Bluey,
No it doesn’t. Nobody intends to invade Russia and never has intended to post WWII.
The Left’s Cold War propaganda that somehow the West was a threat to the Sovs was always a nonsense. They were a threat to their insane desire to subjugate Europe but defensively.
NATO was never and is not an offensively postured allaince.
Russia has no right to dominate an ‘historical’ security zone that comprises other peoples nations and freedoms.
Any sugggestion that Putin is anything other than another in the long chain of Russian psychopaths is simply fantasy.

Here’s a fun story from today about NATO and Ukraine, to illustrate my thesis.

German reputation COLLAPSED! Ukraine fury over shameful helmet stunt: ‘We’re laughing!’ (28 Jan)

The selfsame folks who whack incredibly restrictive conditions on the sale, use and onsale/disposal of any military equipment they sell you, cos muh human rights!

(The Swedes do it too, but in the case of the Charles Gustav recoilless rifle, that’s just to keep Bofors Defence in the blammo and spare parts money. But the Germans are crazy- We were not permitted to onsell the obsolete Leopard 1s in order to dispose of them, because we could not demonstrate to Mutti Merkel and the Bundestag that any putative buyer would not do nasty things with them. And we’ve just gone and bought their Boxer armoured cars, and are seriously looking at their Lynx IFV…)

The German Defence Forces have been gutted,

Kinda disgusting. But politically unsurprising.

Hillarious if you know the better known naval victories

Everyone has their Japanese Torpedo Boat moment…

#Paranoia

Is Covid becoming more like the ‘flu

Interesting article on this at Medscape. They answer, correctly, that it is still too early to tell but things look promising. In the comments one is about the failure to correctly ascribe R to the original Sars-Cov-2 which has led to an inflated R for Omricon. Could be. Serological testing may confirm this.

JC, no, never went out West, although son still gets to Utah when he can. Most of the skiing was upstate NY, as we had a holiday house about a 20 minute drive from Hunter Mountain and season tickets to go with it. And, yes, ice is a pain, but the chief attraction for me was doing a few sedate, pro forma runs, getting those awful boots off and then propping at the bar to admire young women in tight-fitting ski attire.

No it doesn’t. Nobody intends to invade Russia and never has intended to post WWII.

Whatever.
The deal between Reagan and Gorbachev to open up the Eastern Bloc was contingent on NATO not expanding eastward.
So what did NATO do once the walls came down?
Expand eastward.
Bottom Line:
NATO’s only reason for existence since 1945 is to attack Russia on America’s behalf and grease the wheels of war with the blood of Europe.

From Drachinifel’s thread:

Top tip for Valentine’s Day: gentlemen do not declare their love with torpedoes.

I’m sunk… 🙁

#Bugger

The deal between Reagan and Gorbachev to open up the Eastern Bloc was contingent on NATO not expanding eastward.

And your proof of this bullshit, Grigory?

NATO has been the de facto diplomatic glue that has held the Franco- and Germano-centric bureaucratic mess that is the EU together since before its founding as the EC.

And before that, it practically united and focussed Western Europe. All of whom were terrified of the Soviets coming West, but at the same time too parochial and competitive to really pull together and muster a mutual defence.

Note that every ex- Warsaw Pact Central and Eastern European member of what is now the EU signed up to NATO first.

Haha, Ed, you do realize that AQ and ISIS now have Kazakhstan in their sights.
Since they now have nothing to do in Afghanistan it’s only a short Hilux ride away.

Bottom Line:
NATO’s only reason for existence since 1945 is to attack Russia on America’s behalf and grease the wheels of war with the blood of Europe.

You have a real insecurity complex whenever a foreign or more accomplished troll pops up here and steals your thunder, eh Grigory?

Git Gud or get out.

Watching Centurian on Netflix.
The Picts are much better mounted that my studies led me to believe and had some hot women that could fight like Ninjas.
Makes the point you can’t trust what you read in history books.

We were not permitted to onsell the obsolete Leopard 1s in order to dispose of them, because we could not demonstrate to Mutti Merkel and the Bundestag that any putative buyer would not do nasty things with them.

Why do we even agree to this shit?

Should have just kept them anyway and retrofitted them with the Avco turbine from the M1, reactive/toga armour, 120 mm smoothbore, M1 fire control and some AA/SAM/Hellfires.

The Japanese knew that if it became a protracted war they would lose badly so they needed some big victories quickly and hope that the US would step in

Diogenes – That’s only half right. The Japanese knew they had to defeat the Russian Far East Army quickly before it was reinforced. But they didn’t need the Americans: all they had to do was to sit on the Trans-Siberian railway and Russia was stuffed. Any remaining Far Eastern forces were out of supply and the rail line was so tenuous that it could not support a sufficient force to retake Eastern Siberia once the Japanese had it. Cork in the bottle.

So Russia sued for peace because the alternative was lose the lot. And the Japanese accepted the surrender because they didn’t want to piss off the Americans too much.

And the Japanese accepted the surrender because they didn’t want to piss off the Americans too much.

The 1904 War was funded by Wall Street.
Long term, it was a very poor decision by Japan, as they ended up losing Sakhalin and the Kuriles in 1945 and the Soviet Unions 1945 Declaration of War against Japan has never been rescinded.

Hmmm

That or Federation Square, you tell me!

Dot. Have a relative, ex 1 Armoured when they had Leopards. He reckons the glacius plates all had cracks that would have made them death traps in combat, parts were in such short supply they were cannibalising their own tanks to keep 2-3 in a troop going at a time and the night vision was very outdated. He would have preferred Leopard 2A6’s and not through bias in his opinion more suited to Australian tactics but says they Abrams isn’t too bad despite the gas turbine having to be replenished by fuel regularly…

In other words the Australian Army flogged them literally to the death and will probably do the same to the Abrams. Only thing they are good for now is sitting in front of a military base or an RSL with kids climbing all over.

Should have just kept them anyway and retrofitted them with the Avco turbine from the M1, reactive/toga armour, 120 mm smoothbore, M1 fire control and some AA/SAM/Hellfires.

Dot, a turbine engine consumes fuel and turns it into noise. The benefits you get from size and power to weight ratio, you lose in fuel consumption and truncated cross-country range.

The US Army has continued to roll with the turbine in the M1, as its helicopter fleet is huge and the maintenance skillsets for aircraft and tank turbines are similar. Despite very seriously looking into a drop-in diesel powerpack some years ago.

Apart from that, I think a re-engineered Leopard hull with the latest mod cons would make a very useful medium tank. The downside of Leopard 1 is that when it was designed in the 50s and 60s, shaped-charge weapons were king. And composite armour was as-yet unknown. So the Leopard 1 was designed to move fast and hit hard, but the designers and armour tacticians understood that it would die in a stand-up fight. So the protection was concentrated in the turret and the design kept as lightweight as practical. A latter-day RPG-7 projectile can beat the tank’s glacis plate, which is a death sentence in a built-up or confined area. This is why they were retired in 2007.

But if you were to strip them back to empty hull, revise the powertrain and suspension to accept greater weight and upgun and uparmour the vehicle as you describe, I think that would probably work out quite well as a secondary MBT.

Just keep Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and their hyper-restrictive licensing rules the hell away from the projext.

He reckons the glacius plates all had cracks that would have made them death traps in combat

Don’t worry, a contractor put the wrong oil in our vaunted LSTs.

Soviet Unions 1945 Declaration of War against Japan has never been rescinded.

Strictly speaking then, Japan actually didwin WW2 against someone.

Being the last person standing because the other side cracked and crumbled under its own internal contradictions is as legit a victory as taking your enemy’s capital or starving him into submission.

You need to watch out against leaving such gaping credibility gaps when you shitpost, Grigory…

The family have been travelling along the SW Vic coast and into SA, just leaving from Robe for the trip home.
The last time we were asked for a tick was in a Portland pub. The pub’s kitchen should have been quarantined for shit food.
Relaxed mood along the coast and Victorians have bought anything in real estate that’s available. All agents have cleared their windows in the seaside towns.
The exodus is real TaliDan, you inept freak.

Visiting Germany at a Regatta in honor of the Kaiser.

To misquote a comment from some 30 years later:

England Is Not Our Natural Enemy…

a man needs some vices…

Have a chat with rickw, our resident workbench guru.

He’ll you sorted out in a pinch…

#Wheeze

#SomebodySlapThatMan

Rex Anger

As I mentioned before, if Germany had let Austria-Hungary break up the Poms would have been stuck with a very difficult choice.

They would have been stuck with a Russian/French alliance, on paper probably as strong or stronger than Germany on land, but a German navy easily able to sweep away the frogs and forcing them to spend hugely to maintain their naval dominance.

Another interesting thing when you compare the designs of the ships & survivability.
The Pom ships were designed for extended operations with the expectation the vessels could be sent anywhere, so bigger fuel bunkers etc.
The Boxheads fleet was short range (cruisers an exception) meaning a lot more weight went into ship structure/plating etc making them much harder to sink.

Dick Ed

Long term, it was a very poor decision by Japan, as they ended up losing Sakhalin and the Kuriles in 1945

Compared to whatever else the Japanese lost in 1945 (virtually the entire IJN, much of the Army, most industry, Hiroshima, Nagasaki), Sakhalin and the Kuriles were small change.

Public housing is full of guys looking like Justin Steins’ good mate, who store furniture in the common areas. In the older-style places, with narrow corroidors, some corridors can get almost completely blocked by furniture and other pieces of throw-out salvaged rubbish stored in them. At one stage, when two of my grandchildren were small and living in just such a place, I had to read the riot act threatening legal action to the Dept of Housing re these blocked corridors; the bureaucrats in these places seem to enjoy moving slowly and doing little. Only when I also copied my complaint to the local Fire Department did the stuff get hastily removed.

My experience has been that drug dealers and addicts (often the same thing) in these public housing sinks are usually well-known to the police and the welfare agencies, both of whom do nothing to curtail the drug sales activites taking place within these dwellings. They say they are hamstrung by not being able to enter premises, but that seems to me to be just excuse-making. It’s carry on regardless for the dealers.

I’m more interested in the Spanish/Russian battle over the weekend.
I hope Medvedev kicks Nadal’s twitchy arse and sets the umpires onto him for deliberate time wasting.

As I mentioned before, if Germany had let Austria-Hungary break up the Poms would have been stuck with a very difficult choice.

Indeed.

Another interesting thing when you compare the designs of the ships & survivability.
The Pom ships were designed for extended operations with the expectation the vessels could be sent anywhere, so bigger fuel bunkers etc.
The Boxheads fleet was short range (cruisers an exception) meaning a lot more weight went into ship structure/plating etc making them much harder to sink.

Indeed also. For all the Germans’ talk, desire and scheming towards a global empire in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, they did not seem to have sorted out the logistics of maintaining and defending it particularly well. Especially given that a capable and long-reaching navy is the glue that binds your international mercantile and diplomatic efforts together.

Some good lines in the Oz about McClown, and now his mentor Kim – “is that a tank? I love tanks” – Beazley, who claimed 10% of kids who get bat-flue die:

After the “safety transition plan” to reopen WA’s hard border on February 5 was abandoned due to threat of the Omicron strain, this week Mark McGowan freestyled.

McGowan and his team now seem more focused on sticky taping their smashed glass jaws instead of repairing WA’s health system which has been on life support long before Covid.

Yeah, very poor decision to launch a sneak attack on the Russian Pacific Fleet at Tsushima.
Sure, the fleet was sunk, big deal.
Since 1945, Japan has been in a State of War with the Soviet Union and it’s successors and they’re never getting Sakhalin and the Kuriles back. As a matter of fact, had they not Unconditionally Surrendered to the Americans, they woulda lost Hokkaido too.
So, who really won the 1904/05 Russo/Japanese War?
It’s too early to say, but it doesn’t appear to be Japan.

“During his ad lib commentary he conflated the statistic for long Covid (across all ages

Long Covid has gotta be Adverse Effects of the Vaccine, since Covid hasn’t been around long enough to prove the existence of a Long Covid.

Terrain and distance wise, we aren’t very tank friendly, are we?

Not true. As any Armoured Corps soldier or officer who understands their mounts and their craft will tell you (with examples), any place you can physically manoeuvre a tank into, is tank country…

(First image is a Centurion of the Royal Tank Regiment at the Battle of Maryang San in 1953, on the top of a razorback ridge. The RTR’s armour support, as with American armoured support in earlier battles, did its bit to help the Australian and Commonwealth infantry and arty to break up massed North Korean and Chinese attacks alike. The second image is from the Battle of Buna-Salamaua in 1943, where 5 M2 Stuart recce tanks of the 2/6th Armoured Regiment AIF were deemed the vital factor in breaking the Japanese defences in the heavy jungle of these areas. Despite being underweoght, underarmoured, undergunned and totally unsuitable for the infantry support role they performed. The final image is of Australian Matildas (I do not remember the Regiment or Brigade) in what I believe is Balikpapan in 1945).

In an unexpected turn of events we now have Marie “Tokyo Rosie” Notafanoinette

Thanks Twostix – took a couple of seconds to see it, but it was the best laugh I’ve had for weeks.

Not clever enough. Should be Notafantoinette.

Even so, not very fair to Rosie either is it? Character assassination dressed up as satire. Rosie is a traveller fighting vaxx bureaucratic requirements and trying to enjoy herself, not some heartless creature of privilege slamming off at the downtrodden, nor is she the voice of treason in times of war.

The media have only superficially dug on both sides, we seem to know about the sad demise of the little girl but precious little about the particulars of how she got there.

Well, yeah.
The Media spin is that the girl was shot, according to a neighbour who spoke to the woman, who said she was told that by the cops.
The cops aren’t saying anything.
So how did she die?
That’s secret squirrel now, for some reason.

Leading NZers to finally ask, from the midst of their 24 day quarantine lock in, “Just what has she done?”

She wore a hijab and looked sorrowful. It led to sainthood.

Brad Hazzard today wins the dumbest Covid comment of 2022 award.

Earlier in the week Health Minister Brad Hazzard said it was “disturbing” to find figures suggesting some parents had vaccinated themselves but not their children.

Is he that thick? Does he not understand that a vast number of people in NSW only got the wretched gunk squirted into in their arms because it was that or lose their job?

The Libs and Nats really are overachieving since the 2021 Gumby Prize was won by John Barilaro for this stinker: “Mr Barilaro pointed out that residents didn’t question the brand of their flu shot”.

Flu shots aren’t made from dead babies John.

This has now spread worldwide with Italy, Austria, Finland and a couple of South American countries all hitting the bitumen.

The road to Berlin’s Victory Arch was packed six-deep with tractors the other day. Germany’s farmers have cracked the shits, too.

Once upon a time she would never have been given access to the child.

Rubbish.
If the mother had a history of violence, then maybe.
Absent that, Orders are Orders and if the other side of the Family hadn’t presented the girl for Access, then it’s off to the Family Court as a Matter of Urgency, and since Stein’s family is loaded, probably a change of Residence.

Rogersays:
January 29, 2022 at 12:14 pm

Aris Roussinos on the Ukrainian stand off.

Thank you Roger. IMO an excellent article.

calli says:
January 29, 2022 at 8:57 am

I froze at Smiggins Hole. And it was no joke.

Never again.

Hypothermia would be an unpleasant way to go. Many years ago, before the advent of mobile phones, a Sydney doctor and his daughter died on a chair lift at Thredbo. They boarded the lift late in the day after skiing and it was shut down while they were still halfway back to the village.

Once upon a time she would never have been given access to the child.

Rubbish.
If the mother had a history of violence, then maybe.
Absent that, Orders are Orders

The problem may lie with the Orders. A mother with this woman’s history may have received a form of supervised access, especially in times past. However, social workers and other bleeding hearts these days would probably have stepped in anyway to give the mother school holiday and some weekend access unsupervised. We found you have to have a documented case history of serious mental illness and incarceration for it to get the Orders we finally obtained, giving the father the right to decide on access depending on the condition he judged re the mother. Also, she might have fought those if they had been stringently applied. So it ended up we were on tenterhooks every time she had the child and we had to rely on the child’s reporting of events that had occurred which had frightened him in order to halt some excesses.

Cassie of Sydneysays:
January 29, 2022 at 11:59 am
As I said above the west is imploding and here are three perfect examples among the million reasons why the west is stuffed…and why Putin is laughing…

Russia has far bigger problems than the West: alcoholism is rampant, fertility shot to hell, environmental catastrophes, an economy in tatters, corruption through the roof with Putin at the top of that pile. Putin would love to swap problems with the West. He’s an evil fucker who should be dragged across the country in chains so people can take turns shitting and pissing on him.

Tame obviously wanted some sinecure out of Scotty, and Scotty has played her like a Stradivarius.
No wonder she’s cranky.
Just like when he kicked the King of France’s arse, got us the Nukular Subs, gave Turnbull a wedgie, mullered PeanutHead and spent Billion$$ on JobSeeker, Scotty has some up a Winner.
Bring on Albo, who has just had another makeover making him look more like:
Scotty Morrison!
You’ve gotta larf.

A very angry young woman, according to Goward.

Someone with unresolved issues flowing on from a criminal attack was a poor choice as Australian of the Year. Same thing with Rosie Batty, who turned her anguish about the violent death of her son by a mentally ill father into a conflated cause celebre for what is sometimes merely domestic squabbling. The latest appointment seems rather angry that he was disabled from birth and not simply by an accident and that ‘being born disabled’ is what really counts. I hope he drops that view and speaks for all disabled people.

I don’t play or even watch tennis but I admire Ash Barty. She’s my idea of an Australian of the Year, an Australian for all people not someone with an axe to grind.

My, as yet unapproved comment, re Grace Tame as AOTY (if I were her I’d be Deed Poll changing it to ‘Untamed’ as surname) in the Oz online today … for your delectations …

with Australia’s origin story of settlement by English and their convicts, with the tensions across class and by religion, Anglican v Catholic, and English v Irish :

humour salves the rub: in my opinion misbehaviour should be mandated, much like requirements for say entry to the country for tiddly winks competitions and the like …

The problem may lie with the Orders. A mother with this woman’s history may have received a form of supervised access, especially in times past

That’s not correct.
Supervised Access is only ever for a limited time, usually while awaiting a Trial.
Judges aren’t going to order supervised access in Final Orders without guarantees from the [Court Registered and approved] Supervisor, which never happens.
A mother being denied Access is unheard of, has it ever happened?

How dumb is ScoMo to announce this utter rubbish so triumphantly? Especially when it gets zero votes from the left. The Libs have a political death wish.

He’s so keen to attract the middle-way voter that he forgets he’s losing the base.

The good old reliable base; just nothing like so reliable at the moment, Scotty.
That one billion for the reef is gonna hurt plenty. There’s a lot of better uses for that sort of gift.

The Liberal base is unworried.
Labor doesn’t even think it can win Capricornia, the National Party’s most Marginal Seat.
And with a CFFMEU drone as the candidate, why would they?

Ed Case, we got access which was only to be given when the father deemed the mother to be mentally stable. Written into Court Orders. If unstable, she could be referred again to supervised access.
She had already put the child into numerous situations of danger before he was four and Orders were made.

Sometimes I simply dispaired. I had to tell myself that children get the mothers and fathers that they get, and all anyone else can do is try to make sure a child has some level of protection. In the early years with my grandchild in this case we had to rely on what the lawyers called ‘oversight in the community’, i.e. for teachers, child-care workers, doctors and kin to keep an eye on his welfare.

his government will need to return to conservatism to thrive.

The whole of the West will have to return to conservatism to thrive.

Spot on, Lizzie. That billion squandered bucks will encourage the same people who tormented Peter Ridd, specialise in scares and are doing immeasurable harm to the tourist industry. Why come all the way to Oz to see a Reef that’s widely believed to be on its deathbed?

Apparently, when it comes handing out other people’s money, the PM regards grant-gulping academic parasites as more valuable to the nation than entrepreneurial motel owners, restaurateurs, tour company workers and all the others who now have the arse out of their trousers.

And no matter how much cash he dispenses to pleasure them, they’ll always understand that Labor-Greens will give them more. Meanwhile, they’ll keep right on hating Morrison’s foul black guts.

Ed Casesays:
January 29, 2022 at 12:35 pm
Yeah, very poor decision to launch a sneak attack on the Russian Pacific Fleet at Tsushima.
Sure, the fleet was sunk, big deal.

Sloppy, even by your standards.

The surprise attack was on the Japanese Squadron at Port Arthur. The Russian Fleet defeated at Tsushima had sailed from European Russia to join the fight, and should hardly have been surprised when the Japanese engaged it.

Letter to the Editor of the Oz – as opposed to the clowns who are “in charge of” subscriptions:

It’s a wonder the print edition of the Oz manages to keep subscribers.

Sad but true.

Can’t see it getting published, but might get a kick up the arse somewhere…funny thing, they keep delivering the “special offer” of a free Daily Tele every week.

I have have just caught up with Drachinifels prodigious output, so thank you to whoever it was that recommended his Voyage of the 2nd Pacific squadron many many many many moons ago which introduced me to the channel.

Now there is a black comedy, if someone was brave enough to try it…

Helps us city-slicker keep our feet in the cowpats

Lizzie, somehow I can’t imagine you with your feet in the cow pats!!!

Aha. But you didn’t see me on top of a hill of pasture in rural Iceland in the very best spot to view the Northern Lights. They were magnificent, but my feet were in enough cowpat mixture to make me double in height overnight – if I were a form of vegetation. Seems the cows enjoyed the view from the top too, which seems to have enhanced their gastro-intestinal activity.

Can’t see it getting published, but might get a kick up the arse somewhere…funny thing, they keep delivering the “special offer” of a free Daily Tele every week.

I got that. Signed up for a special offer of home delivered Weekend Oz for $1 per week.
Let it expire after the 3 months rather than pay the normal rate.
But it kept arriving, free, for the next ten years before they eventually noticed.
Which didn’t bother me greatly since by then it was unreadable anyway.
I think News Corp subscriptions kiddies would make great public servants.

Czars, Stalins, Kruchevs, Brezhnevs etc and Putin have sent the sons of Russia into wars.
The mistake that everyone makes (including some Russian leaders) is thinking that the Russian soldier is fighting for the leader or the state or an ideology or their fellow Russian etc. Russians fight for their country and everyone else can get fscked.
Their will be no “demise”, as Bruce says. Russia may rise and fall, but in a never ending cycle.
If in doubt, ask Adolph.

Bit of a slow start but would not surprise if ‘reckoning’ ends up as word of the year. ‘Embattled’ seems all but forgotten. Should still be plenty of ‘must win’ games.’Misinformation’ should have a strong year. ‘Nuanced’ hanging in there.

https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/russia-loses-a-million-people-in-historic-population-fall/news-story/671c2e5c72041e31a83f8fb222cff4fe

Diogenessays:
January 29, 2022 at 1:36 pm
I have have just caught up with Drachinifels prodigious output, so thank you to whoever it was that recommended his Voyage of the 2nd Pacific squadron many many many many moons ago which introduced me to the channel.

I’ve been subscribed to Drachinifels for several years. That particular clip I have shared with many people so you’re welcome. Plenty of excellent material on his channel. Youtube generally does a good job on the military history front. A couple of historians have a very detailed account of WW2(Timeghost History) and various other interesting clips on 20th century history up to and including WW2.

Tucker Carlson has the top-rating cable news show in America.

In one sense, it’s a no-brainer: scoop up half the half of America that has no representation in the news media, who have fallen in behind the Biden regime because he’s not Donald Trump, and reap the commercial rewards as Fox News edges back towards billion-dollar annual profits while CNN haemorrhages its audience, which has more than halved in the past year.

So the liberal media establishment have turned Carlson into public enemy No.1 for not supporting the Washington war machine’s efforts to create a new arms sales project in the Ukraine to replace the Afghanistan fiasco.

Carlson is right over the target. He’s a Russian agent!!! (just like Donald Trump was for four years for beating Hillary Clinton)

Viewed from the still-sane foreign policy haven of Australia, the propaganda being used on opponents of the Biden junta is quite comical.

Here’s a sample from today.

Dickhead Alcott has hit the ground running after his AOTY win. Metaphorically speaking. 🙂

Tucker Carlson has the top-rating cable news show in America.

Then there’s Rogan.

Frampton comes a-cropper (Surber, 28 July)

Peter Frampton is the latest rocking chair rocker to signal his virtue by demanding Spotify chose between him and Joe Rogan.

This will cost Frampton $1,700 because he cashed in on the royalties to his music long ago, as did another Censor Rogan old man named Neil Young. Young received $150 million for his catalog. Good for him. The miner for a heart of gold found some gold.

Frampton’s battle with Spotify predates Rogan. Frampton has hated Spotify for a long time, complaining about the low royalties he receives.

Haha, let me guess which one Spotify will back: a superannuated mostly forgotten rocker who we pay $1700 to annually or a podcasted who gets 11 million views for each program he uploads?

Vicki says:
January 29, 2022 at 1:34 pm

I remember the reporting of that incident.

I’ve been stuck in chairlifts several times. Even wearing ‘technical’ ski gear the chill quickly becomes worrisome.

My wife and I were once stuck for about 20 minutes on a quad chair next to a young Italian couple. They were both beautifully dressed in puffer jackets and ski slacks – absolutely ideal for après ski, but useless in the high Alps at -15°C + windchill.

After 10 minutes I was shaking the little chick sitting next to me to keep her awake. By the time the lift was restarted and we got to the top station they were both so out of it that the ski patrol had to evacuate them.

Rex Franger WhiteKnighting for GraceTame, Timothy Neilson lying his guts out and a few assorted Quibblers doing what they do best.
Another Sad’dy arvo [yawn] at The [newish] Cat.

Thankfully foxtel is back on as:
The missus arrived back from shopping and I would have had to sit through a chick flick and
I can watch outsiders tomorrow.

is the female with him in the picture slightly disturbing?

A twin of one of my neighbours! With the same dog!

Joe Rogan could appear with guitar and mouth organ, just to really piss them off.