Interesting stat concerning POTUS popular vote numbers: Obuma first time 69 mill Obuma 2 65 mill Shrillary 65 mill Cackles…
Open Thread – Christmas 2021
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- The more you gets the less you eats
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- Open Thread – Thurs 21 Nov 2024
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Anyway, the Tasmanian wilderness, beloved of the Greens and their fellow travellers, reminds us that Mother Nature just wants to…
Don’t forget “I’m a boy” by The Who. Hilarious.
I had my eyes done 1 week apart – bandage off next day and sharp vision at once in each…
Done.
Best National Anthem is without doubt verse 6 of “God Save The Queen”.
Sadly there are so few opportunities to sing it loud and proud.
I’m angry and I don’t even know the gentleman.
Chucking is chucking, Grigory. Be it notional spear or physical ball.
It’ll get you equally banned.
You Chuck-lehead.
She is Ed and Monty had a baby.
When shown the Vindolanda tablets – letters written in the first or second century and the second oldest examples of handwriting in Britain, she seemed to take the Roman ‘A’s as Greek Lambdas. Also ‘M’s.
She seems to have Da Vinci Code level grasp of history combined with boundless ego.
Listening to Pandemia by Alex Berenson. Get it on Kindle or Audible.
Apparently all the side effects from the vaccines were picked up from the short trials, but not by MSM.
I had wondered how soon we’d hear about folks going down with it, thanks to Sneakers’edicts.
And the fact that all the trsting stations were reported empty for 2-3 days over that stinking Christmas heat are unsurprising.
C.l..,
Only a hyena’s arsehole would aspire to be a cop these days.
Cases ramping up in Victoria.
Captain Pugwash (Jeroen Weimar) faces another tricky situation.
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1CDGOYI_enAU914AU914&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=captain+pugwash&hl=en-GB&fir=7azLWx6iHvsnrM%252C_7-ivLGpJV3I9M%252C_%253BR3x5zPtczkUKqM%252CPtXF9eVeGjkFRM%252C_%253BOLTPcJUQPIRfUM%252CbDbJwZKno-qVuM%252C_%253BEVGlkufS_4KtkM%252ClQUPsfBk0w-43M%252C_%253By4GkH7utpZ5wrM%252CQyFyPEtvakkROM%252C_%253B3-8e1r4wfqIAqM%252CubCG1gTpNeoPZM%252C_%253BNDc2xh_SP3gjWM%252CYj-zzuyMiAO0fM%252C_%253Bxop_dSlzks0DQM%252Ct5owUDH51YJisM%252C_%253BcWW8wCUG4kgL6M%252CLFw9G1chq2XsAM%252C_%253BpD1v3YuIJEdlLM%252CbDbJwZKno-qVuM%252C_%253BS1Jk4R7cKQEZbM%252CWcrqSnQ88RU3qM%252C_&usg=AI4_-kRlZ-OZLQMMOckiVYgdYuzWoEPdMQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjHxOvxtYX1AhW1yzgGHR3YA_4Q420oAHoECBUQBA&biw=414&bih=716&dpr=2#imgrc=y4GkH7utpZ5wrM
Oops sorry about that. Not selective enough.
They will have trouble with that line, the Japs have bullet trains and land spacecraft on asteroids and then return with soil samples. We are a bunch of Rubes by comparison.
how is this an argument against the use of Ivermectin?
Dot, that paragraph is an intentional diversion. The TGA treat Ivermectin as something people are taking as a preventative measure when it appears to actually be an effective treatment. There’s a difference.
Bastards!!
Like the little Mexican girl said in the ad, why can’t it be both?
He spent two hours standing in the sun yesterday in 40C+ heat waiting for a Covid test.
Hope old mate is ok.
On the plus side with that amount of exposure at 40C he won’t have a bug in him.
A site I was on earlier in the year turned a few plane loads of Queenslanders around after letting them roam free for a few hours, for safety. It was about 45C in the shade, let the coof riddled buggers lay in the pit for an hour or two, the coof won’t survive that! And that my friends is actual fucking science!
The problem is Contract Tracing.
Law abiding people check in wherever they visit, then get caught up in the net.
What’s the Penalty for not reporting to a Covid testing centre when requested?
I’m guessing that it’s a Criminal Offence.
Had we been at war, and a contact with the enemy (small arms/arty/aerial ordnance) resulted in civilian casualties, official statements of regret over the ‘collateral damage’ would have been expressed, perhaps even compensation promised. Tactics may be changed, at least temporarily or superficially, in order to avoid a repeat of the bad publicity.
We are not at war, but the civilian casualties to our OWN population, arising from the decisions of our policy makers, are not even being counted or acknowledged, let alone any pretense made to avoid their repetition. The permissable limit of ‘collateral damage’ to our own, non-threatening, community, is open.
Is it overdramatic to describe our nation as a Free Kill Zone?
Truly, this moral vacuum is a turning point.
opines Muddy.
Incorrect, this is 5th Generation warfare, waged by Government Propaganda.
The only way out is to turn off the TV, stop reading the newspapers, don’t comply as much as possible without drawing attention, and become invisible.
Not recommended:
insisting on your right to drink in pubs, eat in Restaurants, and attending Marches where you will be IDed as a Dissident.
Only a dead* hyena’s arsehole
* and 3 weeks in the summer sun
I hope I didn’t understate things there.
Ivermectin has form for both, as prophylactic and as treatment. Someone here posted a long article that argued that the effectiveness of ivermectin in certain third world countries was indirect; namely, it derived its efficacy by treating parasitic problems in the gut and improving your general state of health thereby lowering the rate of infection/ severity of COVID in patients. Let’s for argument’s sake, admit that, so what? Beyond the argument that ivermectin is directly efficacious against COVID, isn’t the general improvement to health that follows the eradication of intestinal worms, etc. and thereby the alleviation of certain deficiencies (for instance, iron) something worth focusing on at least in communities prone to parasitic infection?
Too true. A woman I know has a sister who, after undergoing “therapy”, accused her father of sexually molesting her for years.
It was BS and the whole family knew it was BS. However, the police investigation (no evidence found) and the constant accusations by the daughter eventually broke the father and he committed suicide.
Why don’t other professions need the equivalent of The Hippocratic Oath?
As usual lawfare waged against the law abiding. Australians will have to learn the Italian, Spanish and French approach to regulation. Ignore it.
First do no harm
Wouldn’t work for the commander of an nuclear armed submarine.
Shop on Glebe Point Rd. ‘Closed because of health issue for Abdul. Sorry for In Convinced.’
To be outside yesterday in Perth was a serious undertaking. I went outside to hang out some washing at 5:30pm, which now takes about half an hour, and it was still very unpleasant.
I watched some shop lifters and tourist robbers in Paris.
When a gendarme nabbed one, someone else would do something far worse which demanded the gendarme’s attention. I guess that’s why, on the whole, the gendarmes just ignore the petty stuff.
Bruce of Newcastle says:
December 28, 2021 at 11:52 am
All over red rover. The front pages in Pommyland tomorrow may be a little incendiary tomorrow
This could be possibly the only thing that will make the Poms begin to scream blue murder at the dire predicament they’re currently enduring from the politidemic: an Ashes loss needs political heads to roll.
I heartily encourage such kinds of voluntary eugenics practices. And leftists, don’t forget that having children is extremely carbon intensive and thus if you decide to have children, you are destroying the planet. You have a responsibility not to procreate.
Rick:
Why don’t other professions need the equivalent of The Hippocratic Oath?
My Dad has always said ‘they bury their mistakes.’
Ed @ 1:53, I didn’t mean to report your comment; my finger slipped.
Heh, cool bananas, i’ve accidentally flagged a few of my own comments along the way.
H B Bearsays:
December 28, 2021 at 2:21 pm
As usual lawfare waged against the law abiding. Australians will have to learn the Italian, Spanish and French approach to regulation. Ignore it.
Also known as Irish democracy. Passive resistance.
Bar Beach Swimmersays:
December 28, 2021 at 2:34 pm
Rick:
Why don’t other professions need the equivalent of The Hippocratic Oath?
My Dad has always said ‘they bury their mistakes.’
A former pilot I once worked with commented that “Doctors bury their mistakes, pilots are buried with theirs”.
Michael Vaughan can see clearly now:
Rotten to the core: Another Poms faceplant proves something is broken — Vaughan’s Verdict
And the culprit is…
[drumroll] …the Dukes ball.
If I get this correctly, the English batsmen are so used to being monstered by a ball designed to swing that they are monstered by a ball with a flat seam that doesn’t swing so much.
Or something.
I am noticing a lot less enthusiasm for mask wearing in Perth compared with when previous mask mandates were imposed. Most people I see outdoors choose not to wear masks, and when indoors in public places there are many people who wear their masks under their noses or under their mouths. The potency of the fear porn seems to be waning.
Love those TV programs where some Pommy couple buy a pile of rocks purporting to be a farmhouse and get it inspected by the local council only to find it had an illegal patio built in the 16th century. Then they hire a local builder who says he will go and see his cousin. Of course, at a macro level you end up with Greece. Which is a problem if your name is Fritz and you work at the MB factory.
DB
Please ban Ed, he is Gargooly
A moron.
Cumin seeds are an alternative if no Ivermectin available.
Confronting to chew but not so bad.
Michael Vaughan – was he the one who lost his mind on a previous Ashes tour?
It would appear people travelling to Queensland will no longer have to undergo a PCR test on Day 5 after arrival. Instead, they’ve substituted a rapid antigen test.
Going from ‘look how strong our testing procedures are – Big Gummint will watch over you if it’s the last thing we do’ to ‘this is a monumental expensive pain in the arse, mistake-ridden and unsustainable, so we will now drift into “look at us in Qld go, living with covid like that other man said”’.
Aha. Stats courtesy of ESPN:
Most Runs in 2021 – England
1708 – Joe Root
530 – Rory Burns
412 – Extras
391 – Jonny Bairstow
368 – Ollie Pope
Cumin seeds are an alternative if no Ivermectin available.
Custard, if you doll up in a sarong, paint a dot on your head, sit inside a circle of tea candles and crush the cumin seed up in a mortar and pestle with sitar music vibing in the background I’ll buy it by the ton and snort it.
KD – you are forgetting about The Science. I have no doubt it is all being done on medical advice.
No, I don’t need to see it.
Not bad considering they stopped calling no balls some time in 2018.
Drove to the beach today to exercise my car battery. Crowded, and not a mask in sight. In fact the only mask I’ve seen today was lying abandoned on the pavement.
Elvis
You should see my pantry. I could open up as a spice wholesaler.
I buy the seeds by the kilo, and always grind them up freshly for my weekly curry.
Lamb madras (this week’s cooking) has cumin seeds so very tasty and (who knows) might stop you from catching the ChinaVirus.
Fuck the TGA and the CCP.
At worst,cumin improves your dal.
Queensland has recorded 1158 new cases on Tuesday as the state scraps day-five testing for interstate travellers.
So, a big Queensland Fuck You to Brad Hazzard: youse can have the queues of PCR-seeking holidaymakers jamming up your testing places, but we’re not actually bothered about test results.
It’s The Science in action.
Palaszczuk is a piece of work.
One minute she claims qld travel pcr tests aren’t screwing over nsw testing facilities, the next step dumps them from 1 January but stubbornly refuses to cancel them immediately.
What difference does it make other than wasting millions of dollars and causing extra global warming as people sit in their cars for three hours?
And I heard a visitor from Manchester* this morning, presumably here for the cricket, required to get pcr test within 24 hours of arriving in Australia , paid $120 dollars but the pathology company won’t pay penalty rates except at one cbd site for 4 hours all others closed so he can’t get tested.
*surprising in itself
Custard
Why ban Ed? Why single him out for stupidity when there’s also a ton on competition? Ed is an idiot for sure, but at the same time he’s not a mendacious imbecile. He’s an “idiotic keeper” even though he’s also very annoying.
Custard
Ed is like Sienfeld’s Kramer of the site. Totally insane and the insanity is what makes the idiot funny as.
Ed.
Are those pretzels making you thirsty?
I buy the seeds by the kilo, and always grind them up freshly for my weekly curry.
OMG! Custard, you’re the Scomo of the west!
Except you’re successful, likeable, handsome and not a traitorous dickhead. And I’d imagine your curry is bloody awesome too.
Are you back on the golf course yet mate?
H B Bear says:
December 28, 2021 at 3:19 pm
At worst,cumin improves your dal.
Pop some in the tadka but not too much.
custard,
Do you get supplied by Sneed? Don’t leave your mess all over the shop.
I can imagine Ed swimming laps of the Georges River, getting beaten up by kids in a dojo and slamming down a couple of bags of gypsum on my counter.
THIS STUFF IS LITERALLY GOLD, JERRY!
Porridge, dal and bolognese. A bachelor’s balanced diet.
Golf in a Perth summer is for the diehards. Maybe a twilight 9 with a couple of sneaky coldies.
Thanks, pal [wipes away a tear].
Was it Marcus Trescowthick that had some issues on a previous Tour and went home?
Zulu, to the Googlermobile!
From Dr Faustus’s link at 2.50pm:
You don’t have to be a genius to realise the county system is stuffed when you appreciate what a brilliant job the Australian Sheffield Shield system is doing.
No-one had ever heard of Scott Boland a week ago and this morning he took six wickets in his Test debut. Kerry O’Keeffe was the only commentary nerd who tipped that he would be elevated this week to the big time.
I’m not a genius and I’m now 100% sure the English county cricket system is totally stuffed judged purely on the disastrous results we saw this morning.
Totally agree. The Taxation/Death Duties insanity this morning had me laughing harder than any of today’s ‘toons.
It was a level of complete galactic ridiculousness unmatched by any other Cat commenter ever. His imperviousness to reason is unparalleled.
“Ed is like Sienfeld’s Kramer of the site. Totally insane and the insanity is what makes the idiot funny as.”
Correct. He’s a lunatic. I would never ban Eddy.
Megan -so is it deliberate? Special Ed is like the Mona Lisa of morons.
Well said!
Okay I’ll just keep scrolling past Ed, Gargoolery
Elvis, I’m not handsome, that’s my older brother Brian.
Back playing golf after neck fusion and forced expulsion from my social club of 30 years.
Just submitted my third card to get my first official handicap after playing for almost 40 years. I’m predicting 20!
I make curry almost every weekend, lasts for about 4 days of lunches and dinners.
And I haven’t seen Ed post pizza and Rumble conspiracies unlike the site’s true moron.
“complete galactic ridiculousness”
It’s Seinfeldian.
Atherton & Hussain have said the same thing.
County cricket takes a back seat to the white ball game which brings in the money for the ECB (2 competitions, The Blast [T20] & The Hundred [100 balls]). English cricket is being dumbed down to attract the crowds & provide a spectacle for TV. I suppose you could say we’ve done the same thing but quite evidently we’ve got the balance better.
Test
Dover:
We spoke about the pile on attempts and those indirect comments that the piece of shit posts. Weren’t these supposed to stop as it was part of the Armistice discussed in the train carriage? He’s at it again and the vile piece of shit from FNQ was it too over the past few days. Just keeping you appraised and why I believe both of them ought to kicked up the arse out of here. 🙂
whoops .. was at it…
I thought Custard and the Cardimona were the same poster. This is not correct, right? Not kidding.
The English cricket team has made 52 ducks this calendar year.
52. Over two and a half Tests’ worth of nobody scoring a single run.
Unparalleled.
I would just like to make a suggestion directed at the other Perth and WA Cats if they were interested.
I understand the eastern Cats have gathered together in their various locales and enjoyed one another’s company.
What if we were to do likewise? Given a long enough lead time, we could all arrange our schedules and the wiser and more worldly might suggest an appropriate city venue.
What do you think?
Just submitted my third card to get my first official handicap after playing for almost 40 years. I’m predicting 20!
Fantastic!
Elvis, I’m not handsome, that’s my older brother Brian.
No wonder I was so confused in my later schooling then, haha.
What if we were to do likewise? Given a long enough lead time, we could all arrange our schedules and the wiser and more worldly might suggest an appropriate city venue.
What do you think?
I’ll need 2 months to import enough tea candles to expand Custards Curry Circle to fit us all but then we’re good to go.
The Ghislaine Maxwell trial jury has asked for a defintion of ‘enticement.’
This could take a while.
Hopeful News Tomorrow: Delhi: ICC announces England has been relegated to U21s and as such cannot be scheduled for 1st class 5 Day Tests until performance improves. Meanwhile Fair Shake launches class action to get 50% refund for Day 3 ticket and a FULL day of alcoholic consumption and no domestic chores in lieu.
Golf in a Perth summer is for the diehards
Yep, Yanchep early 1977. 43 deg. First and last time I played golf. I went around in 73 – for 9 holes.
doverbeach – case in point Australia’s taxpaying communities are prone to parasitic infections – they are politicians, bureaucrats, corporatists and the media – aka the “parasites”
Luzu,
I expect that there will be some more freedom protests in the New Year in the CBD.
My new favourite bar there is Spaniards. That’s where we could catch up. I’d book a city hotel for the night and go hard!
Canbra was set up to celebrate, defend and nurture the Australian Nation – all it does now is trash the economy and society. A parasite that feeds off and destroys its host.
Only Canbra could produce someone like Morrison (the army one)
or Jane Halton
…who is married to the ABS Deputy Statistician who is Brett Sutton’s brother.
Convince me the Australian elite isn’t becoming a caste.
This one?
He’s an inspiration to all military personnel.
I’d say more like a clew i.e. as in a clew of tapeworms
It’s going to get interesting when the double clot shotted are forced to keep getting ‘boosters’ every few months.
My missus has stated she wont be getting ‘boosted’. Which means she’ll lose her job some time in may/april.
Assuming the Fed’s keep the unvax’d loophole to get out of the country unmolested, then we’ll probably hang around for another 6 months and see how it goes. If still shit, then we’ll leave for Japan. Another option is NSW, but at this point we’d be starting fresh. Might as well do that in a Free country and build a new life for us and the kids and live in pure freedom.
Luzu at 4:27 – as a Perf Cat I rather like not knowing who my fellow Cats are. To me they are a series of Rumpolean absurdities. Apologies to those who may be offended by that. I’ll send my apologies.
I’ve still not got jabbed, and at this point I can’t see myself getting it even if novavax gets approved. What’s the point when all of them are for the original variant? So come end of January I’m expecting to be out of a job and properly screwed. Can’t see Andrews dropping the mandate to work.
Luzu, I’m an antisocial bastard. I’m sure the sandçats are mostly good ppl, but I’m not.
Yanchep is quite a good track. Long, like most clubs with access to too much land. The limestone cap rock makes for some interesting lies for those of us who don’t spend much time on the fairways. We tended to head down Mandurah way after Meadow Springs and the other clubs got up.
Canberra and everything in it is the result of the looting of the Australian people’s stuff. Thank god they only loot and keep the rape and pillage down to a tolerable minimum.
JC
Who was that disproportioned, dysgenic, low-T infant with the massive head and shoulders that make a brown snake look swole?
Oh great, he was the actual head of our army.
Cue China laughing their arses off.
Sorry rape and burning.
..
It’s purely punitive at this point.
“You didn’t do what I want somI’m going to destroy you”.
That’s a sick instinct in an ordinary human, but in the leaders of a representative democracy it’s sick and dangerous.
No, the Hunchback mong will double down. You might need to move to NSW, far fewer jobs covered by mandates to work.
Like you, I couldnt careless what ‘vax’ is approved. They are done the damage with ‘mandates’.
Mandates are immoral and wrong at ANY level. You are in the right, they are in the wrong.
It the first time in human history that the healthy are being treated as lepers and forced into poverty because the government chose to punish them. Note, we didn’t choose this, the government chose to do this.
Check out what the Daniel Andrews stormtroopers are doing in Warragul
http://www.reignitedemocracyaustralia.com.au/warragul-business-stands-stong
Thanks for that information Roger. @jc the PLA must laugh at us.
Brandon:
Ended the Afghaniostan War
Trump: Talked about it
Brandon:
Stopped the BLM/Antifa rioting
Trump:
said: “There’s good people on both sides” and headed out to the Golf Course
You’re such a lying, dopey prick.
JC, I not following all the comments. People, let’s not ruin Christmas.
Don’t forget the bludge ‘degrees’ at the AN’U’ either.
Golf joke: Woman complains to club pro that she’s been stung by a wasp between the first and second hones.
“Your stance is too wide”
Dover
I’ll email you later on. No biggie.
Yup. Unfortunately it’s entirely what I’d expect from the prick.
Fortunately I’ve been in a position to wait things out for a while, and I still have some options. Suspect there’s more than a few who didn’t, who’ve ended up murderously angry.
That’s like the joke about the guy who had two balls stolen by crows and couldn’t play on as he had none left in his bag.
Good grief. Golf jokes.
There I was waiting for a Boxing Day Holiday fistfight! The signs were all there.
Even the most well regulated of families have them.
I’m having bit of a problem at the moment with commenters calling nut case ed, Mr ed. Mr Ed was my grandfathers favourite programme, him being a dour old Scot (grandfather not Mr Ed) never laughed. After the programme finished he would say “thats the funniest thing I’ve ever seen”. Now Mr Ed knew something, special ed doesn’t. This insistence to call special ed in ruining the memory of my grandfather. Even if he did belt me for breaking his bathroom window twice in two weeks playing cricket. On a similar note saw a thing on FTA about Billy Connelly. In it someone mentioned about the dour old Scot who loved his wife so much he almost told her.
Hammy Jnr. The wrongology is all there but the style is lacking.
Could be a maturity thing.
About golf, when I was a kid we used to pinch the balls off the course after the players teed off on the 18th hole, the 18th was undulating so they couldn’t see us in the gulleys. We’d sell them back on different days.
My golf is a joke. So I pass.
The Beloved, however, is serious but philosophical. Which is exactly the right headspace to be in. Currently telling me all the reasons why he needs a new bag, trying to justify the expenditure.
I told him to buy the most expensive one with our useless FFPs. 😀
Bluddee hell – Eddles opining outside of his lane, again:
There is no known cure for such staggering stupidity, which I’m thinking may not be such a bad thing.
To be able to see them, point and laugh means that yes, they do indeed exist among you.
Otherwise, ignorance could be alleged to be strength – and there will not be any of that.
*Note well, the random capitals.
Spaniards Bar is in Wolf Lane, a number of good bars in the neighborhood
Can meet there at/during/before/after the next Perth protest. Not sure where the nearest zimmer frame parking is?
McClown is making himself more popular by the hour, especially as he has just banned New Years Eve, oh, we had ZERO cases yesterday and yes, there are a lot less masked Karens around.
Too good to leave on the page turn
This poor woman in Warragul
http://www.reignitedemocracyaustralia.com.au/warragul-business-stands-stong
My erstwhile friends and family will be queueing up to try and fulfil this statement:
“If I ever start willingly playing golf, shoot me immediately, to prevent any further indignity.” 😕
Good doco on “Operation Market Garden” – “A Bridge Too Far.” Features the Dutch historian R.G. Poulussen. He argues that “Operation Market Garden was NOT lost at Arnhem, it was lost at Nijmegen.
Latest on why certain parts of WA are allegedly experiencing chronic declining rainfall, courtesy of TheirABC:
Hmmm.
I sense a shifting of the goalposts.
Ivermectin induces PAK1-mediated cytostatic autophagy in breast cancer
Ivermectin is a broad-spectrum antiparasitic drug that has recently been demonstrated to exhibit potent anticancer activity against colon cancer, ovarian cancer, melanoma and leukemia.
Full text:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5173258/
Any discussion of golf should include the waste of a perfectly good spot for a rifle range.
While I’m here, how about the reports (I’ve see two now) saying that “a search” of the nutter who broke into Madge’s joint with bad intent discovered a crossbow?
How does one conceal a crossbow about one’s person such that it requires a search?
Inquiring minds etc. 🙂
I hope you mean less popular.
This is a clip which was sent to me. I tossed up whether to post it or not because I have no way of corroborating it. However, there have been references to similar things before. I hope to God its fake because it’s absolutely terrifying.
“Golf is a superior form of exercise, marred only by the need to hit the ball.” U.S. Grant.
I have no idea which Madge this might be, Joh (and there are several possible candidates).
Which one, if you don’t mind me asking?
Custard, will you be standing for election next year, and if so, which which party?
He was walking funny?
Golf:
“The exercise of trying to hit an uncontrollable spheroid into an inaccessible hole, with instruments ill adapted to the purpose…”
And that’s just getting those of us who are not enamoured of the alleged pastime started, I tells ya …
Razey, sarcasm? :-/
Little Bloke came to me with his matchbox truck that had a front wheel with a chunk out of it.
“Can we make a new one on the lathe?”
45 minutes later, lots of measuring, maths, counting and the truck has a new delrin wheel machined almost entirely by himself, he’s pretty happy with his effort!
kaysee says:
December 28, 2021 at 5:07 pm
mh,
This is the latest Piers Akerman column.
Health experts, politicians responded to pandemic with fear
https://12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/piers-akerman-health-experts-politicians-responded-to-pandemic-with-fear/news-story/dfca4a72e91e4d5221410a968ebed82e
45 minutes later, lots of measuring, maths, counting and the truck has a new delrin wheel machined almost entirely by himself, he’s pretty happy with his effort!
Now that’s parenting!
Congratulations rickw.
Indeed, because we just love being incessantly denounced as collectivists.
Yahoo News brings us the “How Much BS Will You Swallow?” segment this afternoon:
COVID-19: “Outta my way, Rhinovirus, I’m takin’ over this Joint!”
Rhinovirus: “B-but it’s winter. This is my time to… Aah! He pushed me!”
Adenoviruses: ” Oi! Steady on, COVID, old chap. You’ve had a good run. Now it’s Rhino’s turn too… Yikes! He pushed me, too.”
H3N2: “Covid! Don’t make me use my angry voice… By Jove! He jolly-well pushed me aside.”
COVID-19. ” Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!”
Sheesh!
To me they are a series of Rumpolean absurdities. Apologies to those who may be offended by that. I’ll send my apologies.
I can understand this sentiment.
Never meet your heroes.
Don’t Look Up
As recommended by Matix.
It is indeed a good ‘piss take’ on today’s narcissistic culture. Funny and frustrating at the same time. Had a cooking segment to in it and I suspect that really got Matrix excited.
Also looked up “mendacious” very accurate JC well done.
Sorry, Rabz, “Madge” is one of the satirical monikers of HM the Queen. Serves me right for being a smartarse.
Moving down to the next story at TheirABC, I learned a new woke term:
Suck up!!
Speechless.
I don’t have a link to support what I’m about to say but anyway ….
Johanna re that article about WA south west climate change hoax story
I make these observations..
notice how they talk about the last 20 years of rainfall but ignored the last two to three years which are massively wetter
We are about to enter a prolonged period of cooling (solar minimum) but unfortunately as this doesn’t fit the globalist narrative…crickets
What do you mean by a shifting of the goalposts?
Rsabz
*Note well, the random capitals.
Indeed, random capitals are a very bad sign.
As so heart renderingly essayed in the 1969 John Lenin opus, “Everbody’s got something to hide, except xi and xir donkey (I tells ya)” … 😕
Have just come across this:
“The Times
@thetimes
· Dec 21
Amazon agreed to Beijing’s demand to have anything below a five-star review of Xi Jinping’s book The Governance of China removed from its Chinese site https://thetimes.co.uk/article/amazon”
What hypocrites!
Suck up!!
Actually I’m trying to gee myself up before meeting a bar load of old crackers who are parched from rioting in 40C before hitting the red…
Eyrie says:
December 28, 2021 at 5:06 pm
Canberra and everything in it is the result of the looting of the Australian people’s stuff. Thank god they only loot and keep the rape and (burning) down to a tolerable minimum.
Mmmm…….
Loot – tick
Rape – tick (being violated by having your body forcibly penetrated)
Burning – tick (“green” policies allowing the bush to become tinderboxes)
Sorry, Rabz, typo!
It was Chesterton who said something about golf ruining a good walk. Judging by the man’s girth, I’m struggling to imagine him walking anywhere.
But…it takes the golfer out of the house for the better part of the day. And that’s nothing to whinge about.
Hi JC,
It’s easy to confuse them because both of them have stood as Parliamentary Candidates.
Custard used to have a different Handle, he stood in Western Australia, possibly for the Australian Conservatives at the 2016 Federal Election.
Cardimona also started with a different Handle, he was briefly famous as Barnaby Joyce’s
de facto’s dad.
He stood in one of the Far North Queensland Electorates at last years State Election.
One thing about Cardimona, he canvassed here about where he ought to direct his preferences.
It’s a few years ago now, but was Custard also cagey about where he should send his preferences?
Custard, I mean that they acknowledge that there are other factors at work, something rarely or never seen in past narratives about how we are all gonna fry. They are careful not to name them, but must realise that they can no longer be completely ignored.
A chink of light in a very long, dark tunnel.
Joh, don’t be. I thought there were two (obvious) candidates, Betty Windsor and the freakshow known as Madonna (who also exists in the Ol’ Dart).
However, did the aforementioned incident not happen many moons ago?
Let’s not also forget poor ol’ Germs Greer being held hostage for a seemingly interminable time in her country estate by an, err, member of the “Millie-Tants United Front (aka, MUF)”.
A harrowing experience for the former. She was allegedly never the same afterwards, hence her regrettable outbursts of late about the idiocy of transgender wokism … 😕
I loved that movie Zulu. As a child, it piqued my imagination.
Firth and MacFayden as principals in the re-make…my two favourite Darcys!
Bizzare, (slightly) amusing and indescribably evil, simultaneously.
Stop the bus, etc …
Who says conservatives can’t do fear porn? It’s drivel from beginning to end.
Another “About golf”
I used to play often when living in a very hilly area in the Philippines. One particular course was famous for its “cobras”.
Firing a shot up and over the blind hill and knowing we’d shanked or sliced it we’d begin to head off in search of our golf balls. The caddies would instantly jump in and gravely warn us not to enter the jungle because of the of the “dangerous snakes”, and then dive into the brush. Moments later we’d hear a shout from over the hill. Ball found! Miraculously, it would be on the fairway with a perfect angle to the green.
It was best not to notice that it was a Titleist, especially when you were a born again Pinnacle shooter who would never suffer to strike such an object.
Wait, what!?
So is the above bullshit, or is the quip “we’re all on the spectrum” bullshit?
Wow, look at you Ed, coming up with some reasonably accurate info. Yea, I had both confused because I recall they had stood for parliament in previous elections.
Please don’t change though. We want the Ed who’s become the site’s Kramer.
Estimated 1 in 95 boys diagnosed with myocarditis in a California private school
A pretty big boom –
“Lou Stung @loustung
17m
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Australia
Looks like an Islamic grocery store fell down. The explosion was Halal certified at least. Maybe next time the musrats should keep their explosive ordnance in the mosque. An even better idea would be if Ed Husic took some into parliament for show and tell one day. It’s all Halal.”
https://www.9news.com.au/national/belconnen-shop-fire-and-explosion-one-person-taken-to-canberra-hospital-with-serious-burns/2474c8e8-d1de-4326-922c-b11828617643
But you’ll need to be clot shotted first. LOL
Thanks McClown.. our New Years Eve Dance cancelled because of your arseholeness. May your balls hard boil in this heat.
Nope, it won’t happen.
What will happen is a slow descent into the abyss. Quality of life will be reduced as a consequence of Woke madness.
Loot – tick
Rape – tick (being violated by having your body forcibly penetrated)
Burning – tick (“green” policies allowing the bush to become tinderboxes)
Good point, Fat Tony. I hadn’t thought of it that way.
I did once see a study by some economists on the effect of government in Africa. Apparently it was best compared to a large nomadic gang of bandits settling permanently in your area. Seems much the same here, then.
And if no one complied they would have no control.
Stop complying FFS.
Golf in Goroka. Sunday morning.
Arrive early. Drop the children off in the playroom with the meris who would spend a morning playing and getting paid for it – sure beats digging in the kai gaden. Walk to manki “cage”* to select a caddy. In the dry season, the fairways were like runways – hard and a bouncing ball would go far, assisted by the high altitude. In the wet – bounce and sludge.
Nine holes. On the seventh, if you were lucky, the morning Air Niugini F28 would be doing its steep bank into the short and perilous approach. We used to joke that you could hear the screams.
The ninth – never be the first to the pin and never, ever put your hand in. Pranksters used it as a toilet.
The long, hot slope to the clubhouse where the real fun began and lasted well into the afternoon. The life of the expat.
* it really was a cage. All the young blokes would wait in there for their favourite players – the ones who gave them the best tips. Naturally a stooge like me was in high demand with all those wide smiling faces and “innocent” brown eyes.
The details around my (unsuccessful, actually two) attempts to gain elected office as expressed by Ed (Gargooly) are wrong!
The decision made by the organisers. Plan B is now operational: mate’s place for a night of watching the women play mahjong whilst the menfolk sit around and bitch about the ccp.
and PAP
Last time I played golf was at Mt Hagen 1977, the blokes I worked with dragged me out and said I would love it. They gave me a handicap of 25 and when I was reaching 100 they stopped counting. Never played since or even thought about it.
No caddies at Hagen either, you dragged your own equipment around.
Lol sfw. The high altitude clearly didn’t help your game. Me too.
Hagen was like the wild west. Did you ever see a Highlands Show?
James Webb Telescope on its way. Live
telemetry
Hammy was a master. Let’s not insult his memory with comparisons to DeadHead Ed.
First time landing in Hagen in an F28 was an experience I will never forget.
Then jumping on a HeviLift MIL piloted by Russian ex-army blokes.
Good times. Scary times.
I look at Goroka on Google earth and see some familiar sights, but the place has changed almost out of recognition. Sure, the town still surrounds the airstrip, and the Post Office is still at the end of the runway (we used to joke that if the plane overran, we could pick up our mail on the way home).
And my old house next to the church is still there and the boi house we built for the hausmeris so they could stay in town and not face the perils of travelling home to the village.
New additions are a network of roads and a university and schools and the haus sik has been extended and there are a plethora of new shops, some with Chinese names.
And that might be the key to the town’s expansion.
More golf…
I played more than one course in the middle east where one was issued a piece of astroturf to carry around and tee off on… there being nothing else green within 300 miles except the banknotes.
One of my faves was a course in the mountains of the Hindu Kush, where mandatory equipment included carrying a flak jacket and helmet (sidearms recommended) “just in case the opposition decides to contest the course again”.
Yours truly from a couple years ago..
https://youtu.be/MObp5LUaDhs
Golf
Another site covering the Webb telescope. Pretty neat:
https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/deploymentExplorer.html
With any luck, if all goes well, the Webb will take images that totally confuse astronomers and cosmologists.
How sad that a guy was gnomeless for Christmas.
COMMUNITY RALLIES BEHIND BELMONT MAN AFTER GNOMES DESTROYED (Ncl local news, 28 Dec)
We should ban gnomelessness immediately.
“Major William Martin”
IIRC one of the MI5 blokes lived as William Martin for a considerable time to allow collection of credibility documents such as train tickets, movie tickets, bills etc. and he traded love letters with one of the older department secretaries to add further credibility to the character.
Then jumping on a HeviLift MIL piloted by Russian ex-army blokes.
Those guys used to rotate back to Russia on “break”, non stop flying MI-6’s in Russia!
If you want another golf story. Mt Tom Price. If you were off the fairway off the tee it was not unusual to see your ball ricochet 30m into the air and end up on the fairway. And vice versa.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this article dropped in the middle of a spell of scorching days.
If this stuff is all true, ABC, ya don’t have to sell it so hard, y’know?
First time landing in Hagen in an F28 was an experience I will never forget.
Did you ever take off or land at Tabubil? The amount of wrecked aircraft at the cliff at the end of the runway was impressive!
Played Royal Adelaide with my father and aunt when I must have been around 12. Seem to recall even reaching a few fairways was an accomplishment.
Plenty of wannabe Nazi’s around:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwx3HL0kA5M
That most pernicious of legal ‘doctrines’ – vicarious liability – has raised its ugly head:
A dishonest way of saying “we finally found someone who knew nothing about it to pay up.”
On another note, Mark Steyn is letting it rip in his inimatible style here:
Thoroughly Modern Milley and the other beribboned buffoons of the planet’s most lavishly funded dysfunctional military take twenty years to lose to goatherds with fertilizer and write off a two-billion-dollar ship because a five-admiral chain of command can’t command its men to put out a fire in a timely manner …or even call the municipal fire department in a timely manner. But they can design third-trimester flight suits for heavily pregnant fighter pilots. And, in a year or so, no doubt for heavily pregnant Navy Seals…
The rah-rah right finds the scale of America’s global humiliation in Afghanistan a bit of a downer, but not to worry because it sets up the GOP (Send Money Now to sendmoneynow.com) pretty nicely for the midterms – in the same way that a total catastrophe on D-Day would have made Dewey’s numbers look pretty good for November, eh? The “national security” right swivels smoothly from the Fall of Kabul to saber-rattling over Taiwan and the Ukraine, fully confident that the same military that managed to return Afghanistan to the Taliban with more territory than they ever controlled before is now fit and rested and ready to threaten the Red Army on its own turf and a Chinese Communist Party that makes all the most basic American needs, from batteries and microchips to aspirins and underwear.
Another golf story. Hole ? at Baguio, Philippines. Can’t see but 15 feet forward of the T-box because it drops 300 feet right after… directly onto the putting green if you do it right.
After a mind numbing day of typhoon rescue flying and a further mind pickling of Red Horse Ale I hit a hole in one there.
Fearing the gods of whatever I accepted their beneficence and never played there again. Sober that is. 😉
Did you work at Ok Tedi, rickw?
That it is.
More entertaining than golf stories though.
[Insert smiling emoji here.]
Round I played at Whyalla once, with my boss. Sand scrapes with scrub between. Fifty knot gale, no joke. Downwind boss drove past the second green with a four iron, rated 324 m. John Daly couldn’t do that on a still day! It was hilarious. The crosswind holes were most fun – on one I aimed somewhere in the direction of Alice Springs, about 45 degrees off to the left. Thwack! It was like slow motion. We watched and watched and watched as the ball was carried by the wind until it landed neatly on the sand green. Whereupon both of us collapsed laughing. It was one of those rounds.
Call it another respectable excuse to wash yer balls Roger.
Many, many upticks.
BoN, I can relate.
Have hit a strong driver into the wind off of a rubber mat on the fantail of a aircraft carrier and shortly later had a loud squak from the bridge about bombarding them. Seems I cured my slice because that was dead on.. but 180 out.
“Squak aye, driving range secured”. (Glad we aren’t flying in this gale)
Golf!
Bring backs the trains.
Looks like an Islamic grocery store fell down. The explosion was Halal certified at least.
Bigga badda boom!
BoN – played Dunsborough Lakes in an afternoon sea breeze. Flushed a 3 wood normally good for 200m plus and barely made a 150m par 3. Another slice went 2 lots deep into what is now a subdivision. Think we gave that one away after 9.
Zat
Have you ever played golf in the north east? I’m not a big golfer, but I used to play a little. The courses in the north east in the summer are stunning.
Yours truly from a couple years ago..
Whoops! .. 1st glance and I thought I saw, “Oh .. Noze!!” … socks with sandals .. LOL!
JC, North East of?