Bronte Beach was on the news last night. Packed to the hilt with Pommy/Euro backpackers and whatnot. No mueslis.
Open Thread – Tues 28 June 2022
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- No, it is not all of the above, stupid!
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Don’t shit me.
Nice lady.Would be great as kindergarten president.Opposition leader not to much
“In more than 500 remote Indigenous communities across Australia drinking water isn’t routinely tested and often it isn’t safe to…
Dunno – I got married in the Eighties…….Five years later, the Creature From the Black Lagoon was gone, demanding half…
I would have argued that discernment rather than comprehension is the issue there, GreyRanga.
Being able to understand is one thing, but the tuning out of superfluous and suspect data in favour of what is valuable amd important is truly lacking.
And that, more than anything else, is what has been driven from public education and disparaged within the family.
An education is not just knowing stuff, as the ‘educated’ like to assume.
It is also the developing and honing of the skills of knowing what is worth knowing.
One word: Dennis Lillee
Saudi Arabia has never produced the greatest fast bowler ever known.
That Boom SST does Mach 1.7, twice the speed of a 747. Falls short of Sydney – Honolulu range so a stop in both Fiji and Honolulu required. Going to have to be pretty quick pitstops to do the whole thing in 8.5 hours. 8.5 *flying* hours plus refuels is more like it.
prolly 1976 when I was kid doing a paper-round, I used to follow the Milko who still ran a Clydesdale and cart from a tiny dairy.
Worst wokespeak word of the 21st century:
“stakeholders”
Dose my head in
and I can’t spell
Luxury!
Dr F
The zip fastener, though, made gentlemen’s relief a more relaxed experience.
As long as they are careful to “tuck away” before zipping up, particularly with a metal toothed zip.
It also destroyed the Army medical officer’s pungent advice to new recruits: “Flies cause disease, keep yours buttoned up”.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gi5iGHVRMF4
birds used to peck through the foil bottle tops while milk bottles sat on the verandah
I used to sometimes steal a drop myself on summery mornings when I was hungry-thirsty at 0500
used to poke a hole on the cap so they thought it was birds
Frank, you’re still a spring chicken. 🙂
I can remember when there was no tv.
Vampires most affected.
#OhGod
Dot:
And there are still aspects of the Saudi involvement that need investigation and exposure.
Well, we gave Elvis a go at the local cinema this afternoon.
Impressive work by Baz – probably get him an Oscar.
Mrs TE is more a fan of The King than I am, so want to read up more of him – have found a bio Last Train to Memphis, which at 500 pages+ should keep her absorbed for a while.
And ‘sustainable’. Grr!
Rogersays:
June 30, 2022 at 9:33 am
Reality check as Qld coal-fired power assets to close sooner
This was one of the questions put to Westerman:
What happens if coal goes off-line before the renewables slated to replace it come on-line?
“Firming”…”investment”…”transmission”…
And the correct answer which was not allowed to be aired was – Bunker down and get out those candles that you should have already stocked up with. What do you mean? You don’t have any candles. You didn’t read the fine print in our latest ‘cop out’ Newsletter……………………………..
Latest BloJob mental vomit (from Breibart)
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has claimed that the invasion of Ukraine represents “toxic masculinity” on the part of Russian President Vladimir Putin and that the war would not have happened if a woman was in charge.
Despite the history of British female leaders launching wars, the current supposed Conservative Prime Minister has asserted that the invasion of Ukraine typified the alleged problem with male leadership of nations.
In an interview with German broadcaster ZDF, translated by the BBC, in the wake of the G7 meeting in Bavaria, Boris Johnson said: “If Putin was a woman, which he obviously isn’t, but if he were, I really don’t think he would’ve embarked on a crazy, macho war of invasion and violence in the way that he has.”
“If you want a perfect example of toxic masculinity, it’s what he’s doing in Ukraine,” Johnson added.
More an old boiling fowl most days.
Does this piece of shit really believe this or is he just reading the Washington War Machine script? Fuck he’s a waste of space.
And shiny. Thin and shiny. Railway Station special, we used to call it, when household stuff became softer and thicker.
British Civil Service official toilet paper: Glossy on one side, sandpaper on the other.
A local council in north London had “Council property” stamped on every sheet (shiny on both sides).
I was at a conference in London where the US delegation had brought their own stock of “Super soft” with them.
Rex I don’t think you can have discernment without comprehension.
The Oz has an article about Health Minister appointing Jane Halton to look into the vaccine contracts and where to go from here.
Below is my rejected comment. One can only guess which bit was not approvable.
I am sure Jane Halton can be replied upon to come up with the right recommendations.
“I think it is a good idea to review the vaccine contracts. Should include the anti virals like Remdesivir and Paxlovid. How many, how much, how many wasted due to expiry etc.
Jane Halton is the chair of CEPI which was created in Davos in 2017 and funded by Bill Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust amongst others”.
Mrs TE is more a fan of The King than I am
As is missus Barking – long time fan (as was my departed mum)- apparently there were tears at the fleas ‘n itches.
I was next door watching Top Gun.
MatrixTransformsays:
June 30, 2022 at 5:31 pm
birds used to peck through the foil bottle tops while milk bottles sat on the verandah
I used to sometimes steal a drop myself on summery mornings when I was hungry-thirsty at 0500
used to poke a hole on the cap so they thought it was birds
In England as a boy in the 1960s it was also the birds (and us boys as well). However, the birds that were the biggest culprits were the ‘ blue tits’. I kid you not. They were a type of finch. We laughed and laughed. Serves Diana Dors and Barbara Windsor right for not wearing a nice warm bra in the middle of winter………………….boom, boom.
Be thankful you aren’t on a small boat with a tiny holding tank and a single macerator pump.
The bogroll is like greaseproof paper, an abomination.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has claimed that the invasion of Ukraine represents “toxic masculinity” on the part of Russian President Vladimir Putin and that the war would not have happened if a woman was in charge.
So is BloJo going to transition?
Saw a movie ? yesterday.
Reminded me of August 1977 when I rolled up to do my paper round and the Midweek paper was normally the thickness of one ply was suddenly a foot thick. We all struggled to keep our bikes upright and get the papers loaded into the saddle bags. Needless to say very late completing the run and people yelling abuse at me for being late. All I could think of was I don’t care who he was, I fucking wasnt happy either and nearly cried the day some bloke died named Elvis.
birds used to peck through the foil bottle tops while milk bottles
Reminds me of a song.
Ernie, drove the fastest milk cart in the west (Benny Hill?)
A year in the stocks, with rotten fruit provided to the public on a daily basis.
Except in Pumpkin season, fresh is best.
A certain Austrian who saw himself as a bohemian with dreams of being a artist responded to the indifference of his reception by the world by trying to subjugate it in its entirety and mold into his vision.
Maybe it is as well that we have such ridiculously generous grants for artists who dream of fame but lack talent – dangerous fuckers.
No danger of toxic masculinity from BloJo or Macron. One being lead around by his dick, the other by his mother.
BloJo wouldn’t know “toxic masculinity” if he fell over it for it is a rare beast.
Seen today at Sydney Passport Office. A young man, having queued since 4am watched as people who arrived at 6am sloped up and formed a second queue, thus bumping out a number of the very early, and very frustrated liner-uperers.
Complaining long and loudly to the security drone who did zero, he managed to get these interlopers on the end of the original queue. He wasn’t having any of this wimpy, passive aggressive bullsh*t. Next, a Levantine bird decided to queue jump herself. Again, he told her to bugger off to the end. Much swearing and youse-ing, but she obeyed.
Applause rained down on his efforts to get people to behave in a civilised, orderly manner. Many back pats and “good on you, mate”s. His only question, “why was I the only one to stand up to this sort of stuff?”.
We are devolving as a society.
Eyrie, SYD-LAX via PPT: 2 x 3.5hrs (plus 30m refuel in PPT) = 7.5 hours total trip time at M1.7, so the Boom pitch (8.5hrs total trip) is well within spec (4250nm range).
jupessays:
June 30, 2022 at 5:25 pm
One could make the case that WA are the Saudi’s of Australia.
One word: Dennis Lillee
Saudi Arabia has never produced the greatest fast bowler ever known.
I understand that ‘Thommo’ was faster, however, he never knew exactly where the ball was going. Lillee on the other hand knew exactly where the ball was going.
One word: Dennis Lillee
Hmmmmmmmmmm. Looks like two words to me………………lol
Just how did we end up with such craven idiots as world leaders?
Calli, there’s hope
and balls … and this is one of those occasions where sheilas can have balls too.
don’t cut in on my missus in queue
… you’ve been warned
Two words: Colling woood!
Just how did we end up with such craven idiots as world leaders?
Nurgle.
Yes the current crop make Fraser seem like a giant and I’ve never had much good to say about Fraser.
Jupes – the brain of Boris has been hijacked by the hippie he’s shacked up with.
At the start of June, the German government introduced a three-month period of essentially free public transit. In exchange for a monthly ticket costing just nine Euros, you can take local or regional trains and buses anywhere. To the surprise of nobody, this has resulted in massive overcrowding on key routes, as our national railway company, Deutsche Bahn, has proven unable to increase capacity due to worker shortages and outmoded, decaying infrastructure.
Gemans, learning nothing….
You know who else forced German railways to cap prices which saw them reduced to a pretty shitty state by the outbreak of Wobbly wobbly 2?
Hitler.
Dont be like Hitler Germany.. just dont.
Thanks Tom. I guess the reason the route wasn’t used much in the past was that people actually wanted to go to Fiji and Hawaii and this made the economics better.
Correct.
The missus has turned him into a needy castrated shemale.
Grey Ranga:
I’d disagree with the 3 days, GR.
The issue behind the current governmental/managerial disaster is the need to break with the old patterns – the collapse needs to be long enough for the useless and parasitical institutions wither away and die, but more importantly that the vast bulk of society understands the institutions had stopped adding efficiencies and had become a drag.
This is the important part – that the parasite dies and that society realises it had to go.
There is no point in destroying the bureaucracy and then recreating it. We must come to terms with the need to continue aggressively pruning the monster, and this will only come about when we discover the parasite isn’t essential.
It will take at least a year or two for the realisation to happen.
During this time the West will be very vulnerable.
Carpe Jugulumsays:
June 30, 2022 at 5:41 pm
Real men use….
Jupes – the brain of Boris has been hijacked by the hippie he’s shacked up with.
maybe, maybe not- seems to just follow the marxist WEF open borders, invade and invite the world sort of stuff. The lesbian bitch ‘vision’ in other words-
Hillary’s vision is a borderless world where working people have no power, no jobs, no safety.
Except in Pumpkin season, fresh is best
One of my treasured kiddie memories is a “blessing of the fleet” event at Horrocks beach when they had a raft race with various boat crews.
Some base chaps (all of them) resorted to cheating using fruit, flour bombs etc.
Poor dad copped an enormous Jarrah pumpkin in the love spuds while he was paddling.
I’d say it’s contextual, GreyRanga. 🙂
I mean, look at the Fat Man and the twerpy twins Hubris and Trained Observer, wanking on for the last week about how the overturning of Roe V. Wade destroys womens’ rights and privacy and… stuff, the evils of the Orangutan Bard as told to the Jan6 Commission and how it is sacred truth that new electrical power will only be gas and renewables.
One need not comprehend the nature of their arguments or delve too deeply into them in order to see that they do not stand on their own merits. And thus discern that anything they jave to say on these matters can be discarded without question.
On the other hand, I might have completely invalidated my assertion, as you have to have some understanding of the material in question (or very good research skills) in order to know more than their shallow slogan-spouting…
Not even Dick Dstardly would stoop to that…
Best consumed with…
#Scrumpeh
Bluey:
I was trying to remember the blokes name but couldn’t.
The Long March Through The Institutions.
Gramsci. Thank you addled brain.
There is a LOT to be said for the apprentice system in many of its forms.
Learning from the older blokes has an awful lot going for it.
Now, I maybe wrong, but I dont think so but one of WA’s best modern day premiers was Alan Carpenter. I never voted for him , but…, I do think that he was up there.
No doubt. But only a craven fool of no principles would let that happen.
Out come Australia to bat in a cyclone. Should be interesting.
And on the subject of Scrumpy:
I’m told all the ladies like Dickens’.
(I have so got to get to one of these Steam Traction Engine and machinery festivals in the UK. These folks are off the chain! 😀 )
#GreatDorset
Carps never managed to stop Brian Bourke. That took Good News Geoff.
Looxury!
I remember a young James Dibble!
And the ABC test pattern.
Winston!
Nice new logo thingie!
Goes well with the photos of London draped in their shit stained flag. Very 1930’s Berlin.
Head gorn!
Barking Toadsays:
June 30, 2022 at 5:55 pm
Jupes – the brain of Boris has been hijacked by the hippie he’s shacked up with.
Did she suck it out through his donger?
There has been talk of Fax machines and the Internet.
We should all take note of a Nobel Prize winner, talking in 1998.
Is even M0nty wrongerer otftenerer than Krugman?
Braking Turd:
…it’s a common problem.
🙂
Winston
People in South Africa seem to accept rolling load shedding as a way of life now. I guess not having the cash to fix it adds to the apathy.
3 days without power will be enough I hope.
Specifically lack of light and refrigeration will be where the rubber hits the road.
This should not have made me laugh as hard as it did…
Winston
And the ABC test pattern.
Their programming has gone down ever since it ended.
Mecca is only one word.
People in South Africa seem to accept rolling load shedding as a way of life now. I guess not having the cash to fix it adds to the apathy.
another reason I’m doubtful about cars built in Sth Africa. A hell of a lot are now VWs, BMWs, Mercs, Toyotas. I had a Sth African built Corolla and it was rubbish. So much for the Toyota way.
That, and the thieves were all majority-electees.
The ANC traded on its revolutionary credentials post-1994, and after the relative euphoria and promise of the Mandela era, it has been comprehensively revealed that all the would-be liberators were thieves and spivs.
But the power of political tribalism is all-compelling. And the vast majority are still dirt-poor.
It seems like JC and me are not alone in thinking that the Atlassian share price is defying gravity.
Gravity never disappoints in the end.
feelthebernsays:
June 30, 2022 at 5:19 pm
Ironic that Newcrest shares close at a 12 month low in the highest inflationary environment for 40 something years.
Must be problems ‘at mill’. They have bought some lemons in the past (Lihir) so maybe those ‘grate investments’ are coming back to drain their cash flow and bite them on the bum. I’ll do some research and try to see what’s going on.
I have worked in countries where grids are switched off at night and the locals know like clockwork what day theirs is. Corruption was so endemic they never had the money to upgrade the infrastructure but it was all in, even in the leaders suburbs. What’s a bet when ours come it won’t be so even handed and secondly as a first world G20 economy what’s our excuse?
Lahir from what I heard offloaded a shedload of experienced Aussie miners during the ‘rona lockdown. They replaced them with locals that from what I heard haven’t worked out very well, especially in the supervisory level. That was firsthand from someone who used to and still does FIFO to PNG but elsewhere now.
Just one reason why South Africans who can – white & black – are leaving in droves.
The Columbia Bugle ??
@ColumbiaBugle
#Thread Must Watch Tucker Carlson Monologue On The Democrats & The Biden Administration Going After Political Dissidents
Just went in to the Kraut-Waggen shop to update the wheels today.
Three observations:-
.1 Cars are not markedly better in basic functionality than they were ten years ago.
.2 The improvements seem to be in better “bells and whistles” in displays etc and “smart safety features” (lane assist, adaptive cruise etc).
.3 Half the added in features are then removed due to chip shortages.
I eventually found what I wanted to be delivered in four weeks with all add-ins.
I refuse to accept anything but the full suite of Bing-Bong safety features.
If you don’t have one
or haven’t used one
you haven’t lived
The Wonder Bar
a wonder bar and a hammer could take down the western world in an afternoon
Researchers find two FDA-approved drugs that curb symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease
The Frolicking Moll:
My understanding is that when AH came to power, the Kameraden of the Partei decided they wanted good jobs and essentially took over the railways – turfing out the blokes who knew wtf they were doing.
The icing on the cake was the requisition of the inland waterway barges for the invasion of GB which were then bombed to buggery by the gallant lads of the RAF.
The transport sector of the Nazi economy never recovered.
The Ford Motor Company plant, in Port Elizabeth, closed down, as a result of sanctions in the early 1990’s. Eighteen thousand workers, mostly Africans, lost their jobs…
The so called Insurrection –
“It is very curious that Cassidy Hutchenson is testifying to what would be considered inadmissible evidence in a court of law. She has said that President Donald Trump was so irate that his Secret Service detail wouldn’t take him to the Capitol on Jan. 6 that he tried to grab the wheel of the armored limousine, then attacked one of the agents, according to testimony from a top former White House aide. This is HEARSAY and this political agenda of January 6th is a kangaroo court in its grand sense.
The entire object here is to claim January 6th was an armed insurrection so they can constitutionally prevent Trump from running again. This so-called “evidence” from Cassidy Hutchenson would NEVER be allowed in any court of law. The only person who could give such evidence would be the Secret Service agent. It must be someone with personal knowledge. Hutchenson has ruined her career for who would hire her fearing she could testify against her boss and makes up anything.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/hutchinson-the-real-lie-behind-this-latest-scam/
“A proper constitutional investigation would be to take Hutchinson’s statement, identify the Secret Service agent, and then subpoena him to the stand. The fact that they never contacted the Secret Service raises a HUGE Red Flag that they are simply trying to poison the minds of everyone knowing that this is NOT acceptable evidence in a court of law.
This is like a disgruntled neighbor calling the cops saying they “think” you killed your spouse because they have not seen them for a week when they are merely out of town. I have deep concerns that now Hutchinson may have been offered something in return for this testimony and here we have Liz Cheney, whose father created the Iraq Way on fake information killing millions of people, and was responsible for the rise of ISIS, claiming falsely that “the case for prosecuting Donald Trump just got much stronger.” She is NOT stupid. She is an is an American attorney and therefore knows that HEARSAY is not acceptable in any court in the world. She is DELIBERATELY lying to the public to prevent Trump from ever running for President.
I hope Wyoming just moves West and joins California for hopefully they will secede from the Union and I will cheer – good riddance! This is not about the rule of law. This is about oppression. The Justice Department is trying to give people who were just there taking a selfie 5 years in prison.”
This is just embarrassing. And it’s being noticed.
Australian Ambassador for Women and Girls
Saw an old Krugman article the other day; from memory the headline was something like:
‘The Booming Economy Biden Will Deliver’
Ukraine garrison evacuating Lisichansk – Russian or Lugansk forces now reportedly INSIDE the city; also, Karma strikes as Russians claim to bag the bearded Georgian merc shown in the infamous, prisoner throat-slitting video from March 31st
Viruses that were on hiatus during Covid are back — and behaving in unexpected ways
One question for her: What is a woman?
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
June 30, 2022 at 6:51 pm
another reason I’m doubtful about cars built in Sth Africa
The Ford Motor Company plant, in Port Elizabeth, closed down, as a result of sanctions in the early 1990’s. Eighteen thousand workers, mostly Africans, lost their jobs…
Lol. Another SA (not Sarf’ Efrica’) also had Car Plants shut down. The cars built there were so good that no one was buying them. Not even the Guv’ments.
Soon after the election of the Mandela Government, EKSCOM – the South African Electricity Commission – began easing the senior white management out of their positions, and installing blak management – in the name of “Black Empowerment”
As the load shedding and the “blackouts” began, and it became obvious that the new management team had very little, if any, idea what to do, the former management team were invited back to solve the mess.
To a man, they refused.
Democrats. She has lied for them. That should be worth something.
He’s obviously never heard of Catherine the Great. BTW, Boris has always been an imposter.
Didn’t somebody report from the wukka’s car park, on the day the last plant shut down, that there wasn’t a single Australian made car to be seen?
Heh. It appears that I am not the only one at the local shops patronising the restaurants with Dine NSW vouchers They expire tonight. Restaurants doing a roaring trade.
It’s funny you mention that, Mr. Sheldrick.
One of the trolls at Meme Of The Day #49, earlier:
These words do not mean what the troll thought they meant…
Thatcher is even more recent.
Johnson is an moral & intellectual twerp.
If this gets the ball rolling, things could get tricky for Russia’s opponents.
More Canbra garbage
Christine Clarke
Ambassador for Women and Girls
Prior to commencing in the role of Ambassador for Women and Girls, Christine Clarke worked with the Pacific Gender Section in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on Reserve Service following completion of her lengthy full time Navy career in June 2021. Christine served as Australia’s Defence Adviser and Attaché to New Zealand, Cook Islands and Chile between 2018 and 2021. Christine has held many senior Navy and Australian Defence Force roles and executive committee positions including Head of the ADF Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Response Office and served as Commanding Officer of HMAS Kuttabul. She was awarded a Conspicuous Service Cross in the Australia Day Honours List in 2013 for excellence in leadership.
As a committed LGBTQI+ ally, Christine led the Department of Defence contingent in the Sydney Mardi Gras on two occasions. She is also a strong advocate for women’s rugby and cricket. Christine holds a Master of Human Resource Management (Organisational Change) from Charles Sturt University, a Bachelor of Business (Marketing) from the New South Wales Institute of Technology and is an Australian Human Resources Institute medallist.
Ainsley Kellow has a very useful article in the latest Quadrant. It is on the climate scam, a forensic review of who is who in it and how it came about via the major academic and political deceptions as well as a quick critique of the ‘science’ of modelling. Kellow is a genuine scientist who reviewed some of the earlier IPCC work. Retired now. Hairy knows him from about a decade ago now. Neither of them were retired then.
I might photocopy it and send it to Allegra Spender (Wentworth) as a concerned constituent.
She badly needs educating on such matters.
Bespoke/rickw:
Never underestimate the adaptability of homo sapiens. Which is why I believe a year or two will be necessary to get the monkey off our backs.
so he’ll be hitting up Oz next?
What about all the other federations where abortion is controlled by the states therein?
I don’t think defending the country is on these people’s agenda.
not an, but a
My English teacher haunts me.
Cool only cost 230 empty cans.
you missed the best bit: https://twitter.com/AusAmbGender/status/1541655448155131906
As one wit on that thread says – climate change is like Homer’s donuts. Is there anything it can’t do?
the Pacific Gender Section in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
sounds like a spoof.
iirc Clarke was appointed by Payne. Trumble-Morrison are not missed.
Kellow’s article demolishes the ‘climate emergency’ meme.
It would thus be a useful piece of prison reading for the foolish young woman who held up the harbour tunnel the other day as she sits in remand denied bail. Serves her right.
Proviso for giving it to her is whether or not she can read something requiring comprehension.
Same goes for Allegra Spender too I guess.
Sancho Panzer:
I’m still quite happy with the Mighty 380 from 2004, and the Patrol from 2002.
I have no intention of getting rid of either, and why would I?
The 380 got the expensive service at 85k* and is now on a grease and oil change regime, and the Patrol ditto.
*Timing chain and trans fluid.
I’ve been told cadetships and similar were very common until sometime in the 1980’s, particularly in engineering. University was an option, but not the only one to work your way up. Now? Everyone wants a degree for everything, although I think there are a few paths for draftsmen to become professional engineers without a degree.
IT is about the only field where you can slot into a good job without going to uni. Lots of industry certs matter more, as does experience. That’ll probably change unfortunately.
Christine Clarke, what a barren internal landscape she must inhabit if that is the sort of noise her mind makes at her. Hell would be a weeklong conference of such people, punctuated by vegan canapés and correct forms of on message entertainment.
I seem to recall Kazakhstan very recently publicly rebuffed recognising Russia’s annexures in Ukraine.
With words to the effect of “If the right to self-determination is implemented worldwide, there will be over 600 nations instead of the 193 states that are currently UN members. Of course, that would be chaos.”
I’m not surprised that Syria would suck up to its Russian patrons. But for Kazakhstan, a recent beneficiary of direct Russian military assistance to put down an internal revolt in January to rebuff Russia in such a public way is a complication Russia’s supporters may not appreciate.
And the second part of that quotation, according to al-Jazeera was “That’s why we won’t recognise Taiwan, Kosovo, [the breakaway Georgian regions of] South Ossetia and Abkhazia.”
Regions Russia took from Georgia by force in 2008.
Christine Clarke, what a barren internal landscape she must inhabit if that is the sort of noise her mind makes at her. Hell would be a weeklong conference of such people, punctuated by vegan canapés and correct forms of on message entertainment.
Unfortunately shows how the armed services are just turning into just another branch of Canbra pubic service. If you try to be a real soldier these canbra wimmin will be out to get you. Remember McDade also.
The ‘long march’ was not Gramsci but Rudi Dutschke.
Brigadier Lyn McDade is a former senior officer in the Australian Army, who held the position of Director of Military Prosecutions. In 2010 she was the centre of widespread media attention within Australia due to charges against three former members of the Special Operations Task Group deployed to Afghanistan.
‘Is Prince Charles fit to be king?’: Nigel Farage
Simple answer – no. He’s not just a total political stooge but an utter hypocrite.
but neither is Wills => long live Liz
Kellow is a genuine scientist who reviewed some of the earlier IPCC work.
Yes he is. So is John Nicol, Jennifer Marohasy, Peter Ridd, Ian Plimer etc. Articles in the Spec and Quadrant are however useless. They’re preaching (sic) to the converted. The MSM drives this bullshit and cowers gutless polies from the LNP who with a bit of media encouragement would eradicate the propaganda taking place in schools, unis and the wider community.
Chilla’s just another BloJo WEF type
Rogersays:
June 30, 2022 at 6:52 pm
Is even M0nty wrongerer otftenerer than Krugman?
Saw an old Krugman article the other day; from memory the headline was something like:
‘The Booming Economy Biden Will Deliver’
If you want to get a quick bite, go over to CL’s and ask Homer P how the “Biden Boom” is going. He’s a true believer.
Yes, I really should keep better tabs on CL’s site.
But not for that reason. 😀
The Demonrats want a recession preferably a depression- the American people must be taught a lesson and racists/rednecks/flyover country types shouldn’t have nice things.
wish you were here.
@joanybaby77
In case anybody wasn’t aware, NATO chief Stoltenberg is the former head of Bill Gates’s GAVI.
Spot on. These people are utterly clueless about military victory. They don’t know how and they don’t care, Australia’s defence be damned. They finish their well superannuated military careers and go straight to the public service as a woke ‘warrior’.
I am as disgusted in these useless tools as I am with the politicians who put them there.
Now that’s interesting…
ZK2A.
I very much doubt that.
When I worked in automotive a while back, employees of first tier component suppliers got 20% off and direct employees of manufacturers got 30% off.
‘The Booming Economy Biden Will Deliver’
Well, he has most certainly done that. When you blow up an Economy it goes ‘BOOM’………………..
I never imagined otherwise.
I am very interested in the ‘why’
Dr: Faustus:
Am I that obvious? 🙂
Must Try Harder.
IIRR Gramski said it first in the 1930s.
Margaret Thatcher had much bigger balls than young Boris. Just saying.
If you want a good laugh.
MSNBC
“Trump coup nightmare”
https://youtu.be/oOcZRxBwZ1k
Yeah so the man who told people to stay at home, but was censored, went ethereal to move through his Presidential limo compartments to choke his driver and drive himself to an armed insurrection where the cops let people in and shot an unarmed Ashlie Babbitt.
Hmmmmmmm….
Championed and expanded upon by fellow Communist evangelist Herbert Marcuse.
Sitting at Giralia Station at the base of Exmouth Gulf and remembering that in 1978 I was using a very early computer whose discs were 18″ diameter and which required a 20′ x 12′ room for its processors. I’m writing this on a cheap samsung j250g phone with more processing power than that computer could dream of.
In 1980 I operated a plug and cord switchboard, a telex, one of the first fax machines in WA, while working for xerox corp.
Tim Pool had a field day with this January 6 Committee nonsense.
The best thing is grifters like Liz Cheney are lame ducks now.
Tim Pool is right. 1 million registered Democrats this year changed affiliation to registered Republican. Plus the Dems are trying 6D chess by supporting “extreme” Republicans.
Home. Haven’t turned the gas heating on, though it’s cold enough.
I can pay my gas bills even if they double but I’d rather not.
And if anyone complains to me about energy bills I’m just going to say ‘Climate emergency’.
Given that he will be nothing more than a figurehead, it will be the perfect situation for him. He will have no real power and can be ignored and/or mocked without repercussions. It’s what the total tool deserves.
And “extreme” by their standards are MAGA folk…
#NeverTiredOfWinning
#Bigly
I’m not even a Trump supporter. The Democrats are just so shrill since Hillary lost.
The last five years and eight months have been nothing but a prolonged tantrum.
What a couple of dickheads. 20 years and haven’t made a profit.
I just saw the headline Killing Off Jobs For Mates Is Now Within Reach, as I logged off my Outlook email.
It’s a Crikey opinion piece celebrating the demise of John Barilaro and Torrie-kicking in general, but I immediately thought of the entire political, media and elite classes and their tone-deaf and short-sighted policies now wreaking havoc against the energy and strategic security and economic stability of all other Australians and citizens in the Western world.
I now firmly understand I speak a different language to these people…
What options do we have? Voting?
Or are asking about why do you need to hug your loved ones? 🙂
Ah, the good old days!
I can remember when we had “mainframes” and “mini computers”.
Small(ish) personal computers where just starting to arrive and were referred to as “micro computers”.
I remember convincing my boss to buy the first micro PC for our office (it probably cost 15-20% of my salary).
We also had the “mini computer”.
It was a Texas Instruments. I can’t remember the model or specs.
It was a box about 750 mm square by 1200 mm high. One day a tech had the back panel off and the inside was 75% fresh air.
I asked why that was.
He said the prior model was in a much smaller box but a lot of crusty old CEOs were bitching about having to pay top dollar for a tiny machine!
So they beefed up the size of the case.
I think they probably added some meaningless blinking lights for effect as well.
Another “tell all” book deal coming up shortly…
Life insurance claim surge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp8ciwi0CL8
nah.
why they cant be stopped?
what is it?
where does the impetus come from?
why does everything fail ?
…seriously, why does the slide into this abyss continue until everything is completely fucked up?
mizarissays:
June 30, 2022 at 8:39 pm
Sitting at Giralia Station at the base of Exmouth Gulf and remembering that in 1978 I was using a very early computer whose discs were 18? diameter and which required a 20? x 12? room for its processors. I’m writing this on a cheap samsung j250g phone with more processing power than that computer could dream of.
In 1980 I operated a plug and cord switchboard, a telex, one of the first fax machines in WA, while working for xerox corp.
So true and your device has more computing power than was used for the July 1969 moon landing mission. And the Yanks used Newton’s mathematical deliberations for gravity and other stuff to get there and back. Even though long dead, Newton’s balls were working quite well. What a Man said the Actress to the Bishop……………………..lol
He is the One.
Looks like they got Aussie Cossack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a165633i3Q
JC at 8:56.
True.
Never made an annual profit.
But here’s the thing.
I looked back at their quarterly results.
They are fucking all over the place.
Dec Qtr 20 – $600m loss.
Mar Qtr 21 – $160m profit.
Jun Qtr 21 – $213m loss.
No apparent logical reason for the big swings.
Very smelly.
Why do the words “Good riddance” suggest themselves?
Ah, the good old days!
I can remember when we had “mainframes” and “mini computers”.
1970 I worked in PMG telephone accounts & billing section, West Street, North Sydney behind the Union Hotel .. 3 stories and the computer(s) & peripheries took up 2 of the 3 floors with about 20 staff operating 24/7 (3 shifts) .. the other floor was offices and the tape spooling/punch card section .. nowadays anything over 16gb ram could handle the computer workload except for the hard copy bill printing/enveloping machinery .. averaging 2 000 bills a day .. and when the enveloper broke down .. and it often did .. hand inserting! .. lotza O/T and sore fingers .. !
Fun facts : we had a flag pole alongside the main entrance and the flag had to raised at sunrise and lowered at sunset everyday by the relevant shift .. or else! ..
you also had to adhere to the dress code regardless of shift .. formal! .. LOL!
A special edition of 7:30 will air on Friday looking back over the years Sales spent as anchor.
Seriously? Our taxes are paying for that? I shouldn’t be surprised, but honestly the self-indulgence, cronyism and sense of entitlement are off the scale.
Why do the words “Good riddance” suggest themselves?
You read these sort of media “farewells” and are expected to understand that it was all sacrifice .. that they were doing it out of “luv” and the massive recompense & “signing off” hand-out are superflous to the joy they imparted to the audience ……. FFS!
Ok then.
* Programmed a PDP 1170 timesharing beast.
* Then a Burroughs B6700.
* Commodore 64 at home with a plug-in Word Perfect cartridge and a cassette drive to save on. Make a coffee after pressing Play and Record.
* Then an Apple IIE
* IBM twin 7″ disc drive, and then someone said get a hard drive. Was in a box with a separate power supply.
* Some weirdo invented WIMP and we all got mouses. Ridiculous – what was wrong with Command Line Interface?
* Then on to various Macs and here we are.
Strange, the Oz isn’t allowing comments…
and when the enveloper broke down .. and it often did .. hand inserting! .. lotza O/T and sore fingers .. !
In the USA they used to call it ‘stuffing the envelopes’. Not too sure whether they still say that now with all of this so called ‘political correctness’. The mind boggles as to how you may ‘stuff an envelope’. Maybe like stuffing a chicken? Whoops. Don’t go there either……………………..lol
Anyway, Slainte to all you mob.
Mme Zulu’s doctor says she’s showing every signs of recovery, and payday for self funded retirees, tomorrow, will be a snorter…
Timothy Neilsonsays:
June 30, 2022 at 9:39 pm
A special edition of 7:30 will air on Friday looking back over the years Sales spent as anchor.
Just put the anchor around her neck and throw her in the……………………………………
shatterzzzsays:
June 30, 2022 at 9:44 pm
Why do the words “Good riddance” suggest themselves?
You read these sort of media “farewells” and are expected to understand that it was all sacrifice .. that they were doing it out of “luv” and the massive recompense & “signing off” hand-out are superflous to the joy they imparted to the audience ……. FFS!
James Dibble didn’t sign off like that as he was a Gentleman and a great Geezer as us Londoners like to say…………………..
Taught my son (5) on the Commodore 64 thinking it was better than him fiddling and maybe breaking it ( I won’t do an AnAl & mention “houso” lack of money/tuffness .. this time .. LOL!) and when he was 10 we upgraded to a DOS machine .. took to DOS like a duck takes to water and was teaching me by the time W3.1 & W95 came along .. he was a tech genius whilst still at school .. never did any formal computing courses until his late 20s when employers seemed to think without bits of paper your bluffing ..
Nowadays, unlike AnAl he’s left his “houso” upbringing behind and would have to take a serious pay cut to “aspire” to PM .. LOL!
shatterzzzsays:
June 30, 2022 at 9:38 pm
Ah, the good old days!
I can remember when we had “mainframes” and “mini computers”.
You don’t anyfink’. I remember the abacus, logarithms, slide rules. the 12 times tables, and gob stoppers.
John of Melbourne:
It’s a fairly deep question, J O’M. Let me have a bash at it.
In 100 years time, the continent of Australia will still be here.
It will be inhabited by homo sapiens, hopefully. 🙂
What will the dominant culture be?
This is the question we need to be asking.
Will it be similar to the current one? Similar but evolved in a manner we want?
Cultures evolve whether we want them to or not. That evolution can be from within or it can be imposed from without, or even imposed from within by outside influenced players.
The issue is about the individuals ability to influence the trajectory of the change. I’m not a Prepper because I’m going to survive a social meltdown – I’m a Prepper because my family and friends are going to inherit the opportunity to survive on my preparations and carry forward my ideals of what societal values need to be preserved.
I’m not going to survive past 6 months of a social breakdown because I need an industrial society that can manufacture anti rejection drugs to keep me alive. That doesn’t mean I cannot ensure my community doesn’t get the benefit of my current existence.
Voting isn’t going to change much, J. O’M, increasing the chances of cultural survival of the things you value, will.
Stock up on Baked Beans and ammo.
Didn’t Leigh Sales write a very slobbering and very sympathetic biography of one David Hicks? “Detainee 002? “
rickwsays:
June 30, 2022 at 9:18 pm
Looks like they got Aussie Cossack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a165633i3Q
I couldn’t understand the poor lady; what was he convicted of?
Wonder what Mamdouh Habib is up to these days.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
June 30, 2022 at 9:34 pm
Leigh Sales ends final 7:30 bulletin with tearful farewell
In the good old days the bitch would have been burnt as a witch.
Re innovation in the 20th Century.
The Global Positioning Network of satellites.
Enabled farmers to steer straight.
And the army to blow shit up with greater accuracy.
Among other things.
We had an Olivetti M24, 10 m hard drive. Got it cheap when a mining company we did work for brought 4 of them. Upgraded to 20 meg. Year later a Ferranti AT 40meg plus an XT as well. Spent $800 on a NEC P3 Pinwriter. $400 for another golf ball for it when it wore out. You can still get bits for them. Had a loan of an HP Mini for a while. Job we did for a govt dept ran their paper tape backup for 2 days. Had a program on floppies that had 5 discs. The program was protected from copying by the sequence each part was loaded. Took about 2 hours to load changing each disc for a specific file. Wrong combination turned it to garbage.
Shatterzzz:
I scored a spot as a TiT with the same mob and transferred over to City South Telephone Exchange where I did time sheets with the crew there, then got to wander all around the city delivering a briefcase? full of paper to the different exchanges. I remember Kent street because I could get Chiko rolls at the entrance…
…long time ago.
You don’t anyfink’. I remember the abacus, logarithms, slide rules. the 12 times tables, and gob stoppers.
Not forgetting teachers who could throw the board duster or chalk over their shoulder with unerring accuracy & no technical calculations involved! ..LOL!
Dunno but by the sounds of things the bloke who makes his coffee will be filing an appeal.
Wasn’t there an “out of court ” settlement from the Australian Government?
then got to wander all around the city delivering a briefcase?
Early 1980s I worked for the NSW State Bank (O/S Trade) and spent my days hand delivering bank cheques & promissory notes to various bank branches and company office blocks around the CBD/North Sydney ..
One highlight was a trip to the bullion vault in the CBA, Martin Place (Head office back then) .. only time in my life I’ve seen gold bars .. lotz & lotz of gold bars and wrapped pallets of notes & bins full of coins ..
never , ever forget it! .. LOL!
I hereby seek the permission of Dover to change my moniker from Barking Toad to Braking Turd.
My High School history teacher was a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, in the South Pacific, during the Second World War. He had a good, withering blast of drill sergeant’s sarcasm, was a crack shot with a piece of chalk, or a blackboard duster, but the love of history he instilled in me has lasted fifty years……
Making the rozzers look like fools: the Cossack’s true offence.
Prime Minister Blackface Castro, finally finding form (the Hun):
Abbott? Soprano? Danza?
Red flag. Red flag!
Progressively getting worse.
Completely fucked over Melways and Gregory’s, but.
Shatterzzz:
If only we’d known about Poseidon, the Nelson Bunker Hunt bros and the 7 day war, we’d be sitting on beach chairs, getting voluptuous young Ukrainian beach bunnies to top up our drinks…
Such a pity yours is ugly…
Albo would have replied how he was raised in public housing, by a single mum, surely?
I’ll give it a whirl.
Because:
Pure Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what they’ll eat for dinner.
What stops this and prohibits ‘mob rule’, is a strong Constitution which protects the fundamental rights of minorities and individuals.
COVID demonstrated that our Constitution does no such thing, and infers absolutely no inviolable rights.
The mob will rule, and the mob has been indoctrinated over an extended period.
Ipso facto, we are fucked (in simple terms).
You’re not?
I am.
Justin Trudeau never knew his Dad either. They would have a lot to talk about.
Snort, cackle!
Very noice, Mr Bear.
Tucker puts together the long list of political arrests in Biden’s America
that we’re so collectively stupid is a problem
Mater:
That doesn’t mean we are powerless as society is rebuilt.
A banker who has spent the day pulling a plough to seed a field and in return gets a bowl of gruel for his efforts is NOT in a position to complain about his margin calls.
In very much the same way that a 46 year old Professor of Gender Studies who is in a competition with an 18 year old girl for the affections of the head of the Tribe, is in a dominant position.
The society you are in defines your position on the Totem Pole.
Either support the society that gives you power or be prepared to start from the ground up.
Michelle Obama Is Running for President in 2024
She didn’t say in the video.
He is described as “a national security risk”. I thought he was just another talking head on youtube, posting spicy memes and mouthing off about gov’ment totalitarianism. That’s why I didn’t bother to ever follow his antics. Now I have to wonder if there is more to him? I should hope there is. If you can become a national security risk simply by posting youtube videos we must have a bloody flimsy country.
Michelle versus de Santis?
It’s Ron!
BeachMilk
@BeachMilk
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Aussies are moving closer to Klaus Schwab’s dream of us owning nothing.
But don‘t worry, a steady supply of dried insects and wastewater is included in the weekly rent!
Agreed, but society, as we know it, is in a death spiral.
covid vaccines and immune suppression in babies: fertile ground for inquiry
another black swan playing canary in a coal mine?
Started with a Commodore 64 with cassette drive.
Went to Mac SE … 9″ screen, twin floppy drives (Click … Whirrr … “Insert Disk 2″).
Then SE with one floppy and my wife bought me a 20 MB (Yes, Mb) hard drive for $1500.
Ran a publishing/DTP business for two years with that computer and a LaserWriter Plus ($6000 secondhand … all 600 dpi of it).
Still have the computer (and a box full of 3.5” disks). Still works with 11 000 hours of service on it. Bit of phosphor burn on the screen, but that’s it.
Sorry, first Mac was a Mac Plus (512k RAM), not the SE; that was later.
I suppose Winston is talking about natural consequence
might take a while to kick in
yep … in this life, we’re fucked
this is where you pay attention to the wogs … and the only things that matter
family, capital, and self reliance
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Get your last comments in on this thread before closing time.
Dover is overdue to pull the plug on this one.
Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaark….