Open Thread – Weekend 30 July 2022
1,791 responses to “Open Thread – Weekend 30 July 2022”
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In a couple of months time expect to see “Why is there so much monkeypox in Sydney” articles and calls to vaccinate the entire population…
Wounded pride: Is Sydney ready to host the biggest LGBTQ+ event?
Being LGBTQ – or an ally – it seems, will cost you. Sydney Mardi Gras, already the envy of other global cities, will next year run consecutively with WorldPride, the largest LGBTQ event on earth, following Sydney’s successful bid to be host city.Strangely enough both definitions of the word host seem to be applicable.
Host:
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a person who receives or entertains other people as guests.
“they were always gracious hosts at the numerous dinner parties they held for friends”
Similar:
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BIOLOGY
an animal or plant on or in which a parasite or commensal organism lives. -
Thorpe was called back to the senate chamber to take her oath as second time, properly.
I expect she had her fingers crossed behind her back.What should have happened is she should have been, publically, slapped down there and then and suspended without pay until she made a full public & written apology ..
These “rorters” get away with far more that the average “wukka” who could lose money or their job over ..! -
I don’t think you can be sued for telling a lame joke
As Dot said it wasn’t a lame joke. It was an extremely nasty accusation which certainly should not be used as a joke in front of an live audience and about 50 million people on television.
I can entirely understand that it took a few seconds to register before Smith went with his hand. It is to Smith’s credit that’s all he used. Rock need to be deplatformed forever for unacceptable behaviour IMO. And sued given what a catastrophe he inflicted on Smith.
Which isn’t to say Ms Smith is a fine upstanding person.
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Speaking of colonisers, I read a great column on the East India company a couple of weeks back.
I didn’t know how they incentivised even the lowest level of clerk to take on risk & have skin in the game.
Current period drama’s that show a top down approach from a stuffy board of directors is no where near correct.
They had huge profit share arrangements in place.
One of the first corporates to do it in a meaningful way. -
The punters can articulately describe the state of the swamp at the drop of a hat:
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“As Dot said it wasn’t a lame joke. It was an extremely nasty accusation which certainly should not be used as a joke in front of an live audience and about 50 million people on television.
I can entirely understand that it took a few seconds to register before Smith went with his hand. It is to Smith’s credit that’s all he used. Rock need to be deplatformed forever for unacceptable behaviour IMO. And sued given what a catastrophe he inflicted on Smith.”
It didn’t take Smith “a few seconds to register”. He initially laughed. Sure, it wasn’t a nice joke…but no joke warrants being assaulted in front of millions of people.
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Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.substack.com
@JordanSchachtel
Wow. The White House just threw Zelensky under the bus and ran him over, via NYT stenographer.Keep in mind the NYT is the Deep State’s mouth piece.
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This is what Smith said:
Smith could be heard repeatedly saying “Keep my wife’s name out your (expletive) mouth!”
I think the issue is as clear as it can possibly be in the circumstances, which were very well known by everyone.
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“As bern states, it was a lame, improvised joke about her shaved head.”
Correct. What next, somebody assaulting a comedian because of a joke? Oh wait, that has already happened, Dave Chapelle was assaulted a few months ago on stage, by someone who found Chapelle’s comedy about trannies triggering.
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feelthebernsays:
August 2, 2022 at 10:52 am
Every day the age group 5-21 is bombarded with hard Green propaganda.
If you think they can come through that without being part of that club, good luck.
Labor can show boat now, but the Greens are eating them too.I suspect that in ten ot so years time, an enlarged Greens will have been joined by many on the Liars left, with the rest of Labor having linked with most of the Lieboral left (those who do not go straight to the Slime). The residual of the Libs, plus ON, LDP, and the rump of the Nationals will occupy the position now occupied politically by the Slime. The balance of power will rest with them.
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I think the issue is as clear as it can possibly be in the circumstances, which were very well known by everyone.
Nothing Rock said warrants an assault or a law suit.
The issue is Smith’s temper on the occasion. Others have alluded to a possible explanation for that. Quite seriously, he should get help.
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Nothing Rock said warrants an assault or a law suit.
A hundred or one fifty years previously Rock would be a very dead comedian, since the slap would be a challenge to duel. Which Smith would win given the weapons training he’s had for various roles he’s played.
Dueling was a fine discipliner of men’s mouths. Led to lots of polite behaviour which we no longer have.
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I suspect that in ten ot so years time, an enlarged Greens will have been joined by many on the Liars left
We’re in the early days of the biggest hit to living standards in two generations.
Such experiences have a way of sobering people up.
When young people attracted to the Greens realise that the radical Left’s plans for wealth redistribution will, in the end, impact them more than anyone else, they might start to reconsider their allegiance.
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Sydney Mardi Gras, already the envy of other global cities, will next year run consecutively with WorldPride, the largest LGBTQ event on earth
This is starting to sound like Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War.
The central character comes back to Earth after a jump between stars which meant many years had passed, to find almost everyone was homosexual. The UN (of course) had engineered it to control the rising population.
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The administration’s “green” energy proposals, like those that have been adopted in Europe, are leading this country toward an economic, social and strategic disaster. It is hard to think of any set of policies, adopted by any government at any moment in history, that rival our “green” mania for sheer destructiveness. Although, that said, Sri Lanka’s brief commitment to “sustainability” comes to mind.
Speaking of sustainability, this piece by Stuart Gottlieb in today’s Wall Street Journal, titled “Biden’s Climate Plans Are Unsustainable,” makes some great points.
The greatest threat to [environmental] progress—particularly in the critical realm of climate—comes not from such emerging mega-emitters as China and India, although they certainly play a role. It comes from the energy and climate initiatives promoted by the Biden White House, which are themselves unsustainable—so aggressive and unduly optimistic that they risk a backlash that would set back the cause of environmental sustainability for generations.
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What do you mean here exactly?
Dover – Yesterday Toms toons were on the previous page when I turned up at about 7am. When I clicked the “Older comments” to see them all that rendered were that page’s comments up to 10pm. Tom’s 4am toon comments though still did appear on the sidebar, but when I clicked on any of them all I got was the same: the previous OT page up until 10pm and no later.
Whenever I submit a comment the OT only updates to some point hours before the comment. BUT if I click on the title of the OT on the upper sidebar I get the fully updated OT and on scrolling to the end I see my just-submitted comment.
This is the same as it has been since the software update you did a week or so ago.
The workaround I found is to use this url:
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/30/open-thread-weekend-30-july-2022/
Which is minus the page number and comment number. It gets to the top of the current OT page, and by scrolling to the end the most recent comment is visible.
None of the comment links on the sidebar work properly, they tend to get some cached instance and hour or two ago, sometimes many hours ago.
I don’t know why this affects me and not other Cats. But it’s clear that some Cats are getting the same as I do, like sfw and Johanna.
I’m doing the ad nauseam detail here to try to give you a feel for whatever it is that’s causing it.
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Dueling was a fine discipliner of men’s mouths. Led to lots of polite behaviour which we no longer have.
I’ve often lamented the passing of the practice of dueling. It offered gentlemen a way of settling their differences, there are a few individuals I would have demanded satisfaction from, and I’m still quite a good shot with a handgun…
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I didn’t know how they incentivised even the lowest level of clerk to take on risk & have skin in the game.
From memory the lowly plebs were assigned a certain amount of hold space which they could use to send back whatever ‘hot commodity” they could make a quid off.
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Ricky Gervais isn’t dumb enough to insult his cohost’s wife within arms reach.
Smith wasn’t his co-host.
Gervais didn’t insult one person, he insulted hundreds.
And you didn’t see when Gervais came back on stage to roast Mel Gibson whilst standing 30cm from Mel Gibson.
The audience at the Globes are practically on top of the stage unlike the Oscars this year.
Jeebers, I don’t think you could be more wrong. -
Smith is a bit of a romantic I admit. And she ain’t the greatest.
Did his wifes boyfriend tell you that?
Hes hollywood vermin, they are literally the lackeys of slime like Weinstein and other abusive weirdoes.
https://www.thedelite.com/the-biggest-scandals-of-old-hollywood/21/ -
Zipstersays:
August 2, 2022 at 1:35 pm
The central character comes back to Earth after a jump between stars which meant many years had passed, to find almost everyone was homosexual. The UN (of course) had engineered it to control the rising population.can someone tell the WEF & UN this was science fiction not a how to manual
They haven’t yet worked out that 1984 wasn’t a how to manual.
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Kiddie rapist…. standing ovation…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXnNOBj26lk (one minute in) -
Rock: standing up on stage cracking gags.
Smith: seated down the front.Ok, admit I missed that, only saw the later footage. So Rock cracked his “joke” right in front of Smith eh? Who did as all people in his position and reflexively laughed…until his brain registered the words…
Insulting someone’s wife in front of a world audience is quite a thing, if you think about it.
Doing it within close proximity of the husband is nearly Darwin Award level.
But I’m as romantic about things as Will Smith seems to be. -
My next question was going to be along the lines of “By what method are they going to stop the lightning?”
A: you DO NOT want to do that.
Nitrogen cycle:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_cycle
The article seems a little confused but near the beginning:
However, atmospheric nitrogen has limited availability for biological use, leading to a scarcity of usable nitrogen in many types of ecosystems. -
Duels.
Done right, a thing of dignity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-LjYlZnOOUAnyone want to bet on Montys fat mouth lasting long?
Muntypoxes Gasconading* would see him choking on a ball in no time.
* what a great little word
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Monash University to prevent students from graduating unless they complete a new mandatory ‘Indigenous Voice’ course
A major Victorian university has warned students they cannot sit exams or graduate if they fail to complete a mandatory learning module on “Indigenous Australian Voices” -
A major Victorian university has warned students they cannot sit exams or graduate if they fail to complete a mandatory learning module on “Indigenous Australian Voices”
Much the same as not-mandatory vaccination then.
We wont make it compulsory, you can choose to be unpersoned and waste the time/money/effort by not complying with our arbitrary dictates.
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A major Victorian university has warned students they cannot sit exams or graduate if they fail to complete a mandatory learning module on “Indigenous Australian Voices”
This mandatory course, which has absolutely nothing to do with competency in the chosen degree at a university, is nothing short of socialism in its intention to enforce a view of the world.
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I have just viewed a repeat of the Q&A examination of the proposal of the Voice to Parliament at the Garma Festival.
I thought Stan Grant did an excellent job of attempting to allow various opinions to be heard. Jacinta Price, of course, impressed once again for her genuine humanity, great understanding of the issues and concern to respect dissenting voices.
What was clear from most of the questions from the Aboriginal representation in the audience is that few actually understood what was being proposed. Many of the “aunties” in the audience simply wanted to ensure that what was left of the particular cultural legacy of their language group, was preserved. Fair enough – but that is up to them. It will be an uphill battle.
The grim faced elderly male representative of the local Yolgnu (forgotten his name) wanted either a Treaty or “the Voice” – although I suspect he would prefer a Treaty, as that would entail independence financed by the rest of us. He also referred to the “traditional law” working, if the government would allow it to function. Rubbish! It is not simply that traditional law is, in the modern world, barbaric and unacceptable – but that, in any case, it doesn’t solve disputes in contemporary life.
Besides Jacinta, the one source of hope came when a young lass rose to say how being sent out of the community to achieve a good education was a godsend for her. Good for her. She, and others like her, are the only hope of bringing her people out of a disoriented and aimless existence.
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Besides Jacinta, the one source of hope came when a young lass rose to say how being sent out of the community to achieve a good education was a godsend for her. Good for her. She, and others like her, are the only hope of bringing her people out of a disoriented and aimless existence.
Hopefully there are many like her. The ones that express themselves with logic and common sense similar to Jacinta. Unlike the screeching marxist activists.
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Bruce of Newcastle says:
August 2, 2022 at 2:26 pmNo, didn’t work. Same as before: when I hit the submit button the view reverts to the top of the thread and the comment hasn’t appeared. But going to the threat title and scrolling to the bottom – there it is.
He’s a marriage counselor – an expert on open relationships.
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Indolent says:
August 2, 2022 at 5:56 pmAvi Yemini
@OzraeliAvi
The game plan EXPOSED by Senator Alex AnticIt doesn’t matter how often it is exposed, if we have 75+% NPC in the population, that’s what we’re going to get. And 75% is an underestimate. Most ppl want to be told what to think, believe, feel and do. They’re like m0nty. Basically, zombies.
We’re phukt. Prepare for really bad times.
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