This stoush, whilst mindless, is more entertaining than recent JC/Dover stoushes about whatever they are stoushing about. Ukraine I think.…
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Be particularly wary of the nest of vipers in Spring St.
Winston, I find this rather confusing. The people pushing Covid and the poisonous injectables are, in the main, the very people trying to take over the world under cover of “climate change” of which feeding children bugs forms part. To save Gaia donchano. I doubt you’d find many people who rejected the vax and, especially, the mandates trying to force feed children anything.
Cod ordinary bowling by Captain Alinta obviously due to conditions caused by climate change.
Which, of course, is caused by Alinta Energy. And ably assisted by Hancock Prospecting.
commenter B is being a tosser
…both of them
Peoples who place unintelligible screeds on widely unread blogues create a Cow problem.
Sun Tzu
In the town where I live there is a new snake catcher
What happened to the old snake catcher I hear you ask
???
Knuckle’s mate cleaned bowled for 5
Some around here will be please to hear Warner out bowled off his bat, leg, bat again and onto stumps.
JCsays:
October 22, 2022 at 7:53 pm
Living rent-free in JC’s head.
Let me know when they’ve put up the revamped edition they told me they were doing, will you?
Yep.
Being a Duterte fan-boi kind of precludes you from bitching about relatively mild measures imposed by Dan Xi-Man.
Not in any way supporting Hunchback, but you either support basic freedoms or you don’t.
Hang on – we’ve been gifted with some labore pardee hacks posing as conservatives?
What an outrage.
Speaking of, anyone have any updates on the imminently imminent resurrection of Joshee Frydchickenberger‘s erstwhile political career?
Enquiring minds and all that … 🙂
He retired comfortably on the back of the exorbitant fees he charged to remove snakes and release them in the nearby bushland from whence they came?
Tim
In case the blurb was lost at the vanity site and you can’t recall it, I have it here so you can repost. It would be a shame if it disappeared.
The toothy kunt rooting new zealandistan is getting some pushback from the farmers with her proposal to tax cow farts:
New Zealand Farmers Protest Emissions Tax
So let me get this right.
A few professional prima donnas have effectively fucked over an entire sporting organisation – consisting primarily of thousands of kids and their mums and dads who volunteer their time to keep their local clubs afloat while the organisation busies itself with corporate largesse.
Netball Australia is all that is wrong with sporting organisations in this country.
Doxxing is okay it seems.
Fortunately, like most here, I’m safe.
Oh yea, I posted the first comment about you earlier but not by name. I guess people would have figured out it was you. I mentioned how you hung around the tradies entrance at Cambridge. I hope it didn’t upset you.
We haven’t seen you recently or since our little spat and we’ve missed you.
Liz is back 🙂
Joe Hildebrand may have not been entirely on board with lockdowns.
However he was totally on board with vaxxx.
Joe Hildebrand: People who refuse to get vaccinated are no longer decent members of society.
No longer decent members of society.
Joe is one helluva rebel.
Oh no, Drills. Tim was nice enough to post a link to his novel and the blurb was there.. Nothing to do with doxing.
Bullshit.
Who has been doxxed, Oh Great Northern one?
I just turned off Erin Molan.
Unfortunately she is rapidly transitioning into a non left Wilkinson.
Very preachy, self focused, and oh so serious ad nauseam. The barbie presentation does not help.
Bullshit.
tracked some bloke down on the interwebs and then rang his offices to find him?
then started up a dialog
then turned it into a shit-fight online
…and again just now.
why is this tolerated?
Memes
In a certain country town, bored “Aspiring rappers” took to stealing cars.
The local snake catcher had a large placard in the rear windscreen of his vehicle, proclaiming that “this vehicle is used to transport live snakes.” It worked…
There is one upside…said professional players won’t be getting their exorbitant pay rise any time soon.
Magic, Liz is back. How are you handling that?
It takes some doing to push Rugby Australia into the silver medal position.
Also, I don’t think much of the $15 meg was going to trickle down to local Netty.
Another one for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
My daughter is a proud Maribynong woman (lowland tribe) and was flooded out due to the necessity of #bigracing and #biggambling needing to protect their assets
She has relocated to a higher dryer locale and tells me she has a would be prime minister as a neighbour
“That’s BS” I said
“ Yes it is” was her reply
Drills is just smarting over the Adonis abortion he himself created. No biggie.
go away you idiot
“Madge”
Don’t be like that as I was just asking in respect to your mental health with her posting again. Don’t take it the wrong way.
Bird netting is pretty good for trapping snakes – they get stuck in it. Just secure it around / over the hole
Going to make for some tense moments in the dressing room, methinks.
Sancho Panzer says:
October 22, 2022 at 6:36 pm
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.
Maybe Sancho but don’t discount the likes of Mike Cannon-Brookes riding to the rescue.
JCsays:
October 22, 2022 at 8:17 pm
Doxxing is okay it seems.
Oh no, Drills. Tim was nice enough to post a link to his novel and the blurb was there.. Nothing to do with doxing.
No I didn’t. You were doing some internet research because I live rent free in your head.
Choose your words carefully.
We are talking about a chap who has braid on his sleeves and is Master and Commander of a Big Desk at Russell Offices.
Are you thinking of Libya again?
hey shilldebrand – if it’s any consolation, I’ve never been a “decent member of society”.
Expect you’ll be seeing Peanut Head around Maribynong over the next few weeks.
He might.
And good luck to him if he does.
I am betting on Elbow money to the rescue.
That reminds me – where do Gliberals retire to when their (in)glorious political careers go down like the Hindenberg?
Glibya.
Tim, stop the lying. You told us about the novel and I’m pretty sure you posted about it and in fact linked to it.
Neil Oliver – ‘…something bad’s coming & it might be coming for you’
Cats – any suggestions for the next Radio Show theme?
Saturday 5 November.
Study suggests relationship between maternal COVID vaccination, SARS-CoV-2 placentitis, and stillbirth
If Cannon-Brookes does anything that benefits anyone other than Cannon-Brookes, let me know.
Glam folk.
That would be my money to the rescue.
Joe must net zero, ie reduce his CO2 emissions to zero immediately
Very happy for the “free publicity” too. Now, not so much?
Tim you’ve definitely mentioned that you had published fantasy novels in addition to being a tax lawyer.
I remember we had a brief discussion about the novels, though it was a long time ago, maybe 2019?
Young Tim David learning very quickly that franchise T20 crikkit does not necessarily compute with World Cup T20 crikkit.
Alintastralia now 5/68, over halfway through their innings and chasing 201 for a win.
Absolutely marvellous that.
We have one of them? I should be paying more attention. What have you been covering?
Firebrand Conservative Giorgia Meloni Becomes First Female Italian Prime Minister in History
Breaking:-
Alinta Energy have just released a statement saying that they are embarrassed and ashamed to be associated with the Australian Cricket team.
Many thanks for suggestions re my snake under slab floor of garden shed. I’ve evaluated them all and have decided to go with:
But how far away do I stand and do I need to let neighbour that shares shed fence line know?
Here’s How Spike Protein Cause Vascular Damage
drbeen
Teardrop
Err, I don’t know how to break it to you, but you are already chipping in.
Two of their sponsors are the Australian Sports Commission and Commonwealth Games Straya.
Mem.
No real reason for asking.
But what is your shed made of?
Ed Casesays:
October 22, 2022 at 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?
No. Can you provide any evidence on which you base your suspicions?
And can you confirm my suspicions that you are a “liberal” in the US DemonRat mould?
LOL. “Serious”.
JCsays:
October 22, 2022 at 8:38 pm
No I didn’t. You were doing some internet research because I live rent free in your head.
Tim, stop the lying. You told us about the novel and I’m pretty sure you posted about it and in fact linked to it.
Here’s the deal.
You have two months from the moment this appears on this site to give a verified reference to the place on this site where I linked to the book.
If you do, I pay $100,000 to a charitable or educational institution of your choice for such purposes as you decide.
If you don’t, you pay $100,000 to a charitable or educational institution of my choice for purposes that I decide.
If $100,000 is beneath your dignity, feel free to nominate a higher figure.
On second thoughts having just seen this:
Seems less risky than other suggestions so will go with this. Many thanks to all.
Bancroft and Warner tampered with the ball in South Africa in 2018 to benefit our bowlers.
Pat Cummins was one of those bowlers.
Of course Pat never looked at the ball he was handed to bowl.
He’s a man of high integrity.
Those two people that separately set themselves on fire in Melbourne thought it was pretty serious.
mUttley – what I was subjected to over the last two and half years (especially last year from June to December) was no laughing matter.
Given your perception of fascists as being clown like idiots, much like yourself and dunderhead dan xi-man.
This QANGOwashing of Australian taxpayer funding is happening a lot now.
The shed is corrugated iron on top of a concrete slab and it is right against neighbor’s fence.
mem says:
October 22, 2022 at 8:56 pm
If you don’t want to use flammable fuel (and KDs solution is a good one), you could use sulphuric acid which is available from most hardware stores as a ‘drain cleaner’ (costs about $45/litre bottle). It is quite potent but beware of fumes and don’t spill on yourself. Secure steel bird mesh over hole (so snake can’t get out) and pour in acid.
Other acids such as pool acid (hydrochloric) are not strong enough.
Alternatively, place steel mesh over hole, place bricks on mesh and leave. Sooner of later, snake will die of starvation.
don’t discount the likes of Mike Cannon-Brookes riding to the rescue
I doubt there’ll be any corporate “knights” riding to the rescue in the foreseeable future .. sponsorship is for self advertising not benevolence and public derision .. go woke, go broke! ..
Sounds serious! What happened, exactly? Be specific.
Tim
No problem, I’m going from memory and it was years ago when you told us you’re a great novelist. Back September, you thanked me for giving your opus free publicity and now you appear to be very upset. That’s the last thing I wanted to do (upset you), but you need to make up your mind.
I suspect you’re just being spiteful for highlighting the wanky blurb about yourself when you have been bullying Liz about similar things for years. Am I right?
JCsays:
October 22, 2022 at 9:20 pm
So having accused me of lying you’re now gutlessing out of the bet?
This should always be our response to monty’s complaints that this or that is fascism. He really doesn’t care about your experiences or judgements, why do you care about his?
For instance, monty’s fraternal brothers in France are more concerned about bad press immigration, particularly illegal immigration may receive rather than the brutal torture, rape, and murder of 12-year old Lola at the hands of an illegal Algerian immigrant.
Speedboxsays:
October 22, 2022 at 9:18 pm
Your suggestion seems feasible and less risky. Many thanks.
PS I think you have the potential to fix our energy system.
Tim
You misled us. You may not have linked to the site, but you most certainly told us you’re a novelist of some fame. Again, you thanked me in Sept and now sound very upset. Why?
The commentator just said ‘Now that is a good old-fashioned hiding, whichever way you look at it’, and he was right.
An 89-run flogging in a World Cup T20. It is their biggest ever defeat in any international T20.
That insipid vegan Zampa gone for a duck. Captain Alinta left looking around at the end, wondering what went wrong.
I’ll tell you, Pat. You concentrate on ‘ethical sponsorship’ when you have no ethics yourselves (see Gez above). Also, you’re the captain of a bunch of fuckwits.
m0ntysays:
October 22, 2022 at 9:19 pm
what I was subjected to over the last two and half years (especially last year from June to December) was no laughing matter.
Sounds serious! What happened, exactly? Be specific.
If you hadn’t been hiding in your basement for the last two and a half years, you could have read it all here.
When are you off to fight the Great War Against Wussian Imperialism, or is that a task for others, while you urge them on from your basement refuge? Much as you urge on the fascists of Ante-fa to bash passersby who might (or might not) be Nazis, but stay well clear of any action.
https://netball.com.au/annual-reports
Revenue from ‘Govt Grants’
2021 – $10.3m
2020 – $11m
2019 – $7.8m
2018 – $6.5m
Total revenue of $29-30m a year, government funds their 2nd biggest earner behind sponsorships.
We know why the ‘west’ is now legalising marijuana.
It lowers IQ and keeps the Sheep apathetic. Exactly what they want.
Look, JC/ Tim, take this up on the duelling thread. No one, apart from yourselves, actually cares about what was said months or years ago.
shatterzzz says:
October 22, 2022 at 9:18 pm
I doubt there’ll be any corporate “knights” riding to the rescue in the foreseeable future .. sponsorship is for self advertising not benevolence and public derision .. go woke, go broke! ..
Yeah, but MC-B had no qualms dropping some $650m into AGL so he could, effectively, blow it up with accelerated plans to close its coal and gas-fired power stations. $15m is a ‘doddle’ and would feed his ego.
Thanks Dover.
The Aldus Huxley appears to be a breaking point. Sad really.
A handful of sulphate of amonia at mouth of the hole, lightly dampened, will generally eject your reptilian guest rapidement.
Your trusty long handled shovel can then be employed to flick a sleepy or blue tongue to somewhere where you can wash it down. Alternatively, the same implement may be employed to assist a snake to transition to a better place.
JCsays:
October 22, 2022 at 9:26 pm
JCsays:
October 22, 2022 at 8:17 pm
Oh no, Drills. Tim was nice enough to post a link to his novel and the blurb was there..
Timothy Neilsonsays:
October 22, 2022 at 8:33 pm
…
No I didn’t.
JCsays:
October 22, 2022 at 8:38 pm
Tim, stop the lying.
Now, when I ask you to back up that accusation you gutlessly try to weasel out of it. Sure, you’ll go on with your usual modus operandi of squirrel pointing and abuse, but it’s crystal clear to all readers what a gutless and dishonest little turd you are.
Anyone who has played crickit knows that the biggesr prima-donnas on the planet are fast bowlers when it comes to the condition of the ball.
You bowl it down, it strikes the pad and rolls slowly across lush turf to square leg.
It comes back with a neat 1/4″ line of uniform scuffing across one side and the bowler just doesn’t notice.
Sure.
Captain Alinta will trot off to Cricket Australia…..”told you the team needed a more climate ethical sponsor”.
Mrs P got a call the other day from someone purporting to be representing a shareholder group at AGL (still got a few shares – doh!). Looking for shareholder support for … Cannon-Brookes.
She had the phone on speaker.
I bolted into the kitchen and gave the bloke a fucking burst about the moron.
“Cannon-Brookes has totally fucking wrecked the joint”.
End of call.
Interesting.
He didn’t sound like a regular call centre guy. Could easily have been a C-B school chum. A bit plummy sounding.
Tim
I was going from memory and if you didn’t link to the novels you certainly told us about them, thereby making a google search pretty easy seeing you post under your name. You’re kicking dust around over a pretty insignificant point because you’re upset about presenting as a wanker and hypocrite. Now go fulminate on the Duel thread. Enuff from you.
Many thanks Bon. I am working through the various suggestions received and will implement in terms of feasibility and risks and report back in due course.
Unedited sequence of former Chinese president Hu unexpectedly leaving Congress | AFP
Can he (Boris) win?
Hmmm.
Apology to Joe Hildebrand withdrawn.
He can get fucked, along with Barnaby and any other backsliding arsehole who is now trying to talk their way to sainthood on this matter.
Both of the fuckers are keen to stick it to Alinta Energy but, as someone upthread pointed out, they have gone very quiet about the sponsor of the T20 World Cup, Saudi Aramco.
You know what isn’t perfect about it?
Aramco is a major sponsor of the IPL, where all the really big money is. And, unlike the gentlemen at Alinta, if you bad-mouth them you will suddenly find the Saudis have leant on the IPL and you don’t get an IPL contract next season.
Oh, incidentally, for those who like cricket stats, Aramco pull 12,300,000 barrels of oil out of Gaia every day.
FRENCH EXPEDIENCY VERSUS THE PATIENCE OF A RUSSIAN ENDGAME.
Posted by Pointman on October 22, 2022
France is hurriedly trying to get all of its 56 nuclear power plants back up online and generating. It was always a slightly smug Gallic boast that about 70% of their electricity came from nuclear generation. That fact that their power strategy evolved in that totally different direction to all other countries in Europe is really down to two considerations. The first is the common perception that in WWII that they had been let down or to put it frankly, betrayed by the other great powers. While France had been spending a lot of blood trying to stem the blitzkrieg sweeping across France, their allies had been quietly heading for Dunkirk and the grand retreat without telling them, so when their left flank completely disappeared, it left no choice but to come to an accommodation with the invading Germans.
That common perception, right or wrong, reinforced the heavy reliance on nuclear generation which would also enable them to build a nuclear strike force, which again would remove France from any dependence on Britain or the USA for protection and was also the reason France refused to join NATO for years. They simply didn’t want to ever again rely on an exterior power for their security.
France was in a sweet position up until roughly two decades ago when all the nuclear plants started to show appreciable wear and tear. Currently, half of its 56 nuclear reactors have been shut down for maintenance mainly addressed at curing corrosion problems. Any industrial factory or complex after nearly half a century in constant use gradually becomes uneconomic anyway because the cost of increasingly heavy maintenance begins to outstrip its profitability and also its up time. The choice becomes make a very expensive refurbishment effort or bulldoze the whole thing and build a new one. The cost differential between either course is slight but the downside is both will also take years to complete.
In common with most EU countries, France started what turns out to be the strategically suicidal move of transitioning to renewable energy sources such as solar and wind while at the same time decommissioning boring old nuclear power plants like Fessenheim, which was taken out of service in 2020. Add into that mistake that the French power workers have been on strike for several weeks for wage increases and the net result is that currently about half of their power plants are either out of action or limping along.
There’s only one snag in the whole cunning plan and it’s a grand one. Yes, France has lots of nuclear power generation plants but they don’t actually manufacture for themselves the fissionable material for all those wonderful plants to notionally burn. That ceased years ago. Nowadays it’s imported from the biggest producer and exporter of fissionable material for commercial use in the world and I’ll give you one guess who that party is.
Well done that gentleman at the back of the room wearing the funny chapeau for coming back with the correct answer so quickly, it is Russia! The chances of Russia boosting production for France which would indirectly keep industrial Germany alive and therefore the EU afloat are zilch. Almost as good as Saudi Arabia boosting oil production to help out Joe Biden rather than cutting it back. Don’t forget, the EU’s foreign minister Josep Borrell has openly boasted on many occasions the we, meaning the EU, are at war with Russia. Well, welcome to the war Joe.
In professional golfing circles there’s a saying that you drive for show but you putt for dough. When it comes to winning, it’s all about the endgame. In a similar fashion, that’s how the Russians operate and you’d be a fool to ignore that deep thinking aspect of the Slavic approach to things. That accounts for their love of chess.
Lizzie did say BloJo was playing a long game of 7D chess.
I pooh-poohed this. Scoffed, but not sneered.
If that tousled fuckhead gets inside number 10 again, manners behooves me to publicly apologise for said pooh-poohing, and acknowledge Lizzie’s greater political acumen. On this issue.
KD
He could win. Brits are angry with him but they still smile when hearing his name.
bad rap
Nunes suggests that Durham still has more to come and that there is significance to his final report.
Nunes suggests this report will result in a GOP-led Congressional Commission to do a full-scale investigation of the FBI as a whole.
Sussman and Dankchenko weren’t actually the ones on trial. It was the FBI.
Durham brought the FBI malfeasance forward, so that the proper body (Congress) could justify removing the FBI altogether.
Perfectly timed, as an America-First GOP claims Congress ?
-Clandestine
https://t.me/Patri0tsareinContr0l/3440
Comedy corner (the Hun):
Uh huh.
No, no! Wait, Gina! Waaaait!
Understatement of the year from the povo netty chicks.
Then you shouldn’t have gobbed off and listened to ex-skipper ‘advocates’ for pay rises, and perhaps observed which way the wind was blowing.
Bullshit.
Too late, wokemoles.
Well, I’ve had a interesting day. Today I was nearly run over whilst trying to cross Oxford Street Paddington. I went to cross the road and BMW sportscar backed into me…actually pushing me a few feet. It took my screaming and shouting, along with another pedestrian for the driver to stop. If it had been a child, the child would have ended up under the car. It was a male, he got out of the car and gave me a gormless look, I shouted at him to be more careful but what really got me cross was that the car had a “no coal” sticker on the back window. After my operation last December, I used a walking stick for many months and today I could have done with it because I would have throttled him with it.
Shortly afterwards my elderly mother collected me and we went for a family lunch at Cherrybrook. Returning tonight, at approximately 6.45 we were driving through Surry Hills and suddenly we hear a noise, the car starts dragging. I told my mother to stop and I got out, it was a flat tyre. Anyway, at approximately 6.50 pm. my mother rings the NRMA and the women said that there’d be a service car within the hour. To cut a long story short, my mother had to ring the NRMA four more times, the service driver didn’t arrive until 9.05pm, in the meantime my mother was getting extremely distressed as my elderly stepfather was at home, he only walks with a frame and he can’t hear, so when you try and ring him on his mobile, he can’t hear and he never answers. My mother was worried about her cat because my stepfather is unable to even feed the cat. At about 7.30 my stepfather rang my mother, my mother tried to explain to him that we’d broken down and that the NRMA was on the way but he couldn’t hear. So, he continued to ring her every 15 minutes to ask where she was, it was like being in a Fawlty Towers episode.
I’m exhausted. But there was one silver lining today, Gina pulled the dosh.
I don’t think Lizzie predicted precisely this pathway for the Second Coming of BloJo, but let’s not nit-pick.
As Cat predictions go, it is closer to the mark than many others.
…
Good evening St Ruth.
And good evening to Faulty, too.
We didn’t really think Gina would really pull the plug – we thought she’d value our opinions…
“wokemoles.”
Nice, very nice.
Gasp!
A sporty Beemer!
Surely it couldn’t be …
Oh, praise be to Allah.
Not Lizzie.
All the best, Cassie. I have very few gifts, but the ability to swear fluently, in five languages is one of them. Very handy, at times.
““We are disappointed to learn that Hancock Prospecting has withdrawn their sponsorship offer,”
Chutzpah on steroids.
If it was a frontier war, who won?
Still to be decided…by referendum.
That reminds me. Q: How many ears did Davy Crockett have?
A: Three. A left ear, a right ear and a wild frontier.
Cop that, Rotten. Didn’t need a book or anything.
In regard to the $100,000 bet between Tim and head prefect, I volunteer to hold the funds in escrow to be invested as nominated with me taking my usual 10%.
You rang the NRMA for a flat tyre?
Should have just pulled over and put on the hazard lights and stood beside the car. Some bloke driving/walking past would have pulled over and changed it for you in a few minutes.
City living I guess.
Electric cars in Germany may fall victim to the energy crisis – Der Spiegel
Internal combustion engines might now be more economical than electric ones
The current energy crisis in Europe could put the brakes on electric mobility in Germany and make e-vehicles unattractive to potential customers, Der Spiegel reported on Friday.
With electricity getting ever more expensive, charging an e-vehicle is sometimes pricier than filling up a petrol or diesel vehicle, the newspaper writes. The combustion engine is more than €30 cheaper per month on average with a mileage of 15,000 kilometers, the publications writes. By the end of next year, an e-car should “clearly be at a disadvantage,” Der Spiegel quotes Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer from the Center for Automotive Research as saying.
The state bonuses for buying electric vehicles were also reduced by 25%. With an almost a year-long wait for an ordered electric car to arrive, the buyer will get a smaller bonus than they were expecting, the outlet writes, adding that there’s no longer any state subsidy for hybrid cars.
In the current climate, consumers may have little desire to buy a new car. The situation was described as a “toxic mixture of energy crisis and inflation” by Sabine Jaskula from ZF, Germany’s second largest car systems supplier. Electric car production will collapse in Europe next year, she predicts, as only 11 million cars could roll off the assembly line across the industry instead of the planned 18 million.
Another ZF representative described the EU plans to stop selling petrol and diesel cars by 2035 as “illusory.”
There’s also a shortage of public charging stations across Germany, according to Der Spiegel. In some metropolitan areas, a single station has to be shared between as many as 60 vehicles, and a large-scale station refurbishment is needed to provide enough charging spaces for everyone.
According to veteran battery car dealer Wolf Warncke, “There is a risk that prospective buyers will turn their backs on e-mobility.”
“All the best, Cassie.”
Thank you.
“Should have just pulled over and put on the hazard lights and stood beside the car. Some bloke driving/walking past would have pulled over and changed it for you in a few minutes.”
Umm, it’s Surry Hills, it isn’t an area known for “blokes who can change a tyre”.
As far as the “snake problem” goes.
https://www.bunnings.com.au/australian-builders-20kg-quick-set-concrete_p0762428
You would only need a quarter of the bag. If that.
Who’s drawing thirty billion dollars a year, and demanding a treaty?
Wrong drug. Cannabis use is associated with opposition to authority. Antidepressants on the other hand … .
LOL. I made a point of making sure Miss A knew how to “change a tyre” before she moved to the “big smoke”.
Butt out.
Panzer KC will be the silk managing this one.
Knuckle Dragger says:
October 22, 2022 at 10:31 pm
That is unbelievable. FFS, they shit on Hancock and made much of ‘other sponsorships’ being available.
Errr…the only indigenous population of any country in the world that wasn’t subjected to slavery?
It’s all getting hopelessly cubical – my local watering hole is organizing a Melbourne Cup lunch, and Mma Zulu and I are joining the stalwarts of the R.S.L., at a table for said lunch……
“wokemoles”, coined by KD. 🙂
Liberty quote.
Whatever it’s worth, I clearly remember Tim and his novels being mentioned here some time go.
How it came about and by whom, that I don’t know.
Aunty has just been diagnosed with a nasty cancer of the scalp/ skull.
Has been unable to see specialist for 18 months due to needing to save octogenarians from the flu.
Now looking at radiation to shrink the shitty thing then surgery.
If it’s not too late.
Is Surrey Hills still full of sex offenders?
In the nineties none of the girls we lived with would go out after dark without one of us accompanying them. They had good reason to be paranoid.
Constant talk in MSM now about possibility that RUS would blow the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station/ dam upstream from Kherson once they’ve retreated across the Dnieper. Apparently, according to Zelensky, when Surovikin mentioned the possibility that UKR might do this in order to trap RUS forces on the north bank and make their resupply difficult, he was just confessing through projection. Still, even independent observers of the conflict recognize that RUS has absolutely nothing to gain by destroying the dam either with their forces on the north bank – their force would be trapped – or on the south bank – the force would be protected by the Dnieper river itself and they could blow any remaining crossings as the evacuated. Further, the dam provides water to the irrigation canals south of the Dnieper and also to the Crimea. Moreover, none of the probing attacks this last week have actually achieved anything. The front has remained static this week and RUS has been allowed to put more troops in and fortify their existing positions. Still, this correspondent being interviewed on TimesRadio thinks UKR has nothing to gain by destroying the dam.
Pelosi Abuses Trump’s Civil Rights, COVID Vax Secrets, Election Fraud Report Line
Judicial Watch
“Is Surrey Hills still full of sex offenders?”
Surry Hills is in Sydney.
Surrey Hills is in Melbourne
The Sydney one, we had a house on Marlborough St opposite the park.
Music suggestion?
Novelty or one shot parodies.
Like this
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qUqn-2Ljcj4
Or this
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lCOgj9_Rcl4
Obviously no one is commenting due to repeated playing of the 2 masterpieces I linked.
Random question:
Just Liz Truss get the ex-UK OM pension coin, which is something like 110,000 pounds per annum even though she was only in the gig for four days?
Enquiring minds, and all that.
Mole:
Number 2. All day.
Old Ozzie, that article on Boris, calling him a stinking hunk of meat, was from the UK Independent, and was rather what I might expect from them. They want to pull down the Tories.
And why not, you might ask, and you wouldn’t be alone in saying that.
However, I am rethinking Boris. Yes, he is all of the things that Cassie and Johanna and others here say as a much needed critique. But – there is a realpolitik to consider here. Unless Nigel Farage steps in and provides something else – quickly – Britain will end up with a Labor government, which would be a disaster, just as it is proving to be in Australia except probably worse. NHS on steroids and many areas of industry closed down or brought under government control. Remember the 1970’s and shudder, just as we here are wise to recall (too late now) the worst excesses of Whitlam and remind ourselves that sheer stupidity can and does reign supreme at times to the detriment of the people (cf Guatamala just crawling out of that sort of hole).
Boris can lead. Boris can also make good decisions if well-directed and advised – he did well as Mayor of London. I was hugely impressed with his eulogy in Parliament to Queen Elizabeth the Second. It was classic, emotive, amusing, respectful and very, very British. This is what people need and will respond to. Let’s remember too the tremendous media beat-up his glass of vino received compared to that of Saint Kier from Labor. And who else is likely to get up currently? Kami – would be excellent, but won’t make it, nor will other younger contenders in Tory ranks who are worth keeping and remembering that they are there and can help make a difference. Add to that – other immediate contenders than Boris look like destroying Brexit in a thousand cuts.
A chastened Boris who undertook to crush the two green nuts in his family – his wife and his father – and who continued on with his stated intention to build five more nuclear power stations, open up fracking again, and hit the north sea for more oil, would be a relief at present. A reinvigorated program for the north regions might see him offer people some hope in what currently looks like a bleak Tory future. Somehow Labor has to be fought. We didn’t do enough and look at where we are.
This may just be a straw in the wind against the anti-Boris tide, but it is worth putting up for consideration.
Wanky blurbs? Likies and the like?
Hrmmph. Anyone who wants to read in much detail my Arthurian material can find it over ten closely written pages in Quadrant September 2018. Search Elizabeth Beare and you should find quite a few others, I think I done around twelve articles, reviews etc, but a few are online only.
The Arthurian book itself is more a series of essays, and well on the way.
But so much else going on that it is strictly a hobby. Travel and Hairy and family all come first.
And renovations. And operations.
Just read upthread and see that Boris is def going to contest. Interesting times.
Whichever one of you gets the gig, you’ll only be handling half the money.
Coz one of the parties knows they are full of bullshit & won’t put up one dollar to back their mouth.
A rare case of Hashimoto encephalopathy after COVID vaccination
Appears these 40,000 new 40km penalties were incurred in as little as two months, just at this one location.
40k limits on sections of main arterials is a fine Dan fund-raiser.
40,000 fines from controversial speed camera RIPPED UP
Week In Pictures.
Severe COVID-19 outcomes after full vaccination of primary schedule and initial boosters: pooled analysis of national prospective cohort studies of 30 million individuals in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales
Driving back from fun partay. Learned that the Lord Protector of the Natives was booed at his son’s graduation, the MC rather unwisely introducrd him as “Mighty Mark”.
Also had a genuinely unscripted skit with an ev acolyte and his tesla, which i’ll have to waffle out in full sometime. Peak tesla masturbation when it was three minutes in to its ridiculously lame “light show”, which is knobpolisher bloke standing back and cueing in from his phone- super super gay space opera music booming out of its own stereo, accompaniment to it turning lights on and off, winding windows down… and up again and open9ng its own boot and bonnet… and… closing them again. In comes a toyota yaris, pulls up in between show tune car and underwhelmed onlookers… winds window down and a enmasked face says “Uber for Bec? Bec? Uber?”
Regarding this, it’s been fun watching 538’s senate projection slowly advance towards the Republicans as the election date nears.
Thanks Tom.
Gotta luv the kale one and the soccer bus.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1583547802306908160
Unique combination of wind and raindrops creating a rainbow from a waterfall. And some deft colour manipulation. You won’t see this in real life.
Thank you Tom
Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.
– John Knee Rotten
Rosie’s link to ‘The Lancet’.
First, the result:
The Booster must be the shit, no? Goodness, such a definitive difference out of 16 million people. No room for other variables to play a part at all! [SARC OFF].
But wait, how do they define a “severe COVID-19 outcome”?
So, pretty much anyone who was admitted to hospital for any reason (COVID related, or not) was considered a “severe COVID-19 outcome” as long as they could find something in their system from 14 days prior right up until admission (Given the prevalence of COVID, not terribly difficult I shouldn’t imagine).
By casting the net so wide when defining things, such studies are, at best, pointless and, at worst, thoroughly misleading.
The footage of the Xi power move is pretty gangster.
Wonder how the bird who originally posted the the house arrest story last month is feeling.
ZK2A:
Bullshit. This demand, once granted, is the first step in the next series of demands.
The ONLY way to negotiate with with Leftards is to tell them to piss off.
Further to Zippy’s comment last night.
Frail former Chinese president, 79, is mysteriously forced from party congress hall (22 Oct)
The body language is interesting. Absolutely clear this is on Xi’s orders, and is timed exactly – after most of the business of the Congress and right before the confirmation of Xi as effective emperor for life. I suspect all the congress attendees got the message.
Imagine if you were a filthy rich chad in his 30s and your 25 year old missus…
“Bae, I want to be, like an entrepreneur…”
So you give her 20k to start a you tube channel and become her personal assistant, then you give her 500 a month to subsidise the difference from her YT income after buying subs and paying for her monthly supplements and new lulu lemon gear.
Reminds me of buying a new Landcruiser to tow horse floats hor some reason.
https://youtu.be/o3QB-j3BA_0
…and if this display is granted it’s very first breath, I will personally go to the War Museum and smear Vegemite over the exhibits.
That’s allowed isn’t it?
Saddam smoking a cigar as a list of people were being denounced (and shot in the next room by an AK-47 toting drum head execution squad) was incredibly iconic – I’d say evil but they would have all done the same if given a chance.
In short, don’t know, but highly likely suicide
an update on Sam Westmorland, another young person death the antivaxx vultures descended on
Unlike the blonde poppet, some real career advice from Andrew Tate (!) and Jordan Peterson.
https://youtu.be/z7F8tf-cGXQ
https://youtu.be/zBQa48lLuVg
“You have a moral obligation…
“If you can’t bargain, you’re a slave…”
Heh
Textiles
More textiles
Made my day. Thanks Tom.
Tim N. mentioned his book once. I Googled him and voila! There it was. And that was that. ALurker was a writer too. So many talented people on the blog, past and present.
Just looking at those Biden photos. Remember when matching the mask to the outfit was a “thing”? Then everyone just seemed to give up and use the stupid medical ones.
Because Science.
Montage of Washington Claiming Vaccines Prevent Transmission
https://youtu.be/nTlxpxdH3Yk
Lies, lies and more dam lies…………………………..
Knuckle Dragger:
RFDS is the only charity I will donate to. Lets get that upfront.
But – there’s always a ‘but’ – it is being used as a cost defrayment mechanism by State Health Departments.
Let me explain the mechanism.
About 10 years ago, a small mining town in Upper Territory Nullius, had a minor issue with a young patient. The patient, somewhere between the ages of 3 and 3.2 years had a fever that was unresponsive to medications/cold packs/etc -all the usual nursing stuff that is par for the course. A bit too crook to be sent home and come back in the morning. (Mainly because mum was ‘unable to be found’ – there was a Gran with the child). But nowhere near crook enough to be flown out RFDS.
Boss had choices – Keep the child in hospital and incur overtime costs for 1 staff member. (There were no inpatients at the time.)
Or demand RFDS fly them out along with mum (who was suddenly found at the pub when a trip to the big smoke was on the cards) and other assorted aunties who wanted to go shopping in Perf.
With a bit of manipulation of facts and figures, the child was flown out at a cost of around $40k.
Keeping the child in hospital at a cost of $200 in staff wages.
Now you’d think it was a noBrainer, but the kid was flown out.
To save $200, the cost was transferred to a non state health organisation for $40k.
And this is why socialism NEVER works. There is no effective cost signal to the consumer.
And it is also why Tony Abbotts co-payment was fought as if it was a matter of life and death.
I suppose if you’re sufficiently stoned you won’t feel cold.
Priorities: German Parties War Over Cannabis Legalisation as People Set to Freeze in Winter (22 Oct)
Let them eat hash brownies.
Winston, that means the RFDS is being gamed not only by no hopers but by the State itself. The former, I understand. Grifters gotta grift. Meanwhile generous people are still donating in good faith.
John Flynn must be rolling.
No, but there are bull dykes there who could hold up the car with one hand and change the tyre with the other. 🙂
Bulk billing appears to be going the way of the dinosaur.
Reportedly* local extended hours bulk bill now charges $25 for after 5pm appointments, and it’s all appointments, no walk in and wait.
The same type of thing was happening in Victorian hospitals during Covid (and I dare say other States, too). State health budgets versus Federal funding.
Things were classified to maximise that which could be assign to the Feds, and these are the classifications that the Covid statistics were based on.
Funding allocation drove health statistics, not the other way around.
Soooo, T20 cricket & netball haven’t made her “must do” list, apparently .. LOL!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1583786704355266560
Going to start a GoFundMe page for a mate.
Anyone got a spare 2.75 trillion US dollars to spare?
At Crikey and paywalled, talking about the Canberra region and copayments
As inflation soars, a surge of clinics are turning to co-payments — while those that do offer bulk billing are struggling with staffing shortages.
Crikey on the $7 copayment back in 2014.
I guess doctors ended up taking responsibility.
Abbott shifts toxic co-payment proposal onto doctors
The government has tried to extract itself from its GP co-payment mess by dumping responsibility for it onto doctors.
Mole
#2 The Cats theme song.
Yes, I remember now.
Romantic bodice-ripper novels for the over 80’s weren’t they?
Dot – Funny how they aren’t suing the perp’s family for $2.75 trillion, or the cops who stood around at the front gate while he was doing his thing.
Our First Look At What Fully Upgraded B-52 Bombers Will Look Like
A new rendering from Boeing shows a future B-52 with new engines, a revised nose section, and other additions.
$500k not enough to tempt doctors to work in rural town Julia Creek
https://www.northwest.health.qld.gov.au/our-facilities/julia-creek/hospital with no doctor
Our (young, female) rural doctors are doing it tough.
They need 4 million dollars.
I’d pay a nurse practitioner 250k and call it a day.
The real fraud was in the definition of ‘vaccinated’ – they classified you as unvaxxed until 14 DAYS AFTER THE SECOND SHOT – thus neatly transferring the bad outcomes from the vax (which mainly occurred within 1-3 days of it) into the ‘unvaxxed’ column.
How Weed Became the New OxyContin
Big Pharma and Big Tobacco are helping market high-potency, psychosis-inducing THC products as your mother’s ‘medical marijuana’
For 30 years, Dr. Libby Stuyt, a recently retired addiction psychiatrist in Pueblo, Colorado, treated patients with severe drug dependency. Typically, that meant alcohol, heroin, and methamphetamines. But about five years ago, she began to see something new.
“I started seeing people with the worst psychosis symptoms that I have ever seen,” she told me. “And the worst delusions I have ever seen.”
These cases were even more acute than what she’d seen from psychotic patients on meth. Some of the delusions were accompanied by “severe violence.” But these patients were coming up positive only for cannabis.
Stuyt wasn’t alone: Health care professionals throughout Colorado and all over the country were seeing similar episodes.
Ben Cort, who runs an addiction recovery center in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, watched a young man jump up on the table in the emergency department and strip naked, claiming he was the God of thunder and threatening to kill everyone in the room, including two police officers. A collegiate athlete Cort worked with also had a psychotic episode and was shot five times by the police with a beanbag gun before he was subdued. In Los Angeles County, Blue Stohr, a psychiatric social worker, had a patient who climbed a 700-foot crane and considered jumping off of it, not because he was suicidal but because he thought he was in a computer simulation, like The Matrix.
Those patients, too, were high only on cannabis.
and
San Diego ER seeing up to 37 marijuana cases a day — mostly psychosis
Unvaccinated
Vaccinated
Immunised
A simple hayseed like me can do it, why can’t our stunning and brave doctors who are not greedy at all and don’t hypocritically vote Teal.
So many frauds, so little time.
As a longtime Medical Retrieval Dr in SA I can confirm this – there were *many* times when an overnight staffing problem at a rural hospital generated an expensive aeromedical transfer. Furthermore, there were also numerous times where we used the most expensive transport platform (chartered Learjet) to move patients interstate at their expense, to preserve our own cheaper local assets (principally Turboprop PC12) for our own needs.
Aren’t adverse reactions to the vaccines a separate reporting requirement?
It gets a bit confusing when you claim that adverse reactions to the vaxx mainly occur 1 to 3 days after, when so many people claim any health issue that occurs weeks months even a year or more post vaxx is caused by the vaxx.
Yeah right. Marijuana is again the WORST drug of all time.
Remember: GOOD drugs are coincidentally TAXED drugs.
Interesting
https://perfectdailygrind.com/2020/06/can-australia-grow-its-consumption-of-locally-produced-coffee/
It was world beating, as were Caldwell Wines before Federation!
Someone in the Central Coast appears to read the WIP.
Saint John Paul II relics arrive on the Central Coast (Ncl local news, 22 Oct)
Shrine to Pope Saint John Paul II officially opens (Sky News, 23 Oct)
Nice trolling of the local Anglicans too, since Gosford is uberliberal Rod Bower’s patch.
The Free Market Experiment Is Over’ – Time for a ‘Reset’ with Sunak as PM, Says Top Tory…Interesting that they are happy to say this out loud now. This full on class warfare.
The cattle thieves are back. If Mogg isn’t plotting to knife her or leave and team up with Fox & Farage, he’s not my boy anymore. 🙁
John Fetterman Looks Bad in Suit, Analysis Finds
Bizarre fashion choice raises questions about stroke victim’s ability to dress himself
What they’re saying:
• “Fetterman in a suit looks like he’s his own bodyguard.”
• “OH LOOK! Johnny Fetterman’s mommy and daddy bought him a NEW SUIT!”
• “People are calling @JohnFetterman ‘Uncle Fester,’ which is just ridiculous. Fester could talk.”
• “John Fetterman is in such bad shape that they didn’t even let him speak at the event with noted dementia patient Joe Biden.”
The 3rd Picture down – Is that Photoshopped or Real?
I’m old enough to remember when everything Elon did was pretty cool.
Now deep state surrogates like MIT question everything.
https://www.technologyreview.com/?_thumbnail_id=1061968&p=1062001&preview=true&preview_id=1062001&preview_nonce=6434d74f25&truid=511cda4596687ad1e8c0a33a5309beb3&utm_source=the_download&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_term=Active%20Qualified&utm_content=10-22-2022&mc_cid=8108b7afa9&mc_eid=6cb9ef82da
I’m also old enough to remember when MIT poo poo’d anything that wasn’t peer reviewed.
Now they amplify it.
Wonder what changed.
In a non peer-reviewed paper that he has posted on his lab’s website, Humphreys claims to have provided the most complete characterization of Starlink’s signals to date. This information, he says, is the first step toward developing a new global navigation technology that would operate independently of GPS or its European, Russian, and Chinese equivalents.
Elon
Turn off the lights and take us good A Ark folk to the breakaway civilisation.
Dotsays:
October 23, 2022 at 8:16 am
Interesting
https://perfectdailygrind.com/2020/06/can-australia-grow-its-consumption-of-locally-produced-coffee/
It was world beating, as were Caldwell Wines before Federation!
Also
Why Australian Olive Oil Is Some of the Best In the World
Strict testing and monitoring ensure you’re getting the real deal.
Australian olive oil has taken the international olive oil competition circuit by storm. It’s such good stuff that Larry Olmsted, author of Real Food Fake Food who has written extensively about counterfeit olive oil, says if he had to choose an oil based on nothing other than where it’s from, his first choice would be Australian.
Australia is like the hoodie-wearing tech startup guy in a roomful of suits. A relatively new player in the global olive oil market, the country has become known for its pioneering production methods.
Forget the idyllic notion of workers hand-picking olives at peak ripeness (absolutely a good thing, but also extremely rare). Australia’s olive oil producers are all about “intensive layouts of olive groves, modern irrigation and farm management practices, mechanized harvesting, and advanced milling technologies,” according to a 2013 report by the U.S. International Trade Commission.
Most growers also have their own mills and bottling facilities, which allows them to press their olives within 24 hours—but often “much quicker” than that, says Lisa Rowntree, a spokeswoman for the Australian Olive Association, which represents the country’s olive growers.
It all adds up to a pure, super-fresh product that just might be the world’s best olive oil. “If you produce good olives and harvest them quickly, you can’t go wrong,” Rowntree wrote me via e-mail.
Zipster:
I went to the docs the other day, and I couldn’t get any Iodine on prescription. I believe it’s not available OTC.
The Iodine I got while I was in Nursing Corps has a shelf life of 7 years and seeing that it was 20 since I acquired it, decided I should replace it. Refused script, but can get it OTC with Folic Acid for $28.
How odd?!
Seeing the US/Russia are threatening each other with nukes or damaging each others nuke power stations, and we cannot get standard Iodine replacement stuff?
However you can get Lugols Iodine 2% solution 4 Fl/oz from the US for $22.
So there is that.