Send the bill to Mr. Karklis.
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Yawn Been done before by another cloth-eared bint ( tm J Cleese)- Hillary’s ” vast right wing conspiracy”. Bullshit then,…
One of my best mates (now sadly under the ground) had a Les Paul. I found it incredibly heavy and staggeringly uncomfortable to play, hard edges digging unrelentingly into the rib cage.
But, FFS, it was beautiful. Black with white binding. 🙂
Calli
Vote using your mobile.
Vote often 🙂
Safe, Legal and Rare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afLVjRndgcY
Sep 4, 2021
Lotuseaters Dot Com
I don’t like it when Pizza Hut puts chemicals in the fairy dust that turns the freakin’ parents into child traffickers!
“I don’t like it when Pizza Hut puts chemicals in the fairy dust that turns the freakin’ parents into child traffickers!”
Don’t forget the spirit cooking Dot.
A pleasure, Rabz.
I played a borrowed Les Paul at a gig once. Only once.
Re the vibrola – not the sideways version, mind you, but the standard one.
Also for a Strat guy, if the SG feels odd, take a look at the Firebird. The mini-humbuckers are really sweet.
…or, elbow them in the tit
Before we get misty eyed about Dutton, I suggest people read this.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/25/australian-powers-to-spy-on-cybercrime-suspects-given-green-light
Wow that was quick. News.com shutters coming down now wanting log in to see results of survey, was able to access 2 of the questions from my mobile phone and add to the no’s… However can’t see any results anymore…
Dutton is poison.
The cybercrime bill is probably worse than anything the cabal of dickhead Premiers have done.
Lol, Gab.
I’m a compartmentaliser. The mobile is strictly for phone calls.
Amusingly, my grandchildren are discovering the joys of “voice only” calls. They have to describe what they are doing, rather than showing me. It stretches their imaginations and vocabulary.
Naturally, the six year old girl is streets ahead of her twin brother! 😀
19 Year Old Man Jailed After Mental Breakdown in Hotel Quarantine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2uWy9eNH1M
Sep 5, 2021
Real Rukshan
A 19 year old man has had a mental breakdown prior to his release from a 14-day hotel quarantine stint in a hotel in Richmond, Victoria. During the incident that was recorded by Danny Hayes (also in quarantine at the same hotel), the man is heard yelling at authorities about his state of mind and smashing items in his hotel room. At one point a police officer is alleged to have yelled “calm down or you are going to get f***ing gassed” at the man.
The media and government rarely focus on understanding the nature of these incidents, however they devote a lot of time and coverage to understanding alleged breaches of CHO directives, most recently a incident involving Nadia Bartel.
We know about this particular incident involving this young man because of the recording made by another member of the public at the hotel, however how many such incidents are occurring at such facilities throughout the country, and are steps ever taken to address these problems?
The man has subsequently been given a 3 month jail sentence for damaging property and attempting to leave hotel quarantine earlier.
“Thomas became violent on Saturday because he believed he was due to leave quarantine at midday on September 4 but staff would not let him out. In fact, he was not due to leave until a minute before midnight”
The greatest guitarist of his generation and his beloved Gibbo …
I just went on to that News poll and had no trouble voting, so if you haven’t yet I’d urge you to do so.
We all know that solitary confinement is a form of torture.
19 year old has mental breakdown in hotel quarantine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2uWy9eNH1M
“I just went on to that News poll and had no trouble voting”
I had no trouble voting.
Snap srr.
It’s nice to chit chat calli.
Hopefully this will all be over before my sweet girl is old enough to be calling on the telephone.
I’m getting videos of learning to walk.
Adorable.
You’ve only got two hands to lend …
I have no idea who that is Rabz.
The one question I had trouble with was “should businesses be allowed to” refuse service to unvaccinated.
Actually there’s a good argument that in principle businesses should be “allowed” to. (There should have been a question whether any businesses should be compelled to refuse service to the unvaccinated.)
But clearly voting “yes” would be misinterpreted as supporting compulsion.
So I did vote “no”.
Never been a guitarist but I have to say Knopfler’s O style National is about as majestic as you can get.
I’m resisting YT, but on guitars this track is a ripper, with a Double Fender used in anger. It’s the official vid as I can’t find a really good live version. The transition from lower to upper is at about 2 minutes. Just glorious.
The dear little thing was worried about her arithmetic. But her reasoning skills are spot on. Believe me, I tested them. Swings and roundabouts.
a close friend of the missus has a brother who is an MD and that guy worked in Hotel Quarantine.
he quit.
reason?
his main job was sedating the hotel’s er … “guests”
Don’t forget the spirit cooking Dot.
Spirits belong in your glass.
Not in your pizza…
“Spirits belong in your glass.
Not in your pizza…”
Among sane people….yes!
There was an urban myth, at one stage, that Peter Dutton was the D who’d sent Plibersek’s husband to the tronk…..
Michael Coutts-Trotter was jailed in the mid 80’s.
Dutton didn’t join the plod until the 90’s.
“Michael Coutts-Trotter was jailed in the mid 80’s.
Dutton didn’t join the plod until the 90’s.”
Yep.
That’s why it’s an urban myth.
On spirits…not tonight. Hewitson’s Miss Harry for me this evening. Courtesy Qantas Club specials. At a very good price.
No fly…no sales.
Rose – the greatest guitarist of his generation – seen here wielding his burgundy Gibbo with a vengeance, while clad in a Soviet Grey Levi’s Jacket.
The Butler. That’s who.
The cybercrime bill is probably worse than anything the cabal of dickhead Premiers have done.
The cyber crime bill back fills what the plod & alleged intelligence agencies have been doing since Snowden blew the whistle.
The Butler did it?
I knew it!
I’m suspicious about the mandatory check ins.
If you walk around with a smart phone, there is no need for it with regards to contact tracing.
It’s like the NSW police continually finding stashes of meth as part of “routine” traffic stops.
Their strike rate is off the chart.
It’s clear they are hacking, meta data’ing huge parts of the population & then the cover is a traffic stop when they uncover something.
The Butler is in evidence on this track.
Shortly before he was punted for allegedly being “too difficult”. 🙁
Yes.
Like Dan Andrews receiving his injuries from falling down stairs.
Quite so, but why let the facts get in the way of a good story?
No where near as beautiful as a Strat, but getting there … 🙂
Odd appearance. Strikes fear into shapeshifters. Ex-copper, therefore access to police telephony.
Dobs drug dealers in to plod prior to becoming plod himself.
Dutton is a Time Lord.
Unlike COVID pre delta, the contact tracing was working a treat.
But no-one anticipated the delta strain being so transmissible.
That’s even with the most egregious civil liberty violations that no one gives a shit about.
The IBM AI/machine learning system that Victoria is running appears to be working well on the predictive front.
But keep in mind, the contact tracing has nothing to do with the beat up that COVID delta is, or the political response.
Sorry, Dover, I just pressed report on poor RickW’s comment about trucks instead of ‘older comments’ to refresh before commenting at 7ish. Mea Culpa.
In that sense, Bern, Delta has aspects of being ‘a good thing’, because they can’t claim to be able to control it. So they can stop their nonsense in the face of it, and let us all get on with being responsible for ourselves.
Imagine a face being stomped on by a pair of adidas boxing boots – for evah!
You gliberal deadshits, that is the fate, that awaits, mates … 🙁
The penny is yet to fully drop with people who identify as conservatives in Oz unlike the US where they now know the score.
The plod is not your friend.
But there are still conservatives who still defer to the retards like Dutton who propose these data laws “to protect the children from the rock spiders”.
They’re not.
I’m glad you also picked it up rickw.
It’s a rare bird who can take solitary without going doolally.
Thank God there are those who can ‘do a Solzhenitsyn’ and record the crimes of those who isolate & torture those they unperson.
“retards like Dutton who propose these data laws “to protect the children from the rock spiders”.
They’re not.”
No…they’re insidious.
This is outrageous. The poor young man just cracked at the total lunacy and injustice of it all. To charge him and jail him is an appalling thing to do. What has happened to Australia? No wonder we are all going stir crazy, even at home, and some of us are quietly bending da rools.
I hope he appeals. If he has a go-fund-me page I will contribute to it.
Oh, I think a significant number are already there.
I probably fell into the category of being four-square behind Plod, even if they cut a few corners to catch a crook.
Not any more.
My default setting is now to assume they are running to a political agenda, and not to give them the steam off my shit if they come asking.
And there are plenty like me.
Dave Smith is US comedian who is part of the Legion of Skanks which is part of the Gas Digital Network (both of which are also part of the Anthony Cumia coaching tree…did I tell you how Breitbart news was a fringe organisation until Cumia promoted their biggest ever scoop…lol that’s for you Dot).
He’s stirring up the the Libertarian party in the US.
At their recent national conference he gave a speech on how all the punters currently being pursued because of the January 6th walk-through was the fault of conservatives & them going all in post Sept 11 & the Patriot Act with the neo-cons.
And he’s right.
The apparatus was set up by Bush/Cheney to spy on Muslims & then turbo charged under Obama/Biden to go after anyone anti the Deep State &/or Cathedral.
rosiesays:
September 5, 2021 at 7:10 am
Forgot it was Father’s Day.
********
This is the biggest surprise I have had all day. Still 4 hours to go, but.
his main job was sedating the hotel’s er … “guests”
So 1930’s Germany……
“retards like Dutton who propose these data laws “to protect the children from the rock spiders”.
They’re not.”
Ironically most rock spiders are in police, government and the judiciary.
lol. I just did that poll. I am with the vast majority. Just open up now!!!!!
My default setting is now to assume they are running to a political agenda, and not to give them the steam off my shit if they come asking.
And there are plenty like me.
I was ambivalent towards to the plod.
That slowly turned into real concerns pre COVID when you saw them run dead on so many public cases.
Since the COVID reaction began, my views are now hostile.
Don’t believe anything they say.
Default position is that they are at fault.
And what’s really concerning is the cohort of people joining the plod now.
They must be genuine fascists who are all in on police brutality & stomping on the civil rights of people that the Cathedral doesn’t agree with at that point in time.
Hey collectivists -you irredeemable imbeciles!
They made you a moron (without a lot of effort, one might observe) …
God save their gracious Queen.
Yes.
Example.
We set up a “Foreign Influence Act” ostensibly to combat “garden meetings” between the likes of Shangai Sam and the Chunks.
Who is the first person targeted?
Tony Abbott for openly declaring he has taken a job with the UK government.
I voted with from 66% to over 70% of the population on every question.
There is a groundswell of hatred for Covid interventions, a veritable tsunami.
Get it pollies, people are so over it.
And I am 79 and not yet double vaxxed. I’ll just be cautious, like many oldies.
Nor do I see why my decision to get vaxxed is better than someone else’s not to.
Why would it be a big surprise to you baba?
My father’s been dead over thirty years and it’s primarily a commercial day.
Government now has the ability to digitally frame you for whatever crime the chose:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2lbPoFTCWA
Think about this.
Since 2001, the FBI has entrapped over 1000 US citizens as part of their counter terrorism activities.
Some of the cases are comical.
The most recent one is the fake kidnap plot of the Michigan governor.
But, a paid DEA/FBI source was one of the key organisers of the Mumbai terror attacks.
What’s crazy is that this isn’t some fringe internet conspiracy.
It’s public record.
It’s verified.
But no one gives a shit.
Thanks, Rex.
The thing that surprised me was this woman’s saying that the Americans were so rigid when in the two greatest conflicts of the 20th Century the US had been dragged in against their wishes and had to adapt on the fly – not a space where hierarchies flourish. That is done on the ground.
But this woman was one of the smartest people I ever knew, and the breadth of her knowledge was amazing, so dismissing the US out of a dim witted antipodean or British Commonwealth chauvenism we’re both non-starters.
Holy moly! Over 1,000 posts already – Go Dover’s New Cat!
Been out all day, far too much to scroll back over, have I missed anything of extraordinary note. (There is always much of note on the Cat, too much to digest in the short time I have this evening.)
My view on the police is that many have still to decide. The flood tide is overtaking them. Some (maybe many) will resist, shocked at what they are perceived to be. Others will go with the flow, because it accords with their world view. And a few others will seize the opportunity to gain power or privilege or some other benefit.
This act in the play has played out many times before. An individual test of character.
And what’s really concerning is the cohort of people joining the plod now.
They have been on a 10 year long proto fascist recruiting drive. They now have a critical mass of individuals with the right type of mental malleability.
On top of that the have militarised them and given them the tools of the military. When asked to discharge firearms at unarmed protesters, they did so without hesitation.
We are in deep shit.
If Trump had his time again, instead of being tricked by the GOP to chew up the first two years on Obama-care, he should have pardoned Assange & Snowden, overhauled the FISA courts, removed pot from Schedule 1 & tweaked section 230.
But we all want a time machine.
Switched devices as recommended and was able to complete the survey. Completely predictable in my opinion, the majority of my fellow Australians realise what utter shit this whole debacle has become. Willing to bet the underwhelmingly small minority is made up of media blatherers, legacy media scribblers, brain dead politicians, the entire cohort of CHOs and health bureaucrats and every Karen in the country.
Take a good look at those numbers, dummies. We despise the lot of you.
This act in the play has played out many times before. An individual test of character.
I know of one cop traffic cop who is ordered to pull people over and check they are within radius. He simply goes for a drive in the country and nabs anyone he finds speeding.
I have done multiple trips the the country over the last 18 months and haven’t been pulled over once. Despite often being the only vehicle amongst the trucks, l attribute this to many cops unwillingness to engage in this shit.
This is distinct from PORT and associates who were formed and recruited specifically for this shit.
He could have, but he didn’t.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/snowdens-intent/
This didn’t get anywhere near enough airplay. Primarily because it displays the ability of private individuals to act with greater speed, clarity and moral authority than the biden administration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASPAyAQb4x0
I don’t understand. You stay home.
James morrow, there are apparently people who don’t even want to see an open up at 70 percent.
He could have, but he didn’t.
If Trump gets elected it will be telling as to whether or not he goes no holds barred.
Matt caravan also thought the economist article was credible
FTB, interesting that the Plod are now as despised generally as the constable troopers were in mid 1800’s colonies.
“Ironically most rock spiders are in police, government and the judiciary.”
Funny enough when my mother used to get upset about judicial matters she has on occasion uttered similar words about the above.
“pardoned Assange & Snowden”
I have a feeling he wanted to but, after January 6 and the sec0nd impeachment, Snitch McConnell threatened that if he pardoned Assange and Snowden…then Snitch would support the Demonrats.
rickwsays:
September 5, 2021 at 7:47 pm
When asked to discharge firearms at unarmed protesters, they did so without hesitation.
We are in deep shit
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Wait til they discharge those 700 military assault rifles at unarmed protestors.
Which I will fail (again) … 🙁
Michael O’Brien’s father’s day message is far more pleasant than that of Mrsteak&chips
No kidding.
What would red pill people would be if Joe Rogan doubled his audience by having the same amount of men watch it as women.
He would go off about this stuff and the reach would more than double.
Without looking at a timeline, Dutton in the Qld Police force.
Coutts-Trotter is a Sydney-centric pommy transplant whose knowledge of the geography to the north of Sydney wouldn’t go further than the Hunter valley wine trail.
He wouldn’t be able to find Qld on a wall map, let alone bother to deal drugz there.
We’re so sorry nanna Anna
Hands across the border
Monty linked this story at discord and James Newburrie has it too
Rabz. Believe me. You’re a character. 🙂
As nayzeepol hovers loudly over my cottage (again):
“to live in fear, isn’t to live at all …”
Thanks, calli – you’re the Queen of the Characters and you’ve cheered me up. 🙂
How long before Dutton’s cyber crime & internet laws are used by Plod as part of their generic toolbox of ways to harass normies?
Example, Firearms Prohibition Order being used to harass Aussie Cossack.
(Every cop involved, from the Plod making the searches, all the way up to the Deputy Commissioner who signed off on the order, knows he does not possess a firearm & they’re not going to find a ruddy thing)
Yet they all play their part in the pantomime, just like the actors on Adventure Island pretended to be what they’re not.
Isn’t the next volume of “Chip’s” Channon’s diaries due to be released, sometime this month?
think of the whackiest left freakazoid with rainbow coloured hair and a list of reasons why you’re the problem
that’s who is in the ascendancy now.
People have such short memories.
Imagine Dutton’s laws being used by someone as vindictive as Gillard in the future.
And because they’re lefties, the media would run dead on it.
The best example of this is the Australian Crime Commission (at the time) & the darkest day in sport.
NRL, AFL etc were shown parts of the report, but not allowed to disclose its details under threat of a mandatory jail sentence (would have been good to see that tested in the High Court).
Clearly the biggest beat up in Australian sporting history, nothing of note came from it, but the Crime Commission went along with it.
@Motherlode-
The historic issues with the US Army is correct, as George C. Marshall’s experience in WW2 is anything to go by.
They went to war with outdated doctrine that persisted despite operational experience (US Army tank formations were doctrinally only to support the infantry. Lesley McNair’s Artillery branch insisted on having sole control of all anti-tank weapons. So US Army M3 and M4 tanks faced superior German Panzers and Stugs with main guns optimised for infantry support. And thinly-armoured self-propelled guns were expected to be raced up if armour was found. In practice, tank destroyers tended to be pressed into service as improvised assault armour- With the attendant casualties- And US tank crews did not get an effective multi-purpose gun until the 76mm HV gun on the M4A3E8 in very late 1944- Early 1945, And the very limited trial issue of the 90mm-equipped M26 Pershing in March-April 1945).
Fortunately, the US Army and its brass had sufficient strength of character and resilience to fire underperforming officers at all level, and promote up those with the ability.
For example, if you look solely at the US Army’s standard of West Point graduate standings, Dwight D. Eisenhower was a middling to shit-tier officer.
He ended the war as Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe, and later contested and won the US Presidency after Harry Truman. And he is just one example.
This culture was all promptly and conpletely undone by the time of Korea, and then Vietnam. In the tradition of all good peacetime militaries.
Even amongst our biggest ally, Officers from the rank of Colonel up have held and been promoted on the basis of peacetime political games and ideology.
This is just the first time in our shared military history that the rot went uncorrected amidst a time of an effective war footing- We started deploying troops O/S in earnest in 1999, and haven’t stopped since. The US and UK started in earnest in 2001…
This Mortal Coil
Michael Coutts-Trotter was jailed in the mid 80’s.
Dutton didn’t join the plod until the 90’s.
Mikey was gaoled in WA ……. (early 80s sentenced to 9 but, for some reason, only served 3)
and it must have been quite a haul to score a 9 .. given slaps-on-the-wrist are standard fare .. LOL!
Dutton was QLD plod …….
* Correction- US Army tank formations were to engage in infantry support and breakthrough/cavalry operations.
In theory, they were to disengage from any enemy armour encountered and call forward anti-tank units to deal with them.
Operational practice from Tunisia to Sicily and the heel of Italy proved this was not the case, but the doctrine and subsequent unit organisation was so set in stone that US Army Tank Destroyer units persisted thru Normandy and North-West Europe until the end of hostilities in May 1945.
Huh? I’d always believed he was a graduate of Long Bay University.
“Ironically most rock spiders are in police, government and the judiciary.”
Don’t forget the public school systems.
Panzers rule!
notice the only one laying into her with a stick was the female genderme.
I don’t think the crowd was entirely on board.
That’s my understanding – he was arrested at Redfern mail exchange, and served his time at Long Bay.
Cronkite
I’ll raise you, Sophie Marceau.
SHOCKING REVELATION – DOCTOR EXPOSES COVID BIOWEAPONS PROGRAM & REVEALS VACCINE WILL KILL MILLIONS
Trinidad’s Dr. Michael McDowell explains how the Covid-19 bioweapon was created as a chimera, he outlines where it was made, and some of the guilty parties who developed it. The doctor then goes on to reveal the Global conspiracy to vaccinate the world’s population is intended to cause a mass DIE-OFF on a scale the world has never seen.
conspiracy to import half a kilo of heroin.
George Patton was one of those who spoke against a proposal to bring the M26 Pershing into production, in time to be deployed on D-Day.
“My Shermans go faster, and they use less gas.”
Oh God
Bird going spastic on Dash-Cat.
Gone into the full Nazi “kill the Jews” mode.
In my entire life I have never hated a politician as much I hate Gladys for the simple reason that I can get over higher taxes but I cannot get over derivation of freedom of movement and the deprivation of freedom of choice.
.
the Global conspiracy to vaccinate the world’s population is intended to cause a mass DIE-OFF
I think we’ve been through this one before.
Wouldn’t it have been simpler to have engineered the disease to kill everyone?
Don’t go there sanch.
You’ll get fleas.
Doomerpolitics Did Nothing Wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00XrBWtOvdU
Streamed live 59 minutes ago
Sargon of Akkad
In fact, his video Vaush is Unironically Evil is excellent and you should watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCjyqziVSMA&t=0s
Sancho, he’s the reason I’m here and not there.
I’ll raise you, Sophie Marceau.
Look, Sophie had her moments but she was too pouty; even Denise Richards outshone her in ‘THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH.
I give you Silvana Mangano.
I like to watch.
Rex is pushing him over the edge by mocking his ridiculous bullshit.
It seems that one of my comments ended up in moderation. My guess is that it’s because I criticised Gladys in no uncertain terms. That’s fine, Dover has a right to protect the blog. Nonetheless, some people may think Gladys is not as bad as some other premiers but that doesn’t mean that she is not the worst premier this state has ever seen.
Standin’ on a corner …
Suitcase in the hand …
Imagining Sweet li’l Jane … 🙂
#metoo.
It is like seeing squished roadkill.
You don’t want to look at it but you are drawn to the ugly macabre nature of it.
Grate. Not good. 🙁
I went there. I gave the only advice I could. It won’t be taken, of course.
Which is why it’s time for some “Rock ‘n’ Roll“, peeples! 🙂
Misbehaving commas. The world really has gone bonkers.
Bird going spastic on Dash-Cat.
I like the fact that he singles me out by name.
It is good to be a Nemesis…
(Nano-Wrigglers, ATTAAAACK!!!1!)
Nice to know that Paul Murray is happy to make allowances for people who are allergic to vaccines and may be set free but those who simply refuse to not be vaccinated don’t get to be ever freed. This situation has really revealed the inner monsters of a lot of people.
My understanding is that you have to register to post there, right?
Or you go into auto-moderation.
If that is the case, why is he still there?
“Don’t go there sanch.
You’ll get fleas.”
He’s horrendous…..whilst I read it occasionally, I no longer comment there. There’s nothing funny about the Jew hater called Bird.
Because there is no moderation. Until there is, which is usually about a week or longer later. Adam did a sterling job getting that site up and running so quickly, but it is blighted.
Bird, every other day and graegooglery running all six socks (and counting) at once.
Over it.
“If that is the case, why is he still there?”
I wonder why as well.
Finding out that so many media people who I thought were rational are actually horrible means that I will have a lot of spare time to watch programs I was putting off and read all those ebooks I bought to read on cruises that will never sail.
Look, Sophie had her moments but she was too pouty;
Don’t be ridiculous all frog sheilas are pouty bitches. Singling her out is silly.
Yep, bird is beyond redemption; this latest outburst speaks of serious issues.
Sancho, no need to register. Unregistered, like me, go into six minute limbo. The registered are automatically posted.
I find it staggering that some people have just said to “scroll him”…….he’s beyond distasteful. He’s destroying the place.
“My Shermans go faster, and they use less gas.”
The arithmetic was pretty brutal for M4 units, both US and American.
But they did have a lot more to break than the other side did. They are a good example of a ‘good enough’ tank for the time, automotively speaking. The 75mm and 76mm guns were very okay, but against anything better protected than a Pz IV or over 1000 yards, and their performance was lacking. The British Army resolved this with the Firefly, squeezing the 17-pounder into the Sherman turret.
Having said that, I think Patton would have made very good use of Pershings if they were available. Maybe even making Prague and forever screwimg with what we all grew up knowing as the Iron Curtain…
And I suspect that the UK would have used Cromwells, Challengers and Comets as a preference if they were available in quantity.
“Bird, every other day and graegooglery running all six socks (and counting) at once.”
It’s like something out of a Hammer House of Horror move.
Bird is unregistered. It shows in the avatar.
err, Crossie – they always were. Some hid it better than others, some never bothered.
Nowadays, they’re all jostling for a (rapidly vanishing) spot at the trough – and to hell with the rest of us.
But they will pay, big time, I tells ya.
Now, that made me laugh. Remember Deadly Earnest and Fright Night?
Does anyone ever recall Adam D at the old Cat.
I don’t, but that doesn’t mean a lot as I wasn’t mindful who posted there.
He seemed so eager to take over the site and now this.
I smell a rat. I could accept that I’m wrong about him and he was a Cat reg.
Yes.
And so sudden, with no prior history.
Gone totally bonkers.
Threatening to kill Carpe and Rex.
I’ve just looked at Dash Cat’s thread…..it is beyond repulsive.
As they tend to be, JC.
French is a lingo that should only ever be spoken by females. Men attempting to speak it sound like queers.
It is Jewish New Year tomorrow night. No synagogue but the Shofar will be blown at various parks in Sydney.
Pay when? When both you and are are long gone? That they get to spout their evil rubbish now without consequences means that they are still causing harm.
Being the scandalous neglect of mental health facilitees in this country by Morristeen and his gang of fake Canaanites, I tells yA! 🙁
WWI Winchester 94 Spruce Gun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjmfLICIYlk
Lou Reed, Sweet Jane live
I like this one, Rabz.
Bird wants everyone “cold and stiff”.
Rabz, you’re in Victoria right now yeah?
Are you cold and stiff?
Going all the way back to when Brigitte Bardot was a young starlet.
Interesting documentary on Lawrence of Arabia tonight…..SBS, unlike their ABC, does have some interesting stuff to watch.
I hear you, Squirette. Loud and Clear.
Yes, I’m a coward. Nearly 80 days under house arrest and I’m still sitting here wondering what the f*ck has happened.
Beholding the void and it beholding me. This is no way to exist.
No Arks – I’m existing in an “LGA of Concern” in Sydneystan.
“Nonetheless, some people may think Gladys is not as bad as some other premiers but that doesn’t mean that she is not the worst premier this state has ever seen.”
I understand your anger Crossie….we’re all angry. I don’t think Gladys’ heart has ever been in this lockdown but I think that all politicians across this country has ceded power to health bureaucrats…who are fascists. I still don’t think that Glad is as bad as Bob Carr or Skank Keneally….and I’ll take Gladys any day over the creep in Victoria and the moron in QLD.
.SBS, unlike their ABC, does have some interesting stuff to watch.
I’m watching a frog movie called Anthony Zimmer; a thriller. So so, but Sophie Marceau is in it and she’s just beautiful. A definite 11.4/10.
Oh it’s on SBS.
They have okay movies on streaming.
I have one of those UV sterilising lights, my daughter bought it for me early last year. I have not used it yet, I prefer to wipe things down or just leave things aside for a few days.
“My Shermans go faster, and they use less gas.”
They also don’t break down. Prior to D-Day they flogged some Sherman’s and Cromwells from one end of the UK to the other. The Sherman’s needed only minor repairs to keep going. Compare that to some of the late model panthers whose drivetrains would crap themselves if you look sideways at it.
The 75mm is also relatively underrated, very versatile in terms of ammunition. If the had put more research into the AP ammo development they probably could have squeezed 76mm equivalent performance out of it.
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That place turned to shit in a hurry.
Still, you haven’t experienced covid tyranny in the full spectrum of it’s penissy goodness until you’ve been lectured to by a retarded, hunch backed jerk.
I will no longer ever even look at Dash Cat.
Thanks DB for this site.
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Hey, hey, HEY. ..I’m right here you know.
Geeze.
Rabz, so am I just so I don’t end up in a lockup and have my kids having to bail me out,
Uhh…
You meant Andrews, right?
Wouldn’t it have been simpler to have engineered the disease to kill everyone?
You would have much less control over who it killed and would then have to live with it for ever after.
There’s no difference when the outcome is the same, no freedom.
JC at 9:33.
I think I remember the odd post from AdamD at the old cat.
But I too am smelling a yuuuuge rat here.
It certainly did, Arks. I recently posted a long list of activities I could freely engage in up until 80 days ago.
One I left off (inexplicably) was being able to take a cute goil I work with to the Civic for lunch.
I’ll probably never see her in the flesh again.
Thanks, you vile hitlerist bastards.
Sanch
Would I be far off in suggesting it’s a intel setup to pick up lots of names?
I have other possibilities running through my head.
Compare that to some of the late model panthers whose drivetrains would crap themselves if you look sideways at it.
Forced labour, mongy materials and quality control and exceeding the limitations of the engineering available at the time will do that.
One can only wonder what sort of superlative the Panther would have been like, if the Wehrmacht’s desire for a direct T-34 clone or analogue (in protection and mobility) had been put into production instead?
But the Sherman was indeed very good automotively. Better protection would have been great, though.
Dunno JC.
There seems to be precious little interest in running it as a serious blog.
It is also possible that AdamD is somewhat sympathetic to Bird’s worldview.
Rabz, I’m looking at a similar scenario with my work team some of whom I’ve worked with for over 20 years. I can’t get a Pfizer shot and refuse the AZ which means I will be working from home until I pull the plug and collect my super.
I remember AdamD too.
If there was a problem, I think Sinc could have easily done a search of his own blog and at least contacted one of his regular posters.
JC.
When (not if, but when) it comes to the attention of those who monitor these things it might get ugly.
Huh?
Rex – I used to take great joy in winding him up by telling him I was an economist of the Hebrew Faith*.
He had it in for poor ol’ Perfesser Davidsoni for that very reason. Unrelenting, the hatred was – like a canine possessed of the rabies, poor ol Boid just could not let that hatred go.
*50% correctomundo.
Another photo of Silvana in her prime. head prefect won’t appreciate it.
LL – that’s a bit unfair.
Did either one of those two take a sledgehammer to the economy, use the police like the Stasi, threaten people endlessly, turn them into faceless zombies and lock them in their homes and suburbs for months at a time? Did they tell anyone that they could only go to their jobs if they submitted to injection of an experimental drug? She has taken to being a dictator like a duck to water, like a sadistic headmistress or a concentration camp guard. Nothing can excuse what she’s doing. It is literally a crime against humanity, and declared so at the Nuremburg trials. Never mind the bureaucrats, any power they have is at the pleasure of the politicians they serve.
Have I managed to communicate how much I despise Gladys? I don’t doubt for a moment that she knows what she is doing is evil, but that doesn’t stop her doing it and that makes her evil.
Huh? yourself. AdamD announced that he had set up an alternative site a few days before Cat2 went dark.
If I was bowing out of something I held near and dear for many years, I would have at least had a look back at this person called “AdamD” and made sure that he was who he said he was, with perhaps a few emails back and forth. But that is me, not a busy academic with other fish to fry.
Sadly, DashCat is infested with socks as well as a nut case. To the point where the sock/commenter ratio is 1:1 and the nut case is also half the remaining commentary. I hoped it would succeed. Maybe I was wrong.
James Holland, in his series of books on the history of Wobbly Wobbly Two, dedicates a fair amount of ink to that topic – a dependence on slave labor means an increase in quality control and inspections…
It’s not mutually exclusive, Cronkite. You could have Silvie and Sophie in bed on either side. Allowing for time differences of course.
My feelings exactly.
An impossible task. The reason why I don’t leave sledgehammers lying around in my lounge room.
Matthew Guy looks like Macron with less chin.
this is a mistake
Like watching the footage of Italian crowds stringing up Mussolini and his misso, and then beating the shit out of the corpses, it is pleasant to see what was quaintly referred to in the past as a ‘pile-on’ by all sorts of regular people onto you-know-who at DashCat.
I particularly enjoyed the commenters who made great (and repeated) use of Star of David emojis.
This both pleases and amuses me.
Omg there’s Vogelscheiße bucketing down at dash cat
“Have I managed to communicate how much I despise Gladys?”
I despise all politicians….apart from Craig Kelly, Pauline and one or two others.
Sadly, DashCat is infested with socks as well as a nut case.
And m0nty’s Feral Cat lasted maybe 2 months at most before becoming The Loaded Dogma 2.0. Picking up a particularly doctrinaire Sampolit in the form of Steve of Brisbane probably didn’t help this, but m0nty was going to revert to his classically Fascist tendencies sooner or later.
Hail Dover_Beach, the last standing [and thus true] Doomlord…
Note with interest that Graeme only tried infiltrating here once, we have no Grigsocks whatsoever, and only one member of the classic trollherd infiltrated once before fleeing in a huff.
Cowards, the lot of them.
Actually, Trinidad’s Dr. Michael McDowell in that clip above said something pretty frightening in that regard which was new to me. Vaccinating people during a pandemic puts the virus under pressure and causes it to mutate. Also, as many have said, the vaccine only provides protection against the original virus and inhibits the natural immune response to any variant. Dr. McDowell said it was possible for an immunised person to contract more than one variant at the same time and that they could combine to create a super variant that nothing could cure. So we may end up there yet.
I don’t know if Sinc vetted any would-be successors.
In any case, Dash-cat promised a “no dickheads” policy.
How’s that working out?
A few decent parties on twitter are now saying 90% of COVID related hospital admissions in Israel are vaccinated.
Which AFL team do you follow Sancho ?
Is it the same one as Leigh Lowe?
dash-cat … window closed
all hail the d’over-lord
132nd – poor ol’ Lou, when let off the leash, would often indulge in what he referred to as “that li’l D thang”.
He was a crankee, cantankerous ol’ personage – and absolutely bloody legendary.
The only one of the three great rock ‘n’ roll heroes* of my lifetime still staggering on is the Iggster.
Bowie, Lou and the Osterberg.
Israel is ahead of the curve. This is our future, especially if the all out push to vaccinate continues. They know this. That’s why they’re in such a rush.
Israel is ahead of the curve. This is our future, especially if the all out push to vaccinate continues. They know this. That’s why they’re in such a rush.
Cat escaping bag as we watch…..
Front page of the Oz just dropped.
Fauci gotta go.
From Dash Cat –
Prison island: Australia’s Covid fortress has become a jail
Alexander Downer in the Spectator.
I’ve seen that, but I believe it’s a statistical quirk, Bern.
I’ll try my best to explain it.
Nearly all Israelis of a certain age who were encouraged to vaccinate have done so. That leaves the un-vaccinated , who mostly make up the 10% the much younger cohort. There are fewer of them.
You were always told that the vax wasn’t 100% and now we have the variant. The vaxed cohort is very big so it would make sense they are the largest group in hospital. Also, the death toll supposedly isn’t large.
Vaccinating people during a pandemic puts the virus under pressure and causes it to mutate. Also, as many have said, the vaccine only provides protection against the original virus and inhibits the natural immune response to any variant.
If I’m not mistaken, Dr Malone says that vaccination should be reserved for the most vulnerable ONLY, for this very reason.
RickW
If Dr. Malone is right, then his principle applies to all vaccines. Clearly that’s not so.
bern.
I don’t really follow any football code that closely.
I watch it from time to time, particularly finals.
I probably lean towards Storm and Demons but not at all fanatical.
I noticed upthread your reference to “blackest day in sport”.
Good get.
I had forgotten that.
Weren’t they going to expose massive doping and betting scandals across multiple codes?
For the very old, the vax may not protect them totally from being ravaged, that’s true. However, the vax does introduce the bugs anti-bodies to the system so the vax may be about to fight the bug by having received an introduction.
2 weeks to flatten the curve
and
2 years to crush the spirit
… neither will work
be nice cos, I’m starting to get pissed off
Rabz.
My question about AdamD (and it is no more than a question) is driven by the glacial pace he moves to expunge the guano.
hmm, father’s day Caol Ila
43% and glorious.