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Was it made in Spain or Mexico?
It’s almost hilarious that Sir Robert Menzies’s Liberal Party (what was he thinking when he came up with that?) is…
Steve…. I’m sure that Cash dawg is lovely… but all he does is stand around, panting. Let me know if…
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I like it when johnny come latelies – who arrived here when all the hard work was done and the urban golden age started, tell me what to do.
Perhaps people who have been here 100, 200 years or more, know a little more about the ghosts, and demons, lurking under the hastily nailed down floorboards in this country than you do.
Also it reveals an immigrant lack of understanding, that people would hear aussies, true blue ones, bitterly complaining about the state of the country, and not understand that’s what we’ve always done. That is how we make it better, we begin by mouthing off about the absolute state of things, we expect it to be better, a lot better, and to politically not go back to the way things used to be a long time ago.
Sorry not sorry if it offends you. Feel free to go back to where the peasants obediently have silently taken it up the arse and said ‘thank you’ for the last 1000 years.
I had a south african whinging that all australians ever do is whinge about our services, that we should be thankful it’s not south africa. It’s because we’re not afraid to complain and mouth off out loud that it’s not south africa.
We know this is what we do. Johnny come latelies don’t and get all in a huff because we’re not thankful for what they see stepping off the gang plank, as a magic-pudding of plenty that was created by something something. But it’s a matter of perspective. To them it’s essentially a giant shopping centre. Someone else built it, it’s there, now I shop, and eat and browse. But to us it was created by ours, a gift to us from our grandparents and greatparents and great, great grand parents all the way back when they were living in canvas tents, or slab huts with dirt floors with few rights in a nasty authoritarian state run by a couple of elites. And we guard it, and critisise it, and mock it, and hate it, and like it, and hate the people wrecking their hard work that made it something. And we do it because it is ours. And that is what makes it what it is.
NEVER trust. Always verify.
Ken Worths.
Ken Worths through the blockades.
Just get a bit co-ordinated in case another Ken Worth over the other side gets the same idea at the same time.
So the Swedish car that drove across the Nullabor is a diesel-electric like the railway locos.
is 2sticks st ruth?
When your life is hanging by a thread it helps to know, as undoing an Armstrong-Whitworth hex is a right bastard to undo with a metric counter-curse.
You might end up cursing the corners off the thing and rendering it permanent…
#SomebodySlapThatMan
Done that Rosie.
Worked in Marianne. Pal and I had a house in Aix.
It was OK but after a while it paled. Any coastal location in NSW or SEQ provides a much less complicated, easier and freer lifestyle.
Perhaps the hectic job was partially responsible but coming home was just wonderful.
I couldn’t get past this. LLOL!
It didn’t take long for the latent Queensssland racism to bubble to the surface.
Yep. We had a truck that would go around all the fish and chip shops in Townsville to collect the old frying oil. We’d then blend it with Bunker C and used it to extract cobalt from the ore. Quite a bit of R&D went into making that work, all a quarter century ago.
These days slaves in Congo are getting cobalt ore for the Chinese who are making it into batteries to go into electric cars so that Swedes can run generators on old frying oil to cross the Nullabor, and the plant in Townsville is doing nothing and gathering dust.
Just with the generator far enough away from the car to minimise existential angst.
How long until some wonk manages to quantify the size of the angst fields generated by any fossil fuel-consuming machinery? And then goes on to develop exposure time limits for susceptible folk?
Jomo Kenyatta, of later “Mau Mau” infamy, was one of the extra’s..
Stix
Seriously, what the hell has come over you? One week you’re doing a really good imitation of Greta Tumbnail. The next you’ve put on wig, specs pretending you’re Pocahontas Warren (see above comment). God help us if next week you’re doing AOC as that’s the end of our loving friendship.
I’m old. But I’m not that old.
No, but he’s a Queerlander, so same difference.
Anywhere you recommend I could make a start? 😀
#MerryBatchelorsOfTheWorld,UNITE!
Oh, you mean other than apartheid and coerced injections? Did you see this link above? Outright murder. Absolutely heartbreaking to listen to. And they’re doing their absolute best to ensure that as few people hear about it as possible.
You don’t just want to date him?
A pretty funny TeD talk, also pretty old. James Veitch corresponds with a Nigerian concerning a shipment of bullion for a few months.
This is what happens when you reply to spam email | James Veitch
No, but Cronkite will though.
Mmm ok.
The Divine Agatha had a “Sanders of the River” in They Came to Baghdad.
I’m now picturing Pedro as an intrepid spy with a talent for coded knitting.
Bespoke at 7:27.
There is something nagging at me which suggests that claiming precedence on the basis that “our folks was here before your folks” might not end in a win.
Can’t quite put my finger on it.
To be honest, I got the giggles imagining somebody doing a jack-in-the-box impression.
Like Herb Evatt, J.C. Coombs, Eddie Ward, Lance Sharkey or evem Jim Cairns doing a [GERBOING!] SUR-PRIIIIIISE! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA! And running amuck like the little totalitarian shits they were.
Rex- reminds of their shitty COP in post modern Scotland where they had diesel gen sets to charge the electric cars. Grotesque stupidity, dishonesty or hypocrisy or all three.
Oh yeah, that’s it.
“I’ll see your 100-200 years and raise you 60,000 years”.
I liked his story about ducks…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cZB_EBsnc8c
The Elder Angers were so inspired, they did it to me. I was……impressed.
No … I’m St Ruth
about 2012
I would buy a car that runs on cheese sausages. I wouldn’t eat them though.
Taxpayer funded pension said upthread you need to be rich to buy a decent place in Western Europe near a city.
I said that was untrue.
It is untrue.
Half a million euro will buy you a far, far better place 30mins via train out of central Berlin, Hannover, Munich than what a million aud will buy you 30mins via train out of central Sydney.
Dunno about Melb.
It all comes to:
.1 Land taxes;
.2 Regulation of buyers;
.3 Stratification of participation.
Euro weenies stumbled onto the law of economic rent.
It reduces the speculation that we see here in Australia.
The film was based on a number of earlier books by Edgar Wallace. Very readable and informative about the perceptions of Africa and Africans, and imperialism, among the British in the twenties.
I think we have a new clubhouse leader in the Silliest Unhinged Rant Open.
And it is a class field.
Yeah. That was the charge raised by the Deep Greens in Planet Of The Humans in 2019. Or was it 2020?
Either way, the catastrophising and neurotic misanthrope who made the doco had tumbled that the Left has never really believed in climate change, but merely sees it as yet another mechanism of control. And very clearly exposed the mass hypocrisy.
The mad (and seemingly successful) rush to silence him and suppress the film seems to lend even further credence to this idea to anyone who might ignore us as ‘alt-right conspiracy theorists,’ but listen to one of Gaia’s finest…
‘bern.
Please don’t do dot points like that.
It’s really annoying.
Annoying for JC, I mean.
Whitefella’s silly enough to believe it…
We all remember who those were who hysterically hounded Lizzie during her cruise and US visit in early 2020.
The same people expect us to believe they morphed into lockdown dodging, vaccine reluctant, mask mandate #renegades.
All bullshit of course. Last year they knocked down the doors to their doctor’s surgery to get vaxxed and dutifully complied with the lockdowns and mandates.
This is why they find the ‘Australia has become a shithole’ refrain so risible.
Yeah they sometime let slip what they are really thinking
yeah whatever bar bar
I don’t know about that, stix.
When I was a kid it was only pomegranates who whinged about Australia. They were told if they didn’t like it to go home. Some of them did. The Italians, Greeks, Lebanese, Yugoslavs, Russians and others all mucked in and made the best of it, probably because they couldn’t go home even if they wanted too.
The indigenous anglo-celtic population was stoic & terse.
And most of my lot have been here since the 1830s.
Lance Sharkey
Is that Feargal’s brother?
In this case the whitefella walked straight out to centre ring with his gloves down and copped it.
A somewhat dangerous argument that length of tenure of “your people” gives you some sort of special insight and precedence over others.
You nit.
Whatever would possess you to think I was talking about mass action on the young, like a leftist might?
You can’t indoctrinate your way out of a crisis. Nor out of tyranny. You only make it worse, even if the new politcial thrust is more palatable. Besides, people are remarkably good at figuring out what is true or not, even where they must consciously appear to live the lies in order to survive. Eastern and Central Europe’s experiences under the Soviet heel demonstrate this.
Like Jordan Peterson says, start by making your own bed. As such, I can only start with succeeding generations of little Angers, whose formative experiences as tantrums will lead them (when they mature into grown Angers) to teach their little tantrums in turn.
Leave the mass formations to the psychotics.
to
‘bern.
Please don’t do dot points like that.
It’s really annoying.
Annoying for JC, I mean.
.1 JC loves them.
.2 The only things that annoy JC are Queenslanders & zerohedge.
Babababa Bundy!
Right on cue.
Here to defend the clubhouse leader Greta Thumbstix.
Bern
Please don’t dot and then number. I can’t handle it mentally.
and dot/numbers.
This may have been due to the propensity of the IRA to place bombs in rubbish bins.
Not sure what the given reason is now.
Guy downstairs had a Range Rover (Land Rover??) that he ran on chip fat. He used to go round the fish and chip shops collecting their drums of used deep fryer fat and then strain it before filling his car up. He claimed the car had paid for itself, just that it needed running for a bit before you went anywhere. I thought he was full of it at the time but caught a whiff of exhaust once and it did smell like a fish and chips. Not sure how his wife felt about the deal.
Lance Sharkey’s brother.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx9qUR9P2ZQ
In France, many restaurants, hotels, etc. change their status to a PRIVATE CLUB. This way they don’t have to ask the client for a Covid passport. New customers become “members” in less than 1 minute and for free. Thus, this restaurant is no longer “public”, but private.
Well, perhaps won’t work here in big restaurants or big hotels but maybe the smaller bars etc?
God I hate my country just now.
Nah. The Communist Party of Australia leader and totalitarian-wannabe who had a part in instigating the NSW Coal Miners’ strike in 1949, in an abortive attempt at proviking a Communist Revolution, whom Chifley had to send the Army in to break.
I (and others) once slapped Collaborator Bob all over the place when he tried to defend all that and say it was never a revolutionary attempt, and he was alive and aware of the true proceedings at that time.
It was swiftly determined that he, at best, would have been a babe in arms in 1949…
When the sun did come out in England in Dec-Jan, the light was so different from here, the sky a pale watery blue.
Pedro the Loafersays:
January 17, 2022 at 6:58 pm
Surprising just how bad that was Pedro, but not surprising that it was less than idyllic.
I passed through Jinja briefly as a backpacker in 1984, wanting to see where the Nile came out of Lake Victoria (not knowing that the vista is somewhat spoiled by the dam).
The police told me to go a long way round to get there because there were soldiers on the direct route and “they will harass you”. I did take the advice. It seemed pretty dire that the police were warning me against their own armed forces.
It’ll almost certainly fall foul of the respective state liquor act.
Everything is perfectly normal north of the Rhine river. Perfectly normal.
A lot of talk about vaxxed or unvaxxed deaths but no one is focusing on the fact that the deaths are all old fucking codgers.
Newsflash boomers, you will die one day. Maybe you should just start drinking the blood of the young to invigorate your waning years, god knows it would probably be more moral than selling all youngsters down vaccines shit creek.
It was swiftly determined that he, at best, would have been a babe in arms in 1949…
He also had Clark Kent level hearing when it came to bombing raids.
The Communist Party of Australia leader and totalitarian-wannabe who had a part in instigating the NSW Coal Miners’ strike in 1949, in an abortive attempt at proviking a Communist Revolution, whom Chifley had to send the Army in to break.
yep- that’s what Dad told me. A concerted attempt to destabilize the country.
Elvis
Honest question, as opposed to dishonest. Do you consider you’ve led a successful life?
Who could I be defending twostix from? It’s a mystery. Unless the cap fits.
Maybe you should just start drinking the blood of the young to invigorate your waning years,
Breaking news, Elvis is Nancy Pelosi.
Someone inform SRR.
In France, many restaurants, hotels, etc. change their status to a PRIVATE CLUB. This way they don’t have to ask the client for a Covid passport. New customers become “members” in less than 1 minute and for free. Thus, this restaurant is no longer “public”, but private.
British pubs used to do that to get the same relaxed licencing rules as the Mayfair gentlemen’s clubs like The Reform and the Athenaeum.
Remember the Winchester Club in “Minder”?
I’m not sure how the authorities managed to put the proles back in their place without inconveniencing the chaps at White’s or Boodle’s, but as best I’m aware the pubs can’t do it now. (Though in general it hardly matters with licensing laws much more relaxed anyway.)
Steve Hilton describes biden as he deserves to be described: a vindictive, corrupt, racist, lying, senile dog; 6 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP135iYydrs
Baba
It’s not a mystery. Stix is doing a racist version of Pocahontas Warren co-mingled with a bit of aboriginal ancestral worship. Interesting combo really.
And Tassels.
Served time in the jug for “sedition.”
but as best I’m aware the pubs can’t do it now.
That’s what happens when you have corporates move in & consolidate.
In 20 years, the owner/operator pub model will be a fraction of what it is today.
Or concentrated in rural areas.
Or only the shittiest, geezer infested pubs that would make Lock Stock look like Disneyland.
Steve Hilton describes biden as he deserves to be described: a vindictive, corrupt, racist, lying, senile dog
A life long political parasite, the Senator from MBNA. Only one quibble with the above- dogs can be loyal and courageous. The old thief is neither. Just a tired, evil corruptocrat.
Do you consider you’ve led a successful life?
Reasonably successful I feel, JC.
As far as being a female Democrat speaker of the house goes anyway.
Vegetable Oil for Diesel | Top Gear
cohenite, please don’t link to videos of men wearing v-neck t-shirts under a sports jacket.
To quote Ross Cameron, it’s intensely gay.
Already is.
As far as being a female Democrat speaker of the house goes anyway.
You old bag, I knew you’d slip up.
Enjoy your 20k fridge while you can.
Bern – I’m always amused when the blond black-clad sadocellar real-estate agent madam turns up to inspect next door, which is a rental. She does so each half year, sternly with a clipboard and a pen. Tick, tick, tick. I must be like getting a six monthly colostomy exam. Anyone undergoing such scrutiny would be rapidly converted to the idea of owning a house, even with sizeable mortgage payments.
I suspect European landlords have also discovered the idea of benign neglect. Leave them unto their devices so long as they pay up regularly. Here in Oz renting is psychological torture. So much of what happens in a nation is due to evolved culture.
A few hours ago I walked up (with my walking stick…my walking is slowly getting better) to my local IGA to get some milk and frozen peas. On the way back I saw a woman who lives upstairs from me. She was walking towards me and she was yelling…””Do you have any rats?”
Somewhat perturbed at the thought of rats running lurking in my nice block of units, I responded “No I don’t have any rats and I certainly haven’t seen any rats lurking”.
She said….”No, I’m talking about the Covid RAT tests (Rapid Antigen Tests), the local pharmacy has a delivery and you should go up and get some.”
I said “oh” and then I said “no thanks, I don’t need them”.
She was quite surprised at my lack of enthusiasm.
She then said to me that she was going to alert others in the block.
I said “good luck”.
I suspect European landlords have also discovered the idea of benign neglect
Discovered it?
They invented it.
Enjoy your 20k fridge while you can.
Did I tell you that thing can pump some ice cubes out. Real cold ice. Just slightly warmer than the ‘blood’ running through my veins.
Now were did I put those virgin tears? This skin can’t stay this supple and youthful on its own.
Every block of flats has its Dorrie Evans.
‘people who have been here 100, 200 years or more, know a little more’
Translated:
‘Y’all think you’re’n better n me?’
I’m not entirely sure my ancestors, who got here in the 1840s sat down and passed lore through the generations about the filth that would turn up one day, eat sugar the kanakas harvested, ride on railway lines and drink water from dams the wops built and live in houses on slabs that different wops laid using wheelbarrows and wearing hankies with knots tied in the corners.
This country is what it is because of ‘those people’, who in large part did it far fucking harder both in their original countries and this one than a very significant proportion of ‘native’ Skips* whose primary concerns appear to be breakfast bongs and the dole.
And how someone else made their lives harder, and it’s always someone else’s fault their lives come in at 99% instead of the 10,000% they thought they were entitled to.
*Disclaimer: Skip. Thoroughbred Skip.
My brother does the whole genealogy/family tree thingy.
I know, right?
At least it’s not trainspotting I suppose.
But I digress.
Just checked the latest chart.
I have at least one ancestor in each generation who emigrated from all over Europe and the UK.
One in each generation between 1815 and 1952.
So I am not sure where that leaves me on Greta Thumbstix’s Great Australian Floorboards Totem Pole of superiority.
Twostix
Are you the same Johanna that spent your entire life working in the Canberra APS?
The Johanna living in Queanbeyan has to my recollection also held jobs in Sydney
Oops.
Same thing said in slightly different ways.
And hopefully no pantyhose strangler.
Yikes! On the MyGov website.
Might pass on the offer of that particular service.
Indeed I do Peter, consider my question partly rhetorical. What I question is what, if any, ongoing and current research is being conducted.
I’d like to know the real numbers of covid “from” instead of “with” (we all know they’re utterly unreliable as is), the real number of jab injuries (yes, we all know the reporting is utterly inadequate and injuries are grossly underreported), what cohort/s are more susceptible to what jab injuries (so who should be avoiding them) etc.
We also know that the jab manufacturers have not been forthcoming with genuine original test results, nor with ingredients, nor with a reason why some batches of their products have much higher rates of injury and death than others. I’m not even sure that they have acknowledged that particular problem themselves yet.
We’re so damned deep in this mess now, it’s going to be very difficult for governments to extricate themselves – even if they want to. The harm already done is far too much, and the future harm is as yet unknown, although the potential for serious harm has certainly been raised – but is being censored.
Seriously, that’s up there in the pantheon with St. Ruth’s ‘only white Anglo Saxon men can save us.’
Johanna’s comments and anecdotes are generally pretty good. Always funny when she gets JC going.
“Dorrie Evans”
Who?
I knew a fella who was part of the Army unit sent to strikebreak at Lithgow.
It was a giggle for him. Absolute work to rule, they wanted to string it out as long as possible.
He claimed that the whole thing was totaly disorganised. They were paid in cash weekly, but there were no pay sheets and no signing.
Once paid, the smarter diggers moved over to the next pay queue and went through again.
Sounds about right.
Frank, you might not have been around when this topic came up before.
All your records are linked.
Whether you want the convenience of that is another thing altogether.
The government didn’t spend billions on the project in the hope that you’d link your records.
RATs are like tulips. I’m calling it. We’re in a RAT Bubble.
Consider this. It took five years – and (probably) hundreds of millions of dollars – for Australia to NOT design a submarine. Design, not build. A diesel-electric sub. The same propulsion system the RAN has been running since 1914. Not one meter of steel was cut. The build was scheduled to take at least a decade before the first sub would have been commissioned into the RAN.
Can you imagine Churchill’s reaction if the MOD came to him with a two decade timeline to build an obsolete submarine? But we live in different times. This utterly pointless and wasteful timeline was perfectly acceptable to Australian government and defence bureaucrats.
Number 96. Wife of Herb.
“Beresk.”
I have no doubt you are right Bon, but I was only really suggesting options for Europeans living in Europe.
I’m hoping Marseilles is better than your one time descriptions as I plan to stay there for a couple days, sometime soon.
Bing Bong!
Johnny-come-lately alert!
Bing Bong!
cohenite, please don’t link to videos of men wearing v-neck t-shirts under a sports jacket.
To quote Ross Cameron, it’s intensely gay.
That’s not true; that’s how I’ve dressed for years; and I’m not gay; except in respect of head prefect.
Pat McDonald was best-known for two long-running soap opera roles. She played comical malaproping gossip Dorrie Evans in the popular serial Number 96 between 1972 and 1977
Showing my age.
“Number 96.”
Oh. Was she Abigail’s mother?
.Bing
.Bong
Last of mine arrived in 1884, first in 1835, convict inlaws (and servants, in one case) but that’s as close as I get.
This utterly pointless and wasteful timeline was perfectly acceptable to Australian government and defence bureaucrats.
Which again points to the malicious incompetence of canbra
I think it was a favourite motto of the designer of the Spitfire:-
Meaning we will lose the war if we waste years designing the perfect aircraft.
Claire Horton was Bev’s (Abigail’s) mother.
Seriously, that’s up there in the pantheon with St. Ruth’s ‘only white Anglo Saxon men can save us.’
Also, Christian.
KD, you can’t forget the Christian element.
and 58,800 years ago the genesis of a cogent argument started to form in Sancho’s scone.
and then it only took another 200 years to type into up the internet
Bam !
wait wait … he’s got this
Congratulations!
You are at level 8 on Greta Thumbstix’s Great Australian Floorboards Totem Pole!
No, no. She and Herb occupied the ground floor flat. So she could keep an eye on “goings on”.
Abigail was killed by the pantyhose murderer, and the gay guys lived in the flat above.
I worked with Joe Hasham’s cousin at the bank. Sydney was a small place back then.
.I’m delighted!
Happy to white-knight Greta’s racism, MT?
Yeah it was a lot more cozy in those days.
do you have a Gantt chart?
I’ll look it over
Ah yes. The Christian element.
Great great great great great great great uncle Fergus who died in the Potato Famine would be mortified.
Homer : Potato Man
Security at U2: Where have ya bin ?
Hey Greta.
I think both Arky’s missus and Razey’s missus might be “Johnny-come-latelys” too.
And possibly even a bit … you know … Asian.
I know what Stix meant. He’s worried sick about his family and what all this is leading to. I’m happy to allow him a good rant.
And even if I didn’t he’d still have one.
Don’t be silly Sancho.
Catlicks aren’t Christian.
If you are asked the ‘Christians’ cohort in the US they would repudiate that notion most vehemently.
A big percentage here too.
Put it this way.
I’ll listen to some of the Eastern Europeans who turned up in the late 40s and 50s about what makes a better country before I pay attention to some third generation welfare-reliant arse-coucher who reckons he’s owed because Aunty Bridget had red hair and green eyes.
Yeah, except at the time it was the best fighter plane on the planet.
Designing something which works and is excellent is the sign of genius, like Barnes-Wallis.
Not to undersell Rolls-Royce and the superb Merlin engine.
I agree KD.
It’s a bit like Aboriginals claiming to be experiencing genetic genocide.
Some people are just born whingers.
UR so woke, Gaia wants your babies
Nup.
It was pure unadulterated and inexcusable racism aimed at whole generations of post-war Australian immigrants and I suspect also specifically aimed at two posters here who have his measure.
Yes, yes, I know, the hand-patters and white-knights will be along with a glib, “but, gee, he didn’t mention particular racial groups”.
Come off it.
“We who have been here for 100-200 years” = Anglo-Celtic immigrants.
“Johnny-come-latelys” = post WW2 Southern European and Asian immigrants who really don’t know how things work ’round these parts.
calli says:
January 17, 2022 at 8:46 pm
I know what Stix meant. He’s worried sick about his family and what all this is leading to. I’m happy to allow him a good rant.
Same here – but the village idiots, led by Sancho Panzer / Professor Higgins / Leigh Lowe, jump on the ridicule bandwagon – which is the limit if their capabilities.
SP / PH / LL – have you retired your little sock “Nick ” back to the undies drawer? Haven’t seen him for a while.
Wut?
Where’d you get that?
The church steeple has stolen my sunshine, time to take my french picture book and find a sunny spot at the harbour.
he’s got this … we’re gonna a get a rational argument soon.
wait for it … soon … he’s like so got this
Tony.
Was it you that posted something about the Cash Restrictions Bill here the other day?
I saw it in passing but can’t recall who posted it.
Sounded interesting but I forgot to bookmark it.
I’d prefer to start with a Mrs. Anger.
Papercuts on one’s fingers are bad enough…
2stix is the one who hates boomers right? Like anyone born between 1945 and 1960 is a Mike Carlton or Quentin Bryce?
Once paid, the smarter diggers moved over to the next pay queue and went through again.
Sounds about right.
When I was a paper boy back in the early 1960s in County Durham we used to get paid weekly for Monday to Saturday (morning & afternoon) 1/6d a home delivery round ( 12 = 18shillings a week) but Sunday because of the size and number of different papers we used to get 5 shillings (cash) .. it took two trips to do Sunday cos of weight of papers .. the newsagent opened at 6.00am and being a morning person I, generally, was there on opening and would do both my rounds by 8.30 .. but, early on, I twigged that the counter staff changed over around 9 so if you came back about 9.15 you just asked for your pay as if you hadn’t already got it after the 1 st round … ended up double paid every Sunday for 3 years and never queried …..
It also began my lifelong luv of reading .. used to borrow the paperbacks off the rack and return ’em when read … 1st novel I ever read start to finish .. DR. NO (James Bond) .. Ian Fleming
I never knew how raciss and bigoted this forum was
thanks Sancho and Milt
is there a charity I can give to for the underprivileged for atonement?
you know, like helping schoolgirls to develop debating skills.
… or something like that?
Dear Mr Djokovic,
Thank you. Thank you for visiting Australia albeit briefly. Thank you for standing up for your beliefs. Thank you for challenging our vax rules and getting a win in the first round. But mostly I’d like to thank you for highlighting what an absolute shit show of a country we have become. When I read they were canceling your visa and you stepped up to the net I grabbed my popcorn. We all knew the shit was going to go down …and up and all around. And you did not disappoint. That shit landed everywhere and on everyone. Scomo, the Feds, The AO, Craig Tilley, the Vic Labor Government, Chairman Dan Andrews, Foley, talkback radio dimwits and many more within the Academy of Danistan.
Reflecting on the hypocrisy, the Vikpol overreach, the every changing rules, So much shit worn by small business and everyday people. And now the shit went around at the top. And what a mighty shit show it was. I have enjoyed every moment. I sure hope all of that shit sticks but alas I have little faith in my fellow countrymen.
Djoka, I know not when you will be back in Australia but I would like to buy you a beer champ. This has been by far the most entertaining tennis shit I’ve watched in a long time.
Thank you…. to quote someone else … you magnificent Serb Bastard!
‘jump on the ridicule bandwagon’
What’s not to ridicule? Why would you not ridicule something like that?
You don’t have to jump on the ridicule bandwagon when it arrives with a flourish of death metal, and a little crane picks you up and plonks you on a Jason recliner right in the middle of the tray.
Post WWII, a semi educated migrant could come to Australia with minimal English, next to no money & within a generation be an incredible success (on the basis of assets, income, cashflow).
Now if you did the same thing, unless you were working purely with the community from the country you came from, it’s a lot less likely.
Not impossible though.
Ie, Mandarin speaker working in property or a Sri Lankan (post paying off the goons you paid to get here) who becomes part of that migration scam preying on other Sri Lankans.
Devoured all of Fleming’s Bond series in late primary I think, maybe early HS, although I was discovering SF then. They were short and sharp and fun!
I’ve never read any of the Divine Agatha. They were an institution in school, traded from student to student like stamps, but the stories never interested me. Go figure. Loved the Bony novels though. I have no idea what the woke think of them.
The migrant experience hasn’t just changed in Australia.
It’s changed globally.
Sanchez
I think it was a favourite motto of the designer of the Spitfire:-
Second best, tomorrow!
Admiral Gorshkov, driver of the expansion of the Soviet Navy in the 1960s and 1970s: Comrade, “best” is the enemy of “good enough”.
A generation is 30 years, calculated as the median age between a woman’s first child and her last.
You’ve generally got to go back to GG/Parents to get sample size.
So, Baby Boomers start 1/1/1941 to 31/12/1970
It checks out on State Schools Admissions Registers too, there was a boom in enrollments in January 1947 and it tapered off sharply in 1977.
The vast majority commenting here are Baby Boomers.
Ed.
On the exCat, you said you were 62.
You old boomer, you. That is, of course, unless you were making stuff up.
You’d know the story behind the writing of “The Sands of Windee” then?
South Australia sourced an average of just over 100 per cent of the electricity it needed from renewable power for 6½ days leading up to December 29 last year – a record for the state and perhaps for comparable energy grids around the world.
Professor Mountain said despite missteps over the years, South Australia’s success in renewables was due to a consistent bipartisan determination to speed up energy transition. He said the state had advantages in its transition because it was a comparatively small market, with good connections to Victoria.
Mr Eldridge said his data showed significant “curtailment” during the six-day period, meaning renewables providers did not generate as much power as they could have. This suggests progress is being made towards the SA government’s plan to become a net exporter of renewable power via interconnectors and a future green hydrogen industry, he said.
Dick Ed
A generation is 30 years, calculated as the median age between a woman’s first child and her last.
You’ve generally got to go back to GG/Parents to get sample size.
So, Baby Boomers start 1/1/1941 to 31/12/1970
So, that makes Gen X from 1 Jan 1971 to 31 Dec 2000, Gen Y from 1 Jan 2001 to 31 Dec 2030, and the Millennials don’t exist yet?
Good one Dick.
Oh, yeah.
Anyone born between 1945 and 1960.
And immigrants who arrived post 1945.
A big list.
You know it makes sense.
Ed, please post something.
Just so I can say ‘OK boomer.’
The US Army is going to crush it by fucking football dudes from the nearest frat house.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/army-privates-booty-shake-for-our-enemies/
That will scare the shit out of Yuan and his south of the Yalu conrade, Jeongyul.
I for one welcome (as would have Sharkey) our North Korean overlords.
Ka ham sam nee dam.
Was it Stormin’ Norman Schwarzkopf who coined the phrase “target-rich environment”.
This is a loong time ago.
At 10:30pm, chucking out time, some pubs would become ‘food service’ – which had no time limit on selling grog.
If you wanted to stay and drink, you had to buy food. Which was a shrivelled green salad, cling-filmed onto a paper plate.
Cost, 50p.
(25p refunded if you returned the plate unopened as you left.)
Mainly a big city pub thing. Small pub landlords wanted to tidy up and go to bed.
sticks gives as good as he gives and them some.
I’m always suspicious of peace makers as it tends to be selective even on the rare occasion when it has the best intensions.
Ahem, scroll down to named Generations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation
Did you see this link above? Outright murder.
7 year old having a heart attack and dying after being jabbed. Totally fucking normal.
When will the psychopathic arseholes in the Australian Government stop?
They took our jerbs.
We only wanted those jerbs so we could take sickies and go on compo, but that is not the point.
If I got a hankering to have a Commo bestie, Pope Che would be my first choice.
I tell a lotta lies, pal.
Ron Shand, his catchphrase was “Wacko The Chook!'[
No idea what it meant, used to hear blokes from the Wars Generation [1/1/1911 to 31/12/1940 say that once in a while.
McCackey Mansions finished about ten years before my time,
Roy Rene’s catchphrase was
“Cop this, Young Harry!”
Haven’t heard that for a while either.
God bless
Don’t pick on Grogs. He’s still dealing with how he got the “Coumo Express” saga wrong by ten years, several thousand sheep, and about seven countries.
Oh, I’m a highly suspicious character, bespoke.
My radar goes to high alert with incorrigible troublemakers and snarks.
SpokesMao from Oxfam on nein news doing a whine about Palmer/ Twiggy/Reinhardt being rich.
The slogan on the greenscreen behind her,
“ the future is equal”
Totally not a watermelon organisation.
Standy for either:-
.1 The Schrodinger’s Douchebag defence (Oooh. That didn’t go down well … “Ummm. I was only joking”); or
.2 The old St Ruth classic. “I was being deliberately outrageous to shock you sheeple into action”
Yeah, when Ford Broadmeadows shut down, 60% of the workforce spoke a language other than English in the home.
So they did take our fucking jobs, and the made such a fucking hash of it that no one wanted to buy a Falcon anymore.
No doubt the same shit happened at GMH.
‘I tell a lotta lies, pal.’
Duh.
“Catholics aren’t Christians”?
Clearly some sort of in-joke I didn’t see the first time around.
.1 Joe Burns can bat.
.2 Your MyHealthRecord is totally secure.
.3 Mummy died of natural causes.
Here I am.
I have found the old railway station, part faces the street and is now a cafe and part is roofless, ivychoked and derelict, behind a locked rusty gate, or I’d have had a closer look.
The bus station is just an ugly concrete shelter with a sign saying bus station (in French)
Two services tomorrow both with 55 seats available so looks like I will be only passenger.
No doubt they run, passengers or not.
When I get to Bastio I shall decide whether to stay a little longer on Corsica or ferry on to Marseilles, there is still a train service in the north and west of Corsica and I am tempted to continue on by train to Ajaccio because I do like trains.
It might depend whether the weather is as fine and sunny as it is here.
Though to be honest a car would be the best option for exploring here and in Sardinia but while I don’t mind driving on my own in the US, between narrow, twisty roads and baffling signage, here I’d rather not.
And I’m sure the French don’t want me creeping along at 50 km an hour either.
Zulu – I read it only about fifty years ago…so no I don’t. 😀
No internet back then, just books in the school library. I haven’t reread any of Upfield’s since: I’m still not a reader of detective fiction. One day maybe I’ll give it a go starting with Sherlock, I think.
Dick Ed
I tell a lotta lies, pal.
We’ve noticed.
Greta Thumbstix.
I don’t know how to break this to you, but … well, here goes nothing …
You do know that Novak Djokovic is … is … a wog, right?
I’ve just finished No Orchids for Miss Blandish.
James Hadley Chase seemed to have been as keen on spanking as John Wayne.
And a Dashiell Hammett short story.
Both books had female characters allowed to ‘get away with murder’.
The hive is abuzz with blowins. Angry! How dare Australians but proud of what came before them and what our ancestors created! This is a proud multicultural country since 1978, that actually started in 1950, and don’t you forget it!
Cuckservatism defined.
We’ve got knuckle draggers cringe worthy ABC docudrama multicultural version of Australian history, a little screed I could read anytime on Green Left Weekly “Multicultural Australia – the oppression of minorities by lazy racist settlers”.
And Leigh Lowe busting out the ” yeah, but aborigines! So Checkmate!”.
All perfectly channeling the hard left – ABC version of history.
Back here in reality the country was built by my ancestors and some old bint who turned up in 1950, then promptly went on the dole all her life in Canberra, isn’t going to tell me what to say and think and do about it.
Calli
Tell us what you think stix means.
The reason conservatives don’t conserve anything at all, is right here in this thread.
Next we’ll be hearing about aboriginal massacres and the stolen generation.
What’s the difference between the hard left ideas and “conservatives”?
10 years.
Being proud your ancestors can be positive motivator build upon but when it’s wrapped up in inherited virtue it has always ended up in disaster.
Greta Thumbstix.
You aren’t Arthur Calwell by any chance are you?
I mean, sorry if I just doxxed you, but …
Sounds like a fine place to be too Rosie. Corsica is one of those wonderful feral corners of Europe, like the Basque country and maybe parts of the Carpathians. Never really pacified, the locals seem do their own thing.
Look, i’m going out a limb here and saying that Twostix is another of Sancho’s wacky Queensland characters.
It can’t top “Struth” tho, the line:
Poignant, yet not quite Bathos
453 Athlete Cardiac Arrests, Serious Issues, 263 Dead, post COVID vaccine; the media is silent on these and pretending this is not happening; it is happening because the vaccine developers lied to us
SpokesMao from Oxfam on nein news doing a whine about Palmer/ Twiggy/Reinhardt being rich.
Frollicking a mate who was part of Operation Astute putting the tribal genie back in the bottle in Dili in 2006 hates Oxfam with a passion. Every patrol he did near or through the IDP camp on the Airport entrance he reckons some mainland Eurotrash Oxfam bint would be snicking her nose in. He reckons it was a hotbed of gang activity especially with the riots that were going on, they had done a few cordon and search ops of that area. Anyway the Oxfam worker wouldn’t see the obvious till one night when my mate said they turned on her. She wanted the Army in there after that apparently.
The rub of it is that the ADF/Fed Pol knew the area was an issue, ditto East Timor Government who said that Oxfam and the UN should stop feeding these people so they can go home (Might have been Ramos Horta?). Dili was secured by 4 companies of Australians, an SF detachment, a Kiwi company, AFP & NZ POL in numbers, Portuguese GNR and they were bringing the PNTL back online.
I have heard some even more robust distaste of European NGO’s from his Rwanda Vet mates on the time I had the pleasure to meet one ANZAC Day. I don’t give a cracker to any of them now.
I’m from the Olympic Dam tribe, what do you want to hear about our stolen and the nightly bombing raids that destroyed our cities as Bruce Pascoe has cited?
Rubbish! you used the same excuse for entitlement as they do. So nullifying your own argument. Hay I guess Iv live in Australia longer then you, does that count?
Yes.
Way to miss the point.
Anyone arguing they have some sort of special insight or superiority merely by dint of how long a string of ancestors have been here is full of it.
Be they of Aboriginal or Anglo-Celtic heritage.
I’m proud of my ancestors, my Gran’Pappy was on the Titanic you know?
If you ever saw
A Night to Remember
on a Saddy Arvo on the ABC 55 years ago, you’ll remember Purser Kenneth More helping the women and children into the lifeboats and there’s this guy dressed like Aunty Jack stepping demurely off the doomed Vessel.
That was my Gran’Pappy Justin.
ABC docudrama. Yeah nah, and you know it stix.
I’ve had my share of barneys with johanna, but have yet to (and call me crazy, but I don’t think I ever will) use the ‘we grew here, you flew here’ line.
It’s not about your fanciful oppression of minority groups. It was and is about your undisguised promotion of people’s heritage as an indicator of correctness.
As I told St. Ruth, the other major player in this game the other day, I can out-blue collar and out-bogan anyone in this country. With that said, I can guarantee that that appalling shitshow you posted earlier tonight was nothing more than backwoods hillbilly entitlement based on who your grandparents were.
Much like Bird, you start nice – eloquent sometimes, even – and then, incrementally, the source of the perceived problem is revealed. ‘Uh huh, he ain’t no white anglo God-fearin’ fella.’ Have a crack at shatterzzz if you like – he’s both a recent immigrant and a boomer. Your quinella.
If this parochial, pineapple flag-waving shit continues I’m going to start talking about one of Quenthland’s once-favourite pastimes.
Blackbirding. Maybe the folk that started that ‘knew a little more.’
I was there first, you … you … Gianni-come-lately you!
There’s an entire century and a half of rich deep political history in Australia before the 1950’s – which, listening to cuckservatives is the true beginning of Australia (deemed so by the left since 1975, a fake history construct furiously resisted by conservatives until…2022, apparently).
It’s extremely telling that none of the cuck blowins know a single thing about any of it, and their instinctual reaction – almost Pavlovian, is to start mouthing the approved, one dimensional view of history that the ABC and cultural left have given them.
Wouldn’t be cool going to dinner parties and people asking what you and you answer..
I have white ancestors here back to 1820.
Do I qualify for anything?
Joh Bjelke Petersen.
Wuz he born here?
I don’t believe he wuz.
And wut sorta name is Bjelke Petersen?
Sounds furrin to me.
‘approved, one-dimensional view of history’
Again. No. Squealing about ‘lefties’ and that other shitshow, the ABC is a piss-poor deflection from your original argument, which left no room for doubt as to whether it was accidental.
Early colonial history in Australia is actually awesome and if you think it is boring, you haven’t gone deep enough.
Pavlov?
Another wog!
The Neil argument.
‘Anyone who disagrees with me on any subject is a leftie.’
What are your thoughts on Joe Burns, stix?
They took our jerbs !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-kgb1QtSnU
Social media has been more harmful to society than heroin & crack combined.
Early colonial history. Chockers with Chinese and Afghanis, not to mention the kanakas.
Oh! What a one-dimensional view!
Back to twenty past six?
That’s pretty recent Johnny-come-lately.
“Maybe two, maybe three hundred people, shot and burned by the mounted police” and the only forensic evidence ever found were a few bones, which could not be identified as human, some shell casings from a rifle which wasn’t police issue, and the ashes of a couple of campfires big enough to boil a billy of tea?
I don’t know that much about the place Bruce, I do know they only became French (again?) in 1768, a lucky break for Napoleon. Photos of Porto-Vecchio around the town taken in the 50s and 60s look pretty miserable.
But unlike many towns in Southern Europe I’ve seen, the old town is now spruce, with new buildings matching the old and some obviously previously roofless with a couple of rows of new brickwork to the top floor and reroofed.
And lots of very expensive knick-knacks and regional foods for sale to tourists.
Sod off you sheep buggering, fine lace cloth and land stealing, rum hoarding convict and lobster scum.