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Napoleon’s Retreat from Moscow, Adolph Northen, 1866

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feelthebern
feelthebern
February 17, 2022 2:30 pm

The weeping on twitter over indoor masks going is bizarre.
Guys, you can still wear them if you want to.
You just can’t make others wear them under the threat of violence or fines from the plod.

shatterzzz
February 17, 2022 2:34 pm

QR checkin and masks should go NOW, not on the 25th.
What magical thinking has it out until next week?

You’d think by the media coverage that he’d brung “tablets” down from the Mount instead of the obvious, 27 February had been the, advertised, date since before Xmas .. all dum parrot-head has dun is brought it forward by TWO days and the media is lauding him .. FFS!
But what’s not to luv about BAT FLU .. the only known illness that operates to timetables put out by troughers .. LOL!

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
February 17, 2022 2:35 pm

The weeping on twitter over indoor masks going is bizarre.
Guys, you can still wear them if you want to.
You just can’t make others wear them under the threat of violence or fines from the plod.

Exactly! If you want to be a paranoid hypochondriac go ahead and fill your boots, just don’t force me to do it too.

Besides, I know from personal experience that masks do not work, having caught the spicy cough on a plane whilst having to wear a mask.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 17, 2022 2:35 pm

Foreigners Around The World by P.J. O’Rourke

https://imgur.com/gallery/H1X8R

pete of perth
pete of perth
February 17, 2022 2:37 pm

When is mclown setting us free?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 17, 2022 2:37 pm

Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. The Hun:

A Melbourne man wheeled his dying friend away in a shopping trolley after he mistakenly shot him in a drug robbery gone wrong.

Norden Wilio went to a Meadow Heights house armed with a shotgun in a bid to steal cannabis with his friend, 28-year-old Ali Ali, in 2019. Mr Ali went to Wilio’s Broadmeadows home and they set off to their victim’s property in a bid to steal his marijuana on March 4.

A garden variety choof run-through. So far, so good:

But the drug heist went wrong and ended up with Wilio unintentionally shooting his mate and killing 40-year-old Deniz Hasan while the pair struggled outside the Huntly Court property.

Whoopsie.

Wilio used a shopping trolley to move his dying friend to a house 500m away where he knew the occupants and ran inside for help.

Hahahahaaa. The average Broady street has two shopping trolleys per nature strip.

Before he could, Ali tipped out of the cart.

Gold!

When neighbours started to come outside, the shooter fled.

Quality snorking!

The 26-year-old was found guilty of two counts of murder and attempted armed robbery after a trial in December 2021.

I just bet this bloke has one of those Charlie Sheen ‘Winning!’ T-shirts.

shatterzzz
February 17, 2022 2:39 pm

Joining twitter is too high a price for the thrill of being doxxed by loonies ?

Naaa! .. I joined Twitter a year ago so I could read other folks linked stuff .. never use it for myself and other than, maybe, an email every coupla weeks encouraging me to follow someone or other I’ve never been contacted ..
Ya can’t get doxxed if you never write anything cos no one knows who you are .. LOL!

min
min
February 17, 2022 2:40 pm

I was inItaly with George Negus in a little town SanGiovanni Valdarno when he went to give his kids the chance to play soccer . He didn’t manage to learn to speak Italian he wrote a book on Italian politicians and soccer .I would not have thought too any would be too interested in politicians of the Italian variety.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 17, 2022 2:42 pm

TE at 1.47:

my next book is being launched at the Darwin Aviation Museum at 5pm today

Ah geez. I’m deep in the rural area today TE. Patchy, in and out. Livestock is involved. I might get out of there by 9.00 p.m. or so.

Apologies. The Aviation Museum’s the perfect place btw. Good choice.

miltonf
miltonf
February 17, 2022 2:44 pm

Lionel Murphy’s press secretary was just another leftist operator pretending to present facts.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 17, 2022 2:44 pm

Has Gerard said anything about Negus and Cuban aged care yet?

srr
srr
February 17, 2022 2:45 pm
shatterzzz
February 17, 2022 2:45 pm

Out here in Fairfield the SE Asians not only luv their masks but most have added the welders helmets as an extra precaution .. I’m guessing lotz of them will keep on keeping on long after they should be binned (actually, thrown on the footpath/verge but binned sounds cuter .. LOL!).

min
min
February 17, 2022 2:45 pm

I have been watching MAFS on and off. Contestants chosen on the ability to get ratings so lots with personality disorders, neurotic oh One nice couple . Full of fillers and Botox and men covered in tats . Really ? So narcissistic that no wonder they had no idea what intimacy is too busy looking at themselves in a mirror.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 17, 2022 2:47 pm

Growing up we were taught…

We went swimming everywhere and anywhere, no one cared, although did get some tips from Nippers. Mainly about rips though, not sharks.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 17, 2022 2:48 pm

If they are terrified of fondling fruit in the supermarket

I thought that sort of thing was functionally illegal (or at least frowned upon) in public, outside of Oxford Street or The Cross?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Zatara says: February 17, 2022 at 2:20 pm

My bank branch has for at least 2 years flatly refused to accept a deposit without full ID of the person making the deposit.

At some level aren’t reports to the taxman of deposits required?
In the US I think it’s $10,000.

An entirely different thing.
Since forever they’ve been required to report suspicious* deposits/withdrawals exceeding $10,000 in cash (i.e. actual folding notes)

This is not the same as asking ID before they’ll allow you to deposit into your own bank account.

*They tag a cash transaction as “suspicious” or “routine” coz there are a helluva lot of deposits or withdrawals of more than $10,000 in cash as a routine part of business.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 17, 2022 2:48 pm

So narcissistic that no wonder they had no idea what intimacy is too busy looking at themselves in a mirror.

Errr….

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 17, 2022 2:51 pm

Ali tipped out of the cart.

…and into the loving embrace of 72 virgins? The Hezbies are into the good stuff in a big way and have lots of guys called Ali. I wonder if there’s a link?

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 17, 2022 2:52 pm

Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. The Hun:

A Melbourne man wheeled his dying friend away in a shopping trolley after he mistakenly shot him in a drug robbery gone wrong.

Sounds like an episode of Fat Pizza.

Old bloke
Old bloke
February 17, 2022 2:52 pm

Knuckle Dragger says:
February 17, 2022 at 12:57 pm

The sooner Kangaroo Island secedes, the better.

I don’t know when nor why the present Adelaide bashing started, I haven’t read upthread, but there’s more signs of sanity prevailing in South Australia at the moment than anywhere else in Australia. The South Australian Police Union has called for an end to the mandates, no other state police unions are speaking out for their members, and the Adelaide University has abandoned vaxx mandates.

Looking around Australia at the moment, the most sane place is South Australia.

Adelaide Uni Abandons Vaccine Mandates

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 17, 2022 2:53 pm

The most Adelaide thing (apart from being thrown in the Torrens while out on the beat) was being assaulted with a rolled up magazine by your mistresses husband at a wine tasting.

You cannot make this stuff up.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 17, 2022 2:55 pm

Growing up we were taught…

Swimming at dusk.
Fin breaks the surface and circles.
Then flipper sticks his head out of the water, grins and disappears.

Pulse rate returned to normal many many hours later.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 17, 2022 2:55 pm

A Melbourne man wheeled his dying friend away in a shopping trolley after he mistakenly shot him in a drug robbery gone wrong.

What’s the bet it had a dodgy wheel?

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
February 17, 2022 2:56 pm

Up thread somebody linked about CDC using DNA from Covid tests.

Gateway Pundit has two articles about this currently.

Google BGI (Beijing Geonomics Institute) and you will find :

Australian HQ in Brisbane.

Articles by the Guardian Oz and 2 by Reuters about them and many more from USA.

BGI provided the Covid test kits brought in by Twiggy Forrest mid 2020.

BGI provides testing machines to 11 labs in Oz. This has apparently been OK’d by Australian intelligence agencies.

60 Minutes USA had a show in late January 2021 where high ranking intelligence official was pointing out had advised some states not to take up offer of Covid assistance by BGI. Reason being they were harvesting DNA (see Reuters articles for in depth comment about how the DNA can be used).

Some may have seen the Cairns News article about the father, Henry, of a certain Premier. Popped up in China in September 2019 as Chairman and Founder of something called the GTA Foundation. Their area of interest ? DNA collection and storage. Supposed to become a trillion dollar industry. No idea if the article is true but certainly interesting and never been mentioned in mainstream media.

Some may have seen articles about meeting with Macron and Putin a few days ago. Seems the Russians wanted to test him but French said no and ones of the reasons was did not want them to get his DNA.

You will never guess which famous billionaires foundation has partly funded BGI since 2012. Or which was the first state BGI tried to set up Covid testing in USA? Seattle is a clue to both.

Interesting times we live in.

twostix
twostix
February 17, 2022 2:58 pm

Bad naughty shark, doing what comes naturally.

Malaria / Ross River Fever ridden mosquitos do what comes naturally too.

So we eradicate them down to manageable numbers where they’re a problem for people.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 17, 2022 2:59 pm

We need benevolent aliens to arrive to enslave us.
At least there wouldn’t be this “keeping you safe” fakery.

Errr…

And for those who’d rather skip to the plot summary:

https://twilightzone.fandom.com/wiki/To_Serve_Man

twostix
twostix
February 17, 2022 3:00 pm

The thing boomers reminiscing about their near shark-free childhoods in the east coast Australian ocean miss is shark fishing has essentially been banned for 20 years. Their numbers are increasing rapidly and attacks will continue to increase and Australians will leave the water and go back to being frightened over entering the ocean as we were in the 18th century pre-mass fishing days.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 17, 2022 3:00 pm

Swimming at dusk.
Fin breaks the surface and circles.
Then flipper sticks his head out of the water, grins and disappears.

Pulse rate returned to normal many many hours later.

Dolphins are arseholes. And they know it, too…

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 17, 2022 3:02 pm
twostix
twostix
February 17, 2022 3:04 pm

I have a book of letters from the colony and very early on convicts and settlers were told not to bathe in in the bay because of sharks.

So then we spent 200 years killing them all, that’s why we can go freely swimming on much of the east coast of Australia now.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 17, 2022 3:04 pm

If they are terrified of fondling fruit in the supermarket

I thought that sort of thing was functionally illegal (or at least frowned upon) in public, outside of Oxford Street or The Cross?

I think public avocado fondling* has a whole period devoted to it under the “safe schools” teaching guidelines.

*Dare you click on my link of wonder?

Cassie of Sydney
February 17, 2022 3:05 pm

“twostixsays:
February 17, 2022 at 3:00 pm
The thing boomers reminiscing about their near shark-free childhoods in the east coast Australian ocean miss is shark fishing has essentially been banned for 20 years. Their numbers are increasing rapidly and attacks will continue to increase and Australians will leave the water and go back to being frightened over entering the ocean as we were in the 18th century pre-mass fishing days.”

Correct….but Greenies prefer sharks to humans. They’re probably celebrating on twitter the latest shark attack.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 17, 2022 3:08 pm

I would be on board with a program that refused crocodiles, sharks and snakes access to areas populated by humans.
Dan Xi Man could make rules for this!

duncanm
duncanm
February 17, 2022 3:13 pm

Was the swimmer out far from the beach? That’s my impression. Dreadful.

no – the vid is from a rock fisherman, and the swimmer is only about 10m out.

Its horrifying, but not explicit.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 17, 2022 3:14 pm

If only crocs, snakes and sharks were compelled to wear masks.
The gubbmint oughta do sumfink

twostix
twostix
February 17, 2022 3:16 pm

Apparently old mate Bossi is running around claiming 1 million people in Canberra on the weekend.

There’s healthy optimistic pushing up of figures for propaganda and marketing, then there’s….that.

Dear me.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 17, 2022 3:19 pm

My staff are telling me that mainland China sites are reporting that the Ukraine are lobbing some mortars into the Donbass region.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 17, 2022 3:20 pm

notafan and Lowe lowe owe struth a major, major apology.

No, they don’t.

The Red-Faced Guard can (and has) been holding his own Revolution in his own time, as he would occasionally appear here to boast.

Having said that, his position relative to everyone else on or who once visited this blog is no different to the rest of us.

All his abuse and blowharding achieved was to elevate his own blood pressure and destroy any harmony or goodwill his stance and ideals might have otherwise attracted. There’s a good reason he’s gone quiet, and it’s not because the Communist-Nazi-Globalist-Pooftah-Pansies have silenced him by turning his frogs gay, poisoning his gypsum, hiding an LRAD in his bedroom cupboard or binging his bongs.

Have you stood, and (if necessary) fallen for Australia, Mrs Faulty?

Or have you not eaten enough pizza?

(The evidence you post and try to cross-post and smear between the various Cats and the Furniture Store very strongly appears to favour the latter…)

Cassie of Sydney
February 17, 2022 3:20 pm

“twostixsays:
February 17, 2022 at 3:16 pm
Apparently old mate Bossi is running around claiming 1 million people in Canberra on the weekend.

There’s healthy optimistic pushing up of figures for propaganda and marketing, then there’s….that.

Dear me.”

He’s lost the plot.

twostix
twostix
February 17, 2022 3:20 pm

Myesss….the Liberals are just unassuming bozos who keep walking into rakes and we should vote for them because Lesser of Two Evils:

Firearm laws pass House without debate

Firearm laws are one step closer to being toughened after the surprise passage of a bill through the House of Representatives.

…Labor members on Thursday moved to bring on debate on the bill, introduced by the government only 24 hours earlier….

Leader of the House Peter Dutton then initiated an immediate vote which stopped speeches on the matter and saw the bill pass on the voices.

The Labor move came despite the party’s home affairs spokeswoman Kristina Keneally earlier on Thursday telling ABC radio: “We haven’t even seen this legislation and we will consider it carefully when we do.”

“The fear I have is that they’re going to try and use this to pick a fight on the issue of firearms,” she said.

The proposal doubles the maximum penalty for existing firearms trafficking offences to 20 years in jail and/or a fine of 5000 penalty units.

There will also be a new aggravated offence for trafficking 50 or more firearms or firearm parts and mandatory minimum penalties of at least five years in jail for adult offenders.

Now what ever would they suddenly feel the need to do this for then?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 17, 2022 3:22 pm

Correct….but Greenies prefer sharks to humans.

They don’t seem to like mosquitoes, sandflies and midges, though.

Maybe they see them as competition to be ruthlessly eliminated?

#Blood-SuckingParasites

#AndThat’sJustThePeople!

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 17, 2022 3:22 pm

The Donbass news is now on the Bloomberg terminal.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 17, 2022 3:24 pm

Calli

to make the now obviously naked CHOs look like they’re at least wearing a G string?

Ms Chant in a G string,? Ewwww!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 17, 2022 3:25 pm

Ben Roberts-Smith threatened to put ‘bullet in head’ of fellow soldier, court told
By Michaela Whitbourn
February 17, 2022 — 1.20pm

War veteran Ben Roberts-Smith told a fellow Special Air Service soldier that if his performance did not improve he would “get a bullet in the back of the head”, the Federal Court has heard.

Giving evidence in Mr Roberts-Smith’s defamation case against The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Canberra Times, a serving SAS soldier told the court in Sydney on Thursday that the decorated former soldier had bullied him, including spitting on the ground in front of him and letting doors slam in his face.

The soldier, dubbed Person 1 because his identity cannot be revealed for national security reasons, joined the Defence Force in 2000 as an Army reservist before being selected for the SAS in 2004. He said he was deployed to Afghanistan seven times including as part of Mr Roberts-Smith’s patrol in 2006.

He told the court that Mr Roberts-Smith had told him during pre-deployment training that “he didn’t think I had the required skills or ability to deploy to Afghanistan” and “he was going to do everything he could in his power to have me removed from his team and get one of his colleagues to replace me”.

He said members of his team would “make disparaging remarks to me” about his relative lack of experience because he was from a reserve background while the other soldiers had “significantly more experience”.

Person 1 acknowledged that he received some performance reviews during “a few months” in 2006 that contained legitimate professional criticism, as well as a warning to improve his performance, and that some of his skills such as manoeuvring vehicles were not up to standard at that time.

He agreed that he did not believe that his performance reviews constituted bullying, and acknowledged that he had made a mistake on a mission with Mr Roberts-Smith in 2006 in which he did not oil his machine gun.

The SAS soldier told the court that Mr Roberts-Smith told him after that mission, “if your performance doesn’t improve on our next patrol you’re going to get a bullet in the back of the head”.

“It made me fearful for my own personal safety,” Person 1 said. “It made me lose more confidence. It made me perform worse.”

He said he reported the incident to his superiors and Mr Roberts-Smith subsequently approached him while he was standing in line for lunch one day and “stood right up close to me … looked down on me [and said], ‘If you’re going to make accusations, c–t, you’d better have some f–king proof.’”

Mr Roberts-Smith pushed him in the chest during a later incident in 2010, he said, and told him, “get out of my way, c–t, or I’ll kill you”.

The court heard Person 1’s performance reviews improved when he was moved out of Mr Roberts-Smith’s patrol in 2006. He is now a parachute instructor at a Defence Force school within the special operations command.

A performance appraisal from July 7, 2006, five days after he was moved away from Mr Roberts-Smith’s patrol, recorded that Person 1 was “hard-working and [got] along with all members of the patrol” and “maintained a positive attitude despite the beating [his] confidence has suffered”.

Person 1 told the court that he attended a mediation session with Mr Roberts-Smith in 2013 and “his response, in essence, was that it wasn’t inappropriate behaviour, and it was all my fault because of my poor performance”.

Asked by the newspapers’ barrister, Nicholas Owens, SC, how the alleged behaviour had affected him, Person 1 said Mr Roberts-Smith “stole those years when I should have been enjoying myself” as a young SAS trooper who had worked “very hard to get into that position”.

“Not only did I have to worry about the Taliban but I also had to look over my own back at … people in my own squadron,” he said.

It caused him “years of lost sleep and worry about my position, about my future, about my employment, about my chosen career”, he said.

Mr Roberts-Smith had undermined his credibility and tried to get him removed from the troop, he said, and “I believe it hamstrung my career for many years and slowed my career progression.”

Earlier on Thursday, Person 1 told the court that he was involved in a mission with Mr Roberts-Smith in June 2006 in which his patrol set up an observation post to provide covert surveillance of Afghanistan’s Chora Pass and “get a feel for the area … what we call pattern of life”.

He said that he and another soldier, Person 2, spotted an Afghan man move out in front of them at some distance, but he didn’t believe the man had spotted the soldiers. He did not see any weapons on the man but believed he had a satchel bag slung across his body.

Another soldier subsequently asked Person 1 and 2 why they didn’t shoot at the Afghan man. He told the court he responded that they were at an observation post, meaning that any noise might alert others in the area to their hiding place.

Person 1 said he subsequently heard shots, and was shown an incident report recording that the Afghan man was “armed with an AK varient [sic] weapon”, “aggressively patroling [sic]” with “both hands on weapon”. The report said the man was shot by two soldiers, identified by their call sign. Person 1 said he believed one of the call signs belonged to Mr Roberts-Smith.

“I did not observe an AK weapon. I did not observe them ready to fire,” Person 1 said of the Afghan man.

Mr Roberts-Smith launched defamation proceedings in 2018 against The Age and the Herald, owned by Nine, and The Canberra Times, now under separate ownership, over a series of articles that he says accuse him of being a war criminal and engaging in a campaign of bullying against another soldier, among other claims.

He denies all wrongdoing. The media outlets are seeking to rely on a defence of truth and allege Mr Roberts-Smith committed or was involved in six murders of Afghans under the control of Australian troops, when they cannot be killed under the rules of engagement, and that he bullied a fellow soldier.

The former SAS soldier maintains any killings in Afghanistan were carried out lawfully in the heat of battle and that he did not engage in bullying.

The hearing continues.

Damienski
Damienski
February 17, 2022 3:30 pm

When is mclown setting us free?

Not while there’s breath in his odious body

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 17, 2022 3:31 pm

Plenty of Laura Norder from the Lieborals. Must be election time.

Indolent
Indolent
February 17, 2022 3:32 pm

From February 25, face masks will only be mandatory across a more limited range of venues including public transport, planes, airports and hospitals.

They won’t let go. They simply won’t let go. We are living at their pleasure. They can and do pull our strings whenever they feel like it.

miltonf
miltonf
February 17, 2022 3:32 pm

Marxist street thugs across the world are pretty much the sharp end of the establishment21st century brown shirts

Gab
Gab
February 17, 2022 3:34 pm

When is mclown setting us free?

Not while there’s breath in his odious body

Someone let Hillary know he’s got dirt on her and Bill. Posthaste!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 17, 2022 3:35 pm

Dare you click on my link of wonder?

You have rolled a Critical Success on your Dodgy Arsehole Check.

The Orc is mildly horrified and somewhat offended, and walks away in a mixture of disgust and morbid fascination. His ASIO monitors are going to be treated to a very uncomfortable series of internet searches for the next few days.

You gain +300XP, and an additional grimace from your DM.

You Level Up to 69.

Meanwhile, in the Town Square…

#ICastFireball!

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 17, 2022 3:37 pm

No no. It is Dan* that has the videos of the Clintons! Lots of them.

Anchor What
Anchor What
February 17, 2022 3:41 pm

I’ll vote for the Libs if they undertake to resume Liddell, Bayswater and Eraring and either maintain or replace them with similar capacity in coal or nuclear. The states have proven they are not up to maintaining power supply. It will have to be done at national level before we all have no choice but to run our own generators.

johanna
johanna
February 17, 2022 3:46 pm

The thoughtshapers at TheirABC continue to mangle our language towards their own nefarious ends:

The Australian share market is in the green, as major companies including Wesfarmers, Telstra, Origin and Whitehaven post results.

At 1.00 pm AEDT, the ASX 200 was up 0.6 per cent.

Green is good, right?

I don’t suppose the woke kiddies there even know that black for credit, red for debt – hence ‘in the black/red’ dates from when handwritten ledgers used those coloured inks to make it easy to spot which was which.

Leading the charge to destroy literacy and history, yet again. 🙁

Winston Smith
February 17, 2022 3:48 pm

Gilas:

MT vs JH, Rosie, Sancho
Johanna vs Lizzie
JC vs ZK2A, Cohenite etc..
Rex vs srr
Cassie vs srr
Struth vs Rosie
KD vs Fat Tony
Yours truly vs Milts
Lizzie vs JMH
Clowder of Cats vs Lizzie
And, for old times’ sake.. who can forget the hilarity of Arma vs Arky?

No mention of moi?
I coulda been the champion!
*snif*
(dabs eyes with semi rancid old hankie, promises to do better.)

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 17, 2022 3:49 pm

Green and red is pretty common on trading screens. I wouldn’t lose any sleep over it.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 17, 2022 3:49 pm

Protestors were also warned about nutters trying to hijack the event. Perhaps organisers were particularly careful in their choice of speakers.

I went to one of the Sydney marches and was as tolerant as I could be when people were told to chant “Always was, always will be”, walk through ceremonial smoke, listen to some inane rambling that may well have been about pedos – while every person who turned up to protest wore shirts and carried placards about not wanting to be forcibly vaccinated. And flags.

The speakers, at least for the first few hours, had nothing to do with the audience.

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 17, 2022 3:52 pm

Haven defended sharkies up above, I will add that if humans want to swim in the oceans, then I have no problem with drum lines or other means of reducing the local shark population.

There’s not a lot of point being top of the food chain as we are if we can’t be top dog too.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 17, 2022 3:52 pm

Don’t worry Winston. Best I could do is a sneerer and a piler on. Must try harder.

calli
calli
February 17, 2022 3:56 pm

I might have been an innocent bystander.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 17, 2022 3:57 pm

I’m thinking it might be fun to patrol offshore of our beaches with fixed wing drones. When a shark is found drop small depth charges on them.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 17, 2022 4:01 pm

Eyrie

I wonder is a homing torpedo be possible? Do sharks fart?

Indolent
Indolent
February 17, 2022 4:05 pm
local oaf
February 17, 2022 4:06 pm

Looking around Australia at the moment, the most sane place is South Australia.

I wonder if the Liberals might actually survive the upcoming state election.

Nothing I do could possibly help or hinder them, I live in the safest Labor seat in Australia unfortunately.

duncanm
duncanm
February 17, 2022 4:07 pm

This was followed by a declaration that if caught, the naughty shark would be tagged and ‘taken further out to sea’.

Unless they deposit it on the other side of the Earth, that won’t help one iota

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 17, 2022 4:07 pm

No mention of moi?
I coulda been the champion!
*snif*
(dabs eyes with semi rancid old hankie, promises to do better.)

They even missed out the Great Truck vs Train war… 🙁

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 17, 2022 4:08 pm

I’m thinking it might be fun to patrol offshore of our beaches with fixed wing drones. When a shark is found drop small depth charges on them.

I agree with most of that. Change the word “small” to “big”.

Bluey
Bluey
February 17, 2022 4:09 pm

local oafsays:
February 17, 2022 at 4:06 pm
Looking around Australia at the moment, the most sane place is South Australia.

I wonder if the Liberals might actually survive the upcoming state election.

Nothing I do could possibly help or hinder them, I live in the safest Labor seat in Australia unfortunately.

You have my sympathy as someone else who lives in a safe Labor seat.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 17, 2022 4:11 pm

Best thing about living in a safe seat? Not having to clear out the letterbox every few days.

sfw
sfw
February 17, 2022 4:12 pm

Anchor What – You’re delusional, even if the Libs promised Nuclear Power along with your wish list, you can depend on them not following through once elected. If anyone here votes for the Coalition or Labor expecting anything to change from how they’ve acted over the past twenty years, you are a certifiable idiot.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 17, 2022 4:13 pm

My staff are telling me that mainland China sites are reporting that the Ukraine are lobbing some mortars into the Donbass region.

Is there a town called Gleiwitz in Donblass? So hard to find a radio station when you need one.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 17, 2022 4:14 pm

Shark sonar buoys. Mines. Depth charges. Shark torpedoes.

Drop your fins, cease, desist and leave the area immediately!

twostix
twostix
February 17, 2022 4:14 pm

Fuck this is dumb.

Hotel quarantine for unvaccinated travellers slashed to seven days in NSW and Victoria

We must continue to be punished so that Omicron spewing covid karen vaxxies don’t feel like they did something unnecessary.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 17, 2022 4:16 pm

Are the new subs anti-shark capable?

Figures
Figures
February 17, 2022 4:17 pm

Stix

The solution was mass civil disobedience, blockades, mass protests and street fights after all. We should have all done this stuff in 2020. And this is some sort of neo-communistic 21st century revolution of a our “elite” against us.

I’m still shocked at how much we acquiesced.

In 2019 I would called myself a solipsist. Turns out I was actually overestimating other people’s intelligence.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 17, 2022 4:19 pm

Unless they deposit it on the other side of the Earth, that won’t help one iota

I think here in the West we get chomped by the Japies’ ones. A few guys used to take a few weeks off surfing when the salmon were running. I never saw one in over 10 years but wouldn’t do some of the stuff we did then today.

twostix
twostix
February 17, 2022 4:19 pm

Trudeau only went crazy after his election. McGowan too.

Once they’ve secured a few more years in power they seem to really go to town. Beware this coming election!

To be honest I think the Labor premiers are perfectly happy to help their little gang of seven mate Morrison over the line now. A tight little crew they’ve become over the last 24 month crime spree against the people.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 17, 2022 4:21 pm

Are the new subs anti-shark capable?
If you think we’re getting new subs I have a bridge to sell you.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 17, 2022 4:24 pm

Dare you click on my link of wonder?

You have rolled a Critical Success on your Dodgy Arsehole Check.

Haha, after the last major South Park game, “The Fractured But Whole“, I saw an ad recently that a new one is in development. You can bet there will be asshole check rolls.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 17, 2022 4:34 pm

There’s not a lot of point being top of the food chain as we are if we can’t be top dog too.

As a species we are hairless, soft-footed, unarmoured, slow, climate-sensitive omnivores who can see neither in the dark nor for 360 degrees.

Everything – every single thing* – in nature survives and/or thrives by killing other things, developing protection mechanisms against being killed and eaten, eating other things and reproducing better than similar organisms.

We have developed lumpy brains to such an extent we are capable of killing things not only that prevent us eating or rooting, but that prevent recreation.

And so we should. If Noah’s Arks want to start culling humans, they can start by growing opposable thumbs. Screw those guys.

*I may have to give plankton a pass here.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 17, 2022 4:39 pm

Teh webs also tell me that one in five blokes believe they can win a fight with a chimpanzee. Those blokes are kidding themselves.

They’re four times stronger, much quicker, more agile, can also use tools and have fangs to boot.

You best best would be to lure it into a swimming pool and drown it like roos do with dogs, because the pricks can’t swim.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 17, 2022 4:43 pm

As a species we are hairless, soft-footed, unarmoured, slow, climate-sensitive omnivores who can see neither in the dark nor for 360 degrees.

Who like flake and chips.

Winston Smith
February 17, 2022 4:48 pm

Cassie:

“Additionally, the Canadian federal government has announced they will seize the children of any citizen who travels with a minor child for the purposes of entering one of the federally defined no-go zones. Reunification will be dependent on re-education at one of the jails, compounds or institutions of incarceration.”

Full blown totalitarianism. When they come for your children, it’s over.

No Cassie.
When they come for your children, it’s ON.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 17, 2022 4:48 pm

But not insects.

Slimy, Yet Satisfying? NYT Opinion Celebrates ‘Joy’ of Eating Bugs to Fight Climate Change (16 Feb, via CD)

The video, headlined “The Joy of Cooking (Insects),” pontificated how “Climate-conscious cooking means getting creative” — with bugs. The description for the video by Opinion Video Deputy Director Jonah Kessel, Opinion visuals journalist Tala Schlossberg and Times correspondent Kirk Semple promoted eating bugs as some sort of solution to protect Gaia: “[A]s we explore in the Opinion Video above, a growing tribe of environmentalists, academics and entrepreneurs are arguing that edible insects must enjoy a wider acceptance to help create a more sustainable global food system and save the planet.”

It continued: “[U]nless we make major adjustments to the food we eat and how we produce it, we’re cooked.”

Sharks prefer raw not cooked. If they gave themselves to Great Whites they’d save oodles of CO2.

Caldera
Caldera
February 17, 2022 4:49 pm

On sharks : recent research supports the fact that more shark attacks on humans happen when the moon is fuller.
Obviously this doesn’t mean that sharks are attacking during the night : daylight attacks when it’s around full moon in the lunar cycle.
It was full moon last night.
So the researchers (University of Florida ?) have another statistic to add to their data.

Gilas
Gilas
February 17, 2022 4:51 pm

Winston Smith says:
February 17, 2022 at 3:48 pm

No mention of moi?
I coulda been the champion!
*snif*
(dabs eyes with semi rancid old hankie, promises to do better.)

Sorry Winston, I stand/sit duly chastened.

JC
JC
February 17, 2022 4:52 pm

H B Bear says:
February 17, 2022 at 3:49 pm

Green and red is pretty common on trading screens. I wouldn’t lose any sleep over it.

Yea, it’s come with computer screens showing prices. Green numbers is up and red it down. Just look at you Bear, knowing all this stuff.

Winston Smith
February 17, 2022 4:52 pm

Callie:

Not good, far from good, but not exactly taking children off to “undisclosed sinister locations”.

When it depends on the parent undergoing ‘re education’ it’s totalitarian repression.
Would you like me to tell you about those not undisclosed, not sinister places?
If they were my kids, or anyone related to me, I’d be going off my nut.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 17, 2022 4:53 pm

Teh webs also tell me that one in five blokes believe they can win a fight with a chimpanzee. Those blokes are kidding themselves.

No. Not true. They’re the ones who own shotguns.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 17, 2022 4:53 pm

You best best would be to lure it into a swimming pool and drown it like roos do with dogs, because the pricks can’t swim.

Extremely dense bones mean chimps have negative buoyancy, meaning the things go straight to the bottom of the river.
You’re not drowning it, though the thing will rip your face off on the way down.

Bruce in WA
February 17, 2022 4:54 pm

Everything – every single thing* – in nature survives and/or thrives by killing other things, developing protection mechanisms against being killed and eaten, eating other things and reproducing better than similar organisms.

Had what developed into a “heated” discussion with one of my wife’s friends yesterday over a very similar theme.

She contends (and she’s serious):

• Humans are alien to this planet because every other form of life gives back something to the planet while we only take from the planet.

• Animal and plant life is sacred, but we desperately need to start culling humans. Reintroduction of the death penalty for all anti-greenies would be a good start.

• Governments should have made vaccinations mandatory from the very start. If some people died of the side effects, that would be a good thing.

• Nearly everyone in Africa should be sterilised, by force if necessary.

Overpopulation being her favourite hobby-horse, the talk swung around to what humans will be eating in the future. My wife commented that insects might figure highly, and that we had tried some food made with insect “flour” when we were in Vietnam.

“And how were those insects killed?” the friend asked. “Murdered I bet.”

“Who gives a f**k (or words to that effect)”, I said. “They’re insects for f**k’s sake (or words to that effect). They have no recognition of self, and it’s highly unlikely they’re even capable of feeling pain.”

“So what?” she replied. “They still have feelings you know. They have as much right to live as we do.”

I think my jaw may have dropped at that stage, because my wife jumped in and changed the subject.

JC
JC
February 17, 2022 4:54 pm

Are the new subs anti-shark capable?

I wonder if subs have banged into whales out at sea…. (obviously not on land).

Anchor What
Anchor What
February 17, 2022 4:55 pm

I’d be happy to vote for PHON, but their ability to execute any policy is limited. They’ll never be in government. I do vote for Latham in the upper house anyway, and if they got their preselections sorted so they have good candidates instead of flaky chancers that could expand considerably.
There’s no chance the Libs will do as I asked above and resume Liddell, Bayswater and Eraring, so my offer to vote for them will fall flat.

harrys on the boat
harrys on the boat
February 17, 2022 4:56 pm

Coopers Sparkling Ale, in a can. Gods nectar. SA are lucky, if they didn’t produce that, I’d happily see it nuked.

CL commented yesterday, and I’m sure he’s reading this. But IT, stop pissing about, wasting everyone’s time and get back here.

Anchor What
Anchor What
February 17, 2022 4:56 pm

Subs just deafen dolphins when their sonar goes active.

Keith Forwheels
Keith Forwheels
February 17, 2022 4:57 pm

Growing up we were taught…

1. never swim at dawn or dusk,
2. never swim near fish or fishermen,
3. never swim with dogs,
4. never swim near estuaries; and
5. avoid swimming on overcast days.

.6 never swim in canals (especially on the Gold Coast)

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 17, 2022 4:57 pm

No Cassie.
When they come for your children, it’s ON.

Get a grip, mate.
They’ve been coming after the kids ever since the first vaxes were invented.
Is it true that BigPharma gives Nurse a sling for every vaccination she performs?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 17, 2022 4:59 pm

Is it true that BigPharma gives Nurse a sling for every vaccination she performs?

Sigh.

Fuck off, Grigory.

Don’t you have an unmasking lawsuit to fight with Avi?

You know, for your other skinsuit prguy17?

JC
JC
February 17, 2022 4:59 pm

To be honest I think the Labor premiers are perfectly happy to help their little gang of seven mate Morrison over the line now. A tight little crew they’ve become over the last 24 month crime spree against the people.

Stix, you’re making more and more spastic comments. The idea the Hunchback would cut a liberal any slack is crazy. Morrison and the Hunchback aren’t pals and never will be. One of the main reasons scumbags join the ranks of the Liars party is based on unqualified hate of the Right – even the nominal Right. Please stop talking.

srr
srr
February 17, 2022 5:00 pm

Rex Anger says:
February 17, 2022 at 3:20 pm

notafan and Lowe lowe owe struth a major, major apology.

No, they don’t.

The Red-Faced Guard can (and has) been holding his own Revolution in his own time, as he would occasionally appear here to boast.

Having said that, his position relative to everyone else on or who once visited this blog is no different to the rest of us.

All his abuse and blowharding achieved was to elevate his own blood pressure and destroy any harmony or goodwill his stance and ideals might have otherwise attracted. There’s a good reason he’s gone quiet, and it’s not because the Communist-Nazi-Globalist-Pooftah-Pansies have silenced him by turning his frogs gay, poisoning his gypsum, hiding an LRAD in his bedroom cupboard or binging his bongs.

Have you stood, and (if necessary) fallen for Australia, Mrs Faulty?

Or have you not eaten enough pizza?

(The evidence you post and try to cross-post and smear between the various Cats and the Furniture Store very strongly appears to favour the latter…)

hee hee, this clown talks about destroying good will, AT me, NOT the person I quoted.

Then he goes off again, doing his bog standard libels à la JC, trusting that everyone who reads here will only recall the lies they repeat ad nauseam and who they keep trying to nail them to, because, why?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 17, 2022 5:01 pm

You’re not drowning it, though the thing will rip your face off on the way down.

Grigs tried to skin one once.

Apparently…

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 17, 2022 5:01 pm

Everything – every single thing* – in nature survives and/or thrives by killing other things, developing protection mechanisms against being killed and eaten, eating other things and reproducing better than similar organisms.

Nature – who/what can I eat? – Who/what is trying to eat me? – who/what can I screw?

Pogria
Pogria
February 17, 2022 5:02 pm

No mention of moi?
I coulda been the champion!
*snif*
(dabs eyes with semi rancid old hankie, promises to do better.)

Winston, if you like, I’ll smack you around a little.

I will even provide the lounge wear, so you can be comfortable, while I am smacking you. 😀

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 17, 2022 5:02 pm

Ms Chant in a G-string, she looks like she hasn’t shaved for a month, imagine what the welcome mat looks like. Tatty carpet?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 17, 2022 5:03 pm

She contends (and she’s serious)

What can you do about these people? More impervious than tungsten plate armour. There’s a lot of them too.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 17, 2022 5:04 pm

hee hee, this clown talks about destroying good will, AT me, NOT the person I quoted.

So what, srr?

The same went for Twostix.

The pair of you keep trying to pump up that stooge’s tyres for reasons unknown, and best left that way.

My question to you, dear tyre-fluffer for the Mighty Road Warrior-Troubadour, remains.

Have you stood, and (if necessary) fallen for Australia, Mrs Faulty?

Or have you not eaten enough pizza?

(Your pitiful attempt at snark in response to the question very strongly appears to favour the latter…)

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 17, 2022 5:04 pm

Hanson will lose her seat this time and PHON will join The Greens on the scrap heap.
The only way Albo can win is if there’s a Postal Vote Only Election, in which case it will be stolen.

Delta A
Delta A
February 17, 2022 5:04 pm

Teh webs also tell me that one in five blokes believe they can win a fight with a chimpanzee. Those blokes are kidding themselves.

Barry been smacking you around again?

Delta A
Delta A
February 17, 2022 5:05 pm

Oh sorry, I forgot. Barry is a gibbon, right?

Pogria
Pogria
February 17, 2022 5:07 pm

Ms Chant in a G-string, she looks like she hasn’t shaved for a month, imagine what the welcome mat looks like. Tatty carpet?

The Dairy floor after morning milking.

Dear God, please don’t bend over!!!

rosie
rosie
February 17, 2022 5:07 pm

Can I just say it’s not my fourth European Tour but I think, my sixteenth or seventeenth. Hard to keep track.
And I’m planning to continue to take them on an annual basis as long as I can. Though at some point I’m going to go twice, to make up for my missed trip.

The beggars in Italy looked the same as they always have, and about as numerous.
No one cares about vaccination status in Spain, Spain never had a vaccine mandate and the wait staff tolerate tourists, they keep them employed .

But whatever happens anywhere in the world it’ll be my fault. Guaranteed.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 17, 2022 5:07 pm

Pete of Perth freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose. The only way to get freedom back is by the pointy end of a gun.

JC
JC
February 17, 2022 5:09 pm

Mr Ed

No kidding, before you come on here posting comments, do you spend the morning thinking up what would the most stupid, ridiculous comment you can make and then post shit here in the arvos. And you do this to annoy people?

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 17, 2022 5:09 pm

Logan City Council have announced a Vax Mandate for all workers and Contractors.
Also heard of another 15 year old, double vaxed, now got Myocarditis.

Frank
Frank
February 17, 2022 5:10 pm

Seems appropriate and topical given that it so closely mirrors the language and thoughts expressed here sometimes.

Noted in Passing: The Tardocracy and Their Digital Virus by Moldbug

Who flourishes in such environments? The mentally weak. If you’ve ever interacted with Downs Syndromes you will know their dull Mongoloid rule adherence. We live in a world where mongs in high-viz jackets and “I’M VACCINATED!” stickers rule over the non-chromosomal challenged.

Our current rulers. Mentally retarded epsilons who can barely even articulate “CAN I SEE YOUR VACCINATION PASS PLEASE DURRRR” and who by design cannot see beyond a narrow set of mong processes. Tardocracy. Your yellow-jacketed high-visibility masters. Fuck this gay earth.

Them’s fightin’ words, almost.

Zatara
Zatara
February 17, 2022 5:11 pm

Teh webs also tell me that one in five blokes believe they can win a fight with a chimpanzee.

It’s an even tougher fight when you are an imbecile.

Frank
Frank
February 17, 2022 5:12 pm

Speaking of tards, shouldn’t we be picketing the ABC to sack all the honkies so that the BIPOCs can have their jobs, in the name of equity and social justice.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 17, 2022 5:14 pm

Ukraine news live: Russia claims Kiev has shelled rebel territory in breach of ceasefire

Russian backed rebels have said Ukraine over meant forces have fired mortar shells in four locations on the territory held by them on Thursday , according to reports from Kremlin.

The Ukrainians used mortars, grenade launchers and a machine gun by the representatives of the would-be breakaway territory — the Luhansk People’s Republic, the rebels from Russian side alleged.

Seems an unnecessarily provocative thing for Kiev to have done, considering half the Russian army is warmed up and waiting on the border.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 17, 2022 5:15 pm

That was a baby chimp only a few moths old.
An adult male stands 5 feet tall, weighs 180 pounds, will rip your nuts off for a start and then tear your face off with his teeth.

Gilas
Gilas
February 17, 2022 5:16 pm

sfw says:
February 17, 2022 at 4:12 pm

If anyone here votes for the Coalition or Labor expecting anything to change from how they’ve acted over the past twenty years, you are a certifiable idiot.

Harsh, fair and 1000% true.

Someone here recently linked to some Yankee article discussing the amount of popular agreement, with general government policy, required to avoid revolution.. something like 95 or 99%.

But elections run on 51% majority rule, smoothing the road for abuses of power..
eg. Hitler won his chancellorship with only 37% of the vote in November 1932, and the rest is history.

With the tried and tested 2PP gerrymandering in Australia, SFLs and Liars get away with ruling with only 30-35% of primary votes, thus leading to Uniparty-like contempt for the stupid proles.

I used to tell people at work about the 29-30% actual support for the RGR train-wreck and how idiotic our electoral system is… blank looks and zero understanding to a man/woman present.. NFI!

Yes, we’re fucked.

Zatara
Zatara
February 17, 2022 5:17 pm

Canada’s Major Banks are Now Reported to Be ‘All Offline’ After Trudeau’s Emergency Order to ‘Freeze’ Freedom Convoy’s Accounts

“Canada’s largest banks are all offline,” Rebel News editor Ezra Levant reported. “Royal Bank, BMO Bank of Montreal, CIBC Bank.”

“Did Trudeau try to hack into their databases?” Levant asked. “Did the U.S. hack them first, to stop it? What could cause all three to crash on the same day — hours after Trudeau’s expropriation order?”

TD Canada Trust and Scotiabank were also reported to be “offline.”

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
February 17, 2022 5:19 pm

Animal and plant life is sacred, but we desperately need to start culling humans.

Of course she means other people and not herself. With a misanthropic attitude like that we should be well aware that what happened in Europe in the 1940s could well happen again, here.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 17, 2022 5:19 pm

Moscow: Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine have accused government forces on Thursday of opening fire on their territory four times in the last 24 hours and said they were trying to establish if anyone had been hurt or killed.

SMH – apparently via Reuters.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 17, 2022 5:19 pm

People aren’t voting Labor in timers of uncertainty, such as Right Now!
The main game is blasting Scotty out, he’s the only person stopping a
Federal Government blanket Vax Mandate.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 17, 2022 5:22 pm

Ms Chant in a G-string

She’s on a WEB. So you just might get the photo if you find the right beach.

NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant to take three weeks of annual leave as remaining COVID-19 rules are scrapped (Sky News, 17 Feb)

Winston Smith
February 17, 2022 5:23 pm

Humphrey B Bear:

I think the Revenue from interState sales will overcome any love Pony Girl has for the Queensland proles.

Said proles will get the shits when they suffer blackouts to power people who shut down their own power stations.
I’d be looking at security for those Interconnecters were I you, Pony girl.
The proles will get cranky as hell when the freezer defrosts $400 worth of Paddle Pops.

miltonf
miltonf
February 17, 2022 5:25 pm

Of course she means other people and not herself. With a misanthropic attitude like that we should be well aware that what happened in Europe in the 1940s could well happen again, here.

Yes sacrifice is always for other people particularly other classes. IMO the push for abortion on demand was very much a result of this mindset whether or not its proponents would admit it or not. What a vile psycho bitch- sounds like a pubic serpent or wackademic. To paraphrase 1984 of course the proles aren’t really people anyway.

Razey
Razey
February 17, 2022 5:25 pm

twostixsays:
February 17, 2022 at 4:14 pm
Fuck this is dumb.

Hotel quarantine for unvaccinated travellers slashed to seven days in NSW and Victoria

We must continue to be punished so that Omicron spewing covid karen vaxxies don’t feel like they did something unnecessary.

From my understanding the borders are open and no-one is checking anything.

calli
calli
February 17, 2022 5:26 pm

NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant to take three weeks of annual leave as remaining COVID-19 rules are scrapped (Sky News, 17 Feb)

Otherwise known as a “quick getaway”.

My distain for this creep just rose a notch or ten.

calli
calli
February 17, 2022 5:27 pm

Lol. Apt typo.

Distain for a stain.

rosie
rosie
February 17, 2022 5:27 pm

You know, it might come as a shock to some people here but it could be that many, even most people don’t have a problem with getting vaccinated, got vaccinated with their eyes wide open regarding vaccine side effects and don’t spend their days ranting and raving about nwo and great resets.
And unlike Australians most people in Italy, France and Spain, as well as no doubt anyone anywhere except Australia (and New Zealand) have had the unwanted experience of knowing one to many people who’ve been very sick or died with or from covid.
And now covid has mutated to a mostly mild variant and people, quite rightly want an end, and they are getting that.
For the spluttering hobgoblins, this is no doubt, a sad disappointment.

Razey
Razey
February 17, 2022 5:30 pm

rosiesays:
February 17, 2022 at 5:27 pm
You know, it might come as a shock to some people here but it could be that many, even most people don’t have a problem with getting vaccinated, got vaccinated with their eyes wide open regarding vaccine side effects and don’t spend their days ranting and raving about nwo and great resets.
And unlike Australians most people in Italy, France and Spain, as well as no doubt anyone anywhere except Australia (and New Zealand) have had the unwanted experience of knowing one to many people who’ve been very sick or died with or from covid.
And now covid has mutated to a mostly mild variant and people, quite rightly want an end, and they are getting that.
For the spluttering hobgoblins, this is no doubt, a sad disappointment.

Nobody here cares if you have poisoned yourself or not. Your body your choice.

JUST DONT FUKN MANDATE IT!

This is not rocket science.

miltonf
miltonf
February 17, 2022 5:31 pm

I got vaccinated and I have a problem with it- I was bullied and blackmailed into having something injected into me I did not want. It also made me very ill.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 17, 2022 5:31 pm

The only people getting vaccinated are fools, teenage girls and people with no Rights in Nursing homes.

Vicki
Vicki
February 17, 2022 5:32 pm

For two years #Tyranny has ridden on a wave of Covid. That pretext is no longer viable nor necessary. Tyranny is now forging ahead under its own power. If you’re still preoccupied with Covid, it’s time to shift focus. This is far more dangerous.

Bret Weinstein has tweeted this in the last 24 hours, as he contemplates, like all of us, the closure of private bank accounts and other measures of tyranny in Canada.

Winston Smith
February 17, 2022 5:32 pm

Feelthebern:

NSW announces major COVID rule changes

We should not be satisfied with this until the legislation allowing it is burnt on the biggest pile of masks we can gather.
If we don’t destroy the legislation, it will just be used again.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 17, 2022 5:33 pm

You know, it might come as a shock to some people here but it could be that many, even most people don’t have a problem with getting vaccinated

Until afterwards. My old mum is currently suffering after the booster, which she had last Thursday.

Russian roulette is painless.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 17, 2022 5:35 pm

Big Biz is mandating The Vax and BigUnion and FairWorkAustralia are rubberStamping the Mandate.
Anyone who thinks Labor aren’t sinking like a stone at the moment needs to watch Parliament’s Question Time.
They’ve given up.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 17, 2022 5:35 pm

And my old dad looked like he was experiencing myo when I saw him a couple weeks ago, his booster was a week before. Chest pains. He waved it off. I told him see his GP and ask about heart inflammation.

These vax nazis need to be held to account.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 17, 2022 5:36 pm

Who like flake and chips.

I’m a big fan.
Sadly it’s getting harder to find. My local chippie has stopped serving it; they tell me demand has dropped off because nobody is fooled by the bland marketing name any more.

Bruce in WA
February 17, 2022 5:37 pm

Of course she means other people and not herself. With a misanthropic attitude like that we should be well aware that what happened in Europe in the 1940s could well happen again, here.

Actually, she would be perfectly happy to be “put down” to save the animals and the planet. Perfectly happy.

Gilas
Gilas
February 17, 2022 5:37 pm

Vicki says:
February 17, 2022 at 5:32 pm

For two years #Tyranny has ridden on a wave of Covid. That pretext is no longer viable nor necessary. Tyranny is now forging ahead under its own power. If you’re still preoccupied with Covid, it’s time to shift focus. This is far more dangerous.

Bret Weinstein has tweeted this in the last 24 hours

Bret isn’t stupid, although his TDS caused widespread neuronal short-circuiting in 2020.
Once again, the Cat was Light-Years ahead of the curve.

Razey
Razey
February 17, 2022 5:38 pm

Ed Casesays:
February 17, 2022 at 5:35 pm
Big Biz is mandating The Vax and BigUnion and FairWorkAustralia are rubberStamping the Mandate.
Anyone who thinks Labor aren’t sinking like a stone at the moment needs to watch Parliament’s Question Time.
They’ve given up.

Only until the ’emergency’ ends. No one is going to mandate it, as they will be sued when someone gets injured from these poisons.

Vicki
Vicki
February 17, 2022 5:39 pm

You know, it might come as a shock to some people here but it could be that many, even most people don’t have a problem with getting vaccinated, got vaccinated with their eyes wide open regarding vaccine side effects and don’t spend their days ranting and raving about nwo and great resets.

I am surprised to see you say that, Rosie. We are all very aware of the general opinion of the “vaccines” in Oz – that is very clear from two years of posts. The brilliance of the internet has also made apparent international opinion.

The “ranting and raving” that may take place here are genuine and pressing concerns about the astonishing transformation of the status of personal liberty that has occurred in such a short period in Australia and elsewhere in the western world.

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
February 17, 2022 5:39 pm

Actually, she would be perfectly happy to be “put down” to save the animals and the planet. Perfectly happy.

Nothing stopping her doing this to herself.

calli
calli
February 17, 2022 5:40 pm

You know, it might come as a shock to some people here but it could be that many, even most people don’t have a problem with getting vaccinated

I’m sure they don’t, otherwise there would have been a world wide revolt.

I have a problem with coercion. A big problem. Also with lying to make populations fearful.

I have a problem also with lockdowns, forced business closures and police thuggery. Also making people wear stupid masks on their faces, especially children.

This is more, much much more than vaccination. Well, what currently passes for vaccination. Which isn’t really but that’s another story.

Lysander
Lysander
February 17, 2022 5:41 pm

Russian backed rebels have said Ukraine over meant forces have fired mortar shells in four locations on the territory held by them on Thursday , according to reports from Kremlin.

And this is how it starts. Ukraine on a public holiday in defiance of Russia today… still early there but most predictions were that war would start today…

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 17, 2022 5:42 pm

This was followed by a declaration that if caught, the naughty shark would be tagged and ‘taken further out to sea’.

Read some years ago about a croc tagged near Darwin. It was tracked as far away as north of Timor.

twostix
twostix
February 17, 2022 5:42 pm

rosiesays:
February 17, 2022 at 5:27 pm
You know, it might come as a shock to some people here but it could be that many, even most people don’t have a problem with getting vaccinated, got vaccinated with their eyes wide open regarding vaccine side effects and don’t spend their days ranting and raving about nwo and great resets.
And unlike Australians most people in Italy, France and Spain, as well as no doubt anyone anywhere except Australia (and New Zealand) have had the unwanted experience of knowing one to many people who’ve been very sick or died with or from covid.
And now covid has mutated to a mostly mild variant and people, quite rightly want an end, and they are getting that.
For the spluttering hobgoblins, this is no doubt, a sad disappointment.

Ok karen.

Lysander
Lysander
February 17, 2022 5:44 pm

7,000 more Russian troops arrived in the last 24 hours…

Bruce in WA
February 17, 2022 5:44 pm

Something like this could just put a crimp in your entire day!

Frank
Frank
February 17, 2022 5:45 pm

Ms Chant in a G-string

Is there anything that needs to be inferred from the honorific.

Razey
Razey
February 17, 2022 5:46 pm

Bruce in WAsays:
February 17, 2022 at 5:44 pm
Something like this could just put a crimp in your entire day!

Took off like the Hunchback’s vaccine economy.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 17, 2022 5:48 pm

The only people getting vaccinated are fools, teenage girls and people with no Rights in Nursing homes.

And Grigory.

rickw
rickw
February 17, 2022 5:50 pm

You know, it might come as a shock to some people here but it could be that many, even most people don’t have a problem with getting vaccinated

If it’s their choice and their choice alone then there’s nothing wrong with that you bloody Mong!

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 17, 2022 5:50 pm

Only until the ’emergency’ ends. No one is going to mandate it, as they will be sued when someone gets injured from these poisons.

Read yesterday’s The Australian.
Bega Dairy were taken to FairWork over their Vax Mandate, the Mandate was upheld.
Today, BHP have sacked or let go 100 blokes in QLD, no contractors are allowed on site without being up to date.
CFMEU [Mining Division] says

No worries, BHP

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 17, 2022 5:51 pm

Bruce in WA

Humans are alien to this planet because every other form of life gives back something to the planet while we only take from the planet.

Perhaps she should lead by example. Is she married/partnered? With him/her/zer, and any unfortunates they might have spawned.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
February 17, 2022 5:53 pm

I know there are Powerline blog and Week in Pictures fans here.

Seems to be a big blow up over there between main posters. The Chutzpah thread of 13 February explains a lot of it.

Seems WIP safe for now.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 17, 2022 5:53 pm

Oh sorry, I forgot. Barry is a gibbon, right?

Oh. Migod. OMFG.

Barry is a lemur, Delta. A. Lemur.

Don’t let him hear you say that. He gets angry enough as it is, although I’m sure it is my fault on some level.

If only I had made the bed earlier, or put his favourite Wednesday dressing gown out before he got back from poker, instead of after he got home which made him ask for it. Then I walked into a cupboard.

rickw
rickw
February 17, 2022 5:56 pm

Bret Weinstein has tweeted this in the last 24 hours, as he contemplates, like all of us, the closure of private bank accounts and other measures of tyranny in Canada.

Canada’s getting pretty close to that point where the shooting starts and suddenly the fucking politicians and police realise how badly outnumbered and outgunned they are.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 17, 2022 5:58 pm

Oh sorry, I forgot. Barry is a gibbon, right?

LEMUR, Delta.

Barry is a lemur.

Gibbons are funky.

Lemurs are…um…interesting.

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 17, 2022 6:00 pm

Shameless plug for new book….

(From Big Sky Publishing…) Aviation Museum needs government funding for air-con, says Historian

One of the nation’s leading military historians has called on the federal and Northern Territory governments to fund the air-conditioning of an aviation museum – to best preserve the first enemy fighter shot down over Australian soil.

Australia Remembers 4: the Bombing of Darwin (Big Sky Publishing) is being launched by Brian Winspear, 101 year old RAAF veteran of the first air raid, at the Darwin Aviation Museum, on 17 February.

Author Dr Tom Lewis OAM said:

“This world-class museum houses not only the fantastic B-52, an F-111, and many more fascinating aircraft, but it’s home to the remains of one of the first Zero fighters shot down in World War II. It was an intelligence bonanza for the Allies, but not only that – it was flown by the first Japanese prisoner taken in The Australian region; Hajime Toyoshima, who went on to be one of the leaders of the Cowra Prisoner Of War breakout. This unique piece of history should be housed in air-conditioning to preserve it for future generations, and I call on the Territory and Federal Governments to make that a reality by jointly funding the project.”

Brian was a Hudson bomber air gunner. He was in the last Hudson out of the islands of what’s now Indonesia and Timor in the north, landing very much overloaded with our people fleeing the advancing Japanese. Six hours after landing at 4am on 19 February 1942 he was under attack at the Darwin airfields.

Dr Lewis’s book is aimed especially at upper primary and lower secondary school students. It is in full colour, and features “Did you know?” boxes; “Curious Facts” and a range of activities.

Another WWII veteran commented on the work. The Honourable Austin Asche AC QC is a former Administrator of the Northern Territory of Australia and was the third Chief Justice of the Territory’s Supreme Court. He served in radar units in the Royal Australian Air Force in World War II. Austin said:

“This is a detailed and carefully researched account of enemy attacks on Australian territory during the Second World War. The theme is clearly presented with appropriate maps, pictures and commentary. It should be read by every Australian.”

Dr Lewis’s book is available in numerous bookstores and online from Big Sky Publishing.

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 17, 2022 6:01 pm

Should be subtitled: “The book to educate your children and grandchildren about the history they don’t learn enough of in our schools.”

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 17, 2022 6:01 pm

Today, BHP have sacked or let go 100 blokes in QLD, no contractors are allowed on site without being up to date.
CFMEU [Mining Division] says

No worries, BHP

Show the Court on the Supermarket where the nasty union man fondled your avocados, Grigory…

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 17, 2022 6:04 pm

IMO the push for abortion on demand was very much a result of this mindset whether or not its proponents would admit it or not.

The original proponents of abortion were keen eugenicists, who wanted (to borrow a phrase) to reduce what they regarded as “lives unworthy of life”. Iirc, not many years before her death, the sainted RBG hinted strongly that blacks remained a prime target group.

Tom
Tom
February 17, 2022 6:04 pm

Coopers Sparkling Ale, in a can. Gods nectar.

Used to swear by it when I lived in Adelaide in a previous life. But it’s not as good as the recently invented Coopers Mild/Mid-strength with 3.5-4% alc/vol versus around 6% for Sparkling Ale, which gets you poo-faced after two or three stubbies.

Cooper Mid/Mild is so good even sheilias can enjoy it.

Delta A
Delta A
February 17, 2022 6:05 pm

Barry is a lemur, Delta. A. Lemur.

Inebriated, slutty squirrel meets randy racoon. Result: one lemur.

twostix
twostix
February 17, 2022 6:05 pm

We’re in this entire mess because selfish old woman individuals like notafan, personally, spent 2020 and 2021 – herself personally and relentlessly posting tens of thousands of soporific shit-posts crowding out and chloroforming any attempt to get people to see what everyone – even 2GB, is

finally getting two years later. As she was cosily locked in solitary confinement by her Victorian ruling overlord for six months, it was page after page after page of her and a couple of dimwit side kicks smugly abusing and mocking people who were sounding the alarm: this is political and needs a political response.

From the corrupt statistics out of Italy, then everywhere that she spent months defending and mocking as “conspiracy theorists” anyone who pointed out the obvious that they were counting people dying “with” as dying “from” covid, to the “masks” that she mocked as “nothing much”, to the vaccine passports that she mocked as a conspiracy theory, to the exile of young healthy people from society that she said we (not her!) should be “happy to go suffer, if we have principles”.

She now openly mocks people, us, who are right now viciously banned from hospitals and jobs and doctors and social life and have borne the brunt of the most vicious campaign of Hate against a group in our society since the world wars….while she – an old fucking covid karen boomer, swans around Italy and France flashing her vaccine passport that this exact time last year she mocked as “hysterical” people who pointed out that obvious: we were going to have a regime of vaccine passports that would ban us from life.

I correctly predicted last year that we’d have a situation where the Notafan’s of the world would start galavanting around the world and young people they locked up in 2020 would be left to rot in this New Normal system. And guess who was there mocking and throwing a self righteous temper tantrum saying that would never happen.

Just the worst person ever.

twostix
twostix
February 17, 2022 6:06 pm

Fuck off blockquote!

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 17, 2022 6:08 pm

Iirc, not many years before her death, the sainted RBG hinted strongly that blacks remained a prime target group.

When do you reckon she died, then, because that comment dates back at least 30 years.
You’d be on firmer ground if you’d said that Ginsberg never employed a black staffer during her 65+ years on the Public teat.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 17, 2022 6:09 pm

Bruce in WA

Actually, she would be perfectly happy to be “put down” to save the animals and the planet. Perfectly happy.

Why doesn’t she take the initiative herself? Possibly because she is contemplating a theoretical concept, not actual action.

rickw
rickw
February 17, 2022 6:10 pm

Ms Chant in a G-string

Please stop posting this sentence. There’s only so many times you can scroll past this before it starts working on you mental imagery and you inevitably throw up.

johanna
johanna
February 17, 2022 6:10 pm

As a diehard fan of traditional Brit (and good US) mystery shows and movies, I am finding it harder and harder to discover anything rewarding. Almost every single one since about the 1980s has a villanous property developer or promoter of gene technology or exploiter of refugees or chemical company or drug company or some other corporation as the baddies.

In every one of them, somebody makes an impassioned speech about how seeking profit is bad, inequality is bad, and we all need to fight against it.

Apart from the obvious ideological overtones, it is really boring. You know from the start who is who and what is going to happen.

No wonder I am looking more and more at older fillums, which allow for a bit of ambiguity.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 17, 2022 6:10 pm

Rosie/Karen.

You are happy with bodily autonomy being ceded for rational, sane people on government say so?

Less than 5 years to go from this.

Human Rights Commissioner: Bodily autonomy is basic human right
(a report on intersex children. Ie: those kids born what used to be called hermaphrodite, and the position is sound I think)

To this shit.
COVID-19 reports
The Commission has developed reports on COVID-19 human rights related issues, including:

Management of COVID-19 risks in immigration detention (2021)
Guidelines on the rights of people with disability in health and disability care during COVID-19
Impacts of COVID-19 on children and young people who contact Kids Helpline.
Our usual work continues
The Commission has also continued its usual work throughout COVID-19, with several major projects, including:

an Independent Review into Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplaces
an independent review of Gymnastics in Australia
the Human Rights and Technology final report
developing a National Anti-Racism Framework
a nationwide elder abuse awareness campaign.

When they declare ‘climate emergency” and backdate penalties for anyone outside the “essential” having flown you will be fine with that because daddy government says so.

rickw
rickw
February 17, 2022 6:14 pm

Hajime Toyoshima, who went on to be one of the leaders of the Cowra Prisoner Of War breakout.

Was he the bloke that was over 6’ tall?

Not Uh oh
Not Uh oh
February 17, 2022 6:16 pm

NBN Chanel 9 reporting on the Eraring closure. Much concern over the loss of jobs; nil concern over the loss of electricity. I guess reality will hit one day, but not just yet.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 17, 2022 6:17 pm

I’m thinking it might be fun to patrol offshore of our beaches with fixed wing drones. When a shark is found drop small depth charges on them.

This would be a job people would pay to be allowed to do.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 17, 2022 6:18 pm

Dick Ed

When do you reckon she died, then, because that comment dates back at least 30 years.

You must be very young and naive Dick. Compared to her age at death, 30 years is not long.

bons
bons
February 17, 2022 6:23 pm

The reports of Trudeau’s threat to seize kids have to be bulltish.
Don’t they??

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 17, 2022 6:23 pm

The Chappell brothers.
Pie floaters.
The Jarman brothers.
Kochie.
Bodies in barrels.
Don Dunstan.
The Beaumont children.
The misnaming of potato cakes.

Adelaide Airport.
West End Draught.
Natasha Stott Despoja.
Port Pirie.
Mike Rann.
The inability to obtain a pizza on a Tuesday.
Stephen Kernahan.

Yes.
A very ordinary town seven days a week.
But particularly drab on Tuesdays.

rickw
rickw
February 17, 2022 6:23 pm

I’m thinking it might be fun to patrol offshore of our beaches with fixed wing drones. When a shark is found drop small depth charges on them.

This would be a job people would pay to be allowed to do.

The drones are scale Grumman Avengers! You have a choice of torpedo or depth charge.

Delta A
Delta A
February 17, 2022 6:24 pm

Apart from the obvious ideological overtones, it is really boring. You know from the start who is who and what is going to happen.

Have to admit, this isn’t always the case for me.

16 yo granddaughter loves murder/mysteries and we binge on Midsomer or similar whenever she has a sleepover. She always picks the villain and although she’s kind enough to high five when all is exposed, as though we sussed it out together, my success score is still nil.

But the rest of your comment is accurate: too many shows degenerate into lefty BS – looking at you, old Barnaby – which makes them unwatchable.

Thank goodness for Poiret!

Gilas
Gilas
February 17, 2022 6:25 pm

Lysander says:
February 17, 2022 at 5:41 pm

Russian backed rebels have said Ukraine over meant forces have fired mortar shells in four locations on the territory held by them on Thursday , according to reports from Kremlin.

And this is how it starts. Ukraine on a public holiday in defiance of Russia today… still early there but most predictions were that war would start today…

Has no one tweaked that in this age of ubiquitous mobiles and kitty videos, not a single sausage of real evidence exists?
The Ukrainian President reporting no evidence of Russian troops build-up..
No chance of military success by Putin, if he were to try a conventional arms invasion, for he’s not stupid, or dementing. Forget the nuclear option.

So why would anyone believe the putrid, lying MSM and the putrid, lying Bidet WH?
All the MSM ever does is fear porn. Their business model desperately relies on it, and the mugs still believe this unadulterated BS, because archi-encephalon.

I’ll make a prediction on a long, distant limb:

There will be no invasion of Ukraine, while we are being told by scummy MSM that there will be.
There will be no invasion of Taiwan, same proviso.

If any of these events occur, it won’t be under the current political climate.

duncanm
duncanm
February 17, 2022 6:28 pm

oops.. unfortunate programming.

Jaws on the idiot box tonight in Sydney.

Cassie of Sydney
February 17, 2022 6:33 pm

“There will be no invasion of Ukraine, while we are being told by scummy MSM that there will be.

Correct.

There will be no invasion of Taiwan, same proviso.

Wrong. China will invade Taiwan.

Delta A
Delta A
February 17, 2022 6:35 pm

Wrong. China will invade Taiwan.

Cassie, dear, I much prefer Gilas’ predictions.

Anchor What
Anchor What
February 17, 2022 6:35 pm

NSW Libs back federal intervention.
We’re not as bad as Victoristan, but factional foolery has taken its toll.

Lysander
Lysander
February 17, 2022 6:37 pm

I tend to agree with Cassie than Gilas… China already “tried it on” when claiming US troops in Taiwan was an invasion of their lands… I trust Putin more than XingPung.

Cassie of Sydney
February 17, 2022 6:38 pm

“Delta Asays:
February 17, 2022 at 6:35 pm
Wrong. China will invade Taiwan.

Cassie, dear, I much prefer Gilas’ predictions.”

I am a “Cassandra”!

miltonf
miltonf
February 17, 2022 6:40 pm

The US has become so divided and weakened with a marxist/mafia government essentially owned by the ChiComs. So I wouldn’t put it past the CCP to have a go at Taiwan. All those chip factories.

miltonf
miltonf
February 17, 2022 6:41 pm

The American government is anti American.

Cassie of Sydney
February 17, 2022 6:41 pm

“Lysandersays:
February 17, 2022 at 6:37 pm
I tend to agree with Cassie than Gilas… China already “tried it on” when claiming US troops in Taiwan was an invasion of their lands… I trust Putin more than XingPung.”

If Putin sends his army into the Ukraine, the sanctions will hit Russia hard.
When China sends its army into Taiwan, it won’t be subjected to any sanctions….China rules the globe. China faced zero opprobrium for the virus that it sent out to the world.

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