… in other words, completely familiar with first world corruption.
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BTW I found the damn keys after gobbling down one of the biscuits my old Holocaust friend had baked for…
Interesting difference, DeepThink is a disrupter and comes with its own froth. It’s impressive, but a casual few hours dive…
I’ve not stopped following this exercise in arseholery ever since it happened. So happy to see shit happening to these…
Yeah nah. Any apology which does not come with a Profumo-level humiliation and debasement of privilege is worthless.
And that is Market Cap to Sales of $2 billion.
Their run rate losses look to me to be $500 million … on $2 billion sales. If (and this is a massive if) they could turn that around to a $500 million profit*, they would be trading at a P/E of 100. Historically markets have tended to revolve around P/Es of 15, but 20-25 is not out of the ordinary. Anything above that might be for start-ups with a bright future, but Atlassian is a dinosaur by tech industry standards, being twenty years old and listed for 8 years. Hard to see where the upside is coming from.
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* Reduce this to household budget levels. Your small business turns over $200,000, has expenses of $250,000, making a loss of $50,000.
Suddenly you have to reduce costs by $100,000 to $150,000 to make a $50,000 profit (without losing sales).
Anyone who has worked in business knows that task is yuuuuge.
Hey
Sad
TOMBALL, Texas—The Texas family members police believe were killed Thursday by an escaped inmate with alleged links to the Mexican mafia have been identified as three brothers from suburban Houston, along with a cousin and their grandfather.
Family friends on Friday confirmed that 66-year-old Mark Collins was killed alongside his three grandchildren at the family’s ranch as the group was preparing for a fishing trip. He was with his grandchildren: 11-year-old Bryson and his three cousins, 11-year-old Hudson, 16-year-old Carson, and 18-year-old Waylon.
Exhibit A – Normie Swan.
Popped into the pharmacy today with a script, to be told it was out of stock until June 26 from the wholesaler. Fortunately, it’s not a life or death thing, but not having it will cause considerable discomfort. I’d previously tried another pharmacy with the same result.
The pharmacist said they have quite a few out of stocks like that. She was not disposed to discuss (or didn’t know about) the reasons.
I know that China is a major source of our pharmaceuticals, although the packs never have ‘Made in China’ on them. Might scare the punters.
Not saying we should be self-sufficient in pharmaceuticals – that would be silly in a country this size. But hopefully places like the US and Europe will provide some alternatives after the supply chain breakdowns that the world is experiencing.
I can live without the unavailable medication. But, there must be many people whose health would be seriously compromised if those gossamer threads that hold the international supply chain for medicines should snap.
In mid sized rural nsw town, fair share of masks being worn, including by patrons of the public bar and some retailers still insist on hand sanitising.
I don’t have a problem with people wearing masks if they are at risk, mostly it’s disposable masks, which if they are changed regularly, are the sensible option.
May have been posted
Dr Nick Coatsworth issues a brutal message to those demanding MORE Covid restrictions after revealing the rules that served ‘no useful purpose’
Former deputy chief health officer Dr Nick Coatsworth has taken a swipe at those continuing to demand more Covid rules – and says tough restrictions did more harm than good for many Aussies.
‘We locked down our society, stopped children attending school, closed playgrounds, fined the least fortunate, separated families, created mental illness, all in the name of protecting our most vulnerable, yet for some it will never be enough. When will the moralising stop?’ the infectious disease physician wrote.
When will we get rid of the mantra “trust the Science”????
When will the moralising stop?’ the infectious disease physician wrote.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=until+the+12th+of+never+song&view=detail&mid=80C28D9665A40192519680C28D9665A401925196&FORM=VIRE0&ru=%2fsearch%3fFORM%3dPISBRL%26PC%3dPI04%26q%3duntil%2bthe%2b12th%2bof%2bnever%2bsong
I wondered when Coatsworth would pop his head over the parapet after the ghastly “don’t listen to this person” Phelps squawked on TV last night.
Good for him. In spite of his Hugh Grant hair. 🙂
I don’t think we’ve seen anything yet. Without claiming to be a “prepper” – I do think we should be stocking up on essential medications, if possible. Many other things e.g. veggies, canned food etc are fairly easy to maintain – but medications are on a different level.
You imbecile, I used to work for a national firm and I worked for myself.
Let us remind you again:
1. You failed first year economics. Even as a lefty, spewing Keynesian economics trash, you couldn’t pass. Instead you did a dumb dumb “urinalism” course.
2. I referred to empirical data. Look it up, you pathetic clown.
I was talking to my Nigerian doctor today
She was very distressed about the church shootings and had lots of videos on her phone. The gunmen entered the church ,locked the door and killed everyone, except the minister who saw them coming and got away.
She said it was to do with stirring up trouble in the pre election period , because the more trouble there is, the more likely a change of government.
She was most upset by the fact that the perpetrators would never get caught. She couldn’t believe what was happening to her former country and said that black people are cursed
Dr F
5) Add in the fuel/waste/NPT complexities (note: in a sensible world, Australia should already own the nuclear fuel cycle and be making a fortune).
This was one of the objectives of R.F.X Connor, a minister in the government of Saint Goff Whitless.
One of their few objectives to have any sense behind it.
abc on current Australian shortage of 290 but you have to listen to Patricia Karvelis
Sancho
Exhibit A – Normie Swan.
Norman is very far from being a “Normie”. More like Abnormie Swan.
Former AGL chief executive Brett Redman says federal Labor’s ambitious clean-energy target and the rise of the Greens and climate-focused independents are clear signals that the nation must prepare for an earlier shift from fossil fuels to renewable power.
Redman, who left AGL last year and is now leading New South Wales’ high-voltage transmission network operator TransGrid, said the federal election result was the latest “example of how the transition is accelerating”.
johanna
I can live without the unavailable medication. But, there must be many people whose health would be seriously compromised if those gossamer threads that hold the international supply chain for medicines should snap.
Late-ish 2020, I had a similar experience. Fortunately, my GP identified and prescribed an alternative, which happened to work better! Serendipity.
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present the next Governor-General.
Johanna 4.06pm and Vicki 4.19pm, yes medicines are on a different level now. I don’t use pain meds unless I’m flat out, though I’ve started to build a supply. Even just Panadol Osteo, over the counter, you now have to provide ID, and I had to go to three pharmacies before they had stock. My GP has been replaced by someone younger and noticeably, rather chillingly, distant – no eye contact; at least she waited for me to finish my sentence before recommending lifetime infusions of vit. C and D (“to prevent osteoporosis”, a nice little earner for the pharma corporations). Apparently this fad for “infusions” began just before 2020. All I wanted was a modest supply of pain meds. They’re raking it in.
For those concerned about the effects of sulphur dioxide in wine, there are wine drops available (dilute hydrogen peroxide) that bind the preservative and form dilute sulphuric acid.
Just don’t, for the love of God, store your wine drops next to your eye drops in the refrigerator and get them confused at 0300 in the morning.
Stings like a mother***ker.
Trust me.
And you can’t stockpile and manage it yourself. One month at a time. No getting ahead of yourself.
Dover, Alex Berenson has sent out a substack on Aussie death rates.
I think you’re on his list.
“‘We locked down our society, stopped children attending school, closed playgrounds, fined the least fortunate, separated families, created mental illness, all in the name of protecting our most vulnerable, yet for some it will never be enough. When will the moralising stop?’ the infectious disease physician wrote.
Nick Coatsworth should be AOTY….but he wouldn’t get the gong as he clearly espouses the wrong politics.
Do these people rise to such heights in the corporate world because of, or inspite of, their stupidity?
Calli:
Calli, my deepest apologies – my rant wasn’t addressed to you – just a general drunk blog rant to the world.
Family bad news – sister is unwell.
Burnt the middle and index finger pads – both hands picking up a wire tray I’d just removed from the oven and forgetting I’d done so. Add 60mg codeine + 1 bottle of red wine that was nearly out of date.
Sorry.
You can if you are willing to be firm and put up with some spurious crap from the pharmacist. I don’t get why it takes them half an hour to look at your script and then walk to the shelf and pull out the correct box before putting the printed sticker on it. Seems like a job for a robot.
Wouldn’t happen if drunk Woodstock cans, Winston.
The leader of the Tassie Greens has a crush* on Johnny Depp, and she has been made to suffer accordingly:
and
But, she’s the leader of the Greens, and retribution and remorse was swift:
Do these people have no self respect? The Maoist struggle sessions and self-criticism are simply cringeworthy.
Mind you, she does seem to have been more interested in following livestreams of the trial than doing her job, whatever it is.
Could be that the leader of the Tasmanian Greens is not what you’d call a deep thinker. 🙂
I was about to suggest he should go into politics.
What was I thinking?
He’s clearly a man of integrity.
Oh boy wowee, a NATIONAL firm you say? Blow me down, say no more.
What you said was “[a]ll that matters really is scale, except for renewables which don’t work”. Everything in that sentence is false, and based on nothing except your delusions.
Knuckle Dragger:
Yes. I’m ashamed at my rant last night.
My apologies.
Winston, attach the shame.
Whoops.
Winston, attach the rock of shame.
Never go full St ruth.
The Z man mirrors some ideas that have been percolating through the brain for a while now.
Wholly Macaroni
In the Australian context it seems like the prime objective is an exercise in differentiating oneself from the bogans, any particular issue being just a pretext to do so.
His conclusion is somewhat hopeful, wish I could share in the optimism.
Yeah.
Hard to post a rant when you are face down surrounded by vomit.
🙂
My dear Winston…one of those days!
My cure is usually and attack on onion weed and nut grass. Can’t do that by moonlight unfortunately.
Had an interesting conversation with my brother today on the plight of aborigines in the Kimberley where he spent a few years at a mission. He looked after little fellows who were dropped off full of parasites and hunger, cleaned them up and taught them, only to have to relinquish them to perilous family when they came demanding them back. He echoed your frustrations.
I don’t have the answer, and neither did the mission – not to the mechanics of protecting the children, because they were hamstrung by all the black armband angst. Deliberately, of course, to keep the dollars rolling in to the abusers, and the prey available for exploitation.
She got some Liberal staffer in trouble when he was overheard referring to her as a “meth-head c*nt”. The full grovelling apology was extracted and so on.
We never realised she was a meth-head too.
That would be great but I don’t see it.
m0ntysays:
June 6, 2022 at 5:21 pm
Is it true that you failed first year economics?
That’s amazing.
How did you get into a course in a supposedly serious discipline?
How many engineering feasibility studies have you done in your life M0nty? Real ones that is, not on a calculator in 5 minutes.
Renewables are worse than nuclear because you have to include the storage into the renewable process economics. And the grid transmission capital costs from widely distributed sources. The analogous cost items for nuclear are nil and not much respectively.
Renewables also need frequency control support, which both adds capital and operating costs and increases efficiency losses.
I have no problem with rooftop solar PV provided it is off grid, so the hidden costs become transparent. These days the likely cost of solar PV for a neutral NPV would probably exceed $1/kWh. (Recall I did a guest post using ultra-simple NPV analysis for this on the old Cat back in 2014 or so. A classical PFS spreadsheet is much much bigger, with serious inputs analysis.)
Old red wine + rage: a trap for young players. Whenever it happens to me, and I wake up mid-afternoon cuddling the empty rosé cask, I always blame the sulphite.
My family worked on, and managed cattle stations in the North West, and the Kimberly’s from 1860 until 1970. The other situation they described was that of the stockmen, who discovered the old people, left behind to die, when the tribe moved on.
Cronkite
am I correct in assuming the reason Attlasian doesn’t make a profit are the drawings cannon-brookes and his partner make each year to fund their hobbies of ruining Australia’s energy system.
No, the losses being made by Atlassian are actually losses as a result of the company being unable make a profit in its business lines….. for 20 fucking years!
Thanks for replying HP. I note sanchez said kunt-bastard and his brat partner could have made their money from initial sales at the IOP. Maybe they did as their combined holdings are now about 45% of the total stock so 55% is held by other dickheads. I mean they could not do that now because in a tightly held stock any sales, especially by the partners, would fuck the stock. The only other way for the pair of hirsute grifters to make money would be drawings every year which may have explained the regular loss; or to borrow against their portfolio which would have the same effect. Do they make any drawings hidden under wages or dividends or loan repayments?
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
June 6, 2022 at 12:55 pm
Labor ‘committed’ to live sheep export phase-out. Watt is a fool. If the Govt went to Qantas and said, ok fella’s ya can only fill ya planes to 70% of loading and only fly for 34 weeks a year guess what would happen? If said govt then said , ‘see passenger numbers are down, lets ban flying’, its the same outcome. WE ARE GOVERNED BY FOOLS. Buyers want the live animals and politics are ruling ‘nah, ya can only have frozen’. The buyers have been warned that there’ll be no live product in 4 years. So…everyone involved will go off shore. Ya cant make a buyer , buy a product they dont want.
Don’t worry Winston.
There’s not enough anger at the cruelties and incompetence of our governments and agencies who facilitate misery and depravity with the same cowardice as a stranger who walks past a crime without helping for fear of repercussion.
True.
In fact I got a couple of months ahead because I left a fresh box behind when I was visiting the Big Smoke, and did it again a week later.
Exactly.
I reckon 80% of prescribed medications would fit in a confectionary vending machine.
Statins, blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, blood thinners, HRT, contraceptive pills x four or five different dosage levels for each.
Swipe your medicare card (yeah, I know it would need a chip) select your medication, pay by card and it drops in the tray.
check your email DB.
Not my exact words but I’ll go with it. 🙂
Actually the two dweebs own 45% (ish) each. Some Brit insto owns another 5%, with the remaining 5% owned by the “public”.
As JC says, it is really hard to get your hands on the stock, so the price is being punted by tight liquidity, not fundamentals.
Berenson’s substack here.
Overall deaths in Australia – where nearly everyone is vaccinated – are spiking
Plus Joel Smally here:
Australia begins to reap what it has sown. It’s grim.
Same story everywhere more or less.
Sweden possibly an exception.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha..I forgot to add into that..’ if Qantas was also responsible for the tracking and outcome of every passenger on there flights’ Qantas would say ,..’nah . Its all to hard’.
My calcs were based on the shares on issue (250 million) and an IPO price of USD 21.00 per share in 2014.
I assume they were the only two pre-IPO owners, so they’ve pocketed 250,000,000 x 10% x 21.00.
USD 525,000,000.
Probably 250 meg each after IPO fees.
contraceptive pills
Way way back when Tony Abbott was Health Minister, he approved the repeats from 5 to 10 for these.
Do you still need to go to a doctor for this?
Actually the two dweebs own 45% (ish) each.
OK. So this isn’t a business but a giant wank by 2 fucktards who can code. FMD.
I assume they were the only two pre-IPO owners
Nope, there were a stack of vc’s on board by then.
2021 was a big year for the boys.
They both sold $US500mill worth each.
m0nty-fa
What you said was “[a]ll that matters really is scale, except for renewables which don’t work”. Everything in that sentence is false, and based on nothing except your delusions.
Show us the way m0nty-fa. Solar panels on the roof, EV in the garage, and a battery round the back. Then cut your house off from the grid, and demonstrate that renewables work. Report back in six months, if you can charge your laptop.
I’ve been taking the pill for years and I can tell you it works, I haven’t had a baby yet, but my wife has.
understood yr rant Winston
pretty shitty with everything and that as well
…anyways, I drank a 2016 the other day and it was fine
m0nty-fa
you couldn’t just assume things that weren’t true in the real world and expect to produce useful models.
And yet you support the ruinables touts, who do exactly that. Cognitive dissonance much?
‘bern.
Ah, OK.
It looks like they sold some to VCs in 2010. It appears the IPO was the issue of new shares, not previous owners tipping shares into the IPO.
The two dweebs own about 50% each of the Class B non-trading shares and chunks of the tradable shares.
But the effect is the same.
The valuation of a massive tail of shareholding is based on very thin trading of a highly illiquid stock.
MSM feting rub and tug’s visit to Indonesia and being able to ride a fucking bike. I remember when Abbott went to Indonesia just after being elected the fucking abc released details of ASIO bugging of the Indonesian embassy which they had been sitting on through the krudd/slapper musical chairs the previous 18 months.
I think a member of the media every week should be ceremonially executed.
cohenite…..but , but , but , the bikes made of bamboo. And its a gift from Joko.
j’ismist … lol, no wonder yr such an expert.
you should ratchet up yr qualifications and become a school teacher
nobody will be able to question you
In his first statement on assuming office, our new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese committed his government to implementing in full the Uluru Statement from the Heart that proposes changing the Australian Constitution to give specific recognition to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
This is a view that Quadrant has opposed for more than twenty years. We believe that rather than unifying Australia’s population, such a measure would deeply divide us. It would be a disaster for both black and white Australians. Moreover, we believe that the full agenda behind the proposal has never been put to the Australian people. Its revival, and Albanese’s pledge to put it to a referendum in his current term of office, means it has become once more a critical political issue that deserves an immediate but thorough response.
The article that follows is Part One of a multi-part response that will be published weekly for the next two months on Quadrant Online.
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“Winston Smithsays:
June 6, 2022 at 5:22 pm
Knuckle Dragger:
Yes. I’m ashamed at my rant last night.
My apologies.”
Nothing to apologise for. We all have our moments. Besides, I understood your sentiment. Stay strong.
You’re a good guy, Winnie.
Makes interesting reading, Top Ender, thank you.
Coatsworth is right but he’s still a vaccine advocate, he reckons the vaxxes saved us. Read the article.
Albo’s a lazy phuk….last time I was at the Bogor Palace I had to walk, and the security would’nt let me in till I tucked my shirt into my trousers. Great gardens tho….best and nice’st gardens I’ve ever been to.
Not me.
Rumour just landed at Casa Pedro of a rather healthy looking prospect of Lithium at Venus Metal’s Youanmi site in WA’s Murchison region. Nothing official from the company, their share price actually down 2% or so today.
I am in two minds about Lithium. The money men are happy with the rising per tonne prices, but miners are sceptical of processing costs and the longer term future of current EV fad.
Two bob each way.
Could the solar panels recharge the EV in the garage?
Just like with SSM we’re going to be badgered re. the “voice to parliament” by elites, by corporations, by the MSM. Remember that if you didn’t agree with SSM, you were smeared as hateful and bigoted, if you don’t agree with a “voice to parliament”, you will be smeared as hateful and racist. If you want to know where this “voice” will end, read the piece in the Oz today “NZ co-governance is a recipe for privilege by an inherited tribal elite“. It’s not a pretty picture. Coming to Oz soon. We’re about to be disenfranchised.
Just to expand: Winnie posted a passionate and justifiable account of his rage at the injustices we have all experienced over the past years. I reckon 99.9% of Cats agree with him. Unfortunately, ‘poison iceblocks’ late at night skewed his excellent rant, but the the gracious Kitteh in question has absolved him after his genuine and heartfelt apology.
And that’s why I think Winnie is a good guy.
(As is the gracious Kitteh aforementioned.)
In London, no sign of covid, very few masked, no masks required on BA or at Heathrow. It’s over, some even appear to realise they have been lied to.
Oh, tubes on strike today and London finally has Uber.
You’re partly right Monster, coal is the cheapest power source. If Lefties are in favour of the best economical power source they would be campaigning for more coal fired power stations.
That’s “business sense” isn’t it?
I’m waiting for the “Treaty.” It will keep the High Court tied up for forty years, result in a legal dogfight of monumental proportions and show up the whole process for the farce that it is.
Do the States have the right to enter into a treaty? Isn’t that role reserved for the Commonwealth?
Just to begin with.
Pussy. Always escalate.
Name the town. I seriously haven’t seen this occurrence in any NSW town west of the great divide.
The SSM plebiscite was always going to be fixed, and I suspect anything like a 50:50 finish was going to get waved through anyway.
A referendum will be different. Under normal circumstances the majority of voters in a majority of states would fail.
How will they pressure voters in a secret ballot?
My money will be on some sort of soshul meeja campaign, like “Show The Vote”.
That is, anyone who doesn’t take a selfie with their “Yes” ballot paper will be branded immediately.
That great convulsing fatberg of marketing, media a communication types, lawyers, journalists, politicians, academics and other assorted experts and hangers on. And Monty. Look forward to it gleefully spasming its way down the pipes to consume everyone in its wake. It. is almost as if we all know how it works by now.
The very thing they “got out in front of” and denied is the tell.
“Oh, there will be safeguards to make sure The Voice doesn’t lead to judicial activism.”
Sure.
If Aboriginal people enter into a Treaty, with the States or Commonwealth, does that mean they recognise the legitimacy of colonalisation, after all?
Interesting paradox. If you have solar panels and an EV then you can charge the EV but only during the day.
Which means you can’t drive the EV to work. So you have to take public transport or bicycle or something, whereupon why would you have an EV in the first place?
Of course you could work permanent night shift, but progs don’t seem to like doing that.
Winston, old nurses are tough. I think you said she trained at Manly in the day when training was 4yrs hard labour.
I will pray for her.
Props to Winston for crawling out from under a hangover to make amends. I hate it when that happens.
I found more evidence of what I predict Putin’s strategy is. When the time comes, these people will vote to be Russian.
I cant see it happening. The Republicans have been pushing shit up hill for years trying to get rid of the Queen. I seriously doubt Australians are going to hand over power to some tribal leader named “Aunty Edith” from Wadeye.
200+ years of acceptance of British settlement and its benefits suggests they’ve already done so.
Yes. Admirable, but not always possible.
I have three sons, a daughter and six grandchildren. My two sons, the children from my first marriage, have had significant problems in life, which I have spent much time and effort helping them overcome, also coping with my sadness over this. One of these two sons has no children by his own choice, the other has two children by two different women. As a grandmother I have had to step often into a breach of care, and assist with this son’s parenting; it has been an uphill battle for him, but with support he has done well. My two other children, from a more stable marriage, are both excellent parents.
Life doesn’t always throw you the bouquet that you might wish for. All you can do then is do your best.
In the modern world with its pressures and stresses many grandparents have had to step up to the mark and care for grandchildren as they would their own children. That is the real strength of families. Kinship networks play a vital part in social life and always have done so. Maintaining these has never been more important, in answer to Winston’s question. Never give up has been my motto.
I have known a lot of grief, and it has never been easy. Nor am I anyone special, or unusual. So many women, and men too, whom I have encountered have been in similar situations, worse than mine by far due to financial duress and/or poor health, and struggle on as true stalwarts.
Page 8 of The Australian:
I backed Constitution change: Abbott
Further down:
Peter Dutton nailed it.
Meanwhile, Abbott pushes the “10 Aboriginals in Parliament, why do we need it?” line.
I’d say Dutton needs to repudiate Abbott before he wrecks the Liberal Party.
“Meanwhile, Abbott pushes the “10 Aboriginals in Parliament, why do we need it?” line.
I’d say Dutton needs to repudiate Abbott before he wrecks the Liberal Party.”
That’s defamatory. Abbott does not such thing. You’re a disgrace. Just fuck off.
No, it means the States recognise that the invasion wasn’t legit.
And that the Public are about to be fleeced to pay for it.
Looks like Tony Abbott is on the right track then.
I just saw an ad where Sky and the Australian are hosting a lunch with Treasurer Jim Chalmers giving a talk on Australia’s Economic Outlook — makes me wonder, does monkey pox symptoms include simian features?
If the referendum does go through then the obvious solution on an individual level is to start ticking the Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander box from then on. Let others haggle over questions of racial purity and how to operationalise it in law.
Gonzalo Lira.
2022.06.06 Epistemic Viciousness
This basically explains the state of our society today.
George Christensen
The TRUTH about mRNA COVID shots
You won’t hear this from the media or politicians, but the jabs are killing people.
The one that gets to me is Andrew Leigh, he looks like every hissing queen I’ve ever run into.
George Christensen is likely to be a Spoiler out to discredit Vaccine scepticism.
Google directed to pay John Barilaro $715k in damages for FriendlyJordies shit they refused to take down.
“Name the town. I seriously haven’t seen this occurrence in any NSW town west of the great divide.”
No, I don’t wish to, as I value my anonymity.
Nor is it the first NSW town I’ve seen masks in since leaving Victorian. I noted the public bar wearer in particular because I thought it odd.
Still lots of covid related signage too.
Incidentally, I couldn’t care less whether you believe me or not.
Catherine Austin Fitts
500 Million jobs will be lost
Just over a minute long and pretty persuasive. All of this is being done to us deliberately.
And fair share is merely in proportion to how many I see in Melbourne.
Just as well, then.
By the way, what were you doing in a Public Bar?
you must be like David Carradine the peace loving shaolin in that tv show Kung Flu
can you play the flute ?
Look at this shit: 2 pooftas pretending to be sheilas celebrate winning a women’s cycling event by having a pash while the real winner, who came third gives her baby a cuddle
Seriously, I’ve seen zero people in people NSW country towns wearing masks in bars or shop keepers insisting on people using hand sanitiser.
No idea what the go is in Melbourne, so I can’t comment.
I’m just telling you what I see with my own lying eyes.
Gonzalo Lira.
2022.06.05 What Happens To Europe When Russia Wins
Very clear, very logical and sensible. The one thing I think he might perhaps have overlooked is intent (on the Western side).
The West seems to have taken on the mantle of the old Soviet Union with gusto. Remember those old westerns with good guys and bad guys? I think they might have changed hats.
I saw one weirdo with a mask on at the supermarket the other day.
Johanna said:
My bro uses Ozempic to help control his diabetes. Twice now he’s been forced to go without for weeks because fatties without diabetes are getting their doctors to prescribe it to help them lose weight. Flash: Eat less!
Jesus Christ lady, Amber Heard shat in the bed because she was angry, smacked Johnny around and she gaslight him. Her slander is dangerously close to fraud causing financial disadvantage.
FFS, she should be in gaol.
dover0beachsays:
June 6, 2022 at 6:55 pm
Show us the way m0nty-fa. Solar panels on the roof, EV in the garage, and a battery round the back. Then cut your house off from the grid, and demonstrate that renewables work. Report back in six months, if you can charge your laptop.
Could the solar panels recharge the EV in the garage?
The eggspurts say they can. So do various politicians of a Slime inclination (not all of whom formally belong to the Greens). And if your house battery is low, you can use the car battery to run the house.
Eureka, a perpetual motion machine!
LOL
Poor old monty can’t argue with empirical data so he become mean and invidious, comes up with a busted flush then has a breakdown explaining his failure.
Well, blow me down with a feather.
The fact remains that given enough scale, energy prices from different sources tend to converge.
Apparently he can’t tell the difference between empirical data and a model.*
*Models of long run marginal cost for very large firms work fine, they tend to be flat.
Nuclear has the greatest energy density of all and thorium is so common we could not conceivably ever run out.
If you have more energy density, the potential for scale increases.
If anything happens to the supply of SSRIs things will get interesting very fast. Hordes of highly agitated people experiencing electric shocks every five minutes will make for fun on the roads for one thing.
Dick [H]ed
Meanwhile, Abbott pushes the “10 Aboriginals in Parliament, why do we need it?” line.
I’d say Dutton needs to repudiate Abbott before he wrecks the Liberal Party.
Two pints.
.1 Turdballs already wrecked the Lieboral Party.
.2 Even by your abysmal standards, the final paragraph is grotesquely stupid.
Bruce in WA.
I heard that from someone taking a diabetes drug. His doctor got really suss and questioned him over a lost prescription.
He found out it is used for weight loss, but doctors are loath to prescribe it willy-nilly, hence a black market developed.
The thing is, it doesn’t really do much for people who are 10-20 kgs over.
It is a last resort for morbidly obese fatsos.
Hi m0nster!
Ed Casesays:
June 6, 2022 at 7:45 pm
If Aboriginal people enter into a Treaty, with the States or Commonwealth, does that mean they recognise the legitimacy of colonalisation, after all?
No, it means the States recognise that the invasion wasn’t legit.
And that the Public are about to be fleeced to pay for it.
Your final sentence should read: “And that the states are about to fleece the public to pay for it.”
Cheese rolling is back from the lockdowns.
Ed Casesays:
June 6, 2022 at 8:02 pm
George Christensen is likely to be a Spoiler out to discredit Vaccine scepticism.
Or a spook? Any chance of him being a Flamer?
Muz:
IGA have a Black & Gold 500mg Paracetamol 20 tabs for $1 a box.
Pharmacy Online have bottles of Paracetamol 500mg 100 tabs for $2.19
I cant see it happening. The Republicans have been pushing shit up hill for years trying to get rid of the Queen. I seriously doubt Australians are going to hand over power to some tribal leader named “Aunty Edith” from Wadeye.
the main problem being how well Labor has been following/learning US demon-rats tactics when it comes to vote counting! .. if it’s a mail-in like the SSM then …………. be worried ..!
The Plymothian
@plymouthian
Four and a half minutes of pure predictive programming.
Brought to you by a well oiled, well armed, multinational group of elites, that will cull, kill, and subjugate.
This is from the X-Files and it’s extraordinarily prescient.
Two points, but you were all smart enough to work that out (except for Special Ed, he isn’t).
They had the old tax eating machine on their ABCcess this morning. Pearson of the “ I have never worked outside a gov wage and never will” beard and black hat variety.
Salivating over getting a wedge inserted into the constitution as “ you can’t get rid of those”…
Why does no one ever ask” is this the last demand”….
Katie Hopkins on the vote of No Confidence in Johnson, which will be held at 6:00 p.m. London time.
A vote of No Confidence in Boris? The snakes are squirming
The fucking point is, Heard is not a “victim-survivor”, whatever that is exactly.
She is a manipulative narcissistic fantasist.
If “victim-survivors” want to throw stones at anyone, try Ms Heard. She’s the one who has raised the credibility bar for women with genuine grievances.
If Aboriginal people enter into a Treaty, with the States or Commonwealth, does that mean they recognise the legitimacy of colonalisation, after all?
If Aboriginal people can enter into a Treaty, with the States or Commonwealth, can they enter a treaty with other countries? With maori? Celts? Bantu? Han? Sami?
Nuclear has the greatest energy density of all and thorium is so common
Thorium is the “nuclear waste” from rare earth mining operations.
Farage reacts to Boris no-confidence vote.
Hezbollah and the Pallies.
Thorium is more scarce than lead but less scarce than silver, IIRC.
I found more evidence of what I predict Putin’s strategy is. When the time comes, these people will vote to be Russian.
Yep, this shows how it’s dun, tactically, without violence! .. take where I am Fairfield, NSW, Labor rusted-on for decades and will remain so and why? .. simple tactics aimed at a specific target(s) .. If your ethnic and live in Fairfield you have a 90% chance of qualifying for the “rorters” than being stuck on the lesser paying “dole” and the ignomy of looking for “work”!.. get knocked back the 1st time & and your guaranteed your local “bleeding heart” operatives will make representations to the Fed/State members office for a “weepy” appraisal to attach to your 2nd attempt .. this very rarely fails to ensure a better outcome ..
Used to apply to FOWLER, as well but may not be so well received in future .. LOL!
It’s a good point assuming that the Australian Government can change the voting laws. It happened in the US, so I assume they could do the same here.
Can they?
Wouldn’t surprise me – didn’t the “Aboriginal Nation” try to establish diplomatic relations with Qaddafi’s Libya?
Farage is a very good at getting his message through to the listener
Franksays:
June 6, 2022 at 9:08 pm
If Aboriginal people can enter into a Treaty, with the States or Commonwealth, can they enter a treaty with other countries? With maori? Celts? Bantu? Han? Sami?
Hezbollah and the Pallies.
The Chicoms have bigger Aldi bags.
Wait, so you’ve never heard of the Parramatta Eels??
Yes, Mansell I think.
Does it require black children to dig it up?
Asking for a Teal funder with a ludicrously posh surname.
Michael Mansell? Wasn’t he the ouen who says Bruce Pascoe has no Aboriginal ancestors, and has no business describing himself as such?
In 1,000 years everyone will be Aboriginal by the current definition. Who’s going to ask 100 years from now “do you have 0.0001% indigenous in you?”
Except a horny aborigine as a pickup line ready to follow up with the line “no? Well I can fix that”.
Winston at 5.22:
I’m not a doctor. Hell, I’ve only every done part time gyno work.
That’s a shit tin of codeine mixed with whatever. It’s amazing you’re upright. All good.
Grant you this – it is extremely rare to see a fully bolded rant. It was like watching Halley’s Comet. Hope your sister gets well, by the way.
*only ever done*
Ruined it. Again^.
^That’s what she said.
Probably. No honour amongst rogues. I had hazy recollections of people saying that about him too, a long time ago, so memory is not to be trusted.
Correct. The sisterhood should be burning her at the stake.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/bundestag-vice-president-demands?r=10py7h&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Just one question, Dr McGlade. Who perpetrates that violence?
I can’t tell you how livid I was to wake this morning – the coldest morning of the year, mind you – and find the bolded letters tin empty.
Furious!
Feelthebern:
Is that a reference to that woman who was forced to walk down the road, naked, in some movie?
I hope not – Australia is not yet ready for that level of punishment.
I’m picturing a green ute and trailer emblazoned with “Jim’s Gynecology.”.
Calli:
I couldn’t do that because of the burnt fingers.
Thanks.
Bold rants are the best rants.
Bold and uppercase is a bridge too far.
You can cut the humility with a knife.
Best laugh I’ve had all year was Rita Panahi having a segment about how the Queen played a practical joke on a couple of American tourists in Scotland.
I’m picturing a panel van with a Sandman decal.
This is a 17 year old who’s never had a job arguing with economics lecturers.
And a ranga to boot. Absolutely no upside.
Story goes that Her Majesty was having a quiet cup of tea, for elevenses, at a local tea shop near Balmoral Castle – her security was at the next table.
An American tourist approached her. “Do you know, you look just like the Queen of England.”
“How very reassuring” was the answer.
calli says:
June 6, 2022 at 9:58 pm
Bold rants are the best rants.
It had all the elements except a flounce.
Lift your game Winston.
P:
It was me who trained at Manly, Sister sister trained at Grafton and did her middie cert at Royal Brisbane.
The infamous blink tag was pretty good for getting the message across. So offensive that browser makers refuse to implement it anymore.
Weimar America.
I respect you Winston and will still pray for your sister at this time.
Me, I trained at St George.
This.
We’re about to be disenfranchised
We’ve been disenfranchised for years. Most just hadn’t noticed.
There’s a certain schadenfreude about all this..
My eldest recently asked me to try extra hard to find an aboriginal link for us kids. He is going to tick Aboriginal wherever he can he tells me because that will be the only way to go.
You, says he, born in Walgett, my grandfather and his father born there and you can come up with nothing, the way things are going is not acceptable.
I can’t help I say except that for four years your grandmother worked as a nursing sister at Walgett hospital caring for many aboriginals who had great respect for her and showed it wherever she went in the district.
After WWII when we returned to Walgett I was astonished how many aboriginies would greet my mum in the street.
If you thought the UN couldn’t get any worse..
Having the North Korean regime of Kim Jong-un preside over global nuclear weapons disarmament will be like putting a serial rapist in charge of a women’s shelter
The thing about the Aboriginal Constitutional ‘Voice’ being enshrined in the Constitution is that you can never legislatively get rid of it. If it turns out to contain elite trough-feeders like those who ran ASTIC that just too bad. Put up with it. Forever.
Why this isn’t being talked about more beats me.
Also heard a story in similar vein over told by one Her Maj’s protection officers out with her on a hike over the heather in the wilds of Balmoral when they encountered two American hikers on the track who greeted them warmly but clearly had zero idea who they the tiny lady in boots, coat and scarf actually was. They chatted for a bit and the Queen was asked if she lived locally. ‘Oh no, I just have a holiday home here.’
The tourists then mentioned that they knew the Queen also had a place nearby and had she ever met her whilst out walking. ‘Not once, no.’ says Herself. So they posed the same question to the protection officer who answered in the affirmative. ‘Many times.’ he added. When questioned on what she was like he told them she had a great sense of humour. Quite excited by this encounter they asked could they have a photo with the protection officer and handed their camera to the Queen who happily obliged and then posed for one herself.
As they parted ways she quietly commented to her PO…’What I wouldn’t give to be a fly on the wall when they show those pictures back home.’
She’s amazing but I don’t hold out the same hopes for the enviro-ratbag King in Wait, Wait, Still Waiting.
For what? Extra privileges? My Big Sis married a man in the late 1950’s whose mother was aboriginal in the way that you could tell by looking at her. Their son was handsome and leonine-looking but never claimed ‘aboriginality’ nor did their daughters. Nor did his children, although they were part-Maori via their mother as well as having their father’s aboriginal heritage.
Knowing your ancestry and ethnicity should be quite different from trying to profit from it.
So many people could make these claims, which can reach ridiculous levels of justification.
I’ve always felt some sympathy for Charles – he’s in the same boat as Queen Victoria’s eldest son, who was over seventy when he ascended the throne, and reigned for a very few years, as Edward VII before he passed away.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-06/fears-of-mass-exodus-of-hospital-workers-doctors-nurses-burnout/101123524
https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/the-energy-crisis-in-australia-gets-deeper/
Government, eh?
Energy is freezing, health is morbid, what’s next, education getting dumber?
Night before last we watched Ricky Gervais’ latest show called Natural Nature.
I’m sorry, but I laughed my way through it, offensive to the hilt that it was.
There wasn’t one group of people or serious social issue that was not held up for ridicule and an invitation issued to possibly explore it and agree with it or agree with dissing it. Not that I really believe this, he explains after a particularly egregious piece of offensiveness, don’t want to divide the house, he speciously appeals, but OMG it’s funny isn’t it, he asks, and you have to let your concerned self laugh away regardless.
Shiboliths mocked all round in a riotous one-hour of stand-up comedy, including much that is ‘woke’, but also taking on God, religion, heaven, abortion, paedos, child abuse, parenthood, the Holocaust, Hitler, and disabilities as well as panning the old faves of BLM racism, gaylife, gender bending, sexism, and class.
I squirmed at times for some Cats, whom I think might find it hard going in places.
Free speech though.
Knuckle Dragger:
The bolding was a fat finger mistake.
We’re waiting on pathology for Sister sister. Don’t know why it’s taking so long.
Well, you’ve gotta laugh, don’tcha?
Actually climate madness was one thing Gervaise didn’t really tackle. There may have been an energy joke in there somewhere (can’t recall), but he mostly ignored a fertile field there.
Shame on him.
Still, he can’t do everything and is currently a fairly lone voice. And we should always remember that it is satirical mocking and humour that really, really irks the humourless left. So good on him.
It just didn’t happen in Britain – anywhere. Never once. Not at all.
Masks worn by very occasional hold-outs, mostly aged by a few young worried.
No masks on the tube. No masks at the British Museum’s packed Stoneheng Exhibition.
Glorious. Life as it used to be.
I want to go back there. It’s not nice here at all. I’m still telling myself I’ll get used to it.
Boris under threat, and fair enough, how people hated him for partying when they followed rools.
Some British members of the Conservative are openly rebellilng against Boris’ climate madness and he has started to pull his horns in on that.
Bad luck Carrie Antoinette.
Too many jetlagged typos.
I’m off to bed.
These people have no qualms about destroying you and your family.
It’s in the NYTimes, but it worth reading about the future of conservatism in the US
What Comes After the Religious Right?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/01/opinion/republicans-religion-conservatism.html
And in the American conservative
Is a red wave coming to California
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/will-the-red-wave-start-in-california/
No, there is nobody red left in California to vote that way. It is more likely to slide into the Pacific with the next San Andreas earthquake than Republicans to win an election there.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Christian Adams.
Steve Bright.
Morten Morland.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich #2.
Steve Kelley.