Open Thread – Weekend 20 Aug 2022


Woman with a rake, Jean-François Millet, 1857

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Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 22, 2022 8:30 am

Be wary you don’t fall victim to SEFS (Struth-Faulty Syndrome).

Sprung.
That is exactly what a WEF agent would be trained to suggest.

calli
calli
August 22, 2022 8:31 am

I’m still recovering from sleep deprivation. The littlies were waved off yesterday afternoon and we spent the evening vaguely shell-shocked and gazing at the TV without registering anything.

Idiotically, I now miss them. It’s quiet…too quiet. Time to get to work.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 22, 2022 8:33 am

Diogenes.
I had a similar experience.
A guy I was studying with had a few girlfriend issues at the time thesis submission was drawing near. He hadn’t put as much time into polishing it as he would have liked, and was thinking about carrying it over to the next year.
I told him to just fire it in.
The supervisor was a soft touch but on contract so might not be there next year.
Worst case he suggests some edits and you re-submit.
He passed first time.
As did all of us.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 22, 2022 8:42 am

LESS THAN 8 DAYS REMAIN TO SAVE THE EXPOSÉ & KEEP US ONLINE – Less than 0.1% of our readers support us…

Understandably.

Indolent
Indolent
August 22, 2022 8:44 am
Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
August 22, 2022 8:44 am

Sancho, I’ve got you down as Ernie
you know, the nice one, bashful, with a sense of humour etc

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 22, 2022 8:45 am

Jonova has some interesting poll numbers today:

Political Correctness is for girls — the bubble of Woke has a grip on young women (22 Aug)

Most noticeable is the lack of effect on young men: 25 years of propaganda has had zero impact.

P
P
August 22, 2022 8:46 am

A day of reckoning on trans kids looms

Very little has been said publicly in Australia about what is happening to children who present as transgender, and moves by successive, progressive governments to prevent anything but affirming the gender transition of kids ensures the silence will continue

Indolent
Indolent
August 22, 2022 8:48 am
Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
August 22, 2022 8:50 am
OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 22, 2022 8:52 am

Tested: How Towing Affects the Electric Pickups—Hummer EV, Rivian R1T, and the Ford F-150 Lightning</strong>

Towing a trailer with an EV pickup might be easy, but it kills range fast.

Last year, at our inaugural EV of the Year event, there wasn’t a single vehicle that could tow more than 5000 pounds. There are now three such entries: the GMC Hummer EV (7500-pound towing capacity), Ford F-150 Lightning (10,000-pound max), and Rivian R1T (11,000 pounds). To evaluate this emerging electric-towing phenomenon, we hitched each to the same load, a 29-foot camper that weighs 6100 pounds, the sort of trailer a family of four might take on the quintessential summer getaway.

We ran all three trucks on the same 85-degree summer day on the same flat highway loop at 70 mph. Other than the slightly lower speed, which is prudent when piloting between 13,000 and 16,000 pounds of truck and trailer, we conducted this the same way we run our 75-mph highway-range tests, with the automatic climate control set to 72 degrees and running as many miles as we dared before the battery’s state of charge became dire.

But you won’t want to be going far, as a full battery will take you a mere 100 miles in the Lightning, 110 miles in the R1T, and 140 miles in the Hummer. Although the Hummer consumes electricity at the highest rate of the three, its considerably larger battery pack more than makes up for the difference. (As with unladen range, each figure is rounded down to the nearest 10-mile increment here.)

The range for all three trucks when towing was less than half as far as when cruising lightly loaded at 75 mph.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 22, 2022 8:53 am

Comment over on Andrew Bolt – “Has anyone seen Greta Thunberg and Grace Tame together, in the same room at the same time?

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
August 22, 2022 8:54 am
Roger
Roger
August 22, 2022 8:57 am

For the second consecutive week ABC RN AM has reported on excess non-covid deaths.

One epidemiologist pointing the finger at lockdowns, backed up by the president of the RACP.

The narrative would appear to be slowly collapsing.

Zipster
Zipster
August 22, 2022 9:00 am
Roger
Roger
August 22, 2022 9:06 am

Albanese is positioning himself as a champion of the people and Morrison as the tyrant whose very presence in parliament must be removed. The media is lock-step behind it.

As are more than a few feckless Liberals.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 22, 2022 9:07 am

Dr Faustussays:

August 22, 2022 at 8:42 am

LESS THAN 8 DAYS REMAIN TO SAVE THE EXPOSÉ & KEEP US ONLINE – Less than 0.1% of our readers support us…

Understandably.

I reckon he’s rounded that up to 0.1%.
🙂
But nice to know that the spiv radar works in 999 out of 1,000 readers.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
August 22, 2022 9:11 am

Towing a trailer with an EV pickup might be easy, but it kills range fast.

Talking to friends yesterday (both highly educated professionals) who are keen solar and EV enthusiasts. Neither had any idea of the power grid engineering problem presented by huge increases in demand and balancing intermittent wind & sun generation in the system.
I iced the cake by pointing out the massive profits enjoyed by fossil fuel companies worldwide and the foreign renewable power companies in Australia presently.
The sound of silence.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 22, 2022 9:12 am

Rogersays:

August 22, 2022 at 8:57 am

For the second consecutive week ABC RN AM has reported on excess non-covid deaths.

One epidemiologist pointing the finger at lockdowns, backed up by the president of the RACP.

And several of us here pointed to that very early on.
Not just the direct impact of depression and suicide, but all of those missed skin cancer exams, prostate checks, mammograms and so on.
That bow-wave is now becoming apparent.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
August 22, 2022 9:15 am

BTW
One guy was a Carlton supporter and we watched the end of the game in the pub.
Bonus points to me.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 22, 2022 9:18 am

Towing a trailer with an EV pickup might be easy, but it kills range fast

So towing an extra battery pack is counter-productive?

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2022 9:18 am

And several of us here pointed to that very early on.

I suspect many in the medical profession had their fears, but didn’t dare speak out.

Dot
Dot
August 22, 2022 9:23 am

maybe a short plank

The yard arm is strong.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 22, 2022 9:24 am

Farmer Gezsays:

August 22, 2022 at 9:15 am

BTW
One guy was a Carlton supporter and we watched the end of the game in the pub.
Bonus points to me.

I make it that if Caaaarlton had kicked 9-10 more points during the course of the year, they’d be in.

calli
calli
August 22, 2022 9:26 am

One epidemiologist pointing the finger at lockdowns

Yes. The time has come as the Morrison show trial is played out.

Watch all the “experts” who advised him scurry away. The limelight is not so enjoyable now. And where are our fearless Premiers? Are they still basking in the glory of “saving” us or have they moved on to other distraction circuses?

Meanwhile the bear is now chained to the pole, ready for tormenting.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 22, 2022 9:26 am

Less than 0.1% of our readers support us…

Fake news.

Obviously there are gangs of well-armed pig shooters across the country backing this horse all the way in. It’s a conspiracy by Big Something.

I would refer to the resistance as The Underground, but that invokes tunnel imagery.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 22, 2022 9:28 am

One guy was a Carlton supporter and we watched the end of the game in the pub.

In the eight all year, only to be tipped out at the end of the last round.

Magnificent.

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2022 9:35 am

Not a lot of love for Elbow on Twitter atm.

It would appear that cost of living is is a bigger priority than The Voice.

Who’d have thought?

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 22, 2022 9:37 am

Bezos making a move.

Amazon Among Bidders for Signify Health
Amazon is among the bidders for Signify Health, in a sale that could value the healthcare company at more than $8 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

Fun fact, Signify has more contracts with the NHS than any other group.
Another fun fact, Signify has employed hundreds of former UK public servants.
I wonder why they did that?

MatrixTransform
August 22, 2022 9:41 am

A “fuckwittery” index would be a more accurate measure.

I wonder what their IQ is?

…asked nobody being kicked to death in public at 7:15 on a Friday night

Gawd, Im sick of cringe being dressed in rhetorical respectability.

we have zero-tolerance for bigotry of any sort right?

so yeah, a wild gang can run riot while people like Franx stand there with vacant thought-bubble

here’s a thought … maybe nek time its you they kick the shit out of.

shoot first. ask questions later

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 22, 2022 9:43 am

Simon Birmingham

I suspect he sits down to pee.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 22, 2022 9:45 am

ABCcess breathlessly reporting the “jerbs Summit” has already decided on a winner.

PONZI!!!!!

There are plenty of ideas on the table for next month’s Jobs Summit, but there is one outcome that seems all but locked in.

It will grow from 160,000 people a year to possibly as high as 200,000 people a year.
There has been a remarkable consensus formed around that 200,000 figure, including both unions and business groups.
….

Its a big club, pale old Aussies arent needed for it.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 22, 2022 9:49 am

Treasury has seen Australia’s future. His name is Sunil.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 22, 2022 9:53 am

Mole, the article from the Malcolm Times paints a different picture re migration.

https://apple.news/AZOXqzjfKSreJlI_ZzDIwEQ

Diogenes
Diogenes
August 22, 2022 10:09 am

There has been a remarkable consensus formed around that 200,000 figure, including both unions and business groups.

Given the paucity of rental stock even in the regions, where the hell are they going to put them?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 22, 2022 10:10 am

The “Stop Lying to Small Businesses” billboard features a Pinocchio-like image of Biden with his nose growing the length of the billboard.

Interesting only this shows up on Google Search on Chrome

1 result (0.37 seconds)

Joe Biden’s Nose Grows in NYC Billboard – Townhallhttps://townhall.com › saraharnold › 2022/08/21 › joe-…
6 hours ago — The “Stop Lying to Small Businesses” billboard features a Pinocchio-like image of Biden with his nose growing the length of the billboard

On DuckDuckGo Firefox Correct Reference comes up – It’s as if Google is protecting DemoCraps and Hiden/Biden

New Billboard: Biden’s Pinocchio Nose Grows with Every Lie Told to Small Businesses

The Job Creators Network (JCN) put up a new billboard in Times Square calling out the broken promises the Biden administration has made to small businesses. The ad comes on the heels of the passage of the boldly misnamed Inflation Reduction Act—which includes tax increases that will roll downhill to Mainstreet and an army of new IRS agents that will have small businesses in their crosshairs.

The billboard is headlined, “STOP LYING TO SMALL BUSINESSES!” and features an animation of President Biden’s nose growing longer—invoking the classic children’s tale, Pinocchio. The ad goes on to question, “NO NEW TAXES,” “NO IRS AUDITS,” “NO RECESSION,” AND “NO INFLATION?” as examples of the White House evading the truth.

View the animated billboard here

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 22, 2022 10:16 am

I’ve given up trying to fathom out Oz Post’s delivery system ..! last 3 things I bought on Ebay, 2 Melbourne, 1 Sydney for Sydney delivery all posted same day ..
both Melbourne ones arrived within 5 days .. the Sydney one took 12 days .. go figure! ..

I ordered a small item of apparel from Minnesota – got it in 5 days.

I ordered around the same time a bottle of sake from somewhere in the Inner West of Sydney. I am only a few kilometers from the Harbour Bridge myself, so it is not far. Took around three weeks. The order went from Petersham to Melbourne then back to Sydney.

Franx
Franx
August 22, 2022 10:27 am

MatrixTransform, it was the police who were ‘kicking the shit out of’ us. The issue then might remain one of IQ although not one of cultural background. I would say neither.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 22, 2022 10:31 am

And several of us here pointed to that very early on.

I suspect many in the medical profession had their fears, but didn’t dare speak out.

The way things worked (in Queensland and most certainly in the UK) during 2020 was public and private hospitals were tied down waiting for the Covid onslaught and simultaneously knee-deep in processes designed to keep patients away.

Similarly specialists were (understandably) difficult to access because of the precautionary processes – “if I go down with it, my existing patients are going to suffer…

In the result, MrsF missed out on a routine lady-test, which was rescheduled a couple of times. And then, as bad luck had it, she developed symptoms late in the year. And even then it required applied assertiveness by her and her specialist to get into the treatment cycle in early 2021 – by which time the tumour was more advanced than it otherwise would have been.

She seems to have been lucky in her recovery. But if you weren’t assertive, and not in the private system, your outcome could well have been different because of the delay.

Yes, anecdotal. But one reason I loathe dishonest scum like Team Exposé who simply make stuff up to create a saleable product.

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
August 22, 2022 10:32 am

Politicians never Lie, they simply misspeak.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
August 22, 2022 10:35 am

Rogersays:
August 22, 2022 at 8:57 am
For the second consecutive week ABC RN AM has reported on excess non-covid deaths.

One epidemiologist pointing the finger at lockdowns, backed up by the president of the RACP.

The narrative would appear to be slowly collapsing.

Have they done a proper statistical analysis of covid vaxxes and adverse health outcomes?
The “control group” is still large enough for meaningful stats, e.g 3.8% “eligible” people still totally unvaxxed in Victoria last I looked.
And, no, I’m not asserting that that is the cause or even a contributing factor, I’m just saying that no-one will actually know one way or the other while doctors aren’t allowed to put “covid vaxx” on a death certificate without first getting government “advice”.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 22, 2022 10:36 am

Family over yesterday, asked no 2 son how the new promotion is going. Oh yeah ok. Have you finished your degree yet. Not quite. He only got the job coz he was going to uni and the previous position required a degree but they seemed to find they couldn’t do without him, so don’t worry you haven’t got a degree yet. When he said he was looking to do something else they promoted his boss and created a new position for him. He discovered he had abilities not trained for. Mother inquired how many staff? 230! Not too bad at 27. Mum and Dad very proud. No 3 son went to manage new job, sacked half the staff the first week after discovering they were stealing and thought nothing of it. Owner completely unaware. He reckons the worst thing was they didn’t have their hands in the till but were taking stock, so no profit to be made.

Morsie
Morsie
August 22, 2022 10:37 am

One problem is that the awful decisions being made force you to go along.I reckon that our power supply will have some major issues in the short to medium term.My wife sleeps on a hospital bed on an air mattress.If there is no power , she is lying on metal.
Solutions – buy a generator? I am totally illiterate in this area so no.Other solution get solar and a Tesla battery .
Being installed next week.Origin offering interest free over 5 years.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 22, 2022 10:39 am

Perth Trader that’s the Alec Baldwin excuse. I didn’t shoot that woman, the gun misfired.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 22, 2022 10:40 am

And the bastards think we’re too stupid not to believe them.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 22, 2022 10:43 am

cohenite, that can be a footnote to the “fortifying the election” column in Time magazine.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 22, 2022 10:54 am

In the eight all year, only to be tipped out at the end of the last round.

Magnificent.

I prefer to say they were in the eight up until 3 minutes to go in the home and away season.

sfw
sfw
August 22, 2022 10:58 am

Age article on Greg Mirabella, quote from article “On Mirabella’s analysis, social media is near the core of the problem.”, it’s worth reading just to get an idea of how delusional the Libs are. His useless wife converted a very safe Lib seat to a sort of ‘Teal’ independent, quite an achievement.

I just can’t see the Libs ever looking to their base for policies and candidates again.
I used 12ft ladder for access.

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theage.com.au%2Fpolitics%2Fvictoria%2Fthe-prescient-victorian-document-that-foretold-the-liberal-party-s-crisis-20220818-p5bawl.html

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 22, 2022 11:01 am

Mung bean eating sanal wearing vegans.
Orwell had them down pat
“One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in England”

All of them subscribe to the ‘bible’.

EAT ZE BUGS!!!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/21/the-guardian-view-on-earth-friendly-diets-cooking-animals-is-cooking-the-planet
Meat-eating is sold as necessary, even though red and processed meats have been linked to cancer and heart disease. Early humans mostly ate vegetables. But eating meat was long seen as something to aspire to – and peer pressure makes it harder to change habits.

Perhaps the answer is to shame the public into action over its gluttony. To eat within our planetary boundaries – that is, with no net environmental damage – it has been estimated that we should consume no more than 98g of red meat*, 203g of poultry* and 196g of fish* a week. However, in high-income countries such as Britain, households are currently consuming double this. Putting one’s needs ahead of others’ is not only unfair but also dangerous for the planet. Thankfully the mood is shifting. The rise in vegetarian and vegan diets reveals a conscious effort to reduce meat intake.

Different diets will shift the industry slowly, but may not transform food production systems quickly enough. That will need governments to act – and to treat eating meat like burning coal****. Greener alternatives such as precision fermentation can produce animal-free eggs, milk and meat. Bill McKibben*****, writing about The Ministry of the Future, noted that in the book it is legislation that creates “a new legal regime that is fair, just, sustainable, and secure” to solve the climate crisis. Developed countries ought to think hard about the UN message last year that they should reconsider their support “for an outsized meat and dairy industry, which accounts for 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions”. This is not a call to end rich-world farming,****** but rather to end a form of farming that risks costing the planet.

* A rasher of bacon
**A chook thigh 7 leg
*** 4 fish fingers.
**** Amazingly enough the chap hired by the government prescribes more government, and taxes as a “solution”. What the odds on that eh?
***** “Gibberin’ McKibben as a voice of reason and sanity i this benighted world…
****** Exclusive footage of the moment that was written.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 22, 2022 11:01 am

I’m just saying that no-one will actually know one way or the other while doctors aren’t allowed to put “covid vaxx” on a death certificate without first getting government “advice”.

Yeah, it gets murky when we get into co-morbidities.
One single thing may not have caused the death, but 3-4 factors in conjunction could have.
Doctors should be free to cite a single cause of death and/or “probable contributory factors”.

rickw
rickw
August 22, 2022 11:02 am

Forget DEAD Internet: WEF & Google are DELETING It

This is very significant, a number of streamers showing exactly how it looks. The search results number remains the same, but if you go through the results page, results simply start repeating between page 5 and 10.

Frank
Frank
August 22, 2022 11:17 am

The very premisses of the IQ testing are uncertain, which is to say best to rely on the more tried and true principle of what is universal, and that is the the concept of the common sense, a principle which is not denied by either science or culture.

OK, so IQ tests measure IQ and IQ is what IQ tests measure and nobody is quite able to explain it all, yet they are the only game in town and do have predictive power. The problem with fobbing it off onto “common sense” is that you then have to come up with a way of measuring common sense. It would help if it wasn’t prey to the same set of vagaries that IQ tests are.

local oaf
August 22, 2022 11:30 am

no more than 98g of red meat*, 203g of poultry* and 196g of fish* a week. However, in high-income countries such as Britain, households are currently consuming double this

Hahahahahahah!

I don’t eat any poultry but I consume enough red meat and fish for a small town in Britain. 🙂

rickw
rickw
August 22, 2022 11:30 am

OK, so IQ tests measure IQ and IQ is what IQ tests measure and nobody is quite able to explain it all

Let’s not forget the origin, US Military very quickly sorting very large numbers of men into roles that they would most probably be able to do.

It’s far from bullshit. My own observations eg. Kenyan’s rank relatively high in Africa, you most commonly come across them in technical roles in other African countries whilst the locals do the grunt work.

Speedbox
August 22, 2022 11:36 am

Cats seem to like talking about batteries from time to time 🙂 so this may be of interest.

https://stockhead.com.au/primers/battery-storage-not-all-lithium-is-the-same-and-its-not-all-about-lithium/

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 22, 2022 11:39 am

It’s white, so I suppose this makes sense.

Milk is Racist (21 Aug)

Animal Rebellion activist Tim Speers told Express UK that cow’s milk is ‘racist’ because people of colour are more lactose intolerant than their white counterparts.

Although at school when we got free milk the brown ones were first choice, being chocolate. The last to be taken was always the lime green milk. It was seriously disgusting if left in the sun for a while. There you go, green was obnoxious even ‘way back in the early seventies. The banana-flavoured milk was a rival to it though. Erk.

rickw
rickw
August 22, 2022 11:41 am

I don’t eat any poultry but I consume enough red meat and fish for a small town in Britain.

Currently on a poultry diet, beef hard to find here and of very dubious quality. Occasionally CCP brings something that looks like beef, more likely cat, although I did get one piece that had a quite large bone.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 22, 2022 11:43 am

although I did get one piece that had a quite large bone.

Bad news Im afraid…

Win
Win
August 22, 2022 11:54 am

In defence of Sophy Mirrabella. Green voters openly announced they were moving in to register in Sophys seat and electioneered accordingly.

Megan
Megan
August 22, 2022 12:05 pm

Age article on Greg Mirabella, quote from article “On Mirabella’s analysis, social media is near the core of the problem.”, it’s worth reading just to get an idea of how delusional the Libs are.

So the chisel jawed farmer thinks the solution to the SFL’s failure to win elections is to develop an even more leftist narrative. The entire party Australia wide is now a sink hole of low IQ deadbeats who have destroyed any chance of salvaging anything from the ruins.

Their obliteration as a viable alternative is almost complete.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 22, 2022 12:10 pm

Talking to lady friend of wife recently. Went into hospital with a high temperature. They tested her every day while in isolation for covid. They couldn’t find what was causing the high temperature but still managed to give her a respiratory problem that she never had for several days. After 17 days in isolation they bumped her into a ward with covid patients who were coughing and spluttering all over the place. After 3 weeks said you’re going to a nursing home. FU I’m not and rang another friend to pick her up. Still doesn’t know what was wrong.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 22, 2022 12:12 pm

All those green voters no doubt had the same address.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
August 22, 2022 12:15 pm

Egg flip, anyone?

will
will
August 22, 2022 12:15 pm

IQ tests measure IQ and IQ is what IQ tests measure and nobody is quite able to explain it all

IQ test are very good at measuring cognitive ability and are almost a 100% predictor of success at University, to the extent that without a minimum of 110-120, you cannot succeed no matter how hard you work, but is no guarantee of success if your study time is spent at the Pub.

This is subject to modern University courses have some modicum of rigour.

Maybe not.

areff
areff
August 22, 2022 12:15 pm

more lactose intolerant than their white counterparts

My son, who is genetically half southern Italian, is quite on the white-ish side; indeed, as a little blond blue-eyed baby he might have been produced as evidence that those nasty Aryans further to north won the last big war. But he was spectacularly lactose-intolerant all the same — great gouts of projectile vomit all over the place until we twigged and started de-lactosing his milk with drops and 24-hours in the fridge.

It seems his mum’s genes include the slightest touch of Africa, thereby confirming that old northern insult about ‘the eggplants (mulunyans) start at Napoli’

Megan
Megan
August 22, 2022 12:33 pm

Snap, areff. Daughter, my second child, totally manifested the half-Sicilian DNA in looks as well as lactose intolerance. Nothing as obvious as projectile vomiting, just constant high pitched screaming and rocking after every feed, waking up every 20 minutes at night and severe constipation.
Idiot male GP dismissed my concerns as Anxious Mother Syndrome and sent me away. After three months of utter misery it took a random conversation with my midwife cousin to get a clue and the difference once lactose was removed was astonishing.
Except the sleep thing. She kept that up for another three years.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 22, 2022 12:38 pm

Ponds Institute news.

Australians’ fears of being invaded by China are twice as high as concerns from the Taiwanese, new survey reveals (Sky News, 22 Aug)

Fears over the prospect of an invasion from China is twice as high among Australians when compared to the Taiwanese, new research suggests.

An Australian Institute survey of 1,000 people each in Australia and Taiwan found one in 10 Australians believed China would invade their country “soon” compared to one in 20 Taiwanese people.

One in four Australians believed Beijing would launch an attack on Taiwan soon, compared to just one in 20 Taiwanese people.

Maybe the Taiwanese know something that we don’t. And maybe we don’t have what Taiwan has. On the other hand the Chinese invasion of Australia has been quite successful so far, since our pollies have been all acting like paid-up totalitarian CCP members these last couple years. (I’m not at all looking at Richard Marles.)

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Cassie of Sydney says: August 22, 2022 at 7:43 am

[Eleven excellent bullet points of cops/govt getting kinetic with normies]
And there are many other egregious examples, the above is just a smidgen. And I haven’t got to the coerced and compelled jabs. I find myself getting upset and angry just writing about the last two and a half years. But always remember one thing, whilst the above crimes against the Australian people were happening, the Liberal Prime Minister for Everything said NOTHING.

Actually Morrison did have a bit to say;

Scott Morrison slams Melbourne rally, insists violent protests ‘have no place in Australia’

Liberal MPs told not to go to protests as PM steps in

He had more to say, I haven’t the time today to search out some of the better examples.

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2022 12:42 pm

IQ test are very good at measuring cognitive ability and are almost a 100% predictor of success at University, to the extent that without a minimum of 110-120, you cannot succeed no matter how hard you work…

I believe standards have been adjusted to address this matter.

There are even complaints within the profession about the quality of medical graduates.

Kneel
Kneel
August 22, 2022 12:46 pm

“OK, so IQ tests measure IQ and IQ is what IQ tests measure and nobody is quite able to explain it all “

Information: fruits and vegetables are different.
Knowledge: a pumpkin is actually a fruit.
Wisdom: you don’t put pumpkin in fruit salad.

We have a great deal of information and many knowledgeable people, but many less wise people.
We need more wise people in charge. Please, for the love of God, more wisdom!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 22, 2022 12:51 pm

Grunt is deeply concerned he’s been a Nazi.

Dan Tehan reveals former health minister Greg Hunt was ‘deeply concerned’ about powers possessed under Biosecurity Act (22 Aug)

Mate, it’s been a lot worse for us that it has for you. Keep your jackboots and silver badges though, maybe in the future you could auction them for a motza.

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2022 12:52 pm

Age article on Greg Mirabella…worth reading just to get an idea of how delusional the Libs are.

So Matthew Guy has “rebranded” as “Matt”.

I was reading it in a doctor’s waiting room and laughed out loud.

These people are idiots.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 22, 2022 12:58 pm

Our Sunday routine, when not busy elsewhere, is to get up late, have a late lunch watching Outsiders’ first hour, go for a swim (me 20 laps, he 1km), return home and prepare dinner which we either eat watching the second half of Outsiders or seeing it after dinner.

Last nite some way into a piece about over 1000 climate scientists saying there is no climate emergency, the screen went blank for minutes. We restarted the video and picked it up on a later segment. We scrolled back to the climate piece and the same thing happened; a gap in the coverage, only black screen.

The last time I saw this happen during a contentious piece was in a hotel in Beijing when some images of Tianamen Square with tanks in it came on the screen, to be quickly followed by a blank screen.
CCP strikes again, just what you’d expect in China. But not in Australia.
Did anyone else get this blanking out and/or was it genuinely just a fault in the recording?
We also noted that Rowan Dean mentioned ‘he wouldn’t bother us’ with the screening of Covid police brutality that he said he would never stop running. Any pressure Rowan?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 22, 2022 12:59 pm

Our future is making bling for inner western Sydney types.

PM reiterates ‘a future made in Australia’ at Leichhardt jewellery business (Sky News, 22 Aug)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has spoken from Cerrone Jewellers in Leichhardt where he says jewellery is being produced which is “amongst the best in the world”.

“I wanted to come here with Brendan O’Connor, our Minister for Skills, Employment and Training, to very much emphasise that when people speak about skills … often they will think about plumbers and they’ll think about apprentices,” Mr Albanese said.

I wonder how the inner western Sydney types can afford the bling?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 22, 2022 1:01 pm

ps I haven’t had time to scroll backthread to see if anyone else has raised this.

Tom
Tom
August 22, 2022 1:04 pm

Did anyone else get this blanking out and/or was it genuinely just a fault in the recording?

Yes. I witnessed the break in transmission — odd, but not a conspiracy.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 22, 2022 1:06 pm

Hopefully, Baris will have something to say about this news

Dover, he has a few times already.
His census analysis was why I became a semi regular listener to his work.
No doubt post it being raised again he’ll reference it again.

areff
areff
August 22, 2022 1:08 pm

Matthew Guy has “rebranded” as “Matt”.

Definition of matt: Dull, flat and lacking lustre

Tom
Tom
August 22, 2022 1:11 pm

PS: Lizzie, 90% of Sky News’s staff vote for Labor or the Greens, so, even though the new management has cleansed the joint of the saboteurs who used to delight in technical breakdowns at Outsiders, most of them subcosciously still applaud production glitches.

Cassie of Sydney
August 22, 2022 1:13 pm

“Winsays:
August 22, 2022 at 11:54 am
In defence of Sophy Mirrabella. Green voters openly announced they were moving in to register in Sophys seat and electioneered accordingly.”

It was worse than that. I’ve never particularly liked Mirrabella however her electoral ousting in 2013 was a very grubby and vicious affair and it provided a template that has been successfully used since by Teals and other independents to attack sitting Liberals. It was used in Warringah against Abbott and we saw what happened recently with the Teals. They used the same tactics and all of them, like McGowan and her successor in Indi, received substantial help from such groups like GetUp.

McGowan was the first far-left progressive to masquerade as Liberal lite to pool the wool over people’s eyes. It worked. Since 21 May 2022, we now have McGowan clones, and an electorate like Kooyong, the seat once held by Robert G Menzies, has the lard-arse Monique Ryan who doesn’t possess a Liberal bone in her big fat body.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 22, 2022 1:18 pm

Matthew Guy has “rebranded” as “Matt”.

Definition of matt: Dull, flat and lacking lustre

Matt green…

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 22, 2022 1:32 pm
MatrixTransform
August 22, 2022 1:37 pm

The issue then might remain one of IQ although not one of cultural background

analysis paralysis

Q: why not do an forensic data take after death
A: because the standard deviation curve of your murders will probably look all lot like any other SD

Franx, its a dead-end and all your line of illogic-logic is irrelevant

P
P
August 22, 2022 1:40 pm

I regret if this has been put up here before.
I do hope the present PM of our country takes the time to read it.

Vietnam Veterans’ Day Commemoration

Cassie of Sydney
August 22, 2022 1:43 pm

“pool the wool “

Goodness…I meant to write “pull the wool”.

rosie
rosie
August 22, 2022 1:53 pm

This Scott Morrison malfeasance in high office and the voice are handy distractions for the msm.
Will the people paying the electricity bill be fobbed off?
Not for long.
Also waiting for the excise relief to end.

Frank
Frank
August 22, 2022 1:53 pm

‘the eggplants (mulunyans) start at Napoli’

Met a delightful French lady once that described the state of her suntan as having a touch of the Moors in the family tree. Not sure how she felt about dairy products.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 22, 2022 1:55 pm

Cassie I think that is a kiwi euphemism for getting a new girlfriend.

Frank
Frank
August 22, 2022 1:57 pm

IQ test are very good at measuring cognitive ability and are almost a 100% predictor of success at University, to the extent that without a minimum of 110-120, you cannot succeed no matter how hard you work, but is no guarantee of success if your study time is spent at the Pub.

Likewise, if you go to the one in six with an IQ below 85 you find people that struggle to comprehend simple written instructions and are and active hazard to pretty much any form of endeavour. MacNamara’s morons during the Vietnam war being a case in point. That is a lot of half-heads for a society to assimilate.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

feelthebern says: August 22, 2022 at 8:14 am

While my packages from the US & Japan arrived last week (last Tues or Wed) I can’t remember.
My package from Melbourne arrives today. If it arrives it would have been a month.
To recap it took a week from the US & a week and half from Japan, standard delivery.

Toward the end of the BC era (Before Covid) I used to obtain quite a bit of stock & small purchases from Paris (France)

From the suburbs of Paris to me in remote Qld = 6 days (that was the best, but never more than Ten days)
Anything from Sydney or Melbourne: One to Two months.
Letter posted in Qld to me, up to Twenty-Five days. (This was a copy of the industrial award pay rate table, mailed by Fair Work)

Anything I wanted swiftly, I’d order from Paris.

Franx
Franx
August 22, 2022 2:08 pm

Common sense is not vague nor is it consensus but is valid reasoning based on data available to the senses. It is a mode of knowing amenable to be scientifically accounted-for.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 22, 2022 2:11 pm

Vietnam Veterans’ Day Commemoration

The battle of Long Tan had consequences in rural Western Australia. One of the teachers at the local school was very prominent in the anti – war movement. A couple of days after the battle, the father of one of the men killed there, stormed into the classroom and smashed said schoolteacher into the next postcode, with one punch..

sfw
sfw
August 22, 2022 2:13 pm

Mirabella did have the greens etc targeting her, that didn’t help, her main problem was that she was a lazy useless mp, she lost a lot of voters with her ‘born to rule’ attitude.

Vicki
Vicki
August 22, 2022 2:23 pm

Last nite some way into a piece about over 1000 climate scientists saying there is no climate emergency, the screen went blank for minutes. We restarted the video and picked it up on a later segment. We scrolled back to the climate piece and the same thing happened; a gap in the coverage, only black screen.

We missed Outsiders yesterday Lizzie. Our Foxtel Box at the farm had suddenly lost service and we were unable (& didn’t have time) to reconnect. It eventually took us an hour persevering with a “bot” somewhere in the ether who, by a typing conversation tried to understand our problem. And that was AFTER we had spent lots of time even finding a reciprocal conversation as Foxtel just wanted to give written generalised instructions.

We eventually discovered the means of reconnection ourselves ( too late for Outsiders) and the “bot” wished us a happy day! NOT happy Foxtel!

Vicki
Vicki
August 22, 2022 2:30 pm

She seems to have been lucky in her recovery. But if you weren’t assertive, and not in the private system, your outcome could well have been different because of the delay.

Gosh, that is good new Dr. Faustus.

Speedbox
August 22, 2022 2:34 pm

rosie says:
August 22, 2022 at 1:53 pm
Also waiting for the excise relief to end.

I expect that will be epic. Screams will be audible on Mars, especially if it occurs at the peak of the fuel cycle.

Diogenes
Diogenes
August 22, 2022 2:44 pm

if you go to the one in six with an IQ below 85 you find people that struggle to comprehend simple written instructions

We have what we refer to as the year 7 and 8 mullet squads. While they do wear mullets, it actually refers to the open mouth and blank look when we ask them to do something.

Cassie of Sydney
August 22, 2022 2:52 pm

“Mirabella did have the greens etc targeting her, that didn’t help, her main problem was that she was a lazy useless mp, she lost a lot of voters with her ‘born to rule’ attitude.”

That sounds exactly like the rhetoric McGowan, GetUp, the Greens and other used against Mirabella. And after that very grubby election, there was a defamation case, which Mirabella won against a Victorian newspaper. That newspaper defamed Mirabella by wrongly claiming that she had “pushed McGowan out of the way of a photograph for her own political benefit”, a completely untrue story but a slur which McGowan conveniently refused to negate because it suited her vicious political campaign.

Frank
Frank
August 22, 2022 2:55 pm

While they do wear mullets, it actually refers to the open mouth and blank look when we ask them to do something.

The test is to bounce a cricket ball off the forehead and if it gives a woody donk noise you know you’re in the presence of a total mouth breather.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 22, 2022 3:01 pm

Vicki, I can cope with a missed connection and other Foxtel incompetance, but this seemed rather like a sudden political intervention. The Murdoch klimate kiddies kicking up, and hitting Sky After Dark?

I hope it wasn’t.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 22, 2022 3:08 pm

That was a lucky strike for your wife, Dr. Faustus. So pleased to hear she has come thru ok.

Nothing worse than when the left field has come in and hit you with inoperable whatever.
A very dear friend of mine has just been gifted that. She is one of our top older dancing girls.
They are trying chemo and radiation, it’s beyond surgery. One day OK, next day in Emergency.
Almost a Covid casualty as she has been trying for some months to present for routine testing.

Hairy and I have both had our moments in recent years, but his is ‘cured’ and mine was ‘benign’.
Two beautiful words.

Frank
Frank
August 22, 2022 3:11 pm

It is a mode of knowing amenable to be scientifically accounted-for.

Sort of like IQ then?

Morsie
Morsie
August 22, 2022 3:13 pm

Matt Guy?More like “Mutt”

Lysander
Lysander
August 22, 2022 3:18 pm

Quiet day at the Cat… must be Mondayitis or Montyitis?

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
August 22, 2022 3:28 pm

Quiet day at the Cat

Still pissed/hungover Collingwood supporters.

(And Footscray supporters).

And crying Caaarrton supporters :).

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 22, 2022 3:30 pm

Morsie my mutt is upset about the comparison.

Lysander
Lysander
August 22, 2022 3:32 pm

Well, my Swannies are looking in top form!

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
August 22, 2022 3:42 pm

Ex-Australian cricketer Peter Siddle and glamorous wife Anna Weatherlake have quietly gone their separate ways, with the ex-WAG showing off a new romance abroad.

Well, apart from cricket, he didn’t have much going for him.

He’s a ranga. And went vegan – which is gay.

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2022 3:46 pm

And went vegan – which is gay.

I suspect he went vegan because of her. Peta activist.

Makka
Makka
August 22, 2022 3:48 pm

Matthew Guy has “rebranded” as “Matt”.

Dan’s door “Matt”.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 22, 2022 3:51 pm

Just saw this from Roger, above:

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has spoken from Cerrone Jewellers in Leichhardt where he says jewellery is being produced which is “amongst the best in the world”.

Is there anything politicians are not experts in?

I can see the reformed snaggle-tooth pulling out his loupe and peering at some of the gems and sighing. Then grabbing a string of pearls and dragging it across teeth testing quality and murmuring approval.

Later, no doubt, he popped into the medical centre where he checked their inventory system and cast his expert eye over an ECG readout. World class doctors and allied medical professionals.

Then it was off to Mezzapica where he licked the inside of the oven (this is how the baking cognoscenti check for evenly heated surfaces), sprinkled some flour about and pinched off a couple of biscotti, just like in the old country. World class.

Seriously though, if this jewelry is world class then the world will take an interest without having politicians involving themselves. It is bizarre – to make these Australian businesses to flourish, all he has to do is…nothing. Get out of the way. Take it easy. He could go through his paces at the Rub ‘n Tug all day.

But politicians can’t. They can’t leave things be. They skulk about the house suddenly bursting into rooms because they cannot believe the furniture continues to exist even when they are not looking at it.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
August 22, 2022 3:54 pm

Do PETA activists allow their vegan handbags cunnilingus.

(Asking for a friend).

rickw
rickw
August 22, 2022 3:56 pm

So Matthew Guy has “rebranded” as “Matt”.

A soy latte is still a soy latte no matter what you call it.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 22, 2022 3:57 pm

if you go to the one in six with an IQ below 85 you find people that struggle to comprehend simple written instructions

An old RAAFie I know once told me that, whilst he was on the exchange with the USAF, he noticed that some of the basic maintenance manuals had been printed in a sort of comic-book style.
Kind of like an Ikea assembly instruction sheet.
He said he allowed extra time for the pre-flight after he saw that.

Lysander
Lysander
August 22, 2022 3:58 pm

Is there anything politicians are not experts in?

No. Many of them are experts in academia, union movements and party machines.

However, having worked for several Ministers and a few Premiers, I do know that any place a Prem is going to visit is first visited by an Advancer. They check the place out, look for loons or any signage that might be a problem (and yes, they often get it wrong). However, the Advancer also organises all of the “homework” on the trip/visit/event. That “brief” gets handed to a Ministerial Liaison Officer who sits in a Department and it is up to them to do the homework for said MP/PM/Prem etc..

So, in short, they do usually “know” what they are talking about (unless they really fuck up and go off script) but they’ve only “known” because they probably read the Brief on the way there (my experience anyway).

rickw
rickw
August 22, 2022 3:58 pm

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has spoken from Cerrone Jewellers in Leichhardt where he says jewellery is being produced which is “amongst the best in the world”.

Pure Mong.

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2022 3:59 pm

Just saw this from Roger, above:

Bruce, actually…

I’ll say this for Elbow: he was on Twitter plugging a beef grazier’s product as “the best in the world” last week.

So I don’t think he’s signed us up to the Schwab-Gates-WEF insect protein diet just yet.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 22, 2022 4:01 pm

Bruce, actually…

Wasn’t that a movie?

Lysander
Lysander
August 22, 2022 4:02 pm

This is where the Scomo holding several portfolios gets weird… at the departmental level. Were these Ministerial Liaison Officers (and Department Heads) also then secretly forwarding material to his PM office? How, otherwise, did he keep abreast of those portfolios)…

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 22, 2022 4:02 pm

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:

August 22, 2022 at 3:08 pm

That was a lucky strike for your wife, Dr. Faustus.

Not entirely lucky because they pushed to get an appointment.
The bigger concern is those who actually relish the idea of missing a 10,000 km service.
I am particularly thinking of skin cancers. A lot of people think they will see a big blotch which can be cut out without much consequence.
Truth is, many nasties look relatively innocuous to the layperson and/or can be a spot which is difficult to see.
And they can be off the reservation as secondaries before you develop a big visible lump.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 22, 2022 4:02 pm

Fact or fiction, Chopper was a great a movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J964uJZgOWI

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 22, 2022 4:02 pm

An old RAAFie I know once told me that, whilst he was on the exchange with the USAF, he noticed that some of the basic maintenance manuals had been printed in a sort of comic-book style.

Story goes that the first instruction manuals for the M -16 rifle were printed in a comic book style for that reason…

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2022 4:04 pm

So, in short, they do usually “know” what they are talking about (unless they really fuck up and go off script) but they’ve only “known” because they probably read the Brief on the way there (my experience anyway).

So it really is show business for ugly people.

But strictly no improv.

rickw
rickw
August 22, 2022 4:04 pm

This is where the Scomo holding several portfolios gets weird…

If Scumo is holding the portfolio, why is the Mong who thinks they hold the portfolio getting paid as a minister?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

I’ll say this for Elbow: he was on Twitter plugging a beef grazier’s product as “the best in the world” last week.

Lol, they were high-grade Brahmans. ffs.
Or; Anal couldn’t tell a Frisian from a Jersey, a Hereford from a Shorthorn, or a Dorset from a Merino.

johanna
johanna
August 22, 2022 4:06 pm

Report from the trenches.

Firstly, Colesworths are in the process of elimating those thin placcy bags you put your fruit and veges in, to ‘save da planet.’ Instead, you are invited to purchase re-usable net bags for about a dollar each, saving da planet not extending to losing a chance to make a buck.

Today I went to Coles and purchased ‘Multix Freezer Bags Medium 80 pack’ for $2.60. They are pretty much identical to the former freebies, and very much cheaper and more hygenic than the substitutes. I will be taking them with me to package my fruit and vege purchases from now on. Fuck them, and the virtue-signalling train they came in on!

BTW, the Brussels Sprouts Indicator is at $13.90 a kilo, not very different from this time last year. So much for the catastrophists. Lovely mandarins at $3.40 a kilo.

On another note, TheirABC has now decided that the plural of ‘boar’ is ‘boars.’ As you would expect from someone with a mental age of six.

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2022 4:10 pm

Story goes that the first instruction manuals for the M -16 rifle were printed in a comic book style for that reason…

Like this.

CrazyOldRanga
CrazyOldRanga
August 22, 2022 4:10 pm

Talk of Vegans earlier. I like to taunt a Vegan cousin, who is a possessor of a vagina, with “I bet you still eat sausage”. Luckily I can still run quite fast 🙂

rickw
rickw
August 22, 2022 4:10 pm

Vietnam era M-16 comic book manual, looks legit:

https://straskye.tripod.com/deltasitepages/documents/m16manual.pdf

Dot
Dot
August 22, 2022 4:12 pm

Lovely mandarins at $3.40 a kilo.

Hmm.

Lovely

Imperial, I assume?

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2022 4:12 pm

Or; Anal couldn’t tell a Frisian from a Jersey, a Hereford from a Shorthorn, or a Dorset from a Merino.

Hey…an actor is only as good as his scriptwriter!

rickw
rickw
August 22, 2022 4:13 pm

Snap Roger!

Makes my grumpy, I want a Brownels M16-A1 replica, but Arsetralia….

calli
calli
August 22, 2022 4:13 pm

On another note, TheirABC has now decided that the plural of ‘boar’ is ‘boars.’ As you would expect from someone with a mental age of six.

Poor petals. Imagine confusing them with bores and Boers.

Dot
Dot
August 22, 2022 4:14 pm

English is funny that spelling was standardised but rules for spelling were not in a lot of ways. Japanese has some of the same foibles with counting various classes of objects, for example.

Dot
Dot
August 22, 2022 4:15 pm

…or Bohrs!

calli
calli
August 22, 2022 4:17 pm
rickw
rickw
August 22, 2022 4:18 pm

Had a visit from the CCP, they wanted me to change my commissioning plan. No. Why not? You guys are in enough shit without a 4 month long commissioning induced fuck up.

Go slow to go fast. Ok? ……Ok!

rickw
rickw
August 22, 2022 4:20 pm
Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
August 22, 2022 4:23 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
August 22, 2022 at 4:02 pm
An old RAAFie I know once told me that, whilst he was on the exchange with the USAF, he noticed that some of the basic maintenance manuals had been printed in a sort of comic-book style.

I’m sure I saw on a doco on WW2 German Tanks that their manuals were also in comic book form but the writers also slipped in the odd risque picture of a comely maiden every now and then. Would have kept their attention.

LB
LB
August 22, 2022 4:23 pm

Ms Archer said she had not decided whether Mr Morrison should be referred to parliament’s privileges committee

IIRC Ms Archer herself came perilously close to being referred somewhere or other over “Sports Rorts”, not that long ago …

areff
areff
August 22, 2022 4:30 pm

and Foot-a-scray supporters

A bit of a subdued and headachey start to the day in this corner of the Mighty West.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 22, 2022 4:31 pm

Vietnam era M-16 comic book manual, looks legit:

Thanks for that one – I’d seen the cover reproduced a few times, but that’s the first time I’d seen a complete reproduction.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 22, 2022 4:34 pm

Not entirely lucky because they pushed to get an appointment.
The bigger concern is those who actually relish the idea of missing a 10,000 km service.

I meant lucky because she has come through with it under control or fixed.

Lockdown has a lot to answer for, because not everyone pushes for treatment or gets lucky to get it, and many who missed a check up ended up in a bad way.

Hairy pushed for a face-to-face appointment with my gynae who did my 2021 0varian op, because she might have some duty of care for me when during lockdown last year I was half-dead, fading away before his eyes, was his term for it, with pain in my side and general debility. No telephone doc could lay a hand on me so none would give me immediate antibiotics, which past experience with this told me I needed urgently. I was too sick to contemplate waiting more than five hours in emergency; too sick and low to stand up for myself. Gynae did a brief diagnosis outside her main field, gave me immediate antibiotics and referred me on to a gastroenterologist who has given me a letter saying I could die from this condition and any doctor I see must treat it pronto. I carry this letter and antibiotics she readily gives me scripts for whenever I travel or see a new doc. A life saver.

All private health though. I suspect that even in Emergency they might have sent me home with Panadol. My ongoing problem is caused by inflamed adhesions from peritonitis as a child causing obstruction and is difficult to diagnose until my temperature soars with it. Even then, I have been misdiagnosed in the past.

JC, you are right. Keeping up the constant surveillance is important as one ages.
Ignore nothing. Exercise well and eat well of what you like. Enjoy sunlight.
Be happy (shut up Klaus, not your sort of being happy, which is a regimen of unfreedom).

JC
JC
August 22, 2022 4:43 pm

JC, you are right.

Of course I am, Liz. I’m always right, but what about this time?

JC
JC
August 22, 2022 4:46 pm

Gee, mh seems to be keeping the Lollipop Cat open. Huge burden.

Lysander
Lysander
August 22, 2022 4:48 pm

I don’t get the whole “sports rorts” and associated “scandals.”

You, as the government are accused of pouring money into certain areas in the country. You are the government and are completely allowed to do this. In fact, you should if you want to stay in government. At the end of the day, the people will decide if this was rorting or not (and will, or wont, throw you out).

It might actually motivate the electorate to change sides from time to time as its always the government’s marginals that get the funding. As I unfortunately reside in a State Labor Labor Labor electorate (which has been since it was created), we never see a single cent from Labor.

Hmpf, perhaps I am unethical?

Lysander
Lysander
August 22, 2022 4:50 pm

Actually, they painted the bus stop in 2003.

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2022 4:53 pm

Hmpf, perhaps I am unethical?

You did say you worked in politics…

😀

Lysander
Lysander
August 22, 2022 4:53 pm

And if theirABC said to me, as PM, “you’re pouring all government funds into marginals.”

I’d simply say “that’s because they’re the people that need more convincing the government is doing a good job.”

Lysander
Lysander
August 22, 2022 4:55 pm

You did say you worked in politics…

lol Roger! Sad but true…. some pollies I worked with (on the conservative side) wanted the bureaucracy to decide who got the fricking grants lol!!! In the words of my former Chief of Staff:

“They don’t vote for us” 😛

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 22, 2022 4:55 pm

Last night as well as Outsiders’ second hour we also watched the final two episodes of Series 6, the final series of Peaky Blinders. We have stuck with it through all six series, which is 36 episodes. The first two series were exceptional and by then you have enough interest in the family and its pacey characters to continue on; also the timing of the settings, moving from 1918 to the early 1930’s dredged up historical interest even though it took liberties with history. The storylines re the Russians were a bit crazy, but those in the times of Mosley and the fascists and the drug running that followed the end of Prohibition (for this family were bootleggers initially) were not too bad. You could suspend enough disbelief to enjoy it all, and the violence never failed to shock; some surprises in the very final episode were unexpectedly good. Keep your eyes peeled on a photograph near the end. Hairy spotted it immediately, he’s excellent at recognising faces. Yep. Suddenly it all made sense. That guy.

As Hairy commented, that episode and the few prior were totally setting up another run in which the recently introduced younger generation are hitting their straps. Which apparently is going to be a movie rather than a Series 7. Tommy Shelbey now seeks redemption by good deeds and socialist leanings – ok for the period. He’s an unforgettable character. Up there with Uhtred and Doran – be still oh beating female heart! Men like them too though, the three of them are manly. Leaders.

Lysander
Lysander
August 22, 2022 4:58 pm

Rumours swirling around that the Red Pope is going to retire…. wish it would come true.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 22, 2022 4:58 pm

The American Mr Fix-it smoothie friend-of-Presidents gang leader from Boston who arrived to parley with Tommy (who is undercover reporting to Churchill) and Mosley was a take on one Joe Kennedy.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 22, 2022 5:01 pm

English is funny that spelling was standardised but rules for spelling were not in a lot of ways. Japanese has some of the same foibles with counting various classes of objects, for example.

I had a friend who was doing a language exchange (no, that is not a euphemism) with a Japanese woman. They were going through counters, one of which is for pieces or small things -ko.

So he trying it out…”ikko, niko, sanko, yonkojuko, juikko, junikonijuko, nijuikko…”

Encouraged by his proficiency he ventured into higher numbers.

100 pieces? Hyakuko!

500 pieces? Gohyakuko!

A thousand pieces? Senko!

Ten thousand pieces?

She quickly told him to stop.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 22, 2022 5:03 pm

…or Bohrs!

A great man.

I niels when I say his name.

JC
JC
August 22, 2022 5:03 pm

I’ll say this. The coal price is holding up the Australian Dollar and to some extent the enconomy, but boy if the coal price wasn’t so bid we’d be absolutely fucked I reckon. The China real estate depression is freaking real and I’m not sure it’s ever coming back. This means less need for steel/ Iron ore.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 22, 2022 5:06 pm

Sorry JC, ’twere Sancho as I see on checking back.

No worries. Take a brownie point anyway.
Slow news day today.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 22, 2022 5:11 pm

Coal and gas are our future. When will our pollies wake up and see this clearly?

Only when the golden egg has lost some of its shine?

How many hospitals and highways and dams and coal-fired power stations could they have made with the money they have spent on climate boondoggles further enriching rich grifters? Money earned when coal was on top before the coming Chinese collapse and world economic stressors of changing stream on energy due to an unproven hypothesis made up by lefties.

I saw one energy analysis that actually put coal on top in CO2 terms if the constituent continuing parts of the boondoggles were taken into CO2 accounting. So there is no reason not to use coal even if you are a climate cult believer.

JC
JC
August 22, 2022 5:15 pm

Maybe the trade is long Exxon or Chevron and short BHP.

Old bloke
Old bloke
August 22, 2022 5:16 pm

areff says:
August 22, 2022 at 1:08 pm

Definition of matt: Dull, flat and lacking lustre

That’s a good definition for the Liberal Party as a whole.

The political divide in Australia up till the time of Federation was between the Free Traders and the Protectionists, these two parties merged around 1910 or thereabouts to form the Liberal Party to counter socialism in the form of the growing Labor Party.

The free traders and the protectionists formed a “broad-church” liberal movement, later known as the wets and the drys within the party on economic policy matters, but they were united against socialism. The term, the wets and the drys, later applied to social policy issues as well, between the conservative and libertarian wings, so there were always some party members, even parliamentarians, who would speak out against government policy on one issue or another, this was tolerated due to the “broad church” ethos.

This broad church was burnt to the ground some years ago, everyone must now sing from the same song-sheet and there is no tolerance given to dissenting voices. This is a pity as dissenting views were what made the Liberal Party attractive to many voters, the idea that different approaches were discussed and argued within the party room meant that there was life and vibrancy within the party just as differing opinions were accepted within our own families.

But that has now gone, there is no room for the Craig Kellys and the Bernie Finns within the party, it is now as areff said;

Dull, flat and lacking lustre.

Tom
Tom
August 22, 2022 5:17 pm

Hooray! The Paywallian’s fat slag Alice Workman, who the paper inexplicably hired from three years ago from the loony left Buzzfeed website, has quit, no doubt to be replaced by another J-school activist on a mission to increase the ALP-Greens-Teal vote with daily disinformation propaganda posing as journalism.

JC
JC
August 22, 2022 5:21 pm

This is the sort of thing that makes America great. Where else, yes where else?

NYC to demolish landmark building owned by secret millionaire ‘bag lady’

A millionaire New Yorker known for moonlighting as a can collector neglected one of her Manhattan properties for nearly a decade, and now the city is set to demolish the landmark-protected townhouse, The Post has learned.

But critics say the owner is crazy like a fox — and set to make millions of dollars over the demolition.

Lisa Fiekowsky, 71, became known as a quirky bag lady who drove around her Brooklyn neighborhood in a graffiti-covered, trash-filled clunker — while secretly holding more than $8 million in Manhattan real estate.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 22, 2022 5:23 pm

Colesworths are in the process of elimating those thin placcy bags you put your fruit and veges in, to ‘save da planet.’ Instead, you are invited to purchase re-usable net bags for about a dollar each, saving da planet not extending to losing a chance to make a buck.

I was intrigued by these critters last week. Was behind a person who’d put their fruit in them.

There was a problem. The new bags wouldn’t let the checkout chick scan the sticker on the fruit – it wouldn’t register through the mesh. The thin plastic bags are ok for that.

So every time someone buys fruit the checkout lady is going to either have to take a fruit out of each bag and scan it (cooties!) or they’ll have to laboriously find each type of fruit on the touch screen. Which is what happened here.

Dunno how much extra time it’ll take but in a whole Coles store it’ll add up to quite a cost in extra labour, which they can’t get enough of now.

shatterzzz
August 22, 2022 5:25 pm

I’m all out of sympathy for this current fad with the mediarevelling in not only reporting suicides in detail but managing to blame something/anyone instead of the cowards who leave everyone who cared about them in the lurch and searching for answers to questions that will never be answered …!
30, bloody, years I have survived in a NSW “houso” hell-hole awash with drugs and standover tactics whilst those in, the know, Housing, plod and all the other revelant authorities were more interested in taking the bribes than caring about those surviving in misery ..
I raised 4 kids as a single Dad, never had a left over dollar for myself as it all went into the kids upbringing .. Yet not once did I consider ending it! .. as the only thing I cared about was the kids .. yet day after day, at the moment, I’m being bombarded with “sob’ stories of those who either don’t understand how their “luvved” ones came to their decision or else they are casting the blame net wide …Geez! .. I wish i was young enuf to play contact sport again then I could have a big sook out on the oval to get over it & grab some media attention ..!
today’s offering in case you’ve got dry eyes .. LOL! .. seems quitting isn’t an option for some .. FFS!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-22/inquest-into-death-of-adelaide-man/101357092

Frank
Frank
August 22, 2022 5:27 pm

The Paywallian’s fat slag Alice Workman

In a fit of mawkishness I imagined that was a bit harsh, then I looked at some images of the individual. My god, she really is ungodly large.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 22, 2022 5:32 pm

Dot

FYI, Homer is on the Brave Torturers thread over at CL’s, babbling on about ” a subsidy is simply enhancing the market mechanism” and Pigouvian tax being needed for ‘the negative externalities of coal fired power (he doesn’t recognise any negative externalities of Ruinables, so far at least).

Don’t ask how we got from torture to market subsidies …

Frank
Frank
August 22, 2022 5:34 pm

Ungodly big, but with no apparent need for a neck and a tendency to associate with hobbit like companions. There must be some sort of surgery that can help with that.

Lysander
Lysander
August 22, 2022 5:34 pm

I have some concerns about at what stage the Voice gives its voice to Parliament. Yes, we have no details but some Cats might pick this thought up further….

When a wonk comes up with an idea or a reform (that requires legislation):

– A Minister gets their department to write a Cabinet submission that consultation can start,
-Consultation gets underway and the results usually go back to Cabinet with recommendation that a bill be drafted.
-To get a bill drafted you need to get a separate cabinet submission passed and Parliamentary Counsel tell you how many draftsmen they have and what priority of drafting your bill will get.
-Once drafted and complete, you have to go back to Cabinet to have the final bill approved.
-Once approved you have to go back to Cabinet to get approval to enter into Parliament.
-Then you give first notice of the bill in Parliament.
-The Bill is then introduced at Second Reading.

So… where the hell in this convoluted process does this Voice get its say? At step one before commencement, during, after introduction into Parliament or all of the above?

Lysander
Lysander
August 22, 2022 5:37 pm

I personally oversaw four Bills from inception to law and I can tell you there’s not a lot of time for consultation on the final Bill between Monday’s Cabinet meeting and Tuesday’s Parliament! Let alone with your own freakin party!

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 22, 2022 5:44 pm

Video shows NYC dollar-store shoplifters putting worker in chokehold: cops

From the Comments

I think this would be a wonderful opportunity to pause for a moment and give
thanks for the great contributions of the black community to our society.

Their peaceful and generous nature makes them ideal neighbors, lending
testimony to their exceptional family values and parenting skills unrivaled
by any other culture. Their child-rearing practices and skills mixed with their
unparalleled work ethic are second to none.

Their rational and logical thought toward circumstances coupled with their innate capability to de-escalate situations are to be envied and coveted.

Their commitment to academic excellence. enriches our schools and serves as an example to all who hope to achieve prominence as a people.

Real estate values are fueled by the mix of the black communities in an area due to the caring and respectful nature of these communities, which are an example of all they have achieved through their
enthusiasm for self-improvement, hard work, and self-reliance nature.

Without their industrious and creative drive, we would be poorer as a nation!!!

Lysander
Lysander
August 22, 2022 5:44 pm

Well this largely “monologous” day has come to an end.

Have a good evening Cats and I’ll see you on the other side tomorrow.

Lysander
Lysander
August 22, 2022 5:45 pm

Well this largely “monologous” day has come to an end.

Yes it has. 😛

John H.
John H.
August 22, 2022 5:45 pm

Chromosomal study suggests people were living in South America as far back as 18,000 years ago
Chromosomal study suggests people were living in South America as far back as 18,000 years ago

These results keep popping up and then studiously ignored. I’ve seen like results going back several years. I argued with someone that it preposterous to assume Aus aborigines travelled to South America. We’ve got the timing all wrong. I think there were at least two waves into the Americas, the first was largely wiped out by the second in North America(or the Younger Dryas asteroid strike took them out) but their genetic signature lingers in S. American populations.

Paleoanthropology is fun, only that.

John H.
John H.
August 22, 2022 5:46 pm

Shite, second link is a more recent study on chromosomes. Not as the link suggests.

Dot
Dot
August 22, 2022 5:49 pm

Gobekli Tepe

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 22, 2022 5:52 pm

Biden’s a border for me, but not for thee

By Post Editorial Board

President Joe Biden is all for open borders — except when it comes to the one around his own vacation spot.

He’s stuck taxpayers with a bill for close to half a million for a security fence around his Delaware beach house, a project ongoing since last September, contracted out to a local builder by the Department of Homeland Security.

Biden’s policies, which entice illegal migrants to put their lives at risk on the long journey while creating unsustainable pressures on the small towns they flow into, make a mockery of both.

The irony is rich: The same agency Biden has used to help erase the US southern border is overseeing a wall around the president’s ocean hideaway.

Yes, presidents need security (especially in these deranged political times). But the nation and the people who inhabit it also need security — as do those who aspire to come here.

Again, the inescapably conclusion is that Biden doesn’t care about Americans’ security (only his own). His endless claims to be fixing the border would be comical, if the consequences for America and those streaming across its border weren’t so tragic.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 22, 2022 5:56 pm

Their peaceful and generous nature makes them ideal neighbors, lending
testimony to their exceptional family values and parenting skills unrivaled
by any other culture. Their child-rearing practices and skills mixed with their
unparalleled work ethic are second to none.

Make a damn fine Cat!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 22, 2022 5:57 pm

I have some concerns about at what stage the Voice gives its voice to Parliament.

Typo alert.
It’s not the Voice.
It’s the Invoice.
Munni, yum.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 22, 2022 5:57 pm

THE ORWELLIAN LANGUAGE OF SEX

The gender hysteria that has afflicted the Left, and taken over most of our institutions, seems incomprehensible. Frankly, it strikes me as demonic. It can’t be explained by the motives of money and power that usually account for liberals’ behavior. It begins with the false claim that there is something called “gender” which is different from sex, i.e. genitalia and X and Y chromosomes. From this false premise–in fact, “gender” is simply a slightly more genteel word for sex–the ideology spirals into sheer insanity.

For example:

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Dunno how much extra time it’ll take but in a whole Coles store it’ll add up to quite a cost in extra labour, which they can’t get enough of now.

Three words for you BoN:
Self service checkout.
The extra labour being wasted will be yours.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 22, 2022 6:03 pm
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 22, 2022 6:04 pm

Three words for you BoN:
Self service checkout.

SATP – I don’t use them on principle. Two reasons. One is that they’re an invitation to stealing: literally billions worth each year is the estimate. And two the checkout chicks need the work. The ones in my local Coles are at least fifty, one probably nearer sixty. They ain’t doing it because they want to.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 22, 2022 6:05 pm

JCsays:
August 22, 2022 at 4:43 pm
JC, you are right.

Of course I am, Liz. I’m always right, but what about this time?

Were you on the “potential grateness” bus with Sinc??

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Three words for you BoN:
Self service checkout.

I don’t use them on principle.

Currently you still have that choice.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 22, 2022 6:12 pm

And two the checkout chicks need the work. The ones in my local Coles are at least fifty, one probably nearer sixty. They ain’t doing it because they want to.

My local IGA didn’t install self service checkouts -the owners said providing jobs for the young people of the town was more important.

sfw
sfw
August 22, 2022 6:15 pm

Cassie, I live in Indi, Sophies former electorate, I was a member of the Libs here, I joined because I could never get her to respond to my emails. I met her once, she was only in it for one thing = herself. I resigned shortly afterwards.
Funny when the election drew near she managed to send me more than a few emails looking for support. She deserved what she got.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 22, 2022 6:18 pm

Gobekli Tepe

100%, dot.
Seriously this climate change theory is the biggest cover up of hard facts we have ever seen.
The hard facts being the Younger Dryas.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 22, 2022 6:19 pm

Unless you need help with a visa there is zero point engaging with a politician.

Tom
Tom
August 22, 2022 6:20 pm

Because Australian TV advertising is controlled by millenials ashamed of their good fortune in being born in a first world country, virtually every commercial now features a hero/heroine with dark skin — revolting self-hatred on display every time you turn on the box.

What I left out last night is that, apart from the above, Australian TV advertising is now also full of effeminate men with low sperm counts. Many of them probably couldn’t get a woman pregnant.

The new ruling class hates men who can do stuff.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 22, 2022 6:22 pm

Anyone heard Shane Gillis discuss bible stories?
He probably introduces Christianity to more people than modern day missionaries do.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 22, 2022 6:33 pm

The Paywallian’s fat slag Alice Workman

Wasn’t she hired from Buzzfeed? Working there should prevent you from being hired for anything more demanding than a speedbump for eternity.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 22, 2022 6:36 pm

Bruce of N

And two the checkout chicks need the work. The ones in my local Coles are at least fifty, one probably nearer sixty. They ain’t doing it because they want to.

Ditto, and I often make a point of telling them why I don’t use the self-serve, to try to preserve their jobs.

Tom
Tom
August 22, 2022 6:37 pm

I love our culture.

Truro Cathedral.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

My local IGA didn’t install self service checkouts -the owners said providing jobs for the young people of the town was more important.

Do they still provide hitching rails, horse troughs & hay out the front?

Ditto, and I often make a point of telling them why I don’t use the self-serve, to try to preserve their jobs.

Once a job is reliant for its existence upon being artificially propped up by random members of the public, that job is at the top of a very slippery slide.

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