Open Thread – Weekend 27 Aug 2022
1,498 responses to “Open Thread – Weekend 27 Aug 2022”
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OK. Enough.
I don’t take any great pleasure in bashing (incessantly) who or whatever St Ruth is (or what he may claim to be).
As twostix will no doubt angrily expound to us – “LOL, look at the inner city soy boy faggots punching down against the only one (apart from me) who’s been pointing out you’re all a bunch of supine communist pooftahs, only too happy to be told what to do, even if it involves drinking the bugmans’ kool aid”.
Yeah no. Get another narrative, the ALPBC are selling them off the back of a no longer used truck* at cut price rates.
*Bring your own thongs. 😕
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JMHsays:
August 27, 2022 at 6:41 pm
Phew. It’s a race to twenty now. Heading to 56? Will it break 57?
C’mon. Who else wants to put the knife into me?Oh FFS. Go away until you grow up. You are being infantile.
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Au contraire, my dear. I am testing in my own way the limits of independent thinking on this blog which is a very adult thing to do. I poke fun at those things I think are ridiculous, as are these upticks. And I am insisting on discourse rather than a brush off, for discourse is an adult and civilised thing. I have not received any recognition from Calli that her comment was not quite what she claimed. I apologised if I had misread her, but the fact that it was quite possible to ‘misread’ her, indeed more or less impossible not to if you were placed in my position, has been elided away. The sensible thing for her to do is to admit to a level of poor commentary on her part just as I had admitted the possiblity of my error. Beneath her good humour is often a slightly worrying streak of control. Like me, she’s no angel. Nor is it sensible or adult for you JMH to treat me as some sort of stray and unworthy female. I am not that, which you should know by now.
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Wrong order at Wendy’s leads to shooting, Frisco police say
Three people have been arrested in connection to the shooting.
According to officers, a customer in the drive-thru was unhappy with their order, then entered the store and began arguing with workers.
Police say the customer went to his vehicle and grabbed a gun, shooting at the front of the building before driving off.
No one was hit in the shooting.
Frisco Police arrested 19-year-old Christian Ellis of Glenn Heights on Friday and charged him with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
19-year-old Tyran McLeod and 33-year-old Shaquita Glaspie of Little Elm, who police believe were in the car at the time of the shooting, were also arrested and charged with failure to report a felony.
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Two beautiful children. You are most fortunate. I remember when both were born.
So do I. M0nty is not all bad. He’s been coming here for years and at least is an alternative voice, something which Sinc recognised. He likes this place and didn’t want it to die, although he was definitely not the person to take it over. He’s a die hard ‘progressive’ full of their worst ideas, so M0nty gets what he deserves when he is trolling. I’d have a drink with M0nty whereas I wouldn’t with other trolls. I’d also offer him grandmotherly child-rearing advice. 🙂
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CCP took me for drinks and dinner tonight.
Older bloke is expecting first grand child soon. Alas he has he only has one son. I quietly pointed out to him that children of my generation that I knew had had brothers and sisters, because their parents were high ranked. He nodded and agreed.
(What absolute fucking bastards denying a joy that all might known regardless of status).
Anyway, CCP gave up and switched to coke, I had to drink the rest of the beers. Made a point of not appearing pissed or going to take a piss.
CCP debate was around how many beers I might consume without a dent or needing a piss.
They are likeable blokes fucked by the CCP.
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a slightly worrying streak of control
Hints of passive aggression.
Not a Federal case, as we can all do it at times. I’ve seen a lot of it in my lifetime. Nevertheless, I recall when I was under attack as being a ‘cruise Queen’ she was given a pretty soft ride with a fluffy example proffered to show she was receiving equal treatment to me, inviting her to take it in such good humour. I recall she returned a pretty fawning response to this soft ride too.
Meanwhile, I copped the lot. She said no word in my defense against this attack, and she never has. I have known since then I coud never count on her as a friend.
Well, that’s enough of old coals. Sometimes they still glow hot for I have been to hell and back here at times with the pile-ons. Including 56 dickless upticks at a difficult time in my life.
I may not be blameless but I have never deserved these. Nor Johanna’s vile bile.
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I love this film clip, for several reasons.
Didn’t realise that Johnny performed the vocals for the original
He’s sponsored by Fender (like Miss Ellie and Wolf Alice)
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M0nty is not all bad.
No. He is. Don’t miss underestimate your enemy. He would stand pretty much all of us in front of a brick wall and blow our brains out in the name of “making things better”.
The fascists, nazi’s and communists had children, they all loved them and would do anything regardless.
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Lizzie – relax and ignore, Squirette.
Dwelling on such things is pointless.
Instead, listen to this …
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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.
This is the problem JC, a whole lot of individual health care choices fucked a whole lot of other peoples health care choices.
If people actually stuck to their original health care choices, Melbourne Airport would have had no fuel. But no, a whole lot of useless mother fuckers decided to “comply” to avoid problems and as a consequence I was the only fucking arsehole who got fired.
FMD, the fucking arseholes had an audit this week and they were still fucking asking me questions. WTF? That fucking 7 months after they fired me.
Most Australian’s are fucking gutless pieces of shit.
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Monopoly is full of fond memories of family times for me. And so to for Jeremy Clarke, who writes the Spectator’s Low Life column still, although in some final weakening stages of dying of prostate cancer.
He is saying goodbye to it all from his home in the South of France, seeing with intensity as only poets and the dying do:
“Nature drew attention to itself as biting horseflies, lime-green lizards, hornets, cigales, ants great and small, and a crackling dryness underfoot. And in the evenings by rose and acquamarine celestial commemorative sunsets and a hot wind. And at night by sheet lightning, shooting stars and a fat bobbing moon.”
Yet he is keeping it light, encouraging them to see his debility, hia ‘ouches’ of pain as ‘farce rather than tragedy’, allowing for his grandchildren to remember him as a good-natured old fellow.
We played Monopoly with focus and seriousness. Even Catriona, normally of a kind and modest disposition – some might say a living sacrifice – becomes imbued with an asset-stripping, capitalist spirit. With eight tycoon eyes focusing like lasers on the board, cheating is impossible .. Catriona leafs through her massive wad of 100’s and considers her next building project … After a couple of hours of concentrated ill-judged wheeling and dealing, Grandad’s drugs begin to wear off and he heels over to starboard. I play on as cannon fodder for another half-hour. Finally, I make the announcement: “I’m sorry, chaps. I’ve had it. I’ve got to go and lie down agaisn” All eyes fall greedily on my meagre assets, to be divided up or auctioned. I’m addicted to stations. Once again I have all four. My weakness for stations is well known, is in fact a joke. Three were purchased at extortionate prices.
… We all laugh. I tell them I love them very much and thank them for their great good humour.
And off I go.Beautiful.
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Rick – you stood firm and made the correct choice with the attendant negative consequences.
Good on you, for what it is worth.
I made the same choice as yourself, with basically zero risk for doing so.
I will not denounce people who were boxed into a corner, especially one that was not of their making.
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“Sorry you got fired over vaccination, I didn’t want to get vaccinated either….. but I did…..”
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Lemmings, they be.
In the split second that the lead lemming plunges over the cliff, and realises it has made the dumbest mistake of it’s short life, the very last thing it does is look back at the small collection of individuals who didn’t follow it, and snarl “This is all your fault”. -
I will not denounce people who were boxed into a corner, especially one that was not of their making.
We’re not really arguing Rabz, if Australian’s had stood firm to what they individually believed, we would be in a much better situation, hospitals and businesses would be unable to function. Reality would then set in.
In the end there will be justice. Politicians and bureaucrats will face the consequences. Could have been sooner if more had stood firm.
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Ozzies have been a bitter disappointment, to their own selves, no less
Not as long as I’m on this planet, they haven’t been.
I am of them. They are my people. I used to think of myself as “a citizen of the planet” and poor dumb Ozzies as dwelling in a “stupid stupid country”.
Such vainglorious idiocy.
The scales have been lifted.
We fight, or we go the way of those who found themselves marched off to the death camps in Kampuchea for the crime of being bespectacled … 😕
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I apologised if I had misread her, but the fact that it was quite possible to ‘misread’ her, indeed more or less impossible not to if you were placed in my position, has been elided away. The sensible thing for her to do is to admit to a level of poor commentary on her part just as I had admitted the possiblity of my error.
Lizzie, how many times in recent months have you wrongly assumed that someone is talking about you when they were in fact talking about something else?
Surely there must come a point where you consider the possibility that you’re overestimating your own importance. -
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we are now living in an era when those meant to represent us are clearly and deliberately working against our interests
yeah but, struth is like literally hitler
and the trucking troubadour says mean things
and it was totes like my rational decision to take the pox-shot
and Sancho is right … everything is a bong-bong car story
and rosie … well … tokyo rosie says lotsa things not that they’re rationaland yeah … seems like there’s a whole lotta normalising talk from certain people here in this place
but, the fuck would I no, heh??
I cant even spell whiskey right
can you retards even hear yourselves?
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Trooble …
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Amazing USA.
B-29 Gun turret sighting and control systems.
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The mental sickness here runs deep.
JC and I believe KD are the worst.
For different reasons.
JC is now without argument and is screaming at the moon.
Fancy suggesting that all I have said can be put down to being scared of a needle.
That’s right.
I’m a coward because I’m scared of needles.
I’m even scared of other people taking them….
The thing I’m truly scared about is having to explain the insanity here.
While I am confident most of you see JC’s mental demise quite clearly and chose to just stay out of it, these days who can be sure?
Especially here.
The fact a non Victorian country boy has been right all along is what this is all about.
To the point that if you’d listened to him and many others like him you’d not be staring death due to your own weakness….in the face.
So we get the JC style outbursts.
The trained to be compliant Victorian plod reject sitting at the bar of the Nightcliff hotel annoying the barmaids despises anyone who makes him think too hard as it hurts.
So tell me viewers……who really did bring up gas pipes?
Me or the “cock smoker” who claims I did?
He’s hoping if he lies enough you’ll forget he has invented much of what he claims I said.
There is much mental sickness here and as the jabbed start leaving this world in large numbers and it gets harder and harder to ignore……..I ask the relatively sane still here…..do you want to end up like these people?
Screaming at shadows.
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Come on……get choo choo in here.
Gloat at proving me wrong.
Yet did I suggest he could have died of the jab first……I just asked where the much boosted choo choo….McGowan’s bitch…..was.
It was KD who immediately suggested I think he’s died of the jab.
Not me.
However that says a lot about people knowing the truth of our situation underneath.
Australia is a death camp.
And we’re all in it.
Because the weak complied.
And they excused themselves by attempting to call that submission to tyranny a personal medical decision.
So personal they had to let the coffee shop owner know about it to get a latte.
The mental sickness and the excuses come thick and fast.
You gambled that our Nazi overlords would not come after you if you complied.
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Over 10 000 extra deaths in Australia over last few months.
UK a thousand a week….and in younger age groups.
The jabbed recatching the same colds and getting sick left right and centre.
And now for the poverty…and along with that the violence.
All explained to us quite clear two years ago by our enemies and linked to here by many of us.
We all knew this was the globalist agenda…..they told us.
You dismissed it as conspiracy theories.
For communist style tyranny to be empowered the people must live in lies.
Do you want to admit this is happening?
Hell no.
Wby?
Because then you’d have to admit you let the enemies of the free west inject you.
Those that want you and a few billion others….especially whites….dead.
You lacked the courage to not comply so the lie you’re living is to not allow this truth to exist.
It’s brilliant.
To admit the truth and see things clearly you’d have to admit to your own personal failings attributing to your death and your loved ones.
That lack of civic responsibility on your part destroyed the great nation of Australia.
That we didn’t stop the hysterical women and calm them down.Human nature being what it is………
That’s why Indolent, matrix and a few others including myself are mocked and scoffed at.
The truth is……even while all points to the contrary were clearly laid out here for months and months….you failed and now you are most likely going to pay the ultimate price for it.
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feelthebernsays:
August 28, 2022 at 6:15 am
rickw, I hope you’re getting paid for the consulting you’re doing for your former place of work.
My question is, why do it at all?
Later on he was arguing that, if everyone had resisted, business and services would have been crippled.
So resist then.
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Hahaha.
Electric car users warned as energy price cap makes charging more expensive than PETROL (27 Aug)
The RAC has warned motorists across the UK that EVs will be more expensive to run than petrol equivalents from October. It added that the cost of a full charge at home for an EV with a 64-kilowatt hour battery – such as a Kia e-Niro – will be £33.80 under the new cap which comes into force on October 1.
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RAC spokesman Rod Dennis said: “The impact of the energy price cap increase will certainly be felt by drivers who charge their electric cars at home, with a full charge of a typical family-sized electric SUV costing 84 percent more from October 1 than it does under the current cap.And fast chargers will be even more painful, since they charge a premium price. I put up an article yesterday about electricity in the UK due to rise by a hefty 80% on Oct 1st, after another rise of 54% in April. By contrast I filled up myself this week for $1.62 a litre, which is down from the peak of about $2.20/L some weeks ago. Electricity though is just going up and up. I wonder if renewable energy has anything to do with it? We should ask Albo.
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This farmer is facing jail time, which will be interesting if he asks for the food to be provided him in prison to have been produced in accordance with his religious beliefs.
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You know what is a stand out with anti vaxxers?
The science is settled point of view.
Exactly like climate mongs.
Help help we’re all going to die.
As for wankers who crumpled as soon as their hip pocket nerve twitched, critising people who got vaccinated before mandates got hot and heavy, lol.
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Another bible history video.
This is one of the best channels on youtube.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uIXzUEwrOg
Who Wrote the Bible? Episode 8: Summary Chart
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Meanwhile, I copped the lot. She said no word in my defense against this attack, and she never has. I have known since then I coud never count on her as a friend.
Well, that’s enough of old coals.
Liar. I came to your defence. All lost and buried on SincCat.
When they got stuck into you (at around the same time as those idiots on the Arctic Explorer), I told them at least you were game to go and you returned at your own expense rather than whining for the government to do something. When the avalanche of comments descended, I said something. And I have come to your “defence” in other circumstances, but in recent years less so.
No I am not your “friend”. I hardly know you. Just because I don’t want to engage in endless recriminations of what I said and what you thought I said. This isn’t Third Form. As the day progressed, your comments became bitchier and bitchier, from my faith and even down to my personality type. So will reiterate:
– my comment about “look at me types” was not about you but dreary celebrities
– my comment about SU medals being “genuine” was not about you, in fact as I scroll back you mentioned “Firsts” not medals which Dot raised.All the rest of that melange of vindictive spite must have built up over the years, years when I enjoyed your comments about travel and talked of mine.
My immediate reaction was to nip it in the bud late yesterday by refusing to engage. Cassie said that Christians should not “turn the other cheek” but fight back. Well, had you not impugned my faith and character I would have let it lie.
I would prefer the matter to be closed if you don’t mind. But that’s entirely up to you.
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Sorry. Reading back that looked rather fraught. I’m not usually given to such displays.
In other news, and as Eyrie’s here, thanks for the tip re USBs and my car music, absent the CD player. I found a 64GB drive the size of a fingernail that I can download just about all the stuff I want to play. Amazing that these things have become so tiny. I was worried about knocking and splitting a larger one.
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In three days’ time I will be in Amsterdam. And then on to the Dalmatian coast and back to the UK. I’ve been of two minds about commenting on what I see, particularly in view of Covid, energy squeeze and the general recovery if one actually exists outside the Aussie bubble. The worst thing will be mandatory mask wearing on the plane.
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To all those who offered suggestions re our fox problem – thanks. We are sorting it.
We are still breathless at the audacity of the creature in curling up on our doormat! And it wasn’t that upset when we appeared ( through the glass of French door). Just looked up as if -“and what do you want?” As I mentioned yesterday, husband got the gun ( ready because of the raid on the chook pen” )but a decent shot was not possible.
Today work resumes on electric wire around the chook pen. Other remedies include building a higher roost inside the chook house – unreachable for the fox. We are also considering locking the door of the chook house overnight and even locking them in there when we are away – as it is a sizeable house – although I really don’t want to do that.
In spite of all these remedies we are still faced with the new problem of continuing free ranging of the chooks in the grounds when we are at the farm. Only a protective dog would foolproof that, & we don’t intend to acquire one because of the continual returns to the city. It has never been a problem before the appearance of this particularly arrogant fox.
Now I understand the meaning of trying to “outfox” someone!
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miltonf, the lesser of two evils is still evil.
agree- I think I’m still somewhat appalled at the final part of Chappaquiddick which I assume is real footage from the era where people are interviewed about Edward Kennedy. I did meet a guy from Poughkeepsie once though and he absolutely hated the Kennedys- so there are some smart people in the ‘rat heartland.
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Indolentsays:
August 27, 2022 at 9:21 pm
Fascism is anything Democrats don’t likeAs George Orwell put it, “the word fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable.’” For Democrats, fascism simply means anything they don’t like, and anything that might possibly threaten their control over the governing establishment. Fascism is Donald Trump. Fascism is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Fascism is the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Fascism is religious people running their businesses according to their beliefs. And now fascism is the Republican Party and everyone who votes for it.
It’s impossible to know who Biden thinks he’s going to win over with this position
— besides maybe the talking heads at MSNBC who pull a Jeffrey Toobin every time the words “Trump” and “fascism” appear in the same sentence.
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This one even made the Seven news last night!
Thanks Tom.
On the travel commenting, I’m wary about attracting abuse not because I can’t take it, but because it’s so bad for the abuser. Naturally, abuse is always a personal choice but it doesn’t do to court it. Thanks for the encouragement.
We will be going Economy – they were the only FFP tickets available. Originally going via Haneda, but travellers leapfrogging over two days were not permitted as the transit hotel is closed and landside is only for groups and business travel. The Beloved will have to fold himself up carefully…my short legs can fit anywhere. Mercifully it’s a direct flight to the Netherlands and we arrive at Schiphol in the early afternoon.
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The AFL’s AFLW women’s football season launch on Thursday and Friday – given star treatment by the Seven Network in the absence of men’s football, given a week’s break before the finals series begins next week – did not make it into Australia’s top 20 programs in the TV ratings on either night.
No-one wants to watch women’s football because it’s like watching the boys under 12s, with low scores and terrible skills.
But the Seven Network is committed to this ratings turkey so it doesn’t lose the men’s AFL rights, which are central to the network’s profit strategy each winter.
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On the travel commenting, I’m wary about attracting abuse not because I can’t take it, but because it’s so bad for the abuser.
Calli,
I’m not much for reading travelogues, especially when they have the appearance of a prepubescent girl running around the fence line of the concentration camp, thumbing her nose at the inmates.However, I am convinced that feedback on common social and political issues will be read here with intense interest.
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Can Woke Get Any Woker? Now ‘Neuroqueerness’ Is a Thing
Let’s be honest, shall we? Many if not most of us have morphed from shock, or worse, over each new pronouncement from the woke among us, to “meh, what’s new?” — and even laughter, often, because the shock factor is no longer shocking. Today’s case in point falls squarely into the latter category.
This fall, several major public universities are offering courses on LGBTQ sexuality, sex education, and activism that go far beyond the historical boundaries of LGBTQ individuals and their respective movements, as reported by Campus Reform. Instead, many of these courses focus on leftist politics and activist causes.
After all, what good is a radical adherent of anything, unless he, she, or “they” don’t proactively and effectively push it down the throats of the vast majority of America, demanding acceptance and respect?
Perfect example: The American University in Washington, D.C., offers a course that “teaches” students about “the lived experience of madness” and what it means to be “neuroqueer.”
People who identify as neuroqueer “often reject binaristic ideas of gender and sexual orientation. They can be nonconformists who think radically about queer and disabled identities.”
Let’s stop right here and ponder for a minute.
Is the American University equating “madness” and “queerness,” and suggesting that both are due to neurological or psychological disorders? If so, doesn’t that run contrary to everything they now preach, ad nauseam? Haven’t we been bombarded for years with Pride parades and such? That same-sex relationships and transgenderism are natural and healthy?
Yep, I’m confused, too.
Here’s a complete course description:
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