‘first nations’ just copied from effing Canada like multiculturalism.
Open Thread – Tues 29 Mar 2022
- Open Thread – Anzac Day 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 22 April 2024
- Open Thread – Weekend 21 April 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 18 April 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 15 April 2024
Luigi .. a memes collection .. LOL! https://twitter.com/BillboardChris/status/1782984206542340526
Let’s go Brandon .. LOL! https://twitter.com/i/status/1783532839096447362
Courier Mail: Queensland’s landmark First Nations truth-telling inquiry will begin within weeks following the confirmation of long-awaited treaty appointments.The Miles…
Not sure what the problem is with the Rita Panahi article Dover m’lord.
You should be a sommelier, St Ruth.
Not only can you discern human diarrhoea from that of other mammals from a mere speck on your boot, but you seem to be able to ascertain the country of birth of the owner of the loose movement.
That’s better.
4/10.
Like not the address but the state or country?
JC, Australia spread over WA, Vicco and Queensland.
Well, he wouldn’t say “lowdown” for a start.
What is it with the little gang of sneerers and their inability to read?
The last score has been docked 2 points.
Visciously?
Do you mean vicious? As in “mean, aggressive and angry”?
Or viscous? As in “slippery, lubricated”? Like a bit of warm diarrhoea on a crepe-soled driving shoe?
Or is it a whole new word?
Is there anything this ‘bloke’ will not bogart as his own?
I guess for a cover singer it comes naturally.
I assume that you are excluding Mossad?
A reputation for competence has not done them any harm.
They were mostly up against Arabs, johanna.
Is critiquing posts for the purposes of anklebiting an accepted employment-related activity for Centrelink these days, Cats?
Or is it just more evidence that Mrs Struth needs to control her woman?
Roger:
If the rumours of corruption in the military have any basis – fuel being stolen, wages not being paid, equipment going missing, then Putin must purge the military and get rid of the crooks.
When the level of graft compromises the national defence, it’s time to sort it out.
I can see Putin doing the “Mother Russia has many sons, but not so many they can be traded for a Generals dacha.” line – and the people will lap it up. Especially the mothers.
Thank allah, Eyrie. I was worried it was the same dude and it’s not. Close shave as I’d have to discontinue my friendship otherwise. 🙂
Sneering can be smit without anyone being smitten in which case sneering becomes a thing smitted.
Ker-ching!
BHP dividend just landed.
Might upgrade meself to one of them fancy Mer-Say-Deees EV’s that JC’s bin talkin’ ’bout.
Unless it’s smut.
Then it gets smote.
Lizzie:
Considering how quickly the “Let’s Go Brandon” meme took off, I’d like to see mass rejection of these ‘women’ by crowds standing and shouting “Cheater!”
Now, that would be effective – a mob doesn’t always have to be Leftist.
Like boat shoes? Ideal for driving crashranger boxgears, I’d have thought.
You mean a Johnny Cab??? 🙂
Then there is the snit between those not smitten that initiates the smiting, layers upon layers.
Panzer, tomorrow Twiggy gets a dividend of $972,973,900.
Doesn’t crack the bill this half.
Sad.
Speaking of Trump, I’m hoping everyone has seen his press release regarding his hole in one.
Stormy footing the bill is old news Bern.
Eyrie:
None.
No one at my school got Tuberculosis.
Rex Anger, smut is a good move, or in the case of some long hauls, a nasty find, yet smut cannot get smote. It gets smitten, which would be odd because the nasty find has no agency; otherwise it gets smitted.
Great news, Sanchez. I hope you spend the money wisely and not fritter it away on useless stuff like a private jet and one of the oligarch’s yacht’s which I’m sure is be up for sale. 🙂
Friend of ours in his early 70’s is immune compromised due to cancer treatment.
He has suddenly developed tuberculosis; apparently it has lain dormant since childhood when it was never diagnosed but has now reactivated. He is being treated for it, isn’t infectious, but has been advised to stay stum about it.
People still react badly to the word.
Rex Anger, smut is a good move, or in the case of some long hauls, a nasty find
I take it you’ve been on a steam-hauled tourist train recently, then? 😉
smite (v.)
“to hit, strike, beat,” mid-12c., from Old English smitan, which however is attested only as “to daub, smear on; soil, pollute, blemish, defile” (strong verb, past tense smat, past participle smiten), from Proto-Germanic *smitan (source also of Swedish smita, Danish smide “to smear, fling,” Old Frisian smita, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch smiten “to cast, fling,” Dutch smijten “to throw,” Old High German smizan “to rub, strike,” German schmeißen “to cast, fling,” Gothic bismeitan “to spread, smear”). “The development of the various senses is not quite clear, but that of throwing is perh. the original one” [OED]. Watkins suggests “the semantic channel may have been slapping mud on walls in wattle and daub construction” and connects it with PIE *sme- “to smear;” Klein’s sources also say this.
Sense of “slay in combat” (c. 1300) is from Biblical expression smite to death, first attested c. 1200. Meaning “visit disastrously” is mid-12c., also Biblical. Meaning “strike with passion or emotion” is from c. 1300.
Yeah, well, wait until my Atlassian dividend comes through!
No stay out of my lane.
I’m all in with the Ruskies.
Not buyin’ no dirty stinkin’ confiscated yacht on principle.
Seriously, Trump put out a press release re his hole-in-one.
Apparently he released a video too but I haven’t seen that.
Ok it was about gulf, bern. My bad.
Rex Anger – Checked out the link. I don’t get it yet it is still hilariously funny. Not sure why. So much to which there is no available answer.
No biggie , Bern. That’s like loose change for some people. 🙂
Ker – ching! It has indeed – Wesfarmers tomorrow or the next day……….
Sanchez, Dude . You own 14.35% of BHP so you should look to up the ante a little and buy an oligarch’s boat. It would suit you.
On a similar note.. we had some friends – Australian – living in NYC. The dude ran an specialized infrastructure fund and flew over the financial crisis because his fund locked investors in for something like a decade. He bought a “ship” in 09 as a distressed sale and ended up paying something like 80% of the original price. They’re too important to know now – ), but our kid spent a month with the family sailing around the Caribbean as our kids went to the same school in NYC.
Imagine if BHP had spun out their coal assets, not sold them for a bargain basement price.
Fishing for Bundy, JC?
I go away for a few days, come back and the usual suspects, now finished pretending to not be massive covid karens, have now moved onto becoming full blown reddit goons “you dumb racist white male, accept your replacement!” the smirk at white australian men complaining about industry after industry being absolutely swamped with the absolute dregs of the third world.
Holy shit lol, the absolute state of these fucking lifeless retards.
“Don’t you know true conservatives should want white men to become 35% of the Australian population!” says the gutless retired cuck who lives in Victoria and gets pegged by African warlords while wearing two masks and is being monitored via Andrew’s ordered ankle bracelet by a govt department consisting of 87% Indians, Asians and Afghani’s.
Bespoke
Leave the kid alone. He’s hauling the last load to bananas on the truck. Disturb him and he looses his daily performance bonus for picking so many in a day.
Lol!
The latest instalment in a very credible theory.
https://patelpatriot.substack.com/p/devolution-part-19?s=r
Ker – ching – Wesfarmers tomorrow……
HutuStix was gone for a few days? No wonder i thought something was missing on the blog.
BHP spin-offs.
Bluescope.
One Steel.
South 32.
Newcrest (in the way way back machine).
Soon to be a phat Woodside component too.
Just imagine if the domestic coal assets were added to that.
PS, you had ample time to sell One Steel at a profit.
Smite the smut
For snitty soot
Will smog the blog
…and get the boot.
Don’t recall a recent pegging by African warlords. No doubt memory loss associated with the long covid.
Winston Smith says:
March 29, 2022 at 4:34 pm
If the rumours of corruption in the military have any basis…..
I’m sure you already know but corruption of public officials is endemic in Russia. From the very top to the lowest grade public servant at the equivalent of a local council office. In fairness, definitely not all of them, not even half, but you don’t have to look too hard. There will always be someone who will ‘grease the wheels’ of the bureaucracy or alternatively, is expecting to receive a portion of the funding for whatever project is being undertaken.
It’s usually quite subtle – not an outright demand – but it is the way of many in the civil service and everybody knows it. Don’t want to offer anything? Ok, but your project/issue/requirement will languish for days/weeks/months when it could be fixed this afternoon. This corruption is largely fed by a combination of ultra low public service wages and a ‘monkey see, monkey do’ attitude. In other words, a low paid clerk is less likely to refuse a bribe when they see their immediate superior accepting one. And this all filters down from the top.
Want that big government project? You know what you need to do.
Periodically, there is a clean out and a couple of thousand public servants are fired but this is just a ‘show’. Corruption of officials is one of the biggest issues facing Russia internally – potentially the biggest as its tentacles have spread throughout government.
I have no trouble believing – none whatsoever – that vast sums meant for defense purchases was siphoned off at various stages by every person with access.
Zelensky. Or is it?
I don’t know why the women just wait until the Freak finishes then swim their own race. Too frightened to do it. Better still walk off after the Freak dives in or even better not line up to compete. Make the the Freak and the Freaks enablers look stupid. Until this happens nothing will change. Maybe they get banned, so what, under these conditions they’re never going to win.
feelthebernsays:
March 29, 2022 at 5:23 pm
BHP spin-offs.
South32 has done pretty well for a company that started out being colloquially referred to as “CrapCo” because of its function as a means of BHP unloading a lot of no longer wanted assets.
I like that idea, Ranga.
Tough it out on the blocks. Then a slow clap for the grand finale.
The cheat wouldn’t know what to do and the crowd noise would cover the demo right to the end.
`n.
I will not submit to being smitten. Ever!
It’s making a deposit. You can do it through an ATM but it is hard to balance on that little shelf.
Trouble is he mightn’t have much of the military left at the end of the process.
Russia is a rotten country, and it starts at the top.
Putin made his first fortune when he was a functionary and later deputy mayor of the city council of St. Petersburg in the early 1990s, effectively stealing from the people of the city when they were going through a very difficult time with food and other shortages.
Getting close to pluperfect territory, Franx.
Calli, that was my take from the very first time the Freaks started doing this. The left are are rubbishing women doing this and the women of the left are more responsible but I blame myself for not calling it out no matter the cost.
Other than size, what;s the huge difference between Rio, BHP and Fortesque other than size. Fortesque sounds like a French cheese.
Watch it. All this parsing and you’ll get subjunctivitis.
Any of the bush lawyers help out? Just how can the Court compel someone to give evidence? Throw him in gaol, until he agrees to talk?
Coal smuts in your eyes, mate.
They get in under everything.
Sometimes, they even burn a bit when they land, too. 🙂
Another day another attempt to fuck over Trump.
Yep, judge Carter was a Clinton appointment.
Twiggy needs another name and a hyphen to tack on the back, then he’ll be a right proper Adelaidean.
(It’s not like he can’t afford to do it, either…)
By holding the charge of contempt of court over them if they refuse to do so.
It’s making a deposit. You can do it through an ATM but it is hard to balance on that little shelf.
Experience?
That freaking Bears back at the ATM!
Twiggy is now a recognised industry sector of the WA economy. Everybody knows somebody who works at Tattarang.
We’ve had the smote/smitten discussion before.
Iirc the general consensus was smitten was considered to be lurv related, not an undignified exit from a private blog.
In a statement by Ms Plibersek, the shadow education minister, and five Labor senators last night, Labor committed $14 million to 60 primary schools to hire full-time First Nations language teachers if elected.
That’s almost a quarter of a million per school. Really?
Other demographic groups maintain their own culture. I’ve known people who as kids went to Ukrainian school or Latvian school for a couple of hours a week outside normal school. Isn’t indigenous culture important enough to indigenous Australians for them to do that themselves? Why do taxpayers have to be soaked yet again?
60,000 have left Melbourne in a year.
TaliDan, you’ve done it again you Marxist piece of crap.
Still unjabbed & happy.
Looking at the info coming out, even the insurance companies (& they don’t fk about) are wary of the jabbed.
Good luck jabbees.
Zulu – there is provision for the court to issue a certificate against any evidence being used against them. I expect the issue is any certificate would be useless in any potential ICC prosecution. I would be surprised if the court would wear that one.
Plibbers as Minister for Education? Could undo a lot of Julia’s good work.
You and st Ruth have something in common then runnybum
60,000 have left Melbourne in a year.
Farmer Gez, is that an official stat?
I’ve seen data saying it’s 50,000 leaving Victoria since the start of 2020.
Farmer Gez, is that an official stat?
Just heard it on ABC news.
How do you deal with the situation where some Aboriginal children finish primary school full bottle on “First Nations” language and culture, but barely literate in English?
Zyconoclast says: March 29, 2022 at 3:43 pm
Factcheck status of your claim: True
Huh? Stella Artois?
OMG, I’m so sorry Zyco, I did not realise you are transitioning.
Henceforth shall you be known as Lia-conoclast?
Wow.
Victoria.
The Illinois of Australia.
Isn’t indigenous culture important enough to indigenous Australians for them to do that themselves? Why do taxpayers have to be soaked yet again?
HOW DARE YOU! .. to suggest that a PROUD, mollycoddled & privileged race, actually, give a bit back instead of always taking! .. Shame, shame, shame! ……..
You won’t be saying that when you’re in the death camp, complete with gas showers.
28 minutes till Dark and Stormy #2 kicks in, then it’s bedtime.
Apparently.
Timothy Neilson says:
March 29, 2022 at 6:03 pm
Other demographic groups maintain their own culture. I’ve known people who as kids went to Ukrainian school or Latvian school for a couple of hours a week outside normal school.
All of our kids went to Russian school for a period and at various stages. On Saturday mornings for about 3.5 hours. Reading/writing in cyrillic, and basic history. No big deal. As you say, many ethnic groups run similar programs for children of the relevant ethnicity. We paid ourselves and no government assistance was sought or offered.
I think you know the answer why the taxpayer needs to be soaked for the indigenous version.
Driller
No pubbling. Pubble at your own blog.
We sure do miltonf it is called common sense.
I think an MCG is the preferred unit of measure ie 0.6 MCGs. Nice work by the Chairman, particularly if you are on the members waitlist or just trying to get a seat on Friday nights.
Any of the bush lawyers help out? Just how can the Court compel someone to give evidence? Throw him in gaol, until he agrees to talk?
http://www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdb/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/ea199580/
Ss:12 for compulsion; 13-19 for exceptions.
Even if a witness sits mute or dissembles the compulsion can include contempt and imprisonment.
I suspect because it’s going to be taught to non-indigenous kids as well.
Btw, Speedbox, good to hear your kids went to Russian school.
Is that a net outflow. In other words is it counting also the people who’ve moved here? Yea I know it’s small but everything is relative and imagine being jailed in Tasmania, SA OR WA?
The Indians, the Asians, the Afghanis, the Africans are pawns just like the rest of us not awaiting investment windfalls. The cultural practices of newcomers can indeed be offensive, often more to do with misunderstanding, sometimes to do with actual and sheer offensiveness. At times, too, a willingness or the pressing need on the part of newcomers to work under woeful conditions is harmful to everyone else. And yet the unions remain unaccountable, as do the employers who also have washed their hands of accountability. All a bit dog eat dog. We are more and more finding ourselves fragmented into insular ever narrowing circles of meaningful human interaction. And the emergency powers and their wellsprings are reinforcing the anomie, having first created it. The digital world provides limited escape routes, yet the digital world and that of simulacra is no substitute for the real world and real people. Sometimes it’s the most undesirable persons who are more truly ‘real’ – I have serious problems with the homeless in the Melbourne cbd. And yet, and yet. There is an essence of humanity in the large gathering of homeless persons of a Sunday evening outside the vic market enjoying, actually enjoying each other’s company and their sausage sizzle. They sit around, with music in the background, on makeshift seats along the footpath the length of a block between William and Queen streets, and for a very brief time they are a community. They are a reminder of Orwell’s 1984 proles and of daring to hope in them. I’ll also mention the foreign students on their killer food delivery bikes. Hateful. And yet coming across these riders congregating in dark kitchen doorways, leaning on their bikes, waiting for orders, smoking their heads off and smiling and laughing, is enlivening. Yes, they are foreigners and I disapprove of the mercenary practice of the education industry, yet as in all cases when people are at their best, there is nothing like it, irrespective of where the people are from. I think this country had what it takes once and can find it again, but it will take doing.
Posted on abc website an hour ago.
The latest population data according to the bureau of stats is skewed because of people belatedly updating their Medicare addresses because of the vaccine.
Victoria’s population shrank by almost 45,000 at pandemic’s height
Both of them?
Bear
Don’t be so smug. You would’ve moved here in a heart beat. Dude, you were living in North Korea for 2 years so don’t get uppity. 🙂
Relatives of mine were 4 of the 45,000, bought in qld in late 2020, though they’d skipped earlier.
Blue ribbon Andrewites.
Crucial to that, Franx, is the newcomers being socialised into Australian society and feeling they have more at stake here than at “home”.
Shit Towns latest rankings:
https://www.facebook.com/shittownsofaustralia/posts/1383215872113544?notif_id=1648109202659179¬if_t=page_highlights&ref=notif
..
https://funker530.com/video/drone-records-the-destruction-of-a-lone-russian-vehicle/
I can’t leave WA. I can’t get back in. It’s like being at the WACA and they won’t give you a Pass Out to go and get a full strength beer.
Plonk time.
Plonk in a glass and plonk on the couch.
Re vaccine mandates:
Just received an advice from Big Fella Gubbermint reminding me the vaccine mandate is law & is in full force & I am obliged to not allow unvaccinated into the pub, blah blah blah, penalties apply, blah blah blah, .. & so on.
The penultimate paragraph:
Unvaccinated patrons are allowed into the pub (any pub in Qld) with full blessing of Big Nanny Anna:
If they are a participant in a vaccine trial, they may enter & are to be treated as if they are vaccinated (must provide the official form confirming their participation) & it is an offence for me to refuse such an unvaccinated person or to discriminate against them in any way.
To be clear:
Anyone who is in the placebo or untouched trial group, i.e. totally unvaccinated, may enter the pub & rub shoulders with everybody else.
The letter ends with a stern reminder of my legal obligation to keep unvaccinated out, coz public health is not worth the risk.
Country school in Western Australia showed the film “Rabbit Proof Fence” so often the students could not have cared less…
Why did you want to get back in? It’s like the biggest quarantine station in the world. 2.646 million km² quarantine station.
Geez, Cassie, I know you well IRL but I didn’t know that. That’s rough.
Oh, and while I am here ducking in and out, last nite Arky called Cassie a ‘hag’.
Quite uncalled for. Cassie is a vivacious and attractive woman of a certain age, much younger than me and even more youthful than my Beloved One, who enjoys his email exchanages with her between meet-ups. Cassie is not at all any sort of ‘hag’, in looks or personality. And even if she was plain as day wrinkled and boring, which she is not, then it is still not a nice thing to call any contributory Kitteh on here.
Save it for the harridens of the left.
Just read this comment:
Any comments on the veracity of this claim?
Hahahahahahahahahahaha
Roger, assimilation became a dirty word replaced by multiculturalism which in turn became a political football. No longer in vogue. Diversity it is, then.
Sorry, Grogs, you have a point you wish to make?
Frank, despite multikulti most migrants assimilate by the second generation and keep whatever of their mother culture they deem worthy of preservation and compatible with their new lives. I write most advisedly, because some take a different tack.
When you go to the beach but it’s only Port Phillip Bay you’ll understand. Admittedly it’s better than swimming in the Swan River but no one does that except Ben Cousins fleeing the cops.
Ok, I get it now. A mistake in my name. I am not Lizzieo. lol.
All present and correct now.
I was getting the ‘in moderation’ italics.
Thinking OMG, what have I said now?
There is a new Jackass movie out soon apparently.
SAS NCOs attempting to gain entry to Delta Force clubs.
So, there was more than one bloke up to savage mischief?
Bear, sure the water is cold, but head down to the Peninsula. The clarity of the water is so good, you can see the bottom walking along the Portsea pier. Fisherman’s beach just next to the pier is beautiful, but ignore the huge sacks of sand on the other side protecting the Portsea pub.
I think it’s a fact, but nearly every beach in Australia is gorgeous with one exception. Western Port Bay is a disgusting mud hole.
..
No.
A long time coming and with a lot of self restraint.
Hmms – I have a *great* memory for crashes and a terrible memory for names. Most likely that was Roger Pattersons ‘Sportsmed’ Porsche. If I remember correctly, he was still in the seat, dazed with the car on its side in a shallow creek – to add insult to injury, his door had come open just enough to let his phone fall into the water.
As to your good self … hmmms… refer to ‘terrible memory for names’ above 🙂
Huh! I thought it descended from Delta, but no.
As if I could ever successfully run a sock.
I can’t even run myself on here or anywhere else. lol.
My Dear One is going spare fixing all of my credit card regular payments onto another credit card for me, because the card I use has had to be stopped. Unaccountably, someone has opened an Amazon account on it. Not me, def not me. My Amazon account is defunct with no active cards because I disapprove of them these days. Only ever used it for books anyway.
Credit card fraud strikes again. And bugger, we will be going o/s in just over three weeks. With our bi-weekly postal service here in the wilds of Vaucluse we may not receive a replacement in time.
Lucky we have other cards we can use.
OK, Cats, off to watch Joshi Frydchickenberger deliver the 2022 Feral Fudgit.
I may be some time …
Free money.
Portsea is better. If you are driving all that way you might as well go and play golf and grab a beer. There is a reason people fly to the Sunshine Coast.
Brett Stephens NYTimes
Then at the end
Ed Casesays:
March 29, 2022 at 7:06 pm
Just read this comment:
True. The SAS issue was caused by NCOs attempting to gain entrance in Delta Force “clubs”. Utterly disgusting and out of character and heads are rolling.
Any comments on the veracity of this claim?
Is it more or less reliable than your claim that no Australian soldier who served on the Kokoda Trail ever mentioned shooting Japanese prisoners at any time?
Artillery Strike Hits Center Donetsk. Russia – Ukraine War
Patrick Lancaster
I can’t recall if it Portsea or Sorrento , or even both. You can play the course without membership.
OMG! OMG! OMG!
Did I say that right, Gez?
What’s a Delta Force club?
Anybody know?
Bear
Take a looksee at the revamped Hotel in Sorrento. They spent about $150 million and will be managed by the Intercontinental Group.
It’s an incredible reno, which I think well do wonders to the area.
You can hire a cabana in the pool areas I believe, which will be like an LA hotel.
https://thecontinentalsorrento.com.au/#audreys
Test
Oh, man, I can remember when he was almost an untouchable credit risk.
fail
Ed Casesays:
March 29, 2022 at 7:48 pm
What’s a Delta Force club?
Anybody know?
Something used to kill prisoners without wasting ammunition?
All jab victims.
All buried in the Little Desert.
Driven there in refrigerated semis driven by Indians (four per).
A bloke at the golf club knows a bloke whose brother-in-law is best mates with the bloke who supplied the air in the tyres.
Putin’s private yacht.
This helps
Put up the 30 year chart for Iron ore.
Boambee John, have you any idea what the old crepsecule is raving about now?
Never hated anyone, coz I’m too lazy to put the effort in but the the current crop are making it look like it may be worthwhile.
Cronkite
Please stop being an idiot. The boat in your link is the tiny $US100 million dinghy, towed behind his real ship, the $US700 million super yacht.
Did Twiggy ever raise any debt in Australia before going into production? I thought it was all US bonds repayable in iron ore.
bespoke says:
March 29, 2022 at 7:46 pm
Plonk time.
Plonk in a glass and plonk on the couch.
OMG! OMG! OMG!
Did I say that right, Gez?
Go away boy, Mafs is on.
SpongeBob has no idea, Full Stop.
SAS NCOs seeking admittance to Delta Force clubs, that’s what it’s all about.
And destroying the good reputation of the ADF.
I know of a certain ‘Lady’ who shall remain nameless, has a spare leg she no longer has a use for. I figure her to be a tough old biddy who takes no prisoners. I’m sure she wouldn’t waste it when it could come in handy.
Made in Russia.
I like hating people, it makes life more meaningful. I prefer this attitude:
I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk and butter, flowers in front of my window and a few pretty trees by my door. And should the good Lord wish to make me really happy, he will allow me the pleasure of seeing about six or seven of my enemies hanged upon those trees.
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
What does an SAS NCO have to do to be admitted to a Delta Force club?
What strange and wondrous perversity could lead to tuning in to that one?
JC.
How dare you accuse me of owning 14% of BHP.
Come on, man!
I was fucking joking about owning stacks of BHP.
Who in their right mind would do that?
To my eternal shame I still own a few hundred shares.
Mrs P owns them in her fund and won’t let me unload the last of them.
Still in thrall of those Big Australian adverts I think.
Re Struths” comments on sub continental truck drivers and other observations of the road.
I’ll back up just about every word he’s said.
I’m spending a bit of time behind the wheel lately, mostly local grain delivery with some interstate , averaging about 2000km/ wk.
I’d say 90% of drivers for the big companies are sub continental, doing boxes and line haul or similar (thinking about the chook trucks around Griffith, A to B and return)..
Grain hauling is all “anglo” based as is stock transport, two areas that require attention to detail and care with manoeuvring, particularly stock crates.
The inability to speak the English language with at least a base level of legibility is dangerous.
I “walk” my harvester many KM each year on the roads and the number of trucks who don’t respond to my escort or myself on the UHF has tripled in the last five years.
Make of this what you will.
The poor bastards cop a LOT of abuse from some Aussie drivers and a lot of overt racism. And you have to give them credit for being prepared to come here and have a go.
I suppose I just sense a scam around the employment of them along the lines of the students from India etc working in every bloody servo around the country and literally pushing local people out of work ( as happened in our town).
I know this isn’t on many peoples radar but I think it’s shifting our work ethic for the worse.
Not banking debt Bear.
Trade debtors for sub-contract services.
Engineers don’t like being paid in red dirt.
As a default strategy it is certainly more efficient in the long run. Saves on all that time and energy that getting to know them first requires.
This used to be an economics/ finance blog with politics thrown in. Any thoughts o the budget? Or for that matter the outlook for interest rates around the world or energy prices. Impacts on globalisation and supply chains? Net zero and the impact of the SEC mandating co2 reporting?
Yeah, I know.
Twiggy was sailing close to the wind on some of those price dips.
I am consciously avoiding that subject. It is an election budget. It is a vote for us budget. That’s all folks. Now it is time to go shoot down some aircraft and blow up some comms towers. I’ll be back.
Here’s the reality:
There’s no Rule Of Law in India.
If you’ve got something someone more powerful wants, then Hard Luck Charlie.
Bottom line:
Import India, become India.
Nilk, iirc, mentioned a few years ago the company she worked for had to employ a reversing guy at the warehouse because skills.
The employment of illiterate Afghans and others in the transport industry was being thrashed out at the time.
Many years ago.
Then the libertarians showed up.
flyingduk says:
March 29, 2022 at 7:28 pm
Most likely that was Roger Patterson’s ‘Sportsmed’ Porsche. If I remember correctly, he was still in the seat, dazed with the car on its side in a shallow creek – to add insult to injury, his door had come open just enough to let his phone fall into the water.
100% Duk, but jeez, I’d forgotten about the ‘phone!! You’re right though. 🙂
As for me, it doesn’t matter but if nothing else, demonstrates our small world. All these years later.
I hope that when this vax madness ends you are able to re-assert yourself. Your experience and advice was invaluable to motorsport, and I daresay to others as well.
Looking at Putin’s boat makes me think I should get into this billionaire stuff, at the moment I seem to be about a billion short but thats about it. I love boats and anything about them from dingys to supertankers. The feeling of wind in the sails surging on the swell to sticking my finger in the hole I just made with a knife in my mates inflatable while fishing the reef off Hillarys ( not the Arkancide one, WA)
It is actually an interesting insight into the Insta-generation.
About half the chicks and a quarter of the guys are there aspiring to build an Instagram profile they can live off.
The producers of the show then pick the ones they are going to cut from the herd and destroy.
Occasionally they get a real life bunny boiler who does it without manipulative editing.
They’ve hit paydirt this year.
Two bunny boilers.
Frank says:
March 29, 2022 at 8:24 pm
Go away boy, Mafs is on.
What strange and wondrous perversity could lead to tuning in to that one?
A more comprehensive understanding of the female psyche.
The Mean Girls younger acolytes at work and equally oblivious to their own serious personality disorders.
132andBush
Is it that there are no standards which the foreign drivers are required to meet, or is it that there are standards but the foreign drivers do not meet them?
We’ve all seen your “self restraint” you fucking lunatic.
Calling someone like Cassie a hag.
And spare us the military tactics commentary.
A couple of weekends camping in Tassie with the cut-lunch commandos?
Spare me.
I may as well ask Boy George what he thinks.
Wanna talk about it man-to-man?
He sat in a John Deere and never been the same since, Frank.
No difference between economics and politics, neither have anything to do with making money. Economics has become a byword for ‘why politicians are shit at everything they do’.
Jock.
I’ve thought net zero is actually a big number. It’s the first time they’ve quantified it and set a date for the developed world. It’s those two things that make it novel and very important. It’s not something that now can be dismissed.
Globalization, in the old sense ,with the entire world participating, is deadsky, I think. What will eventually evolve will be closed system of largely democratic states. Australia could end up having a hard of it longer term if we’re only shipping our stuff to the inside group. Developed countries use about 20% of raw iron ore to make steel with the balance recycled. Supply chains are currently messy , but the truly amazing thing is just how flexible the developed world has become. I can’t imagine a world say 40 years ago being able to handle a major pandemic and a back to back war in Europe at all well.. Sure, things are a little rough at the moment, but I’m optimistic.
Energy prices will stay high while the West dithers and the US does in particular. Goldman Sachs came out with a research piece, I’m told, where they measured the average lifespan for similar sanctions we imposed Russia as 16 years. They aren’t going to come off sanctions for a long time.
Interest rates/ monetary policy will remain accommodating for the next 15 years. Our debt is too high to allow otherwise. Inflation helps the rich as they own assets so it could be a rich man’s world for the next 15 years or so. 🙂
Hope that helps.
Continental Hotel Sorrento. Harold Holt is under there somewhere.
I declare war on Sancho and Gez for being temptresses of the dark side.
Snap Gez.
It is an insight.
On a base level, who would do that just for the potential Insta exposure?
It is interesting to see those who have obviously framed a strategy to max out their Soshul Meeja profile and see selected ones being demolished.
And then yo got yo Natural Born Bunny Boilers.
NOPE, the world has changed and the robotic capitulation of my profession means I have *no* desire to return to it. The world aint returning to normal – its all downhill from here until it all collapses. I have sold my toys and kept my tools – my job now is to help my children navigate their uncertain future.
Knuckle Dragger:
Righto – I have that one. Must reread.
This was from this morning but I was busy and couldn’t reply.
The more of these sorts of things are aired in the media the more people lose faith in the medical and scientific professions. This is how we slide back into the dark ages where we trust nobody and believe nothing. Or we believe anything as someone else said.
FMD, the cluelessness:
Sky News with a panel of “typical swinging voters” as a budget focus group.
They start with some cast-for-age bank clerk: “Diane, you worked in a bank, you’d know all about debt” Er.. no. She’d know about making entries in a ledger & stamping a passbook.
Next was some effiminate rooster who felt the govt is “denying climate change”
Some chicky next, concered about house prices.
There are numerous sites devoted to commentary on the show.
None of them are kind.
Mrs P reads a selection each morning over coffee.
Some are fucking hilarious.
Most of them are so ‘viscious’ Dover would ban them in a heartbeat.
Hating makes decisions irrational. I don’t have enemies only people who I owe money to and people who know me and don’t lend me money.
Not today. It’s a DIY blog for snapping one off on the road. Probably a more useful life skill. All you need to know about the Budget is that the Lieborals won’t be around to implement it and the Liars certainly won’t.
Zulu
Boambee John, have you any idea what the old crepsecule is raving about now?
I suspect it is something to do with the US Delta Force, but have no actual information on their presence in or absence from Afghanistan.
Ed Casesays:
March 29, 2022 at 8:15 pm
SpongeBob has no idea, Full Stop.
SAS NCOs seeking admittance to Delta Force clubs, that’s what it’s all about.
And destroying the good reputation of the ADF.
Do you have any actual information on the subject (on past experience, probably not), or are you just trolling (on past experience, probably)?
Tucker: Biden can’t regulate his emotions
We get a prototype of those characters popping in every day, Sancho. I have no desire to look for more so begone temptress.
Ed Casesays:
March 29, 2022 at 8:21 pm
What does an SAS NCO have to do to be admitted to a Delta Force club?
Eat mutton and snort gypsum? Or is it snort mutton and eat gypsum?
Mafs also highlights the almost complete absence of humility in the twenty something generation.
Ask the other spooks, Dickless. They might be able to help.
H B Bear, that’s why I’m not wasting my time watching the budget.
the e in emotions is superfluous.
Franx,
I think it’s a case of “this pedal is the go one, this pedal is the stop one, turn this wheel left to go left, right to go right and push this button to cruise”.
I have seen the “not able to reverse a single semi” scenario, alluded to by rosie above. It makes you wonder how the licence was obtained as this is a fundamental requirement for each class/combination.
Again to be fair to these blokes, the culture they have been lifted from has barely risen past the donkey and cart.
Paul Murray: the greatest budget in the history of budgets.
Josh boasts that more women are now in employment than ever before.
He thinks that’s a good thing; ‘hear hears’ from the backbench.
Funniest moment: Josh announces a renewal of Australian manufacturing to counter supply chain weaknesses; his example: an MRNA factory in Melbourne. Not shipyards or Aussie-made tractors and widgets of every kind. No no. Vaccines.
I am very pessimistic today, the vax madness will never end and neither will the rains. The viruses may not be deadly but the moulds will be.
The upshot of all of the above is that too many of us may never fly or cruise again.
At best it gives you some thoughts around potential changes in tax law. If the Lieborals do not control the Senate it doesn’t even do that.
This overt racism against Indians – and it is racism – is, in fact, driven by insecurity.
I work in a large global engineering firm, and the trend has been to move a lot of design drafting, document control, and even basic accounting work offshore, first to China, now to India and I predict Africa might be next.
The reaction from those who could see their jobs being offshored was predictably defensive.
But illogically so.
The level of nit-picking scrutiny of standards of work delivered from offshore, but not applied to locally sourced work was something to behold.
Until one senior manager turned up to a design review one day, threw a bunch of documents with scores of post-it notes stuck to them on the table …
“Never, ever, complain about design work out of Beijing or India when your guys serve up shit like this”.
Mind you, no-one ever said there was shit on the drawings.
Just that they were shitty drawings.
Truth is, racism often surfaces when your position is threatened.
No fertiliser plants.
No oil drilling/refining.
Fraudenberg lives on another planet. Democracy is so so broken.
Fortescue story that ends with Jamie Dimon.
I think it was either 2011 or 2012 when iron ore was in the shitter, Fortescue had a big debt roll coming.
Bank of America (Merrill) was their banker who held some debt on their books but was managing the syndicate which included a few hedge funds & a dozen instos.
They put the acid on Twiggy right before maturity regarding the margin they were demanding.
Twiggy’s starts making calls & gets told by a lot of guys “sorry, can’t help because fund xyz will put us on a holiday if we’re part of anything that stops what they’re trying to do with you”.
So Twiggy’s in a bind.
Then ring ring, his mobile goes off.
“Please hold for Mr Dimon”.
Jamie Dimon has been told what BofA is trying to pull off.
He calls Twiggy, doesn’t just roll what was maturing, but re-fi’s all of Fortescue’s debt & JP Morgan takes the lot onto it’s books.
What made it easier was they did it as a secured lender, where as the BofA was only senior unsecured.
Over the next decade, JP Morgan re-financed, on-sold, restructured the debt a bunch of times so now Fortescue has no secured lending.
To this day, JP Morgan is still Fortescue’s debt syndicator.
A year or so back, some chap from the AFR calculated that BofA lost over $US100bill of debt business.
All because they were trying to squeeze a few extra bucks out of their client.
Bespoke:
Some people have no idea how quiet a train is when it’s coming toward you if it doesn’t blow its horn…
Sancho,
If that’s your analogy to the trucking issue it’s a poor one.
132andBush says:
March 29, 2022 at 8:26 pm
I very nearly got cleaned up by a semi transporting for a major supermarket chain last Saturday.
The truck was turning right through an intersection with traffic lights. I was at the red in the street he was turning into. Instead of backing up to realign his exit from the intersection – something I’ve seen happen numerous times – he kept coming, and to the extent that he crossed the double lines into my lane.
The only thing that saved me was there was no car behind me and I was able to reverse away. He couldn’t drive well enough to have a truck licence; he didn’t stop, given that he knew I was there; clearly he didn’t care.
C.L. that’s not the funny I’m looking for, I prefer the ha ha type.
Tone deafness is the Coalition’s natural state. We are government by the smallest intellectual midgets ever to have existed since the multi-called organisms crawled out of the primordial slime.
I doubt if fraudenberg even possesses the ability to understand the importance of real inputs like fertilizer and fuel. These people are eloi.
Tucker’s right, Zip. They have to invoke the 5th as Hiden can’t remain in power. As terrible as it sounds, Harris could not be any worse than this demented crook.