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if there British roots are anything like Aston Martin’s, send them over’ere
how do you know so much about this?
Calling Dr Cat What is the effect of tube diameter and wall stiffness on home blood pressure monitors? Quick search…
DoverCat doesn’t like mathematical symbols for less than, more than used together.
Cohen/Matt Canavan:
Best Part Award – … climate change activism has become the new ‘white man’s burden’.
Very mainstream.
Mudblood = Muggles
Sounds like Harry Potter to me.
I would like a flying car. Was it a Hillman Imp?
Source data – link is just above the graph – try looking next time
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1027511/Vaccine-surveillance-report-week-42.pdf
I don’t know what your point is. I don’t want the COVID vaccine and I STILL get the ill will that you do.
Some people, are just rabid and have tunnel vision.
Alec Baldwin Just Shot & Killed a Crew Member On Set – “Accidently”
Columbine, Virginia Tech, Tuscon…ALEC BAWLDWIN.
Enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8PBfytMkrw
The lady this piece of shit killed was talented and a looker. Liability both compensatory and criminally is going to be interesting.
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Anonymous blog reader “Dot” (?) informs Ms Tame she is not an elected representative nor does she hold a statutory or judicial commission of any kind.
Dot,
SRR stands for Scroll Rapidly Round, you satanist! 😛
Trying <.>.
HMMM, that did not work.
People are under stress. Bigtime. You have to expect the feathers to fly.
I have found that the least judgemental and most free-thinking comments, or non commenting, has come from those most impacted by the while sh*tshow. The ones who have been alone, under curfew, now looking at losing their jobs.
This doesn’t come as a surprise.
And some with young families too. You have to be impressed.
Because the meeja has to dumb everything down, you’re either a provaxxer or antivaxxer.
I, personally, an vax agnostic.
If you’re allowed to have 51 gender fluidities, fuck me, I’m somewhere between 2 and 50 of the 51 vax fluidities.
Here’s A Suggestion:
No help here, sorry.
Woof!
https://thesydneyinstitute.com.au/blog/issue-564/
Nancy’s Friday edition is out. I’ll be off for a while..
Yes and some people talk about what they are enduring and others keep it to themselves and just want to have reasonable discussions as a distraction from what they have no control over.
I believe it was Ford Anglia.
Anonymous blog reader “Dot” (?) informs Ms Tame she is not an elected representative nor does she hold a statutory or judicial commission of any kind.
Tell that to Chant n Young.
Ambitious young soldiers should be punctilious about saluting in the field. Not only are you left alone but it can lead to a varied and exciting career
Aha! It was too!
Ugly little buggers, the both of them.
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Take up knitting. This is a politics blog.
‘KD at 12:47.
Are you on Nilk’s Discordant Cats?’
I looked at it but too fiddly and I like it here, although the recent behavior of the less cultured cognoscenti has required the proprietor to remove the Chesterfields and the good glassware and replace it with plastic chairs and plastic cups, it’s still ok but not as nice.
Pity I’ve followed nilk on and off for a long time, I especially liked her blog about Doveton and surrounds.
Men in the west, especially Australian men, should not join the Army.
What do you get back in return?
You can get a good salary elsewhere.
You are no longer fighting for freedom. You’re also a second class citizen for being a man, and most likely, white.
Let the stunning and brave women and trannies fight. Let them be the cops as well…and prison guards and firefighters.
I quite like the Anglia.
It’s the first car I remember going for a ride in when I was c. 2 y.o..
The roof’s interior lining had little stars all over it.
Indolent. Fat Tony. Don’t come in here stinking up the place with official data. Nobody wants to know.
Geddit?
Mastercard is beating the government here and in the US to the punch.
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I’m once again vindicated as the west follows China’s footsteps in destroying all freedom and privacy on the internet. Except as usual western governments don’t have the balls to do it themselves, they strong-arm private companies into it…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vYmecNGZIQ
Some Cats would benefit from DMT.
It’s not gay & it’s cooler than Thorium.
Baba says:
October 22, 2021 at 4:28 pm
Indolent. Fat Tony. Don’t come in here stinking up the place with official data. Nobody wants to know.
Sorry Sir – just a rush of blood – won’t happen again, Sir!
I only want DMT if I am guaranteed of talking to the machine elves, them being real and me remembering it all.
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The bet is for the usual – $1. (Thanks Trading Places.)
Not looking good for you JC.
And don’t bother claiming I’ve altered the scenario – if necessary, I’ll repost the original and let people know what a lying piece of shit you are.
I promise nothing Dot. Nothing !
Nah, nothing beats gypsum.
Wow. Whoa.
Screen apnea.
Never heard of it before today.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bryanrobinson/2020/11/14/is-your-computer-screen-stealing-your-breath-6-tips-to-avoid-screen-apnea/
“Yessir! Snipers in the area Sir! They’re going for the officers, Sir!”
calli, those UK numbers were normalised to per 100,000.
Except for Zaharakis and he came out of it looking good.
Should one unlucky AFL player have a severe response to the jab either now or later then there will be hell to pay.
Not true. I asked a question about the numbers. No one seemed to know or hazard a guess. So the interpretation still remains opaque, to me at least.
Asking questions shouldn’t be a hanging crime here. You may want to send me to the naughty corner though.
As at close of business yesterday, NSW 16 years old & above:
92.8% double jab.
83.7% single jab.
Rosie – The data table is from the UK government report linked in the gab post.
Sancho – The data table is from the UK government report linked in the gab post.
Took me one click to see and read the Gab post and one extra click to open the PDF at the link, then scrolled down to find the table.
I’ll leave it at this without further commentary. (JC -will probably now turn up “saying do you believe me or your lying eyes?”)
Thanks Eyrie. So proportionally more vaxxed people are getting covid than unvaxxed, regardless of the numbers tested.
So you have to ask why? Are there behavioural differences? Geographical? Socio-economic?
Or does vaccination make them more susceptible to infection? How would that work?
Speaking of which. Apparently our brand new shiny quarantine camps will be staffed by police and prison guards. For our safety of course.
Search “Victorian quarantine hub – Community information session” on vic.gov.au.
Business idea.
Charter business shuttling NSW punters to the clinic in San Jose for DMT trips.
Well, that made me smile. My very first car, china blue, cost me all of $330 and it served me well until the brakes failed crossing Nicholson St at Park Street one afternoon on my way home from work. 4pm and I sailed through at full speed and there was not another vehicle to be seen. Would have been incredibly messy had I encountered a tram from either direction.
Still remember it fondly though.
Or does vaccination make them more susceptible to infection? How would that work?
“Vaccines” produce the spike protein.
COVID produces the spike protein.
Can we assume the spike proteins are identical?
Thankfully the significant other rose for a while. That garbage wasn’t going to take itself out.
Just as I thought to check she hadn’t sweated through the sheets she was back in bed.
Filthy vax pushers.
I hope she’s up in again to get the animals’ dinner ready. And mine.
I did.
And yes, Calli you alone did express interest. I was exercising a bit of poetic licence. I apologise.
Just spoke to boss, apparently the way the leave system works is that I have next years issue available on a pro-rata basis, have been asked to take that to get me to the 19th of November. Will do this, but won’t touch long service leave no matter what. Site based job so they continue to say no to working from home. Boss recommended that I stop doing all the things I’ve been doing to keep things ticking over.
This is 1930’s Germany stuff that government is playing, tidbits of new rules, regulations, piecemeal extensions. Everyone hoping that it’s going to get better, but it doesn’t, it never gets better.
Lives hanging in the balance on one mans decree.
Oy, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, calli.
Or to quote the late, great Adams, D:
“You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know.”
I don’t see the same from the pro vaccination who generally seem to try putting up reasonable arguments supported by facts.
I dont see the vaccinated threatened with loss of jobs, bans from social events and shops and getting to the stage where their kids are threatened with no school unless both parents are jabbed.
eg..
As a result, Simone said their one-year-old son – who has had his childhood shots – would no longer be able to attend day care because unvaccinated parents were banned from drop-off while the couple may also need to move back in with Simone’s parents.
Sick sick shit.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/no-pay-in-2022-for-teachers-who-baulk-at-covid-vaccination-20211014-p5901t.html
some highlights of that article..
New data also shows nine construction sites have been closed down since the sector reopened with a vaccine mandate on October 5, while 45 sites have been fined between $1800 and almost $11,000 for breaching regulations.
…
On Thursday Health Minister Martin Foley confirmed the mandate would be in place indefinitely.
…
Those who refuse to get vaccinated will be prevented from obtaining a worker permit
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When term one begins on January 28 next year, unvaccinated teachers will no longer be able to access leave entitlements, according to Education Department correspondence circulated to all school staff.
They will be considered “absent without leave” after that date before the department can legally terminate their employment from April 28.
…
Lisa Fitzpatrick, Victorian secretary of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation, said she did not have data available, but her sense was only a very small number of nurses were adamantly opposed to the vaccine
“For some people, nothing will change their opinion and that is a shame as we enter the peak of cases,” Ms Fitzpatrick said. “But there are consequences for all choices we make.”
…
Unvaccinated arent the ones forcing the muggles to do a damn thing except leave them alone.
Some conjectures…
The numbers involved mean vaxxed cases will outnumber unvaxxed.
Pfizer seems to lose effectiveness after 6 months.
I know this has been mentioned here but clinical study of the issue has been lagging. The Israeli’s have done a study which is undergoing peer review and which will shed more light on just how quickly and at what rate Pfizer loses efficacy. Another study has been completed in the UK. Once these stduies are out they will no doubt shape the discussion on booster shots for Pfizer recipients at least.
Variants.
Behaviours and the state of individual immune systems.
Indeed!
Well, it doesn’t.
It’s a dreary statistical population and sampling thing. Baba @ 4:02 sort of describes it.
But it’s much more fun to pretend that the older vaxxed have been infected with magical properties that attract the Curse of Rona.
Snow would be part of the appeal.
When I was in Japan I would have people say, as if to impress me, that Japan has 4 seasons. I would look them at them with an impish eye and tell them that every country has four seasons. But I knew what they meant. I remember the delight I felt the first time I woke up and found it had snowed overnight. And that was a pretty crappy suburb. But it was enough to breath fresh life back into a wonder I thought I had left back in childhood.
Summer was the opposite. Not just because it was hot, but because there was no joy in it. It was shit.
I’m an alumnus of Cox’s Rd Primary.
Close to a certain ‘hospital’ out that way.
When Hollywood make believe goes real.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-22/shooting-alec-baldwin-on-set-new-mexico-prop-gun/100560672
I agree. I miss it a little bit here.
But for the survival type situation, or just living off-grid, it’s much easier with no cold season.
Calli.
There has been a bit of confusing raw numbers and proportional data.
That was the point I was making the other day.
We know the vax isn’t fully effective, so some vaxxed people will contract Kung Flu and some will die.
If we have 98% vaxxed, the fact that the vax is effective is lost in the raw numbers. You could have 100 deaths from the vaxxed and 50 from the unvaxxed, but proportionately the unvaxxed are more impacted.
The other point is that maybe vax effectiveness decays over time. If that is so, the increase in infections among the vaxed might be among those who were vaxxed 9-10 months ago with diminished protection.
That is just a guess.
Sort of? I fucking nailed it.
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Read page 23 of the report :
“(iii) recent observations from UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) surveillance data that N antibody levels appear to be lower in individuals who acquire infection following 2 doses of vaccination.
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Misled by a false sense of security?
The pandemic of the vaccinated.
Official British data out today:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1027511/Vaccine-surveillance-report-week-42.pdf
https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1451367337035239425
I think the point is, mole, that the anger should be directed at those writing and enforcing the rules.
Not at those who have simply chosen to get vaxed, and are generally against vax mandates.
This is where my hope lies: While people who have been penned up in their homes were brought by fear and isolation to accept, and even clamour for, vaccines. When they have had a chance to reconnect with friends and life and to see that life goes on, and to have friends at the pub say with annoyance that they have to go get their eff’n boosters, followed by the bizarre commiseration where people sympathise by relating lurid stories of agonising vaccine-deaths and vaccine-zombies, then there will be a push back that will appear on polls.
Our political leaders worked hard to weaken people psychologically and then take advantage of that to press vaccines upon them.
When people regain their selves and feel they are part of a broader group they will push back.
Is it time for Donald Trump to start taking the piss out of Baldwin?
“Sure, I said some crazy stuff on Twitter, but I never shot anyone on a film set.”
The film armorer has some serious questions to answer.
“Halyna Hutchins, 42, director of photography, and Joel Souza, 48, director, were shot when a prop firearm was discharged by Alec Baldwin, 68, producer, and actor.”
Clearly someone doesn’t understand that blanks are deadly at close range.
Sancho
The gun’s always loaded
The dog always bites
The horse always kicks.
Old rules apply and the law should apply to Baldwin as with anyone using a firearm. He should have checked.
I have a vague memory that this isn’t the first time this has happened.
Sort of? I fucking nailed it.
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Pretty much.
(Format fail before)
As CL has noted previously, if you wander from the reservation the Cathedral will characterize your reasoning as a ‘bizarre rant’. This time it’s Kelly Slater in the crosshairs:
‘I know more than 99 percent of doctors’: Kelly Slater causes chaos with bizarre vaccine rant
They used to have a lengthy elephant gun in the shop window which required two men to operate. It was there for years, not much demand for elephant guns in Sydney.
I have a vague memory that this isn’t the first time this has happened.
It was the exit strategy applied to Brandon Lee (son of Bruce Lee)
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Did any Republicans pounce? They do that apparently.
Something that was very clearly explained to us 40 years ago before we were ever allowed to get with touching distance of a military weapon.
The man is an idiot and should have the book hurled at him with extreme prejudice.
Maybe not his fault.
As rickw says, “blanks” are packed with wadding which is going to discharge. At twenty metres it is probably no big deal. At two metres it might be a different story. The dead woman was the cinematographer. If they were trying a close up of a shot fired directly at the camera for dramatic effect, surely the technology exists to do this remotely without the cameraman sitting in the line of fire.
And the armorer should have insisted on it. He has the final call on how guns are used on set.
Old bloke says:
October 22, 2021 at 5:32 pm
They used to have a lengthy elephant gun in the shop window which required two men to operate. It was there for years, not much demand for elephant guns in Sydney.
Would it have been a punt gun?
https://www.reddit.com/r/H3VR/comments/h996wf/this_is_a_punt_gun_its_a_massive_shotgun_often/
Wasn’t there also a “Gangsta Rap” video involving firearms which ended in tears?
Here’s a flying Imp doing Bathurst with other old-timers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBjY3VdX5Oc
Wasn’t there also a “Gangsta Rap” video involving firearms which ended in tears?
I think quite a few gangsta rap sessions ended in tears involving firearms.
Wasn’t there also a “Gangsta Rap” video involving firearms which ended in tears?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Brisbane.
Well done.
Why are you always picking on Queensland?
A dopey young actor called Eric (?) Hexum held a blank-loaded gun to his temple and pulled the trigger for a joke. Blew his face off. That was back in the 1990s, I think.
I remember trying to write a headline about it and sincerely regretting that good taste prevented the use of ‘Dum-dum for a dumb dumb’
As George Mallory said of Mt Everest …
Wasn’t there also an Aussie actor starring in a US series who blew his brains out playing Russian Roulette with a pistol & blanks ?
He can serve 57 months then, like Noor.
At the Noor resentencing | Power Line (21 Oct)
Special people are special. But not-special people aren’t special.
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Grannies with signs are much more deadly than diversity hirings or actors with blanks.
I thought that was Robert Falcon Scott.
I guess one orange man is now a murderer whereas the other one isn’t?
The corflute mightier than the cordite?
I doubt it.
This.
““Halyna Hutchins, 42, director of photography, and Joel Souza, 48, director, were shot when a prop firearm was discharged by Alec Baldwin, 68, producer, and actor.””
I’m shocked it was loaded.
Xi blinks.
China’s Evergrande Makes Last Minute Interest Payment On Dollar Bond, Avoiding Default (21 Oct)
Maybe this has something to do with it:
Evergrande Shares Tumble On Sale Failure, 97% Plunge In Sales As Markets Brace For Chinese Default Avalanche (21 Oct)
Collateral damage is a bitch.
Great stuff. Interesting to see how a small engined 4-speeder competes with larger, bigger engined 3-speeder.
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I don’t think a misfire is what you think it is, idiots.
Good Lord.
What reason did he have to rouse on Queensland?
Much as I think Baldwin is a dick, it is going to depend on the facts.
If the armorer signed off on the direction, and Baldwin followed that direction, the armorer is in trouble.
If Baldwin was warned it was dangerous and was meant to aim well off to the side but decided to fuck around, well he is in strife.
Jon-Erik Hexum — one of the most handsome men I’ve ever seen, the most amazing blue eyes, very sad.
Misfire is not the same as “I pointed it at someone’s head and accidentally pulled the trigger and put some brass in their neck”.
My understanding is that the muggle produced spike protein has been engineered to remain in a certain configuration that is more stable than the viral spike protein.
Something to do with the viral spike protein binding to cells and changing configuration so as to allow entry of the virus into the cell.
If I am remembering correctly, the vaxxes have been predicted to cause identical symptoms to the viral infection, which can be confused, accidentally or deliberately, with natural infection. I think it was Robert Malone who predicted this.
Something no Queenslander has ever said, “You know, I think I’ll retire in Victoria.”
Because it was there.
What other reason could there be?
Sancho – He shot the director, and the director of photography, who died. Directors are gods. At least in Hollywood.
There is no possible way that it could be a staged arrangement which went wrong. Directors are directors. They aren’t in the film. I can imagine him being stupid (‘hey guys they’re only blanks! *bam* *bam* See? Oops.’) since he’s never been the brightest shearer in the shed, but I can’t imagine how this could occur in a planned but unsafely managed manner.
Alec Baldwin was the producer and lead actor. Plus Hollywood/Democratic royalty.
If anyone goes down it’s the armourer.
In other words, bribing marginal electorate voters.
We desperately need an Uncle Jack.
And the “naughty books”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEAevDIAwS4
Hope they gave the idiot a drug and alcohol test. London to a brick he was plastered.
This Baldwin thing is literally like the plot of an old Colombo episode.
Just one more thing, Mr Baldwin…
Dan saves Victoria, after having bludgeoned her within an inch of her life:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-58998418
I think the point is, mole, that the anger should be directed at those writing and enforcing the rules.
Not at those who have simply chosen to get vaxed, and are generally against vax mandates.
I reserve the right to be testy to anyone, vaxed or unvaxed coming chirping in with ‘vaxes are grrrreat”… while ignoring the pile of pachyderms in the room of forced consent is not consent.
If you accept I should be forcibly vaccinated for a disease with a .01% chance of killing me then you are in for a shit of a time when im dictator for life.
Compulsory mastectomies for the over 40’s.
If it saves just one life.
etc, etc…
https://www.healthline.com/health/breast-cancer/breast-cancer-20s-30s#prevalence-and-incidence
According to the National Cancer InstituteTrusted Source, if you’re in your 30s, your risk of breast cancer is 1 in 204, or about 0.4 percent.
By age 40, the risk is roughly 1 in 65, or about 1.5 percent.*
By age 60, the chance increases to 1 in 28, or 3.5 percent.
Out of all types of cancer, though, breast cancer is the most common among U.S. women. The average U.S. woman’s risk of developing breast cancer during her lifetime is about 12 percent
*Higher than the chance of carking it from covid in the same age group…
Don’t be sally, Miss Calli.
If anyone goes down it’s the armourer.
Only if there were live rounds floating around which doesn’t seem to be the case.
I’ll leave the ardent appreciation of man flesh to you, Tinta.
Yes, it was just like that. It was in their shop window in the 50’s, I remember asking my Dad it he had one like that during the war.
“No son, we had better guns”
“What were they Dad?”
“Beaufighters and Kittyhawks son”
Re: jab statistics. If the jab worked as advertised the number of people (not proportion) getting ill and being jabbed would be miniscule. Just like the Ivermectin protocol actually delivers. There would be no need to quote jabbed ill people, they should only be in single digits.
Jon-Erik Hexum — one of the most handsome men I’ve ever seen, the most amazing blue eyes, very sad.
Yes, was a handsome chap; reminds me of me when I was younger.
Oooooh, yes. Nice.
Shame he was stupid.
Salty cracker on Baldwin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8PBfytMkrw
Thanks, areff. I should have learned to drive it like that. Although the 200 metres without brakes felt a bit that way. Wheeee!
Thanks areff — I rarely am ardent on man flesh but Jon-Erik Hexum warrants the ardour.
Arky says:
October 22, 2021 at 6:11 pm
A spokesperson for Baldwin told the Associated Press there was an accident on the set involving the misfire of a prop gun with blanks.
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I don’t think a misfire is what you think it is, idiots.
Yep, total bullshit.
Misfires don’t fire at all or are delayed but that’s called a hang fire.
Plus no one likes to look at over 40 boozzies.
Into the incinerator they go!
oh cohenite, what an opportunity missed, sadly tempus fugit and all that.
I have been commenting on Gerard’s word count. He has tightened up since I started- from 7700 words of sludge a few weeks ago, down to a tight and well written 4800 last week.
Hard to get it through Paywallian moderators though.
A great shame indeed calli, sometimes a dream-boat becomes a ship-wreck when you engage in conversation.
And don’t forget ‘Smart’ TV’s that are like Alexa but ‘see’ you to.
They’re already quite old technology.
The unvaxxed in 10 years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MT532U7mNE
Sounds like this firearm will soon be checking in for voluntary psychiatric treatment.
Black powder is used because it looks better effect-wise.
It wouldn’t surprise me if someone* said ‘I need more, I want more.’
*Obviously not someone like a Co-Prod/Lead Actor/Once Was A Big Swinging Dick
trying to get back into serious fillums after years playing second fiddle on the teev.
Sounds like this firearm will soon be checking in for voluntary psychiatric treatment.
Word is the gun has failed its drug test.
I wonder if Arek Baldrin will be shameless enough to try and go the full retard and come out swinging against the NRA like fatty Weinstein did?
@ Digger:
I see you and raise you…..
Here in central NSW, they are telling us MAP/DAP (mono ammonium /Di ammonium phosphate will be well in excess of $1000/tonne, perhaps $12-$1400, and urea even higher. Couple of years ago both were around $500/tonne.
Blame = China, not making it and holding back on supply, limited production capacity in Aus (Phosphate Hill in Qld can only supply so much, etc), limited alternative sources (Middle East is far away and of limited capacity etc.
Could be a fun time in 2022 for the croppers.
It’s Remarkablesays:
October 22, 2021 at 7:11 pm
Any chance potash could come to the rescue?
Hello
Was reading official history last night, the lead up to Japanese assault on Malaya and to Singapore. I’ll quote this bit* because it’s fun. From April 1941:
I actually laughed out loud at that. Sorry Chiefs of Staff people. Zeroes were a match for just about anything until the Mustang. Buffaloes um, weren’t. But there you go, armies and air forces do have an inflated view of their own stuff. Maybe the Biden US military will overcome that though (hoho).
* The Japanese Thrust, Wigmore, AWM WW2 war history V 4, p83.
Gerard, I get 6200 words in this. Your writing is definitely tighter!
While it’s true that Hewson ‘could bore for Australia’, Nancy’s efforts in the near past would have stood head and shoulders above, in the selectors’ estimation. Your adoption of Strunk and White’s famous dictum – ‘Omit needless words’ gives Australia a ‘net zero 2050’ target to be proud of!
For some reason I can’t put up a link. The title is:
8 prominent doctors & scientists engage in a remarkable exchange
Dated 3/10/31 and on YouTube- 45 minutes – where we are with the virus.
Hello
Yes, Bruce, I got that.
Were the actually filming at the time?
Were they looking for a dramatic shot towards the camera?
Was Baldwin fucking around between takes?
One possibility is a power imbalance problem. That is, Baldwin either takes no notice of the armorer or the armorer is too timid to tell the Big Star to pull his head in.
Who knows?
It is of course possible that the blank was an overload, or the barrel obstructed, to cause the barrel to shatter or otherwise disrupt. I read somewhere some mention of “shrapnel”. And if two people were shot with one discharge, it would seem unlikely that the round was live.
BoN, the Finns thought highly of their Brewster Buffalos.
Anyone wondering where Jamie lee Curtis fell on the hot/crazy matrix wonder no more.
Jamie Lee Curtis: ‘I’m a Grateful Student’ of My Trans Child
“I’m a grateful student. It’s learning new terminology and words,” the Halloween Kills star said in a recent interview with People.
Curtis revealed this past July that her biological son, with whom she shares with husband Christopher Guest, now identifies as a woman named Ruby, saying she watched “in wonder and pride” as the transition unfolded.
“I have watched in wonder and pride as our son became our daughter Ruby. And she and her fiancé will get married next year at a wedding that I will officiate,” Curtis said at the time.
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Curtis asserted that she always had a suspicion that Ruby would be transgender.
No. It’s a pretty closed industry. Even BHP couldn’t break into it, although they’re still trying* about 15 years after I looked at it.
The fertilizer hyperinsanity lately is because ammonia. Ammonia is because gas. Gas is because electricity. Electricity is because dumb-as-rocks renewable bird munchers and solar cells which don’t make electricity when needed. So gas price has quadrupled lately and all ammonia plants can’t make a profit any more. So they’ve shut down. Putin is crying into his vodka.
* BHP approves investment in Jansen Stage 1 potash project (17 Aug)
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COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report Week 42
Bruce of Newcastle
I was thinking of the couple of smaller (100,000t or so) Australian startups.
But yes, as you point out, electricity and gas going up makes a lot of fertilizer products significantly more expensive.
Kyle’s vaccine experience. Interesting that the doctor, without any investigation, discounted the vaxx when Kyle presented to emergency with heart problems.
Curtis should be given one of those compulsory mastectomies.
See how that goes.
Sources told Deadline, which initially reported that the incident occurred when Baldwin reportedly “cocked a gun during a rehearsal, unaware that there were live rounds in it, hitting two people, a man and a woman.” Representatives for Baldwin, a rabid anti-gun demagogue, did not immediately respond to media requests for comment.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/10/21/alec-baldwin-accidentally-shot-and-killed-female-cinematographer-injured-director-on-movie-set/
I would too if I was fighting I-15s and I-16s.
Which weren’t quite as good as a Zero or a Ki-43.
Bruce of N
I actually laughed out loud at that. Sorry Chiefs of Staff people. Zeroes were a match for just about anything until the Mustang. Buffaloes um, weren’t. But there you go, armies and air forces do have an inflated view of their own stuff.
IIRC, an Australian pilot in a Wirraway shot a Zero down over Buna, late 1942/early 1943. IIRn name was archer. Appropriate if so.
Turtle head says
I tried to take the bet, which you subsequently turned into a bet for dollar. What exactly am I lying about, you venom filled imbecile? I took a bet you ostentatiously posted a few days ago.
I’m okay with including Sourh Korea and India as long as they’re included in proportional economic terms. Now fuck and stop wasting people’s, you colossal clown
I got told by a heady overly excited couple of melbournians today that Victoria is now the most free state in Australia.
Weird place right?
For some reason Gab posts are truncated when I look at them.
Comments and links sometimes blocked.
What logical reason would there be to have “live rounds” on a fillem set?
Twostix.
On Nein Regional News tonight.
A representative of tourism operators in FNQ bleating that they desparately need international tourists back.
She’s bullshitting, right?
Daily Mail
To be fair…I didn’t either.
Protobirdguy was on annual camp. Zulu’s regiment were the enemy. So here’s Bruce coming off piquet at 3am. Dark as the inside of a giraffe. Reaches hoochie whereupon gets into a conversation with an unseen gentleman. As you do at 3am on a dark night in Newnes State Forest. Conversation continues for a short while then wet-behind-ears protobirdguy decides to let off a blank from his SLR…
Laconic comment from about 3m away “please point your rifle down when you do that”…
Worked but, naughty slinky Air Defense guys went away!
I’ve read one account of the first few days of World War Two of a Buffalo pilot straining to gain height, while a Zero – literally – flew rings around him…
My father used to say “Remarkable how many people get killed by unloaded weapons.”
Alternatively: Don’t worry, its empty.
I linked this presentation by David Cullen earlier but I think it bears repeating in case someone missed it.
IRELAND CONTINUES TO SLOUCH TOWARDS TOTALITARIANISM
He’s talking about Ireland but it’s almost exactly our experience. In fact, he ends with a grab from Dictator Dan which tempted me to smash my television.
When we were teenagers I had a borrowed .22 with a decent magazine (10-15 shots).
Had a shooting comp with my brother from only about 25 yards at a cardboard target up against a hay bale.
I hit it every time and he couldn’t make an impression.
What he didn’t know is that I had loaded the mag with alternate live rounds and every other round was one of those crimped-over blanks (I think the ones they used in the bolt guns in the abbatoirs).
I have heard this before, it may not fire a projectile but it still fires a charge which can be fatal at close range. You certainly don’t want to be on the receiving end of 10s of thousands of psi of compressed air.
Wow, BJ, that guy was a hero indeed. They were trainers, but when there’s nothing else that’s what you fly.
I had a look at the Brewster Buffalo wiki just now. Apart from the Fins, who Eyrie mentioned, there are one RNZAF, one Pom and two Australian Buffalo aces. Bloody heroes each of them, they are, too.
What he didn’t know is that I had loaded the mag with alternate live rounds and every other round was one of those crimped-over blanks (I think the ones they used in the bolt guns in the abbatoirs).
That’d be ratshot – very small lead pellets with an effective range of only a few metres
Rafe Championsays:
October 22, 2021 at 7:56 pm
I know because my uncle died in such circumstances.
I was at high school and went to school the next day when I was asked in the playground by two teachers ‘were you related to XX on the front page of the SMH today’.
WA police officer ‘not guilty’ of killing Aboriginal woman Ms Clarke
Ms Clarke.
Paige Taylor
Indigenous Affairs Correspondent, WA Bureau Chief
@paigeataylor
7 minutes ago October 22, 2021
The constable who fatally shot a Yamatji woman as she stood with a bread knife and a pair of scissors in a residential street has been found not guilty by a jury of her murder.
Sad but fair. Mad people with knives are dangerous.
Take note, NT top-rung jacks.
BJ – Your memory is excellent. Wirraway wiki:
Ki-43s look a lot like Zeros.
Can’t remember what they were, but they made no impression on a target 25 yards away.
The old story used to be that the old VicPol issue .38s wouldn’t penetrate a woollen blanket soaked in water.
Also, a 410 was harmless over 40 yards.
Never tempted to test any of those theories.
I would class a blank as a live round.
As a young Private on his IET, young Diogenes remembers his Section Commander setting up a watermelon on a stump, loading a single blank in the SLR and shooting the melon.
Lesson learned !
.32’s, yes. .38s, no.
There’s a pile of dead shitbags that can vouch for that.
China warns Slovaks, Czechs of retaliation for Taiwan minister visit
here’s another, in Brisbane this time, a stuntman taking part in the making of a rap video in 2017 was shot “with a blank round” – a double barrel shotgun loaded with two “blank cartridges unlawfully assembled”
https://www.smh.com.au/national/inquest-into-death-of-stuntman-on-bliss-n-esso-set-20210823-p58l9w.html
I didn’t follow this closely, but the bits I read smelt of rampant jealousies within the force.
Wasn’t there another SJW copper (probably ‘digenous liaison) saying that Ms Clarke was basically harmless and he had talked her out of a similar situation weeks beforehand?
Sounded a little like disgruntled diggers in Afghanistan putting a whole jar of mayo on their war crime stories.
President let’s go brandon says United States would come to Taiwan’s defence if needed
I must say before another Fred is put up, that Venus’s ars in that picture is gorgeous.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a case in point as to why you don’t try gun stunts you heard about from a bloke in a pub.
https://www.historynet.com/brewster-buffalo-finland.htm
Transitioned to Brewsters, Juutilainen called the 239s “fat hustlers, just like bees. They had speed, agility and good weaponry, too.…We were happy to take them anywhere to take on any opponent.”
From 1941 to ’44 LeLv 24 Brewsters claimed 477 victories for the loss of 19 in combat and six more in accidents or destroyed on the ground. Many have claimed that at 25-to-1 Finnish Brewsters recorded the highest victory-loss ratio of the war, but in fact that title belonged to the Grumman/Eastern FM-2 version of the F4F. Flying from escort carriers in 1944–45, the “Wilder Wildcat” scored a 32-to-1 record, undoubtedly the highest ratio of the piston era.
Between early 1943 and early ’44 the Finnish air force converted four of its six fighter units to Messerschmitt Me 109Gs, though the surviving Brewsters remained operational through war’s end.
RTWT. They weren’t just up against early war Soviet fighters. Good training and good tactics count.
I got told by a heady overly excited couple of melbournians today that Victoria is now the most free state in Australia.
The Bat Eared Mong is a symptom.
On 12 December 1942, the Wirraway achieved its only shoot-down of an enemy aircraft—thought to be a Mitsubishi A6M Zero at the time, but later determined to be a Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa[2]—while flown by Pilot Officer John S. “Jack” Archer.
Used to have a next door neighbour once who was a fighter pilot by the name of John Archer (“Starch”).
Yes.
I don’t think Entertainment reporters would know much about the subject.
Nor do I really, except that the armorer should have absolute control over any arms used on set.
I’ll bet the insurance policy covering production mishaps will have lots of very explicit exclusions for improper and uncontrolled use of firearms.
He was the bloke that testified to the Court that he was “an appalling shot.” W.T.F. was he doing, carrying a weapon?
My younger brother joined the AAR. That may be true, younger brothers tend to want to do what older brothers did, it being a testosterone thing. RAR not SUR though (which is regiment I was in, he attended the same uni). RAR got better stuff.
One of the stories he tells is when he got to fire a Charlie Gutsache blank. Great fun, although knowing my brother I’m not entirely sure such things actually exist. I had to carry the tube around on exercises, and shout “bang” at appropriate times. I never got to fire it.
Then he told me the fun thing was to put a full Coke can in the tube in front of the blank, and fire it at an APC…
Brothers, of course, are well known to be good BSAs. He’s now an internet CEO and quite well off, although he works like a Trojan.
Obviously Alec Baldwin will be cast in that role when the fillem is made.
To the best of my knowledge, mere possession of operational (as against blank) rounds anywhere on a film set is cause for instant dismissal, a total ban on ever working in the industry again and, where appropriate, law enforcement intervention.
Idiot child! I just accidentally clicked on “Report comment” … on my own post!! Neck oil needed.
Both exist – and he was there so I will allow they might be what he said.
The crimped blanks for .22 you might find include captive bolt guns for slaughtering, and Ramset nail gun cartridges for fixing nails into hard stuff. The little RWS acorn headstamp ones for starting guns are not likely to feed so would spoil the story.
Brucie, directors aren’t in movies, but they do ummm direct. Perhaps he was showing the actors how he wanted the scene played out .
Up yours JC.
Time to read book.
Thought provoking.
Will Constructor Theory REWRITE Physics?
(PBS Space Time)
It would be great to apply to economics, but normies think growth is BS, lefties think it is BS unless it is from Keynesian spending. Yep, only the public sector can change the possible set of outcomes, not private investment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYc97J2MZIo
Chris, I have a vague memory that there was a dob of purple or blue paint on the crimped end.
By crimped, I don’t mean flattened, I mean a ten or twelve sided puckered in star shaped crimp.
He was the bloke that testified to the Court that he was “an appalling shot.” W.T.F. was he doing, carrying a weapon?
When I got raided by the cops I had to show the glock carrying muppets how to check for clear on every single firearm. 1% of them are competent to use a BB gun safely.
Sanford and Zulu.
The appalling shot chap is pretty well my best mate of over 35 years.
He didn’t think she was harmless, just he had encountered and arrested her in similar circumstances weeks before.
Also worth remembering of the 8 cops on the scene only 3 of the 8 left their vehicles.
5 of them preferred to air in the cars as “ backup”.
As I explained to him, the prosecution had to paint him as doing a good job. The defence had to paint him as reckless or not acting right or their gambit was rooted.
It is, based on past performance he may have talked her down or disarmed her.
He’s pissed off that the defence lawyer labeled him and it’s stuck.
But at the same time reliever the cop was found not guilty.
It was a shit charge.
Now for the Feraldton riots to start.
Also, the guy I borrowed the rifle off was mates with a bloke who worked at the abs, and I kind of recall that is where they came from.
Think about that.
A teenager borrowing a rifle from another teenager, whose mate can just pick up a handful of charge rounds used in the bolt gun used at work.
Different times.
Lol , okay Brucie, have it your way. Brucie, let’s be brutally honest. Your explanation about mask wearing was absolutely deplorable and nothing will change change that. Not even those sad attempts at appealing to authority.
Yes mole.
Three degrees separation.
What really happened.
What evidence was advanced in court about that.
How that evidence was reported (or what was not reported).
And finally, how I skim-read bits of that report.
That should be Sanchez
Bloody spellwrecker
He’s a appalling shot but an extremely competent martial artist.
Far prefers the biffo if it comes to that.
His bucks night saw him dispatch 7 of the 12 chaps ( + 2 wailing woggettes egging them on) who wanted to find some skips to beat up.
I got to bust one sods nose before being sucker punched and the 3 rd member of our party didn’t even take a swing.
On my ROBC got to fire a real one, as well as run that range. mmmmmmmmm almost as good as firing a bank of claymores.
When I commanded the “enemy” (a dozen or so diggers pretending to be a platoon, 3 M60s, 3 gutsaches etc) for an exercise with 5/7RAR (when they still had the M113), we used to take the BFA off one SLR, stick in the back of Gutsache & pull the trigger to simulate firing of the real one. It certainly got the attention of the crew more than a simple “bang”.
Not a bad send up of psychopath Dan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4UZSUKNWjw
Interesting post, tfm. Yes. I’ll bet good money on a protest.