Open Thread – Weekend 24 Sept 2022


Misty morning in Italy, Ivan Aivazovsky, 1864

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Ed Case
Ed Case
September 25, 2022 3:20 pm

So I’m going with BB. It’s not a hard choice.

BB hisself says he has no idea about the subject, else why would he be requesting that I do a basic Internet search for him?

It’s been a coupla hours for someone to come up with a Gotcha!, all I’ve seen is some guy moaning about Gluten.
I also said that Aborigines are Lactose Intolerant, no one’s asked for evidence for that yet.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
September 25, 2022 3:20 pm

Tomsays:
September 25, 2022 at 3:03 pm

04:25pm. And there’s only 6 starters – for a $1M race!

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 25, 2022 3:21 pm

Only six runners in the Underwood, Tom.
Sad.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 25, 2022 3:22 pm

Snap.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 25, 2022 3:29 pm

Mahsa Amini: Hundreds join Perth rally for Iran woman killed after being detained by country’s morality police
Jake DietschThe West Australian
Sun, 25 September 2022 12:53P

Hundreds have rallied in Perth in solidarity with the people of Iran, after mass protests erupted over the death in custody of a woman detained by the country’s morality police.

Mahsa Amini, 22, was arrested on September 13 for wearing her head scarf too loosely and fell into a coma in custody, dying three days later.

Iranian authorities claim she had a heart attack, but her family deny she had any health conditions and say she was beaten to death.

In Perth’s Forrest Chase on Sunday up to 400 people gathered, with many bearing signs including “No to forced hijab” and “Down with dictator”, as well as chants such as “Women want freedom” and “Free, free Iran”.

Tara – who did not wish to give her surname – left Iran 10 years ago due to oppression and said she hoped protests around the world would spread awareness.

“Coming here today was the least we could do as the women in Iran are risking their lives,” she said.

“Women have been struggling for 40 years and they don’t have a voice.

“I think this is a chance to finally let others know. It’s every single government’s responsibility to talk about what’s happening.”

shatterzzz
September 25, 2022 3:30 pm

Well the Socceroos come away with a 2-nil win tho not very convincing as CV input for the World Cup .. Mitchell Duke’s header (off a corner) was superb and Cummings made no mistake with a deserved penalty but overall defence was its usual mish-mash and attack(s) few & far between .. better than Friday night but still only 5/10 which is not good enough for knock-out stage in Qatar ..
On a btighter note .. Socceroos were paying $2.50 a win so my $20 investment was worthwhile ..
I only backed them cos decent odds not belief! .. LOL!

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 25, 2022 3:33 pm

All rebuttals could be easily collapsed by your simply backing up your initial assertions, Job.

But, now that you demand BB must prove his being Indigenous as the basis for rebuttal you are letting go of the possibility that he might be part of the, what? 5% of Aborigines who might carry the gene that allows them to eat wheat products or retain a tolerance for lactose.

See, usually these conditions apply to overwhelming majorities of populations but there is a small minority that do not have it.

Insisting on BB’s proof, that he cannot be Aboriginal and not have a tolerance for lactose or wheat products, means you have now recast your claim as being that “ALL Aborigines are lactose blah blah blah.”

My theory, on the other hand, is that no proof from BB is forthcoming because a) it is not warranted, b) it is not obligatory, and c) it would give potentially sensitive and personally identifying information to a slimy creep.

shatterzzz
September 25, 2022 3:39 pm

Anthony Albanese pre-budget address ..
https://ibb.co/bBJRdg4

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

It’s been a coupla hours for someone to come up with a Gotcha!

FMD, this is like playing chess with a pigeon.
Here’s THE Gotcha!
You’ve made a claim, you’ve not provided any supporting evidence.

Gotcha!

Razey
Razey
September 25, 2022 4:01 pm

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:

You’ve made a claim, you’ve not provided any supporting evidence.

Trans loons do that all the time.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 25, 2022 4:01 pm

What is happening in Iran is very encouraging.

Someone posted a clip yesterday showing a guy getting off his bike and clobbering a woman in a bee-keeper outfit.

Then a crowd surrounded him and laying into him – including bee-keepers.

Don’t know what the original confrontation was about, and I can’t even claim to know the clip was from Iran, but if it was it was immensely satisfying.

I have always thought that part of irritability of fundamentalist Muslim nations is that they can’t just sit down and have a drink with their mates, and be lifted out of the moment by the sublime touch of a beautiful woman’s smile.

Just all day supercharging themselves on coffee.

Imagine the sort of re-programming that would erase memory of being fed and and cosseted by your own mother, or of play with your sisters who will have been your first friends. It would seem the fundamentalist mode is too artificial a distancing from nature. They do tend to be insanely brutal regimes.

I suspect there is a lot of porn in such places, which would help to dehumanise women if that is all you have, but that would also be accompanied by guilt.

You can’t really live like that. Man or woman.

Razey
Razey
September 25, 2022 4:05 pm

Mother Lodesays:
September 25, 2022 at 4:01 pm
What is happening in Iran is very encouraging.

Why? Do we really want Iran to turn onto the decadent West? I don’t think the West and their disgusting anti-human rights clot shot mandates have any leg to stand on.

Makka
Makka
September 25, 2022 4:07 pm

Just all day supercharging themselves on coffee

Coffee, cigarettes, little sleep and 700 years of in-breeding. They get emotional.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 25, 2022 4:08 pm

Cole Beasley will be playing for the Buccaneers tomorrow.
He was kicked out of Buffalo because of his anti jab stance.
I hope Tom Brady hits him all day long.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 25, 2022 4:12 pm

Razey,

There is a world of difference between the decadence of the West now and a society where half the population are treated as absolute shit.

The alternative is for Iran to continue as it has. Better?

Think of the best ages in the West. What was the attitude to women then?

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 4:12 pm

OCO

Cigarette firms have been a massive dividend earner for the past 27 years.

Philip Morris International Inc. (PM)

There’s a hell of a lot of risk associated with them though. I recall the Clinton settlement with the cig companies and its been a massive income stream since.

I thought Philip Morris was trading under another name, but it could have been spun off over the years.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Do we really want Iran to turn onto the decadent West? I don’t think the West and their disgusting anti-human rights clot shot mandates have any leg to stand on.

At the moment the West restricts crane use to only construction, loading ships, that sort of thing.
We’re still ahead.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 25, 2022 4:20 pm

Dickless

I also said that Aborigines are Lactose Intolerant, no one’s asked for evidence for that yet.

That’s ‘cos no-one cares.

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 4:20 pm

OCO

5% dividend in the US is very high.

Their payout is high too. They have no need for retained earnings because they can’t (no allowed) to grow.

Dividends & Splits
Forward Annual Dividend Rate 4 5.08
Forward Annual Dividend Yield 4 5.53%
Trailing Annual Dividend Rate 3 5.00
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield 3 5.22%
5 Year Average Dividend Yield 4 5.34
Payout Ratio 4 85.76%

Ed Case
Ed Case
September 25, 2022 4:23 pm

Think of the best ages in the West. What was the attitude to women then?

Sure.
Women wore hats and modest clothing and were seen and not heard.
Not a shred of doubt that the U.S. State Dept. is behind these events.
Once regime change happens and new Mullahs are installed, it’ll be business as usual.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 25, 2022 4:24 pm

An all encompassing indigenous allergy to wheat must be a new thing.
In earlier times the natives would come to the homesteads asking for flour.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2022 4:24 pm

Mother Lodesays:

September 25, 2022 at 3:33 pm

All rebuttals could be easily collapsed by your simply backing up your initial assertions, Job.

But, now that you demand BB must prove his being Indigenous as the basis for rebuttal

It’s called “the reverse Salvatore with pike”.

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 4:26 pm

The problem with this is they take their politics with them.

More Residents Looking to Leave San Francisco Than Any Other Major U.S. City, Report Finds
Search data indicates that even more people are looking to move to a new city than a year ago

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

It’s called “the reverse Salvatore with pike”.

Not sure what that means.
Unlike Sancho, I’ve not yet gone missing in action, nor backed off an assertation.

Ed Case
Ed Case
September 25, 2022 4:30 pm

All rebuttals could be easily collapsed by your simply backing up your initial assertions, Job.

My policy is not to provide links to things that should be common knowledge and easily discovered, Groogs.
Sure, it gives trolls such as yourself the opportunity to draw attention to themselves, let’s just call it a fishing expedition?

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 4:30 pm

Gez

Head could be right, although he’s a complete imbecile. He could be right in the sense that there is a propensity in that the community to be lactose and gluten intolerant. Intolerance doesn’t mean one need to be at Celiac levels of intolerance for gluten for instance.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 25, 2022 4:32 pm

My policy is not to provide links to things that should be common knowledge

LOL

Ed Case
Ed Case
September 25, 2022 4:32 pm

Unlike Sancho, I’ve not yet gone missing in action, nor backed off an assertation.

You asserted back in February that you’d consider traveling to Ukraine to fight for Zelenskyy.
2 weeks later, you denied ever saying it.

Tom
Tom
September 25, 2022 4:35 pm

Alligator Blood wins the $1m group 1 Underwood Stakes. Anabel Neasham’s Mo’unga and Zaaki fill second and third places. The big fizzer was I’m Thunderstruck, backed in to $2.20 favourite but finishing fourth.

Alligator Blood (now trained by Waterhouse-Bott) confirms his place as the rising star of Australian racing.

Ed Case
Ed Case
September 25, 2022 4:36 pm

An all encompassing indigenous allergy to wheat must be a new thing.
In earlier times the natives would come to the homesteads asking for flour.

Yeah, they were starving and that’s all the homestead had plenty of.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2022 4:39 pm

You asserted back in February that you’d consider traveling to Ukraine to fight for Zelenskyy.
2 weeks later, you denied ever saying it.

Ukraine – the food is inedible, the conditions are squalid, the bedding is infested with lice, power and water supply is intermittent.
Almost as bad as staying in a North Queensland hotel.

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 4:40 pm

I think the word being looked for is “malabsorption”

The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of lactose malabsorption in healthy full-blood Australian Aboriginal children. Sixty-three Aboriginal subjects and forty-six non-Aboriginal controls ranging in age from six to 14 years were tested using the breath hydrogen method. Seventy percent of the Aboriginal subjects were found to be lactose malabsorbers and 9% of the controls.

Gluten malabsorption for aboriginals is also over the web.

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 4:41 pm

lol

Winston Smith
September 25, 2022 4:42 pm

Dover Beach:

This was posted to Reddit from the Howard Beach–JFK Airport station in Queens. I believe it was recorded very recently.

This is the fruit of the Floyd riots.
The War on Whites continues…
This time it’s a woman being beaten.
Our leaders have made common cause with the criminal element to keep us subject to their whims.

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 4:43 pm

It’s the Brahmans.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 25, 2022 4:43 pm

Ha!

And I’m now a troll.

Indolent
Indolent
September 25, 2022 4:50 pm

Is it too harsh to say that the officials who came up with this mandate should be taken out and shot?

Federal Judge Strikes Down Mask, Vaccine Mandates for Toddlers in Public Preschools

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 25, 2022 4:50 pm

Haven’t seen a performance like Groogs since Piers Morgan faced Brett Lee in the nets.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

The problem with this is they take their politics with them.

More Residents Looking to Leave San Francisco Than Any Other Major U.S. City, Report Finds
Search data indicates that even more people are looking to move to a new city than a year ago

They’re refugees, not missionaries.
Something they should remember.

Indolent
Indolent
September 25, 2022 4:52 pm
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Ukraine – the food is inedible, the conditions are squalid, the bedding is infested with lice, power and water supply is intermittent.
Almost as bad as staying in a North Queensland hotel.

Without casting any aspersionson Sancho’s chequebook, those who pay their bill have an entirely different & pleasant hotel experience.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Is it too harsh to say that the officials who came up with this mandate should be taken out and shot?

An “Iranian Crane Experience” will suffice.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 25, 2022 4:55 pm

My theory, on the other hand, is that no proof from BB is forthcoming because a) it is not warranted, b) it is not obligatory, and c) it would give potentially sensitive and personally identifying information to a slimy creep.

Or he might be pissed off at being called a liar by a dishonest fuckwit. I might be myself.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Who to believe, Black Ball or Ed Case?
Gee this is tough. Crikey.

rosie
rosie
September 25, 2022 4:57 pm

Smart women to wear masks to hide their identity.
The regime is a long way from being overthrown, isn’t it?

Roger
Roger
September 25, 2022 4:59 pm

The problem with this is they take their politics with them.

More Residents Looking to Leave San Francisco Than Any Other Major U.S. City

So who do they blame for the state of SF…Trump?

rosie
rosie
September 25, 2022 5:00 pm

How do you know in advance which hotel guests are planning to pay their bill, and thus ensure their stay will be pleasant?

Rabz
September 25, 2022 5:02 pm

LOL

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Huh? Bills are paid in advance.

How do you know in advance which hotel guests are planning to pay their bill, and thus ensure their stay will be pleasant?

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 25, 2022 5:04 pm

As always, with Groogs a simple fuck off will suffice.

Rabz
September 25, 2022 5:04 pm
Winston Smith
September 25, 2022 5:06 pm

rickw:

To be fair, the vast majority of Africans are far more civilised than these animals.

I’ll accept your opinion about that, rickw. But I’m not seeing a great deal of evidence for it, or for community self policing.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 25, 2022 5:08 pm

Head could be right, although he’s a complete imbecile. He could be right in the sense that there is a propensity in that the community to be lactose and gluten intolerant. Intolerance doesn’t mean one need to be at Celiac levels of intolerance for gluten for instance.

Had head case stated that wheat intolerance occurred, at some level, in 70% of the aboriginal population, and at only 20% in the grey-pink population, he might have got away with it.

But he didn’t say that. And if he had, then BB’s comment wouldn’t have contradicted that, they could have both been right. Head Case made the claim that BB was lying about being aboriginal, not that he and his family were lucky.

MatrixTransform
September 25, 2022 5:11 pm

The blog owner has asked me report them anyway so he gets an idea of who is trying to start them

LoL

Rabz
September 25, 2022 5:11 pm
Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 25, 2022 5:13 pm

Or he might be pissed off at being called a liar by a dishonest fuckwit.

And there is that too.

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 5:13 pm

Head Case made the claim that BB was lying about being aboriginal, not that he and his family were lucky.

LOL There’s always a twist with the Head.

Head, dickhead, malabsorption can manifest in different ways. People may not even know they’re malabsorbers as the symptoms could be very light on.

rosie
rosie
September 25, 2022 5:13 pm

“those who pay their bill have an entirely different & pleasant hotel experience.”
If everyone pays their bills in advance then this comment makes little sense.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2022 5:14 pm

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
September 25, 2022 at 5:03 pm
Huh? Bills are paid in advance.

Finally.
Conrad Hilton has taken the sound advice offered by Cats with business experience.
I recall Conrad complaining that large corporates and government departments took ages to pay their bills.
He was advised by canny types here to adopt the policy that 99.9999% of the accommodation industry worldwide do – no pay, no key.
Good to see you took that advice on board, Conrad.

Ed Case
Ed Case
September 25, 2022 5:15 pm

Head Case made the claim that BB was lying about being aboriginal, not that he and his family were lucky.

That’s not true though, is it?
Do you lie about other stuff as well, or is this a first for you?

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 5:15 pm

MatrixTransform says:
September 25, 2022 at 5:11 pm

The blog owner has asked me report them anyway so he gets an idea of who is trying to start them

LoL

What are you LOLing about? If you think it’s untrue go and ask him.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

If everyone pays their bills in advance then this comment makes little sense.

Sometimes there are people with payment difficulties, say technical difficulties with their card, or left their card behind, & so on. Perhaps the old… “spouse has the card & I can’t contact them”
Such folk are usually given the benefit of the doubt.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 25, 2022 5:17 pm

Gypsum.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

What are you LOLing about?

He’s “lolling” at the total & complete absence of self-awareness in the quote.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 25, 2022 5:18 pm

Head Case made the claim that BB was lying about being aboriginal, not that he and his family were lucky.

That’s not true though, is it?
Do you lie about other stuff as well, or is this a first for you?

BB said he was aboriginal. You demanded proof. That’s calling him a liar in my book.

rosie
rosie
September 25, 2022 5:18 pm

I don’t really understand the ‘all masks bad’ thing.
Absolutely agree they shouldn’t have been mandated, I broke that law every day but they aren’t all ‘putrid’.
Several older members of my conservative Catholic parish wear them to mass, as does the PP at my daughter’s QLD parish when distributing Holy Communion, they aren’t morons, the masks look/are crisp and new and it’s their prerogative, as it always should have been.

rosie
rosie
September 25, 2022 5:20 pm

Another reverse Salvatore then.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Another reverse Salvatore then.

Please explain.

MatrixTransform
September 25, 2022 5:22 pm

Better “poles & wires” are needed to deal with the “duck curve” created by solar.

er, Nah

A lot of variation happening every day.

er, Yeah

You can reduce it by having the storage that solar needs located at the end users.

would you be happy to bear that expense with a 15 to 20 year payback?

just so that the shareholders of those multinationals that run our generation and distribution can make extra bucks all the way into the glorious carbon-free future, all you have to do is pony-up about 2$ per watt-hour right now.

I we all chip-in … the future is certain

do keep in mind you’d be lucky if yr batteries last 10 years

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 5:23 pm

I just reported the comment, Drills. Both you dimwits are tanked by early evening and consequently have no idea what the fuck you’re doing. Stop talking to me. Don’t comment on my comments and stop trolling you useless loser. You have nothing to add here and neither does your new found pal.

And by the way, losing money by not collecting at a motel – no matter and horrible the experience is , is really stupid for he owner. I cannot ever recall staying at an establishment where my credit card etc was not asked for at the counter. OMG, you’re useless. Just useless.

Ed Case
Ed Case
September 25, 2022 5:24 pm

The difference between Wheat Allergy and nGluten Intolerance:

A wheat allergy is most often seen in children and can cause symptoms as mild as hives to life-threatening anaphylaxis. Having an allergy to wheat is very different from gluten intolerance, which is seen in people with celiac disease. A wheat allergy is an immune response triggered by a protein in wheat, while celiac disease is a digestive disease that causes the immune system to attack the small intestines when gluten is consumed.

In both cases, wheat needs to be eliminated from the diet, but those with gluten intolerance also have to eliminate barley, rye and sometimes oats. People with wheat allergies may also be allergic to other grains, but that needs to be determined by a doctor.

Source:

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 25, 2022 5:25 pm

23 Sep 22 – Germany faces toilet paper shortage

Manufacturers say the energy crisis is leading to higher prices and limited supplies

German toilet paper production is under such pressure from the European gas crisis that the country may face a shortage of the product. Some companies have already declared insolvency or cut production due to skyrocketing energy prices, as industry leaders call on the government to introduce price caps.

“From what we hear, this crisis is likely to be more severe for manufacturing industries than Covid was,” Carsten Rolle, the head of energy and climate policy at the BDI business association, told the Financial Times on Friday.

With mounting fears of power shortages and rising energy costs amid reduced gas deliveries from Russia, Essity – which owns brands such as Zewa, Libresse, and Lotus – says it has already had to raise prices by as much as 18% and is considering alternative sources of fuel.

Meanwhile, other toilet paper makers, such as the Dusseldorf-based Hakle, which has operated since 1928, have started declaring insolvency, claiming that soaring energy prices, high pulp costs, and transportation expenses have made their businesses financially unviable.

“In a very short time, electricity and gas prices have exploded to such an extent that of course they cannot be passed on to our customers so quickly,” Karen Jung, Hakle’s head of marketing, told Reuters.

According to the IWH economic institute, some 718 German entities became insolvent in August, a 26% jump over the previous year. That figure is expected to remain at around 25% in September and climb to 33% in October.

The German paper industry is now calling on the government of Olaf Scholz to enact an energy price cap, claiming it is the only thing that can stop the insolvencies. “I don’t think the wave of insolvencies can be stopped unless we have an [energy price] cap,” Volker Jung, managing director of Hakle told the FT.

Meanwhile, Paper Industry Association VP Martin Krengel said in a statement that the “top priority” was to “ensure that people are supplied with this important commodity.”

Prices in Germany, as well as in much of the EU, have been skyrocketing for several months now. Germany’s Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reported this week that energy prices in the country had surged some 139% over the past 12 months, while the price of electricity shot up 174.9%.

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 5:26 pm

Sometimes there are people with payment difficulties, say technical difficulties with their card, or left their card behind, & so on. Perhaps the old… “spouse has the card & I can’t contact them”
Such folk are usually given the benefit of the doubt.

No fucking wonder, you’re on the street if not a low rent boarding house. You take the payment either in advance when people are booking online or you take the card at the counter when checking in for the duration of the stay or day to day.

You are so useless.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2022 5:27 pm

What percentage of guests present to the desk with “the dog ate my Amex” or some similar excuse, Conrad?
You could simply open a bank account with a zero balance, and invite the unfortunate “missus got me card, mate” types out the back office to direct credit it to your account.
Most hotels would tell you to piss off if you baulked at that.
But, if you were struggling to attract clientele, you might be tempted to roll the dice I guess.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Trigger warning: This comment contains anecdotal evidence and a recounting of lived experience.
Those who require smelling salts to deal with such comments should retire to their fainting couch without delay.

Having been Queensland’s largest private employer of Aboriginals, I can state that they ate white bread with gusto. This has been consistent when Aboriginals were co-workers, employees, guests, friends, & dining companions.
They eat white bread like it is going out of fashion. They’ll also eat Wholemeal, far more readily than Anglo-Saxons or sub-continentals will. They eschew multi-grain, likewise other fancy grain/fruit breads.

Without any observable ill-effects, negative impact on work performance, & so on.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 25, 2022 5:30 pm

23 Sep 2022 – German producers warn of food shortages

Manufacturers of both frozen and fresh products say they cannot cope with soaring energy costs

Germany’s frozen and fresh food producers have warned that rising energy prices may soon force them to stop operations, according to Die Welt.

“There are significant supply gaps in the daily food supply for people in Germany. The situation is more than serious,” an open letter from the industry said.

“Companies now fear that production lines will soon come to a standstill and that refrigerated logistics centers for food distribution will be closed. Some are even preparing for possible insolvency.”

The letter was initiated by the German Frozen Food Institute and the Association of German Cold Storage and Logistics Companies, and signed by five other industry groups. It was addressed to Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck and Federal Minister for Food Cem Ozdemir.

According to the authors of the letter, the financial standing of food producers is deteriorating every day, which could soon result in a wave of bankruptcies in the industry. They warn that government intervention is needed to salvage the situation. In particular, they are calling for financial support for energy-intensive medium-sized producers in the deep-freeze chain.

“The food industry is currently experiencing the worst crisis since the end of the Second World War… It’s a minute to twelve. Act now – otherwise the refrigerators and freezers of the German population will soon be empty,” the letter urges.

Germany, along with the broader EU, is facing a sharp rise in energy prices and a record inflation surge amid intensifying anti-Russian sanctions and a policy of abandoning Russian fuel.

The situation could also soon lead to energy rationing and shortages. The frozen food industry is particularly susceptible to energy supply problems, due to its strong reliance on electricity for freezers.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 25, 2022 5:30 pm

Hugh Bowman having a holiday after excessive use of the whip in the Underwood.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Advice on how to run a hospitality venue from the blogger on this site who consistently exhibits the least people skills.

Yeah, right.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 25, 2022 5:31 pm

And Parra will be in the ladies & mens grand final next week.

Ed Case
Ed Case
September 25, 2022 5:32 pm

BB said he was aboriginal. You demanded proof. That’s calling him a liar in my book.

Here’s how it works, Groogs:
I’ve never had any interaction with the guy before, then he latches onto my comment and demands evidence.
Hasn’t he got the Internet, can he do a search by himself?
A while later he dismisses my comment by calling himself “a blackfella”
and claiming no member of his family ever had problems eating wheat.

You know what, it’s a bit unbelievable.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 25, 2022 5:32 pm

The difference between Wheat Allergy and nGluten Intolerance:

Malabsorption, Mr Job.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Sancho, have you ever run a hospitality venue, in a customer facing role?
From the sound of it, likely not.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 25, 2022 5:34 pm

23 Sep, 2022 -French firewood prices soaring – media

Growing demand ahead of winter is driving up the cost of heating with renewable resource, BFMTV reports

The price of firewood in France has continued to grow, rising by an average of 10% compared to June, as households stockpile supplies earlier than ever this year, channel BFMTV reported on Friday.

According to the report, the cost currently amounts to about €90 ($87) per cubic meter. Demand has jumped 50% over the last two months in annual terms.

The boom in demand caused significant delays in delivery, with consumers expected to wait for three to five months from the date of the order. However, “in a bad scenario, some customers may not receive their orders at all,” it warned.

Producers indicated they may limit deliveries to one cubic meter of firewood per household if they cannot meet demand.

“People are preparing for winter crazily in advance compared to previous years,” the national wood pellet professionals’ group Propellet France stated last week. “There is always a delay in the time it takes for the sector to find its feet and increase its production capacity. Supply is limited compared to demand,” it explained.

The French have been flocking to firewood and pellets as an alternative way to heat their homes amid surging energy prices. The rush comes as the nation’s energy regulator CRE has warned that private households may face power outages this winter in the event of severe frosts.

Mater
September 25, 2022 5:35 pm

The difference between Wheat Allergy and nGluten Intolerance:

And I still can’t see any sources which indicate a connection between Gluten Intolerance/ Malabsorption and Australian Aboriginals.

Can we have one please?

The closest I got was an ABC story about Gluten Intolerance, that had an Acknowledgment of Country on the same page.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2015-09-21/gluten-intolerance-causes-grains-industry-rethink/6792470

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 5:35 pm

Having been Queensland’s largest private employer of Aboriginals, I can state that they ate white bread with gusto.

So what ,you imponderable nincompoop? It doesn’t mean much at all. Booze is bad for you yet you’re drinking from early afternoon to the evening.

This has been consistent when Aboriginals were co-workers, employees, guests, friends, & dining companions.

Malabsorption doesn’t mean they’re going to double up and die in agony, you infernal dope. It means that their system isn’t great at absorbing the grains.

They eat white bread like it is going out of fashion. They’ll also eat Wholemeal, far more readily than Anglo-Saxons or sub-continentals will. They eschew multi-grain, likewise other fancy grain/fruit breads.

God you’re a fucking idiot. You expect us to believe that you were watching closely if folks were eating white, wholemeal or even rye. Watching them like a hawk. You think we’re that gullible.Fuck off. Just fuck off, you baseload lying cretin.

Without any observable ill-effects, negative impact on work performance, & so on.

Oh, so were at the bottom of the toilet bowl while their taking a shit? I’d believe that.

Ed Case
Ed Case
September 25, 2022 5:36 pm

Having been Queensland’s largest private employer of Aboriginals, I can state that they ate white bread with gusto

Look, I’m getting out the Psychopathy Checklist, I think 16 ticks equate to a Psychopath and you’ve ticked 4 or 5 with that comment.

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 5:37 pm

And I still can’t see any sources which indicate a connection between Gluten Intolerance/ Malabsorption and Australian Aboriginals.

I put up an excerpt. If you don’t believe it look it up. If you still need help with a search , let us know.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

I’m getting out the Psychopathy Checklist, I think 16 ticks equate to a Psychopath and you’ve ticked 4 or 5 with that comment.

I’m pleased to have triggered a rolled-gold dickhead.
You’re back on “scroll-past”

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 25, 2022 5:38 pm

You know what, it’s a bit unbelievable.

Totally more believable than a shut-in’s demonstrated incompetence in the following areas:

Agriculture (subcategories of gypsum, irrigation, cropping, meat, meat exports and farm management);
Anthropology (subcategories of migration, diet and evolution);
Geopolitics (subcategories of the Westminster System, constitutional republics, political factions and associated research and development, espionage, counterespionage and ‘spooks’);
Geography (subcategories of European countries and how long they have existed – ie, Germany);
Warfare (subcategories of surface and subsurface naval operations, limitations of particular weaponry, the definition of ‘piracy’);
Sport (Joe Burns); and
Legislation (subcategories of Nazism, Australian road rules and regulations, equipment used by law enforcement).

Mater
September 25, 2022 5:42 pm

I put up an excerpt. If you don’t believe it look it up.

You put up an excerpt about lactose malabsorption.

If you still need help with a search , let us know.

Yes please!

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 5:42 pm

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity says:
September 25, 2022 at 5:03 pm

Huh? Bills are paid in advance.

And there’s the 180 baseload rearing it’s ugly head. You don;t have to wait long.

MatrixTransform
September 25, 2022 5:44 pm

the total & complete absence of self-awareness in the quote

for a nasty piece of shit that has been verbally slashing at at many many people in this forum for week.
no years, he does show a lack of self-awareness

I hope the daisy in his mouth today and the doe-eyes last for more than 24 hours

it might actually be more pleasant and readable here for a change

calli
calli
September 25, 2022 5:44 pm

Good afternoon chatterboxes.

Have a callicard Shatterzzzz.

The whining about the tax cuts here can be heard from space. They’re all trotting out “experts” to prove their points. We’ve seen it all before.

Off to walk around York for the day. I will post my impressions later. We spent some time in a pub last night. Unimpressed by the locals, but that may have been a typical Saturday night. Even the pub bouncer was rolling his eyes.

MatrixTransform
September 25, 2022 5:45 pm

is his lap-dog, that nasty little chihuahua, still skulking around too

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 5:49 pm

Oh God.

Matrix, it’s a pity Liz isn’t around, hey. You could’ve picked on an 80 year old gal in drunken dialogue

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2022 5:50 pm

Woof!!!
………………………………. Lol!

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 25, 2022 5:50 pm

US oil reserves at lowest level in decades – media

The stockpile has been gradually shrinking due to Washington’s attempts to stabilize gasoline prices

US strategic petroleum reserves (SPRs) have shrunk to their lowest level in nearly 40 years, the Wall Street Journal has reported, citing weekly data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). – 62 Page PDF

Crude oil inventories declined by nearly 7 million barrels in the week to September 16, falling to 427.2 million barrels – the lowest since 1984, the WSJ said. According to the report, this is the first time the SPR has held less oil than commercial storage since 1983. As of September 16, there were 430.8 million barrels of oil in commercial storage facilities.

President Joe Biden announced that a record 180 million barrels of crude oil would be released from the SPR in late March, in an attempt to combat rising fuel prices and market disruptions caused in part by the uncertainty regarding Russian oil exports to the global market amid the conflict in Ukraine.

Under the plan, the US is to sell around 1 million barrels of oil per day over the course of six months. According to analysts, this volume is more than three times higher than any previous release from the SPR. Official data shows that about 155 million barrels have been released from the SPR so far this year, with 10 million more to be tapped in November.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2022 5:51 pm

That’s my uptick Matrix.
Enjoy!!!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 25, 2022 5:53 pm

I will post my impressions later.

Be interested in your impressions – I’m trying to remember the name of the shortest street in the city.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

How is that daisy in the mouth & does eyes working out?

complete imbecile – dickhead – dimwits – have no idea what the fuck you’re doing – you useless loser – OMG, you’re useless. Just useless – You are so useless – imponderable nincompoop – you’re drinking from early afternoon to the evening – you infernal dope – you’re a fucking idiot – Fuck off – Just fuck off – you baseload lying cretin

Just a thought, the problem may not be everybody else’s brashness toward the innocent doe-eyed one with the daisy in the mouth.

Just a hunch.

Ed Case
Ed Case
September 25, 2022 5:56 pm

Psychopathy Checklist:
Item 1: Glibness/superficial charm
Item 2: Grandiose sense of self-worth
Item 3: Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom
Item 4: Pathological lying
Item 5: Conning/manipulative
Item 6: Lack of remorse or guilt
Item 7: Shallow affect
Item 8: Callous/lack of empathy
Item 9: Parasitic lifestyle
Item 10: Poor behavioral controls
Item 11: Promiscuous sexual behavior
Item 12: Early behavior problems
Item 13: Lack of realistic long-term goals
Item 14: Impulsivity
Item 15: Irresponsibility
Item 16: Failure to accept responsibility for own actions
Item 17: Many short-term marital relationships
Item 18: Juvenile delinquency
Item 19: Revocation of conditional release
Item 20: Criminal versatility
2-10, 14-16, there’s no doubt about, based on Comment History.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Ed has summed up the blog’s Hardy Boys duo very well.

Ed Case
Ed Case
September 25, 2022 5:58 pm

Here’s how you score the results:

Each of the 20 items in the PCL-R is scored on a three-point scale, with a rating of 0 if it does not apply at all, 1 if there is a partial match or mixed information, and 2 if there is a reasonably good match to the offender. This is said to be ideally done through a face-to-face interview together with supporting information on lifetime behavior (e.g., from case files), but is also done based only on file information. It can take up to three hours to collect and review the information.

Out of a maximum score of 40, the cut-off for the label of psychopathy is 30 in the United States and 25 in the United Kingdom.
A cut-off score of 25 is also sometimes used for research purposes.

calli
calli
September 25, 2022 5:59 pm

Whip Ma Whoop Ma Gate.

Nine metres.

I cheated and looked it up! 😀

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 25, 2022 5:59 pm

name of the shortest street in the city

I think it’s De Vito Street. Cruise Avenue is only slightly longer.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

I think it’s De Vito Street. Cruise Avenue is only slightly longer.

Crowe Drive is in the same suburb.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 25, 2022 6:01 pm

Seriously, Job?

You posted that and still would not post the supposed overwhelming evidence of Aboriginal allergies as per your original claim?

Don’t stop! Please!

This is hilarious!

All you had to do is admit that you had been sloppy in a single post way back.

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 6:02 pm

Ed has summed up the blog’s Hardy Boys duo very well.

No, he’s summed driller very well.

Driller, you can of course stop talking to me. But every time you’re found to be stoush trolling, like that other genius Magic Matrix and the Turtlhead, you will be reported. That’s it. No more Mr Nice Guy.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

No more Mr Nice Guy.

Lol, How will we ever know?

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 25, 2022 6:06 pm

Dickless

My policy is not to provide links to things that should be common knowledge and easily discovered, Groogs.

My policy is not to believe assertions with no evidence to support them.

MatrixTransform
September 25, 2022 6:06 pm

Ed has summed up the blog’s Hardy Boys duo very well.

every time these tossers do the stunt

and make the place into an idiotic farce

just click on Report Comment

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 25, 2022 6:07 pm

Cote du Py and charcoal chicken beckon.

Good night, Traitors.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2022 6:09 pm

Air-con Whizz needs his safe space!
Wooof!!!

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Air-con Whizz needs his safe space!
Wooof!!!

Seriously dude, you should stand back & have a look at yourself.
No wonder FNQ hotel staff gave you a rough trot.

MatrixTransform
September 25, 2022 6:12 pm

fuck off sancho you gob-shite

you two still skiting about doxing people?

dox me

and see what happens

Winston Smith
September 25, 2022 6:13 pm

Winston Smithsays:
September 25, 2022 at 6:16 am

Calli:
After all the curated bull that came out of China at the beginning of 2020, I’m not buying a bit of it.
They are mischievous liars of the first water.

If there’s one thing you can guarantee from a Socialist, it’s that everything they say is a lie. You’d have thought our Brahmin Class would have learned that from Hitler.

JC
September 25, 2022 at 6:24 am
Listen to the Turtlehead all knowledgeable about socialism, Indian class structure and the relationship with Hitler. One of the finest brains at this blog and it’s free. Incredible .

September 25, 2022 at 12:10 pm
BerkaJC
Don’t tell me. Tell those that try to start these stroushes like The Driller, The Turtlehead, Matrix in the evening when he’s fully tanked and the poor man’s Rodney Dangerfield . Seriously, go take a look as all I do is reply.
The blog owner has asked me report them anyway so he gets an idea of who is trying to start them.

Then you should be able to explain this, JC. It wasn’t addressed to you, it didn’t concern you, and I didn’t bother replying.
Do you ever admit responsibility for your aggro behaviour?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2022 6:14 pm

I think we all know who was behind doxxing JC.
Slunk off with his tail between his legs.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2022 6:16 pm

dox me

and see what happens

Has it occurred to you that you just aren’t interesting enough?
Wooof!!!!
🙂

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2022 6:17 pm

No wonder FNQ hotel staff gave you a rough trot.

What ever gave you the idea that happened?

Ed Case
Ed Case
September 25, 2022 6:18 pm

Item 11: Promiscuous sexual behavior

Hmmmm.’
Did a certain character, some years back, confess to, ahem, drilling some young sheila?

MatrixTransform
September 25, 2022 6:20 pm

Has it occurred to you that you just aren’t interesting enough?

and has it occurred you that if a post disappears after Report Comment … that it doesn’t really disappear

MatrixTransform
September 25, 2022 6:21 pm

just click Report Comment people

get rid of these toxic wankers

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2022 6:22 pm

Did a certain character, some years back, confess to, ahem, drilling some young sheila?

I don’t recall exactly, but I think it was more an expressed admiration for Prince Andrew’s “drilling” activities.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2022 6:23 pm

Come on people!
Make it a safe space for the uber-sensitive Air-Con King!

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 25, 2022 6:25 pm

Ed Casesays:
September 25, 2022 at 5:56 pm
Psychopathy Checklist:
Item 1: Glibness/superficial charm
Item 2: Grandiose sense of self-worth
Item 3: Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom
Item 4: Pathological lying
Item 5: Conning/manipulative
Item 6: Lack of remorse or guilt
Item 7: Shallow affect
Item 8: Callous/lack of empathy
Item 9: Parasitic lifestyle
Item 10: Poor behavioral controls
Item 11: Promiscuous sexual behavior
Item 12: Early behavior problems
Item 13: Lack of realistic long-term goals
Item 14: Impulsivity
Item 15: Irresponsibility
Item 16: Failure to accept responsibility for own actions
Item 17: Many short-term marital relationships
Item 18: Juvenile delinquency
Item 19: Revocation of conditional release
Item 20: Criminal versatility
2-10, 14-16, there’s no doubt about, based on Comment History.

Dickless

Good to see that your self-awareness in increasing, after all these years.

rosie
rosie
September 25, 2022 6:26 pm

Optus sent me a text just now.
What a relief to know they only got most of my information.
“We’re advising you that Optus has been a victim of a cyberattack resulting in the disclosure of your personal information, which is your name, date of birth, email, phone number, account address, and the number of the ID document you provided us. Importantly, no financial information or passwords have been accessed. Further information can be found on the Optus website or My Optus app.”

Winston Smith
September 25, 2022 6:26 pm

Snacho Panzer:

Many people here have predicted that the Xi regime is under bigger threat internally than from some external military threat.
That doesn’t mean, of course, that internal strife doesn’t spill over into a regional conflict, centred on Taiwan.

Threatened borders make for a compliant people.
Sun Tzu

A dodgy regime will often provoke border skirmishes to unite the peasants behind them.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 25, 2022 6:27 pm

I’m not sure.

But I think this is almost a stoush.

Mater
September 25, 2022 6:28 pm

I think we all know who was behind doxxing JC.
Slunk off with his tail between his legs.

So you ‘think’ you know who was behind it, so you decided to drop his real surname on the Open Thread (about a month and a half ago*) as a ‘not-so-veiled’ threat?

If I was going down that road, I’d want a little more substance than ‘I think’. It might also be considered a little non-kosher on this blog.

*Don’t bother daring me to produce it, I had to get Dover to remove it ASAP. But I do have a screenshot (8 Aug).

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 6:31 pm

Then you should be able to explain this, JC. It wasn’t addressed to you, it didn’t concern you, and I didn’t bother replying.
Do you ever admit responsibility for your aggro behaviour?

Every single one of those comments are as a direct result of your indirect earlier trolling, Turtlehead. You’re not going to get away with bullshit with me. Each one of your indirect trolls is matched with a decent kicking and that won’t stop until you stop talking to me or about me.

You emailed the previous blog owner demanding I don’t talk you as well as threatening legal action. I undertook that agreement with the previous blog owner but six months later you’re trying to grovel to me. I’ve told you, in fact pleaded with you, not to talk to me and like the whiny, disgusting example of human trash you are, you swing from grovelling to me and when I tell you to fuck off, it’s goes back to spite trolling. Just fuck off and stop talking to me. I have no respect for you and as I’ve said even your groveling is upsetting. Now, the next time you grovel or indirectly troll me it will be reported so the blog owner knows. FUCK OFF and stop talking to me.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2022 6:32 pm

So you ‘think’ you know who was behind it, so you decided to drop his real surname on the Open Thread (about a month and a half ago*) as a ‘not-so-veiled’ threat?

If I was going down that road, I’d want a little more substance than ‘I think’. It might also be considered a little non-kosher on this blog.

Invented tripe.
I don’t know the real name of the poster I am referring to.
You might want to calm down a tad.

MatrixTransform
September 25, 2022 6:35 pm

if they shit you

just click Report Comment

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2022 6:35 pm

If the main thing which offends you about a post is the screen name at the top, maybe this place isn’t for you.
Perhaps an interior decorating blog is more your speed.

Mater
September 25, 2022 6:36 pm

Invented tripe.
I don’t know the real name of the poster I am referring to.
You might want to calm down a tad.

I think you do. It was blatantly obvious.
Do you think Dover would have removed it without reason?

Rabz
September 25, 2022 6:37 pm

Ah so, we’re back … 😕

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2022 6:38 pm

I think you do. It was blatantly obvious.
Do you think Dover would have removed it without reason?

Perhaps he did it to avoid the noise in his ears.
Who knows?

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 6:38 pm

Exactly what I’m doing with you, magic matrix.

It will show what an empty headed drunken troll you are.

You complete bore. Stick to trolling elderly females and chest pounding.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

No wonder FNQ hotel staff gave you a rough trot.

What ever gave you the idea that happened?

You were upthread merely presenting a theoretical scenario?

rickw
rickw
September 25, 2022 6:39 pm

Today’s fuck up:

To eliminate stress on the pump we needed to shim one flange 12mm.

We agreed the section of pipe to cut out to take up the distance.

They cut the pipe out and then welded in a new piece of pipe, but forgot to remove the shims.

So new pipe is exactly the same length as the old one. Realising their mistake they removed the shims and then flogged up the bolts on the pump, which has already been demonstrated to pull the pump out of alignment.

“I see the welders stuffed up that spool modification!” Huh? “Well it’s exactly the same length as the old one, it should be 12mm longer.” How do you know this?! “Well, we measured it before you started work”. “Oh…..”

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2022 6:40 pm

Gee.
And I thought we had a request to stop ripping the bandaid off old scabs.
No idea WTF you are talking about.
You sure there isn’t a bit of paranoia kicking in?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2022 6:42 pm

You were upthread merely presenting a theoretical scenario?

It was a real-world scenario experienced in 99.99% of hotels around the world.
No pay – no key.
If you don’t do that, you shouldn’t sook if people leave without paying.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

It was a real-world scenario experienced in 99.99% of hotels around the world.

Huh? Your comment was:

Ukraine – the food is inedible, the conditions are squalid, the bedding is infested with lice, power and water supply is intermittent.
Almost as bad as staying in a North Queensland hotel.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 25, 2022 6:44 pm

I’d like to introduce the subject of conscription and Vietnam.

Mater
September 25, 2022 6:45 pm

Perhaps he did it to avoid the noise in his ears.
Who knows?

Yes, yes.
You thought you’d got away with it, didn’t you? Real sharp dude, you are. Too clever for the rest of us.
Funny thing is, by the response of another poster (who also knows the name in question), it was obvious that I wasn’t the only one who recognised what you’d done (got a screen shot of that, too).

You’re lucky Dover is so tolerant. I wouldn’t have been.

Rabz
September 25, 2022 6:45 pm

The Boid being the Woid

Oomma mou mou … 😕

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

It was a real-world scenario experienced in 99.99% of hotels around the world.
No pay – no key.
If you don’t do that, you shouldn’t sook if people leave without paying.

As pointed out above, you’ve not run or faced customers in a hospitality venue.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2022 6:49 pm

Ukraine – the food is inedible, the conditions are squalid, the bedding is infested with lice, power and water supply is intermittent.
Almost as bad as staying in a North Queensland hotel.

Ah, right.
That was from a selection of on-line reviews.
You might remember that a young relative wanted to head north for a holiday and I gave her a heads-up that some establishments are less than salubrious.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2022 6:50 pm

Ukraine – the food is inedible, the conditions are squalid, the bedding is infested with lice, power and water supply is intermittent.
Almost as bad as staying in a North Queensland hotel.

Ah, right.
That was from a selection of on-line reviews.
You might remember that a young relative wanted to head north for a holiday and I gave her a heads-up that some establishments are less than salubrious.

Rabz
September 25, 2022 6:50 pm

“Oh Mickey, you’re so fine”

You’re so fine you blow mind

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 6:51 pm

As pointed out above, you’ve not run or faced customers in a hospitality venue.

It’s the guaranteed 180 baseload. The lived experience angle.

Rabz
September 25, 2022 6:51 pm

Typos …

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2022 6:52 pm

You’re lucky Dover is so tolerant. I wouldn’t have been.

I think many people are lucky Dover is tolerant.
Not least those urging on the manipulation of comment reporting, eh?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 25, 2022 6:53 pm

I’d like to introduce the subject of conscription and Vietnam.

If you do that KD we’ll send you into orbit on a one way ticket from Toowoomba.

Virgin to shoot for stars from Toowoomba (21 Sep)

Toowoomba’s Wellcamp Airport could transform into a major satellite launch hub as Virgin Orbit explores the site’s potential as a centre for space innovation.

I wonder what our old friend thinks of this? Oops, no I don’t.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

That was from a selection of on-line reviews.

Very selective selection.
How many were from Accor hotels? Pullmans? Mantra?

You might remember that a young relative wanted to head north for a holiday and I gave her a heads-up that some establishments are less than salubrious.

No I don’t.
Your relative is so broke they can stay only at the YHA hostels. I see.

Black Ball
Black Ball
September 25, 2022 6:54 pm

Letting contributors here know that I haven’t passed away from the wholegrain sandwich. Didn’t get hives or any reaction. All guns blazing

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 25, 2022 6:54 pm

Oomma mou mou

It’s distressing to note that there is an excellent chance young men today may go into combat accompanied by the Baby Shark song.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

The lived experience angle.

Must make those who’ve never lived rather green.
That was your life choice. Deal with the consequences.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 25, 2022 6:57 pm

I’d like to introduce the subject of conscription and Vietnam.

There was always a “soft option” to being conscripted, in the form of six years part time service in the Citizen’s Military Forces…..

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2022 6:58 pm

No I don’t.
Your relative is so broke they can stay only at the YHA hostels. I see.

Err, they weren’t hostels.
Most over $300 / night but a welter of shitty reviews.
Never fear.
She has decided to unfluct hersilf on the Kiwis unstead.

Rabz
September 25, 2022 7:01 pm

Cats – next Saturday Night – Psychedelia – here’s a taster:

She’s a li’l Light House … 🙂

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Most over $300 / night but a welter of shitty reviews.

Online reviews by randoms are 100% accurate & may be relied upon.
If there is anything else you require schooling about, do not hesitate to ask again.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 25, 2022 7:01 pm

I hear the indigenous are terrors for Waterford crackers and Blue Stilton.

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 7:02 pm

Driller

Every establishment asks for a credit card up front, or payment upfront. If you don’t then it’s your fucking problem. No STFU about this as it’s boring.

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 7:04 pm

Online reviews by randoms are 100% accurate & may be relied upon.
If there is anything else you require schooling about, do not hesitate to ask again.

Are they lying with pics of soiled sheets then? And the sheets are Disgusting.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2022 7:04 pm

Black Ballsays:

September 25, 2022 at 6:54 pm

Letting contributors here know that I haven’t passed away from the wholegrain sandwich.

Gasp!
Thrillseeker!
A picnic must be an extreme sport for an indigenous bloke.

Mater
September 25, 2022 7:04 pm

I think many people are lucky Dover is tolerant.
Not least those urging on the manipulation of comment reporting, eh?

Nice distraction.
I guess it’ll come down to a creditably contest as to whether people believe what I’m saying, but remember this; you’ve been inferring that Arky doxxed JC using a sock…with absolutely no evidence.
I’m pointing out that you did it to him, using your own callsign, and I have screen shots to prove it.

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 7:05 pm

Mater

It’s a pity you didn’t make a single comment about the illegal doxing that occurred to me. This recent reproach would have sounded a little more genuine.

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 7:07 pm

Did you keep any screenshots of my doxing, mater?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 25, 2022 7:07 pm

I hear the indigenous are terrors for Waterford crackers and Blue Stilton.

Every single one of them is intolerant to Beluga though, which is a shame.

I offer no proof for that assertion. Work it out yourselves.

Rabz
September 25, 2022 7:08 pm

there is an excellent chance young men today may go into combat accompanied by the Baby Shark song

KD – it is, just, wrong.

Such is the idiocy of modern life.

MatrixTransform
September 25, 2022 7:08 pm

urging on the manipulation of comment reporting

if the the Chihuahua pissing on your carpet is annoying…

just click Report Comment

Mater
September 25, 2022 7:09 pm

It’s a pity you didn’t make a single comment about the illegal doxing that occurred to me. This recent reproach would have sounded a little more genuine.

Didn’t see it, or I would have.
I had a hiatus from the blog for a while, and I read it a whole lot less nowadays.
Now be honest here JC, you saw the comment of which I am referring, didn’t you?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2022 7:09 pm

JCsays:

September 25, 2022 at 7:02 pm

Driller

Every establishment asks for a credit card up front, or payment upfront. If you don’t then it’s your fucking problem. No STFU about this as it’s boring.

Either way, it doesn’t matter.
If you secure payment before the roomkey is handed over (like 99.99% of hotels do), no problem.
If you get suckered in by a sob-story and they do a runner (or have to be sued for payment), file it under “E” for Experience and suck it up.
Don’t explain.
Don’t complain.

Mater
September 25, 2022 7:10 pm

Did you keep any screenshots of my doxing, mater?

See above.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 25, 2022 7:11 pm

Mr Ball, some who make no contribution at all will doubt that.

Johnny Rotten
September 25, 2022 7:11 pm

Oh come onsays:
September 25, 2022 at 2:20 pm
I mean, I can see why the Poms are still pissed off about Maradona handballing in that goal in 1986. He cheated blatantly – breaking a fundamental rule of the game, even – got away with it, and yet so many soccer people act like it was *wink wink* kosher, but also some kind of miracle. Huh?

And that French Arsenal Git Henry handballed the ball into the goal against the Irish. What a Crunt and a Cheat.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2022 7:11 pm

I guess it’ll come down to a creditably contest

I guess it will.

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 7:11 pm

I have no idea what comment you’re referring to Mater.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Every establishment asks for a credit card up front, or payment upfront. If you don’t then it’s your fucking problem.

Understandable that people’s first instinct is to want money up front from you.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2022 7:13 pm

I have no idea what comment you’re referring to Mater.

More gaslighting.

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 7:13 pm

MatrixTransform says:
September 25, 2022 at 7:08 pm

urging on the manipulation of comment reporting

if the the Chihuahua pissing on your carpet is annoying…

just click Report Comment
flagged

Just did. Thanks for reminding me MM.

rosie
rosie
September 25, 2022 7:14 pm

Watching an old episode of Law and Order Criminal Intent and a character just said
‘ no-one cares about plagiarism, they make you a US senator…’
Joe Biden, come on down.

MatrixTransform
September 25, 2022 7:15 pm

narcissists are always surprised that it was their own stupid mouth that dug their own grave

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 25, 2022 7:15 pm

Haha, there’s now a direct flight from Parliament House to the Big Banana.

Link Airways offering direct services from Coffs Harbour to Canberra (Ncl local news, 25 Sep)

Seems fitting now that a Labor government is working so hard to make us a banana republic.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
September 25, 2022 7:16 pm

Russia’s Lavrov vows ‘full protection’ for any annexed territory

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says regions of Ukraine where widely-criticised referendums are being held will be under Moscow’s “full protection” if they are annexed, raising the prospect of the use of nuclear weapons if Kyiv tries to retake those territories.

4D Chess played without any black pieces.

Mater
September 25, 2022 7:16 pm

I have no idea what comment you’re referring to Mater.

OK.
It hasn’t gone unnoticed that you’ve engaged it whataboutism of an event, which happened completely independently, and of which I had no part, to distract from the point I am making.

If you were as concerned about doxxing to the degree you make out, you’d be concerned about what I’m saying, not try to run interference.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Are they lying with pics of soiled sheets then?

It is noted & screenshot that you recognise I know everything.
However:
How the heck would I know? Ask the reviewer, or ask the property.

Johnny Rotten
September 25, 2022 7:17 pm

Rabzsays:
September 25, 2022 at 7:01 pm
Cats – next Saturday Night – Psychedelia – here’s a taster:

She’s a li’l Light House … ?

I’d rather have Quadraphenia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NEQb6LdHGQ

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 7:17 pm

Watching an old episode of Law and Order Criminal Intent and a character just said
‘ no-one cares about plagiarism, they make you a US senator…’
Joe Biden, come on down.

Rosie

Check the year it was done as I recall the Hiden plagiarism incident reasonably well and I think a lot of Americans still do. The comment in the episode was about him.

MatrixTransform
September 25, 2022 7:17 pm

Mr Rough-and-tumble is victim now?

what a joke

Razey
Razey
September 25, 2022 7:18 pm

Dr Faustussays:
September 25, 2022 at 7:16 pm
Russia’s Lavrov vows ‘full protection’ for any annexed territory

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says regions of Ukraine where widely-criticised referendums are being held will be under Moscow’s “full protection” if they are annexed, raising the prospect of the use of nuclear weapons if Kyiv tries to retake those territories.

Game Over Ukraine Nazis.

Rabz
September 25, 2022 7:19 pm

that French Arsenal Git Henry handballed the ball into the goal against the Oirish

The former was nothing if not an opportunist, Johnny.

Saw a fascinating interview with the Henry where he talked about his football schooling – he was in awe of the Zi Zou* – “From the street, he is”.

Ozzie footballers simply do not have that street brawling culture, which is why I fear we will never make into the last eight of the World Cup.

*No 10, being reserved as it is for the best player in the team.

JC
JC
September 25, 2022 7:20 pm

How the heck would I know? Ask the reviewer, or ask the property.

I should, right? 🙂

MatrixTransform
September 25, 2022 7:21 pm

I guess it will

has the party whip done the numbers?

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