Open Thread – Weekend 2 Oct 2021


The Calling of Saint Matthew, Caravaggio, 1600

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Makka
Makka
October 3, 2021 9:57 pm

didn’t they try this crap on several times this year already?

… if you don’t get the vx, you will DIE !!!

In Vic the 2 latest messages are; Give us more money because we are heroes (email spam). And; You must get vaxxed because if not you will make our workplace apocalyptic (tv and broadcast media).

Bar Beach Swimmer
October 3, 2021 9:58 pm

rickwsays:
October 3, 2021 at 8:06 pm
Stand with Australians! Australia House London getting some work done on it:

Gee, those Bobbies are a tamer lot in a demo than are ours!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 3, 2021 9:58 pm

One Tiger got taken out by a Greyhound that it drove past without noticing. The Greyhound had to close the gap fast to nail it in the arse at minimum range.

First I’d heard of that one – do you have a reference?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 3, 2021 9:58 pm

_egg?

_egg?

Your story?

Winston Smith
October 3, 2021 9:59 pm

JC:

It’s a race to see who is more woke.
German car park unveils ‘diversity’ spaces reserved for LGBT drivers or migrants

Anyone stupid enough to park in one of those spaces gets all they deserve.
Lesbians and poofters parking alongside fundamentalist muslims?
I hope there’s a camera to catch the highlights.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
October 3, 2021 9:59 pm

Gee, those Bobbies are a tamer lot in a demo than are ours!
*****
I would have said ‘saner”.

Bar Beach Swimmer
October 3, 2021 10:00 pm

Never heard from her again

L, there was an upside.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 3, 2021 10:01 pm

I told them that to have the benefit of my services, they’ll need to bring me whatever Sancho is drinking

So that’s a no?
I don’t blame you either.
Why blow yourself up in a futile protest?
What I get pissed off about is people trying to conscript me to their cause (which I support BTW) but beyond that prescribing precisely how I must support them.
And calling me a Nazi if I don’t.
They are no better than Andrews or Slugboy Sutton.

Rabz
October 3, 2021 10:01 pm

Who remembers Peter Sterling?

P – I do, if it’s any consolation.

A true maestro.

Muddy
Muddy
October 3, 2021 10:01 pm

From Bar Beach Swimmer’s link above:

The fourth attachment is the toxicity report on ALC-0315, which comprises between 30-50% of the total ingredients. The Safety Data Sheet, (attached as Exhibit B) for this primary ingredient states that it is Category 2 under the OSHA HCS regulations (21 CFR 1910) and includes several concerning warnings, including but not limited to: … Caution: Product has not been fully validated for medical applications. For research use only

Am I reading this correctly? An ingredient that comprises 30-50% of the ingredients of one of the vaccines (which seems a rather vague measurement, but I digress), is not recommended for internal application?

srr
srr
October 3, 2021 10:02 pm

rosiesays:
October 3, 2021 at 7:32 pm
Seems to me parental rights were sacrosanct on this blog when it came to the NHS a few years ago.
It should also be the same principle when it comes to vaccination.
Seems a bit inconsistent to say otherwise just because you don’t agree with the particular parental decision.
Otherwise you are on the side of state interference into parental rights.
And that is not me agreeing with the abomination of puberty blockers or trannies at the library.
The solution to that is re evangelising our atheist country.

Govt Serving DOCTORS & LAWYERS Denying Parents their Right & Duty to seek potentially LIFE SAVING Treatment for their children, is The SAME EVIL as Govt Serving Doctors & Lawyers Denying Parents their Right & Duty to Protect their children from Life Destroying “Trans” Quackery.

It’s the Trans Quackery that Govt Serving Doctors & Lawyers Enforce AGAINST the Parent trying to save their child from the crazy/evil Parent, usually the mother.

Before the NHS, Abortion on demand, Child ‘euthanasia’ & the “Trans” abomination, it used to be criminal for parents to kill & maim their children, EVEN FOR ATHEIST Parents, yet you, as a “devout Catholic”, argued violently FOR the NHS to CONDEMN CHILDREN TO DEATH, against the parents Right & Duty to do all they could to save their children.

That you tried to construct that blatant false equivalency as an attempt to paint yourself as ‘the good & just Christian’, shows you in the very opposite light.

MatrixTransform
October 3, 2021 10:04 pm

What I get pissed off about is people trying to conscript me to their cause (which I support BTW) but beyond that prescribing precisely how I must support them.

by god, you’re fucking insane

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 3, 2021 10:05 pm

Bar Beach Swimmersays:

October 3, 2021 at 10:00 pm

Never heard from her again

L, there was an upside.

True.
At the time I wanted to tell her to fuck right off but that would have just made things worse.
FFS, she was saying things like, “Oh, you won’t be able to wear underwire bras after surgery”
What the … ?
We are worried about survival you stupid fucking bint.
If she called later I was going to tell her to piss off anyway.

MatrixTransform
October 3, 2021 10:08 pm

“Oh, you won’t be able to wear underwire bras after surgery”

was she getting an MRI or something ?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 3, 2021 10:09 pm

by god, you’re fucking insane

What is insane about not being pushed around by some crazed fucking Brievik fan-boi?
No different to being pushed around by Andrews or Sutton or PalaceChook or anyone.
But you didn’t answer the original question.
Are you boycotting customers who impose vax passports?
And would you appreciate being called a gas-chamber doorman if you didn’t?

MatrixTransform
October 3, 2021 10:09 pm

listen Sancho, I’m really concerned about all these clandestine motives that you ascribe to people.

are the nazis in the forum with you now?

MatrixTransform
October 3, 2021 10:10 pm

But you didn’t answer the original question.

correct

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 3, 2021 10:10 pm

was she getting an MRI or something

Semi-mastectomy since you ask.

MatrixTransform
October 3, 2021 10:12 pm

by god, you are sharp

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 3, 2021 10:13 pm

P I was still at school in 1986, yup sure do remember him and the rest of the Parramatta greats before 1986. Along with the grudge matches vs Canterbury-Bankstown. Dad had already got posted to Victoria in 1986 so I lost touch with Rugby League as the only TV we had was GMV 6 or SES 8 and the ABC on Ch 3. All firmly VFL, which was alien to me at the time.

Also something that may take some Cats back a fuel oil heater, which by the late ’80’s was converted to LPG. We never had these in Sydney or Brisbane.

Muddy
Muddy
October 3, 2021 10:14 pm

I’m easily confused at the best of times, but I’m buggered if I can tell who wants to do what to whom and how badly, anymore. I am visualising you all in a special episode of South Park, though, so there is that I guess.

duncanm
duncanm
October 3, 2021 10:15 pm

More on the Vic covid stats.

Firstly, this is an absolutely sickening way to describe the outcomes. “Lives recovered” is Orwellian.

Lives lost and recovered

Here’s a bit of a breakdown in Vic. covid cases: https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/additional-covid-19-case-data#cases-in-hospital

A total of two. Fucking TWO people under the age of thirty have died of covid in Vic.

“Masses of young people asking for vaccine while being ventilated” is complete bollocks.

btw. Nurse Spence has been pushing this ‘young people will die!’ line for over a year: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-24/coronavirus-intensive-care-nurse-warns-young-people-will-die/12486738

Bar Beach Swimmer
October 3, 2021 10:15 pm

rosiesays:
October 3, 2021 at 7:32 pm

good comment.

duncanm
duncanm
October 3, 2021 10:16 pm

‘diversity’ spaces reserved for LGBT drivers

I’m fucking all for it. It’ll be harder to police than the baby spots.

Just park and declare some alphabet hankering. Who’s to argue ?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 3, 2021 10:16 pm

MatrixTransformsays:

October 3, 2021 at 10:10 pm

But you didn’t answer the original question.

correct

So you are OK with others declining to answer similar questions from belligerent ice-pipe types when they get on here asking “are you vaxed” and “are you going to use the vax passport”?
It seems we have degrees of protest action here.
You shouldn’t have to sacrifice your business in part or in full over this.
That’s too big a price.
But we can insist that people don’t use the vax passport on frivolities like …
Going to a restaurant?
Playing golf?
Traveling overseas?
Attending a family wedding?
Visiting a dying rekative?

P
P
October 3, 2021 10:17 pm

Western Sydney has been degraded in recent times. Many suburbs being within LGAS of concern.

Those of us in NW and W Sydney can rejoice in the Panthers win.

Bar Beach Swimmer
October 3, 2021 10:17 pm

young people will die

https://youtu.be/eXWhbUUE4ko

duncanm
duncanm
October 3, 2021 10:18 pm

Indolentsays:
October 3, 2021 at 7:55 pm
COVID-19 mortality risk correlates inversely with vitamin D3 status

Solution: Lock people inside!

</sarc>

MatrixTransform
October 3, 2021 10:22 pm

So you are OK with …

like I said, you’ve lost the fucking plot.

Sancho, you do seem to send an inordinate amount of pixels putting words into other people’s mouths.

why?

rickw
rickw
October 3, 2021 10:24 pm
Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 3, 2021 10:29 pm

Exactly P, my birth certificate was stuck in Liverpool. Baptised at St Christopher’s in Heathcote rd. I spent the first part of my life there. Used to be somewhere you tried to downplay if you were from there. Had relatives there till recently though I still have rellies further afield in Campbelltown. I was last in the area about 18 months ago, was in Penrith with friends over New Year so even closer.

I long lost caring about what others think of where you were born. I have always treated people on their actions. There are snakes everywhere.

Bar Beach Swimmer
October 3, 2021 10:29 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
October 3, 2021 at 10:05 pm

Amazes me how constantly we’re told how wonderful is the nursing fraternity. (Yes, like most other occupations there are some good and even great ones but, gee, there’s some brazenly unempathetic ones too).

L, best wishes to Mrs P.

my mother died of it 16 years ago; there’s not a day that I don’t think of her.

rickw
rickw
October 3, 2021 10:29 pm

Am I reading this correctly? An ingredient that comprises 30-50% of the ingredients of one of the vaccines (which seems a rather vague measurement, but I digress), is not recommended for internal application?

Yep. The crew at work had the SDS with relevant bits highlighted pinned on the notice board.

The whole thing is bat shit crazy.

rickw
rickw
October 3, 2021 10:33 pm

Mark Felton, Greyhound V King Tiger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx8InfzkHYI

Indolent
Indolent
October 3, 2021 10:35 pm

Bar Beach Swimmersays:
October 3, 2021 at 9:26 pm
(Haven’t read upthread yet so apologies if this has already been put up)
I received an email from the Covid Medical Network today, which linked to an affidavit of Ltc. Theresa Long M.D. in support of a motion for a preliminary injunction order (for the Covid vaccines)

This point from the Affidavit, which in one form or another has been stated by many well qualified medical practitioners, seems highly relevant –

24. The shots carry mRNA that causes the recipient to create trillions of spike proteins. This is a problem for five reasons. First, it turns out that the spike proteins are not remaining locally in the (shoulder) injection site but have been found circulating in the blood and in virtually all organs of the body. Second, the spike proteins themselves have been shown to be pathogenic (disease causing) attaching to endothelial, pulmonary and other cells, forming clots and attacking heart cells. Third, the spike proteins and their lipid nanoparticles cross the blood brain barrier, with unknown long-term effects on the brain and high concern for chronic neurodegenerative disorders. Fourth, these spike proteins interact in many signaling pathways which may trigger tumor formation, cancer, and other serious diseases. Fifth, according to Pfizer’s Japanese distribution study of LNP accumulation, unexpected sequestering in reproductive organs and spleen raise very serious long-term concerns. As aircrew Training Program (ATP) 5-19, 1-8 states we shall: Accept No Unnecessary Risk. “An unnecessary risk is any risk that, if taken, will not contribute meaningfully to mission accomplishment or will needlessly endanger lives or resources. Army leaders accept only a level of risk in which the potential benefit outweighs the potential loss. From a risk management assessment perspective, with no long-term safety data regarding these five issues, this is an unacceptable risk management risk.

P
P
October 3, 2021 10:35 pm

Peter Stirling, thanks.

rickw
rickw
October 3, 2021 10:38 pm

Winston, since SA is building another inter-connector, this time to NSW, the inevitable will be put off a bit longer until after Liddell shuts.

Trying to keep three chronically weakened grids in sync will be an interesting exercise.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 3, 2021 10:38 pm

All good here BBS and sorry that it took your mum.
This was ten years ago last December with no further problems.
Along with “journey” the other phrases I hate are someone “fighting cancer” and “beating cancer”.
You don’t beat it.
It decides.
It implies that those who succumbed didn’t fight hard enough.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 3, 2021 10:41 pm

Anyway, been a long day. A mate needed some landscaping work done. Needed a skiddy, he doesn’t have the foggiest how to use. I gave him an offer he couldn’t refuse: beers 2 blocks worth and he has to dry hire the bobcat. Spent the day pushing dirt around for him and moving stuff with the 4 in 1 bucket. Been over 10 years since I wrangled on of those, took about 5 mins and it all came back again. Fun day, may do it again tomorrow if he needs more.

Nice circuit breaker with all the frustration of recent times.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 3, 2021 10:41 pm

Incidentally BBS, that is why I deliberately talked about people on the periphery of the cancer industry.
Surgeons, radioligists, nurses are generally pretty good. I am talking about some of these counsellors and hangers-on.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 3, 2021 10:42 pm

Rockdoctor, those things are good fun.
Not sure I can justify one here though.

srr
srr
October 3, 2021 10:43 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:
October 3, 2021 at 7:44 pm
Incidentally, I most certainly will defend Victoria Police*.

In certain circumstances.

From the strike of 1923, right up to the day they charged Pell. Gobbo and the whole stinking mess that followed.

*Motto – Chokehold the Bitch.
h/t Mater
______________________________

Really, despite knowing how filthy they were for the years work they put into getting Pell charged & the many years of running Gobbo & others before it finally came out?

So it’s not the corruption of VicPol that bothers you, just when they were sloppy enough to get busted for it. Got it.

Dot
Dot
October 3, 2021 10:43 pm

Gisele would not look out of place at K-Mart.

Wrong on so many levels.

Dot
Dot
October 3, 2021 10:44 pm

https://politicom.com.au/perrottet-fiddles-while-nsw-burns/

Wow, Collits is angry, he should blog here.

I like his moxie but the pro monarchy stuff is a tad retarded. You’ll never get a Trump in a Westminster system.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 3, 2021 10:50 pm

Really, despite knowing how filthy they were for the years work they put into getting Pell charged & the many years of running Gobbo & others before it finally came out?

How many years’ work was that again? Do you know? No? No.

I am admittedly awesome, rrsrrsss, and thank you for inferring this, but I could not be across the workings of over 12000 jacks all at once – despite being well connected in certain areas.

I was quite scathing when ‘it finally came out’, particularly at the hearings. I commented on the ExCat about them. You could have commented on them too, if you hadn’t been banned for being a tunnels red shoe pizza fuitcake.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 3, 2021 10:52 pm

Mark Felton, Greyhound V King Tiger:

Thank you.

Dot
Dot
October 3, 2021 10:52 pm

Do we really want to live under the Monty Pythonesque stupidity?

———————————————

3.12A Social bubble at place of residence—persons 18 years of age or under
(1) A person who is 18 years of age or under is authorised to visit a place of residence in
a stay at home area if—
(a) the person does so for the purposes of recreation or study with a person who
resides at the place of residence, and
(b) all persons participating in the recreation or study are—
(i) members of the same nominated social bubble, and
(ii) 18 years of age or under, and
(c) no more than 3 persons, including the person, participate in the recreation or
study.
(2) Up to 3 persons may form a nominated social bubble if each member of the bubble—
(a) is 18 years of age or under, and
(b) lives in the same local government area or within 5 kilometres of each other
member of the bubble, and
(c) lives in a household where each person who is at least 18 years of age is a fully
vaccinated person, and
(d) is not a member of another nominated social bubble.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 3, 2021 10:55 pm

Sancho, one of those things that I ended up with a qualification without wanting it. Mining downturn and I had zero experience back in the day. I took a labouring role and was offered the course as they thought I was a hard worker. I actually have some real time vocational experience, just been a long time. Probably getting closer to 20 years. Amazing what you can relearn in a short time.

Dot
Dot
October 3, 2021 10:56 pm

I am fairly certain no compulsory vaccination to enter a shop, pub or workplace (generally) exists in NSW yet. I have read the COVID regulation for “safety” and the regulation “for” the delta outbreak.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 3, 2021 10:57 pm

Cool Greyhound story, rickw.

Dot
Dot
October 3, 2021 10:58 pm

(2) Up to 3 persons may form a nominated social bubble if each member of the bubble—

Bill, Harry and Dave now realise their kids can co-register each other as pets.

We’re living in the stupidest of time.

P.
P.
October 3, 2021 10:58 pm

my mother died of it 16 years ago; there’s not a day that I don’t think of her.

My beautiful husband of 42yrs passed to God 15yrs ago, but he remains in spirit with me to this day. He died after three and a half years, we went through together, of cancer.
I am forever grateful for the nursing they gave to my beloved for his last three and a half days given him at the Sydney Adventist Hospital at Wahroonga .

Dot
Dot
October 3, 2021 10:58 pm

times

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 3, 2021 11:02 pm

(2) Up to 3 persons may form a nominated social bubble if each member of the bubble—

I know some people (not including me mind you) who tried to bush-lawyer the Vicco “buddy bubble” rules very, very late on Grand Final night in case their alleged small gathering was raided.
Allegedly.
The wording is all over the shop and it will be interesting if (when) the court challenges to fines get going.

duncanm
duncanm
October 3, 2021 11:04 pm

Dotsays:
October 3, 2021 at 10:52 pm
Do we really want to live under the Monty Pythonesque stupidity?

I’m fairly certain there is now a ministry for silly social rules.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 3, 2021 11:06 pm

We didn’t get to hear egg_ster’s story either.
Pity that.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 3, 2021 11:06 pm

Cool Greyhound story, rickw.

Never have to buy a beer in any Army wet mess….

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 3, 2021 11:08 pm

We didn’t get to hear egg_ster’s story either.

He was probably occupied by something important. I’ll be sure to remind him to tell it the next time he turns up. I bet it’s fascinating, and I’d love to hear it.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 3, 2021 11:13 pm

He was probably occupied by something important. I’ll be sure to remind him to tell it the next time he turns up. I bet it’s fascinating, and I’d love to hear it.

Don’t speak to me!
Your failure to arrest those tunnel red-shoe pizza guys after my red hot tip really, really, REALLY disgusts me.

Pat
Pat
October 3, 2021 11:13 pm

So OT at this time, I have had a brain scan to see if the Ax vaccine has caused me issues.
Did c won’t let me have the second shot till he sees if I have clots.

FMD and rotten.

P.
P.
October 3, 2021 11:14 pm

I am wondering why my comment @ 10:58 pm is being moderated.

Pat
Pat
October 3, 2021 11:14 pm

That’ll be Doc, not did c.

FMswingin

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 3, 2021 11:15 pm

sssr?

rsrsrsrssr?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 3, 2021 11:17 pm

Yeah, well they’re not about to sack your spouse for not having it and you don’t have school age children.
So for some of us it’s a constant worry, and it’s NOT going away.
So I guess you’re going to have to live with the ongoing commentary, Elizabeth.

Arky, I get the issue of mandatory jabs and I am firmly against them. So what is your problem there?

I also have a twelve year old grandson whom I don’t want jabbed but his mother does.
I have four children, all variously jabbed, their own initiatives.
I have an eighteen year old grandson whom I have partly brought up through hell and high water and I would have prefered him to wait to be jabbed.

Of course I don’t worry about any of them, nor did I worry about Hairy getting jabbed given all of his blood and heart issues, and of course I’d have been happy to fall off the twig myself when jabbed and leave everyone to manage without me./sarc off.

I just balanced the risks and take the worry, like anyone else.

The ongoing commentary from people like srr that I am a child-killer and drug pusher – I can do without that level of insanity when I engage in any critique of the hearsay and outright obfuscation that she in particular peddles, with a few others. That’s what I meant, I’m sick of engaging with such bullshit, and now I am going to bed.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 3, 2021 11:19 pm

Why country beats the city, people.

Fuck, he’ll get his ear chewed by Planet Cornelius tomorrow.
I think I mentioned here a week or so ago that another rural station gave a wink and a nod for a family to hold a wake at home after a young bloke died in tragic circumstances.
And not a one man station either, so they were all solidly behind it.
For all his PR spin about “community” Andrews wouldn’t understand that.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
October 3, 2021 11:28 pm

No dog in the fight between the Bunnies and the Panthers, I just enjoyed the game.
I tried to identify the 25% of empty seats due to the last-minute draconian ruling but the place looked almost full.
And a big cheer for the many…many thousands of fans who totally disregarded PalaceChook’s diktat to wear face masks except for when taking a sip of beer or a mouthful of hot dog.

That exhibition of open defiance was as good as a chant of “Fuck Joe Biden”, just more subtle.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 3, 2021 11:28 pm

Lizzie.
I am weighing up the shots on personal health grounds.
I am against anyone losing their livelihood if they conscientiously object to the jab.
I am also against anyone from either side of this argument calling me a “baby killing, Nazi, gentile brain eating fascist” or a “rabid anti-vaxxer” because of my decision, either way.
And if I choose to get the jab and if I choose to use the vax passport, any objectors better standby for an incoming “get fucked” over that too.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 3, 2021 11:29 pm

Hairy and I are also wanting to put our position firmly to our daughter that her three children all under the age of 8 should not be given any sort of Covid vaxx while under 18, that she and her husband should wait until another alternative if available if Covid proves to be a problem down the track for children.

I worry about her taking the Pfizer vaxx because a sudden emergency with that would leave three motherless children and one worn-out grandmother to step in again.

My grandson probably got his AZ jab because he works part-time at Target while studying and they require their staff to be vaxxed. So what makes you think I know nothing of these worries????

My girlfriend in Tassie knew the man who keeled over in his 40’s with the AZ thrombosis with thrombocytopaenia. Rare, but it happens. But so does Covid, and there is a death rate there which while inflated is still of concern.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 3, 2021 11:30 pm

Why country beats the city, people.

Country coppers used to understand that they needed the help and support of the community to do their job, effectively.

P
P
October 3, 2021 11:30 pm

However, if you are a different P. to our other P, and this is your first comment, well, all first comments get moderated.

Thanks Dover, I blame the grog, and also my exuberance at the Panthers win.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 3, 2021 11:32 pm

Me too, Pancho. We all have our own lives and concerns and that should be that.

I’ve already been told I need a 1948 Collaborators’ Haircut for downloading the Vaxx Cert.
I absolutely loathe what Dan Andrews is turning Victoria into, and some Cats with it.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 3, 2021 11:33 pm

Mind your Ps and P.s, P.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 3, 2021 11:35 pm

I’ve already been told I need a 1948 Collaborators’ Haircut for downloading the Vaxx Cert.

Something tells me we won’t be hearing much more of that around here anymore.
Way to win friends and influence people.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
October 3, 2021 11:37 pm

Are P and Dot collaborating?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 3, 2021 11:41 pm

Panthers win! I watched the last fifteen minutes of it with Hairy. He’s a Rabbitos fan. Like my 18 year old grandson who spent part of his life in public housing opposite Redfern Oval, just like the player Hairy pointed out in the Rabbitos’ team tonight. Hairy took him and some other kids from there to the Grand Final the year when the Rabbitos finally won and what a night that was.

Good to hear the old names mentioned: Doonside, Mt. Druit. St. Mary’s. They forgot Rooty Hill. We all went from these rail-track owner-builder and public housing-estate towns to Penrith High back in the mid 50’s. Your team won, Hairy tells me, children and even grandchildren of the people you went to school with.

MatrixTransform
October 3, 2021 11:44 pm

Something tells me we won’t be hearing much more of that around here anymore.

omg .. the frottage

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 3, 2021 11:51 pm

I tried to identify the 25% of empty seats due to the last-minute draconian ruling but the place looked almost full.

Hairy pointed out that the very top tier of seats was empty. Which might theoretically have reduced the rate of any spread but the risk was low and the pain of cancellation for all of those who lost their chance at seeing the game was very great.

As you say, it was a draconian decision with very little real science to back it and I was glad to see an almost total lack of the ‘mandated’ masks amongst the crowd; they couldn’t arrest them all. Shows just where the public feeling on all of this is moving – towards passive resistance. The cancellation decision was a sop to politics.

As with many of Chook’s initiatives, it backfired.

Arky
October 3, 2021 11:52 pm

Very likely. But this is the way forward in the future. Go country,

.
Ummm.
Where do you think those copper in buses to the CBD are coming in from?
They might be a bit more reluctant about doing it in their local towns (especially places like the Bool where the local pubs are blood barns, but I bet there is no hesitation from these pricks when it comes to a bus trip down to the big smoke to beat some protestors.
Or am I become cynical?

srr
srr
October 3, 2021 11:56 pm

It may be time to simply watch the world burn

Posted on October 1, 2021 by Adam D
https://catallaxy-files.com/it-may-be-time-to-simply-watch-the-world-burn/comment-page-1/#comment-67255

Everywhere I look the world is getting worse. The next generation doesn’t look like it will be the answer…

Best of Narcissists and #SOCIALMEDIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHHZe0qszmo&t=1s

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 4, 2021 12:03 am

Pat, sorry to hear you are going through that. I hope you come out OK. Of course you will.

My brother had brain clots, but no vaxx so not due to that.
Lots of reasons for them and not all are too serious, fixed with clot smashing meds.
Listen to your doc and try not to worry. We’re thinking of you now you’ve told us.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 4, 2021 12:07 am

Oops. That was a 1945 Collaborator’s Haircut not 1948. All over by then. I must be tired.

I am tired. And another online dance class tomorrow morning 9.30.

Arky
October 4, 2021 12:12 am

Don’t worry Lizzie.
When the time comes for the collaborator’s haircuts, you come see me.
I’ve been doing my own cuts for ten years now, I’m pretty good at it.
I guarantee you’ll still have ears afterwards.

Arky
October 4, 2021 12:16 am

Remember: The only difference between a good haircut and a bad one is two week.
(Assuming they don’t cut an ear off).

srr
srr
October 4, 2021 12:34 am

Archbishop Viganò – The Church of Christ is undergoing a very serious crisis

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

101,413 views Sep 27, 2021
Caritas in Veritate
Archbishop Viganò sent in a video message to the annual fundraiser for Aquinas Communications and FM 98.3 KCRD where he highlights that the deep church has surrendered itself to the deep state.

JC
JC
October 4, 2021 12:40 am

dover0beach says:
October 4, 2021 at 12:24 am

Reporter pretends crowd is chanting ‘Go Brandon’. Sure they are, sweetie.

How can she just lie like that. This “Fuck Joe Biden” is getting a life of its own.

C.L.
C.L.
October 4, 2021 12:48 am

Archbishop Viganò – The Church of Christ is undergoing a very serious crisis

Yes, but in a way, it always has been.

srr
srr
October 4, 2021 12:50 am

Father James Altman Speech – Monsters In Mitres

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaMqSIQ-DBs

Sep 28, 2021
Caritas in Veritate

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
October 4, 2021 12:50 am

Gotta love the Bee.

Biden Says We Can Afford $3.5T Bill Because China Just Gave Him This Cool New Visa Card With A Low Introductory Rate (h/t Instapundit)

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

I think I mentioned here a week or so ago that another rural station gave a wink and a nod for a family to hold a wake at home after a young bloke died in tragic circumstances.

One presumes this was not a first nations family, or the approval would have been a routine matter.

jupes
jupes
October 4, 2021 2:37 am

Tubular Bells Live at the BBC 1973

Mike Oldfield assembles an orchestra to play his masterpiece. He was 19 when he made the album and played every instrument himself. The album was the first release by Virgin Records and sent Richard Branson on his way to the stratosphere (and above).

Highlight: Mick Taylor plays the ‘mandolin’ on his Strat’.

Lowlight: Mick Taylor’s footwear. Platform sandals with sox. I know it was the ’70s but FMD.

Tom
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rosie
rosie
October 4, 2021 4:48 am

I see ussr created a straw man and killed it dead in capital letters.
We weren’t discussing trans, we were discussing the rights of parents to get their children vaccinated.
I don’t think people under the age of 40 even should bother, if they don’t have comorbities, but I respect the right of parents to make medical decisions about their own children*.
*there are going to be very limited extreme occasions where the state should interfere.

rosie
rosie
October 4, 2021 5:14 am
calli
calli
October 4, 2021 6:39 am

Leak! 😀

And Brown’s Man Lying on a Wall (after Lowry) – the nose-chimney is very clever.

calli
calli
October 4, 2021 6:41 am

Rosie, that clip of Dan is infuriating. That grinning passive aggressive manner…straight from the Peter Beattie School of Punchability.

rickw
rickw
October 4, 2021 7:02 am

Country coppers used to understand that they needed the help and support of the community to do their job, effectively.

They also used to understand that everyone knew where they lived.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
October 4, 2021 7:20 am

“…..that clip of Dan is infuriating. That grinning passive aggressive manner…straight from the Peter Beattie School of Punchability.” calli that’s exactly how I felt about that picket-fence toothed charlatan

Bar Beach Swimmer
October 4, 2021 7:22 am

jupes says:
October 3, 2021 at 4:11 pm
Our emissions are down 20 per cent since 2005, thanks to regional Australia, where most bushrangers roamed. At the same time, China’s has increased 72 per cent, and India’s has increased by 86 per cent.
In a rational world, this information is all it would take to end this ridiculous scam.

How can China and India’s massive output be of no consequence but Australia’s puny output put the “planet” in danger

(From Vikki’s post – Captain Climate)

Cohenite, that, imho, is how to take on an argument on the airwaves. (Not saying you haven’t gone that route but it’s straightforward and simple – and a bit like the nuclear subs “argument” that supposedly was so radical that Australians would never suffer any use of that type of power generation in an Australian context, and the truth, which seems to have (always had?) very strong backing from the electorate.)

Bar Beach Swimmer
October 4, 2021 7:31 am

Leak & #2Warren – #3Rameriz

Rowe, (again – maybe finally making a bit of a habit of getting it right in his dotage – I know, one or two swallows and all that) not bad, & I did like his Some Girls on the wall – the other half has the album with the original images

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 4, 2021 7:37 am

Fuck, he’ll get his ear chewed by Planet Cornelius tomorrow.

Hopefully he’s in that rare sweet spot. Just close enough to retirement to be untransferable to Mildura or Bairnsdale, which is apparently the way of those things. Just at the point where he can take a bit of long service leave, right after he tells Cornelius and/or Patton to go fuck himself.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 4, 2021 7:39 am

Every six months forever.

2 million Israelis lose Green Pass today (3 Oct)

Nearly two million Israelis lost their Green Passes today (Sunday) as new rules went into effect.

Under the new rules, which went into effect at midnight, the Green Pass will only be valid for six months after the recipient’s last coronavirus vaccine dose. Under the new rules, between 1.7-1.9 million Israelis will lose their Green Passes.

All Israelis must update their Green Passes on the Health Ministry website or mobile app.

And anyone can become an unperson for not getting yet another “booster”. Russian roulette anyone?

Mater
October 4, 2021 7:42 am

I am weighing up the shots on personal health grounds…
And if I choose to get the jab and if I choose to use the vax passport, any objectors better standby for an incoming “get fucked” over that too.

Sancho,
You’ve been rather animated on this point, and my statements seem to have been misconstrued. So let me clear it up.

First, please forgive me for being dubious of anyone who claims to get the jab only for personal health reasons, and then starts waving the passport around like a DVA Gold card. I’m not attributing that to anyone in particular on the blog, just a potential outcome I can envisage in the wider community.

Second, whatever personal circumstances exist, it’s an immutable fact that if you do use the passport to obtain advantage over others, you are validating the system. Love it, hate it, think it justified, think it unprincipled, forced into it…whatever the case – the fact remains, people will have to own it, live with it, make peace with it.

sfw
sfw
October 4, 2021 7:48 am

Dunno that it’s all that good in country areas, we live in a town of around 3,500 beef, dairy and tourism is what we rely on. There are a couple of FB pages re what’s happening around the area. A real split in the community has developed, in the town maybe half or more are full on Andrews, because he has saved us and outside town maybe 25% are full Andrews supporters, the rest are anti Andrews/Vax etc to varying degrees. Some of the local cafes refuse to serve you if you’re maskless, I never wear a mask and had few query me and I’m not a cafe haunter, mask wearing is around 95%, the few who don’t comply are some locals and some of the younger tourists.

I posted the other day about a mate who is full on wuflu mad (retired builder) and has a check in code thing on his front door and he’s serious. Anyway saw him and his wife in the supermarket the other day, she said “you’ve forgotten your mask”, I said “I’m a free man, I don’t wear them”. She was horrified, I think that’s the end of a long friendship, it’s sad. So don’t think it’s much better in the sticks, the divisions are even more obvious.

rosie
rosie
October 4, 2021 7:55 am

What about supporting local small businesses that have been crushed for months or Catholics participating in the Eucharist after being denied so long? Catholics have a Sunday mass obligation that transcends political considerations.
I don’t have the passport but don’t pretend that not using it is a clear cut moral decision, especially when in NSW at least the passport has a finite life and using not using probably won’t make an iota of difference to government decisions regarding its shelf life.
And considering the abuse dished out to someone who is clearly in the vulnerable category for covid, just for getting vaccinated, why should she give up any more of her life because December 1 (nothing) isn’t good enough?

Bar Beach Swimmer
October 4, 2021 7:57 am

Dover @ 12:24am

How, indeed! When obvious, blatant lying to the nth degree, and in real time, is de rigueur in the msm, there’s no hope for any reasonable debate on anything.

cohenite, I take it back – facts and analysis won’t work. (Go back to what you were doing).

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 4, 2021 8:00 am

More on EVs and the grid.

Under UK regulations, restricted charging times will come into force in May 2022, as new chargers in the home and workplace are to automatically switch off in peak times to avoid potential blackouts. New chargers will be pre-set to not function from 8am to 11am, and 4pm to 10pm.

In the UK, where there are currently only 300,000 battery electric vehicles (EVs) on the UK’s roads. Electric car charging points in people’s homes will be preset to switch off for nine hours each weekday at times of peak demand because ministers fear blackouts on the National Grid.

Now that’s going to be interesting: from next year in the UK owners will only be able to charge their cars 15 out of 24 hours per day. I suspect the logical thing will also occur, which is when 10pm comes around and all those EVs are sitting on their chargers waiting, that the surge in power at 10:00:01pm will blow out circuit breakers all over England. Fun!

EV buyer’s beware – fires, scarce charging times, and parking restrictions (2 Oct)

Mater
October 4, 2021 8:05 am

rosie says:
October 4, 2021 at 7:55 am

All of that is for personal conscience to determine.
They at least need to be honest with themselves, especially if they continue to spruik that they did it for health reasons.

rosie
rosie
October 4, 2021 8:07 am

Denmark ended all restrictions because of high vaccinations and a covid reproduction rate of .7.
Israel’s is. 72
Does anyone know what it is in NSW and Victoria ?
israel is putting on third shot pressure but has avoided lockdowns

Gab
Gab
October 4, 2021 8:16 am

”All this can be yours” Matt 4:9, for just two abortion-tainted shots.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 4, 2021 8:23 am

Now that’s going to be interesting: from next year in the UK owners will only be able to charge their cars 15 out of 24 hours per day. I suspect the logical thing will also occur, which is when 10pm comes around and all those EVs are sitting on their chargers waiting, that the surge in power at 10:00:01pm will blow out circuit breakers all over England. Fun!

The wishers (Makka) haven’t quite worked out that bit yet.
A practical example of system draw versus capacity happens on our rural lines.
A farmer up the road has a light industrial business with ovens for paint finish. When he kicks these into gear you can forget about welding in the workshop.
The lines simply can’t supply.

rosie
rosie
October 4, 2021 8:27 am

It is not sinful to get vaccinated, if Cardinal Pell, Pope Benedict and many others can get vaccinated in good conscience who is anyone to flap their gums trying to make others feel guilty for acting to preserve the life God gave them?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 4, 2021 8:29 am

Mater.
I have been very much “live and let live” on this.
I have been considering the vax for a long time before passports were even mentioned, and was leaning towards a ‘yes’.
What gets me ‘animated’ is fuckwits getting on here liberally spraying around words like ‘traitor’, ‘treason’ and ‘Nazi’ at people who would choose to use the passport.
And particularly when it comes from someone who has been granted special privileges to work for 18 months whilst most others sit at home twiddling their thumbs.
His ‘passport’ was his union ticket.
I didn’t hear any calls for him to stay home because he was ‘validating Dan’s TyRaNny’.
What we got here, from some at least, is large amounts of puritanical virtue signalling martyrdom strangely coupled with lynch mob threats.
The promise to ‘take down names’ and ‘get out the piano wire’ for those who get their ‘1945 haircut’ is hardly a winning PR strategy.

Megan
Megan
October 4, 2021 8:31 am

It’s not you, Cardinal Pell the Pope or any other human who decides what is or is not sinful.

duncanm
duncanm
October 4, 2021 8:31 am

Dotsays:
October 4, 2021 at 8:06 am
Anyone turned on by this is an arsehole.

the pink surfer chick in the santa costume? I could warm to her, she looks sorta cute.

duncanm
duncanm
October 4, 2021 8:32 am

rosiesays:
October 4, 2021 at 8:07 am
Denmark ended all restrictions because of high vaccinations and a covid reproduction rate of .7.
Israel’s is. 72
Does anyone know what it is in NSW and Victoria ?

Ask, and ye shall receive

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 4, 2021 8:34 am

Megansays:

October 4, 2021 at 8:31 am

It’s not you, Cardinal Pell the Pope or any other human who decides what is or is not sinful.

Are you talking to Rosie or Gab?
Or both?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 4, 2021 8:35 am

Personality features of an Abrasive Negativist

Including sadistic – feature:
Contentious, intransigent, fractious, and quarrelsome; irritable, caustic, debasing, corrosive, and acrimonious, contradicts and derogates; few qualms and little conscience or remorse.

“Mrs Andrews, your son has a few problems relating to other students.”

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 4, 2021 8:35 am

What gets me ‘animated’ is fuckwits getting on here liberally spraying around words like ‘traitor’, ‘treason’ and ‘Nazi’ at people who would choose to use the passport.

Time to hit the streets.

*rattles spray can*

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 4, 2021 8:40 am

*rattles spray can*

That was genuinely funny.
A couple of furtive references to ‘scoping out targets’.
I had visions of a suicide bomb attack on the local cop-shop.
But no.
We are going out to spray slogans on a wall up behind the loading dock at Coles.
Allegedly.
(I suspect he had been spraying some of it into a plastic bag earlier).

Megan
Megan
October 4, 2021 8:42 am

And it’s a bit rich to be tossing Gunner about as a bad example for working for 18 months when he has mentioned both here and old Cat that his hours were cut by half at the beginning of last years first lockdown and he has been without a job for most of this year.

I in no way approve of the ridiculous insults he made to Cassie but your dishonest, and continually repeated, accusations may well be Godwin free and far more polite, but they are no less egregious or insulting to my intelligence for that.

Stop holding yourself up as a model of humankind. You are as flawed and disgraceful as any single one of us can be under the right circumstances.

Makka
Makka
October 4, 2021 8:43 am

The wishers (Makka) haven’t quite worked out that bit yet.

Lord but you’re a moron. I’m not wishing for EV take up. Me, I prefer ICE vehicles. Have you seen anywhere I am wishing and hoping for this transformation? No. That’s all in your dull ag fkg head .

What I’ve been saying however is that from observations , globally it’s clear as day that over time general growing popular support for a greener future will promote Govt policies and force EV’s to become the dominant form of transport. You seem to think that in front of all this, your redneck wisdom and opinions of garage based engineering matter. They don’t.

rosie
rosie
October 4, 2021 8:46 am

As a Catholic I prefer to be guided by the Catholic church who is guided by the Holy Spirit (God), not by some anonymous uncharitable know-it-all on the internet.
The Catholic Church has issued a carefully considered advice to Catholic people regarding vaccines, linked here several times.
what David said

rickw
rickw
October 4, 2021 8:48 am

Avi Yemini ????
@OzraeliAvi
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23m
WOW! Local cops in Warrnambool ALLOWED this protest to go ahead today.

Listen to a police commander telling the crowd, “we’re not going to steamroll you—we’re local police. We understand your locals”

The crowd’s response says it all.

We need more of this.

Vikpol’s first act of decency in 2 years.

calli
calli
October 4, 2021 8:48 am

the fact remains, people will have to own it, live with it, make peace with it.

If I’m on the High Moral Ground, I don’t think mush of it as prime real estate. 🙂

calli
calli
October 4, 2021 8:49 am

chuckle. Mush = much

Wading through wet cement seems about right.

Makka
Makka
October 4, 2021 8:51 am

So don’t think it’s much better in the sticks, the divisions are even more obvious.

sfw,
It’s not, from what my family is telling me. In fact being in the smaller communities, divisions along the lines you mentioned occur fast and seem to be with more rancor. It’s a real sickness with Dan’s supporters. I’m actually very surprised at the tenacity of his supporters for sticking with him considering what he has done to destroy so much of Victoria’s small business and wreck communities. Unfathomable.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 4, 2021 8:53 am

Megansays:

October 4, 2021 at 8:42 am

And it’s a bit rich to be tossing Gunner about as a bad example for working for 18 months

Oh?
He was pretty absolutist about who were ‘traitorous scum’.
He didn’t cut any slack for the individual circumstances of others.
I simply turned his own lofty standards back on him.
If he wants to apply Taliban level standards of purity to others, he better be prepared for some blowback.

rosie
rosie
October 4, 2021 8:55 am
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October 4, 2021 8:56 am
Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 4, 2021 8:57 am

Lord but you’re a moron. I’m not wishing for EV take up. Me, I prefer ICE vehicles. Have you seen anywhere I am wishing and hoping for this transformation? No. That’s all in your dull ag fkg head .

Still haven’t got that shit off your liver Makka.
Nice pigeon hole personality you’ve constructed for me too.
You don’t know me sunshine.

Indolent
Indolent
October 4, 2021 8:58 am

Do we really want to live under the Monty Pythonesque stupidity?

Especially, when one of the greatest instigators of this whole malign mess says something like this.

Fauci attacks Republicans and Defends Open Borders: ‘Face Reality – Immigrants Are Not Driving Force’ on COVID Pandemic

Any one still care to posit that this has ANYTHING to do with a virus?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 4, 2021 9:01 am

Can I borrow this for other circumstances?

Nice pigeon hole personality you’ve constructed for me too.
You don’t know me sunshine.

Makka
Makka
October 4, 2021 9:02 am

You don’t know me sunshine.

Nor you me. No liver issues here either. All I’m doing is putting you (and any others) straight after your repeated smart arse distortions of what I have posted. I thought country folk didn’t mind straight talking. I’ll be more delicate in future.

Zipster
Zipster
October 4, 2021 9:04 am
rosie
rosie
October 4, 2021 9:05 am
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 4, 2021 9:05 am

As with many of Chook’s initiatives, it backfired.

I was thinking this morning about how the Chook cancelled the very top tier of tickets, those in the very to of the stadium. These were the cheapest ones, purchased by families taking the kids, or ordinary workers.

If she had really wanted to spread the pain, she could have cancelled the tier at the very front. And offered her own ticket and those of her fawning coterie by a draw to families who were cancelled.
Leak’s cartoon on the issue said it all; fat lady looks after herself first.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 4, 2021 9:06 am

top of the stadium. Should check, my typing seems to miss an end letter sometimes. Apols.

Mater
October 4, 2021 9:07 am

And particularly when it comes from someone who has been granted special privileges to work for 18 months whilst most others sit at home twiddling their thumbs.

One might look at it from the other direction. Those who were not dramatically impacted financially, but who were out doing what they could regardless, were demonstrating commitment to principle and empathy for their fellow Australians, rather than pure self interest.

Of all the criticisms that can be levelled at Gunner (and I don’t disagree with all of them), he has been out there rocking the boat since the start of this insanity.

The CFMEU (as a whole) should be criticised for their lack of action, but Gunner is but a pleb in that system.

Gab
Gab
October 4, 2021 9:10 am

It’s quite telling that rosie introduced the word ”sin” and has been protesting hence.

I too can use the appeal to authority, even though I have no idea if Cdl Pell has taken the jab.

This new pro-life movement cannot remain silent about that monstrous and global structure of sin that is crying out to God for vengeance: the routine use by pharmaceutical, cosmetics and food industries of human cell lines from aborted embryos and fetuses.

The exploitation of human embryos and fetuses as a reservoir of biological material, is an abomination that every reasonable man and woman of good will should oppose by denouncing its perverse and diabolical nature.

– Archbishop Schneider.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 4, 2021 9:11 am

The CFMEU (as a whole) should be criticised for their lack of action, but Gunner is but a pleb in that system.

And I am but a pleb in the vax passport system so what action I take (or not) won’t make any difference, right?

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
October 4, 2021 9:12 am

Made the mistake os watching a bit of late 7 news last night.
The story: we’re having a massive sugre in Coof cases, hospitalizations, life supports and deaths.
The visuals: er cars queueing up for drive-through testing.
The newsreader: what can we possibly do to protect our loved ones and vulnerable health workers too?
The ED doctor at his well-appointed study via Zoom: get “vaccinated”!

Is it just me, or is the complete lack of visual footage- in any other natural disaster or accident, there would be distressing footage warnings and first-name-only interviews from the frontline, scenes of ambulances at the ramp and gurneys slapping through hallway doors- a bit of a tell?

win
win
October 4, 2021 9:12 am

Holiday here in Queensland to day. Australia Post unable to deliver mail every day or not at all is on the job today.

Indolent
Indolent
October 4, 2021 9:12 am

Second, whatever personal circumstances exist, it’s an immutable fact that if you do use the passport to obtain advantage over others, you are validating the system.

Exactly this.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 4, 2021 9:16 am

Second, whatever personal circumstances exist, it’s an immutable fact that if you do use the passport to obtain advantage over others, you are validating the system.

And, if you work in high-rise construction, which is demonstrably non-essential and only gets a free pass because of ALP factional politics, you are validating the system.

Mater
October 4, 2021 9:19 am

And I am but a pleb in the vax passport system so what action I take (or not) won’t make any difference, right?

Are you sure Gunner wasn’t making representations everyday within his workplace?
His commentary indicates that he was.

My take is that if everyone replicated what Gunner has been doing, the vax passports system will crumble post haste. They won’t because apparently it won’t make any difference.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 4, 2021 9:24 am

Are you sure Gunner wasn’t making representations everyday within his workplace?
His commentary indicates that he was.

Just as I have been advocating for freedom of choice.
If I used the vax passport but made representations and let the service provider know I am not happy, is that enough?
Or should I boycott the business?
And should Gunner have likewise boycotted his employment?

Zipster
Zipster
October 4, 2021 9:29 am

Fauci attacks Republicans and Defends Open Borders: ‘Face Reality – Immigrants Are Not Driving Force’ on COVID Pandemic

In a just world, this guy would get a bullet in the head

Twostix
Twostix
October 4, 2021 9:30 am

No, stix did a bit of Makka Mak Daddy E-i-e-i-o stuff. Just once, and then he went all quiet when I reminded him of a few things.

“And then I was like don’t ever come back here again and showed him my sword and he ran for it…”

The only time I’ve ever bothered talking to you, aside mocking you for being Leigh lowes tame sidekick was when I was giving you shit that we don’t need yet another another ‘copper’ worshipping loser when you first arrived at the old cat rubbing yourself about some big man ‘copper’ you knew and were in love with.

Somehow in the subsequent four years you became one.

Mater
October 4, 2021 9:32 am

If I used the vax passport but made representations and let the service provider know I am not happy, is that enough?

I’ll leave that up to your conscience.

Or should I boycott the business?

See above

And should Gunner have likewise boycotted his employment?

Did Gunner use any of the insane new rules to continue his employment?
In doing so, to he gain advantage over his fellow construction workers who were forced not to work?
Did his continuing to work cost others their jobs?

Twostix
Twostix
October 4, 2021 9:41 am

Leigh lowe is back bravely hen pecking everyone who has principles and wants make some sort of stand again.

The argument now is apparently because he has none neither should you.

Wait on…that was always the ‘argument’ wasn’t it?

srr
srr
October 4, 2021 9:43 am

rosiesays:
October 4, 2021 at 4:48 am
I see ussr created a straw man and killed it dead in capital letters.
We weren’t discussing trans, we were discussing the rights of parents to get their children vaccinated.
[…]

I see rosie is being her usual childishly bitchy, aggressively bullshitting self while dog whistling for the thug to help cover more rosie bullshit.

YOU, rosie, raised YOUR belief, that the NHS has the Right to condemn children to Death, Against the parents Right & Duty to do all in their power to protect their children from a Death Sentence.

But, YOU, rosie, DO want parents to have the Right to sacrifice their children to The State as human Guinea Pigs.

YOU, rosie, also raised the “Trans” Kids issue (you know, what puberty blockers get used for), only to expose just how much you will bend, twist and lie to attack your targets & Support The State Over The Individual.

Which is why YOU, rosie, made sure to not quote or post a time stamp to what YOU, rosie, knew you were lying about, again, so let me end the argument here and re-post the recent history (buried in the late hours that you hope few will see or remember), so people can see your shameless arrogance & lies for themselves –

srrsays:
October 3, 2021 at 10:02 pm

rosiesays:
October 3, 2021 at 7:32 pm
Seems to me parental rights were sacrosanct on this blog when it came to the NHS a few years ago.
It should also be the same principle when it comes to vaccination.
Seems a bit inconsistent to say otherwise just because you don’t agree with the particular parental decision.
Otherwise you are on the side of state interference into parental rights.
And that is not me agreeing with the abomination of puberty blockers or trannies at the library.
The solution to that is re evangelising our atheist country.

Govt Serving DOCTORS & LAWYERS Denying Parents their Right & Duty to seek potentially LIFE SAVING Treatment for their children, is The SAME EVIL as Govt Serving Doctors & Lawyers Denying Parents their Right & Duty to Protect their children from Life Destroying “Trans” Quackery.

It’s the Trans Quackery that Govt Serving Doctors & Lawyers Enforce AGAINST the Parent trying to save their child from the crazy/evil Parent, usually the mother.

Before the NHS, Abortion on demand, Child ‘euthanasia’ & the “Trans” abomination, it used to be criminal for parents to kill & maim their children, EVEN FOR ATHEIST Parents, yet you, as a “devout Catholic”, argued violently FOR the NHS to CONDEMN CHILDREN TO DEATH, against the parents Right & Duty to do all they could to save their children.

That you tried to construct that blatant false equivalency as an attempt to paint yourself as ‘the good & just Christian’, shows you in the very opposite light.

johanna
johanna
October 4, 2021 9:44 am

Woo hoo – Barilaro gorn!

As I said recently, he hasn’t dared to show his face around his electorate of late, with all the macho BS about persecuting the unvaxxed and how businesses need to step up to Fight the Plague. Apart from Colesworths and a few other lucky members of the charmed circle, businesses around here have been bleeding to death for months.

Let’s hope it means that he realises that the incoming Premier will not support this kind of bullying.

CrazyOldRanga
CrazyOldRanga
October 4, 2021 9:46 am

If, as seems likely, I have to get the Jab to keep working, I will only use my “Passport” to leave the country.

Twostix
Twostix
October 4, 2021 9:48 am

Notice how Leigh Lowe is transforming from retired boomer to middle aged genxer with four kids and a mortgage?

“Hey there fellow young family man, how about we just get the vaccine and accept the New Normal passport so I can get on with my retireme… Erm I mean pay the mortgage…myess”

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 4, 2021 9:48 am

To me, EV’s suffer from oversell and the impractical push factor of the zero carbon movement.
Power to weight problems for large vehicles has not been overcome.
Where’s Musk’s prime mover now?
Grid capacity and charging issues are enormous and hugely expensive to overcome.
ICE vehicles are far more adaptable to need than EV. You can take a can of fuel with you.
It takes time to get a technology to a highly practical position.
I was a very early adopter of gps for farm use. I think back to where we were around the millennium compared to the current systems.
-We built towers to receive signal.
-The satellites were in short supply and once enough of them dropped over the horizon you were stuffed.
-Rover and signal interface had to be adapted for the many types of Ag vehicles. -Hydraulic systems needed modification to actuate the commands.
-Repeatability was a huge problem because of weak signal or satellite position.
-Line of sight meant that many receiving towers had to be built for coverage.
-US satellites were of a military nature and we had to buy access codes for the precision signal needed – 2cm accuracy as opposed to 10-20cm.

It was very expensive at the time, $50,000 for one system. Those early sets are suiting on the shelf as junk now.

We can overcome many hurdles in new technology but it takes time and the practical application problems do not go away by hoping some boffin will fix it or government mandates equate to inevitable success.

Zatara
Zatara
October 4, 2021 9:48 am

In a just world, this guy would get a bullet in the head

In a world of poetic justice he’d die of a jab-caused clot. A very painful one.

calli
calli
October 4, 2021 9:49 am

It was I who raised the trans issue in regard to waiving parental rights, as an example of child abuse. There are plenty of other instances.

Each instance has to be taken on its merits because the issue is so complicated.

If introducing potentially harmful substances into a child’s body is considered child abuse, then that action should be stopped. In this case, however, the parents are in lockstep with the State and get a free pass.

srr
srr
October 4, 2021 9:54 am

Twostixsays:
October 4, 2021 at 9:30 am
[…] another ‘copper’ worshipping loser when you first arrived at the old cat rubbing yourself about some big man ‘copper’ you knew and were in love with.

Somehow in the subsequent four years you became one.

🙂 So, ‘he’ could be that big, stupid, lantern jawed female copper from his home turf who I had to school?
It would explain a lot … 😉

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
October 4, 2021 9:54 am

Remember “No-one is safe until we’re all safe”?
“We’re all in this together”?
Well how about-
“No-one is back to work until we’re all back to work”. No essentials and non-essentials, no frontline compulsory jab mandates, no quisling get-outs.
“No-one is free of this tyranny until we’re all free of this tyranny”.
No ifs or buts or but-I-want-to-travel or caveats or third boosters or it’s-just-your-medicare-record-on-an-easy-to-use-app-what’s-the-big-deal. Nothing, no early marks for any collaborator.

areff
areff
October 4, 2021 9:55 am

Catholics have a Sunday mass obligation that transcends political considerations.

Obligations? When Mum was found dead at the end of the bed the new priest at whose church she had worshipped for 40 years refused to come to her home to say the prayer for the dead. He also declined to have the funeral there, actually saying it would be “a lot of trouble” — deep cleaning the church after the service etc., — for just 10 people.

All in all, his response does much to explain why congregations are small and getting smaller.

calli
calli
October 4, 2021 9:56 am

he hasn’t dared to show his face around his electorate of late, with all the macho BS about persecuting the unvaxxed and how businesses need to step up to Fight the Plague

I have been wondering about that, Joh. How many of these *rsewipe urgers are going to find going to the local shops “difficult” when all this is done and dusted?

It keys in with the thoughts expressed in Arky’s “hypnosis” thread and how Totalitarian regimes, real and attempted eventually end.

In news or “normality”, a lovely group of neighbours are celebrating a “zero” birthday at my back fence – champagne, balloons, the lot. Not a Karen among them!

calli
calli
October 4, 2021 9:59 am

areff, that’s just terrible.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 4, 2021 10:00 am

Did Gunner use any of the insane new rules to continue his employment?

Yes.
The one which granted construction rights over the rest of the community solely because their union is of the ALP left.

In doing so, to he gain advantage over his fellow construction workers who were forced not to work?

Delete the word “construction” and the answer is yes.

Did his continuing to work cost others their jobs?

Who knows?
Certainly, as a collective, if construction had downed tools it would have escalated pressure on Andrews.
But, in any case, it’s the principle here.
Would my refusing to use a vax passport, in and of itself, help anyone else?

Roger
Roger
October 4, 2021 10:00 am

Your new word for the day:

Transmisogyny.

Feminists, please relinquish your seats and stand to the rear of the victimhood bus.

Delta A
Delta A
October 4, 2021 10:04 am

areffsays:
October 4, 2021 at 9:55 am

That is appalling, areff.

Cassie of Sydney
October 4, 2021 10:04 am

“I see rosie is being her usual childishly bitchy, aggressively bullshitting self while dog whistling for the thug to help cover more rosie bullshit.”

Hmm…who was the poster who last night accused others of “enmity” and “bullying”?

Why it was the hypocrite Nongbat.

calli
calli
October 4, 2021 10:05 am

Refusal only works if a critical mass of people do it.

It won’t happen because self-interest is too strong. And that includes self-interest in the practicalities of life, not just its little luxuries.

For example, I’m using a QR code by proxy, simply because it’s my husband who does the shopping. It’s his way of getting out and about and staying sane. Suddenly the quality of an avocado takes on cosmic significance for him!

And when I eat said avocado, that niggly little voice says….cheat! As I said, the Moral High Ground is very boggy.

srr
srr
October 4, 2021 10:05 am

Sancho Panzersays:
October 4, 2021 at 9:16 am

Second, whatever personal circumstances exist, it’s an immutable fact that if you do use the passport to obtain advantage over others, you are validating the system.

And, if you work in high-rise construction, which is demonstrably non-essential and only gets a free pass because of ALP factional politics, you are validating the system.

EVERY INDUSTRY IS ESSENTIAL to the people who work in them.

Every Industry CLOSED was ESSENTIAL FOR GOVT TO BREAK THE ABILITY & WILL of The People to RESIST THE TYRANNY.

But you know that, which is why you keep arguing for more Govt Tyranny, because we all know The Great Reset will be “great” for some.

P
P
October 4, 2021 10:05 am

Meet Dom Perrottet — the conservative Catholic and father-of-six who will be NSW’s next Premier

Dominic Perrottet has always billed himself as a family man
What a lovely photo.

Twostix
Twostix
October 4, 2021 10:06 am

Dear young and middle aged people,

Lizzie, notafan and Leigh Lowe formally want you to know that they are tired of your ‘issues’ with the vaccine and covid 19 and are quite happy with the New Normal that it ushered in and so would like very much if you stop being selfish, shutup about it, and accept your mandated fate so they can now go back to enjoying their 30 year retirement that you’ll never have.

Can’t you see how you are stopping them from living their lives??

Geezuz.

Cassie of Sydney
October 4, 2021 10:06 am

“areffsays:
October 4, 2021 at 9:55 am”

Dreadful areff…just dreadful…and cruel. So much for being a pastor to the flock.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 4, 2021 10:07 am

Woo hoo – Barilaro gorn!

Can’t even see Macquarie Bank or Crown bothering to pick him up. The Nationals are worse for good government than the Greens.

Dot
Dot
October 4, 2021 10:08 am

What’s the word on Perrotett sacking Hazzard and repealing these stupid health orders?

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 4, 2021 10:08 am

Wow Barillaro jumps ship. Why am I getting this niggling feeling the NSW Libs are about to take a hard left ward tack.

calli
calli
October 4, 2021 10:08 am

“always billed himself as a family man”.

What does that even mean? He has children. Six of them.

What else would he “bill” himself as? A pigeon fancier?

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 4, 2021 10:10 am

Why am I getting this niggling feeling the NSW Libs are about to take a hard left ward tack.

Niggling feeling?
Matt Keen as deputy leader equals green, totalitarian.
More like a baseball bat across the nose feeling.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 4, 2021 10:11 am

It is a legitimate question to ask if we have a viral outbreak of in loco parentis here.
Something the Cat had been double-vaxxed against in the past.

calli
calli
October 4, 2021 10:11 am

You have no idea how beautiful that happy laughter drifting over my back fence is!

The sound of normal, happy people having a party. Who would have thought cackling females could sound so heavenly?

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