Chill, Winston.
Chill.

Hahahahaaaaa. Got it.

There are nowhere near enough Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels quotes in this august journal of record.

I had hoped it would be with caaarrton!

a sniff that the money was going to be pissed away on salary and benefits for the top 15-20 netty chicks

Well, Gina did say she was unaware of punch-ons about pay rises.

DeltaA:

Gina Rinehart has a lotta money, but she’s a novice at Politics.

“Looks like my money is causing trouble. Wouldn’t want that. I’ll just take it away and make it all better.”

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!

Bespoke:

Well I’m content one of my family members is burning in hell and the duplicitous husk that gave birth to it will be joining him shortly.

Are they the ones who first started you on Stella Artois?
Hell’s too good for them, Bespoke.
Here – have a XXXX Bitter.

What thickness of lead sheet should I line ze bunker with?

1/4 inch. Marine grade.

If you have a boat you’re set.

Over 90,000 people watching India v Pakistan at the G.

Nobody, and I mean absolutely nobody is getting an Uber home tonight.

That’s her Knuckles

Yeah righto. Voice like a cold-started two-stroke.

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.

Hell’s too good for them, Bespoke.
Here – have a XXXX Bitter.

Straight from Satan’s mouth.

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.

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.

Regarding the netball Sheliahs, contracts are important.

Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.

Were you aware of your allergy at the time?

No I wasn’t.

An allergy to Betadine is not that uncommon, you should have been asked beforehand, because there are alternatives for skin prep.

I wasn’t asked.

Flyingduk would know better than me, but if that’s correct, you should certainly get it entered on your med record.

Certainly have done that now.

That match was fixed

Not with that much that went wrong.

Should I crump the joins or soldier them?

Toss a coin.

I’ll tell you when to run into the sea.

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.

In Oh, Fuck Off news:

UN accuses Australia of ‘clear breach’ of human rights obligations as it suspends tour of detention facilities

The United Nations has suspended its tour of Australian detention facilities and accused the country of a “clear breach” of its obligations under the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (Opcat).

The New South Wales government has refused inspectors entry into any facilities in the state and Queensland has blocked access to mental health wards.

Opcat was ratified by the federal government under the former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull in 2017.

The former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull warned the New South Wales and Queensland governments to “think carefully about the international company they are keeping”.

The Miserable Ghost that keeps on giving.

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.

Well I’m content one of my family members is burning in hell and the duplicitous husk that gave birth to it will be joining him shortly.

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.

Netball Australia facing a $25m obstruction

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.

George Floyd’s murder causes a drop in Minneapolis police recruitment numbers

Inside the Minneapolis Police Academy’s sprawling campus on the city’s north side, six people sat soberly and listened to a handful of officers and city officials made their pitch about joining an understaffed department that was synonymous with the murder of George Floyd.

Homicide offences nearly doubled from 2019 to 2021, aggravated assaults jumped by one-third, and carjackings, which the city only began tracking in the local Autumn of 2020, exploded.

The city’s crime problem has been compounded by a mass exodus of officers who cited post-traumatic stress after Mr Floyd was killed, gutting the department of roughly one-third of its personnel.

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.

That’s if we can beat Lia Thomas. It’s not a given.

“Queensland” got a fair run.

Dudes. She’s dead. It’s over.

QLD – “The Memorial State”. You need to get your licence plates changed.

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.

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.

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.

and I am wondering if there might be some electronic fix for it.

Taser.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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.

These creatures are evil.

Eco warriors target another masterpiece as £96m Monet painting smeared in mashed potato (23 Oct)

Two activists from the Letze Generation (last generation) climate group covered the famous Le Meules painting by Claude Monet in mashed potato on Sunday before gluing themselves to the floor. The protest took place in Germany’s Potsdam’s Barberini museum just over a week after two Just Stop Oil protesters threw soup on a Van Gough painting in the National Gallery, in London.

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)

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.

Sancho Panzer:

Chill, Winston.
Chill.
The panic is likely to get you before the fallout does.

The whole idea of getting organised before TSHTF, is to avoid the panic.

Sancho Panzer:

You heard the boss.
Off to the Duelling Thread Winston.

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.

Knuckle Dragger:

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Dunno – I’ve never heard the album.

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.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

….

Dunno – I’ve never heard the album

Here’s some lyrics from the ‘album’, Winston. I’m sure you already know them:

… It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine

… Six o’clock, T.V. hour, don’t get caught in foreign tower
Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn
Lock him in uniform, book burning, bloodletting
Every motive escalate, automotive incinerate

A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline
… It’s the end of the world as we know it (I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it (I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)
I feel fine (I feel fine)

I was going to replace some of the ‘I feel fine’ lyrics with ‘iodine’, but it’s still early.

As I get older, I remember all the people I lost along the way. Maybe my budding career as a tour guide was not the right choice.

H/T internet.

Iodine with gypsum. Breakfast of champions.

Thoughtless plastic bans are madness. Goodbye beloved biodegradable plastics.
Moronocracy at work.

The best way to survive the blast…the answer is in the kitchen </a.

YOUTUBE NEEDS CENSORSHIP!?!?!

Freedom tunes

My Totem Animal is the Old Bat.

No. I won’t eat it either.

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:

“The sporting landscape has changed.”

If you mean the days of free advocacy-based virtue-signalling without consequences are over, you’d be correct Ms Ryan.

Ryan said she was still unsure exactly what had changed from Friday night – when First Nations player Donnell Wallam agreed to wear the Hancock logo during the England series, triggering an agreement from all the Diamonds

Allegedly……..

– to Saturday morning, when Hancock officials advised NA they were about to release a statement about their move to call off the partnership.

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’.

While Wallam was not part of the squad that completed its Constellation Cup series on the Gold Coast on Sunday night, the Diamonds did not take to the court in the dress containing the Hancock logo in any game against New Zealand, despite having agreed to do so.

Said they agreed to play the game and shut up. Still didn’t do either.

Stunning and brave.

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.

Sancho Panzer:

Stock up with baked beans, instant noodles, and camp pie. Death will become a welcome friend.

Day 8. Plenty of Camp Pie left. Decided to open a can and use the jagged edge of the lid to slash my wrists.

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.

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.

I think it odd that a ‘conservative’ magazine put its hand out for government cash.

Ms Wallam’s teammates reportedly then refused to wear the logo, in solidarity with her.

this is what happens when you outsource your kids education to the state

What was the sponsorship money for? Netballers’ salaries?

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.

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

is widely reported to have told teammates

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.

Matersays:
October 24, 2022 at 6:53 am
Johannes Leak.

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).

Kelp munching and netball, what has the Cat discourse come to.

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 …”