Open Thread – Weekend 17 Sept 2022


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Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 3:41 pm

Franxsays:

September 18, 2022 at 3:33 pm

I would not have though … etcetera … etcetera

Sure.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 3:42 pm

MatrixTransform says:
September 18, 2022 at 1:29 pm

That’s exactly too cold.

not that straight forward old chap

Not as straight forward as not as straight forward as you’re suggesting. But go ahead and expand a little more than a six word assertion. I think you can do it, Champ. It’s a challenge but I think you can do it.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 18, 2022 3:45 pm

Police pounce on alleged burglar who used e-scooter in attempted getaway
The West Australian
September 18, 2022 1:16PM
Topics
Crime
WA News

Police have managed to outrun and pounce on an accused violent home burglar despite the suspect allegedly using an e-scooter in his attempted getaway.

The male offender allegedly forced his way into a Midvale home and assaulted the resident when he was fronted about 5am on Saturday.

Police said the victim contacted police, with officers allegedly spotting him a short time later, sparking an “extensive foot chase”.

“Officers chased the alleged offender on foot for almost a kilometre, and were able to catch up and arrest him, despite him riding an electronic scooter,” Midland Police acting Sergeant Andrew Grimshaw said.

The alleged offender has been charged with aggravated home burglary, stealing, assault occasioning bodily harm and breaching bail.

He was due to appear in Northbridge Magistrates Court on Sunday.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 3:45 pm

JCsays:

September 18, 2022 at 3:42 pm

MatrixTransform says:
September 18, 2022 at 1:29 pm

That’s exactly too cold.

Tread warily, JC.
You are talking to the King of Cooling Towers.
He knows cold.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 3:47 pm

He knows cold.

He’s a polar dunker? What do they call those dudes swimming in the dead on winder?

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 3:48 pm

whoops dead of winter..

Hit the accelerator

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 3:54 pm

Iceburgers.
Or icebergers.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 3:54 pm

Oh yea, Icebergers.

rickw
rickw
September 18, 2022 3:54 pm

However, the rise of the Teals shows how you have comprehensively lost the argument among the general public.

Stupid people voting for conditions that they are incapable of surviving.

It will sort itself out.

Franx
Franx
September 18, 2022 3:55 pm

Et cetera not etcetera. Please.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 3:55 pm

Hey, m0nster, do you want to join the Icebergers?
“Oh, yes please! I love all sorts of burgers!”

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 3:56 pm

Franxsays:

September 18, 2022 at 3:55 pm

Sure.

calli
calli
September 18, 2022 3:56 pm

I demand you lot give me more upticks!

Otherwise I’ll treat it as a pile-off.

Be warned!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 18, 2022 3:58 pm

Peter Fitz Simmons’s latest book is on the Battle of Long Tan. I don’t think I’ll bother, somehow…

Makka
Makka
September 18, 2022 3:58 pm

JC,
That CS note you posted was very interesting. I can’t find the dude on Twitter. Are you getting these CS notes as a client or from elsewhere? I’d like to get hold of his others in future.

I’ve come to similar conclusions but from a different angle – what would a higher inflation rate world look and function like with globalisation risk elevated. What to avoid and so forth, which helps narrow down options quite a lot.

I think Pozsar’s reasoning is absolutely spot on. He’s very good at joining dots as many Eastern Euro’s are.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 4:00 pm

Calli

Ask according to several people , Thought Leader is the go to guy for upticks. Go ask him for a couple of dozen. Supposedly he’s a wiz.

JMH
JMH
September 18, 2022 4:00 pm

I demand you lot give me more upticks!

NO.

JMH
JMH
September 18, 2022 4:01 pm

This thread is getting more hilarious by the minute.

miltonf
miltonf
September 18, 2022 4:01 pm

Turds like the fat creep seem to be obsessed with the 50s for some reason- almost like that’s when the world began. Speaking of the fat creep, it seems to be transitioning into some sort of George W Bush neo-con.

calli
calli
September 18, 2022 4:02 pm

Time to slink away and view some Roman Ruins. Apparently there’s an almost complete coliseum.

I will report back later – unless I’m fed to lions. The cranky bears have already had a nibble, but I am immune to bad tempered numpties.

calli
calli
September 18, 2022 4:03 pm

Maybe they are Pies fans.

[runs]

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 4:04 pm

Makka

I got the note as a client at CS back in August, but I was scanning though Real Clear Politics today and found it listed, which is why I linked to it here.

He’s an analyst over at CS NY.

Ordinarily, I would say I’d email this stuff if I found it interesting, but in this day and age of you know who, I think it’s best we kept ourselves anon as you can’t trust anyone by the looks of things.

Megan
Megan
September 18, 2022 4:04 pm

When is the next Cat catch up?

Are we talking Melbourne?

calli
calli
September 18, 2022 4:05 pm

I affirmed your rejection JMH.

Appeals to upticks should be treated with parental firmness, like the Kinder Surprises at the checkout.

Franx
Franx
September 18, 2022 4:07 pm

Ha.

Makka
Makka
September 18, 2022 4:08 pm

Ok JC, no worries.

Mater
September 18, 2022 4:08 pm

Just so Dover doesn’t get humbugged about it in the future, I’ll clarify that Arky can no more manipulate the ‘upticks’ than the rest of you can. He, like you and I, can slip over onto other devices, and lay down another couple if he really wants. But that one or two extra is hardly a war winner, or Greta Thunberg level influence. Besides, anyone reading this can do that, too

Arky’s posting rights are/were the same as mine. I have no ability to influence those numbers…other than the quality of my comment. He doesn’t/didn’t either.

We can’t even identify which commentators gave the comment an ‘uptick’, unlike Facebook. It’s just a number on the screen.

Dover MAY have the ability to do it, but I doubt he is.

Also, people with posting rights really only have influence over their own threads. We can’t do anything on those that Dover initiates ( this includes Open Threads). We can’t allow, edit or remove comments, on anything other than our own.

The rumour about manipulating upticks is clearly a glib, slightly amusing shit stir, that’s got waaaaaaay out of hand.

The ‘upticks’ represents a reading of the room, nothing more, nothing less.

calli
calli
September 18, 2022 4:11 pm

It’s okay Mater. I’m just mucking around over the upticks.

As for reading the room, I would like a variety of typefaces. Comic Sans preferably.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 4:11 pm

JMH says:
September 18, 2022 at 4:01 pm

This thread is getting more hilarious by the minute.

True, but what’s also continually hilarious, JMH was the way you grovelled to the Lollipop blogger Adam D when I suggested there was little to nothing known about him. Comically, you answered I was being far too demanding and how could I possibly request that he explain himself. You’re here and not there. I can that an unnecessary grovel.

Tom
Tom
September 18, 2022 4:12 pm

George W. Monty: “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED”

Thanks, CL. Roared laughing.

JMH
JMH
September 18, 2022 4:16 pm

Matersays:
September 18, 2022 at 4:08 pm

Thank you Mater. Well said.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 4:20 pm

Just so Dover doesn’t get humbugged about it in the future, I’ll clarify that Arky can no more manipulate the ‘upticks’ than the rest of you can.

At the risk of causing you another flip-out when someone (anyone) disagrees with you, how the fuck would you know what the weaknesses are, mater? You’re not a programmer, unless that’s changed.

What one person suggested is being done to manipulate ticks is clearing history (all cache etc. the whole thing) and that allows to refresh and tick anew. Have you tried because I haven’t, yet you’re then one telling us it’s impossible.
Also, I believe the Thought Leadership no longer has posting rights here to post threads, unless that’s changed in the past week.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 4:21 pm

JMH says:
September 18, 2022 at 4:16 pm

Matersays:
September 18, 2022 at 4:08 pm

Thank you Mater. Well said.

I take it all back as JMH backs mater so it must be true then. How could it not.

Just kidding.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 4:23 pm

Also, I believe the Thought Leadership no longer has posting rights here to post threads, unless that’s changed in the past week.

Too busy attending to the chaudron de lapin.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 4:25 pm

Too busy attending to the chaudron de lapin.

Lol , as in (cooked) boiled rabbit? Bunny Boiler is funny.

hahahahahahahahaha

Franx
Franx
September 18, 2022 4:28 pm

It’s been a challenge in mischief to which I succumbed for want of dedication to work I’m supposed to be doing. All on a grey Melbourne Sunday afternoon. But I no complain because I like grey skies. Obviously, not much I would not say to avoid work. Whatever happened to the Sabbath.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 4:29 pm

I do wish the tone would lift a little here.
Not just the bonhomie and good humour.
We need more.
We need a lot more medieval prose and poetry.
With a sprinkling of accounts of our various operations and hospitalisations (including the full regimen of medications and innernet diagnoses).
All topped off with a trumpeting of our very worthy charitable pursuits.
And not forgetting the travelogues.
But definitely no truck stories.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 4:29 pm

This blog has been down for days on end in the recent past. No one had much of any idea on how to fix it after other fixes were tried causing other outages.

Oh but upticks being manipulated .. absolutely impossible I says. Can’t happen. Yea, okay.

Mater
September 18, 2022 4:30 pm

Have you tried because I haven’t, yet you’re then one telling us it’s impossible.

No, this is what I said:

I’ll clarify that Arky can no more manipulate the ‘upticks’ than the rest of you can.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 4:30 pm

Franxsays:

September 18, 2022 at 4:28 pm

It’s been a challenge … etcetera … etcetera

Sure.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 4:33 pm

I’ll clarify that Arky can no more manipulate the ‘upticks’ than the rest of you can.

Which means we all have equal ability to do it if we can be bothered.
No lesser authority than the Birdman of Newcastle said it could be done, and I think JC has touched on the method above.
Think of those online newspaper polls and the method for multiple voting.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 4:35 pm

I’ll clarify that Arky can no more manipulate the ‘upticks’ than the rest of you can.

I don’t understand how that explains away the vibe people have that he’s fucking around with the blog in some way. Hopefully, you’re not suggesting it would be impossible for him to fuck around with ticks and if you aren’t, then , to be honest your comment isn’t just silly, it’s intentionally misleading.

John H.
John H.
September 18, 2022 4:37 pm

I do wish the tone would lift a little here.
Not just the bonhomie and good humour.
We need more.

We’re all going to die.

cohenite
September 18, 2022 4:38 pm

On the bright side, some really superb efforts reported in Shit Towns’ latest.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 4:39 pm

John H.says:

September 18, 2022 at 4:37 pm

I do wish the tone would lift a little here.
Not just the bonhomie and good humour.
We need more.

We’re all going to die.

Yeah, nah.
Not quite what I was looking for.

Razey
Razey
September 18, 2022 4:42 pm

rickwsays:
September 18, 2022 at 3:54 pm
However, the rise of the Teals shows how you have comprehensively lost the argument among the general public.

Stupid people voting for conditions that they are incapable of surviving.

It will sort itself out.

Yeah, but can we?

Look at Lebanon at the moment. Savers are robbing the banks to get their cash out.

Franx
Franx
September 18, 2022 4:42 pm

Et cetera is a sticking point, it seems.

Ed Case
Ed Case
September 18, 2022 4:42 pm

I’ll clarify that Arky can no more manipulate the ‘upticks’ than the rest of you can.
Most people wouldn’t bother, but it only takes one rotten apple to spoil the entire bin.

Mater
September 18, 2022 4:42 pm

What one person suggested is being done to manipulate ticks is clearing history (all cache etc. the whole thing) and that allows to refresh and tick anew. Have you tried because I haven’t, yet you’re then one telling us it’s impossible.

Just tried it. Didn’t work.
But when I cleared the history AND jumped from Starlink to 4G, I could give a second uptick.
I’ve just hit the limits of my various connections, so 2 upticks is all I can award.

It’ll take more than that before I consider myself cool or part of the popular group.

Cassie of Sydney
September 18, 2022 4:42 pm

“I do wish the tone would lift a little here.

I do try although sometimes I get triggered and go off the rails.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 4:43 pm

FFS, people, stop upticking my comment at 4:33.
It is totally ruining my “lone man standing against Socialism” schtick.

Razey
Razey
September 18, 2022 4:53 pm

dover0beachsays:
September 18, 2022 at 4:48 pm
Male teacher wears his fetish oversized prosthetic breasts to school, admin ok with it.

Clown world.

It’s climate change dont ya know.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 4:55 pm

Just tried it. Didn’t work.
But when I cleared the history AND jumped from Starlink to 4G, I could give a second uptick.
I’ve just hit the limits of my various connections, so 2 upticks is all I can award.

Do you have a VPN as VPN’s are meant to camouflage IP addresses. I’d guess ticks would be controlled by IP addresses. That’s how someone else at Discourd suggested he’s manipulating the stuff.

Use a VPN
A VPN is an intermediary server that encrypts your connection to the internet — and it also hides your IP address. A VPN encrypts all your traffic, not only in your browser but also in other apps, and then passes traffic onward to its destination.

Also we’re not equally motivated by insane behavior as this below implies.

Arky says:
September 8, 2022 at 5:12 pm

I’ll tell you something else.
Every time I criticise the Chinese on one of these blogs, within hours I get hang up phone calls from random numbers in NSW. Every time.
So to the resident CCP agents reading this: Stick it up your a***.

Ed Case
Ed Case
September 18, 2022 5:00 pm

I’ve just hit the limits of my various connections, so 2 upticks is all I can award.
You upticked yourself TWICE!!?
[shakin’ my head]

cohenite
September 18, 2022 5:01 pm

dover0beachsays:
September 18, 2022 at 4:48 pm
Male teacher wears his fetish oversized prosthetic breasts to school, admin ok with it.

Clown world.

It’s climate change dont ya know.

Actually, 2 gigantic fake tits on a pervert at a fucking school has more scientific legitimacy than climate science.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 5:02 pm

Fucking amazing. The insane doofus receives a call from an Indian call center in the hustle of trying to flog stupid solar panels to gullible Australians. This Einstein puts it all together, forming the view that the Chinese communist party has hired an Indian call center to tag some idiot posting comments on the Cat Lollipop blog which attracts 3 unique visitors a day.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 18, 2022 5:06 pm

calli says:
September 18, 2022 at 4:03 pm
Maybe they are Pies fans.

[runs]

You’re on report along with Roger & Bespoke.
Get your story straight for the tribunal hearing. We take a very dim view of squaring up behind play.

Mater
September 18, 2022 5:07 pm

Also we’re not equally motivated by insane behavior as this below implies.

Of all the trolls and questionable characters that the Catallaxy has been exposed to, Arky is the prime/soul evil manipulator of ‘upticks’, according to the “vibe”?

Ok. I guess if you live or die by ‘upticks’, this might be an issue. I prefer to judge the substance of the comment.

If its being done, anyone could be doing it. What does it matter?

m0nty
m0nty
September 18, 2022 5:07 pm

We all get those phone calls, Arky. Not just all Cats, normies as well.

John H.
John H.
September 18, 2022 5:09 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
September 18, 2022 at 4:39 pm
John H.says:

September 18, 2022 at 4:37 pm

I do wish the tone would lift a little here.
Not just the bonhomie and good humour.
We need more.

We’re all going to die.

Yeah, nah.
Not quite what I was looking for.

Surely such optimism argued stupidity; there must be a certain lack of gray matter in a man who could go around in permanent contentment with life, and even expect something new and good from it.

Hamsun, On Muted Strings.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 18, 2022 5:11 pm

Biden Administration Intentionally Weakening Military: Retired General

When the United States acts, the world is always watching, and one of the loudest messages since President Joe Biden took office came from how the United States handled its withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.

What message did that send globally to other government leaders who may see America as an adversary?

“I think that will go down in history as the worst foreign policy failure in U.S. history. Every decision that was made was wrong,” said Lt. General (Ret.) William Boykin, executive vice president at Family Research Council. “What did that say to the rest of the world? It said that we have weak leadership. And you have to ask yourself, why did Vladimir Putin refrain from attacking Ukraine during the Trump administration? And then he went in with barrels blazing, under the Biden administration, and I will tell you, I think a lot of that goes back to the weakness that people—both our adversaries and our friends—recognized in the Biden administration.”

Other countries recognize that the Biden administration is weak and indecisive on many issues, he said, not just how the U.S. military left Afghanistan.

Boykin mentioned Biden’s approach to the Paris climate change treaty and his efforts to get the United States back into the Iran nuclear deal, formally called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

“What’s the value to the United States? And what’s the value to our allies, to put Iran on a pathway to nuclear warheads,” Boykin said

Weakening Military

Boykin believes weakness is more than an international perception, and he gave examples of how Biden is intentionally weakening the military, including kicking out servicemembers who refused to get the COVID-19 shot and teaching critical race theory and inclusion tolerance instead of teaching how to be in a constant state of readiness for war.

“At the same time, they’re turning around and writing to old generals like me, saying, ‘We need help recruiting because we just can’t recruit enough people.’ Well let me explain to you how this thing of mathematics works. You get rid of all of them, and then those who are watching from the outside say, ‘I don’t want a part of that.’ And those on the inside, many of them leave on their own.”

China Is Watching

CMD Longtime Lurker
CMD Longtime Lurker
September 18, 2022 5:14 pm

Plaintive cries of “upticks are manipulated by the dozen” bleat out from two who consistently fail to attract a fraction of the upticks as their stoush opponents.

It is unimaginable that their comments could be seen as anything but scintillating, so there must be artificial manipulation of upticks.

Razey
Razey
September 18, 2022 5:14 pm

dover0beachsays:
September 18, 2022 at 5:12 pm
Stephen Semler
@stephensemler
·
Sep 17
The think tanks that Congress consults for foreign policy advice are bankrolled by the weapons industry: https://stephensemler.substack.com/p/how-we-got-to-an-850-billion-pentagon

No, can’t be right.

And the FDA is bankrolled by Big Pharma. I don’t see the problem here.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 18, 2022 5:16 pm

I turned the tone up considerably but it ruined the sound of doof doof, if it wasn’t ruined already. Now for some bon homo.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 5:17 pm

Of all the trolls and questionable characters that the Catallaxy has been exposed to, Arky is the prime/soul evil manipulator of ‘upticks’, according to the “vibe”?

Dunno, but ask them. Conversely, how would you be able to affirm that someone with obvious issues (such as claiming Chinese spying calls from an Indian call centre) wouldn’t have the motivation? Incidentally, they’re suggesting the entire ticking thing is being fucked around with.

Ok. I guess if you live or die by ‘upticks’, this might be an issue. I prefer to judge the substance of the comment.

Sure, but you obviously felt it was important to attempt to cast him a lifesaving a line so the argument is not as “insubstantial” as you make out. You’re just arguing the opposite side.

If its being done, anyone could be doing it. What does it matter?

Actually, if you bothered to read my very first comment, I suggested we leave manipulation aside, which would mean an unfortunate number are gullible to lies. Kind of a worry, no?

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 5:19 pm

CMD Longtime Lurker says:
September 18, 2022 at 5:14 pm

Plaintive cries of “upticks are manipulated by the dozen” bleat out from two who consistently fail to attract a fraction of the upticks as their stoush opponents.

It is unimaginable that their comments could be seen as anything but scintillating, so there must be artificial manipulation of upticks.

Six feet under, dead for over around a year, yet the topic is so important she continues to speak to us from the gave. Incredible will power.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 18, 2022 5:22 pm
JMH
JMH
September 18, 2022 5:22 pm

CMD Longtime Lurkersays:
September 18, 2022 at 5:14 pm

Plaintive cries of “upticks are manipulated by the dozen” bleat out from two who consistently fail to attract a fraction of the upticks as their stoush opponents.

It is unimaginable that their comments could be seen as anything but scintillating, so there must be artificial manipulation of upticks.

And there we have it. Game and Match.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 5:22 pm

Matersays:

September 18, 2022 at 4:42 pm

Did you not say once you had a VPN which enabled you to impersonate people from various locations around the world to post comments on Number’s blog?

Arky
September 18, 2022 5:22 pm

m0nty says:
September 18, 2022 at 5:07 pm
We all get those phone calls, Arky

..
Something can be a scam and a dataset used by government to surveil dissidents.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/i-am-watching-you-chinese-students-surveilled-at-australian-universities-20210629-p585ao.html
..
How do they get those students phone numbers?

John H.
John H.
September 18, 2022 5:23 pm

GreyRangasays:
September 18, 2022 at 5:16 pm
I turned the tone up considerably but it ruined the sound of doof doof, if it wasn’t ruined already. Now for some bon homo.

“And when I saw the devil he was full of gravity, through which all things fall.”

Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 5:23 pm

Six feet under, dead for over around a year, yet the topic is so important she continues to speak to us from the grave. Incredible will power.

Is this now Ouija Board Cat?
🙂

CMD Longtime Lurker
CMD Longtime Lurker
September 18, 2022 5:24 pm

I suggested we leave manipulation aside, which would mean an unfortunate number are gullible to lies.

Quite some chutzpah in blithely assuming any opposing comment attracting upticks is either artificially upticked, or is a lie.

Quite a lot of chutzpah in that comment.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 5:25 pm

Something can be a scam and a dataset used by government to surveil dissidents.

Be cool, man.
It’s just the Channel Seven chopper.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 5:26 pm

Oh good,we’re now in the realm of defending paranoid lunacy. Let’s watch.

John H.
John H.
September 18, 2022 5:26 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
September 18, 2022 at 5:25 pm
Something can be a scam and a dataset used by government to surveil dissidents.

Be cool, man.
It’s just the Channel Seven chopper.

If Kochie was in it I’d be sourcing a stinger missile.

m0nty
m0nty
September 18, 2022 5:26 pm

If you find yourself caring about upticks on the Cat, get someone else to give you an uppercut, because you are obviously a soft-handed weakling of a person.

Cassie of Sydney
September 18, 2022 5:27 pm

“JCsays:
September 18, 2022 at 4:55 pm”

You have over thirty upticks! Wow, what’s your secret?

Oh come on
Oh come on
September 18, 2022 5:28 pm

I gave you that uptick just so you feel better, m0nts. Let’s all be charitable and give him one.

Frank
Frank
September 18, 2022 5:28 pm

If you right click on the thumbs up unticking icon and select “Inspect element” then it shows you the code for it. Clicking it triggers some Javascript and the link tag has the attributes data-restriction=”ip” data-already-liked=”0″. Pretty sure that this means it checks for a new IP address each time before letting you uptick twice on the same comment. Also pretty sure that this could be circumvented by someone motivated.

Mater
September 18, 2022 5:29 pm

Sure, but you obviously felt it was important to attempt to cast him a lifesaving a line so the argument is not as “insubstantial” as you make out.

Actually, no.
The bullshit around these accusations is destroying the blog, and Dover (who runs this place out of the kindness of his heart) is having unreasonable demands levelled at him.

If we want to see the end of this place, driving Dover to distraction is a damned good place to start.

If any such manipulations are possible from outside the system and without posting rights, these accusations can’t be proved one way or another, and are thus pointless.

The place is starting to look more like Twitter.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 5:30 pm

Cassie of Sydney says:
September 18, 2022 at 5:27 pm

“JCsays:
September 18, 2022 at 4:55 pm”

You have over thirty upticks! Wow, what’s your secret?

Funny as, right? Looks like bullshit too.

Mater
September 18, 2022 5:33 pm

Did you not say once you had a VPN which enabled you to impersonate people from various locations around the world to post comments on Number’s blog?

Yep.
Should I have blamed Arky?

Frank
Frank
September 18, 2022 5:33 pm

How do they get those students phone numbers?

Australian Universities would probably hand over the registration records, godless commies they all are.

Shy Ted
Shy Ted
September 18, 2022 5:33 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 5:36 pm

Jesus wept.
I explained the call centre stuff the other day.
It is not a direct call from a call centre person.
It is an auto-dial which, when (if) you answer, it connects to a call centre.
If they are overloaded or slow to pick up, there is a pause or drop out.
But they know you are at least a good chance to pick up, so they will queue you up for a another call.
Hence you will then start to get a lot of calls.
Try not to get paranoid, champ.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 5:37 pm

Actually, no.

It’s actually yes.

The bullshit around these accusations is destroying the blog, and Dover (who runs this place out of the kindness of his heart) is having unreasonable demands levelled at him.

If it looks like wrecking the blog , then there should be a decision made if these ticks are causing more damage than they’re worth? Letting the boat sink because of a side issue is really stupid.

If we want to see the end of this place, driving Dover to distraction is a damned good place to start.

How so? I complained that Frogmore the pubbler was lying I had doxed him. A blatant lie.

If any such manipulations are possible from outside the system and without posting rights, these accusations can’t be proved one way or another, and are thus pointless.

Pointless like believing the 2020 election was stolen? Here we go, there are people who are tick denialists.

The place is starting to look more like Twitter.

Not really.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 18, 2022 5:37 pm

Armenia is a client state of Russia.
Why would Pelosi go to Armenia?

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 5:38 pm

Yep.
Should I have blamed Arky?

Possibly, sure judging by the loons behavior.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 5:40 pm

Frank at 5:33.
Not even the universities as a matter of course.
Just 1 or 2 people in student records wanting a quick earn will do it.
Oh, and the most likely customers are far more banal than international men of mystery.
They will be phone and energy salespersons.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 5:40 pm

I’m not a tick denialist, Mater. Unlike some folks here.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 18, 2022 5:42 pm

There’s no way Adam Schiff is going to lose his seat (largest Armenian population outside of Europe lives in his district) so no need to firm that up, so why would Pelosi go to Armenia?

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 5:42 pm

Okay, who are

1/Tick Denialists

2/Tick Believers

here.

I’m indifferent.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 5:43 pm

Matersays:

September 18, 2022 at 5:29 pm

Sure, but you obviously felt it was important to attempt to cast him a lifesaving a line so the argument is not as “insubstantial” as you make out.

Actually, no.
The bullshit around these accusations is destroying the blog

Bwah ha ha ha.
The Faulty go-to distraction squirrel when things were going badly.
“Blogwrecker!!!”
Never go the full Faulty.

Oh come on
Oh come on
September 18, 2022 5:44 pm

The ABC’s audience is really stupid, doesn’t know basic history:
Britain used to rule a quarter of the world. What happened?

I am getting somewhat tired of coverage of the Queen’s death. But articles such as the above, and the brain-dead ‘she should done more’ argument they advance.

Attention! Attention! If you are a member of any of the grievance industries and you are seeking to assert that the Queen should have done more during her lifetime to highlight whatever it is that concerns you, please form an orderly queue at the marked spot. I expect this queue will soon be far longer than that to view the Queen resting in state, plus there’s the fact that no one gives a shit about your worthless opinion, so hopefully you’re of a patient disposition.

Oh come on
Oh come on
September 18, 2022 5:47 pm

argument they advance were never tolerable.

Mater
September 18, 2022 5:47 pm

If it looks like wrecking the blog , then there should be a decision made if these ticks are causing more damage than they’re worth?

Like Covid, it’s not the ticks doing the damage, it’s the response to them.

It’s a leftest trait to dispose of something you don’t like. I’m happy to live with it, and ignore as appropriate.

Pointless like believing the 2020 election was stolen? Here we go, there are people who are tick denialists.

Christ, that’s a long bow to draw, JC.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 5:49 pm

The anatomy of a fifth gear retreat by the 101st Uptick Squadron.

1. It doesn’t happen.
2. It is really hard to do. Who would bother?
3. Someone might be, but how do you know it’s him?
4. Why does it matter anyway?

Rabz
September 18, 2022 5:53 pm

LOL – just saw Groundhog Guy bloviating on Sky, with some strident looking tealeasque women filling the space behind his thick empty head.

In any sane world, this grotesque deformed jug eared fascist imbecile would be electoral toast.

Victorians, you have a lot to answer for.

JMH
JMH
September 18, 2022 5:54 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
September 18, 2022 at 5:43 pm

Go your hardest little Snanchez. Every little bit of grub you decide to vomit up tends to stick. One way or another. Zero respect for an out and out calculated troublemaker.

Razey
Razey
September 18, 2022 5:56 pm

Rabzsays:
September 18, 2022 at 5:53 pm
LOL – just saw Groundhog Guy bloviating on Sky, with some strident looking tealeasque women filling the space behind his thick empty head.

In any sane world, this grotesque deformed jug eared fascist imbecile would be electoral toast.

Victorians, you have a lot to answer for.

I didn’t vote for that cunt.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 18, 2022 5:56 pm

You fools.

Upticks are science.

Believe the science.

Mater
September 18, 2022 5:58 pm

The anatomy of a fifth gear retreat by the 101st Uptick Squadron.

Is there a Squadron for those who make unfounded and unprovable accusations, and then demand action be taken to remedy?

Rabz
September 18, 2022 5:59 pm

When is the next Cat catch up?

BB – There’s one in Sydneystan next Thursday afternoon.

Speedbox
September 18, 2022 6:02 pm

Johnny Rotten says:
September 18, 2022 at 2:33 pm

There is a variation on that joke where Eve asks “Lord, what is the second gift?” And the Lord answered “Eve, my child, multiple orgasms”.

Rabz
September 18, 2022 6:04 pm

how she would prowl for random guys at the supermarket

This is a phenomenon, Cats. Encountered an HBOT doing just that last Thursday. Brunette, magnifique bottamage. Every time we “accidentally” encountered each other the conversations would become more involved.

Now I know I’m not the only one who checks the eggs before placing them in the basket. 🙂

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 6:04 pm

Like Covid, it’s not the ticks doing the damage, it’s the response to them.

Like what response? Most people here have either been indifferent or supporting ticks like you and attempting to prove a negative. Its absolutely impossible. I also can’t help noticing you’re slyly offering support to the Rabbit Boiler. Noice.

Also, the covid equivalence is way too weird.

It’s a leftest trait to dispose of something you don’t like. I’m happy to live with it, and ignore as appropriate.

I think it’s everyone’s trait and frankly I don’t believe your indifference as it appears to me to be more supportive than what you’re making out.

Christ, that’s a long bow to draw, JC.

Denial of the possible is no long bow.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 18, 2022 6:04 pm

Nobody can get 50 upticks.

– Cool Hand Luke

Mater
September 18, 2022 6:07 pm

I also can’t help noticing you’re slyly offering support to the Rabbit Boiler. Noice.

I’d like to think I’d do that for anyone who is being subject to unfounded accusations based on a “vibe”.

I’ll take that as a compliment, and an ‘uptick’ for my character.

bespoke
bespoke
September 18, 2022 6:08 pm

Come get me, Gez.
I have a barrel ready with ya name on it.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 6:08 pm

JMHsays:

September 18, 2022 at 5:54 pm

San … etcetera … etcetera

Sure.

Tom
Tom
September 18, 2022 6:09 pm

The place is starting to look more like Twitter.

No, it’s not.

But, by pretending to engage the blog owner in dialogue — much like the facless men who controlled the Soviet Union’s politburo — leftard trolls aim to hijack the blog with distraction squirrels — anything to avoid rational argument.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 6:09 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

September 18, 2022 at 5:56 pm

You fools.

Upticks are science.

Believe the science.

At least as good as climate science.

Rabz
September 18, 2022 6:11 pm

This is what it’s all about, Cats.

The Dylan at the Newport Folk Festivus 1964. No hippies around to “cut the cord”.

Here’s the Byrds, doing the same song, just ringing out.

Rog McGuinn – the coolest rock personage ever, with daylight second. Had a pair of his shades in green, back in the eighties.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 6:13 pm

Rabzsays:

September 18, 2022 at 5:59 pm

When is the next Cat catch up?

BB – There’s one in Sydneystan next Thursday afternoon.

Is TailGunner invited?
What about Egg_ ster?
The next Melbourne one will be a masked ball … in phone box.
🙁

Arky
September 18, 2022 6:15 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 6:15 pm

I can’t keep up.
Who or what is “Rabbit Boiler”?

Frank
Frank
September 18, 2022 6:17 pm

“…those who make unfounded and unprovable accusations…”

Besmircher of my métier.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 6:18 pm

Franksays:

September 18, 2022 at 6:17 pm

“…those who make unfounded and unprovable accusations…”

Besmircher of my métier.

It could be considered core business here.
🙂

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 6:21 pm

JC says:
September 18, 2022 at 4:55 pm

Just tried it. Didn’t work.
But when I cleared the history AND jumped from Starlink to 4G, I could give a second uptick.
I’ve just hit the limits of my various connections, so 2 upticks is all I can award.

Do you have a VPN as VPN’s are meant to camouflage IP addresses. I’d guess ticks would be controlled by IP addresses. That’s how someone else at Discourd suggested he’s manipulating the stuff.

Use a VPN
A VPN is an intermediary server that encrypts your connection to the internet — and it also hides your IP address. A VPN encrypts all your traffic, not only in your browser but also in other apps, and then passes traffic onward to its destination.

Also we’re not equally motivated by insane behavior as this below implies.

Arky says:
September 8, 2022 at 5:12 pm

I’ll tell you something else.
Every time I criticise the Chinese on one of these blogs, within hours I get hang up phone calls from random numbers in NSW. Every time.
So to the resident CCP agents reading this: Stick it up your a***.

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Funny as, but nobody nobody is manipulating the ticks. LOL

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 6:21 pm

I just popped over to the Daily Exposé and gave him two dozen upticks.
But no cup of coffee.
And definitely no donation.
Only [13] days left to save the Daily Exposé.
Fuck him.
I am going to run him all the way to the 30th and see what happens.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 6:23 pm

34

Funny as, but nobody nobody is manipulating the ticks. LOL

Fess up time.
I did 14 of them.
🙂

Rabz
September 18, 2022 6:23 pm

Is TailGunner invited? What about Egg_ ster?
The next Melbourne one will be a masked ball … in a phone box. 🙁

Pancho, just be grateful you’re not in WA – Cats there couldn’t organise a monumental imbibing of alcoholic beverages in a brewery. So dire that jupes and his woife have to head over to Sydneystan to catch up with some Cats.

Anyway, could you not ask JC to organise the next Melbourne one?

mUttley, Arks and numerous other heroes who are not into that grotesque deformed jug eared fascist imbecile would be falling over themselves to be there. 🙂

You know it makes sense.

Razey
Razey
September 18, 2022 6:23 pm
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 18, 2022 6:24 pm

And I will strike down upon thee
With great vengeance and furious anger
Those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers
And you will know my name is the Lord
When I lay my upticks upon thee

– Julius Winfield, 1994

Rabz
September 18, 2022 6:25 pm

distraction squirrels

If only they were in danger of extinctification from gerbil worming. 😕

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 6:27 pm

You know it makes sense.

It so does not make sense.
Let’s just say I believe any catch-up lists South of the Murray would be “factionalised”.
And, after the little doxxing episode a couple of weeks ago, some of us are quite pleased we didn’t sign up.

chrisl
chrisl
September 18, 2022 6:29 pm

Want the downlow on the Brownlow.?
There will be a gown low …

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 6:30 pm

I’d like to think I’d do that for anyone who is being subject to unfounded accusations based on a “vibe”.

Why, it’s not as though the kunt hasn’t done other untrustworthy things as you know, so what would be another? This is an individual who believes he’s important enough for the Chinese to go after him over the phone. That’s not an example of a psychotic, egocentric personality, right? It’s totally normal? He’s one of the worst gaslighting pricks here. Like a blog satan.

I’ll take that as a compliment, and an ‘uptick’ for my character.

What do you think of The Driller lying that I doxed him? Tick that, champ.

By the way mater, the last discussion we had , which was when you threw a kiddie tantrum and couldn’t handle disagreement…. and I later showed you through your own link that you were wrong and flu illness is in fact an estimate. I’ve didn’t receive an apology. Is that a character uptick?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 18, 2022 6:30 pm

This is what it’s all about, Cats.

Hated having to sing that song in Music.
We got Dylan, We got Beatles, We got Seekers.

WE NEVER GOT STONES. I don’t think I even heard a Stones track until I was in my 20s.

So here’re some stones.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 6:32 pm

Sancho Panzer says:

September 18, 2022 at 6:23 pm

34

Funny as, but nobody nobody is manipulating the ticks. LOL

Fess up time.
I did 14 of them.
?

LOL.. No, it can’t happen. We were told it’s impossible and the Nightstalker would never gaslight like that. Never ever. FMD.

Rabz
September 18, 2022 6:32 pm

Pancho – what the hell is wrong with you people?

If we can successfully organise Cat gatherings in Sydney, why can’t you manage to do so in Melbourne?

Both of the above are not trick questions.

cohenite
September 18, 2022 6:32 pm

Funny segment on Gutfeld yesterday about the alphabet weirdos. Apparently, a mob called mermaids who represent transitioning men to women object to real lessos who object to these men transitioning to women who continue to root women, calling themselves lesbians, because they still have dicks and therefore can’t be real lesbians who are known for not having dicks.

Maybe dickless can sort it out because Gutfeld and his panel couldn’t.

Mater
September 18, 2022 6:34 pm

Funny as, but nobody nobody is manipulating the ticks. LOL

Can you prove that it’s Arky, yes or no?

Just this morning* you demanded Dover get Sal to provide proof that you ‘doxxed’ him, and ban him if he couldn’t.

You’ll forgive me for thinking the hypocrisy is a little rough.

* Don’t bother looking for it. It’s obviously been removed.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 6:34 pm

Sancho Panzer says:
September 18, 2022 at 6:23 pm

34

Funny as, but nobody nobody is manipulating the ticks. LOL

Fess up time.
I did 14 of them.
?

Calling Mater!!!

Rabz
September 18, 2022 6:35 pm

don’t think I even heard a Stones track until I was in my 20s

My sister was into the Stones, the Who, the Animals and various others – one of my first conscious memories on this planet (before that cruise on the Australis and subsequent regrettable incidents) is listening to her choices in the lounge room when about three.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 6:38 pm

Can you prove that it’s Arky, yes or no?

Similarly , you have failed to prove there isn’t any manipulation and secondly I never said it was him, but I strongly suspect it was.

Just this morning* you demanded Dover get Sal to provide proof that you ‘doxxed’ him, and ban him if he couldn’t.

Doxing is a serious issue. He lied about it. It’s a blatant lie in an attempt to stoush troll and pity trolling.

You’ll forgive me for thinking the hypocrisy is a little rough.

What hypocrisy is that ? That I’ve lied about him too? When was that, Champ?

* Don’t bother looking for it. It’s obviously been removed.

I don’t believe it has last time I looked which was much earlier this afternoon.

Rabz
September 18, 2022 6:41 pm

Can you prove that it’s Arky, yes or no?

Arks is manufacturing upticks?

Hey Squire, you’re really cool, especially when hanging out on van Nuys with some curvy bottomaged babes 🙂

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 6:41 pm

Okay. Thank you Dover for removing the Driller’s lie. I just looked and it has been removed.

JMH
JMH
September 18, 2022 6:41 pm

And, after the little doxxing episode a couple of weeks ago, some of us are quite pleased we didn’t sign up.

And look who has previously denied ever attending a Vic. meetup is all over a “little doxxing episode”. Of course this habitual unfunny troublemaker has no idea the so-called doxxee actually doxxed himself via a real estate “porn” post he made. Oh wait! Part of this unfunny bunny’s modus operandi is to omit important info so he can go about his business of blog disruption. How gauche.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 18, 2022 6:42 pm

one of my first conscious memories on this planet (before that cruise on the Australis and subsequent regrettable incidents) is listening to her choices in the lounge room when about three.

Awesome.

My dad likes elevator music. I did get a little good stuff from a step-mother – I used to sneak into the loungeroom when no one was around and listen to her LP of Mike Oldfield. Desperate stuff.

Tubular Bells (1973)

2dogs
September 18, 2022 6:44 pm

Fess up time.

I am, in fact, only 1 dog.

The other is a sock puppet.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 6:45 pm

JMH

You ridiculous clown.. I wasn’t concerned about me so much- Clorox outed what he believed is the name of my wife and what he also thought was my street address.

Let’s try this you mentally deformed cretin. Post the names of some of family members. I’m assume you unmarried, though because i couldn’t imagine any female would be attracted to such a groveling turkey for long.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 6:46 pm

If we can successfully organise Cat gatherings in Sydney, why can’t you manage to do so in Melbourne?

In a word?
Trust.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 6:48 pm

JMHsays:

September 18, 2022 at 6:41 pm

Would you like to have a go at that again?
This time in English.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 6:48 pm

In a word?
Trust.

Never again is my position.

Razey
Razey
September 18, 2022 6:52 pm

Rabzsays:
September 18, 2022 at 6:32 pm
Pancho – what the hell is wrong with you people?

If we can successfully organise Cat gatherings in Sydney, why can’t you manage to do so in Melbourne?

They say you should never meet your hero’s.

caveman
caveman
September 18, 2022 6:52 pm

JCsays:
September 18, 2022 at 5:40 pm
I’m not a tick denialist, Mater. Unlike some folks here.

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Embrace the way of the tick
– Sun Tze

Rabz
September 18, 2022 6:54 pm

Fess up time

I’m not a Swahili Chieftain. 😕

rickw
rickw
September 18, 2022 6:58 pm

Look at Lebanon at the moment. Savers are robbing the banks to get their cash out.

The US banks have gone nuts with freezing peoples accounts, in particular Wells Fargo. Ostensibly for “undesirables”, however it can be pretty hard to distinguish a drug dealer from a gardening business based on cash deposits etc.

There has been at least one hold up where the request was to hand over $13,200.81 , because that was the balance of the “robbers” frozen account.

Faster than lawyering up, but probably way more down side.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 6:58 pm

JC says:
September 18, 2022 at 5:40 pm

I’m not a tick denialist, Mater. Unlike some folks here.

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hahahahahahaha 53 ticks.. hey no one but no one is manipulating the ticks around here. that’s because I don’t know how to do it.

Roger
Roger
September 18, 2022 6:59 pm

My sister was into the Stones, the Who, the Animals and various others – one of my first conscious memories on this planet (before that cruise on the Australis and subsequent regrettable incidents) is listening to her choices in the lounge room when about three.

A couple of times a year we’d travel up to my maternal grandparents’ place where my mum’s HMV radiogram that she’d paid off on hire purchase as a teenager was kept, along with assorted records her younger sisters had collected in the meantime. There were two long playing records I listened to over and over: The Buddy Holly Story and one of those compilations of radio hits c. 1968-69, which was mostly bubblegum pop except for one strange, oustanding track called All Along the Watchtower by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

rickw
rickw
September 18, 2022 7:00 pm

Sadly I would be unable to attend any Melbourne Cat catch up within the next two months, which is a shame because it promises an interesting combination of dinner, drinks and fisticuffs.

Rabz
September 18, 2022 7:00 pm

forcefully apply a knee high leather boot,
rotten structure, crashing down it will*
…”

Sun Tzu

*Until it does not. Never go the gloat, especially when marching eastwards.

JMH
JMH
September 18, 2022 7:01 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
September 18, 2022 at 6:48 pm
JMHsays:

September 18, 2022 at 6:41 pm

Would you like to have a go at that again?
This time in English.

I speak and type the Queen’s English. It is your problem if you have comprehension difficulties, Bunny.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 7:01 pm

It sounds like the argument has moved from

Bullshit, you lying dick, no one but no one is fucking around with the ticks.

To

Hey, don’t you dare accuse the bunny boiler of manipulation. He would never so such a thing. Someone else is obviously.

Roger
Roger
September 18, 2022 7:03 pm

The Buddy Holly Story

The original 1961 compilation, not the film soundtrack from the ’70s.

There was also a Beatles single on Parlophone: Rock and Roll Music backed by Honey Don’t.

The bass on that HMV radiogram was incredible, too, probably because it was powered by tubes, not solid-state.

Rabz
September 18, 2022 7:03 pm

except for one strange, outstanding track called All Along the Watchtower

Jimi

XTC

Tom
Tom
September 18, 2022 7:05 pm

Hahaha! Former North Melbourne coach Dean Laidley, whose gender dysmorphia is now celebrated by the GayFL to bring down the patriarchy and wreck the GayFL Lezzo League, is wheeled out as “Dani Laidley” to fuck up the Brownlow Medal’s Red Carpet, in which the most beautiful female specimens now have to compete with chicks with dicks.

At this rate, it will be a generation before Gillon McPolo Pony’s Lezzo League attracts a TV audience not subsidised by actual real male Aussie Rules footballers.

Hel, Gillon: it’s Marketing 101 not to piss off half your audience, you shemale panzy.

Rabz
September 18, 2022 7:05 pm

an interesting combination of dinner, drinks and fisticuffs

This is why we love this (virtual) place. 🙂

Frank
Frank
September 18, 2022 7:05 pm

My sister was into the Stones

Wonder how many kids Mick Jagger has.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 7:08 pm

Rabz says:
September 18, 2022 at 7:05 pm

an interesting combination of dinner, drinks and fisticuffs

This is why we love this (virtual) place. ?

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Someone, give the man 135 ticks.

bespoke
bespoke
September 18, 2022 7:11 pm

Only one rule for gatherings down south.

Roger
Roger
September 18, 2022 7:11 pm

Thanks for that Rabz…I’d never heard the XTC version, although Jimi’s is, of course, the best, just out of this world when you consider where other guitarists were at the time.

Rabz
September 18, 2022 7:12 pm

Trusted Melbourne Cat personages that I’m aware of (in no particular order):

.1 Pancho
.2 JC
.3 Mater
.4 mUttley
.5 Arks
.6 rickw
.7 Milton
.8 Tommy
.9 areff

That’s enough for a convivial gathering, surely?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 18, 2022 7:12 pm

Wonder how many kids Mick Jagger has.

The more the better.

And Keith Richards.

Roger
Roger
September 18, 2022 7:13 pm

I speak and type the Queen’s English.

I think you mean the King’s English.

😀

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 7:14 pm

hahahahahahaha 53 ticks.. hey no one but no one is manipulating the ticks around here. that’s because I don’t know how to do it.

Sure.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 7:15 pm

Rabz
Did you ever meet up with Yobbo, with whom you had an ugly stoush?

Roger
Roger
September 18, 2022 7:17 pm

Mick Jagger’s mother was Australian.

Not many people know this.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 7:20 pm

60 ticks now Sanchez.

I swear it’s not me as I was uncertain about tick manipulation, but now I’m now longer uncertain. It’s 100%.

I suspect someone is doing the ticking in order to clearly show ticks are fantastically manipulated. Good for them as it clarifies the issue now.

Tom
Tom
September 18, 2022 7:20 pm

Who could ever forget Yobbo, the living embodiment of the big government socialist pretending to be a libertarian?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 7:20 pm

Rogersays:
September 18, 2022 at 7:13 pm
I speak and type the Queen’s English.

I think you mean the King’s English.

Snort, cackle!

Rabz
September 18, 2022 7:21 pm

Keith Richards

What a legend.

My favourite Keith Richards quote:

Damage one of these* – I’d rather kill somebody!”

*My strat, although nowadays, it’s a “Hard Tail”.

JMH
JMH
September 18, 2022 7:22 pm

I think you mean the King’s English.

Oops! Yes. Indeed I do – although I have no respect for the current Monarch.

JC
JC
September 18, 2022 7:23 pm

Roger

Wiki about Jagger’s mother.

Michael Philip Jagger was born into a middle-class family in Dartford, Kent, on 26 July 1943.[2][3] His father, Basil Fanshawe “Joe” Jagger, a former gymnast, was a physical education teacher who helped popularise basketball in Britain;[4][5][6] his grandfather David Ernest Jagger was also a teacher.[7] His mother, Eva Ensley Mary (née Scutts), born in Sydney, Australia, of English descent, was a hairdresser and an active member of the Conservative Party.[4][7][8] Jagger’s younger brother, Chris (born 19 December 1947), is also a musician;[9] the two have performed together.[10]

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 7:23 pm

JCsays:
September 18, 2022 at 7:20 pm
60 ticks now Sanchez.

I swear it’s not me as I was uncertain about tick manipulation, but now I’m now longer uncertain. It’s 100%.

I suspect someone is doing the ticking in order to clearly show ticks are fantastically manipulated. Good for them as it clarifies the issue now.

I am not responsible … (for 46 of them).
😉

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 7:26 pm

bespokesays:
September 18, 2022 at 7:11 pm
Only one rule for gatherings down south.

No Woodstock cans?

bespoke
bespoke
September 18, 2022 7:28 pm

Who could ever forget Yobbo, the living embodiment of the big government socialist pretending to be a libertarian?

Err not when I knew him.

Rabz
September 18, 2022 7:28 pm

Who could ever forget Yobbo, the living embodiment of the big government socialist pretending to be a libertarian?

Yep, Tommy. I had some very ugly online encounters with that monumental imbecile – usually about the absurdity of attempting to normalise “homosexual marriage”.

A man cannot be married to a man. The concept is utterly absurd.

Speaking of, I see that “Adrienne” popped up recently on one of the guest posts – Doves – do not entertain that smug collectivist idiot, please, FFS.

bons
bons
September 18, 2022 7:32 pm

None of my recent experience has any relevance compared to the death spiral experienced by the world now, but for me it was a challange.
The assessment program for my (purchased) Wyoming high country winter trail ride is over and I think the organisers may reluctantly let me participate.
I have to say that these folks were incredible. Their horsemanship was at a level I have never encountered. They were obviously concerned by my age, but were supportive, if demanding.
I survived most of the tests except for pack horse loading and leading which was obviously something I had never encountered.
I am now wondering if I should actually do this but fuck it, go go.
My only favourite bum however is objecting strenuously against high back western saddles. They hurt.
We’ll see how this goes. I’ve trained hard but if I prove to be pain for the younger riders, I’ll pull out.

JMH
JMH
September 18, 2022 7:32 pm

Snort, cackle!

Oh look – we have uncovered the Kindergarten humourist, Kamala Harris, pretending to be Sancho!

Roger
Roger
September 18, 2022 7:32 pm

*My strat, although nowadays, it’s a “Hard Tail”.

No disrespect for the Strat, but I think Keith will be forever associated with the Tele.

miltonf
miltonf
September 18, 2022 7:32 pm

Don’t know about ‘convivial’ Rabz- maybe ‘robust’. Regarding upticks, dickless or otherwise, I don’t think they’re anything to get upset about.

Cassie of Sydney
September 18, 2022 7:36 pm

“Hahaha! Former North Melbourne coach Dean Laidley, whose gender dysmorphia is now celebrated by the GayFL to bring down the patriarchy and wreck the GayFL Lezzo League, is wheeled out as “Dani Laidley” to fuck up the Brownlow Medal’s Red Carpet, in which the most beautiful female specimens now have to compete with chicks with dicks.”

He’s an autogynephiliac.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
September 18, 2022 7:37 pm

cohenitesays:
September 18, 2022 at 4:38 pm

I noticed that in the “Shit Towns” update, in Toowoomba a “serial wanker” is back in Court.

No, I don’t think so.

Joanna
Joanna
September 18, 2022 7:37 pm

My goodness, ‘Dani’ Laidley decides to rock up to the Brownlow in a white gown that doesn’t fail to remind us that it’s ‘Dean’ in dress.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
September 18, 2022 7:38 pm

JCsays:
September 18, 2022 at 6:41 pm
Okay. Thank you Dover for removing the Driller’s lie. I just looked and it has been removed.

Hmm, what were you demanding Salvatore prove again?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 18, 2022 7:39 pm

Regarding upticks, dickless or otherwise, I don’t think they’re anything to get upset about.

This is 100% on the money. As someone said upthread, they are an indicator of reading the room and that is all. No less, but no more.

I think the Doverlord said all they were is a plug-in to the Big Machine. Like pinching cars and avoiding tax, someone somewhere is going to find out how to circumvent the system. I also recall the Doverlord giving himself 24000 upticks or something when this issue was first (painfully) raised.

It’s sticks and stones. It doesn’t matter. No I do not know how to do it.

It is just a blog.

Tom
Tom
September 18, 2022 7:39 pm

Hahaha! Old white bloke pretending to be a blackfella opens the GayFL’s Brownlow Medal.

What a farce — you can’t enjoy Aussie Rules unless you vote ALP and endorse apartheid for our noble savages to signal how much better you are than the rest of us.

Indolent
Indolent
September 18, 2022 7:40 pm

Epson now provide printer models with ink tanks and no cartridges. The printers are much more expensive than the cartridge models but the ink last 1,000s of pages and is cheap to refill.

They are brilliant.
Highly recommended.

For frequent use. Not much use for low and intermittent use as the ink can dry up. For my few pages per week the cheap printer with the more expensive cartridge is ideal.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 18, 2022 7:42 pm

Former North Melbourne coach Dean Laidley

The interwebs tell me Laidley 2.0 bears a striking resemblance to Camilla Parker-Bowles.

To date, I have been too terrified to check.

bespoke
bespoke
September 18, 2022 7:42 pm

usually about the absurdity of attempting to normalise “homosexual marriage”.

That issue has nothing to do with being a socialist.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 7:42 pm

JMHsays:
September 18, 2022 at 7:32 pm ….

Sure.

Mater
September 18, 2022 7:44 pm

Regarding upticks, dickless or otherwise, I don’t think they’re anything to get upset about.

The real reason why specific people dislike them so much is that it gives commenters a means to show their disagreement with certain protagonists (or more accurately, support for their opposition) without attracting their unreasonable ire. This evening being a case in point.

Those inclined towards intimidation despise anonymity in an opponent*.

Keep going gentlemen. You are proving my point.

*Sun Tzu

Dot
Dot
September 18, 2022 7:45 pm

Tom says:
September 18, 2022 at 7:20 pm
Who could ever forget Yobbo, the living embodiment of the big government socialist pretending to be a libertarian?

???

How is someone a socialist if they live on online gambling and move to a more business friendly, more traditional society?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 18, 2022 7:45 pm

Regarding upticks, dickless or otherwise, I don’t think they’re anything to get upset about.

I dare not speaketh her name, but a certain ladeee might disagree.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 18, 2022 7:45 pm

He’s an autogynephiliac.

We used to protect the mentally ill from public ridicule.

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