Open Thread – Weekend 14 May 2022


Overgrown pond at the edge of the forest (Siverskaya), Ivan Shishkin, 1883

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Oh come on
Oh come on
May 15, 2022 3:20 pm

Anyway…

Oh come on
Oh come on
May 15, 2022 3:22 pm

Your daily dose of Covid panic, featuring the standard AMA and white lab coat hysterics:

COVID-19 infections in Australia hit worldwide highs — and experts predict another Omicron variant spike is coming

They just can’t let go.

calli
calli
May 15, 2022 3:23 pm

Oh, I forgot to say…

Spotted Darwin Man yesterday…wearing a blue surgical mask.

Riding a motorbike.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 15, 2022 3:28 pm

How many dead Ukie Conscripts up against Russian Artillery would it
take before a ceasefire and negotiations becomes a good idea?

Dickless

Dunno. How many dead Ruskies would it take before a ceasefire and negotiations becomes a good idea?

Oh come on
Oh come on
May 15, 2022 3:32 pm

I watched The Constant Gardener again last night. Very much a movie for our times.

I remember watching it when it was first released back in 2006 or so – then, I dismissed it as leftist propaganda. Mind you, back then I also believed the claim that Big Pharma was a danger to humanity to be a nutty conspiracy theory. How wrong I was.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 15, 2022 3:32 pm

rosiesays:

May 15, 2022 at 2:26 pm

I was pretty happy with Qantas business class Singapore to Melbourne (only Qantas leg I flew) back in March, though I thought the pork chop is the main at dinner was a little dry.

I have sort of a rule, even at the pointy end. Think carefully before ordering roasted or grilled meats.
They will never be as good as a high-end pub or restaurant. I tend to go pastas or stir fries. They re-heat way better.

areff
areff
May 15, 2022 3:34 pm

The Germans undoubtedly have a word for this: the state of mind when you despise the ruling party but still want them to get up because you despise their opposition and its media hack publicists even more

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 15, 2022 3:35 pm

Winston

‘In proportion’ being the operative word Rabz. She’s very pretty – but 5 kilos more wouldn’t go astray.

Meh, she’s a blonde, who cares?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 15, 2022 3:36 pm

Rex Angersays:

May 15, 2022 at 3:12 pm

So why has the government not allowed their production centers to open?
This looks like deliberate sabotage of the food chain to me.

It might be closer to the iCook Foods debacle, except that the Administration’s chosen ‘winner’/crony can’t keep up…

Yep.
I thought that.
Choke Abbott Foods over a few months, at which point it is sold at a discount to an “approved purchaser”.
Chinese friends of The Big Guy?

Oh come on
Oh come on
May 15, 2022 3:40 pm
Zipster
Zipster
May 15, 2022 3:41 pm

and why is that our problem?

Destroying Ukraine as a people and a nation won’t bring Donald Trump back.

to quote lavrov, if ukraine bothers you, just close your eyes and pretend it’s africa or the middle east.

pelosi et al are pissed because putin cut off their flow of corrupt dollars, that’s about as strategic ukraine is to the west

never fear another huge injection of money is up for grabs courtesy of the old witch and the sniffer

Zipster
Zipster
May 15, 2022 3:42 pm

The Germans undoubtedly have a word for this: the state of mind when you despise the ruling party but still want them to get up because you despise their opposition and its media hack publicists even more

seems to be a universal rule at every level atm

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 15, 2022 3:43 pm

RUS are already on the northern outskirts of Severodonstsk.

And have been for some time.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 15, 2022 3:43 pm

to quote lavrov, if ukraine bothers you, just close your eyes and pretend it’s africa or the middle east.

Why do you keep dumping on the average Ukrainian?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 15, 2022 3:44 pm

Tom at 3:17.

Likewise in the past few days, the SBS cooking channel (171 on Foxtel) has been a culinary escape from politics, but the retards have destroyed that sanctuary just now by having smartarse knowall academic parasite Bruce Pascoe as a guest.

True.
The Adam Liaw show started out OK.
In fact, we used to watch it to avoid Covid-porn news.
Originally it had genuine chef/foodie people on (which was good), then it morphed to a point where the vast majority of guests were SBS cross-promoters and/or political barrow-pushers.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 15, 2022 3:46 pm

to quote lavrov,

Ah, that’s why…

Thanks for letting me know what RT amd the Russian Deep State thinks about the matter, Zip. 🙂

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 15, 2022 3:47 pm

The same Lavrov who just said Ukraine is being used to constrain Russia from developing…

#Lebensraum2.0

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 15, 2022 3:48 pm

Just reported you by mistake Winston.
The Goodies clip.
I really liked them as a kid. The Scottish Spider bit when they were searching for the Loch Ness monster was a classic.

Dot
Dot
May 15, 2022 3:51 pm

This should be taken on principle.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/first-home-buyers-could-use-superannuation-under-coalition-government-20220515-p5alh3.html

Reason being, as long as it is in the fund, it is the government’s, held in trust for you. Remember the leading case on the matter from a few years ago.

The Super Home Buyer Scheme will start by July next year and allow first home buyers to invest up to 40 per cent of their superannuation, up to a maximum of $50,000 to help with the purchase of their first home.

I reckon this might get Slow Mo over the line.

Zipster
Zipster
May 15, 2022 3:54 pm

The same Lavrov who just said Ukraine is being used to constrain Russia from developing…

#Lebensraum2.0

obviously the plan was to get euorpe to enroll finland and sweden into nato so pootes could get a date with miss helsinki

could not give a stuff about ukraine, it has no nukes, it caused its own demise. well played

Zipster
Zipster
May 15, 2022 3:58 pm

South Africa is witnessing a surge in COVID-19 cases driven by BA.4 & BA.5 variants. The sudden surge has triggered fears of a fifth COVID wave.

good luck to all the vexed vaxed

Winston Smith
May 15, 2022 4:09 pm

Farmer Gez:

Just reported you by mistake Winston.

Nothing is a mistake, FG.
You are now on the list of those who deny my position as the God Emperor of Australia, the Birds of the Skies, the Beasts of the Green and Verdant Fields, and the Seas Around Her and All the Big and Little Fishie Things.
Apart from that, there a several positions opening up in my Ministry. Do you have a choice?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 15, 2022 4:15 pm

I reckon this might get Slow Mo over the line.

Finally, a vague semblance of a Liberal policy.
Allowing people to use their own money as they see fit. And, given that first home buyers are likely to be aged 20 – 35, it is hard to argue there is a serious risk to OAP funding.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 15, 2022 4:15 pm

Apart from that, there a several positions opening up in my Ministry. Do you have a choice?

Minister for Interesting Executions?

Ed Case
Ed Case
May 15, 2022 4:15 pm

Feeding a baby Infant Formula has been normalised.
How fucked is that?

Ed Case
Ed Case
May 15, 2022 4:16 pm

I upticked your last comment, Agent Sancho.
Apols if i’ve destroyed your credibility.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 15, 2022 4:19 pm

obviously the plan was to get euorpe to enroll finland and sweden into nato so pootes could get a date with miss helsinki

could not give a stuff about ukraine, it has no nukes, it caused its own demise. well played

Now you’re just glowing, Zipster…

Vicki
May 15, 2022 4:19 pm

South Africa is witnessing a surge in COVID-19 cases driven by BA.4 & BA.5 variants. The sudden surge has triggered fears of a fifth COVID wave.

This will continue, of course. Hopefully, each wave will lessen in severity, although we should expect even greater infectivity.

It is curious that the first wave of Omicron exhibited some 30 changes in the genomic sequence, which was far more than expected & led some virologists to speculate that the virus had again been tampered with by laboratories : the intention being, to expedite the development into a mild respiratory syndrome.

But, again, one should not be complacent about Omicron’s mild development. The South African Dr. Shakara Chetty, who has successfully treated over 4,000 patients (with no deaths) has said that he has still seen cases of the 8th day syndrome when patients react allergically to the viral debris. He also reminds us that this is a gain-of -function virus, and even Omicron could have “a sting in its tail’.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 15, 2022 4:21 pm

Ed Casesays:

May 15, 2022 at 4:16 pm

I upticked your last comment, Agent Sancho.
Apols if i’ve destroyed your credibility

Don’t mention it.
No, I mean really, don’t mention it.

Ed Case
Ed Case
May 15, 2022 4:21 pm

This guy nails Chomsky, Chris Hedges, and other apologists for the Biden Regime [like Franger].
https://www.unz.com/article/the-subtleties-of-anti-russia-leftist-rhetoric/

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
May 15, 2022 4:21 pm

Ed to be fair sometimes babies decide enough with the breast milk. Happened with one of ours and even expressing into bottles didn’t help. Absolute bugger and stressful when they aren’t to the 4 months yet were you can introduce start to solids.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 15, 2022 4:24 pm

Absolute bugger and stressful when they aren’t to the 4 months yet were you can introduce start to solids.

Wut?
Queensssland babies don’t eat Santa Gertrudis rump steak from day one?

CrazyOldRanga
CrazyOldRanga
May 15, 2022 4:24 pm

I noticed above that some mention was made of SBS cooking shows. I stopped watching theses after seeing me then boss demonstrate his Basque masterpiece of something or other.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 15, 2022 4:27 pm

Huh, Ranga?

Winston Smith
May 15, 2022 4:27 pm

https://spectator.org/whats-roberts-waiting-on/

That decision needs to be published. Now. That Roberts hasn’t made it happen, more than a week after the leak, is just plain irresponsible.

Let me make a suggestion.
The screaming at the other USSC judges after the last election tells me that the Left have something on Roberts and this is being strung out to maintain the string of crises that are enveloping the US.
The end result is that people throw their hands in the air in bafflement as the crises continue, one after the other before people can adjust to the last one.
I have no idea what the next crisis will be – probably food.
One thing you can be sure of is that there will be one.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
May 15, 2022 4:29 pm

Abbott Labs are on the front foot saying the two babies that died had nothing to do with their formula.
How long before someone inside the FDA spills the beans on the whole thing.

Slugs.
Probably this variety.

And yes, it is almost certainly accompanied by a large buy-up of shares while the price is depressed.
https://www.google.com/finance/quote/ABT:NYSE?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiyupq57uD3AhU_RWwGHczSD5cQ3ecFegQIMhAi
20% profit margin when operating normally, a nice little earner.


Suspicious.. me?
HONG KONG, March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — An infant formula product produced by Abbott Laboratories (ABT.NYSE), failed to reach China national safety standards and tested worst among a selection of six infant formula powders sold on the Chinese market, according to a research report released by Hong Kong-based research house CER Research on Thursday.


https://www.chemanager-online.com/en/news/abbott-invest-230-million-chinese-facility

bons
bons
May 15, 2022 4:30 pm

I bought my ticket to UK in October. Emirates was the only airline with a schedule.
Return was $8,600. In the post covid ripoff the average price is now $13,400.
My pal was going to come over to join me but she decided that the price was nonsense regardless of Emirates luxury business class.
QANTAS is more expensive but WTF would fly wokeair and be treated with contempt.

CrazyOldRanga
CrazyOldRanga
May 15, 2022 4:32 pm

Sancho, you’re not Juan in disguise are you? Heavens no, please!

Zipster
Zipster
May 15, 2022 4:33 pm

HONG KONG, March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — An infant formula product produced by Abbott Laboratories (ABT.NYSE), failed to reach China national safety standards and tested worst among a selection of six infant formula powders sold on the Chinese market, according to a research report released by Hong Kong-based research house CER Research on Thursda

biden’s paymasters smoke signals

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
May 15, 2022 4:34 pm

The Germans undoubtedly have a word for this: the state of mind when you despise the ruling party but still want them to get up because you despise their opposition and its media hack publicists even more

H!tler?

CrazyOldRanga
CrazyOldRanga
May 15, 2022 4:35 pm

Or is it really Val?

CrazyOldRanga
CrazyOldRanga
May 15, 2022 4:36 pm

And did you get your Mojo back?

Winston Smith
May 15, 2022 4:39 pm

Farmer Gez:

And for very fine measure a “Poofteenth”
Or “Two fifths of bugger all”

Or in the Hallowed Hall of Poetry:
There was a young man from Bengal,
Who had a hexagonal ball.
The cube of his date plus his penis times eight,
was 2/5 of 5/8 of damn all.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
May 15, 2022 4:40 pm

obviously the plan was to get euorpe to enroll finland and sweden into nato so pootes could get a date with miss helsinki

Miss Helsinki 2017 is a hottie

Vicki
May 15, 2022 4:46 pm

BTW It still astonishes me that the official advice of medical authorities to those who have contracted COVID is to go home, isolate and rest, and to only summon an ambulance if you have trouble breathing.

There is early treatment that in most cases will lessen the chance of deteriorating condition. This involves the daily use over-the-counter products such as aspirin, anti-histamines, some corticosteroid nose sprays, and of course essential vitamins like Vit C, VitD3, Zinc & bioflanonoid Quercetin. Products like Betadine can also lower viral load in the pharynx, as well as protecting family members. None of these treatments are controversial (like Ivermectin or Fluvoxamine or Hydroxychloroquine). To monitor oxygen levels (especially towards the end of the first 7 days of infection) older patients should be advised to purchase a simple and cheap oxygen monitor at a pharmacy.

I cannot but think that the debacle of the last two years will lead to a crucial decline in confidence in all levels of decision making in Health issues. But maybe not.

Winston Smith
May 15, 2022 5:06 pm

Timothy Neilson:

At long last, affluent upper middle class “progressive” urban-dwelling white women are breaking their many decades of total silence.

They’ve been screeching for the last 40 years, Timothy.
Would you like me to make an appointment with the Audiologist?
🙂

Zipster
Zipster
May 15, 2022 5:10 pm
C.L.
C.L.
May 15, 2022 5:11 pm

Latho has been banned by Bolt…

He responds:

https://twitter.com/RealMarkLatham/status/1525661899165077505

Zipster
Zipster
May 15, 2022 5:12 pm
Winston Smith
May 15, 2022 5:20 pm

Frank:

Is that a polite way of saying bribery, or tribute?

Both.
And neither, Frank.
It’s Diplomatese.

Rabz
May 15, 2022 5:23 pm

She’s very beautiful – but 5 kilos more wouldn’t go astray

Sacré bleu – there is just no satisfying some personages. However, Winston, I know you’d love to bench press this li’l siren. 🙂

John H.
John H.
May 15, 2022 5:26 pm

Zipstersays:
May 15, 2022 at 5:10 pm
It’s Official: Living in America Makes You DUMB
Black Pigeon Speaks

Does he mention that the one in the USA had 3 concussions? That alone disqualifies drawing any conclusion. When I read about this earlier this week I stopped after reading about the 3 concussions. Why does he even bother to use this study of 2 people and then start talking about water and diet? It’s official, he’s dishonest.

Rabz
May 15, 2022 5:26 pm

Spotted Darwin Man yesterday…wearing a blue surgical mask.
Riding a motorbike.

Ashtray on the handlebars?

Makka
Makka
May 15, 2022 5:28 pm

CIA Head CAUGHT Secretly Meeting “Pariah” Saudi Prince | Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

CIA- stuck to the money like limpets.

Cliff Boof
Cliff Boof
May 15, 2022 5:36 pm

Confucius say blue surgical mask wearing motorcyclist not silly.
Keeps bugs from getting in mouth.

Rabz
May 15, 2022 5:39 pm

Keeps bugs from getting in mouth.

Boof – you can avoid that by simply keeping your trap shut. Or wearing a helmet with a visor.

Trust me on this.

Ed Case
Ed Case
May 15, 2022 5:41 pm

Ed to be fair sometimes babies decide enough with the breast milk.
I’ll take your word for that, but it’s nowhere near common enough to base a gigantic industry on.
There used to be a lot of health issues with Infant Formula, no doubt they paid the FDA off to look the other way, now it’s come back to bite them.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
May 15, 2022 5:42 pm

I would have to agree that the Liberals have treated the Administrative Appeals Tribunal like a mates’ club:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-15/sa-aat-interference-claims/101068608

But where is the outrage over the way the Victorian bench over the last twenty years has become a wholly owned subsidiary of the Socialist Left of the Victorian ALP, with Queensland rapidly following suit?

Rabz
May 15, 2022 5:43 pm

Cancelled by this filthy hypocrite: who would care?

That’s gotta hurt. Latham is a one man destruction machine on twatter.

His recent description of Richo was so brutal I’ll spare youse all the gruesome details.

Mess with Latham at your peril. Bare knuckled brawling leavened with the odd tactical nuke doesn’t even come close to describing his twatter technique.

Rabz
May 15, 2022 5:48 pm

Mind you, a big reconciliation is on the cards at some point. They won’t be able to help themselves.

Bolt needs Latho and Latho needs Bolt. The essence of a symbiotic relationship.

Ed Case
Ed Case
May 15, 2022 5:49 pm

Does he mention that the one in the USA had 3 concussions? That alone disqualifies drawing any conclusion. When I read about this earlier this week I stopped after reading about the 3 concussions.

Is there any proof or even likelihood that 3 concussions over a lifetime reduces IQ at all, let alone by more than a SD?
I don’t think so.

JC
JC
May 15, 2022 5:49 pm

Latham in a May 13th Tweet.

Canny move by Morrison.
Most voters think he’s a bit of a dud PM but are also seeing Albanese exposed as dumb and mistake-riven.
Promising to change some of his ways is exactly what people want to hear.
Expect this is straight from Lib focus groups.
Don’t rely on newspaper polls!

JC
JC
May 15, 2022 5:51 pm

What happened between Latham and Bolt?

Ed Case
Ed Case
May 15, 2022 5:54 pm

Latham made a bit of a dumb play on words about Sarah Abo’s surname.
It was pretty juvenile, but that’s Latho for ya.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 15, 2022 5:54 pm

Wong refuses to revisit trauma of 2019 loss Nick Tabakoff

45 minutes ago May 15, 2022
No Comments

Penny Wong remains deeply scarred by her 2019 election night in the ABC studio – and Diary hears that not even the growing prospect of an Anthony Albanese victory will convince her to return to the screen this Saturday.

During the ABC’s election night special in 2019, Wong had to sit before the cameras for hours, looking increasingly grim-faced as Bill Shorten’s predicted cruise to power morphed into Scott Morrison’s “miracle” victory.

Labor’s shadow foreign minister was left like a deer in the headlights in attempting to explain how Shorten had lost the unlosable election. Under brutal questioning from Leigh Sales and Andrew Probyn – the latter dubbed the result “disastrous” – Wong first had to acknowledge that Labor was “not where we hoped we would be” before admitting it had been a “very tough” result.

Diary hears Wong was so devastated she swore off appearing on the ABC’s election night panel again.

From all accounts, the ABC would have loved to have Wong on again this week, but the chance of redemption could not persuade her to return.

Wong’s absence has now been confirmed — the ABC’s 2022 election night panel will include Labor frontbencher Tanya Plibersek.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
May 15, 2022 5:55 pm

Good little bit on the scrap iron flotilla in ww2.
Didn’t realize it was Goebbels himself who christened them that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04jjgbfMb1k

Rabz
May 15, 2022 5:57 pm

JC – Latham denounced the useless bimbo Channel Nein used to moderate the second Albansleazey/ Morristeen debate, by citing her surname in two twats – which just so happens to be “Abo”.

Bolt of course, gets very precious about such crassness after his Mordey imbroglio last decade.

Cassie of Sydney
May 15, 2022 5:58 pm

Mark Latham…

“I’ve never asked to go on Bolt’s show, ever.
He’s asked me hundreds of times, including last week.
Canceled by this filthy hypocrite: who would care?”

A beautiful response from Latham

BTW, I’ll never watch Blot again. Apart from the fact that Blot is a mumbler and talks over guests, he’s a fair-weather friend, a complete and utter hypocrite and someone who desperately wants his ideological enemies to like him.

C.L.
C.L.
May 15, 2022 5:59 pm

JC: He tweeted a dad joke about that hopeless debate moderator’s surname:

Nine to report Mark Latham to authorities over ‘racist’ tweet slamming leaders’ debate host Sarah Abo.

Bolt did a solemn segment the next evening saying he would no longer have him as a guest.

Cassie of Sydney
May 15, 2022 6:00 pm

“It was pretty juvenile, but that’s Latho for ya.”

You’re actually right Eddy. But Blot’s outrage last Monday night was disgusting…he even asked whether Mark Latham was a “racist”.

Zipster
Zipster
May 15, 2022 6:00 pm
C.L.
C.L.
May 15, 2022 6:01 pm

Boof – you can avoid that by simply keeping your trap shut. Or wearing a helmet with a visor.

Trust me on this.

Depends, Rabz.
Visor helmets are a no-no on a Harley, man.

Rabz
May 15, 2022 6:03 pm

Wendy Pong refuses to revisit trauma of 2019 loss

Until she has to do so next Saturday night.

About the only acceptable result next week will be neither party able to form any kind of “workable” majority in either house.

Tell me why we need these monstrous mendacious morons busying themselves f*cking up everyone’s lives?

The purpose of “government” is kaput. Quite frankly, it should be outlawed.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
May 15, 2022 6:03 pm

He’s a fat evil piece of excrement.

Excellent character assessment of ScuMo – I was at a looooong lunch yesterday and my assertion that the name of Jesus Christ touches the lips of ScuMo is blasphemous was met with some looks askance, but I mean it. He is just the worst: a fake Christian. But I must temper my rage and simply try to understand how it all fits into the Plan.

Rabz
May 15, 2022 6:05 pm

Visor helmets are a no-no on a Harley, man

CL – I rode motorcycles around Sydney for almost two decades and never wore a full face helmet or one with a visor.

Just trying to make things easy for Mr Boof. 🙂

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
May 15, 2022 6:06 pm

but 5 kilos more wouldn’t go astray.

. I offer to gift her my 5 COVID KILOS, no charge, happy for her to take them off my hips and thighs

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
May 15, 2022 6:08 pm

Cassie, that was a great rant earlier today listing all of the failures of Liberals, not just specifically Scott Morrison, although he was the frontrunner in them. We voted for Daniel in Wentworth on Saturday here, and I wished all Cats well with their electoral choices, neglecting to see another week had yet to go with it. I’m so upside down and all over the place with times with so much travel and busyness while here. We are meeting with ‘Friends of Friendless Churches’ soon, and one of Hairy’s mates from Jesus College, a retired barrister, has said he would speak to his brother who is a big-time QC on planning matters in Britain to provide pro bono advice if we need it.

Vicki, you are right that there are so many ways of treating Covid that health authorities neglect, some of them simple items from pharmacies. Now, and in the past few years.

Winston Smith
May 15, 2022 6:09 pm

Rex Anger:

Ukes got arty too. Plenty of it at the start. And even more now. That’s what made such a mess of the total victory the Russians had at the Severski-Donets river this week…)

The Russians don’t seem to have much in the way of battlefield recovery either. A lot of those carcasses seem to be repairable – at least not total losses. Must be a few turrets sitting on the bottom of the crik too.

JC
JC
May 15, 2022 6:09 pm

Ender, I’m here for re: your NY visit.

Look, I can’t honestly tell you much about any military museums other than what you mentioned. The intrepid is quite interesting because when I visited a real long time ago they had one of the spy planes on the deck.

These are the things I would suggest you do.
1. There may be something going on at the Park Ave Armory so you may be interested to take a look.
2. There will be a lot of walking. The West Village is actually beautiful and the row houses are something else. Walk along some of the streets and keep in mind that the best houses there are possibly worth 50 million a pop. Google best streets.

3. Walk through SoHo. The cobble streets street and the older buildings which used to be factories are now apartments with huge windows. It’s wonderful .

4. Walk the Highline. It’s relatively new and has a great feel. It used to be the freight railway track feeding into the city factories.

5. Do 5th Ave, but it’s a little commercial though.

6. New York Yorkers generally do their expensive shopping along Madison Ave. I don’t know what it’s like now after Covid, but it has a great feel.

7. Go to Brooklyn and walk along the nice brownstone streets in Park Slope. They are something else. Have a laugh when you’ll invariably signs on multi-million dollar homes decrying the Supreme Court. I’m sure there will be if I know my Crooklyites. 🙂

8. Walk the upper east side to the Guggenheim and marvel at the fact the structure was built very early 20th century.

9. Do the Met, it’s an art treasure trove.

10. If you have time visit the Cloisters which is just outside of the city looking over the magnificent and mighty Hudson River.

11. Walk the Brooklyn bridge as it’s fun.

If I think of anything else, I’ll post it.

Oh, you have to do one of the famous steak houses.

JC
JC
May 15, 2022 6:11 pm

Lol, thanks Cl.

Rabz
May 15, 2022 6:11 pm

Meh, she’s a blonde, who cares?

She actually isn’t.

Sheesh. All this ‘orrible petty sniping at my beloved Miss Ellie. Enough, I tells ya! 😡

Indolent
Indolent
May 15, 2022 6:13 pm
JMH
JMH
May 15, 2022 6:13 pm

C.L.says:
May 15, 2022 at 5:11 pm

Latho has been banned by Bolt…

What else would you expect from s wind vane. Just an observation – the last few episodes of Bolt that I’ve bothered to watch, it struck me that he may well have been on the whiskey.

Zipster
Zipster
May 15, 2022 6:14 pm

Diary hears Wong was so devastated she swore off appearing on the ABC’s election night panel again.

that wong chap obviously isn’t the man in it’s relationship

Cassie of Sydney
May 15, 2022 6:14 pm

“Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
May 15, 2022 at 6:08 pm
Cassie, that was a great rant earlier today listing all of the failures of Liberals, not just specifically Scott Morrison, although he was the frontrunner in them. We voted for Daniel in Wentworth on Saturday here, and I wished all Cats well with their electoral choices,”

Thanks Lizzie…I’ll be voting for Daniel.

I hope you and Hairy are having a great time.

Cassie of Sydney
May 15, 2022 6:16 pm

“What else would you expect from s wind vane. Just an observation – the last few episodes of Bolt that I’ve bothered to watch, it struck me that he may well have been on the whiskey.”

I don’t disagree.

Old bloke
Old bloke
May 15, 2022 6:16 pm

The Germans undoubtedly have a word for this: the state of mind when you despise the ruling party but still want them to get up because you despise their opposition and its media hack publicists even more

That’s the thing, which ones are more deserving of my scorn. To my mind, I despise the current mob more than their main opponents simply because they are solely responsible for the mess we are in. Life under Labor won’t be nice but I can’t reward the present government with a vote as I view them as traitors, followers of an agenda foreign to most Australian’s wishes and values.

Sack them all.

JC
JC
May 15, 2022 6:18 pm

Ender

Walk through Grand Central and you’ll get a entirely different feel with what it’s like to be in an enormous enclosed space. Take a look a the ceiling too.

Ed Case
Ed Case
May 15, 2022 6:18 pm

Bolt did a solemn segment the next evening saying he would no longer have him as a guest.
Bolt does a Gotcha! on Latho.
He didn’t like it either.
Latho’s greatest moment was when he did that crusher handshake on Howard, it’s just too bad the cameras caught it.
Perhaps for the best though, Kevin Rudd woulda destroyed Latho’s P.M./ship in under 12 months.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 15, 2022 6:18 pm

Top Ender.
You already mentioned Ground Zero.
I didn’t want to go, thinking it would be a combination of morbid sentimentality and jingoism.
It wasn’t.
A fantastic and touching memorial.
There is one little display which is a bare room. There are photographs projected onto the walls, with audio tributes from friends of the victims. Much of it isn’t overblown tributes. Just anecdotes about how someone liked fishing and lied about the fish he caught, or how they would drink beers at the baseball, or the person who baked birthday cakes for people in the office.
Ordinary stuff, but it teases out beautiful individual stories and elevates them beyond raw statistics.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 15, 2022 6:21 pm

The Russians don’t seem to have much in the way of battlefield recovery either. A lot of those carcasses seem to be repairable – at least not total losses. Must be a few turrets sitting on the bottom of the crik too.

Indeed.

Then again, you can’t recover anything you can’t secure on land you can’t control… 😉

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 15, 2022 6:21 pm

Yeah, Grand Central Station.
Magnificent.
Can you believe Jackie Kennedy-Onassis led a campaign in 1975 to stop developers knocking it over?
FMD!

Ed Case
Ed Case
May 15, 2022 6:24 pm

Hop over to Keens Steakhouse and try their Mutton Chop.
Babe Ruth and Einstein reckoned it was the Duck’s Nuts.

Winston Smith
May 15, 2022 6:24 pm

DuncanM:

Centurion tank 169041 was less than half a km from the Totem explosion with engine running and test dummies inside.

Incorrect.
One of those dummies was sent to V****m in Infantry Corps. Mind you, its brain was in neutral during the test.

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
May 15, 2022 6:24 pm

Surely contradictory of the constitution, but immaterial of course until successfully challenged in the High Court. Who has any confidence Labor or Liberal won’t sign and follow with enthusiasm?

WHO Pandemic Treaty: What It Is, Why It Matters and How to Stop It

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
May 15, 2022 6:25 pm

Winston Smithsays:
May 15, 2022 at 6:09 pm

Ex army mate of mine is miffed on the tactics, he says most Soviet Bloc platforms swim and that was because the designers planned they would be in swamps and crossing rivers that had been prepared by blowing all the bridges. Apparently he reckons a T90 fully closed down and prepared can be fully submerged 6m.

Rabz
May 15, 2022 6:26 pm

I can’t reward the present government with a vote as I view them as traitors, followers of an agenda foreign to most Australian’s wishes and values.
Sack them all.

The simple fact is, anyone who casts a valid vote in the house of representatives cannot place the “majors last” due to the rigged game.

Which is why I will not be doing so (again). I’ll cast a valid vote in the senate.

My HoR ballot paper will include an additional candidate and the only one which will receive a number (being 1): “None of the Above”.

Every imbecile above that line will be brutally crossed out – so as to prevent the ballot paper being “re-purposed” by the incompetent corrupt partisan collectivist sacks of protoplazm that now infest our beloved ALPEC.

Ed Case
Ed Case
May 15, 2022 6:27 pm

Have a look at those Mutton Chops.
Magnificent piece of meat.

Delta A
Delta A
May 15, 2022 6:28 pm

Ed Casesays:
May 15, 2022 at 4:15 pm
Feeding a baby Infant Formula has been normalised.

Ed Case has his afternoon bis in die moment.

It is concerning that baby formula so frequently replaces breastfeeding. Yes, often there are valid reasons for this, but just as often – I suspect more often – it is a lifestyle choice which overlooks the physical and psychological benefits of breastfeeding.

It is, of course, closely tied to the popular dependence on child care. I believe that if mothers committed to staying home to care for their own children, sales of baby formula would plummet.

JC
JC
May 15, 2022 6:28 pm

Ender

Ignore Mr. Ed. Just have beef. American lamb is really strong tasting.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 15, 2022 6:35 pm

Once wong, twice shy.

Delta A
Delta A
May 15, 2022 6:35 pm

Walk through Grand Central and you’ll get a entirely different feel with what it’s like to be in an enormous enclosed space.

Oh, that was always on my bucket list*. I love trains (and train stations and train bridges and train tunnels…) Grand Central must be the Grand Dame of them all.

*Sadly, that’s completely bucketed now.

Frank
Frank
May 15, 2022 6:36 pm

About the only acceptable result next week will be neither party able to form any kind of “workable” majority in either house.

If only so that we can enjoy the spectacle as they all line up at fat Clive’s place to kiss the ring.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 15, 2022 6:39 pm

They’ve been here for some time?

If you have looked closely at the maps of the area dover, there are 3 successive large settlements built practically on top of each other, in a neat NW-SE:

Vojevodivka, Rubizhne and Severodonetsk.

As I recall, claims and counterclaims have been flying about control of those first 2 from both sides over the last 4-6 weeks. And probably longer than that, given pro-RU social media and RUMINT sources tend to be far more interested in trending assaults than general anysis of the whole front.

If you are going to tell me that tbey haven’t been bashing at that particular region, street by street for over 2 months with every Donbassian proxy trooper, Chechen and RU BTG they can muster in that theater, I have an intact pontoon bridge over the Severskyi-Donets river and an entire pre-war strength Guards Tank Division (from one of the good RU Military Districts) in Izyum to sell you…

(Oh and by the way, Igor Girkin, the boss of your beloved Donetsk Peoples’ Republic agrees that the river crossing you were creaming your trousers about earlier today was a failure- Here’s his take on the matter, in original language and translated:
https://mobile.twitter.com/mdmitri91/status/1525104855861313539. If that’s not an ardent pro-RU source openly questioning what the hell his own side is up to, I’ve got 3 more intact pontoon bridges in the Izyum and the entire road to Kiev to upgrade you at no extra cost.)

Ed Case
Ed Case
May 15, 2022 6:40 pm

Ender:
Here’s a guy eating a 2lb Chop at Keens.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 15, 2022 6:41 pm

Groogs is a bit funny about breast feeding after Mother tried to wean him last year. It was very traumatic for everybody involved.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
May 15, 2022 6:41 pm

Franksays:
May 15, 2022 at 6:36 pm
About the only acceptable result next week will be neither party able to form any kind of “workable” majority in either house.

If only so that we can enjoy the spectacle as they all line up at fat Clive’s place to kiss the ring.

I fear that the uniparty is in lockstep on most things. The minor conservative parties will require a majority in either house as they will just bypass the controlling vote issue.

Rabz
May 15, 2022 6:41 pm

If only so that we can enjoy the spectacle as they all line up at fat Cloive’s place to kiss the ring.

Funnily enough, following labore’s 2019 debacle, one of their front bench ended up in the braindead lamestream meeja lamenting that “Fat Cloive’s expenditure of many millions of pacific pesos effectively ended our chance of forming government”.

He was not wrong and neither was Fat Cloive. Go, you big fat stupid thang. 🙂

132andBush
132andBush
May 15, 2022 6:41 pm

Cassie re Bolt,

someone who desperately wants his ideological enemies to like him.

Where so many conservatives get it wrong.

Winston Smith
May 15, 2022 6:43 pm

Vicki:
https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/would-350-million-from-big-pharma-be-enough-to-buy-fauci-and-nih-approval-who-knows-its-a-sec

Multiply this around the western world. This is big, big bikkies. Enough to influence significant people and entities to abandon any sense of conscience, and yet claim public health protection.

I’d vote for Jo Nova as an entrant for Aussie of the Year.
Doing fabulous work for decades.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity
May 15, 2022 6:44 pm

If only so that we can enjoy the spectacle as they all line up at fat Clive’s place to kiss the ring.

It’ll be even better than this bit of crawling & fawning by Swan & Gillard.
(link is for the image of Swan bowing to a rather uncomfortable non-aligned independent)

rosie
rosie
May 15, 2022 6:45 pm

I missed grand central when I was there.
A round trip on the Hudson/east River tourist boat, quite entertaining, guide had been one of the first responders to the ‘miracle on the Hudson’.
Did go to 9/11 site the morning after bin laden was killed, very emotional day for New York and wandered through the shooting of one the last episodes of law and order criminal intent another day.
Met, natural history museum, Guggenheim, Broadway show.
So much to do, must go again one day.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 15, 2022 6:45 pm

@RockDoctor-

Apparently he reckons a T90 fully closed down and prepared can be fully submerged 6m.

Ditto every tank variant from T-64 onwards. And snorkelling prep is quicker than breaking out a pontoon bridge- Maybe an hour or so at most, conducted on dry land and under far easier cover/concealment conditions.

All BMP (tracked IFVs) and BTR (Wheeled APC) variants swim- Heck, take a close look at the rear of any BTR-60 variant and onwards- Nice big armoured propeller fairings to protect them when out of the water. That’s why they don’t have any rear doors or ramps.

Ed Case
Ed Case
May 15, 2022 6:46 pm

Wong must be really dumb.
No one told her about Labor’s internal Polling in 2019, which hadda be saying they were fucked.
The Weekend Australian yesterday claimed that Labor was 54/46, which translates to about 90 seats, but Wong may know differently?

Rabz
May 15, 2022 6:49 pm

Where so many conservatives get it wrong.

See also, the onion muncher, depicted here praising some of his erstwhile colleagues.

Rabz
May 15, 2022 6:50 pm

One of the most legendary outbursts in Australian political history.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 15, 2022 6:57 pm

JCsays:

May 15, 2022 at 6:28 pm

Ender

Ignore Mr. Ed. Just have beef. American lamb is really strong tasting.

Mutton.
Died of old age mutton.

Cliff Boof
Cliff Boof
May 15, 2022 7:00 pm

True story Rabz.
Riding down Mounts Bay Road in 1971 on my CB350 and felt something in my mouth. Since I just had lunch I chewed on it but it didn’t feel right so I stuck my finger in my mouth and it came out with a bug’s wing on it. I didn’t wear a helmet or visor in those days but a blue surgical mask would have saved me from that unpleasant experience.

Winston Smith
May 15, 2022 7:02 pm

Ha!
Just found Idi’s full title:
“HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT FOR LIFE, FIELD MARSHAL AL HADJI DOCTOR IDI AMIN DADA, VC, DSO, MC, LORD OF ALL THE BEASTS OF THE EARTH AND FISHES OF THE SEAS AND CONQUEROR OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN AFRICA IN GENERAL AND UGANDA IN PARTICULAR”

Roger
Roger
May 15, 2022 7:05 pm

Ordinary stuff, but it teases out beautiful individual stories and elevates them beyond raw statistics.

Speaking of raw statistics, the Japs killed an estimated 3m-10m civilians in Asia from 1937-1945.

They lost 112 000 in Hiroshima & Nagasaki.

We can thank the Americans, who believed Japan had to be occupied and subjugated, for modern Japan.

Pershing had the same view re how to treat Germany in 1918, but was over-ruled by a war weary Britain & France, thus ensuring we had to do it post-1945.

Zipster
Zipster
May 15, 2022 7:05 pm

Diary hears Wong was so devastated she swore off appearing on the ABC’s election night panel again.

dat wong chap, wot a pussy

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 15, 2022 7:08 pm

HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT FOR LIFE, FIELD MARSHAL AL HADJI DOCTOR IDI AMIN DADA

Ran second place to the Israeli Army at Entebbe…

Zipster
Zipster
May 15, 2022 7:08 pm

We can thank the Americans, who believed Japan had to be occupied and subjugated, for modern Japan.

one could say the same about modern day china

Winston Smith
May 15, 2022 7:10 pm

ZK2A:

Minister for Interesting Executions?

Sorry – blowing traitors from the barrel of a cannon has been done.
Interesting means just that – they must be interesting.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
May 15, 2022 7:13 pm

Yesterday we drove up from Suffolk to Norfolk, from the South Folk to the North Folk, to spend three days touring around the Norfolk broads. It was fine, so we tossed off our jackets and joined the near-shirtless Brits in the sunny beer garden of a pub, Hairy with beer and me with cider, looking over a part of the Broads where more than eighty swans were gathering for food. Quite a sight. You can purchase the food from a charity stall. A shame today is overcast, as it won’t be great weather for the boat tour we have organised for 2pm. I place my hope now in some arvo sun, as often happens when mists clear.

One interesting thing I never knew about the famed Norfolk Broads: they are entirely man-made. In medieval times, in this rich land of Norfolk where the Duke had control of the trees, a large peasant population had to use river peat for cooking and heating, so they mined peat, creating football field sized flat-bottomed pits with steep sides, that soon became engulfed by the river tides and by rising sea levels, creating these miles of ‘broads’, which are really constructed lakes of various sizes and configurations along major rivers.

Taking hints from Rosie, we have been using Airbnb places, as we have a lot of luggage and like to spread out for a five-day stretch. The cost is similar here to a reasonable three or four star hotel, although if they sleep more than two the cost can rise. The first we took was in Colchester, which was a pleasant unit up two flights of stairs in a block, a luggage workout for Hairy. It was kitted out well from IKEA, with parking and was very convenient to the station and castle. Now we are here in Wroxham on the Norfolk Broads. Our spacious accommodation, recently refreshed and extremely comfortable, albeit with a few ‘quality’ plastic flowers and chintz lamps, is in an area of housing developed in the 50’s, so the trees are grown and superb, some already in situ even before this on the quietly located development at the back of some Broads (water lakes) only a few minutes walk away. We have the back part of an extended house and full use of the garden, which we see through a picture window and glass sliding door which gives us access to a private terrace.

The block is large, as these early modern blocks were, and has a subtly bumpy area of lawn (moles?) with a great oak tree to the left side. A squirrel goes up and down the oak like some Scandinavian legends of the World Tree (though an Ash not an Oak). Beyond the surrounding fence is an amphitheatre of huge cypress and other pine fronted by a few orchard trees and the garden shrubs at the end of the wooden fencing. A climbing rose archway and a trellis screen the small greenhouse. I sit at the outdoor table sipping my duty-free Tanquary G & T with thoughtfully provided ice cubes in the late descending evening, my eyes alert to a general flutter and whisk in the greenery as many different birds, large and small, start to hit the feeders and then settle themselves in for the night.

A Goldfinch swoops across in the flash of the last rays of the sun.

A fat mallard duck appears from under a shrub, a male with that iridescent neck, followed by a dutiful female in her drab brown. In a determined fashion he waddles the way towards me, so I quickly collect some of my left-over swan and duck food, and throw them a handful. They dine well, with the male giving way politely at times to the female, for spring is the courting season when males must show their true mettle.

Hairy’s view is that they are an old married couple. Mr. and Mrs. Duck, as he calls them. They have already arrived for breakfast and I greet them like old friends.

Now a blackbird and a wood pigeon enliven my morning with their sounds. An unchanging life for some in this part of Britain. I browse through three books on the Royal Family, left out for guests to peruse at their leisure. They end with one on ‘Diana, Princess of Wales’. Nothing more recent.

Frank
Frank
May 15, 2022 7:13 pm

Just found Idi’s full title

My new pronouns.

will
will
May 15, 2022 7:17 pm

interesting comment by Latho on the LNPs failing vote in the rich bimbo wyoms demographic:

Real Mark Latham
@RealMarkLatham
·

May 12
Albanese campaigned yesterday in the seat of North Sydney, an amazing reflection of what ALP polling must be saying.
Labor would normally be running dead in that seat to help Teal beat Zimmerthing, but Labor must have numbers showing it can win the seat with Teal preferences!!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 15, 2022 7:20 pm

Interesting means just that – they must be interesting.

Aneurysm caused by chronic exposure to bad movies?

There’s a large catalogue of those…

Winston Smith
May 15, 2022 7:23 pm

Vicki:

I cannot but think that the debacle of the last two years will lead to a crucial decline in confidence in all levels of decision making in Health issues. But maybe not.

It has in this household.

rosie
rosie
May 15, 2022 7:27 pm

Three thumbs up for Father Stu from today’s reviewers.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 15, 2022 7:29 pm

Foot and mouth on the march in Indonesia

Amanda Hodge
Jakarta
@hodgeamanda
Dian Septiari
2 hours ago May 15, 2022
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An outbreak of foot and mouth disease spreading rapidly across Indonesia poses the biggest threat to Australia’s $70bn-a-year meat and livestock industry in decades.

Indonesia reported its first cases since 1986 of the highly contagious disease among cattle in East Java a week ago, but it has since spread across Java island and into Aceh, north Sumatra, south Kalimantan and Bangka Belitung.

Authorities are working to determine the strain of the disease the government has suggested might have been brought in through illegal cattle imports, but which the industry blames on a decision last year to allow beef imports from India and ­Brazil, which have not eradicated the FMD virus.

The outbreak comes as Australia’s near neighbour is already struggling to contain the emergence in March of lumpy skin disease in livestock – a virus that can be spread by insects and so is even more difficult to keep out of Australia than FMD.

Australian modelling a decade ago estimated an outbreak of foot and mouth disease would cost one of its most important ­export industries at least $50bn.

“Straight away we would lose our ‘freedom of disease’ status, which would stop our export trade in its tracks,” Australian Veterinary Association cattle president Tracy Sullivan told The Australian. “It would also stop our domestic market ­because infected cattle would have to be slaughtered.”

Humans cannot contract FMD from eating infected meat but they can from drinking infected milk, so the industry would also need to begin vaccinating cattle against the disease.

Australian cattle producers cannot pre-emptively vaccinate without also triggering a suspension of the country’s “freedom of disease” status.

“Lumpy skin disease has been the biggest threat the industry has faced in years but foot and mouth disease would be the worst disease that could enter as far as the Australian industry goes,” Dr Sullivan said. “Lumpy skin disease has a higher chance of entering at this time because it can just fly in on insects, whereas with FMD the virus has to physically come in” – most likely inadvertently carried in on the shoes of someone returning from ­Indonesia, or by boats.

When representatives of the Australian cattle industry warned that an outbreak of this disease, in Indonesia, spread by cattle brought in from Brazil and India, was a likely consequence of the Gilliard Governments ban on the live cattle trade with Indonesia, they were scoffed at..It’s only taken a few more years..

Ed Case
Ed Case
May 15, 2022 7:32 pm

When representatives of the Australian cattle industry warned that an outbreak of this disease, in Indonesia, spread by cattle brought in from Brazil and India, was a likely consequence of the Gilliard Governments ban on the live cattle trade with Indonesia, they were scoffed at..It’s only taken a few more years..
Any reference for that Assertion?

Rabz
May 15, 2022 7:32 pm

An outbreak of foot and mouth disease spreading rapidly across Indonesia poses the biggest threat to Australia’s $70bn-a-year meat and livestock industry in decades.

Gee, how very “convenient”.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity
May 15, 2022 7:34 pm

Indolent says: May 15, 2022 at 7:32 pm

Elon Musk Says Biden Wrong to Think He Was Elected

Fixed it!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 15, 2022 7:36 pm

Any reference for that Assertion?

Experience.

Crossie
Crossie
May 15, 2022 7:39 pm

I’m watching the Eurovision Song Contest.

It looks like our representative is just bizarre.

Old bloke
Old bloke
May 15, 2022 7:39 pm

Top Ender,

What are your views on the French amphibious helicopter carriers?

Should we have ordered them instead of the French submarines?

Thunder Boat: Inside the French Navy’s amphibious helicopter carrier “Tonnerre”

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
May 15, 2022 7:40 pm

ZK2A, whether true or not a lot of cattle farmers in Queensland that I have had acquaintance of believe that the animal liberation groups pushing live export bans are being funded indirectly by Brazilian interests.

That said I know of a guy who had a property in the Territory that was sunk by Gillards ban. Apparently his despisement of Gillard knows no bounds. Last I heard he is up in the Pilbara somewhere and re-established.

How many lives did this woman destroy? From the Union days to her government but she is still free. Mind boggles…

Crossie
Crossie
May 15, 2022 7:41 pm

The opening number could induce epilepsy.

Rabz
May 15, 2022 7:41 pm

outbreak of foot and mouth disease spreading rapidly across Indonesia

No prizes for guessing how it will “accidentally” and “mysteriously” end up here – and if anyone thinks that’s a cheap shot they can go and imbibe some tranny todger.

I’ve just spent the last eight months at least, being denounced as some sort of disease carrying leper by the many, many nazi karen shitheads that now infest this country.

The time for biting one’s tongue and trying to buy some tranquillity is over.

Crossie
Crossie
May 15, 2022 7:43 pm

Two and a half countries in Europe speak French but Eurovision has a compère just for them.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 15, 2022 7:44 pm

How many lives did this woman destroy?

Losses to the cattle industry amounted to some 600 million dollars. The after effects of that ban flowed into the sheep industry – cost me a few quid.

.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 15, 2022 7:47 pm

Rabzsays:
May 15, 2022 at 6:11 pm
Meh, she’s a blonde, who cares?

She actually isn’t.

Sheesh. All this ‘orrible petty sniping at my beloved Miss Ellie. Enough, I tells ya! ?

Tell her to stick with the natural colour, though it is still a bit pale.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
May 15, 2022 8:04 pm

Ok I see somebody has just started watching Eurovision.

Without mentioning the countries concerned I would just like to say we need a Royal Commission or Senate hearing. 2nd was robbed !

Based on the fact the quality of the act/singing clearly is usually nothing to do with who wins this year was very much a surprise.

I am not referring to this years winner as that was obvious.

The real story is which country came 2nd ! It is a country that almost every year has been last often with hardly any votes.

So the real winner this year was the 2nd placed.

132andBush
132andBush
May 15, 2022 8:08 pm

Special Ed,

Any reference for that Assertion?

You are such an utter pissant

Winston Smith
May 15, 2022 8:09 pm

ZK2A:

An outbreak of foot and mouth disease spreading rapidly across Indonesia poses the biggest threat to Australia’s $70bn-a-year meat and livestock industry in decades.

That will be what Dan is hoping for with his ‘raid the backyard garden’ legislation.
FMD* – next crisis on the list.
* Deliberate.

132andBush
132andBush
May 15, 2022 8:11 pm

That article is from 2012.

Who to take notice of, a pissant politician or a career vet?

Ed, “I’ll take the pissant every time”

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 15, 2022 8:13 pm

FMD*
* Deliberate.

F$%k Me Deliberately?

You dirty man, you…

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 15, 2022 8:13 pm

Bugger! Forgot the 🙂

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
May 15, 2022 8:15 pm

Federal election results

Super Voter – 2022 Election – 2019 Election – Polling
63 Coalition 80 Labor

Based on those figures for Warringah, Liberals Dead as a DoDo to Useless Zali Steggall

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 15, 2022 8:20 pm

You are such an utter pissant

Chris Back was speaking at a farmers protest meeting in the Eastern Wheatbelt, which was where the issue was raised.

Top Ender
Top Ender
May 15, 2022 8:21 pm

Thanks chaps and chapesses for the NY suggestions.

All copied and pasted and passed on to Herself who is compiling a huge day by day itinerary.

From NY we are down the east coast – all areas we have been before – but doing some with greater intensity and more knowledge than we last had, perhaps. I was hoping to include a rocket launch down in Florida but they are fairly unreliable to predict exactly – eg: weather delays – and there aren’t a lot of other things we wanted to do down there. “Next time”, she says.

Zipster
Zipster
May 15, 2022 8:24 pm

Should we have ordered them instead of the French submarines?

the only thing we need is a nuclear deterrent

Top Ender
Top Ender
May 15, 2022 8:24 pm

Nah, Old Bloke, the two helicopter carriers we have now are quite enough, and probably better than the Frog ones.

Though we could purchase another, and do what the Japanese have been quietly doing – ignoring the critics and converting their helo carriers to fixed wing F-35 operations.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 15, 2022 8:26 pm

the only thing we need is a nuclear deterrent

Do you want to give Adam Bandt heart failure?

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
May 15, 2022 8:27 pm

Interesting comment from Tan Grant being henpecked by the Deep State.

this week when Paul Symon, the director-general of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, spoke at the Lowy Institute. He was outlining his vision for the future of foreign espionage when he stopped mid-sentence and asked whether Stan Grant was in the room. Now, I was meant to be there but got caught up in work at the ABC. Lucky. I may well have ducked my head and crept for the exit, pleading “It wasn’t me, I wasn’t there!”
Symon wanted to comment on something I had written, that democracy bends toward tyranny. He said he found the idea troubling, yet he could see how it was playing out in our world.

To make a long rant short, Tan Grant is right.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 15, 2022 8:32 pm

Are you sure all of those vehicles are RUS?

Here we go:

ThOsE ArE UkR BMP-1s! RuSsIaNs DoN’T uSe ThEm!

You’re late, Dover. They’re confirmed Russian. Nobody onnthe defending side tried to assault back over the bridges.

Already claimed. Already debunked.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 15, 2022 8:34 pm

Why Ukraine’s army still uses a 100-year-old machinegun The Economist

The Maxim M1910 may be mocked by the Russian media but it has a steampunk aesthetic and some advantages over more modern weapons.

4:17PM May 13, 2022
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Ukrainian forces are fighting off Russian invaders with types of machineguns which entered service when Ukraine was part of a Russian Empire ruled by a tsar.

The Maxim M1910 has a steampunk aesthetic: it weighs 68kg and has an armoured gun shield on a distinctive two-wheeled mount allowing it to be towed ­behind a vehicle or manoeuvred by the gun crew.

Russian media mock these antiques and say the Ukrainians use them because they lack modern weapons.

The truth is more complex.

As the name suggests, the weapon was introduced in 1910. It is a Russian-made version of the first truly automatic machinegun, which was patented by Hiram Maxim, an American-British inventor, in 1883.

Earlier Gatling guns had six barrels which needed to be cranked by hand. In Maxim’s design, the expanding gases from firing a bullet work the action and load the next round. One finger on the trigger unleashes a succession of bullets. A water-cooled barrel allows it to keep firing for extended periods. Versions of Maxim’s gun proved lethally effective in the trenches of the First World War.

Modern medium machineguns firing the same 7.62mm ammunition as the M1910 are much lighter and more portable – the current Russian PKM weighs less than a fifth as much. However, they lack water cooling. Firing continuously even for a minute can cause the barrel to deform, or the weapon to “cook off”, when bullets fire without the trigger being pulled.

Should never have got rid of the old Vickers gun….

Top Ender
Top Ender
May 15, 2022 8:35 pm

Hmmm….test

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 15, 2022 8:36 pm

Though we could purchase another, and do what the Japanese have been quietly doing – ignoring the critics and converting their helo carriers to fixed wing F-35 operations.

TE, something the size of the old Melbourne would be better suited to that task, wouldn’t it?

(Though a third and/or fourth Canberra-class optimised solely for air ops and embarking a Squadron-plus of F-35Bs would be a great counterpart to Canberra and Adelaide)

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
May 15, 2022 8:37 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says: May 15, 2022 at 7:36 pm

Any reference for that Assertion?

Experience.

#BelieveAllZulus ?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 15, 2022 8:40 pm

Should never have got rid of the old Vickers gun….

I am sure that an infanteer battalion’s Sustained Fire Machine Gun platoon would make superb use of a (slightly) modernised version, Zuli. The MAG-58 is a very good weapon, but being air-cooled does have its limitations.

Or you knock up a water-cooled barrel (or retro-fittable water sleeve for existing barrels) and SFMG tripod for the modern .50cal instead.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 15, 2022 8:40 pm

Ahem… Zulu

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity
May 15, 2022 8:41 pm

This morning I walked my accountancy firm through the consequences to a pub of a $0.50 (fifty cents) per hour pay rise.
Using recent figures from a real pub.
Albo’s only $1 an hour will be twice as bloody.

DaFisk
DaFisk
May 15, 2022 8:42 pm

It’s official. Finland (!) is submitting its NATO application after 80 years of neutrality. Epic own goal by Putin now that Russia’s NATO border gets 1,300km longer (accession might take until the end of year, but there’s an interim defense guarantee in case Putey gets a little shootie with Finland – unlikely because he’ll be dead by then and even if not, Finland will kick Russia’s ass even harder than Ukraine did). I’d even go so far to call it now – Russia has officially lost the war it started, on its own terms! (“Teh NATO expansions!1!1” etc etc)

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
May 15, 2022 8:42 pm

Winston Smith says: May 15, 2022 at 8:09 pm

ZK2A: An outbreak of foot and mouth disease spreading rapidly across Indonesia poses the biggest threat to Australia’s $70bn-a-year meat and livestock industry in decades.

That will be what Dan is hoping for with his ‘raid the backyard garden’ legislation.
… next crisis on the list.

Dear Citizens of AfDanistan, you will have to go vegan for a while because we can’t produce beef, lamb, and pork safely anyway. I want to assure my loyal subjects that this mandatory veganism will only be conducted for a brief, short, temporary period, until the emergency declaration is over. It’s just 3 weeks to fatten the calf.

Top Ender
Top Ender
May 15, 2022 8:44 pm

Lizzie, was trying to post a link for you but the site rejects it…

Suggestion was re churches if you’re in that part of the world; to go to the old walled town of Beverley and have a look at the Minster there. There is also a rather curious church up the road which has interior decorations which supposedly inspired Lewis Carroll’s White Rabbit in the Alice books. And a rather good ruined monastery near Peterborough.

My thoughts were along of the lines of how to make money from churches…have something unique and/or curious and people come and have a look. We went to the one in Scotland some time back which apparently was an inspiration for that bloke who writes the mystery novels about Templars and so on. Lines out the door.

Worked for Tintagel and also Glastonbury Abbey.

Or you could sell bits of stone to people so they become an owner?

Zipster
Zipster
May 15, 2022 8:47 pm

The truth is more complex.

let me just spray paint over that

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 15, 2022 8:48 pm

I thought you didn’t care about stupid ukrainians, Zipster…

DaFisk
DaFisk
May 15, 2022 8:48 pm

It’s incredible, gobsmaking that Russia STILL hasn’t managed to take a f—— steel plant deep behind its own front lines after a mere 80 days of w-, I mean, special military ops! The Azov battallion, whoever they are, are like the bloody Spartans. They’ll probably go down fighting, but not before chewing through another brigade of Russian rapists and war criminals (that’s most of them sadly – really messed up place!).

Rabz
May 15, 2022 8:49 pm

63 Coalition 80 Labore

Grate. 😡

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 15, 2022 8:52 pm

Or you could sell bits of stone to people so they become an owner?

It’s worked for maintaining an estate in Scotland so far, but the incredibly perishable nature of the novelty factor gets in the way in the end.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 15, 2022 8:53 pm

Grate

You are deep within the Doctors’ Wives and Goat’s Cheese belt there, so it’s unsurprising…

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 15, 2022 8:54 pm

I am sure that an infanteer battalion’s Sustained Fire Machine Gun platoon would make superb use of a (slightly) modernised version

Back in the mid 1970’s, when the SFMG platoons were being set up, I do remember a proposal to use a modernized Vickers gun, but the M60 won out…

DaFisk
DaFisk
May 15, 2022 8:56 pm

I’m calling this one too – Putin is officially the worst Russian leader since Nicholas II. Even worse than Gorbachev/Yeltsin. If I were a Russkie I’d be utterly livid that this pathetic excuse for a tyrant torched 70+ years of superpower prestige on (checks notes) a single province of the fecking Ukraine! No one is afraid of Russia now (I almost hope Putin lobs a nuke at Kiev out of spite, just to prove what everyone suspects about his arsenal being almost entirely dud – when that happens, Russia simply ceases to exist).

JC
JC
May 15, 2022 8:58 pm

Fisk

If you’re right, Russia will have a very serious problem on the border with the yellow man longer term.

Top Ender
Top Ender
May 15, 2022 8:58 pm

Well Rex, if we were really serious about defence we’d lease a new Virginia class with crew off the USA every six months; buy three nuclear aircraft carriers and air groups while there, and get some nuclear-tipped Tomahawks x 100 or so.

But we aren’t.

Solomons anyone?

Crossie
Crossie
May 15, 2022 8:58 pm

The Ukrainian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest is the only interesting one so far. Even the semi-naked Spanish singer was run of the mill.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
May 15, 2022 9:00 pm

I was hoping to include a rocket launch down in Florida but they are fairly unreliable to predict exactly – eg: weather delays – and there aren’t a lot of other things we wanted to do down there. “Next time”, she says.

We had that on our list in 2020 TE but even though we continued on once back in the US from being dumped in Mexico, the whole launch area was closed due to Covid. Next time, we say, for we hope to be there in October to pick up the Panama Cruise once more. We did get in a quick trip to the Florida Keys area and heartily recommend that as a very special journey if you have time – a day’s drive down, start latish in morning from Miami and arrive in the afternoon to book overnight into one of the old Cigar Baron’s mansions turned hotels in the charming historic town of Key West, 50k from Cuba.

DaFisk
DaFisk
May 15, 2022 9:03 pm

If you’re right, Russia will have a very serious problem on the border with the yellow man longer term.

I’ve been calling this for two months – Russia is going to be China’s bitch for as long as China can be bothered to play it. China gets a 50% discount on everything from Russia going forward. Only thing stopping Xi from just seizing all the Qing Empire territories back is he’s got an even bigger hard-on for striking Taiwan (hopefully Sleepy Joe will be transferred to his retirement villa before he tries that on!).

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
May 15, 2022 9:03 pm

OldOzzie says: May 15, 2022 at 8:15 pm

Federal election results
Super Voter – 2022 Election – 2019 Election – Polling
63 Coalition 80 Labor

The origin of those figures seem to be old news. Check the date:

Labor to win majority of 80 seat in parliament, Coalition reduced to 63 seats according to pre-election YouGov poll
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese is set to secure a major victory with Labor set to win back a large number of seats with the state of Victoria to heavily affect Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s chances at the Federal Election.
David Wu and Crystal Wu
May 11, 2022

That was before Slo-Mo’s grand super-drawdown mortgage deposit scheme was announced this morning.

So yeah, ALP will still Elbow their way into the Lodge.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
May 15, 2022 9:10 pm

when that happens, Russia simply ceases to exist).

No. China will put the Xi back into exist.

rickw
rickw
May 15, 2022 9:12 pm

Should never have got rid of the old Vickers gun….

They used to be in our war emergency reserves. Most probably melted down by now by our traitors.

Frank
Frank
May 15, 2022 9:13 pm

Has Eurovision filled its quota of bearded trannies and assorted xim/xers this year?

rickw
rickw
May 15, 2022 9:17 pm

How many lives did this woman destroy?

How many lives did this politician destroy? The Australian Government way….

JC
JC
May 15, 2022 9:25 pm

Apple is no longer the biggest company in the the world by market cap.

You wouldn’t believe what is, although RickW would.

Oil is emerging as mightier than tech amid the turbulence that has defined financial markets over the past few months.

Saudi Aramco, the state-backed producer, has toppled Apple AAPL +3.19% , the maker of iPhones and Mac computers, off its top spot as the world’s most valuable company.

The oil giant rose to a near-record high Wednesday with a market capitalization of $2.4 trillion, pushing it ahead of Apple , which fell more than 5% to just below that level.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 15, 2022 9:26 pm

How many lives did this politician destroy? The Australian Government way….

You don’t understand. The howls from the leafy burbs had to be seen to be believed. I hope they felt like fools when it emerged that that footage was brought and paid for by the fvcking Greenies….

Rabz
May 15, 2022 9:26 pm

You are deep within the Doctors’ Wives and Goat’s Cheese belt there

Rex, I reside within the most “unfashionable” shruburb in inner Sydney.

A wonderful locale for keeping out of the spotlight while avoiding a whole bunch of pretentious and preposterous pratts – and it’s only 11 kms from the GPO. 🙂

Dot
Dot
May 15, 2022 9:26 pm

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/moonlighting-federal-police-officers-taking-up-second-job-to-make-ends-meet/news-story/2ca229f9baca55927002f65b0ab0e3a8

Oh cry me a river. Their EBA/AWA is ridiculous. They can have holidays for half of the working year.

Zipster
Zipster
May 15, 2022 9:26 pm

the only thing we need is a nuclear deterrent

Do you want to give Adam Bandt heart failure?

now that you mention it, an added benefit

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