Open Thread – Weekend 6 Aug 2022


The Pond at Montgeron, Claude Monet, 1876

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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 8, 2022 7:26 pm

Grace Tame whinges about Albo government already….

Run for Parliament, Grace – the Greens would probably greet you with open arms – and show us how it should be done!

Roger
Roger
August 8, 2022 7:26 pm

55% of WA’s exports go to China, compared with c. 12% of QLD’s.

That’s a market that could be closed tomorrow if Xi decides to implement CCP foreign policy re Taiwan, contracts notwithstanding.

No wonder McGowan is pleading for calm.

He’s WA’s Mutti Merkel in reverse.

miltonf
miltonf
August 8, 2022 7:30 pm

It’s a shame the Jacinta Price would even waste her time talking to the Fitzsimmons turd.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 8, 2022 7:31 pm

We will need to fight hard on this issue.

I’m waiting for any referendum campaign to get onto the subject of reparations. I’m standing by my claim that, given that Australia was claimed in the name of His Majesty, George 111, and there’s nothing in the Constitution on the subject, the British Crown should pay the bill for reparations.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
August 8, 2022 7:34 pm

Reading the comments by Graceless – obviously failed English Expression in primary school.

flyingduk
flyingduk
August 8, 2022 7:34 pm

Tip: If you are roughed up by a constable in an anti vax protest claim you are Aboriginal to get any action at all.

When I was arrested at the Canberra protests, they asked me if I identified as ‘aboriginal or torres strait islander’

I said ‘yes

They said ‘which’

I said ‘both’

They said ‘both’??

I said ‘yes, both’.

They looked doubtful, but did ask if I wanted a visit from the aboriginal liason officer.

I feel guilty – I added to the number of incarcerated Indigenes by one, but on the other hand, they did give me a private room for my stay!

John H.
John H.
August 8, 2022 7:35 pm

Zipstersays:
August 8, 2022 at 7:13 pm
Data collected! CCP’s live-fire drills reveal the plan of how to take Taiwan by force/Pelosi -Taiwan
China Insights
239K subscribers

Most likely, to comfort this group of emotionally devastated Pinks, the CCP announced live-fire military exercises in six areas around Taiwan from noon on August 4 to noon on August 7. Why say so? See, the timing is to avoid Pelosi’s stay in Taiwan. If she hadn’t left Taiwan, with military drills of such a scale, it might have endangered her plane which might lead to big problems.
Regarding the CCP’s three-day live-fire military exercise around Taiwan, Hong Kong veteran media personality Yang Jinlin tweeted, “What’s the difference between one day and three days?” A netizen replied, ” Just play a little longer, and have all the data collected by the U.S. military.”

If you are so inclined watch The China Show on youtube, the same chaps who created ADV China. Internally China appears to have some very serious problems with banks failing and no bail outs no reserve so the people lose their money. Food shortages are also occurring, protests are growing.

I don’t know how accurate the two chaps are and they probably are overstating the problems but I think the CCP is very much preoccupied with internal stability and these recent military displays are for the domestic base. The CCP warned of big trouble with the visit but all they did was burn a few hundred millions dollars on a fireworks display.

Unfortunately they have the Joe Rogan effect; Lots of blather between good content.
China Just Made an ABSOLUTE Fool Out of Itself – Episode #120

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 8, 2022 7:35 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:
August 8, 2022 at 6:48 pm
And she just waltzes on playing the victim.

Ewww. Haggard skank.

Someone emulating that Victorian era author, H Rider Haggard?

Roger
Roger
August 8, 2022 7:36 pm

It’s a shame the Jacinta Price would even waste her time talking to the Fitzsimmons turd.

Either she didnt know who he was, or she took him for a good faith actor.

In the latter case, it doesn’t reflect poorly on her but on him.

miltonf
miltonf
August 8, 2022 7:39 pm

Yes he is a nasty piece of work. Shows being stupid doesn’t preclude you from being rich. I guess the North Shore private ejucashun helps.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 8, 2022 7:40 pm

Top Endersays:
August 8, 2022 at 7:12 pm
Grace Tame whinges about Albo government already….

What is the mark (looks like a scar) between her boobs in the first photo?

flyingduk
flyingduk
August 8, 2022 7:45 pm

Gateway Pundit reports:

Italian Runner Loses Race in Colombia After His Penis Came Out in the Middle of the Run (VIDEO)

They don’t elaborate on his gender….

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
August 8, 2022 7:48 pm

Reading the comments by Graceless – obviously failed English Expression in primary school.

Alas, no improvement in High School either

Cassie of Sydney
August 8, 2022 7:49 pm

So the Victorian Liberals have decided to support an emissions target higher than the Federal Labor government. You have to wonder why such a suicidal decision was made, I suppose there a few reasons, one is that Groundhog Guy and his motley crew think such a decision will stave off Labor and any prospective “STeals” who challenge. One of the Victorian Liberal MPs (alas there aren’t many) who’s pushed this is the current member for “Brighton”, a man named “James Newbury” who, it was revealed last week, was spied having lunch with Svengali Simon himself, presumably a cosy chat over red wine and some stuffed zucchini flowers, so as to persuade Svengali Simon that the Liberals will happily sell their souls to him so long as he doesn’t field “Teal” candidates in any of the few remaining Liberal held blue ribbon state seats.

Sadly, selling your soul to Svengali Simon doesn’t persuade him to back off, in fact it probably does the opposite, it empowers him, as evidenced by the disastrous federal results in May, when the Liberals lost all their “net zero emissions” MPs, so the news is that Svengali Simon is now advertising for “STeal” candidates for the Victorian state election due in November, specifically to run in the electorates of Kew and wait for it……Brighton.

Memo to Mr Newbury, weren’t you told to never make a pact with the devil? Because the devil will win and you will lose.

cohenite
August 8, 2022 7:49 pm

It’s a shame the Jacinta Price would even waste her time talking to the Fitzsimmons turd.

Warren Mundine was very strong on bolta tonight in defending Jacinta and castigating the pious pirate as being the real racist.

Frank
Frank
August 8, 2022 7:50 pm

Grace Tame has a few years at best before she becomes not the new thing with the press. Self immolation to follow in short order without being able to rely on the cover up from the talking heads.

Rabz
August 8, 2022 7:51 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 8, 2022 7:52 pm

Our upbringing was Melbourne in the Fifties and that was a pretty straitlaced place,” said Durham, who at the height of the band’s success was cutting her own fringe, making her own frocks and touring with a sewing machine. “

From “The Times” obituary of Judith Durham.

calli
calli
August 8, 2022 7:57 pm

Memo to Mr Newbury, weren’t you told to never make a pact with the devil? Because the devil will win and you will lose.

Positioning on the greasy pole. Or, more likely, perhaps securing a place on an Austitanic lifeboat.

There is definitely no hint of serving the best interests of the public. That would be silly.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 8, 2022 7:58 pm

Grace Tame has a few years at best before she becomes not the new thing with the press

What happened to, oh, what was her name again? Oh, yes, Brittany Higgins.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 8, 2022 8:01 pm

Lizzie at 6:30.
Keep the scarf inside the sporty Beemer.
Remember Isadora.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
August 8, 2022 8:02 pm

Yes he is a nasty piece of work. Shows being stupid doesn’t preclude you from being rich. I guess the North Shore private ejucashun helps.

I wonder what would happen if a descendent of the Aboriginal tribe that lived in the environs of the mansion of Il Scimmiot e La Rospa* should lay claim to the area?

132andBush
132andBush
August 8, 2022 8:14 pm

EXCLUSIVE: Heartbroken mining town hairdresser reveals the disgusting sex requests she’s bombarded with daily just because she’s ASIAN – as she shames sleazy local by sharing his texts

Asian-Australian hairdresser overwhelmed with requests from sleazy clients
Kim Tran has been asked by hundreds of men to perform explicit sex services
She said requests come from single and married men aged 19 to 65-years-old
Hairdresser has been forced to put sign on her door that reads ‘hairdresser only’
Kim said she and other Asian women were commonly mistaken for sex workers

She’s lucky not to be in Toowoomba.

cohenite
August 8, 2022 8:22 pm

‘I will continue killing foreigners’: soldier who shot dead unarmed Australians treated as ‘returning hero’ by Taliban

It was on the SAS mission to find this piece of camel shit that BRS was accused of doing what he didn’t do. One of the witnesses against him was the camel fucking mullah who had recommended the killer to the Australian forces.

Dot
Dot
August 8, 2022 8:29 pm

Real talk.

Jump ship as a supporter from Balmain RLFC to Redcliffe RLFC?

Once in a lifetime opportunity, they’ve got Bennett, Bennett is bragging about their big bucks and Milford, plus a very good young developing half back.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 8, 2022 8:29 pm

She’s lucky not to be in Toowoomba.

Pay that one!

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 8, 2022 8:45 pm

Just Watched – Amazon Prime Video order of Viva Australia: Recreating Iconic Locations for ELVIS – $0

How Baz Luhrmann Made Australia Look Like Memphis to Film “Elvis”

Ahead of the movie’s worldwide release on June 24, let’s explore where “Elvis” was filmed.

Was “Elvis” Filmed at Graceland Mansion?

Despite Graceland being the famous residence of Presley for several years, Luhrmann did not choose the property as a backdrop for scenes in the film. Instead, the principal photography and shooting of the film took place somewhere quite unexpected, one could argue.

Where Was “Elvis” Filmed?

“Elvis” was filmed in Queensland, Australia. Production of the film took place in the Gold Coast region of Queensland, which sits slightly south of Brisbane along the country’s eastern coast. Regarding the film’s location, Luhrmann, an Australian native, told Australian radio station ABC, “Putting it bluntly, we’ve really fallen in love with the Gold Coast as a place, the people of the Gold Coast, and also the creative energy of the Gold Coast.”

Despite the production of the film taking place across the globe from Presley’s home country, Luhrmann and the production team worked hard to replicate the singer’s past residences, including the notable Graceland estate. According to Vogue, “Luhrmann fully recreated the Colonial Revival mansion in a Queensland studio, along with the sets for Elvis’s Las Vegas performances in the late ’60s and early ’70s.”

While “Elvis” may have been filmed away from the late musician’s home country and state, it still captures the essence of his roots and the places he cherished so dearly. Watch the extraordinary life of Presley in “Elvis,” which hits theatres on June 23.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 8, 2022 8:45 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

August 8, 2022 at 6:51 pm

Plus she is prone to give in to (ahem) a “holiday romance”.

Oh please let this be a ‘I found my soulmate on holiday and then he gave me the arse’ thing

Let’s just say the “swipe right” finger is somewhat indiscriminate.

rickw
rickw
August 8, 2022 8:56 pm
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Heartbroken mining town hairdresser reveals the disgusting sex requests she’s bombarded with daily just because she’s ASIAN

This happens to every Filipina I’ve sponsored/employed.
Some of them become quite stressed over it, all of them find it distressing.

I’m not sure I can put into words just how distasteful, how offensive it to them, for a well raised & strict Roman Catholic woman to be automatically assumed to be an eager & willing prostitute.
They consequently hold Australian Anglo-Saxon culture to be inferior for this conduct to be so prevalent & to rise to the surface so easily.

It is difficult to reach any conclusion other than in this, the women are correct.

P
P
August 8, 2022 9:09 pm

Rabz says:
August 8, 2022 at 7:51 pm

Steyn on Judith Durham and the Seekers.

Thank you so much for this.

rickw
rickw
August 8, 2022 9:14 pm

All the people here have declared they no longer trust the medical profession – good luck with that. Ya nuts.

The main problem seems to be the outfit run by the vet.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 8, 2022 9:19 pm

Documents therein suggest about 50K KIA, 141K WIA, and 95K MIA.

Yup. Both sides roughly equal. That’s what I’m seeing. It ain’t pretty.
But Norks!

P
P
August 8, 2022 9:23 pm

Rabz, I just finished watching an old repeat of ‘Death in Paradise’ and it brought to mind ‘The Specials’ made known to me through your last Radio Show via MatrixTransform.
Thanks.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 8, 2022 9:32 pm

3.52pm
Lidia Thorpe defends ‘colonising’ Queen comments

Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe has responded to the controversy around her swearing in, when she referred to the Queen as “the colonising her majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second”, saying that Australia needs to face its history and establish a treaty with First Nations people “to genuinely mature as a nation”.

“[The Queen’s] whole wealth has been responsible for killings around the world of First Nations people. And that was through the Commonwealth and the colonising regime, violent regime that they inflicted on many sovereign nations around the world,” Thorpe told ABC Radio Melbourne today.

“The world is talking about this country, it’s embarrassing that we do not have a treaty. We’re the only Commonwealth country in the world that does not have a treaty with its first people.

“We need to get up with the times. I’m not going into parliament and being like everybody else and taking years and years and years to get action. I’m going to speak truth and yes, truth hurts. And I’m sorry that people are hurting. But it is truth and we have to face up to it to genuinely mature as a nation.

“Everything that you see deaths in custody, incarceration, suicide, removal of children, homelessness, drunkenness, all that you see, for First Nations people in this country the oldest continuing living culture in the world, they are the symptoms of colonisation, they are symptoms of genocide.

“That’s what we are still facing in our own country today. And we need to come to terms with that. We need more truth telling, and we need a treaty.”

She also outlined other things she is seeking to achieve or has already achieved in parliament, including ensuring “no public money is going to any fossil fuel companies” and establishing an inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women and children.

“We need a treaty.” Yeah, right Lidia.

“Whitefella won. Blackfella lost.

Too Bad. So sad!”

Razey
Razey
August 8, 2022 9:39 pm

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closuresays:
August 8, 2022 at 8:58 pm
Heartbroken mining town hairdresser reveals the disgusting sex requests she’s bombarded with daily just because she’s ASIAN

This happens to every Filipina I’ve sponsored/employed.
Some of them become quite stressed over it, all of them find it distressing.

I’m not sure I can put into words just how distasteful, how offensive it to them, for a well raised & strict Roman Catholic woman to be automatically assumed to be an eager & willing prostitute.
They consequently hold Australian Anglo-Saxon culture to be inferior for this conduct to be so prevalent & to rise to the surface so easily.

It is difficult to reach any conclusion other than in this, the women are correct.

The so called ‘West’ has terminal syphilis. It’s gonna be a slow, painful death. Deservedly so.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 8, 2022 9:40 pm

We’re the only Commonwealth country in the world that does not have a treaty with its first people

Uh huh. And?

The ‘first people’ are extinct, having been killed and eaten by the second and third crews.

JC
JC
August 8, 2022 9:41 pm

Drills

After telling us Prince Andrew is a mensch and barely legals are there to be, well drilled, the feminist side of you is really coming out. Quaint as. Not to be confused with Qantas.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 8, 2022 9:42 pm

Konnichiwa, Mr Razey-San!

JC
JC
August 8, 2022 9:46 pm

And the feminine side too.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 8, 2022 9:47 pm

From the aph site:

The Senate fulfils its role as a check on government by scrutinising bills, delegated legislation, government administration, and government policy in general. It does this by way of procedures utilised in the Senate chamber itself and through the operation of the Senate committee system.

Mmm. Advocacy doesn’t get a run. Being a complete pillock doesn’t get a run.

There are very few fullbloods in Thorpe’s home patch of Northcote – or, as it’s known in certain circles, ‘Norfcut’ or ‘Norfct caant’.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 8, 2022 9:48 pm

We’re the only Commonwealth country in the world that does not have a treaty with its first people

Couldn’t any negotiated land rights agreement, be described as a “de facto” Treaty?

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
August 8, 2022 9:53 pm

I have come across many Filipina wives and girlfriends dotted throughout the various mining towns and camps in NorWest WA.

Many of these are “ticket brides”, brought out from the Phillipines by marriage agents targeting lonely single blokes working the mines.

Without generalising too much, a big percentage of these women are decent types who put up with harsh and lonely conditions pursuing a better life, but there is also a significant number who are avaricious dishonest sluts who clean out some poor smitten fools bank account and are gone into the melting pot in the big cities as soon as the bank account has hit zero.

Very sad to see some big ugly miner heartbroken when finding his house cleaned out, his bank account raided and his “loving” bride in the wind.

They are not all saints.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 8, 2022 10:00 pm

Leave me alone: Jacinta Nampijinpa Price pleads with ‘bully’ Peter FitzSimons

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price in Sydney on Monday: ‘I have lived my life being bullied by men who wish to silence me’. Picture: Chris Pavlich

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Woke columnist Peter FitzSimons bombarded Jacinta Nampijinpa Price with a series of late-night text messages making legal threats against the Indigenous senator, ­insisting her account of an interview, in which she felt bullied and berated by him, was “nonsense” and should be retracted.

Senator Price says FitzSimons, a republican and author of popular history, “bullied” her via text after she accused him on Facebook of being aggressive during a phone interview for his Nine Entertainment newspaper column. She later pleaded with him to leave her alone after he bombarded her with texts demanding she change her tune.

In the published interview, FitzSimons, a former rugby player from Sydney’s wealthy north shore, seems perplexed by Senator Price, a Warlpiri woman, over her reasoning and opposition to the Indigenous voice.

The NT senator said that during their phone interview last Thursday, FitzSimons accused her of “giving racists a voice” because of her position on the voice to parliament and support for Australia Day being marked on January 26.

In text messages to The Australian, an agitated FitzSimons ­declared her account of the conversation “was not a matter of interpretation”. “Complete and utter DEFAMATORY nonsense, as I told her … will hand recording to (Sydney Morning Herald) lawyers and pursue. You have been so advised,” he said. He said it was a “friendly interview” and that he did not raise his voice at all.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 8, 2022 10:03 pm

but there is also a significant number who are avaricious dishonest sluts who clean out some poor smitten fools bank account and are gone into the melting pot in the big cities as soon as the bank account has hit zero.

Aaaaand that’s this week’s topic, and the next and the next.

Superb comment Pedro. Accurate AF, and also perfectly describes a type of tart ADF people ‘meet overseas’ and bring home to comparative largesse. Had more than one mate return home to the same scenario.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 8, 2022 10:10 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
August 8, 2022 at 9:48 pm
We’re the only Commonwealth country in the world that does not have a treaty with its first people

Couldn’t any negotiated land rights agreement, be described as a “de facto” Treaty?

1066 the Normans won and the Saxons lost and the Normans did not give anything back to the Saxons

John Cleese Doubles Down on Slavery, Reparations Jokes Amid Backlash

John Cleese has hit back at his critics after facing a backlash over jokes he made about slavery while taking part in a talk at the South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival.

The Monty Python star, 82, fronted the “John Cleese in Conversation” event in Austin, Texas, on March 11, alongside fellow comedians Dulcé Sloan, Jim Gaffigan, and Ricky Velez, when the subject of colonization was raised.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cleese said to Sloan, who is Black, that the British gave her “free passage” to the U.S., in reference to slavery. He also said the British are owed reparations by Italy, a joking reference to the Roman conquest of Britain nearly 2,000 years ago.

The British-born star is quoted as adding: “History is a history of crime. It’s a history of people who were stronger beating up people who were weaker, and it’s always been that. It’s deeply, deeply distasteful. But to pretend that one lot were worse than another—you do know the British have been slaves twice, right?”

Later returning to the topic, Cleese said: “[People] get competitive about this business of being oppressed. We were oppressed, the English, by the Romans for 400 [years], from about 0 to 400.”

“I want reparations from Italy,” Cleese, star of A Fish Called Wanda, commented, adding: “And then the Normans came over in 1066… they were horrible people from France, and they came and colonized us for 30 years—we need reparations there too, I’m afraid.”

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 8, 2022 10:11 pm

Had more than one mate return home to the same scenario.

Had more than one mate, married to an Aussie sheila, return home to the same situation. Cleaned out the house and the bank account and “shot through” with the new boyfriend.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 8, 2022 10:13 pm

Poor Jacinta, to be harrassed by this bossy self-important man after he had the temerity to call her a racist, when she is a genuinely aboriginal woman who stands up for a better deal for her people than the deal they are being offered by the faux supporters of the so-called voice. This should give many more people cause to vote NO against this useless piece of meaningless symbolism. Stay strong, Jacinta.

P
P
August 8, 2022 10:15 pm
JC
JC
August 8, 2022 10:18 pm

Eggsactly pedro. The human brain is an incredible pattern forming machine. If there’s some sort of pattern, it picks up on it and there is a pattern in terms of what you described and despite what the Driller says.

This saintly, virtuous religious bilge the lunatic (Driller) is posting is the eggsact opposite of what he’s said countless times about various ethnic groups – all of it anecdotal crap.

Maybe, just maybe I have it all wrong though and the Driller is in the throes of converting to Roman Catholicism with a view to eventually becoming a priest, bishop and finally pope in his later years. Who knows.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 8, 2022 10:19 pm

Had more than one mate return home to the same scenario.

There was one certain unit, which shall remain nameless, which had a “Rogues Gallery”, of the more notorious camp followers, on the unit noticeboard…

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 8, 2022 10:24 pm

A completely Captain Obvious statement:

they were horrible people from France

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 8, 2022 10:31 pm

I’d be very, very surprised if they have even half of that, incl. DPR/LPR.

Dover – I’m just saying what I’m seeing. I have no side in this fight. I know a few Russians as friends but no Ukrainians.

You’re probably getting towards accuracy if you more than halve the casualty figures the other side publishes for their enemy. Propaganda being what it is. Which gets you to near equal losses.

I think the Ukrainians have lost more since the Russians have been using massed artillery tactics, although that has slowed recently. There’s a limit on how much artillery ammunition they squirreled away, and the amount they’ve been using is phenomenal. On the other hand the Russians also have been forced in the last few days to move units down to the Kherson area, which suggests the Ukrainian counterattacks have hurt some.

If you take a step back though, and look at the maps, you’d be hard pressed to tell which side was doing better in the last two months. It’s damn near static. Which also implies equal losses.

cohenite
August 8, 2022 10:32 pm

In text messages to The Australian, an agitated FitzSimons ­declared her account of the conversation “was not a matter of interpretation”. “Complete and utter DEFAMATORY nonsense, as I told her … will hand recording to (Sydney Morning Herald) lawyers and pursue. You have been so advised,” he said. He said it was a “friendly interview” and that he did not raise his voice at all.

This bastard works for nein; and before the Judgment in BRS even comes down here we have nein threatening another disapproved person; no matter if she is a black woman. If the lnp don’t come out all limp dicks blazing in her support she should resign immediately and join PHON.

Having said that I hope she has learnt her lesson in dealing with the scum left media.

cohenite
August 8, 2022 10:37 pm

Still its not the first time a left wing scumbag has sued Jacinta:

Olympian and ex-senator Nova Peris sues Jacinta Price over Studio 10 debate

JC
JC
August 8, 2022 10:41 pm

Saw a funny series on Netflix.

Dude walks through a x-ray machine and sets off the buzzer. The guard points to the dude’s belt telling him he should’ve taken it off. The dude says that , yes the belt is to keep his pants up and he’s not a jihadi bride.

cohenite
August 8, 2022 10:43 pm

Being watching The Expanse which is as good as it gets for S-F.

Then for sentimental reasons taped The Silencers which is unwatchable.

Oh come on
Oh come on
August 8, 2022 10:52 pm

I have no side in this fight.

Come on, Bruce. People have memories, y’know.

Dot
Dot
August 8, 2022 11:01 pm

Putin can claim to kill 1/8 of his enemy’s army, he has nukes and also claims “popular support” and he still can’t win against a country, nay a nation he says does not even exist?

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 8, 2022 11:02 pm

Plenty of unusual domestic arrangements in mining towns. Goes with the territory unfortunately. Best avoided if you can.

Jorge
Jorge
August 8, 2022 11:08 pm

If there is some kind of situation developing with Chinese banks I wonder if HK will be roped in. HSBC in HK might find itself in the mire. As I understand it the international banks like Citi run their own Chinese operation sequestered and therefore not insulated from what happens on the mainland.

Morsie
Morsie
August 8, 2022 11:30 pm

Years ago ,knew a bloke who split up with his wife of 20 years and decided he was God’s gift to women.Whilst being quite trim I thought he had a head like a robbers dog.
Anyway he had a few romantic exploits and then met this very attractive woman about 10 to 15 years younger with a young child.
They moved into his house and started playing happy .
families.About two weeks later he chastised the young girl and mum was not happy.
When he got home from work a couple of days later they were gone as was everything in the house.His clothes food private possessions everything including his Jag.House was totally empty.
Apparently she went interstate.Not certain if he got anything back.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
August 8, 2022 11:53 pm

Then for sentimental reasons taped The Silencers which is unwatchable.

I saw it was on after Operation Petticoat which I taped ’cause Cary Grant but read the blurb on The Silencers and thought better of taping it

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 9, 2022 12:04 am

Had more than one mate, married to an Aussie sheila, return home to the same situation. Cleaned out the house and the bank account and “shot through” with the new boyfriend.

Oh God!
This comes up an awful lot.
I have found myself in that position more than once.
No.
The “new boyfriend” bloke.
Not the “empty house” bloke.
As if.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 9, 2022 12:05 am

H B Bearsays:

August 8, 2022 at 11:02 pm

Plenty of unusual domestic arrangements in mining towns.

Is it treated like jail-homo sex?
Not really counted as gay?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Sancho Panzer says: August 9, 2022 at 12:05 am

Is it treated like jail-homo sex?
Not really counted as gay?

Tell us more about this jail sex.
Us honest people have no knowledge of that exclusive genre of the pleasure arts.

Cassie of Sydney
August 9, 2022 7:09 am

“I have no side in this fight.”

Geez…you could have fooled me.

P
P
August 9, 2022 7:47 am

Olivia Newton-John, star of Grease, dies aged 73.

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August 9, 2022 9:06 am

Dilbert 2

too good to ignore

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August 9, 2022 9:10 am
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August 12, 2022 10:00 pm

Flew over Lake Mackay today, was quite full!

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