Open Thread – Tues 4 Jan 2022


The Rape of Europa, Francisco de Goya, 1772

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Dot
Dot
January 8, 2022 10:52 pm

Recent laboratory studies suggest that Omicron’s lower virulence may reflect its apparent tendency to thrive in cells in the upper respiratory tract rather than in the lungs, where Covid-19 infections can cause potentially fatal breathing problems.

Seems odd that they do something like a “sinusoidal scrape” to test for a lung infection, amirite?

Franx
Franx
January 8, 2022 10:52 pm

AGDH says at least 6 months immunity after COVID so vaccine can be deferred for 6 months.

Incidentally, I wonder if the 50000 Victorians intend to apply for exemptions – while the exemptions last.

Dot
Dot
January 8, 2022 10:53 pm

Anyone else get a 500 Internal Server error recently? I emailed the Dover Beach to ensure safe harbour…

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 8, 2022 10:55 pm

123and Bush,
Certainly is serious shift snapping off something that would cause the oceans to rise.

132andBush
132andBush
January 8, 2022 11:09 pm

Certainly is serious shift snapping off something that would cause the oceans to rise.

Imagine the relief that ice sheet will feel!
How’s recovery btw?

Bruce in WA
January 8, 2022 11:19 pm

Cannot believe this shit!

Day 14 of “self-isolation”, only 3 hrs 43 minutes left until it’s all over — and the pricks send a “sign-in-now-with-a-selfie-and-prove where-you-are-message”.

I did, with a finger, now let’s see if I get a please explain phone call!!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 8, 2022 11:23 pm

I did, with a finger, now let’s see if I get a please explain phone call!!

Don’t ever let the bastards grind you down, mate!

Bruce in WA
January 8, 2022 11:38 pm

Don’t ever let the bastards grind you down, mate!

So far, so good!

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 8, 2022 11:40 pm

All good.
Looks like I’ll be a double amputee for the rest of my life though. Not too bad as I already was a raspberry ripple.
Actually the doctors are happy. I’ll be happy when I don’t have to shower with a plastic bag over my foot. I’m able to get around as well as I could.
Thanks for asking.

srr
srr
January 8, 2022 11:45 pm

TommyRobinson1
@TommyRobinson1
·
October 27, 2021
They’re going after Dr Scott Jensen’s medical license for the fifth time for simply speaking common sense during the plandemic.

Listen how they’re treating health specialists, all in the name of “health”!
[video] https://gettr.com/post/pf95b81e3f

Iron Cove
Iron Cove
January 8, 2022 11:48 pm

Not long back home from the SCG and can report close to zero mask wearing apart from the bar where a lame attempt of enforcement was rather casually accepted.
A Frenchman once said that the English invented cricket because they had no concept of eternity *; well Usman K has found himself in that paradise where he has all the time in the world.Sachin Tendulkar has said that he “saw” where he hit the ball before before it was even released when he was at his best.
* maybe 7 @1/2 hours on those plastic seats is a glimpse of an eternity of hell.

John H.
John H.
January 9, 2022 12:06 am

Dotsays:
January 8, 2022 at 10:48 pm
Do your own computer, car, and house maintenance. Treat your own medical conditions, educate your children with home schooling, and make your own chemicals and materials.

Computer maintenance should probably done by everyone, car up to the point of internal work. House – most often yes, but no gasfitting, roof plumbing or regulated electrical work.

Up to a point you have to treat your conditions. The doc can only prescribe on symptoms you tell them about. If I could test for specific antigens at home, why couldn’t I order the right antibiotic.

Some chemicals…hmmm, venting and heat is the problem. SOME people can reuse cooking oil but even with the capital, it is of limited utility.

If I had kids I’d feel comfortable with home schooling. My parents taught me to read. I had a good childhood. The teachers just guide the parents and kids through primary work, more or less.

DOT most people don’t even know what thermal paste is let alone issues matching RAM frequency to the CPU for optimisation.

There is a considerable degree of house repairs that the owner can do but there is also a cost\benefit analysis to consider. All the relevant learning for a one off job is very inefficient and often the first time we do something we don’t get it quite right. That’s the difference with experts, they know the little tricks that are so often not in the books.

I rarely see a doctor so I’m expecting when I finally have to go to the doctor it is going to be something very serious. (: Doctors can have access to data through imaging and bloods that we cannot access. The bloods aren’t that difficult to understand but imaging is much more challenging than that crap on TV shows. The challenge with medicine isn’t the treatment it is the diagnosis. Do you know how to diagnose congestive heart failure? I’m a bit worried because I experience occasional orthostatic hyp0tension and my resting pulse is about 61. Not bradycardia but I am surprised given my lifestyle that my resting is rated as excellent. I may have developed “athlete’s heart” from the fitness crazy days.

The best way we can treat our conditions is not to get them. It’s called compression morbidity. The two healthiest people I know are in their mid 70’s, have no meds, excellent bloods, and have been very careful about their dietary and lifestyle issues. We rely on each other to share insights and information. I’m lucky I don’t have chronic issues and here’s hoping when the big one hits me it is fast and furious. I will go out blazing!

It can be very difficult to know exactly what to do. For eg how many people wasted money on D supplements because of poor Mg status? Or end up with copper deficiency pathologies because they kept taking zinc but not a copper supplement?

Broadly, I take your point but where that strategy fails is often at the time we are too sick to treat ourselves.

I don’t have a problem with home schooling because the first thing I would ask them is, “Can you use advanced search in Google?”

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
January 9, 2022 12:11 am

Miss A

Had a shit day at work.
One of our chaps tried to remove an eye with a tire.

RFDS to the rescue with a sea level flight to Perth.
Wasn’t a good injury to try and treat.

“ let’s have a look in your eye… yup RFDS time”

Nice younger bloke as well, find out if he loses the eye tomorrow.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 9, 2022 12:22 am

Lizzie, you appear to be confusing Malone with Mike Yeodan

So it seems, Vicki. Apologies, it was over a year I think since I looked at material from either of them.
They are both genuinely credentialled scientists, but have gone off any regular path of enquiry which has thrown some doubt on what they say. ‘Fact checkers’ do not like them. Not necessarily a point against them, but a cause for moderate caution re some of their claims.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 9, 2022 12:25 am

Tough job you have there, Mole. Debrief here or elsewhere whenever.

Everyday you could find yourself in someone’s worst day ever.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 9, 2022 12:29 am

Hairy tells me on Friday they watched a guy strip down to his undies, pour beer into his shoe, and skoll it from that. There is apparently a name for this practice, but I have forgotten it.

There was a ‘no skolling’ rule where you purchased drinks. Hairy says every so often there and also elsewhere in the stadium someone would stand up and do a big skoll, and the crowd would chant skoll, skoll, skoll, which brought security in to check it all out, too late of course.

They had a spare ticket but I politely declined even though they said I coud take a book. 🙂

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 9, 2022 12:30 am

Mole,
It’s always the nice kids it happens to.
I hope he’s going to be ok.
Distressing all around when this sort of thing happens.
Was it a split rim? They’re bastards.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 9, 2022 12:32 am

Cassie, Flying Duk was an anaesthesiologist who refused to be vaxxed and lost his job.

I am wondering if he has been called back into service, given the general shortage of medical staff.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 9, 2022 12:48 am

Dover,
Lefties gotta lie.
In times gone by the coppers were menacing right wingers.

John H.
John H.
January 9, 2022 12:54 am

dover0beachsays:
January 9, 2022 at 12:39 am
The Seattle Times
@seattletimes
·
Jan 6
NEW: At a crucial moment during 2020’s racial justice protests, Seattle police exchanged a detailed series of fake radio transmissions about a nonexistent group of menacing right-wing extremists.

Wow. Just wow.

It is amazing that the BLM lot got away with so much. Wokery is a protected species but take heart DB I think the tide has turned. So many comedians are speaking out against cancel culture and safe spaces. Chapelle goes to town on transgenders which is why he is being attacked but those attacks aren’t working. I honestly think they overshot so much that there is a not so quiet revolt against their extremism. For example I recently caught a few snippets of interviews with Denzel Washington and when the journalists asked him about BLM and racism generally he always goes to the same place – it starts with family. His point is that many of the problems faced by Blacks are about the loss of fathers and a poor family life. Yeah OK I’ll admit my bias towards that because I’ve been making the same argument about indigenous people here. It’s just common sense, albeit backed up by sociological, psychological, and neurodevelopmental research.

Tom
Tom
January 9, 2022 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
January 9, 2022 4:08 am

LOL.

Pogria
Pogria
January 9, 2022 5:53 am

Most excellent funnies Tom.

The OAC run of funnies is hysterical.

bespoke
bespoke
January 9, 2022 6:11 am

Winston Smithsays:
January 8, 2022 at 10:00 pm
Breaking in a new computer.
Is there an easy way of migrating old settings/passwords/favourites/music/piccies from a Win7 home premium to a Win11 Home – both 64.
Software via bluetooth is preferable, but via USB thingy is OK.

USB if you are not using a cloud service.

bespoke
bespoke
January 9, 2022 6:16 am
calli
calli
January 9, 2022 7:21 am
calli
calli
January 9, 2022 7:27 am

Holy cow! That was close!

Just had a lightning strike, all the roos scattered and smell of fried air. No fried roos that I can see. Fortunately no one teeing off.

Mater
January 9, 2022 7:38 am

Just had a lightning strike, all the roos scattered and smell of fried air. No fried roos that I can see. Fortunately no one teeing off.

Get in whilst the going is good.

I always found that there was no better time to go to the mess tent than during a rocket/mortar attack. Whilst most everyone is in the bunkers, the queues are non-existent, the food is plentiful and you don’t have some fat cook screaming “TWO SLICES ONLY!”. A truely peaceful period to dine…ironically.

Get out there and give it a whack.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 9, 2022 7:43 am

Correct….the ancient Greeks knew the earth was a sphere.

I know. Kind of late.

Thomas Aquinas gave the roundness of the earth is it example of a scientific truth in his Summa Theologica.

Columbus was actually proven wrong by his journey. It came down to a difference in estimate of the size of the earth. He thought the earth was smaller and thought India would be closer than other opinions held. He really thought he had travelled all the way to India.

So the reality is that rather than proven himself right, he was proved himself wrong – and his naysayers right.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 9, 2022 7:50 am

Ratty RATs.

Antigen tests miss nearly half of COVID-19 cases (8 Jan)

New data published Saturday night on Hadashot Sof Hashavua showed that rapid tests miss approximately half of COVID-19 diagnoses. … The rate of those testing negative on antigen tests despite testing positive on PCR tests was 47%. At the same time, the percentage of those testing positive on antigen tests but negative on PCR tests was 37%.

Earlier this week, internal Health Ministry data revealed that among the general public, the antigen tests miss result about 50% of the positive cases recorded by the PCR tests. Among those aged 18 and over, the antigen tests missed 61% of positive cases. For the unvaccinated, the antigen test misses 72% of those who are subsequently verified through a PCR test.

Good enough for government work, and Albo will give you them for nothing. Which is roughly what they seem to be worth.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 9, 2022 8:03 am

NEW: At a crucial moment during 2020’s racial justice protests, Seattle police exchanged a detailed series of fake radio transmissions about a nonexistent group of menacing right-wing extremists.

There used to be a term that they used for this… Fake but accurate.

So even if story was a hoax or a fabrication, it represented a dire reality as if it was a true story. Of course it makes you wonder why they didn’t just present the true stories.

One example, as I recall, was the National Guard letters accusing George W Bush of being a terrible servicemen, drunk and dissolute. There was absolutely no substance to watch at all and the forgery discovered very quickly. That Maddow cow and Kieth Olbermann we’re particularly dedicated to the lie and paid the price – other smarter people had already declared them ‘fake but accurate’ so they could sneer at Bush as if he was true.

You can really see the facts are no defence against these people.

I suppose it is because they were misusing the word ‘accurate’ when what they should’ve said was that it was what they wished was true, because then they would be able to use it to attack their hated enemies.

Vicki
Vicki
January 9, 2022 8:03 am

Really, I don’t think it’s clear whether either PCRs or RATs can distinguish between Covid & any corona virus viz the common cold. Indeed, could it pick up remnant dead virus cells after recovery?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
January 9, 2022 8:11 am

It’s a very curious contention put to the public by Pharma and the Gov that even though the efficacy of Covid vaccines for infection and transmission wane quickly, they still retain the ability to keep you from becoming seriously ill.
Even more absurd as a justification when they start jabbing kids who almost never face the prospect of becoming seriously ill.

rickw
rickw
January 9, 2022 8:28 am
Indolent
Indolent
January 9, 2022 8:38 am
H B Bear
H B Bear
January 9, 2022 8:44 am

My closest call on the golf course came at Royal Wembley when one of the 30m tuarts came down on the hole ahead of us. Some minor forestry operations required to find somewhere to tee up. I imagine it was a rude shock for the possums.

Indolent
Indolent
January 9, 2022 8:55 am

Really, I don’t think it’s clear whether either PCRs or RATs can distinguish between Covid & any corona virus viz the common cold.

It’s been publicly admitted that the PCR can’t. That’s why flu completely disappeared for a couple of years.

You Lot
You Lot
January 9, 2022 8:55 am

Doc that was on Rogan last month has a protocol:

Dr Peter McCullough Protocol

Some of the treatments are difficult to source, but most vitamins are available in some form from a supermarket.

Make of it what you will and be sure to do your own research before taking anything of course!

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 9, 2022 9:05 am

James Webb telescope completes epic deployment sequence

It’s done. The biggest astronomical mirror ever sent into space is assembled and ready for focusing.

The golden reflector, the centrepiece of the new James Webb telescope, was straightened out on Saturday into its full, 6.5m-wide, concave shape.

Good work.

Indolent
Indolent
January 9, 2022 9:05 am

rickwsays:
January 9, 2022 at 8:28 am
Neil Oliver:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpqC1cb-RmU

His best ever. Not to be missed.

will
will
January 9, 2022 9:05 am

Recent laboratory studies suggest that Omicron’s lower virulence may reflect its apparent tendency to thrive in cells in the upper respiratory tract rather than in the lungs, where Covid-19 infections can cause potentially fatal breathing problems.

so an upper respiratory tract infection aka common cold.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 9, 2022 9:10 am

Replacement Macca is worse than Macca.

I knew this would happen.

Indolent
Indolent
January 9, 2022 9:10 am
Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
January 9, 2022 9:11 am

Half of the 44,000 cases in Vic today self reported through a RAT.
I think we can safely assume these people are not self employed.

Barry
Barry
January 9, 2022 9:15 am

Bruce of Newcastlesays:
January 9, 2022 at 7:50 am
Ratty RATs.

Antigen tests miss nearly half of COVID-19 cases (8 Jan)

Nope. As revealed here many times, PCR tests with cycle counts over about 25 have high false positive rates.
RATs are more realistic as they require a material amount of virus to signal a positive, more aligned with an infectious concentration.

rickw
rickw
January 9, 2022 9:21 am

It’s been publicly admitted that the PCR can’t. That’s why flu completely disappeared for a couple of years.

Remember all the arguments here about why the flu had magically disappeared?

Razey
Razey
January 9, 2022 9:22 am

rickwsays:
January 9, 2022 at 9:21 am
It’s been publicly admitted that the PCR can’t. That’s why flu completely disappeared for a couple of years.

Remember all the arguments here about why the flu had magically disappeared?

I don’t give a RATs 😉

Bluey
Bluey
January 9, 2022 9:28 am

Maybe the big brains can do more on this, but it looks a lot like every RNA shot doubles the risk of myocarditis in males under 40. So it get exponentially worse each time.
And they want to stick children with this shit.

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/more-bad-news-on-covid-vaccines-and/comments

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 9, 2022 9:31 am

Half of the 44,000 cases in Vic today self reported through a RAT.
I think we can safely assume these people are not self employed.

Imagine if public servants could self-diagnose carpal tunnel syndrome back in the day.

Vicki
Vicki
January 9, 2022 9:47 am

If you are in any doubt about the danger to health posed by these gene “vaccines” here are 1,000 research papers that argue the case.

https://www.saveusnow.org.uk/covid-vaccine-scientific-proof-lethal/

Yes -these are opinions, scientific or otherwise – but they are substantial to the counter argument.

Print them off to show to contemptuous and sanctimonious doubters.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 9, 2022 9:49 am

Just had a lightning strike, all the roos scattered and smell of fried air. No fried roos that I can see. Fortunately no one teeing off.

Except God.

Indolent
Indolent
January 9, 2022 9:54 am
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 9, 2022 9:54 am

OK.
Do we have consensus?
Is the earth a sphere?

Vicki
Vicki
January 9, 2022 9:54 am

BTW I don’t endorse the comments of the post above (https://www.saveusnow.org.uk/covid-vaccine-scientific-proof-lethal/) . I have provided the link because of the scientific articles listed.

132andBush
132andBush
January 9, 2022 9:58 am

I’m imagining Calli walking around the course, hair standing on end and the clubs sounding like a lightsaber when swung.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 9, 2022 9:59 am

Is the earth a sphere?

Nope. It is pear shaped.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 9, 2022 10:01 am

From scanning yesterday afternoon’s activities, it would appear Razey has succumbed to the undeniable appeal of tentacle porn.

Razey
Razey
January 9, 2022 10:02 am

incoherent ramblersays:
January 9, 2022 at 9:59 am
Is the earth a sphere?

Nope. It is pear shaped.

Cluster Fuck shaped.

Baba
Baba
January 9, 2022 10:02 am

I mentioned yesterday that I personally knew one person who had a serious vaxx injury but no one in Australia with Covid.

All changed! Last night, an ex work colleague and now fortnightly drinks partner (subject to science advised lockdowns and border closures) advised he has tested positive.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 9, 2022 10:03 am

The new NY mayor makes his brother a NYPD deputy commissioner on $US242k per year plus benefits.
His brothers previous job?
Used to oversee parking at a college.
Laugh it up, NYer’s.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 9, 2022 10:04 am

I don’t give a RATs</blockquote

Yeah! The RAT-f*ckers!

miltonf
miltonf
January 9, 2022 10:04 am

Looks like Cruz was nothing more than controlled opposition. The Goldman Sucks connection was always a bit of a give away.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 9, 2022 10:04 am

Sancho Panzersays:
January 9, 2022 at 9:54 am
OK.
Do we have consensus?
Is the earth a sphere?

To be pedantic, it is an oblate spheroid.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 9, 2022 10:05 am

If you are in any doubt about the danger to health posed by these gene “vaccines” here are 1,000 research papers that argue the case.

Saveusnow tells us:

The term vaccine was changed recently to incorporate this illegal, unlawful medical experiment to facilitate a MRNA technology that is demonstrably not a vaccine that contains biologically toxic Nano metamaterials associated with 5G urban radar data gathering capability.

Metal Nano particulates are known in the science to be genotoxic a poison that can also cause sterilization. The dangers posed to the victims in the near term from this medical battery are now known however the long term lethality of this weapon is not as yet realized due to the debilitating effects of it on the Autoimmune system causing (AIDS) autoimmune deficiency syndrome.

Nano metamaterials associated with 5G urban radar data gathering capability?

I’m convinced.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 9, 2022 10:08 am

In other important news, Pat Cummins’ stocks as Australian captain sharply spiked when he declared Australia’s innings closed with Pom ‘spinner’ Jack Leach on a hat trick.

Good drills that man.

Anchor What
Anchor What
January 9, 2022 10:08 am

Djokovic had covid in December? That’s odd. He had it according to numerous news reports in June 2020.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 9, 2022 10:09 am

it is an oblate spheroid

like a rugby or afl football?

Baba
Baba
January 9, 2022 10:09 am

I have also discovered something else. Among vaccine true believers a serious vaxx injury in the family can engender the degree of shame once triggered by having an AIDS infected family member back in the ’80’s.

Do. Not. Tell. Anyone. Keep. It. A. Secret.

It really messes with their heads.

Baba
Baba
January 9, 2022 10:18 am

Anchor Whatsays:
January 9, 2022 at 10:08 am
Djokovic had covid in December? That’s odd. He had it according to numerous news reports in June 2020.

My BiL (not in Australia) had a very serious case of Beta variant in January last year. Two weeks ago his adult daughters caught Omicron and as he was involved in their care took a PCR test. A positive result but absolutely no illness or symptoms.

Gab
Gab
January 9, 2022 10:18 am

So after two years, I now know of a friend who has the virus.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 9, 2022 10:20 am

Nothing like a rugby ball, a soccer ball with the top and bottom slightly flattened.

Rabz
January 9, 2022 10:21 am
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 9, 2022 10:22 am

To be pedantic, it is an oblate spheroid.

There always has to be one.
🙂

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
January 9, 2022 10:24 am

When one fuckwit out fuckwits another.

“Australians taking wickets in the virus”

“detailed programmatic specificity”

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 9, 2022 10:25 am

a soccer ball

Nope. God would never make anything like a soccer ball. A golf ball, maybe.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
January 9, 2022 10:27 am

A golf ball, maybe.

A celestial lychee

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 9, 2022 10:30 am

It is a matter of undisputed fact that 68,000 years ago Aboriginal astronomers knew that the earth was shaped not unlike a kangaroo testicle.
Do I have to offer proof?

Anchor What
Anchor What
January 9, 2022 10:32 am

Albo: the reef will be safe with us! That’s $163m thanks.

JC
JC
January 9, 2022 10:34 am

And just when you think you may a leg up at the midterms out pops a scarecrow. FMD

A prominent Utah Republican suggests that vaccines are a Jewish conspiracy:

“I believe the Jews are behind this. For 300 years the Jews have been trying to infiltrate the Catholic Church and place a Jew covertly at the top. It happened in 2013 with Pope Francis. I believe the pandemic and systematic extermination of billions of people will lead to an effort to consolidate all the countries in the world under a single flag with totalitarian rule. I know, it sounds bonkers. No one is reporting on it, but the Hasidic Jews in the US instituted a law for their people that they are not to be vaccinated for any reason,” he wrote in the email.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 9, 2022 10:34 am

Albo: the reef will be safe with us!

correction: the reefer will be safe with us*

* Where’s my Thai pass?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 9, 2022 10:34 am

Winston I think you should be able to migrate the data with an Ethernet cable. Don’t know about the settings coz I still can’t make W10 the way I had XP working. Which was perfect. Still have an XP laptop. It runs faster than my new desktop because no bloatware and I stripped Out all the crap from XP. They make the computers faster only to fill them with crap software. You have to make the computers recognise each other. Not hard to do.

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 9, 2022 10:36 am

XP SP3 was the best OS Microsoft made.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 9, 2022 10:38 am

Alex Carey was selected to replace the unfairly pilloried, although due to retire anyway Tim Paine largely because he had experience keeping to the current battery of Australian quicks. Carey’s competitor, Josh Inglis, did not.

I am yet to be convinced Carey is a Test keeper (despite just taking one off Hameed’s edge, once again from Boland). England have again found out to their detriment that using keepers better at batting than keeping, and who fail at both do nobody any favours.

No, I am not advocating for the return of ‘Wadey’.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 9, 2022 10:39 am

Mater,
What is this “mess tent” and “bunkers” you speak of on active service?
Some new fangled development I suppose.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 9, 2022 10:41 am

‘I believe the Jews are behind this.’

OMG OMFG! Bird! Get in here!

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 9, 2022 10:44 am

What is it with morons and blaming Jews for it being night time when they want daytime. My mother was anti-semite, mind you she blamed everyone when the Oblate Spheroid didn’t revolve around her. She had a Jewish name along with a brother and cousins also. I wondered if in the past there was a Jewish connection.

Roger
Roger
January 9, 2022 10:44 am

Dr Peter McCullough Protocol

Note that he recommends heparin.

That is the basis of the nasal spray currently being trialled in Melbourne.

local oaf
January 9, 2022 10:45 am

Just how many people has covid actually killed?

Take the supposed death toll.

Remove all those who had merely tested positive at the time of their death, rather than been killed by it.
Remove all those only declared positive as a result of excessive cycles of PCR testing.
Remove all those the PCR falsely detected who had viruses other than covid.

How many are left?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 9, 2022 10:46 am

Darn right Eyrie.

132andBush
132andBush
January 9, 2022 10:49 am

Bird has joined the GOP.

Watch the Dem media complex run with this.

If it’s true that is and not some sort of troll.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 9, 2022 10:53 am

From memory the change the CDC made to the definition of vaccinations was really to see that the helped rather than prevented infection.

By that lowered standard they could still claim the mRNA vaccines were indeed vaccines.

No need for nanoparticles. No need for 5G transmitters.

Megan
Megan
January 9, 2022 10:59 am

Still have an XP laptop. It runs faster than my new desktop because no bloatware and I stripped Out all the crap from XP.

I have an ancient Toshiba laptop given to me as part of my redundancy package in 2003. The battery no longer works but it runs beautifully on XP, fires up perfectly and has built in CD drive.

The kids laugh but it can, under certain circumstances, outperform the 2015 MacBook Air which is definitely showing its age. Switching between the two can trip one up if one is not paying attention to the individual quirks of the operating systems.

Gabor
Gabor
January 9, 2022 10:59 am

Eyrie says:
January 9, 2022 at 10:36 am

XP SP3 was the best OS Microsoft made.

True, and I still use it in Virtual mode for legacy software, but Win7 wasn’t far behind.

Roger
Roger
January 9, 2022 11:02 am

And another thing…we are increasingly subject to rules, orders, by-laws and declarations that stem from delegated legislation, e.g. the powers exercised by CHOs & police commissioners over the last two years.

While such legislation has its place, its increasing use by governments is vesting power in bureaucracies rather than parliaments, which are answerable to the electorate and subject to the rule of law. It has the potential to subvert the Westminster system.

This is another development in which the Liberals & Labor are in lockstep.

If Craig Kelly and other independents are serious about preserving our democracy and find themselves with significant representation in Canberra following the next election, they should look at introducing safeguards and checks on delegated legislation.

Razey
Razey
January 9, 2022 11:06 am

Rogersays:
January 9, 2022 at 11:02 am
And another thing…we are increasingly subject to rules, orders, by-laws and declarations that stem from delegated legislation, e.g. the powers exercised by CHOs & police commissioners over the last two years.

While such legislation has its place, its increasing use by governments is vesting power in bureaucracies rather than parliaments, which are answerable to the electorate and subject to the rule of law. It has the potential to subvert the Westminster system.

It’s gone way past ‘potential’.

areff
areff
January 9, 2022 11:07 am

feelthebern: Eric Adams has always been a suspect commodity. When he was a cop — he didn’t make too many arrests, mind you — he devoted most of his energy to running a grievance group for his fellow dusky constables, The Guardians.

He was an ally of Al Sharpton, despised Giuiliani and could find racist whiteness in a bottle of milk.

The pundits here who see only “ex-cop” and think ‘good man’ can’t tell sh*t from a swan.

Here’s a good but partial accounting of the scams and scandals for which Adams is best known to New Yorkers. Notice his shameless re-hyping of the Tawana Brawley rape hoax, which did more to poison race relations in the Apple than a street full of front yards filled with burning crosses.

https://americanmind.org/salvo/false-hope-for-new-york/

Pogria
Pogria
January 9, 2022 11:08 am

While ever the Poms have kids this ornery,I reckon the future for them looks bright.

Below is my favourite comment from the above article;

Flyinby Bridgette_A • 7 hours ago
A few elected officials dragged out into the street and left in a field like is happening in Kazakhstan is a good start.

Makka
Makka
January 9, 2022 11:11 am

Alex Carey was selected to replace the unfairly pilloried, although due to retire anyway Tim Paine

This Aussie XI are a much more cohesive, happier unit for Paine’s departure. I’m very pleased he is gone, primarily because we was an atrociously pathetic skipper, and nothingburger bat and keeper. His antics at sledging were vomitous culminating in the appalling loss to India in the last embarrassment.

CA did their utmost to distract squirrel for Paine. Bunch of grubs.

custard
custard
January 9, 2022 11:13 am

Bolsinaro disrespects Trudeau

https://twitter.com/thejuggernaut88/status/1479609108760129536?s=21

Socialist Distancing lol

JC
JC
January 9, 2022 11:16 am

Forget the story, just get a load of the fucker’s name

The Turkmen news site Turkmenportal said a 1971 gas-drilling collapse formed the crater, which is about 60 meters (190 feet) in diameter and 20 meters (70 feet) deep. To prevent the spread of gas, geologists set a fire, expecting the gas to burn off in a few weeks.

The spectacular if unwelcome fire that has burned ever since is so renowned that state TV showed President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov speeding around it in an off-road truck in 2019.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
January 9, 2022 11:16 am

Here’s a good but partial accounting of the scams and scandals for which Adams is best known to New Yorkers. Notice his shameless re-hyping of the Tawana Brawley rape hoax, which did more to poison race relations in the Apple than a street full of front yards filled with burning crosses.

Nicely put. Read like a line from Philip Marlowe.

Expect rates to increase, or at least to remain high.
Waiting for the headlines of Mayor/ex Mayor Eric Adams caught with his fingers in the till.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
January 9, 2022 11:21 am

a serious vaxx injury in the family can engender the degree of shame once triggered by having an AIDS infected family member back in the ’80’s.

Perhaps serious vaxx injuries will also become a badge of honour over time.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 9, 2022 11:29 am

What’s the deal with Scott Boland and the smear of white grease across his nose?
Abos don’t get sunburnt anyway, so is a looking like an idiot a condition of being selected?

dopey
dopey
January 9, 2022 11:31 am

Concensus seems to be earth is an oblate spheroid. OK, but you can’t deny some parts of it are flat.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 9, 2022 11:33 am

incoherent ramblersays:
January 9, 2022 at 10:09 am
it is an oblate spheroid

like a rugby or afl football?

More like a slightly squashed soccer ball.

Slim Cognito
Slim Cognito
January 9, 2022 11:38 am

There is now no doubt that Stan Grant has no sense of irony. This from his latest article:

This is about sovereignty. The cornerstone of sovereignty is borders. If a nation cannot defend its borders, it is not a nation.

… and no, he is not talking about the USA.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-09/novak-djokovic-covid-tennis-and-borders/100743476

Pogria
Pogria
January 9, 2022 11:39 am

Forget the story, just get a load of the fucker’s name

JC,

I Ferken Derya to pronounce it.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 9, 2022 11:40 am

There used to be a Consensus of opinion between the State and the People up into the late 1950s in Queensland
The State controlled some staple food prices, controlled Petrol, Beer, Bread prices, everyone was happy.
Hawke resurrected Consensus in the 1980s, but his consensus was that workers were never going to get another pay rise [see: Pilots Strike]
and he would ask business pretty please not to jack prices up.
The Media thought that was a great idea, a bit like they reckon compulsory vaxxing is a great idea now.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 9, 2022 11:43 am

Is Stan Grant a BoatPeople handwringer like Clive Palmer and Ian Chappell too?

Razey
Razey
January 9, 2022 11:44 am

dover0beachsays:
January 9, 2022 at 11:07 am
A prominent Utah Republican suggests that vaccines are a Jewish conspiracy

No different than the Branch Covidian’s belief that the clot shots are ‘safe’ and ‘effective’.

LOL!!

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 9, 2022 11:45 am

This is about sovereignty. The cornerstone of sovereignty is borders. If a nation cannot defend its borders, it is not a nation.

Hmmmm. “First Nations” couldn’t defend their borders. Does that make them “First Non-Nations”?

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 9, 2022 11:45 am

Forget the story, just get a load of the fucker’s name

Hi JC
Weren’t you chastising some commenter about racism last night?

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 9, 2022 11:47 am

A prominent Utah Republican suggests that vaccines are a Jewish conspiracy

Just the Covid vaccines or all vaccines?
More details required for this item.

JC
JC
January 9, 2022 11:48 am

Ed

Highlighting a person’s name that’s a couple of yards long you consider racist? The fuck! You idiot, stop annoying people.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 9, 2022 11:49 am

Regarding the flying duk question: the below was the last I have seen of the flying duk’s postings:

flyingduk says:
December 3, 2021 at 11:06 am
Seriously though, this can only end with violence around the world.
Correct …. for anyone who tells me ‘I am afraid this will end in violence’, I reply [No, no, no no- Arky]

Arky says:
December 3, 2021 at 11:11 am
It’s a fine line people.
Stay on the hoping their cocks drop off side of that line.

flyingduk says:
December 3, 2021 at 11:12 am
If it was merely corruption (Pfizer & co with the governments/politicians) then these “vaxxines” would be bought and could just sit in warehouses somewhere without being used.
Indeed, they REALLLLLY want that stuff in your arm … no excuses will be allowed

flyingduk says:
December 3, 2021 at 11:13 am
Bye Arky ….

If anyone has seen anything later from the Duk, please advise. His treatment suggestions for COVID were worth reading.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 9, 2022 11:50 am

Regarding the flying duk question: the below was the last I have seen of the flying duk’s postings:

flyingduk says:
December 3, 2021 at 11:06 am
Seriously though, this can only end with violence around the world.
Correct …. for anyone who tells me ‘I am afraid this will end in violence’, I reply [No, no, no no- Arky]

Arky says:
December 3, 2021 at 11:11 am
It’s a fine line people.
Stay on the hoping their cocks drop off side of that line.

flyingduk says:
December 3, 2021 at 11:12 am
If it was merely corruption (Pfizer & co with the governments/politicians) then these “vaxxines” would be bought and could just sit in warehouses somewhere without being used.
Indeed, they REALLLLLY want that stuff in your arm … no excuses will be allowed

flyingduk says:
December 3, 2021 at 11:13 am
Bye Arky ….

If anyone has seen anything later from the Duk, please advise. His treatment suggestions for COVID were worth reading.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 9, 2022 11:52 am

Greeny just got Crawleyie!
77 out of 96, reminds me of a few innings Brian Lara played.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 9, 2022 11:52 am

Custard,
That twitter was so good.

miltonf
miltonf
January 9, 2022 11:54 am

Excellent article by Joel Kotkin.I hope his optimism is justified

Baba
Baba
January 9, 2022 11:55 am

Julia Banks
@juliahbanks
·
18h
I was in a pharmacy today & a frail elderly man said in an anxious tone “I need one of those Tests for my wife & I”. “I’m so sorry sir we don’t have any” said the assistant, who like all of us was so sorry for him.
This story & scenes like this are all bc of #MorrisonFail

What are the chances this witch has 2 or 3 boxes of RAT kits at home? She could have got old mate’s address and sent him some via Uber.

Cassie of Sydney
January 9, 2022 11:56 am

“Fat Tonysays:
January 9, 2022 at 11:50 am”

So was flyingduk censored by the Great Censor?

shatterzzz
January 9, 2022 12:02 pm

Sometimes, too often .. duuuh! .. being Geordie born & bred can be trying .. verrry trying! .. bundled out of the FA Cup by a third tier (league 1) opponent .. The richest club in the Premier League and at this rate we will, definitely, be the wealthiest ever in the Championship … FFS!
But on a much happier note .. yesterday’s foray into Mascot was a huge success even if Customs did confiscate a penknife off my keyring (been on for years and had forgotten it was there .. lol!)
https://ibb.co/prkbhP4

jupes
jupes
January 9, 2022 12:03 pm

Hmmmm. “First Nations” couldn’t defend their borders. Does that make them “First Non-Nations”?

Ha ha ha. Good get BJ.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 9, 2022 12:05 pm

What are the chances this witch has 2 or 3 boxes of RAT kits at home? She could have got old mate’s address and sent him some via Uber.

Yeah, but how many clueless old duffers are there in Melbourne?
3 million?
She can’t send them all starter packs.
She coulda said
” Listen, codger, gargle with half a Tsp of BiCarb in a glass of warm water on arising and you’ll be sweet.”
Hey, it’s no more of a lie than anything else she’s ever said.

JC
JC
January 9, 2022 12:05 pm

Fats , Cassie

I suspect the censoring didn’t occur on the open thread. It almost almost certainlu on Thought Leader’s near genius threads.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 9, 2022 12:07 pm

Hmmmm. “First Nations” couldn’t defend their borders. Does that make them “First Non-Nations”?

Bruce Pascoe was unavailable for comment.

Cassie of Sydney
January 9, 2022 12:10 pm

“JCsays:
January 9, 2022 at 12:05 pm
Fats , Cassie

I suspect the censoring didn’t occur on the open thread. It almost almost certainlu on Thought Leader’s near genius threads.”

Yep.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 9, 2022 12:12 pm

My second son, a man in his forties, has an autoimmune reaction causing severe sinovitis in both wrists and other problems which commenced a week after his second Pfizer injection. He has had no problems of this sort previously, no rheumatoid arthritis or arthritis of any sort, and no strain injuries or pain in his wrists ever before. Getting it medically recognised has been something else again. He has been on the dole and has a bipolar disorder for which he refuses medication. No MRI unless you pay for it, and not even offered until I told him he must get an MRI referral grudgingly made by his lazy GP: $320 for each wrist, which I paid. Otherwise it would have remained undiagnosed, no-one had ordered ultrasounds or blood tests, but it still remains untreated, even for the extreme pain of it.

No doctor he has seen will say it relates to the vaxx even though my sister, a GP and then Specialist of many years standing (now retired) says it is very likely to be from the vaxx. However, he is not her patient, she didn’t see him at Christmas, she lives way down on the South Coast and she has dropped her Provider number, thus she cannot assist him with any medical claim or even help getting proper treatment. He has been sent home from Emergency, with no diagnosis nor onward referral, and told to take Panadol, which doesn’t come close to halting the severe pain he is in. They X-rayed his worst wrist for fracture; there was no fracture: a strange thing to do with a bilateral presentation anyway, imho. His GP simply dissembles and says he knows nothing about vaxx reactions and shows him the door.

He is panicing now about having to provide medical evidence along with his birth certificate to apply for government compensation (which I doubt he will get). I am paying $25 for his hospital records, and $134 to Service NSW for a fast-track certified copy of his birth certificate (when he was homeless he lost all his ID). At least it is a signal that I support him, along with giving him extra funds to get him some ready-made food delivered as he can’t even lift a saucepan. I already pay his internet and phone bills and some of his electricity bills. Sadly, in mid-December he had just started employment in a telephone sales role, trying to pull himself back into normal life, but has been unable to continue it as he would wish to. There is no doubt he has suffered badly from this vaxx; no one in the family doubts that nor wishes to hide their sympathy (although his three siblings and others have been fairly unsympathetic to him in the past).

Vaxx injury? Don’t even mention it to doctors as they don’t want to know. Too much trouble?

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 9, 2022 12:14 pm

Shatterzzz,
Happy kids. Good to see. But you do know ones a ranga?
Otherwise thanks for sharing. Love their huge smiles.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
January 9, 2022 12:14 pm

What would happen if everyone self-reported a positive home PCR test?

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 9, 2022 12:15 pm

Cassie of Sydney says:
January 9, 2022 at 11:56 am
“Fat Tonysays:
January 9, 2022 at 11:50 am”

So was flyingduk censored by the Great Censor?

It was Arky’s thread of the 3rd December

calli
calli
January 9, 2022 12:20 pm

Mr father’s autoimmune reaction remained undiagnosed until mum and I read the riot act and had him referred on to a dermatologist. At least his is treatable.

Tomorrow the two lambs go for their boosters. Willingly and still trusting the sh*ts that have caused so much damage. And there isn’t a thing I can do about it.

shatterzzz
January 9, 2022 12:21 pm

Still have an XP laptop. It runs faster than my new desktop because no bloatware and I stripped Out all the crap from XP.
My 2012 HP laptop started to labour after I updated w7 to W10 in 2019 so I formatted the HD and installed Linux Mint .. been running perfectly ever since .. battery showing no signs of age .. fingers crossed .. use it mainly for downloading & casting to the TV these days .. saves having to move machines around the house ..

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 9, 2022 12:23 pm

Arky, I hope you are OK, enjoying a break from here, and wil be back when you are ready.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 9, 2022 12:23 pm

Look, I’ll go into bat for Arky, on a limited basis:
His problem was that he banned people who are essential harmless, though stupid, but allowed comments from total Fuckwits, then arsekissed the fuckwit if he mildly censored the “comment”.
Result was that he just looked weak, then the hounds attacked.
His own fault, trying to suck up to people who will never respect him anyway, no matter what he says or does.

calli
calli
January 9, 2022 12:26 pm

Arky was, and still is, under a lot of pressure. The fire was likely the last straw. He did the right thing to absent himself and get it back together.

If Dr Duk is lurking, I’m sure he understands. He looked to me to be that type of man.

It’s important to take some time out if it all gets too much.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 9, 2022 12:37 pm

calli says:
January 9, 2022 at 12:26 pm
Arky was, and still is, under a lot of pressure. The fire was likely the last straw. He did the right thing to absent himself and get it back together.
If Dr Duk is lurking, I’m sure he understands. He looked to me to be that type of man.
It’s important to take some time out if it all gets too much.

Calli – I agree. I posted the above without comment.
There was some discussion last night about the Duk and what I posted was the last that I had read of the flying duk’s contributions.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 9, 2022 12:37 pm

I doubt if Arky’s erratic censoring had any influence on Flying Duk, who was well able to state his case anywhere on the OT or other threads or on other sites and who may now have his own reasons for staying quiet. Arky’s censoring had more to do with Arky’s own problems, for which I am glad he took some time out, but his loss to this site is a sad one and I hope he returns.

I’ve decided to come to this site as I see fit, not as others do, and to lessen its role in my life in general, for I have much to do elsewhere. Arky could do the same.

Baba
Baba
January 9, 2022 12:38 pm

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
January 9, 2022 at 12:12 pm

Vaxx injury? Don’t even mention it to doctors as they don’t want to know. Too much trouble?

A career limiting rabbit hole for hospital doctors.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 9, 2022 12:39 pm

Stats for failed England Opener Haseeb Hameed:

Span Mat Inns NO Runs HS Avg

vs Australia 2021-2022 4 8 0 80 27 10.00

Even Harris did better than that.
Plus he hasn’t taken a catch.

shatterzzz
January 9, 2022 12:42 pm

Was due for my final (10 years) clearance test for Non Hodgins Lymphoma Cancer at Nepean Hospital BUT can’t have it because I’m UNCLEAN .. Thankfully, I’m well past worrying about whether I have it or not as I’ve been in better health for the past seven or so years than I was in my 30s (74 now) so I’m not, in the least, concerned for me but this sort of discrimination must be affecting lotza folk who aren’t so sure of their post serious problem(s) health status ….
Soooo, your compelled to pay , compulsory, health care levy thru taxation but your not as entitled to access treatment as others …

Dot
Dot
January 9, 2022 12:45 pm

Another happy, successful woman tells men why they are wrong again:

https://medium.com/the-virago/maybe-feminism-is-the-reason-more-men-are-single-6f4e4c17f7c7

But, as we’ve established women don’t need men for survival anymore. Fortunately, we don’t live in Jordan Peterson’s forced monogamy utopia. If you’re not a time traveller and happen to live in the post-economic oppression of women timeline, you have to be wantable. You have to be likeable. You have to acknowledge that you’re not owed companionship. You’ll have to be accountable.

Hold up.

How many women are net taxpayers or are employed in make work civil servant or diversity hires jobs?

It’s a scam. Men need to be traditional and BETTER than their grandfathers.

Women can choose their lifestyle, have others pay for it and expect to be treated like their grandmothers?

Something does not add up. Send this mess to forensic accounting, stat.

Baba
Baba
January 9, 2022 12:48 pm

In my daughters’ own words.

xxxx got his jab and went surfing the next day. While surfing he started experiencing really bad chest pains. They had to call the ambulance and then the doctor told him that he had clots all around his chest. The doctor told him that his lucky to be alive. He then began vomiting blood. It turns out he was vomiting parts of his lungs which was caused by the blood clotting. He will now require monitoring and medication for the rest of his life.

Doctors were unable to prove the clots were caused by the vaccine.

John H.
John H.
January 9, 2022 12:48 pm

The next big trend in mental health treatments? Psychedelic therapy

“It’s not operating at the surface level… People come out with a story. ‘This is what I learned about myself. This is how I view myself now, and this is how I viewed myself before,’ and there’s a shift there. And that’s what you don’t get with typical psychiatric meds.”

Just great, a new form of psychotherapy which allows you to create a different fantasy about yourself. Well if that makes you feel better so be it.

Dot
Dot
January 9, 2022 12:49 pm

It gets better.

Women don’t need men.

https://medium.com/hello-love/an-open-letter-to-the-man-i-want-fe35f6020ce

Let me be sweet to you and have fun with you. Let me cry freely and break down in your arms when I need to, trusting me enough to know that I am a bad-ass bitch and I’ve got this. I have plenty of crumpled on the floor moments, but I will get up and re-adjust my armor with or without you.

Something does not add up.

Razey
Razey
January 9, 2022 12:51 pm

shatterzzzsays:
January 9, 2022 at 12:42 pm
Was due for my final (10 years) clearance test for Non Hodgins Lymphoma Cancer at Nepean Hospital BUT can’t have it because I’m UNCLEAN ..

That’s not legal. I’d be dobbing them into the relevant authorities.

Roger
Roger
January 9, 2022 12:54 pm

But, as we’ve established women don’t need men for survival anymore.

Stupidest sentence I’ve read in quite a while.

And they really believe it!

Dot
Dot
January 9, 2022 12:55 pm

Before you take psychedelics, keep this in mind:

Tolkien (Catholic) > Lewis (Anglican) > Rowling (Calvinism).

(They were all converts, which is interesting).

calli
calli
January 9, 2022 12:57 pm

A world where women run everything is a world where nothing runs.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 9, 2022 12:57 pm

England have again found out to their detriment that using keepers better at batting than keeping, and who fail at both do nobody any favours.

Yep.
Buttler has taken one “speccie” and dropped several sitters.
The speccie was made for TV. Coming at knee height, full stretch dive, snagged in one hand. Looks great but nowhere near as hard as taking an inside edge off a spinner standing up to the stumps.
His stand-in (Pope) is not a keeper. His style owes more to Hungry Hungry Hippo than crickit.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 9, 2022 1:00 pm

No need for nanoparticles. No need for 5G transmitters.

Certainly no need for these.

Things like this are (unwitting?) supports for public health policy that still appears to believe that high levels of vaccination is somehow going to stop Rona circulating – and that certainly believes that vaccinating children is OK.

No need for the good and great to address the actual issues when they can simply release ‘US QAnon sketchy shit’ distraction squirrels on anything other than the current dogma.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 9, 2022 1:04 pm

Highlighting a person’s name

Barry McCracken

Indolent
Indolent
January 9, 2022 1:04 pm

‘We’ll Piss You Off!’ – Massive Protest in France Against Macron Following His Dehumanizing Comments on Unvaxxed

“Dehumanise” is exactly the right word to describe what Macron did. He should be charged with inciting violence.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 9, 2022 1:04 pm

and then the doctor told him that he had clots all around his chest.

So, not in the Chest Wall but in the Organs of the chest;
Heart, Lungs, Glands?

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
January 9, 2022 1:05 pm

It must be the swimming, shatterzzz!
With all the ks you do, have you a goal in mind, say ocean swimming events?

Indolent
Indolent
January 9, 2022 1:07 pm

It’s Coming: Biden’s Latest Irrational Moves Obliterate the US Economy About 2 Weeks Out

Biden’s contribution to the dehumanisation effort. As Neil Oliver said, this is all choreographed.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 9, 2022 1:07 pm

I suspect the censoring didn’t occur on the open thread. It almost almost certainlu on Thought Leader’s near genius threads

Ah.
That would explain why I didn’t see the Duk-stoush.
Once we went to censoring out-of-step opinion I didn’t bother going there.

Razey
Razey
January 9, 2022 1:08 pm

Ed Casesays:
January 9, 2022 at 1:04 pm
and then the doctor told him that he had clots all around his chest.

So, not in the Chest Wall but in the Organs of the chest;
Heart, Lungs, Glands?

Safe and effective.

shatterzzz
January 9, 2022 1:10 pm

With all the ks you do, have you a goal in mind, say ocean swimming events?

I wish .. LOL! .. BIG difference between ocean and pool swimming .. pool is nice & flat & back & forth but ocean with wave movement/tides really hammers you .. 2 to 3kms in the pool no real hassle but 500 mtres in open water near finishes me .. LOL!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 9, 2022 1:10 pm

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:

January 9, 2022 at 12:23 pm

Arky, I hope you are OK, enjoying a break from here, and wil be back when you are ready.

Not if he insists on chopping opposing opinion rather than debating it (or ignoring it at least).
I wasn’t aware of the Duk-chopping.

Indolent
Indolent
January 9, 2022 1:14 pm
132andBush
132andBush
January 9, 2022 1:15 pm

Dr Faustus says:
January 9, 2022 at 1:00 pm
No need for nanoparticles. No need for 5G transmitters.
Certainly no need for these.

Things like this are (unwitting?) supports for public health policy that still appears to believe that high levels of vaccination is somehow going to stop Rona circulating – and that certainly believes that vaccinating children is OK.

No need for the good and great to address the actual issues when they can simply release ‘US QAnon sketchy shit’ distraction squirrels on anything other than the current dogma.

Wack job conspiracy theories are NOT the way to argue against this crap!!?

Say it ain’t so!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 9, 2022 1:15 pm

Cathedral deploys the antibodies.

FACT FOCUS: Unfounded theory used to dismiss COVID measures (8 Jan)

An unfounded theory taking root online suggests millions of people have been “hypnotized” into believing mainstream ideas about COVID-19, including steps to combat it such as testing and vaccination.

In widely shared social media posts this week, efforts to combat the disease have been dismissed with just three words: “mass formation psychosis.”

The term gained attention after it was floated by Dr. Robert Malone on “The Joe Rogan Experience” Dec. 31 podcast. Malone is a scientist who once researched mRNA technology but is now a vocal skeptic of the COVID-19 vaccines that use it.

Any article that starts with those two words in caps reeks of Snopes-like propaganda. And mass formation psychosis is nothing like hypnosis.

Methinks there’s a disturbance in the force and the dark side is getting antsy.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 9, 2022 1:17 pm

The Jewish Pope.
You know it makes sense.
Who exactly is this “prominent Utah Republican”?

Baba
Baba
January 9, 2022 1:19 pm

According to QLD Health Queensland has exactly 18000 new Covid cases. They should know that a number ending in 00 or 0000 has no credibility.

shatterzzz
January 9, 2022 1:22 pm

That’s not legal. I’d be dobbing them into the relevant authorities.

As I said I’ don’t really care, cos I’m fine, but I’m guessing these decisions are happening because the relevant authority is OK with them …!

calli
calli
January 9, 2022 1:22 pm

Who exactly is this “prominent Utah Republican”?

Pierre Delecto, for sure.

shatterzzz
January 9, 2022 1:23 pm

Who exactly is this “prominent Utah Republican”?

Romney ……

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 9, 2022 1:26 pm

And finally some good news, my patient wont lose an eye after all…

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 9, 2022 1:33 pm

Rain.
A sensational save by plucky England, after Jonny Bairstow’s heroic first innings scatters the Aussie bowling.

I think that’s how it will go.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 9, 2022 1:33 pm

Mole,
Good news.
If you feel your job enervating that’s natural. But news like that makes it worthwhile. Keep up the good work.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 9, 2022 1:35 pm

A question Lizzie.
Last week you got very wound up about the possibility of litigation arising from blog commentary which is “actionable”.
What are your thoughts on blog hosts removing key qualifying sentences from comments, which completely changes the meaning of the comment, and with no visible audit trail?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 9, 2022 1:36 pm

Dr Faustussays:

January 9, 2022 at 1:33 pm

Rain.
A sensational save by plucky England, after Jonny Bairstow’s heroic first innings scatters the Aussie bowling.

Ooooh.
Very courageous prediction, Minister.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 9, 2022 1:41 pm

Ooooh.
Very courageous prediction, Minister.

I’m hoping to come back in my next life as a sub editor.

Aspirational, I know.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 9, 2022 1:42 pm

Shatterzz,
I’m back swimming after I have an operation cancelled in September *.
I’ve trained up people that had misgivings about waves and surf. I’ve seen good pool swimmers panic when the water gets deep and they get cured with a bit of help.
This season will be over when I can get in the water again.
However if you want to train over winter for next season give me a bell. Open water is great.

*psychopathic power queens in Health. It’s not the best when the public system gets its claws in you.

Winston Smith
January 9, 2022 1:43 pm

srr:
October 27, 2021

They’re going after Dr Scott Jensen’s medical license for the fifth time for simply speaking common sense during the plandemic.

The issue appears to keep coming back to these school boards, professional and regulatory associations and similar.
These need to be cleaned out of the ideologues that infest them and are using them to their own ends.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 9, 2022 1:43 pm

I’m hoping to come back in my next life as a sub editor.

You’re moving to Bangalore?

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 9, 2022 1:49 pm

Who exactly is this “prominent Utah Republican”?

My newsfeed tells me:

David Bateman, the founder of Entrata … …suggested that COVID-19 and its vaccines are the work of Jews, and that both are “attacking the reproductive systems of women” and eroding natural immunity.

Never heard of him; but he seems a bit of a ‘reproductive system of women’ himself.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 9, 2022 1:49 pm

Rain.

Ran saves Australia from an embarrassing loss

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 9, 2022 1:50 pm

So.
Graeme hasn’t moved to Utah then?

Roger
Roger
January 9, 2022 1:53 pm

‘We’ll Piss You Off!’ – Massive Protest in France Against Macron Following His Dehumanizing Comments on Unvaxxed

This might not be the best re-election strategy, Manu.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 9, 2022 1:53 pm

Rain saves Australia from an embarrassing loss

fmd

rickw
rickw
January 9, 2022 1:55 pm
Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 9, 2022 1:56 pm

You’re moving to Bangalore?

The Paris of the Deccan plateau – it’s a great choice. (In case I just miss the cut and come back as a street dog.)

shatterzzz
January 9, 2022 1:57 pm

However if you want to train over winter for next season give me a bell. Open water is great.

Thanx but I live a fair distance from the ocean .. open sea swimming a year is countable on one hand mainly outings with grandees .. which is why I’m not great at it .. LOL! ..
as I tell the kids when you reach my age the main aim is to get from one end of the pool to the other without sinking .. I’m fortunate enuf, at the moment, to be an oldie that can manage that quite a few times when I try .. speed is, definitely, not a factor in my swimming .. these days I’m on a 90second 50 metre average ……

Figures
Figures
January 9, 2022 2:00 pm

Disease is caused by catching germs from someone else. Science says so. And just ignore any kind of proof that it’s bullshit n

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-best-case-scenario

John H.
John H.
January 9, 2022 2:00 pm

How Do You See the World? People With Creative Personalities Really Do See the Things Differently

There is mounting evidence that personality is malleable, and increases in openness have been observed in cognitive training interventions and studies of the effects of psilocybin (the psychedelic compound in magic mushrooms).

People can change in the OCEAN dimensions (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism) but typically need some prompting to do so. Drugs are one form of prompting and creative individuals like to indulge. So here’s the strange thing about human beings. There are a number of people who now argue altered states of consciousness constitute a 4th biological drive. They are late to the party because in his excellent book, Intoxication, decades ago Seigel made the same argument. They are all wrong. Biological drives are to serve survival. Altered states of consciousness do the opposite but I accept the point that one way or the other human beings try to alter their consciousness. The popular choice today is alcohol, a drug so boring I don’t why people bother with it.

I’m not interested in specific altered states of consciousness but I would desperately like to know why we seek these experiences.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 9, 2022 2:01 pm

KD earlier on wicket-keepers.
I thought Wadey deserved a go, but he has had that and wasn’t up to it.
I couldn’t believe a factor in his selection was his “aggression in the field”.
So, picked as a sledger.
Selectors for two decades have picked blokes who average 35 (and regularly grass catches) over blokes who average 25 but miss nothing.
How many tests turn on those extra twenty runs?
Furthermore, quite often the 35 average is built on second innings junk runs against B-grade competition.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 9, 2022 2:04 pm

So.
Graeme hasn’t moved to Utah then?

I wouldn’t be too certain about that:

Bateman told Fox 13 in a text message that “some of my closest friends are Jews,” but also that “I do believe Scottish Rite Freemasons are behind the pandemic (overwhelmingly Jewish). And I fear billions of people around the globe right now are being exterminated.”

Next level Nanowrigglers.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 9, 2022 2:06 pm

Watching High Noon on Fox classics 2. I like the situational and tactical waterless Hary Cooper shows.
Someone must have done a FIBUA course.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 9, 2022 2:07 pm

Waterless? Awareness. Bloody autocorrect.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 9, 2022 2:08 pm

Covers off; 7 overs off.

Roger
Roger
January 9, 2022 2:20 pm

England finding at least some some form and fight late in theseries suggests they really missed those state games in which they could acclimatise to local conditions. A few warm ups on Brisbane suburban pitches was better than nothing, but not by much.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 9, 2022 2:26 pm

Carey’s safe for the Ashes I think.

However, the subcontinent is a graveyard for keepers who are batsmen who keep a bit.

If I was Josh Inglis I’d be making sure my gloves were nice and supple.

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