I hope Australia doesn’t qualify for Qatar.
It would make my boycotting of it a tad easier.

On udder cream…this.

A must have for hand stitchers. Also for Cowtowers and their sensitive udders.

called MooGoo Udder Cream*.

Ed’s soiled his keyboard just at the mention.

Name a recent series that went out on top?

1883

a reminder the classic 100 “music for the screen” is on ABC classic.

I have heard no Ennio Morricone yet – I presume this is because he’s monopolising the top ten.

Not that up to date on the Saudi Golf tournament but FTB’s link was very good background. $200m for one player, Mickleson, which is double career earnings !

Name a recent series that went out on top?

It’s a good point. The Poms used to put an end to their series. Morse, Lewis, The Hour, George Gently. Even comedy was a limited product.

Now you have ghastly woke Midsomer and the hideous travesty called Father Brown. All inevitably winding down to zero viewers.

Laura Tingle, on Albanese:

He is a superb negotiator and coalition builder: skills that will be crucial whatever the final numbers. And that sets the culture for his government.

The Superb Negotiator gets Australia out of a jam:

‘Champagne corks popping’ after Australia’s $830 million French submarine compensation payment

The Prime Minister described the $830 million settlement figure as “fair and equitable” and thanked President Emmanual Macron for “discussions and the cordial way in which we are re-establishing a better relationship between Australia and France”.

In a statement, Naval Group, which is majority owned by the French government, echoed Mr Albanese’s remarks and thanked those who had worked on the now abandoned project.

Win win win – Macaron and Albanese are besties, the Frogs are happy – and it all cost less than a Billy.

There keep being rumours of a reboot. Might destroy the legend.

It will, Eyri.
,

Isn’t 1883 still going?

No, but sorta yes.

I read somewhere there’s a sequel series in the works to be set in the 1920s or ’30s — a stepping stone to ‘Yellowstone’, which we’ve already seen.

1883 can be faulted on a few things: I doubt a fetching young woman of that era would have been shtupping an Indian brave, or that she’d disport herself in body-fitting buckskin regalia that would have had any hetero cowboy hanging on tight to his saddle horn.

Other than that, loved it.

The series I want to see them make is Philp Kerr’s Berlin Noir trilogy.

Wacko the didilo! Just checked and it’s in production.

http://berlinnoir.com/

Uh oh, the NYT rap is sus;

So don’t wait. Get your copy of BERLIN NOIR and start getting to know the unforgettable character of Bernie Gunther, who is, according to the the NYTimes, “the right kind of hero for his time… and ours.”

Deadwood.
Quality.
So was the follow up movie.

Has any heard of a drug called Furosemide being used to treat covid?

Who cares?
The timeline is this:
1. Person gets the mRNA shots
2. Person gets very ill
3. Hospital diagnoses COVID
If you’re saying that Furosemide can counter the effects of mRNA shots,
then why get the mRNA shots in the first place?

Are You Being Served.

“I’m free” and Mrs Slocombe’s pussy never got tired.

Gandolfini’s drinking & coke binges on set would throw out filming schedules.
Amazing they got as much done as they did.

Peep Show ran for a long time and finished well. Remarkable for a comedy.

Tomsays:
June 12, 2022 at 11:18 am
God help us. The CEO of the Australian Energy Council, Sarah McNamara (interviewed today on Sky’s Weekend Business), is a climate catastrophist who thinks the answer to our power shortage is even more ruinable energy that disharmonises (read: cripples) the existing power grid.

what else do we expect when a solicitor and policy wonk is elevated to the position?

A role model for Andrew O’Keefe.

Gandolfini was notorious for entering into early discussions on flower business start-up with local ladeee entrepreneurs.

Interesting:

Gandol?ni, for whom playing Tony Soprano would always require to some extent being Tony Soprano. Crew members grew accustomed to hearing grunts and curses coming from his trailer as he worked up to the emotional pitch of a scene by, say, destroying a boom box radio. An intelligent and intuitive actor, Gandol?ni understood this dynamic and sometimes used it to his advantage; the heavy bathrobe that became Tony’s signature, transforming him into a kind of domesticated bear, was murder under the lights in midsummer, but Gandol?ni insisted on wearing it between takes.

Other times, though, simulated misery became indistinguishable from the real thing — on set and off. In papers related to a divorce ?ling at the end of 2002, Gandol?ni’s wife described increasingly serious issues with drugs and alcohol, as well as arguments during which the actor would repeatedly punch himself in the face out of frustration. To anybody who had witnessed the actor’s self-directed rage as he struggled to remember lines in front of the camera — he would berate himself in disgust, curse, smack the back of his own head — it was a plausible scenario.

More here

More on the Australian Energy Council.

Let’s look at the board of directors, which is basically the CEO’s of participating energy suppliers.

Mark Collette – BE Aerospace (never used). Economics thence greasy-pole climber though management.
Frank Calabria – Accountant
Graeme Hunt – Metallurgist. Seems to have used his qualifications in BHP before climbing up through management.
Jeff Dimery – Business admin. Economics / Finance
Andrew Bills – BA in politics, MBA, PWC. Blech.
Greg Everett – bit of a mystery, though all his ‘listed skills’ are financial / environment / IR.
James Harman – lawyer
Ross Rolfe – BA in history, in and out of public service.
Iain Graham – IT (as far as I can tell)
Shannon Hyde – Finance

So from that list, I count ONE who may have an idea of ‘how things work’. The rest are all finance/legal/management.

As with all industry organisations, they’re in it to create a monopoly / maximise their profits. They can smell the green trough from a mile off.

duncanmsays:
June 12, 2022 at 11:25 am
Tomsays:
June 12, 2022 at 11:18 am
God help us. The CEO of the Australian Energy Council, Sarah McNamara (interviewed today on Sky’s Weekend Business), is a climate catastrophist who thinks the answer to our power shortage is even more ruinable energy that disharmonises (read: cripples) the existing power grid.

what else do we expect when a solicitor and policy wonk is elevated to the position?

Managerialism gone insane. Perish the thought that a power engineer, who might know the difference between a 750 MW battery and a 750MW generator, might get the job.

She’s not an aberration; that’s their policy, net 0% by 2050.

This is quite correct. In all seriousness, Sarah McNamara is simply talking the party line.

The Australian Energy Council represents the downstream electricity and gas industry – the gentailers, wholesalers, and retailers.

These Robbers’ Cave businesses either clip tickets, or are massively invested in gaming the energy market for fun and profit.

Molecules and electrons are tedious undifferentiated little critters. Producing them is dull, boring engineering and simple 19th Century physics – just routine, easily measured, easily priced volts and amps and GJ (or BTU, or mscf). Commercially, very hard to compete in without overtly monopolistic behaviours.

Renewables, on the other hand, are waaay less transparent: an exciting new source of artificial market complexity and expanded profitability for these guys. A market needing its own priests and druids to explain why it exists – and to point to the pathway to Hell for politicians not genuflecting properly.

Given inelastic demand, the final cost to the consumer means very little to them – in fact higher and wildly unstable energy price is a feature, not a bug.

What better than an Arts/Law graduate, hands calloused by a slim career in policy, to do the front running?

Dr Faustus says:
June 12, 2022 at 12:14 pm

Renewables… A market needing its own priests and druids to explain why it exists – and to point to the pathway to Hell for politicians not genuflecting properly.

A wonderful summary of where we are Dr F – just wanted to repeat the above gem.

I have just finished writing a big and necessary report on my ancestral church requiring energy and referencing. More to do there but the project is on hold until slow wheels turn slowly. I am rewarding myself, as Hairy notes, with a cuppa and some toast and marmalade. It’s nearly lunch time, so we are both looking forward to viewing Outsiders as usual, recorded especially for Sunday prandial viewing.

Later on, late arvo at the earliest, we will be swimming laps to make up for our Big English Brunch indulgences, of which I am going to cook up another right now.

We haven’t had a Bird attack for a while.

Dot thought he saw one the other day but it was chimeric.

Thank goodness.
Bird’s a enough of a chimera when he’s real.

The shark got shafted. Arnold “Greasy” Palmer was copping an agent’s fee for each PGA “pro” and would have lost those fees if the Shark’s tour got up.

Gandol?ni, for whom playing Tony Soprano would always require to some extent being Tony Soprano.

TE – A phenomenon explored by Walter M. Miller in The Darfsteller and of course Robert Heinlein in Double Star.

Maybe this is why Hollywood is like it is: the actors get into the role of being Hollywood actors so deeply that they believe everything that requires, whatever that happens to be in any particular year. Currently that’s everything from the looney end of political spectrum, and if they transgress from those beliefs even microscopically they get cancelled. So they stay in the role.

Don’t forget Bird’s modus operandi of sending along a few innocuous comments under has new names to get them registered then laying low for a time and unleashing them at opportune moments.

Everyone is Bird but me.

Everyone is Bird but me.

The Law of Conservation of Energy holds fast.

Lab leak latest report
Dr. John Campbell

Wallander was a good series, both the Swedish version starring Krister Henriksson and the BBC version starring Kenneth Branagh, though the Branagh character came across as too self absorbed, a borderline pain-in-the-arse.

The Swedish version had the best opening music, Anna Ternheim – Quiet Night.

CHRISTIAN RESET: 20,000 March Against the New Order

In this special edition of The Remnant Underground, Michael J. Matt reports from France, where the largest gathering of people since COVID landed made a massive public stand for Christianity in an increasingly Christophobic EU.
…
Plus, unlocking the secrets of the Chartres Cathedral.

So many Australians just want to forget what happened – with many just disinterested.

What We Learned From Hating the Unvaccinated

The battlefield is still warm, following Canada’s war on the unvaccinated. The mandates have let up, and both sides stumble back into something that looks like the old normal — except that there is a fresh and present injury done to the people we tried to break. And no one wants to talk about it.

Big Ears needs to belt up:

Charles won’t be prince charming if he keeps on meddling, say British ministers

The first flight scheduled to take migrants to Rwanda can go ahead as planned on Tuesday, the High Court ruled on Friday. Campaigners lost an emergency application for an injunction calling for all flights to be grounded until the High Court had decided whether the plan was lawful.

Oz – apparently the disrespectful behaviour was Boris was late.

Enjoy, Lizzie. It was a corker today.

Yes, Ma’am. Today’s Outsiders was one of the best — a must-watch for the forgotten people that the Stupid Fucking Liberals forgot. [Along with the Liars, the SFLs have become the party of the rich. No-one in Canberra represents the middle class.]

Cats in the past have posted how tune in to Sky without a subscription. I would be grateful if someone could repeat the formula.

Tom, forget that old construct of “class” that m0nty belaboured so clumsily.

I seriously wonder if anyone in Canberra represents anything but their own self-interest.

Based on the comments on 2SM talkback today in favour of ruinables

But are they real people calling in or greens and labor party staffers. Hard to tell these days.

cohenite says:
June 12, 2022 at 3:12 pm
.. the average punter in this nation is fucked in the head..

fact-check: TRUE

Englebert Humperdinck on the Dean Martin Show (1970)

It is indeed, cohenite.

Those chickens and turkeys in particular. I know a lot of these installations depend on artificial lighting and susceptible enclosed spaces ie. a spark and up it all goes…but it does seem to be a lot.

On all the other “processing plant” fires, I’d like a bit more comparative data on incidents over the past decade. Again, there are a lot of them in the States and they may have dubious safety controls.

With all due respect Cohenite, who the hell listens to 2SM these days? I haven’t since 1986 or there abouts. I didn’t even know it was still on the air.

Gee the Tiggers suck.
Manly in cake wake.

Because of how governments, doctors & the tech platforms lost all credibility over ivermectin, who is going to believe a warning over furosemide.

Governments really are short sighted.

cohenitesays:
June 12, 2022 at 3:47 pm

Thanks cohenite, that was amusing…

just used to be 2GB and 2CH when I was in Sydney a few years ago plus various FM for some head thumping stuff.

Even listened to 2GB in Melbourne early in the morning driving to work via the sky wave before sunrise! No point now of course.

A woman in the US has written a book about childbirth, parts of which are extracted in the Weekend Oz Review section. It really is the most extraordinary mish-mash of anti-medical intervention nonsense coupled with some heartfelt desire to ‘feel’ the feminine by issuing forth a child without any drugs.

Apparently mother nature has taken care of it all for us so that yes it is painful but luckily we get oxytocin which makes us forget the pain. Oh, and synthetic oxytocin, usually used to advance a stalled labour is terrible because intense contractions hurt and it’s also bad for baby’s synapses.

Having had four non-caesarian childbirths this piece annoyed me. Yes there is some over-medicalisation of normal childbirth, especially in US hospitals, but this woman denies the reality – which is that the human female pelvis is pushed to the limit by the evolved size of the human head and that mother nature gives not a ticker’s cuss about that. Eve’s lot is thus always on a knife edge duel with death, foetal and her own, and with disability for females ensuing from gruesome manipulation to extract a child. This woman had a bad birthing experience but she is not dead nor disabled and nor is her child. The perfectionism she demands, and the loony and ‘anti-patriarchal’ naturalism she espouses, have no place in modern obstetrics. We childbearing women survive in large numbers because of modern obstetrics. Gasping and grappling with the pain for as long as possible might be more damaging than recourse to drugs, for some at least. It’s always a balance which middle-class women seem unable to strike. They either go out on limbs to shriek for over-medication or bravely put up with what amounts to torture.

Books like this woman’s one will simply make the problems worse. The Oz does not good service by promoting it.

When I was a boy with my first walkman, 2SM had all the rock. Dad was a 2CH man, easy listening station. This was as FM started to take off, I remember MMM & 2Day FM were fledglings at the time.

That said am finding myself on AM more and more again. FM stations just seem to be full of advertising talking heads and replays of inane talking heads.