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The Fall of Phaeton, Peter Paul Rubens, 1604

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Winston Smith's Keyboard.
December 1, 2021 1:44 pm

Wodger/Dover0Beach/twostix:

When one of them dies of covid everyone of them knows exactly what to say, to lie, and to not say, without even being told.

They’ve been socialised into comformity through 12 + years of schooling and university.

It’s called “Working Toward the Fuhrer.
It can only work when there’s been sufficient indoctrination to create a mass conformity of mind.
Now you know what the aim of the “Long March Through the Institutions” was about.

JC
JC
December 1, 2021 1:45 pm

Hey Bruce, get better asap. Don’t take shit like that though and complain. Have family members complain to the administration and explain that if anything happens those responsible will be held to account.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 1, 2021 1:49 pm

For those who luv choo choos .. bit of nostalgia .. LOL!

https://ibb.co/7kPBQ8K

Seen that one before. One of the perils of coming in ‘hot,’ so to speak…

Something similar happened in South Brisbane in 1957, where a crew working a brand new diesel loco on the crack Brisbane Limited from Sydney, goofed their procedures to slow the train down due to unfamiliarity with the equipment, accidentally shut the engine down instead (‘Emergency Stop,’ see?) and came charging into the buffer stops at about 40 miles per hour. Quite the mess ensued, but mercifully no fatalities.

Clyde Engineering in Granville built their locomotives tough, though. 4202 was retired some 26 years later in 1983.

bespoke
bespoke
December 1, 2021 1:49 pm

Best thing to prevent flat bike tyres is not ride one on the road.

Winston Smith
December 1, 2021 1:50 pm

Zipster:

When is this madness going to end?

there is only darkness I can’t see the end of the tunnel at all.

The Left have over reached, as they always do.
The Peasants are getting cranky and the bosses are getting nervous.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
December 1, 2021 1:55 pm

Poor old mum was given the booster in aged care yesterday and is crook. She’s sure they’re experimenting on her and she’s on her way out.
Hard to argue with that.

Bruce in WA
December 1, 2021 1:56 pm

13 hours on this trolley. Just shot two huge horse needles of penicillin into the cannula in my arm. Think they’re going to send me home in about an hour.

bespoke
bespoke
December 1, 2021 1:57 pm

You got to see her Gez?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 1, 2021 2:02 pm

13 hours on this trolley. Just shot two huge horse needles of penicillin into the cannula in my arm. Think they’re going to send me home in about an hour.

Be prepared to have to go back within 24hr or so if you still aren’t feeling well- You’ve busted their ‘4 hour rule’ by a massive margin (and not by any fault of your own), so all efforts to piss you off (as a preference) or refer you on to a higher level of care (up to and including sending you to sit in a bigger hospital’s ambulance bay prior to admission) will now be expended…

Our tax dollars at work, mate. Regrettably. 🙁

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 1, 2021 2:02 pm

#ThisIsWhyWeCan’tHaveNiceThings

Old bloke
Old bloke
December 1, 2021 2:04 pm

Bruce in WA says:
December 1, 2021 at 1:56 pm

13 hours on this trolley.

WA hospitals were already stretched prior to this Covid thing. Since then government actions have made the situation far worse by sacking thousands of staff who refused the clot-shots, coupled with the system being overloaded with vaxx injury cases.

Razey
Razey
December 1, 2021 2:06 pm

Winston Smithsays:
December 1, 2021 at 1:50 pm
Zipster:

When is this madness going to end?

there is only darkness I can’t see the end of the tunnel at all.

The Left have over reached, as they always do.
The Peasants are getting cranky and the bosses are getting nervous.

Where is your evidence? Reading comments on twatter etc, most people are enjoying being raped by mah .gov.

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 1, 2021 2:08 pm

Do you have pants on?

Pants are overrated.

rosie
rosie
December 1, 2021 2:10 pm

Dematitis and asthma.
I’m twice as safe!

rosie
rosie
December 1, 2021 2:11 pm

You keep saying that bear.
I hope you use lots of sunscreen.

Chris
Chris
December 1, 2021 2:12 pm

Bruce, apart from professional observation you are well out of the hospital system, if they send you to home care. Far less likely to get hospital infections.

Winston Smith
December 1, 2021 2:15 pm

I don’t understand this.
How can Parliament just decide to do their job for ten days in a year?

Megan
December 1, 2021 2:17 pm

Typical response from rabid leftard Labor voting fuckwit.

Why don’t you stick to what you know? Which obviously isn’t much.

Anyone in this forum that’s been here longer than 5 minutes could prove that you are 1000% wrong based on my long history of commenting here.

You impress absolutely no one with this kind of mindless abuse. But mindless is the perfect descriptor for the nasty sewer inside your head. Shame you have so little control over it.

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 1, 2021 2:18 pm

You keep saying that bear.
I hope you use lots of sunscreen.

Slip, slop, slap. With an emphasis on the slop.

John H.
John H.
December 1, 2021 2:19 pm
twostix
twostix
December 1, 2021 2:19 pm

Hunt to quit politics at federal election
After 20 years in parliament the Health Minister will retire at the next election, expected in May next year. | WATCH QT

Oh really.

Rats fleeing.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
December 1, 2021 2:21 pm

Hunt to quit politics at federal election
After 20 years in parliament the Health Minister will retire at the next election, expected in May next year. | WATCH QT

Mid 50’s? Right age to move to a lobbyist’s role?

Megan
December 1, 2021 2:21 pm

Hunt to quit politics at federal election
After 20 years in parliament the Health Minister will retire at the next election, expected in May next year. | WATCH QT

Oh really.

Rats fleeing.

More likely his good mates at the WEF have a nice, cushy sinecure in mind for the traitorous swine.

struth
struth
December 1, 2021 2:23 pm

Don’t you love that “we’re f..cked” attitude.

Conclusions drawn, lets do a Jamestown now then.

twostix
twostix
December 1, 2021 2:24 pm

More likely his good mates at the WEF have a nice, cushy sinecure in mind for the traitorous swine.

Internal polling shows them getting smashed, or worse as far as the bugmen are concerned, into a hung parliament with a couple of UAP / PHON members to deal with.

flyingduk
flyingduk
December 1, 2021 2:25 pm

Just shot two huge horse needles of penicillin into the cannula in my arm.

To quote our wise medical masters regarding the treatment of respiratory infections : “just stop it ok, you are not a horse..”

P
P
December 1, 2021 2:25 pm

How can Parliament just decide to do their job for ten days in a year?

Nice Work If You Can Get It

twostix
twostix
December 1, 2021 2:26 pm

I’m sure there will be many promotions resignations to international (read Chinese funded) sinecures for their loyal soldiers in state and federal politics over the next 12 months.

Delta A
Delta A
December 1, 2021 2:27 pm

More likely his good mates at the WEF have a nice, cushy sinecure in mind for the traitorous swine.

Megan nails it again.

struth
struth
December 1, 2021 2:27 pm

Internal polling shows them getting smashed, or worse as far as the bugmen are concerned, into a hung parliament with a couple of UAP / PHON members to deal with.

I believe the votes will be rigged anyway, but besides that, Sco Mo has basically killed off the parliament of Australia for der National Cabinet.

Cassie of Sydney
December 1, 2021 2:30 pm

“Megansays:
December 1, 2021 at 2:17 pm”

Well said Megan.

A week or two ago this person accused me of being “Andrews’ mate”.

Yeah…sure.

shatterzzz
December 1, 2021 2:31 pm

Dr Faustussays:
December 1, 2021 at 1:23 pm
Try tyre liners.

Thanx, never knew about this stuff .. checked it out on EBAY and bought a pair …

Razey
Razey
December 1, 2021 2:44 pm

Cassie of Sydneysays:
December 1, 2021 at 2:30 pm
“Megansays:
December 1, 2021 at 2:17 pm”

Well said Megan.

A week or two ago this person accused me of being “Andrews’ mate”.

Yeah…sure.

LOL. If you got the jab, you support your mate Danny.

Its cowards like you is the only reason we are in this mess. Time to own up you dumb fucks.

Razey
Razey
December 1, 2021 2:45 pm

I, and all unvax’d, have the moral high ground.

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 1, 2021 2:45 pm

… checked it out on EBAY and bought a pair …

That’s optimistic. I’m not buying (and more importantly paying) for anything that’s not in my hand at the time.

Cassie of Sydney
December 1, 2021 2:46 pm

“LOL. If you got the jab, you support your mate Danny.

Its cowards like you is the only reason we are in this mess. Time to own up you dumb fucks.”

I’m no coward and nor is Megan. You’re the dumb fuck here….now fuck off.

cohenite
December 1, 2021 2:46 pm

A pro greenie, NSW law society summary of law cases about AGW and the relevant issues:

https://www.lawsociety.com.au/sites/default/files/2021-11/LS3660_PAP_ClimateChangeLitigation_2021-11-29.pdf

I now rank green lawyers with green teachers, bureaucrats, pollies and woke businessmen as the greatest threats to Australia.

Razey
Razey
December 1, 2021 2:53 pm

Cassie of Sydneysays:
December 1, 2021 at 2:46 pm
“LOL. If you got the jab, you support your mate Danny.

Its cowards like you is the only reason we are in this mess. Time to own up you dumb fucks.”

I’m no coward and nor is Megan. You’re the dumb fuck here….now fuck off.

You lose dummy. I’m guessing the vax has fucked your head up, or maybe it was always like that.

Good luck with your mates 😉

shatterzzz
December 1, 2021 2:55 pm

… checked it out on EBAY and bought a pair …
That’s optimistic. I’m not buying (and more importantly paying) for anything that’s not in my hand at the time.

Specialized item .. either the net or bike shop .. bike shops a bit thin on the ground where I am .. LOL!
Plus, frequent EBAY buyer .. very rarely had any probs over the years ..
At heart I’m a trusting soul .. LOL!

Cassie of Sydney
December 1, 2021 2:56 pm

“You lose dummy. I’m guessing the vax has fucked your head up, or maybe it was always like that.

Good luck with your mates ?”

Piss off….the tone here has lowered significantly since you started posting your snide self-obsessed comments.

JC
JC
December 1, 2021 2:57 pm

Razey says:
December 1, 2021 at 2:45 pm

I, and all unvax’d, have the moral high ground.

Yep, a cheap dusty soap box.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
December 1, 2021 3:00 pm

Ist zee camps for zee vvaxxened or zeo untervvaxxened?

JC
JC
December 1, 2021 3:00 pm

twostix says:
December 1, 2021 at 2:24 pm

More likely his good mates at the WEF have a nice, cushy sinecure in mind for the traitorous swine.

Internal polling shows them getting smashed, or worse as far as the bugmen are concerned, into a hung parliament with a couple of UAP / PHON members to deal with.

Or maybe 20 years in parliament, two really hard years in the job as health minister and he’s had enough. Sometimes the truth is just not as interesting as a hallucination. Hunt is a creature of the swamp, but he has towered in ability compared to others.

shatterzzz
December 1, 2021 3:02 pm

I don’t understand this.
How can Parliament just decide to do their job for ten days in a year?

355 days devoted to troughin’ .. the $200 000 plus rip-off will just be classed as pocket money .. LOL!

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 1, 2021 3:02 pm

No problems with EBay. It’s everything after that point.

I got one of the few modern watches Omega has discontinued through EBay. Apparently everyone hates it but I quite like it.

shatterzzz
December 1, 2021 3:06 pm

I, and all unvax’d, have the moral high ground.

I’m UNCLEAN but don’t have a problem with anyone else being vaxxed ..
my bugbear is the them & us rules put in place by gummints, state & federal!

Cassie of Sydney
December 1, 2021 3:06 pm

“I’m UNCLEAN but don’t have a problem with anyone else being vaxxed ..
my bugbear is the them & us rules put in place by gummints, state & federal!”

Nicely said and fully agree.

John H.
John H.
December 1, 2021 3:11 pm

Razeysays:
December 1, 2021 at 2:45 pm
I, and all unvax’d, have the moral high ground.

Bullshit.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
December 1, 2021 3:12 pm

Razeysays:
December 1, 2021 at 2:44 pm
LOL. If you got the jab, you support your mate Danny.

How does someone who lives in NSW getting the jab “support…Danny”?

Have you ever bought anything made in China? If so, does that make you a supporter of the CCP? Perhaps you ought to turn yourself in for your complicity in genocide of the Uighurs.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 1, 2021 3:13 pm

Leg day.
Never forget leg day.

JC
JC
December 1, 2021 3:15 pm

I don’t get the new rule on Twitter banning unauthorized people images. Is it an attempt to prevent leftwingers and say looters from being recognized?

Just one day after Jack Dorsey resigned and was replaced by Parag Agrawal, the platform has banned the sharing of any images or videos of people without their explicit consent. The far-left company stated: “The misuse of private media can affect everyone, but can have a disproportionate effect on women, activists, dissidents, and members of minority communities.”

Whoops

Let me answer the question myself. It is an attempt to protect illegal actions by leftwingers and looters and therefore from being recognized. The new CEO is a bigger scumbag than Dorsey.

shatterzzz
December 1, 2021 3:17 pm

I got one of the few modern watches Omega has discontinued through EBay. Apparently everyone hates it but I quite like it.

I wear a $A1.95 (inc postage) from China .. 3 years old now, 2 battery changes and still ticking away merrily .. loses about a minute a month .. easily remedied .. LOL!

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 1, 2021 3:18 pm

The new CEO is a bigger scumbag than Dorsey.

This is true.
These social media companies are the new Sodom and Gomorrah.

shatterzzz
December 1, 2021 3:26 pm

I believe the votes will be rigged anyway,

I don’t think either major party (Oz) is clever enough or prepared to spend the money needed to simulate the demon-rats performance ……!
They both think they are God’s gift to the vote-herd so their collective egos won’t allow it ..!
plus .. BOTH MAJOR PARTIES ARE CHEAPSKATES when it comes to their own expenses, anyway .. LOL!

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 1, 2021 3:27 pm

twostixsays:
December 1, 2021 at 2:19 pm
Hunt to quit politics at federal election
After 20 years in parliament the Health Minister will retire at the next election, expected in May next year. | WATCH QT

Oh really.

Rats fleeing.

Let’s see where he turns up next. What odds on the WEF vs Fizzer?

Winston Smith
December 1, 2021 3:28 pm

Razey:

The Left have over reached, as they always do.
The Peasants are getting cranky and the bosses are getting nervous.

Where is your evidence? Reading comments on twatter etc, most people are enjoying being raped by mah .gov.

You should know better than to take Twitter as a site for evidence, Razey.
The demonstrations are getting bigger but they’re not following the Leftist model of being violent.
They are just normal people from the bulk of the voting population.
The tide has turned. It ain’t a Tsunami, it’s just the masses getting cranky.
Solidarity didn’t get anywhere until it started mobilising a critical mass of discontent.
This is what you are now seeing – a critical mass forming.

rickw
rickw
December 1, 2021 3:32 pm

COVID-19 is a fucking joke.

I just tested NEGATIVE again.

There is precisely ZERO fucking science in governments handling of this.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 1, 2021 3:40 pm

disproportionate effect on women, activists, dissidents, and members of minority communities

So no white male has ever been singled out for odium on Twatter??

What a spacktard.

In a tweet dated October 2010, Agrawal wrote, “If they are not gonna make a distinction between muslims and extremists, then why should I distinguish between white people and racists.”

Apologies, racist spacktard.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 1, 2021 3:44 pm

Razey,

From one Good Comrade to a Fellow Good Comrade:

You are Glowing. Stop it before they start to suspect you…

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 1, 2021 3:45 pm

Its cowards like you is the only reason we are in this mess. Time to own up you dumb fucks.

If you go out in the paddock and listen carefully, and when the wind is blowing the right way, you may faintly hear a yapping handbag dog from under the neighbours’ ute.

You have all the moral high ground of a Darlinghurst rent boy washing his ring off in the fountain at 6.00 a.m. on a Sunday morning.

Time to ‘chill out for a couple of years’, hey?

P.S. Why do you think it is that you yap yap yap at the ladeeeees, more so than anyone else?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 1, 2021 3:45 pm

The Cat is remarkably good at spotting Glowies.

Too good, in fact… 😉

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 1, 2021 3:46 pm

Currently on hour 4 of trying to get across the date an accident occurred on for the edification of DMIRS.

Date shift started. 27th
Date accident occurred 02:00 on the 28th..

Does not compute, does not compute…..

Add in the chap going to work his next shift (28th) and not going LTI till the 29th…

Computer says no.

Im reduced to just asking what bloody date do you want put down after they have raised objections to both 27th & 28th …..

Helen
Helen
December 1, 2021 3:46 pm

So what about Greg Hunt retiring? CCP Virus fail?

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
December 1, 2021 3:48 pm

COVID-19 is a fucking joke.

I just tested NEGATIVE again.

There is precisely ZERO fucking science in governments handling of this.

Yea. I think I have been tested by the same lab that couldn’t find any DNA in a pool of blood.

flyingduk
flyingduk
December 1, 2021 3:49 pm

COVID-19 is a fucking joke. I just tested NEGATIVE again.

I am so sorry…

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
December 1, 2021 3:52 pm

a critical mass forming

Is it warm, hot?

rickw
rickw
December 1, 2021 3:53 pm

I am so sorry…

I’m going to go and get tested every two days, going to try and ride the bounce in their BS test.

Roger
Roger
December 1, 2021 3:53 pm

Internal polling shows them getting smashed… into a hung parliament with a couple of UAP / PHON members to deal with.

That would be sweet justice.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 1, 2021 3:54 pm

COVID-19 is a fucking joke. I just tested NEGATIVE again.

Tell your wife that sex is the best way of transmitting it, and her symptoms will halve once she infects someone else.

If you are lucky she might let you be in the same room as her.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
December 1, 2021 3:55 pm

That would be sweet justice.

Justice for the liberals involves a thing with pineapples.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 1, 2021 3:57 pm

NBC is in the shit.

Bevo Fox
@bevo_fox
NBC claims Kenosha Police were “mistaken as to the individual’s intent” when they stopped James Morrison after he ran a red while following the Rittenhouse jury bus. If so, why did NBC’s Irene Byon mention “jury members” to police when police didn’t? Body cam from
@steveoatley

https://twitter.com/bevo_fox/status/1465875386097491969

via Cernovich.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
December 1, 2021 3:59 pm
incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
December 1, 2021 4:00 pm

I said their. FMD

Frank
Frank
December 1, 2021 4:08 pm

This twitter person–The Pelosi Project–seems devoted largely to trolling Stelter. Doing the Lord’s work.

Delta A
Delta A
December 1, 2021 4:09 pm

the tone here has lowered significantly since you started posting your snide self-obsessed comments.

Fact check: True.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 1, 2021 4:11 pm

I so hope Hunt goes to work for a Pfizer funded think tank or something similar.
Please, please make it so.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
December 1, 2021 4:17 pm

Does this mean their aim has improved?

Chicago
November to Date (vs Nov 2020)
Shot & Killed: 59 (+11%)
Shot & Wounded: 256(-11%)
Total Shot: 315 (-8%)
Total Homicides: 63 (+7%)

cohenite
December 1, 2021 4:18 pm

Greg Kelly on how sick the biden family is; arguably sicker then the clintons and the obamas or any other demorat family, since they’re all sick (12 minutes):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88LZbV_2LRY

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
December 1, 2021 4:19 pm

bespoke says:
December 1, 2021 at 1:57 pm
You got to see her Gez?

Yeah, no worries about visiting which is good.

rickw you’re your own control group.
I know some people in China who are willing to pay for a fine specimen like you.
Where do you live again?

rickw
rickw
December 1, 2021 4:23 pm

I got one of the few modern watches Omega has discontinued through EBay. Apparently everyone hates it but I quite like it.

Link please, I’ve been after a watch that looks good with a waistcoat!

bespoke
bespoke
December 1, 2021 4:23 pm

I, and all unvax’d, have the moral high ground.

You don’t speek for us.

bespoke
bespoke
December 1, 2021 4:26 pm

Forgot.:

Hi none

rickw
rickw
December 1, 2021 4:27 pm

Here’s our work output for this arvo. Our DIY G Scale points. 3D printed sleepers etc. and aluminium from Bunnings.

https://imgur.com/gallery/l6ONiHR

JC
JC
December 1, 2021 4:28 pm

Zyconoclast says:
December 1, 2021 at 4:17 pm

Does this mean their aim has improved?

LOl

Total Shot: 315

Man, that’s 11 people a day in November. It’s truly shocking how this is isn’t intolerable. It’s truly freaking outrageous.

Megan
December 1, 2021 4:31 pm

Razeysays:
December 1, 2021 at 2:45 pm
I, and all unvax’d, have the moral high ground.

Bullshit.

I highly doubt you have the intellectual wherewithal to find the clearly signposted moral high ground at high noon on a clear day even using Google Maps.

struth
struth
December 1, 2021 4:32 pm

What is it about this that has to be shown to you again and again that you just don’t get…………..or want to see JC?here.

Lysander
Lysander
December 1, 2021 4:33 pm

Good read on how to get 8x nuclear subs in three times the speed…

Build them in the US!

Top Ender
Top Ender
December 1, 2021 4:33 pm

On the anniversary of the Teddy Sheean action….”Myths About HMAS Armidale in Need of Scuttling”

https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2021/12/myths-about-hmas-armidale-in-need-of-scuttling/

struth
struth
December 1, 2021 4:34 pm

Claiming a moral high ground may be a bit much, but then again, it won’t be us putting you in a concentration camp by empowering tyrants.
Just sayin’

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 1, 2021 4:36 pm

Anyone else just get an email from Amex promoting a Lizzo gig with her fat guts hanging out everywhere?

struth
struth
December 1, 2021 4:37 pm

The rallies are full of the vaxxed and unvaxxed fighting against the tyranny, because many of the jabbed are furious that they were coerced into it.
My point all along is whatever the cost you save yourself by submitting to the jab will cost you much much more in the long run.
It will cost you, and those that didn’t submit, everything.
That is more historical and political ignorance than a lack of morals.

twostix
twostix
December 1, 2021 4:40 pm

I’m going to go and get tested every two days, going to try and ride the bounce in their BS test.

Do they still ram that thing into your brain?

rickw
rickw
December 1, 2021 4:41 pm

Man, that’s 11 people a day in November. It’s truly shocking how this is isn’t intolerable. It’s truly freaking outrageous.

Some wars have had less KIA per day….

Diogenes
Diogenes
December 1, 2021 4:43 pm

Seen that one before. One of the perils of coming in ‘hot,’ so to speak…

Just put the finishing touches on a custom diamond dot version of that one today 60*90 🙂

The driver had what is quaintly known as a medical episode as he entered the station.

twostix
twostix
December 1, 2021 4:44 pm

Porter joins Hunt in quitting politics
The former attorney-general joins the Health Minister in opting to leave federal politics at the next election, expected in May next year.

The scuttled ship Commonwealth Australia is sinking rapidly!

rickw
rickw
December 1, 2021 4:44 pm

Do they still ram that thing into your brain?

I think they’ve had some feedback. Relatively civilised.

JC
JC
December 1, 2021 4:46 pm

struth says:
December 1, 2021 at 4:32 pm

What is it about this that has to be shown to you again and again that you just don’t get…………..or want to see JC?here.

Oh I don’t know Struth. Maybe I’m wrong to think he’s more intelligent than Pauline Hanson or the other Einstein – Bob Katter? Did you do you delivery rounds today or too immersed with the furniture factory?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 1, 2021 4:47 pm

Here’s our work output for this arvo. Our DIY G Scale points. 3D printed sleepers etc. and aluminium from Bunnings.

Looking good, Rick.

When you test them, watch out for your rolling stock binding on the check rails or coming through the diverging route of the turnout. All things going well, the wheels should ride OK through the frog as well.

If not, consider lengthening the turnout so the change of direction isn’t as abrupt. That might come into play of you start running anything with a long wheelbase.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 1, 2021 4:49 pm

I think they’ve had some feedback. Relatively civilised.

A colleague of mine from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Nano-Wrigglers convinced them to make some ‘reforms…’

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 1, 2021 4:50 pm

20 minutes ago
Porter to quit politics at next election
Olivia Caisley

Christian Porter has announced his retirement from federal politics, declaring he will not contest the next election.
In a statement on his Facebook page on Wednesday, the former attorney-general said he would not recontest the WA seat of Pearce after spending “the best part of the last 20 years in public service”.
The announcement follows a tumultuous year for Mr Porter, who resigned from cabinet amid a controversy over his use of a blind trust to help fund his legal case against the ABC, which published unproven historic rape allegations against him.
“Even though I have experienced perhaps more of the harshness of modern politics than most, there are no regrets,” he wrote. “It has been the experience of a lifetime to work with great teams of men and women to drive change and to govern during remarkable times, including the most demanding time for government since WWII.”

Prior to the controversy, he was seen as a strong leader in the Liberal Party and touted as a potential prime minister.
Mr Porter thanked the people of his electorate, as well as his friends, family and staff that had supported him throughout his career.
“After a long time giving everything I could to the people of Pearce, it’s now time to give more of what is left to those around me whose love has been unconditional,” he said. “The federal Liberal Party have done great things for the electorate of Pearce, and I know a new Liberal candidate can continue the trusted record of serving the needs of the electorate under a re-elected Coalition government.”

Cassie of Sydney
December 1, 2021 4:51 pm

Christian Porter owes Scumbag Morrison nothing.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 1, 2021 4:53 pm

Top Ender

Re your article about HMAS Armidale in Quadrant, I recall another incident suggesting that the IJN was prepared to assist enemy sailors in the water.

At Leyte, after the USN destroyers/destroyer escorts charged the approaching Japanese fleet, survivors of one of those ships saw a Japanese destroyer approaching at high speed. They were concerned lest they be machine-gunned in the water. Instead, Japanese sailors threw survival gear to them, and a Japanese officer came out on the bridge wing, stood to attention and saluted the men in the water.

I sold the account of Leyte Gulf in which I read this story some time ago, and unfortunately cannot remember the title or author.

struth
struth
December 1, 2021 4:54 pm

Ah…….. Hunt has done his job…..just watch what happens to him.

rickw
rickw
December 1, 2021 4:55 pm

When you test them, watch out for your rolling stock binding on the check rails or coming through the diverging route of the turnout. All things going well, the wheels should ride OK through the frog as well.

Little bloke has been doing the testing with our test wagon, looks to be working ok. The wagon will run properly into the merge from either leg and on the straight either way even without the points.

JC
JC
December 1, 2021 4:55 pm

Incredible what’s going on in the US. It’s about equal to the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the damage will be great.

They’re wanting to lower standards for entry into medical schools for diversity sake. Meritocracy is toxic, we’re told.

https://freebeacon.com/campus/doctors-warn-new-medical-school-guidance-would-lead-to-unqualified-physicians-and-unscientific-medicine/

There’s an easy solution to this. Choose a non-minority doctor in future.

Arky
December 1, 2021 4:58 pm

None of this is the fault of those who were either frightened or arm twisted into vaccination. We have all been subject to a coordinated fear campaign of a seldom seen ferocity.
I understand the logic that the buggers had to get that initial 50+ percent in order to get the dynamics of bullying the rest of us. But at that time I myself thought all this was more likely than not to have petered out by now.
It’s time to leave it off.
It’s for individual consciences to contemplate what they had right or wrong. No one but you knows exactly what you were thinking at the time.
It’s fascinating watching it all unravel. Let us be the people who watch and comment on the mainstream disorder as it reacts and panics to being so obviously wrong.
We don’t have to take up the respective psychological roles they have assigned vaxxed and unvaxxed.
In other words: this too was all manipulated from the start.
Don’t play their game.
Having said all that: all you vaxxed idiots are increasingly obviously suffering progressive brain damage.
(Joke)

struth
struth
December 1, 2021 4:59 pm

You didn’t read his own bio did you, JC?
Make yourself read it.
It’s his own bio.
What does it say, turtle head?
No good coming on here acting like you are worldly wise when lately you shown yourself to be nothing but a fool.
It’s all falling apart for you and maybe you should have taken yourself outside of the stock market for five minutes to take in what else was going on around you.
You may have not made such a stupid decision like taking the jab.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 1, 2021 5:00 pm

As Western Australian farmers deliver the best harvest they have ever had, C.B.H. – the grower owned Co -op that collects, stores, and transports that grain – announces that anyone visiting one of their receival sites has to have had the first vaccination shot…the next growers meeting should be a fiery old affair….

Frank
Frank
December 1, 2021 5:00 pm

Do they still ram that thing into your brain?

The Chinese developed an alternative method, anal swabbing.

sfw
sfw
December 1, 2021 5:04 pm

Clive Palmer rang me this arvo, for real!

sfw
sfw
December 1, 2021 5:05 pm

I shouldn’t have used an exclamation mark, I’m not a fanbois just surprised, perhaps that should be amazed.

bespoke
bespoke
December 1, 2021 5:05 pm

Some people are like roller coasters but they aren’t fooling me.

Old bloke
Old bloke
December 1, 2021 5:05 pm

The scuttled ship Commonwealth Australia is sinking rapidly!

I’m surprised that Scotty hasn’t also abandoned ship to avoid the humiliation of his Scotty Kirkup moment come next March.

At least we’ll know why he’s departing, Tourism Australia has refused to disclose why he was sacked from that organisation.

struth
struth
December 1, 2021 5:05 pm

Oh I don’t know Struth. Maybe I’m wrong to think he’s more intelligent than Pauline Hanson or the other Einstein – Bob Katter? Did you do you delivery rounds today or too immersed with the furniture factory?

Idiots put intelligence above decency when evaluating others.
Hunt is a traitor, no matter how smart he is.
Your failing has always been in not taking integrity into account.
Values.
That is why you once told us all that doing business with China was great because they can do things cheaper.
A typical libertarian.
Never once worried by how they came to do it cheaper, or what the problems might be if communists became powerful.
They made things cheap……
FMD.
Knowing the ASX and the investment scene doesn’t maketh the man, and doesn’t make them wise.
Just a one trick pony.

JC
JC
December 1, 2021 5:06 pm

None of this is the fault of those who were either frightened or arm twisted into vaccination. We have all been subject to a coordinated fear campaign of a seldom seen ferocity.

Oh fuck off. Large numbers willingly chose to be vaccinated without being fearful or having their arms twisted. You’re hallucinating again. Also, stop the dishonesty with the nonsense you’re often trying to remind us about, which is ahistorical crap as you’re cheating on the timeline when that so-called prediction was made.

Your comment frequent comment that “vaccines won’t do shit” was made well before the delta variant. And the vaccines actually did and do work well against the original virus. Stop making crap up for egotistical purposes. You were wrong as the premise they wouldn’t work was always based on the original virus – not subsequent ones.

twostix
twostix
December 1, 2021 5:11 pm

Your comment frequent comment that “vaccines won’t do shit” was made well before the delta variant. And the vaccines actually did and do work well against the original virus.

JC I see you’ve got your eye on the now largely empty “Catallaxy Wrongologist” chair these days.

I won’t support your attempt to grab the title, but others may!

northshore redneck
northshore redneck
December 1, 2021 5:11 pm

hey rickw,

if you really wanna get it, maybe stop with the vitamin I and supplements mate, ain’t helping your cause!

Arky
December 1, 2021 5:15 pm

Quite the storm brewing here.
We can do without more storm damaged houses.
Getting trades in is already very tight.

struth
struth
December 1, 2021 5:15 pm

Hunt is a murderer and a traitor, and an award winning graduate of the WEF future leaders program, and like others then went on to be placed in high levels of western government.
To be honest, he’s probably the bloke who will go down in history as your killer, JC.
Other graduates are Boris Johnson, (it’s not his Missus turning him green), Jacinda Adern, many in the US government including believe it or not, Nicky Haley , President Macron, and many many others.
All who turned up only a few years later in prime political positions.
WEF plants and traitors all.
Jane Halton and the lists in the swamp go on and on.
But Greg is a smart guy according to one of his victims……………………………..
Because you know, he’s not a Queenslander with a funny accent.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
December 1, 2021 5:15 pm

A bloke jumped the fence in the middle of the night the other day, and hopped into a waiting ute before it drove off. He was picked up half an hour later in a pub.

How f..king Australian is that!
The pub escape thing and the written description make me remember how great a country we live in and that it’s worth fighting for.
…. never give in, never give in, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense

JC
JC
December 1, 2021 5:17 pm

Idiots put intelligence above decency when evaluating others.

Not really as that’s the standard you want to use. I mentioned Hunt in a RELATIVE sense. Obviously, you don’t understand the meaning of relative.

Hunt is a traitor, no matter how smart he is.

Oh sure.

Your failing has always been in not taking integrity into account.
Values.

Oh yea values and integrity. The redneck cowpoke going for the racist line of abuse at the first indication of disagreement. Fuck off.

That is why you once told us all that doing business with China was great because they can do things cheaper.

Yes, and you were asked to get rid of every single appliance or part that is Chinese made in anything you own. I think someone called it appliance or part cleansing. Did you? Have you?

A typical libertarian.

What the fuck would you know about libertarism, Champ? You’re like that other imbecile who professes against libertarianism and then does what libertarian suggest with respect to property rights.

Never once worried by how they came to do it cheaper, or what the problems might be if communists became powerful.

And when did you ever show any concern, delivery boy? Tell us, did you even refuse a single delivery of goods that were made in China or contained Chinese parts? Did you? Have you recently? You dishonest redneck clown. Walk the walk or fuck off.

They made things cheap……
FMD.

Wow.

Knowing the ASX and the investment scene doesn’t maketh the man, and doesn’t make them wise.
Just a one trick pony.

You’re not even a one trick pony. You fucking hypocrite.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 1, 2021 5:17 pm

Hunt is a murderer and a traitor, and an award winning graduate of the WEF future leaders program, and like others then went on to be placed in high levels of western government.
To be honest, he’s probably the bloke who will go down in history as your killer, JC.

And still no demands to Repent.

I am disappointed, Graeme Struth…

bespoke
bespoke
December 1, 2021 5:21 pm

Getting trades in is already very tight.

Indeed, Babushka’s get cranky with all that activity.

JC
JC
December 1, 2021 5:23 pm

JC I see you’ve got your eye on the now largely empty “Catallaxy Wrongologist” chair these days.

I won’t support your attempt to grab the title, but others may!

Not at all Stix. If you’re criticizing the old Cat, then explain why you were there all the time?

I’m just keeping it honest. The ridiculous, “don’t do shit”, prediction was actually made by the thought leader around Sept 2020. Vaccines weren’t out then. Vaccines did work well against the original virus. It’s hallucinating nonsense to then claim that prediction for variants. But then, who cares, right? Claim all you want and threaten people to remove their comments if they disagree with you. 🙂

cohenite
December 1, 2021 5:26 pm

Another school shooting in the US. This will get coverage because the punk is white.

struth
struth
December 1, 2021 5:29 pm

Oh yea values and integrity. The redneck cowpoke going for the racist line of abuse at the first indication of disagreement. Fuck off.

Oh dear, JC.
How very BLM of you.
The racist calls others racist.

When you have no argument regarding your stance regarding trading with the Chinese you melt down and accuse those making valid points why not to (which have all been shown now to be the right course of action) your response is “oh yeah, but but but, you bought a Chinese drill from Bunnings, so you can’t talk.”
How extremely childish.
I have bought SFA from China.
Not a solar panel, not a car, not food, not much at all.
And where I had no choice but to buy Chinese it was because there were so many greedy, who gives a fuck how they did it so cheap, supporters of trading with them in this country like you, I had no choice.
But I kept it to the absolute minimum, even so.

rickw
rickw
December 1, 2021 5:29 pm

People of Asian/Asian British ethnicity were more than twice as likely to become infected as their white counterparts.

So the CCP is monkeying around with bio-weapons.

Their accidentally released weapon preferentially targets Asians.

The most epic fail of all time?

JC
JC
December 1, 2021 5:31 pm

With that, I think I might order some beef Yakimeshi and some inside out sushi as the restaurant calls it. (Wifey is “sistering” out in Ballarat).

twostix
twostix
December 1, 2021 5:31 pm

Not at all Stix. If you’re criticizing the old Cat, then explain why you were there all the time?

No JC, I meant Catallaxy always has a resident wrongol….forget about it man.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
December 1, 2021 5:31 pm

When we have reason to present to emergency, the first question is public or private

Mrs OSC recently shared a ward with a woman who had been moved into the public hospital after a 4 day, $15,000 experience at the nearby private hospital.
That’s some bill, and one the health insurer would probably challenge or at least suggest a move to the public sector.
We’ve been privately insured all our married life at the top family rate. I’m beginning to think I made a mistake.

Indolent
Indolent
December 1, 2021 5:32 pm

Federal Judge blocks Biden’s mandate for health care workers nationwide

American laws seem to be bearing up better than ours, which seems to be been simply swept away. Much of what is being done here is patently illegal.

Indolent
Indolent
December 1, 2021 5:33 pm

seems to have been swept away

twostix
twostix
December 1, 2021 5:36 pm

So the CCP is monkeying around with bio-weapons.

Their accidentally released weapon preferentially targets Asians.

Can we not replay February 2020 again?

Next people will be breathlessly posting viral videos from “China” of people dropping dead foaming at the mouth in the street for no reason.

bespoke
bespoke
December 1, 2021 5:36 pm

That reminds me I’m still waiting for my CM4 with openwrt to be delivered from Seed. Damn supply chain!

Baba
Baba
December 1, 2021 5:37 pm

When we have reason to present to emergency, the first question is public or private

The correct answer is ‘public’, even when you have private insurance.

Delta A
Delta A
December 1, 2021 5:38 pm

this too was all manipulated from the start.
Don’t play their game.

Yes, we are being pushed, yet again, to take a side: straight/LGBT… , Muslim/non-Muslim, men/women, Left/Right, boomers/ millenials, BLM/white, commies/nazis and now, vaxxed/unvaxxed.

Divide and conquer, the oldest strategy in the book.

There’s no ‘moral high ground’ in this. We all make our own choices, as is our right. We do not have the right to pressure or shame others into agreeing with us.

As Arky said, don’t play their game.

JC
JC
December 1, 2021 5:38 pm

Oh dear, JC.

The racist calls others racist.

Well of course. Your hypocrisy always calls for double standards. 🙂 I have double standards but not a hypocrite like.

When you have no argument regarding your stance regarding trading with the Chinese you melt down and accuse those making valid points why not to (which have all been shown now to be the right course of action) your response is “oh yeah, but but but, you bought a Chinese drill from Bunnings, so you can’t talk.”

It is an argument. It’s a very valid argument you dummy. If you’re not walking the walk then stop demanding others live by standards you refuse to abide by. It’s very simple.

I have bought SFA from China.

Everything in your household, your cars and your delivery van all contain Chinese parts purchased over the past 15 years.

Not a solar panel, not a car, not food, not much at all.

Nice diversion as that would apply to most people here.

And where I had no choice but to buy Chinese it was because there were so many greedy, who gives a fuck how they did it so cheap, supporters of trading with them in this country like you, I had no choice.

Oh you had no choice, but I and everyone else here had a choice. FMD, you’re stupid.

But I kept it to the absolute minimum, even so.

Lol. Didn’t we all.

twostix
twostix
December 1, 2021 5:40 pm

American laws seem to be bearing up better than ours, which seems to be been simply swept away. Much of what is being done here is patently illegal.

It’s in the critical moments that you see how well a system is built and what it can do.

Australians are learning that we don’t even have a system, apparently it was completely dismantled during the golden age 1990’s to now.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 1, 2021 5:40 pm

One of the perils of coming in ‘hot,’ so to speak

Saw Silver Streak in the cinema as a kid. End scene was very good stuff!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qPAOarQxaU

Welcome to Chicago! Love that they built a whole replica train station and a full sized replica engine in a couple of Lockheed hangars and then destroyed the whole lot in a single fine bit of old style special effects sequencing. What train set kid hasn’t wanted to do this?

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
December 1, 2021 5:41 pm

Rickw
You need a hunter or half hunter with a waistcoat.

Delta A
Delta A
December 1, 2021 5:41 pm

Clive Palmer rang me this arvo, for real!

Wow!

Don’t you wish he’d said that he’d call back in half an hour, so you had time to think of all those things you wanted to ask or say, but didn’t think of until he’d hung up?

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
December 1, 2021 5:43 pm

Zulu2kilo alpha,
Reference your question last night.
Probably yes. She already cooks for a sweaty uncouth person.

Winston Smith
December 1, 2021 5:43 pm

Indolent:

Leading Cardiologist Says Researchers Are Refusing to Publish Supporting Study Results That Show Covid Vaccine’s Link To Massive Increase In Heart Attacks

Time to start collecting all those “refuse to publish” rejection slips, and label them Exhibit #639 for the Nuremburg 2.0 Trials.

JC
JC
December 1, 2021 5:43 pm

Despite the abuse and threats on another thread, John H is a high value contributor here. Don’t let anyone deter you from posting comments here, John H.

flyingduk
flyingduk
December 1, 2021 5:46 pm

Their accidentally released weapon preferentially targets Asians.

ER, no, the Brits have been obsequiously labelling their restless Paki ‘youths’ as ‘Asian’ for a good while now.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 1, 2021 5:46 pm

I have bought SFA from China.
Not a solar panel, not a car, not food, not much at all.

Practically every fastener, microchip, personal electronic device component, drug, food additive and even component parts of the clothes on your back came out of a Chinese factory or manufacturing process. Korean, Taiwanese or Japanese if you were lucky. But all the really small stuff that only turns a profit in massive volume? Presently Chinese. Nobody is that pure. It physically isn’t possible unless you live in a rainforest and improvise your own tools, coverings, leathers etc. solely out of whatever you can find, catch, dig up or hunt down yourself.

Don’t preen like this, Struth. It is too easy to poke holes in the sweeping generalisations.

And where I had no choice but to buy Chinese it was because there were so many greedy, who gives a fuck how they did it so cheap, supporters of trading with them in this country like you, I had no choice.
But I kept it to the absolute minimum, even so.

Same here. Which I will now puncture by obseving how nice a rhetorical fig leaf this statement is. Right up there with the proud (and agreeably admirable) declaration of having two jobs (one self-employed) in the middle of vaxx-mandated Queensland, while demanding everyone else in the country give up theirs so as to starve the TyRaNny

John Brumble
John Brumble
December 1, 2021 5:47 pm

Delta: “We do not have the right to pressure or shame others into agreeing with us. As Arky said, don’t play their game.”

lol

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
December 1, 2021 5:47 pm

“The Voice” has the high moral ground.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXfltmzRG-g

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 1, 2021 5:49 pm

No JC, I meant Catallaxy always has a resident wrongol….forget about it man.

Sorry ‘Stix, but Grigory suffers no competition.

Hang around here after dinner-time tonight, and you shall see… things…

JC
JC
December 1, 2021 5:49 pm

Don’t preen like this, Struth. It is too easy to poke holes in the sweeping generalisations.

Rex, the imbecile doesn’t even realize that the keyboard he’s using and the screen he’s viewing were made in China. Hilarious stuff. He’s dressing up in a white cloth professing purity and doing so on an evil keyboard and computer screen made in hell.

rickw
rickw
December 1, 2021 5:51 pm

ER, no, the Brits have been obsequiously labelling their restless Paki ‘youths’ as ‘Asian’ for a good while now.

I was wondering about that, but they generally lump all actual Asians in this category as well. So does this mean that Asians plus Paki’s are susceptible, or have the actual Paki’s only skewed the data?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 1, 2021 5:54 pm

@ ‘Stix-

I’ve seen things you wouldn’t believe.

Gypsum-fuelled Warble-Fly-Vaccines-Cause-Mad-Cow-Disease on fire in the Big Pharma Belt.

Top Ender storming the “Detmers Was a Pirate Who Illegally Sank the HMAS Sydney With The Help of Japanese Submarines” Gates.

If JC takes the throne and Grigory dies, all this will be gone. Like Crystalline Salt in Joe Burns’ Reign.

Time to Die…

John Brumble
John Brumble
December 1, 2021 5:56 pm

JC –
I debated responding, because I agree with you on a lot of what you’re responding to. But on this one point, I think there is an important distinction to be made.

Yes many people did choose to get vaccinated and for good and valid reasons. But they -also- chose to get vaccinated under the terms and conditions that were offered. It’s that second action which I think is the questionable one. Although that’s demanding an incredibly high level of forward thinking from a pretty dumb population.

Even more so when you consider that the media class is entirely incapable of seeing things in black and white. Surely we can like a vaccine without liking the method; like one of the outcomes without liking the path; and/or like a result without liking all the results.
Any maybe you don’t disagree. Meh. It’s depressing.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 1, 2021 5:57 pm

With apologies to anyone who actually knows how that final scene in the original Blade Runner goes.

I’ve only ever seen parodies…

Winston Smith
December 1, 2021 5:57 pm

rickw:

Here’s our work output for this arvo. Our DIY G Scale points. 3D printed sleepers etc. and aluminium from Bunnings.

I’ve got a Barbie doll one of the girls left here that is perfect for that scale, so you can tie her across the tracks.
Going very cheap.
– Just a box of used tissues from the leetle boy.

bespoke
bespoke
December 1, 2021 5:58 pm

“We do not have the right to pressure or shame others into agreeing with us. As Arky said, don’t play their game.”

Sorry to say Delta but apart from the odd consolatory comment that never last long Arky has been one of the chief protagonist, so I can’t this latest seriously.

It’s been his MO for a long time.

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 1, 2021 5:58 pm

Porter joins Hunt in quitting politics

No surprises there. His rising star flamed out some time ago. The Lieborals will have real problems in the West.

JC
JC
December 1, 2021 5:59 pm

John Brumble

John Brumble says:
December 1, 2021 at 5:56 pm

I agree with all you’ve said and I think I suggested similar views. Where did I deviate?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 1, 2021 6:01 pm

Rex, the imbecile doesn’t even realize that the keyboard he’s using and the screen he’s viewing were made in China. Hilarious stuff. He’s dressing up in a white cloth professing purity and doing so on an evil keyboard and computer screen made in hell.

Sssshhhh. We’re trying to Mrs. Struth a favour here.

Do you know how hard it is to get replacement heads for folks these days?

Indolent
Indolent
December 1, 2021 6:03 pm

I’m not sure if this has been posted yet, but just look at that crowd!

Zagreb, Croatia People are chanting We are not giving you our children!

mizaris
mizaris
December 1, 2021 6:03 pm

Election brewing – just had Patrick Gorman (Lab MHR Perth) come a knocking on my door.

A sleazy man, all unctuous and oily.

Told to fuck off. Door shut emphatically.

cohenite
December 1, 2021 6:06 pm
Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 1, 2021 6:06 pm

I’ve got a Barbie doll one of the girls left here that is perfect for that scale, so you can tie her across the tracks.

Sadly, all she will do is cause derailment.

The sizing of those natty little G-scale Feldbahn locos LGBs is great relative to scale, but the mass is very much not…

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 1, 2021 6:08 pm

@ Cohenite-

That is terribly, terribly sad.

flyingduk
flyingduk
December 1, 2021 6:08 pm

I was wondering about that, but they generally lump all actual Asians in this category as well. So does this mean that Asians plus Paki’s are susceptible, or have the actual Paki’s only skewed the data?

Most likely it is the Pakis who have a higher risk (Brown skin = less Vit D) who are skewing the data. The traditional ‘oriental’ Asians are on average whiter and thinner, so it is unlikely they would be at the same risk stratum.

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 1, 2021 6:10 pm

Internal polling shows them getting smashed, or worse as far as the bugmen are concerned, into a hung parliament with a couple of UAP / PHON members to deal with.

Which is it, getting Smashed or a Hung Parliament?

bespoke
bespoke
December 1, 2021 6:10 pm

I HATE SELFIE’s!!

JC
JC
December 1, 2021 6:12 pm

cohenite says:
December 1, 2021 at 6:06 pm

I am so sick of freaks dictating values:

Elliot Page Takes Topless Mirror Selfie (Again) to Announce ‘My New Phone Works’

Just to be clear, s/he was a nice looking girl, or at least started off that way and then mutilated herself to look like a dude? Is that correct?

miltonf
miltonf
December 1, 2021 6:14 pm

This hollowing out of Australian manufacturing has been going on since the 80s and got a good kick along with the Hawkeating tariff cuts (up the workers!) in the late 80s. The name Tony Cole, a canbra shiny bum, seems to come up a lot in regard to this.

Even while we still had an automobile industry, many of the component suppliers like Ajax fasteners closed down. IIRC the last falcons had Chinese windscreens. No Pilkington-ACI toughened anti sun.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
December 1, 2021 6:14 pm

Just to be clear, s/he was a nice looking girl, or at least started off that way and then mutilated herself to look like a dude? Is that correct?

It has morphed into the opposite of a cock in a frock.

A trannie in a flannie.

A skirt in a shirt.

miltonf
miltonf
December 1, 2021 6:15 pm

I have an American suv and the wheels are chinese.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
December 1, 2021 6:16 pm

Which is it, getting Smashed or a Hung Parliament?

A hung parliament on a smashex would be brilliant to see.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
December 1, 2021 6:16 pm

Lucky those vaccines are soooo good.

Veteran football reporter Caroline Wilson says she felt as if COVID-19 had taken control of her body as she lay sick and delirious in an apartment in Amsterdam earlier this month.

Wilson, who is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, caught the virus amid a surge of cases in Europe that spurred many countries in the region to reintroduce restrictions after months of unrestricted freedoms.

Winston Smith
December 1, 2021 6:22 pm

Frank:

The Chinese developed an alternative method, anal swabbing.

Is that the one with Jalapeno oil?
Or is that the Mexican Swab?
No wonder then that Mexico has the lowest rate of the Wuhan Zombie Virus – no one wants the Jalapeno Swab.

Baba
Baba
December 1, 2021 6:27 pm

I was wondering about that, but they generally lump all actual Asians in this category as well. So does this mean that Asians plus Paki’s are susceptible, or have the actual Paki’s only skewed the data?

Injuns were the target. Paki’s are collateral damage?

Baba
Baba
December 1, 2021 6:29 pm

I have picked and peeled the pumpkin leaves for tonight’s dinner. Eat yer heart out Matrix.

Baba
Baba
December 1, 2021 6:33 pm

Veteran football reporter Caroline Wilson says she felt as if COVID-19 had taken control of her body as she lay sick and delirious in an apartment in Amsterdam earlier this month.

WTF was an AFL reporter doing in Amsterdam? How did she get an international exemption?

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 1, 2021 6:34 pm

I’ve a couple of SwannDri flannos, now Made in Bangladesh.
Quality and durability is still quite good.
Kiwis also made KayDees, rock fishing sandals.
Haven’t seen those for a while, they were pretty good.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
December 1, 2021 6:35 pm

Do you know how hard it is to get replacement heads for folks these days?

Especially non-Chinese made ones.

Delta A
Delta A
December 1, 2021 6:35 pm

John Brumblesays:
December 1, 2021 at 5:47 pm

John, why did that make you lol?

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
December 1, 2021 6:36 pm

Caroline Wilson says she felt as if COVID-19 had taken control of her body as she lay sick

This is how a lot of horror movies start.
Also a lot of German porn starts this way too.

Just sayin.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
December 1, 2021 6:37 pm

Veteran football reporter Caroline Wilson says she felt as if COVID-19 had taken control of her body as she lay sick and delirious in an apartment in Amsterdam earlier this month.

The virus would probably know more about the actual game. If she hadn’t recovered we might have got some better “journalism” under her byline.

calli
calli
December 1, 2021 6:41 pm

Excellent point, Baba.

Anyone…anyone…who goes overseas must expect to get it, vaxxed or not. Only an idiot would assume that the vax will protect them in any way shape or form.

But try telling the smooth-brained that. They raise their eyebrows and lecture you on the vaxx’s amelioration effects. As though it’s a real thing.

JC
JC
December 1, 2021 6:42 pm

Peter Navarro at Newsmax. And I’ve also seen this argument here too.

“I’m not anti-vax,” he stressed. “I was the guy that helped President Trump get that thing quickly to the finish line, but, here’s the deal: I knew at the time that any vaccine that might come up would be leaky. It wouldn’t be a silver bullet, right, and what we also needed was the widespread use of therapeutics.”

Navarro added he co-wrote papers in July, along with “Dr. Robert Malone, who actually invented the RNA technology for this vaccine” – on the danger of universal vaccine policies potentially creating “vaccine resistant mutations” of COVID-19 that would threaten the vaccinated, who might not have been needed the immune assistance anyway.

“He and I wrote a series of two articles that basically said that a universal vax policy, because of basic virology, would likely lead to vaccine resistant mutations that could threaten, actually, the people who took the vaccines,” Navarro said. “And now we’re seeing exactly that.

A couple of points

1/ Delta was supposed have started in India and now the Om variant in Africa. These two geographic areas are /were the two lowest vax areas in the world. What are the odds the variants began in non vaxxed vs vax sectors of the population?

2/ Is there any evidence variants began in a vaxxed population?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 1, 2021 6:45 pm

Just to be clear, s/he was a nice looking girl

Gorgeous, but neurotic. And only got worse with extended exposure to Hollywood…

John of Mel
John of Mel
December 1, 2021 6:51 pm

A hung parliament on a smashex would be brilliant to see.

A well-hung parliament would be of a special interest to J.Lambie.

cohenite
December 1, 2021 6:55 pm

Gorgeous, but neurotic. And only got worse with extended exposure to Hollywood…

The writing was on the wall when she made several rants against Trump. A real test of character and sanity is a person’s view of Trump. But she’s not neurotic, she is pathological.

calli
calli
December 1, 2021 7:00 pm

JC, as a complete lay person, I only have this…

If both D and O started in unvaxxed but highly concentrated and, let’s face it, grotty communities as far as general hygiene is concerned, and both these variants proved to be highly contagious but less toxic – is that just an example of an unimpeded virus doing its thing?

The fear, as I understand it, is that highly vaxxed but leaky communities may produce the opposite – a more deadly mutation.

Technical Cats can fire when ready. I am well dug in to the bunker. 😀

John of Mel
John of Mel
December 1, 2021 7:01 pm

WTF was an AFL reporter doing in Amsterdam? How did she get an international exemption?

Now you only need an exemption if you’re un-jabbed.

Travel for vaccinated Australians
Fully vaccinated Australian citizens and permanent residents can now travel to and from Australia without needing to apply for a travel exemption. Please refer to information on Travel for vaccinated Australians.

Children under 12 and those who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons will also be able to travel overseas without an exemption.”

“Unvaccinated Australian citizens and permanent residents wishing to travel overseas (apart from children under 12 and those who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons) are required to apply for an exemption to leave Australia. You can apply online for an exemption but you must meet at least one of the following criteria: …”

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 1, 2021 7:04 pm

This is how a lot of horror movies start.

MSM journalists are zombies already. Seems pointless for a virus to turn a zombie into a zombie.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
December 1, 2021 7:07 pm

rickw says:
December 1, 2021 at 5:29 pm
People of Asian/Asian British ethnicity were more than twice as likely to become infected as their white counterparts.
So the CCP is monkeying around with bio-weapons.
Their accidentally released weapon preferentially targets Asians.
The most epic fail of all time?

Not necessarily – Xi’s biggest problem would be one billion very unhappy Chinese peasants.

He’s doing a good job of destroying the West without a shot being fired so he won’t need so many Chinese at home. Or those Mongolians, or Vietnamese, or Japanese, or…

Cassie of Sydney
December 1, 2021 7:07 pm

“JCsays:
December 1, 2021 at 5:43 pm
Despite the abuse and threats on another thread, John H is a high value contributor here. Don’t let anyone deter you from posting comments here, John H.

Agree JC.

JC
JC
December 1, 2021 7:11 pm

Calli

As of today 28% of the Sth African population has been immunized with double shots. A few weeks ago, it would have been in the teens, so assuming the variant began in Sth Africa some people expect us to believe Om began with the vaxxed in one of the lowest vaxed countries and regions in the world.

India, where the delta supposedly began, I don’t believe even 2% of the population was vaxxed when the delta variant started to rampage through the population.

Yet, there are people who profess the vax causes dangerous mutations and they’re actually using places not where the vaxes were in widespread use, but in the lowest. This defies any understanding of probability. It’s actually laughable propaganda.

rickw
rickw
December 1, 2021 7:13 pm

Just a box of used tissues from the leetle boy.

I wouldn’t trust him, seems he’s been handing out counterfeit COVID!

Aaron
Aaron
December 1, 2021 7:15 pm

Another coincidence.

Another young athlete dies.

Tom
Tom
December 1, 2021 7:15 pm

Nine’s A Current Affair has gone into action as a government of enforcer, pretending not to understand why shoppers are pissed off about the Andrews government’s fascist crackdown on civil rights using Kung Flu as the excuse.

Small business is being forced to be the government’s storm trooper with the threat of huge fines and ACA is blaming shoppers.

FMD. Ninety per cent of journalists are fascist scum who loathe democracy.

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