Open Thread – Tues 4 Jan 2022


The Rape of Europa, Francisco de Goya, 1772

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Bushkid
Bushkid
January 7, 2022 12:39 pm

H B Bear says:
January 7, 2022 at 11:51 am
The worst toilet paper was State government issue stuff in primary school. A cross between grease proof paper and rice paper. I assume it was cheap.

Indeed, this is exactly the stuff provided for the little outhouse up the hill at our bush primary school!

At the same time, a friend’s house still had the detached outhouse with the cut up squares of newspaper threaded on string and hung on a nail.

On an historical note, the house I grew up in had both a detached bath house (under the tall tank stand that a windmill pumped water into from an underground tank), and a multi-seat long-drop dunny down the hill. A bit of a long walk in the middle of the night, and I don’t imagine it would have been be much fun in snake season! A possible reason for the plethora of chamber pots in residence in the old store room.
Neither of these “facilities” was still in use when I was young, but were a reminder of how lucky we were to have an indoor flushing toilet and hot and cold running water to the indoor bathroom.

twostix
twostix
January 7, 2022 12:39 pm

Man oh man, reality out runs even the most jaded conspiracy theorist today.

I conspiracy theorised that they were gearing up to make these RAT results mandatory to report to the government. Essentially a system of perpetual self incrimination, runny nose -> RAT test -> mandatorily inform on yourself and sit at home and wait to be told what to do.

Victoria already did it yesterday:

Victorians who return a positive rapid antigen test for Covid will now be required to report their result to the state’s health department and isolate for seven days.

A new “probable case” category of contact will be signed off on Thursday, meaning the same rights and obligations will be imposed on those who test positive using a RAT as those who take a PCR test.

I give up.

calli
calli
January 7, 2022 12:42 pm

John of Mel – your apricot tree has a genetically pre-determined size that, given the right conditions, it will always want to achieve.

Don’t be fooled by bonsai – those scissorhanded Japanese are ruthless. And the containers are small. Very small.

Soooo…a couple of things to bear in mind. Yields will change with your pruning technique – apricots, like so many other fruits, always appear on previous years’ growth spurs. You will likely get larger, but fewer fruit if you prune off this year’s growth and leave the parts of the tree that have supplied fruit. This changes when you want to start a new fruiting branch, or if the tree is damaged, or if you simply want to renovate the tree.

My tip – prune it down to a manageable size. The last thing you want is every fruit nipped by fussy birds, or worse – fruitfly.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 7, 2022 12:43 pm

Trucks and trains.

In the wake of the massive 32-hour traffic jam in Virginia this week, we’ve seen a fair bit of commentary from folks arguing that the whole snafu underscores the need for more train service throughout the United States.

With that in mind, let’s check in to see how the trains are doing:

A midnight train from Georgia has been trapped on the tracks in Virginia for more than 30 hours…

Tuesday morning, passengers still aboard the train reported they were without food, functioning toilets and information from the rail service as to what happens next.

“All we’ve been told is there are trees on the tracks preventing us from moving forward,” passenger Sean Thornton said Tuesday. “Nobody has eaten for about 20 hours and the toilets in coach are completely backed up. The snack bar sold out of food yesterday. Passengers have been banned from leaving the train.”

Snow wins.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 7, 2022 12:44 pm

and a multi-seat long-drop dunny down the hill. A bit of a long walk in the middle of the night, and I don’t imagine it would have been be much fun in snake season!

Used to live in hole in middle of the road, we did…

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 7, 2022 12:49 pm

Newly gorgeous Palacechook has just finished telling me to, please, please, just work from home.

I wouldn’t mind.
But, unfortunately, my business doesn’t work like that.

Razey
Razey
January 7, 2022 12:50 pm

callisays:
January 7, 2022 at 11:02 am
The hysteria on the NSW Health Covid Twitter thread has to be seen to be believed. People are calling for lockdowns and mass sackings and generally have their hair on fire.

No wonder governments are responding the way they are.

How can they govern sensibly if the pressure towards insanity is so strong?

As others have stated. the government and MSM goons created the mass hysteria.

As for RAT ‘self reporting’, yeah good luck with that. Many people will not obey as its easy not to. Only the most dedicated Karens will.

Razey
Razey
January 7, 2022 12:51 pm

How long until they do an Austria in Oz + clot shot mandates for schools?

twostix
twostix
January 7, 2022 12:53 pm

As for RAT ‘self reporting’, yeah good luck with that. Many people will not obey as its easy not to. Only the most dedicated Karens will.

Watch for the $10,000+ fine and up to six months in prison for not reporting or knowingly leaving your house with “covid” symptoms and not taking a test.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
January 7, 2022 12:54 pm

Dr Faustus says:
January 7, 2022 at 12:49 pm
Newly gorgeous Palacechook has just finished telling me to, please, please, just work from home.

The message of wisdom from the keyboard Karens until the toilet backs up.

shatterzzz
January 7, 2022 12:55 pm

When you’re shopping with us at the moment, you might unfortunately have noticed gaps on shelf, or substitutions in your online order. Unlike the surge buying of early 2020 (who could forget the toilet paper), this is because of the number of people in our supply chain in isolation – from suppliers to truck drivers and distribution centre team members – which in turn is causing material delays to store deliveries. To give you a sense of the magnitude of the challenge, we are experiencing COVID-driven absences of 20%+ in our distribution centres and 10%+ in our stores.

But, fear not we are only raising, some, prices by 15% to cover our profit margins* .. LOL!

* one random product .. Homebrand milk 1lt ctn .. 3 weeks ago $1.00 10 days ago $1.25 .. today $1.35 (with a low everyday price sticker) ……

Razey
Razey
January 7, 2022 12:55 pm

twostixsays:
January 7, 2022 at 12:53 pm
As for RAT ‘self reporting’, yeah good luck with that. Many people will not obey as its easy not to. Only the most dedicated Karens will.

Watch for the $10,000+ fine and up to six months in prison for not reporting or knowingly leaving your house with “covid” symptoms and not taking a test.

How are they going to know?

Jorge
Jorge
January 7, 2022 12:56 pm

As for RAT ‘self reporting’, yeah good luck with that.

At this morning’s briefing Martin Foley said ‘we know there will be issues with this and we’re working on ways to overcome it’.

Sounds ominous.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 7, 2022 12:58 pm

Homebrand milk 1lt ctn .. 3 weeks ago $1.00 10 days ago $1.25 .. today $1.35 (with a low everyday price sticker)

Even more fun when they raise the list price but then immediately put the item on special at the price they just raised it from. With a cute little yellow label to say “25% price cut!”

Winston Smith
January 7, 2022 1:00 pm

Walli:

I know the car, it must be one of the first, five years old or more, drives that road both ways every day.
I’d say it’s battery is at the end of it’s life.

Does anyone know of the scheme to refurbish the batteries by removing substandard cells and selling them for home solar chargers?

Roger
Roger
January 7, 2022 1:03 pm

the new mayor

That’d be the ex-cop who ran on a law and order platform.

Inexplicably, they also elected a Soros candidate for DA who ran on a platform of diverting most criminals from the prison system because racial justice.

Good luck, Mr. Mayor.

John of Mel
John of Mel
January 7, 2022 1:04 pm

How are they going to know?

Your own kids, raised by Australian edumication system, will report you?

Razey
Razey
January 7, 2022 1:05 pm

Jorgesays:
January 7, 2022 at 12:56 pm
As for RAT ‘self reporting’, yeah good luck with that.

At this morning’s briefing Martin Foley said ‘we know there will be issues with this and we’re working on ways to overcome it’.

Sounds ominous.

There’s nothing they can do.

They no longer have any control other than lockdowns. Which Oz can no longer afford.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
January 7, 2022 1:08 pm

Ok. So it’s very simple then. Give me the absolute best data you can find. One where not only is there no obvious bias, but that any kind of bias would be inconceivable.

Why? Why should we assume that there’s bias? Especially in relation to clinical studies.

Because refuting stuff that you refuse to specify isn’t my obligation. If you wish to specify something, then I’ll deal with it.

OK. “Every single clinical study and post-rollout survey that’s validated any vaccine.”
Go!

I don’t think any of these people are wearing sunglasses.

Funny how smallpox was very deadly when it was called smallpox, but now that it’s wearing a false beard and using it’s fake “monkeypox” and “pellagra” ID’s very few if any people die from it.

Firstly, I don’t recall implying that only “some” trials were invalid. Secondly, lots of trials show that the vaccine is worthless/too dangerous. Those trials might also be invalid (ie bias in favour of the vaccine), but either way, it hardly helps your case.

Figures runs the length of the field and smashes the ball into the net for a brilliant own goal! We’re supposed to reject successful studies/surveys because “bias” even though lots of trials show negative results. Explain why we should assume bias again?

It’s true by definition as long as you accept that doctors believe the vaccine works. If you want to claim all doctors don’t believe that then you’re golden. Except you have to accept the fact that doctors don’t believe in vaccines.

This is, of course, total bullshit. There’s no a priori reason to assume that doctors misdiagnose because of belief in the efficacy of a vaccine. Doctors are well aware that vaccines aren’t generally 100% effective, so there’s no reason to rule them out.

In fact, it’s probably largely true for flu shots – doctors have minimal confidence in these things (despite bullying people to get them). To some extent for pertussis as well. That’s why even the *official* data indicates these vaccines are largely useless. If there are a large proportion of doctors who are prepared to diagnose it even in the vaxed, then the official data will indicate the vaccine is useless. If doctors largely believe in the vaccine (polio, diphtheria), then the official data will make it look like the vaccine is a miracle.

Poor old cause and effect confuser. Doctors have low confidence in flu vaccines because the data shows low efficacy. If doctors are blind worshippers of all vaxxes, how did the low efficacy data for flu vaxxes come into existence in the first place?

Do you see now? You need to show the bias absolutely doesn’t exist in a particular instance and that the data still shows the vaccine works.
No, no-one needs to show such a thing. You’re asserting that bias has that effect. It’s not up to others to prove a negative.

Roger
Roger
January 7, 2022 1:08 pm

There’s nothing they can do.

They no longer have any control other than lockdowns. Which Oz can no longer afford.

Small business cannot afford them.

Government and big business can.

The politicians will wait to see which way the wind blows.

Incidentally, I’ve seen reports “productivity” increased with work from home orders.

Makes you wonder what goes on in those high rises all day. Meetings, I suppose.

Razey
Razey
January 7, 2022 1:09 pm

John of Melsays:
January 7, 2022 at 1:04 pm
How are they going to know?

Your own kids, raised by Australian edumication system, will report you?

LOL. That’s not going to happen. I don’t care if I go to jail. I don’t mind being a martyr. I have the moral high ground. Plus I get three square meals a day for free!

calli
calli
January 7, 2022 1:11 pm

Incidentally, I’ve seen reports “productivity” increased with work from home orders.

I mentioned a family member who has just moved from corporate to qango.

Log on at 7:30, log off at 3:30. One day’s productivity.

John of Mel
John of Mel
January 7, 2022 1:11 pm

Plus I get three square meals a day for free!

Haha. It reminds of the last scene in this fantastic short movie.

John of Mel
John of Mel
January 7, 2022 1:14 pm

Thanks Calli!

your apricot tree has a genetically pre-determined size that, given the right conditions, it will always want to achieve.

Pruning every year it is then. From this year’s experience its pre-determined size is more than I can handle.

Aaron
Aaron
January 7, 2022 1:17 pm

Study doubts rat test kits.

More settled science.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 7, 2022 1:24 pm

Boland! 2/0!

Cracking catch by ex-captain Cheaty McSook at second slip, I’ll give the jerky former leggie that.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 7, 2022 1:26 pm

The only Pom who’s made any runs at all goes for 0.

Home time.

Mater
January 7, 2022 1:26 pm

There’s nothing they can do.

Watch this space.

Log details of anyone who buys a RAT, and then make them accountable for the exact number, on request.

People will be required to keep them, so they can be held accountable. We are meandering into full totalitarian mode.

Far fetched, you say? “Far fetched” is sooooo Feb 2020.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 7, 2022 1:26 pm

Farmer Gezsays:

January 7, 2022 at 12:30 pm

Bloody Sancho!
Family discussion over lunch about a big trip OS when we can.
The winner was Spain. 

There are vast amounts of Spain I haven’t seen.
But it is tops.
Spain, France, Engerland sounds nice.
If it was me I would go East young man and do Spain, France, Italy, but you must decide how you break that news to the Royal buff.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 7, 2022 1:29 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

January 7, 2022 at 12:31 pm

It begins.

Starc exposes the technique of Pom openers yet again. Hameed playing all around a straight one.

Exactly.
I couldn’t see all the wobble and seam they were talking about on my ageing LG 55″.
Looked like a classic case of “missed a straight one” to me.
Scotty!!!
2 for 0!

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 7, 2022 1:30 pm

Zulu

Used to live in hole in middle of the road, we did…

At least in winter you would get some warmth from the exhausts of passing cars?

calli
calli
January 7, 2022 1:31 pm

Participation will be based on the RAT.

Forget vaxx “status”.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 7, 2022 1:32 pm

Stokes. 0.

Burns-esque.

Pogria
Pogria
January 7, 2022 1:34 pm

John of Mel,
what Calli said about your apricot tree. One other thing, unlike other fruit trees, apricots need to be pruned in Autumn, not winter. Apricots are different from other stone fruits in that the sap actually starts to run in Winter. It is a little quirk of nature. Prune in Autumn for apricots, and, as Calli suggested, do not be scared to prune hard.

I hope this helps. Almost forgot, most fruit trees these days are grown on dwarfing root stock to be a lot more manageable. You may have an old-fashioned standard rootstock variety.

calli
calli
January 7, 2022 1:34 pm

From the ABC

Mr Perrottet labelled the changes as “minor” and “proportionate” changes as the state moves through the next phase of the outbreak.

He said the government would also be encouraging the minimisation of mingling.

Am I allowed to browse? That’s the burning question.

This has got beyond farce.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 7, 2022 1:35 pm

Roger

Makes you wonder what goes on in those high rises all day. Meetings, I suppose.

Possibly apocryphal question to cabbie from the airport by a visitor to Canberra, pointing at a large office building: “How many people work in that building? ” “Oh, about half of them.”

Razey
Razey
January 7, 2022 1:35 pm

Matersays:
January 7, 2022 at 1:26 pm
There’s nothing they can do.

Watch this space.

Log details of anyone who buys a RAT, and then make them accountable for the exact number, on request.

I wont be purchasing any ‘RATs’.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 7, 2022 1:37 pm

Perrottet: There will be no mingling under the government I lead.

h/t TLS

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 7, 2022 1:38 pm

Mr Perottet.

94% of NSW punters over 16 are double-vaxxed. Yet – 35,000 ‘cases’ in 24 hours.

Is this not telling you anything at all?

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 7, 2022 1:38 pm

Calli

Am I allowed to browse? That’s the burning question.

You are not browsing, you are choosing carefully.

Razey
Razey
January 7, 2022 1:38 pm

dover0beachsays:
January 7, 2022 at 1:36 pm
Has anyone from Sky or elsewhere that argued that ‘getting vaxxed was the price of freedom’ resigned from their position or at the very least given a little mea culpa? I’m absolutely sick of their mistakes which never cost them anything always being paid by the cheap seats.

Hopefully lots of peeps who took the shots are pissed off, or at least thinking about WTF is going on.

Figures
Figures
January 7, 2022 1:38 pm

Why? Why should we assume that there’s bias? Especially in relation to clinical studies.

Because that’s how statistical analysis works. If something is *subject to bias* you need to control or quantify it. Otherwise your results are invalid.

OK. “Every single clinical study and post-rollout survey that’s validated any vaccine.”
Go!

And I could make the same argument to “prove” homeopathy is valid. We’ve already done this dance.

Funny how smallpox was very deadly when it was called smallpox,

No it wasn’t. When doctors were arguing to judges why the smallpox vaccine had to be forced, they claimed it was 30% fatal. But then when they were questioned about official stats showing much lower death rates or observed reports of smallpox hitting a village with zero or minimal damage they then said “oh that’s, ummm, variola minor”.
The high fatality rate for smallpox is completely made up.

We’re supposed to reject successful studies/surveys because “bias” even though lots of trials show negative results. Explain why we should assume bias again?

It’s not my fault you don’t understand statistics. It’s eminently plausible that there’s a pro-vax bias in trial data and for the data to still show the vaccine is bad. It simply means that the vaccine is really bad.

This is, of course, total bullshit. There’s no a priori reason to assume that doctors misdiagnose because of belief in the efficacy of a vaccine.Doctors are well aware that vaccines aren’t generally 100% effective, so there’s no reason to rule them out.

They don’t necessarily exclude them, they just deem it “lower likelihood”. Doctors aren’t trying to misdiagnose. To them, what they’re doing is good medical practice. It’s what they’re taught to do. Make a risk assessment of what the patient is likely to have and diagnose or test on that basis.

But, for the data, it’s all a self-fulfilling prophecy.

If doctors are blind worshippers of all vaxxes, how did the low efficacy data for flu vaxxes come into existence in the first place?

You do understand that biases don’t have to be (and very rarely are) universal and absolute don’t you?

Every doctor is different but most are similar. There are some doctors out there that have recently even been willing to diagnose smallpox. But they’re outliers.

No, no-one needs to show such a thing. You’re asserting that bias has that effect. It’s not up to others to prove a negative.

Then don’t. But then your problem remains. What data should people trust?

calli
calli
January 7, 2022 1:39 pm

dwarfing root stock

Yes. That’s the “genetically predetermined” bit – the top is controlled below the graft. Also true – apricots flower first in the season, even the ornamental ones.

On dwarf stock – do not plant dwarf “dragon” stock citrus in the garden. Useless and stunting. Fine for pots. Use the old fashioned stock for open ground.

srr
srr
January 7, 2022 1:40 pm
twostix
twostix
January 7, 2022 1:41 pm

NSW suspends non-urgent elective surgery
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has also banned singing at hospitality venues and said positive RAT tests will be treated like PCR tests and must be reported to authorities.

Man oh man.

Roger
Roger
January 7, 2022 1:42 pm

Possibly apocryphal question to cabbie from the airport by a visitor to Canberra, pointing at a large office building: “How many people work in that building? ” “Oh, about half of them.”

On the rare occasions when I pop back to Babylon by the Brisbane’s CBD, BJ, I’m amazed to see so many people with the mandatory lanyard hanging about their necks queing for coffee at odd hours of the day. The hardest working people in the city are the baristas.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 7, 2022 1:43 pm

‘getting vaxxed was the price of freedom’

The gold medal wrongologist has been James Campbell.
Not only has been wrong, but has led the charge at every change of narrative.

calli
calli
January 7, 2022 1:43 pm

I suppose when there’s nothing left in the shops there’ll be no chance of browsing anyway.

I should get in quick and order my grey suit now. While stocks last.

Fig leafs for the rest of youse.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 7, 2022 1:44 pm

A statue should be built for SCOTT
Boland

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 7, 2022 1:44 pm

On dwarf stock – do not plant dwarf “dragon” stock citrus in the garden. Useless and stunting. Fine for pots. Use the old fashioned stock for open ground.

Oh.
That explains something.
Another job for the Stihl.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 7, 2022 1:47 pm

David Goggins wishes Joe Rogan a happy birthday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgXxoRJkUZs

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 7, 2022 1:47 pm

Scott Boland’s Test career to date:

Eight overs.
Eight wickets for seven runs.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 7, 2022 1:47 pm

or at least thinking about WTF is going on

Thinking is not an Australian habit or pastime or hobby.

twostix
twostix
January 7, 2022 1:48 pm

The whole RAT thing is chaos, but it’s planned chaos by the way.

“Self driven” RAT testing is just the next milestone on the pandemic action list.

Somewhere, probably in every state and federal politicians email inbox, there’s a power point slide with a timeline that says:

January 2022: Transition to and implement self informing RAT testing system.
– Wrap up PCR testing
– Inform population RAT tests are now acceptable
– There will be confusion and difficulty for people to accept the new system
– Health departments will be momentarily overwhelmed by the increase in cases due to RATs less accurate reporting and people not self-reporting.
– Inform the population that RAT tests must be reported
– Unveil already built RAT reporting system that was conveniently already built months ago
– Introduce penalties for non-compliance
– Use similar procedures and ‘encouragement’ as was used to drive QR code uptake to make people accept dobbing themselves and others into the government when they have a runny nose.

Also they’re calling you rats now, lol.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 7, 2022 1:50 pm

KD 1 inn. 1/46

Roger
Roger
January 7, 2022 1:51 pm

NSW suspends non-urgent elective surgery
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has also banned singing at hospitality venues and said positive RAT tests will be treated like PCR tests and must be reported to authorities.

It’s as though they’ve said “let it rip”, but at the same time they’re determined that the rip will only be undertaken in staccato style and thus in the most painful and damaging way possible.

Like pulling a band aid off a hairy arm millimetre by millimetre.

Struth
January 7, 2022 1:51 pm
Aaron
Aaron
January 7, 2022 1:52 pm

Winter is going to be fun.

Forever boosters.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 7, 2022 1:52 pm

ScoBo for PM!

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 7, 2022 1:55 pm

Rocky: “Gee Bullwinkle we’re in a lot of trouble. We’ve got to think!
Bullwinkle: “This no time to take up a hobby, Rock.”

John of Mel
John of Mel
January 7, 2022 1:58 pm

January 2022: Transition to and implement self informing RAT testing system.
– Wrap up PCR testing

Matches with FDA ending the emergency use authorisation for PCR test in the States.

Anchor What
Anchor What
January 7, 2022 2:01 pm

Kerry Chant has relegated a dose of the virus to mere “booster” status and says you should still get a booster but wait 4-6 weeks after your dose of the virus!!
The general consensus (we thought) was that having had the virus you had better protection than the vaccines offer.
She also want more 12-18yr olds to get vaxed, current percentage is not good enough!

Anchor What
Anchor What
January 7, 2022 2:02 pm

My rat test reveals that the majority of politicians and bureacrats are indeed ratty.

Digger
Digger
January 7, 2022 2:03 pm

Mater says:
January 7, 2022 at 8:14 am
It’s an ancient and ongoing fight, but for my small farm (which comes with a small dog) my compact John Deere tractor punches way above it’s weight.

I have to agree. I have had my JD 1026 for some years and have the loader, backhoe, deck and rotary hoe. It is a cut above but I don’t discount Kubota as a manufacturer either. I also have a Kubota 1100X Diesel RTV with fully integrated cab and I wouldn’t change it for anything. The JD equivalent was about $17k more expensive and no better. The Kubota is fast over the ground but an excellent farm machine with air conditioning/heating, hydraulic tipper, wind up windows, wipers etc… an excellent machine.

Anchor What
Anchor What
January 7, 2022 2:04 pm

Fig leafs for the rest of youse.
I’m sure I’d look positively Grecian in a fig leaf, Calli.

twostix
twostix
January 7, 2022 2:09 pm

Kerry Chant has relegated a dose of the virus to mere “booster” status and says you should still get a booster but wait 4-6 weeks after your dose of the virus!!
The general consensus (we thought) was that having had the virus you had better protection than the vaccines offer.
She also want more 12-18yr olds to get vaxed, current percentage is not good enough!

Find me the contracts and I’ll find you the spot where they agreed that purchased doses must be used or future supply gets priority elsewhere or there are massive penalties or something.

280 million doses of this shit and it’s gotta go somewhere.

shatterzzz
January 7, 2022 2:12 pm

Possibly apocryphal question to cabbie from the airport by a visitor to Canberra, pointing at a large office building: “How many people work in that building? ” “Oh, about half of them.”

Reminds me of a NSW Water Board place I pass on my daily bike ride, it’s part of the Prospect, above ground, water pipeline system and a major junction of some sort about 8kms along from Prospect Reservoir .. no one works there anymore but the area is massive with several 3 storey buildings and lotza smaller ones .. fenced & well maintained but no permanent workforce … could pass as an average high school …. must have been well staffed & used at some point in time but what for & why given the area size is now just Water Board history, I suppose …….

calli
calli
January 7, 2022 2:16 pm

I definitely picture you in a Greek toga, Anchor. Writing furiously and with flair.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 7, 2022 2:19 pm

Tim Pool as has just been Swatted.
Someone tried to get him killed.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 7, 2022 2:20 pm

has just been.
Someone called in a double murder.
Seriously, this is out of control.

shatterzzz
January 7, 2022 2:20 pm

In answer to my own question on the pipeline .. Google & ye shall find .. LOL!
turns out it is Heritage Listed as a .. Headworks; Industrial Archaeological Site so tho not used anymore is fully maintained ………..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildford_West_pipehead_and_water_supply_canal

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 7, 2022 2:23 pm

Tim Pool needs to get rid of the long haired retard with the glasses.
He’s even more poorly read than Krystal & Saagar.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
January 7, 2022 2:23 pm

Sheesh, Omnicon is meant to be our ticket out. Seriously WTF is going on?

I find this battle with Chant frustrating. What has she got on the Premier? She should have been yesterdays news as soon as she started white anting the Premier & Cabinet. If it brings the whole health apparatus into open conflict then so be it, it needs to be brought to a head and this unelected upstart of a bint put well back in her box. According what I can glean online Chant did 4 years on the line 30years ago, mind you a little better than Janette Young but like Young I wouldn’t trust this woman to diagnose a common cold.

Serenity Now!!!

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
January 7, 2022 2:27 pm

You do understand that biases don’t have to be (and very rarely are) universal and absolute don’t you?

Figures tightens his grip on the Ballon D’Or for own goals.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
January 7, 2022 2:29 pm

And I could make the same argument to “prove” homeopathy is valid. We’ve already done this dance.

Yes we did.
And it ended with you utterly failing to explain why homeopathy, which expressly rejects clinical trials as an assessment device, is supposed to be an analogy for testing of vaccines by clinical trials.

Pogria
Pogria
January 7, 2022 2:30 pm

All the pollies, CHO’s and every filthy, disgusting Karen that wants me to be stabbed with their poison, this is what I want to happen to you.

Instead of nicotine patches, I want you all stabbed with hundreds, if not thousands of the clot shots to use them up.

I just wish I could find the scene where they displayed Aaron Eckhardts’ character on the statue, covered in patches. I want to see the filth, covered in needles.

calli
calli
January 7, 2022 2:42 pm

A new reporting system will allow people to log positive rapid antigen test (RAT) results with Service NSW, the Premier also announced, which will be made available next week.

Oh. Righty-oh. You can’t tell me they just pulled this out of their ample derrières.

In a few weeks, a -ve RAT will be necessary to enter any public place.

In addition, if the health system is so stretched, why did a family member (nurse) get leave this week? I’m calling b/s and now await the inevitable tik toks.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 7, 2022 2:46 pm

Now people have stopped smoking coffee is about the only excuse for getting out of the office for some sun. Good idea to cultivate a taste for a well made cup of coffee (can be a bit expensive – at least in Boomtown).

Roger
Roger
January 7, 2022 2:47 pm

In a few weeks, a -ve RAT will be necessary to enter any public place.

That will only increase transmission. The RATs are giving a worrying number of false negatives with Omicron according to the real life study of US office workers Aaron linked to above. Worrying enough to make the scientists say, “We need to rethink them.”

On the bright side, by the time they have this wave will have subsided and much of the community will have some immunity.

Roger
Roger
January 7, 2022 2:49 pm

Now people have stopped smoking coffee is about the only excuse for getting out of the office for some sun.

Now…when I wer lad, we were bound to desk and tea lady came ‘roond.

Tom
Tom
January 7, 2022 2:51 pm

Big Health/Big Pharma/Big Government and their parasites making billions from “consulting” are out and about, winding up Kung Flu hysteria as a 2022 federal election issue. From a press release received today via Australia Associated Press:

Australia will reach one million people officially living with a Covid diagnosis within days – more than lung disease and cancer – with one in every 20 New South Wales and Victorian residents already contracting the virus, the latest VaxEnomicTM Forecaster from C-suite strategy group Provocate reveals.
Provocate Managing Director Troy Bilsborough – a former senior advisor to Federal Health, Aged Care and Child Care Ministers – warned this could leave a lasting legacy beyond the latest Omicron wave that could swing the health vote at upcoming Federal and state elections.
Provocate’s VaxEnomicTM Forecaster shows Australia passed three-quarters of a million (760,000+) cases yesterday (7/01/2022), with about one-in-10 (73,000+) recorded on Friday alone, as the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared it a “mistake” to declare the Omicron variant ‘mild’.
Mr Bilsborough said Provocate expected this, combined with growing “electionomics”, would see a swift shift in pressure on governments and businesses to treat Covid and any long-term health risks as chronic illness.
“The big risk for incumbent governments in 2022 is the growing number of Australian households directly impacted by a Covid diagnosis vote based on what their health, not their head, says,” Mr Bilsborough said.
“Healthcare influenced more votes than any other issue at the last Federal election.
“One million Australians being diagnosed with Covid means the virus itself – not just talk about it – has gone mainstream and it risks leaving a lasting legacy in voters’ minds once Omicron’s been and gone.”
Mr Bilsborough said prior to Christmas, Covid had largely been a theoretical threat for most Australians, meaning governments were being judged on their competency as emergency and economic managers, not their healthcare credentials.
He warned governments to be careful transitioning their sales pitch to Covid being akin to a common cold too quickly or risk alienating voters further, particularly after the WHO warned labelling Omicron mild a “mistake”.
“The fact there’s now more cases of Covid than other key chronic health election issues like cancer, kidney and lung disease almost guarantees it will feature as a key issue in the minds of voters in 2022.
“Governments and business must navigate the next few months carefully and gently, particularly given the predicted increase in Long Covid claims and how any alleged chronic illness will be treated, funded and supported under Medicare, private health, social services and industrial law.
“There currently seems little incentive for a March Federal election, which would provide a window for some of these matters to be neutralised in the government’s pre-poll Budget depending on their appetite.”

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 7, 2022 2:52 pm

Just caught the end of the tea lady and the typing pool. A far more civilised way to work than answering an email on the crapper.

Roger
Roger
January 7, 2022 2:59 pm

Just caught the end of the tea lady and the typing pool.

Me too. They provided some oft needed down to earth humanity to the workplace as I recall.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
January 7, 2022 3:03 pm

Just caught the end of the tea lady and the typing pool.

Me too. They provided some oft needed down to earth humanity to the workplace as I recall.

Also an effective precursor to firm-wide emails. Just say to a tea lady “don’t tell anyone but…”.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 7, 2022 3:04 pm

Possibly apocryphal question to cabbie from the airport by a visitor to Canberra, pointing at a large office building: “How many people work in that building? ” “Oh, about half of them.”

Possibly apocryphal answer to a question asked by a Government survey several years ago. “How many employees do you have, broken down by sex?”

“We find alcohol to be more of a problem.”

Roger
Roger
January 7, 2022 3:05 pm

Provocate Managing Director Troy Bilsborough – a former senior advisor to Federal Health, Aged Care and Child Care Ministers …

‘Provocate’ is aptly named.

Whatever happened to “Keep Calm & Carry On”?

Not much money to be grifted from old fashioned stoicism, no doubt.

rosie
rosie
January 7, 2022 3:14 pm
thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 7, 2022 3:14 pm

Porgia.

You softy.

2:00 into this one is more like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGnVChIrmgk

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 7, 2022 3:19 pm

This morning they had some hair on fire, smeared in excrement, just out of the desert old testament prophet (It might have been Gunner) intoning over and over again “this is not the flu, this is not the flu” on the wireless.

At no stage did anybody interviewing the mong say “well its hardly the Spanish Flu/AIDs either is it”?

Speedbox
January 7, 2022 3:20 pm

feelthebernsays:
January 7, 2022 at 12:03 pm
Today I learned that the NYPD has 35000 officers…..

The NYPD is larger than the regular Australian Army.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 7, 2022 3:22 pm

H B Bear says:
January 7, 2022 at 2:52 pm
Just caught the end of the tea lady and the typing pool. A far more civilised way to work than answering an email on the crapper.

I’ve taken the odd phone call in the dunny – sometimes they ask where i am cos I sound a bit different (acoustics – and not my acoustics, the cubicle)

Figures
Figures
January 7, 2022 3:23 pm

which expressly rejects clinical trials as an assessment device, is supposed to be an analogy for testing of vaccines by clinical trials

You have no idea.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1668980/#:~:text=Combinations%20of%20several%20homoeopathic%20treatments%20were%20tested%20in,the%20trial%20or%20the%20variety%20of%20homeopathy%20used.

I think it said there were around 80 studies with positive results.

Now get to work!

Gab
Gab
January 7, 2022 3:27 pm

What’s the latest are we all doomed or what?

Pogria
Pogria
January 7, 2022 3:27 pm

Frollicking,

that was AWESOME!!!! Bags I push the bastards in!

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 7, 2022 3:28 pm

Doomed.
Armadildoed.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 7, 2022 3:31 pm

Fuck you Mater!
Just signed up to join the Orange People.
Down $1,700.

Gab
Gab
January 7, 2022 3:32 pm

Anyone seen Armadillo these days?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 7, 2022 3:33 pm

Armadildoed.

Giraffed.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 7, 2022 3:34 pm

Not a cult.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-07/children-covid-vaccine-supply-concern-ahead-of-wa-opening/100739778

When COVID vaccines opened up to younger children, Carissa Garza jumped to book her eight-year-old in.

Between the WA border opening on February 5, school starting and a long-awaited trip overseas to reunite with family on the cards, she had no hesitation.

“I’m really relieved that we have it available here, finally,” she said.

“We’re very fortunate to have the science available, and the vaccines available to protect our children. I’m just so glad that it’s finally here.”


She grabbed a booking later in January at another state-run clinic on the other side of the city, just in time to allow eight weeks for a second dose before the pair heads to the United States.

“It was a tight squeeze to get two doses in before we travel,” she said.

“I don’t want her, us, or my family put at risk.”

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 7, 2022 3:35 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 7, 2022 3:35 pm

Also an effective precursor to firm-wide emails. Just say to a tea lady “don’t tell anyone but…”.

Does anyone remember an epic email shitfight between two ‘ladeees’ at a Sydney law firm a few years back.
The insults and accusations kept escalating and the distribution list kept widening until they were both hauled in and fired.

Speedbox
January 7, 2022 3:40 pm

Rogersays:
January 7, 2022 at 2:47 pm
……… this wave will have subsided and much of the community will have some immunity.

And I think that’s the point. Omicron is the ‘lesser’ of the evils of covid and the unofficial approach is largely to ‘let ‘er rip’ thereby infecting millions and providing some form of immunity (it’s clear the ‘vaccination’ is, and always was, a wash).

So, despite all the flapping around by assorted Governments, I suspect the hope is that millions will achieve some form of partial immunity if/when the next variant arrives.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
January 7, 2022 3:43 pm

Figuressays:
January 7, 2022 at 3:23 pm

You didn’t read your own link did you?
The conclusion was that the quantity and quality of studies was too low to conclude efficacy.
(Which is of course consistent with a National Health and Medical Research Council review which found “there are no health conditions for which there is reliable evidence that homeopathy is effective”. You can look up references from elsewhere in the world yourself.)

Which is why homeopaths reject clinical trials as a basis for assessing homeopathic treatments, and insist on their very different methodology of “provings”.
Which is what I said – I never said that no clinical trials had been done on homeopathy.

The point of clinical trials is to establish, by as close to the scientific method as is possible in medical science, “controlled reproducible” results. Homeopathy isn’t a valid analogy precisely because they refuse to accept clinical trials. The fact that some clinical trials on homeopathy have been done, with no resulting substantive support for homeopathy, doesn’t suddenly invalidate the clinical trials that have been done on vaccines.

duncanm
duncanm
January 7, 2022 3:46 pm

What is this sensible nonsense coming out of the science today?

“The thing about Australia is that until now our immunity has been primarily driven by vaccination,” Professor Turville said. “So, the world will get very interesting data sets from Australia about what Omicron does to people who are double-dose vaccinated, but have never been infected with the virus.
“We are likely to have a unique experience globally and an immune response here that has not been seen before. I think it’s almost impossible to predict how this will play out.”

twostix
twostix
January 7, 2022 3:52 pm

Uh-oh.

Boosters to soon be required under NSW’s vaccine mandates
By Daniella White

Existing NSW vaccination mandates for workers will be altered to include a requirement for booster shots.

“The Health Minister is working through that at the moment,” Mr Perrottet said.

“But that announcement today will ensure that whether it’s our teachers, nurses, our frontline health and disability workers, where NSW Health has previously required mandatory vaccination … we will move to boosters being included as part of that fully vaccinated determination.”

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
January 7, 2022 3:53 pm

twostix says:
January 7, 2022 at 1:48 pm
“Self driven” RAT testing is just the next milestone on the pandemic action list.
– Inform the population that RAT tests must be reported

I don’t know if twostix knew this at the time of writing, but its spookily true.

Rapid antigen tests will be used to diagnose Covid-19 infections to relieve stress on PCR testing centres, NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has announced.

Mr Perrottet said positive RAT tests would be treated in the same way as positive PCR tests and would have to be reported to authorities.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
January 7, 2022 3:54 pm

Has everyone forgotten that medically-induced immunity is based on reproducing the natural process of immune system response?

Razey
Razey
January 7, 2022 3:55 pm

ld School Conservativesays:
January 7, 2022 at 3:53 pm
twostix says:
January 7, 2022 at 1:48 pm
“Self driven” RAT testing is just the next milestone on the pandemic action list.
– Inform the population that RAT tests must be reported

I don’t know if twostix knew this at the time of writing, but its spookily true.

Rapid antigen tests will be used to diagnose Covid-19 infections to relieve stress on PCR testing centres, NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has announced.

Mr Perrottet said positive RAT tests would be treated in the same way as positive PCR tests and would have to be reported to authorities.

No, I wont be ‘reporting’ anything to ‘authorities’.

rosie
rosie
January 7, 2022 3:58 pm

Travel tales.
I’ve been wandering down the mountain here via a route that takes me under the ‘tower of the elephant’ , the potted history sign next to it tells me that under Spanish rule it was often decorated with heads in cages.

Near one of the entrances to the walled city was a sign directing me to the Jewish quarter but it turned out not really, they were all expelled by Ferninand and Isabella in 1492, I didn’t know the place was Spanish for around four hundred years , til 1718.
More homework required.
I did a second ‘cultural activity’ in the afternoon, an exhibition of a famous Italian photographer of the 50s and 60s, in the bowels of the new and much bigger palazzo civica. A mixture of haute couture commisions and the life of the rich and famous alongside the life of the poor, mostly taken in Naples, many of them abandoned children. Reminded me I’ve yet to finish reading Morris West’s Children of the Sun.
And there was another delicate green pass tussle despite being the only person in the exhibition.
I tend to loss track of days and dates when travelling but it turned out yesterday was the feast of the Epiphany, a public holiday in Italy and an explanation of the sung weekday mass.
I went again last night for the two hours, this time at the end the bishop held the infant from the manger for the faithful to venerate, no kissing as I saw in Rome a few years ago.
The choir sang Christmas carols with which I was very familiar, all fully masked, naturally.

rosie
rosie
January 7, 2022 3:59 pm

Reporting of self administered rats test results was announced yesterday in Victoria.

Razey
Razey
January 7, 2022 4:00 pm

These morans are forgetting that Omricon is contagious before you even get symptoms. The vax doesn’t work against it. Boosters will do nothing other than further damage people. Only FULL lock downs will do anything which will be politically challenging and will prove to everyone that the clot shots simply dont work at all.

Nature > humans.

Barry
Barry
January 7, 2022 4:01 pm

That’s all this is to these fuckers, just one big ongoing science experiment.

duncanm says: January 7, 2022 at 3:46 pm
Professor Turville said. “So, the world will get very interesting data sets from Australia about what Omicron does to people who are double-dose vaccinated, but have never been infected with the virus.

Somehow, these fucking petit tyrants de medique need to be put back in their labs, and the real world reemerge from being experimented on.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 7, 2022 4:07 pm

Botox a comorbidity. Good heavens. Thank goodness I never touch the stuff. Natural skin needling though, inducing you own collagen repair, I am a fan of that. But really, next they will be fingering dental blocks as a comorbidity. No-one come near my teeth unless my choppers are anaesthetised.

bespoke
bespoke
January 7, 2022 4:09 pm

H B Bearsays:
January 7, 2022 at 2:46 pm
Now people have stopped smoking coffee is about the only excuse for getting out of the office for some sun. Good idea to cultivate a taste for a well made cup of coffee (can be a bit expensive – at least in Boomtown).

Talking to young exec yesterday, says it has it’s perks but spends most of time taking boredom calls from the staff.

rosie
rosie
January 7, 2022 4:09 pm

I made that up sorry Lizzie.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
January 7, 2022 4:11 pm

Barrysays:
January 7, 2022 at 4:01 pm

I’ve got an idea for a randomised clinical trial involving a test group and a control group of politicians and covid bureaucrats.
The test group is located in Victoria and their treatment involves decapitation and HOP.
The control group are located in WA and are tied to gratings and flogged to death.
The idea is to see which treatment is most effective in reducing counterproductive infractions on liberty.
I have a feeling that there’s a flaw in my methodology, but perhaps it’s best just to run the experiment and then analyse the data.

shatterzzz
January 7, 2022 4:11 pm

One of the better Djoke memes I’v eseen .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/LJ8B0Rb

MatrixTransform
January 7, 2022 4:16 pm

Back in Deni … lock up yr tractors

felt a bit naughty crossing a border

Helen Davidson (nmrn)
Helen Davidson (nmrn)
January 7, 2022 4:22 pm

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-07/nt-covid-surge-community-transmission/100743390

Dr Briceno said of the 1,200 people with COVID-19 in the NT, only five people are in hospital needing medical treatment for coronavirus, the other 14 were there “for different reasons”.

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry…

Old bloke
Old bloke
January 7, 2022 4:22 pm

dover0beach says:
January 7, 2022 at 11:39 am

How deem boosters in Israel going?

Is it too early to say,,,,,, ADE?

custard
custard
January 7, 2022 4:24 pm

Lotsa mass formation psychosis here at my work.

One of our elderly double vaxxed employees just got told get out of our local Subway as he forgot his mask.

But it’ll be perfectly safe after 6.00pm. Because sCiEnCe

jupes
jupes
January 7, 2022 4:25 pm

35000 cases per day and the solution is no dancing, singing or standing while drinking. Fuck. Me. Dead.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 7, 2022 4:28 pm

TN – You’re thinking of Kazakhstan? We could always send a few pollies there on a study tour, so they are educated in such things.

But according to Russian-language news website The Insider, the Kazakh Ministry of Internal Affairs has said 18 security officials have been killed, 748 people have been wounded and 2298 people have been detained, Newsweek reports.

The Insider, citing Kazakhstan state-run outlet Khabar-24, said the decapitated body of a police officer had been discovered.

Associated Press also reported a police officer had been beheaded, while Agence France-Presse (AFP) put the number at two.

Cops ‘beheaded’ as Kazakhstan verges on collapse (7 Jan)

Doubt Putin will let the country collapse, and he’s sending troops. Which might be fun if the local kiddies get excitable (beheadings being one of their favourite methodologies). Blessing for Ukraine if it persists.

Razey
Razey
January 7, 2022 4:31 pm

jupessays:
January 7, 2022 at 4:25 pm
35000 cases per day and the solution is no dancing, singing or standing while drinking. Fuck. Me. Dead.

He has to show something to the Karens. This will do nothing to stop the spread, nor will any pointless vax’s.

Winston Smith
January 7, 2022 4:32 pm

Twostix:

Like many government projects, especially any that involve bureaucracies intervening in the personal decisions of millions of people all at once, everyday, all the time, this system of tracking and literally controlling and regulating runny noses and sore throats at the individual level by government, is unfolding as a total catastrophe and needs to be actively dismantled before it starts killing us.

We need to be demanding the removal – in total – of the Health Orders and the legislation enabling them.

rosie
rosie
January 7, 2022 4:32 pm

Looks like flattening the curve is back on the menu boys!

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 7, 2022 4:32 pm

Botox a comorbidity.

• Sugar;
• Potatoes;
• More than 1.125 standard drinks/day.

Horrific comorbidities.
Near suicidal; uninsurably risky.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
January 7, 2022 4:34 pm

TN – You’re thinking of Kazakhstan? We could always send a few pollies there on a study tour, so they are educated in such things.

Hey, check this BoN.
North Kazakhstan reported a decrease in COVID-19 cases, Kazinform reports.

??? ????? ????????. ??????????? ???????? ?????? ?? inform.kz https://www.inform.kz/en/covid-19-cases-decreased-in-n-kazakhstan-by-44_a3881807

Beheadings of officials and a decrease in covid – coincidence? I don’t think so.

Just follow the science!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 7, 2022 4:37 pm

• Sugar;
• Potatoes;
• More than 1.125 standard drinks/day.

Horrific comorbidities.
Near suicidal; uninsurably risky.

Only if you are standing up when consuming them.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 7, 2022 4:37 pm

35000 cases per day and the solution is no dancing, singing or standing while drinking. Fuck. Me. Dead.

Look on the bright side.
If this isn’t the beginning of the end of CMOCulture, Rapture and the End of Days isn’t too far behind.

Bons
Bons
January 7, 2022 4:39 pm

You will be allocated a mandated number of test kits.
You will be required to test on specified days.
You will be required to log the results on our website.
There will be a small increase in tax rates to fund the testing service.
The test kit is to be retained and shown on demand to health officials, police or nominated responsible persons such as teachers, all employers, medical staff, Centerlink staff, any journalist, shelf stackers, parking police, and anyone named Karen.
The Govt is considering a requirement for all citizens to lodge a surety against potential future penalties for non-compliance.
They have got us!

Razey
Razey
January 7, 2022 4:41 pm

Bonssays:
January 7, 2022 at 4:39 pm
You will be allocated a mandated number of test kits.
You will be required to test on specified days.
You will be required to log the results on our website.
There will be a small increase in tax rates to fund the testing service.
The test kit is to be retained and shown on demand to health officials, police or nominated responsible persons such as teachers, all employers, medical staff, Centerlink staff, any journalist, shelf stackers, parking police, and anyone named Karen.
The Govt is considering a requirement for all citizens to lodge a surety against potential future penalties for non-compliance.
They have got us!

No, I won’t be doing any of that.

Vicki
January 7, 2022 4:45 pm

On visit to local town this morning husband visited gun shop to stock up on ammo. Was warned that ammo stocks running low.

But the reason for low stock was not freight difficulties as husband thought, but…….the USA (where most ammo is sourced) is experiencing huge run on ammo…….

Any other Cats heard of rumour that there will be takeover of the US government by military in the not too distant future? I keep thinking of those estimated 3 million veterans……thought they may have gathered after the result of the last election…..but then these things take time to do properly. Clearly, it won’t be “dad’s army”, but the run on ammo suggests rumours or general unrest.

Bluey
Bluey
January 7, 2022 4:55 pm

Vickisays:
January 7, 2022 at 4:45 pm
On visit to local town this morning husband visited gun shop to stock up on ammo. Was warned that ammo stocks running low.

But the reason for low stock was not freight difficulties as husband thought, but…….the USA (where most ammo is sourced) is experiencing huge run on ammo…….

Any other Cats heard of rumour that there will be takeover of the US government by military in the not too distant future? I keep thinking of those estimated 3 million veterans……thought they may have gathered after the result of the last election…..but then these things take time to do properly. Clearly, it won’t be “dad’s army”, but the run on ammo suggests rumours or general unrest.

Simple rule of thumb with ammo. You can never have enough. That’s probably it.

Old bloke
Old bloke
January 7, 2022 4:56 pm

Fat Tony says:
January 7, 2022 at 11:57 am

H B Bear says:
January 7, 2022 at 11:51 am
The worst toilet paper was State government issue stuff in primary school. A cross between grease proof paper and rice paper. I assume it was cheap.

Was that the corrugated shiny stuff?

We used to get sandpaper.

P
P
January 7, 2022 4:59 pm

Glenn Beck Interviews President Trump

Whoever said God doesn’t have a sense of humor did not foresee Glenn Beck broadcasting a President Trump interview at the same time that Texas Senator Ted Cruz is saying the January 6th protesters are “domestic terrorists who need to be jailed for a very long time.” LOL

President Trump granted Glenn Beck a lengthy interview on the anniversary of January 6. The best part of this interview is President Trump saying all this sh!t that Biden is doing can be fixed quickly.

twostix
twostix
January 7, 2022 5:00 pm

“Acting premiers aren’t allowed to attend National Cabinet meetings”.

Quite the closed off secret little Junta our gang of 8 have created and control the country from, isn’t it? Nobody else is allowed inside.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 7, 2022 5:03 pm

Ammo shortage explained.
It’s people shooting at Corona bottles.
Full ones.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 7, 2022 5:06 pm

“Acting premiers aren’t allowed to attend National Cabinet meetings”

If this is ScoMo saying that he isn’t giving that grinning idiot Miles a seat at the table, then good.

srr
srr
January 7, 2022 5:06 pm

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Ashli Babbitt’s mother on Jan. 6 anniversary: “You’re not the Queen, Nancy Pelosi. This is America’s 14,000 hours of missing footage. We have a right to see it.”

Follow @Breaking911
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John of Mel
John of Mel
January 7, 2022 5:07 pm

Which might be fun if the local kiddies get excitable (beheadings being one of their favourite methodologies).

I don’t think that’s the case. Most of the known Muslim terrorist activities (and there weren’t many) were done with the big help of external actors. Inside Islam was getting more popular since early 2000s among the native Kazakh population, but the majority of them are still only nominally Muslims. They drink vodka and eat pork (salo – ???? in Russian).

And to think I was going to buy the tickets to go there on 19th of Jan. We were finally given permission to leave Australia after the third attempt, and got kids’ passports on the day before it all started.

jupes
jupes
January 7, 2022 5:10 pm

Hobart Qantas Club reminds me of Air Nugini Clubs in PNG. Probably better quality booze though.
Two flights have been cancelled at the airport so tension is mounting. This is the last flight to Perth before McFuckwit shuts the border.

srr
srr
January 7, 2022 5:10 pm

”… those WHO demand we …”

Razey
Razey
January 7, 2022 5:10 pm

John of Melsays:
January 7, 2022 at 5:07 pm
Which might be fun if the local kiddies get excitable (beheadings being one of their favourite methodologies).

I don’t think that’s the case. Most of the known Muslim terrorist activities (and there weren’t many) were done with the big help of external actors. Inside Islam was getting more popular since early 2000s among the native Kazakh population, but the majority of them are still only nominally Muslims. They drink vodka and eat pork (salo – ???? in Russian).

With no clot shot?

May I contact you privately for advice?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 7, 2022 5:11 pm

Newly gorgeous Palacechook, que. Contradiction in terms. Hope you spill sweet coffee on your keyboard.

JC
JC
January 7, 2022 5:13 pm

Sancho Panzer says:
January 7, 2022 at 9:10 am

Ah, JC, just one detail.
What does the sticker say?

Sanchez, I dunno. I read the piece in Barrons or the WSJ and can’t recall the sticker or if they even mentioned it. But hey, fun isn’t cheap.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

The Qantas Club.
One place that does not have any provision for those who do not have a smartphone.
QR checkin via phone, or no entry.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 7, 2022 5:14 pm

Daily Mail

IRA victims’ anger at honour for ‘Sir Tony’ Blair: Former Prime Minister is slammed over his secret deal to provide ‘effective amnesty to murderers’ as part of Northern Ireland peace talks

Sir Tony Blair’s knighthood in New Year honours list has sparked huge backlash
Petition demanding former PM be stripped of honour hit 900,000 signatures
Victims of IRA atrocities today joined disapproval over ‘effective amnesty to murderers and bombers’ provided by Blair’s 1998 Northern Ireland peace deal
Lord Tebbit, who was injured by IRA bomb said agreement should ‘demerit him from any honours’

John of Mel
John of Mel
January 7, 2022 5:15 pm

May I contact you privately for advice?

If Dover can provide my email, no problem.

jupes
jupes
January 7, 2022 5:18 pm

No QR code enforced at Darwin QC.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 7, 2022 5:18 pm

Texas Senator Ted Cruz is saying the January 6th protesters are “domestic terrorists who need to be jailed for a very long time.”

Cruz has gone to water a few times but this one is full ocean grade wetness. He’s never going to be President now.

Ted Cruz Backtracks on Claim January 6 Was a ‘Violent Terrorist Attack’ During Confrontation with FNC’s Tucker Carlson (6 Jan)

Too late kiddo, the base won’t be voting for you anytime this century.

calli
calli
January 7, 2022 5:18 pm

Good luck, jupes.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

No QR code enforced at Darwin QC.

What are they doing with people who do not QR code?
They’re not calling the goons?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Good luck Jupes, we’re all barracking for you!

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 7, 2022 5:19 pm

Tim N, the only flaw in the reasoning is I possibly won’t get to do it.

calli
calli
January 7, 2022 5:20 pm

Cruz has gone to water a few times but this one is full ocean grade wetness.

It’s a disgusting betrayal. Swamp stuff.

miltonf
miltonf
January 7, 2022 5:22 pm

Trump was right about Cruz after all.

srr
srr
January 7, 2022 5:25 pm

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miltonf
miltonf
January 7, 2022 5:25 pm

I see the label ‘conservative’ has been applied by some to Cheney. Cheney is a establishment swamp monster and a shill for the Washington War Machine.

srr
srr
January 7, 2022 5:26 pm

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@BristolBlues32
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Eyrie
Eyrie
January 7, 2022 5:26 pm

Vicki there’s been an ammo shortage in the US for at least the last couple of years. Don’t get excited.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 7, 2022 5:27 pm

Old bloke says:
January 7, 2022 at 4:56 pm
Fat Tony says:
January 7, 2022 at 11:57 am
Was that the corrugated shiny stuff?

We used to get sandpaper.

At least (fine) sandpaper would work better than the shiny waxed paper…

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 7, 2022 5:28 pm

TV recommendation.
“The Rescue” on Stanflix Binge.
Doco/dramatisation of the cave rescue of the Thai boys soccer team.
One thing I did not know.
It was reported that the kids were “sedated”.
In fact they were completely under anaesthetic.
A fairly light dose it seems because the rescuers had to administer subsequent doses at various stages on the way out. In the dark by people untrained in medical procedure.
A triumph when you consider the enormity of the task.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 7, 2022 5:29 pm

The Qantas Club.
One place that does not have any provision for those who do not have a smartphone.

Bought tyres this week, excellent entertainment. Put on my mask, went in and ceremonially decontaminated my hands with sludge-bottle on table prominently in front of desk.

Guy behind desk nods meaningfully at me and says “QR”.
“No phone” says I.
“Do you have a manual check-in?” I asks.
He looks at me like I’ve just landed from Mars. It was if he’d never come across someone not carrying a phone. I look at him. Then, finally, he made an odd sort of wave in the air with his hands and sold me some tyres. It was funny.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 7, 2022 5:29 pm

We used to get sandpaper.

We used to get rabbits.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 7, 2022 5:33 pm

Movie recommendation.
Wrath of Man has dropped into the Foxtel box as a free movie.
I’ve seen it before, worth another watch.
Guy Ritchie is in a purple patch.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 7, 2022 5:36 pm

Was that the corrugated shiny stuff?

We used to get sandpaper.

looxury.

jupes
jupes
January 7, 2022 5:40 pm

Here we go. Flight has been delayed 25 min.
We have 4.5 hrs to play with so no big deal.
Yet …

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 7, 2022 5:43 pm

incoherent rambler says:
January 7, 2022 at 5:29 pm
We used to get sandpaper.

We used to get rabbits.

You posh bastard – don’t come on here flaunting your privileged upbringing…

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 7, 2022 5:45 pm

Newly gorgeous Palacechook, que. Contradiction in terms. Hope you spill sweet coffee on your keyboard.

I use a waterproof phone in an OtterBox for that sort of post.

John of Mel
John of Mel
January 7, 2022 5:45 pm

We used to get rabbits

Ah! That’s why they have all these dark spots…

srr
srr
January 7, 2022 5:46 pm

The People unifier
@ThePatriot46
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24m
https://gettr.com/post/pmunmm115e

Keith Olbermann is unhinged and panicking. ??
He now wants Biden to resign because of all the losing the Dems are doing while they are in “power.”
https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1479090728550776833?s=19

Indolent
Indolent
January 7, 2022 5:47 pm
thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 7, 2022 5:47 pm

We have 4.5 hrs to play with so no big deal.
Yet …

Dont worry Jupes, even if you get off the ground the Mong in chief can still change the rules, even as you touch down.

Have some sympathy for poor McClown in bed, tossing, and tossing as his microboner stains between his thumb and forefinger imagining all the power he has to play with.

He wont get any sleep at all tonight because of you.

Cassie of Sydney
January 7, 2022 5:48 pm

“miltonfsays:
January 7, 2022 at 5:22 pm
Trump was right about Cruz after all.”

Trump was and is right about a lot of things.

Mark from Melbourne
Mark from Melbourne
January 7, 2022 5:50 pm

“The Rescue” on Stanflix Binge.
Doco/dramatisation of the cave rescue of the Thai boys soccer team.
One thing I did not know.
It was reported that the kids were “sedated”.
In fact they were completely under anaesthetic.
A fairly light dose it seems because the rescuers had to administer subsequent doses at various stages on the way out. In the dark by people untrained in medical procedure.
A triumph when you consider the enormity of the task.

Whilst cloistered in hospital (where the choice of TV is FTA or FTA) I ran across an interview on their ABC by a “portrait artist” (Anh Do perhaps?) with the Aussie doc who led that effort. He described how he had to put the kids out cold, then encase them in a waterproof suit, and THEN hold them under three times to check it was actually waterproof, amongst other horror moments.

Quite a remarkable piece of TV and worth lending an eye to.

jupes
jupes
January 7, 2022 5:54 pm

True Mole, the dickhead has form turning flights around after they’ve landed.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
January 7, 2022 5:57 pm

Did the forecast hail armageddon in Werribee amount to anything?

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 7, 2022 5:58 pm

Good luck Jupes.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 7, 2022 6:00 pm

jupes

I mentioned before our site nurse was 1/2 hour from landing when McClown decided they should have 2 weeks locked in a hotel because SCIENCE!!!

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 7, 2022 6:02 pm

True Mole, the dickhead has form turning flights around after they’ve landed.

Or even before they’ve left. FIFO guy on offshore rig off WA went to go to work. Company had arranged pass. Got to Sydney airport to change planes, was phoned by WA cops told he’d be arrested and jailed on arrival. Got on plane back to Qld.

Roger
Roger
January 7, 2022 6:03 pm

IRA victims’ anger at honour for ‘Sir Tony’ Blair: Former Prime Minister is slammed over his secret deal to provide ‘effective amnesty to murderers’ as part of Northern Ireland peace talks

If Blair had any integirty he’d knock back the honour.

Yes, that’s a rhetorical statement.

Roger
Roger
January 7, 2022 6:03 pm

integrity too.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 7, 2022 6:03 pm

Any other Cats heard of rumour that there will be takeover of the US government by military in the not too distant future?

There’s currently some feverish speculating by people and organizations that should know better.

Getting the vibe harshed for the mid-terms.

JC
JC
January 7, 2022 6:05 pm

Bitcoin has taken it up the rear since late December. From just over US$51,000 to 41,500ish now.

John of Mel
John of Mel
January 7, 2022 6:06 pm

(salo – ???? in Russian).

Yes, about these Cyrillic symbols… 🙂

Still can’t get hold of my mother and sister there properly. Internet is down, home phones are down, some mobile operators work. Theirs worked only one way yesterday. I could hear them but they couldn’t hear me. MIL’s provider is OK though. And you can only call them using VOIP providers, not from your mobile. Today I couldn’t reach them.
Thank God they are safe for now, but our trip seems unlikely now. Which is a pity.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 7, 2022 6:07 pm

Safe journey, and all the best, jupes.

Dot
Dot
January 7, 2022 6:08 pm

Texas Senator Ted Cruz is saying the January 6th protesters are “domestic terrorists who need to be jailed for a very long time.”

They already have been, often without trial.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
January 7, 2022 6:09 pm

The Qantas Club.
One place that does not have any provision for those who do not have a smartphone.
QR checkin via phone, or no entry.

Where’s that Sal? Flew a couple times last year and Q Club Townsville had a tablet to sign me in. Brisbane they didn’t even check though I airily waved phone at the check in & walked through, Newcastle-Port Stephens doesn’t have a lounge but airport has manual sign in.

Sounds odd, I’d let Qantas Customer Care know.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 7, 2022 6:10 pm

Vicki there’s been an ammo shortage in the US for at least the last couple of years. Don’t get excited.

Ammo shortages and spikes in gun sales America-wide at least since Obama took power in 2008, and really took off when he started playing dick-tator in 2012.

Everybody thought he’d have a damn good go at outlawing everything by Executive Order.

The last year’s ‘peaceful protests’ and police defunding has seen even the most statist of Democrat voters look seriously at personal protection- I think Cali and several other Blue States’ jurisdictions (outside of the draconian fools in New York City and New Jerk-sey) have seen record applications and approvals for concealed carry permits in 2020.

Dot
Dot
January 7, 2022 6:12 pm

Hmmm

I don’t rate the DM, but they reckon No Pair of Tackle has considered three shots as “rooly trooly vaccinated”.

It’s like the harder our rulers assert that we’re not a backwater, the more cultural cringe intensifies.

miltonf
miltonf
January 7, 2022 6:16 pm

If Blair had any integirty he’d knock back the honour.

If the Queen had any integrity she wouldn’t award it in the first place.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 7, 2022 6:16 pm

Sad to say, Jupes, but for the last four hours there would have been a bunch of Platinum QF Frequent Flyers screaming down the phone demanding a seat (or to speak to the manager).

Roger
Roger
January 7, 2022 6:17 pm

Any other Cats heard of rumour that there will be takeover of the US government by military in the not too distant future?

Joe not working out for them?

Dot
Dot
January 7, 2022 6:18 pm

IRA victims’ anger at honour for ‘Sir Tony’ Blair: Former Prime Minister is slammed over his secret deal to provide ‘effective amnesty to murderers’ as part of Northern Ireland peace talks

Hysterical.

There are murderers on both sides. You cannot trust the pre PSNI RUC either.

What’s better? Justice and ongoing violence or the violence ending?

Here’s the thing. Each county should just get a vote. Do you want to be part of Ireland or Britain?

Roger
Roger
January 7, 2022 6:19 pm

If the Queen had any integrity she wouldn’t award it in the first place.

The Queen has no say in these matters.

It’s decided by the UK equivalent of our PM & C office.

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