Good news from the Netherlands? https://x.com/geertwilderspvv/status/1856753778814308733?t=xv5kBPk-3W4HRXH8Ugn9Hg&s=19
Open Thread – Wed 13 July 2022
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JC November 14, 2024 12:03 pm Will be interesting to see which country is the buyer.It’s marketing bullshit to suggest…
Declaring him persona non grata would be a big step. A quiet word suggesting a replacement would be better placed…
And all ChristoNazis will be immediately subject to retrospective abortion?
I check the maps yesterday for the first time in about a month, the actual changes could be measured in…
“I hope Melbourne cops treat this P.O.S. with the contempt she deserves.”
I doubt that.
This is the silly bint who turned up at the Royal Show to protest at the judging of a cattle event. One of the locals grabbed her by the scruff of the neck and the seat of the pants, and heaved her over the fence….Milady was not pleased..
Well put.
Actually, very well put.
GreyRanga says: July 13, 2022 at 8:31 am
AHA! Another Americanism.
The Australian word is “Chilla”
Pedantry over terminology aside, I’ll dissent from your view.
That is, I’ll say both men are/were actually quite bright, extremely intelligent in fact.
Speaking of tours with intelligent ladies, Jennifer Marohasy has one about to kick off.
Rebels to the Coral Reef Cause (Part 1) (WUWT, 11 Jul)
It’ll be interesting to see what they find.
In breaking news, Bunnings sausages are about to increase in price from $2.50 to $3.50 – the first price increase in 15 years.
Shirley not! .. if they were $2.50 15 years ago the profits musta been gi-normous ..
snags would have been around $1 kg back then .. methinx a “typo” .. LOL!
Tour de France brought to a standstill during stage 10 after climate activists blocked the route in the French Alps… with police and an official forced to drag protestors off the road to allow race to resume
Daily Mail
WHO recommends masks again, preps world for global lockdown in Fall
China has doubled down on its ambitious four demands of the Australian government after Anthony Albanese rejected Beijing’s initial urgings.
you transitioned in your sleep!
flyingduksays:
July 13, 2022 at 11:27 am
The ACT Government says it’s confident it can find a construction company to build Strathnairn School with a 100 per cent female management team and women employed by every trade subcontractor.
Hoping for the students’ and staffs’ sake that history doesn’t repeat.
https://wentworthreport.com/2018/03/19/diversity-fail-all-women-engineering-team-blamed-for-collapse-of-miami-pedestrian-bridge/#:~:text=The%20all-women%20engineering%20team%20that%20designed%20the%20ill-fated,flaws%20that%20may%20have%20brought%20the%20bridge%20down.
Chortle snork!
https://thepointman.wordpress.com/2022/07/08/theyve-got-much-better-ones-than-us/
snuck in a quick abortion in the plane dunnies
Even Daniel Andrews isn’t listening to them anymore.
The fascination with cruises, I can’t understand.
Why would you commit weeks or even days of your life to living in a place
When I planned my post-Cancer trip to Gettysburg to do something I’d never known anyone else do I decided to sail home .. LA to Sydney via Hawaii .. 20, bloody, days/nights of absolute boredom not being a drinker/gambler .. spent my days swimming back & forth coupla 100 times in a 12mts pool and after dinner walking around the deck about 20/30 times ..
by the time it docked in Sydney I’d almost gone mad! .. but was quite fit .. LOL!
Timothy Neilsonsays:
July 13, 2022 at 12:43 pm
Eyriesays:
July 13, 2022 at 11:46 am
Sorry Eyrie, didn’t see you’d already joined the dots.
sexism!!
Salvatore don’t confuse chatty and witty with intelligence. I’ve got rocks that are brighter than those two.
I think the narrative is changing. You can see Governments now very reluctant to mention work mandates now despite huge ramping of promotion of 4th shot. This is obviously because they can sense the resistance. Nearly 40% of Qld have not had the 3rd jab and that means no longer considered fully vaccinated. Then amongst those who have taken the 3rd they would know many only did so due to coercion.
I have noted comments that I did not think would get approved are now getting through.
However every day I am shocked by how little news (ie. Holland, Sri Lanka) people have heard of. Most must be making their medical decisions based on snippets from the morning news. They think the whole medical fraternity is onside with jab jab jab and could not name a single dissenter.
If Arbronese was ever their man he must be proving a mighty disappointment.
It’s going to get very serious soon.
I wrote yesterday that Western leaders don’t have the capacity for evil to use famine as a political tool, but Putin is another sort of creature altogether. It seems his plan is to blakmail the West – or some of its weaker leaders – into withdrawing sanctions by withholding Ukrainian grain from export. This will lead to famine in parts of MENA and set off another migrant crisis.
Then why isn’t the west encouraging a ceasefire and negotiations instead of prolonging the agony propping up Zelensky?
Direct them to my social media page/…..
On another note, just had a chat with the chap who is concreting my shed… He is aware that Taliban Dan is the biggest knut out there, that inflation is due to money printing, and even asked me about gold and bitcoin!
Ranga, I’m not.
Not sure I’ve ever heard either of them chat.
Prince Phil was Sword of Honour in his year at Naval college – or would have been had the course not been cut short due to hostilities having commenced.
During the war, (in which he served in every theatre) he came up with an anti-aircraft measure to protect a group of ships. Not something often achieved by a dunce. (Mentioned in despatches for this)
He was on track (but how will we ever know) to become Commander of the Royal Navy when George VI expired, and was then relegated to the role of silent consort for the rest of his life.
He had the foresight to see that televising the coronation, & filming/televising their lives was the way to popularise (i.e. save) the monarchy. Not the act of a dunderhead.
Chilla is extremely intelligent. This is his problem. He has a very active mind without being able to apply it or challenge himself in any way. (He’s also apparently hung like a Jack Donkey & has jackhammer-like stamina)
This would have been the root of much of the trouble between him & Diana. She was a complete ditz, whose conversation level & ability was little more than “kitchy-kitchy-koo” to kindergarteners. Left to her own devices she spent half the day in a gym, engaging in repetitive exercise (mindless) not now & then, but every day of her bluddee life if she could.
That would grant Putin a measure of victory.
Things are going to have to get much worse before that happens.
In the meantime, I think Putin sees some weaknesses in W. Europe he can exploit.
And abandoning Zelensky is exactly what Putin expects the West to do.
He discerns a pattern in Western behaviour of abandoning allies and pulling out when things get tough. And he’s not wrong.
who could have predicted this????
That, and the fact that the “lady” didn’t ‘alf put it about. ” There were over a dozen extra-marital’ s before Charlie tired of it all, and resumed the affair with Camilla.
The hand sanitising cop from Uvalde is going to have a rough life ahead of him.
Maybe caving.
Freighters Arrive in Ukrainian Ports to Begin Shipping Grain (Newsmax, 12 Jul)
Erdogan is also getting both sides together today in Istanbul to try to negotiate an agreement. Good.
It seems his plan is to blakmail the West – or some of its weaker leaders – into withdrawing sanctions by withholding Ukrainian grain from export.
Now first off, Putin in a nob, and in this case probably a thief.
However grain shipment attempted was seized en route.
Leave it either Putin makes some money from Uke grain or putin holds back on exporting grain as it will be taken and (probably?) the proceeds of the sale go to the Uke government.
No good outcome either way.
Putin either makes money from Uke grain or the grain sits and rots/ sits in storage.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220707-disputed-grain-ship-returns-to-russia-from-turkey
Kyiv alleges that the 7,000-tonne vessel had set off from Ukraine’s Kremlin-occupied port of Berdyansk after picking up confiscated wheat.
Ukraine has demanded that Turkey impound the vessel and return the allegedly stolen wheat.
Kyiv alleges that the 7,000-tonne vessel had set off from Ukraine’s Kremlin-occupied port of Berdyansk after picking up confiscated wheat.
Ukraine has demanded that Turkey impound the vessel and return the allegedly stolen wheat.
Beyond the ‘person with the capacity for pregnancy’ absurdity, she really sees no inherent dignity in the child deserving of the protection of the law. Even after birth, the gap between the question and her answer suggests she was simply calculating the consequences of an answer in the negative.
These people are just evil.
Not a cruise anecdote, but …
A migrant gent was travelling by steamer from Portsmouth to New York back in the day.
Determined not to dip into his savings, he took cheese and crackers on board and subsisted on them for most of the voyage.
On his last night aboard he decided he deserved a treat and went up to the dining room to order a three course meal.
“I’m ravenous,” he told the waiter, as he explained to him his money saving regime.
“But sir,” the waiter replied, “meals were included in the price of your ticket.”
Kamel Ears is to address the Pacific forum today.
Also AnAl was abusing vowels while stating we are supposed to be at what sounded like 81% renew-balls by the end of the decade.
yeh, nah.
As always – go to the source
From Table 1.
Standardised mortality rate by vaccination status, all causes, 2022
Month / Unvaccinated / Ever Vaccinated
Jan / 1812 / 1085
Feb / 1384 / 1016
Mar / 1232 / 992
Apr / 1205 / 1009
May / 873 / 823
Deaths ‘involving covid-19’ – whatever that means
Jan / 585 / 110
Feb / 259 / 76
Mar / 184 / 74
Apr / 205 / 97
May / 78 / 36
That above link seems to have considered “Second dose > 6 months ago” (106.3 in May) as fully vaccinated, whilst ignoring the “Third dose or booster, less than 21 days ago” (no deaths in May) and “Third dose or booster, at least 21 days ago” (33.1 in May) groups
That’s shorter, at least, than the 78 word definition Health Secretary Brendan Murphy provided to Sen. Antic.
Except for Gonzalo Peso.
He is one of my “trusted sources on the innernet”.
Thanks for that BoN. This is one of the many reasons I read Cats comments most days.
I wondered if multiple vaccinated took longer to eliminate the Corona virus from their body, and thus could be “shedding” even when not presenting with symptoms. It seems that this is so.
But I am certain that the medical technocrats will not accord them the “untouchable” status that we unvaccinated people suffered for some 12 months.
Horses for courses. Holidays of husband and I, over most of our lives, have been spent travelling in rented car across most continents. Have had many, many adventures – the most interesting being in Oman, Morocco, Thailand and Turkey and the USA. In some countries we have had a driver and car – as in Egypt, Kenya, Zimbabwe & Sri Lanka – and these have been wonderful as well.
But ocean liners? Not without a VERY good book.
Doc, I mentioned a few weeks ago that the caravan had moved on.
I’ve been keeping a close eye on mandates and other entry garbage overseas for some months now. The only holdouts seem to be the Netherlands and Japan.
A little harsh but the declarations have become similar to vegans.
He lives in Brisbane, you know. Running for the local council when it next comes up.
The moral of the tale is to pick your cruise.
The first one I went on was a river cruise A to B – two weeks, off every day for a good look around. Excellent food, entertainment and a pretty good lot of passengers, mostly Aussies.
Second one was Queen Elizabeth, eastern Med. Again, no days “at sea”, a port every day, sometimes in port for two days eg. Istanbul. Upmarket, medium sized ship, older, well-heeled passengers.
I wouldn’t like to be stuck for days on end at sea, or on a ship full of drop kicks. Grim. Also, swimming in public pools however well sanitised isn’t for me. Zero novelty.
Like Vicki, my preferred holiday is to pick up a car and drive, provided I can decipher the road signs. Always a lot of fun and the Beloved and I rarely come to blows (except for the centre of Madrid, which is a whole other story). 🙂
So the videos of him in Hawaii are fake?
As someone who is triple jabbed, I welcome all/any constructive analysis of the vaccines/treatments.
Emphasis on constructive.
For those concerned about Tesla burning my house down…the battery is off. Apparently we don’t qualify for an interest free loan.
It seems our credit rating is non-existent because we owe no money.
As I prefaced the whole exercise a few days ago, a battery is only marginally worth it if there’s no opportunity cost.
How dare you!
There must be a lot of money to be made in housing sub-division construction! .. on the hill above part of the bike track I ride at Pemulwuy/Greystanes they have been cutting levels for the past 18 months for a new housing housing estate and everytime we have had heavy rain the hillside subsides and slides down onto the bike track & surrounding bush .. they clear it up & back to work ..
How you get permission to build on a hill that keeps collapsing because you’ve removed all the bush that was providing stability thru its root system I’ve no idea but also given that its been 18 months and it looks along, long while before they’ll ever get enuf confidence to construct even the roadways means someone has gotta have deep pockets to keep going or they’ve committe dsooo much they can’t afford to quit…!
Phil the grik being royal at marine college gave anyone else a snowballs chance in hell. I didn’t know about the anti-aircraft thing, good on him. I saw a thing when he was at Bletchley Park they couldn’t get rid of him quickly enough. I appreciate his service and that of his son and grandsons. Honestly I’ve never heard a word from either of them that would change my mind.
On cruises.
Have been on two in my life.
Blue Lagoon in Fiji back last century.
Small boats. Good crew. Lotta fun.
Went on another one in Croatia a few years ago. Again, relatively small boat (~ 50 pax + crew).
If there is one dickhead on a boat that size, they become very difficult to avoid.
There was, and he was.
An Aussie, unfortunately.
Fifteen going on 40-ish, with his pushing 60 English bride. Bragged about himself being the gardener and marrying the lady of the house. Not a great catch, really.
Just made an arse of himself at every turn, and didn’t quite get “Fuck off!”
Dinner and lunch were served in a large common area at tables for four. After a couple of days, he and his bride were dining alone whilst others squashed themselves onto other tables to avoid him.
Towards the end he made a big deal of diving off the deck (right next to the warning sign not to do it) after loudly talking about it for two hours.
He climbed back aboard and asked the Cap’n what he thought of it.
He shrugs
“Is your neck to break”, he says. “No problems for me. I have your waiver paper.”
Snort, cackle.
Anyhow, the moral is, if we go cruising again, it won’t be on a boat with a capacity of 5,000, nor will it be on one with a capacity of 50 either.
“Chilla is extremely intelligent. This is his problem. He has a very active mind without being able to apply it or challenge himself in any way. (He’s also apparently hung like a Jack Donkey & has jackhammer-like stamina)
How do you know this?
Andrew “Rexona” Windsor told him.
The NSW top prosecutor’s office has put out a new guide telling its employees to ask for people’s pronouns, claiming it’s “more correct and inclusive” to say someone is assigned male or female at birth and that there are such people as “pansexuals”.
The woke Inclusive Language Guide, dated June 2022, was created by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to support “people of diverse genders and sexualities, community and celebrate diversity”.
It also tells its legal eagle staff that “partner and spouse are examples of inclusive language rather than husband and wife”.
And forget about “ladies and gentlemen” — NSW top lawyers are instructed that “saying ‘hello everyone’ is more inclusive”, especially when sending emails.
The advice around pronouns states: “If you’re unsure of someone’s pronoun, you should respectively (sic) and privately ask ‘Can I ask what pronoun you use?’.”
“In written communication, if unsure of a person’s title, simply don’t include one — use their first and last names — gender neutral titles such as Dr can always be used.”
One Nation MP Mark Latham has raised the issue with Attorney-General Mark Speakman and cites the current Chris Dawson murder trial, saying it was “thankful” that the prosecutor in that case was not following the guide because it would have confused matters to be speaking about partners instead of wives.
“It would have been absurd to be talking about first partner and second partner in that case,” Mr Latham said.
“Nobody in the court would describe one of the daughters as a person assigned a girl at birth. If they did, it would be laughable.”
Mr Latham questioned the appointment of current director Sally Dowling, accusing her of being distracted by “woke word games” instead of making sure paedophiles don’t get out on bail, following a string of revelations in The Daily Telegraph about bail loopholes.
“The fact this language control PC monstrosity is a priority for her is a distraction from her real job,” he said.
“The public doesn’t expect the prosecutors to have definitions about pansexuality and all this sort of woke nonsense.
“The three definitions the public wants are criminal, conviction and incarceration.”
Direct of the free market think-tank Institute of Public Affair’s Foundations of Western Civilisation Dr Bella d’Abrera also questioned the guide.
“This is a ridiculous attempt to curtail free speech by dictating which words we can and cannot use,” she said.
“It is worrying that the ODPP appears to be more interested in woke virtue signalling and ‘social engineering’ than it is prosecuting serious offences in NSW.”
“The ODPP should focus on its core business and leave radical gender theory to university Gender Studies departments.”
Mr Latham argued the guide had caused unrest among the highly qualified professional lawyers within the DPP, did not like being told to adopt “bland, irrelevant PC language” which would weaken arguments in court.
Mr Speakman’s office has been approached for comment.
Daily Tele
Why the Soviet computer failed.
what a surprise it’s a birthing person!
“Attorney-General Mark Speakman”
Sleazman is one of the reasons why the NSW Liberals deserve to be annihilated next March.
Wow.
Unlimited power in the hands of unlimited people always leads to unlimited killing.
Rishi Sunak is a big state globalist assassin who won’t be backed by Tory members, says Dan Wootton
I imagine that going out of their way to make it a Wymminses bridge, not a Patriarchy bridge, may have been their undoing in Miami.
I wonder if they came up with all sorts of fantastical procedures emphasising empowerment, broad consensus rather than hierarchical decision making, judging individuals on multi-axial criteria rather than just narrow professionalism etc to showcase an alternative way to manage projects.
If so, then the bridge itself was very low down on their list of priorities.
And I expect that is what will happen here as well.
CRISPR to lower cholesterol?
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/12/1055773/crispr-gene-editing-cholesterol/?truid=511cda4596687ad1e8c0a33a5309beb3&utm_source=the_download&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_term=Active%20Qualified&utm_content=07-12-2022&mc_cid=dfaba315fd&mc_eid=6cb9ef82da
Thin end of the wedge.
Loading grain with crap blowing everywhere and mostly in my eyes.
Right eye is sore as buggery.
Dan Andrews would not want to come anywhere near me at the moment, I’m extra shitty.
Someone should ask him
SpeakmanSpeakpersonSpeakx he noticed there was a problem, say, 10 years ago. If at that time no one (or a tiny number) seemed to rankle at being known as a man or a woman then what has changed now that we must honour?Maybe I am being unfair. It would seem very likely that he never felt masculine terms fit him, and even ‘man’ made his uncomfortable and self-conscious. I will admit, I hesitate.
Even the name Speakman would seem inappropriate. And here I am thinking of ‘man’ not as a gender, but as an epithet for the human race.
Zipster @ 3.08 pm
Welcome PM Rishi. You know it’s a done deal.
Rishni, another Goldman alumni.
Because he’s a Tory, twitter has allowed him to be racially vilified on a daily basis.
Rishi.
Not Rishni.
Mere B grade woke silliness.
If you want fully A grade you have to delve into the depths of academia.
Climate change is white colonization of the atmosphere. It’s time to tackle this entrenched racism (12 Jul)
Here’s who the author is: an Aussie from Uni Melb.
Re: the Lauren Southern documentary. I listened to it – kind of regretted wasting time on it, to be honest. I can see why Southern might like to get some stuff off her chest, but it seemed kind of self-indulgent. She thinks she owes the world some great responsibility to tell the truth about what really happened…mmm don’t see how telling her side of the story is such a vital public service.
Many people love gossip. This came across as gossipy to me, an airing of grievances -possibly legitimate grievances – against a bunch of people (many of whom have not been relevant for years). I’m not saying Southern isn’t telling the truth, I’m just saying…well…at the end of the documentary, I had only one question – why should I care about any of this stuff?
Salvatore
This would have been the root of much of the trouble between him & Diana. She was a complete ditz, whose conversation level & ability was little more than “kitchy-kitchy-koo” to kindergarteners. Left to her own devices she spent half the day in a gym, engaging in repetitive exercise (mindless) not now & then, but every day of her bluddee life if she could.
Before she died and was posthumously sainted, the UK TV show Rubbery Figures always depicted her with a cranium that opened and showed a pea-sized brain within, and Chilla as endlessly patient with her witlessness.
The Poms have the same problem we have. Look at the senior figures in both major parties. They’re either utterly lacklustre, or the thought of them as PM is terrifying.
Naomi Wolf: The CCP Has Infiltrated The American Health System, Covid Injections Produced By CCP
Symptoms of the Omicron BA.5 variant include runny nose, sneezing, and sore throat
Netherlands: Incredible Laws in the Works
Fauci calls for masks indoors and warns US faces ANOTHER Covid wave due to ‘waning immunity’ to Omicron variant – as he returns to TV after his own battle with the virus
How Did We Miss This Video? The WEF Told Us in 2018 That They Are Bolshies and They Are Coming for the United States of America
Mother Lodesays:
July 13, 2022 at 10:28 am
A very good analysis of the psychology of the left. They are the scum of humanity.
Bruce O’Newk:
OFFS.
Another ‘B Ark’ luminary.
We appear to be having a bumper crop of them.
But never mind – when the grid goes down, they’ll provide an almost inexhaustible source of protein.
Oh. And fat.
Top Endersays:
July 13, 2022 at 2:49 pm
The NSW top prosecutor’s office has put out a new guide telling its employees to ask for people’s pronouns, claiming it’s “more correct and inclusive” to say someone is assigned male or female at birth and that there are such people as “pansexuals”.
My considered legal advice to anyone charged by the DPP is to identify as not guilty, a particularly esteemed sub-section of the gender-verse.
Ower Lizzie. That sounds like my Welsh mother calling. Gosh, I can hear her still.
I have been doing high kicks this morning, dancing, not bucket kicks, Ranga.
But thanks for clarifying matters, that it is Her Gracious Maj who is on the final run.
In seven days I too go over the top. ‘Skiing’ downhill from eighty, on ‘cruise’ control.
Telling myself it’s not so frightening. Ninety will be worse. 🙂
Friends over eighty tell me it’s actually not too bad. Just another number in life’s lotto.
Nothing much changes as long as you keep busy and stay healthy.
Interesting, because that wasn’t Clive James’ opinion of her at all. They had an occasional lunch together and he was both charmed and fascinated, said she was an intelligent conversationalist.
Mind you, he always did have an eye for a pretty aristo girl and may have ‘made allowances’.
Too right, Calli! Our last driving trip in 2019 pre Covid was flight into Zurich > drove to Montreux > Puicheric in the Languedoc area of France to go to godson’s wedding> Lyons> then back to Switzerland, Martigny> Interlaken>Lauterbrunnen> Lucerne> Zurich. Except for precipitous driving to Martigny through to Lauterbrunnen (I am not good with heights, but husband loved the driving), it was a great trip – especially Martigny which unexpectedly had great Roman excavation.
Previous trip in 2017 was flight to Barcelona > then a brief couple of days at friends’ house in La Liviniere in the French Languedoc region > Portugal – Bilbao > Douro Valley > Aveiro > Luso > Lisbon > Evora > Spain – Seville > Cordoba > Granada > Toledo > Barcelona. Highlight – again, for me – the Roman excavations Portugal & especially Italica in Spain & Cordoba, where Caesar executed his old friend and legate, Titus Labienus. But Calli – your are so right – the streets of Europe – in this case of Seville, in particular, are bloody impossible to navigate now – even with GPS. When we left our car in the carpark a few streets away from our hotel – we couldn’t even find our way back!
BTW the road signs in Morocco were unexpectedly in Arabic – although a few were in French! A hellish experience. In one of the cities, I think it was Marrakesh, we were approached at one of the city gate portals by a youth on a motor scooter who promised to take us (for a fee) to our hotel. I was convinced he was going to rob us in an alley, and persuaded husband to suddenly take a turn to “lose” the youth. It was useless, however, & we had to finally trust some kid, who actually took us to our destination!
Mater’s Musing #53: Gee, this looks bad?
I don’t know, Lizzie. The knees are getting dodgy. Back at the farm today I nearly went head over tail getting over a fence.
Hungry people in need will thank you for it, Farmer Gez.
As was/is often said on this blogue, you are doing God’s work.
how about ‘cock-suckers and cunt-lickers’. That should cover just about everyone, no?
It won’t save them I suspect but it is good news for the vestige of conservatism in England after that fat shit boris goes:
After Boris: The Tories’ green agenda is finally falling apart
Boris provides a further testicle removed example, after hazza and chuck, of how a weak shit can be turned by the attentions of a ball-tearing bitch.
?? Eva Vlaardingerbroek Exposes The Global Communist Agenda Is Behind The New Dutch Climate Laws… (2 mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ-dIFyYXPI
Agreed, Vicki. Or arse over tip, as my old dad used indecently to call it.
You sometimes have to temper the ambition with a dose of prudence. lol
Aiming high today because I did a great dance class!
Heading for a hot pine-scented bath now to ease any pain and suffering. 🙂
Sorry about my quip about cruising, but it got both sides going.
That’s something.
some have neither, so butt-lickers
Friends over eighty tell me it’s actually not too bad. Just another number in life’s lotto.
Nothing much changes as long as you keep busy and stay healthy.
Too true! .. at 74 I wake up in the morning with, “Still ‘ere”, followed by, “Another , bloody, one to drag myself thru” before realising that unlike a lot of over 70s I still have my health and can choose to go biking, swimming, gardening or do nuttin’ and tomorrow .. rinse & repeat .. touch wood ..! LOL!
Driving blind without GPS or map (don’t ask) into Sicily’s Catania from the airport we were hopelessly lost, Hairy looking for a certain main street which was going to be our guide via verbal instructions from the hotel; we were soooo grateful when a young man on a scooter whom we asked for directions said he would take us there, just follow him, and who refused to accept any recompense, just waved and whisked off.
One thing about both of us getting older, I do sometimes curtail Hairy’s driving enthusiasms. Recently he wanted to once again drive down to San Diego from LAX immediately on arrival from the Syd-LAX flight, whihch we have done several times previously, getting a hire car and clutching our luggage. Nope. I insisted we fly there this time. But he still refuses to spend a nite in an airport hotel first. Compromise was that we would still continue straight on by air and sleep in San Diego.
the dollars must keep rolling
I see this blog is as classy as ever.
I listened on the car radio today to interviews with people from the latest Covid-ridden cruise ship now in Sydney. No problems, was the general response. No big deal. Love cruising, going to go again soon. They are Covid cautious on board, said one guy, so I feel safer on that ship than in the rest of the city, if I was going to worry about it at all.
It’s over. People are fed up with the dramas and they know too many people who have had mild Covid and very few who have had any sort of bad time with it. Nor so they believe the current scare-mongering. Of course some people will get very ill, that’s life and the nature of viral illnesses.
Gabor:
I lived for about a year on my 44′ Roberts Centre Cockpit yacht. Great life.
When I win the lottery, I’ll buy another one, but hire a couple of crewies to do the hard stuff.
Girls.
Runners up.
From Scandinavia.
Beachball team.
I hope they can cook.
As for heated marital driving discord – nothing beats European cities with medieval streets.
Albo’s going to change the media
I just hope Boeing and Airbus don’t have separate women’s think tanks, as a diversity measure.
Friends over eighty tell me it’s actually not too bad.
Beats the alternative.
Why am I thinking of Mrs Bucket?
I just hope Boeing and Airbus don’t have separate women’s think tanks, as a diversity measure.
SpaceX seems to have plenty of female engineers and they must be competent otherwise they wouldn’t be working at SpaceX for long.
How do you know this?
It became public after one of his closest friends was killed in a skiing accident in Switzerland about 15 years ago.
All over the news at the time.
The background is that the sons of George V had extremely small sex organs.
So the search was on for a cocksman qualified by birth to marry Princess Elizabeth and restore manhood to the Hanover Dynasty.
That’s where Philip Mountbatten came in.
Now, I can hear sceptics cawing
“What about Princes Andrew and Edward, neither are renowned for the dimensions of their schlong?”
The answer to this valid question is that neither are sons of P. Mountbatten.
Winston – Yep we certainly overachieve in that department.
Labor’s renewable target is much more ambitious than it seems. We need the best bang-for-buck policy responses (Phys.org, 12 Jul)
And here is this person: a director of energy policy at Victoria Uni, Melbourne
Whingeing bloody cockies.
Shitty because the dust which is being blown away could have been sold at the grain price if he’d got it in the truck and over the weighbridge.
how about ‘cock-suckers and cunt-lickers’. That should cover just about everyone, no?
It’ll get their attention, that’s for sure!
GreyRanga says: July 13, 2022 at 2:22 pm
Why so?
It wasn’t automatically apparent that he was so much more smarter & capable than any other cadet.
He was a near penniless refugee from Greece, who’d come over from Germany just for school, his siblings lived in Germany, his mum was stark raving bonkers & his dad was philandering his way around Europe.
The red octagon with a white border is universal.
Winston Smith says:
July 13, 2022 at 4:46 pm
When I win the lottery, I’m buying this.
https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts-for-sale/va-bene-cornelissen-1992
She’s old but beautiful. Long range too. Had my eye on it for a while but don’t have the necessary capital not to mention the annual running costs. Upon winning the lottery however, I will have sufficient to employ they entire Scandinavian beachball team as crew!
This kind of cultural cringe is so 2020. Chairman Dan has really taken the gloss off Marvellous Melbourne and Perf has its own Chin Chin. Why would you bother?
The red octagon with a white border is universal.
For which gender / orientation?!
Dickless
That’s where Philip Mountbatten came in.
Now, I can hear sceptics cawing
“What about Princes Andrew and Edward, neither are renowned for the dimensions of their schlong?”
The answer to this valid question is that neither are sons of P. Mountbatten.
Errr, Phil the Greek had a Greek background. The Mountbattens (formerly Battenbergs) had Cherman ancestry. While there was a lot of cross-fertilisation among European Royal families, you need to produce a family tree to in order to dub Phillip as a Battenberg.
Ed Casesays:
July 13, 2022 at 5:08 pm
Classic post. From now on you are the site’s expert on dicks, balls and scrotums, Royal or otherwise.
Bruce of N
And here is this person: a director of energy policy at Victoria Uni, Melbourne
And not even a whiff of electrical engineering in his CV, who better to advise on energy systems?
Emails should always begin with “Yo” or “Hey Youse”.
mma after a bloody match
From now on you are the site’s expert on dicks, balls and scrotums, Royal or otherwise.
is that a come on?
If it is, look, pard, i’m flattered, but I gotta say no.
That will set the Bird types off. Maybe they are onto something?
What does Mother say about playing with your pee pee?
the vampire squid crew
Didn’t you say she died a few months ago.
Perhaps you should have asked her?
Sometimes when people ask how I am I respond with, “Still here.” Stops ’em dead in their tracks. All my adult life I’ve had the habit of providing unusual responses to colloquial phrases. Tis fun to see how it pulls people up.
Another ‘B Ark’ luminary.
We appear to be having a bumper crop of them.
And right on cue Ed-Mong appears to speculate on Royal bell ends .
The universe engages in random acts of serendipity like that at times.
Lol.
Did anyone know Driller wrote a column for the Daily Mail until now? He’s even measured Charles fully erect member.
People who achieve high office begin to lose sight of their selves and instead to conflate themselves with their costume. We have all seen the airs that some people assume when they win a bauble, or are gifted a few postnominal letters (all those recipients of honorary PhD’s who ostentatiously style themselves Dr So and So), or bobbing along like a cork surrounded by a sea of their own official, grim looking security details.
I remember Hawkie being referred to as The Rt Hon Robert J Hawke – bastard was seldom right, and never honourable.
They begin to fancy that the dignity and honour traditionally granted to their office attaches to them personally: They say whatever intellectual mishap arcs across their synapses, and think it alights upon the upturned faces of a grateful nameless mob as a ray of golden, life-giving sunlight – a beam of illumination cutting through the suffocating blackness of those minds.
The reality to which they are so vaingloriously blind is that ordinary people are not bewitched by the trappings of office.
When a Prime Minister, a judge, or a senior lawyer says something stupid, that thing does not become profound when heard by the hoi polloi. Rather they themselves are recognised as being all the more stupid. And the disjoint between their deportment and their deliberations is a pregnant* moment that gives birth to hours of mirth and mockery. And no small amount of apprehension – but when dealing with officialdom a little gallows humour goes a long way.
Right now there are countless ordinary people who have never heard of this Speakthing before, and now that they have their first and only thoughts are “What a facile, pompous ass.”
But he will go home, pour himself a drink, catch his own reflection in the window, and congratulate himself on having having donned the pelt and picked up the very club of Hercules. With absolutely no idea what people are saying and doing, and laughing at, on the other side of the window.
*An image the rich potential of which is now restored with the overturning of Roe v Wade. 10 year-old figments not withstanding.
Joe Biden unleashes on reporter over Polling that 61% 0f registered Democrats don’t want him to run again.
Mountbatten was a spook, surely.
is that a come on?
If it is, look, pard, i’m flattered, but I gotta say no.
I understand, you’re shy because you’re on the George rather than the Phil side of dicks.
Mother Lode’s on a role.
Former rider Bradley Wiggins commenting at the scene:
“The imbecile sat on the road there….”
“The French police get quite angry at things like this, dragging them off the road..”
“A race organiser threw one down in the ditch….”
“Whatever they are protesting about….probably nothing..”
“A lot of people getting quite angry here. On of the team directors got out of his car and stuck a boot in.”
“Great scenes here!”
(PS that’s Sir Bradley Wiggins describing the reaction to the protesters. TdF winner, Olympic gold medallist, and son of an Australian cyclist. Competed for Great Britain.
Suck up!
A real trooper! 🙂
I reckon there will be a lot of money to be made, more with each passing month, selling T-Shirts that read “Let’s Go Elbow”.
I understand, you’re shy because you’re on the George rather than the Phil side of dicks.
No, it’s because if you saw what I’ve got, you’d throw yours away.
Where’s bern? We need a pendant.
That must be a joke. There are a gazillion problems to think about. There is nary a day that goes by when I’m not reading about how some chemist, physicist, mathematician, or whatever, has made substantial progress in addressing a problem that most of us are not even aware of. So if Chilli can’t find a challenge that’s not because he is extremely intelligent but rather because he is can’t be bothered. That’s OK, we go mad if we ponder too many imponderables.
Where’s Terry Peterson?
My “Kevolution” T-shirt, a Che Guevara T-shirt featuring KRuddy died of old age some years ago unfortunately. I should have bought a few more. Will have to try and pick up a Kevin 07 on EBay.
He also has an enormous penis, John H. The Daily Mail’s Royal Gossip columnist, Driller, has seen and measured it.
(God Almighty, he’s a imbecile).
A million Australians will catch Covid this winter! screams the Seven Newsmouth.
Safe and Effective.
Sri Lanka, Netherlands, Europe, England, US, have all experienced the effect of climate change and alarmism policies in terms of energy costs and shortages and the same for food. It turns out Ghana is well into the same sinking boat with total nation blackouts and food shortages due to implementation of alarmist policies.
And in Australia what is rub and tug furiously pursuing: the same fucking policies which have already failed (assuming these catastrophes were not deliberately planned) in many other nations.
Anyone would think the Covid moneytap had been turned off.
Why yes, yes it has.
Utterly predictable. The only surprising thing is that it’s now a Labor government.
Somehow Groogs on bell ends is immediately more plausible.
OCO, I think plenty of people in the real world — i.e., non-lefties — would like to know if there are shysters publicly campaigning for mainstream values who are actually hypocrites and con artists.
Until the scales fell from her eyes, Lauren Southern had been a naive little girl who had put her trust in hypocrites and con artists, so her story is very useful.
In this instance he does.
Education
Which makes him out of the ordinary.
Pony Girl is calling for another National Cabinet meeting, no doubt to break out the begging bowl.
Where’s Albo?
No, it’s because if you saw what I’ve got, you’d throw yours away.
Ed is a real expert on dicks, he even knows about these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byDiILrNbM4
You’re bumbling your way toward the Hallward / Fester route too Cronkite? Say it ain’t so.
Wow this takes a special type of incompetence:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11008567/Qantas-hit-fresh-blow-plane-gets-BOGGED-tarmac.html
Doing a bit of “research” today and note that not one MSM outlet, other than Sky, Spectator (in Australia) and Fox (in US) is reporting on Hunter’s leaks (from years ago or yesterday).
However, I was pretty annoyed as The Rolling Stone magazine and Snopes both have indignant Op Eds targeted at Tucker on the latest leaks. Not once do either sites question if these leaks are true and what they might mean. They note 4Chan took the content down as soon as it could (without asking why when 4Chan really is a host of last resort).
No, they don’t ask any of these things (even if completely fake it is worth asking right?).
Instead, they launch into a massive, unrelenting attack on Tucker for “inspiring mass shootings” in the US as well as “fueling hate speech.” They, apparently, give ‘historical examples’ of this. They call him “racist” and highlight throughout their articles (in red hyperlinked text) his ‘bigoted past.’
It so laughable that now I know the videos of Hunter are real:
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/tucker-carlson-4-chan-hunter-biden-icloud-hack-1381222/
Oh, but some nobody’s WAG/AFL partner does a line of coke in some Melbourne hotel and it’s top story at every single site and station before it can even be verified…
You’re bumbling your way toward the Hallward / Fester route too Cronkite? Say it ain’t so.
Riiight; so it’s paranoid to accept Klaus and the WEF’s declared plans to de-energise and depopulate the world. You tell me what is currently happening in Sri Lanka, Netherlands, Europe and Ghana etc is not because of WEF and alarmism.
In the meantime Tucker’s analysis of the WEF, it’s agents and useful idiots like the squirrel and the situation in Ghana:
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6309439595112
Lysander
I watched the Tucker show about this. He crossed all the t’s and dotted the “i’s” and it looks like the stories are true about Bunter and “Pedo Pete”. They’ve been selling influence around the world. Honestly, as much as a despise the Hidens, I wish it wasn’t true but it appears to dwarf Watergate.
The one thing I don’t understand, and perhaps a smarter Cat than I can explain, is:
– If we are to believe that the Left is really now into destroying Creepy Joe (as evidence by the NYT’s double hit on him from over the weekend where readership is highest and the claims and quotes they got from staff were fricking unbelievably cutting), then why aren’t they jumping on the Hunter stuff?
The only conclusion I can sensibly come to is that its not just a “Hunter thing,” it’s an “establishment thing” (aka Epstein and friends)… but happy to hear other thoughts…
“Hunter Biden was right.
Dr Jill is a vindictive moron”
(Tucker Carlson, on TCTonight)
Indeed JC, I thought his expose on “selling influence” at the expense of America and Americans was amongst Tucker’s best work, ever. He was absolutely on fire!!!
Mother Lodesays:
July 13, 2022 at 5:43 pm
Mountbatten was a spook, surely.
Indeed, who better to be a spook, hiding in plain sight, than an Admiral of the Fleet in full regalia?
And killed by an IRA bomb, clear evidence of his spookiness.
Cronkite
Focus on exactly the claim those two meatheads (and now you) are claiming. You’re claiming without a shred of evidence that famines materializing around the world are a deliberate attempt to reduce population numbers. And more so, you’ve mentioned specific countries where this is supposed to be occurring. No evidence though for this spectacular occurrence.
Seriously, just let the left go into hallucinations. Try to avoid this crap or at least leave those two idiots to their own hysterics. You’re better than this.
cohenitesays:
July 13, 2022 at 5:47 pm
is that a come on?
If it is, look, pard, i’m flattered, but I gotta say no.
I understand, you’re shy because you’re on the George rather than the Phil side of dicks.
Not for nothing does he rejoice in the title of “Dickless”.
Lysander, the American left hates Tucker Carlson because he’s such an effective enemy — he’s a journalist whose head isn’t full of woke shyte and reports on stuff most Americans care about.
Check out his ratings: no-one is watching the disinformationists on CNN and CNBC. Carlson is killing them.
…
There’s no way back from this. The stain of rank, unfettered cowardice is too great. The entire police department needs to be sacked, then every one of those individuals permanently marked and banished to California.
Then the Uvalde Police need to be dissolved as an entity. The building can stay. Everything in it aside from major fixings goes on the fire, along with everything that says ‘Uvalde Police’ on it. Start again, ground up. Different name, different uniforms, different people and most importantly a different fucking attitude to doing what they are paid – and funded, which are different things – to do.
Totally! I’m always surprised when I log into YouTube and only one day after his show, he’s already got over a million viewers (and that’s only on YouTube and not counting cable viewer, rumble and all the other streaming sites).
I’m absolutely loving watching him daily, particularly with Hiden’s demise (thanks JC for term). I’m getting “so sick of winning” lol! 😛
No evidence though for this spectacular occurrence.
Slow day head prefect?
Naomi Wolf: The CCP Has Infiltrated The American Health System, Covid Injections Produced By CCP
Invited rather than infiltrated.
Carlson must be squeaky clean.
China in Focus – NTD
00:53 Goodbye Shanghai After 16 Years: Covid-19 Curbs Send American Family Packing
03:57 Shanghai Lockdown Stops Locals from Catching Flight
04:30 Covid-19 Sub-variant to Lead Shanghai to Lockdown?
06:02 Australian PM to China: We Don’t Respond to Demands
08:12 Prisoner Killed in China for a Liver: Witness
11:53 China’s New #SwineFlu May Infect Humans: Study
12:56 Heatwaves in Chinese Cities Buckle Roads, Melt Roofs
Joe has been a political whore his entire life, but he musta drew a line in the sand over Ukraine.
Which is disturbing, since Albanese just went to Europe and promised NATO anything they wanted re Ukraine.
Joe won’t get Abe’d, but perhaps Hunter should go into hiding, just to be on the safe side.
The 77-minute clip shows officers rushing into the school just minutes after 18-year-old Ramos began his rampage, but rather than confront him, they stopped and lingered — with one cop in a helmet and vest even seen using a wall-mounted hand sanitizer and checking his phone.
What that tells you is that the entire thing was a fake and no one died.
Which is good news.
Frank, it’s amazing what you can achieve if you just set out to be good at your job.
Like the Victorian Police, you mean?
I’m sure that, depopulating the world is on the top of the agenda but starving people to death these days is not the way to go.
Can’t see it happening.
KD at 6:34.
This is the natural end-game of two years of “frontline heros” and “protect the NHS”.
Incumbents of jobs which formerly would have been expected to take calculated risks in the service of the public are now carefully wrapped in cotton wool.
So here we are.
Primary school kids being slaughtered whilst a copper files his nails.
“Elective” surgery cancelled as nurses hone their Tik-Tok technique.
Nanna not getting her meals and meds in an old folks home because indolent staff can fake a RAT test and take a week off sick.
In a better world they would be charged with dereliction of duty\involuntary manslaughter\culpable negligence. There definitely needs to be a legal action brought against the commanding officer\s.
Been doing a few little jobs today.
So sorry to have missed the Royal Todger Forum.
Fair enough. It’s not my cup of tea, but reasonable minds can differ.
the biden’s aren’t the only corrupt family, investigate one offspring and questions will be asked about the others.
Leads to the Clinton, Kerry, Pelosi and Obama stuff probably. They would just be the headliners.
Snap Zipster.
“Interesting, because that wasn’t Clive James’ opinion of her at all. They had an occasional lunch together and he was both charmed and fascinated, said she was an intelligent conversationalist.”
You’re right Lizzie, Diana was not dumb. I met a cousin of Diana’s back in the mid 1990s (before her tragic death) and she described Diana as someone who’d been poorly educated but had blossomed into a sophisticated and rather cunning woman. She said that Diana’s role in life, being a member of the aristocracy, was to marry well, and as we all know she did marry well but sadly, not happily. Her interests growing up were limited, she loved ballet, swimming and reading romantic novels so that when she married Charles she was a very naive and immature girl. She really though of Charles as her prince charming. However by the time of her death, she was not that same girl of nineteen. Okay, she was no intellectual but that doesn’t mean she was dumb.
Yes. But remember how he had one (or more?) of the intelligence agencies spying on his show a few months back. There is the constant slew of racism accusations and so on but that is to be expected, he would have a dirty great target on his back. The American left in government have a poor record when it comes to bad press. Nothing has come out yet so he must be pretty careful and not be hiding anything drastic.
Elaine
@KalsElaine
Jubilant scenes last night in the French parliament, as Marine Le Pen’s National Rally and Jean-Luc Melenchon’s La France Insoumise defeat Macron’s “Covid pass”.
Katie Hopkins
20mph in Wales, restricted speeds on motorways … all part of the plan to take away our cars
Tucker Carlson: If the US can’t do this, we will be poor
A great many still don’t realise it. The topic came up with someone I know who looked at me in shock when they realised I hadn’t had the jab and said how brave I was. I said they were the brave one to take an experimental drug which didn’t even prevent catching or spreading the illness. Ah, but didn’t I know that the science said it reduced the severity and the likelihood of being hospitalised? What can you say?
And I’m sorry to say that many, many people are still muzzling themselves in the belief that it’s saving them and grandma.
I’m sure that, depopulating the world is on the top of the agenda but starving people to death these days is not the way to go.
Can’t see it happening.
Oh, it won’t be called that. It will be put down to “bad luck” (hat tip Robert A. Heinlein).
Some memes.
I’m sure that, depopulating the world is on the top of the agenda but starving people to death these days is not the way to go.
Can’t see it happening.
I suppose it depends on whether you think the current shits running the world are worse than adolf, stalin, mao etc.
Do you have anything to add? It lends itself to amusing anecdotes or idle speculation.
Cassie
Okay, she was no intellectual but that doesn’t mean she was dumb.
Not a good comparison. Look at a high proportion of “intellectuals” in the western world. They give new meaning to the word “dumb”.
An intelligent person might know that a tomato is a fruit, but it takes a smart person to know not to put tomato in fruit salad. Many western intellectuals probably complain that the tomato makes the chocolate ice cream taste funny.
“Not a good comparison. Look at a high proportion of “intellectuals” in the western world. They give new meaning to the word “dumb”.”
Quite so. In fact we now live in an age of “dumbness”.
cohenite says:
July 13, 2022 at 7:46 pm
Not at all, as a matter of fact, I think some of them are far more evil, if possible, but with current access to instant communications and images, the rest of the world would not stand for it.
Hope I’m right but.
Prince Albert says I got nothing.
If this is really the case then he is also, by definition, totally evil but he would therefore know what he was doing to harm his own nation and the rest of the world. I have long suspected that he was much more than just a useful idiot in the service of global totalitarianism. He is one of its most dedicated mouthpieces.
Vegan activist goes topless in Melbourne CBD. Two points (sorry, bad pun!):
– must have been bloody cold!
– just another loon in that place.
Not at all, as a matter of fact, I think some of them are far more evil, if possible, but with current access to instant communications and images, the rest of the world would not stand for it.
What exactly are the rest of the world citizens going to be able to do about it? The leaders are all in on it.
Let’s just say I need a wheelbarrow.
I never thought I would see a more abject act of cowardice that those Victorian police officers “taking a knee” in front of a howling BLM mob in Melbourne, but then along comes heavily armed Texan police hiding from a murdering mongrel while children are dying in front of their eyes.
How will they ever live with the shame?