Open Thread – Weekend 1 Oct 2022


View of Constantinople, Ivan Aivazoski, 1870

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custard
custard
October 1, 2022 6:26 pm

You might want to have a look at number one hundred and thirty three.

rosie
rosie
October 1, 2022 6:28 pm

Nice to see Dover’s request is being respected.

custard
custard
October 1, 2022 6:28 pm

133

Hard to swallow.
Important to progress.
Who are the puppet masters?
House of Saud (6+++) – $4 Trillion+
Rothschild (6++) – $2 Trillion+
Soros (6+) – $1 Trillion+
Focus on above (3).
Public wealth disclosures – False.
Many governments of the world feed the ‘Eye’.
Think slush funds (feeder).
Think war (feeder).
Think environmental pacts (feeder).
Triangle has (3) sides.
Eye of Providence.
Follow the bloodlines.
What is the keystone?
Does Satan exist?
Does the ‘thought’ of Satan exist?
Who worships Satan?
What is a cult?
Epstein island.
What is a temple?
What occurs in a temple?
Worship?
Why is the temple on top of a mountain?
How many levels might exist below?
What is the significance of the colors, design and symbol above the dome?
Why is this relevant?
Who are the puppet masters?
Have the puppet masters traveled to this island?
When? How often? Why?
“Vladimir Putin: The New World Order Worships Satan”
Q

custard
custard
October 1, 2022 6:30 pm

This is a Q post.

Rabz
October 1, 2022 6:30 pm

St Ruth says:
Rocktober 1, 2022 at 12:02 pm

If that isn’t an utterly incoherent relevance deprivation syndrome inspired outburst, then I’m a Swahili Chieftain, Cats.

Sacré bleu.

Rabz
October 1, 2022 6:30 pm

err, ‘ello?

custard
custard
October 1, 2022 6:31 pm

Posted on November 11 2017

rosie
rosie
October 1, 2022 6:32 pm

It’s a load of rubbish Custard.

P
P
October 1, 2022 6:33 pm

The chairman of the Australian Republic Movement, Peter FitzSimons, has announced he will step down from the role, paving the way for younger, more diverse voices to take the reins.

JC
JC
October 1, 2022 6:34 pm

Custard

Soros does NOT have a net worth of a trillion dollars.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 1, 2022 6:36 pm

Oh Lode, that’s good.

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 1, 2022 6:38 pm

Enlarging on P’s post:

Peter Fitzsimons will stand down from his role as chair of the Australian Republic Movement in November, declaring the campaign has moved to a new phase following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

Fitzsimons has posed as the movement’s figurehead for seven years but won’t run for re-election, instead handing the baton to what he describes as a new generation of republicans.

“We are a great organisation, with a wonderful goal, and we are getting there! It has been an honour and the greatest privilege of my life,” he said in an email.

“A new generation is now stepping up to lead the campaign, many of whom were too young to vote when the last referendum was held – some of them not yet even born.”

Successor nominees are set to be revealed next Friday, with the movement to continue pushing for a referendum to establish Australia’s own head of state.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese refrained from discussing the prospect of a referendum in the wake of the queen’s death but didn’t rule out revisiting the movement in future.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 1, 2022 6:40 pm

Enlarging on P’s post:

PHRASING!

Rabz
October 1, 2022 6:41 pm

err, hello 😕

calli
calli
October 1, 2022 6:42 pm

It looks like gibberish to me, custard. It can mean anything you want it to mean.

And that’s the point.

This stuff feeds in to people’s deep seated fears and hopes with handy trigger words and innuendo. I don’t buy it.

cohenite
October 1, 2022 6:42 pm

If Maria Orsitsch is part of Q I’m in.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 1, 2022 6:42 pm

Successor nominees are set to be revealed next Friday, with the movement to continue pushing for a referendum to establish Australia’s own head of state.

Ten quid on the angry ghost…

cohenite
October 1, 2022 6:43 pm

I also hope Q has cute owls.

custard
custard
October 1, 2022 6:44 pm

I didn’t write the post JC

Q did

I’m just sharing it

Make whatever criticism or whatever you like

calli
calli
October 1, 2022 6:46 pm

And I know what they’re getting at. It isn’t that difficult.

Whoever wrote that list of slop is as evil as the people they’re pretending to expose. They are the type that manipulate others into doing wicked deeds in the name of some ill-defined “good”. And they get off on sucking people in.

rickw
rickw
October 1, 2022 6:47 pm

If China’s economy springs a serious leak with real estate, and I reckon there’s over 50% chance, the Aussie is sore toothing to the low 50s.

The CCP guys reckon that Beijing has just canceled their 2% tax on all property sales if you buy another property within 12 months.

custard
custard
October 1, 2022 6:47 pm

rosie is convinced

Her loss I feel

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 1, 2022 6:50 pm

I also hope Q has cute owls.

Those posts really irritate me Cohenite.
Every time I see one of them I expect a photo of actual cute owls not ladies who could tear my arms off.

JC
JC
October 1, 2022 6:52 pm

Well you obviously believe it, Custard. Just stop posting crap. No one in the world is worth a trillion dollars.

And you’re getting awfully close to the old reliable , The Protcols, once you begin posting about the Rothschilds.

Anchor What
Anchor What
October 1, 2022 6:52 pm

Confucious say the sex fantasy is safer and maybe more durable than the reality.

Winston Smith
October 1, 2022 6:52 pm

Indigenous Voice to Parliament
Asian Voice to Parliament
Pakistani Voice to Parliament
Kiwi Voice to Parliament
Chinese Voice to Parliament
Indonesian Voice to Parliament
Italian Voice to Parliament
Greek Voice to Parliament

Did I forget anyone?

rickw
rickw
October 1, 2022 6:55 pm

Brenneke slugs?

I ran the data through my climate change software and it’s confirmed! Golf ball size holes in dinosaurs are from brenneke slugs!

custard
custard
October 1, 2022 6:55 pm

There are almost 5000 Q posts

I’ve posted this one and people are losing their minds.

That’s very interesting.

calli
calli
October 1, 2022 6:57 pm

I haven’t lost my mind, custard. Far from it.

I know wickedness when I see it.

JC
JC
October 1, 2022 6:58 pm

No one is losing their mind, Custard. Some people are getting annoyed with the useless , low IQ crap you’re posting.

P
P
October 1, 2022 6:58 pm

In June 2022 the PM appointed Matt Thistlethwaite as Assistant Minister for the Republic.

On 31 August 2022, the Australian Monarchist League announced Eric Abetz as Campaign Director of the Vote No Republic campaign.

rickw
rickw
October 1, 2022 7:01 pm

Why didn’t you take leave of absence and go cherry picking at Young until the hysteria blew over?

Because some of the fucking arseholes fired you even if you still had leave.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 1, 2022 7:01 pm

Pirate Pete and his missus can’t take a trick at the moment.

Rabz
October 1, 2022 7:02 pm

Back, Baybee, Back! 🙂

custard
custard
October 1, 2022 7:02 pm

So just square this.

Donald Trump (the most powerful political figure in the world) is retruthing Q posts and meme’s

And JC thinks the whole thing is a crock of shit. Or words to that effect.

One or the other is right

My money is on the Donald

rosie
rosie
October 1, 2022 7:06 pm

Exactly JC.
Most know what path ‘Rothchilds’ leads down.
The sort of tripe a couple of people used to post at old cat.
Anyone who could be smeared was smeared; Popes John Paul and Benedict, the Queen, etc and then nonsense about thousand year old vampires, reptilian overlords and other absurd fantasies, it’s tedious, childish nonsense.
Thanks Internet!

JC
JC
October 1, 2022 7:07 pm

Show me where Trump is “retruthing” Q, Custard. Show me where Trump suggests Soros is a trillion dollars and the Rothchilds. 3 trillion or whatever.

Go!

custard
custard
October 1, 2022 7:08 pm

Q posts JC

calli
calli
October 1, 2022 7:08 pm

What is “retruthing”?

It’s either the truth or it isn’t.

All I see is a litany of oblique references and innuendo. Why? Let me hazard a few guesses:

shits and giggles
manipulation of the vulnerable
flying below risk of litigation
escalation to violence without risk of being caught

We’ve been here before. It isn’t new.

custard
custard
October 1, 2022 7:10 pm

Truth Social

rickw
rickw
October 1, 2022 7:10 pm

Here’s some actual cute owls:

https://www.pinterest.com/hannahbowers19/cute-owls/

JC
JC
October 1, 2022 7:10 pm

custard says:
October 1, 2022 at 7:08 pm

Q posts JC

Show us where Trump is running with Q, Custard? Don’t walk us around in circles.

custard
custard
October 1, 2022 7:11 pm

Truth social is headed up by Devon Nunes.

Fancy that!

JC
JC
October 1, 2022 7:12 pm

Link it!

Rabz
October 1, 2022 7:13 pm

Is this thing on, FFS?

Rabz
October 1, 2022 7:19 pm

Well, after those regrettable “technical difficulties” it appears I’m back on air.

Feel free to head over to the new Radio Show thread. 🙂

calli
calli
October 1, 2022 7:19 pm

Apart from consequence free (for the writer/s) of this sort of stuff is the damage it does to people’s lives. It’s food for obsession and occupies front-of-mind to the exclusion of all else.

Daily tasks, family, sleep, normal social interactions are all forgotten as the “something big” that’s supposedly fast approaching but eventually never happens. It is put off, delayed, re-jigged and re-imagined.

bespoke
bespoke
October 1, 2022 7:20 pm

Where’s Rabz?

custard
custard
October 1, 2022 7:22 pm

https://truthsocial.com/

If you click the link it informs you that this is not available in your country

I see the retruthing via Telegram

It’s out there JC

You just haven’t seen it

rosie
rosie
October 1, 2022 7:22 pm

There seems to be something very powerful about thinking you possess some secret knowledge that everyone who rejects it is obviously too dumb to understand.

Dot
Dot
October 1, 2022 7:23 pm

Why didn’t you take leave of absence and go cherry picking at Young until the hysteria blew over?

Ah yeah sure, in March, you utter wrongologist.

custard
custard
October 1, 2022 7:24 pm

A retruth

Is what was once known as a retweet

But on truth not Twitter

bespoke
bespoke
October 1, 2022 7:24 pm

If you click the link it informs you that this is not available in your country

Works for me.

calli
calli
October 1, 2022 7:24 pm

Oh. I see. I need an “App” to see it.

Nothing doing.

custard
custard
October 1, 2022 7:25 pm

It’s a very powerful feeling rosie

Old bloke
Old bloke
October 1, 2022 7:27 pm

Roger says:
October 1, 2022 at 9:33 am

It had been known as Germany for a thousand years until the Versailles “Peace” Conference of 1919.

This will come as news to the Germans.

The name dates back almost 3,000 years, not in Europe, but to a southern province of Persia called Germania (or Carmania). It was populated with some of the descendants of Esau, they had been moved there by the Assyrians alongside many other people relocated by the Assyrians, notably the northern tribes of Israel.

The Assyrians captured whole countries and relocated them elsewhere into some other recently conquered land at the ends of their empire’s borders. They made an effort to keep whole communities together to retain their existing social structures to better defend their newly conquered lands. Carriages were provided to carry the elderly and the women expecting children, and their young men were trained in military matters to defend themselves against hostile neighbours in their new territories.

The expulsion of the northern tribes of Israel was not like their cousins in the House of Judah who were also expelled for the last time by the Romans in 70 AD, the Jews were scattered in small communities in many diverse places whereas the northern tribes left as separate national groups and have retained that structure since.

The people in Germania in Persia moved out at the same time and alongside their northern neighbours who were three of the Clans of Ephraim who were relocated to Persia after the fall of Samaria. They were the last defenders of the capital city, they were defeated in the third round of the Assyrian campaigns in northern Israel. They all moved to Europe about 1000 years later when their Parthian kingdom was defeated by the Persians who rebelled against them in the Sassanian revolt around 220 AD, those from the province of Germania settled in eastern and central Europe, the Ephraimites, called the Aegels, later the Angles, moved on to Angle-land after a short sojourn in Germany and Denmark.

The name Germany has been associated with the inhabitants of the land of that name, they moved and took the name with them.

As for the Assyrians, this is an interesting story. They were defeated by the exiled Israelites together with the Persians and the Medes (Kurds nowadays). They became a vassal state in the Parthian Empire in the northern Iraq to Armenia region and were at different times either the eastern most part of the Roman Empire or the western most portion of the Parthian Empire.

They were also in the steppes alongside the Israelites they had expelled from northern Israel, they migrated north into Russia where they are till today whereas the exiled Israelites headed west. Their national flag still carries the double-headed eagle icon from their days in Assyria.

Maybe this could explain why the English and the Germans both like to poke the Russian bear, a manifestation of a grievance many many years old.

custard
custard
October 1, 2022 7:29 pm

I just want to know the truth

calli
calli
October 1, 2022 7:29 pm

Something I have noticed over my travels.

We are entering a new level of dependence on our devices. There are places I can’t get into without a “ticket” on my phone. E-tickets get priority over lining up at a ticket booth, or presenting a paper ticket. Edinburgh castle is an example. You can’t get in to Van Gogh in Amsterdam at all unless you have a “device” with a particular “App”. Many cafés have no menus. You have to QR code to read.

The day is fast approaching when people without these “Apps” will be unable to access simple things, not just optional luxuries.

Put that in your Q pipe and smoke it! 😀

Dot
Dot
October 1, 2022 7:29 pm

That Q crap is barely veiled antisemitic bilge.

No more please.

I’m trying to eat supper here!

Gabor
Gabor
October 1, 2022 7:31 pm

Custard
You have to be joking.
This is the date TS collects:

What data do we collect?
Our Company collects the following data:
Personal identification information (Name, email address, phone number, date of birth and photograph)

Device information
Browser Information
Information as to your Location
Account Controls
Account Settings
Cookies Data
Log Data
Data from advertisers and other ad partners
Developer Data
Public Information you provide including your Profile Information & Photo

You’d have to be nuts to agree to those terms.

bespoke
bespoke
October 1, 2022 7:33 pm
132andBush
132andBush
October 1, 2022 7:33 pm

There seems to be something very powerful about thinking you possess some secret knowledge that everyone who rejects it is obviously too dumb to understand.

Just ask any man who thinks he understands women.

custard
custard
October 1, 2022 7:38 pm

Wallow in your ignorance.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
October 1, 2022 7:39 pm

I just want to know the truth

Try observation, experiment, calculation and logic. Revelation from gurus who claim to be in the know is far less reliable. They can give the pleasant sense of deep insights which turn out to be hot air.

Rabz
October 1, 2022 7:40 pm

What is “retruthing”?

Not “restruthing”.

JC
JC
October 1, 2022 7:41 pm

custard says:
October 1, 2022 at 7:29 pm

I just want to know the truth

Sometimes you don’t have that luxury.

Rabz
October 1, 2022 7:42 pm

I just want to know the truth

You can’t Handel the truth, I tells ya!

132andBush
132andBush
October 1, 2022 7:43 pm

I like this bloke, a bit insane but passionate.
Reed Timmer catches footage of the eye of Ian

MatrixTransform
October 1, 2022 7:44 pm

There seems to be something very powerful about thinking you possess some secret knowledge that everyone who rejects it is obviously too dumb to understand

biggest question this week … where’s the irony gone?

Dot
Dot
October 1, 2022 7:44 pm

This is the date TS collects:

Trump can do as my potential username suggests, Haywood Jablome.

132andBush
132andBush
October 1, 2022 7:45 pm

Wallow in your ignorance.

Generally what happens.

rosie
rosie
October 1, 2022 7:46 pm

We can leave the ironing to you, no problem.

Shy Ted
Shy Ted
October 1, 2022 7:47 pm
132andBush
132andBush
October 1, 2022 7:47 pm

biggest question this week … where’s the irony gone?

Arky stole it.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 1, 2022 7:47 pm

Ed Casesays:
October 1, 2022 at 6:19 pm
Jim Chalmers has lowset ears, a certain indicator that he’s not intelligent.
So, who’s giving him his marching orders?

Aren’t you?

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 1, 2022 7:49 pm

Why didn’t you take leave of absence and go cherry picking at Young until the hysteria blew over?

Ah yeah sure, in March, you utter wrongologist.

Okay, picking apples and pears at Red Hill, then.
They can’t sack you for taking unpaid Leave of Absence.

JC
JC
October 1, 2022 7:49 pm

Lol, He gave us a wonderful political commentary on the new laundry, and he’s now complaining about the ironing? Well, have you ever.

bespoke
bespoke
October 1, 2022 7:52 pm

500 trillion.

Snigger!

cohenite
October 1, 2022 7:52 pm

Putin moving nuke capable bombers to relevant airfields; Nord stream bombing released the equivalent amount of CH4 as ALL the US cars will do for the next 20 years. Putin had already cut off the flow of gas through Nord stream, so why would he bomb his own infrastructure; and at the beginning of 2022 biden said if Putin invaded Ukraine he would stop Nord Stream. Only Washington is angling for a ramped up conflict; most of the eurotrash don’t want it.

I’m stocking up on ammo, gold, cans of baked beans and the complete CD copies of Yellowstone and every Jane Austen movie version.

Dot
Dot
October 1, 2022 7:53 pm

Okay, picking apples and pears at Red Hill, then.

No – as rickw pointed out, most places would still see you at the bread line.

flyingduk
flyingduk
October 1, 2022 7:54 pm

It’s early morning in London and The Daily Exposé appears to be grimly hanging on.
Although I am a little confused. He claims he is banned by Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc, but then asks his readers to share his content … on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

This is a strength of the web – it is robust – it reroutes around points of failure.

bespoke
bespoke
October 1, 2022 7:56 pm

For most picking crews the vax was mandatory down my way.

JC
JC
October 1, 2022 7:56 pm

Cronkite

Are you buying like physical gold?

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 1, 2022 7:57 pm

They can’t sack you for taking unpaid leave of absence.
That’s call you hadda do.
So, the blame for your Myocarditis and other side effects is totally on you.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 1, 2022 7:59 pm

For most picking crews the vax was mandatory down my way.

Blokes who can pick 10 bins of apples in a day are always in demand, Bespo0k.

cohenite
October 1, 2022 7:59 pm

Those posts really irritate me Cohenite.
Every time I see one of them I expect a photo of actual cute owls not ladies who could tear my arms off.

Yeah well, I’m trying to motivate head prefect who is slothing into lard arseness. As an alpha male (pre transition) he can’t rest on his laurels and images of feisty, pumped ladies may do the trick and get him back to the gym.

cohenite
October 1, 2022 8:01 pm

Are you buying like physical gold?

Yep; and hookers with hearts of gold; they always appreciate.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 1, 2022 8:01 pm

Dot coulda started wearing a gigantic setta false Norks like that Manual Arts teacher in America.
His bosses woulda let him alone then.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 1, 2022 8:02 pm

That Q crap is barely veiled antisemitic bilge.

Correct. This Q stuff is cultish, almost manic. Story time:

Once upon a time, I was approached by an acquaintance. He said to me: ‘Give me half an hour of your time. I have a business proposition for you.’

‘What is it?’
‘It’s a business proposition. It’s a proven winner.’

‘What sort of business? Tell me.’
‘Look, just half an hour. Not here. Come over to my joint later today.’

So I did. And once I had settled in I was treated to butchers’ paper on easels, textas, and pictures of arrows and numbers. Lots and lots of numbers.

I sat through the half hour and listened to this vague ‘proposition’ kicking myself for being lured into this waste of time by even more vague suggestions of happiness and proven winningness and being set up very well financially.

I hope the bloke did well, because I hardly saw him after that. But I never, ever, became an Amway salesman, and this Q shit is exactly what it reminds me of.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 1, 2022 8:03 pm

By the way, that Manual Arts teacher is protesting against outta control Wokeness at the School.

JC
JC
October 1, 2022 8:03 pm

Nord stream bombing released the equivalent amount of CH4 as ALL the US cars will do for the next 20 years.

The spill has released as much gas as the users would use over the same period. In other words, the quantity spilled was equal that would have been consumed. Where’s the calculation that proves that assertion.

JC
JC
October 1, 2022 8:06 pm

cohenite says:
October 1, 2022 at 8:01 pm

Are you buying like physical gold?

Yep; and hookers with hearts of gold; they always appreciate.

What are you actually buying?

custard
custard
October 1, 2022 8:07 pm

This blog is off the pace.

That’s okay I get my information from a variety of sources.

m0nty
m0nty
October 1, 2022 8:08 pm

It was asked earlier why Putin would prefer a dirty bomb to a standard nuke. Two reasons I can think of:

– his standard nukes are being watched like hawks by the Americans, and involve traditional military structures which might not follow his orders as opposed to a small team of spooks who could assemble the parts on the ground;

– the fallout from a traditional bomb would be a big problem and the wind generally blows towards Russian territories, whereas a dirty bomb could be smaller and more targeted.

Dot
Dot
October 1, 2022 8:08 pm

They can’t sack you for taking unpaid leave of absence.

Sure pal, just leave for four months to work elsewhere and come back with your job secure no questions asked.

Happens all of the time.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 1, 2022 8:09 pm

Ha, ha, KD
I had one of those quite a few years ago.
The hook line script is the same every time.
I heard it a few more times over the next few years.
Simple reply to cut it off … “Amway? Or Herbalife?”.

Indolent
Indolent
October 1, 2022 8:10 pm

Yes, let’s return to smoke and fog and cut down all the trees. The lunatics are in charge.

Chainsaw sales soar as Brits buy 35,000 woodburners in three months to keep themselves warm during the energy crisis

JC
JC
October 1, 2022 8:11 pm

Head

You can’t just walk off a job and expect it to there 5 months later. You idiot.

Dot
Dot
October 1, 2022 8:11 pm

GOD
COUNTRY
DOTERRA

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 1, 2022 8:11 pm

custardsays:

October 1, 2022 at 8:07 pm

This blog is off the pace.

We are not worthy.

Indolent
Indolent
October 1, 2022 8:15 pm
Ed Case
Ed Case
October 1, 2022 8:16 pm

Fake Norks teacher a hoax.
On Leave of Absence, it doesn’t sound like you know what it is.
Which is a shame, since Dotty has wrecked his health for a few bob and he’ll probably get laid off under the Albanese retrenchments to slow Inflation down anyway.

custard
custard
October 1, 2022 8:24 pm

Truth social is not available in Australia

MatrixTransform
October 1, 2022 8:30 pm

truly I feel sorry for Aust States that don’t have daylight savings

at least in Vikko tomorrow we get to have a whole hour without JC and sancho’s gibber

Indolent
Indolent
October 1, 2022 8:32 pm
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

You can’t just walk off a job and expect it to there 5 months later.

The Queensland Industrial Relations Tribunal says you can.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
October 1, 2022 8:33 pm

calli says:
I don’t buy it.

Custard, I’d be more inclined to take notice if you simply translated Q-speak into real English.
You know, sentences with meaning instead of cryptic clues.

MatrixTransform
October 1, 2022 8:33 pm

cheese … dinosaurs were made of swiss cheese

JMH
JMH
October 1, 2022 8:42 pm

Peter Fitzsimons will stand down from his role as chair of the Australian Republic Movement in November, declaring the campaign has moved to a new phase following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

Fitzsimons has posed as the movement’s figurehead for seven years but won’t run for re-election, instead handing the baton to what he describes as a new generation of republicans.

Oh – FFS – the gutless mongrel is abandoning ship. Who would have thought? This disgusting thing has done more to damage “their” Republican Movement than anyone in living memory.

Good riddance – moron!

MatrixTransform
October 1, 2022 8:44 pm
Rabz
October 1, 2022 8:45 pm

Pedro FitzSimians will stand down from his role as chair of the Australian Republic Movement in November, declaring the campaign has moved to a new phase following the death of Queen Elizabeth II

The “phase” being utter irrelevance.

MatrixTransform
October 1, 2022 8:47 pm

we’ve all done … just not on a bike

Rabz
October 1, 2022 8:47 pm

dinosaurs were made of swiss cheese

You’ve obviously (not) been consulting Perfesser Anne Elk.

miltonf
miltonf
October 1, 2022 8:49 pm

Sorry Custard you’re coming across as a crank.

bons
bons
October 1, 2022 8:51 pm

Jacinta bursting into tears on stage is the most compelling contempory metaphor for the irretrieval loss of our culture. When a genuinely saintly figure is reduced to despair by scum, we have entered “feed them to the lions” decadence.
I’m not a hugger, but that hero deserved the whole group huggy thing.
I sent her a text at CPAC but got a very polite reply on her behalf saying that she will never be able to respond to the tsunami of supportive messages she has received.
Good; lets capitalise on this proof that honesty and morality are matters for the people, not political whores, cronies and media tarts.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
October 1, 2022 8:54 pm

Fitzsimons has posed as the movement’s figurehead

Finally some quality journalism.

bespoke
bespoke
October 1, 2022 8:56 pm

Good; lets capitalise on this proof that honesty and morality are matters for the people, not political whores, cronies and media tarts

Here! Here!

flyingduk
flyingduk
October 1, 2022 9:09 pm

Chainsaw sales soar as Brits buy 35,000 woodburners in three months to keep themselves warm during the energy crisis

Righto – ‘guns, gold and generators’ becomes ‘guns, gold, generators and chainsaws’…

custard
custard
October 1, 2022 9:09 pm

miltonf

Which bit is the crank?

custard
custard
October 1, 2022 9:16 pm

bons

Is based.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 1, 2022 9:19 pm

m0nty-fa

– the fallout from a traditional bomb would be a big problem and the wind generally blows towards Russian territories, whereas a dirty bomb could be smaller and more targeted.

Stick to fantasy football, nuclear science isn’t your field.

Johnny Rotten
October 1, 2022 9:23 pm

Johnny’s time at the pickle factory didn’t last long. He’d only been there a week when he came home looking very agitated. “What’s wrong?” asked his friend. “I’ve got this terrible urge to put my willy in the pickle slicer”. “Aagh! it’ll all end in tears, you’ve got to overcome this feeling”. Johnny promised he’d try but a couple of weeks later he came back looking well pissed off. “What’s wrong, you didn’t weaken and put your willy in the pickle slicer”. “I did” replied Johnny “and you were right, it did end in tears. I got the sack and the pickle slicer… she was fired too”.

Johnny Rotten
October 1, 2022 9:27 pm

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

– Confucius

custard
custard
October 1, 2022 9:30 pm

It’s Montifa

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 1, 2022 9:36 pm

Q is montifa.

Brilliant.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 1, 2022 9:36 pm

Her loss I feel

The passive-aggressive proselytising, even in its Yoda variant, I think persuades no one, but more than likely annoys numerous others with each iteration.

You have earned the respect of many people here through you political contests and tireless combat in the editorials.

But this recent thing is…uncharacteristic. You were previously very precise in your use of logic to make your point. Now there is a hell of a lot of asking people to fill in gaps.

I am a big fan of reason, which means ‘a’ -> ‘b’ -> ‘c’. When someone does not bring ‘b’, but instead tells me to fill in the blank, I am very sceptical. Different people of different temperaments will fill in the gap with any number of personal but sincere connections which are probably not ‘b’ (otherwise just supply ‘b’) but which serve emotional, psychological, or even delusional needs.

Note that in phrasing the above I do not have to tell people to ‘think about it’.

This ‘Q’ thing smacks of a cult.

Or should I say, Qult.

It is easy to immerse yourself into a mental milieu to the point that you do not realise you have become a participant rather than an observer.

You can believe that I have done exactly that and have been seduced by some delusion, but I hope that the rationale above retains its cogency regardless, and implore you to take a greak from the Qult. Buy a good scotch, a few cigars, go visit some friends that you have lately distanced from and have a few good afternoons lazing outside with the grandkids tumbling around and talk of old times. Remind yourself of an old perspective on things.

If, after all that, you remain fixed on these labyrinthine speculations then good. You will, to a degree, have tested them. Hopefully beyond just conceiving then insisting upon a ‘b’ merely because it licenses you to indulge in ‘c’.

And if the above strikes you as condescending, or ignorant, then reflect on how ‘feeling our loss’ might come across.

As I said, you have a lot of good will here, based upon what you have done previously. But this Qult thing is progressively also becoming part of your track record and may become a defining feature according to which you will be evaluated.

That would be a shame.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 1, 2022 9:43 pm

Boss of the old school regarded his secretaries as fair game. He presented one of the ladies with a fur coat one afternoon. As she tried it on, admiring herself in the mirror, he remarked “By the way, your knickers are coming down.”

“They are NOT!” she replied, blushing in embarrassment.

“Yes they are” was the reply “Otherwise that coat goes back to the shop!”

rickw
rickw
October 1, 2022 9:51 pm

The Queensland Industrial Relations Tribunal says you can.

Most of these industrial relations rules have a salary cap above which they don’t apply.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 1, 2022 10:00 pm

You can have any source you like…as long as it’s Q.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 1, 2022 10:07 pm

True story – a Perth businessman was sprung by his wife, giving his secretary a lesson in comparative anatomy. The marriage survived, but his wife reserved the right to vet the hiring of his secretaries, and the ladies who held that position could best be described as ‘plain.”

Bruce in WA
October 1, 2022 10:08 pm

Official … ADF bringing 7.62mm back into service.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 1, 2022 10:13 pm

Official … ADF bringing 7.62mm back into service.

BRING BACK THE S.L.R!

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 1, 2022 10:16 pm

There seems to be something very powerful about thinking you possess some secret knowledge that everyone who rejects it is obviously too dumb to understand.

I think it works the other way around. People who have felt themselves tossed about by events as on a sinking ship in a storm feel more confident having grabbed onto some solid piece of flotsam, whether it might take them toward shore, or further out to sea, or even inching their way toward the bone-smashing rocks.

The solidity of that lump of wood lends them heart – wherever it might take them.

rickw
rickw
October 1, 2022 10:33 pm

BRING BACK THE S.L.R!

Metric or Inch pattern?!

rickw
rickw
October 1, 2022 10:35 pm

The Australian government has signed a multi-million dollar agreement with a Queensland company to start acquiring and supplying the next generation of small arms for the Australian Defence Force.

Nioa?

calli
calli
October 1, 2022 10:36 pm

I can’t help but think of Ashlee Babbitt, rolling along with the crowd, laughing, thinking she was “making a difference”.

She was lured to her death by the vibe. Being a few bad actors deliberately escalating the situation. We saw them in real time…and then they disappeared into the background.

Rabz
October 1, 2022 10:41 pm

Yarks, you big fat sook – get in here, squire

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

rickwsays: October 1, 2022 at 9:51 pm

The Queensland Industrial Relations Tribunal says you can.

Most of these industrial relations rules have a salary cap above which they don’t apply.

Thankfully we no longer have to deal with state Industrial Relations Tribunals.
We now have the Fair Work Commission…… (er… never mind, forget I spoke)

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 1, 2022 10:43 pm

Calli, whereabouts are you on your trip? I’m envious – the Border country and the Highlands of Scotland are two of my favourite places on Earth.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 1, 2022 10:46 pm

This blog is off the pace.

I know. I’ve been playing it backwards all day and got nothing. Paul McCartney may be dead though.

calli
calli
October 1, 2022 10:47 pm

I’m in Leith right now. Had to change hotels for a tour.

The new one is what the brochure called the “Seaman’s Mission”. The cabbie was quite blunt, “Any seaman that went there was definitely on a mission!”.

It was a boarding house and brothel. The girls waited in the reception room where I now sit. The gates to the wharf are just outside the door. First building on dry land.

flyingduk
flyingduk
October 1, 2022 10:48 pm

Official … ADF bringing 7.62mm back into service.

Not really – they are talking about the 300 blackout, which is a somewhat strange choice – subsonic, and with more weight and less range than the old 556.

Arky
October 1, 2022 10:51 pm

Rabz says:
October 1, 2022 at 10:41 pm

..
No. Sharn’t.
You can go here
https://catallaxy-files.com/open-thread-saturday-01-october-2022/comment-page-1/#comment-181286

Rabz
October 1, 2022 10:53 pm

A Hollyweirdo and his Hausfrau ’72

Like, sacré bleu, man … 😕

Rabz
October 1, 2022 10:58 pm

Arks says:
Rocktober 1, 2022

Not having it, Squire. As far as I’m concerned, you are always welcome here.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 1, 2022 11:00 pm

I’m in Leith right now. Had to change hotels for a tour.

We stayed in Oban for a few days. The tour guide we had was a bit of a party animal, and, I didn’t realize it until after the event , but part of the tour took in the island on which my favourite whisky distillery was located.

“Good job too, ” says my loving partner, Mme Zulu “Otherwise I would still be trying to drag you and (the tour guide) off that island…”

JC
JC
October 1, 2022 11:04 pm

I dunno if it’s true. I caught a glimpse of one of the FTA news programs this evening . They were reporting Andrews is going to the polls with making a four day work week into law. Presumably the 5th would attract penalty rates. That’s the spirit.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 1, 2022 11:06 pm

Some temptresses in white Daisey Dukes leaning on your Mustang on Hollyweird Boulevard await

Two well brought up young ladies – well reared….

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
October 1, 2022 11:07 pm

The 300 Blackout (7.62mm x 35mm) has the same case as the 5.56mm but a much larger projectile. In theory you could fire a 300 Blackout from a current M16 rifle with a barrel change out. Dunno about the Steyr.

I would suggest the ADF is looking at this more as a specialist weapon for SF rather than a general issue battle rifle.

Military Cats might have a better insight.

Compare: 5.56mm vs 300 Blackout.

Rabz
October 1, 2022 11:11 pm

This blog is off the pace

Being a place where unfashionable dinosaurs gather to graze, while sinking into some tar pits shortly after the almighty meteor strike.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we’ve heard it all before.

rickw
rickw
October 1, 2022 11:18 pm

The 300 Blackout (7.62mm x 35mm) has the same case as the 5.56mm but a much larger projectile. In theory you could fire a 300 Blackout from a current M16 rifle with a barrel change out. Dunno about the Steyr.

Things get lively when the “change the barrel” bit is omitted!

m0nty
m0nty
October 1, 2022 11:20 pm

Oh yes, poor Ashli Babbitt the victim of circumstance.

She was obviously tricked into poking her head through a smashed window of a door where legislators were cowering in fear of an angry mob.

You can’t really blame her for being at the front line of an organised insurrection.

Delicate petal, she was just a flower crushed under the jackboot of democracy.

calli
calli
October 1, 2022 11:22 pm

That comment diminishes you.

rickw
rickw
October 1, 2022 11:22 pm

Not really – they are talking about the 300 blackout, which is a somewhat strange choice – subsonic, and with more weight and less range than the old 556.

Suppressed specialist weapon? Otherwise it’s idiotic, submarine procurement team on the job?!

squawkbox
squawkbox
October 1, 2022 11:23 pm

You have just witnessed Monty’s erection

rickw
rickw
October 1, 2022 11:23 pm

Oh yes, poor Ashli Babbitt the victim of circumstance.

You’re such a lying fucking piece of shit.

Rabz
October 1, 2022 11:28 pm

legislators* were cowering in fear of an angry mob

This. All the time, 24/7/365.

Or they can cower in fear of HOP Time™, once the angry mob apprehends them, which makes far more sense.

*i.e. Corruptocrats. Let’s not get all technical about their contempt for the “angry mob”

Bruce in WA
October 1, 2022 11:30 pm

Not really – they are talking about the 300 blackout, which is a somewhat strange choice – subsonic, and with more weight and less range than the old 556.

True — but it’s still regarded as 7.62mm; just not the good ole .308W we were all used to.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
October 1, 2022 11:31 pm

Onya M0nts.
Pick the one theory about Babbitt’s death that fits your “violent insurrection” narrative, despite there being at least two other plausible explanations.
Then smear the only person to be killed that day with Delicate petal, she was just a flower crushed under the jackboot of democracy

You are a real grub.

and
and
October 1, 2022 11:37 pm

You are a real grub.

Didn’t think Montifa would stoop that low, but stoop he did.

rickw
rickw
October 1, 2022 11:37 pm

This bloke is probably the best paint free dent removal technician on the planet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrZ3ItZ4DW8

MatrixTransform
October 1, 2022 11:37 pm

mUnty is an idiot

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
October 1, 2022 11:38 pm

Calli –
if you’ve got any chance, get to Inverie on the Knoydart peninsula. Up one loch from Mallaig, end of the West Highland line, mainland side of the lower right bit of Skye. Ferry from Mallaig or Armadale, or walk in over some of those big hills they have all over the place. Splendid isolation and fascinating folk. “Local Hero” was filmed there. The pub, The Old Forge, is the genuine article.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 1, 2022 11:40 pm

She was obviously tricked into poking her head through a smashed window of a door where legislators were cowering in fear of an angry mob.

You really are beneath contempt, monty – but, then again, after you scuttled, bawling for the exit , over the Malmo episode, I didn’t expect much else.

calli
calli
October 1, 2022 11:45 pm

Hope I have a chance, Wally, but this will be a flying visit. It’s pouring here at present. The wet doesn’t seem to faze the locals, but I’m over it.

Waiting for our tour to commence. I have a feeling it will be all Americans. They are travelling in droves, while Aussies still hide at home.

JC
JC
October 1, 2022 11:48 pm

They are travelling in droves, while Aussies still hide at home.

It’s about 900 bucks from NY to London.

It can be as high as $5000 from. Slight difference.

JC
JC
October 1, 2022 11:49 pm

here

rickw
rickw
October 1, 2022 11:53 pm

Kari Lake:

Commonsense not Communism:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kmw6pJZ4hM

calli
calli
October 1, 2022 11:56 pm

I have done a lot of travelling JC. This is the first time when Aussie accents are few and far between. The tour operators, shopkeepers and publicans all tell the same story. No Aussies. Money might be a factor, sure, but there’s more to it.

Mater
October 2, 2022 12:03 am

That comment diminishes you.

He’s just taking his ‘punch a Nazi whenever you see him’ theory, to it’s natural extension.

People have always given him far too much credit.

JC
JC
October 2, 2022 12:08 am

Yea, there possibly is a factor. Australians are a little worried about what’s going on in Europe at the moment, but I don’t think we’re shirking away from traveling because of covid. No-one gives a crap anymore except old people.

We’re heading off to NY in November and we talking about going to Paris or Rome. and back to the US. I talked wifey out of it – not because of any concern about a nuke hitting the city, but the energy situation worries me. Some of these places could run out of power. And who wants to walk around in the evening with darkened shop window fronts.

calli
calli
October 2, 2022 12:10 am

Interesting reading, Dover.

On the same thread is this weirdo who appears to be a “scientist” and wants us masked indoors forever, or at least the next twenty years.

The internet is a very strange place.

m0nty
m0nty
October 2, 2022 12:26 am

despite there being at least two other plausible explanations.

Which are?

DaFisk
DaFisk
October 2, 2022 12:30 am

Another crushing defeat for Putin on the battlefield, losing the strategically important Lyman. Putin’s phony referenda have been a miserable failure.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MacaesBruno/status/1576183185930481665

m0nty
m0nty
October 2, 2022 12:34 am

I mean, the most plausible explanation is the truth, which is that she was the first to stick her head through a broken window to where cops with guns were protecting legislators from an actual lynch mob. She F’ed around, and she found out.

What other explanation of events could there be? And if you blame mysterious FBI agitators, you lose. No, the mob was not incited by anyone other than Trump.

JC
JC
October 2, 2022 12:34 am

Dover:

1/ Why the euro makes absolutely no sense without access to cheap gas – and therefore why the euro is over.

Okay, let’s see the arguments.

2/ There are many rationales given for the euro, but when you strip all the peripheral ones away you get to the core argument: the euro is actually a proxy for the Deutschmark and all parties perceive themselves as benefiting from a permanent org to the Deutschmark.

Well, the Euro was a D-mark proxy until the Greek crisis when the decision was made to keep Greece inside the Euro and not kick it out. From that point on (along with the decision by the ECB to buy Greek bonds ()as well as other decisions , the Euro stopped being a proxy for the D-mark.

3/ By ‘Deutschmark’ I mean that the euro derives its value from German manufacturing – and to some extent Dutch farming and a few other highly successful industries. How does each party benefit – at least in their own eyes?

Nonsense. The Euro derives it’s “value” if one can call it value from the attitude of the ECB and the German government’s backdown in punishing Greek misbehavior

4/ For the stronger economies – those that run trade surpluses in Europe – the euro allows them to flood the weaker economies with their products. Without the euro, the Deutschmark/guilder would appreciate and the surpluses would disappear.
.

Okay, but how does this make a case for the Euro disappearing? He’s just gone back to his first point in that the euro was attractive to the weaker economies because of the inherent strength of the Euro.

5/ Weaker countries have long had problems with inflation and currency depreciation. Adopting the euro/Deutschmark allows them to experience German levels of financial stability.

This is crap. These “weaker” countries never really made the internal reforms to resemble Germany and so the Euro actually made these economies more unstable as they had to contend with hard currency until the Greek crisis. Lack of italian economic reforms for instance has seen zero per capita GDP growth since 1999.

6/ Here’s the thing though: that is no longer the case. Why? The stronger economies got cocky. They used their wealth to try to ‘go green’ faster than the other kids on the block and got addicted to Russian gas. With Nord Stream smoked, that gas is gone – for a very long time.

All the EU countries became cocky about eliminating Co2. They’re all short of freaking gas save for Norway and UK perhaps.

This turns the strong countries into the weak countries. Germany’s inflation rate was 10% in September, the Netherlands had a rate of 17.1%. Meanwhile Italy and Spain clocked in at 8.9% and 9% respectively.

Okay, then they all become weak economies and the deviation between the weak and stronger goes away. They all become weak.

There is every reason to believe that this differential will continue as the previously richer countries, with their economic built around a janky energy infrastructure, decline harder than the others.

They’re all equally fucked.

So what is the point of tying yourself to the Deutschmark in this scenario? It would be like a financially stable country such as Chile tying its currency to a financial basket case like Argentina.

The deviation is reduced as they all become weakened. Germany begins to look a little like Italy.

And so, unless something drastic changes, logic dictates that the euro must fall apart. And so it will fall apart.

It’s not logic it’s a prediction and I disagree because I believe the argument is based on wrong assumptions and assertions.

JC
JC
October 2, 2022 12:37 am

Fisk

I wouldn’t get cocky if I were you. Don’t think Rasputin is incapable of making a huge miscalculation and introduces nukes. It’s not as though this man of God hasn’t miscalculated before.

JC
JC
October 2, 2022 12:39 am

Dover

My point is why wouldn’t Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and now Germany, Netherlands wouldn’t like to see their currency behave like say the French Franc or the Lira?

m0nty
m0nty
October 2, 2022 12:43 am

Another crushing defeat for Putin on the battlefield, losing the strategically important Lyman.

Big Serge sounding like Comical Ali. Glorious, victorious retreat!

m0nty
m0nty
October 2, 2022 12:52 am

Kadyrov advising Putin to use a nuke. Things really not going well for Russia.

m0nty
m0nty
October 2, 2022 12:54 am

Vatniks on the Cat perhaps should be thinking about their own strategic retreat. Putin is losing bigly.

rickw
rickw
October 2, 2022 1:27 am

where cops with guns were protecting legislators from an actual lynch mob

Keep on lying you fucking fat mong.

calli
calli
October 2, 2022 1:29 am

I have just found out something very interesting. Parts of Britain and Australia were once joined.

Palaeomagnetic evidence indicates that 520 Ma, what is now Great Britain was split between two continents, separated by 7,000 km (4,300 mi) of ocean. The north of Scotland was located at about 20° south of the equator on the continent of Laurentia near the Tropic of Capricorn, while the rest of the country was at about 60° south on the continent of Gondwana near the Antarctic Circle.

And it wasn’t us who moved!

rickw
rickw
October 2, 2022 1:39 am

Just imagine the munty wailing if police had shot some of his mong mates who look way more like a lynch mob than anything on Jan 6.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhxoN-pH4DA

Tom
Tom
October 2, 2022 4:00 am
DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
October 2, 2022 4:27 am

Thanks Tom.

Dot
Dot
October 2, 2022 5:51 am

I do hope the cows know what time we open the barn for foraging on oats.

Dot
Dot
October 2, 2022 6:06 am

Babbit was unarmed. She was shot because she tried to look through a broken window?

So what it was a headshot? Or he fired into the torso of someone who was in fact vulnerable?

“Protecting Congressmen” does not justify shooting an unarmed protester.

What was she going to do, lurch in there in her liquid metal form like the T-1000?

She was threatening no one. Unless there is an audio enabled video of her declaring “I am going to kill you Congresscritters”, this is BS.

If the US security apparatus knew about the “insurrectionists” beforehand, why didn’t they arrest anyone? They let them in for heaven’s sake.

It was a protest that got out of hand. Trump told them to stay at home but he was censored by progressive big tech. Old mate had no trigger discipline. She was a threat to no one. He was too incompetent to affect her arrest or enforce a move on order.

Winston Smith
October 2, 2022 6:32 am

Flying duk:

Not really – they are talking about the 300 blackout, which is a somewhat strange choice – subsonic, and with more weight and less range than the old 556.

I know I’m a bad person for thinking this, but my first reaction was “I bet they stuff this up.”
Comparison of .300 Blackout vs 6.5 Creedmore.

  1. Australia now has the worst, most despicable, craven, corrupt and malice driven government since the days of the Rum Corps.…

  2. Australia is most likely to vote for the UN ‘Palestine’ motion. The “Lucky” country will now proceed to curse itself.…

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