One of my brothers-in-law says that Colorado used to be a solid red state until inundated by Californians.
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Oh, the horrors! How did I ever survive Black Saturday in 2009, when the temperature in Melbourne reached 46.4 C?
The Pope’s Genocide Cowardice – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org a truly evil pope
As of 2012, only 52.8 per cent of Tasmanian men and 46.9 per cent of Tasmanian women possess an OECD…
Fidel wouldn’t be too proud of his boy.
Baba, my comment is referring to natural justice and how this pertains to foreigners.Keep up.
“Liverpool is Fowler.”
Labor, Labor, Labor. The seat that Skank Keneally has been parachuted into.
sometimes Ed, before you get on the crack-pipe, sometimes you make sense
Procedure was applicable to both parties in the Djokovic case, and in the issue that mattered, that of simple visa entry, Djokovic complied the respondent-gov did not, for whatever inane reason. As for the issue of vaccination status, that status was granted in Serbia and affirmed in Melbourne. I suppose if the ATGI or the immigration minister wanted to argue with the status, then it might really be a diplomatic issue not directly relevant to Djokovic who, after all, was the recipient of the status and not its donor.
What’s that?
Kick you some more, Shit Dribbler?
What a wonderful idea!
But because I am a gregarious individual, I think everyone should partake in giving you a damn good kicking.
Even Grigory.
Now put your tinfoil hat on and go pick your bananas before the Central Bankers you so fear think you are shirking…
Hughes:
The Liverpool Military Area—comprising Holsworthy Barracks and Steele Barracks—is also located in the electorate.
Well, nobody worth mentioning at least.
I was so surprised at the lavish choice in IGA, as yesterday I put in the weekly Coles home delivery order and they had no steak and no ham and plenty of other missing stuff.
They even pointedly advised customers to select the “substitute items” option because they were likely to miss out on things.
Irma
One more thing before you’re cut off again. How would you know if the idiot is right or wrong about any issues dealing with science? You have an arts degree and zero knowledge of any science, like most of us. The only reason you’re judging me and siding with the incel is because his utterances agree with your bias. You have as much knowledge about science to make judgements as anyone else. Moreover, Doofus is a metallurgist. Having him as a blog authority on anything other than co-mingling metals and turning dials in a smelter is silly. It would be like having a brain surgeon being requested to do an immediate dentistry implant without any training.
This is a guy who lives in Newcastle and drives a 30 year old Camry. Forgive me if I don’t think he reached the pinnacle of “science” (metallurgy) in his heyday. It’s kind of like you ending up in a hotel in the sticks. 🙂 He’s no Elon Musk.
Leave the racist stuff out, you fat slob. My view will never change about you either.
Rabz:
Used this when the same thing happened on the better halfs Toyota:
https://www.supercheapauto.com.au/search?q=rear+view+adhesive&lang=en_AU
Make sure you clean up the old glue and window with solvents before applying new one.
No. We are becoming acculturated to a lower level of shit while the movers and shakers devise a new way to sink the bar lower. A tactical pause to allow for regrouping as it were.
Tut tut choo choo man, that is how you treat someone who is helping you not to stroke out?
Some gratitude… sheesh.
Every single local supermarket including 2 Coles, Woolies, Aldi and IGA look like swarms of locusts have gone through.
Thanks Johanna, although I’ve only been around since about 2008. Didn’t have time to check this stuff out until then.
Lol.
If you can change a wheel who needs a beemer with run flat tyres?
If they deport him now, it will be an international incident.
https://twitter.com/TheCryptonaut2/status/1480457288007630849
I used to have epic fights with Sillyfilly of Gosford on Blair’s blog. She was bright, but wrong, which was easy to demonstrate. A total believer though, impossible to deprogram.
Last century, when I was working, I was somewhat involved in critique and practice of a film technique known then as cinema verite, later as ‘direct cinema’ due to the increasing sophistication of hand-held cameras, which then morphed into reality TV with the explosion of digital TV. For ‘Succession’ fans (maybe not too many here, but hey, inform yourselves) I’ve already put up a great video on the innovative musical score of this voted-best TV Series of 2021 in its 3rd season (first season way back in 2018). Now here for your delectation is an explanatory vid on the role of the cinematography in creating this marvellous show. You don’t have to be a film buff to appreciate the skill used here.
They are supposed to have a little tab on the bottom.
Pull it slowly and the adhesive strip will stretch and release until it finally lets go … and catapult the released hook into your thumb.
Who needs anything, right? Unfortunately, the world doesn’t work the way you pretend it does.
Do you remember Janey Has Moved? She was an odd one.
She once described wind turbines as “William Morris on stilts”. I think she was trying to be high brow and arty.
Tesla meets snow. Snow wins.
Tesla’s new ‘full self-driving’ technology tested in snow with disastrous results (8 Jan)
Must’ve been the wrong type of snow.
Yes Sancho. In theory, the pulled tab should release and break the bond as the foam adhesive platform is stretched.
It didn’t.
All this talk about making everyone get the “vaccines” so they can introduce the Vax Passport / Digital Control System.
Given our Federal & State governments have wiped their collective arses with the Australian Constitution, what’s there to stop them just introducing the Digital Control system anyway? China (CCP) has done this directly – well before the COVID plandemic.
The “vaccines”, all 280 million (?) of them are there for a reason – and it’s not our health. The viciousness in which Scummo & Co-Conspirators are demanding “vaccination” down to 6 month old babies and 3-monthly boosters (to be monthly later) is not normal, even for “normal” lying scumbag pustulant politicians.
If it was straight-out, old-fashioned corruption, the government would simply pay for the “vaccines” (with our money) and let them sit unused in a warehouse somewhere.
There is real evil involved in all this.
Calli,
What sort of spade do thee have in shed?
Yes, I recall her, an impossible woman. She’s still around occasionally on The Oz. Hasn’t changed.
Who could forget that handle? Let alone the content.
Prague protest draws thousands against vaccine mandate
Brucie
Recall a few years ago you told us that battery technology had reached its limits, EV wouldn’t get any more traction and Tesla would go broke? I remember. How did all those predictions work out, but especially the “science” on battery technology? Tesla has increased range by 100% since then and Mercedes reckons they’ve come out with tech requiring one charge every month.
“I’m a scientist”. 🙂
Massive 145-Country Study Shows Sharp INCREASE of Transmission and DEATH After Introduction of COVID Vaccines
No info on Judge Anthony Kelly anywhere that I can find but he seemed to enjoy sinking the slipper into the LNP govt while saying nothing about the Victorians who granted an exemption. Another Mordie ?
Gosh, this place needs a hand-held camera to gauge reactions to the elemental aggro sometimes on display. Maybe that’s why I like ‘Succession’ so much; shades of the Cat!
Djokovic arrested
Triple-Jabbed Geraldo Rivera SHOCKED He Got Covid
It’s already here. Just drive no more than 80km per week.
I have t’ border spade, and another (just in case), but I prefer shovels.
Square shovel, round shovel, post hole, and t’ noice long handled shovel.
And forks. Border fork, mulch fork…and t’ claw for weeding. And mattock.
Wheelbarrows now…
People are being a bit harsh on Bruce, you know?
I like to think of Bruce as the sites SNOPES, i.e., he’s consistently wrong about everything.
If they can do it to him, they can do it to you
The day Scummo said that under property law business could deny service to unvaccinated people was the day I realised that not even citizenship matters to government and the bureaucracy.
I’m looking at an oldie wordlie picture of the station cafe.
Once upon a time train travel was chic and sophisticated.
I’m ridiculously early, the post war rebuilt station is utilitarian and drafty, though there is a very pretty black steam locomotive on display inside the station.
I’m just hoping the trip to Sassari is picturesque and the bus connection connects.
Rosie
Where are you heading now?
LoL
Mavericks, no doubt
Remember when the consensus of the clever people on the Cat was that Struth’s prediction of of supply chain failure due to government reaction to Covid was crazy bullshit?
Good times.
The Shot Heard Round the World
by Mark Steyn
Weekend Notebook
January 9, 2022
The Oz is reporting that Djokovic is to be “re-arrested” by federal authorities.
Bruce is the smartest guy on the blog and my goto in matters science plus gerbil warmening
JC is the finance guy who puts us in the room wit de traders.
I like em both and both have been kind enough to help me from time to time
🙂 ?
He was just slightly ahead of Macron.
Ed – I can’t recall any time you’ve shown anything I’ve said is wrong. Please illustrate.
Because they’re human beings. Because they engaged in a process faithfully and shouldn’t be treated gratuitously.
Baba, I think the reaction was what it was because the thing was predicted to be “imminent”.
If you wait long enough, and the stupid persists, most predictions will come true in one way or another.
Bruce is the smartest guy on the blog and my goto in matters science plus gerbil warmening
JC is the finance guy who puts us in the room wit de traders.
I like em both and both have been kind enough to help me from time to time.
Djokovic re arrested?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-czqC43wt4
I’m going to Santa Teresa di Gallura, staying a few days then crossing to Corsica if the French will let me.
It looks fairly straightforward with no covid test required though apparently the French government reserve the right to test on arrival.
I’d have stayed in Bonaficio but there are apparently no pharmacies there that issue health passes to foreigners so shall bus the 30km to Porto Vecchio and stay there.
Hopefully get to visit Elba, possibly not if it’s on the other side of the island. 🙂
From there plan to catch a ferry to Marseilles.
No he didn’t . He made no such prediction at all. The breadvan driver made what was a very specific prediction.
This was that due to the lock downs across Australia we would end up starving. Nothing of the sort happened.
As for making predictions about supply chain problems.. We had a economic supply-side shock. Economists at two a dozen were making predictions we would suffer supply side… supply-chain issues. These predictions were being made as early as Feb 2020, when the Wuhan bug began to gain status.
Stop trying to recreate reality with another movie. The baker’s Delight delivery driver did not make a correct prediction. He was 100% wrong.
If you’re a pollie in a deep hole you may as well keep digging all the way down to China.
Anyone know if ScoMo is doing Mandarin classes.
Killing time drinking very ordinary Italian coffee.
At least this one is hot.
Djokovic re-arrested
What the fuck happened to Australia?
Helen
That’s fine. if you want to believe that, go right ahead and that’s your right. I believe he’s a delusional twat and I have zero trust in his science knowledge because of some of his opinions and the way he bats for his delusional bias. It doesn’t mean I’m an expert – far from it in fact, however I don’t trust him at all.
Calli, if Struth made a mistake it’s because he believed the experts’ predictions of the degree of community infection. With a much less infection rate now, here we are.
Autonomous cars brake a lot. They are like the most fraidycat of drivers.
Genuine question . Are you immune from catching COVID if you have already had it?
Not just imminent but the direct result of truck repairs being deemed ‘non essential’ in Victoria in the August 2020 lockdown.
When JC pointed out that was incorrect, he moved on to a domino theory about some bloke not being able to buy the right colour hiviz.
It was risible nonsense but naturally he doubled down. ‘Stock up on cans’.
Apparently someone was unable to buy chicken fillets at the local supermarket late one afternoon which somehow meant he was proven correct.
Oh and some supermarkets imposed modest product limits on a all range of items to avoid a repeat of earlier stupidity.
Wheelbarrows.? That’s grand lass.
Baba
Why are you holding Struth up as some sort of Mufti? Seriously, like what the fuck.?What is it this evening with people holding up their muftis. Is this Mufti Night or something?
JC.
I realise it isn’t automotive but tool batteries have gone ahead in leaps and bounds.
When they first came out, they were heavy, would give an hour’s usage and take overnight to charge.
They are now lighter, give hours of usage and charge up over smoko or lunch.
I had my old 2-stroke trimmer/hedge cutter blew up the other day.
The guy in the Stihl shop reckons they were aiming to have 50% of all sales battery powered by 2025.
It looks like they will pass that point this year.
And this is a company built around heavy duty chainsaws.
One thing I liked about them is their brochures gave a range of expected run-times for each tool and each battery type.
Observations in the Third Year of Covid
We’re up in Port Stephens for a few days. Seen around the place:
– shops, not infrequently, shut for lack of staff
– local Bunnings sparsely staffed “due to Covid”
– QR codes rarely observed. One place asked me to enter it and then the supervising lady departed inside. One shop (shut) had a sign up asking for proof of “double vaccination”
– One AirBnB said instead of filling her three rooms she was choosing to fill only one “to reduce the risk”
– otherwise normal.
Chrisl
It used to be extremely rare but Spain are reported an increase of repeat omicron infections.
I am amazed you are arrogant enough to even think your stupidity would be sufficient to rock anybody’s homeostasis, Shit Dribbler.
Here, I will clarify- I get pleasure from swatting trolls like you in the same I way deeply enjoy swatting mosquitos.
Even if the bloodstains are a little messy to tidy up afterwards…
Top Ender!
Welcome!
Now, as far as blood pressure goes-
How is your study of the Protocols going, Shit Dribbler?
You started with being convinced about the world’s Central Banks (Whatever they actually are).
How long until you are trailing around after Bird and anklebiting in his wake about ‘controlled Mossad demolitions’ the way you usually slime in here to be a mindless nuisance after Struth turns up and plays Red-Faced Guard at all us Class Enemies?
Well, I’m not in uniform, if that counts…
Mufti night? Is that hula skirt and coconuts?
Is mufti night like muff night or are they different things?
Dogs, I think that autonomous and human driving won’t mix well. It eventually has to be either or some from of technological accommodation. (more advanced). I think we’re still about 50 years away from a decent solution.
Numerous OS media picking up on this now. Hawke is obviously acting:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10385709/Novak-Djokovic-WINS-visa-battle-World-number-one-tennis-star-remain-country.html
OK lets contrast how decisively they are moving to now, say when the HCA uses the vibe to include non citizen criminals as indigenous. A loophole that still hasn’t attempted to be closed. Shocked I tell you, shocked…
Nuances in languages are funny.
The Chinese call it lying flat.
With me it is the indolence of the well bred.
All of my superiors have called it you lazy bastard.
You’re around here Calli? Nice part of the world.
Someone should do a dot map of Cat members.
On 3rd August 2020 St Ruth predicted that we would start noticing shortages on supermarket shelves within one week, two weeks tops.
So by 10th August 2020 (17th August 2020 at latest) we were all going to start emulating Bobby Sands.
Because tyres.
And wrong coloured fluoro.
Or summink.
It later transpired that this wasn’t derived from St Ruth’s power of prediction but that he had been fed the info by the Thought Leader.
Because Mrs Thought Leader had a low level job in Colesworths logistics and was seeing lots of inventory warnings on her computer screen.
But they weren’t privy to the contingency plans the higher-ups had in place.
St Ruth even admitted later he got it wrong, and Thought Leader disclosed he was the source in an attempt to take the heat off St Ruth.
(Some people were mocking the Great Predictonator).
Easy.
TA and the Joker lied, and the Rule of Law and Federation died a bit more in the mad rush for a captured State Authority and Legal Sysyem to try and make the Feds look bad.
Remember, TA wanted him here. He makes them too much money for principles and outstanding couf policy to count. And all evidence points to at least 4 weeks’ difference between the paperwork being sought and sent, and the man reporting he had the couf.
And let’s not forget that exemptions have almost exclusively been for anaphylaxis only up to this point. There was no way known anybody other than the wealthy and favoured were going to have any other option than being railroaded into the jabs.
Granted that Cats are feeling very dissident towards all governing authorities at present, but remember it was authoritarian leftwits amd bugmen in every State that ran with the whole ‘Lock Everyone Down to Save Us/The Health System/Granny/[Insert Convenient Excuse Here]’ and continue to escalate to this day.
ScoMo only reacted to events, albeit badly. And he has no overriding power against the States if there are no competing Federal and State laws, or they have been harmonised to the point that some good legal-weaselling on the States’ part lets them get away with calumny, unchallenged.
Run flat tyres are the service centres wet dream.
Never, repeat never, get run flat tyres.
Genuine question . Are you immune from catching COVID if you have already had it?
If the same COVID variant turned up in 80 years time your immune system would kick its arse.
And I make no apologies if I have offended any groupthink that declares Novak to be an unimpeachably innocent and wronged party in this whole matter because he has not taken the jab.
No. Depends on the strain and the time since last attack. Natural immunity appears to fall with time, although slower than the vaccines. And omicron has such different coat proteins that natural immunity to delta and alpha may not be protective against it. However the general circulation of coronaviruses seems to produce a fair bit of natural immunity in the population to each of the strains…depending. Your lotto ticket is in the mail.
And I make no apologies
Hmm I wonder which BatEar’d Mong preimer has uttered those words before…..
Not so. Coupled with an EV drivetrain they’re beaut.
Looks like the feds have indeed re-arrested Djokovic. 100% on Scumo now.
Livestream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kucKvGumaVI
Sanchez
If Mercedes’ claim a 1000K , monthly charge holds up, this is going to be the beginning of the end of petrol engines. It’s heading that way too I think.
What I find interesting about the carmaking business these days is how many people are entering the business because EV makes it so much easier.
That might only work if I was Victorian, glowie…
Rex, Scummo is being wedged.
If it was Nadal, it would be wedgied.
LOL, you said it not me. I’m only stating the facts.
Don’t care either way about Dj.
I do however love the no-win situation that TA, the Feds and VicGov(soon) have contrived for themselves.
Over time it will result in
1) TA CEO gone (& Hrdlicka as well hopefully)
2) AO taken over to become the CCPO, gone the way of the AO Golf.
3) Last nail in Morro’s coffin after both sides of the argument seethe all the way through the AO with a climax at the men’s final where he is boo’ed continuously for the 6 hours marathon match.
4) TA bankruptcy after Dj sues them into oblivion for insisting he not directly engage with the authorities.
Schadenfreude+++
JC
We should… the government should… always reserve the right to decide who is allowed to enter the country and not a fucking court.
I agree, but that horse has long since bolted. Not just the courts, but also various tribunals (Administrative Appeals, Immigration Review, possibly more) have been up to their knackers in “adjusting” immigration law, and therefore policy, for at least a quarter of a century.
Why would it matter it’s EV or petrol?
We are weevils dancing around the flames , eating cake and rolling in flour.
Oliver Brown:
Significant police presence at the office of Djokovic’s lawyers on Collins St, Melbourne. White vans heading into underground car park. Reports that Australian federal police heading in to arrest him. Immigration minister has four hours in which to re-cancel his visa.
6:18 PM · Jan 10, 2022
Djokovic Legal Team releases statement after Novaks second arrest by Police. ‘It could be worse, he could be Victorian.’
“ScoMo only reacted to events, albeit badly.”
Scumbag only ever reacts badly to events…..be it Holgate, SAS soldiers, Pell and now the Joker.
Can you re-catch a cold?
Good luck to that, JC.
A fellow in his garage whom you don’t much like sometimes, took a 100 year-old motor vehicle and using mostly his own resources, restored it to roadworthy condition (or near enough). Using the original block and some 3rd-party spares. The 4 cylinder motor still runs as designed and built, though the fuel quality has significantly improved.
Toyota’s Prius, still currently the last word in reliability and longevity for battery electro-motive vehicles, has a battery pack that is completely clapped out within 5 years. And by that time, a replacement battery pack is worth more than the write-off value of the car.
If you are running round with the sort of atomic piles they used in the Pioneer and Voyager probes as batteries, you might be onto something. But I am not sure any road or engineering authority bugmam would ever permit atomic cars, let alone atomic anything (a la Thunderbirds) in a regular consumer environment. Which is a bugger.
Leigh Sales tweeted out the link to the 30 page transcript of the Border Force/Joker interview.
The border force chap couldn’t wait to detain Joker.
Then partway through he says he’ll have to introduce Joker to another Border Force chap because he was “finishing up”.
So Australia.
Pompous bureaucrat starts something, but then has to wrap it up because his shift is over.
PS, his name would suggest he’s from the sub continent.
He way as well have finished with “Thank you, come again”.
Dunno.
The Oz reporting “plans to re-arrest Djoker”.
My guess is they are trying to negotiate a face-saving “out”.
Like some “self quarantine” agreement as part of a revised visa.
I hope he tells them to get fucked.
I can’t see Libs winning the election after this.
Of course.
Novak Djokovic is just the latest in a long line of photogenic patsies.
Except he won’t have a parade against ‘violence’ or ‘fear’ in Canberra, thrown on his behalf by the Labor Party and the ABC…
…And I don’t think he qualifies for Australian Of The Year, either.
Farage on all of this….just in from GBNews…
Nigel Farage: If Novak Djokovic judgement is overturned, Australia risks becoming ‘banana republic’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyQw94yQJ2M
Nigel, we’re already a banana republic.
Looks like they are booting the Joker!
Thanks B John. You’re right.
Apologies, I forgot to respond to your earlier comment as I’ve been busy mufti bashing. Mufti worship is something I never would have believed at the Cat, but here we are with Mufti night.
Interesting idea. Can you imagine Trump sitting behind President Brandon making faces and stuff during the imbecile bumbling through a state of the union. Lord, it would be magical.
Tradies love battery powered tools, but mostly to avoid cords needing to be tested and tagged every 6 months.
Dear Dover , when foreigners arrive by boat and tell the ABC from memory that Australia is a big country and we have come to share it with you. Or those waiting at the English channel telling the brits we have come for your hospital s and education just how much contempt are our humanitarian refugees displaying for the people of the country of their choice. Once the west provided people like Dr Catherine Hamlin in Ethiopia and hospitals and education via the Missionaries who have been killed or run out of these third world countries that they provided these services to. Now that they are coming to the host countries can it be presumed they will subsume the host nation through the same methods.
It would be typical of Australia to have our great patriotic war of liberation start off over a fucking tennis player, some excitable Serbs setting off crackers and the AFP Mongs unloading into a peaceful crowd.
It does up and until it grants a visa. Once that happens, it needs to give reasons for any revocation.
‘mock the Great Predictionator’
Mock mock mockity mock. Also:
85000 reported cases in Vic and NSW alone today, and that’s just today. That’s a ‘concentration camp’ the size of central Townsville.
I hope they’ve got the Bunnings trade account up to speed. I would have expected more chat from the usual herd on Bergen-Belsen being erected outside the Woomba today.
No? Oh. Righto.
I can’t see Libs winning the election after this.
Who?
They just fucking nuked themselves from orbit.
Pepper spray out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kucKvGumaVI
I’m loving this. The bureaucrats stuffed up, the immigration minister is on the spot, and ScoMo will soon be running to the hills so someone else can take the fall. It would be disastrous for the immigration minister to revoke his visa because the public will be support Djoker and the Australian Open will be a joke without him. The next 24 hours are going to be delicious.
True Temperament fingerboards look a bit interesting for anyone that plays guitar. Apparently you need a new tuner if you are going to use one though.
Rex
There are some serious bets going on in the battery space with real money – like billions on billions. I’d be hesitant to bet against human innovation. It’s already happened with Tesla improving distance by 100% in the past few years even though the site’s science mufti said it couldn’t happen. It sure did.
I don’t get your point about building the old cars. What about it?
Win, I’m talking about foreigners that have jumped through all the procedural hoops and received a ‘come on in’ from the government. Once they get that any change requires a reason/s from the government.
The audi looks like its gone strait to the airport.
The Aus gov is retarded.
‘nuked themselves from orbit’
They’ve always been dithering weathervanes, but it’s just more public now.
I think of the Liberal Party as Uncle Arthur from Fast Forward.
Is that the law, or does the government reserve the right to revoke it at any time without explaining why?
Pepper spray out!
Most accurate comment of the livestream so far:
This countries fucked!
As I posted earlier, from Wiki –
“Djokovic is a member of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
On 28 April 2011, Patriarch Irinej of Serbia awarded Djokovic the Order of St. Sava I class, the highest decoration of the Serbian Orthodox Church, for his contributions to monasteries of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo and charitable work in Serbia.
He has said that he admired and held in high regard Bishop Amfilohije, who played a key part in helping him through a tough time during the Yugoslav Wars.”
Funny, last night I dreamed I was doing that traditional Slavic dance (in the posts of Novak’s supporters today), with my Ukrainian relatives.
Fuck, I need to get outta here! What a horrible place.
Try every month on a major project….
Test tags are simply an easy item for ‘safety’ people to pick on you for, it can be half clapped out, but it’s fine if the tag is in date…
I could not care less if Djoko lied on his visa application. In fact, I hope he did. Sometimes people have to lie to get around insane law or policy. Djoko is a hero for not giving in to this bullshit. We need freedom fighters like him to defeat this madness.
I am not sure what you’d see on a building site niw which would be 240 volt or petrol.
A demo saw maybe?
A small concrete mixer?
7,000 now watching the livestream link Razey posted.
Djoko is a hero for not giving in to this bullshit. We need freedom fighters like him to defeat this madness.
Exactly.
The Telegraph:
Pray for us.
After two years of letting the states get away with their exemptions, it’s delicious seeing ScoMo hoisted on a similar but different petard.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
January 10, 2022 at 7:37 pm
I used to have epic fights with Sillyfilly of Gosford on Blair’s blog.
She was on Don Aitkin’s blog for a while, rabbiting on about gerbil worming. Her tag was very appropriate.
A couple of typos here.
…it’s a fine if the tag is out of date…
This is true.
I have the receipts.
Even they will be gone soon. 🙂
https://www.totaltools.com.au/152455-milwaukee-355mm-14-mx-fueltm-cut-off-saw-skin-mxfcos350-0
https://www.milwaukeetool.com/Innovations/MX-FUEL
ScoMo could go nuclear on his way out the door by making all the Federal exemptions public.
But if he did that, it would stop him getting any form of employment post leaving parliament.
Don’t care either way about Dj.
I do however love the no-win situation that TA, the Feds and VicGov(soon) have contrived for themselves.
I sit in this camp too. However VicGov will slide through unscathed due to MSM bias and Scomo is playing for a local audience. He doesn’t care about the foreign optics, till after the election. Every other case that they have lost with various scum crims appealing deportation in the AAT or Federal Court or even HCA they have slunk away with their tail between their legs. However on this one they find backbone, oh yeah and I suppose if you are a Kiwi or Maltese bikie.
That is where my contempt for them deepens.
feelthebern says:
January 10, 2022 at 8:42 pm
…..Then partway through he says he’ll have to introduce Joker to another Border Force chap because he was “finishing up”.
So Australia.
Pompous bureaucrat starts something, but then has to wrap it up because his shift is over.
Possibly more of a union thing. Many years ago, I was having a “tour” in a large Brisbane fabrication plant. The section foreman was talking to me when half-way through his sentence, the knock-off hooter went. He stopped mid-sentence, said “Excuse me”, grabbed his bag and walked off.
Battery Tools just don’t have the power, whether it’s angle grinders, jackhammers, whatever.
Bloke across the road bough a Battery Mower 2 years ago, it was on the footpath with the junk last week.
He doesn’t care about the foreign optics, till after the election.
ScoMo’s behaviour would be the talk of the town at dinner parties.
All positive, being so capricious towards an unjabbed chappy.
The “re-arrest” story comes from Djoker’s old man, so might be confused.
Hawke was given 4 hours to decide whether or not to cancel the visa, which is 10:15 tonight.
Does ScoMo pull a complete FU and let the time run out, then deport him tomorrow?
But scummo has stated multiple times that the clot shots weren’t mandatory….
Rex Anger says:
January 10, 2022 at 8:45 pm
…And I don’t think he qualifies for Australian Of The Year, either.
If he strangles Scummo and/or the Bat-Eared Mong, he will be #1 qualifier, with daylight to second place.
Ed Casesays:
January 10, 2022 at 7:54 pm
People are being a bit harsh on Bruce, you know?
I like to think of Bruce as the sites SNOPES, i.e., he’s consistently wrong about everything.
Mirror, mirror on the wall …
The Wayback machine, Joh. Years ago the Cat was a lighter-toned place where flirting was seen as fun – even IT agreed on that. We even had poetry meets, including Vogon ones. No-one took these things too seriously. And Hairy did have a strong relationship to Ireland, a defining aspect of his early years.
As I say above, this place can sometimes seem like an episode of ‘Succession’ – everyone on the lookout for players making moves, and hostility the name of the game. Always has been like this to some extent.
These days I am more of a laid-back observer. I’d like to be nice to you, but this is obviously not the place for that. Never mind. As Hairy says about a lot of things that are overthought: it is what it is.
It’s a one man and it’s not like going to do a runner.
Reeks of FBI tactics.
The last media source said he was with his lawyers discussing further strategy.
energy density is a thing.
…it doesn’t scale so well though
I have no idea.
Oh dear Head Case.
Yes, if you buy cheap Ozito shit, of course it will be rooted in no time.
The men are talking about proper tools, so run along back to mummy.
If I renounce citizenship can I be deported? That would be great.
Bruce is a sweetie and one of the most genuinely nice people here.
Yep. He has declared his status, said he wouldn’t come here if he had to be vaxxed. Then the governments took over and hence the clusterf*** we now have.
deporting the Djoker?
what’s a Federal Court for?
Always tell the truth, and always keep your promises. Except to the government.
The bastards lie to you and break their promises, so that’s how you should treat them.
Let me just say, a battery trying to drive a mower is different to a battery driving a 600W tool.
Actionable.
Obviously.
What’s the libertarian position?
Someone needs to phone in a bomb threat to up the ante for the cameras.
Agreed.
I very much rate the 18V Milwaukee chainsaw I bought recently.
12 ampere hour battery, it rips through everything.
Plas, as someone who has to do constant WHS audits, I welcome cordless powertools. I’m forced to fail if a day out of date. I want them to work safely, not tick boxes written by bureaucrats. As it is, I give them a warning and to ensure they’re right next time. I’m not shutting down a worksite because someone left their white card in their lunchbox.
We are now halfway through re-watching Series Two of ‘Succession’. Still riveting, especially given the extensive commentary that exists on it so far which I have been buried in recently. You don’t need it to enjoy the series but it can add depth of understnding and also increase appreciation of the work that has gone into it.
To deflect blame, what else.
Cheaper than Kennards, though.
Oy!
I did qualify it, that I wasn’t talking about automotive.
But tool batteries are a good example of both the leap in performance and endurance.
And also user acceptance.
Twenty five years ago old tradies declared them to be shit (and they probably were).
Now?
You’d be laughed off site if you used a 240 volt drill.
And the packing up of leads.
There’s 30 minutes every day gone.
Yes, if you buy cheap Ozito shit, of course it will be rooted in no time.
Ozito’s to upmarket! XU1 is the go!
So i got my wish.
The Djoker lawyered up and arse fucked the government, well done that man.
*golf clap*
Agreed, but how do you feel if a foreigner does that though? How would you feel if a 12 year old asylum seeker was found to be 25 and came from the ISIS hot area of Iraq instead of Syria?
For those who may have started Series One and given up, you have to get by the first two episodes for the fishhooks to bite you. One – you are not expected to ever ‘like’ these people. Two – their world is something else again, and no recipe for a good life. Totally Shakespearian though.
Dover,
Could we please have a seperate thread for that foreign tennis player?
For the love of God, please. Please.
I fought a rearguard action for Djoko on The Australian comments. So glad he won.
The Tall Poppyism in the comments was not Australia’s finest moment.
I very much rate the 18V Milwaukee chainsaw I bought recently.
Used an 18v Makita 125mm angle grinder doing weld cleanup on and off for about 4 hours with 1 battery. Thing didn’t miss a beat, great battery tech.
i.e. those who wished to cut the Tall Poppy Player, disgraceful behaviour and attitudes.
Yes you can, but keep an original of your birth certificate just to mess with their heads.
Not to mention the trip hazards. Mitigating that is a pain the arse.
Even most tree felling work uses lots of small saw work for trimming and lopping before the trunk is felled.
What would you prefer 15 metres up a tree?
A trigger start-stop?
Or a fucking string pull start?
Liz
It’s a good series but is it really so good that you’re plugging Succession every night for the past week? It’s Okay. I don’t quite get the patriarch though as I believe he’s completely miscast. The fuck is so knock-kneed it would hard to believe any tycoon of that magnitude would be so. Also the sound quality is terrible.
If i’m that high up i want a cord started 2 stroke every time.
Exactly.
Electric shock would be less than 1% of injuries caused by power leads.
Mind you, they can be pretty spectacular when they happen.
You do?
They’ve got better, but I still hate them.
if you want to be nice … then be fucking nice
end of
Ever been on a site, or talking thru your arse again?
I’d tie up a 30 M. lead in less than a minute and unwind it about the same.
I’d prefer a boom lift if possible.
A pole saw at ground level is also great if the branches aren’t too big.
I agree JC.
I’ve sort of warmed to Succession a bit, but I am not sitting up until 1:00 a.m. binge watching four or five in a row.
It just misses something on the credibility front.
Lead stands, lead hooks.
Ever worked on site nor just larping?
The Mayor of Kingstown is a really good series. Gritty.
Sanchez
I’ve started to find it predictably tedious as the last season was pretty ordinary. It’s becoming a soap opera in the Dallas tradition. Dallas on the Hudson? 🙂
Yeah, yeah Googlery.
How are things on your 1970’s building site?
Glued down that burnt orange laminex yet?
Got the levels for the conversation pit set out yet?
Not something you want to use for a couple of hours solid.
Rex
Re anaphylaxis as an exemption:
On AIR forms, anaphylaxis allows for vax exemption and covid allows for temporary exemption. And it was the AIR form, apart from anything else, which had been adduced as evidence of compliance.
As for groupthink, yes, it can be overwhelming, as is evident in the succumbing to the currently manufactured hostilities towards someone who has avoided being subjected to the jab. Imagine.
I know what I would use 15 metres up a tree.
Someone else.
The braid wrap. No tangles. From 35s.
https://youtu.be/R5uISiroRd4
Needs to see what the social media reaction is first…
Cheers for the updates on Djoker. Not ashamed to say I was getting heated for probably nothing and jumping at shadows but a sad sign of the times that it was actually plausible. Maybe I was giving this government too much credit for actually having a backbone 😀
Time will tell. Like to see what they will do next or not…
The reality of Ozito is this:
One show pony buys a Dyna Drill for $2,000.00, it lasts 15 years, throw it away.
98% of Tradesmen buy an Ozito Hammer Drill for $120.00, pack a tablespoon of grease in it once a week, it lasts ten years.
Do you pack the grease in before or after the motor burns out on the second hole?
With the power tools I am not convinced.
I have a number of red ones and greeny blue ones and one of the light green ones
The bluey green ones and the red ones batteries are buggered after a while. Even charging in proper chargers.
The light green is on a leaf blower so not much use.
I have spent 1,000.00’s on batteries.