Open Thread – Weekend 19 Mar 2022


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Dot
Dot
March 20, 2022 3:08 pm

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”.

Dot
Dot
March 20, 2022 3:09 pm

Was Wilt Chamberlain a flamer?

Winston Smith
March 20, 2022 3:10 pm

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.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
March 20, 2022 3:13 pm

Dot Johnson’s magic elixir. Only 1000 bitcoin per bottle.

Makka
Makka
March 20, 2022 3:14 pm

Anatoly Karlin
@akarlin0
Ukrainian refugees in Moldova pick school language of instruction for their children:
6%: ??
6%: ??
88%: ??
Rather telling, considering the Zelensky regime shut down Russian language instruction in 2020.

Makka
Makka
March 20, 2022 3:16 pm

The icons didn’t work;

Anatoly Karlin (?,?)
@akarlin0
Ukrainian refugees in Moldova pick school language of instruction for their children:
6%:ROMANIAN
6%: UKRAINE
88%: RUSSIAN
Rather telling, considering the Zelensky regime shut down Russian language instruction in 2020.

Winston Smith
March 20, 2022 3:19 pm

Rosie:

I’d also like to see a peripheral character who goes blind, regains sight goes blind again.

Ask and you will receive.
Here.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 20, 2022 3:19 pm

Ed Casesays:
March 20, 2022 at 1:15 pm
Boambee John [aka SpongeBob] idolises Mr Sulu.

What are you babbling bout now, Dickless? Is Mr Sulu a spook?

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 20, 2022 3:20 pm

NATO Chief Of Staff was previously H…..’s Chief Of Staffcomment image

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
March 20, 2022 3:20 pm

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.
With waste money coming in no more payroll tax.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 20, 2022 3:21 pm

call
The LNP are ALP are busy destroying themselves right now.
There’s a chance we could get our civil liberties back, fiscal consolidation band government by adults soon enough.

Bit early to be smoking whatever you’re on Dot.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 20, 2022 3:22 pm

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+.
+ROADHOUSE.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 20, 2022 3:23 pm

OK, I’bve worked it out. Mr Sulu is a typo for Mr Solo. the Solo man in the ad.

Definitely a spook!

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 20, 2022 3:31 pm

Is there anyone with a public profile whom you haven’t tagged as a spook?

A stopped clock is right twice a day. Groogs would kill for those sort of numbers.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 20, 2022 3:32 pm

SpongeBob duzznt wanna be Mister Pink:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es1vJCVWBCw

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 20, 2022 3:36 pm

Ed Casesays:
March 20, 2022 at 2:43 pm
You’re Muhammad Ali? Malcolm X?

Don Bradman? Andy Warhol?

Malcolm X and Andy Warhol weren’t Icons, you fucking dope.
They were both Flamers.

Dickless

Flamers can be Icons to other Flamers. Don’t be so narrow minded and prejudicial.

You must be a spook.

Winston Smith
March 20, 2022 3:38 pm

Good God, areff.
How many goon bags did that monster take to make?

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 20, 2022 3:39 pm

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.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 20, 2022 3:41 pm

When you’re late to the party and miss a reverse flounce in the tuck position …

Speedbox
March 20, 2022 3:47 pm

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.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 20, 2022 3:53 pm

what about the car chase?

I’ll see if the ‘Woomba Miata Helldrivers will quote on it.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 20, 2022 3:54 pm

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

Winston Smith
March 20, 2022 3:54 pm

Boambee John:

I would expect vandalism or malicious damage at least.

I was thinking more about what i’d get if I beat the idiot senseless.
Apart from a great sense of satisfaction at violently correcting a Greenies behaviour, and demonstrating the “Actions Have Consequences” principle.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 20, 2022 3:59 pm

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…

bespoke
bespoke
March 20, 2022 4:03 pm

JMHsays:
March 20, 2022 at 2:36 pm
Oh darn it! Urgent call out: May I please have 28 “Is” 26 Me‘s and a dozen or so My‘s! Today’s stock has been exhausted.

Yeh! and the BS excuses flow so easily.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 20, 2022 4:04 pm

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.

Zipster
Zipster
March 20, 2022 4:05 pm
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 20, 2022 4:07 pm

JMH and Bespoke, is it true that you have no intention of following Dover’s rules?
I’ve read them now and agree with them.
Yes or No will suffice in your answer.
Then it is up to Dover.

JMH
JMH
March 20, 2022 4:08 pm

Oh Lordy!

Dot
Dot
March 20, 2022 4:10 pm

Bit early to be smoking whatever you’re on Dot.

Doctor insisted that I take the wrapper off my cigars, last time I was probed.

So I asked him, *has he tried DMT?*.

areff
areff
March 20, 2022 4:11 pm

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.

flyingduk
flyingduk
March 20, 2022 4:11 pm

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.

areff
areff
March 20, 2022 4:14 pm

I gave up after Episode 3

I made it to episode 4

Arky
March 20, 2022 4:15 pm

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?
It’s ridiculous at this point.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 20, 2022 4:16 pm

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.
Go get Calli about hers and leave me alone for a while.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 20, 2022 4:16 pm

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….

rosie
rosie
March 20, 2022 4:19 pm

Obviously youse guys didn’t watch Little House on the Prairie.

rosie
rosie
March 20, 2022 4:20 pm

Moley
How do they explain what girls do at girls only schools with no horrid boys to colonise all the space?

rosie
rosie
March 20, 2022 4:22 pm

Have they considered inner city schools in Europe where there literally is virtually no outdoor space.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 20, 2022 4:22 pm

Rosie
You have lost 500 points from your social credit store for unauthorized questioning of your betters.
Now get back into your pod and eat ze bugs!

Winston Smith
March 20, 2022 4:23 pm

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.

flyingduk
flyingduk
March 20, 2022 4:23 pm

I gave up after Episode 3

I made it to episode 4

Was it the black Irishman adopting all the Orphans?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 20, 2022 4:23 pm

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.

bespoke
bespoke
March 20, 2022 4:24 pm

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.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 20, 2022 4:26 pm

smh.com.au still has it up.
so does afr.com.
news.com.au are walking it back now saying there is “confusion” over the cosmonauts footage.
Via Glenn Greenwald, it’s from December 2015.

Unless someone shows me a DeLorean, it’s got nothing to do with the current conflict.

Dot
Dot
March 20, 2022 4:28 pm

Doc Brown was trying to stop the Uranium One shipments?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 20, 2022 4:29 pm

Well, that wasn’t right, was it? I must be tired after lunch with my daugher.
Poor old bloke though, he did have a point.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 20, 2022 4:29 pm

Premier-elect Malinauskas began his victory speech with an acknowledgment to country, and pledging to progress a state-based treaty and voice for the Aboriginal people of SA.

Good luck with that, after the Liberal Governemnt of Colin Barnett tried to implement what was a “defacto treaty.”

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 20, 2022 4:30 pm

School playgrounds have always exhibited subconscious sexism. I didn’t want to speak up in primary school.

Rabz
March 20, 2022 4:32 pm

Ruminating on a Lazy Sunday Afternoon.

Would it not be nice, to get on with me neighbores? 😕

In bonus mono, Cats.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 20, 2022 4:32 pm

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.
Yeah, it worked until it didn’t, and here we are.

JMH
JMH
March 20, 2022 4:33 pm

Attention Deprivation Syndrome. Appealing to Authority to have members removed from this Blog. Hyacinth, you need professional psych. counselling. You should take your husband’s advice (see ADS.) A Bex and a good lie down may assist. Get to it.

Rabz
March 20, 2022 4:33 pm

Well, that’s a very convenient top o’ the page to you all.

Rabz
March 20, 2022 4:34 pm

America started the Cold War with the intention of preventing the Russians from rebuilding

As opposed to the russians jointly being responsible for the entire WW2 debacle in the first place.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 20, 2022 4:35 pm

Alot of girls played british bulldog along side us.

It musta been pretty faggy bulldog, then.
I’m calling bullshit on that story.

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 20, 2022 4:35 pm

They might be illegal in Victoria, like just about everything except paying fines and doing as you’re told.

Swords and swastikas are illegal in Viktoriastan, apparantly.

I have three edged weapons with swastikas on them, so that cancels out ever living there.

Fortunately.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 20, 2022 4:35 pm

How do they explain what girls do at girls only schools with no horrid boys to colonise all the space?

Maybe ask Lia Thomas.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 20, 2022 4:36 pm

School playgrounds have always exhibited subconscious sexism.

YOU..DIDNT…WEAR…PANTS!
Nothing subconscious about it.

There are still kids in therapy from your last attempt at hanging upside down on the monkey bars.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 20, 2022 4:36 pm

As opposed to the russians jointly being responsible for the entire WW2 debacle in the first place.

More bullshit.
Have you conceded that Malinauskas is a Lithuanian, yet?

Rabz
March 20, 2022 4:40 pm

Malinauskas is a Lithuanian

And I’m a Swahili Chieftain, Eddles. Ooga Booga.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 20, 2022 4:44 pm

America started the Cold War with the intention of preventing the Russians from rebuilding.

So what happened to all the Anglo-US Lend-Lease gear that never came back, Grigs?

Oh, that’s right, it got used.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 20, 2022 4:46 pm

‘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.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 20, 2022 4:49 pm

.. there were too many

Have to keep up grammatical standards here.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 20, 2022 4:52 pm

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?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

The new Premier of SA has a Lithuanian surname.
This is no more disputable than saying his name is Irish were it Ryan or O’Neill.
(incidentally he’s apparently half-Irish)

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 20, 2022 4:56 pm

Bronislaw Malinowski

Notorious flamer.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 20, 2022 4:58 pm

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.

JC
JC
March 20, 2022 4:59 pm

Drills

We can all read Wikipedia too. I just read about his early life a short while ago. You obviously just read it now.

It would be nice to cite in future without the pretense you’re an expertologist in Litho surnames.

Thanks in advance.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 20, 2022 5:00 pm

Bronislaw Malinowski

Notorious flamer.

Yes. Author of ‘The Sexual Life of Savages”. On my honours anthropology reading list.

A real page turner. Not.

Rabz
March 20, 2022 5:00 pm

Notorious flamer.

And cue spooky muzak …

A Spook …

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

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.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

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)

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 20, 2022 5:05 pm

A real page turner. Not.

You couldn’t have been very interested in the subject matter, then?

JC
JC
March 20, 2022 5:07 pm

Driller

Dover doesn’t want old arguments to keep creeping. He’s told you. The last comment has been reported.

Just cite next time as you also got it from Wiki like everyone else.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 20, 2022 5:07 pm

It is I who is an expert in Lithuanian surnames.

You are?
That’s great!
Give us the benefit of your expert opinion on my assertion that Malinauskas is the same name as Malinowski?

bespoke
bespoke
March 20, 2022 5:11 pm

JC

Deliberately reporting comments is a last resort not be abused.

JC
JC
March 20, 2022 5:13 pm

Bespoke

He needs to be disciplined because he lies and lies all the time. Sad really.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 20, 2022 5:14 pm

Yes. Author of ‘The Sexual Life of Savages”. On my honours anthropology reading list.

Evidence that Malinowski was a Flamer?
I doubt that you even read the book.

shatterzzz
March 20, 2022 5:15 pm

I gave up after Episode 3
being an optimist I hung in right thru both seasons .. hoping it would improve ..
IT DIDN’T ….. duuuuuuuuh! .. professional watcher advice .. the dentist is a better option .. LOL!

bespoke
bespoke
March 20, 2022 5:16 pm

I doubt Dover will do anything and will get annoyed at the unnecessary hassle, JC.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 20, 2022 5:17 pm

Well, that’s the second time he’s tried to give Rabz a heads up that Malinauskas is a Lithuanian name, but it appears that Rabz doesn’t wanna know.

calli
calli
March 20, 2022 5:17 pm

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.

shatterzzz
March 20, 2022 5:19 pm

The professionalism of these pro Ukraine meme innovators should never be questioned .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/dPkLHqs

srr
srr
March 20, 2022 5:21 pm

“kaysee says:
March 20, 2022 at 4:58 pm

Ivermectin Works!
https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/ivermectin-works?s=r

The 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.”

calli
calli
March 20, 2022 5:23 pm

Do you think I used enough “rathers”? Should I use more?

Trying to sound posh but never quite pulling it off. Maybe some “ones” instead of I’s should do the trick.

JC
JC
March 20, 2022 5:26 pm

I don’t think so, bespoke.

bespoke
bespoke
March 20, 2022 5:26 pm

Always room for more ‘rathers’, calli.

calli
calli
March 20, 2022 5:28 pm

Packed to the rathers.

I enjoyed the first series, but it got too repetitive and twee.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 20, 2022 5:28 pm

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

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
March 20, 2022 5:30 pm

One is never impressed by more than one ones.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 20, 2022 5:31 pm

‘He’s not crazy at all’: Stalin’s biographer says Putin is channelling tsars and dictators
Latika Bourke
By Latika Bourke
March 20, 2022 — 4.27am

London: 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.”

Franx
Franx
March 20, 2022 5:31 pm

There being no druthers makes the rathers just fine.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 20, 2022 5:32 pm

Packed to the rathers.

Fake but accurate?

bespoke
bespoke
March 20, 2022 5:33 pm

The rathers drifted down streem fishing and hung the said fish on the rathers before going to bed.

Lame I know but thats how I roll.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 20, 2022 5:35 pm

And how will it end? “The war could last a long time; despite Ukrainian courage and Zelensky’s charisma, …”

Complete fucking garbage.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
March 20, 2022 5:35 pm

Wtf is going on?

It’s the mean girls picking on Lizzie. We have a vast supply of mean girls, for whom bitching is a source of joy. I don’t get it myself. Which is why I’m doing an awful lot of scrolling these days.

Lizzie can bore me on occasions, but not on the scale of the mean girls.

srr
srr
March 20, 2022 5:36 pm

kaysee says:
March 20, 2022 at 5:07 pm

That laptop

One
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Two
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calli
calli
March 20, 2022 5:37 pm

Of course you’ll roll if you are lame. I can lend you a stick.

rosie
rosie
March 20, 2022 5:38 pm

Full disclosure.
I have a platinum credit card, I’m not sure why, probably because it came with higher frequent flyer points and free travel insurance and when I had the shop I turned over a bit more than I do now.
I didn’t think it was important enough to mention in my comment about current situation re cost of travel insurance whether it was gold, diamond or platinum.
My card is also black, if that helps.

calli
calli
March 20, 2022 5:39 pm

DrBeau, they have been ordered to pick on me instead.

There is no shortage of material, and I’m offering more. Come at me youse mean chicks and I’ll gnaw your arms off!

Rabz
March 20, 2022 5:41 pm

Most people have no idea what economists do, and there is a good reason for that

Lurking in the shadows, pulling the strings, with (allegedly) very large proboscises …

Economists – the essence of evil and the most unrepentant wrongologists to have existed in human history. 🙁

bespoke
bespoke
March 20, 2022 5:42 pm

OH! DrBG, things have settled and ya just had to pic the scab. And in the usual pompous unoriginal way, shame.

JohnJJJ
JohnJJJ
March 20, 2022 5:43 pm

Ed Case says:
March 20, 2022 at 5:35 pm
And how will it end? “The war could last a long time; despite Ukrainian courage and Zelensky’s charisma, …”
Complete fucking garbage.

Sebag is just selling his books.

bespoke
bespoke
March 20, 2022 5:44 pm

DrBeau, they have been ordered to pick on me instead.

Yes and not first time.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 20, 2022 5:44 pm

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.

Sounds like your boy Martynov is a flamer, Griggy… 😉

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
March 20, 2022 5:44 pm

Dot says: March 19, 2022 at 11:27 pm

digital identity bill

Remembering that the Public Service have already obtained a legal monopoly over the use of violence, in simple terms, how would this new Digital Identity Bill enable the public service to screw us in ways they have not screwed us before?
I’m interested in exactly how the Orwellian nightmare is supposed to be manifested and the mechanism for it. How does that happen with this bill that could not have happened without it?
Because if we are going to object (in writing) to this scheme, then we had better be absolutely precisely correct.

Roger
Roger
March 20, 2022 5:45 pm

This will keep the albo and the mean girls saga going

Even the Women’s Weekly won’t touch him now.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 20, 2022 5:46 pm

Complete fucking garbage.

Another well though out, erudite post from Grogarly, I see.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 20, 2022 5:48 pm

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”.

Interesting take, and a lot going for it I think. I haven’t read Mr Montefiore’s books although I see his name around from time to time, and I’ve read some Russian history from the Peter the Great and Catherine the Great mornarchies. And also through to about 1920.

I disagree with Putin being a populist. I agree with him being quite Tsarist, the encouragement of the Orthodox Church being a practical and good feature of that. I’ve been wondering if he’d declare himself Tsar, which might’ve been possible up to a month ago. Not now, although Russia could potentially do quite well as a reimagined Tsarist monarchy. He wants to be populist but hasn’t quite succeeded. He’s too much the creepy KGB agent, and his oligarchy of ex-KGB guys underlines that issue. That too seems to be the problem with this current situation: as KGB he’s not able to discern the difference between yes-man military promises and what is actually feasible. I don’t know if he will survive this mess, but whether he does or doesn’t Russia is about to be reset to 1991.

bespoke
bespoke
March 20, 2022 5:49 pm

“myGovID Digital Identity” already exist.

Roger
Roger
March 20, 2022 5:51 pm

I’ve been wondering if he’d declare himself Tsar…

I believe there are Romanovs still lurking in the wings.

Even Vlad isn’t above the surviving royal houses of Europe.

bespoke
bespoke
March 20, 2022 5:52 pm

What happens if I report you, dover?

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 20, 2022 5:53 pm

From Daily Mail:

Best friend who held Kimberley Kitching’s hand as she died…

I’m pretty sure that The Australian reported that her husband had found her dead in her car outside their house.
And her death was reported to be “sudden”.
But none of that was the case, going on this latest DM story.
We’re being fed a lotta lies here, Ukraine War style.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 20, 2022 5:54 pm

‘She’d quiver at the mention of Penny Wong’

I do too. I’m not looking forward to the upcoming election at all.

calli
calli
March 20, 2022 5:56 pm

It’s like the Wizard of Oz. The curtain is pulled back and there he is…pedalling away. And much more benevolent looking than the death-ray eyes suggest.*

* that was a butter-up so some of my more idiotic comments are spared.

Cassie of Sydney
March 20, 2022 5:57 pm

“Interesting take, and a lot going for it I think. I haven’t read Mr Montefiore’s books although I see his name around from time to time, and I’ve read some Russian history from the Peter the Great and Catherine the Great mornarchies. And also through to about 1920.”

Montefiore’s books on Russian history are very good and worth reading.

And Montefiore is right about Putin. Calling Putin “mad” is simplistic and I think, dangerous. Labels such as “mad” are tossed around by foolish Western commentators……the same foolish Western commentators who used smears such as “mad”, “bad” and “dangerous” to describe Trump.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 20, 2022 5:59 pm

Groogs will get to the bottom of it for us. Bottom he he.

Roger
Roger
March 20, 2022 6:02 pm

Calling Putin “mad” is simplistic and I think, dangerous.

Yes; it indicates that the commenter has been too lazy to delve into Putin’s worldview and Russian history. Doing so does not justify Putin, but it does explain him.

That laziness also reflects the liberal belief that everyone else is at heart just like them (and if not they’re just “mad”)

It is, as you say, Cassie, dangerous and, I would add, arrogant.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 20, 2022 6:04 pm

Even Vlad isn’t above the surviving royal houses of Europe.

Roger – I haven’t made a count but I suspect more guys have declared themselves Caesar than have inherited the job. Catherine the Great was a fine example, since she offed hopeless hubby Peter III. Sometimes they does well, like she did, sometimes they do poorly.

(* Catherine seems to’ve worn the trousers in that marriage, so I’m counting her as a guy.)

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 20, 2022 6:06 pm

Montefiore’s books on Russian history are very good and worth reading.

Second that one – particularly his history of the Romanoff dynasty, “Young Stalin” and “Stalin – the Court of the Red Tsar.”

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 20, 2022 6:07 pm

Roger, they would have been rewarded for parroting the party line right through J School. Why stop now?

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 20, 2022 6:08 pm

Bottoms appear to get you excitable, Bear.

Cassie of Sydney
March 20, 2022 6:08 pm

Rogersays:
March 20, 2022 at 6:02 pm

Well said.

Cassie of Sydney
March 20, 2022 6:09 pm

“Second that one – particularly his history of the Romanoff dynasty, “Young Stalin” and “Stalin – the Court of the Red Tsar.””

Yep…I’ve read all of Montefiore’s books. My favourites are “Young Stalin” and “Stalin – the Court of the Red Tsar.”….particularly the latter.

Rabz
March 20, 2022 6:09 pm

Calling Putin “mad” is simplistic and I think, dangerous

However calling for his death, a la the Blot last week, is totally peachy.

An age of unrepentant hypocrisy. Good thing most people have no idea what the concept is, much less how to spell it. It makes their existences so much easier.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 20, 2022 6:11 pm

Well played calli.
Witty comments, with a touch of the funny.
Always classy.

srr
srr
March 20, 2022 6:12 pm

“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.
______________________________

First thing that stands out is that Twitter wants people to see this, video after video of the torture & humiliation of men not joining the Ukrainian ‘fighters’.

I’m not on Twitter as such anything else only shows me a couple of tweets related to what’s been linked, except for those times Twitter Wants To Intimidate those ‘on the wrong side’.

Cassie of Sydney
March 20, 2022 6:13 pm

“However calling for his death, a la the Blot last week, is totally peachy.”

I look forward to Blot calling for Xi’s assassination on Sky. If that were to happen I suspect that would be Blot’s last Sky appearance.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
March 20, 2022 6:14 pm

DrBeau, they have been ordered to pick on me instead.

There is no shortage of material, and I’m offering more. Come at me youse mean chicks and I’ll gnaw your arms off!

I’d pay to see that. If it happens I’ll double my usual donation to the site.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
March 20, 2022 6:16 pm

Shane Warne should be posthumously knighted for services to cricket, hot babes, the tabloids, texting and the promotion of baked beans.

Michael Caine’s best role was as Bromhead in Zulu.

Fauci should be in jail.

Mainstream media sucks.

Saving Private Ryan should have got best movie Oscar.

Ricky Gervais should host all movie awards shows.

Joe Biden is the Manchurian Candidate.

Dover is awesome.

OK the above seems a bit random but it is a blatant attempt to get upticks. Lizzie mentioned somebody getting 50 odd upticks.

So can we make it to 59. If you agree with any of the above just uptick !

Please note that I understand Dover has the technology to know that you scrolled by and did not uptick the fact he is awesome !

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
March 20, 2022 6:17 pm

I’d pay to see that. If it happens I’ll double my usual donation to the site.

So go on, Dover, and sic the mean girls here on Calli.

And God have mercy on their souls.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 20, 2022 6:17 pm

how would this new Digital Identity Bill enable the public service to screw us in ways they have not screwed us before?

It allows bureaucracies other than the ATO panopticon-like powers of observation over us.

And given the relative benevolence of the ATO towards everyone who pays their taxes on time and doesn’t make any slippery business they may be engaged in too obvious, I agree that any further ID bills must be fought tooth and nail.

Too many activists, Fellow Travellers, assorted busybodies and Nosey Parkers in all others.

I much prefer my bureaucratic agencies with near-total executive surveillance powers staffed with [C.S.] Lewisian Robber Barons and latter-day Eric Olthwaites than Kevnis, Jacindas and B.Arts-wielding Canberran soypersons with Jack Ryan fantasies…

Pogria
Pogria
March 20, 2022 6:19 pm

Come at me youse mean chicks and I’ll gnaw your arms off!

Calli, context, please!

Gnawing arms off is a guy thing, and they usually gnaw their own off.

All you gents out there know of what I speak!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 20, 2022 6:21 pm

Bottoms appear to get you excitable,

Given that Flamers are occasionally referred to as ‘projectors,‘ Grigory, I’m sorry but I am now obliged name you one as well.

The Grigory Flame[r] Projector Mk1.

bespoke
bespoke
March 20, 2022 6:21 pm

All you gents out there know of what I speak!

Not me.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 20, 2022 6:23 pm

Gnawing arms off is a guy thing, and they usually gnaw their own off.

All you gents out there know of what I speak!

I’m more worried about Calli tearing them off…

#Raaarghwouwouf

#Errmpff

Roger
Roger
March 20, 2022 6:23 pm

Roger, they would have been rewarded for parroting the party line right through J School. Why stop now?

Bear, do you mean the Women’s Weekly?

Have you seen the female polling on Albanese since he cast his lot with the mean girls?

The Women’s Weekly has more respect for its readership than, say, The Australian.

bespoke
bespoke
March 20, 2022 6:24 pm

And just who is going to lift Cali up to do it?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Have you seen the female polling on Albanese since he cast his lot with the mean girls?

No.
Please share, or at least give us a clue.

P
P
March 20, 2022 6:25 pm
feelthebern
feelthebern
March 20, 2022 6:27 pm

I’m old enough to remember when the allegations against a politician from someone deceased were treated as gospel.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 20, 2022 6:27 pm

Why would RUS do this?

Convenient.

Also stops naval reinforcement, arms shipment by sea or perfidious puppet Ukrainians doing sneaky things with their naval fleet or commercial fishing boats, etc.

Also useful to screen amphibious forces while concentrating prior to a landing. Of this hasn’t happened in the vicinity of Odessa already.

Remember, it’s the mapped commercial shipping channel the mines were allegedly planted in. So that’s everything from large commercial ships to deep-draft warships are at risk. It could draw out minesweeping efforts and thus deny them being elsewhere. Or at least be just another strategic ballache the Ukrainians have to suffer.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 20, 2022 6:28 pm

Or at least be just another strategic ballache the Ukrainians have to suffer.

Or it could be total horseshit.

Pogria
Pogria
March 20, 2022 6:29 pm

Rex,

I was thinking more along these lines.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 20, 2022 6:30 pm

The Women’s Weekly has more respect for its readership than, say, The Australian.

You mean they do not appear to hold them in utter contempt? Women treat other women worse than any man would dare.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 20, 2022 6:31 pm

And just who is going to lift Cali up to do it?

Calli’s a perfectly capable kitteh, Bespoke!

I’m sure she’s got an appropriately-sized stepladder somewhere nearby.

You’ve also forgotten about sharp kicks to the shins, and Terry Pratchett’s Dwarfen folk saying “All trees are felled at ground level.”*

* Reputedly, according to Pratchett, an excessively bowdlerised translation of the ancient Dwarfish phrase “If his armpit is higher than your head, then his groin is level with your teeth…”

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 20, 2022 6:32 pm

I was thinking more along these lines.

Wot Aunty Jack said!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 20, 2022 6:32 pm

Or it could be total horseshit.

That too.

bespoke
bespoke
March 20, 2022 6:36 pm

Rex Angersays:
March 20, 2022 at 6:31 pm

Suck up!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 20, 2022 6:36 pm

KD at 3:22.
Rookie error.
Always turn into the wind when trailer #3 does a bit of spontaneous combustion.

Roger
Roger
March 20, 2022 6:36 pm

Women treat other women worse than any man would dare.

Apparently, but not when they’re trying to sell them a magazine.

Please share, or at least give us a clue.

After a year and a half of “Morrison has a problem with women”, he is now their preferred PM.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 20, 2022 6:38 pm

Michael Caine’s best role was as Bromhead in Zulu.

I dunno. He was very good in The Man Who Would Be King.
Not every day an actor gets interviewed by Rudyard Kipling.

Roger
Roger
March 20, 2022 6:41 pm

Not every day an actor gets interviewed by Rudyard Kipling.

Played by Christopher Plummer.

Great movie.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 20, 2022 6:44 pm

Always a tell when a guy like this makes for the exits.

‘It’s been a privilege’: Greg Hunt to leave parliament after 21 years (Sky News, 20 Mar)

See ya.

Roger
Roger
March 20, 2022 6:47 pm

See ya.

And good riddance.

Indolent
Indolent
March 20, 2022 6:53 pm
calli
calli
March 20, 2022 6:53 pm

Yes, yes. I’ll need a small step to stand on. Also I must gnaw on account of my useless left arm. No biffo, sadly.

srr
srr
March 20, 2022 6:53 pm

You’re a desperate liar JC –

JC says:
March 20, 2022 at 1:35 pm
USSR

1. Opening of Postal Votes isn’t open to scrutiny.
2. Huge number of Postal Votes
3. No requirement for Voter I.D.
4. Liberal Party practise a No Sore Losers Policy.
Perhaps Trump oughta get on board with [4].

Numbers of “lost” then “found” again ballot boxes in key seats where only small numbers can turn an election.

The Electoral Commissions admitting that (amongst other ‘problems’), but choosing not to dig deeper and letting them slide.

That’s not evidence. That’s you posting identical accusations of those made in the US. No links to any reliable source. Either present the evidence – even accusations – for a reliable source or just fuck off.

For starters you’re clinging to your Commie/”USSR” lie, then you quote Ed as me and to round it all off, you pretend that there wasn’t raging huge discussions about the various admitted cheats in our Elections at Sinclair Davidson’s old Cat ,because it’s all gone now (like stolen ballots), and so can’t be ‘proven’ to your stupidly impossible demands, and, you just know not a soul will dare pipe up & say, ‘Yeah, I remember that.’, so you’re desperate lie remain, “unproven”, yet still in actual fact, a lie.

rickw
rickw
March 20, 2022 6:54 pm

digital identity bill

What’s everyone think of this new 15 digit directors identification number that you get tagged with for life?

Indolent
Indolent
March 20, 2022 6:54 pm
Roger
Roger
March 20, 2022 6:57 pm

Biden’s Handlers Are Preparing to Eject Him (and Kamala)

That would leave Nancy Pelosi in charge.

I think they’ve thought this through even less than the original plan.

Helen
Helen
March 20, 2022 7:01 pm

Didn’t the St Trinian’s girls all have hockey sticks?

We played net ball, hockey, hopscotch, that game where you throw a ball against a wall several different ways, marbles (which were mixed but loosely on age – it just happened naturally)

What a person who is starved of recognition!

rickw
rickw
March 20, 2022 7:08 pm
Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 20, 2022 7:09 pm

Rex, there are RUS ships operating in the area.

In which case, if the mines were Russian, they know where they are.

If they are Ukranian or someone else’s they will be left until they are too much of a nuisance and then dealt with.

The only people who might be able.to clearly explain the hows, whys and wherefores are the blokes who dropped them and the fellow who gave the order.

rickw
rickw
March 20, 2022 7:10 pm

That would leave Nancy Pelosi in charge.

How far do they need to keep cutting to get through the dead wood?

Rabz
March 20, 2022 7:11 pm

msm journous are imbeciles

Gee, well hold that audio talky device thingee, Perfesser Eddles.

Sacré blue (figurative palm on face). 😕

bespoke
bespoke
March 20, 2022 7:13 pm

It’s not the ‘progresive’ way to let happened the naturally, Helen.

All the wonderful and sometimes awkward discoveries of childhood must be eliminated.

Rabz
March 20, 2022 7:22 pm

You’re a desperate liar JC

For goodness sake, have we not heard all of this before? He’ll be denying he’s a Springsteen fan at this rate.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 20, 2022 7:23 pm

DrBeauGansays:

March 20, 2022 at 5:35 pm

Wtf is going on?

It’s the mean girls picking on Lizzie. We have a vast supply of mean girls, for whom bitching is a source of joy. I don’t get it myself. Which is why I’m doing an awful lot of scrolling these days.

Scrolling.
Because it is all so beneath your towering intellect?
Scrolling.
But stopping long enough to note it and comment?

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 20, 2022 7:32 pm

I expect it will be take a number time at Lieboral Party HQ.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 20, 2022 7:33 pm

For the exits.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 20, 2022 7:35 pm

REPORT THIS AD

Rather…

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 20, 2022 7:35 pm

The shortest queue will be to join Julie Bishops lobbying firm C/- Greensill (in liq.)

Frank
Frank
March 20, 2022 7:37 pm

That would leave Nancy Pelosi in charge.

And she is only hanging around because the next in line from the Dems is even worse but, he is from the black caucus so is owed the spot. The worst thing that could happen is Biden snuffs it before they manage to eliminate all the greater liabilities.

JC
JC
March 20, 2022 7:38 pm

USSR

You commented that the Australian electoral system is fraught with cheating on a scale larger than America’s. For emphasis: the cheating is on a scale larger than what is suspected in the US! You suggested this in reference to the SA election. I’ve asked you to back up your assertion the SA election was cheated away from the libs.

Calling me a liar doesn’t do you any good at all except to show you’re a conspiracy troll who ought to be tied up in a padded cell.
Present the evidence of fuck off.

Oh Shit, I just had to maneuver away from a lightening bolt. Was that you, USSR?

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 20, 2022 7:38 pm

I have a man to do my scrolling.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 20, 2022 7:39 pm

Ed Casesays:
March 20, 2022 at 4:36 pm
As opposed to the russians jointly being responsible for the entire WW2 debacle in the first place.

More bullshit.

Dickless has never heard of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Treaty of 23 August 1939.

Dickless knows a lot less than he thinks he knows.

wivenhoe
wivenhoe
March 20, 2022 7:39 pm

That would leave Nancy Pelosi in charge.

How far do they need to keep cutting to get through the dead wood?

Pelosi will be Arkensided and you will get hillary good and hard.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 20, 2022 7:40 pm

H B Bearsays:

March 20, 2022 at 7:35 pm

The shortest queue will be to join Julie Bishops lobbying firm C/- Greensill (in liq.)

I am wondering what would have happened if, say, Tony Abbott had been the Australian chair of JugEars Bank Inc.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 20, 2022 7:43 pm

Pelosi will be Arkensided and you will get hillary good and hard.

Chelsea is lining up.

Chelsea Clinton has a new book coming out (7 Mar)

I wonder if she’s as good at direct action as her mum is?

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 20, 2022 7:43 pm

Ed Casesays:
March 20, 2022 at 5:14 pm
Yes. Author of ‘The Sexual Life of Savages”. On my honours anthropology reading list.

Evidence that Malinowski was a Flamer?

Dick Ed has branded dozens of people as “flamers” without offering a skerrick of evidence, but demands evidence when someone else does it.

You first, Deckless.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 20, 2022 7:44 pm

What’s everyone think of this new 15 digit directors identification number that you get tagged with for life?

Thoroughly unnecessary for most.

But it’s the same as every other vetting law that only penalises the non-criminals. Government had to be seen to be doing something after some partocualrly egregious act of corporate/charitable organisation bastardry. So they did.

Everything is gameable, if you have deep enough pockets and the time to develop a grab-bag of disposable ‘identities’ from the business registration board or whatevr the hell they call themselves.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 20, 2022 7:44 pm

I am wondering what would have happened if, say, Tony Abbott had been the Australian chair of JugEars Bank Inc.

An unseemly scrag fight between the Executive Producers of Q&A and 4 Corners to get first dibs.

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