Open Thread – Tues 11 Oct 2022


Battle of Poitiers, Charles de Steuben, 1834-37

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  1. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha Avatar
    Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

    looks like a young Nick Cave … and some blue-haired skank

    He’s only there because he wants to get into her knickers..

  2. MatrixTransform Avatar
    MatrixTransform

    because he wants to get into her knickers

    with an under-bite like that, he won’t be chewing though any time soon

  3. Razey Avatar
    Razey

    reffsays:
    October 14, 2022 at 10:25 pm
    https://twitter.com/damiengayle/status/1580864210741133312

    Eco-activist idiots throw tomato soup all over a Van Gogh

    Eco-pests are the very definition of useless eaters.

  4. dover0beach Avatar

    Baron of the Taiga
    @baronitaigas
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    9h
    Well over 66% of Germans (according to IFOP) continue to support the current Ukraine policy. But the number is dropping.
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    Holger Zschaepitz
    @Schuldensuehner
    ·
    Oct 13
    The Chart of Doom of the German housing market. The price-to-book ratio of the German real estate gaint #Vonovia has fallen below 1 this year for the first time ever and is now in free fall. The chart suggests that the German real estate market is heading for a sharp correction.

  5. m0nty Avatar
    m0nty

    If eco-activists wanted to make themselves truly useful they would learn how to dive, so they could emulate that Nord Stream attack. Throwing soup at a painting will do nothing.

  6. MatrixTransform Avatar
    MatrixTransform

    Throwing soup at a painting will do nothing.

    mUnty, you make me chuckle with your metaphors

  7. dover0beach Avatar

    Bloomberg UK
    @BloombergUK
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    9m
    “It leaves her an extremely lame duck”

    Liz Truss reportedly plans to sack Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, her “political soulmate,” as she prepares to U-turn on part of her economic plan

    @lizzzburden has the latest on a dramatic day in Westminster

    Apropos earlier comment re Alex on Truss and Conservatives, Alex said the suspicion that the fix was in arose because this was all unravelling while Kwarteng was away in Washington. What a shambles.

  8. JC Avatar

    The Chart of Doom of the German housing market. The price-to-book ratio of the German real estate gaint #Vonovia has fallen below 1 this year for the first time ever and is now in free fall. The chart suggests that the German real estate market is heading for a sharp correction.

    And I’m not sure it recovers. German fertility rate is almost bad as Italy and Japan.

    Italy 1.27 births per woman (2019) 47.3

    Germany 1.54 births per woman 46

    Japan 1.36 births per woman (2019) median age 49

    Germany isn’t going to race back from this slump. The population isn’t young and adaptable.

    Ironically for nations of old geezers they ought to be the least concerned about gerbil warming.

  9. Rabz Avatar
    Rabz

    Kwasi Kwarteng

    Seriously – this is an actual personage?

  10. Razey Avatar
    Razey

    Nigel Farage: After 12 years of Tory misrule, we need a realignment in British politics.

    https://gettr.com/vision/p1u8zo2d64d

    When Labor get voted in they will finish off the UK .

  11. dover0beach Avatar

    If eco-activists wanted to make themselves truly useful they would learn how to dive, so they could emulate that Nord Stream attack.

    Yes, yes, releasing methane into the atmosphere is certainly the remedy for climate change. Next, monty will propose sabotaging a nuclear plant that leads to a melt down.

  12. custard Avatar
    custard

    There has only been 45 US Presidents of the USA

  13. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha Avatar
    Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

    Anyway, “Sliante” to all you hairy mob. South 32 dividend has gone into my private account – I’ve invested part of it in some quality Scotch, and a couple of interesting books. That’s the dividend season over for another six months….

  14. Rabz Avatar
    Rabz

    Sacre bleu! It is indeed.

    Could “the Torries”* be any more ridiculous if they tried?

    *Fought incessantly by the Albansleazey since he began existing in council housing as the ‘umble bastard of an italian waiter on a cruise ship, which he’s been too modest to repeatedly remind everyone on this planet about …

    Oh hang on, the staggeringly stupid hideously uglee illiterate innumerate anti scientific fact and evidence free gargoyle has been doing exactly that – who’da thunk it, I asks ya? 😕

  15. Megan Avatar
    Megan

    Magan, I’m very troubled that some people are having real issues closing their PP off.

    I would expect that when a punter lands on the PP site and logs in, they ‘should’ get the same page and back-end script that I got.

    seems that isn’t the case and that there are some other shenanigans afoot

    tip-of-the-iceberg is my worry

    I’m certain that there are definite shenanagins afoot. It’s clear, after the two calls Ive made, that the call centre responders are simply reading responses from a script. They were offering identical platitudes to ‘acknowledge’ my concerns and defuse the situation but did not once respond to my concerns in any reasonable way. Simply regurgitated the company line. It was infuriating.

    Were you ever asked to provide photo ID to PayPal? Any other Cats asked to provide a passport or licence to keep their account working?

  16. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha Avatar
    Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

    Fought incessantly by the Albansleazey since he began existing in council housing

    Albo sees himself as the reincarnation of Labor politicians like John Curtin and Arthur Augustus Calwell…

  17. Rabz Avatar
    Rabz

    Kwasi Kwarteng

    Various Nigerian Princes with way too much (imaginary) moolah will be dining out on the Kwarteng’s non existent credentials for many many moons to come. 🙂

    And Queenslanders will be among the best investors of this “unleashed loot” on the planet (again) …

  18. Razey Avatar
    Razey

    The UK might have to get into high seas piracy to pay off their debts.

  19. Rabz Avatar
    Rabz

    The UK might have to get into high seas piracy to pay off their debts

    His Pirate Holiness Wallee N’jdagoogoo der Qwuarlinee II* appointed as the new Chancellor of the Exchequer by Liz Truss in a desperate attempt to restore some credibility to her stupid, stupid government …

    *First of ‘is name, Lord of the high Seas, Consumer of any and all seafood that appears in his vision, etc …

  20. Speedbox Avatar
    Speedbox

    JC – Zelensky has painted himself into a corner, in part on the back of US/EU assurances they will support Ukraine by pledging that he won’t negotiate with Russia; that all Ukraine must be free of Russian soldiers, forever; guarantee of Ukraine sovereignty over all territory including the Donbass and Crimea; guaranteed ongoing reparations beyond the transfer of frozen Russian fx to Ukraine (about $US300Bn), and so on. Many world leaders are cheering him on (esp. Biden) and he has ‘rock star’ status and access to forums where he wouldn’t normally get in the door.

    Everything forward is ‘crystal ball gazing’ but we all know for certain that the world, economically at least, is in for a very rocky time for at least the next 12-24 months and easily more. This winter in Europe will be brutal and the economic shocks are amplified. It’s public record that people are beginning to protest in France and Germany over rising costs, lack of energy and polls in Germany suggest that 50% of Germans think the sanctions are hurting Germany far more than they are hurting Russia. Who will crack first? Dunno, but under Russian law, Putin can remain in office until 2028. Can Europe outlast him? And even if they can, who comes next?

  21. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha Avatar
    Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

    Daily Mail.

    Furious woman accuses university of sending her a racial slur… before the surprising truth is revealed

    A furious former student takes to social media about a ‘racist’ ethnic slur
    Sierra Chen received a letter addressed to Ms. Ching Chong from a university
    The University of Queensland Sport letter turned out to be a misunderstanding
    Jane Chong whose birth name is Ching Chong said the letter was for her

    Snork, snork…….

  22. dover0beach Avatar

    Emma Webb
    @Emma_A_Webb
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    26m
    Wholesale complicity. Total setup.
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    Fen de Villiers
    @FendeVilliers
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    1h
    Press, media, men with cameras and soylets standby as this protest is enacted. This is simply setup and allowed, a theatrical performance made possible by museum management. Clear them all out. Start again. They are corrupt beyond belief.

    Of course it is. They may LARP as radicals but this is entirely in keeping with the energy policy direction of the Regime.

  23. JC Avatar

    Three large US banks reported this evening. Results were pretty good, or rather excellent when you think about the bad shape psychology is in at the moment.

  24. Rabz Avatar
    Rabz

    custard says: October 14, 2022 at 9:36 pm

    NOT HAVING IT, I TELLS YA! 😕

  25. Knuckle Dragger Avatar
    Knuckle Dragger

    Sierra Chen received a letter addressed to Ms. Ching Chong

    This needs to go deep into the new thread.

  26. MatrixTransform Avatar
    MatrixTransform

    Were you ever asked to provide photo ID to PayPal?

    nope .

    just clicked cancel and it was done

  27. Jorge Avatar
    Jorge

    If those are included, all she was wearing was a white cocktail dress. Are they still a somewhat short length?

    In the Pell trial the judges put aside time to go somewhere and inspect his robes.

    Perhaps Britneh could dress up and meet them in somebody’s office.

    Due diligence and all that.

  28. Rabz Avatar
    Rabz

    A letter addressed to Ms Ching Chong from the erstwhile Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Kwasi Kwarteng …

    Stop this planet, I want off, for the good of everyone else. Just wanting to be left alone, FFS.

    Pluto looks noice. 🙂

  29. Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity Avatar
    Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

    Perhaps Britneh could dress up and meet them in somebody’s office.

    Wouldn’t take long, it’s not as if she’s got to put on anything else except slip the dress over her head.

  30. Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity Avatar
    Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

    On second thoughts, there’s not a hope in hell of Britters getting into that dress today.
    She’d be twice the girl she was back then.

  31. Bruce in WA Avatar
    Bruce in WA

    Melbourne school boycotts national anthem at awards night
    A principal has defended his school’s decision not to sing the national anthem at an awards ceremony.

    A Melbourne school has doubled down on its decision not to sing the Australian national anthem at an awards ceremony on Monday night, with the principal saying Advance Australia Fair “may well be” finished in the long term.

    Instead of the national anthem, attendees of Overnewton Anglican Community College’s presentation night, held at Southbanks’s Hamer Hall, sang Aunty Ruby Hunter’s Welcome to All People after students objected to the former on the grounds it was offensive to Indigenous Australians.

    Overnewton principal Jim Laussen said there was a “growing number” of students at the school who refused to sing the national anthem.

    Speaking on Melbourne radio, Mr Laussen said the college captain announced the decision not to sing the national anthem, a trend the school began during this year’s Reconciliation Week, where students asked not to sing the national anthem out of respect for Indigenous Australians speaking at school assemblies that week.

    Mr Laussen said the decision to reject the national anthem was a decision students had come to themselves and it “may well be finished” in the long term.

    He said the school had about 11 Indigenous pupils who objected to Advance Australia Fair, and he had spoken to a parent who objected to the school’s decision.

    “If we had not even mentioned we weren’t doing the national anthem, no one would have cared because no one would have noticed,” Mr Laussen said.

    He said Indigenous parents had objected to “deeply hurtful” words contained in the national anthem.

    Mr Laussen said the school, which continued to sing the national anthem from time to time, was “creating a conversation and a dialogue” and many people had congratulated him over the school’s decision.

    Fucking speechless …

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  32. Knuckle Dragger Avatar
    Knuckle Dragger

    Wouldn’t take long, it’s not as if she’s got to put on anything else except slip the dress over her head.

    Yerg.

    Looking at the Daily Mail pics in the earlier links – try that now and she’d need several cans of WD40 for that.

  33. Knuckle Dragger Avatar
    Knuckle Dragger

    On second thoughts, there’s not a hope in hell of Britters getting into that dress today.

    Snap Sal.

  34. Knuckle Dragger Avatar
    Knuckle Dragger

    He said Indigenous parents had objected to “deeply hurtful” words contained in the national anthem.

    And they are absolutely right.

    ‘Girt’ hurts everyone.

  35. Rabz Avatar
    Rabz

    Girt hurts, love scars
    Girt wounds and marks
    Any heart
    Not tough or strong enough
    To take a lot of pain, take a lot of pain

    Girt is like a cloud
    Holds a lot of rain
    Girt hurts
    Ooh, ooh, Girt hurts
    I’m young, I know, but even so
    I know a thing or two
    I learned from you
    I really learned a lot, really learned a lot
    Girt is like a flame
    It burns you when it’s hot
    Girt hurts
    Ooh, ooh, girt hurts
    Some fools think of happiness
    Blissfulness, togetherness
    Some fools fool themselves, I guess
    They’re not foolin’ me
    I know it isn’t true
    I know it isn’t true
    Girt is just a lie
    Made to make you blue
    Girt hurts
    Ooh, ooh, girt hurts
    Ooh, ooh, girt hurts
    I know it isn’t true
    I know it isn’t true
    Girt is just a lie
    Made to make you blue
    Girt hurts
    Ooh, ooh, girt hurts
    Ooh, ooh, girt hurts …

  36. H B Bear Avatar
    H B Bear

    Albo sees himself as the reincarnation of Labor politicians like John Curtin and Arthur Augustus Calwell…

    Liar myth making runs deep. Ever since you find yourself seated under the Tree of Knowledge.

  37. areff Avatar
    areff

    Memories from the playpen, courtesy of my gran, who sang it in a reedy contralto:

    Ching Chong Chinaman
    Had a penny doll
    He washed it,
    Dressed it
    And called it Pretty Pol

  38. Rabz Avatar
    Rabz

    A principal has defended his school’s decision not to sing the national anthem at an awards ceremony

    I don’t remember “singing” the national dirge (or being semi obliged to) at anything while I was at school.

    The kiddies should remain as grateful.

  39. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha Avatar
    Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

    Speaking on Melbourne radio, Mr Laussen said the college captain announced the decision not to sing the national anthem, a trend the school began during this year’s Reconciliation Week,

    Does anyone else see the irony here?

    For what it’s worth, one of the local schoolchildren was asked if they knew what “National Sorry Day”
    was about.

    “Yes – that’s when the Aboriginal kids say “Sorry” for beating us up after school, and stealing our bikes…”

  40. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha Avatar
    Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

    New thread up, ladies and gentlemen of the Cat.

  41. Rabz Avatar
    Rabz

    Miss Maggie Dodgers, Cats:

    Want want … 🙂

  42. Bruce in WA Avatar
    Bruce in WA

    Friday night. Time for a voice like I’ve never heard before; a FIVEoctave range!

  43. Winston Smith Avatar

    rickw:

    1943 – World War II: The United States Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortresses during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt.

    Going after the bearing factories in Schweinfurt IIRC.

    As part of the USAAF/RAF disassembling of the German production effort, bearings were changed in type for tank turrets. Initially ball bearings were used but after the raids and the damage done, they were changed to roller bearings.
    So my question is this – why not use roller bearings in the first place? Surely a roller bearing has greater surface area to enable heavy loads to turn?
    There may be a very simple reason for this, but my limited knowledge of machining and engineering is failing me.

  44. rickw Avatar
    rickw

    An interesting paper on Sweden, SKF and bearings for Nazi Germany:

    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03585522.1975.10407803

  45. rickw Avatar
    rickw

    why not use roller bearings in the first place? Surely a roller bearing has greater surface area to enable heavy loads to turn?

    Ball bearings can handle both axial and radial loads. To achieve the same with a roller bearing arrangement can be difficult. The normal way this is done is to have rollers where the length is the same as the diameter and they are fed into the race in alternating orientations.

    Given the ring diameter on the tanks, the load bearing capacity was probably not the limiting factor, so balls were probably initially selected because they were easier to assemble. A bit of googling shows that most German tanks used different methods to space out the balls, this seems to support the idea that there was no particular problem with ball bearings being able to support the loads.

  46. rickw Avatar
    rickw

    Apparently you can buy old German tank turret balls:

    https://relicsfromthefront.co.uk/products/ni34

  47. Boambee John Avatar
    Boambee John

    m0ntysays:
    October 14, 2022 at 10:24 pm
    I mean, four words for you: Four Seasons Total Landscaping. The writing in this movie is terrible. The characters are not believable, the relationships are ridiculous, the dialogue is insane gibberish.

    If it was an actual movie it would have been canned at the concept stage.

    Just as the “gay” Son of Superman movies was? Oh, sorry, it went ahead to be produced.

  48. Boambee John Avatar
    Boambee John

    Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
    October 14, 2022 at 10:41 pm
    looks like a young Nick Cave … and some blue-haired skank

    He’s only there because he wants to get into her knickers..

    Is she wearing knickers?

  49. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare Avatar
    Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare

    We have just arrived in the Mariott at LAX and viewing Trumps’ election speech with a rum and coke (me) and a beer (Hairy) after a long trip with a change in Atlanta. We are impressed. I told you he was the only candidate and the real hope, says Hairy, and I have to agree with him at the moment. Two years though, a lot can happen, but right now Trump is trumps. Hairy wins.

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