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Open Thread – New Year 2022
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While bumping along the goat tracks between Horsham, Minyip and Donald yesterday evening my ex army son turned and said…
Pretty much everyone I’ve known who was a genuine talent outside sports left Australia. The few who didn’t had ties…
Ben Garrison.
Lisa Benson.
For anyone interested in Australian military history, Mark Fenton has uploaded the second episode of his “Defending Australia” series to YouTube. This is focussed on Gull Force on Ambon.
Defending Australia – Episode 2: Gull Force
Sensible.
Depending on where your travels take you, you are otherwise facing:
• A protracted process in a public health system. Italy is actually OK, UK NHS doctors’ surgeries also (if you have a UK passport) – but try France, or Ireland;
• Financial rape at a private clinic – potentially recoverable from your travel insurance, provided they’ve been kept in the diagnosis and prescription loop;
• Being treated with ?? 21/3/2007, by someone who doesn’t know what it is either.
So the jackpotting question is what will Bogan Barbie do with her concentration camp now that Morrisson has declared moronic to be a nothingburger.
How will Wagners be compensated for the loss of anticipated income.
She will of course retain masks and check in as enduring manifestations of her megalomania. That will only end when the level of rejection by the process replicates that aroused by the testing dictates.
There will be no hange before the election.
All that and more Calli.
I think I exaggerated the percentage with corona a trifle.
It’s 1 in 60.
1,319 serious or critical.
Furniture Watch:
I seem to be in Bird’s head. In a big way. Accused of everything from slaughtering folk to denying the succulent (Honk!) reality of cactus
I feel kinda like Chris Griffin after the Evil Monkey was forcibly evicted out of his closet:
“Boy, there is a lot of faeces in here…”
Should have been Mark Felton.
The first episode was about Lark Force on New Britain. Australia’s military planners should have been shot, it’s absolutely ridiculous that they put these token forces in the path of the expanding Japanese military, they had no hope and most died very cruel deaths.
Defending Australia 1942 – Episode 1: Lark Force
TE, only 3 outlets covering at present Ch 9, News Corpse and Fairfax. All buried well into the lower parts of the page bar SMH. SMH actually looked on the surface as the most informative, then I hit a log in/paywall type page. Na stuff that.
A Victorian facing the biggest charges. No names yet…
At the expense of making Struth go full Nuff-nuff (Never go full Nuff-nuff. Nuffin good will come of it…), I feel very strongly that the Wagners’ ‘quarantine’ facility was never strictly for that purpose. This Public Elf Emergency measure simply got their planning permissions over the line, and a good serving of taxpayer money from the spigot into the bargain.
There will be plenty of itinerant construction, mining, air, rail and road freight operations folk who will take advantage of the site and its amenities in coming years. Knowing that PN partnered with the Wagners first, I’d expect it to be a book-off location of choice for crews out of Parkes and Brisbane. Ditto ARTC track gangs.
In effect- No loss and net gain.
The lid has come off Hell early in 22.
Dickless Upticking, reverse flouncing, border controls for Australian antibiotics, and now Pepper Prejudice.
Downhill from here.
Ed Casesays:
January 3, 2022 at 10:53 am
Bear attacks the Liberal Party from the Right, but he’s a Labor Party shill.
If you want to know what a lefty is up to, look at what he accuses his opponents of doing.
No doubt the arrests involved dawn raids by the AFP’s Specialist Response Group on garages known to intelligence services.
Tripped across a travel blog with tickless updicks.
Wow. And it looks like catallaxy.
Indeed. A nice bit of Bjelke-style dual use corporate welfare.
Wellcamp will be well used as Wagners rolls out Boeing drones, lightweight concrete, pharmaceuticals – and whatever other Toowoomba projects they have in the bag.
And his Treasurer was JWH.
Mental elf problems. The pyros will be sent to a mountain retreat to recover, at ACT expense.
This is becoming tedious, but once again Lizzie misrepresents me.
For years, she regaled us with details of her personal life, including her first marriage to an acedemic whom she described as having been awarded a (Sydney) University medal in philosophy.
Now, these are not handed out like lollipops, so straight away she practically doxxed him – except that the timelines she described didn’t match, because she was lying via the autobiographical projectile vomit that we were subjected to for years. Her ex post facto explanation of her years of lying about the timelines and details of her life, which she provided a vast amount of inaccurate information about, was that it was to ‘protect’ everyone’s privacy.
The simple method of protecting your family’s privacy is not to blab about it endlessly online, but apparently this option was unacceptable or impossible, very likely the latter.
The repeated mentions of No. 1’s University Medal (was it one or two she said he got – can’t remember) became a standing joke. How pathetic to trade on a former spouse’s academic achievements, while disparaging him as a husband.
Anyway, I know No. 2’s name because she doxxed him herself by identifying him as the author of comments published elsewhere which he made under his own name. She just couldn’t bear not to tell us all about it, as usual. But I have never mentioned his name here, and nor has anyone else AFAIK.
Finally, I do wish she would stop doing the petulant female thing of pretending to storm off and then peeping over her shoulder to see if anyone is paying attention. ‘I’m really going this time’ is code for ‘you haven’t heard the last from me, by a long shot.’
It’s embarrassing.
I’m scratching my head for a possible cause. What changed from 2020?
Re Wagners, add fast rail from Wellcamp/Toowoomba to Brisbane & a new housing development, plus they’re pushing for local Olympics events & facilities.
As Rex suggested, the quarantine facility is going to be well used.
It will be marketed as “Club Med Toowoomba”.
Add a water slid.
You have Covid World ,heaps of fun for the distant family.
“I have stolen my last pickanick basket!”
Yogi Bear
gave you a dickless uptick Johanna
This bloke is a theoretical physicist with a firm grip on reality:
https://rudolphrigger.substack.com/p/the-highest-grossing-block-booster
Exacerbated hospital staff shortages because C00f.
And not due to mass staff sickness- A lot of them were stood down and sent home for lack of work (No outpatients or short-stay and elective surgery ward closures, etc.), and then more stood down indefinitely (i.e. sacked) because they refused to be Mark-compliant.
Come visit WA for the interesting sights and overpriced beer, Baba. But don’t get sick and stay in hospital. The staff you do have available will go out of their way to care for you, but the system is woefully in need of reforming.
Oi!
You have obviously fallen for the myth, promulgated by TV chefs who need a bit of contrast onscreen and waiters in pretentious restaurants with foot long pepper grinders, that black pepper is superior.
White pepper is stronger and hotter and definitely preferable for everything from Asian dishes to the humble boiled or fried egg. Black pepper has its place (e.g. for steak) but is a relatively crude version of true pepper.
The main problem in Australia is getting a decent quality product. The supermarket variety seems to have been cut with sawdust.
Heheh. Bird mistook my comment regarding the contents of his brainspace (which I am currently occupying rent-free, interchangeably with his late father’s hospital staff/anyone who disses him, etc.), for an indictment on his latest dose of magical thinking regarding cacti and feeding it to cattle on the grounds of soil regeneration, etc.
Never change Bird, never change… 🙂
I’m not. Numbers was all loss. We just got his ocd problems.
M0nty was quite funny, sometimes intentionally. But he enjoyed annnoying ppl, and he was less than honest, which let him down when he needed a small amount of trust.
Dover does an even better job than Sinc did. I have decided to forgive him for sneaking Feser’s metaphysical tosh in as liberty quotes. His pictures are great, his tolerance just right (none to Bird) and he has even calmed down JC. I approve the ability to make small donations, the uptick option and the report button. And I disagree with lots of ppl here, so I sure don’t need the return of bloody numbers.
Forget about white pepper. Black pepper has piperine. Good stuff, it can enhance the absorption of some nutrients, especially turmeric.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/turmeric-and-black-pepper
Piperine and Its Role in Chronic Diseases
Alkaloids include a family of naturally occurring chemical compounds containing mostly basic nitrogen atoms. Piperine is an alkaloid present in black pepper (Piper nigrum), one of the most widely used spices, in long pepper (Piper longum), and other Piper species fruits belonging to the family of Piperaceae. Piperine is responsible for the black pepper distinct biting quality. Piperine has many pharmacological effects and several health benefits, especially against chronic diseases, such as reduction of insulin-resistance, anti-inflammatory effects, and improvement of hepatic steatosis. The aim of this chapter is to summarize the effects of piperine, alone or in combination with other drugs and phytochemicals, in chronic diseases.
It also turned out that he was very easily bullied on his own blog by the likes of Steve of Brisbane (aka Stepford, /ht JC) and Homer Paxton.
So any hope that he may have gone more laissez-faire than true fascist, given sufficient time, was very quickly beaten down under the angry gaze and contemptuous disdain of Stepford. Whose own snarling anti-humanism was never more than one bear-poke below the surface…
After 70-80 odd years on this earth, the man remains to this day too proud and too stupid to know when he is beaten.
I’ve even seen him slapped about on YouTube. For trying to defend Red Bandanna-man, no less.
Numbers never bothered to read what has been written in the past twenty years, with access to the North Vietnamese archives.
Serving a boiled egg without salt and white pepper is cruel taunting.
In Brisbane always please consider Geeta Enterprises at McWhirters in the Valley as very reliable pepper supplier, with low price and toppest quality.
I don’t miss numbers or monty. I really appreciate Dover’s efforts though. Once again thank you very much Dover. Great blog. Sure beats the vile legacy meja.
Some hundreds of comments a couple of hours ago – since gone down the “memory hole.”
Nando’s medium or hot Peri-peri sauce is a pretty darn good substitute.
Growing up is about doing something stupid, figuring out that it’s stupid, admitting it was stupid and then stopping doing it. Then finding something else stupid to do.
Poor numbers could never get to admitting it was stupid, so he just carried on with the idiotic ideas of his childhood and adolescence. Still, he was great as an awful warning. Beware, Children, if you can’t face up to your own blunders you’ll turn into numbers.
Club Woomba was probably bankable in2021. Not sure about 2022.
Why are our governments insisting on the use of QR code/Passports when they say a “close contact” now is someone you have been in constant contact with for, at least, four hours?
Most people would never spend four hours in the same shop, restaurant or other venues so there is no logical reason to continue with this pantomime.
Jab passport must go
Wagners wont lose a cent and in fact would have healthily inflated the construction cost. They did the same when they teamed up with Gautam Adani to try a say a FIFO airstrip with no ATC was going to cost well over $35mil, Townsville & Rocky CC’s were about to chuck in $18mil a piece despite it not being in our LGA’s until us ratepayers went nuts.
They are canny developers that know how to manipulate politicians of low intelligence, take a bow Anna. Queensland seems to have a few of these guys but they are canny enough to cultivate both sides.
As for the Olympics WAFTAM, I truly hope Brisbane doesn’t get it. It will be another black hole sucking the states resources into an area already in excess.
Suck up!
Numbers struck me as an old bitter fuck blaming something that happened 20 years ago for the misfortunes of the rest of his life. A bit like claiming to have been sexually assaulted by Prince Andrew when he was only getting a pizza from Pizza Express in Woking. And Porter’s mad bird RIP.
Thank you dover and thank you bloggers that make this a pleasant place (like me).
Aha!
Pepper wars!
I knew we’d flush out a pinko.
#blackpeppermatters
You are a pepperist!
Stop it Dover will go bald and grow a goitre like the last one.
What was the source, Top Ender, of this monstrous distortion?
Firstly, it was not a ‘smoking ceremony’ by any stretch of the imagination – it was a deliberately lit and fuelled fire. That would be arson, in ordinary English.
Secondly, what evidence is there of ‘anti vaccination protestors’ being involved? Who are these protestors?
Honestly, if you want to remain ignorant, the MSM and social media are a surefire way to bring that about.
The definition of “close contact” was carefully drafted with consideration of the length of the queues of cars on the 6pm News. It is stretching The Science to breaking point.
As I previously commented, none of the 10 people WHO ACTUALLY CAUGHT COVID from Dirty Pierre in WA would be a close contact under the definition.
That is the problem with these political diseases.
Is Schwabb’s WEF the successor to the Club of Rome? They seem to have very similar aims.
Have you thought of asking Dover for a negative donations button where he pays you?
The answer is one word – “control”.
Peter Baldwin, who was famously bashed by crimnal Labor thugs during the 1980’s who opposed his inner-city Sydney Labor Party Branch clean-ups, has written in the Weekend Jan 1-2 Oz an excellent review of the so-called Jan 6 ‘riots’ or as the media call it ‘insurrection’ at Capitol Hill in the US following Trump’s electoral defeat. Those who don’t subscribe to the Oz can find it in an extended version on Peter’s own blog polciv.org. Read it, for it is a keeper. Very well done.
Hairy and I both worked with Peter Baldwin and the Labor Party in the inner-west at this time.
He came to a party at our place with his poor wounded face not long after he was released from hospital. I’d heard that he seems to have moved very much in the direction we and others of that period have taken.
Over to the Centre-Right.
We can all hope that it is a face saving phased withdrawal.
I think you’re optimistic incoherent rambler. The politicians and bureaucrats have enjoyed the power and control they have over the populace and will be very reluctant to give it up.
Is it time to reveal that all peppercorns (white, pink, black) are precisely the same berry/seed at different stages of maturation or slightly different treatments.
You could almost write a syrupy Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder duet about it.
rugby. Things will get ugly very quickly, if the power needs to torn from their hands, rather than a peaceful handover.
The Spic[iness] must flow…
#DunDunDunDuuuuun
Sounds like a rehash of the Reichstag Fire, must be time to start rounding up the lepers.
… and also me, I might add.
johanna
waiters in pretentious restaurants with foot long pepper grinders,
Is this a euphemism?
Well, strictly speaking he is correct.
What else would you expect from a radicalised zealot who contributes to the downfall and ultimate failure of his own Cause by actively fighting its practitioners and evangelists and succeeds in doing so?
And then comes home alive and unharmed at the end of it?
Heehee! Spicy joke from a seasoned operator!
#OhGod
The other answer is “appearance of control”.
After nearly two years of mind-buggeringly expensive, ad hoc, prevention-at-all-cost strategies, the dickless uptick of Coronavirus is starting to look like the fuckup fairies have taken over.
Just a little.
When it comes to pepper grinders nobody likes a Size Queen.
It’s all in the twist. Amirite?
Oh, puh-lease! That sort of thing gets right up my nose!
Still no announcement from God Emperor McClown as to whether the mask madness will be removed tomorrow as promised.
rugbyskier
The answer is one word – “control”.
They’re way beyond control, they want absolute power.
To be honest, I would be more angry about a working life spent under the control of any of the State Departments of Education than ‘Nam. Fortunately i suffered neither.
You’re optimistic Woolfe.
Pepper grinders? Is that a new hot gay meet up app?
Described correctly as a double medalist at a time when such things counted a lot, and rather accidentally in a discussion of Aspberger’s syndrome, Johanna, and boy oh boy, didn’t you take that and run with it in your great doxxing spree. A more detailed story of that marriage, in its socio-political context, is available now in Quadrant Jan/Feb 2022 issue. People do write about their lives, Joh, often to make points, sometimes to entertain. Here and elsewhere. You do it yourself. It is something one finds many columnists doing.
Now you’ve ‘traced’ my current husband via Quadrant. Whoopie for you. Clever!!!! You did actually put out his name on the old Cat till Sinc removed it. Doxxing is a sin, remember? Fortunately it is a very common name, hundreds of them on Google, and hard to source where it applies to him. Except through me. Which is one good reason why you will never know the real woman who is Elizabeth Beare and why I took certain steps years ago (alterations of chronology not of facts, which stand as true in all details) to protect my identity; just as Sancho now admits he has done previously to protect his.
Give it away, Johanna. You are better than this I am sure.
Dover
Your manliest man to walk the earth. You have an intellect that dwarfs anyone that’s come before and the physique of a Greek god.
I’m truly humbled by ya charity.
Hey Lizzie I have a medal, from being shot at.
Fortunately it is a very common name, hundreds of them on Google, and hard to source where it applies to him.
I thought he was a “very public figure”.
Is it so common a name that no-one would be able to trace an Irish Cambridge graduate with that name who’s about to turn 70 living in Vaucluse with a wife who’d been married before? And who had seven or more years ago worked on a high profile “restructure” which at the time attracted the attention of the “leftist media”?
‘Course not!
Any virus that can survive a Perth summer in January deserves respect.
White pepper, the supreme pepper.
How sad is BAT FLU getting when the peasantry starts laffin’ at their betters instead of tuggin’ the forelock .. shame, shame, shame!
*GAICD = for those, like me, who didn’t know .. LOL!
Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
https://ibb.co/R7KmGd9
Oh yeah baby! the bestest, most powerfulest pepper, just a touch, so easy to overdo.
At the risk of being actionable, I think you are going to find that pink pepper only ‘identifies’ as piper nigrum.
Not a lot of people know that.
Pre-Covid, I acquired from a customer at the time, a tin pot of Cambodian pepper berries, which I have used judiciously ever since. He was planning to help Cambodian friends develop an agricultural enterprise. Outstanding pepper, full of flavour and depth, utterly fantastic. I often wonder if he got his idea off the ground.
I notice no one has mentioned green pepper. Also for poofs. Real men get mushroom sauce.
And beware that false claimant, the peppercorn tree and it’s enticing strings of pinkness.
A standing joke? Only with you, Johanna, only with you and your jealous obsession with it.
As for trading on his achievements – that’s just weird. I was strangely damaged by them, as you can read on Quadrant this month and in that regard had certainly no joy in any ‘trading’ on his achievements in my one mention of them here. I was suggesting in a discussion on autism that a deficit may have existed genetically with him, especially given that we have a child and a grandchild from that child, both of whom are on the autism spectrum. Neither of my children with Hairy display any autistic features. It has been a great sadness in my life that both of my children with my first husband do display autism or bipolar issues, as well as one of the two grandchildren we share diagnosed at Level 2 Autism. Fortunately, I believe that love and understanding care can assist greatly towards a normal life for autism spectrum people. My first husband, still highly intelligent, is now a very private and kindly man, happily remarried, and doesn’t require your attention at all, Johanna.
Where does green pepper fit on the scale of acceptability.
It’s rather nice in a cream sauce made from the steak grillings.
Tranny pepper. That’s different.
Okay. If we’re going to discuss pepper, surely capers could get a look in.
Those nice, tiny ones preserved in salt. On smoked salmon with a wodge of lemon.
If we throw all the peppers into agreat big melting pot do we end up with love, peace, and harmony?
Devilled eggs are a much underrated canape too. And healthy. You could live on them.
I draw the line at little things on sticks these days. Too fiddly.
Well, it is the prettiest colour after all.
They Found Peng Shuai and it’s Disturbing
laowhy86
[Harim Tok Tok, Vol. 101, December, 2016, p.12].
Happy Birthday I believe, shatterzzz?
One last word from me on the 409/287.
None of these people were tested for covid, they just showed covid like symptoms and were excluded.
Any, all of the 409 that received the vaccine might have been reacting to the vaccine.
The 287 were clearly all reacting to the placebo.
It’s a wash.
Possibly not, Mr. Sherlock Neilson.
It’s all true, although the Irish part was exaggerated concealment.
Off you go then. Doxx away.
With your staunch legal background you can commence your search via our daughter.
She is legal too and is a Director at Price-Waterhouse. Or our son, also a lawyer.
Plenty of clues for you there if doxxing is your obsession.
White pepper is very dangerous.
There you go. If you want white pepper you need a bunch of snake charmers on salary.
Spices and Late-Medieval European Ideas of Scarcity and Value (2005)
Sadly the article is a paywalled journal paper, which is a pity since it looks like fun.
Rex:
I like trains!
Splash of brandy, piece of butter, green peppercorns, and crème fraîche.
Eat your boater, bear of little taste.
Is Hairy not Irish? I thought he was, otherwise why did he speak with an accent?
I’m confused.
Ahhh, Faustus has my recipe. How easy it is to be generously saucy.
Was the builder Irish? And the doctor?
My doctor is definitely Irish. And extremely unpunctual, although Covid and the strict vaccination regime appears to have cured him. No doubt he will revert to his wicked ways this year.
Probably a lonely life, though.
I’m thinkin’ Hairy is a Welshman.
They speak unintelligible English quite well.
Wow…
There’s ever only been one famous Welshman and he was only famous for his last words, after downing 13 Triple Gin & Tonics on the trot:
A slight geographical correction for those not from Qld who might be misled by the description.
Capalaba, where this took place, is a suburb of Brisbane, although more “Bayside” than Brisbane itself. It’s not in central Queensland; actually about 500km south of where CQ begins.
There’s rather a lot of Qld to get through after Brisbane before you get to the central bit, let alone North Qld, or that far-flung mythological paradise of Far North Qld (crocodiles, marine stingers, big spiders, cyclones etc.)
It’s a bit like city-centric media calling Dalby (maybe 2 whole hours drive from Brisbane) the “outback”.
A very interesting video indeed though!
Clearly, I would prefer it that Hairy’s name had not been bandied about on Sinc’s blog by Johanna.
But it was, and I guess it matters less now as he is no longer in a public position where a Centre-Right association via me could have made his work far more difficult to carry out, almost impossible in fact. He was very tolerant to put up with my blogging at that time, aware that it was bringing out the latent writer in me (marriage is give and take). He is less tolerant of me here now though and I can hardly blame him given how much defense I feel bound to mount.
Thanks, Bushkid, for your explanation about Capalaba.
Geography was never my strongpoint.
Sounds like a rehash of the Reichstag Fire, must be time to start rounding up the lepers.
As soon as I saw the link to anti vaxers my first thought was, hmm distraction squirrel while we bury this deep in dispatches.
Some folks are dedicated.
I will never get to that stage- Too busy spreading my time between the 1:1 scale that pays my wages, the 3 1:1 scale layouts that I do for fun, and the Sn3.5 scale* I somehow found my way into in the meantime… 🙂
*Sn3.5 for modelling transition-era WAGR is pretty good- Non-metropolitan areas were pretty sparsely populated and light on built-up areas and infrastructure, yet fairly close together. Even on the main lines in the Wheatbelt and Southwest. Quite modelling-friendly, if you pick your areas right.
Plenty of clues for you there if doxxing is your obsession.
My obsession?
Let’s face it Lizzie, your supposed concern about the “doxxing” of the husband who you say is a “very public figure” is utter bullshit. As Johanna said, The simple method of protecting your family’s privacy is not to blab about it endlessly online, , but you’ve spent the last decade or thereabouts on this site and the old one actually doxxing him (as Johanna pointed out) and in any case providing so many reams of biographical detail that it would be almost impossible for someone not to know who it was if they ever saw any public reference to him.
And, as you’ve failed to answer before, why would the “leftist media” care if they did identify that you, his wife, and presumably known as such under your real name, had an online pseudonym?
“News flash: we can report exclusively that the wife of VERY PUBLIC FIGURE [Hairy] is the tiresome conceited self-absorbed wannabe-pretentious relentlessly incessant online showboater “Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare”.
I can see why that would be embarrassing for him, but why would the “leftist media” actually care?
Answer: no-one could possibly care. Your whole “OMG Hairy might get doxxed” schtick is transparently nothing but megalomaniac fantasy emanating from your own vast sense of self-importance.
Ed Casesays:
January 3, 2022 at 4:32 pm
There’s ever only been one famous Welshman and he was only famous for his last words, after downing 13 Triple Gin & Tonics on the trot:
Billy Hughes died of a surfeit of G & Ts?
And what about David Lloyd George? Not famous?
Capalaba- there’s a top Fish & Chippers there on Old Cleveland road before the McDonalds,
terrific view from the top of Birkdale Tip of Moreton Bay and the Bay Islands, drive in and so long as weight is unchanged, drive out and it costs nothing.
Definitely those were Irish, Calli. Gorgeously linguistically so, both of them.
I love the Irish and would go back to Ireland in a heartbeat. Hairy spent some very formative time there with his first love, so he loves it too. We are Irish in spirit and heart. Plus my grandma was Welsh, who anciently are an Irish mix, and such a lovely lilting accent she and my mother and aunts all had.
The Numbers creature doesn’t deserve any degree of serious analysis, and certainly no justification.
Weak, cowardly, schoolyard crybully, paranoid attention seeking, blame seeking, arrogant without any justification, jealous, Rsole. Boring little prick.
His Vietnam babble was a manifestation of his lunacy, not a cause.
He thrived on abuse which he interpreted as proof of an ongoing conspiracy against his righteousness.
It must have been great entertainment watching the clown interacting with his fellow diggers in the Company boozer. That would no doubt have left some psychological scars.
The blog is exponentially superior intellectually and socially without his constant commie victim crap.
Because, darling, he was kneecapping some of their faves.
Grigory is a bit useless when it comes to fame.
Tom Jones, Sir Harry Secombe, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Her Majesty’s manifold Men of Harlech by Corps, Regiment, Brigade and Division would like to know your location…
Billy Hughes was a Londoner, Lloyd George was a professional Welshman.
Now go away.
Speaking of Lizzie, Grigory M summed the situation up in one word a few years back:
Distinguished by having one outlet from every fast food chain. And by being on the road to somewhere better – both ways.
Oh, and thanx for the character reference.
Writers gotta write.
Guess you don’t feel that impulse and put it into your twerpishness here instead.
Your choice. You aren’t exactly covered with glory yourself, sweetie.
Grigs is back on the Ed Case.
Whoo hoo. Happy Noo Year.
Does Capalaba have [japanese] Mos Burgers?
I had a Jelly Ice Coffee there earlier, it wasn’t bad.
Were Undocumented Ballots The Reason For Fraud at Detroit’s TCF Center?…”I literally watched thousands of unverified ballots get run through the machines”
Sure you’re not getting confused with the itinerant Avian there, Bons? 😉
I don’t reckon Bob would have been too tall a poppy. Happy to be corrected by Kev or one of Bob’s other sparring partners but when mentioned to my late father who also spent time at the Horseshoe, dad frankly couldn’t remember him.
Actually Bons, you are correct. Numbers (aka Collaborator Bob) would weeble back up every morning with another tired leftist meme, where Bird can be aggravated to the point of exiling himself..
Nice to see Grigs was as much a projecting stooge then as he is now…
Not quite as famous in the latter day (and certain circles) as this one… 😉
Catherine Zeta-Jones circa Darling Buds of May time almost made it past the Welsh on the Crazy/Hot matrix.
Misspent youth recollections. A friend grew up in Capalaba, he liked to tell the story of the sunken skip at the back of Chunky Chicken used as a grease and offal trap. Apparently (according to him and quite possibly apocryphally) it also served as the dumping ground for someone that had been shot in the backside with a shotgun and then, as a final indignity, disposed of face first into the giblets. The guy would never shut up about it, he had history with magic mushrooms.
I never visited the place but it was not that flash.
I will give him some credit for earning the title of first.
Because, darling, he was kneecapping some of their faves.
Yes, I can understand why they’d care about him if he’s a “very public figure”, but why the flying duck would they care about you?
Seriously, don’t you think that you’re overestimating your own importance by a few orders of magnitude?
Full article at the link
Bear
Is zeta- Jones on the crazy side of the spectrum – like she’s well known for it? You have to discount that all sheilas are a little bit crazy. Is she past the little bit too?
Youse guys wander in here, whip out your pepper shakers and start waving them around.
It is quite menacing.
NamBob was very much a legend in his own lunchbox. I suspect he would be memorable only by his own insufferrability.
Lizzie
Thanks for the link to Peter Baldwin’s blog earlier. Very interesting reading.
He joins other former ALP luminaries, including Mark Latham and Gary Johns, in being awakened (but not “woke”) to the stupidity of much of contemporary leftism. Much of the modern left has now openly embraced fascism.
How did I forget Neil Kinnock, the Welsh Wizard?
His claim to fame is that Brandon plagiarised a Speech of his during the 1988 Primary season.
An Irishman went to Cambridge, eh?
Shoulda smelt a rat.
I would have thought the cries of “C’orn, then!” followed by the sounds of violent grinding would have been enough to leave one quite shaken up…
If your into WW2 fiction I’ve just finished a very readable novel .. The Devil’s Handshake by Murray Davies .. reminiscent of The Eagle has Landed except this is a British attempt to asassinate Hitler .. well done story with all the characters & plotline(s) very well backgrounded .. probably, a bit far fetched plot-wise on the literary coincidence side of things falling into place but no worse than a lot of novels when never-happen-in-real-life coincidental events plays a lead role …….
JC I’ve never met her, she might be lovely. The Welsh do enjoy a certain reputation. A mate married a Welsh girl. That turned out to be very expensive.
Soooo.
We can narrow it down by eliminating that well known Irish physician Dr O’Clock then?
Because you’re stupid, contentious, invidious, incompetent and a walking advertisement to children everywhere of the dangers of gypsum addiction.
Ed Casesays:
January 3, 2022 at 4:43 pm
Billy Hughes was a Londoner, Lloyd George was a professional Welshman.
Now go away.
1. Ah, the old “No true Welshman” line. Sad, low energy.
2. No.
Come on guys. Timmy’s still only at eight dickless upticks up there.
You can do better than that. Time for a little ‘fortifying’.
Why let the US Dems beat you at that game?
UP the fortifying dial to eleventy at least.
Are the peasants revolting?
https://ibb.co/R7KmGd9
The day will eventually come, when someone posts a brief comment about a suburb, town, event, obscure village abandoned 70yrs ago, for which Ed Case does not have a personal ‘insider knowledge’ anecdote.
Y’all keep reading the Cat, one of these days it will happen.
Irish physician Dr O’Clock who drinks the occasional Hickory Daiquiri
Look out, she’s warming up for a full on Men Of Catallaxy attack.
Boyo!
For something that was going to be nipped in the bud by a quick exit yesterday morning, this thing sure has legs.
Tracey thinks they are…
I don’t think you get to qualify for that, Grigory…
At the Dock.
Happy Birthday I believe, shatterzzz?
Tis, indeed .. tho went low key after overdoing it last week .. normally, since I turning 65, I knock over a 1500mts as my burfday treat just to let myself know I still can but today discretion got the better of valour and I settled for my, usual, 2 hours bike ride and a, leisurely, 500 metres (10 laps) ..
I’ll deal with the 1500mts later in the week when the memory of how I felt yesterday has receded further into memory .. LOL!
I like it. That’s going to stick now.
He’s a really good bloke, but was born without a sense of the passing of time. The Beloved’s late brother was like that too. Clever guy, top of his field and gone way too soon. Last year was an absolute bugger.
He has left a hole in our hearts as big as a house.
Driller
Speak to Ed directly. As we don’t require a sermon from you. That forms part of the armistice. Follow the fucking rules shithead. We don’t require the lectures.
Pillow talk, angel cheeks.
Just look at Boris and Carrie.
More to the point, they would like anyone in his job to be fully inside the tent.
Clearly, he was not, and even worse would be if they could finger me for it too.
The way that Peter Ridd was forbidden from talking to his wife about his case shows how dangerous a wife can be in the minds of some.
A peasant uprising, we know how Dan’s turtles would/will respond.
The other states? Are the other premiers pike averse?
Just on Mr Abbott, remember when he suggested the co payment of $7 (?) Medicare and how he was howled down.
You now have to laugh at this
Chemist Warehouse boss calls for scrapping of thr GST on RAt fkr tests
It is for shagging sheep isn’t it. NZ of the north.
Scrap the GST on Covid Self Testing Kits, raise the price 10%.
Capitalism in action, Salvatore!
I consider myself a piperine extremist.
Hobbies include baiting Indian mates and their “insipid” curries. Q_Q
Perspective.
I used to get pissed off with our Dr Late.
How can I make the first or second appointment of the morning and he still be half an hour late?
Until something happened one day to change all that. He called me one morning at 7:45 and told me to get in there right away. He spent an hour lining me up for tests and hospital admission.
So now when he is running late for my routine appointment I thank Christ I am not the poor bastard who is in dire straits and got jumped up in the queue that day.
I thought the Welsh reputation was for singing. Beautiful, pure, male voices that sound like a heavenly choir.
And for eating leeks. Many…many leeks.
Don’t make me post Cwm Rhondda guys. Uh oh…I am weak, but that tune is mighty. 😀
Clearly, he was not,
OK
and even worse would be if they could finger me for it too.
? So he’s already “clearly” not wholly in the tent, but you still think they’d regard it as a great coup to discover something similar about you?
Yes, the media does sometimes quote a family member of some politician in an attempt to embarrass them, but that’s when they’re bagging the public figure, not when they’re ad idem, and even then when has it not blown over in 24 hours?
You’re really sure you’re not overestimating your own importance by a few orders of magnitude?
Why were they not tested? There was something like 3400 cases of suspected COVID in the trial that never led to a PCR. Why is that? Further, what makes you say they were excluded? Nothing in the relevant paragraph suggests that. It does however indicate that they did not regard these suspected COVID cases as indicative of an adverse event. It also seems rather convenient to allay any question about the imbalance between the vax and placebo group as simply a mild reaction to the vaccine.
And, again, the Danish and Swedish studies found the same uptick in COVID infections following vaccination, so the Pfizer result is not unusual.
To be fair to Tony Abbott, if you can’t afford $7 to go to the Quack, the prognosis is hopeless.
But was it one of his notorious Captain’s Calls?
I’d say yes, because how was the $7 sposed to be collected?
Love it and Men of Harlech stand ye ready …
Fuckin’ Jeezus.
Chemist Warehouse, BigW and all the rest are selling the RightSign COVID-19 test kits. Two guesses where they are made. From the product insert.
Expensive and no doubt inaccurate.
No, It was more to do with this,
“Mr Morrison said Australia was now at a stage of the pandemic where not everything could be made free.”
I was thinking about that the other day caveperson.
Some of the very same people who declared a means-tested $7 contribution to be the end of the civilised world, are now blithely suggesting that a policy of cutting the unvaxxed off from all medical treatment is totes OK.
Groogs gypsum fueled anecdotes do have a certain implausibly.
Johanna – it was from The Australian website.
Dover.
Can we have a dedicated Lizzie/Nielsen stoush thread?
With triple uptick points.
It’s all Kabuki now.
We know it. They know it. They know that we know it. It’s only the stubborn dumbos who are clinging to their raft of the fear-dusa rather than admit they were gamed.
The covid profiteering is almost at an end.
Was Rorke’s Drift not defended by a Welsh regiment? (Or at least included a number of Welshmen, including V.C. awardees?).
Chaos Is A [Jacob’s] Ladder.
Thanks Caveman.
It appears that Scotty has fallen into the same trap then, the mistake Fraser made when he declared:
Of course he did.
Me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me … infinity
Is there no notable event that does not involve her?
BTW, how did you manage downgrading from a University Medallist on a public stipend to a mere businessman with lots of dosh?
Inquiring minds etc.
Thanks Zipster, she does look scared.
Who is Iaowhy86, isn’t that Serpentza’s mate?
Regarding upticking, dickless or not?
My IPad has a touch screen.
Make of that what you will.
The Honourable Member for Barthelona would like to make a statement to the House:-
Tom Domikan was accused of bashing Baldwin. At Richardson’s request.
Nice guys to keep well away from.
Musing on Malcolm Fraser, remember how his PR [Alan Jones] sold him as a Lancia driving Patrician?
That went down well.
Musta sold plenty of Lancias:
“Yes, Mr Salesman, I’d like to be just like Malcolm Fraser.”
Anyhow, is Lancia still in business?
Er…Messrs. Domican & Richardson deny any wrongdoing.
At the risk of being sucked into the abyss without the appropriate PPE, may I opine that this present ‘stoush’ has become somewhat tedious?
My peripheral understanding is that intentionally revealing the personal details of a commenter (information of a quality and quantity that would allow a reasonable person to identify with clarity, that same commenter in real life), without that commenter’s prior approval, is frowned upon; the expectation being that the so-called ‘doxxer’ would be either warned or banned by the blog owner.
The question then becomes: Has ‘Lizzie’s’ identity been substantially revealed here at DoverCat? If it has, has the blog owner adequately (a subjective term, I know) responded?
If the same individual has NOT had their personal details revealed here, why is the issue still being discussed? Hasn’t this conversation been ongoing since July of 1852?
A link for Catherine Zeta-Jones fans – who can resist the lure of the Daily Mail?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9451303/Catherine-Zeta-Jones-51-reveals-cuts-diet-stay-slender.html
No, you’re out by a little bit Muddy.
May 17th, 1645…
I know. That’s why I said “accused”.
Baldwin knows who did it.
Careful Muddy don’t want to be accused of joining a pile on.
Muddy.
I think the stoush relates to an alleged “outing” at the now defunct Sinc-Cat.
So it is a bit academic because it would be easier to find the Beaumont children than un-earth a specific old post from Sinc-Cat.
I think the whole thing was triggered by another allegation that “Nick” accused Mr and Mrs Lizzie of breaching quarantine protocol in early 2020.
Something else I have no recollection of either, and is equally unverifiable either way.
And he’s keeping shtum.
I think Miss Rice Davies has them covered.
It’s currently 14 degs C in Cairo. I thought I’d throw out there for discussion as it’s more interesting than the current stoush, which is so freaking gay.
Joh and Lizzie have been giving each other stick since an intrepid creature decided that the outside of the pond looked more exciting than the inside.
It took its first gulp of oxygen and it was off and racing!
We are but mere observers of something way beyond our ken.
It’s 11 degrees in Bethlehem. Hope those wise men packed their spencers.
A plate full of juicy pork ribs and a can.
Life is good.
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I note the inimitable Charles Grodin died last year.
srrsays:
January 3, 2022 at 6:07 pm
Thanks srr, best comment of the day by the length of the straight.
Bespoke try this sometime.
I just barbecued some green, red and yellow peppers, onion and tomatoes.
Clean the peppers and place the slices in a bowl, follow with the onions and then the tomatoes by firstly cutting them up.
Add some salt, lots or dried oregano and olive oil.
This is the side dish for lamb chops which I’m just about to barbecue. It was my folks recipe.