Open Thread – Tues 13 Sept 2022


The Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene Entering the French Entrenchments, Louis Laguerre, early 1700s

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Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
September 16, 2022 8:38 am

Twilio promises ‘anti-racist’ layoffs as CEO says 11% job cuts won’t hit workers from ‘marginalized communities’ more than others

As you all know, we are committed to becoming an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression company. Layoffs like this can have a more pronounced impact on marginalized communities, so we were particularly focused on ensuring our layoffs – while a business necessity today – were carried out through an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens.

DaFisk
DaFisk
September 16, 2022 8:40 am

The Kyiv Independent
@KyivIndependent
??Pope: Morally acceptable to supply Ukraine with weapons for self-defense.

Self-defense is not only licit but also an expression of love for the homeland. Someone who does not defend oneself, who does not defend something, does not love it.” Pope Francis said, Reuters reports

Zipster
Zipster
September 16, 2022 8:41 am
Zipster
Zipster
September 16, 2022 8:42 am

As you all know, we are committed to becoming an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression company. Layoffs like this can have a more pronounced impact on marginalized communities, so we were particularly focused on ensuring our layoffs – while a business necessity today – were carried out through an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens.

pocket skin colour chart in action!

bespoke
bespoke
September 16, 2022 8:44 am

Miltonfsays:
September 16, 2022 at 8:09 am
I have now problem criticizing teal voters. As I’ve repeated – Mosman where your brain goes to die

Coven of high maintenance SJW’s.

JC
JC
September 16, 2022 8:44 am

feelthebern says:
September 16, 2022 at 8:04 am

I’ve been given a jar of home made sauerkraut with apple & ginger.
Any Cats know what/how I should be consuming it?
The inter webs aren’t all that helpful.

I suspect with German pork sausages. Bratwurst?

lotocoti
lotocoti
September 16, 2022 8:45 am

No one should be arrested for peacefully expressing their opinion
unless their opinion is the wrong one.

Zipster
Zipster
September 16, 2022 8:45 am

The Return of Industrial Warfare
The war in Ukraine has proven that the age of industrial warfare is still here.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 16, 2022 8:46 am

WAR IN UKRAINE
Don’t have sex with locals or livestock, Wagner Group tells recruits
Prisoners warned they will be executed if they arrive in Ukraine and refuse to fight
Marc Bennetts
Thursday September 15 2022, 11.00am BST, The Times
Global politics
Ukraine

The head of a notorious pro-Kremlin mercenary group has told inmates at a Russian prison that they will be set free if they survive a six-month tour of duty in Ukraine, but executed if they try to desert.

The offer was made to convicts at a prison camp in central Russia by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a wealthy tycoon who runs the Wagner Group private military contractor. The group’s fighters have been accused of war crimes in Ukraine and Syria.

“In six months you will go home, having been pardoned,” Prigozhin, 61, told inmates at the prison in central Russia. “There is no chance of returning to prison.” Those who refuse to fight after arriving in Ukraine would be classified as deserters, he said. “And then they will be shot.”

Prigozhin said Wagner fighters were barred from drinking or using drugs while at the front. He also said they were forbidden to “have sexual contact with local women, flora, fauna, men, whoever.” Russian forces have been accused of raping Ukrainian women in occupied towns.

bespoke
bespoke
September 16, 2022 8:51 am

Zipstersays:

September 16, 2022 at 8:41 am

Bingo, Strippers or Euthanasia? Choose Your Retirement
Black Pigeon Speaks

The outrage over stripper was dumb.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 16, 2022 8:52 am

flyingduksays:
September 16, 2022 at 8:38 am
Top 10 E bike explosions and fires. An appetiser of Elbows electric future:

Yep, lithium battery fires are closer to blow torches than slow smoke and flames. They will be banned from buildings (and lifts!) and carparks before long and should be – once the battery is damaged or develops a fault, it short circuits and burns – putting it out is useless as the damaged battery just heats up again and away we go. As the clip showed, CO2 and powder are particularly useless as they don’t reduce the heat.

In my days as a volunteer fireman, our SOP for Tesla fires was to order 10 tons of water and quarantine for 3 days! (no – never went to one).

People nearby got solar installed last week with what looked like a powerwall installed inside the garage on the internal wall of the house, two storey as well. Don’t know what the regs are for a powerwall but surely not inside your house.

Zipster
Zipster
September 16, 2022 8:57 am
H B Bear
H B Bear
September 16, 2022 9:00 am

.. they were forbidden to “have sexual contact with local women, flora, fauna, men, whoever.”

Good advice.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 16, 2022 9:02 am

Especially during hay fever season.

Mater
September 16, 2022 9:02 am

“Self-defense is not only licit but also an expression of love for the homeland. Someone who does not defend oneself, who does not defend something, does not love it.” Pope Francis said, Reuters reports

And, of course, in Australia “the law says you can’t carry, possess or use a weapon, including guns, knives, and other weapons and ‘dangerous articles’, to hurt people or to defend yourself”.

https://www.legalaid.vic.gov.au/guns-and-other-weapons

bespoke
bespoke
September 16, 2022 9:02 am

Wrong link Zip.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 16, 2022 9:03 am

Is Rowe trying to equate Putin with Trump with showing the Pute fingering a red tie such as Trump wears?

Eyrie
Eyrie
September 16, 2022 9:04 am

Don’t know what the regs are for a powerwall but surely not inside your house.
Don’t park your EV in a garage attached to your house either. Particularly if you charge it there.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 16, 2022 9:05 am

Pretender to the English throne (wiki):

Perkin Warbeck (c. 1474 – 23 November 1499) was a pretender to the English throne claiming to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, who was the second son of Edward IV and one of the so-called “Princes in the Tower”. Richard, were he alive, would have been the rightful claimant to the throne, assuming that his elder brother Edward V was dead and that he was legitimate—a point that had been previously contested by his uncle, King Richard III.

Warbeck made several landings in England backed by small armies but met strong resistance from the King’s men and surrendered in Hampshire in 1497. After his capture, he retracted his claim, writing a confession in which he said he was a Fleming born in Tournai around 1474. He was executed on 23 November 1499.

Indolent
Indolent
September 16, 2022 9:12 am

I’ve been given a jar of home made sauerkraut with apple & ginger.

Taste it first to see what you think. It sounds yummy enough to eat straight out of the jar. If it’s too salty for that it would make an excellent side dish for meat dishes. I wouldn’t mix it with anything.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 16, 2022 9:12 am

Pretender to the English throne (wiki):

Another pretender, one Lambert Simnel, kept his head, but was a scullion in the Royal kitchens for life.

Dot
Dot
September 16, 2022 9:14 am

ny Cats know what/how I should be consuming it?

Fast, with protein, alcohol, chilli and coffee.

Also, amphetamines.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 16, 2022 9:18 am

Matersays:
September 16, 2022 at 9:02 am
“Self-defense is not only licit but also an expression of love for the homeland. Someone who does not defend oneself, who does not defend something, does not love it.” Pope Francis said, Reuters reports

And, of course, in Australia “the law says you can’t carry, possess or use a weapon, including guns, knives, and other weapons and ‘dangerous articles’, to hurt people or to defend yourself”.

Your Honour, the kitchen knife was not a weapon until the deceased broke into my house.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 16, 2022 9:18 am

‘bern.
On the sauerkraut.
Add some aged plump chilli.
Not dried shrivelled chilli.
No-one wants that.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 16, 2022 9:20 am

Dotsays:

September 16, 2022 at 9:14 am

ny Cats know what/how I should be consuming it?

Fast, with protein, alcohol, chilli and coffee.

What Dot says.
Except avoid dried up, shrivelled chilli.
Not very tasty at all.

Indolent
Indolent
September 16, 2022 9:23 am

Our pets are part of the climate problem. These tips can help you minimize their carbon pawprints

It’s only a matter of time. We are dealing here with a death cult. Kill, kill, kill is their real underlying motivation. And I’m not exaggerating. It’s something I noticed years ago with the so-called greenies. Their solution to every problem seemed to be kill something on a large scale. Horses, cats, foxes, camels. People were just the unspoken quiet part which now is not quite so quiet.

duncanm
duncanm
September 16, 2022 9:23 am

The head of a notorious pro-Kremlin mercenary group has told inmates at a Russian prison that they will be set free if they survive a six-month tour of duty in Ukraine, but executed if they try to desert.

The Wagner group obviously had a good hard look at the dirty dozen

Indolent
Indolent
September 16, 2022 9:27 am
struth
struth
September 16, 2022 9:28 am

Lies annd more lies from the goose who calls attending a dawn service. ..inciting rebellion. ..
Here’s a mirror fuckwits
….

flyingduk
flyingduk
September 16, 2022 9:32 am

Adern drops most COVID measures in NZ, Denmark now only giving the jabs to the 0ver 50s …

Seems like the train has moved on.

PS …Eth merged successfully yesterday, dropping its energy consumption by 99.9%, and right on cue, Greenpeace starts targetting the energy use of BTC.

Rabz
September 16, 2022 9:32 am

shatterzzz says:
September 16, 2022 at 8:01 am

Thanks for that, Shatterzzz. Her initialised sleeveless Fred Perry polo is a nice touch.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 16, 2022 9:32 am

Good taste.
Weird aftertaste.
Sour but a little sweet.
Might just have it straight from the jar as a snack.

will
will
September 16, 2022 9:34 am

Mr Dorante-Day believes that the DNA test will prove he is the rightful heir to the throne, as he was born before Prince William.

Mr Dorante-Day does not need a DNA test, he needs a French army embarking from Normandy

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 16, 2022 9:36 am

Maybe I might drain it a little bit because the next bite.

Miltonf
Miltonf
September 16, 2022 9:36 am

Are you for real St Ruth? Maybe you need to get a life.

Jorge
Jorge
September 16, 2022 9:38 am
Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
September 16, 2022 9:40 am

Mr Dorante-Day believes that the DNA test will prove he is the rightful heir to the throne, as he was born before Prince William.

Fast cars, tunnels, paparazzi…

Cassie of Sydney
September 16, 2022 9:42 am

“King Charles’ alleged Australian love child drops DNA bombshell
Isabel McMillanNCA NewsWire
Thu, 15 September 2022 3:14PM

Buckingham Palace has seen its fair share of scandals over the years, but in the wake of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s death, a potential hidden love child in the family could be the biggest yet.

Simon Charles Dorante-Day, 56, claims he was conceived in 1965 by a 17-year-old Charles and 18-year-old Camilla, long before they began their affair.”

LOL, Dorante-Day’s claims are beyond fanciful, beyond absurd, his claim doesn’t even make for a good story. Royal and imperial claimants throughout history, be it Perkin Warbeck, Anna Anderson, Kaspar Hauser, or the many claimants pretending to be Louis XVII, all had good stories, and some claimants, like Perkin Warbeck and Kaspar Hauser, had some merit.

Johnny Rotten
September 16, 2022 9:43 am

And on this blog in particular….you knew better, you knew what the right thing to do was, and you turned your back like the fucking cowards you are.

Not everyone on this Blog had the Jab yer’ know. Oh, you didn’t? Well you do now you ‘Broken Record’.

bespoke
bespoke
September 16, 2022 9:44 am

So not evan remotely close to Ruth’s rantings. Give the ‘guy’ a pink petal.

[DB: If Struth strays into attacking people’s family the offending comment will be removed as it was this morning]

Arky
September 16, 2022 9:45 am

The head of a notorious pro-Kremlin mercenary group has told inmates at a Russian prison that they will be set free if they survive a six-month tour of duty in Ukraine, but executed if they try to desert.

..
DirleWagner Brigade?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
September 16, 2022 9:47 am

Look at these slithering turds.

The “great masters”should be sold then, if they are to be hidden away in back rooms so offendorati are protected from them.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-16/wa-art-gallery-wrestles-with-colonial-past/101423236

The only thing they are wrestling with is their own cocks.

It owns priceless pieces of art by the likes of Sidney Nolan, Russell Drysdale, Norman Lindsay, Tom Roberts and even Lucien Freud, as well as one of Australia’s most recognisable masterpieces, Frederick McCubbin’s Down on His Luck.

But if you were hoping to see any of these renowned treasures at the Art Gallery of Western Australia for much of the past two years, you’d have been disappointed.

Most of them haven’t been on display at all.
….
Mr Walker, who took over at AGWA at the start of the pandemic in 2020, said it was time for the gallery to respond to global events and think about the wider context of its art.

“You have to be political in the sense that you’ve got to respond to issues of the day in some shape or form … and you’ve got to give more space to people and artists and communities and ethnicities who have just not had the access before,” he said.
….
Ms Harpley said she wanted to get audiences thinking about the attitudes of the past in a different context, instead of viewing the paintings in a chronological way that presupposed the idea of Western progress.

“It’s thinking about how we’re engaging with the environment, how in the past, we’ve kind of dealt with it in terms of land clearing and running sheep and cattle across it, versus what we might do now,” she said of the dis/possession exhibition.
….
Historical collections curator at the gallery Melissa Harpley said she felt a keen responsibility to look at the gallery’s role in society in the contemporary context of Black Lives Matter, #MeToo and climate change.

yet another well heeled fuckwit lording its sensabilities over the hoi-poloi by running her political agenda as an exhibit.

m0nty
m0nty
September 16, 2022 9:49 am

Last night lots of critical comments on TEALS.

Not many critical comments on the voters…

Clearly it is democracy that is the real villain here.

The people can not be trusted to govern themselves.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 16, 2022 9:52 am

bespokesays:

September 16, 2022 at 9:44 am

[…]

So not evan remotely close to Ruth’s rantings. Give the ‘guy’ a pink petal.

I know, right?
Can you imagine complaining to Dover about that?
Not really stand or fall (if necessary) material.

[DB: He didn’t complain to me. I removed it when I saw it just as I did when I started going through this morning’s comments.]

flyingduk
flyingduk
September 16, 2022 9:54 am

People nearby got solar installed last week with what looked like a powerwall installed inside the garage on the internal wall of the house, two storey as well. Don’t know what the regs are for a powerwall but surely not inside your house.

If ever I go down that route myself, I would place the battery (whether a power wall, car, e-bike or whatever) in a separate structure at least 25m from the house. In the case of a house battert system, I would consider old tech (eg lead acid) if available/viable.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 16, 2022 9:55 am

Historical collections curator at the gallery Melissa Harpley said she felt a keen responsibility to look at the gallery’s role in society in the contemporary context of Black Lives Matter, #MeToo and climate change.

Guess who paid their last visit to WA Art Gallery?

mem
mem
September 16, 2022 9:56 am

How do I cook it?
We do a once a year feast using a combination of smoked pork sausages, a large chunk of kaiserfleisch (Bertocci) and other smoked pork cuts using this method and serve it on a large turkey platter. Juniper berries and a couple of tart apples sliced make an excellent additive. Serve with baby boiled potatoes. We have ten people but you can scale it down as required.
https://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipes/kasseler-pork-sauerkraut-kasseler-rippchen

Black Ball
Black Ball
September 16, 2022 9:58 am

Radio snippet caught my attention. Apparently in the local shires crime is down 10 percent from last year. Good news I thought to myself before police spokespyrsyn sez it was because of the ‘health and safety measures of the rona being relaxed.’ So crime is actually unchanged from last year. FMD

flyingduk
flyingduk
September 16, 2022 10:01 am

WAR IN UKRAINE Don’t have sex with locals or livestock, Wagner Group tells recruits

Ha ! stolen word for word from my ‘In country health briefs’ in the MEAO.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
September 16, 2022 10:07 am

Crossiesays:
September 16, 2022 at 6:21 am
The end of the pandemic? I have a horrible cold the likes of which I have not experienced in decades and today I find out if it is COVID-19.

Don’t tell Maximum Leader or Slugger Sutton. I rather like being able to go outside my house for more than an hour a day.

Delta A
Delta A
September 16, 2022 10:08 am

lumped on corned beef with a dallop of Baxters dijon mustard

squished in a roll with cransky and too much butter

under yesterday’s slow cooked back ribs

Matrix nails it again.

bespoke
bespoke
September 16, 2022 10:10 am

Matrix nails it again.

Suck up!

Speedbox
September 16, 2022 10:11 am

calli says:
September 16, 2022 at 5:14 am
Fun fact – there has been so little rain falling in the lakes district in Croatia that they are having trouble with water supply to the villages. Tomorrow they turn the water off at 9am to ration it. Meanwhile, water pressure can’t be maintained. I’m on the 2nd floor, so that’s going to be interesting.

Years ago I was staying in an apartment in Kharkiv and the building manager would turn off the water from 10pm to 5am. Not because there was a water shortage but because he didn’t want to pay for the electricity to pump the water up into the building. So, every apartment had numerous plastic bottles with which to re-fill coffee pot, water glass and the toilet cistern during those hours.

Frank
Frank
September 16, 2022 10:11 am

In 50 years some dog breeds won’t be around anymore due to the chronic inbreeding.

Whoever it was that decided to breed German Shepherds with those tiny back legs needs to be tormented with sharp sticks for the rest of their natural lives. Sadistic freaks.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 16, 2022 10:16 am

Kransky and sauerkraut almost made the tourists atthe Queen Victoria markets bearable.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 16, 2022 10:16 am

Compare the shepherds the Krauts used in WWII to the ones you see today.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 16, 2022 10:18 am

Duk I wrote about my mate a while back who has lead acid batteries and car alternator running from nearby creek. Tin shed about 20 metres from house. The only real problem is the gassing from charging, but it is well ventilated. He built his system for peanuts.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 16, 2022 10:27 am

“The people cannot be trusted to govern themselves”. Words of wisdom from a fat freak who cannot be trusted with a box of Krispy Kremes. But he wants people like him to govern us. Give Ken a ring on the Fascist Hotline.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 16, 2022 10:28 am

Clearly it is democracy that is the real villain here.
The people can not be trusted to govern themselves.

Monty has just worked out why the Dems stole the 2020 election.
We’re making progress!

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 16, 2022 10:29 am

Raymond J. Dearie appointed as the special master to review the MAL docs.
I’ll leave it for others to google.

JC
JC
September 16, 2022 10:29 am

H B Bear says:
September 16, 2022 at 10:16 am
Kransky and sauerkraut almost made the tourists atthe Queen Victoria markets bearable.

There’s actually an off the boat Kraut doing cooked sausages in a roll. All types that just can’t be beat. It’s done on hot coals. Fucking delish.

Dot
Dot
September 16, 2022 10:31 am

The people can not be trusted to govern themselves.

No.

We can’t trust our representatives.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
September 16, 2022 10:32 am

Elbow taking notes from the USA…
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/sep/16/federal-government-urged-to-extend-voting-rights-to-16-and-17-year-olds-and-prisoners

The Albanese government is being urged to expand voting rights to 16 and 17-year-olds and people in prison in submissions to an inquiry into the 2022 election.

The academic Prof George Williams has proposed voluntary voting for 16 and 17-year-olds, and regulating “electoral lies” to prevent “baseless claims” such as Donald Trump’s about unproven electoral fraud in the US.

In a separate submission to the joint standing committee on electoral matters, the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service has called for “all restrictions on the right of incarcerated people serving sentences to vote” to be scrapped.
In July Guardian Australia revealed that, after the inquiry, Labor intends to legislate spending caps and truth in political advertising, as well as promote adherence to the one-vote one-value principle.

Dot
Dot
September 16, 2022 10:34 am

feelthebern says:
September 16, 2022 at 10:29 am
Raymond J. Dearie appointed as the special master to review the MAL docs.
I’ll leave it for others to google.

…and den what happen!?

I got nada. Bupkis. Zilch.

Other than he’s likely to croak before anything gets done, quite an old guy.

Dot
Dot
September 16, 2022 10:35 am

In July Guardian Australia revealed that, after the inquiry, Labor intends to legislate spending caps and truth in political advertising, as well as promote adherence to the one-vote one-value principle.

Do I really need to do it?

Okay. Here goes.

BY 1990, NO CHILD SHALL BE LIVING IN POVERTY…

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 16, 2022 10:36 am

quite an old guy.

Very.
He’ll be needing regular naps.

mem
mem
September 16, 2022 10:43 am
MatrixTransform
September 16, 2022 10:43 am

the law says you can’t carry, possess or use a weapon

that terminal screwdriver
in the car console
is a just a screwdriver
I like to have a spare because you know, the tips break all the time

Diogenes
Diogenes
September 16, 2022 10:45 am

Don’t know what the regs are for a powerwall but surely not inside your house.

We move in to our new place in 4 weeks. Battery is in the garage

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
September 16, 2022 10:48 am

I would consider old tech (eg lead acid) if available/viable.

https://entek.com/news/posts/entek-bci-2022/

bespoke
bespoke
September 16, 2022 10:48 am

A baseball bat and ball. The ball giving plausibility.

struth
struth
September 16, 2022 10:48 am

A lot of “fuck off struth” type comments from the compliant

But they say nothing.
they know what they’ve done.

Johnny Rotten
September 16, 2022 10:49 am

Texas sends migrants to vice-president’s Washington residence

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62911630

LOL…………………………….

MatrixTransform
September 16, 2022 10:54 am

Suck up!

you cant have any bugs
until you finish the sauerkraut
you scurvy-dog

bespoke
bespoke
September 16, 2022 10:54 am
zimlurog
zimlurog
September 16, 2022 10:54 am

Simon Charles Dorante-Day, 56, claims he was conceived in 1965 by a 17-year-old Charles and 18-year-old Camilla, long before they began their affair.

Even if the DNA test returned positive, the guy was born illegitimate. That would put him well down the list behind any legitimate claimants. Prolly the best he could hope for would be some “now go away” money and maybe the right to change his surname to Fitzroy.

Gabor
Gabor
September 16, 2022 10:56 am

flyingduk says:
September 16, 2022 at 9:54 am

If ever I go down that route myself, I would place the battery (whether a power wall, car, e-bike or whatever) in a separate structure at least 25m from the house. In the case of a house battert system, I would consider old tech (eg lead acid) if available/viable.

Unless they changed over to a different system, the PMG/Telecom used to sell their backup lead acid batteries by auction. They change them every couple of years I think?
We bought a truckload of them many years ago and they gave good service for years.

Usually advertised in the Weekly Times

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 16, 2022 10:56 am

Poker has hole cards, chess has…

Chess world rocked by rumours of anal beads and artificial intelligence (15 Sep)

Other big names in the sport declared Niemann’s play ‘sus’, suspicions were raised further when Niemann admitted to cheating twice previously. Chess.com issued a statement that it had banned Niemann from its site over his alleged cheating.

Chess enthusiasts online have since gone on to speculate that Niemann may have been cheating with computer assistance and anal beads.

Plucking brilliant moves from out of his arse isn’t just a metaphor.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 16, 2022 11:03 am

Boaty McBoatless has spoken.

Gabor
Gabor
September 16, 2022 11:08 am

m0nty says:
September 16, 2022 at 9:49 am

Last night lots of critical comments on TEALS.
Not many critical comments on the voters…
Clearly it is democracy that is the real villain here.
The people can not be trusted to govern themselves.

]

M0nty is actually perfectly right, any candidate can only present his/herself for election, the rest is up to the voters.

Indolent
Indolent
September 16, 2022 11:11 am

Mr Dorante-Day believes that the DNA test will prove he is the rightful heir to the throne, as he was born before Prince William.

Even if this were true (ha, ha) he wouldn’t be the heir because they weren’t married at the time. Illegitimacy precludes succession. It would be hard to count all the illegitimate children English kings have had in the past. As Will said above, what he would need is an army.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 16, 2022 11:11 am

struthsays:

September 16, 2022 at 10:48 am

A lot of “fuck off struth” type comments from the compliant

Yes.
Yes there is.

But they say nothing.

And yet you notice them and feel the need to comment on the ‘nothing’ they say.

they know what they’ve done.

Yes.
They’ve told you to fuck off.
Which means the ‘hearts and minds’ campaign isn’t twavelling tewwibly well.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 16, 2022 11:13 am

Most old school taxi drivers carried an extensive tool kit.
Under the driver’s seat.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 16, 2022 11:20 am

Roger at 11:11.
A bit disconcerting until I figured out how to toggle the view.
Looking down at the back-seat display while the buildings flashed by the canopy.
I would make a shit navigator/WO.

Real Deal
Real Deal
September 16, 2022 11:20 am

Most old school taxi drivers carried an extensive tool kit.
Under the driver’s seat.

Harpic, dunny brush and Glen-20 if you’re an Uber driver these days.

Delta A
Delta A
September 16, 2022 11:31 am

you cant have any bugs
until you finish the sauerkraut

With a side serve of brussel sprouts. 🙂

bespoke
bespoke
September 16, 2022 11:35 am

Grrrr!

flyingduk
flyingduk
September 16, 2022 11:36 am

the law says you can’t carry, possess or use a weapon

shit …. throws Astra Zeneca vial out the window…

Roger
Roger
September 16, 2022 11:36 am

Roger at 11:11.
A bit disconcerting until I figured out how to toggle the view.

I’m not sure it’s a legit use of c. $80m of military kit, but having witnessed it from the ground a few times it’s a spectacular display. Not sure if they’re still allowed to let the afterburners rip though.

flyingduk
flyingduk
September 16, 2022 11:37 am

RAAF cockpit footage of FA 18 practising for the Brisbane ‘Riverfire’ flyover this year.

NO, thats Kerry Chant modelling the next pandemic response…

johanna
johanna
September 16, 2022 11:42 am

Could it be that the market is oversupplied with marine biologists who have no regard for academic standards?

A North Queensland university is planning to slash 10 per cent of its workforce as student enrolment continues to plummet.
Key points:

JCU plans to cut 130 jobs, about a tenth of its workforce
It hopes to claw back millions of dollars lost by a drop in student enrolment
The university said more redundancies could be offered in coming years

James Cook University (JCU) has revealed a proposal to cut about 130 jobs from its pool of 1,300 staff at its Townsville and Cairns campuses.

Vice Chancellor Simon Biggs said JCU had experienced a 25 per cent reduction in domestic students in past five years.

He said the job cuts would allow the university to claw back $11 million in salary costs annually.

“Simply put, our student load has been declining for some years and universities in Australia are paid according to the number of students they teach, but our staff load has not declined in the same period,” Professor Biggs said.

The place is a fifth rate degree mill that has hounded and trashed its best teachers and researchers, throwing them into the volcano to appease Gaia.

I hope they go broke.

Roger
Roger
September 16, 2022 11:45 am

…any candidate can only present his/herself for election, the rest is up to the voters.

For our sins we had two wannabe Teal ladies (i.e. using the colour, same policies but unfunded by Holmes a Court) in this electorate. They didn’t fare well. In a wealth creating agricultural and mining region, the middle class professionals know who butters their bread.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 16, 2022 11:48 am

The mention of taxi drivers reminds me of a mate who on arriving at an address near me with a 100kg German hausfrau was asked if he wanted paid in kind with a flash of the sample on offer. He declined, which surprised me somewhat as he had a lot of ugly girlfriends. We lived out of town so I guess the fare was fairly high.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
September 16, 2022 11:48 am

James Cook University (JCU) has revealed a proposal to cut about 130 jobs from its pool of 1,300 staff at its Townsville and Cairns campuses.

After 30+ years of predicting the imminent death of the little reef that could they are going to pretend to be surprised enrollments are down.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
September 16, 2022 11:56 am

Four ‘N Twenty pies, Lean Cuisine no longer Australian after overseas purchase

S?ome of Australia’s most iconic brands have come under foreign ownership after an Asian investment giant snapped up two local companies.
PAG announced yesterday it had entered into agreements to buy Patties Foods and Vesco Foods, subject to regulatory approvals.
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
September 16, 2022 11:57 am

Miranda has a podcast (laptop) from hell on spiked.
Might be worth a lisen.

https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast-episode/hunter-biden-and-the-laptop-from-hell/

rickw
rickw
September 16, 2022 12:00 pm

6ft social distance rule. The science? They fucking made it up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph0-Cg2pC9w

Tom
Tom
September 16, 2022 12:05 pm

Sometimes, to make a point about hypocrisy and double standards, journalism is most effective when it becomes black satire – like today’s episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight on the liberal hypocrites of Venezuela’s (woops: Martha’s) Vineyard.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
September 16, 2022 12:09 pm

Chess enthusiasts online have since gone on to speculate that Niemann may have been cheating with computer assistance and anal beads.

Thank you very much, again, BoN. Questions from a very dark place:

.1 What are “anal beads”?
.2 How do they help your chess?

(Not that I’m looking for interior decoration tips, or to improve my game.)
(No, really.)

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
September 16, 2022 12:17 pm

Look at these slithering turds.

No better than the Taliban, wanting to destroy history and heritage.

Roger
Roger
September 16, 2022 12:17 pm

Woke SF based communications company Twilio claims to have used an “anti-racist lens” as it cut 11% of its workforce.

Which sounds like race was actually quite in focus as they decided who’d get a redundancy notice.

Which would be illegal, even in California.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
September 16, 2022 12:19 pm

Kylea Tink updated her register of interests on September 13, weeks after the shareholdings were revealed.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/teal-independent-mp-kylea-tink-sells-fossil-fuel-and-motorway-shares-20220916-p5bilb.html

johanna
johanna
September 16, 2022 12:20 pm

rickw says:
September 16, 2022 at 12:00 pm

6ft social distance rule. The science? They fucking made it up:
————————————————
Yep, just like the magic 2 degrees will destroy the planet number. The author admitted that the number was plucked out of thin air,

No static at all.

m0nty
m0nty
September 16, 2022 12:24 pm

Sometimes, to make a point about hypocrisy and double standards, journalism is most effective when it becomes black satire – like today’s episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight on the liberal hypocrites of Venezuela’s (woops: Martha’s) Vineyard.

DeSantis’s stunt backfired spectacularly when the Martha’s Vineyard community came together to house and feed the Venezuelan asylum seekers who had been hoodwinked by Republican ratfsckers into stepping on a plane.

Roger
Roger
September 16, 2022 12:29 pm

[Historical collections curator at the gallery] Melissa Harpley said she wanted to get audiences thinking about the attitudes of the past in a different context, instead of viewing the paintings in a chronological way that presupposed the idea of Western progress.

Go live in a humpy in the bush for a month and then get back to us about the value of Western progress.

She’s unhinged from reality.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
September 16, 2022 12:30 pm

Monty is basing his glowing assessment of the morality of some of the 1% on their treatment of one small group of ‘fugees.

Lets see how it goes when its 50-100-1000 a week. Week in week out like those rubes in the border states cop.

pete of perth
pete of perth
September 16, 2022 12:31 pm

That means they can nowsend thousands of border crossers to Martha’s Vineyard as they will be welcomed with open arms.

m0nty
m0nty
September 16, 2022 12:36 pm

I like how Tucker shows footage of Venezuelan asylum seekers camping on the street… because the Republican governors don’t give them housing.

Nice try at changing the subject away from Dobbs, every US political cycle the racists come out and bring another scare campaign about evil non-whites. I thought the narrative was supposed to be that Hispanics were shifting Republican now? So much for that, just keep demonising them.

Miltonf
Miltonf
September 16, 2022 12:37 pm

Unfortunately modern, wealthy, industrial societies incubate and foster Marxist wreckers like Harpley. They
seek to trash and destroy the people who make and have made their lives easy and comfortable.

Lysander
Lysander
September 16, 2022 12:38 pm

DeSantis’s stunt backfired spectacularly when the Martha’s Vineyard community came together to house and feed the Venezuelan asylum seekers who had been hoodwinked by Republican ratfsckers into stepping on a plane.

No, it hasn’t. The coverage on CNN, Fox and Twitter only has Martha’s Vineyard residents complaining that “they’re going to have to move soon” and “there’s no space for them here” and “there are no social services here.”

Tucker was right: MV residents are obviously racist as they should be celebrating the diversity.

Anyway, just wait for the next couple of planes to arrive.

(And they haven’t been “hoodwinked” lardarse. MV is one of the richest places in America. DeSantis could’ve sent them to Chicongo so the Venezuelans should be extremely happy.)

Roger
Roger
September 16, 2022 12:40 pm

DeSantis’s stunt backfired spectacularly when the Martha’s Vineyard community came together to house and feed the Venezuelan asylum seekers who had been hoodwinked by Republican ratfsckers into stepping on a plane.

They’re actually seeking to move them on to another location asap, monty, claiming they don’t have emergency housing available, despite being a self-designated sanctuary locale. Their liberal hypocrisy has been exposed.

Roger
Roger
September 16, 2022 12:41 pm

Snap, Lysander.

johanna
johanna
September 16, 2022 12:42 pm

Oh, well.

Cats and Kittehs are ‘sophisticated consumers.’

🙂

m0nty
m0nty
September 16, 2022 12:43 pm

They’re actually seeking to move them on to another location asap, monty, claiming they don’t have emergency housing available, despite being a self-designated sanctuary locale. Their liberal hypocrisy has been exposed.

Martha’s Vineyard is not a sanctuary city.

Massachusetts is not a sanctuary state, but there have been proposals for it on Beacon Hill. A sanctuary city or state is a location that limits cooperation with federal immigration laws. There are eight cities in the state that are sanctuary cities. They are Amherst, Boston, Cambridge, Chelsea, Concord, Newton, Northampton, and Somerville. What they do is legal, and how much they cooperate can vary from city to city.

I presume they will be moved to a city in MA where there are services for them.

Lysander
Lysander
September 16, 2022 12:43 pm

LOL Roger. These moves by DeSantis are brilliant. Reminds me of Abbott’s turn-back-the-boats policy that “would never work.”

Roger
Roger
September 16, 2022 12:44 pm

Unfortunately modern, wealthy, industrial societies incubate and foster Marxist wreckers like Harpley.

Harpley shares the liberal conceit of the noble savage that underwrites the existence of the hellish existence in the remote settlements. History will not judge her ilk kindly.

Roger
Roger
September 16, 2022 12:47 pm

They’re actually seeking to move them on to another location asap, monty, claiming they don’t have emergency housing available, despite being a self-designated sanctuary locale.

With about 200 Air bnb vacancies currently listed, apparently.

Lysander
Lysander
September 16, 2022 12:50 pm

MV Munted, is a self-identifying Sanctuary City.

Are you against self-identifying now? (We knew you were racist but now you’re a bigot?)

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
September 16, 2022 12:50 pm

Im sure the 1% will be throwing these empty places open any…minute…now…

https://www.airbnb.com.au/marthas-vineyard-ma/stays

Woolfe
Woolfe
September 16, 2022 12:51 pm

Aussie Cossack released from lock up.

slackster
slackster
September 16, 2022 12:53 pm

Regarding Martha’s Vineyard situation- the welcome sign to the town says it all:
https://imgur.com/a/RHNLEEC

Lysander
Lysander
September 16, 2022 12:55 pm

Thanks Slackster – that’s going straight to the pool room!

Lysander
Lysander
September 16, 2022 12:57 pm

What else would you expect idiot!

The place of a Reserve Bank is in antiquity.

Chris
Chris
September 16, 2022 12:57 pm

thefrollickingmolesays:
September 16, 2022 at 9:47 am
Look at these slithering turds.

The “great masters”should be sold then, if they are to be hidden away in back rooms so offendorati are protected from them.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-16/wa-art-gallery-wrestles-with-colonial-past/101423236

The only thing they are wrestling with is their own cocks.

There is a lot of that in the WA Museum and Art Gallery of WA. Quelle surprise.

Franx
Franx
September 16, 2022 1:01 pm

Compliance, so to speak, or agreement with the experts and with those who held the reins of power was totally understandable, especially when the cause and interests of others was put before those of one’s own, when it was the Other that mattered most. Or the common good, promulgated as it was in a manifesto.
OK, well and good, for everyone said and maybe even swore they would never forget.
But nearly all did.
And there’s the rub.
We have on site if not a biblical Jeremiah then an Orwellian Benjamin who knew that Clover being cartered off in a jolly hospital wagon was in fact heading for the knackers.

rickw
rickw
September 16, 2022 1:04 pm
Roger
Roger
September 16, 2022 1:05 pm

Martha’s Vineyard is not a sanctuary city.

Which only further confirms their hypocrisy. LOL.

rickw
rickw
September 16, 2022 1:10 pm

Lathe Americana for Victorian Cats, Southbend 9”. One time largest lathe manufacturer in the world, interesting industrial relations history. Also probably the most copied lathe in the world, at least 3 copy cat manufacturers in Australia alone!

https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/launching-place/power-tools/south-bend-metal-lathe/1301013522

johanna
johanna
September 16, 2022 1:13 pm

BTW, dropped into the local Telstra shop this morning because my thingie that connects me to the internet on a wireless basis died.

The thingie’s battery has died. Turns out that they don’t sell batteries. But, they sold me the original device, with battery. I now have to go to Battery World in Fyshwick to get another. They have no idea what it would cost (yeah, right.)

It was a bumpy ride. I was told by the front man that replacing my Netgear device and battery would cost around $500. My displeasure was manifest.

I was lucky in being assigned to a young Chinese chap with respect for the ancestors.

He found me a dongle (eeeuw!) for $144 that does the job.

While this was going on – I was there just as they were opening – they could not get their payment processor to work. For at least 15 minutes, a staff member tried all sorts while I proffered my credit card several times.

Meanwhile, I discussed implementation with the nice but nerdy Chinese chap. He gave a long list of instructions starting with unpacking the box.

I asked him to do it for me, like installing the battery and switching the SIM card. Which he did. He is a nice chap, no doubt comes from a good family.

Also, I mentioned that if everything didn’t work, I’d be back. Soon. And, neither party wanted that. 🙂

If I hadn’t asked all those questions, I would have had to go back.

Why the hell is it all made so difficult?

Roger
Roger
September 16, 2022 1:20 pm

Xi and Putin met overnight.

Seems they will increase the joint Chinese & Russian naval patrols in the Pacific which began last October.

Crossie
Crossie
September 16, 2022 1:22 pm

Got my result – negative. So whatever laid me low this week is not the dreaded No 19.

Delta A
Delta A
September 16, 2022 1:25 pm

Psays:
September 16, 2022 at 1:04 pm
Martha’s Vineyard homeless shelter coordinator Lisa Belcastro on the migrants flown

Thanks for posting that, P. Such hypocrisy!

The comments were not supportive of Ms Belcastro. My pick:

She just said “There goes the neighborhood” in democrat doublespeak.

Crossie
Crossie
September 16, 2022 1:29 pm

The people can not be trusted to govern themselves.

I would like to give it a shot, just for a laugh.

mizaris
mizaris
September 16, 2022 1:33 pm

Why the hell is it all made so difficult?

Fvcking bureaucracy.

My parents died recently and the executrixes of the estate were denied necessary documentation from banks, centrelink, ATO, Medicare etc because, despite them having all the necessary documents, permissions, POWs and POGs, IDs, certificates etc, it would be a breach of privacy because the aforementioned parents were dead.

The executrixes of the estate made it their business to appear in person at each department, office, branch etc every day with the required documents. They spoke loudly, calmly and insistently (as NO PRIVACY due to covid perspex screens), produced evidence from the officious officials’ own websites and generally made themselves unpopular for several weeks.

As a result of their persistence, probate was granted, the estate was settled and disbursements made within 3 months of the date of departure of the longest lived parent.

Also as a result, the ATO at least has made some significant alterations to their online advice to executors.

It was as if every bank and bureaucracy in this country had never heard of someone dying, and had decided that, since this was such a rare event, there would be no consistent procedures to deal with it. Instead they appeared to DELIBERATELY make the procedure infinitely more difficult and distressing for all bereaved people. cvnts.

rickw
rickw
September 16, 2022 1:34 pm

Martha’s Vineyard homeless shelter coordinator Lisa Belcastro on the migrants flown

Virtue signallers get an opportunity to actually “do something” and end up running a mile.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 16, 2022 1:34 pm

OK, well and good, for everyone said and maybe even swore they would never forget.
But nearly all did.

I wouldn’t count on that.

rickw
rickw
September 16, 2022 1:36 pm

Fvcking bureaucracy.

What else would Australia do with its vast collection of useless twats?

mizaris
mizaris
September 16, 2022 1:36 pm

Got my result – negative. So whatever laid me low this week is not the dreaded No 19.

Good result.

Just wondering why the only people that I know who have had covid have also been jabbed. I remain unjabbed, despite jabbed others around me testing positive and suffering various degrees of discomfort from the cold virus.

struth
struth
September 16, 2022 1:37 pm

Yep those tests ate infallible

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 16, 2022 1:38 pm

DeSantis’s stunt backfired spectacularly when the Martha’s Vineyard community came together to house and feed the Venezuelan asylum seekers who had been hoodwinked by Republican ratfsckers into stepping on a plane.

The old “asylum seeker” bullshit again.
They’re illegal migrants and have no intention of returning to Venezuela, who would blame them.
The pontificating liberals of Martha’s Vineyard “don’t like it up ‘em” hey Monty.

Chris
Chris
September 16, 2022 1:39 pm

Lathe Americana for Victorian Cats, Southbend 9”.

You are a scholar and a gentlemen rickw. There are very few of us left.

Went to visit the pathetic old, rice-burning lathe I share with two others, to make a thing.
While I had been away, it had grown into a big, serious modern tool with dro and standing nearby a vertical machine also with dro. My ownership share has declined from a third to a poofteenth.
Sort of a ‘husband asked me to sell the stuff to pay the divorce lawyers’ story. My friend couldn’t get his wallet out fast enough, ten minutes after the ad went up!

What was the thing I wanted to make? Embarrassing. The delight of my eyes wanted circular knitting needles in 14,15 and 16 mm. Turn down dowels, centre bore and glue in a cheap second hand 3mm circular needle with its nylon link. Next time the 1/72 scale Spitfire crankshaft, I swear.

Helen
Helen
September 16, 2022 1:41 pm

men paying six figure sums to gain three inches

words

Crossie
Crossie
September 16, 2022 1:42 pm

At least now that I officially don’t have the plague I can go out into the world again and not just to a PCR testing station. The grandkids were happy to run errands for me but I would rather do my own shopping?

Crossie
Crossie
September 16, 2022 1:44 pm

Helen says:
September 16, 2022 at 1:41 pm
men paying six figure sums to gain three inches

I thought that was just part of the plot from Fay Weldon’s She-Devil

rickw
rickw
September 16, 2022 1:45 pm

While I had been away, it had grown into a big, serious modern tool with dro and standing nearby a vertical machine also with dro.

Let us know what oil they had been watering it with!

(Ex’s are definitely the #1 purveyors of bargain basement machinetools! Zero market research plus they look at a couple of tons of cast iron and consider it practically immovable.)

Crossie
Crossie
September 16, 2022 1:47 pm

One daughter and I are the only people I know who have not had No 19.

rickw
rickw
September 16, 2022 1:48 pm

A growing number of men are undergoing a radical and expensive surgery to grow anywhere from three to six inches.

Basically a lift kit. I vote for getting munty 6 inches and re-shooting the golfing photo!

Lysander
Lysander
September 16, 2022 1:50 pm

Yep those tests ate infallible

Who is infallible Struth, and why were they eaten?

Lysander
Lysander
September 16, 2022 1:51 pm

Yesterday Cats were talking about stock investing and I think FM had a few handy hints (disclaimers included).

The best way, it seems, to tip a stock’s performance is to see what Pelosi is about to vote in favour of?

Chris
Chris
September 16, 2022 1:51 pm

It was as if every bank and bureaucracy in this country had never heard of someone dying, and had decided that, since this was such a rare event, there would be no consistent procedures to deal with it. Instead they appeared to DELIBERATELY make the procedure infinitely more difficult and distressing for all bereaved people. cvnts.

When one spouse dies the joint accounts are locked and the survivor used to be temporarily left destitute despite all common sense and justice.
Allegedly, the CBA has a special provision. The CBA has a process that should see the widowed partner given immediate access to cash, while the frozen account thing is sorted out. Haven’t used it but my Mum certainly could have used it when Dad died 26 years ago, so when I saw this on their website I was stoked.
Given the circus I recently went through to change signatories on a society account, I think the staff are the issue more than the actual rules; the training and development have gone to shit in the rush to de-person the customer experience.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
September 16, 2022 1:54 pm

Fvcking bureaucracy.

Here in Western Mongstalia if your high risk license runs out (thats the one the government grants you AFTER you are certified) you have one year to get a renewal or all your previous qualifications are cancelled.

The government does nothing but ticket clip on these tickets, they dont provide the training but have inserted themselves as the “licensor”.
You could be a forklift driver, driving forklift 24/7, but become unable to do so because you havent paid a government flogbag permission to do so.

Lysander
Lysander
September 16, 2022 1:57 pm

Martha’s Vineyard has declared a Humanitarian Crisis!!! LOL!!!

(Reminder, not 1000s of illegals… only 50)

Lysander
Lysander
September 16, 2022 1:59 pm

More gold!

Martha’s Vineyard Homeless Shelter tells illegals “they can’t stay:”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQvaspmKffM

Lysander
Lysander
September 16, 2022 2:00 pm

Sold a Lemon:

CNN continues to try to address their hemorrhaging viewership by shaking up the network’s lineup. Far-left Don Lemon , one of the network’s champions of liberal propaganda, will lose his primetime evening spot, “Don Lemon Tonight,” and will join a new morning show as one of three co-hosts.

Zipster
Zipster
September 16, 2022 2:03 pm

Martha’s Vineyard is not a sanctuary city.

it’s just a virtue signalling haven

Zipster
Zipster
September 16, 2022 2:05 pm

You could be a forklift driver, driving forklift 24/7, but become unable to do so because you havent paid a government flogbag permission to do so.

the bugmen’s primary job is making a job for bugmen

duncanm
duncanm
September 16, 2022 2:05 pm

The wrongologist strikes again..

m0nty says:
September 16, 2022 at 12:43 pm

Martha’s Vineyard is not a sanctuary city.

Massachusetts is not a sanctuary state

2017 Massachusetts’ supreme court ruling

Massachusetts court officers do not have the authority to arrest someone suspected of being in the U.S. illegally if that person is not facing criminal charges, the state’s highest court ruled Monday.

Carol Rose, the ACLU’s executive director said. “This victory is the first of its kind in the nation. At a time when the Trump administration is pushing aggressive and discriminatory immigration enforcement policies, Massachusetts is leading nationwide efforts by limiting how state and local law enforcement assist with federal immigration enforcement.”

rickw
rickw
September 16, 2022 2:06 pm

More Lathe Americana for Victorian Cats, a rather large and well kept looking Le Blond:

https://www.grays.com/lot/0017-3023039/manufacturing/p-le-blond-gap-lathe-p?spr=true

I accidentally visited the old LeBlond factory site while in Cincinnati. Went with a couple of colleagues to a large shopping centre. On arriving a chimney with LeBlond on it revealed where I was. The vast factory had been bulldozed and a shopping centre built, the only remaining building was the engine house which had been turned into a cafe.

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LeBlond seems to have had some relationship with Sheraton, Fairfield, Melbourne. This seems to have occurred before Sheraton established a relationship with the 600 Group. Thus Sheraton lathes went through a transition where they looked visually identical to early LeBlonds, then LeBlonds with Colchester tail stocks etc.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
September 16, 2022 2:07 pm

Ha!
Looks like its time to march into the bosses office and take a dump on his desk!!
Ex-Queen Lizzie has come through for me!

We wish to notify you again that your name was mentioned as heir to the sum of 950,000.00 sterling pounds. In the last testament of our deceased client name now withed. I and my team of the Heir Hunters Company in the United Kingdom are detectives assisting distant relatives of people who have died with or without making any official will.

As the heir hunter’s team of detective, the race is now on for us to track down the often distant relatives in line for a windfall. We came across your profile and email while searching through genealogy database. Note as the heir hunters our aim is to assist people claim there lost relative fortune instead of the government or Bank MDS to use the money to enrich their treasury. Please send an acknowledgment email to enable us process your inheritance with all due verification process.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Representative
Yours Faithfully,
Admin Emissary.

They arent sending their best

MatrixTransform
September 16, 2022 2:08 pm

is mUnty bobble-heading again?

/rhetorical

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 16, 2022 2:08 pm

Frlloicking

Plenty of dodgy trainer assessors in Qld too that make a mockery of the system that was devised to stop the shonky qualifications being handed out. Earth works are the worst IMO, saw it with my own eyes on one contract…

Don’t know what the solution is but IMO RCC could cut down the ticket clipping but seldom used.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
September 16, 2022 2:11 pm

Rockdoctorsays:
September 16, 2022 at 2:08 pm

Basically you send a copy of a certification from “Jims testicle surgery” along with your money and you have a high risk license.
It adds nearly nothing to telling an employer if a person can operate a machine properly.

MatrixTransform
September 16, 2022 2:14 pm

Why the hell is it all made so difficult?

an open wallet is more powerful than an open mouth

–Sun Tzu

Zipster
Zipster
September 16, 2022 2:15 pm

A List Of 33 Things We Know About The Coming Food Shortages
#1 The hard red winter wheat crop in the United States this year “was the smallest since 1963”. But in 1963, there were only 182 million people living in this nation. Today, our population has grown to 329 million.
#2 It is being projected that the rice harvest in California will be “half what it would be in a normal year”.
#3 The U.S. tomato harvest will come in at just 10.5 million tons in 2022. That is over a million tons lower than a normal year.
#4 This will be the worst U.S. corn harvest in at least a decade.
#5 Year-to-date shipments of carrots in the United States are down 45 percent.
#6 Year-to-date shipments of sweet corn in the United States are down 20 percent.
#7 Year-to-date shipments of sweet potatoes in the United States are down 13 percent.
#8 Year-to-date shipments of celery in the United States are down 11 percent.
#9 Total peach production in the U.S. is down 15 percent from last year.
#10 Almost three-fourths of all U.S. farmers say that this year’s drought is hurting their harvests.
#11 Thanks to the endless drought, the total number of cattle in Oregon is down 41 percent.
#12 Thanks to the endless drought, the total number of cattle in New Mexico is down 43 percent.
#13 Thanks to the endless drought, the total number of cattle in Texas is down 50 percent.

#14 One beef producer in Oklahoma is now predicting that ground beef “could eventually top $50 per pound”.
#15 At least 40 percent of the United States has been suffering from drought conditions for 101 consecutive weeks.
#16 Overall, this is the worst multi-year megadrought in the United States in 1,200 years.
#17 Europe is currently experiencing the worst drought that it has seen in 500 years. In some parts of central Europe, river levels have fallen so low that “hunger stones” are being revealed for the first time in centuries.
#18 Corn production for the entire EU could be down by as much as one-fifth in 2022.
#19 We are being warned that there will be crop losses in France of up to 35 percent.
#20 It is being projected that crop losses in some areas of the UK could be as high as 50 percent.
#21 It is being reported that there will be crop losses “of up to 50 percent” in some parts of Germany.
#22 Some farmers in Italy have already lost “up to 80% of their harvest”.
#23 Agricultural production in Somalia will be down about 80 percent this year.
#24 In eastern Africa, the endless drought has already resulted in the deaths of at least seven million animals.
#25 In China, they are facing the worst drought that they have ever experienced in recorded history.
#26 India normally accounts for 40 percent of the global rice trade, but we are being warned that production in that country will be way down in 2022 due to “considerable rainfall deficits in key rice producing states”.
#27 A third of the entire nation of Pakistan was under water after recent floods absolutely devastated that nation, and agricultural areas were hit particularly hard. As a result, the vast majority of the crops in the country have been “washed away”…
#28 The prices of some fertilizers have tripled since 2021, while the prices of some other fertilizers have actually quadrupled.
#29 One payment company is reporting that the number of Americans using their app to take out short-term loans for groceries has risen by 95 percent.
#30 Demand at U.S. food banks is now even worse than it was during the height of the COVID pandemic.
#31 The World Health Organization is telling us that millions of people in Africa are now potentially facing a very real possibility of starving to death.
#32 According to the World Food Program, 828 million people around the world go to bed hungry each night. Needless to say, that number will soon be much higher.
#33 UN Secretary General António Guterres has publicly stated that he believes that it is likely that there will be “multiple famines” in 2023.

m0nty
m0nty
September 16, 2022 2:28 pm

Martha’s Vineyard homeless shelter coordinator Lisa Belcastro on the migrants flown

Well said that lady. It’s a stupid and cruel game DeSantis is playing, using humans as pawns.

The migrants will be resettled elsewhere in Massachusetts and life will go on.

duncanm
duncanm
September 16, 2022 2:30 pm

Zipstersays:
September 16, 2022 at 2:15 pm
A List Of 33 Things We Know About The Coming Food Shortages

#34 – the UN is unilaterally pushing for reduced Nitrogen fertiliser use

calli
calli
September 16, 2022 2:41 pm

I’m now thinking garden variety troll.

Yes. It’s Grigs. I’ve known for a while now.

It was just a matter of time.

Chris
Chris
September 16, 2022 2:43 pm

It adds nearly nothing to telling an employer if a person can operate a machine properly.

I have eight tek screws and a plate through my knee to show that operating farm machinery thirty years ago does not make you a safe Dingo operator today.

Roger
Roger
September 16, 2022 2:44 pm

The migrants will be resettled elsewhere in Massachusetts and life will go on.

If they were migrants they’d have visas and sponsors according to US law.

And none of this would be happening if Biden policed the borders properly.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 16, 2022 2:44 pm

Doug Casey On Class Warfare, ‘Eat The Rich’ Sentiment, & What Happens Next

What’s going on is the institutionalization of envy, a terrible vice. It’s different from jealousy.

Jealousy says, “You have something that I want. I want one too. Give it to me.”

Envy says, “You have something that I want. If I can’t have it, I’ll destroy it, so you can’t have it either.” Envy is the moral flaw that underlies all socialist economic theories. Socialist feelings and morality underly the economic lies, race hatred, class hatred, sex antagonism, and political polarization tearing the US and the West apart. Envy and socialism have become secular religions. The country has been divided into two different and mutually antagonistic worldviews.

The Left is proposing all manner of outrageous, destructive, and genuinely stupid ideas.

Free stuff for everybody. Not just food, shelter, schooling, and medical care provided at the expense of producers—which they’ve basically achieved. But now a guaranteed annual income. Everybody is supposed to get a thousand dollars a month, according to the silly twit and wannabe US president Andrew Yang. They won’t have to do anything, just exist, presumably hanging out at Starbucks playing with their iPhones all day.

International Man: What do you make of the hiring of 87,000 new IRS agents in the context of this trend?

Doug Casey: Those people aren’t being recruited just to collect taxes, although that’s absolutely one of the things that they will do. They will amount to a national police force, one that has a different mandate than the FBI, the ATF, the DEA, or other Praetorian agencies. The tax authorities have a right to look at any economic activity everywhere and anywhere.

As a moral issue, they’ll try to turn nonpayment of tax on the part of producers into a crime against society. I shudder to think of the type of amoral creatures being recruited—at fat salaries and with immense powers—to investigate the lives of their countrymen. They’ll be exactly analogous to Germany’s Gestapo or Stasi.

These new IRS agents are a direct attack on the middle class. The elite hate the middle class and what they stand for—independence, stability, and traditional values. The fact that they’re doubling the size of the tax police is truly extraordinary. As the economy continues to decline, you can expect class warfare—along with race and sex warfare—to increase.

Doug Casey: The speech Biden gave on September 1 was intended to be shocking and disturbing. It mimicked a scene out of V for Vendetta or 1984. They went out of their way to have Biden deliver it in Philadelphia, where the US was founded, and use red lighting against a dark background to fan emotions. These people are serious. Biden’s words were full of hate and venom, calling out half the country as the enemy—the speech was unprecedented. It was a warning and an overt threat.

Look at the scene. The red background was over the top. Placing a couple of Marines in the background said, “I have power, and I’ll use it against the enemy.” Theatrics such as these are unprecedented. It amounted to a declaration of civil war. It was followed up by the outrageous raid on Trump’s home and the FBI perp-walking about 50 of his prominent supporters, with dawn raids, in subsequent days.

These people truly want to overturn society. They’re actually a reincarnation of the Jacobins and could turn out to be just as violent and dangerous.

They’re working to create an active environment of class warfare in the US. They’ve succeeded in fomenting race hatred,

There’s not much you can do when actual forces of evil are in control. There’s very little that you can do except get out of Dodge.

Here in the US, we still have a large middle class. Many are fat, dumb, indoctrinated, or addicted to Prozac and Zoloft. But millions of others are, to coin a phrase, mad as hell and aren’t going to take it anymore. The things we’ve been talking about could turn into a genuine civil war.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 16, 2022 2:45 pm

Fresh battle in Brittany Higgins trial as defence seeks access to timeline

theaustralian.com.au04:12
Bruce Lehrmann trial set for October 4

Courtney Gould
NCA NewsWire
2 hours ago September 16, 2022

A crucial timeline provided to police by former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins is at the centre of a fresh fight in the Canberra courts.

Bruce Lehrmann’s lawyers are seeking the document that outlines Ms Higgins’ version of events from 2019.

Mr Lehrmann has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting Ms Higgins inside Parliament House in 2019.

Andrew Berger said that when the defence made the request for the document, the Director of Public Prosecutions denied it, claiming legal professional privilege.

He said he wanted to “avoid issuing a subpoena” to Federal Police but on Friday filed the document with the court.

Justice Lucy McCallum also ordered defence and a barrister appointed by the DPP to discuss what material from a 56,000 page Cellebrite report into data from Ms Higgins’ phone could be considered disclosable.

She told the court she had concerns the defence could be “chasing” cross-examination “rabbits”, and if that was the case, it would be a “very long trial”

“My primary function is to ensure Mr Lehrmann and the Crown have a fair trial. But secondarily, I’m not going to let cross-examination go uphill and down dale for weeks and weeks,” Ms McCallum said.

Steven Whybrow – appearing for Mr Lehrmann – said that was not his intention “to be here forever”.

The matter will return to court next week for a pre-trial mention.

Chris
Chris
September 16, 2022 2:47 pm

You could be a forklift driver, driving forklift 24/7, but become unable to do so because you havent paid a government flogbag permission to do so.

Quite. The head contractor however falls with his arse in butter, if you screw up he has the paper to show he isn’t liable.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 16, 2022 2:50 pm
Roger
Roger
September 16, 2022 2:52 pm

The matter will return to court next week for a pre-trial mention.

McCallum’s handling of this matter thus far leaves much to be desired, to put it politely.

Crossie
Crossie
September 16, 2022 2:53 pm

Why the hell is it all made so difficult?

Johanna, I don’t know. I have had laptops and printers for decades without any trouble until I bought the newest laptop and printer. I got the store’s technician to connect the two and test and he showed me that they worked together. I got them home and no go. Back to the store where the technician did some more things and said this time for sure. Got home again but the Bluetooth just wouldn’t work at which point I gave up. At least cable connection between the laptop and printer works.

Lysander
Lysander
September 16, 2022 2:54 pm

LOL Footage of Dr Monique Lyan singing and dancing without a mask in a crowded space has been obtained by Sky News. 😛

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 16, 2022 2:55 pm

When I had my second knee replacement it was discovered that leg was 12mm shorter than the other and was going to cause hip and back problems. Bright spark Professor of leg lengthening made the adjustment, causing a well honed sense of dynamic movement to be severely compromised, with hip and back problems occurring now because I stand funny. Now my wife said something about another 3 inches, mumble.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 16, 2022 2:58 pm

Managed to report OldOzzie, send money if want me to retract. Will an uptick do for recompense?

Lysander
Lysander
September 16, 2022 3:00 pm

Mike Lindell shared the Gospel of Jesus during FBI raid!

Crossie
Crossie
September 16, 2022 3:04 pm

If the illegals will be settled elsewhere in Massachusetts then obviously they can take more. All border states should send them all of their incoming.

People with signs such as “No one is illegal” should be made to take at least some illegal entrants.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 16, 2022 3:04 pm

GreyRanga says:
September 16, 2022 at 2:58 pm

Managed to report OldOzzie, send money if want me to retract. Will an uptick do for recompense?

Either one fine!

calli
calli
September 16, 2022 3:05 pm

Why the hell is it all made so difficult?

The latest is QR code menus. Being a neoLuddite, I have no idea how to even get an app, let alone use one in a restaurant.

Way to buzz off customers numpties.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 16, 2022 3:08 pm

McCallum’s handling of this matter thus far leaves much to be desired, to put it politely.

Indeed, do I detect another show like the one Armitige is putting on in the NT in the offing?

bespoke
bespoke
September 16, 2022 3:10 pm

Seems the girls have better luck sniffing out Grigs socks.

Was it the wrong perfume or out of season dress that gave him away?

calli
calli
September 16, 2022 3:13 pm

Eau de Formaldehyde.

The dead are resurrected many…many times. Including long dead comments.

Bruce in WA
September 16, 2022 3:16 pm

that terminal screwdriver
in the car console
is a just a screwdriver
I like to have a spare because you know, the tips break all the time

Think I may have said I had a cop threaten to “do me” for having a screwdriver in my car holding open a broken dash vent.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 16, 2022 3:19 pm
Miltonf
Miltonf
September 16, 2022 3:28 pm

Every day the US gets a bit more like the USSR

Miltonf
Miltonf
September 16, 2022 3:29 pm

So are the pro Trump demonstrators still locked up without trail?

rickw
rickw
September 16, 2022 3:29 pm
Miltonf
Miltonf
September 16, 2022 3:29 pm

Trial

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