Thanks Tom – great to see the cartoons back!
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Ben Garrison.
Lisa Benson.
Al Goodwyn.
Bob Gorrell.
Bespoke:
Don’t be fatuous Bespoke.
The outcome was never in doubt.
Cans was the winner by a country mile when you deserted the stage.
Peasant.
Actually Double Peasant with Pike.
Asking Mariupol Residents About Russian Attacks On Civilian areas
Patrick Lancaster
Albanese and that fvcking council house….his mum taught him the three pillars of faith – the Labor Party, the Catholic Church and the South Sydney Rabbit ohs….
Another* principal of a non-government school sacked by a woketard leftard pile-on spearheaded by Arseholes Broadcasting Communism:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-31/shell-qld-citipoint-resignation-brian-mulheran/100956022
* The other case is the principal of St Kevin’s Toorak sacked by Louise Seven -Nilligan.
Indolent says:
March 31, 2022 at 6:20 pm
To think that in a supposed liberal democracy health status has become the major distinguishing category for rights is disgusting. All Australians should be appalled.
She seemed like one tough old biddy if those glamour photos he put out recently are anything to go by.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
March 31, 2022 at 7:43 pm
He’s got nothing else to say.
No mention of the memory holed il babbo, then.
Has he started ranting about his mighty lifelong struggles against Torries?
If you’ve ever been to Chuuk, highly recommended:
https://m.facebook.com/100004325254615/posts/2210083659145788/?sfnsn=wa&wa_logging_event=video_play_open
After KRuddy living in the car I find it had to shed a tear at Liar hard luck stories. And Juliar nearly dying in a Welsh coal mine. Fuck them all to Hell.
Dot:
I thought wheat was a two crop a year grain.
Is this incorrect?
Not on his parliamentary citizenship declaration.
Phwoar!
Seriously though, the man’s a muppet. But with tentacles.
Russia – Ukraine War: Soldiers Collect Civilians After Shelling Attack on Mariupol Frontline
Patrick Lancaster
Bear – you forgot the imbibing of some radioactive milk by people the Nuclear Milkman’s family may or may not have known in the ol’ dart in the ’50s.
Thanks Cohenite. I haven’t done serious gym training for over a decade but now want to continue solidly throughout the year and then go into a maintenance mode. I do some negative sets but recent research suggested that training to failure is not necessary; obviously we need to get close to that. I still train to failure, don’t know why, find it satisfying, don’t feel happy if I don’t feel pain. Here’s a quandary: I am easily the oldest person in the gym yet I train harder than most. It even seems to me that for some of the teenagers and youth there intensity is a foreign concept. Only in this new gym though, at the old gym there was plenty of intensity! Perhaps I should go back there because when I ended my membership they let me keep the access card. Haven’t tried it yet but I think it will still work.
Without watching the videos Zippy what’s the story?
That Russia as the invader is absolved of all responsibility for the death and destruction in Mariupol?
De Valera’s mother had the same Nativity tale.
She met and rooted a Mr. De Valera on a ship from Oireland to New York, never saw him again.
Irishwoman, like Albanese’s mother.
The De Valera name didn’t show up on Passenger Lists, or anywhere else.
SOme good interviews there.
Of course as it’s not being done by the mainstream media, it will just be sneered at here.
Spot on Rabz. They spent their childhoods at the kitchen table reliving the 50’s UK class war. I would personally ice pick the lot of them in the Leninist tradition.
Mark Latham had an interesting backstory.
His old man maintained 2 separate households, one on the North Shore and Latham’s house in FibroLand.
That woulda cost a few bob?
Greg Sheridan goes all groupie after Zelensky makes a Zoom speech – give the Ukraine the Army’s tanks:
One suggestion of Zelensky’s was particularly sensible: Why don’t you give some of your armoured vehicles to Ukraine? They will do more good for Western security in Ukraine than they will sitting in your parks, he said.
He mentioned Bushmaster vehicles specifically but he should aim higher and go for Australia’s tanks. We haven’t deployed a tank into a contested military area anywhere in the world since the Vietnam War, more than 50 years ago, and we are unlikely ever to deploy them in the future. Yet we hang onto them, combination curios, museum pieces, vanity projects.
Here’s a chance to deploy them after all. Aussie tanks for Ukraine. It has a certain ring to it, don’t you think?
Comments open – how long before the Oz shuts them down?
I enjoyed Marvin’s role in The Big Red One. It is surprising the number of actors from that era who signed up for the military. Not John Wayne though, he was excused because he had 4 kids. That’s OK but it irked me when he did those war movies.
A certain pundit needs an A-frame to the mouth.
Twice.
And maybe a track pin or three up his arse for good measure.
Never any variety I’ve ever grown.
It’s hard to keep track, that’s for sure.
We know that torturing, baby raping Nazis are the good guys, because we’re on their side.
That Putin guy, he’s a baddie, Donald Trump told me so.
Cardinal Pell also denounced the Russian Invasion.
The Bushmaster is a good mine-protected vehicle and light APC.
Australian armour, while sneered at by media pundits and easily distracted think-tank theorists in love with missile telemetry and sexy fast jets, is the one thing (short of never going to war in the first place) that will keep Diggers alive when shit goes sideways.
It is not the Diggers’ or their immediate commanders’ fault that politicians (in uniform and without) think tanks look too ‘warlike’ and thus won’t permit their use- Politicians were unwilling to send tanks to Vietnam, too. Until the issue was finally raised in Question Time in 1968.
Journalists Evacuate Elderly from Mariupol
Patrick Lancaster
Just got my comment approved at the Oz in the tank story:
Would you give another country the fire engines because they don’t get called out much, Greg?
Well done, that man TE. 🙂
John Wayne was exempt from being drafted, on account of his age and four children. He was also told that, if he broke his contract with the studio, and enlisted, he would face a lawsuit that would make his eyes water.
“Top Endersays:
March 31, 2022 at 8:08 pm
Greg Sheridan goes all groupie after Zelensky makes a Zoom speech – give the Ukraine the Army’s tanks:”
I watched Sheridan on Credlin tonight…..he just dribbles crap. I can’t take him seriously.
Laugh if you must, but I can see that happening.
The Yukon is under threat from Climate Change, send our Fire Engines there at once!
Well said, Top Ender!
Even my computer is laughing at me.
Under “Frequently visited” it shows…….you know what.
Principles of War:
Principal Principle:
1. Too much firepower is never enough.
Subsidiery Principles:
2. Never march on Moscow.
3. Never get involved in the Balkans.
4. Never trust Europeans.
No other principle is relevant.
Robert Mitchum enlisted, he did Short Arm inspections at Fort Dix.
Thanks Pete, it’s scarey because it’s true.
You forgot nuclear milk tears.
I am all for freedom of speech but it has to be said this thread has as usual been hijacked by one poster repeating the same theme daily.
Any time a poster comments about their Vax status in he jumps with the same lecture and insults.
Sorry.
Snap Rabz at 8:00 bells.
Reading Robert Mitchum’s biography online, he turned down the role of George Patton, in 1970, that went to George C Scott.
I thought wheat was a two crop a year grain.
Is this incorrect?
No, spot on.
I’ve got a hundred lambs and harvest their legs every six months.
Of course you can, Grigory.
The problem with that idea is that air-dropped gypsum is a more effective retardant…*
*(I mean, look what it does to your intellect, Griggy boy!)
Mariupol City Center: Hell On Earth
Patrick Lancaster
Patton was an incompetent FruitLoop.
I’d say Rod Steiger woulda bin good in the role.
Advanced chronic gypsum poisoning.
Incurable now, even with the topical application* of several metric tonnes of mutton…
* Crown of head. From at least 17 feet up.
What about that Gonzalo Lira character?
Dodgy or what?
Turns out he is the Peter Foster of war correspondents.
I hear the sheep prosthetics market is pretty tight this year.
Tanks are just like cars.
The only real difference between brands are the intermittent wipers.
Bionic leg of lamb is probably cheaper extrapolating from the Six Million Dollar Man.
Market circumstances and materials shortages caught them on the hop, eh?
#Wheeze
Comment being made on the Oz website that Albo’s worth a bit over ten million quid. How much do you have to have, to make you a Tory?
Fresno police detective shoots and kills intruder who attacked him inside headquarters
Have a look at the intruder. FMD.
GreyRanga
Keys are for people that want to use access them immediately. I’m sure the choggies would help out in return for looking at the technology in case they hadn’t already stolen it.
Care to bet your laboratory that the devices don’t include anti-tampering systems that produce very unfortunate results?
Has anyone noticed this odd fact?
ProVaxxers are all ProUkraine and AntiVaxxers are all ProRussia.
Worse, the thing doesn’t even bother to arm and just splatters itself on the ground. An expensive and somewhat radioactive practice bomb, just with less concrete dust.
Yeah…Nah.
Someone’s hijacked Ed’s account.
It’s been used to comment on three adult male historical figures in a row without labelling any of them as a spook or a “flamer”.
Pretty intense officer involved shooting brought to you by donut:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuQHVuJus_c
Actually, you’re quite right.
One of the skinsuits must have broken out of the basement.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard
Comment being made on the Oz website that Albo’s worth a bit over ten million quid.
Corruption much?
OB
> Thanks Pete, it’s scarey because it’s true.
I don’t want to idly dismiss that as just a bunch of whataboutism.
But it is just a bunch of whataboutism.
Putin invaded a neighbouring country and is blowing shit up. Morals don’t end at the border and I don’t know what unpleasantness was going on in Donetsk et al, but I do know that Putin’s legal right to use force ended at the border, and nobody was attacking Russia. All his mud flinging doesn’t make his special operation into sunshine and rainbows.
New government ad on the youtubes about how respect for womxn and grrls.
The only anglo man appearing rather creepily tells a kindy kid to not let anyone see his tears coming out.
The rest of nascent mankind is shown the light and the way by swarthy femmes… one of which was driving her blended family around school pickup and unsupervised house parties in… a Volvo.
Looked like a metallic sea-blue ’89 240GL wagon, though I couldn’t be sure, I was wiping vomit off my face.
Has anyone noticed this odd fact?
Yeah nah. I’ve noticed a correlation that pro-mandaters seem to be gung-ho pro-interventionist, but anti-coercions are pro-stay-the-fuck-out-of-historically-insoluble-skirmishes.
Hi Bird, I know you’re lurking.
Thanks for reminding me of this Maxim from Howard Taylor’s Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries:
Maxim 16.
Your name is in the mouth of others. Be sure it has teeth.
Maintain the rage, Graeme. You’ll get me one day yet… 🙂
Exactly right, you don’t know.
Russia has a perfectly legal right to invade Ukraine.
The Ukes are persecuting and murdering ethnic Russians in the Donbass with weapons supplied by the United States.
It’s the Labor party of Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, Julia Gilliard and Kevin Rudd – we are multi millionaires, who have vast portfolios of shares and investment properties, and live in waterfront mansions for the good of the working class…
Struth
Give it a break.
Anyone who lurked or commented here for more than 48 hours in the last few months knows your views on the subject of vaxxines. Coming back multiple times every day to accuse everyone who might have had the jabs for any reason whatsoever, ranging from family reasons, through employment, to convenience, of committing treason against their spouses, children, parents, the ANZACS, Australia and anyone else you think of, is useless.
Nothing you say can reverse those decisions, whatever you happen to think of them. All that you do is annoy people who might in other circumstances support you.
I used to read most of your comments, because pre-Kung Flu you offered perspectives outside my experience. Now I might scan the first line, but generally I simply scroll past.
I repeat, give it a break, for your own mental health and the sanity of the rest of us.
For an internal fight that Russia only got interested in and then fomented and materially assisted since 2014, as a means of destabilising Ukraine itself.
Righto, Grigory. I take it you’ll be demanding New Zealand invade Australia and annex Brisbane and the Gold Coast because their expats aren’t allowed access to our welfare?
`Ed case,
Would that be sorta like Australia has the *legal* right to invade China to protect the human rights of *ethnic* Australians who are nonetheless only citizens of China?
As in..sorta like no it legally doesn’t!
The Ukes are persecuting and murdering ethnic Russians in the Donbass with weapons supplied by the United States.
The equivalent is the CCP giving the Wontoks weapons and telling them to go hunt Australian’s whilst they discuss building bases in PNG.
Given the Solomons fuck up, this might be just around the corner for Australia.
Returned today from a week’s trip to the Permit Kingdom. The Sydney Virgin terminal was very busy on departure. Flights heading off to various parts of Oz.
Arrival into Perth you had to run the gauntlet of two rows of QR codes with ten of the local constabulary to ensure compliance with their poxy app.
Returning today Virgin Perth was busy with flights all over WA and a couple of the Eastern States but couldn’t see what was happening with Qantas. On arrival Virgin Sydney was just as busy as a week ago when I left.
Somebody upvoted Ed Case’s headsplitting howler.
Vlad… is that you lurking?
And Rex had a better counterexample.
Shoulda gone with the Kiwi Medicare plot.
Always suspected Jacinda was a tankie.
#Brusbane
I know I’m not a candidate for the US Supreme court, but can a biologist explain to me what a ‘single mother’ is ? I know what a widow is, I know what an abandoned mother is, but I cant for the life of me work out what a single mother is.
Sounds like the rest of the outside world- apart from the State Parliaments and their executive apparatus- have decided it’s all over.
A good outcome, if you are not a denizen of said Permit Kingdom. And even for us, the cracks are getting bigger…
Maybe not, Timothy. A trio of filthy non-vaxxed non-conformists went on a little cultural jaunt yesterday into the city. Tickets to a show and an exhibition, lunch indoors, dinner ditto. Not one single place asked to see our green tick despite signs about the place saying we should have it ready. Four rides on public transport sans face nappies and no one gave us a second glance.
Two of my three libraries have stopped asking for it. No one cares to enforce it apparently.
Might have something to do with having learned that EVERYTHING the media and the government tells you is a lie?
No, it wouldn’t be anything like that.
Are you an idiot 24/7, or only after a coupla drinkies?
“Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that shelling of the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol will only end when Ukrainian troops surrender.
Mr Putin made the comments during an hour long phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday night, the Kremlin said in a statement.”
apparently Putin thinks his Russian troops are shelling Mariupol. What would he or the Kremlin know?
What happens if you don’t have a mobile.
Mate, if Jacinda was a tankie,
She wouldn’t still have those teeth after her first donga… 🙂
#FreeDental
You know you are exaggerating. They have to keep it at least 90% true so you don’t suspect the other 10% when it counts.
Just tell them you don’t carry a mobile for religious reasons….
Did Albo just assume his birth-person’s gender?
Shame!
Baroness Foster of Oxton: The Nightmare of Progressive Utopia – NatCon Brussels
How about,
Antivaxxers are on the side of the Russian ‘Crusader’ Provaxx Billionaire and provaxxers are on the side of innocent civilians?
As Pope Francis said, this is the powerful deciding when the poor should die.
If you watch long enough you can see why non disintegrating link belts are a good idea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAo7go-4l0g
It’s a Job Description.
Canberra pays females an Indexed wage for 16 years to anyone who wants to pop out a sprog.
Has anyone ever calculated the cost of [The State] raising the children of Single Mothers?
I don’t install apps for religious reasons, now which way is the prayer room?
I don’t think I am any of the above. They’re all terrible positions.
Did he say that?
He’s a ProVaxxer too.
Has he said anything about the baby raping Uke Nazis?
Now, who could that be?
Mate, if Jacinda was a tankie,
She wouldn’t still have those teeth after her first donga… ?
Either that or you can tell a tank Jacinda’s been in by the chunk bitten out of the rim of the hatch.
Sorry officer, I am an adherent of Stallmanism and can only use open source software, which is why all mobile phones are forbidden to me.
No I wouldn’t believe it either, and it wouldn’t even be funny if you tried, just cringe followed by elevated interrogation in Room 101.
Rex at 9:28.
“Permit Kingdom”.
Nice.
Very nice.
Okay Grigs, now you’re trying too hard.
Pack it in.
I have been following this blog for many, many years and consider it one of the treasures for the conservatives, I know of no other like it in Australia. Over the years there have been many comings and goings of commenters with different points of view and not all align with mine, however I appreciate the opportunity to look at other view to either reinforce my own or to maybe alter them slightly. We have also and still do have come very funny commenters.
I don’t like anyone with robust views or different views being censored or banned, God gave me the ability to scroll and the means of doing so, which I do. I think that in the coming years, with the way the world is going we are going to need the cat more than ever, as our freedoms are going to be challenged in ways I don’t think we yet understand or know. If we censor people with views continually repeated, or ones we don’t like, we then deprive ourselves of the opportunity to learn or allow lurkers or newbies the opportunity of following another views or reinforced views outside msm.
At the time Struth joined the cat, he was in a “discussion” that went on for days and days and days about the constitution, which was very interesting and informative with inputs from others beside the two combatants. I don’t consider that a major problem, a nuisance sometimes maybe, but still those discussions make for a lively and robust blog.
I don’t envy Drover his role but do appreciate very much the fact that he took over the cat and continues to make it the best blog in Australia.
Not mine, sadly.
Harlequin Decline for the Permit Kingdom and the upticks.
I quite like it, too. 🙂
Now, who could that be?
It’s this guy with about 15 identities.
There needs to be a downvote button for thus guy.
Does Anthony Albanese have an opinion about Slug Gate?
Not sure what happens if you don’t have a mobile. Probably taken to one side and given a bit of truncheon therapy until you confess your sins, cough up a vax certificate, pledge allegiance to McClown and offer up your first-born as a hostage.
Michael Pillsbury: China’s 100 Year Marathon – National Conservatism Conference II
Horses for courses, I guess rickw.
Though you mightn’t necessarily get the same belt feed and link jamming issues you get with disintegrating link.
Certainly not a bad idea for a GPMG in a weapons platoon, where you might the additional time and manpower to reload your belts as you go. Certainly less crap to pick up after a range shoot, too… 🙂
Who, you? Grigs?
I reckon Douglas Engelbart deserves more of the credit than any common and garden variety Sky Man.
Unless you are using a laptop trackpad, which is simply the work of the Devil.
Sources tell me that Gonzalo Lira has never set foot in Ukraine and his whole “war correspondent” schtick is a fraud.
Filmed on location in Poland.
Using a lot of actual footage from Ukraine dubbed with his voice-over.
You just made me think of this classic Muppets sketch, rick…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nhzlsRvLQ2M
#Glorious
David Goldman: What Happens if China Leads the 4th Industrial Revolution – NatCon 2
“The Polish government is laying the groundwork to take over western Ukraine from the Zelensky regime.
They start emphasizing that the Zelensky government is full of Nazis, so later they have an excuse to take Lviv”
knows everything
Any basis for that or is it just a personal opinion?
This is an interview with him by Eva Bartlett within the last 24 hours.
Must listen conversation with Kharkov-based commentator, Gonzalo Lira: Ukraine, Russia, the Donbass
I hadn’t specifically noticed but if it’s true it does sort of make sense, in that some people just will not follow the herd.
Welp, SRR seems to like him and his claims that Russia has been the (soon-to-be-victorious, of course) plucky underdog in this fight, going in ever so sportingly at a massive numerical disadvantage, shrugging its shoulders at the near-obliteration of its logistics trains and non-existent rear-area security, and has been most scrupulous in its efforts to avoid massive civilian damage…
Putin invaded a neighbouring country and is blowing shit up. Morals don’t end at the border and I don’t know what unpleasantness was going on in Donetsk et al, but I do know that Putin’s legal right to use force ended at the border, and nobody was attacking Russia.
How do we feel about the Arab-Israeli war in 1967?
Scholz calls Putin to discuss gas for rubles. Hungary claims Ukraine meddling in elections. Update 1
Alex Christoforou
Two groups but apparently only one group is following the herd. FFS stop saying stuff like that otherwise I’ll have take the Shadow concept seriously.
I loved the way Israel simultaneously kicked so many asses.
I have never seen any footage of anything but his face in multiple livestreams that I watched. The only exception is the interview with Eva Bartlett linked above, where only a photo is used.
unknown if Russian or Ukraine missile but amazing photo.
Pray the Rosary every day!
https://twitter.com/chartreohuse/status/1509433212812115970
You’ll need to prove Vlad Bae was invading Ukraine to spoil a Ukranian invasion of sovereign Russian territory to make any equivalence.
And given that the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts were only declared Russian territory immediately prior to kickoff and the Crimea has been de facto annexed by force since 2014, you can’t use those territories to make your case.
.. and that reminds me of this classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag
WaPo and CNN report on Bidens allegedly profiting from China
Harlequin Declinesays:
March 31, 2022 at 9:24 pm
Mackay airport doing a roaring trade with arrivals/departures. Red Roo are even flying a B738 services in daily from Brisbane which they haven’t done for years, interstate hasn’t started yet but 15 upwards flights a day from a handful of carriers. Port can’t keep with demand for coal either, I gave up at counting 40 ships.
As for the lack of smart phone, Q Club had no issues in Townsville with mine not reading QR’s. I signed in on their tablet, I’d say WA authorities would have a similar regime and I found the same solution a few times in NSW last year.
SATP, interesting there is XXXX can shortage in Mackay that isn’t an issue in Townsville. Got taken to lunch the other day at the Pacific Hotel Eimeo, wow never knew this place existed. Was a great long lunch especially with the view…
Paper forms here for the non-QRs. And not particularly tightly policed anyway, unless Sneakers has just made A Pronouncement. And then that only tends to last for a few days to a week.
One suspects there are many Mickey Mouses, Donald Ducks and Mark McGowans on businesses’ sign-in records throughout the state…
oh please. maybe you need to prove the 60,000+ troops massed on the border of the Donbas were some sort of peace keeping exercise.
Donbass doesn’t count- Not sovereign Russian territory until D+1
Moshe Dayan signed a few in my neck of the woods..
I’m neutral in this conflict with the U&R but if Poland would take a chunk out of U territory it wouldn’t be a bad idea, same for Hungary and Romania.
The way the Ukrainian government treats its very sizable minorities is more than disgraceful.
They are even barred from taking civil office.
Not a lot here know this, not blaming them just reminding them that there are always reasons for drastic acts. Look behind the rhetoric and propaganda.
rocket in the kitchen sink
Looks like one of these-
https://www.army-technology.com/projects/smerch/
I wasn’t required to register anywhere in WA except the airport where you needed their special G2G app for interstate arrivals to register their polluting presence.
Look closely at the picture at the edges of his clothing.
Dead-set green screen.
And pretty poor quality at that.
Dodgy as.
I’ve been refreshing my memory about the fluid borders over there.
I remember reading the Endless Steppes about Polish Jews exiled by the soviets from Vilna, which though horrific turned out to be fortuitous.
Now part of Lithuania.
Nice sentiment.
How do you fix it it’s been going on for long before 2014.
As to partition a country, Ukraine is the same hotch-potch of a construction after the world wars as many Arab states.
Cobbled together by ignorant western powers.
Sounds like Lviv could reasonably be Polish.
Stalin said no.
Useless as it and all its supporting documentation is. As Jupes told the Cat about when he tried to get in via Sydney and Hobart during Sneakers’ predilection for random border door-slamming at the start of the year.
The SafeWA Mk 2.0 that was meant to link to the vaxxxxxxxxxxx certificate has been met with near-universal panning and derision. The original QR scanner app has been put up with, but most no longer bother.
Ask a Ukrainian, but do they really exist?
Of course they do and have existed for a long time, but not able to claim all the current territories as of right.
They never did.
Unless you were trying to be funny?
you know what doesn’t get said in this forum?
well, there’s a lot of posters missing lately isn’t there?
so yeh, everything they would say but they just don’t fucking bother anymore
dover, get rid of bitches
Well, he’s a dating coach and they kicked all the chicks out of Ukraine. Or so some would have us believe, so he’s in Pole-land.
Tash Peterson is a militant vegan, who boasts of making thousands of dollars a month, showing her bare bum on Instagram. O.K to flash your meat…
Again, quite a lot of instructions handed out to the blog owner today.
Do this. Do that.
I’d also make the point that quite a few people who would ordinarily post about other important things aren’t here. Because they’re being drowned out by sermons from St. Ruth. Drowned out by self-righteousness and failure in the form of wordwalls and being called fuckwits and cock smokers.
Contrary to the death camp fan’s assertions, I’ve never asked for anyone to be smote, ever.
But I can see why people don’t post. A difference of outlook with the barrel-stuffing for-now Quenthland courier bloke gets you an entire day of the Abuse and Snivelling Combo.
Just SRR, really.
Struth will be back later.
Big rough, tough, elephant tracker Jackie Lambie complains of being bullied…
From TE’s link earlier tonight, and apropos of the doomed NT top jack Chalker – the kiss of death from the Chief Minister:
Gone.
no.
not struth
they’re being pecked to death by hens
you’re one of them
fuck youse
and the Uber you rode in on
this place is shit because of your gibber
vapid wankers
Why Is The Universe Perfect?
For many here this is old news. Others might find it interesting. I know the idea is that physics is all mathematical but having to use experimentally derived values to make it all work seems rather odd to me because if it was entirely mathematical wouldn’t those values be determined within the math? Where’s Dr. BG? Help!
Matrix, I owe you an apology. I thought you were referring to other posters earlier.
It seems the henpecked posters you are missing so much – St. Ruth, Bird, Faulty, NFA and rsrrsrsrs – are all over at the Furniture Shop. All except St. Ruth are moaning about not being here. The Kenworth Martyr is gloating about how much he gets away with while he is here.
Of course, the others are really complaining that if they were here, they’d be drowned out by the troubadour and the entirely expected responses from people sick of his dishonest self-serving shit.
I can see that it’s a bit of a quandary.
Watching the last of the Australian innings before farter time. About 350, they’ll get, which should be more than enough.
Seriously though, some of the Paki fieldsmen look like their beards are drawn on with texta. It’s spooky. Maybe they’re just hairy(ish) chicks.
KD Struth is a mystery to me. Yeah the constitutional stuff was worthy material but now his MO is abuse about peoples’ past behavior which is just nagging. I don’t know what he hopes to achieve. He can’t be interested in changing opinions because his methods are woeful. He might be just venting but sheesh for how long does that go on? Perhaps he just wants to be disruptive.
There’s a very missed commentary here that is sorely missed
the only reason I don’t post what he actually said to me is out of respect.
now fuck off
your constructions are infantile
It’s a mystery to me too. He used to make some decent points, but that was some time back.
I’ve only ever not been nice to people who were exceptionally un-nice to me first. As I mentioned earlier – if he expects the targets of his misguided failure-driven epistles to just sit there and cop it every day when he has no intention of stopping – just wandering swinging girly haymakers (that miss) – well, he’s just wrong. Again.
My constructions are awesome. They have capital letters and everything – as opposed to your one-line late-night ten-word piss-driven poorly-built messages which consist of calling everyone mongs and then disappearing. Again.
Take it easy, switch-flicker.
does anybody else notice the format?
if you want a forum
get rid of the bitches
just sayin’
So Zelensky wants some of our Bushmasters? I say give ’em hundreds. Let the Russians blow them sky-high, and we’ll build and send hundreds more. Offer the Ukies a couple more weapons platforms on similar terms and we’ll have ourselves a splendid little military-industrial complex!
Right, and the Arab states are ridiculous entities that only exist as discrete nation-states due to their oil wealth. Bar the oil wealth, Ukraine is *exactly* like an Arab state. All of the historical attributes that tend to confer statehood are absent.
I watched a bit of your video, John H, but I couldn’t stand the pace. Too slow. And rather patronising, which didn’t improve things.
A few points; the fine structure constant is not exactly 1/137. It’s close, but not the reciprocal of an integer. The video conceals that. Second, the universe isn’t mathematical. Mathematics is just the best language we have to describe what it does. They used to use Latin, but algebra works better, for various reasons I shan’t go into. Third, most theories are parametrised, which is to say there are actually an infinite family of them, each element of the family specified by a number or collection of numbers. If you want to know which one the universe uses, you have to make some measurements to pick out the best bets.
It’s conceivable that one day we’ll have a theory of everything that allows us to calculate the physical constants of our universe, but we aren’t within cooee of it at present.
The argument that our physical constants have been carefully chosen to allow our universe to support life is fundamentally silly. A different universe from ours might have totally different entities in it, smugly certain that it had been designed for them. This is just backwards. We’re here because this universe permits us to be in it.
I agree that it’s an amazing and wonderful place, and that being alive is a marvellous gift, but the idea that the universe was designed for us is a monumental conceit. We evolved in a tiny bit of it and we fit in with it, not it with us.
So Zelensky wants some of our Bushmasters? I say give ’em hundreds. Let the Russians blow them sky-high, and we’ll build and send hundreds more. Offer the Ukies a couple more weapons platforms on similar terms and we’ll have ourselves a splendid little military-industrial complex!
Yes.
Australia needs to profiteer like everyone else is.
Just make sure the IMF underwrites the contract.
Tigers Gold Coast was the game of the century.
The NRL needs to show replays to non league followers to convert them.
Rorke’s Drift defender’s medal for sale…
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Chip Bok.
Matt Margolis.
Steve Kelley.
Al Goodwyn.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Doc. I appreciate your expertise in the area. I didn’t intend for you to watch that video because it is dreadfully slow. I wanted your opinion on the mathematic-ontology debate because so many argue the opposite position but I’ve long held the same position as you. To give you some idea of the opposing trend the physicist Max Tegmark has written a book, “Our Mathematical Universe”. I’m pleased that we accord on that issue but it annoys me so many physicists argue like Tegmark. For myself mathematics works because it is so a very powerful and flexible means of modeling phenomena. I’m sure there are more technical explanations!
I’m not into the anthropic principle stuff. Some have argued that the apparent fine tuning is misleading because typically the proponents of the anthropic principle only change one or two parameters but there are a gazillion ways to mix and match and we can’t compute that but it is conceivable universes amenable to complexity can emerge with different constants.
The so-called Conservative Party in the UK is farcical. Those who think that Boris and Mrs Boris are outliers – think again:
If you think our politicians are dreadful, look at the UK. What a disaster.
Had this lot been around during the formation of the British Empire, they would have ceded the entire country to Kenya in order to ensure racial and economic justice.
Thanks Tom.
While we are on the subj. of nefarious behaviour bo so-called conservative parties, for once I agree with Labor about this:
Using the Solicitor-General and the High Court in legal manoevres to do with internal party power struggles and preselection stoushes is banana republic stuff.
John H, I’ve read some of the Tegmark stuff. I think it’s fundamentally dishonest. He knows where he wants to go and interprets everything to get there.
I must say I feel the same way about Dover’s hero Aquinas. I admire some aspects of the man, but at root it’s dishonest. Fixing up the axioms to get to where you want to arrive at takes some intellect, and in science it may be fair play, but in theology it’s cheating.
Completely agree, Johanna. We are governed by a contemptible shower. And they aren’t smart enough to conceal it.
This is fair and unbiased reporting by TheirABC in 2022:
“Pope Francis has lifted the application of the pontifical secret in the Vatican financial trial, clearing the way for Cardinal Angelo Becciu to speak in court about his involvement with Cecilia Marogna, the self-described security consultant who says she spied for the cardinal on other curial officials”
Pope Francis waives state secrecy
“Melbourne is now the only capital city in Australia without a city deal.
Victoria has been left out of the federal government’s Energy Security and Regional Development Plan, a $7.1 billion fund to “turbocharge” the economies of four key regions.
Senior Morrison government sources have blamed Victoria for putting all its eggs in the one basket with the Suburban Rail Loop.
Victoria received just 5.9 per cent, or $208 million, out of a total $3.56 billion worth of new infrastructure funding over the four-year budget period.”
no pork for victory, at the age
how will Elbow lift wages?
Jacqui Jacqui thinks public servants should be able to run for parliament while still getting paid by the taxpayer
Murray thinks Bruce might have a form of dementia
So close to Melbourne I only knew of existence because son did Scott camp there.
Named by Hume and Hovel because they couldn’t see the bay from the top because too many darn trees, so wiki tells me.
comments on the Mt Disappointment crash
Gray on Poles
I stand with Dave
Too soon to say anything about the crash at Mt D.
Know the place well, always avoided when flying.
Treacherous to the extreme for a small hill, in dubious weather.
Andy Ngo on sentencing of malik Mohammed antifa freedom fighter
I remember thinking the name was apt.
Autumn is here. Minimum temp 9.4C, app temp more like 3C. Went outside for a fag and it was chilly. Space Station still up there.
I see that they did a changeover of staff on the SS this week, and the chaps refused to get involved in political discussions. Both Ruskies and Murricans involved.
If only others would take a leaf from their book.
Now wondering if disrespecting Mt Disappointment will have triggered any wailing banshees.
power on Ukrainian refugees
Paul Joseph Watson