Open Thread- Mon 24 Jan 2022


The Pioneer, Frederick McCubbin, 1904

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Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 25, 2022 11:25 pm

I think they have water tanks.

Their prosecutions office is in Tank Street. Otherwise, and to paraphrase Neville Bartos:

‘There’s no tanks here. Here? No tanks.’

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 25, 2022 11:25 pm

re Battery Risks.
mc – in writing, on your policy. Always.

Oh, yes.
An Iron Law.

The insurance industry is currently circling the wagons around the risk, looking for transfer opportunities (aka your policy not responding, because wording).

Click the link at the bottom of the piece for detail.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 25, 2022 11:26 pm

How you going with Chips Channon’s Diaries, Zulu?
What’s good ol’ Chips up to this week?

rickw
rickw
January 25, 2022 11:27 pm

Weren’t they buying assault rifles at one stage?

I believe that they’ve now accumulated around 700 M4’s in semi automatic. My guess is that by now plenty will have had the trigger group changed out to allow select fire operation. “Because we need more bigger stuff.”

The disgusting symbiotic relationship between Vikpol and Viklab is probably nothing more than Viklab giving Vikpol the money to buy new toys.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 25, 2022 11:31 pm

Tanks.

Snork.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 25, 2022 11:31 pm

‘The Queensland Police have got tanks.’

The Queensland Police have Bearcats.
I suspect they spend most of their lives parked up somewhere.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 25, 2022 11:32 pm

How you going with Chips Channon’s Diaries, Zulu?
What’s good ol’ Chips up to this week?

The reading in the cold, old, rightwing cave that serves as my library is Thomas Packenham’s history of the “Scramble for Africa.” There’s some interesting stuff on King Leopold’s reign of terror in the Congo, and the German genocide in Namibia. You really should read more widely, you won’t beclown yourself on the Cat quite so often.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 25, 2022 11:37 pm

Speedbox says:
January 25, 2022 at 11:19 pm
…Good luck to you and your old Mazda Bruce, but EVs are coming. Get used to it.

Speedbox – I don’t know whether you’ve noticed it but the world is undergoing what will most likely be a massive change.

Depending on who dominates the new world, the best outcome for EVs will be EVs only for the elite.

The alternate outcome will see commonense prevail and all this green b/s will be consigned to the the garbage tips along with the aforementioned elite.

So there will be no “get used to it” – either a new feudal order for the elites or a sensible world.

Dot
Dot
January 25, 2022 11:39 pm

Did Outsiders cover the Kamloops narrative collapse?

That smelt like trash from day 1.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 25, 2022 11:39 pm

Ah, yes.
Bearcats.
Looks like a tank, operates like a tank.
Tanks, yep, the Queensland Police have got tanks.
https://www.lencoarmor.com/model/bearcat-g3-police-government/

Dot
Dot
January 25, 2022 11:41 pm

BMW 535d — 230kW; 630Nm @ 1500-2500rpm; 0-100km/h 5.5 s

Where is the love hearts from the eye sockets emoji?

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 25, 2022 11:41 pm

Thomas Packenham’s history of the “Scramble for Africa.

Never heard of him.
Court Historian, by any chance?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 25, 2022 11:43 pm

Perhaps I should admit I’m a revhead, even at my age.

So it’s not just feeding wild birds and caring about old stone buildings that we have in common, Bruce.

Yep. I just love the throaty roar as I surge the turbo in the Q5 up heartbreak hill. The thrill of all of that power in the pedal as the great car leaps forward eagerly at my bidding.

Maybe it’s genetic. My dad raced a Maserati at Goodwood in the 1930’s, something I won’t tell you more about here. I have my reasons and I doubt this place could appreciate or deserves the full story.

Speedbox
January 25, 2022 11:46 pm

Fat Tony says:
January 25, 2022 at 11:37 pm

Ultimately, time will tell.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 25, 2022 11:46 pm

1. Doesn’t look like a tank, except to shut-ins who’ve never seen one.
2. Does not spearhead breakthroughs of several armies out of the Normandy bocage, or into the Iraqi desert.
3. Is not equipped with main armament able to destroy actual tanks five kilometres away.
4. Does not carry mounted .50 or .30 machine guns.
5. Uses rack and pinion steering.
6. Does not have tracks.
7. Not a tank.
8. You are an idiot.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 25, 2022 11:55 pm

Never heard of him.
Court Historian, by any chance?

It’s not a crim to be ignorant, Grogs – it’s a crime to stay that way.

John H.
John H.
January 25, 2022 11:57 pm

Fat Tonysays:
January 25, 2022 at 11:37 pm
Speedbox says:
January 25, 2022 at 11:19 pm
…Good luck to you and your old Mazda Bruce, but EVs are coming. Get used to it.

And with EVs the grid will be crushed, we will have brown outs every night, fires will rage through the city as batteries charge, and everyone will leave their mobile phones on the lawn at night in dreaded fear those will catch fire and burn the kids to death.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 25, 2022 11:57 pm

My dad once went flying down Conrod Strait at Mt. Panorama in Bathurst and into the escape route as his brakes failed, turned around, roared down Pitt Strait and still came in with a place. My mother was fainting with horror. I had a rather abstracted interest. I spent most Easters as a kid at Bathurst brought up on the smell of racing car fuel. He was a foundation member of the Australian Racing Drivers club.

In the late 40’s and early 50’s he made, and spent on himself, a fair bit of money.

MatrixTransform
January 25, 2022 11:58 pm

like redox flow cells

oh gawd, been listening to that for 20 years
and solar cell efficiency
not quite as old as flux capacitors though

if everybody wishes hard enough, it’ll all come true

The Fed Gov will be legislating new laws of thermodynamics this year for sure

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 26, 2022 12:00 am

Next car: gotta be a Merc. One with guts and go. And no effing EV thanks.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 26, 2022 12:00 am

Lizzie – if you got racing car stories to tell, please do – there are many petrolheads around here.

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 26, 2022 12:01 am

Mark McGowan ordered to leave WA to attend Clive Palmer defamation trial in person

The Premier said in an affidavit that if his evidence was to conclude by the end of February 4, he would have to be in quarantine for the two weeks to February 19 upon his return to WA.

“It is not possible to participate virtually or remotely in the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of Western Australia,” he said.

WA currently has a hard border, with quarantine conditions imposed on travellers from every other state and territory. The planned reopening of the border on February 5 has been pushed back indefinitely.

Best hoist-by-one’s-own-petard moment ever. I think I might give the UAP candidate my first preference solely on the strength of this epic Fuck You McGowan move.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 26, 2022 12:03 am

Midnight and the garden has good and evil. Nothing to see there.

Or here really. It’s time, gentlemen, it’s time.

Sleep well.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 26, 2022 12:05 am

MatrixTransform says:
January 25, 2022 at 11:58 pm
The Fed Gov will be legislating new laws of thermodynamics this year for sure

They’re gonna have to if they want EVs in every pot, or whatever.

I’ve put references to flux capacitors in a few Compliance Plans for rail/rolling stock over the years – nobody’s picked up on it yet. Time will tell.

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 26, 2022 12:05 am

For today and probably for the rest of the week, Clive Palmer is my hero.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 26, 2022 12:05 am

Best hoist-by-one’s-own-petard moment ever. I think I might give the UAP candidate my first preference solely on the strength of this epic Fuck You McGowan move.

No chance of right wing dissidents being able to mount a coup?

flyingduk
flyingduk
January 26, 2022 12:09 am

1. Doesn’t look like a tank, except to shut-ins who’ve never seen one.
2. Does not spearhead breakthroughs of several armies out of the Normandy bocage, or into the Iraqi desert.
3. Is not equipped with main armament able to destroy actual tanks five kilometres away.
4. Does not carry mounted .50 or .30 machine guns.
5. Uses rack and pinion steering.
6. Does not have tracks.
7. Not a tank.

Cant really tell but it doesn’t appear to be mine resistant..

Gabor
Gabor
January 26, 2022 12:09 am

MatrixTransform says:
January 25, 2022 at 11:58 pm

like redox flow cells

oh gawd, been listening to that for 20 years
and solar cell efficiency
not quite as old as flux capacitors though

if everybody wishes hard enough, it’ll all come true

The Fed Gov will be legislating new laws of thermodynamics this year for sure

Matrix, you can raise the efficiency of wind turbines or solar cells by a million %, the only benefit will be that there would be a lot fewer of them.
It will not change the equation in the renewable energy field.

If the wind doesn’t blow or the sun doesn’t shine, no power.

MatrixTransform
January 26, 2022 12:09 am

if anybody has an argument for the guaranteed future of EVs and the savior of the planet once the Net Zero Singularity is conjured, I’d love to hear it.

… not ‘faith’ based would be a good start

go

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 26, 2022 12:14 am

The Centurion Tank wasn’t real Mine resistant, according to some.
Still a Tank, or not a tank?

MatrixTransform
January 26, 2022 12:14 am

raise the efficiency of wind turbines or solar cells by a million %

there are physical limits to both

apparently, the confluence of finance and stupidity reverses entropy

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 26, 2022 12:14 am

1. Doesn’t look like a tank, except to shut-ins who’ve never seen one.
2. Does not spearhead breakthroughs of several armies out of the Normandy bocage, or into the Iraqi desert.
3. Is not equipped with main armament able to destroy actual tanks five kilometres away.
4. Does not carry mounted .50 or .30 machine guns.
5. Uses rack and pinion steering.
6. Does not have tracks.
7. Not a tank.

Fully equipped, it could make a mess of a heap of demonstrators. If you got killed by it, I doubt you’d feel better because it’s not a tank.

Any idea of just what the fuckers are planning to use it on (apart from demonstrators or non-compliant suburbia)?

Speedbox
January 26, 2022 12:15 am

MatrixTransform says:
January 25, 2022 at 11:58 pm

I don’t know whether redox flow cells are any good or not. Viable? No idea. But I do know that a 5kW/30kWh one has been installed as a trial at WA Water Corp’s hub in Shenton Park. Powers a mobile water purification unit.

bespoke
bespoke
January 26, 2022 12:15 am

rickwsays:
January 25, 2022 at 10:50 pm

I ask next time I visit. He’s the Mil’s boyfriend so Ill have to distract her with something she can sacrifice.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 26, 2022 12:20 am

Any idea of just what the fuckers are planning to use it on (apart from demonstrators or non-compliant suburbia)?

They just drive it straight thru the front of your house and things get worse from there.
Absolutely no fucking reason for the cops to have Tanks, but they’ve got them anyway.

flyingduk
flyingduk
January 26, 2022 12:26 am

The Centurion Tank wasn’t real Mine resistant, according to some.
Still a Tank, or not a tank?

Yep, anything flat bottomed is vulnerable to a well placed mine. I was making an observation about the limitation of the Bearcat if used for other than ‘police work’… should such information ever be relevant. It didnt reallyl seem to have the V hull and sacrificial panniers of an MRAP.

Gabor
Gabor
January 26, 2022 12:27 am

MatrixTransform says:
January 26, 2022 at 12:14 am

raise the efficiency of wind turbines or solar cells by a million %

there are physical limits to both

OK badly worded, I didn’t mean you can actually raise the efficiency to that degree.
I meant even if you could it wouldn’t make a difference other than needing less of them.

rosie
rosie
January 26, 2022 12:31 am

I have now visited Napoleon’s birthplace.
I did not know he was an untitled aristo whose genealogy could be traced back to the twelfth century.
In another town the family home would have been described as a palais not a maison.
And in a delightful surprise for the budget traveller today was an ‘exceptionelle’ free day at both the museum of Napoleon’s house and the museum of Cardinal Fesch*, the grand collector of sometimes questionable provenance art.
I gather quite a few of the pieces his collection of religious art have found their way back into churches in villages outside Ajaccio.
Both worth a visit if that’s your thing and you happen to be here.
*half uncle of Napoleon, six years his senior.

John H.
John H.
January 26, 2022 12:44 am

Gaborsays:
January 26, 2022 at 12:09 am
if everybody wishes hard enough, it’ll all come true

The Fed Gov will be legislating new laws of thermodynamics this year for sure

Matrix, you can raise the efficiency of wind turbines or solar cells by a million %, the only benefit will be that there would be a lot fewer of them.
It will not change the equation in the renewable energy field.

If the wind doesn’t blow or the sun doesn’t shine, no power.

Forget about renewables, failed experiment.

There are no guarantees. Just as there were no guarantees with the first car, train travel, air travel. Once upon a time they thought these toys would only be for the elite. EVs are inevitable. They are much more energy efficient, much better off the line, and economies of scale will eventually kick in. Thus has it ever been with new technologies but this site is populated by so many pessimists pronouncing doom and gloom it may as well be a haven for luddites. Vaccines destroy the immune system, by now we should be having brown outs every week, sovereign debt will ruin nation(tell Japan that), China is going to invade tomorrow(China can’t even invade its own backyard), there is a vast cabal that is using COVID to bring us all under authoritarian rule(sure, since when did authoritarians having successfully planted the knee on the neck lift it off?).

Too many panic monkeys. If you find the world that glum try some Xanax.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
January 26, 2022 1:07 am

Mark McGowan ordered to leave WA to attend Clive Palmer d3famation trial in Sydney

If sneakers brings Omicron back to Perth, he will never hear the end of it.

_

(apologies for pre-emptive editing of the d-word in case automods block that one)

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 26, 2022 2:30 am

Australia Day is acknowledged with some top shelf, vintage clownworld at Their (no, really – get the pronoun right) ABC:

As a queer, trans, non-binary and disabled person, Stevie has experienced their own share of discrimination in their life and says for them, advocating for Indigenous people goes beyond January 26.

“We need an intersectional approach to addressing discrimination otherwise we all miss out,” they say.

They sound like they’re pretty fucked, don’t they? ?

It’s just so good.

Tom
Tom
January 26, 2022 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
January 26, 2022 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
January 26, 2022 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
January 26, 2022 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
January 26, 2022 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
January 26, 2022 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
January 26, 2022 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
January 26, 2022 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
January 26, 2022 4:12 am
Anchor What
Anchor What
January 26, 2022 6:28 am

The latest in “no evidence of 2020 election fraud”:
Georgia officials edited surveilance video of drop boxes before handing it over to investigators. Four hours missing.
Link

Anchor What
Anchor What
January 26, 2022 6:38 am

You reckon these people won’t fiddle with the Half Terms?

Stalinesque Cruelty: Biden’s FDA Blocks Florida from Using Life-Saving Monoclonal Antibody Treatments for COVID Patients

Link

Anchor What
Anchor What
January 26, 2022 6:45 am

The kids at News website are going activist about Australia Day again.
“Australian settlement morally wrong and illegal under 18th century international law”.
Yeah, right.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 26, 2022 6:54 am

“Australian settlement morally wrong and illegal under 18th century international law”.

They going to tell Putin to give Siberia back to the Inuit too? I didn’t think so.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 26, 2022 7:01 am

He should rename it Dodo.

Fed-up Turkey chooses to change its name to end anglicised confusion (25 Jan)

The country, now known as Türkiye internationally, is opting for the adjustment to avoid confusing with the English word, “turkey”.

A new campaign, entitled “Hello Türkiye”, is already underway on social media.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announcing the move in a communique, said: “The word Türkiye represents and expresses the culture, civilisation, and values of the Turkish nation in the best way.”

The old name would be more accurate too, since the place is stuffed.

Gab
Gab
January 26, 2022 7:05 am

Australian settlement morally wrong and illegal under 18th century international law”.

Even if this was true, so what? Over 200 hundred years later why are they still bemoaning this? Perpetuating victimhood is an empty gesture that solves nothing.

bespoke
bespoke
January 26, 2022 7:08 am
feelthebern
feelthebern
January 26, 2022 7:08 am

Some observations from the Australia day awards.

It’s so Australian that former bankrupts, former directors of companies who were investigated for over a decade for criminal activities and wives of corporate Australia are so well represented.

It’s very reasonable that these fake awards are handed out to fake professors considering there were so many emeritus professors awarded them this year.

If you want to get a gong, your best bet is to work with David Gonski because I’m already up to 4 of his associates so far.

Finally, if you’re in your 60’s or 70’s and get an award, why would you include your attendance at private school 50 odd years ago in your bio (which the recipient supplies).

Pogria
Pogria
January 26, 2022 7:13 am

Up thread last night, some one asked if Australia Day holds any meaning for readers.
I love Australia Day and celebrate every year. I pay no attention to the screamers and muckrakers. I have mentioned before that my parents came here after they had escaped a communist country. I am forever grateful to them and to Aus.

While the last couple of years have been “eventful”, for me and to deal with it I have been “living in my own private Idaho”, until I can close the door on that period, I sincerely believe that if I had been resident in any other country, I would not have been able to resolve the present situation without the help and steadfastness I have been afforded here in Australia.

bespoke
bespoke
January 26, 2022 7:21 am

Pogriasays:
January 26, 2022 at 7:13 am

My sentence too, Although cynicism creeps in occasionally at end of the day I am lucky.

Cheers

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 26, 2022 7:22 am

Ed.

Look at Spooner’s cartoon. That is a tank.

A Bearcat is effectively an armoured 4WD. It is not a tank.

God. It’s like Play School.

bespoke
bespoke
January 26, 2022 7:22 am

sentiments

Pogria
Pogria
January 26, 2022 7:25 am

I knew what you meant Bespoke, and thanks.

Anchor What
Anchor What
January 26, 2022 7:28 am

There was a UN and an International Court of Justice in the 18th century?
Who knew?

bespoke
bespoke
January 26, 2022 7:29 am

KD, Once again over the top claims distract what could be genuine concerns.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 26, 2022 7:34 am

Once you get to medals in the general division, there are so many husband & wives awarded them at the same time.
Out of a population of 26mill, what are the odds?

calli
calli
January 26, 2022 7:36 am

Happy Australia Day, Cats!

Lamb roast for lunch with Mum and Dad – a family tradition, more precious with every year I still have them with me. This time it’s one of those boneless things and I’m roasting it on a bed of rosemary.

I see our new AOTY is a reasonable choice after last year’s angry, immature halfwit. I was worried it might be one of our hideous “medical” jailers elevated to the position.

calli
calli
January 26, 2022 7:38 am

It’s getting like Oprah, bern.

Everyone gets a prize!

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 26, 2022 7:39 am

The record bio went over onto a third page.
The best bio was two lines, a parish organ player since 1967, that’s the way it should be.
In the Jack Gibson style, played strong done good.

Anchor What
Anchor What
January 26, 2022 7:39 am

Most of the Australia Day awards (over time) go to (i) prominent people who did nothing special except be high profile/recognisable in some way, (ii) public servants and defence force officers who were just doing their jobs, and (iii) entertainers, artists and authors as per (i) above, who again were just doing their jobs.
What we don’t see enough of are citizens who have contributed above and beyond the usual to their communities. Too boring.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 26, 2022 7:40 am

Fat Tony at 12.14 overnight:

Bearcats are not new. They’ve been around for more than 15 years*, and every State and Territory in Australia has them.

They were handed out by the Federal Government for use in counter-terrorist roles, and they all got the same model because there was a school of thought that said the CT cops should have the same gear for interoperability purposes.

Apparently and allegedly, most of the times these have been used for this purpose have been in the middle of the night, with little if any vision of them going to work. Yes they have driven through houses. Terrorists’ houses, and despite a current school of thought favoured by some that says the work of CT police should be freely available for critique to the average punter 24/7, it is not the case and rightly so#.

They’ve also been used for rescue work during sieges, putting them between armed crooks and people they’d like to shoot. Wheeling in bomb squad people to ticking things. Stuff like that.

Over time, there have been various cops with hands on levers in various places keen to use Bearcats for things other than their intended purpose. By and large, they have been shut down. Most of the time these things are out and about they’re conducting training.

*Yes, yes. Part of the long term plan to have ‘tanks on the streets’ enslaving the population, driving them into the tunnels. I know right?

#Yes the Lindt Cafe was shit work by every part of the NSW jacks involved in it. Should have been given to the ‘kinetic resolution’ ADF people at the outset. Even then, I am prepared to say they wouldn’t have used tanks.

calli
calli
January 26, 2022 7:40 am

a parish organ player since 1967

You’d think they would pull out all the stops on that bio, but nooooo…

*slinks away*

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 26, 2022 7:41 am

Well played calli, well played.

calli
calli
January 26, 2022 7:42 am

What we don’t see enough of are citizens who have contributed above and beyond the usual to their communities. Too boring.

Don’t be silly.

We can’t encourage that type of thing. People might stop relying on government to do stuff for them if they were rewarded for doing it themselves.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 26, 2022 7:47 am

Going back to the ancestral seat today, for a couple of days before return to the Top End.

Might see Mum for Straya Day. I’m sure she’ll appreciate the David Boon tattoo portrait voucher I got her.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 26, 2022 7:51 am

The drug that must not be named news.

Large, Peer-Reviewed Research Study Proves Ivermectin Works Against COVID-19 (24 Jan)

Maybe the TGA should unban it then.

srr
srr
January 26, 2022 7:53 am

GoldenSummit
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Dr. Malone Reveals Nancy Pelosi Asked Him Not To Speak About CDC Data, Could Have Changed Everything [VIDEOS]

Dr. Malone Reveals Nancy Pelosi Asked Him Not To Speak About CDC Data, Could Have Changed Everything [VIDEOS]
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Within the Biden administration and Democratic Party, one word continues to be passed around press conferences, interviews, and Q&As – reset. Of

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feelthebern
feelthebern
January 26, 2022 7:54 am

Good on people celebrating Australia Day.
I don’t anymore.
Around the R-G-R years, I stopped.
To me, celebrating Australia day is like celebrating having a fantastic steak & then burning it to crisp.
Or being up by 40 points at half time in a grand final & then losing by a lot.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 26, 2022 7:59 am

People want real meat and real cars. Not Gaia chariots and coloured and textured soya.

Impossible Foods “Makes Organization Changes” As Fake Meat Fad Rots (24 Jan)

The problem with Beyond Meat is that growth in fake meat sales collapsed in 2021.

Is the fake meat trend just a fad? If so, this would be problematic for the elites, such as Bill Gates, who has made significant investments into this space. Thanks, but no thanks, our readers will stick with good ole’ beef and other real meat instead of the junk Gates pushes.

Humans are omnivores not herbivores. Get used to it.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 26, 2022 8:00 am

To borrow from Obama:

“Don’t underestimate Australia’s ability to fuck things up”.

Sure Australia is a good place, especially compared to most places on the planet.
Great weather, great food.
But generations of sabotage via public policy at local, state & federal level means that the place is a fraction of what it could be.

Pogria
Pogria
January 26, 2022 8:03 am

Boned Lamb Shoulder, smothered in Bourbon rub for two days, gone into smoker over Hickory chips topped with Rosemary and Thyme from my garden. Hickory and herbs to be repeated at intervals over the next 4-5 hours.

Ready for lunch around 1pm.

calli
calli
January 26, 2022 8:03 am

In an avalanche of garbage, I’m happy to celebrate one good thing. My country, and what it means to me.

Not to others – not the politicians, or the media, the charlatans, the grifters, the doom and gloom merchants, the racists and opportunists. No. They mean nothing at all to me, they’re the nasty stuff you scrape off your shoe.

Call me old fashioned, sentimental, wilfully blind. I don’t care.

Just pegged my two little flags to flank the driveway out front. Took me a while to find the buggers – I’d done one of those “cleanups” that mean you put things away and lose them.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 26, 2022 8:07 am

I will celebrate Australia Day, if for no other reason than the Victorian Government doesn’t want me to. They’ve called off the annual parade – again.

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 26, 2022 8:07 am

Whoever it was who abuses R/C LiPo batteries and hasn’t had a problem just needs to wait a little longer.
Don’t charge them indoors or in your car. Keep them in an ammo box. I know of one near new VW Transporter that burned to the ground along with expensive models after a LiPo caught fire while driving down Albany Highway.
There are no protection circuits on those batteries. Even normal use actually counts as battery abuse.
e.g. running the battery down from full in less than 3 minutes.

The small LiPo’s in your mobile phone/laptop have protection circuits built in which cut off the battery when it gets below a safe state of discharge. If further discharged under load they can easily catch fire.
Do not ever try to charge them if the temperature is below 5 deg C.

If getting a Tesla Power Wall dig a bunker in your backyard to put it in. Even if your house is insured it is inconvenient if it burns down.

Lastly, does anyone think in this woke age that insurance companies will be allowed to increase premiums on electric cars vs IC or house premiums? This would be seen as discriminating against those trying to “save the planet”. No, they’ll community rate the risk and those not indulging in these fantasies will help pay for them.

rickw
rickw
January 26, 2022 8:08 am

Over time, there have been various cops with hands on levers in various places keen to use Bearcats for things other than their intended purpose.

Victoria. Vikpol parading up and down Elizabeth street with their “Police Rescue Vehicle” whilst smashing the shit out of citizens who had the temerity to protest. Lucky for Vikpol it wasn’t a residential area, otherwise there was high potential for it to deservedly receive a Molotov Cocktail.

Indolent
Indolent
January 26, 2022 8:08 am

There is no end to the tyranny. There’ll be just as much of it as we’re prepared to tolerate.

POSbury TruDEAU

Unvaccinated to be Accompanied by Staff in Walmart to Make Sure They Don’t Buy Anything Other Than Food & Pharma

srr
srr
January 26, 2022 8:09 am

Dave Rubin and Kevin McCarthy Talk Freedom in Florida

https://rumble.com/vt9vz9-dave-rubin-and-kevin-mccarthy-talk-freedom-in-florida.html?mref=5f67r&mc=7xi0y

Rep Kevin McCarthy Published January 25, 2022

Rumble — Caught up with Dave Rubin in his new home state of Florida for a quick chat on the future of free speech and Rumble.

I joined Rumble because it’s a place where free expression matters.

In an era of mass censorship, a free and open internet has never been more essential.

calli
calli
January 26, 2022 8:11 am

Just realised something. My grandchildren are all ninth generation Aussies.

srr
srr
January 26, 2022 8:14 am
Indolent
Indolent
January 26, 2022 8:14 am
rickw
rickw
January 26, 2022 8:18 am

Pauline Hanson’s Happy Australia Day cartoon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKMKrZJhk8E

bespoke
bespoke
January 26, 2022 8:19 am

Eyriesays:
January 26, 2022 at 8:07 am

Mine are in a ammo box and aways put in storage mode even for just overnight. Disposal is the biggest problem with few safe options readily available.

Dot
Dot
January 26, 2022 8:19 am

Excluding possible indigenous ancestry, I think I am only 7th gen. Old fella got here in 1820.

Dad’s mob were 10 GBP poms from Wiltshire/Avon.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
January 26, 2022 8:20 am

Environmentalists say the Portland Smelter is a terrible environmental hazard.
You have to deliberately drive out to see it and it’s barely visible once your out on the rugged coastline or the beaches, however the butt ugly wind machines are everywhere and spoil the view in all directions. You drive directly under blades of one tower to see the Cape Nelson lighthouse.
God forbid you step off the beach tracks as not to damage the delicate coastal environment but a golf swing away is a steel tower held down by tonnes of cement.

rickw
rickw
January 26, 2022 8:21 am

CDC Monitoring Residents Following Crash of Semi Carrying Test Monkeys

Have the Fauci Monkey’s been genetically modified to have wings? Just to get 2022 off to a really shit start!

Dot
Dot
January 26, 2022 8:24 am

Looking at WV property on Zillow.

Anyone remember when they could buy a (liveable) cottage/shack on a year’s salary and a family home on a big block off four years gross income?

Pepperidge Farms and 1970s Australia remembers.

Just take a look.

Australia Day? Unaffordable housing Day!

https://www.zillow.com/wv/

srr
srr
January 26, 2022 8:25 am

Why Is The Modern Dating Market A Mess? – Vincent Harinam | Modern Wisdom Podcast 410

https://rumble.com/vt9fvr-why-is-the-modern-dating-market-a-mess-vincent-harinam-modern-wisdom-podcas.html?mref=5f67r&mc=7xi0y

Chris Williamson Published December 13, 2021

Rumble — Vincent Harinam is a data scientist, law enforcement consultant and writer on social phenomenon and the dating market.

Between Tinder and OnlyFans, polyamory and Red Pill, incels, simps, sugar daddies and gold diggers, it’s difficult to say that romance is alive and well in modern culture. Vincent has written some of the best articles and done huge deep data dives to uncover why the modern dating market is such a mess.

Expect to learn why smart women are less likely to get married, why simping is such an unsuccessful dating strategy, how women’s modern dating advice is mostly total trash, what Vincent’s data uncovered around what women and men look for in a partner, how asymmetries in the dating market can create men who are dangerous for public safety and much more…

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 26, 2022 8:26 am

‘parading up and down Elizabeth street’

rickw, a perfect example.

Not bought for, suited for or appropriate for the occasion.

What the top-rung jacks fail to appreciate is that when you wheel these things out, you invite a same-level response. Just stupid.

Eventually – and not through common sense but (I think) through the weight of public opinion, they and the turtle suits were removed, and rightly so.

Dot
Dot
January 26, 2022 8:26 am

Have the Fauci Monkey’s been genetically modified to have wings?

They’re correctly called Napa Valley Rebobs.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 26, 2022 8:28 am

Ed Casesays:
January 25, 2022 at 11:39 pm
Ah, yes.
Bearcats.
Looks like a tank, operates like a tank.

They seem to lack tracks, and a high velocity major calibre main gun.

Otherwise …

PS:

Ed Casesays:
January 25, 2022 at 11:41 pm
Thomas Packenham’s history of the “Scramble for Africa.

Never heard of him.
Court Historian, by any chance?

Zulu is correct, you need to red more widely. The Photios reading list is a bit narrow, Dick Ed.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 26, 2022 8:29 am

‘Fly, my Napa Valley Rebobs. Fly, my pretties.’

Anchor What
Anchor What
January 26, 2022 8:30 am

Lara Logan was banned for comparing Fauci to Nazi experimenters. Carlson might be harder to bluff, but even so we hear little about Ivermectin or Election Fraud 2020 from any of the Fox types.

rickw
rickw
January 26, 2022 8:30 am

This is legal in all Australian States except WA. A number of bolt hold open rifles already being on sale. Just watch the Federal Government arseholes ban importation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYEh2lZk3cU

Dot
Dot
January 26, 2022 8:32 am

Robert Malone as Dorothy, Joe Rogan as a brainless munchkin scarecrow and natural immunity as a bucket of water.

COVIDeo – eo – o …

bespoke
bespoke
January 26, 2022 8:33 am

Looked up ‘simping’ Yes very toxic.

Indolent
Indolent
January 26, 2022 8:33 am

NEW – State Supreme Court judge ruled New York’s mask mandate “unconstitutional,” and declared it “null, void and unenforceable.”

The are trying to get around it and ignoring it, of course, but there it is. Unconstitutional and unenforceable.

I wonder what the situation is under our laws? What gives anyone the right to force others to cover their faces and impede their breathing?

lotocoti
lotocoti
January 26, 2022 8:35 am

Lemme just TL;DR this for everyone: Cervical screening for women.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 26, 2022 8:40 am

Outstanding news for the taxpayer on this, our national day (the Tele):

‘An evil serial rapist whose victims included a 13 year old girl has died of cancer behind bars just two years into a 46 year sentence.

‘Mustafa Kayirici, a married face-tattooed ice junkie who had tried to keep his name confidential, died in his his cell in the secure prison annex at the Prince of Wales Hospital on Tuesday morning while still protesting that his victims had consented to his brutal attacks.’

And:

‘He was jailed for 34 years for the child’s rape on top of 38 years (for six other rapes in 2016) and was due for release in 2066.’

The 13 year old was bound, gagged and filmed during the rape. I sincerely hope the cancer was of the prolapsing arse variety, and resistant to all painkillers.

Not Uh oh
January 26, 2022 8:40 am

Dylan Alcott should be OK as AOTY as long as he stops talking every now and then.

Dot
Dot
January 26, 2022 8:43 am

Expect to learn why smart women are less likely to get married

No, they’re not.

Holly Valance is galaxy brained compared to an unmarried female MD with a Ph D.

Dot
Dot
January 26, 2022 8:45 am

how asymmetries in the dating market can create men who are dangerous for public safety and much more…

LOL

Blame more men. How many men died in WWI and WWII, Korea, etc, just so you can type without being carried off to a re-education camp?

Indolent
Indolent
January 26, 2022 8:46 am

Paul Joseph Watson
@PrisonPlanet
10h
I love how in these situations, the mask freaks almost always insist on removing their masks to properly unleash their meltdown.

I struck one of these lunatics myself in a bank branch on Monday. I was withdrawing some money when an old woman came up to me and said in a loud and accusatory tone, “you’re not wearing a mask!”. I said “I know”. She said “it’s the law” and I said “you show me the law”.

The really funny part was that what she had on was a dirty looking rag worn under her nose. Obviously, in her case it’s nothing more than a talisman but she cannot tolerate anyone disputing the insanity.

calli
calli
January 26, 2022 8:49 am

I’ll be happy if Alcott refrains from snapping and snarling.

So low is the bar set these days.

duncanm
duncanm
January 26, 2022 8:50 am

rickwsays:
January 26, 2022 at 8:30 am
This is legal in all Australian States except WA. A number of bolt hold open rifles already being on sale. Just watch the Federal Government arseholes ban importation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYEh2lZk3cU

of course they’ll ban it. It looks scary.

(and you can fire as fast as an enfield )

shatterzzz
January 26, 2022 8:51 am

Even if this was true, so what? Over 200 hundred years later why are they still bemoaning this? Perpetuating victimhood is an empty gesture that solves nothing.

Expensive empty gesture .. LOL! .. costs us $30 billion a year and this week we coughed up another $20 million to own a three coloured rag ,, estimated value $NIL ……. FFS!

Tom
Tom
January 26, 2022 8:54 am

I see our new AOTY is a reasonable choice after last year’s angry, immature halfwit.

Like Grace Tame, Dylan Alcott is an angry, look-at-me narcissist. Repulsive.

Beertruk
January 26, 2022 8:55 am

rickw:
January 26, 2022 at 8:18 am
Pauline Hanson’s Happy Australia Day cartoon:

Pretty accurate I thought.

areff
areff
January 26, 2022 8:59 am

we hear little about Ivermectin or Election Fraud 2020 from any of the Fox types

Locally, questioning the narrative was the end of Alan Jones on Sky.

The new night lineup pretty much eliminates any reason to continue subscribing.

Cassie of Sydney
January 26, 2022 9:00 am

Just made the mistake of turning on Sky News and heard the snarling fat imbecile Andrew Clennell and the vacuous lightweight Laura Jayes insisting that many middle aged women identify with the skanky Grubby Graceless and her antics yesterday.

Yeah sure.

Yeah bullshit.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 26, 2022 9:00 am

Anchor What

What we don’t see enough of are citizens who have contributed above and beyond the usual to their communities. Too boring.

They tend to be among the OAMs, not the higher awards.

areff
areff
January 26, 2022 9:01 am

You’re not wrong about Stumpy, Tom

min
min
January 26, 2022 9:01 am

At last AOY worthy of the title someone who has made a life for himself despite the challenges . A good role model for all those woke bedwetters forever victims.

calli
calli
January 26, 2022 9:01 am

Like Grace Tame, Dylan Alcott is an angry, look-at-me narcissist. Repulsive.

Oh. Okay. What a shame.

Are there no normal, happy people left in the country?

Dot
Dot
January 26, 2022 9:02 am

I would be cheaper just to give all Aborigines 16k a year for nothing and shut up the “industry” and government positions.

Now, this would be horrible, it would be sit down money but in a few places like…Walgett, people could literally change the course of history for their families in a few years if they put their mind to it.

…and of course, free money usually has the opposite effect, but keep in mind temporary vs permanent income effects.

areff
areff
January 26, 2022 9:03 am

Why do I have the sense there’ll be trouble in Canberra today, what with the 50-year celebration of the tent embassy hovel.

Cassie of Sydney
January 26, 2022 9:03 am

Happy Australia Day Cats….it’s a wonderful day.

BTW…I’m indigenous…..anyone born here in indigenous.

calli
calli
January 26, 2022 9:04 am

insisting that many middle aged women menopausal hysterics identify with the skanky Grubby Graceless and her antics yesterday.

There. That sounds about right.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 26, 2022 9:05 am

Calli

Just hung our (large) flag in the front window.

And all the PC, intersectional, whingeing wankers can feck off.

bespoke
bespoke
January 26, 2022 9:06 am

Dylan Alcott is an angry, look-at-me narcissist

Debatable ideas but angry?

Cassie of Sydney
January 26, 2022 9:06 am

“Like Grace Tame, Dylan Alcott is an angry, look-at-me narcissist. Repulsive.”

I thought so. Great, another year of nasty and angry lecturing and hectoring.

shatterzzz
January 26, 2022 9:06 am

I’m a ten pound tourist (1967) but on the ex’s side the grandkids go back to the 1st fleet ……. eldest daughter also married a 1st fleet descendant .. 1st marriage ever between these two 1st fleet families ..

duncanm
duncanm
January 26, 2022 9:06 am

insisting that many middle aged women identify with the skanky Grubby Graceless and her antics yesterday.

I’ll have “Why can’t I get a decent man to settle down with?’ for $100.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
January 26, 2022 9:07 am

I’m for the indigenous having a crack at running the show.
Could they be worse?
Lawyers and the dregs of the union movement have turned us into an international embarrassment.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 26, 2022 9:09 am

Eyrie

Lastly, does anyone think in this woke age that insurance companies will be allowed to increase premiums on electric cars vs IC or house premiums? This would be seen as discriminating against those trying to “save the planet”. No, they’ll community rate the risk and those not indulging in these fantasies will help pay for them.

Indeed. Bruce of N will pay through his Mazda insurance for the risk to JC’s Mercedes EV.

Twostix
Twostix
January 26, 2022 9:09 am

“Australian settlement morally wrong and illegal under 18th century international law”.

18th century international law.

Lol.

These people are being paid by the CCP for this shit. They might not even know it but they are.

Visitant
Visitant
January 26, 2022 9:09 am

Test

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
January 26, 2022 9:10 am

shatterzzz says:
January 26, 2022 at 9:06 am
I’m a ten pound tourist (1967) but on the ex’s side the grandkids go back to the 1st fleet ……. eldest daughter also married a 1st fleet descendant .. 1st marriage ever between these two 1st fleet families ..

With or without the iron jewellery?

calli
calli
January 26, 2022 9:11 am

Do drop in, Visitant. And stay for tea.

Tom
Tom
January 26, 2022 9:12 am

Thanks for posting, rickw. The Pauline Hanson cartoon series is a creative national treasure and the Australia Day edition is hysterical, especially the Jackie Jackie Lambie.

rickw
rickw
January 26, 2022 9:14 am

Crash tackle a Granny? Sure! Stop vandalism of statues and monuments? Nah!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGd51tFnHeQ

bespoke
bespoke
January 26, 2022 9:15 am
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 26, 2022 9:15 am

The original Supergirl movie was a hilariously bad turkey. Looks like it has competition.

Transgender Actor Ivory Aquino Set to Play DC’s First Trans Character in ‘Batgirl’ Movie (25 Jan)

Woke has no known limits.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 26, 2022 9:17 am

Black armband getting a real workout today.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 26, 2022 9:17 am

If there’s anything decent on Sky you’ll see it tweeted shortly thereafter.
Why chew up time watching a show.

duncanm
duncanm
January 26, 2022 9:20 am

They going to tell Putin to give Siberia back to the Inuit too? I didn’t think so.

Don’t forget the large chunk they stole from the Chicoms after agreeing to a recognised border.

Frank
Frank
January 26, 2022 9:20 am

skanky Grubby Graceless

You know, there might be something to that. In can the link doesn’t work due to paywalling the ink on her hand says “Don’t drink my beer”.

Beertruk
January 26, 2022 9:21 am

So the lead actor in Batgirl is a man, not a girl.
The trainwreck continues.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 26, 2022 9:22 am

Even though they are mainly old people with at least one co morbidity, are NSW health not treating these COVID patients?
Something is wrong with the numbers.

Delta A
Delta A
January 26, 2022 9:22 am

Happy Australia Day, beautiful country of my birth!

I apologise that the cretins we have elected to power continue to humiliate you and tear down the excellent reputation you have, deservedly, enjoyed world wide. We, who love you, shall try to do better come next election.

I shall celebrate Australia Day with my family, as is our tradition, with much feasting, entertainment and flag waving. Lamb chops and lamingtons. Life is good.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 26, 2022 9:25 am

callisays:
January 26, 2022 at 9:01 am
Like Grace Tame, Dylan Alcott is an angry, look-at-me narcissist. Repulsive.

Oh. Okay. What a shame.

Are there no normal, happy people left in the country?

As a fine lady I once worked with would say: “They’re all mad save thee and me, and I’m none to sure about thee”.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 26, 2022 9:27 am

I’m calling it.
Tom Brady to retire.
Aaron Rodgers to Tampa on a monster 2 year deal with zero state taxes.

Frank
Frank
January 26, 2022 9:27 am

skanky Grubby Graceless

And further to the theme.
Grace Tame gets engaged to partner Max Heerey.
It seems that the moment her boyfriend proposes to her during a bike ride (down on one knee) was lucky to be caught on camera and turn up in the local press. What are the odds on that hey.
It is almost as if Big Brother has become the template for how to live.

rickw
rickw
January 26, 2022 9:28 am

Empowered woman meets reality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLG5v5yyImA

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 26, 2022 9:28 am

What is good in life Rambler?
To crush your enemies and eat the lamingtons of their women.

miltonf
miltonf
January 26, 2022 9:30 am

Happy Australia Day Cats….it’s a wonderful day.

BTW…I’m indigenous…..anyone born here in indigenous.
That’s exactly right. Happy Australia Day all. Best country in the world. We just need to get it moving in the right direction. I still think of Hambledon Cottage and MacArthur’s old oak trees there. Georgian (maybe early Victorian) elegance just carved out of the bush.

miltonf
miltonf
January 26, 2022 9:32 am

To sit in the garden there at night you could feel the spirit of the pioneers. Thrilled me.

lotocoti
lotocoti
January 26, 2022 9:34 am

Woke has no known limits.

Looking forward to a boycott by homosexuals against surgical conversion therapy.

flyingduk
flyingduk
January 26, 2022 9:37 am

Just hung our (large) flag in the front window.

I assume its red and upside down?

calli
calli
January 26, 2022 9:45 am

Mine are just the little cheapies you get at the dollar shop, duk.

They don’t do upside down, and blue, not red. But they’re mine, humble as they are.

Dad and Mum will appreciate them.

calli
calli
January 26, 2022 9:46 am

Probably made in the CCP.

Maybe for next year I could do some home-mades, the old fashioned way. Definitely have the skills to do it.

flyingduk
flyingduk
January 26, 2022 9:47 am

Re the lever release AR15 – I had a similar CZ515 which seemed like a good idea but was actually quite jammy, especially if you tried to run it fast.

In the end I settled on a lever .357 for a house gun* – hits hard, fast, handy and good to 100m.

* not an actual house gun – in case SAPOL is thinking of visiting again 😉

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 26, 2022 9:47 am

bespokesays:
January 26, 2022 at 7:29 am

KD, Once again over the top claims distract what could be genuine concerns.

I raised the issue of the Queensland Police having Tanks in the first place.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for Knuckle Dragger to address any genuine concerns regarding Police Forces possessing Paramilitary Weaponry.

Dot
Dot
January 26, 2022 9:50 am

Fuck it

The NFL needs crazy new tactics.

Field two QBs. Brady and Rodgers.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 26, 2022 9:51 am

Eating mutton would be more appropriate for Australia Day.
Except that it might raise some awkward Questions.
Such as, where does all our Mutton Go, because it hasn’t been sold in Butchers for 40+ years.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 26, 2022 9:51 am

St Kilda’s Captain Cook statue doused in red paint in Australia Day protest
By Marta Pascual Juanola
January 26, 2022 — 8.50am

A Melbourne monument depicting Captain James Cook was doused in red paint overnight as part of an Australia Day protest.

The statue, located near St Kilda beach, was defaced and its base was papered with flyers proposing the abolition of Australia Day celebrations. The vandalism attracted a small group of curious locals to Catani Gardens on Wednesday morning.

Port Phillip detectives are investigating the incident and have urged anyone who may have witnessed the incident to contact the police.

It is not the first time the statue has been defaced. Vandals poured pink paint over the monument on the eve of Australia Day in 2018, scribbling the words “no pride” beneath Captain Cook’s feet along with the Aboriginal flag.

A similar memorial at Edinburgh Gardens in Fitzroy North was also reportedly defaced, but a caller to radio station 3AW said he cleaned the “thick red paint” off early Wednesday morning.

That statue was covered with graffiti in 2020. The words “destroy white supremacy” and “remove this” were scrawled on the monument’s stone and bitumen in front of it.

The discovery came on the same day a statue of Captain Cook in Sydney was defaced, and a day after busts of former prime ministers Tony Abbott and John Howard were vandalised in Ballarat.

bespoke
bespoke
January 26, 2022 9:51 am

rickwsays:
January 26, 2022 at 9:28 am
Empowered woman meets reality:

Couldn’t do my own renovations without the wife handing/holding the tools cleaning up after plus repairing the occasional punctured lim.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 26, 2022 9:53 am

Field two QBs. Brady and Rodgers

Tried many times.
Carr & Mariota as recently as this season for the Raiders.

bespoke
bespoke
January 26, 2022 9:53 am

Don’t hold your breath waiting for Knuckle Dragger to address any genuine concerns regarding Police Forces possessing Paramilitary Weaponry.

He did Ed

miltonf
miltonf
January 26, 2022 9:54 am

The anti Australia Day push is nothing more than Marxist wrecking. Only useful idiots thinks its about advancing Aboriginal interests.

bespoke
bespoke
January 26, 2022 9:56 am

That link doesn’t belong in 9:15 am.

miltonf
miltonf
January 26, 2022 9:56 am

Australian Aborigines have been around a lot longer then the evil old Marx and his moronic groupies.

dopey
dopey
January 26, 2022 9:56 am

No sign of terra nullius so far. Might be taking a break this year.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 26, 2022 9:57 am

How hard would it be for the plod to have a fat fuck sitting under the statue the night before Australia day?
Deliberate negligence.

calli
calli
January 26, 2022 9:57 am

HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY!

And pi55 off!>

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 26, 2022 10:01 am

Tanks are not paramilitary weaponry. They are military weaponry.

Queensland jacks are tank-free. They are non-tank. Not ex-tank, non-tank.

Ed is unaware of what a tank is. This is unsurprising.

Every State has them. Ed is unaware of this. This is unsurprising.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 26, 2022 10:03 am

When was that, Bespoke?
This comment?

Knuckle Draggersays:
January 25, 2022 at 11:25 pm
I think they have water tanks.

Their prosecutions office is in Tank Street. Otherwise, and to paraphrase Neville Bartos:

‘There’s no tanks here. Here? No tanks.’

Frank
Frank
January 26, 2022 10:05 am

wheely tard?

Roger
Roger
January 26, 2022 10:05 am

HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY!

Racist!

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 26, 2022 10:06 am

Look out, Nekkid Dribbler has emerged from his Tank!

bespoke
bespoke
January 26, 2022 10:07 am

Knuckle Draggersays:
January 26, 2022 at 7:40 am

Now Ed stop playing games or stop claiming to be a victom.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 26, 2022 10:08 am

Flail away, you confused Biden-esque shut-in.

No tanks.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 26, 2022 10:09 am

Gina Rinehart honoured for philanthropy in Australia Day honours
Bethany Hiatt
The West Australian
Tue, 25 January 2022 7:00PM

Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, is also one of its most generous — though few would know it.

The mining magnate is one of just 25 people in the country to be appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the general division.

According to her citation, she has been recognised for “distinguished service to the mining sector, to the community through philanthropic initiatives and to sport as a patron”.

Mrs Rinehart, the only child of WA iron ore magnate Lang Hancock, became executive chair of Hancock Prospecting in 1992 and transformed the group from one in financial difficulties to one of Australia’s most successful private mining companies.

Notoriously private, Mrs Rinehart would not comment on what the Australia Day honour meant to her personally.

But businessman Ron Manners, who has known her since she was 16, says it is well deserved.

“She does a lot more than anyone realises,” he says. “Not only in WA, but Australia-wide and even overseas, she’s a great one for supporting anything that she can see the results from.”

The Royal Flying Doctor Service is one of her key beneficiaries, with Mrs Rinehart helping the organisation to buy aircraft and prepare for the COVID pandemic.

For many years, Mrs Rinehart has also poured part of her fortune into sponsoring four Olympic sports: swimming, rowing, volleyball and synchronised swimming.

The Dolphins swim team had its best ever performance at the Tokyo Olympics, picking up 19 medals in the pool including eight golds.

Rowing Australia president and Wesfarmers chief executive Rob Scott says the support of Hancock Prospecting and Mrs Rinehart had been “transformational” for the sport.

“What she has done since the Rio Olympics is provide sponsorship which flows directly to our high-performance athletes, and that money helps pay living expenses that enables them to commit to the training and competition schedule that’s necessary to be successful,” he says.

“That was really vindicated at the Olympics, where the team won two gold medals and two bronze medals.”

“Without her support, Australia would not have been as successful as it was at the recent Olympic games.”

Mr Scott believes the desire to see Australians achieve success on the world stage is an important driver for Mrs Rinehart, who also recognises the hard work and discipline it takes for elite athletes to get there.

“What I respect about Mrs Rinehart is the money she puts into sport, she demands that it goes directly to the athletes,” he says. “She has no tolerance for it being caught up in administration.”

Pastoralists and Graziers Association of WA president Tony Seabrook, who has worked extensively with Mrs Rinehart, says the one thing that has always shone out is that she never trumpeted the good works she did.

“Breast cancer is one,” he says. “There are a number of trucks up at (mine site) Roy Hill that are painted pink, and each one carries the name of one of the ladies up there that has been diagnosed with breast cancer. She’s been incredibly supportive of breast cancer and a whole lot of other things.

“Her philanthropy is not that public, but it’s always there.”

CrazyOldRanga
CrazyOldRanga
January 26, 2022 10:10 am

Happy Australia Day.

Giving thanks that my Ten Pound Pommy parents came over in the 50’s.

Having Lamb Cutlets for lunch because I’m Posh 🙂

Like all Australians, giving AOTY a fair go until he proves otherwise.

rickw
rickw
January 26, 2022 10:13 am

#UnemployedOzDayThanksToOzGov

Bons
Bons
January 26, 2022 10:16 am

I don’t care whether they are tanks, armoured cars or plod’s lunch carts, they have no place in Australian culture.
If you give these low intelligence thugs offensive capabilities, they will want to use them.
Australian plod has completely abandoned the ‘of the people principle’. Kelly’s deservedly hated Troopers compare favourably to our contemporary political enforcers.

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 26, 2022 10:16 am

The drug that must not be named news.

Large, Peer-Reviewed Research Study Proves Ivermectin Works Against COVID-19 (24 Jan)

But it’s not muh randomised controlled trial reeeeeeeeeeeee

JC
JC
January 26, 2022 10:17 am

Oh and not a single shred of evidence for Hallward’s claim that insurance companies wouldn’t try to avoid losses. Just delusional nonsense mixed in with cognitive impairment .

rickw
rickw
January 26, 2022 10:18 am

How hard would it be for the plod to have a fat fuck sitting under the statue the night before Australia day?
Deliberate negligence.

They’re not interested in fucking criminals.

They’re interested in fucking YOU.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 26, 2022 10:22 am

Still batting 500 at Teh Paywallian. This one hit the cutting room floor,

New teeth. New wife. Albo’s time to shine.

rickw
rickw
January 26, 2022 10:22 am

Re the lever release AR15 – I had a similar CZ515 which seemed like a good idea but was actually quite jammy, especially if you tried to run it fast.

The AR15 is possibly a much better starting point as it was designed to have a bolt release from the outset. I assume that they simply created an interlock between the existing bolt release and the trigger group ensuring that the trigger would not reset until the bolt release was depressed.

lotocoti
lotocoti
January 26, 2022 10:23 am

I notice all 12,000 QLD plod are getting sparkly new load bearing vests.
Nothing about their tanks getting smooth bore main guns.
Presumably they’re not bothered by rifling degrading the Munroe Effect.

duncanm
duncanm
January 26, 2022 10:26 am

Large, Peer-Reviewed Research Study Proves Ivermectin Works Against COVID-19 (24 Jan)

50% hospitalisation rate, and 30% of the mortality rate of baseline (non-Ivermectin).

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 26, 2022 10:29 am

Mark McGowan ordered to leave WA to attend Clive Palmer defamation trial in person

Hahahahahahaha hahahahaha I’m still laughing about this, and I probably will be for the rest of the week. Suck shit, McGowan, you cock-eyed prick.

Not that he’ll be subject to what he’s foisting upon others – by the time he has to head east to attend the trial, no doubt he’ll have lifted the restrictions (or carved out some exemption for himself). I don’t think they will be remotely justifiable in a few weeks’ time, anyway, and even the nuttiest Covid hysteric won’t be able to deny it.

Still, the fact that big Clive managed to break down the prison walls and rip out the chief warden – if only on paper – is just so delicious.

Please excuse me as I have some more maniacal laughing to do.

Bons
Bons
January 26, 2022 10:29 am

Rickw, it is outrageous. Your nation owes you a sincere apology.
Sadly you are not alone.
A kid I used to coach in ancient times did very well with North Sea oil outfits. He was recently asked by the company to come to Oz and work here.
His family, who are Poms of course, were reluctant and, possibly vengefully, constantly expressed their dislike of Oz.
Sacked over the vax, not offered the opportunity to return to the UK outfit. (Apparently the local boss was a covid nutter of the masks in the pool genre of lunacy). He got work in Malaysia. Family returning to UK.
Thousands of lives destroyed by medical failures and unemployable scum political cowards.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 26, 2022 10:35 am

Knuckle Dragger says:
January 26, 2022 at 7:40 am
Fat Tony at 12.14 overnight:

Bearcats are not new. They’ve been around for more than 15 years*, and every State and Territory in Australia has them.

Thanks for the comprehensive answer – normal people never see these items in the intended use.

As a matter of interest, are these the same vehicles that VikPol wheeled out against peaceful demonstrators in Melbourne last year?

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