Open Thread – Weekend 27 Aug 2022
1,498 responses to “Open Thread – Weekend 27 Aug 2022”
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Every slightly paler spot on the carpet reminds me of my two hounds, now long gone. Rotten little widdlers. Thousands and thousands of dollars spent on eye surgery, diabetes, tick bites, boarding, grooming and better food than we ate.
I miss them to this day. But we won’t be getting another. Too heartbreaking when the inevitable happens.
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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
August 27, 2022 at 5:59 pm
There’s quite a bit of toppering going on here …To paraphrase, there will not be any oggling of curvy bottomages* going on here … ?
Ok
Adding to “toppering” -Que?
– Standing behind Elle MacPherson in 1st Class Check in Sydney – Skinny as a Rake – No Bum – shapeless from behind
– Walking behind PonyTail Marlon Brando back streets Mayfair 71 – Tall Bastard
– Concorde LHR-JFK early 80s -no one exciting, but seat 1A and was able to go into cockpit and speak to pilots – and Helicopter from JFK to Hudson River NYC on finest day I have ever been in New York
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when it was still a pup, the little shit ate an almost exact square of a leather couch that cost us 10 K to repair. Again, as a pup he ate the plastic irrigation pipes. I didn’t replace them because of what he did and also lost the garden. Add in another 10 K.
LOL. This is why I would never “purchase” another cat. Swinging from the curtains, sharpening the claws on the leather lounges and the regrettable “voiding” incidents.
Not to mention the vet bills and having it microchipped – they start on “companion animals” and then all of a sudden, you (yes, you) are:
.1 Existing in a Pod
.2 Owning nothing
.3 Feasting on insects
.4 And being “Happy”Or else. 😕
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Hold fire? After this…
Rockwiz had some good material over the years, such as when Steve Harley visited.
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Freebird at Oakland. Confederate flag backdrop. There is a fantastic comment “I can’t believe how hot everyone’s grandma is”…. my weary thought… hmm, and these hotties grannies were the hotties living in paradise California that so horrified the Frankfurter schoolies when they found sanctuary there….
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I love the Stranglers, maybe have a couple CDs around somewhere. Must listen to them again. No Mercy is an anthem!
Meanwhile for Russophile Cats here’s a fine band. I’m not doing the Cyrillic because that doesn’t work with Dover’s settings:
Otava Yo – The Tale of Ivan Groove (2012)
Otava Yo – Timonia (2021)Very silly, but the music is good!
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Dover, in Mid 2020 we had no idea even if they could come up with a vax in reasonable time. We also had limited information about the virus. No one couldn’t have reached any reasonable conclusion .
We had a pretty good idea by June/ July 2020 which age and health cohorts were in danger and which weren’t.
Actually it did against the Alpha strain. It appeared to be working against that strain and the one just after less so to the point of where we are now.
It went pear-shaped with 6 months of their widespread use. It probably would have been better if they were restricted to the 60 and overs.
I don’t understand how some people are so blase about a virus strain that was created to blitz the enemy’s human population.
I was worried in the first quarter of 2020.
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Lovely story about your cat Jack there Rabz.
I felt that way about the little Burmese cat I have for 18 years throughout the kids childhoods. When small this cat, our little Maltese Dachshund cross puppy and our white rabbit used to chase each other happily around the pool. They would all cuddle up together to go to sleep when they got tired.
The white rabbit came to a sticky end by trusting too much the dog next door, but the other two lived on together into old age, he fourteen years old, the female cat eighteen at time of take off. She was boss, because she was clever. She could open door handles, walk on roof ridges, bring home rats and whip a little dog into line with her glares. Her basket was small and his was larger, but sometimes she’d decide to sleep in his, and he would dutifully squeeze himself into her basket for an uncomfortable night. They slept in their baskets in our bedroom. As we made initial going to bed preparations, they would both trail off to the bedroom and be waiting in bed for us when we came in.
When he had to be put down, she became older and less active. He used to play with her by sticking his hind quarters into her side and prance about saying clearly let’s play, I won’t eat you, see, my mouth is nowhere near you. She would then mercilessly biff him which he took a masochistic pleasure in receiving. Apparently it was fun for them both. They would also tag team up and down the hall.
Hairy and I both howled at the vet’s for each farewell visit with them. We’ve never replaced the dog, but after five years I longed for a kitty again. A dear little cuddly cat. Instead, we got Attapuss, a flawed animal. An autistic cat: nervous, jumpy, fussy eater but overweight, whines like an alarm clock in the early hours, hates all human males, non-cuddly except when on my legs on a blanket, hides like an ostrich from visitors and bites impulsively. He’s also gorgeous looking, tiger-marked, and obviously needy. He also loves us both and has a set of vocalisations that we can readily interpret, almost like a language. He talks a lot when we are alone with him. Emotional stuff, mainly, although I think a little bit of politics, though Hairy disagrees about that. 🙂
He is ours though and we love and miss him if he’s not around. It’s always good to get home to him.
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Pubs face winter ‘extinction’ with some facing energy bill spike of 500 per cent
Pub landlords are facing an “extinction” this winter as a majority of operators said they feared being forced to shut down in the coldest months.
Some 65 per cent of publicans said they were likely to close over winter, despite a lucrative Christmas period free of Covid restrictions, when surveyed by industry title The Morning Advertiser.
Nearly three quarters of pub and bar operators said they could not afford monster hikes to energy bills, with some even seeing bills rise more than 500 per cent.
Businesses’ energy bills are not constrained with a price cap in the same way bills for households are.
Earlier this summer, the British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) said the majority of its members were experiencing a minimum 300 per cent increase in energy costs, all while venues attempt to recover from the side effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Venues are also facing the costs of other headwinds spiralling while struggling to recruit front and back of house staff.
Pub industry chiefs have called on the government to issue support for the sector, with calls for measures ranging from a cap on energy costs, a VAT reduction and a freeze on business rates for the next year.
Action is needed now and not when the new Prime Minister steps into the job next month, Ed Bedington, editor of The Morning Advertiser, said.
“This situation is untenable and we’re likely to see the closure of huge swathes of pubs and bars across the UK unless something is done to tackle these spiralling costs,” he added.
The government seemed to be “either missing or ignoring” the potential “loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs” due to an absence of support for pubs, he said.
Heath Ball, managing director of The Frisco Group, which operates three pubs across the South East of England, dubbed the current crisis as “a doomsday scenario.”
“This energy bill crisis comes on the back of the most testing of times as businesses try and recover from the Covid crisis and I think it poses an even greater threat to the survival of pubs,” he added.
In response to the BII’s survey, a HM Treasury spokesperson said: “We’ve stood behind the hospitality sector throughout the pandemic with a £400bn package of economy-wide support that saved millions of jobs and offered a lifeline to hundreds of night-time businesses up and down the country.”
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JC says:
August 27, 2022 at 6:11 pm
Old School, you’re always out and about with your opinions about comportment and behavior. I’d call you a blog behavioral expert. What do you think about Stuthid’s behavior over the past few years abusing people because they made a personal healthcare decision?At the risk of being drawn into an apparent ambush, I’ll respect your question and say this:
I admire Struth’s attempts to remind Australians about the Constitution, and his leadership of the protest convoy. However his constant attacks on Cats are entirely misplaced and so I generally scroll past his word walls.
His invective should be 100% directed at the would-be dictators who imposed the last 2 years of hell on Australians. Morrison, all the Premiers, all the Health Officers, the police, and decision making bureaucrats are far more deserving of his abuse than ordinary Australians who made decisions based on government propaganda and MSM shills.Your heart felt doggy story reminded me of when we had our beautiful 14 y.o. lab put down a few years ago. Vet said “do you want to stay during the process?” So I did and of course that 1 in a million events happened – a short while after the fatal injection nerve fibres twiched so violently we both though the dog was alive. Hells bells!
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Here’s a link to the Top Gun ad. James Morrow had it up on his Friday show.
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Hairy and I both howled at the vet’s for each farewell visit with them.
Me too. Vet suggested I get a pet rock after the last one (I was streaming water like Niagara). That’s when I adopted the Cafe wildlife. They get old and die too, but usually not in one’s arms.
Just gave a carrot to young lady brushtail, she’s avoiding stern mum brushtail but likes Cafe nosh. She was on my doormat Thursday evening. Foxy!
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Try again, Top Gun ad
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Nup. Have to find it somewhere else. Try this.
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“ordinary Australians who made decisions based on government propaganda and MSM shills.”
And many ordinary Australians made the decision based on the well informed advice of their trusted medical professionals, or simply reviewed the pros and cons and came up with a well reasoned decision to get vaccinated, on their own, and remain very comfortable with that decision. -
She’s a bread addict and will do anything for it. Including sitting on a doormat.
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Btw I can see why brushtail possums conquered Kiwiland.
Interestingly I found out today that radiata pine has also.Space invaders: Radiata pine spread more widely in NZ than previously thought (26 Aug)
Unfortunately I don’t think brushtails eat radiata, so Kiwis are stuck with both of them.
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Daily Mail. Words fail me…
Drew Barrymore is accused of racism after posting innocent video of herself enjoying the rain… as black TikTokers brand her a COLONIZER who copied ‘black men frolicking trend’
Actress Drew Barrymore has been accused of being racist after posting a video of herself laughing and walking in the rain
Barrymore encourages people to get out into the rain more in her video, but another TikTok user said she is trying to ‘dismiss’ black creators
The user accused Barrymore of stealing a trend originating in May that featured black men running around joyously in fields -
FFS, St Ruth – take your anger to the pollies.
We are not the (or your) enemy.
Why you are still choosing to blunder on here and attack everyone left right and centre is incomprehensible.
Slowly now – it makes no sense. You are expending your precious energy for no useful purpose.
I’ve been laughing of late at your obvious wastage of energy on people who might have had your back, should they have proved to be worthy.
But, yeah, no – we’re all a bunch of sellouts who can never live up to your exacting (and seemingly perpetually shifting) standards, such as they are.
So fuck off and find some other peoples who may be more receptive to your message.
We are sick of it, Squire.
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Your heart felt doggy story reminded me of when we had our beautiful 14 y.o. lab put down a few years ago. Vet said “do you want to stay during the process?” So I did and of course that 1 in a million events happened – a short while after the fatal injection nerve fibres twiched so violently we both though the dog was alive. Hells bells!
Yea, I’m still really upset about it. Wifey and my kid ( I was really my kid’s doggy) are going through grief. I think the termination is a awful thing to experience.
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This will cheer up mourning dog owners.
George V looks chuffed to dress up a Chihuahua as Florence Nightingale.
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struth says:
August 27, 2022 at 8:26 pmPersonal health care decisions….
LOLThat’s the sort of response I’d expect from a retarded redneck loudmouth with nothing left to say.
Listen cockface, you DON’T participate in my healthcare decisions nor anyone’s else. These are personal decisions and have nothing to do with strangers. Stick to trying to find the quickest route on your bread deliveries and nothing else as I’m sure you wouldn’t be able to recall the same road from one day to the next. Now shut the fuck up and go vomit somewhere else you clown.
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struthsays:
August 27, 2022 at 8:26 pm
Personal health care decisions….
LOLFor someone who was elderly, had a compromised immune system or had other very serious health co-morbidities, the vaxx would have seemed being worth the gamble at the time. (And maybe it was. The world wide stats suggest that the vaxxes aren’t totally useless. Unfortunately the world wide stats are designed not to give an accurate comparison between vaxx dangers and virus dangers.)
Others, not so much. However I can sympathise with those who couldn’t imagine the flabbergasting distortions between the virus danger stats and vaxx danger stats that the government was manipulating, or who succumbed in response to the threat of unemployment or other totalitarian thuggery, or whose decision was a combination of both.
Me? I have personal and family medical history that made me very wary of the vaxx, especially given the rushed approval and the obvious lies about “fully approved” when to this day it’s still only emergency approved. I don’t know what I would have done if it hadn’t been for my personal circumstances. But the decision to stay unvaxxed seems to have paid off. I got covid and fully recovered within a few days. Three cheers for natural immunity.
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Classified records found in boxes were mixed in with “newspapers, magazines, printed news articles, photos, miscellaneous print-outs, notes,” and presidential correspondence, the affidavit says. This fanned suspicion that important documents were still floating around the house, where bad actors hanging around the Mar-a-Lago resort might pilfer them.
I wonder how many FBI files have such a mixture in them? If a file covers a particular subject, logic says to keep everything on that subject together, to minimise the chance that something important might later be missed (if it is in a separate file/store). Even newspapers etc can have important items in them.
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Arkysays:
August 27, 2022 at 11:56 am
Also: No one wants to go back to the office as if it was 2019 again and get lectured about racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia etc, etc etc.
You made the workplace so stupid and toxic no one wants to be there.Clueless pontification #127 in an endless series.
FFS, when was the last time you worked in a CBD office?
People don’t want to go back to the office for a whole bunch of reasons.
The main reasons people like WFH include:-
.1 They avoid 2+ hours of commute a day;
.2 They avoid the cost and drudgery of that commute;
.3 They spend more time with their kids;
.4 As a result of .3, they save on childcare;
.5 Most get an allowance (some one-off, some recurring) to work from home;
.6 They save the costs of eating and coffee in the CBD. Say $10 net per day, $2 grand a year, after tax.
.7 For some, it means lack of closer supervision.
FMD, anyone with the semblance of a backbone doesn’t give a fat rat’s clacker about that shit in the workplace. Anyone who is afraid to go to the office for fear their tender ears might hear two frightbats chatting about SJW issues in the tea-room shouldn’t call themselves a conservative.
And should take a teaspoon of Portland cement and harden the fuck up.
Stop projecting that the stuff you obsess about makes it into the top ten issues around the work arrangements of others.
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struth says:
August 27, 2022 at 8:26 pmPersonal health care decisions….
LOLOK.
As the Gweat Defender of Individual Fweedoms (and Convoyer) who do you think should make these decisions, if not the individual?
Should the decision be made by a low IQ breadvan man, relying on trusted sources on the innernet?
And, if so, why should people cede their individual right to choose to you or anyone else?
Oh, it’s civic duty, I hear you say.
For the greater good of a strong society.
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Your heart felt doggy story reminded me of when we had our beautiful 14 y.o. lab put down a few years ago. Vet said “do you want to stay during the process?” So I did and of course that 1 in a million events happened – a short while after the fatal injection nerve fibres twiched so violently we both though the dog was alive. Hells bells!
When I was a very junior hospital resident that happened to a very recently deceased old lady surrounded by her grieving rellies. I had just confirmed death and had to explain what was happening and that I hadn’t really got it horribly wrong. It was one of those character building events young doctors get to experience….
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Having a needle stuck into me does not frighten me.
What is in the syringe does however, cause me quite some concern.Being placed under duress to receive this injection, on pain of loss of civil rights & livelihood, is an entirely separate matter again.
As is upping the ante & surprising me with snap withdrawal of my livelihood & civil rights unless I submit to what may be an unending series of injections of various substances -
Hey Bern, good news:
Dr. Kelli Ward ??
@kelliwardaz
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The Democrat attempt to destroy elections in Arizona is FINALLY dead. That BS will NOT be on the ballot in November. Thank you, @azfec for standing up for all of us. -
err, um, I’ve recently made some “jurdgements” about the young womanage’s physiognomy, but FFS, still refining her dance moves as she is – she remains among the best. 🙂
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why should people cede their individual right to choose to you or anyone else?
Mmm.
What St. Ruth fails to realise – and has done so, right through this entire shambles – is that the Edicts Within The Wordwalls of the last two-plus years are rock-solid in the totalitarian lane.
The false patriotism. The cajoling, then the demanding, then the impotent sporadic abuse. The offensive vernacular (‘purebloods’ and ‘enthusiastic Nazis’). The attempts to get into a position where he can pull the levers, followed by ‘didn’t want it anyway’, followed by ‘we wuz robbed’.
He’s every single bit of a dictator as Andrews, Sutton, Pallashay and Jeanette Young. He just doesn’t have the clout.
And that, gentlepersonreaders, is also why he’s piss funny every time he turns up.
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I don’t get this fear of needles.
I’ve had a few canulas go in over the journey and they are far bigger than a vax needle.
I was usually indifferent about it until I found out that the pathology provider I used had a “two strike” rule.
If they have two attempts and miss, they have to call the manager, assign the job to someone else who goes to the other arm and the manager goes through a hand-patting process to assuage the “trauma”.
FFS, get on with it.
From then on I used to work the arm hard to raise the vein and watch what they were doing to ensure they had it lined up, and if they appeared timid, encourage them to give it a good shove. -
Being owned and WFH – an illustration of being owned, lock, stock and barrel, family, too: most, if not all, VIC govt depts required triple jabs when working from home. This meant that the home became the workplace, and, as such, the workplace could only mean that all persons at the premises we required to be jabbed. Now, Dan and his cronies did not quite think to enact that level of control, yet it would have dawned on them sooner or later to try it. But of course, the jab is only one aspect. Climate hysteria presents other opportunities where WFH is a contradiction of the term term home.
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My 5yo daughter cried big tears for ten minutes straight after the AFLW game, but on the ride home she was all proud of the girls and there is still hope for finals if they keep on trying. Also my 8yo boy wanted to go again next week.
Was nice to see Perkins kick a goal and Sophie Locke get swamped by teammates after kicking our first. Good effort, decent skills, can’t fault the way they play.
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Anyone who says biden is not a sexual pervert should read his poor daughter’s diary while looking at this photo of biden looking at her when she was about 8.
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Hey Bern, good news:
Dr. Kelli Ward ??
@kelliwardaz
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The Democrat attempt to destroy elections in Arizona is FINALLY dead. That BS will NOT be on the ballot in November. Thank you, @azfec for standing up for all of us.Demorats don’t obey rules or Judgments. They’ll have a back-up. Like I say conservatives still think there are rules and a democratic social structure.
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What St. Ruth fails to realise – and has done so, right through this entire shambles – is that the Edicts Within The Wordwalls of the last two-plus years are rock-solid in the totalitarian lane.
What you fail to understand is that, in terms of objective truth, he has been right all along. As seems clear now, both Covid itself and the injectables are nothing more than weapons to damage and subdue us. This item I posted yesterday makes it perfectly clear that –
1. They always knew the injectables were harmful, and
2. They were and are deliberately playing ducks and drakes with our lives, to the extent of producing versions meant to kill, which exceeds even the level of a medical experiment.The only way we could have avoided the hell of the past 2 years is not to have cooperated in the first place. It’s hard to blame people for trusting authority and falling for media hysteria but, again, it’s the objective truth. The more people complied the more the screws were tightened. Because they could.
And, as to totalitarian behaviour, it wasn’t Struth who locked you in your home, forced you to take the drug or lose your job and created a sub-class of non-citizens with no rights, not even the right to leave the country, because they chose to make their own decision about their own bodily autonomy. Unfortunately, we are now living in an era when those meant to represent us are clearly and deliberately working against our interests.
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Bloody hell, I’m sounding like ol’ geriatric Joe, or even worse, McMuttley …
“My 5yo daughter cried big tears for ten minutes straight after … “
… you hoovered her Maccas in less than a second.
You’re a joke, muttley.
You exist:
.1 in a regional cesspit
.2 in a basement
.3 without shame
.4 without any semblance of dignity
.5 without reason
.6 hoovering many, many sweet treatsThis is not a good thang, Cats. 😕
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Knuckle Dragger says 9:51 pm
I did not miss that casual sideswipe at those young womanages that just so happen to be the best, KD.
Shame, shame, shame.
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in terms of objective truth, he has been right all along.
About the gas-piped Death Camps being built in every State and Territory, for the purpose of herding the unvaxxed in to be killed? Right about that was he?
About everyone who did not conform to his exact thoughts being shallow cock smokers who deserve to die? Is that right? Is he right?
About people’s blood turning to sludge? About nanowires growing in people’s brains? About Fat Cloive being the people’s saviour, which was after he dropped off the Sovereign Citizen and Bosi bandwagons, in that order?
Was he right about those things?
FMD, for someone who routinely links to satire sites proclaiming them to be fact, that’s a big old pile of moxie you’re riding around on.
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Indolentsays:
August 27, 2022 at 9:58 pm
What St. Ruth fails to realise – and has done so, right through this entire shambles – is that the Edicts Within The Wordwalls of the last two-plus years are rock-solid in the totalitarian lane.
What you fail to understand is that, in terms of objective truth, he has been right all along …
Except for the Death Camps, the empty shelves by 10th August 2020, the gas pipes to the showers, the standing (or falling) any day now …
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Rabz, how is youtube today?
Serving my needs and its intended purpose.
Which is to gift me and anyone else unfortunate enough to be within a galaxy my wondrous musical choices!
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