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Stratford Mill, John Constable, 1820

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Megan
Megan
October 25, 2021 12:07 am

Well, hi there!

Megan
Megan
October 25, 2021 12:09 am

The old OT was rapidly becoming uninhabitable. Much better I chat to myself for a bit.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 25, 2021 12:09 am

Good evening to all on the Cat!

Megan
Megan
October 25, 2021 12:10 am

It was a dark and stormy night…

Well, its dark at least, here in the newly free kingdom of the boiling frogs.

Megan
Megan
October 25, 2021 12:11 am

I nearly managed all podium positions. Curses!

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
October 25, 2021 12:11 am

Solar Panels use Nuclear Sunshine… prove me wrong…

Megan
Megan
October 25, 2021 12:12 am

Hello Zulu! How is life in the Great Western Empire formerly known as WA?

Megan
Megan
October 25, 2021 12:13 am

Constable and Turner. Masters of the very English cloudscape.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 25, 2021 12:16 am

Hello Zulu! How is life in the Great Western Empire formerly known as WA?

We live, under the all seeing rule of “Big Brother” aka “Sneakers McGowan.”

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 25, 2021 12:21 am

Night, all. I’m off to bed with Keith Payne’s autobiography. Good reading for military type Cats.

JC
JC
October 25, 2021 12:28 am

Oh God

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
October 25, 2021 12:33 am

J

C says:
October 25, 2021 at 12:28 am

Oh God

yes my son???

Megan
Megan
October 25, 2021 12:34 am

Oh God

And on that note , it’s goodnight from Him.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
October 25, 2021 12:39 am

If fkhead solar panel worshipers bow to the nuclear sun then I want nuclear power on earth you xunts.

Bruce in WA
October 25, 2021 12:48 am

Too good to let it die on the old thread:

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.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
October 25, 2021 12:58 am

When you pick up a gun and point it at a human and pull the trigger you meant to kill them.

win
win
October 25, 2021 1:25 am

Dovers previous OT art work with a disembodied head held by its naked body when first came across in the early hours of the morning came as quite a shock . Stratford ,far more restful for the insomniacs, but it did make me wonder just what Dover does for a living.
PS Love them ,opens up new doors and thank you for running the blog.

srr
srr
October 25, 2021 2:58 am

Too much joy to sleep, thought I’d nod off over a movie.
Wrong.
That Ricky Gervais, damn he’s a fine story teller.
No, better than that, he sees and shows the sacredness of humanity.
“Cemetery Junction”, on Netflix.

Tom
Tom
October 25, 2021 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.

A cryptic 39-word statement on its letters page last Monday said that the venerable Melbourne newspaper was “trialling new cartoonists” on the page.

Now Leunig has confirmed to Diary that he was axed from his prized Monday editorial page position by The Age, after it dumped a cartoon in which he compared Daniel Andrews’ threat of “vaccine mandates” for Victoria to the famous Tiananmen Square vision of “Tank Man”, the Beijing dissenter who defiantly faced off against the Chinese government’s tanks in 1989.

“ ‘Purge’ is a word that comes to mind,” he tells Diary of his axing. “Apparently, I’m out of touch with the readership.”

The cartoon never made it into the newspaper because The Age refused to publish it. But Leunig self-published on his own online site, earning angry criticism from #IStandWithDan supporters on social media. Leunig says The Age’s editor Gay Alcorn* called him soon after she banned the offending cartoon to “break the news gently” that he was no longer wanted on the editorial page.

“Gay feels this type of cartoon is not in line with public sentiment, and The Age’s readership, who it does seem are largely in favour of the Andrews Covid narrative. But my job is to challenge the status quo, and that has always been the job of the cartoonist.”

Leunig has defended the offending cartoon: “The Tiananmen Square image is often used in cartoons around the world as a Charlie Chaplin-like metaphor for overwhelming force meeting the innocent powerless individual. In my view, it is a fair enough issue to raise in the most locked-down city in the world.” Alcorn’s message to him in the phone calls was that “I am too out of step with our readers” – even though, he says, a Michael Leunig Appreciation Page operated by The Age on Facebook currently has more than 213,000 followers.

“If what Gay says is right, I don’t much want to work for the sorts of readers who are so censorious. It seems that at The Age in particular, you can’t go near the Covid story except in a way that’s supportive of the Victorian government’s handling of it. And if you’re not supportive, that’s reason enough for you to be cancelled.”

Leunig has also let rip on how the news was revealed in The Age last Monday. “The way it was done was rude,” he said. “It was a pretty blunt, discourteous and frustrating way to have a half-century of editorial cartooning at The Age brought to an end.”

Leunig, who remains on the list of Australia’s 76 National Living Treasures, says that he has built “a reputation at The Age for being feral or a bit out of hand”. “But that’s the point of a cartoonist – not to be a wrecker, but also not to be too conventional or goodly,” he says. “My greatest dismay in all of this is the wretched state of cartooning and humour in The Age. It’s as if they want to destroy or subjugate cartooning.

“I do understand that a newspaper must be free to control its content and refuse to publish pieces as it reasonably sees fit. I have had cartoons censored during my 55 years of editorial cartooning and have always had the reasons for rejection explained to me by editors in intelligent, respectful ways. It is not rejection that bothers me. It’s the wokeism and the humourlessness, which seem without courage, good spirit or creative imagination.”

He also believes his perspective has increasingly diverged with The Age over time: “I come from an earthy working class perspective and values system, but that perspective increasingly seems out of touch with The Age’s cosy, inner-city mindset these days. The paper’s motto is ‘Independent. Always.’ But is it truly independent?”

Leunig now claims that he has had 12 cartoons censored this year, “all about Covid and/or Dan Andrews, with next to no explanation”.

When Diary reached Alcorn on Sunday, she maintained she still viewed Leunig as “quite brilliant” and noted that his lifestyle cartoons would “continue to be published” in its Saturday Spectrum section. “I’m not surprised Michael is upset,” she said. “He’s entitled to be upset if he wants to be.”

Alcorn confirmed she had censored a number of cartoons by Leunig this year: “I have pulled multiple cartoons by Leunig, almost entirely on the grounds that they expressed an anti-vaccination sentiment. We don’t mind cartoonists challenging the readers. We encourage diversity of thought, but I had a concern with cartoons perceived as anti-vaccination.”

Interestingly, The Age is already in full swing on a concerted marketing push for Leunig’s flagship annual calendar — a well-known money-spinner for Nine papers — and other Leunig merchandise. But Leunig’s comments to Diary today could make for an interesting dynamic.

*Sister of legendary leftard fruitcake Margo Kingston.

Tom
Tom
October 25, 2021 3:02 am
FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
October 25, 2021 3:18 am

hey Leunig!

Tom
Tom
October 25, 2021 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
October 25, 2021 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
October 25, 2021 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
October 25, 2021 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
October 25, 2021 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
October 25, 2021 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
October 25, 2021 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
October 25, 2021 4:12 am
Tom
Tom
October 25, 2021 4:13 am
Tom
Tom
October 25, 2021 4:14 am
Tom
Tom
October 25, 2021 4:15 am
Tom
Tom
October 25, 2021 4:16 am
Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
October 25, 2021 4:18 am

Thank you Tom

Tom
Tom
October 25, 2021 4:18 am
Tom
Tom
October 25, 2021 4:19 am
Tom
Tom
October 25, 2021 4:20 am
feelthebern
feelthebern
October 25, 2021 4:49 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHSJ2brceKI

Jon Stewart DESTROYS CNN on Their Trump Obsession

Crossie
Crossie
October 25, 2021 5:28 am

Tom, thanks for the toons. A great selection and, as always, Johannes hit the nail on the head.

Crossie
Crossie
October 25, 2021 5:32 am

We don’t mind cartoonists challenging the readers. We encourage diversity of thought, but I had a concern with cartoons perceived as anti-vaccination.”

I take it Gay Alcorn is stating here that Leunig can make fun of anyone except Dan and his junta. There’s an old Soviet joke in there that apparatchiks like Alcorn think nobody has heard before.

rosie
rosie
October 25, 2021 6:29 am

I don’t consider Leunig anti vaxx, just anti dictatorship.
I read Haigh’s piece to Mum yesterday morning, she thoroughly enjoyed it and it was a great pleasure to read out loud, despite stumbling over the pronunciation of ‘anathematizing’.
As calli said, a great reference point for non Melbourne experience sneerers.

rosie
rosie
October 25, 2021 6:35 am
calli
calli
October 25, 2021 6:40 am

Leunig, once a darling of the Left, has been cancelled. Because he thinks for himself.

Leak hits the nail on the head – Gladys had to go. For once, ICAC did us all a favour. Anyone with half a brain knows Vic’s leash has been loosened slightly because of what’s happening in NSW. Shame it doesn’t work the same way elsewhere.

Rowe is on about something or other, maybe Net Zero, maybe not. His fetishes are too oblique for me.

rosie
rosie
October 25, 2021 6:46 am

One can only hope that Dan’s latest political stunt, which is only to prove that he isn’t merely a Dom Perrottet copy cat will get pulled in mid December because da science.
I’d like to see a legal challenge too.

rosie
rosie
October 25, 2021 6:49 am

It’s more than slightly calli, if you are among the vaxxed, after intimidating he’d maintain an international travel quarantine he capitulated on that very quickly.
That will no doubt give him increased capacity to ‘welcome’ international students.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 25, 2021 6:49 am

I think this one fits Leunig’s predicament rather well.

calli
calli
October 25, 2021 6:50 am

If I have read it correctly, as of 1 December, you won’t need to provide medical details in NSW. Cross the border, and you do.

I think we should start preparing for a mass migration of sensible Victorians here. No one would blame them for fleeing Danistan.

rosie
rosie
October 25, 2021 6:52 am
feelthebern
feelthebern
October 25, 2021 6:54 am

Last week Stanford gave Nick Clegg an hour to say that politics isn’t part of facebook decision making.
Today, this is the headline at the WSJ.

NEWS ALERT
Facebook’s Internal Chat Boards Show Politics Often at Center of Decision Making

Will Stanford get Nick Clegg back to discuss?

rosie
rosie
October 25, 2021 6:56 am
rosie
rosie
October 25, 2021 7:00 am

There is a Constable in the modern art museum in Madrid, you could almost hear the wind in the trees.
Magnificent, though for me, Constable is much more than some other selections, in need of viewing in the flesh.

Winston Smith
October 25, 2021 7:01 am

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?
Do you really think readers can’t scroll back and check?

Dot
Dot
October 25, 2021 7:02 am

His fetishes are too oblique for me.

Enough about Nick Clegg’s hobby as a gimp for the establishment.

rickw
rickw
October 25, 2021 7:02 am

Gun Meme Review – Alec Baldwin:

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

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 25, 2021 7:03 am

The John Roberts court is a joke.
On 1st Nov they will hear arguments in the fast tracked challenges to the Texas abortion law.
The day before a rack a elections are held across the country including the Virginia governorship.
They aren’t even trying anymore.

Dot
Dot
October 25, 2021 7:03 am

What we really need is JC and egg stoushing.

My lawyer, Miguel Sanchez approves.

win
win
October 25, 2021 7:04 am

First they came for Bill Leak and now another woman has come for Leunig .How comforting to know that Alcorn of the Age is censoring what readers can read . If she thinks this is an anti vax. cartoon she is either lying to protect Andrews and his brutal police force or stupid.

Winston Smith
October 25, 2021 7:05 am

Calli:

Leunig, once a darling of the Left, has been cancelled. Because he thinks for himself.

Perhaps, but I reckon he’s still firmly in the Leftist Camp. It’s just that he’s gotten a warning shot across the bows if he thinks he can test the temperature of the water outside the Gulag.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 25, 2021 7:05 am

Miguel Sanchez is busy defending me for that time I re-acted Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas.

rickw
rickw
October 25, 2021 7:07 am

The cartoon never made it into the newspaper because The Age refused to publish it. But Leunig self-published on his own online site, earning angry criticism from #IStandWithDan supporters on social media.

How you know your government are totalitarian scumbags.

Dot
Dot
October 25, 2021 7:07 am

You wanna learn the first rule… you’d know if you ever spent a day in your life… You never open your mouth till you know what the shot is…

Dot
Dot
October 25, 2021 7:09 am

Leunig was right about the Iraq War being stupid and he’s right about the shocking levels of coercion being used now.

He’s to the right of everyone in Vic Parliament but the LDP.

Dot
Dot
October 25, 2021 7:11 am

Speaking of Victorians, I had to turn off MMM this year as fat oaf Lawerence Mooney referred to COVID as a *health crisis*.

No mate, living across the road from a DFMB (Deep Fried Mars Bar) is your problem, jumbo.

Cassie of Sydney
October 25, 2021 7:12 am

“‘Purge’ is a word that comes to mind,” he tells Diary of his axing. “Apparently, I’m out of touch with the readership.”

You know we’re living in dystopian times when Leunig is censored.

calli
calli
October 25, 2021 7:13 am

The whole drawn out kit and caboodle of vested interests summed up in one Tweet:

Victoria – The Communist State
@TeeZoki
·
20h
Replying to
@BenHopkinsAus
and
@RitaPanahi
She’d be disappointed. One thing about this pandemic is doctors, epidemiologists and any so-called experts are lapping up their importance and the biggest spreader of fear to the public. The longer this pandemic goes on the longer they stay relevant.

The upcoming Climapalooza (thanks Bruce) may eclipse this lot with another pantheon of “experts”.

I want to see a tv game show with each camp pitted against the other for public money and eyeballs and clicks. Fat, frumpy epidemiologists duking it out with wizened, nagging naturalists all to a Benny Hill Yakety Sax soundtrack.

The losers get fed to a volcano.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 25, 2021 7:14 am

Triple M is dead to me.

Dot
Dot
October 25, 2021 7:15 am

The losers get fed to a volcano.

No no.

Lawerence Mooney and Gary Worboys.

JC
JC
October 25, 2021 7:15 am

Lol dot

That’s never going to happen. Eggly is always right.

rickw
rickw
October 25, 2021 7:16 am
Cassie of Sydney
October 25, 2021 7:18 am

Everyday, until the federal election, I will chant this….

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.

Cassie of Sydney
October 25, 2021 7:24 am

“Alcorn confirmed she had censored a number of cartoons by Leunig this year: “I have pulled multiple cartoons by Leunig, almost entirely on the grounds that they expressed an anti-vaccination sentiment. We don’t mind cartoonists challenging the readers. We encourage diversity of thought, but I had a concern with cartoons perceived as anti-vaccination.””

LOL….that bolded line sums up modern journalism.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 25, 2021 7:26 am

The upcoming Climapalooza (thanks Bruce) may eclipse this lot with another pantheon of “experts”.

It’s pretty crazy this morning at the news sites I look at. All the usual suspects are out and about, screeching. This one is pretty typical:

U.N. Warns of Global ‘Famine, Chaos, Terrorism and… War’ if COP26 Climate Summit Fails (24 Oct)

And this one too:

Prince Charles Claims There Is a ‘Dangerously Narrow’ Window to Tackle Climate Change (24 Oct)

I think he probably said the same thing before each of the previous 25 summits.

And yep there’s still nothing much happening in the real world climate wise, except some slight cooling. Near term a second La Nina does seem to be kicking in to gear.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 25, 2021 7:28 am

I’m all for diversity of thought that agrees with me. Take note you buggers.

struth
struth
October 25, 2021 7:31 am

When the jabbed die in the next 18 months to 4 years, this is what will be claimed killed them.
The WEF and the UN are already to bring this new one in.
A bit of freedom to open the country up to pretend to get it in and bang , the tyranny and death really starts.here.

calli
calli
October 25, 2021 7:32 am

A “narrow window”, eh? His forebears knew how to use them to great effect.

Dot
Dot
October 25, 2021 7:34 am

struth

60% of us aren’t gonna die. Nor are 90% of the over 16 population.

Cassie of Sydney
October 25, 2021 7:34 am

Sorry everyone but on this Monday morning I’m furious, I am fuming at our so called “conservative parties” in this country. Cardi, if you’re reading this, pass the news on to the big beetroot, who’s proved to everyone time and time again that he’s all talk and no action. Let him know that at the next election he, his party and the Liberals are going to be borscht.

Dot
Dot
October 25, 2021 7:38 am

Here’s the bet, struth.

By Jan 1, 2026, Australia’s population will not decline by 40% of what it is now.

I have been generous and allowed for massive immigration and birth rates.

The lose pays up in 500 pre 1943 Australian shillings of any quality – roughly a 10k AUD bet in today’s money (as of 25/10/2021).

Dot
Dot
October 25, 2021 7:39 am

Where’s that “YouWannaBet” wanker?

JC
JC
October 25, 2021 7:43 am

Struth

I’m happy to put any money on the table that I will either be alive or dead from something other than the shot over your allotted time slot We need to escrow. Make it meaningful or fuck off.

Also stop accusing those of us who’ve vaxed to be traitors. Go suck faulty’s cock on that one over at the furniture store, you clown.

rosie
rosie
October 25, 2021 7:44 am

By Christmas, in a few months from when, 3 years, 18 months to 4 years*.
Faulty quality predictions based on, what exactly?
*those that haven’t been executed for high treason

My prediction?
Eventually we’re all going to die (takes modest bow for faultless prediction)

Cassie of Sydney
October 25, 2021 7:47 am

“When the jabbed die in the next 18 months to 4 years, “

Rubbish Struth, I’m quite fond of you but this is nonsense.

Now look, I might die in the next four years but it most certainly will not be from the AZ jab.

will
will
October 25, 2021 7:48 am

to the Party (no daylight “savings” here)

Dilbert

will
will
October 25, 2021 7:49 am

to = late

will
will
October 25, 2021 7:49 am
Winston Smith
October 25, 2021 7:50 am

JC:

Go suck faulty’s cock on that one over at the furniture store, you clown.

The New York Tough Guy announces his presence.
Thank you for your contribution.
Swear some more – it’s really persuasive.

Cassie of Sydney
October 25, 2021 7:52 am

I should add that I have no intention of dying in the next four years!

Dot
Dot
October 25, 2021 7:53 am

500 units of 1938 – 1942 (sterling silver) Ram head Australian shillings.

The loser must pay, do you accept struth?

I will dog you until you accept or walk this shit back.

My collateral are my coins in my safe and my CAD stinks. I guess you can pawn your “bread van”.

Dot
Dot
October 25, 2021 7:54 am

STONKS

Damn you autocorrect.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 25, 2021 7:54 am

Cardi, if you’re reading this, pass the news on to the big beetroot, who’s proved to everyone time and time again that he’s all talk and no action.

Also Cardimona, just check to see if the accounts for the house staff and babysitters and private schools and six-monthly Axminster replacement are still tip-top.

If you could ask him if he still holds the view that Federal pollies and their relevant staff have no need to be vaccinated, that would be great.

JC
JC
October 25, 2021 7:57 am

Turtle Head, you’ve just done your two free shots.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 25, 2021 7:58 am

When the jabbed die in the next 18 months to 4 years

A Great Prediction!

18 months to four years. Worst Doomsday town crier yet. As has been said, Faulty-esque.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 25, 2021 8:01 am

Tom Brady is in his 22nd season.
Today he is playing a quarterback who is 22 years old.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 25, 2021 8:02 am

Warren Buffett must look at 60 year fundies & call them kids.

calli
calli
October 25, 2021 8:02 am

If you could ask him if he still holds the view that Federal pollies and their relevant staff have no need to be vaccinated, that would be great.

The Great Falling Out.

The first indicator was the Rehabilitation of ScoMo column over the Fathers’ Day visit. Then the No Need to Vaccinate Politicians tripe.

Now Net Zero.

Apart from the usual rusted-ons, the Nats are finished.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
October 25, 2021 8:03 am

Prince Charles has a dangerously narrow window of opportunity to escape being written off as an ignorant idiot.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 25, 2021 8:04 am

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.

sfw
sfw
October 25, 2021 8:04 am

From the other thread, Behind Enemy Lines asked re suggestions for places to live. Corryong or the surrounding towns. Great climate, good rainfall, four seasons, great fishing. On a road to (sort of) nowhere so not too many tourists.

Dot
Dot
October 25, 2021 8:06 am

Yes, Nariel is nearby and an idyllic place.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 25, 2021 8:07 am

Oh. I see.

It would appear that tennis players are the latest category of people to be immune from this ‘beast’ of a virus. This ‘clever’, ‘evil’ little things capable of causing ‘firestorms’* is apparently no match for the tennis set.

Be a shame if nobody turned up to pay to watch it. It’s easy for me to say this, mind you, as I hold the view that tennis is a pastime for ladeees and faaaaabuluous blokes with impeccable home decor skills.

*As quoted by university dorks making the most of their 15 minutes in the sun.

Dot
Dot
October 25, 2021 8:07 am

PS

The loser pays freight, insurance and any other cost to settle the debt.

Winston Smith
October 25, 2021 8:08 am

JC:

Turtle Head, you’ve just done your two free shots.

Have you just had a promotion from Hall Monitor to Blogmeister?
Why do you keep demanding obedience to your diktats from posters you have no authority over?
A question:
If you were Blogmeister, would you ban anyone, and who?

Dot
Dot
October 25, 2021 8:09 am

90% of tennis players dead by 2025.

It was in the Cairns Newsletterly.

Totally not funded by glowies.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 25, 2021 8:09 am

Apologies if it wasn’t but I believe it may have been bern who offered this Liberty Quote the other day:

GET FUCKED BARNABY.

Dot
Dot
October 25, 2021 8:12 am

costs

Once again, damn iPad!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 25, 2021 8:13 am

Tom Brady is in his 22nd season.

Bern – Yesterday I had a look at the 2011-12 playoff reports for Denver vs Pittsburgh. Tebow threw to Demaryius Thomas for an 80 yd touchdown in OT. The joke going around was that only God could enable Tebow to beat the Steelers.

Next game Denver went down 10-45 to guess who…

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 25, 2021 8:14 am

Good introductory piece on Leunig, Tom.

Cassie of Sydney
October 25, 2021 8:15 am

“Now Net Zero.

Apart from the usual rusted-ons, the Nats are finished.”

Comment of the day.

JC
JC
October 25, 2021 8:16 am

DrBeauGan says:
October 25, 2021 at 8:03 am
Prince Charles has a dangerously narrow window of opportunity to escape being written off as an ignorant idiot.

Interesting prediction, doc. Name one figure on the alarmist side of the debate in the past 30 years who’s suffered severe reputational damage from making outlandish claims. I wouldn’t even say Flannery has suffered any fall out with his laughable drought forever prediction.

One name is fine.

min
min
October 25, 2021 8:17 am

Meme makers out there please splice together 25 years of yearly predictions of how we would all be fried by the increase in temperature , drowned in sea rises or whatever the disaster . Make them look dickheads.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 25, 2021 8:18 am

We don’t mind cartoonists challenging the readers. We encourage diversity of thought, but I had a concern with cartoons perceived as anti-vaccination.”

The Seedy Moaning Haemorrhoid is running ads for itself that encapsulates it so perfectly.

The one I see most often is where they print the platitude “Speak like you are right. Listen like you are wrong.” It is not a tenet, it is not a principle, it is not a doctrine. It is a wrapper. It is a motto they attach to their product because the product cannot argue for it itself.

But in this case it is not just that the SMH that is trying to fool people with this bromide credo, but its readers are fooling themselves, letting them role play at being intellectual. It lets them feel open minded while they keep their minds closed and provides a retreat when they are in arguments – “I am not losing, the other guy is exasperating because he is so closed minded.”

Recite the open minded label and do the close minded thing.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 25, 2021 8:19 am

3 mins into the second quarter, Tom Brady’s Buccaneers up 21 zip.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 25, 2021 8:20 am

Adding slightly to the above:

Haemorrhoid fans read a homogeneity of opinion and news and feel they are immersed in debate. Yet they cannot bear even a heterodox cartoon.

Compare that to the right where we are constantly bombarded with leftist opinions in the ABC, the MSM, the universities and schools…

Who is the hardier then?

Cassie of Sydney
October 25, 2021 8:22 am

Things to look forward to in 2050…..

Net zero emissions – the elites will have access to power but the rest of us will be living with energy poverty.

Enforced veganism – the elites will have access to beef, lamb, chicken, pork, goat, eggs, cheese and so on but the rest of us will be living with food poverty.

Social credit system – the elites will have freedom of movement but the rest of us will be living with regular lockdowns and social credit monitoring.

FUCK OFF SCOTT MORRISON & THE LIBERALS
FUCK OFF BARNABY JOYCE & THE NATIONALS

Warwick
Warwick
October 25, 2021 8:22 am

SFW – About 5 years ago I drove from Tumut down to Corryong and back out to Albury and the freeway. It was late Sept and there was still heaps of snow on the main range. Corryong is astoundingly beautiful. Great place to retire to I reckon.

Indolent
Indolent
October 25, 2021 8:24 am

Leak hits the nail on the head – Gladys had to go. For once, ICAC did us all a favour. Anyone with half a brain knows Vic’s leash has been loosened slightly because of what’s happening in NSW. Shame it doesn’t work the same way elsewhere.

What, exactly, has Perrottet done? As far as I can see, he’s stuck PRECISELY to Gladys’ roadmap, with just a minimal tweak to school dates. He hasn’t brought anything forward. He will forever wear the odium of introducing apartheid to this country as it happened on his watch. He hasn’t even taken the extra step promised when 90%(?) of this sham was reached.

Before becoming premier he spoke highmindedly about equality and freedom but what has he actually done about it?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 25, 2021 8:26 am

Speaking of partisan newspapers:

The NT News ran this ‘piece’ yesterday, apropos of the 2500 or people, of whom most were in family groups, that gathered in Darwin on Saturday afternoon:

PROTESTERS have again gathered on the Darwin Esplanade on Saturday to rally against the Territory government’s vaccine mandate for workers who come into contact with people vulnerable to Covid-19.

There has been zero community transmission of ‘the beast’ whatsoever in the NT. None.

The group braved the 35C heat to vent their spleens at the impost of forced protection from a slow, painful death through a global pandemic that has so far claimed the lives of almost five million people worldwide.

It wasn’t an editorial or op-ed. It was run as a news story.

The person responsible for this is Jason Walls. Recently, he was publicly squealing like a hipster trapped in a Bunnings in the same paper because he was asked questions by the local ICAC.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 25, 2021 8:26 am

The exemptions granted during COVID were a test run for Net Zero.
Bezos is building a $US500mill boat.
Like Zuck’s boat, it will be so big it will have permanent support ship.
None of them are running on bio fuel.

rosie
rosie
October 25, 2021 8:30 am

Perrottet opened the international borders from 1 November, quarantine free for vaxxed but quarantine still required for unvaxxed. That’s a huge change.
NSW hasn’t reached 90% double vaxxed yet.

these were the changes announced on 6 October by #letitripdom

Behind Enemy Lines
Behind Enemy Lines
October 25, 2021 8:30 am

On the rural location question:

sfwsays:
October 25, 2021 at 8:04 am
From the other thread, Behind Enemy Lines asked re suggestions for places to live. Corryong or the surrounding towns. Great climate, good rainfall, four seasons, great fishing. On a road to (sort of) nowhere so not too many tourists.

Dotsays:
October 25, 2021 at 8:06 am
Yes, Nariel is nearby and an idyllic place.

I’ve had Nariel in particular and the Corryong area in general on my list for many, many years. Sadly, it’s a very long way to the nearest Woollies (ie dentist / doctor / specialist / etc). So I had to pass up “the” property there in 2019/2020. It was at the end of a dead-end road off that road to nowhere, along the river. Cheap, too. Back when I thought I’d happily stay in Australia. Before the socialist uniparty stopped pretending and started dictating.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 25, 2021 8:30 am

He hasn’t brought anything forward.

Agree, cheering on DP so far is like turkeys cheering thanksgiving.
But he did bring a couple of things forward a week.

When you’re in a cell getting violated, you tend to cheer on the violations being less frequent.

Cassie of Sydney
October 25, 2021 8:33 am

I’ll say this about Perrottet….at least he’s not regaling us with daily Covid Porn updates with Chant standing next to him.

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
October 25, 2021 8:33 am

Chatting to a bloke at the beach on the weekend-
Developed polyarthritis after first Pfizer jab.
His GP is flat-out trying to put it down to Ross River Virus, anything other that adverse jab, and trying to keep him on schedule for a repeat dose. Will not grant an exemption.
He’s a vet, gone into computing education, smart as they all are, knows about Hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. Talked about aspirin, antihistamine, he was interested and not surprised. He;s now off excercise- he’s a big bloke- he’s had mental health faailures, and my wife reckons he might be a self-harm risk if you know what I mean.

JC
JC
October 25, 2021 8:34 am

Bern
Buffet
Buffet has made 43 bill on Bank of America trade! How’s that for 90 year old.

Bons
October 25, 2021 8:34 am

Morrisson was on Sky last evening. I had the sound off but found that I couldn’t even look at his lying eyes and his supercilious smug.
You were cancelled fat boy.
What is it going to be like when he comes back from selling us out to the little brown Portugese commie.

Winston Smith
October 25, 2021 8:34 am

Feelthebern:

Bezos is building a $US500mill boat.
Like Zuck’s boat, it will be so big it will have permanent support ship.
None of them are running on bio fuel.

I wonder if it will be nuclear powered? 🙂

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 25, 2021 8:37 am

I bought BAC around 5.
Sold it around 10.
Thought I was a hero.
Lighting cigars with Benjamin’s.

Dot
Dot
October 25, 2021 8:39 am

Looks like struth has squibbed.

Damn. That would have been some cheap silver coins.

shatterzzz
October 25, 2021 8:39 am

Haemorrhoid fans read a homogeneity of opinion and news and feel they are immersed in debate. Yet they cannot bear even a heterodox cartoon.
https://ibb.co/KqBMSzt

Gab
Gab
October 25, 2021 8:41 am

Unvaccinated adults and older children will be barred from accessing all but basic services until 2023 under the Victorian government’s path back to freedom announced by the Premier on Sunday.

By the end of next month, almost all the current COVID-19 restrictions will be lifted, with a key exception. “If you’re not vaccinated, you’re not getting in,” said Premier Daniel Andrews.

Mr Andrews was unable to say when the vaccination rules might end, but he thought “it’s going to be there for the entirety of 2022”. He said the public health team was only confident in dropping almost all restrictions at 90 per cent because of large-scale vaccination requirements well into next year.

But while the Victorian Premier has indefinitely excluded unvaccinated people from the state’s reopening plan, NSW is set to lift most restrictions on all its citizens from December 1.

Mr Andrews said those who were unvaccinated could still visit other people’s homes and shop for the basics, but they would be barred from the vast majority of other venues.

“Whether it’s a bookshop, a shoe shop, a pub, cafe, a restaurant, the MCG, the list goes on and on. You will not be able to participate like a fully vaccinated person because you’re not a fully vaccinated person,” he said

He is insane.

Dot
Dot
October 25, 2021 8:43 am

Upper Lachlan is nice, as is Jugiong. Very snooty crowds for luncheon now.

Close to Canberra (yuck), but also bigger “towns” with amenities.

I like Canowindra. Is the riverside pub opened back up?

I fancied myself as a pubbler there once.

Can you handle Victoria?

Woodside. On the beach.

Hmm. Everywhere I listed is in the water. Must be fishing mad.

Burnt Stump
Burnt Stump
October 25, 2021 8:44 am

I’d be much obliged if any Cats could provide their opinion on life in Albury. It’s just across the border, but surely once you’re across you’re across.

Dot
Dot
October 25, 2021 8:44 am

Hey Victoria.

Come here. Danexit is a human right.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 25, 2021 8:44 am

Yep, they’re going after Fauci.

https://leightonwoodhouse.substack.com/p/anthony-fauci-has-been-abusing-animals

Anthony Fauci Has Been Abusing Animals for 40 Years
The stuff you’ve seen on social media barely scratches the surface.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 25, 2021 8:46 am

Seriously, the problems with medical trials are enormous.
Just ask Bret Weinstein about mice.
That aside, after you test on mice you go to humans.
Zero other testing is needed.

Dot
Dot
October 25, 2021 8:46 am

*I got my Fauci ouchie but he hurtee my puppy wuppy….*

An actual man bun wearing, French bulldog owning Democrat voter.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 25, 2021 8:51 am

The AFP are apparently surprised that the Taliban won’t ‘engage’ with them (the Hun):

The probe into alleged war crimes by ADF Special Forces in Afghanistan is in disarray with the Australian Federal Police casting doubt on its ability to find witnesses or operate under the Taliban regime.

In its submission to an inquiry into Australia’s engagement in Afghanistan over 20 years, the AFP has formally conceded any inroads made in that country – including training and mentoring thousands of Afghan police – were now all but gone post Kabul’s fall to the Taliban.

Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

“The AFP is not engaging with Taliban controlled Afghanistan,” the AFP concluded bluntly.

The AFP recognised its responsibility to look into the alleged Special Forces behaviour between 2005 and 2016 as dictated by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, but admits it was now tough.

“The security situation in Afghanistan may affect the ongoing investigation of war crimes allegedly perpetrated by ADF personnel in that obtaining evidence and accessing potential witnesses residing there is likely to be more difficult,” it states.

Perhaps a Captain Obvious moment, but this seems to indicate a point of view was held by some numbnut that the AFP would be able to rock on into anywhere in Afghanistan it liked and offer goats in exchange for statements favourable to this excremental enquiry.

All under the benevolent hand of…. the Taliban.

Duhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Indolent
Indolent
October 25, 2021 8:51 am

Now look, I might die in the next four years but it most certainly will not be from the AZ jab.

Is the AZ mRNA? It’s the most traditional one among them isn’t it?

But, to play devil’s advocate (sorry Struth), did anyone actually die from AIDS? I don’t believe so. What AIDS did was suppress immune defence so any and all diseases could have free play and they killed people. Some quite serious medical experts believe something similar is at play here.

Indolent
Indolent
October 25, 2021 8:54 am

Prince Charles has a dangerously narrow window of opportunity to escape being written off as an ignorant idiot.

Too late.

Behind Enemy Lines
Behind Enemy Lines
October 25, 2021 8:54 am

On the rural property location:

Dotsays:
October 25, 2021 at 8:43 am
Upper Lachlan is nice, as is Jugiong. Very snooty crowds for luncheon now.

Close to Canberra (yuck), but also bigger “towns” with amenities.

I like Canowindra. Is the riverside pub opened back up?

I fancied myself as a pubbler there once.

Can you handle Victoria?

Woodside. On the beach.

Hmm. Everywhere I listed is in the water. Must be fishing mad.

One of my (so far) unstated preferences is nearness to trout water.

Upper Lachlan’s very nice in itself, but Goulburn is unspeakable. Now that they’ve put in a proper road to Oberon, it’s a bit of a spoiler too.

Quite like Jugiong and Canowindra. That whole patch of country is beautiful and friendly. Have now had several votes for that area.

Meanwhile, the other decision maker in this really, really wants out of Victoria.

calli
calli
October 25, 2021 8:54 am

Indolent has a good point, and worth making.

My thinking was less in terms of changes, although there have been a couple of small ones. Which will clearly mean a hell of a lot to some, especially school reopening.

He acted as a circuit breaker from the endless treadmill of public announcement porn. Also a reminder that leaders can be replaced, sometimes unexpectedly. It hadn’t gone unnoticed.

But, yes. The beatings will continue. Just less frequently. All hail the new leader!

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 25, 2021 8:56 am

man bun wearing, French bulldog owning

Oho.

Man, that is really throwing it out there.

rosie
rosie
October 25, 2021 9:01 am

I guess it’s a matter of perspective. I speak as a Victorian, in particular a Melbournian.
Remember apartheid ends on I December in NSW.

rickw
rickw
October 25, 2021 9:01 am

None of them are running on bio fuel.

That is absolutely correct, we bunker Bezos’s yatch in Majuro. The boys love it, being filthy rotten worker vermin, they just have to hook the hose onto the rope and follow orders. Easiest bunkering job they do.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 25, 2021 9:03 am

Before I go and do stuff:

I distinctly remember Barnaby Joyce, just prior to his re-elevation to calfskin seating arrangements, having a short clip taken of him. He was purporting to be ‘back on the farm’, a bit sweaty, and exhorting the Government to ‘just leave him alone’ so he could get on with agriculture.

Now look at him. Just fucking look at him. Poncing about on the top rung, endless cash going into the coffers regardless of where or when he works now, and selling out the people who mistakenly bought his cheesy working farmer line.

Insider deals for crippling power costs for the same farmers supposed to be his base. Fuck you, Jack. No needles required for me or my family. Just yours.

I will again refer to the Liberty Quote:

GET FUCKED BARNABY.

rosie
rosie
October 25, 2021 9:03 am

Well claiming the mrna vaccines are exactly the same as getting aids gives you scope for anything.
All you need now is evidence.

P
P
October 25, 2021 9:04 am
rosie
rosie
October 25, 2021 9:05 am

‘Some quite serious medical experts’
Liberty quote

calli
calli
October 25, 2021 9:05 am

I still reckon Tumut. Under 100km to the big smoke at Wagga, big enough to support a range of businesses and services, a couple of good but windy shortcuts to Canberra if you need to (shudder) go there.

I day’s long drive to either Sydney or Melbourne if the fit takes you.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 25, 2021 9:07 am

callisays:
October 25, 2021 at 6:50 am
If I have read it correctly, as of 1 December, you won’t need to provide medical details in NSW. Cross the border, and you do.

I think we should start preparing for a mass migration of sensible Victorians here. No one would blame them for fleeing Danistan.

There won’t be that many Calli. Remember so many of them voted for DanXiMan. The only ones that can afford to leave are the ones who have been working and that means most likely the unproductive. In most instances 80% ( a figure I discovered over the years to be as close to 100% as being perfect, the rest is pure luck) of the ones working from home are on the deficit side of the ledger. Just like the ones fleeing blue states in the US, they take their Demonrat politics with them. Anyone with a brain does’nt want that.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 25, 2021 9:07 am

Tom Brady up 35-3 at half time.
Insane.

mc
mc
October 25, 2021 9:08 am

My theory: Andrews knows he is being owned by Perrottet and being the small man that he is, is lashing out at the unvaxxed.

rosie
rosie
October 25, 2021 9:11 am
Dot
Dot
October 25, 2021 9:12 am

Gilmore Valley between Barlow and Tumut is great.

I like Khan Cobain and Talbingo, it’s a crime these are not boom towns.

rosie
rosie
October 25, 2021 9:14 am
Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 25, 2021 9:15 am

FUCK OFF SCOTT MORRISON & THE LIBERALS
FUCK OFF BARNABY JOYCE & THE NATIONALS

One thing that the Libs and the Nats have in common is the belief that surrendering to the left and its myriad zealots means they will leave you alone next time. Nonsense of course. Instead they know you can be forced and will return with renewed vigour next time.

In Australia the only party that escalates is the Greens. How is that for a bleak outlook.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 25, 2021 9:19 am

Psays:
October 25, 2021 at 9:04 am
COVID Madness Down Under Continues – Queensland Premier States Quarantine Camps are For Unvaccinated
October 24, 2021 | Sundance

With a population over 5 million, even at 90% (which they are a long way short of), they’re gonna need a MUCH bigger camp (or a lot more of them).

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 25, 2021 9:20 am

I suppose when Morro disembarks on his return to Australia he will be holding up a page of A4 and triumphantly trumpeting, “Here is the paper…”

rosie
rosie
October 25, 2021 9:24 am
rosie
rosie
October 25, 2021 9:27 am
H B Bear
H B Bear
October 25, 2021 9:33 am

Prince Charles has a dangerously narrow window of opportunity to escape being written off as an ignorant idiot.

You mean like Paul Erlich, Al Gore, Bob Brown, Tim Flannery … Being wrong is of absolutely no consequence.

He will be the end of the monarchy but not for that reason.

Mater
October 25, 2021 9:34 am

By the end of next month, almost all the current COVID-19 restrictions will be lifted, with a key exception. “If you’re not vaccinated, you’re not getting in,” said Premier Daniel Andrews.

Including polling stations in Nov 2022?

lotocoti
lotocoti
October 25, 2021 9:36 am

So Gay Alcorn decided her supposedly sophisticated readers can’t be expected
to deal with nuance or complexity.
Something you’d expect from the consumers of another Nine Entertainment Co. product
who prefer their news in ninety second chunks at 3 words per second.
No wonder the three word slogan is now king.
Build Back Better.
I Like Swipe.
GFY.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 25, 2021 9:44 am

Including polling stations in Nov 2022?

Go postal.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 25, 2021 9:45 am

can’t be expected to deal with nuance or complexity.

When they refer to nuance they are not speaking of delicate shades of meaning, but the sophistry or fabrications that allow them to escape inevitable but undesirable outcomes of their own logic. They pretend they can ‘see’ a difference which makes all the difference.

John of Mel
John of Mel
October 25, 2021 9:47 am

I think we should start preparing for a mass migration of sensible Victorians here. No one would blame them for fleeing Danistan.

We are definitely thinking about it. The rumor our girls brought back from school last week that from 5th of November you’ll only be able to attend if you’re jabbed.
Not long before the get to kids under 12.

johanna
johanna
October 25, 2021 9:47 am

t 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.

It is a curious paradox of modern politics that leaders are felled not by their most heinous crimes but by trivia. For example, that creep Governor Cuomo who killed thousands of oldsters by forcing them to stay in institutions with raging COVID (among other appalling acts) was brought down because he got handsy with women.

A NSW Premier perished because of a bottle of wine.

I suspect Fauci is gorn, because cute puppies, never mind what he did to people.

Apart from the sheer cruelty of the beagle ‘experiments’, what I can’t understand is what hypothesis they were supposed to be testing. I’ve read several stories from the US about it, but that question is never even raised in the fog of indignation.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 25, 2021 9:48 am

Geraldton police shooting: JC’s heartbroken son asks ‘why man who shot mum is not in jail’
Emily Moulton
The West Australian
Mon, 25 October 2021 2:00AM

The son of the Yamatji woman who was fatally shot by a police officer in Geraldton has been struggling to understand why the man who killed his mother is not in jail.

Speaking to The West Australian just days after a Supreme Court jury found the first class constable not guilty of murdering JC, her foster mother Anne Jones revealed not only was she still grappling with the decision but also the innocent questions from her grandchildren.

“Caesar, he knows what happened,” she explained. “My grandkids, Caesar, they keep asking me ‘why didn’t the police officer go to jail?’

“They keep watching the video (of the shooting). It’s heartbreaking. And its traumatising them. I tell them to stop looking at it but they keep doing it. I can’t do nothing about it. They can see what happened to her.”

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 25, 2021 9:49 am

Fauxfacts might yet kill Channel Costello. Although Channel 10 shows how hard it is to kill off a FTA channel.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 25, 2021 9:49 am

Mr Dragger at 9:03.
If only someone had warned us that Bananaby was in it for the private school fees, fancy restaurants and his addiction to the kid leather seats in the back of C*2.
I think his father-in-law told us here what a straight up good bloke Beetrooter was.

JC
JC
October 25, 2021 9:49 am

Is the AZ mRNA? It’s the most traditional one among them isn’t it?

Indolent, accept your fate and be done with it. Professor Struth says you’ll be dead in 18 months anyway. Enjoy the sunshine and don’t leave anything to the kids. Charter a private jet to a beach resort and spend it all before time’s up.

Major Elvis Newton
Major Elvis Newton
October 25, 2021 9:51 am

You sold us out Barnaby, you treacherous gutless POS coward.

I hope it was worth it.

Eddystone
Eddystone
October 25, 2021 9:53 am

I just accidently reported one of Tom’s cartoons. Sorry Tom.

While guns are ion the news, here’s an important question that needs answering.

Should You Carry a Gun While Trick-or-Treating?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 25, 2021 9:53 am

Major Elvis Newtonsays:

October 25, 2021 at 9:51 am

You sold us out Barnaby, you treacherous gutless POS coward.

I’m surprised that you’re surprised.

Zipster
October 25, 2021 9:53 am

The Age’s editor Gay Alcorn* called him soon after she banned the offending cartoon to “break the news gently” that he was no longer wanted on the editorial page.

wiminses in the workforce, universal suffrage and it’s resulting low birth rates is the internal rot that is the driving force behind the west’s downfall.

Eddystone
Eddystone
October 25, 2021 9:54 am

AZ is an adeno-vector DNA vaxx.

Pfizer and Moderna are mRNA vaxxes.

P
P
October 25, 2021 9:55 am
Dot
Dot
October 25, 2021 9:55 am

Where’s struth?

Gone to audit his safe as well, to see if he can back his side of the bet?

He reckoned 90% of the jabbed will be dead in 18 to 48 months.

I reckon we won’t lose 40% of our population for any reason.

Roughly 10k AUD of pre mid WWII sterling silver Australian minted shilling coins are up for grabs. (Five hundred of the little beauties).

The exercise date is 1 Jan, 2026.

Let’s say, payable by 31 Jan, 2026.

PS monty

Is it Muellerween yet?

Dot
Dot
October 25, 2021 9:57 am

sterling silver Australian minted shilling coins

Must be the ram design used from 1938 until decimalisation and MUST be sterling silver, not 50% as used after mid 1943.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 25, 2021 9:59 am

It is why they can claim to champion free speech, for example, and yet demand certain opinions may not be spoken. They can discern that some speech is not included in ‘free’ – because some speech might discourage others from speaking, so it is like ‘anti-speech’ and ought to be suppressed.

And how does it discourage free speech? Well, someone doesn’t want to hear it. It makes them uncomfortable. So open debate demands speech be policed.

Nuanced, huh?

I would also note that I suspect they would not have embraced the word if they had not also imported the French pronunciation. If it was ‘new-ants’ they would be snuffling about like a pig among foliage looking for a word that sounded exotic. Because great thinkers of past ages have turned out to be what they call problematic they have lost access to some pithy and sayings and stylish ways of speaking, so putting on an accent is as close to mimicking erudition as they can get. But, by God, they think they are the bees knees (or ‘bez naise’)

Eddystone
Eddystone
October 25, 2021 10:01 am

Corryong is a beautiful place. I reckon I’ve been past that place along the Nariel valley that BEL mentioned was for sale.

I know of a little valley with permanently flowing streams, plenty of flat, open meadow, timber all around and deer and kangaroos everywhere.

If I was alone in the world, I’d move myself in there when civilisation collapses.

local oaf
October 25, 2021 10:05 am

“I’m not surprised Michael is upset,” she said. “He’s entitled to be upset if he wants to be.”

Classic lefty “apology”, I’m sorry that you choose to be upset.

Eddystone
Eddystone
October 25, 2021 10:06 am

He reckoned 90% of the jabbed will be dead in 18 to 48 months.

Dolores Cahill gives younger jabees about ten years before the kill shots take them out. For old farts of my age, about four years.

Dot
Dot
October 25, 2021 10:09 am

Found a weird astroturfing site.

https://africacheck.org/get-involved/join-our-team/researcher-full-time

Based in our head office, located in the Journalism Department of Wits University in Johannesburg, Africa Check seeks to appoint a researcher (full-time).

A minimum of three years’ experience in fact-related fields such as media, research and academia

Oh god.

Found a “health” section that says don’t use home remedies on warts (some of which work better than what doctors can use), but you can use sugar to heal wounds.

???

lotocoti
lotocoti
October 25, 2021 10:10 am

Was going to re-read the book before watching the flic and I’m glad I decided to hit play.
Trying to expel memories of Kyle MacLachlan and Sting took a bit, though.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
October 25, 2021 10:19 am

We don’t mind cartoonists challenging the readers. We encourage diversity of thought, but I had a concern with cartoons perceived as anti-vaccination.”

It’s about a decade since the Age announced an editorial policy of not printing any stories that might undermine the consensus for “climate action”.
That is, they’d decided what their readers should believe* and were going to make damn sure that no alternative viewpoint reached them, at least not through the Age anyway.
Good to see they’re being consistent.

*I first typed “…what their readers should think…”, then realised my error.

JC
JC
October 25, 2021 10:20 am

Dot says:
October 25, 2021 at 9:55 am
Where’s struth?

Leave the kid alone. He’s busy shorting bank and real estate stocks. With 80% of the population dead in 18 months he’ll collect billions as the economy collapses.

Whatever happened to his starvation prediction anyways. I haven’t noticed any emaciated folks walking around for lack of food. I’ll call them Struth’s anorexics.

Eddystone
Eddystone
October 25, 2021 10:20 am

lotocoti says:
October 25, 2021 at 10:10 am

I’m about two thirds of the way through my re-read at the moment.

Thanks for the link.

lotocoti
lotocoti
October 25, 2021 10:24 am

Sweet Baby Cheeses.
The Dapto Dog Caller is using his medical expert’s direct extrapolation of the UK’s per capita ChiComPox mortality rate to declare there would’ve been 51k dead ‘strayans if we’d “taken off the handbrake” like the Poms did.

John of Mel
John of Mel
October 25, 2021 10:24 am

His GP is flat-out trying to put it down to Ross River Virus, anything other that adverse jab, and trying to keep him on schedule for a repeat dose. Will not grant an exemption

Our GP mentioned that she was told off for reporting “too many” jabs’ adverse reactions.

rickw
rickw
October 25, 2021 10:24 am

Dolores Cahill gives younger jabees about ten years before the kill shots take them out. For old farts of my age, about four years.

mRNA vaccines previously never made it very far in trials because the test animals always karked it…..

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 25, 2021 10:24 am

Morning all!
Wassup?
Any predictions I should know about before coffee with my broker?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 25, 2021 10:24 am

He will be the end of the monarchy but not for that reason.

Bear – He’ll be the end of the monarchy for precisely that reason. The supporters of the monarchy tend to be righties, who detest climate rubbish. So once he starts oozing green goo all over Buckingham Palace they’ll cheerfully vote for him and Green Willy to piss off.

Royal Family support: How many people back the monarchy? Staggering royal fans chart (24 Oct)

Statista asked 1,629 Brits the question: “Do you think Britain should continue to have a monarchy in the future, or should it be replaced with an elected head of state?”

Their survey found that although the royals are loved by many across all age groups, the biggest fans of the Royal Family are among those aged 65 and older.

In contrast, the lowest support for the monarchy is among 18 to 24-year-old’s.

He won’t win enough support from lefty kiddies to offset the oldies turning away in disgust.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 25, 2021 10:25 am

JCsays:
October 25, 2021 at 8:16 am
DrBeauGan says:
October 25, 2021 at 8:03 am
Prince Charles has a dangerously narrow window of opportunity to escape being written off as an ignorant idiot.

Interesting prediction, doc. Name one figure on the alarmist side of the debate in the past 30 years who’s suffered severe reputational damage from making outlandish claims. I wouldn’t even say Flannery has suffered any fall out with his laughable drought forever prediction.

One name is fine.

Isn’t it funny how the Elite, you know specially the ones with access to virtually unlimited amount of other peoples money can say the most stupid things. Must be due to no repercussions, the money still flows. On Flannery, never knew who he was when he got AoY. I heard on the news a water guy had been made AoY. I thought it was Peter Stewart, the guy who did Gerry Harvey’s (spit) farm. Saw a program about how he regreened the farm with the same water coming into the property from the river as went out. The problems he had with NSW govt. but finally winning, only because GH had pull with the pollies. It was the only farm in the area that was not a dust bowl. Stupid me, I thought that was worthy of AoY as an example of real beneficial application to be used in so many places throughout Australia. I came here in 1979 and in all that time I can’t come up with 10 recipients that I thought were deserving, but that’s just me.

Indolent
Indolent
October 25, 2021 10:26 am

Is the AZ mRNA? It’s the most traditional one among them isn’t it?

Indolent, accept your fate and be done with it. Professor Struth says you’ll be dead in 18 months anyway. Enjoy the sunshine and don’t leave anything to the kids. Charter a private jet to a beach resort and spend it all before time’s up.

My comment was a response to Cassie, whose comment was a response to Struth. Personally, I part of the great unclean, not fit to associate with those greater, observant beings.

Indolent
Indolent
October 25, 2021 10:27 am

I am part

rickw
rickw
October 25, 2021 10:28 am

wiminses in the workforce, universal suffrage and it’s resulting low birth rates is the internal rot that is the driving force behind the west’s downfall.

Mate of mine recalls the first female engineer in a small and dynamic civil engineering firm of male rugby players. Death spiral initiated!

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