Open Thread – Weekend 22 Oct 2022


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Struth
October 22, 2022 2:53 pm

No.
Fuck off.
Your wet dream about a purge of the St Ruth Recalcitrants is pathetic.
I have no fear about a knock on the door from the Kenn Worth Road Ranger Deathsquad.

Relax petal.
No one is accusing you of being a traitor……….unless you need to get something off your chest.

You’re just a coward.

Shy Ted
Shy Ted
October 22, 2022 2:54 pm

Well done, Gina. Along the same lines I accidentally watched a few minutes of AWFL last eve. Two consecutive games. Crowds in their dozens. Truly awful. But the enthusiastic commentator did say that with the recent increased funding, sponsorship I think, the money had been spent on –
a) improved training facilities
b) youth netball development
c) future talent identification and mentorship
d) travel business class rather than economy
If you answered a, b or c go and stand in the corner with a dunce hat on.

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 22, 2022 2:55 pm

Storm erupts over permanent closure of popular bushwalk trail as traditional custodians claim tourist photos of the spot are ‘culturally inappropriate’

By AIDAN WONDRACZ FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

A decision to close a popular walking track out of respect to the original Aboriginal custodians and prevent people taking photos of it has sparked a backlash.

The Mount Warning hiking trail in the Tweed Shire, in far north New South Wales, will soon no longer be accessible to visitors.

The Wollumbin Consultative Group (WCG) and NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service have prepared a management plan unveiling plans to close it off for good.

Mount Warning, which is known by traditional owners as Wollumbin, attracts more than 127,000 hikers to its picturesque trail every year.

The WCG has deemed the site to not be ‘culturally appropriate or safe’ for hikers to use or for images to be taken of it for tourism purposes.

News of the decision to close down the site has sparked heated blowback from hiking enthusiasts.

‘The whole of Australia will be deemed cultural land before too long, and we won’t be able to climb any mountain or cross any river. Disgrace,’ one wrote on Facebook.

Another added: ‘My culture says I will climb that mountain whenever I feel like it. Sick of this over regulated country … time to start giving the finger to authority.’

A third person claimed the trail was a ‘great healthy and challenging activity’ to do with friends.

‘A truly disgusting decision,’ they wrote. ‘And to pass it off as ‘culturally inappropriate’ is a farce.’

The NSW Government announced the future of the hiking track would be determined by representatives from the WCG.

Environment Minister James Griffin said use of the track conflicted with Aboriginal cultural values.

‘The Wollumbin Consultative Group’s long-standing view is that public access to the summit is not in line with the cultural values of the area,’ he said.

Daily Mail

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 22, 2022 2:56 pm

Traitors should be put up against a wall and shot.
Not hard.

Nope, not hard, but you won’t be doing it. You’ll be yelling from the very back of the peanut gallery, as usual, because you’re an empty vessel that can’t believe your unique brand of genius is not recognised by everyone around you.

You can’t write a protest song that isn’t a cover of about three others. You’re a serial failure.

If you weren’t turning the extremely righteous anti-mandate cause into a fringe-dwelling freak show it’d be something else, so nobody should be surprised you’re all yap.

A cavoodle in a yard full of Bull Arabs. Yip yip yip, then a sprint to the back door.

Makka
Makka
October 22, 2022 2:56 pm

Court Orders Depositions of Top Biden Officials in Missouri AG’s Case
Oct 21, 2022, 16:38 PM by AG Schmitt
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced today that the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana granted Missouri and Louisiana’s request for depositions from top-ranking officials in the federal government. This is movement in his lawsuit against top-ranking Biden Administration officials for allegedly colluding to suppress freedom of speech. The list of granted depositions includes Dr. Anthony Fauci, former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Director of White House Digital Strategy Rob Flaherty, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, CISA Director Jen Easterly, and FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan.
“After finding documentation of a collusive relationship between the Biden Administration and social media companies to censor free speech, we immediately filed a motion to get these officials under oath,” said Attorney General Schmitt. “It is high time we shine a light on this censorship enterprise and force these officials to come clean to the American people, and this ruling will allow us to do just that. We’ll keep pressing for the truth.”

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 22, 2022 2:58 pm

Is St Ruth for real or a piss take? Surely it’s not possible to be that ridiculous and obnoxious

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 22, 2022 3:00 pm

OK.
So where to for sports sponsorship now?
It used to be a slam-dunk (heh!) way to ensure positive exposure for your brand.
But now?
All it takes is one or two fading “stars” to start slagging off your brand and that positive is quickly flipped on it’s head.
Who is safe?
Energy companies? Nup. Any whiff of gas or coal and they are out?
Car companies? Well, no. Cars are big polluders.
Supermarkets? Bzzzt. Plastic straws.
Gambling companies? Wut? They prey on the poor.
Alcohol companies? Are you kidding?
Coca Cola? Pepsi? Maccas? KFC? Sorry, yeah, poisoning our kids.
So what is the future of sports advertising?
Maybe they just buy advertising slots direct from the broadcasters.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
October 22, 2022 3:01 pm

It’s pretty much culturally inappropriate for native peoples to access the food, clothing, transport, schooling and housing of their invaders, but I can’t quite see Lidya entering Parliament in native form
anytime soon. I’ll wait a knock on the door about my holiday snaps.

Roger
Roger
October 22, 2022 3:03 pm

Maybe the Bard should have studied more science just like our “Pollies’ today.

Context determines meaning, Johnny.

The Taming of the Shrew, Act 5, Scene 2.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 22, 2022 3:07 pm

No.
Fuck off.
Your wet dream about a purge of the St Ruth Recalcitrants is pathetic.
I have no fear about a knock on the door from the Kenn Worth Road Ranger Deathsquad.

Relax petal.
No one is accusing you of being a traitor……….unless you need to get something off your chest.

OK.
I’ve been vaxxed six times.
I wear a mask, even at home, in bed and in the shower.
I QR code everywhere I go.
I insist on only travelling to countries which enforce the Nazi-pass.
I laugh at purebloods who cry as they put their boat on Gumtree.
Am I guilty enough?
Come get me, champ!
I Furkyan Derya.
🙂

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 22, 2022 3:09 pm

A cavoodle in a yard full of Bull Arabs. Yip yip yip, then a sprint to the back door.

The classic front bar urger.
Stirring the pot all night.
But when the punch-up starts, they can be found in the dunny, taking the louvres out of window to make good their escape.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 22, 2022 3:09 pm

Ed Casesays:
October 22, 2022 at 2:06 pm
Is supporting the RFDS? .
Course it is.
Is there any good reason why the various Governments shouldn’t fully fund the RFDS?

Keep it efficient, don’t let the government take over, they will bugger it up.

This comment (according to Richard Cranium) authorised by a Labor Party shill.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
October 22, 2022 3:10 pm

Miltonf says:
Montypox even more poisonous and obnoxious than usual

i was sooooooo disappointed to see a total lack of upticks for his poison.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 22, 2022 3:14 pm

It’s pretty much culturally inappropriate for native peoples to access the food, clothing, transport, schooling and housing of their invaders

It does only seem to run one – way, doesn’t it..

rosie
rosie
October 22, 2022 3:15 pm

The more they close things off in Australia the more I’m going to travel overseas.
Domestic travel is limited to visiting family.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Tom says: October 22, 2022 at 8:48 am
The only good thing about Philippine Airlines is that it doesn’t crash aeroplanes as a number of big Asian carriers have done in the past 20 years.

There was the incident near Okinawa, where a bomb exploded inflight aboard a Philippine Airlines flight (& the first officer “lost it” for a few minutes, though the skipper was on the ball)

However, they did not crash, despite a bomb blowing a hole in craft, & landed it okay.

bespoke
bespoke
October 22, 2022 3:16 pm

Is St Ruth for real or a piss take?

Whatever St ruths motivations are the effects are the same.

Divide and frustrate supporters.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

It’s not just transportation that relies on diesel: 75 percent of all farm equipment relies on the fuel

Er… what does the other 25% of farm equipment run on? Oats? (How far have we slipped?)

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 22, 2022 3:17 pm

Rogersays:
October 22, 2022 at 2:32 pm
The religious right don’t own the concepts of family, marriage and gender any more.

Anyone who believes that family, marriage and gender are “concepts” people can “own” rather than means by which God orders human life for the good is headed to a dark place. Once God’s order is rejected, they will inevitably seek to impose their own.

Which is what socialists of every variety do, every fucking time.

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
October 22, 2022 3:18 pm

If I was Gina I’d propose a $150,000,000 sponsorship , paint there faces black and eat a humble pie before every match.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 22, 2022 3:18 pm

All it takes is one or two fading “stars” to start slagging off your brand and that positive is quickly flipped on it’s head.

Or current stars. The T20 Crikkit World Cup’s ‘major partnership’ is with a crew called Aramco:

Saudi Aramco (Arabic: ?????? ???????? ?Ar?mk? as-Su??diyyah), officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (formerly Arabian-American Oil Company) or simply Aramco, is a Saudi Arabian public petroleum and natural gas company based in Dhahran. As of 2020, it is one of the largest companies in the world by revenue.

Saudi Aramco has both the world’s second-largest proven crude oil reserves, at more than 270 billion barrels (43 billion cubic metres), and largest daily oil production of all oil-producing companies. It is the single greatest contributor to global carbon emissions of any company in the world since 1965. On 11 May 2022, Saudi Aramco became the largest (most valuable) company in the world by market cap, surpassing Apple Inc.

Saudi Aramco operates the world’s largest single hydrocarbon network, the Master Gas System. In 2013 crude oil production total was 3.4 billion barrels (540 million cubic metres), and it manages over one hundred oil and gas fields in Saudi Arabia, including 288.4 trillion standard cubic feet (scf) of natural gas reserves. Saudi Aramco operates the Ghawar Field, the world’s largest onshore oil field, and the Safaniya Field, the world’s largest offshore oil field.

Still unhappy with Origin as a sponsor, Cummins, you poncing hypocrite?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 22, 2022 3:24 pm

I just heard that Gina has taken Cassie’s advice and walked from Aus Netball.
Serves them right for disgraceful ‘woke’ behaviour towards a likely sponsor.
A lesson in consequences for them.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 22, 2022 3:26 pm

m0nty-fa should have the courage of his convictions.

He should re-write his “Leftards are the only conservatives in the village” comment as a full post, publish if on Phat Pussy, and allow Homer and Steve from Brissy to provide vocal support. It might even lure Rex A back from his break.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 22, 2022 3:26 pm

Yep. Anything about the Panama now gets Internal Server Error but I can post other stuff here.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 22, 2022 3:28 pm

Maybe its the name that must not be spoken. I’ll try this.

Theodore Roosevelt pushed the PC along as part of the great American project which just couldn’t happen in today’s woke world. Made by international labour with American engineering and money.

I didn’t know about the new channel for tankers Calli, so thanks, will look out for it.

There is a genuine interest on board about this canal. A reasonable proportion on this cruise are doing this engineering marvel as part of a bucket-list (many seem old and not too well), and who can blame them for that? I don’t think we are in that category yet. Hope not anyway.

One old guy collapsed in the cinema today and had to be carried out. There is a lot of bravery in some of this travel. On our last attempt at this cruise when Covid began we got friendly with a man and his wife. He had an inoperable brain tumour, not all that old either, and I doubt he has made it back to ‘do’ the Panama. So sad for him after all the efforts he made to do it.

rosie
rosie
October 22, 2022 3:31 pm

Why does the cat like panama?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 22, 2022 3:33 pm

There is only one answer.
Lingerie netball.
Sam Newman chairman of selectors.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 22, 2022 3:35 pm

One old guy collapsed in the cinema today and had to be carried out.

How long had you been talking to him about saving neglected English churches?
🙂

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 22, 2022 3:39 pm

‘My culture says I will climb that mountain whenever I feel like it. Sick of this over regulated country … time to start giving the finger to authority.’

More like this please.
Say it loud and say it clear. This land is our land too.
Hands off it. It belongs to us all.

The Voice will only encourage more of this sort of thing. VOTE NO. Tell everyone.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 22, 2022 3:44 pm

‘My culture says I will climb that mountain whenever I feel like it. Sick of this over regulated country … time to start giving the finger to authority.’

More like this please.
Say it loud and say it clear. This land is our land too.
Hands off it. It belongs to us all.

The Voice will only encourage more of this sort of thing. VOTE NO. Tell everyone.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
October 22, 2022 3:45 pm

There is only one answer.
Lingerie netball.
Sam Newman chairman of selectors.

Now that’s where we should be heading. Selection criteria – no bull dykes.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
October 22, 2022 3:48 pm

Lingerie netball.

Weak.

No lingerie netball would outsell it. Big time.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
October 22, 2022 3:50 pm

I just sent an email to Hancock Prospecting, congratulating them on their decision to withdraw their sponsorship from Netball Australia.
Please take the time to let them know you agree with their stance.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 22, 2022 3:51 pm

incoherent ramblersays:
October 22, 2022 at 3:48 pm
Lingerie netball.

Weak.

No lingerie netball would outsell it. Big time.

Please.
Do not reveal the end-game at this stage.
One step at a time.

“The good news is, girls, there will be no Hancock Mining logo on the new uniform. There’s no room.”

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 22, 2022 3:51 pm

How long had you been talking to him about saving neglected English churches?
?

Nah. It wasn’t me this time. I think he missed his step in the dark, even though they have big warning signs thrown onto the floor with special lights. Poor fellow might have an eyesight problem. Fellow passengers were so good semi-hauling him back up the stairs and missing part of the show.
People are mostly kind.

Heard at dinner that 42 passengers didn’t make it back to the ship from a tour due to a landslide. The ship went without them because it has to make the Panama timeslot and couldn’t wait. They will now miss the Panama and are being flown to a port just beyond it. Their bad luck, apparently.

We are going to see some sloths in Costa Rica tomorrow.
Hope they get a move on. Don’t want to be late.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 22, 2022 3:52 pm

The thing with Lidia, as she splashes frantically trying to hold on to the parliamentary trough with her snout, is listening to her squirm and writhe and reflect upon how vicious, merciless, savage, and gleeful, and even sadistic, she has been vivisecting those people whose humiliation has served her purposes.

johanna
johanna
October 22, 2022 3:57 pm

Boris Fluffyhead’s chutzpah is off the graph, not to mention that of his supporters.

The man who singlehandedly turned a massive victory into a shambles. The man who never saw a principle or a promise he couldn’t discard like yesterday’s underwear. The man who, with his staff, partied while ordinary Britons were imprisoned in their homes and prosecuted if they disobeyed. The man who sold out the fishing industry to the EU. The man who sold out parts of Ireland to the EU … etc, etc.

If, as is claimed, the grassroots want him back, then the party is over, red rover. Then again, look at the alternatives.

What a debacle.

Winston Smith
October 22, 2022 4:01 pm

J.C:
Duelling thread.
NOW!
(I don’t have Interweb socks, you cretin.)

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 22, 2022 4:03 pm

Winston Smithsays:

October 22, 2022 at 4:01 pm

J.C:
Duelling thread.
NOW!
(I don’t have Interweb socks, you cretin.)

Off you go.
If I’m not there in five minutes, start without me.

Makka
Makka
October 22, 2022 4:04 pm

On Saudi and China relations;

The big picture: White House officials stressed ahead, during and after Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia last July that one of the administration’s goals was to maintain U.S. leadership in the Middle East and prevent China and Russia from gaining influence.

Yes, but: Oil analyst Bob McNally, president of Rapidan Energy Group, cautions against reading too much into the Saudi-China meeting and statement.

He noted in an email exchange with Axios that Saudi Arabia, China and other actors are all bracing for turmoil in oil flows and prices “arising from the clash between looming recession and geopolitical disruption risks.”
“Their bilateral relationship has been deepening for years and not too surprising that they’re exchanging compliments and vowing to work together during these unusually volatile and risky times,” said McNally, who was a senior energy aide in the George W. Bush White House.

And Wald notes “even though China is Saudi Arabia’s most important customer, it cannot replace the military and diplomatic role the U.S. plays in the Middle East and specifically in ensuring Saudi security.”

Let’s not also forget the hundreds of Billions KSA has tied up in US investments along with families residing in US of A.

Winston Smith
October 22, 2022 4:06 pm

Eyrie: @0832 this morning.
I saved the post as a picture file, and FB refused to allow me to publish it.

Posts that look like spam according to our Community Guidelines are blocked on Facebook and can’t be edited.

How odd?!

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
October 22, 2022 4:07 pm

Salvatore-
Electric, as installed. Quick mental survey would put 25% as a yuge overestimate, but maybe if irrigation and on-farm sortage and storage is included?

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 22, 2022 4:07 pm

It’s pretty much culturally inappropriate for native peoples to access the food, clothing, transport, schooling and housing of their invaders, …

The Native People didn’t ask the invaders to destroy their food sources and way of life, If I remember correctly, but it happened anyway.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 22, 2022 4:13 pm

Thorpe even has the fawning leftist lapdogs of Lee Rhiannon at the Sydney Morning Herald coming after her.

It’s an orchestrated stitch up.
Thorpey must have a few Principles, which does tend to disqualify her as a Greens Senator.

Johnny Rotten
October 22, 2022 4:16 pm

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

– William Shakespeare

bespoke
bespoke
October 22, 2022 4:17 pm

if irrigation and on-farm sortage and storage is included?

Most likely.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 22, 2022 4:17 pm

rosiesays:
October 22, 2022 at 3:31 pm
Why does the cat like panama?

The Cat in the Hat?

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 22, 2022 4:19 pm

Lizzie

We are going to see some sloths in Costa Rica tomorrow.
Hope they get a move on. Don’t want to be late.

mUnty has been on holiday, he might be there.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
October 22, 2022 4:21 pm

“Hmm. Looks like rain.”
– William Shakespeare

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 22, 2022 4:23 pm

Ed Casesays:
October 22, 2022 at 4:07 pm
It’s pretty much culturally inappropriate for native peoples to access the food, clothing, transport, schooling and housing of their invaders, …

The Native People didn’t ask the invaders to destroy their food sources and way of life, If I remember correctly, but it happened anyway.

Given the tenor of the times, it was inevitable. Aborigines should reflect on their likely fate had they been colonised by others, go down on their knees, and thank God for the British.

rickw
rickw
October 22, 2022 4:23 pm
Ed Case
Ed Case
October 22, 2022 4:23 pm

The Hancock Prospecting Group posted one of the largest profit margins for private companies in the country with revenue up from $10.5 billion to $16.6 billion. The company paid $2.7 billion in taxes for the year.

So, in a tax bill of more nearly 3 billion dollars, her tax dodge master-stroke is a $15 million sponsorship of Netty chicks?
Moron.

$15 million, plus the $50 million she gives Swimming, plus whatever she gives RFDS, plus whatever else she gets a Tax Writeoff from “donating” are nothing to you?
You must be doing pretty well then, Digger?

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 22, 2022 4:26 pm

…go down on their knees, and thank God for the British.

Hey, SpongeBob
Are you down on your knees, and thanking God for the British?

Davey Boy
Davey Boy
October 22, 2022 4:28 pm

“Ffaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark”
– Graham Kennedy

Johnny Rotten
October 22, 2022 4:30 pm

Three women go down to Mexico one night to celebrate college graduation.

They get blind drunk and wake up in jail, only to find that they are to be executed in the morning, though none of them can remember what they did the night before.

The first one, a redhead, is strapped in the electric chair and is asked if she has any last words. She says “I just graduated from Trinity Bible College and believe in the almighty power of God to intervene on the behalf of the innocent”.

They throw the switch and nothing happens.

They all immediately fall to the floor on their knees, beg for forgiveness, and release her.

The second one, a brunette, is strapped in and gives her last words. “I just graduated from the Harvard School of Law and I believe in the power of justice to intervene on the part of the innocent”.

They throw the switch and again, nothing happens.

Again, they all immediately fall to their knees, beg for forgiveness and release her.

The last one, a blonde, is strapped in and says “Well, I’m from the University of Texas and just graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering, and I’ll tell ya right now, ya’ll ain’t gonna electrocute nobody if you don’t plug this thing in!”

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 22, 2022 4:31 pm

Just on MK50s plagiarism, it must be hard for his creator to think up points of view that are stupid enough to elicit comment, so it’s understandable that he’d borrow a real person’s opinion now and again.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 22, 2022 4:31 pm

Gee, the evenings are drawing out now.

– Sun Tzu

johanna
johanna
October 22, 2022 4:32 pm

Yet another Internal Server Error for a completely innocuous comment.

As before, I will try to post it in chunks, to see what the ‘problem’ is.

Winston Smith
October 22, 2022 4:32 pm

Indolent:

WEF Insect Food Agenda Implemented on Dutch Children

And on our children. Something, somehow has to be done to stop this.

And why would I do anything about this stuff, considering the same people who would like me to ‘do something’ are the same people who wanted to see me stuck in a camp, tattooed, fired from my job, and refused medicare treatment – even though I pay for my own Medicare Private?
No, Indolent – this is not my fight.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 22, 2022 4:34 pm

Given the tenor of the times, it was inevitable. Aborigines should reflect on their likely fate had they been colonised by others, go down on their knees, and thank God for the British.

After four hundred years of Portuguese rule of Angola and Mozambique, the majority of Africans were still illiterate, and lacking the most basic of services, and the Portuguese record on East Timor wasn’t too flash, either.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 22, 2022 4:35 pm

it must be hard for his creator to think up points of view that are stupid enough to elicit comment,

Groogs gives the game away. What a weirdo.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 22, 2022 4:36 pm

Richard Cranium

$15 million, plus the $50 million she gives Swimming, plus whatever she gives RFDS, plus whatever else she gets a Tax Writeoff from “donating” are nothing to you?
You must be doing pretty well then, Digger?

You described $33 billion given annually to indigenous causes as “crumbs from the table”, so you must be doing exceedingly well.

Johnny Rotten
October 22, 2022 4:36 pm

If you think nobody cares whether you’re alive or dead, try missing a couple of mortgage payments.

– John Knee Rotten

johanna
johanna
October 22, 2022 4:36 pm

Part 1.

Boambee John says:
October 22, 2022 at 10:55 am

Old School Conservativesays:
October 22, 2022 at 10:45 am
sending children to school age 5 is a proven failure

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 22, 2022 4:37 pm

Ed Casesays:
October 22, 2022 at 4:26 pm
…go down on their knees, and thank God for the British.

Hey, SpongeBob
Are you down on your knees, and thanking God for the British?

I have many things for which I thank God, Australia being colonised by the British is but one of them.

And are you down on your knees?

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
October 22, 2022 4:42 pm

An omen I didn’t follow.

Rich Gina won R8 Morphettville

flyingduk
flyingduk
October 22, 2022 4:43 pm

The Native People didn’t ask the invaders to destroy their food sources and way of life, If I remember correctly, but it happened anyway.

There’s a dozen roos in my house paddock most mornings

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 22, 2022 4:44 pm

Soros and the Kiev regime… Supping with the Devil

Finian Cunningham
Strategic Culture Foundation

A Jewish-born billionaire funding a Nazi regime in Ukraine to do his bidding is not beyond cynical calculation. It’s what capitalism is all about.

The NATO-backed Kiev regime is enacting new draconian laws that will banish all dissenting free speech. Any views not aligned with the regime are to be deemed treasonous and outlawed, even subject to persecution and violent repression.

The new legal powers enshrine a vicious campaign against independent media in Ukraine that has been raging over the past four years under President Vladimir Zelensky. Opposition political parties and news organizations have been shuttered, and dissenting journalists targeted with violence or forced into exile.

The toxic trend against free speech can be traced back to the CIA-sponsored Maidan coup d’état which toppled the elected government in Ukraine in February 2014.

That coup brought to power a far-right regime in Kiev that glories in past collaboration with Nazi Germany. Over one million Jews were exterminated by Ukrainian fascists on behalf of the Third Reich.

The contradictions of the Kiev regime are head-spinning. The incumbent president, Zelensky, is reportedly of Jewish heritage. Yet his regime is propped up by Nazi-toting paramilitaries such as the Azov and Aidar Battalions that form the backbone of the Ukrainian armed forces. Zelensky’s financial patron is Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky who is also Jewish, yet Kolomoisky bankrolls Neo-Nazi paramilitaries.

Western governments who claim to be custodians of “democracy” and “freedom” have been pumping billions of dollars of weaponry to the fascist regime in Kiev headed up by a Jewish president. The Western governments and media try to square that contradiction by asserting that Zelensky’s regime is a “democracy” and by covering up the facts of its Nazi conduct. The arming of Ukraine since 2014 by the United States and other NATO members is recklessly pushing a world war with Russia. Western so-called democracies are aligned with fascism in an incipient war against Russia that could end in a nuclear catastrophe. For those paying historical attention to the real causes and geopolitics of the Second World War – the interplay of Western powers and Nazi Germany – and the subsequent Cold War, the present confrontation may come as no surprise.

The relations of one Western public figure with Ukraine are particularly awing in their incongruity. George Soros, the American billionaire philanthropist, was an early supporter of political change in Ukraine following its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.

Through his Open Society Foundation, Soros funneled millions of dollars to promote the Maidan “revolution” takeover in Kiev. Soros worked hand-in-hand with the U.S. government and its CIA regime-change agencies, such as National Endowment for Democracy and USAID, to create “civic society groups” and a litany of media organizations that pushed anti-Russia views.

Soros’ Open Society Foundation to this day proclaims to “stand with Ukraine” and accuses Russia of waging an “assault on democracy”. The OSF has a fundraising target of $45 million which it says will be used to “protect Ukrainian civic society”.

The reality behind Soros’ virtue-signaling rhetoric is that the Kiev regime is dominated by Nazi forces that are intent on smashing any dissent and free speech, as the repressive new media laws demonstrate.

Even Soros-funded Western non-governmental organizations such as Reporters Without Borders and the U.S.-based Committee for the Protection of Journalists have condemned the shocking assault on free speech by the Zelensky regime.

This is not just an unfortunate matter of keeping bad company. Soros and the U.S. State Department, along with then Vice President Joe Biden, were instrumental in bringing the Kiev regime to power in 2014. They were instrumental in building it up as a rabid anti-Russia spearhead that repudiated the 2014-2015 Minsk Peace accords and fomented the present war with Russia.

Let’s just say George Soros has a preternaturally keen sense of predatory opportunism. A Jewish-born billionaire funding a Nazi regime in Ukraine to do his bidding is not beyond cynical calculation. It’s what capitalism is all about.

bons
bons
October 22, 2022 4:44 pm

Our Lidia just needs to engineer one of her accusers before Justice Mordy B and all of her problems will be made to vanish.

calli
calli
October 22, 2022 4:46 pm

He that is giddy thinks that the world turns round.

– William Shakespeare

It’s a matter of observation and frame of reference.

Clever play on words.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 22, 2022 4:47 pm

Whatevs, Googles.
Let’s say Gina donates* $100 meg to various sports.
At the corporate tax rate of 30% she saves $30,000,000.
Out of a tax bill of $2,700,000,000.
A saving of a touch over 1% of her tax bill.
Not sure saving tax is her motivation here.
And what is this “tax write-off” bullshit? Almost everything she spends in the business is a “tax write-off” (excepting a few minor expenses like entertainment).
She could spend $15m hiring a jet to fly iron ore samples to China if she wanted.
Or $15m on decorating the crib-rooms at Roy Hill with Versacé wallpaper.
All deductible.

* It is a donation. Not a sponsorship. She generates zero profit from spending that money.

Johnny Rotten
October 22, 2022 4:50 pm

You can never vote for this voice thingy as there is no voice to vote on. No written down voice or anything to vote on. Just vote NO and that it is it. So these Polly Wallys want the voters to vote on a blank cheque. Just like ‘The Castle’, tell them that they are dreaming………………………….

MatrixTransform
October 22, 2022 4:52 pm

If I’m not there in five minutes, start without me.

sancho will of course … remain at the front bar

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
October 22, 2022 4:53 pm

The Netball team members who wanted to show solidarity with their Abororiginal team mate must be really happy things have turned out so well.

The said Aboriginal player was upset about remarks Gina’s fathers remarks from 38 years ago. Which makes you wonder who told her about them. Probably some outsider with nothing to lose. I think she was about to debut. Must be a popular teammate now led them to victory against the awful Gina dollars.

I must admit I have zero interest in ladies netball but seem to recall it is the most played female sport in the country. Good on Gina for supporting it. The team’s attitude and her reaction to pull the sponsorship should be a lesson to all sports players who rely on sponsorship.

As Cummins has shown once you start criticising one type of sponsorship then all others will also be looked into to reveal their hypocrisy.

Like many others happy to see Gina pull the money and liked the way it was worded.

Gina might be worth billions but she also does a lot of good with it. Why waste it on those who don’t appreciate it.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 22, 2022 4:54 pm

Ukraine war is ‘Biden’s war’ now

M. K. Bhadrakumar – Indian Punchline – Fri, 21 Oct 2022

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Oct 18, 2022 that evidence of military personnel of United States and other Western countries having their boots on the ground in Ukraine is mounting.

The most obvious explanation to the mysterious air dash of the UK Defence Minister Ben Wallace to Washington on Tuesday could be that he was canvassing for the support of the Biden Administration for his pitch to succeed Liz Truss as Britain’s next prime minister. But another plausible explanation can be that the secret, hurried trip marked a defining moment in the conflict in Ukraine, which is showing all signs of turning into a full-fledged war.

To be sure, the Biden team cannot but be worried that London is drifting into chaos and the Conservative Party’s faction leaders scurry around like headless chicken looking for a substitute to Truss who stepped down on Thursday.

The British economy is disintegrating and the Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt anticipates that a cut on the defence budget is inevitable. That is to say, the Deep State’s fun and frolic in Kiev is no longer affordable. The UK is heading for hard times, the rubric of Global Britain looks delusional.

Enter President Biden. The reports from Moscow suggest that Russians have hard intelligence to the effect that Washington has demanded from President Zelensky some spectacular performance on the battlefield as the midterms in the US on November 8 is round the corner.

That adds to the enigmatic comment by a second defence minister in London James Heappey that the conversations that Wallace would be having in Washington were “beyond belief,” hinting that particularly sensitive and serious issues were on the agenda.

Indeed, after arrival in Washington, Wallace headed straight for the White House to meet up with National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Biden’s point person for the Ukraine war. A White House readout said the two officials “exchanged views on shared national security interests, including Ukraine. They underscored their commitment to continue providing Ukraine with security assistance as it defends itself against Russian aggression.”

As British politics descends to skulduggery that will extend into months, the US will be a stakeholder.

Historically, since the World War 2, Britain led the US from the rear in critical situations involving Russia.

Indeed, Biden issued a rare statement on Truss’ exit, which stated that the US and the UK “are strong Allies and enduring friends — and that fact will never change.” He thanked her “for her partnership on a range of issues including holding Russia accountable for its war against Ukraine.” Biden underscored that “We will continue our close cooperation with the U.K. government as we work together to meet the global challenges our nations face.”

Biden has sent a powerful message to Britain’s political class signalling that he expects them to come up with a new prime minister who will faithfully adhere to the compass set by Boris Johnson on Ukraine. In immediate terms, what does it signal for the Anglo-American project in Kherson? Will it go ahead? That is the big question.

The situation in Kherson is assuming the nature of a large-scale military confrontation, as Zelensky is throwing everything into it in an attempt to wrest control of the strategic Kherson city, which has been under Russian control since March, before the midterms in the US.

In political terms, with the UK bogged down in a domestic quagmire, Biden has the option to shift to diplomacy. This is “Biden’s war” now. He is about to script his presidential legacy as the fifth of the 14 American presidents in office since World War II to “own” a war — after Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, George HW Bush and George W. Bush.

JMH
JMH
October 22, 2022 4:58 pm

Outstanding news that Gina has given the two fingers to the Netty ‘tards.

calli
calli
October 22, 2022 4:58 pm

I scrolled back. Roger got there first.

I started typing that and got a call from Mum – the hospital is releasing Dad. So off I trotted to break him out of Alcatraz. Now he’s all tucked up and enjoying a cuppa.

Mission accomplished.

Johnny Rotten
October 22, 2022 5:01 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
October 22, 2022 at 4:47 pm
Whatevs, Googles.
Let’s say Gina donates* $100 meg to various sports.
At the corporate tax rate of 30% she saves $30,000,000.
Out of a tax bill of $2,700,000,000.
A saving of a touch over 1% of her tax bill.
Not sure saving tax is her motivation here.
And what is this “tax write-off” bullshit? Almost everything she spends in the business is a “tax write-off” (excepting a few minor expenses like entertainment).
She could spend $15m hiring a jet to fly iron ore samples to China if she wanted.
Or $15m on decorating the crib-rooms at Roy Hill with Versacé wallpaper.
All deductible.

* It is a donation. Not a sponsorship. She generates zero profit from spending that money.

Well, Mrs Stencho Pantyhose. I had no idea that that you were an alleged taxation adviser. Maybe a taxi adviser or taxidermist but then again who knows………………….And you are on talking terms with ‘Gina’?………….You Tosser.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 22, 2022 5:02 pm

The Tories are returning like a dog to its own vomit – and we’re all going to have to eat it

The festering, reeking meat hunk that is Boris Johnson is rushing back from the Dominican Republic – and the Tories are licking their lips and preparing to gleefully swallow it down for a second time

They’re beating down a path to the television studios, they’re firing out their little social media memes, #BorisorBust, #BringBackBoris. They’re the same people who, fully seven weeks ago, were saying – with the same certainty with which they speak now – that Liz Truss was the answer to Britain’s prayers. The same people who thought the mini-Budget was a huge success; right up until the moment about an hour after it had finished, when it became glaringly obvious that it wasn’t.

It’s not merely that they’re deluded, which they are. They are a rolling clown car of human deficiencies but the one with its hand on the steering wheel is shamelessness.

But guess what? It doesn’t matter. Because there’s absolutely nothing anyone but them can do about it. It’s up to them, not us – for the fourth time in the last six years.

They just turn up on the TV to have their little contest between themselves; and the rest of us just accept what they decide, time and time again, over and over and over.

It remains scarcely believable that they have reduced national conversation to a place where Sir Graham Brady, the guy whose main job is to keep a running count of how many Tory MPs hate their own leader, has reached such a permanent level of public exposure that you wouldn’t be surprised to see him on next year’s Strictly.

Naturally, Tories are being accused of having already forgotten the events of just three months ago. But they haven’t forgotten, they just don’t care; and are hoping the public don’t care either – or that they will care a bit less in 2025 than they do now.

They don’t care that a parliamentary investigation into whether Johnson knowingly misled the House of Commons is still ongoing, and they don’t care that the evidence that has already been handed over to its investigators is devastating.

bespoke
bespoke
October 22, 2022 5:02 pm

Good news Calli

Tom
Tom
October 22, 2022 5:02 pm

FMD. The Moonee Valley Racing Club hired a whitefella with a didgeridoo to introduce Irish jockey Robbie Dolan singing Horses as a prelude to the Australasian weight-for-age championship, the $5m W.S. Cox Plate. Talk about mixed messages! The only thing blackfellas ever had to do with whitefellas’ horses was to steal and eat them.

calli
calli
October 22, 2022 5:04 pm

I think I might like Gina very much indeed. Tough, focussed old bat. And rich to boot.

No wonder the woke dislike her.

johanna
johanna
October 22, 2022 5:04 pm

Can’t be bothered with the rest – WordPress must have AI making stupid decisions.

Anyway, what I was getting to is that a lot of respected educationalists reckon that about age seven is when kids should start school. For example, the Montessori crowd say that, and their results are very good indeed, And, it’s not new. In Anne of Avonlea, a pair of 5-6 year old twins land at Green Gables, and young Davey Keith in particular is causing a lot of trouble.

Marilla says that her father always averred that no child should be sent to school before the age of seven. That was the rule in the Cuthbert household in Canada in the early 1900s. Much as packing Davey off to school would have made everyone’s life easier (he chased chooks till they died and loved watching pigs being slaughtered) the babysitting option was not taken.

The Montessori results indicate that there is no harm in waiting till the kids are a bit older. On the contrary. Especially for boys, who are behind the girls at that age, but catch up later.

But, the whole push of ‘progressive educationists’, whoever they are, is to put kids into some form of school younger and younger. Not aged seven, but aged three.

Presumably it is a half baked justification for expansion of the public sector.

calli
calli
October 22, 2022 5:06 pm

It sure is, bespoke. I remember on old Cat – it was either Tracy or Kae who was in the same position that I’m now in, looking after parents. They are both the best of the best and sorely missed.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 22, 2022 5:08 pm

Lost star catalog of ancient times comes to light

Govert Schilling – Sky & Telescope – Fri, 21 Oct 2022

Technology may have revealed a piece of the long-lost works of Greek astronomer Hipparchus, one of the greatest astronomers of antiquity.

Around 130 BC, the great Greek astronomer Hipparchus drew up the very first star catalog ever, containing descriptions and coordinates of some 850 naked-eye stars in the northern sky.

At least, that’s what later sources say – copies of Hipparchus’s list have never been found. Until now, that is. Writing in the Journal of the History of Astronomy, three European scientists claim to have uncovered a small part of the long-lost catalog. “I felt nothing short of awe when I first heard about it,” says astronomy historian and writer William Sheehan.

In the 2nd century AD, Claudius Ptolemy compiled a catalog of 1,025 stars in 48 constellations to include in his magnum opus, Almagest. Ptolemy also hinted at the existence of an earlier listing, some scholars have suggested that Ptolemy’s work was based not on his own observations but on Hipparchus’s catalog.

Hipparchus was born around 190 BC in Nicaea, in what is now northwestern Turkey, but he carried out most of his astronomical work on the island of Rhodes. He made the first estimates of the distances and sizes of the Moon and the Sun, and was the first to discover precession: the slow wobble in the orientation of the Earth’s spin axis. According to astronomy historian Bradley Schaefer (Louisiana State University), Hipparchus was “arguably the best and greatest astronomer in the world before Copernicus.”

“Only one of his many books, The Commentaries, has survived,” says Schaefer, “with the most important loss being his influential star catalog.” That’s why scientists are elated about the new find. “It […] illuminates a crucial moment in the birth of science, when astronomers shifted from simply describing the patterns they saw in the sky to measuring and predicting them,” astronomy historian James Evans (University of Puget Sound, Washington) told Nature.

Peter Williams (Cambridge University, UK) and Victor Gysembergh and Emmanuel Zingg (Sorbonne University, Paris) studied the Codex Climaci Rescriptus, a 9th- or 10th-century manuscript from the Saint Catherine’s Monastery on the Sinai peninsula in Egypt. The codex, which is now kept at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., contains Christian texts in Syriac.

Beneath the visible text on one of the folios is a so-called palimpsest — the almost indiscernible imprint of an older text that medieval copyists had scraped off in order to re-use the costly parchment. By meticulously studying dozens of images made at various ultraviolet wavelengths, the scientists revealed the older text, which probably dates from the 5th or 6th century A.D.

The Greek palimpsest text describes the constellation Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown, providing information on its extent on the sky and on the coordinates of four of its stars (now labeled ?, ?, ?, and ?). These coordinates neatly agree with the stellar positions around the time Hipparchus drew up his catalog.

“The ‘style’ and coordinate system of the brief text in the palimpsest is similar to that used by Hipparchus in The Commentaries,” says Schaefer, “so the palimpsest might plausibly have a Hipparchan heritage.” However, he warns that this is “far from proven”. Still, most scientists appear to be convinced that part of the oldest star catalog in history has finally come to light. “It is one of the most thrilling things to happen in astronomy history for a while,” says Sheehan. “What else remains out there to be found out from one of the ancient palimpsests?”

The discovery shows that Hipparchus used equatorial coordinates, and that his measurements were accurate to within one degree. In contrast, Ptolemy’s catalog, compiled almost three centuries later, used ecliptic coordinates and was significantly less accurate. According to Williams, Gysembergh and Zingg, this implies that Ptolemy’s work was not based solely on data from Hipparchus.

“It’s a remarkable discovery,” says Sheehan. “It will force us to completely rethink our views about the ancient world, and in particular it shows that the cycles of discovery and science do not, as we like to think, follow a progressive line forward, and that even Ptolemy’s work represents something of a dark age compared to some of his predecessors.”

rosie
rosie
October 22, 2022 5:08 pm

We all started school age 5 in the sixties, that didn’t seem to be deleterious to getting a good education.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 22, 2022 5:10 pm

Let’s say Gina donates* $100 meg to various sports.
At the corporate tax rate of 30% she saves $30,000,000.

Sure.
$30 million is not to be sneezed at.
How much would you say the free publicity is worth to Rinehart?
At a time when the Industries she invests in are under threat from Government?

calli
calli
October 22, 2022 5:11 pm

Mum tried to put me into “pre-school” at 4. I kicked up such a stink they didn’t want me back. Ditto Brownies a few years later.

Antisocial tendencies.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
October 22, 2022 5:13 pm

Below From the Daily Mail article about Netball and Gina. Good luck with getting any sponsorship from the big gambling companies.

‘We’ve always stood up for social justice, we’ve always been anti-gambling, no smoking … and there were, and are, other avenues to source sponsorship,’ said Ms Norder (the former player who must take major credit for the sudden decline in wages for the players).

In fact good luck getting any sponsorship that will come even close to $3.5m per year. Looking forward to Ms Norder naming the other potential sponsors.

Is it wrong to be enjoying this saga? Asking for a friend.

bespoke
bespoke
October 22, 2022 5:16 pm

We all started school age 5 in the sixties

Do you remember it being so micro managed including play time back then, rosie?

Tom
Tom
October 22, 2022 5:18 pm

Anamoe ($2.50 fav, J: J. McDonald; T: J. Cummings) wins the W.S. Cox Plate.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 22, 2022 5:20 pm

Presumably it is a half baked justification for expansion of the public sector.

It’s all about the Benjamins and the Teachers Union.
Back in the late 1950s, Qlds new Coalition Government decided to move Grade 8 to High School in 1964 and started a Building Program.
In 1962, they decided that since Grade 8s were already at High School, they might as well finish Grades 9 & 10 as well.
That required a lot more Teachers, since progression beyond Grade 8 had previously required the Passing of the Scholarship Examination.
Not many sat for that exam or passed it, so that gives you an idea what Literacy and Numeracy levels were like in 1962.
Standards have fallen a long way since then.

Razey
Razey
October 22, 2022 5:21 pm

A lot of people struggle with narcissism. DickEd embraces it.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 22, 2022 5:22 pm

johanna

But, the whole push of ‘progressive educationists’, whoever they are, is to put kids into some form of school younger and younger. Not aged seven, but aged three.

Presumably it is a half baked justification for expansion of the public sector.

There are lots of juicy career opportunities, plus the chance to do a bit of political proselytising.

As an aside, we held our elder son back for a year, partly to take the family on a three month camping trip. He did not suffer educationally.

Crossie
Crossie
October 22, 2022 5:22 pm

It looks like Lidia Thorpe has made a lot of enemies who are now applying the boot. Tsk, tsk.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 22, 2022 5:29 pm

I went to school when dipping little girls plaits into inkwells, and putting sherbet bombs in inkwells, and watching them fizz everywhere, was considered fine sport. That was when teachers used the cane.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 22, 2022 5:29 pm

The path to victory on a Soft 6 at Moonee Valley does not lie along the rails.

– Sun Tzu.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 22, 2022 5:29 pm

The Netball team members who wanted to show solidarity with their Abororiginal team mate must be really happy things have turned out so well.

The said Aboriginal player was upset about remarks Gina’s fathers remarks from 38 years ago.

Whatever.
Rinehart gets the priceless free publicity plus the Tax Break.
Albanese will step in to fund the Netballers, a huge coup for the ALP, and politics will go on as usual.
It’s about marginalising Liberal and National Party donors.
Rinehart will get the message sooner or later.

rosie
rosie
October 22, 2022 5:30 pm

Not with 50 to 75 in the class Bespoke.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 22, 2022 5:32 pm

Some mates had their kids at Montessori and Steiner. Useless at STEM. Had to have remedial tuition. Another in the public system was on sabbatical at UC Davis. His kids were 2yrs behind the Yank kids.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
October 22, 2022 5:33 pm

Is it wrong to be enjoying this saga? Asking for a friend.

Fuck no! I’m your friend.

Loving it!

Johnny Rotten
October 22, 2022 5:34 pm

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

– William Shakespeare

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 22, 2022 5:35 pm

Just had a look at a few Facebook pages re the Netty sponsorship thing.
Comments mostly running 99% in favour of Gina.
Even the ABC and SBS pages were majority in support of her.
Netty is fucked.
Which is the plan.
A consortium including Liz Ellis had put in a lowball offer to buy the whole thing lock, stock and barrel and take it private. The lifeline from Gina threw a brick in that pond.
How long before the current netty players realise they have been played.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 22, 2022 5:35 pm

The Native People didn’t ask the invaders to destroy their food sources and way of life, If I remember correctly, but it happened anyway.

There’s a dozen roos in my house paddock most mornings

So, if half a dozen Aborigines nulla nulla a coupla your Roos, stook up a fire, roast them on the coals and invite 20 family members over for a feed,
you’ll be on your verandah clapping and cheering?

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 22, 2022 5:38 pm

Richard Cranium

They can pay for the roos out of their share of the $33 billion.

Oh, sorry, that money goes only to the “Big Men” and the parasitical white hangers-on.

Are you one of those?

Frank
Frank
October 22, 2022 5:40 pm

No lingerie netball would outsell it. Big time.

Strip Netball? One item of clothing for every goal.

Johnny Rotten
October 22, 2022 5:40 pm

A dozen Liverpool lads were at the pearly gates, ready to enter heaven. St. Peter sauntered over. “I’m afraid we are nearly full. We can only take one of you”. The guys were not pleased about this. St. Peter could sense their anguish and tried to calm things. “I’ll tell you what guys; it’s getting late. I’ll report to God and get back to you in the morning. By then you will have things worked out”. The next morning St. Peter went to the entrance. What he saw shocked him. He ran to god. “God… they are gone!” “What! All twelve of them?” “No God… the Pearly Gates!”

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 22, 2022 5:41 pm

Barking Toadsays:

October 22, 2022 at 4:42 pm

An omen I didn’t follow.

Rich Gina won R8 Morphettville

Netty Chick pulled up lame on the turn.
The screens are up and the float with the winch is standing by.
It doesn’t look good.

caveman
caveman
October 22, 2022 5:43 pm

We’ve always stood up for social justice, we’ve always been anti-gambling, no smoking … and there were, and are, other avenues to source sponsorship

, well there are…………aren’t there?

– The Norder Principle

Tom
Tom
October 22, 2022 5:43 pm

Netty is fucked.

Yep. Destroyed by its players.

Go woke, go broke — especially in sports, whose fans HATE politics.

The netball chicks seem to enjoy being poor. Serves them right. They’re too stupid to understand where money actually comes from.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 22, 2022 5:44 pm

Tough, focussed old bat. And rich to boot.

Gina is like the IPA and Andrew Bolt. Sets Leftys off like Pavlov’s dogs.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 22, 2022 5:45 pm

So, if half a dozen Aborigines nulla nulla a coupla your Roos, stook up a fire, roast them on the coals and invite 20 family members over for a feed,

Never had any problems with that – any indigenous who wanted to come out and shoot a few kangaroos knew the rules – all firearms had to be licensed, ask at the house on entry, leave all gates as you find them. Kangaroos on my place were voted to be the best tasting in the district – fed on saltbush.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 22, 2022 5:47 pm

The said Aboriginal player was upset about remarks Gina’s fathers remarks from 38 years ago.

Okay. But was she really?

Which makes you wonder who told her about them. Probably some outsider with nothing to lose.

Guaranteed. Take your pick from a list of squealy ex-captainesses with vested interests, and who have now gone quiet somehow.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 22, 2022 5:48 pm

rosiesays:
October 22, 2022 at 5:08 pm
We all started school age 5 in the sixties, that didn’t seem to be deleterious to getting a good education.

half and half in fifties – Late Feb Birth 1945 started school 1950, but half class a year older

As Mother working as a Single Parent, was at daycare before that,

bespoke
bespoke
October 22, 2022 5:49 pm

There’s a dozen roos in my house paddock most mornings

Vermin, deserving of the same fate as armadillos and moles.

Johnny Rotten
October 22, 2022 5:51 pm

Nothing can come of nothing.

– William Shakespeare

Johnny Rotten
October 22, 2022 5:52 pm

Never test the depth of the water with both feet.

– John Knee Rotten

bons
bons
October 22, 2022 5:52 pm

I was never attentive enough to notice, but the teachers that ran my two room school must have been clever folks.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 22, 2022 5:55 pm

I was never attentive enough to notice, but the teachers that ran my two room school must have been clever folks.

My teachers wore tweed jackets, and moustaches, and that was the ladies.

Johnny Rotten
October 22, 2022 5:59 pm

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

– Mrs Stencho Pantyhose

Crossie
Crossie
October 22, 2022 6:00 pm

The netball chicks seem to enjoy being poor. Serves them right. They’re too stupid to understand where money actually comes from.

They are not very good at maths nor do they have any observational skills. Have these women watched men’s sports and checked the attendance numbers? Did they check if their games had similar numbers?

Next, they have no thinking skills or they would have realised that they cannot expect to be paid as highly as others who generate more ticket sales.

The last option for making up the difference was sponsorships. Smart people don’t insult those whom they are expecting to give them money. Quid pro quo is also a foreign concept to these girls, you do something for someone like wear their logo and they give you money.

If you weren’t taught the essentials of how the world works you must learn the hard way.

flyingduk
flyingduk
October 22, 2022 6:01 pm

So, if half a dozen Aborigines nulla nulla a coupla your Roos, stook up a fire, roast them on the coals and invite 20 family members over for a feed,
you’ll be on your verandah clapping and cheering?

Given I am Indigenous* mice elf, I would welcome them of course!

When asked, at the Canberra Lockup, if I was ‘Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander’ I said ‘yes’. They said which, I said ‘both’. Paper filler looked pained and said ‘both’ ??. I said yes, both – they then asked me if I wanted a visit from the Aboriginal Liason Officer 😉

* proud member of the ‘Bass Strait Islanders’

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 22, 2022 6:03 pm

Good luck to Netball Australia with future sponsorship discussions. I suspect they are going to need it.

calli
calli
October 22, 2022 6:04 pm

Someone mentioned the Winter’s Tale waaaay up thread.

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
– William Shakespeare

I rather like that.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 22, 2022 6:04 pm

How long before the hand goes into the taxpayer’s pocket?

cohenite
October 22, 2022 6:05 pm

Given the tenor of the times, it was inevitable. Aborigines should reflect on their likely fate had they been colonised by others, go down on their knees, and thank God for the British.

Correct. The 3rd nations really got lucky. The reparations are going the wrong way.

cohenite
October 22, 2022 6:08 pm

Lara Logan has gone full QNA and effectively been banned from all the media, including Fox; pity; she really is striking.

Gabor
Gabor
October 22, 2022 6:09 pm

Ed

Rinehart will get the message sooner or later.

What freeecking message would that be?

Barry
Barry
October 22, 2022 6:10 pm

Gina is John Galt.

Rabz
October 22, 2022 6:10 pm

… the nookular family… how can you defend these things if they have already been overrun by progress? You’re standing on the ramparts of a defeated castle, looking foolish.

mUttley, don’t you exist in a nookular family?

Some of the most strident sanctimonious hypocritical collectivists I’ve known are among the most unrepentant purveyors of “conservative artefacts” such as intact nookular families. My sister being a classic example.

It’s fine for them, but every other person they deem as inferior can have the tragic consequences of collectivist stupidity foist good and hard upon them. Lives in chaos, monstrous random violence, including poor li’l kiddies being mercilessly abused and the unrelenting void that is welfare dependence, illiteracy and generational dysfunction.

Just who are the “petit bourgeoisie” here, mUttley, you monumental hypocrite?

cohenite
October 22, 2022 6:14 pm

Gina is John Galt.

I wish. Gina is ok but she is not a great repository of freedom and not a freedom mastermind working behind the scenes like soros or gates etc are working in every scene to foster misanthropic elitism

m0nty
m0nty
October 22, 2022 6:15 pm

You simply want to pretend that they don’t ‘own’ it, which is simply a indirect way of saying that you ‘own’ the concept and like Humpty Dumpty, it ‘will mean whatever you want it to mean, neither more nor less’; and of course, the ‘no one listens to you anymore bigot so shut up’ play.

What?

Short, declarative sentences. More Hemingway, less James Joyce. Give it a go, db.

The clearest evidence that liberals fear a counter to their cultural program is this constant attempt to inculcate in their opponent the perception that they are alone, that their aims are stillborn, that there is no constituency for a defense of common sense, traditional cultural/ social values.

Liberals do not fear conservatism. They win that fight regularly.

Fascism is a more formidable foe. Its insidious nature makes it difficult. The constant stream of public lies to conceal its hidden, true form gives it a veneer of civility.

We only just defeated it last time, it was a close run thing.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 22, 2022 6:16 pm

Correct. The 3rd nations really got lucky. The reparations are going the wrong way.

The $33 Billion goes straight into non indigenous pockets.

Now think carefully:
Is that the right way or the wrong way, [according to you]?

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
October 22, 2022 6:22 pm

Punter Ponting in the Oz …

Cricket great Ricky Ponting says today’s players risk leaving the game poorer for the next generation as the latest “sportswashing” controversy costs netball $15M in sponsorship.

Have a read Cummins.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 22, 2022 6:23 pm

Guaranteed. Take your pick from a list of squealy ex-captainesses with vested interests, and who have now gone quiet somehow.

And do not underestimate the power of envy.
I am thinking more than one ex “superstar” (hi Liz!) might have got the shits on because the minimum wage for a shitkicker was going to be $100k when the top players got $30k ten years ago.

Makka
Makka
October 22, 2022 6:25 pm

I’m shocked- SHOCKED that Pat Cummins is comfortable supporting an oil and gas sponsor whose majority ownership is that of a brutal regime that;
– publicly beheads it’s citizens.
– treats it’s women like cattle with little or no rights
– allows forced work/slavery
– has the death penalty for homosexuality
– allows no rights for the LGBTQI people

Pat Cummins, have you no moral compass at all?

2dogs
October 22, 2022 6:28 pm

Joe Hildebrand on the COVID-19 lockdowns.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 22, 2022 6:29 pm

Japanese soldiers to train with ADF after historic new security agreement
Hamish Hastie
By Hamish Hastie
Updated October 22, 2022 — 1.57pmfirst published at 9.02am

Japanese soldiers will train with Australian troops in the country’s north after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida signed a beefed-up security declaration in Perth on Saturday.

The new deal replaces a security agreement struck in 2007 by former Prime Ministers John Howard and Shinzo Abe against the backdrop of growing concerns about growing Chinese military power in the Indo-Pacific region.

It includes commitments from each country to deepen links between the Australian Defence Force and the Japan Self-Defense Forces through more sophisticated joint exercises and operations as well as mutual use of defence facilities for maintenance and asset protection.

Albanese said the historic agreement would allow for Japanese troops to train with Australians in northern Australia at a time of growing uncertainty in the region.

“This shared vision for an Indo-Pacific region that is peaceful, prosperous, resilient and free is why today we have signed a renewed Joint Declaration on Security Cooperation,” he said.

“It shows the responsibility we share for security in our region and towards one another.”

Talks involved implementing the Reciprocal Access Agreement signed earlier this year, which will allow Japan’s and Australia’s respective militaries the ability to train and operate on each other’s soil.

That agreement, the first of its kind agreed to by Japan since the Second World War, was held up because of concerns that Australians serving on Japanese territory and were convicted of crimes could be sentenced to death under Japan’s laws.

Indolent
Indolent
October 22, 2022 6:30 pm

Gonzalo Lira on Dr. John Campbell’s mental journey. A few people here have said something similar. I have the highest possible regard for Gonzalo Lira’s perspective and his ability to express his views.

2022.10.21 Dr. John Getting Red Pilled

JC
JC
October 22, 2022 6:32 pm

cohenite says:
October 22, 2022 at 6:14 pm

Gina is John Galt.

I wish. Gina is ok but she is not a great repository of freedom and not a freedom mastermind working behind the scenes like soros or gates etc are working in every scene to foster misanthropic elitism

Cronkers, it’s not Uncle George per se. It’s Uncle G’s money but his son is funding it all and getting the 92 year old to place his mark on the dotted line. Uncle G wouldn’t know what year it is. They’re all fleecing him.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 22, 2022 6:36 pm

H B Bearsays:

October 22, 2022 at 6:03 pm

Good luck to Netball Australia with future sponsorship discussions. I suspect they are going to need it.

Yep.
Doesn’t matter what Netty management says about “alignment” and “common values”, any sponsor is going to be doing their due diligence on activist players.
Sponsorship will be discounted, there will be no upfront cash and the contract will be loaded with break clauses.

132andBush
132andBush
October 22, 2022 6:38 pm

Struth

Traitors should be put up against a wall and shot.
Not hard.
Same with mass murderers.
Even easier.

Who gets to define the word “traitors”?

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 22, 2022 6:38 pm

m0nty-fa

We only just defeated it last time, it was a close run thing.

Speaking of which, when are you leaving for the front in the Great War Against Wussian Imperialism? It has to be all hands to the front, lest this time the close run thing becomes defeat. Off you go.

calli
calli
October 22, 2022 6:38 pm

Gina is ok but she is not a great repository of freedom and not a freedom mastermind working behind the scenes

No. She’s just a businesswoman who has the sh*ts with nightie tearing prima donnas.

Look for your replacement lingerie elsewhere laydees.

cohenite
October 22, 2022 6:39 pm

The $33 Billion goes straight into non indigenous pockets.

You mean like Geoff Clark, proud shovaupaarsa man.

calli
calli
October 22, 2022 6:41 pm

Who gets to define the word “traitors”?

Committee of Public Safety.

cohenite
October 22, 2022 6:41 pm

it’s not Uncle George per se. It’s Uncle G’s money but his son is funding it all and getting the 92 year old to place his mark on the dotted line. Uncle G wouldn’t know what year it is. They’re all fleecing him.

Soros has been doing this for a long time; he made the money, he set the protocols and the others aren’t fleecing the old canker but following his wishes.

Rabz
October 22, 2022 6:42 pm

err, hello?

calli
calli
October 22, 2022 6:45 pm

They are unequivocal, they are damning and they are almost word for word exactly what I and a few other brave souls have been saying from the very beginning of the pandemic.

Bully for you, Joe.

Others who said it were brutalised and sacked and de-platformed. Some were set upon by the police and shot with rubber bullets.

Were you?

Rabz
October 22, 2022 6:45 pm

why am I getting these funking infuriating internal funking server error messages!?

calli
calli
October 22, 2022 6:48 pm

Rabz! #metoo. This morning.

I did some gardening and it all stopped. 😀

calli
calli
October 22, 2022 6:53 pm

More Hildebrand:

Constantly, repeatedly, publicly — with the evidence right there, at the time, on my side. And yet I, and anyone else who dared question the lockdown-shutdown orthodoxy, was dismissed, abused, harassed and condemned — be it by the dead-eyed cultists of the #IstandwithDan movement or the Chief Health Officer of Victoria himself who gave his assent to these devastating school closures in the first place while allowing hotel quarantine to collapse under his watch.

I don’t recall Joe outside the CFMEU demonstrating.

Revisionism is all very well, but he was hardly the nexus of commentary. I’d put Rukshan and Topher there, but not Joe.

Had he been…he would have lost his job.

Rabz
October 22, 2022 6:53 pm

mUttley clearly has no inkling of the ass backwards absurdity of every comment he posts here.

Unlike you, I have been subjected to some serious fascism over the last two and half years, all of which you have been unrepentantly cheering on.

to be continued …

Rabz
October 22, 2022 6:53 pm

“The constant stream of public lies”, such as:
– We’re all going to die hideous deaths in the street, like dogues
– Hang on, those chinaman seem to know how to deal with a fabricated panicdemic
– Two weeks to flatten the curve
– If you leave your house, you’ll kill granny
– We won’t be mandating quaccines, except when we do
– Safe and effective

And on and on and on …

Razey
Razey
October 22, 2022 6:54 pm

If they let the serial killer out, just another confirmation Sicktoria is cooked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atkzq-dsz04

Rabz
October 22, 2022 6:54 pm

What a joke.

Razey
Razey
October 22, 2022 7:04 pm

The community will not be safe with this animal back on the street.

132andBush
132andBush
October 22, 2022 7:04 pm

They are unequivocal, they are damning and they are almost word for word exactly what I and a few other brave souls have been saying from the very beginning of the pandemic.

Really?
Some linked evidence would be good, Joe.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 22, 2022 7:05 pm

“The constant stream of public lies”, such as:
– We’re all going to die hideous deaths in the street, like dogues
– Hang on, those chinaman seem to know how to deal with a fabricated panicdemic
– Two weeks to flatten the cu …

So, why did you take those lies seriously?
Did you think the Gov’t was telling the truth this time?

mc
mc
October 22, 2022 7:05 pm

It looks like Lidia Thorpe has made a lot of enemies who are now applying the boot. Tsk, tsk.

The toes you step on on the way up will very willingly kick you up the bum on the way down
– Sun Tzu.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 22, 2022 7:07 pm

For AFL fans:-
Rutten … gone.
Ratten … gone.
Rotten … on our list.

132andBush
132andBush
October 22, 2022 7:08 pm
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 22, 2022 7:09 pm

Who gets to define the word “traitors”?

That question was asked.

No answer was forthcoming, but several cubic metres of alphabet macaroni was deposited all over the lounge room.

JC
JC
October 22, 2022 7:10 pm

Gilas

Ordinarily I would agree you that making something easier to do would help with the “stickiness” issue. However, confiscating privately owned land is a major endeavor. It’s serious stuff and would change the entire economic system.

100% correct, but what if a new process makes it easier to do it?
When one does an MBA, one learns about the principles of friction and contestability.
In summary: removing external barriers to any action makes that action more likely.

Simple!
Now expand that to the securing/managing of the largest private asset class in Australia.. by a faceless, increasingly unaccountable and even hostile power.
Imagine what is then possible.. as they say… at the stroke of a pen.

And if anyone thinks this is mere paranoia, they haven’t been paying attention to the last 30+ years.

I don’t think it’s paranoia to be thinking and discussing these things, because as you say, all we need to do is look back over the past 30 years.

We have a fascist movement on the left, which means heavy duty control, but I don’t see full retard communism.

JC
JC
October 22, 2022 7:13 pm

Soros has been doing this for a long time; he made the money, he set the protocols and the others aren’t fleecing the old canker but following his wishes.

He’s too old. He has no idea what’s going on. I listened to him in a interview a few months ago and he appears gonesky.

calli
calli
October 22, 2022 7:14 pm

Yes, 132, I remember that piece. It was posted here at the time.

How did he keep his job when others were denied theirs? Was it popularity and coolness? It’s all very curious.

Rabz
October 22, 2022 7:16 pm

So, why did you take those lies seriously?

I didn’t, wallies like you did, however.

mem
mem
October 22, 2022 7:18 pm

Discovered yesterday when mowing lawns have new slightly larger than golf ball sized hole under cement slab of garden shed. This morning in early sunshine little terrier-cross dog goes high pitched berserk. Screaming in fact. Now remember that sound from being on farm in early years. It’s the snake bark. It is possible snake, as live close to river in Nth Eastern burbs of Melbourne. Not worried about myself but about my little terrier dog. Have tried to block off area to her but she is terrier and will get through or over anything if on hunt.. Any suggestions from cats welcome.

bespoke
bespoke
October 22, 2022 7:24 pm

Let the dog do its job, mem.

Roger
Roger
October 22, 2022 7:26 pm

Any suggestions from cats welcome.

I don’t suppose you own a shotgun?

Rabz
October 22, 2022 7:27 pm

yet I, and anyone else who dared question the lockdown-shutdown orthodoxy, was dismissed, abused, harassed and condemned — be it by the dead-eyed cultists of the #IstandwithDan movement or the Chief Health Officer of Victoria himself

Hang on – WTF? Is shilldebrand trying to claim that he was some stunning and bwave denouncer (at the time) of the bat flu insanity?

You foul dishonest noodle armed erko clad cockgobbling collectivist j’ismist fraud.

Millions of people had their lives and livelihoods destroyed and you now have the gall to claim that you were one of them?

How funking dare you.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 22, 2022 7:28 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

October 22, 2022 at 7:09 pm

Who gets to define the word “traitors”?

That question was asked.

No answer was forthcoming, but several cubic metres of alphabet macaroni was deposited all over the lounge room.

Mmmyes.
Sad thing is, most advocates of summary execution for vaguely defined “crimes” don’t particularly like being put on the spot.
Like the dickheads who cheer on Duterte in the Philippines, licensing coppers to summarily executing “drug lords” in the street.
Top stuff.
Until someone pays a bent local cop $500 to off one of your rellos and “find” some drugs on him.

rosie
rosie
October 22, 2022 7:29 pm

Plenty of snake catcher services in Melbourne.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 22, 2022 7:29 pm

So, why did you take those lies seriously?

I didn’t, wallies like you did, however

.

Uh huh?
So, what’s your beef, then?
If I believed the lies, isn’t that my problem?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 22, 2022 7:30 pm

This morning in early sunshine little terrier-cross dog goes high pitched berserk.

Mem – Might be a bluetongue, they love such places and doggies love them. Snakes tend to be shy but blueys are wandering around at the moment looking for mates. I rescued one this week out from under the noses of my neighbours’ dogs and took him off to a place a good distance away from yards with dogs.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 22, 2022 7:32 pm

Any suggestions from cats welcome.

If a shotgun isn’t an option, get a snake catcher.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 22, 2022 7:32 pm

The $33 Billion goes straight into non indigenous pockets.

Richard Cranium

Define “non-indigenous”, and be conscious of the Bolt case when doing so.

JC
JC
October 22, 2022 7:32 pm

Mmmyes.
Sad thing is, most advocates of summary execution for vaguely defined “crimes” don’t particularly like being put on the spot.
Like the dickheads who cheer on Duterte in the Philippines, licensing coppers to summarily executing “drug lords” in the street.
Top stuff.
Until someone pays a bent local cop $500 to off one of your rellos and “find” some drugs on him.

But Xi and Putin… well their not my cup of hot tea though. 🙂 Durate on the other hand is a champ. Estimated 30,000 dead because of the summary drive-by killings. No biggie. Thank God for the Leadership.

Frank
Frank
October 22, 2022 7:33 pm

“Is shilldebrand trying to claim that he was some stunning and bwave denouncer”

Yes, why yes he is.

Something about rats and sinking ships springs to mind.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 22, 2022 7:34 pm

Here’s the problem:
Snakes will always be found close to water.
Dog poo and piss attract rats and mice.
Snakes are attracted by rats and mice.
Solution:
Give dog away.
People who feed birds create a Snake problem too.

bespoke
bespoke
October 22, 2022 7:34 pm

I’d send me Mil around but feel sorry for the snake being used as a hair tie.

Roger
Roger
October 22, 2022 7:35 pm

If a shotgun isn’t an option, get a snake catcher.

Yes; I can tolerate a snake passing through, but settling down on my patch? Ain’t happening.

rosie
rosie
October 22, 2022 7:35 pm

Always snakes around in Melbourne, I saw two juveniles in different parts of Werribee Zoo last week , one looked like a recent hatching, another was twice as big. Most likely tigers.
I wouldn’t be guessing a lizard.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 22, 2022 7:36 pm

Define “non-indigenous”, and be conscious of the Bolt case when doing so.

Don’t be foisting your issues onto me, clown.

JC
JC
October 22, 2022 7:38 pm

You can identify as anything you want, Mr. Ed. You’ve often told us you identify as an aboriginal woman and we respect that as we’re not judging.

rosie
rosie
October 22, 2022 7:38 pm

Neither of the snakes were the slightest bit shy either.
Both very active.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 22, 2022 7:39 pm

People who put water outside for birds or dogs create a Crow problem.
Crow shit may contain Rat Tapeworm eggs, among other things.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 22, 2022 7:40 pm

Special’s got his own issues. Am I right, Mother?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 22, 2022 7:40 pm

Captain Alinta copping it at the SCG.
Four overs 0-46.
Last over included two wides and a six.
Good to see.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
October 22, 2022 7:42 pm

JCsays:
October 22, 2022 at 8:20 am

Just seeking some general guidance from Cat commenters on blog etiquette.
Suppose, in a purely hypothetical situation:
1. Commenter A, at the express (offline) request of commenter B, agrees that a discussion shall cease.
2. Some time later commenter B makes a derogatory reference to commenter A’s participation in the discussion, but the derogatory remark is addressed to commenter C, not commenter A.
Is commenter A at liberty to remind people of the humiliating bottom spanking that commenter B received in the discussion, thus revealing commenter B to be a fitting object of jeering hooting ridicule and contempt?
Or was commenter B’s derogatory remark a display of repellently poor form which commenter A should not stoop to emulate?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 22, 2022 7:44 pm

Any suggestions from cats welcome

Liberally pour mower fuel down hole.

Ignite fuel.

Fill smoking hole with gravel. Tamp, top with superglue.

rosie
rosie
October 22, 2022 7:44 pm

You can stoop if you want to.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 22, 2022 7:46 pm

Captain Alinta copping it at the SCG.

Captain Alinta may be distracted by certain netty-related events, which in turn may affect his ability to live in the same fucking street as CA CEO Nick Hockley.

Rabz
October 22, 2022 7:47 pm

eddles, stop being obtuse (for a change).

I pointed out a cavalcade of lies, none of which I was suckered by at the time yet you’ve tried to claim that I was.

And it was a reply to this blogue’s other resident imbecile, mUttley, not you. Best not blunder into where you’re not wanted (again).

Now, shoo. Go and watch some paint dry or some grass grow.

If that doesn’t float your boat, braindead commercial FTA TV is aimed squarely at people such as your good self, brought to you by some of the stupidest personages to have existed in human history, i.e., braindead commercial FTA TV executives, possessing as they do, unique insights into their (rapidly dwindling) audience.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 22, 2022 7:47 pm

Just seeking some general guidance from Cat commenters on blog etiquette.
Suppose, in a purely hypothetical situation:

Timothy:
Why is everything so personal with you?
Can’t you just let it go and write it off [like Gina’s Tax Bill]?

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 22, 2022 7:51 pm

Ed Casesays:
October 22, 2022 at 7:36 pm
Define “non-indigenous”, and be conscious of the Bolt case when doing so.

Don’t be foisting your issues onto me, clown.

Not my issue, idiot, you raised it.

Can you confirm, in accordance with your assertion, that not a single dollar of the $33 billion goes to any person claiming to be indigenous?

JC
JC
October 22, 2022 7:53 pm

Oh Timothy

I notice the Aura site, talking about your time at Geelong College, Ormond College and hanging around back gates at Cambridge has been scrubbed. How is that possible? Do you know 🙂

Don’t worry though, if you need it, I kept a copy. 🙂

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 22, 2022 7:59 pm

Can you confirm, in accordance with your assertion, that not a single dollar of the $33 billion goes to any person claiming to be indigenous?

Can you confirm my suspicions that you’re a Labor Party hack posing as a conservative?

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