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Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 29, 2021 10:05 am

Bonus points for use of the words ‘pineapple’, ‘peanut’, ‘backward’, ‘redneck’ and ‘dullard’

List of Queensland’s favourite adopted sons:

1. St. Ruth
2. Warwick Capper

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 29, 2021 10:13 am

This could be the last Friday night you have.
Time to party like a Toolie at Schoolies.

calli
calli
October 29, 2021 10:14 am

I’ll be watching “A Good Day to Die Hard”.

The programmers must have got the memo.

calli
calli
October 29, 2021 10:16 am

I’ve had one injection. Which makes me half badassed.

Can still do a lot of damage but.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 29, 2021 10:17 am

Undeterred by the wicked, devious and evil protoplasm that is Covid, Melbourne’s underworld continues unchecked (the Hun):

A bouncy castle business owner has admitted to having arsonists firebomb his rival party hire owners.

James Balcombe, former fugitive and owner of Awesome Party Hire, pleaded guilty to 11 charges of conspiracy to commit arson in the County Court this week.

Balcombe recruited other men to launch Molotov cocktails at the businesses and cars of his competitors between December 2016 and March 2017, later instructing an arsonist to set fire to his own shed — causing $1.2 million in damage — in a desperate bid to deflect suspicion.

Arsonists Craig Anderson and Peter Smith made admissions over the $2 million crime spree on party hire companies in Werribee, Hallam, Tullamarine, Keysborough and Warragul, and were jailed.

Meanwhile, Balcombe missed a court date and fled. He was arrested by police in Perth over a counterfeit stamps scam in August 2020.

There’s a picture of this Balcombe chap in the rag. Looks like Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 29, 2021 10:18 am

Gladys Berejiklian told boyfriend she’d ‘throw money’ at his electorate, secret call reveals

So, the Premier’s phone was being secretly tapped.

By whom?
Why?

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 29, 2021 10:19 am

This Sunday could be like the time Hogan convinced Klink the war was over & they had a party.
Hoooogan !!

calli
calli
October 29, 2021 10:20 am

By whom?
Why?

Yes. All those inconvenient questions.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 29, 2021 10:20 am

Schultz was totally gay for that little French POW.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Today in stereotyping:-

“Queenssslanders are, without exception … “

…. a fryggin site better orf than Viktorrianz.

Baba
Baba
October 29, 2021 10:21 am

ValGlass2.0 (@AussieVal10) Tweeted:
Is Dom, Is Not Good https://twitter.com/AussieVal10/status/1453863208276541441?s=20

ValGlass2.0
@AussieVal10
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Is Dom, Is Not Good
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Geronimo Flag of Australia ?
@NototyrannyNOW
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WOW! They are moving the goal posts AGAIN!

@Dom_Perrottet I see now that you are just another lying politician. Just like the rest of them!

John of Mel
John of Mel
October 29, 2021 10:22 am

Indians don’t eat beef in general but have the largest cattle herd in the world.

Why do they need so many?
Yogurt?

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 29, 2021 10:22 am

So, the Premier’s phone was being secretly tapped.
By whom?
Why?

The ICAC.
They have that power.
Funny how they never tapped KK’s phone when the Lend Lease/Barangaroo deal was being done.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Gladys Berejiklian told boyfriend she’d ‘throw money’ at his electorate, secret call reveals
So, the Premier’s phone was being secretly tapped.

No revelation there, except to pedantic lawyer types & Their ABC.

These wakkas ought to listen to the political class talk among ’emselves, sometime.

The phrase “throw money at”* is far from uncommon, & means everything from writing a cheque to the stationery shop for paper clips, through to $1 Billion to build a new Sydney Harbour Bridge or something.

*full phrase actually is: “throw other people’s money at”

struth
struth
October 29, 2021 10:28 am

He he, find a libertarian and find someone who wouldn’t know how their freedoms came about if you spelled it out for them.
See, freedom is the natural state of man, it must be, and just charging a fee to come into Aus would stop all the immigration problems……FRMD.
This is literally the mind or lack thereof, of the Libertarian.

“Local councils are illegal”

According to the hopelessly outraged dot who now goes to lies instead of admitting his hippy politics is complete bullshit.
I said local councils calling themselves government, a level of government is unconstitutional.
Which it most certainly is.
Sorry air head, but the rule of law matters.
Not, apparently in loony libertarianville.

“Six days until judgment day”

I have never said anything like that….complete fabrication from the desperate and angry.

“18 to 48 months until the vaxxies all die”

Probably less than that.
Once you next catch a cold.
Bye.

If not, they’re going to keep jabbing you until you’ve had more pricks than Miley Cyrus, and so when you show your Nazi pass to leave this shit hole, the Aus gov will let you, so they don’t have to cremate you here, as it fucks up net zero………….
Aren’t the jabbed getting all teste these days?!
Funny that.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 29, 2021 10:30 am

Va t’faire enculer

I thought I should get the translation for us all, and very useful it turns out to be.
Go fuck yourself, as ScoMo should say to Macron, who is upbraiding him to rid Australia of coal.

Another highly useable variation is : Va te faire enculer, connard ! Go fuck yourself, you asshole.

If only ScoMo had listened to me on The Oz about Glasgow.
Don’t go, ScoMo, don’t go, sed I loud and often.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 29, 2021 10:33 am

Leak has it in for Dan, that’s for sure.
Perhaps Andrews has ambitions of taking Albo’s job and NewsCorp are clearing the way for Kevin22.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Go fuck yourself, as ScoMo should say to Macron, who is upbraiding him to rid Australia of coal.

Scomo said the opposite, alas.

Their ABC just now reporting on a meeting between Slomo & Macron, noting that Slomo did not actually yet give “a date on which Australia will cease coal mining & use of coal products….”

This was delivered in a tone of voice implying that Australia ceasing coal mining is a fait accompli & not too far off.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 29, 2021 10:34 am

If not, they’re going to keep jabbing you until you’ve had more pricks than Miley Cyrus, and so when you show your Nazi pass to leave this shit hole, the Aus gov will let you, so they don’t have to cremate you here, as it fucks up net zero………….

It does sound as though there’s a sweet logic to it, Struth. When you put it that way ….
The tragedy of being a carbon-based life form. 🙂

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 29, 2021 10:36 am

Their ABC just now reporting on a meeting between Slomo & Macron, noting that Slomo did not actually yet give “a date on which Australia will cease coal mining & use of coal products….”

This was delivered in a tone of voice implying that Australia ceasing coal mining is a fait accompli & not too far off.

Oh Gawd. That bad?

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 29, 2021 10:38 am

In Global Heating Truthiness news:

Exxon CEO accused of lying about climate science to congressional panel

The chair of the House oversight committee, Representative Carolyn Maloney, pressed Woods about statements by his predecessor, Exxon CEO Lee Raymond, who in the 1990s said the scientific evidence for climate change was “inconclusive” and that “the case for global warming is far from air tight”. In 2002, Exxon ran advertisements in the New York Times calling climate science “unsettled”.

“There is a clear conflict between what Exxon CEO told the public and what Exxon scientists were warning privately for years,” she said.

Technical note: Tough gig identifying a conflict of anything, given the 30-year development of The Climate Science is a well-documented forest of uncertainty and lies.

Rabz
October 29, 2021 10:38 am

Balcombe recruited other men to launch Molotov cocktails at the businesses and cars of his competitors between December 2016 and March 2017, later instructing an arsonist to set fire to his own shed — causing $1.2 million in damage — in a desperate bid to deflect suspicion.

LOL. What an imbecile.

Baba
Baba
October 29, 2021 10:38 am

How to Become a Tyrant Season 2 Preview
Real Rushkan

https://youtu.be/07nmZsgw4ks

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 29, 2021 10:38 am

Scotty is playing another blinder, he’s led the Black Hand up the gardenjpath, then saved the Beef Industry at the last moment and headed to Glasgow.
Only massive Electoral Fraud can stop a 4th Term for the Coalition now.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Oh Gawd. That bad?

It came across like that. It was delivered in the manner you’d talk about demolishing a disused outhouse that contained some asbestos.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 29, 2021 10:43 am

This was delivered in a tone of voice implying that Australia ceasing coal mining is a fait accompli & not too far off.

You were at the meeting, garcon?
Macron is butthurt that Scotty did the dirty on him over the Subs, he’ll get over it.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Gladys performing underwhelmingly on the witness stand at ICAC.
The prick interrogating her needs a punch on the nose for arseholery.

it’s frustrating to watch. She’s allowing each line of questioning to drag out, emphasizing the interrogator’s point.
Concise answers would (a) shut him up (b) give a clearer, & for her more exculpatory, end to each question.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

You were at the meeting, garcon?

The line is from Their ABC, about 10 mins ago, mon ami.

They don’t bother with trivial stuff like reporting what insignificant figures (eg a Liberal party PM) say, they’re reporting their own spin of the meeting.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 29, 2021 10:50 am

Re using DNA as lineal identification: DNA from a direct lineal descendent of Richard 111 was used to identify the body found in a Leicester carpark as that of the king killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.

Pogria
Pogria
October 29, 2021 10:53 am
H B Bear
H B Bear
October 29, 2021 10:53 am

Gargooglery goes in to bat for SloMo. Take that Joe Burns.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2021 10:54 am

Their ABC just now reporting on a meeting between Slomo & Macron, noting that Slomo did not actually yet give “a date on which Australia will cease coal mining & use of coal products….”

Classic “when will you stop beating your wife?” verballing.
If coal was never mentioned, they can still run the “did not give a date” line.
No doubt leaked by the Frog ambassador in Canbra.

EvilElvis
EvilElvis
October 29, 2021 10:54 am

A bouncy castle business owner has admitted to having arsonists firebomb his rival party hire owners.

This story is a blow up.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 29, 2021 10:56 am

Bonus points for use of the words ‘pineapple’, ‘peanut’, ‘backward’, ‘redneck’ and ‘dullard’

An 18c transgression if ever there was one. People who think this stuff is still appropriate in 1920 would drown baby kittens.

Eddystone
Eddystone
October 29, 2021 10:57 am

Re using DNA as lineal identification: DNA from a direct lineal descendent of Richard 111 was used to identify the body found in a Leicester carpark as that of the king killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.

1485? That’s yesterday.

Cheddar Man has descendants still living in the old neighbourhood 9,000 years later.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 29, 2021 10:58 am

I hope we are not going to see any Glad Bag and Daggles home videos. There are websites for people that get off on that stuff (so I am told).

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 29, 2021 11:00 am

How do you get a Lineal descendant on a childless English King?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 29, 2021 11:03 am

On This Day in 312AD, Roman emperor Maxentius drowned. Let’s see if this sounds familiar:

Maxentius was the last emperor to permanently reside in Rome. And he attempted to embellish, restore and improve the ancient capital, carrying out important building works, including the Temple of the Divine Romulus (dedicated to his deceased son), the Basilica of Maxentius, which was completed by Constantine, the villa and the circus of Maxentius.

In the face of considerable and growing opposition, he had a crack at military success during the Battle of Milvian Bridge. He failed, fell off said bridge during the retreat and drowned.

His body was fished out of the Tiber the following day and beheaded.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 29, 2021 11:05 am

How do you get a Lineal descendant on a childless English King?

Or nearly childless.
Three kids.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
October 29, 2021 11:07 am

As always, thanks for the ‘toons, Tom.

If you only highlight when Broelman & Rowe areworth clicking on rather than not worth clicking on, it would be a massive time-saver for all of us! 🙂

cohenite
October 29, 2021 11:08 am

The Spec has another article on the Cop26 bullshit; again though the author while ripping into scomo and that fat turd boris, accepts the science of anthropogenic global warming (AGW). The science of AGW is complete crap, unmitigated science fantasy, capable of being ridiculed on so many basis. In another outstanding comment on the Spec article by me I attack this science on one basis which is so easy to understand even members of the media could grasp it; well some of them anyway; here it is before it gets taken down as often happens to my great comments:

The science is elementary, so simple even alarmists and media idiots can understand it. CO2 is plant food, it’s effect on planetary climate is minor. But first and foremost the vast bulk of the CO2 increase is NATURAL. Natural; the IPCC settled this in 2007 in its report AR4, Figure 7.3:

https://archive.ipcc.ch/pub

This clearly shows the human contribution. The total movement of CO2 from both natural and anthropogenic sources to the atmosphere is 218.2 gigatonnes [Gt]; of that the human component is 8Gt; so humans contribute 3.67% of the annual atmospheric movement. That’s it folks. Of that 218.2Gt going up to the atmosphere 98.5% is returned to the ocean and land as shown by the official US Department of Energy [DoE] figures (it should be noted these figures have disappeared from the official sites). This means the atmosphere has an annual increase in accumulated CO2 of about 1.5% of the annual flux of 218.2Gt. if the total CO2 is increasing by about 1.5% of the annual flux of 218.2Gt then as the human CO2 proportion of that 218.2Gt is 3.67% the human contribution to the increase per year must be no more than 1.5/100 X 3.67/100 =0.000552%.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 29, 2021 11:10 am

I’m amused that Facechook is changing its name to Meat and has a logo of two overlapping lamb cutlets.

Facebook changing name to Meta – Zuckerberg in huge switch-up (28 Oct)

Oops, is that a typo I just did?

Nelson_Kidd-Players
October 29, 2021 11:10 am

Leak over the target. 🙂

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 29, 2021 11:12 am

Ed October:

How do you get a Lineal descendant on a childless English King?

Dr Faustus:

Or nearly childless.
Three kids.

Cackle.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Classic “when will you stop beating your wife?” verballing.
If coal was never mentioned, they can still run the “did not give a date” line.
No doubt leaked by the Frog ambassador in Canbra.

Er… the meeting just happened, in Rome.
Apparently Slomo dropped in there on his way to the Glasgow wankfest. Macron was there on some other deal, & they had a ‘meeting’

Apparently after Macron had a bitch about Australia being a snake-in-the-grass over submarines, they got onto mutual fondling of each other over net zero & the like.
In which Slomo put on the knee-pads & lubed up, while Macron played the role of the horse that has two feet on the ground.

Their ABC was reporting that part of the meeting. In which many things were said, Their ABC just wasn’t sure if Slomo had given an actual date when coal mining would cease.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
October 29, 2021 11:19 am

rosie says:
October 29, 2021 at 6:56 am

Melbourne weather is grand.
Stormed all night and still at it.

Plastic outdoor furniture returned to normal locations from around the yard. Check!
Council contacted about fallen limb on street tree. Check!
Bottle brush limb broken up and loaded in the green bin. Check! (Except the main limb, 2m and needing serious sawing.)

Good news is the council already sent the tree guys and we now only have a sump left from the street tree. Bad news is they would not take the one lousy limb (denuded of all foliage) from me while they were here. Lousy lot…

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GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 29, 2021 11:20 am

What was this utter BS Beryl said yesterday or the day before about her and Dazza talked about having kids. FFS. I’m just young and naive. Both of them had paper bags over their heads.

Not Uh oh
Not Uh oh
October 29, 2021 11:21 am

That Leak cartoon is absolutely brutal. Well done that man.

Eddystone
Eddystone
October 29, 2021 11:24 am

Well that’s it for me as an ambo.

My last patient was a dead-eyed young psychopath who king hit my partner standing next to me. Fortunately no serious damage to one of the nicest and most competent ambos you could hope to meet.

I was supposed to go back tonight, but I’m not risking another shift to try and save lowlifes from their own stupidity. I actually feel a bit guilty that I couldn’t react in time, or even get a retaliatory punch in myself. But that would have put me in the wrong.

In twenty years on the job, I’d never seen anyone commit violence like that without any warning either verbal or physical. I’m so glad he came up with a fist instead of a knife.

I truly wont miss it.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 29, 2021 11:25 am

Their ABC just now reporting on a meeting between Slomo & Macron, noting that Slomo did not actually yet give “a date on which Australia will cease coal mining & use of coal products….”

This was delivered in a tone of voice implying that Australia ceasing coal mining is a fait accompli & not too far off.

Just Their ABC still trying to set the agenda pre-emptively?

srr
srr
October 29, 2021 11:30 am

Colin Hay – Freedom Calling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT7NBUdqUUo

If you hear a voice call out your name
Saying you can stop yourself from falling
And if he strikes you in his fear and shame
You can leave him to his ruin

If your dreams they wake you in the night
And your heart it is a pounding
If you cry out as you wake in your fright
And the wind it is a howling

Maybe it’s time to find another place
Where nobody even knows your face
There is no need to be afraid
For it’s only freedom calling

If your tears begin to overflow
As you walk against the undertow
There is no need to be afraid
For it’s only freedom calling

If you’re sad cos you’re all alone
And your hands they are a shaking
And your miracle cure’s not working anymore
And the flood bank’s close to breaking

Suddenly you’re on an open unknown road
Passing all the heavy, long wide loads
It is time to make your great escape
And you can hear your freedom calling

I want to dive into the sea of love
But my knees they are a quaking
I can see myself high up above
And there’s no time left for faking

I no longer need to understand
What it is to truly be a man
When I gave up on my masterplan
Did I then hear freedom calling
Did I then hear freedom calling

Winston Smith
October 29, 2021 11:33 am

Tom:

Ho hum. A bunch of Lieboral wets and corrupt climate scam grifters formed a secret junta to stop party caving in to the LNP’s Bananaby wing and the horrors that would follow, like protecting regional jobs from the Marxist madness in Glasgow.

Is there a list of the treasonous swine who sided with Dan on this?

Roger
Roger
October 29, 2021 11:33 am

Apparently Slomo dropped in there on his way to the Glasgow wankfest.

He’ll fel right at home there.

Apparently Glasgow has a rat plague.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 29, 2021 11:33 am

I wonder if there is a connection between the death and decay of English as a subject and a discipline and the impoverished state of productions on TV and in film.

According to the Sibylline oracles of Bridgepoint there is to be a new series called Spreadsheet, which apparently promises lurid tales of sex in the suburbs.

Another ‘reality’ show I gather. Is there really no one who can write a script in this country? No one who can pen a comedy, who can spin and weave a drama, who can secrete clues in a mystery, or engage curiosity in a documentary?

Just these tacky stringing together of preposterous personalities and contrived situations at which the viewers can sneer, smug that they are better than that. And that sense of superiority and self-satisfaction is all they get. Apparently it is enough.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 29, 2021 11:34 am

Sorry to hear that eddy.
My view is most drugs should be legal.
But tax payers should not have to foot the bill for the decisions drug users take.
More importantly, public servants should not be put in harms way dealing with the consequences of someone’s personal decision to take drugs.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 29, 2021 11:35 am

Someone should ask Dom what precise threat the unvaccinated pose to the vaccinated that they need to be kept separated out.

Perhaps a journ…ah, forget it.

Baba
Baba
October 29, 2021 11:37 am

More importantly, public servants should not be put in harms way dealing with the consequences of someone’s personal decision to take drugs.

Well no more than once.

Winston Smith
October 29, 2021 11:37 am

Indolent:
Thanks for that – unfortunately I only want it on the Cat site and was hoping there might have been a WordPress workaround.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

To be clear: Their ABC were not upbraiding Slomo, or saying he was avoiding giving a date when coal mining would cease…
… they were saying more that Slomo told Macron Australia would cease all coal mining & use of coal, but that Their ABC’s reporter wasn’t quite able to hear the date.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
October 29, 2021 11:39 am

Sancho Panzersays:
October 29, 2021 at 9:54 am
Today in stereotyping:-

“Queenssslanders are, without exception … “

Bonus points for use of the words ‘pineapple’, ‘peanut’, ‘backward’, ‘redneck’ and ‘dullard’.

Queenssslanders are undoubtedly responsible for Peanut Head getting the pineapple in the 2019 election, thus putting his PM ambitions backward, while dullard ABC/Fairfax types who regard the average Queenssslander as a redneck are rejoicing that Dan’s leg irons and collar chains are keeping them “safe”.

Do I get a perfect score?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 29, 2021 11:39 am

I’m not risking another shift to try and save lowlifes from their own stupidity.

Dunno what your broader organisation’s point of view on this sort of stuff is Eddystone. I suspect, however, that not giving a fuck would rank highly in their priorities.

For every fallen nanna or kiddie with a broken leg after coming off a bike there would no doubt be ten fucked-up junkies, busted up drunks and dickheads needing your assistance right this second when they’d taken years getting themselves to the point where someone else is compelled to help them.

The entourages of people at scenes providing free advice would be enraging.

That’s aside from the nano-wriggler-related calls from people politely referred to as ‘non-swimmers’.

I have no idea how you blokes put up with that shit for so long. Serious respect, Eddystone.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

feelthebernsays:
October 29, 2021 at 11:34 am

My view is most drugs should be legal.
But tax payers should not have to foot the bill for the decisions drug users take.
More importantly, public servants should not be put in harms way dealing with the consequences of someone’s personal decision to take drugs.

Neither should anybody else be put in harm’s way by the consequences of someone’s personal decision to take drugs.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
October 29, 2021 11:40 am

To be clear: Their ABC were not upbraiding Slomo, or saying he was avoiding giving a date when coal mining would cease…
… they were saying more that Slomo told Macron Australia would cease all coal mining & use of coal, but that Their ABC’s reporter wasn’t quite able to hear the date.

Actually I’m ok with that as long as the date is “when we run out”.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
October 29, 2021 11:41 am

Twostix says:
October 29, 2021 at 9:15 am
Austria talking about banning unvaccinated people buying fuel. Many euro countries in various states of banning unvaccinated people from life, now starting in on food shops, healthcare, etc.

This will come here. What do they expect these people (unvaxxed) to do? Lie down in a ditch & die?

I can see these actions leading to violence – which is what is desired by the governments.
Gives them an excuse for martial law & everything that the Left is really good at doing – concentration camps/gulags, mass murder …….

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 29, 2021 11:42 am

Colin Hay – Freedom Calling

A protest song!

Winston Smith
October 29, 2021 11:42 am

Cassie of Sydney:

…but it’s precisely that kind of logic, that the “alternative is worse”, which has led us to this awful scenario now where we now have a progressive Liberal party full of Greens like Sharma and which is why the party has succumbed to “zero emissions” and all the rest of the twaddle. It is also a party which refuses to listen to its base….so why should that base vote for it? I can’t in good conscience vote Liberal anymore. In order to effect change sometimes you need to demolish the building and start again.

Damn right Cassie.
That’s the point we are at.
Call it Tabula Rosa time.
Rip the damn thing down, nuke it from orbit and maybe the Brahmin Class will work out they need to feed the slaves before the slaves come for them with nothing but fire and the sword.
We can do that, you know.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

I’m not risking another shift to try and save lowlifes from their own stupidity.

That’s a maudlin tale Eddy.
Sorry to learn this. Don’t know how you fellers put up with even a fraction of that rot.

northshore redneck
northshore redneck
October 29, 2021 11:46 am

Winston,

If you use Firefox there is an addon called Stylus that allows you to customize the appearance of individual websites.

There’s likely something similar for chrome.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 29, 2021 11:49 am

It is also a party which refuses to listen to its base….so why should that base vote for it?

Exactly.
Fuck the Lib Nats.
Their shtick re “at least we’re better than labor” is so stale.
They fuck over their base & expect them to still for them.
They can go get fucked.

Winston Smith
October 29, 2021 11:49 am

Eyrie:

To fix your screen problems you need f.lux
justgetflux.com
Makes the screen a warmer colour at night.

Downloaded, I’ll see how it goes tonight.
Ta.

Eddystone
Eddystone
October 29, 2021 11:49 am

I think we’ll get quite well supported.

Unfortunately the current thinking is that everyone must be protected from the consequences of their actions. “Duty of care” extended to a ridiculous degree. We were pretty much obligated by the rules of engagement to take the tosser to hospital, especially as he is a juvenile. He didn’t want to go. But he finished up there anyway, prior to a spell in detention.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 29, 2021 11:49 am

Eddystonesays:
October 29, 2021 at 11:24 am
Well that’s it for me as an ambo.

My last patient was a dead-eyed young psychopath who king hit my partner standing next to me.

Let me guess, interrupted his dying of an overdose with some Narcan?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 29, 2021 11:49 am

How do you get a Lineal descendant on a childless English King?

You take collaterial relatives instead, from the maternal and paternal lines.

All explained here for Richard 111, as well as the osteology, carbon dating, and other means of ID. When you look at that lantern jaw in his portrait and at the skull, you’d claim it was Richard immediately – as well as the known spinal deformity.

Leicester had to be pretty sure because other claimants wanted the bones.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 29, 2021 11:52 am

Said it before.

Whoever invented Narcan needs his arse kicked. Good and hard.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 29, 2021 11:54 am

Malice is so right.
Vote conservative & you’ll get the same outcome as a progressive government but 6-12 months later.

Lower house voting is which poison do you want.
You need to vote for a handbrake in the upper house for the times the Lab/Lib don’t vote together.

Eddystone
Eddystone
October 29, 2021 11:56 am

Let me guess, interrupted his dying of an overdose with some Narcan?

Ha ha! No, we might have been a bit more alert in that case.

He’d taken five days worth of his anti-psychotic meds. He actually seemed quite calm up until he lashed out. In the old days we would have left him home with his mother to sleep it off.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 29, 2021 11:57 am

That Leak cartoon is absolutely brutal.

Not as brutal as Daniel Andrews now is.
Dan is a Nobel Peace Prize grade totalitarian maniac.

Mater
October 29, 2021 12:00 pm

Someone should ask Dom what precise threat the unvaccinated pose to the vaccinated that they need to be kept separated out.

A much richer target here in Victoria.

Come Friday (ostensibly 80% vaxxed), the unvaxxed will be given certain freedoms. Come the 24th Nov, when (ostensibly) 90% of the population (including 12+) are vaxxed, those very same unvaxxed will have their freedoms wound back in again. If it ok to be (relatively) free now, what actually changes on the 24th. Arguably, and if the narrative is to be believed, the state is in it’s best ever position in terms of protection of the healthcare system.

How anyone could see this as anything but punitive action (certainly not health), is beyond belief. I’d like to see Dan or Sutton explain the health rationale. Better still, I’d like to see either explain it in court, and how it in anyway abides with the guiding principles of the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008. That they’ve been able to plan this inexplicable flip-flop arrangement, a month in advance, speaks ample.

Even if a journalist were to take it on, I’m not sure it would make a great deal of difference. When a majority of the populace support such punitive action, and are screaming; “Fuck yeah, give it to them harder”, what would it matter? Solzhenitsyn recognised this:

“ What conceivable ways has the prisoner of resisting the regime to which he is subjected? Obviously, they are:

Protest
Hunger Strike

Escape
Mutiny

So, then, it is obvious to anybody, as the Great Deceased liked to say (and if it isn’t, we’ll ram it into him), that if the first two have some force (and if the jailers fear them), it is only because of public opinion! Without that behind us we can protest and fast as much as we like, and they will laugh in our faces!

It is a very dramatic way of obtaining your demands – standing before the prison authorities and tearing open your shirt, as Dzerzhinsky did. But only where public opinion exists. Without it-you’ll be gagged with the tatters, and pay for a government issue shirt into the bargain!”

– Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, ‘The Gulag Archipelago’, Vol 3, p93

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 29, 2021 12:00 pm

My good deed for the day.
Came across a long necked turtle on the road being annoyed by a hawk. He was a long way from water so I picked him/her up and dropped it down on the creek.
Great to watch the turtle come alive as he worked out the water was at his nose.
I used a rag in the ute to pick it up as they stink to high hell. Never put them in a car with you.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Cops are strutting around pepper-spraying Grandma, body-slamming housewives to the ground for walking the dog, booking Aussie Cossack for having Eureka flag sticker in his back window, wearing mufti into rural pubs to ticket the publican for allowing them in, booking tradesmen for taking their mask off 30cm before the doorway to Bunnings, ……
…… but “haven’t the resources” to do anything about arseholes king-hitting ambos.

Right.

What a sham the cops turned out to be.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 29, 2021 12:01 pm

Apparently Glasgow has a rat plague.

One of it’s more attractive features.
The SNP blames Margaret Thatcher. Yes they do.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 29, 2021 12:02 pm

Autocorrupt apostrophe fail.

Winston Smith
October 29, 2021 12:03 pm

Twostix:

Austria talking about banning unvaccinated people buying fuel. Many euro countries in various states of banning unvaccinated people from life, now starting in on food shops, healthcare, etc.

How bloody stupid are the Europeans?
Didn’t they just finish rebuilding after their last attempt at cleaning up their citizens?
Doesn’t the term “KRYSTALLNACHT” ring any damned bell with them?
What the hell is wrong with Europe?

Delta A
Delta A
October 29, 2021 12:04 pm

Serious respect, Eddystone.

Absolutely!

And thanks for your service all those years. It might not seem like it, but SA ambos are much appreciated and admired.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 29, 2021 12:05 pm

Eddystone

Unfortunately the current thinking is that everyone must be protected from the consequences of their actions.

Are these some of the same people who are starting to push for the unvaxed to be completely excluded from community life?

rosie
rosie
October 29, 2021 12:06 pm

Exactly mater
There is zero science involved in letting unvaxxed shop tonight but not in a month.
I think someone writing this crap stuffed up and Dan is now pretending it was by design.
Dan is the pestilence.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 29, 2021 12:09 pm

…… but “haven’t the resources” to do anything about arseholes king-hitting ambos.

Or “yoofs” running riot and invading homes.

Dot
Dot
October 29, 2021 12:09 pm

“18 to 48 months until the vaxxies all die”

Probably less than that.
Once you next catch a cold.
Bye.

You imbecile.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 29, 2021 12:11 pm

Winston Smithsays:
October 29, 2021 at 12:03 pm
Twostix:

Austria talking about banning unvaccinated people buying fuel. Many euro countries in various states of banning unvaccinated people from life, now starting in on food shops, healthcare, etc.

How bloody stupid are the Europeans?
Didn’t they just finish rebuilding after their last attempt at cleaning up their citizens?
Doesn’t the term “KRYSTALLNACHT” ring any damned bell with them?
What the hell is wrong with Europe?

The same thing that is wrong in Australia. The proles don’t have a collective backbone otherwise the pollies and their enablers would be shot on sight. Its getting closer.

local oaf
October 29, 2021 12:15 pm

What the hell is wrong with Europe?

The sum total of Europe’s achievements of the last 100 years:-

Communism
Fascism
National Socialism
Mass repression, torture, genocide, slavery

That is all.

rickw
rickw
October 29, 2021 12:19 pm

There is zero science involved in letting unvaxxed shop tonight but not in a month.
I think someone writing this crap stuffed up and Dan is now pretending it was by design.
Dan is the pestilence.

Yep, Block Head screwed up, no science in this, just the decrees of a complete Mong.

rickw
rickw
October 29, 2021 12:21 pm

That is all.

And they managed to wreck a ton of beautiful buildings and are in the process.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 29, 2021 12:23 pm

Look at this slithering turd…

All “oooh im so conservative” while it suited him.

Now hes gone full urban bugman.
Even worse, Euro urban bugman.

Mathias Cormann calls for carbon pricing to be coordinated across the world

Former finance minister Mathias Cormann, who once declared carbon taxes a “very expensive hoax”, is using his role as the head of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to encourage countries to adopt more “stringent” carbon prices.

Mr Cormann, who quit the Australian parliament last year after serving as finance minister for seven years in the Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison governments, urged G20 leaders to better align their efforts to reach net zero by 2050.

“G20 economies are lifting their ambition and efforts, including through the explicit and implicit pricing of carbon emissions,” Mr Cormann said in a statement.

“However, progress remains uneven across countries and sectors and is not well enough coordinated globally.”

Goldman Sachs smiles.
Goldman Sachs Research

Green Capex: Making Infrastructure Happen
Goldman Sachs Research believes Green Capex will be the dominant driver of global infrastructure over the next decade, with $6 trillion of investment needed annually to decarbonize the world, address water needs and shore up transportation and other critical systems.

and
Carbonomics….
https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/topics/carbonomics.html

Roger
Roger
October 29, 2021 12:23 pm

The SNP blames Margaret Thatcher. Yes they do.

She wisely chose to be cremated, lest in some mad future not long hence they might dig up her corpse and put it on trial, as in days of yore.

Eddystone
Eddystone
October 29, 2021 12:25 pm

Thank you Delta. While it was time for me to leave, I’m grateful to have been able to do the job.

It was just a bit overwhelming for it to end the way it did.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 29, 2021 12:28 pm

I’ve seen mass demonstrations in European countries; I haven’t seen that here yet.

Australians are too rich & too poorly read to demonstrate.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 29, 2021 12:28 pm

“ What conceivable ways has the prisoner of resisting the regime to which he is subjected? Obviously, they are:

Protest [futile]
Hunger Strike [futile]
Escape [only if you can swim a few thousand kilometres]
Mutiny [futile]

We live in the largest gulag ever, with a moat keeping us in instead of an iron curtain.

struth
struth
October 29, 2021 12:29 pm

Bloody obvious isn’t it?
NSW Premier has had his wings clipped by the traitors so Dan hasn’t had to come to the party either.

People here don’t do politics real well.

I asked days ago, who really believes NSW unvaxxed will be freed on December 1st?
Because if you did, give yourself a good kick up the arse for being such a gullible twat, nearly two years into commo rule.
It’s amazing…..and shocking to watch the reasoning of the denialists, of which it seems, most Australians are.
Two years in and people still will not pull their heads from the sand……purposefully.

Zipster
Zipster
October 29, 2021 12:29 pm
rickw
rickw
October 29, 2021 12:30 pm

I truly wont miss it.

Can’t they just update the selection options? Dial 4 if your call is about a drug overdose. 30 minutes of hold music later and the problem has solved itself.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 29, 2021 12:30 pm

All the intelligent Scots got out of Scotland.
All that’s left there are the stains on the toilet bowl.

struth
struth
October 29, 2021 12:31 pm

How bloody stupid are the Europeans?
Didn’t they just finish rebuilding after their last attempt at cleaning up their citizens?
Doesn’t the term “KRYSTALLNACHT” ring any damned bell with them?
What the hell is wrong with Europe?

As an Australian, I think you’d better work out whether you have any right to pass judgement.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 29, 2021 12:32 pm

How it started…

Angela Rayner stands by labelling of Tories as ‘scum’
Labour deputy leader refuses to say sorry, describing terms as ‘street language’ of her working-class roots

How its going now…

Angela Rayner has spoken of facing “terrifying” abuse against her family and apologised for having previously called Tories scum, as a man was sentenced for telling her to “watch your back and your kids”.

Rayner, the deputy Labour leader, issued a statement about the abuse she had received in recent weeks, saying the threats “had a devastating impact” on her, her children and others close to her.

Now for those who prize civility in politics, who thinks she would have backed down without a certain level of abuse and threats against her?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 29, 2021 12:33 pm

How bloody stupid are the Europeans?
Didn’t they just finish rebuilding after their last attempt at cleaning up their citizens?

This is quite mesmerizing. They agonize about the Holocaust yet seem to want to commit a new Holocaust on different people. I don’t understand Europeans, they seem bonkers in a very bad sort of way. They’re back to persecuting Poles again, too. It’s crazy.

‘Gun to Our Head’ – EU Tries to Force Poland Into Submission with €1 Million Per Day Fines (28 Oct)

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 29, 2021 12:33 pm

I regret selling my ocean going yacht even more now than when I did. May have to buy another but boy have the price increased.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 29, 2021 12:34 pm

Former finance minister Mathias Cormann, who once declared carbon taxes a “very expensive hoax”, is using his role as the head of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to encourage countries to adopt more “stringent” carbon prices.

It’s easy to criticise Mathias for inconsistency.

But imagine the horror of being OECD Supremo and consistent and not invited to the right places by the right people.

Top level troughing has its burdens.
Some quite easily discarded.

rickw
rickw
October 29, 2021 12:34 pm

Escape [only if you can swim a few thousand kilometres]

700km from Cook Town to Port Moresby. Fishing boat to 20km outside of Port Moresby harbour. Hop in your sea kayak. Paddle into the harbour. Paddle into the yatch club boat ramp. Put your sea kayak on the rack. Get your backpack out of the kayak. Wave to the security guard as you walk to freedom!

Roger
Roger
October 29, 2021 12:37 pm

Former finance minister Mathias Cormann, who once declared carbon taxes a “very expensive hoax”, is using his role as the head of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to encourage countries to adopt more “stringent” carbon prices.

A talented fellow is Mathias.

Fluent in English, German, French & crap.

Probably why he got the job.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2021 12:37 pm

Dr Faustussays:

October 29, 2021 at 10:56 am

Bonus points for use of the words ‘pineapple’, ‘peanut’, ‘backward’, ‘redneck’ and ‘dullard’

An 18c transgression if ever there was one. People who think this stuff is still appropriate in 1920 would drown baby kittens.

Firstly, the word ‘baby’ is redundant.
Kittens are, by definition, juveniles.
And secondly, you say that like it’s a bad thing.
You either like kittens or you like native fauna.
Can’t have it both ways.
Kittens should be executed for environmental crimes.
By ‘The People’.

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 29, 2021 12:39 pm

Dylan Voller’s legacy lives on:

STAFF at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre fear someone could be killed amid an escalation in violence that is seeing an officer assaulted almost every second day.

Data obtained by the NT News shows there were 29 assaults against officers between August 22 and October 23, including 11 that resulted in injury.

A leaked email sent by a youth justice officer to senior managers has asked for urgent action to ensure staff safety.

“How much longer before an officer gets killed?” the email says. “We need change and we need it now.

“I have previously worked in Israel where I had Syria and Lebanon firing missiles towards my location, (I was) attacked at knifepoint in Africa and I felt safer than working at (Don Dale).”

Youth justice and emergency management general manager Matthew Varley said the staff did a great job under tough conditions and management was working to address their concerns.

“Just last night I was out meeting with staff at our Don Dale Detention Centre, working with them to listen to the pressures that they’re under, but also to look at how we can make the staffing environment as safe as possible,” he said.

The government overhauled operations in 2018 after recommendations from the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children.

It has moved youth justice out of the Corrections Department, banned the use of restraints and limited the ability of staff to isolate misbehaving detainees.

CLP Territory Families spokesman Josh Burgoyne called for youth justice to be returned to Corrections, saying the assaults were unacceptable. “When you compound that with the fact that they’re being given fluid suits and stab vests, obviously the working conditions for those people in there must be extremely difficult,” he said.

But Territory Families Minister Kate Worden rejected accusations the changes had made conditions less safe for staff. “If we want one thing it’s we want these young people to see that this is an opportunity to turn their lives around,” she said.

Ms Worden said the government had recruited 56 new staff this year and Don Dale had the highest staff-to-detainee ratios in the country.

“It is not a workplace that doesn’t carry some risk, we are critically aware of that risk and we address that through staff training and procedures,” she said.

A new youth justice centre to replace Don Dale is expected to be ready by the end of next year.

NT News

Eddystone
Eddystone
October 29, 2021 12:40 pm

If enough of us pooled our super, we could buy a big ship, arm it, and go pirating.

There would be enough expertise on the Cat to navigate, sail and maintain the ship, with YouTube available to fill in any minor gaps in our knowledge.

Why not?

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 29, 2021 12:44 pm

Crown has been put through the wringer in NSW, Victoria & now WA.
It’s all a show with a pre-determined outcome.
How do we know?
Because Crown/Packer hasn’t unloaded on all the former politicians that are on the Crown payroll.
Also, he hasn’t raised the question that if all these high rollers were such horrible people, why did Bishop & Dutton approved hundreds of special visas via an express route?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 29, 2021 12:45 pm

Dylan Voller is a bit of an overachiever.
If he put as much energy into succeeding conventionally as he does in being obnoxious he’d be AOTY.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 29, 2021 12:45 pm

Why not?

The sodomy would be it’s downfall.

Zipster
Zipster
October 29, 2021 12:49 pm

Now for those who prize civility in politics, who thinks she would have backed down without a certain level of abuse and threats against her?

the left like to think they have a monopoly on politics by other means, they don’t, nor should they be allowed to think that for a microsecond

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 29, 2021 12:52 pm

The sodomy would be it’s downfall.

The Sodomy.
A relative of The Science?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 29, 2021 12:55 pm

The sodomy would be it’s downfall.

Its all fun and games till its your turn in the barrel.
(this applies to being in South Australia as well)

Mater
October 29, 2021 12:57 pm

The sodomy would be it’s downfall.

I don’t think the boat makes the difference. Not suitable for work.

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1453556300848066562?s=10

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 29, 2021 12:59 pm

Kittens should be executed for environmental crimes.
By ‘The People’.

The Sodomy.
The Science.

The People.

A brave new world replacing the Big Pineapple, the Big Prawn, the Big Spark Plug…

shatterzzz
October 29, 2021 1:02 pm

Australians are too rich & too poorly read to demonstrate.
Rode over to Blacktown yesterday and had coffee with my youngest daughter (33) .. gave my, newly arrived, LETS GO BRANDON tee its 1st outing .. took awhile but she got round to it .. “What’s that slogan mean?” .. Had to give her a full explanation after she said, “I don’t follow politics, especially, American”
“Hasn’t it popped up on FB” .. knowing she is a 50x a day FBer .. “Oh no! .. my lot doesn’t get into that stuff” …
Time to give up, methinx! …… duuuh!
https://ibb.co/y0g0MRw

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

There would be enough expertise on the Cat to navigate, sail and maintain the ship, with YouTube available to fill in any minor gaps in our knowledge.

I was going to say Youtube searches for “How to be a Pirate” would lead ASIO or the AFP straight to our door.

ASIO. AFP.

We’re in the clear.

struth
struth
October 29, 2021 1:06 pm

I really think Victorians should not be criticising any other state right now.
People are ESCAPING to SA from Victoria.
(not that any of that will help them in the long run)
Look, I expect to be put into a gulag in Toowoomba or somewhere here in QLD, but for the moment I’m still doing gigs, have never QR coded in anywhere, never wore a mask, never taken the jab, and went out to dinner last night to a Restaurant on the Hervey Bay Esplanade with others doing exactly the same as me.
You know, a place full of hicks…..QLD.
I know it will be tried on here as well, and most likely soon, however, right now I think Victorians dissing other states shows that level of denialism and parochialism, that got them into this mess.
While we were disgusted with Dan, they were screaming…your state’s no better…..Parochial to the point of Denial so great, they could not admit what was happening and they still sit and dis SA today.
Good lord parochialism is a problem in Australia.

Cassie of Sydney
October 29, 2021 1:06 pm

“feelthebernsays:
October 29, 2021 at 10:22 am
So, the Premier’s phone was being secretly tapped.
By whom?
Why?

The ICAC.
They have that power.
Funny how they never tapped KK’s phone when the Lend Lease/Barangaroo deal was being done.”

Correct…and this folks sums up the stupid effing Liberals to a tee. It was the Liberals under Nick Greiner that created this monster called ICAC, now completely colonised and politicised by the left, a monster that stood by and did almost nothing during the sixteen years of corrupt Labor governance here in NSW. Yet this monster has now claimed Liberal premiers, Greiner, O’Farrell and now Gladys. In 2011 the Liberals were elected. You might ask what they’ve done to remedy the situation with ICAC and to rein in some of ICAC’s draconian powers? Nothing, absolutely nothing, despite pleadings from many. Meanwhile, of course, the likes of KK slither on merrily.

You reap what you sow, which is now perhaps the Liberals only talent, fertilising the seeds of their own destruction.

shatterzzz
October 29, 2021 1:08 pm

Dylan Voller is a bit of an overachiever.
If he put as much energy into succeeding conventionally as he does in being obnoxious he’d be AOTY.

Too late … Grace beat him too it … !

struth
struth
October 29, 2021 1:08 pm

the left like to think they have a monopoly on politics by other means, they don’t, nor should they be allowed to think that for a microsecond

The left is the government and we let them take our guns.
They are armed to the teeth.
They have a monopoly on politics and they are well aware of it.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2021 1:08 pm

Let me guess, interrupted his dying of an overdose with some Narcan?

Narcan should be loaded with a dose of veterinary tranq.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

I really think Victorians should not be criticising any other state right now.

That this even has to be put into writing says something about some Victorians.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 29, 2021 1:09 pm

Narcan should be loaded with a dose of veterinary tranq.

Only for those with COVID.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 29, 2021 1:11 pm

What the hell is wrong with Europe?

The sum total of Europe’s achievements of the last 100 years:-

Europe is currently going through a phase analogous to the ‘3rd generation’. They are Lachlan Murdoch and James Packer.

The earlier ‘generations’ built the place up and made it great. Perhaps in some ways a little rude and uncouth, not as polished, nor possessing the precise but barren manners that this generation finds so admirable in themselves.

Europe used to be driven by a spirit where if something could be imagined they would try it, if it was possible they would do it.

That spirit is gone. Devoured by self-doubt after the one-two of the world wars.

The third generation looks at their forebears with contempt. While entitled to their inheritance they overflow with disdain for those that gave it to them. They would never carve out empires, explore new unknown realms, shape or transform the world. Oh they have no doubt they could do it if they wanted to, but they won’t because they all agree it would be not nice. Re-casting their impotence as a virtue.

The Europeans, bowing to Russia and kowtowing to China, still like to pretend they are masters of their own destiny and the exemplars from whom others take their cue.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2021 1:12 pm

Farmer Gezsays:

October 29, 2021 at 12:00 pm

My good deed for the day.
Came across a long necked turtle on the road being annoyed by a hawk. 

They are weird beasts.
More than once they have been apprehended near our place, a good 500 metres from their home.
Apparently something triggers walkabout.
Maybe heavy rain.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Yet this monster has now claimed Liberal premiers, Greiner, O’Farrell and now Gladys.

Strictly speaking it was the independents in parliament reneging on their agreement to not support a motion of no confidence.
They should be burned at the stake.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2021 1:25 pm

St Ruth.

Good lord parochialism is a problem in Australia.

We agree on that much.
Oh, can you give us a prediction as to when you will be marched to the Gulag? Give or take four weeks will be fine.
And how are you going getting rid of those Chinese components on the bread van?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2021 1:26 pm

1 day, 22 hours, 34 minutes and counting.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2021 1:30 pm

I was going to say Youtube searches for “How to be a Pirate” would lead ASIO or the AFP straight to our door.

Too easy.

“I am a wittle bit dyswexic and I was wooking up how to dwive an aeropwane.”

Arky
October 29, 2021 1:31 pm

If they don’t take the hint, the base that decamped will not return

..
This is silly DB.
Like a person who’s girlfriend is busy shagging every dickhead in town and we’re expected to go on a date with other chicks until she comes to her senses. She won’t. They never do.
The liberal party isn’t such a hot chick that she deserves the pining and simping.
Let her go. The liberal party is a slut.
Let’s find new, sexy girlfriends and build something good.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2021 1:31 pm

Just a thought.
Will this Armageddon be generic and widespread?
Or will it be a surgical strike against members of the SA judiciary.

Arky
October 29, 2021 1:32 pm

Let her go. The liberal party is a slut.

..
Sorry, that should read: “The liberal party is a dirty, stupid slut”.

Arky
October 29, 2021 1:35 pm

Oh, can you give us a prediction as to when you will be marched to the Gulag? Give or take four weeks will be fine.

..
Hmmmm.

Washington Examiner
Noam Chomsky: Unvaccinated should ‘remove themselves from the community,’ access to food ‘their problem’

Arky
October 29, 2021 1:36 pm

Oh, can you give us a prediction as to when you will be marched to the Gulag? Give or take four weeks will be fine.

..
Hmmmmm.

Jacinda Ardern admits New Zealand will become a two-tier society between vaccinated and unvaccinated

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 29, 2021 1:38 pm

Sorry, that should read: “The liberal party is a dirty, stupid slut”.

I think its more the ” liberal party is a dirty, stupid, tranny slut”.
Go for the conservative/liberty loving outside appearance only to be surprised later on that evening by a hairy freckle being chucked in your face and a surprisingly veiney and girthy mangina.

Pic, colourised, Liberal party stalwart being exposed to the truth, 2021.

P
P
October 29, 2021 1:38 pm

So, the Premier’s phone was being secretly tapped.

By whom?
Why?

Was it the PM’s phone or the boyfriend’s phone?

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 29, 2021 1:42 pm

I like the pirate ship idea.

No jolly rogering though please.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2021 1:42 pm

Just looking for a rough Gulag induction timeline, whether it factors in the wishes of Norm Chopsky or not.

Arky
October 29, 2021 1:44 pm

Just looking for a rough Gulag induction timeline, whether it factors in the wishes of Norm Chopsky or not.

..
We’re already being treated separately.
It’s not like it’s such a long bow to draw, especially when their ideological mentors are already saying it aloud.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2021 1:44 pm

Jacinda Ardern admits New Zealand will become a two-tier society between vaccinated and unvaccinated

“Two tiers”, whilst unacceptable, is not quite the same as “we’re all goin’ to the Gulag”.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 29, 2021 1:46 pm

No jolly rogering though please.

Rum, sodomy and the lash…..

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2021 1:46 pm

Arkysays:

October 29, 2021 at 1:44 pm

Just looking for a rough Gulag induction timeline, whether it factors in the wishes of Norm Chopsky or not.

..
We’re already being treated separately.
It’s not like it’s such a long bow to draw,

Let’s just say that is correct for the sake of the argument.
Just trying to get an idea of when the Great Predictionator thinks it will happen.

jupes
jupes
October 29, 2021 1:47 pm

“Two tiers”, whilst unacceptable, is not quite the same as “we’re all goin’ to the Gulag”.

Not yet.

Baba
Baba
October 29, 2021 1:47 pm

Breaking news!

Dan Andrews having second thoughts on Pandemic Bill.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 29, 2021 1:48 pm

Michael Smith News – the public service strike again……

DVA must deliver for veterans. Lest We Forget.
Friday, 29 October 2021

Well done Hawthorn RSL.

DVA needs fixing.

If the law doesn’t provide for DVA to help this digger, we need to change the law.

Baba
Baba
October 29, 2021 1:48 pm

Andrews swayed by clever man putting shit on Gympie truckie.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 29, 2021 1:48 pm

Forget gulag…

We are already close to here.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/internal-exile

a state of comparative isolation imposed upon certain political dissidents within the former Soviet Union, in which the subject was forced to live in a remote and often unfamiliar place and in which freedom of movement and personal contact with family, friends, and associates were severely restricted.

This one goes into a lot more detail.
https://memorial.krsk.ru/eng/Exile/01.htm

In fact, there were more than 30 different categories of internal exile in the USSR during the 1930s to 1950s, and each of them had its own instructions with regard to specific methods applied during the exile, the way the exiled was kept under surveillance, etc.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2021 1:54 pm

Gimpie truckie?
What’s that?

cohenite
October 29, 2021 1:56 pm

Top Endersays:
October 29, 2021 at 12:39 pm

Dylan Voller’s legacy lives on:

STAFF at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre fear someone could be killed amid an escalation in violence that is seeing an officer assaulted almost every second day.

Data obtained by the NT News shows there were 29 assaults against officers between August 22 and October 23, including 11 that resulted in injury.

Black lives give me the shits.

Eddystone
Eddystone
October 29, 2021 1:56 pm
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 29, 2021 1:56 pm

Victorians dissing other states shows that level of denialism and parochialism, that got them into this mess

I am quite sure Victorians know full well the extent of Andrews’ mess. They’re living in it – which is why any bagging of ‘other states’ (read Queensland) was merely a bit of return fire for a) leading from the couch, and then b) a bit of comedy value when Pallashay turned out to be just as bad.

Which Queenslanders then loudly complained about.

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 29, 2021 1:57 pm

And no keelhauling on the pirate ship.

Keelhauling was never an official punishment of the RN or the RAN.

Although would have been fun.

Keelhauling, taking its name from the Dutch “Kielhalen meaning “to drag along the keel”, was a torturous punishment inflicted upon sailors whilst at sea. The sailor would be tied to a rope that encircled the underside of the ship, whereupon, being thrown overboard, they would be dragged underneath the ship and along the keel to emerge on the other side. Due to the physical harm suffered as a result of keelhauling, with the hull of a ship covered in barnacles, the victim would suffer immense lacerations resulting in major infections and cuts likely leading to their eventual death.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 29, 2021 1:58 pm

Gimpie truckie?
What’s that?

A truck driver with a limp of course.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 29, 2021 1:59 pm

“Two tiers”, whilst unacceptable, is not quite the same as “we’re all goin’ to the Gulag”.

Um….

New Zealand PM, Noam Chomsky call for unvaccinated to be dispossessed of civil status, starved (26 Oct)

Her new “Covid-19 response framework” to be released on Friday, will make life unbearable for the unvaccinated in her country and she looks forward to this development: “It will become very clear to people that if you are not vaccinated there will be things that you miss out on, everyday things that you will miss out on,” Ardern told Morning Report.

“It’s about both rewarding people who have gone out and done the right thing but also keeping away people who are less safe.”

She’d look great in black, with silver rank insignia.

Chris
Chris
October 29, 2021 2:02 pm

All the intelligent Scots got out of Scotland.
All that’s left there are the stains on the toilet bowl.

Waves of culling as well as emigration: remember who

created a desert and called it peace

Someone I know spent a year adding Scots Gaelic to her languages after reading Outlander.
Gave up when it became clear socialising that all native speakers were alcoholics.

Chris
Chris
October 29, 2021 2:06 pm

No jolly rogering though please.

Rum, sodomy and the lash…..

Death… by BONGO!

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 29, 2021 2:06 pm

Andrews swayed by clever man putting shit on Gympie truckie.

Baba. You’ll end up dropped from the Quenthland Cats email distribution list if you keep that up.

The experience of others, and all that.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
October 29, 2021 2:09 pm

Eddystone says:
October 29, 2021 at 12:40 pm

If enough of us pooled our super, we could buy a big ship, arm it, and go pirating.

There would be enough expertise on the Cat to navigate, sail and maintain the ship, with YouTube available to fill in any minor gaps in our knowledge.

Why not?

You mean buy something like a Chinese “fishing boat” that you will find off PNG in Redscar Bay or Bismark Sea.

I bags Navigator and/or MAA

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 29, 2021 2:10 pm

Meanwhile in the Workers’ Paradise of Victoria:

Melbourne has a severe sex worker shortage as legal brothels prepare to reopen tonight.

Australian Adult Entertainment Industry spokesman William Albon said numbers were down by about 2000 because of the pandemic.

Many had gone overseas and not returned while others had switched to the illegal sector.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 29, 2021 2:10 pm

Keelhauling was never an official punishment of the RN or the RAN.

Given that flogging and hanging from the yardarm are still legal in both Navies, I thought that keelhauling would be right up there..

Eddystone
Eddystone
October 29, 2021 2:13 pm

I meant pirating as in getting a boat to go and pinch stuff for fun and profit, while answering only to our own code.

Not a floating gay bath house.

local oaf
October 29, 2021 2:16 pm

In fact, there were more than 30 different categories of internal exile in the USSR during the 1930s to 1950s, and each of them had its own instructions with regard to specific methods applied during the exile, the way the exiled was kept under surveillance, etc.

I think Solzhenitsyn wrote about some GULAG inmates who actually lived long enough to finish their sentence, but were still barred from returning to their homes because of the exile imposed on them.
Some simply hung around the camps begging for food as there was nowhere else to go. They weren’t welcome in local towns and couldn’t get work, but couldn’t leave either.

Baba
Baba
October 29, 2021 2:22 pm

Now I feel really, really guilty.

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
October 29, 2021 2:24 pm

Just got back from a trip into Canberra to catch up with a friend, I can go to the shops, cafes and restaurants there despite being unclean. A few observations – the lockdown has devastated the hospitality industry, there were five cafes and restaurants permanently closed on one block alone. The outdoor mask mandate has ended today but most people still had them on outside, my friend and I were the only ones sans masque on the street. Businesses have the QR check in at the door but are not checking you’ve signed in, however most people are whipping the phone out.

Baba
Baba
October 29, 2021 2:26 pm

I hope Struth appreciates you looking out for him, Knuckles.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 29, 2021 2:30 pm

Will this Armageddon be generic and widespread?

Depends.
Will you be wearing goggles?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkaBT-u7qn8

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 29, 2021 2:31 pm

Too warm. Knocking off for the day. German beer from the fridge and sit outside in the gusting wind.

Pray everyone else’s weekend starts off so pleasantly.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2021 2:31 pm

I am quite sure Victorians know full well the extent of Andrews’ mess. They’re living in it – which is why any bagging of ‘other states’ (read Queensland) was merely a bit of return fire for a) leading from the couch, and then b) a bit of comedy value when Pallashay turned out to be just as bad.

Yes.
A little jibe in response to Dr Twostix’s psychoanalysis of all Victorians earlier.
I felt the need to jump in and defend Mater, Arky, dover, et al from these scurrilous attacks on their characters.
It seems the Qld Stasi’s campaign to confiscate Queenssslanders’ senses of humour is well advanced.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 29, 2021 2:37 pm

I hope Struth appreciates you looking out for him, Knuckles.

Two brief points, Big Ba(nana)ba:

1. He may not need it, sure; but
2. You certainly aren’t.

Baba
Baba
October 29, 2021 2:40 pm

Snr Const Knuckles Chase (VikPol retd) is on the case!

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 29, 2021 2:40 pm

A good armageddon is like a good road trip.
You need some good tunes plus a packet of snakes.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 29, 2021 2:43 pm

TE when the new youth justice centre (I love that term) is going to be opened, duck out the previous night and spray paint Don Dale on the sign. I know you want to.

jupes
jupes
October 29, 2021 2:44 pm

Interesting:

Incoming Queensland Chief Health Officer Dr Krispin Hajkowicz has announced he will no longer be taking the position just days before it was set to begin.

In a statement, Queensland Health Minister Yvette D’Ath said Dr Hajkowicz cited “personal reasons” for stepping down from the job.

Maybe, just maybe he has a conscience.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 29, 2021 2:45 pm

Snr Const Knuckles Chase (VikPol retd) is on the case!

Case closed.

Findings: Big Ba(nana)Ba is an extremely thin-skinned sensitive type.

And it’s Detective Chief Supernintendo Commandant to you. Now be quiet or you’ll feel my pepperballs.

rosie
rosie
October 29, 2021 2:45 pm

Good news for Melbournians!
Spotlight is open from 6 til midnight tonight.
Except at the Glen because Glen Waverlians don’t deserve six hours of Spotlighting.
#thankyoudanbestpremierinthewholewideworld

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Why the urge to get stuck into Struth?

Gab
Gab
October 29, 2021 2:49 pm

Another important petition- asking the Victorian Governor General Linda Dessau to dissolve parliament.

126K signatures now.

We are calling on the Governor of Victoria, Linda Dessau, to exercise her powers and dissolve the Parliament of Victoria and call a State Election.

The reason for this is Victorian Labor Government in undemocratic. The directions relevant to COVID 19 that it has implemented are unconstitutional and do not satisfy the requirements of representative government. None of the directions were passed through the houses of Parliament.

The Victorian government is now acting beyond power and everything that it does is unlawful.

If the Governor of Victoria believes in her role then she should act now and dissolve Parliament.

https://www.change.org/p/calling-on-the-governor-of-victoria-to-dissolve-the-victorian-parliament

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 29, 2021 2:56 pm

In a statement, Queensland Health Minister Yvette D’Ath said Dr Hajkowicz cited “personal reasons” for stepping down from the job.

Must have gotten wind of the Big Predictions.

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 29, 2021 2:57 pm

Look at this slithering turd…
All “oooh im so conservative” while it suited him.
Now hes gone full urban bugman.
Even worse, Euro urban bugman.

FFS it was obvious all along he was an EU sleeper agent sent to fuck up the Australian economy.
The job was a reward for job well done.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

This may not have the intended effect on vaccination rates:

Jurors who aren’t double vaccinated could be barred from serving in Victorian court cases until October next year.

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 29, 2021 2:59 pm

Mini mill installed. Convenient RSJ above and mate with block and tackle and decades of experience loading ships. Dead easy. Bolts even fitted pre drilled pattern.

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 29, 2021 3:00 pm

In a statement, Queensland Health Minister Yvette D’Ath said Dr Hajkowicz cited “personal reasons” for stepping down from the job.

I think health reasons. Eye problem. Couldn’t see himself working for this clownshow.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
October 29, 2021 3:00 pm

Now be quiet or you’ll feel my pepperballs.

Tear-gas me harder, Daddy!

Or, go full Cheryl:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BwwKxEUu72Q

#Sploosh

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 29, 2021 3:02 pm

McClown scuttles another pale stale male industry..

Because trees man, trees.

Sacrificed to the urban bugwoman class/ Fremantle resident.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-29/jarrah-price-spike-spurs-indonesian-hardwood-imports/100575880

Only one month after a state ban on native forest harvesting was announced, West Australian furniture-makers are looking to imports to replace iconic native hardwoods.

WA Furniture Manufacturers’ Association president Michael D’Andrea uses jarrah in the frames of his Perth-made pieces.

He said jarrah timber prices had spiked 60 per cent since the state government revealed it would stop harvesting native species like jarrah, marri, and karri in West Australian forests from 2024.

Zipster
Zipster
October 29, 2021 3:03 pm

In a statement, Queensland Health Minister Yvette D’Ath said Dr Hajkowicz cited “personal reasons” for stepping down from the job.

He personally didn’t want to be the fall guy.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 29, 2021 3:03 pm

Only one month after a state ban on native forest harvesting was announced,

Why do tax payers fork out for forestry management if there is no management of forests.

JMH
JMH
October 29, 2021 3:04 pm

Gabsays:
October 29, 2021 at 2:49 pm

As far as I am aware the Governor of Victoria couldn’t dissolve an ice cube. Andrews made sure her responsibilities were rearranged.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 29, 2021 3:05 pm

Queensland Health Minister Yvette D’Ath

A role model for the chromosome challenged.

Roger
Roger
October 29, 2021 3:07 pm

If the Governor of Victoria believes in her role then she should act now and dissolve Parliament.

I wish you all the best, but I think the Victorian governor – like other state governors – is quite restricted as to the conditions under which she can legally dissolve parliament.

We are discovering how poorly served our democracy is by our various constitutions.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 29, 2021 3:07 pm

Why do tax payers fork out for forestry management if there is no management of forests.

To have an agency to deflect blame from CALM when the next conflagration erupts in the ‘jiffy” national park.

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