Open Thread- Mon 1 Nov 2021
2,962 responses to “Open Thread- Mon 1 Nov 2021”
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Zipster.
If you really want to know what triggered me to thinking about that topic (apart from the girl in WA), it originally crossed my mind a few weeks back when Sir Ron Brierley (although I think the “sir” might have been rescinded) got 14 months in jail for possession of thousands of child abuse images on his computer.
Arrested on his way to Fiji.
He is 84 years old.
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St Ruth – FFS, we are all (except for those who don’t like you or me speaking for them) very unhappy about the fascist idiocy we have been gifted with over the last 21 months.
Keep the powder dry, Squire. Do not don the red shoes. Do not slag off various commenters because you feel you can and it makes you feel good for a very short period of time.
Expending your energy abusing those who feel the same way about big stupid government as you do, is counter productive, man. 🙂
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Zipster.
If you really want to know what triggered me to thinking about that topic (apart from the girl in WA), it originally crossed my mind a few weeks back when Sir Ron Brierley (although I think the “sir” might have been rescinded) got 14 months in jail for possession of thousands of child abuse images on his computer.
Arrested on his way to Fiji.
He is 84 years old.
I’d hazard a guess that this is not a hobby he just took up in retirement.you might have noticed that they knew to look in his laptop. have you ever been asked to have your laptop or phone looked at by border officers? I bet the answer is no.
obviously they knew, so again there are systems in place to catch these people and they are pretty effective. so I don’t know why you are fixated on it.
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Sir Ron Brierley (although I think the “sir” might have been rescinded) got 14 months in jail for possession of thousands of child abuse images on his computer.
Arrested on his way to Fiji.Definitely a tip-off.
No way was his stop, & subsequent search of his USBs & hard drives a “random” stop.However, what am I missing here:
He was charged with having almost 50,000 images of solo children (i.e. no pairs of children & no other people in the photo) on his various USB/drives.
There were no images of children being abused, molested, or otherwise interfered with.
One, and only one (1) of those images was of a child with no clothes on.So why’d he get so long in the calaboose & such a stern barking at from the judge?
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err, on the subject of the Bosi.
He was a personage I presumed was a “mate” and was capable of low level incursions into big stupid braindead lamestream mass meeja shibboleths. To paraphrase, about the Croempverts: “I wouldn’t trust her to feed my dog”.
I’ve seen the man hold an audience on a figurative string, among gliberals such as the Yabbott, Molan and Craigo Kelly. The room was spellbound when the Bosi was expounding. He was the only one who gauged the mood in the room.
How he’s managed in the interim to fall off the flat edge of the earth, I have my hypotheses about. It may involve a certain loved one in his family. Which means we should stop squawking triumphantly and think about how happy we’d be if it happened to us.
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Frank Furedi | ‘The Kids Aren’t Alright’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S0hIB6D29c&ab_channel=JohnAnderson
Nov 5, 2021
John Anderson
John is joined by Frank Furedi, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, for a fascinatingly broad Direct interview.Frank unpacks where he thinks society has gone wrong – blindly focusing on ‘safety’, setting our children up to fail in various ways, replacing traditional morality, unduly growing the role of the state and much more. From Big Tech to universities to Covid-19, no topics are off-limits.
Frank Furedi is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent. He is the author of 25 books, including most recently ‘100 Years of Identity Crisis: Culture War Over Socialisation’. He regularly comments on radio and TV in the UK, and has been interviewed by the media in Australia, Canada, the United States, Poland, Holland, Belgium and Germany.
A long-time friend of the program, Frank was one of John’s earliest
Conversations guests, first appearing on the show in April 2018.
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00:00 Intro
00:26 Introducing Frank Furedi
01:45 Moral engineering
03:05 The state replacing parents
06:34 Understanding gender dysphoria
08:08 The identity problem
11:04 Introduction to ‘Scientism’
14:58 Sidelining morality
21:30 The ‘morality’ of Big Tech
25:44 Class divides through Covid
28:40 The crusade against the past
33:11 Preserving ancient wisdom
36:44 Poor mental health among children
39:57 The medicalisation of ordinary experiences
43:30 Safety as a moral norm
48:04 Politics and public health
53:06 Legislating away problems?
55:56 Solving the problems our youth face
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Ah, where did you get that “harmless images” from Sal?
Stop the sophistry.
Then consult an optician.
I wrote “images of .. children” – This is not the same meaning as harmless images.Do you think he got 14 months for possession of grade six school photos?
No. However I struggle with what it was about the images got him thrown into the Ironbar Motel + such a rebuke from Hizzoner.
I am mindful that a great pile of the charges (or evidence) against Rolf Harris was “thousands of images of women, found on his computer”
Turns out that’s exactly what they were, images of women. The charges were bullshit, withdrawn at the commencement of the trial, coz there was nothing suss about the images, & they were mentioned with ominous overtones & “possibly” of children, purely to taint the jurors minds.
I acutely conscious of the depravity & evil of the legal profession, & the wanton indifference of the judicial fraternity.
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How he’s managed in the interim to fall off the flat edge of the earth, I have my hypotheses about. It may involve a certain loved one in his family. Which means we should stop squawking triumphantly and think about how happy we’d be if it happened to us.
If he was Jack from accounts payable, maybe so.
But when you aspire to high office you can expect scrutiny.
And, of late, he has failed under that scrutiny.
So, if he allows another batshit crazy monologue to fall from his lips, expect it to be pulled to bits.
FFS, we have all had stresses in our lives without resorting to that SovCit lunacy. -
Daily Mail.
Man’s penis rots after being bitten by a COBRA while sitting on the toilet during a safari tour in South Africa
Man from Netherlands bit in nether regions by a cobra while on an African safari
Bite left man with rotting flesh in his penis, requiring reconstructive surgery
Medics advise ‘always flushing’ before using toilet in venomous snake hotspots -
Martini, Ratzinger, Kasper, Bergoglio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4zsEJGoomA
Nov 5, 2021
Church Militant -
Lead me away … 🙂
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Can You Pass This 1895 8th-Grade Exam? Not with Your Modern Public School Indoctrination
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uO9V6R3_7E
Nov 5, 2021
Bill WhittleAn 1895 8th-grade exam from Salina, Kansas, provides vivid illustration of how far our schools have descended from “the 3 Rs” of reading, writing and arithmetic, to three very different R-words. Bill Whittle explains the consequences of re-focusing schools on indoctrination, an investment of learning time which holds little to no value in the marketplace. He adds a fourth R.
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We’ve had too many elected to the Senate in recent years wearing a cloak of conservatism who have either been abject disappointments (Jacqui-Jackie
From memory, Jacquie Lambie was elected to the Senate as a member of Clive Palmer’s Traveling Circus.
She resigned from that party, to sit as an independent. That’s when the by – election for her seat should have been called… -
But what a burden you and family have with what certainly seems to be an inherited predisposition to inflammatory bowel conditions. I know what incredible discomfort they can cause & how difficult they are to get back under control. My very great sympathy.
Thanks, Vicki. Thankfully, it’s not the dreaded Crohn’s Disease, nor any unspecified Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) with me though, nor any parasitic hangover from travels or fruit trees (parasitology is what we used in the MPH to call the last resort of the diagnostically desperate, lol). It’s definitely a specific focal infection for each instance, can be palpated abdominally when at its peak, and is curable for a given attack with an antibiotic (different types can be trialled, including those that work against anaerobic bacteria). I could go for many years without an attack, then out of the blue another would happen. Without antibiotics is when it gets difficult, as the inflammatory response kicks in and generalises. It can also be masked by a recurring Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) such as I got in hospital this year thanks to incompetent catheter nursing. Getting antibiotics was usually no problem while my Big Sis was still practicing medicine, for I’d call her for a script and thus it was done and dusted. She’s retired now though and doesn’t keep up a Provider Number nor medical insurance.
Without my sweet ‘well woman’ gynaecologist, who extended her whole person view beyond her remit to diferentially diagnose and treat me and who will ensure I get appropriately referred, I think I might have gone under this time. Youse all may have noted a few depressive comments, if so, sorry ’bout that. I said to Hairy tonight I thought a few times I was on my way out, and he replied you think I didn’t think that and had to do something.
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The Director’s rego number is no biggy.
It is basically to stop shonky dickheads walking away from the wreckage leaving creditors and employees high and dry and setting up another company again in the same business under a tweaked variant of their name.
Really not much different to a TFN or ABN/ACN.yeah?
it’s just a vax
it’s just a passport
it’s just a director’s rego
it’s just a gag
it’s just a blindfold
it’s just a firing squad
it’s just to stop people saying things
it’s just a tax
it’s just compliance
it’s just about principles
it’s just probity
it’s for your own good
it’s for the greater good
it’s just a centralised database
it’s just a primary key
it’s just a queryChesterton’s database
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Going off reservation doesn’t count.
It should. If you resign from the party you were a member of at the time of election, the seat should stay vacant till the next Senate or half Senate election. I don’t think you would see it happen too often, certainly not amongst people with fewer job prospects than Emma Alberscreechi.
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We’ve had too many elected to the Senate in recent years wearing a cloak of conservatism who have either been abject disappointments (Jacqui-Jackie) or deadweights (Bernardi).
We can’t afford any more.A two headed personage* in Taxmania has eight times my vote in New South Corruptistan.
*If they both manage to mark the ballot correctlee.
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Youse all may have noted a few depressive comments, if so, sorry ’bout that. I said to Hairy tonight I thought a few times I was on my way out, and he replied you think I didn’t think that and had to do something.
LizzieB, this is the Cat. No-one ever bleeds alone. All the best for a full recovery.
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The Director’s rego number is no biggy.
It is basically to stop shonky dickheads walking away from the wreckage leaving creditors and employees high and dry and setting up another company again in the same business under a tweaked variant of their name.
Really not much different to a TFN or ABN/ACN.It is just yet more industry capture. All large corporations benefit. Competition is being killed off.
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an inherited predisposition to inflammatory bowel conditions
To exist on this planet is to be blessed with “inflammatory bowel conditions” when contemplating those that think they have some right to rule over us.
Enough. Get those tumbrils a’ rollin’, I tells ya! 🙂
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The pre-antibiotic days must have been hell on wheels. Various forms of gut inflammation took a lot of people out – armies were particularly prone to epidemic dysentries. Longshanks comes to mind as one of those felled by dysentry. Then obstructive gut infections and disorders, such as mine, or appendicitis.
Then we move to the top half of the body – the liver, heart and lungs. Full of bugs thriving in conditions of poor human nutrition and sanitation. Even without zoonotic introduced epidemic diseases. The immune system struggling to keep up and so often not making it at least but making survivors stronger. Not to mention issues with the bones, circulatory system and specially the head. So much to go wrong.
After that, you could of course just go mad.
I’m glad to day we have modern medicine and dentistry. And quite a few competent doctors even though you might have to take trouble to seek them out.
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srr:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uO9V6R3_7E
The most unused resource we have available in the modern world is the generation who have retired.
They have skills, knowledge of what works and what doesn’t, and they are slowly dying, of loneliness and grief, as ignorant graduates of the Marxist systems of social deconstruction teach our children how to view the world through a distorted prism of politics.
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