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This sounds much more like it. My only experience with publishing was via an academic friend who wrote a series…
The protesters, who appeared mostly middle-aged Bwahaha, I bet that one stings the shower-dodgers!
The headline painting, The Morning, reminds me of the great scene in the 2005 adaptation of our Jane’s Pride &…
Excellent crop of toon theree today, Tom. They have such a lot to work on since the big win.
Roger
My youngest has a regular customer with mental issues and his carers just stand outside talking on the phone.
Driller, every single instinct you show at this is blog are the instincts of a criminal. Narcissistic, dishonest, blowharding worthless piece of shit. Go dust the bar, you clown.
Leon L. & Indolent.
Thanks for the links on Matt Pottinger.
I’ve read the book, Blackened by History: the untold story of Senator Joe McCarthy and his fight against America’s enemies. The story of Whittaker Chambers and his claims about Alger Hiss and others, which Senger refers to in his substack, and like the rest of the book, is shocking, proving that McCarthy was right.
As to how China fell to the communists, M. Stanton Evans, the book’s author, shows how communist operatives in the State Dept and on assignment in China brought about the end of Chiang Kai-shek by enabling the removal of American financial support from the Nationalists for spurious reasons. From the book, it would seem that any westerners who spent significant time in China during that period became enamoured of the communist system.
According to Senger, Matt Pottinger spent several years as a journalist reporting from that country.
Senger reports that on Covid, the way that Pottinger has controlled the entire US Government response to the virus including bringing about masking, testing, lockdowns, and by introducing Birx into the White House Covid response team – an actual doctor, because he has no medical or science background – has the smell of a Manchurian Candidate scenario.
When you add in all of Pottinger’s contacts inside China, which he continued to maintain during this period for information, and his willingness to promote the Chinese way of dealing with Covid, another hurdle of unlikelihood falls away .
According to wiki, Pottinger is married to a Vietnamese born virologist, Dr Yen Duong, who along with her family fled Vietnam following the Vietnam War, and had previously worked with Birx at the CDC.
That bunch of flogs were so funny toward the end, as they dobbed each other in & tried to get each other’s Greens party membership cancelled for being insufficiently lefty-woke.
Favourite part of their demise: When in the last couple of days before closing the server, they discussed all the past commenters who’d been banned & wondered why none of them left comments anymore…. (seriously)
Oh dear, my Broken seems to be a tad upset.
Shame at not having the money to lodge a bet, presumably.
Years of it blowharding on here, then in the end it turned out to be all mouth, no chequebook.
$0.00
I own it, & it cost me $0.00 to take possession.
Fuck this….you’ve got issues here Dover, and I’m not just talking about the little gang of sneerers.
Internal server errors are constant.
This is what worries me, bespoke. Supervision? Hate to think of the disabled being taken advantage of along with the tax payer. I’m sure a majority of NDIS carers are responsible people, but it’s not them I’m worried about.
Zero self reflection…honestly it’s laughable.
Exactly this….including the lies.
I wear rubber gloves and Ray-Bans Aviators.
Moments away from “Dover, you’ve got form”.
I have found that clearing history and starting again helps with the Server Error message.
Also, it seems to come up when a number of commenters are posting simultaneously or with comments of many links.
Two part question, Sal.
I was giving them to you one at a time.
Major drug offences will go County/Supreme Court (or equivalent) and be prosecuted by the DPP.
Minor offences go to Magistrates (or equivalent) and will be prosecuted by a Police Prosecutor. A sworn officer who almost invariably has a law degree and prosecutes full-time.
He/she does not kick the door in at 4:00 a.m. and appear for the prosecution at 10:00 a.m.
No, no.
It’s Klaus Schwab.
Interesting development in the NRL.
Manly players have reportedly threatened to boycott Thursday night’s home clash with the Roosters because the team is due to wear a jersey promoting inclusiveness for the LGBTQIA+ community.
According to a Nine report, as many as seven players do not want to wear the jersey as it clashes with their beliefs.
Manly created history earlier on Monday by announcing they will become the first NRL team to wear a rainbow jersey “to celebrate inclusiveness” when they take on the Roosters at 4 Pines Park on Thursday night.
Let me guess the outcome. The protesting players will be threatened with massive financial penalties and will have no option but to play in the jersey which clashes with their (Christian, I assume) beliefs.
This has the potential to overshadow the bunker blooper which destroyed the Tiger’s apparent win on the weekend.
What is a “500 server error”?
It’s honourable and necessary work in most cases, Roger. But I’ve been told many other first hand horror stories. Abused and taken advantage of.
Translation:- “I’m losing the argument”.
I got a ‘9-39 server error’ message earlier this morning.
What are the odds?
Seems like there wasn’t much consultation about this move.
Just how clueless are sports administrators?
(Rhetorical question.)
500 server error
What the Bilderberg/illuminati/red shoes brigade get when they find out they forgot to exclude the butlers/lackeys from the covid vax kill list.
Cowboy operators making a motza.
RC down the track after the damage is done is, alas, my expectation.
Peter Dutton demands answers from Labor as he doubles down on call to ‘shut the border’ over foot and mouth disease fears
Bespoke – NP. I certainly don’t take anything personally, especially from cocksmokers.
It’s a sign.
A portent of doom.
A warning.
Or possibly just an IT error message.
Although Klaus was born in September 1939, so …
“It’s Klaus Schwab.”
It’s pretty weird how his sidekick, Yuval Noah Harari, is an Israeli that is vigorously pushing a techno version of eugenics.
LOL! Bear.
Cheers
I’m able to take two at once.
Unload on me.
where’s the high heels and handbags!?!?!?
Rosie:
Why yes, Rosie. A shell game it is.
And just because you’re paying for the game doesn’t mean you get any benefit from it.
I’m able to take two at once.
Unload on me.
And that children is how MonkeyAIDsPox was born.
That’s what she said.
As an aside (or not), Erin Molan’s the teev. She looks like a plaice.
We all see this scoffing shit.
Not one of them has anything to say except to scoff.
No alternative arguments.
They never do that.
As I said, in this little retiree corner of not many more visitors than the furniture shop, they hide from reality, their only moronic suggestions that this is all the result of incompetence at the top….is the security blanket they need to twiddle between their fingers…..and to scoff at what, I, indolent, and many others like Neil Oliver and Donald Trump are telling them, and millions more know.
KD can’t argue, so he twists what was said, he attacks the character and motives of those saying it.
Remember, whatever he calls me, he’s calling those, and many more experts above, the same thing.
It’s pathetic and obvious.
And , well, cowardly.
(((scoff)))
(((sneer)))
[[[fart]]]
I got that trying to post a comment last week but not since. I’m not sure what the cause is.
I’ve done an update of WordPress on the sandbox site that worked this afternoon so that will go ahead on the live site tonight. Just comment as usual, it will be over in minutes. You will just see the site maintenance page pop up if you refreshing or commenting at the time.
The test post of cartoons earlier this afternoon was me posting Tom’s problematic cartoons that didn’t get through earlier in the morning. As you can see I had no problem posting them on this or the sandbox site. Again, this is very curious.
(((sorry)))
What happens when a frogs car dies? He needs a jump. If that doesn’t work he has to get it toad.
I saw that the other day. You need a cartoon of Mario or Luigi with a spanner to enhance the message.
bespoke says:
July 25, 2022 at 5:37 pm
Did you know the first French fries weren’t actually cooked in France? They were cooked in Greece
I thought they were fried in oil.
Satire sites, that say clearly they are satire sites?
That have articles about nanowires found in corpses? That attract self-qualified ‘scientists’ from the other side of the world who diagnose this from a photo? And that warned of people being herded into death camps to be deathed?
Deathed in the death camps?
You bet I’m scoffing.
OK.
Here’s an alternative argument.
“No people are being imprisoned or gassed in Death Camps. Prove me wrong”.
Care to run with that one?
(((snap)))
Not even a share in the virtue signalling.
Wodger:
Now there’s a name that is steadily creeping up the list for a jolly good purging after my accession to the throne.
And just to let the person who made the Niven reference of “Hot Needle of Inquiry”, I will allow the foresaid AB the opportunity to choose from the group of Truth Tools the ones that are ‘Hot” and “Sharp” and the ones that can be made both “Hot and Sharp”.
Senator Gerrard Rennick
Elon Musk accused of affair with Google co-founder’s wife
Musk, the co-founder of Tesla, had an alleged liaison in early December in Miami with Nicole Shanahan, the Journal said, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter. That ended the long friendship between Musk, 51, and Brin, who helped support the electric carmaker during the 2008 financial crisis. Brin, 48, filed for divorce from Shanahan in January citing “irreconcilable differences”.
Test
Bespoke, your jokes are nearly as bad as those I get from my smartwatch.
Only if he doesn’t get you first.
Probably get them fom the same place DrBG.
I like the cut of this fellow’s jib.
On the other hand Dredd 2012 with Karl Urban in the role is a damn fine action show, making the prior Stallone effort look like the Monkey Pox mess it is.
Your body remembers common cold coronaviruses from childhood. How can you get the same immunity to COVID-19?
It was strange reading that because it stirred very dim memories of catching colds. Occasionally I feel like I’m fighting off a bug because I lose my appetite
Reminds me of the time my wife’s new Peugeot came up with an engine overheating “do not drive” warning on the way back from a wedding in Sydney.
After a cursory inspection I suggested a faulty thermostat.
Peugeot demurred and arranged a tow-truck and a courtesy car, at great expense.
Diagnosis: faulty thermostat.
Can’t blame them for being cautious, I suppose.
Cohenite:
Cohenite, it is quite believable.
It goes to show just how vindictive these people can get when they have a little power.
This is where the KGB/Gestapo/Kempeitai recruit from.
I’ve slung him a few bob, can anyone else help out?
“johannasays:
July 25, 2022 at 4:39 pm”
Spot on Johanna.
Back in the mid 1980’s, when AIDS was running amok through the gay scene, in the process decimating gay men, American gay playwright and author Larry Kramer penned an essay where he begged gay men to stop having sex. He wrote several pieces where he warned that the promiscuous sexual practices that gay men participated in, such as the bath house scene, such as going to places like Fire Island (an island in the Hamptons north of NYC) to participate in orgies, were a huge factor in the spread of the disease.
Sticky finger man John Hopoate used to play for Manly.
So it’s only fitting they’d be the first to go rainbow.
OK.
So it looks like the kryptonite phrase for Kenn Worth Road Ranger is “death camps”.
OK.
Sounds out there, I know.
But I’m parked on this one until the King of Norway gives us his view.
That POS stephen conroy on bolta defending rub and tug’s new energy plan to fuck off fossils because renewables are cheaper because modelling. When bolta effectively negates this BS conroy replies that the punters voted the alp/greens/teals in. Bolta replies that when the experiment of ruinables is complete, as has been shown overseas many times, and prices don’t fall and blackouts occur will conroy come back on and admit it was a mistake. Conroy looks smug.
Maybe these fuckers are part of the great reset and demolishing energy and agriculture is on the agenda but I think they actually believe the modelling that shows them ruinables work and are cheaper. They’re just stupid.
Anyway, we’re fucked, so I’m going to watch and rewatch as many shows and movies as I can. The Expanse was good. The Boys not so much.
Reprehensible.
Mind boggling that such a situation could occur.
I sling a few bob to Mr. Gaynor every time I think of it.
I note (yet again) that the NSW SFL’s allow this to continue.
I have no doubt the stupid Atomic Milkman actually believed that his family withheld nuclear tainted milk from him in his Old Dart youth. If you recall, the big sack of pus actually cried and had to be comforted by his equally credulous dimwitted cohorts. They want to believe.
Modelling is the new truth. Even when truth overtakes it, modelling wins.
We have lived through over two years of this garbage and they still believe.
Not always. My frail elder brother* has a level four package with My Aged Care. This entitles him to gazillion dollars of services, none of which have lived up to their promises.
House cleaning? Yes, but no dusting or several other basics. Gardening? Very dicey: his sons did the rest when they had time to make the long commute. In home cooking? Mainly ME men, one of whom wanted to know how to cook a carrot. Do in frypan? I’m not kidding.
For two months of this, he was charged $3,000 as his contribution to the scheme. (Yes, it’s been checked and appealed. No dice; pay up.) Disgusting!
*Happily, he is now settled in the big house in his ensuite room with his new therapuetic bed and chair, mini kitchen, new linen and endless entertainment. (Right now, Grandie#2 is playing for him her beautiful compositions on the piano. He said he couldn’t be happier.)
Tipped in a few quid, yeah.
Can this be true: Norman Swann the great medical impresario has COVID for a second time
bespoke – I was using cocksmokers as a collective noun. Again, nothing personal.
Grey Ranga:
“Sometimes it is necessary to hang an admiral to encourage the others”.
Said some bloke…
Any bets on Norman Swann ever expressing sentiments that indicate he is fallible with regards to covid.
Vineland
@VitalistLeague
Trans people behave very much like how demons are typically described, narcissistic, vindictive, cruel, dissembling, subject to pain and harm by the utterance of the name they were born with and have now rejected
Remember back in January of this year, GWS player Haneen Zreika, a practising Muslim, withdrew from a game because she refused to wear the team’s “pride jumper” on religious grounds. Whilst her decision made the news, I couldn’t help but notice at the time how Haneen was not subjected to the usual howls and screeches of outrage from the progressive left and so the news story quickly disappeared. Haneen’s decision was respected, as it should be.
The Manly players, whatever their religious beliefs (presumably Christian) are also entitled to the same respect as accorded to Haneen. Or is there one rule for Muslims and another for Christians?
Cassie, I think you already know the answer to that question.
Cronkite, what would that imbecile (Controy) know about anything? He’s semi retarded.. Stop listening to retards
Please, no addressing yourself in the third person. It can only lead to more confusion. Nobody needs that.
Sticky finger man John Hopoate used to play for Manly.
So it’s only fitting they’d be the first to go rainbow.
2nd .. methinx the bloke from Caterbury Bulldogs got it in 1st .. Terry Lamb .. LOL!
Or is there one rule for Muslims and another for Christians?
I’m hazarding that that is tongue-in-the-cheek rhetorical .. LOL!
Don’t you?
That guy that shot up the July 4th parade seems to have disappeared from the radar already. Three weeks to be memory holed.
I think you are correct on both counts.
I’ve seen the fuckers in operation. They are completely dependent on advisors for their thoughts and 100% averse from the risk of being ‘wrong’ in a political sense – and this leads to a special kind of wilful stupidity.
Mostly they have no content knowledge and actually believe in nothing much outside of their party policy framework – which ultimately is given them by party machine persons.
Adam Bandt has slammed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s government for switching the words ‘birthing parent’ back to ‘mother’ on a healthcare form.
The Greens leader condemned the backflip by NDIS and Government Services minister Bill Shorten at the weekend.
Daily Mail. Good when you think it through as shows how the Greens are increasingly marginalising themselves.
Daily Mail.
OK.
Sancho will no longer do this.
Adam Bandt has slammed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s government for switching the words ‘birthing parent’ back to ‘mother’ on a healthcare form.
Yet he labels himself .. “Dad” of two boys .. on his twitter bio …… LOL!
“Good when you think it through as shows how the Greens are increasingly marginalising themselves.”
Problem is that the woke progressive young will still vote for the scum.
Meanwhile in France, just be careful on the beach!
A man who allegedly performed a sex act in front of a woman on a nudist beach in France has been shot dead by a fellow beachgoer.
The 46-year-old exhibitionist was gunned down at ‘La Mama’ beach in the Grand parc Miribel-Jonage on the outskirts of Lyon around 10:30am local time on Saturday morning.
The shooter, a 76-year-old nudist, reportedly took umbrage with the man who had shouted insults at the beachgoers and then began pleasuring himself while staring at another woman, according to French police.
After the two men got into an argument and the 46-year-old refused to take the discussion elsewhere, the elderly bather drew a hunting rifle from his pack and fired ‘at least three shots’, one of which hit his target in the chest.
France3 later reported the shooter was an avid hunter who had a firearm licence, though it was unclear why he had taken the gun to the beach.
Police who arrived on the scene shortly after the shooting said the septuagenarian gave himself up without resistance and did not deny the shooting.
The victim meanwhile was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency services.
Daily Mail
Should Manly players have to wear the club’s pride jersey?
Yes 21 %
No 79 %
1455 votes
Daily Tele poll
I can’t wait for the Australian cricket team to wear the rainbow & see how Usman Khawaja reacts.
Manly created history earlier on Monday by announcing they will become the first NRL team to wear a rainbow jersey “to celebrate inclusiveness”
Sorry on site working but this drew me from lurking.
My dads ashes would be turning. He was a Sea Eagles fan…
V’landys is turning the NRL into a joke and getting a bit full off himself as well by the looks recently.
Delta Asays:
July 25, 2022 at 7:41 pm
What a happy ending, Delta.
He’ll be welcome in Scotland.
Cricket Scotland Declares Itself ‘Institutionally Racist’, Board Resigns (24 Jul)
“A review was conducted after Scotland’s all-time leading wicket-taker, Majid Haq, told British broadcaster Sky Sports that Cricket Scotland was “institutionally racist”, while former teammate Qasim Sheikh said he had also suffered racist abuse.
Aamer Anwar, the lawyer representing the two players, told Sky the report could prove “devastating” for Cricket Scotland.
…
The resignation letter from the outgoing board referred to the review being “truly transformative, not just for Cricket Scotland but the sport of cricket” and said it would “provide a watershed moment for Scottish sport and society in general.”
Perhaps their name should be truly transformatively transformed to “North Pakistan”.
The w ay I heard it was his uncle who rode his bicycle past whatever the event was and that’s what caused the teary performance by the jerk – a real tear-jerker — he’s a lying sack of shiftless shit — red underpants full of it
“I can’t wait for the Australian cricket team to wear the rainbow & see how Usman Khawaja reacts.”
Indeed and when that day happens Usman will get a free pass…..coz…..coz…..coz…..he’s a Muslim.
Well that’s put a stop to it, decisively.
Obviously not concealed carry.
Bing Bong
Scoff
Bing Bong
BING-BONG!
Bing-Bong!
Gillon McPolo-Pony was unavailable for comment.
Not quite the “happy finish” he had in mind.
You would hope not.
Internal Server Error
Dover, you’ve got form !!
Do you think that might’ve been Scott Morrison’s problem? ‘Twas the advisors? My beloved Sunbather and I had a rather robust discussion on this very topic-he trying to defend the ham-fisted oaf, whilst I used some rather choice adjectives like duplicitous, lyin’ smug-faced, under-bitten, fake-Christian rat-fink who pulled the national cabinet out of his corpulent fundament and rogered the nation. It went very quiet after that.
Why have a petite mort when you can have a grande one?
The sandhills behind Swanbourne are … ummm … interesting. Apparently.
That is nice for your brother Delta. Having young people around is good for both of them.
Cronkite, what would that imbecile (Controy) know about anything? He’s semi retarded.. Stop listening to retards
FFS, the retards are now in charge.
Open carry. No holster.
Winston
“Sometimes it is necessary to hang an admiral to encourage the others”.
Said some bloke…
Admiral Lord Byng was shot on the quarterdeck of his own flagship, by a squad of his own Marines.
Their Lordships of the Admiralty wished to send a very strong message.
The manly players involved:
Forwards Josh Schuster, Toff Sipley, Haumole Olakau’atu, Josh Aloiai, wingers Jason Saab and Christian Tuipulotu, and rookie outside back Tolu Koula have informed club management that they will not be available for the crucial clash with the Roosters.
Whoops – Manly not manly.
On second thoughts – no, let it stand!
What a beautiful comment, thank you for sharing that snippet of your family life, I know from yiour comments it’s taken a lot of work ang that it’s ongoing. Best wishes
Good Lord. The Neanderthals at SBS Food are shooting, gutting and frying their own gourmet teal ducks
Tom, and in the season a fine repast is had here from doing the same to the little black ducks.
Good to hear OSC.
FFS, the retards are now in charge.
Fact check: true.
The learning continues – now I realise why Mark Steyn uses “pour encourager les autres” so often.
Tintarella di Lunasays:
July 25, 2022 at 9:02 pm
+1000
magnificent turn of phrase, Tinta!
Tinta
he trying to defend the ham-fisted oaf, whilst I used some rather choice adjectives like duplicitous, lyin’ smug-faced, under-bitten, fake-Christian rat-fink who pulled the national cabinet out of his corpulent fundament and rogered the nation.
Please stop flattering ScuMo.
Hmmm. The don’t sound Muslim. Haven’t got a chance.
Tintarella di Lunasays:
July 25, 2022 at 9:02 pm
[I’ve seen the fuckers in operation. They are completely dependent on advisors for their thoughts and 100% averse from the risk of being ‘wrong’ in a political sense – and this leads to a special kind of wilful stupidity.]
Do you think that might’ve been Scott Morrison’s problem? ‘Twas the advisors?
Remember who appoints the advisors. Politicians aren’t trying to get real advice. They’re getting a screen to shield them from anyone who might tell them the truth (or at least anyone who might become publicly known to have told them the truth). If the “advisors” have any skill at all, it’s usually just being able to tabulate the opinion polls into a powerpoint deck. “No-one told me” may be an explanation, but it’s not an excuse, because the whole “advisor” system has no purpose except to ensure that the politician can’t be proved to be lying when they claim not to have known about something.
Delta confirms what I imagined but hoped was not true.
I have a friend who is employed by one of the “care” satellites – she takes the frail and impaired shopping amongst other tasks. No one could want for a more conscientious, caring person to look after them. Kindness comes naturally to her.
She might be an exception.
I’ve never eaten wild duck, BBS, only farm, and those have only a thinnish-layer of breast fat, so you can’t make good crackling. Overseas, the fat is up to a half inch. Score, rub in your orange zest and pepper and salt, sweat it slowly in low-heat pan while turning the turkey baster to its less mentioned purpose and draw off the liquid fat. Then into a hot oven fat-side-up for for 10-12 minutes.
Mmmmm!
Byng-Bang!
Your time is up!
Byng-Bang-Bang-Bang-Bang.
“choice adjectives like duplicitous, lyin’ smug-faced, under-bitten, fake-Christian rat-fink who pulled the national cabinet out of his corpulent fundament and rogered the nation. It went very quiet after that.”
Perfect Tinta, just perfect.
I’m getting the impression, from interviews with Andrew Laming and Jason Foolinsky, that the problem was Morrison.
areff 9.03
Ha.
So, in one foul swoop (sic) they have
.1 blown up the playing list,
.2 pissed off their supporters; and
.3 drawn the ire of the very group they were trying to appease (who probably don’t give a rats about NRL anyway).
If they don’t immediately Folau the players and incur massive payouts, the pile-on will continue.
Well done, fuckwits.
No they’re not. It’s a huge mistake to think of of them as retards, although Controy is. They’re fanatics. They are religious fanatics.
areffsays:
July 25, 2022 at 9:26 pm
Areff:
On domestic duck: I’ve never had it.
On wild duck: I don’t shoot or cook them, I just eat them.
(p.s. Dad’s responsible for getting the duck on the plate.)
pps. Carlton won, so I’m very happy.
Thought I should read his book to see exactly what he says….
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow – Yuval Noah Harari
It’s not something that can be summarised a paragraph or two. He doesn’t really advocate a specific future in the book, rather reports and extrapolates in a typical futurist fashion. Yuval spends a lot of time making a case against free will and with it the end of the liberal world order. In some respects he’s right about the biological/genetic and technological trends which are unstoppable. The two futures he sees is techno-humanism and data-ism. The later has some seriously dark strands. He doesn’t see a rehash of the past. How this will all play out is anyone’s guess, chance are we won’t be around to find out.
So, in one foul swoop (sic) they have
.1 blown up the playing list,
.2 pissed off their supporters; and
.3 drawn the ire of the very group they were trying to appease (who probably don’t give a rats about NRL anyway).
If they don’t immediately Folau the players and incur massive payouts, the pile-on will continue.
Well done, fuckwits.
It’s quite magnificent really.
Yep it’s called plausible deniability.
Dear NRL management:
Faith trumps cash. This may be problematic for you to understand, given that you are a gaggle of corporates, and of whom at least half are using current positions as CV-padders.
Get out of the superboxes and into the stands.
The End.
Cassie of Sydneysays:
July 25, 2022 at 9:29 pm
“choice adjectives like duplicitous, lyin’ smug-faced, under-bitten, fake-Christian rat-fink who pulled the national cabinet out of his corpulent fundament and rogered the nation. It went very quiet after that.”
Perfect Tinta, just perfect.
I’m getting the impression, from interviews with Andrew Laming and Jason Foolinsky, that the problem was Morrison.
Turdballs made some effort to ensure that ScuMo beat Dutton for the job (I won’t say leadership, he never showed any).
Did someone say duck? mmmmmmmm delicious and duck fat is the quintessential lubricant for perfect roast potatoes. I think I need a snack
Ya think?
I’ll bet some of these blokes have played their last game.
I can’t post. Keep getting “Internal Server Error”.
Oh, KLAUSSS!
You got some ‘splaining to dooo!
If so then the Manly club better have a lot of money in the kitty.
Where to next? These Godless nitwits are just playing a game of virtue-signalling oneupmanship — why not just parade the Manly Board in the rainbow jerseys as a show of fielty to the gods of pride. Why make the players bear the burden of brainfart overreach?
areffsays:
July 25, 2022 at 9:26 pm
I’ve never eaten wild duck, BBS, only farm, and those have only a thinnish-layer of breast fat, so you can’t make good crackling. Overseas, the fat is up to a half inch. Score, rub in your orange zest and pepper and salt, sweat it slowly in low-heat pan while turning the turkey baster to its less mentioned purpose and draw off the liquid fat. Then into a hot oven fat-side-up for for 10-12 minutes.
Mmmmm!
Duck shooting early 60s in Southern NSW in Range Off Coast in 1927 Fiat side by side shotgun and Pump action shotgun when not shooting Roos
Wild Duck cooked that night tasted great – except for make sure all shotgun pellets removed before cooking
What is this Internal Server Error people are talking about?
Is it some sort of in-joke?
Something to do with tennis?
Bruce in West Oz
My Report
Age 10 3/4
All jokes aside, some may wish to read this, others won’t. Entirely your choice. If you wish to have a go at me over any of it, too bad; I’m not in the mood for it.
My wife and I were on the last cruise of the Coral Princess, 10/7 to 22/7. Ex-Brisbane down to Eden and Sydney, then north to Cairns, Airlie Beach, Port Douglas and Willis Island, before cruising back to disembark in Brisbane.
We arrived in Sydney to find the wharf area literally swarming with media, all quite belligerently haranguing departing guests for an on-camera interview.
Puzzled, we tried to find out WTF was going on. We soon found out. Some of the reports about the ship labelled it a “Death cruise”, “a plague ship”, “the cruise from Hell”. We were, apparently, “riddled” with Covid and threatening the safety of all NSW by our very presence. The ghost of Ruby Princess was regularly invoked. (And no, MSM cockheads, we are NOT sister ships!) Well, we investigated. Yes, we had covid on board. We had 100 crew in lockdown/isolation who had been identified BEFORE our cruise even started. There were also 4 passengers (out of 1590) who had Covid who had contracted it before they got on board.
Sanitation/prevention on board was exemplary! Masks were compulsory. There were literally dozens of sanitation stations on board. No-one went into a dining room without sanitising. No-one went into the buffet without hand washing (observed by a crew member) and passing sanitisation stations. Much of the food was already pre-dished and in single-serve bowls. Any serving tools that were required were changed for clean ones every few minutes. Self-service was monitored by staff. Tables as they were vacated had a large “Not Ready” placard placed on them until they, and the chairs, could be sanitised. This applied to all seating throughout the ship. Masks only off to eat or drink or outdoors.
A couple of days later, my wife said as we were dressing in the morning, that she’d had a rotten night with a dry throat, a cough and slight headache, but after her shower she was fine.
Me being me, I insisted on a RAT for us both, which we did. She was positive; I was negative. We thought about reporting it and finally decided to “do the right thing”. The medical staff came and gave us a PCR swab each — wife was positive and I was negative. They offered me a comparable balcony stateroom to myself. As a close contact, I had to isolate for the same time as my wife. Ship rules. Problem is, the first day is counted as Day Zero, THEN there’s 7 days, and THEN you can get out, if negative.
Room service was good and I can’t fault Princess for what they did for us. They were great. But of course, we missed the entire second half of our cruise. I found I could order alcohol two drinks at a time and it still fell under our drinks package policy, so no charge. Drambuie and Jagermeister at night became my friends. It was worse because I kept coming up negative.
Then the storm hit. We were hammered by rain and wind and a swell that once ran to 6 metres. Again, the media misrepresented the whole deal. One news service in (I believe) South Australia even reported we were “trapped in a hurricane” and “leaking and taking on water”. Total BS! At most, the rocking helped put us to sleep (and we were on a high deck for’ard). The only “leaking” was water seeping in from the balconies under the door/window units. Big deal.
Brisbane at last … and the Pilot station refused to open because the wind was over 25 km/h … yes, km/h, not knots. So, all day Friday and all Saturday, we did bog laps up and down the coast until, 7.00 am Sunday morning, we spied the Pilot boat and knew we could dock … which we did at noon.
Tow days before, I’d had enough, and demanded another test, which came back negative … as had the previous FIVE tests! Missus still sadly positive. So I had a day and a half of freedom. After 9 days in isolation, totally asymptomatic wife told she could not go home with me, but would be transported to an isolation hotel from Sunday until Tuesday morning. My wife isn’t a complainer, but her room has one window that is above her head, so she can’t see anything except rooftops, and food comes in trays with bamboo eating ware. The final straw was a glass of wine (for which she was charged extra) that was delivered to her room … in a polystyrene cup! That was nearly too much for her. And the worst thing is I’m powerless to help her! (Although, with some friends, we did manage to get a local (Qld) Dan Murphys to deliver some wine and a decent wine glass!) When she rang me tonight, she’d obviously enjoyed it! 😀
Anyway, would we do it again? Cruise, I mean? You betcha. In a heartbeat. Although if we had asymptomatic positive results again, I would think long and hard before I reported it — IF I reported it.
Rant over. Time for bed, even though it’s early. Didn’t get to bed until 3.00 am this morning and it’s catching up with me. As for airlines, taxis and Ubers, that’s a whole new story! 🙁
Speaking of which, further reporting of the OK Corral incident from the Kirkstall Gazette.
Did it end the feud?
Read on.
Uh-huh.
Maybe the feud is over.
Riiight.
I think we can call this feud now on a TKO.
And ‘retribution by best mate’ is also now not a factor.
Yep, getting them pellets out of your stew can be a bugger.
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Tip for cub reporter.
Maybe clean up and paraphrase what the Forensic Cops say before you go to print.
Their phrasing can be less than delicate at times.
Morrison is the very epitome of ambition being far in excess of competence. It’s like the village idiot wanting to be the town judge.
Ya think?
I’ll bet some of these blokes have played their last game.
1) freedom of conscience/religion are important foundations of western culture and Australian legal precepts so I commend them for their stance.
2) this is a group of people who can do something about if they hold together and refuse to compromise on their faith/convictions.
3) at some point the rubbish that corporate Australia is pushing down the necks of all Australians has got to come to a head, otherwise it will get more and more dopey and destructive of society – so everyone pays including these players.
4) for a side, losing one player is manageable, to lose that many and under these circumstances, to coin a phrase, looks too much like carelessness, which will affect the club’s reputation, but is thoroughly self-inflicted.
5 it will be interesting to see how it plays out vis-à-vis their contracts, if it goes that far. (I’m not saying I want to see that happen or any of them lose their positions).
Thank you Bruce. No garbage from me.
It is immeasurably valuable to get a first -hand account of these things.
I’m tired of second-hand scuttlebutt.
Brilliant Beery just brilliant — I will pinch but give credit
Bruce of WA — thanks for taking the time to give us a first-hand recount – the media is just insufferable.
Following
Why Did The CDC Change Its Definition Of Vaccination?
Rather than be Lonely
Delusional Biden Admin Front-Runs Recessionary GDP Print… By Redefining Recession
As sure as the sun rises and sets each day, the technical and widely used definition of “recession” in the financial world has been agreed upon by nearly everybody in the industry and both sides of the political aisle for decades.
That definition, of course, is “a period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in GDP in two successive quarters”.
Usually, when it pops up under the dictionary definition of the word (as the first use, nonetheless) on the Silicon Valley-based and left-leaning censorship factory known as Google’s dictionary, it’s safe to say it is widely accepted.
Needless Death And Misery
The war in Ukraine is in its sixth month, and there’s no end in sight.
Here’s what we know…
Almost everything you heard about the war in Ukraine from U.S. media over the course of March, April and May was a lie.
You heard that Putin was losing the war.
You heard that Russians had poor training and low morale and were deserting in droves. You heard that Ukrainians were destroying Russian armor in large numbers to blunt the Russian advance.
None of this was true.
In fact, Russian troops have achieved major victories in Mariupol, Kherson, Severodonetsk, Lysychansk and other key targets that control rivers, ports and junctions in Ukraine.
U.S. Willing to Fight Russia to the Last Ukrainian
This article isn’t about strategy and I don’t want to get too deeply into the weeds, but Russia’s next targets are Slovyansk and Bakhmut, which will consolidate Russia’s control over the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
Russia has also deployed anti-drone laser systems that have neutralized Ukraine’s ability to target Russian positions with drones. The endgame is the takeover of Odessa, which would give Russia control of 100% of Ukraine’s coastlines along the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.
A negotiated settlement that cedes Russian control over Crimea and the Russian-speaking parts of eastern Ukraine is probably the most realistic solution available to end the war. But the U.S. doesn’t want the war to end. Its plan is to wear Russia down through a protracted conflict, no matter how much the Ukrainian people suffer.
The battlefield situation aside, the story is even worse from the U.S. perspective…
Blowback!
Russia is not just winning the war on the ground. It’s winning the global financial and economic war launched by Biden and our European allies.
Russia’s revenues from oil and natural gas exports are at all-time highs. The Russian ruble is much stronger today than it was when the war began. China and India are buying all the Russian oil that Europe is refusing to buy.
Meanwhile, the economies of the U.S. and the EU are in or very near to recession. Inflation is out of control in the West. Commodity shortages will lead quickly to food shortages and more empty shelves in supermarkets.
Across the board, Biden’s economic sanctions have backfired and are hurting the U.S. and Europe far more than they are hurting Russia.
Not Pro-Russian, But Pro-Truth
I’ve been reporting honestly on the war since the beginning. My readers have not been misled by false reporting because I’ve been candid about the real impact of sanctions and Russia’s brutal but effective battlefield tactics.
It’s not that I’m pro-Russian — I’m not. I’m pro-truth. And I don’t defend the Russian invasion in any way (although I do understand it).
Even Bloomberg and The New York Times are now starting to admit that the war is a lost cause for Ukraine and the U.S. economy is suffering from sanctions aimed at Russia. But it’s a little late for legacy media to get their story straight.
What we know right now is the economic damage to the U.S. economy will get much worse before the economy gets better. Biden won’t stop the sanctions soon. That means the trashing of the U.S. economy will continue.
Calli, Tinta
Thanks, ladies. I didn’t think I’d catch any flak from you two.
scuttlebutt when posting about a cruise ship – I saw what you did there!
Just as an aside.
We had pre-booked and paid for return flights BNE —> PER, which we had to cancel. Total cost for the two of us was under $600.
Forced to rebook, my flight last night was $971 (that’s economy; no meal) and my wife’s will be $850, economy, no meal.
But hey, no-one’s taking advantage of the situation!
😀 😀 😀
But Vlad only wanted the Eastern, more Russia like provinces, right?
Right?
Bill Shorten said he reversed term back to ‘mother’ to avoid an ‘ugly’ culture war
So not because it’s the truth.
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Out of all the reasons to continue fighting, I think the one where the enemy wants to dismember your country, seize the resource rich parts and the coastline and ports that allow you to export your main crops, is probably one of the the least crap excuses.
Stop reading a Russian propaganda.
Apparently the old man used to bag a few wild duck in the Pilbara with the Labrador. I think he bought back an English shotgun from his days in the UK. Not sure what make.
Support for the Manly players from their coach.
According to The Sydney Morning Herald, Manly coach Des Hasler understood the players’ reasons and supported their decisions not to play.
The plot thickens. Tomorrow should be D-day, as the weekend’s 22 man squad has to be named by the afternoon.
Are we at facecrime yet or not?
1984 isn’t meant to be a manual, but damn it is accurate.
Odessa through to Kharkov are the provinces with the largest ethnic Russian and Russian speaking populations.
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Victoria is the state with the largest ethnic Chinese and Chinese speaking populations.
Also it is run by a totally corrupt regime.
Come on down Xi.
Why do you even bother though Dover? Putin has said he doesn’t even consider Ukraine to be a country and he has lunatics singing about bombing America, then he has his pet mongrel Dugin, who he refuses to cut ties with.
If you take the old referendum to be the basis of anything, Putin’s claims are legitimately small, not large and apply it elsewhere and the Irish for example can walk in and take most of Ulster by force.
Then they can start bombing London again.
Rockdoctor
Sorry on site working but this drew me from lurking.
My dads ashes would be turning. He was a Sea Eagles fan…
V’landys is turning the NRL into a joke and getting a bit full off himself as well by the looks recently
I love the Sea Eagles but this is horrifying. I have spent most of the evening on their supporters forum arguing the case for the Christian islanders. Apart from a couple of stand outs most fans don’t support their stand and many want them sacked. Some of the opposition to them (small amount) is racist and the most common words chucked around are “racist” “haters” “homophobic” and “bigot”. Little respect for their conviction.
France3 later reported the shooter was an avid hunter who had a firearm licence, though it was unclear why he had taken the gun to the beach.
To shoot wankers?
Just watched The Gray Man, it’s a comedy right?
The war in Ukraine isn’t a function of the “globo homo” regime as some would like to refer to it.
Western interests remain Western interests no matter the regime in charge here.
Whether we are currently ruled over by a cartel of big tech, rainbow unicorn riding smurfs and fascist lesbians or by a Holy Alliance of Light, Goodness and MAGA, Western interests will never include allowing Putin to start chewing up the states bordering his own.
Can this be true: Norman Swann the great medical impresario has COVID for a second time
A few more boosters and he’ll be fine!
We should be encouraging them to take as many boosters as they can.
The problem will solve itself.
Apart from a couple of stand outs most fans don’t support their stand and many want them sacked.
That’s Australian’s for you. Vicious, stupid and dangerous.
Are these fair dinkum fans?
Are they chatting with their club membership number or something? Or can anybody join & chat, say 20 “fan accounts” per club management & members of the waffen ssm Australia wide, dialling in to sway opinion?
David Warner has died.
No, not that one. The English actor from The Omen, Time Bandits, Time after time, Titanic and Star Trek 5 and 6. He was nearly 81.
Sancho Panzer:
HE was the cause of WW2?!
The comments at the Oz and the Tele definitely support them but probably most of them, like myself, are not actually Manly fans. Hard core fans priority is obviously to win and place that above the players objection.
The ridiculous part of the story is that Manly just assumed all players would go along with wearing the jersey and dud not consult before going ahead.
Team management have ruined the morale and split the team in an attempt to virtue signal.
When will organisations realise that it is best not to get into the “woke” area.
“Apart from a couple of stand outs most fans don’t support their stand and many want them sacked”
Knuckle Dragger;
A Thermomix, you fool of a man – after you put it through the industrial slicer.
The carrot! Not the Thermomix!
(((Good help is hard to find.)))
Tinter:
How odd! Can you think of anything that would have triggered the reaction?
Tron also (David Warner).
H B Bearsays:
July 25, 2022 at 9:04 pm
The sandhills behind Swanbourne are … ummm … interesting. Apparently.
Were interesting. I read that many of the SASR families lived near them and their children would play there. When the fathers found out what was going on, they took care of the participants.
No more problems.
Been quiet…too quiet…
A new thread might do that…
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