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This wasn’t said by me, this was taken from catallaxy…….this is Dover’s denialists.
Oh really, Brookfield were going in by providing debt or equity?
Stuth get back to the furniture store. Shoo.
Enemy of the free world and eugenicist, population controller, …and climate alarmist, genocidal Bill Gates, enemy of the world and looked up to by JC, ……his latest.
Stuth, go practice engine braking.
Hey JC, Fuck off back to Lygon street, you dumb urban beta male.
The only thing you’ve got a handle on these days, is your little pee pee.
Since the jabbing, your brains are in your arse.
And you weren’t that bright before hand.
Really?
Bill Gates is a good bloke in your eyes?
I always thought you’re the wittiest here, Stuth.
You know what thought did…
While people are out crying that they can’t nourish their babies, the Democrats think they are going to be outraged that they can’t abort them.
here have a gif
The Stalinst pervert perjure-pimps from Arseholes Broadcasting Communism railing against politicians’ ‘shamelesness’ but ever Moree shameless about their own woke left hyper-bias:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-10/election-2022-morrison-deves-trans-albanese-minimum-wage/101052710
Like any self-respecting latter day celebrity would put themselves in actual danger for the sake of a paycheque or a spot of endogenous endorphins. That sort of thing just isn’t done these days. Mear enough is plenty good enough.
Anyway, the last celebrity who actually braved being in a Zone of Danger and under fire was Hillary Clinton at Sarajevo… 😉
#Sarc
America in 2022, Andy Ngo has just uploaded this…..
Seattle pro-choice protesters try to shut down mass at cathedral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHEYsl4r8tQ
Note the demented screaming, the screeching, the irrationality and the insanity from these extremists.
I note the woman in the green top, who looks of Middle Eastern descent, had a Lebanese flag on her back. I’d like to see her do to the same outside a church or a mosque in the Middle East, she’d be beaten to a pulp.
Andrew Bolt is a moron.
The hydrogen foolishness continues.
https://www.australianflying.com.au/latest/aviation-h2-to-explore-liquid-ammonia-for-turbofans
What do you reckon BoN? I know they had so much trouble with the X-15 rocket engine running on LOx/Ammonia that nobody will touch it again.
The Wikipedia article on ammonia is interesting. Maybe the jet engine will even light and run. Maybe.
Well, that was to the point, if a little unexpected.
JC at 7:02.
Man, oh man!
That is a stinkin’ set of numbers
(In USD millions).
2017 : Sales 626 m … Net Loss 37 m
2018 : Sales 881 m … Net Loss 113 m
2019 : Sales 1,210 m … Net Loss 637 m
2020 : Sales 1,614 m … Net Loss 350 m
2021 : Sales 2,089 m … Net Loss 696 m.
That reads like a spiral dive to me.
Classic case of buying growth at below marginal cost.
2021 net profit margin of minus 33%.
Good luck recovering that.
Here’s their annual report as reported to the SEC
Attlasian has never made a profit. In 2021 they made a $696 million loss. Before the share plummet it was a + $100 billion company. The 2 rich brats running it have never paid tax and as far as I can see their only way of raising money would be to sell their inflated shares or borrow against them. I hope part of the share reaction is because of the dipshit’s attempt to fuck over AGL; not that they need any help; the bastards are running their coal assets into the ground and living off the massive subsidies for renewables. Their business model is not a long term one.
In paywalled local Tasmanian news.
‘Shattering the peace’: Conservationists slam seaplane operation at Lake St Clair
Sleeping water sounds suspiciously like some convenient fauxboriginal lore fit for purpose. Further from a local greens spokes beard.
Then there is this.
Does look pretty nice despite the polluted skies.
For light relief in the election campaign, we have Queen Skank Patten of Yarragrad wailing and moaning about her Sex (sorry, ‘Reason’) Party not getting Labor preferences in the federal election despite her unswerving subservience to Dan Xi Man in Spring Street.
I assume equity, although it wasn’t clear.
They are Cannucks, but I don’t think they are silly enough to gear C-B up to 80% against not much.
One takeoff and landing a WEEK. The peace will be forever shattered.
I got a fun story
Wifey due to fly to Cocos-Keeling-Chritmas island with Tangaroa Blue…
Cocos co-ordinator just dropped dead in the kitchen in front of the kids.
40, lived on sunshine and ish.
Fourth jab fresh in her arm for the project.
Ah, Dover, you might draw a bit of heat if the Gates Foundation got hold of this.
They will end up owning a beaten up vintage Kenworth and an out-of-tune guitar at this rate.
There seems to be a St Clair Dam and a weir. How much water was in the aboriginally significant lake before the dam was built?
Does that maybe look like this, Eyre? 😉
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t9wmWZbr_wQ
1. Lidia Thorpe screams filthy abuse at police and most of the MSM go quiet, all she receives is a slap on the hand, if that.
2. Lidia Thorpe smears a fellow conservative senator with a gutter remark and nothing is done, no senate censure for her.
3. Mark Latham sends out a stupid inappropriate tweet, a play on words….and is being crucified, even smeared as a racist by Andrew Blot.
4. Katherine Deves states that transitioning children is mutilation….which it is. You don’t have to use surgery to mutilate a child, pumping children them with cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers, which poisons their bodies and makes them sterile IS mutilation.
I could go go on. The double standards and the hypocrisy is never ending.
Great country we have now.
Cohenite, JC.
Based on simple reading of the 2021 Atlassian numbers, to break even, they would have to:-
.1 halve their R&D, Sales and Marketing and G&A; or
.2 Jack up prices by 35% without shedding customers; or
.3 Some combination of the two.
No idea, it is a Tasmanian environmental issue though so expectations of consistency are low to begin with.
These are the people that culled the cats from some island because cats are bad. This then led to a rabbit explosion resulting in a loss of ground cover and the land started to subside into the ocean. God is not a conservationist and he has a perverse sense of humour at times.
A blast from the past ..
Larry Storch from ‘F Troop’ ?
He is still going strong at age 99! .. born on Jan 08, 1923.
https://ibb.co/SNmXVgR
Cassie at 8:11.
Nick McCallum was whipping himself into a frenzy over Latham on 3AW today.
When a caller raised the Thorpe comparison, he just said, “We dealt with that on our Sunday program. Not ideal.”
FMD.
No argument from me, Cassie. Sophie Ellsworth and Warren Mundine disappoint me as well. Groupthink is never a good idea but this wise saying has lost its primacy. A disastrous election result for both major parties might bring at least one of them to their senses.
She plays the race card so well.
A woman in Paul Murray’s audience just came up with a brilliant expression: Albonesia instead of amnesia.
I read a book a while ago by a rocket engineer and chemist. He was involved with the X-15 Lox Ammonia engine. The troubles were severe at first.
He found himself on an airliner one day and struck up a conversation with the passenger in the next seat. The conversation turned to the problems with the X-15. “It’s going to kill someone”. The other passenger then introduced himself ” hi, I’m Scott Crossfield”. The X-15 test pilot.
Mark Latham sends out a stupid inappropriate tweet, a play on words….and is being crucified, even smeared as a racist by Andrew Blot.
He did that? Fuck he is a pious arsehole who has no sense of humour.
What’s he done this time?
Bolt is much diminished. A bit like Winston after O’Brien was finished with him.
Andrew Bolt: too soon for inclusion in men that look like sour old lesbians list?
He really went downhill after he started doing TV
Eyrie – Ammonia is extremely corrosive, especially with a bit of moisture in it. And since it’s deliquescent that’s impossible to avoid.
It’s also very toxic. So a spill would be almost as bad as a breach of a compressed chlorine gas cylinder. There would be hysterics from the public.
It also requires a lot of heat and pressure to synthesize from hydrogen and nitrogen. In the conventional process that comes from combusting syngas or naphtha, which also provide the hydrogen by reforming. That combustion energy isn’t available if you are using electricity, so you have to heat it all up and compress it the hard way. So it will be expensive.
As you know I’ve suggested methanol, which does need heat and pressure to produce, but once you have it it’s easy to handle and transport, and can be used in conventional engines without serious corrosion or toxicity hazards.
In short: ammonia is bonkers. Even worse that the green hydrogen brainfart.
“What’s he done this time?”
Smearing Latham as a racist because of the tweet. You’d think, given what Blot went through over a decade ago, he’d be more circumspect about joining in a lynching.
Feeling sympathy for Michael Gunner. That made me laugh out loud.
Then he interviewed that dribbler Greg Sheridan. At that stage I had to turn him off.
Feeling sympathy for Michael Gunner. That made me laugh out loud.
Then he interviewed that dribbler Greg Sheridan.
oh Lord
It is the moralising routine, it is not possible for anyone to do it full time and remain relevant. No-one can be that pious.
I don’t have a reference, but, from memory, Andrew Bolt was so stunned at the vehemence of Julia Gilliard’s reaction to the proposed Michael Smith interview, over the AWU skullduggery, that he (Bolt) was considering retiring.
There’s your problem right there, you turned it on in the first place.
Thanks for the edit of the offensive stuff Dover.
There are plenty of grounds to criticise people like that without going the full Annie.
Blot’s experience before Judge Mordy scarred him permanently.
He flips between strident criticism of the left and a seeming desire to be accepted by them.
Ammonia is also the starting chemical for all N fertilizers, like urea and nitrates. As you know we’ve had a severe Ad Blue shortage: that’s because it’s been too expensive to make ammonia since natural gas is the primary feedstock to ammonia plants, and it is being sucked up by the renewables industry to keep the voters’ lights on.
That shortage/price rise has gotten worse as our Cat farmers have been describing, because Russian gas went into ammonia production and that tonnage is no longer available. Western countries tend not to produce ammonia because gas and labour are too expensive, so countries like Russia, China and the Gulf States produce most of it. Another case of what happens when nationalism suddenly reappears and you no longer produce strategic commodities yourself.
(Farmer Cats will be able to correct me on fert ammonia as I wrote this from memory, which is likely inaccurate since it’s been a while since I’ve read up on the ammonia landscape. I know the chemical processes though.)
Thanks, BoN, about what I thought.
I found this:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/er.6232#:~:text=When%20ammonia%20is%20used%20in,from%20the%20exhaust%20without%20burning.
Sounds like a non solution in search of a non existent problem.
All the fuel synthesis methods seem to require large energy inputs which isn’t all that surprising.
Sabatier seems not too bad to make methane which is what Musk wants to use on Mars to make rocket fuel (originally proposed by Dr Robert Zubrin I believe) in the In Situ Resource Utilisation process(ISRU). Means you don’t have to take your return fuel all the way to Mars.
Yes that’s what I was alluding to with the O’Brien comparison.
Re Andrew Bolt, what made me nauseous was his plaintive appeal to Sophie and Warren “What should I do? I can’t have him (Latham) on the show again after this.”
He sounded like a high school girl trying to get approval from the clique.
Spending more time with the family. Yeah righto (the NT News):
https://spectator.com.au/2022/05/get-wet-end-up-drowned/
Excellent re: liberals being squishy and moving left
Someone’s trying to get a fertilizer plant up and running, using the natural gas of the North West Shelf. The local indigenous are complaining that the emissions from the plant will destroy their cave paintings and wreck their songlines….
“He sounded like a high school girl trying to get approval from the clique.”
A very appropriate analogy.
Denialists used to think this bloke was pretty good, but what is he now, a conspiracy theorist?
“Blueysays:
May 10, 2022 at 9:06 pm
https://spectator.com.au/2022/05/get-wet-end-up-drowned/
Excellent re: liberals being squishy and moving left”
Excellent piece….thank you.
Something different.
Had the Kakadu Sunset experience today…just remarkable. Many…many crocs including Boofhead who was guarding a pig he’d dispatched a few days ago. And a jabiru and a great flock of whistling ducks. Great swathes of nodding lotus, trees reflected in the limpid water.
And finally, the sunset light show. Colours intensified by the seasonal burning, with the waxing moon watching with approval.
Litchfield tomorrow.
Eyrie – Lots of water on Mars, so hydrogen/oxygen would be fine for rocket fuel. Seems a lot of hassle to convert it to methane when you have to use the thin Martian atmosphere for your carbon source.
Probably better to cut out the middleman and use a nuke rocket with water as the propellant. It’s not as if the radiation is going to make much difference on Mars since the place is pretty well irradiated already.
Honestly Dover, do I have to put up with this racist garbage?
Bloody wogs trying to differentiate themselves from the hated white man.
Quite sickening.
And that liar Sancho keeps telling you how to run your blog.
Be fucked if I’d put up with that from anyone let alone a sneering couch potato like that.
Turn on TV.
Piers Morgan interviewing Scary Spice.
Change channels.
FMD.
Now Calli’s attempting a Lizzie .
Zulu, please expand this a little:
(I’ve no idea what it is about)
Said the ex-tour guide.
Steyn is still very good.
Said the bloke with banning rights at his own blog.
There is always a chance that somehow, somewhere, someone is having fun.
Can’t possibly have that.
Headline of the day at Zeeee Media, St. Ruth’s go-to site for ‘facts’ from ‘real experts’:
And, naturally, there’s this:
Thank god for you Dover doesn’t ban illogical, emotional responses, KD.
I’m having fun……………………..
Oh, and that possibly someone is looking out at the wider world and appreciating the incredible beauty that is all around us.
The other night I pointed out the constellation Orion and the stars that comprised the great huntsman. Where did you learn all that, I was asked.
Books. And stargazing since I was a little kid. And always waiting with hope to see a shooting star so I could make a wish.
Do you know how to tell south from the southern cross Calli?
Yes.
A perpendicular between the pointers and the long axis of the Southern Cross.
Next.
No. What Latham said was wrong. Sure, not any more wrong than some of the abusive, authoritarian, intolerant stuff from many of his detractors, but it was still wrong. And childish.
There’s a degree of not shooting people on the same side as you, but there have to be limits.
What Latham said was just flat out racist.
Do you know how to find north from looking at your watch?
Can you see Uranus?
As I have noted before, a lewd troll.
Grow up.
Piers Morgan redeeming himself, ever so slowly – if he keeps this up he may not get the sack.
Depends if the chemtrails are in season or not.
On astronomy….
If you want to amuse yourself ask a modern teenager whether the Sun or Jupiter is further away from us.
Or whether it is further to the Moon or London from Sydney.
That was the $5000 of dodgy union funds that her AWU boss boyfriend gave her for renovations. Much discussed on the old Cat at the time. Lots of “lost” paperwork, “missing” files and suchlike. Gillard was understandably unhappy with the scrutiny and ferociously attacked anyone who brought it up with all the ammunition she could assemble, which as PM was quite a lot.
Also linked with that whistleblowing union lady Smith took up with, she of the shovel at her front door.
I could look it all up but can’t be bothered. No way an ICAC would go after a lefty blue-eyed gal like her.
Andy Warhol
Thanks
blaming the victim
And you are going to do what about it exactly?
Except rant from the couch.
Again.
Sanchez
This is unreal
Their sales are tiny too.
This could be a 90%er before it’s all over.
He has been known to edit out the sillier defamatory stuff though.
Or so I’ve heard.
🙂
Got it now, that was when Micheal Smith & Glen Milne got sacked, over reporting of the fiasco in which Gillard’s Certificate to Practise was torn up.
I got one helluva tuneup at the time, from a lawyer working on some small matter for me, over commenting that two blokes had lost their jobs for paying attention to the matter.
No More Tolerating the Intolerant
none of the “experts” really believed this #4,291
Struth says:
May 10, 2022 at 9:40 pm
No but we can hear yours talking.
FFS give it a rest.
Journey Notes, for those interested, scroll otherwise; put up on the end of the Olde Fredde without looking at the time. Told you I am always in a hurry. 🙂
——
So, to continue. We side-stepped on our way from Saffron Walden to Colchester to visit something I had vaguely heard about but hardly believed: the Bartlow Mounds, a Romano-British set of seven burial mounds. We enter the village of Bartlow and all is sleepy Spring-day quiet. A few parked cars, and I spot a church entrance down a laneway. No signs to the mounds, nothing to see here etc. This is Hairy’s nightmare. He refused to use the GPS, got us here, and now no mounds to be seen. We will have to ask someone, I say, to his chagrin. But who? They are all off somewhere investigating the murders in which these villages abound, if you believe the TV shows, I jest. Ancient sacred sites often have churches located near them, I suggest. So we head down to the church, and true enough, there is a small path around the side with a worn-out wooden finger-post sign saying ‘to the mounds’.
The long bridle-path is lined with bracken and stinging nettles, so I am glad I am wearing jeans. We emerge to a most unusual sight – three very high constructed conical hills, the highest at fifteen metres and very wide around the base. We climb the steep vertigenous one hundred steps on the one-rack wooden stairway that leads to the top of the biggest mound and view the countryside around, to find that this group of seven mounds (four have been worn down to small hillocks) sits in a typical bronze age central sacred site surrounded by hills. More Ancient Britons than Romano I murmur, even though the grave goods found were Roman ones and a Roman villa stood nearby. This sort of mound was common enough in north-western Europe in Iron Age Roman-tinged areas, such as the Gallo-Roman villa from which the town of my ancestors in Northern France gained its name.
The area has recently come under control of a new County Council due to border changes and it is deserted and overgrown. It was a favoured picnic spot in the C18th, with antiquarian etchings made then showing seven mounds in a cleared area still available online. I am glad to see it like it is though, deserted, unobserved and overgrown, rather as I was glad to see Sutton Hoo in 2006 in the same sort of isolation. Sometime soon its amazing tourist potential will bring it into fashion, and its lonely splendour may be diminished. The villa dated from the early second century and was abandonned, as so many were, around 350AD when the Roman control of Britain was shakey at best.
Sadly, no traces of the Roman villa remain after inept excavations of it in the C19th. We explored the church, which has an interesting historical account of its times. And yes, I wasn’t wrong about the muthering. There was a famous murder in this village. In the 1200’s a Rector was murdered here, viciously knifed by some Lord’s men, who were never brought to account. Another lively incident is recorded in the 1400’s, where a ‘Merry Widow’ got into strife for scandalously refusing to attend church here while living in the village. Her sons rescued her reputation by saying she attended church when she visited them in a neighbouring village. A tale of local outrage long ago at a woman who had a mind of her own. As with everywhere in Britain, there are these little untold stories to be found.
Link to another’s blog re the mounds; they are much more wild and overgrown now than then.
Dover, the redneck loser started the racist stuff and now he’s whining like a wounded pig? Lol.
“No. What Latham said was wrong. Sure, not any more wrong than some of the abusive, authoritarian, intolerant stuff from many of his detractors, but it was still wrong. And childish.”
Mark Latham can apologise when Lidia Thorpe apologies Oh what’s that I hear……….crickets.
Sure Latham’s tweet was offensive and adolescent…..but Thorpe’s words and behaviour, since she’s been in Canberra, has been one long litany of offensive, sinister and dangerous remarks and actions.
I know who’s more dangerous….and it isn’t Mark Latham.
Just watching a Stanflix show about the Von Dutch clothing brand as it was starting out.
The guy was saying, “People were saying we were rolling in it because we got a bit of traction. Everything was on Amex and we were fucked. If we sold more we’d just be even more fucked.”
(In politer circles we call that a working capital growth squeeze, but his description fits).
That is where our hyphenated friend has been heading over the last three years.
Selling more to become more fucked.
I’d suggest that, for his next imvestor briefing, he leaves the phrase “growth trajectory” at home.
Redneck is not a race.
It’s a state of mind.
18c does not apply.
Anyone subject to, and wishing to remain within, the Victoriastani justice system would need to exercise caution lest they do an Aussie Nelson Mandela.
Anyone seen Gab about the place recently?
Er, that doesn’t work with a plastic digital watch bought from the Caltex at Hay.
Mmmyes.
The attempt to revive that King Billy Cokebottle shit earlier was disgusting.
Bear
I’m pretty sure “Blot” was fucked in federal court. Mordy is a feral judge.
Using the stars to find north at night does not require a watch.
So if in difficulty, just wait until after nightfall. Simple. 😉
Er…no. I was talking daytime. I’m not really a vampire. 😀
Well.
I will say that nobody has drunk from ‘plagons’ for years. And years and years. It’s a cliche. Why – it’s almost as if whoever said that doesn’t really know what he’s on about, and is reliant on tales from mates of mates and so on. Or what he heard on the radio.
It’s as though he’s never been here in the NT at all, and certainly never seen the nasty bits if he has.
Funny. He’s never had reputation before for being all talk. Oh. Hang on.
Gab is missed. She may be busy on Twitter.
And admin rights which would enable him to defame public figures with (ahem) “gay abandon”.
Although a key element of defamation is that someone must have actually read it, so …
Finding north using your watch …
Critics slam Biden as nationwide baby formula shortage worsens
daigou?
Alcohol hasn’t been sold in “plagons” (as our little racist mate likes to call them) in the NT for at least thirty years.
Plentyfella flagon still available though. I carry Six lines in flagon.
(Sounds flash, however there’s only Six available to me, all from McW)
Right. So memo to self: Don’t go on Facebook as people who post there are stupid. Irredeemably and revoltingly so.
So some soft cock from Germany that I went to college with almost thirty years ago is bemoaning the results of the Phillipines’ presidential election.
My response: You lot (and he is a stalwart and high up in the German Green movement) only like the democratic outcomes that go your way. If you can’t argue your case and change minds, suck it up.
Being a (naturalised) Australian, there was a strong temptation to use the word f**k liberally in my response. But being a cultured and sweet soul, I desisted.
(I was certainly f**king thinking it but).
One of the players in the game was one Ralph Blewitt – he now lives in Malaysia. He’s made no bones about it – he’s openly challenged the Victorian and West Australian cops to charge him, but he’ll put Julia Gilliard in the witness box, and have her cross examined by a top Q.C.
“Mate, you tell me which way North is, and I’ll give you this watch..”
I’ve just been rewatching shots of one of my favourite cities: Tallin, the capital of Estonia. A fairytale unleashed.
If I were made chief minister of the A.C.T., I’d immediately dedicate a new suburb to copying slabs of the old city of Tallin. I shamelessly don’t care if it would be fake! It’s the principles. Cobblestone streets and alleys, classical proportions, churches that LOOK LIKE churches, a city wall, piazzas, belltowers, waterways that invite people in rather than penalize them for getting near in a notoriously thirsty environment.
And, come to think of it, I’d erect a Benedictine monastery on the slopes of Black Mountain (Which I would rechristnen as “Montenegro”, with procession and incense), a Dominican priory on Mount Ainslie, and a Franciscan priory on Red Hill. I would build them, and then let the right kind of religious come and occupy, and evangelize the neighbourhood.
What’s to lose? In a city where billions have been spent and it’s just groan, groan, groan.
Any other ideas? Elon, where are you?
P.S. I’d rename the Telstra tower on Montenegro as “Orthanc”. Or perhaps just “Minas Telstra”.
Luzu
It’s never good to swear. Never a reason to do so. It’s good you refrained from swearing at the Kraut c..t
Hmmmm.
Don’t fall for the Smith angle on this.
There were no good guys involved in any of that.
Here’s the thing Zulu.
If Blewitt gets charged, the prosecution and the defence can both call witnesses, but Blewitt would struggle to subpoena witnesses in what is, after all, a relatively minor fraud. The best he might hope for is a bland written statement from Gillard that she has no idea what he is on about.
This isn’t going anywhere.
Nowhere in the NT. Bladder only – the drinkers used to stab each other in the eye sockets too often.
He he, really upsetting the sneerers tonight.
Really having a sook.
You’re a blow in to the Territory, KD.
Just another useless southerner hiding from what you fucked up down south.
I am sure flagons are still available in certain low rent parts of the country.
I just happen to recall they were withdrawn from sale in the NT ages ago.
You’re all racists, and I really am disgusted.
Gasp!
The expatriate barrel-stuffer is calling someone else a blow-in.
PS.
Bill Gates picks up my tab.
Anything else you’d like to say?
…. but Blewitt would struggle to subpoena hostile witnesses …
And they don’t get too much petrol to sniff anymore because they made it Avgas, but for the sake of the Southerners reading this, I’d probably still use the term petrol sniffing.
Your clutching at straws KD.
You know I know the Territory.
I know it better than you.
You’re a Victorian, always will be.
Footy and Cricket obsessed Victorian.
JC,
Kraut xunt indeed. Another of these f**king globalist w**kers who thinks their thoughts are always good, pure, correct and undeniably true and therefore moral.
The absolute hubris displayed in the lamentations that the little people just don’t know what’s good for them is most gratifying. Boo f**king hoo. I deeply enjoy their confused responses and nonplussedness.
I may need to work on my character. But again, f**k them.
Looky, looky! No swear words 🙂
Very interesting.
So the entire NT has to do without flagons, coz cultural reasons.
Does the same law apply to Jeroboams of Champers? Or is that somehow different?
Why are you here, Sancho?
No one can believe a word you say anyway.
That’s been proven.
You admitted to it.
You’re a skidmark on the jocks of humanity.
They use ’em to wash down the caviar & camp pie sandwiches here.
There’s not the same cachet when the chaser is squeezed from a silver pillow.
You and me now!
Let’s have it out!
What’s your name?
Or just an email will do!
I need to know!
🙂
…
(The Dark ‘n Stormy speaks).
And they don’t get too much petrol to sniff anymore because they made it Avgas
Avgas? What?
Do you mean Opal?
Anyone not obsessed with either footy or the crikkit is unAustralian and a traitor, and should be tried by The People before being sent to a Death Camp.
Avgas. Jesus wept.
I have discovered that Siri answers to ‘Silly’.
And I can say it public – unlike some of the expletive agglomerations I have hurled fruitlessly at the damn phone.
Bill and George pay me to monitor a few sites.
Plus I have a side-hustle as a Liberal party troll.
But you knew that.
Aha. Forgot about that.
Glorious.
St. Ruth’s email, for the curious, is [email protected]
I just googled “Does Avgas contain lead?”.
Not sure why.
I already knew the answer.
Yes I do mean Opal.
I too can admit, like you were this morning, that I was wrong.
Where the F did avgas come from?
If that doesn’t work try [email protected]
Uranus.
No wonder Victoria got hit hard.
Watching something the other day where a Victorian was being interviewed and he said, “just glad weez all can go to the footy again”
It’s late.
The empty Dark ‘n Stormy tins are building up.
It strikes me as hilarious that the teals and the greens who want to tax all the rich companies and rich people because they are rich and don’t pay their fair share, are dreaming about targets like Atlassian and those people in the big mansions, when in reality it is all smoke and mirrors. Reality awaits.
Proves they never made an honest quid.
Struth, change your password and email address.
Grigory’s hijacked your account again.
The evidence is quite obvious- If you sneeze on that last comment, you get a fine cloud of gypsum dust fly off the words…
Solly you stupid lound eyed egg and bacon eaters, but me no drinky at the moment.
Trying to stay at 95 kilos.
Unfortunately that means 10 kilos must vacate the premises.
Ah Rex, you’re still alive!
Oh well, as long as you have your will ready.
You’ve already been enough of a burden on those resisting.
Speaking of Gypsum-
I think I’ve found Grigory’s producer, mass distribution network and stash-house:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhs-xzv_jlM
Don’t let him know- We’ll suddenly hear strange tales of a drugf*cked fellow found drowned in a half-full gypsum hopper somewhere near Kevin…
Hmmm.
Spouting all that shit sober?
That is worrying.
And doing it very well. Terser than Lizzie.
Why’s that, Struth? Did your ReSiStAnCe grid fuse and chuck another cooling fan again?
Actually, watching how you’ve been Struth-bombing the Cat today, it seems you have.
Still, at least it’s not as damaging to the general interaction and bonhomie on the threat as an actual Birdstrike…
Just wanted to prove KD is a blow in.
I let him walk into that.
You see, if you’d been in the Teritory for some time , you would still probably call it Avgas.
Why?
Because back in the 1990’s that’s what they called it.
It replaced petrol in communities.
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Read the whole thing.
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I visited Tallinn in May, 2017, a stopover point between Oslo and St Petersburg.
I was utterly captivated. The history was rich, deep and unique. My ex-husband and I entertained ourselves identifying the different types of architecture based on whether it looked like the buildings of his childhood (Soviet and depressingly uniform from one end of the USSR to the other) or built with a more Baltic feel. That and dabbling our fingers in the Baltic Sea.
The language was impenetrable to me being more akin to Finnish than any Slavic language with which I am familiar. And I could not contain my surprise when I stumbled across a monument to the Estonian defeat of the Bolshevik Army after they took power. I like to think I am reasonably well-versed in European histroy but I had no idea this conflict ever took place.
If there is one place I’d like to honeymoon, it would be the Baltics.
Where are you in relation to the NT St Ruth?
Approximately how far to the nearest border point?
And how long since you’ve been there?
I’ve been around in the territory for a very long time and lived in Darwin before cyclone Tracy even.
I’ve seen many of the divorced and broken, and socially lost come scrambling up to Darwin to get away from their Southern sins.
By KD’s own admissions he is toothless, smokes, wears stonewash, goes to the pub and watches his footy and cricket.
You know, it’s a good thing I never judge a book by it’s cover, but after you’ve read a few chapters………….
That’s a terrible effort. Worst ‘gotcha’ ever. The original name for Darwin was Palmerston too, in the nineteenth century.
I came up here in 2006. I’ve been quite open about that. Plus, finding out about a very brief and failure-ridden ‘avgas’ trial by accident is not a triumph.
Porky.
I’ve never worn stonewash. Otherwise, it’s bang on.
If you think that’s beneath you, just say so.
Also, you forgot the facial scarring.
Exactly.
105 kegs.
Sitting on the couch will do that.
No wonder Fat Cloive and Craig rejected him.
A threat to the party Tim-Tam stash.
I really don’t know why you’re bringing this up as some sort of put-down, fatty.
I told you months ago I’d out-bogan you every day of the week, in response to yet another ‘ahm justa working blue-collar man wit none of them airs and graces’ performance.
I believe it was about the time you were telling everyone you kept a copy of the Constitution in your truck to wave at passers-by.
2006…..blow in.
And I called it Avgas as did all the Territorians when it first came out, as that is what it was, and the name remained even when it was changed.
It had stuck by then.
If you knew any long term Territorians that term for it would not have thrown you.
No wonder Darwin is such a shit hole.
I don’t wish to put Top Ender on the spot, because there’s a lot of people here who just want a quiet life, but he would have known exactly what I was talking about.
You were still a Vicplod cadet who thought Bendigo was the outback back then.
You want to play silly buggers about me using the term Plagon, expect a little in return.
And your little mates still jump in with you, making complete dicks of themselves as well.
I shouldn’t judge.
You can have a normal BMI at 105 kegs.
If you are 6 foot 9 inches tall that is.
All jokes aside, if you have a heart attack (which is highly likely), how will the ambos get you out?
Will they take down a wall?
The point here, dopey, is that if you’d told me it was Palmerston first I would not have said
Palmerston?! Jesus wept.
You’re a goose.
KD, I see Horatio Labamba has released “explosive recordings” … of a footy coach telling a mouthy player (who wasn’t getting a kick) to pull his head in.
Unheard of.
Have a chocolate Teddy Bear.
You know you want to.
Have two.
Fuck it. Eat the packet.
Diet starts tomorrow.
St. Ruth is Testpattern!
If you bothered to get out of your tour bus you’d know that the NT has a largely transient population. It has always been the way. Speaking of transience, you would appear to be a blow-in from everywhere. SA, the NT, Quenthland. Make-work jobs all the way through.
If you had all this NT experience before Cyclone Tracy in 1974 you’d be Liability Bob’s age. What were you – two? Six?
A wolf-crying couch-dwelling chemtrail-inhaling porker, measuring the passage of time by dim sim consumption. A role model for the rest of the country indeed.
Of course you would.
I’m not a bogan.
I’m a worker, not an ex public servant piss pot filling in me TAB form at the Winnellie , perving on the tits pouring the next VB…or Carlton Draught, or whatever you blow ins from their drink.
I kept one because I had to deal with c..ts like you.
Ease up.
He’s on a health kick.
Only steamed dimmies.
Strictly no fried.
Except on weekends.
II.
I lived in Quenthland for years, and compared to the locals (and blow-ins) l shaped up like Remington Steele.
er … don’t turn off the gps
The Human Body is a Joke – Science Stand Up Comedy | Dr Rohin Francis
Are you referring to coppers who issue “one with the lot” tickets simply because they don’t like the cut of your jib?
Not sure you did, pudgy. Cool story though. Could have done with more black broomsticks.
That’s because they get up to Darwin and see you’re there and a heap of other public servants.
If I remember right, there where some long termers there before 2006.
When did you get there again?
You can always tell when you guys have been done badly.
The carry on is fucking hysterical.
“Cut of your jib”.
Boating reference.
Sorry.
Thoughtless of me.
Let it go Sancho.
You were called out for being the cock head you are by a decent ex cop.
Take the talking to and learn
You’re never too old, you know.
Even you.
Just stop lying and you wouldn’t get yourself in this shit.
I’ve told you for years now, that when you get emotional, you fuck up.
Every time.
Any more thoughts on Bill Gates?
Remember, the slang term used by real, long term Territorians for the fuel used in abo communities is “Avgas”
Just in case you meet a Territorian who says it in front of you and you try to be a smart arse with him as well, KD.
Glad to be of help.
If I am looking for a life-coach, I probably won’t go for a 105 kg slob sitting on his vinyl couch with one hand in a packet of Cheezels and the other stuck down down his Stubbies, Al Bundy style.
Lord Mayor’s push to ramp up the Brisvegas flood warnings…
Lemme see. They need to know your location all the time so they can send you a flood warning roughly once every 10 years. Is that basically the deal?
It’s actually not, Russell Coight. Sorry to break it to you.
I am fully aware you usually sail through your Tales of the Outback delivered to foreign tourists on the bus, but don’t get carried away believing your own press.
You are wrong.
And also putting high-falutin’ big city, book learnin’ Perfesser types in their place with a bit of homespun philosophy.
And Constitutional Law.
‘Mr Reagan’ resorts to faux-fiction, word-games, and funny names to be able to talk about the Stolen 2020 Election without YT detecting it and taking the video down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IhQCOLDIoc
True The Vote projects that cancelling out this rigging leads to a national tally of Donnie 279 vs Creepy 259.
But the bottom line is without knowing who the mules were voting for, the final result can’t be settled.
Which constitution is the fat slob walking around with – The Australian or the American?
Our lunatic cleaner sounds like the slob as she’s always carrying on about conspiracies and da constitution.
I often discuss the finer points of Constitutional Law with the bus driver. The other passengers used to complain so they changed the timetable.
Now everybody is happy.
Oops, shouldn’t call them bus drivers.
Your Birdstrike is terribly low-energy tonight, Struth.
Try adding in some more rambling stream-of-consciousness wordwalls about atomic demolitions of major buildings in New York in 2001, or about terraforming other planets with canals cos most efficient transportation method. Don’t mind where and how you get the water in there, just dig canals.
Or how the Theory of Relativity is a J- plot to deny the universe’s perpetual energy creation source that is aether.
Heck, I’d even take that long-promised dissertation of yours on how Mickleham, Wellcamp and Howards Springs are actual concentration camps, despite their unsuitable design for purpose, laughable lack of security, poor location and effective abandonment as facilities for unstabbijated folks by the governments who commissioned and/or leased them…
The good side of being driven around by this raging lunatic is if say you’re Japanese, have very limited English and not understanding what that hell he’s saying about da constitution. Otherwise, imagine being trapped on a red-dirt straight road for hundreds of miles and he’s shouting through the mic.
It’d be like a version of Wolf Creek.
Stuth is Mick Taylor.
Atlassian down 7% plus.
One minute complaining rexie is here too much, the next he’s shocked to hear from him.
Queensland.
Windy one day
Wet the next.
Pffft.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Warren Brown.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.