Open Thread – Tues 1 March 2022


Cain and Abel, Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond, mid-1800s

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Delta A
Delta A
March 3, 2022 7:12 pm

I find Rockdoctor a sensible chap as well. Exceptions that prove the rule.

Yes, and Winnie from Barcy, Bushkid, Diogenes and I’m sure there are more who haven’t mentioned their whereabouts.

But generally, yes, Qlders are a bit odd.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
March 3, 2022 7:17 pm

I’m out.

I can’t associate with you freaks anymore.

A definite flounce.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

But generally, yes, Qlders are a bit odd.

Heh! You should meet some South Australians sometime!

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 3, 2022 7:22 pm

Quite frankly Bird would be a breath of fresh air today. Nano wrigglers and all.

srr
srr
March 3, 2022 7:25 pm

miltonf says:
March 3, 2022 at 1:07 pm
Roger is correct- with proper leadership Australia could defend itself and produce everything it needs- even Nerada tea is better than Twinings.

I mentioned that back on the old cat, many moons ago, and got hit by the stunning claim that we couldn’t because, ‘we have to get our tractor parts from Europe.’

That was when I knew not to try to talk really big picture stuff on a blog full of characters committed to the smotheringly narrow globalist agenda.

Chris
Chris
March 3, 2022 7:25 pm

Without looking at the time the comments are posted, one can almost guess the time of day. Once the sun’s past the yardarm it seems to become ‘Scotch O Clock’. Manners rapidly dissipate and it’s on. Just makes for more scrolling however.

Ah me!
My first time at Cat and now New Cat I marvelled at man’s just inhumanity to leftist. But over time I have changed; lo these many years I marvel at some Cats’ inhumanity to each other.
Some posters are on permanent scroll for me; sometimes I read a bit by mistake but I stop as soon as I realise its a ‘scroll-on-byyyye’ poster. But the ones who transition from wise, experienced commentator to contempt-dealing fucknuckle at sherry o’clock, its a bit harder to switch before they nauseate me.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 3, 2022 7:25 pm

But generally, yes, Qlders are a bit odd.

KRuddy, Wayne Goosesteen and The Mad Katter don’t help their case. I’ll raise it at the next Woomba Miata Helldrivers meeting for discussion.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 3, 2022 7:27 pm

Can he go 3 for 3???
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin[f] (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili;[d] 18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878[1] – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who governed the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin
Born to an upper middle-class family in Simbirsk,…
Ulyanovsk[a] is a city and the administrative center of Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Volga River 705 kilometers (438 mi) east of Moscow. 613,786?(2010 Census);[3] 635,947?(2002 Census);[10] 625,155?(1989 Census).[11]
The city, founded as Simbirsk (????????), was the birthplace of Vladimir Lenin (born Ulyanov), for whom it was renamed after his death in 1924

Oh hes failed, failed at the last fence!!! What an upset!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dzerzhinsky
Felix Dzerzhinsky was born on 11 September 1877 to ethnically Polish parents of noble descent, at the Dzerzhinovo family estate, about 15 km (9.3 mi) from the small town of Ivyanets in the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Belarus).[7]

Ed-Mong even fails at being a complete failure.
Thats how fail-full it is.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 3, 2022 7:28 pm

I find the sherry helps. Not the sweet stuff though.

Frank
Frank
March 3, 2022 7:31 pm

Chris says:
March 3, 2022 at 7:25 pm

Two shandies down, hand me that bullhorn my good man and let me regale you with tales of how it is.

Also, Bundy rum might go some way to explaining QLD.

pete of perth
pete of perth
March 3, 2022 7:31 pm

I reckon the Ruskies will hit electronic banking in the antipodes. Putin probably doesn’t know Scomo from a jellyfish but his cyber shocktroops must be compiling a list for future retaliation.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 3, 2022 7:32 pm

lo these many years I marvel at some Cats’ inhumanity to each other.

Where there are cats there are catfights. Goes with the species.
Keep your powder dry and your Whiskers in the can.
And never take prisoners.

pete of perth
pete of perth
March 3, 2022 7:33 pm

Better start retrieving my coins living down various couches around my house

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 3, 2022 7:33 pm

If Vlad wanted to do a poke in the eye that might not involve an exchange of high intensity radiation could he just dump an EMP blast up in the atmosphere somewhere to turn the lights out in most of the EU?

That would get hunger games really, really quick.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 3, 2022 7:35 pm

lo these many years I marvel at some Cats’ inhumanity to each other.

It’s for their benefit.

calli
calli
March 3, 2022 7:35 pm

Putin probably doesn’t know Scomo from a jellyfish

Difficult distinction to make. Probably have to refer that one to a taxonomist.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 3, 2022 7:38 pm

The BRS case is getting very interesting, indeed..

But Person 4 admitted that he felt an injustice had been done to him and his family when Mr Roberts-Smith was awarded the Victoria Cross, Australia’s highest military honour, in 2011 for his role in a 2010 battle in Tizak, Afghanistan, while Person 4 waited until 2013 to receive a lesser Medal of Gallantry for the same battle.

“I was upset that something as outstanding as what both Ben and myself did was politicised and they could have, you know, accepted the fact that both of us did as much as each other on that day,” Person 4 told the court on Wednesday.

He said he did not believe he deserved the VC himself because “humility” was bred into soldiers in the regiment, but had been told by other soldiers in Australia that “they had heard I was getting the Victoria Cross … and then it changed to Ben Roberts-Smith” receiving the honour.

Person 4 has said he “100 per cent believed” he shot and killed a Taliban machine gunner during the battle “when I was providing cover for Ben Roberts-Smith to throw … [a] grenade”. He told the court the men had come under sustained fire from Taliban machine gunners at close range.

calli
calli
March 3, 2022 7:41 pm

Person 4 should thank his lucky stars he’s alive rather than being jealous about a fellow soldier’s award.

My uncle’s body has never been recovered. He probably deserved a VC to.

FOR VALOUR

calli
calli
March 3, 2022 7:43 pm

too

Anger causes typos.

calli
calli
March 3, 2022 7:45 pm

Not Rex Anger.

The really angry anger. Plus disgust.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 3, 2022 7:46 pm

Read the text, dumbo.
Person 4 was told he was getting a VC, then politics intervened and Roberts-Smith got it instead.
2 years later Person 4 got a Cross Of Gallantry as a consolation prize for being fucked over.

Gab
Gab
March 3, 2022 7:48 pm

Old blokesays:
March 3, 2022 at 4:49 pm

Well said and on point!

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Person 4 was told he was getting a VC

…. by other soldiers, who’d “heard” this…

then politics intervened

.. the reality was not the same as the enlisted-ranks rumour mill…. (unprecedented)

Roberts-Smith got it instead.

Instead😉

2 years later Person 4 got a Cross Of Gallantry

Medal of Gallantry. (details, pfft! what do they matter? VC, MC, CG, it’s all “army stuff” innit?)

a consolation prize

An award for bravery under fire is never a consolation prize.

for being fucked over.

For courage under fire, dickhead.
Nobody except Brittany Higgins receives a medal for being fucked.

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 3, 2022 7:53 pm

Difficult distinction to make. Probably have to refer that one to a taxonomist.

Or you could use a sharp stick.

cohenite
March 3, 2022 7:58 pm

Daisy Cousens on fire on bolta about the comparison between the covid measures, none, at CPAC in Florida and in Australia. Apparently when she was in Florida she got a lot of sympathy for being an Australian.

When a buy a media outlet Daisy and Liz Storer will have their own shows.

cohenite
March 3, 2022 8:00 pm

FTFU donut.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 3, 2022 8:00 pm

Calli

My uncle’s body has never been recovered. He probably deserved a VC to.

In very round figures, around 50,000 Australians died on the Western Front between 1916 and 1918. About 10,000 with no known grave are commemorated at the Villers Bretonneux Memorial in France, and another 5,000 or so at the Menin Gate Memorial in Flanders (Fields).

If he died in France, there is a (very small) chance that he is at the AWM in Canberra.

Have you checked the Red Cross records for any eye witness accounts of his death? Be cautious, some of the descriptions are pretty stark.

rosie
rosie
March 3, 2022 8:00 pm

Old bloke.
You seen to have missed the background to my comment, as per the link posted by Squawkbox? with the text of the reply posted by Duncanm.
The government (Andrew Taylor?) has formally responded to Craig Kelly’s enquiry and confirmed that the LRAD system was used at the Canberra protest solely as a public address system.
That’s all there is, there isn’t any more.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 3, 2022 8:01 pm

Nobody except Brittany Higgins receives a medal for being fucked.

Kamala Harris
Blanche d’Alpuget
Sylvia Jeffrey
Mrs Paxton of the Paxton Family
rrsrsrsr (self-awarded)

Also – Magda Szubanski is fucked, but shouldn’t get a medal for that.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 3, 2022 8:03 pm

For courage under fire, dickhead.
Nobody except Brittany Higgins receives a medal for being fucked.

You contradict Field Marshall Grogarly, VD and scar, Dick Shot Off, Don’t Come Monday?

JC
JC
March 3, 2022 8:04 pm

Nobody except Brittany Higgins receives a medal for being fucked.

Just wow. What did I suggest about inbreeding?

rosie
rosie
March 3, 2022 8:05 pm

Calli
A few years ago someone pointed me to unit diaries to get more details regarding the deaths of two great uncles who were killed three weeks apart in ww1, while neither was mentioned by name, the circumstances of their deaths were clear enough from the daily entry.
One was buried in a cemetery annexe, later obliterated by further fighting, the other, not so much.
Worth a look, if you haven’t already.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 8:06 pm

Anger causes typos.

Not Rex Anger.

Oh, I dunno Calli.

You might want to compare notes with Struth after some of his efforts today. 🙂

He will be back tomorrow- After a days’s effort of word-walling, he only barely cracked 80 or so upticks.

And he needs at least 90 to feel suitably validated.

MatrixTransform
March 3, 2022 8:06 pm

Rather than read today’s Open Forum I chose to talk about paint colours with the missus

I’m now beginning to appreciate the subtle differences between Whisper White and Antique White

Old bloke
Old bloke
March 3, 2022 8:07 pm

To what end? Pretty much every ostensibly WEF-driven Western government is reluctantly loosening its coercive shackles and allowing life to recommence. Why imprison folks when your Narrative is gone and switching out to distract from it?

I was pondering a few weeks ago about which of those nations, i.e., Canada, New Zealand or Australia, would be the first to abandon the mandates. It turns out New Zealand won the prize, their High Court ruled the mandates were unjustifiable, hence abolished.

New Zealand fortunately has a Bill of Rights, as do our cousins in the USA, so their courts rein in their government’s actions. We do need a similar document here in Australia, common law and the constitution have shown themselves to be useless; we need a Bill of Rights which nails down and severely limits the role of government, drafted in such a way that even our High Court judges can understand it.

The loosening of shackles can be attributed to many causes. England, for example, regained some sensible directions and has abandoned all mandates as a result of back-bench pressure on their P.M. Our current government parties lack a majority of honourable and sensible men and women, so I don’t hold out hope for any changes here post-election, and under Labor it will be worse, so I don’t share your optimistic view on our future.

If the various Australian governments thought that there was no future need for these camps then they would stop further expenditure and save millions. They haven’t. If nothing else Rex, its a colossal waste of tax payer’s money, that could have been better spent bringing the standard gauge railway into Perth station.

Frank
Frank
March 3, 2022 8:08 pm

Nobody except Brittany Higgins receives a medal for being fucked.

AOY winners seem to thrive on it.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 3, 2022 8:09 pm

In very round figures, around 50,000 Australians died on the Western Front between 1916 and 1918.

All volunteers.

Cassie of Sydney
March 3, 2022 8:10 pm

It seems the old bully from Queanbeyan remains obsessed with Lizzie. Perhaps the old bully could get some medical help. What a sad sack.

rickw
rickw
March 3, 2022 8:10 pm

he just dump an EMP blast up in the atmosphere somewhere to turn the lights out in most of the EU?

Vlad doesn’t want to accidentally become the ultimate eco-warrior.

JC
JC
March 3, 2022 8:12 pm

Drills

I posted the Higgins comment at your un-read blog. Comments are moderated, so you do mind (please) letting the comment through? You know, if it’s okay to post the comment here, it’s fine posting it at your old blog (which is unread). Who knows, one of your female employees (if you have any) would get a kick out of reading it.

132andBush
132andBush
March 3, 2022 8:13 pm

JC,
Re the “wheat” price you quoted earlier.
That sounds like the canola price, if it was a per tonne basis.

As you know grain is quoted per bushel, which is an old school volumetric measurement.
To convert, it’s 3 bushels to a bag, 12 bags to the ton of wheat. So multiply the bushel price by 36 to get a per ton value.

Either way you cut it, this shitshow in Ukraine is unbelievably good for Australian grain growers.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 8:14 pm

If the various Australian governments thought that there was no future need for these camps then they would stop further expenditure and save millions. They haven’t.

Since when has an Australian Government not had a taste for spending money like it was water? Regardless of their projects’ utility? 🙂

If nothing else Rex, its a colossal waste of tax payer’s money, that could have been better spent bringing the standard gauge railway into Perth station.

Pay that. 🙂 Northbridge in its current iteration has caused more death and misery than it did as a rail yard and station precinct before it was built over.

cohenite
March 3, 2022 8:15 pm

Whacky world of islam:

Uganda: Muslims try to burn convert to Christianity alive, say Allah will reward them in paradise if they kill him

Somaliland: FGM ‘cutters’ go door-to-door to perform the procedure on young girls

Muslim Air France pilot suspected of ‘radicalization’ gets permit allowing him access to secure areas

https://www.jihadwatch.org/

Bear Necessities
Bear Necessities
March 3, 2022 8:16 pm

Also – Magda Szubanski is fucked, but shouldn’t get a medal for that.

Whoever does Madga deserves a medal.

rickw
rickw
March 3, 2022 8:16 pm

drafted in such a way that even our High Court judges can understand it.

That’s the challenge, recommend throwing in 2A incase of reading and comprehension problems.

Cassie of Sydney
March 3, 2022 8:17 pm

Tonight I attended a combined IPA/Quadrant/Menzies Research Centre talk in Sydney’s CBD given by Margaret Cameron-Ash on her new book….”Beating France to Botany Bay, The Race to Found Australia“.

It was a fantastic talk by Margaret. The interviewers were Bella d’Abrera and Nick Cater. You know what’s tragic? It’s tragic that our young aren’t taught this history in schools because our history is riveting and they would be spellbound. It involves the English, the French, the Russians and the Americans.

It was nice to catch up with fellow Cat Rafe Champion.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 8:18 pm

Either way you cut it, this shitshow in Ukraine is unbelievably good for Australian grain growers.

So long as you can get it out. Is it OK on the East Coast? CBH is having all manner of trouble because of the record volume of grain accepted, and new transporter Aurizon (the biggest rail freight company in Australia, no less) is still trying to get its act together and deliver on the extra wagon capacity it promised.

Good dollars available in contracting your truck for out/back-loading grain for them at the moment, it seems.

JC
JC
March 3, 2022 8:19 pm

Thanks Bush. I think the last time I looked at agri commodity prices was 40 years ago. 🙂

I think the first price I quoted was actually a misprint on a chart from that wesbite I linked to, which suggested a 30% plus drop in one day. But yes, it’s not a ton, it’s a bushel.

Jeez Louise, commodity prices are up… so, so much in lots of cases.

Bear Necessities
Bear Necessities
March 3, 2022 8:19 pm

Honest question as opposed to dishonest.

Obviously, it’s not 100% because CL I think lives in Queersland. But why are nearly all the stupidest, mouthy idiots who post on the Cat all from Queersland? And it’s both Left and right too. It’s really uncanny. You can go from Numbers, Mr. Ed to Steve from Brisbane on the left and you can then you can go to Ted, Driller, and Struth on the Right just to name a few.

Does anyone have any theories? I think it’s a combination of the weather and inbreeding, but I’m unsure.

Italians invented sex but the Greeks invented sex with women.

rickw
rickw
March 3, 2022 8:20 pm

Either way you cut it, this shitshow in Ukraine is unbelievably good for Australian grain growers.

Four weeks ago I said to my sister to buy diesel, fertiliser and put everything in crop. She was well ahead on fertiliser but got a F on Diesel, main tank almost empty.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 8:20 pm

drafted in such a way that even our High Court judges can understand it.

That’s the challenge, recommend throwing in 2A incase of reading and comprehension problems.

Amendment? Bugger it as an amendment.

Item #2 on this putative Charter of Rights. Clear, unambiguous and legappy unimpeachable.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 8:21 pm

legappy

LegaLLy

Dammit…

JC
JC
March 3, 2022 8:22 pm

Rex Anger says:
March 3, 2022 at 8:18 pm

Either way you cut it, this shitshow in Ukraine is unbelievably good for Australian grain growers.

So long as you can get it out. Is it OK on the East Coast?

That Market Watch article I posted suggested that China is scrambling around to buy wheat now around international markets. Why wouldn’t they buy it from their buddies – Russia?

Cassie of Sydney
March 3, 2022 8:23 pm

“Stalin wasn’t a Georgian, Lenin wasn’t a Russian, and I doubt the other 3 were either, and Dzerzhinsky wasn’t a Pole.”

Ed, are you being deliberately stupid?

rickw
rickw
March 3, 2022 8:23 pm

Amendment? Bugger it as an amendment.

I think we should. Make some USA synchronicity!

Dot
Dot
March 3, 2022 8:25 pm

dover0beachsays:
March 3, 2022 at 7:22 pm
National Vanguard being brought up to support Russia, because Ukraine are the real Nazis?

I’m out.

I can’t associate with you freaks anymore.

Dot is under intense pressure from the Bahnisch BBQ Brigade.

Go back and read the comment I referred to. Actually read it and what was referenced and stop being the cleverest guy in the room.

Regarding the nefarious criminal activities of the founder of the organisation referenced, it is beyond a joke that “certain people” continue to engage in ludicrous fantasies about their political enemies.

Somehow, this nonsense proves them right about their projected fantasies regarding Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama being at the core of the Ukraine conflict.

I was right all along when I called out “Razey” as a glowie.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 8:25 pm

Our current government parties lack a majority of honourable and sensible men and women, so I don’t hold out hope for any changes here post-election, and under Labor it will be worse, so I don’t share your optimistic view on our future.

I’m not exactly being optimistic, either. More pragmatic, as you can’t enjoy the fruits of power if you don’t have it any longer because your lot is electoral poison… 🙂

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 3, 2022 8:26 pm

What’s the big deal about whether or not Stalin was a Georgian?
I mean, who cares?
Right?

miltonf
miltonf
March 3, 2022 8:27 pm

I was right all along when I called out “Razey” as a glowie.

I think you are right

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 3, 2022 8:29 pm

Cassie of Sydneysays:
March 3, 2022 at 8:23 pm
“Stalin wasn’t a Georgian, Lenin wasn’t a Russian, and I doubt the other 3 were either, and Dzerzhinsky wasn’t a Pole.”

Ed, are you being deliberately stupid?

No. Dick Ed is just being himself.

calli
calli
March 3, 2022 8:29 pm

Then why allow yourself to be used? He could have refused.

My uncle was lost in East Irian. Politics prevented the recovery of his body too.

rickw
rickw
March 3, 2022 8:30 pm

The Moderna fingerprint found in Wuhan bat flu:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHHzzlwna3s

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 3, 2022 8:31 pm

Ed Casesays:
March 3, 2022 at 8:26 pm
What’s the big deal about whether or not Stalin was a Georgian?
I mean, who cares?
Right?

You raised the point, don’t you care?

rickw
rickw
March 3, 2022 8:33 pm

Shooting Stuff Australia hitting on the latest Australian Government hypocrisy:

Disarm Australian’s / Arm Ukrainian’s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrOcVZWED24

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 3, 2022 8:34 pm

VCs seem to be a hit and miss affair, and also DCMs. But generally MMs and MCs appear to’ve been given where deserved from what I read in the AWM history. Last night I read the account of Pvt. Richard Kelliher who was court martialed for cowardice six months before being awarded the Victoria Cross for valour.

Burns’ platoon had suffered eight casualties including one section commander, Corporal Sawers, killed and another, Corporal Richards, wounded . Richards was lying out in front down the forward slope of a small rise and was doing his best to observe the enemy machine – guns and direct fire at them. During this time Privates Kelliher and Bickle were lying in a dip. Kelliher said to his companion, “I’d better go and bring him [Richards] in.” Hurling his and Bickle’s last grenades at the machine-gun post he killed some of the enemy but not all . He then grabbed a Bren gun from wounded gunner and dashed forward firing until the magazine was emptied. Returning he got another magazine, went forward again, fired it from a lying-down position and silenced the machine-gun post . Under fire from another enemy position Kelliher then carried the wounded
Richards to safety.

Well done, private.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 3, 2022 8:35 pm

Then why allow yourself to be used? He could have refused.

Okay, let’s say you were cheated out of First Prize in a Lottery, but to keep you onside the chiselers offered you second prize as a consolation?
Would you knock it back on principle?

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 3, 2022 8:35 pm

callisays:
March 3, 2022 at 8:29 pm
Then why allow yourself to be used? He could have refused.

My uncle was lost in East Irian. Politics prevented the recovery of his body too.

Sorry Calli, I assumed WW I. Was this during WW II? There were some Australian Army units in the then Dutch New Guinea, generally along the southern part (Merauke and places inland). Also, some RAAF were lost there.

Not trying to dox, just curious.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 8:37 pm

Why wouldn’t they buy it from their buddies – Russia?

I’d say that Russian overflow grain that would otherwise be available for export sale has been held onto. I vaguely seem to recall that the last Euro crop (our winter) was a bit umderwhelming. So local supply comes first.

As such, the Chicoms will continue to buy our grain and others’ through intermediaries at inflated rates because they are currently at economic contretemps with most of the present suppliers and can never be seen to deal directly with them.

Happy times indeed for Death Gluteneers… 🙂

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 3, 2022 8:38 pm

Ed Casesays:
March 3, 2022 at 8:35 pm
Then why allow yourself to be used? He could have refused.

Okay, let’s say you were cheated out of First Prize in a Lottery, but to keep you onside the chiselers offered you second prize as a consolation?
Would you knock it back on principle?

Do you have any actual evidence that he was “cheated”? Or are you just, as usual, being an @rseh0le?

Roger
Roger
March 3, 2022 8:38 pm

It’s tragic that our young aren’t taught this history in schools because our history is riveting and they would be spellbound. It involves the English, the French, the Russians and the Americans.

Hear! Hear!

Deserving of more acknowledgment than an uptick.

Write to your local member on this, fwiw.

Cassie of Sydney
March 3, 2022 8:39 pm

The Bolsheviks represented the diversity of the Russian empire at the time….they comprised ethnic Russians, Armenians, Georgians, Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Ukrainians, Jews, Muslim Azerbaijanis and Tartars.

Most, regardless of their ethnicity, had been born into abject poverty, some like Lenin had been born into relative middle class comfort and a few had been born into aristocratic families. Certainly the early Bolsheviks, who predated Lenin, came came from the wealthy merchant class and aristocracy.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 8:39 pm

I was right all along when I called out “Razey” as a glowie.

You were.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 3, 2022 8:40 pm

You raised the point, don’t you care?

Some clown raised the point, SpongeBob.
I merely corrected him.
He hasn’t taken that correction well and so far, neither has Knuckle Dragger, Rex Anger, FrollinkingHole, Cassie, and yourself.
So, I repeat myself:
What’s the big deal, duderinos?

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
March 3, 2022 8:40 pm

Go back and read the comment I referred to.

Unflounce #1

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 3, 2022 8:42 pm

The Bolsheviks represented the diversity of the Russian empire at the time….

Diversity was their strength, eh?

Cassie of Sydney
March 3, 2022 8:42 pm

“I was right all along when I called out “Razey” as a glowie.”

Oh yes, his prejudices glow very brightly.

JC
JC
March 3, 2022 8:44 pm

What’s a glowie?

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 3, 2022 8:44 pm

Do you have any actual evidence that he was “cheated”

He said it in the Witness Box under Oath.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 8:44 pm

Okay, let’s say you were cheated out of First Prize in a Lottery, but to keep you onside the chiselers offered you second prize as a consolation?

Grigory, obtaining a lottery win by fraudulent means is a criminal act.

Being awarded a medal in recognition of conspicious, battle-changing actions that displayed valour above and beyond the call of duty has nothing to do with ‘prizes,’ ‘chiseling’ or consolation.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 8:46 pm

What’s a glowie?

This is what Glowie means.

And this is why he graduated to a full spack-out for a full day and a half when he was pinged.

Baba
Baba
March 3, 2022 8:46 pm
Ed Case
Ed Case
March 3, 2022 8:48 pm

It’s a variation on Red Hot.
Dot and other Larpers use it a lot.
For instance:
Bosi was an Army Officer from 1979 to 1999, yet he still prances around in public in his Army uniform.
So, he’s almost certainly a Glowie.
Razey is just an idiot, similar to Rex Franger & SpongeBob.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 8:49 pm

He said it in the Witness Box under Oath.

Fuck off Grigory.

Your gypsumposting has gone full retard.

You never go full retard.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 3, 2022 8:49 pm

Ed Casesays:
March 3, 2022 at 8:40 pm
You raised the point, don’t you care?

Some clown raised the point, SpongeBob.
I merely corrected him.

No, SpongeBrain, you raised the claim that Stalin was not a Georgian. You offered no evidence for this contradiction of recorded history. Ditto for the other two.

Baba
Baba
March 3, 2022 8:49 pm

On the money.

Galkovsky said: “Nowadays, the difference between Russians and Europeans is that Russians are Europeans and Europeans are not.”

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 8:50 pm

Razey is just an idiot, similar to Rex Franger & SpongeBob.

Grigory seems upset that even the obvious plant can upend his stupidity.

Poor Grigory.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 3, 2022 8:50 pm

Ed Casesays:
March 3, 2022 at 8:44 pm
Do you have any actual evidence that he was “cheated”

He said it in the Witness Box under Oath.

Of course, a totally unbiased witness. How about some written records?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 8:53 pm

I merely corrected him.
He hasn’t taken that correction well and so far, neither has Knuckle Dragger, Rex Anger, FrollinkingHole, Cassie, and yourself.

That was actually amusing.

Retarded, but amusing.

Winston, do you still have that Don’t Tard On Me! flag linked somewhere? It needs more use whenever Grigs gets animated…

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 3, 2022 9:00 pm

”Beating France to Botany Bay, The Race to Found Australia“.

Recommended reading.

Cassie of Sydney
March 3, 2022 9:01 pm

“Knuckle Dragger, Rex Anger, FrollinkingHole, Cassie, and yourself.”

I’m in good company.

calli
calli
March 3, 2022 9:01 pm

BJ, shot down. All lost.

miltonf
miltonf
March 3, 2022 9:05 pm

BJ Barnaby Joyce?

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 3, 2022 9:06 pm

callisays:
March 3, 2022 at 9:01 pm
BJ, shot down. All lost.

Thanks Calli, sad to hear. You would need some reasonable evidence of the location to even think of trying to find the site. Is there a squadron history? Sometimes they have a bit of detail.

miltonf
miltonf
March 3, 2022 9:06 pm

oh ok Boambee John

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

It has to be true:

He said it in the Witness Box under Oath.

Nothing false is ever said under oath. Ever.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 3, 2022 9:09 pm

Beria wasn’t a Georgian either.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 3, 2022 9:11 pm

Bad news for Cats.

Russian Blues to be deported? Say it ain’t so!

rosie
rosie
March 3, 2022 9:12 pm
Ed Case
Ed Case
March 3, 2022 9:12 pm

Nothing false is ever said under oath. Ever.

Talking from experience, Sal?
Or just LARPing again?
He said it in response to Cross Examination from Roberts-Smith’s Counsel and it wasn’t challenged.
So, I’d say it stands up well.

miltonf
miltonf
March 3, 2022 9:13 pm

sorry Calli

132andBush
132andBush
March 3, 2022 9:14 pm

Rex,
Re logistics.
Everything and everyone is flat out. The whole system is groaning with the volume grown over the last two seasons and I might add things are looking good for the coming one.
I’m told we can’t move any more out of the country than we are now, whether it’s bulk or boxed.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 9:14 pm

He said it in response to Cross Examination from Roberts-Smith’s Counsel and it wasn’t challenged.
So, I’d say it stands up well.

Do you have the CCTV footage to back either the original action in Tizak in 2010, or your assertion about what happened in Court, Grigory?

calli
calli
March 3, 2022 9:15 pm

BJ, we have all the information we will ever get. There was a move by the pilot’s family to have a search conducted after the war, but the politics of the region meant that it never went ahead.

There was great suspicion that the “searchers” would also be doing a spot of prospecting and other nefarious activities.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 3, 2022 9:15 pm

Bosi was an Army Officer from 1979 to 1999, yet he still prances around in public in his Army uniform.

SAS light colonels can prance around in their undies as far as I’m concerned.
They’ve earned the right.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 9:15 pm

I’m told we can’t move any more out of the country than we are now, whether it’s bulk or boxed.

That seemed to be what CBH were saying too.

Shipping is the bottleneck now.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 9:22 pm

@ Dover-

This is what Razey posted, and what Dot was reacting to:

Razeysays:
March 3, 2022 at 5:39 pm
Ukraine president asks Jewish people around world to speak against Russia

Of course the Russians don’t remember the Jewish roll in the Bolshevik take over.

In the Communist seizure of power in Russia, the Jewish role was probably critical.

Two weeks prior to the Bolshevik “October Revolution” of 1917, Lenin convened a top secret meeting in St. Petersburg (Petrograd) at which the key leaders of the Bolshevik party’s Central Committee made the fateful decision to seize power in a violent takeover. Of the twelve persons who took part in this decisive gathering, there were four Russians (including Lenin), one Georgian (Stalin), one Pole (Dzerzhinsky), and six Jews.

https://nationalvanguard.org/2020/10/newly-updated-the-jewish-role-in-the-bolshevik-revolution-and-russias-early-soviet-regime-part-1/

If you consider this sort of link inappropriate, please delete this comment as well as the original.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 3, 2022 9:22 pm

SAS light colonels can prance around in their undies as far as I’m concerned.
They’ve earned the right.

Pay that one!

Old bloke
Old bloke
March 3, 2022 9:23 pm

rosie says:
March 3, 2022 at 8:00 pm

Old bloke.
You seen to have missed the background to my comment, as per the link posted by Squawkbox? with the text of the reply posted by Duncanm.
The government (Andrew Taylor?) has formally responded to Craig Kelly’s enquiry and confirmed that the LRAD system was used at the Canberra protest solely as a public address system.
That’s all there is, there isn’t any more.

Thanks Rosie, I was unaware of the preceding conversation.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 9:23 pm

I have also flagged the original post from 5.39pm

flyingduk
flyingduk
March 3, 2022 9:24 pm

SAS light colonels can prance around in their undies as far as I’m concerned.
They’ve earned the right. Pay that one!

Yep, although he does seem to do rather too much swearing in public for my taste … not a good look in front of the women and children.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
March 3, 2022 9:24 pm

He said it in response to Cross Examination from Roberts-Smith’s Counsel and it wasn’t challenged.
So, I’d say it stands up well.

Ed.
There’s an old saying, never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake.
No judge or jury is going to believe that the witness deserved a VC just because he says he deserved a VC. And even if they did, the only importance of the witness believing that (and whether it’s true or not) is that BRS’s Counsel will have a field day in summing up why the witness’ testimony shouldn’t be believed because it was motivated by envy of BRS.
So BRS’s Counsel was never going to “challenge” that statement. The only possible consequence of BRS’s Counsel “challenging” that statement would have been that the witness might have backtracked on it and made himself look like less of a goose. Once the witness had made that statement no halfway competent cross-examiner would go anywhere near it again until the witness was safely out of the box. And not because the statement might be true, but because that simply doesn’t matter.

flyingduk
flyingduk
March 3, 2022 9:26 pm

Also, dont think I have ever seen a medal bar on Bosi – perusal of which would tell us much!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 9:27 pm

I think the Australian Army’s Custom’s and Traditions permit retired officers over the rank of Major, who were deemed to have served in good standing to retain their rank (using the suffix Ret’d) and wear the uniform.

Otherwise there are a great many Regimental and Corps Honorary Colonels in a heap of trouble… 🙂

Cassie of Sydney
March 3, 2022 9:29 pm

“If you consider this sort of link inappropriate, please delete this comment as well as the original.”

Thanks RA……faaaarrrrrrrrrkkkkk. I didn’t press on the link. Yuk, could you please delete DB? I did wonder where his comment about Jews and Bolsheviks came from, I didn’t read his comment in full but I posted my comment above about how the Bolsheviks were a mixed bag, representing the whole Russian empire. It’s an anti-Semitic trope to blame the revolution on Jews and to say that most of the Bolsheviks were Jews (the weren’t).

As for Razey…he can fuck off.

Cassie of Sydney
March 3, 2022 9:29 pm

“I have also flagged the original post from 5.39pm”

Thanks RA.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 3, 2022 9:30 pm

miltonfsays:
March 3, 2022 at 9:06 pm
oh ok Boambee John

Definitely not that other disreputable character!

miltonf
miltonf
March 3, 2022 9:32 pm

lol@BJ

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 3, 2022 9:32 pm

Ed Casesays:
March 3, 2022 at 9:09 pm
Beria wasn’t a Georgian either.

I’m so looking forward to Dick Ed’s revisionist history, “The Rise, Decline, and Fall of the Soviet Communist Empire”.

Cassie of Sydney
March 3, 2022 9:32 pm

Razey probably thinks Dan Andrew is a scheming Jew.

Beertruk
Beertruk
March 3, 2022 9:32 pm

Whoever does Madga deserves a medal.

Doesn’t she bat for the other side?

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
March 3, 2022 9:32 pm

Not quite yet. I am in regular contact with one of the cops involved in the case. Although the cops and NZ Defence guys won the High Court case last Friday the Government has not worked out what to do about it yet.

For example there is the problem that the Police Commissioner has a ruling that unvaccinated can’t enter police stations. Despite the decision on Friday he has had no contact from the police about what is happening. They were due to be struck off finally on Monday.

In other good news it seems the NZ Teachers and Health workers are now taking their case to High Court.

Meanwhile the Unions here, except for Qld Fire Services, do nothing.

“It turns out New Zealand won the prize, their High Court ruled the mandates were unjustifiable, hence abolished”.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 3, 2022 9:32 pm

If you consider this sort of link inappropriate, please delete this comment as well as the original.

Always been a standover man, Franger?

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
March 3, 2022 9:37 pm
Boambee John
Boambee John
March 3, 2022 9:37 pm

callisays:
March 3, 2022 at 9:15 pm
BJ, we have all the information we will ever get. There was a move by the pilot’s family to have a search conducted after the war, but the politics of the region meant that it never went ahead.

Times have moved on, Dutch New Guinea is no more, and relations with the Indonesians are better that they were in the 1950s to the 1970s. Vietnam allowed teams to search for missing Australians there, they might still be hope.

There is a major US search operation based in Hawaii, which has good access to many regions in the Pacific. Should they come across any wreckage that is not theirs, they contact the relevant government.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 9:37 pm

Thanks RA……faaaarrrrrrrrrkkkkk. I didn’t press on the link

His conduct and posting was particularly belt-fed today. But that was over the line. Even deliberately provocative. That most people scroll him for his stereotypical carry-on after the ‘I hate this place and Imma emigrate to Japan!’ debacle and his opening ‘Everybody who calls me and my glowie-level amateur Nuffiness out is a Labor operative!’ act when he first appeared on the Cat several months ago, is the only reason he has got this far.

cohenite
March 3, 2022 9:38 pm

Timothy Neilsonsays:
March 3, 2022 at 9:24 pm

Correct.

Cassie of Sydney
March 3, 2022 9:47 pm

“His conduct and posting was particularly belt-fed today. But that was over the line. Even deliberately provocative. That most people scroll him for his stereotypical carry-on after the ‘I hate this place and Imma emigrate to Japan!’ debacle and his opening ‘Everybody who calls me and my glowie-level amateur Nuffiness out is a Labor operative!’ act when he first appeared on the Cat several months ago, is the only reason he has got this far.”

Yes. I generally scroll him and I never press on his links or many others for that matter. I did find it his comment unsavoury about Jews and Bolsheviks which is why I posted my comment above, because I was trying to respond rationally.

Today he’s outed himself and it’s not a pretty picture.

Cassie of Sydney
March 3, 2022 9:48 pm

“I’m so looking forward to Dick Ed’s revisionist history, “The Rise, Decline, and Fall of the Soviet Communist Empire”.”

That’ll be a hoot.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 3, 2022 9:48 pm

Yeah, checked out National Vanguard.
It’s a Spook site.
Razey is a Glowie after all, but, so what?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 3, 2022 9:49 pm

“I’m so looking forward to Dick Ed’s revisionist history, “The Rise, Decline, and Fall of the Soviet Communist Empire”.”

Signed copies available on request.

Beertruk
Beertruk
March 3, 2022 9:49 pm

“I’m so looking forward to Dick Ed’s revisionist history, “The Rise, Decline, and Fall of the Soviet Communist Empire”.”

Foreword by Van Fatbags.

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
March 3, 2022 9:51 pm

Gee why would a persecuted minority be over represented in an organisation against the majority group oppressing them?
That’s even if you are silly enough to call a bunch of murderous shits religious people anyway.

Glad I skipped the link, I might have got Mong on my phone

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 9:56 pm

That’s even if you are silly enough to call a bunch of murderous shits religious people anyway.

I have listened to a bloke who read through some Marx’s works either side of The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, looked at the philosophy and theology he invented that fed into it and declared the result that we popularly call Marxism a religion of ‘Scientific Gnosticism.’

So calling them religious is quite accurate. They (down to every wild descendant and spinoff, like modern Critical Race and Queer Theories) felt they had the secret to perfecting Man. And damned if they weren’t going to achieve it, dead and broken body by dead and broken body.

Bluey
Bluey
March 3, 2022 10:06 pm

I saw a partial screenshot of an article that claims the Chinese payments system alternative to SWIFT has gone roaring into action amongst emerging economies after Russia was given the boot from SWIFT.

I have not been able to find the original though. Anyone seen anything about it?

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 3, 2022 10:16 pm

Yeah, checked out National Vanguard.
It’s a Spook site.
Razey is a Glowie after all, but, so what?

Yeah, it’s a puzzler?
Razey posts some SpookShit, 2 minutes later, Dot flounces, 2 minutes after
that Rex Franger presses Report Comment, then larps as a statesman.
I’m sure it’s all totally legit …

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 3, 2022 10:20 pm

Beria wasn’t a Georgian either.

Well he definitely wasn’t an engineer.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 3, 2022 10:22 pm

Cassie, and apropos of Razey – aka The Last Samurai:

I did find it his comment unsavoury about Jews and Bolsheviks which is why I posted my comment above, because I was trying to respond rationally.

Is there anything the Choos haven’t done?

Tell you what – if I find out they were responsible for Wayne Harmes stealing the 1979 VFL Premiership from the rightful, non-cheating winners (Collingwood), I’m on board.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 3, 2022 10:25 pm

Ed.

You are a gentle, delicate retard. Like Warren in There’s Something About Mary.

I stuck up for you last night when the nasty old lurker wanted you banned. Now, stop banging your pots or you won’t get your baseball back.

MatrixTransform
March 3, 2022 10:25 pm

you lot … appear to have lost the fucking plot

Winston Smith
March 3, 2022 10:25 pm

Rex Anger:

Only lease, Winston?

IIRC, there are only 50/60 in service and they have a role in the US nuclear triad, so we’d be lucky to get a dozen or so. But a couple of squadrons would be on the ‘nice to have’ list. Leasing/buying.
My preference is for leasing with a maintenance contract – trying to equipment for the least cost. But whatever the accountants want.

Maybe even get Boeing or Lockheed-Martin’s (Whoever nommed up Rockwell between 1990 and now) Australian office to design and build a modernised derivative when the old ones are no longer viable.

That would be an excellent idea until we get the politicians and the Defence Establishment involved.
I have absolutely no confidence the bureaucrats could manage a program without it being a budgetry or technical disaster. In fact I would take a damned sharp axe to the entire defence support department. There should be a price to pay for the disasters they’ve presided over for the last 40 years, and so far they don’t seem to have paid it.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 10:38 pm

In fact I would take a damned sharp axe to the entire defence support department. There should be a price to pay for the disasters they’ve presided over for the last 40 years, and so far they don’t seem to have paid it.

Yep. Once upon a time, each Service had a small Department that did every aspect of personnel and equipment administration and procurement. And that seemed to work just fine until Gough and Malcolm Fraser’s time.

Then the ADF ended up with 2 quite Large Departments. Neither of which have done the Services any favours beyond chewing up their budget and misdirecting their focus.

3 Small sub-Departments is plenty enough. 🙂

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 10:40 pm

you lot … appear to have lost the fucking plot

Thank you.

See you you for your next drive-by tomorrow night. I think Rabz has something planned for late-night listening. 🙂

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 10:43 pm

Ed Casesays:
March 3, 2022 at 10:16 pm

You know Grigs is suffering from something when he’s replying to himself as if it’s a different poster.

I suspect somebody’s doped his Gypsum with Derpamine Mong-o-hydrate again…

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 3, 2022 10:45 pm

Ikea suspends Russia, Belarus operations
Agency writers
AGENCY WRITERS

Ikea’s decision to cease operations in Russia and Belarus will hit 15,000 worders. Picture: AFP
Ikea’s decision to cease operations in Russia and Belarus will hit 15,000 worders. Picture: AFP

Swedish furniture giant Ikea will suspend activities in Russia and Belarus, affecting nearly 15,000 employees, 17 stores and three production sites, in response to the war in Ukraine.

“The war has had a huge human impact already. It is also resulting in serious disruptions to supply chain and trading conditions. For all of these reasons, Ikea has decided to temporarily pause operations in Russia,” the company said late on Thursday.

The suspension mainly concerns Russia, where the Swedish group has been present since 2000 and is one of the largest Western employers.

Operations in Belarus would also be halted, though the country hosts only a few suppliers and has no shops, according to Ikea.

“The devastating war in Ukraine is a human tragedy, and our deepest empathy and concerns are with the millions of people impacted,” the company said.

“These decisions have a direct impact on 15,000 Ikea co-workers, and the company groups will secure employment and income stability and provide support to them and their families in the region,” Ikea said.

While the stores operated by the Ingka group account for the bulk of the workforce affected, 12,000 people, Ikea also has nearly 2500 employees working in manufacturing, with three factories in Russia.

According to the company, 47 suppliers in Russia and 10 in Belarus, would be affected by the decision, which also puts a stop to imports and exports between the two countries.

Prior to this announcement, Ikea had initially announced that it would leave its shops in Russia open, which was met with criticism in Sweden.map

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
March 3, 2022 10:45 pm

I don’t see why you’re so mad at crazy razey. As far as I can see, and I don’t read him carefully, all he was saying is that there were lots of Jews in the higher ranks of the communists. I wouldn’t find this surprising. Jews are smarter than the average so I’d expect them to rise in any organisation. The really smart ones would stay out of it, being able to see what the others were like, and not so likely to be caught up in the narrative. And Marx himself was ethnically Jewish. So what? I don’t see anything antisemitic about the observation that some Jews were prominent commies. Plenty in the USA are prominent lefties. And others are prominent standup comedians. And Nobel prize winning scientists.

It’s because, on average, Jews are smart. Smarter than most of the competition. And certainly heaps smarter than crazey razey.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 10:52 pm

More to do with the who and the what he linked, Dr BG.

There’s mongery. And then in this day and age, there’s actionable mongery that can be used as an excuse to get someone shut down.

Razey decided, for whatever reason, he wanted to do the latter.

Bill P
Bill P
March 3, 2022 10:55 pm

Calli
I recently had a request for a DNA sample in relation to my father who is “missing presumed dead” somewhere in New Guinea.WW2
From Qld Uni I think. I’d have to look it up.

local oaf
March 3, 2022 11:00 pm

It’s because, on average, Jews are smart. Smarter than most of the competition. And certainly heaps smarter than crazey razey.

Weren’t Jews largely excluded from any prominent positions in society under the Tsars?

If so, then their presence amongst the early bolshies would have been disproportionately noticeable. From outsiders to suddenly part of the state apparatus.
Any position of importance whatsoever would be part of the State in a one party totalitarian state.

I’ve always thought that their share of the blame for the horrors of the socialist regime had been overstated.

JC
JC
March 3, 2022 11:05 pm

Interesting piece in the Jerusalem Post on the Jewish Bolsheviks. The takeaway was that they were just as merciless with Jews who opposed them.

https://www.jpost.com/magazine/was-the-russian-revolution-jewish-514323

Baba
Baba
March 3, 2022 11:08 pm

I didn’t watch but it seems as though the Q+A producer got to Stan Grant tonight.

And Stan reveals that Q+A questions are routinely vetted. Who could have guessed?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-03/stan-grant-tells-audience-member-to-leave-qanda/100880520

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
March 3, 2022 11:09 pm

More to do with the who and the what he linked, Dr BG.

Ahh, that makes sense. I wouldn’t follow any link he posted.

JC
JC
March 3, 2022 11:11 pm

I’ve always thought that their share of the blame for the horrors of the socialist regime had been overstated.

Who is they though? Why collective guilt when there really is no guilt to spread around except within the clique.

MatrixTransform
March 3, 2022 11:11 pm

More to do with the who and the what he linked

oh, so it was link-crime

… Alinsky would be proud

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 11:16 pm

Matrix, you are welcome to find any Cat or other space you wish.

That you think it is a great idea to drop in and anklebite at us because we might like to keep ours is a pretty piss-poor reflection on you alone.

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 3, 2022 11:18 pm
MatrixTransform
March 3, 2022 11:18 pm

fuck off Rex … that the most pithy ankle-biting gibber I’ve read all day

… and that’s saying something

Winston Smith
March 3, 2022 11:21 pm

Matrix Transform:

Rather than read today’s Open Forum I chose to talk about paint colours with the missus
I’m now beginning to appreciate the subtle differences between Whisper White and Antique White

Matrix, men only see in the three primary colours and B/W.
We haven’t a clue what chartreuse is, but it has a terrible aftertaste.

Are you transitioning?
…and to what?

MatrixTransform
March 3, 2022 11:24 pm

…and to what?

a whiter shade of pale

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 11:24 pm

fuck off Rex … that the most pithy ankle-biting gibber I’ve read all day

… and that’s saying something

Next thing we know, you’ll be telling the Open Thread you were only pretending to be an anklebiting retardate…

MatrixTransform
March 3, 2022 11:25 pm

to be honest youse all sound like a tram-load of school-girls today

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 11:25 pm

…Or you were just looking for an easy rise.

Either or.

Still unwelcome and a poor reflection on you. 🙂

JC
JC
March 3, 2022 11:27 pm

It’s not that I’m getting older, but the world is truly getting really fucking weirder by the year.

Really this carefully and it’s a GOP Rep.

Rep. Van Taylor apologizes for affair with ‘ISIS bride,’ abruptly drops reelection bid

Rep. Van Taylor apologizes for affair with ‘ISIS bride,’ abruptly drops reelection bid
Two-term Plano Republican concedes runoff to Keith Self after admitting ‘horrible mistake’

Update: Updated at 6:45 p.m.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Van Taylor apologized Wednesday for an affair with an ex-jihadist dubbed the “ISIS bride” by British tabloids and abruptly dropped his bid for a third term, conceding the GOP runoff to rival Keith Self, a former Collin County judge.

“About a year ago, I made a horrible mistake that has caused deep hurt and pain among those I love most in this world. I had an affair, it was wrong, and it was the greatest failure of my life,” he said in an email to supporters.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2022/03/02/last-minute-infidelity-allegation-helped-force-two-term-plano-rep-van-taylor-into-runoff/

He bonking her.

Get a freaking load of this;

The story of Tania Georgelas and her husband John unfolded across four continents, but it is one of the most American stories I have ever heard. Stop me if this one is familiar: John, a Texan from a wealthy Christian family, converted to Islam as a teenager and 13 years later ascended to the high echelons of the Islamic State. In London, along the way, he married Tania, a native-born Muslim with ambitions of becoming a suicide bomber. They had four kids, and together they fantasized about becoming a family of itinerant holy warriors, a sort of Islamic version of the Von Trapps, substituting slaughter of infidels for Alpine show tunes. In 2013, they went to Syria, hoping to make it into ISIS territory. Only John succeeded. He will probably die there.

JC
JC
March 3, 2022 11:27 pm

He was…

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 11:28 pm

to be honest youse all sound like a tram-load of school-girls today

Why? Jealous?

Sure beats boasting at us that you spent the day trying to argue with someone (who may well be an invented construct) about what shades of your personal beigeness actually constitute ‘off-white…’

rosie
rosie
March 3, 2022 11:29 pm

So far Paris, this quarter, is pretty much the same as it was last time, and the time before that, etc.
If anything it seems to be gentrifying, more international restaurants, including one that specialises in the cuisines of Cap Vert and Portugal, in shopfronts I recall being empty, a couple of extra book shops, new and second hand. Shops with signs in windows offering employment opportunities.
Perhaps less beggars, I’ll wander down Rue de Rivoli and test that theory shortly.
Having the formule at my favourite restaurant. Boudin noir.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 11:29 pm

It’s not that I’m getting older, but the world is truly getting really fucking weirder by the year.

Wot JC said…

MatrixTransform
March 3, 2022 11:30 pm

Rex, when do you become a shame-based organism?

Still unwelcome and a poor reflection on you.

what, exactly is a poor reflection on me?

can you put words to it?

JC
JC
March 3, 2022 11:31 pm

Just so the story is clear.

1. A Republican congressman was found out to be bonking a female jihadi, who at one time had aspirations of becoming a suicide bomber.

2. The other story I linked to in the Atlantic was about the jihadi and the Texan she married.

FMD.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 3, 2022 11:32 pm

They had four kids, and together they fantasized about becoming a family of itinerant holy warriors, a sort of Islamic version of the Von Trapps, substituting slaughter of infidels for Alpine show tunes.

This is why, despite being illiterate Stone Age goat rooters, they have had the success they have.

Normal people do not have these thought processes. Perhaps we should start.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 11:34 pm

Rex Angersays:
March 3, 2022 at 11:28 pm

Actually, that’s a reportable comment.

Calling someone ‘beige’ is nigh-on unforgivable.

I am sorry, Matrix. I am sure that you are a very interesting person in the meatspace, with your own unique experiences and perspectives.

To refer to you as dull, unremarkable, bland and thoroughly ignorable because you were being a contrarian shit for your own personal amusement was very unkind.

I will try very hard not to do it again.

JC
JC
March 3, 2022 11:34 pm

Normal people do not have these thought processes. Perhaps we should start.

You mean, young men should try to marry females who aspire to become suicide bombers? Really?

rosie
rosie
March 3, 2022 11:37 pm

And I just got a pop up headline, France to drop vaccine passports from 14 March. Might explain why I haven’t been asked today.

Indolent
Indolent
March 3, 2022 11:39 pm

An article about the Pfizer adverse events document linked yesterday –

BOMBSHELL: Pfizer Doc Analyzes Numerous Severe Adverse Reactions Following Inoculation

MatrixTransform
March 3, 2022 11:40 pm

about what shades of your personal beigeness actually constitute ‘off-white…’

dunno … maybe the joke was a little esoteric for you, mate.

I’d say that today on The Cat was pretty beige but, I’m no expert

Kev
Kev
March 3, 2022 11:43 pm

Rex Anger
permit retired officers over the rank of Major, who were deemed to have served in good standing to retain their rank (using the suffix Ret’d) and wear the uniform.
Almost…..
Officers of field rank and higher can retain their rank – includes Majors

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 11:43 pm

dunno … maybe the joke was a little esoteric for you, mate.

Welp, you have fun pretending yiu’re the smartest poster in the room, because only you seem to understand whatever joke you thought you were making at my expense.

It’s kinda up there with being ‘destroyed’ by Struth on a daily basis…

rosie
rosie
March 3, 2022 11:46 pm

I made a little joke about tunnels and the Seine this morning.
No-one noticed. 🙁

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 11:48 pm

I made a little joke about tunnels and the Seine this morning.
No-one noticed

Not entirely true.

But the story clearly ended well, as you came out alive, and not as pizza topping… 🙂

MatrixTransform
March 3, 2022 11:49 pm

because only you seem to understand whatever joke you thought you were making at my expense.

sorry for being mean … that really is a pretty dress

did you make that youself?

rosie
rosie
March 3, 2022 11:51 pm

I wonder if the French will ban Russian salad, I always see it in the supermarket.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
March 3, 2022 11:55 pm

I made a little joke about tunnels and the Seine this morning.
No-one noticed. ?

Sorry Rosie, I did notice but didn’t remark it.

I am enjoying your travelogue. It’s much the most interesting stuff on the Çat these days. Beats speculation on the Ukraine war, which in turn beats ppl bitching at each other, which is distressingly common.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 3, 2022 11:57 pm

So Matrix,

You have an opportunity to de-beige the Open Thread.

Why are you wasting it on anklebiting at me?

What do you want to talk about?

MatrixTransform
March 3, 2022 11:59 pm

What do you want to talk about?

your frock

MatrixTransform
March 4, 2022 12:00 am

like … will you wear flats or kitten-heels with it

Winston Smith
March 4, 2022 12:01 am

Rex Anger:

Winston, do you still have that Don’t Tard On Me! flag linked somewhere?

I’ve just changed my avatar to it.
Are there other ways of adding pictures to my posts? BoN seems to be able to do it but I cannot remember which site he uses…

rosie
rosie
March 4, 2022 12:03 am

My favourite restaurant has a preserved rhino head and an eclectic mix of modern art on the walls as well as a bunch of other interesting bits and pieces including vintage hand tools and ski equipment.
I like it very much. After wondering why I came back to Paris, I’m happy to be here.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 12:05 am

your frock

Welp, have fun gurning at the pigeons in my absence then, anklebiter…

Winston Smith
March 4, 2022 12:09 am

Knuckle Dragger:

Well he definitely wasn’t an engineer.

On the evidence displayed, I have strong suspicions he may have been a Queenslander.

MatrixTransform
March 4, 2022 12:10 am

have fun gurning at the pigeons in my absence then

the dovecote
all the shit and feathers
and not a pigeon to be found

local oaf
March 4, 2022 12:12 am

Who is they though? Why collective guilt when there really is no guilt to spread around except within the clique.

Good point. I’ve inadvertently fallen into the trap of using the near universal tendency of trying to pin blame on specific groups – races, religions, nationalities for whatever horror is being discussed.
i.e. “the worst nazis were Ukranians”, or “the worst commies weren’t Russian they were Jews or Georgians”, etc. I guess this is usually done to “exonerate” some other group

It’s hard not to write and even think, in the same patterns that others have used so often for so long. As you say, the only guilty ones are whichever individuals chose to commit such crimes. Their race or nationality are irrelevant.

Struth
March 4, 2022 12:19 am

JC.
Let me help you out regards your curiosity about the world outside Lygon street.
It’s scary for you out there.
You have often told us this.
You scratch your head about “Queenslanders”

We only too well remember your trip to SA and how it taxed you in so many ways.
Stressed you.
Sometimes, god forbid, you couldn’t even get yourself the right latte with a lemon twist.
I am an Australian.
I have lived in Victoria, so at one stage a Victorian.
I have lived in WA and also the NT and QLD and SA.
I have travelled this country extensively.
I know. I know, hard to fathom but there is life outside of the CBD’s of Melbourne and New York.
Trying to understand the outside world, and especially country folk will now not be possible at this late stage in life for you.
So, like the others here who make fools of themselves, just stay on the cat 24/7 so when those that have your number make you look like the goose you are, you can start telling lies about them and trying to character assassinate them while they are gone.
And keep getting yourself jabbed.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 12:39 am

so when those that have your number make you look like the goose you are, you can start telling lies about them and trying to character assassinate them while they are gone.

You don’t need any help assassinating yourself, Struth darling. Not after your performance today.

But do keep pretending you are the Hero of the Hour, dear manlet. And everyone who questioned you or laughed at your frantic deflection Nuffing was a ‘denier.’

And remember for tomorrow, a government announcing an intent to build something that you decided was a DeAtH CaMp in the apparent absence of any postable information to confirm it, does not mean they were already building it on day one of ‘two weeks to flatten the curve…’

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