LOL. The Green Light.
Open Thread- Weekend 30 Oct 2021
- The more you gets the less you eats
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- From darkness to the promise of light
Because “Special”. That’s why.
Exactly.
They probably think the Nullarbor is an Aboriginal name…
Thanks milt. Trying to keep it simple.
Before or after he gets his permanent dictatorship legislation through?
dunno if that’s better or not.
the cultural marxists need a dead eyed-leader
pray his replacement isn’t worserer
Bunnings is great. Squadrons of clueless nubile chicks in boots and shorts. What’s not to love?
Did you accidentally use the nubile instead of chunky?
I’m not sure Rabz. The young fellas say it’s hard to tell these days since landing strips went out of fashion
Oh please.
Wonder if Bert reconciled with his son. Kid had some issues.
Squire, the song and the film clip are a veritable treasure trove.
“Hold your horses …”
“You’d best kick that dickhead singer out of the band …”
I love it because it’s not only a magnificent piece of pop, it’s a sly tribute to Mark E Smith.
I upticked this in support of Rosie, agreeing with the sentiment that she provides a useful scepticism here, some which I certainly share. I suppose I might be included as some Kitteh (Queen Bee of any sort is a bit of a stretch for any individual Kitteh) trying to ‘throw shade on patriotic triers’ when I critique the far-right efforts of those with haywire Q-Anon beliefs they wish to impose on the world via military fantasies. As long as they stay as fantasies and keep out of my hair, fine by me. And I am all in favour of protesting mandatory vaxx and other curtailments on liberty and the work of the anti-democratic state.
Before. He’s gunna get knifed. Dan is finished. Done.
Noooo. Not accidentally.
Something to lift the spirits
Lizzie, you lovable old duck, here you go again, assuming genders.
I wonder if they were trying to cash in on a bit of Catch 22 style insertion of 60s hippie into 40s setting. Maybe for a young audience who weren’t there in the 40s and wouldn’t care about ridiculous anachronisms.
IJN Kaga:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dEKRtmGDKs
“Hey Harry, what could you set your watch by?”
“This fvcking rain”
Noooo. Not accidentally.
I need to find a different Bunnings then…..
Maybe you’re right. I have heard that the 60s didn’t arrive in Australia until the 70s. And if you remember the 70s you weren’t there.
Before. He’s gunna get knifed. Dan is finished. Done.
Christmas without Dickhead Dan would be the ultimate Christmas.
It’s stages of life stuff when it comes to your kids, Min. Time to just let them get on with it.
We’ve found they tend to not want parental real-estate advice. They like to make their own mistakes.
Fair enough, too.
lol. Mea culpa. I should have known better as Screaming Queens have been around forever.
Especially for those who actually did float through partytime in the 70’s.
But it’s so hard to keep up these days.
It’s not so much the genders that get me muddled, it’s the pronouns. 🙂
Glittering … 🙂
To quote and old saying “Dan has gotten too big for his boots”.
I’m fully expecting him to fall down a staircase. Agin.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
October 30, 2021 at 10:23 pm
The best war movie ever was the Dirty Dozen. Prove me wrong.
Can’t beat Patton.
Not in a million years.
Dirty Dozen is good but.
The Battle of Britain.
The Dam Busters.
Whoever mentioned The Odd Angry Shot, yes, that was good too.
Patton was ruined by the fantaslyland denigration of Montgomery and Admiral Cunningham to make Patton look like more than he actually was, but as a piece of fiction it was very great viewing.
My recipe is Jack Daniels … 🙂
Thanks, calli. Already spent three years of my life and half my retirement savings on that particular work of the crafty devil. Gave it away after the Prince asked me why I spent a small fortune on various large pieces of fabric only to cut them up into little pieces and put them all back together to make a large piece of fabric, all the while accompanied by many tears and much swearing, screaming and foot stamping. And that’s before I got to the Olfa cutter.
I have three almost but not quite finished quilt tops and two completed quilts. Maybe I should return to quilt purgatory and complete them for my unvaxxed sins.
Last nite I was feeling a bit poorly (as they say in Britain) and not up to much, so I clicked on a piece of free-to-air movie called ‘Marley and Me’ made in the early 90’s. One of my dog-loving female friends adores it and it seemed like some mindless watching. It tells the story of a pennyless journo in Florida getting an impossibly obstreperous Labrador and idly writing a few columns about its antics. The columns went viral in the days before viral internet stuff and the journo’s fortunes went on the national high rise, for dog columns rather than the ‘serious’ work he aspired to. The theme is then the dog in family life and family life itself as he marries, has kids, gets richer, has more kids, the kids grow as they do, the family moves to Philadelphia to a bigger house and lifestyle, as families can do. And that is the story. Love, life, family, a wacky dog, and learning to not want to achieve the big-noting dreams of youth but to be happy with what you have. Hairy, scornful at first, kept glancing at it for the Florida scenes, muttering about De Santo and we should move etc. and then got drawn in. His word for the movie was so appropriate: quaint. It had the charm of a time we have now lost. No message except living life well, no lecturing about social concerns, no diversity characters, and the expected heart-rending scene at the end when they bury the dog. It could never be made like that today.
It was of course a soggy piece of romantic mulch, but you knew that.
Auto correct also needs to fall down a staircase.
It’s as if the people who designed the software purposely wanted to fuck up sentences intentionally.
They should have named it “auto fuckup”.
“Sink the Bismark.”
“The Longest Day.”
mOnster?
Err, Megs – this is life when you’re a personage who isn’t hoovering bullshit en masse.
You are not like them. This is school children contrariness. Revel in it, we should – we’ve earned it.
I bet Men’s Sheds are interesting places these days.
And Rotary clubs.
I don’t have an exact reference, but, from memory, it was the British author, Robin Neillands, who pointed out that, by the time of D-Day, the much despised Bernard Montgomery had as much combat experience as the American high command – combined.
What about a mix of the Virginia and Astute Classes?
I wouldn’t go for that. It means more training; more spares, more tactical procedures etc etc.
We probably need action now, 2040 before the first nuke is delivered and the game could already be over.
I can see some value in the mix and match option in these unusual times though. The Collins cannot last forever so if the Japanese Taigei-class submarines are available, we could try to negotiate 6 of them immediately and order 6 Virginia’s or Astutes immediately as well. The Taigei is relatively cheap, uses lithium ion batteries, is arguably the most advanced non nuke boat in the world and the Japanese only decided to build their fleet from 16 to 22 in 2010 and the last one, the Taigei is already being fitted out.
The six Taigei’s would fill the closer local indian/Pacific/SE Asia requirements for subs and the Virginias or Astutes, when we get them, would cover the more extended strategic requirements. 12 boats, same crew numbers, better coverage, more availability.
The Japanese have built their last 6 submarines from the laying of the keel to commissioning in 4 years average each with the first of the last 6 laid down in 2013 and the 6th in 2019. They have been laying down one per year and building 4 to 5 at a time. We could have 6 fully operational, off the shelf ‘starter’ boats delivered before 2030 for little more than the upgrade price of the Collins.
That movie naturally got us to reminiscing about our little bitzer Maltese Dachshund, the long-term family dog during our two children’s childhoods, along with the very special Burmese cat. Dog lived to 14, cat to 18. Both sent off by the vet in their final days to great heartache and tears and an expensive eternal resting place in pet cemetaries. You never forget an animal with whom you share your life. The sad place, that’s what Hairy still calls the park near the vets where our dog walked his last shaky legs that fateful day. Good boy, we said, good boy, knowing of the great deceit to come, even though it was truly his time.
Why not do both? Stop spending ridiculous amounts of money on boondoggles like hydrogen as fuel and other insane flights of climatic fancy and get serious spending some money on defense.
They serve a purpose in society. If you are down on your luck and are feeling suicidal, you only need to walk in the door. Talk to those sad fucks for about 5 minutes and you realise how lucky you are.
Men’s sheds are for men without sheds
er … can I borrow the communal shovel?
The Vietnamese and Afghans didn’t have submarines.
I suspect the greatest deterrence to an invasion may lay elsewhere.
Correct, Rabz. For some extraordinary reason, over the last few days I have found everything going on a source of hilarity. I think I’ve laughed outright at the absurdities, the predictability, the stupidity, the outright insanity I have observed both up close and at a distance as the sheep try to figure out how to (a) enjoy their new found ‘freedom’ while (b) suppressing the cognitive dissonance as they desperately pretend everything is totally fine and life is back to normal.
I’m most definitely revelling in it.
Entirely predictable (the Hun):
Don’t worry about the jeopardised trust between public health officials and the Minister. Worry about the jeopardised trust from the public, who happen to pay for both the Minister and his flunkies.
Oh geez. You think?
Which Christmas do you reckon its over.
December 2022?
The Vietnamese and Afghans didn’t have submarines.
They didn’t bring war to us either…
And beautifully unconventional … 🙂
Pigsy, the Victorian Government won’t fall from the outside, it will fall from the inside.
This is so called Victorian Premier Andrews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itmNiTwHOsM
Indeed. Especially when it comes to family. I just agree to disagree with some on some things.
I’ve had many fights of the years with my Big Sis. We always make up, but cautiously, and she tends to keep the upper hand in it; that’s just her, I think to myself. No doubt she also thinks that’s just me.
Best war movies of all time.
“Zulu”
“Dambusters”
Both show real incredible courage in the face of insurmountable odds, albeit dramatised.
Who today would have the guts to climb aboard a lumbering heavily laden bomber knowing your odds of survival were minimal, but you go anyway, or to stand firm in a thin line of redcoats as thousands of savages advance on you?
There is a reason that Victoria Crosses awarded are rare.
Arma…
check who is The Law…
certainly not The People, as in Common Law.
It is entirely ‘feelz’ law as we are now subjected to.
The only reason that the Fabian High Court of Australia overturned a Victorian Communist Court in the Cardinal George Pell matter is because they would have been ridiculed on the World Stage.
Law… who is it good for????
Sunday morning in the Cross, yeah, tired of paying my taxes
My mind isn’t here yeah, but I’m found a chair I can relax in
(for the bright lights)
My ex just walked in through the front door
I really don’t wanna care anymore (for the bright lights)
What the f*ck did he bring that girl for?
I really don’t wanna care anymore
Care anymore
Care anymore
I only care about one thing
Won’t somebody get me a drink?
Damn awesome!
When Someone Requests Tennessee Whiskey and This Singer Steals The Show
Ideology such as Communism and Islamist extremism aren’t confined by physical borders, but they are protected by them.
Nuclear weapons are becoming increasingly redundant in the modern world. Glassing an entire country is pretty much pointless.
The battlefield has shifted.
Disagree. Glass a couple dozen countries and the rest will fall into civil behaviour quick smart. People are polite when they know you are desperate for the slightest reason to kill their families.
I’m watching “Sharpe.”
“There Are Ladies Present, I Would Have Thought There Were Gentlemen Present”
Whatever happened to those days? Gentlemen could settle their differences with “Pistols for two,at dawn, and breakfast for one? “
Is the Australian men’s market ready for skirts yet?
Yeah, it seems we’ve been ready for the last several years at least.
RickW, what Jim Caviezel said about trusting in Jesus is so true. A good friend of mine, father of five, sole breadwinner, wife homeschools (and the kids are just amazing!) was out of a job for a few weeks, he went about applying for many jobs and simply trusted in Jesus. Last week landed an awesome job with a large organisation. When they asked for reference checks he declared he was not jabbed. No problem, they said. He got the job.
“Zulu Dawn.” I’ve walked over that battlefield, and you can trace the course of the battle from where Durnford’s men fired the first shots, in the donga, to where the main firing line was, through to where the “last stands” took place…
“Fix bayonets, and die like Englishmen.”
Ideology such as Communism and Islamist extremism aren’t confined by physical borders, but they are protected by them.
The type of war we need submarines for has not shifted at all. The weapons may have but the delivery of armies, supplies, fuel etc hasn’t.
Decent submarines and ideal choke points are significant deterrents when a potential enemy can’t drive train or truck loads of the most necessary commodity in a non nuke war… people. Backed up by fuel, ammunition, supplies medical services all of which need ships.
The projected next major shooting war for us is in support of major allies against China and China will need all those things if they want to bring the war to us and come here. Our best possible deterrent is submarines, with or without nuclear propulsion or weapons… and capable of firing next generation long range hypersonic anti ship missiles when they are developed in the short term…
As much as I’d like to see New Zealand nuked as an example to everyone else, it’s probably not a good idea. Most of those fuckers are living in Bondi.
The pricks are still whinging about an “underarm ball” from 40 years ago. Glassing their homeland might be problematic. Ditto the Lebanese in Western Sydney.
send in the APS will completely destroy them.
Beautiful heartfelt message from Monica Smit for all those who felt forced to take the jab. (4 mins)
https://rumble.com/voe48n-a-message-to-those-who-have-taken-the-jab-against-their-will.html?mref=6zof&mc=dgip3&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=reignitedemocracyaustralia&ep=2
”They’ve spent billions and billions of dollars preparing for this over the last decade … it was designed to make us feel like we had no choice. And now we’re being faced with permanent pandemic legislation in Victoria … and it’s a really tough time …”
You could alternatively legalise gun ownership with the stroke of a pen. The ink involved would be a fraction of a cent, compared to the billions of dollars the military would require to buy submarines, high heels and lipstick.
Righto. My night’s done, and I will now retire to the boudoir.
Australia v England in the T20 World Cup. Straya batting.
Warner. Gorn. 1
Smith. Gorn. 1.
I don’t need to see anything more. Outstanding.
Remember the ‘long term unemployed’ cohort that resulted from the deindustrialisation that occurred during the late 1980s-early 1990s? 50% of those people (predominantly men) never worked again. Goodness knows how many lost their families, lost everything. Many drank themselves into an early grave, or found faster routes to that same destination. A good part of whatever remained washed up in Men’s Sheds.
I don’t mock Men’s Sheds. A lot of what made this country decent can be found in such places.
And NSW ICAC are honest people???
https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/board/33/bernard-gaynor
All Australian PS are fkn dangerous.
Cue the violin music. No one is guaranteed a job for life. Get over it.
Show us the links and statistics to support that statement. I very much doubt you can, because it’s emotive rubbish.
Men’s Sheds were a politically motivated wankfest. Much like school halls, laptops for all and whatever other waste of taxpayers funds they could come up with at the time.
You can start here. Links and supporting documents please.
And some fkwits get on here and put down those that have signed Australian Secrecy Agreements!?
Commercially you, Frank, can think of them as Non Disclosure Agreements.
But I appreciate that the Northern Territory Government had to lie about the sale of Darwin Port to China.
Once you dredge up a few facts on the above, you can continue on “fact finding” with this pearler. Links please.
Frank
Did you notice who drove Andrews China deal and who was shafted???
the good one’s would lay a bet.
Oh god.
Military Tourette’s always leads to all the other manifestations.
Pigsy. I’ve read all your comments over the last month or so.
I have no idea what you are talking about. Nobody does. It’s all jibberish.
You probably need to call JC’s hotline (1300 181 181).
JC. Incoming. Man the phone.
There’s no incoming it’s outgoing/
The only solution is shock therapy at 350
Volts for a hour on each temple.
he’s waiting to put an order in with his broker.
Keelhauling seems to be all the rage at the moment. See if you can talk him/her/it into it.
A necktie in the unisex toilet is so “yesterday”.
slow learners are catered for at Pigsy school.
It’s okay.
You won’t be laughed at.
Probably wants to buy into into the “Devils Lettuce” market.
much laughing ensued.
When communism is fully in place in Australia cities I wonder where the city hordes will find the food to steal?
Parliament House has nice buffet. As does Kirribilli.
We might have to step over a few corpses to form an orderly queue, but everyone will get fed.
You don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
It’s a pretty common and well understood saying. Another is that “a bird doesn’t shit in its own nest”.
Dan Andrew’s and the CFMEU are the epitome of that. It’s not by accident that Dan went “full on NAZI” with the riots. Setka demanded it.
You only need to see how Setka was prepared to throw his thugs into the fight against his own members. Plenty of video footage to prove that.
Staircase Dan had/has plenty of reason to worry. You now have a situation whereby pressure is mounting for Dan to resign. He won’t, because he’s stuck.
I sense a man that is absolutely desperate. He has to “follow through”.
Having said that, I still think Dan will be gone by Christmas. Why? Because there will be “whistle blowers” coming forth.
Week In Pictures.
Chelsea top of the table.
Not a bad way for it all to end.
Munich top of the kraut league so both my fav teams on top.
Two stix:
People are panicked.
This is the intention.
A panicked citizenry can be herded.
Unfortunately for the ones who start the herd running, the mob cares not who started the panic.
Nor does it care who gets underfoot.
Those mighty Reds are barely hitting their stride, bern.
Just ask poor li’l Ole Gunner …
Doesn’t matter Rabz.
Today’s D-Day.
Or should I say B-Day.
I chopper buzzy around out east.
Surely the beginning of big things.
Twitter is saying Biden had toilet accident in Rome.
Either piss or shit.
Thanks, Tom.
My pick.
There’s a story in today’s Courier Mail about Ronald McDonald House. It’s paywalled, so I can’t see the details.
Apparently they have banned unvaxxed children and their families from staying. If this is so, that’s another institution that will be receiving exactly zero of my creative efforts.
A city strangled to death by a psychopathic bat eared mong:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OwaM8exIko
Either piss or shit.
Alex Jones reckons it’s mainly shit….
srr:
Daily Mail.
I don’t think we are getting out of this so easily this time.
Any government that is taking steps to throw people out of their homes for non payment of dubious fines has an agenda far beyond that stated.
These actions are not the actions of a representative government – they are the actions of a panicked tyrant.
Those other mighty Reds. I just wish they had some decent competition outside of the Champs’ League.
Not sure if it has been linked before, but just in case, WIP, Comment Section, Cybernetic: “FaceBook has changed its name to ‘META’ 🙂 ‘Make Everything Trump Again!’ 🙂
Woops, “Meta”.
Lizzie what made you think I was having problems with son selling house . I put address in so Cats could see on internet 64 squares I think with only 3 people living there . He has already bought another Victorian house in East Melbourne. That I don’t like it is too far from me ?
And on the vexed vaxxed vs. unvaxxed question and friendship groups…mine will be meeting up twice before the end of the year. Both in venues that require vaxx status before entering. I’ll be sending my apologies.
It isn’t so much the group themselves requiring the information as the meeting place. One is a public facility (library, community centre) the other a sporting club. Like Megan, I don’t want 30+ year friendships to go down the drain because of this lunacy.
A quick reading of the “Covid Safe” rules of the venue reveals a tacit admission that the vaxxes do jack sh*t. The first item is, “if you feel sick or have any symptoms, stay home”. Well, derrrrr. But, hey, I’m fully vaxxed so I can’t possibly have Covid…can I?
Why is that insufferable idiotic personage still in existence?
Nothing, because I didn’t think that. Sorry if my comment came over that way.
I was just musing in general on real estate and one’s kids. Also, the address issue didn’t strike me at all, as your comment on my screen didn’t include any address although you implied one (I thought maybe Dover had removed something identifying). I’m not very familiar with Melbourne so it wouldn’t have meant much anyway.
I’m up early again with usual pain and misery, seeing docs all next week and further ultrasounds. I have used the time up to distract myself again with reading, the Weekend Oz this time. Double page spread in Inquirer on the politics of ScoMo and Glasgow, and the only thing worth reading was Chris Kenny’s excellent piece about how unexamined all of the climate nonsense was:
Amen to that, Chris, amen.
I would like a decent military to thwart China, but if it comes to shooting:
1. I reckon it might go nuclear, so we’d probably all be dead. Which is why it most likely never will happen. Pray to god it never happens.
2. If there is a massive conventional land war which results in conscription, I refuse to fight (I doubt they’d want me anyway). Why would I sacrifice myself for our government? The west is dead. If we win, do we get to set up safe schools, trans surgery for 3 year olds and virtually allow perjury in family law hearings? There’s only an incentive to fight if China literally wants to invade HERE. Radical 4th wave feminism and critical queer theory have seeped so far into our institutions it is a miracle that more men don’t “drop out” or “lay flat”.*
I have no damned interest in keeping Taiwan, Taiwanese. Despite how repulsive communist China is, there are many points on which the West is not morally superior or we are following them down the primrose path of safety over liberty anyway.
Taiwan is better off acquiring their own nukes and keeping Western countries at arm’s length.
Our long term liberty and security, and those of our allies and under the aegis of our alliance is much better off if the Cathedral and uniparties die after they are poisoned by a flood of the worst kinds of black propaganda.
Even China would be better off if we won a conventional land war with total victory objectives 20 years after that and reorganised her government.
*Mmmyes, maybe that is what China wants. An individual can’t overturn policy in a place run by mob rule & Parliamentary aristocracy. It increasingly looks like the only way to win is not play – or go the Arky/Epictetus route if you are fortunate enough.
I’ve just been told that I’m persona non grata at my son’s graduation.
He’s not vaxxed, but occurring to the school, I must be.
Really? What a load of wank. I read that and the first thing I see is a pop up ad disable request.
Dover runs and funds the site AFAIK, and has set up a source of revenue and donations.
That’s not called going bust. That’s called “not going bust”.
Pussy.
Try 415 V at @ 65 A.
P = IV.
Appalling news.
Arsenal probably playing conference next year.
There is merit to this being fake to cover up the child sniffing and child breast groping.
Bugger. Seems to be much like yesterday. Where are the scores of nubiles in shorts and workboots, I asks ya?
I bet Men’s Sheds are interesting places these days.
Tractor club seems to be far better according to the stories from my dad, latest news:
They got given an old crane that had a stuffed steering box. They hammered in a replacement one that more or less fitted. Unfortunately new box had different gear arrangement so steering works opposite. One brave member volunteers to learn how to drive it, successfully reprograms brain to handle opposite steering. Then crashes his car into gate post leaving club (normal steering!). ?
Really? What a load of wank.
He really is a pathetic creature.
He never owned up to his Big Things happening bull shit.
Pure snake oil.
Mater, this is foul stuff. It’s hard to find words to process it.
A hypothetical – if these “fully vaxxed” events proceed, and the event becomes a Covid cluster, will that information be released? My gut feeling is suppression.
Swivel eyed loon watch:
“Why I am a slut…and I learned to stop worrying and love chad….justifying my time as a cum rag for players”
10 Reasons Nice People Don’t Make Good Partners
Secrets from the therapy couch
https://medium.com/on-the-couch/10-reasons-nice-people-dont-make-good-partners-e293fd9d7fc0
_______________________________________________________
“All men are terrible, terrible pigs but I always choose the bad ones…but it is the fault of all men”
What Happens When Men Ruin Your Life
Failed relationships can lead to life-long traumas.
https://medium.com/heart-affairs/what-happens-when-men-ruin-your-life-2c4a9eff890
Doc Faustus:
He’s quoting a midwife.
This should be enough for further investigation, and no, I wouldn’t trust Reuters Fact Checkers as far as I could spit a dead rat.
Please.
Pol, when you’ve got hairy legs, nothing else is of any import.
Reuters Fact Checkers
Um hello.
Is. This. Real.
???? !!!!
https://mobile.twitter.com/beingrealmac/status/1454074889514717193
Joe Biden after 75 mins of meeting with Pope “You’re the famous African-American base ball player in America.”
????
Maybe its a strategy to scare China? He’ll probably nuke Corn Pop and half of D.C./Maryland, though.
not a chance.
No other war has gone nuclear, why would this one be any different?
Here’s how the war will play out:
1. Gulf of Tonkin Style casus belli.
2. American Troops occupy Taiwan
3. American Troops devastate Taiwan.
5. American Troops evacuate Taiwan, PLA enters, bloodbath ensues.
The semi-sensible thing he’ll have done in the entirety of his syphilis addled existence.
blah – the only …
Oh shit.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/nsw-considers-pushing-back-re-opening-date-for-the-unvaccinated-20211029-p594af.html
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/breaking-news/covid19-nsw-ray-hadley-says-state-government-plans-to-scrap-december-opening-date-for-unvaxxed/news-story/72265ef8c4126468de62e9b20bf42438
Sickening, stupid comments.
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/dominic-perrottet-has-indicated-the-state-could-open-earlier-than-expected/news-story/727631dc32c4996f8da1eba57db52c8c
???
I have PHI & pay tax. Fuck your vaccinations, you suckhole.
When are they going to start allowing me a deduction on my taxes and rates for all these services that I am no longer allowed to utilise?
The system is there to allow it. For example, if you have a DVA Gold Card, you can get an exemption for the Medicare levy.
I mean, if I’m forced to receive Emergency Medical Treatment on the footpath outside the hospital (à la sfw’s treatment yesterday) surely a refund for not using the infrastructure is in order.
Fair’s fair.
P.S. This recent trend of conflating non-vaccination with the actual carrying the virus, is a worrying trend.
Gunk from The Daily Telegraph…..reach for the bucket. I thought surrogacy was illegal here in Oz.
“Modern family: Surrogacy rates in Australia are on the rise
Surrogacy rates in Australia are increasing due to marriage equality, the pandemic closing borders and overseas countries banning surrogacy arrangements — leading to more women like Sam Essex carrying babies for others out of love.
The rates are climbing due to marriage equality, the pandemic closing borders and overseas countries banning surrogacy arrangements.
Surrogacy lawyer and surrogate mother Sarah Jefford said her business had tripled.
“In 2018 (the year after marriage equality) there were 86 surrogacy babies born through IVF and I estimate there are probably another 12 or so outside of a clinic, using home insemination, so about 100 a year,” Ms Jefford said.
“Stats a few years ago were 60 babies a year.
“This year alone I have had 109 surrogacy arrangements so far — and I am only one lawyer.
“I’d estimate there are around 250 to 300 a year in Australia and about a third will end up with a baby because not all IVF is successful.”
Paid surrogacy is banned in Australia so women have to offer their wombs for altruistic reasons but more and more are opting to share the love of a child with another couple.
In 2016, there were 46 babies born via surrogate, according to statistics from the National Perinatal Epidemiology and Statistics Unit at the University of NSW.
In 2019, 73 babies were born to surrogate mothers.
Ms Jefford, a mother of two, carried a baby for a gay couple in 2018.
“It is on the up because of Covid and they are not going overseas and, partly since marriage equality, the dads are thinking we can do that too and it is less stigmatised and more popular,” Ms Jefford said.
When Bondi couple Jon Paul Daly and Kayne Muller married, they both knew they wanted a family but they needed a surrogate.
Enter the remarkable Sam Essex, a 33-year-old mother of three who heard about the couple’s dilemma as her friend is Kayne’s sister.
“Without a second thought I offered to carry their baby,” Ms Essex said.
“I knew I was done having my own, as I was blessed with three amazing children. From a young age, watching family members struggle to conceive, I knew I always wanted to carry a baby for someone.”
In February 2020 she met the couple and started the long and arduous journey of counselling and preparations.
“Every obstacle came up and we thought we would have to do it in America as it just became increasingly hard,” Mr Daly said.
“And then Sam came into our lives and that is it, she is our wingless angel. She has been amazing the whole way through. She’s incredible.”
With a donor egg and Kayne’s sperm, IVF was used to transfer the embryo into Sam’s womb. The first round did not work but in February 2021 another transfer resulted in a pregnancy.
Baby Luca was born via caesarean on October 9.
“When he was born it was so amazing and I watched these two men become fathers and my job was done,” Ms Essex said.
New dad Kayne Muller, 37, is besotted with baby Luca.
“We were in floods of tears and could not believe he was ours, it was very emotional. She was so selfless/ She is a beautiful person,” Mr Muller said.”
The plain truth is that Luca is just a toy for them.
Poor Luca.
Yes fuckhead, I also said almost straight away that it almost has any chance of happening, but a shooting war will go nuke SO THERE LIKELY WON’T BE A WAR AT ALL.
The point is Grigory, you actually believe in cultural Marxism, we do not.
I will not willingly fight to inflict it on other nations and Taiwan is better off getting nukes and de-westernising in all but the classical sense.
“The only reason that the Fabian High Court of Australia overturned a Victorian Communist Court in the Cardinal George Pell matter is because they would have been ridiculed on the World Stage.”
Absolute garbage.
It was predictable from the start.
The failure of the you beaut get out of jail free vaxxes has to be blamed on something. How convenient to have a ready made, self selected cohort of scapegoats.
This has been done before. Race, religion, gender, caste have all had a workout.
Now for a new angle. We have reached peak juju science, where superstition will trump data. The historical constant – unreasoning fear of the marginalised.
Megan:
The use of adjectives to distort a message is an art form among Leftists. I always regard the the excessive use of them as an indicator of subterfuge.
Tom, the hilarious anti-Biden toons in this week’s parade were an absolute tonic.
I was laughing my way through them. Thank you so much for doing the toon service for us all.
Somewhere over the rainbow …
Last night we watched a not-too-bad History Channel show on British witchfinding in the seventeenth century. All the same psychological and obstructive techniques as now used on the latest group of marginalised – those not vaxxed – and for the same crowd-pleasing and power-seeking reasons.
Megan:
Is it worth your while to turn up and make them excommunicate you? Confront them with their hypocrisy. They get away with this because we don’t rub their noses in it.
Make them uncomfortable.
When are they going to start allowing me a deduction on my taxes and rates for all these services that I am no longer allowed to utilise?
Totally agree.
I too would like to opt out of paying anything towards the public health system.
I’m happy to be banned from the public health system, as long as I don’t have to pay anything towards it.
Worrying isn’t the term I’d use, Mater.
Infuriating
Evil
Staggeringly stupid
Illogical
Hysterical
etc, etc, etc …
Top Ender:
Fair enough, but we mix different types of aircraft according to the mission – like EW aircraft with air superiority or ground attack.
“Henry
3 weeks ago
And who pays for those idiots to be hospitalised? We do, the unselfish vaccinated.
???
I have PHI & pay tax. Fuck your vaccinations, you suckhole.”
This “pandemic” has exposed the worst in people…..almost always progressives who pretend to care about others but in reality they don’t. Covid has given them license to flaunt their toxic selfishness, narcissism and nastiness.
Got disinvited from a craft group meet-up in person today because of vax status.
Your friends are retards & you’re better off without them.
Found this at Dr. Scott McLachlam’s Twitter feed:
I find that a tad hard to believe.
Is Dr. Scott a hoaxer?
SPER said enforcement for people who failed to pay their fines ‘may include garnishing bank accounts or wages, registering charges over property, or suspending driver licences’, according to the Brisbane Times.
Garnishing bank accounts .. shirley not!
‘Sunday morning with Macca.’
I’ve got the distinct feeling that Macca strongly disagrees with vaccine mandates and people losing jobs as a result.
Unfortunately for Victorians he is followed up by the Danbot, Libby Gore, who delivers the state approved propaganda with conviction.
Gore spends her time looking for the bright side of tyranny and pushing progressive obsessions.
No Sunday morning is complete without a conversation about transgender menstruation.
These statist, fascists have opened the door to medical apartheid.
They think it’s a threat to a group of people they currently don’t like.
It’s actually an opportunity.
Not in Australia, but other places which have a population that can support it.
Enough further investigation.
When a computer scientist, presenting as a medical doctor, quoting a distressed midwife, about a cluster of 4 (possibly 8) cases of a 1-in-20 to 1-in-1000 condition, in a 8,000 pa delivery maternity hospital = rolled gold proof that Covid vaccination is slaughtering neonates.
And the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists can get fucked for suggesting otherwise. Because Reuters.
Yup. That’s where we are.
They’re incapable of comprehending the concept. Which is all very convenient when you think about it.
Sort of like selective deafness.
Rex Anger:
Excellent – that’s what I was thinking, but mixed the capabilities.
He’s not presenting as a medical doctor at all, but his area of expertise is record keeping in the NHS.
So, he might have something worthwhile to say.
This cancelling of long term friends who disagree with you sounds very…woke.
If the “friends” have dumped you first, fine. Walk away.
But if they are constrained by someone else’s rules, bear with them. Circumstances change.
Armadillosays:
October 30, 2021 at 11:54 pm
I bet Men’s Sheds are interesting places these days.
They serve a purpose in society. If you are down on your luck and are feeling suicidal, you only need to walk in the door. Talk to those sad fucks for about 5 minutes and you realise how lucky you are.
Not the one I attended pre-lockdowns. Generally a happy, well balanced group, with only a small number who were needing company.
Then the Kung Flu lockdowns stopped them operating. It might be different now. Another act of pointless bastardry.
Carriers, boomers, hunter killers.
How much money do you think that would cost?
RAAF fighter pilots were limited flight hours be because we couldn’t afford fuel & maintenance on F/A-18s.
It is actually incredible though, what small proportion of GDP & government spending, or perhaps financed by increased revenue over a few years collected after microeconomic reform, we could allocate to defence and rival Russia, and only be second to the US overall and China by cannon fodder numbers.
Producing our own equivalents of the B61, B83 & W88 and having them deployable on all supersonic aircraft & surface & submarine vessels would blunt Chinese expansion.
The regime isn’t going to risk being deep fried to “influence” Tonga.
To err is to be human, calli. This idiocy we’re existing through was inevitable, when you think about it. How is one meant to accept suddenly being a second class citizen with equanimity?
It was something that only ever happened to other people.
Did he do that though?
We should refer to “doctors” as “physicians”.
That would clear this mess up.
I see David Limbrick is returning to parliament to fight the Dandates.
The Troll Master will see it as a victory but you can’t get your message across without a podium and it’s too important a matter to let principle keep you away from confronting the enemy on their ground.
“But if they are constrained by someone else’s rules, bear with them. Circumstances change.”
I agree.
I saw that a lot of his supporters were begging him to do so.
It’s not a victory for the other side, it’s a politician listening to his constituents. It should be sold in that light.
Armadillo:
They did.
It keeps getting it wrong.
What sort of flatulence sniffing brown cardigan wearing tin eared imbecile would admit to being such a creature?
According to Dr Faustus on the previous page, he did..
Dr. Scott’s area of expertise appears to be documenting ways the NHS fudge figures, create multiple records for a single person.
For instance, when a doctor instructs a nurse not to record a patients CovidVax on the chart, unless the nurse remembers to enter it on the patients record, that person will die as “unvaccinated”.
Mater’s Mini Musing #1: 31 Oct 21
Whilst I hesitate to be the first to invoke Godwin’s law today, it is interesting that Hitler is WELL recognised (by historians) for almost exclusively using a Bacterial simile to describe a group of people he didn’t like, and wanted removed.
It’s an interesting thought exercise.
Dot says:
October 31, 2021 at 8:43 am
Producing our own equivalents of the B61, B83 & W88 and having them deployable on all supersonic aircraft & surface & submarine vessels would blunt Chinese expansion.
I like the idea of our own nukes for several reasons:
We have the raw materials – Uranium.
We don’t have to rely on fickle allies with nukes to ‘protect’ us when their initial aim was to prevent nuclear proliferation – which failed miserably. Would it be better for us to have nukes or NK, Iran etc?
We would probably be annihilated in a nuclear exchange with China but if we were able to retaliate (if we get the Virginia subs with nuclear tipped Tomahawks and have them placed for quick retaliation) and destroy a number of their major cities and infrastructure, they would be given more than a moment of pause. If we could take out the central party apparatus, that would throw them into complete chaos with no one to tell them what to do.
Seems vindictive and spiteful, I know but if we are attacked, all bets are off.
Probably won’t need to happen, our pollies have just about sold us out to China anyway.
Maybe when the next in-person national cabinet meeting goes ahead in Canberra, just one would be needed?
True Mater and that’s the spin.
Limbrick should use his return to highlight that Andrew’s commitment to democratic process and loyalty lasts just as long as you abide by all his rules.
Then mention Jenny Mikakos and Jane Garrett as examples of strong Labor women who chose principle over Andrew’s power obsession.
Skewer the prick.
Digger:
Yes. We’re now playing catchup while our competitors have made big gains ahead of us.
Perhaps 3 of the Taigei now from Japan with and order for three more to get our hands on at least two from their fleet. (Probably too late for that.) Three of the Ohio Class refitted with sub launched cruise missiles. Lease three more to come.
I dunno. We’ve pissed away 20 years of peace and are now sitting here – a big fat duck waiting to be plucked.
https://www.crisismagazine.com/2021/the-hill-you-die-on
Mater, “Godwin’s Law” is useful for those who want to shut down discussion on the historical perspective of marginalisation. It becomes a tool of the oppressor, not the reasoned debater.
We must never fall into the trap of refusing to learn from, or compare to, the lessons of the past because of some stupid construct.
It’s like refusing to use a contemporary similarity, like the Indian caste system and the “untouchables”, because racist. We must see these things and discuss them for what they are.
bern
I’m happy to be banned from the public health system, as long as I don’t have to pay anything towards it.
The ATO conveniently provides a breakdown of the proportion of your taxes which goes to each major Commonwealth function. Health is above the Medicare Levy percentage.
Then there are the state costs, …
http://www.news.com.au/breaking news/ex taxi driver and dapto dog caller discovers ex wife has taken his nuts with her when she left the matrimonial home after being serviced regularly by ex footy player. Ddc when queried on the disappearance of said nuts said he only noticed after he wondered why he stopped chasing cars and is going to change his name to Karen.
First thing to be done to defend this country is restart oil exploration on shore. Store our reserve on shore here and make it 90 days worth. keep at least a handful of refineries going.
At present if a country with a credible submarine force simply declares a maritime exclusion zone around Australia and/or sinks a tanker enroute from Singapore, we’ll be begging them to send their troops in in 3 weeks. We are that fucked with a clownshow of a federal government.
I had to smile at this from the News.com feed:
LOL.
Love the way that’s framed. Tens of thousands of “new” cases in destination countries daily and News is trying to be scary.
Just DAYS you mindless numpties! It’s an Escapageddon!
Have a listen to this Psychotherapist opining on Vaccine mandates…“to protect the NHS”.
https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1451818329723781123?s=20
I know this is the UK, but the attitude is equally apparent here. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t a universal healthcare system designed to “protect the population”? It was designed to provide for the ‘human right’ to reasonable healthcare, but now our right to choose without coercion is being subordinated to it.
This is some seriously fucked up thinking, and borders on cultish behaviour. Another example of how Socialist policies (universal healthcare, etc) beget/require further social/totalitarian policies.
“Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.”
– Mussolini
Karen Hadley.
I should have called my dog that, but my ankle would have gotten too sore from all of the kicking.
A Christian (or a Jew) would call health system worship rank idolatry.
And, as it’s Sunday, a little Bible lesson.
Idolatry, in all its forms, brings death and destruction. It’s a given.
Yes.
Allowing onshore exploration & refining should be ring fenced by defence priorities, BUT you assume a limited to general war would be fought conventionally. In that instance supply lines don’t mean much ( I assume).
Oh God. We are all going to die!
Ahead of the 2022 federal election, the politics are fascinating – and the Paywallian’s Old Labor blowhard Paul Kelly has been sucked in.
Just now on Skah, Kelly, in his weekly Sermon on the Mount, notes that Brand A and B now have virtually identical climate policies – untenable for the Liars to be competitive.
So Kelly is tipping that Albo’s Liars will adopt an even more aggressive climate target than the Stupid Fucking Liberals. But Kelly says Albo will have to do it in a “politically safe” way, without specifying what that would be.
Hahaha. That’s how the Liars have lost every climate change election this century – and Albo, being an idealogue first, is stupid enough to try it again.
Of course, for the election strategy to work for the Stupid Fucking Liberals, it would require voters to hold their noses and vote for their own economic destruction.
The only thing I am 100% sure of is that in 2022 the primary vote for major parties will be a record low and the vote for splinter parties on the right will be a record high – probably surpassing the loony left vote parked with the Greenfilth.
This one will be fun:
Travel ban axed, global ‘do not travel’ advisory scrapped and quarantine ended: Australia takes first steps to reopening (30 Oct)
How many of those negative test results will be real? Many Australians being actually dual nationals for certain countries with let’s say a less than exacting approach to the rule of law.
Went to a great unwashed mass this morning, fortunately arrived early as the maximum number allowed was reached.
Old biddy fussing around making sure everyone was signed in and more hand sanitiser bottles than candles.
I guess this is it for the foreseeable future.
I dare say that, like in the good old days, passengers arriving from certain destinations will receive more attention from customs officials than others.
Not sure about ‘disinviting’ occurring only because the people doing the disinviting (informal ‘friendship’ groups?) are bound by somebody else’s rules.
I mean, they are willing enough, sometimes eager, to go along with the somebody else’s rules, preferring to see these as iron clad. Best to stay nice.
people travelling from Australia to China will be required to undergo 21 days quarantine because, naturally, they are following Dan’s lead and have a zero covid policy.
Greens vote will crater this time.
Their Policy on Covid is Vax Everything that Moves and Imprison the refusers.
No one’s buying that, and they’ve dealt themselves out of the Emissions debate thru stupidity.
Most of them will return to Labor once Kevin Rudd is installed as leader, so Labor, with the help of Murdoch, are going to be hard to beat.
Calli:
Calli, they’ve sent it down the drain.
You’re just waving goodbye.
No it won’t. The Greens are the new Australian Communist Party who represent all of society’s non-achievers — public servants, students and political activists. They’re our rusted-on party of unhappiness. They’ll always get about 10% of the primary vote.
178 cases for NSW today.
Phew!
Another day when the tsunami of cases caused by reopening fails to hit the “overrun” hospital system.
How can this be?
You’ll be impressed to know that (essentially) none of the production from Australia’s only major onshore oil development goes into an Australian oil refinery. Almost all of the Moomba crude is exported to refineries in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
not at all. china has 5mgt warheads. Most likely, MIRVs would be lower yield. You can plot the explosions on various nuke scenario site such as https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
targets would like be airfields, military bases, possibly CBD. Many people would survive the blast.
From there it’s a matter of avoiding fallout, critically in the 1st 24hrs and then for at least 2 weeks. Radiation levels fall exponentially and after 2 weeks would be fairly low level. CBRN gear would make surviving this period relatively easy. A good geiger counter is essential.
Having a plan is key to survival. Water, food, shelter, self-defence, communications etc.
HBBear:
Yes, but most of us are going to die with our boots and pants on, mister Bear.
I bet less than 10,000 civilians in NSW, let alone the whole country have this.
The military may not even have enough for their rank & file.
Most likely case, one would think.
Also likely that the splinter party vote will recycle to the Liberals/LNP. Raising the prospect of a minority government: either Scummo, propped up by a couple of UAP/indies – or Albanese propped up by a couple of urban Greens.
Not sure which would be worse. Either would make emigration to Sudan look appealing.
Speaking of bets – struth, the bet is still on, if you are man enough.
By Jan 1, 2026, Australia’s population will not fall by 10% or more, by any cause; this is the bet, but it is an argument over people who have been “jabbed” dying in 18 – 48 months (you predicted 40-60%).
Payable in 500 1938 – 1943 Ram head design sterling silver Australian shillings of any quality by 1 Feb, 2026.
Since you reckon people who have been “jabbed” are “very likely to die” the next cold they get, are you still willing to take the bet?
Insh’allah, my brother.
three weeks ago the nsw ama president was issuing dire warnings about Perrottet’s modest road map amendments, ‘sky rocketing cases’, she said. Ho hum.
Dan is actually following the chinese gameplan via WHO
There will be no making jokes!
This thread will have your blood boil.
Got this weird email from Booktopia.
Is it a gift basket of clonazepam, cat litter and box wine?
Rip van Kelly, never knowingly right since … well, whenever. Lay down misere for the first visiting Professor position at The Peter van Wrongselen School of Wrongology.