By the way, the Russian bot, Wally the Armchair Warlord, was caught lying again. Just straight out making shit up.…
Open Thread – Weekend 6 Nov 2021
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- The Radio Show May 2024 – The Fifties
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- Bumtree #5
- The beach which banned vanilla ice cream
calli May 6, 2024 1:17 am Good afternoon from Barcelona. Nearly didn’t make it. Thanks for that calli, I hope…
And…I’ve just received a generic apology from BA for the delayed flight. Ahhhh…Heathrow. 😀
I don’t live in the other countries, I live in the West. No one’s asking you to move there. You…
So you’re saying there is no problem with the transparency law? That’s not what I said. Where is this poll…
The frangipani rust will not win this year. I’m going to start treating it early.
That is my vow, hand on heart.
Yes, Calli, stix is not infallible. But when he’s right he’s right.
Indeed, Leave it to the experts like me.
Another one joins the theological discussion.
Actually, big turnout at Melb protest. Massive.
Hmmmm. A yellow M&M thinks he can read minds over the internet.
Stranger things have happened I guess.
We need Our Man On The Spot reportage, Dover. Don’t let us down! 🙂
That feeling of impotence in middle aged men when they realise they barely control their own household, much less the wider world, is something to behold.
I see the white knights for van driver (ret’d) have arrived.
Dover, it’s not on the corporate media’s networks so it must not be happening @sarc.
Rukshan has it on FB but taking forever to load.
Is this going to be every Saturday in Melbourne?
A yellow M&M that identifies with Dexter, calli.
Johanna, Bear,
thanks for the advice, appreciated. The only trees and plants I will be rid of are the already dying, struggling and obviously diseased. Also the stuff that is not particularly special which is stopping any light from getting into the house, and which is sending bad roots under the house.
The house is pre-war, foot thick sand stock which has been rendered. Because it is so old, the windows aren’t the huge ones I am used to. I like a lot of natural light in any house I live in. Also, not a good idea to have your house surrounded by combustible material if you are in the path of a bushfire. I will be one of only two occupants on my road which is approximately 7 kilometres end to end. No near neighbours!
Are White Knights still 5 cents?
…Right up to the point where he says something you disagree with.
Rukshan.
They’ll be sorry when they get arse cancer.
Not cancelled cos rayciss?
lotocotisays:
November 6, 2021 at 10:06 am
Anyone looking for a kit home?
Bonus: Arthur Wellesley’s gaff
Bah, I could get a lovely little flat near Sydney for that much!.
beware the cosmic windscreen
I was going to post on this morning but I got caught up in with the Aaron Rodgers news.
Early this morning I tuned into a presentation from an independent research house based out of Florida which was discussing the elections.
They had a guy on with a different view on what happened across the country which on every metric was a resounding win for the GOP.
They reckoned that while education was a big issue for some people in Virginia (& elsewhere), they reckon it was energy prices that caused it.
And we’re not talking about the cost of filing up the car (which is obscene).
We’re talking the cost to heat/cool your home.
They reckon residential energy costs are up 85% year on year.
And while home owners are doing well, stock holders are doing well & even the crypto wealth effect is understated amongst young people, that’s not doing anything for household cashflow (unless you sell).
With minimal wage growth, household cashflows are getting destroyed because of energy prices.
This flies in the face of the net household saving surge that was seen during 2020.
This is different to any view that’s being promoted by the media.
It’s even different from what that tech nerd that Viva & Barnes use.
That’s why I’ll add the chap to who I follow to see what else he comes up with.
All things FB at the work network are blocked.
This not unusual. Why do people persist with FB?
Silly question, who is the speaker on the Real Rukshan feed now? Face looks very familiar.
Yeah na got some beared dude on now. I am having no problems with facebook today despite not having an account.
The tech nerd (the People’s Pundit) from the Viva Barnes universe said on the live stream from yesterday that New Jersey was the only state in 2012 (apart from Hawaii) that increased their vote for Obama over 2008.
The fact that Murphy had a run for his money & that education wasn’t really an issue in New Jersey makes me think the energy story was a real factor.
Also, from this morning’s presentation, Virginia has the lowest number of people per household in the US.
That is, less kids.
So that’s why the chap this morning was saying that sure it was a factor, but if you don’t have kids in school, it ranked lower or not at all.
I am now in partial compliance with a law designed to hide Sneakers’ failures to properly fund and competently run the WA Health Service.
#Let’sGoMark!
Grizzly or Kodiak?
Thx Dover
Am heading in. I’ll be wearing a hat and sunglasses. Quietly seething.
Grizzly or Kodiak?
LOL, def Mr Adams and not the bear.
I think the footage of Biden’s energy secretary cackling when asked about energy prices was possibly the most tone deaf thing so far in 2021.
Even bigger than the blah-blah fest in Scotland this week.
Biden’s over there talking about “green” energy.
The punters back in the US are worried about heating their home this winter.
Sneakers runs the health system the way I used to run my car.
So Sancho Panther (I speak Spanish) you’ve had your Weinstein moment too. Its no good bitching about it after the fact. You were a whore at the beginning.
Energy costs matter when freezing to death is a real possibility.
I see you have the obligatory police helicopter hovering.
Why do they give the mic to hysterics? Please, please have someone sensible and able to address the public properly, rather than screechy women! A non-screechy woman would do, of course.
Cali have now zapped it. The first guy I watched had the passion right.
Why do hysterics always snatch the mic?
Winston Smithsays:
November 6, 2021 at 12:35 pm
You have not done it right.
There are zero frangipani at that link. My disappointment is 20/10.
(I’ve seen that page before, someone linked it to me IRL a year or two back)
You can pry the microphone from cold dead thingamee.
You can pry the microphone from MY cold dead thingamee.
A symbol of white supremacy, colonial imperialism and religious conquest still on sale?
I doubt it.
Another new case for the NT.
We’ve had it!
We talked about this last week.
Yes, yes, I know.
The filthy media will spin it every which way.
But FFS, don’t hand it to them on a plate by giving the mic to a 5G, nano wriggler, organic-metallic Bluetooth in my blood fucking moron.
I’ve never seen a more uncaring response laced with lies. OPEC does NOT control the price of gas. The US is the largest producer in the world.
But think of this too….
A stupid crass bint, close to the top of the administration in political control of the US, is stating publicly that a bunch of camel jockeys run US energy policy. And this after the administration has locked down domestic energy production.
Yes, this is a big one. By my estimate, twice the numbers of any previous one (and I’ve been to every big one so far). I eventually had to leave because the crowd’s simply too big and tight to be safe in. It’s a big, happy, fun crowd, but it’s quite a crush in the middle of it all.
There’s a bit of a different vibe today. Past events have been more about individual rights; this time, it seems there are more people concerned about having the kung flu ‘vaccine’ forced on kids. I think the government may have finally tried one bridge too far.
Sadly, the organisers still haven’t learned how to manage public speakers. There were two capable blokes, a few good solid musicians, and the rest of them are useless. Shrill, incoherent and incomprehensible = fail. And, as others have pointed out, the usual irrelevant causers have shown up to hijack the event. Either the organisers are dimwits, or are in on it.
Also, more proof today that these things only turn violent when the police turn violent.
I am on a 6 day twitter suspension for saying fauci deserves a firing squad.
twitter is a fascist shithole
It’s time for Dan the Deathpickable to send in the goons.
Rubber bullets, water cannons. The works.
The use of deadly force is not only approved by Dan. It makes our dear leader happy.
Am near the edges of the protest. Poor audio difficult to hear. I think she said ‘blessed are the cheesemakers.’
Try replacing them with cherry blossom trees, the scent when they bloom is sublime and when the petals begin to fall is a delight to see.
Whats it to you big nose.
Unleash the turtles!
I got booted from twatter for calling someone a kiddy fiddler.
Happy memories
blessed are the Greeks
Can anyone suss out if the protest is going to be a regular thing?
I am out a Rancho Sancho this weekend but will be a City Slicker for the next two weekends.
Planets and their moons found to have harmonic relationships.
Mathematicians’ interpretation:
Planets Spirographs
“Tracing the Mid point of two planets.
Used GeoGebra.org calculator to trace the paths of the planets.”
Geez there should have been a screechie warning.
I am on a 6 day twitter suspension for saying fauci deserves a firing squad // I got booted from twatter for calling someone a kiddy fiddler.
Describing Fiona Patten as Dan Andrews’ whore drew a similar suspension.
Whoa!
That will cost if you get someone in to do it.
Sancho’s first rule of tree felling.
If I can’t get my arms around it, call a tree feller fellah.
Well, you really shouldn’t throw those sort of allegations around willy-nilly.
Hope things are a bit better for you Arky.
Finally a good chant I understand
‘FK Dan Andrews!’
Repeat
Zipstersays:
November 6, 2021 at 1:57 pm
I am on a 6 day twitter suspension for saying fauci deserves a firing squad.
Should have instead voted for making him the director on Alec Baldwinds remake of “the wild bunch”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ysVoV3x5Zo
Was it because you forgot the “alleged” word?
Fair Shake, I couldn’t watch it any longer.
Why? Because getting people to repeat the lyrics of a song makes them look like mindless drones and me feel like an idiot for listening. Just stop.
These are not serious people. But their cause is.
Let’s Go DanDon!
The talents of Rembrandt but look at his left hand, which is actually his right, painted from a mirror. Why are so many artists no good at hands? Still I wouldn’t complain if I had it.
The image of Dan banging Fiona is most ugly.
You deserve a long ban areff.
I am on a 6 day twitter suspension for saying fauci deserves a firing squad.
twitter is a fascist shithole
No, you have to be precise. Fauci, the twisted little dwarf he is would only require .22s to do the job. However by just saying firing squad people may think you were advocating 308s or something bigger which would be a waste.
I’d rather get shot in tha back with rubber bullets than listen to that screeching.
Sancho’s first rule of tree felling.
If I can’t get my arms around it, call a tree feller fellah.
Pooftah.
What you do is buy a cheap bunnings chainsaw too small for the job, lie to the cherry picker hire bloke you have work at heights/have used on before then go tackle the 20m high gum on the sandy slope in the front yard.
In 1/2 a day you will either have the thing down (protip: try not to drop big branches on the cherrypicker arm as life gets exciting) or you will be seriously injured or dead.
In my defense I wasn’t working as a safety advisor at that particular time.
Nancy Pelosi Holds Press Briefing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKZPPadvvjA
wuss.
I have seen ninety y.o. climb 9 meter gum and prune it to fence height using a “man’s” chainsaw.
Bloody hell. My main computer (IMAC) has been misbehaving ever since we brought it up to the farm (clearly a city computer!). Now it has chucked a wobble- so am reduced to using MacBook or iPad – neither of which are ideal for the the many applications I use.
Trouble is – neither husband nor I are vaxxed – & I don’t anticipate regional town computer geeks will consult with us if we bring IMAC in. Good old car mechanics are different breed – husband took cylinder head off ute yesterday to be reconditioned – no trouble.
This medical apartheid is infuriating. But then, that is what it is designed to do.
BTW consulted a computer geek by phone through the well known chain – was a waste of time. After 2 hours on FaceTime & Indian consultant eating a sandwich & talking to wife & kids, we called it a day & refused to pay the bill – since we received absolutely no benefit after 2 hours.
Received an email from George Christianson today – warning that our lives are going to become completely digitalised – aren’t they already????
Door-to-Door vaccinations in QLD!
Believe it or not.
Oh, it will always come down.
Where it comes down is the great lumberjack roulette.
Sancho’s second rule of tree felling.
Measure highness of tree using laser level and mathematics.
If highness of tree is not less than distance to house then get a man in.
I don’t care what gear he has got as long as he has insurance.
Warning Graphic – Women with a coagulated nose bleed from the vax. Watch at your own risk.
Does rather speak for itself.
Psays:
November 6, 2021 at 2:29 pm
Nancy Pelosi Holds Press Briefing
Thas neat vodka, not water shes skulling there…
Nancy has caught Joes Brainworms.
Vax works as intended. Teenager dies immediately after getting vaccinated.
Actually, most tree feller fellahs use the smallest saw they can for the limb lopping bit.
Lightness and manouverability are the features for that part of the job.
Sancho’s second rule of tree felling.
Julian Clary being bummed by Elton John to a Celine Dion soundtrack level gaaaaay…
Secret is dont drop it all at once.
Lots of lopping, lopping, lopping in 2m chunks.
Hah. This guy had massive arms and held the FBC in one hand.
Obviously a good man. He smokes cigars.
Mole Johnson is right.
All this talk of cherry pickers and chainsaws…
All you need to fell a tree is a bunch of young infantrymen…
The Strange Orbit of Earth’s Second Moon (plus The Planets) – Numberphile
Yeah, it’s totally macho to destroy your house without insurance.
Last tree I knocked over was a blackwood in the yard.
It was dead straight and pretty much perfectly symmetrical.
I put a garden stake in the ground 15 metres away and said “It’s going there”.
Crash!
Totally flattened the garden stake dead centre.
Mrs Panzer was convinced I possessed some sort of lumberjack black magic.
No.
Just a Stihl, three good wedges and a sledgehammer.
You can spend a whole afternoon watching tree-felling fuck ups on YouTube.
Social Engineering in TV Commercials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQWlgFYeXlk&ab_channel=PaulJosephWatson
Nov 6, 2021
Paul Joseph Watson
The product is you.
Sancho.
You may have noticed any mention of intelligence as one of my manly, manly virtues was missing.
There is probably a reason for that.
Home lumberjacking stuffups are awesome, as long as they are someone elses.
Vax-nap time.
Later.
Man’s gotta know his limitations.
And a bit of knowledge of gravity helps.
PEACEFUL NONCOMPLIANCE WORKS
Simeon Boikov’s interview with Craig Kelly yesterday was very interesting.
The UAP is now the largest political party in Australia with 75,000 members, and they are expecting that to rise to around 100,000 by the end of the year. That’s a lot of dedicated people to man the polling booths, distribute pamphlets, and scrutinise the counting of the votes.
What was particularly interesting was that the UAP will preference votes on a “put the sitting member last” policy. Given the anger out there in the electorate, the UAP should come in at least third in every electorate, and their preferences will tip the sitting member, be they LNP or ALP, out of the House.
So Federal Parliament in 2022 will be a very interesting place to visit. It will be filled with fresh-faced mongs wandering around wondering how they ended up there.
United Australia Party Leader Craig Kelly and Aussie Cossack LIVE
BOMBSHELL: New York Times, FBI Confirm Legitimacy of Ashley Biden Diary Published by National File
Try that link again….
United Australia Party Leader Craig Kelly and Aussie Cossack LIVE
Can’t wait.
It’ll be a change from it being filled with trough-fed mongs wandering around wondering how they can get their snout deeper into the trough & all the while casually and callously upending the lives and life’s work of productive citizens.
JC
A stupid crass bint, close to the top of the administration in political control of the US, is stating publicly that a bunch of camel jockeys run US energy policy. And this after the administration has locked down domestic energy production.
Maybe the camel jockeys do – was there 10% for the Big Guy if he locked down domestic US production?
Salvatore:
Bugger.
I’ve got two replies from friends – would that be a problem?
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How about this one?
I am quite tired# of the moving of goalposts and the Humpty Dumpty language of the fascists running this shamdemic.
(# very very angry. )
How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented
Veritasium
Epic Maths Duel
Solving a 4,000 year old Maths problem.
Transgender in 1 Hour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McVMYDt74p4&ab_channel=ThePodcastoftheLotusEaters
Nov 6, 2021
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
Test here again.
Indolent:
Cool!
I watched it a few times to see if there was a brain bit coming out, but you have to put it on super slow motion to see it.
..and a really big screen.
“You’d think so. I made the mistake of buying a Meyer lemon and a Tahitian lime on dwarf “dragon” rootstock. Never again. Complete failures.”
Best to try and do as much as possible directly from the seed. Its more of a hassle at first. But you learn more. And you don’t have much in the way of downside risk.
This guy has connected all the dots, and there are many more like him out there!
A random person in a demonstration in Ireland states the case clearly in two minutes.
Nature Strip at $1.30 for the big sprint.
Winston Smithsays:
November 6, 2021 at 3:18 pm
“Sorry, that content not available at this time”
It would seem the Frangipani are too shy to allow themselves to be exposed in public.
Know your Parasites
Our own parasite
Just flipped through Kiwi Blog. IMO no matter how stuffed we are have a look at NZ.
Only reason I went there is that I saw a really bitchy response to questions horse face didn’t like online. She really is a nasty piece of work, wow. :astonished_face:
I don’t think it’s any different here. Rule of law has been thrown out the window.
Busy, busy , busy. The bar , the rooms , all bustling busy and not a moment to spare. 🙂
Fresh from victory last month in Sydney’s recently invented pop-up gimmick, the $15 million Everest, Nature Strip (J: James McDonald; T: C. Waller) easily wins the Group 1 Darley Sprint Classic ($2 million, 1200m) at Flemington at 30% bank interest ($1.30 or 3/1- on) in 1.08.78, just outside the track record of 1.07.32 – disappointing when the track was dry and fast and horses had a northerly tailwind down the straight.
The legend grows.
Creeping Compliance Eventually Lead to Complicity
Hard to argue with.
Please watch Krystal Ball and Sagar Enjeeti on Joe Rogan.
They really call out Fauci and the government – academic funding complex.
I was quite surprised. I think I have misread them. The Hill is a bit sensationalist.
On Rogan they came across as well informed and upstanding.
Vickisays:
November 6, 2021 at 2:33 pm
Dont know what state you are in but in NSW shops that sell office supplies and repair mobile phones are open to unvaccinated….my local computer repair shop does all of the above and I have had no trouble using their computer repair service in the last week.
In Victoria all retail is currently open to unvaccinated until 24th Nov, when unvaccinated will be locked out……work that one out if you can !!
“Unaccompanied minor” facing serious jail time.
https://nypost.com/2021/11/04/illegal-immigrant-who-posed-as-teen-arraigned-in-florida-murder/
Good analysis of the Ames room illusion. It probably explains why a large proportion of the population are witless lefties.
Awesome day today. So many of us there! Thousands and thousands of us. The cops were not bothering anyone despite their stony glares. Female cops are the worst.
Text from a friend before. Him & mrs both double vaxed, he was all excited recently about going to Thailand possibly over the upcoming break.
His mrs put kybosh on apparently (hence the bitch I got). Have mentioned her before, she’s from a border region of Sa Kaew Province. Apparently all foreigners over there are being very careful in bigger centres let alone poorly protected border areas. Crime and kidnapping risk cited. 2 years of no tourism people are getting desperate, especially crime gangs.
The siht these lockdowns have caused is unconscionable and will have repercussions for years. I personally wonder whether we will see another David Wilson incident in that region at the start of any opening.
Krystal Ball is a real sweety. But she’s got to get that titty enhancement cream. She just needs a couple more inches. I’m not saying she needs to be like the great songwriter Dolly Parton. But two more inches of titty would do it.
Carpe,
“Try replacing them with cherry blossom trees, the scent when they bloom is sublime and when the petals begin to fall is a delight to see.”
I adore Cherry Blossoms. Especially when they have created a huge canopy for picnicking under.
Sancho,
“Whoa!
That will cost if you get someone in to do it.
Sancho’s first rule of tree felling.
If I can’t get my arms around it, call a tree feller fellah.”
I am going to bring in the loppers. I can only take down saplings myself. I have had so many body parts replaced, rebuilt etc, I feel like the Bionic Woman. I will have them down over several years. First will be to strip the trunks up to five metres, mulch that, then take the top several metres off, mulch that. The trees will die over the next couple of years and I will be able to have them cut down a little more each year until they are gone. Even if I could afford it, the job would be too huge in one go and there would be nowhere to dump the timber. It would probably cover half an acre or more. There are about thirty trees. Bonus, lots of firewood!
To those that have been in moderation, sorry, I’ve only just got home.
For the militarily inclined, this popped up in my YouTube feed https://youtu.be/Ut_etrhSZlk
Some interesting battlefields in the list https://battleguide.co.uk/shop/ I have not subscribed and cannot speak to quality.
I see birdie is back.
uh oh it’s a fact check
25,000 protested in Melbourne today.
“Sleeping Sun”
The sun is sleeping quietly
Once upon a century
Wistful oceans calm and red
Ardent caresses laid to rest
For my dreams I hold my life
For wishes I behold my night
The truth at the end of time
Losing faith makes a crime
I wish for this night-time
to last for a lifetime
The darkness around me
Shores of a solar sea
Oh how I wish to go down with the sun
Sleeping
Weeping
With you
Sorrow has a human heart
From my god it will depart
I’d sail before a thousand moons
Never finding where to go
Two hundred twenty-two days of light
Will be desired by a night
A moment for the poet’s play
Until there’s nothing left to say
Fantastic!
Well done, Melbournites.
Zaaki – the seven-year-old gelding that should have cantered to victory a fortnight ago in the Australasian weight-for-age championship, the W.S.Cox Plate, but was scratched on race morning because he had a 24-hour cold – kicked their brains in this afternoon in the Group 1 L.K.S. McKinnon Stakes (2000m, $2 million) at Flemington, confirming James McDonald as Australia’s best Jockey and Annabel Neasham as Australia’s most sensational young import to the training ranks. Neisham also trained the 3rd placegetter, Mo’unga.
Oops.
Should say, well done Vics.
Re. U/H passage of the repugnant “Pandemic Bill” on the 16/11 in the Victorian State Parliament: Do you think that Patten thing and that Meddick thing will take any notice of the last line of a short and to the point email – “Betray Victorians at your political peril”?
I didn’t bother sending it to the greenslime – for obvious reasons.
Gab, it was great to be there today. I can believe 25,000. Felt like a good, friendly crowd. If I were the crossbench I’d be worried.
Julian Burnside’s burning issue
The window is oscillating.
If it is not, LIFT YOUR GAME…
Krystal Ball is a real sweety. But she’s got to get that titty enhancement cream. She just needs a couple more inches.
She looks like an A cup, B minus at best. She’s a big girl so I reckon she should get a double D.
Hey Dover, we did the Rosary procession from outside St Patrick’s Cathedral to Parliament House. Comensoli sent out an edict to all priests late yesterday forbidding them to go to the Rosary. One priest turned up (no prizes for guessing who) and got interviewed by Ch 9. He told me later ”Someone has got to stand up and be counted”. I hope he becomes Pope one day.
For the record the subject of the correspondence was KILL THE BILL.
poor Dave
I used to play pinball with him in Rosebud when when we were teenagers.
Genuinely nice bloke
The crossbench don’t give a shit what happens to us. They’ve got their 30 pieces of silver.
Right up to the point where I saw the circle equivalent. Once I could see the point swing past my eyeline, all good. 🙂
It is harder to pick it with the Ames Window, because the narrow end is similarly shaped to the broad one.
Gab, I did the march from the State Library, and we ended up at the top of Bourke. Was packed in, and as another said upthread, they need a platform for speakers and a better sound system as it was very hard to hear. Was your vantage any better?
Same, Dover. I was thinking if had heaps of $ I’d buy a better sound system for them. But Rukshan captured a lot of speakers where you were. The woman speaking at 5:09 was awesome but don’t know who she is.
Yes – we know that – but 25,000 (estimated crowd at today’s march) VOTE.
JMH, the money speaks louder to them. They don’t care if they don’t get voted back in.
Gab, if they don’t get back in the trough runs dry. Right?
The Bill is a no-lose for Maximum Leader.
If it passes he can imprison his political critics indefinitely.
If it’s rejected he’s got the perfect soundbite excuse for every covid-related disaster from here to election day – “if only I’d been given my emergency powers…”.
If you’ve done enough axonometric drawings you can spot it fairly quickly, mainly because you’re used to going the other way – turning rectangles into trapezoids. The other trick, which he didn’t mention, is the turning point. It’s towards the larger end.
Loved The Ambassadors. First introduced in Art History, back in ‘69, we’d twist and turn the cardboard picture until the “Eureka!” moment.
Memento mori.
What I found refreshing at today’s protest was the repeated calls to target each and every politician who supports this obnoxious ‘Pandenmic Bill’. I reckon that will happen. In spades.
For the full Carpe lifestyle, you’ll need a pair of cafe zori too.
Over 25,000 people (local) who hate your guts* and many…many more besides who couldn’t make it.
Are these politicians insane? Do they honestly think they can ever walk down the street again post politics?
* and I mean really hate their guts – they’ve taken jobs, sense of worth, businesses and now they’re coming for their children
And that, by the way, isn’t a threat. It’s simple reality. Unless they wish to live like enclosed despots, they have no future either.
Very, very stupid individuals who think this will all blow over and be forgotten.
Take away everything, and people have nothing to lose.
Dover yoo hoo
Sounds like Chairman Dan might have lost the room. I wish I could place more faith in Victoriastanis to do the right thing when the time comes.
Thank you.
Have they announced clot shot mandates for kids to attend school yet?
If they do, they better start setting up online schools, as 10% min will be pulled OUT of school.
Good on him.
You fellows got a good solid cheer from the crowd, too. Surprised me, since it’s definitely an allsorts assembly. Coming in from the side with a clearly-identifiable and well-behaved group is a smart move and a good look.
As for the sound system, it’s fine. Any louder and it just would deafen the crowd. Granted, some speakers positioned further down Bourke Street toward the back of the crowd would help. But the real problem is the people who are speaking – they can be heard, but many of them (ie most of the women) can’t be understood. They’re incoherent to start with, and ramble at pace in shrill dogwhistle-frequency Strine. Might as well be speaking in tongues. The boffins haven’t made a sound system that can fix it.
Also, I reckon 25k is very generous overestimate. That’s half the capacity of the MCG. I’d say somewhere closer to 5k is more credible. Happy to be corrected on that point, though. Still a great crowd, packed in tightly.
From the Australia One 5 November 2021 ‘despatch’:
I am down with some of those, although I don’t know who Nat Talarico is. #s 2, 3 and 5, though, would be enough for me to form the same view I already had of this nonsense.
Why does Bosi feel the need to train people in shooting from moving vehicles? Are there mobile treason execution squads planned?
No, no! Leave it at 25,000!*
It has to be true.
* Mardi Gras counting. Happens in Sydney every year.
Precisely.
The major problem we have in this country is that our politicians are professional politicians, most of whom have never had real jobs in the real economy.
Political office in Australia is just a scam that can earn you $200,000-plus in salary plus $2.50-$3.00 per primary vote. Who of them gives a stuff about the public when you can earn votes using Kung Flu to scare the shit out of them?
As an aside – Working with Children checks are pointless, because they only ‘check’ on the things people have been caught for.
My WWC “training” focused my attention on one thing though. My only incorrect answer.
I don’t trust the police.
BHL,
Watching 9 news now. Aerial shot of the crowd and commentary of 10s of thousands. Knowing how much space a thousand kids take up on assembly, I would say your 5k is understated by a a factor of a least 3. I would say from the footage it was 15k minimum
Calli is right. Surveys do not have a checkbox that says “I rooly rooly hate Dan”
I have seen this happen before. Those 100k haters are the ones whose words form an underground campaign.
Take away everything, and people have nothing to lose.
After the first the rest are free.
I agree, Diogenes. Now that I’ve seen the crowd from overhead, instead of just from the top of Bourke Street, I take it back. It did look like half an MCG’s worth.
Well done, Victoria.
Sacré bleu! Not again, please. 🙁
“Are these politicians insane? Do they honestly think they can ever walk down the street again post politics?”
Yes….they are so completely out of touch and they believe they are beyond any reproach.
The protest got coverage on Seven and Nein.
Quite a bit of pejorative language from reporterettes … “self appointed experts” etc.
Both channels had the same footage of some dickhead spitting at a camera.
Networks must have agreed to share their “best stuff”.
Talk of another one next weekend.
Any details?
China in Focus – NTD
An image from one of my high school science books: “Even though we can’t feel it, the Earth is hurtling through space”.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That li’l factlet is not going to impress various long dark haired, pale skinned babes.
Unfortunately. 🙁
You’re joking, right?
25,000.
Weak as piss!
That’s just half of one percent of Melbourne’s population.
Whoopee-do!
Listen you spineless, lily-livered COWards, if it was Queensssland …
“Networks must have agreed to share their “best stuff”.”
Of course…it’s all about the smear.
Gab,
How does one get to know of such things as the Rosary procession ( and of Comensoli’s misplaced directive)?
I only learnt of today’s event because someone here – I forget who, but thanks- mentioned something along the lines that the State Library was a fine place to visit.
Despite some pejorative language in reporting and selected footage, they didn’t try to underplay the crowd size.
The latter is an excellent description of this type of pompous insufferable ALPBC knobhead.
“Comensoli sent out an edict to all priests late yesterday forbidding them to go to the Rosary. “
Why would he forbid it Gab?
Dover.
Is it possible to post details of upcoming protests here as and when they occur?
I am keen to get along to a couple if I am in Melbourne.
MCG is 100K capacity.
Don’t forget to include the ones in Sydneystan, Squire (err, if there are any).
It’s time to engage in some preposterous posturing.
I’ll be the one busy at work in the background preparing the cat ‘o’ nine tails, gallows and pikes. 🙂
There are a number of rules-of-thumb in politics and media around the multiples of “silent but angries” sitting behind every protester or letter writer or caller to a TV station switchboard.
The crowd today would have Dan’s advisors shitting bricks because they are a broad cross-section of voters and impossible to neatly pigeon-hole and dismiss.
Hang on. Aren’t you supposed to be a sneerer and scoffer?
This will cause uproar in some parts of Quenthslend.
Rabz, if you think you might run out of hardware, I can get the workshop operational. Pitchfork sharpening a speciality.
As opposed to the “silent and stupid” idiots clustered behind every smug elected politician on any election night, when crossed to, for a victory gloat.
“Gee, Annabelle, I couldnee have done it without the ‘elp of the lunatic asylum inmates behind me – fanatical, they are, I tells ya – at which point the latter all start emitting various pig pen like unedifying sounds … 🙁
calli – you will be in the front line workshop. I’d expect nothing less, Madame.
The U/H needs three votes to pass this Communist ‘Pandemic Bill’. It is up to Victorian voters here to lobby Patten and Meddick – threatening political annihilation at the next State Election if they betray Victorians. I’ve done my bit.
I watched The McGregor Report on Sky last night. Senator Amanda Stoker from QLD was one of the guests. It was a discussion about the enabling legislation before the Victorian Upper House. It seems many, many Victorians have emailed the good Senator wanting the Federal Government to step in and do something.
While she has concerns, it seems she is more interested in the “careful what you wish for” scenario of the Commonwealth taking more powers away from the States, because citizens are best served by representatives closest to them. On that, that would be a reasonable position to take if we lived in reasonable times. But we don’t.
So her preference is to have the Victorians do something themselves and get rid of this bad government. But what does she suppose the public can do in this situation? The election is a year away; the Victorian Opposition is nothing special – has anyone down there heard from the Governor – and in the meantime the Andrews Government will more than likely get these powers.
Just to make sure that the principle and the reality of States’ right remain, it seems that she would prefer to have citizens detained indefinitely, more businesses closed and lockdowns all the way until election day.
Oh, and the Federal Government will not be challenging the closed borders in the High Court. None of these people live in the real world.
RFK Jnr.’s new book The Real Anthony Fauci with Bill Gates right on the cover. I wonder if Gates appreciates the publicity. He is now easily one of the most hated men in the world, right up there with George Soros, not to mention Fauci himself.
Has he been struggling? You wouldn’t have thought so from the recent (ahem) “controversial” posts.
If he has been, then as much as I hate to admit it, I wish him well. For all that that might mean.
He’s a confrere (whether he likes it or not) who’s almost as cynical as I am about life, the universe and everything.
Nothing happened in melbourne.
Thier ABCcess has nothing on its webpage.
We have a new gunner.
Bob Hawke could not be reached for comment.
“Pitchfork sharpening a speciality.”
#Metoo.
New Earth café in Coolum Beach, Queensland harrased by police 12 times and counting
gallows and pikes
Don’t go soft, Rabz. Savanarola’s execution is the preferred model
NT pigs show VikPol how it’s done.
Happy to correct you. That 25,000 consisted of people at the Governor’s House, at the State Library, at Parliament House and at a couple of other locations I can’t recall now.
Just unbelievable. Knowingly, deliberately, sacrificing children.
How much more obvious…….
When are they going to do something about fat chicks? In breaking stupid news, the AFL Lezzo League has banned skin fold tests, because it can lead to fat shaming.
Much better to have lumbering fat mommas making the Lezzo League even slower and more unwatchable than it already is. FMD.
Thanks, areff – the Savonarola:
Nowadays, he’d be right at home as a highly placed apparatchik in our beloved ALPBC.
Cassie something about their ”safety from covid”. Look, Comensoli seems to approve heartily of Andrews so he dare not do anything to upset him. He’s no different to any other bishop in the world, barr the likes of the Bishop of Tyler, Texas and the one in California and another two I can’t recall. Of the 256 US bishops, there’s about 4 or 5 who haven’t swallowed the Kool-aid.