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Interesting. What are those things on the two chests? Looks like Mr Squiggle wants to turn them upside down Miss…
Skeletor?
Same here, front wheel just over line, got a ticket. Darwin,.
A Kuwait-born man released from immigration detention after a landmark High Court ruling has secured bail despite allegedly repeatedly breaching…
On another note – remember the deluge of ‘Terry from Beaurepaires’ Army Reserve types who, about eighteen months ago, spent their days insinuating to friends and employers that they’d received letters in the mail to be on standby for secret missions, about which they ‘couldn’t say too much’?
Well, here’s one of them (the Hun):
The LDH people contacted Wittman to say his cat was there, and made an appointment for him to pick it up the following day. But no:
Then, a ‘tactical approach’:
Then he turned out to be one of those blokes:
Six years on top he got. Eligible for parole in roughly two, taking into account time served on remand.
Enjoy your jail time, Tony/Terry. Without your fucking cat, you piece of shit.
And? I’m sure the EU would stump up relocation expenses.
Has anyone learned the lesson of history yet? Bueller? Anyone?
So when is Russia giving back Kaliningrad?
According to our “leaders”:
Freedom protestors bravely battling against an duly elected government.
Crypto terrorists threatening the very fabric of democracy itself.
Just had a phone call from the ATO. I’m being charged with “tax avoidation” [sic].
That’d be your Nigerian tax agents on the blower there Bruce. Careful, those blokes don’t do refunds.
“We must “all look the same” to some people.”
Te he – got my old boss with that one.
His parents are both Chinese, but he was born in Un Zud (someone clearly Chinese with a Kiwi accent is just – wrong! Something I told him and he agreed, BTW)
He walked in as the rest of us were giving one of the support team a hard time for making a mistake and said “Don’t let these round eyes give you a hard time, Billy”.
My reply was “Don’t be so racist Rick – you know all you kiwi’s look the same to me”.
He tried so very hard not to laugh and to come up with a reply, but ended up saying “OK, you got me with that one.”
Can’t the Oz just do us all a favour and hurry up and die.
The idiot (the daupine) moved too fast and too hard, he has flicked off the ambivalent constituents.
Hope so.
Even if so, without a recall mechanism they’re stuck with him for another 4 1/2 years.
And yet he has nothing to say about Turdeau’s takeover of the civil rights of Canadians. Does this mean that he would be OK with freezing the bank accounts of recalcitrant Australians as well?
Probably he doesn’t have a strong opinion either way, but will produce one if circumstances require it, shaped by those circumstances.
Government by jellyfish is the new normal.
Oh, and Karl Rove. Next they’ll be disinterring Jimmy Carter’s campaign director.
Why lefties keep complaining about the Murdoch press is a mystery.
Maybe someone could ask Albo that question Johanna.
I’d be intensely interested in his reply.
The ALP belongs to the same international alliance of social democratic parties as the Canadian NDP which is Trudeau’s enabler.
Birds of a feather…
1948 Kalingrad vs 2022 Ukraine.
Yeah I don’t think you want to do that dot, wont end well.
Oh, no! I accidentally reported Dover’s 12:17 pm praise of twostix’s Uke analysis. Big apology to both.
Lotocoti:
Snork.
Thankyou – you’ve lightened up my day considerably.
“It has always been German!”
No, that doesn’t fly does it?
https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2022/02/24/where-have-russian-attacks-taken-place-in-ukraine
I didn’t realise that the attacks have already been so widespread across Ukraine.
You can’t discount the Hunter/Joe Ukraine connection and whatever they’ve been up to there before Creepy stole the Whitehouse.
I think (IMHO), since then the US/NATO have been pulling the strings of Ukraine, making friends, doing deals and planting military assets there against the ebil Russia (yes, to some extent it is ebil). But I think US/NATO have overreached.
I’ll add another telly ad trope to the casting directives- the stiff white v the funky dusky.
Case in point: Natural Confectionary Co.
During the First World War – the one where the French never surrendered – they had the highest casualty rate of the victorious Powers – seventy percent of all French soldiers mobilized were killed, wounded or taken prisoner. Perhaps they might not be too keen on any rematch?
Here’s another potential explanation for Russia’s actions
Louis CK is in Kiev & his shows will go on as planned.
Maybe this will be his great uncancelling.
Feelthebern:
You’re a sneaky bugger, aren’t you?
🙂
In case anyone missed it:
Highlight the link and paste it in – it’s a corker!
Send it to your friends and especially your enemies.
They’re illiterate, so hopefully they’re also innumerate.
Unless it is a scam.
Good luck, Bruce.
I suspect that may be Russian disinformation, Indo.
Anyone who is game can explain Putin’s war aims.
A range of ideas springs to mind, from NATO unjustly provoking Russia, revanchist imperialism and a desire to Russify the Ukraine , a desire to make Ukraine a buffer once more, the goal of instilling discipline on militias, defending Russians or simply teaching the internationalist a lesson.
So is the incursion from Belarus just of tactical value?
Dover Beach:
I understood the Russian border was moved west by about 500 Km, and the Ukrainian border with Poland was also moved west by about the same amount.
Look, I could be wrong but it doesn’t make sense that the USSR would voluntarily give up land to a people they despised.
I’m surprised they’d phone, Bruce. Sounds like something from a backyard call centre in Mumbai.
The usual MO is to write requesting an appointment to go over a few things
I think you’re safe.
In Ukraine in 2014 there was a violent revolution – formented and backed wholly by the EU and Obama regime, against the duly elected but “corrupt” Ukraine president.
Never mentioned, and apropos of the Biden connection, was that president’s opposition in the election that he won (the “good guys”):
One third of the gas industry? 120 billion pounds looted by the pro EU leaders?? Gee, I wonder what the US Democrat’s interest in Ukraine is and how Hunter Biden and thousands of others like him ended up with boardroom “jobs” in the Ukraine “energy” industry post revolution when these people all came flooding back into power.
Indolent… very interesting!
Something has sparked Putin’s rage. Why is nobody covering what it is?
That’s not to say the ATO is run from a backyard call centre in Mumbai.
Anything’s possible. 😛
I know.
The first time I heard Emerson Fittipaldi (F1 driver) interviewed, my brain circuits went haywire. There was this Itie chap speaking in a broad Scottish accent. Then there is Peter Capaldi, great actor, whose real voice is from Edinburgh.
I had no idea that there were so many Italians who migrated to chilly Scotland. Why? There must have been something seriously wrong at home to make that choice.
Bruce, enjoy some joy.
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In any case I guess covid19 is over then.
Except we’re still banned from “social” life and the states still have all the emergency powers in place and there was no reckoning what-so-ever anywhere in the world for any government that did this to its people.
Oh well, onto WW3.
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Of course not, Faulty 2.0.
Which is of course why you put up an entire wordwall, called me a Pro-EU/Clinton/obama/Biden et al Mobster propagandist, and then beclowned yourself with the last 5 words of your proclaimed rebuttal:
“The Communist International, also known as the Third International, was an international organization founded in 1919 that advocated world communism, headed by the Soviet Union.”
So, your own source demonstrates the Russia-derived Soviet Union ran and set the agendas an international organisation comprised of international communists. Not the other way round, as twostix claimed and you tried to defend.
#Splat!
A union of Belarus & Russia was proposed in Yeltsin’s day.
I would imagine it’s not off Putin’s agenda.
For the moment, though, the relationship provides him with a significant tactical advantage against Ukraine.
The official transcript of Putin’s speech in the UN Security Council
Strategic Theatre?
Look how powerless you lot are! I’ve just sacked Kyiv with almost no effort required, and not a single one of you lifted a finger for your precious Ukraine! Suck it, chumps! WOOOOOO!
Agility – Championship Final | ?Crufts 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CiIXGetCIw
Not range but calculation. Policy by means of war.
Stan Grant – yes, that one – has a good summary up at the ABC that I linked to this morning.
Pretty sure it was a scam, folks. Pre-recorded message; heavy sub-continent accent; illiterate. Not too worried 😀
Remember in the rush to condemn NATO, that it is the only practical, workable and desirable pan-European political organisation there.
The Visegrad 4 nations and many of the Baltic republics hate the EU and go out of their way to oppose and minimise its intrusions into their peoples’ lives.
But they religiously pay their dues, update their gear, contribute to the QRFs and run their exercises.
Hungry Bear on their doorstep or not…
I met a bloke once, looked ethnically Indian, Indian mother housekeeper married Polish refugee who had been shipped to some development project in Scotland. Spoke with a Scots public school accent, ie suppressed mountainside loud whisper like Bear Grylls. He’d let himself go a bit, but was UK karate champ in his teens. He was airing himself in Nice after his divorce from an ITV newsreader and shelving his financial placement agency, last time I checked in with him he was learning Russian and getting into multigenerational estate security.
I said gday because he was porky, tanned, wearing Ralph Lauren and standing next to a yacht within sight of Corsica, and I needed a cash job.
Never judge a book etc.
I’d love for the average boomercuck to ask the average Ukrainian nationalist who ran the USSR.
I don’t think you’d like their answer! LOL!
Sir Rocco Forte was a Glasgow Italian iirc.
Roger:
In Chinese owned factories in Italy.
Under Chinese owned brand names in Italy.
Protected by Italian Mafiosi Police and Political owned politicians.
What on earth are you on about now?
Och hoot mon bon journo.
there ya go. I’m multi-lingoed.
no from Bournemouth- delete last remark
Brain-dead Western meddling in Ukraine caused this. US double-dealing with post-Soviet Russia caused this.
Another slobby white bloke ad: Menu Log.
Also getting wise to the sub-agenda, which is normalizing stay-at-home obesity.
johanna
Why lefties keep complaining about the Murdoch press is a mystery.
They like to delude themselves that they are rebels against “The Man”.
There were Italian POWs in Scotland who decided to stay after WW2 was over
In clowncuck world 2022, the Soviet Union suddenly becomes a nationalist Russian blood and soil imperial empire. By Russians, for Russians!
Why not, everything else is completely retarded.
I’ll add another telly ad trope to the casting directives- the stiff white v the funky dusky.
Case in point: Natural Confectionary Co.
Have you seen the SubWay YouTube advert?
Rex Anger:
The only Cummins-powered freight locomotives in regular service are CBH’s CBH (very imaginative) class in WA, and the mechanically identical CM class run by leasing service RailFirst Asset Management. And those motors (basically high-speed Haul Truck motors attached to a generator instead of a transmission) do not use AdBlue.
Good to know. But how have we got to this point where Greenies, funded by Russia and China have been allowed to sabotage our transport infrastructure and hence, our national economy, to the point of near catastrophic failure?
Australia’s foreign affairs super-heavyweight Julie Bishop weighs in on the Russian invasion of Ukraine:
Thanks for that, Julie. But for your penetrating insight here, nobody would have realised Russia was a nuclear power.
And of course, because you can’t think of any logical reason why Russia might seize the Chernobyl site, there mustn’t be one.
Russians didn’t despise Ukrainians. The Communists enlarged the Ukraine to weaken Russia. The Soviet Republics were a divide and conquer strategy.
Interesting thing about Ukraine.
I am not Russian but have been travelling to the Ukraine (and Russia) for many years to feed my fascination with eastern Europe WW2 history and you could almost draw a ‘heat map’ of Russian language, sympathy and even yearning to rejoin, from east to west across the country.
Generally, cities on the far east side, such as Luhansk, Kharkiv and Donetsk are solidly Russian in outlook. That’s not completely uniform, but predominately. Crimea is virtually 100% Russian in every sense – Sevastopol in particular.
But, as you travel west, the attitude changes and is markedly pro-Ukrainian after crossing the Dniper river. On the western side of the river, many will only speak Ukrainian and refuse to acknowledge anything in Russian notwithstanding the languages are quite similar. In any case, by the time you get to Lviv on the far west side, it is 99% Ukrainian. (remembering the influence that the Polish language has that far west so their apparent incomprehension at Russian language may be legitimate).
Kyiv (Kiev) sits more-or-less in the northern middle of the country and seems to be about 65/35 split in favour of Ukraine having no more than a professional national relationship with Russia. Language is mixed but everybody ‘understands’ Russian even if they don’t want to speak it. Most people under 40 years old are near certain to be ‘fully Ukrainian’ and probably anti-Russian.
open season on white guys- capitalism embraces cultural marxism
Bruce – better give them your TFN and bank details anyway. Just to be sure.
Bruce! Say it isn’t so! I could hear you quaking in your boots across the continent. 😀
Would you believe the Chinese are also into canned Italian tomatoes in a big way?
They can even undercut Australian producers despite the logistics of exporting them half way ’round the world.
You Tube ads frequently stun me… but I haven’t worked out how to pause, replay, or search them up.
All I get is endless massages about mysterious parcels. And some film that I’m supposedly in.
The only ones I get. I have no friends.
“The capture of Chernobyl makes no sense unless Putin is trying to warn the world Russia is a nuclear power.”
Bishop wins the most retarded comment so far.
How do I get an endless massage?
I’m only interested in one comment from Julie Bishop.
An announcement of the repatriation of Dr Ken Elliot.
I blame that Pauline Hanson toon.
Trucks are better 😛
What a brilliant idea!
Yep, hitting ‘US’/Fauchi & Co’s Biolabs, makes sense.
If the vaccine is going to kill or sterilise all westerners, why would 6D genius Putin destroy those factories?
No srr, what you are proposing doesn’t make a lick of sense.
A Captain Obvious moment if ever there was one.
Cooroy – 1,000 ml since Tuesday
Pomona – more
Kin Kin – the gauge washed away but they got 400 plus overnight.
It probably won’t rain again until Christmas when the fires will start. Southern farmers probably won’t get enough for a season start.
The rain is so heavy here our porch is turning into a bird shelter.
Stupid place.
Knuckle Dragger says: February 25, 2022 at 1:52 pm
Without approving or endorsing his methods, I’m inclined to be sympathetic of his aim.
Having seen the council dogcatcher & dog pound in real life, it is almost certain this part can safely be filed under “total bullshit”:
ATO wouldn’t call you to tell you it was taking action against you, it would just do it. These are all scams.
I’ve been biking in the rain all week .. sounds silly, I know but the alternative is staying home and boredom .. pretty safe tho, as I’m sticking to the bike tracks so other than the odd road crossing and occasional flooding starting to get used to riding, soaked ….. LOL!
Brave Man, Shatterz! I gave up riding after Monday. When the Parramatta wharf went under, I knew I’d have to deal with mud and debris all week. I hate driving, though. It has been horrible all week. And because I’m not exercising, I feel like I’ve put on 5kg.
An announcement of the repatriation of Dr Ken Elliot.
https://ap.org.au/2021/10/02/jogging-the-memory-on-kidnap-victim-ken-elliott/
I hope he is repatriated.
BTW he had no real reason being there.
Let the Burkina Faso and Malians look after themselves.
I just can’t take seriously having Western governments talking about peace and security and a rules-based order after the last few decades.
Just what they need to ensure further capital flight and continued lack of confidence in their banking system.
Local Oaf:
You’ll hear all about it from Putin if the O’Biden/Harris Administration so much as squeaks about the invasion.
You’ll also hear about it from Zelenskyy if the O’Biden/Harris Administration so much as fails to squeak about the invasion.
All in all, this looks like being another foreign affairs disaster for the O’Biden/Harris Administration. I wonder if they will get to single digits in the next election? (assuming, of course, that the dodderer – in -chief allows one.)
Oh come on says:
February 25, 2022 at 3:17 pm
Australia’s foreign affairs super-heavyweight Julie Bishop weighs in on the Russian invasion of Ukraine:
“The capture of Chernobyl makes no sense unless Putin is trying to warn the world Russia is a nuclear power.”
I think we have today’s winner in the ‘Most Stupid Comment by an ex-Politician’ category.
Canada to revoke export permits for Russia-bound goods.
“No maple syrup for you!”
Once you’re wet you’re wet. I used to have the same approach to riding a motorbike in the wet. Provided it’s not cold, then all bets are off.
I sort of understand the ethnic fighting .
But I can’t help thinking that this Ukraine thing is also about whitey killing whitey & the anti Christian agenda, it suits the way the ‘elites’ think & the way they work.
“These are deeply disturbing times for the international community and for people everywhere who care about freedom and democracy,” Trudeau said.
I wonder if they will get to single digits in the next election?
just ‘fortify’ to the required level although there must be limits to the amount of electronic/paper ballots you can falsify
Roger says:
February 25, 2022 at 4:02 pm
“These are deeply disturbing times for the international community and for people everywhere who care about freedom and democracy,” Trudeau said.
Dripping with hypocrisy.
But why?
Scotland has its charms, but generally it is cold, windy and impoverished. In the post WWII period, Glasgow’s Gorbals were among the worst slums in the civilised world.
Perhaps those stayers had a few problems at home.
Whatever. Scots were lucky to get some good looks and olive skin into the gene pool, which was lacking in both.
These days they are adding Arabs and Africans to the gene pool, and if there are any positive results, they are hidden from view. There are plenty of negative ones, like crime and financial burdens on taxpayers.
The ruling Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) is a clone of Turdeau’s lot. They are mustard for ‘transgender rights’ and impose the woke agenda in schools from toddlers up. They see racism under every rock. Any attempt to start up a business must pass the ‘climate change’ test. And so on.
Meanwhile, the economy has gone to hell and they would be utterly broke except that for some reason the UK (England, really) pays for their ever increasing welfare bill.
Same goes for Wales.
No wonder the UK is a mess.
If you ask me, his lack of self-awareness is pathological.
He is presently the epitome of the narcissist-politician.
Get over yourself Rex Anger –
I didn’t single you out.
But do keep up the bad job of propaganda.
It’s like you’re trying to deny the bombing of London because there were no Nazi airports in the UK while in the same breath saying British Nazi didn’t hurt Brits.
I’m done with you, you inconsequential noise maker.
The same reason many Italian Prisoners of War wanted to stay in Australia after the war – Post – war Italy didn’t have much to offer its citizens? Some families are into their third generation – the grandchildren all have Australian accents as broad as any.
The Italian presence in Scotland predates WWII by 50 years.
Perhaps they couldn’t afford the fare to America.
It’s also possible that they paid the fare to America but ended up being dropped off in Scotland; not an uncommon ruse, apparently. Then, being resourceful and thrifty people, they made a go of it.
If you ask me, his lack of self-awareness is pathological.
He is presently the epitome of the narcissist-politician.
yes more proof that politics attracts psychopaths, narcissists and grifters.
It’s his softness, incompetence, smugness and general uselessness that I find particular off putting. Never had to work, never wanted for anything.
Zulu, I can see why wanting to stay in sunny Australia was an option. But Scotland?
Anyway, since everyone is suddenly an expert on geopolitics, thought I’d post this stirring reminder of why Mongolia will never be conquered.
h/t BoN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM8dCGIm6yc
Wolf Totem – The Hu
It’s his softness, incompetence, smugness and general uselessness that I find particular off putting. Never had to work, never wanted for anything.
of course that applies to most if not all of the political class in the west
Bruce O’Newk:
Yay, I don’t have to go to church any more! Which is really fortunate because last time they gave me a wife thingy. Not going again, they’ll prolly give me another one.
*tatatatap is this thing on?*
Stories from the Covid Front:
Monday – Off to the doc, made to sit in a spare room with the windows open because there was a baby in the waiting room. Then as I was called in to see the doc, he refused to shake my hand. The chair I was asked to sit in had been moved two meters away from the docs chair and a garbage bin put between us. Kept a straight face and pointedly asked if they’d been redecorating.
Wednesday – Off to fill up the Patrol, walked into the shop to pay and the young Indian bloke tries to wave me out because no mask. So I walked up to the counter and told him I was deaf and he needed to pull his mask down so I could understand what he was saying. He gave up at that point.
Today – Off to the chemist and the bloke chemist demands I put on a mask – he has known me for about four months, knows I have an exemption, but says I can’t come in without a mask. “Yes I can, and you know why.”
All while wearing my star/biohazard shirt and up yours too.
At no stage did I instigate any unpleasantness, just ignored the Kovid Kabuki Theatre.
I feel much better now.
Whatever. Scots were lucky to get some good looks and olive skin into the gene pool, which was lacking in both.
These days they are adding Arabs and Africans to the gene pool, and if there are any positive results, they are hidden from view. There are plenty of negative ones, like crime and financial burdens on taxpayers.
THE future for Scotland, like the rest of the Western world, is probably going to be Asian. The country will find itself swept up in the coming “Great Migration”. We will see a “brownification” of Scotland, as demographics and mass migration coalesce to change the complexion of the West.
Scotland’s political culture, with its pro-immigration slant, and our geography and natural resources, which see us well placed to withstand the climate crisis, will make us a magnet for a new generation of migrants set to reshape the 21st century.
Johanna, maybe lots of them didn’t want to go to Holland because of the Waffen SS there?
After a similar experience recently, I’ve concluded that the sooner pharmacists are replaced by robots the better.
Choo choo man, it is good to see that srr has you sussed out you inconsequential arsehole.
Never mind you can insult me.
Bwaaahhhaaaa.
Roger:
Now doesn’t that open up an interesting can o’worms?
Colesworths will get them at some point. Then it’s game over.
It’s sad to see the decline of Scotland, which produced many fine minds in literature, science, engineering and political thought.
Johanna, explain why your homeland has stayed so much of a socialist state for decades?
It’s sad to see the decline of Scotland, which produced many fine minds in literature, science, engineering and political thought.
imo the people with drive and ambition got out of Scotland over a century ago
I see that there is a brawl on in Queenssland about the proposal that Pharmacists be allowed to do a few routine jobs that GPs do.
Gotta admit that it’s hard to choose a side in this one.
Either way, taxpayers will cop it.
After a similar experience recently, I’ve concluded that the sooner pharmacists are replaced by robots the better.
Glorified vending machines.
Gotta love government granted licence.
I’m genetically over 50% Scottish and have traced my ancestors there back to the 13th C.
I’m afraid the “brain drain” caused by emigration has hit Scotland badly over the centuries.
Independence will only worsen it, too.
I’ve been fortunate with chemists. The ones here are great. Dad had a turn a week or so ago outside the big one here.
The young fellow raced out, had a good look at him, gave him a chair to sit on and an electrolyte iceblock. Apparently it happens to a lot of oldies – they sit around in the heat, get dehydrated and then start to see stars. Kept an eye on him until I arrived on the scene to get him home along with mum and a heap of groceries.
They have one of those dispensing systems that’s almost robotic – it does the picking but they have to make sure it’s the right one and you’re the right customer.
I’m still hopeful of getting to Scotland in late September. Looking forward to a day trip over to the Orkneys and Scapa Flow. We’ll see.
Lysander:
There’s another one escaping from the Can O’Worms that just got opened rather than being kicked further down the road.
The humiliation of the US Political Class is ongoing and will not end soon. Every nation that was kept fenced in will now be wondering ‘why not?’
China vs Taiwan, Iran vs Israel, Turkey vs Greece over Cyprus, North Vs South Korea, Argentina Vs GB over The Falklands, Indonesia vs Timor Leste.
Christendom has never appeared so weak.
Yes, they have to load it too.
Of course not all pharmacists are bad apples, but it’s a profession that so easily lends itself to robotics.
Even some of the functions of lawyers will go that way eventually.
Minimum Safe Altitudeis one of those bold faced items that go out the window when things get sporty.
I’m afraid the “brain drain” caused by emigration has hit Scotland badly over the centuries.
Independence will only worsen it, too.
Tim Blair commented in advance of the last “independence” vote, something like:
“Scotland is at a crucial crossroads. Will they remain a dysfunctional welfare sump dependent on London, or will they become a dysfunctional welfare sump dependent on Brussels?”
Zero self awareness
Did Bishop really say that? The place is an operating power station – one which is easy to get at because of the exclusion zone reaches to and beyond the Belarus border. Of course the Russians want to capture an operating nuke plant. So they can turn it off. Very hard to conduct cyber attacks if Ukrainian hackers have no electricity for their PCs.
Rex Anger, would you know why the standard gauge railway in Western Australia terminates at East Perth instead of the main Perth railway station? They would only have to extend the joint narrow / standard gauge railway line for another 2 or 3 kilometres to bring some trains (eg., the Prospector) into the main Perth station.
The humiliation of the US Political Class is ongoing and will not end soon.
they deserve a lot more than humiliation
Another one I’ll be done with after this –
What Global Communists have spread around the world (not only the West), are NOT ‘vaccines’, they are an evil against humanity & God and they’ve only been some practice runs of targeting genetic lines.
If you weren’t so desperate to be seen on the ‘right’ side, you would have given the whole reality of modern bioweapons a little more thought before yapping.
Bruce O’Newk:
I had an agility cat.
It wasn’t very good at the agility bit but it was a bloody champion at sleeping. 24 hours a day was really easy for Fatso.
Then I realised he’d been dead for a month…
Try the veal, I’m here all week…
If the sea isn’t too lumpy, Staffa is interesting.
Last I heard there was little enthusiasm for admitting an independent Scotland into the EU and for precisely that reason. They bring nothing to the table.
Yes good point Winston; “why can’t I have my cake and eat it too?”
Johanna – I was musing to myself yesterday that now would be a great time for Mr Xi to take Mongolia while Vlad is busy in Ukraine. Mongolia has a lot of yummy stuff, including big coal and copper mines.
Easier than invading Taiwan since there’re no pesky American aircraft carriers in the Gobi Desert.
And in late breaking news, the entire Lysander household is in lockdown for 7 days… **groans**
And medicine…
91 years ago my mother had her ears operated on by an ent surgeon who had trained in Edinburgh. She had had chronic ear pain, infections and problems since birth and this surgeon was convinced that he could assist. The result was complete deafness in one ear, but remarkably good hearing in the other. She has never had any further surgery on the ear, but still sees an ent specialist who is bemused, amused and incredulous that the ear works. His own comment was “this ear shouldn’t work”. And he heaped praise on the surgeon who had done the original work.
Speedbox says:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/05/09/the-surprising-british-origins-of-eastern-ukraine/
Apart from Putin, the big cheese of Mongolia is the only other person Xi has called “brother” in public.
He allegedly greeted Khan with it at a meeting but as there’s no video of it.
Here in the Top End, we are proudly retaining masks until the Chief Monster says otherwise. This is to show the world he is tougher than the premiers.
So far, I have been refused service in a fish and chip shop for not having a mask on. After ignoring that and ordering over $100 worth of their produce, the lady behind the till gave me one. I have also scored four from Bunnings on three trips.
However was defeated by a Parliament House security guard who refused to let me in until I showed proof of double vax.
Win some, lose some.
Wodger:
Shades of Ribbentrop/Molotov Non Aggression Pact?
Speedbox didn’t say this, though:
Yep, and nor can I have any respect for the political integrity of people who’ve been declaring the West (rightly), long ago fallen to Communism, suddenly pretending that Russia is still the USSR, Putin is Stalin and ‘Godly free’ Westerners have to stand with & sacrifice for the EU/Clinton/Biden & Co captured ‘Ukrainian’ Govt that slaughtered over 16,000 Ukrainians a few short years ago for having the gall to live in the areas that they, Biden & Co were trading amongst themselves.
Locoti, if military jets are that low obviously missile/AA threat is near minimal in some areas. As for the kids screaming regrettably my veteran mate tells me not unusual, if they haven’t run away before contact is made.
Perthie here.
Could be that the freight cars make it either too long or too high to get into Perth Central. Also there is absolutely NO facility in Perth Central to allow trucks, vans etc to collect offloaded freight. It’s hard enough getting a bus along some of Perth City’s shitty roads, let alone container trucks.
Roger
I’m afraid the “brain drain” caused by emigration has hit Scotland badly over the centuries.
Independence will only worsen it, too.
And the weather doesn’t help.
PS – she is still around to tell the story; she turns 95 in a few weeks. God willing.
BoN:
“If necessary, if such stupid and mindless steps are taken by our rivals and opponents, we will deploy not only nuclear weapons, but super-nuclear and up-and-coming ones to protect our territory,”
We could survive the nukes, and the super nukes, but the up-and-coming ones we have no defence against.
Pray for us please Cassie.
The modern West is less village square than city centre. Yes, there are “somewheres”, as the British writer David Goodhart put it, but inexorably we seem to be on a journey to “anywhere”.
This is a demographic, economic and cultural fault line that runs through the liberal pluralist West and it is increasingly political. It is a battle over what the West is, and who is prepared to defend it.
It cuts across religious freedom, LGTBQI rights, race, gender and class. It divides the rural from the urban.
And Vladimir Putin sees it as a weakness. He has castigated the West for its culture wars and its corrosive identity politics.
Just read Stan the Tan’s piece… I will say, the ABC is lucky to have him… but it’s the same buffed and fluffed serving of readers’ festival sentences, smoothly scooped out of the well-read brain bowl, with just a frisson of counterpunctual controversy… in the Waleed Aly – Joe Hildebrand style.
Also, a complete lack of awareness about the contempt most “somewheres” feel about “identity”. As if he hasn’t played that card plenty, and banked the deposits of cred that his own “corrosive identity politics” generates.
Hendo’s not normally this late with his Friday afternoon media watch update… I hope he’s okay!
Yeah but forget all that, Putin’s doing surgical strikes against legitimate military targets that have killed far less people than Cuomo killed, let alone all the others killed by their Western Govts Covid Protocols & Jab Mandates.
Oh that’s right our Western Dictators’ Media have managed to make most of their Western commentariat forget all that.
Where’s the linky to Stan Grant piece???
Found it (there’s thing called Google… its amazeballs!)
Its amazing how dead cat tastes just like veal.
As likely the same reason Nazi POWs sent to Australia, were offered to and decided to stay, a great many in Geelong … which also probably explains a lot.
““The capture of Chernobyl makes no sense unless Putin is trying to warn the world Russia is a nuclear power.””
The woman is a moron. I suspect all the cosmetic surgery she’s had done has infected her brain…not that there was much brain matter there to begin with. I saw a recent picture of her and all I can say is that she looks like mutton dressed up as lamb.
Ghastly woman.
Anyone know when Twitter is deleting Putin’s account?
(coz; warmonger, violent, starts wars, etc.)
I was talking about passenger services, in particular the Perth – Kalgoorlie “Prospector”, there’s no freight to offload there. They wouldn’t be able to bring the “Indian-Pacific” into the main Perth station as the platforms aren’t long enough.
Transwa Prospector Train Perth to Kalgoorlie – The fastest passenger service in Australia
Salvatore, that’s going straight to the pool room! 😛
Old Bloke, please get in touch with choo choo man.
Mate of my son has been working on AI in law. How he explains complex things through AI is fascinating making them very simple. Another in the sane company is doing the same thing with accountancy and tax law. This a private company, where they get their money from I don’t know, but wouldn’t be surprised from the Big Four. If and when this works there’s going to be a lot of lawyers, accountants and ATO staff out of work.
sane=same
They’re playing the long game, the very long game; they’ve never got over the humiliation of having to trade the Poms Australia for Nutmeg … slowly, slowly catchy EVERYTHING THAT SHOULD BE OURS!
Sorry, it’s an inside joke … but real history. 😉 🙂
Cassie I have to disagree – she looks like mutton dressed up as mutton. – Skinned-rabbit-armed and mutton to boot
“Cobalt Thorium G”?
I really would not be surprised if Mad Luka had a doomsday device salted away somewhere. Ditto Fat Kimmy. It’s not discussed much but for a static weapon there really isn’t a limit to how big it can be.
Yeah, I addressed my original question to him, he’ll get back to it when he’s available I suppose.
Indeed, Winston.
I trust Vlad remembers how that ended up though.
The current Prospector was built by Goninan’s in Newcastle. I was sent over via Ulan.
Dot:
I can
Explain
Putins War aims.
Honestly!
OK. Not the last one.
Brucie, feed the magpies and go to bed. You’re delusional now. Bedtime is 3.00 pm – you know that.
Lysander:
He woke up with #4 in his bed?
Yes, I wondered how he would apply his analysis to Australia. Something for him to ponder.
Indeed, especially if they had no land on which to grow crops, they’d starve, the very reason my parents and grandparents came from impoverished Italy to Australia, Europe was “a ramengo” no-one wanted to go there or be there — very different story today.
Putin’s Hitler, Stalin, the devil or some such crap spouted by neutered Western leaders.
The one similarity to the lead up to WWII that I can see is Stalin’s destruction of the entire officer corp in the soviet army for political purposes.
Woke Gender Generals have been installed in the western military and will be as useless as you could imagine.
Musician Chris Rea’s old man was Italian, seems they weren’t uncommon in post war Britain.
Great assets for the enemy though.
He’s neither. He’s just a gangster and if he was in NY, he’d be running a Russian mafia syndicate in the Russian enclave there – Brighton Beach.
That’s why they have the snotty termagant Nicola Sturgeon — all the smart bright people have fled
yes Sturgeon really is in a class of her own and that’s staying something looking at the current gallery of pollimuppetts!
The SNP is just the anti English party (but keep sending that dole money)
Worth asking: how would Russian foreign policy here be different without Putin?
That would explain the coffee. It hadn’t improved much by the 90s. A good reason for heading to the Continent, if you needed one.
Was wondering if Putin takes Ukraine will the sins of the son and the Big Guy will come to light?
“Scotland is at a crucial crossroads. Will they remain a dysfunctional welfare sump dependent on London, or will they become a dysfunctional welfare sump dependent on Brussels?”
Thomas Sowell has a great video on the rise of Scotland, not sure if he has anything on their demise.
Essentially find a superior culture and rigorously copy and apply the very best bits.
Boambee
Out of context no.
It seemed to me Winston claimed that the Germans got into trouble post war for breeches of Geneva which somehow meant French resistance fighters should have done nothing and or were entirely responsible for subsequent German reprisals against French civilians.
I wasn’t making an argument that the Germans were bad.
I was revising my view that the French respect for resistance dead was overstated (in comparison to deaths of regular soldiers)
In the circumstances of young men killed in Tarbes in the context of allied advance into France who were I believe wearing FFI uniforms and were summarily executed after being taken prisoner.
Joining the resistance at risk of facing torture and death did take a great deal of courage, but I was thinking of it in the context in which schools founded by Catholic religious who were expelled if they were lucky, or murdered if they were not, being renamed for resistance fighters.
Was wondering if Putin takes Ukraine will the sins of the son and the Big Guy will come to light?
My guess is that would be the USA’s primary foreign policy concern with what’s going on. Like everyone already doesn’t know he’s a corrupt Pedo.
Custard that was a fair summation of what us mere mortals could hope to understand about Ukraine. I would like to add Putin wouldn’t have to be spending a lot on the military with Trump in charge. He says to his warmonger mates “hey this guy is serious, we can go about increasing our bank balance instead.” The action of going into Ukraine is the cheapest at the moment.
Has Scumo declared war on Russia yet?
He’s spent two years over cooking COVID, can he stop over cooking?!
The Scots didn’t just do that; they learned from the English and then bettered them, especially in medicine and engineering.
The Scots didn’t just do that; they learned from the English and then bettered them, especially in medicine and engineering.
Yep, that was the end result of being better Englishmen than the English.
Farmer Gezsays:
February 25, 2022 at 5:53 pm
Putin’s Hitler, Stalin, the devil or some such crap spouted by neutered Western leaders.
The one similarity to the lead up to WWII that I can see is Stalin’s destruction of the entire officer corp in the soviet army for political purposes.
Woke Gender Generals have been installed in the western military and will be as useless as you could imagine.
When the bullets started flying, Stalin soon cleared out the dregs, the lucky ones got sent to a penal battalion, the unlucky were shot straight away. Those who could deliver results moved up quickly.
The same will happen in the western armies once the bullets start flying. We can but hope to last long enough for the cream to rise.
George Marshall was promoted over around 400 US Army officers higher on the seniority list.
Why would he care, that’s America’s problem.
What Putin has promised to do is hunt down those who burnt people alive in Odessa in 2014.
He said so in his speech yesterday, their names are known and he ain’t happy.
Head Prefect you are still alive! any headaches, chest pains, any anger tensions (apart from normal hating on humans).
Hopeful no brain smog, now go get your next shot, it will help.
Tintarella di Lunasays:
February 25, 2022 at 6:09 pm
Was wondering if Putin takes Ukraine will the sins of the son and the Big Guy will come to light?
Putin almost certainly knows them already. When they come out will depend on when he sees the most advantage.
Pauline’s latest after rub and tug becomes PM; getting rooted, literally, by bandt the bastard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdYBpW8BHFU
You’re MythMaking again, SpongeBob.
What actually happened was that he’d already Purged every General who had any ability, when Germany attacked he had to scour the Gulags for the few that hadn’t been shot, to help him out of his own mire.
rosie
It seemed to me Winston claimed that the Germans got into trouble post war for breeches of Geneva which somehow meant French resistance fighters should have done nothing and or were entirely responsible for subsequent German reprisals against French civilians.
I didn’t read it that way. The resistants knew what could happen to them. The killings of civilians had long German precedent, and anyone reasonably knowledgeable in France knew how at least some of them would behave.
I’m pretty sure Winston knows that.
Scottish people can be very nice, all you lovers should go live there, see how it goes.
What, like Trump stayed on his (cheap) side of the river in New York.
Oh hang on, he didn’t.
For someone who’s always talking big about himself & his ‘associates’, you really do think very, very small … or is that just where you work to put others minds.
BTW, how’s your mate Key since he ran away from being the most popular PM of NZ, AFTER he knew they weren’t going to keep the already elected Trump out of the White House.
That was because Marshall was a Spook working for the Soviet Union, not because of any military qualities.
Ed Casesays:
February 25, 2022 at 6:22 pm
Was wondering if Putin takes Ukraine will the sins of the son and the Big Guy will come to light?
Why would he care, that’s America’s problem.
You’re not really on top of this whole politics thing, are you Dick?
The plain lesson from Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is energy independence yet the greenies continue on their path of social suicide:
NY Climate Commies Protest Gov. Hochul: Ban Gas, Make NY Electric!
The greens are insane but it’s an insanity that is based on a death wish. I think it’s time we thought of them as genetic mistakes corrupting the general gene pool.
Have you looked under your bed, lately, Grogarly?
You’re MythMaking again, SpongeBob.
What actually happened was that he’d already Purged every General who had any ability, when Germany attacked he had to scour the Gulags for the few that hadn’t been shot, to help him out of his own mire.
Stick to boosting “Scotty”. you’re not as bad at that as you are with history.
PS, what is it with “SpongeBob”? Is it meant to be an insult? If so, try again, weak as dishwater.
Ed Casesays:
February 25, 2022 at 6:29 pm
George Marshall was promoted over around 400 US Army officers higher on the seniority list.
That was because Marshall was a Spook working for the Soviet Union, not because of any military qualities.
You will, of course, be able to quote the evidence from the archives of the former Soviet Union? Go ahead, make our day!
Interesting that The Australian chosen today to disclose that Bob Hawke lied about being asked by Bush41 to supply troops to Gulf War 1.
Since Scotty is going All The Way with LBJ, the revelation that Labor is even more craven than the Coalition over the “american alliance” takes some of the pressure off Albanese.