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The fact you think it’s stupid guarantees it will be a raging success.
The Gimp’s rubber suit hosing out day. I hope the missus keeps the slops from hosing your suit in the…
Greens’ Max Chandler-Mather reveals why he cannot afford to buy a house – despite earning more than $230,000 a year…
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Hahahahaaaaa. Got it.
There are nowhere near enough Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels quotes in this august journal of record.
Actually, Roger, I wonder if therein lies another sticking point.
I reckon Gina would have wanted to put money into that second and third tier development.
She might have got a sniff that the money was going to be pissed away on salary and benefits for the top 15-20 netty chicks, and bloated admin.
I had hoped it would be with caaarrton!
It’s not that loud, hatchet-faced thing on Focks Footy’s Bounce, alongside Jason Dunstall is it?
Well, Gina did say she was unaware of punch-ons about pay rises.
What thickness of lead sheet should I line ze bunker with?
DeltaA:
Those are not the utterances of a political neophyte.
Gina has extricated herself from a problem caused by a few nasty girls with her reputation enhanced, and her enemies floundering in the pile of shit they tried to fling at her.
Bravo, Gina!
It just goes from bad to worse. Please excuse my schadenfreude…
Netball Australia facing a $25m sponsorship crisis with fears other firms will follow Gina Rinehart out
Netball Australia is in financial peril and facing a potential $25m sponsorship crisis after a player union revolt led to Hancock Prospecting walking away from the sport, with the possibility more key sponsors could follow.
The company of mining billionaire Gina Rinehart pulled its $15m sponsorship on Saturday and there are fears it could balloon to a greater financial loss for the sport, as current and future sponsors may be put off from backing netball due to the players’ stance on issues.
“It could potentially turn into a $25m problem in the near future,” said one netball source. Netball Australia chief executive Kelly Ryan confirmed to The Australian that the survival of the sport, which has been $4m in the red, was again on tenterhooks and they will now have to consider cost cutting.
This comes after the organisation in June was issued with a “going concern” notice from its auditors after it had lost $7.2m in the past two years.
“Financially it puts the sport in a really compromised position again,” Ryan said. “We have done a power of work to get us into a more stable position. This money (from Hancock Prospecting) was going to help us accelerate our sport not only correct what has been out of balance.
“(It) was going to help us get ahead and now we’re back, literally looking through the budget as we speak.”
Members of the Australian side refused to wear the new sponsor’s logo on their uniforms in the series against England after objections from Indigenous player Donnell Wallam, citing discomfort over the company’s record on Indigenous issues.
There was optimism on Friday night that the dispute had been resolved after reports Wallam had agreed to wear a uniform with the sponsor’s logo but those hopes were dashed on Saturday when Hancock tore up its proposed four-year partnership “effective immediately”.
The company — and its majority-owned iron ore outfit Roy Hill – also withdrew from its deal with Super Netball premiers West Coast Fever. The company said it had been unaware of “the complexity of existing issues between Netball Australia and the players’ association”.
Hancock Prospecting also said it did not insist the logo be on the uniform.
It has been confirmed to The Australian that funding from Hancock Prospecting had also been committed to delivering netball programs in Indigenous communities as well as talent pathways for Indigenous players.
The Australian Diamonds in a statement on Saturday dismissed suggestions the dispute was over climate change.
“Reports of a protest on the part of the players, on environmental grounds and a split within the playing group are incorrect,” the players’ statement read. “The singular issue of concern to the players was one of support for our only Indigenous team member.”
Ryan revealed she had been trying via the Australian Netball Players’ Association (ANPA) to have “direct communication to the players”. She said despite months of overtures to the union powerbrokers, they had not provided a time to meet.
Netball Australia has lost its $15 million-dollar sponsorship deal with Hancock Prospecting after Indigenous… netballer Donnell Wallam refused to wear the company’s logo on her uniform because of racist comments made by Lang Hancock in the 1980s. In a statement, Hancock Prospecting says it didn’t want to add More
“We have been advocating for a while to make sure that we are able to have direct communication to players, that’s something that we want to have,” Ryan said. “I’ve been asking since July to meet with the players’ association board and have never been given an opportunity.
“So I am all for having direct conversations and our reality is we need to have direct conversations – the fact that they’re saying they weren’t consulted on this deal, and yet there is an email to them on the 29th of July that tells them how the deal is being structured. I mean, what else were we meant to do?”
Ryan did not rule out engaging with gambling companies in an effort to keep the sport afloat.
“I know everyone’s got an aversion to betting, but we are the only sport that doesn’t have an association with a betting agency and that already financially compromises us,” Ryan said. “Whether it’s right or wrong for the sport, we don’t know yet.”
Brian Burke was WA’s Labor premier in 1984 when Mrs Rinehart’s father, Lang Hancock, infamously proposed sterilising “half caste” Aboriginal people.
“He excited some people by occasionally expressing himself inappropriately on a range of controversial topics,” Mr Burke said on Sunday.
Mr Burke said he could not recall Mrs Rhinehart – who he believed was living in the US at the time – supporting any of her father’s “extreme views”.
“It is sad to see her criticised for the views her father expressed, and we are the only losers from the bullying that caused Mrs Rinehart to withdraw her sports sponsorship,” he said. “And that’s when, as has been repeatedly pointed out, we think it’s fine to accept sponsorship from gambling, alcohol and fast food.”
I have zero sympathy for NA.
Some of the Netty teams are named after bird species – swifts, thunderbirds, firebirds, magpies.
Turns out they were all seagulls when Gina opened the chip packet.
Brian Burke finished up in the tronk for fiddling campaign funds…….
Bespoke:
Are they the ones who first started you on Stella Artois?
Hell’s too good for them, Bespoke.
Here – have a XXXX Bitter.
I weep. My heart is broken.
Jeez
Demons could actually lose NY State.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/22/hochul-zeldin-midterm-crime-inflation-00062843
brainiacs
1/4 inch. Marine grade.
If you have a boat you’re set.
What’s that German term again?
Oh, that’s right – schadenfreude 🙂
Over 90,000 people watching India v Pakistan at the G.
Nobody, and I mean absolutely nobody is getting an Uber home tonight.
It’s not that loud, hatchet-faced thing on Focks Footy’s Bounce
That’s her Knuckles
But hey, let’s just briefly touch on all the hotties that have been screwed over by this collectivist idiocy.
The brunettes all looked like Miss Hannah and the blondes like Miss Emily.
Legs for ever.
Thinkin’ of Bruce Loder, for some reason?
Forgotten who he even was, so whether NetBall, Hot Chicks, AntiSemitism, or a combination, I’m unsure.
Can anyone help out?
Got one back on ya, Ed.
Bruce Loder was back in the early 80s the CEO of the NSW Department of Main Roads (DMR). He was also, I think the first person who had to face a Sexual harassment tribunal in NSW against, I think, two women. IIRC the charges may have been dismissed.
He was known in the DMR by his ironical nickname, “Front End Loder”.
Yeah righto. Voice like a cold-started two-stroke.
The NA thing reminds me of this fine and very silly song by Air.
Air – Kelly Watch The Stars (1998)
Shithouse bowling from the Pakis.
India needed 33 from two overs, and now they need 16 from the last.
Terrible pills. Asked to be hit, and by Kohli of all people.
Sancho Panzer:
I give you 3 dickless upticks for that from Winston Smith, Winston Smiths Keyboard, and Winston Smiths Mum.
Why do I bestow such an honour on your worthless hide?
Because it was funny, dammit.
Straight from Satan’s mouth.
Stock up with baked beans, instant noodles, and camp pie. Death will become a welcome friend.
I’m out of here. A final track:
Earthcrosser (1997)
Was never a single nor even a B side but it seems to be a staple on all their live gigs. Rather good. The whole album is awesome.
That match was fixed.
Everyone concentrates on possible “swing seats”.
A more indicative marker would be to see if there is a swing in “solid blue” electorates. By that I mean, that even the Democrat voters don’t show up to vote. They will win the blue states, but it’s the “turnout” that will tell the true story.
calli:
October 23, 2022 at 8:31 pm
Beertruk, I can do purl and plain without looking too.
Hehe.
I had to read ‘Tale of Two Cities’ for english in high school.
I love reading but I had to force myself to read it and to say I struggled with it is an understatement.
Regarding the netball Sheliahs, contracts are important.
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
Should I crump the joins or soldier them?
No I wasn’t.
I wasn’t asked.
Certainly have done that now.
Demons could actually lose NY State.
Don’t be a sap head prefect: the mid-terms are gone. What happened to Liz Truss was just a taste.
Not with that much that went wrong.
Day 8. Plenty of Camp Pie left. Decided to open a can and use the jagged edge of the lid to slash my wrists.
The TruckStop Turd-droppers got home on the last ball!
It’s not the result. And it wasn’t the last over.
There will be some extremely rich Pakistani bookies tonight who spot-fixed the target between the second-last and the last over.
We had to read Fielding’s “Joseph Andrews” – the theme of lust versus chastity didn’t ring too true with a group of lust – ridden seventeen year old boys, who regarded Joseph Andrews as a screaming great p@@f…
Also the waist-high no ball on the second delivery of the last over, which was spin.
Very steeenky.
Toss a coin.
On the question of Iodine, how about sea kelp? I take it as a general supplement.
8 Unexpected Benefits of Iodine
I had an op a few years ago and when I woke up I looked distinctly First Nations.
They washed it off after a couple of days saying it had to come off for fear of it causing some problem or other.
Probably not being drafted by Hawthorn I think.
Just wait for my call.
I’ll tell you when to run into the sea.
You didn’t have a wager on the bomb-throwers did you?
A corduroy road of corpse’s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTZ6-BJXF_E
“they have damaged all of our dreamings, dreamings that were important to Aboriginal people,” he said.”
The rest of Australia moves through the twenty first century…..
Brian Burke was WA’s Labor premier in 1984 when Mrs Rinehart’s father, Lang Hancock, infamously proposed sterilising “half caste” Aboriginal people.
Brian Burke finished up in the tronk for fiddling campaign funds…….
He was the premier of the government which issued Rothwells with a licence for a petrochemical plant then bought it back for $400 million. He was slotted for knocking off some rare stamps iirc.
Salt water is the answer to most of humanities problems.
There are quite a few politicians that should follow Harold Holts example.
In a just world, there would be a gigantic bronze statue of Harold astride Parliament House. A subtle reminder.
“they have damaged all of our dreamings, dreamings that were important to Aboriginal people,” he said.”
‘Throb Monster Dreaming?’
In a just world, there would be a … Harold Holt Swim Centre
Some retard in the Government “Stamp Printing Department” was responsible for upside down ducks and stuff. Anything is possible.
In Oh, Fuck Off news:
UN accuses Australia of ‘clear breach’ of human rights obligations as it suspends tour of detention facilities
The Miserable Ghost that keeps on giving.
Total cockhead status confirmed.
Just when you think you’ve ordered enough popcorn:
Oh my aching sides, how much of this can my larynx stand before I choke whilst laughing?
A Senator Opines on Netball:
I’m not at all sure what point he’s trying to make here. But, God help us, he’s got his hands on the controls…
The onset of crypto and the demise of postal services (stamps) and money printing (notes and coins) should probably see a surge in value?
I’m not too sure about that. Maybe in a thousand years time perhaps?
You can buy “Roman Coins” and stuff quite cheaply. Money is cheap, especially the paper printed stuff.
Rabz’z Radio Show theme brainstorming… that earlier number from Bruce freaked me out a bit, mainly due to lack of sleep… I hope.
Horror?
Supergrass – Mary
Hmmm. Bespoke ‘live blogging’, or is that dead blogging, his family members. Charming.
Meanwhile, I’m content with letting Hairy’s friends who know him personally and others here who might be interested know (well after the event) he has had an interesting jungle experience and survived it; and that I am so glad he did. All part of the general trials and tribulations and observations of travel.
Just rejoined sentient humanity after 18 hours of jet-lagged sleep and the news is fantastic: netball harridans out of pocket to the tune of $15 million. Wacko the didelo.
Let us hope Gina gives some of that returned cash to worthy conservative causes … a monthly magazine say.
Now which one might that be…..hmmmm
Netball Australia should be more worried about getting their arses sued off.
You can’t take money off people and then blatantly kick them in the guts.
Oh wait. Politicians and taxpayers.
As you were.
Lol, she’s never played a match for the Diamonds. Social media is calling her “the Fifteen million dollar rookie”
Haw haw haw haw…
George Floyd’s murder causes a drop in Minneapolis police recruitment numbers
It’s well worth scrolling down the article to enjoy the photo of one of the six potential recruits, Mr Cyrus Collins.
Minneapolis is in good hands.
areff, is Quadrant comfy?
I keep lapsing my sub by accident- actually I’ve changed banks so there’s new details- you’ve got to make subscribing online a bit easier, tho it is fun to talk to the office girl.
Gina should take the cash over to The Age and repeat her earlier bid… just for the exploding heads
Lol, she’s never played a match for the Diamonds. Social media is calling her “the Fifteen million dollar rookie”
Guffaw guffaw guffaw.
Australian Sports needs a shake up in general.
It’s pretty obvious that we are failing in comparison to bygone years. From Cricket to Rugby and Tennis (and everything in between). It’s pathetic.
Money isn’t the problem. It’s the shysters we taxpayers are handing the money to. Incompetent fucks.
Our best hope at this stage is to “re-gender” all our teams to female. We might be able to pick up a couple of medals in the pool.
That’s if we can beat Lia Thomas. It’s not a given.
I’m expecting that Victoria will “take the lead” in our nations new sporting revival.
They invented GayFL and named their state after a sheliah. They also have a well trained and black clad Police force to “beat the fuck” out of any opposition.
Gold, Gold, Gold to Australia (Eureka Stockade participants excepted).
“Queensland” got a fair run.
Dudes. She’s dead. It’s over.
QLD – “The Memorial State”. You need to get your licence plates changed.
NSW was prophetic. We named stuff after the King.
Pretty much everything. Our time has come.
Double posting from me will doubtless occur as the internet at sea is very flakey, mostly due to so many passengers being on it competing for bandwidth, so I just keep on pressing Submit with vague hopes one time it will make a connection. There is no library on board and books are in short supply. Glad we brought a few to share.
Re Quaddie – Gina R. is a friend of the IPA and possibly helps there with a low profile? I certainly think there is room for conservative funding of Quadrant, one of Australia’s oldest quality journals of record from a conservative perspective. The leftist Australia Council axed Quadrant’s funding some years ago and the Liberals made no complaints, while every minor leftie rag is fully funded and Quadrant survives mainly on subscriptions. Go figure.
Woken up an hour ago with fire alarm. I live in retirement village apartment . Anyway threw on a track suit grabbed phone and I pad not a soul up on my floor I had trouble hearing first announcement but next ok People with hearing aids Can’t hear when alarm goes Turned out to be false alarm but most didn’t wake up .
NB, I would generally leave Bespoke to his own often expressed nature, but he did choose to attack me for sharing here my concern regarding my husband’s recent near miss with disaster on this trip.
So I point out that he also makes personal familial references, in his case as above unkindly ones.
If he leaves me alone, I am very happy indeed to reciprocate and keep the blog friendly.
Min, designated fire ‘wardens’, people on each floor with hearing, might help for rousing a set number of non-hearers. Still not the best solution, I know. This must be a problem encountered elsewhere, and I am wondering if there might be some electronic fix for it.
Woken up by a cat fight on the patio.
Not quite fire alarm level but you still have to get up to stop the din.
My daughter spotted a new tom hanging around the garden yesterday. If I see him the noise will stop.
The “Gina Stuff” raises an interesting question.
Australia has a very different “sporting model” to the US and the UK (and the rest of the world).
You can’t simply walk in and “buy a club” like in the US or UK. Throw down hundreds of millions of bucks to buy the “Dallas Cowboys” or “Manchester United”. It’s a money making venture. Pay huge money, get in the crowds. Run it well and reap the rewards. But you own it.
Australia is the same, but they do it a little differently. You can’t “own a club”, so you “stack the board” and pay your mates and relatives to “jump on the gravy train”.
The subtle differences are telling. Taxation has a lot to do with it. But that varies as well. You only need to look at Packer and ODI. Two competing systems. Russell Crowe and South Sydney. Strange arrangement.
Obviously, the US has their “Athletic Scholarship System”. If you can’t read or write, it’s not a problem. Big money if you can make it. Run boy, run. Most don’t.
I’d lean toward the Australian system, but it’s failed. Too many sucking on the Government teat. There is much wrong there.
Taser.
Taser?
I’m nailing this. A taser seems to be the best answer to every problem.
Old people, stray Cats.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
David Rowe.
Bob Moran.
Morten Morland.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Michael Ramirez #2.
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Lisa Benson.
https://www.livestrong.com/article/503815-kelp-and-iodine-overdose/
There is iodine in salt, seafood, and commercial bread. That’s enough.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33889064/
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
October 24, 2022 at 2:40 am
People with hearing aids Can’t hear when alarm goes Turned out to be false alarm but most didn’t wake up
There is, don’t know if feasible for general use.
Friend is in an important job needing 24 access when on duty, but deaf as a doornail, (lip-reads better than a hearing person can hear), anyhoo, he has a vibrating bed, and all sorts of flashing lights throughout his house.
I just know some smart….e will make fun of my prev. comment re. vibrating bed etc.
You can’t simply walk in and “buy a club” like in the US or UK. Throw down hundreds of millions of bucks to buy the “Dallas Cowboys” or “Manchester United”. It’s a money making venture. Pay huge money, get in the crowds. Run it well and reap the rewards. But you own it.
Bit more to it than that.
In related news, since Bezos missed out on the Denver Broncos he’s trying to force the Washington football team onto the market.
Incredible the way he’s gone about it.
Lizzie, this has happened before , this time wardens on our floor are on holiday .
The other problem here is early dementia when those suffering become confused . In 20 20 I tried to get us re classified from level 2 to level 1 . What had happened federal government decided it was cheaper to keep people in own homes than nursing homes . We were independent living but now have those here that would have been moved into care in the past,
. I was the only one on my floor awake and ready no one else appeared . Next level only 3 in corridor , if this had been a real fire a disaster with many dead.
One friend , male tells me when his hearing aids removed does not hear alarm or instructions . My hearing is excellent and I could not understand first voice instructions .
As for vibrating beds if you need these you would not be a a fast mover . I was up and out before fire brigade arrived if your are immobile eg can only move with walker so can’t get down stairs you have to sit and wait in room which oldies lock ! Mine always unlocked , and wait for a fire man to rescue you.
Even with wardens those on walkers can’t get downstairs last count 38 here need walker of helper if confused . As I said disaster .
Heheh, Bob Moran.
Itshi Nutsak is the tiny midget between Johnson and Mordaunt, if anyone was wondering.
Now to those with a short memory running the country ! Elbow telling us how the new cable from Tassie will be the reason we will be able to manufacture in Victoria once our coal fired power stations are closed with all the electricity coming from hydro in Tassie . Who don’t want Wind turbines btw .I remember how we had to keep their energy going from those self same Coal fired power stations when Tassie had a drought a few years ago.
Re fires etc in nursing homes / hospitals etc. If people have to be evacuated the fire brigade does a sort of reverse triage. Those who can walk are the first out and the next will be those who are easiest to get out as fast as possible. The bed ridden etc are last. The point is to get as many out as soon as possible.
Diesel shortage on the near horizon in USA. Link.
The midterms will be a handbrake on but not a cure for the destructive process that will bring America down.
Min,
Glad you guys are alright and no one died in a flaming disaster.
Last thing we need is a spike in Covid deaths.
These creatures are evil.
Eco warriors target another masterpiece as £96m Monet painting smeared in mashed potato (23 Oct)
It’s going to get worse too, as they’re talking openly of commencing actual terrorism.
‘Sabotage Is Most Effective’: Eco-Terrorism Advocate Given Platform By The New York Times – Has advocated for ‘Ecological Leninism’ (22 Oct)
Bought to mind the SES begging for volunteers, but with a sign at the back announcing they won’t accept the services of the non-vaccinated.
Between this and the CFA debacle, Victorian seems to be on a crusade to destroy volunteerism.
a crusade to destroy volunteerism.
Every foundation of society is under attack.
Abortion and transgenderism are aimed squarely at the family, as are the school boards and teachers in the USA actively engaged in sexualising young kids.
A list of all the disintegrative attacks grows longer by the week.
We saw this same approach raise its head here with “safe schools” move.
Sancho Panzer:
The whole idea of getting organised before TSHTF, is to avoid the panic.
Volunteering used to be a pillar of Aussie society – just about everyone was involved in it in one way or another. No longer.
Why would you work your guts out for nothing, sometimes in dangerous circumstances, only to discover the person next to you was being paid? The last really big volunteering push was the Sydney Olympics, where mostly retirees put their hands up to do something fun and useful. And remember how they were pilloried for months by our so-called “comedians”? An who will ever forget the garbage piled on Abbott for surf lifesaving? It continues to this day.
Sancho Panzer:
I’ve been trying to get JC there for days but he refuses to use it. He’d rather just sit on the open thread niggling at all and sundry, refusing to comply with rules he originally agreed with as a good idea but has now decided he doesn’t have to follow.
The great disconnect: will this be the death of America?
From American Thinker, a review of how far society has already fallen since the mid 20th century, and the current lack of true adherence to their history and the constitution.
Knuckle Dragger:
Dunno – I’ve never heard the album.
Test
I seem to be unable to post it here. There’s a very good piece in today’s AZ, from Media Diary, basically saying that other sponsors are contemplating walking away.
Yes please. Next, Alinta needs to walk.
Ties in well with:
If you live in a retirement village, or anywhere else where mobility and sensory challenges are rife in the population, then there are always going to be the problems associated with the Rolls Royce v Commodore methods of getting people outside quickly if the need arises.
The best fire suppression system whoever owns the joint could afford would be a decent start.
Today’s netty news is that apparently all the girlies – every single one of them, it is said – had agreed to all wear Gina’s logos on all their uniforms, all the time.
They apparently made this decision – after squealing long and hard about not wearing them all through the previous week – the very day before that $15,000,000 went yoink and disappeared.
They just hadn’t told anyone, they’re saying. It was all a misunderstanding, they’re saying. They just hadn’t made the phone call yet, they’re saying.
Here’s what I’m saying: Stop treating the sponsors – and sporting public, for that matter – as idiots, and fuck off.
a crusade to destroy volunteerism.
Towards the end of my working life, following Cancer, on the way to 65 I spent the last coupla years on the “dole” and stuck wiv the work-fer-the-dole system .. All I found out was WFTD is no more than a rort for employers (mainly charity orgs & councils) to get free labour with no benefit to the, mug, unemployed to learn or improve their work skills just ‘free” manual labour ..! it didn’t bother me too much as I was just passing time but there were far too many younger ones caught up in the same web .. learning nothing useful! ..
Promised myself that the day I turned 65 I’d never for any reason “volunteer” to help again! .. I’m near 75 now, fit as a fiddle and would have no problem putting in a full day at most physical stuff .. but would I? .. NOT ON YOUR LIFE ..!
….
Here’s some lyrics from the ‘album’, Winston. I’m sure you already know them:
I was going to replace some of the ‘I feel fine’ lyrics with ‘iodine’, but it’s still early.
I see Ms. Norder, of the Zoom calls, the chief agitator it would seem, is attempting to walk things back too.
The damage they’ve done appears to be dawning on them, although from behind a paywall this morning the present captain says “No regrets.”
H/T internet.
Sancho Panzer>
Dunno.
Lead is overrated and expensive. Go to a scrap metal dealer and find out how much scrap steel plate is. If you have have access to welding and oxy cutting gear, you can weld up the inside of the containers quite well – just think of it as the worlds biggest jigsaw.
What size of bomb and closeness to ground zero are you planning on surviving?
Unless you are going to bury two 40 foot containers and cover with a foot of concrete, then another foot of timber then four foot of dirt you should be OK against 400Kt ground burst at 5 Km.
Otherwise you’ve just created the fanciest casket in the street.
…and yes, SP. I’m taking the piss. The best way to survive a nuclear attack is by being somewhere less exciting.
Idiocy on stilts which will be exposed as such during Tasmania’s next drought.
Cannibalism update (the NT News):
You never hear about this in the ladypages.
Iodine with gypsum. Breakfast of champions.
Thoughtless plastic bans are madness. Goodbye beloved biodegradable plastics.
Moronocracy at work.
Or is it twatocracy?
The best way to survive the blast…the answer is in the kitchen </a.
The totem animal in indigenous culture was very strong.
Major Mitchell unwittingly commented that one of his native guides from the Hopkins river area refused to eat emu even though they were abundant.
Guides from other parts were quite happy to eat the bird.
YOUTUBE NEEDS CENSORSHIP!?!?!
Freedom tunes
I thought the remedy was Potassium iodide, not iodine.
In other scary news, when did news broadcasters start blaring inland flood levels in terms of AHD rather than a local datum point?
Did they think we wouldn’t notice?
My Totem Animal is the Old Bat.
No. I won’t eat it either.
Armadillosays:
October 23, 2022 at 10:59 pm
Demons could actually lose NY State.
Everyone concentrates on possible “swing seats”.
A more indicative marker would be to see if there is a swing in “solid blue” electorates. By that I mean, that even the Democrat voters don’t show up to vote. They will win the blue states, but it’s the “turnout” that will tell the true story.
Relax. The “turnout” will be f=brought up to record levels by the 0300 data dumps. Of which there will be around 99% DemonRat voters, who decided at 0200 to lodge a postal vote.
It’s finger-pointing, full volume, hold-that-grudge-for-a-thousand-years-in-the-way-only-ladeees-can time in the netty indeed. NA ‘boss’ Kelly Ryan in The Hun:
If you mean the days of free advocacy-based virtue-signalling without consequences are over, you’d be correct Ms Ryan.
Allegedly……..
There is zero chance clear signals of intent were not sent and received prior to the plug being pulled. Zero. But no, it was ‘they would never’.
Said they agreed to play the game and shut up. Still didn’t do either.
Stunning and brave.
Has anyone seen TaliDan’s new election ad?
It’s so delusional that it’s inadvertently hilarious.
Talk about believing your own bullshit.
The net result of reporting inland river levels “peaking” at 97+ metres is that many…many people who don’t understand how these things are measured will believe that the surrounding area is that much under water.
It’s fine for estuarine systems (eg. The Hawkesbury) where the tides affect flood levels, but the Goulburn and Murray? The BoM is using the measurement indiscriminately for scare value. They are no longer a serious agency.
Turtlehead, you fabulist moron. You don’t direct me or anyone else where they should post, you dickhead.
No one’s stopping you from posting there. In fact it ought to be encouraged because you’re a mental midget.
The duel thread has become my battered hubbies thread and keep posting there as it’s funny.
Now go eat a bag of iodized salt.
Sancho Panzer:
SP, didn’t you learn nuffin from my information sessions?
That’s why you have candles in your baked bean cupboard. Light the candle and put it somewhere down low. Just make sure the exhaust plume from your arse doesn’t aim directly at the naked flame.
Let nature take its course. The methane in low concentrations will burn away, removing those pungent aromas and warming what would otherwise be a cold, dank and smelly casket.
Lizzie
Re Quaddie – Gina R. is a friend of the IPA and possibly helps there with a low profile? I certainly think there is room for conservative funding of Quadrant, one of Australia’s oldest quality journals of record from a conservative perspective. The leftist Australia Council axed Quadrant’s funding some years ago and the Liberals made no complaints, while every minor leftie rag is fully funded and Quadrant survives mainly on subscriptions. Go figure.
Quadrant is a good cause, but Gina could do far more for conservatism by taking over Womens’ Weekly and New Idea, sacking most of the current writers, and installing some better ones.
Imagine the audience for a conservative put-down of Ginger and the Whinger!
If I recall various articles correctly one of the biggest problem for long term unemployed is getting out of bed in the morning. Forming the habit of going to work, following directions etc even putting in a full day are useful skills too.
Work for the dole is also an opportunity to not merely live off the labour of others.
Plenty of paid full time unskilled work out there for work for the dole participants to transition to.
My father always said all work is honourable. It is.
From several reports today…
Apparently the real problem at the BoM is that staff are not allowed to mention climate change:
Netty nasty.
So the girls now reckon they were going to wear the logo after all.
Couldn’t be that they decided to bitch up Gina by complying and then throwing the blame on the big horrible mining bully?
Girls would never do shit like that.
What was the sponsorship money for? Netballers’ salaries?
I’m surprised Elbow hasn’t come to the rescue already.
Couldn’t be that they decided to bitch up Gina by complying and then throwing the blame on the big horrible mining bully?
Going by the majority of comments across the various online media they aren’t having much luck ..!
Anyone able to show these OZ Articles?
MORE BACKERS COULD FOLLOW
Netball Australia facing a $25m obstruction
Netball Australia’s boss confirms the survival of the sport, after a player revolt led to Hancock Prospecting walking away from its sponsorship, hangs in the balance.
2 HOURS AGO By JESSICA HALLORAN
No gratitude as woke comes between the green and the gold
Australians have had a gutful of overpaid sportspeople who think their personal opinions on matters outside their areas of expertise are worth inflicting on sport.
2 HOURS AGO By JANET ALBRECHTSEN
This was discussed here over the weekend.
From the Oz.
The comments on almost all media facebook pages ran overwhelmingly pro-Gina – and I mean 95% +.
Even the SBS and ABC pages had a solid majority in support.
Support has been so loud and strident that the pony-tails in marketing can’t hide it behind a few adverse Twitter comments.
Their BBC gets to the heart of the issue:
The racism row engulfing Australian netball
So, it’s Lang Hancock from beyond the grave:
And the whole mining industry:
And climate change:
And, apparently, a netball team filled with racist, Hancock-supporting, mine-loving, climate destroyers.
[Technical note: people with blood pressure issues should avoid reading the article.]
I think it odd that a ‘conservative’ magazine put its hand out for government cash.
Had a look at Twitter last night, most of the adverse comments were along the lines that Rinehart wasn’t paying enough tax.
Some would only be happy if it were 150%
this is what happens when you outsource your kids education to the state
Indolent:
Cheapest way around the problem if you are collecting the kelp from the beach, but a supplement is much handier.
You can probably buy them dehydrated at an Asian Wholefoods retailer.
If you want I’ll ask Nephews missus where you can get the stuff from, and it would be handy having a long expiry date carton of these dehydrated noodles just in case.
What’s your nearest big shopping district?
Yep.
Hidden behind a glossy brochure of other ‘grass-roots’ netty activities, but Rinehart is no fool and knew exactly where that cash would be funnelled.
Whoever runs Netty Australia’s PR department is now having their ‘this is not a rancid dog turd’ moment.
Could he be that stupid? Maybe.
Chalmers has just said that wages will go backwards until 2024/25; every public utterance he makes is preparing the population for years of austerity.
Now, from what I gather a fair slice of Netball Australia’s budget goes to their high performance training program which benefits the elite players, who have just made temselves less popular than the cricket team.
And any government commitment would have to be recurring, after which every other grifting sports administration in the land will be putting their hand out for tax payers money.
Stop digging girls.
It’s getting embarrassing.
ZK2A:
Aren’t we getting sick of this shit yet?
They’re the most arrogant and entitled mob of bludgers ever to lose a war.
Via Bruce of N
It’s going to get worse too, as they’re talking openly of commencing actual terrorism.
‘Sabotage Is Most Effective’: Eco-Terrorism Advocate Given Platform By The New York Times – Has advocated for ‘Ecological Leninism’ (22 Oct)
I wonder will this get the same attention from the FBI as “right wing Stochastic Terrorism”?
Silly question, of course not, this is “good” terrorism
“What was the sponsorship money for? Netballers’ salaries?”
Yep.
“Knuckle Draggersays:
October 24, 2022 at 8:39 am”
snap KD.
Wow!
https://redstate.com/alexparker/2022/10/23/watch-cops-tase-fleeing-felon-he-explodes-into-a-human-fireball-n647433
I have had great pleasure telling them all that the amount of tax paid by Hancock Prospecting in 2021 was $2.7 billion.
That’s $2,700,000,000.
Chuckle!
Weasel words. Did she or didn’t she?
The BEEB – where everything is “racist”. Shame they don’t turn the mirror on themselves where everything, including some ridiculous casting, is determined according to race.
Work for the dole is also an opportunity to not merely live off the labour of others.
I’ll hazard a guess that this comes from someone who’s never experienced WFTD .. FFS!
Slave labour is still slave labour know matter the intention or fancy title applied .. do you really think that most of those employers benefiting from ‘free” labour were/are gonna use it to improve the “volunteers” chances of finding a full-time job ..
Have a look at the “blackmail” schemes CentreLink operate .. the ones where they subsidize wages for specific periods .. in 99% of the cases as soon as the subsidy cuts out .. so does the job! ..
Matersays:
October 24, 2022 at 6:53 am
Johannes Leak.
Bought to mind the SES begging for volunteers, but with a sign at the back announcing they won’t accept the services of the non-vaccinated.
Between this and the CFA debacle, Victorian seems to be on a crusade to destroy volunteerism.
Of course they are trying to destroy volunteerism. It is those “little platoons” of community members working together for the good of the community that prevent people realising how essential it is for government to provide for their every need (as assessed by the government, naturally, not the people themselves).
I was in a long line at 7:45 am today at the grocery store that opened at 8 am for seniors only. A young man came from the parking lot and tried to cut in at the front of the line, but an old lady beat him back into the parking lot with her cane. He returned and tried to cut in again but an old man punched him in the gut, then kicked him to the ground and rolled him away. As he approached the line for the third time he said “If you don’t let me unlock the damn door you’ll never get in there”.
Yeah, the minority of the adult population pays no tax.
Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
– Robin Williams
Kelp munching and netball, what has the Cat discourse come to.
Boris Johnson pulls out of Conservative leadership race
Amazing and unprecedented.
Bozza has contracted shame.
Rogersays:
October 24, 2022 at 7:55 am
Elbow telling us how the new cable from Tassie will be the reason we will be able to manufacture in Victoria once our coal fired power stations are closed with all the electricity coming from hydro in Tassie
Idiocy on stilts which will be exposed as such during Tasmania’s next drought.
Now that Flim “the rains will never fill the dams again “Flummery seems to have quietly retired to his riverside home, the next series of klimate models will “prove” that the rain will never stop, and all our problems will be solved by Snowy Mk 2 and lots of interconnectors to Tasmania.
Until the next drought comes.
“… her droughts and flooding rains …”
This is netball’s Alamo moment.
It was lovely to see Boris give up, though.
What?? You mean the Murray didn’t rise 94m at Echuca this week??
Robin (‘100 metres’) Williams could not be reached for comment.
Blockquote fail.
Cheer up.
Deliberation on the Trial of the Century resumes in an hour.
Ecological Leninism….would that have anything to do with cultural Marxism?
A former chief executive of the Bureau of Meteorology says the 67-year-old law that underpins Australia’s weather agency needs to be updated to bring it in line with the modern-day climate crisis.
Dr Rob Vertessy, who left the bureau in 2016 after five years in charge, said the Meteorology Act 1955 should be revised to give the bureau “a broader environmental intelligence remit”.
The Bureau of Moronology should just tell us what the weather might be like in the next couple of days, and leave the “klimate (un)intelligence propaganda to the CSIRO.
No I have experienced work for the dole, I’ve worked part-time or full-time since I was 15.
Whining about government handouts seem habitual for you, a full time job, as it were.
No update on his condition?
I would think near 100% burns and a lingering death the likely result, and for what? Riding an unplated bike, and fleeing police. In neither case is there a ‘victim’ (apart from the flamer) so no crime can have been committed – up until the point the police torched him and created one.
And its happened before
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2022/01/08/new-york-police-tase-man-fire-investigation-jc-orig.cnn
In the latter case, the accelerant was hand sanitiser, most likely in the police station due to the COVID panic.
The U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne is practicing for war with Russia just miles from Ukraine’s border
The U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division has been deployed to Europe for the first time in almost 80 years amid soaring tension between Russia and the American-led NATO military alliance. The light infantry unit, nicknamed the “Screaming Eagles,” is trained to deploy on any battlefield in the world within hours, ready to fight.
Those kelp noodles can’t possibly be worse than hideous shriratake (konjak) noodles. Brrrrr.
I bought some thinking they could replace normal spaghetti. Binned.
Biochemical and structural evidence demonstrates Omicron mutations are better adapted to mouse ACE2 than to human ACE2
‘He’s Now Rewriting History’: DeSantis Lashes Out At Fauci’s ‘False’ Claim
forbes
m0ntysays:
October 24, 2022 at 8:53 am
Kelp munching and netball, what has the Cat discourse come to.
Don’t forget TaliDan’s war on volunteerism, m0nty-fa. What is your deeply considered personal position on that? Humane or not humane?
Sneakers buys into the netball saga. Subtly blaming Gina of course.
What crime had the motorbike rider committed?
The tone of that Red State article is one of amusement. I suppose Diocletian was amused by his roman candles too.
It would be helpful if the netballers could wear a small badge to remind them of their folly so they don’t make the same mistake again. “Hancock Prospecting” perhaps?
Yawn. Wake me up when the High Court rules 7-0 again.
Shut up and keep reading mUnty. You might still learn something. How long will you stay before hitting a rake? Longer than yesterday?
There is nothing to learn, Bear. Every single Cat saying something to the tune of “that slut is totally a slut” until the cows come home. Boring.
The article said his burns were mostly superficial and he is expected to make a full recovery.
I have enjoyed that trial.
It has enabled me to post “panties” and “penetration” endlessly.
I’ll be sad when it is over.
Yes. Alas some provincial justice systems have been rendered unfit for purpose by government interference.
Dover – apologies, I inadvertently reported one of Tom’s cartoons.
What comes after that, swampies – “ecological stalinism”?
Stop trolling Monty.
I don’t recall anyone calling Ms Higgins a sl ut, or making any comment whatsoever about her sex life. I certainly didn’t.
What was called into question was her truthfulness and motivation for her allegations.
And the important question of whether her sayso should be sufficient to put a man in prison.
Trying to cop a root after work presents endless opportunity for laughs.
LOL.
Lidia should seriously consider sponsoring the netball mob out of gratitude! .. after all, they’ve pushed her way down the front-page news cycle & filled in the space ’til Britt comes back today .. ‘nuther coupla dayz and she’ll be fish ‘n chip wrapper status …!
Waking up naked covered in vomit and bruises(?) on the boss’s couch suggests Miss Brittany might have struggled at finishing school. Naturally this does not represent an issue if you hold a particular worldview.
Yep, banal facile simplifications about everything should be left solely to you.
Hard to say if this is the case as a number of claims are bouncing off the walls right now, largely because the offensive in Kherson has floundered and this is being hidden in/ by Western MSM/UKR blackout. Whether or not its the case, it’s interesting how gung-ho Britain has been about this conflict, and even in the midst of what is now a long-running economic/ political crisis.
BOM have not been a serious agency for some time now, at least since they started revising the historical records.
I feel their pronouncement are now not meant to inform and warn but to panic the population into not venturing out into the environment, ever. They will tell us when and where we can go but only if we have a Lear jet.
Monty,
Why don’t you tell us again about the blue wave you predicted, some months back, for the US mid terms?
Monty is grumpy, it must be Monday.
No disagreement from me re Boris btw. He had one job, which he didn’t do, and his green as grass wife kept him from fixing the energy mess. Truss at least tried before the swamp pulled its coup.