Open Thread – New Year 2022
2,273 responses to “Open Thread – New Year 2022”
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John – if it’s any consolation, if Bird achieves nothing useful in the remainder of his life (and he most likely will not), he can at least go to his grave knowing that he set Clive Hamilton on the path to righteousness.
Clive’s bemused indignation when describing he’d received a “an obscenity laden rant from one of the most notorious trolls on the internet” remains a thing of almost incomprehensible beauty*, for all the wrong reasons.
*Not to mention the rant itself.
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John H.
You triggered something.
Recently I watched a doco on the Fyre Festival in the Caribbean 4-5 years ago.
Run by a (cough) brilliant organiser.
Not really.
A branding whizz and A-grade bullshitter.
Even when it was so obviously imploding and a five-star disaster was inevitable, this dick was dropping glib one-liners like “I am not a problems guy. I am a solutions guy.”
Decoded?
“I am totally fucking delusional and don’t want to be told we’ve hit an iceberg.” -
Rex Anger says:
January 3, 2022 at 9:44 pm
Plenty of WW2 era fuel and munitions dump sites out in all Australian States and territories where they could be situated. And underground piped to the nearest convenient road- or railhead for distribution.When I was a kid in late 50’s, early 60’s, there was a fuel depot near the Willowburn Rail Depot (Toowoomba). Along the hill to the north of the fuel depot were still visible the underground fuel tanks built during the war – grassed over but the round tank shape still quite visible,
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Bwahahaa!
Bird’s been triggered by John H.! It’s glorious!
And he’s incensed how I am so wrong about animal shit, too! He’s talking about “dung beetles spread dung and if you throw chicken feed around manure, the chickens will eat the maggots in the shit and spread it! I am right and yooz are all R-O-N-G wrong! REEEEEEEEEE!!!1!”
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Jack Van Tongeren was exiled from WA and is believed to be living in a coastal town in Victoria, scratching out a living as an artist.
Two of his bozos thought it fine sport to reduce the daughter of the family, who ran our local Chinese, to tears one night – she would have been ten years old, working behind the till, standing on a box. Her father emerged from the kitchen, carrying a meat axe, and these two heroes couldn’t get out of there quick enough….
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Rex I did not.
Can you link it again.
I did see the post though.
I’d forgotten the virtual signaling bullshit around Kony2012.
I remember shouting at the TV about Michelle Obama making a big deal about wearing a ribbon or something to “raise awareness” about Kony.
WTF!
Awareness?
No!
Get your husband to pick up the phone and get a Seal Team to ventilate the deadshit. -
For all his claims about having grown up on a farm, his understanding of how it all actually works (given the previous brainfarts about mushing prickly pears into cattle and human feedstock and somehow the cowshit will regenerate marginal Australian soils, permaculture-style) is limited to the point of fantasy.
The problem is prickly pear grows in marginal land you are not getting a tractor or slasher over (think boulder strewn gully or steep hillside). Green mulch and allelopathy are sound, implementing this is going to be difficult – extremely difficult.
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Doc Faustus:
Rabz’ List is an interesting kick off point – but spread over 50 years, you end up with historic problems of scope and scale that makes comparison difficult.
I think a major point to be made is the fact the two party political system has been a social and economic disaster for Australia over the last 50 years.
A more lacklustre, incompetent, self serving pack of second class bludgers, crooks, and spivs, would be hard to imagine.
Opportunity after opportunity to advance the Nation have gone begging because of these lazy bastards, while aggrandising schemes to prop their pathetic egos have burnt trillions of dollars.
They have driven this country at full speed into a concrete barrier and pat themselves on the back having done so.
I would swap them all for a mad dog, then shoot the dog. -
srr says:
January 3, 2022 at 6:07 pm? –
“CosmicDancer @mbolan29
29m
Doggos
Dogs are amazing. They have so many underestimated talents, and they are always so happy to have a job….”Look how enthusiastic they are on their way to work!
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/be/4e/19/be4e19e06b7723c946546b156abf6a15.jpg
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Dotsays:
January 3, 2022 at 10:24 pm
For all his claims about having grown up on a farm, his understanding of how it all actually works (given the previous brainfarts about mushing prickly pears into cattle and human feedstock and somehow the cowshit will regenerate marginal Australian soils, permaculture-style) is limited to the point of fantasy.The problem is prickly pear grows in marginal land you are not getting a tractor or slasher over (think boulder strewn gully or steep hillside). Green mulch and allelopathy are sound, implementing this is going to be difficult – extremely difficult.
Years ago I saw a documentary about an Aus scientist who had grown vegetables in the desert by using particular methods of soil regeneration. That’s possible and one day it will be done but not by the likes of Bird. In one sense I pity Bird because he very intelligent but over the years he has deteriorated psychologically and his talents have been wasted. He seems to have become stuck in that stage where he thinks his genius is unnoticed and continues lashing out in rage at the world. That’s really sad. We all, or perhaps most of us, have regrets about things we did not do, but we get over it.
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Dotsays:
January 3, 2022 at 10:24 pmFor all his claims about having grown up on a farm, his understanding of how it all actually works (given the previous brainfarts about mushing prickly pears into cattle and human feedstock and somehow the cowshit will regenerate marginal Australian soils, permaculture-style) is limited to the point of fantasy.
Dot wouldn’t know his own arse from a hole in the ground.
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Donkeys are useful.
We used to go out and shoot them when I was in Central Straya. They are thick as shit – you’d plug one, and the one standing next to it would watch the first one drop, stare at it and then just look at you. BANG.
Axe. Remove hind leg. Chop off at knee as well. Boil up remaining bit in large copper to deworm it. Put in chest freezer for a couple of days.
Remove. Put in backyard. The dogs use it as a combo salt lick/Zooper Dooper, then as a chew toy, then a snack.
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There is a bloke in Melbourne that hires out goats for blackberry removal.
Quite successful I believe.
Also good for thistles.They’ll take away pretty much anything, but you have to graze them incredibly carefully to prevent them completely denuding any land you leave them on.
And when the land is sparse and marginal to start with (a la parts of sub-Saharan Africa), just keeping the flock alive will result in dustbowls.
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OK.
So here’s my very clever idea.
War-torn countries have lots of minefields which are difficult and dangerous to clear.
We take some end-of-life dairy cows and infect them with BSE.
We then let them loose to graze in the minefields and, as the BSE takes hold, they will get the staggers and eventually step on all the mines.
Brilliant, hey?
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I must confess this is not all my own work.
This was an actual “clever idea” from 20-30 years ago. -
Dunno about using prickly pear as stock fodder – huge areas of Queensland were rendered useless by it until the Cactoblastis (caterpillar / moth) came along.
Apparently, some people who had prior knowledge (insider trading) bought up large areas very cheaply just prior to the introduction of the moth. It’s not just a recent phenomenon…
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Jeez.
You take longer to re-charge than a fucking Tesla.Tell me about it. Pretty amazing stuff though. Just over a large Chocmilk of the stuff a day has kept me going for the last few years. Even think I might have to cut down. The dietitian’s advice, “Eat as much as you want of whatever you want. Try to get some protein.”
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Dunno about using prickly pear as stock fodder
If there is a grain of truth to it, then it was just another very bad idea in a long line of Bird-brain level concepts that have failed in Australia over the last 200 years.
And like a beef would waste time trying to get past the spines- I got caught up in a patch of the stuff once in the Singleton Training Area, and that was bad enough. A week afterwards, I had a curious inflamed bump on my leg that I thought was a pimple or ingrown hair- And squeezed out an inch and a half-long spine. Never felt it go in.
Vicious stuff.
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Dunno about using prickly pear as stock fodder
If there is a grain of truth to it, then it was just another very bad idea in a long line of Bird-brain level concepts that have failed in Australia over the last 200 years.
Cattle get moisture from prickly pear.
Sufficient moisture so that they do not need to drink water, at all. None. -
Dr. Robert Malone on Joe Rogan’s Podcast
https://rumble.com/vrq3fh-dr.-robert-malone-on-joe-rogans-podcast.html
BostonChris – Published December 31, 2021
Rumble — Dr. Malone:
“There’s good modeling studies that probably half a million excess deaths have happened in the United States through the intentional blockade of early treatment by the U.S. government.”
Make Nuremberg trials great again.Full Podcast here:
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Dr. Robert Malone Podcast with Joe Rogan
https://rumble.com/vrq323-dr.-robert-malone-podcast-with-joe-rogan.html
BostonChris – Published December 31, 2021
Rumble — Dr. Robert Malone explains to Joe Rogan how Uttar Pradesh has crushed COVID with early treatment.Joe Biden met with Narendra Modi and a decision was made to not disclose the contents of the treatment. Why?
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No, Calli. You are simply perpetuating a meme here that I enjoy ‘sparring’ with Johanna
No, Lizzie. I am not. How you got that from my statement is beyond me.
Try this from beyondville: your nod that Johanna and I form some sort of evolutionary compact of endless sparring that others can only regard incomprehendingly? Come off it, Calli. Let’s see you call out the real bully and liar rather than pass it off as a joke. I know you mean well, but this one won’t fly.
And Leigh, you don’t follow your own advice, for you have always (rightly in my view) answered your critics strongly, incensed by far less prodding than I have constantly received in this endless meme about so-called mutual engagement of myself and this vicious woman. Not any sort of engagement that I have ever wanted nor agreed to and have always resisted and tried to ignore, in so many ways over the years.
Quite some weeks ago now I was happily commenting here believing Johanna’s nonsense had finally settled down and then from left field – wham – comes another scorching attack from the Witch-Finder General about nothing much, apparently I dared to say I was going to bed and then didn’t. Plus other accusations of rool breaking. And a promise that she ‘would never let up’.
If she ever comes in again with her vicious confected lying and rambling attacks on me, even under the pathetic disguise of ‘satire’, then I will be perfectly vindicated in having taken up so much thread time pointing out the true facts of the fake blog historiography she’s presented, to acclaim, this long weekend (Sinc will have his memory of removing her doxxing). My point will be perfectly proven though I’d rather move on. If she maintains forever her usual temporary post-attack stance of Ms Goody-two-shoes with a mouthful of unmelted butter that will suit me fine: if I never get kicked by her from left field again I will be happy. She should just keep it that way and prove she has control of her emotional baggage, whatever that is. The blog will be all the better for that.
I will comment occasionally when I feel like it, perhaps to re-test the waters, as I have done this weekend, to the usual attacking result. I haven’t read back thread this evening, too busy enjoying watching a re-run of ‘Succession’ from the beginning.
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Grigs having a field day upthread with some very selective quoting.
Hardly surprising. This sort of demolition job is done on politicians contantly. Dead easy on me.
Same as Timothy Neilson’s ‘beclowning’ comment, to which I made a reply that Grigs has ignored.
I suggest a quick scroll through would put some chronological context in for the 47 dickless upticks.And KD, Hairy is not Eddie Obeid. Terrible choice for my man of strong probity.
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