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It's Remarkable
It’s Remarkable
February 11, 2022 3:53 pm

We had a old Chev truck. Probably a mid 1950s or so model.
Had a bag loader on one side, made into a tipper with under floor ram. Modern for it’s time.
Had two pull-out knobs: choke and ‘advance/retard’. Which would advance or retard the spark timing to help with starting.
Had foot operated electric starter (that almost never worked using the 6 volt system it had), plus a crank handle.
The turn /stop signal swing-out arm mounted on the driver’s door, as mentioned by several, of course.
Bench seat.
750×20 tires- that is 7.5 inches wide mounted on 20 inch rims. (They are now 11.00×22 on modern trucks).
Would carry 8 tonnes of wheat and tow a 4-wheel trailer with another 4 tonnes. Overloaded of course, but nobody cared then.
Handbrake would hold you only on relatively flat ground, otherwise leave in gear when motor stopped.
In hot weather my grandfather would mix some diesel with the petrol to reduce the petrol vapourizing in the carby.
Fun times.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 11, 2022 3:56 pm

“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”.
Sounds like horseshit. What is the new “secret weapon”?

Vicki
Vicki
February 11, 2022 3:59 pm

Re Biosecurity Act – maybe provisions can be seen to apply to private organisations as well as public/government ones.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
February 11, 2022 4:02 pm

Diversity, equity and inclusion in the military are necessities for the United States, Bishop Garrison, the senior advisor to the secretary of defense for human capital and diversity, equity and inclusion said.

Fewer Americans between the ages of 18 to 24 — the prime ages for recruits — qualify for military service. “So, we have to find out ways of getting to a broader talent pool and broader interest groups in order to bring those highly qualified, talented individuals in,” he said.

miltonf
miltonf
February 11, 2022 4:03 pm

Looking at what’s happened in the US- I’m not sure I ever want to go there again. Certainly not to DC. Think that the foul mafia princess actually has her own police forceCop Beats Unconscious, Dying, Female Trump Supporter; Probe Deems It ‘Objectively Reasonable’

calli
calli
February 11, 2022 4:07 pm

the unvaccinated plead for the jab

We’ve heard this tripe before.

Find some new material please.

miltonf
miltonf
February 11, 2022 4:08 pm

the unvaccinated plead for the jab

fuck that shit was being peddled in Melb last year with ‘Nurse Spense’. My God they are liars.

johanna
johanna
February 11, 2022 4:09 pm

Terrified, gasping for breath and dying: Inside Qld’s busiest Covid ICU
As Covid ravages patient bodies, the unvaccinated plead for the jab

I’m sure I’ve heard that before somewhere, a few months ago. What tosh.

JC
JC
February 11, 2022 4:10 pm

BCA Daily briefing. Interesting view

Rising interest rates and a cooling in pandemic-related tech spending will cap the upside for technology shares over the remainder of 2022. Looking further out, US big tech companies are likely to suffer from heightened competition in increasingly saturated markets. Concerns about big tech’s excessive market power, cavalier attitudes towards personal data, proclivity for censoring non-establishment opinions, and the deleterious impact of social media on teenage mental health are all fueling a public backlash. Investors should expect increased regulation and antitrust enforcement of big tech companies in the years ahead.

Yep

What Goes Around Comes
Around
Tech stock enthusiasts tend to forget that
the disruptors themselves can be disrupted.
History is littered with tech companies that
failed to keep up with a changing world:
RCA, Kodak, Polaroid, Atari, Commodore,
Novell, Digital, Sinclair, Wang, Iomega,
Corel, Netscape, AltaVista, AOL, Myspace,
Compaq, Sun, Lucent, 3Com, Nokia, Palm,
and RIM were all major players in their
respective industries, only to fad

And “everyone” fucking hates them.

Backlash
Public contempt for tech companies is
fueling a political backlash. According to a
Gallup poll conducted last year, only 34%
of Americans held a favorable view of tech
companies such as Amazon, Facebook, and
Google, down from 46% in 2019; 45% had
an unfavorable opinion, up from 33% in
2019 (Chart 16).
The shift in public sentiment over the
past two years has been entirely driven
by Independent and Republican voters,
many of whom feel that tech companies are
unfairly censoring their opinions (Table 2).
The same poll revealed that the majority
of Americans – including the majority
of Republicans – now favor increased
regulation of tech companies

JC
JC
February 11, 2022 4:15 pm

More:

Hopefully Facebook is fucked.

Meta’s Malaise
Which of today’s tech titans could join
the “has been club”? As we flagged in
August, Meta is certainly a possibility. In
its disastrous quarterly earnings report, the
company revealed that globally, the number
of Facebook users is shrinking for the first
time ever.
While this came as a surprise to many
investors, the writing has been on the wall
for a long time. According to Piper Sandler’s
survey of teen preferences conducted late last
year, only 27% of teenagers used Facebook,
down from 94% in 2012

Not only, but Google could end up being hit.

These numbers are just incredible.

Google received 44% of ads and Facebook 23%

Google Also Vulnerable
Unlike Meta, Alphabet crushed earnings
estimates. However, the similarities
between the two companies may be greater
than most investors are willing to admit.
Like Facebook, Google’s profits almost
entirely come from ad spending. According
to eMarketer, Google garnered 44% of
digital ad spending in 2021 while Facebook
took in 23%.
Digital advertising accounted for 63% of all
ad spending in 2021, up from 58% in 2020
and 51% in 2019. While there may be scope
for digital ads to take further market share,
eventually, growth in digital ad spending
will converge with overall consumption
growth, which in the US is likely to average
no more than 2% in real terms over time.

Conclusion, keep well away from tech.

johanna
johanna
February 11, 2022 4:15 pm

A carload of peeps going to the rally tomorrow arrived, stowed their gear, and then drove off for a recce to figure out what’s what tomorrow.

While TheirABC will probably claim that ‘a few hundred’ people turned up, my opinion is that it will be big.

I can hear the motel phone ringing while the Boss is elsewhere, and it has been ringing all day. Not usual for a Friday afternoon, when most people have their plans sorted.

JC
JC
February 11, 2022 4:17 pm

Lastly:

This is so true. As always, big profit margins are a signal to others to compete them away.

Today, the incentive for startups to emerge
has never been stronger. Venture capital
funds are flush with cash. Tech profit
margins are near record highs, making
challenging the incumbents an increasingly
enticing goal.
About one-third of the outperformance of
US tech stocks since 1996 can be explained
by rising relative profit margins, with faster
sales growth and relative P/E multiple
expansion explaining 45% and 23% of the
remainder, respectively

Dot
Dot
February 11, 2022 4:18 pm

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.

Get some sleep, eat a home cooked meal and stop drinking.

bons
bons
February 11, 2022 4:20 pm

Thanks Gilas.
I’m with you on Iview – never ever. But my Pommie in-laws heard about the Muster Dogs series and are keen to view it, being doggo nutters.
Even the ABCess must by the law of averages produce something acceptale at least once a millenium.

shatterzzz
February 11, 2022 4:21 pm

prospecting for gold in Oz ..
Attached is the shareholders sheet for the Durham Mining Company, Ballarat, Victoria 1861 with my great great grandad, Andrew Hall, is listed as having 2 shares ..
G G G Andrew,coal miner by trade, sailed out from County Durham with the family in 1857 to try his luck in the Ballarat goldfields .. My great grandmother was born in Golden Point, Victoria in 1858 ..
G G Grandad cashed in his shares in 1862 and the family returned to County Durham ..
https://ibb.co/37S9JCc

Dot
Dot
February 11, 2022 4:21 pm

Old blokesays:
February 11, 2022 at 3:50 pm
Dot says:
February 11, 2022 at 9:18 am

Not a single eyebrow raised last night re Lasseter’s Reef maybe being finally found.

Are goldbugs really that cynical? I can’t imagine why.

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.

That’s fascinating and we shouldn’t forget this history which is the background for our culture.

Good lord man, write it up in a book, you might even make a small profit off of it.

Delta A
Delta A
February 11, 2022 4:27 pm

While TheirABC will probably claim that ‘a few hundred’ people turned up, my opinion is that it will be big.

I certainly hope so, johanna.

Daughter and Son in Law are in a group travelling in four buses from Adelaide. Their girls warned him last night to avoid getting arrested. “Me?” gasped Mr Placid.

“Not you!” they exclaimed. “Mum!”

“Oh, yeah,” he moaned. “I’m going to gaol.”

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 11, 2022 4:29 pm

The CCP trying to install Liar candidates? Da bruvvas aren’t going to like this. That’s their job.

shatterzzz
February 11, 2022 4:30 pm

Terrified, gasping for breath and dying: Inside Qld’s busiest Covid ICU
As Covid ravages patient bodies, the unvaccinated plead for the jab
I’m sure I’ve heard that before somewhere, a few months ago. What tosh.

Maybe they were inspired by this .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/BqYFhtd

calli
calli
February 11, 2022 4:30 pm

Neil Oliver on Covid, money and a great big weather “event”

Watch.

Worth it.

miltonf
miltonf
February 11, 2022 4:31 pm

And “everyone” fucking hates them.

one of my hates is microtheft but they seem to be stronger than ever- like a cockroach after an atomic war

Aaron
Aaron
February 11, 2022 4:31 pm

Sounds like horseshit. What is the new “secret weapon”?

Staying away from aged care homes…

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
February 11, 2022 4:38 pm

the secret weapon treatment saving lives

If true (ha ha ha) then everybody covering up the secret needs to be hung, drawn and quartered.

JMH
JMH
February 11, 2022 4:54 pm

For those who are interested, here’s some video of Dr. duk’ release from prison.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=notif&v=270357968416967&notif_id=1644557658655240&notif_t=live_video

JMH
JMH
February 11, 2022 4:55 pm

Bleh ‘
Dr. duk’s’

bons
bons
February 11, 2022 5:00 pm

Hilarious. Morrisson discovers that his owner (Mr P) has established a party within the Liberal Party and sold Morrisson out.

Not just the machine scum like Zimmerman who did him over yesterday. Who does Morrisson think is working with Turnbull, and Holmes a Court and Lucy’s ABC to insert airheads like Steggall, Spender etc into Parliament?

The Liberals always represented a threat to cronyism and had to be destroyed. Hence the destruction of Abbott, and soon Molan and anyone displaying a moral base. Photios has been remarkably successful. The liberals are no longer necessary, Labor/Green will deliver unlimited crony opportunities for him with no unfortunate scruples.
Morrisson served his purpose by destroying conservative values within the LNP, and is now discarded.

Barry
Barry
February 11, 2022 5:01 pm

dover0beach says: February 11, 2022 at 3:20 pm
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?

They can always ask, and it is your right to decline to answer. But if you decline to provide evidence of vaccination, then you are deemed unvaccinated, and unable to work. They can use OHS risk management to declare that you are a risk to others at work, and therefore can no longer work there. Fairwork is on-board with this. Unions are happy.

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 11, 2022 5:02 pm

Time to get the train to Brisbane, I am meeting an old mate at the Exchange pub.

calli
calli
February 11, 2022 5:02 pm

Good news, JMH. Six days solitary. For coming to the authorities’ notice.

miltonf
miltonf
February 11, 2022 5:03 pm

JC you probably already know this, Zukerfilth is also a WEF young leader. So is that Lesbian Trump hating soccer bitch.

Dot
Dot
February 11, 2022 5:08 pm

They can use OHS risk management to declare that you are a risk to others at work, and therefore can no longer work there.

This is so hilariously oppressive.

23 months into a pandemic, the unvaccinated, with 95% double vaccinated, are a risk to others.

JMH
JMH
February 11, 2022 5:08 pm

c

allisays:
February 11, 2022 at 5:02 pm
Good news, JMH. Six days solitary. For coming to the authorities’ notice.

Let us hope some serious legals follow, calli.

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
February 11, 2022 5:14 pm

The word has gone out.
Big scary numbers with tiny deaths of elderly and I’ll isn’t cutting it anymore.

ABCcess. The Malcom guardian and one other I skipped over have all started focusing on individuals. Generally the youngest or healthiest looking as sob stories.

Almost like they have colluded or been instructed.

Beertruk
February 11, 2022 5:15 pm

I’m guessing getting invites to all the trougher freebie gatherings can do that to you .. LOL!

All that hanging around in the ‘green room’ while waiting to be interviewed?

Dot
Dot
February 11, 2022 5:15 pm

OH MY GOD

This bitch is fucking insane.

https://www.skynews.com.au/lifestyle/trending/every-woke-buzzword-used-in-carol-adams-debate-claiming-meat-is-linked-to-having-a-white-supremacist-patriarchal-worldview/news-story/8fedea2ed2e3125b01d41be04e769ffa

“White supremacists weaponised eating meat, eggs and dairy, images of milk drinking white men, of platters groaning with meat and the baiting of liberal men as so-called soy boys are all part of the neo-Nazi messaging.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 11, 2022 5:18 pm

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.

There’s a certain element that thinks that, if one member was awarded a medal, then they should have also been awarded a medal.

“More common then you think, young fella, even in Special Air Service Regiment.”

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 11, 2022 5:18 pm

While TheirABC will probably claim that ‘a few hundred’ people turned up, my opinion is that it will be big.

Friend of ours phone an hour ago. Her sister and husband are in Canberra, with their caravan. Reckon thousands are there. No doubt The Cossack , Rukshan or Avi or all three will provide video.

areff
areff
February 11, 2022 5:21 pm

Sounds like horseshit. What is the new “secret weapon”?

They plaster the patient with a mixture of fowl manure and honey. The honey does the trick, the manure stops them licking it off.

Also useful for promoting mustache growth.

Barry
Barry
February 11, 2022 5:22 pm

Dot says:
February 11, 2022 at 5:08 pm

They can use OHS risk management to declare that you are a risk to others at work, and therefore can no longer work there.

This is so hilariously oppressive.

Not so funny for me. I’m on forced WFH since October. Expecting the show cause any day now.

Even more funny is they consulted all the staff, and by a 99-1 ratio, they all demanded OHS be used against the unvaxxed.

So basically I got voted off the island.

OHS risk assessment now overrides all employment law in Australia.

JC
JC
February 11, 2022 5:23 pm

Excellent piece by Matt Taibbi

Justin Trudeau’s Ceau?escu Moment

JMH
JMH
February 11, 2022 5:26 pm

Eyriesays:
February 11, 2022 at 5:18 pm
While TheirABC will probably claim that ‘a few hundred’ people turned up, my opinion is that it will be big.

Friend of ours phone an hour ago. Her sister and husband are in Canberra, with their caravan. Reckon thousands are there. No doubt The Cossack , Rukshan or Avi or all three will provide video.

From what I am gathering, Canberra is chokers and more and more are on their way. All camp grounds are breaking at the seams.

There is something BIG happening tomorrow, but I cannot elaborate further because I don’t know what it is.

northshore redneck
northshore redneck
February 11, 2022 5:28 pm

OHS risk assessment now overrides all employment law in Australia.

Sorry to hear they’re harassing you too Barry.

It’s ludicrous they think the workplace will be covid free when omicron has swept through regardless of how many jabs people have had.

A good lawyer should be able to shred the assertion. That’s my hope at least.

rickw
rickw
February 11, 2022 5:30 pm

Even more funny is they consulted all the staff, and by a 99-1 ratio, they all demanded OHS be used against the unvaxxed.

So basically I got voted off the island.

Any Risk Assessment that says you must be vaxxed is pure BS, this is weighing up the relative risks:

1) For working age people a disease that has a 1 in a million chance of mortality.

2) For working age people unproven vaccines that has a 1 in a million chance of mortal adverse reaction plus other lower level adverse reactions plus unknown longer term impacts.

Risk Management tools work, but only when applied without an agenda.

Dot
Dot
February 11, 2022 5:35 pm

Trying to read up on the Bega by-election, I found this shocking example of a chilling effect:

https://www.beagleweekly.com.au/post/bega-poll-identifies-teacher-shortages-and-tafe-sell-offs-as-major-concerns

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miltonf
miltonf
February 11, 2022 5:38 pm

Hilarious. Morrisson discovers that his owner (Mr P) has established a party within the Liberal Party and sold Morrisson out.

Not just the machine scum like Zimmerman who did him over yesterday. Who does Morrisson think is working with Turnbull, and Holmes a Court and Lucy’s ABC to insert airheads like Steggall, Spender etc into Parliament?

The Liberals always represented a threat to cronyism and had to be destroyed. Hence the destruction of Abbott, and soon Molan and anyone displaying a moral base. Photios has been remarkably successful. The liberals are no longer necessary, Labor/Green will deliver unlimited crony opportunities for him with no unfortunate scruples.
Morrisson served his purpose by destroying conservative values within the LNP, and is now discarded.

That’s very interesting- had to think for a while who Mr P was! There is some seriously weird stuff going on. A party within the party sort of makes sense especially with names like suspender and McPhee popping up.

Lysander
Lysander
February 11, 2022 5:39 pm

Regarding Lasseter’s Reef…

I’ve always wanted to go prospecting out in the WA bush. Not for making millions but just for a bit of an adventure? Does the govt regulate the ass out of it (i.e. do you need licenses and pay tithes to owners or land and taxes if you find a piddly little bit o’ gold?)…

(I don’t want to go with a company who take people out – I want to do it myself)…

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 11, 2022 5:39 pm

Monomaniac gunna monomaniac.

As you read who the article is by you should have a shiver of foreknowledge run through your brain as you know what its about.

Upgrade bipeds (humans) from cattle class to first class
By Harold Scruby

COVID has provided us with a once in a century opportunity to re-shape our cities from primarily commercial to a mix of commercial and residential like London, Paris and New York. But it will not happen unless we put pedestrians first.

Other countries and cities have already revealed their priorities. In February 2020, at the third Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Sweden, 130 countries adopted the “Stockholm Declaration”. It calls for 30km/h limits where vulnerable road users and vehicles mix – for safety, air quality and climate action.

Paris has just announced it’s going to be a 30km/h zone. London became a 30km/h zone last year. Most western European cities and towns are already 30km/h as are many in NZ.

A Toronto, Canada study found that a reduction from 40 to 30km/h saw a 28 per cent decrease in road crashes, and serious and fatal injuries were cut by two thirds, for pedestrians and cyclists.

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In the Sydney CBD, pedestrians represent approximately 90 per cent of road users, motor-vehicles around 8 per cent and cyclists 2 per cent. Yet for over a decade, Lord Mayor Clover Moore’s focus and funding have been almost entirely on cyclists while pedestrians have become a forgotten species.

johanna
johanna
February 11, 2022 5:40 pm

Thanks for the vid of duk being released. Given the achingly careful pretend carefulness of the ACT Police to human rights, it was going to come unstuck pretty soon. Six days indicates malice.

Given that they stood by while the front doors of Old Parliament House were torched recently, the AFP had better watch themselves.

Like other police, they are very selective about when they go into action.

Lysander
Lysander
February 11, 2022 5:41 pm

Who is this Mr P (and why can’t I work it out).

calli
calli
February 11, 2022 5:42 pm

Scruby?

And Mr P is Photios.

Dot
Dot
February 11, 2022 5:43 pm

Here’s the problem.

https://www.health.gov.au/committees-and-groups/australian-technical-advisory-group-on-immunisation-atagi

Their membership consists of people whose passion is vaccination research and otherwise deal with immunocompromised patients.

It’s like if you get a “Dog Mom” to run a creche. It would be full of dogs in a few days.

They do know what they are talking about, but at the same time, they’re not grounded.

“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad”

I question how long this whole charade will go on for. Very interested to see by election and general election results this year. If UAP/LDP/PHON get a lot of support, Kelly can force the new government to pass his voluntary vaccination bill.

Which is why I believe they are going so hard on this shit.

win
win
February 11, 2022 5:45 pm

Sitting up in Qld Covid ward. All is quiet all is serene with empty beds had 3 to choose from when the toilet seat broke. It appears even the mildest dose of Omicron hangs on and tests positive 18 days later but with Qld health you become a new statistic and a new isolation target.

Dot
Dot
February 11, 2022 5:45 pm

Other countries and cities have already revealed their priorities. In February 2020, at the third Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Sweden, 130 countries adopted the “Stockholm Declaration”. It calls for 30km/h limits where vulnerable road users and vehicles mix – for safety, air quality and climate action.

There should be two speed limits – 50km/hr or 50 mph and the other is unlimited speed.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 11, 2022 5:48 pm

Persecute the Jews!

Australia’s coronavirus pandemic emergency measures extended by two months until April 17 (Sky News, 11 Feb)

Unvaccinated Australians will remain unable to travel overseas as the government extends the nation’s coronavirus emergency measures for a further two months.

Ve vill not let you escape the Vaterland!

(I have no idea what possible science there is to justify this stupid action. Complete rubbish.)

Dot
Dot
February 11, 2022 5:51 pm

whoops 80 m.p.h

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 11, 2022 5:51 pm

Even more funny is they consulted all the staff, and by a 99-1 ratio, they all demanded OHS be used against the unvaxxed.

This is why I’m not yet optimistic.
It’s great when we have a big protest, and I’m in favour of them for all sorts of reasons.
But this demonstrates that we’ve still got a huge problem.
I’m hoping that this just reflects that the workplace in question is a hive of bugpeople (no offence to you personally Barry – sympathies and best wishes). But there’s no way politicians will ease up on the unvaxxed, no matter how much proof there is that vaxx-worshipping is unscientific voodoo-ridden superstitious nonsense, as long as they think that there’s more votes in keeping doing it than in scaling it back.

Zatara
Zatara
February 11, 2022 5:54 pm

According to this the Indonesians are buying 36 F-15EX fighters.

Eyrie, I saw something slightly different on that topic.

Indonesia To Buy 36 Rafale and 8 F-15EX Fighter Jets

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 11, 2022 5:54 pm

Tomorrow will be fun.

Super Saturday by-elections across New South Wales this week (Sky News, 11 Feb)

The seats of Willoughby, Strathfield, Bega and Monaro are all up for grabs, and the results will have ramifications for the new Perrottet Government.

Perrotett has made no friends in the base and has made no friends anywhere else on the spectrum. It could be brutal.

Cassie of Sydney
February 11, 2022 5:59 pm

Who is this Mr P (and why can’t I work it out).”

Photios….a complete and utter grub.

Interesting that one of my heroes Katherine Deves, who set up Save Women’s Sport Australia, has put her hand up to run for the Liberals in Warringah. Katherine would be an excellent candidate to take on Steggall. Katherine is a young articulate lawyer, attractive, has done a lot of useful advocacy work such as fighting this sinister trans rubbish. She lives in Warringah and knows the area well but apparently she only joined the Liberal party less than six months ago, having let her membership lapse. But she’s being stonewalled….probably by Photios and his operatives.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 11, 2022 6:01 pm

Their membership consists of people whose passion is vaccination research

Dot – They’re also the type of people who are willing to sit on boring prestigious committees rather than doing real work. Every single professional association is full of them. And they’re almost all lefties because of the mindset.

The CDC is 99.95% lefty, literally. I’d be very surprised if ATAGI wasn’t similar.

Cassie of Sydney
February 11, 2022 6:01 pm

“Perrotett has made no friends in the base and has made no friends anywhere else on the spectrum. It could be brutal.”

Nah….I don’t think the base is as angry at Perrottet as they re with Scumbag. The only seat that might change is Bega. I hope Tim James gets up in Willoughby. He’s a nice intelligent young man.

Zatara
Zatara
February 11, 2022 6:02 pm

Democrats are making a U-turn on mask mandates, just in time for the midterms.

Does anyone think it’s a coincidence that a handful of Democratic governors all of a sudden dropped mask mandates at the same time?

Their pandemic pivot comes as they brace for a brutal November election in which the virus — and the culture war that’s accompanied it — is shaping up to be Democrats’ biggest blind spot.

Nebraska Republican Rep. Don Bacon: “It’s not based on science; it’s based on politics. I think people are fed up, and the Dems are seeing the polling.”

Another swing-district Democrat, Rep. Susan Wild (D-Pa.), said she worried people are so exhausted by the pandemic that they’re losing trust in government

Well duh.

Dot
Dot
February 11, 2022 6:04 pm

“UNVAXXXXED BILLIONARE!”

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/unvaxxed-billionaire-clive-palmer-promises-most-expensive-election-campaign-ever-20220119-p59ph4.html

Significantly, Mr Palmer flagged High Court action against the Queensland government if his unvaccinated status meant he would be excluded from pubs, cafes and clubs and other popular campaign venues that require proof of double vaccination.

Hurry up and do it!

When the treasurer who is supposedly one of the most popular political figures of the LNP has three overt bodyguards, I don’t think the Liberals are as popular as they claim. I predict the UAP may actually get a few spots in Canberra.

Hmmmm

Mr Palmer said UAP polling showed more than 20 per cent support in areas of western Sydney and western Melbourne.

I hope that’s true.

Dot
Dot
February 11, 2022 6:05 pm

She lives in Warringah and knows the area well but apparently she only joined the Liberal party less than six months ago, having let her membership lapse. But she’s being stonewalled….probably by Photios and his operatives.

She’s welcome in the LDP. 🙂

Cassie of Sydney
February 11, 2022 6:07 pm

Whilst we’re on the subject of the grub Photios…..Tim James managed to get preselection as the Liberal candidate for Willoughby despite the machiavellian machinations of Photios and his associates.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 11, 2022 6:09 pm

COVID has provided us with a once in a century opportunity to re-shape our cities from primarily commercial to a mix of commercial and residential like London, Paris and New York.

LOL. If that creature has been noticing reality lately, which I doubt, he/it will have seen the Exodus in action complete with all the plagues, as the punters flee NYC and like cities for unwoke places where restaurants can still be found.

Blue cities are being white anted by lefty policies. The work from home thing has been a boon for Wall Street types since there’s now very little reason to live in the rotten apple.

Dot
Dot
February 11, 2022 6:09 pm

But this demonstrates that we’ve still got a huge problem.
I’m hoping that this just reflects that the workplace in question is a hive of bugpeople (no offence to you personally Barry – sympathies and best wishes).

Yes it does. Quite a few universities are doing this.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 11, 2022 6:10 pm

JC, thanks for that link, I saw a 1/2 paywalled version earlier, its a good read.

For a while I thought this issue was specific to this candidate, that maybe Clinton reacted poorly to bad news and aides just came up with this Spinal Tap “our appeal is just becoming more selective” deal in order to chill her out. As time went on, though, it became clear that both Clinton aides and my colleagues in the press actually believed it.

Bluey
Bluey
February 11, 2022 6:10 pm

I have a suspicion that in general the white collar class will move from the LNP to LDP, and the working class former Labor voters will move more to UAP.
Of course the progressives will find Labor isn’t far enough left for them and vote greens.

The federal election may well boil down to which party loses the least voters.

Then there’s the potential splatter from any investigations in Victoria, if they actually investigate.

cohenite
February 11, 2022 6:11 pm

Looking at what’s happened in the US- I’m not sure I ever want to go there again. Certainly not to DC. Think that the foul mafia princess actually has her own police forceCop Beats Unconscious, Dying, Female Trump Supporter; Probe Deems It ‘Objectively Reasonable’

This lady plus Ashli Babbitt and Derek Chauvin provide enough evidence to strip every leftie naked and put them in the middle of a desert.

Dot
Dot
February 11, 2022 6:11 pm

God bless those electors tomorrow.

May their indignation and demand for normalcy shake our rulers into modest and decent governance once more.

Cassie of Sydney
February 11, 2022 6:12 pm

“I hope that’s true.”

I hope so too. I’d like UAP to dent Labor electorates in western Sydney…like Fowler where that Skanky Yank is running.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 11, 2022 6:14 pm

dot..

Asked about preferences, he said: “Unequivocally, Liberal, Labor and Greens will be at the bottom of the [lower house] ticket. I don’t know what order, it’s not my decision to make. That’s for the national executive.”

Has anybody see Faulty and Clive in the same room together?

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 11, 2022 6:15 pm

Sat having a beer at the Exchange in Brisbane & my mate hasn’t turned up…bugger.

It’s Remarkable
It’s Remarkable
February 11, 2022 6:15 pm

We had a old Chev truck. Probably a mid 1950s or so model.
Had a bag loader on one side, made into a tipper with under floor ram. Modern for it’s time.
Had two pull-out knobs: choke and ‘advance/retard’. Which would advance or retard the spark timing to help with starting.
Had foot operated electric starter (that almost never worked using the 6 volt system it had), plus a crank handle.
The turn /stop signal swing-out arm mounted on the driver’s door, as mentioned by several, of course.
Bench seat.
750×20 tires- that is 7.5 inches wide mounted on 20 inch rims. (They are now 11.00×22 on modern trucks).
Would carry 8 tonnes of wheat and tow a 4-wheel trailer with another 4 tonnes. Overloaded of course, but nobody cared then.
Handbrake would hold you only on relatively flat ground, otherwise leave in gear when motor stopped.
In hot weather my grandfather would mix some diesel with the petrol to reduce the petrol vapourizing in the carby.
Fun times.

Dot
Dot
February 11, 2022 6:18 pm
Zatara
Zatara
February 11, 2022 6:19 pm

CNN poll – 56% Of Americans Say They Don’t Approve Of Anything Biden Has Done

CNN, happy to find someone with lower approval numbers than themselves.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
February 11, 2022 6:21 pm

like Fowler where that Skanky Yank is running.

If she loses that seat i will have a shaedenboner that could destroy a brick wall

NADT

rosie
rosie
February 11, 2022 6:29 pm

Last night had me wishing for a timeslip.
A 15th century matron tossing a well aimed basin of slops over random late night revellers from her medieval balcony overhanging the narrow sidestreet would have been poetry in motion.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 11, 2022 6:33 pm

Zatara, thanks. The original I got was from Seeking Alpha which is best taken with a grain of salt, like all investment advice.

johanna
johanna
February 11, 2022 6:43 pm

Note to self – do not tempt Fate by eating pasta with Napoletana sauce while wearing white T shirt for the first time.

It always ends bady.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 11, 2022 6:56 pm

Im going to have to rewatch the little hatchet movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8ZisDHg6v0

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
February 11, 2022 6:57 pm

Even more funny is they consulted all the staff, and by a 99-1 ratio, they all demanded OHS be used against the unvaxxed.

So basically I got voted off the island.

OHS risk assessment now overrides all employment law in Australia.

Do they realise that OHS legislation includes the mental health of employees and persons under their control in a workplace

rosie
rosie
February 11, 2022 7:04 pm
rosie
rosie
February 11, 2022 7:08 pm
Bluey
Bluey
February 11, 2022 7:14 pm

Carpe Jugulumsays:
February 11, 2022 at 6:57 pm
Even more funny is they consulted all the staff, and by a 99-1 ratio, they all demanded OHS be used against the unvaxxed.

So basically I got voted off the island.

OHS risk assessment now overrides all employment law in Australia.

Do they realise that OHS legislation includes the mental health of employees and persons under their control in a workplace

I think the AFR had an article around the time the mandates came in warning businesses that requiring the jab meant they took on any liability for adverse reactions. Given it doesn’t stop transmission etc. I can’t really see much justification other than someone panicking and arse covering. Guess we’ll see when the court cases wind through the courts.

cohenite
February 11, 2022 7:15 pm

If scomo cannot beat albo he needs a pineapple up his arse; or since he is an evangelical a red hot poker. Albo has 3 chunk issues:

1 The ASIO revelation that the chunks were targeting alp candidates to support them in the upcoming election.
2 The presence of that commie prick, noam chomsky and the involvement of the AMWU, one of rub and tug’s biggest union donors, in an anti-AUKUS campaign, with AUKUS especially set up to head off the chunk’s advance in the Pacific
3 The cancellation of scomo on WeChat, Australia’s biggest on-line chat room for Australians of chunk heritage. Rub and tug, the rest of the liars and filth have not been banned.

Barry
Barry
February 11, 2022 7:18 pm

Carpe Jugulum says:
February 11, 2022 at 6:57 pm

Do they realise that OHS legislation includes the mental health of employees and persons under their control in a workplace

Of course.

The result was: “No impact to mental health outcomes identified”

Like a lot of risk assessments, the predetermined outcome drives the assessment.

Winston Smith
February 11, 2022 7:20 pm

HBBear:

Like a couple of poofs who just want a wedding cake but end up in the Supreme Court which doesn’t even do wedding cakes?

Now, that was funny.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 11, 2022 7:28 pm

If possible, one would sometimes change hands so the staff was held by both at one end, while the far end travelled at speed for a full blow. It follows that the longer the staff the faster the end was travelling.

I guess so, but wouldn’t that be a drawback?
I mean, say for arguments sake the staff was a hundred feet long, the end would be traveling at a colossal speed, but it would also be covering at least 314 feet, so how effective would it be?
Did you just Copy & Paste that book, because it doesn’t look like you put much thought into it?

local oaf
February 11, 2022 7:31 pm

The Thought Police, coming here soon….

Police spying on people on Facebook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkiXT4TaCSI

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 11, 2022 7:36 pm

Do they realise that OHS legislation includes the mental health of employees and persons under their control in a workplace

Still 99 to 1. The 99 say ooh that ghastly unvaxxed person is scary and makes us anxious and insecure.
We might catch leprosy ebola sniffles from him!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 11, 2022 7:37 pm

Do they realise that OHS legislation includes the mental health of employees and persons under their control in a workplace

Too hard to fight the nebulously-worded provisions, unless you are an activist with an axe to grind, and have a well-organised advocacy network and/or managerial patrons behind you.

Furthermore, the process is the punishment- If you weren’t mad and unemployable at the start of the whole sorry business, you will be by the end. And probably broke too, once the lawyers get involved…

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
February 11, 2022 7:37 pm

Of course.

The result was: “No impact to mental health outcomes identified”

Like a lot of risk assessments, the predetermined outcome drives the assessment.

For certified companies (AS 4801 or ISO 45000) OHS Risk profiles are meant to be reviewed monthly against measurables and documented.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 11, 2022 7:38 pm

The ASIO revelation that the chunks were targeting alp candidates to support them in the upcoming election.

Paging Mr Joel Fitzgibbon!
Was it ever disproved that Fitzgibbon flew to China on Christmas Day at the behest of his Chinese plutocrat patron, leaving his kids and his wife (whose birthday is Christmas Day) to spend the day without him?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 11, 2022 7:39 pm

Did you just Copy & Paste that book, because it doesn’t look like you put much thought into it?

Ed-Mong is a level 37 dual staff wielding were-wolf-nazi-kkk LARPer from way back..

Dare you enter his magical realm?

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 11, 2022 7:39 pm

I guess so, but wouldn’t that be a drawback?
I mean, say for arguments sake the staff was a hundred feet long, the end would be traveling at a colossal speed, but it would also be covering at least 314 feet, so how effective would it be?

Hold that thought and apply it to the axe/hatchet debate Ed.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 11, 2022 7:40 pm

Too hard to fight the nebulously-worded provisions, unless you are an activist with an axe to grind, and have a well-organised advocacy network and/or managerial patrons behind you.

And if culpability on the company or any of its employees’ part is determine or acknowledged, then go-away money will be about all that is offered. No accountability whatsoever. This is why so many broken folks just disappear out of the workplace, with nothing further said or done.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 11, 2022 7:42 pm

Do they realise that OHS legislation includes the mental health of employees and persons under their control in a workplace

I’d be surprised if any Safety Guy knew a tram was up him, unless someone rang the bell.
Basically, Safety Drones are indemnified against prosecution for any recommendation they issue or instruction they give, provide Malice wasn’t intended.
That Get Out Of Jail Card makes them useful to bad employers, but it’s also made the Construction Industry more dangerous than it ever was before the Safety Mandates.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 11, 2022 7:43 pm

Fauci now suggesting young and healthy might need boosters every four or five … years

LOL. Fauci knows very well from the data that the current vaccines have zero protection after about 4 mths. But he can’t say that people must have a booster three times a year since there is no way in the universe that even lefties would submit to that sort of pincushioning. Even aside from the side effects issue.

So he’s trying to gaslight the population into acceptance. Good luck with that.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 11, 2022 7:44 pm

Ask to see the risk assessment.
It should be available to all employees so they can make informed decisions.
Then find something they have scored extremely out of proportion to the illness.

rickw
rickw
February 11, 2022 7:44 pm

Like a lot of risk assessments, the predetermined outcome drives the assessment.

Yep, company sold off a whole heap of assets that whilst requiring a lot of human energy to run, made good revenue regardless of the economic situation.

New manager asked to see the risk assessment that supported the asset sale. “This risk assessment looks like it was completed to solely force the sale of these facilities?!”

“Sir, that is precisely what was done.”

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 11, 2022 7:44 pm

I mean, say for arguments sake the staff was a hundred feet long,

Why would it be 100 feet long, Grigory?

Are we talking about giants fighting each other?

Or did you just roll a natural 20 on your ‘tard check, and everyone in your party (including the GM) are squirming and cursing as your Level 99 Idiot bumbles and fails its way about the encounter, threatening to spoil a perfectly good Dungeons & Dragons game?

The spirit of Gary Gygax is offended.

rickw
rickw
February 11, 2022 7:46 pm

Ask to see the risk assessment.
It should be available to all employees so they can make informed decisions.

Indeed, and the probability and consequence calculations should also be available and there is now plenty of hard data to validate them against.

Likely to fall apart at the slightest prodding.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 11, 2022 7:49 pm

I’d be surprised if any Safety Guy knew a tram was up him, unless someone rang the bell.

Recent experience of yours, Grigory?

Safety folks are so anally retentive precisely because the weight of bureaucratic retribution lands on them. And if not, then the shit rolls downhill from the bosses.

Unless you have a deliberate mitigating measure like SOFAIRP (So Far As Is Reasonably Practical) built into the legislation and regulations governing your industry’s risk assessment protocols, then Grigs-level deliberate idiocy is all but inevitable.

That’s your second natural 20 on your ‘tard check, Grigs. The party is getting suspicious.

custard
custard
February 11, 2022 7:50 pm

I had a consultation this morning towards getting lens replacement in my eyes. The clerk who’s job it was to escort me to the downstairs office for booking the procedure said she hated wearing a mask and she was deprived of oxygen.

Once the elevator doors closed I said that it’s just kabuki theatre, she agreed.

FMD!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 11, 2022 7:57 pm

Once the elevator doors closed I said that it’s just kabuki theatre, she agreed.

FMD!

We’ve finally reached the glasnost/perestroila phase, Custard.

Where everyone who harboured everything from the slightest suspicions to outright dissidence against Sneakers and all the Premiers, PMs, WHO/WEF/UN/EU pseudo-wonks and all their legions of tame bugmen (probably even including many of the bugmen themselves) finally feel safe enough to start to express it.

Long may it reign.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 11, 2022 7:58 pm

glasnost/perestroila

Glasnost/Perestrioka

#Ahem

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 11, 2022 7:59 pm

I mean, say for arguments sake the staff was a hundred feet long

Everyone knows it must be a ten foot pole.
Not nine, nor eleven.

custard
custard
February 11, 2022 8:01 pm

As a patient I successfully booked in unvaccinated, manually checking in by security clerk, unmasked as I’m exempt.

Fuck having your life dictated to by having your movements allowed by a digital phone signature granted by agreeing to participate in a clinical trial of of an untested vaccine.

My heart goes out to all who have had no choice in this situation.

rosie
rosie
February 11, 2022 8:04 pm

Some months ago at Dashcat, Nick posted a very good article about Chinese game playing with Australia and strongly suggesting the Australian Federal Government had done a good job at pushing back.
I wish I’d kept it.
And don’t forget Morrison pulled the rug from under Andrew’s belt and road feet.

rosie
rosie
February 11, 2022 8:08 pm

And in shocking news from Occitane/Catalan it’s overcast and a little chilly.
Also my escargot aux raisons had a burnt bottom.
And young gyspy women think it’s tres cool to go out for coffee in their jimjams.
I remember that being a thing in Midwest US in 2015.

rosie
rosie
February 11, 2022 8:10 pm

The walls are crumbling.
France about to end testing for vaxxed international travellers.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 11, 2022 8:20 pm

Some months ago at Dashcat, Nick posted a very good article about Chinese game playing with Australia and strongly suggesting the Australian Federal Government had done a good job at pushing back.

Outside of Deep State public fuckwittery and partisan intrigues at the most senior levels, our institutions do actually do good work.

rickw
rickw
February 11, 2022 8:24 pm

Recap and Update.

As you know I was stood down without pay and then terminated on 13 December because unvaxxed with final day on 17 January, despite having proven impervious to bat flu.

After being terminated I started to look around for work in Southern NSW, had one long shot option but would have meant moving into an entirely different field.

On 23 Dec as the Victorian idiocracy finally published their revised COVID rules, some 8 days after their Emergency Rules officially ended, with some not insubstantial changes in them.

On the very same day the company approached me about the possibility of rescinding the termination if I got vaxxed. I had already been thinking about this because I was basically fucked and couldn’t convince my wife to sell up and move to the farm permanently.

On 29 December, first available booking, I got vaxxed and sent through to the company certificate and booking for second shot on 21 Jan. I spent the week afterwards feeling quite unwell. The vax is complete fucking poisonous shit.

On 10 Jan the company responded with a “Fuck You Very Much” we will be proceeding with you termination on Jan 17 regardless. Final payment consisted of just what little long service I have left, no payment for the 5 weeks etc. because I had been stood down without pay from the outset.

I applied for the dole on principle. Naturally they said Fuck You.

I send resume around other Major Oil CO’s plus applied for a couple of jobs that were also right up my alley. I was very up front about how I wound up where I did, no luck. I doubt I will ever work for a major again as I am clearly a Thought Criminal.

This week ends first week with a new company where they are trying to expand their service offering with a new department that is based on my skill set and which consists entirely of me. There is some potential there but it’s going be touch and go. At least I managed to get enough work for the first week to basically cover costs.

Medium term what happens depends on where the work is which mainly looks like Middle East and Africa. They’re out of the COVID loop. If that happens the plan is to relocate to Dubai and work from there. Particularly given Australia’s booster insanity. My son and I are looking forward to walking into a sports shop, buying a BB gun and walking straight out again. (Fuck you Australian Government you Fucking Communist arseholes).

Ideal situation would be to fully extricate myself from Australia, particularly from a tax perspective. I would very much like not to be paying $100k plus in tax to the fucking arseholes who think I’m their livestock.

rickw
rickw
February 11, 2022 8:26 pm

Oh, and I’m still getting calls from former co workers and subordinates, how do we… , where are we up to with…..,

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 11, 2022 8:27 pm

Flat White
‘Fair trial’ derailed by the Prime Minister
Bettina Arndt
Getty Images

Bettina Arndt

11 February 2022

9:00 AM

This week’s parliamentary apology to Brittany Higgins was greeted by lawyers everywhere with a gasp of incredulity that our Prime Minister could show such contempt for the laws of this country.

Now, let’s get this right. Brittany Higgins is not a victim. She achieves that status only after her allegations of sexual assault are proved in court. Right now, she is simply a witness in a rape case to be heard before a jury in June. A rape case where the lawyers for the defence have announced their client is not guilty.

Under our laws, this man is innocent until proven guilty. We are party to UN Human Rights Committee, which clearly states that, ‘Public authorities should refrain from prejudging the outcome of a trial by making public statements affirming the guilt of the accused, and that the media should avoid news coverage undermining the presumption of innocence.’

That means public authorities like our Prime Minister – who in parliament apologised to Higgins for ‘the terrible things that took place here’. He went on to state that Parliament House, which, ‘should have been a place for safety and contribution, turned out to be a nightmare.’

That surely assumes her story is true.

The Prime Minister’s language shows strong support for Higgins’ claim that, after drinking herself silly and turning up late at night at Parliament House with a colleague, she awoke to find herself naked on the Minister’s couch not after a consensual hook-up, but a sexual assault.

What actually happened on the Minister’s couch should be the subject of a proper criminal trial, where a jury would make a determination on the facts.

But now our Prime Minister has blown it. His irresponsible action sets the scene for defence lawyers to apply for a permanent stay, where the case would not proceed because the defendant is deemed unable to receive a fair hearing. It’s very rare that a court agrees to such a move and it would do nothing to clear the reputation of this young man who has already been publicly named and shamed by our biased, irresponsible media.

The more likely option is that the jury will be given directions to disregard the prejudicial words of our Prime Minister. Think about that. A jury of ordinary men and women will be told to ignore anything they have heard in the media or elsewhere. How could a jury in the national capital, in the Territory’s Supreme Court, possibly forget what was said across the lake in the National Parliament by the most powerful man in the country? It is simply inconceivable that the accused will be given a fair trial in this case.

Yesterday, John Korn, the lawyer for the accused, described the Prime Minister’s apology as an ‘absolute disgrace’. He was quoted saying: ‘He has no authority from anywhere or anybody to make that apology. He has abrogated and ignored the presumption of innocence. He’s ignored and disrespected the function of the courts and has no respect for the rule of law.’

In the ACT there’s at present no possibility of applying for a judge-only trial. Chris Merritt pointed out in The Australian earlier this year that there have been cases where the court has determined that the adverse publicity so prejudices the case against the accused that it justifies a judge-alone trial. This was what happened in 2019 when former politicians Eddie Obeid and Ian MacDonald were to face trial after years of being referred to publicly as ‘corrupt’ and ‘disgraced’. As Merritt has explained, in that case, the NSW Supreme Court’s Justice Elizabeth Fullerton ordered a judge-only trial, reprimanding both Morrison and Berejiklian for public comments about the case. Fullerton also singled out in what she called the ‘journalist frenzy’ tweets about Obeid from Kate McClymont, the Sydney Morning Herald investigatory journalist, one month before the trial. Here’s Merritt on Sky News last night.

Meanwhile, with the Higgins case now looming, the outrageous journalist frenzy is in full flight.

It is reprehensible that our National Press Club invited Higgins to join Grace Tame speaking as ‘advocates for survivors of sexual assault’. The spectacle which followed was illuminating. Here were hundreds of our supposedly leading journalists – mainly female – wildly applauding Higgins (this key witness in a critical rape case) even before she spoke. Here’s how she started: ‘I was raped on a couch in what I thought was the safest and most secure building in Australia. In a workplace that has a police and security presence 24/7. The parliament of Australia is safe – it is secure – except if you’re a woman.’

These so-called journalists then cheered Tame’s vicious, unhinged attacks on the Prime Minister and gave both women standing ovations. Watch Andrew Bolt on Sky News describing this orgy of hate.

Delighting in it all was Anthony Albanese, our Opposition leader, fresh from his own fulsome apology to parliament. He has taken every opportunity for meetings and photo opportunities with Higgins, praising her ‘extraordinary courage’ and making it clear he was on her side. ‘He fundamentally seemed to understand what had happened to me,’ said Higgins proudly, after one such meeting.

Labor thinks they are on a winner, exploiting this victim parade to expose what they cast as the government’s ‘women problem’. The government is delusional in imagining they could ever appease this noisy, small activist group who dominate our media but in no way represent the views of ordinary Australians. Perhaps the Press Club debacle will do something to convince conservative politicians that they are simply alienating their base by grovelling to these hate-filled harridans.

For the rest of us observing all this from the sidelines, it simply adds to our growing conviction that justice for men doesn’t matter in this country. Possible outcomes in the Higgins case are all equally dismal. If the defendant is found guilty in a trial whose fairness is open to question, it would send a shudder through the multitude of normal families already nervous about protecting their sons. But if he is acquitted the cries for further changes to our already anti-male legal system would be deafening.

At least we would have the pleasure of demanding the Prime Minister and his colleagues apologise in parliament to that young man. I’m sure you’d all be eager to sign up for that fun campaign.

Bluey
Bluey
February 11, 2022 8:29 pm

Rickw, any avenues you can take to make the rubble bounce? e.g. unfair dismissal given it was first available booking? If bridges are burned already why not make them pay to the best of ability.

Granted I can be vindictive when I get my back up.

Dot
Dot
February 11, 2022 8:30 pm

Reddit Degenerates

Ghost Gum
162K subscribers
9 Feb 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNNmSs4G_po

calli
calli
February 11, 2022 8:32 pm

we will be proceeding with you termination on Jan 17 regardless.

Rick, that is a terrible story.

They’re just insane. You finally complied after so much heartache and they still shafted you. They deserve to rot.

I hope you thrive wherever you decide to work.

Megan
Megan
February 11, 2022 8:33 pm

Apparently Dr duk has been released from prison. No bail conditions other than he is not allowed to drive while he is in Canberra.

I’m positive he will not be forced to walk anywhere, there will be no lack of volunteer drivers.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 11, 2022 8:34 pm

The Australian has been pushing the envelope for an end to Jury Trials forever.
The original argument was that DNA Evidence was too hard for the average Juror to understand.
Today it’s the average Juror would in erpret whatever virtue signaling Scotty Morrison did on Wednesday as an instruction on how to vote in the Jury Room.
It’s a joke.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 11, 2022 8:34 pm

Basically, Safety Drones are indemnified against prosecution for any recommendation they issue or instruction they give, provide Malice wasn’t intended.

This is possibly the wrongest sentence ever typed on the Mongternet.

JC
JC
February 11, 2022 8:35 pm

Recall the LA to SF fast train?

California’s Laughing Rail Stock

The bullet train’s price tag goes up again, this time to $105 billion.

California Democrats once hoped that their 500-mile bullet train from Los Angeles to San Francisco would be a high-speed rail model for the nation. It’s a model, all right—in how politics can drive public works off the rails.

The California High-Speed Rail Authority this week increased its cost estimate for the bullet train to $105 billion from $100 billion two years ago. In 2008 when voters approved $10 billion in bonds for the choo-choo, the estimated price tag was a mere $40 billion. That’s enough to have built 10 large water reservoirs in the parched state.

This latest $5 billion doesn’t even account for rapidly rising material and labor costs. Most of the plus-up, according to the rail authority’s business plan, is for environmental “mitigation,” including changes to address the “visual effects” around the César E. Chávez National Monument, to “enhance noise barriers” in the city of Tehachapi (population: 14,414), and to restore a stream along a hiking trail.

By the way, it works out to US$210 million per mile!

WSJ

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 11, 2022 8:36 pm

I always suspected Bettina Arndt was a ratbag, but there’s no doubt about it now.

rosie
rosie
February 11, 2022 8:38 pm

All the best with the new job Rick.
Diarise the calls from colleagues and a bill to your old company for your consultancy fees.

northshore redneck
northshore redneck
February 11, 2022 8:38 pm

rickw, that’s a horror story!

I’m speechless that they proceeded with termination.

may they burn in hell for eternity

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 11, 2022 8:39 pm

local oafsays:
February 11, 2022 at 7:31 pm
The Thought Police, coming here soon….

Police spying on people on Facebook

As I commented on a thread at Currency Lad, the left used to be violently opposed to Police Special Branches (and ASIO), but now that they have gone full fascist, they are all for police (and ASIO) surveillance of citizens.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 11, 2022 8:47 pm

The Australian has been pushing the envelope for an end to Jury Trials forever.

I always suspected Bettina Arndt was a ratbag, but there’s no doubt about it now.

That’s the third and 4th consecutive natural 20s on Grigory’s ‘tard checks.

Dover, confiscate this man’s cheating dice, and never let him back in this games store ever again.

No matter if he comes up, crying, with the latest pre-release of Pathfinder

Cassie of Sydney
February 11, 2022 8:47 pm

“Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
February 11, 2022 at 8:27 pm”

Thank for posting that. I received Bettina’s email yesterday and meant to post it.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 11, 2022 8:49 pm

This latest $5 billion doesn’t even account for rapidly rising material and labor costs. Most of the plus-up, according to the rail authority’s business plan, is for environmental “mitigation,” including changes to address the “visual effects” around the César E. Chávez National Monument, to “enhance noise barriers” in the city of Tehachapi (population: 14,414), and to restore a stream along a hiking trail.

These aren’t even related to the actual rail line itself.

The whole thing is an off-season elecoral porkbarrel.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 11, 2022 8:49 pm

Thank for posting that. I received Bettina’s email yesterday and meant to post it.

My pleasure, Cassie.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 11, 2022 8:51 pm

the left used to be violently opposed to Police Special Branches (and ASIO),

Only because they felt it was getting in their way and cramping their Revolutionary style…

rickw
rickw
February 11, 2022 8:52 pm

Pauline’s latest cartoon, hilarious!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho5TjTKL0JU

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
February 11, 2022 8:53 pm

Abc kids has an unusual kids movie on kidstvplus SE.

The road
Yes that one.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 11, 2022 9:01 pm

I always suspected Bettina Arndt was a ratbag, but there’s no doubt about it now.

Does anyone else see any irony here?

Cassie of Sydney
February 11, 2022 9:11 pm

Bettina Arndt is a brave woman. She is the one of the few who has been brave enough to speak up for men and men’s rights, for such quant old fashioned notions as “innocent until proven guilty”, for believing that most men aren’t marauding rapists and monsters. For her “thought crimes”, for daring to challenge the standard feminist mantras, she was targeted for cancellation and smeared, censored and silenced by the MSM, social media sewers and by our senate in Canberra…in an infamous senate censure which every sitting Liberal and National senator supported at the time. Please remember that when vote this year. I will.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 11, 2022 9:22 pm

On the very same day the company approached me about the possibility of rescinding the termination if I got vaxxed. I had already been thinking about this because I was basically fucked and couldn’t convince my wife to sell up and move to the farm permanently.

On 29 December, first available booking, I got vaxxed and sent through to the company certificate and booking for second shot on 21 Jan. I spent the week afterwards feeling quite unwell. The vax is complete fucking poisonous shit.

On 10 Jan the company responded with a “Fuck You Very Much” we will be proceeding with you termination on Jan 17 regardless. Final payment consisted of just what little long service I have left, no payment for the 5 weeks etc. because I had been stood down without pay from the outset.

Have we reached peak f***ing c**t yet?

Baba
Baba
February 11, 2022 9:25 pm

Sergeant Frost denied ‘concealing’ a chronology of events around shooting during the committal hearing in 2020

No, no, it wasn’t a diary. It was merely an aide memoir. Honest!

Rabz
February 11, 2022 9:26 pm

26.5 lb, 4 feet long fox caught after eating pet cat in Maidstone, Kent

Bluddee hell – get out your hatchets and mini guns, peoples!

miltonf
miltonf
February 11, 2022 9:30 pm

RickW I’m convinced HR departments consist of psychopaths or at least sociopaths- they have no skills, no accomplishments but have complete power over you. Best of luck in your new job and good on you.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 11, 2022 9:32 pm

26.5 lb, 4 feet long fox caught after eating pet cat in Maidstone, Kent

GONE AWAAAAY!!!

Rabz
February 11, 2022 9:33 pm

Of course it was that monstrous ol’ perv Walt D who’s responsible for the anthropomorphising of those (allegedly) much misunderstood li’l critters

miltonf
miltonf
February 11, 2022 9:34 pm

Those fizzer jabs are poisonous shit- made me very sick, hopefully nothing permanent

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 11, 2022 9:36 pm

Yuendumu: Sergeant accused of lying in Zachary Rolfe trial

Amos Aikman
Northern Correspondent
@amosaikman
29 minutes ago February 11, 2022

The officer in charge of Yuen­dumu police station on the night Kumanjayi Walker was killed has denied lying under oath about records of the information and ­instructions she gave Zachary Rolfe and his elite tactical ­response unit.

Constable Rolfe and the Northern Territory Police ­Immediate Response Team were in Yuendumu to support local ­officers and help arrest Walker, who was wanted for breaching a court order and for attacking two policemen with an axe three days earlier.

Constable Rolfe shot Walker three times after the latter stabbed him with scissors. He is now facing charges of murder, manslaughter and engaging in a violent act causing death.

Prosecutors have been eager to persuade the jury that Constable Rolfe failed to follow his training and put himself and his partner at risk.

The NT ­Supreme Court heard earlier this week that Sergeant Julie Frost and her superiors had formulated a plan to arrest ­Walker safely on the morning of Sunday, November 10, 2019. The jury has been played bodyworn video footage of Constable Rolfe trying to “grab up” Walker on Saturday night instead.

Sergeant Frost acknowledged under cross-examination that she made notes about the incident but failed to produce them during Constable Rolfe’s committal hearing. “You were asked, not only by me but indeed by his Honour in the committal, whether there are any other notes in existence. And you said, ‘No?’” defence barrister David Edwardson QC asked.

“I didn’t consider them to be the notes that you were chasing,” Sergeant Frost replied.

“The truth of the matter is, I suggest, you never thought the defence would see this — these notes?” he continued.

“What I’m suggesting to you, sergeant, is that you knew ­perfectly well that these notes were disclosable, and you deliberately chose to conceal them?” Sergeant Frost replied that was “incorrect”.

Sergeant Frost has testified that she gave the four IRT members copies of her arrest plan, but she did not write that in her notes made before any official police statements.

She acknowledged in court on Friday that CCTV videos did not support her evidence. She also said some parts of her memory “improved with time” while ­others did not.

Mr Edwardson proposed to Sergeant Frost that her arrest plan was “futile” because no one knew for sure where Walker would be sleeping. Constable Rolfe encountered Walker by chance while gathering intelligence regarding the teenager’s whereabouts.

“So that’s why it’s impossible to direct the IRT that they must arrest at 5.30am because you need to know where he is?” Mr Edwardson asked.

Sergeant Frost said the most likely places he would be sleeping were well known.

Mr Edwardson suggested the real reason Sergeant Frost had wanted to hold off arresting Walker until Sunday was so she could get a good night’s sleep.

“No, that was because it’s the safest time to make an arrest,” she replied.

The court heard local officer Felix Alefaio knew Walker well and knew the places the IRT would be most likely to find him. But Officer Alefaio did not go with Constable Rolfe and his colleagues on the Saturday night.

The trial continues.

Attacking two policemen with an axe? Didn’t Grogarly QC say it was a hatchet?

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 11, 2022 9:36 pm

Those fizzer jabs are poisonous shit- made me very sick, hopefully nothing permanent

I’ve had pulsatile tinnitus since my second Pfizer jab in August.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 11, 2022 9:38 pm

By the way, it works out to US$210 million per mile!

Fucking bizarre.
You have to bring this down to something at household level.
A piece of track the length of the average dining room table costs a quarter of a mill.
FMD!

miltonf
miltonf
February 11, 2022 9:38 pm

Of course the fizzer executives is another WEF ‘young leader’. Old kunt swab really is dr evil.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 11, 2022 9:39 pm

Bluddee hell – get out your hatchets and mini guns, peoples!

I dunno, Rabz- I think a fox that large is getting into QF 2pdr territory right there…

Crossie
Crossie
February 11, 2022 9:40 pm

Unvaccinated Australians will remain unable to travel overseas as the government extends the nation’s coronavirus emergency measures for a further two months.

ScoMo is doing everything possible to piss off as many voters as possible. I don’t think he wants to win the election.

Rabz
February 11, 2022 9:42 pm

Thanks Rick – the Pauline H cartoons could have been composed by various denizens of this esteemed blogue.

They don’t miss and they don’t spare any fascist imbeciles’ hurty feelz.

There needs to be a lot more of them.

Pity they won’t get a wider audience before the next feral election.

132andBush
132andBush
February 11, 2022 9:42 pm

So in lieu of honking horns the Truckers have had to resort to revving engines.

Canada was founded in 1867.

Wouldn’t it be good if every engine simultaneously went to 1867 revs for a full minute.

Dot
Dot
February 11, 2022 9:49 pm

Good old google.

Now I can accuse trolls of “promoting terrorism”.

Dot
Dot
February 11, 2022 9:52 pm

That is, You Tube.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 11, 2022 9:59 pm

Dumbest thing someone can do #102:

Put unleaded in a diesel car. Just sayin’.

Dot
Dot
February 11, 2022 10:05 pm

The lemur now sleeps outside tonight, dangling over a Arafura Sea draining river I presume?

srr
srr
February 11, 2022 10:05 pm

Bill Mitchell
@mitchellvii
·
2h
Watch Bill Mitchell live on GETTR
Full Episode (2/10) “Social Media Giants Are Failing!”
https://gettr.com/post/ptt2brf58a
Posted on 1:03 PM · Feb 11th, 2022

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 11, 2022 10:06 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

February 11, 2022 at 9:59 pm

Dumbest thing someone can do #102:

Put unleaded in a diesel car. Just sayin’.

Well.
At least it wasn’t a Tesla.

srr
srr
February 11, 2022 10:06 pm

rwmalonemd
@rwmalonemd
·
1m
Perfect lead in on this – Cancel Culture.
Promptly canceled by YouTube (as predicted), here it is on Rumble. Thank heaven for Rumble and GETTR.

~~ Tucker Carlson Today with Dr Robert Malone ~~

Tucker Carlson Today with Dr Robert Malone
https://rumble.com/vumylw-tucker-carlson-today-with-dr-robert-malone.html
Feb 09 2022 Tucker Carlson Today with Dr Robert Malone

rumble.com

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 11, 2022 10:12 pm

Just watched a couple of episodes of “Tommy and Pamela”.
About Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson.
I can’t be sure, but I think it is the first telvision show I have seen featuring a prosthetic marionette penis.
Classic scene.
Tommy is contemplating monogamy with Pamela.
The penis is prosecuting the negative case quite aggressively.
And convincingly I might add.

miltonf
miltonf
February 11, 2022 10:18 pm

It’s really worth trawling thru the WEF ‘young global leaders’ lists. Very often these people do a stint at McKinsey’s-Buttplug is an example. According to one list Hockey is a WEF boy-not sure if true or not. Hunt certainly is. The Liborals are no friend of everyman.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 11, 2022 10:26 pm

Entirely my own fault.

Filled up (the tank was almost dry) on the way back from the stand. Hadn’t filled the thing since I got back, and not since November. I’d been using the old man’s car while I was away, which runs on unleaded. The cap’s on the same side.

I was thinking about a hundred other things. Muscle memory got me reaching for the yellow nozzle. Drove for 20 minutes, the last ten of which the ute got a bit sputtery. Then more sputtery. Had thought initially I got a dodgy batch of fuel, until I got home, sat down, thought about it and realised what I’d done.

Sourced a mechanic through an associate. Can’t speak to him till Monday and he’s another 20 minutes away. Google says the thing may well be completely fucked, and it also says drain it, refill, drive around and see what happens.

I will consider these options, all of them apparently expensive.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 11, 2022 10:38 pm

Ha ha KD.
I ran my old Pope 4-stroke mower on 2-stroke fuel for five years.
Until one day under the grime and dust and clippings I saw the screw cap saying “Oil” and thought, “Why the fuck would they … oh … right …”
Didn’t seem to bother it much.
Your car might be different.
I would have thought Diesel into ULP would be worse than ULP into Diesel.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 11, 2022 10:46 pm

Put unleaded in a diesel car. Just sayin’.

Mate did it once and I love his story. At an army fuel point at Moorebank. He told me all army bowsers are white similar to a lot of mine sites and he was in a rush and didn’t check. Pumping fuel, sniff… Not Diesel then apparently the shock of oh siht I’m a dumb prick moment. Next call was to the Transport Warrant Officer with full bashful disclosure.

One of the questions was how much went in? The Transporty knew the size of the tank and said don’t start it, don’t move it, I’ll call back. Turns out only a small amount had gone in the tank and the verdict from someone in the mechanic space was Diesel is heavier so move it to a diesel bowser fill it to the top so it was overflowing. The ratio is pretty small, fuel will emulsify in the diesel when the car is running, especially round the range and finger crossed we won’t have a problem.

Fortunately for him they didn’t have a problem but he was the butt of jibes for a bit.

rosie
rosie
February 11, 2022 10:49 pm

Dumbest thing someone can do #103
Drop their paper ‘passe sanitaire’ that refused to upload to the wallet despite being valid, in a town where no pharmacist is registered to issue one for foreigners, a few hours before you are planning to change countries.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 11, 2022 10:51 pm

I would have thought Diesel into ULP would be worse than ULP into Diesel.

Sancho, from a relative who is a diesel mech ULP into diesel is much worse. Something to do with the fluids and that diesel will compress more readily than the petrols. Apparently not good for con rods and valves due to Diesels engines higher compression ratio.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 11, 2022 10:51 pm

I would have thought Diesel into ULP would be worse than ULP into Diesel.

Apparently it is far worse, like blow your engine up worse.

Rockdoctor’s mate’s solution may have some merit, given I only have a third of a tank in.

rosie
rosie
February 11, 2022 10:52 pm

Fortunately for me I decided on a whim to visit an historic monument this morning and realised I must have lost it yesterday rather than on the train or in Spain.
Trudged around three pharmacies until I found one that didn’t throw their arms up in the air.
€36 later I have one that could scan into the wallet.
Phew

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 11, 2022 10:52 pm

diesel will compress more readily than the petrols. Apparently not good for con rods and valves due to Diesels engines higher compression ratio.

Ah.

Fuck.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 11, 2022 10:55 pm

Oops.
So the car is not the same as a very tolerant lawn mower it seems.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 11, 2022 10:56 pm

WA grain growers smash production record with 24m tonne harvest
Headshot of Jenne Brammer
Jenne Brammer
The West Australian
Fri, 11 February 2022 3:53PM
Comments
Jenne Brammer

WA grain growers have delivered a staggering 24m tonne harvest, the latest crop report by the Grain Industry Association of WA confirmed.

GIWA said on Friday WA farmers had produced 24.009m tonnes of grain including wheat, barley, oats, lupins and pulses — a third bigger than in the previous record year of 18.1mt, set in 2016-17.

Its announcement follows bulk handler CBH revealing last week it had received 21.3m tonnes across its network of bins. In addition to CBH deliveries, grain is retained on farm for feed or seed, or traded outside the CBH network.

At just over 24mt, WA still produced more than 38 per cent of Australia’s grain in a year when all of the Eastern States — with the exception of South Australia — harvested record or near-record crops.

The national total was a record 62m tonnes for all grains.

Crop report author Mike Lamond said the exceptional WA result followed a record 9.2m hectare of plantings (7.8 per cent more than 2020), and an “extraordinary season”.

Good subsoil moisture across the State, an early start to planting, warm growing conditions and higher than average fertiliser usage in the winter set up very high yield potential for all crops.

That was followed by very mild conditions at the end of the growing season, during grain fill.

“This combination of factors rarely occurs over such a wide area as it did in the 2021 season,” Mr Lamond said.

However, Mr Lamond said the year was not without its challenges, and the severe frosts in September wiped out at least 2m tonnes of grain in the central grainbelt.

“Many growers in this region only just made a profit, which was heartbreaking considering how good things looked up until the frosts hit,” he said.

“There was also severe waterlogging over large areas in the south and western rim of the grainbelt. However, the incredibly mild finish allowed these areas to recover to an extent that could not have been imagined at the start of spring.”

The huge volumes, combined with exceptionally high prices, means WA grain farmers will inject about $10bn into the local economy, mostly from export dollars.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 11, 2022 10:58 pm

I don’t know whether it’s tolerant or not Sancho.

As the early bravado subsides, I might bite the bullet and get it towed, drained etc and see the extent of the damage. The only upside is the abovementioned wrench monkey is regarded as one who won’t claim it needs a chassis replacement as well.

Indolent
Indolent
February 11, 2022 11:03 pm
Rabz
February 11, 2022 11:07 pm

How good is Goose Morristeen, peoples?

Yeah, not that good. Less than zero on a 1-10 scale.

But, but, but – labore will be infinitely worse. Snaggletooth Albanzleazey, amplifying every stupid thang the gliberals did eleventy gazillion fold, with that little bit of extra special out of left field idiocy.

So you’re moozley curious?

Well, guess what – elect labore and you’ll be gifted with more of them than you or your family (yes, including the li’l goils) could have imagined (or wanted).

Think carefully, you expedient braindead mass meeja OPM teat fed pleasure seeking lazy cretinous welfare hoovering insects.

You’ll get yours. One way or another.

cohenite
February 11, 2022 11:11 pm

Reacher, the series is well worth a look.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 11, 2022 11:17 pm

Well, guess what – elect labore and you’ll be gifted with more of them than you or your family (yes, including the li’l goils) could have imagined (or wanted).

Elect a Labor/ Greens coalition and wake up screaming in the middle of the night.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 11, 2022 11:19 pm

Apparently it is far worse, like blow your engine up worse.

If you’ve put ULP into your diesel tank, don’t start the engine. Get the tank drained and change the filters.

Otherwise fucked motor and injectors.

jupes
jupes
February 11, 2022 11:22 pm

Dumbest thing someone can do #102:

Put unleaded in a diesel car. Just sayin’.

Maybe. Maybe not.

I hired a diesel car in Frogland and after nearly emptying the tank, filled it 2/3 with unleaded before realising it was diesel. Payed for the unleaded then filled the final 1/3 with diesel. Fingers crossed I turned the key. The car started so I drove it around the block to see how it went. No probs. Drove it back to Paris without incident and handed it back in without dobbing myself in.

jupes
jupes
February 11, 2022 11:27 pm

You’ll get yours. One way or another.

Rabz, let’s bring it on.

I’m sick of the Libs being only slightly less left than Labor. It’s just dragging it out. Bring on the inevitable violent end to this before I’m too old to participate.

Fuck the Libs.

Bill From the Bush
Bill From the Bush
February 11, 2022 11:29 pm

KD,
in a past life I ran workshops and fuel stations. ULP in diesel is not good but any damage that may occur is already done.
We would often get people do what you have and I don’t recall ever having a catastrophe. Do not drive it any more goes without saying. Drain it as best you can, fill it with 20-30 litres of diesel and then drain all of that as well. Fuel companies won’t admit to it but they do get it wrong and put the wrong product in the storage tanks. From memory 3% was the figure that our supplier would not worry about so you need to get it down to that or less. Older mechanical injected diesels will usually tolerate a little more than newer common rail stuff, but the more you can drain and dilute the better. If it is an older mechanical injected type you can crack the injector pipes and let them drain all the nasty stuff as well. Will probably be a pain to bleed again but such is life.
Pro tip. The best way to drain the tank is, open up the delivery pipe to the injector pump, pump compressed air into the tank by using an airgun with rags wrapped around it to seal over the filler point. Do not keep pumping and over pressure the tank, do it in short bursts and keep doing it until there is only a mist coming from the pipe. close the delivery pipe and fill the tank to the top with new diesel and hope that the motor is ok.
Injector tips can get melted from petrol in diesel, I’ve heard of it but never had it happen.
Good luck

Rabz
February 11, 2022 11:38 pm

jupes – I find myself agreeing with a man who has swum against the tide recently and stridently denounced labore on this blogue in no uncertain terms …

No one else has been prepared to state as baldly as he has, the sheer horror of a labore/greenfilth feral gubment and what it would mean for those of us wanting to see the gliberal/NAS coaltion obliterated.

That personage being good ol’ JC, this site’s biggest fan of this man … 🙂

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
February 11, 2022 11:40 pm

India diverges from its Quad counterparts on Ukraine invasion fears.

For Sale: 1x Tripod
Condition: Used
Modifications: Was a Quad but has had one cylinder disabled to be street legal in Moscow.
Rego Plate: CYKABLYAT

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 11, 2022 11:47 pm

BFTB,

Good advice – appreciated. Sadly, I don’t have access to airguns etc at the moment – I sold all that shit years ago when I moved into the duplex I’m in.

I know just enough to be dangerous. As much as I’d like to just set the thing on fire and walk – I didn’t crack $60 million on Powerball yesterday, so I’ll take my medicine and hope a) the motor isn’t fucked, and b) the mechanic doesn’t want the house in exchange for fixing it if it isn’t.

jupes
jupes
February 11, 2022 11:55 pm

Rabz. Yeah nah. I know Labor will be worse. But not by much. The difference is only a year or two now. SloMo campaigned against Net Zero last election, now it’s his policy. Julia Gillard was against gay marriage, yesterday five Libs crossed the floor to allow trannies in religious schools.

Enough. Let’s bring it on.

areff
areff
February 11, 2022 11:57 pm

Bill from the Bush: Every watched Aussie Gold Hunters on cable? It’s worth a look and especially the amiable Aboriginal duo who, in one episode, were rhapsodising about their connection to country etc.

That’s the funny part.

If anyone on the show is likely to get hopelessly lost, come down with heat stroke, get stranded nowhere with a flat battery, take nasty falls and get all fussed about snakes, it’s those two.

You’d love to have a beer with them, but you’d always half-expecting they’ll get lost on the way back to the table with the drinks tray.

Bushkid
Bushkid
February 11, 2022 11:59 pm

JC says:
February 11, 2022 at 2:40 pm
This is real – it’s not joke.

EXC: New Biden Nuclear Hire Is Drag Queen Who Wears Stilettos to Work, Discusses Sex With Animals, And Calls NIH Chief ‘Daddy Fauci’.
A recent, high-level hire at the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy is a drag queen, LGBTQ+ activist who has “lectured” on kink at college campuses and participated in interviews about fetish roleplay. In one interview, Sam Brinton – now a top Biden official – even discusses having sex with animals.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/02/10/biden-nuclear-official-is-kink-lecturing-beastiality-rolepayer/

These people have to be just laughing at the American people, and the world for that matter.

I mean, they put up Biden and Harris, and made sure they got in regardless of the actual votes. Obama declared he wanted to continue as a president behind the curtain, and it appears he’s doing exactly that. They’ve put up some of the oddest loonies possible for senior government positions, people you’d never take seriously over anything. And they’re still doing it. Yes, they’re laughing at the world, because they’re getting away with it. Who’s stopping them? Who’s pulling them up and telling them to stop faffing around and insulting the general population? There’s serious speculation about getting old Hillary into the Oval Office, or old Nancy Pelosi FFS.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 12, 2022 12:03 am

jupes, I’ve never served Special Air Service Regiment, and I’ve never claimed to have done so, but, regarding the Ben Roberts Smith action, what future have those members, still serving, got, who are prepared to give evidence against someone who was awarded a Victoria Cross?

Bushkid
Bushkid
February 12, 2022 12:04 am

Speaking of oddballs and their desires for world domination, did anyone else see a post on farce book by Fraser Anning – Former Senator with a picture of old Klaus Schwab in his best beachgoing gear? I’d post a link, but have never done one here, would probably stuff it up. If I did post a link, it would have to be with a warning to have eye bleach on hand. Plenty of it! To think that wants to rule the world!

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
February 12, 2022 12:15 am

Aussie Gold Hunters is the biggest pile of contrived horseshit ever shown on a TV screen.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 12, 2022 12:16 am

New fred…

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 12, 2022 12:17 am

Pedro the Loafersays:

February 12, 2022 at 12:15 am

Aussie Gold Hunters is the biggest pile of contrived horseshit ever shown on a TV screen.

OK.
So obviously you’ve never seen Married at First Sight?
Or Survivor?
Or SAS Australia?
Or Love Island?
Or NRL?

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
February 12, 2022 12:24 am

Sorry Sancho, never seen any of them.

I remember seeing a live rugby league match once back in the 80’s, but I think I was drunk at the time and can’t remember any of it.

Chris
Chris
February 12, 2022 12:37 am

I once filled a Toyota Lowlux Super-fuelled ute with diesel because all BHP utes are diesel, right?
Realised in the petrol station (in Whyalla, so they are used to dumbasses). I borrowed a shifter and some drain trays made of old oil cans. Pulled a drain plug from the tank and got 80% of it out. Topped up the tank and apprehensively hit the road to Iron Duke.
Couldn’t tell the difference.

Vicki
Vicki
February 12, 2022 6:37 am

Good morning all. We are on the road to Canberra. Will try to post during the day.

Gab
Gab
February 12, 2022 6:44 am

Wish you well, Vicki and make sure you post updates on the new open thread.

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