Open Thread-Weekend 23 Oct 2021


Bertran de Born – Eighth Circle, Gustave Dore, 1860s

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  1. JC Avatar

    Zip

    The big mac index isn’t an inflation indicator – that’s if it’s the Economist Big Mac Index thingi and not something else. The Big Mac index measures the *PPP of a big mac in various countries and then compares the cost to determine under or overvaluation of currencies against the Dollar etc.

    * Purchasing Power Parity.

    Makka doesn’t like it (Makka doesn’t like the Big Mac Index, get it) but I do. Most of the inputs are domestically based so for a rough and ready PPP it’s not bad.

  2. FlyingPigs Avatar
    FlyingPigs

    John Howard and Peter Costello worked for whom???

  3. twostix Avatar
    twostix

    Boomers can sit back and have a breathe a sigh of relief, it appears the title of the worst generation in the history of the world, is only going to last for a moment.

    Gen-x you godless fat man-titted lazy low-t soy poisoned cucks! What the hell is wrong with you??

  4. Knuckle Dragger Avatar
    Knuckle Dragger

    Ahahahahaaaaaaaaaa.

    Let’s go with this, _roomba. You never fail to go chomp. It’s funny stuff.

    Tell me what you think you know, derived with the assistance of TV shows and Google Maps, and I will tell you how wrong you are.

    Again.

  5. egg_ Avatar
    egg_

    Dazzle her with true crime theories based on partisan TV shows?

    How’s Colleen Gwynne’s committal hearing shaping up?

  6. C.L. Avatar
    C.L.

    Very interesting:

    As Infection Rates for Vaccinated Aged 40-79 Hit Double the Rates in the Unvaccinated, the U.K. Health Security Agency Suggests that Vaccines May Hobble the Immune Response on Infection.

    Another week, another Vaccine Surveillance report (now published by the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA), the successor to Public Health England), and with it more worrying news on the vaccine front.

    Infection rates in the double-vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated continue to rise, meaning unadjusted vaccine effectiveness continues to decline.

    RTWT.

  7. Knuckle Dragger Avatar
    Knuckle Dragger

    Colleen Gwynne

    I don’t know, _roomba. I haven’t taken an interest since she obviously covered for the real Falconio killer 20 years ago*.

    Right? Right?

    Have you found me on the DCDD database yet?

    *According to a jailhouse lawyer with a vested interest in Murdoch Bradley Johnson being released.

  8. egg_ Avatar
    egg_

    Knuckle Draggersays:
    October 24, 2021 at 10:30 pm

    Sounds like a (repetitive) script from an Alec Baldwin sitcom.

  9. Knuckle Dragger Avatar
    Knuckle Dragger

    Ha ha ha ha.

    Aaaaaaaha ha ha.

    Snort.

    This is gold.

  10. Winston Smith Avatar

    rickw:

    Radiator hose manufacture with zero OHS:

    Reminded me of the triple roll mill at the paint factory, used for grinding pigments for ink…

  11. egg_ Avatar
    egg_

    Colleen Gwynne

    I don’t know

    But, but… you were most upset over my “Free Colleen Gwynne” quip, remember?

    Alzheimer’s setting in?

    Truenadashadadapressure?

  12. feelthebern Avatar
    feelthebern

    Malice doesn’t stop.

    Michael Malice
    @michaelmalice
    all your coworkers
    Quote Tweet

    AlecBaldwin(HABF)
    @AlecBaldwin
    · Dec 6, 2014
    I’m going to make bright, banana yellow t-shirts that read “My hands are up. Please don’t shoot me.”

    Who wants one?

    4:13 PM · Oct 22, 2021·Twitter Web App

  13. Rex Anger Avatar
    Rex Anger

    Apart from migrating to England & joining the Labour party, I’m not sure what the country does.

    Sweatshop labour, students (there is something of a functional ‘Brain Drain’ amongst putative professionals with the money to get out), remittances from same, and the occasional Jihadi…

  14. Rabz Avatar
    Rabz

    I should know who is Steve Jones?

    Bluddee hell, JC. How could anyone existing on this planet who might refer to themselves as a personage with an appendage not know who the mighty Steve Jones is?

    The guitarist on this anthem. Stole all his equipment from fat comfy ol’ hippie dinobores while the latter were havin’ a snooze … 🙂

  15. twostix Avatar
    twostix

    The moment the boomers left politics the people on our supposed ‘side’ who took over from them, simply immediately rode across the battlefield and joined the bolsheviks and gave us all the finger.

    That’s the last five years of politics in a nutshell.

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  16. Knuckle Dragger Avatar
    Knuckle Dragger

    Sounds like a (repetitive) script

    It’s your script. You keep bringing this up.

    I don’t need to do anything else but say the same things.

    Ahahahaaaa ha ha.

    Now. The Viet chick. Seriously. How’d you go? You don’t mind me asking, right, after your very publicly announced quest to catch a rice burner?

  17. Rabz Avatar
    Rabz

    Apart from migrating to England & joining the Labour party

    This is my plan, minus the labore pardee bit. I need to be at least on the same side of the planet as many English Roses. 🙂

  18. Knuckle Dragger Avatar
    Knuckle Dragger

    AH HAHA HA HA HA HA.

    you were most upset over my “Free Colleen Gwynne” quip, remember

    I wasn’t upset, you dope. I merely mentioned that it was pointless saying ‘free Colleen’ when she was not and has never been in jail.

    Is that was all this was about? Seriously?

    AH HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAA SNORT HAHAHAHAHAAAA.

    Oh God, this is brilliant.

  19. feelthebern Avatar
    feelthebern

    I’m two & half episodes into The North Water.
    Jeebers, not for the delicate ones.

  20. egg_ Avatar
    egg_

    I wasn’t upset, you dope. I merely mentioned that it was pointless saying ‘free Colleen’ when she was not and has never been in jail.

    Course not, Cate.

    A mere quip re “Free Bradley Manning” elicits demands of “walk it back!”.

    Retard.

    Still defending VicPlod vs the Lockdown protesters, or in denial?

  21. Knuckle Dragger Avatar
    Knuckle Dragger

    Ha ha ha.

    You’re all over it, _roomba. Don’t miss a trick. One hundred per cent. Not confused at all.

    Check your email.

  22. Jorge Avatar
    Jorge

    Julia and George are here because of John Howard.

    Single handedly he has resurrected the Australian film industry.

    Eat shit Phatty.

  23. JC Avatar

    How did you go with the Viet chick? You know the one. The one you publicly set yourself 14 days to conquer.

    Lol.. Really? Eggles joins Animal House Fraternity? Wow.

    Eggly the conqueror.

  24. egg_ Avatar
    egg_

    ‘free Colleen’

    The corrupt dyke plod?

    NT knuckle dragger, ‘course.

  25. Knuckle Dragger Avatar
    Knuckle Dragger

    A mere quip re “Free Bradley Manning”

    Aha ha ha. Gets better. Nooooooo _roomba, you’re not prone to mixing up concepts and ideas and places and names and times whaaaaatsoever.

    Find a post where I defended the jacks during the protests. You can’t. Nobody can because I haven’t. Quite the opposite, in fact.

    Like your thought processes on pixels. The opposite effect to that intended.

    The Viet chick and the quest you advertised. Results, please. In your own time.

  26. Knuckle Dragger Avatar
    Knuckle Dragger

    ‘free Colleen’

    The corrupt dyke plod?

    Exhibit A.

    That was your own quote, you dill.

  27. egg_ Avatar
    egg_

    You’re all over it

    I’m sure many were enthralled by your chest thumping at the time, Cate?

    Trying to publicly walk back your “walk it back” remark?

    The ironing.

  28. egg_ Avatar
    egg_

    ‘free Colleen’

    The corrupt dyke plod?

    Exhibit A.

    Yes, Exhibit A.

    Now it’s just poor li’l ol’ “Colleen” individual.

    Not ‘free Bradley”, ‘course.

    Halfwit.

  29. JC Avatar

    Eggles

    I swear, I’m not a tiddle taddle, but if you look upthread the Driller and Winston partnered up to defend and deny (I’m not sure which) Marcus Adonis’ plagiarism. I really don’t like to snitch.. but I thought you’d like to know. According to these two sleuths, MarK L Canberra is in the clear. It may have been a complete accident, according to Drillsie and we all got confused. Also, last night Drills said Marcus Adonis is a genius military strategist. He actually called him a genius. Just filling you in and I hope I’m not snitching or anything, but you should know.

  30. Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure Avatar
    Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

    Crikey, egg & grigs infesting the place.
    Who is prepared to chip in to get Monty to open up again?

  31. Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure Avatar
    Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

    As stated before, everything written by the Italian Stallion (lookit this gals!) is perfectly true.
    He would not lie, misrepresent, or twist.

    Honestly he wouldn’t.

  32. Zipster Avatar
    Zipster

    Keiser Report | Are You Prepared? | E1765
    In this episode of #KeiserReport, Max and Stacy ask, “are you prepared?” For the sudden repricing of everything, including risk and money.

  33. Knuckle Dragger Avatar
    Knuckle Dragger

    Now it’s just poor li’l ol’ “Colleen” individual.

    Not ‘free Bradley”, ‘course.

    No, it’s not. Once again, you said this, not me.

    As I said, you’re all over it. Like at 105kg fatboi on a 45kg Viet chick.

    Or maybe not. Because having advertised it, you won’t tell the same audience how you went.

  34. Indolent Avatar
    Indolent

    Newspoll
    Liberals (deservedly) circling the drain.

  35. egg_ Avatar
    egg_

    Find a post where I defended the jacks during the protests. You can’t. Nobody can because I haven’t.

    Megahalfwit denies its own actions.

    I detailed your halfwittery over at Adam’s blog and Twostix cleaned you up here, halfwit.

    – Indignant “walk it back” re Colleen Gwynne, corrupt plod
    – Defends Vicplod over lockdown protesters

    Defender of Authoriteh!

    A leftard hanging out with righties for chat?

    Sad.

  36. JC Avatar
    JC

    Driller

    I felt I had a duty to inform eggles of this passionate defence of yours as he deserves to know. He’s highly invested.

    You can’t blame me as I felt guilty if no one informed him.

    How’s Uncle Ned?

  37. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha Avatar
    Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

    This is my plan, minus the labore pardee bit. I need to be at least on the same side of the planet as many English Roses

    Curse you, Rabz. The North of England, the Borders and the Highlands of Scotland are where a gentleman can live…..

  38. Timothy Neilson Avatar
    Timothy Neilson

    The guitarist on this anthem. Stole all his equipment from fat comfy ol’ hippie dinobores while the latter were havin’ a snooze … ?

    Malcolm McLaren said that the only reason he agreed to manage the Sex Pistols was because he thought that would help him stop Jones thieving gear from McLaren’s shop.

  39. egg_ Avatar
    egg_

    Now it’s just poor li’l ol’ “Colleen” individual.

    Not ‘free Bradley”, ‘course.

    No, it’s not.

    No one said literally ‘free Bradley’ sans surname, retard.

    Deny, deny, deny… as you approach a corner, shiny @rse.

    Is there any tax thief lower than a military shiny @rse?

  40. Knuckle Dragger Avatar
    Knuckle Dragger

    I detailed your halfwittery over at Adam’s blog and Twostix cleaned you up here, halfwit.

    I’m only at Adam’s blog, with its readership of three, to tease you and Neil. I don’t even bother with you over there any more.

    Stix, as much as I like the cogent arguments he puts up couldn’t find any posts of that type either.

    If he can’t, you’ve got no chance.

    No Viet chick stories?

  41. Knuckle Dragger Avatar
    Knuckle Dragger

    _roomba.

    Colleen Gwynne is a butch crew cutted sports lezzo, of exactly the same type as the Matilda Muffia I’ve been critical of for a few weeks now. I very much doubt that I would come to her defence under any circumstances.

    But, with your crystal clear record of absolutely not mixing up people and times and places and things and people with other people, you clearly know best.

    Anyway, that’s what you said. ‘Free Colleen Gwynne’ when she wasn’t locked up in the first place. Alllllll over it.

  42. egg_ Avatar
    egg_

    Find a post where I defended the jacks during the protests. You can’t. Nobody can because I haven’t.

    Liberty quote right there, Bart Simpson.

    Da ironing!

  43. FlyingPigs Avatar
    FlyingPigs

    everybody was kung fu fighting

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmfudW7rbG0

    love the way emperor xi fucks on everyone not like him.

  44. Knuckle Dragger Avatar
    Knuckle Dragger

    Is there any tax thief lower than a military shiny @rse?

    Dunno.

    Ask Mater or Kev or jupes or Digger or any of the other posters here who’ve been in hot wars.

    Ask this question of them, _roomba. See how you go.

    I’ll just repeat this quote of yours, that you made at 11.05 p.m. on 24 October 2021:

    Is there any tax thief lower than a military shiny @rse?

  45. Knuckle Dragger Avatar
    Knuckle Dragger

    Wait for it………

    ‘but but but but’

    Ah ha ha ha ha ha.

  46. FlyingPigs Avatar
    FlyingPigs

    and xi claims the french trained mao picked on his father…

    Emperor Xi is a bullshitter.

  47. dover0beach Avatar

    Apparently, Gray Connolly thinks use of the word ‘segregation’ in respect of unvaccinated in the midst of a pandemic is appalling. I suppose there had to be an issue we’d disagree but he’s showing a considerable and worrying lack of judgement here.

  48. FlyingPigs Avatar
    FlyingPigs

    Zipster says:
    October 24, 2021 at 11:37 pm

    Chinese & Russian Warships Still Circling Japan As ‘Counterweight’ To US “Destabilization” In Region

    don’t you just love msm bullshit

  49. FlyingPigs Avatar
    FlyingPigs

    KD

    are you with your Mum yet????

  50. Bruce in WA Avatar
    Bruce in WA

    With all the discussion about movie firearms, there is an exhaustive movie firearms database available to all (if you can put up with the ads).

    It lists entries by movie, or firearm, or actor.

    For example, here is the entry for American Sniper.

  51. Knuckle Dragger Avatar
    Knuckle Dragger

    Pigs:

    Nope. Early December, it will have to be. Will spend a bit of time there, and most likely do some jail time on the way back.

    Rang her on Thursday just gone, on the occasion of the old man’s birthday and Mum’s first without him in 55 years, 52 of them as her husband. She said she’s doing okay. Dunno about that.

    I will never, ever forgive these animals, nor forget what they have done to this country.

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  52. FlyingPigs Avatar
    FlyingPigs

    Knuckle Dragger says:
    October 24, 2021 at 11:55 pm

    saddest and totally agree.

  53. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha Avatar
    Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

    Robert De Niro wins court battle over estranged wife Grace Hightower

    By Charlie Mitchell
    The Times
    4:14PM October 24, 2021
    5 Comments

    Robert De Niro has scored a significant legal victory over his ­estranged wife, after a court ruled she was not entitled to half his income.

    The actor and Grace Hightower have been battling in court since De Niro, 78, filed for divorce in 2018 after 21 years together. Ms Hightower, 66, a philanthropist and socialite, claimed she was owed half the money De Niro made in Hollywood and from business ventures while they were together.

    The earnings, she argued, counted as marital assets to be split evenly, in accordance with a 2004 prenuptial agreement she signed with the Oscar winner. His fortune has been estimated at $US500m ($670m).

    However, the appellate division, which hears New York ­Supreme Court ­appeals, has ­rejected Ms Hightower’s arguments, upholding a lower-court ruling. The court’s ­decision reads: “The husband’s ­income earned during the marriage and other business assets ­acquired during that time are his separate property.”

    The prenuptial agreement, a Manhattan Supreme Court judge wrote this year, “establishes that the bulk of (De Niro’s) income earned during the marriage, whether from acting, film production, or business ventures, constitutes his separate property”.

    Ms Hightower, his second wife, will still walk away with a substantial sum thanks to the prenuptial agreement, which will ­require the pair to sell their $US20m home and put $US6m towards a home for Ms High­tower and their two children, ­Elliot, 23, and Helen Grace, 9. It also instructs De Niro to pay her $US1m annually in ­alimony until he dies, or she remarries.

    Their legal battle has prompted accusations of extravagant spending from both sides. At an April hearing, De Niro’s lawyer Caroline Krauss described Ms Hightower’s demands as “rich with ­indulgences and waste and greed”. Ms Krauss said Ms Hightower had spent $US1.2m on a diamond in 2019, which Ms Hightower’s lawyer Kevin McDonough denies. Mr McDonough claimed De Niro chartered aircraft to visit friends, a claim disputed by De Niro.

    Ms Krauss has claimed that the strain Ms Hightower has placed on De Niro’s finances means he was running out of money. De Niro has starred in low-quality comedies to pay the bills, she said.

  54. Knuckle Dragger Avatar
    Knuckle Dragger

    Farter time.

    I was going to wait for the _roomba’s stirring defence of his statement that blokes in the military were the lowest of low tax thieves, but it would appear he’s returned to the less precise (and more Birdish) environment of DashCat.

    Oh well. Was looking forward to the Vietnamese chick story too.

  55. Bruce in WA Avatar
    Bruce in WA

    I had a thought about the Baldwin incident, too (I know, I don’t often have them.)

    If a SA action revolver is drawn and the hammer cocked while the trigger is held back, as a non-experienced person may well do, it will fire when the hammer is released.

    Of course, even if this were the case, it avoids the question of what live ammo was doing in the cylinder in the first place.

  56. DrBeauGan Avatar
    DrBeauGan

    I’ve got songs of distant earth from pdfdrive. Thanks for the suggestion.

  57. jupes Avatar
    jupes

    His fortune has been estimated at $US500m ($670m).

    Ms Krauss has claimed that the strain Ms Hightower has placed on De Niro’s finances means he was running out of money.

    Which is it?

    De Niro has starred in low-quality comedies to pay the bills, she said.

    Ha ha ha. As opposed to starring in blockbusters to pay the bills.

  58. Winston Smith Avatar

    JC/Eggles?

    JCsays:
    October 24, 2021 at 10:54 pm
    Eggles

    I swear, I’m not a tiddle taddle, but if you look upthread the Driller and Winston partnered up to defend and deny (I’m not sure which) Marcus Adonis’ plagiarism. I really don’t like to snitch.. but I thought you’d like to know. According to these two sleuths, MarK L Canberra is in the clear. It may have been a complete accident, according to Drillsie and we all got confused. Also, last night Drills said Marcus Adonis is a genius military strategist. He actually called him a genius. Just filling you in and I hope I’m not snitching or anything, but you should know.

    Shall we roll the tape on your lie, JC?

  59. Winston Smith Avatar

    I suppose there’s a new thread…

  60. Boambee John Avatar
    Boambee John

    dover0beachsays:
    October 24, 2021 at 10:04 pm
    Ftb mentioned this earlier:

    Michael P Senger
    @MichaelPSenger
    ·
    18h
    “Bipartisan legislators demand answers from Fauci on…$375,800 grant to a lab in Tunisia to drug beagles and lock their heads in mesh cages filled with hungry sand flies so the insects could eat them alive…some of the dogs had their vocal cords removed.”

    That is diabolical. What the hell is going on at the NIH?

    It would be somewhat – ironical – if Fauci is destroyed, not by his lies about HIV/AIDS or by the whole Kung Flu/Gain of Function debacle, but by cruelty to dogs.

  61. srr Avatar
    srr

    Tomsays:
    October 25, 2021 at 3:01 am

    There is no room for dissent from the fascist party line at The Age. From the Paywallian’s Media Diary:

    Michael Leunig’s storied half-century career as The Age’s best-known editorial page cartoonist has ended not with a bang, but a whimper.

    First they came for the always clear eyed, and I said nothing, being a dozy chap.

    Then they came for the gradually awakening, and I realized I’d failed at my job for over half a century …

  62. Kneel Avatar
    Kneel

    ” If your armourer is a moron, who isn’t going to check any weapon handed to them?”

    The armourer is a sanity check, nothing more.
    While ever YOU have the firearm, it is YOUR responsibility – period.
    You should NEVER point a firearm at anything you are not prepared to destroy right now.

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