Open Thread – Weekend 9 July 2022


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JC
JC
July 10, 2022 3:28 pm

I know that, Zip. My point is that if the longevity rate is rising, then the 2.1 replacement rate should be falling, no? It should be falling but it’s always remained at 2.1 since I was a kid.

Frank
Frank
July 10, 2022 3:28 pm

Longevity wouldn’t affect replacement rate.

Zipster
Zipster
July 10, 2022 3:30 pm

What was the nature of the list of demands that Wong presented to Wang Yi one wonders.

a string of shiny beads and some warm blankets

Ed Case
Ed Case
July 10, 2022 3:37 pm

It should be falling but it’s always remained at 2.1 since I was a kid.
Sure, but the length of the Fertility window hasn’t changed, and a Generation is still 30 years, no matter the Birth Rate.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
July 10, 2022 3:42 pm

Ed Casesays:
July 10, 2022 at 2:07 pm
And in any case it does somewhat undercut the chattering classes’ pants-wetting hysteria about “OMG 6 weeks and 3 days” that m0nty’s been going along with.

Are you completely stupid?

A ten year old goes to the Doctor for a pregnancy check, how likely is it that she doesn’t know the date that conception happened?
Or are you saying that the Doctor didn’t know the day’s date when the consultation occurred?

Ladies and gentlemen, let me present to you the Olympic gold medal winning world record holder at missing the point.
You complete fuckhead Ed. No-one has said there’d be anything surprising about them knowing the date, in fact I made that point myself elsewhere. What the pants-wetting is about is the whole idea that because (allegedly) she was three days past an arbitrary 6 week deadline she couldn’t get an abortion, and now its been revealed that no such hard deadline exists.
Even by your abysmal standards that comment was inanimate object-level lack of intelligence.

Zipster
Zipster
July 10, 2022 3:54 pm

I know that, Zip. My point is that if the longevity rate is rising, then the 2.1 replacement rate should be falling, no? It should be falling but it’s always remained at 2.1 since I was a kid.

nope. can’t fall below 2. maintenance is not dependent on lifespan. lifespan just mean more and more old people hanging about while there are fewer and fewer kids. the population keeps growing till the oldest generation dies off then it’s all downhill.

cohenite
July 10, 2022 3:56 pm

It should be falling but it’s always remained at 2.1 since I was a kid.

You were never a kid, head prefect.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 10, 2022 3:57 pm

Getting back to my initial comment, if you want populations to decrease, why starve them? Simply educate the females.

Making them poor and starving them has the attribute that they will have a lower carbon footprint.

bespoke
bespoke
July 10, 2022 3:59 pm

Forget replacement rate.

What is the optimum population given automation ect?
The solution at the moment is to increase burocracy.

Diogenes
Diogenes
July 10, 2022 4:01 pm

Not a bad lever for those willing and able to use it;

And I think it has been and is why Scummo signed us up to net 0.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
July 10, 2022 4:08 pm

On matters of birth and population, notice how the Silly Moaning Heamoroid is, in addition to dancing on the grave of Christianity, gaslighting women in stable, monogamous heterosexual marriages to make them feel like Neanderthal fascist freaks? Especially those deviant pervert scum who, if they do indulge in the disgusting act of breeding (the only kind of deviant sex nowadays), refuse to hand the results over to Leninist collective farms from the age of six weeks.

Zipster
Zipster
July 10, 2022 4:24 pm

Forget replacement rate.

What is the optimum population given automation ect?

the limiting factor is energy

shatterzzz
July 10, 2022 4:26 pm

The UK version of House Of Cards is just as good as the USA one, if not better.

The British version was the original series based on the Michael Dobbs books .. far superior to the US remake that was more of a “soapy” ..

Zipster
Zipster
July 10, 2022 4:29 pm

Forget replacement rate.

below replacement fertility is catastrophic for the welfare state, as the population ages more and more draw support from the state and less and less contribute taxes to the state. welfare states under such a scenario will eventually go bankrupt

bespoke
bespoke
July 10, 2022 4:31 pm

the limiting factor is energy

LOL!

JC
JC
July 10, 2022 4:33 pm

Zip, Frank

If longevity continues to rise the replacement rate has to fall as you don’t need as many kids to prevent a population drop. It goes back to 2.1 at the the point when longevity stops. I think that’s correct.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 10, 2022 4:34 pm

What is the optimum population given automation ect?

the limiting factor is energy

Which western governments are doing their best to eliminate.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 10, 2022 4:36 pm

JC at 2:49.

You’re not thinking straight as usual. If I was caught contaminating his food with cyanide or whatever, I’d be up on a murder charge. Whereas if you confronted him in Ukraine and shot him dead, that’s war and you wouldn’t be touched.

Why didn’t you just back the big ‘lectric Merc over him?
Would bad driving be a plausible cover?

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 10, 2022 4:38 pm

On Japan’s plummeting birth rate, I’d be interested in ideas as to why this is happening.

Hentai.

JC
JC
July 10, 2022 4:38 pm

below replacement fertility is catastrophic for the welfare state, as the population ages more and more draw support from the state and less and less contribute taxes to the state. welfare states under such a scenario will eventually go bankrupt

Not necessarily as long as people are earning money and or the economy is growing . If people can continue working as they age it shouldn’t be a problem. The nature of work is changing fast. I bet that at some places the work week is around 20 hours a week if that.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 10, 2022 4:39 pm

Isn’t the replacement rate anything above 2 ie 2.001 does the job?
Because that’s how many it takes to reproduce.
Or am I missing something.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 10, 2022 4:40 pm

Electric Vehicles Are a Tool of Tyranny

First, don’t blame the vehicle. It is a tool that might be just what Los Angeles needs to cope with inversions. Electric vehicles are also very good as airport shuttles and for other locations where short, repetitive routes are the primary use. Some may even be fun to drive (except when they catch on fire).

But do not believe for a minute that the plan is to replace each of the 275 million gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles on the road today in the United States with electric vehicles (which today comprise just 1 percent of the U.S. fleet). Worldwide, there are nearly of 1.5 billion vehicles on the road today, but only 6 million are EVs. That’s less than 0.5 percent. And most of them are in China, which controls the supply of batteries and electronics for EVs.

The media and the White House are simply not telling you the truth.

But the World Economic Forum recently let the cat out of the bag. Their goal: You will own nothing and be happier for it. Or, as Israeli historican Yuval Noah Harari put it, “There will be two classes: The exploited and the useless class (people who don’t adopt wearable technologies, metaverse, etc.). It’s better to be exploited than be useless.”

Let that sink in. The plan is not for you to be able to purchase your own electric vehicle. And you will have to gain permission – through a Chinese-style social credit system – to be allowed to use a government-supplied vehicle.

Remember that, campaigning in 2020, Joe Biden pledged that, “We are going to get rid of fossil fuels.” His every action as President, including draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, has moved this nation toward that goal.

JC
JC
July 10, 2022 4:40 pm

Why didn’t you just back the big ‘lectric Merc over him?
Would bad driving be a plausible cover?

I don’t own a merc and haven’t. However, I’m thinking about it now that Liz owns. BMW. -:)

areff
areff
July 10, 2022 4:41 pm

the illegitimate son of George VI

Sydney Orr, of Tasmania University’s 1950s ‘rooting the students’ scandal, was reputed to be the illegitimate son of George V.

Roger
Roger
July 10, 2022 4:42 pm

welfare states under such a scenario will eventually go bankrupt

Enter the population ponzi scheme.

JC
JC
July 10, 2022 4:43 pm

Isn’t the replacement rate anything above 2 ie 2.001 does the job?
Because that’s how many it takes to reproduce.
Or am I missing something.

I’m asking in terms of how low it can go if lifespans are zooming up not to see a drop in population.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 10, 2022 4:47 pm

Enter the population ponzi scheme.

Or ze Turkish guest worker scheme. Kebab?

2dogs
July 10, 2022 4:50 pm

Isn’t the replacement rate anything above 2 ie 2.001 does the job?
Because that’s how many it takes to reproduce.
Or am I missing something.

No, because male births exceed female births.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 10, 2022 4:53 pm

feelthebernsays:

July 10, 2022 at 4:39 pm

Isn’t the replacement rate anything above 2 ie 2.001 does the job?
Because that’s how many it takes to reproduce.
Or am I missing something

Attrition.
The 0.1 accounts for those who die before reproducing or worse, are gay or trans.
I was going to say it includes those too unattractive to reproduce, but apparently m0nster has managed to donate sperm, so anything is possible.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 10, 2022 4:57 pm

I forgot about the gay/trans/didn’t make it cohort.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 10, 2022 4:58 pm

JC.
The 2.1 (net 2.0) factor relates to long term population maintenance.
Yes, if longevity improves there will be a slight bump in population, but it will level out unless longevity keeps increasing ad infinitum.
The effect is tiny, as longevity only increases by a small amount every generation.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 10, 2022 4:58 pm

Ze Germans will be turning off the hot water to the Bundestag.

Frank
Frank
July 10, 2022 5:02 pm

A rate of 2.1 has the redundancy of the 0.1 for all the incels, infertile couples and homosexuals that get spawned. But for a couple to account for the fact that they need two people to replace themselves you need two kids. I’m not a population person / demography person but it would seem that is how they work it out. Once you have your two kids it shouldn’t really matter how long you linger for afterwards, you have accounted for yourself. Everyone else on average is doing the same thing, that should equate to stable population.

We need Dr BG, stats is a dismal discipline.

2dogs
July 10, 2022 5:02 pm
JC
JC
July 10, 2022 5:03 pm

Sanchez

That’s true but you haven’t taken into account that men can now give birth. I thought you’d be aware of that.

Roger
Roger
July 10, 2022 5:04 pm

Kebab?

Ja, bitte!

Frank
Frank
July 10, 2022 5:05 pm

Sancho Panzer says:
July 10, 2022 at 4:53 pm

Was it a turkey baster job?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 10, 2022 5:06 pm

JC at 4:40.

I don’t own a merc and haven’t. However, I’m thinking about it now that Liz owns. BMW. -:)

I thought you bought a yuuuge ‘lectric Merc?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 10, 2022 5:08 pm

JCsays:

July 10, 2022 at 5:03 pm

Sanchez

That’s true but you haven’t taken into account that men can now give birth. I thought you’d be aware of that

Sorry.
I’ll cancel myself for that egregious transphobic error.

JC
JC
July 10, 2022 5:08 pm

JC.
The 2.1 (net 2.0) factor relates to long term population maintenance.
Yes, if longevity improves there will be a slight bump in population, but it will level out unless longevity keeps increasing ad infinitum.
The effect is tiny, as longevity only increases by a small amount every generation.

Yea, in there is my point, but from what I understand lifespans are rising at around 5 years per generation , give or take risky sub-groups which I’m not going to go into. That’s not tiny.

JC
JC
July 10, 2022 5:13 pm

I thought you bought a yuuuge ‘lectric Merc?

No, not yet. I was toying with the idea and the our two resident noble prize winning scientists said battery technology wouldn’t improve so I went off the idea.

No really, there are no fucking cars around and I’m not going to beg a fucking dealer for a new car, put up a deposit and wait 12 months. Range Rover dude told me there’s a 12 month wait.

Zipster
Zipster
July 10, 2022 5:13 pm

No, because male births exceed female births.

it’s ok because mutley will let his wife get a second husband

Zipster
Zipster
July 10, 2022 5:15 pm

No really, there are no fucking cars around and I’m not going to beg a fucking dealer for a new car, put up a deposit and wait 12 months. Range Rover dude told me there’s a 12 month wait.

porsche dealer told me 18months. if germany is producing any cars in 6 months Ill be surprised

Zipster
Zipster
July 10, 2022 5:17 pm

That’s true but you haven’t taken into account that men can now give birth

Isn;t that offset by the women that grow a penis and have no babies?

JC
JC
July 10, 2022 5:20 pm

porsche dealer told me 18months. if germany is producing any cars in 6 months Ill be surprised

Germans are theoretically smart people. How the fuck did they get themselves into a jam by relying on Russia for their energy? The actually closed down nuke and coal plants.

Trump warned the chubby grandma.

Oh come on
Oh come on
July 10, 2022 5:21 pm

JC, what are you driving at the moment? I remember a few years back, you were thinking about replacing your krautmobile but the resale was terrible. Did you end up replacing it?

Way back when, BMW 3 series had the best resale followed by the 5 series followed waaaaaaaaaaaay behind by the 7 series*. I imagine the BMW SUVs have the best resale today.

*all of the large range-topping prestige saloons depreciate at eye watering rates. Running just one of these babies from new makes putting your kids through elite private schools look affordable in contrast

JC
JC
July 10, 2022 5:25 pm

OCO

I have a 5 series wagon, a 6 series convert and a mini.
I love the wagon the most as it’s such a useful car but they aren’t importing 5series wagons anymore because Australians prefer SUVs. I can’t imagine how you’d not want a 5 series wagon over a stupid SUV, but there you go.

JC
JC
July 10, 2022 5:27 pm

Yes OCO, there was a time back I resale traumatised. 🙂

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 10, 2022 5:27 pm

Zipstersays:
July 10, 2022 at 2:59 pm
More like Albo kissed French arse and are moving on to try some Chinese. So far CCP appears quite happy with their Aus selected Government.

Ask and Ye Shall Receive –More like Albo kissed French arse Johannes Leak

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 10, 2022 5:27 pm

Germans are theoretically smart people. How the fuck did they get themselves into a jam by relying on Russia for their energy? The actually closed down nuke and coal plants.

Invading Poland probably seemed like a good idea at the time.

Oh come on
Oh come on
July 10, 2022 5:27 pm

It’s so weird. How did we become like the Soviet Union in terms of new car waiting lists? Have money, can’t buy, join the queue.

Is this the new normal? If so, should join the queue to buy the luxobarge and then, when it’s delivered, immediately flip it with a 30% mark up to someone with money to burn and doesn’t want to wait.

Zipster
Zipster
July 10, 2022 5:28 pm

How the fuck did they get themselves into a jam by relying on Russia for their energy?

here’s your answer

Trump warned the chubby grandma.

they allowed a woman to be in charge, not only did she fuck up the energy and she fucked up the demographics

Roger
Roger
July 10, 2022 5:30 pm

Germans are theoretically smart people. How the fuck did they get themselves into a jam by relying on Russia for their energy?

Smart but with a complex psyche. This makes for instructive reading:

We were all wrong: how Germany got hooked on Russian energy

Meanwhile, the city of Hamburg is contemplating rationing hot water.

At least it’s summer.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 10, 2022 5:30 pm

No really, there are no fucking cars around and I’m not going to beg a fucking dealer for a new car, put up a deposit and wait 12 months. Range Rover dude told me there’s a 12 month wait.

And the cars that are around are often missing functionality due to chip shortages.
We managed to wangle one which was fully kitted out.
In fact, it had stuff we probably wouldn’t take if we could pick and mix (pamoronic sunroof, flashy super low profile tyres).

While we were looking I see a promo for free 5 year servicing.
Rang the dealer and told him I would have some of that.
“Not for you” he says.
They tell me that to encourage people to sign up for their new year models (which have features left out due chip shortages) and because ours was fully kitted out, we weren’t eligible. Apparently a lot of dealers are doing this sort of incentive.
Does this mean …
.1 ) they don’t expect the chip shortage to be fixed anytime soon so that is the new standard build? or
.2 ) They do expect it to be fixed and they will be left with a lot of short-fitted stock which they will have to discount heavily?

Oh come on
Oh come on
July 10, 2022 5:33 pm

To be fair, to the fake frumpy hausfrau, I don’t think Merkel would have driven the German economy off the cliff in quite as spectacular fashion as the traffic light crazies have.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 10, 2022 5:34 pm

Joe Biden Repeats Story of a 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Denied Abortion but Is This Story Even Real?

Washington Post Late to the Party on Fact-Checking Poorly Sourced ’10-Year-Old Rape Victim’ Abortion Tale BUT Proves Us Right

It took four more days, my viral tweet, Joe Biden weighing in, and a RealClearPolitics reporter asking the White House press secretary about it for Kessler to get interested in fact-checking this story. He didn’t do a terrible job. With the headline that says “A one-source story about a 10-year-old and an abortion goes viral,” Kessler threw cold water on Dr. Bernard’s claims.

The only source cited for the anecdote was Bernard. She’s on the record, but there is no indication that the newspaper made other attempts to confirm her account. The story’s lead reporter, Shari Rudavsky, did not respond to a query asking whether additional sourcing was obtained. A Gannett spokeswoman provided a comment from Bro Krift, the newspaper’s executive editor: “The facts and sourcing about people crossing state lines into Indiana, including the 10-year-old girl, for abortions are clear. We have no additional comment at this time.”

Rudavsky never responded to me either; nor did Krift. Krift’s response to the Post is pretty revealing. He refused to answer direct questions about how the information was vetted. I can’t resist: Clearly, Bro, the info isn’t “clear,” or you wouldn’t have the WaPo, Snopes, and a hundred other outlets asking you to clarify your vetting process.

Kessler went on to try and confirm the story by finding a criminal report, which as I said would have been required under the law since doctors are mandated reporters. He couldn’t find any, and Bernard wouldn’t tell him if she followed the law and reported a crime as she is required to do. (LOL)

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 10, 2022 5:39 pm

A shocking video shows San Francisco school children having to pick their way through a filthy, open-air drug den of homeless addicts after getting off a school bus at the end of the day.

The video, posed by Ricci Wynne, shows the elementary school kids filing off the 14 transit line in the Golden Gate City at 8th Street and Mission by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company building past dozens of sickly users nodding out on the sidewalk.

‘This is no back ally,’ he says in the tweet. ‘This is the main artery of the city that has been hijacked bye [SIC] drug dealers and now is Pure filth,’ Wynne said in the tweet.

Daily Mail

JC
JC
July 10, 2022 5:42 pm

JC, why do you think longevity has anything to do with the replacement rate?

I don’t and never said that.. I said that the population size is dependent on lifespans and that the replacement rate can go down as lifespan is generally increasing.

Let me ask you. For population size to remain static while lifespans are rising, can the replacement factor fall? Yes or no?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 10, 2022 5:45 pm

Fourteen dead in South Africa bar shooting
Mogomotsi MagomeAP
Sun, 10 July 2022 3:29PM

A mass shooting at a tavern in Johannesburg’s Soweto township has killed 14 people and left three others in critical condition, according to police.

Police are investigating reports that a group of men arrived in a minibus taxi and opened fire on some of the patrons at the bar late on Saturday night.

Police were on Sunday morning removing bodies of the deceased and investigating what had led to the mass shooting.

The three critically injured and one other person wounded were taken to Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital.

The number of cartridges found on the scene indicated it was a group of people who shot at the patrons, Gauteng province police commissioner Lieutenant General Elias Mawela.

“The primary investigation suggests that these people were enjoying themselves here, in a licenced tavern operating within the right hours,” Mawela told The Associated Press.

“All of a sudden they heard some gunshots, that is when people tried to run out of the tavern. We don’t have the full details at the moment of what is the motive, and why they were targeting these people.

“You can see that a high calibre firearm was used and it was shooting randomly. You can see that every one of those people were struggling to get out of the tavern.

Oh come on
Oh come on
July 10, 2022 5:47 pm

This is what happens when you put Greens in the driver’s seat. They are on track to deindustrialise Germany at a rate that puts the allies to shame.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 10, 2022 5:47 pm

JCsays:
July 10, 2022 at 5:13 pm
I thought you bought a yuuuge ‘lectric Merc?

No, not yet. I was toying with the idea and the our two resident noble prize winning scientists said battery technology wouldn’t improve so I went off the idea.

No really, there are no fucking cars around and I’m not going to beg a fucking dealer for a new car, put up a deposit and wait 12 months. Range Rover dude told me there’s a 12 month wait.

https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2022/07/07/mercedes-from-hell-last-ill-ever-buy/

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 10, 2022 5:59 pm

Boeing wants safety waiver for latest 737 MAX

The company’s CEO has threatened to ax the largest plane in the 737 family unless Congress extends a regulatory deadline

Boeing Chief Executive Dave Calhoun has called the situation “a little bit of an all-or-nothing” as the scandal-ridden aerospace company faces a deadline to secure approval for the 737 MAX 10 jet from US authorities before new safety standards kick in next year.

Under the 2020 Aircraft Certification, Safety, and Accountability Act, all planes certified after December 31, 2022 will have to comply with new Federal Aviation Administration regulations regarding cockpit alert systems that warn pilots of malfunctions during flight. Amid heightened scrutiny of the 737 MAX family in recent years, Boeing has been struggling to get regulatory approval for the latest and largest modification of the plane before the deadline.

In an interview with Aviation Week magazine this week, Calhoun said he hopes the company won’t have to go as far as to cancel the project altogether, but acknowledged there was always a “risk.”

“This is a risk I’m willing to take. If I lose the fight, I lose the fight,” Calhoun said, indicating that Boeing is determined to lobby for the approval of the jet without an upgrade to the crew alert system.

The company believes the entire MAX family should be exempt from the latest safety standard. If MAX 10 is not certified in time, and unless Congress extends the deadline or grants a waiver, Boeing will have to conduct a costly redesign of the plane’s cockpit and come up with a separate training program for its pilots.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 10, 2022 6:01 pm

Who needs facts when you have the Internet?

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 10, 2022 6:03 pm

A 12 month wait for a Range Rover sounds like a very good idea. Longer wouldn’t hurt.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 10, 2022 6:05 pm

Oh come onsays:
July 10, 2022 at 5:47 pm
This is what happens when you put Greens in the driver’s seat. They are on track to deindustrialise Germany at a rate that puts the allies to shame.

In his grave, Henry Morgenthau smiles.

cohenite
July 10, 2022 6:06 pm

Population rate is intrinsically dependent on the total fertility rate (TFR). The problem is, as the left and its weird and whacky offshoots take over society, that women overall have declining fertility and the hard yakka is left to a declining core of fertile women.

Tom
Tom
July 10, 2022 6:06 pm

A one-source story about a 10-year-old and an abortion goes viral

90%+ of all Western journalists are so alienated from the drudgery of fact-checking they can’t imagine that their fantasy of what the world should be like isn’t real.

Modern university-educated journalists are the worst possible people to be tasked with the once-honourable craft of being the public’s eyes and ears.

Not only are they NOT up to the job, they hold the public in contempt.

And they wonder why only politicians are more despised.

Roger
Roger
July 10, 2022 6:06 pm

‘This is the main artery of the city that has been hijacked bye [SIC] drug dealers and now is Pure filth,’ Wynne said in the tweet.

The drug dealers have just taken advantage of Democrat rule.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 10, 2022 6:08 pm

I liked Richard Hammonds description of the Landrover Discovery. You discover you’ve gone halfway on your journey when it breaks down.

JC
JC
July 10, 2022 6:09 pm

Frank says:
July 10, 2022 at 3:28 pm

Longevity wouldn’t affect replacement rate.

It does impact the population size though, so there is a knock on effect.

Take this to an extreme so we’re all on the same page. If people lived forever, what would the “replacement” rate need to be in order for the size of the population to remain static? It would have to be zero, right?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 10, 2022 6:12 pm

OldOzzie, did you have forced bottom sex in a Merc?
You seem to have it in for them.
🙂

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 10, 2022 6:15 pm

Ranga and Bear.
Not sure if the Range Rover Disco is still a thing, but I never met a Disco owner who was anything but scathing about them.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 10, 2022 6:31 pm

OldOzzie, did you have forced bottom sex in a Merc?

That’s a Dealer option.

rosie
rosie
July 10, 2022 6:31 pm

The reviews are so obviously fake, clearly similar in style and suggestive of a certain English as a second language background.
taking Google to court for defamation

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
July 10, 2022 6:35 pm

LOL get a load of this on Kangaroo Is. Yank who owns the land next door to the shack & has moaned about them says not me, yeah right mate and there’s this “contractor”.

There is a lot more to this than meets the eye. I sniff possible corruption and a big ego a mile away.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10998873/Fleurieu-Peninsula-shack-mysteriously-destroyed-celebrity-neighbour-blasts-dangerous-homes.html

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 10, 2022 6:35 pm

Bruce Dixon has bought Macedon Lodge.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 10, 2022 6:37 pm

Mate bought a Land Rover Freelander 2. Apart from a fight with the dealer over a cracked manifold no real issues. I wouldn’t take one if I was given it. I like the idea of having a Range Rover and am content to leave it at that.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 10, 2022 6:38 pm

Scathing is praise for a Discovery. Bit like calling munty an idiot.

Indolent
Indolent
July 10, 2022 6:40 pm
calli
calli
July 10, 2022 6:42 pm

Whatever it is, Indolent, I still can’t get it. 🙂

rosie
rosie
July 10, 2022 6:56 pm

Me neither Calli.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 10, 2022 6:57 pm

OldOzziesays:

July 10, 2022 at 5:59 pm

Boeing wants safety waiver for latest 737 MAX

The company’s CEO has threatened to ax the largest plane in the 737 family unless Congress extends a regulatory deadline

I call bullshit.
I don’t think Boeing are in any position to call the shots on 737-Max certification with the amount of blood they have on their hands.
If they do can it, that would tell me that they have concluded it is an irredeemable lemon, and they have to design a new single-aisle aircraft from the ground up.

calli
calli
July 10, 2022 7:02 pm

Rosie, it isn’t from lack of trying. I go everywhere, shops, cafés, the lot. It has gone through church (a classic enclosed space, people off crook all the time). All my pals have had it.

I am Legend, but without the derg.

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 10, 2022 7:04 pm

The Aboriginal flag will fly permanently on the Harbour Bridge in place of the NSW flag as the government cans its earlier promise to spend $25m on a new flag at the iconic site.

The Aboriginal flag has been positioned on the bridge for NAIDOC week and will remain there while the state flag will be placed at a new location on Macquarie Street.

The decision comes after advice to Premier Dominic Perrottet revealed that the cost of putting a new flag on the bridge would be $25m.

The exorbitant price tag was due to structural issues that required three six-storey flag poles to be created for the bridge.

More to come.

Daily Tele – with comments open. How long before they’re cancelled?

Gabor
Gabor
July 10, 2022 7:10 pm

Take this to an extreme so we’re all on the same page. If people lived forever, what would the “replacement” rate need to be in order for the size of the population to remain static? It would have to be zero, right?

Assuming everyone stays productive forever, then yes.
If everyone retires at a set age, no you need replacements.

Vicki
Vicki
July 10, 2022 7:12 pm

Same Calli. Husband had mild dose of Covid – but I continued to test negative. I put it down not only to lots of vitamins & supplements, exercise etc – but to new nasal spray from Germany “First Defence” . Used it in morning & night when he was covid positive for about 6 days in total. Also Betadine gargle.

rosie
rosie
July 10, 2022 7:14 pm

I attribute my resistance to travelling around bug infested Europe for two months.

132andBush
132andBush
July 10, 2022 7:16 pm

Will be interesting to see how we go in the next week re “getting it”.
All offspring gathering here yesterday/last night with no2 son announcing he has it.
Going to get some test kits and check progress for a week.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 10, 2022 7:28 pm

rosiesays:

July 10, 2022 at 7:14 pm

I attribute my resistance to travelling around bug infested Europe for two months.

Protected by the Klaus Nasti Pass I might add.

bons
bons
July 10, 2022 7:34 pm

I have decided to surrender my Grandad Endorsement.
Just had the four Grandsons and their Dad (my son) on board for ten days.
I prepared exhaustively and expensively.
They wouldn’t eat anything offered (but Mum says). From 4pm to 8pm was total kid time – stop fighting, endless bath, dinner involving Father running around asking the scroates what they would prefer to what was offered, a library whilting series of book readings. Post bed, the oldest emerging an announcing that his running coach said that what was offered would ruin his PB times. His coach was obviously absent at the surf club nexy day when he filled up with fish and chips.
Hard for me to say, but the Pommy grand kids whose parents are not big dicks in the health industry are much more based.
Son was a touch crinkly lipped when his Mother reminded him that in our house he ate with us and he ate what was offered – nothing else.

Dot
Dot
July 10, 2022 7:37 pm

What an absolute farce.

Nazi Pug – The Final Update
Jul 9, 2022

Count Dankula
939K subscribers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89nzxZpNb4E

Ed Case
Ed Case
July 10, 2022 7:37 pm

Massive explosion at a Natural Gas plant in Oklahoma
Twitter

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
July 10, 2022 7:38 pm

132andBush

Friend up here in the ‘ville with 2 children climbing the walls. Half way through his 8 day iso, yup it is 8 not 7 as day 0 is day you are tested apparently. Last weekend we had a 4 day wet and cold snap, like Melbourne standard 10-15 deg days. One of his kids got it somewhere before cold snap and being school hols they are miffed where.

Staggered across the 4, Child 1 came down first, nearly a teen it was very mild and she shrugged it off, then mum got it knocked her sideways for 48hrs, then youngest he was mildly sick for 48 hrs as well. Friend started to notice symptoms Tuesday, Wednesday he was coughing & sore throat. His place of employment still big on the tests so when he reported a cold they insisted on PCR. That came back positive. His words, I’ve had worse hangovers than this and I have to burn sick leave for it.

Hope your experience isn’t too bad.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 10, 2022 7:39 pm

I have decided to surrender my Grandad Endorsement.

I have an honorary Great Uncle endorsement. Best of both worlds.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
July 10, 2022 7:45 pm

The Aboriginal flag will fly permanently on the Harbour Bridge in place of the NSW flag

Translated – NSW always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
That’s one state down. Now for the rest.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
July 10, 2022 7:48 pm

“It were always raining on Denley-Moore”. The Testing of Eric Oulthwaite.

Given up on House of Cards (US). Now into Ripping Yarns – just starting episode 2.

Chortling already.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 10, 2022 7:53 pm

Boeing wants safety waiver for latest 737 MAX

The usual deal with certification is that the manufacturer tells the regulator that they are going to develop a new aircraft. At that time the existing regulations are what you certify to. If the regulations change you are grandfathered to what existed when you started the project.
Applying new regs to a design well on the way is not on. Think about the investment implications if that’s not so. Trust politicians to screw it up. If you want to change the certification basis after a certain date it should only apply to new designs *started* AFTER that date.
The MAX 10 is designed so that existing crews can operate it. Change the EICAS and you’ll likely need a new type rating. Could be the end of Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
There was nothing wrong with the MAX anyway, just the monkeys flying them. Trim doing odd things? Turn it off. Memory item and the switches are right there at the back of the console. Alternatively just grab the big 10 inch diameter wheel next to your knee and hold it steady. Monkeys.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 10, 2022 7:56 pm

Barking Toadsays:

July 10, 2022 at 7:48 pm

“It were always raining on Denley-Moore”. The Testing of Eric Oulthwaite.

Anyhoo.
Enough about Eric for now.
I bought a new shovel today.
Spear & Jackson number 8.
Brass ferrules.
Lovely piece of work.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 10, 2022 8:05 pm

There was nothing wrong with the MAX anyway, just the monkeys flying them. Trim doing odd things? Turn it off. Memory item and the switches are right there at the back of the console. Alternatively just grab the big 10 inch diameter wheel next to your knee and hold it steady. Monkeys.

So why did US pilot unions refuse to fly it after the second prang?
Are they monkeys too?
No.
Boeing pulled one too many swift moves in pushing the Max through.
They are now reaping that whirlwind.
As for a new type certification breaking them?
I doubt it.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 10, 2022 8:09 pm

Just watched this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7MQb9Y4FAE
Tim Dodd The Everyday Astronaut talking with Elon Musk at Starbase Texas about the Raptor 2 rocket engine. Gets right into details. You wouldn’t want to be a SpaceX engineer and try to bullshit the boss about engineering detail.
The SpaceX secret – build lots of stuff and blow it up in testing. Quick progress and there’s lots more hardware coming right along. This is an old aerospace paradigm that has been rediscovered and put into practice again. What fun! Needs to be applied to other areas of human endeavour.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 10, 2022 8:11 pm

If Boeing gets crucified, let’s not forget that they milled the timber for the cross, they forged the nails and they went down to Bunnings and bought the mallet.
They only have themselves to blame.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 10, 2022 8:12 pm

As for a new type certification breaking them?
I doubt it.

The big attraction of the MAX was common pilot type rating. Change that and you aren’t going to sell nearly as many aircraft. I’m sure glad I don’t own Boeing shares.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 10, 2022 8:14 pm

So why did US pilot unions refuse to fly it after the second prang?

You got a link for that. The type was grounded for two years after the second crash, and yes, US pilots had had the MCAS fail and easily dealt with it.

132andBush
132andBush
July 10, 2022 8:24 pm

RD,
Thanks for that.
Two offspring jabbed (work imposed), infected son is non jabbed and feels fine.

Indolent
Indolent
July 10, 2022 8:36 pm
feelthebern
feelthebern
July 10, 2022 8:41 pm

Dot, that Count Dankula video is incredible.
Shows why most decent Scots for the last couple hundred years have gotten out of the place.
The party that games the system the most is the state.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 10, 2022 8:42 pm

Eyriesays:

July 10, 2022 at 8:12 pm

As for a new type certification breaking them?
I doubt it.
The big attraction of the MAX was common pilot type rating.

Yep.
It was all about training costs for airlines. So they removed any reference to their dodgy MCAS system from manuals, including what to do if it took you for a porpoise ride just after take-off.
Corner cutting which cost 346 lives.

Change that and you aren’t going to sell nearly as many aircraft.

Err, they’ll have a bigger problem selling any of these cobbled together shitboxes if it is perceived that they have bullied there way through re-certification.
For the first time in decades, passengers will be actively searching booking websites to avoid going Boeing.
Seriously, this was a sixty year old design which was good in it’s day, but has run out of upgrade pathways.

I’m sure glad I don’t own Boeing shares.

#metoo.
A good manufacturer which has lost it’s way.

shatterzzz
July 10, 2022 8:43 pm

I have decided to surrender my Grandad Endorsement.
Just had the four Grandsons and their Dad (my son) on board for ten days.

I take the easy, been-there-dun-that, way out when I have any of the Grandee herd stay over .. ask ’em what they want .. invariably it’s take-away of some sort or another but I figure the expense, for a few days’ is better odds than cooking/preparing and eating most of it myself over several days after they’ve gone .. after having had to buy what they wanted anyway! .. and bed-times .. just let ’em wear themselves out then tell family they were as good-as-gold and did everything they were told …!
Grandad is a pushover and don’t they know it .. LOL!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 10, 2022 8:50 pm

Translated – NSW always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
That’s one state down. Now for the rest.

Seems that, in the buildup to “A Voice” the claim that the Aborigines are descended from the third of three waves that crossed the – now flooded- land bridge from Asia in not true – the scientific evidence is that the Aboriginals were the “First Peoples” from 65,000 years ago.

Old bloke
Old bloke
July 10, 2022 8:51 pm

areff says:
July 10, 2022 at 4:41 pm

Sydney Orr, of Tasmania University’s 1950s ‘rooting the students’ scandal, was reputed to be the illegitimate son of George V.

I doubt that George V was his father as George was around 50 years old when Sydney Orr was born. Age doesn’t rule out George, but I’d doubt that any man would attempt a bit-on-the-side with a fearsome spouse like Queen Mary.

Sydney Orr was very confused about his parentage, but he appears to have been very confused about a whole lot of things.

JC
JC
July 10, 2022 8:56 pm

Eyrie

Where’s Uncle Fester?

bespoke
bespoke
July 10, 2022 8:57 pm

shatterzzzsays:
July 10, 2022 at 8:43 pm

Good plan.

rickw
rickw
July 10, 2022 9:25 pm

F-14 Tomcat pilot Dale Snodgrass interview. The FAA recently released the report into his fatal accident in his light aircraft. Appears that he didn’t remove the flight controls lock and check for free movement of controls. You only get to make some mistakes once.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC_zyoOacl8

rickw
rickw
July 10, 2022 9:28 pm

Pygmies?

You don’t need to find skeletal remains when you have fucking photos:

https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2010/12/the-enigma-of-the-australian-pygmies/

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
July 10, 2022 9:29 pm

I have decided to surrender my Grandad Endorsement.
Just had the four Grandsons and their Dad (my son) on board for ten days.

No kiddie visitors allowed at Casa Pedro. The resident hound earns his keep by throwing aggro gang signs at visitors consisting of rolled up lips, rumbling snarls, mad looking eye rolls and high speed bolting under the house if the visitor gets within rock throwing range.

Second line of defence is to open the gate for the attack Dorpers.

Peace and quiet reigns.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 10, 2022 9:32 pm

for the attack Dorpers.

Spielberg was going to do a sheep based thriller before he went with Jaws.
True story.

rickw
rickw
July 10, 2022 9:36 pm

The exorbitant price tag was due to structural issues that required three six-storey flag poles to be created for the bridge.

How about we make them 6 inches and stick them on with liquid nails?

Why are Australian politicians so fucking shit?

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 10, 2022 9:37 pm

Has anyone watched Outer Range?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 10, 2022 9:44 pm

rickwsays:
July 10, 2022 at 9:25 pm
F-14 Tomcat pilot Dale Snodgrass interview. The FAA recently released the report into his fatal accident in his light aircraft. Appears that he didn’t remove the flight controls lock and check for free movement of controls. You only get to make some mistakes once.

Experienced and highly skilled pilots don’t need checklists.
Apparently this was the mantra of Max Quartermain.
Max speared his King Air into Essendon DFO in 2017, killing himself and four passengers, after taking off with the rudder trim set hard left. There were five (5) separate checklist points where the pilot has the opportunity to verify that trims are neutral (or set for take off).
I was always taught to exercise the controls fully in all directions twice as part of pre-flight, and check the control surfaces during the walk around.
The tiniest thing could foul and obstruct them.
I still remember that Air Crash Investigation episode where some tiny insects built a mud nest inside a pitot tube inlet.
Splat.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 10, 2022 9:48 pm

https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2010/12/the-enigma-of-the-australian-pygmies/

That’s an issue that’s ignored with a ruthless detachment.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 10, 2022 9:53 pm

Spielberg was going to do a sheep based thriller before he went with Jaws.
True story.

I know right.
The plotline just needs to include exposure of the sheeps to radiation or other mad perfesser stuff. The sheeps then grow to five times their regular size and develop a bad attitude.

MatrixTransform
MatrixTransform
July 10, 2022 9:55 pm

Outer Range?

X-files visits the Dutton Ranch.

Most series I abandon the couch after the the Woke-Point is reached.

This one, watched em all.

Better than expected

Could go somewhere. We’ll see

pete of perth
pete of perth
July 10, 2022 10:01 pm
flyingduk
flyingduk
July 10, 2022 10:02 pm

Not sure if the Range Rover Disco is still a thing, but I never met a Disco owner who was anything but scathing about them.

Factcheck – true: Many years ago my wife’s car dealer nephew refused to sell me the V8 Disco on the lot because I was family. He sold me an 80 series Cruiser instead. I have owned a total of 5 Landcruisers since then.

calli
calli
July 10, 2022 10:02 pm

Jawpers?

cohenite
July 10, 2022 10:06 pm

Top Endersays:
July 10, 2022 at 7:04 pm
The Aboriginal flag will fly permanently on the Harbour Bridge in place of the NSW flag as the government cans its earlier promise to spend $25m on a new flag at the iconic site.

The Aboriginal flag has been positioned on the bridge for NAIDOC week and will remain there while the state flag will be placed at a new location on Macquarie Street.

The decision comes after advice to Premier Dominic Perrottet revealed that the cost of putting a new flag on the bridge would be $25m.

This soft-cock not only deserves to lose the next election but his seat as well. Every fucking conservative leader in the world other than Trump, DeSantis and maybe Latham always cucks it. Always.

In its own insidious way, this 3rd nations shit is just as destructive as alarmism, designed only to end Western values.

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 10, 2022 10:09 pm

The plotline just needs to include exposure of the sheeps to radiation or other mad perfesser stuff. The sheeps then grow to five times their regular size and develop a bad attitude.

The kiwi schlock horror flick Blacksheep was pretty good, and culturally accurate, right down to the love scene.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 10, 2022 10:21 pm

pete of perthsays:

July 10, 2022 at 10:01 pm

Sancho… I give you Black Sheep

WTF?
Ut’s bin done already, eh?

Zipster
Zipster
July 10, 2022 10:33 pm

Taiwan: Birth Rate CRATERED -27.66% in June 2022!!!

er…. that’s a very large drop

cohenite
July 10, 2022 10:33 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
July 10, 2022 at 9:48 pm
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2010/12/the-enigma-of-the-australian-pygmies/

That’s an issue that’s ignored with a ruthless detachment.

I find Birdsell and Tindale’s work foundational. Confirmed as it is, at least in part, by this:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312577659_Humans_rather_than_climate_the_primary_cause_of_Pleistocene_megafaunal_extinction_in_Australia

The Ted Rule article appears to support this in a rather diffuse way, but then he goes all fairy floss:

Old-style racist thinking has had a beating but it is hardly dead. Scratch the surface and you can see some unstated assumptions: history is the story of progression towards the light, presumably whatever orthodoxy rules at the present; there are advanced societies and primitive societies and the primitive societies are not capable of doing the things that advanced societies are; technology advances, never retreats.

My problem with this is that, from what we can see, humanity and its capabilities haven’t changed much in the 100,000-odd years of Homo sapiens. If I can do it, it’s a fair bet that my 500-generation ancestor could do it given the chance.

This is nothing more than Pascoe bullshit with a hearty dollop of Gammage pomposity thrown in. I’ll stick with Birdsell and Tindale and the Mega Fauna lads. The 3rd nations great achievements were extinguishing the big animals, burning the place down and fighting and fucking with each other.

Dot
Dot
July 10, 2022 10:45 pm

Tucker: What about the sheep?

Angus Oldfield: Fuck the sheep!

Tucker: No time for that bro. Go go go!

Experience : I thought you of all people would appreciate efforts to deconstruct the colonialist paternalistic agrarian hierarchy that disenfranchises the Tangata Whenua and erodes the natural resources of Aotearoa.

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
July 10, 2022 10:45 pm

I’m expecting to read of ‘monkey pox’ found in sheep…type in ‘country of your choice’….

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 10, 2022 10:45 pm

Pete ‘o Perf.
I just watched the trailer in full.
“The Violence of The Lambs”.
Noice.

Dot
Dot
July 10, 2022 10:48 pm

The biggest problem with Gammage is that he is taken seriously.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 10, 2022 10:56 pm

The biggest problem with Gammage is that he is taken seriously.

In the same way as Bruce Pascoe?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 10, 2022 11:54 pm

What?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 10, 2022 11:55 pm

I think all the hamsters are dead.

Armadillo
Armadillo
July 11, 2022 12:02 am

Ding Dong. The hamsters are dead.

Bing Bong is so yesterday.

Armadillo
Armadillo
July 11, 2022 12:08 am

I’m looking at you Sancho.

No more “bing bongs”. It’s “ding dongs” from now on.

#newworldorder……rehashed to be inclusive of the resident witches.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 11, 2022 12:10 am

dover0beachsays:

July 10, 2022 at 11:09 pm

About to run an update now. Will report back when it’s done.

Like a space shuttle re-entry.
It goes quiet, and you hope it comes online again.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 11, 2022 12:11 am

One would hope the hamsters haven’t ‘penetrated ze cabinets’.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 11, 2022 12:18 am

Bing-Bongs still rule!!!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 11, 2022 12:21 am

One sets to each batter at Wimpleton.

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
July 11, 2022 12:22 am

Give the hamsters a quick zap up the bum with a cattle prod, Dover.
Can’t hurt.

Armadillo
Armadillo
July 11, 2022 12:30 am

Bullshit Sancho.

The true test of a first date is to throw a bucket of water on her, not to see if she makes a “bing bong” noise when she enters the bottle shop to buy you a box of beer.

Oh wait. I stand corrected.

“Bing Bong” rules. My apologies.

Armadillo
Armadillo
July 11, 2022 1:06 am

I really can’t understand why Republicans don’t show up at Karmarla Harris pressers/speeches carrying water buckets.

Non violent protest.

Ditto Biden, with an array of paraphernalia.

At the very least, witty journalists could start using the words “crack” in every single question to both him and his press secretary.

For example ……“Mr President, how do you intend to “crack” the problem of XYZ in our country”? Subtlety is everything. You could make it a competition.

“Taking the piss” is the most effective weapon against the left.

Exhibit A “Let’s Go Brandon”. But much more nuanced.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 11, 2022 10:23 am

Bing-Bong!
Your software upgrade is complete.
Drive smoothly during the running in period.
Bing-Bong!

Armadillo
Armadillo
July 11, 2022 10:26 am

That went well.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 11, 2022 10:30 am

I was in withdrawal.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 11, 2022 10:30 am

From the “Hun.”

Jason Roberts found not guilty of Silk-Miller killings

A jury has sensationally cleared Jason Roberts of the 1998 murders of Sgt Gary Silk and Sen Constable Rodney Miller, after 22 years in jail.
Anthony Dowsley
@anthonydowsley
4 min read
July 11, 2022 – 10:22Am

Jason Roberts has been cleared of the shooting murders of Sgt Gary Silk and Sen Constable Rodney Miller, after spending 22 years in prison.

After a marathon retrial of Roberts over the murders, a Supreme Court jury returned not guilty verdicts on both murder counts on Monday.

Roberts, 41, has always maintained his innocence, despite being convicted at the original trial in 2002.

Roberts’ testimony to the jury was that he had not been present at the Silk-Miller shooting scene in Cochranes Rd, Moorabbin, with his father figure and armed robbery partner, Bandali Debs, shortly after midnight on August 16.

Roberts was 17 years old at the time of the murders.

He has spent almost all his time in custody as a maximum security prisoner.

Roberts chose to give evidence at his trial and took the stand last month.

When he was asked by defence barrister David Hallowes, SC, if he went out that night with Debs, Roberts simply answered: No, I did not.”

Asked if he shot Sgt Silk, 34, Roberts said: “I certainly did not.”

Asked if he shot Sen Constable Miller, 35, Roberts said: I certainly did not.”

Roberts would testify Debs, the serial killer father of his girlfriend, Nicole, went to the Silky Emperor Chinese Restaurant alone and was intercepted by the officers who were staking out the venue.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 11, 2022 10:32 am

Dillo you’ve been very quiet recently, hope everything is ok. I know you weren’t run down by a model A.

Indolent
Indolent
July 11, 2022 10:32 am

With Second Gas Explosion in Three Days, Are We Under Attack?

I’d say yes – both food and energy being destroyed before our eyes.

calli
calli
July 11, 2022 10:32 am

Air…hellair.

The Borg has rebooted. Praised be The Borg!

Indolent
Indolent
July 11, 2022 10:35 am
Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 11, 2022 10:35 am

Hopefully the Bonhomie and Fellowship plug-in is working 5/5.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 11, 2022 10:36 am

Always meant to ask Dillo, with the US election how come, with most of the money on Trump the thief in chief odds weren’t much higher. I thought Trump would win but waited for the sniffers odds to peak, which they never did.

calli
calli
July 11, 2022 10:37 am

Here, Dover. Have one of mine.

Tom
Tom
July 11, 2022 10:39 am

Well done, Doverlord! Many thanks.

Toons resume tomorrow at 0400. In the meantime, today’s Johannes Leak.

m0nty
m0nty
July 11, 2022 10:40 am

… and let that be a lesson to you.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 11, 2022 10:41 am

Further to yesteray’s Boeing 737 MAX10 discussion, the issue is that new aircraft certified after December 2022 must have EICAS.
Here’s what that means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine-indicating_and_crew-alerting_system

So a simple amber light telling you something is out of whack so you scan to check, is replaced by software driven messages on the engine displays. Can’t see how this is so vital given the huge number of Boeing 737’s of all vintages that have flown for decades with excellent safety records.
The 737 MAX 10 was launched in 2017, before this requirement was dreamed up and this requirement has nothing to do with the MCAS.

calli
calli
July 11, 2022 10:41 am

…lot.

Missed a bit.

rosie
rosie
July 11, 2022 10:45 am

Must be time for a booster.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 11, 2022 10:50 am

Plug ins. Back ups. Pfft.

That was Big Tech and Jessica Mauboy censoring me, because I am dangerous and shine a light into tunnels everywhere.

Roger
Roger
July 11, 2022 10:51 am

Dang…I was getting so much work done this morning.

Dot
Dot
July 11, 2022 11:05 am

Good morning, traitors.

Please place all vaxxies in the bins provided.

Bing bong.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 11, 2022 11:05 am

The Exposé has produced a bumper edition:

Exclusive Investigation of Confidential Pfizer Documents finds COVID Vaccination is going to cause Mass Depopulation

Confidential Pfizer Documents reveal 90% of Covid Vaccinated Pregnant Women lost their Baby

Covid-19 Vaccination increases risk of suffering Miscarriage by at least 1,517%

Send money before we are shut down.

These ABSOLUTE TRUTHS have been covered up by the UK Government – who PRETEND that the data shows no statistical difference in outcomes between jabbed and unjabbed mothers. Off a ridiculously small and unrepresentative sample of 600,000 women.

And Boris Johnson was forced to resign.
Hmmm? Makes you think.

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
July 11, 2022 11:06 am

Holly Rainbow Serpent…anyone see this on carsales.com?

” But considering the state of Australia’s used car market – and a $260,000 asking price – it’s easy to understand why the seller is keen to shore up the financing.

The near-mint condition 2019 Landcruiser 79 series GXL Manual 4×4 up on carsales.com.au on Thursday afternoon has a fridge and coffee machine and is pretty much kitted out to live in.’

Dot
Dot
July 11, 2022 11:06 am

Sheeeit are those claims real or are you pulling our legs?

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
July 11, 2022 11:12 am

Car Sales…2019 Toyota Landcruiser GXL Manual 4×4
$259,900*
Excl. Govt. Charges
15,354 km
Cab Chassis
Manual
8cyl 4.5L Turbo Diesel
View Car History
Private Seller Car
QLD

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 11, 2022 11:16 am

The near-mint condition 2019 Landcruiser 79 series GXL Manual 4×4 up on carsales.com.au on Thursday afternoon has a fridge and coffee machine and is pretty much kitted out to live in.’

$260,000?
Good Lord, I have the exact same thing: except it’s very far from mint condition and doesn’t have a coffee machine. Also it is fairly uncomfortable to live in/on.

But it does have air-lockers, so there’s that.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 11, 2022 11:16 am

Dr Faustussays:

July 11, 2022 at 10:35 am

Hopefully the Bonhomie and Fellowship plug-in is working 5/5.

That seems to be fixed.
It looks like the Bonhomie and Good Humour plug-ins were being accessed through the Fuck You Are Spastics portal, which was tripping the circuit breakers in the Central Sense of Humour module.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 11, 2022 11:18 am

m0ntysays:
July 11, 2022 at 10:40 am
… and let that be a lesson to you.

And what exactly is the lesson? Close down your blog when you are criticised by commenters? That you couldn’t even win a debate with Steve from Brissy and Homer P, therefore no-one else should have a blog? Enquiring minds …

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 11, 2022 11:24 am

So a simple amber light telling you something is out of whack so you scan to check, is replaced by software driven messages on the engine displays. 

Just a bit of coding, eh?
Should be pretty easy to get done in five months, right?
Even allowing for the fact that you have B-grade software engineers on the job.
So why is the Boeing CEO having a footstamping hissy-fit and threatening to take his bat and ball and go home?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 11, 2022 11:25 am

Car Sales…2019 Toyota Landcruiser GXL Manual 4×4
$259,900*
Excl. Govt. Charges
15,354 km
Cab Chassis
Manual
8cyl 4.5L Turbo Diesel
View Car History
Private Seller Car
QLD

What would that have sold for new?

Oh come on
Oh come on
July 11, 2022 11:26 am

There is a season….

Oh come on
Oh come on
July 11, 2022 11:27 am

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