Was discussing with mum the other day the topic
‘Where have all the flies gone’.

This season the southern male magpie arrived one day. He wanted to add to his load before taking it all back to the nest. He had a line of fat juicy maggots in his beak. They were wiggling futilely. So I gave him a shred of mince, which he added to the front of the queue then he flew off. I don’t get many flies! Nor mozzies, since the noisy miners seem to hoover them up.

On the other hand none of them seem to like mature flies. Whether it’s because they taste bad or are too much effort to catch I don’t know.

It’s been bizarre to watch the the love triangle between Israel, Turkey & the Saudi’s over the past 6 months.
They are projecting a united front against the Obama/Rhodes policy of letting Iran back into the global community with minimal strings attached.
In fact, the only real sticking point has been the US putting its foot down over a trade corridor between Iran & Russia.
As I said, bizarre.

Just to show you what sort of gutless fucks many of you are here, this little statement by choo choo is complete bullshit…lies……and it’s let go straight through to the keeper.
Little tribal yellow bellies.

Nobody was blanket-ordered to give up their jobs, Struth. Not once during the entire debacle.

You just threw a bigger tantrum than your previous ones, and resigned everything you were doing when a mandate was imposed in Queensland.

In WA alone, the vast majority of folks in industry and small business were initially exhorted to keep working, and those who had the ability to work from home (predominantly office types and pubic savants) were sent off.

Only when lockdowns and the stab dictate was imposed, did businesses begin to close.

So who here reckons they deserve respect?
Your silence is consent.

You Sancho, anytime sunshine.
You’re pathetic.
Out yourself, go on.
Who are you?
Be a man, let us know who you are, and where you are.

Your silence is consent.

Thomas More rolling in his grave.

@ Bruce-

You’ll probably find all those critters are haram in some way, so it’s an extra measure of ensuring appropriate religious revulsion.

Dolphins are arseholes, anyway. So they probably deserve it…

@ Duncanm-

I thought all armour had sacrificial shit on the outside these days to try to defeat shaped charges.

Explosive Reactive Armour (ERA) as pioneered with the Russian kontakt system in the late 70s and early 80s, as spaced armour (air gaps between plates) wasn’t quite doing it as a complete solution to the proliferation of shaped-charge and high explosive squash-head munitions.

The Russians went quite heavily for it as an easy upgrade to existing designs, while NATO went for composite armour research quite hard in the same era. This resulted in ‘Chobham’ armour, a (still secret) mix of multiple layers of steel, ceramics and other materials. The US enhanced this in the late 90s and early 2000s with depleted uranium inserts (hyper-dense material). It has been supplanted by the improved ‘Dorchester’ composite plate on Chally 2, later Leopard 2 models and the M1A2 and subsequent variants. I think the Merkavas have similar materials available to them as well.

The response to the effectiveness of the composite armour, based on combat results for Western and Israeli armour from 1991 thru 2003, the challenges of overcoming ERA tiles on Russian designs at the same time (often devolving into simultaneous massed strikes of 15+ RPG warheads onto a single area of the tank at a time to detonate all the plates and try to get some penetrations), and the proliferation of WW2-vintage bar armour as a response to insurgents and low tech-base militaries relying heavily on RPGs and recoilless rifles firing HEAT, weapons designers turned to tandem charges- 2 HEAT charges set up so that the first might set off any ERA tiles, get through any spaced armour plates or at least start to bore through the composite Chobham plates. The second could then theoretically achieve full penetration and destroy the tank.

The tandem charge alone cannot quite do the job- I am aware of mobility kills inflicted by RPG-29 Vampire tandem charge warheads on a Chally 2 in Basra in 2003 (These weapons had only just been developed and were barely in regular Russian service at the time), and several on M1A1s and A2s during the subsequent insurgency era. None of them outright destroyed the tanks, and all were recovered and soon repaired.

Another example comes from Israel vs. Hezbollah in Lebanon in 2006- An Israeli armoured Squadron of 20 or so Merkava IVs was caught in a narrow wadi and subjected to some 50+ AT-14 Kornet guided ATGM launches. Both systems are contemporaries of each other, and still quite modern for 2022.

Of all these vehicles, 11 sustained hits and 3 were penetrated for about 4 deaths. No catastrophic kills were sustained, despite the launchers being able to fire down onto the armour and its thinner top plating.

The next step has been to add top attack capability- The Javelin and Eryx missiles have big tandem charge warheads and fly a ballistic arc to hit the thinner roof plating of tanks. This is where the ‘cope cage’ meme comes from- Russian armour crews welding bar armour slats onto the turret roofs of their vehicles as an attempt to premature detonate Javelins and equivalent.

On the bucket list.
Masada.
Golgotha.

Yes, you have to go. Add Jordan and Egypt while you’re at it.

In fact Struth, since you know soooooo much more about how WA’s initial response to the Coof was handled, go ahead and show me how my recollections, as someone who worked all his way through 2020 and into 2021 as a general shop hand in a Light Engineering firm in Kewdale, is somehow wrong.

Here, I’ll even make it easy for you- Here is the collated list of all of WA.gov’s proclamations on the Coof, from Day One to today:

https://www.wa.gov.au/government/announcements?topical_event_list%5B0%5D=COVID-19%20coronavirus

Good luck, you capering fool.

I’m kinda stomped as years ago, I would have guessed Israel would have been Iran’s natural partner over time. I suppose the nukes are the really big issue for them.

They’ve spent all their time to date around Arabs.

Arabs talk a big game and are vicious when they want to be, but respect power. And they have been slapped back into timeout corner regularly enough that sabre rattling is plenty OK. And they are also pragmatists at heart, once said rhetoric has been put out.

The Persians, on the other hand are a different beast. They have decided they have a manifest religious destiny, and are far enough away from Israeli retaliation to feel they can prod and antagonise thru proxies and long-range nuke threats without much consequence. Also, in the natural waxing and waning of political factions, the Shia are presently in the ascendant.

Practically all Israel’s neighbours are Sunni Arab, not Shia Persian.

‘How Many Migrants… Do You Plan To Remove?’: Victoria Spartz Clashes With Mayorkas

You know, it’s almost like this was a perfect storm for someone who was natural born lazy to chuck their job in and sit on the couch, all the while cloaking themselves in a Freedom Fighter banner as protection against accusations of indolence.

My wordy lordy yes.

Failing at life. Nobody has understood, nor recognised the greatness as yet.

The past couple of years have been the perfect excuse to couch it up while demanding other people save him. Someone else’s fault.

Now it’s all falling down. Steiner is not coming.

None of the epistles has come to pass, or will come to pass. All that’s left is schoolgirl-grade abuse.

‘Where have all the flies gone’.
I opined getting rid of the old style rubbish bins had something to do with it.
She thought not.

This insect is your friend
He fights for freedom (from bloody flies)

You will wonder how you lived without this.

Maybe it’s also a case of the rest of the middle east is sick of Iran fucking the place up.

I’d like to thank KD, Rex, little Sancho for their community service.
Keeping cranks occupied online is likely a welcome respite for the cranks family.

To Farmer G and others way fred – thanks for your kind words of support.

I have to give a shout out to the guys & gals driving the radiation machines and the nurses.

Their patience and understanding with old blokes who fuck up the bladder fill before the scheduled zap session is noteworthy.

Steiner is not coming.

They all say that…

…Right up to the point where a ‘Scout Lance’ of 100-ton assault ‘Mechs turns up abruptly and goes all Oktoberfest on their arses.

(God Bless Battletech and the Black Pants Legions’ bestest running gag ever! :D)

#TexTalks

#Senpai

I hate to enter the fray but as each day goes by it seems that Rex becomes a Dan Andrews apologist and shill.

Why?

Because the Hero of the Highways can’t even get his own facts right when he launches off on a Bird-like rant about his Class Enemies?

And since when was Daniel Andrews in charge of WA?

Remember sfw, that Struth hates you as well because you are not perfectly mimicking his every pronouncement…

#ThoughtLeadership

Rex becomes a Dan Andrews apologist and shill.

Dan Andrews might be a useless leader, an awful person and far too physically resilient and assassination-proof for our own good, but at least he made sure all his birds’ batteries in Victoria were completely replaced…

#BirbsAreNotReal

I’m seeing one person…one….just one….. seeing the bullshit artist choo choo for what he is.
History changing fuck head lying through his teeth and so far, just one person.

And er, out with it Sancho, although as a liar (self confessed) who’s going to believe a word you say anyway, but mr bravery isn’t scared so what of it?
Name and address , or just your email for starters.

Good to see the government not being scared to tackle the big health issues.

WA ‘elf department.
Todays mongstrosity: a letter informing us that vaping products , including devices _REGUARDLESS OF IF THEY CONTAIN NICOTINE OR NOT- are illegal except by prescription.
Fines range from $10,000 for an individual to $45,000 for a shop.

I’m seeing one person…one….just one….. seeing the bullshit artist choo choo for what he is.

I don’t think you count, Struth…

History changing fuck head lying through his teeth and so far, just one person.

As the song goes, Struth baby:

A little less [projecting] conversation and a little more [researching] action, please.
All this aggravation ain’t satisfactionin’ me
A little more bite and a little less bark
A little less fight and a little more spark
Close your mouth and open up your heart and baby satisfy me

Satisfy me, baby!

#ThangYuhVerrehMarrrch

St. Ruth.

Check your email.

repost – good interview

The Russian Psyche | Konstantin Kisin
John Anderson

Yes the Bethlehem stop is interesting. We had an ex IDF guide the whole way round. He appeared to know his stuff. We also had an armed chaperone in Cairo.

Fun times. 😀

Sancho Panzer of Geelong.

Sancho, wouldn’t be too perturbed. I had a lot of fun in Geelong in ’90’s and didn’t think it was that bad. At least you don’t have Liverpool NSW on your birth cert in a couple of places… However even those from our lot who started with nothing have done well from the same areas as Latho was kicking about, so I don’t subscribe to the poor me schtick. In fact I despise it.

The little band of followers from The Last Holdout have dropped off the twig, and justifiably so. All that remains is a lazy, angry little man with no concept of personal responsibility

Oh.

That’s…unfortunate.

Today has been about showing up the silent cowards of catallaxy.

A slight prod at the sneerers and out they come, today, telling all an sundry that if you weren’t jabbed all was fine, no one was prevented from working, (while strangely prevented from leaving their houses) no one had their businesses shut down and all the nurses that have been kicked out of hospitals and still are, are just lazy arsed couch potatoes.
They must feel enough time has passed to try to make people forget what their parties have done to this nation.
Not only are they insulting your intelligence, but they feel they can get away with it, because even if you disagree, you won’t say anything.
And though they’ve been wrong about everything in the last two years, it looks like they are right about that.
Now, back to Tank turrets and muzzle velocities as the government wants.

SFW knows and spoke up, but the rest are pathetic.

In the law and pre-trial publicity one time rugby league star and possible murderer Chris Dawson gets a judge alone trial following Teh Paywallian podcast series.
Chris Dawson wasn’t a “Rugby League Star”.
He played a few games for Newtown in 1971, that’s it.
He and his twin brother and their wives did feature in an episode of Checkerboard around 1974, so you could say he was a TV Star too.

Rex becomes a Dan Andrews apologist and shill.

That’s nothing.
I replied to one of Frangers comments on another blog yesterday, he was
full soprano on the infallibility of the Chinese Communist Party and what stupid arseholes Australians are.
Which is pretty funny …

If his ma wasn’t getting as legover while unmarried, then none of this would have happened.
Are you suggesting she loved cock?
This has similarities with the Obama conception story.
Has anyone had a squiz at Albo’s original Birth Certificate?

LOL!

Shark One becomes Rabbitoh One.

It’s funny Lysander.

Dad’s family had a few St Pats & Marist Strathfield types but my GF was a chippy by trade. GM a seamstress but they sacrificed. My mums family not so lucky, none of them had private school education and yea I spent a bit of time in places like Green Valley, Bradbury, Campbelltown and Airds as a kid visiting relatives. Some of my cousins from said areas now own their own companies and are the salt of the earth. Sorry if I ramble but I smell BS every time these clowns pull the disadvantaged background.

I can’t believe we haven’t seen or heard from the ex Mrs Albo.
She must be in Sussex Street sub basement five.

I can’t believe we haven’t seen or heard from the ex Mrs Albo.

Plotting the traditional Aussie/ Albanian revenge, shoving two concrete eagles up his arse.

Tebbutt is CEO of some mental health qango. She dumps, she goes.

It’s the Labor Way.

Ed-Mong engages in some casual abuse of Supreme court justices as a group.
That is what you meant Ed, or should I say HITLER.

It’s normal behaviour for that group.
Yeah, there are exceptions, but pour a coupla drinks into Clarence Thomas and see what happens next.

The Ed-Mong loves slipping casual little “ooh right wing nastyism” in and hoping it will slide through as people get sick of its vacuous vaporings and ignore it.

Dover this dickhead is seeding the blog with its troll pats ready for a 7:30 report exclusive on ‘the racist blog’…

Qantas has put in a huge order with Airbus focused around the Dreamliner competitor – Airbus’s A350-1000 .

Got the same e-mail. Interesting. As much as Boeing has it’s issues I still have reservations about Airbus computers overriding pilots. Read QF72 recently and know of other incidents where the computer did something unexpected in Airbus planes. Fortunately those have been very small in number and Boeing seemed to have dropped the ball totally with the B787 battery issues & B737 Max.

IMO though the B787 is a good aircraft, passenger comfort wise anyway. I have flown in them a few times and they seem to have sorted the batteries catching fire.

Does this count?
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/system-governance/legislation/cho-public-health-directions-under-expanded-public-health-act-powers/revoked/public-health-and-social-measures-linked-to-vaccination-status-direction

You can’t work if you can’t enter the premises, and you can’t enter unless… you know.

If there were any exemptions to the blanket rule (and there were, otherwise the Great State of Queensland would have collapsed) and folks could still go to work, albeit stabbed, then Struth’s ambit that everyone was ordered to ‘give up’ their jobs as a blanket order everywhere in Australia is utterly false.

Points and much respect to you for daring to check, where Struth can only escalate… 🙂

My el cheapo parking has gone up from $20 a day to $24.
Inflation me dead.
What’s ScoMo doing for us battlers, eh?

The cock with ears speaks.

The ‘mate’ debate: Why our beloved appellation must be cherished
Peter FitzSimons

So-called “political correctness”? I am all for it.

And yes, of course, various commentators like to endlessly rant about the ills of “PC” and being “woke”, shrieking against a concept that is no more complicated than insisting we should all treat each other with respect*. All of that, however, is just a bonus, something guaranteed to provide great amusement on an otherwise dull day. Give me a dollar for every time a dinosaur with no clue the world has changed rants that something is “political correctness gone mad” and the Milky Bars will be on me forever more!
Just very occasionally, however, the worthy advocates of PC really do go a bit too far. A case in point happened last week when ministers and chiefs of staff of the NSW government were obliged to do a two-and-a-half course entitled “Respect at Work”. While much of the course made sense – don’t get drunk, don’t yell at people, always try to allow for cultural differences in your staff, don’t presume genders or sexualities**, etc – the consultant delivering the course lost a lot of them, including the premier, when she warned against the use of the word “mate”.

* Or be sacked, imprisoned, fined or run through a kangaroo court human rights mob
** hear that, thats the sound of an overton window shifting. Put in 2 things which are unremarkable and add a bit of crazy shit on the end as though they are the same.

I can’t believe we haven’t seen or heard from the ex Mrs Albo.

If I was in her shoes (yurk), I would have – in the right circles – loudly indicated that numerous ‘tell-alls’ would be made available in print, on the teev and on various other electronic forums.

Then I would have calculated the earning from all those interviews, multiplied the end number by seven and demanded all that from Fed Layba HQ – in cash – by X date.

Onya, ex-Mrs Albo. Smoke ’em while ya got ’em.

Mates Thai mrs always complains of Aussie flies, her words they are very sticky and get in nose, face, eyes. Could be something in that we natives don’t notice…

From Dover’s post on the main page:

This is of a piece with the reporting re COVID which was almost universally designed to exaggerate the risk of spread and disease at every turn, except that here the coverage is designed to present RUS’s position as underwhelming and near catastrophe while exaggerating the strength of the UKR’s position even to the extent of widely reporting the most fanciful nonsense (Ghost of Kiev, Snake Island, and the like) again and again.

This is why I reckon the Ruskis are winning. The Uke bullshit is just over the top.

JC

Any truth to the rumors the advance was stalled when fighting broke out over a thermomix?

FMD…

Warning! hair alert.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-02/borrowers-home-loans-mortgage-stress-interest-rate-rise-election/101026362
Tara Higginson pulls no punches when asked what will happen if interest rates rise on Tuesday, off the back of soaring inflation.

“I’m up shit creek”, says the single mother of four who, in the midst of the pandemic, took out an interest-only variable loan of $510,000 – more than six times her income.

I’d be more concerned with the layers of tatts wandering up and down the insides of both forearms.

Perhaps feathers tattooed onto the back of the upper arms as a playful visual gag on the concept of bingo wings.

That is what you meant Ed, or should I say HITLER.
Hi Cornholio
Stop DeepThroatin’ that bong immediately!

He went on to play for the Newtown Jets for 5 years.
Not in A Grade though, and Newtown were bottom of the table every year anyway.
So, journeyman, at a stretch, but no star.
Anyway, I hope he walks and sues NewsCorp for a fortune.

“Our starting point has to be that we respect China and deeply value our relationship with China. We must seek to build it. And not just in economic terms, but also through exploring political co-operation and even defence co-operation. To define China as an enemy is a profound mistake. To talk of a new Cold War is silly and ignorant.”
Richard Marles, Deputy Labor Leader and formerly Shadow Minister of Defence, has just handed the Federal Election to the Liberals.

It’s supposed to be a great aircraft. Has anyone flown on one?

Not on the A350-1000, but on the smaller A350-900 all the way from Melbourne to New York City with Qatar Airways. Qatar has bought up big with the A350, including the -1000 version (19 copies versus 12 for Qantas).

The A350 is a beautiful aeroplane, far better than than the shitbucket Boeing Dreamliner 787 with its narrower seats — about two inches skinnier in economy versus the Airbus.

The new QF non-stops from MEL and SYD to JFK and LHR will be a huge hit with business travellers, saving 2-4 hours each way. The only faster plane is the B747, which can also do the trip weight-restricted, but Boeing has basically given up on because accountants like the 787 better.

She could sell one of the kids to the circus, they still offer good money right?

I thought the solution was selling them all for medical experiments?

Zelensky’s top adviser explains how to manipulate Ukrainians

This week, Donald Trump’s favorite Latino food supplier, Bob Unamue, CEO of Goya Foods, spoke of an impending food shortage that we should all start to see by this summer.

I just brought a rotary tiller for Little Johnny with this in mind. But knowing Klaus I should have brought something horse drawn.

As soon as the oil refinery and the foundry’s finished will be 100% self sufficient with the exception of chip manufacture.

Noam Chomsky: Trump the ‘One Western Statesman of Stature’ Pushing Peace in Ukraine

Famed leftist MIT professor Noam Chomsky has credited former President Donald Trump for being one of the few prominent statesmen in the West actively pushing for peace in Ukraine as opposed to escalating war with Russia.

Though Chomsky called the former president a dangerous figure for a host of reasons during a recent virtual interview, he did admit that Trump has proposed practical, peaceful solutions to ending the war in Ukraine. Chomsky said:

Well, there is, fortunately, one statesman in the United States and Europe, a high political figure, who has made a very sensible statement about how you can solve the crisis. Namely, by facilitating negotiations instead of undermining them and moving toward establishing some kind of accommodation in Europe, in which there are no military alliances, but just mutual accommodation.

Move towards negotiations and diplomacy instead of escalating the war. Try to see if we can bring about accommodation, which would be roughly along these lines.

His name is Donald J. Trump

One very important thing to surface in the WZV debacle is the people who have rushed to the petite fascist train on their way to power.
Instructive, n’est pas?