Open Thread – Mon 6 Dec 2021


Massacre of the Innocents, Jacopo Tintoretto, 1582-8


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Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 6, 2021 7:51 pm

The one where Eric Idle identifies as a woman was prescient.

Loretta!

Denley Moor?

Michael Palin correctly predicted the fetishization of weather, which is a better record of accuracy than any of the thermageddonists’ prophesy efforts.

And my contribution is of course Gondolas.

Chris
Chris
December 6, 2021 7:53 pm

Sorry, I’ll just shut the door on my way out.

Frank
Frank
December 6, 2021 7:55 pm

Just spoke to someone in WA and the mentioned that Sneakers is overseeing a return to WA Inc on steroids. Do any WA cats know if this is true, plausible or just hyperbole?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 6, 2021 7:55 pm

Among our weapons we number…

Nobody suspected that one.

Also…

I DON’T LIKE SPAM!

Roger
Roger
December 6, 2021 7:57 pm

I don’t know what the situation is with the Tweed, but the border “bubble” gives a handy structure to slough off Qld patients into NSW for treatment.

Honestly, I’d be surprised if that happens. Northern NSW hospitals just don’t have the expertise at the pointy end to justify medivacs whereas multiple hospitals within easy reach over the border do.

srr
srr
December 6, 2021 7:57 pm

Quiet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iizaW-zMapE

I am heading for a time of quiet
When my restlessness is past
And I can lie down on my blanket
And release my fists at last
I am heading for a time of solitude
Of peace without illusions
When the perfect circle marries
All beginnings and conclusions
And when they say
That you’re not good enough
Well, the answer is you’re not
But who are they or what is it
That eats at what you’ve got?
With the hunger of ambition
For the change inside the purse
They are handcuffs on the soul, my friends
Handcuffs on the soul and worse
And I am heading for a place of quiet
Where the sage and sweet grass grow
By a lake of sacred water
From the mountain’s melted snow

Razey
Razey
December 6, 2021 7:58 pm

twostixsays:
December 6, 2021 at 6:50 pm
10:1 Victoria, and perhaps QLD, tells parents that kids can’t return to school in January without getting ‘jabbed’.

Then they’ll lean on the homeschooling brigade and make the handful of parents who refuse jabs and pull their kids out of school a family services / health / social interaction issue and start threatening to fine parents and take kids away.

What a fucking legacy right. Thanks a lot!

Likely.

However, there is a loophole to remove your kids from school and enroll them online in other states.

Other options: Move to NSW, assuming they aren’t as draconian as Vic/QLD. Move overseas, assuming the vax exemption is still there and you can board the plane without the clot shot.

Roger
Roger
December 6, 2021 8:00 pm

The one where Eric Idle identifies as a woman was prescient.

Loretta!

That’s the one.

Everyone laughed, but nobody – except perhaps Eric Idle – foresaw it coming, least of all the feminists.

calli
calli
December 6, 2021 8:00 pm

I wasn’t thinking medivacs, Roger. Look what happened last time with the babies.

More the bread and butter stuff from a rapidly ageing population.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 6, 2021 8:01 pm

Rex- How can you not like Spam? It’s the nearest thing to ham-n-egg that you can buy at Coles.

I tried Turkey Spam not long ago, which was fun. It was on special. It was exactly like Ordinary Spam.
Somewhat tasteless, gritty and soggy.

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 6, 2021 8:02 pm

I used to think The Two Ronnies and Dave Allen where much funnier than Monty Python.

The Two Ronnies is still funny, Dave Allen is datede.
Norman Gunston is still funnier than both.

Bear Necessities
Bear Necessities
December 6, 2021 8:03 pm

Terry Jones in ‘Secretary of State Striptease’ is extremely funny. Also the ‘Four Yorkshireman’ sketch whilst not strictly Python is still extremely good for a laugh. Marty Feldman did one of the early iterations of this sketch with Tim Brooke Taylor and John Cleese. I agree that Holy Grail and Life of Brian really brough out their talents. They were more comedic writers and actors than straight comedians.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 6, 2021 8:07 pm

‘Just a number’: Digger felt abandoned when he was most in need

Jess Malcolm
Reporter
@jessmalcolm1
6 minutes ago December 6, 2021

Ryan Goodwin was a shadow of his former self when he returned home after fighting for his country in Afghanistan in 2011.

An outgoing, ambitious and academic man, Goodwin found his calling when he joined the army in 2007 after growing up wearing military ­fatigues, watching war documentaries and consuming books about the army.

The South Australian served for four years, including a tour of Afghanistan in 2010 and 2011, but was barely recognisable to his family when he was discharged. He suffered a seven-year battle with mental and physical health and eventually died by suicide in December 2019.

The Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide on Monday was told how Goodwin was abandoned by the organisation that recruited him, receiving no proactive support from the ­Department of Veterans Affairs.

The inquiry, which began its second week of hearings in Brisbane, was told the former soldier was given no material support to help him process the traumatic events he had witnessed.

Goodwin’s father Phillip ­described two events before he was posted overseas that left him scarred. These included being a first responder to an incident where two civilians were incinerated in a fuel tanker fire near Rockhampton, and the death of a friend and comrade in a motor­cycle accident at the Enoggera Barracks.

Phillip Goodwin told the hearing his son began to withdraw from his friends and family, stopped exercising and eating properly, and suffered uncontrollable fits of rage which were ­“totally out of character”.

“I realise that individuals need to take some responsibility for their own welfare,” Mr Goodwin said. “(But) if Ryan was a fit enough man and a strong enough man to send off to act of service … I think we as a nation did have a debt to keep Ryan safe in his own country.”

Mr Goodwin said his son later found the Department of Veterans Affairs “very adversarial” and became increasingly frustrated.

“I don’t feel as though he was fully supported by the Department of Veteran Affairs,” he said. “He was just a number there, another statistic, another caseload.

“He just gave up hope all ­together … hope was taken from him. That was probably the biggest tragedy, when he lost hope, that he probably didn’t see a way forward.”

After years of anguish, the former soldier turned to illicit substances to numb the pain, which caused conflict within his family.

The only support outside that of his family was occasional contact with the RSL.

In October 2018, Goodwin submitted a claim of liability to the Department of Veterans Affairs in a bid to seek psychological help for post-traumatic stress disorder.

It is understood he was placed on a waiting list, but died just over a year later, aged 39.

Mr Goodwin said the family ­received a letter 18 months later from the Department of Veteran Affairs acknowledging his PTSD.

Roger
Roger
December 6, 2021 8:08 pm

More the bread and butter stuff from a rapidly ageing population.

I’d still be surprised if that was the case, calli.

For generations the traffic’s been the other way ’round – and nobody this side of the border complained about it.

Palaszczuk’s deplorable rhetoric and actions notwithstanding, it’s based on a gentlemen’s agreement from the time when we were still governed by gentlemen, or at least they aspired to be such.

Baba
Baba
December 6, 2021 8:09 pm

That’s total bullshit. It’s also bullshit that hospitals wouldn’t accept unvaxed adult emergency cases. He’s hallucinating.

Alternative narrative: Waiting lists for the vaxxed have shortened due to hospitals rejecting treatment for non-urgent unvaxxed cases.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Chris
Chris
December 6, 2021 8:10 pm

Just spoke to someone in WA and the mentioned that Sneakers is overseeing a return to WA Inc on steroids. Do any WA cats know if this is true, plausible or just hyperbole?

Sorry but where would we get the info? Back in the WA Inc days Their ABC and The West Australian employed journalists.
Even though they spent the 1980s licking the shoes of the millionaires for party invites, the news at least reported the events like selling off giant state properties to the in crowd.
Now even if they did report these things, I wouldn’t know except by reading ZK2A’s posts. Thelocal media burnt me out of their audience.

Roger
Roger
December 6, 2021 8:10 pm

The Two Ronnies is still funny, Dave Allen is datede.
Norman Gunston is still funnier than both.

It’s not a competition, Ed.

Just enjoy the laughs.

PS
Dave Allen’s homosexuality skit is more relevant than ever!

Indolent
Indolent
December 6, 2021 8:15 pm
GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 6, 2021 8:16 pm

Wot about the Goons or Pete and Dud?

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
December 6, 2021 8:26 pm

Just catching up on Queensland’s Triumph.

The whole border thing appears to have become a lot more complicated, fraught and inconvenient than originally advertised:

For example, a resident in the NSW town of Pottsville who is fully vaccinated and has a valid border pass can drive to Burleigh Heads, but will need proof of a negative COVID-19 test within the last 72 hours to drive to Brisbane.

For example, a fully vaccinated Toowoomba couple can take a day trip to Byron Bay and return, but if they spent the weekend in Coffs Harbour, they will need negative test results before being permitted back over the border.

If I get this correctly, a wrong turn could have you marooned in northern NSW, trying to find a quick turnaround PCR test, in time to get home to feed the cat.

In normal times you could hope that the accumulated absurdities might shame politicians and their enablers into being better people and to stop fucking around.
Not so much any more.

srr
srr
December 6, 2021 8:29 pm

Hurricane Eye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtxe-qxTRx4

Tell us all a story about how it used to be
Make it up and write it down
Just like history
About goldilocks and the three bears
Nature in the cross hairs
And how we all ascended from the deep green sea
When it’s not too hot, not too cold
Not too meek, not too bold
When it’s just right and you add sunlight
Then we’re home
Finally home
Home in the land of the homeless
Finally home,
Oh, what are we going to do
I never did a thing to you
Time peaceful as a hurricane eye
Peaceful as a hurricane eye
A history of whispers
A shadow of a horse
Faces painted black in sorrow and remorse
White cloud, black crow
Crucifix and arrow
The oldest silence speak the loudest
Under the deep green sea
When speech becomes a crime
Silence leads the spirit
Over the bridge of time
Over the bridge of time
I’m walking with my family
And the road begins to climb
And it’s, oh lord how we going to pray
With crazy angel voices all night
‘Til it’s a new day
Peaceful as a hurricane
Peaceful as a hurricane
Peaceful as a hurricane eye
Peaceful as a hurricane
Peaceful as a hurricane
Peaceful as a hurricane eye
Peaceful as a hurricane eye
You want to be a leader?
You want to change the game?
Turn your back on money
Walk away from fame
You want to be a missionary?
Got that missionary zeal?
Let a stranger change your life
How is that make you feel?
You want to be a writer
But you don’t know how or when
Find a quiet place
Use a humble pen
You want to talk-talk-talk about it
All night squawk about
The ocean and the atmosphere
Well, I’ve been away for a long time
And it looks like a mess around here
I’ll be away for a long time
So here’s how the story goes
There was an old woman
Who lived in a shoe
She was baking a cinnamon pie
She fell asleep in a washing machine
Woke up in a hurricane eye

132andBush
132andBush
December 6, 2021 8:32 pm

What have the Romans done for us?

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
December 6, 2021 8:33 pm

For example, a resident in the NSW town of Pottsville who is fully vaccinated and has a valid border pass can drive to Burleigh Heads, but will need proof of a negative COVID-19 test within the last 72 hours to drive to Brisbane.

For example, a fully vaccinated Toowoomba couple can take a day trip to Byron Bay and return, but if they spent the weekend in Coffs Harbour, they will need negative test results before being permitted back over the border.

Doc, its absolute fluff. A claytons opening. We are planning our move back north after new year now.

srr
srr
December 6, 2021 8:43 pm

If every human on the planet
And all the buildings on it
Should disappear
Would a zebra grazing in the African Savannah
Care enough to share one zebra tear?

Questions for the angels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvfFWyHXwas

calli
calli
December 6, 2021 8:46 pm

Thanks Roger. Interesting to get another viewpoint. Mine was secondhand from someone I thought was in a position to know, doing consulting work for NSW Health.

It’s all such a parochial tangle you’d think it was two different and belligerent countries.

rickw
rickw
December 6, 2021 8:47 pm

Was supposed to be churning out parts this afternoon, made some program mods, test running the program and the freaking turret doesn’t make it to the right tool. Restart and now I’m stuck on the infamous NOT READY screen.

Hmmm, maybe the turret motor tripped out. Get out the wiring diagram, find the supply, bingo! The breakers tripped. Restart, and reset everything. Re run the program to test. Craps out on another tool change. Bugger. At least not stuck at the NOT READY screen. Now turret won’t even index. Bit of googling and memory jolting. Parameters 16 and 17 inputs from sensors associated with turret sequence. 17 appears to be responding correctly. 16 seems to be dead an unresponsive to position of locking pin.

Tomorrow I get to see if the unvaxxed can buy an 8mm PNP Proximity sensor!!!

This machine has a Italian turret on it. It’s been having freaking turret problems since 1986! Fortunately the previous owner was a fastidious keeper of documentation. I have a 2” thick file of turret problems. With any luck this isn’t something new!

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 6, 2021 8:50 pm

Calli

It’s all such a parochial tangle you’d think it was two different and belligerent countries.

Thanks to the brilliant leadership of the great Scott Morrison, Australia has reverted back to a bunch of squabbling colonies. The only thing that now unites us is Commonwealth money.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
December 6, 2021 8:56 pm

rosie says:
December 5, 2021 at 6:41 pm
It’s quite an interesting subject.
Lol at Tonythetroll excusing himself for once again, ‘accidentally’ reading a comment of mine.
I just thought claiming people who didn’t actually experience an event could have ‘vivid memories ‘ of it was the sort of claim progs would make and we would reject.
And gosh I’ve seen a survivors tattoo too.

Amazing – anyone who disagrees with rosie notaclue is a troll.
Rosie – you are a fuckwit’s fuckwit.
How many of your neighbours have you dobbed in for COVID breaches? Asking for a friend…

(I only saw this comment of yours because i opened the OT from an older thread.)

MatrixTransform
December 6, 2021 8:58 pm
Jumpnmcar
Jumpnmcar
December 6, 2021 8:59 pm

All the States and Territories bar one are lead by ALP and they are Constitutionally responsible for Health and Policing.

Jumpnmcar
Jumpnmcar
December 6, 2021 9:00 pm

Bar 2. 2 of 9.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
December 6, 2021 9:01 pm

Ed Case says:
December 6, 2021 at 7:38 pm
They’re coming for the kids – any way they can and they will only be stopped by force, not platitudes

Writing cheques you can’t cash?

Ok superhero – how many people do you think will sit idly by and watch their kids die and say “Well, I’d like to do somethng, but that’s one cheque I cannot cash”

Fuck off back to whatever large anus you slimed your way out of.

cohenite
December 6, 2021 9:01 pm

These people are fucking morons:

Earth is getting a black box to record our climate change actions, and it’s already started listening

ABC Science / By environment reporter Nick Kilvert

On a granite-strewn plain, surrounded by gnarled mountains, sits a giant steel box.

Incongruous in the landscape, much like Kubrick’s black monolith of 2001: A Space Odyssey fame, its alien presence suggests it was put there with intent.

And if those that discover it can decipher the messages it contains, they could get a glimpse of what caused the fall of the civilisation that was there before.

This is Earth’s Black Box.

‘First and foremost, it’s a tool’

When an aeroplane crashes, it’s left to investigators to sift through the wreckage to recover the black box.

It’s hoped the recorded contents can be used to help others avoid the same fate.

And so it is with Earth’s Black Box: a 10-metre-by-4-metre-by-3-metre steel monolith that’s about to be built on a remote outcrop on Tasmania’s west coast.

If that sounds unhinged, it’s worth remembering that we’re currently on track for as much as 2.7C of warming this century.

Ask any climate scientist what happens when warming breaches 2C, and they’ll almost invariably tell you it’s not worth thinking about.

Reported at WUWT.

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 6, 2021 9:11 pm

Ok superhero – how many people do you think will sit idly by and watch their kids die and say “Well, I’d like to do somethng, but that’s one cheque I cannot cash”

They’ve been letting the State Vaxx their kids for a generation without a murmur.
But you reckon that’s gonna stop?
You’re writing Cheques you can’t cash again.

mc
mc
December 6, 2021 9:13 pm

Victoria to introduce new mandated targets for female representation in construction
The Andrews Government will introduce a new policy that will see state construction jobs have mandated numbers of female workers.

It will spell out that women work in at least 3 per cent of jobs in each trade role on a project, 7 per cent for each non-trade position and 35 per cent of management, supervisor and specialist labour roles.

https://12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/victoria-to-introduce-new-mandated-targets-for-female-representation-in-construction/news-story/d961921030d86d02596717170dcb2b90

Vic will be destroyed long before an asteroid can get here. I am glad I am not a young bloke trying to get ahead in construction, at least not on government contracts. They will be overlooked for many years while the 3% of females will be walking into 35% of management/specialist positions.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
December 6, 2021 9:15 pm

Ed Case says:
December 6, 2021 at 9:11 pm
Are you married to Rosie notaclue?
Fuck off

Baba
Baba
December 6, 2021 9:15 pm

This is Earth’s Black Box.

‘First and foremost, it’s a tool’

It’s a GCT.

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 6, 2021 9:16 pm

Wow. A new PB. Comment rejected at Teh Paywallian in 12 seconds. I wonder if I am on a watch list or the algorithms just hate me. Something to ponder over a beer.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
December 6, 2021 9:16 pm

Doc, its absolute fluff. A claytons opening. We are planning our move back north after new year now.

I can see why.
I’ve spent most the past two months up north – it’s a different place.
In a good way.

Frank
Frank
December 6, 2021 9:17 pm

cohenite says:
December 6, 2021 at 9:01 pm

Tasmania you say… that is nearby for some. Shame if it were to get graffiti scratched all over it or something.

duncanm
duncanm
December 6, 2021 9:21 pm
Mater
December 6, 2021 9:21 pm

They will be overlooked for many years while the 3% of females will be walking into 35% of management/specialist positions.

Play their game.
Everyone should identify as female.
That’ll level the playing field, and make you more untouchable than a Union rep.

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 6, 2021 9:22 pm

It will spell out that women work in at least 3 per cent of jobs in each trade role on a project, 7 per cent for each non-trade position and 35 per cent of management, supervisor and specialist labour roles.

Will benefit the Tier One Builders and drive all but the smallest out of business.

miltonf
miltonf
December 6, 2021 9:32 pm

This poisonous cultural marxist social ‘engineering’ never ceases- chipping chipping away. Is it part of BA at Monash?

struth
struth
December 6, 2021 9:33 pm

For example, a resident in the NSW town of Pottsville who is fully vaccinated and has a valid border pass can drive to Burleigh Heads, but will need proof of a negative COVID-19 test within the last 72 hours to drive to Brisbane.

Ah, thew freedom you gained for being a good Nazi……………

rickw
rickw
December 6, 2021 9:36 pm

Black Pigeon, Western Decline:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYYKhnsMtq8

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 6, 2021 9:36 pm

Not one mention of Doug and Dinsdale Pirhana.

Disappointing.

Stupid boomers.

shatterzzz
December 6, 2021 9:37 pm

“If you are corrupt, you betrayed the Australian people and betray your party – you deserve to be dealt with and jailed if appropriate,” Mr Bowen said. … commenting on GLADYS & Warringah ..

Jesus H! .. for a bloke who’s been corrupt most, if not all, of his political life it’s a bit of glass houses revisited .. Still, I suppose like Oor Wullz he knows he is sooo high up the Labor Party tree he’s become untouchable .. Probably, right cos the Libs are bloody useless at digging dirt & terrified some of it will be thrown back & stick to them ..!
I’m fairly sure that there are still a few folk, like me, around Fairfield that still remember his sticky fingers in the drug trade during the 1990s ( most of those, in the know, in Fairfield politics made a motza when plod shunted the trade out of Cabramatta ), not to mention his regular visits to Phong Ngo’s shindigs in Goulburn Gaol .. all swept under the carpet since he inherited McMahon from Janice Crosio, of course!

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

callisays:
December 6, 2021 at 7:50 pm

My understanding is that Qld hospitals are despicably underfunded and understaffed with a massive top heavy administration.

More than we realise.
Here’s an anecdote which tells a much larger story:

Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital wrote to me last week. A long multi-page letter about mandatory vaccination of anyone who provides services to a “healtcare site”

Just the listing of persons who must be vaccinated was muli-page in itself. Eg, tradesmen fixing loose doorknobs, caterers, tea ladies, on & on & it went.

Then there is a page or two of instructions on how to “complete, sign, & return” a form stating that I & all my staff, & everybody who may enter my building is vaccinated.

I am a country pub. I’m not in the same province as Brisbane. That hospital has no more to do with me than does the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne.

The letter was long & comprehensive, except for one key point: It did not define what is a “health care site”

Half an hour or more of my life was lost, on a day when I couldn’t afford the time, researching what is a “health care site”

Does a pub room, & by extension the entire pub, where RBWH staff are booked, fit the definition of a “health care site”? (keeping in mind that if RBWH books a specialist at my place, & he/she hurts themselves having tinder style hookup sex they’re considered to have a work injury)

This stuff isn’t funny when you can see all Health Dept business being withdrawn. A significant portion of my business income.

Took me half an hour to decide I’m not a health care site.

They could have saved themselves some trouble, & me a helluva lot, if they’d never written the letter.
I get more people from St. Vincent’s in Sydney, & the Alfred in Melbourne, staying here, than I do RBWH.

Neither the Alfred nor St. Vincent’s have bothered me on this matter. Nor do I expect them to.

Toyed with the idea of sending an abusive letter to RBWH telling them they’ve waaay too many ponytails & pen-pushers on their staff.

Where’s the health-care outcome in all the above? (There is not one)

Eyrie
Eyrie
December 6, 2021 9:43 pm

In other news, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the USA has decided to rename the NOTAM
( Notice to Air Men) to Notice to Air Missions in order to be more gender neutral and inclusive.
Clearly there are no pressing aviation safety problems at present.

Eyrie
Eyrie
December 6, 2021 9:43 pm

And it isn’t April 1.

JC
JC
December 6, 2021 9:46 pm

struth says:
December 6, 2021 at 6:46 pm

No JC, but like the constitution, I can read.
Maybe you should have gone away and done some homework instead of taking a fucking poison ……tick….tick…..tick…….

Oh okay, it just did some homework and you’re “analysis” sucks because at the end of the day, you’re an idiot, Struth. In fact you’re a putz head.

You’re own link, you infernal putz head says this to paraphrase:
“vax data represents doses administered by Qld Health”.

This means eggsactly that, you imbecile. It means, vaxes jabbed by that state entity (QLD Health) and therefore does NOT include private providers and other vaccinations coming out of federal programs.

Struth, I beg you please. Again, I beg you, stop thinking. You’re not paid to think and whenever you do, this sort of shit happens. Just do your bread deliveries and stop it with this insane thing you have going like you’re paid to think. You’re not.

Eyrie
Eyrie
December 6, 2021 9:47 pm

These people are fucking morons:
Earth is getting a black box to record our climate change actions, and it’s already started listening

Some thermite will fix it.

JC
JC
December 6, 2021 9:47 pm

Where the hell is Sanchez? I hope he’s not dead from the jab.

Eyrie
Eyrie
December 6, 2021 9:47 pm

Who cares?

Eyrie
Eyrie
December 6, 2021 9:48 pm

If he is we’ll give him a Darwin Award.

Aaron
Aaron
December 6, 2021 9:49 pm

That’s not the Vax, it’s a new discovery.

You know, if this year sets a precedent in some way, well whatever you do, don’t mention vaccines.

Cold damages heart. IT IS NOT THE VAX.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Someone posted a dispatch from Woolworth’s the other day, on the shortage of liquor supply.

Yep, there’s lotsa lotsa stuff may not be around at Christmas time.
I’m rationed to 1 x carton per week of Malibu, Kahlua, & a few others, Corona & other similar is either out of stock or limited supply (eg, rationed to 5 or 10 cartons per week)

More than half the line items in my order from Lion Nathan (one of Australia’s two breweries) were out of stock & not expected to be supplied again this year, & no idea when or even if, they’ll be able to supply again.

The pallet shortage means suppliers are reluctant to send slow-moving stock to wholesalers.
They’d rather have the wooden pallet available to use, than to make available slow moving lines. (eg, Jagermeister, Chambord, & other rocket fuel that sells at snail pace)

She could be a Christmas on stubbies of mass-market beer & cheap plonk.

Gab
Gab
December 6, 2021 9:52 pm

Anyone else having trouble with slow internet speed?

JC
JC
December 6, 2021 9:59 pm

Hallward, Fuck off. Talk to someone else.

shatterzzz
December 6, 2021 10:03 pm

The pallet shortage means suppliers are reluctant to send slow-moving stock to wholesalers.

What pallet shortage? .. I ride past the local CHEP depot in Wetherill Park, NSW every morning .. place has umpteen rows of 50 high stacks .. always! .. and several semis/biggies waiting to be loaded/unloaded …..

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

What pallet shortage?

There isn’t one?
Allow me to rephrase:
The reported pallet shortage.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

There’s an awful lot of people & operators reporting a pallet shortage.

Perhaps the pallets are all stuck in the CHEP depot, unable to be used coz of the truckie shortage?
(Make that the reported shortage of truckies)

Dot
Dot
December 6, 2021 10:12 pm

Arksays:
December 6, 2021 at 5:54 pm
We’ve given up two of the most formative years of my daughters life to this utter shit.
You bet your fucking arse I’m angry.
How angry you have only the faintest hint of from what I post here.

Good.

Never forget what they have taken away from you.

Dot
Dot
December 6, 2021 10:13 pm

I must say, other than giving everyone a spray, twostix at 6:31, 6:45 and 6:50 this evening was bang on.

Dot
Dot
December 6, 2021 10:14 pm

“Chris Bowen, Phong Ngo’s bagman and lickspittle…”

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 6, 2021 10:18 pm

Not all Doom & Gloom at Queenslands Hossies:
Fair Work recently reinstated a sacked Manager who rated female underlings on fuckability and referred to one dragon as Vinegar Tits.
And Annastacia is sticking up for him.
No names but it sounds like Silvio Berlusconi.

JC
JC
December 6, 2021 10:18 pm

I must say, other than giving everyone a spray, twostix at 6:31, 6:45 and 6:50 this evening was bang on.

Dot, I never voted for medicare, locking younger people out of the housing market through code and taxes. I’ve never supported the mandates and he was bullshitting about hospitals refusing kids.

What was he spot on about.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
December 6, 2021 10:20 pm

Salvatore

When I was a resident of Queensland still, I had similar tangles with Q Health. Found them heavily bureaucratic and when they stuffed up no-ones fault. Impossible to contact, 90% of contact with the clinics went to message that was never returned and despite the growing admin workforce under Bligh & Palace-chook it was just getting harder to talk to someone. I hear it is worse now.

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 6, 2021 10:25 pm

Angela Merkel/ Unfuckable LardArse, funny yet so true.
Annastacia was supposed to make an announcement today whether Christmas is still on, she’s been quiet.
I don’t trust that girl, tho I reckon she could look after a bloke.

JC
JC
December 6, 2021 10:26 pm

Ed, what state do you live in?

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 6, 2021 10:27 pm

Twostix reckons Mandates are the issue but she’s dead wrong.
Vaccines are the issue.,

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 6, 2021 10:28 pm

Brisbane, JC.

Dot
Dot
December 6, 2021 10:29 pm

he was bullshitting about hospitals refusing kids

I have heard of doctors refusing service, not hospitals.

I saw the covetousness before my own eyes. Have a look at how former principals of large commercial law firms started demanding a cap on fees after they retired. The same people who offered work experience for $20 k a year!

You didn’t vote for it, sure. You’re not most boomers.

The pensions of judges pretty much encapsulates the worst of boomers.

JC
JC
December 6, 2021 10:34 pm

Ed.
I was pretty sure you hail from there, but just wanted to confirm.

MatrixTransform
December 6, 2021 10:35 pm

Vaccines are the issue

iesu fucking christo

Aaron
Aaron
December 6, 2021 10:37 pm

“tho I reckon she could look after a bloke.”

If Bela Lugosi was a trannie, he would be Anna.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
December 6, 2021 10:39 pm

Orange Man

Benny (@bennyjohnson) Tweeted:
Trump on General Milley telling him to leave the military equipment in Afghanistan:

“That’s when I realized he was a fucking idiot.” https://t.co/fPW0x379g3

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Rockdoctorsays:
December 6, 2021 at 10:20 pm

When I was a resident of Queensland still, I had similar tangles with Q Health. …. despite the growing admin workforce under Bligh & Palace-chook it was just getting harder to talk to someone. I hear it is worse now.

Yep.
I’ve a massive stock of stories of bureaucracy being prioritised above delivery of medical treatment.
By medical staff (not just clerical staff)

I got to know one of the local nurses quite well. He’d worked in NSW & reported that from the inside the Qld hospital system was shockingly worse.
He also had a lot of adverse criticism of hospital staff, principally the nurses.
There was a noticeable (even to outsiders) gulf, both cultural & political, between the Australian-born nurses & the immigrants.

The two groups didn’t have much to do with each other off duty.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
December 6, 2021 10:42 pm

It will spell out that women work in at least 3 per cent of jobs in each trade role on a project, 7 per cent for each non-trade position and 35 per cent of management, supervisor and specialist labour roles.

Are they going to enforce the “work” part?
I did once see a high viz chick on a building site actually doing something.

MatrixTransform
December 6, 2021 10:42 pm

I got a fly screen door for the dog-box today.
the dog-box is wall to wall windows and fly screen everywhere except the main door to outside
best thousand bucks I ever spent
daddy long legs will have nothing to eat now
and no mozzies
bliss

John of Mel
John of Mel
December 6, 2021 11:05 pm

I was reading the latest memo from the CEO of Oaktree Capital – Howard Marks. I was once told that he is a very clever guy. He is a Dem’s shill and AGW believer (even used the “climate denier” slur). So, I’m not so sure about this assessment of his intellect. Although I don’t discount the possibility that he is in it for the money, which makes him an immoral bastard.
In the memo he is, basically, confirming Twostix’s boomers theory, but applied to the US.
Extract from page 11:

Generational Inequity
In 2037 and 2026, respectively, Social Security and Medicare, benefit programs that aid older Americans, will likely become unable to continue paying today’s benefits. And yet we don’t hear any discussion of the benefit cuts, delayed eligibility, tax increases, or means testing that would have to be part of any solution. In fact, in the last 18 months Washington has approved more than $9 trillion of spending on Covid-19 relief and infrastructure, but we haven’t heard a word from either party about fixing these essential programs. That’s presumably because the party that trims these programs would likely be penalized at the polls. The 71.2 million members of the Baby Boom generation (people born between roughly 1946 and 1964) are triple the 23.0 members of the Silent Generation that preceded them and 10% more than the 65.0 million Generation Xers that followed. The magnitude of the Boomers’ votes and financial resources have given them enormous political influence over the last 40 years. The result has been extensive deficit spending on things the Boomers want and a failure to modify benefit programs that need fixing, all at the expense of future generations. This is an example of the generational unfairness that has been perpetrated in recent decades. In short – in a way that many Americans probably don’t recognize – administrations of both parties have been (and still are) spending vast amounts, taxing less than they should relative to their spending (thus incurring deficits), and running up the national debt, largely favoring the Baby Boomers who are now America’s very numerous retirees. Here’s the history of the U.S. national debt:
… [table cut for length]
In short, the Baby Boomers have been and still are consuming more than their fair share of the pie. This will leave future generations saddled with substantial debt stemming from expenditures they didn’t benefit from proportionally.

pete of perth
pete of perth
December 6, 2021 11:34 pm

Pete and Dud at the pub

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
December 6, 2021 11:37 pm

I’m a fat old smoking boomer with gold plated medical care. And unjabbed.
Haters can kiss my arse.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 6, 2021 11:38 pm

I’m a fat old smoking boomer with gold plated medical care. And unjabbed.
Haters can kiss my arse.

Wot ‘e said!

Dot
Dot
December 7, 2021 12:07 am

Santa Inc – The Most Hated Show On TV?
776,841 viewsDec 3, 2021

77K
The Critical Drinker
998K subscribers

It seems like everyone is hating on Santa Inc, the HBO ‘comedy’ starring Seth Rogen and Sarah Silverman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PQruIfBVSs

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
December 7, 2021 1:05 am

If someone thinks they are hard done by you should walk a mile in their shoes.
That way you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.

Tom
Tom
December 7, 2021 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
December 7, 2021 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
December 7, 2021 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
December 7, 2021 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
December 7, 2021 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
December 7, 2021 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
December 7, 2021 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
December 7, 2021 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
December 7, 2021 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
December 7, 2021 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
December 7, 2021 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
December 7, 2021 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
December 7, 2021 4:12 am
Win
Win
December 7, 2021 4:30 am

Two sticks sorry I have done it again. Dover I have never intentionally reported a comment . It’s a case of overlap thinking and and not looking.

Win
Win
December 7, 2021 4:57 am

QLD won’t do transplants on the unjabbed. What research has been done on transplanting vaccinated organs into vaccinated and unvaccinated patients .

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
December 7, 2021 5:55 am

I really like Ben Garrison’s thinking – Santa Klaus Schwab !

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
December 7, 2021 6:00 am

A repeat of the last federal election Labor fails:

Infuriating moment Labor heavyweight fails to answer a simple question five times about when electric cars will actually be affordable for average Australians

The ‘three-inch fool ‘strikes again” if you don’t like our policies don’t vote for Labor”- and the electorate took his advice –
This too:
1. “A most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.”
All’s Well That Ends Well (Act 3, Scene 6)

Mater
December 7, 2021 6:07 am

QLD won’t do transplants on the unjabbed. What research has been done on transplanting vaccinated organs into vaccinated and unvaccinated patients .

I’ll be removing myself from the donor list.
My organs WILL NOT be used as the currency of political blackmail.

Pogria
Pogria
December 7, 2021 6:13 am

Still on Monty Python. The greatest Python sketch should actually be the Cat’s theme song.

Mater, I mentioned earlier that I had taken myself off the Donor list and have stopped giving blood. Fuck ’em all.

Mater
December 7, 2021 6:24 am

Infuriating moment Labor heavyweight fails to answer a simple question five times about when electric cars will actually be affordable for average Australians

And the cost of the car doesn’t even consider the very likely requirement to upgrade the power to the house, and likely the street. Was quoted $30,000 from the distribution company, just for the house transformer out on the street. Then comes digging in upgraded copper from the street to the house. Then comes the house electrics and charging station.

If the street doesn’t have 3-Phase already, we are potentially talking in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to upgrade the poles and wires from the nearest 3-Phase line. If your neighbours don’t want to contribute their share to those costs, you’ll be paying alone, or the EV will remain what Chris Bowen is selling…an illusory dream/nightmare for most.

But don’t worry, you can have a secondhand ComCar after Chris has spent three years rubbing his arse on the seats, knowing that one day a lucky prole will get it, and be thankful.

And let’s not forget the bonus plan of your movement becoming entirely dependant on the provision (or otherwise) of electricity. A monopoly commodity that the government has the power to turn off to your property, at a whim. Using your smart meter, they don’t even need to fire up a Diesel engine to do it.

We see you, Chris.

Mater
December 7, 2021 6:41 am

I’ll be removing myself from the donor list.

It’s funny isn’t it. I’ve got more body autonomy/sovereignty as a corpse than as a living, breathing person, at the moment.

I get to choose what people do to my body, free from coercion, but it applies only after I’m dead. Whilst alive, I’m government property.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
December 7, 2021 6:43 am

Dover just read your comment from yesterday afternoon:

I have personal experience of this, not suffered, just witnessed. A neighbor at the end of the court I live in was reported to the police by another neighbor for attending their holiday home during the last lockdown. We later learned they were down here organizing a funeral for one of their children. Terrible.

Is this why it’s called a country — because there’s so many of ’em?

rickw
rickw
December 7, 2021 6:44 am
Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 7, 2021 6:47 am

Now now, Cats.

Electric Cars are good for something.

They do impress the easily pleased. And Rainbow Lorikeets…

rickw
rickw
December 7, 2021 6:55 am

If he is we’ll give him a Darwin Award.

I reckon he’s dead, first speculation that he was dead appeared some time ago, immediately following that would have been the logical time to reappear.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 7, 2021 6:56 am

15 degrees. Slowly acclimatising.

A combination of trains, buses and Shanks’ Pony to get from the smoke to the ancestral seat today.

The elder niece (16), having been selected for a couple of representative arrangements for lady cricket in the adult arena, and also having been to a couple of training camps and otherwise involved in that environment since October, has abruptly retired. Once guess as to why.

Once again. Adult women’s sport. Burn it to the ground.

rickw
rickw
December 7, 2021 6:58 am

I’ll be removing myself from the donor list.

I was never on the donor list. I never wanted to give one of those immoral medical fucks the opportunity to make the judgment: If he died we could save 5 other people….

Razey
Razey
December 7, 2021 6:58 am

Timothy Neilsonsays:
December 6, 2021 at 10:42 pm
It will spell out that women work in at least 3 per cent of jobs in each trade role on a project, 7 per cent for each non-trade position and 35 per cent of management, supervisor and specialist labour roles.

Are they going to enforce the “work” part?
I did once see a high viz chick on a building site actually doing something.

We lost a job because we didnt have enough women. I guess they are enshrining it now.

Wish I had enough money to retire. The future of this country is a shit show.

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 7, 2021 7:03 am

Watched a CNN interview yesterday regarding Chris Cumo. It was a half baked apology by CNN, with the byline that it’s difficult for journalists not to have personal relationships with politicians. The argument they were putting forward was that it’s impossible for journalists not to build relationships/friendships with politicians and powerful people in Washington.

Perhaps if journalists went back to viewing themselves more as “judges”, it might be a good start. A judge is supposed to sit there and listen, ask questions, and review all of the evidence. They then write a judgement based on the evidence, without fear or favour.

If judges were out there cavorting and socialising with prosecutors, defence lawyers and the accused, the public would be justifiably horrified.

The vast majority of journalists tend to either be on side A or side B. It’s no wonder all we get is “fake news”, or at the very least, “skewed news”.

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 7, 2021 7:05 am

Not sure that there is an answer to fake news, other than suing their arses off for writing/talking utter bullshit.

calli
calli
December 7, 2021 7:07 am

Love the Stiglich! Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanugawa as a covid variant.

Clever.

Mater
December 7, 2021 7:07 am

15 degrees. Slowly acclimatising.

Don’t worry about the temperature in Victoria, it’s the searing fascism that takes some getting used to.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 7, 2021 7:09 am

Dillo,

I’d be happy if ‘journalists’ just reported – impartially – what events occurred. Who, where, when, why and how.

Anything else is just commentary, a red-headed relation with no shoes and bad breath who’ll pinch your wallet when your back’s turned.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 7, 2021 7:11 am

‘searing fascism’

Hell is cold.

calli
calli
December 7, 2021 7:11 am

Kanagawa

Sheesh. Better not try to spell that magnificent cabbage pancake they do there. Oku-something. Or is that the octopus balls?

calli
calli
December 7, 2021 7:12 am

In other news, Queensland police shoot dead a man who was threatening to self harm.

Blazing Saddles has nothing on Australia.

Dot
Dot
December 7, 2021 7:15 am

https://medium.com/gigi-love-stories/5-infuriating-things-my-anti-vaxxer-client-said-at-our-lunch-meeting-c901d087ae7a

Looks like I am going to be very social. If my existence makes you sick, I am going to be ever present.

Do you know what’s inconvenient, sir? Having your father-in-law in the hospital for a month and a half, isolated and alone, trying to fight for his life. It’s also inconvenient to be scared out of your mind every day for a year and a half that your dad will get sick and die.

If your father in law was in hospital for six weeks fighting off the common cold, he has a bigger problem than COVID (a common cold).

Joe Rogan got better in two days with Regeneron and Ivermectin.

Razey
Razey
December 7, 2021 7:15 am

callisays:
December 7, 2021 at 7:11 am
Kanagawa

Sheesh. Better not try to spell that magnificent cabbage pancake they do there. Oku-something. Or is that the octopus balls?

Takoyaki is the best.

Dot
Dot
December 7, 2021 7:19 am

We lost a job because we didnt have enough women. I guess they are enshrining it now.

No no no no no.

You are now a male presenting transgendered lesbian.

Win those morally superior clients back! Don’t let them use bridges designed at FIU!

rickw
rickw
December 7, 2021 7:33 am
Razey
Razey
December 7, 2021 7:34 am

Psays:
December 7, 2021 at 7:24 am
Escape From New York – NYC Announces Compulsory Vaccinations For All Private Sector Workers, and Vaccine Passports for All Public Entry
December 6, 2021 | Sundance

Notice the ALL kids 5 and over must be clot shotted.

Coming to Australia within weeks.

Mater
December 7, 2021 7:36 am

We lost a job because we didnt have enough women.

Didn’t you remind them that sex is just a social construct?

rickw
rickw
December 7, 2021 7:40 am

In other news, Queensland police shoot dead a man who was threatening to self harm.

Blazing Saddles has nothing on Australia.

Some poor bastard cracks after two years of this shit and he gets fucking murdered??!!

Pogria
Pogria
December 7, 2021 7:43 am

Rick W, that was great!

We are so lucky to have Rukshan.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 7, 2021 7:43 am

KDdid you see that Kiwi indian get a 10 wicket haul in one innings against India. 3rd time ever for that feat.

calli
calli
December 7, 2021 7:45 am

It’s also inconvenient to be scared out of your mind every day for a year and a half that your dad will get sick and die.

Poor hyperbolic you. My dad, and indeed my mum, will likely get sick and die too – it’s a given and they know it.

No need to megaphone your fear for a few hand pats.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 7, 2021 7:46 am

Calli, Okonomiyaki.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 7, 2021 7:49 am

I love them but they need ti be not too thick otherwise they tend to be a bit gluggey. I make a lot of japanese food but never okonomiyaki.

Crossie
Crossie
December 7, 2021 7:51 am

Once again. Adult women’s sport. Burn it to the ground.

I would bother, the feminists have already killed it by prioritising trans over women.

JMH
JMH
December 7, 2021 7:53 am

Rick W, that was great!

We are so lucky to have Rukshan.

Yep. It was an excellent credit to a brave man prepared to stand up for what he believes. An independent in the true form.

Aaron
Aaron
December 7, 2021 7:53 am

“And the UK announced a deal Thursday to purchase 114 million extra doses of the Pfizer jab for its 67 million citizens for 2022 and 2023. It is a move that many developed nations are expected to make as they prepare for a future where vaccines are administered on a semi-regular basis”.

From CNN.

This could end up in the Hague.

How can every mainstream media and health authority go along with this madness?

A quick investigation could at least raise some DOUBT.

Just unbelievable.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 7, 2021 7:55 am

Dot

The pensions of judges pretty much encapsulates the worst of boomers.

If you think that even a significant minority of boomers supports that crap, you are sadly misinformed.

calli
calli
December 7, 2021 7:55 am

I’ve been wanting to try it for ages. Having watched it made before my eyes, I suspect the secret is a well seasoned and very hot plate, with all ingredients sliced thinly and uniformly. I have a nice big cast iron skillet that should do the trick.

You can get the sauces and mayo readymade of course.

Aaron
Aaron
December 7, 2021 8:05 am

Considering this is the World’s biggest clinical trial, I presume it is already rubber stamped for full approval in 2023.

With over 12 months to go and already selected Pfizer

FMD.

calli
calli
December 7, 2021 8:06 am

Who would have thought a year ago that a Sri Lankan out-of-work wedding photographer would usurp the MSM’s job of covering the news?

And embarrass them deeply in the process.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 7, 2021 8:06 am

KD

Once again. Adult women’s sport. Burn it to the ground.

Likely to be about the only useful achievement of the tranny movement.

Crossie
Crossie
December 7, 2021 8:07 am

This could end up in the Hague.

Who do you think runs The Hague?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 7, 2021 8:08 am

GreyRanga,

I did indeed. Spectacular stuff, including one very brave review of a not out decision where a batsman padded up outside off to a savagely turning off break.

10 wickets in an innings. For only the third time in 2630ish Tests. And then your own batsmen throw it in the bin by getting rolled for 80 odd, so you’re back in the field within 20 overs.

Aaron
Aaron
December 7, 2021 8:10 am

Fuck it.

If I have to, I will be the last Jap sniper.

I am lucky to be able to totally isolate for as long as it takes for sanity to return.

And I will.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 7, 2021 8:11 am

Crossie

Snap, I didn’t scan down!

Aaron
Aaron
December 7, 2021 8:14 am

“Who do you think runs The Hague”?

Have you never heard of Guy Fawkes?

If they think the peasants are revolting now, it could be
a shock to the system…

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
December 7, 2021 8:29 am

Over the past few months we frequently have helicopters hovering about. Usually daytime. They aren’t going anywhere, just sticking to a perhaps 2 or 3 km radius over Mosman. I cannot make out the markings.

I don’t know if they are training pilots – although if they were training to fly you would think they would avoid built up areas – even better, over water so that if anything goes wrong they will fall into the sea unloved and unlamented.

But it goes on for 30 minutes to an hour at a time.

I must admit, when it first started the most likely explanation was that our despotic government was looking for people out of their approved zones – Spit Bridge being a point where all traffic must flow through and any errant citizens would need to pass through there. And there was nothing so despicable that it might not be suspected subterranean ogres in Macquarie Street. But the only real possible tracking of anyone is mobile phone signals and for that they just need access to the towers.

I suppose I should instead put that possibility in the ‘They probably are not doing this, but they are such lowly scum that they would” column.

But having helicopters buzzing the place is more than a little ominous and stops you from opening windows – a plane comes and goes but a helicopter drones on and on.

Gab
Gab
December 7, 2021 8:30 am

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Gab
Gab
December 7, 2021 8:31 am

You can always check to see if you are on the organ donor list – or to change it – by visiting your mygov (spit!) account under Medicare.

shatterzzz
December 7, 2021 8:34 am

WOW! .. things are on the imp[rove this morning .. that might be the 1st DAVID ROWE cartoon I’ve understood and liked .. LOL!

calli
calli
December 7, 2021 8:36 am

Lode, just looked up Flightradar24. TCN – could be the news network doing some camera work or training.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
December 7, 2021 8:40 am

Infuriating moment Labor heavyweight fails to answer a simple question five times about when electric cars will actually be affordable for average Australians

Look, leaders are big picture people. Details like the finances of individuals’ households is a matter for other people a bit further down.

But the first thing perhaps to reflect on is that the number of cars per household is not carved in stone and we should reconsider whether every person who has a car really needs to have one.

And all the people doing it rough – if they do not have an electric car think of the money they will be saving for food, clothing, and scratchies at the newsagent.

And here is the genius part – the more expensive electric cars are, the more money people will save not buying them! These prices are not just there to benefit the ‘big end of town’, but every Australian.

Pogria
Pogria
December 7, 2021 8:41 am

I followed a link to an article a couple of days ago written by a chemist who had been in the vax manufacturing area for yonks. He stated that, even if the amount of large, vax manufacturers (and there are not that many), were to add thousands of staff, who take a minimum of six months to be trained only rudimetarily, were able to make one phial every(I think he said two seconds), it would take them THIRTY-TWO YEARS to make ONE BILLION clot shots.

This has been in the works a helluva lot longer than we had thought and the clot shots have been stockpiled all that time. The excuse of using them before the use-by date is obviously a crock. Curious to know where they are hiding them. When Trump enabled Operation Warp Speed, it was no wonder the filfthy pharma companies were “happy”, to oblige.

If the above maths is wrong, someone let me know, please. I am always happy to be proved wrong. Would rather be corrected than double down on ignorance.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
December 7, 2021 8:41 am

In Trouble in Paradise news:

Factional warfare threatens Labor MPs

Ten sitting Victorian Labor MPs could end up being pressured to leave Parliament at the next election as part of a factional purge, prompting crisis talks and warnings that some will quit early and trigger damaging byelections.

The Premier is going on leave from Friday, which is about a week earlier than in previous years. He will be away until after Christmas. “The emperor is leaving as Rome is burning,” one MP said.

Next Up: Show trials, with former MP’s tearfully confessing to having received talking points and instructions from B.A. Santamaria. By ouija board.

Winston Smith
December 7, 2021 8:43 am

On Saturday, a group of masked men, who no one has ever heard of, headed to Washington DC. They marched to the Lincoln Memorial and then almost as quickly as they came, they marched back to the UHaul trucks that brought them to the event.
The Left immediately made up stories about the group and their ties to “right-wing” extremists and “white supremacy.”
Just what the hell is going on?
Were they really FBI?

Pogria
Pogria
December 7, 2021 8:43 am

“filthy”, doh!

Aaron
Aaron
December 7, 2021 8:46 am

This could end with a printed menu.

“My shout, so that’s 1 double Pfizer, 1 Astra with a Pfizer chaser, 2 Modernas and a J&J with a Pfizer chaser”.

May,might,maybe, what’s your poison?

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
December 7, 2021 8:46 am

In Fine Reporting by Ch7 News news:

NSW COVID cases drop as more Omicron cases are expected

These devilish virii.
Like the tide pulling waay out, just before the tsunami?

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
December 7, 2021 8:47 am

Thanks, Calli.

Weird that they have settled on this particular area for the last few months – although it might not have been them the whole time. Perhaps a network CONSPIRACY!

Pogria
Pogria
December 7, 2021 8:47 am

Fuck it.

If I have to, I will be the last Jap sniper.

I am lucky to be able to totally isolate for as long as it takes for sanity to return.

And I will.

Aaron,
I will be doing that also after Christmas. Have bought my “Hole in the Wall”. Just having to finish some legal stuff and then I can hide.

Frank
Frank
December 7, 2021 8:49 am

Tasmania introduces vaccination status cards to allow people entry to premises if the filthy ingrates choose not to submit to phone tracking. Timed to coincide with the opening of the state in a fortnight, presumably when a bunch of pox ridden foreigners will flood the zone which of course legitimises the punitive measures upon the locals.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 7, 2021 8:51 am

Were they really FBI?

There was an interesting exposé thread on it posted yesterday. Initial post by a week-old (or less) bot account that pinched entries from someone else’s account to give verisimilitude and had an AI-generated profile pic.

Which promptly disappeared shortly after the first attempts to dig into its background began.

If they wanted to glow any harder, they would have had to collectively eat a 20-foot container’s worth of Rolex’s finest tritium…

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 7, 2021 8:54 am

Tasmania introduces vaccination status cards to allow people entry to premises if the filthy ingrates choose not to submit to phone tracking. Timed to coincide with the opening of the state in a fortnight, presumably when a bunch of pox ridden foreigners will flood the zone

And if the system is anything like Sandgroperstan’s Good2NotGo system, it will be a hyper-bureaucratic and unworkable crock. For all lepers, foreign and domestic.

Just another Austfailian ‘Innervayshun…’

Frank
Frank
December 7, 2021 8:56 am

Apostrophe man on/
Rolex’s finest radium
/off

Note to self, chances of getting it wrong approach 100% when engaging this mode.

wivenhoe
wivenhoe
December 7, 2021 8:57 am

I see in the news this morning that the authorities are very concerned that a lot of schoolies are using vapes. they declare that they are unsafe as the long term effects of use are not known.

Clown World. You could not make this two faced crap up.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
December 7, 2021 8:58 am

Having a few proles put their hands up for the Marybrook Bush School. Weirdly, a few primary aged kids, but their high school siblings will continue inside the schoolags. “Do you think that a jab mandate will not be declared for high schools too?” Answers range from “High school is too important, the work load is heavier they need to be there” to “But 15-y-o’s are safe, I’m just worried they don’t have enough evidence for 8 y-o-‘s” to “Arabella* is safe from the clot shot, but no way we’re giving Jaxan* pericarditis”.
Cognitive dissonance. Or- and I’m only just twigging onto this now that y6 “graduation” is happening- white trash Australian see the entirety of primary school as emoji-education, protected daycare.
(*- not their real names… but not far off either)

Aaron
Aaron
December 7, 2021 8:58 am

“The Pfizer/BioNTech booster produced a quicker and stronger immune response that dropped off faster, their study suggested.

“Both vaccines boost antibody titers very well. At week four, neutralizing antibody levels were comparable,” Dr. Dan Barouch of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, who led the study team, told CNN.

But after four weeks, antibody levels began to drop off in people who got boosted with the Pfizer vaccine while they continued to increase in people who got J&J’s vaccine. J&J’s vaccine also increased the numbers of immune cells called CD8 T cells”.

From a study of 65 volunteers over 4 weeks, and even then Pfizer seems second best…

Dot
Dot
December 7, 2021 8:59 am

It doesn’t matter if a heap of boomers oppose grift.

Too many mongs vote for it. From the mid 1980s until recently, the boomers ran society.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
December 7, 2021 8:59 am

In Rubber Hitting the Road news:

DOJ sues Texas over Republican-approved redistricting maps it says intentionally discriminate against black and minority voters

‘This is not the first time Texas has acted to minimize the voting rights of its minority citizens. Decade after decade, Texas has enacted redistricting plans that violate the Voting Rights Act,’ the Justice Department said in the lawsuit. ‘In enacting its 2021 Congressional and House plans, the State has again diluted the voting strength of minority Texans.’

In its complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, the Justice Department said that the 2020 Census showed that Latinos are on track to become the state’s largest population group, and that non-white Latino voters account for less than 40 percent of the state’s population.

The New Minority.
A plan coming together.

lotocoti
lotocoti
December 7, 2021 8:59 am

In Fine Reporting by Ch7 News news …

more than 61,000 people came forward for testing in the last 24 hours.
How many were taking the government mandated sickie because they could?

Dot
Dot
December 7, 2021 9:00 am

Cognitive dissonance. Or- and I’m only just twigging onto this now that y6 “graduation” is happening- white trash Australian see the entirety of primary school as emoji-education, protected daycare.

LOL

Cousin’s kid got a diploma from daycare.

(He now has a MA in Gender Studies).

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 7, 2021 9:00 am

@ Frank-

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium_radioluminescence

Much glowie. Very wow.

Also somewhat less likely to give you the cancer…

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 7, 2021 9:01 am

Also somewhat less likely to give you the cancer…

And a helluva lot of it about. Which is why Rolex and co. use it in their watches.

calli
calli
December 7, 2021 9:03 am

Winston Smith says:
December 7, 2021 at 8:43 am

CalliPrediction – you will see a lot more of this sort of hooey leading up to the anniversary of Jan6.

If there is a demo in Washington to commemorate the day, these clowns will hope that their early appearance will legitimise them and allow them to embed with genuine protesters.

You know what happens next.

This isn’t “conspiracy” thinking, just simple bog standard tactics of provocateur placement. And, all primed up with the earlier footage this month, the lickspittle MSM will say, Ahaha! We told you there were White Supremacists in the mix last month!

And it now has a name – Smolletting.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 7, 2021 9:06 am

I see in the news this morning that the authorities are very concerned that a lot of schoolies are using vapes. they declare that they are unsafe as the long term effects of use are not known.

Clown World. You could not make this two faced crap up.

The Anti-Tobacco Industrial Complex is far bigger, more established and has far greater regulatory and industry capture than the vaccinators could ever dream of achieving.

Just you wait until the longitudinal study data arrives in suddenly weed-friendly America for the emphysema, bronchitis and neurological damage that the much-vaunted ‘harmless’ cannabis causes.

Those poor stoners have no idea what is about to hit them. Nannies and taxmen alike…

Indolent
Indolent
December 7, 2021 9:11 am
Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 7, 2021 9:11 am

And it now has a name – Smolletting

What was the name of the NASCAR driver who got publicly triggered by a garage door pullcord at Talladega Speedway (or someplace similar) not long afterwards? And got a whole FBI investigation and everything? Including a free and gratuitous smearing of NASCAR’s entire audience and fanbase of all ages, races and sexes? His own audience!

Let Smollet shrink into the obscurity he deserves. He only involved 2 other guys. That NASCAR guy deserves to be remembered for the tactics instead.

Frank
Frank
December 7, 2021 9:11 am

Rex Anger says:
December 7, 2021 at 9:01 am

Told you it was a 100% option.

But, but, radium girls…

Aaron
Aaron
December 7, 2021 9:14 am

“Aaron,
I will be doing that also after Christmas. Have bought my “Hole in the Wall”. Just having to finish some legal stuff and then I can hide”.

Best of luck, take care and remember:

“We better hang together, for we will surely hang alone”.

Have a good one.

Winston Smith
December 7, 2021 9:16 am

Just ran across this article in Quadrant.
Is there ANY institution in our society that won’t need purging after Nuremberg II?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 7, 2021 9:17 am

Told you it was a 100% option.

But, but, radium girls…

What the hell are you on about?

Radium has not been used for luminescent surface and marking purposes since at least 1970.

Aaron
Aaron
December 7, 2021 9:22 am

You do have to wonder what they have seen.

A glowing vote as 200 medical staff are saxxed, not vaxxed.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
December 7, 2021 9:22 am

Touching upon the electric car thing – yet another opportunity for politicians to come into their own as the imperious, vainglorious, supercilious simpletons they are.

In this whole wide land they will consider themselves most important. As an example, while even CEO’s of large companies must provide for their own transport as they go about their business, politicians will imagine they must be given electric vehicles in the national interest. Bowen and his lowly confederates will assume the country owes them everything they would deny others. No idea of the effect of their rules and strictures on the people upon whom they are applied.

Someone who has worked their entire life and added to the nation are as naught, compared to the compost colossi who will with the stroke of a pen (and a few deals so they can turn public finance into props for their next electoral campaign) will destroy an industry – and then use taxpayers money to keep themselves supplied with imports of what they have just destroyed locally.

Government and politicians are a choke point. And for some insane reason they think the harder they choke the more wonderful they are.

Frank
Frank
December 7, 2021 9:24 am

Rex, radium girls is the reason I got it wrong. They are the famous luminous paint on watches scenario from the 1920s. The 100% is with respect to doing the apostrophe man thing and how it inevitably causes the person doing it to be wrong. It is almost axiomatic.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 7, 2021 9:28 am

Oh. Right.

Having found the link to Radium Girls, I now get what you were aiming at.

Almost up there with the ‘Canaries’ of WW1 munitions factory fame- Stained and hair bleached by the piric acid in the TNT they were filling shells with…

Franx
Franx
December 7, 2021 9:30 am

White trash.
No comment. Cannot.

Aaron
Aaron
December 7, 2021 9:32 am

Pogriasays:
December 7, 2021 at 8:41 am
I followed a link to an article a couple of days ago written by a chemist who had been in the vax manufacturing area for yonks. He stated that, even if the amount of large, vax manufacturers (and there are not that many), were to add thousands of staff, who take a minimum of six months to be trained only rudimetarily, were able to make one phial every(I think he said two seconds), it would take them THIRTY-TWO YEARS to make ONE BILLION clot shots.

Just in case you missed this, it’s a very interesting read and so far the closest to examining the issue calmly and from both sides I have seen.
Needle points.

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 7, 2021 9:32 am

Delta v Omicron is the Godzilla v King Kong for our times. We just have the misfortune of living through it.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 7, 2021 9:35 am

Delta v Omicron is the Godzilla v King Kong for our times. We just have the misfortune of living through it.

Except that OzzyMan has never narrated a Delta vs Omicron fight.

He has, however, done Godzilla vs. Kong for us:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oz4ZRTT8QYQ

calli
calli
December 7, 2021 9:38 am

Rex…BubbaWallacing sounds a little too awkward.

How about “SmollettBubbas”? Hard to get a verb out of it though.

Bubbabing sounds like you’ve just scored a hot date. 😀

Indolent
Indolent
December 7, 2021 9:42 am
Winston Smith
December 7, 2021 9:43 am

If I unsubscribe from a site and they keep sending me emails and clogging my mailbox, what actions can I take?
They’re from NSW.

EvilElvis
EvilElvis
December 7, 2021 9:44 am

It doesn’t matter if a heap of boomers oppose grift.

Too many mongs vote for it. From the mid 1980s until recently, the boomers ran society.

Exactly. And boomers do seem to be the most forgiving of partaking in leftist mongs company it seems. Such tough decisions, my country or my dinner party?

Thank god for their Uni education.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 7, 2021 9:48 am

Eighty years, today, since the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor……

“We have wakened a sleeping giant, and filled him with a terrible resolve..”

Woolfe
Woolfe
December 7, 2021 9:51 am

Assign address to junk mail Winston

  1. Number 1 on my bucket list is to see the launch of the first Mars Colony – probably from NEO…

  2. You’re doing it again Roger. Trying to deflect from the Labor Party disaster whilst fingering the Libs. Not impressed. Are…

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