Open Thread – Weekend 2 July 2022
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Winston Smith says:
July 4, 2022 at 8:56 pmZK2A:
Paying tribute to Ukraine’s “bravery and determination” in resisting the Russian invasion, the Prime Minister said Australia would provide an additional 20 Bushmaster protected vehicles and a further 145 armoured personnel carriers to support the country’s war effort.
We have 145 armoured personnel carriers?
Do we have any left, you know, for Australia?Took the words out… thought the same.
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Daughter flying Syd Melb after a damp Byron Bay holiday. Due back in Melbourne at 8 pm . Partner needs to be back at work plus she has appointments. Flight cancelled anD rescheduled 4 hrs later ( arrive 11.35)
Now cancelled and rescheduled to Wednesday . In two days time ! What a shitshow. Thanks Virgin -
He’s really upset some people, Simeon Boikov has been classed as a “National Security Risk” so he won’t be allowed any visitors for ten months.
Don’t mock your leaders, they don’t have a sense of humour.
Federal and NSW state governments to make an example of media commentator Aussie Cossack
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Waiting waiting at Sydney for flight to Brisbane. 6pm flight cancelled, bumped to 8pm. Delayed. Then called for boarding. Waiting, waiting…. Then glass doors open, out comes the captain. I suggest he is going for a ciggy and a pint. Guy next to me says ‘I bet his hours are up for the day. ‘
Bingo! Now waiting for replacement Captain to fly in.I expect I will be tasked with turning the Terminal lights out shortly so we can all get a good nights sleep here.
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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
If you drive south on Blackburn Road through Syndal, watch out for the red-light/speed camera at High Street Road southbound.
The camera’s recently been updated and I see now that there’s a 40 km/h zone from before the intersection. Sail through at 60 km/h as you’re accustomed, and you may get your picture taken.
I reckon the revenue shall rival the similar 40 km/h zone at Warragul Road in Holmesglen.
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Mate had a brand new BMW 5 series, this year .After a month he ran it through a puddle, a bit of water but not that deep.
Car stopped and wouldn’t start. Had to be taken to dealers on a tow truck. Dealer could not get it started.
Ok you can have a new one he was told .When he said?6 to 9 months was the answer.
Bugger that he said , how much on the insurance?$120K he was told.
So he took the insurance money and bought a second hand one for $90K.
So much for German engineering. -
He is not allowed any visitors because of his status,’ she claimed, before adding, ‘he has been declared a national security risk.’
For unexplained reasons, Ms Olshannikova is certain she’ll have to go the full non-parole period without seeing her husband, though she said Boikov is looking to fight his convictions.
‘He has instructed his barrister to file an appeal to the District Court, thank you very much for all your donations, thank you very much for all your support,’ she said, as she paced outside the station.
A casual and uninformed reader might assume this was a story from South America, or maybe somewhere in the former Eastern Block.
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Matersays:
July 4, 2022 at 9:14 pm
Happy NAIDOC week?
Didn’t we just do that?You didn’t show enough enthusiasm.
We’re doing it again.Oh, for fuck’s sake!
One sigh during Welcome to Country and an eye-roll and a glance at my watch when they couldn’t get the gum leaves lit?
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Mrs. Cossack’s legal fees fundraiser for Aussie Cossack is up to $20,843 from 320 donors – or average donation $65
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145 APC’s? A bit of googling indicates that we only ever had 431 M113’s.
So Albo had just given away roughly 33% of our entire APC compliment in this round of generosity alone….
Yes but he’s keeping all the important military supplies.
The nail polish, the high heeled shoes, and the videos of General David Morrison giving lectures on equality. -
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Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
July 4, 2022 at 9:30 pmThanks Sal.
I had earlier thought that Aussie Cossack had brought it on himself by deliberately disobeying a Court order. People don’t get to pick and choose what laws they obey.
Ten months did seem excessive. Derryn Hinch, serial offender, never got more than 50 days. But of course unless one knows all the details it’s difficult to form a concluded view.
And I still think that way about the offence per se.
But to deny him visitors for 10 months as a “National Security Risk” is clearly totalitarianism which must be opposed. -
Except, I haven’t heard many reports of Russian units being cut off and systematically pulverised into oblivion.
Rick – That’s only because you are reading Russophile sources.
They have been quite a few. Ten or fifteen BTG’s worth iirc. Maybe more, I haven’t been keeping close track for a few weeks.This has been a bloody war for both sides. I think the losses are roughly 1:1, although it’s almost impossible to tell because of the propaganda from both sides.
The Russians have though found their mojo, which is WW2 level massed artillery on a narrow front. To do that they had to denude the rest of the frontline to concentrate on the SD zone. It works. The heat maps and mobile phone maps are fun: basically every free Russian is in the same place, except from a light defensive skin elsewhere.
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rosie says: July 4, 2022 at 9:34 pm
Sweden doesn’t want any more semi swedes.
In the middle of the linked article, Sweden’s Migration Minister drops this little nugget:
…we don’t want want that type of workforce immigration affecting the Swedish labour market, because we received 200,000 people from Syria, and a huge bunch of them are now unemployed, and we need to get them into work.”
He may be in for one helluva a shock if he’s of the belief that stopping foreigners from arriving in Sweden & finding employment will prompt the 200,000 Syrians to move into a job.
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Looked at link Indolent put up at 6.21.
Found the Twitter page of Ralene Gotze whose daughter, 23, Caitlin died after 2nd Pfizzer jab. Had to take it to remain at work. Mother was told cause of death would likely be ruled as Undetermined although told had an enlarged heart. Saw her Twitter post saying Clive Palmer had donated $100,000 to their legal fund to fight for justice.
Well done Clive.
“Two minutes of absolute truth from a doctor at the AMPS Medico-Legal Summit attended by Malcolm Roberts”.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present to you the new Regimental Sergeant Major of the Australian Army: Warrant Officer Kim Felmingham.
A chick. The perfect appointment for an emasculated army.
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Rick – That’s only because you are reading Russophile sources.
I have mainly read French sources, but not many. In a war of attrition, Russia is most likely to win. I’m not a fan of either side, but particularly not the Ukes, there’s a lot wrong there.
My principal interest in this is watching our various idiot politicians throw our $ at it and degrade our already pathetic defence capability into the bargain. The APC gift is pure insanity. Australians should be outraged at this pure wank.
Ideally at least one Australian Politician would be ended by a Uke negligent discharge or Russian artillery shell during this farce. Maybe more if we got really lucky!
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Ok here’s a bbq stopper.
Does the audience stand for Welcome To Countrys?
Answer from my obs is no, they don’t- but I’d say yes, they should.
It’s out and out a religious statement, what with the worship of the dead and indelible spiritual connection cited. So, stand up, as any Westerner does by tradition for a prayer, or singing an anthem- and the WtC has replaced the opening prayer.
If the proud “auntie”- (and I can report that that infantile honorific has now invaded SW WA) or shanghai’d schoolkid finds it a bit intimidating, then so be it, they’re assuming quite a serious mantle. And would they think that an audience really takes it as given- generously, or as being ticked off, or a combo of the two- if they don’t have the hide to stand, instead fidgeting and surreptitiously swiping? -
Well actually the Ukrainians were still defending the place this morning when I checked.
Russia tends to overclaim. Usually they get there in the end though.
The slow advance by the Russian Army implies serious losses though, you do realize that Dover? It’s a nearly WW1 western front campaign level: the Russians have artillery superiority but the Ukrainians do have a lot too, especially newly received long range tubes. In such an environment the losses are bad for both sides. It’s how it goes. The guy the Russians have found to general this campaign is doing the right thing, but he can’t emulate Brusilov because he can’t get the guys out of their tracks. It’s an infantry war and the BTG model is a panzerblitz war-of-manoeuvre one.The same was said re Mariupol even though what remained was contained and here its not even close. You can’t hide the speed with which Lisichansk and the westward areas fell to the RUS. It’s pretty much a clean up operation. Further, the UKR is outgunned 1:10 re ATY and their losses are probably in that order too. If it was 1:1 RUS wouldn’t be advancing now in a broadline westward towards Siversk and Bakhmut right now. Lastly, BTGs have plenty of ATY, and their mechanized, so they’re no different to CAV, and once you get out of the fortified areas, you can switch from positional to manoeuvre, because at some stage of attrition, their forces are going to lack ATY cover and they’re going to be vulnerable to exploitation.
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Parallel to my thoughts on copping a haka.
Australians, or whoever, are obliged to sit, or stand, and watch, and not question, and not step over the imaginary line, and not applaud. And not laugh, or haka back, which would be par for the course in everyday sports sledging. It’s steamrollered normal manners and customs.
Welcome To Country has slipped in unopposed to Australian civil life, and a large part of anglostralian contrition has been letting it be because politeness. -
Fair Shakesays:
July 4, 2022 at 9:15 pm
Waiting waiting at Sydney for flight to Brisbane. 6pm flight cancelled, bumped to 8pm. Delayed. Then called for boarding. Waiting, waiting…. Then glass doors open, out comes the captain. I suggest he is going for a ciggy and a pint. Guy next to me says ‘I bet his hours are up for the day. ‘
Bingo! Now waiting for replacement Captain to fly in.I expect I will be tasked with turning the Terminal lights out shortly so we can all get a good nights sleep here.
Must be due to all of that ‘far king’ rain again. Can’t be due to the Airlines or the Airport now can it. No, No, No, No, YES!
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Gaborsays:
July 4, 2022 at 9:07 pm
Winston Smith says:
July 4, 2022 at 8:56 pmZK2A:
Paying tribute to Ukraine’s “bravery and determination” in resisting the Russian invasion, the Prime Minister said Australia would provide an additional 20 Bushmaster protected vehicles and a further 145 armoured personnel carriers to support the country’s war effort.
We have 145 armoured personnel carriers?
Do we have any left, you know, for Australia?Took the words out… thought the same.
They need to be converted to left hand drive first. By the time that’s done, the ‘Police Action’ may well be over.
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Seems ATAGI will make a decision on 4th dose eligibility on Wednesday.
Online papers have plenty or articles about the experts views and seems they want bigger take up of boosters. Comments reflect that people have had enough.
If you are a subscriber make sure you comment and like accordingly as they are itching to go to the next jab.
Otherwise might have to spend some more time protesting.
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Tanya says
‘I fixs it’
From this month, we’re banning the export of raw and unsorted waste.Only plastic that has been sorted, cleaned and transformed (eg flaked or pelletised) ready to be turned into new products can be exported.
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“Here’s a fucking news flash.”
Here’s another one:
I make choices for me – not you, not anyone else.
Those arseholes pushed me to the point I felt I didn’t have a choice.
I didn’t have a 16ft boat to sell.
I don’t live where plod looked the other way.
I held out as long as I could.So fuck you, you whinging prick – let’s see how you go if you end up in a similar position (I hope you don’t – I hope no-one does)
I did what I had to do.
I didn’t like it.
I thought it was risky.
But I did it anyway – not for me, not so I could go on a holiday, but to keep the ones I care about alive and safe and well looked after.
You and no-one else’s “position” came into it. And why would it? Those I care about come first, and if that puts you in bad position, too fucking bad for you – deal with it. -
Dumb as a box of hammers but he’s got character…character goes a long way. For those who have border collies …worth their weight in gold!
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Im firmly of the opinion that agriculture was incredibly hard to work out and have trouble thinking of an area of the world where they had enough surplus to work out putting foodstuffs (grain) back in the ground for next year, at a certain time, was a good idea.
Youd think the bloke was a loon.
Everyone knows it is odin/earthmother/human sacrifice etc that makes the seasons changeWell, it probably took thousands of years, and was due to a few mavericks. Still, I wonder how the species ever made it out of living in caves, as I am confronted daily by what can only be a mental asylum at work, and Camille Paglia was close to the truth to opine that “if women ran the world we would still be living in grass huts”.
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