Marc Zell isn’t the most reliable twitter account but I’s definitely like to see some hostages released, all of them.…
Open Thread – Mon 7 Feb 2022
- Bumtree #1
- Open Thread – Mon 29 April 2024
- Open Thread – Weekend 27 April 2024
- Nuclear power and the foundational lie
- Open Thread – Anzac Day 2024
Deny all knowledge, especially when the father of daughters shows up with a shotgun…
Two more proof of life videos https://twitter.com/MenachemV/status/1784362532284805312?t=1AFs0kJ5oUKBq2JsZfGzJg&s=19
Oh Rafe, sweet summer child. The LNP understands everything you said. They do not care one iota about nukes. Their…
“My hope, and the prayer of many gentle Muslims I am sure, is that sharia’s doctrines of death might be…
Who watches the ABC anymore?
Haven’t watched the 730 report since the days of Kerry O’poo face
Q&A still on life support after the Snowcone golden years.
How many years ago was that? I stopped watching the ABC when “The Bill” stopped.
Around 17.5% of the FTA audience, reportedly.
What their average age or vaccination status is we don’t know.
But it’s safe to say it’s not a growing market.
Old and busted: Fully vaccinated.
The new hotness: Why bother pretending anymore.
It is instructive that, even after all the transitioning so that he/she/xe/xit could “complete themselves” and “be comfortable in it’s own skin”, xe is still a vewwy, vewwy angwy young person.
The face of Byron Bay’s superannuated Marxists.
That’s for evenings. Daytime would be even poorer, I’d expect, especially since Playschool went woke.
David Jones shoppers. Just a bit lower on the socioeconomic scale. People who remember the 50s with affection and make the tea at Shut the Gate blockades.
We had a fox take the nose off more than a dozen lambs.
Are any other animals “cruel” like this?
My brother became a determined fox hunter using fox terriers as den dogs to bail up these pests. Ideally the underground standoff resulted in a bullet to the fox head and an useable pelt.
This La Tingle?
She seems proud of her proteges.
According to The Hun 20,000 school kids out because of RAT but the TaliDan aren’t counting or bothering to check consequences for individual schools.
Nanny Neil Mitchell 3aw is squealing that Plod and Para Medics can’t sensibly meet the midnight deadline suddenly announced by the Junta.
Mitchell earlier today called anyone over 50 who didn’t get a booster an idiot that needs their head read.
He loves jabbing anything that moves but can’t seem to connect the dots with mandates and society disrupting outcomes.
Roger, you should know by now that, even though they’re the majority, wymmynses are an oppressed minority so any attempt by a male at Their ABC to actually lead anything would amount to an insurrection against the majority.
Why bother at all anymore?
New study suggests 50% of people have innate immunity to COVID (10 Feb)
Pretty much in line with the Diamond Princess data, which the medical fraternity then ignored.
Another master of the art of persuasion.
I take it this is why the Uhlmann chap bailed; he saw the writing on the wall in Ultimo’s unisex dunny.
Reynard the Fox…..Martin Carthy. It’s on one of those music thingos, I think Amazon.
A smidge less, but it looks like the faithful are not diverted by plebeian distractions such as the Ashes or Strayan Open.
The hour by hours aren’t available, but the top twenties are.
Bagging the top spot for some light entertainment poncery must’ve stung the news compartment.
Roger
Thus joining any 40 or 50yo white bloke aspiring to senior management in a large multinational corporate.
Gladys to join Optus.
Teh Paywallian media section had a story that Mr Gai Brotmann was pulling the pin as the New Jabba. You suspect his contempt for j’ismists may be approaching our own.
I am ‘blessed’ with the TV being on in the FIFO dining room. After maybe 10 years not seeing any ABC TV (except indirectly by reading Carpe’s Interruption Lotto), it is a shock. There appear to be no males at all now, except obvious skin colour picks.
17% of FTA audience? That’s 17% more than the greedy tax-eaters deserve.
No sign of Kathy Sheriff?
And emojis.
NPR Says Skin-Colored Emojis are Racist or Something (10 Feb)
Which is fun because the skin colour emojis were originally brought in because not having skin colour emojis was racist.
What happens when you ignore the “Locals Only” signs.
Adem Somyurek claims there’s no way ‘Stalinist’ Dan didn’t know about rort
Former Labor powerbroker Adem Somyurek has warned the Premier wields too much power to be able to claim ignorance over the Red Shirts rort.
HERALDSUN.COM.AU
The “biggest political scandal” in Victoria’s history doesn’t just go away – especially when it flips an election, says former Labor powerbroker Adem Somyurek. In…
Former Labor powerbroker Adem Somyurek has warned the Premier wields too much power in Victoria, claiming the state has major problems in the way the public service is being run.
He also called Daniel Andrews a “Stalinist” and said he and his inner circle cannot claim ignorance about the infamous red shirts rort.
Speaking to Peta Credlin on Sky News, Mr Somyurek said Mr Andrews now wielded so much power in the party and the government that no one could speak up about their concerns.
“It is very worrying because it’s not just politically, it’s obviously with the public service too,” he said.
“Modern government is very, very complex, you need specialist skills and he just goes with his gut.
“That’s what happened with hotel quarantine, you don’t need ‘yes’ people beside you. You need people that are experienced, that are experts.”
It comes after the former Labor MP was successful in passing a motion in the upper house calling for the red shirts rort to be reinvestigated along with political appointments in the public service.
The powerbroker and his Moderates faction are being investigated by the state’s anti-corruption watchdog over allegations of industrial-scale branch stacking and the serious misuse of taxpayer-funded staff for factional purposes.
But he is now pushing for all Labor factions to be investigated in this space and for the Ombudsman to reconsider whether the red shirts rort needed to be referred to the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission.
Mr Somyurek said Victoria had a “real problem on our hands” in the way the government was being run.
“The manifestation of the Premier or the government putting mates or Labor Party activists loyal to the Socialist Left into the departments and agencies is when something different happens, you tend to think well I’m not sure I trust that particular institution anymore,” he said.
“The bureaucracy is meant to be merit-based and totally objective.
“But he’s completely killed that corporate memory, he’s put loyalists in there.
“That is the spoil system, where the government comes in and completely guts the people that are meant to be giving him expert, frank and fearless objective advice.
“That leads to corruption. That leads to loss of confidence.”
Mr Somyurek said fellow Cabinet ministers had been unhappy when the premier introduced a smaller crisis council to deal with the pandemic, circumventing traditional Cabinet processes.
He said this led to errors in decision making, claiming private security for hotel quarantine would not have happened under these processes.
“A minister would not have walked that through,” Mr Somyurek said.
“When a proposal comes to you, it goes to all the other ministers (and) everyone has an input before it even gets to Cabinet.
“But when you don’t have collective decision making … Mistakes are made and that’s something he doesn’t understand.”
Mr Somyurek said it was implausible Mr Andrews was not aware of the red shirts rort given his close ally John Lenders was the architect of the scheme.
“You can’t have your right hand man, especially someone like Daniel who is a Stalinist, to have anyone going rogue on him from the leadership,” he said.
“There is absolutely no way.
“His chief of staff, his deputy chief of staff, they all knew about it. So everyone knows about it but him, how does that work? That’s why we need IBAC to get people under oath.”
It’s okay if it’s Fortum & Mason. Best tea in the world. Try it sometime, bear.
Who could ever think chaps who regularly boast of banging hos and disrespecting the law might not be nice people??
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/feb/10/snoop-dogg-sued-for-alleged-sexual-assault-and-battery
The Guardian has contacted representatives of Snoop Dogg for comment. He deleted an Instagram post in which he wrote: “Gold digger season is here … be careful nefews [his name for fans] … keep ya guards up … And. Keep ya circle small”.*
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Snoop Dogg is being sued for the alleged sexual assault and battery of a woman in California in 2013, Pitchfork reports.
The anonymous woman – an actor, model and dancer – said that after attending a Snoop Dogg concert on 29 May 2013, the rapper’s associate Bishop Don “Magic” Juan offered her a ride home, but that she fell asleep in the car and was taken to his home against her will. The following morning, Juan allegedly “removed his penis from his pants and forced his penis into her mouth”.
The next day, Juan allegedly took the woman to Snoop Dogg’s studio to see if he would hire her for a role on a television show. According to the lawsuit, the rapper cornered her as she was using the toilet, forced her into oral sex and then “proceeded to masturbate and ejaculated on [the woman]’s upper chest and lower neck”.
The lawsuit stated that she did not get the television job because she “refused to willingly and enthusiastically give oral sex”.**
*Phrasing!
** Paid the toll, didnt get the role!
BREAKING NEWS: Apparently Dr duk has been released from prison. No bail conditions other than he is not allowed to drive while he is in Canberra.
WION News – Gravitas –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS9cNyrrXT8
[Pfizer’s Power, including The Right to Silence Governments]
“Build Crack Better”
Protestors in Virginia as Biden arrives.
50% is therefore a lower limit. Having virii dripped into your nose is like a thermonuclear bomb. It would overwhelm the innate immune responses of people with weaker immunity.
Clearly the goal of the study was to show there is no innate immunity. The innoculation was set at 10!! times the TCID50 ( or infectious) dose.
In more reasonable scenario with aerosol or surface transmission, it’s likely that the actual immunity is around the 85% shown in the cruise ship stats.
“Itty bitty hatchets”
They tickle.
Is anyone aware of a hack that will allow a download of an ABC Iview video.
I want to send Muster Dogs to my Pommy dog crazy in-laws.
All of the downloader programs that I have tried won’t touch Iview.
Defence Minister Peter Dutton has doubled down on claims the Chinese government has chosen Labor leader Anthony Albanese as its preferred prime ministerial candidate ahead of the upcoming federal election.
Open source information: Global Times, English language mouthpiece of the CCP:
Laying shit on Morrison:
Morrison’s opportunism, adventurism endangering his election prospects
A comprehensive run through of ALP talking points – including “a horrible, horrible man” and “a complete psycho.“, plus:
Pumping Albanese’s tyres – and highlighting that there is no real bi-partisanship on China, only weasel words:
Albanese gives wrong reasons for difficult China-Australia relations
The CCP is deeply and openly involved in influencing the outcome of the 2022 Federal Election against the interests of Australia – assisted by useful tools in the political cesspool.
Useful Tool:
In China, Miserable Ghost would long since have vanished.
Must’ve learned that move from playing Grand Theft Auto.
The motel owner told me that the phone started ringing last night, and within an hour every vacant room was booked by people coming to the rally tomorrow, mainly from the Gold Coast. They must have some sort of communication system about available accommodation, which is encouraging in terms of them being well organised.
The first of them just arrived – a young couple with a toddler, very normal looking folks.
Looks like it’s going to be big! 🙂
Gruinaid, a reliable source of information!!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/10/canada-truckers-protest-mindset-intelligence-reports
Roughly 1,000 people have blockaded downtown Ottawa since late January, demanding an end to all Covid vaccine mandates.
….
Protesters have made constant allusions to a conspiracy theory which holds that the World Economic Forum is seeking to use the Covid pandemic to stage a “Great Reset”, which would purportedly create a “Marxian-inspired totalitarian system”. Many proponents of this conspiracy theory blame the Forum for creating Covid-19 itself.
I wonder where that idea could be coming from??
Its a mystery.
https://www.weforum.org/search?query=reset
To achieve a better outcome, the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a “Great Reset” of capitalism.
There are many reasons to pursue a Great Reset, but the most urgent is COVID-19. Having already led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, the pandemic represents one of the worst public-health crises in recent history.
…
The level of cooperation and ambition this implies is unprecedented. But it is not some impossible dream. In fact, one silver lining of the pandemic is that it has shown how quickly we can make radical changes to our lifestyles. Almost instantly, the crisis forced businesses and individuals to abandon practices long claimed to be essential, from frequent air travel to working in an office.
Likewise, populations have overwhelmingly shown a willingness to make sacrifices for the sake of health-care and other essential workers and vulnerable populations, such as the elderly. And many companies have stepped up to support their workers, customers, and local communities, in a shift toward the kind of stakeholder capitalism to which they had previously paid lip service.
Clearly, the will to build a better society does exist. We must use it to secure the Great Reset that we so badly need. That will require stronger and more effective governments, though this does not imply an ideological push for bigger ones. And it will demand private-sector engagement every step of the way.
..
The Great Reset agenda would have three main components. The first would steer the market toward fairer outcomes. To this end, governments should improve coordination (for example, in tax, regulatory, and fiscal policy), upgrade trade arrangements, and create the conditions for a “stakeholder economy.” At a time of diminishing tax bases and soaring public debt, governments have a powerful incentive to pursue such action.
Moreover, governments should implement long-overdue reforms that promote more equitable outcomes. Depending on the country, these may include changes to wealth taxes, the withdrawal of fossil-fuel subsidies, and new rules governing intellectual property, trade, and competition.
The second component of a Great Reset agenda would ensure that investments advance shared goals, such as equality and sustainability. Here, the large-scale spending programs that many governments are implementing represent a major opportunity for progress. The European Commission, for one, has unveiled plans for a €750 billion ($826 billion) recovery fund. The US, China, and Japan also have ambitious economic-stimulus plans.
Rather than using these funds, as well as investments from private entities and pension funds, to fill cracks in the old system, we should use them to create a new one that is more resilient, equitable, and sustainable in the long run. This means, for example, building “green” urban infrastructure and creating incentives for industries to improve their track record on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics.
The third and final priority of a Great Reset agenda is to harness the innovations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to support the public good, especially by addressing health and social challenges. During the COVID-19 crisis, companies, universities, and others have joined forces to develop diagnostics, therapeutics, and possible vaccines; establish testing centers; create mechanisms for tracing infections; and deliver telemedicine. Imagine what could be possible if similar concerted efforts were made in every sector.
Sounds plausible. PreOmicron Sneakers’ quarantine guards would come back to their share house after their 7-11 shifts for days without anybody getting it.
I wonder how many people today know anything about Lasseter’s Reef?
A bit too dead white male for today’s youngsters. Has anyone under the age of 60 even heard of it?
Snork.
According to one of her supporters, disabling the terrorists’ doom wagons would prevent them from being used as weapons against the organs of the state.
Why the doom wagons wouldn’t be used as weapons against the organs of the state trying to disable them wasn’t explored.
Maybe that’s why ASIO thinks they’re interfering in our election.
I wonder which side they’re backing?
ASIO warns of foreign interference ahead of federal election as Mike Burgess reveals thwarted plot (10 Feb)
Oops, they didn’t name the country. My bad. Must’ve been Micronesia then, they’re so afraid we’ll drown their islands with dastardly CO2.
Malcolm Turnbull a “useful tool”?
I take exception to the “useful” bit.
Meddick is a weapons-grade moron.
I know about Lasseter’s Reef and I also know better than click a link to the Australian Geographic.
Palaszcuk renegs on mask promise:
Despite reaching the vaccination target of 90%, when the mask mandate was to be repealed, they will stay until at least the end of the month.
Apparently the vaccines don’t offer the protection originally envisaged. Be sure and get your booster.
They had the miserable ghost on their ABccess this morning as well.
In Ottawa Trudy bought up all the hotel rooms.
Dog act in the middle of winter.
https://twitter.com/joejohnquinn/status/1491805640955772928
(via Jonova today)
Like the original submarine deal for Chrissy Pyne’s electorate then?
From https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/s9mfl8/muster_dogs_the_new_australian_reality_show_set/
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I would love to watch this, any ideas how to watch in the UK?
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I’m no expert but I’m guessing a vpn might help you to access abc iview…
https://www.screenbinge.com/au/channels/abc-iview/
Thanks, johanna, hope to hear more from you.
Canberra here we come
https://twitter.com/CraigKellyMP/status/1491889234734579721
An interesting discussion with Mr. Adam Somyurek . An interview by Peta Credlin on SKY explores Adam’s insights on the Red Shirts and other matters involving Daniel Andrews. The discussion about the ombudsman was insightful and suggested to me that Mr. Somyurek has a reason to feel optimistic that the matter will eventually find its way to IBAC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO1M-XrPcRQ
Gold lust.
Clearly, the will to build a better society does exist. We must use it to secure the Great Reset that we so badly need. That will require stronger and more effective governments, though this does not imply an ideological push for bigger ones. And it will demand private-sector engagement every step of the way.
To re-phrase the second and third sentences more concisely: “That will require fascism”.
Private Internet Access have a couple of nodes in Australia – I see Melbourne, Sydney and Perth. Only assuming the same nodes would be available to UK subscribers.
hmmm…couldn’t get a root as a boy so thought it would try as a girl … same result – explains it all
Mmm…if African women can wear wigs with aplomb, why can’t black barristers?
Sniff test.
Identifying the portable toilets of the ancient Roman world (Phys.org, 10 Feb)
Ewww. The next two paragraphs I’ve elected not to quote because they really are ewww.
I quite like archaeology but this one puts me off wanting to do any of the practical stuff.
Lèse-majesté is a serious matter and probably actionable.
I expect you’ll be in for a spot of retraining after the Golden Fortune Arbonese Government takes power.
The “mistake” was that it was given to 8th Graders, not 9th Graders … and that after getting away with it for long, they got busted –
https://youtu.be/3DWeoQ0zcGM?t=6350
CONNECTICUT Published 21 hours ago
Conn. school ‘pizza’ assignment using toppings as sexual ‘likes’ and ‘dislikes’ was a ‘mistake: Superintendent
The assignment instructed students to list their favorite and least favorite pizza toppings ‘in relation to sex’
By Adam Sabes | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/us/connecticut-school-pizza-assignment-uses-toppings-as-sexual-likes-and-dislikes-such-as-giving-oral
“ABNHAPPY5-08
20 hours ago
Elements in a curriculum set cannot be in the final version by mistake. Some one, a specific person, developed or found the material, suggested it to the curriculum committee, the committee approved it, it was included in the curriculum, which was approved by the committee, sent forward for final approval, and only then published and distributed.
Saying they made a mistake is deceptive. Someone, or everyone, involved in this curriculum should be terminated immediately.”
I wonder how many people today know anything about Lasseter’s Reef? A bit too dead white male for today’s youngsters. Has anyone under the age of 60 even heard of it?
Things Australians under 60 have not heard of, in the car world:
– crank handles on cars
– stick-on rear window demisters for cars
– driver licences without point systems
– cars without seatbelts
– city roads without speed cameras
– headlight dip switches on the floor
Looks like I’ll be joining a number of the gang here looking for a new job.
After almost 20 years at our most woke bank, Wokepac, i get the heave ho March 1st for not complying with their vaccine mandate.
If anyone can recommend a good lawyer in Sydney, would appreciate a tip via dover.
P, looked at your Craig Kelly comment. When looking at twitter posts I always look down further for other comments about other things. In this case Avi Yemeni about NZ convoy and police. Twatter wouldn’t let me see further. This is the first time this has happened. Interested if this has happened to other people. Doesn’t surprise me.
Don’t give up your day job ussr. What, this is your day job?
Vent windows.
Driver licenses without photos!
Add
– manual chokes
– flooding the engine because of manual chokes
A choke.
Looks like I’ll be joining a number of the gang here looking for a new job.
After almost 20 years at our most woke bank, Wokepac, i get the heave ho March 1st for not complying with their vaccine mandate.
Fucking Arseholes.
Yes, did that as a youngster, Bear.
Stop choking around, you guys.
Ashtrays in the doors
Hand signals for stopping or turning
TE – Also wind down windows and column shifts. Could you imagine a young car thief being confronted by a column shift? It’d great entertainment!
Dover,
What about a list of woke companies that should not be dealt with if at all possible?
Mobil Oil Australia – Termination of unvaccinated personnel in Victoria.
Westpac – Introduction of Company Vaccine Mandate and termination of unvaccinated personnel.
Their Crimes Against Humanity should NEVER be forgotten.
Punching their kids’ faces through the windscreen in an emergency stop
Neck braces on all your friends from rear-end induced whiplash
DC Generators, before alternators
Sidevalves
Four on the floor as a hot feature
Engine rebuilds at 10-20,000 miles – or indeed, at all.
Rusted-out exhaust systems
Front bench seats
A couple to add to TE’s list of things Australians under 60 have not heard of, in the car world:
– Floor mounted starter switches
– Window mounted air conditioners
– Evaporative water cooler bags
– Steering column manual gear shifters
Lot of foxes in the Melbourne inner east – sadly, not too many rifles…
The only misstep in that Chris Merritt article re how prejudicial to justice the Higgins/Scomo event was is the word ‘inadvertently’…
More than one friend / acquaintance sounding out a possible run to Canberra for tomorrow from Mel/Bris – people are jack of this shit.
Windscreen washers as an optional extra.
The foot operated handbrake.
– crank handles on cars
– stick-on rear window demisters for cars
– driver licences without point systems
– cars without seatbelts
– city roads without speed cameras
– headlight dip switches on the floor
On trucks the hand operated turning signal. A tube pivoting off the door with a painted tin hand on the end.
Car radios, valve radios that is!
My Dutch uncle had one in his car, the first I’d ever seen (or heard of)
Mind you, he was a technician at Philips so he’d probably built it himself.
In ABC Election Interference news:
Scott Morrison rocked by cabinet leak about religious discrimination bill negotiations
“Sources said” is so old. “One minister pondered” is the new hotness.
Quality journalism at it peak.
Riding up to the shops in the ute tray. In winter.
They should be mandatory for man-bunned electric scooter operators.
My local Westpac has an acknowledgement of the wisdom of the tribal elders – past, present and future – on the door. Just after it was displayed, two of the elders were fighting on the footpath, outside the bank door….
Yes! I had just composed a comment on the old Titan buses in Sydney with the turning and stopping “hand”.
Good times.
The skill in starting a valiant again after it had just warmed up.
Evaporating petrol in the carby on a really hot day.
The skill in starting a valiant
Say no more. We know.
flooding the engine because of manual chokes
Running out of fuel because you accidentally left the choke out on your 202 powered HQ Ute.
Cooking the engine on your 202 powered HQ because the “engines melting light” gives you exactly 5 seconds to take action.
Installing a hose clamp on the steering column in the engine bay to stop the gear shift selector pin jamming between the selector plates and rendering gear selection inoperative.
Retrieving a window from inside the door after it fell off the manual window winder mechanism.
Helping a stranger open what is hopefully their car thanks to GM’s “Universal Key System”.
Being able to open you car faster with a coat hanger than using the actual key.
Burns on the back of your leg that match the shape of the red hot chrome plated seatbelt fittings.
Patterns on the backs of your legs that match the pattern on the red hot vinyl seat.
– No synchro, or 1st/reverse only synchro
– double declutching
Britain 2011
26.5 lb, 4 feet long fox caught after eating pet cat in Maidstone, Kent.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1343464/Biggest-Ever-fox-caught-Britain-4ft-cat-killer-trapped-vet.html
Morris Minors used to have a mechanical turn signal as well.
Morris Minors used to have a mechanical turn signal as well.
The electric semaphore turn indicators mounted in the B pillar!
Look
I seriously reckon the LDP ought to abolish new laws made after Jan 26, 1988.
We would be on the right path if we did that.
My favourite ideas:
Backyard burning off
No fishing licences
No permit to chop down trees on your own land
Possibly apocryphal story of old ducks pulling the choke out to hang their handbags on.
Ejector seat fuel tanks (the old Toyotas)
Bench seats
Rick – Unfortunately they’ve all turned into woke nazis now. Like NAB, who announced they’re going to be net zero now. CBA did too this week. And ANZ yesterday went gushy on the hydrogen economy, whatever that is supposed to be. It used to be Westpac was the greenest one, now they’ve all disappeared down the rabbit hole.
I’m sure Gladys will fit right in at Optus. Maybe she can get Matt Kean to come over as well. That’d be excellent.
…have a policy of…
As my sources indicate the stash of former CEC voters are not ready yet to deploy.
Funnily enough, they seem to have way too many officers and not enough other ranks.
I seriously reckon the LDP ought to abolish new laws made after Jan 26, 1988.
A nice start.
Nearly every “new” innovation can be dealt with using the older laws anyway.
FMD.
None of us have mentioned kowtowing to the Prince of Darkness. so:
Waiting at the parts counter while they try to source an original can of Lucas smoke to refill your Morris electrical system.
Which itself consisted of a bicycle tyre-driven generator, two light bulbs and three feet of bell wire.
Still see a few Minors about. They seem to be popular renovation projects; not sure why as they were like driving a mini tank. The Mini was much more agile by comparison.
Not sure of the semaphor is still legal, though.
I’d very much like to see a comprehensive review of every piece of legislation as to if it’s achieved it’s stated aim, if it’s burdensome upon the populous, and if it’s even relevant to current society.
If it were done honestly, I suspect we’d ditch more than half the laws in the country.
brakes that work, as an option.
Suicide doors
Rear-facing kiddie seat in the back of station wagons
Many manual transmissions could be shifted without a clutch (VW in particular)
Why this paint job is so darkly funny (Hint, it’s a Pinto)
Foxes abound in London and other Brit cities. They have a pretty shit life by the looks of things.
Here in Brisbane you regularly see and hear foxes in the suburbs.
Duh.
Everyone knows that unless you give money to the telly, the Crown of Thorns starfish will eat it before they burn to death from the sun heating the water.
Idiots.
WD40 for the distributor.
Always a glove box staple.
I remember pulling my Mini into an auto-electricians on the way to work one winter morning to get them to have a look at the electrics, which were playing up. The boss told the apprentice to have a look. I opened the bonnet and he surveyed the layout for about 3 minutes before asking, “Um…where’s the battery?”
Modern “journalism” — especially from the ABC — is full of propaganda trickery designed to disinform and dumb down the public, like “sources said” (i.e., “people with the same anti-democratic ideology as us think…”). They’re the oldest manipulative tricks in the book and assume people are too stupid to see what is being attempted — the hallmark of the 21st century left, especially its cunning idiots in the media.
Speedometer dial clearly marked so that when the needle passed 30 mph it would catch the driver’s eye. (1947 Standard 14)
I presume 30 mph was the speed limit in Britain at the time the car was built. Maybe here in Australia too in early post war years???
aerostart
The cold climate opposite. Spraying a can of ether cold start into the air cleaner to get a petrol engine to fire.
With the bang of success and the attractive flash-back around the air cleaner seal.
Checking the oil level and water in the radiator every time before you set off.
Brake oil if you had a leaky line.
Drum brakes.
bons says:
February 11, 2022 at 11:31 am
Is anyone aware of a hack that will allow a download of an ABC Iview video.
I wouldn’t watch iView even if it was the only cure for stage IV cancer.
But if you must..
Bigasoft Video Downloader Pro does the job.
Lasseter’ diary is available in paperback. It has his mud map within. Many a search has tried and failed to find the reef. If you turn the map 90deg you end up in Qld, Cloncurry way. All the landmarks match. Lotsa gold in quartz out that way. It’s a tough enough environment with all the mod cons. Old timers were delirious half the time from dehydration and starvation. You can’t expect things to be too accurate and you just don’t give accurate directions to your spot. Ask any fisherman. They’re secret spots. Everything is covered in red dust so gold just doesn’t stand out. Great way to spend time, gold prospecting. Just don’t get the bug.
Aerostart is still used on diesels to pull up fuel if it’s got an airlock.
Hey, did I buy my first car off you?
Flippers.
Rear vision mirrors mounted on the front of the car.
Engine bays so big you could stand in to work on them.
Gear sticks mounted on the steering column.
Easily accessible spare tyres.
A car without coffee holders.
Foxes abound in London and other Brit cities. They have a pretty shit life by the looks of things.
Theres even documentaries on it.
All this nostalgia. I want a horse. And a sword. Can we all have a turn opening the Harbour Bridge?
Actual quote from the heir to the empire last month:
‘What’s a choke? That’s not a car thing. Is it?’
Three on the tree. Yeah, baby.
The first car was a HD Holden.
Don’t know what Holden were thinking of when they marketed this, but apparently it was sold as “the poor man’s Holden”. The HR was the preferred model for several hundred bucks more. There were a few variants of the HD, but mine was the base model.
Certainly was.
It had a heater, but to save money no tube from the heater to the demister vents. So consequently no demister function.
Also had no synchromesh between 2nd and 1st if going down. So one either did not change gear, or learnt to double declutch to get there.
No reversing lights.
Also featured the famous “kidney-cutter” front headlight rounded guards designed – so it was said – to catch wayward pedestrians in the kidneys.
About the only thing it was, was reliable. The 179 motor never failed, and the rest of the car was very solid. A bit of rust developed behind the front mudguards, but you could cut it out of the panels and bog it up.
The old man had a motor garage, and got a mechanic to put in shoulder seat belts.
GreyRangasays:
February 11, 2022 at 12:31 pm
P, looked at your Craig Kelly comment. When looking at twitter posts I always look down further for other comments about other things. In this case Avi Yemeni about NZ convoy and police. Twatter wouldn’t let me see further. This is the first time this has happened. Interested if this has happened to other people. Doesn’t surprise me.
Twatter used to have an invitation to join, which could be by-passed. Now, they give a very short time to look, then the invitation cannot be by-passed, and the rest of the thread is unviewable. A very recent development.
Cite you the apprentice, driving all around town looking for the radiator hoses for a Volkswagen…
For a truly retrospective motor vehicle journey, “Classics for a Cause” are raffling a fully restored 1967 VW Splitty Kombi Van.
Gez
On trucks the hand operated turning signal. A tube pivoting off the door with a painted tin hand on the end.
Also on buses in the heady days of my youth.
callisays:
February 11, 2022 at 12:44 pm
Riding up to the shops in the ute tray. In winter.
Sitting in the ute tray on the way to Uni of Q’l’d, and waving to the copper on point duty at Toowong railway overpass?
I’ve spent the last six months providing logistics for surface exploration programs looking for gold in FNQ.
Panning gravel, or crushed chip samples and finding nuggets, grains, or a tail is a serious thrill. You can see why people choose to live hard in difficult conditions to do it.
Full size spare tyres
Fill the fuel tank for $5
Glove Box mini-bar (’57 Cadillac)
Drive in theaters
Boots so big you could sneak half dozen mates and a few slabs into the drive in theater in comfort
Hood ornaments
Vent windows
Hubcaps
Yes, we were out on the driveway; I suspect bets were being taken in the workshop on how long he would take to work it out.
Those after hours petrol bowsers that took 20c coins!
Thank goodness I’d had lunch a while back lest I lose it seeing this threesome . Frumpy, Dumpy and Grumpy
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/chinese-spies-attempted-to-install-labor-candidates-in-federal-election-20220211-p59vmj.html
Say it ain’t so….
Yes Tinterella, what a grotesque trio. Yuk.
There will be a reckoning.
Re Meddick and foxes.
It’s nothing more than another way to have a jab at farming.
Make no mistake, these zealots want less people on the planet and not by a small number.
Making life difficult for food producers is their prime function.
And to hell with the consequences.
With all the undermining of Morrison, going on, can someone enlighten me as to which member they are doing it for. I can’t work it out. It certainly isn’t Dutton!
Yes it’s a bit of a switcheroo by the left on foxes seeing they used to say they were yet another noxious pest introduced by the awful British.
opening in twitter link in “private” mode seems to get around this for me.
Engine bays designed with space and sufficient angles to ensure what ever falling tool or nut landed safely out of sight and arms reach.
Who is more likely or worse to have interfering in Australian elections, China or Russia ?
If somebody says Russia you know they are either a moron or lying.
Similar to before 2016 US election. Anybody claiming Russia the bigger threat to USA than China clearly had no idea what was going on, or did they ?
Meanwhile I note ABC web page has a “fact check” on Ivermectin. Doubt they will do one on Remdesivir’s effectiveness despite being a failed Ebola drug and repurposed. Failed Ebola drug, and very expensive gets quick FDA approval (approved here mid 2020) but very cheap and incredibly safe Nobel prize winning drug gets vilified. Seem to recall when Remdesivir, made by Gilead, was approved there were plenty of Gilead connections to those making the decision. Meanwhile Merck happy to trash their own drug Ivermectin whilst going on to release a far more expensive one ($70 per pill) which I read recently has doubtful effectiveness in Oz.
Follow the money. I first remember reading about this in a mid 2020 article at Quadrant by a TAS university guy. Might have to find it and refresh my memory.
Animal Justice Party MP Andy Meddick has launched a campaign and petition calling for an end to the fox bounty, stating it encouraged “mass cruelty” against foxes, which “are intelligent, playful animals with amazing similarities to our companion dogs and cats”.
What a world class cockhead.
In response, this is from someone who actually knows the subject matter:
Simpson-based recreational shooter Ken Smith said foxes were nothing like pets, but were cruel predators that he had seen chew half the face off a calf and tear a living cow’s udder to shreds.
Every farmer I’ve ever spoken to about foxes says the same thing. “Cruel” may not be quite right – they’re animals, and shouldn’t be treated as if they have the sort of moral agency that humans do – but something like “ruthless” is accurate and there’s nothing morally wrong with dealing with the reality of that ruthlessness (as long as we’re not gratuitously cruel to them).
In any case, what do halfwits like Meddick thinks happens to a fox in the wild at the end of its life? Does he think nature provides hospices with palliative care? Getting shot is unlikely to be any more unpleasant than any way a fox was likely to die without human intervention.
Gold!
Yes Mz Brittany has noticeably added a bit of padding lately.
I think its just hate, taken up form the Left Media. Just like Abbott except this one has fewer principles.
Plenty of plump Melbourne foxes living on the railway reserves.
Very wide ranging, the extensive rail network provides a better commute for the foxes than for the humans.
As a first year apprentice, I was told to act as the storeman for a few hours. Got a request from a tradie for some sort of “long weight”, supposedly used as a counterbalance to something or other.
Search for ages, eventually admitted defeat. Learnt a valuable lesson from the ensuing hilarity.
Was lucky it wasn’t the left handed hammer or metric shifting spanner!
Liam Bartlett attempts to do a hit-job interview of Kari Lake, candidate for Arizona Governor. It doesn’t go well for him as among other things she has been in broadcast news for over 30 years so knows the tricks.
Saw that video yesterday. It’s Mitch Parkinson grabbing Joel Parkinson’s board after he dropped in on him at Snapper Rocks. They’re cousins and both locals. Mitch is going to dine out on that one for quite some time I reckon.
I was following a truck in NSW that in hindsight had a fox stuck between the rear tyres.
And yes it came loose when I followed the truck. Very messy.
Anyone see Kari Lake (R) (running for AZ Governor) destroy the 60 Minutes Australia fuckwit?
Her advisors should ask her why she is on Twitter, let alone talking to 60 Mins Au.!
Thanks BJ.
Common law served us well until the start of the 20thC when it began to be legislated away.
From Zatara’s link:
Kari, I’m ashamed to tell you this. Australian journalists are all* like this.
Frank Sinatra had them pegged long ago.
* even the ones I have hope for are still patchy. There may be some exceptions, but microscopically few.
There’s a good case for a block repeal of every law passed since 1950.
One young bloke was wise to the lurk – he went home, sat there for an hour or so, then rang the workshop to say he’d driven all over town. No – one had a radiator hose for a VW in stock, and he was on his way up to Perth to try there…..
It might be better to list companies that are not woke.
The list would be shorter.
Mention of Neil Mitchell upthread.
What a canute.
Yesterday when the Upper House passed a motion for an ombudsman’s enquiry into the Red Shirts thievery, what did Neil have to say?
Why the lack of interest?
Well, the only representative of the regime who bothers to go on Nanny Neil’s program is Plod Commissioner Shane Patton.
The same Shane Patton who gave the Red Shirts thing a big “Move along, nothing to see here” green tick twelve months ago.
This is real – it’s not joke.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/02/10/biden-nuclear-official-is-kink-lecturing-beastiality-rolepayer/
The hand signal for Stop. Same for left turn I think.
Who’s surprised?
TE, the HR Holden was the next model after the HD. I had an HR which had most of the “features” discussed above. Even the heater was an aftermarket add on and it wasn’t the base model.
On the pranks played on apprentices.
A mate of mine when I was younger was taken on as an apprentice carpenter. The boss sent him off on an errand to get striped paint or a long weight or some bullshit.
The young bloke says “How much will it cost?”
The boss gives him twenty bucks saying, “That should cover it.”
Young bloke is gone all afternoon and arrives back just before knock off.
“Where’s me long weight?” asks the boss.
The apprentice says, “I’m not a fucking idiot. There’s no such thing.”
Boss: “How come you were gone so long then?”
Apprentice: “Well, obviously there was bugger all for me to do today, so I went to the movies.”
Boss: “Right. So have you got my twenty bucks?”
Apprentice: “Well, after I paid for the ticket, some chips and a choc top … here’s your change.”
Never got tried again.
The “apprentice” just sold his business and retired last year.
Ended up with a team of twenty blokes working for him.
Some smarts you don’t learn at trade school.
Thanks from me also BJ. I’m still working on it!
I used CCleaner (pro) and obtained a different set of results to previously experienced. Then tried again with a another result altogether.
Maybe Clear History would work also. I don’t know. I wearied of it.
Yes Mz Brittany has noticeably added a bit of padding lately.
I’m guessing getting invites to all the trougher freebie gatherings can do that to you .. LOL!
Sold the HR for $500 in early 1982 with 235,000 miles on it. Second motor. Had parked it on the front lawn for a few months after buying a rear wheel drive Mazda 626 (great car). When we put it up for sale I thought I’d better drive it to make sure it still worked. It did but I reckon I nearly crashed it getting to the end of our street – 50 meters away. How did they ever get away with making such shit?
Wow, there’s nervous tics and then there’s sweatin’ & dribblin’ enough to fill a swimming pool.
Can’t wait ’til the unexpected news breaks.
Alcohol is high calorie.
Martyn Iles – Today was nearly the end of Christian schooling in Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh7TqRK6uFc
Feb 10, 2022
ACL – Australian Christian Lobby
98.5K subscribers
Today was very nearly the end of Christian schooling in Australia. Thankfully, that disaster was averted. What happened behind the scenes? And what is happening now with the Religious Discrimination Bill? Watch Martyn’s message now to find out.
HUGHIE does not luv me this week! … Duuuuuuh!
Monday after swimming I got drowned biking home .. Today I got drowned on the way there … I’ve got 2 humongous hills to tackle 10 minutes out of the door so when this pair are topped it just ain’t worth admitting defeat and turning around .. ‘course, as per usual, it stopped whilst in the pool but everything was that wet I didn’t bother changing just threw the, sopping, t shirt back on and ditched the socks, kept the swimmers on and pedalled home ….. the sun is now shining brightly …… LOL!
Calli
However vodka and champagne are both low carb 🙂
I’m waiting for her to get dumped when she’s no longer any use to the sisterhood.
From memory, left turn was forearm upright (like stop), hand turned in and moved in towards the car and back to vertical – like saluting repeatedly.
Slowing down was arm out straight, moved up and down as though attempting to fly.
These would be Pom road rules if at all correct.
About 150 kilocalories for a 6 fl. oz. glass of champlonk, less for a shot of Drambuie. Around 400 kilocalories in a meat pie.
If you’re dieting, you’re better off on the piss.
Lol. I was thinking of the White Tubster, Gab.
Just watched Martyn Iles, thanks srr.
Why would Christians vote Labor? Albanese just had a red hot go at destroying Christian (and, indeed, any faith based) schools.
I do hope Cassie runs into Sharma. Perhaps the half wit doesn’t think the gender fluidity nonsense will have no effect on Moriah or Masada. Or maybe he just doesn’t care.
Oops. Too many negatives. Must reflect my mood.
A breath of fresh air.
Tucker: Justin Trudeau is attacking human rights
Yeah, but most go for both the champlonk and the meat pie (or equivalent in bar snacks).
That’s why young ladies these days have beer guts.
The Dauphin is a PoS and with parents like that what else would you expect.
Re Westpac and the vaccines, under what power is it able to inquire about our vaccination status and then use that info to discriminate? Is it the emergency powers that enable it or some other regulation/ law? And is there no standard or rule that needs to be satisfied in order for it to be operative?
Do serious military people really talk like this? Sounds like something straight out of a crap airport novel.
Thank you srr. Much appreciated.
Dr Faustus, I agree. Who talks like that apart from gangbangers?
I haven’t been following this trial closely, but it does seem that there is Trouble at Mill when one group of soldiers in an elite force are in a civil court telling lurid stories about a member.
Sounds like a lotta dysfunction in that unit.
I may be wrong, but military cats here will know. I think taking a life, however well deserved, would be treated with the sobriety it deserves.
Talking about it in that way might be done by a distressed newbie trying to get their head around it and justify it, but not a seasoned veteran.
Dover
Check the Commonwealth Privacy Act, I have a recollection that asking might be verboten, after the HIV/AIDS kerfuffle.
johanna
Sounds like a lotta dysfunction in that unit.
This is the real issue. Regardless of the trial, a cleanout is necessary.
Not in my experience, no.
I think BRS’s mouthpiece might be on the right track. Fabricate a cliché that would be right at home in a war fillum, and present it as real to an audience accustomed to fictional Kilgore-esque characters.
I’m slightly surprised the quote didn’t mention napalm.
After watching the Credlin – Somyurek intervew, I’d encourage anyone who hasn’t see it to watch it. Found Somyurek ‘s body language interesting too.
This is arguably the best analysis of the errors in the official Covid narrative that I have read.
Many of you will know Dr. Malcolm Kendrick. For those who do not – he is a Scottish doctor who has treated many many Covid patients & has remained deeply sceptical of the official analysis. He is the practitioner you would want if you fell ill. But he is also a very learned student of medicine.
In this treatise he investigates the errors made in the estimates of the IFR (infection fatality rate) as opposed to the CFR (case fatality rate). I recall that this vital distinction was raised by Prof. Foster in “The Great Covid Panic”. It is vital in understanding how the public was deceived.
A great read.
https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2022/02/10/some-observations-on-the-infection-fatality-rate-of-covid19/
“The plot was foiled” – seriously, this is journalism in 2022? Sounds more like a Fu Manchu novel from the 1930s.
And how about “who was known to ASIO as ‘the puppeteer’.”
FFS.
Sounds like ASIO have been reading old spy novels, and are cutting and pasting stuff into their briefings to carefully selected (i.e. gormless) stenographers.
Since the stenographers know nothing about anything except hip hop and twitter trends, this is what we get.
Incidentally – we are off to Canberra tomorrow. Heaven knows where we will park for the day. But important that we are there to protest the greatest injustice and threat in our lifetime.
good on you Vicki and good luck
Another clue from the same quote:
‘All you SASR blokes are going outside the wire for two weeks. Don’t kill anyone.’
Horseshit.
JC says:
February 11, 2022 at 2:40 pm
This is real – it’s not joke
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition
Seems an appropriate job title.
Dot, a cousin of mine had a great great grandfather who come to Australia in the early 1870’s to work on the overland telegraph line. Three men in the party he was working with found a rich seam of gold somewhere in central Australia, it was so rich that they were able to fill a biscuit tin with gold with whatever basic tools they had.
The three men sailed off to London with their biscuit tin with the intention of forming a company and raising capital to mine that reef. Unfortunately, the ship they sailed on sunk and with it their knowledge of where the reef was.
His g-g-grandfather had tales of all sorts of experiences during that mammoth construction. They were subjected to frequent violent attacks by the local indigenous folks whose land they crossed, those most frequently attacked were the shepherds who had to tend their flocks by themselves, quite a few were lost and their bodies rediscovered with multiple spear wounds. Attacks on their campsites weren’t infrequent either so battles like Rorke’s Drift were part of their working lives.
I don’t know the route of the overland telegraph line, if it went to the east of Alice Springs then this latest discovery may be the same seam.
Bris Courier Mail goes for the hysteria angle.
Geriatrics scared to death
“Terrified, gasping for breath and dying: Inside Qld’s busiest Covid ICU
As Covid ravages patient bodies, the unvaccinated plead for the jab while others close to death do something unexpected. Now doctors and nurses take us inside a Qld Covid ICU, revealing what goes on and the secret weapon treatment saving lives”.
Person 16 said he had been contacted by another soldier, Person 10, who said he had been bullied by Mr Roberts-Smith and went on to suffer from depression. But he said he had not witnessed this bullying himself.
Makes no sense.
I thought you had to go through all kinds of hard stuff to get into the SAS. It isn’t the school cadets.
Re doverbeach @ 3.20pm
The Biosecurity Act is mentioned from time to time – is there something in the Act that permits entities like banks inquiring about vaccination status & then acting on that advice?