Open Thread – Weekend 23 April 2022


An Evening in Arcadia, Thomas Cole, 1843

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Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
April 25, 2022 5:05 pm

I certainly couldn’t fathom how I’d resume my normal life: a full-time career in financial services,

In the same way that “health professional” means “nurse”, this radiates “bank teller” or “data processer at industry super fund”. (Not criticising any of those jobs, btw, but when people go for the vague euphemistic description they’re usually trying to bignote themselves.) Strangely, her “life coach” [FMD] site, linked above by cohenite, doesn’t detail anything about her qualifications and accomplishments in the former life she walked away from in pursuit of enlightenment and fulfilment.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
April 25, 2022 5:07 pm

She forgot to put the word “Legs” ahead of “Always”.

Plus “Heels Up”

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
April 25, 2022 5:08 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 25, 2022 5:09 pm

A person who committed adultery, abandoned her family and then writes about it all in a newspaper article, no doubt causing them to relive the most traumatic time in their lives, is advising people on how they should live their lives.

The irony had not escaped me.

rosie
rosie
April 25, 2022 5:10 pm

Sorry to hear about the covid bons, hope it doesn’t make too big a mess with your holiday plans.
Outside of London I’ve spend almost zero time in the UK due to winter travelling so enjoying your tales (and yours calli)

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
April 25, 2022 5:13 pm
rosie
rosie
April 25, 2022 5:14 pm

That lady appears imminently qualified to be a life coach.
Her book shows be called
What Not To Do.
As for the guff about soulmates, nice way to dress up doing the dirty on your family.

miltonf
miltonf
April 25, 2022 5:14 pm

The old thief is a low grifterbut has done unbelievable damage

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
April 25, 2022 5:17 pm

‘Al Qaeda Is on Our Side’: How Obama and Biden Aided Our Enemies in Syria

Jake Sullivan is Old Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor, and it’s clear from a revealing piece published in RealClearInvestigations Wednesday that he is just as wrongheaded, in over his head, and incapable of putting the interests of the American people first as the rest of the Biden team. In a lengthy investigative article, journalist Aaron Maté establishes that “Obama officials now back in office under President Biden coordinated with the j@hadist franchise in an effort to topple the Syrian regime – while claiming they backed only the ‘moderate opposition.’” Sullivan was one of the foremost of those officials, and now he and others are back, having learned nothing.

Maté noted that “in waging a multi-billion dollar covert war in support of the insurgency against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, top Obama officials who now serve under Biden made it American policy to enable and arm terrorist groups that attracted jihadi fighters from across the globe. This regime change campaign, undertaken one decade after Al Qaeda attacked the U.S. on 9/11, helped a sworn U.S. enemy establish the Idlib safe haven that it still controls today.” In the course of this wrongheaded campaign, Sullivan, who was then Director of Policy Planning, wrote to his boss, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, “AQ [Al Qaeda] is on our side in Syria.”

Zipster
Zipster
April 25, 2022 5:18 pm
Winston Smith
April 25, 2022 5:19 pm

Sancho Panzer:
A business opportunity for you:
Hazmat Suits.
Just get some business cards made up…

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 25, 2022 5:20 pm

You’re an irrelevent, little triple jabbed, submissive bitch of McGowan, Choo Choo.
[…]
Your nipping like some little mutt on the side lines means nothing.

So why did you buck like a stung horse and reply?

Again?

Irrelevant- You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means…

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 25, 2022 5:21 pm

Also Struth, your obssessions with penetration, owning arses and the like are probably unhealthy…

rosie
rosie
April 25, 2022 5:21 pm

The chihuahua looking in the mirror.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
April 25, 2022 5:25 pm

Just to cheer Sydneysiders up

Six MONTHS to go: Australia’s unprecedented La Nina to continue until at least OCTOBER – making it the wettest year EVER
. The country is likely to experience the wettest period since 1974, forecast said
. Bureau of Meteorology predicted rain will ease, but US forecast said otherwise
. More heavy rain is predicted for SA, NSW, Victoria and Queensland from Sunday

Frank
Frank
April 25, 2022 5:29 pm

Like a shark spotting a tasty seal.

Jen Psaki has those sociopathic shark eyes too. Perhaps even more so. The look that says I could be offering you a cupcake or disembowelling you and the expression would remain the same.

Real Deal
Real Deal
April 25, 2022 5:30 pm

“Jason” was obviously a vision-impaired midget desperate to get a legover with Amanda who appears to look like Catherine Deveny’s aunty.

No offence to vision-impaired midgets or Ms Deveny’s wider family. It was just the bingo wings that did it for me.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 25, 2022 5:30 pm

@ OldOzzie-

You needed to include appropriate music with that last one-

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m2uTFF_3MaA

🙂

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 25, 2022 5:34 pm

Unless you have ordered wings at bingo, bingo wings are always unwanted. Unless you have ten or twenty years worth of sunk costs there are alternatives.

miltonf
miltonf
April 25, 2022 5:35 pm

Psaki exudes stupidity and malice

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
April 25, 2022 5:35 pm

Great F1 weekend in Italy – Go Max

also enjoying new female commentator on Sky Sports – Articulate, Knowledgeable, Excellent Diction and a joy to listen to – Great Race

Naomi Schiff

miltonf
miltonf
April 25, 2022 5:36 pm

Like the WaPo germalist who doxed the Liberals of Tik Tok author.

Frank
Frank
April 25, 2022 5:37 pm

Unless you have ten or twenty years worth of sunk costs there are alternatives.

Tactical liposuction?

Winston Smith
April 25, 2022 5:42 pm

Custard:

These are the people I’m talking about. What if all the RINO’s in every state legislature holding back the decertification process are indicted? What if all those lawyers and corrupt judges, those Non-profit groups, those ballot stuffing mules – what if they all get indicted?

I’ve never given up hope that the Democrat election fraud will be opened up for all to see.
Der Grosserfrau hasn’t sung yet, it will be a morbid tune for Hillary, Biden, and Pence when she does.
“We could all hang from nooses!” will be on their collective gravestones.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
April 25, 2022 5:46 pm

Murdoch’s sub-editors strike a blow for Ukraine:

TWITCHY TYRANT ‘Unsteady and distracted’ Putin bites his lips and fidgets at Easter cathedral service fuelling Parkinson’s rumours

The tyrant – dogged by claims he has Parkinson’s or terminal cancer – gurned while clutching a candle near the altar at a midnight mass for Orthodox Easter.

It came days after dishevelled Putin, 69, was seen gripping a table and tapping his foot in video that Kremlin watchers claimed showed a drastic decline in his physical state.

The Poot actually doesn’t look too bad compared to some of his cadaver predecessors.

But the pictures of him being briefed by his unfortunate Defence Minister don’t suggest he was listening to good news from the Front.

miltonf
miltonf
April 25, 2022 5:47 pm

I hope so Winston- as I’ve previously remarked, they seem to have got away with it but it stinks to high heaven like the old thief’s underpants. Kennedy did something similar in 1960 and got away with it (sort of).

Winston Smith
April 25, 2022 5:49 pm

OCO:

This one will die alone at 9.30am on a dreary Tuesday in a state government housing unit with a mug of Coolabah Classic Dry White in her hand, her exit from this life serenaded by the cheerful babble of a TV shopping channel dialogue. Such a superstar! So self-actualised! So miraculous!

We live in hope, OCO, but will be profoundly disappointed when it doesn’t happen.

miltonf
miltonf
April 25, 2022 5:51 pm

It’s shocking when you think of Pence and Tillerson, who worked so closely with Trump, and turned out to be rats.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
April 25, 2022 5:53 pm

And it formed the basis of the whole book.

I note that Amanda, the sleeping-around dumper of children, can get her book to you by Mothers’ Day.
She can’t even spell irony.
Lust is lust.

Zipster
Zipster
April 25, 2022 5:53 pm

China’s opium war and the US fentanyl crisis
Author Michael Pillsbury weighs in on China’s role in the American fentanyl crisis and the U.S. response to the China-Taiwan conflict on ‘One Nation.’ #FoxNews #OneNation

calli
calli
April 25, 2022 5:54 pm

Just back from this beautiful place. The cliffs glow, and across the channel is a saltbush plain and the Flinders Ranges. Apparently Flinders managed to navigate up this far.

The history of Port Augusta is fascinating. Vast amounts of wool, wheat and other good things were loaded from the long wharf. And unloaded…camels for inland adventuring.

Off to Coober Pedy in the morning. More red dust. 😀

miltonf
miltonf
April 25, 2022 5:54 pm

Remember Murdock’s meeting with bLIAR in New York prior to the 1997 election?

miltonf
miltonf
April 25, 2022 5:56 pm

Great trip Calli- hoping to get up to Coober Pedy before too long.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
April 25, 2022 5:56 pm

Winston Smith says:
April 25, 2022 at 5:49 pm

Not wanting to trigger beverage wars, but as an out and proud XXXX fan, you’re in no position to criticise Coolabah Classic Dry White.

A fine drop when the early morning shakes set in.

johanna
johanna
April 25, 2022 5:57 pm

If it happens, it won’t be a separation of the north and south, but the north-east and west from the rest. Possibly with parts of the NE and west splitting from their current states to join the bulk of the nation.

Here we go again. For years, people here have been interpreting US politics through the prism of Australian politics, and getting very excited.

US politics operate at a much higher temperature than Australian politics. What seems like the end of the world here is mere banter there.

The US is not going to break up. There will not be a ‘constitutional crisis.’ If you believe either of those things, you clearly have not read any US history.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
April 25, 2022 6:00 pm

If you are thinking to watch The Northman just remember the best bit is the trailer for the upcoming Brad Pitt movie Bullet Train. The 2nd best bit was the trailer for Top Gun.

Otherwise if you want a depressing storyline this is the movie for you.

Winston Smith
April 25, 2022 6:01 pm

Bons:

On the positive side, the lavishly incompetent von der Leyen apparently detests him. EU pissing contests are always entertaining and ensure that the dictatorship never moves forward.

Do you reckon we’d see another chapter of the Frog/Kraut Mutual Distrust Society?
I bags we don’t get caught up in it this time.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 25, 2022 6:01 pm

miltonfsays:

April 25, 2022 at 4:55 pm

Hey St Ruth still spraying venom I see- don’t you have better things to do with your time?

The days and hours drag slowly in the Death Camp.
🙂

Roger
Roger
April 25, 2022 6:01 pm

The Poot actually doesn’t look too bad compared to some of his cadaver predecessors.

I’m no apologist for Putin, but given that the usual Russian Orthodox service goes for about two hours, probably closer to three at Easter, during which all present are expected to stand (no pews!), it surely wouldn’t be too hard to find a few unfortunate facial expressions in that footage.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 25, 2022 6:03 pm

A person who committed adultery, abandoned her family and then writes about it all in a newspaper article, no doubt causing them to relive the most traumatic time in their lives, is advising people on how they should live their lives.
Gimme a fucking break.
It wasn’t working out, so she walked.
Good on her.
The kids are now eating Toad In Hole cooked by the old man, Fish and Chips every other night, and having a gay old time.
Where’s the problem?

cohenite
April 25, 2022 6:06 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 25, 2022 6:07 pm

On the subject of Anzac Day – my great uncle was a veteran of the North African Campaign – infantry, 2/32nd battalion. He recorded in his diary one occasion where an attack had stalled, in the face of heavy fire. A group of soldiers found a dried up riverbed, out of the line of fire, scrounged some firewood, and “boiled the billy.” “Never was a cup of tea more welcome.”

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 25, 2022 6:09 pm

Nothing wrong with a middie of Coolabah. Better order some ice unless you are having a big night.

johanna
johanna
April 25, 2022 6:10 pm

Winston Smith says:
April 25, 2022 at 5:49 pm

OCO:

This one will die alone at 9.30am on a dreary Tuesday in a state government housing unit with a mug of Coolabah Classic Dry White in her hand, her exit from this life serenaded by the cheerful babble of a TV shopping channel dialogue. Such a superstar! So self-actualised! So miraculous!

We live in hope, OCO, but will be profoundly disappointed when it doesn’t happen.

I don’t much like this visualising of the ugly deaths of people we don’t agree with. Nope. Not at all.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 25, 2022 6:16 pm

Gimme a fucking break.
It wasn’t working out, so she walked.
Good on her

Grigs has spied another mark.

Mother will adore the company…

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 25, 2022 6:16 pm

Someone mentioned the other day that Ricardo Bosi is running as an independent.
Does anyone know if this is so, and, if so, which seat?

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 25, 2022 6:20 pm

Eden Monaro again?
He got 154 votes at the ByElection.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 25, 2022 6:20 pm

Does anyone know if this is so, and, if so, which seat?

Yes, and the seat is Greenway, in New South Wales.

win
win
April 25, 2022 6:26 pm

Mitonf 5.54 Remember Blair meeting Murdoch and Keating on Hamilton Island .A hand picked staff no tourists and nobody allowed on or off the island for 7 days. This was the Fitzgerald era when Nationals were gaoled but enough blood had been shed ” to gaol Labor politicians guilty of the same behaviour .
I was not surprised when Blair became prime minister he start4ed gaoling the opposition. Jeffery Archer being one.

Bluey
Bluey
April 25, 2022 6:27 pm

johannasays:
April 25, 2022 at 6:10 pm
Winston Smith says:
April 25, 2022 at 5:49 pm

OCO:

This one will die alone at 9.30am on a dreary Tuesday in a state government housing unit with a mug of Coolabah Classic Dry White in her hand, her exit from this life serenaded by the cheerful babble of a TV shopping channel dialogue. Such a superstar! So self-actualised! So miraculous!

We live in hope, OCO, but will be profoundly disappointed when it doesn’t happen.

I don’t much like this visualising of the ugly deaths of people we don’t agree with. Nope. Not at all.

At some point you’ve got to take action?

calli
calli
April 25, 2022 6:27 pm

It’s raining here.

And everyone is smiling. 😀

What a difference a couple of thousand kilometres makes.

Frank
Frank
April 25, 2022 6:31 pm

I note that Amanda, the sleeping-around dumper of children, can get her book to you by Mothers’ Day.
She can’t even spell irony.

It makes sense if her target audience is kids that want their mums to ditch the loser. Pretty evil really.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
April 25, 2022 6:32 pm

Happens each with the photos from ANZAC day.

Courier Mail has an article highlighting 10 Veterans who marched. One who claimed he served in Vietnam has three service medals and none are for overseas service.

The other which is just photo coverage shows a serviceman with an OAM which is not mounted with his other medals. There are two photos of this particular guy and in the other his OAM is alone on the other side. His set of six is one which would have got him included on the imposter web site a few years ago. Probably did serve but is wearing “bought” medals as well.

Old bloke
Old bloke
April 25, 2022 6:33 pm

Zipster says:
April 25, 2022 at 4:24 pm

Doug Casey: the world is headed for chaos and radical change

Thanks, great interview. Doug’s advice is to buy oil and uranium stocks and precious metal, move out of the big cities, and home school your children.

Civil war in the USA, how likely is that?

JC
JC
April 25, 2022 6:40 pm

Civil war in the USA, how likely is that?

Very low. I listened to the podcast but turned it off as soon as he made the indirect accusation the Fed was MMT’ing. It is not and the distinction is huge between MMT and QE. It’s hugely misleading and could cause people real hardship when predictions and prognostications are made with an incorrect foundation.

shatterzzz
April 25, 2022 6:42 pm

I’m guessing we ain’t likely to see this sort of military pride in Oz .. LOL!
https://youtu.be/-gSEOrlF-GE

dopey
dopey
April 25, 2022 6:50 pm

I despise Macron but is he the least worst result for Jews in France? Just wondering.

shatterzzz
April 25, 2022 6:50 pm

This one will die alone at 9.30am on a dreary Tuesday in a state government housing unit with a mug of Coolabah Classic Dry White in her hand, her exit from this life serenaded by the cheerful babble of a TV shopping channel dialogue. Such a superstar! So self-actualised! So miraculous!

In case anyone is concerned .. I don’t drink alcohol and have never, or will ever, watch the “shopping channel” …….!
state government housing … almost reduces this “houso” to tears .. respectability, must be an election in the offing .. LOL!

Zipster
Zipster
April 25, 2022 6:57 pm

Very low. I listened to the podcast but turned it off as soon as he made the indirect accusation the Fed was MMT’ing. It is not and the distinction is huge between MMT and QE. It’s hugely misleading and could cause people real hardship when predictions and prognostications are made with an incorrect foundation.

MMTers also believe you can control the demand for money through taxes. you tax people and apparently they have to find dollars to pay it. inverted economics.

sfw
sfw
April 25, 2022 6:59 pm

Why does Australia send taxpayers money to India for ‘aid’? India has a space program and we send them money?
https://www.space.com/india-moon-lander-crewed-spaceflight-progress

miltonf
miltonf
April 25, 2022 7:00 pm

Why does Australia send taxpayers money to India for ‘aid’? India has a space program and we send them money?

Nice trips for Foreign affairies canbra parasites and makes them feel important.

miltonf
miltonf
April 25, 2022 7:03 pm

We import motor vehicles and trains from India now. We rely on their capital to fund the Carmichael mine. Our own miserable marxist banks are obviously incapable.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 25, 2022 7:04 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:

April 25, 2022 at 6:20 pm

Does anyone know if this is so, and, if so, which seat?

Yes, and the seat is Greenway, in New South Wales.

Marginal Labor, with PHON and UAP running.
I foresee a forfeited deposit.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 25, 2022 7:08 pm

Why does Australia send taxpayers money to India for ‘aid’? India has a space program and we send them money?

To stop Hindu Nationalists burning Australian Christian Missionaries alive?
Money well spent if that’s the reason.

shatterzzz
April 25, 2022 7:11 pm

All the eye openers about “big pharma” involvement & BAT FLU apparently are nothing new if this mini-series from HULU is anything to go by .. the rise & exposure of OXYCONTIN the leader in the addictive (but released & marketed as non-addictive) opioid family .. excellent series starring someone I haven’t seen headlining a show in awhile .. Michael Keating..
Don’t be fooled by the name .. DOPESICK .. into thinking this a comedy .. a very, very good drama ..
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9174558/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

JC
JC
April 25, 2022 7:11 pm

MMTers also believe you can control the demand for money through taxes. you tax people and apparently they have to find dollars to pay it. inverted economics.

Yes, they’re fundamentally insane, Zip.

MMT suggests the following: because the government owns the printing press it can distribute as much currency as it wants without any concerns. While it’s true that the central bank can produce unlimited currency this doesn’t mean there aren’t any consequences.

MMT is basically a way for the government to spend money. It’s a spending lever and not a monetary management one. Hence, it would be a recipe for hyperinflationary disaster.

What happens is that the government decides to spend x amount. It creates the bonds and the central banks carries the paper on its balance sheet while simultaneously crediting the government’s account with the equivalent in cash. The government then takes the money and does what it wants. This is South American economics.

QE is much different. The central bank buys bonds in the open market ( through a reverse auction) and then credits the sellers with the funds. The attempt is to raise nominal GDP by liquefying the system. The big difference is that markets trust the central bank not to turn this into a permanent printing operation. This is why there is no hyperinflation.

shatterzzz
April 25, 2022 7:16 pm

Why does Australia send taxpayers money to India for ‘aid’? India has a space program and we send them money?
We’re hoping the embarrassment Juliar’s slip-up caused will one day be forgotten ..
Plus .. India has nuclear weapons so best to be on their safe side .. LOL!

JC
JC
April 25, 2022 7:22 pm

cohenite says:
April 25, 2022 at 3:54 pm

That POS gates shorting Tesla to undermine Elon’s takeover of twatter.

I wonder if head prefect is involved since he is a shorter expert.

Wonder no more, Cronkite. I’m not. I think Tesla could end up being worth 3 tera-packs*.
Three tera packs = US $3 trillion.

I am short though. I’ve been short a couple of ETFs for 1 1/2 weeks. It’s the first time in ages that I’ve been short.

I’m short small cap ETF, which is TZA, I’m also short BHP in the US market. I’ll still lose money though because I’m long the market.

miltonf
miltonf
April 25, 2022 7:23 pm

That’s interesting JC because I always wondered why O’bumma’s QE didn’t set off hyper inflation.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 25, 2022 7:24 pm

Pat O’Shane running for Leichhardt under the Socialist Alliance banner.
Go Pat!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_O%27Shane

miltonf
miltonf
April 25, 2022 7:25 pm

I assume the current inflation in the US is due to the damage being done by the old thief to the real economy particularly energy.

Roger
Roger
April 25, 2022 7:26 pm

Why does Australia send taxpayers money to India for ‘aid’? India has a space program and we send them money?

Think like a politician or the public service mandarins who advise them.

Foreign aid is not about assisting the needy.

It’s one way of exercising soft power; in other words, buying influence which will help you to achieve your foreign policy goals through cooperation rather than by applying coercive means.

JC
JC
April 25, 2022 7:28 pm

I assume the current inflation in the US is due to the damage being done by the old thief to the real economy particularly energy.

Some, though not all. Most of it has been caused by the Fed. Ironically, the Fed chairman was Trump’s choice and he was confirmed for a second term by Demented.

The Fed should have tightened last year, it didn’t and is now way behind.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 25, 2022 7:30 pm

Pat O’Shane running for Leichhardt under the Socialist Alliance banner.

She’s been a failure at everything else, I suppose there was always politics.

rickw
rickw
April 25, 2022 7:31 pm

It’s one way of exercising soft power; in other words, buying influence which will help you to achieve your foreign policy goals through cooperation rather than by applying coercive means.

Does anyone send Australia aid money?

If the answer is no then we’re getting the rough end of the stick (as usual).

Australia’s aid program should stretch no further north than PNG and no further west than Fiji.

Zipster
Zipster
April 25, 2022 7:33 pm

Pat O’Shane running for Leichhardt under the Socialist Alliance banner.

we gave the soviet union crony capitalism and they gave us metastasizing socialism

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 25, 2022 7:34 pm

Um, Rick
Fiji is about 20,000 miles away if you head West.

JC
JC
April 25, 2022 7:34 pm

miltonf says:
April 25, 2022 at 7:23 pm

That’s interesting JC because I always wondered why O’bumma’s QE didn’t set off hyper inflation.

Until about middle of last year.. For the past 20 years or so the major western central banks lost credibility. They lost credibility because they systematically kept the inflation rate below their target.

We didn’t have hyperinflation because hyperinflation only ever shows up when punters lose complete confidence believing the central bank will continue printing to infinity. No one believes that of the western central banks.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 25, 2022 7:34 pm

Dopesick is a good show.
They just kept rolling along for years with no traction against them for the damage they were doing … until a few in the NYC yartz scene started to get on their case.

Roger
Roger
April 25, 2022 7:34 pm

Does anyone send Australia aid money?

Yes; it’s called bribes.

rickw
rickw
April 25, 2022 7:36 pm

Talking to the Dad of my son’s friend.

Recently had the third jab. Went blind for a short while, vision slowly recovering. Ongoing heart issues. Previous to this he was in very good shape. Pfizer.

He mentioned this to his brother who is a Doctor in Germany. “You shouldn’t have got the third jab under any circumstances.”

Once a week I meet someone wrecked by this experimental medication.

rickw
rickw
April 25, 2022 7:37 pm

Yes; it’s called bribes.

Apart from the CCP!

Roger
Roger
April 25, 2022 7:37 pm

Um, Rick
Fiji is about 20,000 miles away if you head West.

Don’t be a pedant, Ed.

We all knew what he meant.

And stop capitalising all your nouns. It’s not German.

rickw
rickw
April 25, 2022 7:38 pm

Um, Rick
Fiji is about 20,000 miles away if you head West.

You know what I mean!

miltonf
miltonf
April 25, 2022 7:39 pm

thanks JC

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
April 25, 2022 7:41 pm

Quite true Roger.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 25, 2022 7:47 pm

Ed Casesays:
April 25, 2022 at 7:08 pm
Why does Australia send taxpayers money to India for ‘aid’? India has a space program and we send them money?

To stop Hindu Nationalists burning Australian Christian Missionaries alive?
Money well spent if that’s the reason.

If that is the reason, it doesn’t work very well.

Indolent
Indolent
April 25, 2022 7:55 pm
Indolent
Indolent
April 25, 2022 7:57 pm
Top Ender
Top Ender
April 25, 2022 7:59 pm

Pat O’Shane is 81, so probably the oldest candidate in the federal election.

And the least intelligent, if the appeals record against her convicting people is anything to go by.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 25, 2022 8:01 pm

Daily Mail.

Man is blasted for failing to tell his wife he donated sperm to an asexual female friend who’s now pregnant with TWINS via IVF

The situation was revealed in a lengthy post on Reddit, revealing the whole story
Anonymous man, thought to be UK based, donated sperm to his asexual friend
The friend, who fell pregnant with twins, discovered his wife didn’t know
Responses to the post were mixed, but majority of posters blasted the husband

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 25, 2022 8:01 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 25, 2022 8:02 pm

And the least intelligent, if the appeals record against her convicting people is anything to go by.

Didn’t she dismiss a charge, even though the accused had pleaded guilty?

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 25, 2022 8:06 pm

Channel 9 and the secret mission man:

Forgotten digger sent on secret mission pleads for recognition and support
By Brady Halls

On this Anzac Day there is one digger who won’t be celebrating.

“It ruined my life,” John Ali said, from his South Australian home.

“There’s not a day goes past that I don’t remember it all. I lived it from 11 at night until seven in the morning. Bombings and shooting happened all night long.”

You’d think any serviceman who witnessed such action would be remembered and rewarded for his service to the nation.

Not Mr Ali, even though his tour of duty was much longer than any other soldiers.

You see, Mr Ali was enlisted to undertake a secret operation – one that only now is coming to public notice.

As the war was deteriorating in Vietnam, neighbouring Cambodia was being infiltrated by communist insurgents and the pro-Western government was struggling.

So the Americans and Australians undertook a secret mission.

“I was sent to Canberra with six others to meet then Army Minister Malcolm Fraser,” Mr Ali said.

“He told us this was a secret mission and we could only tell immediate family.

“Under the American and Australian constitutions we were not allowed to conduct operations in a neutral country like Cambodia.”

So Mr Ali signed the Secrecy Act and was shipped out to Vietnam and on to Cambodia with his team.

Mr Ali was not a serviceman and nor were his co-workers – they were civilians. They worked for a trucking company making international harvester vehicles.

“Because we make good trucks and our close proximity to south-east Asia, the Americans wanted our trucks to be used as troop carriers. They wanted 600 of them,” Mr Ali said.

So these young men were given a weapon, were under military command and paid in US dollars to drive, transport and maintain the troop converted trucks in Cambodia.

“But they didn’t say we would see war,” Mr Ali said.

And 50 years on he is still suffering PTSD from his experience.

“Some days are terrible. I just can’t forget it,” Mr Ali said.

He is the last forgotten digger, as his comrades have now died.

He has some Vietnam veterans supporting him in his efforts to be recognised for his duty even though he was a civilian.

“He did his duty and he did as much as any soldier,” Adrian Walford said.

“We managed to get some medals for him, but over the last 18 years we have not been able to get his entitlements – like a pension and health care – that other enlisted personnel get.”

Mr Ali has some serious health issues and needs medical help.

We contacted the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs Andrew Gee who told us that he is investigating Mr Ali’s file, but given the government is in caretaker mode with the upcoming election, there is little he can do.

But he assured us, “after the election I will meet with John and explore any avenues to help”.

After 18 years, Mr Ali said he can wait a little longer.

Link. Words fail….

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 25, 2022 8:08 pm

And the least intelligent, if the appeals record against her convicting people is anything to go by.

Most of those Appeals were by the cops because Pat let poor people go.
One bloke pled Guilty and Pat told him to head off home anyway.
Legend.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 25, 2022 8:14 pm

“Under the American and Australian constitutions we were not allowed to conduct operations in a neutral country like Cambodia.”

So Mr Ali signed the Secrecy Act and was shipped out to Vietnam and on to Cambodia with his team.

Where does the Australian constitution mention this matter?

cohenite
April 25, 2022 8:15 pm

I am short though. I’ve been short a couple of ETFs for 1 1/2 weeks. It’s the first time in ages that I’ve been short.

I’m short small cap ETF, which is TZA, I’m also short BHP in the US market. I’ll still lose money though because I’m long the market.

Braggart.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 25, 2022 8:20 pm

Didn’t she dismiss a charge, even though the accused had pleaded guilty?
The accused.
Here’s what likely happened:
The Cops were determined to action a prosecution against some poor bastard for some Non-Crime, the guy gave up and Pled Guilty and Pat sent him home.
The cops hate that.
If you don’t like injustice though, have a squiz at the record of the cops getting what they wanted from that Flamer Judge who necked himself.
I think it wa 100%

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 25, 2022 8:21 pm

Pat O’Shane. Sadly another victim of the institutional racism that blights Australia.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 25, 2022 8:24 pm

Groogs has been hitting the formaldehyde hard today. Likely with a Coolabah chaser.

cohenite
April 25, 2022 8:26 pm
chrisl
chrisl
April 25, 2022 8:36 pm

A quote from The masks are off up thread
“ There was a time when COVID-19 was new and unknown. The public understood why bureaucrats might overreact — better safe than sorry.

Two years later, it’s hard to show faith in a bureaucracy that hasn’t even bothered to distinguish between mostly-for-show masks and more effective face coverings, such as N95s. Compliance apparently was the goal.”

If masks are good then better masks (N95) are double plus good
Surely
When entering an old people’s home or hospital they asked you to discard you ordinary mask for a n95 mask

Winston Smith
April 25, 2022 8:37 pm

Doc Faustus:

Not wanting to trigger beverage wars, but as an out and proud XXXX fan, you’re in no position to criticise Coolabah Classic Dry White.
A fine drop when the early morning shakes set in.

I’ve never had the morning shakes, you cad.
However there has been a slight tremor of an early afternon when I get up…
It’s been attributed to my Parkinsons disease.
Not that I have Parkinsons, I just self identify as a sufferer.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 25, 2022 8:39 pm

This one will die alone at 9.30am on a dreary Tuesday … with a mug of Coolabah Classic Dry White in her hand, her exit from this life serenaded by the cheerful babble of a TV shopping channel dialogue.

Also serenaded by the yowling of her cats, fighting to east the tastiest portions of her face.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 25, 2022 8:39 pm

That John Ali guy fought the Rudd/Gillard/Rudd Governments over his
[non existent] Rights to a TPI Pension, yet we’re only hearing about it 4 weeks out from a Federal Election that the Coalition is expected to lose.
Whatta coinkydence, eh?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 25, 2022 8:42 pm

TN at 4.23:

If Amanda was prepared to walk out on her husband of 14 years and her two small kids just because she enjoyed getting her arse fucked off by a horny scrote, why should “Jason” rearrange his life on the assumption that she wouldn’t do it again?

Some of the best ever advice provided for young players:

If she cheats with you, she’ll cheat on you.

Frank
Frank
April 25, 2022 8:46 pm

Groogs has been hitting the formaldehyde hard today. Likely with a Coolabah chaser.

Cut out the middle man and go for Golden Gate fruity lexia, aka embalming fluid for peasants. Either that or Nikov vodka in the cardboard box if you can still find it, distilled from kiwi fruit skins but recalled from the market in the nineties due to the associated mortality statistics.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 25, 2022 8:47 pm

Speaking of yowling – St. Ruth at 4.10:

If you can’t follow what is going on you are in denial.

St. Ruth. The key plank of your entire rant-fest for the past two years has dropped like a chubby chick’s panties for blokes called Jason.

All that aside, though, I have a message for you:

Steiner is coming.

Winston Smith
April 25, 2022 8:48 pm

Calli:

It’s raining here.
And everyone is smiling. ?

It’s been raining really well here in the north.
So much so that I went for a drive to see if the criks had flooded*. Not yet but the lagoon to the west of Barcy is about a foot from the road height.
*OK, it was to wash the dust off the car as well.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 25, 2022 8:48 pm

Likely with a Coolabah chaser

Long known by certain custodians of the land as ‘man lady in boat’.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 25, 2022 8:50 pm

fighting to east

To eat.

God. Ruined it.

Zipster
Zipster
April 25, 2022 8:55 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 25, 2022 8:56 pm

Long known by certain custodians of the land as ‘man lady in boat’.

What was the cask wallop that was condemned as “so bad, not even certain custodians of the land would drink it?”

Frank
Frank
April 25, 2022 8:56 pm

If the cats must eat your goon drenched face post mortem would the picture not be improved if they were flea riddled too?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 25, 2022 8:58 pm

MSN:

The rugby league fan who was at the centre of a wild brawl on Friday night at Suncorp Stadium has been handed multiple fines.

The man was filmed being punched a number of times by fellow fans after allegedly yelling out during a minute’s silence for ANZAC Day prior to the Broncos’ clash with the Bulldogs.

Probably yelling something about shallow cock smokers.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 25, 2022 9:00 pm

Steiner is coming.

Indeed, they are.

Wait…

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
April 25, 2022 9:01 pm

You can never judge a book by its cover.

I spent a very convivial afternoon at the local with a group of ex servicemen listening to many tales of derring do and courage under fire, some of which may even have been true.

Classic yarn from one older Vietnam veteran relating how he wrote home to his Mum; “Dear Mum, please excuse the bad spelling, I am writing this by the light of the tracer bullets flying overhead and I am sitting in a hole in the ground knee deep in expended ammunition…………..etc”.

Cracked me up.

I found out later that this unassuming old fella with the white hair and a limp was an infantry soldier who fought in one of the Vietnam War’s biggest battle, Fire Base Coral and Balmoral in 1968.

Respect.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 25, 2022 9:09 pm

Federal election: Clean-energy windfall for Climate 200 boss if independents get up
Simon Holmes a Court has significant financial stakes in companies devoted to investing in decarbonisation and renewable energy technology. Picture: AAP

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Businessman Simon Holmes a Court could reap a bonanza for his commercial interests if a team of independent candidates funded by his Climate 200 campaign organisation is elected next month and succeeds in pressuring a Coalition or Labor government to speed up Australia’s cuts to carbon emissions.

Mr Holmes a Court, the son of Australia’s first billionaire, has significant financial stakes in companies devoted to investing in decarbonisation and renewable energy technology.

At the same time, his Climate 200 group is donating $10m to independents committed to much tougher emissions targets than those supported by the major parties.

An investigation by The Australian shows the business entrepreneur has a big portfolio of family and other businesses focused on making money out of a potential boom in clean-energy technology.

The most significant – and intriguing – of Mr Holmes a Court’s business interests is a new company he set up in late January this year called Decarb Ventures.

The majority shareholders of Decarb Ventures with 91 per cent are Mr Holmes a Court and his wife, Katrina, while the remaining 9 per cent is owned by business associate Mitchell Hopwood through a company called Minithan.

Struth
April 25, 2022 9:16 pm

He mentioned this to his brother who is a Doctor in Germany. “You shouldn’t have got the third jab under any circumstances.”

Once a week I meet someone wrecked by this experimental medication.

German doctors, Australian truckies……….get that jab into yer, whadda they know?
KD, you cretinous loser…….
Go chat a barmaid up …………

Megan
Megan
April 25, 2022 9:17 pm

There was a very light hearted moment in the ANZAC service my choir was singing at this morning. The local sea scouts had each prepared an account of one of nine Australian VC winners who are commemorated with street names in a nearby estate.

Tiniest scout, barely two feet tall, a flaming red head, need help to climb up onto a milk crate in order to reach the microphone. He gave a very well researched, beautifully spoken summary of the life of Lt. William (Rusty) Ruthven including details of his personal and professional life and the reasons for being awarded the VC.

And then, he mentioned that the ANZAC Day grudge match between the Bombers and the Magpies is played to remember the men like Ruthven that went to war. Of course, he went on with the cheekiest smile, Lt. Ruthven would definitely have been a Collingwood supporter given that Collingwood was where he was born.

Absolutely charmed the socks off everyone. Even the Essendon supporters.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 25, 2022 9:20 pm

Australian truckies

You don’t drive anymore.

And until very recently, were resolutely convinced it would be impossible due to A) No AdBlue, and B) bureaucracy would forbid older vehicles like the one you allegedly own* from being legally driven instead.

*I hope this was not sold off instead, being euphemised as your ‘boat,’ Struth. Knowing how fundamental a part of your identity your vehicle is…

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 25, 2022 9:24 pm

get that jab into yer, whadda they know?
KD, you cretinous loser…….
Go chat a barmaid up …………

Ahahahaha.

No chatting up ‘enthusiastic Nazi bar staff’ tonight. Thanks for asking.

Nagging fishwife. A nagging fishwife without a cause.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 25, 2022 9:24 pm

Yes.
What happened to that impending AdBlue disaster?

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 25, 2022 9:25 pm

Here’s what likely happened:
The Cops were determined to action a prosecution against some poor bastard for some Non-Crime, the guy gave up and Pled Guilty and Pat sent him home.

Dickless Ed has found his true calling – writing crime fiction for “progressives”.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 25, 2022 9:26 pm

Dickless

from that Flamer Judge who necked himself.

I’m not familiar with this case. Perhaps you could offer some clues?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 25, 2022 9:34 pm

Dearest Mabel,

It is day 510 in the camp. I wait, wait, wait for the guards to die as predicted. Stubbornly, they hold out. I wonder some days if any of them are vaccinated at all. It must be a trick. A ruse, if you will.

My dreams of you and I on the Hartley that midsummer long past give me strength to carry on. Oh, when I fed you grapes and you declared your hopes and dreams! I would have crawled over ten miles through Indian excrement for you that glorious forenoon.

But I must away. The diehards and I are constructing a radio from old coconuts and steel wool, so we may contact the Resistance. All is not lost – I care not what Alan Jones says, even tho he read my letter once.

Stay true, my sweet Mintie. Stay strong. And above all else, stay home in the kitchen.

Kenn

Indolent
Indolent
April 25, 2022 9:35 pm
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 25, 2022 9:36 pm

What happened to that impending AdBlue disaster?

The disaster date keeps being pushed back a year at a time.

Soon. You’ll see. Only a denialist would think otherwise.

cohenite
April 25, 2022 9:45 pm
JC
JC
April 25, 2022 9:50 pm

Twitter is in discussions to sell itself to Elon Musk and could finalize a deal as soon as this week, people familiar with the matter said, a dramatic turn of events just 10 days after the billionaire unveiled his bid for the social-media company. The two sides met Sunday to discuss Mr. Musk’s proposal and were making progress, though still had issues to hash out, the people said. There are no guarantee they will reach a deal.

WSJ

MatrixTransform
April 25, 2022 9:51 pm

how does Twitter make money?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 25, 2022 9:53 pm

Twitter is in discussions to sell itself to Elon Musk …

Twitter is not selling itself to anybody.
Twitter shareholders might sell their shares in Twitter to somebody.

JC
JC
April 25, 2022 9:53 pm

You’ve never seen ads reading Twitter?

JC
JC
April 25, 2022 9:55 pm

Sanchez

I think it’s a way of them saying the board would recommend the sale.

MatrixTransform
April 25, 2022 10:04 pm

You’ve never seen ads reading Twitter?

never.

I dont have twitter.

when I follow a link I see a video followed by a bunch of retarded gibber

there’s ads?

for what?

JC
JC
April 25, 2022 10:06 pm

there’s ads?

for what?

Hose attachment.

MatrixTransform
April 25, 2022 10:08 pm

wait … I block damn near everything in my browser

just dawned on me that the reason you people are so fucked up is that you live in a completely different on-line world to me

no wonder youse can’t work out what’s real

Bruce in WA
April 25, 2022 10:10 pm

Nice way to lionise adultery, Amanda. And the comments below her Facebook “exposé” give me chills.

Sharyn Fraser
Gosh, congrats ?
Cannot wait to get my hands on a copy!

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I broke up a marriage (mine) more than half a century ago — for very different reasons — and I have despised myself a little more every day since then. I can’t even begin to understand how this woman “thinks”.

MatrixTransform
April 25, 2022 10:11 pm

Hose attachment

like a spigot attachment?
male? female?

double o-rings or nothing

Dot
Dot
April 25, 2022 10:17 pm

Twitter has made losses nearly every quarter it has existed.

JC
JC
April 25, 2022 10:19 pm

like a spigot attachment?
male? female?

Bisexual.

double o-rings or nothing

Dunno

I actually bought this
https://www.usello.co/products/portable-high-pressure-water-gun-1-1

Matrix

Stop bullshitting. As a Cat commenter, you’ve been to Twitter as you’ve clicked the links that people post both here and the old Cat.

Indolent
Indolent
April 25, 2022 10:21 pm
Dot
Dot
April 25, 2022 10:27 pm

Will the Collapse of Russia Mean the End of the West?

That is so absurd it is sad.

Putin isn’t based.

Ukraine was independent after the Russian revolution and then reinvaded and reconquered by the USSR.

He’s trying to replicate the territorial borders of the USSR.

Given he was in the KGB, he’s partly responsible for exporting cultural Marxism to the west.

Cultural Marxism which includes critical race theory and transgender rights.

Not based.

MatrixTransform
April 25, 2022 10:27 pm

Stop bullshitting

no, seriously … I do not see any ads when I follow a twitter link
there’s a bar down the RHS that says something like ‘see whats happening’
and the main body of the page is just gibber.

literally, minutes ago the missus just sent me some SMS link to Andrew Bogut on twitter.
When I looked, there was the normal gibber but not an ad to be seen.
I even paid attention this time

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

seriously … I do not see any ads when I follow a twitter link

Yep. Those of us with ad blockers installed never see any adverts on any site.
Not Twitter, Youtube, newspaper websites, news websites, not anything.

MatrixTransform
April 25, 2022 10:29 pm

PS.
dont wast yr time with a fake pressure nozzle
get yrself a cheap pressure washer from aldi
or pony up for a kaarcher
you’ll have a hard-on for a week

JC
JC
April 25, 2022 10:32 pm

It was cheap, Matrix. And I bought it for the other house. I have Karcher, but the thing broke down and it’s only a few years old.

JC
JC
April 25, 2022 10:33 pm

Indolent

That’s without doubt the only decent link you’ve posted here for the post 6 months.

MatrixTransform
April 25, 2022 10:33 pm

but the thing broke down and it’s only a few years old

o-rings

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

but the thing broke down and it’s only a few years old

The tank has to be refilled with petrol.
After that, it’ll probably run again.

JC
JC
April 25, 2022 10:36 pm

I spent around 6 or 7 hundi on it and the thing’s fucked. It leaks water and the motor is in constant rev motion. You’re welcome to repair it. 🙂

JC
JC
April 25, 2022 10:38 pm

The tank has to be refilled with petrol.
After that, it’ll probably run again.

It’s a plug in.

MatrixTransform
April 25, 2022 10:38 pm

It leaks water and the motor is in constant rev motion

like I said, o-rings

go into Mitre10 and the prolly give you one for free ya tight-arse

JC
JC
April 25, 2022 10:43 pm

Indolent’s piece is really worth reading. A weak or Russian collapse is terrible thing for the West.

Read it!

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/04/will_the_collapse_of_russia_mean_the_end_of_the_west.html

MatrixTransform
April 25, 2022 10:45 pm

omfg … I know whats wrong with yr karcher on a blog

the other day the missus is having a Zoom meeting with all the other post-grad PhD types and I’m making toast in the kitchen listening to them all talk braille

the subject is tradies
“they’re all drunk idiots”, says one of them, “do your own wiring and plumbing”

I walked out spitting toast crumbs, “I am NOT drunk … yet”

Dot
Dot
April 25, 2022 10:46 pm

the subject is tradies
“they’re all drunk idiots”

TAFE and uni really must be the same.

bons
bons
April 25, 2022 10:47 pm

Bardot!
Jisus!
They broke the mould.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 25, 2022 10:48 pm

I had a Karcher shit itself too.
The repair bloke showed me the faulty part (a plastic elbow).
Cracked along the outer radius.
New part had a beefed up spine where the failure was to prevent it happening again.
Someone saved heaps by shaving 0.045 cents worth of plastic off the original design.

JC
JC
April 25, 2022 10:48 pm

Matrix

Fix it for me. 🙂

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 25, 2022 10:50 pm

do your own wiring and plumbing

Um, have these people discussed this plan with their insurers?

MatrixTransform
April 25, 2022 10:50 pm

TAFE and uni really must be the same.

to a point that’s true

you don’t really need Laplace to install a down-light

or an o-ring

JC
JC
April 25, 2022 10:54 pm

Sanchez

Where did you get it repaired.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 25, 2022 10:55 pm

I had a guy clean my roof tiles a while back.
He offered me one of his old pressure cleaners for a couple of hundred bucks.
All brass fittings and top grade hoses.
Don’t know why I didn’t take it.
Except it was petrol and it made a yuuuge racket.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 25, 2022 10:56 pm

JCsays:

April 25, 2022 at 10:54 pm

Sanchez

Where did you get it repaired.

Check your email!

MatrixTransform
April 25, 2022 10:57 pm

Fix it for me

fuck off, a few minutes ago you were gonna give me the whole machine.

I can email you an o-ring

seriously though my pressure washer had the same issue.

https://www.kaercher.com/au/accessory/replacement-o-ring-set-26407290.html

Dot
Dot
April 25, 2022 10:58 pm

Iceman:

You can check your email any time.

Maverick:

Bullshit! You can check yours.

Bruce in WA
April 25, 2022 11:15 pm

Mate next door — hobby farmer — wanted a pressure washer for cleaning stuff on the farm, so he bought a decent petrol one on a sort of trolley arrangement. Using it to clean the driveway bricks at home and accidentally stuck his free hand in the stream … 16 stitches later …

MatrixTransform
April 25, 2022 11:19 pm

water cutting

you can buy small machines … I want one

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 25, 2022 11:26 pm

there should be a penalty for men who act knowingly as an accessory to the destruction of a family and the futures of its youngest members.

In the name of equalidy the same should apply to women who hunt the husbands of other women.

But good luck with any of that. People who are not properly adult, or who have no talent for marriage, should not enter into it. Perhaps that is the message that should be driven home, not all of this Mills and Boon garbage about ‘self-actualisation’ within marriage or the search for it outside marriage.

Marrige is hard work. Best advice is to try to stick with it, with constant renewal via whatever you devise, especially if there are children. There is a lot of give and take and oh-so-subtle negotiation in marriage. It is not a competition but a co-operative endeavour that includes sex. Which is nice. If it isn’t, that’s worth talking about. There are as many different sorts of marriages as there are people who marry. Love is for the lucky ones, but love has many forms; the long-term satisfactions of enduring marriage are life’s unsung gift.

I’m singing for these.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
April 25, 2022 11:31 pm

Re: April 25, 2022 at 10:58 pm

And if you screw up just this much, you’ll be downloading Google Drive links full of Nigerian scams out of Hong Kong!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 25, 2022 11:45 pm

Email me, Goose…

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Rex, check your fax machine.

MatrixTransform
April 25, 2022 11:56 pm

check your fax machine

ease up, he’s still charging his Blackberry

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Matrix, be sure to answer the door when the telegramme boy knocks.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 26, 2022 12:15 am

Did someone send me a message via carrier pigeon?

The Cat’s just coughed up a small message roll.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 26, 2022 12:17 am
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Rex, a message stick will be delivered to you shortly, be sure to adopt culturally appropriate protocols for receiving & understanding the message.

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
April 26, 2022 1:20 am

Raining on the roof at Casa Pedro.

The Dorpers are soggy and bleating at the fence despite their five star shed down the back built at great expense.

I should have bought a ride on mower.

Zulu Kilo told me about bloody sheep . Words of wisdom.

‘Nite Cats.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 26, 2022 1:44 am

Rex, a message stick will be delivered to you shortly, be sure to adopt culturally appropriate protocols for receiving & understanding the message.

USB 3.0… 😀

Gabor
Gabor
April 26, 2022 2:08 am

I can’t see any ads on twitter, at least not on the few links I open. Otherwise not interested in twits.

Jannie
Jannie
April 26, 2022 2:20 am

JCsays:
April 25, 2022 at 10:43 pm
Indolent’s piece is really worth reading. A weak or Russian collapse is terrible thing for the West.

Read it!

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/04/will_the_collapse_of_russia_mean_the_end_of_the_west.html

Is the Fourth Crusade and the fracturing of the Byzantine Empire good analogy?

Tom
Tom
April 26, 2022 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
April 26, 2022 4:14 am
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