Week In Pictures.
Open Thread – Weekend 27 Aug 2022
- The Radio Show May 2024 – The Fifties
- Open Thread – Weekend 4 May 2024
- Bumtree #5
- The beach which banned vanilla ice cream
- Bumtree #4
I remember rolling of the jetty in Monkey Mia in 1979 … I was laying on the edge. I was…
Trust me. This is a great 58 minutes. —- Animal Adventures: Can Animals Have Friendships With Humans? | Animal Odd…
Paul Anka Put Your Head On My Shoulder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvazBqAlx58
ps I don’t think women’s sexual attraction to psychopaths is related to arseholes swinging at their women- ( very high…
Looking forward to a bit more ‘slight over-reaction’ and ‘bombast’ throughout the day.
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Feller, you have to start giving off the vibe that what you think has befallen these people genuinely makes you upset FOR them, more than you resent all the stupid shit they have directed at you, OR you need to leave them be for awhile.
Leave them to their own devices.
There is no value in anything else right now.
The data still isn’t your friend.
Excess deaths amongst the young/younger exploding by 200%?
No, not happening over the past two years. Not at all.
The people catching it most in the UK are in the 50 to 64 age group: prime middle-age knockdown zone, where undiagnosed cancer and coronary disease come calling.
Even then, no 200% of anything.
But at least we’ve moved away from Certain Death From Aids within five years and the jabbed dead being hauled away by the daily thousands.
Baby steps.
While you little mental cases are still with us…….give choo choo a call…..I can’t stop worrying!
watch this
Well you shouldn’t.
The last time you ‘worried’ like this, you were proven comprehensively wrong. Again.
Still, that’s what happens when you springboard to conclusions, heavily supported by confirmation bias and anti-bovine rhetoric.
try this.
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The data doesn’t appear to have been properly collected since 2019.
If they weren’t able to record simple births for large chunks of 2020 and 2021, to the extent that they had to shift half the data from one year back to the previous, what do you think happened to the recording of causes of deaths while they were discouraging anyone from visiting major hospitals, and while GPs were masking up terrified of examining patients?
struthsays:
August 29, 2022 at 12:31 pm
You forgot the brilliant work Senator Gerard Rennick is doing, Struth
Yep, he’s yet another imbecile who can’t even correctly pronounce the word. But he’s a self proclaimed expert on the costs of nuclear power generation, nonetheless.
If you believe that you’re an even bigger idiot than Albansleazey.
Sancho got fucking crook.
Which he admitted.
If he had anything between the ears the headache would have reallt hurt
A personal medical decision…..
Isn’t a vaccine, you were told you wouldn’t die catching covid…99.9 % would be fine…..you were told it was experimental and no long term testing had been done and many were screaming from the roof tops….real experts…..that it will kill you
But you got it anyway.
In doing so you empowered tyranny.
You helped destroy this nation
St Ruth sounds like one of the cookers who assemble at a Canberra lake of a morning and shout at the Governor-General’s house on the other side.
Forget Phil the Greek, the Shaq incident reminded me more of Fat Cloive using Al Bore as a prop in some ridiculous environmental policy announcement (the details of which no one could remember even if they’d bothered listening to it in the first place).
Possible Lathe Of The Week in WA:
https://www.grays.com/lot/0017-9034024/metalworking-and-fabrication/p-cq6230a-metalworking-lathe-p?spr=true
I tried to appear as if I cared Arky.
Do you think they bought it?
Monty …thinks I’m a kook.
The resident wrongologist.
Any day now, punch a nazi, imprison his kids…monty.
Youknow what that means.
Perhaps some inquiring mind at the press club today can ask Elbow if Mr. O’Neal is being paid for his interest in the matter and if so how much?
You forgot the brilliant work Senator Gerard Rennick is doing, Struth
And Senator Alex Antic
“Moving right along from football, Mr. Albanese, what flavours of icecream do you prefer?”
“And what brand of electric ute do you recommend for farmers and remote communities, mining sites, and so on?”
mUnty, I’m not an optometrist but I reckon you might be a little short-sighted.
I recall that stunt cost Clive over $300k. Shaq is a bit more expensive.
Presumably we taxpayers are the one who’re paying him to look bored.
The renewable energy exports to Singapore will set you free.
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I’m confident these aren’t entirely stupid people, and they’ll come to process it all eventually on their own.
What I want from this is more scrutiny and push back against the expert class, and that when they try to mandate all this kind of stuff again for the “climate emergency”, as many people as possible are on board with saying “Hell NO. After the mess you made over Covid? Piss off”.
I think we’re getting there.
Funny you should say that….
the only people that run around breaking things, looking for Nastees and shrieking about fascists are Bolsheviks.
but dont tell them … apparently they reckon they’re the good guys
I don’t know if you have been following things more generally, but the whole UK data collection/debate through Covid has been something of a clusterfuck. I could easily be wrong, but as I understand it, the B/D data has been normalised against the 2021 Census.
The fact remains there is a shitload of UK data, curated and crosschecked back to ONS and NHS regions to varying degrees. Unlike Australia, this data is also thoroughly perused and critiqued and criticized by the medical industry, professional statisticians, academics, media, and interest groups.
Not perfect. Clearly wrong in places; but, providing you can work with the uncertainties, a whole bunch better than accepting strongly stated opinions based on anecdotes, or just making shit up.
Dr F
Watch Mark Styne video until the end.
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2022/08/28/woke-aussie-bank-in-electric-vehicle-push-ends-loans-for-new-gas-and-diesel-cars/
And carefully read the credits to check the spelling of his name.
Not a kook…. a cooker. There is a difference.
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Not since last year.
Volume and context set other’s apart.
The people of Mer Island in the Torres Island Group, are thinking of following the Solomon Islands government in negotiating with China, according to the SBS website.
Great. And these are people who would be included in The Voice. Maybe Keith Windshuttle is right (in the Quadrant Online) that The Voice lobbyists will eventually push for a separate state within Australia. If that happened, they would have to be consulted on every major decision affecting the nation.
I bet this is not discussed in the “conversations” regarding The Voice.
The fact remains there is a shitload of UK data, curated and crosschecked back to ONS and NHS regions to varying degrees.
Even so, this data has been “massaged” to a considerable extent. See well respected medical statistician Professor Norman Fenton’s opinions which have been pilloried by the medical bureaucracy.
Bumbling Bowen reminds me of Eric Olthwaite (Ripping Yarns).
A boring tit, interested in precipitation, black pudding (even the white bits are black) and new shoovels (Spear & Jackson). Even his family ran away ‘cos he was so boring.
He’ll be well up on the hit list the dealers missus is compiling for the bruvvers. Just below the Sleaze.
Plenty of material on Professor Fenton if you google. But you could start here:
Watch the full interview at: https://discernable.io/professor-norman-fenton-lying-with-statistics-the-world-has-been-conned
One minute hospitals aren’t busy because the vaxxed are carking it without getting within cooee of a hospital, next ambulances sirens are deafening us.
Unless & until they get soveriengty, they can forget about that.
A good way to draw political attention to their plight, though.
I’ve no doubt they’ve got some legitimate grievances against federal and state governments.
Heck…haven’t we all?
That’s been the agenda since the “Black Power” days of the 1970’s.
sovereignty
m0ntysays:
August 29, 2022 at 1:20 pm
St Ruth sounds like one of the cookers who assemble at a Canberra lake of a morning and shout at the Governor-General’s house on the other side.
Only a couple of dat=ys ago, you were commenting on his brilliance.
For a former batsman who valued his wicket, Bill Lawry sure got excited when he saw a bowler get a batsman out. Then again he probably got excited oiling his bat.
It’s not the Sydney LGA they are talking about, it’s Greater Sydney, which is the whole conurbation from the Hawkesbury to the Blue Mountains to the Royal National Park.
I think it is safe to say that car sales are … considerable. It’s also safe to say that car dealers, a lobby of some importance, will not be jumping for joy – and nor will their customers.
We currently have a competition between ‘woke’ companies and pressure groups to come up with the most radical proposals to ban non-electric vehicles. They will be smacked in the face by reality soon enough, but meanwhile the smug virtue-signalling is positively nauseating.
“And what brand of electric ute do you recommend for farmers and remote communities, mining sites, and so on?”
Chang Li! The electric ute of poor farmers in China!
FMD I’m tired of all this stuff about The Voice. The saga is almost turning into a mirror image of that God awful singing show.
By bringing in a wealthy foreigner to boost their argument, Anal and Blubbersack again show they live on a different planet from Joe Public. The other give away is it shows that they are right on board with the race baiting used by the American left. I believe Mrs Coutes-Trotter even said ‘BLM’.
Won’t they be surprised when such course of action negates native title & resets Australia to “terra nullius”
A Spear and Jackson Number 8, to be specific, with brass ferrules.
Detail is important.
My sovereignty was violated every fortnight for about 30 years.
Wasn’t Shaq in Australia for a range of paid corporate appearances?
And a couple of new ads?
Vicki:
Sadly (genuinely) Norman Fenton was a victim of his own hubris. He is indeed a respected statistician (something of a god to Baysian theorists); but he made the double-barrel mistake of using statistics to prove a point of view, rather than to try to illuminate a situation, and having a personal shot at another doyen of UK statistics in the endless struggle for academic supremacy.
Unfortunately for him, the point of view he chose to support was on the wrong side of the data and he ended up looking a bit of a goose. His core argument was that:
The England Wales 2021 Census showed that the ONS estimate was, in fact, very accurate (the Census estimate was 56,489,800 – ie within 60,000 (1%) of the ONS). By contrast, the NIMS estimate was heavily biased – by nearly 5.5 million.
In the event, Dr Fenton’s preferred denominator won the day and was used in the UKHSA Covid reporting series through to early 2022. Which massively overstated the unvaccinated population used to calculate infection/hospitalization rates – and created the on-paper impression that vaccination caused Covid, or made Covid worse, or increased Covid mortality rates, or caused AIDS in the jabbed.
Which is why we get to see “Government reports CONFIRM that Vaccination is depopulating the World and IMMUNITY is crashing…” from vermin like Daily Expose.
Which then gets picked up as a truth…
Rabzsays:
August 29, 2022 at 9:50 am
What’s more if, as is possible, a war is declared or there is an invasion of our territories, the Australian response will be totally neutered by the inadequacy of its power supply. Gearing up to provide even minimal support using the proposed RE grid would be impossible. We may as well just wave a white flag. And all this to possibly reduce the World’s temperature by a possible 1 o2 degrees. Absolutely insane nonsense unless you are making money out of importing Chinese turbines and solar panels or one of the big boys who are going to re set the way things work to meet a treasonous WEF agenda.
Thank you Dr. Faustus.
There are times – eg when statistics are involved – that I am in over my depth. Critical thinking can only get you as far as your comprehension allows! I will let others critique your response to Prof. Fenton’s contentions.
I’m sure the questions have been asked here. How will The Voice be implemented and by who? Yes I know it won’t pass the referendum but the big boys around Australia are eyeing off a place at the table.
How will this Voice initiate action? Who is the Voice accountable to, Shaq notwithstanding?
If the referendum is successful, how long before it is up and running? How many people making the decisions? What will be taken from the Budget?
There’s much more of course but it’s Rudd the Second. That ‘apology’ made not one iota of difference to black fellas lives. It was telling that Rudd had this as one of his gold letter achievements.
An armed band of settler militia could invade the place, and have the locals sign a formal surrender?
It was telling that Rudd had this as one of his gold letter achievements.
the mindset of a dilettante.
Rabz, imagine being over 40 and buying the bullshit that cheap electricity was due to poor maintenance, and that pentupling of energy costs is therefore due to maintenance despite magically cheaper ruinables now being in the mix.
But then again these are people that think free stuff is magically free and that it’s not paid for by everyone else. And that when everyone gets free stuff at the expense of everyone else that it will not add up to far more than if everyone just paid what things cost in the first place.
Morons will believe anything, and most Australians are suddenly morons when it comes to politics.
Steggles againproves Mosman is where your brain goes to die. Fuckwit central.
One minute hospitals aren’t busy because the vaxxed are carking it without getting within cooee of a hospital, next ambulances sirens are deafening us.
rosie – it beats me what is going on. Last week we had the unenviable occasion to rush husband to a certain hospital in the northern suburbs of Sydney in the early hours of the morning. Only one or two people in Emergency at the time – AND a multitude (I am not exaggerating) of nurses and nurses’ aides. Not only that – but there were doctors (identifiable from their different attire) in the central office area adjacent to the Emergency cubicles.
Now we (husband was the patient) were attended to immediately by a nurse who entered all details on a computer which was attached to a large mobile unit all nurses pushed around. She took temperature/pulse and brought appropriate robe. And that was it for several hours, except for an inquiry re pain and the production of 2 Panadol. I believe it was almost 5 hours before a doctor consulted and ordered a CT scan and a Full blood test.
Look – the standard of diagnostic equipment (which were eventually applied) was the latest and greatest. The hospital was immaculate with new and comfortable facilities. But the organisation was atrocious. And worse, such of the “care” was not as emphatic as we can recall from the distant past. But I can’t see that this has anything to do with Covid or the lack of staff (which there was not).
Our last experience was at the height of Covid when our grandson, with a jaw broken in two places, was not able to be operated on at one of Sydney’s finest inner city hospitals for a week, and was only saved from a week of pain by his grandparents using connections to have him admitted for immediate surgery to another hospital.
Personally, I can’t make head nor tail of any of it. Maybe I spend too much time in the bush.
Ditto.
Sleazy could legislate such a body tomorrow and we get to see it action before making it permanent with a referendum.
I meant the “care” was not particularly “empathetic” not “emphatic”. It wasn’t the latter, either!
Whatever happened to ATSIC(?)?
Whatever happened to ATSIC(?)?
Shut down after no financial oversight, much nepotistic in fighting and thievery of taxpayer money.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says: August 29, 2022 at 3:20 pm
Quite a boat ride to get there, then they’ve gotta hold the place.
I was more thinking along the lines of: That is the island where native title began (Murray Island, Mabo case, etc) if they leave Australia for China, then native title is left totally & completely without the keypane (so to speak)
According to Linda Burney, the (in)voice will be set up to be “just like ATSIC, only this time they cannot abolish it”
A cost/benefit analysis of The Voice may open some eyes. Then again, maybe not.
Beery
Rabz, imagine being over 40 and buying the bullshit that cheap electricity was due to poor maintenance, and that pentupling of energy costs is therefore due to maintenance despite magically cheaper ruinables now being in the mix.
Whenever the subject (or anything even remotely related) comes up at CL’s, Homer is in like Flynn with exactly that argument. I suspect that he is well over 40. I think that Steve from Brissy also uses it, but not with quite the same level of fanatical certainty. Homer also blames unreliable electricity on maintenance problems with fossil fuel generators.
Well, it is spelled out clearly in letters on the lawn in front of Old Parliament House S-O-V-E-R-E-I-G-N-T-Y. They’re like the WEF and very clear and upfront about their intentions, it’s just that the general public chooses not to see it.
Vicki, sorry to hear about your sudden emergency dash in the night. I hope your husband is alright.
Your experience sits fairly well with mine in a small hours dash for suspected cardiac problem.
So much time is wasted in over-staffed facilities with so much boundary maintenance by the various colours of uniforms. Turf wars over job specifications similar to those of the old Union days.
So which attributes are important in backing up his view. Because he is :
Black ?
Supports BLM which has leaders that are dodgy to say the least.
A multi millionaire ?
A basketball player ?
Tall ?
Either way I think the Albo stunt has not helped the cause.
“I think Shaquille O‘Neal brings a lot of style, power and attention to an important issue.”
“This weak little ‘get Trump’ item above has all the appearances of a total beat-up.”
Oh, no -not at all!
I’m sure it’s as serious as the classified docs that they wanted Trump to FedEx to them.
sounds like one of the cookers
Back to Montys obsession with the contents of the bottom of KFC deep friers again.
The carbonised crispy black bits help keep him regular.
(Im not going to lie, when I win lotto Im getting one of there, but with more gold trimming)
According to Linda Burney, the (in)voice will be set up to be “just like ATSIC, only this time they cannot abolish it”
I knew it! At a recent address the Sydney Institute by Prof George Williams on the question of The Voice, George claimed there was “no model for The Voice”. I said, unfortunately there is : ATSIC.
He rolled his eyes and replied that it will nothing like ATSIC.
Yeah. Pull the other one. Burney is at least honest about it.
Geoff Clarke. ATSIC Chairman.
All you need to know about its demise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Clark_(politician)#Court_proceedings
How such a reprehensible character became leader of the organisation is the real question.
Timothy, I checked back. It was Bern who in a tandem comment spoke of my lack of comprehension skills and you who found cause to object to my defense re my capabilities. I also replied to you that when under a constant barrage of attack it is easy to miss a referent in someone else’s comment on a fast moving blog and belief it forms part of an ongoing discourse that does concern you. It happens to others here at times, not just to me.
I will not change who I am and what I say and how I say it just to satisfy what others think I should or should not be doing. I trust that is perfectly clear now. I am happy to try to keep discourse civilised.
Their both disk shaped, so they could very be UFOs.
Vicki, sorry to hear about your sudden emergency dash in the night. I hope your husband is alright.
Thank you Lizzie. Yes – he is fine. Nothing sinister.
Had a bit of fun with the senior consultant who was amazed that husband is not on any prescription medication. He unwisely and innocently said, “I take a lot of vitamins” – at which the said doctor became incendiary, launching into a diatribe against the natural health industry.
“They rip the public off millions of dollars!” he barked.
“Oh, and the pharmaceutical companies don’t?” – said I from the back of the room. Wicked, I know.
He wheeled around & spluttered that “at least they save lives!”
No point in continuing that argument. As with most things – he was right – to a point.
Thank God he didn’t ask if wither of us were vaccinated!
“…if either of us were vaccinated”….
I just saw it, that thing hanging out of her nose isn’t a huge booger.
… oops … and hence have the belief that it forms part of …etc.
From milton at 3.33 – this is the quote:
Damn – the thing refuses to copy and paste. So, I will transcribe this tweet from Zali Stegall:
Did you know switching one pack of mince per week for a plant based alternative saves around 48kg of CO2 emissions? That’s around 196km in your average car. Warringah constuent Nick Hazel, CEO of @V2foodofficial, is helping Australians make the transition to plant-based meat.
Whoops they’re…
Gah! But you know what I mean.
Checking back however did allow me to see a comment I had missed before – from our oldest commenter, Macbeth. Hiya Macbeth and good luck to you, great to see you here again. Yes, I still enjoy dancing so much, heart leads feet and I feel like a teenager again. My happy place.
In spite of the state of the world today.
Faustus, here’s what Kirsch actually said. The 2019 numbers were incomplete. Read on:
But the 2019 numbers are misleading because it reflects only part of 2019. The full number was probably around 170 for the year. So the number of doctor deaths in 2021 seems to be about double normal, but more troubling is the age of death. I’m working on a full analysis and will publish the spreadsheet so you can see this for yourself.
They’ve removed earlier deaths because, according to the CMA, it was “too hard to maintain” that data. That makes no sense. So they just show recent deaths.
He was the white dude at Bolt’s defamation law suit wearing a fury animal skin draped over his back.
Steggles againproves Mosman is where your brain goes to die. Fuckwit central.
There are some first rate fuckwits in Mosman, to be sure. But the green/teal shaded ones are in every affluent suburb in every city in western nations today. It is the scourge of affluence.
I hate to be a prophet of doom (in any case, I am not alone in this) but the global economic collapse soon to sweep up those with affluenza will be a nasty slap to the senses. But it will wake them all up pretty quickly from their ridiculous dream.
A car does what, about 20k km/year?
So that’s a yuuuge 1% of your cars’ annual output.
The asparagus caught between Zali’s front teeth would exceed most cows’ annual grass consumption.
I attended the 1988 conference on Thursday Island, called by Torres Strait island leaders threatening to secede from Australia and travelled extensively through the islands, from Mer in the east to Saibai and Boigu 5kms from PNG, which you can walk to at low tide.
These Melanesians – totally different from Aborigines because they’re generally quite happy souls not susceptible to alcoholism like the abos, though they are susceptible to diabetes – have longstanding grievances about shit service from state and federal governments and look at the Chinese Communist Party’s attempt to enslave PNG with its debt trap as a bargaining wedge.
I wish them well and hope they succeed in shaming the Elbow regime to comply with their demands.
The islanders are good people whose leadership is utterly unlike the corrupt, mainly white Australian abo industrial complex.
Ah, I see that Lizzie is back with her umpteenth comment after imperiously declaring that the subject is closed yesterday.
As we know, that is code for ‘unless someone has the temerity to say anything about it, in which case I will be back with more self-justifying dreck.’ Again and again, milking the sympathy vote with ‘poor me.’ Sharing her disappointment with the behaviour of people here. Telling us yet again (if only it was true) that she is going to spend less time here. Hilariously claiming that her long and boring record of telling every detail of her life story – with elisions and lies that somehow never put her in a bad light – is comparable with the occasional snapshot or reference by others.
We’ve done this dance many times before – she declares that there is nothing further to say about criticism of her – but alas, that is never, ever true, unless she thinks she has the last word.
Her poor husband.
What sort of stupid bastard would be desperately trying to get sheep out of metal yards in a thunderstorm.
No, no, no no. We must raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14, because they know not what they do.
Or maybe not (the NT News):
There’s something seriously fucked up when someone joins a pile-on and talks indirectly in the third person about the target. Is that supposed to be more persuasive?
JCsays:
August 29, 2022 at 4:10 pm
Their both disk shaped, so they could very be UFOs.
You bastard head prefect. I won’t sleep tonight.
Gah! But you know what I mean.
yes I do Johanna- Steggels is a particularly abominable abomination.
I hate to be a prophet of doom (in any case, I am not alone in this) but the global economic collapse soon to sweep up those with affluenza will be a nasty slap to the senses. But it will wake them all up pretty quickly from their ridiculous dream.
The mindset in Mosman or Kooyong or Brighton or Darling Point is that economic collapse is only for jumped up little people in their McMansions out at Harrington Park.
very well be… thanks Cronkite.
I’m worse on an Iphone than an Ipad.
Fair enough, Sancho, if the teasing was good humoured.
But mostly it is not. And my defensiveness is not always faint-worthy.
Trouble here for me stems usually from an original vicious insult and then it’s on again for all to pitch in. I had thought it might have resolved, but clearly not. That’s my reality here, for me to recognise.
As for giving a fat rat’s clacker, and having an unshakable air of confidence, I know I am assertive, I have had to be in my life, so that is learned survival behaviour from numerous contexts.
All I am going to say on that. Please don’t try to change me. Too late for that now anyway.
And I am very much at peace with myself and life these days.
Through the shoals to the shore, as I once wrote here a long time ago.
Going off to hit the detective trail now. I don’t believe it is the usual suspect nor the other one. lol.
It is the scourge of affluence.
Yes that does seem to be the case; coupled with complete ignorance of where their wealth and convenient lives come from.
I don’t think so, Miltonf. People, at least not Teal supporters nor leftwingers, realize that prosperity for all lifts all boats or in this case all stocks. 🙂
There’s no one with a half brain ( ie not Teal supporters or leftwingers) who would believe a recession hurting the lower economics rungs wouldn’t ping back on the rich who are very exposed to the stock markets.
Farmer Gezsays:
August 29, 2022 at 4:31 pm
What sort of stupid bastard would be desperately trying to get sheep out of metal yards in a thunderstorm.
A happy shearers photo
Given its a lightening strike I guess you could say those sheep were….Thor!
My oldest son, double vaxxed with Pfizz-up, has had a very bad case of Covid for the past week. So have his ex-partner and his autistic son, the week before. He’s kept himself in iso by himself now for nearly two weeks. Refuses my help as he is concerned I’ll get it again, even though I am not worried about that. He’s being so diligent about quarantine. I tell him that in Britain when you feel well enough you just get on with life again. He is currently mulling that over.
OMG, Mole. That’s quite a lot of dogfood there.
Ask Zali about the poor insects.
Wind turbines killing 1.2 TRILLION insects a year (6 Aug, via Climate Depot)
We should save these poor creatures! I think a protest in Manly with people dressed up in insect suits would a good start. And demand a boycott of those horrible food companies who want us to eat these cute inoffensive creatures. Zali could come and lend her support.
Quite so, JC.
Teals and the self-haters who vote for them — all property millionaires –will be killed economically when a recession wipes out their property values.
Funny that, Tom, but I’ve never considered the principle cave an asset that I’d even count as part of net worth, but I guess a lot of folks do.
Tom, I am inclined to agree with your analysis about Mer.
As someone who first read Drums of Mer (Ion Idriess) as a schoolkid, I recognise that he ginned up his stories to make them more saleable. Nevertheless, he is regarded as an important source of anthropological information about Torres Strait Island culture, which few people were interested in at the time.
The Meriam were way more advanced than Australian Aborigines, whom they regarded as ignorant savages. Meriam people had permanent settlements, gardens, property rights and boundaries, and courts for settling property disputes. They were also, according to Idriess, the religious and strategic brains trust of the TSI.
It is no surprise that the native title initiative came from them. Its extension to completely different circumstances is another matter, not their fault.
Given their long history of playing politics to their advantage, the China thing is no surprise. But, I seriously doubt if they would sign up for Belt and Road. They just want the Queensland government to throw more shekels their way – fair enough, IMHO.
Given its a lightening strike I guess you could say those sheep were….Thor!
Mighty Thor. The old Ita Buttrose joke.
JC, the teal supporters that I know around Wentworth are firmly convinced that the new hozzanah of renewables will deliver the promised land to the plebs as well as to their gracious selves. This fabulous free energy will arrive as a bounty in some immediate future, no worries at all, just a short ‘transition’ in the name of the cause. Most of them are seriously dumb: ‘put your masks on’. The teals of course will just carry on living as usual, with some of the worst ones raking in the money on it all.
Take your point JC- still blows my mind that so many people in effluent ‘burbs are fully onboard with this economic destruction. I can only assume that they don’t believe that such destruction will impact on themselves.
Thank you Lizzie. Have fun while you can. Pity about the nastyness that’s crept into this blog.
Pleased to say my youngest son is having blast in the US. Travelling between properties building repairing stuff.
Life is good.
They’ll be affected Tom, but far less so than others, because the biggest Teals (major property developers, Atlassians etc) live in enclaves of similar properties in very scarce and limited localities where the vast amounts of international floating money often like to settle. It will still continue to float in for Australian elite property still mostly costs peanuts. It is quite another market to the regular Australian market.
Here I am talking about very large houses on good land harbourside, especially with views. Currently, despite any downturns, speculators are testing our our humble home as a development site, for we are downsized into a boutique underdeveloped Art Deco block of three single-floor apartments on nearly 1000sq ms of prime land with harbour views. Offers have been coming in, but none of us here want to move. We’re into aging-in-place. We all like our large garden and orchard and don’t want to live out our days in a glassed-in concrete box. Vicki, I have been thinking of chickens, but Hairy reckons even around here the fox would get ’em.
Don’t you worry about it, Macbeth.
Blood on the floor here is usually wiped up by morning.
It’s spring outside, with daisies popping up in the street verges and jasmine flowering.
Vicki, I have been thinking of chickens, but Hairy reckons even around here the fox would get ’em.
I think its time to ask yourself.
Are pigs really that bad?
The only piggery with harbor views, just think of how grateful the neighbors will be when you ask them to leave a swill bucket out the front for collection once a week.
For the planet of course.
You may even use it to future proof the local grid!
That’s hosanna – reading back I thought it looked odd so I checked the spelling.
You have a right to good humoured teasing only, because? Does everyone else have that ‘right’?
This is the Cat, not a Jane Austen novel. Speaking of which, how is the book going?
LOL, Mole. And I love pigs so much too. Truly. I used to look after pigs in my early teen years.
I know what they eat. I can farrow them and keep the little runt warm in bed with me. I think it is a great suggestion. I had thought of goats, but worried about the fruit trees and ditched that idea.
Hairy will surely see the sense in pigs? Surely?
It could be ‘The Good Life’ all over again. A notch or two up from Surbiton though.
Who will play Margo? There’s one neighbour I could think of.
She’s objecting to our electricity pole now.
I could do Barbara ‘cos I’ve now got a lively fringe and had my eyebrows done.
And I bought a Gingham dress for my recent birthday party with the girls.
Just the shot.
Black Ball says:
August 29, 2022 at 3:18 pm
I’m sure the questions have been asked here. How will The Voice be implemented and by who? How will this Voice initiate action? Who is the Voice accountable to, Shaq notwithstanding? If the referendum is successful, how long before it is up and running? How many people making the decisions? What will be taken from the Budget?
If passed, the referendum will add the following three sentences to the constitution:
1. There shall be a body, to be called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.
2. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice may make representations to parliament and the executive government on matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
3. The parliament shall, subject to this constitution, have power to make laws with respect to the composition, functions, powers and procedures of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.
Unsurprisingly, the ABC is in favour. Note the absurd comment within “that 73 per cent of Australians agreed ‘”strongly” or “somewhat” that there should be constitutional change to give Indigenous Australians a greater say over their lives”. (Which is not the same as a ‘Voice’ as contemplated)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-31/what-is-an-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-and-uluru-statement/101285958
Others take the view that changing our Constitution goes further than simply entrenching standover identity politics. It would enshrine what amounts to an extra-parliamentary body in our constitution.
It’s not clear ‘who’ the Voice would be accountable to. Albo says the Voice would be ‘below’ Parliament (not equal to or above) yet if enshrined in the Constitution, the Parliament would have limited overarching control. Parliament could ‘probably’ change some of the laws impacting the operation of the Voice but…… well……. good luck with that.
The Voice would consist of 20 elected members drawn exclusively from the Aboriginal/TS community. Each State and the NT would have 2 members, the ACT have 1, the TS community have at least 2. It isn’t clear how the total number of members (20) will be achieved but it appears that representatives from existing A/TS organisation(s) may be added (presumably at the discretion of the Voice membership).
Members will either be elected via ‘popular acclaim’ or by an election (exclusively by A/TS people). The membership of the Voice has to be ‘gender equal’. What’s more, members should represent a mix of urban, regional and remote A/TS communities.
Beyond that, there is serious talk of an ‘Ethics Council’ who will advise the Voice plus a Youth Council and Disabled Council to advise on A/TS youth and disability issues. I would expect other advisory Councils to add on as time progresses.
(with me so far?)
The Voice will advise Parliament and the Government on social, spiritual, economic and legal issues of significance to A/TS people. It will provide both informal and formal advice. Where the Parliament or Government wants to make laws specific to A/TS people, the Parliament will be compelled to seek the advice of the Voice. Laws passed that have an specific impact on A/TS people will also carry information on when the opinion of the Voice was sought and, what that original advice was. (seriously).
Albo and Co are banging on that Parliament will always have primacy but the Voice (if approved) seems destined to become a de-facto third chamber of Parliament. It is also arguable that every law has an impact on A/TS people to some extent so there is potentially no limit to the degree of influence/control.
As for how much this will all cost? Who knows. But we do know who is going to pay.
Someone in the US took a grown pig onto a flight as a comfort pet. As the plane was landing, the pig went completely bonkers tearing up and down the aisle. I think they banned some comfort pets on airlines after that.
This one was kicked off the flight for being a disruptive swine.
The one I am reading is going very well, and Jane Austen would make mincemeat of you.
Brick Top: And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it’s no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies’ digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don’t want to go sievin’ through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, “as greedy as a pig”.
I used to look after pigs in my early teen years.
I know what they eat.
Bern beat me to it, but just in case you havent seen it.
House of the Dragon episode two.
Like episode one, good not great.
One thing that has irked me is why Sonoya Mizuno agreed to be part of it.
Great actress, great career so far & it’s a bit of step down to star in a glorified soap opera.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
August 29, 2022 at 4:09 pm
… It happens to others here at times, not just to me.
Yes, but they haven’t pranced around trumpeting that their comprehension skills are “excellent”, so when they do get something wrong it isn’t a slapstick boffo self-administered custard pie.
I did suggest that you could have toned it down by e.g. just saying “there’s nothing wrong with my comprehension skills” or something like that, which would have been perfectly adequate, but you replied that the word “excellent” was carefully chosen even though you knew it would “draw fire”. So you really set yourself up for the pratfall quite deliberately.
I will not change who I am and what I say and how I say it just to satisfy what others think I should or should not be doing. I trust that is perfectly clear now.
OK, but if you are going to continue setting yourself up for the situation comedy denouement, knowing that your lead in is going to antagonise some people, you can hardly deny them the liberty of making reference to the gag when it transpires.
As for the more general point about self-promotion, I think your attitude is like saying “I am who I am, so I’m not going to stop eating baked beans, lentils and Madras curries before being sealed into the submarine with the rest of the crew”. Well, maybe not entirely because there is the scroll wheel on this site, but don’t you think that part of being a civilised person is making at least some attempt not to irritate other people unless there’s a real reason for doing so – even if you think that their propensity for irritation is overdone? And if you know you’re going to irritate people with a comment but you choose to post it anyway, because you won’t change who you are etc., why should others refrain from responding with what they think just because it will irritate you?
[PS Johanna I did suggest that Lizzie reply to my email, so this isn’t an appropriate occasion for deprecating “last word” syndrome.]
one of the greats, Mole.
Guy Ritchie has made only one dud in my humble opinion.
In fact, so many insects are being squashed by these blades that it is leading to significant energy losses. Every insect weighing about 0.1 grams means that all these insects are adding 1200 tons of weight on the turbines, meaning that they are losing large amounts of potential energy they could produce.
I don’t think the mass of the insects is significant. What is, is the disruption of the airflow. The bugs act as turbulators and you get no laminar (low drag) flow. Turbulent flow is much higher drag, like 3 to 5 times that of laminar flow. This is problem in modern sailplanes where performance (glide angle) can be degraded by up to 30% with a load of bugs on the wing leading edges. The solution is “bug wipers”, gadgets which hug the leading edge and scrape off the bugs, then are retracted into the fuselage.
Like most Torres Strait Islanders, they also tend to be quite devout Christians, whereas many (but not all) mainland aboriginals are post-Christian and/or attempting to reboot animism/totemism.
Lizzie earlier.
You may, as you claim, know a lot of things.
But you cannot know the intention of anyone when the stick a pin in your over-inflated balloon.
Perhaps it is time to reflect that it might be your own hyper-sensitivity which leads to your overreaction.
An overreaction which is totally counterproductive if your intent is to turn off the fairly mild piss-taking
Was she the person who invented Mizuno blades? Forked out two grand on my set before I realised they were useful only for people with talent.
Very ‘progressive’
No, no, the one you regaled us with for years and years, that you were writing, about King Arthur. It was going to rewrite history.
I remember you doing previews, and some deluded people here saying they couldn’t wait to read it, about the same time some were saying Julie Bishop would be a great PM.
Those Were the Days.
For many years, you claimed to be an interlecsural because of this book that was going to open new horizons. You mentioned it here at every opportunity, and what your dinner party and cocktail party guests had to endure is immesurable. Except for:
Guest: Hi Lizzie, how did the book go?
L: (blushing modestly) Well, it’s not quite finished yet.
Guest: No, no, I mean the one you told us about five years ago.
L: Oh gosh, excuse me, I have to greet a guest. Champagne?
Oh, and where is it you live? Could it be Double Pay? 🙂
Please Cats, I implore you.
Do NOT uptick my post at 5:56.
Genuine question.
A lot of European soccer players dying over the past 12 months didn’t translate into any AFL players keeling over here.
Your typical Australian soccer player doesn’t cover the same ground as their European counterparts.
And league & union players don’t cover as much ground either.
So if there was a link between vaccine & deaths & sport, why was it only apparent with one group (European soccer players) & nothing similar regarding distance (AFL) & really nothing else sporting related.
As I said, it’s a genuine question.
Hopefully that doesn’t make me traitorous.
The one I am reading is going very well, and Jane Austen would make mincemeat of you.
Factcheck: true
By bringing in a wealthy foreigner to boost their argument, Anal and Blubbersack again show they live on a different planet from Joe Public.
Any normal person would die of embarrassment.
And potentially lucrative.
That sounds like a job for Albo’s 600,000 strong Green Army.
They can abseil down each blade with a rag and some Bam cleaning spray.
More evidence the world is stuffed:
Comparing only the weekly frequency of Friday prayers in the mosque and Sunday Mass in the church, the future is clear: 65% of practicing Catholics [in France] are over 50 years old. By contrast, 73% of practicing Muslims are under the age of 50.
In an essay on L’Incorrect Frédéric Saint Clair, political scientist and analyst, explains that “the milestone of 10,000 mosques, at the current rate, will be reached around 2100”. Will we have 10,000 full mosques and 10,000 practically empty churches?
“[A] mosque is erected every fortnight in France, while a Christian building is being destroyed at the same rate.” — Edouard de Lamaze, president of the Observatory of Religious Heritage in Paris; Catholic News Agency, May 4, 2021.
Elizabeth, the ulcer of your angst will never be resolved while you keep picking at it. You’re jousting with pixels, for goodness sake! They can only hurt or offend you if you allow them to.
Someone has to be the grown-up here and let this tired old confrontation die. Please!
I’m assuming the round-ball players were actually the first wave of monkeypox deaths.
Oh behave, wally.
Nobody is quite as credulous as a post-Christian, cashed up white progressive.
As Chesterton’s Belgian translator noted, when men (and particularly women) stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, but are prepared to believe anything.
PS
Good to hear your son is having a blast in the US.
In case you think I’m being sarcastic:
Aussie Climate Minister: 600,000 Workers are Required for the Green Transition (24 Aug)
Lots of solar panel washers and wind turbine blade scrapers.
I listened into the Fortescue conference call today post their result.
Analysts were concentrating on the green hydrogen & FFI & a little bit on one of their more challenging projects.
There was only one question on them committing 100mill to the Belinga deposit in Gabon.
500km from deposit to port.
Half of that through the jungle.
Cheers Roger.
His uncle and aunty works and play hard core. Guns, quads raceing Harley’s ect.
Down the ritchie rabbit hole.
the chap that played ‘the baptist” in lock stock and 2 smoking barrels was an actual massive hard nut.
But I dont know what you would describe his build as
Someone put a tribute up of a few of his fights, have a look at the bloke at about 2 minutes in, hes just a barrel of muscle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ka-ZmWnHAE
Roger says: August 29, 2022 at 5:49 pm
Mmm…hmm…
They’d know a thing or two about Christianity, having Eighteen different denominations represented there. Not including Three separate Anglican .. denominations, due to a split in the Anglican church, which then split again.
Does Voodoo count as animism/totemism? Coz if it does, (Murray Is. excepted) they’d be able to show the mainland mob a thing or two about slavish adherence to what may rate (Voodoo) as one of the more off-the-wall religions in Australia.
BoN, thanks for the Hu clips the other day, according to the comments, they were here recently!
I had no idea, would have gone along if I’d known. Does anyone know how their visit went?
Whoever makes their clips deserves an Academy Award.
As does their hairdresser. 🙂
Sutton Hoo, the archaelogical site where the movie ‘The Dig’ is set, now boasts a pig farm over the vast acreage where years ago I wandered alone because I’d forgotten to check the opening times. It was isolated, freaky and scarey then but hugely impressive as an imaginative setting. Now it is just a site where the ship burial was and a whole heap of piggies, the land leased out by the National Trust, ruining the atmosphere of it all.
We will be out of Australia for the CPAC Conference, but Hairy has booked us into Nigel Farage’s Sydney talk on an evening just before we go. So we can at least catch up on one of the speakers.
johanna says: August 29, 2022 at 4:54 pm
Idriess spent at least two years there working as a wharfie. Of his Fifty-odd books somewhere between one & two dozen are about the Torres Strait. (Exactly how many I can’t recall of the top of my head.)
johanna says: August 29, 2022 at 4:54 pm
Why is it “fair enough” that more of our money is slung their way?
Fauci’s Covid Disaster: A Summary
Jimmy Carter brown bread.
Oh lol I got sucked in by a tweet. Carter lives!!
Direct your attention to where it will do the most good then Delta.
I am quite happy to be called Lizzie, by the way. A full name is what my mother used to dress down a child. Not necessary for an adult of my years, my dear.
I have been happily here back commenting as usual, and in comes ‘the ususal suspect’. I am not being confrontational. I am not on any fainting couch. I am simply a woman like you who pops in for an occasional look-see and to make some contribution, light-hearted or otherwise.
And let me put my Arthurian stuff to rest as an issue. It is still live, it will get done when it gets done. It is an ongoing project and not urgent. I have many other activities and duties to get on with in my life as well as having had some health problems. Let those who mock put their pen where their mouth is, as I have said here previously. If anyone is really interested, re-read my long article on it in Quadrant.
Oh lol I got sucked in by a tweet.
Sucked in being your base condition dickless.
Any word on Roger Moore?
‘Failed miserably’: Joe Biden ‘on the cusp of disaster’
As Emile Cammaerts observed in his treatise on G.K. Chesterton: “When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing. They then become capable of believing in anything.”
What has happened in the past two decades is that the newly minted athiests of the political left have not only started believing in anything, but have become simple-minded animists with the emotionali anti-intellectualism of youmg girls who worship animals and plants – the inevitable destination of “environmentalism”.
The 21st century left are exactly like the Stupid Fucking Liberals: they believe in nothing except childish fantasies like Net Zero and the destruction of everything that delivers their standard of living – in other words, it’s a death cult.
Idriess served in the Light Horse at Gallipoli and Gaza, and one of his books was a manual of guerilla warfare, should Australia be invaded in 1942.
Timothy, you have emailed me? I haven’t checked my email today as I have as usual been busy.
You are welcome to ask Dover for my email if that is how you wish to communicate with me.
Geebus!
Oh, FFS. After numerous teary-eyed comments (several being allegedly being the last word) after I called out her boasting and lying, she now claims to be “I am simply a woman like you who pops in for an occasional look-see and to make some contribution, light-hearted or otherwise.’
So, not the pages and pages of Angelas Ashes transported?
So, not the pages and pages about your ex hubby’s University Medals? Except, the dates were changed and we will never know if it was true,
So, not the pages and pages of soft porn for the old blokes, not to mention telling us how often you and the beta you married have sex?
How about your descriptions of your tits? So classy.
Go on, whimper about about how someone on the Internet is being mean to you, and extract sympathy from that pussywhipped husband of yours.
Again.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
August 29, 2022 at 7:00 pm
No, I meant that your 4.09pm comment was in response to my comment around 8.40 odd this morning, in which I’d expressly said something to the effect of inviting a reply.
I got 31 upticks earlier today.
I am now validated as a human being. In fact, I am indestructible, immortal, walking the earth like a god*.
*Not the God. A god.
h/t Bill Murray
Beat me to the Lock Stock Bricktop quote bern.
The worm has to turn sometime, Tom.
After 2024 is my bet for the US. Even if the Democrats get back in they will themselves be unable to sustain the cognitive dissonance between the chaotic thought-free nightmare they have birthed and the technocratic civilisation they will need to sustain. If the Republicans get in, with either Trump, de Santis or a decent conservative leader, then things will most faster and more quickly towards the good. We have no alternative but to live through ridiculous and difficult times right now.
… move faster
Did the rabbit survive?
Poor man. When “events dear boy” was first uttered I don’t think Macmillan ever thought a US President might fight a small furry animal and lose.
I am tired tonight. To tired to cope with pixels of any sort, so I’ll pass on this place now.
Criminy pickens.
Kroger on Blot looks like a heavily made-up Barrie Cassidy.
Gosh, after being totally self-absorbed, suddenly Lizzie is mustard for Issues.
Johanna at 7.05pm, Delta.
Bollocks from start to finish.
I rest my case.
She’s drunk again I suppose.
If you have news of locals rejecting the leadership of the Brisbane metropolitinate, I’d be inclined to regard that as a feature, not a bug.
But, we all need to know that she is retiring for the night.
This is the stuff of international importance.
Although, on past performance, she’ll be back to complain.
This is spot on.
Gosh, I was right before I posted. She was back.
Anyone who disagrees must be drunk.
From the Oz. Contains the “N” word – well, done , Albo, you fvcked up that one, properly….
Add to that the amazing proliferation lately of healing crystals and various strange products sold by Gwyneth Paltrow. Plus the several million witches who cursed Trump each full moon during his presidency. Unsuccessfully. The religiosity is weird as well as infantile.
It’s not just the US. Here in my suburb quite a few houses have in their yard cast plaster elephant idols with fat babies riding on them. I presume it’s Buddhist iconography, but certainly at the shallowest of levels. Why?
Palaszczuk’s polling reportedly beyond redemption.
I predict an early retirement to spend time with…someone or other.
This none believer’s having no guiding principles needs a clarification, Roger.
For Lizzie, ‘resting her case’ is like environmentalists getting a temporary injunction. As we have seen here again and again, when her personal vanity is involved, she never rests her case, although she frequently tries to use it as a way of shutting down discussion.
Her poor husband.
I have come to the conclusion that the identity called Elizabeth Beare is a bloke using a female online identity. Using sheer volume of posts and with his considerable command of the language he is capable of silencing and deterring many from commenting. How do I know this? Call it woman’s intuition. No woman would refer so constantly to their partner.
‘bern at 6:16.
Translation.
“We would rather develop mines in some shithole in Africa with ridiculous pit-to-port distances through a bog than risk it in Australia”.
You don’t reckon Plibbers putting that phosphate plant on hold in WA after construction started has got the big boys tweaking their Riskometers?
Vicki, I have been thinking of chickens, but Hairy reckons even around here the fox would get ’em.
Lizzie, a friend in Mosman had a chook for about eight years in a little coop in the backyard. He was brought up on a farm, and his kids just loved that chook. He reckons it laid an egg every day for years. It is not all that usual for a commercial chook to live that long, but it was loved and well cared for all those years.
My old professor also had chooks all his adult life in the city. Apparently he had scarlet fever as a child in New Zealand and his mum bought him a chook to keep him company. He said it sat on his bed – the mind boggles! I went a few years ago to his 90th birthday party in Longueville and he still had a coop in the backyard!
Duck and cover, people. It’ll be raining pebblecrete for days.
Did someone say “drunk”? On my second flute of Qantas bubbles in “the lounge”. And no, it isn’t because BC, just our complimentary annual indulgence because enough FFPs to take us to Pluto and back.
Report: 99.95% unmasked, apart from the “servant class” and a couple of pax. When I see a droob in a mask, I immediately think, are you sick or do you think I am?
Vicki, I have inhaled muchly on your Vicks nasal spray and so has the Beloved. I will keep it handy throughout the trip.
The airport is quiet – security was a dream compared to the overblown reports on the TV.
Translated:
‘Dracanys.’
Says Mem, re Lizzie :
No woman would refer so constantly to their partner.
Only if she loved him completely.
Maybe you haven’t noticed, Mem, but I am guilty of it too. My man is one in a million – to put up with me! But really – we are “a unit” – and the wonderful life that we have had has been very much a joint venture. We have complementary skills – as any marriage should have.
Elizabeth Beare is a bloke
Baiting the Cat trap with a gourmet sausage.
I’m keen to watch as see what you catch mem.
Hate to break it to you, Sunshine, but 26 of those were mine.
Slow day here.
Clearly, we’re just a bunch of dumb, drunk racists recalcitrantly refusing to kow tow (!) to our moral betters.
And, don’t forget, the world is watching!
Elbow must surely see the upside, though, to being a Whitlamesque one-term PM: a post-politics career trading on how unworthy the nation was of his superior moral vision.
Geoff Clark,
There you go.
I recall oozing out of the back end of a 747 in Paris and when passing the First Class sanctuary seeing Clark and his Warnambool mates sitting smugly in their luxury while casting sneering looks at we we taxpayers who filed past.
I did wonder why a bunch of white Victorian blackfellas would be flying into Paris wearing hats with crocodile teeth hat bands.
For the next week, French media was dominated by outrage generated by Geoff and his thugs. They were assiduous in telling on we white ….
It all led to the First Nations’ UN idiocy. Clark was brilliant.
Oh, and he had a travelling ABC ditz in his gang. I met her a couple of times. I had no idea that ditz was a critical selection criteria for the ABC.
Vicki, I have inhaled muchly on your Vicks nasal spray and so has the Beloved. I will keep it handy throughout the trip.
Yay, Calli! I swear it stopped me from contracting Covid from husband. I worry about my constantly bathed nasal passages with this stuff – and am a bit more sparing. But since you are OS in some tight places – go for it.
Have a wonderful trip, Calli!!
I’ll refer to the Beloved with gay abandon – he just bought me two bottles of Chanel! 😀
Don’t gloat: roger.
Next up: Stephen Miles, or Cameron Dick..
God help us.