Other arms reach out to me Other eyes smile tenderly Still in peaceful dreams I see The road leads back…
Open Thread – Weekend 2 April 2022
- The Radio Show May 2024 – The Fifties
- Open Thread – Weekend 4 May 2024
- Bumtree #5
- The beach which banned vanilla ice cream
- Bumtree #4
I think the unpopularity of SloMo away from (and in) Sydney is not particularly well understood. He was electoral poison.…
Did it really? Yep. Total Russian bullshit. And as though Europe isn’t replete with questionable border zones. Somehow though, to…
Don’t forget the huge handouts to the mob to keep them happy
Marx Still Reigns Supreme. But Why?
New page?
Ha! Look at that!
First time I ever did that on purpose.
Mind you, it means no one is going to see my previous comment.
Fame is fleeting.
According to the Courier Mail George Christiansen tested positive to Covid and amongst other things taking Ivermectin. Naturally CM does not approve. He says he had it prescribed before it was banned for Covid use.
Well done George. Funny that people outraged. I am outraged that for such a deadly virus the CHO says go home and take a Panadol which is also one of the things he is taking.
I read it.
It was really good.
Really, really good.
I upticked it three times.
Well worth flipping back a page.
I am outraged that thousands had their life’s work & dreams busted to zero, & thousands more were put out of work…
… for something that can be handled by going home, having a couple of panadols & a good lie down.
bioweapon blowback
Zipster says:
April 3, 2022 at 1:07 pm
not sure what brand that is
Electric Eco car on fire – chain reaction
Nice blowtorch effect as the battery caught fire.
EV EV
EV, let your car burn down.
Know Dover put this up yesterday but it seems there is more to the story, cops didn’t want to lay charges and even threatened the parents. Worse still it appears the aggressor wasn’t even racing in that race and chased him down:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10679109/Family-high-school-track-star-sucker-punched-race-wants-press-charges-file-lawsuit.html
Ohhhh
I’m just burning
Doing the carbon neutral dance
Australia’s part in the 1900 attack on China, usually titled “The Boxer Rebellion”.
There is a nice Chinese bell hanging outside the wardroom of HMAS Penguin, in Sydney Harbour, and a rather primitive muzzle-loading gun at HMAS Creswell / RAN College in Jervis Bay. Probably lots of other souvenirs scattered around the country.
The Wind Farms of my mind.
It can’t really fail, it’s too close to the CBD. Taking a while to find its mojo though.
Actually, while I have your attention, let me tell you about a new vineyard.
Sew and Sew. (Not to be confused with Stitch and Bitch).
About $30 at my local so probably $25 elsewhere, but the quality of the wines I have tried (Pinot Noir and Syrah) has astounded. I have had wines twice the price not as good. Lovely depth of flavour, and well balanced so you can sit there picking out one sensation after another. You know how cheap reds have just one flat flavour – a kind of ‘off’ fruit juice with an aftertaste you feel in your gums around the teeth? This is something else.
I gather they are new and that is one reason they are keeping their prices down – get people trying their wine before letting things settle at a more natural price.
Apart from Pinot and Syrah they also do what they call ‘Nero’ (I assume an Italian style) and a GSM – which I cannot quite bring myself to buy yet because I got so bored of Chateau Neuf du Pape, which is what Australian GSM’s are copying while forbidden from referencing the original.
But seriously peeps, good wine.
Thank you, Sancho.
I knew someone with the heart of Don Quixote would rescue my ego.
Victor Davis Hanson: Biden is the most dangerously radical President in US history
Biden is a senile, lying, corrupt pervert. He is a blank page for the people behind him who are really running the show. And those people are obama who was and still is the most dangerously radical President in US history.
Sancho Panzer at 2:16 – yep. Spotted him over a greasy hangover hamburger (mine) one weekend morning around the time he was exiled to the Gold Coast for whacking his missus. Talk about the high life.
cohenite, I don’t believe it is Obama running Biden. Obama was another puppet who was a lot better at reading a teleprompter.
cohenite – harsh but fair
Pick up your feet
You got to move to beat the heat
EV’s are elite
Just take your burns in the driver’s seat.
We’ll know if Obama is pulling the strings if the Wookie runs.
cohenite, I don’t believe it is Obama running Biden. Obama was another puppet who was a lot better at reading a teleprompter.
Who then; because biden could not run a fart.
I bought a couple of office suites in the Docklands. They really nice, overlooking the water. Both came up for lease negotiation in 21 and 22. Whack, 25% lower rent. 🙂
Chelsea Clinton Attacks Trump Over His Weight, Says the Republican Party is the Party of “White Supremacists” (VIDEO)
Dreadful little sprog.
High Voltage
Either Clifford Hayes hasn’t got any family members he coulda given the job to, or Sustainable Australia is another ALP puppet Party.
CornHolio posting ALP agitprop, quelle surprise!
I suppose if Hillary ran after Bill then Michelle might run after Barack.
With so much money of their own you’d think they could think of something else to do.
Enormous egos?
Recharge inferno
(burn baby burn) burn that motor down
(burn baby burn) recharge inferno
(burn baby burn) burn that motor down
She has both her parents’ DNA – so I imagine that she could have been taken from them as soon as she was born (I doubt either would have noticed) and raised by the loving and caring family in America, God-fearin’, hard-workin’, salt-of-the-earth types, and still turned out a mean, spitting, vicious little orc.
When are people going to stop catching covid?
More importantly when is the government and the media in Australia going to stop breathlessly reporting cases and who in the public eye has it?
I think everyone has agreed omicron is mild for the vast majority and all you need is a cup of tea, a bex and a good lie down.
Well got rejected again ! Courier Mail might as well be a department within TGA/Qld Health.
“I recall CHO saying if test positive go home and take a Panadol. Panadol is on Christiansen list.
He has made a decision based presumably after consulting medical advice.
Perhaps the CM might find the letter TGA sent to Dr’s about Ivermectin in September 2021. Coincidentally that was a few days after Rogan mentioned his use of Ivermectin. Then have a look at YouTube channel of Dr John Campbell where he analyses the TGA letter.
I guess we should be grateful the article does not describe Ivermectin as a horse dewormer which has been the usual practice to describe this Nobel prize winning drug for use in humans.”
Eyrie says: April 3, 2022 at 12:19 pm
I’m CPL(H) & learned before governed throttles. A wac chart is pretty short on features, & feels like navigating with a page torn from an atlas.
Hats off to you. I’ve been up in gliders, but never as the driver.
It didn’t happen to me, but when GPS turned up, more than one bloke I know reported that on a regular run over featureless terrain (eg a DPI camp in the Simpson Desert or somesuch) that with GPS they were using the same flightplan, yet flying over country they’d never seen before. (embarrassing)
For fixed wing jocks perhaps. Us spinny-types do little else but look around – mainly at the ground coz for us a 3-D model of the gliding circle pretty much resembles a lampshade.
TE,not many people realise that. The wording is “not many people know that”, in deference to the great Michael Caine. I think adds some gravitas to the statement.
It amazed me that after nearly forty years of compulsory super people who claimed to have worked all their lives are apparently solely dependent on the age pension.
ABC a breath away from claiming age pensioners are being forced to buy dog meat.
mole
Saratoga was in San Diego on the day of the attack, having just arrived from Puget Sound Navy Yard, where it underwent an eight-month refit.
San Diego…. China??
Dickless has a broad definition of “off the coast of China”. If you sail east from China, eventually you reach the US, “off the coast of China”.
At the crikkit (not the Shield final).
Lode – outstanding comment at the arse end of the previous pages.
Everyone go back and look at it.
Winston
I’ve wondered why China hasn’t had a go at retaking Mongolia. After all, Mongolia was once part of China, and where a Chinese soldier once stood is forever China…
Worried that the Mongolians might develop an interest in Inner Mongolia? Where the Great Khan rode is forever Mongolian?
Just when you thought no one could be lower, trashier or filthier than the Clintstones along came the old thief.
Eyriesays:
April 3, 2022 at 1:38 pm
TE, I’m all ears. When and where did we help attack China?
The Boxer Rebellion. The Society of Harmonious Fists.
That would be a sight – seeing Hillary chasing after Bill.
The syphlytic dry husk of a man, with all vigour and colour leached out by past sexual excess, shuffling eagerly along after anything showing the least sign of being in heat – including cigarette butts and discarded pizza-pockets, would normally be easily caught.
But then behind him the alcoholic lush, veering off one side then the other, swearing, kicking inanimate objects blaming them for her loss, stopping for a swig, then heading off in the wrong direction until turned around by bemused onlookers enjoying the display, never quite catching up…
Why is there not a video game?
Quite a word picture ML.
Mother Lode – that has restored my faith in our Photios handpuppets. Viva la UniParty.
This morning Calli recommended viewing the movie ‘The Dig’ which is on Netflix.
My review of it in Quadrant is here. It is well worthwhile. The treasures are in the British Museum.
I hope to revisit Sutton Hoo when I am in Essex in early May, apropos my Arthurian material.
ML – making excellent satire where it really belongs – against the left.
Very apt and well done.
ML
A lot of the left ladies are suffering from
Marxomatosis.
They get a flea in their ear and end up dazed, blind and finally run over by reality.
The decline of the US continues, who was said that he “Went broke very slowly at first but very fast at the end”?
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/dollar-dominance-reserve-currency-risk-uk-pound-russia-sanctions-debt-2022-4
Lizzie…I was trying not to spill the beans about the treasure.
It’s like disclosing the whodunnit.
Is it fair to say that elecric vehicles are not universally popular at Flash Cat?
And is this still Flash Cat?
Reviews elsewhere* say not.
…
* I dare not say where for fear of smoting.
That is probably racist.
I’ll run it through the Caro-meter just to check.
Ooooh.
Yes.
Yes it is.
8.4 on the Caro-scale.
Roger:
See VDH by Indolent @1034.
While it doesn’t intrude on their lifestyle, the childless couples are happy to see it inflicted on the deplorables. It’s only when one of them gets beaten up by a mugger or shot by a lunatic who was let out on no cash bail does it become an issue.
I’m a little surprised some of these gated communities aren’t being mobbed en masse by organised gangs of 30 + and several trucks.
confiscating russian sovereign funds was spectacularly incompetent
When they stop testing for it.
Grey Ranga:
April 3, 2022 at 12:47 pm
I wonder if anyone else noticed that slip of the finger?
I am warming to them. boom boom
No doubt Looty would have been someone’s lunch if he hadn’t been rescued so probably for the best.
Some knee-trembling goodness for those of an aviation persuasion-
At North Quay, there is presently a dismantled ex-RAF Panavia Tornado (ex-ADV interceptor variant, I think) awaiting pickup. Sitting on its own wheels, with wings, stabiliser, elevators and engines removed. And the fin and stabs all wrapped up next to it.
Tail number ZGA 917X (Didn’t get the last digit).
That old canard will be a bit schizoid once we outlaw meat – to save the planet.
Code for ; We are now short the USD and would like some help.
At least someone reads what I write Winston, I obviously don’t.
Is okay.
Substitute vegan dog meat.
On another movie watched recently – The Dish. Re-visited, actually.
It was funny. A bit jingoistic, but funny, the leitmotif being bullsh*tting NASA.
However, there was one character that had my radar humming – the mayor’s teenage daughter. Scowling, entitled, prickly and accusing everyone of everything, particularly fascism and imperialism. On the fifth or sixth snarl, I had it! A proto Greta! It was all there, set in the 60’s.
Those “old WW1” battleships were to be the main instrument of fighting a naval war against the Japanese in the Pacific. It would be a cunning plan, worthy of the great Grogarly himself, to go to war, having allowed the main instrument you plan to fight that war with, to be wiped out on the first day….
Last Church Service after 140 years:
https://imgur.com/gallery/gy5krv5
Sancho, the first time my American ex saw Docklands from the freeway she remarked, “Oh, you have projects here too”.
Until time decides if the urban planners — they belong in the same circle of hell, the one reserved for retards, with teachers and social workers — got Docklands right, it’s prime rental accommodation for spivs, nightclub bouncers, your better class of working girls and Chinese investors who didn’t know any better.
Still, saying its worse than the rest of the CBD is a stretch, as once-teeming and lovely central Melbourne now has all the appeal of Albert Steptoe’s bathwater.
Fascinating, rickw.
The Roll of Honour tells its own story. A little church with 26 of its Presbyterians going to WWI. And a fifth of them to WWII. I suspect that ratio is borne out throughout the bush. It seems to be on all the public memorials that I have seen.
What happens next?
Dreadful little sprog.
When your biological parents are Web Hubbel and Hilary, no surprise there.
Don’t forget Bill reputedly told one of his rope victims she had no need to worry about pregnancy because he contracted mumps after puberty.
Compare:
I will have to do some research but that style of church, seen almost everywhere in eastern Australia, may have started its life as a “kit”. Someone from the old Inland Mission once told me this, that they were semi-made up and shipped to places where new parishes were established. There may have even been a choice of window for the stained glass feature. Those old pedal organs went everywhere.
I initially thought Sophie Lee.
But she played the adult daughter in The Castle.
Not sure, but I do remember the teenage angst.
You’re a crack up areff- from the stories I’ve heard your description of Docklands is spot on.
Not just pensioners. Who can afford lamb shanks anymore?
The busybody corporate fees are outrageous too.
Bend-me Law on ABCcess with its fag hag co-compare susurrating orgasmicly that the Will Smith slap is an epoch defining event.
Why do taxes pay for this shit?
Heres an idea for the Libs to steal.
Shut down the ABCcess, promise all the money being spent on keeping some of the worlds least talented people and wine Aunts in gravy is instead to be quarantined and spent on Oldies in homes.
Offer ex-ABC slime the choice of apprentice bum wiper 3rd class retraining or having their organs harvested.
The Paris end of Collins St presumably. Swanston and Lonsdale Streets – not so much.
Shearers, I hear.
$4 per sheep. A competent shearer can earn 120k p.a., a gun shearer, 160k p.a.
Don’t forget their likely untaxed paid for expenses such as meals…not small meals at that and money saved not needing a gym membership! If they play AFL or rugby, they’ve got cardio done on the cheap too.
That’s harsh.
But probably fair.
And about the city in general, you know, I was thinking that the other day.
We used to go in there all the time. A drink after work, coffee on Saturday mornings, a beer after the footy, Pizza Napoli before the movies, whatever. It was great.
Now, I avoid it like the plague.
A shithole.
In fact, we just put our city penthouse on the market.
No pangs of regret.
Can’t really agree, Calli. The story stands for itself as the story of a known major discovery.
Sutton Hoo is one of the most famous treasure finds in world archaeology.
It is well known way beyond academic circles. Somewhat in the league of Howard Carter’s discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb or Schliemann’s claims to have found the jewels of Helen of Troy in Troy’s ancient site (a treasure indeed, but hardly Helen’s).
The famous Sutton Hoo warrior mask is on the covers and in colour plates of countless books.
The discovery recently of the ‘hidden’ eye of Odin made headline news in the World press.
Generally, when writing reviews about interesting new discoveries (as with the one I wrote on ‘Van Gogh’s Ear’ – also in Quadrant – I try to avoid spoilers). It seemed less necessary here.
How Much Energy Will the World Need?
Thoughts and prayers go out to the mumps.
I know a lady who gave birth to twins after a similar speech….
I hate to see these little sacred places auctioned off, often for peanuts, to be turned into holiday dwellings, whether they are built to a prefab formula or not. 150 years is a long time in Australian history. The churches signal the times when people dwelt in the surrounding lands, and should stay as places of reflection and historical interest, and in their memory as small monuments. Surely a small fund for maintenance would be no great burden for a Council or a Church organisation to bear?
That is my view about such small country churches in Britain, where the time depth is often extraordinary. In the case of my small threatened church, it goes back to at least the Norman Conquest and the Doomesday Book, but probably much earlier, as a sacred site amidst fens and salt marshes. I am appealing to the Church of England’s ‘Mission Pastoral and Property Committee’ and also the ‘Churches Conservation Trust’, but as someone mentioned earlier, the competition for saving such places is fierce and funds are few. Small charities like the ‘Friends of Friendless Churches’ do their best, but in Britain more heritage attention is given to far less worthy structures while the religous pattern of village life over many centuries or millenia, the ritual landscape when viewed in toto, is given short shrift. It’s like selling off Stonehenge.
There might be a better way to save churches.
Looked it up. Lenka Kripac, not Sophie Lee.
She was Greta minus the plaits.
Paski and Clinton come from the same sausage factory- stupid verging on moronic, nasty, spoilt and entitled.
It was for sale last year at $2.35 million. Might still be available.
They were gagging for it.
Old
jungleBill Clinton saying.Quite. But the movie doesn’t. The tension builds with each clue until the final discovery. The perpendicular bow shot is the hurrah! That’s what is is!
My sense of wonder was engaged because I wasn’t quite sure until that moment. Which is exactly what the director and scriptwriter intended.
Sri Lanka president declares public emergency after protests against economic crisis
Police arrested 53 people and imposed a curfew in and around Colombo on Friday to contain sporadic protests that have broken out over shortages of essential items, including fuel and other goods.
calli, there’s a lot about that film that annoys me. A member of my family was an alderman on the Parkes Municipal Council at the time of the Moon landing and the mayor was nothing like the character in the film, he had a farm machinery dealership and was a country gentleman not a political animal. The film has the nasty undertones of the ‘dumb country hicks’, which is unsurprising given the inner-Melbourne culture of the film makers.
Britain could get seven new nuclear power stations by 2050
I don’t know whether anyone saw the excellent piece Angela Shanahan wrote in the Weekend Oz. It is about Sal Grover. I’ve been following Grover for about two years. She’s a Queenslander (I think) who went to Hollywood and worked as a script writer. Anyway, she returned to Oz a few years ago and she’s created an app called “Giggle”, a female only space where women and girls can connect with each other to find flatmates, travel companions, fashion and style tips and so on. The app uses an AI identification system to identify females. It’s designed specifically to be a safe space for women. So what could be wrong with that?
Well, you see we now live in a society where you can’t have safe spaces for women without incurring the wrath of the activists, specifically the creepy and sinister transgender activists. So guess who’s offended by this app? The trannies, those men who think that just because they put on a frock and lipstick and identify as a woman, despite still having a swinging penis etc, they then have the automatic right to invade women’s safe spaces.
So in respect to Grover and her app, we now have a situation where one, I repeat one, tranny activist has lodged a discrimination complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) “on the basis of gender identity because Grover’s app doesn’t allow anyone who is not a biological female being able to register on the app“. But here’s the chilling part, the AHRC is insisting that in order to resolve the complaint, Grover must undertake sex and gender re-education and allow males who simply “identify” as women on the app.
If this is not pure misogyny, I don’t know what is. Oz 2022. Frightening isn’t it? Totalitarian re-education, all because Grover wants her app to be a safe space for biological women.
Sal Grover should tell the AHRC to fuck off.
Chelsea Clinton looks like a shifty eyed piece of work.
Mind you, apart from selected areas of central “gay Paris”, calling anything “the Paris end of …” is no real recommendation any more.
Further to the inner-Melbourne culture of the makers of ‘The Dish’ – the mayor and his family are watching the news and it’s GTV Channel 9 news from Melbourne. The local TV station was CBN8 Orange, which took 7 National News from Sydney, with Roger Climpson reading the news.
I wish her well, freedom of association is a fundamental right, but if I made an app called “Manosphere”, the same thing for men; it would get cancelled.
Skier…me too! When you know the people portrayed, it really gets up your nose.
I looked at it as an amusing “take” on the role Parkes played in the historical event and all the characters surrounding it. What I did like was the way the bush was portrayed as a community having fun, with everyone knowing each other (and some knowing way too much).
Having had a flight of fancy written about one of my forebears, I get the annoyance of invention posing as fact.
Did you ever play the 13 a side game for the Spacemen?
Has to be the coolest name for a footy club.
Peoples – anyone want to buy a barely used Mirror Ball, I asks ya? 😕
Trying to make sense of insanity.
Neil Oliver on Joe Biden and the ‘new world order’
Sal Grover should tell the AHRC to fuck off.
She can ignore it because the AHRC cannot decide if a complained act is unlawful. The bloke who complained then must take it to the Fed Court. Check on Gaynor to see how that works out.
The AHRC should be abolished but scomo won’t do that and rub and tug will give it more powers, ie the power to adjudicate on illegality. Good luck then. Of course the Finkelstein recommendations will come into being under rub and tug and then you won’t even be able to comment on such things.
Shhhh Rabz The wife already has many crystals and dream catchers.
No, but I have watched the Spacemen play. Sitting in the car on the terraces of Pioneer Oval on a cold winters day, listening to the live call on 2PK and tooting the car horn when they scored a try.
Yes, it’s an awesome name.
But here’s the chilling part, the AHRC is insisting that in order to resolve the complaint, Grover must undertake sex and gender re-education and allow males who simply “identify” as women on the app.
The AHRC has never been about ‘human rights’ just marxist ideology aka social and economic wrecking.
I wish her well, freedom of association is a fundamental right, but if I made an app called “Manosphere”, the same thing for men; it would get cancelled.
Correct- no male gyms either but they have lezwood
Serious question: When did you last work a shearing shed?
Your recollection of arrangements is not consistent with mine.
Glorious Sydney Sunset … 🙂
End of an era. Richmond is getting slaughtered by the Saints in the AFL.
Remember when Fernwood had a ad “No Toms, No Harrys and definitely No Dicks”. I said to a friend at the time “could you imagine if there was a male-only gym and it had the advertising slogan ‘no birds, no cows and definitely no pussies’? The justifiable outrage would be heard from the Moon.”
There’s no stopping them. They are quite determined and have the power to push ahead with their plans and no one can stop them. Even the Church is on board. In about 60 years, someone somehow will stumble on Plato’s Cave and maybe then things will change for the better. Maybe.
Nasty day in Melb today- grey and damp
Remember when Fernwood had a ad “No Toms, No Harrys and definitely No Dicks”. I said to a friend at the time “could you imagine if there was a male-only gym and it had the advertising slogan ‘no birds, no cows and definitely no pussies’? The justifiable outrage would be heard from the Moon.”
Forgotten about that- as much as loathe transexuals and x dressers, these misandrists have really had it coming to them.
Good pick up re the TV station depicted in The Dish Rugby- I remember in the 80s it was ‘mid state television 6 8 9’
Outsiders had Lachlan Murdoch and Gina saying strong and good things about the woke left, the abc etc. But its all meaningless unless rich folks like them buy media outlets and go full pelt back at the left bastards.
can youse hear the gibberish?
FMD … about all this idiot does is tut-tutt and squawk about wrong and right and what it doesnt like.
it moans when ‘report comment’ doesnt work
the other mong whines on and off about everybody’s nasty epithets and excessive word-walls yet damned near every post of his is exactly both … ie a stream of invective rolled up as a word-wall.
listen to them try to carve out a space where they have implicit permission to continue their nasty little tirade
a pair of hypocrites
they could of course just stop
but they won’t because they think they have the upper hand
if you haven’t worked you’re being gas-lighted yet then I’m sorry for youse
Matrix, who are you talking about?
Shhhh Rabz The wife already has many crystals and dream catchers.
You just know hes covering up the ultimate shame…. probably in the bedroom..
“I wish her well, freedom of association is a fundamental right, but if I made an app called “Manosphere”, the same thing for men; it would get cancelled.”
True…..and this is where it’s coming back to bite feminists on the bum. However there’s a good reason why women need “safe spaces”, be it change rooms, toilets and so on and that’s…
Safety.
they could feel Fahrenheit by the dashboard lights
However there’s a good reason why women need “safe spaces”, be it change rooms, toilets and so on and that’s…
Safety.
Which is why we have the tradition, custom, manners and courtesy of women only spaces.
Yes we are judging you bespoke, judging you exactingly with curled upper lips.
Nero d’Avola is a bit of cult vine among the indies
BiL has a stack of it
Must say electric cars burning is spectacular. Do not park in your house or charge in your garage overnight.
Link brocken mole
“lezwood”
Fernwood doesn’t discriminate anymore. It allows males who self ID as “women” to join.
I know several Orthodox Jewish women in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs who no longer attend Fernwood because of that.
It’s the same with McIver’s Ladies Baths at Coogee…a female only baths that has been female only since the 1920s. But of course a creepy tranny activist had to protest and screech “discrimination”. This activist led a campaign claiming that McIver discriminates against “transgender women”. Last I heard McIver has relaxed their policy, saying that the baths are now inclusive (how I hate that word) of “transgender women”.
Fernwood doesn’t discriminate anymore. It allows males who self ID as “women” to join.
unreal- one of their rather nasty adds used to joke ‘men will do anything to get into Fernwood’ was a guy dressed up as a woman
Did someone loan Lachlan some balls and pants?
Well, all I can say is that there are many ways to write a film review. Every reviewer has their own style and opinion and way of presenting the experience of the film. I wouldn’t like to review this film without mention of the nature of the treasure though. That would be very deficient, as would be not noting the differences between reality of the situation and the interpretive characterisation of it.
A similar point may be made about many films. Joe Dolce’s recent Quadrant review of the film ‘Nitram’ (Martin spelled backwards) about the Port Arthur Massacre is well aware of the pitfalls when it comes to reviewing something controversial.
Or, as I felt, something well-known in archaeology. If ‘The Dig’ kept some in suspense until the revelation about the finds, well, good for them. The film-makers made a fine and nuanced tale of the discovery but I doubt they expected all seeing the film to be in the dark about it.
You wanted to vote and be “equal”.
Suck it up.
Due to quirk of reception most people in Parkes could also receive RVN2 from Wagga, which also had 7 National News. Before the TV aggregation all the houses in Parkes had two antennas, a vertical one for Channel 8 and Channel 1 from Orange and a horizontal one for Channel 2 from Wagga.
Mid-State Television 6-8-9 had a cool logo in the 80s. It was a map of New South Wales with ‘Mid State Television’ written over it with stars for the dots of the ‘i’s corresponding to Dubbo, Orange and Griffith – the home towns for Channel 6, Channel 8 and Channel 9.
I spent two hours last week talking to a proud western Victorian granddad and fine merino wool producer at his grandson’s first birthday. I was in the bridal party at his daughter’s and son in law’s wedding.
Yep. $4 a sheep (ewe).
I also know a bloke who bought his own 4000+ sheep farm before he was 30, started off as a shearer, didn’t blow his money.
It’s amazing what you hear from other people when you listen.
Bespoke.
I also disapprove of being told about broken links…
Two channels was really enough remembering that the ABC wasn’t too bad back in those days.
Quite so, Cassie. It is the mission of men to protect women who are physically weaker and bear their children.
Males pretending to be females are just cowards not up to the mission for which they were designed.
Yep. $4 a sheep (ewe).
That includes a levy for supplying your own tools.
The award is here.
https://www.sheepcentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/1.-SCAA-Recommended-Rates-15-on-Pastoral-Award-2020-2021-at-20210201.pdf
(FMD $1.20 a head when I was a dag chiseler.)
Grover should double down. Let them register but have a red flag, mentally ill, sexual predator or comedian.
If they go after free speech on an app you own, well fuck me.
Remember the Little Britain episode with Emily Howard, the tranny who dressed in Victorian era clothes and say “I’m a lady”, trying to use the women’s change rooms at the pool and the pool guard not letting him. Ahead of the curve on that one by 10 years.
Apart from the queers and the man bun crowd most blokes couldn’t think of anything worse. Saturday at the golf club you can’t stop the wailing, although mixed Sunday is usually enough to silence it.
It’s amusing that after women achieved their dream of getting the same prizemoney as men, now men are the best women swimmers, weightlifters and runners. I wonder if there’s a link…?
Thanks for the heads up on one to avoid, Cassie.
I don’t fancy a change room where pretend women with penises are roving around perving.
I find any female change room a bit of an unnerving challenge these days as you never know when one of these pretend women will pop up (as it were). In a change room at a swimming centre on the south coast I was once confronted by a sort of male person sitting naked to the waist with a very man-boob looking chest, seemingly taking a perverse delight in displaying this nakedness. Women in change rooms are not like that; we are quite modest. All the women were taking one look and getting changed in the toilet cubicles.
mole
As long as it makes her happy and it’s doesn’t interfering with making of the evening feast etc I don’t care.
A house full of monarch butterflies can be annoying though
Greetings fellow front holes!!
Lets all sit down and talk like real non-men do.
“Periods eh, whats up with them”…
Cross fit would make a woman only gym tolerable, otherwise you may as well go to planet fitness (no barbells and limited free weights).
I go to an independent, ex roid gym; natty is all the rage.
Young expat Pom Aaron Hardie has just scored a century for WA in the Shield Final.
Dogged, patient and resisted the temptation to go the slog against some pretty ordinary Vic spin bowlers.
Full of roast beef lunch and contentment at the WACA.
As long as it makes her happy and it’s doesn’t interfering with making of the evening feast etc I don’t care.
I bet you can name more than 7 colours as well.
No doxing Tom and his mate, OK!
No!
How do you do, my fellow birthing persons?
Re Grover:
That means that Toffee and Bumble are also guilty of WrongThink.
The Australian now running online article about George Christensen Covid and mentions the drugs he is taking.
It quotes what he “wrote” he was taking but the Oz uses the words “two anti virals” rather than Ivermectin and another. Have not looked at Christensens FB page but it appears the Oz are misquoting. CM and the Oz can’t both be right.
US interfering in Hungary, Pakistan and Serbian elections
Global hybrid war: Imran Khan lashes out at US. Elections in Serbia. Elections in Hungary. Update 2
Pakistan PM Khan suggests he might not accept vote to oust him after accusing United States of backing ‘regime change’
Why is Christensen taking anything for omicron?
I wouldn’t mind woman’s only gyms (apart from the offensive advertising) but men’s gyms are deemed discriminatory so it’s just in-your-face hypocrisy.
The US State Department- is that like our Dept of Foreign Affairies but with more wars and coup d’etats?
A goil in NYC, clad in a short skirt, long jacket and boobee tube.
There needs to be a lot more of it. 🙂
Oh and Christensen actually said on Facebook he was taking ‘two antivirals’ plus Lemsip, Panadol, aspirin, Betadine antiseptic lozenges, zinc, vitamin d and vitamin C.
‘Can’t be too careful’.
Maybe he likes to see lefty heads and the medical experts exploding ?
“Why is Christensen taking anything for omicron?”
Convergence of comorbidities probably. He’s a fat bastard.
Rosie,
Thanks for looking. In that case Courier Mail has somehow got Ivermectin in their quote when it is not there. Unless they actually spoke with him.
“Oh and Christensen actually said on Facebook he was taking ‘two antivirals’ plus Lemsip, Panadol, aspirin, Betadine antiseptic lozenges, zinc, vitamin d”.
Why would they explode?
Isn’t the consensus omicron is mild, sounds more like he is a little worried because he isn’t vaccinated.
The Roll of Honour tells its own story. A little church with 26 of its Presbyterians going to WWI. And a fifth of them to WWII. I suspect that ratio is borne out throughout the bush. It seems to be on all the public memorials that I have seen.
What happens next?
The land was donated by a local family on the understanding that the land would revert to them if the church ever ceased to operate.
The land is now owned by a different local family, and as a consequence the land has reverted to them. The building was sold by tender, they bid on it and it was awarded to them.
So far so good. Not sure what his intentions are but he needs to put at least $10k into it on some urgent preservation work. The eastern wall is in poor condition. Then after that it needs part of the floor done and general timber maintenance on the outside. The basic structure is sound having been restumped and had roof work some time ago.
He could probably have the building pay for it’s own upkeep by hiring it out as a wedding venue. It’s quite idyllic and they have had ongoing requests for weddings there.
I had been thinking about putting in a bid on it, but enough going on at the moment!
Italics fail:
The land is now owned by a different local family, and as a consequence the land has reverted to them. The building was sold by tender, they bid on it and it was awarded to them.
So far so good. Not sure what his intentions are but he needs to put at least $10k into it on some urgent preservation work. The eastern wall is in poor condition. Then after that it needs part of the floor done and general timber maintenance on the outside. The basic structure is sound having been restumped and had roof work some time ago.
He could probably have the building pay for it’s own upkeep by hiring it out as a wedding venue. It’s quite idyllic and they have had ongoing requests for weddings there.
I had been thinking about putting in a bid on it, but enough going on at the moment!
Rugbyskier sounds like rural Victoria when dad was posted to Puckapunyal. GMV6 out of Shepparton, BCV8 in Bendigo and the ABC on ch 3. Later we got a different higher antenna with a booster and switch to get Melbourne TV channels.
Having only ever lived in Sydney and Brisbane was definitely a different experience.
That’s just not cricket.
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Why would you want a church?
They smell like a thousand farts, are usually next door to cemeteries and then there is all the poor sods who got hitched in there.
Bulldoze the fucking thing.
Pink Floyd the Wall (1982) | “Hey teachers, leave those kids alone”
Back gammon, Pink Floyd and good Scotch or brandy discussing what’s going to replace the C64.
Is it against the law to take something when someone has ”omnicrom”?
So woke the economist
Not exactly a conservative pin up hero.
Good GB News clip from Neil Oliver, and quite short too. Pass it on, for it covers the general dilemma of ordinary people wondering what the hell is going on? Pieces like these are good for letting people everywhere know they are not in it alone, that lots think the same way, and that can become the start of a widespread resistance.
I assumed you took a shot – as in a drinking game.
You can get hammered just reading the newspaper – and so can they since it doesn’t actually make you feel poorly.
Rabz, are there any conservative pin up heroes these days?
Good to see you thinking sensibly again, Arks. 🙂
For those of us who are not religionists, the first sentence above is entirely uncontroversial.
Even if not to do with safety (because being around men can be quite safe even in matters of women’s business), women at times want their own space for the sake of modesty.
Half watched a few episodes of Chicago PD on Prime.
Very very ordinary.
Walker Texas Ranger has better plots.
Moving on.
They’re usually cheap, well built and maintained and pretty much a blank slate on which to impose your own interior design and extend outwards. And you get to preserve local history as well. Win, win.
I thought you were going to fade away Arky
Gabz, most certainly not those young women who are on Gray Connolly’s twatter feed.
What is a conservative in this day and age anyway?
An endless accommodator or an unrepentant constant sell out?
Certainly not this uglee, cranky ol’ dinobore, if that’s any consolation, which of course it is not.
Sorry, Peoples. 😕
Arky trying to cover up his necromancy again.
Nn no.. I don’t even like animating the dead from the nearby graveyard baka!
Tsundre for skeletal maidens
Nasty day in Melb today- grey and damp
The upside was that The Bat Eared Mong didn’t announce any new programs to molest and rob us.
Yes but there’s always tomorrow.
They’re usually cheap, well built and maintained and pretty much a blank slate on which to impose your own interior design and extend outwards. And you get to preserve local history as well. Win, win.
Yep! I was thinking that it could probably earn its keep as a wedding venue. And it smells of Murray Pine!
https://funker530.com/video/officer-stabbed-in-the-eye-beats-suspect-senseless/
When age catches up with you .. LOL! .. 74 years young and spent 5 hours today working on a fence de-nailing, cutting (re-shaping) & re-installing palings .. not a problem .. until I stopped .. the body is worn out with aches & pains in places I’d forgotten about ..
Had an hour’s lie down and starting to come alive again .. methinx, the usual swim & riding may be off Monday’s agenda .. but the fence is dun! ..
thought about painting it later in the week but can’t believe fence paint is the same price as house paint these days! .. so a”natural” look in several shades of age from mixing old/older palings will be the final decor .. LOL!
worked at Berger Paints for years back in the 1980s & fence paint back then was retailing about 50cents a litre compared to house paint at around $4( it cost about 10cents a litre to produce compared to $1 for the household stuff) & now Bunnings want $40 for 4 litres or $80 for 10 litres.. ….!
areff, Tom & KD.
Re the machinations of footy clubs and short or faded memories.
I saw Liam Picken on the Front Bar last week.
He told the story about how it was touch and go whether he got a contract with Footscray. Their affiliate VFL club, Williamstown, offered to chip in $20k to get it over the line.
That got him on the list, which ended up with 198 games and a Premiership medal.
Twenty grand is not loose change for a VFL club and, to be fair, Liam himself is eternally grateful.
I heard a story that Willy approached his missus (who is a social influenza) to speak at one of their club functions.
The reply?
“No problems. My fee is $xxx”.
Grate – my nephew of the banned has just texted me a birthday greeting.
Yeah, no, you fascists. 😡
Shaterzzzz, there is nothing LOLworthy about it.
Happy Birthday Rabz!
Dot:
Last time I went to a gym, was to help an idiot who tried to lift too many of those round things on a bar.
Didn’t work – he was still an idiot, on his way to being a room temperature idiot.
Arks – anyone – what is a personage who is not a collectivist?
Answers on the back of a postage stamp, evidently, please.
Thanks, Rose. 🙂
Medieval Dead is a good series, rosie. On prime though.
Why would anyone want to restore a shitty old car, which haemorrhages oil, goes from 0 – 46 in a couple of minutes, has no safety features or entertainment, and is basically a money pit?
Oh, right.
I have no business telling you that.
Fair enough.
Live and let live, eh?
If Lizzie wants to build a Stonehenge replica in her yard, who cares?
Half watched a few episodes of Chicago PD on Prime.
Very very ordinary.
Season 2 of YOUNG WALLENDER is very good tho you’ll need to watch season 1 to get the character backgrounds 1st …..
Katheryn Winnick’s (VIKINGS) latest role BIG SKY is a quite good detective/PI show .. now in season 3 tho, again, each season is a story continuation of the previous seasons ……
Mongolia will remain an independent country as it serves as a neutral buffer nation between China and Russia. Both the Chinese and Russian states would be happy with this situation, as are the Mongolians I expect.
The story of the Bleus:
Part One
The full Magilla …
Noted Bespoke.
Tried young wallender, something irritated me greatly in the first episode, probably some progressive meme.
Giving Jack Ryan a shot.
Yes, I’d buy our family one on impulse as it would be cheap, but The Boss says no. It also needs huge underpinning and ongoing maintenance. It should never have been left to get that bad. As with other re-found family members, we also have a lot of other things on with our children and grandchildren and commitments we’ve made there. If it was fixed by some heritage order many family members in the diaspora could contribute to charities to its maintenance and usage as a place of peace, a museum, a Festival church for Christmas and Easter etc. The Anglican Churches Conservation Trust garners all sorts of government and church funding and makes some money too from churches in its care by putting on heritage tours, literary tours, overnight Chlamping (a nite in a church), filming and function hire activites. Currently they keep 356 historic churches open, but there are thousands more with dwindling or no population.
As Rosie ironically alluded above, the simple answer is to bring communities back to the churches as churchgoers, as Catholics still do, which may work via outreach efforts when populations still surround the churches, but not when villages are depopulated or become part of commuter belts. The Church of England has lost its congregations as have all other denominations. A sad thing. But it should not also lose its embedded physical history in the landscape, the built form of the collective gatherings of people sharing their common worship of Christ in England. Letting churches stand as churches sends an important Christian message.
Shaterzzzz, there is nothing LOLworthy about it.
When your still capable of a few hours of heavy yakka there definitely IS .. taking the alternative into consideration .. I’d do it again tomorrow but the body reckons Thursday at the earliest .. LOL!
Tried young wallender, something irritated me greatly in the first episode, probably some progressive meme.
Season 1 was a bit on the WOKE side but they have, just about, dumped the PC for 2 and dun a pulls-you-in watchable crime drama with 2 …
Lizzie:
It’s about people being presented with ongoing ‘crises’ that aren’t actually crises. The first crisis isn’t assimilated before the next one starts.
It’s to keep people mentally unbalanced so they throw their hands in the air and disconnect. When you leave the battlefield to the enemy, you have lost.