Open Thread – Tues 1 March 2022


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

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feelthebern
feelthebern
March 4, 2022 11:15 am

It’s a very strange world indeed when one finds oneself in general agreement with John Pilger.

Or another way to look at it.
Develop your own views.
Then don’t give a shit who agrees or disagrees with you.

Struth
March 4, 2022 11:15 am

I used to like Rod Marsh in me yoof.
Those days of world series cricket nearly got me interested in the sport.
Then of course they bowled underarm.
Never watched a second since.

And seventy four is a bit young.
With the nation being taken over by tyrannical traitors, and all that it entails, KD laments that the blog doesn’t turn itself over to full mourning mode for the next week regarding a cricketer, which sort of makes my point this morning.

However, those were good times and Lillie and Marsh and the rest were a product of a healthier, happier, more exciting Australia.
When Australia was fun.

RIP Rod Marsh.

Struth
March 4, 2022 11:16 am

I’ve had a top notch education, comrade.

Struth
March 4, 2022 11:18 am

I tried to experiment with creating my own mayonnaise.

You’ve been doing that for a while now………..

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 4, 2022 11:20 am

sTan Grant’s reverse-Michael Jackson skin treatment regime is running a bit off the rails. He’s looking more Kamahl than Koori, I have to say.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 11:22 am

You’ve been doing that for a while now………..

I still need vegetable oil.

And only a Manlet posing as a Hero of the Highways will do.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 11:23 am

Pull your fingers out, Cats.

Struth only has 45 upticks.

He is barely half-validated, and will continue to Nuff about and be a scrollable nuisance until you all signal your agreement with him…

Struth
March 4, 2022 11:25 am

Of course Johanna never had to fight in Vietnam or the Japs in WW2 etc.
You said it was with Keating.
People were still alive that witnessed the attrocities of the japs and fought them etc, Johanna.
You know there was still a lot of anger toward nips back then.
And much of it with very good reason.
Did shit like that ever cross your insulated, safe little public service existence back then, and how your free nation was still there to pay your bigotted self wages?

Kneel
Kneel
March 4, 2022 11:26 am

“That’s correct but the question is, or should be, why are they still under construction?”

Because the contractors are not stupid, that’s why. All such contractors will get their money and/or compensation for lost profits as part of the contract cancellation clauses.

Case in point: desalination plants. We didn’t need them. We don’t use them. But they got built on an “emergency!” alert, and we are still (unless the contract has run out or been paid out) paying for the bastards. Once the contract expires, they will rot until some developer get approval to create luxury apartment blocks or something on the site, or some other “use” for the land they consume is “required”.

Struth
March 4, 2022 11:28 am

This fixation with upticks says so much more about you and your deperate desire for acceptance.
Who’s looking at that shit?

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 4, 2022 11:28 am
johanna
johanna
March 4, 2022 11:30 am

Bruce of N – as the person who first mentioned the admirable Mongolian band, The Hu – here is my question.

Do you find that Youtbe has cut out the visuals – only the sound is left in their videos?

calli
calli
March 4, 2022 11:32 am

You have no idea how revolting those letters were. None.

I can imagine.

These days the same creatures are on social media.

Being instructed to reply to them in a civil manner would stick in my craw too.

calli
calli
March 4, 2022 11:33 am

I always check my upticks. I have no shame.

Pogria
Pogria
March 4, 2022 11:34 am

Kookaburras are terrestrial tree kingfishers of the genus Dacelo native to Australia and New Guinea, which grow to between 28 and 47 cm (11 and 19 in) in length and weigh around 300 g (11 oz)

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 11:35 am

Twostix says:
March 4, 2022 at 10:01 am
Struth’s funny in that he makes some people out their true selves.

You mean like Struth yet again exposing himself as an obnoxious canute, looking for excuses to be outrageous for his imaginated audience?

Struth says:
March 4, 2022 at 11:25 am

Of course Johanna never had to fight in Vietnam or the Japs in WW2 etc…
…You know there was still a lot of anger toward nips back then…
…Did shit like that ever cross your insulated, safe little public service existence back then, and how your free nation was still there to pay your bigotted self wages?

Blimey, I never thought I’d agree with the angry Gen-Xer on something…

Cassie of Sydney
March 4, 2022 11:37 am

“Struthsays:
March 4, 2022 at 11:25 am”

You are trying to justify the unjustifiable.

johanna
johanna
March 4, 2022 11:37 am

Oh, and as a birdie person, may I make a complaint about crows (Australian ravens) hanging about here recently. They are loud and noisy, and their mournful cries might quell a carnival. Presumably there are a group of them – is the term A Murder of Crows?

Possibly the title of a novel The Divine Agatha never had the time to write.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 11:40 am

This fixation with upticks says so much more about you and your deperate desire for acceptance.
Who’s looking at that shit?

You clearly are, Struth.

Your carry-on gets deeper and deeper into obnoxious, craven stupidity and provocation every time you log on here. And every tike you do, there are more upticks on your blatherings.

If you didn’t demonstrate your boorishness and utter lack of wisdom with every post you make, I would suspect you were trying to play chicken with the site owner to see if he’d ban you, then go cry and bullshit about him elsewhere.

calli
calli
March 4, 2022 11:40 am

I have two adolescent kookas who regularly terrorise the butcherbird family (now numbering nine). They have discovered that an enormous blue tongue lizard is lurking under the aircon unit and occasionally comes out for a bit of sun.

So the rotters sit in the tree above, awaiting their opportunity. The lizard, being crafty, lies very close to the front of the unit, making a swoop and skewer almost impossible.

The birds live in hope that it will venture further…

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 11:41 am

is the term A Murder of Crows?

Yes.

Also used to describe a grouping of Corporals and other Junior NCOs… 🙂

johanna
johanna
March 4, 2022 11:46 am

Struth says:
March 4, 2022 at 11:25 am

Of course Johanna never had to fight in Vietnam or the Japs in WW2 etc.

I think that Lizzie has just beaten him in logic – although it’s a close run thing.

C.L.
C.L.
March 4, 2022 11:48 am

Prosecute till we win…

Jarryd Hayne to face third trial on sexual assault allegations.

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 4, 2022 11:49 am

I still need vegetable oil.

Dammit.
If I’d known I could’ve picked some up at Coles.
The rumour that they had butter was just that, but they did have bananas.
And half a cabbage.

EvilElvis
EvilElvis
March 4, 2022 11:49 am

You have no idea how revolting those letters were. None.

No doubt. Some of us have had to deal with people like that face to face.

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 4, 2022 11:49 am

Just noting that 4 March is the 80th anniversary of the 1942 sinking of HMAS Yarra in defence of her convoy north of Australia.

Lieutenant Commander Rankin and Leading Seaman Taylor are still waiting for the VCs.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 11:51 am

If I’d known I could’ve picked some up at Coles.

But Locototi,

I need a Vegetable for my vegetable oil.

And Grigory has a severe case of gypsum contamination. You can’t have chalky mayonnaise, it’s just not right…

#Eurrgh

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 11:52 am

And half a cabbage.

Spud Shed is still enforcing a limit on 2 per customer. 🙂

EvilElvis
EvilElvis
March 4, 2022 11:53 am

Here we go…

The angst, sadness and anger of losing the original Cat and then having a credibility beating with Covid is on constant display. Again. Just can’t let it go can we.

Dover, hat tip, a valiant and noble effort to continue the Cat but it’s hard to recreate the old magic.

calli
calli
March 4, 2022 11:54 am

Jarryd Hayne to face third trial on sexual assault allegations.

Imagine the level of hatred that justifies this.

And then remember that this is our legal system.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 4, 2022 11:54 am

Fascinating observations from a couple of guys who know tyres.

How cheap Chinese tires might explain Russia’s ‘stalled’ 40-mile-long military convoy in Ukraine (3 Mar, via Instapundit)

In short the vehicles have been sitting in the sun without use for a long time, and are apparently fitted with cheap Chinese military tyres. So the wheels are literally falling off if they try to go off road in the springtime mud.

A tweet that has the original comments is here:

https://twitter.com/KarlMuth/status/1499185800172474371

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 4, 2022 11:56 am

is the term A Murder of Crows?

Yes.

Or, if you are a Deputy Commissioner of the Northern Territory Police, it also applies to a group of Constables. Especially if you accidentally livestream the conversation where you said it to Facebook.

There was mucho outrage amongst the populace when this occurred, particularly as it was just before the trial of the bloke for the Yuendumu shooting was about to begin. Such was the public rage that the Commissioner and former NT Government and remote housing spendthrift, Chalker, published a statement in which he asked people to ‘be kinder to each other’. Seriously.

This trial is almost done. Defence are so confident at the complete lack of any evidence of murder presented by the prosecution that they’ve put the accused on the stand as part of the defence case.

This is almost unprecedented in moida trials. Epic fallout is inbound.

calli
calli
March 4, 2022 11:57 am

Elvis, nothing is ever the same second time around.

Embrace the difference! 😀

Struth
March 4, 2022 11:57 am
Struth
March 4, 2022 12:00 pm

Icky letters from people who’ve watched their mates beheaded or lost their loved ones fighting nips upsets public servants.
News at eleven.

Roger
Roger
March 4, 2022 12:01 pm

Never skimp on tyres.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 4, 2022 12:03 pm

Never skimp on tyres.

Conti all the way.

Struth
March 4, 2022 12:03 pm

Now you’ve made me look at them I see why you are upset, comrade.

Struth
March 4, 2022 12:04 pm

Remember daylight savings. it was news at eleven here in cane toad county.
We don’t have that bullshit up here either.
Another plus.

Cassie of Sydney
March 4, 2022 12:05 pm

Jarryd Hayne to face third trial on sexual assault allegations.”

Words fail me.

Razey
Razey
March 4, 2022 12:10 pm

johannasays:
March 4, 2022 at 11:12 am
EvilElvis says:
March 4, 2022 at 10:45 am

When Howard came in, the rules changed. We had to either send a ‘thank you for your letter’ response or even sometimes to engage with these fuckwits. I ended up moving from that job because I couldn’t stand it.

Good to know what public servants think of constituents, even the shit ones. Does any public servant ever wonder why they are like that when engaging with politicians or the PS in general?

You have no idea how revolting those letters were. None.

We are not talking about discussion here. We are talking about suggestions about how ‘gooks’ and ‘chinks’ and other undesirables should be fed into woodchippers and used to fertilise the fields of ‘white Australians.’

‘Thank you for your letter?’

No.

Heh. I remember not that long ago a couple of the leftwing fuckwits here smugly stating that everyone should be respected.

LOL.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 4, 2022 12:10 pm

HOW MANY BOOSTERS are you going to take?

Well, none.

That link goes to a piece in something called National File, which is an rsrsrrs-level ‘Researcher X has written many articles, and said in a Zoom meeting’ type of thing. Further adding to its credibility, or lack thereof is the article right next to it on that site. It is an appeal to send money to Ukraine.

Money transfer from abroad:

Fondy.eu – is the highest security level – PCI DSS Level 1.
Transfer currency is Ukrainian Hryvnia.
If your card has the other currency, the amount of money will be transferred according to the currency exchange.
The receiver pays 2,45% commision.

SWIFT
Company Name
CO “INTERNATIONAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION “COME BACK ALIVE”

Yessssss, well. I might give that one a miss.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 12:13 pm

Now you’ve made me look at them I see why you are upset, comrade.

The Manlet is back to petty anklebiting.

Poor manlet. Its audience went away…

Struth
March 4, 2022 12:14 pm

The government of Australia is supporting Ukraine.
You are already sending money to Ukraine.

johanna
johanna
March 4, 2022 12:16 pm

St Ruth is clearly unable to bear being a nobody at the furniture store, despite his compelling arguments.

So here he is, annoying people as is his usual MO.

I’m off to buy some coal and oil stocks. 🙂

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 4, 2022 12:17 pm

I only wear a blue singlet so no one thinks I’m a poofta pansy. So far it’s working.

Struth
March 4, 2022 12:20 pm

St Ruth is clearly unable to bear being a nobody at the furniture store, despite his compelling arguments.

So here he is, annoying people as is his usual MO.

I’m off to buy some coal and oil stocks.

As opposed to the centre of the universe here?

Don’t put yourself out Johanna, I’ll be gone soon, looks like the weather is clearing for a bit.
I’m here when I’m bored, that is all.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 4, 2022 12:20 pm

I’m off to buy some coal and oil stocks

Don’t forget Big Tobacco.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 12:22 pm

Icky letters from people who’ve watched their mates beheaded or lost their loved ones fighting nips upsets public servants.

Cute assumption there, Manlet.

What if they were all Blue-Singelet waving spacktards like you, mindlessly parroting the ignorance their parents parroted from their parents and so forth. You know, the sort of folks that even the most salt of the earth Blue Collar people cannot stand to be around?

I have no doubt that when you drove, you were known to be exactly that sort of person, and everyone you pulled up next to at the truck-stops suddenly felt a need to run their compressors at full pelt. Or realised that they were “Really, really late mate! Gotta go!”

Struth
March 4, 2022 12:23 pm

So how fucking bored must choo choo man be !!!
Fuck me swingin’.
Do you do anything comrade?
You’re here 24/7.
Unionised employment, what a fucking joke.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 12:23 pm

I’ll be gone soon, looks like the weather is clearing for a bit.
I’m here when I’m bored, that is all.

Struth goes full Grigory again:

I tell a lotta lies, pal…

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 12:26 pm

So how fucking bored must choo choo man be !!!
Fuck me swingin’.
Do you do anything comrade?
You’re here 24/7.

Says the stooge who could not let his nuffery go yesterday, and kept coming back to try and defend his own vomit.

Got that link that proves your DeAtH CaMpS were being built on Day One of the Covid Crisis yet?

‘Announcements’ don’t count, remember?

#Struth-AllMouth,NoTrousers

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 12:27 pm

Unionised employment, what a fucking joke.

Is it why you stopped driving trucks?

Socialism sat you on your arse before it was fashionably for you to cry about it?

Old bloke
Old bloke
March 4, 2022 12:29 pm

Anchor What says:
March 4, 2022 at 6:29 am

Thanks are due again to Melanie Phillips and Powerline for drawing attention to a report by a former State Department guy who spills the beans on what’s going on.
It isn’t pretty.

That’s total capitulation, it looks like Obama and Valerie Jarrett are still running US foreign policy.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 4, 2022 12:32 pm

Do you find that Youtbe has cut out the visuals – only the sound is left in their videos?

Johanna – Just had a quick check of a couple of Hu vids: I get the visuals and the audio.

However I use a VPN and Brave. The former stuffs up geoblocking and the latter eliminates YT ads. The VPN also gets around cute ISP censorship, which is still in place for BlazingCatFur last I looked. Amazing how ISPs seem to want to save the world from incorrect thought.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
March 4, 2022 12:33 pm

Poop attack perp told cops ‘s–t happens’ before being released without bail

The sicko who allegedly smashed his own feces in a Bronx straphanger’s face joked with cops that “s–t happens” before sneering to a Bronx judge, “F–k you, bitch.”

Frank Abrokwa, 37, was busted Monday at his homeless shelter in connection to the revolting Feb. 21 attack, according to cops and police sources.

Upon arrest, he made light of the attack, quipping to cops, “S–t happens. Haha. This is a s–tty situation. Haha,” Bronx Assistant District Attorney Grace Phillips said during Abrokwa’s arraignment late Tuesday.

Ultimately, Abrokwa was freed without bail — because the charges against him were not bail-eligible under the state’s bail reform laws, despite prosecutors’ request for him to be held on $15,000 bond, or $5,000 cash.

Abrokwa has 22 prior unsealed arrests dating back to 1999, and dozens of sealed arrests, according to authorities and police sources.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 12:34 pm

That’s total capitulation, it looks like Obama and Valerie Jarrett are still running US foreign policy.

I think you’re missing the word ‘craven’ at least once in your assessment there, Old Bloke.

But apart from that, 110% agree.

Now, we watch for the IDF to carry out a re-run of the Osirak raid…

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 4, 2022 12:35 pm

Having a look at the Twitter stuff on the sidebar, how long do you think funding will be available for vaxx v no vaxx studies for The Science?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 4, 2022 12:36 pm

H B Bearsays:
March 4, 2022 at 12:17 pm
I only wear a blue singlet so no one thinks I’m a poofta pansy. So far it’s working.

I think they’ll notice the no pants first.

Razey
Razey
March 4, 2022 12:38 pm

Bruce of Newcastlesays:
March 4, 2022 at 12:32 pm
Do you find that Youtbe has cut out the visuals – only the sound is left in their videos?

Johanna – Just had a quick check of a couple of Hu vids: I get the visuals and the audio.

However I use a VPN and Brave. The former stuffs up geoblocking and the latter eliminates YT ads. The VPN also gets around cute ISP censorship, which is still in place for BlazingCatFur last I looked. Amazing how ISPs seem to want to save the world from incorrect thought.

Yeah, just like that Rex cunt, who keeps posting bullshit as if its opinion is relevant and saving us from incorrect thought. LOL

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 4, 2022 12:40 pm

I think they’ll notice the no pants first

People are pretty comfortable with that once I explain some of my other lifestyle choices.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 12:41 pm

Amazing how ISPs seem to want to save the world from incorrect thought.

I did not know the Chinese were so offended by Mongolians.

Talk about the CCP exploiting long-held cultural memories to push an agenda.

As the Hu (and the Mongolian folk saying) declares, How Strange, How Strange…

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 12:42 pm

Yeah, just like that Rex cunt, who keeps posting bullshit as if its opinion is relevant and saving us from incorrect thought. LOL

Poor Glowie.

Caught out again, eh?

Tell you masters to be more subtle with the scripting next time.

Or move to Japan. 🙂

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 4, 2022 12:48 pm

For St. Ruth. Robert Craddock:

Rod Marsh’s mother wanted him to become a concert pianist but he felt those famous fingers would be better suited elsewhere.

Never afraid to go his own sweet way, Marsh decided, according to his recent autobiography, that being a concert pianist “could hardly have been less compatible with my growing passion for wicket-keeping. I wasn’t very interested in schoolwork either so it was cricket or bust for me.’’

And off he went, despite the early piano lessons, on a journey which made him one of the most decorated exponents of the wicket-keeping craft, a one-time world record holder for most Test dismissals, the first keeper to score a Test century for Australia.

Marsh’s death this at morning at 6am in an Adelaide Hospital following a heart attack last week has shattered the cricket world.

A tearful Adam Gilchrist lauded Marsh’s contribution to the game.

“It’s unbelievable,’’ Gilchrist said. “You feel it can’t be real. He was the reason I took up keeping and I just feel so sorry for his family who have lost a father and a husband. He was a beautiful man.

Only this week Gilchrist changed his Twitter handle to include the front cover of Marsh on his book Gloves, Sweat and Tears.

“I saw that book and that photo when I was 12 and it really inspired me. You see Rod’s fingers are taped in that photo. I ended up taping my fingers all the way through my career just like he did.’’

Every cricketer is ultimately defined by his numbers but numbers alone never did justice to the swagger and soul Marsh injected into Australian cricket when the sizzling 70s swept away the stagnation of Test cricket’s slow-fused 1960s.

There was mention of the underarm delivery earlier this morning. Watch the tape again, and you’ll see Marsh going down the pitch shaking his head at skipper Greg Chappell, and telling him not to do it.

dopey
dopey
March 4, 2022 12:48 pm

ABC have got their Fukushima story. Fire breaks out at Ukraine nuclear plant.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 4, 2022 12:49 pm

II.

Marsh played 96 Tests but no legacy will linger longer than his introduction of Australia’s team song.

After talking to Ian Chappell about a verse sung by one of Chappell’s old friends, Marsh felt Australia needed a team song and was inspired by Henry Lawson’s 1887 poem Flag of The Southern Cross.

Under the Southern Cross I Stand

A sprig of wattle in my hand,

A native of my native land,

Australia you f—— beauty.

Marsh sung it with gusto after Test wins then handed on the choirmasters job to Allan Border before it passed through David Boon, Ian Healy, Ricky Ponting, Justin Langer, Michael Hussey to the current recipient, Nathan Lyon, which pleased Marsh because “he hasn’t missed a Test since he got it.’’

The brief, cheeky, emotive ditty, first sung in the Australian dressing room at the Gabba in 1974, is as much the embodiment of Australia cricket as the man who first sang it.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 4, 2022 12:50 pm

III.

Marsh’s long time captain Greg Chappell always said he knew plenty of cricketers who would die for the baggy green cap but only two – Marsh and Ian Redpath – who would kill for it as well.

Marsh’s demeanor, in a Test career which stretched from 1970-84, was like a signature of the ‘70s … the unbuttoned shirt at the top and occasionally sagging at the back, the big shades to go with the big hair, groovy flairs and even bigger nights out.

It wasn’t one thing. It was the whole package, complemented by the gun-slinger’s stare and his compact yet somehow combative walk, that made him a player you could never forget.

Marsh was a brilliant wicket keeper, at his best when taking fully extended diving catches against the quicks, but it was his fibre as a team man and fearless warrior than counted just as much.

When Jeff Thomson exploded into Test cricket Marsh’s hands became instantly bruised and battered.

On one occasion one of the Chappell brothers asked him mid-over what he thought of a Thomson thunderbolt. “It hurt like hell … but I loved it,’’ said Marsh, with Australia’s gain outstripping personal pain.

Marsh will always be linked with his great mate Dennis Lillee with whom he surged through the ranks, taking a staggering 95 catches off Lillee’s bowling in Tests.

“Caught Marsh bowled Lillee – Test cricket never got any better than that,’’ said Test quick Rodney Hogg.

Marsh wrote of Lillee: “DK came from a very humble background. His dad was a truck driver, just like mine and we were both brought up out of the city – DK in Jarradale and me in Armadale, two towns 20 kilometres apart. I think he has been the most influential cricketer of the past 50 years, the best player, coach and administrator.’’

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 4, 2022 12:52 pm

IV and final:

Marsh and Lillee adored each other but also took great delight in winding each other up. Lillee once noted to Marsh that in team photos Marsh was actually taller from the waist up than the lofty Max Walker but had much shorter legs.

Once over a beer, Lillee said “if you could run on your arms and bowl with your legs no-one would bowl faster than you.’’

Marsh knew Lillee so well that he claimed he know what he was going to bowl before even speaking to him. It was all in the speed and style of his run-up.

The two of them landed in hot water for having a few quid on 500-1 on England to win a Test at Headingley in 1981 but it was done out of a sense of playfulness.

Marsh set such a high standard that Australia tried six keepers in five years in the years after he retired searching for someone like him before settling on Ian Healy who held the post for a decade.

Marsh was an early coach of the Australian Cricket Academy in Adelaide and guided the likes of Ricky Ponting, Glenn McGrath and Brett Lee.

He once famously said of a 16-year-old Ponting “he will be a once in a generation player’’ and time proved him correct.

He later look over England’s academy and became an England selector, playing a key role in bringing down Australia on the iconic 2005 Ashes tour following his personal push for the exceptional Kevin Pietersen who Marsh knew was much better than the cavalier white ball warrior he was being portrayed as.

Some were surprised that such a patriotic Australia could join England but, as Marsh pointed out, “it’s never easy to switch allegiances but I have always thought that better cricket and more competition benefits the game overall and I feel that is the first loyalty of everyone who loves cricket.’’

Marsh owns parts of this country’s psyche. The good parts.

RIP, Iron Gloves.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 4, 2022 12:54 pm

Amazing how ISPs seem to want to save the world from incorrect thought.

I did not know the Chinese were so offended by Mongolians.

Rex – Actually Singaporeans are saving me from naughty Canadian thoughtcrime (BCF linked the Unzud mosque vid). I don’t know what is causing Johanna to not see Mongolian rock throat singers. As for YT ads I sort of think I should let them through, if that helps pay the artist, but on other hand I detest Goolag.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 4, 2022 12:57 pm

Teh Australian reports A Current Affair has been caught up in litigation over Oscar the cavoodle. The Beetrooter was unavailable for comment.

Struth
March 4, 2022 12:57 pm

And the Chappels are raving lefties.
I’m going to make this statement, or ask the question.
No one wants to kow, and no one will ask.
And I’ll be pilloried for it.
Did he have previous heart issues, and had he taken the jab?

Struth
March 4, 2022 12:58 pm

He was always a heavy set bloke and they liked to party.
We’ll never know, and that’s how it goes.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 1:00 pm

I don’t know what is causing Johanna to not see Mongolian rock throat singers

Me either- DDG is quite happy to do the videos on my phone.

Technology is strange.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 4, 2022 1:00 pm

Marsh wrote of Lillee: “DK came from a very humble background. His dad was a truck driver, just like mine and we were both brought up out of the city – DK in Jarradale and me in Armadale, two towns 20 kilometres apart. I think he has been the most influential cricketer of the past 50 years, the best player, coach and administrator.’’

Ruh roh.

Struth
March 4, 2022 1:03 pm

And look at Cricket these days.
FMD it’s embarrassing when you think about the past and actual men playing sport.

twostix
twostix
March 4, 2022 1:03 pm

Did Palmer buy Hitler’s car or not?

If not we know that the Liberals and Labor are both using their position in the government and their little mates in the meeeeedia, to completely fabricate fake news to destroy their political enemy in the lead up to the election.
First the complete fabrication he had covid last week.
Second that he’s “buying hitlers car from a Russian billionaire” – which is how it was put to me by a complete covid karen NPC retard today.

Roger
Roger
March 4, 2022 1:05 pm

Getting back to those tyres on the stalled convoy of Russian military vehicles…did someone buy Chinese copies of the Michelins ordered and pocket the difference?

It’s the way they roll in Russia. Putin is alleged to have made his first millions by stiffing the people of St. Petersburg out of much needed food supplies in the early ’90s. All they got was two tankers of cooking oil.

Struth
March 4, 2022 1:05 pm

He didn’t buy the car and he had the flu.

P
P
March 4, 2022 1:06 pm

Thank you Knuckle Dragger.
I – IV. Enjoyed every one of them.

shatterzzz
March 4, 2022 1:07 pm

He was always a heavy set bloke and they liked to party.
We’ll never know, and that’s how it goes.

Why are folk finding this demise strange? .. he was 74 and obese .. lotza folk throw in the towel by 74 ..
nothing unusual .. FFS!
I’m 74, a sight fitter than Rod Marsh (going off pix) yet my 1st thought on waking of a morning is, “Still here” … LOL!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 1:16 pm

Getting back to those tyres on the stalled convoy of Russian military vehicles…did someone buy Chinese copies of the Michelins ordered and pocket the difference?

Not inconceivable. The thought that the Russians might lack the capacity to make that sort of gear in-house is a surprise, but more likely in a recent era of tight budgets, limited general funding, efforts to modernise equipment and professionalise from a conscript to an all-volunteer military, any opportunity to save buck here and there by contracting out would have been welcomed.

Military-Industrial Complexes gonna Military-Industrial Complex, after all.

And lack of use does nasty things to any mechanical gear.

Aa far as the impending rasputitsa goes, one hopes the Russians have a contingency plan available for 2-3 weeks’ time when the thaw is complete, and all their offroad movements and advances to contact on the eastern side of the Dneipr are conducted in seas of mud.

Tyres, no tyres or tracks, that stuff is evil. As the last lot of folks to invade the place found out…

Roger
Roger
March 4, 2022 1:17 pm

Speaking of the great DK…he’s responsible for one of the funnier scorecard entries:

‘Lillee caught Willey bowled Dilley.’

1978-79 Ashes.

Morsie
Morsie
March 4, 2022 1:17 pm

HUNgetting stuck into Monique Ryan the independent voices candidate.
Amazingly she is an ALP fan girl

dopey
dopey
March 4, 2022 1:21 pm

ABC: ‘Fire broke out at nuclear plant after Russian attack.’ But it will still be a ‘nuclear disaster.’

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 4, 2022 1:23 pm

I did not know the Chinese were so offended by Mongolians.

They have some… history.

I cant find the link now, but there is on battle a larger Chinese army lost to the Mongols where after their surrender the Chinese blokes were raped before being sent back home.

Now that would really, really not be great for national pride.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 4, 2022 1:25 pm

Getting back to those tyres on the stalled convoy of Russian military vehicles…did someone buy Chinese copies of the Michelins ordered and pocket the difference?

Based on the job the Chinese did with the Perth Childrens Hospital I think the WA government might go back dealing with the ghost of Len Buckeridge and BCG.

dopey
dopey
March 4, 2022 1:25 pm

ABC. Apparently the fire has re-located to a training facility at the nuclear plant.

It’s Remarkable
It’s Remarkable
March 4, 2022 1:27 pm

Unsure if it true, but apparently one commentator at a cricket test between England and the West Indies made the following description:

“The bowler’s Holding…
The Batsman’s Willey..”

P
P
March 4, 2022 1:28 pm

Biden Sending Secret Weapon, Kamala Harris, back to Europe to Solve Ukraine Crisis
March 3, 2022 | Sundance

Apparently, the people behind Joe Biden have spotted an opportunity to optically improve the foreign policy resume of Kamala Harris before pudding brain is removed from office.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 4, 2022 1:29 pm

shatterzzz, just now:

I’m 74, a sight fitter than Rod Marsh

Of course you are. Marsh is dead.

Clive Palmer is also currently fitter than Rod Marsh.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 4, 2022 1:30 pm

I’m old enough to remember when the Australian government didn’t care about the history of antiquities that were being imported, regardless of how dark & how muddy their chain of ownership was.

Struth
March 4, 2022 1:30 pm

Be watching the enemies of Australia with the digital bill and the restricting cash bill.
It’s the social credit scheme of the WEF, and Justin Trudeau is sneeking it in now in Canada under cover of Ukraine.

Bluey
Bluey
March 4, 2022 1:32 pm

dopeysays:
March 4, 2022 at 1:25 pm
ABC. Apparently the fire has re-located to a training facility at the nuclear plant.

Telegram channel using web cam near there reckons there was a bit of a shooting match in the carpark well away from the plant. Admin building on fire, and that’s about it. Russians supposedly trying to negotiate a similar deal to Chernobyl.

Meanwhile western media claims we’re all going to die…

Roger
Roger
March 4, 2022 1:33 pm

Biden Sending Secret Weapon, Kamala Harris, back to Europe to Solve Ukraine Crisis

“A presidential visit is a heavier logistical lift,” the source said. “The vice president has a smaller footprint and is historically more nimble.”

That’s one way of putting it.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 1:38 pm

It’s the social credit scheme of the WEF, and Justin Trudeau is sneeking it in now in Canada under cover of Ukraine.

That’s going to be an impressive feat to sneak a Social Credit System for Canada under Ukraine.

The two nations are separated by some 3,926 nautical miles of ocean and Continental European landmass, after all. And relatively few usable tunnels if you go by the most direct route (phrasing)…

Be watching the enemies of Australia with the digital bill and the restricting cash bill.

But you just said it was a Canadian system being snuck under Ukraine without its consent?

I’m not sure now who has the bigger kink- Justin Trudeau or you?

Not that I’m kink-shaming or anything…

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 1:40 pm

“The vice president has a smaller footprint and is historically more nimble.”

That’s one way of putting it.

I went Visual, Roger.

You’re paying for my brain bleach!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 4, 2022 1:44 pm

Clive Palmer is also currently fitter than Rod Marsh.

The Palmersaurus on a bicycle would make a great photo.

twostix
twostix
March 4, 2022 1:46 pm

Two Victorian masters of the universe declared covid is over in a meeting today.

They were so excited that they can go see each other in person and can even shake hands now.

Outsiders are just happy they’re happy.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 1:47 pm

The Palmersaurus on a bicycle would make a great photo.

comment image

The internet truly does have everything…

Roger
Roger
March 4, 2022 1:53 pm

I was thinking more about what it tells us about old Joe, Rex.

They daren’t risk him on any non-essential travel.

Attending the G7 in Europe last year must have been a nightmare for his handlers.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
March 4, 2022 2:02 pm

It’s Remarkablesays:
March 4, 2022 at 1:27 pm
Unsure if it true, but apparently one commentator at a cricket test between England and the West Indies made the following description:

“The bowler’s Holding…
The Batsman’s Willey..”

Yes it is. Ian Botham was commentating a Windies / England match with Michael Holding and after the lunch break said something along the lines of, “At the risk of repeating history.” “The commentators Holding, the Umpire’s Willey.” Peter Willey now being an umpire.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 2:04 pm

I was thinking more about what it tells us about old Joe, Rex.

They daren’t risk him on any non-essential travel.

Attending the G7 in Europe last year must have been a nightmare for his handlers.

I am thinking of an entourage of hyper-padded packing cases, marked ‘FRAGILE’ and ‘THIS WAY UP.’

I suspect that Joe would not be the easiest to bubble-wrap and tape for transit, either… 🙂

Tom
Tom
March 4, 2022 2:10 pm

Biden Sending Secret Weapon, Kamala Harris, back to Europe to Solve Ukraine Crisis

Are rhey freaking kidding? That the US government would send someone with no record of success in anything in politics to stop what could spiral into world war III tells you everything you need to know about the dangerous Biden clownshow. Tucker Carlson Tonight (starts at 2m45ss).

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
March 4, 2022 2:12 pm

And look at Cricket these days.
FMD it’s embarrassing when you think about the past and actual men playing sport.

THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY: THEY DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY THERE.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
March 4, 2022 2:16 pm

Are rhey freaking kidding? That the US government would send someone with no record of success in anything in politics

The only thing KH was good at politically will be done better by a Ukraine hottie.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 4, 2022 2:17 pm

Usual preamble…Putin is a monster etc.

Tap the brakes on this Ukraine adventure.
Jimmy Dore & Max Blumenthal (from the GrayZone).
I had no idea how intertwined the Nazi’s are with the Ukraine state/army.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfaAyiP8Wuc

Tap the brakes.
Please don’t use my taxpayer dollars to send 70mill worth of weapons to these guys.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 4, 2022 2:19 pm

News Flash.
Lygon St.
No-one who is anyone in Melbourne goes anywhere near it.
It is used excusively for ripping off people who come down from Queensland looking for wog tucker kulcha.

miltonf
miltonf
March 4, 2022 2:21 pm

What’s all this stuff about Morrison and the Parrot dissolving the NSW Lieboral party? Some factional brawl?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 2:21 pm

Ukraine hottie.

That’s a new pair of pants you owe me, Zycon.

My insurance does not cover fire damage… 🙂

#MoreBromideInTheTea,Please

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 4, 2022 2:27 pm

That’s right DB.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 4, 2022 2:33 pm

H B Bearsays:
March 4, 2022 at 1:00 pm
Marsh wrote of Lillee: “DK came from a very humble background. His dad was a truck driver, just like mine and we were both brought up out of the city – DK in Jarradale and me in Armadale, two towns 20 kilometres apart. I think he has been the most influential cricketer of the past 50 years, the best player, coach and administrator.’’

Ruh roh.

And Captain of WA Sheffield Shield team winning many games that lesser mortals would have played for a draw.

P
P
March 4, 2022 2:34 pm

Tucker Carlson Tonight (starts at 2m45ss).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78IKWuIDkSw&t=165s

Whenever Kamala speaks I am reminded of ‘Chauncey Gardiner’.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 4, 2022 2:35 pm

Tap the brakes.

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 4, 2022 2:37 pm

This is freaking hilarious. You have to watch until the end.

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 4, 2022 2:45 pm

Putin is a monster etc.

Is he, though? I don’t love or hero-worship the guy, but I wish we had a leader who stands for Australian interests in the way Putin stands for Russian interests.

Anchor What
Anchor What
March 4, 2022 2:52 pm

In what way is Russia going into Ukraine different from the US going into Iraq in 2003?
Exactly! I knew the Ukes were up to no good that time they invaded neighbour Poland and looked like they might continue and sweep through to Hungary and then Austria. No knowing where that might have ended if it wasn’t for Russia stopping them with “Special Operation #1”.
Then when their leader boasted about his progress towards getting tactical nuclear weapons, and later took a whole plan load of people hostage, we knew he was a bad egg.
Sanctions didn’t seem to work, and there was a lot of street theatre involving supposed funerals of children down the main street of Kiev, with the leader blaming the west for depriving them of medicines, even though he was making a mint off sending oil out in trucks through Moldavia. So many palaces were built on vast allotments using that cash flow, and it was later suspected they might be hiding places, front for more nefarious activities.
There were no proper elections, he was destined to be dictator for life, and always had a paid cheer-squad around for the cameras. Of course we were never sure it was him, as he had some body/face doubles. When war threatened he sent his entire air force to Bellarus.
The internationally sanctified agents who were sent in to search for WMD were kept hopping around in a suspicious fashion. One of the inspectors (an Australian) complained bitterly about this, saying it indicated something very fishy or fissiony was going on. He later recanted completely, as did another one, an American.
Yes, it’s all so similar.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 4, 2022 2:55 pm

Russian Oligarch Igor Sechin’s Yacht Is Seized in France as It Prepares to Depart
Dow Jones
9:07AM March 4, 2022

Russia’s richest men are on the run amid a global dragnet Western governments have cast to ensnare their yachts, villas, jets and bank accounts.

In recent days, French authorities have detained a handful of ships subject to new sanctions, including a 280-foot yacht, the Amore Vero, “True Love” in Italian.

They say it is owned by Igor Sechin, the sanctioned chief executive of Russian oil producer Rosneft and close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. They swooped in during the middle of the night as the vessel was making what they described as preparations to leave port in a hurry.

Mikhail Fridman, a former Russian banker who wound up on the European Union’s sanctions list, was locked out this week of the private-equity fund he co-founded. Luxembourg-based LetterOne Holdings SA has frozen his stake and is holding back dividends and prohibiting him from contacting anyone at the fund. Alexey Mordashov, the largest shareholder of German-based tourism group TUI AG, and one of Russia’s wealthiest people, resigned from its supervisory board after being put on the EU’s list of sanctioned individuals.

The sanctions on individuals are just one part of a multifront effort to hit Moscow economically after Mr. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Western capitals have sanctioned banks and companies, and targeted Russia’s central bank.

The US and UK on Thursday unveiled still more sanctions and travel restrictions on a range of Russian elites. As part of the American round, the U.S. will impose visa restrictions on 19 Russian oligarchs and 47 of their family members and close associates. The U.K. sanctioned two more oligarchs including the former Russian deputy prime minister.

After years of lavish living in playgrounds for the rich across Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere, a rarefied group of Russian businesspeople, officials, Kremlin-friendly journalists and longtime friends of Mr. Putin are in the crosshairs of Western authorities like never before. The Justice Department this week joined other countries in standing up special task forces to hunt down assets.

“We are joining with our European allies to find and seize your yachts, your luxury apartments, your private jets,” President Biden said during his State of the Union speech earlier this week, referring to the new entity, called Task Force KleptoCapture. “We are coming for your ill-begotten gains.” The detaining of assets of Russia’s ultra-wealthy and powerful is unlikely to deter Mr. Putin, whose military push in Ukraine is intensifying, experts in Russia’s economy and wealthy businessmen said. Some of the oligarchs targeted by sanctions are believed to have little influence over Mr. Putin’s thinking or actions.

But hunting down their assets, and yachts in particular, has a major symbolic effect and deprives them of a highly valued lifestyle. “It is very effective — they get very annoyed by these things,” said Anders Aslund, a senior fellow at the Stockholm Free World Forum and an economist who has advised the governments of Russia and Ukraine. Yachts are symbols of power for Russian businessmen, he said.

Vladimir Soloviev, a presenter on Russian state television, who appeared on the EU’s sanctions list over the weekend, railed at EU authorities for including him on the list and jeopardizing two villas he owns on Italy’s Lake Como, near actor George Clooney’s residence.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 4, 2022 2:58 pm

I’ve heard the Ukraine Hotties go downhill rapidly at age 35. I prefer a Tartar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXpUhEfBCbU I didn’t say Tart. Or maybe A Georgian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B2tXs8CX6I

John H.
John H.
March 4, 2022 3:03 pm

Oh come onsays:
March 4, 2022 at 2:45 pm
Putin is a monster etc.

Is he, though? I don’t love or hero-worship the guy, but I wish we had a leader who stands for Australian interests in the way Putin stands for Russian interests.

Putin stands for Putin’s interests.

miltonf
miltonf
March 4, 2022 3:07 pm

I’d say Putin stands up for Russia’s interests more any of the rubbish WEF-UN-EU-Multinational agents that pose as western ‘leaders’.

Still getting up to speed on the last ten years in Eastern Europe, but it sounds like the US has been goading Putin since 2014.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 4, 2022 3:07 pm

Zach Rolfe trial: Cop denies ‘making up’ testimony that Kumanjayi Walker went for his gun

Jason Walls
Chief court reporter
11 minutes ago March 4, 2022

ZACH Rolfe has denied having “made up” his testimony that Kumanjayi Walker went for his gun during a life and death struggle in Yuendumu in 2019.

Rolfe took the stand in his Supreme Court murder trial for the third day on Friday after pleading not guilty to all charges stemming from the fatal shooting on November 9.

In cross examining him, Crown prosecutor, Philip Strickland SC, said it was “one of the most serious things that can happen to a police officer in a combat situation” but Rolfe said that was not the case on the day in question.

“Comparatively in this situation it was one of the least serious things that happened,” he said, noting his testimony that the officers were being attacked with an edged weapon at the time.

Rolfe agreed that he had been trained to shout “he’s going for my gun” if that ever happened but only “if practical”.

“You never even shouted the word gun, did you?” Mr Strickland asked.

“And you didn’t shout the word gun because Walker’s hand was never on your gun, was it?”

“Incorrect,” Rolfe replied.

“It would take more time for me to say ‘he’s grabbing my Glock’ than to move my hips backwards and knock his hand off my Glock.”

Rolfe admitted he had not told any of his fellow officers about Mr Walker trying to grab his gun and nor could it be seen on body worn camera footage of the incident.

Rolfe was also grilled about the words he is heard saying on the footage in the moments after firing the fatal shots.

“You said ‘It’s all good, he was stabbing me, he was stabbing you’ to justify what you had just done, didn’t you, because you knew you had gone too far?” Mr Strickland said.

“You knew you had been too gung ho, and you knew, didn’t you, that the shooting had been captured on your own body worn video, and you felt you needed to justify what you had just done?”

Rolfe replied “Incorrect”.

When asked why he had used the words “It’s all good”, he said he was “referring to the situation”.

“A violent offender had just been trying to murder two police officers and he no longer was,” he explained.

Mr Strickland also asked Rolfe about his earlier testimony that he had responded to then constable Adam Eberl’s question, “Did you … ?”, to explain to him what had happened.

“You say you had the presence of mind to consider whether Eberl was suffering from symptoms of tunnel vision and auditory exclusion,” he said.

“You’re making that up too aren’t you?”

“No, I’m not,” Rolfe replied.

The trial continues on Tuesday when defence barrister, David Edwardson QC, told jurors he expects to call his final expert witness.

Frank
Frank
March 4, 2022 3:10 pm

“Still here”

That old line of getting the paper in the morning to read the obituaries, if you’re not in them it is worth getting dressed.

Cassie of Sydney
March 4, 2022 3:10 pm

Since I came out of hospital, as my knees have improved, I’ve gone on small walks. Today, given that there’s been a break after weeks of non-stop rain, I decided to walk to Surry Hills. Along the way I couldn’t help but notice that all the retail shops have LGBTQI rainbow flags prominently displayed in their windows…even Woolworths was decorated in LGBTQI rainbow flags and the trite “Happy Mardi Gras” banners. God forbid if you didn’t do this or no doubt you would be targeted for censure, condemnation and cancellation and then I remembered that tomorrow night is Mardi Gras. Apparently there’s no parade (amen) but there’ll be a big party at the Sydney Cricket Ground. When I got to Surry Hills the place was full of clusters of gay men…more so than usual. I thought to myself, I really do live in Gayville!

Anyway the walk exhausted me….my first long walk in months.

Winston Smith
March 4, 2022 3:11 pm

Local Oaf:

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.

Excellent summation, Local Oaf.
Guilt belongs to the individual who commits the crime. Not their children or their parents, not their neighbours or their companions. Not even their countrymen or race.

Cassie of Sydney
March 4, 2022 3:17 pm

Just before I left on my long walk, I looked at the Oz front page and the headlines screamed screeched “Ukrainian nuclear power plant was on fire”

Now back after my walk, I look at the Oz front page and the headline is “Ukrainian authorities have said the safety of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was now secured, after a fire broke out Friday when the station was shelled by Russian forces.”

Apparently, after shelling, a fire started however the bad evil Russians allowed firefighters into the plant, and that the nuclear safety of the plant was now guaranteed.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Zach Rolfe trial: Cop denies ‘making up’ testimony that Kumanjayi Walker went for his gun

In my (extensive) cctv files are a number of videos, from all angles, of people going for a police officer’s gun.
It is more common than many may at first realise.

It is more common than police officers realise.
A number of times they’ve been totally unawares until I’ve told ’em the next day that cctv of one of last night’s arrests shows the arrestee groping for a constable’s sidearm.

I believe Rolfe.

Somewhat shocking to the individual coppers is that most of the video of people going for a cop’s gun are of someone the cops are merely talking to as they pass by.
When confronted with the unimpeachable video evidence that in a non-adversarial conversation, someone was surreptitiously going for their gun, most Constables enter a state of obtuse denial.

Struth
March 4, 2022 3:18 pm

Lygon St.
No-one who is anyone in Melbourne goes anywhere near it.
It is used excusively for ripping off people who come down from Queensland looking for wog tucker kulcha.

You’re a Geelong “cats” bogan, Frank.
The old stone washed stove pipe moccassin class from the land of the Blue and white scarves.
Muscle shirts only for the two warm days a year and the packet of Winnie reds up the sleeve.
You’re lucky a man of my breeding will stoop to correspond with you.
“Th” is not promounced “F,” although like most from Geelong, if you haven’t got all your front teeth, we’ll let you off.
On the other hand, myself having lived in Melbourne and guided many tours around Melbourne in my life note I know it better than most. Especially the ones living there recently.
Lygon street was actually Jewish before da wogs moved in, interestingly enough.

But there’s no one in Melbourne anyway, it seems, so even a bogan from Geelong can be right sometime…they’re all up here.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 4, 2022 3:19 pm

It’s the social credit scheme of the WEF, and Justin Trudeau is sneeking it in now in Canada under cover of Ukraine

Comet pizza. No pineapple, no anchovies.

Cassie of Sydney
March 4, 2022 3:21 pm

“Putin stands for Putin’s interests.”

Fact check true…..but that also applies to politicians in the West…perhaps more so.

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 4, 2022 3:22 pm

Putin stands for Putin’s interests.

Even if you’re right, in my estimation he still seems to be doing a pretty decent job of standing for Russia’s interests. Again, it would be nice if an Australian leader would stand for Australia’s interests. Even if this comes in the form of a serendipitous by-product of them standing for their own interests.

Struth
March 4, 2022 3:26 pm

Now we know covid is not serious but some diseases are.

So I am letting you know what is out there people that you should be wary of.

Japanese encephalitis.
As you know, I rushed down to Adelaide recently because my father was the first to catch it as it turns out and we nearly lost him.
Attacks the brain.
Lucky his was barely used.
4 weeks later he still isn’t good.
The woman who got it next died.
They are doing a story on it on the MSM in Adelaide tonight.
You don’t want to get that.
A bit of mozzie repellent guys.

For those in SA area, they are catching it in the riverland, around Barmera and through Berri and Renmark.
Now turning up in NSW and flood zones.

Frank
Frank
March 4, 2022 3:27 pm

Apparently there’s no parade (amen) but there’ll be a big party at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Parade means lack of social distancing. If the idea is to avoid superspreader events, the after party was historically like something from the last days of the Roman empire. No social distancing plus fluids.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 4, 2022 3:28 pm

Super yacht charter on the Med this winter should be a bit cheaper with a few more oligarchs yachts seized. Don’t stuff this up SloMo.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 3:31 pm

Still getting up to speed on the last ten years in Eastern Europe, but it sounds like the US has been goading Putin since 2014.

In fairness to the Little (‘Anonymous’) Green Men who suddenly appeared in the Crimea and annexed it with barely a shot being fired about the same time, Vlad Bae has been giving easily as good as he got.

Up to and including 9K37 ‘Beech’ (SA-11 ‘Grizzly’) tracked SAM launchers from his own military’s 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade for his Donbassian proxy militias in 2017. Now, this was fine with everybody so long as it shot down Ukrainian AF Sukhois, Tupolevs and Ilyushins. Not so much when you fail to correctly identify your target first, as as a wise Cat said yesterday, “The Sped Strela Does Not Return…”

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 4, 2022 3:33 pm

Not to mention finding a berth and getting a table.

What Ukraine has shown is how much dirty money is sloshing around London and Europe generally.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 3:33 pm

Comet pizza. No pineapple, no anchovies.

Guaranteed swift delivery, or your Soros-money back?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 3:34 pm

What Ukraine has shown is how much dirty money is sloshing around London and Europe generally.

Yes. Which was perfectly OK until the little people got jack of it.

Like right now… 🙂

John H.
John H.
March 4, 2022 3:38 pm

Oh come onsays:
March 4, 2022 at 3:22 pm
Putin stands for Putin’s interests.

Even if you’re right, in my estimation he still seems to be doing a pretty decent job of standing for Russia’s interests. Again, it would be nice if an Australian leader would stand for Australia’s interests. Even if this comes in the form of a serendipitous by-product of them standing for their own interests.

Putin is leader for life which allows his narcissism free reign. Western leaders are in a completely different position. Australian leaders do stand for Australia’s interests. They may not stand for your interests but your interests are not necessarily the nation’s interests. Our leaders do not kill opponents, do not jail opponents, are not worth billions while their country crumbles.

The attempts to equate Putin’s leadership with the leadership of Western leaders is a remarkable cynicism that reminds me of the way so many on the Left speak about the West.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

feelthebern says: March 4, 2022 at 5:10 am

I’m old enough to remember when the French were testing nukes in the Pacific 20 odd years ago, protesters harassed the owners & patrons of the Delifrance franchises.
Not much has changed.

Was totally unaware of the whole ‘outrage’ due to being overseas.
Wish I’d been in Oz for the opportunity to lurk near a Delifrance in the hopes of some unwashed having a crack at me. (Not that in those days I even knew places like Delifrance existed)

Interestingly, Canada – where I’d been didn’t even have the French tests on the radar, despite being the same distance from the test site (by my thumb on a desk globe)
USA, where I’d spent some of the time, is even closer & there’d not been a public peep.

Upon return to Oz, it was puzzling what the big deal was, & people seemed unable to process that despite the scale of public debate, 100deg celsius temperature of outrage at French testing was pretty much confined to Australia & Australia only.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 3:41 pm

You’re lucky a man of my breeding will stoop to correspond with you.

Being suddenly met with racing air compressors, sudden failures of compression-braking discipline and a mad scramble for the truckstop exits whenever the young Struth pulled in for a meal and a fuel stop has never really left him.

Instead of taking a good, hard look at himself and his actions, he decided it was everyone else’s fault he was an unlikable person.

And he’s never really looked back since. Probably just as well…

EvilElvis
EvilElvis
March 4, 2022 3:42 pm

Our leaders do not kill opponents, do not jail opponents, are not worth billions while their country crumbles.

Bill Leak.
Pauline Hanson.
Let’s talk millions.
Yeah, Australia is booming.

Roger
Roger
March 4, 2022 3:45 pm

Please don’t use my taxpayer dollars to send 70mill worth of weapons to these guys.

What…you think you get a say?

They may be Nazis, but they’re our Nazis!

Winston Smith
March 4, 2022 3:45 pm

Bruce O’Newk:

Maybe the majors should develop a few more coal mines, with expedited help from Scotty.

Maybe we could pay down our debt, too.
Or cut taxes to let the wukkas keep a bit more of their hard earned.
Or get our gold reserves up a bit.
Or buy a few subs from the US/GB.
Or build a network of mini nuclear power stations to get the aluminium smelters going again.
But it won’t happen.
BECAUSE WE ARE RUN BY FUCKWITS WHO NEVER MISS AN OPPORTUNITY TO MISS AN OPPORTUNITY.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Roger says: March 4, 2022 at 9:57 am

I think we’re past the point of no return here, but…
If you wanted to make Russia even more anti-Western and pro-China you’d do exactly what Western governments and corporates are doing now.

Putin would be feeling like Brer Rabbit getting thrown into the Briar patch, except without having to even ask.

Useful dickheads in the west forcing Russians and their money to remain in Russia.
They’re building his “Potato soup curtain” for him at their own expense.

Putin must spend half of each day pinching himself over how stupid western leaders are.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 4, 2022 3:46 pm

Tap the brakes.
Maybe it needs to be a hashtag.

#tapthebrakes

There, that’ll do it.

Zipster
Zipster
March 4, 2022 3:48 pm

BECAUSE WE ARE RUN BY FUCKWITS WHO NEVER MISS AN OPPORTUNITY TO MISS AN OPPORTUNITY.

the end stage of civilisation is characterised by a exponential bloating of the bureaucracy as it devours what remains of the productive sector.

miltonf
miltonf
March 4, 2022 3:49 pm

Our leaders do not kill opponents, do not jail opponents, are not worth billions while their country crumbles.

absolute garbage- how many did antifa, the sharp of of the us establishment, kill? how many have the clintons had killed?

have the jan6 people in dc received fair trial yet?

worth billions while their country crumbles– the democatic party luminaries are- they can even inside trade

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 4, 2022 3:50 pm

Struthsays:

March 4, 2022 at 1:30 pm

Be watching the enemies of Australia with the digital bill and the restricting cash bill.
It’s the social credit scheme of the WEF, and Justin Trudeau is sneeking it in now in Canada under cover of Ukraine.

Wait!
What?
Isn’t Dan Andrews the portal to introduce it to Australia.
Not the Federal Faulty Cash Restrictions Any Day Now Bill.
Now it’s coming from Canada?

By the way, it is ‘sneaking’, not ‘sneeking’, you barely literate buffoon.

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 4, 2022 3:51 pm

Putin is leader for life

If you start off that wrong, I stop reading. Your basic premise is so flawed that nothing you have derived from this is worth considering.

Roger
Roger
March 4, 2022 3:52 pm

What a prosaic age we live in:

Sun Tzu’s “golden bridge” has become a freeway “off ramp”, as in “Macron is trying to provide Putin with an off ramp out of this conflict”.

Anyway, it’s good to see Micron making himself useful for a change.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 4, 2022 3:52 pm

Upon return to Oz, it was puzzling what the big deal was, & people seemed unable to process that despite the scale of public debate, 100deg celsius temperature of outrage at French testing was pretty much confined to Australia & Australia only.

That little country to the right might have something to say about that. Ever heard of the Rainbow Warrior, a boat not a qwerty activist.

Tom
Tom
March 4, 2022 3:53 pm

Apparently, after shelling, a fire started however the bad evil Russians allowed firefighters into the plant, and that the nuclear safety of the plant was now guaranteed.

The first casualty of war is truth. Etc, etc, etc.

That reality hasn’t changed since newspapers were invented 400 years ago. The difference now is that information on the internet is controlled by the anti-civilisationists who invented social media who hate the human race, so the percentalge of bullshit being published in war time is nearer 100% than 50%.

Because Putin is a corrupt, evil piece of shit, people are naturally inclined to fear the worst about why his army is attacking Europe’s biggest nuclear plant. But it’s safe to say none of those reasons are good.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Sancho Panzer would seem to believe there is no harm in a cash restrictions law.
Free country, allowed to air his opinion, etc.

bons
bons
March 4, 2022 3:53 pm

For the kind person who put up the link to ‘An Officer and a Spy’ – Merci.
It is certainly one of the better retellings of the tragedy.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 4, 2022 3:55 pm

Lindsay Graham is a cockhead.
A child brain in an adult body.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 4, 2022 3:55 pm

The attempts to equate Putin’s leadership with the leadership of Western leaders is a remarkable cynicism that reminds me of the way so many on the Left speak about the West.

+1

The whole side-picking thing is the manifestation of a vindictive desire to see the western oligarchs who screwed us, somehow be made to suffer because they were embarrassed and militarily defeated by a different set of oligarchs.

And the Ukrainians (no matter which capital or ethnic group they cleave to) are okay sacrifices to achieve this.

Like it or not, the West is all we Cats will ever have (certain Glowies’ declared intentions to move to Japan notwithstanding). Shitting on it like the Left does and wiehing its demise because the Left has made it shitty to be in over the last 20 years, won’t improve things.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 4, 2022 3:56 pm

What Ukraine has shown is how much dirty money is sloshing around London and Europe generally.

We got a bit of a look during the Crown Royal Commission. Arrive with a few hundred thousand for a weekend of gambling, whoring and drinking. All good fun till your man loses his seat at the CCP table and a dozen of your employees are detained across China.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 4, 2022 3:56 pm

Dakota Meyer says he took DMT.
Why isn’t DMT offered to all PTSD patients?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 4, 2022 3:57 pm

It would be worth giving every PM for the last 50 years if they left the country in better condition than they found it. Instead Australia, you’re standing in it.

John H.
John H.
March 4, 2022 3:57 pm

EvilElvissays:
March 4, 2022 at 3:42 pm
Our leaders do not kill opponents, do not jail opponents, are not worth billions while their country crumbles.

Bill Leak.
Pauline Hanson.
Let’s talk millions.
Yeah, Australia is booming.

Pauline Hanson. That’s all you’ve got and it doesn’t compare to polonium poisoning in foreign countries and killing journalists in the home country. Economically Australia is much better than Russia and most other countries. Land values at record levels, unemployment at very low levels(not that I believe those figures but still low given present conditions), making a motza selling resources and food, an enviable standard of living.

Please don’t give me one of those predictions how everything will eventually go to hell. For many years every day on this forum someone has been proclaiming the sky is falling. So many pessimists here it is wonder the membership isn’t disappearing through suicide.

You want equivalence and tell me which journalists have been poisoned. How does the GDP of Russia compare to Australia? Putin’s wealth remains a mystery as does how he got it but most analysts put in the billions. The man is corrupt beyond measure. Care to explain how Putin’s son in law became so wealthy after marriage? Just a coincidence I suppose.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Re the question (waaaay upthread) about Clive buying Adolf Hitler’s car:

Clive stated on Twitter that he has not purchased the car.
An absolute statement of fact, by the principal in the (non) deal.
The reply thread is chockers with lefties explaining to him – like he’s a special needs child – that he has in fact bought Hitler’s car.
Not a skerrick of supporting evidence, just dickhead lefties saying so.

These people vote.

Delta A
Delta A
March 4, 2022 3:59 pm

Struthsays:
March 4, 2022 at 3:26 pm

Scary stuff. Thanks for posting, Struth.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 4, 2022 4:00 pm

Thanks for the cricket ‘antidotes’ KD.
The question is, did Rod Marsh die of a heart attack?
Or did Bill Lawry declare on him early again?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 4, 2022 4:02 pm

bonssays:
March 4, 2022 at 3:53 pm
For the kind person who put up the link to ‘An Officer and a Spy’ – Merci.
It is certainly one of the better retellings of the tragedy.

Put it back. I only put it up for Cassie. But seriously it is very good. I particularly liked the Renoir style of picnic at the beginning to get the feely of the time that most people can identify with.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 4, 2022 4:02 pm

In this case, the corporate media does have some cover re the nuclear plant “being on fire”.
It was Zelensky who was saying it.
Seriously, he is Karzai 2.0

Tom
Tom
March 4, 2022 4:03 pm

Nothing childish about Lindsay Graham, bern. He’s a self-enriching cockroach as corrupt as anything in the Washington swamp, including the Biden and Pelosi families.

Struth
March 4, 2022 4:03 pm

To Mr Frank Thring.

I find you may have a problem with the ability to work out who said what.
You have had this problem for some time.
We have told you that a notafan approach of twisting what is actually said, only serves to lower your standing amongst those that wish to give you a lift up, to help you unwrap the blue and white scarf of scoffing froo missing teef.
So in wording you may understand, pullya fuckin’ head in.
Tis no good correcting other’s spelling when you should be working on your own reading and comprehension skills.

Runnybum
Runnybum
March 4, 2022 4:03 pm

Choo choo man where are ya?

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 4, 2022 4:04 pm

Thats my uptick there, Tom.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 4, 2022 4:04 pm

We’ll probably find out if Chappelli is on the ALPBC radio next summer.

bons
bons
March 4, 2022 4:07 pm

GrayRanga. Yep, the whole belle epoch feel of the movie was completely absorbing. The wardrobe folks had fun.
I promise that I only peeked at the dirty bits, and it is now back on the shelf.

Tom
Tom
March 4, 2022 4:09 pm

Strange. The stadium is Rawalpindi is virtually empty for the first session of the first Pakistan Test in more than 20 years.

miltonf
miltonf
March 4, 2022 4:09 pm

Like it or not, the West is all we Cats will ever have (certain Glowies’ declared intentions to move to Japan notwithstanding). Shitting on it like the Left does and wiehing its demise because the Left has made it shitty to be in over the last 20 years, won’t improve things.

I’d say the US is pretty much a lost cause now- it’s been so white anted. Hope I’m wrong but that’s how I see it. I’d say Australia is pretty much all we have and we should make it strong and independent.

I certainly wouldn’t expend the US to defend us- as I said a few days ago, they won’t even defend Texas.

Struth
March 4, 2022 4:10 pm

Well, RB, we don’t know where choo choo man is, because he can post 24/7 whether at work or not.
It’s a union job and he only knows he’s at work if he’s wearing a safety shirt.

miltonf
miltonf
March 4, 2022 4:11 pm

I certainly wouldn’t expect the US to defend us- as I said a few days ago, they won’t even defend Texas.

miltonf
miltonf
March 4, 2022 4:11 pm

St Ruth still being a spiteful school girl

Cassie of Sydney
March 4, 2022 4:11 pm

“You want equivalence and tell me which journalists have been poisoned. How does the GDP of Russia compare to Australia? Putin’s wealth remains a mystery as does how he got it but most analysts put in the billions. The man is corrupt beyond measure. Care to explain how Putin’s son in law became so wealthy after marriage? Just a coincidence I suppose.”

The Clintons are corrupt beyond measure. Care to explain how the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea have all become so wealthy? The truth is that the Clinton family ooze sleaze and corruption. It is a fact that the “Clinton Foundation”, a “foundation” that our government disgracefully gave money to, helped pay for that ghastly Princess Chelsea’s wedding. Or was that just a “coincidence”?

Tom
Tom
March 4, 2022 4:12 pm

The Fox commentators think the emptiness of the Rawalpindi stadium has something to do with Friday prayers — from the same religion that gave us the terrorism that made Pakistan unsafe for international cricket for two decades.

EvilElvis
EvilElvis
March 4, 2022 4:12 pm

You want equivalence

You want equivalence?

Don’t compare an eastern bloc country to a western country. Get some perspective and compare Australia to Australia historically and Russia to Russia historically.

That’s a handful of examples that just came to mind, there’d be a few more if you dig just a little.

And don’t give me this JC level ‘the economy is fantastic because Josh has got the numbers’ bullshit. FMD. The economy can boom but locally things can be dire.

miltonf
miltonf
March 4, 2022 4:13 pm

After the events of 2020/2021- I can’t think of anything admirable about the USA

miltonf
miltonf
March 4, 2022 4:14 pm

The Clinton Foundation is their family ATM

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 4, 2022 4:17 pm

The Clinton Foundation is their family ATM

Didn’t “we” make a deposit there?

miltonf
miltonf
March 4, 2022 4:17 pm

American corporations that hate America and Americans- if that’s the modern ‘west’ count me out

miltonf
miltonf
March 4, 2022 4:18 pm

Didn’t “we” make a deposit there?

dolly downer iirc

Runnybum
Runnybum
March 4, 2022 4:19 pm

Miltonf are you a fully fledged member of the groovy gang now?

Struth
March 4, 2022 4:20 pm

You’re a moron Milton.
We are in a far worse situation than the USA.
Always have been.

They are still armed and their government power is decentralised. Throughout the pandemic and especially now, they have been so much more free than us, as to be laughable.
The feds are throwing out mandate orders and the states ore telling him to F off.

Pick that bottom lip up and stop with the 20 past eight stuff.
We’re just getting to the start of the fight.

See the USA is not the Putin government.
When this shit happens people say “Australia is doing this” Germany is doing that, and the USA are doing something else.
The governments of all western nations no longer have the people’s trust but the people’s hatred.
It’s not over by a long shot.
Of course if we keep complying it will be………

miltonf
miltonf
March 4, 2022 4:20 pm

fuck of St Ruth

Runnybum
Runnybum
March 4, 2022 4:22 pm

Struth, I think choo choo man is teaching weaponry school to the gang.
I asked him about ammo for my nerf gun but he hasn’t replied so far.

John H.
John H.
March 4, 2022 4:24 pm

Cassie of Sydneysays:
March 4, 2022 at 4:11 pm
“You want equivalence and tell me which journalists have been poisoned. How does the GDP of Russia compare to Australia? Putin’s wealth remains a mystery as does how he got it but most analysts put in the billions. The man is corrupt beyond measure. Care to explain how Putin’s son in law became so wealthy after marriage? Just a coincidence I suppose.”

The Clintons are corrupt beyond measure. Care to explain how the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea have all become so wealthy? The truth is that the Clinton family ooze sleaze and corruption. It is a fact that the “Clinton Foundation”, a “foundation” that our government disgracefully gave money to, helped pay for that ghastly Princess Chelsea’s wedding. Or was that just a “coincidence”?

All US politicians have the wonderful advantage of engaging in insider trading. Apart from that look at how much they charge for speaking engagements and photo ops. Corrupt beyond measure? Show me your metric. Are the Clintons worth billions? Are you making stuff up? Do you try to find out something by doing research or do you just choose the worst case possible for your enemies?

Bill made most of the money, earning $189 million by writing books, giving speeches, consulting private companies and advising billionaire Ron Burkle. Days after his presidency ended, he earned $125,000 for a speech at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. in New York, according to a financial disclosure form Hillary filed as a senator in 2002. It was the first of hundreds of paid speeches that collectively made him an estimated $106 million over 15 years.

John H.
John H.
March 4, 2022 4:25 pm

miltonfsays:
March 4, 2022 at 4:17 pm
American corporations that hate America and Americans- if that’s the modern ‘west’ count me out

Emigrate to Russia. Let us know how that works out for you.

John H.
John H.
March 4, 2022 4:27 pm

Oh come onsays:
March 4, 2022 at 3:51 pm
Putin is leader for life

If you start off that wrong, I stop reading. Your basic premise is so flawed that nothing you have derived from this is worth considering.

A pitiful excuse to run away. It is widely accepted that Putin leadership will only be challenged when he allows it and then it will be a puppet govt until he can shift himself, family and wealth out of harm’s way.

Roger
Roger
March 4, 2022 4:27 pm

dolly downer iirc

Julia Gillard.

Got her an international job post-politics too.

Struth
March 4, 2022 4:28 pm

The USA isn’t it’s government.
It’s an idea, as they say.
And so it is.
A fucking great idea that free people create wealth and governments are the servants of the people and the people must remain armed to ensure it stays that way.
It might get worse before it gets better, but it will get better.
The people still have the power there, ultimately, and a government is still fearful of it’s people.

The left used jan 6 politically of course, but their overreaction was also because they fear the people.
And so do our governments.
As does the Chinese.
All this is over when people stop doing what they are told, taking fucking boosters and giving in etc.

miltonf
miltonf
March 4, 2022 4:28 pm

Emigrate to Russia. Let us know how that works out for you.

yes but you haven’t addressed my contention that in the west we have an establishment that hates the countries they control

Runnybum
Runnybum
March 4, 2022 4:28 pm

Miltonf, I have appreciated your posts for a while but you have gone over to the loony gang a bit.
Maybe you should think for yourself as you used to instead of climbing on with the pile on gang, it doesn’t suit your intelligence.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Putin is worse – ergo our system is perfect.

Uh-huh.

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