Open Thread – Weekend 19 Mar 2022
3,063 responses to “Open Thread – Weekend 19 Mar 2022”
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LOL
Extended friend group (sportsball) noted that my jokes about conspiracies was confusing to newbs who think I am serious.
I was going to be mean and say “it’s a shit test for IQ and a sense of humour”, but I got called out for believing in reptoids, then a new chick remarked “aren’t we all reptoids” – all I could say back was “damn, they’re onto us”.
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TFM:
Never apologize, never explain… just a new wife every week..
I call it the Weinstein method.You realise the wife can be the carrier of the DocWho Virus?
Only takes a few seconds and she reverts back to someone in a previous life who in a very remarkable way resembles these girls not. -
Rosie:
I’d also like to see a peripheral character who goes blind, regains sight goes blind again.
Ask and you will receive.
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NATO Chief Of Staff was previously H…..’s Chief Of Staff?https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/06bdd8925b81afbcdddec0b026291ae9d901da8589ffa9bba2bd19e7bc224a7f.jpg
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Sanche Panser – SA election – far out.
No vision and lost to a bunch of girls who are not going to improve the state.
Vision bury the nuclear waster, no more building in the hills, build a mountain range to make it rain the the interior, building no higher than 5 stories, these buildings are to be sandstone style, arched windows recessed etc.
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Coincidence? YOU decide (the NT News):
SOUTH-bound traffic on the Stuart Highway has been diverted after a road train trailer caught fire about 100km north of Elliott* on Sunday morning.
Chief Fire Officer Mark Spain said the blaze erupted just before 10am on the third trailer of the road train close to Dunmarra^. “The driver of the prime mover was able to disconnect the trailer from the truck and other trailers before flames completely engulfed and destroyed the trailer,” CFO Spain said.
“The driver did not suffer injuries as a result of the fire.”
Unfortunately, the driver suffered deafness due to a) being fed milk as a child, and b) excessive bingbonging about fires.
*850km north of Alice Springs, 650km south of Darwin.
^Dunmarra Roadhouse+.
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SpongeBob duzznt wanna be Mister Pink:
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Winston Smithsays:
March 20, 2022 at 2:53 pm
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?
I would expect vandalism or malicious damage at least.
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Juan Sinmiedo
@Youblacksoul
Thread. Hundreds of civilians have been punished for diverse reasons in Ukraine by paramilitary groups and National guard. Strong footage. Tortures, abuses, humiliation, even of kids and girls.I remember seeing pics like this at the start with the accusation that these were ‘looters’. Yeah nah. Something more is going on here.
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Makka says:
March 20, 2022 at 1:12 pm
An element of truth in that. This has been a strategic clusterfk in pushing a Russia/China alliance much closer.Insomuch as we are seeing a realignment of global world power, it was probably unhelpful but it is leading us to the conclusion of a much larger and longer transition. We (the west) started this by isolating, goading and ‘prodding’ the Russian bear for decades. We ignored their national security concerns, levied sanctions at the slightest transgression to our perceived superiority and treated their leadership with distain. Russia was excluded from some international forums or, if allowed to attend, was berated for the latest alleged infringement whilst many more reckless nations were given a pass. Motivated by western governments, the MSM gleefully stuck the knife in at every opportunity. Russia was the west’s favourite ‘whipping boy’ and she felt as if she was in a perpetual state of siege and/or ridicule.
The west’s arrogance and disregard for legitimate Russian interests has brought us to this point. Compare Russia’s treatment in the past 30 years to that of China? How’s that turning out for us? I don’t need to spell it out – we all know the answer but now, instead of potentially being a bulwark, Russia is an ally of China. We drove them there, opened the door and ushered them inside.
And its not as if there hasn’t been any warning. Since the early nineties Russia has been on edge about NATO expansion. Then in 2013/4 the Maidan ‘Revolution of Dignity’ happened and Russia’s warnings became more strident. Most recently, Putin didn’t wake up one morning wondering what to do with his day – Russia found out that America was undeterred and was very quietly canvassing NATO members to admit Ukraine. Nothing overt, just a word here, a word there. Red lines?! Phooey. So, just like baking a cake, we have merrily thrown in the ingredients and turned up the heat in the oven. Voila!! Oh shit, that’s not what I wanted. Russia very bad. Sanctions will fix it.
The ascendency of China, with Russia in lock-step and many others hanging on the coattails, will change global geopolitics forever. I believe that America specifically, and the western world more generally, has seen the future, don’t like it and are trying to push back. Too late motherfvckers and what’s worse, we did this to ourselves.
/rant off.
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I was going to be mean and say “it’s a shit test for IQ and a sense of humour”, but I got called out for believing in reptoids, then a new chick remarked “aren’t we all reptoids” – all I could say back was “damn, they’re onto us”.
Well done to her. 🙂
Ring that one before she pulls a Maievska on you…
#ReptoidsGottaStickTogether
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Russia was the west’s favourite ‘whipping boy’ and she felt as if she was in a perpetual state of siege and/or ridicule.
Comintern shenanigans and over half a century of murder, threatened murder and mutually assured destruction in the name of a murderous gnostic millenarianism will tend to lead to a hardened cultural attitude.
Just because the Marxists have de facto conquered the nations they and their prophet Karl truly wanted, does not mean that the people they seek to rule have changed their minds…
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When you’re late to the party and miss a reverse flounce in the tuck position …
… then you might realise you have simple missed a lot of idiocy from people piling on in a very unpleasant manner over a genuine mistake. Mistakes happen.
And then you might consider why you want to continue with your chosen theme.
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Winston, I had one of those (purchased for a young son, who didn’t get to play with it half as much as I) and it drove the dog absolutely bonkers. She’d be sleeping on the floor when it would swoop silently down and scare the daylights out of her.
Eventually she jumped at it from the back of the couch, bit hard in midair, dragged it down and tore it to shreds. She also hated inflatable Santas (and managed to kill one of those as well), black people in funny hats, unusual cars, loud motorcycles and old people using zimmer frames.
Never trifle with a motivated (and mentally unstable) cocker spaniel.
You can order an indoor blimp here: https://www.blimpsandballoons.com/radio-controlled-blimps-and-balloons-inflatable-advertising-balloons-inflatables/radio-controlled-blimps/radio-controlled-mini-zeppelin-of-1-4-m_255_1_ap.html
Warning: They might be illegal in Victoria, like just about everything except paying fines and doing as you’re told.
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I’d also like to see a peripheral character who goes blind, regains sight goes blind again.
Try the recent ‘War of the Worlds’ DVD series – the character Emily Gresham is a girl who is blind, but gets periodic returns of vision when the aliens are about.
Cant give you any more details, I gave up after Episode 3, it was that bad, and the reviews concur.
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dover0beach says:
March 20, 2022 at 3:45 pm
Juan Sinmiedo
@Youblacksoul
Thread. Hundreds of civilians have been punished for diverse reasons in Ukraine by paramilitary groups and National guard. Strong footage. Tortures, abuses, humiliation, even of kids and girls.
I remember seeing pics like this at the start with the accusation that these were ‘looters’. Yeah nah. Something more is going on here...
Seen worse during bachelor parties.
You know what actual Nazis did to strikers? Not little spankies on the bum.
Can you do yourself a favour and get off the Russian propaganda sites?
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Bloody hell, you so called piss-takers.
The platinum Visa replaced the old gold card, which every second customer had.Nothing to see there, so why don’t you all move on from that sort of Get Lizzie stuff?
I’ll bet Calli has a platinum Visa too, and loads of others here. It’s not a Black Card.
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Yet another in the series ‘why are women shit’…
I loathe these spastic “wise men’; we have pontificating over things through the lens of their own warped and twisted little husk hearts.
‘Colonised by boys’: How school playgrounds deter girls from physical activity
School playgrounds have traditionally favoured games played by boys, but education experts say redesigning school spaces can encourage more physical activity among girls.Dean Dudley, associate professor in the Macquarie School of Education, said there was a strong argument to say school playgrounds had been “designed by men based on activities boys are likely to be more engaged in”.
Glorified phis ed teacher….
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Speedbox:
We (the west) started this by isolating, goading and ‘prodding’ the Russian bear for decades.
The ascendency of China, with Russia in lock-step and many others hanging on the coattails, will change global geopolitics forever. I believe that America specifically, and the western world more generally, has seen the future, don’t like it and are trying to push back. Too late motherfvckers and what’s worse, we did this to ourselves.
Excellent rant, Speedbox.
Just a couple of points –
.1 This was the doing of a conglomeration of interests including CIA/FBI, political mafia, business interests, and media. Despite voting in someone who could rein them in, we failed.
.2 The USSR/Russia efforts to cripple the West socially, economically and militarily since WW2 have created an adversarial position when immediately post war there was a lot of good will pissed against the wall by the Russians. Whether it was intended to or not, this ill will created the environment that is now crippling the West. -
Oh Lordy!
Well, look at him go. Such rapier wit. Such elegant phrasing.
Of course you have no intention of stopping. It’s a knee-jerk. Go away and jerk something else.
As an old timer I used to know said about people like you that if his brains was dynamite they wouldn’t blow his hat off. Lucky hats are out of fashion or yours would be apopping everywhere.
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School playgrounds have traditionally favoured games played by boys, but education experts say redesigning school spaces can encourage more physical activity among girls.
Again this is just another excuse to structure every minute of their lives.
Pretty condescending to as if girls cant and have been able make their own games out on the field.
Alot of girls played british bulldog along side us.
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Ruminating on a Lazy Sunday Afternoon.
Would it not be nice, to get on with me neighbores? 😕
In bonus mono, Cats.
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when immediately post war there was a lot of good will pissed against the wall by the Russians. Whether it was intended to or not, this ill will created the environment that is now crippling the West.
That’s bullshit on stilts.
America started the Cold War with the intention of preventing the Russians from rebuilding.
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What’s happening
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Last night
Russian cosmonauts arrive at ISS in colours of Ukraine flagFake story still being promoted by Twitter.
Love this one on Greenwald’s thread:Shell S (??)
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@shell_zipi
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Putin was so moved by those astronauts that he published a picture of himself on yellow and blue to show his solidarity with Ukraine. ?LOL indeed.
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‘This is going to hurt” – a good show about the NHS, fairly true to how awful it actually is, although there was the usual progressive scream for more funding. Don’t watch if two gay guys getting married really distresses you. I saw it as just a general human interest story – one wanted commitment, the other was running a mile from it. My dear husband said he couldn’t really understand guys wanting that sort of relationship because it was nothing like marriage. So it carries with it his warning, he squirmed a bit at it but I enjoyed it.
“After Life” – Netflix, Ricky Gervais – watch series 1 and 2, it’s poignant and fall off your chair funny, in alternate bursts. Don’t bother with series 3. It gets silly and (more) tacky.
“Inventing Anna” – Netflix, overlong at the end, but an interesting take on how to fake riches and social position given a bit of nous about how things are done socially, some internet fraud, and a small capacity to fiddle accounts swiftly between banks and then using the proceeds to convince others to fund your great ideas. What is really interesting is that it is based on a true story of how gullible the New York rich were to such a scammer. Lots about that back story is available on Youtube.
“The Last Kingdom” Series 5. Uhtred is schooling Athelstan but really the tale of uniting Engalande is still at the King Edward stage, chasing King Alfred’s dream but with Northumbria still to be conquered. That will, as we know, fall to Athelstan but not in this series. The way is left open for series 6, but this one, depending on viewer reaction, also ended in a way that might signal the last. For my mind there was too many battle scenes played out one after another and less politics than I would have liked, but the books at this stage were pretty much like that with gorish battles. The main storyline though didn’t follow the book: Brida starts to reconsider her pagan obsessions and so of course she must die in Uhtred’s arms, as does Athelflaed, the cause of Uhtred’s commitment to Saxons while feeling pretty much a Dane. Fair enough. It was certainly a time of religious syncretism, and I enjoyed seeing that play out.
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Anyway, -auskas is the same patronymic as -owski, so I got to wondering, is Malinauskas the same name as Malinowski.
Here’s the wiki entry of everybody’s fave Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronis?aw_Malinowski
It tells us there that:Malinowski, scion of Polish szlachta (nobility
so, presumably, Peter Malinauskas is also a scion of the Polish szlachta?
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Appealing to Authority to have members removed from this Blog.
Yes, you do intend to continue this. I have never asked for any contributor ever to be ‘removed’. Not on any iteration of the Cat. Ever.
I do think that a self-regulating blog should be better at self-regulating than this one has been, and I am definitely not the only one who thinks that, nor am I the only person who has been abused here who is fed up with it; which is why Dover has stepped in with some guidelines. Which I see to you are unprepared to meet. I didn’t ask for any intervention or guidelines, btw, I have always simply followed my husband’s advice to withdraw myself from a toxic situation. I have had no contact with Dover. But I know that others have.
“Hyacinth” is sheerly abusive. It picks over old scabs of previous so-called satires.
Clearly you are incapable of contributing anything more useful in commentary.Why not change your tune? You might surprise yourself. A reasonable man may lurk beneath.
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Winston Smith says: March 20, 2022 at 2:53 pm
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?The people doing this will be the same ones supa-gluing their ass to the bitumen, holding the entire CBD up for half a day while cops “negotiate” with them. etc etc.
Re letting tyres down: Ideally they’d go before a Magistrate who has had the unspeakable experience of being in a motor vehicle accident, preferably a rollover at speed or uncontrolled crash over an embankment, caused by a tyre failure.
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It would be nice to cite in future without the pretense you’re an expertologist in Litho surnames.
Never mind him.
It is I who is an expert in Lithuanian surnames.We can bet on that too, if you like. (another case where your hunches are furiously propagated on the Cat, coz “certainty”, yet you back off when called to put money up)
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I have a black Amex and a rather grotty indeterminate looking Mastercard. No Visa. All rather dull and hard to find in a black purse. Which is a rather ancient Longchamps bought forever ago in Paris – being resistant to change I will wear the thing out before replacing it. You can never find one that feels just “right”.
If you’re going down the “Keeping Up Appearances” track, I’m more than happy to be Daisy, though I wish I didn’t resemble her so much in the derriere department. The Beloved, sitting watching tv sports right now after his gardening exertions, is a bit Onslow-ish in his white T-shirt. A clean one, mind. He’s not allowed to wear a vest. And definitely not laddered fair isle.
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The professionalism of these pro Ukraine meme innovators should never be questioned .. LOL!
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“kaysee says:
March 20, 2022 at 4:58 pmIvermectin Works!
https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/ivermectin-works?s=rThe FDA lied to you. The CDC lied to you. The corporate media lied to you. Big Pharma lied to you. Your doctor lied to you.
We need an audit of COVID-19 death certificates says Dr. Scott Jensen, former Minnesota senator. He says that people need to be held accountable.”
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Andrei Martyanov:
That would be a fascinating interview on how Nazis fought for freedom and democracy against evil Roosskies. Hey, it is coming–Nazism will be exonerated in the West. I personally know couple of prominent figures who work hard doing this.
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/03/why-us-msm-journous-are-imbeciles.html
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‘He’s not crazy at all’: Stalin’s biographer says Putin is channelling tsars and dictators
Latika Bourke
By Latika Bourke
March 20, 2022 — 4.27amLondon: One of the world’s leading Russia historians, Simon Sebag Montefiore, says Vladimir Putin is no madman. Instead, his invasion of Ukraine is a miscalculated gamble motivated by a desire to restore Russian glory harking back to the 18th century.
Putin has delivered several ranting speeches to justify his illegal invasion of Ukraine that have sparked suggestions that he has become irrational. Most notably, he appeared before a flag-waving stadium crowd in Moscow on Saturday (AEDT) to quote an 18th-century military commander and celebrate war sacrifices.
But speaking to The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age in London, Montefiore, the author of several bestsellers on Russian leaders including The Romanovs, Catherine the Great & Potemkin and Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar and Young Stalin, said that while Putin was more isolated than before, he was not crazy and that his invasion was not a surprise “but the latest phase in a rising momentum of power imposed by violence starting from Chechnya to Syria and now Ukraine”.
“I don’t think he’s a madman at all and everyone always says that about leaders whose motivations and culture they don’t understand,” Montefiore said.
“He’s not crazy at all, he’s projecting a vision of Russia that he was brought up with that many people in Russia still adhere to – a vision of the Russian state as an empire that has to expand, and expansion is how you judge leaders,” he said.
Montefiore said that while Putin’s autocratic ways fit with the pattern of Russian rulers, the former KGB agent was not quite a tsar but instead a populist, “fusing the grandeur of Romanov autocrats, the mystery of communist dictators with hi-technology and the gaudy nationalistic showmanship of a Hunger Games rally”.
“It’s not quite a tsar, it’s not quite Stalin, it’s something 21st century. He’s of our time, but he’s also very old-fashioned,” he said. “A man of empire.”
Montefiore said Putin’s Ukraine invasion was inspired by the subjects of one of his books that documents Russia’s longest-reigning empress Catherine the Great and her lover Potemkin.
Montefiore says that it’s his only work that he knows Putin has read because he discussed it with George W. Bush when the US president visited St Petersburg. It charts Potemkin’s annexation of Crimea and conquering of some of southern Ukraine, creating the cities of Kherson, Mikolaev and Odesa – territory they called “New Russia” and which Putin wanted back.
“New Russia’s what Putin wants to call it,” Montefiore said.
He said Putin had probably planned to take back the southern coast as far as Odesa as part of Russia, and keep northern Ukraine and the capital Kyiv as a republic but governed by a puppet leader like Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus.
Montefiore, who wrote two biographies of Stalin, said that Putin’s raving speeches had betrayed the level of the Russian leader’s isolation.
“Vladimir Putin in 2022 is as isolated as Stalin was in 1952 and that’s despite the fact that he’s got access to the internet and WhatsApp,” he said, adding that this isolation had caused both Putin and his cronies to miss the surge in Ukrainian national pride that was contributing to their heroic resistance.
He said Russian leaders usually became more isolated as they gained more power because of the violent nature of their rise. The nation’s leaders have to maintain a constant state of vigilance against the enemies they had created. However, he said this was not the same as paranoia.
On Thursday, Putin appeared to threaten his people with a revival of Stalin’s Great Terror that began in 1937 and in which 1 million people were executed over 2½ years.
”He’s dog-whistling 1937, so that’s pretty scary, and the reason he’s doing it is because he realises there’s opposition in the elite and among the populace.
“He used all these keywords: ‘traitors,’ ‘enemy of the people,’ ‘scum,’ ‘bastards,’ all of which were from the ’30s, which a Russian would know he’s threatening massive repression in Russia.
“He’s literally putting the fear, an ancestral, terrifying fear into these people. People who would have heard of these stories from their old parents, and grandparents and great-grandparents about the time when people didn’t sleep at night, they kept a bag packed in case they were deported. People were never seen again.”
“It was a terrifying speech in only a way the Russians would know,” Montefiore said.
However, he said it was important not to get “hysterical” about Putin’s menacing words.
Montefiore predicts that Putin’s “idiotic” gamble, driven out of his desire to carve his name alongside the Russian greats, would spell his downfall.
“At the age of 69, Stalin had conquered the whole of eastern Europe, conquered Berlin, made Russia a nuclear superpower and industrialised Russia and Putin had just taken the Donbas – a few Godforsaken rust-belt towns in eastern Ukraine.
“And I do think he just felt now is his time to take his place in history, to join Peter the Great and Stalin and based on poor intelligence he gambled for it and I think he didn’t think it was as a big a gamble.”
And how will it end? “The war could last a long time; despite Ukrainian courage and Zelensky’s charisma, Russian force will advance.”
But if it goes wrong?
“Russian rulers are normally destroyed by palace coups so that’s my guess.”
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