Open Thread – Weekend 27 Nov 2021


The Calumny of Apelles, Botticelli, 1495-6

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Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 27, 2021 12:00 am

BAM.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 27, 2021 12:02 am

All your arguments are invalid.

First and second.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 27, 2021 12:03 am

Entire podium.

*moonwalks*

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 27, 2021 12:05 am

This thread is dedicated to the weak leadership of Steve Smith, his upcoming meddling in the captaincy (just you watch) and his role once again in wooden-spooning the team.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
November 27, 2021 12:12 am

Silver again.
Meek and mild.
Ready to inherit the earth if “vaccines” prove fatal.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 27, 2021 12:20 am

I claim this thread, in the name of the Scottish squatters, along the Riverina, in the 1850’s. They contributed an invaluable part of Australia’s culture. At a time when brandy was the drink of gentlemen, they introduced Scotch whisky into Australia. They have never achieved the recognition they deserved.

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 27, 2021 12:24 am

Bugger off Zulu.

I claim this thread on behalf of the sturdy chaps of the Light Brigade.

“Was there a man dismayed?”

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 27, 2021 12:25 am

Only in the Territory #1:

NT Police are searching for an unknown person who scaled a fence at the Howard Springs COVID-19 quarantine facility Friday evening and escaped into a waiting white ute on the other side.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 27, 2021 12:29 am

Fury intensifies (the Hun):

Former Australian Test captain Tim Paine is embroiled in a court action lodged by the woman who received a lewd picture and texts from him.

Renee Ferguson, 47, lodged a 17-page document in the Federal Court on Friday about alleged sexual harassment while she was working at Cricket Tasmania.

A Federal Court listing confirmed that an originating application under the Australian Human Rights Commission Act was filed at 2.42pm on Friday.

It listed Renee Ferguson, represented by Wisewould Mahony, as the applicant and Cricket Tasmania as the respondent.

Of course Cricket Tasmania is the respondent. This is perfect for the thieving skank.

CA twists Paine and he resigns. This is now seen as an an inference or tacit admission of guilt by said skank, and uses this gift – thanks to the spineless corporate cockheads at Cricket Australia – to lodge a complaint which will include that Paine was sheltered by Cricket Tasmania and its ‘no action taken’ finding about a dick pic sent as part of a consensual exchange over four years ago.

She’s going Cricket Tassie for the cash, not Paine because a) see above, b) they’re more likely to settle than Paine himself and c) there’s a lower burden of proof in the civil rather than the criminal courts.

Ms Ferguson had better be a solid 8, but I suspect I’d have to halve that and take a point or two off.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 27, 2021 12:32 am

Jesus wept. Ferguson’s all over Instagram.

A bit scrawny. Looks like a greyhound with better teeth.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 27, 2021 12:33 am

I claim this thread on behalf of the sturdy chaps of the Light Brigade.

I’ve seen the order that launched the charge of the Light Brigade – it’s in the Imperial War Museum in London. It’s my contention that no – one could read the staff officers handwriting, and the fact that Lew Nolan pointed at the wrong Russian battery, and declared loudly “There my Lord is your enemy. There are your guns.” had a lot to do with the whole fiasco.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 27, 2021 12:35 am

I should add, if it’s her I’ve identified as her.

Deliberately not linking anything as google images and/or insta is what would be regarded in the corporate world as a ‘growth opportunity’.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 27, 2021 12:38 am

Oh, all right then, I claim this thread in the name of Robert Gordon Menzies.

At a meeting, a heckler shouted “Why don’t you tell us all you know, Bob Menzies. It won’t take long.”

Menzies retorted ” Why don’t I tell you all we both know. It won’t take any longer.”

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 27, 2021 12:56 am

I don’t know why I thought of Daniel Andrews while I read this random excerpt on the life of Roman emperor Commodus, but I did:

Citizens of Rome missing their feet through accident or illness were taken to the arena, where they were tethered together for Commodus to club to death while pretending they were giants.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
November 27, 2021 1:24 am

That Commodus bloke sounds pretty unAustralian.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
November 27, 2021 1:28 am

Speaking of InAustralian behaviour it is patently obvious that this thread has been claimed for the meek.
So you false claimants can piss off if you know what’s good for you.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
November 27, 2021 1:42 am

You lot can’t claim anything for anyone without a flag.

Here’s mine.

And here’s my backup if anybody wants to throw a tantrum.

This thread is mine now.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 27, 2021 2:26 am

Dress rehearsal of Lucius Malfoy for the demo tomorrow- canned as being too black for a hot day.
Decided to go for the Dallas Buyer’s Club instead, and offer the punters some cheap HCQ and ivermectin from a duffel bag. Not as much fun as calling them filthy little mudbloods, but still pretty punchy I hope. Got the hat and sunnies, just need a ‘mo.

Tom
Tom
November 27, 2021 3:13 am

Jesus wept. Ferguson’s all over Instagram.
A bit scrawny. Looks like a greyhound with better teeth.

I haven’t seen it yet, KD, but there’s also a tittilating piece in the Herald Sun weekend magazine section exploiting (former AFL coach) Dean Laidley’s mental illness, with a photoshoot of him looking like a cheap slut in makeup, a skirt and high heels.

There’s nothing the paper won’t do to sell a few extra papers to Melbourne’s pervs while feigning compassion.

Poor fucked-up Dean evidently gets a thrill from his autogynephilia, which, in the age of political correctness, forces people not to throw up at what he has become.

Tom
Tom
November 27, 2021 4:00 am

Johannes Leak. Brilliant.

Tom
Tom
November 27, 2021 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
November 27, 2021 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
November 27, 2021 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
November 27, 2021 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
November 27, 2021 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
November 27, 2021 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
November 27, 2021 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
November 27, 2021 4:10 am

Woops. That’s Peter Brookes.

Tom
Tom
November 27, 2021 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
November 27, 2021 4:12 am
Tom
Tom
November 27, 2021 4:13 am

Gary Varvel. Brilliant.

Tom
Tom
November 27, 2021 4:15 am
rosie
rosie
November 27, 2021 4:32 am
bespoke
bespoke
November 27, 2021 4:35 am

1st

bespoke
bespoke
November 27, 2021 4:47 am
bespoke
bespoke
November 27, 2021 4:56 am

The Hunt was a better movie then expected, I guess you have to have the same twisted sense of humour to appreciate it.

Mater
November 27, 2021 5:55 am

Dress rehearsal of Lucius Malfoy for the demo tomorrow- canned as being too black for a hot day.

You need to consult Ed Case, the image consultant (straight out of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy).

Apparently Black is definitely out. Ed’s staunchly of the opinion that it’s inappropriate for said demo, as it’s the colour of Anarchy. Don’t want to be confused with those Antifa hooligans, or those professional provocateurs.

Whatever you decide, don’t throw to the other extreme. Gotta be so careful with white shoes! If you go that way, make sure they match your belt, and watch band.

srr
srr
November 27, 2021 6:02 am

Paul Weston – So What? So A Lot, Commissar Javid!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6bIGjPRwKo&t=28s

Nov 27, 2021
Paul Weston
______________
UNTESTED Pfizer killing you, so what, switch to UNTESTED Moderna.

Now you can’t prove which Jabs are killing people, so what, at least people are getting Jabbed.

Truly evil geniuses, sans the genius.

srr
srr
November 27, 2021 6:04 am

Government by Dictate? Means DICTATORSHIP
Featuring Dr. Maria
Rudy Giuliani | November 26th 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl5Ncbeq53Q

min
min
November 27, 2021 6:33 am

How did that Botticelli escape Savonarola’s Bonfire of the Vanities?

rosie
rosie
November 27, 2021 6:37 am
rosie
rosie
November 27, 2021 6:39 am

Looks like the curve is finally flattened
PoliBard says ‘wow extra big don’t today’

rosie
rosie
November 27, 2021 6:44 am
rosie
rosie
November 27, 2021 6:53 am

I didn’t there was any covid in Africa?
looks like everyone agrees with Joe

Aaron
Aaron
November 27, 2021 6:59 am
rosie
rosie
November 27, 2021 7:02 am
rosie
rosie
November 27, 2021 7:04 am
Aaron
Aaron
November 27, 2021 7:05 am

“In addition, an inflammation of the heart, called myocarditis, may occur after a viral illness making a person more susceptible to heart problems, even a cardiac arrest, during exercise”.

Rosie,
This is pathetic.

Was wa was, the game is too fast, players need screening , blah,blah,blah .

Not a mention of what else causes cardiac issues.

The needles….

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 27, 2021 7:07 am

The Hunt was a better movie then expected, I guess you have to have the same twisted sense of humour to appreciate it.

Jason Blum & his Blumhouse production company is so cool.
Their writing rooms would resemble Bangladeshi sweat shop.
It’s sad how the rules regarding writing credits haven’t kept up with what actually goes on.

rosie
rosie
November 27, 2021 7:12 am

Too easy isn’t it Aaron?

Even though heart problems in football are clearly a very well established long term problem with significant screening being done on 16 to 18 year olds.

calli
calli
November 27, 2021 7:19 am

Great choice this week, Dover. You could pop in something from the Uffizi every OT and struggle to run out. As we move closer to Christmas, his “Mystic Nativity” is worth a run.

Poor old Truth, naked and alone while all the furies drag their victim forward to be judged by a fool.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 27, 2021 7:22 am

I declare this thread in honour of Nu.
Which had traders screech waaaah! in perfect unison overnight as they fled for the exits.

Stocks, Oil Drop Sharply on Concerns Over New Covid-19 Variant (WSJ, 26 Nov, paywalled)

Dow down 2.5% and crude oil down an impressive 13%. Nothing more fun than watching hysterical traders have hysterics (although I’ll be wincing after the ASX opens on Monday).

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 27, 2021 7:25 am

Bruce, speculative longs in oil are surprisingly not all that high at the moment.
Carbon credits & uranium, that’s a different story.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 27, 2021 7:27 am

Have to correct myself. WHO has now officially named it Omicron. Yesterday it was Nu.
What’s nu yesterday is old today, it’s the fashion.

New B.1.1.529 coronavirus variant named Omicron by World Health Organisation – as Europe records first case of the strain (Sky News Oz, 27 Nov)

The individual tested positive on November 22 after developing symptoms 11 days after arriving back in Belgium, prompting the European nation to reimpose restrictions, including closing nightclubs and forcing bars and restaurants to shut by 11pm for three weeks.

“It is a suspicious variant. We do not know if it is a very dangerous variant,” Belgian Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke said at a press conference.

Israel has also confirmed it has recorded its first case of the new variant, in a vaccinated traveller who returned from Malawi.

Oh joy, more lockdowns.

WolfmanOz (just existing in Melb. now)
November 27, 2021 7:29 am

I can’t make it today to the protest march in Melbourne – some family issues overnight (long story).

Still, yesterday I watched Monty Python’s Life Of Brian . . . were these guys Nostradamus in predicting our insane world today ?

Exhibit A one of my latest clips in my YouTube channel (from the movie):

https://youtu.be/CPlJ2Vb7ujw

It absolutely nails one of the current insanities of the world today.

Aaron
Aaron
November 27, 2021 7:31 am

“Even though heart problems in football are clearly a very well established long term problem with significant screening being done on 16 to 18 year olds”.

Rosie,
Three professionals in one day!

These people have full time professional medical staff, dieticians etc.

The manufacturers themselves admit cardiac problems
as a side effect.

So how can it be discounted?

Cassie of Sydney
November 27, 2021 7:32 am

“Poor fucked-up Dean evidently gets a thrill from his autogynephilia, which, in the age of political correctness, forces people not to throw up at what he has become.”

Beautifully said Tom.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 27, 2021 7:34 am

Each year I send a non-alcoholic gift to a family group I do business with.
They don’t drink & years ago we decided that food hampers for their office to pick over would be good.
This year I one my team lined up a spread of gourmet “cookies”.
This week I’m looking at the bank accounts & see “BIGG & THICC”.
Yep, the name of the gourmet cookies is BIGG & THICC.
Great thing to have on your company bank statements forever.
Imagine the delivery “Yeah I’m from BIGG & THICC and I’ve got a large delivery for you”.
I’d be laughing but the recipients are a tad conservative.

calli
calli
November 27, 2021 7:34 am

If you wanted to stick with the Uffizi, there’s Madonna with the Pomegranate or the Madonna of the Magnificat.

Du Maurier described Rebecca as having “the face of a Botticelli angel”. Even though she never appears in the flesh, she is easily imagined.

Aaron
Aaron
November 27, 2021 7:35 am

These bums need screening.

Nothing to see here.

JMH
JMH
November 27, 2021 7:42 am

rickw – check in, please?

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 27, 2021 7:43 am

I don’t know about the other sports, but some of the football academies in Europe now have wearables in the contracts the parents sign.
They do this so they can monitor their bio data almost 24/7.
This means when players get traded, there is a huge data pool on top of a history of multiple full body MRI’s.
It means you get no nasties when you sign the player.

Rabz
November 27, 2021 7:44 am

Botticelli

Thanks for that, Squire. A great way to start a Saturday.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 27, 2021 7:46 am

Three professionals in one day!

Apparently the cardiac arrests amongst soccer players are running at 5 times the average.

Cassie of Sydney
November 27, 2021 7:47 am

“Omicron”

So, I wake up to an Oz headline which reads….

“Omicron variant ‘very worrying’, reaches Europe”
“Scientists have described a new variant – expected to be dubbed Nu by the World Health Organisation – as ‘very worrying’ with an ‘horrific spike profile’.

We’re going to be locked up again next winter. Just wait and see. The fear porn, as evidenced in the headline above, is ramping up again. Danny boy in Victoria will use this to get his bill through parliament.

It will never end.

Crossie
Crossie
November 27, 2021 7:49 am

Bruce of Newcastle says:
November 27, 2021 at 7:27 am
Have to correct myself. WHO has now officially named it Omicron. Yesterday it was Nu.

The upside is that by the time we run out of variants everyone will know the Greek alphabet.

rickw
rickw
November 27, 2021 7:50 am

It will never end.

It ends as soon as people wake the hell up.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 27, 2021 7:51 am

One of the reasons Messi was never seriously pursued by a lot of clubs wasn’t because of the rumoured buy-out clause in his contract.
It was because no-one wanted to spend top dollar on a player with a hormone problem that no-one knew if it would end his career prematurely or if there would be side effects from the treatments.
No-one that was until dumb arab money cut the cheque.
He seems fine though, so it’s a case of the bio-data not being relevant.

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
November 27, 2021 7:51 am

Did anyone else notice Cap’n Jack Sparrow in that Botticelli?

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 27, 2021 7:51 am

We’re going to be locked up again next winter. Just wait and see.

You better believe it.

Crossie
Crossie
November 27, 2021 7:52 am

Oh joy, more lockdowns.

You could say right on cue.

rickw
rickw
November 27, 2021 7:53 am

Apparently the cardiac arrests amongst soccer players are running at 5 times the average.

The last month is the first I’ve ever heard of soccer’s cardiac arrest problem, so not surprising.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 27, 2021 7:55 am

Keep in mind the DNC needs an excuse for mail in voting for the mid-terms.
Their vote harvesting will be more sophisticated this time around.
What better place than South Africa to get the panic rolling.

Aaron
Aaron
November 27, 2021 7:56 am

“This means when players get traded, there is a huge data pool on top of a history of multiple full body MRI’s.
It means you get no nasties when you sign the player”.

Until you make him get vaxxed 🙂 .

rickw
rickw
November 27, 2021 7:58 am

Check In:

Little Bloke – positive – but fine apart from feeling a bit dizzy.

Missus – No result yet – but definitely has something.

Me – Negative – have got some other sort of sniffle.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 27, 2021 7:58 am

That’s what I’m saying Aaron.
What is being reported is a statistical outlier.
In the olden days, medical types used to want to look into that kind of thing to get to the root cause.
Not these days of course.

calli
calli
November 27, 2021 7:59 am

Wow, Rickw.

Most contagious virus evah!

Cassie of Sydney
November 27, 2021 8:00 am

I am going into hospital on Monday week for surgery (not life threatening). I have to have a Covid test next Friday, despite being double jabbed. This will be my first Covid test.

Dot
Dot
November 27, 2021 8:05 am

The Public Health Acts and any COVID 19 legislation must be repealed.

JMH
JMH
November 27, 2021 8:05 am

rickwsays:
November 27, 2021 at 7:58 am
Check In:

Little Bloke – positive – but fine apart from feeling a bit dizzy.

Missus – No result yet – but definitely has something.

Me – Negative – have got some other sort of sniffle.

Thanks, rick.

rickw
rickw
November 27, 2021 8:05 am

Most contagious virus evah!

Yep, it really disappoints, we’d been playing, wrestling and having nose fights the day before, what do I get?! Nada!

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 27, 2021 8:08 am

From the old OT.

Ed Casesays:
November 26, 2021 at 10:04 pm
Irony is that those who argue for animal rights, typically do bugger-all to prevent tens of millions of roos dying nasty deaths every time there is a major drought.

What do you suggest we do?
Give the roos birth control Pills?
Biuld dams for roos?

Tell animal “rights” activists to stop whining about kangaroo culls. They are far more humane than starvation.

miltonf
miltonf
November 27, 2021 8:08 am

We all know that the marxist establishment need to keep this going hence that latest ‘strain’. Of course the legacy media including newscorpse is fully on board.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 27, 2021 8:08 am

Global warming is for the little people.

Us and Them: Global Elites Drive Demand for Private Jets to New Highs During Pandemic (26 Nov)

The Daily Mail reports the average decent-sized private jet roars through about 380 gallons of fuel, emits two tonnes of CO2 for every hour in flight and generates an annual fuel bill of about $U.S. 450,000 a year.

That’s not the only cost involved.

To put that in context, the total carbon footprint of an average person — including all travel and food — is approximately eight tonnes per year.

According to U.S. aviation manufacturer Honeywell Aerospace, this imprint has not stopped the sales of private jets also going up, with aircraft manufacturers reporting a strong increase in orders since the pandemic.

Buyers can find a helicopter with vegan seats, a jet with a sundeck and garage, and a hotelier’s design to hold discos at 35,000 feet — all three concepts unveiled at the Dubai Airshow last week among a host of others designed to keep VIP travelers comfortable in the sky.

Vegan helicopter seats are just so 2021.

Rabz
November 27, 2021 8:10 am

Dean Laidley’s mental illness

Tom – about a year ago (?) the Laidley was arrested and it was claimed he was allegedly stalking “a senior member of VikPol” – did it ever emerge who this personage was?

jupes was speculating it might have been Fattee Ashton.

More likely it was Planet Cornelius.

If I’ve ruined anyone’s breakfast, tough titties.

miltonf
miltonf
November 27, 2021 8:12 am

They’re trying to revert to the feudal system with no private transport or international travel for regular citizens so of course there will be a ‘new strain’. Also, as pointed out above, there are the mid terms in the US to consider.

rickw
rickw
November 27, 2021 8:12 am

Vegan helicopter seats are just so 2021.

I would have thought that Vegans were quite hard to skin?

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 27, 2021 8:15 am

Tell animal “rights” activists to stop whining about kangaroo culls. They are far more humane than starvation.

Kangaroo meat should be consumed regularly.
A place in Leichhardt used to have it on the menu in a pepper gravy.
I was a regular there.
Long gone now.

bespoke
bespoke
November 27, 2021 8:16 am

Calli

Weave had a long running discussion about religion, personal ethics and a mutule understanding of the positive use of self-debasing humour. It has always been a civil, informative and cheeky. I am not going those that need 24/7 melodrama to fill some sort of gap in there life change this.

Aaron
Aaron
November 27, 2021 8:16 am

“That’s what I’m saying Aaron.
What is being reported is a statistical outlier.
In the olden days, medical types used to want to look into that kind of thing to get to the root cause.
Not these days of course”.

Yes, even Doctors are now becoming untrustworthy.

Riding instructions are given, and it’s one size fits all.

miltonf
miltonf
November 27, 2021 8:17 am

When you look at big business’s embrace of marxism and its complicity in impoverishing the middle classes (outsource, off shore, downsize- all the McKinsey stuff)- maybe capitalism has failed after all. Every day too the USA is looking more and more like the USSR.

Cassie of Sydney
November 27, 2021 8:17 am

Calli, reading the old thread from last night, I liked your comment at 8:53 pm.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 27, 2021 8:19 am

Australia imports more dried pigs ears from China for dogs than we produce domestically.
I don’t understand why a larger proportion of dog food & dog treats aren’t kangaroo derived in oz.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 27, 2021 8:21 am

Every day too the USA is looking more and more like the USSR.

That’s why the 1A & 2A are so important & always need defending.

calli
calli
November 27, 2021 8:23 am

Was that the shit on the liver one, Cassie? 😀

Some of us are just simple, low maintenance types.

Something I have discovered – it takes many, many words to justify an act of meanness, and very, very few to be kind.

Aaron
Aaron
November 27, 2021 8:24 am

If it’s a trend or coincidence, time will tell.

All sports, not the pace of modern soccer, then.

Rabz
November 27, 2021 8:25 am

The Hunt was a better movie then expected

I absolutely loved it. Four and half stars.

Cassie of Sydney
November 27, 2021 8:25 am

“callisays:
November 27, 2021 at 8:23 am
Was that the shit on the liver one, Cassie? ?”

It was calling out a hypocrite.

EvilElvis
EvilElvis
November 27, 2021 8:38 am

with a photoshoot of him looking like a cheap slut in makeup, a skirt and high heels.

I’ll take “things we never thought we’d see for $10 thanks, Tom”.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 27, 2021 8:39 am

Speaking of movies John Nolte’s reviews are always worth a look. I read this one just now.

Nolte: Disney’s Faltering Brand Takes Another Hit with ‘Encanto’ Box Office Nosedive (26 Nov)

Rabz
November 27, 2021 8:44 am

Gotta be so careful with white shoes!

I’ll be wearing my beloved Kareem hi-tops.

And yes, I will be there today, come hell or (more likely) high water. Tinta is giving me a lift in. 🙂

Indolent
Indolent
November 27, 2021 8:45 am

Somone sent me a link to a clip of Scott Morrison talking in South Australia. He sounds like a used car salesman.

Scott Morrison encourages vaccination in South Australia to hit milestone

The comments are well worth reading. This one particularly struck me:

If it requires coercion, manipulation, gaslighting, 24/7 advertising, fear mongering, silencing of dissenting opinions and experts, slandering of alternative options, tons of questionable incentives and indemnification from liability, then it isn’t required for health.

calli
calli
November 27, 2021 8:46 am

Do thugs still roll innocents for their fancy shoes?

Stay safe Rabz. 🙂

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 27, 2021 8:52 am

Nice Saturday morning read re the popcornworthy events in the Swedish Parliament this week:

Political Comedy in Sweden (26 Nov)

shatterzzz
November 27, 2021 8:52 am

Dear me! .. can’t recall the last time that HUGHIE deprived me of consecutive days bike riding but he is still hurling it down, with not so gay abandon, out the back of Fairfield, NSW .. of course in the real world, pre-BAT FLU, being too wet to ride would have mean’t swimming instead .. but dum parrot-head, following GLADYS & the dapto dish-licker’s, unenviable, wisdom, has decreed that swimming laps on your own is far too dangerous to all those vaxxed folk who, because of the weather, won’t be in the pool anyway ..
it’s the SCIENCE, ya knoze .. LOL!

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 27, 2021 8:56 am

Ah dammit, got to take my 11 y o to school for some sorta phrenology, so I’m off the march. Damn schedule.
I might still go in character tho. Have an hour to wander around and meet the staff, it’ll be good to see what sort of balls they may or may not have.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
November 27, 2021 9:00 am

Kangaroo meat should be consumed regularly.
A place in Leichhardt used to have it on the menu in a pepper gravy.

The Tower Hotel in Adelaide used to have Skippy in chilli plum sauce, absolutely delicious.

Cassie of Sydney
November 27, 2021 9:02 am

Remember how Trump and Morrison were accused of being “waaaaaaacist” because they placed travel bans on China back in early 2020?

From The Oz…

“US bans travel over Omicron, as South Africa blasts over-reaction
Joe Biden follows a growing number of countries to restrict travel to Africa over alarming new variant, as South Africa hits back.”

A miasma of hypocrisy.

shatterzzz
November 27, 2021 9:02 am

I am going into hospital on Monday week for surgery (not life threatening). I have to have a Covid test next Friday, despite being double jabbed. This will be my first Covid test.

Wasn’t a test necessary before the jabs & 90% of any other gummint induced face-to-face .. I ‘ve been under the impression that any medical contact involved testing first?

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
November 27, 2021 9:02 am

Dean Laidley appeared at his old clubs training/family day a few weeks back as an official guest of the club to give the players a bit of a pep talk on resilience and mental health.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 27, 2021 9:03 am

Can you even put “Dean Laidley” and “tough titties” in the same paragraph?

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 27, 2021 9:04 am

Ben O’Brien’s Grizzly Bear Encounter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX-WTp9GV6I

Totally cool bear story from Joe Rogan’s show.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
November 27, 2021 9:05 am

To the troops going protesting/marching today, good luck and have a great day.

Make sure the pollies hear your voice.

Alas i am forced to go fishing, it’s a balmy 8 degrees but Osaka bay is as flat as a shit carters hat

Aaron
Aaron
November 27, 2021 9:09 am

What odds?

So after we were told that all those unvaxxed were blocking up the hospital system, most got vaxxed.

Then we were told of the miracle of largely unvaxxed Africa.

Until this really really bad variety.

Which seems to have appeared in the vaxxed?

Dot
Dot
November 27, 2021 9:12 am

Watch out for that Osaka Flu and stay away from the Juice Loosener & Mr Sparkle factory, Carpe San.

I hear that zinc is disrespectful to microorganisms.

shatterzzz
November 27, 2021 9:12 am

One of the reasons Messi was never seriously pursued by a lot of clubs wasn’t because of the rumoured buy-out clause in his contract.
I thought/think it was because it is fairly obvious that he has reached his use-by date and paying good moolah for past memories isn’t a great business decision ..
I know some might argue that even now he is, probably, still better than lotza comparable players but for how long? .. the comparables will still be around long after he is gone …..!
Sad, to see when a champion doesn’t know when it’s time to go …….!

shatterzzz
November 27, 2021 9:15 am

Vegan helicopter seats are just so 2021.

But at 8 vegan skinnings per seat it’s a sacrifice we just have to accept .. LOL!

Delta A
Delta A
November 27, 2021 9:15 am

‘very worrying’ with an ‘horrific spike profile’.

People are becoming ‘meh’ about the deadly delta. We can’t justify maintaining emergency powers any longer.

Quick! Crank up the scare meter.

Mater
November 27, 2021 9:16 am

Mater, check your mail. One more addition.

Seen.
And responded.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 27, 2021 9:18 am

Peter Dutton seems to have annoyed all the right people (China, the Grauniad, Keating et al) with his speech at the Press Club yesterday.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
November 27, 2021 9:19 am

Dot says:
November 27, 2021 at 9:12 am

It’s all good, it is just bloody cold here

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 27, 2021 9:21 am

This is up there for the best science rant of the year.

Farcical pseudoscience of the new South African variant (26 Nov)

In the morning, I needed some 10 minutes to find out why the stock futures are collapsing today. Yes, when the movements are sharp, there is usually a single explanation (while the attributions of smaller, noise-like movements are usually fuzzy fairy-tales) and today it is

A new Covid-19 variant could show immune evasion and enhanced transmissibility, South African scientists warn (CNN)

What follows is a very long very accurate summation of science today, which has fallen to a low that is becoming indistinguishable from mysticism. I think Lubos is even more unhappy about it than I am.

shatterzzz
November 27, 2021 9:22 am

And for those turning out in Danistan today .. a bit of inspiration .. ENJOY!
https://youtu.be/z9U-GyNTNk8

Jorge
Jorge
November 27, 2021 9:27 am

Last week: Greg Hunt orders millions of doses of the vax that is our only way out.

This week: Woops.

Oh well, it’s only taxpayers’ money.

Franx
Franx
November 27, 2021 9:33 am

I don’t believe we’ll be in lock down come next winter. One reason we are protesting is to have a say in our destiny.

Zipster
November 27, 2021 9:35 am

lockdowns for ever

The O variant
Dr. John Campbell

bespoke
bespoke
November 27, 2021 9:40 am

Dad in SA long retired and only hobby is watching sport and news is freeking out over Covid. Extremely hard to not tell him to get a FnLife.

Pogria
Pogria
November 27, 2021 9:42 am

With the new Omicron variant comes Lrrrrr! Leader of the Planet Omicron Persei 8.

Zipster
November 27, 2021 9:45 am

It’s all good, it is just bloody cold here

what a coincidence it’s cold here too

Zipster
November 27, 2021 9:48 am

I don’t believe we’ll be in lock down come next winter. One reason we are protesting is to have a say in our destiny.

of course we will be in lockdown. they never told us how dangerous or not delta was and they have no intention of telling us how dangerous or not omicron is, they want the vaccine to take the credit for its lack of killing power. or they will spring a new vax to fatten up pharma’s bottom line

Frank
Frank
November 27, 2021 9:48 am

Upthread with the soccer players keeling over from coronaries, if they are anything like the cycling community then it is probably a steroid and performance enhancing drug thing. Those boys all snuff it early.

Frank
Frank
November 27, 2021 9:50 am

Delta A says:
November 27, 2021 at 9:15 am

Roll out some whore in a lab coat standing in front of some beakers and a bunion burner to provide the gravitas required to make it seem credible to your average media and communications grad.

Makka
Makka
November 27, 2021 9:51 am

Dad in SA long retired and only hobby is watching sport and news is freeking out over Covid. Extremely hard to not tell him to get a FnLife.

Morrison better shut down ALL flights from Africa and the/Africa ME connections – pronto. If he doesn’t , sure as sh*t Dan will lock us down again, at the earliest sign of the big O.

Winston Smith's Keyboard.
November 27, 2021 9:52 am

Rosie:

Even though heart problems in football are clearly a very well established long term problem with significant screening being done on 16 to 18 year olds.

Standard protocol for Army in 1990 after vaccinations was “No heavy exercise that day.”
Obviously they knew something was going on that wasn’t kosher.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 27, 2021 9:53 am

Imagine the delivery “Yeah I’m from BIGG & THICC and I’ve got a large delivery for you”.

/wukka wukka wukka music intensifies…

Roger
Roger
November 27, 2021 9:56 am

A miasma of hypocrisy.

To be a hypocrite you actually have to know what the Good is.

Biden doesn’t. His conscience was seared long ago.

shatterzzz
November 27, 2021 9:56 am

Dad in SA long retired and only hobby is watching sport and news is freeking out over Covid. Extremely hard to not tell him to get a FnLife.

I’m the opposite, tho long retired & luv watchin’ sport .. no interest/worries in BAT FLU but my son (37) who believes everything the gummin tellz him is always freekin’ out over BAT FLU .. LOL!

rickw
rickw
November 27, 2021 9:58 am

If he doesn’t , sure as sh*t Dan will lock us down again, at the earliest sign of the big O.

The psychopathic prick will be dancing around his office over O.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 27, 2021 9:59 am

rickwsays:
Little Bloke – positive – but fine apart from feeling a bit dizzy.
Missus – No result yet – but definitely has something.
Me – Negative – have got some other sort of sniffle.

The Diamond Princess showed us all we needed to know about the risk of contracting COVID from a close contact – about 3700 locked up in a petri dish for 5 weeks breathing aerosols through recycled air and PCR tested daily.

Less than 20% of the people on the ship even tested positive – let alone got sick, and there was a lot of ‘discordance’ where one person got it and the spouse didnt.

Good news is, if you have a decent exposure, you can assume you have had an infective dose. If you fail to get sick or develop a positive PCR it doesnt matter, you are probably already immune due to your previous cough and cold exposure history.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 27, 2021 10:01 am

COAT flips the switch to 11

decides that being a COAT is actually a wonderful thing and writes about it.

Poor blokes Guide dog is still traumatized.

The bloke said he was a fan and that’s always very nice to hear. Yes, I’m sorry to say, the broadcaster’s ego really is that close to the surface.

I was dropping my son off while walking the dog when he stopped to say how much he enjoyed the show. He introduced himself, had a few things to say about programming on my station, told me where he worked and what he did. He was a reasonable and sensible person. It was a perfectly pleasant exchange.

He told me he was going to send me his contact details on social media and said, “then we can meet and have a coffee”.

I know there was a solid beat of silence immediately after he said this. It was the total assuredness of the assumption.

It wasn’t a request or a polite inquiry*. We were going to do this. He was a listener, he worked in an interesting field. He had things to say, and I had to hear them.

I’ve just come out of what feels like two straight years of lockdowns. I couldn’t count how many friends, family members, colleagues, contacts and generally interesting people I both owe a cup of coffee and would love to have a chat with.** I’ve got to be blunt here: this stranger was pretty low down on the list.

The Rolodex of Polite Ways to Extricate Oneself from a Tricky Situation whirled in my head. Card after card rapidly scanned and rejected. There were so many criteria to meet, and quickly: don’t be rude; don’t hurt his feelings; don’t promise something you can’t deliver — don’t lie and say you will! And above all else, don’t piss off a listener.***

It wasn’t perfect but this is what I came up with: “Ah, sure … well — um, if I have time!” (The cheery note I tried to inject may not translate here)

His face set. “What do you mean if you have time? You have time.”

Two beats of silence. Me, staring.

The Rolodex of Make Nice wasn’t going to help me here. In any case it wasn’t needed — he pressed on.

“You take an afternoon nap, don’t you?”

OK — we were in strange territory now, and my beloved dog — the kind of Lab who would lick a house robber to death — was not helping. How I needed her to issue just the mildest little growl … “step back, buddy …”****

I took charge. I thanked him for listening and said of course he could send his work details to me and maybe I would be in touch.

“Or not,” he bit back. He was not happy now.

And, heart beating faster than I wanted it to be on a sunny midweek afternoon as I walked away, neither was I.*****

* She sees into the hearts of MEN, they are all beastly beasts and are only slavering for her ladyparts 24/7!!!!
** Ive been the very model of a modern major bugman..
*** Truth was never an option….
**** Ill take, mad imaginings of a hysterical scold for $5 Alex
***** Alas dear reader she married him???

Roger
Roger
November 27, 2021 10:02 am

I am going into hospital on Monday week for surgery (not life threatening). I have to have a Covid test next Friday, despite being double jabbed.

The jabbed who get a “breakthrough” infection carry the same viral load as the unjabbed infected.

That’s according to a study in The Lancet and seems to be confirmed by others studies of vaccinated health care workers.

The narrative is getting very hard to sustain.

Pogria
Pogria
November 27, 2021 10:04 am

Quick question, a couple of earlier comments mentioned the movie “The Hunt”. Which one is it? The earlier Mads Mikkelsen, or the 2020 version?

I am guessing (hoping), it’s the Mikkelsen version. He is brilliant. I haven’t seen it yet, but plan to.

132andBush
132andBush
November 27, 2021 10:04 am

Mild and overcast in Wagga.

Good day for a protest.

Have not been asked for proof of potential disease status so far in my travels this harvest, will test the waters here later on.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 27, 2021 10:06 am
Winston Smith
November 27, 2021 10:06 am

rickw:

Little Bloke – positive – but fine apart from feeling a bit dizzy.

Rick, I give you top dollah for the leetle blokes used tissues, or the sleeve of his shirt.*
Not fussed which.
* That’s my patented Mexican accent.
🙂

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 27, 2021 10:07 am

Dozens of unvaccinated firefighters across WA to lose their job on the first day of summer
Peter Law
The West Australian
Sat, 27 November 2021 2:00AM
Comments

Dozens of career firefighters refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19 will have their pay stopped on the first day of summer.

Ahead of the December 1 vaccination mandate deadline for critical workers, the Department of Fire and Emergency Services said 38 staff had indicated they do not intend to get the jab.

This includes 29 unvaccinated firefighters out of the 1241-strong workforce, which represents a vaccination rate of 97.7 per cent.

The expected loss of these fireys will partly be off-set by the graduation of 23 new firefighters from the academy in mid-December.

Fire and Emergency Services Commissioner Darren Klemm said he respected the right of his employees to decide whether or not to be vaccinated.

“I think that’s an important part of us and the country of Australia that people can make their own decisions about what they do. Ultimately, things will occur as a result of the decision that people make,” he said.

“Ideally, I would want 100 per cent vaccination rate but we’re a reflection of society. In that respect, our numbers probably shouldn’t be expected to be any different than the modern society would be.”

Any firefighters who fail to provide proof of vaccination will be placed on a two-week unpaid “stand down” period.

At the end of the fortnight, disciplinary proceedings will begin that could result in termination of employment.

It’s the same policy being followed by WA Police, which also expects about 20 officers will leave the force as a result of the mandate.

Firefighters must have received at least one shot by December 1 to enter a fire and emergency services site, such as an incident area or fire station.

Fire and rescue volunteers, including members of bush fire brigades, marine rescue and the State Emergency Services, have until January 1 to comply.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 27, 2021 10:08 am

rickwsays:
Little Bloke – positive – but fine apart from feeling a bit dizzy.
Missus – No result yet – but definitely has something.
Me – Negative – have got some other sort of sniffle.

Oh and are you taking Ivermectin?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 27, 2021 10:09 am

The earlier Mads Mikkelsen

That is a good, disturbing flik…

Roger
Roger
November 27, 2021 10:09 am

The jabbed who get a “breakthrough” infection carry the same viral load as the unjabbed infected.

can carry…

Zipster
November 27, 2021 10:09 am

Apparently the cardiac arrests amongst soccer players are running at 5 times the average.

a mere flesh wound

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 27, 2021 10:11 am

Dozens of career firefighters refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19 will have their pay stopped on the first day of summer.

My son in law has lost his seasonal paid fire job in Vic over this, and it’s only a matter of time before my 26 years of SA volunteer firefighting ends the same way.

areff
areff
November 27, 2021 10:11 am

The 2020 version, which is part homage to Russ Meyer flicks and part satire of the modern well-heeled Left. The bit where the heroine explains Animal Farm to the lefty pseud after the climactic kitchen showdown between the battling belles is a gem.

Twostix
Twostix
November 27, 2021 10:13 am

See how they’re going to make you get all the jabs they bought for you?

And then additional different ‘jabs’ in between whenever you start getting rowdy.

And even when you fully comply you’re still going to be locked up, masked, tested and treated like livestock.

The only way to win is not to play. Yes it may cost you a lot. But this system, if it is allowed to become permanent is going to cost you way more.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 27, 2021 10:13 am

Apparently the cardiac arrests amongst soccer players are running at 5 times the average.

1) a mere flesh wound
2) I’m sure its nothing…

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 27, 2021 10:15 am

Fire and Emergency Services Commissioner Darren Klemm said he respected the right of his employees to decide whether or not to be vaccinated.
….
Any firefighters who fail to provide proof of vaccination will be placed on a two-week unpaid “stand down” period.
At the end of the fortnight, disciplinary proceedings will begin that could result in termination of employment.

One of these things is not like the other….

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 27, 2021 10:17 am

rickwsays:
Little Bloke – positive – but fine apart from feeling a bit dizzy.
Missus – No result yet – but definitely has something.
Me – Negative – have got some other sort of sniffle.

Moderators – feel free to pass my contact details to rickwsays if asked

Pogria
Pogria
November 27, 2021 10:19 am

Thanks mole, Thanks Areff. I will have to watch both of them.
Will consider it an evening well spent.

On another film note, I believe we should have a Purge Day, just like in the movie. Only, instead of criminals, we go after politicians, public serpents, greens and Twiggy Forest etc.

P
P
November 27, 2021 10:21 am

PANNICCCKKKKKK – everybody PAAANNNIICCCKKK Katie Hopkins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22C33ML_MB8

j.arimathea
j.arimathea
November 27, 2021 10:23 am

From Instapundit: Last Covid strain was Nu. Latest is Omicron. Looking at the Greek alphabet, what comes between these two letters? Xi! Couldn’t upset the Chairman could we? When Biden stops travel to/from SA, he is praised. When Trump did that with China, he was a racist. When Trump called Covid the Wuhan virus, he is a racist. Seems like a pattern here.

Twostix
Twostix
November 27, 2021 10:25 am

All countries signed onto the WHO’s pandemic control system over the last ten years. Layers and layers of ‘biosecurity’ and contagious illness laws and protocols and amendments to acts.

Hyper ‘surveillance’ and automatic protocols that must kick in in each country when certain things happen around the world during an officially declared ‘pandemic’ have created a machine that runs itself. This stuff by design will only end when the WHO (China and the pharmaceutical industry) say so or the US orders the west “no more”.

We’ve been drawn into being part of a tangled empire.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 27, 2021 10:28 am

My son in law has lost his seasonal paid fire job in Vic over this, and it’s only a matter of time before my 26 years of SA volunteer firefighting ends the same way.

Volunteer firies in Western Australia have been told they have to have the first shot by the end of December, and fully vaccinated by the end of January.

bespoke
bespoke
November 27, 2021 10:29 am

2020 version, Pogria.

Woolfe
Woolfe
November 27, 2021 10:32 am

If you take the AZ you are meant to wait 12 weeks between doses, “Ah McClown, you’ve Don it again”

Twostix
Twostix
November 27, 2021 10:32 am

The WHO changed the definition of a pandemic in 2009.

They removed the criteria where there must be obvious illness and death in the community.

See how fucked we are?

Nationally the only way out is to withdraw and ignore the WHO’s declaration of a ‘Pandemic’ – or denounce the WHO as lying and a front for China.

Trump did try that last March. Went well for him.

Delta A
Delta A
November 27, 2021 10:35 am

Carpe, don’t forget the bait.

lotocoti
lotocoti
November 27, 2021 10:36 am

Interesting?
Nah.
Just a co-inky-dink they skipped the letter between Nu and Omicron.

rickw
rickw
November 27, 2021 10:37 am

Moderators – feel free to pass my contact details to rickwsays if asked

Request sent!

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 27, 2021 10:37 am

Volunteer firies in Western Australia have been told they have to have the first shot by the end of December, and fully vaccinated by the end of January

Thats the 2 shot ‘full vaccination’, or the ‘3 shots’ or ???

Bons
November 27, 2021 10:41 am

Katie Hopkins
Genius.
Look for it on tomorrow’s Insiders.
The dulcet tones add unlimited cred.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 27, 2021 10:41 am

Moderators – feel free to pass my contact details to rickwsays if asked

Request sent!

Heading out the door to SA protest now, but make sure you get asap:

Ivermectin (can buy OTC at any horsey shop – Eraquell pellets best – about 7mls by volume is the 200mcg/kg dose for an 80kg person – start immediately)
Vitamin C
Vitamin D
Aspirin

more here https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FLCCC-Alliance-I-MASKplus-Protocol-ENGLISH.pdf

Pogria
Pogria
November 27, 2021 10:42 am

Thanks Bespoke.

Twostix
Twostix
November 27, 2021 10:42 am

It is my human right to achieve natural immunity to this.

I will not be forced to become drug dependent for the rest of my life at the point of a gun.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 27, 2021 10:42 am

Shit and Zinc!

cohenite
November 27, 2021 10:42 am

dad’s deadpool blog is a great site for topical memes but for some reason will not link on DB’s site. Do yourself a favour and look it up. You’ll be chuckling all day. Unless you’re a humourless bastard.

Zipster
November 27, 2021 10:43 am

new analysis of clinical trial results shows that Merck’s antiviral pill for treating COVID-19 is significantly less effective than previously reported in October, the company announced on Friday.

In the updated report, the drugmaker said its antiviral treatment drug, which is called molnupiravir, showed a 30 percent reduction in hospitalizations and deaths from the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, based on data from 1,433 patients.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 27, 2021 10:45 am

Thats ‘Shit – forgot Zinc’ …not buy shit and zinc

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 27, 2021 10:46 am

new analysis of clinical trial results shows that Merck’s antiviral pill for treating COVID-19 is significantly less effective than previously reported in October, the company announced on Friday.

say it isnt so!!

Twostix
Twostix
November 27, 2021 10:47 am

Also a reminder that millions of Americans were deliberately prescribed the most addictive opiods known to mankind by tens of thousands of doctors at the behest of the pharmaceutical industry and the regulators did nothing for a decade.

Mass addiction is a viable and acceptable business model in pharma.

rickw
rickw
November 27, 2021 10:51 am

Less than 20% of the people on the ship even tested positive – let alone got sick, and there was a lot of ‘discordance’ where one person got it and the spouse didnt.

Good news is, if you have a decent exposure, you can assume you have had an infective dose. If you fail to get sick or develop a positive PCR it doesnt matter, you are probably already immune due to your previous cough and cold exposure history.

Very interesting. We reckon the missus’s test will be positive. Negative tests seem to take less than 12 hours to get a result. Hers is still pending and we got tested within an hour of each other.

rickw
rickw
November 27, 2021 10:53 am

new analysis of clinical trial results shows that Merck’s antiviral pill for treating COVID-19 is significantly less effective than previously reported in October, the company announced on Friday.

They need Pfizer’s data Doctors!

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 27, 2021 11:01 am

Mass addiction is a viable and acceptable business model in pharma.

Except it isn ‘t.
There comes a point where the doctor refuses to prescribe Oxycontin any more, then the person is forced to source the drug from criminals.
The only way that benefits Big Pharma is if they also control the Black Market in drugs.
Which could be true, since Fentanyl is derived from Codeine production, a Legal activity.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 27, 2021 11:01 am

See how they’re going to make you get all the jabs they bought for you?

Unexpected thrift from the most profligate collection of nose-ringed oxen recorded since the swamps disgorged us as a species.

bespoke
bespoke
November 27, 2021 11:12 am

Please don’t respond to Ed’s circular trolling with anything more then the contempt it deserves.

Frank
Frank
November 27, 2021 11:18 am

Dozens of unvaccinated firefighters across WA to lose their job on the first day of summer.

Perhaps a flash mob carrying jerry cans and lighters at the end of Sneakers’ driveway on the first day of summer might help to focus the mind.

Cassie of Sydney
November 27, 2021 11:32 am

“To be a hypocrite you actually have to know what the Good is.

Biden doesn’t. His conscience was seared long ago.”

Agree…and it applies to the whole Demonrat party and the left in general.

miltonf
miltonf
November 27, 2021 11:36 am

So many of the people attracted politics are grifters, psychopaths and narcissists. I’d say the dirty old man polluting the Whitehouse is def the first two.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 27, 2021 11:40 am

Forget Big Pharma Special Ed. Start worrying about Big Stupid.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 27, 2021 11:44 am

Ed sets fire to another Gypsumman.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 27, 2021 11:49 am

I genuinely struggle with people who are attracted to politics. From Guild elections onwards.

Can’t say I know any personally, periodically meet a woman who is a local councillor from time to time through a mutual friend and people from law school have ended up in all 3 levels of government, including a one time AG.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 27, 2021 11:54 am

Ive found a very good response to guarded questions on the coof.

A quite blunt ‘its shit” seems to come as a relief to a lot of people at the moment.

Then branching out into its government shit and the sheer stupidity of vaccinating against a single strand DNA virus and pretending to be surprised by mutations & variants.

Kneel
Kneel
November 27, 2021 11:59 am

“WHO has now officially named it Omicron. “

Huh.
The nomenclature series would suggest it should have been Xi.
Wonder why they skipped that one?

custard
custard
November 27, 2021 12:01 pm

I canceled my subscription to the Oz last year but Mrs C insists buying the dead tree edition on Saturday morning.

I just opened it and there is a huge lift out on electric cars. FMD.

The Oz is part of the problem.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 27, 2021 12:02 pm

A quite blunt ‘its shit” seems to come as a relief to a lot of people at the moment.

It shouldn’t, since the hysteria is Government driven.
Deaths from delayed Vaccine reactions will be labeled as “New Variants”.
There’s no end to the New Variants Scam.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 27, 2021 12:02 pm

Starting WW III over a virus name would be a bad look.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 27, 2021 12:02 pm

The nomenclature series would suggest it should have been Xi.
Wonder why they skipped that one?

No reason, no reason at all…

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 27, 2021 12:03 pm

Merck’s antiviral pill

I wouldn’t go near it because of its mode of action.

“Molnupiravir inhibits viral reproduction by promoting widespread mutations in the replication of viral RNA by RNA-directed RNA polymerase” (wiki)

If it does the same for any of the vast range of normal human RNA then the results could be an issue. Long term testing would show this, but we ain’t getting that.

The advantage of repurposed antivirals like ivermectin, HCQ and etc is they have been used a long time so their long term issues are well known. Not so for this stuff being rushed out the door.

C.L.
C.L.
November 27, 2021 12:06 pm

Steve Waterson’s latest… Shame even he couldn’t resist sniffing a drive-by advisory:

Endless Covid rules: welcome to the new politics of spite

We’re segregating a few vaccine-hesitants while restrictions are stored until the next dictator slimes his or her way into power.

A friend told me from Canberra last week that obedience to Covid regulations in the nation’s capital has all but disappeared, now the ACT has passed the 95 per cent double-vaccinated marker and speeds towards a projected 99 per cent by Christmas.

“Hardly anyone bothers to see if you’ve checked in or bothers to inspect your vaccine certificates,” she said. “It’s almost become an honour system.

“You’d love it,” she laughed, having detected over the past 20 months that I’ve not been the most ardent supporter of our pandemic countermeasures.

But I don’t love it. Like many others, I’ve been hoping for an end to the ill-conceived overreach and cowardly hysteria that has poisoned our lives; but this looks very like the false ending I feared, drawn out like a tone-deaf parody of the last bars of a Beethoven symphony.

I can’t remember when the restrictions were supposed to be lifted. Was it at 70 per cent, or 80? Was it by the end of June, or two weeks after some curve was flattened? Maybe it was when we had enough new hospital beds, when the old and vulnerable were made safe, when the moon was in Sagittarius, or when Birnam Wood came to Dunsinane. The goalposts have been moved so often they should be on castors.

So instead of returning our lives to normal with a clear, decisive ­declaration as sensible nations around the world have done, our QR codes and contact tracing, our emergency powers, our lockdown provisions, our border closures and travel restrictions will gently fade into disuse, where they will fester just below the surface until the next vicious, simple-minded dictator slimes his or her way to power and, fancying a little social engineering, revives them.

They’ll be like the 13th century English laws that could fine you threepence for not practising archery on a Sunday, still on the statute books when I was at school – although not as quaint or useful.

When NSW hits 95 per cent, or on December 15, QR codes, happily, will only be required in “high-risk settings”.

It’s hard to see what risk, of any altitude, exists once almost everyone is fully vaccinated, but don’t question the imaginary science.

That tells us the following venues will remain high-risk: hospitals, aged-care and disability facilities. Oh yes, and gyms, places of worship and at funerals. And beauty parlours, for they are dangerously Coviddy places too.

Anywhere else feel a bit high-risk? Why, pubs and bars, naturally; and registered clubs and nightclubs: better keep the drinkers checking in, just in case caution is not present in sufficient abundance. And severely Coviditious indoor music venues. But that’s it. Otherwise, free as a bird.

And no one will miss those awful masks, will they? Unless they’re on a bus, of course. Or a train. Or sunning themselves on a ferry. Or in an airport, or on a plane, or serving someone in a restaurant while unvaccinated, for the fiendish virus knows where best to lay its ambush. Everywhere else, mask-wearing will merely be “strongly encouraged”, with state-sponsored paranoia outsourced to shopkeepers, restaurateurs and any other businesses, allowed to make up their own rules for admission and continue to demand vaccine certificates.

Please note this is in (relatively) relaxed NSW, whose stupidity shines like a beacon of tolerance and wisdom amid the moronic cruelty that has infected the rest of the country.

Elsewhere, our politicians demonstrate the adroitness of stage conjurers, misdirecting their audience, twisting words and turning meaning upside-down while patting themselves on the back. It’s “cases”, though, not any human agency, that lead to restrictions and lockdowns, as though the dolts who issue the orders have no choice, no role, no responsibility.

They then offer their patronising thanks for “all your hard work”, or for “doing the right thing”, which for many amounts to dodging their draconian fines, then trudging into the nearest pharmacy to be vaccinated against losing your job.

As we reclassify as pariahs the few who have refused the vaccine (but who, like almost everyone else in Australia, are also uninfected), the vitriol is warmed up.

Never mind that they are a risk primarily to themselves; our putative superiors demonise them as moronic conspirators lapping up deranged theories spawned in the darkest corners of the internet.

I think they’re foolish to refuse the vaccines, but the real derangement is displayed by the authorities, whose spiteful campaign long ago crossed the boundaries of human decency.

In Victoria, as vaccination levels increased, so did the impositions on those who remain unvaccinated, and on business owners, who have been ordered to check customers’ vaccine status. The Premier, who has covered himself from head to toe in whatever is the opposite of glory, bragged triumphantly that he would bar the unvaccinated from all but essential shopping venues “for the entirety of 2022”.

“Whether it’s a bookshop, a shoe shop, a pub, cafe, a restaurant, the MCG, the list goes on and on,” Daniel Andrews said.

“You will not be able to participate like a fully vaccinated person, because you’re not a fully vaccinated person.” So there!

His counterpart in Queensland has decided the fun will end for the lepers on December 17, regardless of the state’s vaccination rate. QR check-in, judging by the state government’s Covid website, looks set to continue forever. In the other states – oh, who cares.

Even the has-beens with no political currency slither out to spew their bile upon the sinners. Former NSW premier Bob Carr suggests the unvaccinated should be charged for their medical expenses should they catch Covid and require treatment: “You pay for your wilful stupidity,” the nasty pseudo-intellectual said, “not the rest of us.” Who’d be next? Cancer sufferers who used to smoke? Drinkers with swollen livers? Paralysed motorcyclists who took that last corner too fast?

Human folly must indeed be hard to fathom when you believe yourself incapable of error.

On the national canvas, mysteriously, any criticism of the states’ conduct throughout the pandemic has been muted, at best.

How could anyone with any kind of voice stay silent as Australian police officers battered the citizens they are supposed to serve and protect? How could they watch the shutters come down on so many livelihoods without seeking a better solution? How could they see the light of ambition and enthusiasm fade in the eyes of our young people and think throwing more pretend money at them would preserve their self-­respect?

We’ve waited for a denunciation of this insanity from our federal leaders, hoping they might urge some decency on their worthless state counterparts.

But from the PM down, those elected to enunciate and promote the values of the nation, to inspire and guide us, to stiffen our resolve in difficult times, have virtually abandoned their posts, if not their prime positions at the bubbler of public funds.

We know you don’t hold hoses or anything else of value, but you could and should have been loudly and regularly damning the criminal fragmentation of our society.

Do our national representatives endorse the premiers’ and their health bureaucrats’ savage blundering, or do they fear the electoral consequences of speaking out against them?

Either way, they are unfit to call themselves “leaders”, as devalued as that term already was. You’d search in vain for a sense of shame.

So while the elderly tremble in their care homes as the vultures circle over and around them, our politicians have overseen another assisted dying program for the businesses and dreams of thousands of Australians, fuelled by a winning combination of incompetence, greed and spite.

It’s a stain on our history that all their crocodile tears will never wash out.

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