Open Thread- Weekend 16 Oct 2021
1,513 responses to “Open Thread- Weekend 16 Oct 2021”
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Keystone Koffee Kops.
KKK.
Seems apt.In the future (I hope. And assuming we are permitted one where there is room for mirth and imagination) comedians will be making jokes about the 2010’s and the 2020’s.
Like they do now with movies mocking the 70’s and the 80’s.
I used to think the most obvious point to mock would be the obsession with mobile phones – walking without looking, not noticing plane crashes and earthquakes, meeting up with friends and then ignoring them while tapping on their phones, etc.
But The Coof will be a cornucopia of dated and defunct idiocy.
(I tried watching Anchorman last night. It just looked daggy. From what little I saw it seemed the writers disliked their characters and it showed. They were also blind to the reality that the 70’s made sense at the time and only look weird now, but the modern sensibilities with which they mocked the 70’s will eventually be the butt of jokes too. I recall a quote that I can no longer trace the source of, along the lines “It is strange to remember that any moment in the past, however remote, was at another point in the future.”)
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Err, I may have been inadvertently and unjustly critical of them in the past, but my neighbours are the salt of the earth.
From all parts of this planet. Friendly, pragmatic and not possessed by karenism.
They just get on with it.
They do not give a rodent’s about the likes of Beryl G and that grotesque deformed jug eared imbecile south of the Murray. I feel blessed to live among them and I’ve lived in the inner west for most of my life – white middle class people who are obsessed with appearances and other ephemera.
There is none of that here. 🙂
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Big protests in Brisbane and Perth. Absolutely wonderful. Solidarity isn’t dead. There might be life in the old bird yet.
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Oh, and I would like to make a quick shout out the person who put up a link to Mr Weebl’s ‘Armadillo clip.
And this is what I am shouting out: If I ever find out where you live…
I have that and Shrimp Glockenspiel going around and around my head just because I looked up the meaning of Dendrobranchiata and shrimp are cladistically closely related.
Bastard!
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Mother Lodesays:
October 16, 2021 at 5:22 pm
France also wants the seal of the confessional breached.
Presumably confidentiality between lawyers and clients is still sacrosanct.
And psychiatrists, and doctors, and school counselors.
The great imponderable question that m0nster never quite gets around to answering.
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For now, it is worth noting that in mid-2020, even before the various vaccine’s deployed in clinical trials, the World Economic Forum knew that a blood test for a COVID vaccination was the best scenario for vaccine passport identification. [Article Here]
I linked a presentation a couple of weeks ago where it was stated that someone tried to travel overseas with a fake vaccine certificate and the security scan was able to pick up that she had not, in fact, been vaccinated. I speculated that it was because of the metal bits which were found in large numbers in blood samples taken from vaccinated people.
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Speaking of blown seals…
PONZI!!!! is back on, with a vengeance.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/population-shock-where-the-truth-resides-on-immigration-20210922-p58tsd.html
The 2021 Intergenerational Report has clearly signalled the government’s intention to quickly ramp up net migration to about 235,000 a year from 2024-25 – the fastest rate of increase in net migration in our history. That includes an assumed increase in the formal migration program from 160,000 a year to 190,000 a year from 2023-24. But the report provides no indication of how net migration of 235,000 a year will be delivered.…
Im going to attempt a really, really technical answer to the following brian dropping from the writer here..
It was a populist* approach designed to win the approval of a voting public looking for someone to blame for their long commute**, and to deflect attention away from the failure of successive governments to adequately plan infrastructure*** and services****in our major cities*****.*: So a policy approved of by people?
**: That “long commute” seems to get longer the more people cram into the place… hmmm if only there was a clue
***: That would be the infrastructure needed because you are bringing in more people, making commutes longer..
****: Those would be the services needing to constantly expand because the population expands, to service the infrastructure from greater population which is increasing commute times..
*****: Those would be the major cities providing services and infrastructure to meet a growing population needed to facilitate the services and infrastructure..….
And when you’re talking about congestion in Sydney or Melbourne, it doesn’t matter if the bloke in the car next to you is a temporary entrant or a permanent one or a citizen.It does if the fucker is still in shitholistan and not on the road next to you dickwad..
The whole article does however serve one fact up very well.
All the governments proj3ections on good financial management and economics were and still are 100% based on running the population ponzi as hard and fast as they can. -
H B Bearsays:
October 16, 2021 at 5:39 pm
Jury service? Tell ‘em you’ve got an LLB. That’ll do it. Got me out a couple of times.
Ah, look, I’d rather not stray into areas of fact that can actually be checked. I already had a bit of a terse exchange with the Jury Wrangler over the 50km boundary.
And I have service on a trial where the judge said we shouldn’t have to go again.
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Baba says:
October 16, 2021 at 3:13 pmRight next to the arsehole of the world as you’d expect
Do you mean this place? I thought it sounded more phallic rather than anal.
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Sancho, if you have to turn up for jury duty, dress in your best suit and tie, be clean shaven, freshly haircut, shiny shoes. Almost guaranteed you will be challenged by the defence and excused.
Apparently defence lawyers hate anyone who looks remotely like a conservative, believing they will always find any alleged offender “Guilty”. I got tthis straight from a Court Bailiff.
I think it was Zulu who got out of serving on a jury by wearing an Army Regiment tie with his suit.
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I’ve just read a James Hogan science fiction book on the recommendation of BoN. It was childish and wildly implausible. He’d painted himself into a corner, to get out he had to posit that our moon had left the asteroid belt after the destruction of its primary and been captured by Earth fifty thousand years ago. Which is dotty.
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For those suggesting Dom Perrottet ’96 has been smacked down by ScoMo, it might be time for a re-think.
Do you reckon ScoMo would have rushed out an announcement about international travel if Perrottet had said nothing?
No.
“Small target” ScoMo would have sat on his hands until Hunchback or Pole-Mole had said “We won’t be considering that before April”. Then he would be begging them to consider bringing it forward and would probably have thrown “hospital funding” at them to make it happen.
In his own understated way, Perrottet has done a Trump. He has framed the agenda, which is “When (not if) within the next six weeks, are we doing this?”
ScoMo couldn’t argue. After all, it is in his own National fucking Cabinet roadmap, but he wasn’t going to drive it. The best he could do is tweak it around the edges and claim it as his own.
Perrottet has cracked this thing open and deserves credit for that.
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Is this the Armadillo clip?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8gSKjX-Lig
Or this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hdIeDuHl-gOr this one?
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Learnt, last week, that there are people in WA who have returned from elsewhere, and are living under the system where a text from the police will require an immediate return text with “selfie” photo showing the prole on quarantine location.
Since heard that the text routine have not been functioning, as mate has shaved off his beard and the photos are not recognized.
Not recognized by our humble remote working police officer? Hardly, the bloke is pretty distinctively funny looking, even without the beard and a creeping pallor.
Oh no, it’s not recognized by the algorithm. The ‘bot. The spyware.
So there you have it. The facial recognition policing of Australians by geolocation is being processed by an app, written in all likelihood in China, processed by phones and chips made in China, with information going through a Chinese filter.
Anyone who has applied for any of this new normal travel stuff is now on file, indefinitely, and a lot of people who haven’t- like kids, suspect sketches, bailees- will be having their faces mapped out too.
It’s not about safety.
It’s about control. -
The Two Crows From Tacos, not Heckle and Jeckle.
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bonssays:
October 16, 2021 at 6:11 pm
On three occasions I have gone for jury panelling.
The system is outrageous. If you have been randomly selected from the electrol roll, that should be it.
If I have been rejected, which is a slight upon my character, I want to know why.
Cesspit.We like you but you’re quite mad.
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Let’s have a wild, wild life, I tells ya! 🙂
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I was thinking about going the full beard, horned Viking helmet, face-paint and bearskin coat.
Ooooooh-kay.
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Just as I thought I was before ending up as a foreman on a six day* abduction and multiple sex assault case.
*Which felt like six years …
Fark!
I did five weeks on a trial involving crimes of much violence.
I reckon we only spent about six days actually in the court room. Stupid fucking defence barrister constantly called points of law on everything. I think it was a tactic to interrupt and confuse witnesses. I could tell the judge was none too impressed with the delays. The last “everybody back to the jury room” lasted less than five minutes and it was very tense when we got back. I reckon the judge gave Mr Defence a fucking good bollocking. And his summing up did Mr Defence no favours.
Then there was four days in the jury room.
FMD.
Guilty as sin but there were initially three holdouts. I think two were SJWs and another was a pensioner who was happy with the day rate. -
He has to prove to me that he’s human and not just another troughing Bug.
The signs are not encouraging so far.
However, if there is significant civil disobedience evident, then the idiocy may end soon. Which is unlikely, because apparently, we’re all in need of a grate reset.
<a href="“>You vill own nuzzink, und you vill be happee! 🙁
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Via James Woods.
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
@MayorofLondon
I am so deeply, deeply saddened by the tragic news that Sir David has passed away. He loved being an MP and was a great public servant. It is just awful. My thoughts and prayers, and those of all Londoners, are with David’s loved ones at this time of unimaginable grief.
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When I got called up for jury duty, most of the blokes were dressed like they were off to the tip or the beach, the young dolly birds off to a night on the turps.
Nearly all were milling around like sheep minus their minder dog and some of the stupid questions being asked at the sheriff’s jury briefing were beyond belief.
I lost a lot of faith in the jury system when I saw some of the cretins on the panels.
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I think it was Zulu who got out of serving on a jury by wearing an Army Regiment tie with his suit.
That’s the advice I was given by a solicitor in Queensland years ago. Defense Counsel doesn’t like ex – servicemen on the jury – they tend to believe the accused must be guilty, or he/she wouldn’t have been arrested in the first place.
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And KD you have inspired me to rewatch Pulp Fiction
Not sure how I accomplished that, but too much Pulp Fiction is never enough. Parliament should be framed around it. You never see this in Hansard:
‘Oh I’m sorry. Did I break your concentration?’
‘I ain’t giving her the shot. The day I bring some fucked-up pupa to your house, I’ll give her the shot!’
‘Pretty please. With sugar on top. Clean the fuckin’ car.’
‘You’re the one supposed to be on fuckin’ brain detail!’ -
bonssays:
October 16, 2021 at 6:11 pm
On three occasions I have gone for jury panelling.
The system is outrageous. If you have been randomly selected from the electrol roll, that should be it.
If I have been rejected, which is a slight upon my character, I want to know why.
Cesspit.Obviously jurors need to be out if they know the participants or harbour other obvious bias.
But the challenges from counsel should be subjected to a bit more scrutiny. They should articulate aloud before the judge why they are scrubbing jurors.
They have their little selection rules, but they wouldn’t stand scrutiny:-
“We just know older conservative women acquit men of rape” (susceptible to the ‘asking for it’ defence).
“I don’t want an accountant on my client’s fraud trial. He/she will see straight through our bullshit”. -
The other wonderful aspect of my jury service was reading the braindead lamestream meeja’s interpretation of our deliberations.
“They only took one and a half hours to find the accused* guilty on ten of the eleven charges.”
That was because I kept a very tight ship, as the saying goes.
*Two imbeciles, both of whom are still languishing in the AMC
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Calli:
Matrix, I imagine some of these categories are created to get one particular person a visa.
It would be interesting, and informative to track back and see who it was. And who they know.The categories are for the replacement population when all the Whities get bumped off in the next round of Variant X out of China.
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Heroic publican gets monstered by plod.
SINGLETON’S CALEDONIAN HOTEL CLOSED BY POLICE AFTER SEVERAL COVID BREACHES (Ncl local news)
The 57-year-old male licensee allegedly allowed and didn’t prevent unvaccinated people from being at the pub.
NSW plod should start wearing black uniforms with silver lightning insignia, unless Vicplod has that copyrighted.
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“They only took one and a half hours to find the accused* guilty on ten of the eleven charges.”
Bwah ha ha ha ha.
The dumb-arses in the MSM get fed by counsel to match their bias.
Which is inevitably towards the defence unless you are a Cardinal.
Quick decision = “lack of proper deliberation”.
Slow decision = “jury agonised long and hard before arriving at the verdict” (obviously the not guilty holdouts were leant on).
Mine wasn’t reported because of that quaint Victorian practice in 1 out of 3 trials – suppression.
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It would seem the Mongyang protesters today did a decent job of keeping the jacks on the buses, off the buses, on, off, load the horses onto the trailers, off the trailers, back on the trailers and so on.
No more fiery statements by Patton or Cornelius. Just grey-beige boilerplate about ‘risk to the safety of Victorians’ by an unnamed spokesmanchick.
Transmissions are going into reverse everywhere.
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So I’m a bit sad about Joe’s plight
Bruce, you are absolutely right. Unless Neil turns up again, I will desist.
Burns is a better batsman than I ever was, and I was okay. Plus, he’s played for Australia, is a Shield regular and has been for years, and does okay in the hit and giggle too.
A decent lower middle order bat on the world stage, but with a technique unsuited to opening. Shit, he’s probably a decent bloke to boot. I went back and looked the first innings. He made 48 out of a 152 total.
So piss off, you dickless upticking Burns haters. Throw your venom where it belongs. At Warner.
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Bruce O’Newk:
It’s really breathtaking how awful the Biden Usurpation is. I didn’t realize why the jam in US ports has been occurring until now.
That is Economic Sabotage on a grand scale. Stalin had a name for them “Wreckers”.
He had them shot.
It’s time to lock the doors on our ruling institutions, keeping all the innocent and guilty inside, and turning off the power and food deliveries. -
No more fiery statements by Patton or Cornelius. Just grey-beige boilerplate about ‘risk to the safety of Victorians’ by an unnamed spokesmanchick.
This is not backing off vax/LockDan protests per se.
This is preparing the way for events in the not-too-distant future.
The Glasgow Save-da-Planet gab-fest starts on 31st October.
Hunchback will want to let Extinction Rebellion run a bit of street theatre to stick it to ScoMo.
So look for some gymnastics around a permit for that.
The phrase “concerned grandparents worried about the planet’s future” should be the anchor in everyone’s multis on Cup weekend. -
In our clever courts the wisest of the Wise have found this…
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/oct/16/government-accused-of-shirking-responsibility-in-bid-to-overturn-ruling-against-aboriginal-deportation
In February 2020 the high court held in a narrow four-three split that Aboriginal Australians cannot be aliens within the meaning of the constitution and cannot be deported.In a case before the federal court Shayne Paul Montgomery, a New Zealand man, is seeking to fight deportation by extending the category of non-citizen non-alien to people who have been culturally adopted as Aboriginal, although they have no Aboriginal biological descent.
So not Aboriginal.
I stick my dick in a horse it doesnt make me blood kin to Phar lap.Heres the chaps origin countries from another linked story.
The plaintiffs were born in Papua New Guinea and New Zealand, each with one Aboriginal parent, and faced deportation due to laws which allow the cancellation of visas on character grounds.…
Stolen generators/”My Aunty was a kangaroo for census purposes” gets a run again.
“By bringing this on, the commonwealth is seeking to drag us back to a situation where an Aboriginal person could be an alien in their own country,” she said.…
The home affairs department has revealed that, as of April, nine people have been released from immigration detention as a result of the decision and satisfying the three-part test of Aboriginal descent, self-identification and community recognition.Those include Brendan Thoms, whose case will be back before the high court in the new year, to determine whether the commonwealth is liable for holding him in detention. A further 20 people in immigration detention are having their claims assessed.
Interesting that the highest court in the land found that actual citizenship is meaningless as long as the “one drop” rule applies.
And in at least one case not even that.
In her minority judgment, Kiefel warned it was up to parliament to determine who is an “alien” and the court should not “usurp” that role by adopting an interpretation based on what it “perceives to be a desirable policy”.Allowing Aboriginal Australians’ legal status as non-aliens to be determined by elders with traditional authority “would be to attribute to the group the kind of sovereignty” rejected even in the landmark Mabo native title cases, she said.
Race is “irrelevant to the questions of citizenship and membership of the Australian body politic”.
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Via James Woods.
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
@MayorofLondon
I am so deeply, deeply saddened by the tragic news that Sir David has passed away. He loved being an MP and was a great public servant. It is just awful. My thoughts and prayers, and those of all Londoners, are with David’s loved ones at this time of unimaginable grief.
1:30 AM · Oct 16, 2021·Twitter Web AppParaphrased:
Another loyal soldier has killed a conservative pig enemy of islam, may allah grant him entry to glory and 72 virgins.
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Premier Nerdlinger has tweeted that NSW went through 80% double jab today (for those 16 & over).
Meaning that 90% double shot is on track for 1st Dec if not before.I really hope not. I hope it plateaus well before then. My impression from the Q&A I mentioned in another thread is that corporates are more likely to impose mandates the closer the number approaches 100%.
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