Whoops, that didn’t work. It was meant to be Polish. Report comment
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No prizes for second, GreyRanga, if you wanta run with the foxes and hunt with the hounds, you’ve gotta expec’ to “feel the tines” every once in a while. Report comment
Michael Smith News…
Great work from Medford Police, Oregon, USA. Stuff the crook’s privacy!!!!
Friday, 24 December 2021
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Medford Police
Dear Mr. Giovanni Solis,
We realize holiday shopping is stressful, and it appears you have several to shop for when you grabbed 8 pairs of Juicy Couture sweatpants from JC Penny.
But here is the problem, you forgot to pay for them! Employees tried to tell you but you must of got confused and took off running.
In all the commotion you dropped your phone, you big goof. So we have that if you’d like to swing on by the department, and get this cleared up! It looks like your phone has a lot of information you probably need as you seem to be very active in selling property online.
Oh and be sure not to sell those sweatpants, or that could land you in more trouble (selling stolen property and all).
We have cold platters on Christmas Day, having enjoyed last week a traditional feast with immediate family + 1. Tomorrow’s feasters will include nephews and family, Granddaughter’s in-laws to be, one ‘orphan’ and the +1 again, with his ex*.
I used to be the Christmas matriarch, organising all the menus, invitations, cooking and the big day itself. With my circumstances changed, my daughter has stepped into that role. She loves Christmas as much as I do and keeps the traditions alive. I still cook, contributing this year nine dishes (plus Best Man’s baked hams). But she is Mrs Christmas now, and I’m very proud of her.
Hope all Cats have a wonderful day tomorrow. I will take a moment during the festivities to think of those Cats who will be spending Christmas Day by themselves, and send them special thoughts and a virtual Chrissy kiss.
I wish all Cats and their precious ones a loving & peaceful Christmas. Thank you all for your funny and and insightful observations over the past year. You make a real difference in all our lives. moderated
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Merry Christmas to you all. Eat and be merry. And best of luck for the New Year. Report comment
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It’s the cities Vicki. Don’t go. All sensible people are fleeing as far away as possible
People are certainly keen to buy down here. We have some young friends who are looking to buy their first home and they looked at one that sold for 160K over the asking price. Our neighbour put one of his homes on the market at the start of the week and had four offers in the first couple of days and sold way over asking price. At least two of the offers were from Sydney people. The real estate agent said homes are selling sight unseen. Nice Christmas for them, I guess.
I suspect there are people who don’t want to spend another winter in a city lockdown. Report comment
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Shabbey Road – the most underrated Beatles album. The second side is a tour de force.
In a Parisian mood, Paul tries out some schoolboy French to woo a continental bohemian lass
The Red Army were in Berlin in 1945, Poles were being sent home to rebuild the Country of Poland, not being generously put on a cruise to Australia.
Mr Ed rams a full Bunnings of rakes up his ample backside.
Members of the Polish Carpathian Brigade which relieved Australians in Tobruk marched in Anzac Day parades for years. Many others remained in western nations rather than return to Communist ruled Poland after the war. Report comment
Boambee Johnsays:
December 24, 2021 at 6:37 pm
The Red Army were in Berlin in 1945, Poles were being sent home to rebuild the Country of Poland, not being generously put on a cruise to Australia.
Mr Ed rams a full Bunnings of rakes up his ample backside.
Members of the Polish Carpathian Brigade which relieved Australians in Tobruk marched in Anzac Day parades for years. Many others remained in western nations rather than return to Communist ruled Poland after the war.
I understand many of the workers on the snowy hydro scheme were Polish who’d moved here for that reason. I note that unlike the Italians and Greeks, mostly they only really maybe kept the last name, not the “I’m Greek” or “I’m Italian” despite being the third generation born here. Report comment
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Poles were being sent home to rebuild the Country of Poland
The Lublin Poles turning London Poles into land fill is another way of putting it. Report comment
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Is this how it’s going to play out?
Hillary just told Kamala that (Democrat appointed) Supreme Court judge has agreed to step down, job for life for you! Accepted.
“Public Health Orders Are NOT Laws” – California School District DEFIES Newsom, Announces They Will Simply Not Enforce Vaccine Mandate on Students or Staff.
Of course the State Bureaucracy is threatening them funding cuts.
Welcome to the Dictatorship of the Bureaucracy, 2022. Report comment
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Buon Natale every one!
Have a Joyous and safe Christmas. Looking forward to all the adventures and tales of derring do.
I shot a hole through the passenger door in my own vehicle from the inside while traveling from Da Nang to Cua Viet (near the DMZ) 51 years ago this week…
It reminds me of the Velvet Underground at their worst
Bluddee hell, jupes, I’m not having it, I tells ya. The Velvets at their worst truly were unlistenable.
Many, many tributes to the self indulgent collectivists they were inspired by. (e.g. John Cage)
Although, if it’s any consolation, I could envision the Beaugy firing up a cheeroot* and joyously soaking up 4′ 33″ (a magnificent rendition here by Karl’s nephew).
Thanks, evil.
Big fan of The Monkees here, Beatles, not so much.
Anyway, Mike Nesmith died the other day he was the jerk that broke up the band.
His mother invented Liquid Paper in the Thirties, later sold out to DuPont for $50 million
Only child, didn’t GAF, wrote Different Drum.
More here: https://www.unz.com/author/steve-sailer/
Joan Didion also died yesterday, first
time I ever read the word Ineffable in a book.
One of her favorite words, she used it a lot.
Also [maybe] coined the phrase the banality of evil. Report comment
Special Prosecutor: Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx Lied To The Public In Smollett Case
The Curse of the Smollett Noose & Bleach Affair continues to gather victims… Report comment
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Dr BG, are you feeling Maria’s back?
You have a nasty suspicious mind, dot. And in this case it’s completely unjustified, I’ve had no contact with Maria for years now. She’s just part of my delinquent past. Report comment
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About the most sensible thing John Lenin ever uttered and funnily enough, during his most incoherent period:
“Because, when you go around carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain’t going to make it with anyone, anyhow …” Report comment
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Dr BG, are you feeling Maria’s back?
But I do communicate regularly with the lady who sends me cigars from Cuba. En Espagnol. Report comment
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Members of the Polish Carpathian Brigade which relieved Australians in Tobruk marched in Anzac Day parades for years.
Okay.
They were Poles from Ruthenia, in other words.
Which ties in with my conjecture that the Palaszczuks are descended from Ruthenian Poles.
Which could indicate Nobility.
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Reimagined for our utterly insane times:
“Because, when you go around screeching incessantly on twatter about Chairman Dan, you ain’t going to make it with anyone, man …”
Britain facing ‘national energy crisis’: Warning bills could skyrocket by more than FIFTY PER CENT to £2,000 in spring as gas prices hit record £4.50 per therm and Tories accuse Putin of holding Europe to ransom
Torries accuse the Putin of holding Europe to ransom
Err, what’s that saying about those who are ignorant of history? Report comment
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In November, amid soaring energy prices and with winter on the horizon, the outlook for American consumers was bleak. The Biden administration chose not to sugarcoat it. The Energy Information Administration forecast that consumers would see year-over-year price hikes for propane, natural gas, and electricity by as much as 50 percent. “It will be more expensive this year than last year,” Energy Sec. Jennifer Granholm warned.
Well, yes.
That was what was promised, and now it’s being delivered.
So what’s the problem, Democrat voters? Report comment
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Have you ever thought of writing fiction in the form of a novel?
BJ – stop indulging him. Nowadays, his outpourings would probably be best seller material.
Err – and Ed, if it’s any consolation, I do enjoy your comments. At least you’re trying.
Ellen, I’m certainly looking to move down to Tassie in the next few years.
We would certainly welcome you down here, Dover. Report comment
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Ah the good ol’ Oirish, joyously engaging in a bit of Eccy Thoomp and fish style imbibing of alcoholic beverages wherever across this planet they may just happen to blunder … 🙂 Report comment
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Ed Casesays:
December 24, 2021 at 7:05 pm
Members of the Polish Carpathian Brigade which relieved Australians in Tobruk marched in Anzac Day parades for years.
Okay.
They were Poles from Ruthenia, in other words.
Which ties in with my conjecture that the Palaszczuks are descended from Ruthenian Poles.
Which could indicate Nobility.
Smart people descend from other smart people, not from serfs living in a hole in the ground.
Creative fiction writing is obviously your forte. Factual, well researched, information, not so much.
PS, many members of the Polish forces who served in Italy and NW Europe also remained in the west after the war. The NKVD “assessed” all returnees who fought alongside western forces for “reliability”. Off to the Gulag, political unreliables! Report comment
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The Velvets at their worst truly were unlistenable.
My point about Tomorrow Never Knows. Anyhoo, dunno about the Beatles, but apparently George Martin loved The Velvet Underground and Nico (the banana album).
IMHO that list was shit. It had Get Back in the 100s FFS. Report comment
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The Granholm slag is just another fucking lawyer. These parasites are totally disconnected for physical and engineering reality as well as the cost of keeping warm and getting to work. Report comment
They should have kept the chickens, made the feed cannabis rich, which will give the chooks the munchies so creating a new brand of fat high times chooks that leave you feeling great and coming back for more. Report comment
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Mr Ed
PS, the Carpathian Brigade also included some Czechs. Clearly Polish nobility! I met one late last century. Report comment
She is hit approximately thirty- five times over the course of 4 minutes and 30 seconds, while appearing to be begging for mercy the entire time. She is hit with the baton while facing away. She is hit with the baton while facing forward. She is speared and poked with the baton about the face so as to inflict maximum pain. She collapses more than once and is stood up by the officers only to be maced and beaten again. At some point, White-shirt puts away his baton, not because he is showing mercy because he has a clear avenue to her face. As such, he unloads on the defenseless woman punching her five times in five seconds, directly in the face, with all of his might.
Perth looks like five days straight over extended Christmas public holidays where night-time temps don’t fall below 20*C.
Expect plenty o’boozy stabbings and punch-ups clogging up the EDs.
One time Perth had a run like that we almost ran out of gas because they couldn’t pump enough into the DNNGP overnight to get it down to Perth. Long time ago -don’t know what work they have done in the meantime. Report comment
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USSR 1917-1920 USA 2020-2021- what’s the difference? Report comment
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Smart people descend from other smart people
Ed. That is no way to speak about your ancestors. Implying they were thick as pig shit.
Sad to see only two goils. Presumably all the others refused to give up their Saturday morning promenading time in the CBD.
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I will have no sympathy freezing Londoners start setting fire to Greenies.
Britain facing ‘national energy crisis’: Warning bills could skyrocket by more than FIFTY PER CENT to £2,000 in spring as gas prices hit record £4.50 per therm and Tories accuse Putin of holding Europe to ransom
How did they get to the point where they are reliant on Russian energy? Utter madness.
Rabz says:
December 24, 2021 at 7:18 pm Have you ever thought of writing fiction in the form of a novel?
BJ – stop indulging him. Nowadays, his outpourings would probably be best seller material.
Err – and Ed, if it’s any consolation, I do enjoy your comments. At least you’re trying.
Very, very trying.
And Ed will be a great wit one day – he’s half way there already… Report comment
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Jupes
It’s not globalization. Dig a little deeper and I bet you’ll find green turd policies either restricting the exploration of the North Sea or outright bans. Britain is supposedly awash in gas. Report comment
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Very correctly, my friend.
Oh dear. Does the rooftop concert mean nothing? What is going on? Report comment
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Ed, you’ve done enough thinking for today. Take the rest of the day off. See you next year little buddy. Report comment
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To all my blog pals merry Xmas. Just heading out to a frog restaurant hoping to catch covid. 🙂 Report comment
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The Velvets at their worst truly were unlistenable.
No doubt.
And the booking agents who got The Beatles their first Hamburg gigs were told not to send them again or “they’d spoil it for everybody”.
Happily, we measure musicians by their best, not their worst performances.
Unless you forked out full ticket price, I suppose. Report comment
Most of us stopped hearing about the Waukesha massacre after the national media found out the circumstances under which the perpetrator committed his heinous murders. The residents of Milwaukee County have made sure that Governor Tony Evers hasn’t stopped hearing about it, though. In a formal petition, citizens outraged over the ridiculously low bail set for Darrell Brooks in a previous vehicular assault want Evers to fire DA John Chisolm over bail policies he implemented. The district attorney whose office let out Waukesha parade killer Darrell Brooks on a $1,000 bond three weeks ago previously admitted he knew his laxed bail policies would lead to killers being set free and murdering others, saying flippantly in a 2007 interview: ‘You bet, it’s guaranteed to happen.’ Report comment
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John H. says:
December 24, 2021 at 7:28 pm
John H – thanks for dumbing down your medical posts – I really appreciate it and I’m sure others here do as well.
Merry Christmas & a Happy New year to you & yours. Report comment
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Merry Christmas to all my fellow Cats. Take are and enjoy spending time with family and friends and eating good food and drinking good alcohol. Report comment
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Have a great Christmas and wonderful New Year everybody. On this Xmas eve I have to decide between watching some movies or finally getting around to playing Borderlands or Project Wingman or Frostpunk. Report comment
Somebody has to keep the country running. Report comment
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playing Borderlands or Project Wingman or Frostpunk
I’ve been indulging in the odd bit of Halo Infinite – when one needs to slay many, many extra terrestrial fascist imbeciles (while pretending they’re our beloved ozzie politicians, braindead bureaucrats and meeja muppets). For which I make no apology, I tells ya.
Just one complaint – the latest version of Cortana is seriously annoying. They’ve deliberately turned down her figure while turning up the housewife screechiness.
It’s not globalization. Dig a little deeper and I bet you’ll find green turd policies either restricting the exploration of the North Sea or outright bans. Britain is supposedly awash in gas.
Exactly.
Throw another Green on the fire. Report comment
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$5 mill + will get you this pile at Kingscliff. It’s a beauty:
thanks Roger- really must dig up that Donald Horne article in Quadrant for you. Report comment
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Bluddee hell – possibly about to lose my shit (again). Just get a load of this monstrous pretentious wrongness:
No 1: Tomorrow never knows – Revolver 1966
It’s possible to trace the origins of most modern music, bar rap, back to The Beatles catalogue. But ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ was perhaps their most influential track of all. In trying to recreate the sound in Lennon’s head of monks chanting in some cosmic mountain retreat, to accompany lines cribbed from the Tibetan Book Of The Dead intended to emulate a transcendental acid high, the band experimented with loops, sampling, drone and tape manipulation, creating not just the epitome of psychedelia and exposing pop audiences to anti-materialist Eastern ideas, but effectively inventing dance music.
Turn off your mind, relax, and you can hear The Chemical Brothers before The Chemical Brothers were even born…
Rock “critics” – the most inexcusable utterly useless self pleasurers to have existed in human history, with the possible exception of Ozzie greenfilth politicians.
I’ll now have to go and listen to some Miss Ellie at her most plaintive to try and regain some semblance of calm … Report comment
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Little wins, and baby steps. The Hun:
A West Australian police officer has won a Supreme Court injunction at least temporarily stopping him from being sacked for refusing to get a Covid-19 vaccine.
Senior Constable Ben Falconer has asked for a judicial review challenging the validity of health directions that require police officers to be fully vaccinated by December 31.
WA Supreme Court Justice Jeremy Allanson granted an injunction on Friday, which prevents Police Commissioner Chris Dawson from firing the officer until the case goes to a trial.
But Mr Dawson said the senior constable was still banned from attending police premises.
Of course he is. Hizzoner spake thusly:
In his judgment, Justice Allanson noted the officer was “pro-choice”.
“The applicant has decided that he does not ‘at this time’ want to be administered with a vaccine for Covid-19 and does not agree to be vaccinated, particularly in circumstances where it is mandated,” Justice Allanson said. “He does not claim entitlement to a medical exemption but described his position as ‘pro-choice’.
“I will grant an interlocutory injunction restraining the commissioner, until further order, from dismissing the applicant in reliance on the applicant’s failure to comply with the employer direction.”
Mid-January, the matter comes back to court. See what happens – but if it goes well for Mr Falconer, it will be a yuuuugley yuge cock-smack for every other employer of this type in the country.
And – I don’t know this – if this bloke’s the son of the ex-Chief Commissioner Bob Falconer, that’s a wet towel flick on the base of the nutsack as well. Report comment
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exposing pop audiences to anti-materialist Eastern ideas
A fat lot of good that (allegedly) did.
Hypocrites. They just can’t help themselves. Report comment
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The Melbourne carols are rubbish, it’s seems to be a comedy routine and not a very good one. Report comment
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KD
Excellent post about Mr Falconer. Thank you. Report comment
To quote my best friend’s dear ol’ Mum* upon discovering his copy of “The Antichrist” in about 1980: “Who is this Nyeechee person?”.
She’s still with us, as dignified as ever and living in the family home in Bankstown. Nearing 95 and still coping with recently having lost her beloved James at 97 (i.e. in April this year).
They were/are real working class people, not self aggrandising scum like that vile preposterous pretender keating. Report comment
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Because dancing was unknown before 1966.
And will be unknown again soon, if these creepy bizarre obsessive fascist imbeciles lording it over us have their way. Report comment
calli says:
December 23, 2021 at 11:56 am
BBS, you have to do the emojis the old fashioned way. Colons, semi colons, brackets, and a capD for a big smile.
Like this. ?
🙂
Lysander, re who gets exemptions. A few weeks ago, when that arseh*le Andrews moved to bring in the mandates in Viccy, the courts (the judges and court staff) pointed out that the separation of powers restricted the govt from mandating that sector. So Andrews folded on it.
Commonwealth, justice employees in Victoria granted vaccine exemption (Sky News 9/10/21)
Authorised workers in Victoria have been given a reprieve after the Andrews government backflipped on plans to enforce a COVID vaccination mandate.
All Commonwealth employees as well as people who work in connection with court proceedings will be exempt with a government spokesperson saying the relaxation is an attempt to avoid “jurisdictional limitations”.
The change will apply to judges, lawyers, security guards and police officers
Zip, my sister’s doctor won’t see the unvaccinated.
I’m with Rick on this – despite being private businesses, most of their income is taxpayer derived, which under the Australian universal health system known as Medicare, should be enough to remind these tax hooverers of their Hippocratic Oath to their fellow man. Report comment
It’s not globalization. Dig a little deeper and I bet you’ll find green turd policies either restricting the exploration of the North Sea or outright bans. Britain is supposedly awash in gas.
Seriously?
You think The Greens aren’t playing an integral role in the Globalisation Juggernaut? Report comment
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Cohenite @8:12
That’s not the ideal one.
It’s the original white weatherboard with the big picture window above the main street opposite the beach. Report comment
Just put the last very over tired and very over excited child to bed. Hopefully it’s now Silent Night. Cooked dinner for 10, tomorrow lunch for 14.
Big Santa now has a nice glass of scotch, some gingerbread and a chocolate. He appears to be quite content with the stopover, might stay a while. His elves are all enjoying a glass of Lodge Hill Shiraz.
Cohenite,
No. (Tried to bring it up on google earth)
It’s at the southern end of the street and it’s just above the street with view of the beach). (It’s probably been knocked down to build a monstrosity). Report comment
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Well Cats, it’s been the week from Box City Mk 2 down here in sunny Jerra, over the border from the Greenie Nirvana of Canberra.
Took a break from unpacking, hanging pictures, installing Mrs TE’s in the cupboard twin-bins, two trips to Bunnings etc etc, to meet up with RugbySkier for a local coffee – many thanks mate. Together we plan to storm Parliament House next month and install our own version of government.
(I cheated…if you open the picture as an image you can see the name of the painting. Then a DDG search gets you the artist! I will never be an art cognosniffy.) Report comment
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Very good, cohenite, (and I know you’re trying to help) but the only thing from the description that seems to have jelled in your mind is the colour white.
(Of course, all will be forgiven if you’re buying it!) Report comment
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Haha, out-snapped by Calli answering herself. Merry Christmas! Report comment
I was being lazy Bruce. Googled “Adoration of the Shepherds” on the offchance (being the subject matter), and there it was! Report comment
Bluddee hell jupes – here’s mine (minus the day display). My suits are going to need fumigation and dry cleaning in order to ever do it justice. In the meantime, it’s been gathering much dust. Along with this.
I’ve become so habituated to padding around the house in sports clothes over the last six months that wearing a suit again seems ridiculous pointless and quite frankly, ostentatious.
Together we plan to storm Parliament House next month and install our own version of government
I might just head on down there and join you and the skier, TE. Report comment
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Talk of watches, upthread.
Anyone remember the old military joke about
“What time is it”
“If you are a regular, 1500 hours. If you’re a Nasho, it’s three o’clock in the afternoon, and if you’re an officer, Mickey’s little hand is on 3, and his big hand is on 12..” Report comment
Little Bloke just crashed, Christmas started yesterday for him, he spent most of the day with two of his mates in one of his mates new house (I got to spend the afternoon carefully making holes in walls for paintings and mirrors). Today we drove up to the farm visiting friends on the way. One of his mates also came to visit so they spent the afternoon playing with the dogs and catching tadpoles. Evening rounded out with a BBQ and appreciation of Nana and Grandpa’s extensive Christmas Lights. He was on the couch watching Carols with Nana before mum called it, time to go to bed before you fall off!
They’re all having Maximum Christmas despite Australian Politicians best efforts to stuff up everything! Report comment
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TE can I come too? I’ll bring my own pike. Report comment
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Bluddee hell jupes – here’s mine (minus the day display).
Classic dress watch. Beautiful. You need a sports watch to lounge around the house in your sports clothes, which is why you should ask Santa for the Monaco. Report comment
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Feeling ever more emboldened in his now out of control Parisian mood, Paul tries out yet more schoolboy French to woo a (getting increasingly grumpy) continental bohemian lass …
“err, Où sont les vestes blanches de levi, mademoiselle?”
Continental bohemian lass: Storms off, having never been so insulted in her entire life.
Paul: “Sacré bleu, mademoiselle Ellie ne me traiterait jamais comme ça”:( Report comment
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Oops, WHO just left all Australian CHO’s and Politicians standing alone on Mong Island with COVID policies that not even they are dumb enough to support:
Moment Kings Cross cop turns the tables on a bumbag wearing dad who was filming her – firing back with pepper spray and a brutal takedown
Angry dad confronted two police officers to claim one swore in front of his kids
The furious father took pictures of one of the officers before following her
As she walked off, he kept photographing her until she pulled out pepper spray
She snapped: ‘Get out of my f***ing face’ as she unleashed a spray in his face
Posted upthread – wouldn’t pepperspraying someone who was taking pictures of you, be considered an excessive use of force? Any of the bush lawyers on the Cat help out? Report comment
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The late Kirsty MacColl, taken from this planet before her time in a tragic speedboat accident.
She’s on many of my favourite tracks from the eighties and the nineties in her capacity as a sought after session singer. Report comment
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china in focus
01:05 Intel apologizes to China following backlash
04:09 Biden signs bill to ban imports from Xinjiang
06:15 China’s Xi’an city under strict lockdown
07:49 #Lithuania MP: Communism is in trash can of history
08:41 3 Chinese vax doses ineffective vs. Omicron: Study
09:31 China warns celebrities over tax evasion
10:50 HK University removes Tiananmen massacre statue
12:48 China creates state-run rare earth giant
13:54 Report: U.S., Japan plan in case of Taiwan crisis
15:59 TikTok is most-visited site in 2021
16:30 JD.com shares plummet after Tencent giveaway
18:55 Logjam: the journey of one Chinese export
21:18 Well preserved baby dinosaur found inside egg Report comment
(Was listening to Ol’ Blue Eyes sing Christmas carols earlier. This one is quite lovely for a Christmas song – sorry, can’t link).
Have yourself a merry little Christmas, let your heart be light
Next year all our troubles will be out of sight
Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the yule-tide gay
Next year all our troubles will be miles away
Once again as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Will be near to us once more
Someday soon, we all will be together, if the fates allow
Until then, we’ll have to muddle through somehow
So have yourself a merry little Christmas now
Once again as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Will be near to us once more
Someday soon, we all will be together, if the fates allow
Until then, we’ll have to muddle through somehow
So have yourself a merry little Christmas now
Ps I very much value all your friendships; and the laughing, ribbing and p1ss taking, as well as the truly amazing insights on so many varied subjects.
And DB, thanks for taking it upon yourself to not just “fill the gap” this year but to make the Cat even better.
Best wishes for Christmas,
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Lights out in Marybrook- Merry Christmas all.
BBS and Bing, that last couplet says it all. God Bless the lot of us. Report comment
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Merry Christmas everyone!
All the best in 2022. Report comment
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Thanks cats one and all for all your comments this bitch of a year, from a (mostly) lurker.
And yes Rabz s2 of Abbey Rd. is still the best moment of rock and roll. Report comment
The Fat Communist Slugs mandates the latest being at the Paediatric Hummingbird House Hospice ,a charity .The unvaxinated one carer per child will be confined to their room or suit and meals will be brought to them. Report comment
Buon Natale a tutti i Gatti e le Gattine. Report comment
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Calli:
Just put the last very over tired and very over excited child to bed. Hopefully it’s now Silent Night. Cooked dinner for 10, tomorrow lunch for 14.
Big Santa now has a nice glass of scotch, some gingerbread and a chocolate. He appears to be quite content with the stopover, might stay a while. His elves are all enjoying a glass of Lodge Hill Shiraz.
Happy Christmas one and all.
Just think Calli, a Feminist would say you got the raw end of the deal – you did all the work and did it for free. You could have been managing a multinational corporation and had servants to do all this stuff. Curse that Glass Ceiling!
However, the rest of us know who got the best deal – the intangibles are priceless for a reason.
Merry Christmas to everyone, and may the WZV die a cold, lonely, and miserable death in the New Year. Report comment
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Rickw:
Oops, WHO just left all Australian CHO’s and Politicians standing alone on Mong Island with COVID policies that not even they are dumb enough to support:
Zipster: From your China in Focus:
12:48 China creates state-run rare earth giant – This has been an issue for nearly three years and there has still been no move to use our own (the Wests) resources?
21:18 Well preserved baby dinosaur found inside egg – Great stuff – No chance of any dNA being recoverable, so no chance of Santa bringing us 2 meter carnivorous flying chickens in the near future.
Sad. Report comment
Rabz:
I have a dream – that my nephew will say to me sometime soon, “What my father and your brother did is wrong”.
If you want you can have a T shirt with the Gravatar emblem on it.
Just specify size, and colour (only XL and 2XL available in black and white atm.) just send me an email or reply here with nearest post office you can pick it up from.
Other sizes and styles as shown here available if ordered. Report comment
Weso?ych ?wi?t Beaugy, and everyone else of course.
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Back, baybee, back! 🙂
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Whoops, that didn’t work. It was meant to be Polish.
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No prizes for second, GreyRanga, if you wanta run with the foxes and hunt with the hounds, you’ve gotta expec’ to “feel the tines” every once in a while.
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Michael Smith News…
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Err, peoples, every know and then Paul Wallee did get it right.
Stanley Road is a flawless epic. Hard to believe it was released in 1996.
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Bluddee hell, I was worried you’d had a seizure, Squire. 🙂
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Oh, blah – 1995.
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Doesn’t she.
Badoom tish and… sorry.
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Presents wrapped. Cooking finished.
We have cold platters on Christmas Day, having enjoyed last week a traditional feast with immediate family + 1. Tomorrow’s feasters will include nephews and family, Granddaughter’s in-laws to be, one ‘orphan’ and the +1 again, with his ex*.
I used to be the Christmas matriarch, organising all the menus, invitations, cooking and the big day itself. With my circumstances changed, my daughter has stepped into that role. She loves Christmas as much as I do and keeps the traditions alive. I still cook, contributing this year nine dishes (plus Best Man’s baked hams). But she is Mrs Christmas now, and I’m very proud of her.
Hope all Cats have a wonderful day tomorrow. I will take a moment during the festivities to think of those Cats who will be spending Christmas Day by themselves, and send them special thoughts and a virtual Chrissy kiss.
*I know, right?
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Buon Natale
Joyeux Noël
And
Feliz Navidad
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In case you missed it, Sinc flashed by.
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And don’t we love it???? Only some can do it because of fortunate circumstances and bloodymindedness. Stuff the “their great plan.”
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That, right there, is the power of the Beatles.
Nobody would dare admit to strong feelings about anything in Wham’s back catalogue.
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May peace, joy and love be yours at Christmas and may 2022 be a Happy New Year – hope springs eternal.
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Uh oh, looks like I’m in trouble …
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What’s a doomlord ?
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I wish all Cats and their precious ones a loving & peaceful Christmas. Thank you all for your funny and and insightful observations over the past year. You make a real difference in all our lives.
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Merry Christmas to you all. Eat and be merry. And best of luck for the New Year.
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People are certainly keen to buy down here. We have some young friends who are looking to buy their first home and they looked at one that sold for 160K over the asking price. Our neighbour put one of his homes on the market at the start of the week and had four offers in the first couple of days and sold way over asking price. At least two of the offers were from Sydney people. The real estate agent said homes are selling sight unseen. Nice Christmas for them, I guess.
I suspect there are people who don’t want to spend another winter in a city lockdown.
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Shabbey Road – the most underrated Beatles album. The second side is a tour de force.
Sacré bleu, mademoiselle! 😕
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Ellen, I’m certainly looking to move down to Tassie in the next few years.
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Dear Prudence …
The original version – the sparseness. The second, the lushness …
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The Beatles fillum everyone prefers to forget.
Although the soundtrack was memorable.
Mostly.
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The Red Army were in Berlin in 1945, Poles were being sent home to rebuild the Country of Poland, not being generously put on a cruise to Australia.
Mr Ed rams a full Bunnings of rakes up his ample backside.
Members of the Polish Carpathian Brigade which relieved Australians in Tobruk marched in Anzac Day parades for years. Many others remained in western nations rather than return to Communist ruled Poland after the war.
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Dear sir or madam …
Paul, again.
Whoever put together the film clip deserves an Oscar.
Not a Fender to be seen, unsurprisingly.
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Yeah nah. It reminds my of the Velvet Underground at their worst.
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Beaugy, voluntarily reliquishing an endless supply of gorgeous young whores in Cuba was you greatest mistake.
Learning the Christmas salutation in English would be worth an extra truckload of chick-magnetism, I reckon. But you knew that.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8NcQzMQN_U
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Give both ends a burl
There’s not much love to be had for Ed on this forum. But, two points for the above Ocker usage of ‘burl’.
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While Blackie gently weeps …
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Hillary Clinton had a meeting with Kamala at the WH last month. per NYT
https://twitter.com/jackposobiec/status/1474267656496767005?s=21
The fix is in.
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I understand many of the workers on the snowy hydro scheme were Polish who’d moved here for that reason. I note that unlike the Italians and Greeks, mostly they only really maybe kept the last name, not the “I’m Greek” or “I’m Italian” despite being the third generation born here.
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The Lublin Poles turning London Poles into land fill is another way of putting it.
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Is this how it’s going to play out?
Hillary just told Kamala that (Democrat appointed) Supreme Court judge has agreed to step down, job for life for you! Accepted.
Hillary becomes VP
Soon after Biden 25th
Hillary becomes POTUS.
Nancy becomes VP.
My Christmas conspiracy theory.
You’re welcome.
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“Public Health Orders Are NOT Laws” – California School District DEFIES Newsom, Announces They Will Simply Not Enforce Vaccine Mandate on Students or Staff.
Of course the State Bureaucracy is threatening them funding cuts.
Welcome to the Dictatorship of the Bureaucracy, 2022.
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Buon Natale every one!
Have a Joyous and safe Christmas. Looking forward to all the adventures and tales of derring do.
No holding back!
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Anyone here shot a hole in someone else’s tent?
No?
Carry on.
I shot a hole through the passenger door in my own vehicle from the inside while traveling from Da Nang to Cua Viet (near the DMZ) 51 years ago this week…
Does that count?
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Bluddee hell, jupes, I’m not having it, I tells ya. The Velvets at their worst truly were unlistenable.
Many, many tributes to the self indulgent collectivists they were inspired by. (e.g. John Cage)
Although, if it’s any consolation, I could envision the Beaugy firing up a cheeroot* and joyously soaking up 4′ 33″ (a magnificent rendition here by Karl’s nephew).
*As opposed to a stogey.
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Thanks, evil.
Big fan of The Monkees here, Beatles, not so much.
Anyway, Mike Nesmith died the other day he was the jerk that broke up the band.
His mother invented Liquid Paper in the Thirties, later sold out to DuPont for $50 million
Only child, didn’t GAF, wrote Different Drum.
More here: https://www.unz.com/author/steve-sailer/
Joan Didion also died yesterday, first
time I ever read the word Ineffable in a book.
One of her favorite words, she used it a lot.
Also [maybe] coined the phrase the banality of evil.
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Special Prosecutor: Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx Lied To The Public In Smollett Case
The Curse of the Smollett Noose & Bleach Affair continues to gather victims…
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You have a nasty suspicious mind, dot. And in this case it’s completely unjustified, I’ve had no contact with Maria for years now. She’s just part of my delinquent past.
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About the most sensible thing John Lenin ever uttered and funnily enough, during his most incoherent period:
“Because, when you go around carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain’t going to make it with anyone, anyhow …”
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But I do communicate regularly with the lady who sends me cigars from Cuba. En Espagnol.
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Okay.
They were Poles from Ruthenia, in other words.
Which ties in with my conjecture that the Palaszczuks are descended from Ruthenian Poles.
Which could indicate Nobility.
Smart people descend from other smart people, not from serfs living in a hole in the ground.
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Reimagined for our utterly insane times:
“Because, when you go around screeching incessantly on twatter about Chairman Dan, you ain’t going to make it with anyone, man …”
Trigger warning: Irredeemable imbeciles
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I will have no sympathy freezing Londoners start setting fire to Greenies.
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How else are you meant to do it?
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Mr Ed
Have you ever thought of writing four fiction in the form of a novel?
Then we could ignore all of it at once.
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Err, what’s that saying about those who are ignorant of history?
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In November, amid soaring energy prices and with winter on the horizon, the outlook for American consumers was bleak. The Biden administration chose not to sugarcoat it. The Energy Information Administration forecast that consumers would see year-over-year price hikes for propane, natural gas, and electricity by as much as 50 percent. “It will be more expensive this year than last year,” Energy Sec. Jennifer Granholm warned.
Well, yes.
That was what was promised, and now it’s being delivered.
So what’s the problem, Democrat voters?
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BJ – stop indulging him. Nowadays, his outpourings would probably be best seller material.
Err – and Ed, if it’s any consolation, I do enjoy your comments. At least you’re trying.
Very, very trying.
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We would certainly welcome you down here, Dover.
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Ah the good ol’ Oirish, joyously engaging in a bit of Eccy Thoomp and fish style imbibing of alcoholic beverages wherever across this planet they may just happen to blunder … 🙂
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Ed Casesays:
December 24, 2021 at 7:05 pm
Members of the Polish Carpathian Brigade which relieved Australians in Tobruk marched in Anzac Day parades for years.
Okay.
They were Poles from Ruthenia, in other words.
Which ties in with my conjecture that the Palaszczuks are descended from Ruthenian Poles.
Which could indicate Nobility.
Smart people descend from other smart people, not from serfs living in a hole in the ground.
Creative fiction writing is obviously your forte. Factual, well researched, information, not so much.
PS, many members of the Polish forces who served in Italy and NW Europe also remained in the west after the war. The NKVD “assessed” all returnees who fought alongside western forces for “reliability”. Off to the Gulag, political unreliables!
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My point about Tomorrow Never Knows. Anyhoo, dunno about the Beatles, but apparently George Martin loved The Velvet Underground and Nico (the banana album).
IMHO that list was shit. It had Get Back in the 100s FFS.
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The Granholm slag is just another fucking lawyer. These parasites are totally disconnected for physical and engineering reality as well as the cost of keeping warm and getting to work.
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Chicken farmers turn to medicinal cannabis, list Mountain View property
They should have kept the chickens, made the feed cannabis rich, which will give the chooks the munchies so creating a new brand of fat high times chooks that leave you feeling great and coming back for more.
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Mr Ed
PS, the Carpathian Brigade also included some Czechs. Clearly Polish nobility! I met one late last century.
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J-6 Attorney Releases Video of Capitol Police Pummeling Female Trump Supporter Victoria White in Tunnel Area — Beating Her with Batons, Punching Her in Face, Then They Paraded Her Through Capitol (VIDEO)
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One time Perth had a run like that we almost ran out of gas because they couldn’t pump enough into the DNNGP overnight to get it down to Perth. Long time ago -don’t know what work they have done in the meantime.
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USSR 1917-1920 USA 2020-2021- what’s the difference?
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Ed. That is no way to speak about your ancestors. Implying they were thick as pig shit.
And at Christmas. For shame.
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Wonderful – spot the stereotypes, pisstakes and monotypes.
Back when Victorians had some credibility.
Sad to see only two goils. Presumably all the others refused to give up their Saturday morning promenading time in the CBD.
BTW, I reckon this song has inspired not one, but two recent releases, as played currently on chiple j.
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How did they get to the point where they are reliant on Russian energy? Utter madness.
Globalism is evil.
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Very correctly, my friend.
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Globalism is evil.
it sure is- we’re getting to the stage here where we can’t make our own petrol, diesel and jetfuel.
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Frightening to think that the decaying mafia princess has her own goon squad.
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EXCLUSIVE SMOKING GUN: Lawsuit Reveals Fulton County 2020 Absentee Ballot Results Were Physically Impossible and Files Were Modified
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Rabz says:
December 24, 2021 at 7:18 pm
Have you ever thought of writing fiction in the form of a novel?
BJ – stop indulging him. Nowadays, his outpourings would probably be best seller material.
Err – and Ed, if it’s any consolation, I do enjoy your comments. At least you’re trying.
Very, very trying.
And Ed will be a great wit one day – he’s half way there already…
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Jupes
It’s not globalization. Dig a little deeper and I bet you’ll find green turd policies either restricting the exploration of the North Sea or outright bans. Britain is supposedly awash in gas.
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Oh dear. Does the rooftop concert mean nothing? What is going on?
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Ed, you’ve done enough thinking for today. Take the rest of the day off. See you next year little buddy.
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To all my blog pals merry Xmas. Just heading out to a frog restaurant hoping to catch covid. 🙂
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No doubt.
And the booking agents who got The Beatles their first Hamburg gigs were told not to send them again or “they’d spoil it for everybody”.
Happily, we measure musicians by their best, not their worst performances.
Unless you forked out full ticket price, I suppose.
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same to you JC
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Most of us stopped hearing about the Waukesha massacre after the national media found out the circumstances under which the perpetrator committed his heinous murders. The residents of Milwaukee County have made sure that Governor Tony Evers hasn’t stopped hearing about it, though. In a formal petition, citizens outraged over the ridiculously low bail set for Darrell Brooks in a previous vehicular assault want Evers to fire DA John Chisolm over bail policies he implemented.
The district attorney whose office let out Waukesha parade killer Darrell Brooks on a $1,000 bond three weeks ago previously admitted he knew his laxed bail policies would lead to killers being set free and murdering others, saying flippantly in a 2007 interview: ‘You bet, it’s guaranteed to happen.’
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John H. says:
December 24, 2021 at 7:28 pm
John H – thanks for dumbing down your medical posts – I really appreciate it and I’m sure others here do as well.
Merry Christmas & a Happy New year to you & yours.
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Merry Christmas to all my fellow Cats. Take are and enjoy spending time with family and friends and eating good food and drinking good alcohol.
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Have a great Christmas and wonderful New Year everybody. On this Xmas eve I have to decide between watching some movies or finally getting around to playing Borderlands or Project Wingman or Frostpunk.
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“Take are”
Take care.
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Sacré bleu, jupes – I haven’t yet managed to watch Jacko’s 37 hour schlockumentary on it.
I’ll get back* to you once I have. 🙂
*ptp
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An insight into how Leftist activists backed by Big Tech funds infiltrated the US voting system to swing the 2020 election for Biden.
And they claim Januray 6 was an attempted coup.
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miltonf says:
December 24, 2021 at 7:39 pm
Globalism is evil.
it sure is- we’re getting to the stage here where we can’t make our own petrol, diesel and jetfuel.
Deliberate – makes it easy to punish naughty countries.
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The last public performance of The Beatles?
Wash your mouth out!
Billy Preston alone was worth the price of admission.
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Clive Palmer advertising through the Melb Christmas carols on telly
LoL
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YES Merry Christmas to all. Have to work tonight 🙁
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That’s it then.
…cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans.
…no more merciful beheadings.
…and call off Christmas!
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Merry Christmas, milton.
Somebody has to keep the country running.
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I’ve been indulging in the odd bit of Halo Infinite – when one needs to slay many, many extra terrestrial fascist imbeciles (while pretending they’re our beloved ozzie politicians, braindead bureaucrats and meeja muppets). For which I make no apology, I tells ya.
Just one complaint – the latest version of Cortana is seriously annoying. They’ve deliberately turned down her figure while turning up the housewife screechiness.
It isn’t right, is it? 🙁
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What have the lepers and orphans ever done for us?
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Merry Christmas, cassie, JC, John H., twostix, arky, calli, rosie, BoN & everyone, and especially our host dover and his family.
Even Ed.
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MiltonF:
That’d be the uniforms, Milton.
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‘n Geseënde Kersfees aan almal op die Kat!
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Quick, someone call an ambulance for ZK2A – he’s clearly struggling!
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Exactly.
Throw another Green on the fire.
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$5 mill + will get you this pile at Kingscliff. It’s a beauty:
https://kingscliff.ljhooker.com.au/house-in-kingscliff-nsw-2487-au-17r6f69
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thanks Roger- really must dig up that Donald Horne article in Quadrant for you.
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Bluddee hell – possibly about to lose my shit (again). Just get a load of this monstrous pretentious wrongness:
Rock “critics” – the most inexcusable utterly useless self pleasurers to have existed in human history, with the possible exception of Ozzie greenfilth politicians.
I’ll now have to go and listen to some Miss Ellie at her most plaintive to try and regain some semblance of calm …
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Little wins, and baby steps. The Hun:
Of course he is. Hizzoner spake thusly:
Mid-January, the matter comes back to court. See what happens – but if it goes well for Mr Falconer, it will be a yuuuugley yuge cock-smack for every other employer of this type in the country.
And – I don’t know this – if this bloke’s the son of the ex-Chief Commissioner Bob Falconer, that’s a wet towel flick on the base of the nutsack as well.
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A fat lot of good that (allegedly) did.
Hypocrites. They just can’t help themselves.
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The Melbourne carols are rubbish, it’s seems to be a comedy routine and not a very good one.
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KD
Excellent post about Mr Falconer. Thank you.
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Because dancing was unknown before 1966.
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To quote my best friend’s dear ol’ Mum* upon discovering his copy of “The Antichrist” in about 1980: “Who is this Nyeechee person?”.
She’s still with us, as dignified as ever and living in the family home in Bankstown. Nearing 95 and still coping with recently having lost her beloved James at 97 (i.e. in April this year).
They were/are real working class people, not self aggrandising scum like that vile preposterous pretender keating.
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And will be unknown again soon, if these creepy bizarre obsessive fascist imbeciles lording it over us have their way.
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a new Carravaggio
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calli says:
December 23, 2021 at 11:56 am
BBS, you have to do the emojis the old fashioned way. Colons, semi colons, brackets, and a capD for a big smile.
Like this. ?
🙂
Lysander, re who gets exemptions. A few weeks ago, when that arseh*le Andrews moved to bring in the mandates in Viccy, the courts (the judges and court staff) pointed out that the separation of powers restricted the govt from mandating that sector. So Andrews folded on it.
Commonwealth, justice employees in Victoria granted vaccine exemption (Sky News 9/10/21)
Authorised workers in Victoria have been given a reprieve after the Andrews government backflipped on plans to enforce a COVID vaccination mandate.
All Commonwealth employees as well as people who work in connection with court proceedings will be exempt with a government spokesperson saying the relaxation is an attempt to avoid “jurisdictional limitations”.
The change will apply to judges, lawyers, security guards and police officers
Zip, my sister’s doctor won’t see the unvaccinated.
I’m with Rick on this – despite being private businesses, most of their income is taxpayer derived, which under the Australian universal health system known as Medicare, should be enough to remind these tax hooverers of their Hippocratic Oath to their fellow man.
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Ahaha! A Visitation!
Happy Christmas Doomy, and a traditional Christmas carol from me.
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Calli,
Even using punctuation it didn’t work. (If you can’t see them, there’s lots of laughing emojis under this).
??????
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Something a little more traditional for Dover.
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Aisling O’Loughlin, from “The Irish Inquiry” interviews Ricardo Bosi.
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Seriously?
You think The Greens aren’t playing an integral role in the Globalisation Juggernaut?
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Cohenite @8:12
That’s not the ideal one.
It’s the original white weatherboard with the big picture window above the main street opposite the beach.
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Oh. I thought he had died.
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It’s the original white weatherboard with the big picture window above the main street opposite the beach.
Got a photo?
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But Rabz, my dear, dear fellow!
We rag on you because we love you!
And we kick Grigory because he damn well needs and deserves it…
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Meatloaf
Brown bread
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Merry Christmas to all.
And his Doomlordship.
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Just put the last very over tired and very over excited child to bed. Hopefully it’s now Silent Night. Cooked dinner for 10, tomorrow lunch for 14.
Big Santa now has a nice glass of scotch, some gingerbread and a chocolate. He appears to be quite content with the stopover, might stay a while. His elves are all enjoying a glass of Lodge Hill Shiraz.
Happy Christmas one and all.
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Ol’ bloke – would you kindly stop being so controversial (again).
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He’s just pining for the fjords, Squire.
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Is that your Christmas dinner menu?
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Lovely banner. Who is the artist?
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Cohenite,
No. (Tried to bring it up on google earth)
It’s at the southern end of the street and it’s just above the street with view of the beach). (It’s probably been knocked down to build a monstrosity).
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He’s gone.
A very Merry Christmas to you, Cats.
I love youse all. 🙂
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Is this a Roger Moore moment?
Because if it is, I’m not falling for it. This time.
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Well Cats, it’s been the week from Box City Mk 2 down here in sunny Jerra, over the border from the Greenie Nirvana of Canberra.
Took a break from unpacking, hanging pictures, installing Mrs TE’s in the cupboard twin-bins, two trips to Bunnings etc etc, to meet up with RugbySkier for a local coffee – many thanks mate. Together we plan to storm Parliament House next month and install our own version of government.
A happy Christmas to all.
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Ahhh. Got it.
Adoration of the Shepherds, attributed to Giorgione, circa 1510.
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This one.
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Rabz, my favourite TAG Heuer.
Pretty cool I reckon.
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This guy.
(I cheated…if you open the picture as an image you can see the name of the painting. Then a DDG search gets you the artist! I will never be an art cognosniffy.)
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Very good, cohenite, (and I know you’re trying to help) but the only thing from the description that seems to have jelled in your mind is the colour white.
(Of course, all will be forgiven if you’re buying it!)
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Haha, out-snapped by Calli answering herself. Merry Christmas!
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TE,
Is this a permanent move?
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(Of course, all will be forgiven if you’re buying it!)Have bought.
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I was being lazy Bruce. Googled “Adoration of the Shepherds” on the offchance (being the subject matter), and there it was!
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Bluddee hell jupes – here’s mine (minus the day display). My suits are going to need fumigation and dry cleaning in order to ever do it justice. In the meantime, it’s been gathering much dust. Along with this.
I’ve become so habituated to padding around the house in sports clothes over the last six months that wearing a suit again seems ridiculous pointless and quite frankly, ostentatious.
Thanks, hitlerists!
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Collectivists, being unlistenable (again) …
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Gloria in Excelsis Deo.
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I might just head on down there and join you and the skier, TE.
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Talk of watches, upthread.
Anyone remember the old military joke about
“What time is it”
“If you are a regular, 1500 hours. If you’re a Nasho, it’s three o’clock in the afternoon, and if you’re an officer, Mickey’s little hand is on 3, and his big hand is on 12..”
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https://www.revolver.news/2021/12/damning-new-details-massive-web-unindicted-operators-january-6/
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Merry Christmas All!
Little Bloke just crashed, Christmas started yesterday for him, he spent most of the day with two of his mates in one of his mates new house (I got to spend the afternoon carefully making holes in walls for paintings and mirrors). Today we drove up to the farm visiting friends on the way. One of his mates also came to visit so they spent the afternoon playing with the dogs and catching tadpoles. Evening rounded out with a BBQ and appreciation of Nana and Grandpa’s extensive Christmas Lights. He was on the couch watching Carols with Nana before mum called it, time to go to bed before you fall off!
They’re all having Maximum Christmas despite Australian Politicians best efforts to stuff up everything!
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TE can I come too? I’ll bring my own pike.
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Classic dress watch. Beautiful. You need a sports watch to lounge around the house in your sports clothes, which is why you should ask Santa for the Monaco.
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Feeling ever more emboldened in his now out of control Parisian mood, Paul tries out yet more schoolboy French to woo a (getting increasingly grumpy) continental bohemian lass …
Continental bohemian lass: Storms off, having never been so insulted in her entire life.
Paul: “Sacré bleu, mademoiselle Ellie ne me traiterait jamais comme ça”:(
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Oops, WHO just left all Australian CHO’s and Politicians standing alone on Mong Island with COVID policies that not even they are dumb enough to support:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHk71KuOvGc
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jupes – santa seems to have a selective hearing and reading problem whenever I grant him my wish list.
He still hasn’t delivered me one of these, for example … 🙁
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Fairytale of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl) [Top of The Pops Dec 1987]
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Calli, I have another Adoration of the Shepherds for the Christmas thread popping up overnight. It’s magnificent.
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Yo – thanks, P.
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Posted upthread – wouldn’t pepperspraying someone who was taking pictures of you, be considered an excessive use of force? Any of the bush lawyers on the Cat help out?
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The late Kirsty MacColl, taken from this planet before her time in a tragic speedboat accident.
She’s on many of my favourite tracks from the eighties and the nineties in her capacity as a sought after session singer.
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china in focus
01:05 Intel apologizes to China following backlash
04:09 Biden signs bill to ban imports from Xinjiang
06:15 China’s Xi’an city under strict lockdown
07:49 #Lithuania MP: Communism is in trash can of history
08:41 3 Chinese vax doses ineffective vs. Omicron: Study
09:31 China warns celebrities over tax evasion
10:50 HK University removes Tiananmen massacre statue
12:48 China creates state-run rare earth giant
13:54 Report: U.S., Japan plan in case of Taiwan crisis
15:59 TikTok is most-visited site in 2021
16:30 JD.com shares plummet after Tencent giveaway
18:55 Logjam: the journey of one Chinese export
21:18 Well preserved baby dinosaur found inside egg
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What have they done to us?
Paul Joseph Watson
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A Former Rugby League Player’s Christmas Message to all Ozzies. 🙂
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Too bad about all the sundered families at this sacred time, across this wide brown land, Craigo.
At least you took a stand and stated loudly that what your contemporaries are doing to us is obscene and unconscionable.
I have a dream – that my nephew will say to me sometime soon, “What my father and your brother did is wrong”.
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How to Create a Health Care Crisis
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I’d buy rapid antigen tests but you know, they’re made of plastic
just thinking of the turtles
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WHO Says COVID Vaccine Boosters Will Likely Prolong the Pandemic
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(Was listening to Ol’ Blue Eyes sing Christmas carols earlier. This one is quite lovely for a Christmas song – sorry, can’t link).
Have yourself a merry little Christmas, let your heart be light
Next year all our troubles will be out of sight
Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the yule-tide gay
Next year all our troubles will be miles away
Once again as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Will be near to us once more
Someday soon, we all will be together, if the fates allow
Until then, we’ll have to muddle through somehow
So have yourself a merry little Christmas now
Once again as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Will be near to us once more
Someday soon, we all will be together, if the fates allow
Until then, we’ll have to muddle through somehow
So have yourself a merry little Christmas now
Ps I very much value all your friendships; and the laughing, ribbing and p1ss taking, as well as the truly amazing insights on so many varied subjects.
And DB, thanks for taking it upon yourself to not just “fill the gap” this year but to make the Cat even better.
Best wishes for Christmas,
BBS
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Pfizer Injection Contents: La Quinta Columna Confirms Findings of Polish Scientist and Dr. Carrie Madej
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Posted without further comment:
Shabbey Road, Second Side … 🙂
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As one does, KD.
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My two ‘Desert Island’ Beatles albums would be Revolver and Abbey Road.
The cream.
With that penetrating insight, a very happy Christmas to all Cats and Cat lurkers.
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Viral Moment: John Kennedy Asks Judicial Nominee Same Question Nine Times
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best wishes to everybody for Christmas
and Ed
… I hope Ed finds a stocking full of clues
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Lights out in Marybrook- Merry Christmas all.
BBS and Bing, that last couplet says it all. God Bless the lot of us.
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Merry Christmas everyone!
All the best in 2022.
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Thanks cats one and all for all your comments this bitch of a year, from a (mostly) lurker.
And yes Rabz s2 of Abbey Rd. is still the best moment of rock and roll.
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You Am I : Dress Me Slowly
Best album evah.
………and goodnight.
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The Fat Communist Slugs mandates the latest being at the Paediatric Hummingbird House Hospice ,a charity .The unvaxinated one carer per child will be confined to their room or suit and meals will be brought to them.
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Buon Natale a tutti i Gatti e le Gattine.
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Calli:
Just think Calli, a Feminist would say you got the raw end of the deal – you did all the work and did it for free. You could have been managing a multinational corporation and had servants to do all this stuff. Curse that Glass Ceiling!
However, the rest of us know who got the best deal – the intangibles are priceless for a reason.
Merry Christmas to everyone, and may the WZV die a cold, lonely, and miserable death in the New Year.
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Rickw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHk71KuOvGc
The ‘Great Scramble to Get Out of The Painted Corner’ picks up speed.
The term ‘sowing wind and reaping whirlwinds’ comes to mind.
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Zipster:
From your China in Focus:
12:48 China creates state-run rare earth giant – This has been an issue for nearly three years and there has still been no move to use our own (the Wests) resources?
21:18 Well preserved baby dinosaur found inside egg – Great stuff – No chance of any dNA being recoverable, so no chance of Santa bringing us 2 meter carnivorous flying chickens in the near future.
Sad.
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Rabz:
If you want you can have a T shirt with the Gravatar emblem on it.
Just specify size, and colour (only XL and 2XL available in black and white atm.) just send me an email or reply here with nearest post office you can pick it up from.
Other sizes and styles as shown here available if ordered.
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