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Dover, based on the thesis he put forward, Kiev was never the target.It was a “feign” to use his terminology,…
God she is ugly. Greta looks like inbred piece of shit. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XsSfBXYt1Yc
Mr Sharaz’s lawyer, Jason MacLaurin, initially put to Justice Tottle that his client was “considering every avenue that will avoid…
gas lines being a duplication of an energy source Also known as “backup” or “redundancy”. Generally good engineering practice in…
an empty vessel makes the most noise
-san cho
ffs … sometimes I crack myself up
Wally Dalí says: October 10, 2022 at 11:51 pm
Cornwell.
I used to be on the farm next to him. Never met him, though saw him a coupla times. The boss knew him, said he was reclusive, reserved, private, unsmiling chap, to the extent he would obtain much joy from never meeting me, or anyone else.
From the sound of it he’d have been very happy in this current age of anonymous internet shopping & delivery. He’d not have to go out at all.
No Podium!
Kanye punished for wrong think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=powfyV8VIPA
Top 10! Where’s Britnah?
Beddy byes here. Had a moonlight chase after a fox on the quad bike at eight, still haven’t warmed up since. Thoughts-
The sharp edges and abrasive impossibilities of modern architecture are designed to wedge us away and set us adrift from remembering the qualities which have made our prosperity: craftsmanship, materials and method, and the reciprocal relationship of neighbours.
The purple haired piercings and gibbering slogans of LGBTIQAAPP++are deliberately pitched to rip human relationships apart and set kids adrift from the lessons of our social heritage: we are only fully made into men and women, adults and children, family and strangers, by learning the examples and advantages of our forebears, and the horror stories of children who thought they didn’t need their parents, the wastrel woes of men who didn’t think they needed to work as men, and women who thought that they were better off without children and men… basically the myth that the world owes them regard, respect, reproductive rights, money, shelter, just by dint of their demands.
Just went to close my PayPal account and found that the fucks have just suspended it. Which means that you can’t technically close the account until the suspension is resolved.
The tech overloads are pure scum.
(The Oz)
Well done Mr Felton. Standing tall and, in effect, defending free speech as well as JKR.
From the OOT
Just got back from the Royal Naval College and…grrrr…they have installed a monstrous plastic bubble on the most perfect, beautiful piece of classic architecture in London, thus ruining the vista from the Queen’sHouse to the Thames.
More sh*tty pseudo “Cool Britannia” garbage. I wonder if they consulted the Priests of Gaia over the use of oodles of debbildebbil plastic for a dispensation? It is hideous and looks like the earth vomited something up. They just rub our noses in their brain excrement.
Positive – lunch at the Gypsy Moth in a pool of sunshine with the stern of Cutty Sark overlooking us.
Dr F, that medical museum is closed until Thursday, so no operating table for me. But we’ll catch the train up to Tower Bridge and see the market, Clink, Globe, Tate and Cathedral. And maybe walk over Millennium Bridge.
Wednesday morning is reserved for the Observatory. And then the horrors of LHR.
Still Monday here in the States. Happy Indigenous People Day.
Sorry – happy Columbus Day.
I have been struck, every time I refresh the page, by the illustration of “Leviathan” in the side bar.
It’s the very truncated frontispiece for Thomas Hobbes’ 1651 book of the same name.
Here is an explanation of its meaning.
– Sun Tzu
The West is on the road to energy ruin
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
David Rowe.
Dave Simonds.
Morten Morland.
A.F. Branco.
Al Goodwyn.
Ben Garrison.
Several centuries ago, the Pope decreed that all the Jews had to convert or leave Italy.
There was a huge outcry from the Jewish community, so the Pope offered a deal. He would have a religious debate with the leader of the Jewish community. If the Jews won, they could stay in
Italy, if the Pope won, they would have to leave.
The Jewish people met and picked an aged but wise Rabbi Moishe to represent them in the debate. However, as Moishe spoke no Italian, and the Pope spoke no Yiddish, they all agreed that it would be a ‘silent’ debate.
On the chosen day, the Pope and Rabbi Moishe sat opposite each other for a full minute before the Pope raised his hand and showed three fingers. Rabbi Moishe looked back and raised one finger.
Next, the Pope waved his finger around his head. Rabbi Moishe pointed to the ground where he sat.
The Pope then brought out a communion wafer and a chalice of wine. Rabbi Moishe pulled out an apple.
With that, the Pope stood up and declared that he was beaten, that Rabbi Moishe was too clever, and that the Jews could stay.
Later, the Cardinals met with the Pope, asking what had happened.
The Pope said “First, I held up three fingers to represent the Trinity. He responded by holding up one finger to remind me that there is still only one God common to both our beliefs. Then, I waved my finger to show him that God was all around us. He responded by pointing to the ground to show that God was also right here with us. I pulled out the wine and wafer to show that God absolves us of all our sins. He pulled out an apple to remind me of the original sin. He had me beaten and I could not continue”.
Meanwhile the Jewish community was gathered around Rabbi Moishe.
“How did you win the debate?” they asked. “I haven’t a clue” said Moishe. “First he said to me that we had three days to get out of Italy, so I gave him the finger. Then he tells me that the whole country would be cleared of Jews and I said to him, we’re staying right here”.
“And then what?” asked a woman. “Who knows?” said Moishe “He took out his lunch, so I took out mine”.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
– Lana Turner
Puberty blockers have been inflicted on as “at least 4,780 adolescents”.
How are “doctors” going to rewrite history to say they never participated in this.
Mengele level of evil.
That’s not cricket.
Tim Pool on eating the bugs – 1000 schools here in Australia.
https://youtu.be/VyyYSVBeh3M
Grate.
Just got an email from JAL. They still require masks on their planes. Last time I ever travel with them the morons.
Why would anyone with a functioning synapse think Japan is “freer” than anywhere else? If anything, they are more authoritarian.
Jordan Peterson- clean your room
Basically every major airline on the planet does not require masks. None.
But not Japan. They’re special. They even admitted it in their email. They can take their specialness and shove it.
Believe The Science.
Very socially compliant.
So I Japan isn’t the place to imagrat to.
Yes Megan. It’s a dangerous feature.
The “pandemic” has put societies and how they function under the spotlight. The Croatians and Slovenians simply ignored the “rules” as far as they were able and ditched the lot at their earliest convenience.
Others are clinging onto the vestiges of stupidity like limpets. It’s very obvious here in Greenwich which is full of students back from holidays. All the subcontinentals, Caucasians and MEs are walking around and interacting like normal people. One guess as to who are masked to the nines. Apart from the odd niquab, they are the only hidden faces. It would be funny if it wasn’t so tragic.
rickw, did paypal give you a reason for the suspension? As I said they suspended mine until I give them information about my politics and won’t close it until I comply. So I just removed my CC details and it can just sit there unused forever I guess.
LOL!
Based Parents Kick Out Woke Child From Home. ‘They’ Throws Epic Tantrum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRvisjTToJA
worrying news on swedish birth rates
Monica Crowley
@MonicaCrowley
PayPal wanted to try out a CCP-style social credit system, got busted, and tried to walk it back.
The stock is lower today b/c so many people rightfully canceled their accounts.
But understand: this is where everything is heading unless we stop it.
And we will.
And this
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
WOAH. This PayPal’s stock this morning.
An absolute nose-dive after Patriots fought back and DELETED their accounts over the woke company’s initial plans to police your First Amendment rights.
Don’t give them an inch. This is the way.
We are winning. Can you feel it?
Sean Davis
@seanmdav
The left-wing nutjob personally responsible for banning your children from going to school for two years is LARPing and glamour-shotting her way through Ukraine right now, in case you were still on the fence about whether the ruling regime’s elites were utter garbage.
And
Tim Young
@TimRunsHisMouth
The teachers union president who pushed to keep your kids masked and locked down is getting her photo op with Zelensky today… this is all a joke.
21-Year-Old York College Soccer Player Found Dead in His Dorm Room
Met one of the hole in the floor subcontinentals yesterday in a truck line.
Tall, young, smartly turned out lad that came over to tell me I could go around him because he was waiting for paperwork.
If you want deliveries done these days, I wouldn’t knock any bloke who’s keen to have a go. Meanwhile I passed quite a few hoodie wearing, drug fuelled young Aussies walking down the street doing bugger all.
The Japanese were mask enthusiasts before covid.
Why are you surprised?
And the Chinese put them on here in Australia before any laws made the rest of us comply, I still see small Chinese children masked up.
Leaked Audio — Democrats reeling over racist remarks at secret LA meeting…
Why indeed, calli.
I have heard tell of people wanting to emigrate to just such a place.
Perhaps those people secretly long for the jackboot’s comforting embrace.
That made my day.
Having scitsafrinia isn’t an excuse to be a jerk to others.
Because I didn’t expect them to make others wear them. Ad nauseum.
I thought they had more sense. I was wrong.
Terror on Crimea Bridge forces Russia to unleash Shock’n Awe
Here’s hoping
He’s actually tortured about it’: Prince Harry’s tell-all memoir will ‘never see the light of day’ because there’s ‘no way back’
lucky find
“I Want My Gender Back” (Nonreversible Regrets)
OK, if people choose to live in flood prone areas, fine. You can just hose the downstairs area after a flood, fine.
But, I’m not sure that repeated flooding is very good for whatever is holding the house up.
BTW, the shonky developer who managed to get that place called Depot Hill desrves a plinth in the Realtors’ Hall of Fame. 🙂
Oh, and calli, are you visiting Japan, or just passing through? Because if you are visiting, many more masking mandates are coming your way.
Strange clots post vaccination – COVID-19 update 62
Wally Dali, 12.18 a.m. on the OOT:
This is what happens when you attempt to raise fashion accessories rather than children.
“Gone Woke”: PayPal Stock Fined 6% after Flood of Users Cancel over $2,500 ‘Misinformation’ Debacle
Japan never had clot shot mandates just to keep your job, in fact the gov specifically forbade it. Compare that to the Woke West authoritarian governments….
If I was Chinese here in Australia I’d mask up and wear sunnies too.
I wonder how many of those CCP undercover police stations are in Oz?
In transit, joh.
It’s going to be a looooong journey home. I hate being made to do stupid things.
My observation on dedicated bike lanes, if cyclists don’t feel like using them, they just ride on the road anyhow.
Going up Mountain Highway on the weekend,saw a bunch of cyclists on their way down, holding up a long row of cars, as they like to do.
Iirc if you drive too slowly on a road, you can get fined, maybe they should apply the same rule to all road uses.
cyclist killed on Black Forest Drive
How many of these do we have here, beavering away behind the scenes?
New Jersey teacher interviews 4th graders on ‘they/them’ pronouns on TikTok: ‘Indoctrinating my students’
I don’t give a stuff what they did or didn’t do to their own people razey.
It’s what they demand of me that I object to.
I tend to steer away from these types of articles because, well you know why.
The One Republican Who Could Drive Democrats Insane Next Year
Is Belarus set to join Ukrainian conflict? Lukashenko announces he will deploy ‘joint military task force’ with Russia on western border – sparking fury in Europe
Don’t let a little mandatory mask wearing spoil your lovely holiday.
Kyiv, Other Cities Hit as Putin Orders ‘Harsh Response’ to Crimea Bridge Attack
Judging books by covers. Walking my dog the other day, an Indian couple (30s) came around the corner of the track discussing something lively in Indian or other nonEnglish tongue. I make eye contact with the chap, smile and nod. He responds ‘oh gidday mate’ in fluent strayan. Then returns to his Indian conversation as they walk past. I wasn’t expecting the greeting Just an everyday odd moment.
And I’m sure you cried your eyes out when people here lost their jobs for refusing the clot shots.
I produce too much hot air, rosie. Twenty hours of absolute, pointless torture.
Maybe if I vomit on the carpet they’ll let me off…
😀
Jam it razey. You don’t know a thing about me.
Article published 9 October
Do I need to wear a mask?
As a general rule — yes.
The situation is complicated as, despite the government’s repeated calls for the public to remove their face masks while outdoors, the majority of Japanese people still continue to wear masks while outside the house, even in situations where overseas travelers might consider it unnecessary.
He didn’t happen to back one out on the side of the road at all?
I’ve been told ‘those people’ are notorious for it.
I hate masks, but just made the decision I wanted to travel and would endure. In the end it was barely a niggle.
Not genocide.
Also not genocide: Calling a bloke a bloke.
The Sons of Nippon are the original sheeple. They will do anything they’re told.
Remember calli, this is the country that gave the world tentacle porn.
Of course there is a Senate ‘fracking enquiry’
Tamboran Resources denies using ‘intimidation’ to access cattle station, fronts fracking senate inquiry
Underpaid teacher excuse is not cutting it in reality.
$50,000 incentive to get teachers to country schools in Victoria, they won’t come and the few that do are only there for cash and regarded by the experienced staff as disinterested and poorly skilled.
Ah, the battle when the Muslims got…hammered.
My observation on dedicated bike lanes, if cyclists don’t feel like using them, they just ride on the road anyhow.
Going up Mountain Highway on the weekend,saw a bunch of cyclists on their way down, holding up a long row of cars, as they like to do.
Rosie, I do not believe there is a dedicated bike lane up the Mountain Hwy.
You also infer you know what the bike riders like to do. Then link to an article where an older cyclist was run over and killed by a young driver on the other side of town. ABC providing few facts as usual.
Not your best work. Ive seen you do better.
Own up Cats, which of you is Uncle Bob?
UN, WEF Want to Save the World From Uncle Bob (Daniel Greenfield, 10 Oct)
Maybe if they ever make a movie about Uncle Bob they could get Mike Myers to play him.
Whilst its annoying, if a significant % just stop using their accounts, and paypal has to carry the admin burden, it still sends a message.
Apparently they wanted to start a pop-up chain of kebab shops in Normandy.
Charlie Martel got stuck right into the pricks.
The successful script up to now includes:
‘Scientific consensus’
‘Trust the science’
‘Global Health Emergency’
‘Save Grandma’
and of course
‘safe and effective’
The Battle of Poitiers was intriguing me because the one I knew about was much earlier than the combatants in Dover’s art work . However seems there were 2 , 732 when Martel defeated the Saracens or Muslins and stopped their March through Europe . The one displayed Here, the French and English 19 years into the Hundred Years’ War with the Black Prince leading the English.
“They” could just get 2 jobs to afford “their” newly independent lifestyle.
Mother Lodesays:
October 11, 2022 at 7:54 am
Battle of Poitiers, Charles de Steuben, 1834-37
Ah, the battle when the Muslims got…hammered.
Poitiers, Lepanto, Gates of Vienna. When and where next?
You can really see how close this green-haired freak is to being a child – which makes the indoctrination of them a little like child abuse, denying them the life they could have had. Woke ideology is barren and leads individuals nowhere. Only the people for whom it is a tool in a wider campaign to bring down society benefit.
Seriously, do you know any adult who would respond to being called a bully with “(voice breaking plaintively) But I’m not a bully” rather than “How am I a bully?”
And to demonstrate how ill-equipped these people are for their mission: “I’m trying to educate you” and yet she has so little grasp of people that she has no idea why someone might not want to be educated by her.
Another aside on the Indian front.
I know a bloke who is chef and owns his own Indian restaurant.
He’s overworked and has no time for the family and knows he’s not being the dad he should.
He’s been desperately trying to recruit a chef from India. He’ll house the applicant and do all the paperwork necessary.
It’s all been stopped at immigration because the applicant struggles to satisfy all the written requirements.
My mate says “ he’s a cook, he’s not going to be prime minister”
There’s millions of Indians around the country and he can’t find one that can cook?
Sorry Fair Shake.
Obviously not all cyclists, just an observation from spending time in a location where over 7 million dollars was spent on a dedicated bike lane but cyclists still rode the 90kmph highway because they felt like it.
As for Mountain Highway my point was riding in a mob and preventing people in cars passing in a world where cyclists are now king and motorists be damned.
I linked the article because installing bike lanes is no guarantee of safety if cyclists are not required to use them.
Sounds like the restaurant owner only wants that particular person from India.
Globalists know that Australia has the most gullible population by far, this is why the Woke authoritarian nonsense is so strong here.
Evidently, we have made the immigration requirements to get future politicians, not good chefs.
No. He can’t find the cook who wants to work for the slave salary he wants to pay.
“Evidently, we have made the immigration requirements to get future politicians, not good chefs.”
That seems unlikely considering how many people came to Australia to study hospitality, hairdressing and the like and achieved PR.
However seems there were 2 , 732 when Martel defeated the Saracens or Muslins and stopped their March through Europe . “”
Except it didn’t, it simply stalled it. Europe then experienced centuries of attacks from Muslim armies and slavers and, beginning in the 1200’s, the Ottoman empire swept through eastern and south-eastern Europe. It took the Poles, 900 years later, to finally curb the Muslim march through Europe, and that was at the Siege of Vienna when armies headed by a Pole, John Sobieski, lifted the Ottoman siege of Vienna and defeated the Ottomans. That was the beginning of the end for the Ottomans in Europe. But it still took a further two centuries for Christian Eastern European countries such as Greece, Romania, Bulgaria and the Balkan states such as Serbia and Montenegro to liberate themselves from the Ottoman rod. Eastern Europe remembers its history, and it particularly remembers the centuries of Ottoman Muslim domination. It’s why now, in countries such as Poland, Romania, Hungary and Slovenia and Serbia, they say no, nyet, nup to any Muslim immigration. Back in 2015, when the swathes of adult and teenage males were walking through Eastern Europe, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian, Slovenian and Czech border guards protected their borders, much to the consternation of the Western MSM. But those Eastern Europeans knew what was happening wasn’t and isn’t benign.
But now Muslims are simply invited into Western Europe. You have to wonder why Martel bothered.
Worce when you work in a town that holds an international event.
Almost collected one because he was holding onto the tub.
Sounds like a very sensible bloke: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11299969/Tom-Felton-praises-JK-Rowling-bringing-generations-Harry-Potter-franchise.html
Sorry guys.
Got a bit of uptick jealousy.
Yep Bern is right about future doctors retconning their role in doling out puberty blockers, but 1000 school canteens in Australia already serve up ze bugs to der kinder.
You will eat the bugs
You will live in the pod
You will imbibe the microplastics
You will get experimental gene therapy
You will surrender your civil rights
You will abandon self reliance
You will consume what we tell you to consume
You will not challenge the vested interests
You will no longer participate in a free market
OF COURSE!
You will take the puberty blockers
That’s a good ‘un.
When will parents stand up about their kids being fed bugs?
What we need is some based Jews and Muslims getting very shouty and spamming talkback radio.
“Fuck you Bill Gates, you obese blob of soy, my religion prohibits this stupidity you want to inflict on my family…”
Ditto the puberty blockers.
Virginia must be like Victoria. Named after Queens, full of woke BS. Virginia has a program to let confused kids run away for LGBT foster care.
Maybe there are some kids doing it tough as they come out.
No doubt this will be a grotesque system to get some kids to gender convert before they can consent to sex or are fully mentally and physically developed.
Where are the based church going conservatives? Why are they allowing this? Molon labe indeed. It needs to be changed to the non possessive past tense.
Looks like we have escalated to the terrorism phase of the war.
This will not be confined to the borders of Ukraine, and will be a gruesome test of NATO’s resolve.
Razey.
You’re bagging a mate of mine, pull your head in.
I wonder whether this story has anything to do with the paucity of chefs.
Strong increase in people ‘opting for ready made meals’ (Sky News, 8 Oct)
My letterbox gets stuffed with advertising from these firms, all being healthy and wonderful and etc and etc. The cultural fetish lately for healthy wonderful food probably leads to people taking these products, whereupon their kids never learn to cook. And if fewer kids are exposed to actual kitchen cooking there’s likely fewer being drawn towards chef courses.
Only have to worry if he’s carrying round a hole in the floor.
Bulla from Fiji !
On a well deserved R&R with the good wife for 10 days.
The only sign of COVID nonsense here are fwit Westerners wearing their virtue signalling masks. As for the locals they couldn’t give a damn about it anymore.
As for climate change . . . well it never changes here, 20 to 27 degrees every day – they must have the temperature dial that Bowen and his zealots dream of.
A cartoon for the ages
Of course they do. It’s an easy market to capture because kids love that stuff.
They’ll eat it – or try it, at least – for comedy value, because kids will giggle and screech laughing when you tell them – whether or not it’s true – that they’re eating frogs’ legs or brains or spiders or slugs.
When it’s bugs or nothing, the problem starts.
A London lawyer runs a stop sign and gets pulled over by an Irish cop.
He thinks that he’s smarter than the cop because he’s a lawyer from the one and only London and is certain that he has a better education than any Irish cop. He decides to prove this to himself and have some fun at the Irish cop’s expense.
Irish cop says “License and registration, please”.
London Lawyer says “What for?” Irish cop says “Ye didnae come to a complete stop at the stop sign”.
London Lawyer says “I slowed down, and no one was coming”. Irish cop says “Ye still didnae come to a complete stop. License and registration, please”.
London Lawyer says “If you can show me the legal difference between slow down and stop, I’ll give you my license and registration and you give me the ticket. If not, you let me go and don’t give me the ticket”.
Irish cop says “Sounds fair. Exit your vehicle, sir”.
The London Lawyer exits his vehicle.
The Irish cop takes out his baton and starts beating the living shit out of the lawyer and says “Daeye want me to stop, or just slow down?!”
Just doing our usual late pack, and I can no longer lift my own suitcase. Managed it in Polynesia, but you need more stuff for a Panama cruise and then four more weeks touring the US southern State deltas.
Travelling with my gym junkie Hairy is definitely the go. He can take one in each hand! Down stairs!
Air, hellair!
The comment I most enjoyed regarding Poitiers came from Beau Dade.
“A highly disciplined infantry force with protected flanks will always defeat a mounted force”.
“The key is discipline, which is not a issue when your leader is known as Charlie the Hammer”.
Who fact checks the fact checkers
Dr. John Campbell
Please.
Enough sordid detail.
Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
– Bill Vaughan
Johnny, I don’t read all of your jokes, I just scroll for convenience at times.
But then I probably miss some funny ones and dive into some less good ones.
However, I do like them here. Not too many all at once, but they do add an old-style laugh.
And the Good Lord knows, we could all do with an old-fashioned laugh in these woke times.
Online Christian soldiers who have been fluffing Putin now have to reckon with the stark realisation that they really are the baddies.
Travellin’ Çats. A positive sign for the world.
You must be slowing paging us in to a joke book, perhaps editing as you go.
Surely you can’t be remembering them all?
Many of us (perhaps not all) love the travelogues.
John Cleese says he would refuse a BBC comeback because he’d be ‘cancelled or censored in five minutes’ as he promotes new GB News show
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11298669/My-cancelled-five-minutes-John-Cleese-says-refuse-BBC-comeback.html
Nope. Anyone the USA supports is automatically the baddie by definition.
rickwsays:
October 11, 2022 at 1:46 am
Just went to close my PayPal account and found that the fucks have just suspended it. Which means that you can’t technically close the account until the suspension is resolved.
The tech overloads are pure scum.
Rck,
I got in early – first made inactive all accounts and was stunned by how many there were
only had 1 credit card and no bank details
then followed – https://www.paypal.com/au/smarthelp/article/how-do-i-close-my-paypal-account-faq1215
and closed immediately
A missed letter on one joke suggested cutting and pasting was involved, Lizzie.
I also enjoy the odd joke to leaven the open threads, like the travelogues.
Duelling-type responses belong in the duelling thread, though. I enjoy most posters until the duelling starts.
Much ignorance in your statement.
Start with this.
Black Forest Drive is the only way you can connect Gisborne and Woodend…
Maybe Johnny you are a true joke collector? Maybe you even have dedicated joke room.
Like my Louisiana Cajan family whom we’ll soon visit again.
They have huge old French family recipe books Vols 1-6 in a dedicated cabinet.
How to remove the bullets and cook a la Francaise the weekly hunt.
That’s what the Japanese thought.
Top L.A. Democrat Resigns After Comparing Black Child To Monkey In Leaked Racist Audio
Well, for some people it is more than a ‘niggle’. Like asthmatics and other people with breathing difficulties.
Being forced to wear a mask on a long haul flight is not just a temporary inconvenience. You may have been OK with it, but a lot of people were not, for all sorts of reasons.
calli,
having done business in Japan over 40 years, they have always been mask wearers
Lat weekend Japan Suzuka F1 GP, unlike all recent F1 events everyone was masked
Commentators in pit lane were able to go unmasked as long as 10m? gap, but mechanics in Pit Garages had to be masked
I am the same as you, hate being masked and not flying overseas if have to be masked
JAL are a good airline and you are on Dreamliner, so should be good flight
Peregrine Falcon chicks in Melbourne coming along nicely. Livestream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on3V22m60uQ
I thought (hoped) you were leaving on a trip to the U.S.
Like your ‘I’m going to bed now (who cares) comments, it is a lie. It just means that you will make further comments.
Can you ever tell the truth?
Chatting to a fairly staunch democrat living in Aus the other night. I asked him what he thought was going to happen in the mid-terms. He’s convinced the dem’s will increase majorities all ’round.
But then again, he thinks Trump should be locked up, Biden is squeaky clean and doing a great job (none of the chaos in the world has anything to do with him, and none of the previous stability had anything to do with Trump), and is appalled at the recent Supreme court decision.
He’s a smart bloke, and I quite like him, but his politics are surprisingly rigid and way out there – he will not countenance any discussion on alternate views.
As with many rusted on’s, he’s independently wealthy – Oh, and he’s in the middle of being naturalised as an Aussie, so I guess he doesn’t love the US that much.
Yep. My duelling days are done. I’ve said my piece. Now is bran’ nu dai. I once did learn fencing, at university, recalled here on Sinc’s Cat long ago as the days when I could pull off the mask and my hair would tumble onto my shoulders in a rather fetching manner, so I was told by the lesbians running that show.
Now, like the Count in ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’, I prefer to fence with my pen.
I had a boyfriend in my teen years, back in the outer western suburbs, whose dad was a fencer.
He did it with a post-hole digger. A brutal man, he used to take his wife and kids out to the back of beyond for months at a time, and refuse to speak a word to her, while knocking the kids around.
The good old days weren’t always so great.
Fencing with one’s pen doesn’t have to be duelling, btw.
Ask Sancho. Rapier wit. 🙂
We can make our own assessments of Lizzie, Joh. We already know yours.
Lizzie: travelogues! 🙂
johannasays:
October 11, 2022 at 8:56 am
Well, for some people it is more than a ‘niggle’. Like asthmatics and other people with breathing difficulties.
At 3rd MRI for the year last year -around Oct 21, I have to wear eye mask as cannot close right eye lying down, and can’t fit ear plug in right ear, so for the first time ever they said I had to wear face mask and I suffered my first claustrophobic attack ever in MRI, they brought me out and allowed me to have mask around chin, but had to put back up when I came out for injection into cannula for 2nd round, then down on chin as I went back in
I am a Mouth Breather – Broken Nose at 13 in school playground, and find Mask constricting
Rosie, I do not believe there is a dedicated bike lane up the Mountain Hwy.
I often find that drivers tend to think that if there is any space on the other side of the edge white line it’s meant for bikes regardless of the rubbish/weeds ..!
It’s not worth arguing the point! .. some drivers are always gonna hate! .. especially when they practise the “I’m important your not” attitude ..
Who Wants to Follow California?
You can hold dual US and Aus citizenship now, passports for both.
My daughter-in-law and grandson now have both.
For a long time it wasn’t allowed and I had US friends who agonised over giving up US citizenship.
Really? Are we more gullible by far than the PNG crowd who believe in witchcraft – and let’s add in others in Asia and especially Africa.
You are no better than those who burn the flag.
There is still quite a palavar to complete before you get entry to the US.
I’m glad Hairy does it all for us, lots of internettery stuff with acronyms.
Of course, if you come via the southern border then you don’t have to bother.
You can just walk in, and they’ll bus you now I hear to somewhere nice, like Martha’s Vineyard. lol.
Speaking of “the integrity of our immigration system”…
Those are the words shadow Immigration spokesman Dan Tehan used when asked about the prospect of Novak Djokovic returning to the country for the Australian Open next year. Despite vaccination no longer being a requirement for entry to the country, Tehan maintains “the integrity of our immigration system” could be at stake if an unvaccinated Novak is allowed in before he’s served his absurd three year ban imposed by the Morrison government.
They’re incapable of learning. They’d reimpose the mandate state in a flash.
Duncan, your American acquaintance doesn’t sound like a “smart bloke” at all. In fact, as someone who can misread American politics so badly, he sounds as dumb as a box of rocks.
But that is what happens to “smart” people who drink from the ideological Koolaid — it endumbens them.
‘Jugging’ is among the fastest growing crimes in America, police say
Jugging happens mostly at banks, where suspects follow customers back to their homes before robbing them. There have been 82 cases reported this year in Austin.
Police there say they’re mainly seeing women, the elderly and those who are petite or small in stature being targeted.
An estimated $590,000 have been stolen, according to police.
The following are tips to avoid becoming a victim:
Rosie,
The BCC built a (one of many) dual, off-road bikeway even with a separate pedestrian path and it ran parallel to the road through a few suburbs so it was actually going somewhere. It cost nearly $14 million. It even has priority at a set of traffic lights. It has destroyed the amenity of a lovely street where residents can’t park outside their homes on one side…. and yet the lycra clad mongrels still ride on the actual roadway creating traffic havoc. Because they can.
In partial defence of some cyclists. I find women are better than men. They have regard for other road users and probably less of a bulletproof attitude so a greater sense of self-preservation. The MAMILS all think they are in the Tour de France. Except they are not good enough.
rosie,
I presume you don’t cycle on any busy roads in metro areas. If you did, you’d know that most cycle lanes are death traps. The typical issue is they’re narrow and butted up against parked cars, which presents a dooring risk.
As a regular cyclist, I use lanes when I can – if they’re safe. If not, then I’m out in the car lane asserting my presence, which is the safest place to be.
If you can’t slow for 10s to pass safely, then maybe the issue is not the cyclist.
I do agree that large packs cause problems and they need to police the ‘no more than two wide’ law.
Fare enough but iv seen this attitude in cyclists too. Don’t take it personally.
Bad layouts create anger on both sides. A better solution, now being trialled in a few places, is to allow bicycles on footpaths that are often not much frequented. Notices to take care and share would apply.
I am Uncle Bob.
Agreed – he’s smart in many ways, but this isn’t one of them.
.. I look forward to discussing the issue again with him post-midterms. :).. because he does get a bit heated.
Reading all these posts regarding PayPal and wondering what it is about? .. I use PayPal to pay assorted things, coupla monthly bills & Ebay purchases ; but haven’t logged myself in for several months .. anyway logged in and nothing different .. no unread notices regarding rule changes or “urgent” requests to comply with anything .. everything as it has always been ..
so what is the furore about?
This vid is well worth the watching. (40 minutes)
Its from a public event held in Melbourne on 10/9/22 by the Australian Medical Professionals’ Society – co-hosting with the Australian Medical Network (known as the Covid Medical Network).
It’s a speech by Dr Phillip Altmann BPharma (Hons) MSc PhD- Truth and Trust, Casualties of the Pandemic
for background:
https://www.australiannationalreview.com/health/aussie-doctor-blows-whistle-on-entire-covid-scamdemic-at-covid-medical-network-seminar/
No I am.
Thinking about the Japanese mask thing.
The very same cultural traits which drive that are what attract us to Japan in the first place – excessively polite, going out of their way to show regard for others etc.
The same thing goes for other more chaotic cultures. We can find it highly amusing that, for example, the Fijians don’t worry about punctuality … until we have 15 minutes to get to the airport.
Golly, I read that at first as ‘juggling’. Have to keep up on the crime we are warned about by DFAT in every single destination on our forthcoming trip, including anywhere in the US it seems, as well as known criminal areas such as Guatemala and Costa Rica.
I assailed myself with images of wayward jugglers, some in clown suits, all getting lobbed for making a display of themselves. Then I put my glasses on.
Yikes!
That’ll be the day.
Like when she leaves ‘for the last time’ because people are being mean.
Her beta husband has a lot of bags to carry in the weeks ahead.
‘Not having a big impact’: COVID drug fails to beat placebo in major trial
A COVID-19 medication that was thought to strongly reduce the risk of the illness becoming life-threatening and was bought in bulk by the federal government works no better than a placebo, preliminary findings from a major new study suggest.
Molnupiravir, sold in Australia under the brand name Lagevrio, disrupts the coronavirus’ ability to copy itself and was the first COVID-19 antiviral to win government subsidy here.
The medication is intended for people at high risk of serious illness – those aged over 50 who have risk factors, and the immunocompromised – after they test positive to COVID-19 but before they are sick enough to need a hospital. Australia was one of the most aggressive movers in securing access to molnupiravir, buying 300,000 courses in late 2021, before it was approved by medical regulator the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).
But some scientists have long been suspicious of strange results in the drug’s early trials. Data from the new trial has hardened their scepticism.
The University of Oxford’s PANORAMIC trial enrolled 25,783 people with COVID-19, half of whom got molnupiravir. After 28 days, 103 people given molnupiravir had died, compared with 96 in the second group.
“Clearly, it isn’t having a big impact,” said Professor Peter Wark, an expert on antivirals at the University of Newcastle. “I think we’d have to look very critically as to the cost-effectiveness of continuing in this sort of way.”
Did Marles say he was considering sending troops? Madness. Hopefully will be the children of all those who support this.
Rejected by freedom loving @australian
Many many cyclists are suicidal idiots who have chosen death by motor vehicle rather than death by train or death by cop.
I blame Herr Andrews.
Open holstered carry of a firearm is legal in Texas. If it is your preference to carry large amounts of money I would seriously consider this.
As a regular cyclist, I use lanes when I can – if they’re safe. If not, then I’m out in the car lane asserting my presence, which is the safest place to be.
I always defer to vehicles on open roads and keep to the left .. they’re bigger and less fragile than me .. but, nowadays, I do move into the centre of the lane when approaching intersections with traffic lights .. lot safer to control the flow than have someone trying to roar past you on the light change .. been there dun that too many times in the past
shatterzzz, perhaps you haven’t done anything to draw their attention, a quite life can be a happy life.
LOL. The average Sheep here still believes in the gene therapy clot shots. I don’t see any difference.
Geez, the mongs cant stop/wont stop trying to fuck around and find out…
Daniel Hurst
Australia considers sending forces to train Ukrainian troops
Over on Sky News, Marles was asked whether the option of sending Australian troops to train Ukrainian troops was on the table.
He replied:
Training is one of the measures that is being looked at. We’re looking at a range of other ways in which we can provide support…
We just need to work out, obviously, what we can do, but what we can do in a way which gives the best bang for buck and actually does support Ukraine over the long term.
shatterzzzzz – check the AUP
They’ve retracted the proposed $2500 penalties, but it still says:
Definitely. In Rarotonga last Friday we waited in the resort reception for the airport shuttle bus that never came, because they had lost all record of us. We were about to get a cab, but disallowed, because they kept telling us to kindly wait, they nearly had it fixed, just a few more emails.
Emails!! to Sydney?? Where it was about 6am? But we had to hang around because politeness and process and a bus did eventually arrive. We are not going to do ‘transfers’ any more, I say grimly. Cabs are better. And that said, we head over to Auckland where it was around ten degrees and we waited in our summer gear in this freezing night blowing a howling gail for the next hotel to also lose all record of us. The disappearing couple, I murmur, looking desperately around for a cab while Hairy gives the hotel one last call, to be told that yes, although they said previously when we rang half an hour ago that the bus was on its way, it really was on its way now. By then I had removed my Ancient Briton rug from my big suitcase and wore it in to reception like a Maori feather cloak. Stuff ’em.
I can do ancient cultural heritage too.
agreed – I do the same. Per the law, ‘as far left as practicable’.
Unless on a multi-lane road with no verge, where I will claim the lane.
Has this site turned into 1990s-era Green Left Weekly?
I have also enjoyed Strike, a British crime drama television programme based on the Cormoran Strike detective novels written by J. K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. (words plagiarised from Wikipedia. Opinions are my own.)
Ancient Briton Rug – made of homespun with Brythonic vegetable-dye tartan.
Genuine National Trust label on it.
It travels everywhere with me now because it comes in handy quite often.
Last Friday in NZ I was already blue with cold, so the eyeshadow I was contemplating using on my cheeks for my entrance in traditional woad (if they can paint up so can I) was actually superfluous. Veracity was still maintained.
We just need to work out, obviously, what we can do, but what we can do in a way which gives the best bang for buck and actually does support Ukraine over the long term.
What is this “we luv Ukraine” wank-fest that has our pollies getting excited .. there are, probably, another 2 dozen “wars” going on somewhere in the world at the moment yet we isn’t throwing lotza money at them! ..
methinx, this is a bit of orange man bad spillover .. red man bad, blue gold man good .. cash needed!
Re getting a chef…
A small local Macca’s has completely shut down due to lack of staff. For the first time ever Macca’s are advertising for staff on the teev.
Very nearly every 2nd or 3rd shop in Sunshine Plaza has signs in the window looking for staff, and on some days some shops are shut due to no staff. Bus destination boards alternate between the destination and “please work for us”
Why is there anyone under 25 on the Sunshine Coast on the dole?
Like most people here, I looked at the statement and thought, yeah right, who are they kidding?
However, I’ve just conducted an interesting exercise given the winter 2022 power bill was paid this morning. Went back and checked the last eight power bills (including today’s) to see if any trend could be discerned and if they were increasing at a noticeable rate. The “findings” were unexpected, to put it bluntly.
Last twelve months, total bill $1,270.32, average quarterly bill $317.58, highest $372.01
Twelve months before, total bill $1,256.29, average quarterly bill $314.07, highest $425.67
Some other takeouts – I get a discount if the bill is paid before a nominal due date. I’ve been working from home since June last year. The $425.67 bill above would have been $502 if not paid before the due date (making it by far the largest of the eight bills). In the last twelve months the total bill has increased by a grand 1.12%
WTF is going on?
P.S. I also have gas and will run a similar check on those once the next bill comes in.
American Academy of Pediatrics calls COVID school closures “family time”
Research to be presented at the 2022 American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference & Exhibition also noted that there was a correlation between screen time and family time increases and rising pediatric BMI rates.
ANAHEIM, Calif.—A study that tracked body mass index (BMI) two years prior to the pandemic and one year after the start of the pandemic in a primarily Medicaid pediatric population in Norfolk, Virginia, found a significant increase in BMI during that time.
When these differences were analyzed by gender, the increase was only significant for the female cohort, according to the study, “Examining the Effects of COVID-19 Lifestyle on Pediatric BMI.” There was an 11% mean increase in the BMI of girls, the study found.
The authors also observed there was a significant correlation between screen time and family time increases during the pandemic and rising pediatric BMIs, as families spent more time at home because of the lockdowns.
Overreach into people’s choices followed by a triple somersault with pike backflip, I believe.
I enjoyed the books, even the latest which was heavy going… It describes fandom and social media
A lot of the issues on country roads comes from Dan’s 1/1.5 metre rule:
It forces drivers to sit behind both singles or doubles if there are double white lines. At best, it forces traffic to take the risk of crossing broken lines on dubious roads. Roads in the rural areas, especially the Ranges (Macedon and Dandenong) are full of narrow roads with double whites lines and they are magnets for individual cyclists and pack riders…every weekend. Many of them entitled fuckwits from Melbourne. Bloody frustrating!
No real excuse on Black Forrest Drive, though, it’s mostly dual lane from the Calder into Woodend. Some drivers are just maniacs.
I see db has used the NewCat Twitter account to retweet this:
Points 2 and 3 are war crimes. Point 4 is not going to happen. This pathetic mess is what the vatniks are reduced to these days.
db needs to have a good hard look at himself for RTing such filth.
JONATHAN TURLEY
Res ipsa loquitur – The thing itself speaks
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, FREE SPEECH October 10, 2022
Twitter Temporarily Blocks Florida Surgeon General In Sharing New Risk Data on Vaccines
Twitter immediately took the post down as violative of its coronavirus misinformation policies. It was later restored after public outcry.
Dr. Ladapo was sharing data that he said indicated an increase in cardiac conditions for men under 40 who have received mRNA coronavirus shots. Rather than allow experts and citizens to debate such risks, Twitter moved to prevent others from hearing from the top health official in one of the largest states in the Union. It was later restored, which is in sharp contrast to other experts and science writers suspended or barred due to their raising dissenting views on the social media site.
It is not clear if the restoration would have occurred for other doctors given the past suspension and barring of experts questioning the efficacy of masks or vaccines. Even senators like Rand Paul were banned by companies like YouTube for questioning the efficacy of masks — a view now accepted as a legitimate concern.
The company seemingly wrote off free speech years ago. Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal was asked how Twitter would balance its efforts to combat misinformation with wanting to “protect free speech as a core value” and to respect the First Amendment. He responded dismissively that the company is “not to be bound by the First Amendment” and will regulate content as “reflective of things that we believe lead to a healthier public conversation.” Agrawal said the company would “focus less on thinking about free speech” because “speech is easy on the internet. Most people can speak. Where our role is particularly emphasized is who can be heard.”
I have written about five steps that Musk can take to restore free speech. However, the key is to break a culture of censorship at the company.
Yikes. I qualify on all three counts.
How would you like to drive into Dallas, Texas, for a while? asks Hairy. Not much, I reply, recalling 2020 when Dallas International was one of three open international airports and the mess that it was then. He looks disappointed so I ask how far it is from the rellies place around Houma. Canberra distance, he says airily, so no way, I reply. Anyway, I add, I thought we were only doing the Gulf States.
He looks at me thoughtfully. Texas is a Gulf State, he says slowly and carefully.
Well, that’s just me and geography, I defend womanfully.
I shoulda known. Gulf Oil, and my Great Aunt lived in Texas Gulf Road.
Anyway, he’s still planning some Texas for us, and I have been given the right to object, which he will of course simply ignore. Drivers like Hairy just gotta drive.
We hired a red convertible with push-button operation to drive around Rarotonga.
We both enjoyed that. So it’s give and take in our marriage.
It’s hit 12.4C here, and it’s cloudy. So much for Spring. More Flanneries are forecast.
The lower bridge over the river was closed because if was overflowing.
Models and turtles all the way down.
Petition: Hands Off the Australian War Memorial
Semi-dozing through tv last night, I’m sure I saw on PML two politicians from opposite sides of the fence say exactly the same thing – ban Novak. Uniparty in action.
Bastards.
Nup.
Single file unless passing should be it.
Infuriating to be stuck behind two fat solicitors on bikes discussing their share portfolios at 15 kmh.
God no. Ukraine is doing well enough on its own. Listen to The Elon!
Shoppers go wild for handy IKEA gadget perfect for watching movies while travelling – and it’ll only set you back $1
. Aussie travellers are racing to IKEA to buy a handy gadget that only costs $1
. The foldable keyring props phones up to watching movies or make video calls
The foldable holder can be used to securely prop up a phone in either portrait or landscape to watch movies or TV shows while travelling, take photos or have virtual meetings.
It has two different slots for most mobile phones to be positioned vertically and horizontally as well as a key ring attachment so it can be used on the go.
Adrian said the gadget which is called ‘yuppienalle’ on the IKEA website, is ‘so simple yet useful’.
‘What?! Buying one! It will come in handy on an airplane. Hold my phone on the tray table,’ a traveller wrote.
Some pointed out it can also be used as a bottle opener and another said: ‘This is engineering’.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
October 10, 2022 at 4:17 pm
BBS, thank you for your advice which I trust you will now proffer to Calli re her ‘beloved’ and the many other people both male and female, your good self included indeed, who may make personal references or reminiscences here. In my view the blog loses much if such strictures are applied. They are not necessary unless individuals wish to creat trouble and havoc, which unfortunately some rather alarmingly do wish to do. Many others enjoy a wide-ranging commentary.
Please note I was not the person yesterday who brought up the topic of my breasts in reference to a long ago conversation playfully made on Sinc’s thread and my reply was simply to correct an incorrect impression of them once the issue was brought into play. Again, it was not brought into play by me. But it referred deleteriously to my body. My body, so surely my choice, my dear.
Dover has set a good tone and I will only listen to his advice re his blog. Not that such as yours, where no matter how well meant, the tone is overly sententious towards me.
Octogenarians are a diverse lot, so much like people in all other age groups. This may surprise some. It should not.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
October 10, 2022 at 5:48 pm
The joy of the Cat once was that it individualised personalities and shared lives. Now people want to take that away due to peculiar hatreds or prescriptions and proscriptions, falsely made in the name of civility.
Civility is easy; it costs nothing but tolerance.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
October 10, 2022 at 6:06 pm
BBS can say what she likes as long as I keep my right of reply. And we keep it civil.
I am pleased that her comment, and mine, have both passed muster.
I am sure she is a perfectly nice woman. So am I. ?
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
October 11, 2022 at 12:17 am
We were a smaller group, and far less condemnatory than today’s scolding Kat Karens. I am no more prone these days than the next older woman to create a porn show of our marriage, which I have no hesitation though in saying is a loving one, so grow up, BBS. It is also no sin to want to look one’s best nor to relate life experiences from one’s eighties, especially if one enjoys writing as I do.
Lizzie,
I don’t think the civility, which you say you favour, can return while you continue with the passive-aggressive stuff.
Really? Are we more gullible by far than the PNG crowd who believe in witchcraft – and let’s add in others in Asia and especially Africa.
We believe women can have cocks.
That mentaly ill kids just reaching puberty can/should be sterilized to make them ‘happy”.
That taxing CO2 will save us in Australia, while Chinas emission increases in one year are more than our whole grid produces.
Id stack those against penis stealing witches, cargo cults and rain dances for mongdom.
Just because scientific terminology and technical terms are abused to make it ‘sciencey” sounding doesnt make it any more connected to reality than some hunter gatherer with a bone through his nose doing stuff because the ancestors told him to in a dream.
Diogenes – I wonder whether Maccas requires da vax? I suspect there are many fewer teenagers vaccinated or boosted than older workers. It would also be the more switched-on that wouldn’t be vaccinated, and those are the demographic that would seek work there.
Then there’s the onerous requirement to wear stupid masks all day, which would be even worse at the pace Maccas requires of their staff.
Agree Cassie , I should have written stopped the March onto Paris . Do you know about Federico Secondo ? An Interesting chapter in the time of the crusades . Many Palio’s around middle Italy have Saracen warriors in them eg Foligno, I love the story of him sending a belly dancer to tempt StFrancis
I think the Gozzoli ‘s the life of St Francis in Montefalco depicts this. Federico had 3000 Saracen archers in his army plus all the army followers as he marched through Italy trying to stop Pope talking over . Them were the days!
As we departed New Zealand all passengers passing through security saw a bin offering FREE!! Covid test kits. I took two because I can never resist a freebie; Hairy observed askance. They weren’t disappearing like hot cakes. Obviously New Zealand was feeling rather oversupplied with these, most likely going out of date soon, as with the various Covid medications Australia has purchased in huge amounts.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
October 11, 2022 at 9:49 am
Police there say they’re mainly seeing women, the elderly and those who are petite or small in stature being targeted.
Yikes. I qualify on all three counts.
How would you like to drive into Dallas, Texas, for a while?
Lizzie if you have not already been – do go in and visit
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
The Museum, located within the former Texas School Book Depository building, chronicles the life, assassination and legacy of President John F. Kennedy.
https://wattwherehow.com/book-depository/
This is hands-down the best museum we have ever been to. It doesn’t have grand exhibitions spread out over several floors but what it does have is attention to detail, unique pieces of the puzzle and short and sharp bursts of information, creating the bigger story of what led up to, and what happened, on that fateful day in 1963.
Good idea to send some troops to ukraine. Have you seen the colour coordination some their soldiers have. That handbag never goes with high heels and since the choice of mascara is limited we’ll bring some. Don’t worry about getting your dick blown off, you’re on the list for transitioning.
It’s just not the blockers, here is a girl despairing of the effects that testosterone have wrought on her body, deepened voice and male pattern baldness, that make any decision to return to her natural state fraught.
Roger.
Signed.
I can’t see children of Green parents working at Maccas. I just can’t. And they’d be more likely to be vaccinated up to the eyeballs you’d think.
““the integrity of our immigration system”
Umm….anyone else recall the Biloela family?