C’mon everybody it’s Six O’Clock. C’mon everybody it’s Time to Rock.

You’ve got style , P. Let’s have a great weekend !

Cowardly bullies

Oh, here you all are. I was mucking around elsewhere.

I won’t repeat my Sydney-Melbourne tradie comparison. Youse can go look for it.

Gunna, what tea does the glass bbq go best with?

Ahahaha! The Uccello!

Hunted into darkening realms unknown. Who are the Hunters and who are the Deer?

It’s a marvellous painting.

there’ll be 20 ,000 police in full riot gear.
Good.
Lol, no way.
And even if, it still won’t be enough.
Or maybe it will?
Gonna be some intense vision coming out.
Although I’ve heard on the grapevine that the partisans have already adapted and changed location…
As per Knuckles recommendations ?

I wish it was 2010 or 2000, not 2020.

Outnumbered & outgunned by VikPol?
What would the Rats of Tobruk Do?
??????

It’s 2021, dot. FFS.
The year of MadMax

Wore my bright red MAGA hat to Coles before, sans mask, natch.
Why can’t I get any footage of Coof Karen’s?
Come at me, Nazis!
Faggots

As per Knuckles recommendations

Knuckles nailed it both strategically and tactically. I hope they implement..

I did not see any sign of pepper spray or the fully weaponised Ninja Turtle Division of VicPlod at the tradies morning tea.

Somewhere in France I think.

This one hangs in the Ashmolean in Oxford.

Go for the shrunken heads, stay for the art.

Anyway, talking about books, in the Loony Lockdown imposed by the ACT Chief Poo Denter where libraries are closed and Vinnies is closed so I can’t get 2nd hand books……I scrounged around my collection.
Came across a classic written by a Knight of the Realm, Dr Sir Leslie Colin Patterson -career diplomat, wit, sage, raconteur,late Cultural Attache to the Court of St James, plenipotentiary, fillum producer, and Chairman of the Australian Chapter of the International Cheese Board.
A must read for international travellers if you can escape from the Covid bullshit.
“The Traveller’s Tool”.
Reading it for about the 10th time and still laughing my tits off. 🙂

The protest is tomorrow, and I Haven’t a Thing to Wear.

I think if you’re going to be on the streets, you have to clash!

Colour-wise that is. Not with those nice police cops and copettes.

So greys and browns are right out. Plus don’t want to be confused with The Plod, so black is not there.

It is Melbourne, right?

So never can dismiss the chance of rain, either.

I have it! I’m off to Hugo Boss. They’re open late.

The people who dressed the Nazis can’t get it wrong. Black and silver, and those boots!

Back in a jiffy, darlings!

Tesla FSD Beta 10 – ZERO Interventions First Drive

These unemployment figures are complete BS.

All the data is fubar.

“Calls for Brisbane to be a base for nuclear subs today from Australian Stategic Policy Institute.

I’d aver it’s a “no brainer”.”
******
If nuclear subs make us a nuclear target, can we have one in the pond at the Gordon Reserve just near where the offices of the Premier of Victoria are located?

Yesterday I completed a voluntery Company Culture Survey for the place I work at. All multiple choice. The usual strongly disagree to strongly agree bullsh#T. Final set was all the woke / diversity Q’s. What gender do I identify as? What is my sexual preference? Is my background diverse linguistically / culturally?

Fook Mi.

Thank goodness I’m near the end of my career. I feel sorry for those starting out and have decades of this crap to look forward to.

To be clear I meant the walls themselves were painted in that style

I’ve seen a Uccello work interpreted as a tapestry. Battle of San Romano. The original hangs in the Uffizi. It’s wonderful too.

Last night was fun with kiddie-of-chaos, gravity-challenged young male brushtail. They’ve arrived again and I had camera primed.

Here he is. Carrots are the best things in the universe! Mum is partly visible on the left.

rosie:
Very good article.

Fremantle was the other, although today there’s a good case to be made for Darwin.

Don’t the Chicoms own Darwin Port?

Sacré bleu!

The Yeezee is back, back, babee, back! 🙂

Rabz: given previous comments (and photo (remarkable likeness btw)) I have to put this one up:

Space Debris (A Mixtape by N.A.S.A.)

Maybe my male space cadet possum kiddie will grow up to be an astronaut.

Zipstersays:
September 17, 2021 at 6:33 pm
This would make Australia a potential target for a nuclear strike, because nuclear-armed states like China and Russia are directly facing the threat from Australia’s nuclear submarines which serve US strategic demands.

as though we are not currently

Hardly seems any time since the 1970s, when the raving “peacenik” left were babbling about how Pine Gap made us a target for a Soviet nuclear strike.

We’re still here!

tesla just killed the supercar market

Forget Diller. I’ve morphed to Furious. Of the Yahoo variety.

Just watching The Help. And contemplating my unruly, bag lady hair.

For Gladys, Scummo and “Health”.

Rabz – Once I lent a TISM CD to a work colleague.
Next morning he comes into my office and cautiously says ‘I wish you’d warned me’.
He’d put it on his stereo in hearing of his wife and kids…
Oopsy!

I have it on good authority that VikPol is having to shutter 20 suburban police stations tomorrow in order to resource their CBD lockdown. Suburban plod directed to turn up at a stepping off point with their uniform, baseball cap, side arm and baton, get a feed, then head out in the direction ordered (apparently they were a bit miffed at not having received a feed last time.

Ahahaha!

Were the unions involved in the protest or was the street smoko break a spontaneous event? I thought that the Big Unions were onboard with Big Business and Big Government in this fascist takeover.

Nothing of that size happens on a Melbourne work site without the union say so.

Has Planet Cornelius said anything about today’s stunt?

bravo Sancho!
First the famed inventor of N*gger Cheese, now you’re making with the yid yuks, what a day!

Top Ender says:
September 17, 2021 at 7:16 pm

Brisbane is a stupid place for submarines to be based if China is your concern.

Rudd MkII was pushing for a naval base at Brisbane before he was defeated by Abbott. The RAN didn’t want a base there as there is a single, shallow, narrow passage into the port and it could be blocked by a solitary enemy submarine.

Malbork Castle and the Teutonic Order.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzivUzD40Co

Woke leftists ruin everything: Ursula K le Guin 1968 edition. (Spoiler alert!!!).

From faux Gamer and Anime site, Polygon:

The outside chaos is symbolic of an internal storm, too — inside Prince Arren, the king’s son. Shortly after the movie begins, he kills his father because of a sudden, unexplainable impulse. Then he flees his kingdom. Although Studio Ghibli’s Tales From Earthsea, directed by Hayao Miyazaki’s son Gor? Miyazaki, was adapted from Ursula K. Le Guin’s series of young-adult fantasy series set in the Earthsea world, the movie focuses more on the journey of self-growth and overcoming fear and anxiety than on the original allegory about global warming.

That’s right, a fantasy novelist was writing allegorical books on da warmening 20 years before it became a public issue.

Complete tossers.

Brisbane was one of two US submarine bases in Australia during WWII.

What was submarine moorings and maritime infrastructure along Bulimba Reach in the 1940’s is now waterfront apartments – with some of the worst road access in Brisbane.

And the cross-river powerlines would make make it risky landing the Catalinas.

Re ORCAS

I would trust and pray that Australian sub mariners will now be rotated through UK and US boats and vice a versa;

I would trust and pray that this AUKUS agreement will allow UK and US submarines to utilize Australian port and berthing facilities immediately, if not before;

I would trust and pray that strategic ‘gurus’ already know the maximum relevant disposition of submarine assets throughout ASIA whether Western or Eastern or even Northern;

I do not want one single submarine berthed anywhere near Australia because if that is what you think will protect us by having a boat tied to Brisbane, or wherever around the coast of Australia, then no – we will have been defeated.

Just as the Australian Commandos and SASR are specialized land operators, Australia needs it’s own ORCAS, killers in the sea.

Killer whales remain a mystery in Australian waters

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-22/killer-whales-remain-a-mystery-in-australian-waters/100353976

Any chance of a cut and paste Wolfy?

jupes says:
September 18, 2021 at 1:22 am

Just when we thought, for a precious moment, that the pop-eyed, angst-ridden halfwits posturing atop our political dungheap were backing out of our lives, here they come again with another nonsensical, divisive scheme to extend the torture as far as their tunnel ­vision can see.

As we approach the arbitrary 70 or 80 per cent vaccination targets they have set to grant our conditional release from the restrictions which, don’t forget, they also set, their backroom teams have come up with a punishment for the remaining 20 per cent who for medical, philosophical or other reasons (and let’s, as a sop to the morally perfect, include wickedness and stupidity among them) refuse the injections.

Make no mistake, dissenters will be punished for disobedience. The NSW Premier indicated as much last week. “I don’t want people to think they can sit back and let everybody else do the hard work,” she said. “If you’re not vaccinated you will not have the freedom or the freedoms that vaccinated people have.”

In case you’re thinking we should go along with this in the hope society’s settings can return to normal, the Premier gave us a little glimpse of the future she has planned: “So long as Delta has presence in the world,” she said, “even if we had zero cases and we were at 80 per cent double-dose, you would still have to respect rules that exist around vaccinations, around social distancing, around mask-wearing.” So that’s that forever, then.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian lays down the law on Friday. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Jeremy Piper
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian lays down the law on Friday. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Jeremy Piper

Her counterpart in Victoria was even more spitefully explicit. “There is going to be a vaccinated economy, and you get to participate in that if you are vaccinated,” he said. “We are going to lock out people who are not vaccinated.”

Inconveniently, however, there are explicit laws against forcing medical intervention on people against their will, so with malign ingenuity our leaders turn punishment of the minority into reward for the majority, and conspire to outsource the policing of the new order to ordinary citizens.
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No need for unflattering government edicts, just a robust suggestion that business owners and employers might like to devise their own sanctions, in a cowardly masterclass in buck-passing.

Demonise the unvaccinated, then say: “Don’t blame us for your loss of freedom, blame them!”

That our politicians and police should be actively encouraging a culture of informing is vile and unspeakable. I struggle to find the words to describe them, and when I do they’re not fit for a family newspaper. To be honest, they’re not fit for a sailors’ newspaper.

When a government says an abhorrent practice is not only permitted but encouraged, with expensive advertisements exhorting us to call the police hotline to dob in our neighbours, then there will always be a sickeningly large group who will obey with glee.

A Canadian historian, Robert Gellately, has studied the surviving files of the Gestapo, which reveal more than 80 per cent of their investigations were commenced in response to a denunciation by ordinary German citizens.

The Gestapo had only a few thousand members; there was no need for a massive Big Brother secret police force when local people were so eager to report their neighbours. Similar research has led to the same conclusions about similar regimes.

It’s confronting to abandon the illusion that we would have had the moral strength to stand up against the tyrannies of history, but face it: there are people in our society today who you could easily see in 1930s Berlin tugging on the sleeve of their local Gestapo officer and whispering, “Excuse me, commissar, but I think the people at number 24 might be Jewish.”

Yes I know, the first person to mention the Nazis loses the argument, but this one has looked unwinnable since the beginning, so what the hell.

A “vaccine passport” now looks to be a real possibility, presumably because sensible countries around the world have considered and swiftly rejected the idea.

It will divide our society into two categories (castes, if you prefer): the vaccinated, who are protected against the serious impact of coronavirus infection, and the unvaccinated, who are not.

Here’s where things become curious. We know, do we not, that vaccinated people can still catch and transmit the virus, including from each other; yet the passport plan assumes they are terrified of encountering an unvaccinated person, particularly in the hospitality arena, when logic suggests it should be precisely the other way round. The plan further seems to assume “unvaccinated” means the same as “infected”, an even more preposterous notion.

Try as I might, I cannot see what the vaccinated have to fear from the unvaccinated. As I celebrate the protection of my double dose of AstraZeneca with a slap-up meal in a top restaurant, why should I worry about the people eating at the next table? I’m safe. Call me a monster, but I’ve never given a second’s consideration to the wellbeing of my fellow diners, sometimes even in my own home.

But like every other scheme our governments have invented in the past 18 months, this plan to enlist an army of amateur police officers hasn’t been thought through. Are bars and restaurants, already desperately struggling to maintain a skeleton staff, eager to pay someone to stand at the door to turn away customers who prefer not to divulge their medical history? Will the policy survive the departure of the table of 10 who have to leave because their guest of honour forgot his passport?

Are patrons really going to sue if they catch Covid after dining at your establishment? It will be a fascinating court case that attempts to establish who passed it on. Will restaurants be obliged to keep seating plans, with names, for 14 days? Must diners agree in advance to be genetically tested to confirm they were the source of infection?

Perhaps we could meet somewhere in the middle. A section for the unvaccinated to one side of the restaurant, with its own door, where unvaccinated waiters serve food and drinks on your own special crockery with designated cutlery and glassware. It was a very popular arrangement in 1950s Alabama, I hear. It’s the culinary extension of “social distancing”. Staying apart keeps us together.

We accept the unvaccinated might indeed be at increased risk of a bad reaction to the disease, but once they’ve had the chance to be vaccinated that’s their problem, and the risk is theirs to take.

So instead of a percentage, attainable or not, set a date by which we can be confident anyone who wants the vaccine has had the opportunity to receive it, then stop all the absurd restrictions and asinine regulations, all testing, and ideally all mention of the C-word.

But gotcha, the Chicken Littles cry. Open up and our hospitals will be overwhelmed, they say, although that hasn’t looked likely at any point, even before we had 70-odd per cent of the population vaccinated.

If it emerges that by some unknown mechanism the absence of a vaccine creates a spontaneous eruption of virus in your bloodstream, the response would be dramatic. When unvaccinated people start dying in droves, just watch those vaccination numbers leap. Within a couple of months of opening up they will contract Covid and recover, get seriously ill, die – or more likely scurry into the nearest pharmacy with sleeves rolled up. But as always, the modelling assumes that things will continue along a set trajectory, without allowing for human intelligence to modify behaviour.

And before we level accusations of selfishness at the unvaccinated, the fact they choose to take that risk should no more deny them hospital care than we should refuse to treat the consequences of any other risky behaviour: an injured motorcyclist, say, or a surfer with a spinal injury. Or, for that matter, the chain-smoking lung-cancer victim or fast-food and fizzy drink-addicted porker with diabetes and a bloated heart, barrelling along the footpath on their mobility scooter, Australian flag waving gallantly from its stern.

In fact, the lockdowns have probably created a few more fatties; perhaps we should institute a BMI passport to unlock the dessert section of the menu.

All the while the economy continues to haemorrhage money. It appears our governments’ base unit of currency in Australia is now the Billion, and we’re tipping hundreds of them down the drain with not much to show for them.

Friday’s official figures showed we have so far stuck 34,911,907 testing strips up people’s noses, to discover around 80,000 positive cases. That means 34.8 million of those tests were unnecessary; so at more than $100 each, we’ve spent $3.5bn on literally nothing.

How many hospitals might we have built with that money? How many CAT scanners, X-ray machines could we have bought? What cancer research might we have funded? How many lives – of children, young parents – might we thereby have saved?

And that’s just in the medical arena; imagine the vast network of tunnels the Victorian Premier could have paid for but not dug.

That $3.5bn is barely a rounding error amid the carnage our leaders have unleashed. Lives and livelihoods deliberately, knowingly destroyed; our schoolchildren’s prospects and mental health wilfully, cynically damaged; old people senselessly, cruelly forbidden human contact in their final months; a series of societal ticking time bombs that will detonate over the years to come.

We are getting vaccinated for another reason, of course: to escape restrictions imposed on us by our own governments and the unelected bureaucrats who advise them. It’s not a natural disaster, but completely man-made. Victoria is now generously creating pop-up mental-health clinics to deal with the despair caused by lockdowns. Let’s splash out some more of your money to relieve the pain we regret having to cause you.

That this institutional stupidity is not immediately apparent to everyone is a profound mystery, at least until you consider logic and numeracy might be alien to many of our compatriots. I don’t intend to be unkind about 12 million Australians, but that’s roughly how many are, by definition, of below-average intelligence. It’s not their fault; just the luck of the draw.

I’d bet everyone reading this newspaper would be comfortably in the top 10 per cent; few would have family, friends or colleagues sliding down towards the average, so think of the most stupid person you know and contemplate the fact that at least half of the electorate are more stupid than him or her. (Oh yes, it’s tempting to segue into a discussion about compulsory voting, but let’s save that for when we’ve dealt with Covid.)

The wildly hilarious – yet equally dispiriting – thing is that we leap at the tiny crumbs of our freedom our leaders scatter before us. Yay, five can go on a picnic (who else would love to see the high-level scientific and medical calculations that arrive at that number?), but only if they’re double vaccinated. Here, have another hour of exercise; thank you master, God bless you. It’s pitiful.

More risibly, if our premiers were to appear on television tomorrow morning and declare we no longer need to wear masks or stay at home, we’d throw them off without a second thought and invite our friends over for a barbie. All the months of fear and deadly danger would evaporate like the morning mist on the strength of their worthless say-so.

Maybe it’s not just the politicians and the intellectually challenged; our entire country is turning into the ant colony of The Once and Future King, whose motto was “Everything not forbidden is compulsory”.

We’ve put up with this utter insanity so meekly, followed palpably absurd rules so obediently, and for so long, we may have to accept we’re all idiots.
Steve Waterson
Commercial Editor

Thanks Pigsy.

Superb article. Steve Waterson is my favourite journalist.

All Australian ‘Premiers’ should only be allowed on tv if they are naked.

Sure, blur the sex bits, but naked.

same for tv ‘experts’ like the koche and particularly for police and educators let alone public health.

naked you fukn fags!

judges should strip naked before announcing sentence.

Johannes Leak.

Mark Knight #2.

Warren Brown.

Christian Adams.

Paul Thomas.

Dave Brown.

Michael Ramirez.