Open Thread – Weekend 18 Dec 2021


The Ambassadors, Hans Holbein the Younger, 1533

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Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 18, 2021 2:38 pm

Oh, and I see L is back from the dead

Sancho was not dead.
Sancho was merely absent on sick leave and fishing leave.
His death was a figment of the fevered imagination of the Road Warrior coupled with a dash of wishful thinking.

dopey
dopey
December 18, 2021 2:40 pm

Don’t forget “Piss Up at Hanging Rock.”

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
December 18, 2021 2:51 pm

This kid will never have to work a day in his life.

But I bet Sandmann will, after he gets himself educated, because he is that kind of person, having that kind of parents, living in that kind of community. Will be interesting to see.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 18, 2021 3:00 pm

But I bet Sandmann will, after he gets himself educated, because he is that kind of person, having that kind of parents, living in that kind of community. Will be interesting to see.

You’d hope so.
The thing is, it wasn’t the initial reporting which did the media organisations in.
It was the doubling down even after it became obvious it was a set-up.
But, again, no adults in charge and a paralysis when it comes to the “downtrodden minority” narrative.
Had they apologised within 24 hours, they would have got away with the apology and maybe a small ex-gratia donation to his school.

rickw
rickw
December 18, 2021 3:06 pm
rickw
rickw
December 18, 2021 3:09 pm

What a shit-stain of a country and a tyrant of a premier.

I was perplexed as to why you had returned. This shit has got another 2 years in it. It will only end with bloodshed.

Winston Smith
December 18, 2021 3:10 pm

rickw:

Vickers Wellesley, fuel and code breaking contribution:

Really interesting story – especially the part about the Italian fuel supplies being destroyed instead of going for the ships etc. The opposite of the Japanese Pearl Harbour operation where vital dock facilities were ignored by pilots in favour of ‘glory shots’.
I doubt I’ll ever understand why the Axis didn’t strike into North Africa and cut off the Suez pipeline even as they suffered from critical fuel shortages themselves, and left Russia alone while they got scarce minerals from them.

rickw
rickw
December 18, 2021 3:11 pm

When did The ร‡at first day this?

At least 20 months ago.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 18, 2021 3:11 pm

Miss Anthropistsays:
December 18, 2021 at 2:03 am
Spent the best part of the day getting admitted to hospital. It seems my Chrissy Surprise is another amputation.
Thanks Santa.

Good luck…

Bons
December 18, 2021 3:12 pm

Does anyone know if the Cossack is going to go after SMH for the Putin funding lies?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 18, 2021 3:13 pm

Winston, excuse my ignorance, but how is the logo on your avatar going to provoke people.
I think you said the other day that you had it on a t-shirt and it caused some aggro?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 18, 2021 3:14 pm

Dotsays:
December 18, 2021 at 8:21 am
Iโ€™m just going to come out and say it.

Billy Ocean, Luther Vandross, Bobby Caldwell, David Bowie, Bill Withers and Prince were all better than Michael Jackson.

Michael Jackson was music via committee.
A more talented committee than SAW (Sam Fox/Kylie etc) but a committee none the less.

Zipster
Zipster
December 18, 2021 3:15 pm

Hey, did they ever make the gay superman abomination?

they are talking about a “non-binary” James Bond, wokeism is mass psychosis

rickw
rickw
December 18, 2021 3:17 pm

โ€œWhat fucking idiot goes with the minimum fire suppression and burns down $1 million in kit and crop for the want of a couple of thousand dollars worth of basic firefighting gearโ€

Drove past Dadโ€™s harvesting setup yesterday. Bins, auger, second tractor, header and tractor all in the one area protected by the 15,000L fire unit.

rickw
rickw
December 18, 2021 3:19 pm

Does anyone know if the Cossack is going to go after SMH for the Putin funding lies?

Heโ€™s lawyered up and has already give MSM some blood noses. Why the hell wouldnโ€™t he?

rickw
rickw
December 18, 2021 3:25 pm
Barry
Barry
December 18, 2021 3:31 pm

areff says:
December 18, 2021 at 11:38 am

On another note, I wonder how the TGA will foil the use of the Novavax in Australia now that it has been approved by WHO?

Actually, I’ll wager it’s approved next week, now that the TGA can point to some other body that’s approved it. Might not be until the EU regulator EMA approves it, which could be next week, though.

Craven cowards and buck passing, smooth brains that they are.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
December 18, 2021 3:32 pm

Adem Somyurek MP (@AdemSomyurek) Tweeted:
I present to you one of the biggest preselection atrocities ever committed by the ALP but consistent with inner city elitist lefty arrogance. Marx wrote in reference to the poor: โ€˜they canโ€™t represent themselves they must be representedโ€™. Thatโ€™s the modern ALP run by the Left https://t.co/2BFVdWTZ1w

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 18, 2021 3:37 pm

Drove past Dadโ€™s harvesting setup yesterday. Bins, auger, second tractor, header and tractor all in the one area protected by the 15,000L fire unit.

A sensible bloke.
Actually it doesn’t cost anything because every prudent farmer would have that gear as part of his normal complement of equipment. Just a bit of time each day to get it in position.
Almost every summer when driving from Rancho Sancho to the big smoke, I see a tiny burnt patch of stubble somewhere in the middle of a paddock.
Clearly a small outbreak which they have got onto quickly.
Once it gets beyond a few hundred square metres it gets hard to contain.
Having the fire pump and water tank back at the ranch isn’t going to cut it, even in fairly benign conditions.
A tiny bit of preparation and planning …

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 18, 2021 3:43 pm

Pedro.

If i can rig one of these up to tow a chaser bin you will be home and hosed for fires in the paddock.

Oshkosh for the win.

calli
calli
December 18, 2021 3:51 pm

Sandmann represented everything the howler monkeys in the media are not, but the trigger wasnโ€™t the embarrassed smileโ€ฆit was his hat.

He dared, dared to buy a MAGA hat. A young person who should be fully woke supporting Trump. He was a class enemy at all levels of his being, especially his race. Add that to being on excursion from a Christian school and the die was cast.

Every commentator tried to outdo each other in hysterical rhetoric, damning the boy to hell. Even our own ABC, calling him the โ€œface of evilโ€. So blind was the self-righteous scolding, so impervious the political partisanship, so odious the ever mounting โ€œcallsโ€ for censure, they forgot they were witch hunting a sixteen year old boy. All they saw was Trump in that hat, no one else. And he had to be destroyed.

His own wretched school tried to disown him.

I hope he goes on to a stellar career in whatever field he chooses, even if itโ€™s something humble like mowing lawns or building sheds. And also becomes a great husband and dad.

local oaf
December 18, 2021 3:56 pm

areff says:
December 18, 2021 at 11:38 am

On another note, I wonder how the TGA will foil the use of the Novavax in Australia now that it has been approved by WHO?

They might approve it, but I’ll eat my hat if they let it be used for a first dose.

That would be rewarding the filthy unvaxxed people who selfishly refused to do the right thing.

Imagine the screams of rage from all those who were forced to take the mRNA crap on pain of losing their job!

Miltonf
Miltonf
December 18, 2021 3:56 pm

I think the other take away from the Sandmann disgrace is how keen the left are to destroy young men and boys. Look at Triggs and the QUT students.

calli
calli
December 18, 2021 4:03 pm

Andโ€ฆI have been looking up the wonderful history of injections, after that story about Sir Christopher Wren.

Turns out the Romans did use syringes, but only to deliver ointments and such. There was a bit of subcutaneous stuff and aspiration but not much else. Another guy used a vacuum tube to remove cataracts, a technique still used today.

It was Wren who tried the first intravenous injection using a pig bladder and a goose quill – into a hound. It was an attempt at anaesthesia. Apparently it worked. Then others started injecting other stuff into humans and some perished. So the whole thing died in the guts for a couple of hundred years.

Winston Smith
December 18, 2021 4:04 pm

Cohenite:

The Carry On movies are far and away the best movies ever made.

Deserves more than a dickless uptick!

Bar Beach Swimmer
December 18, 2021 4:06 pm

areff says:
December 18, 2021 at 11:38 am

On another note, I wonder how the TGA will foil the use of the Novavax in Australia now that it has been approved by WHO?

According to the SMH and quoting Hunt (I searched for it, dated 6/12) approval (emergency?) should be before the end of the year.

Reference was made to the sizeable number who are holding back for it. (Is there a special bonus for these arseh*les if we get to 100% coverage so theyโ€™re going to relent on Novavax?)

calli
calli
December 18, 2021 4:07 pm

Carry On Constable

And Constable Constableโ€™s best lineโ€ฆโ€I thought I heard a murder!โ€

On the silent stuffโ€ฆThe Plank

Arky
December 18, 2021 4:07 pm

Winston Smith
December 18, 2021 4:08 pm

Wolfman Oz:

I have always felt that when Kubrick died a part of cinema also died as well.

No.
The greatest tragedy to ever hit the cinema was when they put carpet in.
You could no longer hear a box of Maltesers bounce down the rows of seats.
Sad days.
*snif*

Nelson_Kidd-Players
December 18, 2021 4:13 pm

Jaffas down the aisle. Even better if there were stairs!

Roll-roll-roll-clonk! Repeat all the way down. ๐Ÿ™‚

Mater
December 18, 2021 4:20 pm

When did The ร‡at first day this?

#3380938, posted on March 28, 2020 at 3:09 pm

Winston Smith
December 18, 2021 4:25 pm

Gab:
From the Daily Wire –
Still a few to go, I wonder if the young man will end up a Billionaire?

Winston Smith
December 18, 2021 4:40 pm

rickw:
This part needs to be more prominent – I had to go hunting for it, and it’s the most important part. It shouldn’t be behind the door with the sign “Beware of the Leopards.”

Today, we have given Mr Brendan Murphy, Secretary of the TGA, until the 24th of December, Christmas Eve, at 3 PM to respond to our notice of demand for him to withdraw or cancel the provisional approvals for all currently provisionally-approved COVID jabs. If not, we are prepared to take the TGA to the Federal Court to litigate the issue

OK – $20.

rickw
rickw
December 18, 2021 4:42 pm

Old workshop completely cleared out except for a case of beers for the bloke in the factory at the front, he let me use his skip bin. An unvaxxed and by now rather pissed of Croatian!

Had been there for over 10 years. Lots of good memories there making stuff with the kids and cooking the occasional pancake, which was a Saturday morning special activity for a while!

Winston Smith
December 18, 2021 4:44 pm

Sancho:

Winston, excuse my ignorance, but how is the logo on your avatar going to provoke people.
I think you said the other day that you had it on a t-shirt and it caused some aggro?

I don’t think I said ‘aggro’ but never the less, I did expect some to arc up at the implied suggestion “they were the Baddies”.
Some don’t like a truth that shows themselves in a bad light.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 18, 2021 4:48 pm

I donโ€™t think I said โ€˜aggroโ€™ but never the less, I did expect some to arc up at the implied suggestion โ€œthey were the Baddiesโ€.
Some donโ€™t like a truth that shows themselves in a bad light.

Sorry.
That was me paraphrasing from memory.
I might have missed something, but what is the significance of the logo?

rickw
rickw
December 18, 2021 4:49 pm

Whilst this is in Digital Combat Simulator, it does give an idea of threat posed by older generation aircraft when deployed over home turf allowing light fuel and armament loads.

A4 Skyhawk V F-14A Tomcat.

Maybe Ronnie should have swallowed up large numbers of Skyhawks when they become obsolete around the globe?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckut_q1n_N8

rickw
rickw
December 18, 2021 4:52 pm

People around the world are sick of this shit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4V7Bb-ozu8

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
December 18, 2021 4:58 pm

Drove past Dadโ€™s harvesting setup yesterday. Bins, auger, second tractor, header and tractor all in the one area protected by the 15,000L fire unit.

Safe if youโ€™re there when the fire starts.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
December 18, 2021 4:59 pm

Winston Smith says:
December 18, 2021 at 4:08 pm
Wolfman Oz:

I have always felt that when Kubrick died a part of cinema also died as well.
No.
The greatest tragedy to ever hit the cinema was when they put carpet in.
You could no longer hear a box of Maltesers bounce down the rows of seats.
Sad days.
*snif*

Wrong! There were Jaffas.

P
P
December 18, 2021 5:06 pm
jupes
jupes
December 18, 2021 5:07 pm

I was perplexed as to why you had returned.

Lost my job.

That doesn’t bother me though. What does bother me is that I now live in country where I am not allowed to go home. I am not sick, yet I am being treated like I am a danger to my fellow citizens. Worse, (apparently) the majority of those citizens agree with the tyrant’s orders.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 18, 2021 5:10 pm

Safe if youโ€™re there when the fire starts.

Yeah, true.
I did acknowledge that a cropping paddock is not like a shed or factory where you can mitigate and neutralize fire risks.
But just having a 15 litre knapsack and a thermos full of warm tea as your only source of quenching liquids out in the paddock is not ideal.

Bons
December 18, 2021 5:16 pm

The reason I asked about Cossack and the SMH is that I would be keen to contribute if he sets up a fund.
Litigation, sadly, has become a critical resource for free democrats.

Bons
December 18, 2021 5:19 pm

Just saw a promo for tonight’s 7 News.
Bunch of teens waving their phones in celebration of their compliance to the Ukranian’s diktats.
There is no future if these bots are the future.

johanna
johanna
December 18, 2021 5:21 pm

A journalist actually doing his job – seven times Boris Johnson promised ‘a route back to normality.’

While reaffirming the government is โ€œnot locking stuff downโ€, Boris has advised that the โ€œfastest route back to normality is to get boostedโ€.

Yet Britons will find โ€œroute back to normalityโ€ an uncomfortably familiar phrase, having heard it countless times from the government over the course of the lockdown. Despite promises, normality remains elusive and indeed, much talk is instead of a โ€˜new normalโ€˜ instead.

Here are six more times the governmentโ€™s โ€œroute back to normalityโ€ took us everywhere but.

Well done, Nat! Of course, he works for Breitbart, not The Times. You’d be lucky to find a proper journalist there these days.

Gab
Gab
December 18, 2021 5:22 pm

Something completely different … Good table manners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQvV4SNeH-U

cohenite
December 18, 2021 5:24 pm

Cops lose guns, lots of them, no one to blame:

https://nationalshooting.org.au/nt-cops-lose-several-guns/

Winston Smith
December 18, 2021 5:34 pm

Sancho Panzer:

I might have missed something, but what is the significance of the logo?

The “Mogen David” or six pointed star made from two equilateral triangles which have the same center and are placed in opposite directions.
The Star was made compulsory in Nazi Occupied Europe for all Jews, so they could be readily identified by the “Pureblooded” Aryan races, as Jews were portrayed as carriers of diseases both physical and moral.
In the camps the two triangles were made in two different colours which were a code for their ‘crimes’.

The BioHazard symbol in the middle was my addition to bring into focus our current moral crisis while linking with the previous.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 18, 2021 5:35 pm

Right.
Gotcha Winston.

Winston Smith
December 18, 2021 5:40 pm

Mak Siccar:

Wrong! There were Jaffas.

All us kids were let in free, so we could afford the superior confectionary – Maltesers.
(Puts nose in air, saunters off with a superior mien.)

Rabz
December 18, 2021 5:43 pm

Peoples – our beloved Cassie is struggling – please post some messages of support on this thread.

As many as possible – she will read them.

Indolent
Indolent
December 18, 2021 5:46 pm

Russell Brand. A victory in India. Protest is the only way forward.

โ€œWOAH!!!โ€ The Media Donโ€™t Want You To Know THESE PROTESTORS WON!!!โ€

jupes
jupes
December 18, 2021 5:53 pm

Cops lose guns, lots of them, no one to blame:

Probably not as many as the US in Afghanistan though. So there’s that …

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 18, 2021 5:54 pm

@ Local Oaf-

Imagine the screams of rage from all those who were forced to take the mRNA crap on pain of losing their job!

Take from one who did, that I no longer care. My heart hasn’t exploded, so there we are.

My peeve is that I should never have been made to take the damned stuff in the first instance. Risky concoctions and suspect evidence or not. And any action I take subsequently will be with this thought firmly in mind.

Anyone who wants to whine about mRNA vs. protein subunit when the issue was forcing people to comply with a flawed mandate in the first place, is as smooth-brained and petty as the bugmen that threatened to cost us everything because either nobody believed their act, or a majority of the at-risk had been exposed and developed immunity without prior written approval from them…

Bons
December 18, 2021 5:54 pm

As a kid I seriously resented coming home from school to work on the harvest while my ‘day rag’ mates were at the beach or chasing shielas.
Dad had experienced a paddock fire (from the neighbour’s place), and was a tyrant. In the days of the tractor dragged headers and no cabs, it was hard, hot and thirsty but he made no concessions.
The old fire ute was always moved up (it had an open tank, a Lister pump, and one of those big red bottles on wheels).
We were never allowed to stop in the paddock for any length of time, lunch was a changeover and Mum’s great arvos were consumed on the run.
Greasing (remember that) had to be done on the access track which had been mowed. At knock-off everything was lined-up on the track and (usually me) had to wait there for quite a while.
Hilariously, he burned down the hey shed when he put the mower in there without letting it cool down. It was not good policy to mention the event however.
All of which brings back the hated memory of bagging the seed wheat, dirty, itchy and heavy lifting.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 18, 2021 5:54 pm

Probably not as many as the US in Afghanistan though. So thereโ€™s that โ€ฆ

Heheheh…

#Oof

Winston Smith
December 18, 2021 5:55 pm

Cassie!
How’s the knee going?
I used to work in a hospital where they used those passive knee bending machines. They looked painful. CPM I think they were called.
You should be getting plenty of pain relief before using them – are you?
Demand it and don’t take any shit off them.
Are the bastards still locking you up and isolating?
Are you being held incommunicardo or can you talk to us?

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 18, 2021 5:55 pm

Cassie

Any indications when you will be freed from quarantine? Was the first test positive or negative?

Regardless, stand strong, you have many supporters keen to see you back posting regularly, and confronting Sharma in the street.

Hope the physio is helping your recovery.

Arky
December 18, 2021 5:55 pm

Winston Smith says:
December 18, 2021 at 5:34 pm

..
Theyโ€™re tapping into something deep seated with these mandates.
Almost every sci- fi franchise has an episode or two dealing with plague or outbreaks.
Think the film โ€œAlienโ€ as Ripley refuses to let John Hurt onboard with the face sucker, but Tom Skerritt over rides her and we as an audience gotโ€Dohโ€!
The original Star Trek had a number of these episodes, including the dirty space hippies episode where McCoy chides the hippy leader for not quarantining. The Next Generation has one episode where the Enterprise tows the last surviving spaceship from an exodus originating in a plague riddled planet away from an inhabited federation planet, while the planetโ€™s leader begs Pickard to blow up the plague ship. It is to be noted that the originator of Star Trek, Gene Roddenbury was one of these progressive utopian who foresaw a world without money or possessions
The entire zombie genre is all about killing the โ€œinfectedโ€ and keeping them at a safe distance, preferable decapitated.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 18, 2021 5:56 pm

At the expense of embarrassing myself with an improper use of the Hebrew…

Kol Hakavod, Cassie. Be well and blessed.

Indolent
Indolent
December 18, 2021 5:56 pm

Very interesting comments on the state of politics in Britain at the moment.

Farage reacts to shock defeat in North Shropshire.

Indolent
Indolent
December 18, 2021 5:57 pm
Rabz
December 18, 2021 5:58 pm

hock defeat in North Shropshire, Squire

The locality with the fewest English Roses on the planet, unsurprisingly.

Rabz
December 18, 2021 6:01 pm

Oh hang on – the Torrys* got their terrace sized backsides kicked … ๐Ÿ™‚

*The correct braindead collectivist speling, evidentlee.

Bons
December 18, 2021 6:01 pm

That would br ‘hay’.

calli
calli
December 18, 2021 6:02 pm

Gab! Excellent video, my knuckles were smarting at remembered rappings.

Everything is exactly as I was taughtโ€ฆdefinitely Continental, down to the breaking of the bread. The only departure was that Mum always wanted me to eat with the fork tines down, never up like a spoon. The only time I was allowed to turn the fork was when I had it in my right hand and only for the last remaining un-pick-upable morsel.

Even then, it was better to leave that tiny little bitโ€ฆ

Oh, how times have changed!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 18, 2021 6:03 pm

But just having a 15 litre knapsack and a thermos full of warm tea as your only source of quenching liquids out in the paddock is not ideal.

You would be surprised as to how many fools regard a 15 litre knapsack and a thermos full of warm tea as adequate….

Rabz
December 18, 2021 6:05 pm

the dirty space hippies

They really are an irrelevance – except of course for the greenfilth, tapping into, as they do, the 10% of the population that is barking bloody mad.

calli
calli
December 18, 2021 6:07 pm

Cassie, we miss you. And your marksmanship.

Come back fully loaded please. Soon.

Rabz
December 18, 2021 6:07 pm

Thanks, Pedro! ๐Ÿ™‚

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 18, 2021 6:09 pm

You would be surprised as to how many fools regard a 15 litre knapsack and a thermos full of warm tea as adequateโ€ฆ.

I once doused a grinding fire with the contents of a half-drunk Pepsi can.

Horses for courses, Cats*… ๐Ÿ™‚

*I have put out small lineside fires with a 15 litre knapsack, though. But my best was 2 half-empty water jerries for a 50+ sq. metre slow-burning pine needle fire at Majura Range. The call to Range Control elicited 5 off-road fire trucks and a helicopter. And a section of we mere diggers had put it out with the contents of our water bottles and whatever partially expended storage vessels we had to hand.

local oaf
December 18, 2021 6:12 pm

Rex Anger says:
December 18, 2021 at 5:54 pm

@ Local Oaf-

Imagine the screams of rage from all those who were forced to take the mRNA crap on pain of losing their job!

Take from one who did, that I no longer care. My heart hasnโ€™t exploded, so there we are.

My peeve is that I should never have been made to take the damned stuff in the first instance. Risky concoctions and suspect evidence or not. And any action I take subsequently will be with this thought firmly in mind.

Agree 100%

They might think they have 90% of the population onside, but I’d guess half of them were bullied/terrorised into complying.
There’s a huge amount of barely suppressed rage in the country – going to be a lot of angry people at the ballot box pretty soon!

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 18, 2021 6:14 pm

Labour scored 9% in North Shropshire,. proof that there’s idiots in the least likely places.,
LibDems sure to be covering up a few rentboy BumSex scandals too.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 18, 2021 6:17 pm

Thereโ€™s a huge amount of barely suppressed rage in the country โ€“ going to be a lot of angry people at the ballot box pretty soon!

+ Infinity.

Don’t believe a word the polls or the media or Party spokesmongs say. Especially in as Narrative-controlled a place as fair Sandgroperstan…

shatterzzz
December 18, 2021 6:18 pm

I am always in awe of folks ability to create fantastic memes but, occasionally, a simple answer on Twitter really deserves wide publicity .. enjoy! .. LOL!

https://ibb.co/LgGwbmR

Rabz
December 18, 2021 6:19 pm

My dancing days are over

You’ll live Squire, if that’s any consolation …

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 18, 2021 6:19 pm

They might think they have 90% of the population onside,

Why woulde you think that they might think that, you’ve got only their word that it’s 90%
I was in a shop in a leafy suburb this morning, they had a sign up stating that they will not be asking for Proof Of Vaccination.

but Iโ€™d guess half of them were bullied/terrorised into complying.

Okay, but that’s half of a very poorly informed group of people, not half of 90% of the adult population.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 18, 2021 6:21 pm

Okay, but thatโ€™s half of a very poorly informed group of people, not half of 90% of the adult population.

Fuck off Grigory.

Rabz
December 18, 2021 6:22 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 18, 2021 6:22 pm

US General Lee to be melted down in name of art
Hugh Tomlinson, Washington
Saturday December 18 2021, 12.01am GMT, The Times
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Hundreds of Confederate statues and monuments toppled across America have become the focus of a bidding war as debate rages over what do with them.

This summer, officials in Charlottesville, Virginia, offered to give away two statues of Confederate generals Robert E Lee and Thomas โ€œStonewallโ€ Jackson, whose removal sparked the โ€œUnite the Rightโ€ rally by white supremacists that left one person dead in 2017. The city council received offers to take the monuments off their hands from artists, museums and collectors, with contrasting ideas of what to do with them.

The Ratcliffe Foundation, which runs a museum at the former Virginia home of a brother of the Confederate general J E B Stuart, offered $50,000 for the pair. To fill out a planned sculpture garden, the foundation also asked the city of Richmond for all its Confederate cast-offs, since at least 18 statues were removed across the Virginia state capital in the past year.

The foundation was outbid by LAXART, an arts group based in Los Angeles, which offered $100,000 for the two Charlottesville statues, to be displayed at an exhibition of black modern art next year.

In the end, the council split the two statues up. The bronze of Stonewall Jackson on his horse will appear in Los Angeles alongside other Confederate monuments and works by black artists in 2022.
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โ€œWe are hoping to question the geographically specific context for these statues as well as the role they play in discussions about race, gender, censorship and American history,โ€ said Hamza Walker, director of LAXART.

The half-ton statue of Lee was given to a local centre for African-American heritage, which plans to melt it down to create a new artwork.

The decision has revived debate over what to do with Confederate symbols of slavery, as dozens are torn down across America, with at least 90 removed from state capitol buildings, universities and city parks last year.

Calls to preserve them in museums were once cast as a flimsy compromise by racist apologists but the debate was largely academic as just four Confederate monuments were removed between 1923 and 2015. As the movement to destroy the works and the backlash by white nationalist groups has grown after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, however, the discussion on how, or whether, to preserve them has become more nuanced.

Many museums are reluctant to take the statues, wary of becoming a place of pilgrimage for white supremacists. The city of Charleston, South Carolina, removed a statue of the former vice- president John Calhoun, a staunch defender of slavery, during the Black Lives Matter protests after the murder of George Floyd last year. The council offered the work to a local museum, which declined. Calhoun has been in storage ever since.

LAXART, which has asked to borrow the Calhoun statute for next yearโ€™s show, says displaying the works in a new context can drive debate on how to tackle racism. โ€œIt is the monumentโ€™s historical and its present-day ideological bearing that needs to be investigated,โ€ Walker wrote to Charleston city council, in a letter seen by Bloomberg.

Another bronze of Lee on horseback, removed from a park in Dallas in 2017, was auctioned online and sold for $1.4 million. It adorns a putting green at a Texas golf resort.

Rabz
December 18, 2021 6:23 pm

She could construct more sensible sentences than a monstrous ol’ dinobore …

rickw
rickw
December 18, 2021 6:31 pm

Thereโ€™s a huge amount of barely suppressed rage in the country โ€“ going to be a lot of angry people at the ballot box pretty soon!

Assuming they donโ€™t crack and go bullet box before that.

Rabz
December 18, 2021 6:31 pm

It’s right about now that existing in a Kampuchean Jungle doesn’t seem so bad.

Denounced by many of my family as an unclean leper and banned from next week’s traditional Christmas lunch.

Hot on the heels of being banned from my work’s Christmas party last Thursday.

My brother’s ears will hopefully be ringing until his departure from this planet.

The only sensible member of my family I’ve been able to discuss this idiocy with is my beloved cousin, she who remains source of wise counsel.

cohenite
December 18, 2021 6:33 pm

Following on from the movie blather earlier I sometimes look at a few of the old TV programs such as The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. This one is from Alfred; it stars a young Steve McQueen and an old Peter Lorre and I defy anyone not to be chewing their fingernails by the end. It’s short, less then 30 minutes:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x59um77

Rabz
December 18, 2021 6:33 pm

Hey Gremlins – I know you think you’re under orders, but kindly stop removing words from my comments, I tells ya!

calli
calli
December 18, 2021 6:37 pm

So Rabz, you can go and have dinner at a restaurant but canโ€™t have dinner with family?

Are they nuts?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 18, 2021 6:38 pm

Stick with it Cassie.
And don’t be frugal with the painkillers.
They’re there to be used.

Winston Smith
December 18, 2021 6:39 pm

From the Gateway Pundit:

No Vax, No Food: Spokane Christmas Food Pantry Requires Proof of Vaccination or COVID Test to Get Food

This is why I’ve called this a Moral Crisis rather than a Health Crisis.

rickw
rickw
December 18, 2021 6:40 pm

Cassie,

If youโ€™ve got COVID please mail me some! What the Little Bloke brought home from school was a fizzer!

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Winston Smith
December 18, 2021 6:41 pm

WTH? Millions of Migrants Denied COVID Shots Because Manufacturers Fear Lawsuits OVER SIDE EFFECTS
This is starting to sound a bit sinister…

calli
calli
December 18, 2021 6:42 pm

The movies that have been priming us up for this sh*t are ones like โ€œContagionโ€ and โ€œOutbreakโ€ and โ€œTwelve Monkeysโ€.

They were top of the pops in early 2020 so people could re-read the primer.

It reminded me of the early 80โ€™s when nuclear war was the armageddon. Every second movie was about either the lead up or post apocalyptic dystopia.

Itโ€™s all propaganda. Like abortion legislation and coathanger alleys and AIDS/SSM and the wonderfulness of being gay. The media doesnโ€™t follow the zeitgeist, it creates it.

rickw
rickw
December 18, 2021 6:43 pm

Denounced by many of my family as an unclean leper and banned from next weekโ€™s traditional Christmas lunch.

Hot on the heels of being banned from my workโ€™s Christmas party last Thursday.

Minds through the MSM propaganda shredder. WTF?!

Arky
December 18, 2021 6:43 pm

If youโ€™ve got COVID please mail me some!

..
Give it up Rick, you are immune. Accept it.
At this point you could indulge in a three way with Faucci and a pangolin while drinking uncooked bat soup and walk away hale and hearty.

Rabz
December 18, 2021 6:44 pm

Are they nuts?

They’re nuts and banned. Neither of which they seem able to comprehend. Unsurprisingly.

Dividing friends, family and society.

They’ll soon be stomping around in <a href="“>a pair these, if they aren’t already.

calli
calli
December 18, 2021 6:46 pm

Rabz, do you have somewhere to go for Christmas? Please donโ€™t spend it alone.

Winston Smith
December 18, 2021 6:48 pm

Virginia Hospital Provides Update After Court Holds It in Contempt

Rabz
December 18, 2021 6:49 pm

Thanks, calli – I will draw much strength from being alone on that day.

For goodness’ sake, I’ve never remotely had to make a sacrifice in my life. Thanks to this indescribable idiocy, Cassie will still be stuck in a small hospital room by herself on that day.

It’s her that we should be thinking of.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 18, 2021 6:50 pm

Get well soon Cassie! My knees are slightly dicky from bicycle but not too bad. The idea is to control the wear rate on everything until you are about 120 whereupon all your various bits will spontaneously and finally fall apart and explode in every direction at the speed of light or something.

As to Rabz, your Janey vid leads me to this one, which is also a San Francisco anthem right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrwjiO1MCVs

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 18, 2021 6:51 pm

as Jews were portrayed as carriers of diseases

Jewties?

Ewww miss he got Jewties!!!

/I denounce myself for that one…

Rabz
December 18, 2021 6:51 pm

err, Not that I’m having a go and thanks for the wishes, you wondrous woman.

Bar Beach Swimmer
December 18, 2021 6:54 pm

Thereโ€™s a huge amount of barely suppressed rage in the country โ€“ going to be a lot of angry people at the ballot box pretty soon!
+ Infinity.

So a really smart move for Scummo to go with Jabs & Jobs

Cassie, best wishes for a quick improvement and then post haste to being back here at the Cat.
kind regards,
BBS

rickw
rickw
December 18, 2021 6:56 pm

Cops lose guns, lots of them, no one to blame

The Mongs at Vikpol have now had one of my stolen rifles for 3 months. I guarantee that it will be:

1) Accidentally cut up.
2) Legally sold.
3) Illegally sold.

Farm got done over again while I was on COVID isolation (yay), I guarantee same crew. Had the local copper out yesterday to look things over, he was frankly amazed that they had recovered one.

The local motherfuckers who have been doing this are sooner or later going to break in when Iโ€™m thereโ€ฆ..

Rabz
December 18, 2021 6:56 pm

Thereโ€™s a huge amount of barely suppressed rage in the country

If only. Sadly, it appears we are a minority.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 18, 2021 6:57 pm

Glass half full Cassie.
You’re not “in isolation”.
You’ve been “upgraded to a private suite”.
Better than even DVA Gold Card whingers get at Toowoomba Base Hospital.

Winston Smith
December 18, 2021 6:57 pm

Cassie:

If youโ€™ve got COVID please mail me some!

(In Winstons best Mexican sleazy voice)
I pay you good money for your used tissues, leetle lady!
Fresh is best!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 18, 2021 6:59 pm

Many museums are reluctant to take the statues, wary of becoming a place of pilgrimage for white supremacists.

Errr… No.

They are shit-scared of being firebombed by the Neo-Red Guards paid for by Georgy Sore-Arse and the communists pulling the strings of the Democrat Party and its ‘donations’ and patronage machines…

urb
urb
December 18, 2021 6:59 pm

Hang in there Cassie. I’ve had an acl reco & another time I snapped my left foot off so it was pointing backwards. Yor recovery will get easier. Sending you some tropical fnq vibes.

johanna
johanna
December 18, 2021 7:01 pm

From Mark’s Cat, heading ‘News You will Never Hear.’

kaysee says:
December 18, 2021 at 4:48 pm

Mark Levin crushes cancel culture,

American Marxism No. 1 of all books

In an amazing victory over โ€œcancel cultureโ€ and without a lick of advertising, big media reviews, or even a C-SPAN book chat, conservative talker Mark R. Levinโ€™s American Marxism is heading to be the top-selling book for all of 2021.

According to publishing industry sources, Levinโ€™s call to action sold more than 1.2 million copies in several formats, including 1 million in hardback. Amazon is headlining it as the nationโ€™s bestseller of all books this year.

rickw
rickw
December 18, 2021 7:08 pm

Remember this come the Revolution!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kZ95uYIlgc

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 18, 2021 7:09 pm

Gee, does this mean they are against coercion now??

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/coercive-control-in-intimate-relationships-to-be-criminalised-in-nsw-20211217-p59ij8.html
Controlling what someone wears and who they see, limiting access to money, tracking their location and incessant texting and phone calls are all behaviours that constitute coercive control.

Dot
Dot
December 18, 2021 7:16 pm

Controlling what someone wears and who they see, limiting access to money, tracking their location and incessant texting and phone calls are all behaviours that constitute coercive control.

Speakman is a simp and a cuck.

rickw
rickw
December 18, 2021 7:19 pm

Controlling what someone wears and who they see, limiting access to money, tracking their location and incessant texting and phone calls are all behaviours that constitute coercive control.

Oh, like what VicGov does?

Dot
Dot
December 18, 2021 7:19 pm

Basically

We are being legislated to use Bumble and ghost women.

That is horrific on a societal level.

Rabz
December 18, 2021 7:21 pm

We are being legislated to use Bumble and ghost women.

“Bumble”? “Ghost Women”?

I’d rather Miss Ellie.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 18, 2021 7:24 pm

urbsays:

December 18, 2021 at 6:59 pm

Hang in there Cassie. Iโ€™ve had an acl reco & another time I snapped my left foot off so it was pointing backwards. Yor recovery will get easier.ย 

I haven’t had a joint replacement. However, it seems the common story is that it is shit for the initial few days, but no regrets after that.

Frank
Frank
December 18, 2021 7:27 pm

What ever became of Ellie in the end?

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 18, 2021 7:27 pm

Controlling what someone wears and who they see, limiting access to money, tracking their location and incessant texting and phone calls are all behaviours that constitute coercive control.

The above is a template for allegations in Family Law Trials.
Is it common behaviour?
Wander down to your local Family Court branch between Tuesday and Friday next year and sit in on a few Trials.
Every evil GoldDigger is Ingrid Bergman and every other Husband is Charles Boyer.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 18, 2021 7:28 pm

Franksays:

December 18, 2021 at 7:27 pm

What ever became of Ellie in the end?

Pretty sure she eloped with Bird.

Rabz
December 18, 2021 7:31 pm

What ever became of ellie in the end?

err, not giving a rodent’s. There’s only one Ellie on this planet that is worth acknowledging …

Rabz
December 18, 2021 7:32 pm

She eloped with the Boid

Deserving of each other, they were …

Cassie of Sydney
December 18, 2021 7:34 pm

I was released from Covid isolation late yesterday afternoon. The two test results came back within hours so the hospital administrator came to my room to tell me. And it goes without saying…..of course…..that I tested NEGATIVE. My sister had also rung the hospital to complain about my situation. Somebody fucked up. I was rather hysterical on Friday morning and on Thursday night. I’m not one for hysteria but the pain as well as being confined to my room was debilitating to my mental health and I was crying a lot.

The pain is bad and I’m on a lot of pain killers. These are making me drowsy. Today I had some physio which is helping but I have moments where I regret the whole thing…..even though people keep telling me that there’s light on the horizon…however all I can see and feel is a thick London fog and I am yet to see a dim light flickering in the fog.

Cassie of Sydney
December 18, 2021 7:38 pm

And thank you everyone for your kind thoughts. And goodnight.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
December 18, 2021 7:40 pm

So a really smart move for Scummo to go with Jabs & Jobs

Jabsโ€˜n Grothe.
I think thereโ€™s a winning slogan there somewhere.

rosie
rosie
December 18, 2021 7:40 pm

Anyone with young children will have unvaxxed Christmas dinner participants.
I’m at a loss as to why anyone would ban unvaxxed adults.
Is Cassie now in two weeks isolation?
It’s ridiculous.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 18, 2021 7:41 pm

Speaking of Bird, it appears he is enjoying unfettered posting rights as the anti-Semite in residence at the Furniture Store.

rosie
rosie
December 18, 2021 7:41 pm

Oh, better news.
Get well soon.

calli
calli
December 18, 2021 7:42 pm

Cassie, Iโ€™ve had a partial and the Beloved a bilateral. It hurts like blazes.

It will stop. Make sure theyโ€™re giving you adequate pain relief. Do not be โ€œbraveโ€. Take the pills, the injections, whatever.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
December 18, 2021 7:44 pm

The Palacechook 80% Freedom Plan – now fully 36 hours old – is paying big social dividends.

New Farm Coles has been cleaned out of bogroll and the rice/pasta/tuna stocks seriously depleted.

Apparently lots of masked shoppers of low trust appearance descended late this morning.

Megan
Megan
December 18, 2021 7:44 pm

So very sorry, Cassie. What everyone else said about the painkillersโ€ฆtake themโ€ฆplenty and often.

Wishing you a rapid storming past the worst bits to the high ground of pain free walking. Much love.

PS: Dave Sharma is particularly morose. Must be missing you!

Rabz
December 18, 2021 7:48 pm

Bruce – Janeys are the best and allegedly, a state of mind.

miltonf
miltonf
December 18, 2021 7:50 pm

Get well soon Cassie. You really are one of the best posters here. I always enjoy your forthright comments about the phonies and parasites that are the NSW lieboral party!

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
December 18, 2021 7:52 pm

Cassie.
Just remember once the legs are back working you will be able to kick the bat eared Mong down the stairs and claim the Strangelove defence

It wasnโ€™t me your honour, it was my evil limbs!
https://gfycat.com/gifs/search/dr.+strangelove

Indolent
Indolent
December 18, 2021 7:53 pm

The movies that have been priming us up for this sh*t are ones like โ€œContagionโ€ and โ€œOutbreakโ€ and โ€œTwelve Monkeysโ€.

Apart from the two films I previously mentioned – Soylent Green (brainwashing, zombification) and Gataca (blood segregation) – the film that’s been running through my mind a lot lately is The Fugitive. There was big pharma committing murder to prevent exposure of the side effects of a new drug expected to make millions for them.

You could dial the number of actual victims up to the millions now, bearing in mind that the virus was likely deliberately released, the vaccine has serious side effects which were known prior to release, hospital treatment protocols are life threatening and the fact that everything possible was and is being done to prevent the use of known effective therapeutics. And, of course, the suspicious deaths of multiple people who looked like they might be a threat to them.

In the film, the good guy won. In real life?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 18, 2021 7:54 pm

Itย willย stop. Make sure theyโ€™re giving you adequate pain relief. Do not be โ€œbraveโ€. Take the pills, the injections, whatever.

Quite so.
A relative of mine was in for an op two-three years ago.
The humourless doctor on his rounds noted that he hadn’t used the drug pump very much.
“No” he says. “I’m saving it to take home.”
Awkward silence.
Doctor quietly backs away.
I guess it might not have been the first time he had heard that, and not as a joke.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 18, 2021 7:56 pm

Janeys are the best and allegedly, a state of mind.

So they say!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Q_8q3XXrQ

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 18, 2021 7:56 pm

PS: Dave Sharma is particularly morose. Must be missing you!

Be prepared for a titanium knee to the nuts, Dave.

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
December 18, 2021 7:58 pm

Oh, and ask if then can make you a proper old chook and put the knees on backwards

Rabz
December 18, 2021 7:59 pm
Frank
Frank
December 18, 2021 8:04 pm

Cassie, if you get lucky the painkillers can lead to spectacular dreams of Coleridge proportions.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 18, 2021 8:05 pm

Speaking of Bird, it appears he is enjoying unfettered posting rights as the anti-Semite in residence at the Furniture Store.

Not exactly.

They banished his flatulates to their own section of ‘Area 51,’ and even then most of it was so egregious that they fragged it without any further consideration. Bird now moping and bitching that some evil ‘Globalist’ conspiracy has allegedly taken full editorial control of all Catallaxy spin-offs.

For some reason, Mike Curb’s Congregation keeps coming to mind…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qXIjE_gDw94

But no Shermans for Bird. Bird, for all his faults and failings, is not worthy of Shermans.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 18, 2021 8:05 pm

โ€œContagionโ€ and โ€œOutbreakโ€ and โ€œTwelve Monkeysโ€

Also “Omega Man” and “I Am Legend”.
Disease movies annoy me, so I haven’t watched either of them, nor Contagion and Outbreak.
Liked 12 Monkeys though. But it was really a time travel movie.

Delta A
Delta A
December 18, 2021 8:05 pm

Peoples โ€“ our beloved Cassie is struggling

Very, very sad to read that, Cassie. But we all have down times, even the strongest among us. And you, of course are in that number.

Time for a bit of ‘bugger! This is all too much.’ Lie back and feel sorry for yourself for a while. For as long as you need. It might seem unlikely at the moment, but before long you will charge back, refreshed and ready to go again. You’re just that sort of girl.

In the meantime, know that many are wishing you all the best and eagerly awaiting your next posts.

Rabz
December 18, 2021 8:05 pm

Dave Sharma is particularly morose. Must be missing you!

Not to mention Miss Allegra “Bill Lawreyesque Nose” Spender.

err, as one does. ๐Ÿ™‚

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 18, 2021 8:08 pm

There was big pharma committing murder to prevent exposure of the side effects of a new drug expected to make millions for them.

Or The Constant Gardener. Pfizer’s bastardry in West Africa in (only mildly geographically transplanted allegory…

WolfmanOz (just existing in Melb. now)
WolfmanOz (just existing in Melb. now)
December 18, 2021 8:10 pm

Get well soon Cassie . . . we all love your forthright and pointed posts ??

Rabz
December 18, 2021 8:11 pm

Greenfilth*. We really need them in our lives, apparently.

Except when we don’t, which would be all the time. ๐Ÿ™

*Spot the personage who isn’t white, middle class and evidently stroogling to make ends meet – oh that’s right – we cannot.

Roger
Roger
December 18, 2021 8:12 pm

Mmm…looks like using Hebrew gets you into the moderation folder.

Hang in there, Cassie.

Refu’ah shelemah!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 18, 2021 8:12 pm

The Three Thousand

Like his stuff although he can be a bit wussy.
Which lets me do this one:

Kiss From A Rose

Dot
Dot
December 18, 2021 8:13 pm

I am not going to try roast Jana Hocking, she was lied to, as were millions of others of millennial women.

Hint: men don’t like being ignored once they show interest.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/dating/hardballing-is-the-new-dating-trend-that-both-scary-and-great/news-story/de63468a8165b58bb27fe406280c9791

It is ridiculous because she is quite pretty and could have gotten a husband by now if she didn’t follow this silly “advice”.

More damage to society made by cretins (who wrote that “advice” book).

Now the Liberal Party of NSW is destroying any reason why men want to even approach women let alone have a relationship.

WolfmanOz (just existing in Melb. now)
WolfmanOz (just existing in Melb. now)
December 18, 2021 8:14 pm

And by te way, anyone else from Victoria getting calls from NSW a Victorian Govt initiative for you to be able to monitor your electricity usage ?

Iโ€™ve had about half-a-dozen such calls where Iโ€™ve politely told them to fuck off !

Delta A
Delta A
December 18, 2021 8:15 pm

Denounced by many of my family as an unclean leper and banned from next weekโ€™s traditional Christmas lunch.

That’s wicked, Rabz.

Wish you lived in SA. We’d love to have you come for Christmas lunch and stay for the guitar, banjo, piano, harmonica, mandolin, ukulele jams later.

Oh, and the invitation is extended to any South Aussies who are barred from family dos.

Rabz
December 18, 2021 8:21 pm

Look – seriously – these greenfilth imbeciles – WTF?

“I’m really concerned about the future of the planet, because if it wasn’t supposedly in danger I’d be anther bored Beastern Shruburbs Hausfrau, I tells ya!”

“That troublesome Cassie woman – she thinks she can just stomp around bus stops in this sacred place telling us we’re idiots!”

“I’m not having it”

“She has no plans for making Wentworth 110% Carbon Frei, I tells ya!”

This incoherent idiocy, is apparently a seat winning strategy.

Stop the bus – I want off.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 18, 2021 8:25 pm

Stop the bus โ€“ I want off.

No self-respecting Green (not even the paid rent-a-ferals they have on speed dial) would ever be caught dead on a mere bus.

Public Transport is for those dirty proles. Not the nomenklatura…

Rabz
December 18, 2021 8:30 pm

Rex – that’s why Cassie and myself use it when we need to.

We do not willingly identify with the nomenklatura.

miltonf
miltonf
December 18, 2021 8:31 pm

Public Transport is for those dirty proles. Not the nomenklaturaโ€ฆ

That’s what fascinates me in a nasty way about leftism- it’s a project by the private school edjucated. Concern for the working man and his family was probably only feigned and they don’t even bother with that any more. I still have some sympathy for the old industrial left (to some extent).

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 18, 2021 8:31 pm

โ€œIโ€™m really concerned about the future of the planet, because if it wasnโ€™t supposedly in danger Iโ€™d be anther bored Beastern Shruburbs Hausfrau, I tells ya!โ€

Model trains is a hobby for all ages and sexes- In engages the mind, hones the body and keeps folks safely occupied.

Wallets (discretionary income) impoverished, lives enriched.

Spread The Word…

It’s Good Enough For Rod Stewart…

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 18, 2021 8:37 pm

Via Rabz

Thanks to this indescribable idiocy, Cassie will still be stuck in a small hospital room by herself on that day.

Have I missed something? Has Cassie got her test results back?

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
December 18, 2021 8:39 pm

Cassie, get well soon.

Would you could watch some pictures of celebrities to cheer you up? Tim Paine selfies perhaps ?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 18, 2021 8:40 pm

WWII commando survived brutality of captivity

By Ian Mcphedran
11:00PM December 17, 2021
36 Comments

OBITUARY
Captain Jim Ellwood
World War II veteran. Born Casterton, Victoria, December 16, 1921; died Melbourne, November 27, aged 99.

Australia has lost one of its last surviving World War II special forces operators with the death of Captain Alfred James (Jim) Ellwood, just a fortnight before his 100th birthday.

Ellwood, who also survived two years as a prisoner of war of the Japanese in East Timor, was born in Casterton, Victoria on December 16, 1921, the eldest of five children of World War I Flanders veteran Alf Ellwood and his wife Alma.

The family lived on a soldier-settler block at the tiny settlement of Paschendale, east of Casterton, named after the infamous Western Front battlefield.

After attending the local bush primary school Ellwood enrolled at Hamilton High School in western Victoria, where he completed the leaving certificate. He was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship before he took up a job with the Army Finance Department in Melbourne, where he met his future wife, Mollie.

After enlisting in December 1941, just five days before his 20th birthday, he was posted to Darwin where he trained as a signaller/ciphยญer operator.

He then joined the Commandos and was deployed to East Timor with the 2/4th Independent Company, attached to the legendary Sparrow Force headquarters.

After the evacuation of Sparrow Force, he stayed behind as an operator with the 2/4th, which became known as Lancer Force. Lancer operated behind enemy lines between September 1942 and January 1943, and when the force was evacuated on January 9 Ellwood volunteered to remain with the โ€œstay behind partyโ€, known as S Force.

After he returned to Australia on board the US submarine USS Gudgeon in February 1943, exhausted and sick with malaria, Ellwood was recruited to the top-secret Z Special Unit to train for a covert mission back to Timor.

Aged 21, he was redeployed to East Timor alone in July 1943, and after three months operating alongside Timorese and Portuguese guerrilla fighters in the rugged mountains he was taken prisoner on September 29, 1943.

Transferred to Dili jail, he suffered the brutal interrogation methods of the feared Japanese Kempeitai (military police). He spent months shackled, starved and in solitary confinement with only maggots for company as the interrogators bashed and tortured him while leaving his malaria, wet beri-beri and dysentery untreated.

He survived in captivity for two years before he was recovered to Singapore via Bali in October 1945, six weeks after Japan had surrendered.

Ellwood didnโ€™t carry a grudge against the Japanese people but he was blunt in his views about the Japanese military. During a Japanese government-sponsored visit by five Australian ex-prisoners of war to Japan in 2011, the then 90-year-old Ellwood described how he and other POWs were treated.

โ€œI was bound up like a turkey, handcuffs on the wrists, wires on the upper arms, and hobbles and ropes in front and back,โ€ he said.

โ€œI was blindfolded most of the time. The only toilet facility was a wooden barrel. That soon became filled, overflowed, flyblown, maggoty, and the maggots were crawling all over the floor and all over my body when I was resting.โ€

Ellwood praised the modern-day Japanese people for renouncing war, which he described as โ€œa failure of intelligence, a failure of diplomacy, a failure of politics and a failure of leadershipโ€.

He said: โ€œOf course, itโ€™s the old people who run it who are the leaders, the politicians and the diplomats who send the young people to war and destroy a lot of lives.โ€

After the war Ellwood graduated in law from the University of Melbourne and launched a long and distinguished legal career in Warrnambool and Melbourne, where he joined the State Bank before becoming chairman of the Land Valuations Board and a royal commissioner.

He and Mollie reared five sons: Damian, Simon, Stephen, Nicholas and Christopher. Ellwood lost his beloved Mollie in 1997 before marrying Loretta in 2015. The couple had known each other at the State Bank and Loretta had lost her first husband to cancer.

Ellwood was an avid reader and jazz music fan, and a proud and dedicated member of many ex-service organisations including the RSL and Legacy.

He was the last of the 2/4th Independent Company veterans and the second last Z Special Unit operative to have served on combat operations during World War II. Only Allan Russell remains.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 18, 2021 8:41 pm

Dot

Speakman is a simp and a cuck.

You flatter him.

Rabz
December 18, 2021 8:42 pm

For poor ol’ ‘bern …

When the shouteeness gets too much – they’re all off to gaol, I tells ya! ๐Ÿ™‚

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 18, 2021 8:43 pm

Cassie of Sydneysays:
December 18, 2021 at 7:34 pm
I was released from Covid isolation late yesterday afternoon.

Great news.

cohenite
December 18, 2021 8:43 pm

Yes, all the best Cassie.

Rabz
December 18, 2021 8:45 pm

BJ – it’s a sensitive subject, Squire.

And again – I’m not here to speak for her.

Rabz
December 18, 2021 8:46 pm

Cool – Cass is free at last …

Rabz
December 18, 2021 8:49 pm
Nelson_Kidd-Players
December 18, 2021 8:50 pm

WolfmanOz (just existing in Melb. now) says:
December 18, 2021 at 8:14 pm

And by te way, anyone else from Victoria getting calls from NSW a Victorian Govt initiative for you to be able to monitor your electricity usage ?

All the time. Dan wants to be your Daddy. LED lightbulbs, a doover to track your power usage and, I think, solar freebies. All paid for by Dan. (Well, actually a future version of you if you cannot escape this mismanaged state.)

cohenite
December 18, 2021 8:51 pm

Mark Dice is one of the best shit-stirrers going. Here he is wearing a Rastafarian with false dreadlocks talking to black dudes about cultural appropriation. The only reason he gets away with it is because of his deadpan manner. Plus the fact he’s about 6’4″ and 240lbs.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1235143660295490

Rabz
December 18, 2021 8:52 pm

Dan wants to be your Daddy

Blah. What an ‘orrible concept …

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 18, 2021 8:54 pm

Rabzsays:
December 18, 2021 at 8:11 pm
Greenfilth*. We really need them in our lives, apparently.

Except when we donโ€™t, which would be all the time. ?

*Spot the personage who isnโ€™t white, middle class and evidently stroogling to make ends meet โ€“ oh thatโ€™s right โ€“ we cannot.

White supremacy personified!

PS, only the wealthy can afford to be socialists.

Frank
Frank
December 18, 2021 8:55 pm
Winston Smith
December 18, 2021 8:57 pm

Cassie:

If youโ€™ve got COVID please mail me some!

(In Winstons best Mexican sleazy voice)
I pay you good money for your used tissues, leetle lady!
Fresh is best!

You’re zombie virus negative?
What a bummer.
You can keep your soggy used tissues.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 18, 2021 8:58 pm

Wolfman

Iโ€™ve had about half-a-dozen such calls where Iโ€™ve politely told them to fuck off !

There’s your mistake, being polite!

I hung up on one such call. The caller phoned back, highly insulted that I had suggested (before hanging up) that he was pushing a scam.

Rabz
December 18, 2021 8:59 pm

err, peoples might be wondering why there was a regrettable outburst in french above.

It’s because the Assabge* stole my online history and offloaded it to Macadamian Condom Farmers. ๐Ÿ˜•

That’s not a tale you tell lightly to your family at Christmas, if the Extra testicle Lizard Peoples were to allow you.

*Deliberate – to keep his Ecuadorian broom closet dwelling identity secret, I don’t tells ya!

Megan
Megan
December 18, 2021 9:00 pm

Dan wants to be your Daddy

Whereโ€™s the vomit emoji when you really need it?

miltonf
miltonf
December 18, 2021 9:00 pm

When BloJo said ‘get Brexit done’ it was a bit of a three card trick.

Dot
Dot
December 18, 2021 9:02 pm

Considerably more indecipherable.

You may as well be talking Cambodian.

rickw
rickw
December 18, 2021 9:02 pm

At this point you could indulge in a three way with Faucci and a pangolin while drinking uncooked bat soup and walk away hale and hearty.

You could have told me this sooner, it was truly awfulโ€ฆ.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
December 18, 2021 9:02 pm

But it’s a government approved scam!

Pink bats without the charred bodies (as far as I know, at least). Delivered to you by the ever growing grifter class.

rickw
rickw
December 18, 2021 9:05 pm

Spread The Wordโ€ฆ

Itโ€™s Good Enough For Rod Stewartโ€ฆ

Thatโ€™s incredible work!

Dot
Dot
December 18, 2021 9:06 pm

Rabz

If you want reptilians, I have an awesome Billy Ocean muzak vidya to show you.

rosie
rosie
December 18, 2021 9:09 pm

Nkp
You forgot the free hot water upgrade.

Rabz
December 18, 2021 9:11 pm

Pol – evidently it’s the time of the year when languishin’ in a jungle is about all I’m allowed.

If you care to join me, there will be many philosophical discussions, we would hope.

Poor ol’ Arks will not be mentioned, nor will these cuddly li’l creatures.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 18, 2021 9:11 pm

After enlisting in December 1941, just five days before his 20th birthday, he was posted to Darwin where he trained as a signaller/ciphยญer operator.

He then joined the Commandos and was deployed to East Timor with the 2/4th Independent Company, attached to the legendary Sparrow Force headquarters.

Ellwood followed a similar path as Leonard Siffleet, who also became a Special Forces signaller. Siffleet was also captured, while serving with M Special Force in New Guinea. From there their paths differ.

Siffleet featured in an infamous photograph, taken a sword stroke before a Japanese officer beheaded him, soon followed by the two Papuans captured with him.

Delta A
Delta A
December 18, 2021 9:11 pm

Poms follow on!

rosie
rosie
December 18, 2021 9:11 pm
Rabz
December 18, 2021 9:14 pm
Dot
Dot
December 18, 2021 9:24 pm

Vaush saying he would like a CIA coup in Russia. The left is so beyond parody at this point it’s not even funny.

From a spicy source.

Rabz
December 18, 2021 9:32 pm

California Soul … ๐Ÿ™‚

Nelson_Kidd-Players
December 18, 2021 9:35 pm

rosie says:
December 18, 2021 at 9:09 pm

Nkp
You forgot the free hot water upgrade.

True, that, although I’ve only been called about that one once so far and I hung up before hearing the details. I then thought of my Mum’s hot water service which is close to 30 years old.

I’m sure they’ll call again…

Rabz
December 18, 2021 9:36 pm

I wanna get into it man

You know, like a sex masheen, man …

Rabz
December 18, 2021 9:38 pm

Yo – pure as, peoples! ๐Ÿ™‚

Nelson_Kidd-Players
December 18, 2021 9:39 pm

Oh, if it’s rolled into solar it may not be worth the effort. The foliage at Mum’s would render it a waste of time!

Nelson_Kidd-Players
December 18, 2021 9:40 pm

Rabz says:
December 18, 2021 at 9:14 pm

Waterfront โ€ฆ

My kids don’t need Shazam for that one… ๐Ÿ™‚

Rabz
December 18, 2021 9:53 pm

The original and the best.

A soundtrack for these sacred cultural garments … ๐Ÿ™‚

Rabz
December 18, 2021 9:58 pm

Proper audio quality

The clarity …

mc
mc
December 18, 2021 10:00 pm
  1. “The Band Played Waltzing Matilda”. Apart from the original by Eric Bogle there’s been some good renditions of this song.…

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