An ad running on one of the FTA or Fox channels implores women to stop drinking as soon as they start trying for a child.
Government over-reach in spades.

An awkward one.
Obviously the correct and automatic response to Nanny Government finger-wagging is ‘fuck right off’.

However, given the awful bastards have taken financial responsibility for the life outcomes of the personally irresponsible, a certain amount of targetted nagging is possibly warranted.

Makkasays:
December 19, 2021 at 10:28 am
But no-one asks them.

Or their families. The fascist media are more concerned about “protecting our heroic front line elf workers”.

Except the ones who were sacked for refusing to be “jabbed”.

Olive oil doesn’t mask flavour, it enhances it and also preserves the juice of the steak.

Someone’s been pulling you leg, cobber.
Dripping is Beef Fat, that’s the white covering on your Viking Steak.
The idea behind Searing is to seal off the cut surfaces and trap the moisture inside.
Burning Olive Oil won’t do that,.
You can turn the heat down to stop the Olive Oil going up in smoke, but then you’re cooking the outside of your steak rather than searing it and you might as well give the mess to the dog.

I don’t care about Noth’s shtick. What I care about is the presumption of innocence. So, are all men now guilty until proven innocent?

So stop worrying.
Noth’s still got the Presumption of Innocence, his Schtick, and the best lawyers money can buy.

You can turn the heat down to stop the Olive Oil going up in smoke, but then you’re cooking the outside of your steak rather than searing it

How moronic can a mutton-eating troll get?

To sear a piece of meat by necessity involves cooking the outside of it!

What are you trying to do, Grigory? Stop your warble fly larvae escaping?

The small circle of family and friends I mix with are almost more scared of Omicron being benign than any wuhan flu risk peddled to them so far.

Something I’m seeing too.

They like the drama of it. Probably because they’ve never been really afraid in their lives and think this is it.

They’re wrong.

Top Endersays:
December 19, 2021 at 11:02 am
Well Cats, I’m going to keep the monicker Top Ender, but Mrs TE and I are out of Darwin as of midday today.

Time to relocate to a house we have in NSW – actually a suburb of Canberra called Jerrabomberra.

Back in the Top End in February for several events associated with the 80th anniversary of the bombing raid – I have a new book about the attack aimed at upper primary/lower secondary coming out, for one.

Hopefully we will be far enough away from some of the loonier aspects of Covid down south.

The last month has been full of the more horrible aspects of moving, so will be a relief to get on the big white bird, even though Box City awaits next week.

TE, Jerra is a suburb of Queanbeyan. It used to be bogan tradie central. Now Multi Millionaire Tradie Central.

TE has swapped the literal top end for the “top end” of Queanbeyan.

Where even the outdoor thunderboxes are gold plated!

Dr Faustussays:
December 19, 2021 at 10:08 am

thanks good Doc.

TopEnder, welcome to the ‘hood. I’ll shout you a coffee at Suppeto. When was the last time you were in Jerra? Things have changed a bit there in the past couple of years there’s now an Aldi, KFC and Maccas and work will start on the new high school in the new year.

Anyway TE I welcome you as a neighbour.

The idea behind Searing is to seal off the cut surfaces and trap the moisture inside.

it’s a disproven myth, searing doesn’t trap any moisture inside.

searing just adds flavour by the Maillard reaction.

Had a call from No.2 son, wife’s got the coff, he hasn’t, Christmas at their place cancelled. Wasn’t she jabbed? A very sheepish yes. How come you haven’t got it. I made these comments coz she’s a smug lefty but my son luvs her.

TE, Jerra is a suburb of Queanbeyan. It used to be bogan tradie central. Now Multi Millionaire Tradie Central.

Used to be ADF Central with hundreds of DHA homes, still lots of ADF members living there in their own homes but DHA has sold up now and building out at Googong. You’re probably right about the tradies, there’s lots of Hiluxes and Ford Rangers around there. It just joined the list of suburbs around Australia to have a median house price over $1 million.

Jerrabomberra is one of the few polling booths in Canberra/Queanbeyan to consistently vote for the Coalition rather than Labor. Not that means anything these days with the Coalition being Labor-lite.

Anyway TE I welcome you as a neighbour.

Looks like there’s a few QPRC resident Cats.

Good to know who’s giving the orders.

you can ask that about the entire lets go brandon administration

Sad to say a member of the Carnbra plutocracy.

Look on the bright side, at least you’ve avoided the vaccine passport crap.

I haven’t seen Eyes Wide Shut or Love Actually, but might give the first one a go to see if JC’s assessment of the naked girls is correct.

Why are they freaking out and attempting to lockdown the entire planet when Omicron has killed less than 10 people worldwide?

its conditioning for blind compliance

Indolent says:
December 19, 2021 at 1:09 pm

Sounds like good news to me, and makes perfect sense.

As pointed out, the movers and shakers don’t like good news. And we even know why.

The perfect Christmas gift for Victorians

And you thought 2021 couldn’t get weirder…

Not a cult at all…..

Searing only takes 90 seconds a side and it doesn’t happen at Maillard Reaction Temps.
More Googlin’ required on your part, i’m afraid.

you still have no point that I can see. what exactly is your point? are you claiming the browning of meat is not maillard, that juices are sealed in? or just scrambling to rescue whatever lost credibility you can muster?

Maillard Reaction only applies to duck fat.

Mark Felton, Lark Force:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK0wKMHuNok

Now on big white bird, having been at cleaning duties in our friend’s unit until the last minute. According to SWMBO, things were “filthy” although they looked ok to me.

Last in Jerra 15 years ago, and yes Queanbeyan was indeed bogan central then. Immediate plans are garden duties; I have two books to write in four years, and will be starting a wargaming group.

starting a wargaming group.

What’s yer poison?

(Granted I am on totally the wrong side of the world, but still curious)

He was cleared on a Legal Technicality, by the way.

Yes, he was found NOT GUILTY the first time around.

You fascist imbecile.

Whatever else we disagree on: if you are remotely sensible politically, you have a duty, where the vaccine efficacy evidence verges on the overwhelming, to push back equally against both the anti vax lunatics/grifters & the media’s rampant Covid hysterics still stuck in 2020.

Making sense of Gray Conolly’s comments is like trying to focus on a yo-yo in flight.
In other words a waste of time.
There’s much to be said for Nietsche’s claim that teaching most people to read wasn’t for the best.
I’d say he was right.
Without indiscriminate teaching of reading, shills such as Connolly would hafta get a real job.

Making sense of Grigory’s comments is like trying to focus on a yo-yo in flight.
In other words a waste of time.

Fixed for Grigory…

Bugger. Sideways weather front through southern Vicco (gusty WSW winds and rain) just momentarily knocked out my Foxtel satellite signal. Even though the cricket in Adelaide is done and dusted, I’d hate to miss a Kerry O’Keeffe rhyming slang classic, like describing a “five-for” just now as a “Michelle”.

…grants the state permission to remove and detain someone defined as “a significant threat to public health.”

This is already on the books, as Typhoid Mary might attest. She was locked up for the public good on an island in the East River until she died.

I think Bill Cosby had a short lived Talk Show back in the early Seventies.
Anyway, Groucho Marx, who was about 80 then and contrary, was a guest and he displayed obvious contempt for Bill Cosby.
At the time it appeared unfair for Groucho to treat Cosby like that, but remember that Groucho, Zeppo and Gummo were all Hollywood Agents, so if Cosby had been doing bad things to aspiring talent way back then, they probably woulda heard all about it.

A Legal Technicality is what freed him, he was very likely to have raped multiple white women and gotten away with it.

Got something to back the slur, Grigory?

I think Bill Cosby had a short lived Talk Show back in the early Seventies.

And? Your point being? So what if the Marx brothers didn’t think highly of Bill Cosby. It does not support any one of your gypsum-smeared contentions or defamatory comments regarding the man.

Now fuck off and smoke your nuclear reactor chamber.

Tom,
that front made record time from your place to mine. Bucketing down here amid big winds.

No, we’re not arguing over how to cook a steak.
What i’m saying is “You can’t sear a steak using Olive Oil.”
Yeah, you can use Olive Oil, but it won’t sear the steak, which is what you want.

Someone else brought up the Maillard effect, which kicks in at between 140 c and 185 c.
That’s far below stovetop temps required to sear a steak.
So, the first guy was misinformed, the second guy just plucked the Maillard Reaction out of the air and tried to run with it.

Winston Smith says:
December 19, 2021 at 2:05 pm
China Is Laughing: As US Military Begins Purging The Unvaxxed – US Air Force is Polling Its Remaining Members On “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” Logos

Insanity.
Biden and his criminal cohort is destroying the US.

That’s why the Deep State + CCP made him president.
Loot it & root it.

Great article by Janet Albrechtson in The Oz talking up Perrottet’s conservative credentials. She succeeds, by measuring his conservatism against Morrison. In the Kingdom of the blind…….

A couple of interesting points from her piece:
* Alan Jones’s new digital program that aired on Monday night crashed night from the sheer weight of people on their devices – around 350,000 of them – trying to tune into an unfiltered Jones.
* Perrottet has proven himself to be the sole political leader in Australia willing to step in front of, rather than hide behind, health bureaucrats.
* Perrottet is the sole leader, state or federal, most likely to hold his nerve in the face of Omicron.
* Perrottet’s position is high-risk, high-reward. It is also rare and courageous leadership in this country.

Morrison is portrayed a as a weak, vacillating conservative leader.
Well written Janet.

With the open boasting of detention camps being built around the world I’d say, ‘How to cook steak’, is the least of worries … maybe, ‘How to make grubs palatable’ … ‘How to run an in camp black market without getting shot’ … ‘So you complied all the way, but still ended up in Covid Gulag; How do you survive all the other other inmates who warned you this would happen’ …

Funny, before Wu Flu, I couldn’t buy or read a complete, unabridged, ‘Gulag Archipelago’, anywhere online.

Since Wu Flu, it’s everywhere … yeah I know, we should have all studied it from it’s first printing, but didn’t, so here we are, ha ha … it really is a sinister sense of humour our electronic overlords have…

I like Gray, and I agree wholeheartedly with his objections to extremists at both end of the covidmania spectrum.

When somebody starts taking refuge behind a Pox On Both Their Houses, it usually means one of the houses was formerly their principal domicile and now they’re ashamed of the address.

The other handy piece of polemical kit is post hoc ergo propter hoc.
The vaccs “work,” he claims, because hospitalisations are down following mass vaccinations.
First, all viruses bell curve down eventually. Second, there is now so much natural immunity in populations that all high vaccination rates do – conceivably, all they were meant to do – is camouflage that reality.

With the open boasting of detention camps being built around the world I’d say, ‘How to cook steak’, is the least of worries … maybe, ‘How to make grubs palatable’ … ‘How to run an in camp black market without getting shot’ … ‘So you complied all the way, but still ended up in Covid Gulag; How do you survive all the other other inmates who warned you this would happen’ …

Would you prefer an erudite and considered discussion on the finer points of pizza decoration and flavouring with shaved Red Shoes instead, Mrs Faulty?

Rabz:

It will be peculiar spending Christmas alone except for the cat.

I don’t even have a cat. Looks like it’s just the lorikeets and noiseys for Christmas company. That’s if they turn up.

I can send you some of mine, Rabz.
Would the giblets suffice?

Morrison is portrayed a as a weak, vacillating conservative leader.

fact-check. True.

First, all viruses bell curve down eventually.
Usual viral activity on a population- ramps high quickly, diminishes steadily- is described as Gompertz decay.

I think. I admit I’ve just googled it, the Gompertz Curve is not what I thought that it was.
But, it mightily impressed a SA Chinese Malay GP whom a mate of mine was bonking on the rebound.

Top Ender:

Time to relocate to a house we have in NSW – actually a suburb of Canberra called Jerrabomberra.

OK – we’ll give you a 20 minute warning before we nuke the place.

They write an article about fears that anti-vaxxers would harass those getting tested and then you read the comments and people are replying with ‘how dare antivaxxers harass these people’ or characterizing passports, etc. as ‘encouragement’ not ‘harassment’. The media have been ginning up hatred of the unvaxxed for months now. It’s been unrelenting.

It’s utterly insane.

And Rex, it isn’t insane. It’s calculated wickedness. It has a purpose.

Thanks hzhousewife – when we left the ACT 15 years ago it was on permanent water restrictions. Looks like it is Flannerying down.

The vaccs “work,” he claims, because hospitalisations are down following mass vaccinations.

CL – Yeah, saw that too. It’s like saying because global temperature has risen CO2 is the reason. It ignores the many other concurrent variables, like better primary treatment methods, less panicked referral to hospitals and, as you mention, lower virulence. Which is clearly the case with delta and now even more so with omicron.

But yes I agree that the vaccines work, sort of. With lots of very serious injuries and deaths. They work for about four months on the data, maybe five, then you are back to square one. Even worse after about 8 months it seems from the Swedish data you become more vulnerable than if you never had been vaccinated in the first place. Hence the squawking from our pollies this last week that you should get a booster if it has been 5 months since your second dose. Boosters4evah isn’t going to sit well with the public. I think Mr Connelly is wrong in this one.

Btw, this:

NSW considers shortening Covid booster shot interval to four months as Omicron spreads (17 Dec)

New South Wales health officials are considering breaking with commonwealth advice by shortening the Covid vaccine booster interval to four months, amid concern about spread of the Omicron variant.

Yep, they know the data same as we Cats do, and they also know the punters will go postal if told they have to have a booster 3 times a year. So they’re gaslighting carefully, so carefully, to soften them up.

Runny, the jabs work…a little bit. Dr Faustus has crunched the figures (if I have got what he’s saying right).

They offer a teeny tiny window of protection. And then, poof! It’s gone. And they seem to be ineffective against Omicron.

Which is good, in a way. We’ll all get the wretched thing, survive and then the fauxdemic is over.

And now we’re left with a poop-load of Pfizer and the rest that doesn’t make a dent in the new mutation.

Fancy that.

I think we should pump the lot into the people who ordered it. Waste not, want not.

Yep, they know the data same as we Cats do, and they also know the punters will go postal if told they have to have a booster 3 times a year. So they’re gaslighting carefully, so carefully, to soften them up.

No one’s going Postal in Australia, Bruce
However, should any rando Postalling occur, our Overlords have defence Treaties with Indonesia.
Let’s see how the Posties handle a visit from The Kopassus.

Calli, seems to me they had a big smile & offered lots of incentives, free beer, free sporting tickets, free pizza & even free money (hoho).
Now that shit hasn’t been fully taken up the threats have started, concentration camps for the unpoisened.
It seems very odd to me that these threats are happening around the western world at the same pace.
TBH, the various governments have never really given a fuck about my personal well-being & now they do?
Bollocks

132, I never call them vaccines.
Head Prefect of course they will be exempt.

The first was a Civil Trial in which he agreed to pay his accuser’s Costs plus

Which is no admission of guilt.

Then:

A criminal trial, not guilty.
A second, unconstitutional criminal trial, falsely imprisoned.
Thirdly, released pending a successful appeal.

…and no more civil suits.

Uh oh Ed! Can’t have that narrative messed up! Taxpayer money must flow into the welfare industry.

Votes must go to the “correct” party. Anyone who threatens this order must be dealt with!

You Hollywoodsexual weirdos really think you are “Da resistance” but at the same time want to use unrestricted lawfare to destroy any non establishment candidate.

Strange post BoN, you say the jabs work then go on to say they don’t?

Which ones?

The evidence shows Covaxin & Novavax (and Sputnik) are much more effective (and more safe) than the three available vaccines here in Australia (as well as Johnson & Johnson).

A criminal trial, not guilty.

The Jury was deadlocked 11-1 for a conviction.
Bill Cosby has never been found to be Not Guilty in any Trial.

A second, unconstitutional criminal trial, falsely imprisoned.

The State was entitled to pursue a Conviction, the Evidence was overwhelming.

Thirdly, released pending a successful appeal.

No, he was doing Time when the Appeal verdict came in, looks like he got away with it.

By the way, why is this matter such a huge issue for you?

Does anyone know if Pharma firms are going to receive blanket legal protection for the next stage vaccines?

They could poison to death a kindergarten class with battery acid in Martin Place and they wouldn’t even be charged for littering.

Dot frantically Googlin’ Black Maria to see if there’s a Raaaaaycism Gotcha in there somewhere.

Ed Case is a shakedown merchant.

You sicken me, you disgusting freak.

Pretty funny having Google Garry talk about Googlin’ when he is quoting entire slabs of text from what I presume is Wikipedia.

It doesn’t matter if I was wrong and Google Garry googled’ the trial outcomes. He advanced his argument one step and brought it back two.

Both trials were not illegitimate, they were not fair trials.

He was tried twice unfairly.

If the State can get away with this, they can put anyone they like in gaol.

“The State had a right to prosecute…”

No, clearly it did not.

That’s okay. The left have Saint George Floyd Kirby now.

If you don’t like riots, arson and looting on black communities, you’re racist.

Apparently.

Trump cried ” Follow me, we’re marching on The Capitol!”
Then snuck away like a Weasel Withn A Combover while his followers marched to their doom.
Anyone taking Trump seriously since then deserves all he gets.

We’ll all get the wretched thing, survive and then the fauxdemic is over.

I pray that you are right, but fear that you are not. About it being over afterwards that is.

Here in Tasmania the Premier let it be known that all cases henceforth would be Omicron. Methinks he overestimates his own influence over things somehow. The cynic might note that this serves to load the adverse reactions to the previous more serious variants onto the Omicron strain.

Ed Casesays:
December 19, 2021 at 6:10 pm
Trump cried ” Follow me, we’re marching on The Capitol!”

Good lord you’re such a lying shit.

Trump told people to stay home, big tech censored him!

You are wrong and it does matter.

Grigory has another broken clock moment…

…Referring to his moronic troll self.

Fuck Off, Grigory.