Fuck off, Bird.

I’ve been listening to a great interview on Discernable the last hour with Prof Nickolai Petrovsky, Prof of Medicine at Flinders.

Dover, I caught the end of it, why is there this ongoing obsession that you need to “do” something about pandemics? This fucking thing has killed less than the 2017 flu and yet how many has the “doing” killed?

When these motherfuckers can produce a vaccine that performs as advertised then I will listen, for the moment they’re no better than fucking snake oil salesman.

The corflute mightier than the cordite?

I doubt it.

I patched enough Figure 11s between range shoot serials to agree with you wholehertedly on this.

Rolls and rolls of Orange and Black sticky dots…

Let me spell out how clever the “awful shot” line was.
Was there any point in the prosecution further pressing why the chap closest to danger was unarmed?

All the jury and public remember is that line.
Perfectly dropped at the perfect time.

Bruce of Newcastle says: Zeroes were a match for just about anything until the Mustang.

Hmm….dunno about that Bruce.

I’d rather be flying in a Hurricane or a P-40 Kittyhawk in the Pacific against the Zero.

Either would get you home when damaged as opposed to the Zero which could be pretty frail. Also no armour or self-sealing tanks.

In a dogfight the Zero would win. The trick was not to get into such a fight. Get up high; swoop on the bombers; zoom and have another go, and then bugger off before the Zeroes could catch you.

Yes Sancho, I have used the same.
Ramset ones are very loud. They have different colour paint dots for different power applications.

WA police officer ‘not guilty’ of killing Aboriginal woman Ms Clarke

Why didn’t he shoot her in the leg?
Remember Biden at one of the debates?
Shoot ’em in the leg.

I was advised of a flu booster shot in June after having the first shot around April.

Either your doctor is an utter genius or a complete idiot.

I’d rather be flying in a Hurricane or a P-40 Kittyhawk in the Pacific against the Zero.

F4F Hellcat would be my choice, simple to fly, built like a tank, plenty of firepower and could mix it with them on turn fight.

JC:

Turtle Head you were quite okay with those making racist slurs against me . In fact you joined them in pile on attempts, you clown. When the posse was destroyed you then threatened Sinclair with legal action because it was being mean to you , you ridiculous clown.

Is this about the bit where one of the girls called you the “Italian Stallion” and you strutted around here for a week like a rooster with it’s first erection crowing “Check this out girlies?”
That wasn’t racist – it was speciest.
I think it was the poor girl who was abused by her dad and was a psychological mess. Ellie?

I wasn’t the only one who noticed that.

How common are three monthly booster shots for the flu?

Never heard of that before today.

My package that took 3 days to get from the US to Oz has now been at Sydney Airport for 3 weeks.
Great country we have here.

Except what most people call “the flu” is actually a cold or mild throat infection.

Oh yes. Exhbit A: The young bloke. Comes home from his job last night. A bit snuffly and weary.
‘I think I have influenza.’

Not looking up from the teev: ‘No you don’t.’
‘How can you tell?’

‘You are alive.’

‘Dr. Fauci May Have Committed Perjury’: AG Asked If Fauci Will Be Investigated For Lying To Congress

‘Like Having The Fox Guard The Henhouse’: Gaetz Grills Garland On DOJ Hiring Former Activists

I fart in their general direction.

Sol Levy Tobacconist was also on that strip, the shop had traded for over 100 years. Closed in 2014.

Sydney Tech in 1963 where I did the Day Matric was just around the corner in Harris Street. I used to often go to the small tech library to study and then walk home to my basement room in a seedy part of town. Before setting off I would call into the Orion Cafe (we called it the Onion) next to the pub on the corner and have my evening meal of their sausages, tomato, mashed potato, peas and two slices of bread and butter with a cup of tea – around two or three shillings. I liked the area. Used to work copywriting in an advertising agency in lower Sussex Street before that so was also familiar with Dixon Street but it was in another life to tech. I found the Malaya Restaurant early on, but my best memories are of going there with the thesis year honours class at SU for my u/grad degree in 1967.

In the days at tech in 1963, sometimes I’d pick up a Chinese meal from a hole-in-the-wall shop down at Circula Quay close by to where I lived and eat it when I got in – always the same, chicken, rice and tomato sauce with onions – always delicious. I made some good friends at the tech, but at around four or five years younger than me they all lived at home, so my weeknight evenings were often very lonely; I’d moved away from the advertising crowd by then. Weekends though, the Day Matric had parties and good times, not often, but fun. They put on a rip-roaring twenty-first birthday for me. Their card said ‘we were always told to respect our elders’. I hope you realise, I told them, that until I met youse lot I put my age up two years so anyone knowing me before would think I was now 23. They were mainly wayward North Shore and Eastern Suburbs kids from private schools having another go at the Leaving Certificate. More big homes and another world, just like the advertising crowd, but I had no pretending to do with them about being educated and sophisticated. They were all agape at my ‘independent living’ and impressed with some original artworks in my room which some previous friends had loaned to me.

Sol Levy Tobacconist was also on that strip, the shop had traded for over 100 years. Closed in 2014.

Not to mention the Crystal Palace Hotel, essentially a Malaya pre drinks. There were also a couple of gun shops if I recall rightly.

There is a new thread.
Get there before the vaxxers spoil it with buyers remorse.

Dot:

Oil Prices Could Explode As U.S.’ Largest Storage Hub Nears Empty

I mentioned several days ago that the supply issues affecting the West may be a deliberate ploy to force the US and Europe to continue to draw down their oil stocks to cripple the US economy.
So two questions to be answered:
1. Will/can the Canadians make up for the shortfall via the pipelines – and can the cancelled pipeline be built/filled quickly enough to make a difference?
2. Is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve able to fulfill the demand for fuel, and can it be drawn down quickly enough to make a difference?
3. According to the chart here, the Reserve is authorised to hold 727 million barrels, but is currently at 615 million barrels.
4. …aaand – our reserves of diesel are safely stored in the US.

Winston Smith says:
October 23, 2021 at 6:20 am

I mentioned several days ago that the supply issues affecting the West may be a deliberate ploy to force the US and Europe to continue to draw down their oil stocks to cripple the US economy.

I missed that, not around often, but you may have your finger on it.

As to our reserve diesel is stored in the US?
That has to be a deliberate piss take by the government, nobody and I mean nobody, not even a politician can be that stupid as to call that a “strategic reserve” to be drawn upon in an emergency.

That part of old Sydney stirred some memories last night for a lot of people, Arky.

Don’t be so Melbourne about it. 🙂

FlyingPigs says:
October 23, 2021 at 4:25 am

Now that Australia is a proven fascist economy can we get the oligarch food dispensers to cook some decent chips???
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Make your own Triple Cooked Chips & you’ll never buy chips again.

Fork pierce one side of a few decent sized spuds, zap ’em 5 minutes forked side down then another fork side up.
Meanwhile have the oven heating to top heat.
After zapping give ’em another 5 minutes in the oven, just enough to crisp the skin.
Get ’em out, cut in half to speed the cooling to a heat you can handle.
Meanwhile get the oil heated in a fryer or pot.
Peel the crispy skin off (or not; I like the skin fried quickly, separately), and cut into about 6 to chunky chips per spud.
Don’t over crowd, cook in smaller batches until literally golden brown.
The rough surface browns super crisp, with that crispy roast potato flavour, the inside is a fluffy delight.
Salt. Devour.
It’s sounds more fiddly than normal peeled & fried chips but isn’t.
Most of the work is done by the microwave & oven & the hands on work is quick & easy.