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That’s the slow simmer.
I, like Johanna, think Tim Blair was unfair in comparing electric cars to the P76 which was a good design…
NATO, the front bar urger.
Standing up to the dysfunctional terrorist supporting UN would be a vote winner, if only the Liberals had the frigging…
Yes indeed. And why they deserved no sympathy.
And all that was provided was events in a distant country and they practice a religion that’s not liked.
You though added nothing not evan a personal anecdote such as Cassie to explain the indifference.
BTW are you related to DrBG?
Happy to report that my current home has blankets and a quilt, all removable if you feel hot, addable (?) if you feel cold. Spare blanket in the cupboard just in case, plus electric blanket.
Doonas in tourist accommodation are a good indicator of why not to stay there.
I’ve stayed in lots of hotels/motels, and I hate the lack of temperature control in many of them. Often you can’t open the windows, and the temperature is set at 70F or thereabouts, which is fine during the day but too hot for sleeping. For me, anyway.
Oh well. It used to be that you couldn’t control the temp because of a sputtering coal fire or smoky hearth in winter, and 40C days in an upstairs room in a pub in the country in summer.
There’s no place like home. 🙂
You didn’t the others did. Provide some some insight of your own. Prove you deserve to be so smug.
bespoke says:
May 27, 2022 at 5:48 am
As they say in the classics, “whatever“, mate.
I can ignore you forever, can you do the same?
Nothing personal mind you but you make little or no sense.
Stick to being “first!”, is quite uncontroversial.
LOL! Hide behind a chick.
Figures.
bespoke says:
May 27, 2022 at 5:55 am
Oops, I thought you could read and comprehend, my bad, apologies.
Cops stopping parents getting at Texas shooter while they stand around scratching their arses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHnhcGZwtZQ
If you read it carefully, they’re actually looking to be above Parliament. It’s actually diabolical.
Wait until the blackouts stop us from being able to flush the toilet .
I get frustrated with Cassie’s constant hyperbole sometimes but she has knowledge and more importantly first hand experience so i can understand her frustration. You have nothing Gabor but bluff.
bye bespoke, mind who you hire to prune the grapes.
Matrix Transform:
I know and I’m horrified.
The vast majority of problems on this planet has been caused by Government who represent only themselves.
Repeating what others have said adds nothing .
What have they done to deserve the indifference?
Gabor:
Are you? Also:
*descent*
Correction. If we’re going to throw stones.
Taking my ‘kind’ off to work. Have a good day.
bespoke says:
May 27, 2022 at 6:30 am
I can’t resist punching a sucker, If you had a skerrick of curiosity it was me who actually put you on the straight and narrow re, the Uighurs, Cassie only confirmed it.
Timeline is important my friend, hard to do, I admit when your mind is clouded by the mind rotting Woodstock .
Should be put on the prohibited list and banned for eternity.
Knuckle Dragger says:
May 27, 2022 at 6:37 am
Touche.
And well deserved, Uppity upstart as I am, no grammar even.
Barnaby Joyce:
Appeared in his own video exhorting Government to ‘get out of our lives’.
Change of heart. Returns to the Corinthian leather and 35 year old Canberra cognac. Then:
Doesn’t want Fed pollies to be mandatorily vaxxed, as ‘it will just lead to arguments’.
Jumps straight into the ‘net zero’ pool, proclaiming how good the water is and enraging every Nationals voter who can’t see the ocean from their bedroom window.
Gets pineappled in the election, despite wearing giant hats.
Wonders why (at least) three of his colleagues ran the numbers and are looking to throw him off the trough.
GET FUCKED BARNABY.
h/t bern
TheirABC’s increasingly totalitarian behaviour is giving me the irrits.
Headlines like ‘What do we know about’ (who is ‘we?) and even worse, ‘What you need to know about.’
Almost finished reading Murray Walker’s autobiography, which includes photos of the commentary box.
Scrolling through TheirABC, I find a story headed ‘Everything You Need To Know Ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix.’ It is a couple of hundred words.
From reading Murray’s book, he would have walked the course before the race, compiled extensive biographical notes on the racers, also compiled notes on the car manufacturers, previous lap records, and then there were tyres, and so on and so on. He also had in front of him (mostly on paper) notes about gear changes on each segment and related speeds.
You get the idea.
TheirABC is dedicated to dumbing everything down. Anyone can become a motor racing expert. Just look at the headline ‘Everything You Need To Know’ about Monaco – grrr!
As in yesterday’s example about housing shortages, the standard is roughly that of a student newspaper. There is no sign of even the most basic editorial checks being made, and as for spelling and grammar – it’s a lost cause.
Time line and a bird strike.
Yep, that’s always been the plan. No way they can get punters to vote for it, so let’s use the courts and legislation nobody voted for.
Same in the US and Canada.
joh,
Best you not click on news.com then. Every second piece.
Gotta go, Gabor. Feel free to squirrel all day.
Ray Liotta’s given up breathing.
Farewell, T1000.
The vast majority of airbnb I’ve stayed in have used doonas.
I’ve never known them to be controversial (or excessively warm).
I guess that’s might be because I’m generally a winter traveller who turns the heat down or off at night.
Good to see that all in all Lizzie is enjoying her airbnb experiences.
The T-800 to John Connor
— Terminator 2
More on Liotta’s crowning achievement:
I’d go to net zero if this was the end result.
T-101?
KD – T-1000 is still going strong (Robert Patrick). They’re easy to mix up.
Vale Mr Liotta. In lots of movies without being a loudmouth like so many Hollywood actors.
I believe Vietnam is high on the list of possible postings
Anthony Albanese refuses to entertain suggestions Kristina Keneally will be given diplomatic position
Arnie, I mean .
T-800?
Can you buy a Christina Lokken wife pillow yet? I’m a bit worried about milkshakes (I mean affirmative consent).
I’m not buying the sentience upgrade.
I’ve noticed, hasn’t been ‘on special’ since I’ve been back.
Supply chain dramas result in increased home-grown demand for Aussie-made toilet paper, tissues
What?
This better not be another Roger Moore moment.
You fuckers just can’t get along can you.
Clarity:
I should have known. The T-1000 never said ‘fuggedaboutit’.
essentially, the money flows from consumer to them
you’re all just a free-range farm
Bespoke, Cassie doesn’t do hyperbole. She is to the point every time and being human makes the odd mistake which is acknowledged and corrected, not like a lot of us. I wish I could be more like her in analysing problems, mine are only in certain areas not usually discussed on this blog.
KK took one for the team, and will undoubtedly be rewarded with our money.
SFLs are still blithering about a ‘broad church.’
We’re not hearing a lot about principles.
Robert Patrick played the T-1000 in T2 Judgement Day. Ray Liotta never starred in the franchise.
Sad news none the less.
Yep. Ray did his job very well and refused to become embroiled in politics.
Thanks, Ray.
It troubles me greatly to see bespoke’s widdle mouth all twenty past eight.
This could be the internet violence our E commissioner was talking about.
How long do you think these type of blogs have got…especially when everyone is teasing each other?
But such is the level of denialism here, you’ll still be calling people idiots instead of enemies and not know who’s up who and who’s paying the rent.
How’s your acceptance of the WEF’s level of participation in the west’s destruction coming along? …..or still just all idiot domestic pollies who just coincidentally seem to be doing exactly what all other western pollies are doing….
Just idiots?
I know who the idiots are.
Headline news in the UK is the tax on energy profits (a ‘levy’) that the Conservatives have introduced , after much argy-bargy about it, so Labor are crowing that their idea has been pinch and its time for the Conseratives to go. This money will be used to ameliorate slightly the huge increase in energy costs that is going to hit Britain this winter.
Just how long can they go on doing this, and coping also with ‘the rising cost of living’ that is on everyone’s lips? A ‘worsening crisis for millions of households’ says the BBC at me as I type this. No sense of history at all, says Hairy in exasperation, turning it off. Seems to me that people are just beginning to realise what their ready acceptance of the climate cult is bringing to them, but now they are in too deep and it’s too late to query the narrative. Australia well on track now for this too.
Meantime, here we are in the East Riding of Yorkshire in a rather lovely Airbnb on a farm with a fabulous view over towards the rolling landscape of Castle Howard. Our abode is made from a converted pigstye. Don’t fall about laughing as it is very beautifully stripped out, its old roof beams cleaned up, and it is now renovated to within an inch of its life: Vogue style and decor. A change from our Eyam cottage which was run by a salt-of-the-earth old couple who had filled the small cottage with the contents of thirty years worth of bric-a-brac collecting to give it ‘that cottage feel’ – some of it quite nice but goodness me, so much of it it was hard to find a place to put down our stuff anywhere. Sadly even here, yet another atomic down doona (or whatever it is called) has had to be shelled out of its pod so that we can sleep in comfort. I have found a light blanket here which will do on top of the doona shell if I add my shaggy sheep wool rug on my side.
First trip today was to see where my French Count ancestor first arrived in the UK. He was one of the Gentleman Adventurers who helped form a company to drain the fens; but he started in the Hatfield Levels in the 1620’s, far above the salt marshes of my later to be ancestral church now under threat and further up even than the traditional fenlands up to Lincoln. It was interesting to see the same sorts of draining systems had been made around the Hatfield swamps at Sandtoft too, and sad to know that it was here that my ancestor’s village and all of his followers were burned out by angry locals who were against fenland draining due to the loss of their fishing and fowling rights. We took some photographs of the lie of the land, because there is not much else from that period left to see.
Then Hairy wanted to backtrack down to Grimsby, on his list to see, which I had stopped us going to the other day because of our leaky tyre (fixed for 120 pounds, new tyre, no insurance cover for that). Grimsby was an eye-opener, the other side of Boris’s Britain, a regional area badly hit long ago by the EU takeover of fishing ground, and now by Covid lockdowns and climate madness price rises. So very many shuttered up shops and businesses gone bust in the very long main street, and a general air of depression in the buildings and people, which extended even to the next town of Cleethorpe, a seedy seaside holiday town where even there a lot of things were no longer operative. It’s not all the green and pleasant land around those parts, Boris’s now gone ‘red wave’. What an opportunity lost, to do some good there instead of make things worse, much worse. Green Carrie – grrrrrrr. What a Teal.
Tomorrow we go into York for a look-see, although we’ve been there before, so will just do some shopping. We may drive around some of the little villages near to here, and relax in this nice place doing some reading but Grimsby lingers back of mind as somewhere that will only get worse, and signifies all that is going wrong in Britain.
Thanks, Faulty.
Does ‘teasing’ include calling people shallow cock smokers and wishing them dead?
I never heard of Ray Liotta though his face seems vaguely familiar.
Heard Gary Humphries, ex Chief Minister and Senator, on the radio opining about the local libs being too much right wing. What a tosser, chasing the left vote. Do these sort of faux liberals not understand if there is no point of difference why vote for them anyway. I met him years ago at a Brumbies game, didn’t appreciate being called a seat warmer as a Senator. He was ok as a CM when Canberra was run as a town council. Used to be a very pleasant place to live then the liars got in and its been downhill ever since. Took about two years for the place to look like a dump.
“I know who the idiots are”. Face meet mirror.
whatever happens it’s someone else’s fault.
Sounds like Al Banese PBUH* (not mocking Italians now) will give Nobody’s Girl the same treatment, and for the same reasons, as Screwtape gave Wormwood.
* Point-things Be Up Him.
munty
Palacechook and Andrews haven’t had much of a glove laid on them. Their scandals have been fairly weak.
Mmmmmm, yessss. Killing hundreds of oldies by sending some, while positive for Kung Flu, into nursing homes where they could spread the “joy” is really hardly worth a mention.
PointY-things.
It has only been days and Labor is screwing up by keyboard.
MY keyboard.
See?
m0ntysays:
May 26, 2022 at 10:29 pm
Doing so, and likewise saying so, are protected first amendment rights.
Sedition is not protected by 1A. Inciting crimes is also not protected. You know that Dot, don’t be intellectually lazy.
So, why aren’t the instigators of Wussia Wussia, Wussia, in jail? They incited crimes.
The constant target.
Melbourne Uni student union rescinds Israel-Palestine motion after legal threat
That’s the thing with Lefties; there’s no principle they won’t prostitute for the sake of power.
munty
No, Dottungsmottir of the village Rungstenwomp, I shall not fetch turnip nuggets for you. Get them yourself, lazy bum.
Translation: Aww sheet, all I have is extracts from fascist left websites, and I’m not sure they have any substance!
KD – Roger Moore lives on at The Express. They’re a bit obsessive…
+Roger Moore’s ‘very unusual’ generosity on James Bond set and to sick Audrey Hepburn (23 May)
+Roger Moore didn’t like his Escape to Athena role alongside James Bond star (23 May)
+Roger Moore: Bond star was plagued by health issues before death – ‘told I could die’ (22 May)
+Roger Moore was ‘petrified’ drunk Hollywood star would drop a baby on set ‘He was shaking’ (22 May)
+Roger Moore named the ‘best’ Bond ever and his pick for who should replace Daniel Craig (22 May)
+Roger Moore and his fourth wife Kristina’s devastating tragedy they faced together (22 May)
+Roger Moore’s traumatic experience that made him hate guns: ‘I was deafened’ (22 May)
No I don’t read any of these but someone obviously does. Good way to fill a newspaper I suppose.
I just read this out to Hairy. He laughed. Simples. Just subscribe to the Sydney Morning Herald.
On toilet paper, most places we’ve stayed have included a plentiful supply. But not here. Careful there, I say to Hairy, because as far as these owners are concerned, that’s your lot. In fact, we’d better buy some more tomorrow, can’t expect them to provide everything as we’re self-catering.
We can give any left-over rolls to your brother before we depart on Tuesday, I add as an afterthought.
He looks at me dumbfounded.
I am not, he says emphatically, giving a present of toilet paper to my brother.
Hairy can get very British sometimes when he’s back here in England.
Words about pigstyes and me might even get exchanged. 🙂
Dot to munty
Have you been able to prove any assertion you have made on this blog on the last couple of days?
No, and he is still avoiding the question about the difference between gun culture and gang culcha.
Faulty…..?
Let me give you some serious advice, helpful advice, that may really help you out in life…..it may even help you with women.
And come to think of it, may have got you out of “traffic”.
If you dropped your need to belong to a gang or a group…….you’d be able to assess all information as presented on it’s merits and not dismiss it due to your bigotry about it’s source.
The reason I am so much smarter than you is because of this reason.
SRR…MV have often been way ahead of the eightball….maybe sometimes not, but only a fool dismisses them outright.
In this case MV has been banging on about our e commissioner and what she has planned for months.
That’s just a fact.
And now months lated…too late one might argue we see an article about her raving on at the WEF on this very blog.
That’s the WEF you have scoffed at now for years.
You can keep making a goat of yourself publicly KD, or you can seriously take this advice and wise up.
dover0beachsays:
May 26, 2022 at 11:11 pm
You are not being serious, Dot. This is horseplop.
I bet you monty was saying the same thing about the Feds being involved in the Whitmer ‘kidnapping’ case. Funny how the court case exposed their shenanigans.
This is the principal reason no-one like Trump will ever face a (real) court about the unarmed insurrection.
A Victoriastani parliamentary committee has recommended a ban on new domestic gas installations and a cut off date for the sale of new petrol and diesel cars, along with 30 other recommendations.
There you go, politicians “know how” to transition to renewables.
I wonder how many of them are electrical engineers?
Dover
So if you lose your electricity, you’ll neither be able to have a shower, a hot drink or meal. Do these idiots not see the danger of having a single, discontinuous, unreliable, mode of energy?
Fixed. As this goes on, it becomes harder to assume that it is a mix of ignorance, incompetence and stupidity.
The Victorian Greens leader, Samantha Ratnam, said the inquiry provided the “know how” to transition to renewables.
What about big diesels in tractors?
Ratnam could transition farmers to planting millions of hectares with a yam stick.
Have you met these psychopaths? They ooze smug and malevolence.
Dotsays:
May 27, 2022 at 5:04 am
Can anyone explain why Aborigines in Perth, Sale or Lismore really care about the Uluru Statement?
The opportunity to get OPM?
They never seem to recommend that pollies be required to drive electric cars. You’d think it’d be the first thing they’d push, leading by example and all that.
One of the best things about driving into Canberra from Sydney used to be the wide median strip of eucalypts interspersed with not correct trees.
Having done that drive many times, there is no amount of rage that I can direct at ‘Greens’ who destroyed that, one of the great entrances to a national capital, because everyone at some international junket said that you had to have a C19th tram.
They chopped down the trees and inserted a tram which not even the most optimistic estimates say will ever pay its way.
There is nothing they won’t destroy.
Lizzie:
The government parasite continues to grow.
It will just keep sucking more of the wealth out of society until the host dies. And it will happen, the parasite cannot stop feeding. Like the scorpion and the frog, it’s the nature of the beast.
Government understands the problems it is causing, it feels sorry for us (in a very shallow sense) about the plight in which it has put us and would really like to do anything possible to alleviate our distress… except getting off our backs and stopping the vacuum pump it has installed into the economy.
There is no alternative.
The Government and its organs must be reduced.
All else is just pissing into the wind.
Ratman would if she could.
She’s on the list.
Came back specifically whilst on maternity leave to give Andrews an SoE extension.
If the Victorian government wants to pay for new hot water services, stoves and ovens plus upgrade everyone’s car to an EV I’m sure they can find some rich people to slug to pay for it.
The climate is changing in Kooyong after all.
minsays:
May 27, 2022 at 6:08 am
Wait until the blackouts stop us from being able to flush the toilet .
I suspect that the geniuses (genii?) who rule over us haven’t quite twigged that power is need to move water around, no power, no water, not only no flush, but no drink.
This joint never ceases to fascinate me (NYC). I was strolling up Turd Ave this afternoon and walked past a salon with the following sign:
Brazilian cut and blow dry.
How is that possible?
Did someone say gun culcha?
Compensation, reparations, and a chance of making whitefella feel guilty.
On the other hand Johanna, having trees near roads is a sure recipe for ruining the substrate and eventually the surface.
In my opinion all tress should be cleared from the proximity of heavy traffic roads.
Save lots of money and the lives of the poor buggers who make a mistake and hit them.
Except birthing trees.
Random question.
Who was it at old Cat who used to publish “Lame Pics”?
Mostly a weird collection of 1960’s ‘naughty old man’ reminiscent of Benny Hill humour.
They ended up being cut down?
Fight over sacred trees on Western Highway cost $60m, watchdog says
Mark from Melb, I think Sanchez. I think it was a Mark at least.
Lotocoti:
https://twitter.com/CatNamedEric/status/1529775307351285761
Do you know if that was real and what happened to the bloke?
That rings a bell.
There were several Marks.
Thanks, Rosie. We are enjoying them, in all of their variety, and that variety is a big part of the charm. Also, small talk with the owners is often helpful for planning trips and also to get an insight, however brief, into how different types of people are faring and what their concerns are. We don’t go for the cheaper offerings, nothing below $200 a night, and some more than this, depending on what they offer and where. As I’ve said, fairly comparable to a mid-range hotel room and much better with all of our luggage, need for car parking and our desire to have a sort of home to come back to for three or four days each time.
We’ve booked a more expensive hotel in Windsor for our final stay though as we have to be within a day trip by train from London for meeting up with friends. Hotels sometimes make a nice change.
Can anyone explain why Aborigines in Perth, Sale or Lismore really care about the Uluru Statement?
According to the Wet Alsatian today Aborigines in Perth really want to catch up on the Depp-Heard trial, blow by blow.
MarkA.
Lived in Europe.
Not staying with the other Lizzie?
Sancho Panzer:
Like this one?
Sorry – can’t help.
Okay, it’s the morning and he’s collecting the papers, but:
WTF? No seriously, WTF?
Ugg boots?
https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/689aa469f99c89bf2f0a98cb453328ad?width=320
Probably been posted here already but if so it bears repeating:
COVID vaccines may impair long-term immunity to the virus
I’m pretty sure Robert Malone brought this possibility up quite some time ago, but it could well have been others, too. It’s hard to keep track, since there have been so many specialists who spoke up about such things, had their careers and reputations rubbished, and are now being vindicated.
It was Mark, Mark A. They were of the saucy postcard variety. Some very funny/corny.
He was on the dash cat for quite a while too. Is that still going?
That’s right. MarkA.
Gravatar was the constellation of Orion.
Speaking of Constellations, off to the Qantas museum tomorrow.
Aaannd the predictable happens.
Energy giant BP to review all North Sea investment due to Rishi’s windfall tax (26 May)
Yep, tax energy companies to give money to the people to offset the cost of energy, which YOU made more expensive. Whereupon the energy companies can’t get ROI to work and stop projects, thereby making energy prices go even higher. If you could convert stupid into energy politicians would be the biggest energy source on the planet.
I gather that’s Elbow in his jammypants?
Thanks Lizzie, JC.
I thought he might have been here as well?
Sans the Benny Hill postcards?
Always the way with socialists.
From within the canyons between sheer concrete apartment blocks, drab, with plainest windows from a few of which a sickly light is dying, crushing the very souls of men. To the crumbling stations, and worn out trains worked far beyond their years limping along uneven rails, but taunting with vibrant posters of gleaming powerful vehicles running along rails that streak ahead into the future.
All made to crush, grind, and drains people until they fell they must submit to the state if they are going to survive at all.
Big castles are too draughty, Sancho.
However, I’ll be she offers blankets as well as a doona.
She’s like me, on record as not liking doonas, takes her own pillow and blankies.
Now that is real luxury, the most I can fit into my suitcase is my sheep rug.
so we shouldn’t have things on the roadside cause drunks smash into them?
Where’s Fester?
Batteries hitting a wall.
I think the US Agency for International Development recently suggested that.
Sacrifices will have to be made.
By others.
nobody listens to Elec Eng
the policy clowns are usually Science or Mech Eng because those guys know everything.
Just ask em.
As to claimed long term effects of the vaccines against what are now much less virulent strains of the virus.
The current hospitalisation and death rates are not even newsworthy these days are they?
I can’t even catch it, despite two months of desperate attempts in Europe, when I was in France at one point they had fifteen million known cases in a population of 70 million.
Red Hill , just outside of Melbourne on the Peninsula. I know someone whose wife was killed by a tree branch hitting their car on a windy day. You drive through the area and the main drags are littered with freaking tree branches curling up over the road. It’s downright dangerous on windy days.
Leak. Nail, hammer……………………
https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/448aa2b2e3b45fc4f4e29e979301b6b8?width=1024
I guess if you can time your breaks to when you need to recharge and there aren’t a thousand others wanting access at the same time you can EV.
Might be different for us plebs though.
In my trips up and dowm to the coast the trees next to the road are always wrecking the road. Falling over in the wind. Just about every time I go I see where big gums have dropped a branch on the road. Locals seem to travel with a chainsaw for such occasions. I used to do the same thing including long chains for pulling heavy stuff when I went fishing in out of the way places.
Did they include people at high risk of dying from covid in the trial?
I’m guessing they probably didn’t.
Melbourne Dandenongs were mayhem after the storms late last year.
Lots of people without power for several weeks.
There was a discussion yesterday on the variations in range due to a number of factors, including ambient temperature.
And there is also the issue of degradation of range as the battery ages.
I would need a comfortable range of 700-800 k before I looked at EVs.
It’s what they are designed to do.
so we shouldn’t have things on the roadside cause drunks smash into them?
Ever had a front steer tyre blow out?
If you do I hope there are no trees right on the edge of the road. Mechanical faults occur and people make mistakes, trees turn an incidents into deaths.
Bonhomie off to a slow start.
Do better. Even you Groogs. I’m off to start a Go fund me Page for a one way ticket to Denpasar. I won’t even use Garuda or Asia Air.
Me too.
Driving to qld up the Newell end next week.
500km stages.
Petrol, too easy.
The big issue for me after range is number of charging points available v persons wishing to use them on long haul trips.
Mark A brought a house in Hungary and worked in Eastern Europe as An electrical engineer. He cracked the shits about something, can’t remember what, then left.
Sancho, I have a 2.0L turbo diesel and tomorrow I’m driving to the North Coast to visit family. It’s 670km and I can do it on two-thirds of a tank, so the only stops will be for a coffee and leg stretch. Agree that EV range has to be comparable to my current car before I’d consider it.
Trees also provide convenient hiding places for ‘roos to hide behind and hop out when you are 20 metres away.
I’m glad I’m at the top of the hill.
Don’t talk to me about sneaky kangaroos.
On the subject of “Lame Pix” .. MARK A still does them daily .. over at the “furniture store” .. read ’em every morning .. LOL!
Should have included it in the original post .. link to “Lame Pix”
https://my-lame-pictures.freeforums.net/thread/4/daily-lame-pictures
Had a call from my mate in NZ yesterday. He’s coming back in about a year. We talked about people cracking the shits then not offering an alternative even if it is not a solution and how they say we have to do something. This is government doing something to be seen to do something even though its of no benefit.
#metoo rugbyskier.
My turbo diesel can run to 1300 kms on a tank on long trips (mid 5’s in litres per 100).
Not so flash around town.
If we needed two cars, we would probably keep the diesel for long trips and get a small EV for local travel.
Had one of our pilots yesterday.
Apparently he is being effectively forced overseas to continue advancing in his career (twin prop and getting all his qualifications to end up flying the big boys, commercial airlines).
The next part of his training is being dome in Singapore in a couple of weeks.
To do the same training in WA is 150+ days, in Victoria 300+.
Oh, and you cant book, instead you are put on a waiting list and told when a slot might become available.
We are run by some second rate turds arent we?
Memes are treasonous wrongthink.
Swedish Agency Warns of Dangerous ‘Hidden Agenda’ Memes (26 May)
Wow, “Agency for Psychological Defence” is about as Orwellian a government department name as you can possibly get.
Er, no thanks.
Getting to the “If you have a business which cant be moved, we will tax it to death” \stage of democracy in the UK.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/26/bp-to-review-north-sea-investments-windfall-tax
BP has said it will review its investments in the North Sea after the government unveiled a windfall tax on oil and gas operators.
The chancellor, Rishi Sunak, laid out plans on Thursday for a 25% tax increase to taxes on North Sea energy companies, in a move that is expected to raise £5bn.
A sunset clause in the legislation means that Sunak’s “energy profits levy” will only be phased out when oil and gas prices return to historically more normal levels or by December 2025.
WaPo j’ismist:
Invented for Nazi infantrymen, further developed by the US military the AR-15…
Liars not happy about SloMo’s Sri Lankan Mediscare.
Good to see politics being done differently.
The M7 in Sydney is a dual carriageway which has some stretches where they have trees on the dividing strip.
I am not sure that it was intended that they should always be there. I get the impression that the land the trees sit on is intended to be turned into additional lanes in the future. I don’t say ‘when the traffic load requires’ because the third lane in each direction was needed from the outset – within a couple of months of it opening there were traffic jams in peak hour.
(I cannot recall where I heard it but heard that the consortium that built the M7 offered to build the third lane originally at a negligible increase in cost but an appropriate extension of time, but they were turned down because of some political imperative of the government of the moment.)
So, when they do decide to add the additional lanes the will be paying for years of nightwork and creating sections kilometers long where everyone must slow down to 80kph even when there is absolutely no work being carried out. But then they will be able to announce the opening of M7 a second time.
Worst ‘roo incident I’ve been involved with was taking mum to a medical appointment and the bugger jumped off a metre high cutting, hit the car on the passenger side and ended up half in the car through the back window.
Poor old mum was lucky the bloody thing didn’t end up on her lap.
Not butting in on the bone of contention between these two but hard to see a problem with this sentence.
Anyone remember this from 2014?
Bloke slips his leg between platform and train in Perth.
The dishonest insanity of stating “I was desperately trying to catch it”….
How?
Look you fucking clowns.
When flus and colds are renamed covid, which is exactly what happened, or else the flus and colds would not have disappeared….read that again if you need to….think…try to be logical…..and the tests conveniently can’t tell the difference. ….
Here’s what you’ve done by allowing yourself to be jabbed by criminals at war with freedom and humanity.
Killed yourselves.
Vaids…blood clots…..liver diseases…cancers….even the re emergence of shingles was predicted by the doctors of the Barrington declaration back in 2020.
And we “conspiracy theorists” linked to them saying so.
You’re immune systems are in the process of being destroyed.
We’ve known this for two years.
All those people off sick from work that if you were honest with yourselves you would admit are jabbed…haven’t got covid like they think they have. The brainwashed cretins have seasonal colds and flus that some would have caught anyway while others would have already been immune but for being jabbed.
But hey….the people destroying our civilization by banning all fuel and power sources are just stupid ……if you are a denialist.
Time was when people would sift through the opinions and data and inform themselves – and then elect a government.
Sweden (well Biden’s America wanted to do it first) will decide what ‘truth’ you can hear and then let citizens make their choice.
What could possibly go wrong.
the mind rotting Woodstock .
Should be put on the prohibited list and banned for eternity.
Is it the can or the consumer that’s your problem?
What about Canadian Club?
The drink preferred by Monty Python style lumberjacks.
“I put on women’s clothing and hang around in bars”
I get the impression that the land the trees sit on is intended to be turned into additional lanes in the future.
ML, you are correct.
The 2050 plan is for 4 lanes in either direction.
The FBI/DOJ just don’t care what you think.
Justice Department Won’t Charge FBI Agents in Nassar Case Failures
Prosecutors won’t charge the FBI agents who disregarded Olympic gymnasts’ allegations that former national team doctor Larry Nassar sexually assaulted them and later made false statements to cover their mistakes, the Justice Department said.
Dude’s right.
Oh God.
Someone has obviously been heavily vaccinated (weekly boosters?) against catching a sense of humour.
The M7 tunnel was going to cost another million and the Lane Coce tunnel 2 million for the extra lanes but governments have to spend money on more important things like more advisors and other useless accoutrements.
To me ‘raise’ (as in the verb applied to money matters) suggests an investment of time and your own money to make some more. Most importantly it is not done by force. You can raise money for a charity, you can raise the money for business.
The British government will take more money from targeted businesses. As the Government gets richer they make someone else poorer. And while the money taken is a mere fleabite compared to the governments revenue it will be confiscation of a very serious chunk of their victims’ money.
Government would happily burn your house down to get at your silverware (which they had only just suddenly decided they were entitled to) and consider that a fair deal.
Coce=Cove
After promising to make a submission to the FWC for a rise in the minimum wage, Jim Chalmers is calling for a “national conversation” about productivity, a word I don’t recall him or Elbow using much during the campaign.
I wonder how many workers are just now realising that the Labor government can’t legislate for wages to keep track with inflation, which is about to get worse thanks to rising electrickery costs on top of budget busting fuel costs?
Meanwhile, the ABC is pushing a story on the disengagement of “multicultural Australia” with the election. The people they interview admit they don’t know how the electoral system works, but they all expect Mr. Albanese to do more for them than Morrison, even the sole Liberal voter among them.
Let’s work out whether you’ll be starving if they ban IC engines and go to electric.
YES.
Yes you will.
Talk of electric cars and their capabilities when there will be no electricity and no food without burning oil in engines seems insane to me.
Seems to be developing as a major theme in the recent massacre:
Frustrated onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas elementary school where a gunman’s rampage killed 19 children and two teachers, witnesses said Wednesday, as investigators worked to track the massacre that lasted upwards of 40 minutes and ended when the 18-year-old shooter was killed by a Border Patrol team.
“Go in there! Go in there!” nearby women shouted at the officers soon after the attack began, said Juan Carranza, 24, who saw the scene from outside his house, across the street from Robb Elementary School in the close-knit town of Uvalde. Carranza said the officers did not go in.
Link
My nephew drinks Canadian Club. I got him a six pack for his birthday. Explaining to the craft beer hipster at the local bottle shop it wasn’t for me he said, “No judgment here man.”
I will be driving on the M7 this afternoon. Because it runs ‘through’ Sydney there are frequent on (and off) ramps. Each on ramp means traffic on the motorway slowing down while vehicles negotiate merging. And because that holds the traffic up and adds more traffic to the inside lane, a lot of cars from the inside lane merge with the outside lane. The result is that the traffic is choked across all lanes.
It wouldn’t be a bother if was like the M5 it ran from Sydney to somewhere so there were great lengths with no merging traffic between the start and finish. That third lane would have been really useful already years ago.
So they advocate for no gas and electricity only.
Without doing the sums it’s obvious there would be very little left over to charge everyone’s EV.
Meanwhile, we’ve had more of that stuff that was likely never again to fill our dams and river systems.
Early days…but the local police department say police were on the scene in 4 minutes and were engaged by the shooter, after which they waited an hour for a tactical response team to arrive.
Fwiw, it’s also being reported that the pics of the perpetrator wearing women’s clothes are not him.
Mother Lode, the operators of the M7 will start construction of the third lane in each direction from the Sir Roden Cutler interchange at Crossroads to Richmond Road at Glendinning in the next few months. Get ready for delays and I wonder if the tolls will be reduced (as if!!)
One more gripe about roads and trees.
Trees are not trimmed back. I will be driving from Lithgow to Orange and there are vast numbers of signs that you are required to obey that are hidden by branches of trees – speed limits, warnings of lanes merging, etc.
Honestly, if they determined that they needed the sign there then it is an appalling failure on the part of the road trolls. Hey, while they are doing their monthly crawl along the road looking to see that none of the signs are obstructed they could also perhaps take a squiz to see if any tree boughs look a little too likely to fall in a strong wind.
Top o’ th’ page to you all.
I’ve accidentally put a whole bundle of various of links in the No Likely Comeback thread and don’t have time to move them so please look there if you’re interested.
Regarding immune system the EU Medical Agency in January was expressing concern over repeated jabs effect on it.
The covid-shingles connection was raised in 2020-2021 TV ads which inexplicably promoted shingles vaccines at the ‘peak’ of covid.
The [US] Army is circulating a draft policy tweak that would specify that soldiers can request to move if they feel state or local laws discriminate against them based on gender, sex, religion, race or pregnancy, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the plans.
The policy would ostensibly sanction soldiers to declare that certain states are too racist, too homophobic, too sexist or otherwise discriminatory to be able to live there safely and comfortably
Victoriastan’s electricity consumption is expected to double by 2050.
The report apparently touts offshore wind as one supply solution.
Good luck!
One that you won’t read about on the ABC website.
Poll: Majority of Voters Support Arming Teachers, School Staff with Concealed Firearms (26 May)
Could you just imagine the howls from our far-lefty teacher unions if they were told to train and carry firearms. It’d be worth doing just for the number of green-progressives who’d leave the profession in horror.
Proportionally, we are the most incarcerated people on the planet.*
We are not an innately criminal people.**
Our children are aliened from their families at unprecedented rates. ***
This cannot be because we have no love for them.****
And our youth languish in detention in obscene numbers.*****
They should be our hope for the future.******
* Stop committing offences
** I suppose its the magical fairy man making you commit crimes then?
*** It takes time, devotion to vice, and a family assessed as completely dysfunctional for the state to incarcerate a kid.
**** See point 3. Sections of your community (because I hate lumping everyone in together, something you are forcing me to do) love violence, physical control and substance abuse a lot more than their kids. These people are scum and should be considered outcasts until rehabilitated, not a cudgel for political argument.
***** See point 3. It takes a dedicated fuckup by an entire family to have a kid incarcerated. (with a few outliers)
****** Heres a tip. Copy what successful “groups’ of people do. Id suggest the Jewish community as a role model so you dont have to be “white” to succeed.
Speaking of roads, up in Darwin the gov is about to spend $110 million – half of it federal money – on changing a four way intersection over to a flyover – with traffic lights.
It’s out on the Berrimah line, with the intersection having bush on all sides. Seems no-one knows about cloverleaf flyovers.
More at the NT Independent
On the US shooter, it seems he was wearing body armour – without the tactical plates.
I unlocked one of lifes great achivements yesterday.
I got to use a joke from the movie Airplane in its proper context.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd1ciPnTGKg
we are redoing part of our airstrip procedure and the lady lumbered with being base radio/control was being assigned another task..
“Boy you picked the wrong week to give up sniffing glue didnt you”…..
Even better everyone in the room got the reference.
Not Dean Laidley again?
President Obama: If I Had a Son, He’d Look Like Trayvon Martin
And
Obama: “Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago”
Now
“As we grieve the children of Uvalde today, we should take time to recognize that two years have passed since the murder of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer,” the former president tweeted. “His killing stays with us all to this day, especially those who loved him.”
The majority of voters support arming teachers and school staff with concealed firearms, a Politico/Morning Consult poll found Thursday.
You really want to give lethal weapons to people who want to trany-ise and or groom/molest your children?
More on Victoria’s courageous renewables push:
Victorians are going to stop runaway climate change and save the planet!
Hard to say whether it’s stupidity or misanthropy at work here.
I just bought the wife a 2 litre diesel Hyundai Tuscon.
Goes well and handling is very good. Looking forward to some good mileage with an eight speed auto.
The Western Australian legal system, for one, sees incarceration as a last resort for Aborigines.
The “Uluru Statement” also preaches the tired old bullshit about how Aborigines weren’t counted in the census until 1967….
Why, yes. Yes I do. I also want them to study the Bible with mandatory examinations each few months, morning prayers before class, plus compulsory training weekends on Ayn Rand and Friedrich Hayek. If they survive all that without resigning or committing suicide they will have become righties.
After all that’s essentially what they’re doing to us and the kids in reverse.
(I’m only being slightly hyperbowlic. Recall Katter’s suggestion that Army Cadets be brought back, and the squawking that caused…)
Trump used ‘words of insurrection’ at rally prior to riot, Rep. Dean says
“If you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to have a country anymore” was one of a score of mentions of fighting in the speech. The crowd certainly interpreted it to be fomenting insurrection.
You are a very foolish poster, Tim N. The storming of the Capitol building led to death and destruction. It was not peaceful, there are no petitions presented. It was a riot. You idiot.
Darren Chester.
Michael McCormack.
Barnaby Joyce.
There’s not even a contest there. Faced with that choice I’ll take Barnaby Joyce every time.
Also up in the NT, Police Commissioner Chalker is going to be subject to a vote of no confidence by Police Association members.
Only a matter of time until he resigns, especially as his mate the Chief Monster is now a backbencher.
The upcoming Rolfe coroner inquest, meanwhile, has broadened its remit to see if there was “systemic racism” playing a part in the axe-wielding and stabby Walker chap being shot.
Is it really?
Work it out….FFS.
And why do they have to be mutually exclusive?
Here’s a hint.
WEF controlled countries are all doing and experiencing the same thing right now.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE!!
Hello, Hello……………………………………………….FUCK…………you wonder why some people like me are getting cranky.
Ya fucking brain dead arseholes.
Christ almighty….you’d make a saint swear.
When someone , or obvious forces are trying to destroy your world and eliminate you and yours from the planet, is their IQ an excuse?
Does it matter?
They’re obviously not smart people.
However, they’re fucking dangerous and they are trying to destroy you.
If they are at war with you, and yet you refuse to see it, how fucking smart are you?
Meanwhile, in that green and pleasant land,
Plod have passed on some helpful advice to anti 4WD activists.
Just in case they’re doing it wrong.
Who got killed bar protestors, Monty?
Embarrassing clutching of straws.
Said by every politician at rallies, and should we go into what some Democrats told their punters to do upon encountering a republican out and about?
“Rise up” women did what regarding Brett Kavanaugh at capitol hill, you seething vacuous hypocrite?
Words of insurrection? LOL. Dems literally supported and defended the rioting of the summer of 2020.
Well, that escalated quickly.
Why are you back Monty?
There are some very unstable people here, suffering denialism that need to be brought around and you just want to keep that from happening.
You sick fuck.
I won’t be here long, so I’m looking for impact.
Don’t take it personally.
You’re just the example being used.
That’s a relief.
Don’t take it personally.
BJ, I always looked on monty as a harmless buffoon; easily ignored. But after his sudden pre-election appearance – and his subsequent vitriol – I am recalling a post (on Sinc Cat) where Tom castigated monty and the left in harsh but accurate detail.
I have recalled that post several times over the years, prompted by the deceit, manipulation and outright lies employed by the left and lauded by monty. Notice that last night he engaged in a long and posturing argument with Dot, yet avoided my questions to him regarding the murder of babies up to a week old. Sheer cowardice: another left trait so eloquently described in that post by Tom.
(BTW, apologies for the spelling error. Ideology! Ideology! Duh.)
I don’t think there are any mentally ill people on here, Struth. Well, not since Anne left.
Am I right thinking they want to ban gas appliances because they need the gas to make electricity?
Or is it just fossil fuel bad.
Oh and hey Monty is your family strictly EV only or have you gone the next important and necessary step to pedal power?
they sure did, go the pitchforks and baseball bats out… oh wait.
what a low energy troll
No I won’t.
But I will take it as a compliment.
Have a nice day.
Dotsays:
May 27, 2022 at 5:12 am
dover0beachsays:
May 27, 2022 at 12:06 am
7NEWS Melbourne
@7NewsMelbourne
· 5h
Gas cooking and heating could soon be phased out in Victorian homes.
So if you lose your electricity, you’ll neither be able to have a shower, a hot drink or meal. Do these idiots not see the danger of having a single mode of energy?
I am just gobsmacked by this pig headed stupidity.
Anti civilisational, anti-working class and certainly cruel to those with limited means.
As I mentioned Origin has sent out flyers about their imminent closure of Eraring in 2025 (with Liddell in 2023). That’s ~ 40% of NSW’s power. In the flyer Origin only guarantees power until the closure of Eraring. That’s plain. This stupidity will be duplicated in other states and the result will be blackouts and massive power shortages. The examples of England and Europe and the US are also plain but the filth/liars will press ahead cheered on by the inner city elites.
I don’t know what can be done against this societal insanity. At the beginning of the climate wars I helped set up TCS and had a public face. That was 15 years ago. I can’t do that public shit anymore. I literally would smack these idiots in the face if I was confronted. But if I could I would select one issue such as Origin and go gangbusters on that: start protests, organise the workers at Origin and Tomago and Mandalong coal mine (which supplies coal to Eraring); I would start legal action against the NSW government to try and force them to take over Eraring (its probably too late for Liddell) under the NSW Emergency Powers Act which definitely gives them the power to do so but with the bastard matt kean in charge they never will; but I would try to organise protests in kean’s electorate etc.
But first I have to power proof my and my other family’s houses.
Thanks Roger.
Obviously not from trusted sources on the innernet.
Or CHRISTIAN websites.
I tried to zoom in on those photos the other day and they were indistinct at best.
They beat a cop with a flagpole bearing an American flag. It wasn’t subtle.
Faith leaders endorse Uluru Statement
Published: 27 May 2022
The Catholic, Uniting and Anglican churches, the Australian National Council of Imams and the Executive Council of Australian Jewry will today join Australian Sikhs, Buddhists, Hindus and the National Council of Churches at Barangaroo in Sydney to endorse the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
FULL STORY – Leading from the heart (By Paige Taylor, The Oz)
Peter Smith at Quadrant Online.
Forward it to Peter Dutton.
If enough people do, he might take notice.
Also looked like the trans person had had cheekbone surgery (and looked nothing like Ramos).
Some bits of the crowd anyway, since that’s what they were being paid to do.
It’s the cover-up that gives it away: The Jan 6 rioters the FBI don’t want to catch (26 May)
I’m not sure whose payroll the Epps bunch were on, nor if they were on the same payroll as Sullivan’s Antifa bunch. It looks like there were a couple of hundred alphabet agency people trying to gin the crowd. It is a tribute to righties they almost entirely refused to be ginned.
LINK: Faith leaders endorse Uluru Statement
So it is just hyper-bowl and empty rhetoric?
You mean like “we will stand, or fall if necessary”?
A bit of a gee-up to the crowd?
You don’t mind if someone else goes off tap and “stands or falls” but you sure as shit have no intention of actually doing anything yourself?
Sort of like that, eh?
Get a grip Monty Australia has had a lot more anti police violence at protests and rallies over the years than a police being whacked with a flagpole.
Your gotchas are so weak they are embarrassing to read.
Yes the protestors shouldn’t have entered government buildings, that was stupid and wrong.
Even Bill Gates thinks wind solar is a load of rubbish.
Impact.
Jumping off a 5G tower in protest will give you that.
“My hope is simply that Catholics will be inspired by Jesus to join the hard work of finding constitutional recognition of the voice of first peoples into our Parliament, and that reconciliation will find new energy and witness at this moment in history,” [Melbourne Archbishop Peter Comensoli] said.
Well, that’s settled then. It’s what Jesus wants.
“Disinformation and foreign influence can be dressed in the most innocent packaging. In our first campaign, we have therefore chosen to use a more lighthearted tone and memes to meet influence campaigns in the same arena as they perform.
Swedish leftist humour. It will be a blast.