An allowance was included as well, extra for living away from home. Unfortunately I know a number of people who weren’t able to go because the allowance was small.</blockquote

Yes. I got an 'independent' living allowance with a Com schol, fortunately I was able to prove I had been entirely self-supporting for seven years. It wasn't very much money and I had to supplement it with waitressing. Gave me a chance at university though.

On remote housing….

Sounds like the problem with remote housing is that they are rapidly localised.

Just read the link to the Shanghai Quarantine Halls, where people are placed two two a cubicle in a massive convention hall. Portable toilets and no showers. You get a basin and a towel for a wash, and a toothbrush, presumable done in some toilet block somewhere. The Ukrainian women put into one as she was living in Shanghai commented that they left the lights on all night which was torture. I’d take my trusty black airline eye-shade for that, for they work quite well rather than her makeshift box over her head. But she couldn’t do much about the noise and constant lous chatter of thousands of Chinese.

That would absolutely be my idea of hell.

Humphrey, I suspect every low-rent, BMW-driving poser in Perth (and quite a few other places) would kill for an Aston Martin badge on his SUV — the ultimate look-at-moi wank.

Bloke who parks next to me in the apartment carpark had an Aston Martin. He’s recently exchanged it for a McLaren. I’ve never met him, however the other day there were two other McLarens parked out the front of the apartments, obviously waiting for their mate.

I stopped to admire and chat. One of the owners offered me a ride – him driving. Of course I agreed. This car has 765 horses and does 0 – 100 in 2.8 seconds. Off we go for a small lap around the East Perth foreshore in the early afternoon. He putters around at the speed limit until he gets to Riverside Drive with about a km to play with and just floors it! FMD! What a blast!

Then he hits the breaks, turns a couple of corners and floors it again with only a couple of hundred meters room before he hits traffic. The brakes do the job as well as the donk. Still haven’t met my neighbour but he should be a great bloke if his mates are anything to go by.

Katherine Deves wants to save womens sport.
Women’s sport is in no danger, it’s massively funded
As a matter of fact, those racists whining about aborigines might take a look at the fantastic waste of government money on stupid shit like the AFLW.

Min raised the issue of guilts back thread. They can be large, and small. Here’s my small one today.

I have paid no-strings for 18 year old grandson’s airfare to the US for ten days with his girlfriend and her family, and I have paid for his passport, and given him a couple of hundred towards other expenses. He’s saved for the accommodation from his part-time job inbetween study. He’s now suggested a loan of $1000 to see him through the trip. I felt a bit mean agreeing to ‘a loan’ but I also thought he did have to take some responsiblity now for his enjoyments. I am happy to pay entirely for necessary things like driving lessons, but still, I had a niggle that maybe I was being mean requiring repayment. I lent money to Penny and John (my daughter and son) from the bank of mum and dad when they were 18, I commented to him unthinkingly and they paid me back over time later, so it’s no different for you. I’m sorry I can’t ask my mum and dad, Grandma, he says, mistaking my meaning, and then I felt terrible for making him feeling he had to apologise.

Of course he can’t ask them. They are both wrecks.

Family life. Never easy.

My mate once suggested a much stronger house – basically a slab with steel girders and plug and play walls. Just replace the walls when they get wrecked. This was dismissed as being “sub-standard”.

Just invoke da climate change making cyclones worser. When I was in Townsville all new construction appeared to be cement block with a tin roof. That was what mine was. Painted they looked fine and were tough. Do the same in the Territory, fill the breeze blocks with rebarred concrete (better insulation for da climate change), use steel trusses for the roof (termites are worser because climate change) and no ceilings (hotter because climate change, need airy space), and there you go, a nulla nulla proof house.

China in Focus – NTD
01:04 Has China’s panda diplomacy lost its sparkle?
03:52 CIA director: Russia’s silent partner China is America’s greatest challenge
06:08 Shanghai turns residences into isolation centers
08:30 China’s lockdowns risky for investors: Expert
09:33 Tesla may soon resume production in Shanghai
10:19 Shanghai sets new goal for COVID-19 outbreak: Zero new cases outside quarantine: Sources
11:40 China’s first-quarter GDP expands 4.8%

Fox News host gives his take on how the U.S. should respond to the Russia-Ukraine war and provides insight on the economy on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’ #FoxNews #Tucker

Trannies in womens sport isn’t a serious issue.
Why?
Because there are already rules in place.
Big, strong and powerful?
You can’t play.
High T-levels?
You can’t play.
Sooner or later that’s going to be pointed out.
Then Katherine Deves will become the focus of the Campaign.

Quite stunning when the linseed and canola are in flower.
Linseed beats canola as a flowering plant in my book but it’s very fleeting.

ZK2A:

You can pick your friends..

And you can pick your nose.
This does not mean you can pick your friends nose.
…..Ecccles.

Sooner or later that’s going to be pointed out.

It’s a simple matter of male bodies that have been through male puberty and adulthood and female bodies that have not. Testosterone levels don’t compensate for that muscular upper body strenth advantage nor for the greater heart and lung capacity.

Get real. This is men muscling in on and destroying women’s sports.

I think we have the government horse behind the cart.
First step is to enfeeble the forces that oppress us, and keep them feeble.
There is no second step, all follows naturally from the first position.

Years ago, a person’s private life was their own business and certainly off limits to a grifter on the make like Deves.

Then raving fascist activists proclaimed that “The personal is political”, and here we are.

You so-called “progressives” have a lot to answer for.

Tomsays:
April 19, 2022 at 7:57 pm

Saw the same interview – Pretty face but I don’t know about what’s between the earrings, at times she seems to merely regurgitate the progressive talking points du jour.

Tintarella di Lunasays:
April 19, 2022 at 4:56 pm

Someone I know with a child with major developmental delays, can get more builders or gardeners than ST or OT’s in Townsville. Waiting times officially round here are 6m for OT and 8m for ST, actual times are double that. The administration of the NDIS is nothing to crow about either from what I hear, months to get a plan finalised. Of course COVID is their fall back till quizzed about why their workforce that couldn’t do from home, then crickets from what I hear.

Abbott should have nipped in the bud but didn’t. Fun fact I started noticing a national insurance scheme on my Qld Rego, unsure what it was I delved into it. Turns out it is some sort of road accident scheme set up under the NDIS that Queensland has signed up for hence the extra fee for Rego that is growing per annum.

I don’t get the attraction of Clive. At least with Katter he’s just a blatant Agrarian Socialist who’ll give a different set of people money while having big government. And Hanson’s the same, but with a slightly different set of beneficiaries. But Clive??? He’s offering the same rubbish uni party stuff that everyone else is. And with all three of them, it’s bigger, bigger, bigger government all the way. Clive chews up all the built up antagonism against big government and spits it straight back into the same machine.

Snapshot of PML:

Katter: Every boy in Australia should have access to a rifle
Poorleen: No kowtowing to the Chinese
Katter: I was bullied as a child

No downside to any of that. Palmer’s sitting next to the, and by saying very little indeed appears statesmanlike in comparison.

So far.

Avoid this by using vocabulary such as ‘students’, ‘class’, ‘crew’, ‘everyone’, people’ or ‘year X’ that are more inclusive.

What about ‘guys’? That’s all good?

Right? Guys?

Azov claim CIVILIANS in Azovstal. Assault begins. Gonzalo Lira reported caught by callsign ‘Chile’
iEarlGrey

NORTHERN Territory teachers could soon be told not to call students “boys and girls” to avoid offending children who might be questioning their gender.

when they say net zero, is this the birth rate or the number of white people remaining….

Via ham radio, picked up a broadcast of Gonzo Lira being interrogated by the Russians. Some of the questions:

‘Should I part my hair in the middle or to one side?’
‘On the first date, should I offer to pay half or all the bill?’
‘How do I make girls talk to me?’
‘Should I be confident? Overconfident, or self-deprecating like Hugh Grant?’

Tough crowd.

Sancho

Halal???? Perhaps kosher?

Halal???? Perhaps kosher?

Jewish Muslinazis.

We’re through the looking glass now.

the price of avocados is set to collapse next summer

Do you mean……. normal people can have them now?

Do I still have to wear a fake beard eating them on paydays?

Hmmm…I ponder what would happen if Christians mocked Islam and drew a cartoon or something? Would that make Muslims “snowflakes”?

The hypocrisy is astonishing.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/04/18/ilhan-omar-snowflakes-offended-post-mocking-airplane-christians/

I was that mesmerised by the plonker (as a bowler, and probably human) Labuschagne that I missed a full stop.

Fucked. Fucked, I tell you.

Australia ‘deeply disappointed’ by China and Solomon Islands controversial security pact

?_?
I’m not angry with you, Solomon, I’m just very disappointed.

At exactly this time in 2019 Newspoll had the primary vote as follows:

LNP: 38%
ALP: 37%

On Election Day the primary vote was:

LNP: 41.44%
ALP: 33.34%

Newspoll and all the other polls over-sample leftist voters, and all their ‘adjustments’ cannot change that.

Oh, and they all wanted to tackle the big issue of the National debt, which the Lib-Labs simply ignore.

Correction: on 14 April 2019, Newspoll had 1st Peference 39%/39% LNP/ALP.

Do you really want to believe this, like Climate models and COVID models?

The LNP are comfortably on course to win..

Net Zero Watch:
Green levies cost the UK economy about £11 billion a year in total, putting £150 a year on the average household electricity bill, and a further £250 per household on the annual cost of living, a total of £400 per household per year. The levies also depress wages and rates of employment.

Mark Knight.

Peter Broelman.

Christian Adams.

Scott Clissold.

A.F. Branco.

Al Goodwyn.

Matt Margolis.

Gary Varvel.

Some geriatric named Graham Morris is saying

Just imagine what the Russians or the Chinese will do if that little chink …

The Liberal Party must wanna lose this Election pretty bad.
Labor are saying then Liberals will introduce a Medicare Co-Payment and put Pensioners on a Cashless Card, but all Scotty wants to do is talk up Katherine Deves.
https://twitter.com/SincDavidson/status/1516176890012512256
Fucking hilarious.

Do we really wanna open up this little niche … ?

Hahahaha.
Talkin’ ’bout a train wreck.

Bit of early morning Eddery.

Big night in the basement, apparently.

So, the best they could do to bolster Katherine Deves was to roll out Jacinta Price, who’s made a career outta scolding aboriginal men [even tho her father is a pom and she’s married a scot], and ol’ Graham [who?] Morris
thinkin’ ’bout openin’ up little niches.
And yet Saving Women’s Sport P/L is a votewinner [according to Scotty From Marketing]?

I’ve never worked in a bank, at a bank, of for a bank. Doubtless others have.

However, I am prepared to speculate that bank employees will only rarely be threatened by colleagues with baseball bats. The Hun:

The head of National Australia Bank’s repo trading desk has alleged a “boys’ club culture” at the bank in a human rights complaint, alleging she was ­subjected to years of underpayment, racial and sexual discrimination, threatened with a baseball bat, and repeatedly ignored by management.

Longtime NAB employee Dikele Diawara has taken aim at her employer, alleging she was subjected to years of poor behaviour by her boss, head of trading Tim McCaughey, and ignored by other members of the “overwhelmingly male” trading team in repos, or secured repurchase agreements.

What possible reason could there be for these atrocities?

In her 17-page complaint Ms Diawara alleges NAB had “discriminatory pay practices” that saw her paid less than what the bank was paying men “in the same or similar roles”. Ms Diawara alleges this was because she was a black woman from France.

Surely that must be a typo. Reading on:

She alleges NAB’s culture and Mr McCaughey, her immediate superior, drove her to depression due to behaviour that would not have happened if she were not female, black or French.

I find this difficult to believe. As a black French woman myself, I’ve never been subject to this sort of behaviour – bank or no bank.

On This Day:

1889 – a nondescript Austrian painter was born. Failing to earn sufficiently in his chosen field, he later had a brief military career before becoming involved in local politics.

After several notable successes he made a series of judgement errors, resulting in him withdrawing from public life before a remarkable confluence of ballistic trauma and being covered in flaming petrol caused his demise.

If rsrsrrsrs were here, I am confident she would raise a glass. Of adrenochrome.

Bugs are out, seaweed is in.

End of the world: Experts warn to stockpike SEAWEED to slash impact of Russian nuke (19 Apr)

In a new paper published in the journal Nutrients, the researchers argue that with global cooperation, humanity could survive a catastrophic event, like a nuclear war.

Juan García Martínez, from the Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters said: “We’re trying to promote preparedness — a culture of having institutions, government and companies prepared for a kind of global catastrophe that has been quite neglected.”
…
For the nutrient, the experts recommend that seaweed farms be installed, as it requires little sun, and can be protected against radiation.

Seaweed is rich in antioxidants and contains several vitamins including A, C, and E, along with protective pigments.

It also contains iodine, which is a key nutrient used to prevent the worst impacts of nuclear radiation, making it a perfect crop to grow in such a scenario.

I wonder what the new apocalypse will be next year? And what inedible food items will be essential to save everyone from it?

How very disappointing for some, KD.

Yep. Take him off The List.

Yeeech… disgusting.

https://alexanifantis86.medium.com/its-time-men-started-working-like-women-e9f5a70a1477

It’s time men started working like women!

As a heterosexual man, I understand that I am the least entitled person who should be talking about a woman’s perspective on society. All I have are vague ideas given to me from conversations that I’ve had with my female friends or awkward experiences that I myself have been forced to endure while going out with aforementioned friends or relatives (sister, cousins).

I feel sorry for this dude. He’s been lied to his entire life.

….I’m talking about guys who put zero effort in their appearance: an untrimmed beard, an outfit that was obviously worn before, a beer belly, hair that hadn’t been cut or washed in ages and even long fingernails. For men, these can be considered minor details, but for women, they’re all major red flags….

Oh my sweet summer child. Brad Pitt pays an awful lot of money to look poor. Women still want to bonk him.

If you’re a 4 ft tall midget and look Hans Moleman, no amount of effort is going to help unless you are loaded.

This guy needs to look up the hot prisoner meme.

You see, back in the day, a woman didn’t care what a man looked like, so long as she was chosen by one and got the opportunity to live in a proper house, rather than spend her life in servitude. And even then, she would need to cater to her husband’s every need. Sounds great for us men, right?

???

Marriage has always been about protecting women* or in more modern times, a transfer of wealth from men to women (and hence why marriage is deincentivised now for men). This idea is quite bizarre. The woman’s family had a say. They had an emotional and financial interest too. Maybe this kid should take to his grandparents or great grandparents? Maybe he should look at celebrity marriages like Grace Kelly – whose family is said to have considered the Princely Grimaldis as beneath them.

*As to engender family formation.

Men need to try harder

No junior. Here’s some facts. Not the list of 101 things a monkey trainer wants.

Not all women out effort into their appearance. Ever heard of pulling the pin on the fat grenade?

I have hobbies because they’re fun. I have been over-schooled, all I can read for pleasure is history or medical stuff I find interesting. The idea that you need to read books to look after your girlfriend’s mind is strange and oddly codependent.**

You need to be brave, but also caring.

Most people have never been in a physical altercation as an adult, fewer of them know what they are doing, fewer of them have seen martial combat.

Unless you know what you are doing, call the cops, don’t be a hero kid.

You need to be financially independent.

Do women? If men and women don’t need each other, what’s the point? Whatever happened to a young couple scraping together and GROWING together? Nope, men must be millionaire Chad before they’re 30, and it is sexist to reject older women. Also women can have kids at 40 and older.

There are not many incentives left for men, because weak men have allowed women to become so entitled…but ultimately cheated even more than men.

You need to be able to hold a proper conversation, but also know when to shut up and listen.

Just be yourself, but also be perfectly masculine but also a doormat. Kewl kewl. I totally don’t have to sacrifice my own dignity for this!

…and it just gets worse and worse.

*It’s none of your business if a women looks attractive in public.
*Women can do what they like with their bodies, it’s literally current year minus one.
*Women are just as good at men at anything so men need to keep up.

**Do you use a landline phone with a second person pressing half of the numbers?

I hope this guy has a father to slap some sense into him.

All has to do is live with a girlfriend who is a pig for a week and the illusion will be shattered.

I feel his blue pilled days will end with a volcanic level of red pill rage.

I feel his blue pilled days will end with a volcanic level of red pill rage

Wars start over things like this.

If true, it’s evidence he must have received some very bad intelligence.

Instructive video – extraordinary, for other reason than Putin decided to publish it. Presumably he thinks it makes him look strong and decisive.

I’ve seen shite business decisions get made like this – by narcissistic arseholes who could only hear the sound of their own wheels.

Prepping is going mainstream

Roger, what is “prepping”?