Series 12 of Archer.
Takes the piss out of ESG.
How did it get made?

Calli, I repeat for emphasis, do have a good trip and recall that this is just a blog, as Hairy tells me often when he sees me wearing what he calls ‘that face’ again.

It is very hard to be accurate about others or for them to be accurate about you in such fleeting encounters; that comes with the territory. Take the goodwill for you here with you and enjoy it.

Just as the most recent example, declaring your comprehension skills to be “excellent” isn’t “self-aggrandisement”?

A word deliberately chosen, Timothy. I knew it would draw fire, but it is true. For my sins I once headed a university department teaching rhetoric and logic and other skills of comprehension. I was a publisher’s referee for Keith Windschuttle’s excellent book on communication for journalists, and set it for my students. (He didn’t know about that until we met after my Quadrant publications began a few years ago. We were both quite amused.)

Which doesn’t mean to say I can’t make mistakes such as I may have made re Calli’s comment. But it also allows me to pick up sub-texts, such as the ‘accent’ allusion in those comments, more than some others might. Calli may not have consciously made this allusion, of course.

All a storm in a teacup now of course. Which is why I want her to enjoy her travels and write on them.

God almighty – JUST STOP.

Learn to scroll. You have drunk the de-legitimizing Kool-aid.

Get a sense of proportion.

I just don’t know this kind of thing can be stopped now. With the FBI , Big tech , corrupt judiciary and mass media actively conspiring together, how can elections be fair?

Terming the laptop ‘disinformation’ by the FBI, Intelligence Community, Congress, and the Biden campaign, along with Big Tech, impacted voters,” said Technometrica President Raghavan Mayur, who’s been recognized as the most accurate pollster in recent presidential elections. “A significant majority—78 percent—believe that access to the correct information could have been critical to their decision at the polls.”

In fact, 47 percent said that knowing before the election that the laptop contents were real and not “disinformation” would have changed their voting decision—including more than two-thirds (71 percent) of Democrats.

Do not lecture me, flibbertigibbet.

JUST STOP. Well, that wasn’t a lecture?

Have to say that yelling is simply brute force.

“Anything to declare Ms Beare?”
“Only my genius.”

lol, HB Bear, you are always worthwhile.

Cross out genius though and write in experience.

I have a lot of experiential baggage to declare.

Finally they agree on something! Lidia Thorpe joins Jacinta Price in attacking Anthony Albanese’s meeting with Shaquille O’Neal and demands the NBA legend stop ‘interfering and dividing Australia’ by supporting the Indigenous Voice

Aha. Methinks Lidia Thorpe may be beginning to feel a wee bit overshadowed and outdone by Jacinta Price. Maybe Lidia’s going to up her game. Won’t be easy as she has a lot of work to do there.

I am off with Hairy for our swim. My regulation 20 laps. Used to be 24 before Covid but time has marched on now. My aim in this coming decade is to maintain now rather than improve.

Have to be fit enough to lift suitcases when we travel. All that experiential baggage, lol.

Hairy is still sticking to his 1km.

1. If contributors think it’s riveting stuff to read various people with nothing better to do bagging Lizzie, they are quite wrong.
2. If the management thinks keeping Monty on is good policy, they might as well bring back Bird and SoB.

Have a nice swim Lizzie! It being Sunday I have a break rather than do miles of walking or bicycle. And some worship to go with the rest, that being a Sunday thing also.

My currawongs mostly vanished last week. Like a signal had been sent out! Suddenly the mince in the fridge was going grey and yucky before I could find a home for it. They’ll return after Christmas when the chicks are ready to forage, then I’ll get a whole bunch of inquisitive young currawongs arrive to learn about the Cafe.

The portmanteaux are packed, the barouche is ordered for the morrow, and my delightful equerry is fully briefed as to my travel requirements. The board is set, the pieces are about to move.

Sounds grand, doesn’t it? The truth is a little more pedestrian – I spent the afternoon making some “face masks” for the plane. Japanese gauze and as useful as tits on a bull, but at least we can breathe through them. A machine needle was the only fatality when it hit the hair tie elastic.

2. If the management thinks keeping Monty on is good policy, they might as well bring back Bird and SoB.

The place needs a spittoon.

*e.g. if they’re dead

So what you’re saying is… you killed Lizzie?

Hell on Earth on SBS

Famine in 1942/43:
Bengal 2 – 4 million perished.
Vietnam 2 million
Russia (occupied area) 9 million.

This will be one of the weapons that will come into play as supply lines and economies are destroyed. It takes only three weeks to have effect.

NoFixedAddresssays:
August 28, 2022 at 6:35 pm

How’s Chilli travelling these days? Well, I hope.

Fearless, Peerless and Feisty is Chilli.

Check out Hairy and Lizzies poem in the Music and Poetry section.

I might take a rain-check if you don’t mind. I wouldn’t want to go a-over-tit on the hypocrisy, would I?

And, believe it or not, it means a great deal to me.

The pile-on against Lizzie has not been this site’s high point.
More than a couple have revealed themselves to be not as polite as they believe themselves to be.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
August 28, 2022 at 4:42 pm
Thank you for that exegesis which clearly refutes my suggestion that you are an inveterate self- promoter.
Incidentally, in your academic work on logic, did you ever consider the proposition that “”self-aggrandising” and “true” are not mutually exclusive”?

More than a couple have revealed themselves to be not as polite as they believe themselves to be.

You are correct in my case, CMD. I struggle to be polite, and I confess to penning comments that I then delete when I read them. Often.

We say things in the heat of the moment and then think “words come back to me”, but they don’t. The perils of the interwebs. None of us knows the ins and outs of other people’s lives, only what they choose to reveal to us.

None of us knows the ins and outs of other people’s lives, only what they choose to reveal to us.

Indeed calli, take care on your travels, buon viaggio and safe return, and hope you enjoy it to the max, September is a good time of year in Europe, not that I’ve ever been in September but the rellies tell me so.

One day we might get to hear something wonderful about Pakistan. Meanwhile, we are entertained with images of disasters, interspersed with ads about I don’t know what, probably covid safety.

Thanks Roger. I have read about Bengal and the famine, a smear on Churchill, who was an easy target.

The true facts about food shipments to Bengal, amply recorded in the British war cabinet and government of India archives, are that more than a million tons of grain arrived in Bengal between August 1943, when the war cabinet first realised the severity of the famine, and the end of 1944, when the famine had petered out.

To Churchill must go the credit for appointing the man arguably most responsible for these successes
This was food aid specifically sent to Bengal, much of it on Australian ships, despite strict food rationing in England and severe food shortages in newly-liberated southern Italy and Greece. As detailed in Andrew Roberts’s brilliant biography, far from seeking to starve India, Churchill and his cabinet sought every possible way to alleviate the suffering without undermining the war effort.

Churchill was hated. By all the usual suspects.

AFLW action: Geelong beat Richmond 15 to 11.
That’s not 15 goals to 11 goals. It’s 15 to 11 total score.
Must have been a defensive masterclass.

AFLW action: Geelong beat Richmond 15 to 11.
That’s not 15 goals to 11 goals. It’s 15 to 11 total score.
Must have been a defensive masterclass.

Sounds AWFL.

Timothy Neilson says:
August 28, 2022 at 7:53 pm
AFLW action: Geelong beat Richmond 15 to 11.
That’s not 15 goals to 11 goals. It’s 15 to 11 total score.
Must have been a defensive masterclass.

Cock blockers can’t score.

China has a big drought. They’ll soon back in the market looking for the grain they banned out of juvenile spite.
Suck shit Xi.

Yes Calli please keep us posted about your impressions of the populace on your travels.

Energy crisis etc.

Couldn’t give a flying about what ya have for breakfast but you know what I mean. Keep safe.

Bon voyage calli. Do keep us informed.

Tonight at 8.30 on SBS we have Mr Jones.

Gareth Jones was the brilliant 27 y o journalist who had been Lloyd George’s secretary, who first realised that Stalin was starving the Ukrainians in 1932, the Terror Famine, or Holodomor.
He and Malcolm Muggeridge were the first to break the story of mass starvation. Other Western journalists in Moscow at the time met together with the Russian censor and began a deliberate campaign of denial and dismissal of the Jones story.

Oops, SBS 32.

Other Western journalists in Moscow at the time met together with the Russian censor and began a deliberate campaign of denial and dismissal of the Jones story.

The NYT has never apologised.
Malice goes on about it a bit.

They could just buy the stuff off the futures market, no? Not their government – Chinese firms.

Yes they could secure some grain that way but it wouldn’t cover the need for multi million tonne contracts.
The grain trading businesses are well aware of the oblique operations of Chinese importers. Any move in the market by Chinese entities will soon set of a futures rally and kick current cash pricing to new highs.
Fun times I think.

Calli- really enjoyed your impressions of travelling around this wonderful country. You’ve inspired me to revisit Coober Pedy. Therefore, would love to read about your Euro adventures. Rosie’s travelogues were great too.

I love football (AFL) and I love women … but put them together….
No

Calli, once you land, just beware of Dutchmen piloting barges…

feelthebernsays:
August 28, 2022 at 8:58 pm
It’s nuts to do any form of student loan “forgiveness” with out some form of concession from colleges.
Along the lines of tuition freeze or matching the tax payer contribution with endowment contributions.

It isn’t just students who are one of the DemonRats key support groups . It is also the university academics and administrators. The idea is to consolidate that political support, not annoy the wackademics and administrators, who do the propaganda work on the students, and who might well have a stake in the endowments., via their pension schemes.

The operative words here are “we don’t know”. They never do and every time they do this they deliver a recession.

“I think the chair was trying to prepare people for the possibility that as the economy slows down, we might have some job loss and we might have some slow down in business, but we don’t know exactly how much there will be,” Bostic told FOX Business’ Edward Lawrence in an interview on “Varney & Co.” Friday.

JCsays:
August 28, 2022 at 9:48 pm
Just to repeat what I said a couple of days ago.

One year ago energy cost the German economy 1% of GDP. Today, it’s 8%. I think Europe is fucked and less so the US.

Brexit should have to some extent insulated (no pun intended) the UK from the EU losing its main, maybe even sole, economic engine. Unfortunately the loons in charge of the UK have more or less replicated the stupidity.

NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal met Anthony Albanese and Linda Burney MP
They discussed proposed referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament

I know there’s been commentary over the journey about pony-tailed, trash ‘tache-having political advisors being clueless dunderheads, but this is next level. You can picture it:

‘They all look the same don’t they? Black people like basketball and rap music – it’s a walk-up start.’