Open Thread – Weekend 7 May 2022


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OldOzzie
OldOzzie
May 8, 2022 3:28 pm

Radical Abortion Activists Gather Outside Supreme Court Justices’ Homes

From the Comments

– So now, all of a sudden, the woke crowd knows the difference between a man and a woman?

– I’m so confused. Just last week they were telling us men get pregnant and women have big swinging tallywhackers.

The Big Swinging Tallywackers would be an awesome band name.

– Or the name of a saved file on Hunter’s laptop.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 8, 2022 3:28 pm

Push comes to shove. it is likely that the Lieboral branch of the UniParty would join with the Liars branch to exclude the Slime.

You would hope so. Incidentally that was what allowed manh of the Hawke-Keating reforms through the Senate. Contrast R-G-R in Opposition.

Winston Smith
May 8, 2022 3:33 pm

Megan:

Now to survive another 4 hours of hospital night noises and roomie’s CPAP machine without the benefit of anathestic unconsciousness.

What on earth did you do to your fingers that required surgery? Cut them off?
Amusing post heart transplant story:
Remarked to nurse one morning the “Doof Doof” music was quite loud during the night and would they mind turning it down?
After several minutes of discussion we realised the doof doof was the new heart beating – my old black and flabby heart was so weak and ineffective, I couldn’t hear or feel it. The new one was so loud it kept me awake until I got used to it.

Winston Smith
May 8, 2022 3:36 pm

Delta A:

It also helps to add some under ripe fruit. Contains more pectin and doesn’t alter the taste.

How about choko pulp?
(Winston runs for cover…)

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 8, 2022 3:39 pm

Hospitals don’t really do night time. I got woken at 4am one morning by a very matter of fact Registrar or somebody to shove a catheter into the back of my hand. God knows when he clocked on or off.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 8, 2022 3:41 pm

How about choko pulp?

Winston must have been a CWA member at some point.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 8, 2022 3:45 pm

H B Bearsays:
May 8, 2022 at 3:39 pm
Hospitals don’t really do night time. I got woken at 4am one morning by a very matter of fact Registrar or somebody to shove a catheter into the back of my hand. God knows when he clocked on or off.

The vampire lady always seemed to come at an ungodly hour to take the daily blood samples!

JC
JC
May 8, 2022 3:47 pm

More abortions = Less demonrats. The equation appears to have equilibrium.

The funny is thing that if the Right came out in support of abortion and loudly explained the reason why, the left would turn against it.

JC
JC
May 8, 2022 3:48 pm

Whoops 🙂

An “invincible” Russian tank equipped with exploding armour and a smokescreen to defend against laser-guided missiles has been destroyed by Ukrainian forces, British intelligence has confirmed.

The war in Ukraine is the first time that Russia has deployed the T-90M “Breakthrough-3” tank in combat, but analysts said that its debut had been underwhelming.

People walking past a Russian tank T-90M before the war. AP

“At least one T-90M, Russia’s most advanced tank, has been destroyed in fighting,” the UK’s Ministry of Defence said. “The system’s upgraded armour, designed to counter anti-tank weaponry, remains vulnerable if unsupported by other force elements.”

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

dover0beach says: May 8, 2022 at 12:07 pm

The attempt to intimidate the justices by going to their homes is despicable. Will the Biden regime condemn these actions? Will the MSM demand such a statement or criticize the regime for failing to?

By this yardstick, it’d be fine to publish Jen Psaki’s home address & tacitly encourage some fundy red necks to turn up & “be passionate” about some aspect of her job.

JC
JC
May 8, 2022 4:03 pm

Reading comments on a story.

Tax a democrat for good measure, they like it. Freaks!

Bear, is that you? Sounds like it.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 8, 2022 4:04 pm

The attempt to intimidate the justices by going to their homes is despicable. Will the Biden regime condemn these actions? Will the MSM demand such a statement or criticize the regime for failing to?

It’s just a hop, step and a jump to blowing them up. Like Obama’s mate in The Weather Underground.

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 8, 2022 4:04 pm

Remember filth like Pelosi have been around since the bee gees, I they’ve decided there’s no need to pretend any more.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 8, 2022 4:06 pm

Nah, not one of mine. Agree with the sentiment though.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 8, 2022 4:12 pm

From “The Age.”

Joke of the Week

Putin dies and goes to hell, but after a while, he is given a day off for good behaviour. So he goes to Moscow, enters a bar, orders a drink, and asks the bartender: “Is Crimea ours?”

“Yes, it is.”

“And the Donbas?”

“Also ours.”

“And Kyiv?”

“We got that too.”

Satisfied, Putin finishes his drink, and asks: “Thanks, how much do I owe you?”

“Five Euros.”

Winston Smith
May 8, 2022 4:12 pm

Feelthebern:

Rich Strike wins the Kentucky Derby.
On course odds, 80/1.
Ladbrokes had it at 300/1.

I bet there are some VERY unhappy bookies looking at sharp blades today…
Has anyone seen Armadillo?

Winston Smith
May 8, 2022 4:18 pm

Calli:

A small, mean man in the same mould as Rudd.
Too many are surfacing in Australian politics these days. Rich, empty men, full of wind and malice.

Poetry.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

H B Bear says: May 8, 2022 at 11:04 am

From theTwitter column

Single women who earn $47,000+ a year abort 32 percent of their babies. Single women making $11,670 a year or less abort 8.6 percent of their babies.

The “smashed avo on artisanal bread with soy latte fair trade organic civet-poo arabica beans at an artisanal cafe, alongside other professionals with laptop” set are not going to downgrade to “bacon & eggs-over-easy with drip filtered coarse-grind robusta at a greasy spoon diner, alongside truckers, railway brakemen, & cleaners”

Frank
Frank
May 8, 2022 4:21 pm

filth like Pelosi have been around since the bee gees,

Longer than that, she is a museum piece.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 8, 2022 4:24 pm

I bet there are some VERY unhappy bookies looking at sharp blades today…

Unless you go bust there isn’t much to worry about. Bookies are like stockbrokers- you don’t meet the unsuccessful ones.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

As usual, the bookies will have cleaned up.
All the money will have been backing the odds-on favourite, the turf experts will be nowhere to be found,
… and a big deal will be made of paying some no-hoper who accidentally put $20 on “Rich Strike” at 80/1, which won’t even dent the hay bale of cash most bookies picked up that day.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 8, 2022 4:32 pm

Nothing wrong with drip filtered with the right coffee, freshly ground. Were I a sneering coffee snob, I would suggest a pour over might be preferable to an espresso but I wouldn’t want to wind JC up unnecessarily.

Dot
Dot
May 8, 2022 4:37 pm

Avocado and lattes aren’t really out of the ordinary. They go well with bacon. They’re just food to me, I’ve never understood the cache they hold nor the derision they have sheeted recently. Taking cultural cues from Bernard Salt? No thanks. I’d like to bullshit less as I get older and become (hopefully) a better person.

The real question is, will you eat the bugs?

I am interested where the chattering classes stand on this. Yes; or no, for the little people only.

Worse still – I want a drip filtered pot coffee latte.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 8, 2022 4:39 pm

“At least one T-90M, Russia’s most advanced tank, has been destroyed in fighting,” the UK’s Ministry of Defence said. “The system’s upgraded armour, designed to counter anti-tank weaponry, remains vulnerable if unsupported by other force elements.”

The T-90M is a modernised T-72 variant, with a few automotive, sensor (this one’s equipped with a thermal imaging sight unit as standard, most T-72s and their contemporary T-64s and T-80s are only fitted with infrared searchlights for night fighting) and armour and soft-kill (missile jammer) active protection improvements to bring the basic T-72 design in line with contemporary performance requirements.

I’m surprised more haven’t been reported active in the Ukraine to date, as it would be the ideal scenario to stress-test the design against a peer opponent.

(And Cats, if the Russians were using current-spec M1A2 Abrams, Challenger 2/3s, Leopard 2A7 or even Merkava IV MBTs as poorly as they have been employing their own gear to date, I’d reasonably expect the loss rates to be just as appalling. They might just chew up a few more ATGMs and RPGs per vehicle before a final M-kill or K-kill is achieved, and the recoverable/repariable hulk rates might be somewhat better. But that’s about it).

Dot
Dot
May 8, 2022 4:40 pm

Most coffee snobs don’t know the difference between an au lait and latte, and I have been to VERY pretentious coffee joints that are staffed by faux Italians or insufferable hipsters who don’t know what a piccolo latte is and treat their customers like garbage.

Just ignore these morons and they’ll either go out of business or lose any social cache they have.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 8, 2022 4:43 pm

When avos hit $5 a pop you have to ask yourself whether you really feel like guacamole for lunch. Unlike Californians we don’t have the luxury of Mexican cartels just over the border.

I think a pending oversupply next season should fix this problem.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 8, 2022 4:43 pm

The “smashed avo on artisanal bread with soy latte fair trade organic civet-poo arabica beans at an artisanal cafe, alongside other professionals with laptop” set are not going to downgrade to “bacon & eggs-over-easy with drip filtered coarse-grind robusta at a greasy spoon diner, alongside truckers, railway brakemen, & cleaners”

Probably a good thing- Those truckers and railwaymen alike very likely out-earn them…

Roger
Roger
May 8, 2022 4:45 pm

filth like Pelosi have been around since the bee gees,

Longer than that, she is a museum piece.

Not only that…her father was involved in Democratic politics when talking pictures were a novelty.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 8, 2022 4:46 pm

Franksays:
May 8, 2022 at 4:21 pm
filth like Pelosi have been around since the bee gees,

Longer than that, she is a museum piece.

One of JFK’s conquests?

Winston Smith
May 8, 2022 4:47 pm

P:

Comrade Neil Oliver Discusses Living as a Dissident Through Orwellian Times
May 7, 2022 | Sundance

Anyone want to wager on the equivalent of the Beriovska Shops in whatever format opening here?
Probably as a home delivery service where you exchange your OS currency for Beriovska Coupons.

Dot
Dot
May 8, 2022 4:47 pm

Single women who earn $47,000+ a year abort 32 percent of their babies. Single women making $11,670 a year or less abort 8.6 percent of their babies.

The cost of dying alone is having a job not many people want, longer hours, higher taxes and more stress?

It also means by the time career goals are met, men don’t want to marry you because you can no longer conceive and men you consider worthy can get a 25 year old babe on the up and up who wants kids and marriage immediately.

What a sucker’s deal.

Feminism ruins lives.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 8, 2022 4:48 pm

Dot, are you in Melbournibad? Their coffee snobbery is world class.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 8, 2022 4:48 pm

The T-90M is a modernised T-72 variant,

Does that mean that the crew still sit on top of the ammunition supply?

JC
JC
May 8, 2022 4:52 pm

Dot says:
May 8, 2022 at 4:40 pm

Most coffee snobs don’t know the difference between an au lait and latte, and I have been to VERY pretentious coffee joints that are staffed by faux Italians or insufferable hipsters who don’t know what a piccolo latte is and treat their customers like garbage.

Just ignore these morons and they’ll either go out of business or lose any social cache they have.

Dot, buy yourself a Nespresso machine with the milk frother and ONLY use Illy coffee. You will thank me.

JC
JC
May 8, 2022 4:53 pm

I’d argue that Melbourne coffee is as best as it gets in the world and that include Italy and all of Europe. It doesn’t get better.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 8, 2022 4:53 pm

Ordering a full English breakfast with a coffee was a real lottery in the UK in the 90s. It may have improved.

Dot
Dot
May 8, 2022 4:54 pm

Bear – no.

I went into Gisborne recently.

Got a coffee from the Indian run cafe. It was so so but breakfast overall was very good.

I before that went into the joint with the Biden and Bernie posters. I had walked in with my chinos, belt, RMs, Canterbury top and Daiwa trucker’s cap.

The moon child weirdo ran (ostensibly, a male humanoid) in fright from my toxic masculinity and would not serve me.

JC
JC
May 8, 2022 4:56 pm

It also means by the time career goals are met, men don’t want to marry you because you can no longer conceive and men you consider worthy can get a 25 year old babe on the up and up who wants kids and marriage immediately.

What a sucker’s deal.

Feminism ruins lives.

Forget sheilas and just buy an expensive sex doll. Real ones aren’t worth the trouble. There’s a gaggle of them at the family business and boy are they just fucking trouble. Trouble, greedy, drama queens and attention seekers. I’ve had with with Sheilas. Either buy a doll or just buy regular sex.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 8, 2022 4:56 pm

Melbournibad was certainly the Gates of Vienna for Starbucks.

Megan
Megan
May 8, 2022 4:57 pm

H B Bear says:
May 8, 2022 at 4:48 pm
Dot, are you in Melbournibad? Their coffee snobbery is world class.

Far too often however, the coffee is not.

Frank
Frank
May 8, 2022 4:58 pm

Nespresso machine with the milk frother and ONLY use Illy coffee

Barbarian.

Frank
Frank
May 8, 2022 5:00 pm

insufferable hipsters who don’t know what a piccolo latte is and treat their customers like garbage

There used to be a coffee shop in Sydney at the beginning of Glebe Point Rd called Bad Manners which made a specialty of doing that.

JC
JC
May 8, 2022 5:00 pm

H B Bear says:
May 8, 2022 at 4:53 pm

Ordering a full English breakfast with a coffee was a real lottery in the UK in the 90s. It may have improved.

Yes, incredibly so. There’s even a joint that just sells coffee and Portuguese tarts in Chelsea. No, not sheilas .. this Two of these, coffee , a cig and your morning is made. There’s a long line and that’s how good they are. Nothing beats London.

JC
JC
May 8, 2022 5:01 pm

Frank

Yea, even Illy Coffee is barbaric? Stop!

JC
JC
May 8, 2022 5:02 pm

Dover forget the war and focus on Portuguese tarts.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 8, 2022 5:04 pm

Frank

There used to be a coffee shop in Sydney at the beginning of Glebe Point Rd called Bad Manners which made a specialty of doing that.

Using Seinfeld’s Soup Nazi as a business model?

Frank
Frank
May 8, 2022 5:05 pm

If you want to find out who really has their head up their arse then stereos are the thing to enquire about. Those boys make coffee snobs look like rank amateurs.

JC
JC
May 8, 2022 5:06 pm
Winston Smith
May 8, 2022 5:08 pm

Top Ender:

What is surprising now though is why Pell didn’t sue the Victorian government.

I know Cardinal Pell had gone through a rough time, but we’ve missed out on a really good chance to prevail against the bastards who caused this problem.
The Cardinal suing the arse off the Government – perhaps costing a couple of them their careers – and the papers for $50 million quid may have made them a little less fond of trying it on again.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 8, 2022 5:12 pm

There is still a lot of skill to making a good espresso – even assuming the person behind the machine starts with good coffee to begin with (which in most cases they will do so. You don’t get into coffee roasting without having something of a clue).

I have improved my understanding of coffee since spending around an hour each day in my cafe. The girl who used to do all the bean sales (including test roasts with a little bench roaster) has since left to go roasting instead.

It’s quite personal. I haven’t got much beyond “Yeah like that one” and “Nah, I don’t think so.”

Delta A
Delta A
May 8, 2022 5:14 pm

How about choko pulp?

Errgh!

Although, TBH, you could probably shove a few cups into the bubbling jam and and stretch out the yield with little loss to flavour.

Frank
Frank
May 8, 2022 5:19 pm

This take on the current fetish for appropriating Russian yachts seems sensible.

Yacht Plot

This is what happens when island policy is settled by avaricious political science graduates who don’t understand the difference between an asset and a liability.

Consider the 86m Amore Vero, looted in Antibes a couple of months ago. How would that look in the Aegean—blocking the morning sunlight to the waterfront cafés and leaking oil into the sapphire water because its owner can’t shift enough Bitcoin to pay the maintenance crew? Once a machine that size can’t start its engines, it is the island, not the ship, that should consider itself hostage.

If nothing else the author introduces me to the word ranine which has definite utility. As in

Next morning, we stood before judgment in the port police office. Booted and holstered, an elderly madame marshal entered the room, cheroot hanging from a ranine lip.

Definitely keeping that one.

JC
JC
May 8, 2022 5:26 pm

Frank

I’m guessing there are going to be a lot of cheap boats for auction in a short while. These things needs constant attention/ money spent on them from the first day you take delivery. All these boats are now fucked with the Euroweenies impounding them wholesale as they aren’t going to be take care of.

cohenite
May 8, 2022 5:27 pm

Either buy a doll or just buy regular sex.

So, you’re saying you’re available.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 8, 2022 5:29 pm

Reading Max Hastings on the first few months of the First World War.

On 22 August 1914, in a series of battles that make the Somme seem a work of military genius, France lost 27,000 soldiers killed, plus huge numbers of wounded and captured.

Compare with 1 July 1916, on the Somme, where the British lost 19,000 dead and around 38,000 wounded, and 19 July 1916, when the Australian 5th Division lost 5,533 men killed, wounded and captured.

Rabz
May 8, 2022 5:29 pm

Sth Kensington

AKA Saudi Kensington. Stayed there for two weeks in mid ’93 – a very salubrious part of London.

Winston Smith
May 8, 2022 5:30 pm

Cohenite:
Actually, I rather like that.
It needs to be in Queensland because we don’t have enough mountains for the views.

JC
JC
May 8, 2022 5:31 pm

Kensington is just gorgeous, Rabz. I reckon it’s the best part of London and therefore the best burb in the world.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 8, 2022 5:32 pm

There is a few great sites on the Net for abandoned London mansions. A lot need work on the interiors.

cohenite
May 8, 2022 5:35 pm

Actually, I rather like that.

What’s that mate?

JC
JC
May 8, 2022 5:37 pm

cohenite says:
May 8, 2022 at 5:27 pm

Either buy a doll or just buy regular sex.

So, you’re saying you’re available.

Stop trying to homosexualize the site, Cronkite. It’s not that sort of blog.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 8, 2022 5:37 pm

… a very salubrious part of London.

You feel poor just walking to Harrods to get one of those green plastic carry bags -which you throw out anyway because they are so naff (unless you are an American).

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 8, 2022 5:39 pm

On 22 August 1914, in a series of battles that make the Somme seem a work of military genius, France lost 27,000 soldiers killed, plus huge numbers of wounded and captured.

“Battle of the Frontiers.”

Rabz
May 8, 2022 5:39 pm

Anyone who thinks that the upcoming feral election isn’t the signal example of the bankruptcy of our democracy is kidding themselves.

If I’m forced to turn up on the day, where’s my “none of the above option”, you fat stupid hypocritical parasitic collectivist windbags?

Oh, that’s right – “there won’t be any of that, you miniscule peon of no consequence”.

Well, thanks a bunch.

Enjoy HOP Time when discovering that it’s suddenly upon you. 🙂

JC
JC
May 8, 2022 5:40 pm

The barbarism of property confiscation.

Congress has lost its mind.

A bipartisan bill taking shape now in the U.S. Congress, called the “Yachts for Ukraine Act,” would allow U.S. authorities to seize any property valued at more than $5 million held by named Russian oligarchs in the U.S. and allow the government to sell the assets and send the cash to aid Ukraine. In the U.K., members of Parliament are floating the idea of a new fast-track path to freeze assets of oligarchs who aren’t yet sanctioned but are under “review.”

This would turn the clock back several hundred years, reviving ancient barbaric practices where whatever belonged to the enemy was legitimate booty, thus making private property depend for its security upon force.

cohenite
May 8, 2022 5:41 pm

Apparently joe’s new press secretary is an anti-semitic leso. But don’t worry, she’s black

cohenite
May 8, 2022 5:43 pm

Stop trying to homosexualize the site, Cronkite.

I’ve always thought of you as a pansexual; in chinos.

Rabz
May 8, 2022 5:47 pm

How about choko pulp?

A suitable thrice daily meal for various beloved politicians, braindead bureaucrats and j’ismists languishing in gaol before their turn to join the exciting totally sold out blockbuster event that is “HOP Time”. 🙂

JC
JC
May 8, 2022 5:48 pm

Who are we to doubt the richest person in the world (after Putin). I have my doubts paid subscription will work though but at least it would get rid of a large number of leftist riff raff..

But firing a 1,000 of those lousy leftist scum is worth the try.

REVEALED: Elon Musk plans to FIRE 1,000 Twitter staff, quintuple revenue, get 69 million users paying $3 a month and cut reliance on advertising income, presentation to investors shows

Elon Musk plans to quintuple Twitter’s revenue to $26.4 billion by 2028
In a pitch deck Musk claimed he would increase Twitter’s annual revenue to $26.4 billion by 2028, up from $5 billion last year
Said he’d cut Twitter’s reliance on ads to less than 50% percent of revenue
Musk plans to boost Twitter’s user numbers with services such as Twitter Blue
Twitter Blue costs $3-a-month for users to customize their experience
Musk expects 69 million users to be using Twitter Blue by 2025

Current staffing is 7,500. He will let go 13% of the workforce. On second thoughts, not nearly enough!

Winston Smith
May 8, 2022 5:48 pm

HBBear:

Winston must have been a CWA member at some point.

At McKinlay, because in my position I needed to go to some of their meetings, I tried to join but no luck – because bloke.
I remain in awe of their information gathering and processing system. It puts the KGB to shame.

Delta A
Delta A
May 8, 2022 5:50 pm

a full English breakfast with a coffee

With two granddaughters working lunch and dinner today and a major shopping expedition (for some) planned for the afternoon, we celebrated Mothers’ Day with a fabulous brunch, cooked and served by our very Best Men.

Kiddos set the table and helped (to varying degrees) with the preparation and service. Bacon and eggs, of course, with grilled tomatoes, mushrooms, good old spag and beans, chipolatas etc, followed by pancakes with maple syrup and/or raspberry coulis and whipped cream.

But the best thing at the table was Son, who came over from The Island early this morning to be with us.

Kids, grandkids, food and flowers; life – to quote a certain Cat – is good.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Avocado and lattes aren’t really out of the ordinary.

Someone just outed themselves as a member of the Kombucha caste.

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
May 8, 2022 5:51 pm

My mum used to make strawberry jam out of chokoes, red food colouring, a bucket of sugar and chopped up toothpicks as “make believe” strawberry pips.

The whole lot was boiled for hours and stunk the house out so badly even the resident dogs went walkabout.

JC
JC
May 8, 2022 5:52 pm

According to Statistica – the link, Twitter increased staff from 5500 in 2020 to 7500 in 2021. That’s around 40% increase. Incredible.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 8, 2022 5:53 pm

Avocado, bacon and toast for breakfast is fine. Even deconstructed.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 8, 2022 5:54 pm

Does that mean that the crew still sit on top of the ammunition supply?

Yes.

And as far as Dover rolling his eyes goes, remember that to date it’s all been T-72B variants, T-64s of all kinds, T-80Us and BVs and the older T-90A variants reported active and reported wrecked in the Ukraine.

T-90M and MS are the bestest and newest vehicles in the fleet, beyond the prized T-14 Armatas that only come out for test runs and Victory Day parades. The good stuff you might only issue to Guards units with the good crews and decent budgets defending the more important military districts in Russia.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 8, 2022 5:55 pm

Pedro wins the three Yorkshiremen prize for today.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Anyone want to wager on the equivalent of the Beriovska Shops in whatever format opening here?

Kosta Tsuyu lost me when he said the Soviet Union was a great system, coz when he made it as a boxer, he was allowed to shop in Beriozka shops, where ordinary people were excluded, thus proving the Soviet system was worthwhile, coz you had something to strive for.
… unlike western capitalism, where Tsars have no more consumer rights than a toilet cleaner.

Australia is a better place for him departing.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 8, 2022 5:57 pm

@ JC-

According to Statistica – the link, Twitter increased staff from 5500 in 2020 to 7500 in 2021. That’s around 40% increase. Incredible.

SJW-Converged organisation full of ideologues hiring all their maaaaaates.

Net result = Politically very good, but very likely to be lacking elsewhere…

Delta A
Delta A
May 8, 2022 5:58 pm

Oh, I forgot the coffee!

Having completely gone off tea and coffee when antibiotics were my staple diet four years ago, I was tempted – and yielded – to Son in Law’s offering today of a strong, aromatic plunger coffee with 1/2 teaspoon of raw sugar. Bliss!

He also has one of those new-fangled coffee machines. Might give that a go one day.

Dot
Dot
May 8, 2022 6:00 pm

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
May 8, 2022 at 5:50 pm
Avocado and lattes aren’t really out of the ordinary.

Someone just outed themselves as a member of the Kombucha caste.

I imagine you eat gravel for breakfast and smoke Marlboros as a multivitamin.

Yes occasionally I drink Kombucha. Some of it is okay. It’s better than shit like fast food.

Fermented food has been around since day dot + 1.

JC
JC
May 8, 2022 6:00 pm

Bear

I’ve always maintained that drip coffee with the right beans as you say is unbeatable.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 8, 2022 6:03 pm

The good stuff you might only issue to Guards units with the good crews and decent budgets defending the more important military districts in Russia.

So, definitely newsworthy when one gets written off?

Cassie of Sydney
May 8, 2022 6:04 pm

In a recent interview, playwright David Mamet said the following…

“politicians, with a couple of exceptions, are whores, thieves, thugs and fools”.

I don’t think you can find a better description than that.

JC
JC
May 8, 2022 6:06 pm

cohenite says:
May 8, 2022 at 5:41 pm

Apparently joe’s new press secretary is an anti-semitic leso. But don’t worry, she’s black

She carpet munches with her.

Jean-Pierre has faced conflict of interest concerns over her relationship with CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 8, 2022 6:07 pm

Michelle O’Neill: from pregnant schoolgirl to Northern Ireland’s next leader

Reuters01:51
Sinn Fein celebrates win in ‘defining election’

By Rosamund Urwin
The Times
43 minutes ago May 8, 2022
19 Comments

As a working-class girl who ­became pregnant at 16, Michelle O’Neill was not expected to amount to much. Now she is due to be nominated by Sinn Fein as Northern Ireland’s first minister – the first nationalist leader at ­Stormont.

Although Michelle O’Neill was the first person without a ­direct IRA past to lead Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland, her family history is steeped in the armed fight.

She grew up in County Tyrone in a family of prominent Irish ­republicans. Her father, Brendan Doris, served time in the Maze prison and other jails for IRA ­offences, while a cousin, Tony Doris, who was in the IRA, was killed in an ambush by the SAS in 1991. Another cousin, Gareth Doris, was shot and wounded in 1997 during an IRA attack on an army base.

O’Neill, 45, was also one of the ­coffin-bearers at the funeral of Martin McGuinness, the former deputy first minister and a former IRA leader, in 2017. In March last year she was heavily criticised for attending the funeral of Bobby Storey, a former senior IRA member who spent 20 years in prison, amid claims it broke lockdown rules.

During the election campaign, O’Neill, an astute media operator, appealed to more centrist voters by emphasising her party’s policies on the cost-of-living crisis and repairing the health services over uniting Ireland.

Political analysts see her as the embodiment of the transformation of Sinn Fein from being regarded as the political and propaganda wing of the Provisional Irish Republican Army to the largest party at Stormont – a symbolic breakthrough for ­nationalism.

O’Neill comes from the socialist left wing of Sinn Fein and is ­socially liberal. When she became health minister in 2016, one of her first moves was to lift the ban on allowing gay and bisexual men to donate blood. Five years later, during a debate over an attempt to outlaw some late-term abortions, she accused the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Ulster Unionists of “shamefully” trying to deny abortion services to women in Northern Ireland.

Her political ascent has been relatively swift. In 1998, aged 21, she joined Sinn Fein and began working as an adviser to Francie Molloy, a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly. A protegee of both Molloy and McGuinness, she became a councillor in 2005, taking the seat vacated by her ­father, before winning a seat in the assembly in 2007. She was made agricultural minister in 2011, then health minister five years later, before becoming Sinn Fein’s party leader in Northern Ireland in 2017.

She opposed Brexit – calling it “catastrophic for the island of ­Ireland’ and claiming it “undermined” the Good Friday agreement of 1998 – but argued that it also helped create the possibility of a united Ireland. She predicted Brexit would lead to a united ­Ireland in five years’ time.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

According to Statistica – the link, Twitter increased staff from 5500 in 2020 to 7500 in 2021.

Those accounts held by Bitter clinging deplorable political extremists weren’t going to delete themselves.

I hope Musk terminates** them all.

(** This is not of course to be taken as meaning to mortally terminate.)

JC
JC
May 8, 2022 6:12 pm

Why do lesbians hate people named Richard?
Because they’re Dicks.

What’s a lesbian’s favorite candy?
Lick-orice.

Why do lesbians hate Napoleon?
Because he was a dictator.

Why do lesbians hate sports?
Because most involve balls.

What’s a lesbian’s favorite ballet?
The Nutcracker.

What do you call a lesbian with long fingernails?
Homeless.

What do you call a closet full of lesbians?
A lick-her cabinet.

Why do lesbians hate being on their period?
MENstruation.

What won’t a lesbian take?
Dictation.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 8, 2022 6:12 pm

Yes occasionally I drink Kombucha. Some of it is okay. It’s better than shit like fast food.

Fungus tea.
Why don’t you just soak your socks and drink the washing water.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

I imagine you eat gravel for breakfast and smoke Marlboros as a multivitamin.

Don’t ever try to go undercover in high-viz land.
I smoke Log Cabin, naturally.
Breakfast however, is vegemite on toast, topped with caviar. (Until Winston’s choko-infused blackberry jam becomes available – with stems included for extra fibre goodiness)

John H.
John H.
May 8, 2022 6:13 pm

Rex Angersays:
May 8, 2022 at 4:39 pm

(And Cats, if the Russians were using current-spec M1A2 Abrams, Challenger 2/3s, Leopard 2A7 or even Merkava IV MBTs as poorly as they have been employing their own gear to date, I’d reasonably expect the loss rates to be just as appalling. They might just chew up a few more ATGMs and RPGs per vehicle before a final M-kill or K-kill is achieved, and the recoverable/repariable hulk rates might be somewhat better. But that’s about it).

It is one of their biggest blunders. It’s like giving Ferraris to learner drivers.

Ed Case
Ed Case
May 8, 2022 6:13 pm

As a working-class girl who ­became pregnant at 16, Michelle O’Neill was not expected to amount to much. Now she is due to be nominated by Sinn Fein as Northern Ireland’s first minister – the first nationalist leader at ­Stormont.

Although Michelle O’Neill was the first person without a ­direct IRA past to lead

In other words, she’s a Spook.
Expect a bloodbath.

JC
JC
May 8, 2022 6:15 pm

In other words, she’s a Spook.

Of course.

Dot
Dot
May 8, 2022 6:20 pm

Stop the kayfabe hi viz shit Sal.

They have good incomes and buy nice things for themselves, they’re not cretins from a 1950s homoerotic film of your imagination.

Ed Case
Ed Case
May 8, 2022 6:21 pm

Yes occasionally I drink Kombucha. Some of it is okay. It’s better than shit like fast food.

Fungus tea.
Why don’t you just soak your socks and drink the washing water.

Kombucha is a phony marketing name.
It used to be called The Hop, plenty of people from the Generation 1910 to 1940 kept it for making Ginger Beer.
One advantage over the lazy way of using yeast as the starter is that the bottles don’t explode randomly.
It’s also easy to make though buying it is more convenient.
I’ll post a recipe if I feel like it later on.

Gabor
Gabor
May 8, 2022 6:22 pm

Ed Case says:
May 8, 2022 at 1:18 pm

Estonia and Latvia were Russia’s for centuries.
If they push on with joining NATO, they’ll become Russia’s again.
It’s not Rocket Science

As it happens, both Estonia and Lithuania are members of NATO.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 8, 2022 6:22 pm

So, definitely newsworthy when one gets written off?

I’d think so.

Higher-calibre (at least by training and cachet) units from Military Districts much further away from the front are now being rotated in.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

a 1950s homoerotic film

Really, don’t ever try to go undercover anywhere beyond the Bundy Rum curtain.

Dot
Dot
May 8, 2022 6:24 pm

Bundy Rum curtain

WTF are you even talking about?!

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 8, 2022 6:25 pm

In other words, she’s a Spook.
Of course.

Groogs is giving idiocy a bad name.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 8, 2022 6:25 pm

Breakfast however, is vegemite on toast, topped with caviar

Try normal eggs instead of the fish eggs on the vegemite- You get a nice melding of flavours, and your arterial linings will thank you for the reduced sodium content. 🙂

Bacon (and baked beans on the side) still somewhat mandatory, though.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

WTF are you even talking about?!

There would be many aspects of life in regional Australia with which you are totally unfamiliar.

Think of it as part of the broad church of multiculturalism & celebrate it as a positive.

Ed Case
Ed Case
May 8, 2022 6:27 pm

As it happens, both Estonia and Lithuania are members of NATO.
Not Finland or Latvia though.
Finland got their arses handed to them in the Winter War, but at least they kept most of their Country.
They mightn’t be so lucky if they join NATO?

Cassie of Sydney
May 8, 2022 6:28 pm

“Apparently joe’s new press secretary is an anti-semitic leso. But don’t worry, she’s black”

She ticks all the necessary progressive boxes.

duncanm
duncanm
May 8, 2022 6:28 pm

JCsays:
May 8, 2022 at 11:40 am
January 6th was an insurrection though.

https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/democrats-scream-outside-homes-of-justice-roberts-and-kavanaugh/

Let’s all be civil though.

at what point do the D’rats start pushing the mantra that judges are un-elected and undemocratic, and therefore must go ?

Its amazing how quickly the US is descending into chaos . .. I can’t see the average voter putting up with this much longer.

Dot
Dot
May 8, 2022 6:29 pm

Fungus tea, yeast barley water, off grape juice…

The only thing I am really put off is chitlings/chitterlings because they are hard to clean.

Winston Smith
May 8, 2022 6:32 pm

Cohenite:

What’s that mate?

The Lego block on the hill. Needs a bit of eartwork done on the surrounds to level out and make garden space. Also a few balconies or all round verandahs for the 1st and second floors + flat roof for parties/gardens and walls with firing loops. And more water storage.
Otherwise great little place.
I hope the skank and skankette aren’t included?
Pretentious looking couple of wankers.
Probably faggots as well.
High maintenance faggots at that.

Dot
Dot
May 8, 2022 6:33 pm

There would be many aspects of life in regional Australia with which you are totally unfamiliar.

You believe mine workers are cretins with no taste.

Probably best to keep your opinion to yourself, champ.

JC
JC
May 8, 2022 6:33 pm

Dot says:
May 8, 2022 at 6:24 pm

Bundy Rum curtain

WTF are you even talking about?!

Where’s Ted these days?

Ed Case
Ed Case
May 8, 2022 6:33 pm

Careful with the Chitlin’s, Dot.
People have been known to scoff a plate, then be overcome by an irresistible urge to go a lootin’.

Roger
Roger
May 8, 2022 6:33 pm

Apparently joe’s new press secretary is an anti-semitic leso. But don’t worry, she’s black

The mid-terms can’t come soon enough.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Who is the geopolitical expert above saying Latvia is not a NATO member?

Frank
Frank
May 8, 2022 6:37 pm

Groogs is giving idiocy a bad name.

Mothers day probably has something to do with it.

vr
vr
May 8, 2022 6:38 pm

It is just unprecedented. Granted the oligarchs’ got sweet heart deals, but they stole from Russians and not from the Ukrainians or others. This stuff is just nuts.

JC says:
May 8, 2022 at 5:40 pm

The barbarism of property confiscation.

Congress has lost its mind.JC says:
May 8, 2022 at 5:40 pm

The barbarism of property confiscation.

Congress has lost its mind.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 8, 2022 6:38 pm

Groogs is giving idiocy a bad name.

Grigory seems to somehow think an IRA-controlled socialist Ireland is going to romp over the border and occupy Belfast.

The uniformed and staff numbers of the Northern Ireland Police Service (formerly the RUC outnumber the entire Irish Defence Force alone. About their only disadvantage would be in heavy weapons and equipment.

And the British Army is just a short hop over the Irish Sea.

Eyrie
Eyrie
May 8, 2022 6:38 pm

BOAT

Bring Out Another Thousand

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
May 8, 2022 6:39 pm

The WA ads for the filthslime party ( non lib) have a glaring hole in the middle of them shaped like an Elbow.

They run through whatever talking point they have, slap a “ Scomo isn’t up to it” then end with an ambiguous “ it’s time to give someone else a go”.

Imagine knowing your leader is such a personality vacuum you won’t mention his name.

Ad Mong: so Elbow what did you think of the ads?
Elbow: but I’m not in them
Ad Mong: we ran out of money
Elbow: My name costs more money?
Ad Mong: not as such.. Penny!!!
Elbow: Penny is my name expensive?
Penny: could cost the election….

Eyrie
Eyrie
May 8, 2022 6:39 pm

Anyone advocating offshore wind turbines has never owned a moored boat.

Winston Smith
May 8, 2022 6:40 pm

Rabz:

A suitable thrice daily meal for various beloved politicians, braindead bureaucrats and j’ismists languishing in gaol before their turn to join the exciting totally sold out blockbuster event that is “HOP Time”. ?

I like the way you think Rabz.
And a damn fine way of using up excess chokos.

lotocoti
lotocoti
May 8, 2022 6:41 pm

Although Michelle O’Neill was the first person without a ­direct IRA past

Apart from her direct PIRA past.

Dot
Dot
May 8, 2022 6:43 pm

Can’t somebody else do it?

Good god. The elbow led ALP is now using literal Homer Simpsonisms as election slogans.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 8, 2022 6:44 pm

Apart from her direct PIRA past.

PIRA doesn’t count ‘cos it was provisional, right? 😉

(You don’t get a position of power in an organisation like that without having demonstrated a lot of loyalty and ruthlessness over a long time, and the favour of one or more patrons amongst the shadowy denizens of the IRA’s most senior leadership).

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 8, 2022 6:46 pm

One of the great attractants of this august journal of record is the vocabulary expansion.

soft-focus wittering

h/t Wally Dali.

Rabz
May 8, 2022 6:47 pm

I’ll post a recipe

No, please don’t. The concept of Choko Mush was enough.

Dot
Dot
May 8, 2022 6:47 pm

I’ve been watching an interesting series on TV called Assassins.

It is about the high rate of assassination in Ireland.

It can be a brutal place. It’s a good watch.

Hosted by a journo and prison warden turned academic.

Winston Smith
May 8, 2022 6:48 pm

Zk2A:

So, definitely newsworthy when one gets written off?

Was it definitely written off?
Most armoured stuff can be repaired if it hasn’t burned out or catastrophically exploded.
…after the old crew has been removed with a fire hose.

Rabz
May 8, 2022 6:49 pm
Dot
Dot
May 8, 2022 6:49 pm

Genius at work..

Kombucha is a phony marketing name.
It used to be called The Hop

…sashimi is a phony marketing name.

It used to be called Raw Fish

MatrixTransform
May 8, 2022 6:52 pm

Barbarian

he has an Italian name, but he isn’t Italian

also, ‘Illy’ sounds exactly like how a ‘strayan would say Italy

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
May 8, 2022 6:52 pm

Dot

IRA used a simple method.
Make things so shit you are with us or against us.
Our enemies will imprison you.
We will kill you or family members.
The enemy will remind you of our cause by the increased security you will navigate every day.
We will make that security and inconvenience increase by more attacks.

Rinse repeat…

Rabz
May 8, 2022 6:52 pm

Some context, Cats:

“When languishing in a Kampuchean Jungle, one tends to imbibe copious quantities of Kombucha.”

#poldot4evah

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 8, 2022 6:56 pm

“When languishing in a Kampuchean Jungle, one tends to imbibe copious quantities of Kombucha.”

‘We… are … FLAMING DRAGON!’

Ed Case
Ed Case
May 8, 2022 6:57 pm

Got an Orange Flyer today,
lists Scotty’s “failures” on one side
basically the quarantine wasn’t savage enough
not nearly enough people forced to take the Jab
not enough C/19 Testing
and it’s Scotty’s fault that Palaszczuk flooded Brissy in February
In microscopic print at the bottom of the page:
authorised by the australian labor party

Dot
Dot
May 8, 2022 7:00 pm

As much as I like Les Grossman, I still prefer Arnie’s quip to pseudo Bill Gates…

Why don’t you clone yourself, so you can go and fuck yourself.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 8, 2022 7:04 pm

Got an Orange Flyer today,

Try whacking it with a cold spoon.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 8, 2022 7:04 pm

I knew someone would get the Tropic Thunder thing.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 8, 2022 7:07 pm

Was it definitely written off?
Most armoured stuff can be repaired if it hasn’t burned out or catastrophically exploded.

According to the picture posted to Oryx,
it looks pretty dead to me.

Turret is up and out of the turret ring and the chassis looks to have been burnt out.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 8, 2022 7:09 pm

I knew someone would get the Tropic Thunder thing.

I’m surprised someone went Full Retard back at you. 😉

You never go Full Retard…

Winston Smith
May 8, 2022 7:18 pm

Thefrolickingmoll:

IRA used a simple method.
Make things so shit you are with us or against us.
Our enemies will imprison you.
We will kill you or family members.

Or just turn up one day with a truck and tell the dad “If you drive this truck to the British Barracks we won’t rape your missus and kids, then kill them by burning your house down with them inside.”

Frank
Frank
May 8, 2022 7:20 pm

As if the hipster yuppie swines haven’t inveigled their way into enough already, even the humble electric guitar now has a stylist and a little man in Tuscany that does things whenever they are in town.

Specifications

Body: Lightweight African Mahogany
Neck: European Maple
Fretboard: East Indian Rosewood
Frets: Medium Size, Hard German Silver
Nut: Norwegian Moose Bone
Hardware: Hansen Tremolo w/ Steel Saddles
Tuners: Gotoh Kluson

Winston Smith
May 8, 2022 7:28 pm

Rex Anger:

Turret is up and out of the turret ring and the chassis looks to have been burnt out.

Yeah.
That ain’t gonna buff out.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 8, 2022 7:40 pm

H B Bearsays:

May 8, 2022 at 4:56 pm

Melbournibad was certainly the Gates of Vienna for Starbucks.

I kid you not.
When the big coffee chains arrived in Melbourne, no-one talked about their favourite cafe.
All they would talk about was how much they detested Starbucks and Hudson’s.

Rabz
May 8, 2022 7:44 pm

Body: Stratocaster American Standard 1996, Cherry Red Metallic 🙂

The Amp isn’t mine, I’ve got a Princeton Chorus*.

*Basically a glorified Twin.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 8, 2022 7:53 pm

Or just turn up one day with a truck and tell the dad “If you drive this truck to the British Barracks we won’t rape your missus and kids, then kill them by burning your house down with them inside.”

Belfast on the Euphrates.
Getting a bit carried away there Winston

chrisl
chrisl
May 8, 2022 7:54 pm

I’ve been redistributed.
From living in a part city , part rural electorate , I have been moved to the second largest electorate in Victoria
The electorate office is three hours away .
Two things: I don’t think I’ll be visiting the office ant time soon
I’m pretty sure the honorable member will be visiting me

Rabz
May 8, 2022 7:56 pm

Time for some lush orchestral arrangements, courtesy of the André “3000” Benjamin 🙂

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 8, 2022 8:02 pm

REVEALED: Elon Musk plans to FIRE 1,000 Twitter staff, 

You know what would be great?
Elon telling every Twitter staff member to write a brief 100 word statement.
The subject:-
“How my job contributes directly to Twitter revenue growth, cost control and profit growth.”

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 8, 2022 8:05 pm

How my job contributes directly to Twitter revenue growth, cost control and profit growth.”

Let’s not get carried away. I’m not sure I could have done that for any job I had.

Rabz
May 8, 2022 8:08 pm

Tell me friend, why do you stand aloof from your own heart?

Because I always wanted to be matched with her

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
May 8, 2022 8:09 pm

Today in weird Twatter stuff

My ban was overturned, all my tweets were restored and i got an apology.

My protagonist in the Roe V Wade debate i was engaged in had their stuff removed.

This organisation needs some head kickers, Project Managers from construction would be a useful asset for that company.

Winston Smith
May 8, 2022 8:11 pm

Farmer Gez:

Belfast on the Euphrates.
Getting a bit carried away there Winston

No. There were several bombings carried out under those circumstances. The detonation was carried out by an observer at the target site.

Frank
Frank
May 8, 2022 8:11 pm

Rabz says:
May 8, 2022 at 7:44 pm

Mine number one is somewhat pedestrian by comparison but highly playable. Steel frets are the business, super slinky and don’t wear out.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 8, 2022 8:12 pm

I almost died rolling my eyes.

You clearly tried to take the corner waaaay too fast… 😛

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
May 8, 2022 8:12 pm

Today in wifey’s Facechook
“I’ve got a bad cold, thank Marx I’ve had the jab, otherwise it would be COVID.”
More or less, male and female.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
May 8, 2022 8:13 pm

Sancho Panzer says:
May 8, 2022 at 8:02 pm

You know what would be great?
Elon telling every Twitter staff member to write a brief 100 word statement.
The subject:-
“How my job contributes directly to Twitter revenue growth, cost control and profit growth.”

He should ask them to show what value they bring to the company, what do they do to add to the bottom line.

As a PM, if we don’t bring in the coin, we don’t have a job, you are only as good as your last project.

lotocoti
lotocoti
May 8, 2022 8:17 pm

A PIRA day by day.

Rabz
May 8, 2022 8:17 pm
Rabz
May 8, 2022 8:18 pm

Frankie – that’s a beautiful axe, Squire.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
May 8, 2022 8:19 pm

Looks like we’re comparing our banjos?
90’s Jazzmaster, cherry red metallic, which is the only colour for guitars. Matched headstock, tortoiseshell scratchguard, white electrics. Looks outta sight under lights, which is tactical because I had a less-is-more approach to playing.
But the only thing I pick up these days is the Lemmy.

Rabz
May 8, 2022 8:20 pm

cherry red metallic, which is the only colour for guitars

Yo. 🙂

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
May 8, 2022 8:21 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 8, 2022 8:21 pm

H B Bearsays:

May 8, 2022 at 8:05 pm

How my job contributes directly to Twitter revenue growth, cost control and profit growth.”

Let’s not get carried away. I’m not sure I could have done that for any job I had.

And, this is how we begin the cull.
🙂

Frank
Frank
May 8, 2022 8:23 pm

Ahh, Mr Kilmister PBUH. I think Marshall have re-released a version of murder one in case you are into a new amp for stupid amounts of money.

Rabz
May 8, 2022 8:24 pm

KD – LOL. 🙂

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 8, 2022 8:25 pm

As a PM, if we don’t bring in the coin, we don’t have a job, you are only as good as your last project.

Carpe, I used to work for a couple of different project organisations.
Back in the early 2000’s one of them had slogans posted around the place like …
“Would you do it if it was your money?”
Sadly, these have probably now been replaced by diversity and inclusion slogans.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 8, 2022 8:26 pm

Sorry Winston.
Thought you were referring to suicide bombers.

cohenite
May 8, 2022 8:27 pm

Liars 15 day to election ad; spot the amazing mistake.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 8, 2022 8:27 pm

Ed Casesays:
May 8, 2022 at 6:27 pm
As it happens, both Estonia and Lithuania are members of NATO.
Not Finland or Latvia though.
Finland got their arses handed to them in the Winter War, but at least they kept most of their Country.
They mightn’t be so lucky if they join NATO?

Dickless is really, really, hot for World War III.

cohenite
May 8, 2022 8:28 pm

And Roe v Wade Barbie (from dash cat)

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 8, 2022 8:29 pm

And, this is how we begin the cull.

Bugger- Now I’ll have to redecorate the Thunder Dome and try to hire it out as a wedding marquee or something… 🙁

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 8, 2022 8:30 pm

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
May 8, 2022 at 6:34 pm
Who is the geopolitical expert above saying Latvia is not a NATO member?

Dickless Ed, our resident military and political strategist, sees all and knows all.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 8, 2022 8:33 pm

One of the finest dirty tricks of all time – Simon Holmes a’ Court’s “Independents” advertising material has had “Greens” stickers stuck on them….

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 8, 2022 8:36 pm

Who is the geopolitical expert above saying Latvia is not a NATO member?

The same geopolitical expert who said Germany has been it own country for centuries.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 8, 2022 8:37 pm

*its own country*

In my defence, I am both typing and eating noggie food.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Who is the geopolitical expert above saying Latvia is not a NATO member?
The same geopolitical expert who said Germany has been it own country for centuries.

Would that be the same expert who stated Qld traffic cops are barred by law from using hand signals coz drivers may believe a “stop” or “proceed” signal is actually a Nazi salute?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 8, 2022 8:39 pm

chikun noggies? 😀

#DeliberateTypos

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 8, 2022 8:40 pm

Would that be the same expert who stated Qld traffic cops are barred by law from using hand signals coz drivers may believe a “stop” or “proceed” signal is actually a Nazi salute?

And thinks that crystalline salt is lethal.

JC
JC
May 8, 2022 8:40 pm

Anyone have any idea of Simon a’Court’s net worth. Links suggesting the family has a net worth of $300 plus million, but it also implies son Paul is the owner of Heytsbury Holdings centered on agri, which is where the bulk of the net worth resides.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 8, 2022 8:42 pm

Oh! And the same ex0ert who thinks that Buteyko breathing will create nitrates in your nasal blood vessels that destroy covid particles.

And that the HMAS Sydney was sunk by a submarine. Aided by the bastardry of one piratical Kapitan Detmers…

Rabz
May 8, 2022 8:43 pm

#DeliberateTypos

AKA “typos that take on a wife of their own” … 🙂

Frank
Frank
May 8, 2022 8:43 pm

Simon a’Court’s net worth must be pretty substantial, starting a political party as a vanity project would cost more that a yacht. He should just buy a football team instead, less hassle.

John H.
John H.
May 8, 2022 8:46 pm

dover0beachsays:
May 8, 2022 at 7:42 pm
It is one of their biggest blunders. It’s like giving Ferraris to learner drivers.

I almost died rolling my eyes.

Your analysis of the Russian military has exhausted my capacity for laughter, now I just pity your ignorance.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 8, 2022 8:46 pm

I am not kidding.
If Musk asked every Twatter employee what they did personally to directly contribute to the bottom line, I’ll bet 200 would flounce then and there.
And they would be the right ones.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 8, 2022 8:46 pm

That was terrible dry cleaner food. Terrible.

The hound’s got most of it. I think that tucker gave me covid.

JC
JC
May 8, 2022 8:47 pm

Frank, I’m not sure.

I was rifling through links, trying to find out the above and some of them suggest he bank rolled the campaign with a whole , humongous $ 1.4 million dollar war chest. That hardly sets the world on fire these days.

Simon Holmes a Court is sitting on a $1.4 million election war …

26 Sept 2021 — He’s co-founded an initiative to back candidates who will change the political agenda.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 8, 2022 8:48 pm

A large half-noodles, half mutton*.

Shit.

*Mandarin for chicken.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Heytsbury Holdings centered on agri, which is where the bulk of the net worth resides.

They’re down to just VRD + Birrindudu/Flora Valley.
There may be some … exuberant valuation… if that is $300 million worth.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 8, 2022 8:50 pm

Simon a’Court’s net worth must be pretty substantial, starting a political party as a vanity project would cost more that a yacht.

Robert Holmes a’Court – pig excrement be unto him – was Australia’s first billionaire.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 8, 2022 8:50 pm

AKA “typos that take on a wife of their own” … 🙂

I think this might be a fascinating concept to espouse upon. 🙂

Maybe even thread-worthy…

Rabz
May 8, 2022 8:52 pm

Simian Holmes à Court’s net worth

Which was “inherited” from his unrepentantly criminal father, who was greenlighted by various labore politicians. Somehow, I can’t see collectivists’ “wealth taxes” catching that vile piece of filth’s ill gotten gains in their great gaping maw.

HOP Time, peoples.

You know it makes sense and is long overdue.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 8, 2022 8:52 pm

The hound’s got most of it. I think that tucker gave me covid.

At least you didn’t feed it to Barry…

JC
JC
May 8, 2022 8:52 pm

It doesn’t appear to be his money.

Fitz: How did you raise the money?

Holmes a Court: It started with a few tweets and built from there. In less than a month more than 1000 donors have chucked in $1.4 million. We’ve tapped into the huge pent-up frustration with parliament’s inability to address the big issues. Just three more strong independents and the Respect at Work report could be implemented and start to actually deliver respect for women in the workplace, we could have a federal integrity commission to weed out corruption, we could have sensible discussions around the Uluru Statement and so forth.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/simon-holmes-a-court-is-sitting-on-a-1-4-million-election-war-chest-here-s-how-it-will-be-spent-20210924-p58uha.html

Rabz
May 8, 2022 8:55 pm

It doesn’t appear to be his money

Well, who’da thunk it, JC – hold the talky thingy device …

JC
JC
May 8, 2022 8:56 pm

Sounds like “Simey” is a front man for donors.

Fitz: Is the list of donors publicly available, and if not, why not? What we call in politics the “Christian Porter Rule”, says if you don’t disclose, you cannot be in the top tiers of Government, which is really saying something.

Holmes a Court: We will abide by the rules of the Australian Electoral Commission assiduously, and list all those who contribute above the disclosure limit. Christian Porter has shown us that donation laws need to be overhauled, and I’m convinced that only independents can lead that reform

I wonder if the two dickheads at Atlassian are funding this travesty.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 8, 2022 8:57 pm

Which was “inherited” from his unrepentantly criminal father, who was greenlighted by various labore politicians

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