29, 2021 at 7:53 pm
I’ve read a little bit of Poul Anderson but couldn’t really take to him. A bit too much like “fantasy” for me. Not my cup of tea.”
Poul Anderson did write some fantasy. About the only fantasy I can like. “Three Hearts and Three Lions” was great and I liked “The Merman’s Children” and his Norse myth’s like “The Broken Sword”. The rest is pretty hard SF although the rivets are concealed a little . “The Queen of Air and Darkness”, probably his most famous story, is a crossover. Starts off reading like fantasy and turns into really hard SF when what is really going on is revealed.
Mrs Eyrie would agree that he’s a little difficult to get into but well worth persevering and if you get into it, he was prolific so there’s lots to enjoy.
Out line as in being rude? Nope.
It just highlights you’re hypocritical loser.
Has this been posted before? We don’t need to take the jab!
https://constitutionwatch.com.au/australian-gps-can-legally-prescribe-ivermectin-triple-therapy-protocol-professor-thomas-borody/
Panzer, what was your concern forcing you to use a VPN?
“Holland doesn’t have Tropical Cyclones/Hurricanes/Typhoons (all same thing in different parts of the world).
It does have severe North Sea storms. That was a problem back in the early 1950’s when the dykes collapsed causing thousands of deaths.”
Not nearly the problem that quite regular Tropical Cyclones etc are.
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“Does anyone see a problem with asking AdamD at the time to provide a bio about himself?”
No.
Still not working. I may as well be C3PO blundering around in a desert with a sweary tin can.
Surprize, surprize, surprise!
The Mississippi Delta is spreading.
“Not nearly the problem that quite regular Tropical Cyclones etc are.”
If not for the dykes Holland would, like New Orleans, suffer more devastation from North Sea tides and surges.
From the Dash Cat:-
Golly.
Whatever can that mean?
Who is MV and who is he trying to take down?
And how?
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Oh dear.
It’s not working is it?
My every effort to calm you just fails tewibly.
Tewible, tewible, tewible.
Tewibly tewibly tewible.
I did find this inspirational:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dont-take-me-granted
An extract from the end:
Ultimately, freedom, like many things in life, should not be taken for granted…
Don’t Take Me For Granted
I’m your worn in leather boots. I’m the warmth you find in your morning coffee cup. A tank of gas and an open highway. I’m the choices you get to make. So make them wisely.
I was there when Eve ate the forbidden fruit. I was there when Peter heard the rooster crow. A gold coin and a handshake. I’m the heart beat and the breath that keeps you alive. Where’s your gratitude?
I’m the voice that speaks what’s on your mind. I’m the integrity that comes with doing what’s right. A 12-guage shotgun loaded with 00 buckshot. I’m the time and security stowed away in your private property. I am refuge.
I’m the pop in your left hook. I’m the humility of a secondhand suit. A pack of smokes and a six pack. I’m the dreams you had on high school graduation night. Nothing will ever stop you.
I’m stronger than a Spartan army. I’m the softness of freshly fallen snow. A rip roaring fire and your loved ones. I’m the spirit in your Sunday morning worship and praise. I am everlasting.
I’m the bounty of a fall harvest. I’m cool water flowing from a mountain spring. A pocket full of cash and the big city. I’m the sour saxophone interlude in Rosie’s Angel Baby. My imperfection’s my perfection.
I’m as rare as a four leaf clover. I’m as precious as a warm jacket on a winter night. Liberty and autonomy if you want it. I am freedom and I’m here for you…
But don’t take me for granted.
[Smiles brightly]
Be in. Whacked out communist hippees, 4 evah, man.
We all should be using VPNs.
Most people have abysmal online security.
JC, where are your slippers?
*patronising glance and tapping foot*
You guys are really hung up on those little emojis aren’t you?
Here. Have an LOL.
😉
Dep. Comm. Gary Worboys is very, very fat and should be more worried about a stroke than COVID.
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The finest Sci-Fi movie ever made was 1960 version of The Time Machine starring Rod Taylor.
Unfortunately, just like Escape From New York and Escape From San Francisco, the reality is with us.
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Agreed.
Sinc’s reputation was well known and many of us had personal contact with him over the years.
Dover is a known quantity also and is trusted by many Cats.
Even m0nster is a known quantity, for better or worse.
AdamD? Don’t know him from a bar of soap. This wasn’t helped by letting Bird run riot for two weeks.
Like the Bird and the Sawyer he’s been gifted with a house sized bellee and backside.
Pol – is he planet sized, like the Cornelius?
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Callee …
“Most people have abysmal online security”
Guilty as charged Dot. Fortunately I have zero social media presence and shun storing sensitive pers info on my phone. That said I need to get around to gripping this part of my life up though. I just don’t know enough about VPN’s yet.
Nothing “forced” me.
But if you have security available, why not use it.
Which is why I also set up a blind email address.
Cohenite, the question of the depth of the water being dragged by the companion arises in the tsunami. If the sea is shallow enough to walk in, a hundred metre wave is preposterous.
My original thought about this was how tsunamis worked; they race through deep water where the energy is expressed as speed and when they reach shallow water they literally suck the water back to a threshold water depth after which height is substituted for speed and the sucked back water which leaves shallow water ahead of the tsunami supplies the water height of the tsunami. But I was wrong too because I forgot the wave was a product of tidal forces:
The waves on Miller’s planet are not tidal waves or tsunamis, they are what is known as a tidal bore. See [1]
Miller’s planet doesn’t rotate. The gravitational tidal forces from Gargantua elongate Miller’s planet into an ellipsoid and as the planet attempts to rotate, say clockwise, the tidal forces on the planet then apply a counter-clockwise torque that slows the rotation to a stop and then accelerates the planet in the direction of the torque and Miller’s planet then oscillates like a pendulum. Kip Thorne claims to have calculated an oscillation frequency of about an hour as was shown in the movie.
The tidal bore is generated as a phase lag between the planet’s solid and liquid surfaces. As the planet swings one way it takes a mass of water with it and as the planet reverses direction layers of water slip over each other and generate the large tidal bores depicted in the movie.
The best part of watching “On The Beach” was to see a page from the former newspaper called “The Age” blowing down the street.
The worst part was being in 1975 Brisbane after 1pm and seeing that very same scene… probably Brisbane Times.
Yep. No need to skite, you technological brainiac.
[insert smiley face here]
Test.
?????????
Arghhhhh…..I give up.
JMH
So far it’s 3 nil. Time for some trusty ethnic slurs?
Worboys is a Forest Moon sized cop.
He’s an Endor Class senior officer of NSWPOL.
The Endor class could not be loaded on the Adelaide class frigates if seconded to the ADF. The Hobart class AWDs can however take on the Endor Class given a much larger displacement and an extra 2 metres of beam across the ships.
no social credit for you.
Heh.
*Given his strident commitment to punishing scofflaws and independent minded citizens, he was awarded the Australian Police Medal (APM) in 2021 by Premier Gladys Berejiklian for his services to to the people of New South Wales as Health Minister.*
It’s still there.
So many good doctors have lost their livelihoods for speaking up about the ivermectin protocol and now it’s legal. I’m so bloody angry at the media and the feckless politicians.
Also cool to give Bob LOTS of clicks from the US…and Vietnam…and Bavaria…and Bolivia…and…..
VPN couldn’t do Cuba. A shame really, I’m sure that would’ve given him a buzz.
My mistake, JMH . 5 nilligan.
Driving normal people insane since the time it was vomited forth onto this planet.
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Oh that’s nice, you’ve found someone to play whist with.
[Sympathetic head tilt]
Maters, they’re too busy existing in a state of cheerful scholar.
For those planet sized gawking western touristes.
If you have the word “Liberal” in your organizations name then you are a communist elitist.
Gab, totally agree. But what can we do? MSM have made sure we, the “truthists” cannot and will not be heard.
Now that was funny.
Spud bragging about his worldwide audience followed by Mater putting up his hand.
“Please, Sir, that was me.”
What can we do? Stop taking the bloody toxic jab, that’s what! Latest is that ppl who have had 2 jabs now need a third. Wake up!!
Petition EN3046 – Immediately Stop COVID-19 Vaccines for children aged 12-16
https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN3046?fbclid=IwAR25Dst6nG1lk1-4PglvegYOxddCOCu9SG2hslRNySsl-olgdPor–XUSBA
Is “the Bird and the Sawyer” one person?
Which compares with this?
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Oh no.
Look what you’ve done. You’ve spilt your tray all down yourself.
Here, let me clean that up.
You silly old dear.
[smiles warmly]
Stoushes. Wordwalls.
Ah. Good times. Scented candle, anyone?
Panzers, any sentient beings in this and many other universes should hope not.
your the lawyer!
He’s like eggly, he climbs on your back and can’t get him off.
Invermectin?
You want Invermectin? Can I do a deal for you. I have litres of it in the shed.
Here’s the stash.
Yes. No way will I be submitting my body to untested ‘concoctions’ that do not do what they are supposed to do – and could actually kill me before time. No. Nope. Never.
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Don’t you worry about that mean and nasty old eggly my dear thing.
I’ll pwotect you fwom the nasty wasty eggly.
You’re weally weally scared of him.
I know, I know.
*Is “the Bird and the Sawyer” one person?*
NO.
Those are last names of people living in different states of different ages and who were born in different countries.
Pie?
I’m more worried about the Mississippi Delta.
So probably two separate people then?
Somewhat incredible that this tiny nation is blessed with two of these.
Scented candle, anyone?
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For your butthole, Cate?
Are you able to “like” your own post? Asking in a sympathetic way.
Don’t you worry about that mean and nasty old eggly my dear thing.
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In the papers on Housos Cat?
Do I get a guest wanker post?
He’s like eggly, he climbs on your back and can’t get him off.
Ewww!
Phrasing!
But have you got enough bullion that would form the base of a true cyrpto currency???
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eggles… nothing personal. when was the last time you kissed a woman and not your mother?
we will have inflation but no-one will talk about it so it does not exist…
Mind you… share prices are going through the roof.
Why is that not inflation?
Here in NSW –
Not possible if you live in a LGA of concern and need to work outside that LGA.
Not possible if you work but do not live in a LGA of concern.
Not possible if you have a business, or businesses, in a LGA of concern that you must visit.
:grinning:
why is an increasing share market price not a sign of inflation.
JC.. I watch exchange rates.
For your butthole, Cate? Sure. It will make it more enjoyable for you, for when you’re eating the peanuts out of my latest grogan. You’d do it too, you porky little thing. 105kg of manlet-flab and confusion, equally divided.
BlockquoteFail!
Ah. It’s not a fail.The thingo’s buggered.Porky Mc_roomba’s been chewing on the wires again.
That mongrel Paul Murray is in favour of the people who cannot have the vaccine for medical reasons to be given vaccine passports so they are not punished with loss of freedom like those who just refuse. How is that even remotely science? So those unvaccinated are not a threat but the refuseniks are? God give me strength.
Iver Mektin is innocent!
Had to get rid of that emoji plug-in. It was playing funny buggers with other things as KD just found out.
By the way, carriage returns are not working. No paragraphs.
Pigs
It’s not called inflation for good reason. Asset prices are reacting to lots of things. Too simplistic to refer to rising asset prices as inflationary.
Test.
egg_roomba
a flabby potato-cake-inhaling cholesterol hound.
Aha!
Appreciated, Doverlord.
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Would you like some nice warm soup?
Here in NSW –
Not possible if you live in a LGA of concern and need to work outside that LGA.
Not possible if you work but do not live in a LGA of concern.
Not possible if you have a business, or businesses, in a LGA of concern that you must visit.
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I may never see Blue Mountains again, or Seven Mile Beach, or the Hunter Valley or anywhere outside my five kilometre radius.
Testing the waters
why is an increasing share market price not a sign of inflation.
In local currency terms, Zimbabwe has the best performing share market in the world.
Rubbish. You can still have a doctor’s appointment.
Haha Cate muffs it in her excitement.
So the latest poll is out and ScoMo is still the preferred PM by far but that means nothing when the LNP are on the nose and won’t get the seats to form a government. I will certainly not vote for them.
Sleazy Albanese will be the next PM.
What form does a “proof of vaccination” take?
Microchip or tattoo?
OK, carriage returns are working again.
when was the last time you kissed a woman and not your mother?
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Does when your dad was in drag count?
Pedro the Loafer says:
August 29, 2021 at 9:46 pm
What form does a “proof of vaccination” take?
Microchip or tattoo?
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An app on you phone.
An excellent choice of words, considering you’re mouthing off on DashCat about ‘I’ve rooted a Kitteh’ and asking people to guess which one.
You’re all class. And all subcutaneous fat, tubby.
So the Australian Governments have borrowed or created over AUD $3 Trillion in their bullshit ‘pandemic’.
Why do any of us need to pay any tax whatsoever???
Please explain.