Jupes posted this over at CL’s (which I visit in hope a couple of times every day). More good news.
Open Thread – Mon 29 Nov 2021
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Janet Albrechtsen has a couple of articles in the Oz which are perfectly pointed at the bureaucracy which has grown…
With a minute’s silence as well? Utterly disgraceful. Transgender Day of Remembrance Close it down. Now!
Twice.
Here’s the Leak cartoon
Still sounds like your average night out in Sydney.
Giving winter weather made-up mythical titles like “Storm Arwen” is gaslighting.
“Remember that Yorkshire snow-in? Yeah nah that was just Storm Arwen. Pub’s been knocked down for a wind farm now, good spot for it too. Turbines might get iced up just when we need the wattage the most, but hey we need it for our grandchildren’s grandchildren, you know, Greta and the little bloke Arwen…”
JACINDA ARDERN: You Now Have The Luxury To Use Your Friend’s Bathroom Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnofceB4wTo
Beautiful version
Loch Lomond (Arr. D. Overton for Vocal Ensemble)
“As the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy advises:
DON”T PANIC!”
“What else is there to do?” – Basil Fawlty.
Fake News Media Claims 5X Increase in Healthy World-Class Athletes Who Suddenly Collapse Holding Their Chest is Just a “Coincidence” and Nothing to “Panic” Over
And Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.
It starts with surrendering on just one principle.
Then you’re on the way to becoming a politician for whom everything is negotiable.
Heterosexuals have the numbers. Homosexuals are only a small percentage of the population.
Heteros aren’t in the right because we have the numbers, we have the numbers because we are right. If heteros were only two percent of the population, we’d have been extinct long ago. There’s only one ultimate test of who is right and who is wrong and it’s the survival of your genes. So Genghis Khan got it right and Alexander of Macedon got it wrong.
It’s my opinion that killing ppl with whom you disagree is a bad idea, but that’s just my opinion.
It wasn’t much, but 3AW used to be a slightly preferable alternative to the ABC’s Melbourne propaganda blasters. No more. It’s now an enforcer of the narrative. Mention ivermectin on air and they not only cut you off, they also delete the call from the podcast.
But it gets worse.
Listen to the treatment this nurse gets — I’m giving the caller the benefit of the doubt and assuming he’s genuine — when reporting the heart cases flooding his emergency room.
And do note how the blathering compere says people aren’t equipped to know if they need medical care.
https://twitter.com/Mark_G_Davies/status/1465248510937165824
Maybe someone should alert Frank Walker that tile shoppers will be looking elsewhere
Not everyone liked rum, so they stopped it.
Coronavirus news: Omicron spurs Fauci to talk lockdowns and Govornor Ron DeSantis says NO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUgOEaP9WpU
Israel: Protesters march against COVID-19 restrix in Tel Aviv
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The latest in the ABC campaign against the religious discrimination laws:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-30/religious-discrimination-bill-people-with-disability-lgbtqi/100659144
The stuff about disability is beyond the deranged, even by ABC standards. Someone might, just might, pat a dwarf on the shoulder on a bus or train and utter the obnoxious hate-speech ‘Jesus loves you’. FMD.
Happy to talk to her by phone if she wants a Drs opinion – I have taken it multiple times myself.
Very clever of Spooner this morning..
He’s having a very serious dig at glowball warming hysteria and vaccines – but it is ambiguous as to which side is ‘the troll’.
Sounds like yer average cold.
Mater
They need to change the focus of recruiting from what the military can give them, and ask instead whether they’re tough enough to survive the military.
A few good men/persons?
“super mutant variant”
“super-variant”
Shoot me now variant.
This is the most childish, infantilised country on planet earth.
Twenty years of more or less unearned rivers of gold flowing into the country has turned many Australians into mental thumbsucking toddlers.
So I’m all in with the Greens. For us to live, mining must die.
The RAN has never had a rum ration.
The other two only on Saturdays.
It’s literally a cold.
ACT vaccination rate apparently hits 100%.
Everything wrong with the place right there. And they write the laws we live under.
Interesting case. Lots of supporters have argued for a long time she is innocent.
An appeal by convicted killer Susan Neill-Fraser has failed.
Neill-Fraser’s second appeal – against her 2010 conviction for the murder of her partner, Bob Chappell, on board their yacht in Hobart’s River Derwent on Australia Day 2009 – was on Tuesday morning rejected by Tasmania’s Court of Criminal Appeal.
During the course of three days of the appeal hearings in March 2021, Neill-Fraser’s legal team abandoned multiple planks of their case, notably the evidence of a key witness, former homeless girl Meaghan Elisabeth Vass.
Ms Vass sensationally recanted her evidence that linked others to the crime, telling the court she had been “hounded” and “threatened” into giving false testimony, including by a jail friend of Neill-Fraser’s.
However, Neill-Fraser’s lawyers had argued the one surviving plank of their case – expert opinion about how Vass’ DNA might have come to be on the yacht – was enough to justify a retrial.
Two of three appeal judges rejected that argument.
Seeing make and mend day in a whole new perspective.
By all accounts, omicron is fantastic news. It promises to render the pandemic an endemic pathogen of wholly mild proportions.
In other words, pending an unexpected or so far unseen complication this is the one to let rip through the population to ensure partial immunity to any other strains.
I did see a subtle change in tone which makes me think the shithouse rats in health are going to try the following.
1: Hair on fire super mega virus shooting frikkin lazers from its eyes beatup.
2: Express happiness “the vaccines are working well”
3: Declare they were doing the right thing all along with this 2 years+ of mongoloidism and the lack of deaths to the super mega virus shooting frikkin lazers from its eyes proves it.
However the cat has been belled that its basically a flu already, they will have to juice up the fear and remove the ïts a mild strain”from the narrative before it will work.
Sent something to Mr. Barton, but I’m expecting he’ll vote with the government regardless of the backlash.
Given months ago I was hearing people I don’t know talking about slotting Andrews, Labor MPs, and the three amigos in the street if they saw them I can’t see this ending well.
Wait till they get to 117% like Gibraltar
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/gibraltar/
The WHO’s Dr. Ted Ross stopped just short of personifying it as the grim reaper which will ease the third world’s over-population problem.
Speaking of opportunistic fear-mongerers, Palaszczuk yesterday promised to do all she can to “keep Queenslanders safe” from the new variant. The tourism sector waits with ‘bated breath.
Double jabbed good, quadruple jabbed better.
Liberal hypocrisy.
Surprisingly honest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDgcjVGHIw
But no mandates for commonwealth employees anywhere in Australia, and no vaccine passports in the ACT.
How do we verify these vaccination numbers?
I know there are unvaccinated people in Canberra.
I notice Gib is second to Denmark in the test happy stakes.
jabbened
jabbenened
jabbenenened
jabbenenenened
Vhere vill zis end?
…But the Pride of the Fleet is YOU!
***Whistled 1812 Overture Intensifies***
I have noticed before the advertising for the military is about what you will get out of it. Quite a whack of affirmative action as well.
If they were ever called to go into combat I can imagine a lot of people feeling they had been dudded. (I am assuming they continue feeding the belief that it is all about what the recruits will be getting out of it after they join as otherwise they will just try to get out.)
Omicron will sneak into your bedroom in the early hours, take a leak in your false teeth glass, steal the jizz sock from under your bed and set the alarm on your phone to make you late for work. It’s a beast.
Unpersons. They don’t count in the 100%.
Just messaged the latest Victorian crossbench traitor. One short and polite telling him and his staff to enjoy the rest of their careers which I signed my name to. One longer and more scathing more anonymised one as his constituent and, to my eternal shame, voter.
Why would you even give the time of day to DickDan when he completely ignored you from May to November while he romanced the three treasonous musketeers?
Barton had the chance to be a hero but he’s proven himself to be the same miserable chancer as 99% of all politicians.
twostixsays:
November 30, 2021 at 11:00 am
How do we verify these vaccination numbers?
I know there are unvaccinated people in Canberra.
Ssshhhh. Let them believe their dodgy statistics, not just in the ACT, but in the rest of Australia. Once they believe that everyone is vaxxed, the illnesses deaths will cease (or at least, reporting will).
While hailing the demise of the cricket commentary “lad’s club” of former English captains (Botham, Gower & now Vaughan all out), English journalist Ed Cumming has described Michael Holding as “the best voice not just in cricket, but in broadcasting.”
If only radio had subtitles.
illnesses and deaths!
The young men who join to go into combat roles despise those ads.
Reasonable quality Red Ensign. Mine just arrived:
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/154062778470
Like listening to Michael Holding at night when the WI Tests are broadcast. Not quite as good as an Ashes Test but close.
universal suffrage was a catastrophic mistake
An issue the British Army faced before the Falklands war – the members of two support units declared “They didn’t join the Army to go to war.”
I wrote to Barton who’s email address is conveniently already recorded in my records.
Politely promised not to vote for him again and to discourage others from doing so.
Short and sweet.
Omicron will break into your office, empty the hole punch and leave those little white paper dots all over the carpet, lever the semi colon key off your computer keyboard and drink all the milk in the fridge. It’s imperative that everyone gets vaccinated.
A bit of a leap there. But yes, women were easier to deal with when they were property.
Then again there are quite a few military who like going to war.
After all, it’s akin to training for the football game, and never actually playing in a match.
Difficult for forces to admit this, and even more difficult to recruit for it, these days.
Omicron stole my shoes. Ask you know who.
Seconded. Always liked Michael Holding’s commentary, also his cometary bowling. Fine guy.
These days commentating teams seem to be a mix of wymminses and trannies. No thanks.
Omicron will bludge a lift off you, change the radio station without asking and natter on about the weather. Close the borders!
Wives, hey. Nevertheless, it must stick in her craw that she is vaxxed and with COVID and that you are unvaxxed and without.
I noticed quite a few of the Red Ensign’s at the march in Sydney on Saturday sported Federation stars with only six points.
(I hope that does not summon Bird up from the infernal regions of his obsession.)
Not all of them though. But it looked like most.
What is that about?
He’s now become a “anyone who doesn’t take the knee is a racist” guy.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=US+china+russia+military+recruitment+ads&view=detail&mid=D33AA0816C29A200ABB4D33AA0816C29A200ABB4&FORM=VIRE
They need to change the focus of recruiting from what the military can give them, and ask instead whether they’re tough enough to survive the military.
I’ve posted the link before, but it shows which 2 of the 3 countries are serious about continuing to exist.
Omicron will pretend to be your friend, roll it’s eyes behind your back and “forget” your birthday. Why won’t the government lock down now?
Oh Mike! Ron!
What have they done now?
O’Micron – an Oyrish distance unit of measure.
Palaszczuk mandating vaccination for all school and child care workers.
Franxsays:
November 30, 2021 at 8:57 am
It wasn’t a lockdown then.
(Individual experiences may vary)
That’s an incredibly mild virus.
Omicron will offer to drive you halfway across the State to visit your sick grandmother, hang around for tea and bikkies, drive you back and then refuse to take any petrol money you offer, on the grounds of “I’m just helping out a mate.”
And then offer to come around and help you paint your house on Saturday. With a slab of your favourite beer in tow.
Permanent Climate-Lockdowns for all non-nomenklatura humanoid economic units now!
Sad to here that Roger. Ah well, bowlers aren’t gifted in the wisdom stakes, seems to be mutually exclusive. Pat Cummins being most recent example.
Earlier variant of the Red Ensign.
The earliest approved variants in ise from 1901 to 1908 had 6-point stars under the Union Jack. The 7-pointer Federation Star is a post-1908 change.
I like the 1901 version- The various points on the Southern Cross were to represent the relative brightness of each star in the constellation.
My sister has just had a frightening run in with omicron.
It cut her off in traffic, gave her the two fingers sign and called her a “swanky hoon”.
This is a terrifying variant.
Wives, hey. Nevertheless, it must stick in her craw that she is vaxxed and with COVID and that you are unvaxxed and without.
I think this is definitely contributing to the general misery of the situation. She keeps promising that my demise will come shortly!
Lol. Give her a big smoochy kiss. Or ten.
Desperate times call for desperate measures!
Omicron will take you out to the pub on Friday night, and effortlessly out-sing you on your favourite and best song at Karaoke.
And then drink more pints than you could handle at your youngest and fittest, and beat you convincingly at darts. And still look sober enough to fool the bouncers as he carries you out of the bar.
2 more boosters for everyone each. Now!
ML
I noticed quite a few of the Red Ensign’s at the march in Sydney on Saturday sported Federation stars with only six points.
That reminds me.
Winston, if you are lurking and it is not too late, you might like to consider replacing the six pointed star on your T-shirt design with w seven point Commonwealth Star with the bio-hazard symbol inside it. It makes the point better, I think.
Well, just about time for Round Two. Off to the pub and an extra serve of family.
Raining cats and dergs here, so there’s no escape to the beer garden.
Haha, break out the popcorn! The union will be on her side no doubt, which should nicely red-pill 20-30% of their members.
The little bloke insisted that we run an O Gauge line from the sitting room to the lounge. Missus: Why are you guys doing that? Little Bloke: Because it needed to be done just once!
We just got back from a surveying trip of the front and back gardens. I think we all know where this is heading! Only question is whether or not we should give the grass a close mow before we start…..
Federation Star!
Salvatore
Melbourne cbd was deserted, dead during lockdown except for the construction sites. But construction, too, was banned for a couple of weeks when Dan got narky about the cfmeu revolt.
Dan got narky about the cfmeu revolt.
Was talking to the unvaxxed builder in the factory next door: “I was a Croatian led protest, we know what the fuck communism looks like, that’s why we came to Australia!”
He was seriously pissed at being banned from his daughter’s confirmation. Also knows plenty of people who sustained vax injuries.
People are not going to be forgetting shit like this in a hurry.
I believe that a complaint about Hadley should be lodged with ACMA
“2GB radio host Ray Hadley lashes out at Covid anti-vaxxers
2GB radio host Ray Hadley launched a fiery attack at a listener on Tuesday suggesting the anti-vaxxer would be a Nazi and paedophile sympathiser.
Radio heavyweight Ray Hadley has savaged anti-vaxxers in a blistering, on-air spray suggesting they would be Nazi and paedophile sympathisers.
2GB morning host Hadley raised a “hugely insulting” email from a listener on Tuesday morning, who accused Hadley and 2GB colleague Mark Levy of “cowardice” for not allowing anti-vaxxers to call in and share their views on the talkback line.
Hadley launched into a stunning attack on the listener, calling him a “dickhead” and declaring anti-vaxxers would “never” have a voice on his show.”
Omicron has infected a local Melbourne radio DJ.
He played Rick Ashley three times in a row and then went home with a mild headache.
This confounded strain is the very devil himself stalking the land.
To “protect” children under 12.
Who aren’t affected in the slightest by “covid”.
The lies are relentless, the objective is the only thing that is as solid is a rock: you will take these drugs.
God help us.
Astley you damn spell check.
To “protect” children under 12.
Who aren’t affected in the slightest by “covid”.
Fact Check True.
7mm or the American scale?
Not unknown that progeny of Croatians who fled communism are now fleeing to Croatia.
Flying rhinos.
30 South African white rhino relocated to Rwanda in a Boeing 747 (29 Nov)
Don’t think they’ll do very well just over the border from Tanzania and not all that far from the Congo, but the idea of a 747 flying around with 30 rhinos in it is fun.
Yes, he also said he doesn’t believe de Kok’s recent explanation for his initial stance was sincere. In my book it’s poor form to question a man’s conscience without a very good reason for doing so. The next step is banning all dissent, which it appears Holding would be quite comfortable with. Anyway, he’s just retired from commetating so I won’t have to wrestle with his accent or his race politics anymore. No doubt others will further the cause, which will ruin cricket.
As for Cummings, I had to laugh when a newspaper write up about how he would be an “activist captain” mentioned that he was “university educated”. The days when gaining university entrance meant you were especially bright were over decades ago.
Covid cases by age Australia
0-9: 30925
10-19: 32392
Covid deaths by age Australia
0-9: 1
10-19: 2
Thanks for that, Rex.
I honestly did not know that.
And the difference stars in the cross with points indicating magnitude I must have missed on the weekend.
“Well, just about time for Round Two. Off to the pub and an extra serve of family.”
All the best Calli.
The point being, taking the jab will have you losing a lot more than just your job, and most likely your life.
The hell on earth unleashed by complying and submitting will have you shaking your head and saying, all I would have lost is a job,….., and only for a while, and maybe not at all if everyone else at your work just said no as well………for if we’d all refused we would not now be trying to exist in a bug eating, digital tyranny that makes 1984 look like a picnic in the meadow.
What did you give away to save a job , what did you trade?
Everything.
Evertything.
Your job included.
It’s now just a matter of time.
Not realising you were at war right from the start and needed to push back immediately has brought us to this point.
But those stating the obvious back then were considered conspiracy theorists and were drowned out by screaming Karens and sneerers who refused to believe it was happening.
The majority actually believed this was about a virus for way too long.
Many still do.
By the way, KD, I have worked in Ramingining and around that entire area, and lived and worked in Darwin.
Everyone knows of the violence and drunkenness of Gulpilil.
Just a community blackfella who let his fame get to his head, and thought he was some sort of mafia head in his own community, and was treated like such.
Unfortunately just another violent, drunk long grasser the left fawn over, patronise and destroy with the racism of low expectations, which of course, causes more violent drunk long grassers.
So I second your assessment of him.
One of the commenters assures us that “first nations peoples were not recognized as human beings in this country, until the 1960’s.” So much stupidity, so little time…
Physically heavyweight.
Radio lightweight.
What a load of bunkum. If it IS true – all I can say is that contemporary Australians have become highly “suggestible” & swallow anything the MSM tells them as fact.
Well, that is the accusation of cowardice dispatched with aplomb – laying into the listener without them being able to respond.
Is Hadley still fuming about Cardinal Pell?
Passing Canary.
Solar Orbiter flies by Earth before beginning final journey to Sun (29 Nov)
Fly on little birdie. I hope your wings don’t melt.
Yep. I’d wager this is not about “protecting the vulnerable” as she claimed but overcoming the stalled vaccination rate. Note, too, that the Federal executive is unwilling to even test the Commonwealth’s powers in regard to overriding such mandates. Whether this is cowardice or complicity, it will not soon be forgotten and, it is hoped, will cost them marginal seats.
Scanlon institute, like all of these ‘research’ companies is a pro-immigration open borders propaganda NGO.
Here’s it’s advisory committee:
They want you to know you’re a racist, Australia, and you need a million more immigrants a year to come here.
Arky says:
November 30, 2021 at 12:12 pm
Never give up, Arky…
Omicron turned me into a newt…
Used to imagine a miniature ride-on train line in the garden encircling the house.
Probably better to just ride on someone else’s.
The Scanlon Institute ‘fostered social cohesion’ by not asking any Australians to be on its 13 person advisory committee.
See how that works?
They want you to know you’re a racist, Australia, and you need a million more immigrants a year to come here.
On their ABCcess this morning..
Bemoaning the fact the Omni-cold would hold up the expected 200,000 “students” and “skilled workers” about to fly in.
Why do they want these poor waifs exposed to Australias racist, racist people?
Do they hate darkies or something?
Before drawing any conclusions you’d have to see how the questions were framed.
Be that as it may, I do wonder about the connection between racism and multiculturalism. Time was when migrants were expected to leave their prejudices behind and make a new start when they came to Australia. The fact is many of the world’s cultures are built on an ethnic pride which nurtures historical grievances against other peoples who exist only as a foil.
Sounds like a fruity bunch. The CEO wymminse is on the board of the Australian Multiculural Council.
Fish, water.
I went to the Sydney protest last weekend. It was a good mix of people, well behaved, many carrying signs of their own (rather than the ones that are mass printed by Socialist Alliance etc).
A lot of flags, too. I assume this is the racism we are supposed to be fretting about.
But there were some other agenda being snuck in. There was the smoking ceremony and a welcome to country. Then there was a chant of “Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land”. They also had the National Anthem. Two versions. The first was not in English but some other land. The English version came after.
On returning to Hyde Park I heard that traditional wisdom would help us through the pandemic. And the importance of “People, not profits”.
I thought the march had been hijacked, so I left at that point.
Can’t not be parody.
If not, some people need be locked in a small room with an over amorous giraffe.
Interesting.
Veeerry interesting.
https://twitter.com/CliffordHayesMP/status/1465433350248697858?s=20
But it’s ok with Rod!
LOL.
Scanlon Institute 2020:
Expenses
Employee expenses: $132,801.00
Interest expenses: $0.00
Grants and donations made for use in Australia: $0.00
Grants and donations made for use outside Australia: $0.00
All other expenses: $735,011.00
Total expenses: $867,812.00
Net surplus/(deficit): $2,023,530.00
Other comprehensive income: $0.00
Total comprehensive income: $2,023,530.00
“Other expenses”.
All in this together..
Well at least YOU are.
Private Flying Takes Off, Boosting Demand for Business Jets
Some well-heeled, would-be private-jet fliers are being turned away as industry booms
“… lever the semi colon key off your computer keyboard …”
Nah, it’s much nastier than that!
It’ll take a screenshot of your desktop, turn it upside down, set that as your background image for the desktop, then invert the monitor image in hardware too. Do you know how hard it is to get the mouse pointer to go where you want it to go when this has been done? That’s real nasty! Hell, it may even mirror the screen left-to-right and do the same for horizontal as well as vertical. Just… evil!
Nuke it from orbit – it’s the only way to be sure.
And these 3 had serious comorbidities so they probably would have succumb to the flu in a normal year.
After emails and an online message, I thought it was time to give Rod a call. Got shunted to voicemail. 🙁
Avi reports he’s locked down his Twitter account. Perhaps he’s got shy about hearing thoughts about traffic light communications technologies?
Covid deaths by age Australia
0-9: 1
10-19: 2
Fark.
Didn’t realise the numbers were so high.
Need to lock down now.
Won’t somebody think of the children?
we run an O Gauge line
7mm or the American scale?
7mm to the foot, Hornby track and a mix of Hornby and Mettoy engines and rolling stock.
Don’t forget, Dover, that’s the total over two complete flu seasons (2020 & 2021).
The level of insanity is beyond belief.
Rep Boebert apologises, sort of, to that brother marrying, muslim bitch, omar:
Lauren Boebert Reveals Details Of Call With Ilhan Omar
Terrific. Gateway drugs.
Next you will be casting silicon bronze valve housings and flaring copper tubes to assemble a pair of boilers for a Garrett double engine running on 7 1/4″ track.
Indeed. If you look at the figures the under 40s are the majority of cases and suffer the fewest sever cases. A sane, adult nation would have left the under 40s earn broad robust natural immunity and thus a solid bulwark against future spread.
Rod Barton’s about-face is so total, despite achieving very little in the way of concessions, you have to wonder if he’s being blackmailed. This is Victoria, remember, where ‘by any means necessary’ is Andrews & Co’s motto. VicPol dirt file? Honey trap? Phone monitored?
Nothing, absolutely nothing, is below Vic Labor’s capacity to stoop.
” “how big a problem is racism in Australia?” with six in 10 answering “very big” or “fairly big””
Heh.
Every single person I have spoken to that has actually lived in a country that they, or their parents, were not a native of has told me the exact same thing – Australia is NOT racist to anywhere near the level of those countries.
Sure, it exists – always has, always will.
But it is a very small minority and hardly “systemic”. Indeed, most of those people thought it was a little too far, rather than not far enough – that we should have a bit more respect for traditional Australian culture instead of kowtowing to the “foreigners” so much.
Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese, West Indian to name a few, living in countries NOT of their ancestry all said this.
Every.
Single.
One.
No exceptions.
I’m with Roger. How were the questions framed?
Guardian style opt-in online surveys abound.
Unless the methodology is demonstrated, it is prudent to assume it was a voluntary survey of Greens members.
Example: A couple of law/arts lecturers (note: not statisticians) at Sydney Uni conducted a “survey” that proved endemic widespread underpayment of fruit-picking backpackers.
The lecturers received hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants for the survey, & hundreds of thousands more for a second survey, so simply rehashed (hey, no need for accuracy, we’re not statisticians) some “results” from the survey & called it a “second” survey.
The methodology was opt-in online, with no block on a respondent doing multiple re-sits of the survey questions.
They “survey” is quoted far & wide by unions, by zealots who sprout “farmers exploit backpackers”, & the like.
Most of the IP addresses that responded were traceable to Sydney Uni.
Unless the Scanlon “survey” can demonstrate foolproof methodology, I’m calling bullshit.
I’m disappointed in you, Graeme Struth. Not even a single call to Repent…
Terrific. Gateway drugs.
We’re well on the way!
We also have a Mamod engine with G scale wheel width and a layout 50% built that uses 10mm by 3mm aluminium strip from Bunnings for rail and 3D printed track straights, curves and points to match height of LGB track. We’ve also 3D printed a few wagons that I drew up.
Nothing, absolutely nothing, is below Vic Labor’s capacity to stoop.
Almost certainly been “got at”, I think the voter feedback would blister the paint on his office at 20 paces. No doubt Vikpol delivered on finding some dirt.
According to rumors in Austrian media, the mandatory vaccination starting in February of the Austrians could reach down to 14-year-olds. With threat of imprisonment of those who resist… source: https://kurier.at/politik/inland/impfpflicht-koennte-ab-14-jahren-gelten-notfalls-ersatzfreiheitsstrafe/401823118
The Austrian draft states that if you don’t come to your person
* 3600€ fine or 1 month prison the first time
* 7200€ fine or 2 months prison the second time
I guess the punishments from the first Nuremburg trials weren’t severe enough
@ RickW-
If your outdoor O scale railway adventures go anywhere beyond the ‘That’s a Nice Idea’ stage, can I recommend you look into the following 2 books?
Practical Garden Railways by Peter Jones and Getting Started in Garden Railroading by Allan W. Miller. Both available from the Kindle Store.
Some expectations will need to be calibrated by the fact that the former is written for English conditions and the latter American, but somewhere between them you should find everything you need to get stuck in. 🙂
* The Austrian draft states that if you don’t come to your personal
“invitation“ for mRNA vaccination:
Excellent. Those books I recommended were written with this sort of scale and equipment in mind.
That’s just crazy, throwing 14 year olds into gaol for refusing to take an experimental concoction.
“Nothing, absolutely nothing, is below Vic Labor’s capacity to stoop.”
Cardinal George Pell can attest to that.
Thanks Rex!
A more appropriate and relevant question:
“how big a problem is government in Australia?”
As night follows day, coming soon to Australia.
Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health booted for faking native American ancestry
Another one bites the dust.
Love how she starts small, but can’t resist embellishing her story to the point of getting called on it by real native Americans.
A trial run for the rest of the world
Yep. Hooked for life!
As a kid I got a HO scale set for a birthday once. Heaven! Saved up pocket money for a second loco, and a signal set and more points.
Then my dad revealed he had in the shed a box full of all his old HO track from when he was a kid. A bit of steel wool and oh yes, heaven on steroids.
Give Me Steam!
Good hunting, Rick.
I inherited an old 1970s Hornby Rocketive steamer from my old boss before he retired to NZ. I haven’t run it for a few years (1:1 scale hobby and professional railroading has kinda got in the way), but it did once make me dream of setting up a garden track for it to potter about on.
One day… 🙂
Feck! Typo!
1970s Hornby Rocket Live steamer
this word, racist, is so politicised and worn out as to be meaningless. what does it even mean these days? you prefer your own race, you want to mow down other races. who knows. who cares. communists who use this word can & go and get fucked
Rex
Why not hook them on something that really ensures they wont have enough money to get into drugs.
Like WH40K
Steam trains are just a gateway drug to Tull.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i19d1QnstsA
***Looks at 14-tank Imperial Guard Armoured Battlegroup and masses of unmade sprues collected over some 18 years and 5 editions of the game***
We…try not to talk about that too much…
Some other bloke has died too:
Australian actor, dancer, singer and painter David Dalaithngu, most famous for his roles in Storm Boy and Ten Canoes, has died at his home at Murray Bridge.
This is after various media reports said Gulpilil’s family had agreed media could use his name as such.
Amazing how stuff we discuss on the Cat months and months ago becomes reality. It’s like we’re a bunch of prophets or something.
The woman, who is fully vaccinated, arrived in Sydney on flight QR908 from Doha to Sydney on 25 November and travelled by private car to the Central Coast. She had been in southern Africa, and is now isolating at home on the Central Coast.
“NSW Health advises a number of venues were visited by the traveller in Sydney and on the Central Coast before NSW Health directed travellers from southern Africa to go into isolation.”
The venues include:
? Coles, Top Ryde Shopping Centre: Friday, November 26, 9.30am to 10.45am
? Target Parramatta, Westfield Parramatta: Friday November 26, 10.45am to 11am
? H&M Parramatta, Westfield Parramatta: Friday November 26, 11am to 11.15am
? The Athlete’s Foot, Westfield Parramatta: Friday November 26, 11.15am to 11.30am
? JD Sports, Westfield Parramatta: Friday November 26, 11.15am to 12pm
? Rebel Sports, Westfield Parramatta: Friday November 26, 12pm to 12.45pm
? IGA, North Wyong: Friday November 26, 6.15pm to 7pm
? Pizza Hut, Wyong: Friday November 26, 7pm to 7.15pm
? KFC North, Wyong: Friday November 26, 7.15pm to 7.30pm
? Woolworths, Wadalba: Friday November 26, 7.30pm to 8.15pm
? Aldi, Toukley: Saturday November 27, 4.45pm to 5.45pm
Oh boy, you should see the photo of this landwhale circulating on twitter.
Apparently you can give blood while unvaxxed but you can’t work, go to a museum or restaurant.
There’s no wide angle lenses big enough, I think.
Danger! There are llamas!
A supermarket in Melbourne has been forced to apologise after taping a message to its register encouraging staff to racially profile African customers.
Sunshine West IGA in the city’s outer-west has come under fire after a customer shared the notice on social media, which calls for workers to use a ‘special button’ if an African person walks into the store.
‘If an African customer comes to the bottle shop presses the button for assistant immediately!’ the message reads.
‘Minimum 2 staffs in front while we serve Africans.’
Daily Mail
Dickhead Dorsey has resigned from Twitter. Can it get any worse as a woke nesting ground for the left? Sure.
New CEO.
IGA, North Wyong: Friday November 26, 6.15pm to 7pm
? Pizza Hut, Wyong: Friday November 26, 7pm to 7.15pm
? KFC North, Wyong: Friday November 26, 7.15pm to 7.30pm
? Woolworths, Wadalba: Friday November 26, 7.30pm to 8.15pm
Does her shopping.
Then goes for a cheeky pizza.
Then not full, stops by the dirty bird for seconds.
Then decides the boot full of groceries & gut full of junk food isn’t enough so she heads to Woollies to stock up some more.
….
Let’s get this straight: this is state mandated drug dependency.
“(1:1 scale hobby and professional railroading has kinda got in the way)”
Once worked with a guy who restored full-size railway stuff to its “glory days” condition. From rusting junk to shiny paint and polished stainless steel – when finished, they sure were works of art, I’ll give him that.
But the time and effort that goes into it is truly stunning – especially the need for a full size railway siding to do the work on, which yes, he did have access to. Several years most of them took. Sourcing lead-based, turps solvent paint, brass thingamabobs that needed to be hand made, no real time or expense was spared on those carriages. I never met his wife, and he didn’t talk about her much, so maybe that is related 🙂
rickw, sounds like you are having waaay too much fun!
I used to read the books, but never built an engine. Took the kids when they were little to see Castledare Miniature Railway and to the model railway shows at the the Showgrounds. So many people doing brilliant work! A few younger people, a few older – and so many of the builders were two generations ago and are now late.
And even the full scale live steam guys were mostly a generation ago. We have ridden a number of steam-powered excursion trains whose support societies and home railway museums have dwindled over the years since.
I read something on a site yesterday which I came to via a Cat-link (vague enough for you so far?), which has me wondering whether or not to be worried.
This bloke suggested that with all health workers in a facility (hospital/community clinic etc.) vaccinated (as is mandated), the chance of the same health workers transmitting COVID-19 to their patients (because the vaccines theoretically reduce the symptoms of the virus) and turning the facility into a slaughterhouse, is quite possible.
I told this to a group of people at a community meeting this morning, but received only blank stares and a few eye-rolls in return.
If you’re vaccinated, and the vaccine reduces the symptoms you feel/display, then you are less likely to be aware you are a carrier, and, as a health worker, you could then unwittingly infect a ward of patients with compromised immune systems, and … blammo!
Does that sound reasonable or not? I’m nearing the point where I’m not as certain of reason and rationality anymore.
Excellent choice of scale. If you are thinking of braving the great outdoors Kalmbach Publishing also does a specialist garden railway mag and books.
When he gets bit older and wants to model what he sees around him point him at the Aus7 modellers group
We’re living in history right now, the sort of stuff that is going to written in the history books and people will think “Why on earth did they put up with that shit? Wasn’t it obvious they were being sold out by their governments?” something like the Dutch East India company and opium trade.
“Just as planned…”
Always think the worst straight up. It saves time and avoids disappointment.
Cochrane Review of utterly useless Tamiflu suggested if Tamiflu had ever been used in a true ‘pandemic’ scenario it would have made it worse for that very reason. Slight masking of ‘symptoms’ and placebo effect made people who took it get out and about while they were still sick.
‘If an African customer comes to the bottle shop presses the button for assistant immediately!’ the message reads.
‘Minimum 2 staffs in front while we serve Africans.’
Kind of like that old Melbourne Asian saying:
If African* get on tram.
Get off tram.
*African woman can beat shit out of you, maybe more than African man, even if you a guy, get off tram!
Seen this first hand with my missus and her friends. Hey where you guys going? This isn’t our stop! Ok, I’m going to stay on the tram, see you there! (It was spontaneous, no discussion necessary, like a flock of birds taking flight when spotting a predator).
Missus: Did anything happen to you?
Me: Nah, I’m not Asian.
I know someone who sunk more than the GNP of several island nations into the WH40K. I believe he is presently setting up a tournament in Townsville, and he built 8 of the 15 table layouts.
Jail for ‘aggressively defiant’ rule-breaker who
deliberately damaged wetlandfilling in a swamp on his own lanRon is really, really good. They’ll have to cheat to end up beating him if Trump doesn’t run.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/desantis-media-is-lying-about-waukesha-killer-and-kyle-rittenhouse/
The other thing to remember is what counts as ‘racist’.
Asking someone if there is anything they can’t eat would be one. Or some dear showing interest in another person’s background when they are not inclined to talk about it will be taken as racist, I expect.
Reading this model train stuff set me thinking on my 12 years old grandson in Danistan .. luvs Lego Technic been into it since he was 7/8 .. anyway last year his Dad sez to him,
“Guess I’d better have my box of Lego sent over from NZ from when I was a kid”.
F/F 2 months and, said, box arrived .. turns out it weren’t just ordinary Lego but the BIG stuff from long before TECHNO .. trains, trucks, semis, boats etc .. models discontinued aeons ago & worth thousands if they ever hits EBAY ….. he rebuilt ’em all in 3 weeks ..
And one day, idiots relenting!, I might get to Danistan to see it all!
When he gets bit older and wants to model what he sees around him point him at the Aus7 modellers group
Very possible! Just had a series of “one more run!” On the sitting room-lounge line before his COVID enforced nap. Huge excitement over derailments and “clean” runs!
(My O Gauge anti derailment tricks are to tighten all the track joints with a nail pincer and ensure the rolling stock wheels have a light coating of oil so they are slippery and can’t climb out, may cause some initial engine traction problems but after a wipe down you normally hit the happy medium.)
Top Endersays:
November 30, 2021 at 2:11 pm
Sunshine West IGA came under fire eh?… From whom?
This points to immigrant management.
1/. If the wording above is the same as the sign, it is written by NESB.
2/. That they put this in writing instead of informal but strongly reinforced verbal instruction.
The Venn diagram would be a circle: of wokesters who are insisting the management not take any action to protect staff from violence, & those who believe it is the job of management to protect ordinary workers from violence.
Also, none of the wokesters would be facing random violence at work & would have no idea what it is like to be defenceless & thrown to the wolves.
It would be easy to feel like you’re going crazy at a time like this. This is posted by our old mate Chip Le Grande…
…
every person who recovers from a mild case is left with greater immunity against future infections than any of the current vaccines provide
So the SMH literally tells you that natural immunity is better immunity than the ‘vaccines’ give you. But if you say that you’re an ‘anti-vaxxer’ murderer.
Spare us.
Does that sound reasonable or not? I’m nearing the point where I’m not as certain of reason and rationality anymore.
Sounds pretty reasonable.
I think unvaxxed / asymptomatic carrier is pretty much something that doesn’t exist. Info at this stage is that outbreak at my sons school related to one of the part time teachers who by definition is vaxed.
Speculation:
Would they attend school if they were crook? No.
Did they feel crook? No.
Good job vax!
Chip Le Grande to be cancelled in 3,2,1…
Desantis: “In Florida, we will not let them lock you down.
Governor DeSantis in response to Fauci and Biden’s “perhaps” about lockdowns.
Don’t count us out yet- There are a sizeable number of younger sorts now getting into the game and learning the art. If you got out to Bassendean or Boyanup back in October when Rail Heritage WA were steaming their two locos, the youthfulness of the footplate crews would have astounded you… 😉
…And if you were there at Basso, I was the loud one. 🙂
Can’t understand these surveys asking about racism .. no one ever asks me & I’m an expert! .. LOL! as the only caucasian, English 1st language speaker in an entire, houso, street I could give ’em chapter & verse on racism … then again, NO! .. they, probably, only want the .. are white folk racist to minorities rather than .. the racism affect on minority white folk .. LOL!
Also cuts down the flange squeal, mate! 🙂
There was a scene in Yes, Prime Minister where Sir Humphrey uses role play to show Bernard how pollsters can guide a survey, getting him to in turn say that he was opposed to and agreed with National Service.
Here, if you are interested.
Chemist Warehouse is advertising quick antigen tests. I don’t suppose proving that you have antibodies would suffice?
I think maybe they’re trying to pivot out of this.
These aren’t gods we’re dealing with. They’re bugman. The bugman class is a nervous, pathological group. Mentally brittle, utterly vicious but so very weak – physically and mentally.
That is why they import their muscle, either foreigners, or the police that they have turned into their personal paramilitary.
The bugman must feel like he is in the majority group, on the right side of history, and also he must feel like everyone things that he is a Very Nice Person(tm). He must feel all of that while fighting the good fight against a rump of thick browed dinosaurs.
If public mood swings against him – as it is, he will collapse in a socially insecure heap.
The bar has to be continually lowered as it catches fewer and fewer people.
Just be grateful David died in Murray Bridge. Had it been Victoria Dan would have been on the blower with the offer of another state funeral.
Imagine the histrionic dog’s breakfast they would have served up.
good read on hunter laptop book:
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/books-authors/2021/11/the-biden-familys-corruption-inc/
Didn’t our great and good prime minister say just the other day that “There will never be a vaccine mandate” in Australia? I understand that all service providers who get money from the Federal Government are having to sack anyone not vaccinated. What is that if not a mandate?
And here is just one outcome of these sort of decisions –
Staff Shortages Force New York Hospital to Close Emergency Room as Winter COVID Surge Looms
Huh! I wasn’t – but after years not going I am obviously way overdue for some education!
Also cuts down the flange squeal, mate
Didnt Bill Crosby go to jail for that?
Nope they can’t have any of mine now. Twenty years of donations but no longer. Well done, fascist arseholes, you can take it from my cold dead veins.
@ Chris-
Keep your ears cocked for May 2022- Many exciting things (and that’s just the scheduled steam season stuff) to happen between all 3. 🙂
@Mole-
No return visit from Vicpol yet?
“Ron is really, really good. They’ll have to cheat to end up beating him if Trump doesn’t run.”
I don’t think he’ll run if Trump is in the game.
May not run at all for Prez – at least, not in 2024.
But you’re right – he is very, very good. And not just in terms of how he handles the media, but also in the choices he makes – he doesn’t pick what’s popular, he reads the data, makes a choice and can defend it with facts when required.
As he rightly points out, if Florida is such a basket case and Cali and NY are so good, how come people are leaving those two states and flocking to Florida, Texas etc?
He also said he’d never told a lie in public life.
Mindful of what I wrote above about a man and his conscience I’ll say only that he must have a good grasp of casuistry in order to keep his clear.
Grigs monetised the skin suits.
PETA launches gruesome online shop with goods made of ‘human’ leathers
https://nypost.com/2021/11/29/peta-launches-gruesome-online-shop-with-human-leathers/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter
WHO Explains Why It Skipped ‘Xi’ When Naming New COVID-19 Variant Omicron
I call bullshit.
Indeed. Included in today’s Weekday Reading.
Anti-humanism (Animal Marxism, anyone?) without a single hint of irony or drop of shame…
Didn’t Mussolini define Fascism as a marriage between the coronation and the state?
Rick, Ivermectin is one the safest, most tested drugs in the world. It meets the “first do no harm” criteria. Tell her it’s like belts and braces. It may not cure but it cannot hurt.
WHO Explains Why It Skipped ‘Xi’ When Naming New COVID-19 Variant Omicron
I call bullshit.
From the link:
In that case have they asked the Greeks what they think about co-opting their alphabet to keep track of a virus?