Also, today’s Mutt. Looks very, very good, a hell of a lot like ol Steely Grey, aka the Teflon Death…
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Sorry — linky thingy.
LOL
The English and Welsh data isn’t the strongest example against vaccination either.
Ireland tended to show the earlier vaccines were somewhat insipid. Very high vaccination rates and high hospitalisations.
Not much you can do when society is obese and malnourished. Jabbed or not. It is immunocompromised by choice.
president of Pontian Greek organisation on Mariupol. 10 hours old
Oh God! (no blasphemy intended)
Why does everything have to result in litigation?
“Oooh. I’m a fatso who slipped on my no-tread moccasins in Coles. Pay me!”
“Aaaargh. I’m a clumsy prick who tripped over the white line at the recreational reserve. I’m owed!”
“Ooooh. Being totally ignorant of the Laws of Gravity I rolled a rock on my foot. Ker-ching!”
I swear to whatever various Gods you lot worship, the most prolific advertisers on rural TV are sheep dip distributors and personal injury lawyers.
Anyone who was educated by the nuns would know that these little trials are sent by God for a reason, and we should offer our suffering up to Baby Jesus in silence.
..
https://funker530.com/video/russian-soldier-barely-survives-explosion-that-destroys-his-truck/
Hands up who really cares.
Want to move to the top of the daily frag list?
Simples.
Tell the baddies where you at.
Man hurt in nail bomb explosion in Qld
DIY bomb disposal.
As you do.
Rather like getting rid of cane toads, or Huntsmen.
YouTube bans Dr Dhand’s videos for “Misinformation” | Now Closing My Channel
52 year old man!
I bet he was vaxxed.
Gaborsays:
March 25, 2022 at 5:54 am
God and the Holy Spirit,
Who is the boss?
Not an insult to religious people, but I asked this a dozen times and got no satisfactory answer.
Jesus, I understand, but what about the H Spirit, why does it exist if there is a God and who came first?
Gabor, there’s some misunderstanding there.
The doctrine of the Trinity is that “God” is a single entity who comprises “the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit” each of which has a separate identity as well as a unique role in the single unified entity.
Very, very difficult concept, and perhaps one of the things St Paul was talking about when he said that “now we see through a glass darkly”.
The best analogy I can think of is that a cube is a single entity but comprises six squares. CS Lewis said something of the sort when he wrote about two-dimensional beings struggling to understand the concept of a three dimensional object – i.e. the analogy is that we are spiritually two-dimensional and therefore struggle (at least in this world) to understand the three-dimensional spiritual nature of the Trinity.
“Came first” is also potentially misleading – it implies that time exists independently of the physical universe. Conventional Christian doctrine is that time is a component, function or by-product of the created universe (St Augustine). On that basis the question which of the Trinity came “first” has no meaning. All three co-exist. Again, it’s like asking which came first – the cube or the squares.
The Father is clearly the “boss” to the extent, if any, that such a concept is applicable to the Trinity. Jesus said often that the Father sent Him, and that He was doing the will of “Him who sent me”. Likewise, Jesus said that the Father would “give” or “send” the Spirit.
Faustus – Depends on the metric. As I recall the UK data showed the rate of infection among vaccinated was about twice that of the unvaccinated, per 100,000 people. That is consistent with losing inherent immunity. As I said too the Swedish study shows heightened vulnerability after about 8 months. Again that means, in absence of vaccine produced antibodies, vs Covid infection the immune system is depressed relative to unvaxxed people.
The various health services are also very antsy about the data and have stopped releasing it recently, because it might give people the wrong idea (ie that the vaccines don’t work).
By the look of things, even after abolishing AIDS and ‘negative efficacy’ by correcting the population overestimate, the adjusted UKHSA data tells us that the vaccines do SFA in terms preventing Omicron infection across the population.
Assuming the error is uniform across all age groups (yes, I know) the only significant benefit from vaccination is conferred to the 70+ cohort, in terms of reduced frequency of hospitalisation and death.
So, personal choice – and government can stop with the big levers and get the fuck out of my life.
Yes, the Council of Nicea was a lively one, nipping heresy (extra stuff) in the bud.
So who had “Paulician heresy” on their bingo card of “Reasons 2022 will be worse than 2021”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulicianism
The Paulicians self-identified as Christians, but much about the nature of their beliefs is disputed. Their beliefs prompted Christian critics to brand them as Jews, Mohammedans and Manichæans but it is likely that their opponents employed these “pejorative” appellations merely as terms of abuse rather than as an accurate reflection of their beliefs.[27] Controversies about the sect’s faith include disputes about their beliefs regarding the nature of God, the nature of Christ and their devotional rituals and practices.
Bruce: That’s the case with CDC, which is a disgraceful mess.
The UK base data is generally accepted as decent quality and is published freely – albeit covered in qualifiers warning about the obvious statistical problems.
The history of Greek colonies around the Black Sea is amazing.
My understanding was always that it was a mystery – that God was three and God was one. That would be contradictory in logic but all logic, all order, all distinctions are within God, God is not within them.
It is a mystery because it cannot be understood. If it could be understood then God would need to be finite, exist in time, exist in some sort of space where distinctions are drawn, etc.
What I should have included in the above is that you should consider what it is for anything anywhere to be ‘boss’ of anything else, or for a hierarchy to exist.
It occurs to me that any conceptualisation or perspective you come up with seems not to gel with the idea of God.
Well stated, ML. Reminds me of this:
– Isaias 55.
The UK base data is generally accepted as decent quality and is published freely – albeit covered in qualifiers warning about the obvious statistical problems.
Dr F, I recall a report that the UK stats authority told the UK health authority to fuck off when the health authority wanted them to distort the covid stats to support the narrative.
However, I believe that a compromise was reached that the stats people would ease up on presenting data in easily understandable form when that would lead the public to question the official line on covid.
Every vaxxed person I know that has covid has had mild covid.
Unvaxxed at the time of infection, it inflicted three days of mild fatigue, a runny nose, bit of a headache and scratchy eyes. And then it was gone. As I said here at the time, no worse than a medium-grade hangover, albeit of longer duration.
Further, did anyone hear Neil Mitchell at around nine-ish taking a call from a bloke who said he would have the tenth, eleventh and twelth jab if that’s what the authorities want because he’s a government-jab junkie?
When Mitchell, who is getting on, finally twigged that the caller had tongue in cheek, the caller made his real point: that jab side effects were killing people. Mitchell’s producer hit the kill button and the apparatchik host proceeded to ‘win’ an argument with a dead phone line by branding his now-disconnected caller as ‘an idiot’ and implying today’s nine COVID deaths in Victoria must have been unvaccinated.
Mitchell hasn’t been so fired up since the days when he was slagging Freedom rallies as assemblies of neo-nazis and tinfoil hatters.
Some 97% of Victorians are said to have been jabbed. Mitchell, of course, never mentioned that inoculation status no longer figures in death notifications.
Shortly after that call another government-funded ‘public service’ announcement went to airand 3AW’s financial rewards for toeing the line continued to roll in.
Faustus – That’s the data I cited for vaccinated being more prone to infection in the UK, rate per 100,000. See link.
What you don’t get in this rolled-up data is the time variance that the Swedish study gives. However the UK Dec 2021 data would be consistent with the Swedish since most of the UK double vaccinations I guess would’ve occurred before about June of that year, and would’ve been wearing off by December.
I has a look when you mentioned them Dover.
So much to fascinate in European history.
“The history of Greek colonies around the Black Sea is amazing.”
And tragic. The Turks conducted a genocide against them.
propaganda warning but if true Ukrainians can’t be doing so well in Mariupol
Kneel, thanks for your post at 9:06 am. I’d add treat what your doctor says with a grain of salt. The medical profession has become beholden to government edict and is compromised, at least in Australia. Treatments that may be appropriate are banned. Got to keep making the payments on the big house, Merc and private school fees.
Take the case of the food pyramid.
Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused his dentist’s Novocain during root canal work? He wanted to transcend dental medication.
There was a man who entered a local paper’s pun contest. He sent in ten different puns, in the hope that at least one of the puns would win. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.
tying themselves in knots
Bruce: I suspect you haven’t followed the link in my original post. The rate calculation for the unvaccinated is done using a denominator calculated by subtracting the jabbed from the total population, and is very sensitive to a the population estimate.
The issue is that the UK has two population estimates – and the one used to calculate rates/100,000 published by UKHSA, the NIMS estimate, depends on GP lists and is notoriously inflated.
The other population estimate, the ONS estimate, has just been updated by the 2021 Census.
Using the preliminary ONS estimate of the unjabbed population makes the apparent “more prone” rate go away.
A simple calculation, you can try it yourself.
Yep, Mariupol is getting hammered since the Russians are desperate to take it and thus have their land bridge between Crimea and Russia proper. (The Black Sea Fleet was bombarding the place with their naval guns yesterday, like something out of WW2.)
The problem for the Russians is the neo-nazi Azov guys. They seem to be in charge of the defense, and they won’t be getting much in the way of friendly treatment if they surrender. So they just might fight to the last stormtrooper. Which would be very expensive for the Russians.
Timothy: something like that.
The controversy was about which population estimate to use (my comment above). The UKHSA wanted to use (in fact, started off using) ONS for population and NIMS for other demographic data.
The inter-statistician blue was about technical inconsistency, rather than obtaining a realistic view of one aspect of the data.
In the end technical correctness won out because the UKHSA really, really wanted to use the demographic data while not having Norman Fenton jumping up and down shouting ‘Bullshit’.
The almost daily calls I get from my enjabbenated neighbours and relatives now isolating ‘with covid’ tells me they do SFA against OMIGHOD
Faustus – It is a screenshot of the official wk 51 UK HSA report, ie end December 2021. You can find it on p40 of the report, which he links.
I looked through the report some time ago and found it amusing, since they cry to the heavens how good da vax is for thirty nine pages, then buried on page 40 fess up that it doesn’t actually work very well.
Take the case of statins as well….
On ya Mr Fox.
Cancelled actor Laurence Fox jokingly claimed that he is now a “trans-racial actress of colour” and that he is looking to finally win an Oscar for portraying the widow of Nelson Mandela. (Breitbart)
With 1 in 7 people working being employed in health service you can see how intimate the connection between medicine and government must be.
“Take the case of the food pyramid.”
Yes Eerie, there are many examples of the “wrong path” taken because of some perceived hierarchy within “experts”, and alas this appears to be no different in the medical field. I hold out hope that the medical field remains somewhat more evidence-based and will correct itself in such matters. This often takes the “next generation” to achieve in other fields, and perhaps also the medical field, but perhaps medicine remains an exception – we shall see. Of course, medicine (and most especially epidemiology) often requires a long time to collect enough data to make corrections, and the more complex the issue, the longer it takes.
In my view, it is Big Tech and the MSM who have created the currently lamentable situation – the MSM by running their usual “it it bleeds it leads” fear mongering, and Big Tech for their censorious attitude to anyone who dares to question conventional institutional wisdom. There is some cross-over here as well in that neither is immune from the assigned “other” problem. This is especially “bad” from the MSM IMO – as the “fourth estate” it is their duty to question any and all Gov laws, rules, edicts etc, which they appear to have relinquished. A sad day for freedom and democracy indeed.
Big Tech is now clearly party-political as many are noticing, but there is hope here as well – the rise of alternatives and the “parallel economy” shows such bias can not survive without force in any truly free and democratic society.
In truth, I think and hope that the pendulum has passed its peak on the left swing and is accelerating on it’s way down to the centre and thence the right, but time will tell. Like most, I think it would be nice if it did not swing so widely, but it is what it is.
“Did you hear about the Buddhist…”
… at the hot-dog vendor? He said “Make me one with everything”.
Take the case of statins as well….
Indeed.
To “Treatments that may be appropriate are banned”, we can add – inappropriate treatments are strongly pushed.
Reducing the anecdotal survey to n=1 (i.e. me) tells me that vaccination does nothing to stop Omigod.
Time is what stops everything happening at once. Part of the physical universe.
If God is outside time, he sees everything both at once and in order, or any order He likes. And He can also step in and out of time at any point He chooses.
At one point while I was in France 15 million people had confirmed cases of covid.
In a population of just under 70 million.
It’s no revelation that vaccines didn’t stop the spread of omicron.
To Christians, truth doesn’t lessen in value in secular life, in deed, it’s all the more important to live by & love truth always, and so be an example to others.
Not as one rewarded with the carnal for their words, but as one who will not deny The Holy Spirit even if it costs their mortal life, such being the strength of their conviction in The Living Word, our Creator, Sustainer & Saviour, The Christ Jesus, God.
Of course we are all imperfect mortal beings so we all fall short and must give thanks for His grace.
However, when someone tosses aside the importance of truth and it’s effect on others when, ‘it’s only about a comment on a secular issue’, it does not indicate someone strong in Christian faith, but rather, that of a smooth tongued deceiver.
I hold out hope that the medical field remains somewhat more evidence-based and will correct itself in such matters.
LOL!
Not while many trials are designed and carried out dishonestly.
Take the Ivermection issue. Nobody has claimed 100% efficacy but anyway trials were carried out that were designed to fail. The drug was given too late, in inappropriate doses (in one cases in known toxic doses- very large with Ivermectin) and without the adjunct of zinc and the AZT antibiotic. Then the claim is made that it is ineffective.
I’ll bet Clive got the whole lot rather than just Ivermectin and/or HCQ.
People need reminding
– The State is not your friend
-The Government doesn’t care about you at all.
All governments kill, either directly or through their policies by commission or omission. If you are lucky you avoid not so much targeting but simply being involved in the collateral damage and fallout.
Yep, something well worth sharing with all those struck currently blind with Russia Hate –
This looks like it will be a very interesting film …
Link didn’t show in my last post … http://2000mules.com/
So, it’s okay to use it the way rosie disagreed with, when it’s being used against somone you personally don’t like, SRR?
Figures. Proclaims to be heroically fighting a deceitful Narrative, but ruthlessly puts forward her own…
“Not while many trials are designed and carried out dishonestly.”
Certainly true, but the “self correction” includes “de-impacting” those shown to have previously been a little careless with the truth or their methodology. As I said, it often takes a while and epidemiologists are notoriously non-committalists – “causes” is not in their vocabulary, only “indicates”, perhaps rising to “strongly indicates”.
I am not sure what is worse – private or government funded research. Both appear to be beholden to one level or another of “telling them what they want to hear” rather than speaking truth to power. We certainly need more people willing to speak truth to power in almost every field of study, but other than the odd exception, this is rarely a career enhancing position – it is usually those who are already at or near the top that can afford to do so, and they are typically lambasted with “being old fashioned”, “senile” etc when they do it.
I’ll tell you one thing though – I certainly agree with Tucker Carlson when he said (paraphrasing) “If there are 100 people in the room and 99 agree, I want to hear from the one who doesn’t agree – not because he’s right, but because he may have thought of something no-one else has”. We need more journalists with that attitude, IMO. The current mob seem to be “consensus says is always correct!”, and that is plainly wrong – not always, not even mostly, but enough to matter.
Queensland: 90% jabbed.
The state recorded seven deaths and 10,476 cases on Wednesday, a jump of more than 1500 cases from the 8886 recorded on Tuesday.
Random nail bombs are shaping up as a bigger risk.
Don’t say ‘Figures’!
You will summon him up!
Better to say ‘Lucifer’ – less boring. And less of a fruitcake.
The history of Greek colonies around the Black Sea is amazing.
That Alexander chap really was the young go-getter.
The original quote was about reactions to the truth. Which aren’t limited to hate or its variants.
Truth is absolute – the word is another for reality. If you are trapped in a windowless dungeon, you may never see the sun. But the truth is that the sun exists. That has metaphysical implications as to what we choose to believe.
In the Christian sense, the Truth is a Person – the one who sets free. Which is another version of “truth”, perhaps the most important of all.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/03/24/biden-linked-company-partnered-with-ukraine-biolabs/
Could be significant.
A quarter of medical researchers involved in clinical trials in Australia did not declare funding from pharmaceutical companies.
Whilst the teen jabbering is much lower most of my staffroom have full bingo cards (at least 1 kid in every case at home because either have the couf or rest of family).
Luckily none of our staffroom off, despite being either man arts or art and thus in closer contact. Murphy says next Saturday (1st day of holidays) we will all come down with it.
Via Instapundit.
Elon Musk says SpaceX’s huge Starship rocket will ‘hopefully’ launch on 1st orbital flight in May (22 Mar)
Fifty fifty chance it will explode. I estimate a 98% chance the booster return and recovery won’t work first time*. But if Elon nails it I will forgive him everything, even Amber Heard.
(* not being tried for the first flight, it appears from the article.)
Ketanji Brown Jackson is the Greta Thunberg of Supreme Court nominees. Tucker Carlson Tonight rakes over the narcissistic fakery of the US Senate clowns fawning over the Black Panther radical they are in the process of installing in America’s highest court.
Thanks John H, good link.
From the AFR.
Australians opening TikTok in the run-up to the federal election will be directed to check or update their enrolment status after the popular social media app committed to removing damaging political misinformation.
While the major parties put finishing touches on their campaign pitches to voters, TikTok will on Friday release an in-app election guide, supported by the Australian Electoral Commission.
How about they spend more time on cleaning up electoral roles & making sure activists aren’t voting multiple times.
For AFL Cats, any stories about what happened to Crozier?
Genuine ones that is.
Well before him. I haven’t looked for a while but I think the Greek colonies in southern Ukraine and Crimea go back as far as 7thC BC. And of course the Iliad sings about Jason visiting Georgia centuries before that.
Maybe whoever is running Greece these days should make a claim for those territories. It’s the buzz. Might have to fight over them with North Macedonia though.
Karens have got to Karen, and Sharon too:
A grandmother identifying herself as ‘Sharon’ has become the second activist to be arrested on a fourth consecutive day of climate change protests.
Another Blockade Australia protester has been arrested for a second demonstration just hours after an activist was removed from train tracks at Port Botany.
An elderly woman identifying herself as Sharon climbed on top of a freight train loaded with containers in Marrickville about 10:45am to allegedly disrupt the railway network leading to Port Botany.
“Sharon is taking action at the place where the systemic corruption started and from which a perverse attitude of domination spread,” Blockade Australia wrote online.
“The action necessary to abate this crisis will never come from a system set up to exploit people and land, it is necessary to disrupt the functioning of business as usual to take power away from those who prioritise profit over life.”
Police arrested the woman about 10 minutes later with the help of Police Rescue. She has been taken to Mascot Police Station where charges are expected to be laid. Police said a group of protesters had attended the scene but the woman was the only one there when they arrived.
The woman said in a live video she was “very nervous” as onlookers had begun to shout at her once she began her protest.
“I’m so nervous I’m just here on my own and they’re getting aggressive,” she said, close to tears.
Furious freight workers in hi-vis yelled at the woman as she stood filming.
“You are insane, f***ing insane,” one was seen telling her.
“Do you know how dangerous what you did there is.”
The woman responded with: “I’ve got grandkids… the world’s insane.”
The end of the video showed Police Rescue officers propping a ladder against the train before clambering up and taking the woman into custody.
A police rescue officer grabbed the woman’s phone and briefly faced the camera before ending the live video.
It comes hours after 25 year-old activist Emma Dorge was arrested this morning after allegedly suspending herself over train tracks in Port Botany.
Doc Faustus:
Damn straight!
I am developing a serious attraction to Ukraine.
Telling their ‘cocks in frocks’ that they are boys “so get your kit on because you are off to fight” is history making realism, and a huge FU to Western idiocy.
“You are insane, f***ing insane,” one was seen telling her.
“Do you know how dangerous what you did there is.”
The woman responded with: “I’ve got grandkids… the world’s insane.”
Reducto ad vaginaum.
Pleading the specialness of her cause by appealing to her babymaker
Bons’ story:
‘You’re a Guy… Go to War’ – Fleeing Ukrainian Trans Woman Turned Back at Border (23 Mar)
Here’re two new grenades and a rifle, in case you had your’s cut off.
Existential crises have a wonderful way of focussing the cultural mind.
Also, hail to the tractor-thieves! Taking the concept of become ungovernable to its logical conclusion…
The Russians, I should add, don’t have the problem of rifleless and grenadeless recruits.
Compare the New Woke U.S. Army Ad to a Russian Army Ad and Pray for the West (13 May)
OTOH the Russians could, I have to say, benefit by having some generals who can find their equipment with both hands. I’m not seeing many Brusilovs in the current bunch.
It must be said that climbing atop an ISO container from rail level is no easy feat. Once you’re up on the deck of the wagon, there are no handholds, grab irons or anything else to get you up there easily.
Having said all that, the lady is very fortunate she did not encounter any shunt or mainline movements while getting there. Port Botany is a busy yard, and trains of up to 1800
metres in length are responding and moving to signals and stimuli well out of sight and sound to anyone near the back and not carrying a 2-way radio.
Trains do not stop quickly, and they do not swerve. And they are deceptively quiet.
The Ukrainian Bee is actually quite funny.
I won’t win any upticks here by saying so. 😀
RacerX
This looks like it will be a very interesting film …
Sure does.
TE easy way to stop this behaviour. Companies start suing these individuals and Abbott style laws making NGO’s liable as well. I know a small exploration drill rig on stand by is a 5 figure sum per day. Hate to see what port fees, rail charges & freight stand bys are….
Oh.
All the solidarity expressed over chai lattes and bran muffins only an hour before had evaporated.
Looks like Movement Leader Reg had to leave on account of his bad back (h/t Life of Brian).
A dawning realisation that there are people outside her bubble who disagree with her.
Hi-vis wukkas at that.
Probably passing truckies.
Train people would never shout at an old lady.
We are receiving little updates as the company legal mob work their way through the new mines regulation..
Insurance is going to skyrocket.
A couple of points.
Its been unmoored from common law, it is now legislative instrument.
Workers comp previously relied on common law, now regulatory in nature.
Workers can see any doctor after an injury, so no “company doctors” anymore.
Workers and employers cant “settle” a claim for an injury but must go through an arbitration process.
And a biggie…
Discrimination laws now include any request or suggestion of asking about prior workers compensation claims or injuries, including use of personal leave from past employment….
But its ok, its only OPM being spent.
Oh and everything applies to contractors as well, you cant “believe” a company is sending you skilled and competent workers or you are not discharging your safety obligations.
Also Cats, keep in mind that where this lady did her ‘protest’ in Marrickville is under wires.
1500V DC is ‘splodey ball-lightning territory if you ground it.
The electrical safety rule here in Perth is be better than 3m away from an energised overhead line at all times. And it’s a pretty universal requirement. You start climbing up on wagons (let alone the containers on them) when the wires are live, you are courting danger.
If you must protest by climbing up on a train, Cats and lurkers alike, please do it somewhere where you are not likely to fry yourself. You’ll embarrass The Cause, and piss off every commuter on that part of the system when your fiery death trips all the circuit breakers for that section.
Oh lordy, those memes… 🙂
The truth in this case is that Luc Montagnier didn’t make the comments claimed.
BTW it’s laughable that someone who has been caught out mendaciously trolling over and over has the gall to judge the sincerity of someone else’s faith.
Whenever I go through Strathfield station I have a lot of fun watching the Indian Mynahs.
As a suburban train arrives they zoom straight into the electrical bits atop the carriages.
Where presumably lots of insects have given themselves to the lightning bolts of Zeus.
Which the mynahs have learnt to scoff before each train then departs the station.
The ones directly in front of her might. Poor bastards have to secure the entire train AND liaise with Control to keep them updated AND work with the emergency services when they arrive. SydneyTrains would have had to block the track to prevent further movements, de-energise the overhead line, reroute and/or substitute all passenger and freight movements around the site until the issue is resolved. And document everything for the ATSB and ONRSR. And all you’ll get for that is a single statistical tick of ‘trespass’ in the database. No idea of the tens of millions of dollars or man-hours it cost, and the disruptions to the lives of tens of thousands of people.
All because a few goat-cheese belters were feeling a little guilty and butthurt about, well, something…
No need to touch the line for the thing to arc and fry.
Idiot.
If you’re an electron looking for the fastest way to earth, you’re not going to respect someone’s grannyness.
The first conducter on a goods train.
Cripes, ‘Kneel’ is Lizzie’s sock.
It took a while, but the pomposity and faux humility is unmistakeable once you twig to it. And then the magic word ‘epidemiology’ and the game was over.
Sad.
I’ve said I wouldn’t, knowing how the Law ‘works’.
It’s my friends & family upset mostly about the most basic error that even one of the later treating nurses was aghast at.
That the wound was not opened, cleaned & stitched on the night, was beyond odd, but as I was already exhausted and under the influence of a lot of pain killers by the time a doctor saw me I wasn’t in a state to argue.
We only called the ambos because even pressure bandaging didn’t stop the shooting blood from continuing to heavily ooze through, and the puncture wound was deep and caused by a garden soil covered rock.
It was your classic, open, clean & stitch wound, that they didn’t, and 4 days without antibiotics gave the infection a good time to set in.
Frankly, I can only thank God that I’m not in a far worse state than I am.
This rock which struck your foot ussr.
Is it at all possible God was aiming for your typing finger instead, but missed?
If you must protest by climbing up on a train, Cats and lurkers alike, please do it somewhere where you are not likely to fry yourself. You’ll embarrass The Cause, and piss off every commuter on that part of the system when your fiery death trips all the circuit breakers for that section.
Plenty of examples of that having happened in India. In on memorable piece of footage, Anil walks back and forth on the roof of the carriage goading the commuters. He then casually reaches up to the overhead wire to hang there and give the commuters more shit. Protest vaporised with 4000V DC.
Looks like that symptom has cleared up.
Arthur’s new Excalibur.
If what I’m hearing is true, much less of a problem after today.
I was trying to link to something like that, but YouTube’s algorithm said ‘Nah, here’s everything else instead.’
Fine thread about a black forklift called Yasser, since it had to sleep in a different location every night. Army logistics are fun.
Tom:
the narcissistic fakery of the US Senate clowns fawning over the Black Panther radical
That was sickening, Tom.
The media sycophants reaction to the lies Booker told was nauseating.
Tucker: He is a remarkable actor
Anyone with basic First Aid, or even any of millions of people who know the basics of wound care, would have known to wash it out thoroughly and throw in some diluted Dettol. If the hospital didn’t do it, why didn’t you or those around you?
This story is up there with the tentpegs.
Foul old exhibitionists with too much time on their hands. Stupid beyond belief.
I met one of these foul old wimmin at Olympic Park once, wanted me to sign some climate petition. Oozing venom, narcissism and zealotry. Didn’t like my ‘harmless gas essential to plant life’ line.
Very likely true, although the word of the day is “grinding”:
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 24 | Institute for the Study of War
Chechens vs Azov is a grudge match from Hell.
For all ypu budding scriptwriters out there, you really don’t need to invent any scenarios at all when it comes to in-barracks military shenanigans. The tropes are all real, and there is always something that you can swiftly rebadge and apply to your scenario.
You’re welcome… 🙂
Bruce of Newcastle:
(I will no longer refer to you as Bruce O’Newk because bad. Or something.)
I wonder what will happen to these counterfeit wymminses if they are captured?
I sure as hell wouldn’t like to be in their shoes.
ISW looks like a Pentagon backchannel.
I tend to agree Johanna.
I guess that is what pushed my buttons about people wanting to sue at the drop of a sombrero.
It’s the lack of personal responsibility.
Everything is always someone else’s fault.
Some basic first aid and wound care at home, both when it first happened and post discharge might have been (ahem) “a stitch in time”.
I haven’t been in hospital very many times, but I have always been given explicit after-care instructions, including danger signs to look for and proper use of medication, often in writing.
I also listened carefully to the discharging doctor/nurse, so …
Winston you can call me whatever you want.
Locals at Cafe Bruce usually call me “squawk”.
I had a cockie this morning on my screen door, like a giant moth.
She’s learned that if she does this I hear the noise and come and give her bread.
It’s extraordinary when you think about it that an evil grub like Soros, among the most evil on the face of the earth, who is dedicated to destroying the economic and social fabric of the US, hasn’t been deported.
Dover – They draw heavily from UGS, so there’s that.
I cross check with other sources, but haven’t on this report today yet.
Seems likely however. Fighting over a dead city is very Stalingradish.
Key issue is if the Azov guys had laid in ammo stockpiles. That is not known.
On some numbers yesterday I saw they had perhaps a brigade worth of defenders.
Normally takes two divisions committed to take out a brigade in urban defense.
An ambo told me how he has been called out to a teenage idiot with a simple cut. Personal responsibility is preceded by an ounce of brains and common sense.
Just what you want in the early hours.
#Thump!
I’ve got a question for anyone who may be familiar with Sydney suburban railway matters.
There was a railway branch line service which ran from Parramatta (Clyde railway station) to Carlingford, this was closed a few years ago. It will be replaced, in part, with a new tram service which will run from near the Westmead railway station to Carlingford.
Why was the original line removed as commuters using the new tram service now have much further to travel if they are heading into Sydney? How can the capital costs be justified as new maintenance facilities etc. will be required for the tram service?
Surely if money was to be spent upgrading rail facilities in that part of Sydney, why wasn’t the Carlingford line extended (by around 4 kms) to Epping to connect with the main north-west line? That would have provided a direct connection from Parramatta to Chatswood and points further north.
Elon Musk says SpaceX’s huge Starship rocket will ‘hopefully’ launch on 1st orbital flight in May (22 Mar)
Fifty fifty chance it will explode.
I’m thinking around 90% it works. Recovery not planned first time, splash down around 20km or so offshore for the booster, 100km NW of a Hawaiian island for the ship.
Biggest failure mode I see is a Raptor 2 failure of one of the 33 in the booster which takes out adjacent engines.
Talking about idiots on trains in India.
A photo from several weeks ago. They find something that works and keep doing it. A pretty good strategy really.
Jamie Kah is riding in Sydney tomorrow. Please help Tom through this difficult period.
They find something that works and keep doing it. A pretty good strategy really.
Sounds like they are political Conservatives, BoN.
Sometimes stuff gets trapped in wounds and things go south fast. Like bits of reo and a foot turning every colour of Ayres Rock at sunset.
Took an observant nurse to ask the obvious question, “Has an X Ray been done yet?”. Duuuhhhh.
The Beloved owes his dancing prowess to that gal. And probably his continuing heartbeat.
1. Urban planners are currently obsessed with trams. It’s a cyclical thing.
2. There would have been an argument sold to the NSW Government that using an existing (albeit closed) heavy rail corridor but with light rail infrastructure was cheaper to build and maintain for a service projected to not be as heavily patronised as a usual commuter line. For example, the first ‘new’ tram line used the old Darling Harbour freight lines.
3. Trams have been sold as being cheaper and more flexible than trains. And that people in big cities like them more (See Point #1). The problem being that your projected passenger numbers may screw you over the life of the system. You can put on more trams in response to demand, but not necessarily bigger ones. And no matter how clever you are with your headways and safeworking, you still cannot move the numbers you can with speed with a train.
Trams work best over relatively short distances and in very densely populated areas. Look to Europe and Melbourne as your examples. As Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth sprawled, density fell and the infrastructure costs (and decreasing returns) of expanding the trolley wires increased.
If you want a viable tram network, you must have a tightly-packed population moving short to medium distances to work, shop, play etc. And you need to plan and build or completely rebuild your city and all of its road and infrastructure networks to match. As such, Sydney, Newcastle and Canberra’s trams are all vanity projects that will eventually have to be torn up and replaced with their original rail and bus services once again.
Green-obsessed (and Green-voting) urban planners and public transit enthusiasts are worse for a city’s health and propserity than NIMBYs, anti-social types and speculating property developers, as the damage and inconvenience caused by the offspring of their policy ideals tend to be far more entrenched and expensive.
This is from when Zelensky became President.
Zelenskiy’s Oligarch Connection
Gonzola Lira is proven right again.
It’s extraordinary when you think about it that an evil grub like Soros, among the most evil on the face of the earth, who is dedicated to destroying the economic and social fabric of the US, hasn’t been deported.
That’s the clue.
He and the other oligarchs are only enemies to heritage America.
They are friends to everyone else.
And I’ll add that the new Gold Coast tram from Griffith Uni to Broadbeach was an exercise in penny-pinching, as well as a sop to the aforementioned urban planners and public transit enthusiasts.
You can greaseweasel a tram line past enviro-stooges, NIMBYs and bureaucrats in a way that roads and rail lines alike can’t be. The Queensland government would have been better served long-term by just having a plan and corridor to extending the commuter line down from Helensvale and be done with it.
That was the exact video I wanted to link upthread.
Calli:
I learnt that the hard way Calli – idiot apprentice shot a snake on a rock while standing over it.
Ricochet opened up his thigh. A fragment traveled six inches up under skin. After cleaning the wound and sewing it up, got the young feller to come back Monday when the Xray department was open.
Then they found the remains of the bullet. (We just made a new hole over the fragment – the boss said we needn’t re open the bit I’d sewn up, it’s too pretty. Gee thanks.)
The MP could not recall if he told the superiors about specific allegations against any soldiers “taking the law into their own hands” by killing Afghans.
Since when did not wearing a uniform in combat situations offer you any protection under “warfare” rules?
Rex Angersays:
March 25, 2022 at 3:11 pm
All absolutely valid points.
However I’d also be looking into any land purchases and re-zonings involving maaaaaates that may have preceded a public announcement of the new project.
The best train based protest YouTube was when the Pommy commuters got the Extinction Rebellion loon off the roof of the train and “explained” to them climate change wasn’t the greatest danger they faced.
The plan is the mid 90s was to use the Carlingford line as part of the Chatswood to Parramatta railway. I think it was a Greiner thing.
iirc Carr stopped the project after the Chatswood to Epping part was built. That is one hell of a railway- deep deep tunnels and stations cut into the sandstone. Later it was decided to continue to Rouse Hill instead of Carlingford (and then on to Parramatta).
The Carlingford line mostly ran as shuttle except there was one train on weekday mornings that went all the way to the Sydney Terminal.
“Breaker” Morant was unavailable for comment.
John H at 2:49.
I also know of people on the outskirts of a large provincial town ringing the ambos, well versed in saying all the right things to get a vehicle to the door.
When they get to Emergency (near the centre of town) they do a Lazarus and miraculously recover.
I hear seasoned parasites with health care cards use ambos as free taxis.
I know a bloke wot knows a bloke, who says there is a certain sector of the population who regards the Royal Flying Doctor Service in a similar light….
Good afternoon, Cats and Kittehs. Firstly, the only socks I have are those that I put on my feet.
Just to clear that up.
Secondly, visiting to keep an appointment on the Northern Beaches early this morning I bespy a group of primary school children atracting a lot of attention at a major arterial intersection where the Wakefield Parkway ends. All of them and a few adults are holding up large placards depicting the lovely lady who is going to save them from climate change at the next election, so say their teachers and I guess their mummies and daddies. No mention that this ‘independent’, along with all of the other planet-saving kindergarten teachers in blue t-shirts, is heavily backed by Robert Holmes a Court, one of Australia’s richest men.
Thirdly, our Jetstar/Qantas codeshare flight out of Hobart at 7.40 last night was cancelled. Wot? Stuck at de airporty way out of town? Someone who is now nameless here but not yet bald races off to the row of check-in counters, leaving me sitting on a full-length split tree trunk on wheels, just one of about ten which lie felled in rows as trendy polished bench thingos at the airport, with little bum inserts in them carved in socially distanced pairs to inivite deposing one’s rear onto them. I am dreaming away in this fallen forest grove when suddenly he races back, grabbing a pull-along and beckoning and yelling follow me, run. The urgency strikes me too, because Attapuss will have been alone at home for 24 hours already by now. I grab lotsa stuff and puff after him to the desk where we manage to get on a Virgin flight, but only after we had been rudely pushed aside by a man more desperate than us. These people were here before you, says the man before us in line to the intruder, but the intruder will not budge. Civilised behaviour flies out of the window at such times, notes my husband later, for we have travelled enough to chalk up other examples of this sort of jungle rule in times of trial.
However, that was a minor issue, because once we are standing elsewhere clutching the precious new boarding passes, he who is no longer is named on this blog looks at me and says OK, where’s the family tree? This is an original precious rolled-up document of length and antiquity, the only one in existence, unfoldable and given to me on loan by the Tassie lineages at the meet-up I had arranged to discuss saving our ancestral church. Ooops – I’ve left it back on the starting blocks at the tree trunks. Anguish and a lecture about to begin about the time I also did that to my passport. But then the eagle-eyed albeit now somewhat tonsured one accompanying me spies it over at the check-in desk on the little shelf where you are not supposed to put things. Reprieve.
Have a good flight, says the operator at the check-in desk as I grab it and run.
It was great to be back in the pandemonium of yore at airports, drinking G&T’s.
Even it it was only Hobart.
Rex Anger:
A question about gauges, if I may.
If China and Russia decide to create a market for themselves, would it be worthwhile to construct a transport corridor from say Moscow to Beijing with roads/power/railways/pipelines in the one service corridor? I’m assuming the northern shipping route is blocked 6 months of the year, and the volumes of traffic along the railway would make practical a super wide gauge with corresponding very large wagons/carriages.
I vaguely remember Albert Speer mention something like this in relation to a Berlin to Moscow to the Urals and wonder how practical it would be.
Please.
No postcode snobbery.
It’s not that sort of blog.
I had a cockie this morning on my screen door, like a giant moth.
She’s learned that if she does this I hear the noise and come and give her bread.
Oh no, Bruce, you are about to enter a world of pain. Shakes head, walks away laughing…
Timothy Neilson:
That whole can of worms needs to be emptied out and forensically checked over.
There’s way too many instances of land being sold because it couldn’t be built on, then suddenly gaining permission with the new owner.
I get it but when you’re up against an unaccountable bureaucracy like I am it tempers that thought.
HBBear:
This one?
Classic!
Less than half the people at Sydney airport, btw, were masked, even though it is supposed to be mandatory. At Hobart, because a degree of Covid panic still prevails, mask-wearing was universal. Easy to enforce when the populace will assist by Karening non-wearers, and when the space is smaller.
Airlines are still enforcing mask-wearing. Except when eating or drinking. I found a pak of biscuits went a long way – unmasked, reading, but holding in my waving hand a biscuit awaiting a tentative nibble. Talk about a false flag operation. lol.
A woman and two girls aged under six died in a car fire at Cranbourne in an apparent double murder-suicide.
Compared with other similar incidents, the response has been somewhat muted.
A Monte Carlo maverick.
I suppose so.
The challenge would be which rail gauge to adopt?
China has stuck with Standard Gauge (4ft 8.5in) since 1949, while Russia’s Broad Gauge (common to it and practically all its old Warsaw Pact satellites) is 5ft.
Neither side is likely to agree on completely changing their rails amd rolling stock to accommodate each other (especially when it worked so well in Russia’s favour in 1941), so there will be some major break-of gauge and transloading requirements.
I would not expect them to create a super-broad common gauge to cross Siberia, say Vladivostock to Harbin, as you still get stuck with the same transhipping requirements when you get to either terminus.
The idea of a common road/rail/pipeline/powerline corridor for extreme terrain is pretty good, but.
The German Breitspurbahn was Hitler’s proposal for 3m gauge main lines connecting Berlin to Brest on the English Channel, to Iran, India, Moscow and all points of the compass. If you can find a book called Broader Than Broad, it tries to flesh out in pictorial this particular Fuhrer-brainwave. You end up with 7m tall multi-storey train carriages, gas-turbine locomotives and all manner of outright crazy.
The steampunkers out there have nothing on the German engineers who actually sat down and tried to figure it out. It’s not inconceivable that it could work, particularly if your 3m gauge railway became the rolling highway itself for truck traffic between Harbin and Vladivostock, but dibs not trying to keep it open…
Only Hobart? There are worse airports. Moscow, the one outside the city, horrible in the extreme, where a madman in a black Merc led us a merry dance to the car. Schiphol in Holland, to which we returned turned around over Savajevo on route to fly over southern Saudi Arabia on the night Bush Senior ended his ultimatum. A nightmare of disorganisation and cruelty, the Dutch in that place. Charles de Gaulle, in Paris. Always bad. Manchester on a cheap flight day. That’s a day ending in y. Just blood awful.
So, good on Hobart. We lived in Tassie for over a year ten years ago. Revisited old friend and haunts. I yam ver’ fond of the place. Drove up ‘the mountain’ yesterday. No wind, unusual on Mt. Wellington. Kumyani or something these days. Kumbaya may have been the origin of that word I suspect, as little is known of aboriginal Tasmanian languages. But ours is not to question why.
Absolutely outstanding.
Do your gastric emissions increase with altitude?
I have heard that.
As external air pressure decreases with altitude, internal gases want to escape.
Can be unpleasant.
Sancho:
That was a problem at Laverton Hospital – until I put a stop to it.*
There’d be a knock on the door and a drunk would loudly exclaim “I’d be fitting!”
I looked at the nurse I was on with, and she whispered that this lady was a regular who was after a feed and a cuppa after being on the turps all day.
So I helped the ‘fitting’ lady to an examination bed and proceeded to gather IV cannulation gear – a 14 gauge cannula to be exact. (it’s one of the biggest ones available and is bigger than the insert of a biro.)
Lady looks alarmed and asks what I’m doing.
“Well if you’ve been fitting, we’ll need to fly you out for more examination at Derby.”
“No no no, I not flying!”
“But you must! We cannot look after you here, not when you are so sick that you are fitting.”
“I just need a cuppa and a feed and I be OK!”
“No, no food or drink, you might vomit on the fling doc plane.”
Lady looks at the cannula.
“No. I feeling much better now after a lie down. I go home now.”
End of late night fitting admissions.
I don’t know if the others had problems, but there appeared to be a few phone calls late at night asking who was on duty…
*Not verbatim – it was twenty or so years ago, but you get the gist of it.
Just had a social gathering which had a large cross section of people there.
A Qld cop and a guy from Qld Education Dept both said their Departments were now into taking their booster shots. Not a choice. Cop said his Union seems all in with Government and not standing up for members.
Fireman in his 50’s said reason no mandate in Qld Fire & Emergency was because knew would lose many unpaid volunteers in SES and Rural Fire. Only 10% are full time in the organisation. Unjabbed Fireies do have some issues in that can’t go to work in another Region. This might effect career as for example might not be able to take a training particular course. I think this is a subtle form of coercion for the full timers which would not apply to volunteers who tend to work in local area.
Fireman said he got shingles after 2nd Astra jab. Was a bad case and was off for 2 weeks.
Yep. Gotta love the Poms at times.
Reporter To Lightfoot: ‘Are You Lying Or Are You Incompetent?’
Rex Anger;
OK, thanks for that.
I didn’t realise the Russian gauge was 5ft – I suppose that would work. Are Russian rail loadings correspondingly higher than ours?
I would also assume bulk cargoes like coal and wheat would go to a central off loading facility and then be transhipped to their end users. Yes, double handling, but as a buffer for the products it could work. And if there’s one thing we learned from the last three years of supply interruptions, it was about the need to have buffer stocks.
Stupid!
If you want a default, collaborative law is a good one.
Here’s a look inside a children’s board book that defines ‘coming out,’ ‘drag,’ and ‘pansexual’
Sancho Panzer:
It was an issue during WW2 IIRC – the RAF fighter pilots were getting severe abdominal cramps and needed to be on a special regime because of the rapid changes in air pressure they were undergoing.
One of the books outlined the problem after the war (Robert Tuck?) he solved the problem in their squadron when he took the head cook – I don’t remember the blokes title or rank, for a joy ride in a fighter plane and showed him just how uncomfortable the ascent and descent was when you had a gutful of baked beans.
Coming out – most people never need to.
Drag – what the Duke does when he’s sucking down on a fag.
Pansexual – likely, your education administrators.
Interesting Frollicking. Australian Governments and Unions in particular are doing their darndest to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. Just another brick in the wall of compliance, ticket clipping and accreditation.
Money just credited back for Cutta Cutta from GFMe. No email why, nothing.
Perhaps GFM think it was a white on black shooting?
Peter Maley Trust Account for Kim and Dani, Cutta Cutta Caves
BSB 035302
A/C 299888
Note Kim
I heard this today but dunno if it’s true. Macquarie bank is encouraging or rather not discouraging employees to move to regional areas to work. The bank is also developing secondary offices in these regional towns such Bendigo Ballarat and Mornington Pen so people can go work there too.
World seems to be changing somewhat.
Oh, and Midtown Manhattan has an estimate need for only 30% of the existing office space according to a piece in thew WSJ.
Yeah- The Russian loading gauge is one of the most generous you’ll find in the world. And fairly heavily laid- They are currently changing their rollingstock to permit axle loads of up to 25 metric tonnes. In Oz, anything over 23t on Standard Gauge is deemed ‘Heavy Haul.’
Great more pencell necks complaining about the noise of the harvester, JC.
Rex
I’m not sure if it’s just road, but I think there’s now a straight run by railroad from Beijing to Europe. Do you know?
Great news for CBus and other property trusts overweight with CBD properties valued on juicy annual rental increases off into the distance and chockers occupancy rates.
No shit. I’ve been saying this for years. ADF leadership and the Australian government are culpable for that utterly self-defeating and insane policy. Utterly clueless morons were running the war.
If no one wanted to see this, then you wouldn’t be there. ADF leadership wanted this and they went to great lengths, including hiring feminist academics, to ensure they got it.
Well, the best way to deal with it and move forward would be to sack the 80 odd investigators spending tens of millions of dollars to send 19 diggers to jail.
And there will be , Bespoke. Count on that. 🙂
I remember a futurist predicting this in the late 1970s.
He was about by a few decades though.
They keep saying how rare they are, but it’s more just that they appear & behave too randomly to anticipate & film so there haven’t been enough recorded to even begin to ‘make’ & study them.
However if you read the comments below this video of a couple describing one in their house, you’ll notice how much they vary in everything, including being scorching & cool, explosive & not, with the shape of a ‘ball’ being the one consistency.
Now keep in mind that when I mentioned it, we were talking about how some people are ‘charged’ differently than others, in that they can’t wear watches, get zapped by static charges that other don’t etc. and being one of those who draws electric charges I wonder whether that effected the behaviour in that it became a harmless part of me and so a super charged charge against the other person.
But of course all I managed to do was draw out all those who’ll abuse any fact of life to smear their targets but worse still, put others off looking into or discussing this fascinating subject –
Ball lightning rolled through their home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd2i_yfETYo
Cities sound like they’re pretty fucked, Sanchez.
The death of Reinhard Heydrich is one such case, he was injured by a hand grenade thrown by a Czechoslovakian resistance fighter in Prague in May 1942, and he died in June 1942. The grenade explosion didn’t kill him, he survived that, but horsehair from his car’s seat got into an open wound and the infection from that killed him.
He was in great pain for his last week – good.
Bespoke:
There will be a reckoning.
By God, there will be a reckoning.
Have you seen the shit they’re done to Melbourne CBD over Covid? I reckon they’ve cut down 30% of available street parking and turned a lot of crap into bike lanes while trimming streets down that had two lanes to one. And of course upgrades to public transport stops etc at the expense of cars. It’s really not worth going into the CBD anymore as it’s fucked.
Seems? The Queensland government is run by the union movement.
Why do you so often post as if everyone religiously reads your every word and so knows you are addressing them?
People randomly drop in & out of threads all the time and many simply scroll past all but some, so it really is poor form.
If you’re speaking in generalities about something someone’s posted, fine, but when you demand answers from people like this, or have your little ‘in group’ ‘jokes’ about those you love to slag off but don’t like to name, you just come across as an arrogant thug.
It’s really not worth going into the CBD anymore as it’s fucked.
It’s just shit, all those unique little restaurants and bars tucked here and there are gone.
Either you don’t know what those words mean or you are talking about yourself, or maybe some of your ‘friends’, while it pays you to cahoot.
Can someone just put this thing out of its misery? Just step on it!
Even it it was only Hobart.
The only capital city airport in Australia which doesn’t have airbridges.
The capital city airport in Australia which needs airbridges the most.
SE QLD just got a big public spend announced.
A paper interviewed an urban planning lecturer about her wish list and she began by saying “We don’t need more roads.”
Now, I spent 3 hours driving in Brisbane yesterday on what, a few years ago, would have been in and out in 1 1/2 hours. And I timed it to avoid peak hours.
If you don’t want more roads, tell the government we don’t need more people.
Meanwhile Brisbane is slated to get 5 new “green bridges” (cyclists & pedestrians) over the river, I believe.
Great for young professionals who live in inner city apartments. But those who don’t must rely on those horrible roads.
An Ex-VicPol copper who had to run away to the other side of the country, does himself no favours by being obsessed with “jokes” about rape & paedophiles.
And Rick, they’ve blocked every second lane handing it bikes. I think the entire model these utter imbeciles went with is the Greenscum model of more bikes etc and less cars in and around the CBD. They expect people to catch public transport if they’re going out to dinner? Fuck that. It’s based mostly on a pre-covid model with public transport taking the center stage.. It’s not scientific, but if I had to guess there are actually many more cars on the road now.
Sometimes though people can live with stuff stuck in them. My paternal grandfather was wounded in France in WW I, a piece of shrapnel about 2 inches square from an exploding shell struck him in his chest. He was repatriated to England but they couldn’t remove the shrapnel as it was lodged between his heart and his lungs, so he had to live with it.
And he did live with it, he had a full working life with golf every Saturday and church every Sunday though he didn’t quite make it to his three score and ten years. If he lived in the days of airport metal detectors, he’s never be allowed to fly anywhere.
johanna, 2.23:
It’s better than that. This story also had Godlike abilities with electricity and fire.
I’ve worked out what this reminds me of, given the context. Stephen King’s The Stand. The book, not the fillum.
Specifically, near the end where Randall Flagg produces a ball of electricity from nowhere, holds it in his hands and uses it to burn his adversary’s mouth closed before it kills him.
Unfortunately for Flagg, the ball of electricity gets hijacked by God who uses it to detonate a nuclear device, killing all the baddies except Flagg who disappears in the millisecond before boomtime.
The last sentences of that chapter: Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.
It’s got the lot. Religion, advancement of personal causes, death and destruction, the future of the world and righteous vengeance.
It’s also fiction. No wonder rsrrsrsrs loves that sort of thing.
JC: and if you can get a parking spot the cost per metred hour is ruinous. Private parking — as much as $50 for two hours — is ruinous.
Melbourne was built with streets wide enough to do a U-turn in a carriage and four. Now it belongs to greens and bicycles.
Does anyone know just how much Lockdown Dan is spending on the railway tunnel that leads up and and around the Shrine? It must be multi, multi billions. I’d bet real current projections will show that its use will be 70% lower than they were expecting simply because of the now Covid CBD.
Areff, have you headed south on St. Kilda road out of the city? St Kilda road, without exaggeration, would have to have been one of the most beautiful and comfortable boulevards of any city in the world. It’s down now to three skinny lanes. It’s a total abortion.
The terrified shrieks of those poor little girls will follow her into hell.
It’s not scientific, but if I had to guess there are actually many more cars on the road now.
Funny you should mention that.
i did a bit of ! Science! while i was bored waiting for a taxi.
Busy highway (Great Eastern Hwy) in Belmont Perth.
Has a cycle lane and a couple of car lanes.
I timed 5 minutes of vehicles vs bike use.
3 bikes.
big mobs of cars, really a lot.
So the ‘tards mooing and lowing over “you can fit 100 bikes in the space taken up by ten cars” seem to be missing the vital factor.
Actual usage.
And in order not to be proven wrong they persist in trying to make using a vehicle more expensive (parking), slower and more inconvenient to try and ‘nudge” people to their Howard Scrubby mongoloid insanity.
A what?
Well, the trail was starting to run hot. You only get to work for the Russian mafia for so long before they start eating their own. Plus, I left over 50 bodies in the ground behind me so I figured it was time for a new start, in smallgoods.
It’s for a piece by Catholic Militant. Can’t say too much. I’m collecting THE REAL EVIDENCES.
Liability Bob, back in the day:
As a Vietnam veteran, I…..
Unhinged local screamer and personal target of the NWO, today:
As a grandmother, I……
Neither confer automatic credibility. You have to work at it.
JC. Andrews is a loony who is committed to ruining not only the CBD, but as much of Viktoristan as he can.
It would take many many decades to repair the damage. It won’t happen.
Rambler
People in the city are mostly braindead. They don’t appear to care about anything. It’s tragically funny.
The hunchback will end up with around $150 billion in debt and he’ll be reelected with an increased majority
Anyone who buys that disgusting book for litle children is up there with the most evil child abusers.
Grr! I’m getting a tad crabby now.
The airport used to have a row of clocks showing the time in London, New York, Paris and… Hobart. Sweet really. Flights to NZ once a week and hence the name was Hobart International Airport. If you think of the place as Port Wenn with Nepalese then it is not so bad.
Lord help us.
Is the Russian gauge 5ft because that equates to 600Ligne’?
Mosin Nagants being also known as the 3 Line rifle, the 3 Ligne’ rifle, which equals 7.62mm.
It’s unfortunate that they didn’t proceed with the plan, it’s only 4 kilometers from where the Carlingford station was to Epping. That would have provided a direct service from Parramatta to Hornsby or Chatswood. Now the commuters have to travel all around Parramatta to get to a train station which would take forever, by the time when they would normally be arriving in Sydney CBD they now are still going around the environs of Parramatta.
The longest distance between two points is a tram line.
Hmmmm….everyone appears to be very friendly. And it’s Friday.
Something’s wrong. Or the booze hasn’t kicked in.
Far out. West Coast will be missing 12 players with the ‘rona on Sunday. TWELVE. Only 17 listed players are available, which means some top up players will be making their debut who haven’t even trained with the team or met the coach.
Smart money’s on North.
Wonder what his cut of that 150B will be, ten percent seems a bit extravagant.
Fsck off. Loser.
‘We made a total mistake’: Jack Dorsey questioned over Hunter Biden censorship
Our town planners went to Europe and saw trams.
Oh! We need those in (insert Oz city here)! So sexy, so sophisticated!
And…we’ll get in a few “study tours” in attractive European locations to make sure we get it just right. Because nowhere in Oz has trams. Well, that place, of course…but not the special ones we want.