My ego demanded I copy and paste this from the tail end of the last page, replying to Roger’s comment…
Open Thread- Mon 1 Nov 2021
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- From darkness to the promise of light
Why are Man City going shit all of a sudden? I like top shelf soccer. I don’t barrack for any…
Omit the last question mark
One of the “true believers” over on Andrew Bolt assuring us that the first act of the Whitlam Government, when…
An anecdote to support the “toxic female traits” comment: 25-y-o grandson today saw a late 30-ish woman struggling up steps…
That was my suspicion, so I gave it a test run. I lasted about 27 minutes before falling asleep. Awful.
I lasted about 27 minutes before falling asleep. Awful.
Not cliche enough for you?
ssr re numbers of vaccine adverse reactions:
Absolutely right. This is what dissenting OS immunologists etc have been saying for ages – in the past, the safety switch for vaccine candidates was activated at very low figures for problems.
Few seem to “get” that the current figures (almost certainly understated anyway) are screaming signals of a problem. But the fear psychosis & the wicked profit taking of Big Pharma has turned down the volume. A massive crime that will one day be writ large.
RockDoc
One euro country at a time isn’t a problem, but the EU will likely act as a bloc and it’s also very likely the UK will join them.
Carbon border taxes are coming and it’s going to be a huge bun fight. The best way out is not to die on a ditch but get moving with gen 3, or gen 4 reactors as soon as they become available. The only person who can destroy this carbon cabal is Trump or his alternate in 24. We’re too small.
I think we should name our first nuke submarine the HMAS Charles de Gaulle.
Followed by HMAS Charles Aznavour.
Then HMAS Edith Piaf.
Just got rejected over at the Oz:
Pretty sad this sort of thing happens. Bruce Pascoe’s so-called histories are another example.
Story: History dismembered: when facts make way for woke fiction
It was for putting a comment under the scathing review of ….
SBS series New Gold Mountain rewrites history, and short-changes the audience
By CATHERINE HANNEBERY
According to one of the promos, the SBS series, New Gold Mountain, is the “untold true story” involving a Chinese headman, Fook Shing, and the murder of a European woman in the Victorian colony during 1857.
The story rang quite a few bells for me.
The book about the real 1857 crime, The Chinawoman, was written by my husband, Ken Oldis, a criminal barrister who died in 2016. He spent a decade in the archives to unravel a perversion of colonial justice against two Chinese men. Blood was on many hands: English, Irish and Chinese. Corrupt police, a Chinese police agent and headman, Fook Shing, each played their part. The Chinawoman won a Victorian history award in 2009. It was commended for its unflinching account of this racially-charged miscarriage of justice. It delivered this grim chapter in Chinese-Australian history in the vehicle of a murder mystery.
A few years ago, a TV content developer contacted me, referred by an historian, on the basis that if the TV crowd wanted to adapt Shing’s story, it would be appropriate to discuss the project with me.
I heard from them only briefly. The reason they did not revert to me is now apparent. Somebody involved with this show has obviously decided to invent a better story.
The perplexing result is available on SBS for all to see.
There is much to say about what the series promises, and what it delivers. But the central problem is the ideological use of historical fiction. Egregious colonial misdeeds and racism are being presented in the form of entertainment and we are being invited to draw contemporary parallels. This series, in my view, poses questions about the use and abuse of history.
The risk with historical fiction has always been that Frankenstein’s creature is not supplied with labelled body-parts. We may never know the difference between fact and fiction. We may be seduced into feelings for the creature that we misconstrue as historical insight.
This series has blurred these boundaries and raised the stakes by applying itself to the subject of colonial racism with the aim of drawing contemporary resonances. With this, historical verity matters more than usual. So, for those curious about history, it is worth distilling the fact from fiction.
The true story that inspired this series concerned the robbery and murder of Sophia Lewis in 1857. During her life, she was derided more for her niche clientele of urbane Chinese men in Melbourne’s Chinatown, than the fact she sold sex. Her killers were presumed to be Chinese. This added fuel to populist anti-Chinese hysteria, coinciding with escalating tensions on the goldfields. As the manhunt moved to the goldfields, Chinese leaders continued to stonewall the police investigation. Ultimately, they decided upon damage control, cognisant of their campaign against a punitive new tax targeting Chinese residents.
The police, in turn, took the view that any two Chinese culprits would do. In this, they relied on the collaboration of headman, Fook Shing, and other Chinese conduits, to craft evidence and ensure convictions against two candidates. The police used circumstantial evidence about jewellery stolen from Sophia Lewis shore up the case.
One of the men hanged was innocent. A Chinese police agent and a duplicitous young Irishwoman were among the co-conspirators who got away. Another Chinese suspect escaped justice because of deals done with police behind closed doors. Voices of dissent came from criminal defence barristers, railing against the travesty of justice and advocating the cause of the accused men.
The biggest disconnect in the TV series lies between the visionary premise of viewing colonial history through an authentic Chinese lens and the insensible narrative dreamt up to deliver this. Rather than the gritty truth, or the intriguing Chinese men of flesh and blood involved in the real murder case, the producers have served up revisionist-western tropes and characters filled from central casting. A woke agenda has shifted the storytelling goals from truth-telling to wishful thinking — with glib prescriptions about who the villains and heroes need to be.
In a narrative reorganised along tribal lines, the Chinese characters are innocent of murder, merely victims of a terrible misunderstanding — the whodunnit turns upon a woman’s accidental death. The role of white colonisers is to be brutes — to wear their racism loudly and proudly.
There is no liminal space where the personal politics of assimilation were actually being played out. No criminal defence barristers agitating about the evils of racial prejudice, no Sophia Lewis, enamoured of Chinese men and culture, no English brides thumbing their noses at colonial society by choosing Chinese husbands, no Chinese Christians, anglicising their clothes and their priorities. Shing and his brotherhood’s bad behaviour is confined to internal ranks, so as to eliminate any doubt that this is a one-directional contest between good guys and bad colonisers.
The fictionalised story on screen undermines the producers’ conceit that they might be delivering us an important untold story. While it captures vividly the multicultural backbone of life in the frontier society and the goldrush’s hothousing effect on greed and ambition — beyond this, reality has been jettisoned. With Shing as the narrative’s pivot, the murder mystery is reinvented and backfilled with inclusive melodrama.
As the series frames itself as a revisionist-western, it doubles-down on mixed messaging. There are protagonists in period costume expressing 21st century ideas, alternately slicing or shooting each other up and talking about their feelings. By episode three, we are led to understand that inclusive community-based detective work will crack the murder case. We are reminded pointedly by fictional characters about their brave quests for truth.
This is what retro-fitted empowerment and agency look like for marginalised groups in expensive TV period drama.
In the final episode we are served up a blighted cross-cultural romance, accidental death and swallowed gold nuggets. Never mind the intelligence of the audience. Or history.
The real headman, Shing, was among the small number of Chinese outliers during the 1850s who married European women and decided to stay in the colony. He married his teenage English bride in 1857, the year this series takes place, signalling his evolving relationship with the colony.
In the series, Shing is positioned as the swaggering anti-hero of the revisionist western. His moral ambiguity is framed partly by family loyalty, though predominantly by personal greed. In truth, he was not so venal; the real Shing’s motives for grassing up his countrymen were more complex and interesting. He sold brothers down the river, though not for the money; and his brotherhood was a mutual assistance society, not a criminal racket.
The series strips complexity from the real Shing to deliver us an empowered TV hustler. Viewing him through the prism of western individualism, the series has misunderstood his dilemma as a man of his time and place — still shackled to the codes of collective brotherhood ties, dancing precariously with another world.
History teaches us that the truth is usually messy and that a reductionist approach is apt to mislead. People are rarely one thing, or the other; moral ambiguity is rooted as much in character as the times we live in.
Any number of the real women explored in Clare Wright’s groundbreaking work, The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, could have brought authenticity to the women on screen. Instead, a trio of fictional female protagonists exercise agency with a 21st century mien.
Apart from being highly idealised, the Aboriginal protagonist, Hattie, is given a role to play in a manhunt that exemplifies the sanitised storytelling on offer. Hattie takes the lead in tracking fictional white outlaws in a manhunt played out in the bush.
The climax of the real manhunt was a different sort of affair, targeting the Chinese fugitive, Hang Tzan, who had already escaped police with a nod and a wink from headman, Shing. Once the Chinese leaders gave their imprimatur to co-operate with the capture of the fugitive, Shing’s society haggled with Hang Tzan’s society over the price to facilitate his capture. This freed all Chinese on the goldfields to ferret him out.
Two hundred Chinese men participated in the hunt, vying for the Chinese reward of £100. He was discovered cowering under brushwood, bound with rope by his captors and led to Jackass Flat to be delivered over to the British.
Belle — the feisty, pioneering newspaper proprietor. Who knew? A woman wielder of multilingual editorial power and seeker of truth. Like all bad revisionist history and good conspiracy theories, there is a scintilla of truth.
Belle’s role model is Clara Seekamp, partner of Henry Seekamp, publisher of the Ballarat Times. Here was a woman who knew how to bolt, to act and to spin personal truths, at the same time as being a feisty and an outspoken progressive.
Henry — bolshie editorialist and champion boozer, was the only man to be jailed in the aftermath of the Eureka rebellion. He was our first editorial martyr — convicted for the criminal charge of seditious libel. During his time in jail, Clara took over the reins at the Seekamp masthead. Granted, some months at the helm is not nothing, but not quite the makings of newspaper maven or investigative journalist.
The series kills off Henry Seekamp’s screen persona because an iconoclastic white male is surplus to the story that needs telling.
The formidable character, Cheung Lei, has arrived with orders from her Triad overlord father in China to shake down Shing’s racket. Well, she might have, if Shing’s brotherhood was a criminal outfit, or if he was on the take, or if Chinese women were striding around the Victorian goldfields in unbound feet. But they were serving life sentences at the family hearth, forbidden by the patriarchs to sail abroad and mix with the great unwashed on foreign soils. On screen, as Cheung Lei jockeys for clan-sponsored power as proxy for her powerful father, we might be mistaken for watching a colonial adaptation of The Godfather or Crazy Rich Asians.
Arguably, the women of Imperial China had the edge over their European sisters in terms of systemic gender oppression during this period. Even if we debate whether European corsets were as bad as bound feet, this does not deliver Chinese mob boss-women onto the Victorian goldfields in the 1850s.
One of the most provocative acts of agency available to European women during the period was to marry Chinese men. These women were the mavericks, casting their vote against the drunken misogynists of European manhood in the colony. In the personal realm, this was marrying up, even if society sneered at their choices. Sophia Lewis had upped the stakes by monetising this provocation against the status quo.
Beyond competition for gold, the gender imbalance among Chinese immigrants in 1857 lies at the beating heart of European hostility toward Chinese men. The fact that Chinese men fraternised at all with European women provoked masculine outrage. The feverish anti-Chinese sentiment was a turf war about gold, sex and cultural otherness. And this was not a one-way battle.
As a case study for enduring themes about Chinese assimilation, the producers picked the wrong cohort to explore the putative theme of belonging. Nearly all Chinese miners during the 1850s wanted to get gold and get home, with no yearning to linger among the uncivilized rabble that passed for colonial society. They came to the colony in clan-sponsored syndicates without women because staying was not part of the plan. The colony was less of a dream destination, than the place where the newest Gold Mountain happened to be. In this, the series misses the point signalled by its own title.
The interesting story of assimilation during this decade belongs to the middlemen with a foothold in both Chinese and English worlds; the urbane Chinese entrepreneurs and Christian interpreters who decided to remain in the colony. These were the men striking deals behind closed doors that sent two of their countrymen to the gallows. They are the bellwethers of early struggles with assimilation into the hostile colony. Shing was one of these men testing out his appetite for personal compromise, a necessary tool of assimilation into a corrupt colonial society.
The genre of choice — the revisionist-western — has blunted any historical insight into xenophobia. We know that racism is toxic. What we didn’t know was how and why in the nascent colony there was something more than a tribal contest going on. The series avoids the cultural nuances about why some men, including a number of Chinese Christians, chose to collaborate with the colonisers against their own. The TV series has averted its gaze from this complicated question, although it was capable of being teased out in mature long-form television.
History as a discipline will always be constrained by its obligation to the evidence. In this, TV period drama parts company, having artistic licence to invent for dramatic purposes. Still, any claim to authenticity brings some duty to reflect historical realities. There is a line between balancing the historical ledger by bringing the Chinese perspective to the screen and delivering retributive justice through historical fiction. When that line is crossed, we get something more like science-fiction than history. History has never lent itself to retro-fitting; as the novelist L.P Hartley tells us in The Go Between, “the past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”.
The true events that inspired this miniseries concern lives lost by human calculation. This is the complicated issue requiring our attention. Modern agenda-setting will not take us there. Cultural literacy untethered from historical verity will not get us there. Is there any point to historical storytelling without being interested in what actually happened? The subject matter deserves something better than stilted melodrama in a concocted whodunnit.
Invention amounts to avoidance. Mature storytelling requires the nerve to tell it like it was, so we can try to understand the past. In the end, New Gold Mountain’s narrative slant has given us a refraction as unreliable as a carnival funfair mirror. This fictional mash-up aims not to teach, but to preach about 21st century preoccupations while masquerading with the authority of history.
The audience are none the wiser that a significant episode in Chinese-Australian history has been dismembered and re-purposed by TV content developers with an unreliable grasp on the material. When fictional drama is passed off as history to preach a narrative agenda rather than to teach us or to understand what happened, we are all in trouble.
The series has been promoted as a rebuttal of history written by victorious white men and also of whitewashed history. In fact, TV has finally caught up with the creative output of scholarly Australian history, cherrypicked the evidence and improvised. Without the painstaking work of historians in the archives, TV producers would have had nothing to inspire this recent foray into inclusive storytelling.
If only they would read more Australian history. And adapt it more faithfully. And respect the creative contributions of historians to the cultural landscape.
As for the flippant assertion that this series is a rebuke to “whitewashed history” this misuses the term’s proper application to the aboriginal dispossession. There is no moral equivalence between xenophobia and genocide.
The dogma behind the promotion of the series signals that the telling of history is better, or more authentic, when organised along tribal lines. This is a divisive and disingenuous approach.
The dark true story behind the tale spun in New Gold Mountain teaches us about colonial misdeeds and also what is peculiar and different about this period — Chinese immigration is shaped around family groups. As for the universal truths: on balance, justice is less rough now, the quotient of bent cops and miscarriages of justice is less egregious.
Some certainties emerge — over the last 150 years, the Chinese diaspora in Australia has been complex and still evolving — and society is always diminished by racism and its enabler, tribalism.
Catherine Hannebery is a Melbourne lawyer with an MA in History from the University of Melbourne.
New Gold Mountain is available to stream on SBS on Demand
Seems our Bruce is still a protected species.
Speaking of adverse inaction, time for my vax nap.
Getting better, but jeez.
Feeling m0nster level slothfulness.
Pix from some of my Grandkids Halloween celebrations ……
https://ibb.co/r6Zt8pv
Help me Kirk Sorensen.
Help me Kirk Sorensen you’re our only hope.
They’re supposedly very quiet.
How about HMAS Marcel Marceau?
Don’t forget Tin Tin either.
I thought the same thing on saturday at Bunnings when a Grandmother and young child met one of Gran’s friends. Puzzled look on child’s face, not fright but confusion. There’s going to be a large cohort with social problems due to lack of awareness of facial queues and that’s without crazy parents frightened by shadows.
HMAS Pepe Le Pew
HMAS Baguette
Enough with the subtlety.
HMAS Marshal Philippe Pétain.
HMAS Fromage Munching Surrender Monkey.
I think we should name our first nuke submarine the HMAS Charles de Gaulle.
Followed by HMAS Charles Aznavour.
What? Is HMAS cuisses de grenouilles not good enough for you?!?
Edith Piaf I can get behind. Er, I mean get on board.
Anyway!…
HMAS Pommes Frites.
With reference to Mel Brooks’ Silent Movie, NO!
HMAS Escargot
putt, putt, putt …
Nah, if you must call them something
French what about HMAS Fromelles, HMAS Poziers, HMAS Sommes, and HMAS Amiens, HMAS Menin Road should be the first subs off the slipway followed by HMAS Mers el Kebir 😉 and HMAS Nancy Wake
Would someone be so kind as to provide a link to Bosi’s prediction/threat of Armageddon?
Thank you in advance.
You cannot have a society where people do not see each other’s faces
I almost cancelled my trip to the out door markets yesterday with my youngest daughter when I realised it would be the 1st time in months I’d be in a crowded place .. but realised at 73 how ridiculous thinking like that is .. went and luvved the morning out .. No QR, NO vax cert. check, NO social distancing and NO masks just payz ya $2 and yer in .. LOL!
HMAS Alfred Dreyfus.
Hi Ted!!
Any cup tips for tomorrow.
He’s Belgian.
We don’t talk about Belgians. They’re Unhoopy (/ht Douglas Adams)
#Towels
Here ya go, Baba.
My bad. They do that to Poirot all the time too.
Virtue-signalling over substance is why Ardern’s not in Glasgow
HMAS Putain Francais
Then perhaps HMAS de Villeneuve and HMAS Villaret-Joyeuse
Has anyone posted Sheridan’s latest?
Weasels gunna weasel..
https://cols.dbca.wa.gov.au/external/proposal/1558
Large scale vaccination means that some people will experience a new illness or die within a few days or weeks of vaccination. These events are often coincidental, rather than being caused by the vaccine.
….
Since the beginning of the vaccine rollout to 24 October 2021, approximately 34.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered. The TGA has found 9 reports of death that were linked to immunisation from 629 reports received and reviewed. The overwhelming majority of deaths reported occurred in people aged 65 years and older. The deaths linked to immunisation occurred after the first dose of Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca) – 8 were TTS cases and one was a case of immune thrombocytopenia
Hmmm let see, do I think a government that has mandated a medical procedure on thousands of people against their will would scruple at outright lying to us as well??
callisays:
November 1, 2021 at 3:44 pm
Don’t forget Tin Tin either.
The author was Belgian. Perhaps HMAS OBELIX or HMAS ASTERIX?
Bosi would have rehearsed that speech so many times.
It’s a little sad he got the cold spoon so quickly.
Goodness no. Asterix was a Gaul who actually managed to repel an invader.
Wasn’t that one of Charles Aznavour’s greatest hits?
“Begin the Begone”.
Cartman : Goddamit Kyle, you have no standing.
@ Chris-
Sheridan’s assumption is that we will carry through on the increasingly silly insistence that the boats be built in Australia from the ground up.
The UK is currently still building Astutes. The US its Virginias. And the UK and US alike have a number of only mildly less capable Trafalgars and Los Angeles boats that are paid off and in limited use.
In fact, the RAN could lease half a dozen Flight II or III Los Angeles boats right now, and have them operating at full capacity within 18-24 months. If the will was there.
We might end up doing so anyway.
“Has anyone posted Sheridan’s latest?
Joe Biden’s betrayal more disturbing than Emmanuel Macron’s temper tantrum
GREG SHERIDAN
French President Emmanuel Macron’s accusation, on the sidelines of the G20 meeting, that Scott Morrison is a liar is of course ridiculous. Nonetheless there is substance in the French leader’s charge that Australia may not get a nuclear submarine in any relevant time frame.
And there is also substance in the charge that there is a certain reputational cost to the way the conventional submarine issue has been decided in Australia.
The real villain from Australia’s point of view, however, is not the tiny foot stamping, cheek puffing episode of Macron, but the really disappointing and much more damaging betrayal of Australia’s diplomatic interests by US president, Joe Biden.”
I can’t take Sheridan seriously. So what did he expect? I could tolerate Sheridan’s ruminations and ramblings if he hadn’t engaged in four years of hysterical Trump derangement and Trump bashing and had applied more objectivity towards Trump….but he didn’t. His ravings on Trump were a joke. I remember him writing a piece back in January or February of this year in which he waxed lyrical about Biden, Blinken and all the rest of the Demonrat scum.
The problem with Sheridan is that he’s a fair-weather friend. He just goes with the wind.
You have to hand it it Gillard.
Of all the former PM’s in Australian modern history, name one (apart from Harold Holt) that has kept their pie hole shut after they got boned.
HMAS Frog.
HMAS Nancy Wake will be permanently assigned to the North Sea, English Channel & Baltic Sea.
Thank you, Calli. So the reports of threatened Armageddon are an invention of the usual sneering impotent suspects.
Bosi presented a deadline to the magistrate. That is all.
Has anyone checked to see if Bosi has initiated any further action today?
HMAS Good Moaning
You mean like dying from sharkbite with a bit of covid in your blood doesn’t mean you died of covid?
That kind of coincidental?
HMAS Croak Monsieur.
Of all the former PM’s in Australian modern history, name one (apart from Harold Holt) that has kept their pie hole shut after they got boned.
Having your mouth stuffed with streams of OPM will do that too you.
Why have we donated to Clinton’s Foundation?
Why have Australian governments tipped money into Hillary Clinton’s Clinton Foundation? That it gave Julia Gillard a job and effectively a platform to now spruik Hillary Clinton for president shows just how this very dodgy Foundation works.
$300-$350 large from beyond blue would help..
https://www.beyondblue.org.au/docs/default-source/about-beyond-blue/annual-reports/beyond-blue-annual-highlights-2019-20-web-with-fins.pdf?sfvrsn=b62e4ceb_4
Please, Lilo don’t drop to your knees whenever Knuckles launches a late night zinger.
It makes normal people feel sort of dirty.
Hmmm…just tried to post a link about gay Frogs – and was rejected three times.
Obviously the new Cat filter…and I’d gotten used to being able to say “jewellery”.
Looking on the bright side of life if it wasn’t for lockdown I wouldn’t have found out what a fantastic Bloody Mary V8:Hot and Spicy makes.
Does this mean interest rates rising anytime soon??
https://www.reuters.com/business/australias-central-bank-loses-yield-control-bonds-melt-down-2021-10-29/
Bosi presented a deadline to the magistrate. That is all.
Happens all the time.
Move along, nothing to see.
In fact, it would be odd for someone disputing a fine not to give a deadline to the magistrate.
The consequences of a failure to repent to The People would be what exactly, Ted?
Yes.
He hasn’t.
His last posting was yesterday, 31st October (or Day Six, as we prefer to call it). A mutual admiration interview with some drone from two days beforehand.
So it was all just pompous posturing, comfortable in the knowledge that his acolytes have an attention span of well under six days.
HMAS Merde
not today they weren’t
today they decided that the eaves above my kitchen window was an nice place for a new nest.
too late, they’re dead Jim
Where does he post Panzer?
It’s not that sort of blog.
Thanks Calli,
I shall download Bosi’s diatribe to give to anyone I know defending themselves in court. That will free me from offering any other advice.
You sing, you dance, you die!
‘bern.
Here.
Maybe one new item every couple of weeks.
Very low energy.
Sort of like a well dressed version of the Furniture Store.
I cant wait for 20% interest rates again….
seems Bill Shorten thinks Dom is tiptop
Bosi should have kept the “you have no standing” ace up his sleeve for the appeal.
You don’t want to use all your ammo too soon.
I believe Pell saved “you have no standing” until his High Court appeal & it was the reason he got up 7-zip.
You might want to apprise them of the law of contempt and the attendant penalties.
Just so they know what they might be letting themselves in for.
YHNS.
Better than a ‘bra boy tatt.
The Abe I think I sound like.
…
The Abe other people hear.
Instead of writing JMJ at the top of each page, Bosi writes YHNS.
We used to write AMDG.
“All My Deeds for God”.
I got into deep shit from the nuns for writing “AMDS”.
“All My Deeds for Sancho”.
Cassie, your reading of Greg Sheridan matches my own reaction to his forays into American politics. I imagine his main squeeze must work for the ABC, and his all-too-disappointing columns are just trying to get domestic harmony for occasional play-time.
However in this article he at least has a crack at helping us mug punters get a scarily big reality in the pathetic stream of misinformation that passes for news.
Biden’s boundless ‘ability to f*** things up’… not at all Greg’s usual.
If you are going to go all prepper and live off the land, spraying bees is a top start.
🙂
BTW, Ted, thanks for breathing life into the Bosi-Armageddon thing again and taking it into a second week.
Well done you!
No worries, Lilo. Good luck with your quest for a nut sack of your own.
I’m on Harold Holt’s mailing list. Can’t say too much.
Sancho,
Has your vaccinated state affected your cognisance?
“That will free me from giving any other advice.”
Should I type slower for vaxxies?
Sheeeeesh.
No.
RBA says interest rates won’t increase until 2024 (1 Nov)
Yes. It went soft on him.
Not much use now.
You know, if Bosi wants to make a real dint in peterfile networks, he should run on a policy of cutting off government pensions to expat Aussie men living in Thailand, Vietnam and The Philippines.
I mean, it’s almost a dead cert that men who move to those places to retire are child violinists.
JMHsays:
November 1, 2021 at 3:20 pm
That’s about how far I got, before I realised I’d wasted a near half-hour that I was never going to get back.
No.
RBA says interest rates won’t increase until 2024 (1 Nov)
Bugger..
Pancho Johnson is right.
The RBA says a lot of things.
ANZ offering .2% interest on term deposits.
What’s better value?
A thermomix.
Or an air-flyer.
Interest rates.
This year’s “cash earnings” proxy for me is buybacks*.
Have piled into Woollies and CBA so far, and Westpac are next up at bat.
OK, they have around 80% scale-back and you do take the market risk for two months to collect, but it beats sitting on 0.2% cash rate.
.
* Helps to have a vehicle at 0% tax rate. It is marginal at tax rates of 15% or more.
Dogecoin.
To the moon.
This thread is a perience, and is expected to be so until the weekend when it becomes an experience.
Begone Nelson!
Your jokes are as bad as mine, and I shall brook no rivals!
I think that means YHNS, Nelson.
You lot make me proud to (sort of) know you!
got shot in the hind legs
And, in “No-one Saw This Coming” news:-
Of course, the rest of the world will sign some glib and meaningless agreement, but there will still be “growing calls” for Straya to “meet it’s commitments”.
My red hot tip for tomorrow … “International Pariah” to lead from start to finish, then do a Rocket Racer victory lap.
Unlike Rocket Racer, it won’t lay down and die at the end.
Chemicals, and where to buy them.
1. Herbicides. Not Bunnings.
2. Fertilisers. Not Bunnings.
3. Solvents. Not Bunnings.
4. Pool chemicals. Not Bunnings.
5. Alum for dye mordant. Not Bunnings.
5. Nitrate fertilisers. Not Bunnings.
How is it that everything they sell is cut with water, talc, sand or road dust, but 17.385% of my income goes to the fuckers?
Begone!
A grossly underutilised word.
Global ambitions for aggressive climate change action have been dealt a blow
Clearly some rat fucking going on.
In Sheridan’s world it’s quite realistic that the US signed up to AUKUS as casually as putting in an order at KFC. As you do.
No i’s dotted or t’s crossed.
Next.
And this means everyone – from France to China – now believes that Team Morrison somehow blindsided Team Depends and left Sloppy Joe in an awkward position.
And sufficiently annoyed about same to publicly whinge about Morrison’s awful perfidity.
In the real world, everyone in the international Great and Not-so-good will be experiencing a WTF moment at yet another example of Biden’s decline and the terrible weakness of the US Administration.
What’s his recommendation for naming French submarines?
Harold Holt wouldn’t be seen dead on a French submarine.
Tim Blair:
Nick Cater writes:
This graph produced by the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory shows that the carbon footprint of the average Australian is less than a quarter the size it was in 1860.
That’s not a typo by the way. Contrary to popular thinking, Australia has a considerably less carbon-intensive economy today than it did 160 years ago……
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/monday-noticeboard/news-story/46d42be051aa770cd24f5e5aa6d659f5
HMAS Mon Petit Chou.
As the Captain refers to the First Lieutenant whose pronouns are ….
If there are any adults left in the CIA, NSA and FBI… imagine how they are feeling about ‘their boy’ that they sold their integrity to install as President.
Or thinking it’s all going to plan.
is nepotism is good
Reward for a job well done. Nobody does legalised corruption as well as Australia.
Its easy to sneer at the frogs, but when you get into it that country has been hip deep in corpses and their ideas have helped create same elsewhere. The Leftist ‘non-bourgeois’ luxury beliefs status display of 1968 on is perhaps going to see our Western societies descend to that again, helped along by our universities being the poisoned well of Critical Everything Theory.
Yeah Cohn-Bendit: ‘we want everything and we want it now’. Spoilt trash.
We’re dying like flies, I tells ya!
McGowan says ‘COVID is rife, people are dying’ in Victoria, NSW (1 Nov)
Pestilent plague-states where no one will be left to bury the dead.
Chris says:
November 1, 2021 at 6:26 pm
If there are any adults left in the CIA, NSA and FBI… imagine how they are feeling about ‘their boy’ that they sold their integrity to install as President.
I think they’ll find they sold their souls when the Collector comes a’calling
HMAS Plastic Bertrand
Can plane pour moi?
Wood fires will tend to do that.
What was the population of Australia in 1860?
Half a million?
What was air pollution, water pollution, chemicals in the food supply like in 1860?
feelthebernsays:
November 1, 2021 at 6:10 pm
Global ambitions for aggressive climate change action have been dealt a blow
Clearly some rat fucking going on.
Please Bern..
In honor of the usage of the word Begone its now rat Begetting.
as in : clearly some rat begetting going on.
It is being said we got ourselves a Liar from the Shire.
Shirley not.
Kmart’s new woke ad has a bearded weirdo in a dress prancing around. That’ll connect with your average Kmarter. Fuckwits.
https://twitter.com/Joel_Agius1/status/1453998733004136448
Noam Chomsky: Starve the unvaxxed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w00Z–m9fMU
Oct 27, 2021
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
That won’t sell pie makers.
I see Carringbush footballer Gordon G Toey has been charged with a bunch of stuff by the NYPD.
Apparently he was granted a travel exemption for “training” (ie lifting 26 oz bottles of vodka and grabbing tits).
And also doing a promotional tour for Monster energy drinks. Because Gordon is such a celebrity within the energy drink guzzling community in the US.
OK, thin as it is, I’ll give you that one.
But how the fuck did his tattoo artist mate get an exemption?
(I assume he wasn’t already in the US).
Groogs you’re overthinking it. Take it easy little buddy.
I always drink Monster energy drink when I’m out on bail.
Heroin was a widely prescribed cough suppressant, there was arsenic in your hat. The coal smog could (and would) choke you the same way you personally choke logic and common sense, Grigory. And everyone tended to shit in the same rivers they drank from (Check out the London Cholera Epidemic of 1866, where John Snow was told he knew nothing, until he removed the handle of the single water pump in the centre of the affected neighbourhood and people stopped spraying themselves to death)…
“The label ‘Catholic’ has been gutted of it’s meaning.”
The Vortex — The Wheat and the Weeds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSpJaqzgHWY
Nov 1, 2021
Church Militant
He was just on Bolt’s saying Fatty Trump was as unhinged as Geriatric Joe.
And all that is before we mention fly-tipping in the streets and all the horse emissions…
You know what you suddenly don’t hear much about any more?
Dr Jill Biden.
Times were, you could hardly get from one international summit to another without drowning in selfie shots of her swotting up on emissions trading, crouching before kids with bouquets, tweaking holiday decorations… but at the mo, with her former employer the former Vice President having a busy autumn jetting and begetting amongst popes and prime ministers, and she’s no-where in the motorcade as far as I can tell.
He’s right, they’re both senile grifters.
He’s right about the subs too, even Mal Turnbull could tell you Australia doesn’t have a need for Nuclear Subs.
“New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet has flagged that the removal of the state’s remaining COVID-19 restrictions could be brought forward as vaccination rates continue to increase.”
ay 9news.com
“He was just on Bolt’s saying Fatty Trump was as unhinged as Geriatric Joe.”
Sheridan is a ponce.
You could go for a swim in the Brisbane River and see the sandy bottom in 1860.
Try that now, and you’d become a Case Study on Notifiable Diseases.
Sheridan is a complete fuckwit!
even Mal Turnbull could tell you Australia doesn’t have a need for Nuclear Subs.
/Sits back and appreciates a wrongologist, quoting a fucktard on an area they already showed complete wrongology on…
THE WHITE SUUUUUUB!!!!!
onya Dom!
The problem with Sheridan is that he’s a fair-weather friend. He just goes with the wind.
He was just on Bolt’s saying Fatty Trump was as unhinged as Geriatric Joe.
Just another old turd from the Oz like Kelly.
stfu, eat shit and die already you stupid old anarchist.
It’s a classic Bait & Switch
Having lied about the Vax takeup [ it’s nowhere near 80%] he opens up until Mortality increases sharply, then springs a Lockdown before Christmas and Legislates forced Vaxxing for the hesitant 20% [ which is likely closer to 60%].
Since no one’s got a clue on the real numbers, everyone goes along.
Shut up Grigory. ?
Actually, by the time any subs get built with the rate of emasculation of our armed forces HMAS Yoplait might get a run. After all, it will just be a container full of fruity, white goop…
Fuck Ray Hadley!
Let’s Go Alan!
On Oct 23rd, China’s legislative body passed a law announcing that the country is going to impose a property tax.
China’s real estate market is already sluggish. This adds another blow.
Ed Case
He’s right about the subs too, even Mal Turnbull could tell you Australia doesn’t have a need for Nuclear Subs.
Turdball’s total knowledge of submarines, nuclear and diesel/electric, could be written on a postage stamp using a whiteboard marker.
This is demonstrated by the now-cancelled Froggie contract.
Kelly has a point about Barnaby Joyce.
Since Joyce didn'[t support NetZero in Caucus, how is he going to sell it out in the Stcks?
The brave new world of unvaccinated people being banned from shopping centres feels less worse by the month.
Being a Zoomer, I drink it mowing my lawns on the ride on.
Ed Casesays:
November 1, 2021 at 7:50 pm
You could go for a swim in the Brisbane River and see the sandy bottom in 1860.
In which part of the river?
His contributions to linguistics are very mediocre, too. Altogether unimpressive, like so many intellectuals.
Yeronga reach.
I visit KMart exactly as often as their 5 pack boxer shorts last. Which is more often than I would like.
Noam Chomsky is in a bad way. Rational thought escapes him.
nice
always some wowsers
Chomsky’s linguistics was important – what with deep grammar vs surface grammar, and language acquisition vs language learning.
And still leave room for the 23rd Psalm.
This applies equally to his knowledge of both sandwiches and boats.
Current apparent temp in Perth on the last day of October 11.6 degrees C at 5pm. Paging Flim Flannery. Paging Flim Flannery.
And don’t forget to wear your mask .. it’s about staying healthy ! .. LOL!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1243541411556884480
Chilly today as well HB
Classifying someone as “queer” in this day and age?
interesting article, why are so backward?
#OneGrigOnly
let me count the ways in which she doth love herself enormously
My OT suggested I get one of those pendant alarms in case I have another stroke. I keep forgetting it is in my pants and set it off every time I throw them on the bed. You have a minute or so to deactivate it before WWIII or something.
Personal experience from at that time, Grigory?
Was it exciting when Queensland grew its first gypsum?
And what was Federation like?
And was there really arsenic in your hat? Actually, don’t answer that one- You are living proof ‘Mad as a Hatter’ is both a truism and a genuine trope…
#PhDinChronowrongology
Queer. Another word the poofs and trannies have completely debased. And they haven’t finished yet.
Awful cold in SW WA. I’ve spent the day burning heaps of trash in the paddocks- it’s now permit season, but there’s been literally, no suitable conditions for the last few weeks.
If October 2021 doesn’t get written in as the coldest and wettest on record… well, I won’t be surprised I suppose. But the wetness has hurt- the cold I can put up with, but making hay will be tricky to say the least.
And was Her Majesty’s Colonial Government of Queensland hell-bent on eradicating the Beef and Lamb industry at that time also?
And setting up multi-generational plot and scheme to screw with subsequent generations of Grigses?
He’s right, they’re both senile grifters.
He’s right about the subs too, even Mal Turnbull could tell you Australia doesn’t have a need for Nuclear Subs.
There it is, ed being a fucking idiot.
Rockdoctor:
You are most likely correct, RockDoctor. There is little so galling to the Brahmin Class as losing their baubles paid for by the sweat of the Peasantry.
Perusing thge Meatb % Livestock Australia [MLAQ] site today.
It’s an mNgo, which means we pay for ioyt.
MLA is right on board the Methane Reduction racket, so you can take whatever Scotty says on Methane with a pinch of salt.
Among the research MLA is doing:
feeding Beef Cattle winery waste to reduce Methane.
Yeah there’s no nutrition in it, but whaddya whaddya …
Feeding Beef Red Algae ]Technology yet to be invented]
Feeding Beef Nitrates. Yeah an excess causes Nitrate Poiisoning, but … Methane.
Feeding Dairy Cattle Wheat.
Yeah, it’s as stupid as it sounds, but think of The Methane.
What a week: Dark Matter disproved, possibly. And Pluto has mysterious atmosphere which expands when it shouldn’t.
And was there really arsenic in your hat? Actually, don’t answer that one- You are living proof ‘Mad as a Hatter’ is both a truism and a genuine trope…
I think the problem with hats was mercury, not arsenic.
If you actually fed cattle, Grigory, you might have something to think about complaining about…
Baba-ba-ba-bundyrum – your wish of 4.10 today is my command. The entire Bosi magnum opus, in all its glory. If put a gap in what he got to say, and what he didn’t:
(This is where he was hung up on)
Ah ha ha hahahaha haha cackle snort.
FMD- watching Scummo on Sky going through the timeline on his pissing contest with Micron. Whether or not we believe him the presstitutes are definitely on the cheese-eating surrender minkeys side.
*If put a gap* should be *I put a gap*, because I was laughing so hard typing it.
I think the problem with hats was mercury, not arsenic.
That sounds about right, but the point remains.
Maybe Grigory is the way he is because of 140 unbroken years of mainlining mercury, arsenic, potassium perchlorate, crystalline bath salt and his beloved gypsum…
Old Person on the piss alert:
Far be it from me to interfere with an Ed moment, but about thirty years ago an old couple assured me that you could see the channel from the Storey Bridge in the late 1930’s.
HMAS Agincourt.
HMAS Crecy.
HMAS Poitiers.
HMAS Moscow.
HMAS Trafalgar.
HMAS Waterloo.
HMAS Dien Bien Phu.
HMAS Blitzkrieg.
Biden leant on Scotty over the Good Subs, Scotty folded, now Biden say he doesn’t know why Scotty dudded the Froggies.
Ya gotta larf, it serves him right for being a bootkisser, meanwhile we’re getting some outdated American junk in about 40 years time.
HMAS Dog River, after where the 2nd AIF kicked some Vichy French arse.
Said the bloke who wants to execute people for ‘political warfare’.
The Story Bridge was opened in 1940.
Other than that, I wouldn’t be surprised.
They do this already, Grigory.
Ditto this. And olive hulls. They develop a unique taste, and it is deemed so nice that a few hundred grams of olive-fed wagyu steak commands prices in Japan almost on par with emriched uranium.
Perhaps you should poopoo less, and stop feeding your cattle on half-dead ryegrass and lawn cuttings one, Grigory…
bern:
He sends ‘despatches’ to everyone on his mailing list. I expressed a level of interest after his first sashays into A1 territory, waited for a year with no reply and thought they could go fuck themselves after that.
Just recently, and I mean in the last couple of months I’ve started to get these ‘despatches’ in the inbox. No red shoe catalogues as yet, but they can’t be far away.
Grigory is so cute when he is enraged.
Such a deliciously incompetent griefer.
#TrollPiñata
#uWu :3
whores and honeypots
The role of pretty women in officialdom of China and the world/Man successfully pretend to be woman
If you’re interested, I have a tunnel I would just looove to sell ya.
Cheques only, care of Les G. O’Brandin…
I don’t necessarily disagree with Bosi. In particular hHis opinion of Magistrates, likely shared by many of those who’ve seen Magistrates in action.
(Some of his other Catweazle style declarations, not so much)
I just don’t see how the heck this soaring oratory has an upside for him, either legally, politically, or personally.
stop feeding your cattle on half-dead ryegrass and lawn cuttings alone, Grigory…
Verdammt typos.
And feed your cattle better, Gypsum-snorter!
Part of the crew, foreigners, serving on contract?
It ain’t the quality of the argument that generates ‘da feelz,’ but the passionate vehemence in which they are delivered.
Rhetoric in its most basic form.
A bit late to the party Knobbles. Calli kindly posted a direct link hours ago. No mention of Armageddon.
PS: Dont wait up for a polish from Lilo. He’s indisposed.
In particular, I don’t see where this was going to get him when delivered via telephone.
It’d work better if delivered in person, during a cigars & whisky session at a wood-panelled gentleman’s club.
Breeding beef Cattle to have smaller Rumens, meaning less Methane
Nutrition section worth reading, the MLA.
is targetting “Obese Women”.
Also Beef is a good source of Iron and Zinc.
Graziers pay a Levy for this junk, there’s no way they’d get a cent otherwise.
Perhaps showing the Brittany tapes in the feedlots might help?
Nuts. It is shallow rubbish. If it said anything useful it would be used to improve those idiot chatbots. It hasn’t been. Real science has engineering consequences, pseudoscience doesn’t.
That Ed Case thinks that removing the reactor from a nuclear powered submarine, and replacing it with diesel and electric engines, and diesel tanks and vast banks of batteries would produce “good subs” demonstrates that he knows even less of the subject that Turdball.
Well, I suppose the intent was for it to be permanently recorded and entered into the Court’s records for posterity? *Thoughtful emoji*
Yes. Or as a soaring counter from the barricades to a messenger bearing a demand to surrender under a Flag of Truce.*
* Though I think Gen. Anthony Mcauliffe, commander of the US 101st Airborne positions as Bastogne in December 1944 said it best…
Dover, pls ban Ed Case.
Homer Paxton has used his account as a skinsuit to infiltrate the NewCat, and his grammarless, stream-of-unconsciousness retardation is starting to bring down the quality of discussion on this blog.
Better to wait until you’re in the High Court with the CLR surely?
Waiter, there’s a fly in my word salad.
Not really, ba-ba-bundy. I posted the original before the (soon-to-be-cut-off) phone call was made on 25 October.
No mention of Armageddon at all. Just some resultant questions from curious minds as to what exactly would happen after six days passed:
What happened? Was this an Obama ‘line in the sand’ moment? Six days has passed. Has there been repentance against the TyrAnnY? Where’s the ‘or what’?
What happens now, exactly? Who, oh who will tell the plebs what to do?