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Open Thread – Tues 18 Oct 2022
- The beach which banned vanilla ice cream
- Bumtree #4
- Open Thread – Thurs 2 May 2024
- Bumtree #3
- Bumtree #2
Or family being contacted for a nice juicy ransom. Or maybe both…
Things we mere males do not know. My wife never mentioned or complained about how bothersome they were. Bless her.
Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies Mysteriously From Sudden Infection, Leaving Doctors Baffled Must be contagious? Or just coincidence? Who knows in…
Chinese belt&road takes on new meaning.
LOL!
Facebook has just censored my post on The Last Days of the Covidian Cult.
As well as this one: https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/the-gaslighting-of-the-masses
…and tacked a smug little note about getting mental help.
I suppose it’s one way of censoring a view you don’t want to get any oxygen…
Simple. For any case that’s been tainted in any way that will bias against the defence (even if it’s not the fault of the prosecution side), the defence gets to choose 24 jurors. Prosecution can then proceed to veto 12 but cannot choose any of their own.
If the tainting has occurred because of the actions of the prosecution side then the defence chooses just 12 and they are the jury.
John Stossel
@JohnStossel
I never thought I’d make a video debunking a TV series.
But President Obama’s ignorant Netflix series, “The G Word,” deserves debunking.
If you don’t want to waste 3 hours watching Obama promote big government, watch this instead:
Top NIH director admits Boston lab that created new COVID strain did NOT clear research with agency… and only learned of details on DailyMail.com
But they funded it, didn’t they? Doesn’t that qualify as “clearing”?
“She said some events were more likely to be imprinted on the memory than others and advised jurors against invoking stereotypes or preconceptions about events they’ve never experienced”
Nothing about being so heavily impaired by alcohol that one’s memory could extremely faulty?
Indolent:
Is ANYONE keeping an eye on what these children are doing?
Or are we all going to wake up dead one morning?
Just one thing that puzzles me about the whole Ministerial drinkies cabinet thing – Is it normal to have a stash of alcohol in ones office? Drinking on the job? Say what?
We need to shove down the throat of these pricks the standard that they’ve shoved down the throat of everyone else.
BeachMilk
@BeachMilk
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Of course none of the world’s top politicians are vaccinated……they don’t want to die either!
But they have no hesitation in coercing us to take it and demonising anyone who refuses.
Must be polluted in munty’s basement. Does it cause ugly as well? Correlation is not causation but in this case maybe so.
Boning!
CDC moves to make COVID shot a requirement for schoolkids
This is the point –
They wont admit that the clotshots are an absolute failure. This is why they will approve it.
This.
In 2017, on hearing of the news that Donald Trump was moving the US embassy to Jerusalem, Zoo Daniel, then the ABC Washington correspondent, wrote an article where she claimed that “Donald Trump had sabotaged efforts to bring peace to the Middle East and that he was “satisfying his wealthy Jewish donors.”
So, here we are in 2022, and Ms Daniel is the “independent” (cough) member for Goldstein, an electorate with a substantial Jewish population, has anyone heard or seen any condemnation from Ms Daniel re. this decision by this Labor government under Albasleazy and Wonk? Perhaps Ms Daniel could put out a Tweet or a press release claiming that the Albanese government’s decision will “sabotage peace in the Middle East and that they are simply satisfying “their Western Sydney voters”.
Winston
Just one thing that puzzles me about the whole Ministerial drinkies cabinet thing – Is it normal to have a stash of alcohol in ones office?
Strictly for “entertaining” very important visitors to the office. There are supposedly (or used to be) strict rules, such as under 50% of the attendees are allowed to be Commonwealth employees, and there must be a valid benefit to the Commonwealth.
In theory, locked up when not needed, but there is always the Parliamentary dining room for those in dire need.
Sancho Panzer says:
October 19, 2022 at 12:13 pm
So, Britnah has had the equivalent of 8-9 stubbies, or one and a third bottles of wine.
Depending upon how accustomed you are to alcohol and other factors (food intake and duration of session mainly) you could be somewhere from “pissed but in control” to “absolutely legless”.
Yes. One of those other factors is her body weight/fat. At the time, she was probably 10-12 kgs lighter than she is now so that level of alcohol is a significant factor for a person of her stature. She has conceded on several occasions that she was ‘very drunk’.
It’s quite a while ago now, but when I was in the CPS it was pretty normal for senior execs to have a cocktail cabinet, complete with mini fridge space. I bought one at ex-guvvy furniture and kept it for many years.
Indelicate perhaps but how many office drinks sessions end up with a Sheila butt naked on the couch next morning.
The nakedness is the important piece in the puzzle, not the drinking.
The oracle at Delphi couldn’t have been more ambiguous and mysterious than ‘erronner in her words to the jury.
Chip shortage looms as heavy rainfall and floods affect potato crops across Australia (Sky News)
Smiths has gone woke, so no great loss.
Guilty.
‘The Project’ doubles advertising rates and adopts a two hour format. New advertising arrangement with ACT Village Council.
The ABC doxes ‘far right’ donors to the appeal fund.
The HC refuses to hear the appeal.
Higgins enters Parliament.
Certain jurists promoted.
See, it’s easy once you bury your outmoded moralistic way of thinking.
Facebook has just censored my post on The Last Days of the Covidian Cult.
Glad someone ran with the Branch COVIDian insult. Though the term died a while ago.
Jerusalem: always was, always will be.
How’s that, Zoe ?
And by the by, hasn’t Penny Wong porked up lately ?
I also suggested for the Catictionary: Mengelemaniac for Faucci, Andrews and McGowan.
Just got a flyer in the mail; freebie time is coming to Victoria.
Quote:
FFFFFF fracken hell where is the money coming from?
Whoops, Correction. Free kinder from 2023
After a couple of incidents of ill discipline, my outfit banned all non-business contact with customers.
Most folks were relieved.
A couple of clowns thought that the could get away with ignoring the rule at an event in Las Vegas. They came home tourist class as befits former employees.
A new local CEO rugby fan declared the ban to be stupid and hired a box at the Sydney Football Stadium. He too became ‘between jobs’ when a pissed customer (public servant FFS) chose to do a two and a half with pike on the stadium stairs.
We were equally rigid with subbies, especially in relation to Christmas gifts.
A difficulty for the folks working government stuff was the Public Service habit of hiring luxury talking shops and then looking at us for half the cost. Our folks learned quickly to refuse.
No booze, no social is an excellent rule.
https://australianaviation.com.au/2022/10/exclusive-attorney-general-hails-mh17-case-against-russia/
I don’t know the point of this.
You can’t compare drinking beer with spirits.
Beer slowly sneaks up on you but you’re well aware the effects are taking hold. Spirits tell you they’re coming but the blotto line is crossed very quickly.
I don’t know if Britnah played ‘spin the bottle’ but she would have had ‘spin the couch’ after that much grog.
New state taxes & levies, presumably.
Any explosives experts here? Is it possible to make a linear shaped charge to wrap around a pipeline and cut it?
Yes Eyrie,
Cutting charges are pretty much off the shelf.
This is not a concern with Woodstock cans, Gez.
Yes. Commonly used.
mem: do you live in Victoria?
Challenge accepted Eyrie!
I’m no expert, but I have seen big pine trees felled by a few laps of quick fuse, overlapped with a fair bit of the red stuff. Reamrkably gentle on the remaining timber.
Not from fracken!
Poof, just like that…
From Winston’s link to CJ Brennan-
The reason the New Normal authorities have been able to gaslight the masses so effectively is that most of the masses do need something from them … a job, food, shelter, money, security, status, their friends, a relationship, or whatever it is they’re not willing to risk by challenging those in power and their lies. Gaslighters, cultists, and power freaks, generally, know this. It is what they depend on, your unwillingness to live without whatever it is. They zero in on it and threaten you with the loss of it (sometimes consciously, sometimes just intuitively).
Absolutely correct.
I think the UK and “white” societies MUST protect ethnic minorities by removing them if they are migrants, and forcibly sterilizing the remainder so the apparent stain of racism can be eradicated at last.
Its just irresponsible to allow people of a swarthy hue to migrate to the worst places on earth..
It appears every highly educated institution is actually a cesspit of KKK members just waiting to drag out the hemp hovercraft and bedsheets again..
Judiciary in England and Wales ‘institutionally racist’, says report
Exclusive: more than half of legal professionals in survey said they saw a judge acting in a racially biased way
/if you hadnt guessed – sarcasm…
Here’s the thing.
People will accuse you of being a puritanical wowser if you say stuff like that.
Yeah, I know, someone can always take a sling under the table, but they then know exactly what they are doing. No pretense that it was just a day at the footy, or a harmless $350 dinner which was incidental to serious business.
And some people are incredibly naïve. Years ago we knew a guy who had a meteoric rise in the public sector after a change of government and an equally swift fall when the Treasury benches changed hands again. Firstly he was shocked that the department could carry on without him and couldn’t figure out why the new government targeted him (like, jumping five levels in the public service six years earlier wasn’t a dead giveaway). Secondly, he started moaning months later that none of the people from the department’s suppliers had been near him. He had genuinely convinced himself that the Grand Final lunches, the front row concert seats, the box at Flemington, the expensive dinners – they were all because he was a top bloke.
20 kmh speed limits, here we come.
And by the by, hasn’t Penny Wong porked up lately ?
The pickin’s at the top troughers table are far richer than the lower troughers swills …..
Perhaps not.
I was trying to give a sense of scale for those who don’t drink spirits.
For a woman weighing less than 60 kgs (yes, I know, she’s moved up three weight divisions since) and maybe not a seasoned drinker, downing the equivalent alcohol volume of 8-9 stubbies or 1.4 bottles of wine is a lot.
Particularly if they had a couple of liberal* pours of Ministerial Chivas for dessert.
….
* deliberate.
From their ABC.
South Australian.
Cricket umpire.
There’s your ‘beyond reasonable doubt’, right there.
So just got a text to evacuate immediately because of road closing. Fair to say that won’t be happening
Any word on if he was bald as well Sancho?
If the Jury in the Higgins case returns not guilty verdict this afternoon. Get ready for an avalanche of articles and talking heads using it as evidence of how the system is biased against women as victims, and demanding changes to the law to ensure any man accused of sexual assault is found guilty no matter the lack of evidence.
I have been known to fulminate with some of my opinions, and may be deemed to have expertise in certain matters.
Does that count?
Helping my daughter clean up and clear out of her flooded Maribynong unit . People were driving past offering water sandwiches and chocolate . Her friends have raised over $7000 via gofundme . Excellent work everyone .
Champions!
Meme;
https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02a308e3f6fe200c-pi
India is flooded with fake ivm. We have been unable to source any real ivm even directly from a public hospital in india.
If you get ivm from India, best to taste it, it should have a slightly sweet medicinal taste. All tabs out of india currently have no taste other than chalk. So they have zero active ingredient just filler. They use to have clear taste of the correct active ingredient, however in the last few months these have been replaced with fakes.
Why is this? Is it china pushing fake ivm into the market, since that is where the chems come from. Hard to think its just profiteering, seems somebody wants less ppl around.
Aaaaand, just for Jonny Rotten and Britneh,
Confucius say no such thing as rape, “girl with skirt up run faster than man with pants down”
Always encouraging to hear such stories.
Saw a pic of Flemington race course from the air with nary a puddle on it. I’m no hydrologist, but I can see why those who are might have demurred at the building of that wall.
similar stupidity here at work.
Delivered boxes of fruit in kitchen.
Tongs supplied so you don’t touch the fruit.
.. everyone touches the single pair of tongs instead.
Black Ballsays:
October 19, 2022 at 2:26 pm
Best of luck Black Ball. Stay safe.
Are you getting flooded BB?
Sancho Panzer says:
October 19, 2022 at 2:09 pm
He had genuinely convinced himself that the Grand Final lunches, the front row concert seats, the box at Flemington, the expensive dinners – they were all because he was a top bloke.
In which case either he’s an idiot, unbelievably naïve or, thought the Code of Conduct and requirement to report gifts didn’t apply to him ‘cos he was special. Whichever it is, all or some, the days are accepting such largesse from suppliers are long gone.
I was thinking of Starmec.
And yet they imagine they’re the most brilliant generation that’s ever lived, able to pass infallible moral judgments on their ancestors from the heights of their impeccability.
My mate used to have quite a bit of cordite. Very good at blowing things up with not much charge. Just enough to get the job done. He did provide some advice to the AFP but wondered why they didn’t get the Army demo guys to. Probably after the Lindt Cafe debacle he understood.
Or, also:
by definition elites are immune from eugenics.
My Coles cashier this morning was behind plexiglass and masked.
Can’t be too careful.
Many wise words on this blog.
If only Britnah had stuck to the Woodstocks this nastiness could have been avoided.
She would have tossed her cookies much earlier and never have made it to the couch.
I reckon if she confessed to 11 shots, it would have been a lot more.
Understandable if she lost count.
That’s the spirit BB
I’ve never abandoned the place in flood or fire.
Thanks guys. After talking to my former colleague who said that three turns of high speed det cord will cut a railway line we figure that’s what the NS pipeline cut looks like. The missing 50 feet may simply be due to detensioning when the pressure was released coupled with the rocket motor effect of the escaping gas. The latter may have dug the trench in the seabed.
You could use a HAAWC missile to cut your pipeline, it can be done remotely if you have the precise GPS bearings.
SITREP 10.3.22 – The HAAWC Missile System – If it looks like a duck!
Still plenty of face nappies in evidence at the local shops. Mostly frail elderly.
Had to wear the stupid thing when I took Mum and Dad to the doctor yesterday. Girls behind the counter with the things hanging off one ear, all the patients masked up and gasping for air. It has to be the dumbest requirement of the entire saga. Pure compliance window dressing.
You blokes are inspirational.
Images here:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/first-images-blown-nord-stream-reveals-50-meter-missing-section-pipeline
All looks too neat for a missile or torpedo.
Alex Jones was the precedent.
That was the tally compiled by a solicitor’s clerk trawling through the bar CCTV.
Even allowing for the appalling standards of numeracy often exhibited by junior legals, I’m prepared to call it between ten and a dozen.
Ease up. Just stick to the South Australian bit. I bet he’s got a hyphenated name as well.
Working on the usual ‘how much do I lie to doctors’ ratio, that’s 33 shots.
You guys forget the well established art of pre-loading.
Speaking of hyphens:
Move over, ‘society killer’ Matthew Wales-Smith. There’s a more stupid murderer in town (Ita News):
Brilliant. Just brilliant.
Take care, BB.
Make sure you save your computer so you can maintain a lifeline to The Cat.
‘Your verdict must be unanimous’: Jury retires to consider decision
At 2.58pm, after nearly 12 days of evidence and submissions, the jury retired to deliberate on a verdict.
Before they departed the courtroom, four members of the panel were randomly balloted off by the judge’s associate, leaving eight women and four men to consider the charge before them.
It was nearly twenty years ago Speedbox, but yes … a combination of naivete and a feeling he was bulletproof due to maaaates.
I also think there is this thing among some career public servants where they think this is the norm in the private sector.
Not all, but some.
I once had to tell a newly employed ex-RAAFie that the company credit card was for pre-approved company expenditure (business airfares, meals and hotels).
He was agape with incredulity when it was explained to him that it wasn’t an income supplement to be used at his discretion to shout drinks and taxi fares for his mates.
Of course, he went down the path of “legit business development … entertaining clients”.
Come in spinner.
“Can you give me their names and which project office they work in?”
Again, mouth gaping like a goldfish.
Wilful gullibility.
I know from first hand experience that no such gifts are lavished on top blokes.
I have never been offered stuff like that.
I think thems lot (not ‘youse lot’, esteemed compadres) are jealous.
No hyphens, which means he’s not from SA at all. The Tiser:
It appears he didn’t disclose his history to either the SACA or SANFL when obtaining his working with children creds.
Which also means he used a (new) false name, because those checks will bring back priors for this sort of thing nationally.
After instructing the jury on the mode of the delivery of its decision upon its return, ACT Supreme Court Chief Justice Lucy McCallum said: “With a final reminder that your verdict must be unanimous, I would ask you know to retire to please consider your verdict.”
So what happens if it’s not unanimous?
KD at 3:21.
For a perfect score he needs to hire a trailer – one big enough to carry it’s own rego plates – with his credit card to dispose of the body.
And return it with his own prints on it and a pool of the victims blood on the floor.
Like the Wales-King thing, most seasoned coppers thought, “Nah. Too obvious. This has to be someone else setting him up”.
Eyrie:
Not an expert, but I read it in a Biggles story… 🙂 det cord without being shaped, just wrapped around a pipe/tree/telephone pole etc will very quickly do the job.
Specialist explosive users like SAS/SBS etc have channel flexible stuff for cutting plate etc. Works on the same principle as shaped charge shell, but is lengthened out so it can be placed.
This is a better explanation.
Wales-King. Wales-King.
Not Wales-Smith.
I suppose the wheelie-bin killer could have put a sticker on said bin saying ‘How’s My Murdering?’ along with a 1800 number, just to get those one-percenter attention to detail points.
Dunno about ACT.
Some jurisdictions allow a majority 11-1 verdict in some instances, but more likely civil trials where no-one is going in the slot.
But, if that is a direct quote, it needs to be 12-zip.
What happens then is effectively back to square one. The DPP decides whether to run it again, but must consider the likelihood of another jury convicting if this one doesn’t.
I don’t even know if they would get access to the jury voting numbers.
11-1 is vastly different to 1-11.
What’s in a name? Have yet to come across a Todd who’s not a dropkick.
Such an epic criminal fail everyone knows who you mean.
calli
Never pre-laod if its going on the ATP* gold card!
*Australian tax payer
Exclusive footage of Brittnees boss being interviewed.
Another budding Ted Bundy failing at launch then??
Possibly Cordtex or ‘det cord’? Cordite was propellant for British Commonwealth cartridges from about 1897 to 1956 or so. Really crap for blowing things up – except in Biggles stories.
Careful – I know a Todd who’s a gun shearer, and I’ll take my hat off to anyone who can shear 200 sheep a day, without a single cut..
Eyrie:
Yep – too neat. That’s explosive cutting or I’ll eat my hat.
Eyriesays:
October 19, 2022 at 1:43 pm
https://australianaviation.com.au/2022/10/exclusive-attorney-general-hails-mh17-case-against-russia/
I don’t know the point of this.
I think it’s something to do with “shirt-fronting” Putin.
That used to be a bad thing, but now is a good thing.
Easier to get some telepathic himitsuno chikara sea-ninjas.
That would be my call.
Very decent of them to make sure the customers don’t catch any stupid from the staff.
Yes we are Old Bloke but as I said upthread, there are still avenues available to get into town from the south, the twin bridges will be closed heading out to Swan Hill however around 7pm.
The town itself isn’t like others due to a well maintained levee system surrounding us. If one was to search on the web for the 2011 flood in Kerang, the town was untouched but surrounding areas were not.
A really cute owl.
11-1 is vastly different to 1-11.
????
A hung jury is a hung jury.
China dumps dud chips on Russia, Moscow media moans
Not sure pre loading would have happened if you were going to get at least some free booze, L was queried about both his alcohol consumption and his spending that evening.
I haven’t seen any discussion about whether H was paying for any of her drinks.
India is flooded with fake ivm.
If you had any doubt that a placebo isn’t more effective than the Speed of Greed needles.
Sancho Panzer says:
October 19, 2022 at 3:23 pm
I once had to tell a newly employed ex-RAAFie that the company credit card was for pre-approved company expenditure (business airfares, meals and hotels). He was agape with incredulity when it was explained to him that it wasn’t an income supplement to be used at his discretion to shout drinks and taxi fares for his mates. Of course, he went down the path of “legit business development … entertaining clients”.
Ah yes, that old chestnut. Business development. Many years ago (35), I was in a meeting with my then boss and three of the ‘Business Development Managers’ (BDMs). The boss asks whether anybody had seen a very well known senior client to our business in the last few days. “Oh yes” say the BDMs to which the boss asks “How did he look? Has he put on any weight?”. “No, he looks fine” say the BDMs. The boss then moves in for the kill “Well that’s a bit surprising ‘cos according to your call sheets and expenses, at least two of you have been taking him out to lunch almost every day for the past week”.
Of course the truth was that the BDMs had been lunching with their mates/girlfriends etc and all claiming they had been with our major client. The mistake was that they didn’t compare notes.
There were no sackings but the BDMs took much more care in their claims from that moment forward.
What the hell is a cute owl?
All I see are blokey looking body builders.
I like my girls all soft and curvy.
rosie
Not sure pre loading would have happened if you were going to get at least some free booze,
If you are a young woman, going out for drinkies on a Friday night, in a white dress with (at the least) no knickers, some Dutch (sorry johanna) courage might be needed?
Also up there with the murderer of Dr Victor Chang who dropped his own wallet at the scene.
Good. Lock her up.
Linear Cutting Charge.
Commercially available stuff:
https://psemc.com/products/flexible-linear-shaped-charge-flsc/
There’s no evidence she pre loaded so why muddy the waters?
Mayby if she was just going out clubbing but the first event was work related and at a comparatively early hour.
What the hell is a cute owl?
The opposite of a plain one.
All I see are blokey looking body builders.
The ones with the beards are the ones to look out for.
I like my girls all soft and curvy.
I don’t mind what they’re like as long as they can cook and don’t snore.
I believe it’s rhyming slang
cute owl = cootie towel
like funny yak = fanny hammock
For when saying “Hey dudes, check out the hot bitch in the green string clam wrapper, 11 o’clock, coming past on our left …nnnnow” is a bit of a slap risk
Excellent article on climate models at Quadrant On-Line.
I had one with slightly more serious repercussions.
I was working for a defence contractor and I get a call from a chap in Canberra who was “looking into things”.
He says, “Do you know if Rear Admiral Bloggs has visited your establishment … “.
Me (being a bit guarded), “Dunno. He might have. I’d have to check with security.”
Him, ” … on a Saturday”.
Me, “Weelll, maybe. Again, I’d have to check with security.”
Him, “How about every second Saturday for the last twelve months”.
Me, “Err, that would be a solid ‘No’ I have to say”
Turns out he was booking flights and hotels to visit the girlfriend under the guise of “project review meetings”.
My boss, who was a certifiable “don’t rock the boat” idiot was furious that I had “dobbed him in”.
As I pointed out to him, the fuckwit was toast anyway, and it would be a great look for us to be covering up for someone defrauding our major client.
Hard to believe people aren’t taking the piss here.
We could also seek a dangling defence, a pendent prosecution, a gibbeted judge, or the whole garotted gang of them.
PHRASING.
Much lezzo screeching and wailing, audible in space.
Useful tool of the Democrats.
I liked one of the comments in response to that ad:
True. They did not just have two adults. The value of children is so obvious that it is used as a prop that they knew no one would be immune to.
That’s be fun to try on George St, Sydney.
As another option, if you put enough lifting charge underneath, you could tear it apart at the seams and disrupt a long length.
Modern torpedoes use this principle. They don’t strike a ship, they explode underneath, lift it in the water, break its back and it sinks in double quick time.
The clean line MIGHT represent a torn seam (weak point).
dover0beach says:
October 19, 2022 at 4:26 pm
Not surprised at all. Europeans would be somewhat better at locating Ukraine although many would probably point to Belarus or Moldova or possibly Romania. I expect only a few could point to the Donbass region.
As Jeremy Clarkson said a year or two ago when luvvies accused him of homophobia: “I love lesbians on the internet”.
Of course straight blokes love watching chicks making out. But don’t expect straight chicks to understand the lure of female homosexuality. For them, it’s repulsive — just as male homosexuality is repulsive to most blokes.
What is the background to that photo?
The Nord Stream pipes were made with a special metal to withstand great pressures. They had to withstand the sea pressure at depth, and also withstand the gas pressure within the pipe, so they wouldn’t be easily damaged by surface explosions I’d imagine. They were also encased in cement, can’t see that in the photo, it looks entirely metallic.
I also wonder how that photo was taken when Sweden has barred anyone looking at the pipes as its within their economic zone, and Sweden itself has said they won’t investigate them for national security reasons.
Fake photo?
Germany has also said that they know who did the deed so they won’t investigate, but they will keep it secret.
Germany says it knows who sabotaged Nord Stream, but…
There’s that Utube dude who goes around asking college kids questions like ; if Switzerland is the capital, what is the country? And in what state will I find the city of Montana. None get it… and they are way off. Dumb as a bag of rocks.
No words.
Personal experience from trial in NT a bit over 10 years ago (aggravated assault and robbery, multiple defendants)
Jury agreed easily they were guilty on most counts, but there was one charge for one of the defendants where some felt there was a reasonable doubt as to whether he had been involved or already run away.
After jury had deliberated for a set amount of time (6 hours from memory) without reaching a unanimous verdict on the final count, judge said he could accept majority verdict of 10-2. We couldn’t do better than 9-3. Sent us back to deliberate further to see if one of the holdouts could be convinced. I think he made us keep deliberating for another 4 hours, then agreed we were unlikely to reach a verdict and we were discharged.
Not sure whether whether prosecution tried again with another jury, or just let him get sentenced for the counts he was found guilty of and let the last one go.
Sancho Panzersays:
October 19, 2022 at 4:23 pm
Of course the truth was that the BDMs had been lunching with their mates/girlfriends etc and all claiming they had been with our major client. The mistake was that they didn’t compare notes.
I had one with slightly more serious repercussions.
I was working for a defence contractor and I get a call from a chap in Canberra who was “looking into things”.
He says, “Do you know if Rear Admiral Bloggs has visited your establishment … “.
Perhaps it’s a naval thing.
Another (ex- at the time) Rear Admiral was found to be tickling the till for hundreds of thousands at Sydney Ferries after retiring from the Navy.
At the higher ranks, there can be a bloated sense of entitlement.
Keep your Wellington boots on BB and you’ll be OK.
Deceptive though. Only showing the dumb ones.
Before they departed the courtroom, four members of the panel were randomly balloted off by the judge’s associate, leaving eight women and four men to consider the charge before them.
Makka
There’s that Utube dude who goes around asking college kids questions like ; if Switzerland is the capital, what is the country? And in what state will I find the city of Montana. None get it… and they are way off. Dumb as a bag of rocks.
Not necessarily dumb, just very poorly educated. They also have never been introduced to the concept of intellectual curiosity.
But they do know the pronouns of everyone in their school.
Ziplock sandwich bags. Put your durries and your lighter in one, and your wallet in the other. Everything else can float away.
LOL.
I just love the in depth stuff in this fish bowl……………………..
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
– John Knee Rotten
I’m sure I’m not muddying any waters with the mere mention of pre-loading. It’s a well-practised art, and it’s not always with alcohol.
Did she do it that night? Probably not. Like the red herrings of L slipping her a mickey finn, it’s all evidence free fantasy. It has been interesting though, shining a light on what passes for professional behaviour in Canberra.
The transcript of L’s statement is also curious in other ways, with some inconsistencies that don’t make sense. One small one – he says he’s a five minute walk from PH but decides to call Uber. Our money of course, or for safety, it being such a notoriously decrepit neighbourhood.
Twelve hotel bar fridges will need restocking tomorrow.
Brittany has set a challenge.
It would if the consequences weren’t so dire.
Two hours of deliberation and then it’s back tomorrow.
Last words heard outside the jury room today.
“Listen luv, are you totally thick?”
Dunno about you guys, but the fridges at work are loaded with grog. On fridays the 2IC hands out beers for consumption while working at the desk. 😉
re: unanimity of verdict
see pp 1 and 3 of https://apo.org.au/sites/default/files/resource-files/2006-01/apo-nid2024.pdf
Linear Cutting Charge.
We were using linear shaped charges to open bomb shells 50 years ago and a derivative of them was a ribbon charge made by cutting sheet explosive into strips and stacking the strips to the required thickness and length to achieve a reasonable cut on metal sheet or bomb bodies (low order) and then burn the main charge explosive.
We actually used ribbon charges to cut up several large above ground WW2 navy fuel tanks in PNG in 1972.
Razeysays:
October 19, 2022 at 5:08 pm
Dunno about you guys, but the fridges at work are loaded with grog. On fridays the 2IC hands out beers for consumption while working at the desk. ?
Sounds like working on the job is the Ozzie way to go……………………..lol. No wonder productivity is so high……….More lol………………………..
I remember hearing this about overturning Roe. All the polls are positive for R. Majorities in both Houses and the Governors’ races look good too.
It’s probably the most unwoke company in the country 😉
I’m enjoying all this expert splodey talk too.
Closest I’ve come to anything that goes pop and gives off sparks recently was the firework the Croatians stuck in the Beloved’s 70th Birthday cake. Looked like a massive Roman candle. Amazing that the cake didn’t explode.
Wouldn’t be allowed here. Health and Safety.
Underwater linear shape charges are more specialised and different from those used in air because the high velocity jet effect to effectively make the cut needs to be in air so the charge has a sealed air space integrated below the shape.
Bring back Guy Fawkes night!
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
– Jim Carrey
Tom at 4.40 pm:
Spot on. No need to add anything.
Squirrel away Dover.
They post a scare video and you took the bait. Maybe ask Vlad the shirtless for some tactical advice. Lol!
This period in history will be known as the ‘Dumb Ages’.
Is it possible to make a linear shaped charge to wrap around a pipeline and cut it?
Easier to get some telepathic himitsuno chikara sea-ninjas.
Sharks…. sharks with frikkin lasers did it.
How long does it take to charge an electric car?
It’s the easiest question to ask, but the hardest to answer because quite simply, it depends…
It’s the easiest question to ask, but the hardest to answer because quite simply, it depends.
It depends on how ‘fast’ your charger is, the rate of charge a vehicle can, and how much you need to charge.
It’s not as complex as it sounds though, and you can use a simple high-school mathematics formula to work everything out.
Power = Volts x Amps.
In the same way a petrol car’s fuel efficiency is measured in litres per 100km an electric car’s energy use is measured as kilowatt hours per 100km, or kWh/100km.
Right now, an average electric car uses 20kWh/100km. While some cars use less (Tesla Model 3 ~15kWh/100km) and some use more (Audi E-Tron S ~25kWh/100km), 20kWh will be our base for the recharge calculation.
A home wall plug, the slowest but most universal charging method, has 240V on a 10A circuit for a maximum of 2.4kW of power: 240V x 10A = 2400W or 2.4kW.
That means, to add 20kWh of charge to our car – enough to drive 100km – will take about 8-hours and 20-minutes. So, 20kWh required divided by 2.4kW charging = rate of charge.
While that sounds like a long time, it’s basically an overnight charge to add 100km of range. If you only drive 50km, your wall charger should be able to add that amount of range in 4hrs and 10min.
Conversely, if you need to add 400km of range (80kWh) and all you’ve got is your trusty wall socket, you better settle in as that will take at least 33 hours. Ouch.
The good news is things only get faster from here.
Why not go for a cool billion?
HOUSTON – The mother of George Floyd’s daughter has filed a $250 million lawsuit against rapper Kanye West following his recent comments on Floyd’s death.
In a news release from Witherspoon Law Group and Dixon & Dixon Attorneys at Law, Floyd’s family issued a cease-and-desist letter to West, also known as Ye’, for his comments about the 2020 death of the man at the hands of Minneapolis police that sparked a worldwide movement against police brutality.
In West’s recent appearance on the Drink Champs podcast, West made controversial statements about Floyd’s death, saying he died as a result of fentanyl use.
Underwater linear shape charges are more specialised and different from those used in air because the high velocity jet effect to effectively make the cut needs to be in air so the UW charge has a sealed air space integrated below the shape.
Correct me if I’m wrong but the emphasis on evacuation seemed to take off after Black Saturday in Victoriastan. Complaints now about not being able to return for days. News shows homes smouldering for hours before being razed. Floods might be different. Fire in those heavily forested Ash country is probably not survivable in places.
Horses for courses HB
Old bloke says:
October 19, 2022 at 4:43 pm
Excellent link/video Old bloke.
We’ll know just how politicised the jury pool is in the ACT if they convict Lehrmann. Not even the ABC, which desperately wants him to hang, could gloss over the evidence that establishes a supertanker-load of reasonable doubt.
It was the Defence Minister’s office.
WRONGGGGGG!!
It was 20 days into the glorious reign of Linda Reynolds, Defence Industry Minister since 2nd March 2019.
68 days later she was Defence Minister, the most meteoric rise of any Senator in the history of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Been a long time since i did explosives, and nothing nautical at all but…
If the pipeline was cement cased would you end up with a clean cut through the steel pipe underneath?
Surely the casing would shatter making it much less “clean” a cut underneath??
/my last feculation on this subject, its too specialized for me.
Maryland’s Emmett Till Alert System went live in August and was activated for the first time at 6 p.m. Sunday.
“Sounding the alarm against domestic threats is very important to me,” said Antonio Palmer, owner of Kingdom Kare.
The Caucus of African American Leaders puts out the alerts, which are similar to Amber Alerts, but are focused on hate crimes and other incidents targeting minorities.
“Make no mistake about this. This is based on a credible, credible threat,” said Robert Johnson, with the Caucus of African American Leaders.
Good times, to be sure.
There’s 8 women on the Jury, so he’s won Jury Lotto.
Not wearing pants?
That’s a couple for The Brucester.
Absolutely legless hours before? Serves her right!
There’s another 2.
Said “fucking” in response to a question?
Another 2.
6 against 6 doesn’t equal a Conviction.
A Rabbi in NYC gets into a taxi and politely asks the driver to Midtown. Suddenly a man with a redneck with Swastika barges into the cab, slams the door and orders the driver to the airport. Furious the cab driver gets out, pulls the redneck out of the cab and proceeds to beat the hell out of him. Meanwhile, the Rabbi is screaming “Stop! Stop!” Unfrazzled, the cab driver continues to beat the shit out of the redneck. A good 5 minutes goes on, the driver beating the redneck and the Rabbi pleading to stop. Finally, the cab driver gets back into his taxi and asks the Rabbi “What’s wrong with you? Don’t you want me to teach him a lesson?”. The Rabbi exclaims “Stop the counter!”
Solar and Wind Renewable Energy Projects are Environmentally Destructive
I never said most of the things I said.
– Yogi Berra
Damn Balkanese!
And after paying all that money Calli.
Joining dots….
How did the landwhale end up starkers on the couch or whatever? Has there been any speculation how that occurred?
Razey, it’s polite to H/T your source.
“Working on the usual ‘how much do I lie to doctors’ ratio, that’s 33 shots.”
According to the good doctor Dalrymple the way to gauge the consumption habits is to overshoot. ie:
“So Mr Smith, how many bottle of scotch do you drink a day? Two, three?”
At this point Mr Smith thinks he is in the clear with “Oh no doctor, only one”.
“Of course straight blokes love watching chicks making out.”
I remember getting drunk with an archetypal bull dyke once, she thought it highly unlikely many straight blokes would want to watch her get down to it.
Bons! It came as a huge shock to him – he’d bought some other “explosive” stuff to celebrate with our fellow travellers. A bottle of fiery schnapps that was all gone in an instant. He thought that was that.
Then out came the cake complete with firework. 😀
Indoors too.
Thanks Chris, my mistake, it was detcord. He called it something else.
H/T internet.
A lady goes to the doctor and complains that her husband is losing interest in sex. The doctor gives her a pill, but warns her that it’s still experimental. He tells her to slip it into his mashed potatoes at dinner, so that night, she does just that. About a week later, she’s back at the doctor, where she says “Doc, the pill worked great! I put it in the potatoes like you said! It wasn’t five minutes later that he jumped up, raked all the food and dishes onto the floor, grabbed me, ripped all my clothes off, and ravaged me right there on the table!” The doctor says “I’m sorry, we didn’t realize the pill was that strong! The foundation will be glad to pay for any damages”. “Nah” she says “that’s okay. We’re never going back to that restaurant anyway”.
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For the result of that trial, yes.
But I was talking in the context of whether the DPP would give it another run.
11-1 guilty might be tempting.
11-1 not guilty might be a message to put the cue in the rack.
Fashion Industry Gets Torn by Europe’s Soaring Energy Bills
Surge in natural-gas and electricity prices imperils factories and workshops; ‘a monster that’s devouring us’
The energy crisis that has closed steel mills and aluminum smelters across Europe is now spreading to the continent’s fashion industry.
Thousands of small factories and workshops that supply brands such as Gucci and H&M have watched their business models unravel amid the surge in natural-gas and electricity prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its decision to reduce the flow of gas to the continent. Energy costs for many textile makers have risen from about 5% of production costs to around 25%, slashing their profit margins, according to data from European textiles and apparel trade group Euratex.
Energy prices have risen so high, textile makers said, that utilities and other energy vendors, concerned about not getting paid, are demanding that the textile companies secure bank guarantees or come up with cash advances to cover months of expected energy bills. In Italy, Europe’s biggest textile producer, many manufacturers said they can no longer line up energy-purchasing agreements that previously insulated them from short-term price fluctuations.
Italy and some other Southern European nations have asked the European Union to adopt a cap on wholesale gas prices across all member countries, a measure Germany and the Netherlands oppose. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, on Tuesday published proposals seeking the power to impose an emergency cap on the price of natural gas on the bloc’s main trading exchange.
At present, the pain is striking up and down the supply chain, from spinners and weavers who consume lots of electricity to transform bales of wool into yarn to fabric dyers who use gas-powered water tanks and industrial-size dryers.
It is difficult for fabric makers to simply pass on those higher costs to buyers. Many are obligated to deliver goods at prices agreed upon months earlier. And higher prices would likely prompt many fashion companies and retailers to shift their business to outside of Europe, where energy prices can be lower. Hanging in the balance are the textile-manufacturing industry’s 1.3 million jobs across the EU.
Alberto Paccanelli, who runs a textile maker in Northern Italy, was stunned when his July gas bill jumped to 660,000 euros, the equivalent of about $650,000, from €90,000 a year earlier.
Some brands already are moving production to other countries including Turkey, where production costs are lower, rather than absorbing the extra cost in countries like Italy, according to suppliers. Russia has continued to supply gas and oil to Turkey. Enrico Gatti, a wool maker who supplies Zara, H&M and other brands, said orders have dropped by 50% this year for him and other textile makers around the Tuscan town of Prato, a major textile hub.
A spokeswoman for H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB said the company is “continuously developing our sourcing to mitigate increased energy, raw material and freight costs as well as currency.”
Inditex SA, owner of Zara, says its flexible manufacturing relationships allow it to shift production as needed.
The industry’s problems are laying bare an emerging divide between European countries moving to insulate national industries from surging gas prices and those countries that cannot afford to. Germany announced energy relief measures valued at nearly €300 billion, including price limits on electricity and gas. France plans to spend €100 billion on its own crisis-fighting measures.
Italy doesn’t have the financial firepower for similar measures. The country is saddled with a national debt equivalent to 150% of its gross domestic output, and Giorgia Meloni, the country’s incoming prime minister, has vowed to keep a lid on public spending.
As of late September, Italy had allocated €59 billion, or 3.3% of its GDP, to measures aimed at shielding businesses and households from the energy crisis, according to the Brussels-based Bruegel think tank. Germany had allocated €100 billion, or 2.8% of its GDP, while France had directed €72 billion, or 2.9% of GDP, at the problem.
The divergence is undermining the EU’s single market for goods, said Jean-François Pierre Gribomont, chairman of textiles company Utexbel NV. His weaving operation in Belgium pays €193 per megawatt-hour in that country, double what he paid a year ago. In France, which has directed subsidies at the problem, he pays €123 a megawatt-hour, an annual increase of about 50%, he said. “Why should we have a Europe if every country can do what it wants,” he said.
Michael Engelhardt, head of energy policy for Berlin-based trade association Textil+Mode, said German textile and fashion companies could be poised to benefit from state aid more than peers in some other European countries, but that the firms still have to jockey for public funds with other domestic industries. “If you have the question, ‘Who has the deepest pockets?’ then yes, Germany is all of the time doing well,” he said.
Fabric makers worry they will end up near the back of the line if European capitals are forced to ration gas this winter, because their wares are deemed less essential than other energy-intensive industries such as glass and metals.
“You could argue, ‘Look, if you’re short of fresh new shirts, it’s not the end of the world, you see?’ ” said Dirk Vantyghem, director general of trade group Euratex. But he and other textile-industry representatives and producers said the fashion industry is closely intertwined with broader production of technical and medical textiles that go into such things as air filters, wind turbine blades, artificial human joints and automobile tires.
The steady supply of inexpensive Russian gas allowed manufacturers across Europe to thrive for decades, even while overseas competition increased. Europe’s share of global textile exports has declined over the past 20 years, while China’s has quadrupled to more than 40% as of 2020, more than double the EU’s 2020 share, according to the most recent World Trade Organization data.
Vincenzo Cangioli, another high-end wool maker from Prato, discovered he could no longer renew his long-term gas purchasing agreement, at any price. That forced him to start buying gas on a month-to-month basis. His bill for the month of July was €340,000, compared with €450,000 for all of 2021.
Just wow. Even padded they dare not print the recent GDP stat.
Taking a leaf out of the Hunchbacks ‘health advice’.
Sea bass. 😀
You wonder sometimes what it’d be like doing a scene such as that.
The actors would be melting down in sidesplitting laughter.
Would’ve needed quite a few takes. Frustrating for the director.
Mmmyes.
My boss was a retired Group Captain.
I sort of got the feeling there was a bit of “there but for the grace of God” in his discomfort.
Some good memes.
How did the landwhale end up starkers on the couch or whatever? Has there been any speculation how that occurred?
Speculate:
She chundered on them and stripped herself??
Or….
A very good question, since CCTV of Higgins staggering thru Security show a woman so drunk that she couldn’t put her shoes back on, despite many attempts to do so.
Did it ever occur to you that perhaps she had some help while she was out like a light on Reynolds’ couch?
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
– Katharine Hepburn
There are several possibilities, Police Commissioner, Mr Ed.
Rotten
FMD, you’re so spamming the site. Pretty soon, I’m expecting ads to appear for cheap solar panels.
Ahhhhh! Disaster!
Murray River could EXCEED 94.77 metres!
Above sea level. 🙁
I bow to your wisdom.
The possibility of Higgins undressing herself, sane people will exclude that
one.
We’re left with Space Aliens, the ghost of Harold Holt, a female security guard, and one other person.
Your thoughts?
That was just on Seven News. It’s difficult to put this idiocy into words.
Ocasionally – accidentally – I stumble across the vast wastelands of ignorance exibited daily by Ed Case. This time he’s asserting that BH’s lack of undies will SHOCK!!! the female members of the jury, to the detriment of BH’s case. Obviously, Ed Case has enjoyed only limited experience of women.
Not for all, but many young wives and women in committed relationships love going knickerless, especially on a romantic date, when stairs might be involved. And their men love it even more! Harmless, loving flirtation – and a great conversation starter if things are getting jaded.
Lack of undies alone will not influence BH’s case with female members of the jury.
re: Taiwan.
The US’s recent ruling which prohibited US citizens from working in the Chinese IC industry has only added to China’s desire to seize Taiwan.
Its almost as if they want another war.. but that would be tin-foil hat territory, right? right ?
68 days later she was Defence Minister, the most meteoric rise of any Senator in the history of the Commonwealth of Australia.
There might be elements of exaggeration in this comment by Richard Cranium.