Open Thread – Weekend 16 July 2022
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But but……….I thought gerbil warming was out of control and we were all going to die of heat stroke.
Deutsche Bank Now Modeling German Households Chopping Wood To Keep Warm This Winter
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The economics of EVs? What a perfect excuse to revisit one of my favourite ALPBC stories.
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/bernie-getz-burned/news-story/84f89b90f9e1bdbe3f66af869cc07cf3 -
Coupla tuff piggies .. LOL!
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Sorry .. wrong link .. should be this one .. LOL!
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Firewood is very expensive in this part of the world, although we are surrounded by massive forests.
One reason for this, which I found out via a friend who owns a property outside town, is a rule about taking fallen wood. The story is that fallen wood provides ‘habitat’ to critters, and should therefore be left there to fuel future bushfires. My friend could not even gather fallen branches on her own property.
I repeat, we are surrounded by millions of acres of eucalypts, but gathering bushfire fuel is verboten. The devastating fires of recent memory have had no effect on this loony mindset.
They are fanatics.
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Ed Casesays:
July 17, 2022 at 5:32 am
I didn’t realise the Palace Chook was a transvestite male …The ALP and it’s owners [Murdoch Press] have been doing hitjobs on Palaczszuk for a while, hence the awful photos.
She’s 53, most women are shaving their face by then.Edwina
Is this the voice of experience?
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Matersays:
July 17, 2022 at 6:46 am
Anyone up for apologising to M0nty?
Abject groveling not exceeding 500 words should suffice.He can go first.
m0nty
#3136959, posted on August 21, 2019 at 11:07 amA conviction doesn’t made it true Monty.
He is a convicted rock spider, an horrific monster and stands for everything that right-thinking people should reject. Anyone who continues to support him is on the side of evil.
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Thanks for this reminder, Mater.
Dickless
I note that m0nty-fa has not used the word “rockspider” in connection to the alleged rapist of the 10 year old, and has instead pleaded for her to be kept away from any court cases. Double standards?
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Farmer Gezsays:
July 17, 2022 at 7:09 am
So American constitutional abortion rights story of child rape appears not to involve any Americans
The constitution probably doesn’t have a clause to cover that either.Au contraire, the abortion “industry” representatives seem to have been American, exercising their Constitutional rights to rip off the poor.
Probably DemonRats.
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Ed Casesays:
July 17, 2022 at 7:31 am
No Dumbo.
Those who called him a liar over the pregnant 10 y.o. in Ohio.
They might consider apologising.He lied, repeatedly, about the law in Ohio, and only changed tack when the weakness of the link to Roe/Dodds became apparent even to one as dumb as m0nty-fa, but not to you, Dickless.
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She’s 53, most women are shaving their face by then.
Wrong again, Edwina. I’m thirty years on from fifty (hard to believe I can say that) and never a razor near my unblemished and very smooth face and Nordic skin. Oestrogen does it for me. Been on it since my early fifties.
Some women do get facial hair in youth due to polycystic ovarian disease and some get it later in life due to oestrogen deprivation (in my view, though genetics comes into it too). Most women I know of a certain age take care of themselves far more successfully than do many men of a similar vintage.
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Ed Casesays:
July 17, 2022 at 8:09 am
… and your anthropology insights I’d be anonymous too, and desperately so.Knuckle Dragger is yo real name, and you never disparage Aborigines on this blog, is that what yo be sayin’?
That reminds me Dickless, you still haven’t told us what you did to the aborigines to have them burn you out.
PS, good to see that you have stopped using the derogatory abbreviation “Abos”. It was a bit waaaycissst.
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Chinese middle class’ Let It Rot: 150,000+ Homebuyers stop paying on 235+ unfinished projects-Jul 15
As of July 14, 2022, the number of real estate projects on which mortgage loan payments are stopped has increased to 180, including first-tier cities, and the potential value may reach $108 billion US.
Since 2022, the problem of halted construction and uncompleted buildings has worsened across China. Many victims are trying to figure out what to do. Some of them have taken the step to unite and stop repaying their loans en masse.
A vice president of a branch of a joint-stock bank said in an interview with China’s media outlet ??Jiemian News, “Banks dare not make random decisions because the number of people and groups involved is so large that it can easily cause a domino effect and expand the risk instead.”
If more unfinished buildings in China are caught up in the wave of “forced loan suspensions,” coupled with other deep-seated problems in China’s financial system, the chain reaction is likely to become China’s version of the “subprime mortgage crisis. -
Johanna
I repeat, we are surrounded by millions of acres of eucalypts, but gathering bushfire fuel is verboten. The devastating fires of recent memory have had no effect on this loony mindset.
Just days after the 2003 bushfires, with some fires still burning, a bunch of protestors tried to block bulldozers clearing a firebreak near outer Belconnen suburbs.
Idiots.
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It has to be posted again. 15 minutes of conservathot cringe.
Tomi Lahren thinks she is better than other women.
“I’m a go getter”
Your title, career or Ph D can’t have kids.
“Thotiana has nothing else going on, other than she’s pretty”
That is your entire career love. You offer nothing of value. You are neither conservative or libertarian. Conserva Corp maybe, but…
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Which Cinematic Future Dystopia IS NOW
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Transfection agents and turning you into a vaccine factory (from Livestream #133)
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Dotsays:
July 17, 2022 at 9:18 am
Just days after the 2003 bushfires, with some fires still burning, a bunch of protestors tried to block bulldozers clearing a firebreak near outer Belconnen suburbs.They are lucky they did not invite civil disobedience against themselves. They’re more or less arsonists at that point.
IIRC, they were moved, none too gently, out of the way.
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Cut wood yesterday off a grey box that’s dropping big limbs as it’s on its way out.
They don’t call eucalyptus ‘widow makers’ for nothing.
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I thought gerbil warming was out of control and we were all going to die of heat stroke.
Or drowning if you take to the water.
“Always wear a buoyancy aid or life jacket for activities on the water” and, “Only enter the water in areas with adequate supervision and rescue cover”
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A nice Sunday read:
A few excerpts:
St Mary’s Bell Tower captain Margaret Hill said that while bellringing was relatively new in Australia, it was becoming more and more popular among Catholics.
“Bellringing is a very Anglican thing, a lot of Catholics have rung in Anglican churches for a long time, but more recently Catholics have wanted to ring in Catholic churches and many new peals that are going in churches in Australia are in Catholic ones,” she said.
“Catholics are getting a real taste for it and they like it.
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Dean of the Cathedral Fr Don Richardson said the most important aspect of the cathedral bells is the call to praise God, but they are also a very valuable expression of human culture, and of a civilisation built on Christian foundations.“When the bells are ringing, you always see people in Hyde Park and College Street looking up at the cathedral, listening to the pealing and if they make people curious or lift their thoughts above the mundane, then the bells are doing their job,” he said.
“Our bells are expressive of many moods, from the joyful peals of weddings, to the somber dignity of the half-muffled mourning ring, the distinctive triple sounding at the Consecration announcing to even passers-by that Christ is present, to the heroically long peals commemorating great events of Church or State.
“One of the very special things about our cathedral bells is that they are rung by real people, not by machines.
“Only the Angelus bells is automated.
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“Ol’ English Rose” as Rabz has so nicely called me here.
There’s a lot of Norse in us English, Welsh and Scots gals.Trying to decide which shoes to wear to lunch today. Aim is to enhance all-blue look: blue eyes, dress, scarf and beret. Choice boils down to a 30’s style pair of grey and black Louis heels or bright blue suede peep-toe three inch heels, or to go a style alert mix with my new white sneakers featuring a snake-skin star. Will top it all with a vintage astrakhan jacket. Have yet to decide on silver or gold jewellery. Silver looks better with the blues, but gold looks great against the astrakhan, which comes off on arrival of course.
Am leaning towards the on-trend white sneakers, my purchase during a dementing walk through a shoe sale after the Cardiac CT last week. My friend’s house has a short but wide staircase up to her dining room (for the view) and three inch heels might constitute a difficult navigation with no railing that I can remember. I have decided I am of an age to need to consider these things. And before anyone here starts, remember you are never too old for fashion. Or jewellery.
And thank goodness these days we can type the full J word without it causing a site conniption. 🙂
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Daisey Cousens reckons a travel ban to Bali will increase the price of meat.
If she’s saying that graziers are flooding the saleyards with the expectation that Albanese is going to declare an F&T Outbreak in the near future [100% certainty, imo], then a Travel Ban on Bali would tend to raise retail beef prices. -
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Brit bureaucracies go into meltdown”
Heatwaves and the climate of fear
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They don’t call eucalyptus ‘widow makers’ for nothing.
Lemon scented gum, red gum and sugar gum randomly drop limbs.
Old eucalyptuses also drop their limbs but it doesn’t need to be windy.
Grey box is an excellent firewood. It is approximately twice the density of pine and half the density of granite.
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The story is that fallen wood provides ‘habitat’ to critters, and should therefore be left there to fuel future bushfires.
And when a bushfire does inevitably come along – magnified in intensisty several times over due to green bush management policies – they complain about how many critters have been wiped out by anthropogenic global warming.
Misanthropy disguised as conservationism. It needs to be called out publicly.
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Ed Casesays:
July 17, 2022 at 9:47 am
Not usually when they’re 10 or 11 or 12 years old, SpongeBob, though there aren’t that many blacks in California.Once again, never capable of providing an adequate description of the subject matter without prompting. Provide a link to the raw data on ages (unless you just made it up). You are an idiot, Dickless.
What proportion of the California population can be described as “aren’t that many” blacks? You must have the data to hand to make (or is that make up) that statement.
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Bells. My niece in England, daughter of Hairy’s brother, is into campanology.
It is quite a learned skill and takes years of practice. In England in my early adolescence around age eleven I used to sheerly rejoice at the sound of the Sunday bells being rung in the famous old tower on the hill above the gently flowing Avon, all that was left of Evesham Abbey. My nana did char work for the Canon of the Abbey Church and she was given cheap rental in a small rather derelict flat nearby to the tower due to that. She used to go on about the ‘bloody bells’ on her one day of rest, so to avoid her general ire I would hare off to walk the churchyard, taking their dog for a walk under the tower just to hear more of it. My parents were married in that church. Nana sent me to Sunday School in the churchwarden’s house, also nearby. My grandad, as old working men do, shot up as he was in the First World War, used to make up folk tales about the ‘lost Silver Bells of Evesham’, buried during the Civil War under the ruined summer house at the end of the communal garden of our flats, which were medieval in origin.
All of that was pulled down in the mid-60’s including the grand medieval carriage way and its huge black door over which was the bedroom my mother and we three children stayed in, while Nana and Granddad slept in a temporary iron bed in the gloomy cold attic for the eighteen months of our stay. My Aunty had the only other bedroom, a tiny one off the landing of the stairs. Other than that, there was only the kitchen downstairs, with its fuel range and granddad’s battered wing chair next to that, from which he used to hold court to me. When I was thirteen this old hero left me a hundred pounds in his will from his pension money. I gave it to my mother, which I think was not his intention. A large supermarket loading dock now stands over where the silver bells were said to be.
If they were found then, no-one ever mentioned it.
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Need a Groogle check to see if the flamers were spooks.
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Lovin’ the media hysteria about a few warmish days in the UK.
That they all head to southern France or Italy or the Costa Del Sol for holidays is ignored.
Meanwhile, it’s coolish down here in the Canberra region, although not as cold as in other years. It’s currently 10.5C and sunny, slight breeze.
Not too bad for mid-winter.
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This morning Outsiders had a very interesting and worthwhile person on as a guest, Professor Ralph Schoellhammer from Webster University. The professor nailed many things about the left and elites across the West but one thing he said is sooooooo true….think of how many progressives, who would never ever put up an American or Australian flag in any of their social media profiles now have Ukrainian flags in their profiles. So nowadays you can be nationalistic for Ukraine but you dare not be nationalistic for the US or Oz.
Ukrainian nationalism = noble and okay
Australian or American nationalism = Nazi, far-right, white supremacist
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July 17, 2022 at 9:31 am
Daisey Cousens reckons a travel ban to Bali will increase the price of meat.
If she’s saying that graziers are flooding the saleyards with the expectation that Albanese is going to declare an F&T Outbreak in the near future [100% certainty, imo], then a Travel Ban on Bali would tend to raise retail beef prices.The saleyard pricing has been highly volatile for months now.
Those holding onto stock believing the shit show produced by government covid regulations would end quickly are realising that a long slow strangulation is more likely.
Saleyard prices have fallen without F&M and many, including myself, are seriously looking at cutting back joining or buying replacement breeders. The sale prices for breeding sheep had been very poor for a while.
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What proportion of the California population can be described as “aren’t that many” blacks? You must have the data to hand to make (or is that make up) that statement.
You’re pettifogging again, to deflect from previous hysterically indefensible comments you’ve made.
But, hey, you reckon I’m lying, so you must have some, uh, evidence to help your case, right?
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….think of how many progressives, who would never ever put up an American or Australian flag in any of their social media profiles now have Ukrainian flags in their profiles.
And a year ago they couldn’t have pointed Ukraine out on a map without some difficulty.
It’s actually a good example of the other-directed personality type which sociologist David Reisman saw coming into existence mid-20th C in his classic, ‘The Lonely Crowd’:
… the “other-directed” individual emerges. His life is in large part shaped by “peer groups” of persons whom he resembles in age, social class, or otherwise, and he adjusts his values to conform to those of his group in a constant process of change.
Soical media is their natural habitat.
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Anyhoo, where was I?
Ah, yes. Well, Captain Detmer was setting the field, and he said that young Bert Irongloves should be wicky. Now Bert had mutton-chop sideburns, which was the fashion back in the day for young men about town. Well, because he had the mutton-chop sideburns, we would josh him by calling him Burnsie (which was short for sideburns).
Now, this got very confusing, because there was another chap called Burns on the team who also wanted to be wicky. But he wasn’t really on the team. He was the substitute. Pale skinned guy, so we used to call him “the white sub”.
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Saleyard prices have fallen… and many, including myself, are seriously looking at cutting back joining or buying replacement breeders …
Okay.
How can you say that the fear of an F&M outbreak isn’t a factor in falling prices or the cutting back?
My experience has been that when the Press floats some idea/possibility/whatever, that’s the softening up process and it becomes reality further down the track. -
… the “other-directed” individual emerges. His life is in large part shaped by “peer groups” of persons whom he resembles in age, social class, or otherwise, and he adjusts his values to conform to those of his group in a constant process of change.
… the “other-directed” individual emerges …
This is just waffle.
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How can you say that the fear of an F&M outbreak isn’t a factor in falling prices or the cutting back?
I’m not saying it isn’t or won’t be but it hasn’t been a big factor so far in price falls.
Cousens said prices will rise with a travel ban, now that’s highly unlikely with the other factors I’ve mentioned. -
Your ABC is famous overseas…………………………………warning the video is somewhat confronting.
The Daily Mail describes the ABCQueer channel as directed at a “queer youth audience” and features the titled, “Masturbation with Dr. Naomi Koh Belic.” The masturbation post has the doctor telling Instagram viewers a plethora of self-gratification details ranging from “Masturbating is good for you” to “Masturbating can even prevent cervical and urinary tract infections for folks with vaginas.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/taxpayer-funded-abc-extols-virtues-of-masturbation-for-queer-youth
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Ed Casesays:
July 17, 2022 at 5:36 am
Both the Mom and the Guatemalan are illegal immigrants, the 10 y.o. is likely an American Citizen by birth.Anyone up for apologising to M0nty?
Abject groveling not exceeding 500 words should suffice.…
Ed Casesays:
July 17, 2022 at 7:31 am
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Those who called him a liar over the pregnant 10 y.o. in Ohio.
They might consider apologising.Why? The fat dissembling idiot tried to verbal us by saying we’d said that the story was fake. We’d actually said it was highly probable that the story was either fake or a beatup.
Beatup is still the clear front runner, for reasons first articulated by johanna.
If they’d fronted up to an Ohio hospital Ohio’s laws on mandatory reporting of child abuse would have got the boyfriend into big trouble. Given what the Ohio abortion law really is, as opposed to the bogus version trumpeted in the media and parrotted unthinkingly by m0nty till the cluebat was applied, the Dobbs decision looks less like the real cause than like a convenient excuse to front up at an interstate baby killing facility to try to avoid criminal charges back home. (Which may well have succeeded if the grandstanding Indianapolis abortionist hadn’t commandeered the story for the “keep abortionists rich” campaign.) -
““Masturbating can even prevent cervical and urinary tract infections for folks with vaginas.””
Note the word “folks”. As we all know, only biological women have vaginas. Not “folks”.
Oh and this is the same ABCESS that the Morrison government, in its death rattling last few months, threw more money at.
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Not sure if anyone has posted about this, but ..
Steve Kates has had a stroke.He reports he is out of hospital, but typing difficult.
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A menu of age of consent options, in case you are a nonce.
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Given what the Ohio abortion law really is, as opposed to the bogus version trumpeted in the media and parrotted unthinkingly by m0nty till the cluebat was applied, the Dobbs decision looks less like the real cause than like a convenient excuse to front up at an interstate baby killing facility to try to avoid criminal charges back home.
The enabling, morally weak mother of course should be charged too along with the enabling, child abusing, child abuse “doctor” and the child raping “father”.
What a sick story to pin your “all Republicon robots hate da wahmen beep boop” nonsense onto.
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