Open Thread – Weekend 18 Dec 2021


The Ambassadors, Hans Holbein the Younger, 1533

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Indolent
Indolent
December 19, 2021 7:25 pm
Rabz
December 19, 2021 7:28 pm

For Custard, jupes, the Beaugy, the Bear, ZK2A, Wallee Dali and various others – no, the Western third of this continent is not going to suddenly become some mythical new bland.

You’re stuck with us and we’re stuck with you.

Again. 😕

Roger
Roger
December 19, 2021 7:37 pm

I say…those two cool chaps at the top of the page – how long are they going to ignore the bloody great elongated skull on the floor before them?

twostix
twostix
December 19, 2021 7:38 pm

Someone ask Gray Karen Connolly when was the last time he said “herd immunity”. Sometime late last year I would think. Just after the establishment banned the concept because their preventative treatment regime posing as a ‘vaccine’ can definitionally never, ever, create it.

And I bet he doesn’t even know he’s dropped it and never thought about it again. Yet last year it was all “herd immunity, 70%, vaccines, mRNA super wonder drug – two jabs and it’s all over!”.

It’s funny watching controlled opposition rushing around trying to stay within the ever changing bounds of polite society – as defined daily for them by the radical revolutionaries who are in power.

Rabz
December 19, 2021 7:38 pm

WA peoples, objectifying young women (again) … 🙂

calli
calli
December 19, 2021 7:38 pm

You have asked the same question as Holbein.

Look behind the curtain and you will find the answer.

Roger
Roger
December 19, 2021 7:40 pm

Look behind the curtain and you will find the answer.

Yes… I can see it, but can they?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 19, 2021 7:42 pm

Looks like a folio with documents in it Roger.

calli
calli
December 19, 2021 7:44 pm

Roger, the “skull” also presents as a mirror. The angle suggests that all they have to do is see that and they see the answer.

It’s a rather marvellous conceit. I like it very much.

Roger
Roger
December 19, 2021 7:45 pm

Looks like a folio with documents in it Roger.

Take it from me, Grey, it’s a skull.

When it’s viewed from a certain angle it’s clear.

Rabz
December 19, 2021 7:45 pm

Look behind the curtain and you will find the answer.

OK. If it’s not some aesthetically pleasing young women, I don’t give a rodent’s backside.

Six months in schlockdown, trying not to go stark staring bonkers, angrily denouncing your friends, family and work colleagues will do that to you.

All to try and prove a point – and I still don’t know what it is.

Rabz
December 19, 2021 7:48 pm

Oh – hang on, this timely li’l ditty has provided me with an answer – uglee, as it is.

calli
calli
December 19, 2021 7:50 pm

When it’s viewed from a certain angle it’s clear.

And fleeting. It was positioned by a doorway. As you walked through the door, you caught a glimpse. All over in half a footstep.

Did I really see what I thought I saw? And that little frisson of doubt enters a materialistic, luxurious and privileged world, clad in lace and velvet and very, very pleased with itself.

The young men pictured were 29 and 25 respectively, at the height of their strength and confidence.

Roger
Roger
December 19, 2021 7:50 pm

It’s a rather marvellous conceit. I like it very much.

Yea, Hansie was certainly a talented fellow and this is his masterpiece.

Roger
Roger
December 19, 2021 7:52 pm

And fleeting. It was positioned by a doorway.

More likely by a stairwell.

Roger
Roger
December 19, 2021 7:55 pm

A memento mori & a sublime artistic feat.

Quite something to behold.

calli
calli
December 19, 2021 7:58 pm

More likely by a stairwell.

Could be. The angle to see the illusion is quite high and they were all little shorties.

Rabz
December 19, 2021 7:59 pm

For those young men*, pictured as they are, in some of the preposterous garments in human history – desperately hoping that their beloved taut li’l goils will cut through, with a machete, some historical mediocrity.

No one expects the Romanian Revolution.

*Arks and Pol Dot?

Roger
Roger
December 19, 2021 8:00 pm

And Rabz, check out ther break angle on the nut of the lute!

Rabz
December 19, 2021 8:00 pm

Bloody gremlins. Again …

calli
calli
December 19, 2021 8:01 pm

Henry VIII was 6’2”.

Maybe it was for him!

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
December 19, 2021 8:01 pm

calli says:
December 19, 2021 at 6:16 pm
Fear not, Frank!
The Climate Cocktails are the next drinks lined up on the bar, ready to kick in s9me time next year.

That’s what the “vaccine” passports are for, along with the complete digitisation of money – and the Emergency Legislation in place.

People will have no say – all purchases will be authorised by our CCP governments through our (their) digital vaccine passport.
A bit like the Soup Nazi.
Meat?? No but you can eat worm meal or insect protein.
Fuel?? $10 per week – at $10/litre (if you get any)

Roger
Roger
December 19, 2021 8:01 pm

90 degrees!

Roger
Roger
December 19, 2021 8:03 pm

Henry VIII was 6’2”.

Yes; I’ve stood next to a life size model of him and for his time he was extraordinarily well built, if a little on the plump side later on.

calli
calli
December 19, 2021 8:08 pm

The armour in the White Tower is rather intimidating too. Great big lump of a bully.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
December 19, 2021 8:09 pm

Within the age groups most at risk of serious outcomes (ie the 60+), the raw data says the unvaccinated are over three times more likely to end up in critical care, or dead.

And the risk factor in that age group for influenza & pneumonia is?
310,000 people with flu presented to medical services in 2019.
250,000 Covid cases two years.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 19, 2021 8:10 pm

Yes; I’ve stood next to a life size model of him and for his time he was extraordinarily well built, if a little on the plump side later on.

Successive suits of amour show Henry’s waist size as increasing from 32 inches to 54 inches, and he weighed nearly 400 pounds when he died…

Rabz
December 19, 2021 8:12 pm

her break angle on the nut of the lute

Enuff, Rog. The brunette in the green jacket in the Chet Faker clip at the top.

Magnifique.

While goils like her exist, I’ll keep blundering ever onwards. They may not want to know me, but I certainly want to know them.

Err, to paraphrase VI Lennon. 🙂

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 19, 2021 8:13 pm

Western third of this continent is not going to suddenly become some mythical new bland.

No.

The GST money is far too useful, and we don’t have a big enough population relative to our industries to service everything from within.

Let alone defend it…

Also Rabz, here is a better version of ‘Elephant.’ And it has a goil in it…

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 19, 2021 8:15 pm

Great big lump of a bully.

He was probably diabetic, and, like most people in Tudor England, where the water was considered undrinkable, and ale or beer consumed as a substitute, rat arZed drunk, most of the time.

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 19, 2021 8:16 pm

Henry VIII was 6 foot, 4 inches tall and he weighed around 300 pounds at the time of his death.
All the Plantagenets were also tall, Henry’s mother was one.
The Conqueror was 6 Feet, Edward IV was the tallest ever King at 6 feet 4 and a half inches, that’s what eating Beef exclusively will do.
Both Henry and Edward and likely The Conqueror were poisoned, Williams Rufus was a shortarse who got an arrow through the chest, Longshanks and Edward II were also tall men.
It’s likely that the Plantagenets were descended fom David.
To this day, no one is sure where the Tudors came from.

Dot
Dot
December 19, 2021 8:17 pm

Dot, the conjob virus has a very low death rate & mostly harmful in the elderly & very ill.

I agree.

So why have a jab that seems like a game of Russian Roulette?

Novavax, Covaxin and Sputnik are also so much safer that that comparison cannot be made.

Anyway, looks like Omicron is the real MVP/vaccine. More contagious, far less virulent.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 19, 2021 8:17 pm

To this day, no one is sure where the Tudors came from.

The Noble House of Gypsum.

Frank
Frank
December 19, 2021 8:18 pm

Henry VIII; wasn’t he the fat bastard that exploded post mortem and covered everyone with corpse juice?

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 19, 2021 8:19 pm

The armour in the White Tower is rather intimidating too. Great big lump of a bully.

Nope, he had guts too, led the Battle of Flodden Field as a 19 year old King.
He was reputed to be a Welsher tho.

calli
calli
December 19, 2021 8:20 pm

Sounds like Old Bloke.

Henry VIII from the Tribe of Judah, or was he….(drumroll)…a descendent of the Nephilim? Yikes!

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 19, 2021 8:20 pm

William The Conqueror.
Likely poisoned.

Aaron
Aaron
December 19, 2021 8:21 pm

I’m so old, I can remember when ” breakthrough infection” would be a pretty uncommon occurance.

Now the vaccines are like symptom soothers.

Covid Codral.

Soldier on …

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
December 19, 2021 8:21 pm

Roger says:
December 19, 2021 at 8:03 pm
Henry VIII was 6’2”.

I’ve had a look at that suit of armour and the ridiculously oversized codpiece.
Safe to say old Harry had a micro dick and knocked off the wives who laughed. Why do you reckon he had all the possible lovers of Anne Boleyn killed?
Shamed by comparison.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 19, 2021 8:21 pm

Henry VIII; wasn’t he the fat bastard that exploded post mortem and covered everyone with corpse juice?

Now that’s the way to die and ensure a lasting legacy as a King of England.

Die on the Throne (though that one may sadly be a myth), and then cover all concerned with a splash of Royal Radiance.

A troll of the Catholic Church and Spain (The two greaest superpowers of the age) in life, and literally an even bigger one in death.

He’s Henry the Eighth, he was…

#Vale

calli
calli
December 19, 2021 8:22 pm

No, Frank. That was William 1. He didn’t fit in his sarcophagus, so bloated was he when they tried to inter him.

Horrid.

Rabz
December 19, 2021 8:22 pm

Micah Newman.

Let’s have some aural beauty.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 19, 2021 8:23 pm

their beloved taut li’l goils will cut through, with a machete, some historical mediocrity.

What, like this?

The most perfect Cake mash up ever.

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 19, 2021 8:23 pm

Novavax, Covaxin and Sputnik are also so much safer that that comparison cannot be made.

Weren’t you claiming nthe same for Pfizer when Astra Zeneca was the Poison Du Jour?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 19, 2021 8:23 pm

William The Conqueror.
Likely poisoned.

That gypsum is a terrible thing, eh Grigory?

calli
calli
December 19, 2021 8:24 pm

the ridiculously oversized codpiece

I was going to mention that, but modesty forbade.

Blackadder came to mind when I saw it. Or rather, the irrepressible Rik Mayall.

Frank
Frank
December 19, 2021 8:24 pm

Die on the Throne

That would be the king, the other one from Memphis.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 19, 2021 8:24 pm

Weren’t you claiming nthe same for Pfizer when Astra Zeneca was the Poison Du Jour?

And I seem to recall you claiming that Buteyko Breathing creates nitric oxide in the lining of the nose that destroys covid virus particles, Grigory…

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 19, 2021 8:25 pm

the irrepressible Rik Mayall.

WOOF! WOOF! 😀

Rabz
December 19, 2021 8:25 pm
Frank
Frank
December 19, 2021 8:26 pm

calli says:
December 19, 2021 at 8:22 pm

Thanks, I knew it was one of them.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 19, 2021 8:27 pm

Die on the Throne (though that one may sadly be a myth), and then cover all concerned with a splash of Royal Radiance.

Double bugger.

Both inaccurate.

BUT- He did set up the Royal Navy to be the greatest power at sea for some 450 years following his death, and his daughter used it to very great effect.

Jorge
Jorge
December 19, 2021 8:29 pm

I might note I also re-looked at the human equivalent dosage for Ivermectin “pour-on” & found some baby oil (which they use in Zimbabwe to mix with the IVM) – just is case…….

Vicki, can you explain just how you would use an IV drench in applying it to humans. Would you apply it externally on the skin or take a dose at the appropriate concentration.

calli
calli
December 19, 2021 8:30 pm

Okay…you maaaade me do it!

Flashheart!

Dot
Dot
December 19, 2021 8:31 pm

Ed Casesays:
December 19, 2021 at 8:23 pm
Novavax, Covaxin and Sputnik are also so much safer that that comparison cannot be made.

Weren’t you claiming nthe same for Pfizer when Astra Zeneca was the Poison Du Jour?

I claimed that AZ and Fizzer were safer than AZ and Fizzer?

Here we have an IQ 70 troll, people

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
December 19, 2021 8:32 pm

Nope, he had guts too, led the Battle of Flodden Field as a 19 year old King.
He was reputed to be a Welsher tho.

Nup.

Roger
Roger
December 19, 2021 8:33 pm

To this day, no one is sure where the Tudors came from.

That would be in the general vicinity of Wales, Ed.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 19, 2021 8:33 pm

Okay…you maaaade me do it!

Flashheart!

HOORAY! 😀

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 19, 2021 8:34 pm

That would be in the general vicinity of Wales, Ed.

To quote another famous Welshman:

“Wales! Glorious Wales!

I love Wales, but you rarely get them in the fish shops these days…”

#YouSillyTwistedBoy,You

miltonf
miltonf
December 19, 2021 8:36 pm

Welsh form of Theodore iirc.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 19, 2021 8:37 pm

Here’s one for Rabz.

Long way to walk in stilettos, even for a tall leggy blonde.

Frank
Frank
December 19, 2021 8:37 pm

You don’t meet a lot of Henrys these days.

calli
calli
December 19, 2021 8:38 pm

Apparently Henry VIII had horrid constipation. But then they all did because the water was undrinkable and no one ate veggies because highly suspect.

You could probably get away with an all meat diet if you at least drank lots of water. Plus everything was heavily salted because no refrigeration. The New World, with all its spices was still a generation away.

We are so very fortunate now, but we still whinge if something isn’t quite what we want or the supermarket is out of our favourite item. Live in the third world for a few years and that attitude soon changes.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
December 19, 2021 8:39 pm

And the risk factor in that age group for influenza & pneumonia is?

By the look of things, tiny.
Figures 41, 43, 44, and 46 tell a story of not much flu.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 19, 2021 8:40 pm

Nope, he had guts too, led the Battle of Flodden Field as a 19 year old King.

Bullshit. At the time of the battle of Flodden, Henry and his troops were invading France and besieging the French town of Thérouanne. Catherine of Aragon was the Regent, and the English Army at Flodden was led by the Duke of Surrey.

calli
calli
December 19, 2021 8:42 pm

Careful with all this Welshness. I’ll link to Cwm Rhondda or Men of Harlech if you don’t desist.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 19, 2021 8:44 pm

Can’t leave it at that. Here’s Depeche Mode again with some with more roads and deserts.

Dream On

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 19, 2021 8:46 pm

Henry VIII was likely piosonrd.
Vegetables cause constipation as well as damaging the delicate tissue lining the gut
The water was drinkable, they collected rainwater in stone cisterns, plus there were wells and springs all over the land.
The Industrial Revolution was the herald of undrinkable water in the Cities and death by waterborne disease skyrocketed there.

Rabz
December 19, 2021 8:47 pm

zrunk, most of the time

On weekends, it’s a state of mind. Leavened with workouts, tastee foods and a total disdain for modern life.

If that makes me a bad person, then so be it. 🙂

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
December 19, 2021 8:49 pm

Frank says:
December 19, 2021 at 8:37 pm
You don’t meet a lot of Henrys these days.

Not unless you visit prisons, where women killers are kept.

Rabz
December 19, 2021 8:52 pm

Modern Life, being as it is, rubbish. 😕

Good ol’ Arks would agree.

I am the son and the heir …

Of nothing in particular …”

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 19, 2021 8:53 pm

Henry VIII was likely piosonrd.(sic)

More bullshit. He was morbidly obese, diabetic, and suffering a badly ulcerated leg, as a result of a jousting accident years before. He died from natural causes.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
December 19, 2021 9:00 pm

The Industrial Revolution was the herald of undrinkable water in the Cities and death by waterborne disease skyrocketed there.

Nup.
They identified waterborne diseases and cause at that time.
First big known cholera outbreak was in India in 1817.

Rabz
December 19, 2021 9:00 pm

Henry VIII

FFS, peoples – keep posting comments about that very dead bloated useless whale (BIRM) and I’ll be posting comments featuring that feisty li’l beauty, Miss Ellie, for the rest of the night.

Enough*.

*Youse have no idea how hard it was for me to spell that term correctlee, I tells ya.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
December 19, 2021 9:01 pm

More bullshit. He was morbidly obese, diabetic, and suffering a badly ulcerated leg, as a result of a jousting accident years before. He died from natural causes.

Big call.
Gypsum was readily available in the 16th century.

Cassie of Sydney
December 19, 2021 9:04 pm

“More bullshit. He was morbidly obese, diabetic, and suffering a badly ulcerated leg, as a result of a jousting accident years before. He died from natural causes.”

Correct. His ulcerated leg never healed from the jousting accident. He leg became putrid…much like his personality.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
December 19, 2021 9:06 pm

Gypsum.
Known as jousting powder in Henry VIII time.
Eased the codpiece chafing from the saddle.

Rabz
December 19, 2021 9:06 pm

The Industrial Revolutionionion

Took place centuries ago, you big fat scaly blundering extra terrestrial lizards.

OK – I appreciate it’s a Sunday night and we’re about to adjourn to our hidey holes for some blessed rest (again).

In the interim, does anyone here have anything remotely interesting to say? OK, I’ll start:

Goose Mooristeen is an irredeemable imbecile and Allegra Spender is blessed with the biggest hooter in Ozzie public life since Bill Lawry.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 19, 2021 9:07 pm

Of nothing in particular …

Awesome track. Why is no music in the last 20 years worth the electrons it uses? Something has infected the music scene and turned it to rubbish.

Gotta counter an anthem like that with another anthem. It’s the season.

The Pogues – Fairytale Of New York

Happy Christmas!

calli
calli
December 19, 2021 9:08 pm

Lol, Gez. I was picturing it as chalk for the jousting cue.

MatrixTransform
December 19, 2021 9:10 pm

youtube can go fuck itself

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 19, 2021 9:10 pm

Talk of people drinking beer instead of water in the Middle Ages.
No problems at ground level.
I did read that the masons working on Brunelleschi’s dome of the cathedral in Florence used to drink wine because of the risk of water borne disease … 100 metres up.
The wine was only 5-6% alcohol but still.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
December 19, 2021 9:11 pm

calli says:
December 19, 2021 at 9:08 pm
Lol, Gez. I was picturing it as chalk for the jousting cue.

Steady on there Calli, this is PG blog.

Rabz
December 19, 2021 9:12 pm

Yeah, yeah, yeah … 🙂

calli
calli
December 19, 2021 9:12 pm

I trust they wore hi viz Sancho.

Frank
Frank
December 19, 2021 9:16 pm

I can see a return of the codpiece as a must have fashion item. They rock. Perhaps starting off with a tactical style influenced by the BLM crowd before moving into a more ornamental form. Maybe with bluetooth.

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 19, 2021 9:17 pm

More bullshit. He was morbidly obese, diabetic, and suffering a badly ulcerated leg, as a result of a jousting accident years before. He died from natural causes.

Googlin’ Wikipedia again?
Many Kings were poisoned.
Stalin was poisoned, probably FDR too, since his decline was rapid and he was only 62.
Elizabeth I, likely poisoned too.
Wikipedia and others used to say Syphilis killed Monarchs they didn’t like but they’ve pulled their heads in lately, now it’s all due to some speculated Genetic Condition.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 19, 2021 9:18 pm

Modern Life, being as it is, rubbish.

Good ol’ Arks would agree.

You miserable sod.

How’s the Model A restoration going?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 19, 2021 9:19 pm

now it’s all due to some speculated Genetic Condition.

Your condition is genetic? That explains a lot…

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 19, 2021 9:21 pm

Googlin’ Wikipedia again?

A strange old fashioned thing called a bookshelf, Grogs. I don’t expect you to understand.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 19, 2021 9:21 pm

Googlin’ Wikipedia again?

Spack off and eat your jousting stick, Grigory.

You’ve been enough of a nuisance for the next 57 weekends in just a single day.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 19, 2021 9:24 pm

‘corpse juice’

As calli mentioned, that was William the Conqueror. He was carted about for a few days post-cark and pre-insertion into his coffin at Caen, and he bloated up and went pop when they tried to jam him in.

The pong was said to be quite something.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 19, 2021 9:26 pm

Oh. Sorry. Forgot to add:

William the Conqueror was ‘likely a Spook’.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 19, 2021 9:26 pm

callisays:

December 19, 2021 at 9:12 pm

I trust they wore hi viz Sancho.

Scarlet ankle length robes, iron capped sandals, and bonnets embroidered with their slogan … “Tange unum, tange omnia”.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
December 19, 2021 9:27 pm

I’ve worked in some very primitive parts of the world. Most places store rain water in pots or tanks run off roofing after they have allowed the obligatory flush. A lot of wells are lined with sands and filtering lithologies of gravels well away from ablutions. There is generally nothing wrong with the water and they seem to know exactly how much to store, when to empty it and what isn’t potable. IMO even middle ages people would have had these smarts.

I do imagine towns would have been different and disease ridden cesspools, hence the stories of drinking beer.

Rabz
December 19, 2021 9:32 pm

I can see a return of the codpiece as a must have fashion item

Sacré bleu 😕

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
December 19, 2021 9:34 pm

Many Kings were poisoned.
Stalin was poisoned, probably FDR too, since his decline was rapid and he was only 62.

I’m reliably told that HMQ only drinks rainwater she gathers herself and eats instant noodles she cooks in her own kettle.

She knows exactly how the Illuminati works.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
December 19, 2021 9:34 pm

I can see a return of the codpiece as a must have fashion item

Almost a must in women’s sport these days. Can’t let your lady penis create drag.

Cassie of Sydney
December 19, 2021 9:40 pm

“Stalin was poisoned, probably FDR too, since his decline was rapid and he was only 62.”

I doubt Stalin was poisoned and FDR most certainly was not poisoned. Roosevelt had suffered side effects from his polio for years and he died from an internal haemorrhage.

What next Eddy? Soon you’ll be telling us that JFK wasn’t really shot in Dealey Plaza but poisoned in the hospital.

Dot
Dot
December 19, 2021 9:40 pm

I’m reliably told that HMQ only drinks rainwater she gathers herself and eats instant noodles she cooks in her own kettle.

She knows exactly how the Illuminati works.

… and pure grain alcohol, procured by RAF Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, VC and bar, DSO.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 19, 2021 9:41 pm

Can’t let your lady penis create drag.

No no no.

They spin them like propellers to generate extra thrust. That is how they are able to outperform the womenfolk.

(Also to assert dominance…)

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 19, 2021 9:42 pm

Who hasn’t bought a roomy codpiece at least once or twice?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 19, 2021 9:42 pm

What next Eddy? Soon you’ll be telling us that JFK wasn’t really shot in Dealey Plaza but poisoned in the hospital.

Lee Harvey Grigs-wald fired a gypsum bullet…

Cassie of Sydney
December 19, 2021 9:42 pm

I remember reading somewhere that Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah, had a personal food taster because he had a morbid fear of being poisoned.

Rabz
December 19, 2021 9:48 pm

BoN – Emma Peel.

Yo.

Frank
Frank
December 19, 2021 9:51 pm

Kevin Rudd would look fabulous in a codpiece so long as he keeps with his current crop of chin pubes intact.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 19, 2021 9:52 pm

@ Rabz-

I see Emma Peel and raise you Diana Rigg.

srr
srr
December 19, 2021 9:53 pm

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December 19, 2021 at 6:26 pm

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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 19, 2021 9:53 pm

Roosevelt had suffered side effects from his polio for years and he died from an internal haemorrhage.

He had also been diagnosed with a variety of heart ailments two years before he died.

Cassie of Sydney
December 19, 2021 9:54 pm

“Sancho Panzersays:
December 19, 2021 at 2:30 pm
Cassie.
I prescribe some Big Pharma coupled with traditional Jewish medicine.
Crush two Endone into a bowl of warm chicken soup.
Take as required.
(Disclaimer – I may not be a doctor).”

Sancho….I wanted to let you know that yesterday I had chicken soup with some big pharma Endone. Without a doubt this combo has precipitated my increased physical and mental well-being.

cohenite
December 19, 2021 9:58 pm

Sancho….I wanted to let you know that yesterday I had chicken soup with some big pharma Endone. Without a doubt this combo has precipitated my increased physical and mental well-being.

Endone will indeed do the trick. But pace yourself with them and set a line in the sand for discontinuance. The buggers have hooks.

Cassie of Sydney
December 19, 2021 10:00 pm

“He had also been diagnosed with a variety of heart ailments two years before he died.”

Yep…the interesting thing about FDR’s death was that when he died, Eleanor wasn’t with him, instead he was with his long-term love, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 19, 2021 10:03 pm

Eleanor Roosevelt was a proto-Rudd.

Right down to the Reverse Midas Touch…

Prove me R-O-N-G wrong.*

* Grigory’s gypsum-fuelled mendacity does not count.

Rabz
December 19, 2021 10:03 pm

Cats – It’s not class or idiotology, it’s not colour, creed or roots …

The only thang that unites us is

Dr Martens Boots! 🙂

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 19, 2021 10:05 pm

I remember reading somewhere that Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah, had a personal food taster because he had a morbid fear of being poisoned.

Yep. That’s correct.

The Yanks also suggested the best solution to quell the revolution was to block the exits to the bazar and open fire on the protesters.

Mrs A was in the country in the time as a child. Her father saw the cable at the US embassy. Strange period in history. You actually had to be there to understand the nuance.

History gets skewed.

Cassie of Sydney
December 19, 2021 10:05 pm

Rabzy, I missed you’ll today.

Rabz
December 19, 2021 10:06 pm

Bluddee hell – Cherry is the red … 🙂

Stomping around, we will be.

Rabz
December 19, 2021 10:07 pm

You were there, Squirette. 🙂

Cassie of Sydney
December 19, 2021 10:09 pm

History gets skewed.

It does indeed.

MatrixTransform
December 19, 2021 10:12 pm

Stories like it are occurring in your state, your town, and perhaps even on your street

Hmm … your own family

I’ll say it again … the post-modern is poison

roll up feminism, marx, climate-change and critical race theory with rice and avocado
add a dollop of psychiatrists are advising
dip it in a sauce of pharmacist delivered testosterone

… and enjoy your bug-sushi

Rabz
December 19, 2021 10:13 pm
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 19, 2021 10:14 pm

This one has been in my mind lately. Good take on the MSM forty years ago. Excellent single also!

Here Is The News

MatrixTransform
December 19, 2021 10:15 pm

yum!

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
December 19, 2021 10:15 pm

Giant Kites That Drag Cargo Ships Across Oceans Go on Trial

Add ships being dragged along by giant kites to the list of things the industry is exploring in its quest to decarbonize.

At the start of next year, the Ville de Bordeaux, a 154-meter-long ship that moves aircraft components for Airbus SE, will unfurl a 500 square meter kite on journeys across the Atlantic Ocean. It will undergo six months of trials and tests before full deployment.

While the industry has come up with multiple decarbonization initiatives, it is struggling to keep pace with goals set out under the Paris Agreement on climate. There’s also pressure on shipping lines from large customers who are pressing to make their own supply chains less polluting.

The kite is called Seawing. Its developer, Airseas, estimates that an even larger 1,000 square-meter parafoil, flying at an altitude of 300 meters, will cut fuel consumption and emissions from vessels by about 20%.

Shipping carries more than 80% of all goods traded globally but also accounts for almost 3% of man-made carbon dioxide emissions.

Airseas says its technology is automated and can be installed on any ship — regardless of size — in a few days.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
December 19, 2021 10:16 pm

Endone will indeed do the trick. But pace yourself with them and set a line in the sand for discontinuance. The buggers have hooks.

This is very wise advice.
Earlier in the year we had a slight post surgery tussle with Endone. Just a tiny scrap, when my bride had a brief Bilbo Baggins moment after we agreed that the last strip should go in the bin, rather than her.

Cassie of Sydney
December 19, 2021 10:20 pm

But pace yourself with them and set a line in the sand for discontinuance.”

Noted.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 19, 2021 10:21 pm

Shipping carries more than 80% of all goods traded globally but also accounts for almost 3% of man-made carbon dioxide emissions.

Relatively speaking, that’s incredibly efficient.

Also, relying on a giant kite well out to sea? Why do I hear Neptune chortling?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 19, 2021 10:23 pm

Ok, can’t go away without a bit more prog rock.

I’m Just a Singer In a Rock and Roll Band (1973)

Scorching this earth! They’d be greens today, alas.

Cassie of Sydney
December 19, 2021 10:25 pm

“Armadillosays:
December 19, 2021 at 10:05 pm”

There’s a very good book on Iran and the fall of the Shah. It’s called Days of God, The Revolution in Iran and it’s Consequences. Worth reading.

Baba
December 19, 2021 10:27 pm

Sugar from the West Indies killed ‘Enry the VIII.

Baba
December 19, 2021 10:29 pm

I blame Bruce of Newk’s forbearers.

Cassie of Sydney
December 19, 2021 10:29 pm

“Sugar from the West Indies killed ‘Enry the VIII.”

Sugar wasn’t grown in the West Indies until the 1640s….one hundred years after Henry’s death.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 19, 2021 10:31 pm

Sugar wasn’t grown in the West Indies until the 1640s….one hundred years after Henry’s death.

Don’t confuse people with inconvenient facts, Cassie.

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 19, 2021 10:34 pm

1979 has a lot to do with subsequent events.

People tend to confuse “left” and “right” politically. There is no such thing.

You can vote “Liberal” or “Labor”, or “Republican” or “Democrat”. You aren’t actually that far apart on the basic issues. Merely different ways of solving problems.

Ideology is the problem. It’s poison to the mind.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 19, 2021 10:36 pm

Don’t they use sugar to make Ba-ba-ba-bundy?

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 19, 2021 10:39 pm

There is no point arguing with people who have an ideology.

Too far gone. Very few change their mind.

Baba
December 19, 2021 10:40 pm

Sugar wasn’t grown in the West Indies until the 1640s….one hundred years after Henry’s death.

OK. Off the coast of Brazil. But it was new and expensive. The preserve of the rich.

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 19, 2021 10:43 pm

Yep…the interesting thing about FDR’s death was that when he died, Eleanor wasn’t with him, instead he was with his long-term love, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd.

What’s interesting about that?
Roosevelt’s Cousin/wife hadn’t cohabited with him since 1919.Rumors of Syphilis at the time were likely correct, though he clearly was poisoned.
Nobody ages 30 years in 5 months from any other cause.

Cassie of Sydney
December 19, 2021 10:45 pm

“OK. Off the coast of Brazil. But it was new and expensive. The preserve of the rich.”

The first sugar grown off the coast of Brazil was after Henry’s death.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 19, 2021 10:47 pm

Nobody ages 30 years in 5 months from any other cause.

Nobody who hasn’t had to put up with you on the Cat, Grigory…

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 19, 2021 10:48 pm

You’re confusing Henry VIII with Henry Morgan, the King in Panama.

Rabz
December 19, 2021 10:50 pm

Another feisty li’l beauty

Hang on – I’m not into blondes – what the hell is going on? 😕

Let’s have some Janeys.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 19, 2021 10:50 pm

‘Nobody ages 30 years in 5 months from any other cause.’

There’s only one other cause.

Reading your shit.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 19, 2021 10:50 pm

Snap Rex!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 19, 2021 10:51 pm

You’re confusing Henry VIII with Henry Morgan, the King in Panama.

And you are confusing us with people who care.

Go to bed.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 19, 2021 10:54 pm

Henry Vee-One-One-One died of being a fat pisspot with syphilis.
The end.

Rabz
December 19, 2021 10:54 pm

A song for our regrettable times …

Tell me friend, why do you stand aloof from your own heart?”

Arky
December 19, 2021 10:56 pm

badly ulcerated leg, as a result of a jousting accident years before.

..
Is it really an accident when you are pointing a bloody big stick at someone with the intent of unhorsing them?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 19, 2021 10:56 pm

Googlery.
You are being demolished by a lady with two sore knees and who is living on chicken soup laced with Endone.
Give it away.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 19, 2021 10:56 pm

Actually, I am not a total arsehole.

Here is a musical tribute to the Cat’s resident gypsum-powered vegetable detestor. Courtesy of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ic3g8Xnf7LI

Baba
December 19, 2021 10:57 pm

Voice For Victoria
@Voice4Victoria
·
4h
The ‘I’m not eligible for my booster’ whinge crowd are hilarious. The reason you’re not is because the ones you’ve already had are supposed to still be working or do you think the vaccine you’re so desperate to get again doesn’t work? The mental gymnastics are wild.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 19, 2021 10:57 pm

Is it really an accident when you are pointing a bloody big stick at someone with the intent of unhorsing them?

Only if they didn’t enthusiastically consent… 😉

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 19, 2021 10:58 pm

Henry Vee-One-One-One died of being a fat pisspot with syphilis.

Henry V111 did not have syphilis – that little canard did not surface for a hundred years after he kicked the bucket, and was spread by his religious opponents..

custard
custard
December 19, 2021 11:00 pm

Gargooly makes up shit about Gargooly

Priceless!

Rabz
December 19, 2021 11:01 pm

Bluddee hell – time for human history’s most legendary woman. The skin is pale, the bounteous hair is brown, the siren call is irresistible.

As it should be – the natural order of things restored. 🙂

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 19, 2021 11:01 pm

Cassie, I will freely admit that old age and a liking for strong drink have dulled my memory, but if I haven’t wished you all the best for a full and complete recovery, already, please accept those good wishes now, and an apology for not having done so earlier.

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 19, 2021 11:04 pm

The Revolution in Iran and it’s Consequences. Worth reading.

It’s probably like watching that movie “Not without my Daughter”. I sat through that with my MIL in a picture theatre. She lived there for 19 years, so I’m assuming when she said it was a “load of crap”, she was probably right.

Most things out of Hollywood generally are.

I will however, read the book. Historical accounts are much more accurate.

Diaries, even more so. She wrote in it every day. Fresh memories.

Baba
December 19, 2021 11:04 pm

Henry V111 did not have syphilis – that little canard did not surface for a hundred years after he kicked the bucket, and was spread by his religious opponents..

That can’t be true. Professor Higgins is never wrong.

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 19, 2021 11:06 pm

Henry VIII was a Gambler and a Welsher.
He also had many enemies in Europe, his only legit daughter had married the King Of Spain and she was 2 steps from The Throne.
He was a great candidate to be poisoned and that’s what happened.
He rotted away, nobody gave a fuck, they all had their own barrows to push.
His daughter Elizabeth was an odd looking woman, so Congenital Syphilis can’t be ruled out, but poisoning is most likely.

Bruce in WA
December 19, 2021 11:07 pm

A voice raised on nicotine, honed on alcohol and edged with emotion

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 19, 2021 11:08 pm

As it should be – the natural order of things restored.

Are you a smoker, Rabz?

Because if you aren’t, I hope your jocks are fire-retardant… 😉

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 19, 2021 11:10 pm

Henry VIII was a Gambler and a Welsher.

He was a King of England, Grigory.

What else was he supposed to be? A Cocker Spaniel?

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 19, 2021 11:11 pm

Henry Vee-One-One-One died of being a fat pisspot with syphilis.

Liar.

Dot
Dot
December 19, 2021 11:12 pm

I used to hate that movie, after reading this, I almost like it.

https://www.vulture.com/2016/01/not-without-my-daughter-problem.html

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 19, 2021 11:14 pm

Henry Vee-One-One-One was riddled with STDs.
The reason it was never mentioned until generations later was the propensity to lop the heads off anyone who suggested Royals died of anything unsavoury.

Dot
Dot
December 19, 2021 11:14 pm

Grigory pretending to be dumb (IQ < 80) then reverting back to a 130 IQ psycho when he sees you make an error is hilarious.

Russian Toady could barely disrupt and make fake news mixed in with convenient true news any better.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 19, 2021 11:15 pm

Oh, OK then.
It was bound to come out eventually.
The Clintons had Henry Vee-One-One-One killed.

Rabz
December 19, 2021 11:16 pm

Love – tearing us as it does, apart, again.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 19, 2021 11:18 pm

Grigory also seems to have suddenly developed a thing for Syphilis.

I wonder if one of his skinsuits might have had it?

It would explain the sudden morbid fascination with poisoning tonight, too…

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 19, 2021 11:19 pm

Henry Vee-One-One-One killed.

Henry didn’t poison himself.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 19, 2021 11:19 pm

Gypsum did nothing wrong

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 19, 2021 11:23 pm

A voice raised on nicotine, honed on alcohol and edged with emotion …

Curse you, Bruce in WA – I saw the Fury’s and Davey Arthur doing “The Green Fields of France..” One of four of the greatest anti – war songs ever written..

Rabz
December 19, 2021 11:26 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 19, 2021 11:27 pm

Armadillosays:

December 19, 2021 at 11:11 pm

Henry Vee-One-One-One died of being a fat pisspot with syphilis.

Liar.

Well, what did he die of then?
A sky-diving accident?
A duck-shooting mishap?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 19, 2021 11:29 pm

Did I say syphilis?
I meant gout.

Gab
Gab
December 19, 2021 11:32 pm

Grigory pretending to be dumb

I don’t he’s pretending.

Rabz
December 19, 2021 11:38 pm

Sacré bleu! A message just in on the small rectangular black glass thing:

Rabz – you either stop yammering about blondes and brunettes or I’ll visit much mighty vengeance upon ye. Yours, Vera. 🙂

Baba
December 19, 2021 11:39 pm

Queen guitarist Brian May has revealed he is recovering from COVID-19, using a message to fans to encourage people to be vaccinated.

Key points:

May says he and wife Anita Dobson contracted COVID-19 at an event full of triple-jabbed people.

He says vaccination is the reason he is recovering well a week later.

The UK is experiencing a dramatic surge in cases of the Omicron variant, putting a strain on hospitals.

LOL

Bruce in WA
December 19, 2021 11:41 pm

And who doesn’t enjoy a Christmas carol this time of the year!

Baba
December 19, 2021 11:41 pm

Triple-jabbed? Well at least he didn’t lose a leg, so there’s that.

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 19, 2021 11:43 pm

The Shah went a bit nuts and got “too big for his own boots”.

History is replete with this stuff. Twenty odd years is an eye blink.

A sound dynasty is built either on money or ruthlessness. Or preferably both.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 19, 2021 11:43 pm

I meant gout.

Gout, in those days, came with the territory. Two hundred years later, one of King George 111rd courtiers was diagnosed with gout, and advised to eat plenty of red meat, take plenty of alcohol, and avoid all exercise….

Bruce in WA
December 19, 2021 11:45 pm

The UK is experiencing a dramatic surge in cases of the Omicron variant, putting a strain on hospitals.

And there encapsulated is the reason for the insane lockdowns in WA … the fucking hospital system is so run down and understaffed it couldn’t cope with a bad flu season, let alone anything else! McGowan has had two bloody years to do something and what has he done? SFA! And that’s the only reason we are living the way we are.

Bruce in WA
December 19, 2021 11:48 pm

Gout, in those days, came with the territory. Two hundred years later, one of King George 111rd courtiers was diagnosed with gout, and advised to eat plenty of red meat, take plenty of alcohol, and avoid all exercise….

What? Hadn’t they heard of colchicine? Oh, hang about …

(My chemist said to ignore the recommended dose and take two straight up, and another one an hour later. Expect a dose of runny poos, but it kills the gout stone dead. And my cardiologist makes me take it for suppression of inflammation …)

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 19, 2021 11:49 pm

Cause of death. Gout.

It’s written on death certificates world wide.

Rabz
December 19, 2021 11:50 pm

Gout

Would Miss Vera be less inclined to me testing out her temper if I claimed “the gout”?

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 19, 2021 11:52 pm

Gout is also known as “rich man’s disease”.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 19, 2021 11:53 pm

(My chemist said to ignore the recommended dose and take two straight up, and another one an hour later. Expect a dose of runny poos, but it kills the gout stone dead

Thanks for that – I’ll bear that in mind the next time the Memsahib’s gout gives her trouble, and she starts on the subject of men, and their shortcomings…

Rabz
December 19, 2021 11:57 pm

Gout

I’ve actually been “blessed” with it and it’s not funny. It is extremely painful, though.

A weird confluence of events led to it*.

Decades ago, thank goodness.

*Extreme self indulgence may have been a contributing factor, including the hoovering of many, many prawns.

Baba
December 20, 2021 12:07 am

*Extreme self indulgence may have been a contributing factor, including the hoovering of many, many prawns.

My first attack occurred after a ‘few’ rounds of XXXX, followed by feed of lambs brains washed down with a number of glasses of Shiraz at the Cairns RSL.

Too many years later I learned Allopurinol is your friend.

Bruce in WA
December 20, 2021 12:12 am

I’ve actually been “blessed” with it and it’s not funny. It is extremely painful, though.

Indeed. Red wine to excess and dehydration are my triggers. My friend’s are tomatoes and champagne (!).

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 20, 2021 12:15 am

followed by feed of lambs brains washed down with a number of glasses of Shiraz at the Cairns RSL.

The eating of sheep, and various parts of their carcasses, is a disgusting, and deplorable habit, for which there is no redemption.

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 20, 2021 12:17 am

Pussys.

Rabz
December 20, 2021 12:18 am

The lips, the heart

After all the shit we’ve been forced to wade through over the past two years, it’s time to mine the very depths of our being.

There are sunlit uplands, peoples. We will hopefully enjoy them sooner rather than later. 🙂

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
December 20, 2021 12:19 am

and what has he done?
He’s built two quarantine gulags, that’s what he’s done.

MatrixTransform
December 20, 2021 12:22 am

lol

Baba
December 20, 2021 12:25 am

The eating of sheep, and various parts of their carcasses, is a disgusting, and deplorable habit, for which there is no redemption.

You obviously haven’t eaten a lamb loin chop grown around Beaufort West.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 20, 2021 1:23 am

Went to buy a rake at Bunnings today. None there. Looks like Nut Case has bought up the whole stock. Bunnings can’t keep up the supply.

  1. Is it just me, or does something about this rally seem fake? The fact that Thomas Sewell was leading it…

  2. Dunno if it did, Lawgy- i’ve got an ABC article stashed on my PC with a surprising amount of content…

  3. Meaningless numbers Monty. Especially since the come from lefty Politico. No one believes such rubbish.

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