Open Thread-Weekend 23 Oct 2021


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

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Indolent
Indolent
October 24, 2021 6:23 pm

THE GREAT RESET QUOTED IN THE DIGITAL IDENTITY LEGISLATION!

Social credit system for both individuals and corporations. We are already in a surveillance state. What we are heading for is a global surveillance state for the purpose of changing the way our economy and our civilization thinks.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
October 24, 2021 6:24 pm

Ed

I’m starting to worry about all those solar panels using nuclear energy.

Will you stand with me to stop rooftop nuclear energy????

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 24, 2021 6:27 pm

Grigs off googling who Fink is.

Eddystone
Eddystone
October 24, 2021 6:27 pm

Daniel Day-Lewis, while preparing for “Last of the Mohicans”, apparently carried his movie rifle everywhere with him, including to restaurants, just to get used to handling it so it became a natural accessory, as it would to someone of the period.

I watched “Forgotten Battle” last night, a Belgian WWII movie.

One of the characters, a British soldier, starts off carrying his No4 Lee Enfield, which was the correct rifle.

But then during a couple of battle scenes, he and everyone else is firing No1s, which at that stage of the war were only being used by Australians, not British and Canadians in Holland.

Of course, as he gets back to the staging area after the battle, he has a No4 over his shoulder again.

It totally ruined the movie for me. Actually it was a pretty crap movie anyway.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 24, 2021 6:29 pm

Breaking news, Labor is going to oppose a policy that was the only reason John Kerry was made Biden’s Climate Change envoy.

No, Labor will stick with the very conservative Policy it’s had for 40 +years.
Why would it change, there’s no votes in it for Labor?

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 24, 2021 6:33 pm

Labor will do what industry super tells them to do.
That’s why making nuclear ESG compliant is so important & has been worked on globally since the end of 2019.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 24, 2021 6:35 pm

the USN isn’t letting the RAN have a look into the subs Nuclear Reactor compartment , so all work on it will be done in the U.S.

In the UK you mean.

British nuke sub visit an Astute ad (22 Oct, paywalled)

Britain will press its case to build Australia’s promised nuclear-powered submarines during an upcoming visit by a British ­nuclear boat to Perth.

Competition is fun!

calli
calli
October 24, 2021 6:36 pm

M0nty’s site has carked it.

Reffos incoming. Predictable.

Winston Smith
October 24, 2021 6:37 pm

JC:

Yes you do have control. Theoretically you’re her dominant spouse and have lots of control. You could do lots of things instead of whining like a helpless girl. On a blog.

I’m a Dominant Spouse? How very Patriarchal. Off to the Gulags with you, for re education.

I didn’t brag about anything it was meant to be funny and I actually couldn’t take the pic with a phone. Didn’t know how.

Yes I’m sure you think it was funny, but she’s your wife dammit! What did she think you were going to do with the photos? Show them around to your friends?
Bloody hell, JC. Talk about a tin ear.
And I’m glad to see you now accept the passing of time as reducing the severity of an action – I must remember to let Mark50 know when I see him next. Or is passing time only an excuse for you?
(By the way, I remember Sinclair mentioning the article and saying he was satisfied with the answer from Mark50. Perhaps Sinclair knows something you don’t?)

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 24, 2021 6:37 pm

Labor will do what industry super tells them to do.

Well, if that’s the case, then what percentage has Scotty got in switching to a Nuclear Policy if Labor is going to do the same?

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 24, 2021 6:39 pm

Lotocoti. Rocky is an old Labor town like Townsville. Then you have Yepoon, 1770 and Byfield that all lean that way. Apart from that area the rest of the electorate would be meh, IMO. Much as I hate to say Ed has a point, the attack ads have written themselves if on the coast. Inland definitely different.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
October 24, 2021 6:39 pm

Solar Panels are Nuclear Energy.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 24, 2021 6:41 pm

Channel surfing.
The Dry is on.
How does Eric Bank run around and not break a sweat when other punters have their shirts sticking to their back?
Shoot that director.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 24, 2021 6:41 pm

Bana.
Not Bank.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 24, 2021 6:43 pm

In the UK you mean.

The RAN has had their submariners on USN boats over the years, but they’ve never been nallowed into the Reactor compartment [according to Greg Sheridan in yesterday’s Australian.
So, we’re not getting the tech, just the subs [by 2038 at the earliest, more likely mid 2050s].

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

I watched “Forgotten Battle” last night, a Belgian WWII movie.

And you managed to remain awake until the end?

Respect!

lotocoti
lotocoti
October 24, 2021 6:46 pm

Kelly, Big Joe, Crap Game and Co just unloaded on a Nasty patrol.
Didn’t bag a single DoP.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
October 24, 2021 6:47 pm

love your work ed case

are solar panels nuclear converters or not?

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 24, 2021 6:52 pm

More channel surfing.
The Descendants has just finished.
They filmed a scene there at the Canoe Club.
I think the Canoe Club got sick of Aussies joining Tatts just so they could get access to the place when they were in Hawaii.

JC
JC
October 24, 2021 6:55 pm

Oh Lord. He’s back.

Turtle Head, how about you slag me off as much as you want with two more goes.. You have two more free shots at me and then you fuck off forever and we never talk again. Really, are you that fucking stupid that the deal you offered and accepted from Sinclair (that you never talk to me and visa versa) suddenly doesn’t work for you now? It worked well. I never bothered the read any of your offensively stupid crap you posted and you never interacted with me. Shall I ask the blog owner to institute the same agreement as on the old blog? I mean this in all sincerity, I find you repulsively clownish and want nothing to do with you. Please, I beg you to feel the same about me and just fuck off and we never speak again.

Failing that, you’re going to feel the same way as when you corresponded with Sinclair with threats of legal action because I had been mean to you. I’m not kind to people I dislike. Turtle Head… just fuck off and stop stalking me. It’s for the best.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
October 24, 2021 6:55 pm

. (Since power is about supplying the needs of supporters, which is no longer necessary in an abundant technological society.)

The most important part of political power is a good command of bullshit. And the majority of the human species loves the stuff. Sad but true. The society Hogan postulates is unstable; it depends on the inhabitants being bullshit averse. Physical scientists are, but most people aren’t. Alas.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 24, 2021 6:56 pm

Solar Panels are Nuclear Energy.

The fun thing is they’re actually fossil fuels.

Recently there’s been an extreme shortage of magnesium. That’s because Mg uses a shedload of energy to produce, and China has mostly monopolized the production of it. Because coal. Which they’ve recently run out of. So nice Mr Xi has told Mg producers and Al producers to stop producing their metals because not enough electricity blacking out holy CCP members.

Forget the semiconductor, magnesium could be the car industry’s next big hurdle (21 Oct)

According to Mining.com, global carmakers are facing another potential crisis as a result of this shortage, which is being indirectly caused by China’s electricity crisis. China currently supplies around 85% of the world’s magnesium, and the power woes have reportedly forced authorities to shut down 35 of the country’s 50 magnesium smelters until the end of 2021.

Which is where solar panels come in, since they’re made from silicon, and silicon production requires lots and lots of carbon and electricity, both for primary production and purification by zone refining. And guess who produces most semiconductor-grade silicon?

It’ll be fun when suddenly all those cheap Chinese solar panels are less cheap, and not actually available because their manufacturers aren’t allowed to use the proles’ electricity.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Oh dear, rooster-erection is using big tough words, even threatening to never read or talk to a commenter again.

It’s rough on the Cat, rough I tells ya, especially when the tough men start talking … tough.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 24, 2021 6:58 pm

Rocky is an old Labor town like Townsville. Then you have Yepoon, 1770 and Byfield that all lean that way.

That’s right, but Michelle Landry still gets votes there, just not a plurality.
There seems to be a view that Liberal Party voters are cruel ideologues slavering to impose Nuclear Power on the dumb Proles, but I don’t buy that.
It would only take 600 anti Nuclear Liberal voters in Rocky and Yeppoon to turf Landry.
My opinion:
There’ll be way more than 600.
Try 5,000+.

JC
JC
October 24, 2021 6:58 pm

Physical scientists are, but most people aren’t. Alas.

Isn’t that something that comes from academia of the leftist kind? Perhaps the people who suffer bullshit the least are traders and hedge fund managers. Maybe they should be the only people allowed to vote. We’ve seen what happens when geek world runs the show like Silicon Valley Autists. Please spare us.

JC
JC
October 24, 2021 6:59 pm

Where the Hell is Arky? 🙂

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
October 24, 2021 7:01 pm

Physical scientists are, but most people aren’t. Alas.

Also, it’s one thing to respect a painter or a plumber, because you can assess how competent they are quickly. It’s quite another matter deciding how good a philosopher or a mathematician is. You can rely on their colleagues up to a point, but observe how this fails with educational theorists.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 24, 2021 7:01 pm

The most important part of political power is a good command of bullshit. And the majority of the human species loves the stuff. Sad but true. The society Hogan postulates is unstable; it depends on the inhabitants being bullshit averse.

Haha, DrB. Now you have to read The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke.
😀

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 24, 2021 7:01 pm

“The Bidens”: Is the First Family Corrupt, or Merely Crazy? — Audio Scrolling Version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCXJ3edkL48

Audio version of the Taibbi column from last week.
It’s actually kind of funny how the Biden family continues to fuck up at every turn.

Dot
Dot
October 24, 2021 7:04 pm

Perhaps the people who suffer bullshit the least are traders and hedge fund managers.

Did you see Hillary Clinton’s donor list?

JC
JC
October 24, 2021 7:07 pm

Oh dear, rooster-erection is using big tough words, even threatening to never read or talk to a commenter again.

It’s true. There are severakl people I don’t read. I don;t know why that would be a shock to you driller. You used to say that you were always scrolling my comments, but we know it wasn’t true because you were saying that straight after I made a comment, you clown.

It’s rough on the Cat, rough I tells ya, especially when the tough men start talking … tough.

Last week you were complaining how mean I was and that I was too harsh on people. We you drunk then or now as I can’t quite tell.

You’re such a blowhard.

And tell Turtle Head we all agree, the genius military analyst (as you described Adonis last night) didn’t steal the piece. The other author at American Greatness stole it from him as he claimed. 🙂 Funny that because 2 dogs showed the other author was about a day in front of Adonis’ piece so the only way that could have happened was the other author somehow divining Adonis. Possible I guess. You lack any integrity.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Rocky is an old Labor town like Townsville.

It is not a “new labor” town.
They don’t go in for: SSM, Mardi Gras, Trannies reading to classrooms, jobs being killed by green taxes, utes being regulated off the road, & so on.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 24, 2021 7:07 pm

Solar Panels are a weird type of glass glued into an Aluminium frame.
The glass isn’t recyclable, tho the tips still take it [in Qld].

JC
JC
October 24, 2021 7:09 pm

Did you see Hillary Clinton’s donor list?

It proves my point.

But here’s you dot, who would you rather as the voters
1. Autistic idiots from Silicon Valley?
2 Traders and hedge fund managers?

Doc Holliday implies we would be better served by those idiots in Silicon valley.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Everything Rooster-Erection posts, about what other cats/commenters have supposedly said, typed, opined, in past comments, …. is not to be taken at face value.

The more rooster-erection repeats something, the less likely it is to have actually happened.

(Situation normal)

Carry on rooster-stiffy, regale us with a burst of swearwords, tell us how (anyone who does not submit to you) is a worthless moron, etc etc etc.

It’s nothing we don’t hear all the time.

And you wonder why some say you’re more odious than Bird…..

2dogs
October 24, 2021 7:11 pm

I very much doubt any nuclear power plant will be built in a rural electorate. Don’t you need a vast and reliable source of water?

Cowper is a rural electorate; and has plenty of water – sea water can be used for this purpose. Rural electorates are not necessarily inland.

so Labor will have a field day if it ever becomes Coalition Policy.

The solution to this is to have a referendum on nuclear power. If it succeeds, it will tear the ALP apart the same way that Brexit tore the Labour party apart in the UK.

This can also solve the NIMBY problem, by stating up front that it won’t be built in a location that votes “no” in the referendum.

Zipster
Zipster
October 24, 2021 7:11 pm

The Chinese broadcaster Tencent, which has a partnership with the National Basketball Association (NBA), banned the Boston Celtics and stopped broadcasting and archiving the team’s games. This is obviously revenge for the team’s center player Enes Kanter’s remarks. Kanter condemned Tibet on social media for “the brutal rule of the Chinese government” and called for “free Tibet”.

JC
JC
October 24, 2021 7:11 pm

It’s quite another matter deciding how good a philosopher or a mathematician is.

The Quigginator is a mathematician by training. Good fucking luck there.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
October 24, 2021 7:11 pm

BoN
LOL
I’m putting in for gubmint subsidies for “NightLightPower” whereby ‘solar’ panels suck the nuclear power out of the star lit night sky.

Would you kindly stop.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
October 24, 2021 7:12 pm

And how do you guys feel about respecting those who are really, really good at bullshit?

JC
JC
October 24, 2021 7:14 pm

Everything Rooster-Erection posts, about what other cats/commenters have supposedly said, typed, opined, in past comments, …. is not to be taken at face value.

Okay Explain to us what you think happened there, Drills. How did we confuse it all?

Dot
Dot
October 24, 2021 7:14 pm

But here’s you dot, who would you rather as the voters
1. Autistic idiots from Silicon Valley?
2 Traders and hedge fund managers?

Like the Egyptian guy said on Memri TV:

Iran or Saudi Arabia?

Neither.

No, Iran or Saudi Arabia?

I’d kill myself. (They’re the same thing to me).

Look. Hedgies are okay because they see the market work. A young guy I know asked me for a list of Austrian economics books, and I turned him to Sinclair for a bit more. Went from energy trading here to working for AMZN. So he’s a bit of both. Started off in eng., went to pure maths but got his job at 19 trading electricity on six figures about a decade ago. I don’t know if he finished his degree.

I think the STEM guys in the main just want poonyeeti so they simp and carry on.

Do you think Jack Dorsey really cares if women want “equal pay”? Nope, he just wants the same rotation as Leo.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 24, 2021 7:15 pm

jobs being killed by green taxes,

Fishing and prawning was shut down in the Fitzroy River estuary a few years ago, that cost jobs.
Last I heard, fishing from a boat in the Rockhampton City Reach cost a $10,000 Fine plus confiscation of the boat, trailer and vehicle.
Greenies have been on top in Rocky for decades, it started in the 60s when Pilbeam decided that the City’s future was Tourism rather than Industry and it’s been downhill ever since.

Dot
Dot
October 24, 2021 7:16 pm

The Quigginator is a mathematician by training. Good fucking luck there.

They’re typically the worst crackpots. There is a forecaster headed up by a dude who reckoned public road building had a ROI of 40% p.a.

Borrow at 3%, build 2 trillion of new roads, GDP goes up 800 bn p.a.?

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 24, 2021 7:17 pm

So, how does America do it, Grigory?

Yes, the US has a complete nuclear cycle. As does Russia. China almost, with help from Trumble’s submarine partner of choice, the Frogs.

Actually the US has almost lost its domestic uranium production capacity. US mined uranium makes up only 5%-10% of the fuel burned in its reactors – something the Orange God started to address which is now, predictably, under Democrat fire in Congress.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
October 24, 2021 7:18 pm

I’ve read all the Arthur C Clarke I could get, BoN, including that one, but I’ve long forgotten it.

JC
JC
October 24, 2021 7:18 pm

DrBeauGan says:
October 24, 2021 at 7:12 pm

And how do you guys feel about respecting those who are really, really good at bullshit?

You mean like stuff that masks don’t work under any circumstances and it’s not a risk management issue wearing them inside premises where you’re in close contact with others at the height of a big pandemic.

How do you feel about that bullshit, Doc?

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
October 24, 2021 7:20 pm

Who controls Australia????

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
October 24, 2021 7:23 pm

I was commending scientists, not nerds, JC. They’re different.

Perhaps you should read Hogan’s book which would make your comments more valuable.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Quiggin. Lol.
Isn’t he the edjumacated prefesser who said the coal face of Qld’s economy is in & around Brisbane?

His methodology was:
1/. Qld’s state income is mostly in two taxes, payroll tax & stamp duty.
2/. Payroll tax is mostly paid from offices located in Brisbane CBD.
3/. Stamp duty is mostly collected from people in Brisbane & environs selling houses to each other.

Ergo, the rest of the state contributes nothing, isn’t relevant economically, & should not be “subsidised”

Yep, he’s a real smart guy.

Winston Smith
October 24, 2021 7:25 pm

Will:

I understood early research showed the spiky proteins accumulate in the ovaries and bone marrow. Maybe this is significant.

Real men can have ovaries too!

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
October 24, 2021 7:26 pm

How do you feel about that bullshit, Doc?

Same as I do about the bullshit that schoolies need to wear them all the time, JC. Or that the vaxx is the only way to be safe. There’s an ocean of the stuff.

rickw
rickw
October 24, 2021 7:26 pm

If the unvaxxed are not part of the economy and have been cast out of society, what rate are they taxed at?

JC
JC
October 24, 2021 7:27 pm

I was commending scientists, not nerds, JC.

Lol

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 24, 2021 7:29 pm

The “Telegraph”

Armourer, 24, on Alec Baldwin film ‘wasn’t sure’ if she was ready for movie set roles

Hannah Gutierrez had laid the gun which killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on a cart outside movie set
By Nick Allen 23 October 2021 • 7:47pm

The 24-year-old head armourer on the set where Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer had suggested she was “nervous” about taking on such roles months before starting on the tragedy-stricken film.

Mr Baldwin was unwittingly handed a gun loaded with live ammunition on the set of Rust, a Western film which was beset by chaos as crew members walked off over safety concerns.

The film’s crew reportedly had a series of wide-ranging complaints about working on set, including allegations of unsuitable working arrangements.

There were reports of up to three other previous accidental discharges of prop weapons on the set. One departing crew member called it “super unsafe”.

Mr Baldwin fired a live bullet, leading to the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, and injuring director Joel Souza, 48.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 24, 2021 7:30 pm

Cafe Bruce news.

I don’t like his chances but currawong with recently broken leg is hanging in there. It’s a clean break, so his leg dangles down without getting into the way too much. He’s had to learn to eat mince differently, since he used to hold a piece of it with one foot and pluck bits off. That’s now not possible since his only working foot he has to stand on. So he’s now worked out that if he goes onto the roof he can dismantle and eat his lump of mince on the convenient table the roof is.

Then just now I hear “Wuh!” from outside front door. Go check. A cockie. So he/she gets some bread. I suspect random brain nexii fired in order for the cockie to say that. Henceforth I’m now going to have a cockie at my front door saying “Wuh!” loudly each evening.

The fun incident of the day was when next door landlord arrived from Sydney. He’s between tenants. Salt of the earth sort of guy who has a fruit-growing business. So I waves at him and says “hi! welcome back!” (It’s been several years.) He says I see you still have your birds! Hmmm. I turns around and on the roof of my car right behind me is alpha male extrovert currawong. ‘Yep’, I say. Then I hand extrovert currawong some mince which he then messily spreads all over my car roof.

rickw
rickw
October 24, 2021 7:33 pm

Just had church outside in the carpark.

I’d love to see the science behind that CHO directive.

Mongs.

Zipster
Zipster
October 24, 2021 7:33 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb8Hr85lulM
01:19 Chinese hackers hack iPhone 13 pro in 1s
03:03 Apple removes religious app in China
04:18 Beijing plays down impacts on grain output
05:57 U.S., Canada send warships through Taiwan strait
06:57 Chinese, Russian navy sail through Japan strait
08:16 Japan plans to build up defense capabilities
10:06 China angry at Japanese city over WHO meeting
12:00 Toys stuck in supply chain chaos
14:41 Canadian publisher alleges twitter censorship
17:35 Beijing gets Olympic flame amid protests
19:13 Evergrande fails to pay debt again
21:57 North Korea tests two more missiles

JC
JC
October 24, 2021 7:34 pm

Doc

Let me level with you. Other than the occasional Havana narrative about a Cuban hooker, my impression is that you don’t really offer blogging much. It’s more like.. oh I’m a Mathematician and I therefore sit in judgment above you. You offer opinions on the opinions of others which is a curious form of sanctimony. How about a little less piggy backing and more original comments. Just an idea.

rickw
rickw
October 24, 2021 7:37 pm

Armourer, 24, on Alec Baldwin film ‘wasn’t sure’ if she was ready for movie set roles

At 24 I would have been confident of being the armourer for any film and no one would have got shot.

This generation is truly retarded, idiocracy live.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 24, 2021 7:40 pm

BoN
LOL
I’m putting in for gubmint subsidies for “NightLightPower”

Pigsy – Already been done.

Nobody expects the Spanish solar inquisition! (2014)

Amazing how much electricity solar panels can produce at nighttime.

rosie
rosie
October 24, 2021 7:41 pm
rickw
rickw
October 24, 2021 7:43 pm

There were reports of up to three other previous accidental discharges of prop weapons on the set. One departing crew member called it “super unsafe”.

Three previous negligent discharges could be a huge problem for Baldwin. Systemic issues are definitely his responsibility to fix. Three ND’s says your armourer is a moron. If your armourer is a moron, who isn’t going to check any weapon handed to them?

a reader
a reader
October 24, 2021 7:45 pm

So Bananaberry has acquiesced on Net Zero. This country is fucked

rickw
rickw
October 24, 2021 7:47 pm

Bat Eared Mong plays golf:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWt-selZdPM

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

The reporettes gushing about the “movie set accident” are woeful at details.

Were the prior ‘misfires’ … Negligent discharges? .. or faulty hardware/ammo?

From what can be gleaned, it would seem they were actually powder loads that were too light.
Though could be ND’s.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 24, 2021 7:47 pm

At 24 I would have been confident of being the armourer for any film and no one would have got shot.

This generation is truly retarded, idiocracy live.

Perhaps a little harsh.
I know of a few people in their mid 20’s who would have the personal attributes to do the job.
That is, highly organised, methodical and with the confidence to resist pressure to cut corners.
Usually this last characteristic comes with age and experience, but some possess it at an early age.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
October 24, 2021 7:48 pm

Doc

Let me level with you. Other than the occasional Havana narrative about a Cuban hooker, my impression is that you don’t really offer blogging much. It’s more like.. oh I’m a Mathematician and I therefore sit in judgment above you. You offer opinions on the opinions of others which is a curious form of sanctimony. How about a little less piggy backing and more original comments. Just an idea.

I’m sticking to my policy of avoiding airheads, JC.

So I was commenting on a book BoN liked. If you commented on my comments to BoN without understanding the context, and without noticing or caring that you didn’t understand, you’re the one with the problem.

If you try to stoush with me I shall write you off as an airhead and ignore you. I think its infantile.

Roger
Roger
October 24, 2021 7:52 pm

Armourer, 24, on Alec Baldwin film ‘wasn’t sure’ if she was ready for movie set roles

Reports surfacing that she has a less than stellar record on gun safety on film sets.

That being said, the assistant director is meant to be the “last line of defence” and, it would seem, didn’t perform an actual check before deeming the gun safe to be fired on set.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 24, 2021 7:55 pm

vote him out

Rosie – One of my fantasies is for a referendum to be held requiring “None Of The Above” to be listed on every ballot paper.

It would be epic. Quite possibly “None Of The Above” could win an election, seeing that actual dogs and cats have done so in the US several times.

Hey I have a great idea! We should allow non-human political candidates because diversity. Animals Australia would love it.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 24, 2021 7:59 pm

Roger at 7:52.
Sounds like adults were thin on the ground.

Rabz
October 24, 2021 8:01 pm

Last week it was the simple act of getting a haircut.

This week it was having five friends over to the cottage.

Dismantling tyranny, brick by brick. 🙂

Bons
October 24, 2021 8:01 pm

The most extraordinary aspects of the whores selling out the nation to Marxist poverty and slave status is that it happened so quickly, there was no public or parliamentary debate and the electorate has been totally disenfranchised.
There is simply no mechanism for the electorate to register their disapproval.
Big corps, big media, big Govt, little people.
I quake in rage and frustration.
Democracy was a short lived experiment. As the US is demonstrating, the future for we slaves will be apalling.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 24, 2021 8:01 pm

We’ve been out, Bruce, and didn’t get in until seven, so our Currawongs have missed the evening feeding time, where they usually arrive about 6pm summertime for something to give the babies before sleep. Sadly, they will have gone to bed hungry tonight, I muse, but Hairy says they’re birds and can look after themselves. He’s right of course. They shouldn’t be dependent on us. Talking about dependence on us, Attapuss is hyperexcited that we are home and is ready for his dinner. I give him some chicken Fussy Cat. Feline food. As if chickens aren’t birds too. It’s all too complicated sometimes. Anyway, I am glad your lame Currawong is not yet Crow food. You do see a few one-legged birds around, so maybe all is not lost for him.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
October 24, 2021 8:02 pm

Roger at 7:52.
Sounds like adults were thin on the ground.

That’s true everywhere these days.

calli
calli
October 24, 2021 8:02 pm

rosie says:
October 24, 2021 at 7:41 pm

The comments on that feed are vile. What’s wrong with these people?

Roger
Roger
October 24, 2021 8:02 pm

Were the prior ‘misfires’ … Negligent discharges? .. or faulty hardware/ammo?

Discussion upthread…hardware modified for a completely different performance setting is the conjecture to explain the “misfires”.

As for the rounds loaded, however the bullet(s) got in there, at least two checks – those by the armourer and the assistant director – would appear to have been perfunctory at best, or simply didn’t happen at worst.

Roger
Roger
October 24, 2021 8:04 pm

Roger at 7:52.
Sounds like adults were thin on the ground.

Too expensive to hire, perhaps?

calli
calli
October 24, 2021 8:04 pm

The most extraordinary aspects of the whores selling out the nation to Marxist poverty and slave status is that it happened so quickly, there was no public or parliamentary debate and the electorate has been totally disenfranchised.

Maybe. Read the feed on rosie’s Twitter link.

They’re getting exactly what they want. No one has been disenfranchised.

Just us.

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
October 24, 2021 8:07 pm

calli, it’s Twitter. The cesspit of extreme leftists.

calli
calli
October 24, 2021 8:08 pm

Sorry. I’m completely over it. My own father seems to think that me having a tetanus shot will somehow protect him.

The world has gone crazy.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
October 24, 2021 8:09 pm

The comments on that feed are vile. What’s wrong with these people?

They’ve been frightened and are looking to a strong leader to lead them to safety.

Most ppl are kindly and decent except when scared.

Roger
Roger
October 24, 2021 8:11 pm

Goodnight chaps and chappesses.

The second volume of Bruce Catton’s trilogy, ‘Mr Lincoln’s Army’ beckons.

He’s a fine writer.

Gore Vidal didn’t think so, which I’ll take as a recommendation.

Mater
October 24, 2021 8:13 pm

The comments on that feed are vile. What’s wrong with these people?

Calli,
That’s why I don’t think Victorian holdouts can survive indefinitely.
They could starve to death, and all you’d hear is cheers.
It insane down here.

They may wake up, but far too late.

Rabz
October 24, 2021 8:15 pm

They’ve been frightened and are looking to a strong leader to lead them to safety.

A phenomenon, which of course, has never ever happened previously in human history – with the tragically predictable results.

Sheep.

This one’s for poor ol’ Bern – Gaol. 🙂

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 24, 2021 8:16 pm

Lizzie – I don’t know what is the story with Fussy Cat. The stuff is totally addictive.

My mum’s cats must have Blue Fussy Cat, although they will reluctantly also eat Black Fussy Cat. One day last year I was buying groceries for my mum at her local Coles, and elderly lady behind me loaded the conveyer belt thingie with an impressive array of pet food including Coles mince. And Red Fussy Cat. I had a pile of Blue Fussy Cat. So we got chatting. Turned out she was buying the mince for currawongs and the Red Fussy Cat for her cat. It was one of the more entertaining checkout conversations I’ve had.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Were the prior ‘misfires’ … Negligent discharges? .. or faulty hardware/ammo?

Discussion upthread…hardware modified for a completely different performance setting is the conjecture to explain the “misfires”.

At this point the best guess at what actually happened with the prior “misfires” is witness reports from others who were on the set.

From reading them (as regurgitated by entertainment reporterettes) is they sound like either under-loads. Possibly negligent discharges, however a fair dinkum ND on a movie set should (should) be a real big deal & witness reports should be over-the-top. (Mine would be if I were present when an airhead to carelessly discharge a firearm in my presence.)

Rabz
October 24, 2021 8:17 pm

What’s wrong with these people?

They’re collectivists. Thou shalt not dare to express an opinion that is not held by everyone else.

Stray outside of that stricture and it’s figurative death. 🙁

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 24, 2021 8:17 pm

The second volume of Bruce Catton’s trilogy, ‘Mr Lincoln’s Army’ beckons.

He’s a fine writer.

Have you read Catton’s biography of U.S. Grant?

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
October 24, 2021 8:19 pm

BoN, I should probably write an sf book of what would happen to a society that had no scarcity, based on a more cynical view of human nature than Hogan’s.

My expectation is that they’d turn into a bunch of slobs and fight each other. Not to acquire wealth, just for the hell of it.

Fortunately, I’m too lazy and comfortable to write it.

Rabz
October 24, 2021 8:20 pm

Democracy was a short lived experiment

Wonderful in theory, dire in practice – as we are now realising.

Bons
October 24, 2021 8:21 pm

Just watching the embarrassing Payne on Sky.
What is it about Australia embarrassing itself by sending overseas enormous fat bags of shit as senior representatives:
Blamey, especially egregious given that he was commanding hardened super fit soldiers.
Rey, ditto.
Sloppy Jo.
Vanstone.
Kirner.
Payne.
If these people lack the discipline to look after their bodies, they lack the capacity for disciplined focus on public policy.
I recall cringing with embarrassment watching Rey’s fat gut leading him in an inspection of an immaculate Marine guard of honour in Washington. We were a laughing stock.
Other than Johnson, I cannot recall a grossly obese representative from any other country being trotted out in the international scene.. Australia has exported masses of the slobs.

Shy Ted
Shy Ted
October 24, 2021 8:21 pm

Ha ha. Incident at McClown’ house in WA. No details yet. He wasn’t home. Onya, boys.

Rabz
October 24, 2021 8:21 pm

Bluddee hell! 🙂

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
October 24, 2021 8:24 pm

Bruce, I’ve found Aldi 2-star mince and Aldi shredded cheese is a big hit at my bird cafe. I get regular visits from a fairy wren clan, pee wees, currawongs and magpies. The magpies eat from my hand, one sits on the arm of my outdoor chair just outside the sliding door waiting for the mince. The currawongs are more wary, they were stealing eggs from a chook pen somewhere in the neighbourhood and using my yard as the dining room and I encouraged them to eat their ill-gotten gains elsewhere. However, I am getting them closer, they take the mince on the doorstep with me sitting just inside the open door.

JC
JC
October 24, 2021 8:24 pm

I’m sticking to my policy of avoiding airheads, JC.

I’m which you on this one

So I was commenting on a book BoN liked. If you commented on my comments to BoN without understanding the context, and without noticing or caring that you didn’t understand, you’re the one with the problem.

I didn’t even focus who you’re chatting with and about.

If you try to stoush with me I shall write you off as an airhead and ignore you. I think its infantile.

I can’t control what you think about me and I let you know what I thought about your participation. I would have thought you’d appreciate the input in the same you were doing with me the other day. Don’t ever overlord me again.

jupes
jupes
October 24, 2021 8:30 pm

Barrie Cassidy
@barriecassidy
·
11h
Why does the media discuss climate change policy only through the prism of what’s best in terms of internal coalition politics? That’s the way they’ll judge the outcome as well. Rarely do they discuss what is the best policy as a good global citizen.

Revealing but unsurprising comment from Baz. His main concern is appearing to be a “good global citizen”. Never mind the fact that the stupid policy will have zero effect on the weather. Never mind the fact that the policy will benefit the Chicoms. But most of all, never mind the fact that the policy is against the national interest. You know, the reason that Australian governments exist.

Rabz
October 24, 2021 8:33 pm

For good ol’ JC – Goose Springsteen (accompanied by Li’l Stevie) massacring a sacred ditty – London 2009. 🙂

Magnificent tobacco sunburst Tele.

jupes
jupes
October 24, 2021 8:33 pm

Australia has exported masses of the slobs.

Don’t forget Beazo, Bons.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 24, 2021 8:34 pm

Other than Johnson, I cannot recall a grossly obese representative from any other country being trotted out in the international scene..

Truymp is morbidly obese, only been gone 10 months.
Colin Powell, recently deceased SoS was another fattasaurus.
Then there’s 4 Star Admiral Rachel Levine.
That porker is in a class of her own.
Hillary?
Presentable 25 years ago, she’s a mudguts now.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 24, 2021 8:35 pm

Aldi shredded cheese is a big hit at my bird cafe

Skier – My old dad gives his house magpies shredded cheese too. He had to wire closed the cat flap on his back door though, because they’d learned to sneak in, trot around to the kitchen, then eat his tomatoes which he’d leave ripening on the sideboard.

Until recently for many years he had a satin bower bird male, with a bower, within easy viewing from his kitchen window. I’ve been very envious! He’s not really a wildlife guy, but has warmed to such things over the years.

rickw
rickw
October 24, 2021 8:35 pm

Radiator hose manufacture with zero OHS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SY_rnHqcqM

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
October 24, 2021 8:38 pm

What’s wrong with these people?

They’re collectivists. Thou shalt not dare to express an opinion that is not held by everyone else.

I think you are right, rabz, but our problem is that most people are. It’s at the heart of why I am disagreeing with BoN about the book by Hogan. Hogan has a world in which everyone is an individual who thinks for himself. Such a world can’t last long given human nature.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 24, 2021 8:38 pm

Rabzsays:

October 24, 2021 at 8:33 pm

For good ol’ JC – Goose Springsteen (accompanied by Li’l Stevie) massacring a sacred ditty – London 2009. 

Right.
I warned you that any Springsteen would not pass without return of fire.
A little Bumper Bar for you.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 24, 2021 8:39 pm

Don’t forget Beazo, Bons.

Somewhere, under lock and key, and marked “Never to be Released”, there is allegedly footage of Beazo, in his tailor made cams, stuck in the turret hatch of a Leopard tank, and having to be extracted by his flunkies….

Bons
October 24, 2021 8:40 pm

Don’t forget Beazo, Bons.
Oh dear. How could I have forgotten, another Defence embarrassment.
Disgusting for professed national leaders.

Rabz
October 24, 2021 8:40 pm

There is simply no mechanism for the electorate to register their disapproval

Other than the (long overdue) implementation of HOP Time™ 🙂

Rabz
October 24, 2021 8:41 pm

Beazo

This personage actually existed?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 24, 2021 8:45 pm

Beazo

This personage actually existed?

Big shot in the Australian Republican movement, now the State Governor – the Queen’s representative – of Western Australia.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 24, 2021 8:45 pm

I see the Hunt for Ed October has come to an anticlimactic end.

Captain Detmer can sleep soundly, though. Chernobyl was in 1986. Rhode Island, 1964. The public aren’t terrified of nuclear power any more, and nor should they be.

The Gweens would do well to drop this one and concentrate on nonexistent sea level rises.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 24, 2021 8:47 pm

The only reason Payne is Foreign Minister through the party & toyboy Ayers who now has his own problems in ICAC. She seemed beyond useless as defence minister and hasn’t changed.

Another Photios drone.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 24, 2021 8:48 pm

Bons, earlier:

Australia embarrassing itself by sending overseas enormous fat bags of shit as senior representatives

Agreed. It’s terrible. Every single one of them, bar Blamey went ‘but muh genes’ before ordering seven pork roasts covered in fried cheese and Mars Bars, with a Diet Coke on the side.

Rabz
October 24, 2021 8:49 pm

before ordering seven pork roasts covered in fried cheese and Mars Bars, with a Diet Coke on the side

As one does. 😕

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 24, 2021 8:49 pm

Hogan has a world in which everyone is an individual who thinks for himself.

Don’t think you got the sense of the society DrB, which is a grass-roots assembly based on respect for ability. Doesn’t matter what the ability is, so long as it is done with seriousness and intent. So a person who builds perfect scale models of ships would be as well regarded as a nuclear physicist who produces devastating weapons. Neither need to do it to live, since there’s an abundance of anything they might want. It may have a Japanese cultural underpinning, they seem to have that sort of respect for precision and Masamune-like minutiae.

Rabz
October 24, 2021 8:52 pm
Delta A
Delta A
October 24, 2021 8:53 pm

Dessert after family roast dinner tonight.

Yum!

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
October 24, 2021 8:54 pm

Don’t forget Beazo, Bons.

I once met Kim Beazo snr. He wasn’t the least bit like jnr. And quite impressive for a politician.

Was jnr adopted?

Delta A
Delta A
October 24, 2021 8:55 pm
Rabz
October 24, 2021 8:57 pm
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 24, 2021 8:58 pm

Payne and the Belgian Minister for Health (look that gargantosaurus up, if you dare) could engage in a bingo-wing duel that would actually change the Earth’s climate.

Rabz
October 24, 2021 8:58 pm
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 24, 2021 8:59 pm

I see Mr Baldwin, the anti-gun nut isn’t so much of an anti-gun nut that he uses them to make filthy, filthy, capitalist individual profit.

Let’s see you mouth off now, you pompous retard.

Rabz
October 24, 2021 9:00 pm

The bingo wings that flapped in the Yamazon, KD.

It’s a noted climate disruptance experience.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 24, 2021 9:00 pm

Ed Casesays:
October 24, 2021 at 6:21 pm
about the nuke subs, I didn’t even hear a whisper in the “electorate” you’re so worried about.

Not really a Nuclear Power issue since the USN isn’t letting the RAN have a look into the subs Nuclear Reactor compartment , so all work on it will be done in the U.S.

Wow! The contract hasn’t even been drafted yet, and ‘Ed Case already knows the contents! Amazing what you can find with Google.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 24, 2021 9:03 pm

Back when we travelled the world, we spied a car with the Strayan flag on it parked outside some very grand building in, I think, Budapest.
Street blocked off by heavy security so it must be a VVIP.
Stood and watched to see who it was.
Eventually, out waddles Payne and rolls into the car.
I felt a great sense of National shame.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 24, 2021 9:03 pm

Be thankful I don’t take it all

Didn’t they flee the Labour-run UK because 95% tax rate or something?
Can’t go past this one but. The time signatures are awesome.

Money

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 24, 2021 9:03 pm

I once met Kim Beazo snr. He wasn’t the least bit like jnr. And quite impressive for a politician.

Wasn’t it Beazo snr who coined the immortal phrase about joining the Labor Party when it contained the cream of the working class, only for it now to contain the dregs of the middle class?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 24, 2021 9:04 pm

I think Mr Baldwin’s mouthiness in relation to gun carelessness might be now tempered somewhat.

Delta A
Delta A
October 24, 2021 9:05 pm

Blessed with another Grandchild!

Congratulations, srr.

Rabz
October 24, 2021 9:06 pm

Baldwin, the anti-gun nut isn’t so much of an anti-gun nut that he uses them to make filthy, filthy, capitalist individual profit

It’s the smugness that annoys me the most, KD.

Those preposterous Bourbonesque Hollyweird indivegetables actually have the gall to look down their coke soaked noses at us normal folk.

In any sane world, they’d be condemned to a disney style theme park which we could happily visit, point and laugh.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Re the video of Mr. Avi Yemini enquiring of some nearby diners why they were abusing him in a vile public manner:

At one stage the bald-headed flog was speaking in tongues to Avi.
Anybody know what he was saying?

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 24, 2021 9:07 pm

Rabz

Some thoughts for you at the China surveillance thread.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
October 24, 2021 9:09 pm

Don’t think you got the sense of the society DrB, which is a grass-roots assembly based on respect for ability.

I got that, BoN. But it ain’t that easy. How much respect is an educationalist entitled to? Not much from a practical man, quite a lot from the gullible who are impressed by bullshit. And there’s a lot of them in the human race. The Japanese bought into militaristic bullshit for a lot of their history.

Envisage that Chironian society three generations down the track, with a large underclass of ppl who get no respect from the grass roots practical ppl, because they lack the patience to master any difficult skill. But instead form a collective of dissidents who loathe the establishment precisely because they get no respect. And who are vulnerable to any bullshitting rabble rouser who offers them self respect in exchange for obedience. Who tells them how innately wonderful they are and how they’ve been abused and victimised by the establishment.

I hope you don’t have confidence that it couldn’t happen.

Rabz
October 24, 2021 9:13 pm

I felt a great sense of National shame.

I’ve been gifted with that unsettling feeling for many many moons, Señor Panzer, if that’s any consolation.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
October 24, 2021 9:13 pm

With reference to earlier Cats mentioning Katanning as a nice, affordable and relatively liveavle place outside a Big City (TM), might I also offer up for consideration areas around the Peel and Southwest regions of WA?

To wit, the arc between Pinjarra and Manjimup.

Smallish places like Boyanup, Capel, Harvery and Brunswick Junction offer their own self-containedness, good average rainfall (these areas are still currently green, as I confirmed during my sojourns to and from operating the Leschenault Lady this weekend), and are close to Bunbury and Busselton but still far enough away for good separation.

Perth is the best part of 3 hours out, and need only be visited for specific purposes.

C.L.
C.L.
October 24, 2021 9:14 pm

In the words of the ad jingle, could somebody please take Paul Murray’s money and give him a bucket of KFC?

Rabz
October 24, 2021 9:14 pm

Thanks, BJ – the composing will commence tomorrow.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
October 24, 2021 9:15 pm

(This previous post of mine assumes you are either already Sandgroperstani, and/or Comrade Sneakers has been rolled or otherwise convinced his ‘[W]Apes Togevva, Stronk!’ gag wore itself out after his first pseudo-lockdown last March…)

calli
calli
October 24, 2021 9:17 pm

Anybody know what he was saying?

Cassie translated.

“@#§*$%@^€”

Rude Hebrew.

rickw
rickw
October 24, 2021 9:18 pm

Dr. Shankara Chetty Discusses His COVID Management Approach.

7,000 COVID patients treated in SA and zero deaths. Very worthwhile watching.

A quick summary of the treatment protocol (see previous interview).

Stage 1. Days 1-5 200mg Hydroxychloroquine 1 x day
Stage 2. If still symptomatic or if it starts again. Promethazine (antihistime) 25mg 3 x day. Aspirin
Stage 3. If still symptomatic, highly unlikely uses steroids.

If only we had a CHO as calm and considered as this Doctor. Note that he considers “Fear and anxiety of COVID” to be a co-morbidity (!!!!).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifqE8cBQbI4

Rabz
October 24, 2021 9:19 pm

Some more of those mighty ‘hooks!

🙂

Rabz
October 24, 2021 9:20 pm
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 24, 2021 9:21 pm

The young bloke’s inside watching Wolf of Wall Street. Favourable reviews elicited so far.

I am aware this is a sinister development.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Anybody know what he was saying?

Cassie translated.
“@#§*$%@^€”
Rude Hebrew.

Thanks Calli.
What he & the others were saying in English was … pretty bad.
I’d presume the Hebrew section was worse.

rickw
rickw
October 24, 2021 9:21 pm

At one stage the bald-headed flog was speaking in tongues to Avi.
Anybody know what he was saying?

Avi has a version of it up with subtitles:

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

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 24, 2021 9:23 pm

I got that, BoN. But it ain’t that easy. How much respect is an educationalist entitled to?

Depends, DrB. I respected my Yr 11 Maths teacher a lot, he was really good. I didn’t respect my Physics teacher though, since he handed us the textbook and then went and spent all lessons drinking coffee in the staff room.

Masamune was a swordsmith, if you looked him up. I have a kitchen knife my Japanophile brother gave me once. Breathtaking and beautiful. I daren’t use it as its too sharp and I’m too uncoordinated.

Envisage that Chironian society three generations down the track

As I said, read The Songs Of A Distant Earth. Interestingly it was written only a year after VfY. 😀

On the other hand you have a point. There’re many SFs about societies which degenerate into miserable urban welfare projects where everyone watches TV all day. Usually the hero has escaped such a horrible fate, yet many in our society might like that lifestyle.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 24, 2021 9:29 pm

Rabzsays:
October 24, 2021 at 9:14 pm
Thanks, BJ – the composing will commence tomorrow.

Pleasure. If I was too cryptic, let me know.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

rickwsays:
October 24, 2021 at 9:21 pm

Avi has a version of it up with subtitles:

Thanks rickw.

If any of those five flogs spoke as they did, to someone at my place, an option to avoid a physical fisticuff or MMA style escalation would likely not be on the table.

According to Slatts (rest his soul) Melbourne rules were similar.

Was it the presence of video cameras that kept things so genteel?

Or do the Vikstasi have the monopoly on belting hell out of people?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 24, 2021 9:36 pm

(Oops, some corrections: it’s “The Songs of Distant Earth”, it was first anthologized a year after “Voyage from Yesteryear”, then published in full in HB three years after that (the edition I have), but was worked up from an original short story from 1958. A fine story, with interesting cultural and space travel engineering considerations.)

Winston Smith
October 24, 2021 9:40 pm

Calli:

On the second, sure. But movies are filled with bloopers. No one, except the seriously deranged, gives a sh*t. Normal punters want entertainment, not a ballistics lesson. On a budget film, firearms trickery won’t matter.

I was thinking along those lines when I went to bed this am – bloopers are a feature of many films.
In this age of digital low cost filming, I wonder if there is film of the incident?

Cassie of Sydney
October 24, 2021 9:41 pm

So the Nationals and Liberals have agreed on “net zero emissions”.

Time for us voters to reward the Nationals and Liberals with “net zero seats”.

Fair’s fair.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

In this age of digital low cost filming, I wonder if there is film of the incident?

Unsurprisingly, that same thought occurred to the Sherriff, who immediately sought a super-fast warrant for the contents of the audio-visual gear (i.e. movie cameras) on site.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
October 24, 2021 9:42 pm

Depends, DrB. I respected my Yr 11 Maths teacher a lot, he was really good. I didn’t respect my Physics teacher though, since he handed us the textbook and then went and spent all lessons drinking coffee in the staff room.

Teachers and educationalists are different, BoN.

Japanese culture produced some beautiful things, including swords, but also poetry, painting and philosophy. Their mathematics wasn’t up to much, possibly because the warrior caste despised it.

Yes, being a compliant television watching slob suits some ppl very well. Sad, but it has to be considered.

C.L.
C.L.
October 24, 2021 9:42 pm

Murray show chyron right now:

LIKE IT OR NOT, THE NATS NOW SUPPORT NET ZERO

A few minutes ago, he mentioned Trump’s new social platform – with a giggle.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

So the Nationals and Liberals have agreed on “net zero emissions”.
Time for us voters to reward the Nationals and Liberals with “net zero seats”.

That’s going on my office wall.
Arky’s “make horsey noises, squeal like a pig, dance, boy” haiku can come down for a couple of days to make way for it.

egg_
egg_
October 24, 2021 9:46 pm

So the Nationals and Liberals have agreed on “net zero emissions”.

They’ll no longer be talking out of their @rses?

MatrixTransform
October 24, 2021 9:46 pm

Try again.

Tarte Tatin … nice !!

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
October 24, 2021 9:47 pm

The Songs of Distant Earth

Not available on Kindle, alas.

Rabz
October 24, 2021 9:49 pm

Good ol’ three chord Lou, engaging in some of that mighty “Li’l D Thang” …

A romantic tale for the ages.

Behind Enemy Lines
Behind Enemy Lines
October 24, 2021 9:52 pm

Rex Anger says:
October 24, 2021 at 9:13 pm
With reference to earlier Cats mentioning Katanning as a nice, affordable and relatively liveavle place outside a Big City (TM), might I also offer up for consideration areas around the Peel and Southwest regions of WA? To wit, the arc between Pinjarra and Manjimup.

Thanks, Rex. Been a long time since I’ve been in that AO, but I remember it fondly. One of my old friends lives in that general area, and tells me it’s still kind of like California back before it all went wrong. List: added.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 24, 2021 9:53 pm

Not available on Kindle, alas.

Geoblocked. Bummer. Comes up for $1.99, but I’m on VPN via a US server (usually quicker & more reliable than the local Oz one).

JC
JC
October 24, 2021 9:55 pm

For good ol’ JC – Goose Springsteen (accompanied by Li’l Stevie) massacring a sacred ditty – London 2009.

Thanks Rbaz, can I just say I like his music, but it’s just that. Also, I’ve seen him twice, once in the US and another time in Melbourne. He does a good job of giving it all.

Rabz
October 24, 2021 9:56 pm

Some Sunday evening instrumentals:

Carolyn’s Fingers

Pearly Dewdrops Drops

Crossie
Crossie
October 24, 2021 9:57 pm

Revealing but unsurprising comment from Baz. His main concern is appearing to be a “good global citizen”. Never mind the fact that the stupid policy will have zero effect on the weather. Never mind the fact that the policy will benefit the Chicoms. But most of all, never mind the fact that the policy is against the national interest. You know, the reason that Australian governments exist.

This good global citizen sadly doesn’t live off any global money but the taxes of us non-global citizens. I’m getting to the point where anyone who declare themselves as global citizens should be exiled to this magical global country they call home.

Rabz
October 24, 2021 9:58 pm

JC – I want to do a Steve Jones and gift myself as many of his guitars as is possible without being arrested and thrown in gaol.

If he’s a true collectivist, he won’t mind the oppressed helping themselves. 🙂

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 24, 2021 10:00 pm

dover0beach

Ten per cent of 5.5M is not a small number. And that will grow as booster req. kick in; I reckon they will loss 10% of the 80-90% they coerced. Another 10% by the second. And you wait for the adverse effects when they become impossible to ignore.

A single quarantine with a nominal capacity of 1000, even stacked up four to a room, will not go too far there. Either TaliDan is planning a major construction program, or he has a problem.

Speaking of construction, has Gunner been around recently?

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
October 24, 2021 10:01 pm

Geoblocked. Bummer. Comes up for $1.99, but I’m on VPN via a US server (usually quicker & more reliable than the local Oz one).

If can send it to me as a gift, I can afford to pay you, but I imagine that’s blocked too.

cohenite
October 24, 2021 10:02 pm

When the chatter about the carbon tax and sequestration and sinks with farms being set aside for these off-sets began back in about 2009 I remember going to meetings where farmers turned up salivating at the prospect of inner city green bureaucrats and pollies giving them wads of cash NOT to farm.

Never get between a farmer and government money not to work; and that’s what scomo has given the nats. Matt kean too. Farmers don’t care; they’re effectively self sufficient; and usually well armed. What do they care if the cities lose power and chaos ensues with hoards of green fucktards bereft of phone and internet connections running amuck until their caffeine highs run out. Then they’ll begin eating grass and pretending it’s smashed avocado.

I’ll give it 6 months before inner Sydney looks like downtown Chicago. Western Sydney is already run by the muzzies and they don’t give a fuck about power. And melbournistan is already cooked but doesn’t know it. Anyway it’s all hypothetical; according to Molan the chunks, thanks to biden, will run the place within a year or two. They can’t afford to wait until 24 when Trump may get back in.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 24, 2021 10:04 pm

Crossie

I’m getting to the point where anyone who declare themselves as global citizens should be exiled to this magical global country they call home.

Indeed. A UN citizenship program should be started, with UN citizens (and staff) being taxed by the UN to fund its operations. Tax Cassidy’s Australian taxpayer funded retirement at a level adequate to fund the UN’s operations, and watch him lose enthusiasm.

Bar Beach Swimmer
October 24, 2021 10:04 pm

A few weeks back I signed up to the Covid Medical Network newsletter. In today’s edition was a report by an engineer with a link to an anonymous group of health professionals – mostly nurses – all reporting on the numbers and types of adverse reactions to the jabs they’ve been dealing with. The group was started in September and has 56K subscribers. The testimonies are unbelievable.

JC
JC
October 24, 2021 10:06 pm

America is a truly incredible place. Nothing remotely like that country exists in the universe.
I watched a doco on Prime (by the way, Amazon Prime has really improved these days). It was about the beginning and subsequent fall of WeWork. How to describe WeWork? I dunno, I have to look to see if someone can better describe the business WeWork was in . They tried to sell it as a technology company in order to gain the multiples and for a time they succeeded. But is also wasn’t a real estate firm either.

WeWork is an American commercial real estate company that provides flexible shared workspaces for technology startups and services for other enterprises. WeWork designs and builds physical and virtual shared spaces and office services for entrepreneurs and companies

The founder and his wife were absolute nutballs. The business went from having a valuation of US$47 billion to being bust in 6 weeks. The founder walked away with around US$1.7 billion. It’s worth watching to see how a huckster operates. It surprises me he got away with it for a long time. The way he expressed himself had huckster painted all over it.

Mater
October 24, 2021 10:07 pm

It is but it’s always darkest before the dawn. Ten per cent of 5.5M is not a small number. And that will grow as booster req. kick in; I reckon they will loss 10% of the 80-90% they coerced. Another 10% by the second. And you wait for the adverse effects when they become impossible to ignore.

I agree, Dover, but a lot of the 10% will have had to submit by then.
Avoiding the first round of jabs is going to get very hard, very quickly.

As you say, the Battle of the Boosters is about to begin.

cohenite
October 24, 2021 10:07 pm

Craig Kelly MP
@CraigKellyMP
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7m
THE NATIONALS HAVE CAPITULATED.
Net zero jobs, net zero income for the bush.
The biggest betrayal of regional Australia in our nation’s history.
It’s now ZERO trust in the Nationals.
“You can’t trust Labor, Liberal, the Greens- OR THE NATIONALS”.

TRAITORS

Winston Smith
October 24, 2021 10:07 pm

I think it was Bruce who spoke of getting an earworm from someones post a while back.
I’ve had one for two weeks now.
Started off with Greigs “Peer Gynt Suite” – the ‘Morning’ track.
However, it’s coming through with no violins. No woodwinds. No harp.
Just the bagpipes.

JC
JC
October 24, 2021 10:08 pm

Rabz, I should know who is Steve Jones? Does he live in Parramatta? 🙂

egg_
egg_
October 24, 2021 10:10 pm

In any sane world, they’d be condemned to a disney style theme park which we could happily visit, point and laugh.

Isn’t that what fillums are for?

They don’t think they’re living real, meaningful lives?

JC
JC
October 24, 2021 10:12 pm

Eggles! Nice to see you back here. Have you leg-overed any other Cat gals recently? Asking for a pal.

MatrixTransform
October 24, 2021 10:13 pm

Vikstasi have the monopoly on belting hell out of people?

correct

Zipster
Zipster
October 24, 2021 10:13 pm

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

we haven’t seen this level of depravity since the nazis. and now the chicoms

egg_
egg_
October 24, 2021 10:16 pm

30 Rock was a documentary, non?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 24, 2021 10:16 pm

East Pakistan (Bangladesh) playing South India (Sri Lanka) in the crikkit.

Bangers crunching the Kohli wannabe deceitful sooks at present. Most enjoyable.

egg_
egg_
October 24, 2021 10:17 pm

Have you leg-overed any other Cat gals recently?

Only Cate.
But a gentleman never tells.

Zipster
Zipster
October 24, 2021 10:18 pm

Not available on Kindle, alas.

pdfdrive

egg_
egg_
October 24, 2021 10:19 pm

Net zero jobs, net zero income for the bush.

Beetroot faces all ’round.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
October 24, 2021 10:20 pm

BoN

I loved the Spanish guys shining light at night on useless ‘solar panels’.

But isn’t our Sun, and all other stars, one massive nuclear reaction????

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 24, 2021 10:20 pm

I rooted a Kitteh once. Guess who it was?

Liberty quote.

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

twostix
twostix
October 24, 2021 10:22 pm

Theory that the Coalition want to lose the next election and spend a decade or two enjoying lovely sinecures and board appointments for all the Hard Work they’ve done for the globalist class over the last two years looks pretty good now doesn’t it?

egg_
egg_
October 24, 2021 10:24 pm

I rooted a Kitteh once. Guess who it was?

Liberty quote.

Misquote, Cate?

Sure you’ve got it letter perfect?

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
October 24, 2021 10:24 pm

How the fk can you claim solar is not nuclear?????

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 24, 2021 10:25 pm

The Vietnamese chick. Come on, _roomba.

Did you crack one?
Scramble her emotions?
Bring her out of her shell?
Poach her from her boyfriend/s?
Drain her white?
Tell her yolks until she cried?
Take her out in the big yellow automatic truck?
Dazzle her with true crime theories based on partisan TV shows?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
October 24, 2021 10:27 pm

As you say, the Battle of the Boosters is about to begin.

Dammit Mater!

This Blackhat’s (And Spitfire/Merlin/Griffon enthusiast’s) internal gramophone immediately went full Goodwin at that quote.

You’ll have to mentally photoshop the appropriate faces onto the dramatis personae yourself, though.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cNVVoH9-QH0

(It isn’t too hard to imagine the CASA 21.111s presented as Flying Syringes though… 😛 )

egg_
egg_
October 24, 2021 10:27 pm

Lowbrow lowballs on the off…

As predictable as clockwork from MarkL from Clownsville.

/A Midwitters’ Ball.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 24, 2021 10:28 pm

Not out at Sidernee Cat drinks tonight, _roomba?

Why not? Surely you got the email.

Oh.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 24, 2021 10:28 pm

Bangladesh must be the biggest shit hole on earth.

Currently they are purging Hindu’s in the west of the country.
A couple of years back they went east into Burma & purged Buddhists and then turned tail when they experienced pushback.
Apart from migrating to England & joining the Labour party, I’m not sure what the country does.

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