lotocoti says:
September 9, 2022 at 8:18 am

Eight days ago the Old Man* took a tumble. At 92, a plate and screws are off the table.
*Pictured, bottom right with Madge and some mates.

Public holiday here in NSW 3rd February 1954.

I have never understood Xi’s Covid Lockdowns – They just have not made any sense

Old Ozzie – Maybe it is the curse of the Emperor: a guy like Xi gets used to ordering “do this”, and it is done, then when something comes along which can’t be done the Emperor gets into strife. He orders it and orders it and the underlings try and try, but they fail since it’s impossible. But the God-King says it must happen, so they just keep on trying. Mao seemed to be like that.

Epic entitlement

https://www.tmz.com/2022/07/18/man-take-court-bad-date-woman-judge/

WILD COURT CASE
WOMAN SUES ‘BAD DATE’ FOR $10K
… Rips into Judge, Too!!!

7/18/2022 12:52 PM PT

Sometimes it’s best to just swipe left — a woman is suing a guy over one bad date, and their court appearance plays like the greatest 10-minute soap opera.

Judge Herman Marable Jr. in Flint, Michigan definitely had his work cut out for him when QaShontae Short sued Richard Jordan for intentional infliction of emotional distress … claiming they had a less-than-perfect date.

Crossiesays:
September 9, 2022 at 6:29 am
I think the Queen may have lost the will to live since Prince Philip died. Some losses are unbearable.

Yes and they were obviously so very much in Love. She has now gone to a better place to rest after a Lifetime of Service.

Men would be banned from getting a driving licence until they are 21 under a “controversial” proposal being made to the New South Wales government.

The proposal is one of several being made by road safety experts, who say more needs to be done to reduce road fatalities by focusing on young drivers – and particularly young men.

Get fucked, you’ll fucking live longer.

And, yes, at some stage military officers, and not only them, may have to disobey even though the orders may be ‘legal’; that was the lesson of Nuremberg.

So many flippant references made about the Nuremberg trials these past years. It’s now on the list words that have stripped of all impact.

8.1mill punters in NSW.
Maybe we should ban cars altogether.

They’re working on that, if you haven’t already noticed.
I was amused by this headline.

Is the Automobile Industry Being Mandated Toward a Death Spiral? (6 Sep)

Nothing in the article that Cats don’t already know about, although the source will give Monty conniptions. My answer to the question is “yes and no”. Yes, Western car companies are committing suicide. And no, Chinese ones aren’t. But then the Chinese don’t believe in climate fairies. In a couple decades China will own the car industry completely.

Oh god.

My local sportzball comp wants black armbands for da Queen.

These people have to “make a statement” about bloody everything.

No. Shut up. Keep the fields in good order. Pay the match officials and order the trophies well before grand final day.

“Go awey now…”

With all due respect to the lady, the queen presided over the absolute dissolution of the UK and kept her mouth shut to protect her families position & wealth.

From cohenite’s link above. The Carnegie Professor’s tweet:

“I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating.

“If anyone expects me to express anything but disdain for the monarch who supervised a government that sponsored the genocide that massacred and displaced half my family and the consequences of which those alive today are still trying to overcome, you can keep wishing upon a star.

“That wretched woman and her bloodthirsty throne have f**king generations of my ancestors on both sides of the family, and she supervised a government that sponsored the genocide my parents and siblings survived. May she die in agony.”

The Professor’s measured response to dissent:

That received reaction from people who criticized her statement. One wrote, “Ewww you stink,” to which Anya responded by saying, “You mean like your p-ssy?”

This is how downtrodden she is:

Anya works at Carnegie Mellon as a linguistics professor. She was born in Nigeria, a British colony until 1960. She moved to the US when she was just 10 and attended Dartmouth College, Brown University and the University of California, Los Angeles. “Because of systemic exclusion, my voice is unique and foundational in the field.”

Excluded. So excluded.

Society has to accept that kids will make decisions that increase the likelihood they are going to get themselves killed.

Yeah, and each other.

Speeding woman on cocaine kills drunk driver high on meth in North Las Vegas, police say (6 Sep)

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (KLAS) — A speeding woman is accused of driving under the influence of cocaine and alcohol when she crashed into another car, killing its driver who was under the influence of methamphetamine, police said.
…
The victim who died in the crash had a blood alcohol level more than three times above the legal limit. The person also had a substantial amount of methamphetamine in their system, police said.

Cocaine-plus-alcohol vs meth-plus-alcohol. I don’t know what you do about this sort of stuff, I really don’t. From Surber’s highlights of the news today.

My local sportzball comp wants black armbands for da Queen.

Might be the only worthy virtue signal in the last 50 years.

A great lady who miraculously kept her royal ego in check and presented a neutral face to the public

A work colleges wife received a knighthood. He turns up to the ceremony with a shock of curly white hair going vertical and a red bow tie to match his face and nose.

How on earth she managed to keep a straight face….

As people gathered at Buckingham Palace this afternoon, a beautiful rainbow appeared in the sky.

Did I read somewhere that the Queen’s motto was “Never complain, never explain”?

“Escalate semper escalate”.

Anya works at Carnegie Mellon as a linguistics professor. She was born in Nigeria, a British colony until 1960.

After which, by their own hands, they took what Britain had left them and degraded it into a country so shit and dangerous, that most other Africans avoid going there, or dealing with the inhabitants, at all costs.

The Australasian College of Road Safety’s president, emeritus professor Ann Williamson

Said college probably consists of retired Prof Williamson, her pet cat and a MacBook Air.

she’s also taking on bezos:

Unless Bezos uses all the resources of Amazon and subsidiaries to destroy her career and reputation, then he is just a virtue signalling clown.

She was born in Nigeria

I see she’s retained the scamming characteristic that makes her country beloved by all.

Cassie of Sydneysays:
September 9, 2022 at 10:59 am
“isn’t using your mobile whilst driving illegal “

How do you know? I’ve read he was speeding but I haven’t read anywhere he was using a mobile whilst driving.

Chilling first words of teenage driver after his ute came off the road killing his five mates – as the traumatised 18-year-old who was allegedly filmed speeding on Snapchat blames ‘a steering fault’

Court documents allege he filmed himself driving dangerously before the crash

Edwards, a labourer, was refused bail by the magistrate on five charges of dangerous driving occasioning death, after police prosecutors said a video allegedly taken in the lead-up to the fatal crash supported elements of the offences and showed a high level of moral culpability.

The force of the two impacts tore open the ute cabin, ripping the rear seat from the vehicle and throwing the five victims from the vehicle. Their bodies were located nearby.

“I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong,”
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#thequeen #queenelizabeth

Judith Durham and The Seekers – Carry Me. Rest in Peace beautiful lady.
Thursday, 08 September 2022
Thanks to Jeff of FNQ for the tip – he writes:

The Seekers’ beautiful final recording together, unveiled by Athol Guy at Judith’s Memorial service. Written by Seeker Bruce Woodley, the Boys added their voices and instrumentation to Judith’s vocals, with her approval and blessing a few months before her passing. It was to have been released for their 60th anniversary later this year.

YouTube – 4 mins 17 Secs – Judith Durham & The Seekers (2022) – Carry Me

AFR – Queen Elizabeth: A life in 56 photos

The Queen’s long, eventful life spanned a huge slice of modern history, from presidents and prime ministers to wars and revolutions.

Investigations suggest the ute rotated clockwise for about 50 metres, hit a tree and then rotated in a counterclockwise direction before colliding with a second tree.

Photos of the site show a narrow road with big trees very close to the road.
The trees made sure youthful stupidity was lethal.

The Queen was a peer of Churchill in the sense that she sought his wise counsel on matter of state, being a part of the state herself. I am sure Churchill would have shown her the deference due to her position.

Sounds like that death crash driver is in more trouble than the early settlers. I would be blocking out the next 8 to 10 years in the diary somehow if the reported facts are to be believed. Kids make stupid decisions but the driver has a responsibility to his passengers at the end of the day.

The number of passengers in the vehicle is a big risk factor for young male drivers. Distraction, peer pressure, the awesome power of showing off – there is a huge literature showing this all contributes to significantly impaired driving and more frequent accidents.

An overloaded car, with looking like five unsecured passengers?
No surprise if the authorities get custodial on the boy.

Spent the last week at my beach house. One of my neighbours is in depression over his wife’s death 3 1/2 yrs ago. He has Parkinson’s. I’m one of the few people he talks to. His children are greedy wastrels. He built a granny flat on his Sydney home after his daughter took over the house and became unbearable. He only let come back after she got divorced for his grandchildren’s sake. I see him every 2-3 weeks and have noticed he is withdrawing from life. I think the only reason he talks to me is because I’m blunt, saying things he doesn’t want to hear but knows them to be true. His Parkinson’s is not bad but he is embarrassed about it. I don’t want to say anything to his kids coz I’m pretty sure they would take advantage of the situation as they have in the past. I asked him if I should worry about him to which he didn’t answer. His grandchildren aren’t old enough to do anything. What to do?

About a year ago a shipment of human penises was intercepted in Zimbabwe, en route to China. They came from Nigeria. Nobody ever worked out what the intended use was.

Dafuq?!

My 99 year old grandmother is gonna be spewing. She wanted a telegram from the Queen. Not her stupid son.

Razeysays:
September 9, 2022 at 11:51 am
My 99 year old grandmother is gonna be spewing. She wanted a telegram from the Queen. Not her stupid son.

My beloved Aunt as well.

Whatever “model” is proposed for a republic here will be infinitely worse and far more damaging to our already smashed beyond repair political system.

No. Not ideally.

Sortition.
Recall elections.
Jury nullification.
Confederalism.
Subsidiarity.
Sunset clauses on all legislation.
Term limits.

King Charles III, eh. What a world.

Sortition.
Recall elections.
Jury nullification.
Confederalism.
Subsidiarity.
Sunset clauses on all legislation.
Term limits.

Oh do shut up Dot, you bore.

Regarding the Euro energy problems, I wonder if the gas reserve status in Germany has been taken into consideration. Gazprom built and operated large reserve storage facilities for their gas in Germany, these reserves are around 80% full according to reports. That was part of the Nord Stream 1 project, which has been confiscated by Germany in accordance with its Russian sanctions.

I think that the Euros believed that they would have the gas reserves available for consumption should the Ukraine war and the associated sanctions continue into the northern winter, but it now appears that the gas might be harder to extract.

The gas reserves held in Germany were there apparently to act as a buffer between use and supply, and that it needed constant incoming gas to make it work. Similar to a domestic hot water system, you may have a tank of hot water available, but if the mains water is turned off, there’s no pressure to force the hot water out.

Maybe Germany should have asked Gazprom for the owner’s manual before confiscating it.

I also doubt that Russia will turn the gas back on after the sanctions are over, there will be no trust between Russia and Europe for at least a generation.

Dot, you don’t really think 99% of Australians are OK with gay marriage, do you ?
I think the plebiscite was a rough 60/40 split with 10% not responding.
That result obtained after emotional blackmail and virtually no opposition from churches etc.
Most people couldn’t give a rats and just go along.

Donald Trump pays tribute to ‘extraordinary’ Queen Elizabeth II

Dot, you don’t really think 99% of Australians are OK with gay marriage, do you ?

No and I can’t see what you’re angling to.

Surely an aspiring monarch would give some thought to post-1066 regnal names.

William? Meh. A conqueror 1000 years ago, you get ‘accidentally’ shot with an arrow or You’re Dutch.
Edward? II and VIII wipe that one out, despite the achievements of I and IV.
George? A bit samey. Plus, III was Radio Rental.
Charles? A coin flip.
John and Stephen are right out. Obviously.
Richard? A good start with I, but II didn’t get a look in and not all III’s dogs were barking.

Henry? I, II and III had long and successful reigns (III in particular smacked up the French), IV got up by right of conquest, V conquered the French again and actually took the crown (admittedly a low bar), VI and VII were middling (long reigns, again) and VIII started his own religion after being reputedly the best single-combat warrior in Europe.

Henry IX. That’s the one.

Shocker: New York Times had its hit piece on Queen Elizabeth written up and ready to go

As Twitchy reported, Queen Elizabeth passed away Thursday at the age of 96. For lefty Twitter, it’s a chance to trash the queen for being a colonizer. We’re actually very saddened by the news: Anyone under age 70 doesn’t know of a time when she wasn’t Queen of England.

Newspapers usually have obituaries ready to go, with only the date to be filled in. The New York Times went a step further and had an opinion piece trashing the queen ready to go, written by a Harvard professor no less. To be more accurate, we should say that Maya Jasanoff trashed the British Empire, not the queen … go ahead and mourn the person, but don’t mourn for the era.

From the Comments

– The NYT always sinks to the occasion.
– To publish that today is classless and petty. An era of class and grace is gone today. We can only dream of a life half as full of hers.
– Just 2 days ago you published an OpEd lauding Mikhail Gorbachev, and not even 12 hours after the death of arguably the most influential female leader in modern world history, you publish this bit decrying her legacy. It’s disgusting.
– As an patriotic American, I find this distasteful and the timing shameful
– Sincerely hope your company folds

Re Nuremberg a failure to go after the Russians for identical crimes such as the Katyn forest massacre and other wrongs saw justice compromised by politics.

King Alfred II.
King Athelstan II.
King Cynric II.
King Coel II.
King Mark I of GB & Mark II of Cornwall.

“I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong,”

Love Divine, all loves excelling (Blaenwern) (+lyrics) – Westminster Abbey Commonwealth Day 2020

Obviously you hope for governments to be able to walk and chew gum. Sadly I fear that, with the renewed Republic debate warming up, we will be seeing another second/third order issue joining the Voice, Treaty, Covid, Alphabettery, and gender equality as front and centre issues – another distraction crowding out perhaps slightly more important others:

– Massive debt that needs to be managed;
– Inflation out of the box and running hard;
– Huge, insatiable and loosely controlled welfare spending – $200bn/10% of GDP;
– Broken productive economy: supply chains, energy prices, regulation;
– Work has become a 20th Century concept;
– Energy is becoming a scarce economy – with a 10-year+ strategic gap to fix;
– Breakdown of the Australian Federal system;
– Trade relations falling into the black holes of geopolitics;
– Regional politics: the neighbours shifting gears and turning into Turd Worlds;
– The US-West rotting internally, while China consumes Russia with promises of win-win-win.

Sadly, Australia is run by arseclowns in arseclown’s clothing, so the tedious bits that don’t help the short-term politics can easily be ignored.

It was in something you said responding to Dover upthread. Something along the lines of 99% of the population accept gay marriage now.

Not me.

If we are going to have citizen’s referenda, they should be only for striking down unpopular laws.

In any case, it is a terrible tragedy and utter waste of young lives.

Tell me someone who is saying otherwise.

Rosie:

Let’s see if he acknowledges the suffering of ordinary people from high energy costs.
I really don’t know how blind to reality he is.

He may acknowledge the suffering, rosie, but he can’t understand what he hasn’t experienced at any more than a superficial level.

It was in something you said responding to Dover upthread. Something along the lines of 99% of the population accept gay marriage now.

I get it now. I know what you are referring to.

Who determines the truth? I hope it is never the government.

You only need say 55% like Dan Andrew’s and the damage is massive.

God forbid you hold a true and very unpopular belief.

– Huge, insatiable and loosely controlled welfare spending – $200bn/10% of GDP;

It’s not loosely controlled. The problem is the cash is being swallowed up by administration and accreditation. Nothing like the old days of walking in and getting a check.

Inevitably, Trump’s tribute to the Queen is mostly talking about himself.

Nuremberg wasn’t just about those who put people in gas chambers. Other crimes were prosecuted and the perpetrators executed.

In ignoring identical Russian crimes, Nuremberg was not, as is often claimed, a high water point for justice. It was an example of Western weakness in the face of Stalins manipulation.

are river cruise ships on the rhine and danube having problems with low river levels?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=are+river+cruise+ships+on+the+rhine+and+danube+having+problems+with+low+river+levels&df=m&ia=web

What’s the link between gay marriage and COVID again struth?

I can’t believe there is still $US67bill in Tether.
Down from $US84bill at the peak, but still people people this “stable coin” will prevail.
Bonkers.

I loved the job the Queen did to a degree.
She reigned over good times she did not manufacture.

Beg to differ.

Your first task, St. Ruth, is to have Queensland renamed.

I believe ‘The Last Holdout’ is already taken.

An Australian Republic, with Bruce Pascoe as President?

I’d rather Patsy Biscoe.

How exactly was Nuremberg an example of Western weakness?

The wealthy families that backed the Nazi’s were not penalised much.
The richest families in Germany pre WWII maintained most of their wealth, some to this day.
Even some of the ones who had asset bases in the east.

What’s the link between gay marriage and COVID again struth?

Keep up boof head.
They’re both lies.
Bullshit fed to us by lefties to see if we’ll speak up against it.
Daring us to.

If you dismiss letting the Japan’s emperor off the hook as an act pragmatiem then same can be said for some Germans. Considering the cold war had already started.

It has merit.

And here we see the fear and hang ups of KD on full display.
The truth upsets the toothless barfly of Darwin.

The idea of sorting out Russia straight after the having dealt with the Germans was never going to happen.

So the Poles were just suckers believing Churchill?