The general view was that bombastic nationalism caused WW1, and the result was the rejection of all nationalism since WWII…
Open Thread – New Year 2022
- Bumtree #1
- Open Thread – Mon 29 April 2024
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- Nuclear power and the foundational lie
- Open Thread – Anzac Day 2024
it is so underwhelming dealing with the 3 stooges and pony-girl and their vapid gibber every dayand you wonder why…
Who are the ‘3 stooges and pony-girl’? This use of appellations known only to the user is very confusing. Like…
Shut up, Karen explained. In defence of the eSafety Commissioner (Paywallian) by Lorraine Finlay Calls to abolish the eSafety Commissioner…
On another issue re format. Will has linked to a Youtube and a thumbnail of the link has come up…
What are you doing in Cairo? I thought NY was your crib.
A new distraction: Furniture Store funtimes.
Faulty has got jack of Bird floodposting his magical thinking about Venice, energy equity (WTF?), his hatred of Winston Churchill and the English and the apparently Jewish evil of wanting to exterminate feral camel and donkey populations instead of exploiting them for, well, reasons.
Oh, and I am apparently legion now…
Looking forward to starting the year off with some epic Trump Derangement Syndrome when the God Emperor has his press conference from Mar-a-Lago this coming Friday 7th (our time). Scheduled for 5.00pm EST (US)
Anyone care to guess what he’s going to be talking about?
As an aside, why is it that Biden stopped building the wall but didn’t stop the expansion at GITMO? How does that reconcile?
Oh, and Happy New Year to youse all!
Timothy Neilsen,
I noticed that Hyacinth has given the Sweet Sherry bottle a real hammering. The “darling”, and “Timmy”, have returned to the script. I remember when the odd, shrewish commenter on the old Tim Blair blog would take exception to a post of his and start with the “Timmy”. It is a misjudged put down to try and gain the upper hand. If there ever was one. Also, Angel Cakes has made an appearance. Something lacking at home I would venture.
I recently read a hoot of a restaurant review which totally made me think of Hyacinth.
Read it for yourself. It is a case of over priced, promising much, but complete failure of delivery. Warning, the mouth cast may cause a few heaves.
Gayer than white and pink peppercorns.
I started on that Baldwin article but the Trump bashing made me give it away.
Neilson, don’t be silly because if USSR believes the vid then she’s an idiot. In any event she’s shockingly gullible because she believes most crap she reads on the web – including pizzagate.
That dog is a beagle which basically means it’s a freaking nose with a dog attached to it. The vid wants us to believe that someone left their cell phone on the plane. The beagle found out, ran to the plane , had the flight attendant stick the phone inside the pocket thing it’s wearing and then off goes the beagle and finds the owner of the phone in the crowd.
BULLSHIT!
Beagles are very stupid and not even the brightest dog on the world would be able to do all that.
Priorities? Also, as Gitmo remains an active US Naval Air Station and Marine barracks supporting operations throughout the Caribbean region, can you be a bit more specific as to whether you meant Gitmo the general military base? Or the extraordinary rendition and prison camp site?
(Former makes sense. Latter is kinda sinister)
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Dec 18, 2021
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I think they both need to know that any accusation against the other from either side is taken by most with a liberal pinch of salt and a tablespoon of pink peppercorns.
Amd why did you feel an overwhelming urge to bring that up, Mrs Faulty?
Caveman.
No no, no. I just randomly picked Cairo for no special reason. I’m in Oz. I was just trying to change the freaking subject as the stoush, which has been running all day, is so gay it’s more gay than the Mardi Gras
With a set of arseless chaps.
#Breezy
Looking back, just noticed this in Johanna’s hate speech earlier on which everyone exults as truth itself. It is not.
I have never identified Hairy as the author of comments on Quadrant.
Johanna did that all by her little investigative nosey self. Then she published his name on the Cat till Sinc removed it.
It is easy to fool some of the people most of the time. It seems one only has to declare a jihad on Lizzie and the world of truth belongs to a woman with a serious mental fixation on a life about which she seems both envious and unbelieving and determined to bring crashing down from any ability to comment normally here. So I have written here about our life together and our travels as well as many social and political issues. I have the writing bug, and I doubt if there is a vaxx that can fix that.
This jihad is unworthy of anyone sane. If there really are 37 or more dickless uptickers here on the lies of a complete obsessive then it is a very sad day for the Cat.
BTW, if you are talking about pink peppercorns, it is not “pepper grinder”.
It is “peppr grndr”.
I sense another forever flounce coming soon.
Having a can.
Out of hospital today.
Foxtel. You ripper.
Missed getting put in covid isolation back in Australia by that much.
Member of my household, only a bit sick, all is well.
Looking forward to the day when people don’t bother getting tested at all.
I certainly won’t be, unless the powers that make me.
Lizzie.
Serious question.
If the alleged doxxing has no practical consequence now, what are you hoping to get out of this?
Thanks for that. A fine and entertaining read! The fixation for snakes is fun, but the best bit was the rumour that Egyptian peasants used to catch rhubarb in nets as it floated down the Nile (this is from a French writer in the time of Louis IX).
The paper does make a connection for me, which was why the Europeans were so keen on getting to Japan, which the Portuguese were eventually successful in doing. Apparently Marco Polo said gold in Japan was as common as lead in Europe. There you go: a single rumour pretty much defined the history of a whole country for about 500 years after they finally got there (and were disappointed in the absence of all that yummy gold). Columbus was also influenced by the same rumour, and Pinzon used it to inspire his crew on Columbus’ voyage.
This one article taught in schools would give the students more real history, economics and healthy scepticism than the entire current curriculum. And it’s wonderfully entertaining too! Pity such things no longer are taught.
Is there anyone who knows anything about contemporary labore mythology who isn’t aware who bashed the Baldwin senseless – and on whose orders?
It isn’t exactly a secret and hasn’t been since about ten minutes after it happened.
Nothing beats hanging out with the rubbish collection guys the morning after the night before.
Now it’s the glass collectors.
FMD.
The ladies are still at it.
I might do a never to return flounce until tomorrow.
But nobody will notice. Or care.
Woe is I etc.
Good for you, Miss A.
Colombus had to make do with tons of silver instead, didn’t he?
Milton, I only read the shorter version, in The Australian, which offers that link to his blog. I didn’t see much overt Trump bashing in it on the Oz. He also took a lot of care to clarify the bias in the media about the whole event, and also about the Biden laptop. I only took issue as I read it with his statement on the Oz that the ‘riot’ was criminal and had caused deaths. In fact, as I read on I saw that he soon clears that up, later covering the deaths that were caused and incorrectly blamed on the riots. Perhaps on his blog piece, which is longer, he shows some real anti-Trumpism. I haven’t time to read it now to see. Interested in what others may say about that.
We’ll be sorry to see you go, Ted.
not planning on visiting Florence this time but others might like to add this to their to do list
Cheers, JC ill pass it onto the wife.
Mongyang complaining that hospital’s are overloaded.
Would have been good if:
Capacity had of been improved over the last two years.
Unvaccinated hospital workers weren’t fired or stood down.
Sadly the country is run by grifting imbeciles.
Read it for yourself. It is a case of over priced, promising much, but complete failure of delivery. Warning, the mouth cast may cause a few heaves.
Thanks Pogria – sort of! There were some dire restaurants in Melbourne during the “nouvelle cuisine” era, but I never experienced anything quite like that.
The Ufizzi.
I could spend a whole day in the sculpture halls without even getting started on the rest of it.
Although hear there are a lot of New Australians in Rome, Rosie.
Si o no?
Don’t spoil it for the rest of us. Hi Runny!
On The Hairy Identity.
Based on an exhaustive non-parametrical examination of todays upticks I can reveal that:
• 97.3% of Cats report to the ‘Don’t Give a Rats’ Arse’ bin;
• One [1] Cat is currently in front of a screen in Mummies’ basement, flogging himself senseless, trying to reconstruct the doxxing, based on the details repeated today.
Alec Baldwin?
Of course he does.
It was him.
That’s ok, Dribbles.
Your fellow Juicer, Graeme is having a wild old time at the Furniture Store.
But he could do with a friend, to help him in his efforts to convince all the folk there who deny his and your reality about who really runs Bartertown…
No.
I have no interest in sparring with Johanna.
I have a perfect right to correct her self-righteous wrongology.
She has behaved appallingly towards me in the past and now seeks here a sort of redemption.
She won’t get it while I am around to call out her lies, general bile and past shocking behaviour.
He’s gonna struggle without the CCTV footage.
Congrats. Have a rapid recovery.
Indeed it was.
“They have no top tenors, that’s for sure.”
BULLSHIT!
Awww, now you’ve spoiled it for me JC.
How old was your daughter when you told her Santa was fake?
The country is run by imbeciles to the advantage of grifters.
The Paywallian’s John Lethlean did a review on the (now defunct) Perth institution The Witches Cauldron that is worth hunting down.
Sigh.
What I wouldn’t give to hear the sound of Roman rubbish collectors again.
Rabz
Why did he cop that hiding? I won’t ever forget the huge fat lip and the bulbous eye. It was a magnificent beating. Is the a pic on the web, it’s worth committing to memory for a clearer pic of what he looked like.
Speaking of famous Welshmen:
Who is the subject of this Daily Mail article?
Hollywood’s first sex addict: A new book reveals *** *** slept with three women a week for 30 years. Indeed, in ***’s heyday — between 1947 and 1975 — he made love to at least one new woman every other day, with the total tally reaching around 2,500. At times, his promiscuity rivalled even that of the great Seventies playboy Warren Beatty.
Women were drawn to him as if by magnetic force. Many enthused later about his glinting grey-green eyes, full of mischief — but his chief seduction tool was undoubtedly his mellifluous baritone voice.
Blessed with a prodigious memory, he’d usually start by reciting poetry. If that failed, he’d go on to Shakespeare, which he could declaim all night if required. And in the rare event that the woman was still standing, he’d sing — often in Welsh.
Loved his rugby too.
This is actually in the Pitti palace, which is already big enough to do a full day with a lunch break.
Hard to believe the main rooms on the ground floor have never been open to the public, the first floor is opulent enough.
I remember being in Siena and being allowed to view a restored work (I’ve forgotten the artist but it was a small work of the head of Christ) in the Monte dei Paschi de Siena, the gentleman who let me in told me they had 30,000 works of art in storage.
So much wow.
Out of one form of detention into another.
I went to hospital once, back in the early 1950’s to have my tonsils removed (common practice in those days).
I thought it was great, just sit around in your pyjamas all day, Mum and Dad would visit and bring new comic books, and all I got to eat was ice cream and jelly. It was a great life, go back tomorrow if I could.
I feel like visiting an art gallery now, but being Monday don’t rate my chances.
Hairy reckons there are only about fifty people on this site.
In which case, Johanna’s ample load of arse looks pretty well covered to me.
For a site that seeks truth, there is sure a lot of uptick on straight out lies.
Ah, right.
I misread the intro.
One of the Medici palaces?
…
Florence and Siena.
Two of my favourite places.
As I say, packed with New Australians, but still good.
***Wild Geese Intensifies***
Timothy,
doesn’t the foaming mouth cast remind you of anyone?
They were also for sale on your way out. LOL!
j’ismism at its finest:
If they ever get to rewrite history (again):
The Icelandic volcano’s massive ash clouds subsequently shut down all domestic and international air flights in Europe, following an eruption that is believed to have been hijacked by anti-vaccination protesters.
The meteor strike engulfed the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico, resulting in an extinction event that is believed to have been hijacked by anti-vaccination protesters.
Who is Iaowhy86, isn’t that Serpentza’s mate?
Yep, Serpentza’s American mate.
Which is totally unrecoverable because:-
1) Sinc supposedly binned it; and
2) If he didn’t, the National Archive record of Sinc-Cat is impenetrable.
Spot on Rex.
Still hiding under the bed biggles?
Lizzie it’s almost like you are obliged to assure your readers (or the powers that be) you are anti Trump lest you be ostracized. Cater did something similar iirc. Better not to mention it at all.
Rosie – I don’t know about the silver (my impression is that came later) but I do know he and his guys brought back syphilis and chillies, so the return was both naughty and nice.
I notice angry wex think he lives in birds head when bird actually lives in the angwy head.
* in whiney George Constanza voice* ”Good for Hairy”
Overheard in the checkout queue, here in the Wild West.
“Excuse me! Excuse me! You need to know that people over there aren’t wearing masks! What are you going to do about it?”
doesn’t the foaming mouth cast remind you of anyone?
I was doing my very, very best not to think anything remotely like that!
Someone needs to go visit his true spiritual home and check out the Open Thread before he anklebites any further…
“Excuse me! Excuse me! You need to know that people over there aren’t wearing masks! What are you going to do about it?”
loathsome
during a smoking ceremony that is believed to have been hijacked by anti-vaccination protesters
Australia’s shitty half arsed version of a Reichstag fire. Twice, because it was so forgettable the first time.
Extra spicy! 😀
If the complainant wasn’t at least fined, then society is in trouble.
JC – he had been conducting an evidently very thorough investigation into inner Sydney branch stacking in the labore pardee.
Various “colourful labore identities” (who shall of course, remain nameless) were none too chuffed at his impertinence.
And the rest as they say, is history. Baldwin is now an (occasionally sensible) opinionator in certain appendages of the braindead lamestream meeja.
Thanks, Pancho. It is a serious question. That I am keen on historical accuracy is I think most of the answer. Historiography is always debatable concerning perceptions, but on sheer facts about a sequence of events it should be straight. I am just trying to straighten out the facts amongst the redemptive claims of Johanna’s historioraphy. For the record, as it were.
Apart from avoiding other work, I don’t hope to get anything more from it and would like to consider it done. The thread in other aspects today has been fun and light; all good and newsy. Misanthrope has been through a horrible time and I’m glad he is out of hospital and it is good to get Rosie’s take on Italy Today.
Why would the grauniard want to put responsibility for the attack on OPH onto their supposed opponents? I thought they would applaud it (at least in secret). Maybe a little too soon for that.
I recall Peter Baldwin topped the NSW HSC in maths in 1969.
ZK2A, and Rex of the west what’s your estimates of mask compliance in Perth? Is there significant disobedience going on? I note God King Sneakers is keeping the scares on for another working week.
You all forgot Twm Shon Çatti.
2F or 1F I think it was called in those days.
Australia’s shitty half arsed version of a Reichstag fire. Twice, because it was so forgettable the first time.
We’re actually quite good at doing Part II of Marx’s “first as tragedy then as farce”.
Between the wars Germany had “the night of the long knives”.
We had the night of the long prawns.
“Excuse me! Excuse me! You need to know that people over there aren’t wearing masks! What are you going to do about it?”
(reaches over to pager mic)
“Karen to aisle six please, Karen… aisle six.”
I just came in from playing with the dog & pup, in awe of their desire to please and thinking, yep, with all the lockdowns to get around, gathering with scattered family for Christmas & a funeral, hospital, an even newer baby human in the house, finding Vets that do emergency consults (thanks animal libers/UN Agenda pushers who’ve made constant UNNECERSSARY Vet visits COMPULSORY BY LAW /angry sarc), this pup came at the worst possible time for optimal consistency in training yet it’s already better behaved than most dogs.
Watches, listens, thinks, follows the old dogs lead.
The first day she learned to wait at doors to be asked in, (serious thanks for the old dog showing her how it’s done), because for all the other commands & such a pup needs to know, is not bowling over little old ladies with new babies in their arms.
Yet again I’ve been blessed in the dog department.
Then I see that post of someone appreciating the things dogs do for us, had to share.
Huh? Moi? Anti-Trump.
I was howling my eyes out at CPAC on the nite.
Outraged and horrified at the 4am ballot deliveries.
Well, we’re on day 9 of our “isolation” here in Perf, and we’d be happy to see a human face, any human face, masked or bloody unmasked.
I think Sneakers realises this is his curtain call. The Cookie Monster has already been shuffled Off Broadway.
Meanwhile in the NT…pretty disgraceful that these sort of animals are loose:
POLICE have revealed they believe the boy who died in the early hours of New Year’s Day in remote Central Australia was attacked by dogs.
However, Acting Assistant Commissioner Sachin Sharma said it was too early in the investigation to confirm a cause of death for the boy, who was from the Aboriginal community of Hermannsburg.
“Part of our investigations determined the involvement of an animal attack,” he said. “Pathology investigations have determined at this stage that it is consistent with an animal attack. Apart from that, we will obviously now prepare a report for the coroner as well and the cause of death of this little child will be determined by the coroner’s office.”
A/AC Sharma said police had taken two “large” dogs into custody, which they believed were the animals responsible for the attack.
The dogs were described as ‘community dogs’, sometimes known as ‘camp dogs’.
“Information to us suggests that it was a pet dog,” A/AC Sharma said. He said charges are not currently being considered for the owners of the dogs, but would not rule out charges being laid in the future.
NT News
The fire in Canbra is what has been happening in the UK, US and Canada showing up here. The big push against the middle class, democracy and sovereign nations have been ramped up. Not enough to white ant government and bureaucracy now- physical violence is the go. Trump and Brexit gave these evil twats a big fright.
Richard Burton?
Because they’re as staggeringly stupid as the imbeciles who lit the fire?
Remember, the CFMEU rank and file members responsible for those legendary contretemps in Melbourne were also reported by braindead meeja numpties as having been infiltrated by extreme right wing neo-nayzee anti-vaxxers.
They are the gobbledoks du jour. Looking for an explanation for the inexplicable?
“Extreme right wing anti vaxxer neo-nayzees”.
One size fits all, peoples.
Lizze not you. Peter Baldwin.
Trump’s decision to call the mass rally for that day was reckless and futile, and his temporizing before calling on the rioters to withdraw was culpable.
Indeed, his entire conduct after the election was idiotic. Once the Supreme Court decided on 11 December 2020 not to hear the detailed challenge filed by the Texas attorney-general, joined by other states on the ground that the state “lacked standing”, the realistic options for overturning the election result were over.
Cruel and unusual punishment. I hate pepper, in all its forms.
An excellent meme, Rabz, with good examples.
It has legs for any major event or historical retrospective from now on. 🙂
Grampian Nazis do get bad press.
Yes.
In regards to doxxing, glitches happen, mistakes are made, and people either directly dox themselves or do so by revealing too much information.
When it happens (and it does because I’ve seen quite of few of your names flash across the screen at one time or another), I think it’s manners to just let it scroll through, and not continually repeat it or refer to it. If you can’t fix it for the person involved, best not to draw attention to it. If people are commenting under a non de plume, you can assume it wasn’t intentional.
All bets are off it they use the site to advertise their memoirs about tent target practice.
Actually a guy from our year at school got murdered by real neoNazis. Not to be taken lightly.
Hmmmm.
An early integrator.
Sure, Milton. There is that stuff. Mea culpa, although there is some truth about the Supreme Court ending it all and effectively limiting Trump’s options. I don’t blame Trump for his intransigence in the heat of the decision, though many including Baldwin do. At least Baldwin does recognise later that Trump could hardly be conspiring, given the tweet his son sent.
The Garudina ha ha I like that better than the grauniad
Posting, using your service number…..
“Dogs are amazing. They have so many underestimated talents, and they are always so happy to have a job”
This of course is against the the UN Agenda (PETA Arm), and the only dog ownership being at all socially acceptable by those mobsters is “adoption” of a “fur baby” (that in many cases is harder than fostering human babies), where we are made into the dogs slaves and they become obnoxious, spoiled brats.
For instance you can thank Shirley Temple for so many bored & frustrated draught dogs being miserable rather than dog carting the kids & little old ladies safely to the shops for supplies.
Ever seen a pulling dog allowed to pull. They’re in heaven!
Tracking & Scenting is so strong in many dogs that they now even have competitions for it for all comers, not only police & military dogs.
Ah, but it’s a whole big topic … not for here.
Seriously the way Trump has been treated, it’s just disgusting to put it mildly. Shows he was right on target, he really did pull up the corrugated iron to expose the vermin.
The open thread was angry that day.
Here’s something to lighten up the mood.
Bill Burr’s Philly rant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jMhoGUiIkk
If he did this today, he’d be cancelled.
Vermin like Dolly Downer and Blojo
Vermin like the Bushes.
Actually I reckon the OPH fire is an ANTFILTHA job.
Had a tour of the Pitti palace with professor of fine arts from the university there . I won him when I asked to see Artemisia Gentilischi there . It was a family house so paintings are hung as one would in a home not as in a museum . I noted there seemed to be many Andrea del Sarto paintings apparently some scandal occurred that he was going to tell me about . I also noted all the male statues had been interfered with so he told me that when he showed an Aussie Polly a nude by Tiziana some remark about tits was made .
Milt – it’s running joke – rearrange the Guardian’s letters in any particular order, but the result must at least begin with the letter “G”.
It’s a sly dig at the legendary illiteracy of their j’ismists and copywriters.
For the most part, I think a lot of folks tend to leave them on for the convenience of not donning/doffing at they move in and out of the shops in Perf. If it is a very big location, folks will leave them on just for the sake of a little peace.
In other cases (like a servo outside Northam I went thru just after Christmas, people would wander in and only put the mask on (after much psychic eye rolling) to converse with the staff and get their orders.
Some folks (maybe 1 in 3, depending on the suburb) have them on all the time wjen they are out of doors. But fortunately not in their own cars.
Apparently, a goodly number of otherwise ‘normal’ folk are so deeply spooked by it all, that masks make them feel safe.
They just make me sweat, which is extra-nasty when you are on a shaving holiday…
So, Ted, on a scale of 1-10 (10 being sane and rational and 1 being certifiably batshit crazy), where would you place Bird?
Rabz I think it might go back to Private Eye in the 80s or 90s. I used to take vile rag seriously once but I was young and naive.
Never done that but the number is inscribed on the inside of my skull in large numerals. One of those things no man can forget. Should it be necessary I am willing to disclose it to ex-service Cats should you feel the need. Contact Dover for my email.
We used to get the Garadina Weekly which also served up gruel from the Washington Post and LeMonde. Maybe it wasn’t quite so bad back then. Very sanctimonious and condescending though.
Wot? Masks til the end of the week?
OK, the last time we had a single security guard come down with the Nosferaflu, he locked all of Perf down for a week. And made us all wear the face nappies for another 10 days afterwards.
I guess masks on public holidays and no nightclubbing (and a cursory sum of ‘go away’ money to all entertainment establishments suddenly thrown for a loop by a spontaneous shutdown over some of their busiest days) is an improvement for a Public Holiday over Sneakers’ previous pattern of locking us down for each and every long weekend we had until September…
No, it doesn’t. The crew finds items and brings the dog in to follow the scent of the owner. Perfectly reasonable.
This would be the best add for an airline I’ve ever seen.
Milt – you might be right. I could be guilty of “a creeping assumption” there. 😕
Rex, any updates on the “Fun Loving Frenchman” responsible for the latest outbreak of idiocy over there in WA?
mask compliance in Perth
Perth is suffering mass formation psychosis. 100%
He killed them all?
The whole class?
Maybe the bashing was a reprisal.
Choo choo man do you spend your whole day here?
Sniffly.
A sad old meme that is not amusing, you poor old dear. Best you can do, I expect.
If I air around a few sweeties and darlings and angel cheeks to little Timmy Neilson, who deserves them, that is my prerogative reponse to his pretentious behaviour and nothing to do with sweet sherry (ugh!) nor Tim Blair.
Dry sherry always, please my darling, but I don’t enjoy it weeknights.
Although now you mention it, an Aperol Spritz instead might do nicely while I make a salad.
And stop being so serious.
As Aunty Mame famously says, life is a banquet. Eat up.
Bear – Yak van Tongeren’s mob? They were famous for firebombing Perth Chinese restaurants back in the day.
What’s your excuse, Dribbles?
Did Socialism sit you on your arse, too?
This from Twitter- Napoli puts a rocket under the lockdown fascists.
I’d make a joke about mass perturbation Custard, but if you say it too quick it sounds suspect.
Wankers… 🙁
If that’s so, then you haven’t got much hope of being validated, Lizzie, since Neilson’s comment from yesterday now has 47 UpTicks:
Timothy Neilsonsays:
January 2, 2022 at 1:33 pm
callisays:
January 2, 2022 at 12:49 pm
Maybe “strategic and malicious” use of the like button does happen. I don’t have access to tracing data on usage of this site, so I don’t really know. But in any case if someone wanted to use multiple online personae to post lots of “I agree”‘s rather than lots of upticks wouldn’t the effect be the same?
As for ego and taking things seriously, if I’d really wanted to chase an audience with comments about Lizzie, think what I would have done with this…
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
December 31, 2021 at 7:07 pm
[Quoting Rabz] It’s on!
Sorry, Rabs darling, but it is not.
I won’t stay here to tolerate this insanity.
…
Rex Franger says:
December 31, 2021 at 7:11 pm
It’s on!
Sorry, Rabs darling, but it is not.
Nah, Lizzie.
Rabz meant his new show.
…
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
December 31, 2021 at 7:20 pm
Rabz has a new show? Who knew? I deliberately don’t keep up much here now. And I certainly don’t want a bun fight with Johanna. I am sick to death of her, and may note btw that most bullies like her are total narcissists
Less than 15 minutes after having instantly assumed, totally wrongly, that a two word blog comment was ALL ABOUT HER!!!!, she accused others of being narcissists (in a comment which also included the disdainful brushoff of Rabz’ show, with “Who knew?”).
As self-beclownments go it was really only an early season warmup, like a Test player making a half century in a district game, but if I’d had a mind to I could have made hay with it. I’ve actually restrained myself from deprecation of Lizzie’s comments far, far more often than I’ve allowed myself to hit “Post”. Like Robert Clive, I stand astonished at my own moderation.
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Pandemic of the unvaccinated?
I have an awful premonition that o will- incidentally or deliberately- surge through Perth, it will show up in the sheep drafting tests but be so inconsequential that our imploding hospitals will be untouched.
The worst part will be, Marx McGowan will declare his actions victorious, he will be hoist as triumphant upon the shoulders of the one daily newspaper, and he will rule for another fifteen years over a state which has been hocked into doing nothing other than sending minerals, degrees, money, and influence to China.
MASS FORMATION PSYCHOSIS – HOW THEY CREATED SUPPORTERS FOR MEDICAL TYRANNY
It’s incredible in a bad way to think what the WA Liberal Party was with people like the Courts and what a diminished shell it’s become. More proof that the LP has outlived its usefulness.
The Powerful Pfizer Presentation That Got Dr. Robert Malone Kicked Off Twitter
Famous for anti – Asian rants, and his father was Indonesian?
Trooble at mill!
The Furniture Store Maudlin Index has been cranked up to eleventy, but Bird is not showing sufficient respeck.
A blog-wrecker, if you will.
This will not end well.
the difference between fascism and communism, as far as I can tell, is who does the actual violence-by-proxy.
fascists tend to do it themselves. see Mussolini or, Dan Andrews
commies love to have somebody else that aren’t exactly authorised. Like the Cheka or anti-fa
well there it is … anti-fa … essentially means we are bolshies
People get the government they deserve. Not the one they need…
-The Derp Knight
Yep. A few nasty guys in there. One of my mates was in at the Public Prosecutors and saw the cop photos put into evidence. Pretty grisly.
No, Calli. You are simply perpetuating a meme here that I enjoy ‘sparring’ with Johanna.
I do not. I want it to end.
I have never encouraged it and have kept my objections to it limited.
She is a festering soul who has spit spite and bile at me from the moment she arrived here.
You would neither enjoy it nor tolerate it if it happened to you, with all of its lies and abuse.
It is and has always been constant and outright bully-girl bullying for its own sake.
Examine the truth of it rather than promulgate memes, please.
I do not enjoy being the object of a consistent jihad. It is vile behaviour.
Bird lives for the ban.
He once had his own blog, and tired of it in the space of only a few years.
About the point where I think even he realised he was just posting the same angry and unhinged rants and magical thinking non-stop, on high repetition.
A tale of two cities.
In Sydney, my darling wife’s family are looking forward to a wedding at the end of the month. Four of the family have Covid, including the bride and groom. This is seen as a good thing because they will be good to go at the end of the month and won’t be locked up for the wedding. Others in the family actually hope that they too get a dose in the next week or so, so that they can be certain to attend the wedding too.
Meanwhile in Perth, the ruler there is worried that two people in the whole state have the disease. He has previously deprived over two million of their liberty for less cases than that, so the good citizens of Perth are pretty worried it might happen again.
So on one side of the country, the ruler is petrified of a disease that people on the other side of the country actually hope they get. What an utterly bonkers time to be alive.
One of the managers I worked for at the time got called as a witness at trial. They had stolen one of our customers cheque books and were passing bad cheques to fund themselves. Perth can be a pretty small place at times.
Have they deigned to let you back in, Jupes?
Or are you still stuck halfway in Taswegia?
Tom Jones.
Those that do not have a novel in them blog.
Have you considered that if you cease raking over the coals, it might just run out of steam?
Assume there are only fifty people on this blog.
I’d suggest the number of people who read what you two write about each other would be approximately two – you and Johanna.
No, Lizzie. I am not. How you got that from my statement is beyond me.
Cafe news, with bad one-handed photography. Sometimes things just happen out of nowhere. Dunno why they do.
Kookas arrived. Dad, son from last year, and newest Cafe penthouse graduate. Son from last year arrives on the fence first, so I tried for a photo. Got this: first time ever of son&heir on my hand, and first time ever of newest Cafe graduate (he/she on the fence in background). The noisies are there like Christmas ornaments, ignore them.
Then newest kiddie, who was starvingly starvingly hungry stepped up. First I got one of dad, son&heir and new kiddie in a row, and then kiddie flew over onto fence next to Dad and took food from my hand for the very first time. Twice. A fine thing!
If you’re in WA you’re scared just to leave your chair.
Out and about today, and in the presence of excellent company I might add.
A number of things are abundantly clear:
1. The sooner NSW and Vic get to 100,000 cases a day the better;
2. ‘Flouncing’ may need to be redefined; and
3. After reading all of the information provided, yet again, on this subject, it immediately apparent that Hairy is in fact Eddie Obeid.
Yep.
Sneezed? That’s a Lockdown.
Looked at your neighbour funny? That’s a Lockdown.
Made the mistake of taking a PCR test for any reason? That’s a Lockdown.
Flew into Perth from Queensland, had a few nights on the town, then felt a bit off and went and did the ‘right thing?’ Oh, you’d better believe that’s a Lockdown
With regard to the problems in the Kimberley:
I have a close friend who spends his time working in and driving through the North-West, mainly through and into remote communities. He firmly believes control has been lost in places like Halls Creek (Hell’s Crack) and Fitzroy. His car is regularly stoned as he drives through and even at 6 foot and well muscled, he won’t venture out onto the streets after dark.
He and his wife have lived in Broome for … it must be over 20 years now. They can’t wait to get out. He says the police are fighting a losing battle there, too. He was woken a few weeks back by the sound of racing engines and a vehicle overturning in front of their house. He ran downstairs just as the police arrived — and the kids (yes, all children) disappeared into the bush over the road. The latest trick is for a group of 4 to 6 young Indig kids to break into a house while the owners are there — using star pickets and axes — demand car keys, money and booze, with menaces — and piss off in the car.
My friends’ house goes on the market in about April and they’re out of there. No amount of money will solve the problem — it just makes the middle men even richer. We may as well light a bonfire and toss it on for all the good it will do. More committees, more talkfests, more grandiose plans — and fuck all actually done. And yes, I’ve lived and worked amongst it in the Kimberley and the Goldfields.
Also tomatoes, corn, chocolate, spuds and tobacco. Kate MacMillan judges it to be a draw with respect to the germs and steel vs smoking deaths. Italian cuisine must have been pretty dire before they found the new world too.
Still in Tassie. We have to apply for another G2G pass every time McClown raises the risk level. So far, including NSW, we have applied for six passes. Three were outright rejected and three times we have been approved but then had two of those rejected when the risk level went up. At the minute we are approved.
Now it’s a race against the clock. Can we get back before the dickhead raises the risk level to extreme? Qantas has delayed our flight by two days just to make it interesting.
KD at 8:29.
1. Yep.
2. There are two terms. The Flounce. And the Flounce-Bounce.
3. You doxxing bastard!
A young Northern Man – the Toon Track Top is pure 90s …
And no Shatterrzzz, I won’t mention Kevvie Keegers – oh, oops … 😕
It’s a sly dig at the legendary illiteracy of their j’ismists and copywriters.
It was known as the Grauniad in London in the 1980s, so the illiteracy is not a Millenial thing.
You could just as well be describing parts of South Africa but what’s makes it worse it’s kids.
What utter bullshit.
Still, we’ve only been escalated to having to continue wearing masks in all indoor public spaces in Mcgowantown ntil Friday. So far. **Roll Eyes Here**
I’m off to Kal for a week on Wednesday, so I’ll hopefully miss most of the fun.
JohnH – yes.
Old Bloke – no.
Sir Richard Burton.
As far as anyone knows, he was faithful to his two last wives — Suzy Hunt followed by Sally Hay — but that was because, by his 50th birthday, he’d simply run out of energy.
Burned out by a life of debauchery, he was forced to give up his favourite hobby. But it had certainly been a good run while it lasted.
Bruce in WAsays:
January 3, 2022 at 8:32 pm
Getting to that in parts of Townsville and Cairns now. They haven’t taken to threatening people yet as they run on being caught but the violence isn’t far off IMO.
Am in the middle of moving back to NQ, should be able to gauge the feeling when we do get there but a mate who lives 3 doors from my house says break ins, stolen cars are common and prowlers are constant after hours.
For any military-minded Cats
Going through the dark recesses of cleaning out a cupboard today (well, bugger all else we can do) and came across a metal ashtray. I’d forgotten I even had it.
It belonged to my Grandad (1902 – 1965) and the story was it was made from the top of a piston from a WWII aircraft engine. That seems reasonable; it still has the grooves where the rings would have fitted. It looks like aluminium but much heavier and harder, so obviously some sort of alloy.
Anyway, while looking at it, I noticed some faint engraving in it. In a strong light we could make out “OFFICERS’ MESS WESTERN AREA”. I remembered Grandad had been a Mess Sergeant in WWII and must have half-inched from the Mess! Anyway, my brother wants it so I’ll hand it on. Just thought it was interesting.
I’m aware of an incident ~10 or so years ago where the crew of a patrol boat were bashed in Broome. After that Navy crews weren’t allowed to go into town when they stopped off. Sounds like it’s not improved.
Great photo Bruce, that’s a real family outing. I hope your neighbours are thankful for the superphosphate your visitors leave.
Relative of mine worked in a juvenile detention centre in Perth. Detention was no deterrent to the indigenous children there – plenty of good food, hot showers, clean beds, play plenty of sport, catch up with the extended family and you’d fulfilled one of the rites of passage by being there.
A group of Kimberly parents wanted a new juvenile detention centre built there – they could visit their children more often, and the children wouldn’t have the shame of being flown to Perth, in handcuffs and under escort.
Went shopping at Claremont Quarter this arvo. Everybody wearing a mask except me. No trouble in shops, no Karens. Not much interest in qr codes or signing in. Just lots of obedience re masks.
Even children wearing masks.
Disappointing but not surprising.
I reckon we’ve got the government we deserve.
I’ve even seen him slapped about on YouTube. For trying to defend Red Bandanna-man, no less.
Rex,
He’s easy to spot on Youtube, I may have been one of those slappers, Rex. His pious, know all sanctimony makes him an easy target. The reason I miss his posts is seeing the responses from interlocutors far more witty than I could ever be. I greatly enjoyed the ripostes from yourself, Mater, KD, LL/Sancho and others.
Which reminds me – how useless are school magazines? Another guy from our year achieved a certain notoriety as a guitarist in the Sydney punk rock scene and was banging a particularly busty Home and Away actress. No mention, nada.
Nice, Bruce!
Like so many cases, the story of the artifact is really a story about the people involved in it.
I think that’s half the reason inanimate objects like buildings and vehicles and even trees or relative ephemera like you described become so important for so many people over time.
It’s like the meme “My Grandfather drove that!” and variations on it I hear when on the footplate of a steam loco like the Leschenault Lady. The thing reminds people of their memories and histories. And it’s just great. 🙂
Old Bloke – Fortunately the elderly lady in house behind likes birds. Her cat does too, but she is also elderly and regards this stuff as cat TV.
Bird-watching:
Faulty gets stuck into Graeme for being so up himself he can’t see daylight, and Graeme is a coward for wasting other folks’ time and pixels shitting all over that site instead of making up his own and doing it all there (This is possibly the first time I have ever agreed with Faulty on something. I am shocked, too).
Graeme blames his tin-eared monoblogging on not having access to the other threads on the Furniture Store.
Righto, Graeme…
Yeah, no Bear. You don’t get to put that out there without further elaboration.
Was the band “the Stems”, by any chance?
err, if anyone is still awake and of a musical bent, the radio show is open (again) …
The Kryptonics, The Scientists… there were a few back then.
When/if this madness ends parents have some explaining to do, DrBG. I recon the a lot of Karen’s will keep going to avoid it.
Poor ol’ Bird. 😕
Anyway, I’m off to test the MG42 out on some handy feral camel and donkey populations, while thinking wistfully about a certain English Rose … 🙂
Frank – don’t forget the Dugites, not to mention the Triffids, responsible as the latter were for some of the most awesome love songs in Ozzie rock history.
I wouldn’t, is mv claiming the store was his initiative?
Bird in the furniture store. Wow, after skimming all 5 pages.
Sure beats dodging butterflies, Rabz.
Not in this instance.
Rabz:
For the cost of the ‘fleet’ which will be nothing more than a white elephant, how much fuel could we store here in Australia?
Thieving by aboriginal kids in WA’s NorWest is nothing new.
Most of the little crims are trained by their elders in getting through doggie doors, small bathroom windows or through roofs to unlock doors, find car keys and pickup anything looking remotely valuable and pass on to the fences, usually sold on for a fraction of its value to buy ganja or plonk..
Once they reach the age of going to big boy’s clink, they retire from active theft and groom the next young generation of thieves and vandals.
The parents, if anyone ever admits to owning the little scrotes, don’t care, they just welcome the free goodies and never even think of punishing the villains.
There are many good hearted aboriginal parents and elders who are constantly doing their best to curtail this never ending cycle of theft and violence, but the lure of the grog and the drugs, added to the wet lettuce punishments by the courts , is too big a hurdle to ever jump over.
It is seriously disheartening to watch generation after generation sliding into hopelessness, unemployment, drug and alcohol abuse, violence and crime.
Better minds than mine have grappled with the problem with no viable solution.
Winston, I believe the idea is the fleet could sail off and get some more. In the context of fuel security it is so stupid only a lifetime politician or a wet behind the ears student union graduate could think it was a “strategic” idea.
I had a read earlier.
I almost felt sorry for Faulty, trying to wrestle the Force Ten craziness.
Fuck, the word salad gibberish has got much worse.
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Each tanker alone would probably equate to a few megalitres’ worth of tank farms and pipelines in locations out of all but ICBM-range of most of our neighbours.
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.
A little taster:-
Yeah, I know, right.
Who hasn’t thought that?
Wot Entropy said too, Winston.
Punk.
My favourite era.
Don’t get me wrong.
The music was mostly shit.
But “pogo-stick” dancing was something even a dance retard like me could get away with.
Bird seems to think that just leaving shit on the ground somehow miraculously converts itself into soil.
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 Vortex — 2022 — Here. We. Go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw7G3WFg9_k
Jan 3, 2022
Church Militant
Albanslezes proposal is all show for his MUA buddies. If things go kinetic guess where these tankers are going and it aint to the US. Plenty of ocean between Sydney & Los Angelis and we can’t even protect our own naval assets.
Neo Nazi killer Wayne Napier was released from prison last year after 32 years in the clink.
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.
No garages.
Rex Anger,
My comments are now out of auto-moderation, so this will be the first you hear of my inquiry into WA passport controls on entertainment. https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/01/01/open-thread-new-year-2022/comment-page-2/#comment-107722
Was that a humblebrag, or is there no such enforcement in WA cinemas?
They are in inexplicably high demand of late, apparently. 😕
Bird’s has never had to do anything substantial, the consequence being he doesn’t understand that people who get things done often fail and through experience recognise that thinking is not enough, that is not until we get our hands dirty we recognise all the problems with our plans. We plan, we fall over, we think again, we try again, we keep going. Bird doesn’t get that, he doesn’t respect the thinking and hard work of others. He is another arrogant armchair critic who can FOAD.
Nope. Nobody bothered to ask. Nobody even gave a hoot, so long as your face nappy was on at the counter.
I don’t think anything of that nature exists in WA- You just get forbidden from working in most industries (and allegedly, any business that can be closed due to lockdowns come Feb/March- This particular dictate has never been rescinded since its issuance in mid-October 21).
Sorry Colonel, for got to add:
…if you are not Mark-compliant with at least one stab.
John H.
You do realise that Bird is very, very clever, right?
The cleverest.
Blindingly, brilliantly smart.
In any field you’d care to name.
Economics, epidemiology, herbal palliative medicine, nano technology, the legend of King Arthur, Scottish highland rail timetables 1921-1930 … you name it and he will be all over it.
@ Sancho-
I mean, Bird is so smart he could go on Hard Quiz with his special subject- ‘The Oligarchy-‘ and win!
Top Ender:
1. States Rights.
2. Cash Cow.