2,499 thoughts on “Open Thread – Tues 4 Oct 2022”

  1. Some titles for the jaded:

    The Fortune Hunter: he collected women like other men collected stamps; until he met Jennie and then he was marked return to sender.
    The Golden Girls: they were wheat gypsies who ploughed and picked during the day and at night reaped another harvest of sensuous delights.
    Flesh for Hire: giving pleasure to men was just bed and board for her until she met a special client who taught her rent and pleasure could be combined.
    Cotton Tramps: a story of lust on a plantation; more than one crop would be picked that year.

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  2. The jury is out whether the vax worked at least for the Alpha strain. There’s reasonable evidence that in fact it did.

    Here’s the problem I have with this theory about the Alpha Strain.

    Pfizer was first released in the US on or about 11 Dec 2020. It was obviously designed to counter the strain/s up until that point.

    The Alpha strain was first detected in the UK around Nov 2020, so the vaccine could not possibly have been designed for that strain.

    See where I’m going here? If it did work, it was pure tin arse luck, and not by design. And if it was effective for a strain for which it wasn’t designed, why hasn’t it worked for subsequent strains.

    The timings don’t align. If anomalies are evident in the data which points to the vaccine working for Alpha, I’d look reaaaaally closely for other variables which might have been in play.

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  3. Dangerfield Enough. Stop trolling the open thread with bilge.

    Magic Marv not only needs group therapy, but he’ll also be attending my anger management classes as he appears to be flipping out. If you’re not careful, you will be sitting alongside Marv too. Shut up please.

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  4. In remarks to Australia’s Lowy Institute, Mr Zelenskyy said NATO should launch preventive strikes on Russia to preclude its use of nuclear weapons.

    That seems logical.

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  5. “Porter allegations prompted Higgins’ conversations
    Remy Varga
    REMY VARGA

    Brittany Higgins said allegations published against then Attorney-General Christian Porter prompted her to talk about her “lived experience” with her friends and family.”

    The allegations naming Porter didn’t hit the media until February or March last year. So Higgins knew about them in January 2021….before many others. How did she know? Oh I know how. Obviously Samantha Maiden shared the allegations. Maiden, originally an Adelaidian, was involved with the lurid and utterly ridiculous Porter smears. More proof of a conspiracy to attack the Liberals.

    This whole trial is a disgrace.

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  6. A Guy dies and ends up in front of St. Peter at the entrance to heaven.

    St. Peter says “Welcome to heaven! You’ve lived a good and decent life; we have to find you a place to live up here. Hop in my golf cart and let’s take a tour of the different subdivisions. Let’s start in the Methodist neighbourhood”.

    The neighbourhood is gorgeous; perfectly manicured lawns, each house is distinct but perfectly nice, kids are playing in the yards, people having a picnic in the town square, etc.

    The guy goes “This is awesome!” St. Peter says “Yeah, it’s nice, but let’s continue to have a look around”.

    Next, St. Peter takes them to the Lutheran subdivision. The same thing, it’s perfect, everything in order, all the homes are nice, the grass is green, everyone waves as they pass through in their golf carts and seem so friendly etc.

    Again, the guy goes “This is great, it’s perfect!”

    St. Peter continues to show him different neighbourhoods all afternoon and they are all in the same perfect condition, each one just as nice as the last.

    The guy goes “They’re all great, I can’t decide”.

    St. Peter says “One last neighbourhood to show”.

    They end up at a huge wall, as tall as the eye can see. St. Peter and the guy climb and climb and finally reach the top and peer over. It’s the same thing as before; awesome idyllic neighbourhood, kids laughing and playing, people enjoying each other’s company etc.

    The guy says “It’s great too, just like the other neighbourhoods, but why the giant wall?” St. Peter goes “Well, this is the Catholic neighbourhood. They like to think they’re the only ones up here”.

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  7. Mater

    Hang on, the Covid was detected in late January 2020 and in mid March we were in lockdown. I recall this because my kid’s wedding was in early March and his wedding do was literally on the last weekend before catering was closed down and I think we all went into lock-down ” to flatten the curve”. So wasn’t that alpha?

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  8. Let’s nuke Russia to prevent it from resorting to nukes. Makes perfect sense. Why haven’t we already pursued this low risk strategy?

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  9. Stop trolling the open thread with bilge

    LoL

    not a hint of irony

    … and nowhere near the stealth of a reversing Tesla

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  10. “And speaking of “mates”, she might be wondering about now how Bruce’s lawyers “stumbled upon” all this info”

    Yes, have been thinking the same.

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  11. Brittany Higgins has been grilled in court over a $325,000 book deal arranged for her by Lisa Wilkinson’s husband, Peter FitzSimons.

    It came as the ex-Liberal staffer admitted to a jury that she had planned chapters of a book about her life before she was formally interviewed by police about her rape claims.

    Daily Mail

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  12. Let’s nuke Russia to prevent it from resorting to nukes. Makes perfect sense. Why haven’t we already pursued this low risk strategy?

    I am waiting for someone to suggest that NATO invade Russia (then again someone probably has!).
    But then it worked out so well for Napoleon and Hitler, didn’t it?

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  13. Let’s nuke Russia to prevent it from resorting to nukes. Makes perfect sense. Why haven’t we already pursued this low risk strategy?

    Nuking New Zealand or Canada would make far more sense.

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  14. Russia is not a party to the Minsk agreements. They are devoted to two conflicting sides,” Zakharova said.

    “We must exert influence on the conflicting sides and, likewise, France and Germany must exert influence on Kiev. That’s all. We don’t have to do anything else,” the spokeswoman said.

    The Minsk agreements were not honoured by any side.

  15. Further to Brittaneeeeeeee, reading her testimony yesterday and today, I’m reminded of Judge Judy’s famous saying….

    “‘If you tell the truth, then you don’t have to have a good memory”

    I wouldn’t be surprised if, deep down, Brittanyeeeeeeeeeeee is regretting this whole miasma.

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  16. So wasn’t that alpha?

    Not according to the sources I’ve read.
    Alpha appeared late 2020.

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  17. “rosiesays:
    October 7, 2022 at 6:18 pm
    Didn’t Maiden go to school or uni with the alleged victim in the Adelaide affair?”

    I think so.

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  18. How often does Bandanna randomly offer to chase up book deals for people he doesn’t know and are writing a book he doesn’t know about?

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  19. JCsays:
    October 7, 2022 at 6:04 pm
    Dangerfield Enough. Stop trolling the open thread with bilge.

    Magic Marv not only needs group therapy, but he’ll also be attending my anger management classes as he appears to be flipping out. If you’re not careful, you will be sitting alongside Marv too. Shut up please.

    You are a pompous windbag……………………….

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  20. The jury has plenty of time to forget the inconvenient details arising as a consequence of the cross examination of Higgins. My guess is that something considerably more damning will have to emerge to move a guilty verdict out of the ‘inevitable’ column.

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  21. Marter says:
    October 7, 2022 at 6:22 pm

    So wasn’t that alpha?

    Not according to the sources I’ve read.
    Alpha appeared late 2020.

    Okay , fair enough. So you’re more or less suggesting they modeled the vax on what was around at the point in time.

  22. More proof of a conspiracy to attack the Liberals.
    The ABC 4 Corners story about Porter, Tudgey and late nite partying with teenaged staffers ran in 2020.
    No one gave a fuck and Tudgey held his Seat in May.
    Porter was likely to be planning a challenge to Scotty before that, so the origins of your “conspiracy” could be murky.

  23. Lee says:
    October 7, 2022 at 5:18 pm
    Acquaintances of one my sisters are from Ukraine, and they still have relatives and friends over there.
    When someone suggested to them something along the lines that “hopefully someone will bump off Putin”, these Ukrainians were horrified, and replied, “oh no, then he’ll be replaced by someone much worse!”

    Indeed. Putin is currently the hub of an oligarchic system of interrelated ‘clans’ and whilst he is undoubtedly the dominant figure as the arbiter, moderator and has the final say, some of the clans, particularly within Defence and the FSB, are far more hardline. Putin is a master manipulator and has maintained his power by forcing compromises and sometimes setting clans against one another.

    To be clear, I’m not saying Putin is a good guy or that I wish him a long life, but be careful what you wish for. Putin’s demise could see one of these hardline clans ascend to power and the whole structure of Russian politics and global behaviour would change overnight – and not for the better.

    What’s the solution? I don’t know, but we can be far from assured that a ‘liberal’ will assume the dominant role. Putin’s demise will be very tense time for the world until we know who has risen to take his place.

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  24. Mater

    As far as I know, the first known virus was simply called Covid. All the variants were alpha, beta, delta came later. I understand the vax was developed particularly for alpha.

    Have to rush out to dins. Will talk later.

  25. JCsays:
    October 7, 2022 at 6:04 pm
    Dangerfield Enough. Stop trolling the open thread with bilge.

    Magic Marv not only needs group therapy, but he’ll also be attending my anger management classes as he appears to be flipping out. If you’re not careful, you will be sitting alongside Marv too. Shut up please.

    Go back to the USA you farking septic tank. Try to be nice here if you can which you can’t. You have NO humility whatsoever…………………..And take Stencho Pantyhose with you. Please.

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  26. “To be clear, I’m not saying Putin is a good guy or that I wish him a long life, but be careful what you wish for. Putin’s demise could see one of these hardline clans ascend to power and the whole structure of Russian politics and global behaviour would change overnight – and not for the better.

    What’s the solution? I don’t know, but we can be far from assured that a ‘liberal’ will assume the dominant role. Putin’s demise will be very tense time for the world until we know who has risen to take his place.”

    Agree Speedbox, anyone with a modicum of Russian history understands this.

    And we’ve seen in the Middle East what happens when the Washington neocons meddle in countries that have no history of “democracy”, Libya comes to mind.

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  27. Obviously Samantha Maiden shared the allegations. Maiden, originally an Adelaidian, was involved with the lurid and utterly ridiculous Porter smears.

    The Porter hit was more Radelaidean than a body in a barrel.

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  28. There’s a headline going around:
    “How to recognise if you are bitten by the violin spider”.
    Perhaps you do a cadenza rather than a tarantella.

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  29. C’mon. Let’s get this trial farce out of the way so that we can move on to the appeals court slamming the Canberra village prosecution service.

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  30. we can be far from assured that a ‘liberal’ will assume the dominant role.

    It would be a catastrophe if a Russian liberal did. The part of the Russian political spectrum that brands itself as ‘liberal’ is very far removed from from our common understanding of the word. For example, I believe Zhirinovsky described himself as a liberal. The application of the term ‘liberal’ has always been peculiar in Russia, come to think of it. The unhinged radicalism of Russian ‘liberals’ contributed greatly to the rise of Lenin.

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  31. Texas Man Enters Newborn Baby Nursery, Chokes Baby as He Says, “Die!” – Fights Off Staff

    The comments are harsh:

    ricocat1 (# FJB) Not a Lib • a day ago
    Give whites a pile of bricks and they will create a city, give blacks a city and they will create a pile of bricks. See Detroit for details.

    ubalE ricocat1 (# FJB) • a day ago
    As of the end of 1945, Hiroshima was a smoldering ruin and Detroit was a grand and prosperous place, and more than 90% white. Today Hiroshima looks like Detroit did on January 1, 1946, and Detroit looks like Hiroshima did at that time. The negro race is, in effect, a slow-motion nuclear bomb.

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  32. Sitting in LA departure lounge waiting to board to come back to Oz.
    Certainly not travelling QANTAS of course, but just being in this sausage machine reminds you of how truely awful is every aspect of modern air travel.
    Time to stay home.

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  33. Cassie of Sydney says:
    October 7, 2022 at 6:44 pm

    Well you’d think so Cassie but from some of the comments by assorted persons in the MSM, American and European politics and even some of our Cats, they give the impression that Putin’s demise will herald in an ‘enlightenment’ and everyone will kiss and make up.

    I’m not at all that optimistic. There are some really hard bastards lurking in the corridors of the Kremlin and God help us if one of those can muster the wherewithal to assume power.

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  34. What was the outcome of the allegation that Sam Maiden monstered some work experience gel in the ladies dunny?

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  35. AFAIK, the vaccines were modeled on a virus DNA sequence given to the manufacturers by the Chinese.
    The holy grail of bio warfare – place a marker in the enemy population that your population doesn’t have.
    Nice to know that any scientific and technical problem can be solved by throwing enough money at it.
    So what, specifically in the technical sense, suddenly made a corona virus vaccine work? I have heard nothing about that breakthrough.

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  36. Gotta say, Higgins’s deleted text message communicating the “beyond strange” allegation of rape is…beyond strange. I’m not saying it’s definitive proof that she wasn’t raped by the guy, but it seems an extremely unusual description of one’s reaction to being raped. Who goes through that and summarises the experience in a brief message as “beyond strange” the following day?

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  37. rickw:

    Opposition Leader Matthew Guy has promised his party will ditch Victoria’s new pandemic powers being pushed through parliament by the Andrews government if he is voted in at the next election.

    A flicker of sanity from this moron.

    I want to see the entire Emergency Legislation discarded and the Quarantine Powers sent back to Canberra where it is supposed to be.
    I also want the National Cabinet insanity chucked on a bonfire.
    I also want a pony.

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  38. “It would be a catastrophe if a Russian liberal did. The part of the Russian political spectrum that brands itself as ‘liberal’ is very far removed from from our common understanding of the word. For example, I believe Zhirinovsky described himself as a liberal. The application of the term ‘liberal’ has always been peculiar in Russia, come to think of it. The unhinged radicalism of Russian ‘liberals’ contributed greatly to the rise of Lenin.”

    Yes, Peter Stolypin, Tsar Nicholas’ last competent minister, was regarded by some as a liberal, a Russian liberal who was utterly ruthless in dealing with political dissidents, so much so that the nooses used to execute opponents of the Tsarist regime were given the nickname “Stolypin’s neckties”.

    I think people are incredibly naive if they persist in thinking that by getting rid of Putin or Assad in Syria, then some kind gentle democracy will emerge. It doesn’t happen.

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  39. Delayed again.
    Maybe I’ll hire a car and drive back to Oz
    It would be quicker and more pleasant.

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  40. Oh come on says:
    October 7, 2022 at 6:49 pm
    The part of the Russian political spectrum that brands itself as ‘liberal’ is very far removed from from our common understanding of the word. For example, I believe Zhirinovsky described himself as a liberal.

    Yep. Zhirinovsky was an ultranationalist (emphasis on ultra) and also leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. He said he was “the last hope of a cheated and humiliated people” and promised to bring “Russia up off its knees”. So yes, not the kind of ‘liberal’ that most ordinarily think of. I very much doubt he would have embraced the West and allowed gay marriage etc. (hahahahaha)

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  41. Well you’d think so Cassie but from some of the comments by assorted persons in the MSM, American and European politics and even some of our Cats, they give the impression that Putin’s demise will herald in an ‘enlightenment’ and everyone will kiss and make up.”

    I don’t take the commentary on Ukraine/Russia from Monty the Fascist and DaStink seriously. Ukraine is just Monty’s current obsession, two month’s ago it was “abortion, abortion, abortion”…now it’s “Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine”…as for DaStink, well anyone that smears people here as “far-right” and “Putinists” doesn’t warrant any respect. I should also add that if this war in Ukraine was happening under Donald Trump’s watch, I can guarantee you that neither commentators would be supporting the USA or the West.

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  42. Winston Smithsays:
    October 7, 2022 at 6:58 pm
    rickw:

    Opposition Leader Matthew Guy has promised his party will ditch Victoria’s new pandemic powers being pushed through parliament by the Andrews government if he is voted in at the next election.

    A flicker of sanity from this moron.

    I want to see the entire Emergency Legislation discarded and the Quarantine Powers sent back to Canberra where it is supposed to be.
    I also want the National Cabinet insanity chucked on a bonfire.
    I also want a pony.

    The same Mathew Guy who only a couple of months ago was saying he would keep them? After being completely MIA when there were massive protests against them?

    Pull the other one, bells, etc.

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  43. Two Russians flee by boat to Alaska to avoid military service in Ukraine
    By Becky Bohrer
    October 7, 2022 — 10.39am

    Juneau, Alaska: Two Russians who said they fled the country to avoid compulsory military service have requested asylum in the US after landing on a remote Alaska island in the Bering Sea, Alaska US Senator Lisa Murkowski’s office said on Thursday.

    Karina Borger, a spokesperson for Murkowski, said by email that the office has been in communication with the US Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection and that “the Russian nationals reported that they fled one of the coastal communities on the east coast of Russia to avoid compulsory military service”.

  44. I should also add that if this war in Ukraine was happening under Donald Trump’s watch, I can guarantee you that neither commentators would be supporting the USA or the West.

    mUnty is a team player. Like all collectivists.

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  45. I think people are incredibly naive if they persist in thinking that by getting rid of Putin or Assad in Syria, then some kind gentle democracy will emerge. It doesn’t happen.

    Cassie, it’s pretty much the one thing I’ve been trying to get through to people from the start. Putin IS the moderate everyone is dreaming of. The idea it’s going to be rainbows and fairy floss is he was killed or otherwise disappeared is completely unrealistic.

    I keep getting the same sort of reactions though, get called a vatnik, Russia supporter etc. etc. Very few people admit there might be a legitimate concern for the Russians, or that they might actually have decided diplomacy was achieving nothing and done something about it.

    It’s the difference between how people want the world to be, and the reality of what the world is.

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  46. Nuking New Zealand or Canada would make far more sense.

    no one said it had to be ‘either or’

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  47. I dunno Bons.

    I’ve read some diary accounts of travelling by air in WWII across long distances. It took days and often the air transport was fairly horrible: cold, uncomfortable, and with nothing to do.

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  48. I’m thinking, despite their abysmal position on renewables, I just might vote for the liberal party in Victoria (ldp in the upper house)

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  49. Speedbox at 6.54 pm:

    I’m not at all that optimistic. There are some really hard bastards lurking in the corridors of the Kremlin and God help us if one of those can muster the wherewithal to assume power.

    Someone will have the numbers and the problem we have is this scenario is likely to become reality sooner than later. IMO Putin is on borrowed time.

  50. I must say that the Higgins case is demanding much more popcorn than I had planned for.

    I’m still betting good money it winds up in the High Court.

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  51. How long before the GayBC starts spinning the allegations of sexual harassment in Irish dancing into an anti-Catholic conspiracy theory?

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  52. Lee

    But then it worked out so well for Napoleon and Hitler, didn’t it?

    But it did go quite well for Genghis Khan.

  53. I dunno Bons.
    True TE. I was about to say that they at least didn’t have to wear masks, but of course they often did have to. Barging your way through cloud at below lowest safe altitude must have focused the mind of the important things in life – like surviving this flight.
    I think that I’m just getting too old for flitting around. Coming back from the UK in May I flew Emirate’s incredibly luxurious business class. Great food, unlimited booze, cocktail bar – the works. I hated it.

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  54. I’ve read some diary accounts of travelling by air in WWII across long distances. It took days and often the air transport was fairly horrible: cold, uncomfortable, and with nothing to do.

    I don’t much like long distance airliner travel as it is about the right temperature, uncomfortable and there is some in flight entertainment but I also know its a wonder that I can go half way around the world in less than 24 hours at a high fraction of the Mach at 35000 feet or so where the outside air is at -60 deg C and all for rather trivial amounts of money.

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  55. I think that I’m just getting too old for flitting around

    Flying has been hell for years. The QANTAS club on a Friday afternoon must be one of the most depressing places on Earth.

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  56. Doesn’t this sound strangely familiar? Man, It’s almost like I just heard about a US election company with ties to the CCP, harvesting sensitive election related data, like PII, building schematics, machine locations… & sending it to China. I wonder what these kinds of CCP hacker organizations could do with that info?

    “NSA, CISA, and the FBI revealed today the top security vulnerabilities most exploited by hackers backed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to target government and critical infrastructure networks.

    The three federal agencies said in a joint advisory that Chinese-sponsored hackers are targeting U.S. and allied networks and tech companies to gain access to sensitive networks and steal intellectual property.”

    “NSA, CISA, and FBI continue to assess PRC state-sponsored cyber activities as being one of the largest and most dynamic threats to U.S. gov. and civilian networks”

    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-govt-shares-top-flaws-exploited-by-chinese-hackers-since-2020/amp/

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  57. The QANTAS club on a Friday afternoon must be one of the most depressing places on Earth.

    Indeed but still better than being ripped off in the terminal for a sandwich…

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  58. Indolent:
    https://twitter.com/i/status/1578050503279316992
    Those electric vehicles are easily dealt with – helicopter with a 100 meter cable and hook it through the windows. Lift it up and take it out to sea and drop.
    Next step – go back and get the ones on fire. Repeat.
    Good practice for when the Revolution comes and one way chopper flights are in vogue again. One could even build a reef out of them. Not many fish would survive but maybe a new mutant form of shark or octopus?

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  59. We flew United to and back from the States recently. Took off and landed on time; decent enough service; the wings didn’t fall off – modern Dreamliners – and on a $1300 return fare.

    Plug yourself into the movies and alternate between them and sleep and it’s a bargain.

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  60. Rosie, I swear I did read it somewhere a couple of months ago that the SFL wanted to keep the pandemic legislation, just modify it. May have been the media making it up or quoting out of context. On the other hand SFL….

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  61. I should also add that if this war in Ukraine was happening under Donald Trump’s watch, I can guarantee you that neither commentators would be supporting the USA or the West.

    But as anyone here could tell you, I supported Trump’s foreign policies, especially his excellent and prescient sanctions on Nordstream. You really aren’t that bright, Cassie!

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  62. it’s pretty much the one thing I’ve been trying to get through to people from the start. Putin IS the moderate everyone is dreaming of.

    Haha. This situation is creepily like the Italo-Greek War of 1940 when Mussolini invaded Greece from Albania. The Greek Metaxis government were fascists too, indeed Metaxis was quite chummy with the Nazis in Germany. Mussolini however still invaded the place: Greece is Roman from ‘way back don’t cha know. Sound familiar?

    It didn’t go well, despite a massive advantage to the Italians on paper. Adolf had to bail Benny out. I wonder who will bail Vlad out?

    The Z War is a baddies on baddies affair. The tactics and strategy are fascinating to someone like me who has been reading history for a long time, including military history, but to think either side are the goodies is to be extremely naive.

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  63. OTOH, inside Australia, if you are in no particular hurry, flying the family bugsmasher with Mrs Eyrie, trusty First officer and Loadmaster, is a blast. Particularly when we are in smooth air above little cottonwool cumulus at 7500, 8500 or 9500 feet with the Lycoming rumbling contentedly. Or Albury -Toowoomba in 4 hours with no wind, not a ripple in the sky. Air Chief Marshall weather. There’s enough to do and the scenery is nice. Treasured experiences.

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  64. Sancho Panzer:

    But not deleted from Insta. Because it was no doubt a photo of Reynolds and Britnah and projected to Insta-world the image of Britnah’s grrrrl-power.
    This is getting awkwarder and awkwarder – if that is a word.

    It’s a concept on its way to becoming a meme.

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  65. Winston, how is it going for your sister these days.
    Every time you post a comment I say a prayer for her.
    Forgive me if this is an intrusion into your privacy. Is so just disregard.

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  66. “But as anyone here could tell you, I supported Trump’s foreign policies, especially his excellent and prescient sanctions on Nordstream. You really aren’t that bright, Cassie!”

    LOL, I knew it wouldn’t take you long to bite, you really are predictable, and that DaStink, doesn’t make you very bright.

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  67. Indolent:

    NEW – Ukraine’s Zelensky calls on NATO to launch “preemptive strikes” against Russia to “eliminate the possibility” of a Russian nuclear strike.

    This bloke is rapidly starting to look like the classic front bar urger…

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  68. Doesn’t this sound strangely familiar? Man, It’s almost like I just heard about a US election company with ties to the CCP, harvesting sensitive election related data

    Konnech and Dominion are excellent advertisements for paper and pencils.
    It’ll be interesting to see if the Dems try a full steal in November.
    They’ll be terrified of the GOP controlling House and Senate.
    All those investigations, and Gaia will be unhappy too!

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  69. This bloke is rapidly starting to look like the classic front bar urger

    He’s a good piano player. Not many guys can manage a feat like that. Hard work, if I may say so.

  70. Custard – The Dems have been suborning the military since 2008.
    They may be clueless but they ain’t stupid.

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  71. Trump is dismantling the deep state.

    But I gather others on these pages don’t agree with what I say?

    He is actually…

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  72. It would be helpful if someone could take a (Michael Smith style)roll call at the Brittany trial. Just name and rank. I’m sure it would make very interesting reading.

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  73. custardsays:
    October 7, 2022 at 8:14 pm
    Dems try a full steal in November

    True.

    custardsays:
    October 7, 2022 at 8:16 pm
    If the Dems try that I’d say you’d see the military intervene.

    Not true.

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  74. Watters and Tucker putting incontrovertible evidence that the bidens have committed treason. In a just world these bastards would be hung.

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  75. Baron of the Taiga
    @baronitaigas
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    ????: After threatening global nuclear destruction, Zelensky just missed out on the Nobel Peace Prize to someone you’ve never heard of unless you work in Lithuanian Intelligence. Sad!

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  76. Trump is dismantling the deep state.

    We can see with 20/20 hindsight, he didn’t stand a chance of doing it. Not during his tenure. Sure , he exposed it and put up a tremendous fight. But it’s just too big, too deep and too powerful.
    BUT cracks are appearing and there are some up and comers that may do the deep state more serious damage. We’ll have to wait and see. Elon’s twitter might be helpful to that end. While the FBI/CIA/IRS et all remain weaponised under leftist controlled , I don’t see much real change though.

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  77. But it did go quite well for Genghis Khan.

    He tried it from the other direction though.

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  78. Also Dragger, you ready for the overpaid cricketers to strut their stuff this summer? Who are they even playing in the Tests?

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  79. Who are they even playing in the Tests?

    WI and the Jaapies, I think.

    Watching the T20 at present. The obvious highlight was SookCheat twitching like Peter Garrett after he ran out Glenn Maxwell for 1.

    I also have a Great Prediction. The other cheating dwarf flog Warner has maybe a couple of years left. His replacement won’t be any of the current crop. It will be 21 year old left handed specialist red ball opener Ashley Chandrasinghe.

    Plays for Casey South Melbourne, and rookie contracted this year by Victoria. Made 110 in a Vic pre-season match in NSW a month ago. Also made five tons in a row in Premier Cricket up here during the season just gone.

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  80. According to Reuters, the Biden administration plans next month to broaden curbs on U.S shipments to China of semiconductors used for artificial intelligence and chip-making tools.

    Serpentsa has a quite good video up on this topic, his main point is that it’s relatively easy to copy designs, but often it’s incredibly difficult to copy the processes that make those designs work. This is what the CCP are facing in the chip industry.

    He used an example to illustrate this that is reasonably well known. Until quite recently, all balls in Chinese made ball point pens were imported. They couldn’t make the balls anywhere near as good as others. They did have local manufacturers, but even the CCP admitted that their balls were shit.

    After a massive R&D effort and huge spending, the CCP can now make balls that aren’t completely inferior.

    (A bloke I know makes replacement parts for hercus lathes, he ran into exactly the same issue trying to reproduce their beautifully made graduated scales, fortunately he found an old school company that had the know how to make a roll engraver that could produce equivalent quality.)

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  81. True to form, Warner pops up on the teev being interviewed by a TV cricket chick.

    Standing on a milk crate, as they were roughly the same height on screen.

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  82. Eyriesays:
    October 7, 2022 at 7:57 pm
    OTOH, inside Australia, if you are in no particular hurry, flying the family bugsmasher with Mrs Eyrie, trusty First officer and Loadmaster, is a blast

    Eyrie,

    I bumped into this bloke recently on a remote airstrip.

    He and his missus seem to be having a hell of nice time scooting around the country in their contraption.

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  83. Winston Smithsays:
    October 7, 2022 at 8:04 pm
    Indolent:

    NEW – Ukraine’s Zelensky calls on NATO to launch “preemptive strikes” against Russia to “eliminate the possibility” of a Russian nuclear strike.

    This bloke is rapidly starting to look like the classic front bar urger…

    Much like m0nty-fa over the past two or three days?

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  84. Knuckle Draggersays:
    October 7, 2022 at 8:39 pm
    But it did go quite well for Genghis Khan.

    He tried it from the other direction though.

    That would be the direction of China? Something about “unequal treaties” comes to mind.

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  85. Serpentsa has a quite good video up on this topic, his main point is that it’s relatively easy to copy designs, but often it’s incredibly difficult to copy the processes that make those designs work.

    xactly. Metallurgy, materials, assembly processes, adhesives, contamination, secret ingredients, tolerance stackups.. all this stuff is where your real IP value lives.

    Masks on an IC are easy to copy. The etch and implant processes, and thermal steps amongst other things – not so much.

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  86. these bastards would be hung.

    Their genitals are of no concern to decent people, who would prefer to see them hanged according the rules of good grammar.

    Pardon the nitpicking but as a sub of many seasons, that and the always misused ‘begs the question’, always fires my ire

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  87. Messiahs and prophets don’t get much of a hearing on the Cat.

    Bear, the 2000th anniversary of a certain event is coming, in 2029 perhaps.
    Millennialism is fun. Likewise fun that the usual suspects talk about the Earth burning in a few years.
    One wonders whether they might be correct for the wrong reason. 😀

    (I don’t think so, but I like trolling Greenies.)

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  88. areff,
    Having only a barely adequate tech school education, can you enlighten me on the misuse of ‘begs the question’?

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  89. trying to reproduce their beautifully made graduated scales

    I think I’d draw the scales in a CAD program and use laser engraving.

  90. to clarify – it was one of these (or similar), not a Catalina as in that story.
    Aviation vagrancy. It’s fun.

  91. “Their genitals are of no concern to decent people, who would prefer to see them hanged according the rules of good grammar.”

    My mother always said…

    Pictures are hung
    People are hanged

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  92. Just cranked 103Mbps on StarLink

    Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds occasionally comments about his Starlink experience. He reports much the same.

    I’m currently getting 30208 kbps via NBN (says my modem just now), which ain’t bad since I’m only actually paying for 25Mbps. So Starlink would be much better, except I don’t really need the speed.

  93. mc: here’s an example of begging the question

    q: Why do you do it that way?

    a: because that’s the way I do it.

    It’s a response, but only rephrases the question.

    What most folk mean when they say ‘begs the question’ is ‘poses the question’

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  94. Texas Man Enters Newborn Baby Nursery, Chokes Baby as He Says, “Die!” – Fights Off Staff

    I suspect the “Texas” man is a Putin shill.
    Doing his part by killing Ukrainian babies in Odessa.

  95. Mc, to beg the question is to assume you already know the answer. For example, to ask if m0nty is a scurrilous fuckwit. To raise a question is to ask a question where you don’t already know the answer. Question begging comes from old style logic, where it is regarded as a dishonest mode of argument.

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  96. Sorry BB I don’t know any songs of theirs. I never listened to much music in the 90’s. Too busy working and fishing. You’re the only person I’ve heard of that liked them, every comment about them has been derogatory. I’d never heard Nirvana either.

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  97. areffsays:
    October 7, 2022 at 9:05 pm
    these bastards would be hung.

    Their genitals are of no concern to decent people, who would prefer to see them hanged according the rules of good grammar.

    I was going to suggest they should be stripped naked and staked on an ant’s nest but I thought decorum should prevail. That’ll learns me.

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  98. Settling down for some TV and I espy a light entertainment program on ABC fronted by of all people Frank Elly.
    What happened to drama on Friday night?
    FMD these ABC people are like zombies ,unlkillable.They retire and you think thank fuck but no back they come.

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  99. Texas Man Enters Newborn Baby Nursery, Chokes Baby as He Says, “Die!” – Fights Off Staff

    If he couldn’t get into med school to murder babies, he should have become a bus driver for Planned Parenthood’s marauding murder mobile.

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  100. https://mobile.twitter.com/wo_ai/status/1578111856535040001

    Peter Lee
    @wo_ai
    Our apartment locked down for 48 hours while we were out at lunch so checked into a nearby hotel for a night. Hotel now locked down for 7 days due to a positive COVID case #china #covid #shanghai #CovidIsNotOver #lockdown

    The only way out of this self-destructive nightmare for China is if XJP just pretends it doesn’t exist sometime after the CCP congress in a couple weeks. They could deliberately spike the NAT testing kits so they don’t detect “the latest strain” of COVID or something.

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  101. Settling down for some TV and I espy a light entertainment program on ABC fronted by of all people Frank Elly.

    Frank got a bit of a touch up by the media watchdog. Should resume her career as Guild lesbian activities coordinator. Or is that lesbian Guild activities coordinator. Either way – just piss off and get of Aunty’s tit.

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  102. Pictures are hung
    People are hanged

    A fate awaiting collectivists of the latter, a prelude to their participation in the mighty and long overdue implementation of the sacred ritual that is HOP Time™ …

    An event that will make the medieval Auto-da-fé resemble a toddlers’ tea partee.

    *Being those not forgotten, much less forgiven. On a lengthy list, they are. Dead, dead, dead and then justly despatched to the deepest and darkest circles of Hell, they will be. 🙂

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  103. If the Dems try that I’d say you’d see the military intervene.

    Custard, being polite, I’d say you are off the pace.
    But zero filter, you are a fucking moron.
    Educate yourself about the landscape in the US.
    Stop being a tard posting Q shit.
    Educate yourself.

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  104. Explained: How to navigate the A-Z of modern sexuality
    Claudia ConnellDaily Mail
    October 7, 2022 12:30PM

    There was a time when the number of sexual orientations could be counted on one hand.

    But in today’s ever-diverse society there are now dozens of sexualities by which people identify.

    One of those grabbed the headlines this week when a royal navy engineer in the UK denied sexually assaulting a male colleague. Able Seaman Triss Smythe (who uses the pronouns they/them) told a court-martial that they could not have done it, since they were “demisexual”.

    This, they explained, means they need to form a strong emotional bond with anyone before they could even begin to think about sexual contact.

    The 23-year-old was cleared yesterday.

    It’s just one of many terms that you may not have heard of.

    So, for those wanting to navigate modern sexuality, here is your A-Z guide to the myriad sexualities people claim in 2022.
    ABROSEXUAL

    This is a person whose sexuality is in a permanent state of flux. One day they could be heterosexual, the next homosexual or asexual (someone who does not experience sexual attraction to anyone). Not to be confused with pansexual (see below), in fact an abrosexual can, if the mood takes them, also be pansexual.

    A — Androsexual

    Somebody of any sex or gender who is sexually and romantically attracted to masculinity. But — just to make things more interesting — that masculinity does necessarily have to be displayed by a man.

    Autosexual/Autoromantic

    If you’re autosexual then you are sexually attracted and aroused by your own body and have a desire to have sex with yourself. Autosexuals are attracted to others — but not as much as they are attracted to themselves. An autoromantic, on the other hand, is romantically, but not necessarily sexually, attracted to themselves. Autoromantics often develop crushes on themselves and buy themselves romantic gifts — especially on Valentine’s day.
    B — BAMBI LESBIAN

    In a previous generation this person would simply have been asexual, but not today.

    Nowadays, a Bambi Lesbian is a woman who identifies as gay but prefers not to be sexually active. However, she does like displays of affection such as hugs, kisses and hand-holding. The word bambi is often used in the LGBTQ community to imply playfulness, and a preference for affection over sexual engagement.

    Bioromantic

    Those coming under this umbrella feel romantic and emotional connections to more than one gender. Many bioromantics are asexual (not sexually active) and the attraction they feel is not sexually charged.

    Bt — this is where it gets a bit complicated — bisexuals (those attracted to more than one gender and sexually active) can also be bioromantic.
    C — CETEROSEXUAL

    Somebody who is attracted to transgender (those who identify as a sex other than the one they were born as) and non-binary people (those that don’t identify as any gender) and occasionally cisgender people (those who identify as their biological sex).

    A ceterosexual may be trans or non-binary themselves — but not necessarily.

    In other words, they’re what most of us would call open-minded.

    Cupiosexual

    LIke asexuals, cupiosexuals are not usually sexually attracted to anybody. Unlike asexuals they still desire to be in a sexual relationship, despite rarely having the mojo to do anything about it.
    D — DEMISEXUAL

    As claimed by Able Seaman Smythe, a demisexual is somebody who only becomes sexual ly attracted to somebody after developing a deep, emotional attachment to them.

    They might also be demiromantic, meaning they also can’t develop romantic feelings until a strong connection has been established.
    E —ESTHESIOSEXUAL

    TakIng its name from the greek for touch, an esthesiosexual can be of any sexual persuasion, but they are more turned on by sensual touch than traditional sex.

    An esthesiosexual might be a good match for a greysexual (see below).
    F — FINSEXUAL

    Remember our androsexual friends from earlier?

    Well, this is the feminine equivalent: people of any gender who are attracted to femininity, although — you guessed it — not necessarily in a woman.

  105. There is no repentance in the woild we exist in.

    Just death to those that deserve (and indeed are begging for) it and the righteous frisson that is gifted to those justly dishing it out. 🙂

    We could have colonised space decades ago.

    Thanks to collectivists, we’ll be existing (briefly) in conditions akin to those suffered by medieval peasants in the dark ages.

    Unless, we get out there and go nookular on their backsides.

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  106. Let me help you.
    The PAC’s funding the Pennsylvania push are Trump aligned top to bottom.
    The PAC’s funding the Arizona push are Thiel aligned.
    Why do you think that’s the case?

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  107. a light entertainment program on the ALPBC fronted by Frank Elly

    Who refuses to open the pod bay doors. 🙁

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  108. Technically, question begging needn’t involve a question at all. The argument:
    “Immoral nazi arseholes should be punched in the face. Therefore m0nty should be punched in the face” begs the question of whether m0nty is an immoral nazi arsehole. Opinions may differ, but it needs to be included as a premiss before the argument is logically complete.

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  109. Sorry BB I don’t know any songs of theirs. I never listened to much music in the 90’s. Too busy working and fishing. You’re the only person I’ve heard of that liked them, every comment about them has been derogatory.

    I got the Oasis album as a gift. I think I was convincing in my false appreciation of receiving it. I never even listened to it.

    That said, I always thought the Gallagher brothers were more entertaining on commercial flights and interviews about each other. Derek and Clive in real life.

    Fuck, yeah.

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  110. cohenitesays:
    October 7, 2022 at 10:02 pm

    cohenite, I was there the other day and there was nothing that looked like that.

  111. The good news is that people who the retards listen to (ie Anne Coulter) are now jumping on board a lot of races.
    In October 2022 she jumped on board on Blake Masters in Arizona.
    It was only a month ago, the GOP started funding his machine in a meaningful way.
    In November 2021, I was on a conference call with Blake when he was laying out the game plan especially the ecommerce bill.
    It you really want to engage, it’s all laid out like a buffet.
    If you want to swallow the shit the establishment wants to feed you, you only have yourself to blame.

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  112. Explained: How to navigate the A-Z of modern sexuality
    Claudia ConnellDaily Mail
    October 7, 2022 12:30PM

    Personally, I’m convenientsexual.

    If I’m horny, you need to give me sex. If I’m accused of sexual impropriety, I’m nonsexual so I couldn’t have dunnit, and otherwise I’m hotsexual, which makes hot chicks responsible for getting me off.

    Three totally different definitions that all mean it’s someone else’s fault. What a convenient ideology.

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  113. “Immoral nazi arseholes should be punched in the face. Therefore m0nty should be punched in the face”

    mUttley considers himself to be part of a collective. nazis are collectivists.

    Therefore mUttley should be punched in his ample bloated visage by normal members of society at every available opportunity and then some (to be sure, to be sure). In the vain hope that it might finally attempt to engage whatever remaining grey matter is still bouncing around in its thick empty skull.

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  114. Which Cat was it recently having a spit about the bank making it difficult to use your own money?

    This afternoon the bank refused to allow me to withdraw my own money.
    I’d announced I required a certain amount of change to get me through the weekend & did they have it?*
    Yes they did have the cash**

    If I wanted to do a level swap of cash for cash, fine. Withdrawal; No.
    They are “not approved” to transact such a withdrawal***
    They helpfully suggested I should come back on Monday when the branch manager “might” be in****

    *A business taking a large amount of cash on Friday for weekend change is a perfectly normal & regular part of banking.
    **Always have to ask if the branch has the cash, as sometimes they do not have enough.
    ***WTF?
    ****Is this for real?

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  115. rickw:

    Oil Refinery
    Foundry
    Machine shop
    Sawmill

    The other day I was actually thinking of buying a couple of sheep or goats. More because I’m too lazy to mow the grass, than for any other reason.
    Sheep are slightly ahead because goats are more difficult to keep fenced in.

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  116. I like Trafalgar polls FTB

    Saying that a Q post might be more interesting or relevant is your issue not mine.

    If you don’t understand Q posts, just say so.

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  117. duncanm says: October 7, 2022 at 7:32 pm

    I must say that the Higgins case is demanding much more popcorn than I had planned for.

    You are watching a movie?

    😀

    Look to Queanbeyan, heroes in disguise.

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  118. Rabz, any music fred to fritter away the Friday evening?

    BB – Friday Night Pop Tarts – any time soon, I tells ya! 🙂

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  119. But then it worked out so well for Napoleon and Hitler, didn’t it?

    It couldn’t go wrong, on the cusp of winter and all …

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  120. What the Trafalgar poll showed in NY state was the the GOP chap running for Governor (the guy who was attacked) is within 2% of the DNC bird.
    Now there is zero chance of him winning.
    But when a state wide poll goes like it means the chance of flipping house seats becomes not just a chance, but more of a probability.
    If the GOP are looking at flipping seats in NY state it sets the stage.

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  121. Wow, Morisset is a bit of a s%$#hole.

    Morisset maybe. Trinity is not Morisset. Its next to the psychiatric centre. Completely different.

  122. How much Sal?

    More than they were “approved” to allow to be withdrawn.
    Under interrogation (I was a touch riled) they did confess that they had an approval limit for withdrawals & grumbled a bit then said I could “have that much” if I wanted it.

    That’s like being told you can’t have a Ford Falcon, but “will the back wheels help?”

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  123. But in today’s ever-diverse society there are now dozens of sexualities by which people identify.

    We used to just call them weirdos. *Sigh*.

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  124. I must say that the Higgins case is demanding much more popcorn than I had planned for.

    Yer not rong!
    This sort of criminal trial is usually seen only in TV shows.

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  125. it worked out so well for Napoleon and Hitler

    Shirer’s description of the latter:

    “probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken earlier by France, Rome and Macadamia

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  126. Lee Edward Lankester and Monique Leonie Kerr fined for stealing $700 of sex toys from adult store
    Breanna RedheadPerthNow
    October 6, 2022 5:00PM
    Topics

    A Bunbury couple have been fined for stealing more than $700 worth of sex toys from an adult store in the South West.

    Lee Edward Lankester and Monique Leonie Kerr appeared in Bunbury Magistrates Court on Thursday where they admitted to a count of stealing each after the incident earlier this year.

    At 3.30pm on July 14, the pair entered Bunbury’s Adultshop.com store on Spencer Street in the CBD where they stayed for an hour and a half.

    During this time, the couple was seen taking products off the shelves, removing the packaging and stuffing the items down their pants before leaving the store and making no attempt to pay.

    The actions were captured on CCTV cameras, with the stolen goods totalling $729.10.

    Four days later, police arrested the couple at their home address and took them to Bunbury Police Station for an interview, where the court was told they made full admissions to the crime.

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  127. Jannie:

    The Russians are mobilising, and that incudes the nuclear strike capability. Redacted is reporting that the US has admitted to having boots on the ground in Ukraine. Also the Russians have commenced air strikes on the Ukrainian troops around the Kherson, and this will no doubt provoke US empowered retaliation and SAM strikes.

    The important question is: Are the battery factories working 3 shifts?
    H/T

    Red Storm Rising.

    🙂

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  128. Last week Baris said that betting wise 240+ in the house was a lock but he thinks it will be 250+.
    And that the Senate 52+ is a lock.

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  129. How was it different for you.

    Far too personal.

    (It was shut).

    And the exterior view you posted, reminds me of one of those middle-aged actress filmed with one of those filter thingys – nothing like the real thing.

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  130. Went to Woodcut tonight in the Crown complex.
    Seriously one the best places to entertain in Sydney.
    Welcomed back a former staff member who had spent over $A200k at Sydney uni for her degree & masters but was getting dicked around on her visa so her billionaire father said screw Australia & come back to China.
    Now back in Oz and kicking goals that few could imagine.

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  131. Metallurgy, materials, assembly processes, adhesives, contamination, secret ingredients, tolerance stackups.. all this stuff is where your real IP value lives.

    An ingredient ends up in the final product, so may be discerned by a keen-eyed inspector. e.g. the “11 secret herbs and spices” that were figured out by food labs in the 1970s.
    A secret catalyst is possible if it is fully recovered during production.
    Also secret keys for decrypting secret firmware, but the key has to be in memory that can’t be physically interrogated without being destroyed.

  132. You can sit at home with your fingers up your arse.
    Or you can go upstream & become enlightened.
    Never stop going upstream to the source.

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  133. The other day I was actually thinking of buying a couple of sheep or goats. More because I’m too lazy to mow the grass, than for any other reason.

    Winston;
    You’ll be sorry!
    A goat will mow the lawn, the rosebushes, the orchard, & just about anything else you’ve got. Everything remotely edible will be stark from ground level to about 7 feet up, possibly higher.

    That’s for one goat. For two or more, multiply the damage exponentially.

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  134. I’m thinking the Andrew Thorburn affair could have materially damaged Andrews’ chances of winning the election in November and simultaneously wounded AFL woke-world.

    For Andrews to assert that to believe that the religious prohibitions of sodomy, which all the major religions adhere to, is to be homophobic, has probably put off a very significant percentage of the Victorian believing electorate.

    In fact, as a Roman Catholic, he knows full well that there is a huge difference between the sinner and the sin, but which he has conveniently ignored in his outburst.

    Why? To strengthen support for the Liars in the inner city green-leaning seats? Because it can’t have helped him out in the suburbs.

    As to the AFL – if Thorburn sues the Dons, the AFL can’t maintain that “smell of roses” while being the main instigator of the diversity and inclusion round that the clubs have to sign up to.

    I can see it now:
    Essendon: “they made us show no inclusion and diversity to that group of homophobes, yr honour!”

    And how will all those card-carrying, believing members and supporters feel, now they know what their sport, their club and their premier really thinks of them?

    It’s a bit like cheating at something: until you’re caught, it’s hidden.

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  135. No Custard.
    You need to feel the sting of your stupidity.
    The sooner the better.
    Hopefully you’ll learn from the experience.

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  136. And the exterior view you posted, reminds me of one of those middle-aged actress filmed with one of those filter thingys – nothing like the real thing.

    Excellent. Were you on the road side or the lake side. The views I posted are on the lake side. The road side is a typical road side. Which middle-aged actress in particular were you thinking of.

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  137. rickw:
    as to whatever, you could do worse than one of these.

    I think it needs a PLC so it can run itself overnight!

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  138. OCO:

    I don’t pay attention to any of the corporate media coverage of the war. Their propaganda is strikingly similar to WW1-era stuff. Amazing that people buy into such absurdities.

    I admit I have been waiting for one side or the other to do the ‘catching thrown babies on their bayonets’ and ‘nuns with hobnail boots’ stories, ‘kittens nailed to doors and connected to booby traps’.
    None yet, so I’m a bit disappointed.

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  139. Were you on the road side or the lake side. The views I posted are on the lake side. The road side is a typical road side. Which middle-aged actress in particular were you thinking of.

    We walked ‘round it; all the way. A bit of grass, a few out doorsy tables & chairs and artificial grass with a view of the water.

    Anyone of them – since camera filters seem to be de rigueur. (Sandra Bullock; Sarah Jessica Parker; Nicole Kidman).

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  140. Seriously? I’m in moderation but the internet troll who is actively trying to shut the site down still posts under multiple psueds.

    Get your damn priorities straight.

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  141. Winston, David Sacks has been one of the most vocal about avoiding a nuclear war.
    You can listen to his views as part of the All-In podcast on YouTube or you can listen to his callin shows if you download the app (PS he the founder of Callin).

  142. trying to reproduce their beautifully made graduated scales

    I think I’d draw the scales in a CAD program and use laser engraving.

    I did some CNC engraved examples for him, they looked good but weren’t an exact reproduction. Why he ended up going back to the roll engraving which was how the originals were done. Surprisingly he found a Sydney company that could do it at an excellent price.

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  143. Custard, I talk in metrics & timeframes.
    You rehash old Q shit.
    Here’s the thing, you don’t even talk the “up to date Q shit”.
    You’re like picking up a month old Epoch Times.

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  144. There are big pieces being played out on the chessboard and I would urge Cats to pay attention.

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  145. A dish served very, very cold.

    A friend of mine – a Campbell – went to rediscover their Highland roots – there are still signs in shops, saying “No Campbell’s will be served here..”

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  146. Areff, thanks for the question begging and hung objections.

    My own pet grouches:

    could of – he could of done it but he didn’t
    taken off – they had their bags taken off them by thieves

    The scheduled broadcast may now resume.

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  147. I’m in Glencoe tonight, Zulu.

    I’m envious, calli..

    Mme Zulu was at one stage married to a Kerr. As a joke, I brought her a scarf in the Kerr family tartan, with the joke that it was probably made from stolen sheep. We were on holiday in Scotland, when she wore said scarf into the village bakery.

    The lady behind the counter fixed us with a baleful eye. “That’s a Kerr family scarf. The Kerr’s of Fernieherst sacked this town – burned it to the ground, and what they did to the women, no decent soul could ever contemplate!”

    “Oh, really” says an Aussie tourist.”When would that have been?”

    “1588!” was the answer.

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  148. Brumbles:

    I’m in moderation but the internet troll who is actively trying to shut the site down still posts under multiple pseuds, I tells ya!

    Who might this troll be, Squire?

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  149. and what they did to the women, no decent soul could ever contemplate!

    I’m surprised this wasn’t “women and livestock”!

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  150. could of – he could of done it but he didn’t

    Could’ve (i.e. could have)

    taken off – they had their bags taken off them by thieves

    “off them” being redundant, presumably.

    Let’s not enter into the realm of “knocked off” … 😕

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  151. the book’s “Idiotisms “:

    “I am mUtlley, hear me bore!”

    “There will be no carbon tax while my genitalia resembles mussels in a jar, I tells ya!”

    “The rain that never falls will never fill our dams!”

    “Gerbil worming is real and has been happening for over 34 years!”

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  152. Just washed me feet out the front of the Saudi Embassy for the second time. Might be a high risk approach to getting sand off one’s feet! 🙂

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  153. “loose” when they mean “lose” pisses me off.

    seems to be preferred by residents of Danistan

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  154. P:

    Winston, how is it going for your sister these days.
    Every time you post a comment I say a prayer for her.
    Forgive me if this is an intrusion into your privacy. Is so just disregard.

    She got the lump removed and a course of radiotherapy which finished a fortnight ago.
    Everything looking good.
    Unfortunately her best friend died week ago from breast cancer but the terminal stage was really quick – up and about one day and died 48 hours later. Painfree, at home with family and the standard SC Morphine/Midazolam/Maxolon therapy.
    So she’s a bit fragile but doing OK.
    And yes, survivor guilt is a thing.
    Ta for the prayers…

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  155. Custard:

    Dems try a full steal in November.

    If the Dems try that I’d say you’d see the military intervene.

    A military intervention would have to come from the Colonels Ranks – the O’Biden/Harris stacking and purging of the upper echelons has been incredible.

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  156. post before completion..

    .. Michael Smith identified

    PR and political messaging advisor Emma Webster, a former Kevin Rudd staffer and these days a big bucks Hawker Britton Labor-aligned spin artist

  157. Three Aussie guys all go to a building site in London answering to an advert for brickies.

    The foreman asks them if they each can each build a small wall out of a pile of bricks outside the foreman’s office. They oblige, the foreman checks on them and confirms that the work was a high enough standard, so he decides to hire all three.

    He figures he better do a health and safety check but since he is desperate for workers, he decides to make it pretty simple and just asks each of them a simple question: “What would you do if you were up a scaffolding and dropped a brick?”

    The first Aussie says “Shout *FALLING BRICK!* to warn anyone working below me”. The foreman replies “That’s fine, you’re hired, go up that scaffolding and get to work”.

    The second Aussie replies “I would shout *FALLING BRICK, WATCH OUT BELOW!* to warn those below me”. The foreman replies “Good good, you’re also hired, go up that scaffolding and get on with the job”.

    The third Aussie however has a pretty bad stutter and replies “I w-w-w-w-would also shout *F-F-F-F-F-Falling B-B-B-B-Brick!* as a w-w-w-warning to others”. Now the foreman realises this could be a bit of an issue but since he is desperate for workers just tells the lad to be careful and not drop anything.

    Within an hour the first Aussie drops a brick and shouts down *FALLING BRICK!* and everyone below got out of the way without a problem.

    Later on the second guy also drops a brick and shouts down *FALLING BRICK, WATCH OUT BELOW!* and once again everyone below moved out of the way without any issues.

    Eventually the third guy also drops a brick and begins to shout “F-F-F-F-F-F…”

    … but as he is still shouting, the brick falls and hits an Englishman right in the head, killing him outright…

    “…ucking B-B-B-beauty!!!!”

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  158. Cassie, it’s pretty much the one thing I’ve been trying to get through to people from the start. Putin IS the moderate everyone is dreaming of. The idea it’s going to be rainbows and fairy floss is he was killed or otherwise disappeared is completely unrealistic.

    I keep getting the same sort of reactions though, get called a vatnik, Russia supporter etc. etc. Very few people admit there might be a legitimate concern for the Russians, or that they might actually have decided diplomacy was achieving nothing and done something about it.

    It’s the difference between how people want the world to be, and the reality of what the world is.

    Putin may have been a moderate before he started the war, but he’s not one now. What more could a replacement do, apart from drop a nuke? He’s already started a mobilisation and devoted 20% of Russia’s GDP to it, it’s not as if there is a cigarette paper’s difference between him and some random Mad Pyotr.

    Any thought of Putin having a legitimate beef with Europe about their moves to discourage him from invading countries were snuffed out when he started the invasion. He kind of proved them right, didn’t he? Turns out he actually was a threat that they should have made moves to counter.

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  159. Bernard Cornwell, a descendent of the eleventh century Uhtred the Bold of Bamburgh Castle, drew upon this Uhtred’s life to create the earlier ninth century Uhtred of Bebbenburg in his saga The Last Kingdom, recently turned into a long-running set of TV series about the creation of Engalande prior to Athelstan’s final victory (a film is now being made to place Cornwell’s Uhtred in this). The tale of the seven severed heads is repeated in this series, drawing on Uhtred the Bold’s life, being thus placed anachronistically in Cornwell’s books as well as by the TV series. From Calli’s link above, a similar tale has also been part of C16th and C17th historic Scottish clan warfare. Seven is a sacral number, which probably explains the common numeric identification.

    The taking of heads was prominent in earlier tribal cultures in Britain. In Lancaster a Roman tombstone fairly recently found covering a drain depicts a second century Centurian in full panoply on horseback going native, not only on this ‘riter’ style of tombstone crushing underfoot a Brythonic barbarian but also having gathered five barbarian heads strung together over the back of his horse. Cutting off heads and putting them on a pole was part of legal punishment until at least the early seventeenth century. Elizabeth the First did a lot of it to her favorites as well as foes. The wonderful Irish war song ‘Follow me up to Carlow’ speaks of cutting off an opponents Tudor head and ‘sending it back to Queen Lisa and her ladies’.

    Islamic cultures, witness the lamentable Islamic State, also did some head chopping in our times. Indeed, women and their children paraded the desire to do some more on placards not long ago in Sydney’s streets. Nor will I ever forget seeing videos of men being decapitated by a river in the contested Middle East during those dreadful times and the men’s bodies falling into the water as their heads were held aloft. It was always a murderous custom.

    As was hanging. In the past tense, Odin ‘hung’ on the World Tree and it continued on from there. Strangling was part of the ‘triple death’ of the Bronze Age, as seen in bog bodies and recounted in tales of Merlin (Odin). Hanging has been the mode of capital punishment in British law especially since head-taking lost favour. My border-riever grandfather never referred to being ‘hanged, drawn and quartered’, btw. It was always, in his words that flowed so easily off the tongue, ‘thee’ll be hung, drawn and quartered’ whenever a sheep-stealing misdemeanor, or any misdemeanor of mine, was the reference. Common enough parlance to have the sting of ancient remembrance about it in his day.

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  160. I see from one of BB’s comments on a previous page that Brittney (Australian of the Year -pending) was approached by Pirate Pete about a book deal before she even spoke to the police.

    No doubt Pete will get his crack team of researchers on the case and will provide his own inimitable embellishments.

    And no doubt Brittney’s indignation will soar up to eleventy when she reads the book and discovers to her horror new details of the event that she had not known.

    Imagine her outrage (outrageously outrageous outrage) when she learns that Lehrmann also ushered in the entire Cabinet to have their way with her; how they urinated and defecated on her inert body, how they dragged her into the basement of Parliament House where they took her newborn baby (innocent issue of the night’s savagery), and Tony Abbott and John Howard ritually killed it. They all drank the blood, even forcing Brittany to drink as well.

    Brittney will be the loveable hero, possessed of a free and unbroken spirit, too pure for the world she was to enter into. She looked at the stunted and malformed ogres of the Liberal Party, but all she saw was people needing help.

    The Libs will be a melding of 19th and 20th century British toffs with things like “tally-ho” and “I say” tripping constantly from their tongues, a haughty cabal concealing their grasping, calculating, and corrupted natures beneath layers of scented linen, silk, and brocade, with flashing medals and sparkling jewellery – all trophies of past successful campaigns won with other people’s blood.

    Then we will have the likes of Bruce, one of an army of foul emissaries, intermediaries that transmit the will of the Liberal cabal upon the real world. Stripped of humanity, motivated solely by greed and malice, and a wish to one day be received into the cabal, there will be no deed so low he will not stoop to it, and when the command is given to get rid of ‘the virginal upstart’, he will know exactly what to do.

    This will be a boon for Pirate Pete. To date he market niche has been kids who need to buy a present for their Dads but have no idea what they want but don’t yet have – in the ‘bargain bin’ price range.

    This will open the door to ‘My daughter is a middle-class undergraduate feminist gender studies uni student’ market.

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