As of August, industrial production expanded by 4.5% year-over-year, indicating steady but not extraordinary growth.OK, so how does that wash…
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Only one thing I want to see on Inauguration Day-ZZ Topp playing an eighteen-minute medley from the foredeck of the…
Bother! I thought you left out “to”. With Kevni it has to be total surrender with penalties.
want -> won’t
we stopped using ANZ systems are archaic garbage
For ever more they’ll be useful patsies for when Qantas engineers need a bit more time to get the rubber band fully wound up.
Ukraine War Planned YEARS AGO Documents Reveal
The Jimmy Dore Show
Pans People never did this…………………..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAzIIG9DFb0
Les Murray, not sure what language TISM uttered but I believe he’s Hungarian.
Landed in NTL today nice respite from the Victorian extended winter… Back Sunday though 🙁
Vic Plod
https://youtu.be/z5rRZdiu1UE
There were no Balrogs in the caves, BoN – but Ljubljana had dragons. In fact, the dragon is a symbol of the city.
A beautiful city – recommend a visit. Yet another one built on the remains of a Roman settlement. Tomorrow I’ll be in York, where both Romans and Vikings feature prominently in the history of the city.
And as to more Great Music I would like this to be played at my Funeral………………
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCdneDxFRYQ
Where Black Bess & Dick Turpin are buried in the same grave.
One of the serendipitous thrills of a visit to York City.
(Yorkminster being #2)
Four minutes until the solar flare Armageddon folks.
Brace!
Brace!
Brace!
The Ljubljana dragon.
Very impressive and handsome.
Two minutes and counting.
Put your nuclear flash sunglasses and foil blankets on!
Optus saga. Yes (no pun intended), I am a customer. Still no contact if I have had info compromised. CEO surfaces today, sorry too little too late. Do the right thing and resign. Take your incompetent cyber team with you.
I’m over excuses and have little trust in the spin doctoring.
60 seconds!!!
May God have mercy on all of us!!!
Everybody, lie down on the floor and keep calm.
The KLF – Last Train To Trancentral (1991)
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
– Bob Marley
Connecting the 87,000 Dots between Trump and You
Running the World into the Ground
Cohenite.
Do we actually need a GG and state governors?
Would it not be possible to have any real powers held by the GG exercised by the High Court, sitting as a Constitutional Court on the rare occasions it is required.
Swearing in of ministers could be done by the Chief Justice.
All the assorted ribbon cutting and lamington drive stuff could be assigned to junior ministers.
GG/presidents, appointed by the PM/Premiers (or by a joint sitting of both houses where there are 2 houses, or popularly elected, the most dangerous alternative) add an extra check and balance. Under the constitution the current GG has some definite powers and reserve powers. If you get rid of the GG and involve the court the separation of powers gets diluted.
The pro republicans are motivated by revenge for what happened to comrade whitlam or in the case of the likes of pirate pete, turdball etc, ego.
We have a system that works. More or less.
Lol, open Black Ball’s link at 10.00 sharp.
He’s a hunk. I have currawongs like him, pure alphas who strut like they own everything.
Spoilt by the pair of poofs.
Dan Xiaoping has tweaked the powers of the Governor to the point where about the only power remaining to the Governor is delaying Qantas by 20 minutes.
Ian Dury at his BEST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ0cK_eeZ9A
There’s a lunatic in the hotel lobby going spare about Russia and Ukraine. Frothing at the top of his voice.
I’m hiding behind a potplant.
Seriously scary. The lunatic…the plant is happy and relatively intelligent.
One of my favourite cities, Cassie, I could go back tomorrow.
This is exactly what needs to be said.
Team DeSantis
@teamrondesantis
“I reject socialism outright. I reject Marxism, Leninism, communism, any of these -isms that have come out of a political theory that denies the worth of each and every individual.” —
@RonDeSantisFL
Maybe he was hit by a solar flare. Fried his brain.
That piece I hadn’t figured out.
Yes and yes.
Not perfect, but I can’t think of anything better.
Or he’s a Cowboys fan. American accent so doubtful.
It would appear Solar Armageddon has been postponed.
Please return your foil blankets and nucalear sunglasses, stand down and await further advice.
Brunettes – this is what they do – effortlessly rendering (in a very different way) one of the greatest songs in human history … 🙂
callisays:
September 23, 2022 at 10:16 pm
There’s a lunatic in the hotel lobby going spare about Russia and Ukraine. Frothing at the top of his voice.
I’m hiding behind a potplant.
Seriously scary. The lunatic…the plant is happy and relatively intelligent.
No problems as there is a lunatic in the White House and one in the Kremlin. Wot’ a strange World that we all live in……………………………………….
Custard.
Call me.
Call me now!
What should I do about the bridge-burner email I sent to my boss?
A shortage of vegan in-flight meals?
Qantas backflips on ‘one size fits all’ menu with vegetarian meals set to return on domestic flights after major backlash online (Sky News, 23 Sep)
Eat the damned bugs Qantas travellers. For the planet.
Pancho – give it a break, Squire.
I wouldn’t say effortlessly.
Her right wrist would be sore after that.
The paper strip music recording is fascinating.
It’d be years, possibly ten or more, since I’ve willingly eaten in-flight meals on Q-Force.
Heck, I’d been reluctant to eat the tucker in the Qantas Club.
At the very least it’d be time for him to change hands.
Yeah but, Bruce – is she not exquisite?
I’m reading a very good account of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor – it seems that, in the aftermath of the bombing, all the “working girls” from the red light area, volunteered their services as nurses….
I’ll call him Deion Sanders then.
Bern would understand.
Oi! Both of them. One ranga and one brunette, seriously awesome.
I give one blonde and one ranga back.
Shutterbug (1997)
he loves the smell of vaseline in the evenings
It seems to be increasingly obvious in US politics that there is in fact a “deep state” hidden in the shadows.
Biden and Fetterwoman are extreme examples, but there are plenty more. “The Squad” and the rest of them.
These people are merely “sprukiers”. They are the dudes standing out the front of the strip club enticing people in. Or in the bookmaking industry, the bagman calling out “best odds” and “about to jump”.
They aren’t running the business, they are the employees.
Oops, that was supposed to be “one blonde and one brunette”. It’s late.
Hannah Peel – Sugar Hiccup … 🙂
Wake up call. You can’t run a “business” without a bait. And politics is the biggest business there is. It’s massive when you can control the entire market, not just someone who wants to buy your particular product. Taxation is compulsory.
Fetterman is deep state, Arma? How so?
NSW most eligible bachelor.
One of my best mates decided to jump in the Murray River before a 21st birthday celebration of another mate. Swam there for years. This day he never came back. 3 brothers and his old man took him away
https://youtu.be/eUWZqbumaZo
The final track on the CD I’ve got. I can’t do them all there are too many, so here’s the list:
Not one of those tracks is less than awesome, in the lot of them. Which is why I bought the CD. 😀
I’ll go with this one:
Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3
We could do with a few.
‘dillo you mast have seen the same article that I saw today- the old thief, Harris, Fetterperson all gaga or not the full quid. Beto too. Just paid front persons for the deep state.
Black ball.
Wifey’s grandpa died by drowning crossing the Murray some other town near kerang.
Barham closest to Kerang JC
Murrabit just as close
It was revealed to be bullshit 2 hrs 39 mins after being posted.
Yes, Barham. I’ve been there believe it or not. 🙂
From vague memory, I think former PM John Gorton grew up in the town.
JCsays:
September 23, 2022 at 10:55 pm
If you think anyone would believe that heap of bullshit, JC, you’re stupider than you claim to be.
You never explained why it’s a heap of bullshit. But go ahead, I’d be happy to read your opinion like everything you post, Turtlehead. You low IQ waste of space. I’ll be waiting.
What a lovely Gold Fish Bowl this is where everyone is sooooooooo nice to each other.
rosie:
That reminded me of Isaac Asimovs “Nightfall”.
Politics is also a weird marketing mix. That’s why you get weirdos like Fetterwoman.
As a bookmaker at “Royal Randwick” I’d show up in a suit and tie. In Bourke, I’d show up in a pair of shorts.
It’s one of the main reasons the Democrats are in power in the US. They understand Hollywood, and Hollywood is bankrolling them.
Six minutes later this was posted:
An indisputable falsehood, as we’ve already seen two things intimidate the writer of that paragraph.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
September 23, 2022 at 11:02 pm
Ian Dury at his BEST
The final track on the CD I’ve got. I can’t do them all there are too many, so here’s the list:
What A Waste
Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3
Wake Up And Make Love With Me
There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
Razzle In My Pocket
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Inbetweeenies
Common As Muck
Sweet Gene Vincent
I Want To Be Straight
You’ll See Glimpses
Not one of those tracks is less than awesome, in the lot of them. Which is why I bought the CD. ?
I’ll go with this one:
Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3
I agree Bruce but that one where he is the maybe lunatic wishing the best for everyone is so good.
If you want a real rough one then try this………………….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtuVBPwzstM
Drills , how was my claim, that the Turtlehead posted a heap of bullshit? Provide a little color to the readership as we know you’re a baseload liar.
You don’t even own the pub you claimed to and peddled that bullshit here for years and years. You’re delusional.
Hollywood and Washington are the axis of evil.
Turtlehead..
Your claim is going to be posted alongside every single comment you post until you either don’t walk away from it, or people will realize what a worthless semi-human being you are.
Of every politician we’re tolerating until HOP Time.
FFS, peoples – you’ll go to grave knowing you didn’t at least try to put a stop to this idiocy?
Give me a Louisville Slugger and the fetterwoman’s thick empty skull and no prizes for guessing who hits the greatest home run in human history. 🙂
Gorton I believe was born in Melbourne but he did serve Kerang as shire president after World War 2. The local library is named after him and the picturesque Kangaroo Lake on the western side has the road named in his honour
Thanks Blackball.
Imported a copy of his Greatest Hits CD via Rhino Records back in ’96.
The man was a fucking legend. His band contained many legends as well, e.g. the Wilko.
There was never any artifice about what they did. Just Rock ‘n’ Roll … 🙂
Not one of those tracks is less than awesome, in the lot of them. Which is why I bought the CD. ?
I’ll go with this one:
Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3
The Man was a genius and the Blockheads were so goooooooooooooooooood.
Mystic Park was Gorton’s orange orchard iirc. Between Swan Hill and Kerang.
Down at the Schlocktors, I tells ya!
The countryside up there looks gorgeous atm.
Got in one, Miltonf. Mystic Park, that’s it. I thought I was once told he grew up there.
I’m sure he and Betina lived there for a while.
Rabzsays:
September 23, 2022 at 11:26 pm
Ian Dury at his best
Imported a copy of his Greatest Hits CD via Rhino Records back in ’96.
The man was a fucking legend. His band contained many legends as well, e.g. the Wilko.
There was never any artifice about what they did. Just Rock ‘n’ Roll … ?
Well said Rabz and Bruce of Newcastle. So glad that I saw them live in Sydney in 1982.
Anyway goodnight all
Yes Mystic Park a stones throw from Kangaroo Lake. The old Lakes football club was next to the pub at Mystic Park. They are celebrating a 50 year anniversary of a senior footy flag
Gorton was running the family property when World War Two broke out.
Dressed in “work clobber,” he went into a Royal Australian Air Force to volunteer for aircrew.
An immaculately “turned out” R.A.A.F. officer surveyed the unkempt figure. “We prefer candidates for aircrew to have some academic qualifications.”
Gorton returned the gaze. “Master of Arts from Oxford good enough?”
Oh, and for all the kudo’s Goof Whitlam later received, it was John Gorton who began the withdrawal of the Australian Forces from Vietnam.
You know this … how?
Just on this site we’ve seen three things intimidate the Turnbullian ego that laughably claims it cannot be intimidated.
If a bloke could be bothered, there’s sure to be more.
Heaven’s at the end of this alleyway …
Hong Kong Money …
Pubbles becomes Publess.
You peddled this crap for years and I genuinely felt pity for you. Drills, you’re pitiful.
Calli, there is a statue of a dragon in the old upper town in Zagreb, in the process of being slain by St George. It was very close to our hotel.
St George and the dragon
I’m still waiting for you to show that I lied regarding Turtlehead’s claim, Driller.
You delusional baseload liar.
Rabzsays:
September 23, 2022 at 11:43 pm
Heaven’s at the end of this alleyway …
Hong Kong Money …
You do like Doctor Feelgood………………….Nice.
Collingwood v Carlton 1979
https://youtu.be/r4uIsKDlpD4
You know this…. how?
The gigantic woodpiles in this part of the world tell the story.
The XR idiots demonstrating in Zagreb this evening would get short shift out in the countryside. Judging by their prevalence, I’d imagine being twined in an electric fence.
Solar powered, of course. 😀
JCsays:
September 23, 2022 at 11:46 pm
I’m still waiting for you to show that I lied regarding Turtlehead’s claim, Driller.
You delusional baseload liar.
You are like a broken record bleating on and on. If I didn’t know any different, I would think that you were a Winging Pommie Bar Steward…………………….FFS
And force fed the delicious local sausages. Because they look a bit wormy and wan.
Tell you what Driller. Obtain a clearance from the blog owner that I can publish private information about you and I’m more than happy to show you.
That way you won’t be hiding and you won’t be able to peddle dishonest crap about yourself every again.
Always reminds me of Tropo’s Night Club in Cairns:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgl-ZUWQ_Qo
Calli, European city dwellers are going to cop it this winter and I hope they learn from it and apportion blame where it belongs, the politicians. I don’t want anyone to die though I can imagine that the old, poor and sick could be in trouble.
Russian Gas Stove Trolls:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8Zqnj_vAIo
You cannot show any such thing.
You require no clearance, as you know no personal information about me.
I can easily picture the Croatian or Slovenian Mamas and Grannies….
You look thin. You look pale. Did you eat today? Here…have some meat. And some more meat. *cram…cram*
Ahhh…better now. Your cheeks now have apples!
You know this personal information….. how?
you know
if there’s a thing thing that’s annoying
then a hand-full off ‘Report Comments’ makes it vanish
just sayin’
You know what to do. Stop wasting space on the blog. Either get the clearance or fuck off. But you won’t because you’ll try baseloading again.
While you’re at it, you delusional, dishonest blowhard, prove the Turtlehead’s claim that I lied. Go on. I dare you.
You know this personal information…. how?
Calli, yes, you get fed lots of meat, doughnuts and coffee. Coffee everywhere with everything and I don’t even drink coffee, got some funny looks like what’s wrong with her. I had to keep explaining that I’m allergic to caffeine and then got even stranger looks.
I have a theory about veganism and other food fetishes.
Societies where hunger and the memory of hunger are still within living memory celebrate food and abundance in all its glory. Unashamedly.
Fat, lazy, pampered societies embrace restrictions and control of the good things that keep us healthy.
How would you test this with Americans? They love food. They eat too much of it but the country has never experienced hunger forever.
I suppose that’s where the saying “You can never be too rich or too thin” comes from. When you are wealthy you don’t have to worry about being able to afford food.
You know this personal information about me …. how?
Stop repeating the same thing. Go get the clearance or fuck off. You’re delusional and a baseload liar.
I don’t know. Because the USA is so culturally diverse it may come down to ethnicity or “tribes”. It’s easier in Europe because cultures are more clear cut.
I would describe the “Diet Coke + gargantuan fast food feast” as a type of fetish. The Diet Coke presumably having magical properties.
You’re beginning to sound intimidated.
You claim to have obtained personal information ….. how did you obtain this?
Was it my name that gave me away? (Salvatore Stupid) you looked me up in the white pages?
You don’t have to reveal any of this …. confidential… information you have on me, … just how you obtained it.
You’re pitiful Driller. Absolutely pitiful and don’t think the blog owner isn’t aware that you start all the stoush trolling against me. He is. It’s hard to hide without a decent crew of pile onners these days, hey?
So speaketh one who claims to have confidential personal financial information based on nothing more than a blog name.
Sure.
Nobody is preventing you from obtaining a clearance.
After all, it is you who so badly wants it.
I thought you’d dug yourself a pretty deep hole when you chickened out of a serious bet.
Turns out you can dig deeper.
Seek help dude. Seek professional intervention, before you blow a gasket old man.
JCsays:
September 23, 2022 at 11:56 pm
Tell you what Driller. Obtain a clearance from the blog owner that I can publish private information about you and I’m more than happy to show you.
That way you won’t be hiding and you won’t be able to peddle dishonest crap about yourself every again.
Even better, why don’t you just go away to another Blog and give us all a rest. You are like a Broken Record. Boring, boring, boring. And vote for Desperate Dan in Stasi Victoria…………………..
Delusion watch in real time.
Yes.
Stop repeating the same question and go get the clearance. Go!
Cultures and food is always an interesting subject. Both parts being endlessly fascinating.
I ate truffle pasta again last night. I could smell the glorious waft as it came from the kitchen.
In the market yesterday the small stalls had a wealth of different types of mushrooms, from the beautiful golden chantarelles to meaty porcini and some enormous field caps. There were some I’ve never seen before.
That’s all folks. Boarding call.
Salvatore is my second name, dickhead. You’ve no idea of my first name of my surname (they’re both far more unpronounceable).
Lay out your methodology for knowing how I do not own the pub. Start with… er.. how about the … starting point.
………GO!
Lol, that’s persuasive. Everyone will believe that.
There’s nothing to dig and there was no serious bet. You lied.
Driller, you don’t own a pub. It’s been a lie for years.
You know this……… how?
Get the clearance, you halfwit. Stop dissembling.
You want this “clearance”, you’ll have to grow a dick & balls and contact Dover yourself.
You do not require Dover’s blessing to tell how you know personal information about me.
Perhaps you’re intimidated by Dover?
People who would like can catch me at Adam’s from now on.
Thanks Dover for this blog. I hope it continues into the future and wish everyone here all the best.
Yeah, yeah, I know, the libertarian farewell “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out”.
Won’t be sharing any sort of space or replies with you from this point on J.C. I wish you good health, ongoing prosperity and happiness. Look after yourself.
Just sad. Sad and pitiful
I sure do.
I am and you ought to be a little more careful as he’s more than aware of your stoush trolling behavior. Publess.
Oh Lordy, is this a threat?
You are one helluva sad case you old flog.
Grow a pair & confess you made up these two items:
1/. You don’t own a pub.
2/. I could publish personal information about you.
You sad pathetic old wanker.
Typical, you truncated the ‘you ought to be a little more careful’.
No, because it wouldn’t be true.
Okay.
You have confidential personal financial information about me, yet aren’t able to say how you got it?
Ergo, you got nothin’
You’re about to lose serious face on this blog if you can’t show that much.
I bet you will, Leadership. You pretty much said a similar thing earlier this immediately after new year.
Can you take Driller and Turtlehead with you? Both would add a ton of value to the Lollipop cat.
Driller
Stop making shit up. I don’t have confidential financial information about you. No-one needs to have your confidential information to know you’re publess.
Oh please. You’re such a drama queen.
Publess in Seattle.
Lol, dickhead you do not need a clearance. You’ve never worried about printing bullshit before.
Why the sudden coyness?
1/. I own a pub.
2/. Anyone claiming to have information that I do not own a pub is full of shit.
3/. There is no problem publishing complete bullshit on this blog.
Go for your life you old goat. Tell us what you “know”.
Someone needs a laugh.
Driller
Calm down. Of course I would need a clearance because you’re more than aware that would be doxing otherwise. Stop trying to send us on a squirrel chase. I’m not being coy.
The info of course could be wrong as it was told to me.
You say your middle name is Salvatore, but in the past you’ve told us it was a made up name. Also, you’ve often said your heritage is British Isles. Forgive me, but I didn’t realize salvatore was a popular Anglo name. You’re making shit up as you go along.
This will be like your stupid greenhorn blatherings that there is no such thing as an open-cut mine with a linear pit that is 20km long.
Idiot.
Drills
You’ve often made comments about how much you hate Italians or folks with an Italian background. This evening you’re coming out as Salvatore? Give us a break.
It is only doxing if it is true.
With that nugget in mind everyone can spot your problem.
Everyone except you…
Do the voices tell you anything else about me, or any other personality on the Cat?
I’m pretty sure you’re lying.
It appears to be pretty accurate.
Yea I know. You supported dishonest upticking.
Gotta hand it to you, that’s pretty solid evidence that I don’t own a pub.
You’re lying that your middle name is Salvatore.
Yet you are unable to produce even one copy/paste or link where I have done any such thing.
Do the voices tell you anything else?
You know this ….. how?
I’m pretty sure…. It appears…..
That sound we hear is goalposts starting to move….
Towing with an EV pickup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nS0Fdayj8Y
Silence… FMD… don’t me the stupid dickhead believed his own bullshit & has gone off looking for some evidence I support this dickless upticking?
Oh lordy lord, this is too funny!
Oh my gawd, I need a wall to lean on while I die laughing.
1. You once told us it was made up and someone picked you up of the fact that you had confused Salvatore with you previous blog name, steve. You thought Salvatore was the Italian equivalent of Steve. You fuckwit.
2. You’ve also described hating people of an Italian background.
3. You’ve said you’re Anglo and Salvatore isn’t exactly a popular Anglo name, you big idiot.
You need to stop lying.
This is funnier than the time he tried to nail his old feller to the bench while simultaneously tightening the workshop vice on his balls.
Yet you will never produce a copy/paste of link to support this.
Now do the name I used on here before Steve.
Sheik Aliwad Ali.
Crikey, this moron does believe his own bullshit.
That explains a lot.
Er… you jes’ keep on lookin’ for where I supported dickless upticking…. (heh heh)
Oops, Duty calls. Gotta zoom.
I’ll check back in a coupla weeks, see if Dunning Krugman has surfaced for air in his search for dickless uptick supports.
Driller
1. You’re middle name isn’t Sal
2. You don’t own a pub
Please just stop the lying.
Zatara:
There is an alternative – mead – non carbonated mead.
And Zulu spears, and Andrea the barmaid/enforcer.
Turtlehead , We need the evidence.
I’ve been following John on twitter, without realising who he was.
My name is John Herron, father of Courtney Herron. She was killed in May 2019. Her killer was released early by Corrections Victoria and not monitored.
The Andrew’s Government pursues ‘restorative justice’ that simply puts killers on our streets.
Clinton filth wouldn’t look out of place with the bag ladies at the Eddy Ave bus stop. It must be that Clinton is a drunk too.