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Classics. K-PAX (2001) – Prot Diagrams Orbital Pattern K-PAX Takes Through Its Star System https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCP9ZwqIl5g
Interesting tale of how a lower middle class community just simply died. My Experience with White Flight
Sugar Hiccup – the definitive Sunday Night version … 🙂 Sugar Hiccup – with Miss Hannah Peel … 😕
Anybody who is prepared to treat a 77 year old of whatever sex, like that ,should have their ears torn…
Yeah, she’s chanting again.
‘I urge a sense of urgency’: Chant calls for NSW residents to get booster jab (Sky News, 24 Jan)
Fauci is also into his fourth innings.
Fauci: It Is ‘Entirely Conceivable’ that We May Need Boosters Again (23 Jan)
They’re like the Borg, all hooked together. I urge a sense of sanity myself, which Chant and Fauci seem not to have any of.
IIRC, they did attempt a court case – which was thrown out because there was, at that time, no “damage” done and so they didn’t have “standing”.
I can’t speak for all cases but the key one was the Pennsylvania one that Alito summarily threw out because the state house specifically legislated that absentee votes where kosher.
I’m guessing West Taiwan’s airfarce doesn’t have a Sunday shift loading.
Is that the “Hey Lord don’t ask me questions” band?
Fauci will retire before the new congress sits in January 2023.
Every second pundit is saying that now & it’s hard to see it not happening.
Today’s NSW vaccinated death toll: 87.5 %.
The most egregious SCOTUS ruling was the vaccine mandate case brought by some college students that ACB tossed at the same stage Alito tossed the Pennsylvania voter fraud case.
Kavanaugh is a toad.
Gorsuch is 100% my kind of justice.
ACB, yet to be decided but has made some iffy calls so far.
Hubby only has to watch right hand for incomings now, so there is that.
Lidia Thorpes claim to “Aboriginal” status is based on the fact that her great grandmother was half Aboriginal.
My great grandmother was born in Golden Point, Victoria whilst GG grandad was out here digging for gold … only one other of my grandparents, on either side of my family tree, going back to 1585 was born outside of England, that one in Scotland, so based on Lidia’s claim ..
I am .. dinky-di, true blue, fair-suk-of-the-sav OZ …!
Recent ruling, that is.
Buck v Bell is pretty ripe.
They already bought “boosters” last August and signed contracts for supply to 2023.
What did people think was going to happen this year? After everything they’ve done, and all that they’ve achieved regarding vaccine compliance, that they were just going to throw 200 million doses in the bin?
A Friend and her family will subject to a violent home invasion 18months ago in South East Melbourne. Partner stabbed, family terrorised, new cars stolen. All 7 – African in appearance – caught shortly after. First one sentenced last week. 15yo. 12months probation. Youth Justice Department requested good behaviour bond. FFS what a joke.
If the vvaxxening is useless against covid then you would expect the enjabbed death toll to be much the same percentage as the enjabbed percentage.
true?
..were subject to..
Today’s vaccinated death toll in Queensland: 77%.
A Friend and her family will subject to a violent home invasion 18months ago in South East Melbourne. Partner stabbed, family terrorised, new cars stolen. All 7 – African in appearance – caught shortly after.
Hmmmm so you’re saying curfews don’t work ?
And how did they know they were African if they were wearing masks?
jeez…Cats not knowing about adrenochrome or lizard people?
I’m 74 and I’ve never ever heard of the stuff before! .. had to Google it! .. now I understand why..
never had a need for it .. LOL!
Also: 60 percent of the people in Queensland ICUs are vaccinated.
Or, as Dr Gerrard prefers to say:
Courier Mail
African appearance. Maybe cos when dey was pulled over like and da hip hop rap type muzak for da people gave it away.
Not quite. The Beloved is an ex boater boy, I am state school (and a very, very good one at that). I watched state education deteriorate over the years between me leaving and having my first child – I was in the privileged position of watching my younger sister go through the same school and saw the difference in what she was taught to what I received.
I wanted what I had had for my own children, and I knew I had to pay for it. They were in the private system from kindergarten onwards. So, apart from a first class education in the basics, what else did they get?
I only have to look at them, listen to their interactions with others and see them live out their life goals to spot it – self discipline, respect for themselves and for others for a start. And a confidence that I never had until not so long ago – hard won for me, but natural for them. Much was expected of them and, by and large, they delivered.
As a family, we never bought into the rah-rah snobby set at school. The children made friends with others from similar backgrounds, still mostly far wealthier than us, but more normal than the pretentious toffs.
I watched a lot of the very wealthy go from hero to zero over the ensuing years – drugs and entitlement mostly. Meanwhile, my own kids are invited back to careers nights. Which makes it a funny old world.
And if I may, as both a Dr and a firefighter observe, that prevening forest fires and preventing respiratory viruses are exactly analagous. Both are ‘elimination strategies’ which seem to work for a while. All the while however, the ‘dry tinder’ builds up until, at some point, a major fire sweeps through it all.
In both cases, what you really need are regular small fires to keep the forest healthy. Protecting the trees against fire, like protecting the population from respiratory viruses, is a dynamic an ongoing process involving constant exposure. If you try to avoid that, the pressure only builds up until the whole thing burns.
No. The deathly ill are probably less likely to be vaccinated in case it pushed them over the edge. And many of them will be in hospital for other reasons, while NSW Health in their Deep Thought-level cognostications several weeks ago decided to mix infected Covidians in with the rest of hospital residents.
New South Wales hospitals will no longer separate COVID patients (8 Jan)
Therefore the percentage of vaxxed deaths should always be lower than the percentage of vaxxed population on average.
Australia produced many great painters in the early years, what happened?
Tax payer funding of galleries and the yarts happened. Contemporary galleries are an insult, a gross FU to working Australia from the Trough.
Great to see the Pioneer up there. It leaves me breatless; peak Aussie impressionism, and brilliant reflection on the courage of our forebears. Characteristics that the putrid arts frauds and their inner city boosters would never understand.
You cannot take a single thing these CHO’s and their “Premier” lackeys as truth when they’re mouthing off at these Amway sales pitches, regarding ‘unvaccinated’ unless every time they say “unvaccinated” they define whether in this instance of their use of the word. This time do they mean no doses, single dosed, or now increasingly when they feel like, it short hand for not triple dosed?
Because without guilt they use the meaning differently from sentence to sentence as they see fit because they’ve made the word totally contextual.
I have reached the point where I don’t even trust the “vaccinated/unvaccinated” descriptor at all.
How would anyone know? Who’s going to check? It could all be cock and bull and more gaslighting. They need to can the stupid daily presser NOW.
In a month’s time, when parents are looking the barrel of even more home schooling and lost work, they’ll be howling for blood. The elastic can only stretch so far.
According to the style guide, not unvaccinated is preferred.
Every opportunity to reinforce the public’s negative association with the word unvaccinated should be used.
Which end of the barrel?
I’ve just pre-ordered Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win by investigative journalist Peter Schweizer (to be published on January 25).
Schweizer has spent more than a year investigating the corruption of the Washington ruling class now in the pocket of the Chinese Communist Party, which, among other things, has been teaching the Silicon Valley tech monopolies in the thrall of the Xi dynasty, how to implement the CCP’s surveillance state in the USA.
The Bidens have displaced the Clintons as the pre-eminent pay to-play influence-peddling operation and are in hock to the CCP and its “business” fronts for more than $US30 million, getting in on the corruption craze started not by the Clintons, but by the Bushes, who are up to their necks in Chinese “business” deals.
Far too long to wait!!!
In case someone missed it
“Following the emergence of other VoCs (Alpha, Beta, Delta), antibody responses were analyzed in Novavax’ ongoing Phase 1/2 study in the US and Australia. Patients who received a third (6-month booster) dose of NVX-CoV2373 were evaluated for the production of antibodies against known VoCs in August 2021. The responses were encouraging for the protection against new variants:
NVX-CoV2373 produced robust anti-Spike IgG responses following a booster dose at Day 189. Neutralization titers increased 4.3-fold overall compared to the peak response seen after the primary vaccination series (up 3.7-fold in adults aged 18-59 and 4.7-fold in adults aged 60-84).
The boosted anti-Spike IgG responses were greater than what was observed in our Phase 3 clinical trials. UK Phase 3 efficacy was 96% against the prototype strain and 86% against Alpha. US/Mexico efficacy was 100% against non-VoI/VoCs, 93% against VoI/VoC and 94% against Alpha.
The boosted antibody responses were functional. Microneutralization was greater than what was observed in Phase 3 studies, with a 4.6-5.5-fold increase.
After boosting, all trial participants developed consistently high levels of functional hACE2 responses against all tested VoCs. There was a 10.8-fold increase against Alpha, a 6.6-fold increase against Beta and an 8.1-fold increase Delta. The responses against Delta and Beta suggest the maturation of the immune response and comparable efficacy to what was observed in our Phase 3 trials.
A third dose booster of NVX-CoV2373 resulted in low rates of severe and serious adverse events and was well tolerated.”
novavax statement on omicron variant
Tom, it’s obviously bullshit. After the Hiden family takes their share of the loot there’s nothing left for the others.
“but by the Bushes, who are up to their necks in Chinese “business” deals.”
Why is that so unsurprising?
It’s incredible how successful the Demonrat party is in securing the votes they target. They managed to get over 100% of the over 100 year olds in Wisconsin!
@Rasmussen_Poll
BLOCKBUSTER: 2020 Election Integrity
Wisconsin – “Ghost Voter” Army Silently Emerges From State Election Records
“We see evidence that 3rd parties do have access to the voter rolls and can alter an item.”
You really know you’re doing well when you get over 100% of the vote. Centenarians really wanted Trump out – even those who were dead.
Was thinking that the difference in between the numbers that take the booster and those who were double tapped would approximately = the adverse events.
Geez, how healthy are those Wisconsin oldies.
Wonder what Scummo’s password was. Probably either:
– scotty123
-jabsrock
https://twitter.com/theheraldsun/status/1485409521002442753
Trump looks terrible.
I thought he looked fine. Compared to every other US politician he looks a billion bucks. Except Tulsi Gabbard of course who is currently wearing a fetching grey streak in her locks.
Twitter’s Delta presumably – not the Cat’s
Fair Shake says: January 24, 2022 at 12:51 pm
Having seen the U-turn in the manner in which justice/punishment is administered in similar circumstances…
….. what is needed is for a couple of senior judiciary to personally experience a similar violent home invasion.
A granddaughter being burgled/mugged won’t do it, they need to personally feel the icy fear.
Judges (& even more so, Magistrates) believe they’re worldly wise in these matters, coz they see it all. They’re right, they see it, they do not experience it.
Bruce of Newcastle,
I’m glad I got out of Hospital on the first of January. Even so there were Covid patients in my ward. As well as those suffering strokes,dementia and one amputee.
Secure ward too. Only the amputee escaped.
Saint Germain,
No fat shaming please.
This isn’t that sort of blog.
Similar experience, different starting point.
I went through the deeply depressing 1960’s UK Secondary Modern system, in an atmosphere of assumed failure and lowest common denominator teaching. Then the struggle out of the educational black hole through night school and tech college.
Years later, I recognised exactly the same setup in the Queensland State system – and we went private, with the same outcomes you describe.
Plus organised sport.
Not a great many private schools in Australia. A lot of those shonky colleges but they are usually post secondary.
I think some posters have somehow confused independent schools with an English system.
Trust me on this.
Yes. In addition, for my son, there was the Cadet unit.
It wasn’t until years later, as he sat with the other labourers at smoko talking about school, that he realised not all schoolboys get to go to Singleton and do cool stuff with big dirty green vehicles and things that go “pop”. And, incidentally, get to command a group of little skinny scrotes who’s mothers overpacked their knapsacks (including one poor little soul who brought his teddy bear). He earned god-like status by carrying several said backpacks at once to a campsite when the spaghetti legs gave out.
That toughened him up, along with playing tight head. It probably also prepared him for a life other than chair warming, but he wasn’t to know that for many years.
Not confused at all, Miss.
England – Public (Elite and Independent), Grammar and Comprehensive
Australia – Private (GPS, CAS and Independent), and Public (Selective and Comprehensive)
And there are the Catholic schools, some of which are GPS.
All have a price tag, and you usually but not always get what you pay for.
Like most things British, there are gradations in the Public school system, from ridiculously expensive elite boarding establishments to those that take day pupils. I suspect the grades are as infinitesimal in class status as the angle the cutlery is placed on the empty plate.
In Australia, there are still big boarding schools but most are a mix of boarders and day boys/girls, with the boarders very much a small coterie in the life of the school.
JC
Centenarians really wanted Trump out – even those who were dead.
Bloody Silent Generation”.
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure
January 24, 2022 at 2:12 pm
Fair Shake says: January 24, 2022 at 12:51 pm
A Friend and her family will subject to a violent home invasion 18months ago in South East Melbourne. Partner stabbed, family terrorised, new cars stolen. All 7 – African in appearance – caught shortly after. First one sentenced last week. 15yo. 12months probation. Youth Justice Department requested good behaviour bond. FFS what a joke.
Having seen the U-turn in the manner in which justice/punishment is administered in similar circumstances…
….. what is needed is for a couple of senior judiciary to personally experience a similar violent home invasion.
We think along the same lines. I suggested finding out the YJD heads address and pass it along to the scallywags. Should they consider a repeat event, try the address provided.
“Not a great many private schools in Australia. A lot of those shonky colleges but they are usually post secondary.
I think some posters have somehow confused independent schools with an English system.
Trust me on this.”
No confusion whatsoever. There are a lot of private schools in Oz…..GPS, Catholic, Anglican, Jewish, Muslim and other faiths. Almost all are faith schools however there are some that aren’t….such as Reddam.
The private school system is growing too.
Rugby union story.
Second year at boarding school in the Rat. Year 11. I was six one and about 80kg. I watched a bit of the rugger being played, and despite being a proper footy kid thought I’d give that a run – on the back of seeing the Ella brothers, Campese etc on TV. Lots of tweed, pipes, scarves and so on. Looked frightfully civilised.
Straightforward setup. Throw backward, run forward. Got it.
Fronted the coach/also teacher. ‘No experience, Sir. Want to give this a go.’
He looked me up and down, and then said ‘You can be a tight head prop.’
‘Awesome’, I said. ‘What’s that?’ By Christ I found out, packing in against proper rugby school teams where the front row are all five foot six and 110kg.
Stuck the season out. Never again. I had traps and shoulders like Schwarzenegger by the end of the year, just from being isometrically crushed by about 600 kg of packs that knew what they were doing.
“callisays:
January 24, 2022 at 2:55 pm”
Snap Calli.
Below is a comment I just had rejected at The Australian. Was under article about Retail wanting Government to mandate booster. Overall I do find The Australian much better than The Courier Mail at letting comments through.
“The Government reduced the time to 3rd shot from 6 to 3 months when USA is still at 5 months.
Meanwhile an article in The Australian a few days ago said the 3rd and 4th shots in Israel were not that effective against Omicron. Even the CEO of Pfizzer has said first two not effective against Omicron.
I dont understand the issue about workers being off at home for so long. Even if close contact or have Covid it is now 7 days off. How many 7 day absences are people getting ? Rotated through a large supermarket staff we should be at a point when most already been off. A small business admittedly could lose all staff at same time but that has nothing to do with making the booster mandatory.
Unfortunately since Federal Government is buying such large quantities of vaccines it is obvious they will mandate the 3rd. Plus Greg Hunt has already asked Pfizzer to be given priority for their next one.
Not a fan of 3rd or 4th”
Australia – Private (GPS, CAS and Independent), and Public (Selective and Comprehensive)
In Queensland this is complicated by State High , which is simultaneously public and GPS.
It’s also a contributing factor in Queensland politics. State High is a great school – exceptionally resourced, with co-curricula offerings like no other State school. Hence its inner city catchment area has been ‘gentrified’ with Green- leaning folk who probably work in government.
As far as I’m aware the federal gov has not mandated any of the jabs.
KD: similar experience. But my name down for rugby in Third Form because there were no other volunteers, so I figured I might be able to avoid sport altogether. Anyway, the list did fill up and I found myself being coached by a Mr Raper, whose family name meant nothing to this Victorian. He was great and I ended up loving it much more than I ever did when playing footy.
I liked breakaway better than second row. You didn’t cop it in the face quite so much.
England – Public (Elite and Independent), Grammar and Comprehensive
Australia – Private (GPS, CAS and Independent), and Public (Selective and Comprehensive)
In the UK they distinguish between “public” (not for profit – usually though not always affiliated with a religious denomination) and “private” (owned and operated like any other private enterprise business).
Miss is right that there are few “private” schools in the UK sense in Australia. The UK sense of the term survives in the names of Victoria’s “Associated Public Schools” and NSW’s and Qld’s “Great Public Schools”. Some of the current APS schools were “private” for some time but were only admitted to the APS after becoming “public” in the UK sense.
My dear Doctor,
One begs to differ.
It is more than semantics.
A private school is run for the pecuniary interests of its owners.
An independent school is not.
You may like to check this.
Please do.
Juvenile blood when transfused is supposed to have revivifying effects. The internet told me it was so.
h/t WSJ (above)
Earlier, I read that President Brandon has demanded foreign truckies (both southern and northern borders) have to posses vaccination passports to enter the US. The fucking idiot, the completely demented cockhead could cause or help fire up a serious supply chain crisis. He’s a worthless , dumb piece of shit.
Areff,
Everyone prefers breakaway.
For obvious reasons.
Earlier, I read that President Brandon has demanded foreign truckies (both southern and northern borders) have to posses vaccination passports to enter the US.
Presumably, though, if they claim to be illegal immigrants that will be waived?
“In Queensland this is complicated by State High , which is simultaneously public and GPS.
It’s also a contributing factor in Queensland politics. State High is a great school – exceptionally resourced, with co-curricula offerings like no other State school. Hence its inner city catchment area has been ‘gentrified’ with Green- leaning folk who probably work in government.”
Similar to what’s here in NSW with our state selective schools….Sydney Girl’s High and Sydney Boy’s High, Jame Ruse High, Fort Street and so on.
Juvenile blood when transfused is supposed to have revivifying effects.
Norman Spinrad “Bug Jack Barron”.
Were any of the public schools such as Melbourne Grammar ever for profit with shareholders? In a sense these schools would be closer to endowments in that they would likely make a profit but it’s called an operating surplus but isn’t distributed to shareholders. It’s just kept in the school’s accounts tax free.
Ahhh. *changes viewing angle*
I seeeeee.
My demarcation line was “not run by the State”. Of course here, the State pays oodles into the “Private” system. And he who pays the piper…
I loved Rugby.
Only one thing stopped me playing for Australia.
Razey,
Federal Government does not have to mandate the jabs when they know states will do it for them. WA, Qld, VIC and the state of Hadley just itching to do it.
It is a bit like when PM said nobody should lose their job over not having a jab. How did that work out for people?
Heh. The things that toughened up boy-o was labouring – digging, barrowing, more digging. With the occasional bit of stonework.
Set him up.
The sideways smile .. you just want to smash his teeth in.
“Were any of the public schools such as Melbourne Grammar ever for profit with shareholders? In a sense these schools would be closer to endowments in that they would likely make a profit but it’s called an operating surplus but isn’t distributed to shareholders. It’s just kept in the school’s accounts tax free.”
Correct…it’s also how UK public schools such as Eton and Harrow work.
Miss A: Yes, I got through HSC without a broken nose. That required attendance at a nightclub.
Were any of the public schools such as Melbourne Grammar ever for profit with shareholders? In a sense these schools would be closer to endowments in that they would likely make a profit but it’s called an operating surplus but isn’t distributed to shareholders. It’s just kept in the school’s accounts tax free.
I don’t know whether any of them were ever organised as companies, but as an example Geelong College was owned by Dr George Morrison till his death in 1898, was then run by his son Norman Morrison for the benefit of Dr Morrison’s estate, but was then in 1908 sold by Norman Morrison to the Presbyterian Church at which point it became “public”. Prior to the 1908 sale the Morrison family could take the profits just like any business owner.
But, yes, as best I’m aware none of the “public” schools distribute any sort of dividend to any other entity, and they’re tax exempt. I understand that “Shore”, in Sydney, now has so much money that they literally don’t know what to do with it all.
The look he gives when he is soiling himself.
A friend had been a pro boxer and league player before enlisting.
His comment after his first game”Rugby? It’s effing thugby.”
Calli, what does GPS stand for? In particular, the P?
Muddy, if you’re about, check your email.
Looks more like a spasm actually.
He’s had 2 surgeries to repair brain issues so perhaps not surprising.
No worries though, he recently had a Colonoscopy and the Docs said his brain is fine.
It’s a contraction of the Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools of NSW (AAGPS).
Just off the top of my head – Shore, Sydney G, Kings, Newington, Joeys, Newington and Sydney Boys. Also some out of towners – Armidale.
There are more. They do posh sports like Head of the River.
Lol. Newington twice. I always think of it as Gryphondore. But it’s probably a wyvern.
This will no doubt go down like a lead balloon – I played halfback in my school rugby days.
The problem with rugby at school was we all hated it and were huge league fans. I used to also play league whenever the opportunity presented itself, while not letting on to my parents who were completely opposed to me playing any form of rugby, although they did let me play for a couple of seasons before I got completely sick of it.
Our favourite opponents were Cranbrook and Trinity, to whom we dished out many, many thrashings. Toughest opponents were bloody Barker.
I’m getting a strong thumb pricking sensation.
Could be just a vaxx injury.
Damm, accidentally reported comment while scrolling…
Disregard :/
Rabz, my sideline memories were that Waverley were utterly ruthless, particularly at home games. We’d get there and be half frozen before the brothers would march their team down to do battle.
Which they then did without mercy.
If I recall correctly, the visitors were always seated in the shade, too. 😀
Seems the media has learnt a word .. Home INVASIONS sounds sooo 2019-ish now we have BAT FLU rules we has home INTRUSIONS .. LOL!
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/police-release-images-of-man-wanted-over-alleged-fitzroy-north-home-intrusion-and-sexual-assault/ar-AAT4sax?li=AAgfYrC
Barker- on odious school if the alumni are anything to go by.
calli – various Waverly debacles have been consigned to the forgettery …
I prefer the more modern retro take on these things. Same muscle groups involved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi4pzKvuEQM
“I pronounce Sephardim like Seff-ah-deem and I’m not sure I have that right. But its come to my attention that the Sephardim have a different word to describe themselves and I feel under pressure to get on top of it.”
It’s “Seffh-ar-deem”.
While your here Plasmamortar I put urethane joints all through my E57 imported from the US. The setup was from the US 1970 Charger. It took 3 hrs to setup, measuring only. Each time an adjustment in the sequence was made, had to go back to the beginning and reset each adjustment. The handling was incredible.
Teams like Barker and Knox were beatable and we were competitive against them, but could never seem to outlast them.
On the other hand, copping pastings against the likes of Waverly and various GPS teams we used to play warm up matches against were not edifying experiences.
For the full newspeak effect I would have gone for “uninvited attendees”.
Wally,
GPS. Greater Public Schools
CAS Combined Associated Schools
CIS. Combined Independant Schools
CHS. Combined High Skules.
There are other competitions.
Grammer were the Easybeats.
I recall when Russell Fairfax played for Marcellin. A team on his own.
Now a lot of the schools give out sports scholarships to be competitive.
I feel that very sad.
You’re-in-trouble nyah, nyah naaa.
Bird?
Hi Bird.
Bye Bird.
“JCsays:
January 24, 2022 at 4:49 pm”
Snap JC.
Hi, Graeme. How the devil are you?
It begins.
Didn’t take long.
For your information Bird, ‘Saint Germain’ is pronounced ‘Eli Rosenbaum’.
‘Soon as I stop working I fat up again.’
Well porky, stop being a nuffy. How many former workplaces is it now you’ve been banned from, along with hospitals and train stations?
Heave yourself off the couch and go for a walk or something.
Dishing out a proper thrashing is when you play for the best paid schoolboy’s team
in the state and, due to an unfortunate lapse in judgement,
a couple of mature students pack down in the forwards. Once.
Anyone know if Canbra Marist still turns out weak bladdered nancy boys?
It is a well-known fact that the Sephardim made the Yamnya their bitches.
The poor old Yammos never got over it.
I went through the deeply depressing 1960’s UK Secondary Modern system, in an atmosphere of assumed failure and lowest common denominator teaching.
I suppose different areas of the UK had different systems .. I went to Grammar School (public) in 1960s County Durham and had an excellent education .. admittedly, most kids I knew in the comprehensive high schools didn’t fare so well but most weren’t overly interested .. Grammar School wore uniforms .. comprehensive was dress as you like .. the walk to & from school was often physically challenging .. LOL!
Bird’s home videos.
‘Your Dad is still warm bro.’
Yours isn’t.
And that’s your fault.
Areff,
Chicks dig broken noses. And scars.
Or so I’ve been told..
You lucky ,an.
History, literature buffs:
Is “Poldark” based on John Henry Vivian?
OK for street, but prone to fracture if used harder. In the end I went rubber or rose joint when rallying.
Hi Bird ,
To me, you have shown that Jews can be virtuous, since I have respect and reverence for Ayn Rand.
Have a nice day. 🙂
Shotkam is better. Start around the one minute mark.
Chubby Bird. Your arteries are clogged.
With fat.
Tick, tock.
Lost in the mist of time.
I presume you sat the 11 Plus exam at primary school – as I remember that was the nationwide exam that decided whether you were streamed Academic, or trade/factory/housewife.
I ended up working for the NCB in Durham, on a scholarship to University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Birdie
Stop it with this Jewish thing you had going. Not only is it evil but it also gives you a very bad look. Enuff!
‘couldn’t get up again from one of my torso-powered hooks to the body.’
Uh huh.
Do you mean ‘subcutaneous blubber-powered’?
Getting my head around some curious southern customs now we have moved South.
Went to an Aldi to check out the grog. Incidentally will have to get used to bottles of wine being available for less than $10. In the NT, the “floor price” system which is supposed to deter the long-grassers from grogging on – it doesn’t – meant that was the cheapest available.
One the way to the grog section passed a display of fog machines.
Yes, devices that when you turn them on and the element heats up can put out a cloud of fog as per dance floors and special effects in theatre.
Obviously there are goings-on in parties around here that I have only dreamt of.
Birdie, you’re now suggesting there’s a German- Jewish conspiracy, because the Rockefellers originate from the Rhineland. What’s going on?
Always trust the pricking thumbs.
My second Bird strike.
I just thought he was a bit odd at first.
Top Ender,
I’m still annoyed with the missus not letting me get a Naval searchlight. Or an air compressor.
If I go to Aldi on my own I am only allowed a small bag.
Brisbane to get yet another new pedestrian/cyclist bridge, this time linking PA Hospital with the Boggo Rd cross river rail station. That makes six by my count.
The wealth is created by yokels in the regions but it’s spent on urgan bugpeople in the city.
Maybe there’s something to be said for malapportionment?
Chris Kenny on Sky calling Amanda Stoker a “strong conservative”.
Umm Chris, no she’s not, she’s a “fair-weather conservative”.
Went from charmingly eccentric to Captain Rats in two posts.
Because Fruit Loops are better eaten than trusted, Graeme…
Welcome to the Wonderful, Wacky World of the Birdstrike.
#ShootOnSight
I’m on a low carb diet, Rex.
I could kill for a Tim Tam. And I hate the things.
Ahahaha they’ haven’t even sold the third dose and they’re already moving onto the fourth dose!
Kerry Chant:
This is the exact sales pitch that they were using for the third dose just a couple of weeks ago. This shit is crazy, they really think everyone in this country are a bunch of stupid rubes trapped in the room for while they give run their Timeshare sales strategy “one share, why not go for two shares, three shares is what we said at the start, four shares like we said will get this deal done and those doors unlocked!”.
Not with you, Graeme.
You and your madness would never allow it.
They are?
Or are you still offended because my nano-wrigglers ate your aether?
#Butthurt
As a good white man Graeme, I want you to shut the fuck up.
Anger, R. (2022). Perturbations in dark matter measurements: Nanna wrigglers ate my aether from a sub orbital chem trail Jenny flight platform owned by HAARP. Crackpotica. January 1(1) p.1. DOI: DOI DUH DUR D’OH.
My legions did report that the dark matter was indeed perturbed.
They’ve never been mooned by a black hole before…
#AstronomyPun
I am starting to think this “COVIDSafe” idea for NSW schools is an intentional inconvenience to nudge people to demand the end of all of this political theatre.
When are they going to do something about fat chicks?
I plan to rebuild the suspension, starting with this
Dot Johnson is right.
Unfortunately, they’re mostly correct in that assumption
A driver of a Tesla electric car using its Autopilot semi-autonomous driving system – which caused a crash in the US that killed two others – has been charged with vehicular manslaughter – believed to be the first of its kind.
As reported by The Washington Post, 27-year-old Kevin George Aziz Riad was sitting behind the wheel of a Tesla Model S sedan running Tesla’s Autopilot system, when on 29 December 2019 it “left a freeway and ran a red light in the Los Angeles suburb of Gardena” while “moving at high speed”.
The Tesla collided with a Honda Civic stopped at an intersection, the occupants of which – Gilberto Alcazar Lopez and Maria Guadalupe Nieves-Lopez – died at the scene. Riad and a passenger in the Tesla were “hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries,” according to the publication.
As Calli said above, Sydney Boys is part of the GPS competition in sports, and thus regarded as a GPS school although an State school. Sydney Girls too probably by now, a late extension.
As a young teenager I used to watch the ‘fancy’ cars stream towards Penrith down the Western Highway showing their school pennants for the Head of the River race, a big event back in the 50’s, one which made the front pages of the afternoon newspapers. I had almost no understanding in the 50’s about different school and social systems, although I did make friends with the daughter of a local publican out near Penrith once when I was fifteen, had left school and was living ‘independently’; we were invited to be models in the same charity fashion show together. She went to what I now know as a second tier private school, but her parents had so many tabs on that fact: her mother made her cut me dead once the show had finished. Sydney was very class and status conscious then, and I think in some ways, perhaps less obvious, it still is. Class and status are still touchy issues with many; mention them observationally at your peril.
Even in the mid-60’s when I had some GPS boyfriends at SydUni, one of whose mother btw was absolutely lovely to me, and came to comprehend the nature of the system, the Head of the River was still a dominant feature of Sydney’s elite social pages and the winner was always a front page headline. Those days are now long gone. Many private schools are now available, 30% or more of children are in private schools, and the GPS cachet is far less significant.
I ended up married to Hairy, a British Public School man, product of a very ancient tradition ending at Cambridge. All four of my children thus had private schooling, which he saw as necessary. The first two at less traditional schools (my choice, due to their natures and needs) and my two with Hairy (his choice) straight down the line of highly traditional top private schools. From there they went on to St. Paul’s College and The Women’s College at SydUni. These Colleges, with dining rooms and and halls flanked by historical portraits of famous alumni including some Prime Ministers, were and still are the natural ‘flow on’ arenas for the high achievers and the women they will marry. St. Paul’s for mainly GPS Anglican men, notably Shore, and Women’s for Anglican Girls mostly from wealthy schools such as Kambala (Eastern Suburbs) and Abbotsleigh (Upper North Shore). In both Colleges though, also a sprinkling of rural youngsters.
I have sat at High Table under my own steam at Women’s in the late 60’s when I was a tutor there; Hairy sat at High Table at St. Paul’s under his own far more prestigous steam when our son was there.
At various dinners at both places and elsewhere in some Sydney establishments, I have looked around and wondered at the strange places where life sometimes offers you a seat. Not always one I appreciate or enjoy. However, the same can be said for many other less salubrious landing places occupied by my rear end.
You go where life takes you, and sometimes it is a way that you have made yourself. Other times, not.
And this one’s for all you CRISPR Fans out there … many of whom also just happen to be Fans of The Jabs …
Dr. Vladimir Zev Zelenko
@DrZevZelenko
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mRNA can be used to deliver CRISPR gene editing technology. This is what Gates and Schwab mean when they say “it changes who you are.” These poison death shots are a way to alter your genetic code. You become made in the image of Gates and Schwab and NOT God. Wake up!!!
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31763806/
Cell-Selective Messenger RNA Delivery and CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing by Modulating the Interfac
Messenger RNA (mRNA) represents an emerging class of nucleic acid therapeutics for genome editing and genetic disease treatment. Delivering exogenous mRNA selectively to cells, however, remains a main challenge to broaden the biomedical application o…
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Posted on 1:11 AM · Jan 24th, 2022
Oh Bugger
I missed the Birdstrike
Just finished reading a real gem at Gutenberg – Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos, published in 1925.
It is an hilarious account of the adventures of a gold-digger, a perfect part for Marilyn Monroe. This girl manages to have the brains of a mushroom spore combined with the cunning of a shithouse rat when it comes to extracting money from men.
Highly recommended for Kittehs who need a laugh in these depressing times, and Cats who have a sense of humour. 🙂
Serious Question, will this change me into a zombie or into Venom, (please say Venom, please say Venom).
I will never forget my one and only rugby game…
Year 12. The Sports Master got sick of giving me the cane for wagging sport (it was my 6th consecutive round of 6 of the best). He said I looked like a winger (whatever that is) and to show up for training after school the next day, told him it wasn’t going to happen as I had airforce cadets and as CDTUO I had to be there.
Next sports day he was waiting for me at the classroom, asked where my gear was, “don’t own any”(true) so was given a set.
Got driven to the game and was told I was now a member of the 3rd grade rugby team. Then I had absolutely no idea of any of the rules or the object of the game other than 2 packs of boofheads smashing each other to the ground.
I kept out of the way near the line and when my school’s team were stupid enough to throw the ball at me, I either let it go outside the court, or I if I did catch it I chucked it to whoever from Epping Boys was closest. I was called in to shove my head up another players arse and to stand at the end of 2 lines. Said no to to the first, and wondered why we were lined up like that.
It was amusing to see the colour of our coach’s face, never seen brighter purple on anybody especially as I didn’t like him anyway. My school mates were also yelling and screaming at me, I shrugged it off as I really truly didn’t care.
Apparently it was the worse ever Rugby result for our school against anybody, and I believe that record still stands 40 or so years later.
On the positive side, the Principal gave me a dispensation for doing sport, and I was allowed to join the stay at school and do homework class.
Stronger Together
@isrisen1
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Replying to @DrZevZelenko
Can Covid Vaccines Alter DNA?
Reverse transcribed genomic insertion, synthetic DNA coding, gene deletion and quantum dot barcoding, COVID-22 pills and more…
Professor Luc Montagnier warns about manipulation of the human genome because humanity is far from understanding how it actually functions.
Dr. Daniel Nagase explains how and why reverse transcribed DNA can get integrated into the human genome.
Dr. Robert Malone, admits they do not understand how much protein is being made by any of these genetic vaccine-technologies, where it is being made in the human body and for how long it is being made by the human body.
Dr. Peter McCullough, the vaccines trigger an uncontrolled genetic run.
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Listen very closely! Reverse transcribed genomic insertion, synthetic DNA coding, gene deletion and quantum dot barcoding, COVID-22 pills and more… Professor Luc Montagnier warns about manipulation of the human genome because humanity is far from…
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Posted on 7:12 AM · Jan 24th, 2022
Not to leave out the Roman Catholic Colleges – St. Johns and Sancta Sophia. They were similar places to St. Pauls and Women’s in a similar relationship to each other for Catholic students. I also tutored for several terms at Sancta Sophia, and had pre-dinner sherry with the Mother Superior and the nuns there at that time, and some fairly disgusting meals. Women’s certainly had better food.
There has of course been a concerted move by the left to denigrate and get rid of these old remnant ‘bastions of privilege’ at Sydney University. And the Colleges themselves have tried to ‘democratise’, as the the Colleges at Oxford and Cambridge on which they were modelled in the nineteenth century.
St. Paul’s in particular has been under attack for it’s ‘hazing’, i.e. initiation rituals for newbies. I wondered how our son would go with them, but he ended up enjoying it all and taking it in good spirit. He made good friends at Paul’s who are still his friends now, in his late thirties. More so than at school actually. College life brought out latent strengths of character in both of our children.
I think Colleges in the old style operate rather as military institutions used to do. The loyalty is similar. Hairy is still involved with his old Cambridge College, where he is part of a push against the removal of a window in the Chapel dedicated to an eighteenth century man who once, horrors, had a minor mercantile dealing with a slave owner, for the slave ships arrived in the UK with cotton for sale. This man was a major contributor to education at Cambridge.
The past was another place, but the left just cannot let it be.
What’s the bet it will be managed down to a suspended sentence?
Terence Darrell Kelly has pleaded guilty to snatching four-year-old Cleo Smith while she was on a family camping trip.
The 36-year-old was dramatically arrested in the West Australian coastal town of Carnarvon in the early hours of November 3 — 18 days after the young girl vanished from the family tent at the remote Quobba Blowholes campsite.
Kelly faced Carnarvon Magistrates Court on Monday via video link from the maximum security Casuarina Prison in Perth where he entered his guilty plea to forcibly taking a child under 16.
The matter was committed to the WA District Court for March 25.
Kelly is also facing other charges, including assaulting a public officer, which he is yet to enter a plea to and that matter was adjourned until February 28.
https://furscience.com/
What’s a Furry?
The term furry describes a diverse community of fans, artists, writers, gamers, and role players. Most furries create for themselves an anthropomorphized animal character (fursona) with whom they identify and can function as an avatar within the community. Some furries wear elaborate costumes or paraphernalia such as animal ears or tails, or represent themselves as anthropomorphic animals in online communities such as Second Life.
Furry fandom is an inclusive term that describes the community of furries that span online, local, and international settings. The furry fandom is global, with hundreds of local groups existing worldwide and dozens of conventions held annually.
A small subset of furries (~20%), called “therians,” believe they are spiritually connected to animals, are less than (or more than) 100% human, are an animal trapped in a human body, or were an animal in a former life. Otherkin, like therians, feel spiritually connected to non-human species, but the species extend to mystical species, e.g., dragons, griffons, and minotaurs.
More than 75% of furries are under the age of 25. Approximately 84% of furries identify as male, 13% female, and 2.5% are transgender. Furries are predominantly (83.2%) white. Approximately one-third identify as exclusively heterosexual; furries are about five times more likely to identify as exclusively homosexual than the general population. Nearly 60% of the furry fandom reports part-time or full-time enrollment in post-secondary education.
Many of the negative stereotypes about the furry fandom were empirically tested and found to be unsubstantiated. When compared to a control group, furries were significantly more likely to have a history of being physically and verbally bullied, a difference particularly prominent during adolescence (61.7% vs. 37.1%). Our studies indicate that 65% of furries say that they have told almost no one in their family about their furry interests, and approximately 70% say that they have told almost no one they see in their day-to-day life (e.g., work). Approximately 60% of furries agreed that they felt prejudice against furries from society, while approximately 40% of furries felt that being a furry was not socially accepted. The more strongly a person identifies as a furry, the more likely they are to feel that they are treated worse by society for being furry. When seeking counseling or therapy for unrelated conditions, many furries report that they were driven away by therapists who ignored the problems they were experiencing (e.g., depression) and instead focused on “being furry” as the problem. Our studies also show that other fan groups dislike furries, so furries’ fears are founded.
Despite a history of bullying and significant social stigma, our research shows that furries benefit from fandom participation and interaction with like-minded others in a recreational environment, which is associated with greater self-esteem and greater life satisfaction. Despite negative stereotypes that pathologize or seek to “explain” furries in clinical terms, furries do not significantly differ from a control group (general population) with regard to their self-esteem, psychological well-being, or relationship satisfaction and, in fact, furries were more likely than the control group to have a better-developed, more coherent and stable identity. Contrasting stereotypes that portray the fandom as being simply a fetish, the most-cited draw to the furry fandom is its sense of belongingness, recreation, and escape from the mundaneness of daily life, as well as its appreciation of anthropomorphic art and stories. As a result of interacting with a community that values tolerance, acceptance, and open-mindedness, interaction with the furry fandom is associated with global citizenship—a sense of responsibility to act toward the betterment of the world (e.g., environmental concerns, valuing diversity). Most furries represent themselves and interact with the fandom using fursonas that represent idealized versions of themselves—usually more outgoing, sociable, extraverted and confident than themselves. Our research suggests that to the extent that furries identify with these idealized versions of themselves, they experience greater self-esteem and life satisfaction. Our longitudinal research is currently testing if spending time as their idealized fursona leads to positive changes in furries’ own personality. Furries, while having more active fantasy lives, are no more likely than the general population to engage in pathological forms of fantasy (e.g., delusion, escapism, excessive fantasy), and are more likely than members of the general population to engage in fantasy for healthy, beneficial reasons, including inspiring creativity, social interaction, and recreation.
Marvellous description, johanna.
Steve Hilton goes ballistic about the idiot biden, the fauci virus and the criminal swamp; 9 minutes:
https://twitter.com/NextRevFNC/status/1485463620146323459?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
forotravel
@forotravel
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? Keep injecting minors with the poison called vaccine and you’ll see what happend
? A 16-year-old teenager dies “SUDDENLY” in physical education class (RIP)..
Video – https://gettr.com/post/pq5tsn3ca7
00:09
Posted on 5:43 AM · Jan 24th, 2022
Marvellous description, johanna. 🙂
Oops! Sorry about the repeat.
YorkieLad1
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Dr. Michael Yeadon – The harm caused by Covid vaccines is strategy! https://chute.rocks/IsnhkvWmzB0O via @BitChute
Posted on 6:53 PM · Jan 24th, 2022
There’s your problem right there. Arrested development and leftist indoctrination to be whatever you wish to be no matter how ludicrious.
And a good reason for opting for novavax, assuming it actually does anything for omricon, unlike the mRNA clot shots.
However, novavax only has initial treatment conditional approval. Therefore, after 3 months you’d be on the mRNA treadmill to stay ‘valid’. I would be tempted to wait for novavax boosters to be ‘approved’ before starting any dosing. That way, more likely to remain mRNA free.
So Scumbag Morrison is being censored by China. I can’t stop laughing. Chickens come home to roost.
Scott Morrison’s Chinese social media account blocked
By Richard Wood • Senior Journalist
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s profile on a Chinese social media network has been blocked and rebranded with pro-Communist Party messaging.
Mr Morrison’s WeChat account, which has 76,000 followers, is the federal government’s main tool for communicating with Chinese Australians.
But the account has been blocked and renamed ‘Australian Chinese new life’ and its description changed to “provide life information for overseas Chinese in Australia”.
The Prime Minister’s Office has been trying to contact the the Chinese-owned app to regain access to the account but there has been no response.
WeChat is regularly monitored and censored by the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
The incident prompted calls today for politicians to boycott the app.
Senator James Paterson, Chair of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Intelligence, told 2GB radio it’s “very concerning”.
The Prime Minister’s Office is trying to contact WeChat and its owners to regain access of the account.
“What the Chinese government has done is effectively foreign interference in our democracy and in an election year.
“There is no reason for Australian politicians to be on there anymore if the Chinese government is going to set the terms of the debate.”
The WeChat account of Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese remains unaffected.”
A few points…..
1. This is the same Scumbag Morrison who tried to censor and silence several of his own MPs…..Craig Kelly and George Christensen.
2. Senator Paterson’s description of Morrison being censored as “very concerning”….sorry if I laugh, this is the same Senator Paterson who joined in the lynching of an Australian citizen in the senate for her free speech. I don’t recall the senator being concerned about that.
Interesting timing.
Marilyn Monroe herself was actually quite intelligent but seriously fucked-over by 1950’s psychiatry and a popular culture with a strange breast and leg fetish attached to ‘brainless blondes’. Marilyn played it for all she was worth, but ended up destroyed by it.
Her rambling diary entries during her time in psychiatric ‘care’ were for sale on the Queen Mary when we did ‘the crossing’. It was hugely invasive to read them under the glass case, let alone to think of wanting to purchase at auction this demonstration of her scarifying treatment.
Vale, Norma Jean.
He’ll be one of the “Stolen Generation” pleading “inter generational trauma.”
” Marilyn played it for all she was worth, but ended up destroyed by it”
Hard to believe that this year it’s sixty years since her death.
Just to confuse the uninitiated, some private and independent schools in Australia gather for sport under the umbrella term GPS which ironically stands for Great Public Schools.
A Mother Country hangover.
Nevertheless, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was a great show for its era. Jane Russell as the brunette was the smart one, Monroe the diamond fan (doing it for de Beers). Monroe stole the show in that song, which I can’t get on youtube because it is now under copyright; you can only get the film’s trailer, here.
Both girls were from the wrong side of the tracks. Somewhat glamorising what for many became an “Epstein” situation. But feisty women they both were, something about looking after yourself in a tough world that has been rather lost for women today.
Already bought and paid for.
Actually, long since.
Another stunning day here.
I’m on the road, or more accurately, on the rails, this fine morning, going from the east to the wilder west coast of Corsica, I wonder if the weather will be similar.
Surprise me.
Um yeah…that’s genetic hard wiring.
My two favourite Monroe films…….Some Like it Hot and The Misfits.
Exactly, it’s why we all love seeing young women in figure hugging clothes that accentuate their assets. 😉
Dover,
When Dr Flyingduk releases his video, would you please give it its own thread/headline and linky?
Thanks in advance.
Try Well Naturally no sugar chocolate. Low enough carbs to stay in keto, tastes better than Cadbury’s and other sundry brands, great variety of flavours. Available at Colesworths and through the Cat Amazon Store.
Downside: pricey, often sold out in in my fave flavours and addictive.
I limit myself to a couple of squares after dinner. Looking forward to a treat, no matter how small, makes it easier to make the right choices for the rest of the day. It’s working well!
Yesterday afternoon I walked up to Notre Dame de Montserat, a
15th century chapel with a convent attached, desecrated by Genoan soldiers in 1761 (there was a forty year long ‘civil’ war on Corsica) the chapel now has ‘scala sancta’ a gift from the Pope in 1884 after Corsica gave sanctuary to exiled Roman priests, Italy having its own bout of anti clericalism not long before.
Along the way up there were little springs, a couple captured in fountains but in the absence of potable signs I didn’t risk drinking the water.
Lots of beautiful villas overlooking the sea and a couple of late 19th century Catholic convents with large aged care homes.
I guess the charitable needs of the French remained after the institutions that provided them were expelled.
The situation of the old and sick without family or family too poor to provide for them must have been extremely precarious, so various orders returned to meet those needs.
As always the views to the Tuscan Coast were amazing.
Why Do OnlyFans Models Keep Getting Murdered?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHIpk8QrvGE&t=629s
Jan 24, 2022
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
archetype … wait ’til the dykes work out what they’ve lost
In your court, Duk. Send me an email via contact page.
At the tennis they play on The Rod Laver Arena
After our double slam hero
And also on The MC Arena
After somebody who won a few titles…
I think I’m as good as any to give out some free health advice.
When your prescriptions say things like take two tablets after meals. I want you to take a handful say more than six tablets. You will get better faster . Follow the science.
Epstein, Maxwell, Andrew, Teddy, Key, Teddy, Key, Perry, Panama, Pandora …
Yes, he’s been a great disappointment, Cassie.
The best description of rugby is surely the one in Wodehouse’s The Ordeal of Young Tuppy, where Bertie’s friend Tuppy Glossop gets involved in a village rugby match to impress a girl. The description of this murderous game, which turns out to be free of rules and in satisfaction of a feud with a rival village going back generations, is unquestionably one of the funniest pieces of writing ever.
It is certainly enough to turn all but the craziest/bravest from participating.
It’s under copyright still (bloody US copyright laws!) but is well worth hunting up and reading.
I’ll have to read it, Joh.
I’ve stood on the sidelines for church rugby also. Half time oranges. The Beloved was second row. Brutal stuff on iron-hard fields. The two teams would assemble, make their way to the midfield, bow their heads in prayer. After the “Amen” it was, “Look out!” and no holds barred. No wonder they prayed for divine protection.
Which didn’t always happen. Saturday afternoon at Ryde hospital at worst, bruised and battered boyfriend by candlelight at the restaurant usually.
The Game They Play in Heaven.
Chuckle. Sounds like The Geebung Polo Club without the horses.
Well I wouldn’t go so far as to say it tastes better than Cad’s but it is pretty darn good.
From James Paterson’s maiden speech to parliament:
Those ideals didn’t survive long in parliament.
I’m going to try it. I shall hunt it down by scent and slot. Chocolate is a Major Food Group and should not be ignored.
Ash Barty on the cover of The Australian:
She’s quite tanned up, whether a lamp or the Oz apply filters to aborigines, can’t say
insisting on an absolute Right to Free Speech is how we got into trouble.
Speech ain’t free.
Calli, I usually find it in the ”health” food section.
In winter.
Summer is leather on willow.
And to think they’re still going after Trump; hunter and his zombie dad should be tried for treason:
The Biden family received $31 million from Chinese officials with links to the highest levels of Chinese intel.
Peter Schweizer on Life, Liberty and Levin: “The Biden family, while he was vice president and continuing when he became president, received some $31 million from Chinese individuals who we’re linked to the highest levels of Chinese intelligence.”
Hunter Biden reportedly had such a robust relationship with a Xi regime-linked Chinese language businessman that he dubbed him the “Superchairman,” in line with Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer.
https://gellerreport.com/2022/01/biden-family-received-31-million-from-chinese-officials-with-links-to-the-highest-levels-of-chinese-intel.html/
Diogenes,
Air Force Cadets.
I see your problem right there.
Step away for a bit and the Cat goes gay talking about school boy rugby.
And I miss a bird strike.
Don’t be obtuse, Ed.
We’re not talking yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theatre.
Free speech is properly curtailed by laws regarding defamation and incitement to violence.
Other than that in a democracy it should be free and part of the to and fro of robust public discourse.
Just as we tolerate your words here.
A small glimpse of the deep state
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2019/01/gavin-newsoms-keeping-it-all-in-the-family/
Rogersays:
January 24, 2022 at 8:22 pm
From James Paterson’s maiden speech to parliament:
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
We are all diminished when anyone’s freedom of speech is taken away. Even if the law never prevents us from saying things we might want to say, today it certainly prevents us from hearing things which we might want or need to hear. It prevents us from knowing what our fellow citizens believe. It denies us the opportunity to refine our thinking and develop our own ideas. Freedom of speech and freedom of thought are inseparable. For as long as I am in this place, I will stand up for free speech.
Those ideals didn’t survive long in parliament.
Talks a world class game on many things.
I don’t recall him ever delivering.
JC’s post at 1:50pm is exactly what Mollie Hemmingway refers to in her book.
The billionaires flooding Wisconsin, Michigan & Minnesota effectively taking over taxpayer funded infrastructure that in turn got the dead to vote.
says the bloke who yelled, “gypsum”
The worst Rugby injuries I saw were generally in 7 a side and kickabouts.
In serious games there seemed to be just superficial blood and the odd broken rib.
Lots of sprig marks. Particularly if you could get the other half into the bottom of a ruck. Nasty evil little hobgoblins that they are. They deserved it.
But don’t you remember Paterson doing it tough in quarantine before the taxpayer funded charter shuttle took him & all the Victorian pollies to Canberra?
He even grew a bum fluff beard!
And then he started a group called the Wolverines.
That’s young Liberal hard-on stuff right there.
Like Amanda Stoker, he’s too young to be in parliament.
I think Rabz triggered me.
Suppressed memory of getting a perfect tackle off one once.