Courier Mail: Queensland’s landmark First Nations truth-telling inquiry will begin within weeks following the confirmation of long-awaited treaty appointments.The Miles…
Open Thread – Weekend 18 June 2022
- Open Thread – Anzac Day 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 22 April 2024
- Open Thread – Weekend 21 April 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 18 April 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 15 April 2024
Not sure what the problem is with the Rita Panahi article Dover m’lord.
Soviet statistics – the US is now producing rubbish stats to match its rubbish economy.
Isn’t it “Boom Boom Boom”, Baldricks poem “The German Guns” put to music?
FAAFO, Biden.
Even if, as I do concede today, I get a little too passionate and belt-fed in the process.
Then Russia is precisely in the same boat as Iran and Israel, which is to say, that if ‘the world’ doesn’t like it, go pound sound.
What dope wrote this?
There’s been a War against Donbass since 2014.
Russia intervened to stop the War.
So far, they’ve been successful.
Tried to “intervene” via Kyiv.
You couldn’t sound more like teen-girl than you do right now ya silly old prick
Have you been day-drinking?
Rotary engines.
m0ntysays:
June 20, 2022 at 4:09 pm
It is funny how the right has come a complete 180 since Iraq,
At that time i was working with people fleeing Iraq claiming all sorts of awfulness.
At that time the left wanted them all let in, regardless of persecution or not.
After the overthrow we began receiving the people who had been doing the oppressing fleeing the retribution many richly deserved.
The left still wanted them all in.
Sometimes consistency is mongoloidism on steroids.
Your position was made up of fantasies where Saddam would step down and his sons would become enlightened democrats.
My position remained logical.
Genuine refugees only, sourced offshore rather than allowing people to “buy” asylum.
I thought it was 1954. I’ll check it out when I finish cooking dinner.
Bluey:
Yes I remember it well.
That was the year I lost faith in the Political System running Australia.
I don’t think I want to flounce, Cats.
I fear I’d resemble a Sea King doing practice autorations into the sea, which I believe someone here once described as having “all the grace of a grand piano being flung out of a seventh-storey window.”
Anyhoo, I’m off to use one of these for a little bit, now.
Hopefully without looking like the aforementioned big helicopter in the process.
Should’ve offered him a Chinese flag to stand in front of.
Be fun to see what he’d say about that.
I remember when in Parliament Bob Brown persistently heckled GWB, then only a very short time later sat in obsequious silence while Hu Jintao was there.
UTAS has the aboriginal flag and the Torres Straight Island flag at the main entrance at half mast for the last few days. They don’t bother with an Australian flag.
What dope wrote this?
There’s been a War against Donbass since 2014.
Russia intervened to stop the War.
So far, they’ve been successful.
We had to expand the war to stop the war…..
Formaldehyde kiddies, its not just for breakfast anymore.
Jupes, I reckon Longines is currently the best value for money watch out there. I saw this one in the US and really liked it. I’m thinking of ordering it online.
Thoughts?
https://www.longines.com/en-au/watch-conquest-l3-776-4-99-6
Dickless
Franger is a troll.
That’s all you need to know.
Looked in a mirror lately? You should. Say hello to Maocolm when you do.
Haha.
HUNDREDS OF NEWCASTLE BUS DRIVERS STRIKE OVER PAY CONDITIONS (20 Jun)
Very few people ride on Ncl buses, at least not the three routes in my area, so this isn’t going to inconvenience anyone much. Convert them to car license vans and let Uber run them.
Most Greens,with the exception of Lee Rhiannon, manage to keep their watermelonness in check. She couldn’t help herself.
And it is now bearing the consequences of the same.
Ukrainians in 2008 and the Yanukovytch government were vehemently against NATO, despite wanting EU membership and a taste of western Europe’s prosperity.
They only started to think it was a good idea in a majority between 2014-19. After the someone who didn’t want them in NATO came and took land off them by force, and then kept trying to come on west.
Well, got a phone call this morning from my federal member in response to the email I sent him that I posted here the other day.
Ah yes.
Everyone you don’t like is a teenage schoolgirl…
The models wearing the watch at that link are all women.
With 12 sats in the Senate.
And the way things are going, the balance of pwoer in the House come next election.
Don’t keep us in suspense, Eyrie…
What is his solution?
The models wearing the watch at that link are all women.
Frank out himself as a biologist.
not true.
just you and sancho
because you both sound completely dick-less
but this is only a forum
and its only words
and who says I don’t like you?
…you sure do look perty in that dress
Sorry for lack of proofing – I often write something and then get called away so submit in a hurry.
Way above my pay grade , Bovet are the most beautiful wrist watches.
It’s very hard to say that with any confidence. I understand the need to paint a picture of Russian humiliation right now, but any third parties looking at this see Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk lost. Kherson too. And depending on how things go, probably another three oblasts. It’s basically all the oblasts with 50%+ Russian speakers. That is going to be very hard to turn around given the losses suffered by the UAF and losses imagined by the RuAF.
Someone in Parliament needs to run a censure motion on Adam Bandts’ behaviour with our flag.
This is contemptible.
PS: not actually a biologist
Sigh!!!
Greens in the Senate are a problem. The last time the Senate was vaguely functional was Hawke era with Howard in Opposition letting stuff through. It’s been buying off cross benchers or watering down legislation ever since.
Riveting stuff, Hallward. Did he accuse you of being a serial pest?
Supporting Ukraine should not be a left/right thing. It is only made so by those in the West who support Putin for cultural reasons. Those people need to take a good hard look at themselves.
As for the other two… no.
I’m sick of this 3rd nations flag business. The context for the whole thing is that the commie activists behind this and their useful idiots such as the breeder, will never be satisfied. Apologies, wads of cash, self deprecation, all the usual responses by Australian society will always be inadequate and insufficient because the intent behind the flag and every commie initiative like it, is to dismantle Australian society.
In this respect the 3rd nations are just another victim to be used by the commies to attack Australian society: in this case on the basis of racism and inequality. Victims are necessary for the commies because they can be used as examples of the unfairness of Australian society. The real purpose was revealed by the commie filth leader, bandt the bastard, who refused to stand near an Australian flag. So this will be the next demand: that the 3rd nations’ flag replace the oppressive Australian flag.
None of this shit addresses the real 3rd nations issues. Domestic violence, rape, murder and destruction as Wadeye demonstrates. Wadeye shows there is no 3rd nations unity. Here is a 3rd nations tribal map of Australia: over 200 hundred diverse and often antagonistic groups which reveal the grotesque myth of one 3rd nations group which can be symbolised by a flag.
The history of the 3rd nations in this country is being suppressed. It is a fascinating history of invasion, conquest and environmental destruction: not by the white man but by successive waves of different aborigines. The 3rd nations are not deserving of respect or having their own flag. The current mob not only exterminated the Mega Fauna, burnt the place down but also drove out the 2 groups of peoples who came before them. The commie activists care nothing about this. The 3rd nations are nothing more then useful victims for them and the real problems of the 3rd nations will not only be ignored by them but actually exacerbated by their indiscriminate funding, capitulation to every virtuous gesture and demand and policy avoidance of accountability by the 3rd nations for causing their own problems.
Seiko have a Seiko 5 GMT coming out. No snob value but I’m on a bit of a Seiko diver kick at the moment. I have no need for a GMT but use a diver bezel probably every other day.
Noted and saved.
Thankyou, Calli. 🙂
Comment, from Bruce of Newcastle’s link, on the Bandt douchnozzle.
We have sent bushmasters and yesterday some very shiny m113s to support the Ukraine. Nobody reporting on the story
seemed to noticethat they were being flown out in an Antonov
It’s ambiguous at best. Marginally I’d say Russia should not have done it, but the Western left are culpable too.
Trump in Nashville
More here.
https://pjmedia.com/spengler/2022/06/19/auto-draft-73-n1606391
Aided by useful idiots such as Dom Perrottet.
Fatboy
Instead of try-hard quipping and “you lotting” all the fucking time, why not try and make an cogent argument during the few hours Brett Sutton let’s you out of the basement each week?
Bespoke:
At Dans! With cooked Pineapple aroma!
$50 a slab.
Go on, you know you want to!
Fatboy, PJ media shows there was a deal to be done between Ukraine and Russia with Europe along with the US acting as honest brokers. The arrogant no-nothing dishonest crooked Kunt (Hillary) fucked it up and we are here now. The American left were the instigators of this war.
The indigenous flag had been proudly flying atop every flagpole across Australia for sixty thousand years.
Brandt is only bearing witness to this truth.
Bugga orff Winston!
But you just did this yourself by talking about how you’re operating out of skepticism towards 20-odd years of American foreign policy. You have talked incessantly about Victoria Nuland, Kimberley Kagan and so forth in alleging US/NATO manipulations regarding Maidan. But never seem to mention any non-Democrat folks in the process, despite 2002-2008 being Republican presidencies…
You don’t seem to understand the difference between Trump and the RINOs
Is there anyone more poisonous in Australian politics than this weaselly piece of shit?
So, I take it you view Finland and Sweden seeking NATO membership as feints?
Ditto the huge equipment and personnel losses amongst the VDV, Wagner etc. and russian soldiers calling home in frustration that 800-900 man BTGs are down to 10-15 men in some cases?
And I’d argue the fact that it has taken over a month to only mostly contest Severodonetsk instead of rolling it, Popasna, Izyum and Lysychansk into a massive and fatal cauldron, despite throwing practically all their combat power at this one location qualifies as a humiliation. Particularly given that in the first month Russia apparently held all of Kherson oblast, Kharkov, much of a straight north-south axis from Belarus to Kiev and everyone honestly thought Vald Bae’s minions wouldn’t stop until they’d reach the Moldovan border.
Even the FSB’s mouthpiece says so.
Amazing the carry on in the media about a mosque being vandalised.
None supports these arseholes but I am sure churches are vandalised way more often with little or no notice in the media.
I also honestly doubt that an emboldened and successful Russia would be raising questions about Lithuania’s independence, and Lithuania feeling brave enough to smart them right on back…
Anne Wilson of Canadian band Heart is 72 today!
Timothy Neilson says: June 20, 2022 at 5:53 pm
This was discussed for about half a thread on the old Cat.
GWB & then Hu Jintao were visiting parliament on consecutive days.
During GWB’s visit Bob Brown got ambulatory with the intention to shirtfront GWB inside parliament, however was prevented by a group of govt members. Bob Brown tried to force his way through, a scrum ensued during which Joe Hockey drove an elbow into Bob Brown’s ribs.
Bob Brown & some other Green were chucked out of parliament for 24hrs for “fighting”.
So while Hu Jintao visited, Bob Brown was outside being eyeballed by AFP (or whoever protects parliament) lest he attempt entry.
I thought it was 1954. I’ll check it out when I finish cooking dinner.
Pretty well on the money, really…
“The current seven-pointed Commonwealth Star version was introduced by a proclamation dated 8 December 1908. The dimensions were formally gazetted in 1934, and in 1954 the flag became recognised by, and legally defined in, the Flags Act 1953 as the Australian National Flag.”
Parrotwerp is proving it’s possible to be even worse than Gladishocklian or Iemma or Carr. Boy oh boy.
So the UAP guy got up in Vicco? I wonder if he will be any good. The reasons I voted for him were
1. I couldn’t possibly vote uniparty after what’s gone done over the last 10 years
2. I though he actually had a chance of winning so my vote wouldn’t be wasted
3. I heard him speak on Avi’s forum and liked what I heard.
Anyway, we shall see.
I do, Miltonf.
Which is why I saw the constant reference almost solely to 2014, Maidan and US Democrats in Ukraine as a bit one-eyed.
Trump’s presidency and supports of lethal aid and training to Ukraine against unmarked Russian troops and their donbass proxies seemed to consistently go unremarked
The US had essentially the same anti American/endless wars/managed decline government from 1989 to 2016- I didn’t matter if it was GOP or ‘rat. It regained power in 2020 against the will of the American people.
SFW- and yes, you’re right about zincalume, that’s my slackness-
there’s a lot of small type to Colorbond. There’s a structural guarantee against corrosion which is 40ish years, that qualifies to be called a “lifetime” by oz ad standards. But the colour fade guarantee varies hugely, from 25+ years for black and dark colours, down to only about ten for whites and creams and shale greys, whch is quite funny because they’re often chosen as a visual equivalent to the tin shed grey which is strong in the imagination.
The new matte finish range is atrocious, best bet is five years according to my source, a mate who does renno’s and re-roofing. It’s because it essentially has no top glazing coat, it’s just soft pigment exposed to the elements. He’s got a good schedule of sand-blast and re=sprays going, but he’s very careful to get the word out at the installation stage as to what the homeowner can expect, because he doesn’t want to be seen as one of the shark set. But he’s very happy to book in the work…
A new player tried to get going in the suburban tin market a few years ago. Leveraging on going heavier gauge and double-glaze topcoat for the same price, with extra warranty to match, did lots of demo’s and display homes, harped on about how there’s even less incidental screw scarring, better anchoring, lobbied storm insurers to recognize superior product integrity, canvassed RE valuers to bump it up…
Of course, it was all dependent on selling the volume, and I think he’s sank without a trace. Did an invitational product launch in Perth at the Parmelia (?) and threw lotsa rum at the contractors and put the Screaming Jets on stage- cane across as a bit of a total wanker with his “we’re gunna take on Big Tin and win back the mums and dads and get on board and stick with me yer all gunna be rich”, probably lost his only chance for a start that very night by the sounds of it.
Is that Lee Remick Calli? Nice bum.
Joe Hockey has just risen considerably in my estimation.
But never seem to mention any non-Democrat folks in the process, despite 2002-2008 being Republican presidencies…
These were RINO presidencies.
Doesn’t Albanese need Greens support to get any legislation through the Senate?
History of the Flag
Under the Flags Act of 1953, passed unanimously by parliament, it was confirmed that our “Stars and Crosses” design be the chief national symbol by law, custom and tradition and that it be honoured with the title “Australian National Flag”. The new status of the national flag was emphasized when the act of parliament received royal assent from Queen Elizabeth II, on Her Majesty’s visit to Australia in 1954. The Australian rules of flag etiquette are designed to ensure that the national flag is displayed with the dignity befitting its status.
Australians in the Boer War fought under the Union Jack.
I have read that most Australians fought under the Union Jack in World War I, and under either the Australian Red Ensign or the Union Jack in World War II. All Australian Naval personnel fought under the British Naval Ensign in both world wars.
The Blue Ensign was declared as our national Flag in 1954.
Normally I would not condone violence against old queers …
China tests missile interception system amid tensions in the region | World English News | WION
Without further comment – unless I change my mind. Which I probably will.
‘Interesting’: Elon Musk responds to leaked Slack messages from Twitter staff
“Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
June 20, 2022 at 5:39 pm”
Excellent comment Lizzie.
If the situation was as dire for RUS as you paint, Rex, than you have nothing to worry about. The summer is only going to bring further humiliation on the RUS. But the impression I get from recent events and revelations is just the opposite.
@ Diogenes-
The Antonov Design Bureau and its Hostomel airport factory are another one of those interesting post-Soviet legacies Ukraine inherited. Ditto the facility up near Lviv (I think) that maintains most of the world’s non-Russian Mig-29 fleet.
Antonov Airlines’ fleet of An-124s go worldwide, so were not caught on the ground and destroyed or demolished to prevent capture like the sole An-225 was.
Good heavens, Elizabeth. Claim it as a record (even though probably, it is not.) Mainly, don’t let it get to you. As the old saying goes: offence is taken, not given.
You are a valued contributor to this blog. Keep remembering this. Post as you will, for others to scroll or enjoy. And blast the consequences.
Your quote from the introduction of the article I posted is misleading, to say the least. Here is the full context.
I think people can judge for themselves, without your contortions.
Anyway, I don’t think Russia should have gone in and I don’t think we should be involved in anyway.
I think all these pathetic excuses of leaders like the old thief, anal and blojob should shut the fuck up. Further I regard them as more of a danger to the people in their respective countries than Putin is. As I said last night the Democratic Party is more dangerous to Australians with their critical race theory, gender fluidity and ‘renewable’ energy.
Another Greens policy success. Remember, the Germans had nuclear before turning to gas and renewables.
Some context is provided upthread, Winston.
On the bus this morning, and the traffic in Sydney’s CBD is back to pre-Covid normal, bad, very bad. I sat at the front and the bus driver, an older man, was getting very irate with the traffic. Anyway he snapped and shouted “fuck, I just wish China or Russia take over this fucking useless country, I’ve had enough”. I responded “you sure about that” and the driver said “they couldn’t be any worse than the fucking useless bastards governing us now”. I said “yes, we are governed by fucking useless bastards but as for Russia or China, perhaps we should ask a Ukrainian”.
Anyway, he made me giggle all morning.
Thanks Wally, very interesting. Looking at reroofing our 1930 farmhouse next year, the missus wants a dark colour, I wasn’t keen but you may have shifted me.
Thanks
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our life-time; therefore, we are saved by hope.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Possibly Liberty Quote worthy , dover, even though he be a Protestant.
Well you can’t go wrong with a Longines. Value for money, good warranty and cheap servicing. I’d try get one through a boutique or jeweler because they will probably give you a good discount.
Jc’s longines link isnt a gmt & a 39mm is a bit small for most mens wrists. This is a better watch : https://www.grahamsjewellers.com.au/seiko-spb217j-presage-automatic-mens-watch-30262193?utm_source=google_shopping&gclid=CjwKCAjwtcCVBhA0EiwAT1fY71z_BeuwJYJWD9CiFRwiz8b9VIwgwzpKaBlpzx6IFHC73bertVMrvRoCxLIQAvD_BwE
I like Woodland Grey for roofing. Not as goth as Monument, it has a bit of warmth, especially if you choose dirt coloured bricks.
The fashion is pale grey though, with a lighter coloured roof. Curse those Hamptons!
My ironing pile and freshly Hi-Zero’d floors (All completed without once resembling a Sea King practice-autorotating into the sea, even! :D) very respectfully beg to differ, Roger. 🙂
JC….this is the watch for you,..https://www.bovet.com/Timepiece/grand-recital/
Indolent:
Perhaps the best way to view the entire scenario is by using the most reliable yardstick available – their track record.
I mean, really, imagine actually having an operating nuclear power industry and giving it up.
Thanks Jupes.
I suspect Mrs. Niebuhr too care of that, Rex.
Stepping back from keyboard….
We had an addition to our farmhouse complete about a year ago. I had a big disagreement with the builder about the match of the Colorbond roof colour. In the end, it was clear he was right about his colour selection to match the existing roof. The problem was that the existing roof had faded considerably in the 15 years so that no close colour match could be sourced. Fortunately, the addition was at right angles to the original building (creating an L shape), so that the difference in shade is disguised by the changing shade pattern during the course of the day.
The Oz must have me on a watch list. My rejected over rate is on the climb.
Commented on an article about How EV cars were being subsidised by the poor. Wasnt too derogatory however did finish with robbing from the poor and giving to the rich. Dennis Moore anyone?
Just watched a video about “the ten worst ghettos in the US.” It was embedded in another post at WUWT.
A few observations. Firstly, calling them ‘ghettos’ was a misnomer. They were overwhemingly impoverished, usually inhabited by non-whites, but nobody is stopping anyone from leaving. Maybe Americans have changed the meaning of the word.
Secondly, while they were ugly and depressing, they would look like Paradise to hundreds of millions of poor people throughout the world. They had roads, water, electricity and houses – run down, sure, but houses nevertheless.
Thirdly, there were plenty of cars, and not old bangers, everywhere.
Fourthly, while there were vacant blocks everywhere, they had been cleared and kept free of rubbish.
Don’t misunderstand me, these places (mostly in the north east, some in the south) were profoundly depressing, and many of them were a couple of miles from trendy hipster bars in the city. I’m talking parts of Baltimore, Chicago, and Camden, NJ. Also Atlanta and St Louis.
But they are still nowhere near as bad as the East Bronx in NYC was in the 1970s. It looked like a war zone – piles of rubble and burnt out buildings for blocks and blocks. Nobody does urban decay in peacetime like the Yanks.
A lot of these places just went broke when the factories closed, and people had no jobs and their homes became worthless. Also, as the guy who did the video said, it seems that those who could get out did, and the remainers are either victims or predators in their crime-ridden hell.
In passing, almost all of them are run by Democrats, and have been forever.
As I said, in material terms, these places are still well above what billions of people can only dream about. But there is a sickness of the heart, of the spirit. There is no hope, no aspiration, except for criminal predation.
Physically, most of these places are better than the inner cities of Sydney and Melbourne when I was growing up. They have indoor bathrooms and hot water and cable TV.
But, they are a wasteland in terms of human endeavour, and optimism, and belief in anything beyond the immediate.
I am a huge fan of the American experiment, but the abandonment of entire communities left stranded when the factory/mine closed while pork barrelling rampaged elsewhere has had awful human consequences. I don’t know what happened in the South Bronx, though. Honestly, parts of it looked like it had been shelled.
In the past, factories or mines closed due to economic factors. Nowadays, they are closed because of smug people in secure and well paid jobs who imagine that they are much smarter than anyone else.
BTW sfw the colour of the Colorbond is sort of greyish/green. Cant recall the actual name of the colour.
I mean, really, imagine actually having an operating nuclear power industry and giving it up.
Imagine having 40% of the world’s easily obtainable uranium and NOT having a nuclear power industry.
We were driving in Sydney three weeks back Cassie, and we have decided never to take the car up there again. Next time will be train from Canberra, and Uber to wherever in Sydney.
Bloody awful traffic. Most of the time you get about 300 metres and then a red light. Speed and red light cameras everywhere. And you have to pay for parking constantly.
One of the worst realisations was if you propose parking outside your Airbnb you just might not be able to, due to the lack of spaces. And you might have to pay for it up to 9pm.
Is it considered chemical warfare if troops take positions in a chemical plant?
Have just called Adam Bandt a traitor in a Facebook post. How long before I’m banned.
You probably drew a Monty Python purist as your moderator for the day, Fair Shake.
You probably didn’t mention lupins at any point in your comment, correct? 🙂
My roof is Mountain Blue, 1999, now faded to white. Wide gutters are the same beautiful dark blue with no fading. Even the facia boards painted in the same colour haven’t faded noticeably.
Roof commenced fading after approx 10yrs.
Arkancide?
Penny Wong has announced $50 million to aid Sri Lanka’s humanitarian crisis, as Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil heads there to address the rising number of people smugglers.
Only if they’ve got into the beans and other fresh cruciferous vegetables…
#GasGasGas
Don’t forget Sinc’s.
Lizzie’s frequent, petulant departures (with one eye looking back to see who was paying attention) were immensely entertaining.
The last decent flounce I’ve seen was egg at Adam’s.
Adam told him to stop being a dickhead (e.g. attacking Delta) and egg, either on or off medication, told him to stick it. Now the site is goog-free.
Funnily enough, the eggster had made several very negative comments previously about this site and its inhabitants. Very negative indeed.
Yet, here it is. Any port in a storm.
Sydney has almost reached the level of most European cities where a car is practically of no use in the CBD and still without a functional Metro. Why do people live there?
m0ntysays:
June 20, 2022 at 6:10 pm
Yeah…it’s funny how the left has done a complete 180 since Iraq and now supports war, big pharma,
and big business.
Supporting Ukraine should not be a left/right thing. It is only made so by those in the West who support Putin for cultural reasons. Those people need to take a good hard look at themselves.
As for the other two… no.
Supporting (or opposing) Ukraine is not a left/right thing. Both sides are wrong, we should keep out of the mess.
As for the other two … you really have not been watching your comrades on the fascist left. They are gagging for war (because their maaaates in Big Armaments can slip them lotsa money) and have been full on for Vaxxines since Creepy Joe entered the White House. With the left, it is always the side, never the principle.
So the idiots running the Oz (into the ground) are still being “surprised” by the antediluvian views of their rapidly dwindling readership.
I don’t know why you bother, Bear.
I was somewhat astounded by the senate results for WA released today.
The last exclusion was of the third liberal senator, distributing the preferences between the ALP and One Nation.
More liberal party preferences went to the ALP than One Nation.
Who are these people?
Always trying to see what I can get through. The occasional success keeps me coming back, much like my golf.
A question I’ve been asking myself with increasing frequency of late.
The most glorious thing about this is the Green minister, who was the schmuck who had to announce it. ROFL.
German Vice Chancellor Announces a Return to Coal (20 Jun)
Simply delicious!
Well done!
Quadrant‘s on a roll about aboriginal identifiers:
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/06/larissa-behrendt-and-the-denial-of-family/
I’ve also heard that the recently sent French Ceasars are also being used with cluster munitions against Donestk.
Bandt continues to dye his hair, or what’s left of it. Big emissions in making hair dyes plus the plastic packaging, water use and chemical pollution down the drains.
Grate – no Blot for three weeks but we’re still gifted with that pair of increasingly Stadler and Waldorfesque superannuated political grandees, Kroges and the Nuclear Milkman.
They increasingly don’t. House at the corner of my street sprouted a SOLD sign yesterday. It never even got to have a for sale sign. Amazing.
Sydney has all the downsides to a major international city, few of the upsides and Australian marginal tax rates. Why would you bother?
Last time I brought a car into the Sydney CBD was 2005- a most frustrating and infuriating episode.
Still bring a car in the Melbourne CBD regularly. Not the city it used to be but still has lovely pockets. Corner of Elizabeth St and Flinders St absolutely filthy though. Melbourne Central and QV are a lot of fun.
P
I have read that most Australians fought under the Union Jack in World War I, and under either the Australian Red Ensign or the Union Jack in World War II.
There is a photo of Sgt Tom (Diver) Derrick hoisting what looks like the current flag or its red variant over Sattelberg in New Guinea in 1943. Derrick was awarded the VC for his part in the capture of Sattelberg.
Just don’t come down south.
We have enough weirdo’s.
Where these the shots that came out of the east?
Wouldn’t it be great to keep old disputes off this board. I was partially reminded of this a short while ago by someone who’s unable to live by the same lofty standards set for others.
Watching Blot tonight, for the first time in a month, only because Blot’s on holidays so Rowan Dean is hosting. He opened with a very good editorial about the FINA decision, applauding Kath Deves for her stand and stating that Liberal vermin (my words), such as Kean, Sharma and Zimmerman and many others …
“disgracefully slandered Katherine Deves and the Liberal Party essentially cancelled her during the entire election campaign. They should hang their heads in shame, mercifully most of them got what they deserved at the election”.
Well said Rowan.
Have just called Adam Bandt a traitor in a Facebook post. How long before I’m banned.
I got banned for a few days yesterday for posting this… apparently it is against their ‘community standards’.
I know most won’t read this and that is a little disappointing because it is about everyone’s health going forward.
You all know, or at least you should know, they don’t even count a person as being vaccinated until 14 days after the second shot. Between the time of receiving the first shot and 14 days after the second shot the vast majority of those counted as unvaccinated Covid cases, hospitalisations and deaths occur. A very, very small percentage of hospitalisations actually occur amongst those who have received NO vaccinations. The counting is a sham.
It is so very telling that even with that statistic the unvaccinated are still greatly underrepresented in the cases, hospitalisations and deaths statistics, ahead of the vaccinated.
What I am trying to say here is, “Look at the data in this article and think long and hard about your ongoing booster intentions.” because every shot represents a reduction in your LIFETIME immune system efficiency. This is not just protection against future Covid cases but about ALL immune protection.
This is the first sentence of the attached article so make up your own mind…
‘A new study published on Researchgate provides further proof that the Covid-19 injections cause recipients to develop crippling Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, because it shows the unvaccinated have the lowest rate of developing serious disease due to Covid-19.’
The over 23% increase in deaths from all causes is not an aboration…
The cachet for some.
Economic pragmatism for others.
I haven’t been in Melbourne since about 1990, ie pre Chairman Dan. I thought it functioned more like London with discrete areas that were quite liveable once you were there. Periodically there was a traffic SNAFU like when they closed the Westgate bridge to trucks or a train strike and you became aware how busy the place actually was. I never got that feeling in Sydney which just felt like hard work all the time.
Spent the first few years in Sydney. Hated it.
Sergeant Tom Derrick hoists the Australian Red Ensign at Sattelberg, New Guinea
Driving around Melbourne in a car doesn’t have much to recommend it eg Chapel St on a Saturday. On a motorbike, once you become comfortable fanging down tram lines, things become much easier particularly with every footpath being a parking spot.
I’ve driven into the CBD twice in the last month (on a Saturday) and it wasn’t particularly grief inducing. Knowing how to get quickly in and out of the CBD helps. $12 to park in Goulburn St for about three hours. The last trip home however was rather unfortunate. Got caught in a traffic jam at the beginning of the ANZAC bridge which took fifteen minutes to get through – i.e. from one side of the bridge to the other.
Worst traffic experience ever was commuting home one evening and getting caught in a Bus attempting to cross the Harbour Bridge after a taxi driver had somehow managed to swipe the wall below Milsons Point station. Took an hour to get across, it was around 37 degrees and the bus wasn’t air conditioned. I could have hopped and walked and would have gotten home sooner.
Like many of us, I’ve been reading about the market for things that don’t exist, with wonderment.
But when you think about it, there is already a market like that:
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/06/19/photo-sealed-vhs-tape-of-back-to-the-future-nets-75k-at-auction-setting-record/
A sealed tape which can’t be played – like a bottle of wine than can’t be consumed. Only the decadent rich can afford to waste money like this.
Only way to fix traffic problems in Sydney is to nuke from orbit and start again. While at it, do Melbourne and Canberra.
JC is an obvious useless Bird flock dilettante who has never done a day of work in his life and lives on the largess created by his hard working parents and Western Christendom society while stalking real workers.
Get your head out of your arse JC.
I ferken audited false f*ks like you who never made a cent in your lives but lived on the toil of real people.
Despite arriving on the first flight into Melbourne at 7am, I still managed to miss my uncle’s funeral at Traralgon, arriving half way through the wake at 1230. A tuck lost its wheel on the Monash Freeway.
Was talking to MRs D’s aunt in Sydney tonight… She was on one of the first flights to the US in January and returned only a week or so ago. She lives near the hospital at Randwick, she says the traffic is worse than pre pandemic.
Jealousy is course, NFA.
Cheers Rex, I’d suggest there not being easy to obtain videos of the Russians means they don’t have the same degree of morale issues. Any that made an appearance would’ve been trumpeted to the rooftops by western media. Not too surprised by the DPR/LPR guys, they’ve been used to attack the most heavily fortified areas.
Although I reckon we’ll have to agree to disagree overall, we will end up seeing the final outcome and can work out who was right about what then.
It could be worse.
It could be a digital non-fungible token…
Sydney was good if you were young and wanted to do the things it had on offer. Those things are no longer on offer, they redeveloped the place and drove the locals out, taking the music scene with them. Last time I was there I was walking in Chippendale and some homeless guy had flattened out a cardboard box to lie on beside a transformer box and taken advantage of the sunny weather by jerking off. The road grime there has a bluish tinge when applied to the skin. At that point I realised that spending two decades on the place might not have been the best investment.
that was a response to the jc bird shit dropped on d-b’s weekend reading that jc bird tried to shit on bruce from newcastle.
You are an ignorant filth jc…
you could not give a straight honest answer to sfw’s question last night and you finally proved to me that you are nothing but a bird shit ignorant crap head!
Is something afoot?
I feel for this poor young man…what a disgrace.
“Brittany Higgins rape trial could be delayed after Lisa Wilkinson’s Logies speech
Lawyers for the man charged with sexually assaulting former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins have applied to push back his trial due to media coverage of a Logies speech by Lisa Wilkinson.
Lawyers for the man charged with sexually assaulting former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins have applied to push back his trial due to media coverage surrounding a Logies speech by TV journalist Lisa Wilkinson, who won an award for an interview with Ms Higgins.
Police allege Bruce Lehrmann, 26, sexually assaulted Ms Higgins, 27, in an office inside Parliament House in 2019.
Lehrmann has pleaded not guilty and is listed to go on trial before a jury in the ACT Supreme Court in Canberra next Monday.
But his legal team, including defence barrister Steve Whybrow, went to the ACT Supreme Court on Monday and applied to vacate that trial date.
When a trial is vacated it means that it will no longer take place on the date set aside for it in the court’s calendar.
Mr Lehrmann’s legal team mentioned a key reason for their application to vacate the trial was media coverage on a speech by Ms Wilkinson, who won a Logie on Sunday night for Most Outstanding News Coverage or Public Affairs for an interview she conducted with Ms Higgins last year.
Mr Whybrow told the court that Lehrmann did not want his trial to be delayed but that he wanted to have a fair hearing.
“He wants to get it on, but he wants a fair trial,” Mr Whybrow told the court.
The application to vacate the trial will return before Chief Justice Lucy McCallum on Tuesday.”
Watched the first 10 mins of PM live.
Does he not know how Australia is set up?
The Greens got the votes.
They get the members & the senators.
And the packages etc that go with it.
My City of Sydney by Tommy Leonetti
NFA
No probs, coming from you I can easily live with that. Fester is an Nobel prize winner on everything judging by his comments like today. And you need to get back to minding the store and stay on your meds. Now fuck off you raving lunatic.
thanks for confirming your part of the bird flockers.
No way he’ll get a fair hearing – the sisterhood has already found him guilty.
NFA
Explain . Was it something I said about Uncle Fester or the reply to sfw? What exactly sent you in this whirlwind.
Diggersays:
June 20, 2022 at 7:56 pm
Have just called Adam Bandt a traitor in a Facebook post. How long before I’m banned.
I got banned for a few days yesterday for posting this… apparently it is against their ‘community standards’.
I know most won’t read this and that is a little disappointing because it is about everyone’s health going forward.
You all know, or at least you should know, they don’t even count a person as being vaccinated until 14 days after the second shot. Between the time of receiving the first shot and 14 days after the second shot the vast majority of those counted as unvaccinated Covid cases, hospitalisations and deaths occur. A very, very small percentage of hospitalisations actually occur amongst those who have received NO vaccinations. The counting is a sham.
Not on Facebook and never will be along with all other other Gossip Shites – Twitter, etc.
Haven’t had the Jab. Don’t need it. Age 69 years with a Great Immune System. Trying to get it bottled and sell it on for mega dollars. The “Fizzer” mob are not interested as they are all on the way to Jail………………Oh well, I will try someone else. Does anyone here know Mr. Putin’s mobile phone number?. Waiting, waiting……
JC cannot answer sfw’s question from last night.
Why can he not?
All JC can do is abuse people.
He has no ability at all.
Struth was better when he posted word walls under his original name.
Short prestige watches.
Apple watches are supreme.
Bern drinks xxxx.
I don’t read every single comment, so perhaps I missed it. If I did, wouldn’t it be far more courteous to ask if I’d seen his question rather than jump into a two feet deep pool of water head first?
What question? Also, I generally reply to all questions posted for me. However, I can’t with those I haven’t seen.
That’s delusional. I abuse and mock several people but that’s not all I do, you angry whacko.
I know. Fester is a self aggrandizing eunuch
Haven’t had a beer since the Swans/Richmond game almost a month ago.
Drank some organic rose on the weekend though.
I’m not convinced by that. I think they’re just much more hidden away by relative info blackout and their near-exclusive use of Telegram and RU language-specific social media apps. Which only appear in Twitter and the like when someone goes looking for it. Even if you discount the Ukrainian General Staff’s and OSint translations and media releases of Russian and pro-DPR/LPR Telegram posts due to bias, the fact they can produce it in sufficient volume to back a particular narrative demonstrates it is out there. We face a language and perception barrier that we wouldn’t otherwise have if they were all English-speaking and using Twitter and FB.
About the only regular non-Ukrainian users of western internet-familiar apps like Tiktok are Kadyrov’s Chechens. And that’s mainly just digital posing like all the cool kids under 25 do on it these days…
Organic wines are just the thing in a winter.
Young, fresh, everything you want.
You actually gave no reply to sfw because you are a bullshitartist that knows nothing about economics.
Luvving boat-folk is one thing .. following thru is another .. LOL!
https://www.facebook.com/100005082726142/videos/711395960115139/
Watched a talk yesterday where CSIS talking heads said everyone in southern UKR hated the Russians.
Okay, let’s try this one more time. What question did sfw ask me?
Also, why is this such a huge concern to you as you need t0 explain why my non-answer to a question has turned you into a raving lunatic?
Being a retarded Tigers fan, I’m now watching a live stream of a Tigersfan forum.
They are complaining about the fans at the Bulldogs game.
Meaning they actually went to the game.
Gluttons for punishment.
JC
The teal green duck bird lover because his wife told him to “vote this way”.
I was waiting for the markets to start setting up in the US and just realized it’s a holiday.
What the fuck in Juneteenth?
NFA, are you just randomly picking up sentences and posting them here in the hope people think they mean something. What are you getting at?
Where’s the question I was supposed to answer? Chop chop.
It is funny how the right has come a complete 180 since Iraq, and are arguing exactly the same way as the most anti-HoWARd hippies from 20 and 30 years ago.
Monkey Business virus you really are such a wally. Hippies from 20 to 30 years ago? Where were you in 1967 when the Hippy movement took off? There were no hippies 20 and 30 years ago. Even Disco and Punk Rock were long gone. I knew that you couldn’t count but that is ridiculous. Back to “Skool” for you and take Head Case along with you as well tomorrow.
While collaborators and pragmatists (by choice or being voluntold- It can be hard to tell these days) were photographed being lined up at Melitopol, down the road at Kherson Russian collaborator and prison governor Yevhen Soboliev was car-bombed.
He appears to have lived, but partisans have been active throughout the Kherson area. Despite all allegedly being Russian-speakers clamouring for Russian protection and being tightly policed by Rosgvardia and FSB, guerrillas are very active in the region.
Penny Wong has announced $50 million to aid Sri Lanka’s humanitarian crisis, as Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil heads there to address the rising number of people smugglers.
Clare’s entourage is also equipped with 50 000 copies of, “Best Places to Stay in Biloela” ..!
This ‘poor young man’? You’ve decided that he’s a victim? Judge and jury?
That is no better than the people that you criticise.
JC
to reduce it to simple words….
how is money created?
Do you know and will you tell us!
Two of us can use the random sentence generator, NFA.
JC, you gave a disparaging response to my post re how the Reserve Bank puts money into the system and who gets their hands on it first and how the money is withdrawn from the system. I accepted that response and then asked you to tell me exactly how the money gets in and out. Then nothing, if I was wrong I would’ve expected a response, you stated above that you may have missed the post, a possibility I guess. However you’re over everything here so it would be amazing that you missed it. I ignored your lack of response, I expected it. The more I hang around here, the more I think you’re a big noter. I reckon you’re about to go in the ‘not worth reading’ pile.
The current Australian flag was introduced in 1908, the original Australian flag chosen in 1901 differs from the current flag.
Original Australian flag at Federation in 1901.
The major difference between the two flags is the seven pointed Commonwealth Star for seven states on the current flag. The only problem with that is Australia still has only six states, that hasn’t changed since Federation, hence the six pointed Commonwealth Star on the original Australian flag.
Why was the flag changed? The original flag was chosen by the public in a competition at the time of Federation, the public weren’t consulted by anyone when some bureaucrats changed it some years later. Perhaps some people didn’t like the symbolism of the original flag, the Union Jack representing the Union of Jacob (Northern tribes of Israel, the House of Israel) together with the six pointed Commonwealth Star which also symbolises the Magen David representing the House of Judah, together under the Southern Cross in perfect north-south symmetry.
A week of this? Using 155mm?
I have already answered that question at the yuk yuk furniture store.
NFA, you don’t demand anything from me least of all answering questions unless you apologize for your appalling behavior this evening. Frankly, you ought to feel embarrassed.
sfw
You don’t have to read a single thing I say and that’s okay with me. From memory, as I can’t be bothered to go back, you made a stupid comment about monetary economics and I attempted to correct that stupidity. Obviously, you were upset, then went to the furniture store to whine about me getting NFA to go hog wild.
He is.
Most accused rapists aren’t collateral damage for a major political party.
Re. the accused in the Higgins trial, I’ll repeat the words I used again “I feel for this poor young man…what a disgrace” because, from day one, the whole case against him and his pending trial has been politicised and prejudiced, by a disgraceful MSM, by social media sewers and even by politicians, including the most recent and very unlamented PM of Australia, Scott Morrison.
And you know what? I’d say that most people here agree with me.
Given that a number of attacks have landed on DPR towns identified as having come out of the east, and granted that UA artillery has been hitting ammo dumps around Donetsk recently, it’s hard to tell with your preferred sources…
Money is the most sought after commodity and it can be created by acceptance of of even debt instruments at high enough circulation.
and that is all you do use JC
you have lived on the hard work your family did and you are pig ignorant and a bullshit bird supporter
Unremarkable. There has been very little of this all things considered.
So, you have no fucking idea JC.
You are an ignorant bit of bird shit.
Use what, you incomprehensible nincompoop? What am I using?
Let’s suppose I lived off the hard work of my parents through inheritance. I haven’t, but let’s suppose I did if they left everything to me. Should I give the money to charity, give it to you because you’re protesting? What should I or anyone for that matter inheriting money should do with it?
Also, are you saying I support bird as in Bird or bird like a magpie or sparrow?
A definite yes from me.
Is it wrong to hope the case falls apart after actual evidence goes against Higgins version ? Asking for a friend.
“And you know what? I’d say that most people here agree with me”.
Here comes the Dot Bird.
I get it now. Sfw was posting something he got from you about money. You then saw my reply either because you’re combing through the comments here as there’s not much going on at the store or he tiddle taddled.
What did I say about money that’s caused these fulminations? Tell me.
So the DPR and RUS are shelling Donetsk using 155mm artillery with French and Norwegian ammunition. OK.
Franger!
fuck off
you’re a blow in
LOL Head Case, Suit Case, Nut Case, this “blow in” comment seems to be the height of your intellectual level. Very low indeed…………………….
Rex,
I usually enjoy your input.
But against all logic, reports, evidence. Mate what what r u on?
Considered relative to what?
Cute handwave, dover. I’m sure Mr. Soboliev and the others hit by such things would agree.
(That’s up with the Australian lefty commentator who once airily declared that death by falling refrigerator was more likely to get you than an islamic terrorist attack, therefore it was really nothing to worry about. Or Waleed Aly’s ‘irritant’ comment on the same matter)
Interesting that removing flag was done prior to his appearance with Faruqi. She definitely hates Oz.
Any news on that Referendum the Greens and Labor will be wanting us to vote for ?
If I was a teacher my brainwashing technique would be to go through Greens policies and point out how bad they are and teach the opposite is probably best.
“The event occurred Monday afternoon in Sydney shortly before Bandt was to hold a press conference with Deputy Greens leader Mehreen Faruqi at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices in the CBD.
Shortly before Bandt and Faruqi appeared a staffer moved the Australian flag to the side”.
A mate just text me an ad for a 1970 HT Kingswood.
Asking price, $26k.
What the actual fuck.
Like I said earlier, it’s hard to tell what your vatnik sources are on about sometimes.
But I can understand accusing Ukronazis of bombarding civilians when all the heroic Russian and DPR defenders’ ammo dumps in former civil sites start exploding…
Yes, we’re all Graeme Bird now, NFI. Now here’s Nurse Ratched with some clonazepam and thorazine to help you go to sleep or put you asleep.
The JC Bird froths at the beak when someone, anyone, asks a question.
Yes JC… I think that just like poofta panzi, dot and the bird shit you all defend…
You are ferked in da head and not one of you can give an actual straight answer to what sfw asked.
I did you fag smoker.
Nurse Ratched with some clonazepam and thorazine
Would you like to know more?
Rex,
I’m waiting.
Sounds kinda gay.
Andy Dick and Norm McDonald remarked, “NOT GAY ENOUGH!!!”.
Iraq, Afghanistan, Portland, Seattle, Kenosha, Washington DC.
I was waiting for the markets to start setting up in the US and just realized it’s a holiday.
What the fuck in Juneteenth?
Hopefully everyone stays cool, or something positive happens like Pedo Joe actually killing himself on a bicycle, rather than just losing some bark.
Largactil is another favourite when it comes to putting them down for a while.
Gen X can afford the stupid cars they couldn’t afford as kids.
I’ll never get my hands on an XE ESP or VK Group A. When they were 30k, it was a laugh.
Now they’re 300k+, how absurd.