Holy crap this Android spellwrecker is becoming outrageously buggy.

miltonfsays:
February 10, 2022 at 7:54 pm
Sorry I meant Audrey Zibelman. Another lawyer.

The curse of managerialism strikes again.

… are having …

Ed Casesays:
February 10, 2022 at 8:11 pm
I’m not calling it yet, but it’s line ball.
Rosie sounds like another one of Sancho’s wacky characters.

Dick Ed displays a greater than usual level of ignorance.

I think that ATAGI are being quite cunning in changing the language. They now have plausible deniability when DespotDan mandates 3 jabs to say – that’s his decision, we don’t say that 3 jabs is necessary to be fully vaccinated.

I think its a maneuver as a precursor to blame avoidance by ATAGI. There’s no other reason for them to suddenly change terminology at this time.

And there is going to be plenty of blame coming.

“The end of an election cycle feels like a good time to move on to something new at the ABC,” she said.

Has a snout ever been voluntarily taken out of the trough?

It was a hatchet, not an axe.
If you don’t understand the difference, try chopping a tree down with a hatchet.

Just quietly, there is no way the cops would ever write down Axe if the implement was a hatchet
Yet even the prosecution is talking about an [non existent] Axe.
Which leads me to suspect that the Prosecution is in the tank.

A hatchet is a type of axe.

Just like a lemur is a type of monkey.

Dick

Yet even the prosecution is talking about an [non existent] Axe.
Which leads me to suspect that the Prosecution is in the tank.

The prosecution are government lawyers. Axe, small axe, hatchet, all minor detail to them.

it would have been inappropriate for two officers earlier threatened by Mr Walker with an axe to then take part in his arrest

Apparently and allegedly and it is said by some, if the two jacks who were earlier threatened took part in the crook’s arrest and the crook was injured, it would be easier for the crook to claim that the injury was caused by the jacks getting a square-up in.

So they get other jacks in if they can. Who generally do the squaring up in behalf of the original jacks.

in behalf of…

First Android phone huh?

and these men are also aroused by female bodily habits, such as menstruation

That’s um…so disgusting all you can do is LOL.

Do they know women fart just as much as men, they just blame their pint sized pooches?

How many GPs are seeing patients right now rather than by video hookup?
I was shocked to hear our local medicos have shut up shop because of lots of Covid in town.
Lucky we have ‘up to date’ to keep us well.

Do they know women fart just as much as men

More. Much more. It’s just not on display nearly as much.

Spend your days eating quiche and salad and you won’t fart, you’ll erupt.

Scott conducting an investigation into who made the phone call is THE VERY SAME embedded structural silencing culture that drove the call in the first place and misses the point entirely

An actual Prime Minister’s response may be:

‘Name names or it’s a fucking lie and any credibility you had will be shot. I will strip you of your AOTY, and ensure the only career you ever have will be in therapeutic massage.’

Spend your days eating quiche and salad and you won’t fart, you’ll erupt.

It wasn’t that long ago, that oats used to do it for me.

Now they are my guts’ best friend, but once I could out-trumpet Louis Armstrong with a single oatcake onboard.

More lethal than a hatchet in confined spaces like a locomotive cab…

#Gas!Gas!Gas!

This is terrible, P.
Obviously, you have amazing inner strength to cope with such a deprivation.
My very best wishes to you.

Thanks Delta A. I’d just fell ast leep in front of the computer.
All is well. I’m managing. It was great yesterday that nobody questioned my vaccination status. At 82 I can hardly be frightened of dying of covid.
My family all support my stand having been coerced into complying due to their own personal circumstances.

Could be the curator of vaginal knitting sculpture at Horsham Art Gallery.

Hey, I know that guy.

Knit, purl, knit, purl, knit, purl.

Ewwww.

Tell us again about how that worthless junkie and fiddler Ricky Slater breathed his last after doing the only real exertion he had done in twenty years.

Run us thru the story again, Sancho, just to bring everyone up to date.
Is Slater another of your wacky Queensland characters?

Some guy was knitting in the mall in town yesterday. Sitting on a bench, knitting. Weirdarse.

Probably used for opening tins of Camp Pie.

You really don’t get out much, do you ECF?

P says:
February 10, 2022 at 10:26 pm
… At 82 I can hardly be frightened of dying of covid.

P – your best bet is to catch COVID cos then you’ll at least get to 85… 🙂

I’m probably missing a dozen more but we appear to have a Nazi, furry LARPer commenting

Suffer not the furry to live…

Take heart, brothers and sisters! For when we fight the Furry, we do the Emperor’s work.

Much like you know something is true the minute Grigory starts bullshitting about it, you know someone must be over the mark the minute Trumble’s Folly starts howling:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/10/peter-dutton-has-plumbed-new-and-dangerous-depths-by-suggesting-china-is-backing-labor

Ann-Marie
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How about cleaning up all these schools and teach practical skills instead such as cooking, sewing, woodworking, gardening etc?!

Eighth graders are given assignment to use pizza toppings as metaphors for SEX ACTS such as ‘olives = giving oral’: Connecticut school has since admitted task was a ‘mistake’ ……

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10497029/School-calls-assignment-comparing-pizza-toppings-sex-acts-mistake.html

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Young leaders have been infiltrating western democracies for a very long time.

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Johannes Leak.

David Rowe.

Peter Brookes.

A.F. Branco.

Chip Bok.

Lisa Benson.

Britain negotiates with Russia :

Lavrov to Truss: “Do you recognise Russia’s sovereignty over Rostov and Voronezh regions ?” Truss to Lavrov: “Never” British ambassador, Deborah Bonnert, to Truss: “They are actually Russian regions”.

Jo Nova (in comments under her blog topic yesterday):
The issue is mRNA is an entirely new technology, which has not even had basic testing and research done on it, and they’ve been lying about all of that.

They say they care about our health, but if they did, they would have done this testing and in 2020. That failure and deception is criminal.

If we had informed consent they would have told us how uncertain it was.

If people are being double dosed on a three week schedule, the first dose is still being processed and present when the second dose goes in. No wonder the second dose is such an issue. In Toxicology, the dose makes the poison — yet we didn’t even realize that the second dose was a “double dose”.

The spike itself is toxic — it binds to 13 different receptors in our tissues including crucial ones like ACE2 which lowers blood pressure. If spikes are still wandering two months later, that’s a major potential risk. Does it increase blood clotting and stroke or heart attack risk for months, and how long?

Not only does this show Pfizer and Moderna lied for profit, but that they were assisted by Professors of Microbiology etc who went on TV and swore these injections were safe. It also shows the failure of all the regulatory agencies who should have been demanding this data before they would even consider approving them.

It shows we should have rushed any other kind of vaccine into production before we rushed a totally new and unknown technology into mass production.

Leigh Sales to step down from the 7.30 Report after the federal election.
Gives herself big pat on the back for always asking the tough questions of both sides of politics “without fear or favour”.
If this was true we’d still be watching, but haven’t been for quite a few of her 12 years at the helm.

Couple of good tomahawk fights – Last of the Mohicans and The Patriot.

Horrible, deadly little weapons, designed to inflict as much damage as possible at close quarters. I think the Day-Lewis character has one in each hand from memory. Mel just uses one.

This is not to be confused with the Thomas Hawk as demonstrated in Bugs’ The Oily American, which is reserved strictly for butlers.

In the 18 months ending June 2021, 83 soldiers have died at Fort Bragg.

Yes, but how many were transgender?

What’s going on with Chip Bok?

What did Trump do that’s got him agitated?

But no such boosters required for international arrivals. Fuckers.

They rest of the world is moving on, the Mongs running Australia are still in the COVID loop and will be for years.

Bruce would be interested to learn that Viktoristan foxes have native birds in their preferred menu.

Another foul geriatric to add to the list

Dick Ed has now scaled the heights of Peak Stupidity.

Oh no BJ. Special Ed has the ability to do the North Face of Everest with no oxygen in a Hawaiian shirt and thongs Peak Stupidity. This is a Sunday stroll.

Just keeps getting better and better!

Greg “Yorrick” Hunt — I find that in my anger when I say the name Greg Hunt the emphasis on the last “G” if saying GregHunt quickly has the same effect as “Yorrick” but Yorrick it is — excellent work Pauline Hanson – the real trail-blazing woman who changed the face of Australian politics

From my book Medieval Military Combat:

7. The fight of the poleaxe soldier

The poleaxe occupies a unique position in the history of edged and percussive weapons in the West. It uniquely combined an axe edge with a spike, and a hammerhead on the side opposite the edge. But how was it used, and who used it? It is of primary study here because it was the premiere weapon of the heavy infantry: the plate armoured man-at-arms.
The poleaxe is a shorter and more rugged type of halberd, an axe on the end of a pole. Its usual form has a shorter axe blade with a straight edge and a four-pronged hammer replacing the beak. Other variations can have a convex edge, a beak, and even a flat spear instead of the usual triangular one.
The poleaxe can trace its ancestry through the long-handled axe in use several centuries before the Wars of the Roses. Depictions of warriors wielding these axes can be seen in the Bayeux Tapestry, which may still be seen today in all its glory in Bayeux, France. It might be noted that there are different spellings and indeed different arguments as to the origins of the word – pollaxe is common for example. Originally designed for combat, it was also used in fighting in tournaments. There is also no set agreement for the exact design of the weapon, and like the sword, it may be found in a variety of types, weights, lengths and designs. Francis Grose, for example, writing in 1708, discusses “Morris pikes” and “halberts” in detail, before moving onto “pole axes”, but in essence they are all the same in concept, with its poorer relative, the bill, being longer and more designed for thrusting at the enemy; pulling soldiers off horses, and less in the concept of slash or for that matter percussive strike, for which they were not equipped.
It is a point made before, but worth making again: weapons and armour of the medieval period was all a matter in individual preference from the wearer, or the innovation of the armourer trying to sell a new concept, of satisfy a demand from a customer. Imagine if you will a man-at-arms who attends a tournament; sights a new variation of poleaxe or armour piece, and then returns home to visit his local armourer to explain his choice, who then sets about trying to make one. Every weapon was slightly different from its predecessor. The poleaxe was a continued variation on earlier battleaxes, and it took its changes in design from the best proving ground of all – actual combat.
The poleaxe is said by many historians to have been the weapon of choice for dismounted combat in the Wars of the Roses period. Many surviving examples are of high quality and decoration, which supports the idea that poleaxes were used mostly by well-to-do soldiers. This is not exclusive: the Wallace Collection’s item A925 is an example of an unadorned poleaxe. It is commonly acknowledged that poleaxes were favorite dueling weapons as well. There is even a slightly modified type, called a hache in French, which was used primarily for duels. This weapon had a 6-7 foot long haft and a rondel guard on each side of the grip.
A useful analysis of these edged and percussive weapons lineage can be found in Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World. There is contained a perceptive discussion of the relationship between bearded axes, glaives, bills, and so on, culminating in halberds, which seems to have eventually become a ceremonial weapon. Indeed, they can still be seen today in use at the Tower of London and in other ceremonial centres. Britain derived the generic battleaxe for use in combat from a development of a variety of weapons fused together by their Anglo-Saxon and Viking use together with techniques and materials brought over by the Normans in 1066 and beyond.
Bennett et al gives a perceptive illustration of the Battle of Falkirk in 1298, where Scottish formations were defeated by an English army. The Scots army consisted of “massed pikes with sword and targe [shields] men, and others carrying axes and bills.” Edward I of England used his cavalry to drive off the Scottish horse, and then used his missile men:
…crossbowmen and archers – to shoot down the immobile schiltrons, shield shaped formations of foot soldiers armed with spear and axe. As the Scottish forces began to falter, the English cavalry drove in to disperse them. The result was a massacre.
A careful examination of 14th-16th century art reveals that warriors were often depicted using poleaxes in mass battle. This suggests that the poleaxe was used more widely than popularly thought. Indeed, the German name for poleaxes fussstreihammer is roughly translated by John Waldman to mean “infantry warhammer,” indicating that poleaxes were used by infantry/dismounted forces. Foratio et al and Blackburn et al concluded that skull trauma evident on bones from the mass graves of Wisby and Towton are consistent with wounds caused by poleaxes.
One of the most interesting aspects of this study is that we will have to make a judgment call on how the poleaxe was deployed. It seems certain that bills, poleaxes, swords, spears, and bows were all constant weapons of the Wars of the Roses. The weapons are mentioned in many accounts of the time: “…the Summons given by the Heralds of Arms that Spear, Poleaxe, black Bill, Bow and Arrows should be set a work the day following.” But in what proportions were they used? Contamine suggests that polearms may have been used “when fighting at a distance” and readily swapped with war hammers and axes, presumably surmising this because of the length of the weapon.
However, I would see maces as useful secondary usage – more useful than a sword – as it can be used one-handed and has good percussive power against armour. A sword by comparison is defeated by good armour and negated by even medium protection. But in general it is likely medieval soldiers fought using one long weapon overall in company groups, gathered around their leader. There are few records, such as the Bridport Roll, showing war hammers and axes in quantity. Both are short-shafted weapons, which would be outclassed if used by a group when facing an enemy group using longer-shaft implements such as the bill or the poleaxe. This had its limitations however, as the development of the pike showed. This formidable spear is not good in close quarter combat, being too lengthy – sometimes reaching 18 feet/4.5 metres – and in reality being developed for defending against horse soldiers.
Swords were useful, and had been a good weapon for both cavalry and infantry soldiers in the past. But the improvements in armour meant that swords were becoming less and less useful against armour, although they still had their place against mail or brigandine or jack. Even the big hand-and-a-half swords were not as useful against plate. Ewart Oakeshott, whose life’s work brought together a close and personal study of thousands of swords, classified the “new” versions as Type XV-XVa. He starts off this invaluable explanation by referring to the previous marque:
The XIV’s were made and used when most defensive armour was still mail, with or without metal or leather of quilted reinforcement. The function of a XIV, like all its predecessors, was to be a slashing and hewing weapon. A XV was meant to be able to deliver a lethal thrust, even though armour was largely of plate. It seems to have developed along with the development of plate armour. [Oakeshott also notes the development of] “its long-gripped, hand-and-a-half type subtype, which by the 15th century would be called…Bastard Sword.
The sword was an effective enough weapon, when used by the plated soldier, if and only if he was fighting another man armed with the same weapon. Each could thrust and by skill or luck slide his blade inbetween plates, although good armour was designed against this. A slash might smash through at the join between plates. Delivered with force, a heavy cut with a strong sword on top of the helmet might drive an opponent to his knees, and a sideways cut against his helmet finish matters off.
Sword versus mace would also be a one-sided affair, if both soldiers were equally skilled and built. The mace is not designed for the strong finger and wrist work which could deliver a sword slash; have it miss, and then within milliseconds turn the blade and bring it back again for another try. (A look at modern sabre or epee fencers in slow motion is instructive.) The mace man could not deliver a series of, say eight to ten, cuts and slashes and thrusts within five seconds, as can a capable fencer. The mace fighter was committed to follow through and try and bring his weapon, without a usefully manoeuvrable hilt and guard, back for another try, although he might be more effective with a strong strap to secure the shaft to his hand. The mace man was also lacking a point and a blade to his weapon – it was only designed to be used preferably with a downward smash, although a blow from one side could be useful. Then again dexterity and speed and skill were important variables: a skilled soldier with a mace could offset a swordsman’s weapon.
But if the swordsman was facing a poleaxe equipped soldier he was likely doomed. Again, we are presuming two opponents of equal skill, strength and build for the purposes of analysis. If he was well trained and used his skills, the swordsman would use his sword point as well as the edge, giving him the ability to hold an opponent off to a degree. But taking on a poleaxe would not have been a matter of fencing. A poleaxe soldier would preferably bring his shaft back half over his shoulder and run a pace or two forward, bringing it down with a good overhand blow. The swordsman would of course try to evade the strike, but the poleaxe soldier could still guide his axe in its course, and he would probably make contact. Even if he missed, he could bring the axe up underhand, and use the blade in an uppercut. He also had the additional advantage of using the point where he chose. We can’t know what the fully armoured medieval soldier’s effective time in battle was if measured in minutes, but re-enactors give us some idea: they were limited to around 13 minutes of combat – a finding which will be expanded upon.
The armour of the fully-plated man-at-arms made him largely invulnerable to the swordsman. The swordsman’s technique of aiming for the joints of the plate was not very effective. His cutting edge had to be accurate to with a few millimetres or it would glance off the armour. His point also had to be just as accurate. Some armour with overlapping sections was not even that vulnerable. Then again, it is important not to generalise in this field. It was always the case that armour and weapons changed and developed, for there was more at stake than just protect in the case of the former. As we noted previously with Hanson’s observation of the Greeks: “There is evidence too of a gradual trend over some 250 years toward lighter and less cumbersome armament, showing the hoplite’s increasing desire for greater mobility and manoeuvre.” The armour was heavy; it slowed you down, and in effect the soldier was trading off speed and dexterity for protection. Hanson notes a reluctance to put on body armour and pick up the shield until the last moment, with an: “aversion towards wearing arms and armor until their life-saving potential was more significant than the inherent discomfort.”
No-one seeing these two contestants of poleaxe man versus medieval swordsman in a combat fight – as opposed to a tournament melee – would have backed the swordsman for a win. Of course, civilised matches such as those fought in tournaments depended not just on weapons. Knowledgeable audience members, having seen the middle-aged but fit Sir Roger fight with the sword before, might well back him against the younger and stronger poleaxe-armed Sir Geoffrey, knowing that Sir R would evade the first panicked slash and himself slash sideways at Sir G’s helmet; his favourite strike, knocking the latter knight down where he was primed for surrender. But the poleaxe had indispensable advantages, which if all other factors between two soldiers were equal, meant it was the best weapon for foot combat. Further on in this chapter the techniques of the poleaxe are analysed in detail, especially as used in company, and this point proved.
From studying the weapons themselves, both in their static examination and in the hands of re-enactors, it is suggested that the poleaxe was the weapon of choice for the fully armoured man-at-arms. His companions, all less formidable than he was, were lesser fighters such the bill-wielding lightly armoured soldier, and bowmen used as light infantry with clubs, swords and daggers. The previous chapter on the deployment and use of bowmen on the battlefield has advanced this latter theory. But billmen, or spearmen as they were often called, made up the biggest other cohort on the battlefield after the bowmen, and we shall now turn to them.

[Section omitted}

How was the poleaxe used?

Some accounts refer to a spike equipping the foot of the poleaxe, but this has not been found in any weapons examined. A spike on the foot would have been useful in a number of ways: as a weapon itself; and in allowing the shaft to be more securely grounded if the poleaxe was used as a support for a tired or exhausted soldier. Given the comments about the replacement of shafts on a regular basis made above, refitting a foot spike would have been another necessary task each time the shaft was renewed.

Rex Angersays:
February 10, 2022 at 11:40 pm
Much like you know something is true the minute Grigory starts bullshitting about it, you know someone must be over the mark the minute Trumble’s Folly starts howling:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/10/peter-dutton-has-plumbed-new-and-dangerous-depths-by-suggesting-china-is-backing-labor

What an appalling slander of the Liars. Everyone knows that all those Aldi bags of cash given to NSW Labor were gifts to help poor people made unemployed by Chinese imports.

The farm dogs hated the thing on sight. It had to go.

Mum and Dad had a fox terrier. It had never, ever seen a fox.

However sometimes, when they watched Midsommer Murders, the dog’s hackles would rise and she’d start barking madly at the tv.

After a while they started listening carefully to the sound track. Sure enough, in the spookier rural scenes, there was a fox barking in the distance.

“are intelligent, playful animals with amazing similarities to our companion dogs and cats”.”

Meddick needs to be taught a valuable lesson. He needs to go and see what foxes actually do to farm animals and native critters.

They kill for FUN.

They are not the cutesy animals printed on baby bed linen.

And another thing. If, God forbid, rabies ever enters Australia – foxes will be the vector.

Think about that, numbnut Meddick.

Dot, whenever Lasseter’s Reef is mentioned I can’t help thinking about Esteban and the Cities of Gold.

The children were addicted to it.

Feral cats and dergs…sure. Lead poisoning.

Foxes…lead poisoning with extra lead.

How’s that? I’m an equal opportunity exterminator of vermin.

I wonder if Herod henna-ed his hair? That would have made him extra deplorable.