Well done to the camera operator also.
Open Thread – Weekend 7 May 2022
- Open Thread – Remembrance Day 2024
- The Sweetest Victory
- Open Thread – Weekend 9 November 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 7 Nov 2024
- US Presidential Election 2024 Thread
Arky, are you going back to Model A wheels or sticking with the later ones? Or have a set of…
Conservatives have come out in support of leftists in matters of principle but it rarely goes the other way.
Still no news on whether Tulsi Gabbard is getting a gig in Trump’s cabinet. I do feel she’s owed something…
Wasn’t it Mark Riley who asked Julia Gilliard “Prime Minister, what can we do to help?”
The stupid is strong in this one:
Still don’t send me flowers – just address the unfinished business for mothers
Let’s see. Whines about ever-rising childcare costs, blames this on ever-increasing and complex system of government subsidies to parents.
Laments the low pay childcare workers receive.
Laments the unavailability of childcare services in many parts of the country.
Praises what she claims are improvements in the quality of childcare ‘education’, attributes this to the national standards Gillard introduced.
She’s got this all mixed up. It’s true that the childcare subsidy system is needlessly complex and opaque, and this additional administrative burden would add to the cost of childcare somewhat. And childcare centres aren’t hugely profitable entities. If they were, there would be more of them.
It was Gillard’s reforms, which resulted in the pseudo-professionalisation of the industry, that have driven up childcare costs so drastically. It’s the ‘improvements in childcare education’ trumpeted by the author that make childcare so ridiculously expensive.
And these improvements are entirely illusory. It’s true that childcare workers get crappy pay. It doesn’t require valuable, uncommon knowledge or ability to do the job. However, the above ‘quality improvements’ – enforced by the national standards or whatever the hell they are called – pretend the opposite is true. Childcare workers are now known as ‘educators’, not mere babysitters. To prove this, they must complete endless written ‘professional observations’ of the children in their care, create ‘individual education programs’ and conduct ongoing, ad hoc developmental benchmarking – all of which serve no educational value whatsoever, but require a lot of additional staffing to perform. That’s why it costs $150/day to put a kid in childcare.
Good childcare – the best, I would say – is a bunch of kids in a backyard garden with a variety of things to do, supervised by a couple of responsible, sensible adults who by and large let the kids take care of their own entertainment and interactions. Not expensive at all, and this is where foundational social skills that will benefit for a lifetime develop.
They still have some traditions.
New Toyota’s and settling with the drug dealers for all the ‘lations would have absorbed most of the loot.
Julep comes from the Persian for rosewater and also made its way, via the Mughals, into Hindi as gulab, as in the popular dessert gulab jamun.
Not many people know that.
Where did that come from, Roger ?
Hard to figure out what Voller got paid.
He and one other got $50k each in 2017.
Then there was a $35m class action settled much later (under a more amenable ALP government), but this covered up to 1,200 claims.
That would be under $30k on average.
He might have got $200k – $300k, but I doubt he got “millions”.
In any case, I’ll bet it is gonski by now.
I wouldn’t stress about missing out on a mint julep.
Rocket fuel.
We have a Persian afternoon coming up soon. Always a good sampling of food, dancing, and crafts.
From memory Darling Dylan did indeed get around $35k as Sancho says above.
Going to be an interesting watch over the years as the courts battle out the cognitive dissonance of a) he must not be locked up as he’s special, and b) he must be locked up as he clobbers women.
rosie says: May 9, 2022 at 1:02 pm
He oughta be sacked.
Mint Juleps is about as difficult to make as Rum & Coke, or Vodka & Orange.
Prosecution has started by listing various reasons why it looks like Dawson murdered his wife.
Weird way to start, shirley? .. listing “maybes’ doesn’t sound overly confident .. LOL! .. always thought court appearances relied on factual evidence rather than “hearsay” …….
Oh come on says: May 9, 2022 at 1:04 pm
Thanks to the magnificence of Malcolm Turnbull, who called a Royal Commission before daybreak after watching Their ABC’s Fork Whorners at 9pm, where he saw poor Dillsy being strapped into his high chair for being naughty & was horrified that a “child” could be treated like that when he was only locked up for stealing a loaf of bread coz hungry, or something.
Christopher Dawson ‘sought hit man’ to kill Lyn, court hears
DAVID MURRAY
NATIONAL CRIME CORRESPONDENT
Former star footballer Chris Dawson asked an ex-teammate to help to “get rid of his wife’” Lyn more than six years before she vanished, a court has heard.
Crown prosecutor Craig Everson SC has delivered his opening address in Mr Dawson’s murder trial after a judge refused to order a media blackout.
Mr Dawson has pleaded not guilty.
Mr Everson told the court that on October 1, 1975 Muhammad Ali fought Joe Frazier in the Philippines.
The fight was watched by members of the Newtown rugby league team who had travelled to the Gold Coast for an end of season holiday.
On the return flight seated in an aisle seat was Robert Silkman, a man with “some admitted criminal connections.
“He was approached by Chris Dawson, the accused, “ Mr Everson said.
“The two of them were well known to each other, having played together in the second grade side at Newtown.
“The crown alleges that the accused asked Mr Silkman if he knew someone who could get rid of his wife.”
Mr Everson started his opening address by saying Chris and Lyn were both 21 years old when they married in 1970.
Ms Dawson was unable to have children at the same time as the wife of Mr Dawson’s twin brother Paul.
This “caused a level of animosity by the accused to Lynette Dawson”, Mr Everson said.
Mr Dawson’s approach to Mr Silkman about getting rid of his wife “went no further”, he said.
In 1980, when Mr Dawson was a teacher, his attention was drawn to a young woman referred to in court only as “JC”, and they developed a sexual relationship.
“He was infatuated with her,” Mr Everson said. “He repeatedly asked her to marry him.”
On about December 21, 1981, Mr Dawson retained a real estate agent to value the matrimonial home at Bayview for an intended sale.
This was done without the support of his wife Lyn.
The next day Mr Dawson left his wife and their two young children and went to Queensland with JC with a view to “start a new life”.
However JC became ill and “expressed she missed her family and she wanted to return to Sydney. They arrived back in Sydney on Christmas Day, 1981.
JC told Mr Dawson she wanted to end the relationship. It was not something Mr Dawson wanted, Mr Everson told the court.
In early January 1982, JC went to South West Rocks on the mid-north NSW coast with some school friends.
Before she left Mr Dawson begged her to make reverse charge phone calls to him every day she was away.
The crown alleges that on January 8, 1982, Mr Dawson alone or with another person murdered Lyn. Later, possibly with assistance, he disposed of her body at an unknown location, Mr Everson told the court.
He was “motivated to kill his wife Lynnette by his desire to have an unfettered relationship” with JC.
About a week after Lyn disappeared, Mr Dawson drove to South West Rocks and collected JC.
He drove her back to the family home at Bayview and told JC that Lyn was gone and that she wouldn’t be coming back.
Mr Dawson told Lyn’s family and friends that Lyn had called him a few times, Mr Everson told the court.
The crown’s case was that no-one else had spoken to Lyn after the night of January 8, 1982.
NO EVIDENCE LYN WAS ALIVE
Subsequent investigations had not found any evidence Lyn Dawson was alive.
JC would give evidence “another person or persons” may have been involved in the murder, Mr Everson told the court.
She would say that some time towards the end of the 1981 school year she travelled with Mr Dawson in a car to a pub or a club somewhere south of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, possibly in the western suburbs.
It was here that Mr Dawson allegedly claimed to have sought a hit man to kill his wife.
The crown was unable to identify the precise location. However, background details were relevant to the location.
Mr Dawson grew up in Maroubra, went to Sydney Boys High and played rugby union for Easts and rugby league for Newtown.
The Newtown rugby league team was based in Henson Park in Marrickville in Sydney’s inner west.
The team had a functioning clubhouse the crown says meets the description of the premises that JC and Mr Dawson went to, Mr Everson told the court.
Mr Dawson did not frequent pubs and clubs, but Newtown players would attend the clubhouse when home games were played.
JC was expected to testify that when Mr Dawson returned from inside the venue he told her he had contemplated getting a hit man “but decided against it because innocent people would be hurt.”
A LOVING MOTHER
Mr Everson told the court the case involved drawing inferences from human behaviour.
The evidence would establish Ms Dawson was a loving mother of two young children, he said.
She had arranged for a sketch to be done of those two daughters by an artist.
When the artist contacted the home in mid-January 1982 to follow up on what was going to happen with the sketches, she was alleged to have been told by Mr Dawson: “Lynette has gone away and she doesn’t want them anymore.”
Six weeks after her disappearance, Mr Dawson reported his wife missing.
The “blunt reality” was that no-one had said they had spoken to Lyn since her disappearance, other than Mr Dawson, Mr Everson said.
The crown would set out to disprove accounts from witnesses who said they saw her after January 8, 1982, and to show there was no reasonable possibility she was alive.
The prosecutor’s opening address lasted less than 15 minutes.
Defence barrister Pauline David asked for more time to work on the case, and it was adjourned until Wednesday.
Resolved with Hegelian elegance by blaming it on whitey – whitey made him a victim and a danger.
We’ve warned them and warned them until we’re blue in the face.
The only way now to get some sense thumped into their thick as pig shit heads is the same way as I learned not to piss on electric fences when I was 8.
WTF?
Not enough time?
Or has something been raised in the prosecution opening which has thrown her off?
About time. Of course if Bibi had suggested the same thing the left in Israel would have come out and said he’s a warmonger.
It is not dissimilar to what we hear about complainants in cases against the Church.
Their dysfunction and unreliability is caused by the abuse.
So, the more dysfunctional their lives, and the more erratic and contradictory their “evidence”, the more likely they were abused.
Remember, Voller will never “commit crimes”.
He will be “caught up in unfortunate incidents”.
From my memory cells.
Now we all know it, thanks to Roger. 🙂
Biden’s Securities & Exchange Commission is proposing that all publicly listed American companies be mandated to comply with regulations to declare the impact of their businesses on climate change.
Store it up for a suitable occasion to impress your friends!
Hrm, okay. Didn’t realise the $35 million settlement compensated that many people. However, it isn’t too hard to imagine the (4? 6?) teens that were featured in the 4 Corners episode received a disproportionate payout, and Voller got a disproportionate amount relative to what that small group received due to the notorious image of him strapped to a chair in a spit hood.
Anyway, I expect Voller has plenty of sources of income playing the professional victim. Lots of bleeding heart groups would pay him a sizeable appearance fee just to rock up and look disaffected. Maybe even shout a few angry words, but that would probably cost extra.
Zyconoclast:
You’re not suggesting a PURGE are you, Zyco?
Heavens – I feel a little flush of excitement coming on.
It seems it is going to be difficult to prove “beyond reasonable doubt” in the Dawson case.
Why did Elon tweet “if i die in mysterious circumstances, it’s been nice knowing ya?”
Is he going to hang himself??
Being Judge-only, that may prove an obstacle to convicting Dawson.
There’s never a jury of 12 goggle-box viewers when you need one.
Israel has informed its allies that it is preparing to send assassination teams to kill Hamas leaders abroad in retaliation for deadly attacks on Israeli civilians in the past two months, sources have told The Times.
Outstanding.
Re. the Dawson case, I believe he’s guilty but what I find puzzling is that her family accepted his stories and deflections for years, beginning just a day or two after she disappeared when he moved the lover into the family home. It took many years before the family started asking questions. They too were starstruck by him.
Supply chain anecdote.
The other sowing rig tractor here is a Cat Challenger Pic
It’s “done an injector “ and is making engine oil.
Word from Cat Australia is the country needs 2,000 of these injectors now, in other words orders placed by dealers and mechanics.
Only 200 able to be supplied.
So it’s change the oil and carry on.
Nothing is getting better wrt the supply chains.
A week or two ago, I introduced the blog to that bingo wings woman who dumped her husband and two kids to chase after her “soulmate”, who promptly dumped her in return. I didn’t realise the story went viral (it showed up in my Google newsfeed that I cultivate so Google thinks I’m an enthusiastic Current Thing supporter and bored housewife) and got global attention. Apparently we weren’t the only people who thought this woman is a stupid bint*.
Anyway, there’s an epilogue – the SMH has published an autopsy of the viral attention BW’s book extract received. So if you want to know
And more, click the link! Spoiler alert: sexism definitely plays a big part. You would never have guessed if I didn’t tell you, right?
*here’s a flavour of the reaction – someone tweeted “girl they couldn’t have tortured this out of me at guantanamo” lol
ZK2A:
I’d like to see someone ask the Gorman that “In the case of widespread crop failure in China, will the Australian Government allow live exports to them?”
Most won’t answer theoreticals, but I’d still like to see the dodging and weaving.
Did the earth move for you?
Hamas threatens ‘regional earthquake’ if leaders assassinated (7 May)
They seem unhappy. The Arab party in the Israel coalition government seems unhappy too.
Report: Abbas is furious and not taking coalition leaders’ phone calls (8 May)
He’s supposed to be furious about the Al Aqsa mosque but I suspect he might be getting a bit of heat from his base voters about the IDF wanting to play pop-goes-the-weasel with their heroes.
Be fun if there’s a forced election. Bibi would probably win it.
And most of the reinforcements that might otherwise achieve your desired outcome are being rushed to the Belgorod region in order to try and stymie the Ukrainian counter-offensive out of Kharkov. A move sufficiently worrisome to the Russian General Staff to warrant blowing 3 bridges in the UAF’s path.
Or being put into defending Kherson as the defenders push south from Mikolayiv.
Some of your sources are more excited about one salient at Izyum and a slow and heavily contested general advance beyond the pre-February boundaries of Russia’s annexed territory than m0nty was about Muellerween…
Being Judge-only, that may prove an obstacle to convicting Dawson.
I’d always thought capital crime trials were jury decisions not a single judge issue ..
What qualifies for judge only cases, overall?
If he decides to become an aspiring rapper he will be dead in as doorway riddled with bullets within a week, indistinguishable from the other debris and only discovered when a dog brings a hand home to its master.
And the ABC will wring its hands and ask Australia accusingly why it failed poor Dylan.
Furthermore, is it really a Donbass ‘pocket’ when you have one small salient on part one side and the rest of the region is two quite clearly defined relative lines of control? With considerable freedom of movement for both belligerents?
I don’t know what Doctrinal manuals you and the pro-RUS sources are working off, dover. But I was taught that a ‘pocket’ in military planning involves surrounding the enemy on at least 3 sides, and preferably squeezing that last side as tightly closed as quickly as you can.
Why did Elon tweet “if i die in mysterious circumstances, it’s been nice knowing ya?”
The Clinton/Demon-rats clans are still alive & active best to have some insurance .. LOL!
“What qualifies for judge only cases, overall?”
Usually prejudicial pre-trial publicity and this case has had an Everest of it.
Cassie re Chris Dawson.
I am not going with “guilty” at this point but there is a strong circumstantial case.
Anyone who believes, “no body, no witnesses, no confession, no worries” is deluding themselves.
Dawson’s biggest problem would appear to be his own big mouth.
And, yes, even though calling him a “rugby league star” might be over-egging it a bit, he certainly had a bit of pull around the area. I will bet that any enquiries or complaints put in to central Homicide would have been run past local Plod, who would have fed back Dawson’s line, “Nah, mate. She’s pissed off to Queensland with the pool boy” and that would have been the end of it.
I am sure he was in thick with a good number of the local cops.
Crook injector doesn’t make engine oil. Black smoke if a little crook, white smoke if bad. More likely leaking seal from the high pressure pump into the crankcase.
Vote Max Headroom 1
Cohenite:
About bloody time too.
Speaking of crankcases, where is St Ruth?
Sancho
Over at CL’s blog.
123andbush:
I looked up a picture – so they can’t whack 2000 of them into a few boxes and fly the damn thing over here? Or they won’t?
Why would you buy Caterpillar stuff? This is outrageous after sales service.
Rex:
I’d never heard of that particular battle and spent half an hour looking for a town or region in Holland called “Muellerween”, then Germany, then gave up and looked at the quote- it wasn’t Monty, it was monty.
Sigh.
Winston, supply chain issues causing delays in parts manufacturing.
We are trying to stop other women from fucking themselves over.
Eyrie:
Winston scoff, politely, mind you.
rickw could machine up one of those bits of steel and rubber on his refurbished 1894 MacDonalds lathe and finished it in a day with time off for wharfies smoko/lunch/arvo tea and still had time left to hijack all the toolkits from the Army Centurions going to… wherever.
Sorry, Winston. 🙁
The typeset here struggles to differentiate between a zero (0) and a lower-case ‘o.’
Otherwise, the Fat Man’s name would have been rather more obvious…
But I thought that was deemed ’empowering’* these days?
* Empower (v.)- To spontaneously grab an electric fence in spite of all advice given to the contrary, then copiously abuse all and sundry for not providing sufficient warning about the nature or severity of the electric shocks administered…
I just put this to dad, who has serious form when it comes to pulling apart & putting back together Cat donks.
A few minutes of chin-scratching followed, then a careful; “…. it’s possible“
We’d get Rimmer.
I figured Kryten would make a better politician.
He can’t lie, and his rather animated responses to difficult questioning and some of the more stupid things to come out of Cabinets and Parliaments alike would make for great viewing…
Although we celebrated the day yesterday, it’s not too late to enjoy this article and the accompanying video.
Happy Mother’s Day
This might be the best predictor yet of how Rex might go in conversation with an honest-to-goodness Philosopher or other sickeningly clever human being:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vLm6oTCFcxQ
#IfGodIsInfiniteAndTheUniverseIsInfinite,
#WouldYouLikeATeaCake?
Maybe even a lift pump, they tend to fill the sump rapidly. Had it happen to me 3 times on different engines. Destroyed the first engine, caught the other two.
Winston, a modern fuel injector body may be made by rickw but the rather small fancy holes in the end are a different matter. They also aren’t simple parallel sided holes or so I’m told. I’m pretty sure rickw doesn’t have an industrial laser.
The supply issues may even be as simple as the electrical connector on top or even the o-ring contractor didn’t deliver on time. That’s the trouble with manufacturing – you need every last damn part before putting it together, testing and shipping.
Celebrating Mother’s Day, Grigory style.
I’m not 100% with the type but I’m guessing it’s a seal that’s leaking fuel to the crank case.
Technically not the actual injection tip but part of the injector all the same.
Winston,
From what I can gather it’s a world wide shortage caused by the last two years worth of bullshit.
Trying to find out more.
Correct.
Geez, Frank.
A warning in blinding red flashing neon lights and deafening sirens would be appreciated.
Eyrie:
Eyrie.
I find your lack of faith in a fellow cat to be … disturbing.
Probably not a smart idea to stage a protest during Mass in a Latino community.
Video going viral.
Wot Mother Lode said, Frank.
That was horrific. 🙁
Have you got a link?
So the “Just in Time” supply concept is working out fine, then?
Perhaps the fools who thought this one up, and collected obscene levels of bonuses, will have those bonuses removed forcibly, one hopes, from their collective rectums?
And a medal from Chinerr congratulating them on their successful sabotage of the Western Industrial Complex?
And like he’d waste it on something as petty as a mere injector…
#CommencePrimaryIgnition
He is a charmer isn’t he, Edward Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey.
Why the Lack of Religion Breeds Mental Illness
‘Course not!
Only Toyota have ever taken the entire concept seriously, as it never meant just keeping minimal stockpiles of parts and widgets on hand. As demonstrated by this rather natty little Youtube Playlist, organised in neat little bites.
The Toyota Way (aka Kaizen) is an entire management philosophy that encompasses everything from the company’s values and planning philosophy to its personnel practices to its stock management and production minutiae.
Something practically the entire business world and everyone else failed or outright refused to grasp when first looking at Toyota’s methods of making money in such lean conditions, then blamed every external force they could imaginate (including ‘capitalism’ itself) when the hollowed-out imitations all the slick MBA schools adopted subsequently collapsed in on themselves due to self (i.e. government)- inflicted supply shocks.
Whatever Dylan Voller might have been slung is gone, and was gone years ago.
There’s no more blood to be squeezed out of the public speaking goon bag*, because he’s living ‘out of country’ (between Moama and shooting galleries in Sydney) and anything he does say – if he’s asked, which he won’t be – will be soaked by the traditional owners. Live by the sword, and all that.
Last I heard he was doing shit stickups in Moama and then hiding in Sydney.
*aka Silver Pillow.
Delightful indeed. 🙁
There is only one acceptable course of action in response:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dqX8ClC2XPY
Talking about manufacturing, a helicopter rotor blade was 3D printed (in metal obviously). This is now a game changer for manufacturing.
The three components to manufacture using 3D printing is
1. The printer
2. Factory
3. AI and computing
The US leads in all three by a mile, which means, going forward, China is totally fucked. When you can 3D print a helicopter blade, which would be far superior to humans doing the processing, it’s all over. Manufacturing will make its way back the the US and leave empty factories in China. What an incredible turn of events.
The US dumped the dirty manufacturing to China, while still remaining the number economy in the world with one of the highest living standards and when the manufacturing process becomes automated, which it is through 3d, the activity on-shored. Who won in the long term? Oh the US!
No, no.
He’s “been caught up in a wealth re-distribution scheme which is legally problematical, but is now living with his Aunty Joy in Redfern and has got his life back on track”.
AOC shares her”learned” opinion on ROE v WADE .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/vwMj581
I know the Australian Army has some experimental Rapid Prototyping units designed for deployment off the back of a truck in field conditions, which might well produce some very decent field-expedient bits and gubbins where a stockpile of spares might not be readily available.
How it goes as a general industry thing might either be interesting, or something of a niche (I hesitate to call it a dead-end as far as mass production goes) until we see some more improvements in metallurgy and materials science.
A sintered metal powder and resin matrix part may take some time to reach a similar degree of consistency and robustness of a cast or machined one (or it may never be used as a substititute for these in very critical applications), but if and when it does, look out! 🙂
Cultural Destruction: Is This Planned?
Peak Prosperity
From Covid to George Floyd to Ukraine to abortion, are these all things meant to divide us?
We are all rats in a cage who are being shocked. A very well-studied form of psychological warfare is being waged against us, and it’s designed to encourage us to overlook where the shocks are originating and fight amongst each other.
If you want a laugh try this assessment set up by das ABC.
It lets you know which party you are most aligned with to help you with voting. The questions are quite clearly set by an insider with a leftist agenda.
Needless to say I came in bottom far right of the final chart. LOL.
https://votecompass.abc.net.au/
Want proof Balding Boy Minister Matt Kean leaks to the media?
Matt Kean has done as much damage to the reputation of the NSW Liberal Party with its support base as Malcolm Turnbull.
So how does anyone take him seriously enough for front page treatment?
It’s called maintaining the sources:
Kean leaks … journalists repay.
Kean should have been laughed out of town but instead he’s treated seriously.
Victory Day military parade kicks off in Moscow (WATCH LIVE)
Russia is celebrating the 77th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany and its allies in World War II
Victory Day military parade kicks off in Moscow (WATCH LIVE)
Whilst listening, interesting to read comments
TIKs Operation Uranus Begins.
Episode 35.
Did the Romanians run?
Actually they held rather well against the Soviet infantry but were overrun by the Russian armour they didn’t have defences for.
Dear oh dear. Another one of those famous UAF ‘counteroffensives’ that end up no where as the one near Kherson did. Muellerween indeed. Belgorod is under no threat. What you are witnessing in the north is very likely a PR exercise similar to the ill-fated sortie out to Snake Island over the weekend. The RUS/ DPR/ LPR were no where near there current positions north and east of the southern battle line. But, sure, sure, UAF forces in Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk, for example, are doing fine, they have an easy line of retreat now that RUS are to their NW and SE with the latter being the high ground.
The Victory parade speeches are over with no new announcement. For weeks Western analysts have been telling us that RUS were absolutely desperate to announce something, anything, on May 9, willing to risk this or that, adjust the tempo of battle to get some result, anything….Nothing announced. Complete frauds. Another rubbish talking point bits the dust.
Europe’s Mad Ban On Russian Oil
Cognitive scientists would concur in that the current performance of European leadership could be diagnosed as either myopic ignorance or – most probably – full intellectual blindness.
Ursula von der Leyen
In the case of so far happy-go-lucky Ursula von der Leyen there is no doubt it´d be the latter… but only if we first dismiss her warm on-the-record support for Bundeswehr colonial policies and military involvement… plus her praise of Third Reich famous general Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, Commander of the Führer Headquarters. But leaving that possible Nazi whiff aside, full ´intellectual blockage´ is the only kind way to dare explain a most strategic project as foolish and doomed to fail as banning Russian oil sales worldwide. Why so you may ask ?
asymmetrical retaliation
The short answer is massive — ´Russian´ massive – unmitigated “asymmetrical non-military retaliation” through surgical and divisive optional sales of natural gas – and other key commodities – just leaving EU sanctioned Russian oil for sale to and re-sale by third parties.
Ursula´s softball
May I call you Ursula ? Thank you. “We will make sure that we phase out Russian oil in an orderly fashion [… a phenomenal bad joke of sorts… ] in a way that allows us and our partners to secure alternative supply routes and minimises the impact on global markets” you said. Question: will the Russians just idly watch you trying to execute such enormity at the EU´s preferred speed and political and geopolitical sequencing? And the Russians would never dare to strike back with natural gas or other restrictions no? For starters, what about nickel, uranium, and lithium? Not having them would be like trying to prepare tasty food without salt, pepper or mustard. Without uranium no nuclear power is possible, did you know? [ more on that later ]. Ursula, your pink unicorn wishful thinking is unfathomable gal.
– EU kelpers
– Russian DNA
– Russian hardball
– expensive divorce
– plug & play (not)
– tit-for-tat ?
– human food
– Russian leverage
– eyes wide shut
– Russian vacations
– mission impossible
– data laundromat
– two to tango
– Prices
– logistics & freight
– nuclear blues
– unmanageable world finances
– not your dog
Fair shake… the vote compass at their ABC has been completely rejected by many experts. I went on there and yes I too was bottom right but it had labor bottom right and libs slightly more bottom right. Since when are Labor free market and conservative? It was completely wrong. Only the Greens were in the right spot.
There’s yer prob right there DB! 😛
Don’t waste your time listening to “western experts.”
They are absolutely terrible. The people that Sky News UK get are the worst.
Victory Day military parade kicks off in Moscow (WATCH LIVE)
Impressive and very Mono-Ethnic
To be fair, Sky “after dark” is usually quite good….
Oh how I laughed when I just recalled how EVERY SINGLE FUCKING “EXPERT” predicted the Donald could never win.
Here’s some more fear p0rn for you:
Something odd is happening to Earth’s magnetic field. Over the last 200 years, it’s been slowly weakening and shifting its magnetic north pole (where a compass points, not to be confused with the geographic north pole) from the Canadian Arctic toward Siberia. In recent decades, however, that slow shift south has quickened — reaching speeds upwards of 30 miles per year (48 kilometers per year). Could we be on the brink of a geomagnetic reversal, in which the magnetic north and south poles swap places?
New titles for the election jaded:
Veil of Torment: her blood raced, her body pulsed, her desire was a thing of madness!
Broad Bait: he was tall, dark and a Fed – but that didn’t explain why there was a new, naked nympho waiting for him every place he went.
Exotica: it was a sin cruise on a lust ship called Exotica!
Blonde Danger: beautiful, blonde and bad! She was a real sex menace.
Ukraine lied to its encircled troops – commander
The captured officer says he decided to flee after realizing that promised help wouldn’t be coming
Ukraine told troops besieged by Russian forces in Mariupol that help was on its way, while making no actual attempts to end the blockade of the city, the commander of the country’s 36th Naval Infantry Brigade has told RT.
Colonel Vladimir Baranyuk and his unit were tasked with guarding the northern outskirts of Mariupol, a strategic port city in the southeast of Ukraine, amid the Russian military operation in the country.
He was even awarded the Hero of Ukraine honor for his “courage and effective actions in repelling enemy attacks,” with Kiev asserting that the colonel and the other defenders of Mariupol would never surrender.
But as the Russian forces kept gaining ground, Baranyuk ended up surrendering peacefully after being captured during a failed attempt to flee the city.
He was apprehended hiding in the fields together with a number of his men a few kilometers north of Mariupol.
The commander of the marines now says the Ukrainian government lied to him and his troops in order to keep them fighting.
“Kiev told us to hold on, [saying] that the units that will lift the blockade are coming, they’ll soon be here,” Baranyuk told RT.
The promise was made despite President Volodymyr Zelensky’s adviser, Alexey Arestovich, openly acknowledging in interviews that Kiev “won’t be able to save” its forces in Mariupol.
“We were promised certain help. Naturally, this help didn’t arrive. And this pushed us to come out,” the colonel said, explaining his decision to flee.
It was “painful” for the troops when they realized that they had been left for dead, but “everybody, including myself, understood it,” Baranyuk added.
Cronkite , where do you find these titles?
40 miles an hour is the speed magnetic north is moving!!! That’s insane!!!!
Nothing in comparison to Australia’s 7cm per annum shift toward Nth East (although, politically, moving North, North-West)…
Lysander:
Yes.
It does that every 1/2 million years IIRC.
Probably brought on by Gerbil Wormening.
All the ducks will fly South and perish in the Great Southern Ocean, and so will the pigeons and Polar Bears.
Unfortunately the politicians will be OK.
We are all rats in a cage who are being shocked. A very well-studied form of psychological warfare is being waged against us, and it’s designed to encourage us to overlook where the shocks are originating and fight amongst each other.
We need to “shock” the establishment by voting for anyone else but them. Resultant instability or ineptitude in Government is of no consequence. How could the ineptitude be any more destructive than what we have already experienced?
At this point I have zero sympathy for “least worst” arguments for any of the establishment.
Let’s try 40 miles per year ffs…. **rolls eyes**
They come to me when I sleep, perchance to dream. Of what I say not.
Actually, they’re real titles. You need to expand your horizons.
But here is an amazing map showing how far it has moved since 1900:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00007-1
Basically was “mid” Canada and is now past Greenland into Atlantic…
Vote Compass. ABC questions are not questions at all. They are assertions which they know the luvvies will agree with.
“Yep, I’m the kinda guy who, when mistakes are made, I own up to them.” Why does that sound vaguely familiar?
Did you guys know I grew up in housing commission with a single mother and three siblings. (100% True life story actually)… I’ll remind you some time soon.
Did you guys know I grew up in housing commission with a single mother and three siblings. (100% True life story actually)… I’ll remind you some time soon.
On a quiet Sunday night in Darwin:
NT Police have said a 15-year-old girl was expected to be summonsed for aggravated unlawful use of a motor vehicle following a crash in a stolen car in Marrara overnight during a police chase, while five other girls in the car, aged between 10 and 15-years old, will be dealt with under the Youth Justice Act.
Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Bland said a statement, that about 2am on Monday, police saw the car moving erratically along Lee Point Rd and started chasing it. However after less than 30 seconds, it failed to turn and crashed at the intersection of Lee Point Rd and McMillians Rd, he said.
Det Snr Sgt Bland said the car was stolen and six female girls inside the car were taken to Royal Darwin Hospital for assessment and have since been discharged.
NT Independent
And I’m sure the Russian admission and actions to abandon the attack on Kharkov and retreat north was a RuSe and a StRaTaGeM to DiStRaCt FrOm ThE MaIn BrEaKtHrOuGh. Ditto the blown bridges, right?
#WhosePocket?
#AnyDayNow…
(From Southfront of all places, 06/05/22:
Fierce positional battles continue in the Kharkiv region. Amid the counter offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) near the capital of the region, Russian forces advance in the areas of Izyum and Liman.
[…]
After the Russian units withdrew from Stary Saltov, the Ukrainian Armed Forces blew up the bridge over the river, the threat of encirclement increased. The Russian units are likely to leave the northern outskirts of Kharkiv.
In order to prevent the Russian Armed Forces from being locked in the cauldron, their military command decided to withdraw Russian units from Tsirkun, Cherkasskiye Tishek, and Lipsy.
Assault units of the AFU entered Lipsy this morning. At that time, the Russian Armed Forces were no longer in the village. The Russian units had withdrawn to the north. The Russian Armed Forces now control a 7-8-kilometer buffer zone to the north of Kharkiv.
[…]
Fighting near the Russian border north of Kharkiv is still going on. Two AFU tanks were destroyed near Tsupovka in another attempt to break through Russian defenses.
The Ukrainian military command is trying to take maximum advantage of the low concentration of Russian forces in the area near Kharkiv and is actively attempting to counter attack.)
Jill Biden.
Stunning and brave.
Top secret visit to Ukraine.
By stepping across the border from Slovakia into Ukraine.
Which is roughly 800-900 kms West of the action.
Obviously climate change related, Lysander.
And
Also due to climate change.
The glorious army of the Russian people push forward on all fronts, sweeping the fascist mercenaries of the West aside.
Did I get that right?
For a “victorious sweeping aside of inferior enemy” they are sure taking their time about it.
The Earth’s magnetic field variation and the navigation problems that ensue have long been a source of fascination and frustration to me.
Here is good article from the US NOAA on Geomagnetic Pole Shift.
Apologies for the jargon above .
NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/dangerous-american-game-helping-kill-russian-generals?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=647
I for one could give the Russians a few clues of US Generals that really need a good dose of HE.
Jomini’s latest analysis thread seems to agree with this, ditto the threat posed by the Offensive That Apparently Isn’t at Kharkov:
https://mobile.twitter.com/JominiW/status/1522989589975437312
How long before we go from subtracting 200mil from Grid to Magnetic bearings in East Oz (I think it’s add 200mil in the West) and reverse it to add (and subtract in WA), I wonder?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/future-space-worlds-first-outer-space-hotel-scheduled-open-2025-video/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=the-gateway-pundit&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=2022-05-08
I’ll believe it when I see it.
In this talk of magnetic poles moving around, please don’t mention Immanuel Velikovsky (1895-1979) a Pole Shift Believer.
I’m wondering how long it will take for people to figure out that most of the leftards “visiting” Ukraine weren’t actually there.
Hollywood is amazing. Like Joe in the Oval Office.
Green screens. Enjoy the movie.
Rex, I don’t care what South Front say. I’ve never visited their site nor do I follow people, as far as I know, that rely on their info. None of them seems particularly concerned about north Kharkov sector.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/wentzville-school-district-comes-fire-disgusting-cop-shooting-test-question-video/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=2022-05-08
The Wentzville School District came under fire this week after posting a disgusting cop shooting question on one of its student exams.
Already happened. An Iranian general by the name of Solemaini copped a Hellfire to the face.
I wonder what memory aide will replace grandma sucks …
South Front are as pro-RUS Narrative as any of your other preferred sources.
If even they are admitting to a pullback from Kharkov, who are any of your other sources to say it isn’t real?
In fact, even more so- It’s Russian-run.
Zoe Daniels.
It’s a little bland. Small edit suggestions.
The glorious and heroic armies of the Russian people push forward on all fronts, sweeping the evil, fascist mercenaries of the West aside. Millions of fascist have been captured or killed.
SouthFront and RussiaToday are both pretty Woke and not particularly credible.
Are they run by ex-spooks, Mr. Ed?
GRU even, JC. 😉
We have been living in a politics-free zone for the last ten or so days, thus it is good to catch up with the Cat and be given some idea of how things are panning out for the election. Still looks very much like a hung parliament. Plus ca change from when we left in that case. We leave my friend’s place at Saffron Walden (Walden to the locals) today and head for a six day stay in Colchester to check out the Roman ruins and take a trip by train down to London to vote at Australia House and see some other people re the Church endeavour.
Sutton Hoo: we spent a pleasant day there, arriving in time for a picnic lunch. It has changed greatly since I first came there alone in March 2006 on a cold day while Hairy was doing some research work at nearby BT Labs fin. Typically, I neglected to check its opening times and found it was closed. At that time there was just the expansive field with barrows over to the right, a large empty car park and a shut up small interpretation centre. I had the spooky site to myself and enjoyed it for the redolant atmospherics. Since then the National Trust has taken over and the site has bloomed larger, including now a huge car park and extra parking sites, a shiny new interpretation centre and cafe, a garden setting and a tree-lined path to the barrows. We went on a tour, taken by a voluntary guide who was quite knowledgeable, and thus were permitted as tour members to stand on the top of the barrow number one where the ship burial was found by Mr. Basil Brown working via the aegis of Mrs. Pretty, the site owner at that time. The talk met audience interest. It contained a lot about the film and filming and the truth or otherwise of the story, for the audience for this historic site has quadrupled or more since the film ‘The Dig’ (which I reviewed on Quadrant) was made.
One new feature is that Mrs Pretty’s large mansion is now open to the public and it is full of wonderful memorabilia of her life and times. There is rare footage on show there of Basil Brown himself with his deep Suffolk accent which Ralph Fiennes managed to capture well (he had special training). It is a very pleasant old British Country House, where Hairy and I managed to escape crowds later in the day and sit in two deckchairs in front of it, holding hands in the late afternoon sun as it dappled the gentle slopes covered with Spring bluebells and buttercups which led down to the River Deven where the ship was hauled up for its final resting place as seventh century King Raedwald’s transport to Valhalla.
Recent excavations have uncovered yet another (smaller) Saxon-culture ship burial and some grisly ‘execution’ burials of the Christian period. We inspected the excellent replicas of the archaeological finds in the interpretation centre (why are you watching that silly stuff, says my archaologist friend as I sit through a dramatisation of ‘news from Frankia about the new Christ god’). We had paid a visit to the British Museum in our first week in London and had seen the originals there. The replicas here were better, for they had a great series of iron rods showing the process of pattern welding of swords, such as Uhtred had for his famou sword ‘Serpent Breath’ in ‘The Last Kingdom’ series. That particular display concluded with a fine pattern-welded reproduction sword under lights for admiring glances.
The Russians don’t have a Hollywood.
Hollywood is an extremely powerful force, and it’s dominated exclusively by leftards. To the bone.
It’s more powerful than any tank that man can devise.
I don’t know for sure, but it’s the way to bet.
On the way home we drove through a village near Saffron Walden called Ugly.
It is where you will find The Ugly Women’s Institute, comments my friend.
They try to escape by pronouncing it Eugly, but the spelling gives them away. lol.
She speculates about them also having an annual Ugly Babies Competition.
Scotty Kilmer:
How and when to replace rotors and brake pads.
Lathe of the week, $120! Taig Micro lathe, don’t be alarmed by the tailstock, someone’s put it on backwards. VIC:
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/alfredton/power-tools/micro-metal-working-lathe/1294924999
Bluebells and buttercups and daisies are everywhere right now, especially in woodland areas such as the one visited the day before yesterday, finishing our trip with a stop at a Grade 1 listed church alone in a field, once a church with a thriving Elizabethan community, none of which is now left, so it stand sentinal to the ages still, alone. We were able to enter and walk around and enjoy its slightly damp and musty aura, which dates from the twelfth century, with additions and changes every century after that, but with most of it still prior to the seventeenth century. This is the sort of place you come to England to see. Lovely.
Yesterday we ‘did’ the special Hockney Exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, which stressed this good contemporary artist’s experimentation with Camera Lumina and other technological fixes he claims now were used by many of the classic old masters. Interesting examples of how to do this technique.
My friend’s brother also went to Cambridge so there was much talk with Hairy about old times and good pubs, but the place these days is teeming with people and not particularly pleasant due to that; although the old buildings are still there. Keep looking up, advise the two Cambridge afficionados. Much that was previously open to the public is now closed, including sadly the Wren Library. The Backs are also closed for transit.
We escaped to Grantchester for Rupert Brooke’s ‘scones and tea at ten to three’, where although popular we found the old atmosphere still prevailed, as the Orchard Tea Room was little changed from the 70’s and indeed remained true to the pre First World War period when Brookes idealised it from the trenches as a comparator to life as it once was. An appeal for Ukraine was part of the noticing as we waited to order and take with us our tray to the deckchairs in the garden under the apple blossoms.
Hairy and I walked alone down from the orachard to the River Granta and the riverside cowpastures, where bucolic brown cows across the field rested chewing the cud and in the distance a little girl in a traditional smock ran merrily across to her waiting parents. A swan drifted by quelling the irridescent necks of the busy mallard ducks and we drank in the scene as if in a Constable painting, for the skies were watercolour washed as mist was moving up there to complete the bee-hummed sunny day.
Was someone asking about Gonzalo Lira? Here he is, saying that Europe was committing economic suicide by sanctioning Russia. He makes a pretty good argument of it, too.
Russian Sanctions on Europe: Gonzalo Lira II
Pack, pack, pack, pack, gotta go do it. We are leaving in fifteen minutes and things are everywhere!!
Or, according to reports, relocated to work camps in Siberia.
Awaiting confirmation, of course, but it would accord with Putin’s admiration for Xi’s methods.
It used to be a little confusing, but most aero charts had the variation printed on them.
From memory it was around 11 – 12 degrees East.
This rhyme comes back to me for figuring out which way to go:-
“Variation East, Magnetic Least. Variation West, Magnetic Best.”
“Franksays:
May 9, 2022 at 7:03 pm
How could the ineptitude be any more destructive than what we have already experienced?
Zoe Daniels.”
Correct….Zoe Daniel, Monique Ryan and Jo Dyer are dangerous.
Jomini has frontal assaults of heavily fortified positions in Donbass. He has the axis of attack at Severdonestsk coming from the SW whereas it is actually occurring from NE through Rubizhne. There is also the question of the missing 15 BTGs that the Pentagon thinks is in the area but no one apart from RUS knows where; Jomini has 27 BTGs jammed in Izyum.
Winston
If the position were reversed, how would the United States react to a third country deliberately helping to kill U.S. commanders?
I seem to recall (Soviet) Russians taking a fairly active role in North Vietnam?
ABC: ‘Brisbane residents want parties to address plane noise.’
Did you guys know I grew up in housing commission with a single mother and three siblings. (100% True life story actually)… .
Hollywood beckons. Absolute bullshit.
What about Oryx though? They appeared to have legitimately documented Russian IFV & armour losses in the hundreds and thousands.
Oh, the pullback could be real, it’s the doom and gloom scenario I’m discounting.
Are you sure?
The Z Man has ideas on how to fix social media. The TL;DR badly paraphrased version:
1. Make the platform less appealing to the wrong sort of elements by removing the ability of people to rat each other out.
2. Put a downvote button back in so the freaks can fight among themselves and everyone else gets to suss out their reputation before they make the mistake of interacting.
3. Not letting people be moderators since to wanting the job should probably disqualify you.
A sintered metal powder and resin matrix part may take some time to reach a similar degree of consistency and robustness of a cast or machined one (or it may never be used as a substititute for these in very critical applications), but if and when it does, look out!
About 5 years ago metal 3D printing was used to manufacture an M1911 pistol. Very little post printing finishing was done and the metal was said to be denser with fewer flaws than one made by traditional methods. The printing included the barrel with rifling. Last heard it had more than 7000 rounds through it. Lots of metal aircraft parts being made this way and in Melbourne a few years ago and entire small jet engine. was demonstrated. Then there is Relativity Space who are making 3D printed orbital rockets. The whole damn thing. Engines, fuel pipes and tanks as one integrated whole. Currently limited to 30 feet tall or so for the sub assemblies but in the new building they’ll go to 100 feet tall in one piece. They designed and built their own large scale printer There’s a good interview with the boss man at Marcus House’s Youtube channel from a couple of weeks ago. Recommended..
Another funny thing about Jomini’s maps, common to a lot of pro-UKR channels, is that he gives pre-war estimates re Battalions, completely passing over 60+ days of warfare and attrition.
The crabby La Crabb pontificates that women will determine the final stage of the election campaign:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-09/election-2022-morrison-albanese-women-vote/101050546
Just don’t ask her what a woman is, if course.
Brisbane residents want parties to address plane noise
Easy, peasy. Don’t live near an airport or particularly, under a flight path.
Seriously, when I’ve been in Brisbane and seen aircraft on approach to the airport I can’t hear them over the traffic noise. They seem to take off to the north over the water mostly so no problem for where people live. I wonder how many of these gits own noisy dogs that piss off their neighbours or noisy lawnmowers?
Independents are just sewer rats.
Sancho, you need the date of the chart with the current magnetic declination in degrees (+ or -) The declination moves around year by year.
Military maps are much more precise they use mils instead of degrees for calculations for the difference between magnetic and true bearings.
Mils have 6400 units in a circle as against 360 degrees in conventional use.
One mil subtends one metre at 1000 metres which is useful for ground use, but way too fine for aerial work, much easier to use degrees and nautical miles.
This the world’s Magnetic Declination Chart
Move along. Nothing to see here.
Barnaby on PML in the pub, free-balling and cracking jokes while giving it to the liars. He’s pretty good.
What ‘doom and gloom’ is that?
That the Glorious Russian Peoples’ Army might not surround, cut off and annihiliate all the Ukro-Nazis and bring about Final Victory?
I remember that movie…
Justice Kavanaugh’s Neighbor Teacher Lacie Wooten-Holway Organized the Pro-Abortion Protest Outside of His Home Saturday …Update: It was Not the First Time
Fuck I hate teachers.
Hawley To Mayorkas: ‘The Time Has Come For You To Resign’
Snake oil salesman The Beetrooter is on Sky selling snake oil.
And? They’re certainly not making any ‘pockets,’ that’s for certain…
And has he not done the same favourable assumptions and analysis of Russia’s BTGs?
To paraphrase something you said about the first recorded catastrophic kill of a T-90M in Ukraine the other day, that sort of commentary is starting to sound a lot like Cope…
Russian sanctions on Europe? They’re shutting off the gas? If not then they are not sanctions. Euros need to feel it more to bring them to their senses. Until they all go back to fossil fuels and nuclear we won’t be able to force our own politicians to abandon the “cheap” renewables.
Uh.
I may have misheard this, but Clive Palmer’s on the teev saying the UAP will…….
Put the sitting member last.
No qualifiers.
You’d think that an educated lefty woman would have a rational counterargument to the leaked draft, wouldn’t you?
Or perhaps not.
“There are no vaccine mandates in Australia” – Not true
Malcolm Roberts reminds us why the major parties must be on the bottom of your House of Representative vote, and absent entirely from your Senate vote. (3 minutes)
Zulu’s link at 5.16:
I will suggest here that any digger who fails to bring along lubricant for his section or patrol’s most potent and portable firepower will cop a hiding; both there and then when the machine gun jams, and then again on their return. IF they return, which that digger just vastly reduced the odds on.
BRS will not be Robinson Crusoe here. I will suggest that in the environment in those blokes are immersed, there is no tea and bickies and a hand-pat after a major fuckup like that. No soft-focus wittering*.
No ‘yeah but we’re trying really hard’, with a tear or two thrown in for effect. There is no room for that in the environment those people are in.
That the digger in question is a) breathing, and b) walking around, is evidence enough that the punishment meted out was extremely lenient.
*h/t Wally Dali
City in Zaporizhzhia Oblast in Ukraine. Bussed-in I guess.
Second that one – “The GPMG is the main firepower of the section, and is to be kept in action as long as there are soldiers to fire it.’
Correct.
Honestly, all the finest aerial nav calculations were built upon the quicksand of forecast wind direction and strength.
You needed visual and/or navaid “check and adjust” references en route.
I think BJ is doing well.
Er, well, that’s awkward for Craig.
I predict some Faulty level qualifiers popping up shortly.
Col. Richard Black: U.S. Leading World to Nuclear War
Schiller Institute
It’s called planning and preparation.
I imagine there would be a standard pack.
Single specialist items (e.g. oil) would be distributed around all members I guess.
He had maybe 2-3 “specialist items”.
Forgetting one deserves a whack.
With a rifle butt, across the throat.
Infantry (and SF, I will confidently assert) who carry machine guns are well aware of their role, and of the importance of keeping that thing operational – regardless of circumstance. They treat them like their new-born firstborn, and in my experience are very, very particular on cleaning it and keeping it going. This includes lubricants, which they will carry themselves rather than trust anyone else to do it.
Other diggers will lug around extra ammo and that sort of thing. Extra barrels – perhaps the gunner’s number 2. But the stuff that stops it jamming – that’s the gunner’s gig, and they know that.
They are really professional about it, which makes it even more of a fuckup that a SF machinegunner forgot the oil.
Whack. Whack. Whack.
Like your old radar gun, you’re just dribbling shit.
Proof?
Why Corruption is China’s Secret Weapon
PolyMatter
This is what I’m struggling with. These guys are an elite unit, and Noddy forgets the oil?
cohenitesays:
May 9, 2022 at 8:54 pm
I think BJ is doing well.
Not quite sure what I have done, but thank you anyway.
How the Biden Administration Creates Policies
AwakenWithJP
I’ve heard a few tales of contacts where a digger not pulling their weight maybe got a boot to the helmet from a Cpl on the way past, or similar corrective actions. Fact is there’s no room for niceties in that situation.
At the very least I’d expect forgetting lubrication for the MG would result in a brutal PT session, if it wasn’t a life threatening situation.
I sense a wordwall in the Force. A million people, crying out all at once.
Here’s my proof – the great big Earth Ball-sized buffoon, whilst wearing a gold coloured shirt, said it on the picture wireless while I was watching it.
Also, it appeared on the headline bar at the bottom of the page.
I must point out at this juncture that Clive was not on a boat.
The part we should all struggle with, is it was totally his fault, yet he doesn’t adopt; “What happens on patrol stays on patrol” , nor “What happens in the SAS stays in the SAS”
… and instead has gone running to …. a lawyer fffffffs…. to whinge that Corporal Robert-Smith roused on him during a patrol.
We’ll need more than that.
An ex Vicplod hiding out up in Darwin in the long grass with da lady in the boat is not what we’d describe as a credible witness.
We’ll need more than that.
1. Who is ‘we’?
2. That’s what you have, C.L.*. I know you’re busy surfing multiple corner of teh webs simultaneously.
Yep. Shaped like a broomstick and painted black. Scares off any bread van driver within 50 kilometres.
*Couch Lad.
I’d comment about something but
Blockquote fail.
Laughing really hard at the aspiring yet failed dictator.
“Please, thir, that horrible Ben Roberts – Smith threatened to fvck me up the arze until my nose bled, and all I did was forget the machine gun oil, and the gun jammed in the middle of a contact…”
Call me Nostradamus if you wish, for I’ve a feeling he may have omitted some of the detail as to why Corporal Roberts-Smith was feeling cross.
Call me Nostradamus if you wish, but good luck in getting candidates for selection for SASR, and the Commando’s after this circus.
Wut?
Not even his 16′ Titanic replica?