I had my eyes done 1 week apart – bandage off next day and sharp vision at once in each…
Open Thread – Christmas 2021
- Open Thread – Mon 25 Nov 2024
- The more you gets the less you eats
- Open Thread – Weekend 23 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 21 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 18 Nov 2024
Done.
“Hello sailor.”
“Damn straight.” said in a very deep and masculine voice…
Costume pretty much identifies the shovel-wielder’s cultural identity.
Just listened to “it” while cooking dinner. Disappointing, as it’s nowhere near as monstrous as I expect 2022 will be. 🙁
Some excerpts:
“A global EMP will be gifted to us early in 2022”
“Kiddies born of the vaxxed will not be human”.
“A mighty asteroid will descend on this planet, 7 kms in size”
“Tsunami will subsequently engulf most of the land on the planet (not good news for Oz)”
“WW3 (all 21 days of it) will erupt shortly afterwards, a chinese/russian/moozley alliance”
“The extra testicle lizard peoples in the Vatican, led by satan, will then enslave anyone remaining”
However, like Arthur Dent, I intend to blunder on through it, in a comfy pair of flannelette PJs, to (i.e. with) boot(s). 🙂
Ah, OK JC. Try the Quantico Marine Course in Nov. The colours are astounding.
Sorry to be repetitious, but here they go again:
Oh, FFS. There are many locations where oil naturally seeps into the ocean from underground, including into “pristine waters”, whatever they might be. And, oil is not a “toxic fuel” – it is simply oil. No doubt a ship losing its load is a bad thing, but given the size and power of the ocean, not to mention the organisms that eat oil, this is yet another example of claiming that The Chipmunks are Black Sabbath.
Lou, really?
Talk about “that li’l D thang” … 😕
The hairdressers behind my place went up in flames (for the 2nd time). The next morning each of the coppers had a “man of Middle Eastern appearance” in the car park. Hopefully getting the same story.
Zat
North East US.
Johanna,
I refer those morons to the millions of tons of oil set free by the Nazi submarine fleet off of the east coast of the US, as an instance. Effect = none.
Next?
Bear – On that round first hole at Whyalla was a par five into the wind. Five full wood shots to reach the green. It was amazing. The next Saturday the members let us play in their comp, since we were both members in good standing at Queanbeyan. Weather was perfect and we took them for everything. Sand scrapes, once you work them out are dead easy, you never three put. So we were playing maybe five or six strokes under out handicaps because of that. I don’t think they forgave us.
The Chipmunks are Black Sabbath …
Sorry mate, I played where I was stationed and I avoided the NE of the US like the plague. So I never played north of Quantico.
Greg Norman….”If you haven’t played golf in Melbourne on the sandbelt, in the summer time with the hot northerly blowing, then you haven’t played golf.”
Meanwhile, the Russian Asst. Defence Minister today warned that NATO were making war in the Ukraine likely.
Let’s just hope he was over-stepping his remit to keep the seat warm while his boss is on holidays.
This guy has 2022 predictions.
He legit predicted the pandemic. Verifiable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPfy72GbH18
Rabz:
As in “Stop the bus, there’s people need kicking off.”
The Phillip Glass being played constantly? What a prick!
Children play on groomed courses. Golfers play wherever they can drive without killing someone.
“Buy pasta, sugar and legumes…”
What a prick. He’s part of the food pyramid lobby.
Bluey says: December 28, 2021 at 5:50 pm
+1
Rabz – Chipmunks rool OK.
Golf and bike riding into the wind is quite demoralising.
Did you work at Ok Tedi, rickw?
No, going around checking Aviation Fuel facilities: Vanimo, Wewak, Lae, Madang, Kokopo, Mt Hagen, Goroka, SIL, Kiunga, Tabubil, POM, Popendetta, Lihir. Doing a construction job in POM when I lived there.
-1
not to mention the organisms that eat oil
Oil spill
Greebies in ocean – ooooh, look, heaps of unoxidised hydrogen and carbon, grubs up, tuck in!
No, Winnie – “Stop the bus, I want off. Now”.
Which was going to feature the Bill leak cartoon with Waffles Turnbuckle snoozing away at the wheel of a bus about to go hurtling off a cliff …
But no. Instead, this gem popped up. Missed, he is, no matter how much junior tries to slip into his shoes.
Northerly wind in Melbournibad is God’s way of telling you to go to the pub. Walking around in that plane tree shit and heat doesn’t appear on those tourist ads.
This was the construction project in PNG. A bit naughty that you can find the footage on YouTube! I was the Safety Manager on the project. Peak of 700 Wontoks on site, something new and unexpected every day!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd_hKPaYjp8
Yeah right.
1 May- 15 May 2022, most of the USA and EU will be hit by 600 – 1000 m tall waves that go up to 9000 km from the epicentre.
Oh and the non-latin mass is satanic and always has ethnic babes dancing with old Italian priests.
ALL volcanoes will erupt.
10,000 m high tidal waves
(Um yeah we’d all be dead. Nothing will survive but the fishes, whales etc.
There is no “resistance” fighting. We’re all gonna die.)
The Vatican is satanic.
Ecclesiastical freemasonry!
Ebola!!!
…oh and debt jubilee fantasies.
Zatarasays:
December 28, 2021 at 8:12 pm
Johanna,
I refer those morons to the millions of tons of oil set free by the Nazi submarine fleet off of the east coast of the US, as an instance. Effect = none.
Next?
Saddam Hussein’s effort in Gulf War I in 1991? Lotsa oil into the Gulf, no long term effect.
And the ??? Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, same, lotsa oil, no long term effect.
Forgot people don’t do Classics anymore.
Cicero’s statement in English: the good of the people is the supreme Law.
I blame the drugs. Yes, keep them coming Matron.
I am told that people actually watch golf on TV.
My hit show, ‘Watching Paint Dry’ is now being prepared for pitching.
Incidentally, I purchased a copy of P J O’Rourke’s Modern Manners (1984) for two dollars at a charity shop the other day. For young readers, P J was a leading light in the humour world when he was young (National Lampoon etc) and devolved over the years into a boring, bowtie-twirling anti-Trump GOP shill. But, this book was published in 1984, when he was still funny.
He devotes a whole chapter to cocaine etiquette – it was the 80s, after all. How to exclude certain people from enjoying your stash (I’m just going into the laundry room so your girlfriend can blow me) and so on.
There seems to have been a whole generation of American so-called ‘conservatives’ who either lost their way or never found it in the first place.
Who has been reading the religious ideas of Mr. Newton? He thought the Pope was the antichrist.
He turned out to be a good advertisement for not doing drugs. Stewing your brain turns out to be a bad mistake for middle age.
I once saw a comedienne suggest America’s Favourite Hunting Accidents which would probably be pretty popular if it got taken up.
Only if you stop, it makes them boring. Best to ride it out all the way.
Barnesy: hold my pallet of grey goose and knapsack full of ecstasy.
Yes, the Vatican has been captured by NWO elites.
Mark Felton, Poland invades Germany:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP79RBS5uFc
Translation:-
“I know, or strongly suspect, that this is bullshit, but here goes.”
We see the same every day from Dan’s “PRGuy17”.
As I age, I see you old dinobores are right. The 1970s were great. Then again, anything short of a shooting war makes today look like a fun time.
‘What a fool believes’ and ‘Ride like the wind’ were gems.
There may be mercy yet in the black heart languishing in the Kampuchean jungles.
Not a big fan of Mr Barnes but this is a pretty good version of Deep Purple’s Lazy. Geezers with guitars.
The Vatican has been around for 2000 years and has civil roots back to 2700 years ago and liturgical roots to at least 2950 years ago.
Catholics are not worried about such transient things.
It survived Diocletian, Avignon, Henry VIII, Martin Luther, schisms and the Gates of Vienna.
And the ??? Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, same, lotsa oil, no long term effect.
There were some ill effects, but mainly due to use of dispersants creating tar balls. Basically the intervention made things worse. (Seems to be a common trend!)
And this is why you never read The Da Vinci Code and take hard drugs before watching footage of Silvio Berlusconi’s bunga-bunga parties…
Interesting post, thank you.
Only because the Kislevites arrived.
Didn’t know the NWOs were around in Newton’s time. That’s one long road to world domination they have been working on.
Speak for yourself.
I don’t know if he ‘stewed his brain’ or not. I don’t know to what extent, how or when he ‘did drugs’ whatever that means, you alleged seeker after truth.
Lift your game.
I doubt if I am the only person here who ‘did drugs’ at some stage. My brain is not ‘stewed’ an odd metaphor when you think about it. A long, slow, cooking process at a constant heat?
Just a tad biased.
Oh Lord, how I miss playing mahjong! I still have a bone and bamboo set, complete with the racks that my brother made for me. We played mahjong ever since I can remember, our parents had a very old set that is still in perfect condition, now with a nephew.
Written by PJ O’Rourke and Pol Dot Jr III
Directed by Johanna Q
Produced by Doctor Beaugan’s Cheroot House
“You know it makes sense™ :)”
PJ used cocaine. Sustained use of amphetamines is a bad idea. Creates lacunar infarcts in the cortex and strongly implicated as a Parkinson’s risk. Smoking also creates lacunar infarcts but paradoxically appears to be protective against Parkinson’s though that benefit is easily outweighed by the risk of vascular dementia which is probably more common than recognised because the default diagnosis in Alzheimer’s.
It’s very much about quantity though. The occasional use of amphetamines is neither here nor there. A friend of mine was a long time user of selegiline, a nootropic believed to have neuroprotective effects and was used as a treatment for Parkinson’s and depression. The biochemistry makes sense and my friend made a lot of sense well into his 80’s but then he had an IQ in the almost too hard to measure region(14th in the USA in a test) so had large cognitive reserve. Then he developed Parkinsonian disorder. Turns out a metabolite of selegiline is methamphetamine! He did an Erdos! So perhaps low dose amphetamines, as Erdos argued, is good for maintaining cognition because as we age dopamine neurons disappear and dopamine is very important for working memory. You might end up with Parkinson’s but at least you’ll be having fun up until then.
Dr. Peter McCullough: ‘whistleblowers’ inside CDC claim injections have already killed 50,000 Americans
Most demoralising headwind experience? After a nice downwind ride north out of Cairns up Cape York, turning the corner out of Princess Charlotte Bay to head home into a strong SE headwind – in a BN2B Islander. It was a lo-o-o-ng trip home. We felt battered, even though it was the aircraft that did the battering.
But then any flying in an Islander was battering, consisting of unrelenting noise, vibration and the aroma of Avgas.
Frank at 9.20 – thanks for bringing this to my attention.
They did a fairish version of the Deep Purple original. There are DP tribute bands that do better, but it was interesting to see the likes of Barnes and other respected musicians having a go.
Keyboards were the thing in the original.
I don’t think there’s going to be civil war, but I have nothing to go except a hunch.
https://reason.com/2021/12/27/americas-divisions-may-have-passed-the-tipping-point/
Actual story. 100% true.
Out for a feed in Williamstown. No QR, masks, none of that. Anyway:
Wandering back with the son and heir to where I’d parked. Two car bays down from where I was sat a…… Mazda MX5.
It had a wing on the back as well. Just as I was instructing the lad that here he have what is known in polite circles as a homo wagon, he directed me to the passenger window.
On that window were four large, brightly coloured anime stickers.
We got in the car, silently, and drove away.
Sounds like you’re another example. Should have stuck to scotch and tobacco.
“The United States is pretty close to being at high risk of civil war,” she concluded.
There has already been a successful coup by the left. The issue is how do the conservatives fight back since the left now run the armed forces. GOP pollies are by and large useless.
Sounds like the old Caribou…….
Weird phrasing. Close to high risk. What is that? Medium risk, medium to high risk, or just plain this will make good clickbait?
The US population is pouring out of Liberal (Democrats states) and into red (Republican states) namely
California,
New York,
Illinois
Into
Florida
Texas
Arizona
Not all, Cronkite. I don’t think the federalized military would shoot at civilians no matter what Milley’s orders would be.
The states’ national guard would be what counts I think.
The reverse is more likely. Like those nutters the Proud Boys and their weekend warrior obsession might decide to start a ruckus.
Someone mentioned the hot northerlies in Melbourne.
Hot and sticky.
You’ve lost two balls by the fifth hole and the card looks like a darts scorecard (lots of doubles and triples).
You’ve got sweat and sunscreen running into your eyes and every other orifice.
Drive into the wind falls short and goes into the bunker. The shot to get out sends a good two cupfuls of sand into the air which blows back onto your greasy skin, leaving you like a sand lamington.
To add insult to injury, the ball catches the lip and falls back into the sand. Your smartarse mate yells “Bad luck, Adolph” *
And still a good three hours away from a hot shower and a cold beer.
Why?
…
* An Adolph = two shots in the bunker.
Agree.Whatever you may think, we are a long way away from this.
I see Faulty’s Oirish cousin turned up here at dinnertime, “wit his doire preductions for de future”.
FMD!
Golf should not be played in hot weather. One of my most enjoyable rounds was played in scotch mist around Albany golf club behind Middleton Beach in which I did not see another person all afternoon. Until I ran out of balls – it was a little bit tight for my style of play.
John H, Bear.
It is something to worry about because the Demonrats are so venomous. We had that demonrat criminal , Marc Elias (an American attorney specializing in election law, voting rights and redistricting. He is the founding partner of Elias Law Group. Elias was previously a partner at Perkins Coie and head of the firm’s political law practice) was saying that Republicans should be sectioned 14’ed if they “supported the insurrection”.
I’d like to discount what Cronkite says, but it’s hard to because it was cronkers and artie who both predicted the demons cheating in the 20 election.
and just like that:
“Most people aged 65 and under are now advised to recover from the virus at home without medical involvement.”
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/more-cases-told-to-manage-themselves-at-home-as-tests-hit-bottleneck-20211228-p59ki8.html
FFS there’s no words to adequately describe the shitfulness of the medico-political-media blob
Crickit:-
Who is this Scott Bowlin and how could he possibly get a game ahead of Joe Burns?
from the above article:
NSW Health advice for managing common COVID-19 symptoms at home
Cough: Breathe in steam and sip on fluids. Avoid lying on your back. If you are coughing up mucous, it is important to continue to do this as it reduces risk of a chest infection.
Nausea, vomiting and diarrhea: Eat plain, low fibre foods. Have six smaller meals instead of three. Do not drink alcohol or caffeine. Stay hydrated.
Fever: Take paracetemol. Put a cool, damp washcloth on your forehead. Wipe your arms and body with a cool cloth.
Source: NSW Health
sheer genius at work, right there.
Crickit 2:-
There is no escape.
On the wireless is Ian Chappell giving the long form of his favourite subject (“the Ian Chappell years, 1955 – 1978”).
Go to the TV and we get maaaaatey mate mate Queenssslander Matty “Hados” Hayden being matey with a very bored Ian Botham, who can barely disguise that he has identified Hados as among the top ten buffoons on the planet.
Woo hoo. Time to hit the bowling lanes again.
JC
Do you believe there was election fraud in 2020 in the USA that changed the outcome?
Most Americans/ voters believe this.
Makes you almost miss Skull.
The Sun:
THR-ASHES Feeble England humiliated all out for 68 to surrender the Ashes as Australia take 3-0 lead after thumping Third Test win
Root:
‘Excellent’ redefined.
Sounds like a good “Downfall” video….
Skull was at least a bit entertaining.
The other one is that dullard Jim Maxwell.
Has never seen a vacancy in the Test side which couldn’t be filled by some nobody from Sydney grade cricket.
It’s been all downhill since Peter Roebuck did his Greg Louganis impression out of the sixth floor hotel room window.
The spanking continues:
England are slammed for ’embarrassing’ post-match act at the Boxing Day Test after total capitulation in Ashes series – with humiliating defeat setting up a likely Aussie whitewash
Can’t take a trick.
Watching blue flames out the exhaust of a Caribou at night? Ground crew standing by with a fire extinguisher for engine start up? The growl of the radial engines? Had some memorable encounters with them while in uniform.
On Pom Crickit woes.
Roger, Tom et al above.
All valid points, particularly too much short form “slather and whack” crickit.
But there is another factor.
A six team Sheffield Sheild comp vs an eighteen team County comp.
Every Shield team has four quality bowlers.
County teams might have two, backed up by a bunch of gap-fillers and “bowling all-rounders”.
In other words, “survive ten overs, then make hay”.
custard says:
December 28, 2021 at 11:21 pm
100% , Custard. No doubt in my mind. Hiden is a fraud.
Whoops
This is a quote.
It wasn’t that long ago that the Sheffield Shield was in the sights. Just another cycle.
Saw a Caribou, making a night landing, on a bush airstrip in Queensland, way back when. It was a shocking landing, bouncing and skidding all over the place…It later emerged that that was the first landing a pilot from Ronnie RAAF, had ever made, wearing night vision goggles…
Yes, Bear.
The Poms have known forever that the County comp is spread too thin, and they should go for a two-tier comp.
But who is going to go into the second division?
As a connoisseur of military aircraft with which to jump out of I rate the Caribou a 9 out of 10. Stable, but a very short ramp which I have bounced off more than once having slipped on my way to glory. Nice chute opening due to low speed.
All and all, happy to sleep in enroute and to dance with on deployment.
You jumped out of an aircraft, flown by those qualified to do so, maintained by those trained and qualified to do so, to trust your life to a folded bed sheet, and several hundred feet of string? Have you never heard of the invention of the helicopter?
What are you people drinking?
A Caribou is a type of moose.
It does not fly.
Wind in the Willows Cosgrove Hall 1983 (extended version with omitted chapters)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXGfCKNa_9E
Enjoy.
Bedsheets? Amazing how thousands of allied troops dropped under them into Normandy and lived to tell the tale.
As to the the ‘perfectly good aircraft’ meme, they don’t exist. Cite the Apollo program… brilliant, but ooops.
Zatara says:
December 28, 2021 at 11:56 pm
As a connoisseur of military aircraft with which to jump out of I rate the Caribou a 9 out of 10. Stable, but a very short ramp which I have bounced off more than once having slipped on my way to glory. Nice chute opening due to low speed.
I found the side door of a C130 the best, the ramp good and the small side door of the P3 Orion the worst (Too fast). Caribou was good, S-2 Grumman Tracker-fair, CH 46-good…
Digger,
In the old days… the jet C-141 snatched your ass out the door, C-5 does the same on a door jump. My first 4 jumps in school were out of a beastly C-134. A fair enough old bugger but flown by reservists on their break from their airine job. Anything with a ramp jump is fairly smooth tho IMO.
Talk to me about OV-10 jumps if you want the definition of dangerous fun
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
Morten Morland.
Michael Ramirez.
Al Goodwyn.
Robert Ariail.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich #2.
Ben Garrison.
There was no evidence of election fraud in 2020.
Fifty states endorsed, certified the results.
Sixty court cases failed.
Pence didn’t withhold endorsement of the result.
Trump was an erratic, unpredictable president who tweeted too much.
Trump still has a connection to a lot of voters.
John Sopel, after seven years as BBC correspondent in the USA. No mention of Democrat manoeuverings in the four years plus while Trump was running for and being Pres, or since. Some reservations about Biden’s ability to do the job but no condemnation of him either. No problems with the direction the USA admin and the house/senate are heading.
Spoke to my nephew who works on the lines for a Vic power company.
He says the system is breaking down due to aged infrastructure and maintenance keeps them very busy without any weather events.
I said we were told by the government that the grid is “gold plated” and companies had spent too much on poles & wires. He just laughed.
It’s Magical Monetary Theory™, Dot.
Anyone want to buy a Day 4 ticket to cricket? Going cheap, while stocks last.
The deep state and its connections to Jan6, and the origins of Russia hoax, pt.2.
Gateway Pundit
Calli, missed the Hagen Show, wish I’d seen it. I was with a mate on Christmas Day 1977, we decided to go to Goroka for Christmas lunch, dunno why it seemed like a good idea at the time. Anyway just as we got to Kundiawa the police were checking licences, he turned to me and said “I don’t have a licence” so when they got to him they arrested him and put him in a cell at the police station with about 20 locals. The Sgt said I could bail him out for 50 kina, we only had 40 between us so I knocked on doors until I found a family who would lend me the 10 extra and bailed him. They told us to come to court the next sitting day, when we got there no one could tell us anything, after a couple of hours of waiting and asking the clerk told us that they heard his case first (we were there but didn’t know) and fined him 50kina of course. Great place.
Mt Hagen, remember it was common to see men in arse grass everywhere and once I saw a chap in the supermarket in arse grass, pig fat and carrying his shotgun on his shoulder while his meri pushed the trolley.
Dilbert
Dilbert 2
Dilbert 3
Dilbert 4
Dilbert 5
rickw, what was Popondetta like when you were there? I was last there early 77, it was always stinking hot and there was only an old windowless shed to wait in at the airport, more than a few times I would be dropped off to take a plane elswhere and the plane would be late and hours of sitting in the shed would leave you pretty crook. The upside was there were plenty of WW2 planes lying around in the scrub and the sides of the airport. I suppose they’re gone now.
Even Reffitt’s wife is now being abused by the US government. She was recently yanked from a plane for being married to a January 6 protester in Washington DC who never committed any acts of violence.
Why is this happening and what has happened to the legal system in the US?
Normally Id agree, Johanna but the sub stories have been fascinating.
Hyundai Recalling 2,679 Ioniq EVs For Unintended Acceleration
Thanks rickw and sfw for the PNG memories. I was there mid 85-88.
Long time residents said the post Independence PNG was starkly different, but it is all I know. Thirty years later, and another great change – just looking at the new infrastructure and housing in Goroka is amazing.
Another story – the Water Resources office was opposite my house in the centre of Goroka. One Saturday they decided to remove an enormous eucalypt from the yard. It was huge. So I sat on the front verandah, stitching and watching the show.
Many, many men appeared in the back of utes for the work, and a small bulldozer was unloaded. Bulldozer was put to work undermining the root plate on the opposite side to the house, the theory being that the chasm beneath the tree would destabilise it and direct the fall. Meanwhile, men climbed the tree and attached ropes to the lower branches, then tied them to the towballs of the vehicles they arrived in. All to the background noise of shouted orders and the drone of the dozer. Ropes became taut as the utes took the slack.
You know what happens next.
The crescendo of noise reached its peak, the dozer cut through a critical part of the plate, engines revved…and the tree crashed down in the opposite direction straight onto the roof of the Water Resources building with a resounding crunch and a couple of bounces. The utes were basically lifted off the road and flung into the hole.
Dead silence.
Another day in the Highlands.
rickw, what was Popondetta like when you were there?
Not much had changed except no aircraft lying about!
NSW Health advice for managing common COVID-19 symptoms at home
What?! I’m not going straight to ICU?!
JC
The states’ national guard would be what counts I think.
It was the National Guard that opened fire at Kent State.
October 21
Ventura County Nurses Blow the Whistle on Crisis in Local Health Care
December 14
More VC Nurses Blow Whistle on ‘Overwhelming’ Numbers of Heart Attacks, Clotting, Strokes
Francis the talking ass?
The Last Refuge
CDC Changes Rules, Shortens Quarantine for Vaxxed and Unvaxxed, Cancels Any Self Quarantine for Boosted Group Even When Positive Test for Virus
I was offered a job running a plant in PM, double the pay, 10% tax. Family couldn’t leave compound without security. Sometimes apparently the trucks would leave for deliveries and never come back. Can’t remember why I didn’t take it.
Good crops, Tom and Will.
Apparently Hugh Jackman has covid.
O Death, where is thy sting?
A question to those knowledgeable in such things.
There is a post above which refers to an article where WA scientist is talking about how there must be other factors at play in the declining rainfall in WA. He says that it is only when you add in the greenhouse gases that the models work.
And for the time being, we will forgive what maybe merely a genuflection to AGW and its exponentially proliferating models.
Where does the greenhouse data come from? I mean we can set up thermometers in places, we can measure window movement and rain, but how do they measure the greenhouse gases?
The first three are phenomena in themselves. Rain is rain. There is no distinguishing between the kinds of rain being measured. The temperature is being measured are just that. They’re not breaking it down into types of temperature.
But greenhouse gases are a component of the atmosphere. It is possible of course to measure just that component, but they really have the capacity to measure it around the world? Or is this a few bits of data being modelled to create what they are passing off as more raw data?
Because frankly I simply do not trust them.
Hyundai Recalling 2,679 Ioniq EVs For Unintended Acceleration
Rebadged – Ironiq
The Boy From Omicron?
Xi-Men?
Does he have any Wolvermectin?
Golf is great. Perhaps nowhere can a CEO play alongside a couple of guys in a ute. Neither of them be any good. And everybody have a great time.
I said we were told by the government that the grid is “gold plated” and companies had spent too much on poles & wires.
I’ve only ever been to one substation. 1960’s Metrovick transformers that were all leaking oil. Didn’t look to gold plated to me.
I’m hoping for a bigger turnout at my Wisdom of Justin Langer meeting this month. The last one was pretty lonely.
Chicken soup, tissues, a blanket wrapped around yourself, and binge watching TV.
Ignore them and get on with it?
The electricity grid is a bit like an organic organism. They don’t really know how many split systems are added to it from year to year until they all get turned on. The effect of branches falling on wires hasn’t really changed much. I seem to remember many more power failures as a kid. Payment for the poles and wires is a classic case of the myth that economics can realistically expect to price a natural monopoly. Plenty of scope for argument.
Thanks rickw and sfw for the PNG memories. I was there mid 85-88.
I started going there in the late 1990’s. You could walk around pretty much every place safely at night except for POM and Mt Hagen. I lived there in the mid to late 2010’s in POM.
I always enjoyed it there, always something different and unexpected, you just had to go with it and see the funny side!
Plenty of things to do, kite surfing, kayaking, restaurants. I loved the stinking hot weather to.
When I did the Aviation fuel audits I was always really proud of our guys there. They would turn up in their colour bleached uniforms freshly washed, were pretty much always doing their best and always keen to learn. I don’t think there’s many people that you could put out in the sticks selling two drums of Avgas a week where you could come back 12 months later and the standard was still the same.
Dog parks are another one. Huddling under a tree from the rain and clutching a plastic bag full of shit while your mutts run around like idiots is an excellent social leveller.
The big spend certainly wasn’t in VIC but NSW & QLD.
Well the vaccine is supposed to dull the symptoms so managing a mild case at home seems logical.
It was a rort. The companies warned governments that with demand rising supply couldn’t be guaranteed, so governments offered them incentives to update infrastructure – the more they built the more they got paid. As they did so prices rose and demand fell but the consumer was left with the bill. Proving yet again that there’s no problem agovernment internvention can’t make worse.
Fare enough but I spend most of my working time walking and alone and I still get into arguments.
Lex Luthor agrees.
Reversed previous worrywart incumbent’s policy of hospitalising all cases.
I’ve always wondered, when talking about the Chinese threat, if the American aircraft carriers are vulnerable to missile or submarine attack. I still don’t know for sure – like who does. This piece suggests they are uniquely invulnerable.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2020/06/09/claims-of-aircraft-carrier-vulnerability-are-false-but-the-versatility-is-real/?sh=afe6507591ad
Sparkles Markle isn’t going to like that Knight cartoon one bit. Probably on the phone to her lawyers and, more importantly, her plastic surgeon, right about now.
In Queensland it reached its peak in about 2005. Corporatisation + Beattie budget repair.
Re the Forbes article: Loren Thompson is a well known lobbyist for the defence industry. He’ll write anything for anyone, for money.
Get a load of the amount they were provisioning for Afghanistan and ignore the rest. It’s mind boggling.
There is a real sickness here at this blog.
We only have to read the comments and the subject matter to read the ramblings of the defeated.
I make these comments, again, to try to help you realise the great psychological effect complying has had on people.
The insanity.
I knew it was lost when Frank equated the fighting spirit of the jabbed with those that have not complied.
FMD.
We note now how happy he is keeping you all talking about anything other than the loss of your nation and freedom.
And so are many of you.
The split between the different catallaxies is pronounced and people have gravitated to where they feel more accepted.
Look back.
These are the pages of the defeated.
You may have gone on a March in Melbourne, but still, many of you feelo personally defeated.
Technically I say, it sticks out like dog’s balls.
Sure there are a few hang outs trying to sway the reality reluctant to see what they bitterly refuse to, but the rest would be so much happier to see the end of them and me, …………..after all, is a quiet life too much to expect?
Here is truth.
To take an injection from criminals when you don’t know what is in it, and it hasn’t been tested, is killing hundreds of thousands SO FAR, and is used as a bargaining chip to get your freedoms back by the same criminals, and you submit, ………. you know better.
And you do.
This is a blog where people are supposed to be right wing.
The sadness on display here is not even subtle.
You’re defeated as a person and you know it.
Not even for taking the jab, as some of you haven’t.
But by letting fear blind you to the bleeding obvious over two years of denouncing the “conspiracy theorists”
Yet as your hysteria subsides, two years later you start to see how right they were all along.
It certainly does nothing for self esteem.
So you can either wallow in delusion and pretend you didn’t fail at the crucial moment , and sit around here talking about cricket and golf as your country is taken from you, or you can embrace sanity, say you fell once but won’t fall twice, and rejoin the fight.
You are more easily forgiven for being wrong by the righteous, than the righteous are forgiven for being right.
There is a sickness of the mind in these pages.
Sort yourselves out.
Perhaps, but are they uniquely invulnerable to a reasonable extent? Is he right, or we’re satisfied with ad hom?
Struth, are you reading the same blog because it appears you’re hallucinating. People supporting vaxes vs those that don’t is running at about 98 to 1 with the other 1 being unsure. 98 against. Reduce your meds
Every time you use your “Good Nazi” pass, a part of a right winger dies.
Of course it’s true.
You can’t justify it and it plays on you.
You are participating in a segregated society.
You are the Aryan and the others are the Jews.
Notafan even said it.
HER family has had enough, and are using it.
You see HER family is more important than god’s laws, more important than any moral values, certainly it should not be for HER family to make sacrifices and not participate.
However when somebody like myself brings these matters into the light, once someone dares to question one who so often throughout the history of this blog declares her righteous Christianity in a way I find deeply hypocritical, …….I am attacked.
How DARE I question HER or HER family and , indeed just because I did so, she tries to use it as the reason to use her Nazi pass. As if she wasn’t going to before!
We live in a society where Christian right and wrong are lost.
I get that.
But it should not be lost on this blog.
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struth says:
December 29, 2021 at 9:39 am
Wrong, and unkind to all who comment here and esp to the blog host.
Remember the photo of coffins from Bergamo, Italy, in March 2020, which terrified the world and contributed to the lockdown frenzy? It was also fake:
Perth rainfall this year is above average. Rainfall has been increasing over the last few years.
NSW over the fence at 11,000+ and Vic making quick runs at the tail.
All those punitive restrictions and mandated vaccinations looking rather pointless against the South African touring Covid squad.
Series whitewash of the PM’s selection.
struth, our one true Scotsman.
the catching of covid seems to be a weakness
Well a little charity wouldn’t go astray then.
I was taught that ‘You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour’ meant we should to put the best, not the worst, contruction on what others say or write.
“Can’t bat. Can’t bowl”
Sums up the Aussie Covid team.
Covid may have the first innings lead but I suspect mankind may get them in the 2nd. They have every time so far.
Look back JC.
I make these comments because I give you all the credit of self reflection.
At least now much of the hysteria is gone.
You are mostly not lefties.
I bother to argue only because I sense hope.
I remember the minds of people here before the coup d’etat.
At this time of year it is time to self reflect and it’s healthy to do so.
I am no smarter than I have ever been.
I just never lost it at the start when most fell only due to my experience of being a target of the MSM and a life of dealing with them with the likes of aboriginal issues.
and a bit of a knowledge of history under the belt.
This is where character comes in.
Those that have taken the jab, (which includes my son) are ticking time bombs.
You made the biggest mistake of your lives and it will take your life.
You, as decent people could not for a second contemplate godless evil on the level we are seeing it.
We live in historic times.
The proof is in.
Always remember I pleaded with you not to be jabbed.
You and I now live for other people, so they can be free.
This statement of truth will be “that’s just struth again”…but underneath you know it’s true.
That’s why I give people the shits more than many a troll.
How many of you won’t want to hear these truths and conformations…while jabbed mates of mine have both suffered shingles while not ever in contact.
Serious question. Have you resigned yourself to being killed and not even bothering to get justice, or to stop others receiving the same fate?
Time was when visiting English teams on the ropes would pray for rain to interrupt play.
Now they pray for covid.
And wonder if they should seek asylum rather than return home.
From the link:
China has many surveillance satellites so that’s just plain wrong.
That is one approach but the guidance of the missiles can be achieved with aircraft or drones; perhaps even a submarine. That however can also be very difficult because those can be tracked and attacked. However given China can now build its own jet engines for the stealth fighters it is ramping up production big time and that will be a game changer because if their J-20 is sufficiently stealthy it will get the job done.
In modern warfare 4th generation aircraft are very vulnerable against surface to air missiles. The F35 is much better but has a very limited payload capacity and even it can be targeted by surface to air missiles if the pilot strays too close to the missile launchers. China’s coastline is very well defended.
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Nonetheless I agree with his conclusion but only if the US Navy sticks to stand off operations. Which it will, the military people running the show are very smart so I’m sure they have plenty of tricks we don’t know about. I actually think the whole China threat is vastly over rated. China’s military adventures are much more likely to happen in the west where there are huge hydrocarbon reserves and where they already have a belt & road established(those ‘stan’ countries) so the aircraft carriers and even nearly all of the US air force can’t do anything about that.
Not a sneer from Humphrey B bear…………how can I possibly cope.
Now, back to golf and cricket……….
Bye.
Behold! The future.
EV car. Charging station from the former Big Oil. Pencil neck. Mask. Neck beard. Haunted look.
Bold claim. What of the circumstantial evidence in Fulton County, for instance? What of the fact that Trump won almost all of the 20 or so bellwether counties? What of both the swing states of Ohio and Florida that have picked the Pres. since 1960?
That is merely a rubber stamp. We saw in Wisconsin, for instance, clear evidence that they ignored state electoral law re absentee ballots, etc. yet they certified the result anyway.
This number always seems to vary. Nevertheless, unless we know the issue/s raised, whether the case was heard in full, dismissed early and on what grounds, and the like, its repetition is merely rhetorical.
Loren Thompson is a bit of a standing joke in the on-line aerospace/defence community. He may sometimes even be right but anything he says needs to be viewed sceptically as he is well known for writing hit pieces for pay.
As for carrier vulnerability – the only carriers the Chicoms need worry about are those within the range of the strike aircraft on the carrier. Aerial refuelling helps a bit but rapidly reduces the number of aircraft available for the strike. The Russians had RORSATS (Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellites) back in the 1980’s primarily for tracking US surface ships. The state of the art has improved since then and the Chicoms have lots of satellites on orbit including 35 Beidou navsats. Don’t bet that there isn’t some sort of ocean recon payload on them or other satellites. The Chicoms also have the DF-21 ballistic missile for hitting US carriers. It seems to be like a longer ranged Pershing 2 with terminal radar guidance.
I’d rather be in a nuclear submarine.
The Courier-Mail:
QLD hospitality sector days away from crippling staff shortages thanks to government’s isolation policies. Leaders beg government to be more sensible.
QLD may survive covid, but will it survive the ineptitude of Palaszczuk?
Pre-vax and post-vax, hasn’t the advice always been ‘Go home and only present to emergency if your lips turn blue’?
What about the point that Thompson makes – a carrier battle group has onboard technology to block even the most sophisticated low orbiting satellites that the Chinese could deploy but still haven’t? Is he making this up?
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No, I am the undefeated unvaccinated champ.
I am not dead yet and none of my close contacts have gotten COVID – except (maybe) in the before Z(pre lockdown 2020) times.
If we are defeated, it is a bigger picture thing. Consider that the left won in the 1970s and now this is just mopping-up operations.
Just looking for my Waylon Jennings cassettes and I’m right behind you.
Depends which state you are in.
QLD (&NT?) had a policy of hospitalising all cases.
This accounts in large measure for the hard line and heartless decisions of the former CHO on border closures and quarantine. Her policy was guaranteed to overwhelm the hospital system very quickly if a community outbreak ever took off. So they made her governor.
I can’t believe this argument is still being made. Those making accusations of fraud don’t have to prove a fucking thing.
It’s up to the shysters saying there was no fraud to prove it. The only way this could be done is to demonstrate it through evidence by way of audits trails. US elections cannot be audited at this stage so the only functional position to take is that election fraud can and will occur when you can’t audit.
The only reason election results are left as “un-auditable” is to undertake fraud.
That’s it.
Well the vaccine is supposed to dull the symptoms so managing a mild case at home seems logical.
That must be why the unvaxxed in our house either didn’t get it or shrugged it off and the one vaxxed thought she was going to die.
Latest on Novavax, now approved by WHO and the Euros. From the TGA, however, not a peep.
https://www.science.org/content/article/novavax-s-long-awaited-covid-19-vaccine-authorizations-offer-alternative-mrna
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I think he oversells some of their strengths.
For starters: Sure they can disappear over the horizon as fast as their hull speed will allow,
but their surface consorts, providing that layered defence, wouldn’t be able to keep up.
Things could get very lonely fairly quickly, messy too if the PLA(N) weren’t complete morons
and happened to have a plan designed to exploit that particular strength.
Perhaps the author should read up on a number of wargames that’ve been done where the fleet including carriers is sunk by creative use of non traditional methods.
Besides, any fistycuffs with china will not be a pure military war. I would fully expect them to take measure like shutting down power across the USA, raids on infrastructure etc. etc.
It is a visual so no I don’t think that can be blocked, especially given a carrier is part of a large group of ships. Even passive sonar can identify the location and from a long distance. China probably has its own SOSUS(seabed hydrophones). What he might be referring to is blocking guidance. That is possible. The problem for the DF 21 missile is that the extreme speed leaves precious little time for course changes so the guidance needs to be very accurate. A conventional missile strike is more threatening especially given China has all those bombers which can carry long range hypersonic anti-ship missiles. A defense saturating barrage at the fleet by timing the release from the bombers, the fighters, the land and ship based missile launchers, and it won’t be just carriers taking hits, many escort ships could be sunk.
Again though, China has no particular interest in such an attack. I don’t even think it will attempt a military attack on Taiwan and there are no strategic advantages in attacking other countries to the east because it won’t be just the USA it will be Japan(do not underestimate Japan’s military capacity!) and other countries will be happy to join that coalition. Some USA analyst even wrote a puff piece how China might be interested in Guam and Hawaii. What utter rubbish, it barely has a blue ocean naval capacity and the logistics of occupying those islands is impossible. Give me money is the the message behind all this alarmist nonsense out of the USA.
My residential electricity price is 60% higher than they assume, and if you use a Tesla fast charging station in Australia it’s 150% higher (Oct 2020 number).
Then in the article there’s no mention of battery replacement, which was quoted as €20,000 to the guy in Finland who exploded his Tesla in disgust.
Tesla: Nothing Says Customer Satisfaction Like 30Kg of Dynamite (27 Dec)
Electricity prices are about to rise in the EU and UK in the new year. The shock to the punters is going to be quite incendiary too, methinks.
When is this bloody global warming going to start???
Grate – another series of drive by sprays from St Ruth.
On the Ian Chappell show someone mentioned above, did he mention those regrettable incidents when he was temporarily banned (by the Goanna) after blowing his stack on air (twice)?
About the only times I remember him being even remotely funny and both incidents were of course, entirely accidental. He was a crashing insufferable bore, incessant pronouncer of the bleeding obvious and infuriating uptalker decades before it became fashionable – and don’t get me started on that pair of even more infuriating cretins, Grieg and Lawry. Why anyone would willingly listen to such irredeemable imbeciles remains one of the great mysteries of human existence.
The problem with this is the emperor is going to lose face if he doesn’t bring taiwan back to the motherland bosom. All propaganda inside china is geared towards reunification. The question isn’t if, but when and how.
John H
I keep going back to a point I’ve made before. Most of Chinese oil supplies come from the middle east. This makes their military extremely vulnerable as a military on a wartime footing consumes immense amount of energy. Even if they managed to resupply from elsewhere shipping transport has to go through very narrow sea lanes to make its way to Chinese ports. This makes it a turkey shoot for subs. They’re fucked in a all out war.
I see absolutely no reason to consider any of these witches brews.
There was no evidence of election fraud in 2020.
Fifty states endorsed, certified the results.
Sixty court cases failed.
Pence didn’t withhold endorsement of the result.
Trump was an erratic, unpredictable president who tweeted too much.
Complete bullshit. So much evidence of election fraud; here’s one. Many states are now investigating fraud including the 6 states which decided the result including Az, Penn, GA. Most court cases succeeded or were dismissed without being heard. Pence could not withhold anything, he was bound by each state’s decision. Trump was the best POTUS the US has had: he was a POTUS who supported Western values, made the US into the premier economic nation, kept the chunks, russkies, mullahs and the mutant in NK in their boxes, created record employment particularly amongst blacks, hispanics and women and most especially revealed the media, bureaucrats and tech billionaires as the traitors they are. He also showed the demorats for the racist, anti-democratic scum they are.
Fuck off.
I’ve often read that China could take out US bases in and around the Pacific. That’s true. But wouldn’t the US take out every single Chinese port on the mainland? They could only reach American mainland ports on any scale through nukes. Really? If they did, the Chinese population would end up being no more than a 100 million tops.
Australia is too stupid to survive. Turn the States into Countries and then see what happens. They couldn’t do that properly and we’d end up with C***s, but we have those already. Blow up the inter-connectors, that’s an energy policy in its self. The biggest problem Australia has is low energy politicians, and stupid voters to lazy to look after themselves. Paying idiots to do nothing is the worst thing that ever happened to Australia, the Liars, the SFL, the Watermelons. The list goes on. Grandchildren is the only thing stopping us from leaving.
He’s now commenting on ABC radio.
I heard him say “it’s ridicuous” about 4 times in two minutes.
Long gone the glory days when Kerry O’Keefe was on ABC.
You’re only thinking one dimension. Have a look at any major city in the west now days. How many Chinese are there? A special forces platoon might be 30 or so? How much havoc would it cause to start knocking out power substations, bridges, key points of the supply chain, water pumping stations?
The Chinese have made it quite clear they don’t think just in military assets vs. military assets. Systems are fragile, just look at the supply chain woes without any serious attempt to screw it up.
The globalists want you to continue to be lulled by the “China isn’t a threat to us” stupidity. Biden style.
Until it’s bleeding obvious to everyone that they are, then it’s “Oh well, China is too strong to take on”.
Sometimes they play both these themes on the same day.
The message is: Don’t do anything about China.
Meanwhile my in-laws suffer daily fighter incursions.
Listen to people with actual military experience, not these shills.
After being discharged from hospital I have spent the last week at my sister’s place. She lives in the inner-west. Earlier this morning she took me home to Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Along the way we passed several Covid testing stations. The queues are massive……long snake like lines of people standing and waiting to be tested. I couldn’t believe me eyes.
Speaking of paying idiots to do nothing, did you seek the Herald Sun article on the skyrocketing number of public servants in victoria on $500k?