Open Thread – Tues 11 Oct 2022


Battle of Poitiers, Charles de Steuben, 1834-37

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MatrixTransform
October 11, 2022 12:33 am

an empty vessel makes the most noise

-san cho

MatrixTransform
October 11, 2022 12:36 am

ffs … sometimes I crack myself up

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Wally Dalí says: October 10, 2022 at 11:51 pm

John Le Carre- forget his real name, David something- died a shocking reactive Trot. You can see the veer left to pinko delusion in his novels.

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.

rickw
rickw
October 11, 2022 1:22 am

No Podium!

rickw
rickw
October 11, 2022 1:24 am

Kanye punished for wrong think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=powfyV8VIPA

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
October 11, 2022 1:30 am

Top 10! Where’s Britnah?

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
October 11, 2022 1:42 am

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.

rickw
rickw
October 11, 2022 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.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
October 11, 2022 2:16 am

J.K Rowling? ‘No one has done more to bring joy to so many generations’

As Draco Malfoy, Tom Felton was the boy villain of the Harry Potter films. He reveals why he won’t join the attacks on the books’ author

(The Oz)

Well done Mr Felton. Standing tall and, in effect, defending free speech as well as JKR.

calli
calli
October 11, 2022 2:21 am

From the OOT

Hopeless design and colourless. Amazing the architects these days.

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.

Maniac
Maniac
October 11, 2022 2:52 am

Still Monday here in the States. Happy Indigenous People Day.

Sorry – happy Columbus Day.

calli
calli
October 11, 2022 3:18 am

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.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 11, 2022 3:49 am

MT vassal make most sound.

– Sun Tzu

Gabor
Gabor
October 11, 2022 3:51 am

The West is on the road to energy ruin

Tom
Tom
October 11, 2022 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
October 11, 2022 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
October 11, 2022 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
October 11, 2022 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
October 11, 2022 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
October 11, 2022 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
October 11, 2022 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
October 11, 2022 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
October 11, 2022 4:10 am
Johnny Rotten
October 11, 2022 4:30 am

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”.

Johnny Rotten
October 11, 2022 4:32 am

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

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 11, 2022 4:47 am

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.

Dot
Dot
October 11, 2022 5:54 am

That’s not cricket.

Tim Pool on eating the bugs – 1000 schools here in Australia.

https://youtu.be/VyyYSVBeh3M

calli
calli
October 11, 2022 6:23 am

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.

bespoke
bespoke
October 11, 2022 6:32 am
calli
calli
October 11, 2022 6:33 am

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.

Megan
Megan
October 11, 2022 6:38 am

If anything, they are more authoritarian.

Very socially compliant.

bespoke
bespoke
October 11, 2022 6:45 am

So I Japan isn’t the place to imagrat to.

calli
calli
October 11, 2022 6:47 am

Very socially compliant.

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.

sfw
sfw
October 11, 2022 7:08 am

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.

bespoke
bespoke
October 11, 2022 7:16 am
Razey
Razey
October 11, 2022 7:20 am

Based Parents Kick Out Woke Child From Home. ‘They’ Throws Epic Tantrum

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

Indolent
Indolent
October 11, 2022 7:22 am
Indolent
Indolent
October 11, 2022 7:28 am
Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 11, 2022 7:28 am

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.

rosie
rosie
October 11, 2022 7:29 am

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.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 11, 2022 7:31 am

Why would anyone with a functioning synapse think Japan is “freer” than anywhere else? If anything, they are more authoritarian.

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.

bespoke
bespoke
October 11, 2022 7:31 am

Razeysays:

October 11, 2022 at 7:20 am

Based Parents Kick Out Woke Child From Home. ‘They’ Throws Epic Tantrum

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

That made my day.

Having scitsafrinia isn’t an excuse to be a jerk to others.

calli
calli
October 11, 2022 7:32 am

Why are you surprised?

Because I didn’t expect them to make others wear them. Ad nauseum.

I thought they had more sense. I was wrong.

Indolent
Indolent
October 11, 2022 7:32 am

Terror on Crimea Bridge forces Russia to unleash Shock’n Awe

rosie
rosie
October 11, 2022 7:34 am
Indolent
Indolent
October 11, 2022 7:35 am
johanna
johanna
October 11, 2022 7:36 am

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.

Indolent
Indolent
October 11, 2022 7:36 am
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 11, 2022 7:36 am

Wally Dali, 12.18 a.m. on the OOT:

friend was relating with a bit of incredulity how her 12 y o boy had stepped in for his sister who was being intimidated by another boy at the friday night leisure centre pool whoop-up, given the shithead kid a shove and said lay off my sister. She crows, “I thought, where did that come from? That’s not my boy! Where’d he get that testosterone from?! Why’d he suddenly think it’s ok to shove other kids around?!!?!” and met by much supportive clucking and sunday supplement psychology from the assembled gals.

This is what happens when you attempt to raise fashion accessories rather than children.

Razey
Razey
October 11, 2022 7:37 am

callisays:
October 11, 2022 at 6:23 am
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.

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….

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 11, 2022 7:38 am

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?

calli
calli
October 11, 2022 7:38 am

In transit, joh.

It’s going to be a looooong journey home. I hate being made to do stupid things.

rosie
rosie
October 11, 2022 7:39 am

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

Indolent
Indolent
October 11, 2022 7:40 am
calli
calli
October 11, 2022 7:40 am

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.

Indolent
Indolent
October 11, 2022 7:41 am

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

rosie
rosie
October 11, 2022 7:42 am

Don’t let a little mandatory mask wearing spoil your lovely holiday.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
October 11, 2022 7:44 am

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.

Razey
Razey
October 11, 2022 7:44 am

callisays:
October 11, 2022 at 7:40 am
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.

And I’m sure you cried your eyes out when people here lost their jobs for refusing the clot shots.

calli
calli
October 11, 2022 7:45 am

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…

😀

calli
calli
October 11, 2022 7:45 am

Jam it razey. You don’t know a thing about me.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 11, 2022 7:48 am

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.

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.

rosie
rosie
October 11, 2022 7:48 am

I hate masks, but just made the decision I wanted to travel and would endure. In the end it was barely a niggle.

lotocoti
lotocoti
October 11, 2022 7:48 am

Not genocide.
Also not genocide: Calling a bloke a bloke.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 11, 2022 7:50 am

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.

rosie
rosie
October 11, 2022 7:51 am
Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 11, 2022 7:52 am

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.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 11, 2022 7:54 am

Battle of Poitiers, Charles de Steuben, 1834-37

Ah, the battle when the Muslims got…hammered.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
October 11, 2022 7:56 am

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.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 11, 2022 7:59 am

Own up Cats, which of you is Uncle Bob?

UN, WEF Want to Save the World From Uncle Bob (Daniel Greenfield, 10 Oct)

“We need to take certain actions there to prevent Uncle Bob from sharing misleading information at the Thanksgiving table,” Claire Wardle (She/Her) PhD explicated in a chummy Brit accent over Zoom. Wardle sits on the WEF’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Information and her vision of the future has little room for Uncle Bob saying whatever he likes at the Thanksgiving table. A holiday created by pilgrims fleeing England and people like Wardle.

A former social media boss at the UN refugee agency, Claire, with an armful of useless degrees in things like communications, political science and a degree in American Studies from a British school in Yorkshire, found her true calling in life. Fighting Uncle Bob.

Maybe if they ever make a movie about Uncle Bob they could get Mike Myers to play him.

flyingduk
flyingduk
October 11, 2022 8:00 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.

Whilst its annoying, if a significant % just stop using their accounts, and paypal has to carry the admin burden, it still sends a message.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 11, 2022 8:01 am

Ah, the battle when the Muslims got…hammered.

Apparently they wanted to start a pop-up chain of kebab shops in Normandy.

Charlie Martel got stuck right into the pricks.

flyingduk
flyingduk
October 11, 2022 8:03 am

How are “doctors” going to rewrite history to say they never participated in this.
Mengele level of evil.

The successful script up to now includes:

‘Scientific consensus’
‘Trust the science’
‘Global Health Emergency’
‘Save Grandma’

and of course

‘safe and effective’

min
min
October 11, 2022 8:07 am

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.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
October 11, 2022 8:08 am

Having scitsafrinia isn’t an excuse to be a jerk to others.

“They” could just get 2 jobs to afford “their” newly independent lifestyle.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 11, 2022 8:09 am

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?

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 11, 2022 8:14 am

Based Parents Kick Out Woke Child From Home. ‘They’ Throws Epic Tantrum

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.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 11, 2022 8:14 am

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”

sfw
sfw
October 11, 2022 8:17 am

There’s millions of Indians around the country and he can’t find one that can cook?

rosie
rosie
October 11, 2022 8:17 am

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.

rosie
rosie
October 11, 2022 8:19 am

Sounds like the restaurant owner only wants that particular person from India.

Razey
Razey
October 11, 2022 8:21 am

Globalists know that Australia has the most gullible population by far, this is why the Woke authoritarian nonsense is so strong here.

Dot
Dot
October 11, 2022 8:21 am

There’s millions of Indians around the country and he can’t find one that can cook?

Evidently, we have made the immigration requirements to get future politicians, not good chefs.

Razey
Razey
October 11, 2022 8:22 am

sfwsays:
October 11, 2022 at 8:17 am
There’s millions of Indians around the country and he can’t find one that can cook?

No. He can’t find the cook who wants to work for the slave salary he wants to pay.

rosie
rosie
October 11, 2022 8:24 am

“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.

Cassie of Sydney
October 11, 2022 8:25 am

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.

bespoke
bespoke
October 11, 2022 8:26 am

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.

Worce when you work in a town that holds an international event.
Almost collected one because he was holding onto the tub.

duncanm
duncanm
October 11, 2022 8:26 am

As Draco Malfoy, Tom Felton was the boy villain of the Harry Potter films. He reveals why he won’t join the attacks on the books’ author

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

.. I enjoy reminding myself and others that a lot of my good friends have ways of life or personal decisions that I don’t necessarily agree with

Dot
Dot
October 11, 2022 8:26 am

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

Dot
Dot
October 11, 2022 8:27 am

OF COURSE!

You will take the puberty blockers

duncanm
duncanm
October 11, 2022 8:31 am

Tomsays:
October 11, 2022 at 4:01 am
Mark Knight.

That’s a good ‘un.

Dot
Dot
October 11, 2022 8:31 am

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…”

Dot
Dot
October 11, 2022 8:34 am

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.

2dogs
2dogs
October 11, 2022 8:37 am

Kyiv, Other Cities Hit as Putin Orders ‘Harsh Response’ to Crimea Bridge Attack

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.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 11, 2022 8:37 am

Razey.
You’re bagging a mate of mine, pull your head in.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 11, 2022 8:37 am

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.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 11, 2022 8:38 am

Knuckle Draggersays:
October 11, 2022 at 7:48 am
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.

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.

Only have to worry if he’s carrying round a hole in the floor.

WolfmanOz
WolfmanOz
October 11, 2022 8:39 am

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.

will
will
October 11, 2022 8:39 am
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 11, 2022 8:40 am

but 1000 school canteens in Australia already serve up ze bugs to der kinder

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.

Johnny Rotten
October 11, 2022 8:41 am

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?!”

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 11, 2022 8:44 am

I’m just glad my manservant is tough as teak and handy with ports.

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!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 11, 2022 8:44 am

Air, hellair!

bons
bons
October 11, 2022 8:44 am

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”.

Zipster
Zipster
October 11, 2022 8:44 am
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 11, 2022 8:45 am

Travelling with my gym junkie Hairy is definitely the go. He can take one in each hand! 

Please.
Enough sordid detail.

Johnny Rotten
October 11, 2022 8:48 am

Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

– Bill Vaughan

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 11, 2022 8:48 am

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.

m0nty
m0nty
October 11, 2022 8:49 am

Online Christian soldiers who have been fluffing Putin now have to reckon with the stark realisation that they really are the baddies.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
October 11, 2022 8:49 am

Travellin’ Çats. A positive sign for the world.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 11, 2022 8:50 am

You must be slowing paging us in to a joke book, perhaps editing as you go.
Surely you can’t be remembering them all?

Nelson_Kidd-Players
October 11, 2022 8:51 am

Many of us (perhaps not all) love the travelogues.

Razey
Razey
October 11, 2022 8:51 am

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

Razey
Razey
October 11, 2022 8:53 am

m0ntysays:
October 11, 2022 at 8:49 am
Online Christian soldiers who have been fluffing Putin now have to reckon with the stark realisation that they really are the baddies.

Nope. Anyone the USA supports is automatically the baddie by definition.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 11, 2022 8:54 am

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

Nelson_Kidd-Players
October 11, 2022 8:55 am

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.

duncanm
duncanm
October 11, 2022 8:55 am

rosiesays:
October 11, 2022 at 7:39 am
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

Much ignorance in your statement.

Start with this.
Black Forest Drive is the only way you can connect Gisborne and Woodend…

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 11, 2022 8:55 am

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.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 11, 2022 8:56 am

Anyone the USA supports is automatically the baddie by definition.

That’s what the Japanese thought.

johanna
johanna
October 11, 2022 8:56 am

rosie says:
October 11, 2022 at 7:48 am

I hate masks, but just made the decision I wanted to travel and would endure. In the end it was barely a niggle.

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.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 11, 2022 8:59 am

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

Nelson_Kidd-Players
October 11, 2022 9:00 am

Peregrine Falcon chicks in Melbourne coming along nicely. Livestream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on3V22m60uQ

johanna
johanna
October 11, 2022 9:00 am

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?

duncanm
duncanm
October 11, 2022 9:01 am

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.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 11, 2022 9:03 am

Duelling-type responses belong in the duelling thread, though. I enjoy most posters until the duelling starts.

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.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 11, 2022 9:04 am

Fencing with one’s pen doesn’t have to be duelling, btw.

Ask Sancho. Rapier wit. 🙂

Nelson_Kidd-Players
October 11, 2022 9:05 am

We can make our own assessments of Lizzie, Joh. We already know yours.

Lizzie: travelogues! 🙂

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 11, 2022 9:06 am

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

shatterzzz
October 11, 2022 9:08 am

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 ..

bespoke
bespoke
October 11, 2022 9:08 am
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 11, 2022 9:09 am

Oh, and he’s in the middle of being naturalised as an Aussie, so I guess he doesn’t love the US that much.

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.

johanna
johanna
October 11, 2022 9:09 am

Razey says:
October 11, 2022 at 8:21 am

Globalists know that Australia has the most gullible population by far, this is why the Woke authoritarian nonsense is so strong here.

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.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 11, 2022 9:11 am

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.

Roger
Roger
October 11, 2022 9:12 am

Sounds like the restaurant owner only wants that particular person from India.

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.

Tom
Tom
October 11, 2022 9:12 am

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.

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.

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.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 11, 2022 9:13 am

‘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:

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
October 11, 2022 9:13 am

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.

duncanm
duncanm
October 11, 2022 9:13 am

rosiesays:
October 11, 2022 at 8:17 am

I linked the article because installing bike lanes is no guarantee of safety if cyclists are not required to use them.

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.

bespoke
bespoke
October 11, 2022 9:14 am

It’s not worth arguing the point! .. some drivers are always gonna hate! .. especially when they practise the “I’m important your not” attitude

Fare enough but iv seen this attitude in cyclists too. Don’t take it personally.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 11, 2022 9:15 am

some drivers are always gonna hate!

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.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 11, 2022 9:15 am

I am Uncle Bob.

duncanm
duncanm
October 11, 2022 9:16 am

Tom says:
October 11, 2022 at 9:12 am

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.

Agreed – he’s smart in many ways, but this isn’t one of them.

duncanm
duncanm
October 11, 2022 9:16 am

.. I look forward to discussing the issue again with him post-midterms. :).. because he does get a bit heated.

shatterzzz
October 11, 2022 9:19 am

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?

Bar Beach Swimmer
October 11, 2022 9:19 am

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:

Dr Altmann is an well known Australian authority on clinical trials and regulatory affairs with more than 40 years experience in designing, managing and reporting of clinical trials, and in working with Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (ATGA) in gaining new drug approvals.

He established Australia’s first contract research organisation, or CRO, when he served a senior industry consultant for more than half of the pharmaceutical companies present in Australia. His career has seen him involved in more than 100 clinical trials, phase I through to phase IV.

He has been personally responsible for the market approval of numerous new drugs since joining the pharmaceutical industry in 1974. A graduate of Sydney University with a Hons degree in pharmacy, Masters of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees, focused on drug development, pharmacology, and pharmaceutical chemistry. He co-founded and is a life member of the largest professional body of pharmaceutical industry scientists involved in clinical research and regulatory affairs.

https://www.australiannationalreview.com/health/aussie-doctor-blows-whistle-on-entire-covid-scamdemic-at-covid-medical-network-seminar/

bespoke
bespoke
October 11, 2022 9:19 am

I am Uncle Bob.

No I am.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 11, 2022 9:20 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.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 11, 2022 9:21 am

‘Jugging’ is among the fastest growing crimes in America, police say

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.

johanna
johanna
October 11, 2022 9:21 am

Yep. My duelling days are done. I’ve said my piece.

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.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 11, 2022 9:21 am

‘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.”

Woolfe
Woolfe
October 11, 2022 9:23 am

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

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
October 11, 2022 9:25 am

cyclist killed on Black Forest Drive

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.

Bear Necessities
Bear Necessities
October 11, 2022 9:26 am

‘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:

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.

shatterzzz
October 11, 2022 9:26 am

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

sfw
sfw
October 11, 2022 9:27 am

shatterzzz, perhaps you haven’t done anything to draw their attention, a quite life can be a happy life.

Razey
Razey
October 11, 2022 9:28 am

johannasays:
October 11, 2022 at 9:09 am
Razey says:
October 11, 2022 at 8:21 am

Globalists know that Australia has the most gullible population by far, this is why the Woke authoritarian nonsense is so strong here.

Really? Are we more gullible by far than the PNG crowd who believe in witchcraft –

LOL. The average Sheep here still believes in the gene therapy clot shots. I don’t see any difference.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 11, 2022 9:28 am

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.

duncanm
duncanm
October 11, 2022 9:29 am

shatterzzzsays:
October 11, 2022 at 9:19 am

shatterzzzzz – check the AUP

They’ve retracted the proposed $2500 penalties, but it still says:

You may not use PayPal’s services for activities that:
5. involve the sending, posting or publication of any messages, content or materials that, in PayPal’s sole discretion,
..
(g) .. promote misinformation ..

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 11, 2022 9:30 am

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.

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.

duncanm
duncanm
October 11, 2022 9:31 am

shatterzzzsays:
October 11, 2022 at 9:26 am
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

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.

m0nty
m0nty
October 11, 2022 9:32 am

Anyone the USA supports is automatically the baddie by definition.

Has this site turned into 1990s-era Green Left Weekly?

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
October 11, 2022 9:35 am

duncanm says:
October 11, 2022 at 8:26 am
Tom Felton praises JK Rowling bringing generations Harry Potter franchise

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.)

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 11, 2022 9:36 am

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.

shatterzzz
October 11, 2022 9:37 am

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!

Diogenes
Diogenes
October 11, 2022 9:38 am

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?

Rabz
October 11, 2022 9:38 am

NSW households can look forward to lower electrickery prices between now and 2023, with new modelling showing an expected 2% drop – a saving of nearly $30

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.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 11, 2022 9:40 am

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.

Roger
Roger
October 11, 2022 9:40 am

so what is the furore about?

Overreach into people’s choices followed by a triple somersault with pike backflip, I believe.

Diogenes
Diogenes
October 11, 2022 9:40 am

I have also enjoyed Strike, a British crime drama television programme based on the Cormoran Strike detective novels written by

I enjoyed the books, even the latest which was heavy going… It describes fandom and social media

Mater
October 11, 2022 9:44 am

A lot of the issues on country roads comes from Dan’s 1/1.5 metre rule:

From 26 April, when drivers pass a bicycle rider, they must leave a space of at least 1 metre between their vehicle and the rider on roads with speed limits up to 60km/h.

If drivers are travelling on roads with speed limits over 60km/h, they must leave a bigger space of at least 1.5 metres between their vehicle and the bicycle rider.

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.

m0nty
m0nty
October 11, 2022 9:46 am

I see db has used the NewCat Twitter account to retweet this:

Anatoly Karlin ????? @powerfultakes

UKRAINE WAR UPDATE

I have identified four intertwining paths to victory for Russia:
(1) Mobilization ?
(2) Massed Kalibr strikes on power infrastructure ?
(3) Weaponized Kesslerization ?????
(4) Large-scale Chinese aid (?,?)
Let’s go through them.

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.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 11, 2022 9:48 am

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.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 11, 2022 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? 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.

johanna
johanna
October 11, 2022 9:50 am

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.

Roger
Roger
October 11, 2022 9:50 am
Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
October 11, 2022 9:55 am

“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.

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.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 11, 2022 9:56 am

I do agree that large packs cause problems and they need to police the ‘no more than two wide’ law.

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.

Dot
Dot
October 11, 2022 9:57 am

Australia considers sending forces to train Ukrainian troops

God no. Ukraine is doing well enough on its own. Listen to The Elon!

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 11, 2022 9:58 am

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’.

Bar Beach Swimmer
October 11, 2022 10:00 am

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.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 11, 2022 10:00 am

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.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 11, 2022 10:01 am

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.

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.

min
min
October 11, 2022 10:03 am

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!

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 11, 2022 10:03 am

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.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 11, 2022 10:03 am

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.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 11, 2022 10:03 am

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.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 11, 2022 10:04 am

Roger.
Signed.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 11, 2022 10:05 am

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.

Cassie of Sydney
October 11, 2022 10:06 am

““the integrity of our immigration system”

Umm….anyone else recall the Biloela family?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 11, 2022 10:07 am

First live export ship leaves Fremantle after annual sheep shipping ban
Adam Poulsen
Countryman
Tue, 11 October 2022 6:00AM

WA’s live sheep trade has shifted back into gear, with the first shipment of 50,000 sheep leaving Fremantle Port after the Federal Government’s annual three-month ban was lifted.

While the moratorium ended on September 15, maintenance delays meant the livestock carrier Al Messilah arrived two weeks late, with the first shipment leaving Fremantle five days later on October 6.

The thousands of sheep and 400 cattle — a Rural Export and Trading WA consignment — are destined for slaughter in Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

RETWA general manager Murray Frangs said the resumption of the trade would come as a major relief for WA farmers, who have been struggling to offload sheep amid an ongoing processing backlog at abattoirs nationwide.

“They have paddocks full of lovely, fat, well-grown lambs that they can’t move off because of the limitations with the processers,” he said.

“Farmers are very keen to get rid of the heavy, old season lambs before the new season spring lambs come into the abattoirs. So it is a relief for them, because we can clear out a large number of sheep at one time.”

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