I’ve had the odd contretemps with Arky. He never hurt my feelings though. Probably because I don’t have any.

Sancho Panzersays:
February 1, 2022 at 4:50 pm
Bwah ha ha ha ha.
Knew someone years ago who would always ordered prawns, and wouldn’t touch pork because “dirty animal”.

Sounds like the snooty lady who declined the offer of pressed tongue, because she wouldn’t eat something that had been in an animal’s mouth, but happily accepted the offer of an egg.

Watching a whole kangaroo thrown to the pigs certainly changes the way you think about pork.

Now I wan’t some.

Hamburger (non-maccas) with the lot and beetroot and pineapple.
Nutrition perfection.

Eat with beer or coke or both.

I don’t buy food that was made in China if I can help it.

There is even an aviator chick here, JC that carries a gun in her car.

Watching a whole kangaroo thrown to the pigs certainly changes the way you think about pork.

An acquaintance once woke up suffering badly from a night of drinking and went to the back door to vomit. This attracted a bunch of ducks that proceeded to scarf the chunks which led to more vomiting. He wouldn’t shut up about it.

If it is coming from Uber Eats then you know that shit is getting served up out of a bucket.

JC says:
February 1, 2022 at 4:20 pm
.. but it seems to me that you would like others to entertain you with good views and opinions.

Uh? Did I write that? … Must check…

Speaking for myself, I’m not your entertainment director.

Awfully decent of you to inform me of this.
Stammi bene!

Can I ask for a little advice?

I am looking to fix my interest rates on my home and investment property for three years. Being offered 3.09% on OO and 3.19% on the investment property.

It’s a slight increase in repayments but not unmanageable. I have an adult son at home whom I could tap for a little extra to help out and I would raise the rent on my property in line with the agent’s recommendations instead of leaving it as I have done for a couple of years. I just have a feeling that the inflationary pressures I am seeing literally everywhere are going to force interest rates up sooner rather than later and I would prefer to have a few years of not having to worry about frequent letters from my bank informing me that my repayments have increased yet again.

This is far from an area where I have any sort of expertise. I’m acting on little more than a hunch at this time.

Any thoughts or comments would be welcome.

Thank you in advance.

Fun fact.
The private equity firm that owns Neil Youngs music is in turn controlled by Blackstone.
The soon to be new owners of Crown.

I have the questionable oppurtunity to see bodies that had spent time in the sea.
They invariably had prawns feeding on them.
Never put me off prawns.

We need to talk about traditional sausage skins…..

And raise you. Hot Dogs.

Mmm:

Peter van Onselen named in political reporter’s case against Network 10.

Press gallery journalist Tegan George has launched Federal Court action against her employer Network 10, alleging it engaged in unlawful conduct that breached the Fair Work Act.

Political editor Peter van Onselen is named in the claim, as are several other senior employees of the network.

van Onselen’s betrayal of a texting source today at the NPC to embarrass Morrison was a dog act – one that even lefty journalists don’t respect.

Luzu, in times of coming inflation a fixed rate can be a sort of security blanket.

I don’t know how Hairy and I would have managed with a largish mortgage on a large house to bring up four children well, including private school fees, during the 1980’s when Keating managed to push interest rates to over 17.5% if we hadn’t had some mortgage relief; we were in a category of people who had their rate fixed to no more than 13.5% and we were so glad about that.

That said, I can’t advise you. Paying a higher rate when you coud be paying a lower one is a little painful, but if you get peace of mind from it, maybe it’s worth it. I don’t think in the next year rates will do much as the politics of a sharp rise woud be very difficult; after that though it is gloves off and fixed rates will go up commensurate with that.

Let JC offer his words of wisdom.
I’m wondering too what my own kids are doing, fixing or floating. I must ask.

Sancho Panzersays:
February 1, 2022 at 4:51 pm
Oh, and the clincher in the Pig vs Prawn debate is that your rarely find a shit cord in your roast pork.

With no added micro-plastics.

Latho as sympathetic to PVO as you’d expect:

https://twitter.com/RealMarkLatham/status/1488333807547650049

A few hear have asked “What is the point of NATO now?” in recent days.

It’s fine trolling. Every time someone says Ukraine or Armenia or Georgia should be let in about six fascist Presidential heads explode. Lots of fun.

The alliance is fairly useless but I’m enjoying Putin’s existential hyperbowl.

We have a waterfront property not far from Huskisson, Lizzie. Its gone up nearly 3X in less than 7 years, have someone trying to buy it at the moment well above valuation. Not interested. Time ceases when I’m there.

I knew I had seen it somewhere.
The Mathematics of Boneless Pork Rectums
Another reason not to eat Chinese.

“Our time is now, and you eat less as you get older.”
My time’s not now. Gone forever. Felt brief joy 18 months ago with the birth of a granddaughter, but it was wiped out with worry for the world they will grow up in. So the spare room is becoming storage, and I have my son’s old GN cricket bat to repel boarders. I practise swinging it from the shoulder, for fun. My neighbour has sneaked in and taken spring onions and a few eggplants, I know it’s her. It’s a filthy thing to do. She watches to see me drive off. Perhaps broken glass on top of the wall, and the gate?
We don’t know what hardship and deprivation is. No bloody idea.

Lizzie and Hairy ‘keeping up with Jones’s.’ A term you don’t hear much these days. A shame so many of the old sayings are being forgotten.

All of whom?

I suspect that there are several Cats who started out the hard knocks way, (but keep it to themselves), just as there are those whose parents were in a position to give them a leg up, so to speak.

Why try to make this another divisive issue?

Delta, I deliberately nominated a sub-category of people here, which you missed seeing, whether by design or not I don’t know. That category was those like Bern, who commented ‘Sweet Jesus’ at me and Arky being, by my choice of term, mavericks. I did not deny there were other ‘mavericks’ here who also did not come from that sense of middle-class entitlement, in fact I specifically mentioned Shatterzzz as one and said there were doubless others. It was the entitlement that annoyed me, because the sort of exasperated comment made by Bern indicates just how little tolerance there is at times for people who are ‘different’ here. I have lived with that sort of intolerance for much of my life and certainly for a lot of my time on Catallaxy. Mavericks are different because that is our experience and we mention it. We should be free to mention it. Or not, as some others may choose to refrain.

You would laugh in the face of covid if you were the type to engage with an all you can eat buffet. Fearless.

Please.

Never go Full Lavatory Rodeo.

Or if you do, give me warning so I can sell some tickets. It’s a marketing opportunity in these difficult times.

Biggles, I never missed the point of your flying skills, I just knew you had to be an A340 captain because how you explained the maths & your overall knowledge on most every subject in the universe.
I mean you are a country gentleman, sniper par excellence, murder detective ( I heard you won a game of cluedo once).
Between you, choo choo man & that nasty arsehole the Head Prefect this site becomes the font of all knowledge.
Oh, & how is your wife is he OK?

Not bad but it did have a distinct taste and odour of fecal matter.

Chitterlings.

With a “C” because an “S” is uncouth.

Neil Oliver: Canadian freedom convoy is a ray of sunshine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUI3-3Hrtms

On our travels in China we came across a sign on a rather dangerous looking boardwalk – “Slip Carefully”.

So I did.

rosie

I respect that your trying to change direction but please don’t carryon like an ex-smoker.

At least give it a few more months.

Keeping up with them joneses.
The mimetic of desire, I think they now call it without saying so because that would be keeping in with keeping up.

Western Australia bans unvaccinated parents from seeing their sick children in hospital. The media applauds exploiting desperate parents in their darkest hour.

Everything written is correct, in that these people are utterly demonic and finding the most vulnerable moments in their sworn enemies lives and wedging the sticks of dynamic labeled ‘the state’ into those cracks and blowing it up in order to punish us, while shrieking and cackling with laughter at our suffering. There really does need to be a day of the rope.

That’s obviously my mind on the subject, so what I’m writing here is not to diminish what they’re doing ( and they are doing it with pure joy), but to perhaps soothe the not “full vaccinated” parent in WA who’s heart is in their throat at the thought of all this, having been through it.

Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals:

Rule 9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself. “

They did this in QLD in December, and I wrote about our experience when our daughter’s appendix burst the very week it was to come into force. Entering the hospital we were met with a massive sign telling us in big letters that we were not allowed to enter the hospital as of that Friday – two days away. Full stop, no wiggle room in the wording, “Unvaccinated people cannot enter the hospital as of Friday…”, I was astounded at the lengths they were going to. The media were shrieking daily, the head of the AMA was mocking us in interviews. While staying overnight at our little daughter’s bedside, the Mrs heard two doctors swanning around the (completely empty) children’s ward crowing that unvaccinated parents wouldn’t be allowed in as of the Friday. All of that pressure was on top of the fresh and terrible fright at finding our little girl unconscious on the floor, and all that follows after that moment (and no ambulance turning up – but QLD is going to QLD).

Fires of hell.

So instead of relying on the lying liars to tell me what they had planned, I took it upon myself to read the actual “mandate”. As I reported from my own experience, parents are of course allowed to be with their sick children in hospital. Satan himself obviously struggles to break that bond. But it’s only one “unvaccinated” parent at a time in QLD, and you may have to take a test. Yes they’re deliberately trying to frighten people in the most grotesque way imaginable, pumping it up in the media, making you imagine your brave little trooper alone, lying in bed in grasp of this ghoulish system. They’re doing it so you’ll give yourself over to them in a moment of self-sacrifice at the imagined future hardship of your children. And we personally went through it and it is frightening, but people need to be brave – proper brave. Brave in a way that modern overly-socialised society has essentially banned so nobody really gets to do it anymore and we’re all terrible at it. Paddling out into double overhead Kirra takes less bravery, climbing a near vertical mountain takes less guts, no doubt we’re finding out we’re terribly untrained for bravery required to be proper citizens – by design. They’re trying to terrorise you, but you don’t have to feel terrorised. You are a citizen, not the school child that they want you to be, and those days where we got to just go along being treated like that are over. The system, and the people in it, serve you. Read the “mandate”, then enter the breach and see what you can make happen on a personal level. Just see what happens, and make them live up to their filthy demonic rules individually. You’ll be surprised at how much leeway and goodness you find in people who are inside the system, how much tradition and cultural intertia pushes you through, but also how much evil lives in the hearts of other people you wouldn’t expect to see it in at first glance.

A lot of this stuff is more bark than bite because the people behind this are gutless bugman filth. Don’t be afraid, face this system and see what it’s made of. In Canada they’re finding out it’s not made of much. In QLD we are finding ways forward and life is manageable, word gets around. People serving a corrupt system are often lazy, lots of people become better people under a bit of pressure, and imaginative solutions emerge.

And, and just four weeks later here in QLD, they changed the rules and fully vaccinated parents are also only allowed in one at a time now as well. And there was just last week a story of a fully vaccinated mother having her new born baby stolen away from her in hospital because she stupidly and naively offered up that she was a “casual contact” – so they snatched her baby off her and wheeled it away for half a day. Everyone will be punished by these people, make no mistake.

On our travels in China we came across a sign on a rather dangerous looking boardwalk – “Slip Carefully”.

So I did.</blockquote

Harlequin Divine (where's he gone?) once posted a Thai signage here – I think it said something like 'drive fearfully'. Given the MVA death rate it was good advice.

aargh. Blockquote fail. You know what to do.

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And Neil Young was hardly hard left in the past. What’s changed?

Nothing.
Neil Young’s dad was lifetime CIA, just like Tucker Carlson’s dad, Steven Stills’ dad, Sharon Tate’s dad, Frank Zappa’s dad, a mile of others. David Crosby’s dad also made films for the US Army, so he was likely a spook too.
Has Blackstone any ties to the CIA?
Well, put it this way, they didn’t pay Neil $11 billion dollars for his catalogue because they liked his music.
In short, he’s a Spook.

twostixsays:
February 1, 2022 at 6:36 pm
Western Australia bans unvaccinated parents from seeing their sick children in hospital. The media applauds exploiting desperate parents in their darkest hour.

Everything written is correct, in that these people are utterly demonic and finding the most vulnerable moments in their sworn enemies lives and wedging the sticks of dynamic labeled ‘the state’ into those cracks and blowing it up in order to punish us, while shrieking and cackling with laughter at our suffering. There really does need to be a day of the rope.

Plenty of fake covid pass generators out there too.

I have 18 month old and 20 month old grandchildren and spend zero time worrying about the world they will grow up in.
Am I doing something wrong?

No, as Rex said the other day, you’re just being you.

So no surprises there.

Whatevs!

Miss A, saw something recently about Nowra being the most bogan place in NSW. Believable. It has improved a lot recently. Those areas mentioned are not for the plebs. Talking to my plumber who lives a street back from us has lived there for 40 years, he said for $17k more he could have had waterfront. The area just sold for close on $6M. With a nothing flash place on it.

Western Australia bans unvaccinated parents from seeing their sick children in hospital. The media applauds exploiting desperate parents in their darkest hour.

I want to see the pricks responsible for this covered in sores and begging on street corners. I’m feeling generous.

As part of the transfer of management of the station, NBY will purchase 15,000 head of cattle from the ILSC.

They’ll sell the cattle for a song in a few months time and go farming Carbon Credits.
So much for indigenous employment opportunities.

Indolentsays:
February 1, 2022 at 6:53 pm
Well, put it this way, they didn’t pay Neil $11 billion dollars for his catalogue because they liked his music.

$11 billion? Surely not.

I wouldn’t pay 11 cents for that LWNJs shit music.

Hispanic students hated (and were failing) their CRT-based ethnic studies class teaching ‘intergenerational trauma’

I wouldn’t pay 11 cents for that LWNJs shit music.

That’s my point.
Blackstone paid $11 billion, so it was a payoff for something.
Anyway, win/win, Rogan is now better known, and people are wasting money trying to find a good song in Neil’s catalogue.

Rogersays:
February 1, 2022 at 7:11 pm
I wouldn’t pay 11 cents for that LWNJs shit music.

LWNJ…is that a new Myers-Briggs type?

Heh. LWNJs have been around for a long long time.

LOL.

Kurri Kurri power plant running on green hydrogen ‘will not impact’ power prices (1 Feb)

Shadow International Development Minister Pat Conroy has rejected claims by Energy Minister Angus Taylor that Labor’s plans for the Kurri Kurri power plant will drive up electricity prices.
…
“Our power prices are determined by a combination of factors but the one in this case that’s relevant is the wholesale energy market, and Snowy Hydro will bid the plant into the wholesale energy market like any other bidder and they’ll take the price that the wholesale energy market settles at.

“So this will not impact on electricity prices for consumers.”

What a load of gaseous effusion. Pat Conroy was my local MP until I got redistributed intl Joel’s electorate. He’s never had a real job in his life, staffer to several unions until reaching a cosy safe seat. He looks like a toad and acts like one. I declined to shake his hand once when he visited our local shopping centre.

Nowra used to be a real dump.

A naval padre who was serving at HMAS Albatross suggested the best thing to do with one of the local hotels was to burn it down. (It was on a corner of the main drag – the Princes Highway if I recall…)

Asked him why, and he said it was the place where the young local ladies used to lie in wait for a young sailor flash with money. Get married, get a kid, and then send him packing, and live on the required alimony.

Not exactly a Christian sentiment, but quite understandable.

bespokesays:
February 1, 2022 at 7:25 pm
Got told off as a student for flying in and out of Nowra’s radar on the way to Sydney.

They had some nice light engineering fabrication shops there. Not sure if they do anymore……

I was kicked out of home at 11.
Thanks for my privileges
Didn’t even get the 14 cents from vets affairs.

Dick Ed sees spooks under every bed.

Razy,
Down the Highway at South Nowra.
Metalwork, Brickyard et al.
Some other industry about.
Bonds, Horlicks and paper mill at Bombadery.
There was a pub down from the White Ensign club you could always score if you told them you were in the Puss.
Never mind the military moustache

Why does Kurri Kurri need a new power station of any type when the one that Babcock & Brown spent half a bill on is sitting there under care & maintenance ready to be plugged back into the grid?

Jasper’s Brush used to have a Railway Station.
And an airstrip.
Flew gliders there.
And later a bit of Army Aviation there.
I hate heights.