https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lTF6Jzav8wk Eating the cats.
Open Thread – Mon 31 Jan 2022
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Roads, rates and rubbish. Or not (the Tele): Clover Moore’s City of Sydney council will donate $22,000 to Rising Tide…
“Because you’d be in jail.” That locked in the 2016 win. “Fight! Fight!” cemented the comeback.
There were two facets of Kerr’s actions. First to dismiss Whitlam (and I’ll leave this aside). Secondly, to dissolve both…
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Interesting data. The first divergence neatly matches the date of emergence of climate crap, and the second is of course due to the covid scam.
“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”
Richard Feynman.
Scientific method is trustworthy, but results must always be questioned. Any scientist who doesn’t understand that is no longer a scientist but a propagandist for a cause.
Sorry – first two sentences are quoting BoN.
If you liked ‘Zombeavers’ you should also like ”The Toxic Avenger.
FMD.. what is with all the cat fights going on here?
At least in a bar I may have the compensation of a bit of eye candy.
This story is Chrenkov approved!!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/31/kamala-harris-pipe-bomb-january-6-report
Kamala Harris, then vice-president-elect, drove within yards of a pipe bomb left outside the Democratic National Committee on January 6 2021 and remained inside for nearly two hours before the bomb was found, it was reported on Monday.
Harris’s proximity to the bomb was known previously, but not how close or for how long. CNN reported the new details in the case, part of alarming events in Washington on the day Congress met to certify Joe Biden’s election victory over Donald Trump.
A pipe bomb was also left near the Republican National Committee. More than a year later, no suspect has been named or apprehended.
I wonder if he’d recently had his booster?
Happy Chinese New Year
Anyone trying to blow up Kamala with a pipe bomb has got to be a lefty. Guaranteed.
Righties are instead watching her antics with amazement and popcorn.
Recent contact with a Koala or contact with Koala habitat?
Nice Mr Xi seems apprehensive of the new year. He’s shacked up in his bunker.
Xi Jinping Is Watching His Back (28 Jan, via Instapundit)
A wounded dragon might be quite dangerous. We live in interesting times.
Nah, it just confirms the clot shot is working.
I wonder if ‘Beware the Ides of March’ translates well into Mandarin?
We need a massive cull of koalas and gum trees.
Just in case.
To be sure.
Think of the children.
Remember that the Argentinian junta was in political and economic trouble in 1981-82 and decided that the best way to improve its standing was to invade some islands off the coast.
Particularly ceiling and floor joists and rafters (less check outs than studs). Get in the roof of any house over fifty years old and the timber will be way better than anything you will get at the Green Shed.
Oregon a lot of it, and some of it close to what we would call furniture grade these days.
Hook, line and sinker, Wally Dali. And they get quite stippy when the plebs start to doubt their veracity.
This from Jennifer Oriel in The Oz today:
‘Unfairly’: warrants an entire thread of is own.
Time for a Public Reckoning in the Pell Case
A grave injustice was reversed when the High Court of Australia vindicated Cardinal George Pell and restored him to liberty on April 7, 2020. What the world could not have known then, and what readers of all three volumes of Cardinal Pell’s Prison Journal have now discovered, is that the cardinal put his 404 days of imprisonment, most of them in solitary confinement, to good use. He prayed, not least for victims of clerical sexual abuse. He read, studied, and deepened this thinking about the contemporary situation of the Catholic Church, about his native Australia, about reform in the Vatican, and about a troubled world. He participated in the work of his defence team. And he produced a prison memoir that is a shining testament to the power of faith, hope and charity to see a man through the most difficult of circumstances.
Thanks to these journals, and thanks to the dignity and equanimity with which he has borne himself since his release from prison (not least in an hour-long interview with Australian broadcaster Andrew Bolt), Cardinal George Pell has become a spiritual hero to many. That this is to the consternation and fury of the cardinal’s many enemies is a source of considerable satisfaction to his friends. But not, I think, to George Pell himself. For as these journals have revealed, he is a much bigger man than his persecutors and his rabid critics. He holds no grudges. That they do is to their further shame.
Good for you, Sancho. Be a truck pied-piper, there’s a dear, and get them away from here.
But while we’re on the subject, and in the light of your views upthread which deserve reply, Arky really did get done in here by firstly, believing in his own uptickers, and then by being heavily slaughtered by some later upticking. He was going through a very difficult time and I think there should have been more understanding about that here. I haven’t been in touch with him since he left, but he did contact me personally before that about how much the Cat was affecting his mental health. He did share here so much that was important to him: his Model A, burned out in the fire being just one of Arky’s ways of joining in. Remember too the forays into video journalism, and his Mr. Fit running excursions and his discovery of his writing voice (with a touch of Headmaster hubris re axing comments).
Same as me, though I’ve never wanted to axe people. I’ve shared a lot here, all of it from my true life, and I’ve written some often very informed commentary on many different things over the years. I don’t think I deserve the opprobrium that I collect from a paranoid woman’s crazy utterances about my presence here followed by her sententious seeking of approval by fakely mild-mannered but nevertheless self-aggrandizing commentary re something on the ABC or Watts Up.
You have to have a cast-iron emotional constitution to withstand some ferocious upticking attacks here. I don’t have that, but I still persevere here because I have learned from life’s lessons that you shouldn’t let bastardry, often psychotic or deliberately malicious and even envious, grind you down.
Sometimes though, the game is hardly worth the candle. Sky After Dark may do it better.
Kung hei fat choy.
I’m not.
Speaking of recycled building materials.
Watched a show on SBS last night about the restoration of Castle Howard in Yorkshire.
They pulled off the lead roof sheets, sent them to a foundry where they cast new roof sheets and sent them back.
I assumed lead sheet was just rolled from a big block.
The casting process was fascinating.
They have this long tray which they fill with damp sand, trowel the sand perfectly flat, then pour the molten lead over it.
Voilà!
Instant lead sheet.
Chlamydia, the filthy little minxes.
Factcheck – TRUE. The biggest risk factor for dying of Covid is already being in the process of dying of something else.
Japanese firm says ivermectin shows ‘antiviral effect’ against Covid-19
The controversial drug ivermectin shows an “antiviral effect” against Covid-19, a Japanese drug company said on Monday.
In September, Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) banned doctors from prescribing ivermectin off-label.
General practitioners are now only able to prescribe ivermectin for TGA-approved conditions, such as scabies and certain parasitic infections.
“These changes have been introduced because of concerns with the prescribing of oral ivermectin for the claimed prevention or treatment of Covid-19,” the TGA said at the time.
“Ivermectin is not approved for use in Covid-19 in Australia or in other developed countries, and its use by the general public for Covid-19 is currently strongly discouraged by the National Covid Clinical Evidence Taskforce, the World Health Organisation and the US Food and Drug Administration.”
Ivermectin was first discovered in 1975 and came into medical use in 1981. It was approved for human use in 1988.
In 2015, half of that year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to ivermectin’s discoverers, Satoshi ?mura of Kitasato University and William Campbell of Merck.
The medication is sold in both human and animal formulations.
Veterinarians use it to deworm domestic animals and cattle.
For humans, it exists in tablet form and has been widely used in Africa to treat intestinal strongyloidiasis and onchocerciasis – also known as river blindness – which are conditions caused by parasitic worms.
Topical formulations are also used to combat head lice and skin conditions such as rosacea.
When the medication is taken as intended it is low risk – however, when taken in large doses it can cause serious side effects including severe nausea and vomiting, and neurological effects such as dizziness, seizures and coma.
In August last year, the US FDA told Americans to stop taking the drug by referencing the veterinary version.
The FDA said it had seen a rise in reports of patients being hospitalised after self-medicating with ivermectin.
“You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it,” the FDA tweeted.
The question is when will Thugs Goons Adminsitration face Criminal Charges?
Wally Dali says:
February 1, 2022 at 12:18 pm
FMD. Does the msm really believe that anyone swallows this shite?
Oh my wordy lordy yes. And to be clear, many still do. Not all obviously, but way better then 50%. Which brings me to the 3rd jab. When greater than 50% have had it (around 35% at present), you can bet your socks that the pressure will mount exponentially for the rest to follow. Social pressure plus govt pressure. MSM fully on-board.
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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha:
January 31, 2022 at 11:37 pm
Going to have to see if I can get a copy.
Liz
What are upticks?
The Greens are already working on the latter.
Awakening? Queensland green types realize what environmental horrors wind farms can be (16 Dec)
Bob Brown famously had a road to Damascus conversion a couple years ago on such things, although he’s gone quiet since. Don’t be a bird or a bat in Queensland or Tasmania.
Great to be luvved!.. phone offline for two weeks .. put it back on this morning .. NO missed calls/msgs .. just like it has never been off .. LOL!
What annoys me even more is that Monash Uni was the first in the world to identify this. This was the chance for Vic to really go down the early treatment road. But no, they are corrupt son’s of bitches.
Tom, it was a rhetorical question. If had a fair idea of the answer.
I suppose I wanted to get away from the Lizard People hypothesis and get minds focussed on what makes the world go ‘round – money. And lots of it.
As the money supply appears to dry up, another “variant”, another faux panic, another syphon for more dollars. The power dividend is incidental – it’s picked up by the weak minded, small wizened hearted government leaders who would be useless at any venture in the world outside politics.
The other psychopaths (principally in pharma, but there others) get both money and the power it confers. In a conventional war, they would be branded as profiteers, but being without shame they want to be seen as “saviours”.
With all the conspirational smoke and bilge, it has to be seen for what it is.
So can WA punters go to North Perth (Bali) when it opens on the 4th Feb?
Slaughtered?
Really?
Not being a little melodramatic are we?
The last straw was him going off on NYE and, when he copped a bit of mild criticism the next day, he went the full “ban both of us” stunt on JC (remember he did exactly the same during the epic stoush with egg_ly.
Which really means, ban JC and I’ll lay low for a week.
In effect, he did a Neil Young on himself.
Understanding and tolerance have their limits when you make a prick of yourself for weeks and months on end.
Personality traits which preceded the Great Inferno, I might add.
The only difference is, Lizzie, he didn’t attack you.
Which means you are perfectly happy to ignore his attacks on others, as long as you got a free pass.
Wally Dali says:
February 1, 2022 at 12:18 pm
FMD. Does the msm really believe that anyone swallows this shite?
Oh my wordy lordy yes. And to be clear, many still do. Not all obviously, but way better then 50%. Which brings me to the 3rd jab. When greater than 50% have had it (around 35% at present), you can bet your socks that the pressure will mount exponentially for the rest to follow. Social pressure plus govt pressure. MSM fully on-board.
Imagine you will a vaccine so safe effective that you have to change the definition of vaccine from provides immunity to provides protection then find that that it even does not provide protection
NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said that,
of the 27 people who had died, eight had received a booster, 16 had received two doses and three were not vaccinated. Of the four aged under 65 who died, none had received a booster and all had “significant underlying health conditions”, Dr Chant said.
Man: This spanner is the wrong xxxxxxx size.
Woman at AEMO: It has been brought to our attention that there may be issues regarding our spanners. Of course there will be challenges moving forward and we will work to enhance blah blah blah
The bloke who allegedly set fire to the doors of Old Parliament House,
Nicholas Malcolm Reed, was listed in the ACT Magistrates Court website earlier today for appearance at 2:00 PM.
His listing has since disappeared and a search for his name turns up nothing.
The repair bill is estimated to be $4 million.
This isn’t democracy. It isn’t democracy when a single person not part of the system making calls that the rest of the population can’t. Stokes calling the shots in his own self interest isn’t any better than McClown, and is in fact worse as McClown was democratically elected.
So when the dumb asses ‘running’ Australia mandate the 8th jab as being ‘fully vax’d’, will it mean all people travelling or migrating to Aus need 8 jabs?
LOL. I wonder if these clowns have thought it through.
Arky was suffering. He was angry. He was having difficulty coming to grips with a dreadful life setback (in the scheme of things, only slightly less traumatic than losing a loved one).
He has absented himself for his own well-being. Which was a very wise move on his part.
Big Nambas says:
February 1, 2022 at 12:12 pm
https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/game-changer-us-military-data-shows-shockingly-high-vaccination-injuries/
Not surprising given that Biden’s job is to destroy the USA.
Arky’s ideas regarding cleansing his threads for wrong-speak (as determined by him) was bizarre for a place like the Cat.
Frank! stop rooting zomkoalas!
Whenever I see footage of the tornado damage in mid-America, I wonder what happens to all the debris. and see recycler heaven.
I had a GP appointment today to renew a script for some medications. I was geared up to discuss my “non vaxxed” status but it wasn’t even brought up. Maybe they have backed off pushing the vax?
which is exactly why the doctor’s wives’ suburbs such as Manly who vote brainless twerps in for their green cred need a wind farm installed.
They need green power – good and hard.
Yes.
And not attributable to anyone else here.
So the history re-writes should cease.
And, I take issue with “only slightly less traumatic than losing a loved one”.
If “damaged house” and “lost hobby stuff” is just losing out in a photo finish with “deceased loved one”, it’s time for some serious re-prioritisation.
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Yes, bern. I don’t know what that was all about. After one little skirmish, I decided not to tempt him again.
Once you start down the censorship and “guiding” path, it’s hard to go back. Pointing out something with an invitation “well, what do you guys think?” is probably a better way. That’s how most of my teachers over the years have approached discussion, but perhaps I was a lucky one.
Top Endersays:
February 1, 2022 at 8:54 am
TE, we pay $10/month for the basic service, which provides us the Sky/Fox/BBC news etc + documentary channels (history/Nat Geo/ etc)
My son in law had his house burned down and lost all of his stuff. It was traumatic.
Fortunately soon after he found a beautiful girlfriend to ease his pain and draw him out of it. 😀
Come off it Sancho.
Have you ever had your house burned down? I didn’t equate it with losing a loved one so don’t try verballing me.
It won’t work.
Damn right.
And eventually he found the patronage of his Pearls of Wisdom threads fell off because of it.
You lose any credibility sooking about “lost freedoms” if you are prepared to edit and delete opposing opinions.
wow.
No one really knows why Arky is taking a break.
Could be anything.
Maybe his missus told him so.
Who knows.
Heh. You bet. Probably threatened him with the tyre lever and a charred steak.
In the interests of the blog, I have eschewed publishing the email where Johanna’s outright doxxing of my husband’s surname was manifest on Sinc’s Catallaxyfile. I was prepared to give way on that, as I regarded putting forward my proof even with his name redacted (as I will not publish that) was merely to add fuel to fire that I hoped was burning itself out. A false hope indeed. But let me remind people that this evidence exists and that Johanna has forgotten writing it, just as she has forgotten so many things she said and did in her envious efforts to denigrate and then doxx me some years ago when it really mattered. Paranoid and fixated people tend to have poor memories regarding their outrageous behaviours.
Believe me on this. I’ve dealt with a few in a long lifetime. Trained to recognise them too.
Which state Slim?
a charred steak.
Crikey, the fire didn’t start in the kitchen did it ?
The CHOs have been admitting (in undertones at the end of their rant) the deaths “with Covid”, & not “of Covid” for some time now. Annoyingly, the media buffoons who report back to the Channel, do NOT. And it is the latter that, I suspect, most viewers recall.
The admission that so many deaths are related to existing conditions follows the trend begun overseas. Not that anyone seems to notice.
No verballing.
These are your exact words calli:-
“Slightly less traumatic“.
I stand by what I say.
If the loss of possessions – fully insured as I understand – ranks anywhere near the loss of a loved one, then the priorities are screwed.
(BTW, I don’t think he said that).
I know people who have lost houses in fires. They invariably say, “Well, at least everyone got out. Things can be replaced.”
You have to remember the good times – like when he proudly went out and bought a whole sirloin, cut it up into tasty thick slices, just so.
And his missus murdered it. There was much weeping and gnashing of teeth that day.
The solution is obvious Vicki. More Jabs!
No Sancho.
If I had meant it was the same I would have said so.
And money doesn’t replace some things.
A depressingly large fraction of posts here consist of bitching about other posts and their posters.
It’s not very interesting.
His missus was definitely in favour of him getting off Catallaxy. He told me that.
Just as my loving and very sensible husband has been too regarding me being here.
I comiserated with Arky that this place is not kind to mavericks like us.
Oh sweet Jesus.
I couldn’t agree more, Dr. BG. But needs must.
If people insist on attacking you, that generates replies.
Stop the attacks and the problem immediately disappears.
Simples.
What’s that about, Bern? Is your entitlement overpowering you?
DrBeau, it’s the Pedantic Variant.
There is no cure apart from ignoring it.
You might try just ignoring them, Lizzie. Why legitimise them by responding? They’re only pixels.
I do, mostly, Calli. And I congratulate you on not being a part of it, in spite of your being a woman. 🙂
Speaking of second jabs and that mystical barrier of 90% at which point we are all apparently immune from covid (cough cough splutter), I have been watching Qld crawl its way to 90% and something curious is happening.
Looking back at the jab statistics, Qld was tracking like most states and was achieving double dose rate increases in the population of around 0.4-0.6% per day. Obviously the rate fell on weekends but that was the typical weekday rate. Right up until about 3 weeks ago when Qld hit around 89% double dosed.
Since then, the daily rate has plummeted to around 0.02-0.1% increase per day. Just yesterday, the overall rate for double vaxxed rose from 89.53% to 89.56% (+0.03%). Looking back to 19/20th January, the rate moved up from 89.00% to 89.07% (+.07%) which was larger than most days but still not particularly significant. These low rates are now commonplace and would suggest that Qld won’t achieve 90% double dosed until late February.
Three weeks ago the media in QLD were all over the fact that Qld was “so close” to 90% and the easing of further restrictions and then……nothing. They have been very quiet about it ever since.
I thought it may be because of holidays but that doesn’t stack up because the rate of 3rd jabs is strong at ~45,000+ per weekday compared to 1st or 2nd jabs at a combined <10,000 per day.
The rate of 2nd (and even 1st) jabs in the 'adult' population (over 15) has collapsed. I suspect the answer is that SE Qld residents have been compliant persons but their country cousins are holding out.
For many months I have noted that all states seem to reach a slowdown barrier at around 91-93% (except Canberra which hardly slowed) where the 1st and consequently 2nd vaccination rate falls away substantially – but Qld seems to have hit that wall earlier that all except perhaps the NT.
This is the fed govt site and lists stats by day:
https://www.health.gov.au/resources/collections/covid-19-vaccination-daily-rollout-update
That’s been said so often, Dr. BG, but it doesn’t hold any water. Everything published here is ‘only pixels’ but we don’t discount it because of that. We test it for veracity. We argue the toss.
It also doesn’t work. These attacks are not a one-off. They are pounces, intended to hurt and emotionally kill. The attacks continue and newbies believe the memes and lies.
Everyone has the right to self-defense.
Congratulating a participant for not participating.
This place has some weird personal dynamics.
Anyway, it’s lunchtime and I’d prefer to ‘stop obsessing about that nasty woman’ as Hairy puts it, and go have some tucker. I’m hungry after the Shingles jab. There was blood on the band-aid and my arm is hurting. Dr. John Campbell would not be pleased. Lucky it’s only chicken pox eh?
And I didn’t accuse you of saying so.
You said:-
“Slightly less traumatic”.
I paraphrased as:-
“If “damaged house” and “lost hobby stuff” is just losing out in a photo finish with “deceased loved one”
‘Photo finish’.
‘Slightly less than’.
Largely synonomous.
My point is, that if you rate death of a loved one anywhere near the loss of property, it is time for some self-examination.
And, I reiterate, I think Arky said something similar.
That he was grateful for no death or injury.
While I was away he’s obviously been checking up on me on the Cat.
You get that look on your face, he sez.
Well, yes. Yes, I do.
Not a nasty involuntary uptick of the snarling lip though, like some fixated females. 🙂
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calli:
February 1, 2022 at 1:43 pm
There was much weeping and gnashing of teeth that day.
Cali, I prefer ‘wailing and gnashing of teeth’ instead of ‘weeping.’
But that’s just me. 🙂
Usual suspect which is why you never head about it again:
the accused made no attempt to organize the company of Australian Federal Police officers to collect his personal effects from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy
I mean Calli.
I hereby see your ‘Sweet Jesus’ and raise you several upticks.
BTW, I think there are two “m’s” in “commiserated”.
This aged well:
…
LOL
Luke 13:28 (KJV)
Where was the Aboriginal Tent Embassy on 26 Jan 1788?
Asking for a friend.
I’ve noticed that too, Speedbox.
Recalcitrant rednecks.
I’m back.
Am I now safe from attack by land, air and sea?
MAJGEN Ron Grey, my CO in South Vietnam, died recently and I was busy making plans to go to Canberra to say farewell when I damaged my weak back occasioned by service with said general in said country. Went to bed for a week, chewed codeine and milked it for all it was worth with wife, three daughters and three granddaughters. Recovered but still need a walking stick. Back to planning trip but got a sore throat. Yep – COVID positive Back to bed for another week. It was like a tenth of the power of man flu and I seriously coughed about 7 times in the week ‘s quarantine. Qld health tell me if no symptons after 7 days then get on with life. Highly qualified Daughter says careful. COVID doesn’t know about Qld Health edict of 7 days but takes weeks to disappear. If I tested today I would till be positive. In the meantime Gen Grey will have to go to his maker without support from his one time recon patrol commander. I hope he manages it OK.
Nothing like a leftie taking the high ground on issues .. “Kneel” Young=short memory ..
then again, he is getting on in years soooooooo! .. LOL!
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Well, that took the impact out .. try again ..!
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Stay away from me Kev, you bloody leper!
Whatever happened to the traditional masculine gesture of protest – starting a fight, and wrecking the joint?
Relisted for 21 March.
Day 2 as an unvaccinated unperson in Sneakers Hermit Kingdom. Picking up my (compulsory) takeaway coffee life at the cafe continues as normal. Any notion that the vaccinated are going to rise up at the injustices being done to their unvaccinated fellow citizens – forget it. It ain’t going to happen.
Presents some interesting historical parallels that I will let others draw for themselves.
Callie
I do uptick comments of merit, not just the ones I like.
Those who are asking for a “downtick” option may regret it.
It was so peaceful without Kev the barbarian barging in with some sob story.
Hmmm.
Just been told HMAS Adelaide in Tonga has over 100 Covid cases on board.
All the crew are double stabbed.
Wonder how that could happen?
Poor jolly jack tar won’t be back for a bit.
Under other circumstances Tonga would be a great visit
On these numbers generally, mass data generated from the public on a national scale is rough and always ugly. It’s not 90% let alone 90.00343%, they’ll generate reports from the system, then have a confidence band and it’ll be something like: we can say that between 75%-95% of Australians have been dosed at X levels of confidence on each band, because of problems X, Y and Z with the data in this way, and that way and muslim pharmacists in Sydney can’t use a computer properly so we know 0.1% is corrupt there, and we gave the wrong details to pharmacists in this period so we don’t know about that 0.08% of the data there, and QLDers messed up the data between these periods which is 0.03%, etc, etc.
And naturally being Amway salesmen the government will use the very best figures they can get away with.
Kev says:
February 1, 2022 at 2:19 pm
In the meantime Gen Grey will have to go to his maker without support from his one time recon patrol commander. I hope he manages it OK.
Look at the bright side Kev – he’ll be there for you when the time comes…
If Dover felt so inclined he could link and publish upticks to username.
Then we’d see something.
The social power of Big Data.
Liz
What are these upticks?
Also, you’ve been splattering on about someone doxed you or your family. That’s eggsactly what thought leader was doing to me and then he had the temerity to suggest we ought to leave the site as some sort of religious penance together.
If you don’t like that happening to you, perhaps you shouldn’t be bawling about Thought Leader’s absence and building him up as some sort of messiah.
FMD. It’s a self-help group now?
bespoke says:
February 1, 2022 at 2:26 pm
Que?
I missed that and who is Kev the barbarian?
What are these upticks. The only uptick rule I know of is not being allowed to smash a stock on the NYSE and can only trade on an uptick.
What has the uptick rule on stocks have to do with the freaking blog? 🙂
From now on I’m calling it the Catallaxy uptick rule.
$10 a month, BBS? And this is through Foxtel direct?
One last important thing.
Bern, how did you get a free Disney deal from Telstra. I’m really pissed off I didn’t get it as I pay the fuckers ~ $750 a month for services.
I got an email from Telstra, JC.
Free.
No strings attached.
All I have to do is cancel it in the 12th month so it doesn’t roll over onto a subscription.
This is Top Ender reporting in from the Front Lines again….
One more unto the breach this morning at the National Library, researching some very interesting (and usually not mentioned) aspects of the midget sub raid.
Had cause to turn down near the Tent Embassy™, and Holy Buddha, what a conglomeration it’s become.
There would be around 8-10 tents, at least two of them the very large 50-man variety. Associated portaloos and so on. A smoking small fire. Nevertheless only a few odd bods wandering around.
This is what becomes of letting people do what they want in a public space, eg: squatting. It is now there forever and it can be as big, and as lawbreaking as it likes.
Gabor
Big Kev, Kev the invincible, Kev who can scale a Besa block without spilling the wife’s shopping.
Just been told HMAS Adelaide in Tonga has over 100 Covid cases on board.
I’m sure I read, just after the earthquake/tsunami that Tonga had had NO cases of BAT FLU so I’m guessing this sort of outbreak is gonna cost us plenty .. after all, it’s the science .. money is the cure-all when it comes to Pacific Islands problems ……
Today I learned that some financial types call the RBA the “Aldi Fed”.
Considering the obesity rate in Tonga, COVID is pretty serious.
Sell aussie wear diamonds, Bern. 🙂
Bear
Talking about self help. How are you travelling these days?
Bern, how did you get a free Disney deal from Telstra. I’m really pissed off I didn’t get it as I pay the fuckers ~ $750 a month for services.
What on earth does $750 a month get you ..?
.. My phone costs $12 a month (18gb), one streamer ($8.99) a month & internet (unlimited) $59.95 a month
Clearly they can now use the below as part of an advertising campaign for the boosters.
“Just been told HMAS Adelaide in Tonga has over 100 Covid cases on board.
All the crew are double stabbed.
Wonder how that could happen?”
I note Lizzie may have stepped away from the computer. So it’s safe for me to say I upticked a Joanna post about her. Seems I was one of many. My tick does not necessarily mean I support Joanna over Liz. Been reading this blog since it started and the never ending saga gets very tiresome. Note we have the doxcing story raised yet again. If I wanted to watch Days of our lives I would turn on the TV.
Nothing against Lizzie but she brings it on herself by the non stop drama. Didn’t she mention a few times she was going to ignore Joanna. I see that is working out well.
Top Ender
I’m sure that was the thinking behind the City of Perth and the fuzz when the “First Nations” tried a similar stunt on Heirrison Island a while ago.
WeThePeopleUSA
@WeThePeopleUSA
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September 7, 2021
Sadly we will see more and more vaccine regret videos like this one*… I salute those that are brave enough to speak out, they save lives when they do.
* https://gettr.com/post/paapsv69d6
Not to worry; once they get sovereignty they can build a proper one in Yarralumla.
Panzer’s First Law of Upticks.
The number of upticks applied to a person’s comments is directly correlated with the amount of squawking about said upticks by that person’s blog nemesis.
Or, put more simply, “Whingeing worsens the upticking”.
And don’t question me on this.
I majored in Upticking at Harvard.
lol.
I don’t notice the ticks unless I haven’t been around for a day when I’m scrolling and you see a post with 20-30 ticks.
Complaining about someone’s post with a lot of ticks is bizarre.
If a dude did it, you’d be quite entitled to call them gay.
The State Of Modern Journalism – James O’Keefe | Modern Wisdom Podcast 428
https://rumble.com/vtqbtb-the-state-of-modern-journalism-james-okeefe-modern-wisdom-podcast-428.html?mref=5f67r&mc=7xi0y
Chris Williamson Published January 29, 2022
Rumble — James O’Keefe is an investigative journalist and the Founder of Project Veritas.
Faith in mainstream media is at an all-time low. At a time when we need better quality information, pretty much everything seems like it’s been made with spin in mind. Creating an alternative type of journalism is filled with legal, ethical, organisational and personal dilemmas and today James explains some of the biggest ones he faces.
Expect to learn what it feels like to have Anthony Fauci call you out by name during a hearing, why James O’Keefe was raided by the FBI at 6am, James O’Keefe’s response to criticisms about undercover reporting, how Project Veritas deals with the ethics of releasing undercover documents, whether James O’Keefe sees himself as impartial, how many times he’s been sued and much more…
Panzer, did you sit at the High Table at Harvard?
We need to know.
Yeah, not bad thanks. Physically I think things are about where they will end up – which probably means a walker and electric wheelchair going forward.
Cognitively I have got off much better and can still enjoy my reading and the Internet.
Not really quite how I saw my early “retirement” years but things don’t always go to plan.
Wow, JC — $750 p.m. for Telstra “service”.
Go after the phuckers for every freebie they have on the books, including free Foxtel ( which, from memory, they half-own).
My only contact with Telstra re my account in the past two years tells me:
a) They still consider themselves public servants working for the PMG.
b) They consider customers a nuisance, particularly around lunch time.
Thanks Bourne1879 for fucking up my theory.
Panzer’s Second Law of Upticking.
Some people just tick comments they like, without any complex analysis of who else might give a shit.
Were the pork sausages thin skinned?
Up the top of my street years ago was the local naughty girls home long since shut down. A friend of my BiL got the contract to demolish it. When he got to the main hall he recognised the flooring. very thick NZ Kauri. Rang several boatbuilders, one of which paid a motza for it and removed it carefully himself. The rest of the buildings were all Oregon throughout.
Big day for a coupla the grandees today, one grandson started High School and a grandaughter’s 1st day of school …… all up 6 in school .. two left to go .. LOL!
Too right I did.
The highest of High Tables.
There was no Higher Table than my High Table.
And I sat at the head of that High Table.
In a carver chair donated by John Harvard himself.
I must say though, looking at the upholstery, John or one of his successors must have had some very ordinary eating habits.
The whole subscription pricing model is quite insidious.
I have Spotify, although I use it everyday. I continue to refuse to pay for TV, although that is becoming harder. I would have thought that industry would have consolidated by now, although if anything it seems to be becoming more fragmented.
I kid you not.
There was chewing gum stuck under the arms of the John Harvard chair.
This tells me it was probably occupied by a Kennedy at some stage.
Sad you couldn’t make it to your CO’s sendoff Kev.
Junior officers have a hard time as it is, and to be consigned to the dirt absent their guys is unfair.
The plague of karens have much to answer for.
One of my ancestors with extremely poor taste tried to convert a large room in Panzer Hall into some sort of medieval dining hall with exposed beams.
Someone has painted them later on, but there is no hiding them.
100 x 100 and 150 x 50 beams everywhere. Rough sawn and looks like oregon by the grain.
Definitely for salvage when they inevitably go.
And they will.
100 x 100 and 150 x 50 beams everywhere. Rough sawn and looks like oregon by the grain.
Definitely for salvage when they inevitably go.
And they will.
Very, very maverick of you.
I used to like Maverick. James Garner from memory.
And Gunsmoke. And Bonanza.
Now they’d all be woke. Hate to think who’d play Hoss Cartright.
Carl Benjamin Reacts To 56 Year Old Supermodel’s Dating Problems
https://rumble.com/vtqbyv-carl-benjamin-reacts-to-56-year-old-supermodels-dating-problems.html?mref=5f67r&mc=7xi0y
Chris Williamson Published January 25, 2022
Rumble — Watch the full episode – https://youtu.be/PpqOY04NzaI
Carl Benjamin aka Sargon of Akkad from the Podcast of The Lotus Eaters reacts to Paulina Porizkova’s dating struggles. Why is dating so hard for women? Does Carl Benjamin think that women are being sold a lie by culture? Do The Lotus Eaters agree that nature is harsher on women than men? How can women deal with growing older? What’s Carl Benjamin’s advice for young men and women?
#carlbenjamin #dating #paulinaporizkova
Top Ender
This is what becomes of letting people do what they want in a public space, eg: squatting. It is now there forever and it can be as big, and as lawbreaking as it likes.
As the residents of San Franshitsco and Los Angeles are learning, on a much worse scale.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
February 1, 2022 at 2:23 pm
The language annoys me. These people always start out suggesting they are merely a ‘niche’ provider. Then, they want to cut a ‘swathe’. When it all turns to muck they lament that they were only looking to provide a ‘niche’ service and had been bullied.
They weren’t painted Mission Brown by any chance? As a kid my job was to re-do the gate every few years. Sadly, now gone to God as the block was subdivided.
FWIW, I left several months back after Arky censored my post. I only returned when Dover reached out.
I have let people know on a number of occasions that I do not give upticks to people that I know have been jabbed.
I understand that shortly this might become site policy.
This means anyone on the site known to be a Vaxxer will have the facility to receive upticks removed.
Harsh but fair.
shatterzzzsays:
February 1, 2022 at 3:08 pm
Big day for a coupla the grandees today, one grandson started High School and a grandaughter’s 1st day of school
Same for us.
Molecular Biologist Sona Pekova: The ‘Vaccinated’ Are More Likely to be Sick from Omicron
Oh, no.
I won’t be actually doing it myself.
I’ll hire an actual maverick who specialises in such things.
Miss Anthropist says:
February 1, 2022 at 2:28 pm
Under other circumstances Tonga would be a great visit
Top spot – as are all of the South Pacific nations. Generous gentle people (and huge) who are always up for a laugh. A night on the turps can be a rollicking good night.
callisays:
February 1, 2022 at 3:21 pm
I used to like Maverick. James Garner from memory.
When the film Maverick was made a few years ago, with Mel Gibson playing the role, James Garner appeared as the boss of the riverboat gambling scene. A nice gesture to the past.
Before my time.
But I would put money on it.
I checked out my local Vietnamese restaurant, where I have my Thursday lunch, to enquire about their takeaway, because I didn’t want to cause them trouble with the vaccine order.
Little vietchick knew nothing about it.
Rosie O’Donnell.
I thought James Garner was gay.
I thought James Garner was gay.
No, but he slept with a guy who was.
Frank says:
February 1, 2022 at 3:37 pm
yes but could she lift an anvil?
The Sona Pekova link above makes particular reference to Australia:
Jeebus, Dover, can you push the big red “Flounce” button, please?
Possibly the biggest lie ever told in the history of blogging.
Arky ate the tyre iron and has patented the charred steak process as a replacement for titanium. I miss Arky, hope he gets his shit together and comes back.
That’s Arky is it? Thought Leader? I didn’t closely follow all the hullabaloo there at the time as I was -ahem – in absentia. Arky was off his tree at that time. Doxxing is a sin, we all know that. Except the one who doesn’t remember her big doxx. Hairy’s name up in lights on the Cat and an invitation for him to come to Queanbeyan!
Arky’s no Messiah. He’s a qualified fitter and turner who turned high school mathematics teacher. There’s a back story there about a hard row to hoe. He was trying out new futures, a new career path yet again. I did that a lot in me unguided yoof and some of us can even drop an ‘m’ and commiserate.
Coming up from nowhere and finding your feet can turn you maverick. That’s all I meant. I get so sick of the entitled middle-classness of this place sometimes, the oh-Sweet-Jesus fainters. All of whom went through school and uni without a hitch and fell into good futures thanks to mum and dad being so terrific. The school of hard knocks is a thumping bloody awful place.
Shaterzzz has done some hard yards, whatever his own demons and reasons, and it’s not everyone here who lacks understanding of them. Some do though.
Bicurious.
More tears from Jesus.
He’s practically sobbing now.
Moi aussi…down to the local Coles (where they completely ignore the sign in requirements, and so do I). Light on for flour, sugar, eggs, and coffee. Produce and bread all ok though.
I hope so too.
s
Here:
Mobile $262.20
Telephone, which I think also includes the internet for two homes $330.65
Foxtel $139.00
Plus some shitty charge of 14.90
Total $747.00
I can’t get rid of Foxtel without getting rid of Free to Air.
I’m not very good with cutting costs and leave the bill paying to wifey. I’m interested in just making money. Cutting costs is boring. 🙂
Who knows, but she has the forehead proportions for that hat.
Jesus wept. For all the pain and sin of the world.
He actually did. I don’t take that unseriously.
Read Larkin’s poem on ‘Church Going’.
Even agnostics like me know there’s something unreachable we yearn for.
Firstly, you have no idea of the background or family circumstances of most here.
Secondly, get down off the cross. We need the wood. I think it’s 8 x 4 oregon.
Being born James Scott Bumgarner may have had something to do with that belief?
Technically he did that because a friend of his had died, and then he had to demonstrate who he was to a bunch of total thickos. Which would irritate anyone.
Bruce, Mary and Martha knew.
Liz
He was pretending to own the entire site by trying to direct traffic on the open thread. When the Thought Leadership was told to go fuck himself as he had zero ownership, he went ballistic. He tried this bullshit twice with me. Fool me once, but not twice. He’s a cockhead with issues. I never posted a comment on his stupid self absorbed threads, but I observed his behavior and the way he treated commenters. It was a total late term abortion.
Anyways, enuff as I don’t want any reminding of him.
bespoke says:
February 1, 2022 at 2:04 pm
Congratulating a participant for not participating.
This place has some weird personal dynamics.
Yep.. one of the reasons I limit commenting to the bare minimum.
Some people here seem to spend most of each day commenting or attacking each other.
Endless back-and-forth, finessing the Art of the consequence-free Insult.
Good for them.. whatever floats their boat etc..
But it makes for tedious scrolling and detracts from the otherwise incredibly interesting and amusing content, unfortunately becoming rarer these days.
You call THAT a router?! 2 Tiny Raspberry Pi Routers
Gilas
And I mean this with a certain amount of respect. You’re a decent commenter with well thought out views and opinions, but it seems to me that you would like others to entertain you with good views and opinions. Speaking for myself, I’m not your entertainment director. How about you introduce topics as I’m sure you’ll have others returning comments.
On the topic of good thoughts and opinions, here’s a start.
President Brandon is a demented, corrupt lying piece of shit and his family are scum.
Breaking news: Maximus was speaking directly to Gilas in the movie Gladiator.
Yep the Cat is a bit like a Crown buffet. You can fill your plate with prawns but you’ve got to do your own deheading.
Bear
I don’t get that. Explain.
Are you not entertained?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of_jyeDZ3Sg
Requires courage and a strong stomach?
In other news, there was a single, three state wide lightning bolt hit the US yesterday. A record. There might be a message in that.
Some tasty morsels there but you have to do some work to get them.
Oh Crown as in Crown Casino and the buffet there. Okay. Got it now.. all by my lonesome.
Next time, try this one, Bear.
You gotta kill your own if you want to eat.
We have an internet package with our Foxtel. Don’t know what we pay.
Hairy and I both have separate mobile accounts. Don’t know what we pay.
We stream with Netflix and may pay for other things. Don’t know what we pay.
We get Quadrant, IPA x 2, The Australian, The Spectator. Don’t know what we pay.
But I do know how much the different cabins cost on the Golden Horizon Cruise Yacht.
Hairy just called me in to discuss our 2023 preferences with the sales people on the phone.
It’s a lot more than on Regent or Viking that is for sure. You pay for sails. And a tiny balcony.
We are at the spending stage of our lives. I think we’ve earned it.
Still quite partial to a buffet. As a kid the greatest treat was the original Miss Mauds on Murray St.
Although, as it turns out, the Wuhan virus that “escaped from the lab,”was not the Chimera that many of us (including me) feared might wipe out millions of healthy people, it was still a “gain-of-function” experimental virus.
We should not lose sight of that scenario as we regain (hopefully) some sanity in understanding that the most recent variant, Omicron, may herald its fading strength. In respect to that issue, a discussion between evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein and Chris Martensen (who was a molecular biologist before he became an entrepreneur) is worth watching:
/www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_Yu7woCdLA
I’ll never forget a story I once read. It was in the NY Post and about something that happened in the US. Where else, as it’s these types of stories that made the country great.
There was an open buffet at a Chinese restaurant in Florida. The buffet was serving up what the Americans call Alaskan snow crab legs. This 250 lb fucker and his fat kid kept going up and loading with Alaskan crab legs. They were told they couldn’t have anymore and a ruckus broke out. The fat fucker sued and he won! If they advertise all you can eat, then you can’t limit custom demand.
Never mind, Gilas. I will do some travel blogging here again sometime.
Cruising under sail won’t be till 2023 but in October this year we will be in the US for the elections, and I will report back on the tenor of the times. And the contraltos and sopranos too. 😀
Not sure how any of us would go with that one. Have seen a variety of stuff killed and field dressed. When given my own chicken on Year 9 camp I had an egg and baked beans. I like dal – and a steak when I’m not doing the butchering. Don’t normally bother with the prawns either.
Lizzie! A friendly piece of advice – don’t spend it all! Winter is coming ………& a good store of nuts will be necessary. We are now only spending on assets which will not lose value – or, even if they do – are still very “desirable” in any market. No plan is perfect – particularly if a bankrupt government brings in wealth taxes of various types.
JCsays:
February 1, 2022 at 4:22 pm
On the topic of good thoughts and opinions, here’s a start.
President Brandon is a demented, corrupt lying piece of shit and his family are scum.
Try to ease back on the level of flattery.
I eat other people’s cows & chooks.
Covid has at least meant that on the large cruise ships you no longer get the ferals and fatties doing grab-a-plate and run to swoop up all the prawns and oysters at the buffet as they used to previously. It’s all individual serve by people behind glass screens now. Far more civilised. Covid has had its uses.
Sea cockroaches, full of cholesterol.
You forgot to mention sex offender.
If, by “gets his shit together” you mean “coming back here and not behaving like a Blog Captain who is some sort of amalgam of Magda Szubanski in ‘The Weakest Link’ and Andrew O’Keefe after a night on the piss”, then I would agree.
If it is more of the same, no thanks.
Unsurprisingly, you miss the break in logic implicit here.
H B Bear says: February 1, 2022 at 4:35 pm
It’s no problem.
Growing your own veges is the hardest.
Growing your own fruit not so hard (after the initial establishing)
Killing your own meat? Routine.
Catch and kill your own.
One of my favourites.
Never had any problem with Arky & always found him to be a valuable critical thinker.
Then again, I never entered into debate or comment on his ideas.