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Open Thread – Weekend 22 Jan 2022
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- No ifs or buts, modern leftists are mentally ill
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Peter Garrett is a 71-year-old teenager. Some people never grow up.
There were lots of people in that room. I wondered if one of the women was Z’s wifey – there…
Gina Rinehart is a great Australian. The same cannot be said about Peter Pan Garrett.
What next? Starmer hot to commit British lives to this lost cause. Starmer has offered British troops to defend a truce…
To celebrate the advent of the new anti trolling laws, I’d like to unequivocally state that Goose Morristeen and Josh Frydchickenberger are really, really funky carbon based lifeforms, legislative legends and fiscal fiendz.
YAY Outsiders is back !
Thanks HZ – I thought they weren’t back until next week.
Same here! It wasn’t in the Foxtel program guide, so I didn’t bother tuning in.
Thanks, nzhousewife.
Ed Casesays:
January 23, 2022 at 8:51 am
You know, Boambee John, even on a site with more than it’s fair share of Fools, you’re still the standout.
Dick, you are looking in the mirror, not at reality.
PS, I love your use of RandOm caPitals.
Long suspected.
FOIA docs reveal Pfizer shot caused avalanche of miscarriages, stillborn babies
From Unz Review:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/how-to-tell-russians-from-ukrainians/#comment-5134066
The new normal.
Investigation finds 300% increase in Worldwide Heart Attack Deaths among Soccer Players in 2021
Not for regional viewers, apparently. We are still subjected to hours upon hours of mindless sport. I’ve just about had it with Sky.
Active Cases.
NSW 238,645
Victoria 68,675
Not a chance in hell this is correct.
Vic number is self reporting as the tracing system collapsed.
New Side Effect From mRNA COVID Vaccines?
Shingles.
“hzhousewifesays:
January 23, 2022 at 9:14 am
YAY Outsiders is back !”
Amen, thank you.
From The Guardian:
this guy takes on fatties and certain others, mayhem ensues.
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/jan/15/sergei-polunin-dropped-paris-opera-ballet-swan-lake-homophobic-rant
Still going with the ‘Meatloaf is dead thing, I see.
“JMHsays:
January 23, 2022 at 9:28 am”
Do you subscribe?
Not a chance in hell this is correct.
Vic number is self reporting as the tracing system collapsed.
The virus is so deadly that The Bat Eared Mong spent 2 years doing nothing tangible to improve how it could be managed.
In Toorak.
A woman just walked past in active wear. She was pushing a pram.
In the pram was a fully-grown corgi. Just another day, I guess.
Hypothesis: elf public servants in both states have trouble counting big numbers
No. FTA, Cassie.
quiet here.
has moronman scared all the bloggers away?
Keeps you coming back for more, though, doesn’t it, Grogs?
Hypothesis: elf public servants in both states have trouble counting big numbers
Let’s see now, one, two…..many
Watched on Netflix last night : Munich: Edge of War.
Very worthwhile.
Echoes of pandemic fever noted.
Brits do these kinds of movies so much better than Yanks.
many many
KD – did you ask her if the dogue was fully vaccinated?
many + many = many
many / many = many
many – many = many
many x many = many many
“I’ve started watching Fringe.”
It gets weirder and weirder as you go.
By the time you hit season 5, it makes X-Files look like a documentary.
But not bad all the same.
I attended a wedding at Noosa Main Beach yesterday. The place was packed.
I saw two masks only – perhaps I was just dazzled by all the other tiny pieces of fabric and wasn’t noticing.
Bogan Barbies mandate aint’t working in Noosa.
My quote of the day in a video clip played by Sky Outsiders.
US conservative Matt Walsh asks a leftard trans activist who’s obviously a bloke: “What is a woman?”
Fruitcake: “It’s not up to me to say.”
This is where you end up if you keep deconstructing the life you lead – at the bottom of a rabbit hole of voluntarily self-inflicted mental illness.
I know her (not by name, but I know who you mean). The dog can’t walk.
Personally, I rate that as time to euth, but obviously she doesn’t.
“This is where you end up if you keep deconstructing the life you lead – at the bottom of a rabbit hole of voluntarily self-inflicted mental illness.”
Correct.
Anyone seeking an edge of the seat drama with just a touch of wierd, ‘Stay Close’ on Netflix does the job rather well.
Shut. Thet sounds bad Bro’.
*Looks up rud light setting in Un Zud.*
Must re – read the book it was based on.
“Welp, do what I’d imagine to do from my very comfortable, rich Corinthian leather armchair, exactly the same with no flaw in the execution thereof…”
Te he – reminds me of Club Veg “Yuppie Rap”- “You know, when I’m sitting sipping Wolf Blas in my imported Italian leather and oak armchair stuffed with Lithuanian flat billed duck down, I often run my fingers through my lightly streaked, state of the art hair creation and think ‘blah, blah, blah’. I do! Ha ha.”
Red flag alert.
Madison Cawthorn is wheeled out (literally) as a fresh face of the Republican party & has made a huge song & dance (figuratively) about being the most pro Second Amendment member of the House.
I just watched an interview with him.
He didn’t know who Mark Kelly’s (the Democrat senator from Arizona) wife is.
Un.
Fucking.
Believable.
How can you even open your pie hole about the Second Amendment when you don’t know who the Democrats bring out at every opportunity.
Be very wary of this chap.
Since it’s Sunday.
The ecclesial solution to squirrel infestations (Bayou Renaissance Man, 20 Jan)
I got the new young currawong to take mince from my hand this morning, which she did twice. I’ll have to bring in some squirrels next.
Rabz – see this is how it is done.
Does the casting properly reflect the diversity of today, or is it a racist celebration
of the racist white supremacy of racist Britain’s racist imperialist past
disguised as so called historical accuracy?
Active Cases.
NSW 238,645
And only 180 odd in ICU in NSW.
Not too shabby.
Looks like the face masks bull shit keeps the howler monkeys at 8 instead of 11.
Does the casting properly reflect the diversity of today,
Yes, Hitler is a black, Jewish tranny.
“ISIS is a 100% creature of the United States Deep State.”
True. The idiot half Kenyan funded their training, provided the Toyota HiLuxes, and the intel gear so they could fight the Syrian army. The Iraq army uses the same comms frequency, so 1800 ISIS were able to take Monsul, even though it was defended by 30,000 Iraq troops. The rest is history.
As soon as the US stops reporting COVID numbers in Feb there will be a push by the Cathedral to say COVID isn’t bad anymore.
How will The Australian subsidiary of the Cathedral keep it going until the election (at least).
Depicts Chamberlain as an intelligent, well intentioned, Mr Nice Guy.
We know none of these to be true.
It was ok to watch, but revisionist historical fiction really gets up my nose.
And only 180 odd in ICU in NSW.
Not too shabby.
Numbers were over 220 in mid Sept.
The take home message will be the success of vaccines.
The far less lethal Omicron factor will finish at the tail is the field of runners.
Nothing here.. just a Deer walking through the front door having a snack..
https://twitter.com/Brink_Thinker/status/1484684813382660102
Typical racist.
Making an oppressed minority the baddie.
Thanks for that interesting tidbit [should be Mosul].
aw fsbk teh poof redder is awake.
If you search for “new catallaxy” in Google you get some odd sites, very uninteresting. If you search for “new catallaxy” using DuckDuckgo, the first item you get is this site. Google is not a good search engine.
Chamberlain was well intentioned, he’s seen the slaughter 20 years before, and he was honest, when he realised he couldn’t stop the push for war inside his Government, he resigned.
The far less lethal Omicron factor will finish at the tail is the field of runners.
Stewards have called for the screens & the needle.
IIRC, said fruitcake argued that a declaration of womanhood was sufficient for acknowledgement. My question then is, following that argument, if a person was to declare himself/herself a hamster or a chair, should we be obliged to acknowledge that?
Me too but I give a free pass to Inglorious Basterds.
No problem. Never underestimate the capacity of the Ostrayan electorate to believe political bullsh1t.
Bon Journo bespoke!
There’s a Tarantino movie for whatever your mood is.
Apart from Kill Bill Vol 2 of course.
Those poor, misunderstood and stood upon Germans were only needing to be respected and given room to develop, honest… 🙁
Shit Grigs, you are starting to sound like Bird.
The one that’s grown on me over time & now would be close to my favourite is The Hateful Eight.
It’s like a genuine stage play.
I am now an attack helicopter, call me Apache 🙂
Seriously lots and lots of loonies about… did anybody see the woman marry the colour pink? My question, how could a colour give it’s consent?
Never go full Bird…
tick
Ha! ha!. Following the same path as Gem. You’ll be craving Woodstock cans soon like him.
Nuq’nuh, rambler.
Quentin Tarantino movies are how-to video for psychopaths.
The Hateful Eight – Jim Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79yZ1pQ7ct8
I’d rather have drowned in misery
Than gone to New South Wales
I can relate to all that.
Shingles is an AutoImmune Disease, occasionally fatal,
Vaxxscene induced in this instance?
There’s an even simpler way to end this nonsense:
If gender is just a social construct why do you need surgery?
Public opinion in Britain was bitterly opposed to war, the British Army wasn’t equipped to fight on Continental Europe, the Royal Air Force was approaching block obsolescence, the United States were staunchly isolationist and the Dominions would not have fought.
Over the last six months or so I have noticed an avalanche of ads on radio from Merck promoting shingles vaccination.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Gez not Gem.
I know people in Oz who had AZ, Pfizer & Moderna who all have had shingles within a couple of months.
Oldest one in their 80’s.
Youngest one early 20’s.
The only person I know who had the J&J shot also had shingles during the middle of the US summer which he said was just horrible.
The question is, why ?
There was a body of opinion in Britain that argued just that – Germany had been treated very harshly at Versailles…
However, that other Chamberlain, Arthur Neville Chamberlain, resigned during the collapse of the Norwegian campaign.
Funny you should ask that.
because validating poly-gendered gibber produces a long term revenue stream
Epidemiologists and weather forecasters, for instance.
All true zk2a, but that doesn’t stop Chamberlain from being a pythonesque upper class twit who was prepared to throw all of Europe and a future Britain under the nazi bus, just to prolong his political career for a few more months.
QB for the Bengals has been sacked (tackled) 8 times today.
His team mates response has been subdued on most occasions.
Compare that to when Tom Brady is sacked & it’s half a dozen players rushing over to him to make sure he’s fine & to help him up.
Make that 9 times.
To his credit, there’s one lineman – who’s been doing his job – who’s walked over and offered him a hand up.
Google is not a good search engine.
Google is a good search engine, just not for the reasons you think. The modern day equivalent to a set of horse blinkers.
Wrong.
Varicella zoster virus goes dormant in human neural cells, only to potentially reactivate later in life.
Grigory could have had a broken clock moment in his claim that coof stabs might be a mediating factor in reactivation, but there is insufficient information to make it conclusive.
In summary, I give Grigs a 4.5/5 Gypsums* for this one.
* (Where 0 Gypsums is a “Holy [Shirt]! Grigs is actually accurate and non-disingenuous for once!” and 5 is “Fuck off, Grigory…”)
Torching goddam hippies in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood gets a pass too.
Also torching goddam nasties in The 14 Fists of McCluskey.
Pod Life.
Rex, could it be that coming into contact with COVID triggers it?
It is a bio weapon & this could be the unintended consequence.
Or is that just a silly idea?
All true zk2a, but that doesn’t stop Chamberlain from being a pythonesque upper class twit who was prepared to throw all of Europe and a future Britain under the nazi bus, just to prolong his political career for a few more months.
Was he really an upper class twit? In the midst of “peace in our time” and all sorts of dilly dallying Britain was embarking on a massive re-armament program that completely eclipsed anything since WWI.
I will take actions over words any day.
Grigory could have had a broken clock moment in his claim that coof stabs might be a mediating factor in reactivation, but there is presently insufficient information to make it conclusive.
Lemme just throw that qualifier in there.
Given sufficient time, we’ll know for certain. Just like all that other anecdotal data about the nastiness of the stabs slowly hardening into medically verifiable fact…
Only the people with a functioning brain thought that w3ay.
The deal went down like this:
An Armistice was agreed upon where all the combatants would retreat to their pre War borders and hostilities would cease.
However, Britain still blockaded the Sea Lanes, starving Germany, in violation of the Armistice.
Combined with that were Communist Revolutions in the German States, virtual Anarchy in the Cities caused by starvation and Communists rioting and the stage was set for the totally illegal carve up of the German Empire and the creation of states that had never existed before, e.g. Czechoslovakia, Latvia, Estonia, Romania and the reinvention of States that hade been defunct for centuries, e.g., Poland band Lithuania.
There were also a coupla Countries that Versailles just erased, like they’d never existed
Other parts of Germ any, i.e., places entirely populated by Germans, were gifted to France aqnd Denmark.
There were still people in England who knew that all this bastardry had happened and didn’t see any reason for Round Two to begin.
There are moments of quiet reflection when I just think how US government officials funded a the engineering of a bio-weapon in a Chinese lab.
And these officials are not in some form of jail.
I’m unconvinced by the idea of viral interaction, bern.
But since it is senescent folk with some form of (even temporary) immune suppression or dysfunction (e.g. getting a bit run down by something[s] else, then copping a flare-up), and it can be resolved or avoided with a varicella-specific vaccine, the idea of one’s system going berko reacting to the stab’s spike proteins and struggling to respond to the ‘more’usual threats it faces is not impossible.
Full Bird alert…
If you mean Covid, it was useless as a BioWeapon.
If you mean the Gain Of Function research that came up with the VaxZines, yeah.
At the Paris Peace Conference, Billy Hughes was presenting his case for Australian control of former German colonies New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago & and the Solomons to Woodrow Wilson, who preferred League of Nations oversight.
Neither would budge, prompting Lloyd George to attempt to mediate a compromise. If granted his wish, would he permit American missionaries free access to the territories? Hughes responed in the affirmative, saying, “I understand that these poor people are very short of food and for some time past they have not had enough missionaries”.
Wilson didn’t get the joke.
My apologies fellow Johnsons, I seem to have triggered the gypsum man.
My take has been the US and China were both trying to play each other. Military espionage by very reckless civilian kayfabe cooperation.
High ranking professors have been caught out with contraband a few times. This is old news really.
The CCP must dream of having police, officials and bureaucrats like those in Australia. So reliable!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyec3raQ7EI
That said, Fauci is detestable, for many reasons
My apologies fellow Johnsons, I seem to have triggered the gypsum man.
Let’s get this out in the open! Exactly many Cat regulars identify as outboard motors?!
I wonder, would that have had anything to do with the butchery of women and children in Belgium and France?
true if you only consider the first-order effects
It’s probably time to get Andrews locked up under the Mental Health Act.
https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/mandatory-booster-on-the-cards-for-hospitality-in-victoria/news-story/469d1b2d9758b7544524a9c78231dc2c
Mandatory booster on the cards for hospitality in Victoria
Nah, man. Burrell Compound Road Locomotive.
I am a Seagull
I am a gender neutral pansexual polyanal silver grey foxkin.
They also call me Jack Murphy.
Dan’s response to the collapsing narrative.
Let’s fsck things up, some more.
Could that be a typo? hospitals?
Missus having hip surgery now. The surgeons earn their dough. At Bunbury hospital… an interesting meeting place for tatts, no shoes and pot bellies. Parking is free but. Unlike Perth hospitals.
In the interest of social democracy and the greater participation of workers in decisions which effect them (what socialist could be against that, eh Dan?), may I suggest that hospitality workers – who’ll bear the brunt of public displeasure over this measure – have the deciding vote on this?
gender neutral pansexual polyanal silver grey foxkin
sleek sneak geek freak speak for ‘furry’
… isn’t too hot today to ware a onesy?
ware = wear.
sue me
eat the bugs
There is a reason furries wear onesies that cover their faces.
I’m not saying I agree with that statement. The treaty of Brest Litivosk, imposed by Germany on a defeated Russia was more draconian then Versailles ever was. The archives of Imperial Germany reveal that any peace imposed on a defeated Britain and France would have resulted in the loss of their colonial Empires, Britain being stripped of the Royal Navy, and both countries suffering massive reparations, designed to prevent them ever posing a threat to Germany again.
For lunch, I’m having my cold pressed cockroach juice.
Just helping out cats with their lunchtime diet.
Road kill
It’s probably time to get Andrews locked up under the Mental Health Act.
No.
That gets him out of being tried and executed.
Road kill –
Best when pre cooked on the electricity wires.
Dick Ed
Chamberlain was well intentioned, he’s seen the slaughter 20 years before, and he was honest, when he realised he couldn’t stop the push for war inside his Government, he resigned.
Chamberlain resigned in May 1940. The War was well underway by then. Chamberlain was the PM at the time war was declared.
I’m not a Germanophobe by any stretch, but you have to hand it to them:
Not yet 50 years old as a nation and they start a world war.
Zulu
There was a body of opinion in Britain that argued just that – Germany had been treated very harshly at Versailles…
Not as harshly as the Germans treated the Russians at Brest-Litovsk.
The German takeover of the Bolivian gypsum mines left Britain with no choice but to declare war.
I am a Seagull
Starts well! I thought it would end with 100 pulls and the side ripped out of the wheelie bin!
The surgeon who did both my knees also gives his time to work in the Public Hospital.
I had two stays in Private including 2 Physio sessions a day. Red wine with dinner. My only out of pocket was when I bought coffee.
Just putting it out there because that’s the sort of person I am.
The local cathedral’s media just won’t mention anything inconvenient from the USA.
How many Aussies have heard that the CDC admitted PCR tests were useless? The few who know that never heard it from our media.
Ed Case: Chamberlain was well intentioned…
And appeasing dictators intent on world domination just gives them time and space to ramp up their forces….
Why is Almond milk called Almond milk?
Who would buy nut juice?
Not yet 50 years old as a nation and they start a world war.
A nuanced and detailed explanation of peak box head:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh2XG_v_054
yep.
40 years … still a goer
(100 pulls is s serious under estimate)
That is roolly good rickw. Thank you.
40 years … still a goer
(100 pulls is s serious under estimate)
My grandfather and I once tried to start an old JAP engine he had. We never got it going. Each time we tried to start it something snapped off, it was shedding cooling fins like they were dandruff!
If you make outboard motor sounds in a busy pub it gets you a table for yourself.
Atrocity propaganda from 1914 to stir up patriotism in Britain.
Proven to be FakeNews after the War.
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was with the Soviet Union, a Criminal State.
Who cares how harsh the Terms were for the murderers?
Many thoroughly modern major women. Full of neuroses about lactose and milk and Big Processed Food and being ‘healthy.’
And often ending up prematurely osteoporotic because of the lack of calcium.
Not that Bing or Google will reliably tell you these things, in its rush to promote Big ‘Health…’
Though the pun swings the other way as well.
Much like the 2 Viktoristani AFLW sportsMA’AMs and their out-of-State ‘donation’ commented about on the Cat yesterday…
If you make outboard motor sounds in a busy pub it gets you a table for yourself.
What’s the recommendation on two stoke versus four stroke?
Rickw,
Was there a frame with the JAP? Certainly a blast from the past but probably a few of them going round at Classic races.
Modern bikes have Jap engines. Usually.
Now you can fuck off, Grigory.
You’ve gone clean past historical fact and into Avian-style unnecessarily inflammatory value judgements.
If you insist on being Graeme Bird 2.5 (given Runnybum’s sudden fascination for the topic), then you are half-arsing. Fuck off back into your corner and read your Protocols first before you try this bullshit again.
Ends in busted valve.
Some peak metalworking. 9/10 degree of difficulty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqwnOn-XhQI
Was there a frame with the JAP? Certainly a blast from the past but probably a few of them going round at Classic races.
No, just the engine. I don’t know how it could have been rescued. Something had gone horribly wrong with the aluminium over time. Maybe disassemble and heat to the right temperature in an autoclave?
.it’s fair share of Fools….no apostrophe there Ed. Lift your game mate.
rickw says:
January 23, 2022 at 11:37 am
My apologies fellow Johnsons, I seem to have triggered the gypsum man.
Let’s get this out in the open! Exactly many Cat regulars identify as outboard motors?!
rickw johnson is right.
all Cat outboard motors please come out of the closet… shed??
Shingles attacks when the immune system is weakened. If a vaccine or any drug or other factor sufficiently weakens your immune system, your chances of getting shingles is very high.
Of course this isn’t how socialism works. Central planning needs a heirarchy, in which case viola! It’s proponents get to call the shots.
Socialism is a sophisticated method of obtaining power and eliminating rivals.
Rickw,
Two stroke. 4s are too quiet.
As for the JAP I’m no expert. By a long shot.
But I’m sure there are some around.
I don’t know any. As a raspberry ripple I am out of the loop these days.
galvanic action?
… steel + moisture
Because it’s Sunday I’m an Evinrude.
Every other day I’m Evinruder.
*slinks away*
Today I learned that the Communist Manifesto was originally called the “Communist Confession of Faith”.
Yep, it’s a religion.
The TIK history channel is pretty awesome.
I’m too delicate to sit through the Stalingrad battles, but the rest is just incredible.
The footnotes & references would make most doctorate students blush.
I’m a yamahahahahaha.
But sane.
The piece of paper says so.
I win!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FFfiQgAmjzU
(Nobody specified what nature of outboard motor it had to be. And a very similar apparatus-Albeit Internally) powers Perth’s paddlesteamer PS Decoy…)
I admit I have my biases, and sometimes wander off the path.
I’m a Lister.
Better than being a sinker.
#Honk
Speaking of all the johnsons on the Cat:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kkwiQmGWK4c
#DonPiano
Is ‘Long Johnson’ like ‘Long covid?’
Because it’s Sunday I’m an Evinrude.
Every other day I’m Evinruder.
*slinks away*
It was inevitable that someone would go full Evinrude!
Didn’t the Kingdom of Prussia go to war with France before the country was even unified?
Little Bloke in the Bunnings Playground.
Cranking out 1000’s of cases a day and suddenly things are almost normal.
Didn’t even bother to pretend to QR code. Sitting here watching him sans mask.
It’s as if suddenly all of the Karens have gone quiet……
Something for Sunday afternoon. Fifty years old and still a fine song for anyone with a heartbeat.
And won. Several times.
And had also been one of the group of nations collectively responsible for checking Napoleon Bonaparte’s ambitions in Continental Europe, culminating in the epic pimp-slapping delivered to him at Waterloo.
Prussia was reputed to have been an Army with a State attached…
Sunday afternoon WWII movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmTG2GCr-Yk
Neil Oliver: ‘There are consequences of Covid coming, a great wave of them‘
NO.
There is only one natural Long Johnson here.
There are many many others who are surgically enhanced.
This Neil Oliver rooster sounds like a Spook.
Anyway, hasn’t Rex Franger been on fire this afternoon?
Don’t worry Franger, even if you racked the cue tonite, you’ll never be forgotten on Catallaxy.
Sorta like that Street Bum, used to scream at Clouds, declared hisself Emperor Of San Francisco back in the 1850s …
‘Don’t sit there in your white coat and tell me “just do what we say”‘: Bill Maher takes aim at Dr. Fauci as he urges Americans not to blindly follow advice of doctors
Sure, Bill Maher = comedian; and everybody has an arse.
The interesting bit is that this – and particularly the last para – is being reported neutrally by a significant part of the MSM.
The developing temper of the times.
Neil Oliver touches upon this – the naked swimmers are hastily trying to get dressed.
We see them.
Sunday lunch at the pub, catching up with locals. Seems most of the families in town with kids & teenagers have Covid or have had the coof.
Visited Mum in aged care, they’re just running the usual temp check and electronic sign in. Staff seemed to be back to hands on with the residents. Nice to see because for some that is the only human touch they get.
Could somebody be so kind as to render this post into the English language? Thank you, in advance.
@Cassie of Sydney.
Fair cop on the slip up on unedifying. Alas it was, as Gerard Henderson would say, after gin and tonic time.
As for new poster, I was a regular commenter on the original Cat for several years, This re-incarnation was not widely publicised as far as I can tell and I have only recently caught up. As for appropriate language to suit a given situation I stand on my dig. The language of the football locker room and the public bar is not necessarily appropriate in a an assembly comprising young children, pensioners and everyone in between. The polite word for those who cannot show such basic social courtesies is “yobs” and there were plenty on display on Saturday not least amongst the organisers.
Dr Faustus says:
The interesting bit is that this – and particularly the last para – is being reported neutrally by a significant part of the MSM.
Let’s break it down:
In the first Para, Bill Maher is saying that the Vaccine will save your life.
In the second para he says that nothing can stop everybody from getting some variant of Covid/19.
Only possible conclusion to draw from those 2 paragraphs:
Bill Maher is saying that everybody must be fully vaccinated, end of story.
Just read the paper after checking the tab guide.
It appears Don Perroinist has cancelled elective surgery again.
Stinking little LNP time server.
*
And they don’t like to be seen.
As omicron flourishes and dies, the appearance of technocratic control dies with it. The keener politicians are sensing that and are starting to sidle away from the train-wreck.
The stupider ones are still playing at public health Canutes.
* Glaswegian offer of pub violence: ‘Ah see you, Jimmy…’
Not into archaeology, eh Ed?
My Scots genes like his style immensely. My English genes though swoon for Alice Roberts and Bettany Hughes, who’re both excellent (dunno what their politics are but).
Further on Bill Maher:
What this subtle change of direction means is that the Unvaxxed are gonna be blamed for everything from Border Closures to canceling Elective Surgeries
to Compulsory Mask Wearing to QR sign ins to breakdowns in the Supply Chain to Bushfires,
the loss of The Titanic, Grandma’s Piles …
All their fingers plugging the leaking dyke and they have an itch.
Poor Grigory.
Always the redheaded, slappable stepchild of the Catallaxy.
Never affable, wise, personable, devishly handsome or cheerfully anarchic like any other Cat…
Marvellous song Calli! I looked at the WIP list just now and decided on this anthem as my favourite off of it:
I’m Just A Singer In A Rock And Roll Band
Big hair, big shirts, big flares! Prog rock was great fun, though not very, um, cerebral.
“The polite word for those who cannot show such basic social courtesies is “yobs” and there were plenty on display on Saturday not least amongst the organisers.”
Geez Patrick, have another gin and tonic. Your description reeks of elitism and condescension.
As quantity was included in the example piece, “a”, it’s up to everyone to decide whether to attack her or grant a typo or oversight.
However, needing to attack a poster by attacking someone they quote (without first getting clarification from the quoted poster), shows a lack of character far worse any perceived failings in grammar.
That list of 50 year old albums in The Week In Pictures is from a New Zealand radio station called The Sound. Looking at the recently played songs it looks like it plays 1960s to 1980s pop and rock.
No. Jethro Tull’s “Thick as a Brick” was an elaborate joke, complete with its own newspaper.
Good album, though.
Zulu, Grigs is just being offended at me again, because I’ve derailed his attempts to derail proceedings here. A little too effectively for his liking today…
ZK2A,
The Prussians stopped the Hanoverians from travelling through to join their King’s army
Filthy collaborators.
Andrew’s school opening plan is clearly a case of regulation for regulation’s sake.
Covid is everywhere and the numbers who’ve had contact with a case would be in the millions.
Keep going Wing Nut you’re looking more ridiculous with every pointless edict.
Some of the needless abuse on here is getting close to trolling.
This is no longer tolerated today, as opposed to yesterday.
Kindly constrain yourselves.
This is the Open Thread.
Bunch of ( mutter mutter). Kiss my ah well.
As the rest of the world begins to shrug off the Covid restrictions as OMG and the pandemic panic subsides, the ABC demands a return to lockdowns, mask mandates, capacity limits for venues, restrictions on gatherings in private homes, the works:
Omicron COVID-19 spread hits Australian small business, creating ‘shadow lockdown’ and soft trading conditions
Why should we revert back to such a model? Well, to make people like this feel safe:
A typical ABC consumer, then. We need to lock down properly – no half measures! – so she can start getting more of that government cheese.
But let’s hear what an Expert has to say on the matter:
No, I’m pretty sure it’s the shutdowns that cause the greater economic loss. Unless you can explain how reduced economic activity is more damaging than an artificial and complete prohibition of economic activity across vast swathes of the economy.
Sigh. OMG ought to be the end of the pandemic. If it’s not, it’ll be because people like the above create and intensify the “recurring waves for many, many years” – every time a new variant emerges that causes the sniffles for half a day, they’ll have us lurching back into panic mode again. These people need to be told No. No, professor. No, silly scared woman photographer. We’re all moving on with our lives – I suggest you do the same.
We live in something which is a stepping stone to fascism.
Foul language is an irrelevant concern until we are safe from the nightmare of QR codes & a state of emergency forever and the imposition of an electronic big brother enforcing a social credit system.
Dear Sir,
Let’s Go Brandon and Fuck Joe Biden!
Sincerely,
Chevalier de Milletaille
PS
I wouldn’t piss on any of these arguments of yours.
PPS
Hi Neil?
Dick Ed
Atrocity propaganda from 1914 to stir up patriotism in Britain.
Proven to be FakeNews after the War.
More FakeNews from Dick Ed. Almost 1700 Belgian civilians were killed between 19 and 23 August 1914. Perhaps the shooting of Edith Cavell was also propaganda?
Lay off the gypsum Ed!
Just back from picking up a few things at the shops.
When I see someone – usually an OAPer – struggling to QR code I want to tell them not to bother as the authorities aren’t contact tracing anymore. But I know I’ll just be met with a blank stare.
Who am I, a mere citizen, to question authority?
They’ll wait for Anna to tell them.
He!
In a total war situation (was it – I presume it was), involving a land invasion and occupation, this is actually a “good” outcome, pre PGM warfare.
Had it on vinyl whilst at uni, it was wonderful. And I’ve the CD in a pile somewhere too.
Didn’t link it as a forty five minute-long song is probably more than Cats can take on a lazy Sunday afternoon. It’s also slightly rude. 😀
Thick as a Brick (Pt. 1)
Thick as a Brick (Pt. 2)
Those’re from the Tull official YT page!
They’re still contact tracing in the West (naturally – McGowan continues to belabour under the assumption his government will be able to get a handle on this outbreak). I wonder how many more “mystery” cases have to appear before they give up.
But people changed their behaviour dirong the pandemic because of the government shutdowns!
Ditto the mask and stab mandate bullshit! Why go out beyond the barest minima if you find you cannot breathe comfortably behind the face nappie (let alone the self-administered sweat-waterboardings in summer), and you’ve been told there is nowhere you are welcome to go anyway?
I don’t know just how many Cats have said it in various ways over the years, but we are truly poorly served by our alleged ‘expert’ classes in Australia…
Dot
In a total war situation (was it – I presume it was), involving a land invasion and occupation, this is actually a “good” outcome, pre PGM warfare.
Sorry Dot, I didn’t make it clear. Those are just the ones lined up against a wall and shot. Undoubtedly many others became collateral damage.
What a dill. The two are locked together like conjoined twins.
The shutdowns caused people to change their behaviour. No shutdowns, no behaviour change.
Do we pay this person from our taxes?
The quoted is a tenured academic at ANU…
How do you say ZERO FUCKS GIVEN in European languages?
He said it was not shutdowns that caused the greatest economic loss, but rather how people changed their behaviour while in a pandemic.
Who is this fucking retard?
Meaningless blather.
These rallies aren’t being organised by idiots, so why are the Organisers presenting idiots to make the speeches?
It doesn’t add up, and when something Political don’t add up, that means Spooks!!!
LDP and UAP supporters and potential supporters, beware!