Open Thread – Weekend 19 Mar 2022
3,063 responses to “Open Thread – Weekend 19 Mar 2022”
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I noticed something like that from what time little I’ve been able to pop in lately, but there’s been an inconsistency making me wonder if there’s some ‘in joke’ or something I’m missing.
No kidding, USSR, are there even a couple of neurons left inside your skull of that don’t fire up with every cracked up conspiracy like the rest of the little fuckers. I simply cannot imagine a decent dude getting to within a mile of you. You’re the worst nutball since Iampeter.
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KD at 10:53.
There is another epic word-wall at the Store which can be seen from the International Space Station.
Entitled … wait for it … “My Mistakes”.
Which is less of a mea culpa than the title suggests.
The “mistakes” are mostly being too infallible, too principled and too much of an all round good guy.
But we do acknowledge that being too principled “hurts those closest to us”.
Translation:
The bride has turned the “get a job” heat up to Gas Mark 4. -
a peripheral character who goes blind, regains sight goes blind again
The wise sensei ex-crash box driver.
Not to be mistaken for a blind furry… no one want that.
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I noticed something like that from what time little I’ve been able to pop in lately,
(Or is that an admission you bot-spam the various Cats with your links at weird hours of the day and night?)
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Knuckle Draggersays:
March 20, 2022 at 1:49 pm
The bride has turned the “get a job” heat up to Gas Mark 4.
I reckon the ‘Sick Of This Shit’ thermometer’s below zero as well.
Tonight’s specials are a starter of hot tongue, followed by a main of cold shoulder.
Paired with matched Dark ‘n Stormy varietals. -
Also daleks who of course get foiled by clever use of portable stairs.
Only the early one-dwarf-power models, the later ones can levitate. It seems weirdly related to CGI somehow.
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60s to 80s, eh?
Then…
– a cute blonde (or diversity redhead) who can do magical stuff
– cheeky brat with adult lines who needs a clip over the ears
– a joke at the end of each chapter, not necessarily funny but everyone laughs
– short skirts and low cut tops
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Liar –
Knuckle Dragger says:
March 20, 2022 at 1:06 pmand KD are classic bully boys
Jesus.
It. Was. Not. About. You.
It. Is. Not. All. About. You.
It was directed at rsrrsrsr, who referred to herself as being regarded as ‘iconic’ in whatever it is that she did before taking a position of Emeritus Professor of Coloured Footwear at the University of Ken Bruce, and who refused to qualify herself in any form whatsoever. Happy now?
How much is it to replace all those eggshells every day? Must be prohibitive.
– bullying, scab picking, mobbing liar.
As with all the lying smears of the bullying mob, the truth in fact or spirit s something they devote themselves to trashing.
It is a fact that I found myself being introduced to someone as an “icon”.
I did not ‘refer to myself’ as such.
Knuckle dragger knows this because there has only been that one mention of it that they’ve decided to angrily lie about.It floored me at the time as I was unaware of just how much my work had come to be respected while I was away doing other things.
But that’s neither here nor there.
This isn’t the first time Knuckle Dragger has hinted around finding out who I am in the real world, i.e. doxing.It seems to offend him no end that, ‘the easy beat’, he was to join the smearers in trashing, has actually enjoyed a successful real world life and he really seems desperate to make it not be so.
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This isn’t the first time Knuckle Dragger has hinted around finding out who I am in the real world, i.e. doxing.
I know exactly who you are. You’re a nanna with 30 computer screens who thinks Big Tech is targeting you, and only you.
I found myself being introduced to someone as an “icon”.
You’re Muhammad Ali? Malcolm X?
Don Bradman? Andy Warhol?
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Serious attempts to work up a realistic low budget script now being hijacked with ‘Zeppelin fights’.
You wouldn’t understand what it’s like, you haven’t got one!
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Peeps are a bit grumpy, nobody wants to talk about gardening this Sunday afternoon, so how about some cheerful music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V83JR2IoI8k
‘Good heavens, Miss Sakimoto, you’re beautiful …’
Oh, and Autumn is undoubtedly the best time of the year around here. Bright blue skies, light breeze or calm, 22C – 25C max, 15 at night.
Trees’ leaves are beginning to shrivel a bit at the edges, a tinge of colour here and there.
I agree with others upthread – it’s hard to find a better place to live than Australia. Not everyone is obsessed with politics.
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Is Russ Meyer available to direct?
Emancipation proclamation as I can pretty well guarantee youve never seen it before.
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KD, I am sorry if I mistook your referent.
It is the sort of comment that has often been made by you here, about me, and could easily refer to my posts about my experiences as an academic. So I made an honest mistake, thinking I was under attack yet again in this ‘new’ and better environment. I apologise for not reading srr’s post and hence misinterpreting yours.And yes, I am sensitive about pile-ons, because I have been very subject to so many here for what is always genuine and I hope contributory commenting. As we see, one thing leads to another, as above. In they come, JWH, Bespoke, Timothy and all the usual suspects. Johanna, as ever, right there in the mix, harvesting upticks.
I had thought some new civility was appearing which allowed normal commenting and that people actually driven away numerous times by bullies with their ridiculous and meaningless ‘flounce counts’ could contribute comfortably again.
It may help things if people indicate whom they are addressing in their coments. I offered to give Dover my credentials because I thought KD was questionning the truthfulness of them, that is all. The ‘external observers’ I referred to in my comment about a Marxist faculty are not some confected allusion. They were those observers I knew elsewhere as colleagues in the university, who saw the value in what I had done for faculty funding.
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Excellent and inspiring news from Sandgroperstan today, for those who like a big, black cockatoo:
#DammitRex!
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dover0beach says:
March 20, 2022 at 2:02 pmJohanna pinned it.
Well done for using the Left’s weapons to esconse yourselves, and any criticism is ‘bullying’ because you are special.
No one is being protected.
You are not running a backchannel for people who claim that you can verify things? This has been alleged recently, by someone who is always on the lookout for special treatment.
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Dot…
Do you want to tell her??
Women who are not married and do not have children are the happiest, according to a happiness expert.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dolan_(behavioural_scientist)
The book contained provocative claims about the association between marriage and happiness, suggesting that single women are happier than married women. In promoting the book, Dolan said, “Married people are happier than other population subgroups, but only when their spouse is in the room when they’re asked how happy they are. When the spouse is not present: f***ing miserable.” Economist Gray Kimbrough pointed out that this conclusion was based on a misunderstanding of the term “spouse present” in the American Time Use Survey, which doesn’t mean “spouse not in the room” but rather “spouse not living in the household”. Kimbrough also argued that Dolan’s claims about how happiness correlates with men’s and women’s happiness were not supported by the data sources cited in the book.[21] Vox highlighted the case as an example of “books by prestigious and well-regarded researchers go[ing] to print with glaring errors, which are only discovered when an expert in the field […] gets a glance at them”, noting that “books are not subject to peer review.”
Dolan retracted his erroneous statement stemming from the “spouse present” misunderstanding, acknowledged it in a published response, and notified The Guardian, which published a correction.[21][24] In addition to this, he informed his editor so that the book could be revised.
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The “I have standards bro” calculator triggers the most epic wordwall of all time on Mwdium’s lady pages.
Dot, how am I supposed to take the rant you linked seriously? Rather.
The writer inserted the standard and utterly unrelated boilerplate about ‘What Feminists in our Grandmothers’ Time Agree Women Want’ in the second paragraph.
This has completely ruined my immersion. Somewhat.
I am thoroughly disappointed. Maybe. You hype harder than the Russian Military-Industrial Complex, makers of the Kinzhal hype-personic missile. 🙁
#TheatricalDenunciationsAreFun:)
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We can seriously do a decent Zeppelin fight for less than $100!
You don’t need the Statesman model. The Belmont version will serve.
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From Dot’s link. This woman seriously wonders why the term ‘crazy cat lady’ is in vogue:
And… we’ve already hit our first clue that this is sexist nonsense: the use of the word ‘female’ to refer to women.
I can’t help but cringe whenever I hear somebody use female as a noun to describe women. For me, its essentially a sexist dog whistle — an immediate sign to me that whatever is coming next is from someone who views me as subhuman. -
You are not running a backchannel for people who claim that you can verify things?
Are you?
Johanna, you’re getting into Struth-calling-Rex-A-Nazi-Every-25-Seconds-Then-Raging-At-The-Whole-Blog-For-3-Days-When-A-Single-Counterjibe-Gets-Under-His-Skin territory.
It’s uncool. Lets talk about gardening, instead.
What is a good and persistent flowering ground cover for a box in your front lawn, that will suffer WA heat and laugh it off?
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You are not running a backchannel for people who claim that you can verify things? This has been alleged recently, by someone who is always on the lookout for special treatment.
People use the contact email as a means of doing a lot of things, like passing on their emails to other posters, giving advice, asking why their posts are not appearing, etc. No need to read more into it than that.
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The Belmont version will serve.
Distraction moment-
I’d be up for RC Zeppelin-jousting in a large hall or indoor basketball court.
2 of these things start from opposite corners of the room, equipped with a length of broomhandle with a nail on it. Last gasbag to get punctured and flail dramatically from the sky wins.
You could even have a grand melee or team events, launching up to several dozen at a time. Buzzy, popp-ey, splodey, shouty crashing goodness.
In fact, I’m surprised nobody’s put it up on the Internet, yet. 🙂
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They were both Flamers.
Serious question.
Are Flamers Flamers because they were fed milk as children? Seems likely, I’d say.
If Flamer children were born into certain family groups as well, they would be FlamerSpooks.
Imagine that. Tens of thousands of FlamerSpooks. Millions. Tens of millions. This may well be the New Order World St. Ruth keeps banging on about.
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The Narcissistic Old Sheilas thread is down the hall, third on the left.
The other one is already there.No. Johanna is here, and she wants to talk about gardening.
Suits me. I don’t belong in the room for an argument. I am still having tremendous problems with my indoor gardenia. It has a lot of fungus which the fungicide I bought only coagulates into a sticky residue on the leaves. I have fed it, not over-watered it, picked off the increasing numbers of yellowing leaves, given it some seasol as per directions, kept it with just enough sun and fresh air in the conservatory, and still it struggles.
It is so sad that I am rather inclined to just stick it somewhere hidden in the garden and let it fend for itself. Being confronted daily with one’s black thumb is totally dispiriting. Much worse than a tussle on the Cat.
I am flying to Tassie tomorrow so will leave it in the care of my second son, who wouldn’t know a pot plant if he fell over it. Which he undoubtedly will do. Who knows, benign neglect may do it some good. I am certainly out of ideas and sympathy for it.
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Vicki et al:
Climate Change activists are starting a campaign OS to deflate tyres of SUVs!
http://www.tyreextinguishers.com/Does anyone know what sort of charge they’d be up for, and what about if one was beaten senseless for doing this?
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for those who like a big, black cockatoo
I like her cockatubes. Am I allowed to say that?
For a while now I haven’t seen the lady who’d go shopping at the local shopping centre with a red tailed black cockatoo on her shoulder. Saw them twice. The black cockie was OK with the crowds, quite amazing.
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Again, are we supposed to report every one of these blatant New Rule Breakers or is it only their targets who have to stay shtum?
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JC says:
March 20, 2022 at 1:12 pmIt was directed at rsrrsrsr,
That’s USSR, right?
USSR is the only nickname I produced through auto correct. Whenever I’d post srr, the auto c would change or suggest USSR. It was a great find.
For one, the spelling of my handle is so far from “USSR” & so common around the net as to not offer an auto correct but if prompted will start with all lower case suggestions, such as “sir”.
But I now wonder why such a proud bully is suddenly looking for an excuse for his bullying, which, in the case of JC’s sick re-naming of me, was a direct response to my giving the Russians credit for not letting generations of brutal Communist Dictatorship break their faith in God.
What, no such thing as Russian Christians, hey JC?
All Russians have to be Communists?
Any Aussie being grateful to God for Russian Christians must really be a Communist?Gee, it’s almost like you were in on this phase of the WEF’s, ‘Hate & Blame Russia For Everything’, breaking down of everything before building it back for themselves.
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You’ve been caught out attempting to elevate Flamers to Icon status.
Now, the Don is an Icon.
Muhammad Ali, lotta fights were extremely suss, such as;
v Duke Sabedong 1961
v Sonny Banks 1962
v Henry Cooper 1963
v Sonny Liston 1964
v Liston 1966
v Jerry Quarry 1970
[Quarry unhappy with the stoppage, called Ali a faggot]
v Oscar Bonavena 1970
[Bonavena unhappy with the stoppage, called Ali a faggot]
v Frazier 1973, Frazier obviously won the fight
v Ron Lyle 1975
Verdict: Too many dodgy decisions
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A great advance for women: male staffers, hacks and lobbyists will be passed over for female staffers, hacks and lobbyists.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-20/five-new-labor-women-in-new-sa-government/100924724
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Mark Ames
@MarkAmesExiled
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Interesting that Zelensky isn’t banning Ukraine’s neofascist parties like Svoboda, or the Azov neo-Nazis. He can’t, obviously.Quote Tweet
Ivan Katchanovski
@I_Katchanovski
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Democracy: #Zelensky & his National Security and Defense Council of #Ukraine suspend activities of 11 opposition parties for “ties to Russia”. They include Opposition Platform for Life, Party of Shariy & Opposition Bloc which condemned #Russian invasion. https://pravda.com.ua/news/2022/03/20/7332907/You won’t see this discussed by Oz MSM.
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