Open Thread – Tues 25 Oct 2022


The Seven Works of Mercy, Caravaggio, 1607

2,337 responses to “Open Thread – Tues 25 Oct 2022”

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  1. Zipster Avatar

    Spotlight on China
    0:24 Xi to launch a mechanism for regulating wealth accumulation, has triggered uncertainties
    2:26 China’s pharma giant Pien Tze Huang lost nearly $20 billion in market value in one year
    5:37 French pilot: CCP is recruiting foreign pilots to gain experience in fighting against the West

  2. Zipster Avatar

    Let’s wait and see what happens

    groundhog day, we’ve been through all this in 2020. its all larping

  3. custard Avatar
    custard

    The Q posts are the greatest sting operation in the history of the world!

  4. DrBeauGan Avatar
    DrBeauGan

    Let’s wait and see what happens

    Custard, you’re a good bloke, although you trusted Cory Bernardi more than I did.

    How long do we have to wait? There needs to be a time limit on this. And it’s a good idea to have a clear notion of what it would take for you to abandon Q type stuff. If there’s nothing that would make you give up on Q, you’ve been sucked in to a cult.

  5. Rabz Avatar
    Rabz

    Rabz’ Friday Night Pop Tartz …

    Miss Maggie – the Purest Piece of Pop this year
    Miss Planet – Pointing out the bleeding obvious – she is a woman
    Miss Stanley – Red earth Dirt

    Enjoy, Cats! 🙂

  6. Zipster Avatar

    There’s a claim that certain politicians and other elites have been given a completely different vaccine. Sounds like more conspiracy theory or russian disinformation, but these days nothing would surprise me.

  7. custard Avatar
    custard

    I haven’t been sucked into anything BG

    You have my number

    We’ve talked before

    I’m happy to talk again

    No big deal

  8. Bruce in WA Avatar
    Bruce in WA

    Weekend music.

    Any Game of Thrones fans here? I’m not, but our daughter in Sydney is a h-u-g-e follower.

    So I sent her this link … and she just couldn’t believe it’s just one person! (It is.)

    Look up some of his other posts. He is amazing!

  9. Zipster Avatar

    The Q posts are the greatest sting operation in the history of the world!

    if there was this 10 dimensional sting operation stretching over many years, why would they post about it?

    wakey wakey

  10. H B Bear Avatar
    H B Bear

    If Lasry has a problem with VicPlod and the DPP bringing made-for-TV charges before him he better start looking at interstate movers.

  11. Old School Conservative Avatar
    Old School Conservative

    custard says:
    October 28, 2022 at 11:15 pm
    There is no way on earth Donald J Trump would hand over the keys to the WH to a demented pervert who cheated in the 2020 election.

    But he did, no matter what lens you ask me to look through.
    There was an inauguration ceremony. Biden took the oath of office. He is the President.
    Certainly he is a senile, corrupt puppet but he IS the President of the USA. Since the office was established in 1789, 45 men have served in 46 presidencies, Biden being the 46th.
    No amount of wishin’ an hopin’ changes that reality.

    Spend your energies on convincing people to get a Trump wave going for the next Presidential election.

  12. Razey Avatar
    Razey

    The human races battle for survival on this planet has led us to develop solutions and technologies to create our own environment, independent of nature as best we can. Houses, fridges, vehicles, you name it.

    And now it seems we are creating an energy system completely dependent on variable nature. Absolute madness. Setting ourselves for failure for sure. One volcanic eruption in which we get another ‘year without summer’ its game over.

  13. slackster Avatar
    slackster

    Random late night thought:
    Does the government really want the power to go out for days at a time?
    People will have to start talking to each other in real life, and not get their updates from the prescibed news sources.
    Do they really want that?

  14. Arky Avatar
    Arky

    It doesn’t matter what Custard believes or doesn’t believe.
    Any more than it matters if you cheer for “your” footy team or vote at one of these silly compulsory bogus elections for “your” party or get hot under the collar for “your” side of politics in the latest social outrage atrocity.
    None of it matters a damn, but mass media works it’s little tail off to make you think it does.
    Votes = clicks = eyeballs = bums on seats = money.
    The world is full of mugs, and there is a species of scam to capture every single way of being a mug.
    Let him do the Q thing. It’s no more stupid than getting excited over a football or cricket match.

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  15. Razey Avatar
    Razey

    custardsays:
    October 28, 2022 at 10:42 pm
    Q post 100 November 5 2017

    Bro, Q is a CIA op to keep you distracted.

  16. Rabz Avatar
    Rabz

    Arks – what’s your view of the CFMEU appeal to the rank and file to vote for the “rank” and “vile”?

  17. Razey Avatar
    Razey

    slackstersays:
    October 28, 2022 at 11:59 pm
    Random late night thought:
    Does the government really want the power to go out for days at a time?
    People will have to start talking to each other in real life, and not get their updates from the prescibed news sources.
    Do they really want that?

    They want us living in 24/7 surveilled government pods, eating bugs.

  18. Rabz Avatar
    Rabz

    They want us living in 24/7 surveilled government pods, eating bugs.

    Indeed they do.

    Just who are “they”, so I can (surreptitiously) pursue them in an almighty righteous fashion?

    They don’t get away with it, for anyone wanting the short cut to the end of the tail*.

    *Deliberate. 🙂

  19. Arky Avatar
    Arky

    Rabz says:
    October 29, 2022 at 12:04 am
    Arks – what’s your view of the CFMEU appeal to the rank and file to vote for the “rank” and “vile”?

    ..
    I think union members want the union to negotiate pay and conditions. That’s what they are there for. Not to give advice on who to vote for.
    Just like we would all like the fricking council to shut up and just pick up the garbage every week.

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  20. Rabz Avatar
    Rabz

    Arks – thanks for the reply – agreed.

    However, what the Vic CFMEU did was among the most monstrous betrayals I’ve seen in my lifetime.

    The sort of betrayal that results in members of the rank and file wandering off the reservation and angrily onto the West Gate Bridge.

    Presumably we won’t see that “regrettable incident” included in the labore pardee’s “grate moments in Ozzie industrial disobedience”.

    Tails did well in those days. He’s since been denounced as a “vile common worker with an uncouth mouth and unfashionable views about other personages”.

    He did not deserve to be treated like that.

  21. Arky Avatar
    Arky

    He did not deserve to be treated like that.

    ..
    He is a very affable bloke.

  22. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha Avatar
    Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

    Just like we would all like the fricking council to shut up and just pick up the garbage every week.

    For shame! Your local council shouldn’t fly the Aboriginal flag outside their offices?

  23. DrBeauGan Avatar
    DrBeauGan

    I haven’t been sucked into anything BG

    We’ve since talked on the phone, and custard has said that the sting will happen in two weeks. I told him that I’ll give him three, to be on the safe side. If there hasn’t been a brilliant chess move by then, custard will admit he was wrong, and if there has, I’ll admit I was wrong.

    I sincerely hope that custard is right and Trump brings down the deep state, but I’ve been trained not to believe the things I want to be true. It’s all to easy to fool yourself.

    Custard and I both reckon that biden cheated to get in. I reckon that Trump wasn’t prepared for the extent of the cheating or the depth of corruption. Neither was I. Custard believes there’s a magnificent sting in the works. I hope he’s right but I don’t believe it.

  24. Rabz Avatar
    Rabz

    He is a very affable bloke

    Thanks to communist imbeciles (BIRM) I’ll never get to play pool with yourself or Tails in a bar in Melbourne.

    I used to love the place and would head down there frequently, flying or driving, as well as for work. One of my best mates lived there around the turn of the century in Bridge Rd Richmond. I’d park the car in the Hospital carpark after an epic drive from Sydney or the Snowy mountains. Then we’d head over to Barassi’s for a feed and some cold ones.

    Haven’t been down there since about 2019 for a work event.

    Never again.

  25. JC Avatar

    custard says:
    October 28, 2022 at 11:15 pm

    There is no way on earth Donald J Trump would hand over the keys to the WH to a demented pervert who cheated in the 2020 election.

    He did.

  26. Willem Pasterkamp Avatar
    Willem Pasterkamp

    Is Andrews more of a prick than Brad Hazard?

  27. MatrixTransform Avatar
    MatrixTransform

    the “dragon we need to slay” isn’t inflation. It’s lies.

    too bloody right

    love your rants CL, they’re like comic surgery

  28. Winston Smith Avatar

    Bruce O’Newk:

    Escorted out is such a nice phrase.

    How about

    Escort this duplicitous bastard out the front door.

    ?
    It even contains my favourite word.

  29. Winston Smith Avatar

    Doc Beaugan:

    I shall have the satisfaction of knowing I did the right thing. And set a good example. If nobody follows my good example, they have to live with themselves.

    Certainly there is that personal vs public aspect and I quite agree with you.

    I’m not afraid of being put in gaol for being rude to the government. Yes, it could happen. But I’d be my usual cheerful self in solitary confinement. I’d miss the cigars, but I’d survive.

    I’m wondering if the process of baking a cigar into a cake will alter the taste of either. I have a suspicion that even leaving the cigar in its aluminium tube may not entirely isolate each component from cross contamination.

  30. Winston Smith Avatar

    Cohenite:
    The spray last night at 0856 was NOT directed solely at you. I apologise for my poor wording.
    The whole spray was directed at the Right who seem determined to be seen as the good guys at all costs, when that ploy has been ruined by the Left.
    Nevertheless, I do stand by the whole laser pointer/kittens remark.

  31. Top Ender Avatar
    Top Ender

    New thread…

  32. Winston Smith Avatar

    FlingDuk:

    Lt Gov Fetterman (D, VA) is an elaborate character played by Norm MacDonald – a Tony Clifton like character, but with an epic level of commitment.

    That lump on his neck. I initially understood it to be due to an overuse of steroids but I’m wondering now that it’s not.
    What the hell is it?

  33. will Avatar
    will

    I’m wondering if the process of baking a cigar into a cake will alter the taste of either.

    throw away the cake and smoke the cigar

    which is more important?

  34. JC Avatar
    JC

    What are you talking about Cronkite.

    We’ve gone from acid batteries to lithium and now we’re about to see incredible inroads in solid state battery technology. No biggie though, right?

  35. Razey Avatar
    Razey

    Communist China: A police drone comes toward you in the highway…you need to quickly scan the QR code. If it doesn’t come back green, you can’t pass the checkpoint. Free movement is being restricted

    https://gettr.com/vision/p1w2c2nd9c9?isTrackDetail=true&fromScene=timeline

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