Open Thread – Weekend 20 Aug 2022
1,317 responses to “Open Thread – Weekend 20 Aug 2022”
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Striding around Manhattan like she owns the place, while encountering other New York personages … 🙂
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Ed’s Auto Reviews is a YouTube channel featuring a young Dutchman presenting quirky reviews of the automotive world across different themes. His latest offering (15:59 long) looks at the Chinese car industry as it stands and he points out they are well-geared to supply electric vehicles. Is this the underlying reason that internal-combustion cars are being demonised with sunset policies around the world?
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I prefer Steppin’ Out in Manhattan, as presented last night. Personal preference. 🙂 Or, alternatively, you can hang tough in a Soho bar.
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Is this the underlying reason that internal-combustion cars are being demonised with sunset policies around the world?
I would bloody well hope not. Although we need to face reality, Cats – ICE vehicles will be taxed and legislated out of our existence very soon.
“It’s not about going green, it’s about going without”
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From Scott Hargraves IPA email this week, re Fred Pawse’s views on Australian culture.
Takes me, and no doubt many Cat commenters, right back to some good old days.Sometime after we released Die Laughing: The Biography of Bill Leak, Fred wrote again for us on what it meant to him. He said:
One of the reasons I wrote the book was not just to honour a friend for a life well lived, but to capture a period of popular culture in what was once an optimistic, friendly, happy country. Leak epitomised each phase in Australian post-war history, from growing up under Robert Menzies to the libertarian 1970s, the prosperous larrikinism under Hawke and Keating, the acrimony during the Howard years (which Leak later realised was largely contrived), and the nerdish earnestness of Rudd, which led to the divisive, self-destructive culture wars of the past decade and a half. [Read here]
‘Prosperous larrikinism’ is a great phrase. Bob Hawke styled himself a larrikin, perhaps to add some gloss to pretty unappealing character traits, but he had some claims to the description. His evident delight in Australia II’s victory in the America’s cup in 1983 had to be genuine, and his off-hand comment that workers should take the day off was somewhat typical (especially for an ACTU leader!).
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G’nite, Rabzie and all.
We did a great dance routine hip hop style this morning to ‘nothing’s gonna stop us now’, but not the 1987 version, some new yoof group. Lots of fun to power up the busy day on. Some of these rather sicky 80’s toons revitalise well with some hard rock put into them.
Time for bed now though.
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Frank:
Still don’t get how Chiko Rolls were identified with leggy woman in leather draping themselves over motorbikes. Not really an obvious connection to cabbage.
Leggy woman and cabbages.
Frank, I’m not going to explain the birds and bees and the stork and cabbages.
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Still don’t get how Chiko Rolls were identified with leggy woman in leather draping themselves over motorbikes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiko_Roll
A Chiko Roll’s filling is primarily cabbage and barley, as well as carrot, green beans, beef, beef tallow, wheat cereal, celery and onion.[2] The filling is partially pulped and enclosed in a thick egg and flour pastry tube,
What’s not to like.
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Great Speccie article about the state of our country and our pollies. There’s another article about De Santis. I think there’s a lot to be said for direct election of many senior public officials, just a straight majority wins election, no preferential stuff. Premiers, Judges, Police Commissioners etc. Our political parties will not allow the promotion of people who aren’t fully on board with whatever the current thing is. Direct election would circumvent the pollies.
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Quite. No limbs missing.
Tee hee. Much better than “42”.
Jackson’s missing character.Thanks Tom. DrJill in the giant pull-up was good too. Put that frumpy Melania to shame.
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Worth readingA cost-of-living crisis made by our elites
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Yes. Next question.
Is modern environmentalism a pagan religion? (Washington Examiner, 18 Aug)
Pelosi (D-CA) claimed the wind, solar, and electric subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act would placate an “angry” planet. “Mother Earth gets angry from time to time, and this legislation will help us address all of that,” the speaker said.
I wonder if she really believes this? On the other hand Pelosi does seem to rather like green stuff, and the climate crazies have lots and lots of that sort of thing.
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Narrative change alert.
NY Times runs column on the dangers of TikTok.
This will be the first time some sheeple have heard of these dangers.Keep in mind a few years ago calling TikTok even concerning was Trumpian level racism.
To be clear, there is zero new news in the NY Times column.
Absolutely everything was known back in 2018 when a ByteDance capital raising deck got out of the lab.The question is who is forcing this change of narrative?
Is it the US security state?
Or part of the BigTech scene (the ones who’s lunch is being eaten by TikTok). -
Bern – I rather liked these two stories appearing within a couple days of each other.
Apple Reportedly Shifting Watch And MacBook Production To Vietnam (18 Aug)
Sounds like someone has found a back door with a sign on it saying “Enter Here” in Mandarin.
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The Chicko Roll. Created in Bendigo but first sold at Wagga.
The Chiko Roll was developed by Frank McEncroe, a boilermaker from Bendigo, Victoria, who turned his clever hands to catering at football matches and other outdoor events. In 1950, McEncroe saw a competitor selling Chinese-style chop suey rolls outside the Richmond Cricket Ground. It was here that his craftsman’s mind saw an opportunity…
McEncroe felt that the competitor rolls were too flimsy to be handled in an informal outdoor setting, so brought to life the idea of a much larger and more robust roll that would provide a quick meal fix, easily held in one hand, with a cool beer in the other. The roll’s robust crispy outer layer would double as its own holder… And the legend of the great Chiko Roll began, making its first appearance at the Wagga Wagga Agriculture Show in 1951.
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Chicko Roll
Tried them over the years but never liked them in comparison to a steamed dim sim with lots of soy sauce.
I remember a bus trip with mates after we’d had a big night and we were a bit subdued. A big personality in our mob stopped the bus at a roadhouse and came back with bags full is steamed dim sims.
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“sfwsays:
August 21, 2022 at 6:39 am
Great Speccie article about the state of our country and our pollies. There’s another article about De Santis. I think there’s a lot to be said for direct election of many senior public officials, just a straight majority wins election, no preferential stuff. Premiers, Judges, Police Commissioners etc. Our political parties will not allow the promotion of people who aren’t fully on board with whatever the current thing is. Direct election would circumvent the pollies.”Umm, whilst I understand where you’re coming from and once upon a time I would have had some sympathy for what you are saying, my answer to the call for the “direct election” of senior public servants is…..no. Maybe one upon a time but no more. The left have infiltrated and politicised everything. The “direct election” of judges, police commissioners, district attorneys (here in Oz…..crown prosecutors) etc. leads to the complete politicisation of the roles, as evidenced in the US now, most particularly in blue states. In states like Oregon, Washington, New York, California, Illinois etc, when dealing with crime, particularly crime committed by groups like Antifa and BLM, any investigation and prosecution is dependent on the politics involved of the DA, the judges, the police etc. Andy Ngo has written extensively about this and “direct election”. Crime committed by groups such as Antifa and BLM, in cities like Portland and Seattle, are now rarely investigated and if they are, the crimes are rarely prosecuted because the DA and the police chiefs are corrupt far-left Democrats or they are loathe to rock the boat of their far-left masters. And when you have political and ideological homogeny in certain states, like Oregon and California, there will never ever be any change of installing centrist or right-wing Republicans because they just don’t win elections in these states anymore. Just look at what happened during the summer of 2020 in blue states such as Minnesota and Oregon, most of the perpetrators/culprits are known but have not been prosecuted. Why?
We’ve already had a glimpse here of the damage that a politicised police and judiciary can do, just ask Cardinal George Pell. It took a largely politically neutral High Court to first hear his case and then to squash his conviction….7-0.
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The bank mirochipping is hardly surprising.
I’ve been waiting for the push for mirochipping on newborn babies, same as we do for all our pets to have the ‘registered’
Of course, it will be about your child’s safety, easy to scan and ID them if they become lost.
As for ICE engines, diesel is here to stay at a minimum.
We can deny reality for a while, but, as we are soon to see, we cannot deny the consequences of denying reailty. -
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
August 21, 2022 at 1:06 am
Mine’s a double Tallisker
It’s working already.
For Talisker is spelt with only one “L”There are a few Chinese knock-offs about which might fool the unsophisticated palate.
The dodgy label is often a giveaway.
I do hope no-one has been had. -
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UK vaccination, adverse reactions
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BREAKING: Daughter of Aleksandr Dugin, a leading Russian political thinker known for close ties to Putin, killed in car explosion.
https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1561122231291621376?s=21&t=HsVK7bbMkBc4zmuIznHR-Q
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A Chiko Roll’s filling is primarily cabbage and barley, as well as carrot, green beans, beef, beef tallow, wheat cereal, celery and onion.[2] The filling is partially pulped and enclosed in a thick egg and flour pastry tube …. What’s not to like.
1) Cabbage: cabbage is a vegetable and ALL vegetables are full of carbs and toxic stuff the plant makes to stop you eating it. Why do you think it produces the gassy side effects? Its not because your digestive system finds it agreeable.
2) Barley: barley is a seed which is a plant baby. Plants dont like you eating their babies, so they resist that by putting toxins in them. They also put hard husks around them to make them more metabolically expensive to eat – ancient humans did not ingest any signficant amount of seeds, they were too small to bother harvesting, too hard to digest and only available for a small part of the year anyway.
3) Carrot: = vegetables = see above
4) Green Beans: = vegetables AND seeds, see above.
5) Beef/ beef fat: the only health bits and the only ‘ancestral foods’ which ancient humans evolved to eat.
6) Wheat/celery/onion/flour: all = seeds/vegetables/carbs, see above.Humans can exist SOLELY on fat and protein and need no carbs at all. You are designed to run on meat, you have the digestive system of a dog not a goat – plants are what your food eats, not you.
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Feckin’ Oirish.
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Indolentsays:
August 21, 2022 at 8:57 am
The podiatrist knows because he can tell by doing feet examinations?
I believe he does occasionally talk to you patients, not to mention noticing if some of them die.
And the podiatrist’s expertise in determining cause of death would be what exactly?
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Sancho Panzer says: August 21, 2022 at 9:01 am
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
August 21, 2022 at 1:06 amMine’s a double Tallisker**
It’s working already.
For Talisker is spelt with only one “L”***There are a few Chinese knock-offs about which might fool the unsophisticated palate.
The dodgy label is often a giveaway.
I do hope no-one has been had.If that be the case whoever imported it from China is in for a world of pain.
Diageo (world’s.largets.liquor.company)* do not hold back when it comes to protecting the trademark/brand integrity.*this may have changed since Pernod’s latest buyout of the neighbours – I couldn’t be arsed to check.
***(one who drinks Tobermorey & several other single malts on a daily basis is unlikely, extremely unlikely, to be ‘had’ by a chop-suey knock-off)
**(one who buys their single malt from Woolworths is unlikely to get anything but the real deal – Woolworths will pull all sorts of stunts – but their Tallisker [with double “L”] almost certainly declare on the label which part of Chile it was distilled & aged) -
On health related topics.
Dads next door neighbour carked it a couple of days ago.
Bedridden for about 15 years and easily 250kg. Lived with a deep fryer, bar sized freezer and fridge next to her bed.
How the hell someone like that keeps going for so long in that condition is beyond me.Apparently complained of breathing trouble and while her family was getting her c-pap machine going she just stopped.
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Although we need to face reality, Cats – ICE vehicles will be taxed and legislated out of our existence very soon.
True, they’ll try.
What many fail to recognise is the rubicon being crossed as we speak.
Up until now, all these schemes, hoax’s and scares that have been used to control your lives and lighten your pockets have necessarily been theoretical. Somewhat difficult to prove one way or another. Additionally, the ‘payment’ to ‘fight’ these metaphysical threats has been largely painless from the masses point of view. Government debt, lack of redundancy in the energy sector, etc, but the bread and circuses have remained unaffected, so the rorts carried on unopposed.However, we are now at the tipping point. The science and physical reality, which can’t be outrun or papered over by propaganda, is about to kick in. Power outages, inability to charge compulsory EVs within the current grid, food shortages, exorbitant food prices, etc.
When these unavoidable physical impacts (which are now baked in and inevitable) starts cutting in, the bread and Circuses stop. The response will no longer be ambivalence, but something more. They have pushed the pendulum too hard, and it’s about to swing past the point of political comfort, and they are now powerless to stop it. The politicians have forgotten the old adage, “You can shear a sheep many times, but you can only skin it once”.
One might argue that the Covid response proves the populace’s tolerance to tyrannical dictates. It does, to a certain degree, but ask yourself, did the bread and circuses (Netflix) ever stop. No, what’s ahead is different.
Watch this space. It’s not going to be pretty, but it’s not going to pan out the way the elites think, either.
A small taste of what occurs when power goes out for a couple of hours in Melbourne’s inner suburbs:
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A year eight student at a private school in Melbourne identifies as a cat, and as long as she does her school work, the school is supporting her assumed identity.
Although she is “phenomenally bright”, she is understood not to be verbal at school.
“No one seems to have a protocol for students identifying as animals, but the approach has been that if it doesn’t disrupt the school, everyone is being supportive,” a source close the family said.
No wonder they can’t get enough teachers…Herald-Sun
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The Liberals are totally rooted-Federal: Have lost office after being flown into the ground by Malcolm Turnbull and then Scott Morrison, two Prime Ministers who saw the Liberal Party as a vehicle for personal ambition and took from it far more than they gave.Well worth a read
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Re: the podiatrist’s report of unusual number of deaths of patients.
Yes – I read that report. There are many others like them from other professionals who have a regular client base. Indeed, many of us can offer anecdotal (yes, anecdotal) reports of sudden and unexpected deaths of friends and acquaintances.
More significant are the reports of funeral directors and embalmers (in the US) and also insurance companies who are experiencing increases in payouts. These are mostly coming from the USA. But they are real and significant.
Time will tell what is the cause of what the statisticians coyly call “excess deaths”. Many of us have our firm opinions – but only time will tell.
As I have said many time before on this blog – I pray that I am wrong in my reading of what is happening.
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Even the BBC now has to acknowledge COVID-19 vaccine-related deaths when they are undeniably linked to the vaccines mandated on many national populations. While, of course, declaring them to be “very rare,” the British media acknowledged that a rock star named Zion XXX started from Alston in Cumbria passed away after developing an “excruciating” headache just eight days after receiving the AstraZeneca/Oxford jab back in May 2021. An inquest has finally come to the conclusion that Zion XXX died as a result of “Vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia.” And that his finance was actually the first person in the UK to receive COVID-19 compensation due to a death associated with the vaccine.
Trialsitenews.
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“The Liberals are totally rooted-Federal: Have lost office after being flown into the ground by Malcolm Turnbull and then Scott Morrison, two Prime Ministers who saw the Liberal Party as a vehicle for personal ambition and took from it far more than they gave.Well worth a read”
Yep, it’s a very good and accurate piece. Further to the stupid fucking Liberals, what’s the bet that they spend their time over the next three years trying to get back electorates like Wentworth and North Sydney….rather than kissing them goodbye and trying to win the outer electorates.
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Pedro L. Gonzalez
@emeriticus
There really is no point arguing with these people. You simply have to deprive them of power and stigmatize and criminalize the world they want for the rest of us.Yep.
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Why are Doctors such COWARDS?
Dr. Suneel Dhand -
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https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/trialsite-vaccine-series-b43e8bf2
Very cheap subscription, this is a great site. But daily headlines and the beginning of each article are free.
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Further to the stupid fucking Liberals, what’s the bet that they spend their time over the next three years trying to get back electorates like Wentworth and North Sydney….rather than kissing them goodbye and trying to win the outer electorates.
In similar fashion, the SFNs (N=Nationals) for several election cycles expended the greater part of their budget & much of their volunteer political talent on [spectacularly unsuccessfully] attempting to unseat Bob Katter from the electorate of Kennedy.
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Do doctors have the right to quote research results, even if they are disputed, challenged, or represent some controversial stance opposed to a formal government position? What if the data is the result from their own research or real-world care? The answer: increasingly no, as national governments pressure medical professional licensing bodies and health systems, indirectly, to punish any medical providers that promulgate “misinformation.” Of course, misinformation is a broad term with many interpretations, and in Australia health systems and hospitals take a heavy approach to handling their doctors. One recent example is Dr. Luke McLindon, a prominent physician who went on the record claiming that the COVID-19 vaccines are linked to miscarriages. A controversial topic not proven, yet the topic of growing health activists’ concerns. Dr. McLindon was terminated from Mater Hospital a couple of months ago, and he has gone on the record as to some of the details of his sacking from the Brisbane-based hospital. Dr. McLindon and several other physicians have taken their terminations to court in the hope of securing justice, which they now pursue in Australia’s Supreme Court.
Australia has strict vaccine mandates, with near universal immunization against COVID-19. Yet TrialSite has chronicled multiple times now that more than twice the number of Australians have died in the first 12 weeks of 2022 due to COVID-19 than in all of 2020 and 2021. This disturbing fact unfortunately associates with a near-universally vaccinated population. TrialSite has reported on similar trends in New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and more. Clearly, a combination of vaccine durability challenges and a mutating RNA virus—which they are known to do—are factors behind this trend.
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Questions for the “Australian Supreme Court”.
Re the claim that Luke McLindon was “recently fired for his views”.
When did he last work at Mater Hospital?
Was it November 2021?
What was the cohort he chose for his “vax causes miscarriage” assertion?
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Daughter of Ukraine war mastermind ‘is blown to pieces in Moscow car bomb’: Darya Dugin ‘assassinated in attack meant for her father Alexander’ – one of Putin’s closest aides often dubbed the Russian leader’s ‘brain’
Darya Dugin was driving back from festival when her car suddenly exploded on a road on outskirts of Moscow
According to reports, her father Alexander, 60, was meant to be travelling with her but went in separate car
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I didn’t suggest it would be the Liberal Party of 2010.
Just that there is ebb and flow in a two party system.yes but then you’d expect Guy to be in the box seat to replace the dick-tator. Thing was opposition leaders like Kennett, Greiner and Abbott did promise (or suggest at least) real change, an improvement.
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Daughter of Ukraine war mastermind ‘is blown to pieces in Moscow car bomb’: Darya Dugin ‘assassinated in attack meant for her father Alexander’ – one of Putin’s closest aides often dubbed the Russian leader’s ‘brain’
Dugin is the Ukraine war’s mastermind? FMD the Western media is full of shit. Aside from these Western claims, and Dugin’s interest in encouraging them, is there any evidence that Dugin is a ‘close aide’ of Putin leave alone his ‘brain’. Everything I read from Russian sources indicates nothing of the sort. The closest analogue here is the Western media’s claim that Bannon is Trump’s ‘brain’. It’s completely exaggerated but it serves the Western media’s interest in pairing the both of them and cross-contaminating the other.
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