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Hilarious Bill Burr rant about cancelling dead people – Sean Connery vs Coco Chanel (11mins). He’s a genius. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOZ7Xo4EB1w
Nova Peris is quite a woman. Wonderful. It’s strange Nova overlooked The Voice campaign. So recent, too.
I wouldn’t call it Anglophobia Lizzie. The phobia’s are against the ordinary, middle-class person whatever country they hail from. The…
new figures revealing more than 22 per cent of all tenancies being lived in by families from overseas. Yet there…
Not a thing has changed.
Warnie and Kitchens were well within the four years.
Now, you may dismiss the findings of the Inquiry, but the truth is Slip lane, many will be gone before four years.
Many already have.
Thousands already, while you muppets live in a surreal world of denial, talking about muzzle velocities of small arms used in the Ukraine conflict, just like those who own your body and your minds want you to.
You know what she’s working up to…quotas.
She’s clearly never seen women in a “pack”.
Give me the guys any day.
They’re also far more entertaining to eavesdrop on come smoko.
How the hell do you conclude this?
All it shows is that many of us have innate immunity and natural immunity works very well.
“Kneel, would synthetic hydrocarbons be “carbon neutral”?”
With cheap, clean and abundant energy, the C could be extracted from atmospheric CO2 and the H electrolised from sea water if such is considered “important”.
If we are truly approaching molecular manufacturing capabilities as it seems we inevitably are, the major focus at this point should be on that tech – the capabilities it would give us dwarf quite literally any environmental problems we have, because if for no other reason than having “a place for every atom and every atom in its place” would allow us to tread so much lighter on the environment for the same living standard. If you could reduce the weight of a vehicle by 90% without giving up any strength or stiffness, you need a much smaller engine power for the same performance for example. Recycling becomes almost trivial for another. And such tech offers similar advantages in every field – not just materials tech and transport, literally everything we do or use is affected, including medicine/health, ITC….
Everything.
If we destroy industrial society with green bullshit before we obtain such tech, we will have done neither ourselves nor the environment any favours. Of course, such tech is also potentially even more dangerous than nuclear and biological weapons, which is why we need to think about it and the implications now. We could see such tech in as little as 5 years on current trends – at least the beginnings of it. Certainly no more than 30 years at the most. It creates a “technological singularity” beyond which we have no hope to see – it’s the knee in the exponential curve of technology where the line goes nearly vertical. So if you intend to live that long, strap in, it’ll be a wild ride!
The most tropical vegetation in that area are those magnificent vines which grow alongside the dusty road next to the Hacking River (now a walking path). We used to clamber up the vines and swing out over the road with our loudest Tarzan cries when some unsuspecting and startled motorist was bouncing along the road to Audley.
Cassie of Sydney says: April 2, 2022 at 2:00 pm
Cassie, when I’m Minister for Health, all hospital staff will have free meals provided when on duty or shift.
However they will have to eat the same food as the patients.
Participation in the free food for staff will be mandatory for all management & clerical staff.
So St Ruth, the original timeline stands?
All vaxxed dead before October 2025?
That is, four years from the date of the original prediction date of October 2021?
Women solve problems differently … the industry has done everything the same way for hundreds of years, and by having women in, we can have things done differently – smarter and more innovative.”
Thanks but no thanks.
The all-women engineering team that designed the ill-fated pedestrian foot bridge at Miami’s Florida International University were highly touted for their advances in a field that is typically dominated by men.
But critics are pointing the finger of blame at the female engineers for design flaws that may have brought the bridge down.
Investigators are still on the scene of last week’s bridge collapse that killed 6 people and injured 9 on the FIU campus in Southwest Miami. …
Munilla Construction Management (MCM), the South Miami-based firm that designed the FIU foot bridge, has been sued multiple times for unsafe practices in the past.
In early March MCM was sued by a construction worker who was severely injured when MCM’s “makeshift bridge” at Miami’s International Airport collapsed. ….
MCM was awarded the $14.2 million minority contract to design and build the cable-stayed bridge. The company is well-connected in Miami politics and it promotes inclusion and diversity in the workforce.
When the bridge was built there were praises to the heavens for the “all women” team that designed it.
A nanosecond after the fatal collapse, the ambulances speeding to the scene were being outpaced by “fact checkers” racing to denounce the evil right wing assertion that the design team were all female.
The paeans to the “all women” team have now been almost completely scrubbed from the internet.
I saw this story yesterday. One guess who appointed the judge.
The reason being that whoever controlled those Trillion$$$ would have too much power.
What do you think compulsory super and contributions directed by default to “industry funds” is for?
Low-information but well-meaning folks, swept up in the emotion of the moment. The gullible led by the cynical.
Aka Useful Idiots.
If you understand Marxism as a Gnostic, millenarian religion that teaches humanity can be perfected, but by only a chosen few and at great cost, then all their actions and rhetoric make sense. Contradictory and nihilistic sense, but sense nonetheless.
It’s why they go to such trouble to hide away their true motivations and internal contradictions, or else ‘normalise,’ i.e. disguise it using every cultural megaphone and institution they can suborn.
I’m pretty sure there’s a UN Declaration of some sort that outlaws and decries Cruel and Unusual Punishment…
…But since when does anybody listen to the UN when they don’t want to? 🙂
#CryHavoc!
#AndLetSlipTheChopsOfWar
Anyone who has dealt with a self-represented person may disagree.
Not the issue, since there are many Industry Funds.
Consolidating that 3 Trillion into One Fund with some bureaucrat at the top of the pyramid, the Politicians and Bureaucrats are never going to allow one person to control that much dosh.
Europe and Californication are leading the way, they are strangulating the industry with ever tightening regulations on emissions and a small carrot dangling above EVs.
Cassie, regarding the ham sammitches error, you sometimes wonder if someone in the kitchen was being a bit nasty.
Although, I would probably lean towards ignorance and incompetence.
I read a story recently that the makers of Australia’s most indelible pies, Pie Face, got into strife for their fully halal certified range.
Including a pork pie.
Now universally referred to as “Vibe Lawyers”.
There are already 3 QuibblingSpastics on the Blog, Timothy.
Namely Franger, SpongeBob and CornHolio.
Keep trolling my comments and i’ll add your name to that, ahem, august grouping.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
April 2, 2022 at 2:14 pm
Nice how they played with words to try and make her the salt of the earth tradie instead of the daughter of a very successful family manufacturing medical supplies who would be more akin to boardrooms than the shop floor. She’s an accountant and probably a good one by the looks.
https://intheblack.cpaaustralia.com.au/people/hacia-atherton-cpa-c-suite
Blokes are starting to get tired of this gender stuff, been hearing quite a few rants lately. More than say I would have 3-4 years ago and from strangers.
Calli:
What about the ones who only identify as vaxxed or unvaxxed?
Huh?
You didn’t think of that, did you?
Will the Angle of Death lock up at the front door in an eternal loop of …. thingy?
Cassie of Sydneysays:
April 2, 2022 at 2:06 pm
“You need to have a certificate just to be a barrister.”
LOL…apologies. I meant to write “barista”!
Smae – same!
Only if he’s acutely aware of their perfidy and not obtuse about it.
As for eternal loops, that would concern the ArcAngle Pi.
Already has been. The geothermal plant east of Reykjavik is fun since when they do water injections the resulting swarm of earth tremors show up on IMO’s earthquake map. They can be quite sizeable, up to about Richter 4 if I recall. I see the swarm occur from time to time when they’re doing the injection.
Of course the Reykjavik and the Rotorua one are shallow geothermal sites on dormant volcanic systems. That’s why they work, the drilling is much less, the rock pressures less and the geothermal reservoir temperature very hot.
By contrast hot rock geothermal just keeps on failing, like the infamous Geodynamics project that Flannery spruiked for years before it finally failed.
Really, Struth?
I talk about the muzzle velocities of small and large arms used in the Ukraine because I want to.
Ditto history, theology, music, art, the Sciences, geopolitics, economics, the fact that Australia’s freight railways are unsubsidised and that in general the road, rail, air sea logistical systems in this country are woefully under-resourced and taken for granted, and more.
Not because today’s choice of Great Political Satan has allegedly told me to.
If one wants to spend their days and nights in enraged blaming of the
JewsWEFOligarchsCommunistsNazisUkranian NazisCommunist NazisJessica Mauboy for the DeAtH CaMpS, the misery of the times we are in and why it’s all too hard to go driving trucks again, with a side order of ritual cursing and spitting at that admittedly very nice portrait of me on the wall, then the Furniture Store is a much better and more focussed place to be. 🙂Equilateral Opportunity Puns.
Keeping it Straight.
I like it. 🙂
Um.
Er.
Have you been there lately?
… the industry has done everything the same way for hundreds of years
Who knew that plastic piping had been around for so long?
Pi.
With source.
Mmmmmm.
If GeoThermal power can be implemented
Pretty big “if” there Dick.
And your point is?
My theory (which is really just a refinement of Lenin’s) is there will only be two classes of people. Coffee producers and coffee drinkers. You want to be a coffee drinker.
I do enjoy a jolly good muzzle velocity chat.
I find it takes one’s mind orf … what were we talking about again?
Geothermal can work if you have a heat source near the surface like magma as in Iceland or NZ. My opinion of the Flannery style angle is, the technology isn’t ready yet and may never surmount the hurdles. My position comes from an explanation of how it is supposed to work from a very credentialed geophysicist and later from a number of drillers who worked on said project.
I wouldn’t waste the money on shares. I had friends who got burnt.
Three.
.1 Coffee makers.
.2 Coffee drinkers.
.3 Has beans.
…
OK.
Fair enough.
I’ll see myself out.
Who the heck are these people, Grigs?
I’ve never seen any of them on the Cat before.
Are you making things up again? 🙂
Ed Casesays:
April 2, 2022 at 3:04 pm
There are already 3 QuibblingSpastics on the Blog, Timothy.
Namely Franger, SpongeBob and CornHolio.
Keep trolling my comments and i’ll add your name to that, ahem, august grouping.
Be assured, Dickless, that I will continue to work tirelessly to maintain my position in that august group.
Abominable stuff.
Even if technical hurdles are overcome, I doubt the economics will stack up except for those near surface locations.
Yeah!
The Two Minutes’ Hate That Goes On All Day And All Night at my own portrait was great!
Gosh I hate that Emmanuel Goldstein-Devilbastard guy.
Oh wait… 🙂
Zipster:
The Mighty 380 is just shy of 100,000 km, and the Patrol is nearing the 250K mark.
Both still going well.
Just imagine some CutPrice Trotsky sitting on top of $3 Trillion bucks of Super being eternally topped up by clueless drones.
I am totally crushed that I missed the cut.
That’s right ….yes….you want to…..ok……………..DOCTOR!
Sorry, couldn’t happened.
At least that’s what Sancho and Knuckle Dragger have been saying for years.
Welp, here’s the song to go with it.
#HatersGonnaHate
My diesel is still going beautifully at just shy of 200,000 clicks.
Mostly “hot” miles on long country trips.
In fact, fuel economy is a tad better now than when it was new.
Dot there was recent report which argued natural immunity is occurring because of prior exposure to other coronaviruses so there is some cross variant immunity occurring(T cell mediated). That doesn’t sit well with the original antigenic sin argument. Typically there is a percentage of people who have natural immunity to a bug but no single individual can have natural immunity to all possible bugs(make that a tick for group selection?).
Poor Struth.
Still trying to make up for his lack of knowledge and wit with sexual crudity.
You know Struth, that sort of petty jealousy is toxic over time. To everything.
You need to be you.
But I understand- If I was you, I’d wanna be me too… 🙂
Don’t flatter yourself.
From what I read of them, they laugh at you and think Notafan is the truly evil one.
You know what, I tend to agree with them.
When I’ve commented on you it is done holding you up as an example of a sick mind.
Ed Casesays:
April 2, 2022 at 3:23 pm
Just imagine some CutPrice Trotsky sitting on top of $3 Trillion bucks of Super being eternally topped up by clueless drones.
It isn’t one individual cut-price Trotsky, Ed.
It’s a network of maaaaates from the trade union/ALP racket.
On reflection, any decision made by the Angle of Death will be right.
Really? All I see is projection and sexually crude, sweary ad-hom because you are physically incapable of expressing yourself any other way.
Why do so many other Cats at least ask you to tone it down and emoy brevity? It isn’t out of revulsion at what you think you’re ‘exposing’ in me…
Is the angle of death obtuse?
Poor Struth.
Can’t even read his own class enemies’ forum. It’s already been done upthread.
Sancho Panzersays:
April 2, 2022 at 3:23 pm
Be assured, Dickless, that I will continue to work tirelessly to maintain my position in that august group.
I am totally crushed that I missed the cut.
Try harder, perhaps more references to “flamers” and “spooks”? Also, call him Mr Ed or Dick Ed occasionally.
Rabz, earlier:
That’s what she said.
You see nothing.
You couldn’t find your own arse with two hands and a mirror.
I own you.
Well, it’s between me and McGowan.
You can’t get me out of your head.
You can’t get McGowan out of your veins.
I play on your mind because like a girl you took a jab to save your slack job that allows you to play here 24/7.
A jab that can kill you like it has thousands of others …..at any second.
As the experts told us it would.
That some of you fuckwits knew but took anyway.
There’s not much to be happy about with all this going on, but I’m happy I’m not you.
Ecstatic.
Scrollin’, scrollin’, scrollin’.
WOG CHARIOTS RULE!!!
That Valiant of yours, it isn’t a bona fide wogwagon if it lacks a woggle-headed toy dog on the parcel shelf and satin pillows embroidered with touching scenes of the land whence your ancestors came.
Being purple gets 10 bonus points.
Anyone who has dealt with a self-represented person may disagree.
Need a pro bono advocate.
Bruce of Newcastle:
Thinking of batteries, I doubt it would be practical to put RTG’s into the family car, but in a spacecraft, would it be viable to have a reactor that creates these isotopes, allowing the remanufacture of the Plutonium 238 from the decayed fuel cell?
Somehow it seems to break a couple of the rules.
Hospital food, my last stay was in the Mater Townsville. Edible that’s all I’ll say as I was hungry. Sydney Southwest quite a while back was ok.
Mining camp meals are good but were better a couple of decades ago. I haven’t done much in camps since my sojourn south so be interesting to see if they have slipped further. I know by the time I left the Civeo camps were a shade of the Mac hospitality they inherited but still had actual chefs.
Mate was telling me with the demise of catering corp the army food is worse if possible, even my dad used to make jokes about army food. In all seriousness apparently everything is pre-prepared off site and designed to be steamed. Taste is optional apparently.
The Vics need another 140-odd to get to 387 and first innings points in the Shield final over in WA.
Some of the WA fieldsmen are doing passable Phil Tufnell impersonations.
would it be viable to have a reactor that creates these isotopes
RTG’s are good for relatively low power. If you need a reactor just build a power reactor.
With the Discus commenting system, it’s harder for some useless fuckhead to troll your comments, since your reply is below.
E.g. this meaningless sludge:
could be answered on Discus with:
Fuck off, Nozzles.
I responded to flyingduk’s comment, Nozzles is intent on derailing any discussion on that comment.
And flyingduk doesn’t understand the comment, apparently?
The Vics need another 140-odd to get to 387 and first innings points in the Shield final over in WA.
36 is the best they can do, unless Bowler sends down a lot of No Balls.
WOG CHARIOTS
LOL haven’t heard that in years but will admit the same thought popped into my mind this morning from my childhood hearing the same jibe thrown around.
But Grigs,
You are a troll!
Why are you so eager to commit internet suicide? Do you really hate your sock account that much?
Never heard of Wog Chariots, someone just made that up.
Marrickville Mercedes, that was what Valiants were called.
And this is official. What next. I wish someone would actually ask what good it does. There’s plenty of evidence of the harm.
WHO: Pfizer vaccine potentially linked to hearing loss
Who’s living in who’s head?
I’d guess, going by volume of abuse, it’s the opposite of what’s being claimed by the junk yard proprietor.
Ed.
Being a career shut-in, you have no life experience and thus no ability to determine what was called what in any field of endeavour.
Your tiny, precise spiderlike scribblings on this august journal of record are testament to that.
Sfw
I totally disagree with the article. We really don’t know yet if the dollar reserve status will be injured by the Russian decision.
I think it won’t because we’re not going to The Rubble or the Yuan as they simply aren’t viable substitutes. This is just my view.
If the Russians demand people pay for their oil in Rubble, I don’t seethe big deal as Europe can convert their say euro into Rubble. The problem for say the German rubble buyer is that you can’t trust the exchange rate.
The article mentions how the dollars currently held by the Russians or whomever will be sold and thereby create inflation in the US. This is total nonsense because once the dollars are created and in circulation they are part of the money supply and do move through the economy.
Overall, I’d mark the piece as an F.
Deafness.
Thanks for that, I’ll add it to the list of things to look forward to.
Ed, heard it plenty in western Sydney as a child in the early 1980’s. Usually at Italian and Lebanese families.
Sfw
One other thing. The shape of the US bond market yield is perhaps suggesting a recession. Recessions aren’t often marred by high inflation.
I bet you are looking forward to being invited to a struggle session Rexie.
Thanks JC, don’t know if I’m as certain as you are but I do appreciate your viewpoint.
Ed Casesays:
April 2, 2022 at 3:59 pm
Never heard of Wog Chariots, someone just made that up.
[See “solipsism”, noun…]
Marrickville Mercedes, that was what Valiants were called.
Very obviously. All over Australia. Even in places two or three thousand miles away from Marrickville. So they couldn’t possibly be called anything else.
You KNOW it makes sense!!!
CDC Admits to Teen Mental Health Crisis it Helped Create
Never happen outside a dictatorship.
The reason being that whoever controlled those Trillion$$$ would have too much power.
Yes.
Never happen.
Ed has squatted over its oracular mirror and divined the truth!!
https://www.afr.com/policy/tax-and-super/the-seeds-of-australia-s-politicised-industry-super-system-20211120-p59ald
Yet, the result of the history spelled out by Pamela Williams is that industry super funds owned by a handful of unions and industrial relations club employer associations, but with no capital backing, could account for half of a $9 trillion super pool by 2041 that would dwarf both the banks and the sharemarket.
One of the great ironies is that a superannuation system devised by Labor and the unions now encourages the shift of wealth-creating companies such as Sydney Airport from publicly listed stock exchanges to the less transparent private equity space.
….
Super funds will be ‘biggest political donors in Australia’: Andrew Bragg
By Jennifer Duke and David Crowe
Senator Andrew Bragg wants to force industry superannuation funds to disclose how much money they give to trade unions, claiming more than $30 million a year will be paid from retirement profits into union coffers by 2030.
….
Super funds could use ‘green shorting’ to escalate climate concerns
One of the country’s leading ethical investors says the nation’s $3.3 trillion superannuation industry could move beyond divestment and adopt “green short-selling” as a tactic to pressure local companies with high carbon emissions to take greater action on climate change.
The Age and Sydney Morning Herald revealed this week US-based hedge fund titan AQR told the prudential regulator in April that its clients, which include some of Australia’s biggest super funds, would increasingly use short-selling to mitigate climate risks in their portfolios and to achieve net zero emissions exposure.
…
But fear not people, Ed-mongs mirror revealed this all to be wrong.
And now, for something completely up-cheering:
Now, even though the NBN has righted itself, I might just toddle off for a little arvo nap.
Will emerge later today slimmer and ‘refreshed’ as the expensive clinics are wont to say.
Although that is what was promised from a dip in Cleopatra’s pool in Heliopolis in Turkey some years ago. There, according to the carefully chosen words of the One Who Knows Me Best, I was to him as beautiful coming out as I was going in. A born diplomat, that One.
Global warming.
Europe is going back to winter! Snow and ice trigger chaos in UK, Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland
No not really – ‘original antigenic sin’ in the Coronavax context means you have already taught your immune system to do just one thing when it encounters SARSCOV2: pump out just one type of antibodies – those made in response to the earlier exposure to the Spike protein used by the vax.
In natural infection, you make lots of different antibodies to lots of parts of the virus, so when you next encounter a new variant, you pump out a range of antibodies, some of which may be obsolete, but some of which are not, so you immune system still has weapons which work, at least partially, against the variant.
In contrast, if you have used the vaccine to train your immune system to just pump out antibodies to the old spike protein (and nothing else) – when it encounters a new variant, it just mass produces that single line of old and now obsolete antibodies.
Awwww Struth,
It’s all a petty personal feud! Isn’t this a wonderful and honest acknowledgement to make for such a freedom-loving and self-reliant man as you? 😀
Like everyone and everything else you scream and snark and drop sexual slurs and alleged lack of conjugal prowess at, it’s got nothing at all to do with what’s going on Out There, and everything to do with your bruised ego and whatever historical slights and offences and failures and Bad Things the world did to you, swirling around in that appalling electrical storm that rages between your ears.
I look forward to smiling at whatever wordwalls of childlike innuendo and inadequacy you reply with.
Matrix, at least, thinks your conduct is manly..
No probs, Sfw. Thanks for linking it though.
Well this might be a new record for Grigglebots mirror of truth being comprehensively wrong.
Never heard of Wog Chariots, someone just made that up.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Wog%20Chariot
…”The term Wog Chariot was also sometimes used in the Australian 1970’s TV comedy, “Kingswood Country”.”
date it was submitted..
November 9, 2006
Greek Mercedes was the term I heard for those Valiants. Yeah you could work on cars of that vintage but you had to. They also didn’t ride, steer and stop worth a damn compared to modern vehicles. I had an HR Holden I drove for 215,000 miles. 161, three on the tree. Several new rear gearbox bearings, new clutch, rear wheel bearings etc etc etc. Eventually bought a rear wheel drive Mazda 626 five speed manual. Great car. Did 235,000 kms in that. After a few months sold the shitheap on the front lawn. Drove it to see if it still went. It did but I nearly crashed it getting to the end of the street – 50 meters.
Deafness is a side effect of many Vaccines, not just the Pfizer moneymaker.
Europe is going back to winter! Snow and ice trigger chaos in UK, Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland
With his hand on the gas tap, Vladimir Putin smiles.
Would you like to expand on that.
Recessions aren’t often marred by high inflation.
Stagflation??
Or is it more technical than that?
Yeah, a country with economy the size of Portugal’s is not taking out the USD. Sorry Putinists! You’ll just have to find something else to cling onto.
Ed Casesays:
April 2, 2022 at 3:50 pm
With the Discus commenting system, it’s harder for some useless fuckhead to troll your comments, since your reply is below.
E.g. this meaningless sludge:
It isn’t one individual cut-price Trotsky, Ed.
It’s a network of maaaaates from the trade union/ALP racket.
could be answered on Discus with:
Fuck off, Nozzles.
Looks as if you really, really, didn’t understand the comment, Dick.
Something you heard on Kingswood Country that wasn’t made up?
Nep, can’t think of anything.
Ross Higgins was a funny guy, though.
Did voiceovers for Liberal Party ads during Fraser’s day.
Ed Casesays:
April 2, 2022 at 3:59 pm
Never heard of Wog Chariots, someone just made that up.
Marrickville Mercedes, that was what Valiants were called.
Dickless is either very young, or had a very sheltered adolescence.
Ed-Mong: It didnt exist
Also Ed-Mong: It existed in a popular nationally televised TV series that ran for ten years, but was never used outside that.
Ed is just some fucktarded Turing machine which peruses Mongipedia and pops out random turdletts of “knowledge”, prove me wrong.
So The Cat is purported to be “Australia’s most influential political blog.”
Given the current state of things, imagine how bad it would be if The Cat didn’t exist! 🙂
Yeah! 😀
Watching angry, petty little folk work out a personal hatred because I made them look bad on multiple occasions on other fora, and then joining in is great!
(Exploding religiously-held magical thinking with a combination of counterfactuals and ribald mockery really seems to upset some people…)
Please do.
GameStop – style profits, here I come!
Heh. Kingsman the other night, Clubman this afternoon.
The old Italian Job is on.
Fiats vs. the Mighty Mini.
Rockdoctor
Have a 2003 Camry. Replaced the battery twice and a few tyre changes. Other than that, never missed a beat.
Hard to see the USD losing its “reserve status” anytime soon.
The name of the game is diversification.
At some stage all currencies are going to have a whoopsy do.
You just have to expect it.
Trainer Danny Williams on his boom horse Shelby Sixtysix lining up in this arvo’s Group 1 T.J. Smith Stakes at Randwick: “I’ve been through so many emotions in the past week I thought I was pregnant!”
What a luxury existence not having to worry about the Twitter mob.
Always wanted a Cooper S.
Why do Toyota’s last forever?
The winner is obvious.
Always wanted a Cooper S.
I had a Cooper as a hire car in the UK.
Pretty cool.
It’s the Yo! that keeps them going, bern.
The null hypothesis is Groogs is a moron. Ed was originally the stupid sock but here we are.
I like Modi’s stance on Russia.
Rollers?
Sigh!
Yep. It will be a while before people land in some shithole with a pallet of RMB. If ever.
Hire cars in the UK are cool & cheap.
I also had a Range Rover Evoque.
Hire cars I’ve used in Oz have all been Toyota’s (which are great) but expensive.
That was all pre COVID so I don’t know what it’s like now.
I have not been on a plane since January 2020.
I reckon I’m going to have some mega anxiety when I finally get around to going to Hawaii.
On the Gold Coast once, the hire car was some Camry hybrid.
I had to stick my head out the window to see if the engine was running.
Too many assorted bods in that pool when we were there (2011, I think),
Lizzie! We were tracing Alexander’s route, & diverted to Parmukkale & Laodicean to see the Travertines. Very beautiful, but over loved.
Reckon the USD will be dominant for a while yet, but the trust people had is gone.
I am still unjabbed & very happy.
Biggles please go get your booster jabs & make me even happier.
While the USD might keep its reserve currency status, I can’t imagine the US Fed is going to continue as the principal holder of USD deposits.
Countries will look at the US freezing Russia’s accounts and think, could that happen to me?
I suspect USD deposits in India’s reserve bank may become popular.
When I was at uni, some friends were obsessed by them. I reckon they demolished about a dozen for parts and accidents.
It happened before, dogs. The 50s soviet invasion of Hungary caused the birth of the Eurodollar market and this had the effect of making the dollar even more dominant.
Sure it could, if the US gets you in their cross hairs. One outcome of this Russia transgression is strengthening of USD hegemony rather than a weakening. A nation would need to have a LOT to gain in order to risk seeing it’s economy and currency crushed like Russia.
if only the government had that extra 900 billion per annum to spend wisely
The reason I referenced T cell mediated immunity is because that isn’t about antibodies it is about MHC 1 antigen presentation. I suspect that can provide a broader range of protection than antibodies because MHC 1 antigen presentation may involve a number of different fragments which the T cell will respond to, particularly in the presence of DAMPs(damage associated molecular patterns like some heat shock proteins) or pathogen associated molecular patterns. This might explain why the booster shots increase the response against omicron, it would be interesting to see if that is primarily antibody or T cell mediated immunity. So the original sin isn’t a fall from grace, there is still the possibility of redemption.
Big parts of the economic world are turning away from the US dollar, they have shown they will confiscate money from anyone who doesn’t go with their say so, the seal bashers just confiscated peoples accounts, think that can’t happen here for wrongthink?
The Russians want tangible assets for their commodities & not nicely coloured paper.
Ya can’t print gas.
Makka:
There’s an immutable law of nature – “That which cannot be sustained, will not be sustained.”
Stupid rules will always be overturned, even if the cost is the society that produced the rule.*
Nongqawuse The Xhosa people who listened to the idiots telling them of a Perfect World as long as they followed the scriptures.
I SUPPORT THE CURRENT THING!
Paul Joseph Watson
What currency do you trade your banana futures in?
Biggles, I would trade them for brain cells, so you would be bankrupt ya dumb fuck.
And a jolly good Bonhomie! to you too Ted!
Ted
Bananas are still quoted in dollars rather than the Rubble or the Yuan. Why do you think this will change soon?
“Perhaps the most disturbing cultural trend I have seen in the last 5 years is the destruction of childhood innocence in an attempt to validate adults.”
this
“I would appeal for people just to stop and think, you may save a few dollars, but … you are feeding seriously retarded government in this country,” Commander Linsdell said.
“There are some very real local harms that you’re doing by making the choice to buy legal tobacco.”
FIFY
Once Ted insists on trading his lady fingers in the Rubble, it’s all over for the USD.
Simple Head Prick, the US 30 trillion debt & another 30 trillion in unfunded liabilities is not going to be fun.
Did you go to the Gordon Brown school of economics?
That was where he announced the sale of the UK Gold & said he could spend his way out of debt.
Fucking brilliant.
Typical slanted and rediculous ‘reporting’ for the ABCcess.
They support current thing…
Loose building standards let homes overheat in summer, stay cold in winter, passive house advocate says
A more accurate headline would be “wealthy man spends enormous sums of money to pretend hes better than you”
While the build was much more expensive than a typical new home, its average heating and cooling costs — which fluctuate with the season — are around just $35 a month.
You may feel free to read the rest of the article to find out “just how much more expensive” in vain.
Yet somehow it finds the space to extoll the virtues of living in a crypt.
After an extensive search, the Acunas opted for a German Passivhaus design which uses thick, insulated walls and double glazing with tight seals to create an extraordinarily airtight building that, when tested, allows only 0.6 air exchanges per hour.
“The German Passivhaus standard is the most energy efficient standard in the world right now,” he said.
The home is so airtight it needs mechanical ventilation to introduce fresh air and prevent mould, but it also means that a double storey, 200-square-metre, four-bedroom house uses just two small reverse-cycle air conditioners for heating and cooling.
That house isn’t covid safe!
Biggles, again you lie, I didn’t say it was all over for the US dollar, I said times are changing for the world economies & if you can’t see that you are dumber than I imagined.
Now go get another jab…..please.
Ed:
Correct – how do you think the Nazi Party funded the arms buildup before WW2?
And while you’re researching that, ask yourself why both Labor & Liberal state the Superannuation fund is a National Resource?
Ted
I have no idea about your Gordon Brown theory, however Japan has been living with debt of around 250% of GDP since the 90s without any noticeable impact on their currency or capital markets.
Where are you getting this information from as it concerns me that you came up with it on your own and you know how we hate it when you begin to think. You’re not allowed to think, Ted. It’s dangerous for you.
best prime minister ever
OK HP, I read & research, something that is alien to you.
Now go buy your 120k merc & take biggles with you.
Ted
Do not think and most certainly don’t think with family members in the same abode. Stop endangering their lives with a possible head explosion.
Oh & HP go read about the brown bottom it should help you a little.
Just gaggle it.
Calli:
I’m beginning to regret making that quip.
On reflection, any decision made by the Angle of Death will be right.
I’m beginning to regret making that quip.
Dont be so obtuse.
Winston: 238Pu decays to 234U. That I knew, but then had to look up what you can do with 234U. The answer is you can put in a reactor where it will rapidly turn into U235 by absorption of a neutron.
That will then power your reactor. However you can’t directly convert 234U back into 238Pu.
The problem with 238Pu is it’s hard to make. It’s produced from 237Np, but that isotope is a tiny byproduct of reactor operation, and has to be separated out from the spent fuel. Lots of chemistry, none of which you could easily do in a spacecraft. Then when you have the 237Np you irradiate it with neutrons to make the 238Pu.
By comparison you can do a RTG with 90Sr too, which is a fission product of 235U. There’s a fair bit of 90Sr in spent fuel. Once you extract it you don’t need to do anything else, since it’s ready to use pretty much. The catch is it’s very nasty and you don’t want it near you.
Also while 90Sr is easy to extract from spent fuel it still requires lots of chemistry with nitric acid and solvent extractants to do so, which does not go well with spacecraft internals. And the radiation hazard would be enormous. Not easily automated either.
In short RTGs are great but very expensive and can’t be produced without serious chemical infrastructure that can only be built on a planet with reasonable gravity.
The Beer whisperersays:
April 2, 2022 at 2:35 pm
Women solve problems differently … the industry has done everything the same way for hundreds of years, and by having women in, we can have things done differently – smarter and more innovative.”
There are no industries that do things the same way they did things hundreds of years ago. This is how you discredit yourself in a single sentence. I would throw her resume in the bin without a second thought if I saw that in there. Ignorance on stilts.
It’s obvious that women are smarter than the average man, the evidence shows up in every TV ad. Whenever a man and a woman are interacting in a tv ad – apart from funeral ads, where the male assures the female that he’s been thinking of how best to look after the family, as well as car ads where the male is hot-tailing it across country in a big 4 wheel drive to find the teddy bear or explaining where babies come from – men are shown in the “dumb and dogsh1t” light.
It stands to reason that a female “tradie” thinks that she’s bringing smarter and more innovative ways to tradie jobs.
In the other half’s line of work there are few females who ever make the grade because it’s physically and mentally demanding. Mostly he has seen them as quickly as possible want to get away from the hands-on stuff and into a comfortable chair in a comfortable office.
If men continually are depicted as such dumb creatures – and young women are encouraged to enter the male world of work and sport where they will clearly dominate their male counterparts – it makes sense that young females think that they’re so much better in the innovative male work stakes.
Thought leaders, Argumentative Italians, Resident Psychotherapists, Sat on their house sized backsides “backin’ one out” Troubadors, Regional ol’ knitting ladies, Wentworth dwelling ladies of the Hebrew persuasion*.
This blogue has it all.
Just wait until 7:00pm, peoples. You will not be regretting it. 🙂
*err, if I’ve missed any other monotypes, then stiff cheddar, Cats!
Indolent:
So, at the start of the WZV, the authorities knew it wouldn’t harm the kids. but they pressed ahead with creating a series of policies that WOULD harm the kids.
How much of this abrogation of duty of care/lying can our social order bear before people people snap?
Then go and apprehend one, Squirette. We do not (allegedly) live forever.
Mum can’t fit, Rabz. A lengthy discussion in the early hours here on the pros and cons of access for the elderly.
And I’m not in the market for 2 cars. One is quite enough.
Welp, you can get Hardbass’d for that. With gratutious and exploitive lashings of Moskau… 🙁
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OUHVRWdVQCI
(Hardbass- It’s what Disco evolved to in Eastern Europe in the late 90s…)
Peter Smith, top of the front page. Very good.
Every time you snapped one off the whole house would reek for hours.
*err, if I’ve missed any other monotypes,
You have.
Sancho’s troll Army and the august Band [Franger, SpongeBob, Cornholio & Nozzles].
Miss Planet at the Carriageworks in Redfern.
Yo! 🙂
Big German Bankers-The Fuggers & The Von Thyssens.
I didn’t need to research it, Goooogles
Why?
Katie Hopkins OFFICIAL
Bring on climate change, I’m freezing!
This is someone who can make you smile, no matter what.
Bar Beach Swimmersays:
April 2, 2022 at 6:01 pm
Oh, BBS, you have nailed it!
Excellent post.
My first car.
BRG.
Lots of fun; maybe too much at times. At least twice that I remember I nearly left the road, just started moving sideways like a little hovercraft while rounding a bend at speed. Any other car would have rolled.
No Rosie he wasn’t. As a good man yes. Useless PM.
Sacré bleu, Eddles – your nicknames are even more obscurantist than JC’s.
Franger: Rexie
SpongeBob: Boambee J
Cornholio: ??
Nozzles: ??
😕
And what are we living under now? They may call it an emergency, but what’s the difference?
CornHolio = TFM
Nozzles = Neilsen
Ed Casesays:
April 2, 2022 at 6:23 pm
*err, if I’ve missed any other monotypes,
You have.
Sancho’s troll Army and the august Band [Franger, SpongeBob, Cornholio & Nozzles].
It’s very decent of you not to charge rent for that vacant space between your ears, Dickless.
Mark Steyn about Doris Day (who was a jazz singer before her movie career):
“About your work with André Previn..,” I said, struggling over the barks to stay on track.
“He looks like a wire-haired pointer,” said Doris. Which, to be honest, I couldn’t quite see, until I realized she was still talking about Buster Brown. “And I have a beautiful shitsu called Wesley Winfield.” Most of her dozens of dogs, it seems, are mongrel strays, and she can’t understand the fuss about purebreds – although as it happens, Doris Day, neé Doris Kappelhoff, is purebred Aryan (all four of her grandparents were German).
Buster Brown, Wesley Winfield… Doris Day likes any alliterative appellation apart from her own. She was renamed after “Day After Day”, an old ballad from the Twenties that the Princeton Triangle Club Jazz Band recorded with freshman vocalist Jimmy Stewart:
Just as evening follows afternoon
I follow you round
Just as age can’t change the sun or moon
Our love stays sublime
Regardless of time…
Doris Kappelhoff sang it at her first club booking in Cincinnati, and it went over so well that the bandleader proposed she become “Doris Day”. She never cared for it: it was no “Buster Brown”. “Doris Day sounds phony,” she told me. “I’ve always thought that.” Many friends call her “Clara”, because (she says) she looks more like a Clara; Rock Hudson called her “Eunice”; and Bob Hope favored “JB”, short for “Jut Butt”: As he once said to me, very appreciatively, “You could play bridge on her ass,” although I don’t believe he ever did.
Thanks, Eddles.
I do think our boy is trying to make the jump from gypsum-fuelled wrongologist to bona fide Nuffy, but I’m not sure he’s genuine.
Certainly he’s raging a lot more than he used to when his ambits get laughed at.
I mean
really…
And what are we living under now? They may call it an emergency, but what’s the difference?
There’s no emergency, Scotty has played the dopey Premiers like a Stradivarius.
Under the present system of Parliamentary Democracy in Australia, there is no way, so long as your arsehole points to the ground, that some Federal Bureaucracy is going to be allowed to get it’s claws on the $3 Trillion+
in Compulsory Superannuation.
Even under a Dictatorship, it’s still unlikely.
At the risk of sounding like a particularly idealistic hippee, man, could we all just enjoy ourselves for a change. 🙂
There’s been some very uglee bickering here over the last 24 hours.
Dover has made his sentiments plain.
It’s harshing this blogue’s vibe, peoples … 🙁
Enough.*
* Needless to say, that is not myself.
Delivering on 2 out of 3 key promises isn’t useless.
That being said, he did seem to lose his mojo after the Hockey budget.
Should have made Trumble Treasurer.
Bruce of Newcastle:
Yes – that’s the process I was thinking of.
Oh well.
Back to the drawing board.
The other problem is the need for a new branch of engineering. How do we create steel plate and weld it in zero gravity and a vacuum?
No this is
On March 31, now known as “Transgender Day of Visibility,” divisions of the Biden Department of Health and Human Services went all-in on transing the kids. Several publications pushed “gender-affirming care,” which included access to puberty blockers and hormones for all children with gender dysphoria, even citing the fiction that all of the changes encouraged by these drugs are reversible. The memos even recommended genital mutilation surgeries for minors on a case-by-case basis. At least they admitted those are irreversible. Now, the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) has declared itself the enforcement arm of these proclamations.
A country that inflicts such obscene insanity, such abuse on its own children is not a good country. I find Russia much more appealing these days. How the tables have turned.
Que?
No mention of Spaniard gentleman farmers?
The bottom lip is a-quiver.
Miffed, to the point of flouncing.
At the WACA for the Sheffield Shield.
Shaun Marsh and Cameron Bancroft -gawn.
I may have to adjourn to the bar.
err, there was an imaginary word limit?
Ed Casesays:
April 2, 2022 at 3:55 pm
The Vics need another 140-odd to get to 387 and first innings points in the Shield final over in WA.
36 is the best they can do, unless Bowler sends down a lot of No Balls.
Victoria 306. A total of two no-balls in that.
Must have added at least 60 after Ed’s wrongology.
Spaniard gentlemen are not easily farmed, nor are they farmed by any mere farmer…
Series four of Fringe has started slowly.
It’s full blown X-Files at the moment.
Black Panther (now deceased) has shown up in a bit role in one of the episodes.
Has anybody seen the NETFIX Doco on Trump and the religious right?
The mid-terms can’t come soon enough.
Rex Anger;
There’s not much you can say to that discovery, is there?
Mr Ed: Adam Tooze: The Wages of Destruction.
Read it.
How do we create steel plate and weld it in zero gravity and a vacuum?
That’s what the hollowed out, rotating, Vulcan’s Forge Asteroid is for, Winston.
I’m still 18 years old in my head, but my body – particularly after the big chop – acts like a 90 yo.
Our Landcruiser was easy to access and dismount; I sort of dropped into, and oozed out of , it. (Yes, I’m quite tall… or willowy, as I prefer to call it.) The current car, a Honda, is much more difficult. I have to exit the wheelchair, pivot most inelegantly to grab the top of the door with one hand, and the door lock catch on the door pillar with the other*. Then it’s a matter of ‘sit quickly or hit the deck’.
I won’t try to describe the indignity of leaving the car. My point is that it depends on the size (and physical capability) of your aged or disabled passenger. In any event, a satin pillow slip on the seat helps him/her swivel to a comfortable position once they’re seated.
*May contain traces of un-ladylike language.
Que?
No mention of Spaniard gentleman farmers?
and a beach dipper or two?
Or graders.
Has a filthier creature ever walked this earth? Dirty piece of marxist trash.
Assistant Secretary for Health Dr. Rachel Levine said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports” that misgendering a transgender person was “mean-spirited” and denigrating “trans youth.”
How do we create steel plate and weld it in zero gravity and a vacuum?
Centrifugal casting, zero gravity isn’t a problem, molten metal is attracted to itself, why you can weld overhead, and an absence of oxygen is what you want.
Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that there must be consequences for anyone, including elected leaders, involved in the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
speaking of dirty trash- so dissent is illegal now
As Richard Grenell has pointed out, Disney seems so keen to progress the trans/pan whatever agenda in the US.
And punish Florida & other states who push back.
But remains silent on doing business with 60 countries where being gay is illegal.
& still does business in a handful of countries where being gay is punishable by death.
Adam Tooze: The Wages of Destruction.
Read it.
Shilling for the Communist Version of History [again], Winston?
Here’s all anyone needs to know about Tooze:
Kamala has a problem. Her polling is even lower than Joe’s.
“Look, over there… it’s Donald Trump!”
At least Adam isn’t a flamer, Grigs…
Little tips like these take the edge of life’s burdens, Delta.