Open Thread – Weekend 23 July 2022


Autumn Landscape Park in Pavlovsk, Ivan Shishkin, 1888

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cohenite
July 23, 2022 7:15 pm

I’ll do it tomorrow and mention your comment above.

Tell them to get fucked for me but say it in Arabic (???? ?????) so by the time they decipher it your comment will have been up for a while.

rosie
rosie
July 23, 2022 7:17 pm

The msm report on anything that gets eyeballs, and in fact the death of Paul Hannan came directly from an msm source.
And young people can get lung cancer.
I’m going to keep an eye on those names because outside 4chan and usual suspects the first three don’t get a whisper online, not a single death notice or funeral parlour announcement.
Twitterati are all blaming 4th boosters, seems likely.

JC
JC
July 23, 2022 7:24 pm

Sure thing, Cronkite.

I guess you have to register and I can’t be fucked doing it tonight

Rabz
July 23, 2022 7:26 pm

Paul Ryder, RIP

At their best – the English Roses in this clip are just phenomenal … 🙂

Tom
Tom
July 23, 2022 7:27 pm

Wine is gross!

…says the bloke who drinks cat’s piss.

JC
JC
July 23, 2022 7:28 pm

It’s: ??? ??? ???? ?????
Or

aihsul ealaa maris aljins

Also calling someone the C word is:

??? ?????

Or

‘ant eahiratan

Rabz
July 23, 2022 7:30 pm

Happy Mondays – You’re twisting my melon, man … 😕

JC
JC
July 23, 2022 7:31 pm
bespoke
bespoke
July 23, 2022 7:32 pm

…says the bloke who drinks cat’s piss.

Err iv only ever tried 4X once.

Rabz
July 23, 2022 7:38 pm

The Ryder Brothers announce themselves

Trigger warning: No flying rats were harmed in the making of this film.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 23, 2022 7:42 pm

Gez at 5:41.
Patton’s bleating about the Cleary’s sentence was predictable and probably something we have all done. It’s just that he is so selective about which sentences he criticises.
I was more concerned about Patton refusing to accept a jury verdict in the Jason Roberts murder case after VikPlod had been found to have “enhanced” statements at the first trial.

132andBush
132andBush
July 23, 2022 7:50 pm

Guy is intent on leading the Libs over yet another cliff.

The Libs have become exactly what Labor wanted them to become, this can no longer be in doubt.

JC
JC
July 23, 2022 7:51 pm

Cronkers

Here:

jc4321

This would have to be one of the most diabolically misleading posts ever on this site. Abernathy Trenberth (along with other “diabolicals”) was badly caught out in the famous email scandal as it showed just what dishonest alarmists they were.

Trenberth now has the hide to peddle the nonsense we could survive just using plastic panels and windmills in energy production to maintain a healthy industrial civilization. What a laughable hallucinating idiot. Anyone ask him about nuclear energy at the very least.

Other people have commented on this mendacious clown elsewhere:

“Trenberth admitted in the emails that the models got it wrong and the heat was missing, something he never says publicly. He’s never made a correct prediction, was involved in the hide the decline which was basic because it meant the estimates of previous temperatures based on tree rings were wrong and statements about current heat being exceptional had no basis. He and other idiots attempted to explain away the fact that atmospheric temperatures were much less then predicted by claiming the missing heat was at the bottom of the ocean, which in turn was wrong also.”

JC
JC
July 23, 2022 7:55 pm

Cha cha, Real Smooth, Dover.

Bar Beach Swimmer
July 23, 2022 7:55 pm

Rosie:
I’m going to keep an eye on those names because outside 4chan and usual suspects the first three don’t get a whisper online, not a single death notice or funeral parlour announcement

I’ll back in Steve Kirsch any day of the week. Steve’s email linked to Dr Brian Lenzkes’ Twitter – he was the one who reported the deaths and included the emails with photos from the hospital.

(I see you’re doing the work of giants there Rosie with your 4chan reference – with that support of the narrative maybe you could get a job as Sutton’s right hand (wo)man.)

Rabz
July 23, 2022 8:03 pm

Smooth as a (redacted), Doves … 😕

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 23, 2022 8:10 pm

Eyrie earlier.
I think you probably know the difference between “Mayday” (defined as “grave and imminent” danger) and declaring “Minimum Fuel” or a “Fuel Shortage Emergency” which is simply flagging that action might be needed to avoid the situation getting worse.
In any case, that is not the central point.
Brucey’s concern that the (cough) “emergency” might have been driven by inexperienced refuellers or Qantas penny-pinching is simply not supportable.

Vicki
Vicki
July 23, 2022 8:10 pm

Lizzie: re childhood books & getting older –

Yes it is interesting to look back over a long & productive life & ponder how things have turned out. Still love my books but spend more and more time on the computer. Such is life. Currently reading Ian Plimer’s “Green Murder”. Met him a few years ago. What a prodigious scholar. How could any Greenie summon an argument against his wealth of knowledge?

There have been some tragedies (hopefully no more especially in relation to these accursed vaccines) & many many blessings.

It was lovely to meet you and Hairy & other Cats recently. We wish you the best for your birthday and may there be many more.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 23, 2022 8:12 pm

This is big, if true.
🙂

chrisl
chrisl
July 23, 2022 8:12 pm

With all due respect to the residents of Dapto, Logan, Broadmeadows,Elizabeth , and wherever the hell Shaterzzz lives, I would say that EVERY SINGLE DAY The Tour de France has more interesting scenery than ANYTHING IN AUSTRALIA !
The river, the bridge , the castle then the cathedral
EVERY SINGLE DAY
What does Australia have ?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

What does Australia have ?

Lotsa countries in that same boat
Now do Malaysia, then PNG, then South Africa, then Congo, then Canada.

Good point though. We should really get a move on with the building of castles, monasteries, etc.

rosie
rosie
July 23, 2022 8:19 pm

I don’t see any need to be nasty BBS.
I read through the 4chan thread and even there there were people who though the ‘memos’ were fake.
No side in this is free of exaggerations, lies and deception, we’ve seen it time and time again with unclear death statistics and government claims about the death of young people with covid, and on the other side starting with the teenager in Sydney who had a serious heart condition claimed as a vaxx death, several suicides reclassified as vaxx deaths, 90% of New Zealand mothers miscarrying, yesterday there a story was apparently a dead 2 month old given a full dose of the pfizer vaxx in February 2021 in a ‘foreign’ location reported to vaers in September 2021 now doing the rounds as proof that toddlers are dying.
It never stops.
I’d like to see something more credible that a screen shot of three memos with ID photos.
And I would hate to see the cat as a place where every ludicrous claim was accepted at face value because so and so said so.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 23, 2022 8:27 pm

We should really get a move on with the building of castles, monasteries, etc.

We do have the King of Norway.
Presumably he has a castle.

Winston Smith
July 23, 2022 8:28 pm

rickw:

Yep. People at work starting to get unnerved at the number of strokes and heart attacks. Per previous post, now seems that at least some medicos are attempting to put distance and the mother of all fuck ups “yep, your heart attack is vax related”.

Yep all adults should be taking aspirin and a Beta Blocker daily even if they aren’t vaccinated.

Rabz
July 23, 2022 8:29 pm

What does Australia have?

The Royal National Park. One of the greatest drives on this planet.

calli
calli
July 23, 2022 8:31 pm

Did a six week driving holiday through the guts of the country – something new to see, whether it was plants or animals or landform. Even the uniformity of some vast stretches was unique.

And the ever-changing sky and funny little towns or even a pub out in the middle of nowhere.

It’s just different but still beautiful. I suppose it’s all about what you’re looking for.

Bar Beach Swimmer
July 23, 2022 8:32 pm

I’m not ruling out that wild claims have been made on both sides. But on more than one occasion you’ve insinuated that it is only one side that has the mortgage on conspiracy theories.

If you are unsure in your search and can’t find a creditable report, by all means say so, but don’t bring up 4chan as your “go-to” response.

Frank
Frank
July 23, 2022 8:34 pm

What does Australia have?

The opening ceremony of the 2000 Olympics pretty much touched on all the major highlights.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 23, 2022 8:42 pm

What does Australia have?

Important to remember that the TdF isn’t a continuous route.
Stages are constructed partially on cycling considerations, but partially with TV travelogue content in mind.
Imagine a three week cycling tour of Australia with stages from Queensland down to Tassie.

Winston Smith
July 23, 2022 8:47 pm

What does Australia have?

We have the Gunbarrel Highway, decorated by dead Kangaroos.
Try riding a treadly across that, in Summer.

Mater
July 23, 2022 8:48 pm

What does Australia have?

It used to be the people. Laconic, laid back, sceptical and friendly.
No longer.
Now they are generally as sharp, prickly and nasty as most of our flora.
Now they are generally as dumb and mindless as most of our fauna.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 23, 2022 8:50 pm

Rabzsays:
July 23, 2022 at 8:29 pm
What does Australia have?

The Royal National Park. One of the greatest drives on this planet.

Rumour has it that that drive (and others through National Parks) will soon only be open to electric cars.

shatterzzz
July 23, 2022 8:51 pm

Watched .. GRAY MAN .. thoroughly enjoyable .. 10/10 …….

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
July 23, 2022 8:52 pm

Collingwood black armbands tomorrow.

Billy Picken brown bread. And Con Britt from a decade before.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 23, 2022 8:52 pm

Now they are generally as sharp, prickly and nasty as most of our flora.

Are not.
Fuck off.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 23, 2022 8:53 pm

Or maybe we are.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 23, 2022 8:54 pm

Sancho – Dunno why you’re going to bat for Qaintarse. I’ve disliked them since the late nineties. Only flew Qantas when I had to. The food sucked, the wine sucked and the service was mediocre. The Irishman doesn’t help either.

bespoke
bespoke
July 23, 2022 8:56 pm

‘Just another Thursday’

chrisl
chrisl
July 23, 2022 9:00 pm

And a follow up question…
Is there ONE building in Australia that you would pay money to see?
A nice place to live but I wouldn’t want to visit

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

We do have the King of Norway.
Presumably he has a castle.

Oh yeah, Castle Pentridge.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 23, 2022 9:08 pm

Bruce of Newcastlesays:

July 23, 2022 at 8:54 pm

Sancho – Dunno why you’re going to bat for Qaintarse

Err, I’m not.
I don’t fly with them either, mostly due to ticket price.
But any suggestion that the non-event “fuel emergency” was the product of Q penny-pinching or refuelling staff incompetence is ludicrous.
Are you suggesting that every aircraft should be filled to the brim with fuel for every flight?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 23, 2022 9:11 pm

Oh yeah, Castle Pentridge.

Please.
It’s the ‘Winter Palace’ if you don’t mind.
BTW, Pentridge hasn’t housed prisoners for a very long time.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 23, 2022 9:12 pm

Billy Picken brown bread.

No mention of cause?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 23, 2022 9:21 pm

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
July 23, 2022 at 1:35 pm
Only survivor of 25 nurses driven into the sea and massacred by Japanese soldiers, 1942

Shooting them wasn’t all that the Japanese did to them.

I suggest you download and read 364 pages of The Knights of Bushido – A Short History of Japanese War Crimes

Have a look at diagrams on page 168 – https://www.pdfdrive.com/the-knights-of-bushido-a-short-history-of-japanese-war-crimes-e157336467.html

There was a news segment on Channel 7 tonight on Australian History Students visiting Hiroshima – nothing about the lives saved by not having to invade Japan – They should read Knights of Bushido and Scourge of the Swastika to know Man’s Inhumanity to Man

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 23, 2022 9:25 pm

We got the Big Banana, Sunshine Coast had the Big Pineapple but its been relocated to the rear entry of the populace of Danistan. Lots of other Bigs as well. Saw some Zachary’s looking at the Big Merino in Goulburn, had puzzled looks as to why?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

It’s the ‘Winter Palace’ if you don’t mind.
BTW, Pentridge hasn’t housed prisoners for a very long time.

Apologies, my knowledge may be out of date, it is some time since I’ve swotted up on the assets of the Norwegian Royal Estate.

cohenite
July 23, 2022 9:27 pm

jc4321

I’d give it no more than 1 minute before the scumbags take it down.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 23, 2022 9:29 pm

There was a news segment on Channel 7 tonight on Australian History Students visiting Hiroshima

I know a Social Justice Warrior, who visited Hiroshima, and was appalled that “anyone could do this to women and children.”

Said S.J.W, Father, a veteran of the Burma Railway, regarded it as a pity that the Yanks stopped at two bombs….

Harlequin Decline
July 23, 2022 9:31 pm

What does Australia have?

I’ve seen the sights-

The big banana, the big sheep, the big prawn,the big crab, the big mango, the big ant, the big galah to mention just a few.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 23, 2022 9:32 pm

No mention of cause?

Unconfirmed reports are of a boating mishap.

He bought a 16 footer, cheap. A Hartley. Death traps.

Frank
Frank
July 23, 2022 9:32 pm

There is a big spud somewhere too. I was told that it isn’t very exciting.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 23, 2022 9:33 pm

I’m loving this

Big Quote Font.

132andBush
132andBush
July 23, 2022 9:33 pm

Is there ONE building in Australia that you would pay money to see?

A traditional indigenous grain storage.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

OldOzzie says: July 23, 2022 at 9:21 pm

Thanks Old Ozzie.
The main source for my comment was On Radji Beach.
I’ve actually got got a dustjacketed hardback copy of both Scourge of the Swastika and Knights of Bushido in my office.
Lord Russell of Liverpool’s two books are among the few of which I’ve bought two copies. The first ones I bought when I was young & broke, so they’re cheaply glued paperbacks with broken spines & pages falling out.
They’re currently sitting on the shelf between E.B. Sledge’s books & those by Airey Neave.
(My bookshelf pattern ain’t exactly standard Dewey Decimal)

132andBush
132andBush
July 23, 2022 9:36 pm

Yes,
I’m a cheapskate.

calli
calli
July 23, 2022 9:38 pm

I pay money to see old homesteads like Dundullimal and Lanyon. They fascinate me.

Franx
Franx
July 23, 2022 9:39 pm

As I read it: Struth lost the struggle to save the body from the tyranny of the jab, that piece of bodily invasion which was and is emblematic of tyranny itself.
A lesser man would not now be struggling to save the jabbed from being deluded about their being jabbed. A stylistically strident voice in the wilderness is bound to be disturbing, though. Not naice. But for all that, there is more hope in that voice than in the siren lure of booster options and the world of wonders they promise.

and
and
July 23, 2022 9:39 pm

I’ve seen the sights-

The big banana, the big sheep, the big prawn,the big crab, the big mango, the big ant, the big galah to mention just a few.

So, you’re saying you visited Parliament House?

calli
calli
July 23, 2022 9:42 pm

So, you’re saying you visited Parliament House?

AKA The Big Bullsh*t.

Don’t step in it.

Harlequin Decline
July 23, 2022 9:46 pm

As it turns out I have, plenty of useless big …’s there.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 23, 2022 9:48 pm

The main source for my comment was On Radji Beach.

One of the stories that reached young ears, way back when, was the story of a group of Japanese war criminals, who were facing execution for an atrocity similar to the Banka Island murders.

Their request to be shot was rejected – they were to be hanged like common criminals. The hangman arrived drunk – wasn’t too fussy about how he placed the noose, and they could dance a little jig, while they thought about what they had done to those Aussie girls…

bespoke
bespoke
July 23, 2022 9:48 pm

I pay money to see old homesteads

Lots in on the way to Broken Hill.

chrisl
chrisl
July 23, 2022 9:54 pm

Salvatore Would you believe Pentridge has been turned into a housing estate! Dreary townhouse after dreary townhouse . And some ugly four story buildings . And two twenty storey buildings. Plus a cafe and a cinema.

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
July 23, 2022 9:55 pm

Err iv only ever tried 4X once.

Also known as “bubbling”. Todd Carney couldn’t be reached for comment.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 23, 2022 9:56 pm

Big quote font.
Would have been handy for the odd …

Get Fucked Bananaby

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 23, 2022 9:56 pm

Plus a cafe and a cinema.

What did they do with the gallows?

bespoke
bespoke
July 23, 2022 10:00 pm

I’m motivated enough without some self appointed git turning it into a circus, thanks.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

chrisl says: July 23, 2022 at 9:54 pm

Salvatore Would you believe Pentridge has been turned into

I’d believe anything.
Pentridge is only a (well known) word to me. I’m from thousands of miles away. Not only in another state, but in reality, in entirely different dominion (so to speak)
Until the arrival of fast internet & the ability to search up images, I would not have been able to recognise a single Melbourne landmark. I’d never seen Melbourne on a map, excepting a map of the whole country of Australia.

In fact, I wasn’t entirely sure when I posted the above comment, that Pentridge was even in Victoria.

MatrixTransform
July 23, 2022 10:04 pm

GRAY MAN .. thoroughly enjoyable

was pretty good but got a bit woke in the end when the Uterus was cast as all-seeing and all-knowing

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 23, 2022 10:04 pm

Country star John Rich has released his new anti-woke anthem, the ironically titled “Progress,” which has reached the No. 1 spot on iTunes’ country music chart after the singer promoted the single on former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform.

“Progress,” which was written by John Rich along with Jeffrey Steele and Vicky McGehee, strikes a defiant stance against the left-wing, progressive policies that have led to the U.S.’s precipitous decline under President Joe Biden. The song’s refrain encapsulate Rich’s fed-up attitude:

Stick your progress where the sun don’t shine

Keep your big mess away from me and mine

If you leave us alone, well we’d all be just fine

Stick your progress where the sun don’t shine.

cohenite
July 23, 2022 10:14 pm

Check your email head prefect

Dot
Dot
July 23, 2022 10:20 pm

A Winter Palace from Chopper’s Arabian Nights

(Key change)

No white whales on the ocean
No gems from the Gillard Age

Dot
Dot
July 23, 2022 10:23 pm

Get Fucked Bananaby

Midsomer Berghers have never been so angry, besides when the racially diverse abrosexual gay couple….tried to install an all glass and pine shingle abomination worthy of Grand Designs.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
July 23, 2022 10:24 pm

New music video from Five Finger Death Punch. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIkynbL3brQ )
To recap, FFDP have for a long time been advocates for defense force veterans and raising awareness of suicides by the same, and their songs are mainly metal-sounding, angry, resilient.

So what’s the new one like?
In “these times” of unnamed threats and causes of sorrow, the brave warriors of Five Finger Death Punch suggest…fading away!
Giving up and rolling up into a little ball.
The music video ends with no sign of any troublemakers and legions of robot stormtroopers covering the streets.

Did DARPA buy the band? This really feels like a bait-and-switch in a culture war.

Indolent
Indolent
July 23, 2022 10:25 pm
Indolent
Indolent
July 23, 2022 10:29 pm
P
P
July 23, 2022 10:35 pm

Ronald Ryan was hanged at Pentridge on 3/2/67. My 27th birthday.
I was at home with my first born, a premature baby who we were able to take home on Christmas Eve 1966 although still not quite the required 6lb.
I was very much affected by the Ryan hanging. I think it may have been because as a new mother I had experienced the precious miracle of birth.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 23, 2022 10:39 pm

And maybe a bit because Ryan didn’t murder a member of your immediate family, too, eh?

JC
JC
July 23, 2022 10:43 pm

cohenite says:
July 23, 2022 at 9:27 pm
jc4321

I’d give it no more than 1 minute before the scumbags take it down.

3 hours later it’s still there. No one’s checking maybe.

I checked my email. The only unread email just received was artnet news.

P
P
July 23, 2022 10:45 pm

Sancho,
I do not know how to answer you but to say that I felt sick at the time of the hanging and the thought of it ever since.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 23, 2022 10:49 pm

The only thing which makes me sick about the Ryan hanging was the way the left relentlessly leveraged it to push murder sentences down to 8-10 year minimums.

Harlequin Decline
July 23, 2022 10:53 pm

Great win by the Western Bulldogs, Areff will be happy.

JC
JC
July 23, 2022 10:56 pm

Sancho Panzer says:
July 23, 2022 at 9:12 pm
Billy Picken brown bread.
No mention of cause?

Gee. God’s honest truth. He was a school friend. He came to Melbourne High on a scholarship. The deal was he’d play in the school team on Wednesday and Collingwood could have him Saturday.

I liked him. He was a silly country kid but wasn’t an arrogant arsehole like the other the VFL players.
We lost touch after 12th year.
There was an amazing bunch of players in the same year. Phil Manassa, Picken , Bob Flower who’s also deadsky. A few others too. Manassa was just a total prick but too big to fight.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 23, 2022 11:06 pm

So you didn’t stuff Phil Manassa in a locker then, JC?

Jorge
Jorge
July 23, 2022 11:12 pm

Reg Chard’s account of finding the bodies of twenty or so women in a clearing along the Kokoda Track after they’d been held prisoners for a hellish period has been questioned, as mentioned upthread. He says the story was hushed up out of respect for the women. “Nobody knows their names. But I know who they were.” Surely there must be something somewhere that confirms (or not ) his story. Graves ? Staff records ? Transfers ? Missing persons ? Disappearances ? It’s a horrifying and distressing story not helped by someone holding back important information that might help confirm what he says.

JC
JC
July 23, 2022 11:13 pm

Sanchez

Ummm no. We were 16 ish. Manassa was about 18 and built like a 25 year old. Man, he was a mean fuckhead.

Picken wasn’t bright and neither was Manassa. In fact they were pretty stupid from what I recall . Bob Flower was actually a smart dude.

These fuckers were there on sports scholarships and not for their smarts.

cohenite
July 23, 2022 11:17 pm

I checked my email.

Well I sent you something on the old email but it bounced.

Your statement was good except for the fact I made a mistake when I said that trenberth did not address his secret email publicly:

The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.

Of course he prevaricated with bullshit but note that; see here.

Send me a link to the conversation; I’ve lost it.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 24, 2022 12:16 am

Liz for lord’s sake, I was being nice trying to add a little humour. The comment was meant to be lighthearted.

OK JC. I mistook your intentions. I take it back about you being a grumpy old man. I have a secret feeling that you are probably something of a charmer and you can take me to lunch one day.

I must admit that when a glamorous friend at the lunch party ‘the girls’ put on for me grabbed me in a bear hug and said, with enthusiasm, darling you don’t look a day over forty-nine, I didn’t take offense. I just didn’t quite believe her, because everyone else was calling sixtyish. Even the onlookers at the restaurant, who saw the tethered helium balloon on the table calling 80 and who were murmuring to themselves about it. I also blew out the candles in one go. But there were only two of them. lol.

So I guess it depends on the direction in which the observation moves that matters.

Down is good. 🙂

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 24, 2022 12:32 am

Saw the last episode of Peaky Blinders Series 2 tonight, and as ever with this series, the end was a humdinger of a twist. So of course we had to watch episode 1 of Series 3 as well, hence a late nite again.

Spoiler alert: Sam Neil’s character met his deserved end though, which happens in these sorts of sagas; you lose a few who have held the thing together early on. Just as we lost Matthew early on in Downton Abbey and, as expected, King Alfred in The Last Kingdom.
Keeps the scriptwriters on their toes, I always say.

I wonder too about these TV series: I think I am attracted to manly but wayward men: Doran in Fauda, Uhtred in The Last Kingdom, Tom in Downton Abbey and now Tommy Shelbey in Peaky Blinders.
Me and most of the female viewing population, that is. And although not manly, I think we all feel a tenderness towards Roman, the quip-smart man-child in Succession whereas Kendall just gets on our nerves.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 24, 2022 12:35 am

Finan is the smart-quipper in The Last Kingdom. On Bernard Cornwall’s website the women fans have all begged this author never to kill off Finan, a feisty little Irish warrior whom we all love to bits as well.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 24, 2022 12:37 am

G’nite all.

Winston Smith
July 24, 2022 1:36 am

Calli:

It’s just different but still beautiful. I suppose it’s all about what you’re looking for.

One of the most beautiful sights I’ve seen was the run south down the Great Northern Highway. A section of about 20 -30 km runs down a valley with mountains both sides.
I came over a hill to the north as the sun was setting and the road was in the shadow, with the mountains catching the last rays of the sun. Like driving down a tunnel with the red rock glowing in the shadow seemingly floating in the air either side.
I must go down there again if only to get the photos.

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
July 24, 2022 1:46 am

There’s a stretch of the south coast road, past Manjimup going to Walpole where that happens too Winston- particularly in December and January, when late sun goes over the top of the trees and road, and lights up the golden hill paddocks to the east, like passing clouds. Wondrous passage, and all the more precious because it is ephemeral.

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
July 24, 2022 1:48 am

Anyhoo, i’ve fled the city and just pulled up home in Dalibrook. Cold, wet, dark… but nothing is better than the home stretch.
I might even let doggo in by the fire for the night….

Winston Smith
July 24, 2022 1:51 am

ZK2A:

Their request to be shot was rejected – they were to be hanged like common criminals. The hangman arrived drunk – wasn’t too fussy about how he placed the noose, and they could dance a little jig, while they thought about what they had done to those Aussie girls…

Excellent stuff.
Germany confessed to its crimes, paid restitution, and teaches its kids what happens when the lunatics take over. Japan refuses to even acknowledge the comfort women and other crimes, and refuses to mention the atrocities in its formal schooling. Then paints itself as the victim of the bombings.
I can forgive the Germans, but not the Japanese or Russians.

struth
struth
July 24, 2022 1:54 am

Old grumpy woman and a few other arrogant nuff nuffs have it in their minds that I come here to seek their approval and to gain their support…and love to tell me that I won’t be getting it by calling a spade a spade.
It never enters their delusional minds that the sane wouldn’t be looking for the support of the useless .
I’m not even looking for support at all.
But you might….although you won’t. ……consider your own behaviours over the last two years which have caused not just myself to have lost all respect for some here.
Think of it as getting back all that you deserve for I …..the nanna killer and tin foil hat conspiracy theorist of 2020 doesnt forget and aren’t nice enough to forgive.
You’re on the wrong side of history fuckers.
You’re deluded and in denial.
And jabbed…….not a lot of grey matter there.
But always remember. ……you have proven yourselves to be useless and compliant and there’s no good reason on earth anyone for any reason would be looking for the support of losers.

Yet it’s the deluded arrogance one expects from certain types here.
Here is a serious question as I truly don’t know the answer.
And it does interest me.
Do you remember your behavior in 2020?
Do you remember or has this delusion you live under wiped it away so you can live with yourselves?
Or all conveniently forgotten?
Back then some now jabbed idiots ridiculed the shit out of anyone suggesting we put a head above the parapet and not comply with tyranny.
Or that I was going to kill nanna by playing music in pubs.
I could go on.
And will with glee if made to.
My memory of quite a few here is solid.
You get the struth of 2022 due to your behavior over the last two years deserving zero respect.
You want that forgotten.
Now the facts are proving to be on my side.
Making me hated by those who have been wrong all along.

If I was looking for support it wouldn’t be in this looney bin.
Talk about tickets on yourselves.
Catch a cold.

Winston Smith
July 24, 2022 2:07 am

Dot:

No white whales on the ocean
No gems from the Gillard Age

Bugger you – I just had to play that Icehouse track ‘No Promises’ again.

Winston Smith
July 24, 2022 2:23 am
struth
struth
July 24, 2022 2:24 am

And for those that wonder why my approach is such I point to more polite posters who have been posting tonnes of information daily here for a long time now ….It’s just that it happens to be the information the denialists don’t want to know.
It should be as obvious as tits on a bull that the wilful blindness to these posts shows a level of mental illness that cannot be denied.
I just happen to know that right wingers have lived their lives believing they have great bullshit detectors and to admit their pure gullibility and what that has led them to do to themselves has caused quite the mental implosion.
Mass denialism.

Winston Smith
July 24, 2022 2:25 am

Hounded to his death by the Democrats:

J6 Defendant Mark Aungst Who Pled Guilty to “Parading in US Capitol” Commits Suicide Before Sentencing

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/j6-defendant-mark-aungst-pled-guilty-parading-commits-suicide-sentencing/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=the-gateway-pundit&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=2022-07-23

Winston Smith
July 24, 2022 2:30 am

From the American Sea Power Project:
https://mailchi.mp/usni/american-sea-power-project-july2022?e=a45c238c92

In the second year of the American Sea Power Project, we’re zeroing in on the application of sea power in the face of Chinese and Russian behavior that is increasingly assertive, expansionist, revisionist, and maritime. This month’s article defines the essential role of alliances and coalitions. As Winston Churchill so aptly put it: “The only thing worse than fighting with allies is fighting without them.”

Tom
Tom
July 24, 2022 4:00 am
bespoke
bespoke
July 24, 2022 5:20 am
feelthebern
feelthebern
July 24, 2022 5:43 am

Today I learned when Stalin’s daughter defected it was a Qantas flight that got her from India to Rome.
I wonder why Qantas doesn’t celebrate that moment in history.
@sarc

lotocoti
lotocoti
July 24, 2022 6:42 am
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 24, 2022 6:54 am

Must not say squaw.

Interior Dept to Remove Offensive Term From 660 Geographic Features (22 Jul)

The Department of the Interior announced Friday that it will move to change the names of 660 “geographic features” containing terms described as being derogatory and sexist, such as “squaw.”

“I am grateful to the Derogatory Geographic Names Task Force for their work to ensure that racist names like ‘sq__’ no longer have a place on our federal lands. I look forward to the results of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names vote, and to implement changes as soon as is reasonable,” Secretary Deb Haaland said in a press release from the agency Friday.

A 13-member Derogatory Geographic Names Task Force established in February performed the review, and launched a public comment period, garnering some 6,000 comments from the public and another 300 from “nation-to-nation” consultations, the agency said.

Maybe the Derogatory Geographic Names Task Force should rename Washington DC too. After all Washington owned slaves and Columbus was a colonial imperialist running-dog who stole the heritage of the squaws oops women oops birthing people of the First Nations.

calli
calli
July 24, 2022 7:05 am

Ahahaha!

Predictable. Can’t both to replace the little golden idol?

Thanks Tom.

Dot
Dot
July 24, 2022 7:07 am

PSA

Don’t fall in love with adult entertainers.

Lana Rhoades (you young malakkhas don’t know who she is) was in 307 pornos.

She has a problem with sex, precious bodily fluids, certain acts of intimacy and kissing (and men generally).

She’s also a millionaire.

https://youtu.be/qvxaCq0QHXI

calli
calli
July 24, 2022 7:08 am

On that first – I hear it a lot. I always say how lucky they are that the thing mutated into something less deadly.

No harm in turning on an alternative light source.

Dot
Dot
July 24, 2022 7:11 am

More infectious, less virulent; let it rip.

I always go back to COVID being detected in the west since at least March 2019 (Spain).

It is likely you caught it before the pandemic.

calli
calli
July 24, 2022 7:14 am

In 2019 I did the loop from Alaska through the canal back to NYC, then in the second half through SA from Buenos Aires across the guts and round the Horn.

Can’t remember getting even a sniffle. Might have been all the Tequila I didn’t drink.

bespoke
bespoke
July 24, 2022 7:16 am

I hear it a lot.

I don’t.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 24, 2022 7:18 am

World Health Organisation declares monkeypox a global emergency

The World Health Organisation said the expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an “extraordinary” situation that now qualifies as a global emergency, a declaration Saturday that could spur further investment in treating the once-rare disease and worsen the scramble for scarce vaccines.

WHO’s top monkeypox expert, Dr. Rosamund Lewis, said this week that 99 per cent of all the monkeypox cases beyond Africa were in men and that of those, 98 per cent involved men who have sex with men.

No alternative. The World must devote the necessary resources to developing a vaccine and treatment for this disease.

In the meanwhile, the Covid response gives us a valuable template for the necessary public health measures to flatten the curve and prevent the hospital system from being overwhelmed.

We’re all in this together…

calli
calli
July 24, 2022 7:19 am

Bespoke, it blares at us daily from the tv. Pretty much all my friends have had it and say the same thing.

I can’t blame them. The alternative is too sciencey.

calli
calli
July 24, 2022 7:21 am

Saw that, Faustus. The Seven Newsmouth compared the monkeypox outbreak to ebola and covid.

Studiously avoided the obvious and documented vector.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 24, 2022 7:27 am

One for Custard.

“All Of A Sudden, It Came To A Halt”: After Posting Fresh Records Just Months Earlier, RV Industry Grinds To A Halt (24 Jul)

“It was just a few short months ago that RV shipments were hitting monthly all time highs, rising double digits over the previous year’s record prints.

Fast forward to today when, just like everything else in the US economy which is now in a recession, there are growing signs that the red-hot RV market appears to be cooling off. Those signs include two planned plant closings.

“Yeah, everything was going really well, and it seemed like, all the sudden, it just, we dropped in units, and, but it was still enough to keep us, keep us going and everything,” Keystone RV Company Plant 41 worker Robert Davis told 16 News Now. “But then, just all the sudden, it came to a halt.”

On Sept. 23, Keystone RV Company plans to close Goshen plants 41 and 705, eliminating 334 jobs from production to plant management, from quality control to receiving, WNDU reports.

When asked if company officials explained why, Davis said, “The high fuel prices, and the dealers don’t want to buy, buy the units that we’re producing. So, I guess a lot of them is just sitting. And so, with the fuel prices are the way that they are, we no longer have orders.”

You will live in your dog box, eat the insects and never go on holiday. Mansions, meat and travel are reserved for the nobility.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 24, 2022 7:29 am

Australia had its own January 6.
Apparently.

Coalition ‘subverted democracy’ with election-day statement on asylum boat, Labor says

The former Morrison government subverted Australia’s democracy, undermined the public service and endangered members of the defence force when it pressured public servants to reveal details of an asylum seeker boat on election day, home affairs minister Clare O’Neil has said, lambasting the former government for its “disgraceful” actions.

She said the former government “undermined the Australian defence force, and undermined our democracy”.

“Australian defence force personnel and my department acted apolitically and in fact with great bravery in standing up against being asked to do something which really would have undermined the independence of the Australian public service.

“They are great patriots for the way that they acted and I want to put on record my commendation and the government’s commendation for their actions on that day.”

I’ve never heard of Clare O’Neil. But I assume she has career ambitions.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 24, 2022 7:29 am

I’m old enough to remember the Q&A clips of the greens lady screaming at the government chappie about why Australia wasn’t taking the lead on the ebola “outbreak” in Africa.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 24, 2022 7:34 am

Critical Drinker watches the Netflix Resident Evil so you don’t have to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDk9cCWn_Rs

No Milla Jovovich, no Resident Evil.

bespoke
bespoke
July 24, 2022 7:36 am

Sure the ad’s can be anoying (if you let them). But my close family and friends who had the jab have other prioties to deal with.

Could do with me ex communiating eny cranks, though.

vr
vr
July 24, 2022 7:38 am

This week’s The Economist has a resport on ESG Investing.

Some choice quotes

Unfortunately esg suffers from three fundamental problems. First, because it lumps together a dizzying array of objectives, it provides no coherent guide for investors and firms to make the trade-offs that are inevitable in any society. Elon Musk of Tesla is a corporate-governance nightmare, but by popularising electric cars he is helping tackle climate change. Closing down a coalmining firm is good for the climate but awful for its suppliers and workers. Is it really possible to build vast numbers of wind farms quickly without damaging local ecology? By suggesting that these conflicts do not exist or can be easily resolved, esg fosters delusion.

The industry’s second problem is that it is not being straight about incentives. It claims that good behaviour is more lucrative for firms and investors. In fact, if you can stand the stigma, it is often very profitable for a business to externalise costs, such as pollution, onto society rather than bear them directly. As a result the link between virtue and financial outperformance is suspect. Finally esg has a measurement problem: the various scoring systems have gaping inconsistencies and are easily gamed. Credit ratings have a 99% correlation across rating agencies. By contrast, esg ratings tally little more than half the time. Firms can improve their esg score by selling assets to a different owner who keeps running them just as before.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 24, 2022 7:40 am

O’Neil was at the John F Bootlegger school of misgoverment so it’s likely that she would be carbon copy demonrat like most of the left here. Lawyer too.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 24, 2022 7:42 am

The west really is an Idiocracy now

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 24, 2022 7:44 am

Coalition ‘subverted democracy’ with election-day statement on asylum boat, Labor says

I’ll rewrite that headline:

“Public servants ‘subverted democracy’ by suppressing election-day statement on asylum boat to favour ALP”

There, fixed.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 24, 2022 7:53 am

A lot of people here like to skag off about Australia and Australians but I contend that most of the moral poison of the last 60 years has been imported from the US. The ‘Democratic’ is our biggest threat. Just look how O’bumma was undermining Abbot re the Barrier Reef. Where have all the crack pot ideas regarding ejucashun come from?

lotocoti
lotocoti
July 24, 2022 7:54 am

Dr. Rosamund Lewis, said this week …

Back in May the official WHO language was:
gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men.
Presumably, they’re trying to decouple blokes dorking each other from homosexuality
to combat homophobia.
Or something.

Crossie
Crossie
July 24, 2022 7:58 am

P, the assumption with these media scum is that they will be the ones eating others.

Roger
Roger
July 24, 2022 7:59 am

Coalition ‘subverted democracy’ with election-day statement on asylum boat, Labor says

Meanwhile, Elbow want to grant non-citizens the vote.

Gabor
Gabor
July 24, 2022 8:02 am

Miltonf says:
July 24, 2022 at 7:53 am

A lot of people here like to skag off about Australia and Australians but I contend that most of the moral poison of the last 60 years has been imported from the US. The ‘Democratic’ is our biggest threat. Just look how O’bumma was undermining Abbot re the Barrier Reef. Where have all the crack pot ideas regarding ejucashun come from?

I’m afraid you are right, most of the societal ills infecting the world is emanating from the US, has been for decades.

Crossie
Crossie
July 24, 2022 8:02 am

Soylent Green was supposed to be happening in 2022, right on time it seems. I get the feeling that Kraus Schwab and Bill Gates saw it as a training video.

bespoke
bespoke
July 24, 2022 8:04 am

Priorities

bespoke
bespoke
July 24, 2022 8:05 am

Critical Drinker watches the Netflix Resident Evil so you don’t have to.

I lasted two episodes.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 24, 2022 8:06 am

WHO’s top monkeypox expert, Dr. Rosamund Lewis, said this week that 99 per cent of all the monkeypox cases beyond Africa were in men and that of those, 98 per cent involved men who have sex with men.

I think I’ve heard this song before.

Stand by for a series of rollicking TV ads to insinuate that it’s the fault of Joe and Jane Citizen in suburbia, and that everyone should be more tolerant.

Heterosexual privilege is The New Thing.

Crossie
Crossie
July 24, 2022 8:07 am

I’m afraid you are right, most of the societal ills infecting the world is emanating from the US, has been for decades.

Nope, the dilettante and degenerate Europeans are driving a lot of the crap that is infesting the world. The environmentalism fetish in particular is theirs and they would have got away with it if it wasn’t for Putin’s territorial ambitions.

Tom
Tom
July 24, 2022 8:08 am

Southwest Airlines once was known as the home of fun, both for employees and travelers.
Whether it was the flight attendants’ quips on public address systems, gate agents conducting quiz show-type antics prior to boarding or — as legend has it — a pilot gently rocking an in-flight aircraft back and forth as passengers sang Christmas carols, the airline was associated with joy.
But the fun has stopped. Charlene Carter can bear witness to that.
A jury in Dallas agreed with her last week, telling Southwest and a union to give Carter, a flight attendant for 20 years, more than $5 million after the airline fired her for social media posts critical of union leadership.

RTWT

Gabor
Gabor
July 24, 2022 8:15 am

Crossie says:
July 24, 2022 at 8:07 am

I disagree, but let it be.
Europe is one step behind any fetish happening in the US, and we are one step behind Europe

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 24, 2022 8:16 am

Don’t get me wrong I fell in love with the US when I was there too but the American left is a cancer that has spread here.

Roger
Roger
July 24, 2022 8:17 am

I’m afraid you are right, most of the societal ills infecting the world is emanating from the US, has been for decades.

We shouldn’t overlook the role of Marxist intellectuals who were exiled from Hitler’s Germany and found refuge in American universities.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 24, 2022 8:18 am

Critical race theory, gender fluidity have come from the US. I suspect the relocation of the Frankfurt school has a fair bit to do with this too.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 24, 2022 8:19 am

Snap Roger

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 24, 2022 8:20 am

St. Ruth medley – 1.01 p.m. yesterday:

How many here, being honest, refused to go (I’m sure KD in his fear still does) to WEF sites

But I do. I go there for the yuks. And the satirical content. 1.54 this morning, suitably refreshed:

I’m not even looking for support at all.

It’s no wonder the toys are out of the cot. Everyone you’ve followed fails, and your deep and unfulfilled desire to be Supreme Leader of The People claws at you.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 24, 2022 8:25 am

How long before we get the monkeypox bowling ads? #dontgolowintheleapfrog

bespoke
bespoke
July 24, 2022 8:25 am

Europe is one step behind any fetish happening in the US, and we are one step behind Europe

Gender and Apartheid policies have been embedded within the system for many years. It’s just people have been distracted by what is happen in the US to notice.

Roger
Roger
July 24, 2022 8:30 am

The environmentalism fetish in particular is theirs and they would have got away with it if it wasn’t for Putin’s territorial ambitions.

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that in modern times the first environmental legislation appeared in the UK, the home of the industrial revolution, and addressed poor air quality, which was having a deleterious effect on public health in the great cities.

Conservatives should be for sensible conservation measures – the late Roger Scruton wrote extensively about this – but the problem we face is that the conservation movement has been hijacked by idealogues of the radical Left whose fundamental outlook is misanthropic.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 24, 2022 8:31 am

It’s the US of Henry Ford, the Empire State building, Edison and the Alamo that I love. The can do attitude. But it’s being or has been poisoned by Marxist/criminals by Marx meets mafia eg O’bumma and the dirty old woman from Baltimore.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 24, 2022 8:32 am

Cyborg Cormann OECD (Organisation of Economic Coercion and Destruction) is pushing the new world order on SKY with slogans for the herd.
“Carbon Neutrality”
Someone pull the chip please.

cohenite
July 24, 2022 8:33 am

Sad news; head prefect’s brilliant comment, drawing on my expertise, at the conversation, has been censored. A moment of silence please.

Roger
Roger
July 24, 2022 8:34 am

How long before we get the monkeypox bowling ads?

I was just thinking that yesterday.

When governments and epidemiologists collude the result is always a blunt instrument.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 24, 2022 8:34 am

You stupid, stupid people. Masks are useless against the mighty scourge of Covid.

Unless you’re also wearing safety goggles (the Hun):

An Australian medical review paper found the chances of contracting the virus dropped by up to 96 per cent when both eye and face protections were worn.

Australian National University (ANU) infectious diseases expert Professor Peter Collignon, who was involved in the assessment, said this was because virus particles can enter your body through your eyes.

Aiiieeee! My eyes! Windows to the soul no more!

The best eye protection is a full face shield but safety goggles from a hardware store or science laboratory glasses work too.

Wrap-around sunglasses also provide good protection, but even ordinary spectacles can cut your infection risk by 15 per cent, Professor Collignon said.

Professor Collignon and other Australian academics reviewed more than 900 articles and studies on eye protection in a research paper, published in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, last year.

Helpfully, this piece then goes on to shoot itself down in flames:

The Journal of the American Medical Association reported in 2020 that one in five health workers in India became infected with Covid, despite wearing three-layered surgical masks, gloves, and shoe covers and using alcohol rub.

One in five ‘health workers’ are more likely to contract monkeypox using the conventional method.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 24, 2022 8:35 am

Last time I was in China it was obvious that clean air laws were desperately needed.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 24, 2022 8:40 am

ABC news has a piece about the prevalence of reinfection with covid.
Expert stated the numbers are largely unknown and should be studied. Shock and horror naturally.
Sadly for the ABC the same expert went on to say that reinfections were generally mild in nature.
Not a great advert for more needles.

Mater
July 24, 2022 8:41 am

Worth reposting.

Indolent’s link.

https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1550876164763242496?cxt=HHwWgMCqtfXp6IUrAAAA

Sometimes simple demonstrations are the most effective.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 24, 2022 8:42 am

Roger

Conservatives should be for sensible conservation measures – the late Roger Scruton wrote extensively about this – but the problem we face is that the conservation movement has been hijacked by idealogues of the radical Left whose fundamental outlook is misanthropic.

IIRC, Garfield Barwick, a hate figure to the fascist left, was one of the founders of the Australian Conservation Foundation. He would not recognise it now.

Indolent
Indolent
July 24, 2022 8:44 am
Miltonf
Miltonf
July 24, 2022 8:51 am

The wef and their agents like Justine are really moving in for the kill.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 24, 2022 8:52 am

A heartwarming, feel-good tale for the whole family from The Hun. Two local scrotes, average-sized fish in a tiny pond who wouldn’t make a ripple in the big smoke go on adventures:

Witnesses say Travis Cashmore was highly agitated as he wielded the power tool [cutting down his neighbours’ fruit trees] in the yard next-door to his property at Kirkstall, in the state’s south-west on Friday morning.

Soon after, he opened fire on feared local crime identity Kevin Knowles and one of his mates, known to locals as “Benny”, in a roadside confrontation.

Mr Cashmore, 45, then returned to his home on Chamberlain St and turned the gun on himself.

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind. How could this have happened?

Locals say Mr Cashmore had lived in Kirkstall for a decade but began to “turn” when Knowles moved to the town two years ago.

Both Mr Cashmore and Knowles were “standover men” around the town who could act reasonably when “off it” (not using drugs) but caused trouble when they’d been “on the gear”, neighbours said.

Small-town iced-up drug traffickers. All the odds say they ‘chose to relocate’ from more lucrative city markets because, you know, they’d bet their feet chopped off then get burned alive and dumped upside down in wheelie bins.

One neighbour suspected Mr Cashmore’s motive to kill Knowles might’ve been because “he had better gear than him”.

Reporters flocked to local pubs for ‘colour’:

Pub patrons were hesitant when asked about Knowles, acknowledging his reputation but preferring not to answer questions about his past.

A local in neighbouring Koroit was more blunt.

“He was a “f–kwit,” the man said. “He should’ve been shot years ago.

Preach it, buddy.

Indolent
Indolent
July 24, 2022 8:55 am
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 24, 2022 8:56 am

KD, if you want a bit more “local colour”, my mail from down that way is that you could comfortably bracket Knowles and Cashmore with the King of Norway.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 24, 2022 8:57 am

P says:
July 24, 2022 at 7:44 am
That Escalated Quickly, New York Times Ponders if we are Ready Yet to Start Eating People
July 23, 2022 | sundance

These people are Loonies!

bespoke
bespoke
July 24, 2022 8:57 am

The best eye protection is a full face shield but safety goggles from a hardware store or science laboratory glasses work too.

As seen on many bunnings employees. To be honest I’d be tempted if there were St Ruthers spittleing over the place.

Indolent
Indolent
July 24, 2022 8:58 am
flyingduk
flyingduk
July 24, 2022 9:08 am

An Australian medical review paper found the chances of contracting the virus dropped by up to 96 per cent when both eye and face protections were worn.

Another example of focussing on tactics not strategy – the real point is that you have to be exposed to covid to get past it (my run through the fire strategy, as advocated early 2020) – unless you think you can hide forever, you have to confront covid at some point.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 24, 2022 9:12 am

Poor old staff at my facility got hit with face masks for weeks a while back. I am presently writing the OH&S manual for Chateau Bear. I suspect it might go. Sat near a woman with a dry cough getting some Japanese the other day. Might use my bonus RAT tests.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 24, 2022 9:17 am

KD at 8:52.
It has been noted that one of pond-scum involved has been the victim of a previous family tragedy.
A few years ago his wife drowned “accidentally”.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 24, 2022 9:18 am

Where did those inverted commas come from?

Tom
Tom
July 24, 2022 9:26 am

Where did those inverted commas come from?

So you’ve noticed, too.

I have no proof, but I think they are hot quote marks from the Ukraine imported via the black arms market.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 24, 2022 9:30 am

Indolentsays:
July 24, 2022 at 9:02 am
“The biggest crime ever committed on humanity”

PuppyMan
@DivineLawWins
global message from European Parliament Christine Anderson Announced the Biggest Scandal in Medical History about Covid Vaccine

Sums it up in 44 secs with final summary – “Moreover it will be known as the Biggest Crime Ever Committed on Humanity”

Diogenes
Diogenes
July 24, 2022 9:33 am

Honestly the media are hopeless. Mrs D had the “news” segment from the Today Show on when I arose from my slumber and they were talking about the Coral Princess and the seas being to rough … Cue dramatic footage … At that moment she steams past doing, according to my ship radar app, 15 knots. The same story, same footage a little while later, so I check the radar as I post this, at the southern end of Bribie Island. She will be docked within an hour.

JC
JC
July 24, 2022 9:35 am

Gerbil warming, gay marriage, critical race theory, trannies

And now, how could we not have predicted we’d get to here.

Title to piece in the NYTimes.

A Taste for Cannibalism?
A spate of recent stomach-churning books, TV shows and films suggests we’ve never looked so delicious — to one another.

Along with the wacism element that goes with it. I suspect this below is written with a sense of humour, but with the American left you don’t really know.

Is it more racist to eat white people, or black people?

Do different ethnicities taste different?

Is cannibalism indigenous science, and unfairly demonized by white supremacy patriarchy systems of oppression?

-We need answers to these super relevant questions

JC
JC
July 24, 2022 9:37 am

Lol

I see it’s being posted above. Too slow.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 24, 2022 9:39 am

Andrew Wilkins
July 24, 2022 at 4:18 am · Reply
Totally off topic, but I need to put it out there:

The county council for Leicestershire in the UK have decided to embrace Nut Zero and have put together a survey for feedback. Please feel free to go over there and give them the sceptical point of view. I had quite a lot of fun:
https://surveys.leics.gov.uk/snapwebhost/s.asp?k=165114339249

It was a lot of fun –

Filled in Survey identified as Australian and enjoyed – added to comment on 3 Phase and EV Fast Chargers

Some Wise Words from An Electrical Contractor In Melbourne

I recently did some work for the body corporate at the Dock 5 Apartment Building in Docklands in Melbourne to see if we could install a small number of electric charging points for owners to charge their electric vehicles.

We had our first three applications and we discovered:

1. The building has no non- allocated parking spaces ie public ones. This is typical of most apartment buildings so we cannot provide shared outlets.
2. The power supply in the building was designed for the loads in the building with virtually no spare capacity. Only 5 or 6 chargers could be installed in total in a building with 188 apartments!!
3. How do you allocate them as they would add value to any apartment owning one. The fight started on day one with about 20 applications received 1st day and with many more following.
4. The car park sub-boards cannot carry the extra loads of even one charger and would have to be upgraded on any floors with a charger as would the supply mains to each sub board.
5. The main switch board would then have to be upgraded to add the heavier circuit breakers for the sub mains upgrade and furthermore:
6. When Docklands was designed a limit was put on the number of apartments in each precinct and the mains and transformers in the streets designed accordingly.
This means there is no capacity in the Docklands street grid for any significant quantity of car chargers in any building in the area.
7. It gets better. The whole CBD (Hoddle Grid, Docklands) and Southbank is fed by two sub stations. One in Port Melbourne and one in West Melbourne.

This was done to have two alternate feeds in case one failed or was down for maintenance. Because of the growth in the city /Docklands and Southbank now neither one is capable of supplying the full requirement of Melbourne zone at peak usage in mid- summer if the other is out of action.

rosie
rosie
July 24, 2022 9:43 am

Super revelant?
In whose delusional mind?
There used to be a website specialising in the sale of human flesh for the connoisseur, lots of caveats regarding cause of death iirc.
My mother always said don’t eat meat that eats meat so I’d have to stick to a vegan diet.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 24, 2022 9:46 am

ABC news has a piece about the prevalence of reinfection with covid.
Expert stated the numbers are largely unknown and should be studied

It should be.
NSW has one of the better data sets re covid in the world (that’s not saying much).
Does anyone who self reported a positive RAT test have to also provide the bar code of the test?
There are holes galore, taxpayer money should be spent on this.
Or is the world going to rely on Israel again.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 24, 2022 9:46 am

Precisely.

Meghan Markle revealed for what she really is — a Kardashian

Media magic.
People love a fall-from-grace story. Particularly when the faller goes down looking ridiculous.

Makka
Makka
July 24, 2022 9:47 am

Is cannibalism indigenous science

Indigenous science. FMD. Another brainfart, like turtle spirit and smoke ceremony, welcome to country etc.

These scientists hadn’t seen a wheel until the 1700’s.

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 24, 2022 9:48 am

Thanks Old Ozzie. I filled in the survey as a gay Muslim 40 year old who disagreed with all of Leicestershire’s initiatives.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 24, 2022 9:50 am

A while back Cassie posted about a few billionaire families in the US promoting this whacko gender agenda.

Tablet Mag published this column a week or so ago on the Pritzker family.
If it wasn’t 2022 you’d think it was an April fools joke.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/billionaire-family-pushing-synthetic-sex-identities-ssi-pritzkers

Cassie of Sydney
July 24, 2022 9:51 am

So Matthew Groundhog Guy, on radio station 3AW, in an attempt to defend his suicidal emissions policy, sneers at Sky News and those who watch Sky News.

Quite frankly, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. The state of the Liberal Party.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 24, 2022 9:52 am

PS, one of the Pritzker clan is the current governor of Illinois.
Could you imagine the filth that would have to be wilfully consumed to rise to that level.

Tom
Tom
July 24, 2022 9:53 am

Sky Outsiders is much better this morning, even without its leader Rowan Dean. At least they’ve swapped that histrionic female whatshername for the bloke originally from mainland Tasmania, Caleb Bond, who isn’t a screecher. Aside from Dean, Rita Panahi and James Morrow are brainy and fun.

Cassie of Sydney
July 24, 2022 9:54 am

“Tablet Mag published this column a week or so ago on the Pritzker family.”

The Pritzker family is evil.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 24, 2022 9:54 am

Whoever thinks the MSM is irrelevant needs to go and have a good, long hard look at themselves (the Tele):

A yeast infection has almost derailed production of an Australian dating show.

On Friday representatives for Nine, Seven and Ten denied their productions Love Island, Beauty and The Geek, Heartbreak Island or The Real Love Boat had recently been undermined by a rampant microorganism.

But production sources have told this column a large number of cast and crew associated with the shows became stricken with thrush while on location in recent weeks.

Thrush Island. Brilliant.

Morale on the set of the unidentified show is said to have plummeted as irritability rose and discomfort set in while producers attempt to capture the cast being amorous.

But the cast’s desire for intimacy apparently quickly evaporated along with available supplies of antifungal cream.

Please, please provide more details.

The fungal infection followed an outbreak of gastroenteritis that initially felled the cast and crew of the show. After being prescribed with antibiotics for the gastro, an outbreak of thrush soon followed, downing women attached to the show.

Yeasty, runny, vomity goodness. Finally:

Tensions are said to have then flared after medics recommended affected cast and crew abstain from consuming alcohol during treatment.

The cure for yeast infections (for gentlemen, anyway) has long been handing the patient six Vodka Cruisers and then going on a golf trip.

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 24, 2022 9:54 am

Mark Latham’s Outsiders

ABORIGINAL EMPLOYMENT

Sadly Australia is missing a once-in-a-generation opportunity to achieve full employment.
Anyone who says they can’t find work at the current time isn’t looking for it.
This is clear from my visit to Western NSW, where the towns are struggling with labour shortages.
The new abattoir at Bourke has 60 job vacancies they can’t fill locally, now looking overseas for migrant workers.
A publican told me he could take on four extra staff but can’t find them, forcing him to reduce his trading hours and forego revenue.
These stories are everywhere, in every industry.
Meanwhile, youth unemployment remains high in Western NSW, particularly among Indigenous.
I visited a large Land Council housing estate and asked how many people there had jobs. The answer was just 2, both with the local Council.
Strapping youngsters in their 20s were wandering around on welfare.
Isn’t now the time to break the cycle of Aboriginal welfare dependency and put people to work, making a productive contribution for themselves and the economy?
We could put Centrelink out of business by limiting time on the dole.
Anyone who hasn’t got a job now doesn’t want one. That’s plain wrong, a denial of all the political talk about providing equal opportunities and a better life for Aboriginal Australians.
Mark Latham MLC
23 July 2022

Cassie of Sydney
July 24, 2022 9:56 am

“At least they’ve swapped that histrionic female whatshername for the bloke originally from mainland Tasmania, Caleb Bond, who isn’t a screecher.”

Agree with you about Daisy.

I like Caleb. I’m pretty sure Caleb originates from South Australia.

JC
JC
July 24, 2022 9:57 am

Bern

You talk about stalin’s daughter hightailing outta there.

This apple didn’t fall too far from the grandfatherly tree.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 24, 2022 10:00 am

The vast bulk of the world’s food supply is produced by men who probably don’t cook much if at all.
I’ll let you fill in the blanks when it comes to crazy agriculture policy from government.
Too many cooks starve the children.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 24, 2022 10:05 am

There’s an article in the Speccie about why the lieborals are on such dire straits. I think Michael Sexton completely missed the point, it’s not so much changing demographics – it’s treating your former supporters with complete contempt. Abbott was able to win in a landslide 8 years ago after all.

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