Open Thread – Tues 25 Oct 2022


The Seven Works of Mercy, Caravaggio, 1607

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Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 26, 2022 3:45 pm

Capitol – Adelaide
Queen Consort Adelaide Saxe-Meiningen
Not a Scottish lass.

Lysander
Lysander
October 26, 2022 3:45 pm

Sheesh that’s classic Fetterman Lumpy Skin Disease Man!!!

“I I I I I, mumble mumble mumble, I I I I I, mumble mumble mumble, I do, I I I, mumble, I do support, I I I, I do support fracking” (took me a while to transcribe that!)

Helen
Helen
October 26, 2022 3:46 pm

Captain’s Dad was in Japan as a fighter pilot. It was very well defended. Every little island had a mountain gun in it which could roll out and fire and roll back in again, camouflaged. He said the thinking at the time was it would have cost at least a million men to take, island by island.

The bombs was good.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 26, 2022 3:47 pm

Yep, very few actual boxheads in South Aussie. Just historical remnants like the names of a few small towns in the hills, and of course the greatest pork sausage in the world – Fritz!

And the Barossa.

Johnny Rotten
October 26, 2022 3:48 pm

Peace Was Never an Option – Romanian Defense Minister Resigns

From Armstrong Economics –

“Romanian Defence [sic] Minister Vasile Dincu said during an interview that re-negotiating terms with Russia was the only way to end the war. He has been forced to resign due to these beliefs. Dincu took to Facebook to say he could no longer perform his job due to the “impossibility of cooperation with the Romanian president, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces.”

“I think my withdrawal from the post is necessary so as to not harm decisions and programs which require fluid command chains and to not block a series of projects which are absolutely necessary for … the ministry and the army,” Dincu continued.

Calls have been growing for foreign leaders to urge Zelensky to talk to Putin to end the growing conflict. The powers that be want war and have already decided our fate. Zelensky signed a decree at the beginning of October to ensure this is a forever war – at least between Ukraine and Russia. Zelensky said that he would never negotiate terms with Putin. “Therefore, we are ready for a dialog with Russia, but with another president of Russia,” Zelensky said. Putin, however, has been willing to speak with Zelensky. “We will either wait for the current president to change his position or wait for the next president to change his position in the interests of the Ukrainian people,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

What Zelensky does not realize is that Putin is a middle-of-the-road guy. The men wishing to secure his place will not be as lenient, which is something my sources have confirmed. Putin has held off on pressure to secure the Donbas by any means necessary. Although that sounds absurd, Zelensky would have a better time negotiating with Putin because others in the Kremlin want more than the Donbas.

Foreign leaders must stop supplying Ukraine with endless funds and military aid to avoid a forever war. Without Western help, Ukraine would have fallen earlier in the year. Others nations, who have nothing to gain but everything to lose by helping Ukraine, should push away from this globalist agenda to propel the world into ruin.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/peace-was-never-an-option-romanian-defense-minister-resigns/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

Struth
October 26, 2022 3:49 pm

Our little Scottish hero went to the Territory and then turned straight around and came back.
He said in a thick Scottish accent, while planting a BRITISH flag in Chamber’s bay…”Arrr, let’s fork orf quickly, for this place is only fit for bent Vicplod cops in hiding”

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 26, 2022 3:49 pm

Sauerkraut is put in barrels.
German thinking.

Helen
Helen
October 26, 2022 3:50 pm

Ha! I am of German South Australian Descent on one side.

Johnny Rotten
October 26, 2022 3:50 pm

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

– E. B. White

bespoke
bespoke
October 26, 2022 3:51 pm

Try this one then,
go on.

Not after the last 67 times.

Struth
October 26, 2022 3:51 pm

Bourke and Wills never even saw the northern coast.
They heard the sea and quickly turned around, dropped the seashells, and fucked off.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 26, 2022 3:55 pm

KD re T20.
Look, the Alinta Austrians might make the semis, but I think the NZ game fucked their run rate so badly they will totally implode in one or two qualifiers trying to get the points and pump up the run rate.
And the midget cheating ranga needs his chain yanked as well.
His spray directed at Boult the other night was laughable, and it shows a deep flaw in his character.
He doesn’t respect anyone.
And I don’t mean saying nice things to them.
He doesn’t respect his opponents abilities.
Boult and Southee are very handy bowlers and he tried to hit them both out of the park first ball.
One went straight through second slip waist high, and the other he tied himself in knots and dragged it on.

John H.
John H.
October 26, 2022 3:56 pm

What Zelensky does not realize is that Putin is a middle-of-the-road guy.

?????

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 26, 2022 3:57 pm

There is still quite a strong market for salmon Stubbies.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 26, 2022 3:57 pm

If South Australia is so shit-hot, what are you doing in Queensssland Champ?

duncanm
duncanm
October 26, 2022 3:57 pm

Steve tricklersays:
October 26, 2022 at 3:08 pm

put the bong away, Steve

duncanm
duncanm
October 26, 2022 3:59 pm

Why are the Lehrmann jury allowed to return home? They should be locked in a cheap hotel with bad food until they sort out their differences.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 26, 2022 4:01 pm

In good news for budgeteers iceberg lettuce is now down to $1.98 a head.
I still didn’t buy one.

I can top that.

I grow some, but still dont eat them.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 26, 2022 4:01 pm

duncanmsays:
October 26, 2022 at 3:57 pm

Another ignorant clown.

local oaf
October 26, 2022 4:01 pm

We may have faults in SA, but at least we speak properly.

Castle is not supposed to rhyme with hassle!

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
October 26, 2022 4:01 pm

Marcus Stoinis’ 59 off 18 last night was a cracker.

He came in looking visibly angry at the lower order’s dismal run rate and proceeded to demolish the Sri Lankan bowling.

Every six he hit was accompanied with a snarl and a fist pump, and I don’t think he smiled once, even after rolling off as a victor.

The Aussies need a few more like him – full of mongrel – and less sickly vegans and climate apologists.

Lysander
Lysander
October 26, 2022 4:02 pm

US Intelligence Agency website literally just changed seconds ago from DefCon 4 to DefCon 3:

https://defconwarningsystem.com/2022/10/26/defcon-warning-system-update-10-26-22/

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 26, 2022 4:02 pm

David Hicks should have received his fair entitlements under the Geneva Convention – a fair trial and a firing squad.
Or even, BANG BANG BANG. “why did you shoot that bastard , corporal?” “I thought he was going for a weapon, Sarge” ” As you were , then”.

duncanm
duncanm
October 26, 2022 4:02 pm

Remember the draconian clause PayPal

closed my paypal account. They can get fcsuked.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 26, 2022 4:03 pm

bespokesays:
October 26, 2022 at 3:51 pm
Try this one then,
go on.

Not after the last 67 times.

not even this one

You can be my Charlie?

duncanm
duncanm
October 26, 2022 4:03 pm

Steve tricklersays:
October 26, 2022 at 4:01 pm
duncanmsays:
October 26, 2022 at 3:57 pm

Another ignorant clown.

Steve – even industrial tin foil won’t do for the hat you need.

duncanm
duncanm
October 26, 2022 4:04 pm

BTW, Steve

Radar is not Audio (HAARP)

duncanm
duncanm
October 26, 2022 4:05 pm

Sorry HAARP is not audio either. Its auroral.

Struth
October 26, 2022 4:07 pm

Just a quick break away from teasing the denialists….
Seriously.
If you want a great road trip holiday, go up the Oodnadatta track.
If you love Australian History, there is none better.
And you get the added bonus of the Flinder’s Ranges.

Whatever you may think of me, at one time I was one of the most experienced and widely travelled tour drivers in Australia.
I was until covid, still one, part time (seasonally)

But take a long someone who knows that the pile of rocks you are looking at out to the right, was built by Stuart.
A good directory in other words, or you can miss a lot.
The magical springs country that ensure the steam train called the Ghan would wonder up through there, the remnants of the inland sea called lake Eyre.
Where there are still relatively well maintained fettler’s cottages.
I have about my home many things made and welded together from BBQ serviette holders to hat racks and the like made from the spikes still to be found in their thousands up there.
The beautiful Maree pub , made from ballast from the tall ships who returned with wool and wheat in the great Clipper races.
So English rock in the middle of the desert.
A great, albeit rough track at times, trip especially suited to the history buff.
One of my all time favourites throughout all of Australia.

Struth
October 26, 2022 4:12 pm

If South Australia is so shit-hot, what are you doing in Queensssland Champ?

It’s further away from Victoria.

JC
JC
October 26, 2022 4:12 pm

Whatever you may think of me, at one time I was one of the most experienced and widely travelled tour drivers in Australia.
I was until covid, still one, part time (seasonally)

I don’t really think of you, but after this how could I not think of you as Mick Taylor from Wolf Creek.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 26, 2022 4:12 pm

Zzzzzzzzz, huh, did I miss some rockszzzz…..snore …

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 26, 2022 4:13 pm

Adelaide pronunciations will get you a job in the ABC or dubbing German cannibal porn.

Struth
October 26, 2022 4:13 pm

For those of you that have taken the jab, get going now.
You don’t have long left.

Tick, tick, tick.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 26, 2022 4:14 pm

Anyway, back to the cricket.
The Paddies are 1/60 off six overs vs Engerland.

duncanm
duncanm
October 26, 2022 4:15 pm

Struthsays:
October 26, 2022 at 4:07 pm
Just a quick break away from teasing the denialists….
Seriously.
If you want a great road trip holiday, go up the Oodnadatta track.

Struth – I agree.

I had the opportunity to run up the track and across the Simpson with #1 son some time back. An eye opening experience.

There is so much to see in the remote parts of Oz.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 26, 2022 4:16 pm

Oh, and … dEatH to TrAitOrs!

Dragnet
Dragnet
October 26, 2022 4:16 pm

Struth at 4.07

If you can do more of that travelogue thing I am happy to read your contributions.

Chris
Chris
October 26, 2022 4:16 pm

Awesome post, Struth

Struth
October 26, 2022 4:18 pm

I don’t really think of you, but after this how could I not think of you as Mick Taylor from Wolf Creek.

How upsetting.
I can’t think of you as anything less than a little urban wog who is scared of seeing unpaved surfaces.

And Wolf Creek is of course a meteorite crater found up the Tamami track and while interesting is nowhere near as spectacular as Central Australia’s Gosse’s Bluff.
William Christie Gosse was an exporer who folled the telegraph line which was completed in 1872 and wondered out west.
West of Allie Prings.
Also a great man who ended as a pauper and is buried in the museum park in Coolgardie WA.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 26, 2022 4:18 pm

And the Barossa.
Sorbs settled the Barossa Valley.
Round about the same time the Germans banned their language.

bespoke
bespoke
October 26, 2022 4:18 pm

cannibal porn.

You’ve been clicking on moles links?

Lysander
Lysander
October 26, 2022 4:19 pm

The Irish (I’m biased) have the propensity to be a great team and a surprise packet but they’re just too inconsistent…

And…there’s nothing better than the Irish accent talking cricket…

Lysander
Lysander
October 26, 2022 4:20 pm

And I find it offensive to call police vans Paddy Wagons!!!

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 26, 2022 4:21 pm

duncanmsays:
October 26, 2022 at 4:05 pm
Sorry HAARP is not audio either. Its auroral.

Duh.

********

Dutchsinse:

Well well well, what do we have here?

Using HAARP to control (exploit as they say) LIGHTNING , AND ALSO FIRE/FLAMES ! Including controlling the plasmas in flames themselves. As well as “ionospheric studies” to generate and AMPLIFY VLF from plasma balls made from High Frequency.

https://www.darpa.mil/attachments/(2G

DARPA project allocated funds , but they told us HAARP WAS CLOSED and transferred to the University in 2014, didn’t they?!

Hahah, sure! whatever you say Mr. Belvedere! hahaha Whoops!

____

The dollar amount allocated is in MILLIONS (USD $)

Description: This thrust will obtain insights into physical aspects of natural phenomena such as magnetospheric sub-storms, fire, lightning, and geo-physical phenomena. New fundamental understandings of these phenomena will enable the ability to predict and exploit these physical processes.

A major emphasis of this thrust is to provide predictive models for the interactions between plasmas and electromagnetic waves across a range of energy and length scales, and into new regimes. Specific efforts that fall under this heading are foundational studies on the initiation, propagation, and attachment of lightning, and their associated emissions; the critical factors affecting magnetospheric sub-storms; the generation and amplification of extremely low frequency (ELF)/ultra low frequency (ULF)/very low frequency (VLF) radiation in the ionosphere utilizing the High Frequency Active Aural Research Program (HAARP) transmitter; and understanding and quantifying the interaction of electromagnetic and acoustic waves with the plasma in flames.

https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxKTU9PwmvVlYWdY5Z36UoINJ6S5Qkqmxw

JC
JC
October 26, 2022 4:21 pm

I can’t think of you as anything less than a little urban wog who is scared of seeing unpaved surfaces.

Mum taught to say those mean things? Go replace Faulty’s diaper, you dickhead.

duncanm
duncanm
October 26, 2022 4:26 pm

It has now been more than five days of deliberation and the jury are yet to reach a verdict in the trial for the man accused of raping Brittany Higgins in Parliament House.

Chief Justice McCallum reminded the jurors she was there to help them “in any way I can”.

“You are all equals in the jury room and that offer is available to any individual member of the jury as well as the jury as a whole,” she said.

nudge nudge.

Struth
October 26, 2022 4:27 pm

Struth at 4.07

If you can do more of that travelogue thing I am happy to read your contributions.

I’m sure you are.
Thousands of people over the years have paid good money to learn what took me years of study, of coal face experience and a passion for knowledge about history and my country.
Nowadays, (before covid anyway) they got upset if their tour driver didn’t agree with the dark Emu.

I have done at least a thousand runs around Ayres Rock yet I am no longer allowed to speak while driving around it.
The same with Kakadu.
Without a certificate of indoctrination, thou shalt not speak.
Which I won’t obtain out of principle.
The tours you go on these days are talking shit.
Or else.

Lysander
Lysander
October 26, 2022 4:27 pm

After 10 overs, the Paddies are 1 fer 92

duncanm
duncanm
October 26, 2022 4:30 pm

HAARP transmitter.
3.6MW

The intensity of the HF signal in the ionosphere is less than 3 µW/cm2

yeh – alters the weather.

JC
JC
October 26, 2022 4:31 pm

He’s such a venomous c..t.

Adam Bandt
@AdamBandt
·
1h
People are hurting, the electricity market has failed and it’s coal and gas driving the crisis.

The government needs to look at capping electricity prices, and coal and gas corporations should pay for it with their massive profits.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 26, 2022 4:32 pm

And I find it offensive to call police vans Paddy Wagons!!!

Known in South Africa as “Mother in Laws Heart” – there’s always room for one more!

duncanm
duncanm
October 26, 2022 4:33 pm

Without a certificate of indoctrination, thou shalt not speak.

funny experience visiting Mutawintji some years back (great place.. must do.. and much better than Mungo which is a bunch of eroded mud hills with anything interesting locked way from prying eyes).

Have to book an approved tour out of Broken Hill to visit the main arena. Fair enough, price is fair for a multi-hour walk around and explain.

Turn up – white bloke jumps out of 4wd and starts the tour. After a while, we tease out of him why this (on a platter) business opportunity hadn’t been filled by Indigines. “Not interested in working” was the (as expected) answer.

It is the same in so many places — like the derelict resort at the tip (Cape York).

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 26, 2022 4:35 pm

JC

Homer P was banned from the Sinc Cat before I arrived there.

He babbles on over at CL’s blog, implying that he knows something about economics and maths, but getting mixed up all the time. Do you know what his academic background is? And where he is employed? In summary, is he bluffing, or does he actually know something?

Lysander
Lysander
October 26, 2022 4:35 pm

Damn! Second wicket down for Ireland in freaky circumstances where bowlers pinky touched the ball and ran the runner out.

Zipster
October 26, 2022 4:36 pm

It has now been more than five days of deliberation and the jury are yet to reach a verdict in the trial for the man accused of raping Brittany Higgins in Parliament House.

clearly not enough wokeshits on the jury, what so hard about destroying a man’s life on the mere say so of a wyminsis

Speedbox
October 26, 2022 4:36 pm

John H.says:
October 26, 2022 at 3:56 pm
What Zelensky does not realize is that Putin is a middle-of-the-road guy.
?????

Believe it or not, he is. Several posts on the Cat have examined this question.

To reiterate, Putin is the hub of an oligarchic system of interrelated ‘clans’ and whilst he is undoubtedly the dominant figure as the arbiter, moderator and has the final say, some of the clans, particularly within Defence and the FSB, are far more hardline. Putin is a master manipulator and has maintained his power by forcing compromises and sometimes setting clans against one another.

There is not a reserve of Alexei Navalny type clones waiting in the wings to pounce on a weakened Putin. Far from it. Putin’s demise (however caused) would very likely see one of the hardline clans ascend to power and the whole structure of Russian politics and global behaviour would change overnight – and not for the better.

So, although it may seem absurd at first glance, Putin is the more moderate middle-of-the-road guy relative to who else will jostle for the position of President when Putin eventually departs. The west can and should do business with Putin but they will never be able to force him to backdown – Russian politics doesn’t work like that.

Dot
Dot
October 26, 2022 4:37 pm

Hello.

Lysander
Lysander
October 26, 2022 4:37 pm

Now the farken Pomms on a hat-trick…

Dot
Dot
October 26, 2022 4:38 pm

Goodnight everybody.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 26, 2022 4:38 pm

duncanmsays:
October 26, 2022 at 4:30 pm

Haha…whatever. You’re a bit behind with all this. That’s ok.

Dot
Dot
October 26, 2022 4:38 pm

Putin is the more moderate middle-of-the-road guy relative to

LOL

Struth
October 26, 2022 4:39 pm

Funny thing is I could drive out of Arnhem Land after touring Ramingining and Maningrida as one of the first whites ( I ran the second tour in there, ever), through to Black point and Seven spirit bay (Check out Outback Spirit’s Itinerary) yet couldn’t open my mouth around the “done to death” Kakadu national Park.
And I wouldn’t have been anywhere near Arnhem land if the money hadn’t dried up from the smelter closure in Gove.
I also did some of the first tours into the Bungles when nothing existed in there and all camping gear had to be brought in.
There were never any aboriginal paintings there.
Never.
They are made of crumbling soft sandstone, and in bad spirit country.
Just like Daily waters….bad spirit country.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 26, 2022 4:41 pm

Fuck all South Australians are of German decent.

I think the word you are looking for is “descent”.
You’re welcome.

Struth
October 26, 2022 4:45 pm

Fuck all South Australians are of German decent.

I think the word you are looking for is “descent”.
You’re welcome.

Feeling insignifcunt?

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 26, 2022 4:49 pm

Haha…whatever. You’re a bit behind with all this.

Another Q aficionado? Sssssssshhhh … secret squirrel.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 26, 2022 4:51 pm

Or even, BANG BANG BANG. “why did you shoot that bastard , corporal?” “I thought he was going for a weapon, Sarge” ” As you were , then”.

I lost all respect for Dick Smith, when he said Davis Hicks wasn’t getting a “fair go.” Big boys game, big boys rules.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 26, 2022 4:52 pm

I think the word you are looking for is “descent”.
You’re welcome.

Look, you’ve bin tol’about yer fancy book lernin’. Just fuck off.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 26, 2022 4:53 pm

I have done at least a thousand runs around Ayres Rock yet I am no longer allowed to speak while driving around it.

I may have alluded to a potential reason for this before.

You’d also think one of the ‘most experienced’ tour drivers would know the names of the places he drives past.

*Flinders Ranges*
*Gosse Bluff*
*Tanami Track*

calli
calli
October 26, 2022 4:53 pm

Chief Justice McCallum reminded the jurors she was there to help them “in any way I can”.

“You are all equals in the jury room and that offer is available to any individual member of the jury as well as the jury as a whole,” she said.

Just dismiss the jury and pass judgement yourself.

You know you want to.

What is the point of juries anyway? They might use their brains.

Speedbox
October 26, 2022 4:56 pm

Ok Dot, if you know more about Russian politics, their history, place in the world, local sentiment and their refurbished relationship with China, then how about you stump up a reasoned argument? Better yet, how about a guest post where you can set out your in-depth knowledge and Cats can assess and comment.

Struth
October 26, 2022 5:00 pm

The aboriginals conducting the boat tours on Katherine Gorge learned about the bush around them from the white men who lost their jobs to them, after training them.
They didn’t know what a bush apple was until the white man taught them their traditional knowledge.
Didgeridoos were only ever played in northern Australia.
Dot paintings are a complete croc of shit, taught to “Yuandamu” Wapliri by a bloody white Queensland schoolteacher.

There is no such thing as “stolen generations”.
There are half castes who were saved from being murdered for being half caste.
By aboriginals.
Or more specifically, for being born outside of a strict naming system.
A culture that routinely left a baby twin on a bull ant’s nest because raising it meant too many mouths to feed.
A culture that never progressed in 40 or so thousand years due to unchristian superstition.
These are truths that should have been spoken more often, and loudly, and I fail there as well.
Looking back, I was far too diplomatic as a tour driver.
FAR too diplomatic.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 26, 2022 5:00 pm

I have done at least a thousand runs around Ayres Rock yet I am no longer allowed to speak while driving around it.

Is there any way we can just book the muted part of the tour?

JC
JC
October 26, 2022 5:04 pm

Boambee John says:
October 26, 2022 at 4:35 pm

JC

Homer P was banned from the Sinc Cat before I arrived there.

He babbles on over at CL’s blog, implying that he knows something about economics and maths, but getting mixed up all the time. Do you know what his academic background is? And where he is employed? In summary, is he bluffing, or does he actually know something?

B John

Presumably, the pet rock has an undergrad, but I think he’s also said he has an MBA from Macquarie. Make of that what you want. He could have a grad degree from MIT and would still be a complete idiot.

JC
JC
October 26, 2022 5:05 pm

Is there any way we can just book the muted part of the tour?

Heaven on earth.

Cassie of Sydney
October 26, 2022 5:06 pm

“To reiterate, Putin is the hub of an oligarchic system of interrelated ‘clans’ and whilst he is undoubtedly the dominant figure as the arbiter, moderator and has the final say, some of the clans, particularly within Defence and the FSB, are far more hardline. Putin is a master manipulator and has maintained his power by forcing compromises and sometimes setting clans against one another.”

This is the story of Russia. It’s how power has always been played. Three hundred years ago, it was the the boyars, it took Peter the Great to crush them and consolidate Romanov rule, today it’s the oligarchs and various power clans.

Struth
October 26, 2022 5:07 pm

Give it a rest KD.
You’ve done it again.
You’re a Victorian blow in who didn’t even know that when the new fuels were brought into the communities it was known as Avgas.
That was what all Territorians called it.
This was back before the place fell to poofs and Lesbian in the public service and other Victorian detritus hiding in retirement.

So I’ll let you do some research.
Look at some older writings and see if it was called Gosse’s bluff or just Gosse Bluff.

It won’t take long.

JC
JC
October 26, 2022 5:07 pm

today it’s the oligarchs and various power clans.

Are they familial based?

Lysander
Lysander
October 26, 2022 5:08 pm

A culture that never progressed in 40 or so thousand years due to unchristian superstition.

I agree with a lot of what you said St Ruth but you can’t blame the Aborigines from 40,000 years ago for not being Christian.

calli
calli
October 26, 2022 5:10 pm

We had a great tour guide in Scotland but he was pure swampy when it came to renewables. The “audience” was split pretty much fifty/fifty on some of his sillier assertions.

That domestic coal delivery that I witnessed in Glasgow told the story.

I liked him. I hope he has lots of winter woollies for Jan/Feb.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Is there any way we can just book the muted part of the tour?

There is an invention known as “Ear plugs”.
You could always use this invention. Your investment would not be wasted. The use of this invention is not limited to bus tours, you are able to use ear plugs at any time.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 26, 2022 5:10 pm

Just dismiss the jury and pass judgement yourself.

You get the feeling McCallum CJ is treating this case like it is ticking. Straight bat, pad up to anything outside Leg. No way any other jury would still be piss farting around after 3 or 4 days.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 26, 2022 5:12 pm

Adam Bandt, sound economic theorist.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 26, 2022 5:13 pm

Using HAARP to control (exploit as they say) LIGHTNING , AND ALSO FIRE/FLAMES ! Including controlling the plasmas in flames themselves. As well as “ionospheric studies” to generate and AMPLIFY VLF from plasma balls made from High Frequency

Also on HAARP:

HAARP is the subject of numerous conspiracy theories. Various individuals have speculated about hidden motivations and capabilities of the project. For example, Rosalie Bertell warned in 1996 about the deployment of HAARP as a military weapon.

Michel Chossudovsky stated in a book published by the Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform that “recent scientific evidence suggests that HAARP is fully operational and has the capability of triggering floods, hurricanes, droughts and earthquakes.”

Over time, HAARP has been blamed for generating such catastrophes, as well as thunderstorms, in Iran, Pakistan, Haiti, Turkey, Greece and the Philippines, and even major power outages, the downing of TWA Flight 800, Gulf War syndrome, and chronic fatigue syndrome.

And:

Former Governor of Minnesota, ex-professional wrestler, and documentary maker Jesse Ventura questioned whether the government is using the site to manipulate the weather or to bombard people with mind-controlling radio waves.

And the best one:

Two Georgia men arrested on drug charges in November 2016 were reportedly plotting domestic terrorism based on conspiracy theories about HAARP. The Coffee County Sheriff’s Office said the men possessed a “massive arsenal” that included AR-15 rifles, Glock handguns, a Remington rifle and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

Even better:

According to police, the men wanted to destroy HAARP because they believed the facility manipulates the weather, controls minds and even traps the souls of people. Police say the men confessed that “God told them to go and blow this machine up that kept souls, so souls could be released.”

FIRE1!/FLAMES!!1!

Marty
October 26, 2022 5:13 pm

There was a time in a more robust age (C18th and before) when jurors were shut away without food and drink until they had reached a verdict.

Cassie of Sydney
October 26, 2022 5:13 pm

“They might use their brains.”

We live in a post-brain time, what matters is da feelz.

calli
calli
October 26, 2022 5:13 pm

you can’t blame the Aborigines from 40,000 years ago for not being Christian.

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned. – Isaiah 9:2

A couple of my indigenous friends would definitely agree.

JC
JC
October 26, 2022 5:14 pm

Here’s he is, right on queue.
Driller, this is not your concern. Stop stoush trolling and go wash the filthy sheets, you clown.

Struth
October 26, 2022 5:14 pm

I agree with a lot of what you said St Ruth but you can’t blame the Aborigines from 40,000 years ago for not being Christian.

Never blamed them.

Just said that was the reason they never progressed.
Highly superstitious.
Scared of the unknown.

Their culture is not great.
it’s primitive and basic.
Hard and voilent.
As was most of humanity until our culture developed over thousands of years and with the opening up of invention and enlightenment through Christianity ….became the beacon of light now being attempted to be snubbed out.
By the superstitious yet again.

No one wants to live in a traditional aboriginal culture.
No one.
That’s what superstition is taking us back to.
The unchristian climate cult and their anti human communist controllers.

chrisl
chrisl
October 26, 2022 5:14 pm

Lilydale ( The gateway to The Yarra Valley) got flooded last night
Drench all rain ( as somebody once said)
This year everyone gets a flood

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 26, 2022 5:15 pm

JC

Thanks. I thought there was a link to Macquarie Uni, and an MBA. I found an entry on LinkdIn, which he denied was him. But I doubt that there would be more than one Homer Paxton in Australia. I also made a couple of references to “one of the lesser universities”, which did not amuse him.

You are correct about the idiot assessment. Still, it is fun to wind him up.

JC
JC
October 26, 2022 5:15 pm

you can’t blame the Aborigines from 40,000 years ago for not being Christian.

Would 37,978 (40,000 – 2022) also apply to the rest of us?

Struth
October 26, 2022 5:16 pm

Spelling Nazis, there’s a few errors in the last post.
Starting with violence.
Vy Oh Lens.
Go for it.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 26, 2022 5:16 pm

called Gosse’s bluff or just Gosse Bluff

With or without the capital B?

It won’t take long.

You’re right. It didn’t. You’re wrong, fake country boy.

And Gallery Cavoodle.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 26, 2022 5:16 pm

McCallum is ensuring she only gets invited to the best dinner parties that Canberra has to offer.
“You know I tried….”
The other guest “Oh we knowwww”.

JC
JC
October 26, 2022 5:19 pm

Always a sign of a true Christian.

Struth says:
October 26, 2022 at 4:13 pm

For those of you that have taken the jab, get going now.
You don’t have long left.

Tick, tick, tick.

Speedbox
October 26, 2022 5:19 pm

JC says:
October 26, 2022 at 5:07 pm
today it’s the oligarchs and various power clans.
Are they familial based?

No. Its not like the mafia (although some may take a different view! 🙂 )

I could have said ‘groups’ rather than clans but clans implies a stronger bond although without the familial ties. Perhaps alliance or coterie.

bons
bons
October 26, 2022 5:20 pm

Interesting comment Calli. One of the support folks on my high lochs ride in April was a full blown climate obsessive who wouldn’t give it a break.
Firery words were eventually exchanged and we customers collectively used the post ride debrief to emphasise to the organisers that we could not give the, otherwise wonderful experience, a recommendation if he was going to continue to be part of the team.
They were accepting but I don’t think that they understood our frustration.

bespoke
bespoke
October 26, 2022 5:20 pm

HP used to write for some magazine forget it’s name.

JC
JC
October 26, 2022 5:20 pm

I could have said ‘groups’ rather than clans but clans implies a stronger bond although without the familial ties. Perhaps alliance or coterie.

Is it money that brings together? Would say a Georgian form a bond with someone from another region?

JC
JC
October 26, 2022 5:22 pm

them

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 26, 2022 5:24 pm

In the Joh Jury Case, the Defence challenged the first 78 Jurors, accepted 79 thru 90 and that was that.
Did anything similar happen here, because it sounds like a Ringer is holding up a Verdict?

calli
calli
October 26, 2022 5:24 pm

Bons, I was in a land far, far away.

I was more forthright with a guide on the Little Reef that Could. Much of what I said winged its way over her head, sadly.

Apparently the young hire tour boats and go out to inspect the North Sea turbine array. Much the same as we do the Reef. And like us, they sail out. /sarc

Struth
October 26, 2022 5:26 pm

Keep knitpicking KD.
You’re a Newby and I’ll shut you up every time.
You belong back in Foot-es-cray with your criminal mates.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 26, 2022 5:27 pm

One of the support folks on my high lochs ride in April was a full blown climate obsessive who wouldn’t give it a break.

This.

wretchardthecat @wretchardthecat

Everywhere one looks in the world, the public spaces are swarming with aggressively virtuous, grim true believers just waiting to explode. In this atmosphere, merely having a beer and hotdog is a revolutionary act.

8:39 PM · Oct 24, 2022

Lysander
Lysander
October 26, 2022 5:28 pm

Would it be outrageous to suggest that, over the course of 50,000 years, some “civilisations’” brains physically developed faster than other “civilisations?”

Winston Smith
October 26, 2022 5:28 pm

Lizzie:

Gillard was well intentioned, but far too unaware of the road to hell that became the NDIS.

Lizzie, that’s a very naive viewpoint.
Gillards intent was – as a Fabian Socialist – to cause as much damage as possible by crushing the taxpayer under an avalanche social costs. The issue you describe above could have been easily dealt with by closer examination of the Mediterranean Back recipients and their mates. The same with the Lebanese who go back to Lebanon when they get their pension, then whenever the region shits itself, they demand free airfare and assistance back to Australia. (Mostly they don’t get it, but not for the lack of trying and the stories the media splash on their front pages of ‘appalling conditions’ and terrified children.)
The naivety of the people like yourself to these scams have contributed to the biggest line item in the latest budget. It isn’t cute, it’s dangerous – and is wrecking Australia.
You may be able to weather it but the lower and middle classes (remember them?) are the ones who are copping it in the neck.
If you want to help, Lizzie, start by manning the walls and pushing these bludgers away from the line that should be for own needy.

Lysander
Lysander
October 26, 2022 5:30 pm

England are 1 fer 1.

Eire got 158-ish…

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 26, 2022 5:31 pm

No proof KD just makes statements hoping no one checks.

You linked to an American website, you ‘true patriot’ you. The NASA Earth Observatory site from 2003.

The Yanks can be forgiven for getting it wrong. You can’t.

Struth
October 26, 2022 5:32 pm

Always a sign of a true Christian.

Struth says:
October 26, 2022 at 4:13 pm

For those of you that have taken the jab, get going now.
You don’t have long left.

Tick, tick, tick.

I wasn’t talking to you, wogboy.
You’d be too scared to leave hi rise and head to the suburbs.

Thank god.
We live in the country because shit like you are in the cities.
Full of ignorance snd taken up with fads and fools.

Zipster
October 26, 2022 5:33 pm

theres nothing mild about this bioweapon

Endothelial dysfunction in COVID-19: an overview of evidence, biomarkers, mechanisms and potential therapies

…accumulating evidence suggests that it also affects the pan-vasculature in the extrapulmonary systems by directly (via virus infection) or indirectly (via cytokine storm), causing endothelial dysfunction (endotheliitis, endothelialitis and endotheliopathy) and multi-organ injury. Mounting evidence suggests that SARS-CoV-2 infection leads to multiple instances of endothelial dysfunction, including reduced nitric oxide (NO) bioavailability, oxidative stress, endothelial injury, glycocalyx/barrier disruption, hyperpermeability, inflammation/leukocyte adhesion, senescence, endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EndoMT), hypercoagulability, thrombosis and many others. Thus, COVID-19 is deemed as a (micro)vascular and endothelial disease.

calli
calli
October 26, 2022 5:33 pm

Not “outrageous”, Lysander. But interesting.

There are a few experts here – my (very inexpert) take is that development follows stimulation and need.

Reflecting on Knox’s “school in every village”, the stimulation can be applied. The “need” … every society has needs. If they’re pressing enough, a solution will be found.

Lysander
Lysander
October 26, 2022 5:33 pm

Full of ignorance snd taken up with fads and fools.

Are you Amish St Ruth?

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 26, 2022 5:33 pm

I have given a little commentary on the floods around the joint. Allow me to add more.
Listening to the local airwaves, SES bloke sez that the peak water level hasn’t been attained yet, it will come maybe in the next 5 days. After prognostications it was here last week.
But there’s a silver lining ladies and gentlemen. This, er, delay allows the SES to super duper prepare for the upcoming waters. He did acknowledge that public anxiety was a concern in almost a throwaway comment.
So old mate who has tended his farm for 50 years, lady around the corner from the milk bar who sandbagged, the expected date has been pushed back. Don’t feel anxious guys, SES are all over it.
Still can get around the district, had a delivery come from Swan Hill that had to go up to Moulamein down to Barham to Murrabit to us. 2 hour trip.
As a final note, Melbourne mastheads haven’t been delivered to our town for 2 weeks, but surrounding towns have had no interruption.
As Frasier Crane once said:
https://youtu.be/ZSyz1Giyky4

JC
JC
October 26, 2022 5:33 pm

I wasn’t talking to you, wogboy.
You’d be too scared to leave hi rise and head to the suburbs.

Thank god.
We live in the country because shit like you are in the cities.
Full of ignorance snd taken up with fads and fools.

You’re talking to everyone here as the conversation wasn’t directed to one person alone, you redneck cunt.

Struth
October 26, 2022 5:34 pm
Struth
October 26, 2022 5:37 pm
Speedbox
October 26, 2022 5:37 pm

Money and power. One usually begets the other whichever way you look at it. And to be fair, that isn’t exclusive to Russian politicians or the oligarchs – look at the WEF and similar cohorts. In the west it has long been fashionable to deride Russian politics and the oligarchs, but every Cat can think of dozens (if not hundreds) of examples where western politicians and/or the wealthy have gamed the system for personal or political advantage. Money and power – always was, always will be.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 26, 2022 5:40 pm

Hey, Laborinos,
Here’s 2 minutes of Kevin Rudd.

Razey
Razey
October 26, 2022 5:41 pm

The ones who took the clotshot are like the War Boys in Mad Max Fury Road.

Life will be short.

Witness me!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 26, 2022 5:43 pm

Police say the men confessed that “God told them to go and blow this machine up that kept souls, so souls could be released.”

Who hasn’t done a bit of that, eh?

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 26, 2022 5:45 pm

Would it be outrageous to suggest that, over the course of 50,000 years, some “civilisations’” brains physically developed faster than other “civilisations?”
It would be Struth level, dumb, but not surprising.
You’re making the assumption that all brains started off the same size and shape at some point in the past.
What’s your basis for making that assumption?

John H.
John H.
October 26, 2022 5:49 pm

Speedboxsays:
October 26, 2022 at 4:36 pm
John H.says:
October 26, 2022 at 3:56 pm
What Zelensky does not realize is that Putin is a middle-of-the-road guy.
?????

Believe it or not, he is. Several posts on the Cat have examined this question.

To reiterate, Putin is the hub of an oligarchic system of interrelated ‘clans’ and whilst he is undoubtedly the dominant figure as the arbiter, moderator and has the final say, some of the clans, particularly within Defence and the FSB, are far more hardline. Putin is a master manipulator and has maintained his power by forcing compromises and sometimes setting clans against one another.

There is not a reserve of Alexei Navalny type clones waiting in the wings to pounce on a weakened Putin. Far from it. Putin’s demise (however caused) would very likely see one of the hardline clans ascend to power and the whole structure of Russian politics and global behaviour would change overnight – and not for the better.

So, although it may seem absurd at first glance, Putin is the more moderate middle-of-the-road guy relative to who else will jostle for the position of President when Putin eventually departs. The west can and should do business with Putin but they will never be able to force him to backdown – Russian politics doesn’t work like that.

Thanks Speedbox. Appreciate your insights. Very disturbing. If a man who repeatedly threatened the use of nukes is a moderate then pity the Russian people if he is toppled.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 26, 2022 5:49 pm

Planned parenthood pushing puberty blocking drugs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpyOnR_O6Tk

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.plannedparenthood.org%2Flearn%2Fteens%2Fpuberty%2Fwhat-are-puberty-blockers

And lastly a propaganda video that informs parents their 3 year old may know enough about their sexuality to be trans…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJdafLVf6xo

All done in that awful globohomo style they seem to love.

Razey
Razey
October 26, 2022 5:51 pm

Mankind have not descended from monkeys. The monkey tribes of the earth are descendants of men. They are the products of the abuse of procreative functions by a branch of early humanity. It is even possible that the monkey ranks are often recuperated from the human family.

The monkey tribes are specimens of what the physical side of the human family might become and what some members of it will become if they deny God, shut their ears to his voice called conscience, and renounce their humanity by continuing to make wrong use of their procreative functions and powers.

Such an end for physical humanity is not in the scheme of evolution and it is not at all likely that the whole of physical humanity will sink into such abysmal depths of depravity, but no power and intelligence can interfere with man in his right to think nor deprive him of his freedom to choose what he will think and what he will do, nor to prevent him from acting in accordance with what he has thought and chosen to act.

– Percival

Speedbox
October 26, 2022 5:51 pm

Should have also mentioned ideology. There are a few that are (probably) more driven by ideology in the first instance and might declare they have no interest in personal gain. Okay, but that feeds into the power model and of course from power, money usually follows.

Lysander
Lysander
October 26, 2022 5:51 pm

You’re making the assumption that all brains started off the same size and shape at some point in the past.

So, how is that “Struth level dumb” when all I said was do you think some peoples’ brains in one part of the world grew faster than others in other parts of the world. Where’s this assumption you speak of?

And not that I am now going to argue the contrary, but surely there was a “first” human brain at some stage.

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 26, 2022 5:52 pm

You’re a Victorian blow in who didn’t even know that when the new fuels were brought into the communities it was known as Avgas.
That was what all Territorians called it.

I long suspected Opal was Avgas without the lead that is normally added in. They can take the lead out of Avgas anytime. My Lycoming doesn’t need it and the oil will stay cleaner.
Avgas, the hydrocarbon part is largely iso octane. Automotive unleaded has a fair bit of aromatics in it and god only knows what else.

Indolent
Indolent
October 26, 2022 5:52 pm
Struth
October 26, 2022 5:53 pm

It would be Struth level, dumb, but not surprising.

Even though I never said it……

I live for this from the Monties and the ed’s of this world.

Ed doesn’t think commos exist anymore.

Shh……he can’t hear the voices in his head….
FMD.

Lysander
Lysander
October 26, 2022 5:55 pm

Lol Struth – I’m agreeing with you a lot today!!! 😛

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 26, 2022 5:55 pm

There is an invention known as “Ear plugs”.

Also noise cancelling headsets. They work by having a small microphone inside the earcup, receiving the noise signal, making it opposite phase and feeding that into the earphone. They work a treat. Now if only we had a visual equivalent for this place for the “noise” posts.

Lysander
Lysander
October 26, 2022 5:55 pm

England 3 fer 29 in 5th.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 26, 2022 5:57 pm

This guy has big brass balls.

Cuban Refugee Pilot Lands Soviet-Era Plane in Florida (25 Oct)

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokeswoman Rachel Torres, the 29-year old Cuban pilot, identified by his family as Rubén Martínez, landed alone in the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport at 11:30 a.m. on Friday. The aircraft, a Soviet-era Antonov An-2 biplane designed mainly for agricultural work by the Soviet Union in the late 1940s, belonged to the Castro regime’s National Air Services Company (ENSA), for whom Martínez worked as a pilot prior to his defection.

According to the Castro regime, Martínez took off from ENSA’s airport located in the Sancti Spiritus municipality to carry out agricultural fumigation works but did not return.

Must’ve been on the deck all the way since any military aircraft could’ve caught him and shot him out the sky. An-2s are so slow that an average suburban car has a faster top speed.

Johnny Rotten
October 26, 2022 5:57 pm

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith Fighting Back Against WEF

From Armstrong Economics –

“This is big news. Alberta’s new Premier Danielle Smith is the first government leader to apologize for vaccine mandates. Taking it a step further, she directly criticizes the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Schwab; she has “no interest in being involved with them.” During her first day in office, Smith immediately apologized for the vaccine mandates. She is offering to rehire any government worker who lost their job due to their vaccine status.

“We are not QR codes,” Smith once said, adding that she wants to “purge” Canada’s QR database. She called out Alberta Health Services (AHS) for creating problems by colluding with the WEF. “They signed some kind of partnership with the World Economic Forum right in the middle of the pandemic; we’ve gotta [sic] address that. Why in the world do we have anything to do with the World Economic Forum? That’s got to end,” Smith said. Great question, Danielle.

She plans to look into amnesty for outstanding COVID-related fines. “The system, my friends, is broken,” she said. “Most of those managing AHS today are holdovers from the NDP years. They have had their chance to fix this bloated system and they have largely failed on almost all accounts. Failure is no longer an option.”

Remember when Schwab boasted about infiltrating world governments with various Young Global Leaders, such as Trudeau? She publicly said that it is “distasteful” and “offensive” when billionaires brag about how much control they have over governments. Yes, this is a direct shot at Schwab. She is the first government leader to openly question why we have allowed the WEF to infiltrate governments and control policies. We need more leaders like Danielle Smith who are willing to acknowledge the growing power that Schwab and his minions have in shaping the global society. Better yet, we should question why they were handed power in the first place.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/alberta-premier-danielle-smith-fighting-back-against-wef/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

Razey
Razey
October 26, 2022 5:57 pm

Yet ignorance is no excuse. The moral crimes and vices of intercourse for pleasure only, of prostitution, of the prevention of conception, of abortion and of self-abuse, bring upon the actors dismal penalties. Retribution does not always come at once, but it does come.

– Percival

Struth
October 26, 2022 6:00 pm

You’re talking to everyone here as the conversation wasn’t directed to one person alone, you redneck cunt.

Honestly.
Language like this Dover?

I mean doesn’t there need to be some standards?
I’m a truck driver at the moment and therefore I don’t expect to hear or see bad language like this.
And these same people abuse me for calling bitches bitches and other women cows.
Yet they know this word really offends the ladies.
So there is this left wing hypocrisy level there, so synonymous with our observations of how denialists who are living a lie are becoming.

Razey
Razey
October 26, 2022 6:02 pm

I mean doesn’t there need to be some standards?

*Chuckle*

Struth
October 26, 2022 6:02 pm

Will no one think of the Ladies???

Shame on you, wogboy.
Apologise to the ladies immediately, you greasy spag.

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 26, 2022 6:03 pm

Well, yeah. Hitchener opens up with the report:

‘Wonga Park Man Killed.
Hit by car attempting to flee armed robbery.’

Not sure why this lead the 6pm bulletin but there you go.

Makka
Makka
October 26, 2022 6:05 pm

Are they familial based?

In the 2000’s the oligarchs were very heavily supported by the Regional Governors who in turn drew heavily on ex-KGB types or Mafia for their support and power base. My understanding is that Putin’s early path to consolidating his power was through those Regional governors and his KGB network. I think that network has only strengthened but obviously since then new blood has taken over, local trusted actors and yes, family wealthy type connections. But at the very top around Putin in Moscow it is the ruthless Security apparatus backing Putin. And if Putin is to be removed, it will be these thugs that will sort out the new leadership of Russia, not a flourish of democracy.

Speedbox
October 26, 2022 6:06 pm

Beat me to it Dover.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 26, 2022 6:07 pm

The monkey tribes are specimens of what the physical side of the human family might become

And Greens want to give them half the planet. Not joking.

Orangutans: Could ‘half-Earth’ conservation save the red ape? (25 Oct)

Half-Earth is a proposal by the late naturalist and “father of biodiversity”, EO Wilson. In its original context, it proposes that half of the Earth’s surface should be designated a human-free nature reserve to preserve biodiversity.

I vote to give the orangs your half of the Earth. We’ll keep our half, thanks.

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 26, 2022 6:10 pm

‘Government hopes new industrial bill will get wages moving’ sez another headline.
What does this mean, more attuned Cats and Kittehs may assist?

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 26, 2022 6:11 pm

Industrial relations

Razey
Razey
October 26, 2022 6:11 pm

At this point there is open warfare on the spiritual plane. People have mostly chosen their side.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 26, 2022 6:14 pm

I bow to the ‘right-thinking patriot’.

His linkage to primary school newsletters and semi-literate crank sites that make the Furniture Shop look like Encyclopedia Brittanica, and the insistence that communism killed off all the apostrophes is second to none.

Funniest abusive tourist carter ever. He doesn’t know Quenthland though. I lived there once, so I know it far more than he ever could.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 26, 2022 6:16 pm

So, how is that “Struth level dumb” when all I said was do you think some peoples’ brains in one part of the world grew faster than others in other parts of the world. Where’s this assumption you speak of?
The assumption is that there was a baseline and brains got bigger from then on, except when they didn’t.

Struth
October 26, 2022 6:17 pm

I generally like wogs.
Shhhh, don’t tell the old urban snob that.

I actually have a bit of wog in the ancestory.
But as an Australian, it is your duty to pull the piss out of them.

But nonetheless, there is no need for language like that infront of the ladies, Giuseppe.

If you can’t control yourself, tie your hands behind your back.
That should silence you until you calm down.
Disgraceful.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 26, 2022 6:18 pm

He doesn’t know Quenthland though. I lived there once, so I know it far more than he ever could.

Mum and Dad hid you in the boot when they went thru the Tick Gate?

Indolent
Indolent
October 26, 2022 6:18 pm

Russell Brand

Rishi Sunak – THIS Is What They’re Not Telling You

A year ago, when he was Chancellor, Rishi Sunak refused to say whether he would profit from the Moderna covid vaccine. He was a founding partner of Theleme Partners, a major investor in Moderna. And, apparently, his richer than avarice wife does not pay tax in the U.K.

Makka
Makka
October 26, 2022 6:18 pm

‘Government hopes new industrial bill will get wages moving’

It’s total bullshit. Nett overseas migration is planned to ramp up to it’s highest ever intake over coming years so wages won’t be going anywhere. And definitely GDP per capita is headed south.

This Labor Govt is heading us in the direction of a command economy, where they have an increasing say (through regulation, taxes and policies) in the pricing of certain good and services.

MatrixTransform
October 26, 2022 6:20 pm

I mean doesn’t there need to be some standards?

standards here seem to have have slipped

but Im sure that grubby childishness is the future

…carry on

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 26, 2022 6:22 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

October 26, 2022 at 6:14 pm

I bow to the ‘right-thinking patriot’.

Hold it right there.
I am getting Khloe of Kurunda to adjudicate on this one.

Struth
October 26, 2022 6:22 pm

I bow to the ‘right-thinking patriot’.

His linkage to primary school newsletters and semi-literate crank sites that make the Furniture Shop look like Encyclopedia Brittanica, and the insistence that communism killed off all the apostrophes is second to none.

Funniest abusive tourist carter ever. He doesn’t know Quenthland though. I lived there once, so I know it far more than he ever could.

I agree.
The Australian government websites could be classified as Crank sites.

Just shut up and accept you were wrong.
Be a man for once.
In the true sense of the word.
There’s still hope for you as I don’t believe you have been as foul mouthed as that terrible little wog prick in Melbourne ,ever.
But tell me, do you all speak like that from there?
Is it out of frustration for not ever being able to pronounce the word “mall” correctly?

Ghastly.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 26, 2022 6:22 pm

If St. Ruth could only link to one of Liability Bob’s parish newsletters that incorrectly spells the name of a place 3500km away, my day would be complete.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 26, 2022 6:22 pm

And, apparently, his richer than avarice wife does not pay tax in the U.K.
The pays 33,000 Pounds/year, to be considered a Nom Dom for Tax on her overseas Income, to the Exchequer

MatrixTransform
October 26, 2022 6:27 pm

Khloe of Kurunda

omg … the wittiness … please stop

MatrixTransform
October 26, 2022 6:28 pm

parish newsletters that incorrectly spells the name of a place 3500km away, my day would be complete

outrageously funny.

…honestly, my sides hurt

Winston Smith
October 26, 2022 6:30 pm

Knuckle Dragger:

Believe me, in that Lord of the Flies environment ‘you don’t get to touch my undies’ is the least of your concerns.

I was more surprised by the ebb and flow of verbal manipulation than anything else. Whilst amusing to watch, I got a couple of lessons in how some devious minds work in that place. Mainly how an offhand remark could be manipulated into a career threatening fight.
Or how a truth half told and with the context removed could be very effective in a power struggle that started for no other reason than someone having a bitchy day.
Or how a patients life could be put at risk when one doesn’t belong to the right clique, or got trained in a ‘lesser’ hospital.
Oh yes. I understand how blokes get into such strife when they assume that women are the weaker sex.
If a bloke believes that, the first cute girlie he meets will have his nuts in their handbag ‘tout de suite’, and when he wakes up several years later will find himself in a trap that will leave him financially castrated if not in gaol for crimes he never committed. As we are seeing in Canberra – I’m open minded about the whole drink the ‘bosses good scotch’ endeavour, but his chances of justice are slim to bugger all, according to popular opinion here.

bespoke
bespoke
October 26, 2022 6:31 pm

How does Thor’s nurse treat him back to health?

She Norses him through the night.

H/T internet.

John H.
John H.
October 26, 2022 6:31 pm

Lysandersays:
October 26, 2022 at 5:28 pm
Would it be outrageous to suggest that, over the course of 50,000 years, some “civilisations’” brains physically developed faster than other “civilisations?”

It bloody well is outrageous! But … “Seeking the truth is not seeking what is desirable.” Camus
I largely avoid it on most forums because Godwin’s Law is invoked almost immediately.

1.
A neuroscientist stated that the reasons hunter gatherers have exceptional eyesight is because their environment shapes their visual perception. The consequence is that while language is automatically learnt reading isn’t and learning to read alters visual perception in such a way that we lose other visual perceptive skills. There is nothing surprising about that. For me at least that is common sense. No free cognitive lunches.

2.

The full maturation of the frontal lobes is very important for future planning, creativity, problem solving, social interaction, and inhibition of impulsive behaviors. The geneticist Lewontin has argued that for that full development to kick in there needs to be the relevant stimuli to generate the appropriate gene expression.

Urbanisation, which began with agriculture, requires much greater emphasis on inhibition because humans are dealing with non-clan members and history tells us how long we’ve taken to overcome that innate bias against non-clan members. For a rather interesting study on that issue have a look at The WEIRDEST People in the WORLD. WEIRD: Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic. The book is controversial and argues that the Western tolerance for living among so many strangers without wanting to bop them on the head was a hard won cultural battle.

3.
It has been established the advent of agriculture altered our genes relevant to immunology. During devleopment immune processes play an important role in shaping cerebrum development. Long fascinating story I don’t understand because I’m too old and stupid to study that stuff now.

The point is: if immune relevant genes can be altered by contingencies, why not “above the neck”.

4. A study found northern Europeans have larger eyes and larger brains(technically the retina is part of the brain). Additionally there is this fascinating paper:

Bigger brains and bigger bodies for colder climates.
Tierra del Feugian: 1590
Peruvian women 1219
French men 1585
men from Xhosa (Mandela tribe) 1570

cf, Beals, Smith and Dodd, 1984. ‘Brain size, cranial morphology, climate and time machines’, Current Anthropology, 25:301-30

4. In 2001 a Prof of Anthropology sent me this. He stated he had been sitting on it for years and typically taught students there was no relationship because brain size and intelligence, which he admitted in that email that he knows that is not true. The r value is not strong but in many other contexts would be considered significant.

That study has at last been published and shows that the
volume of primary visual striate cortex in Aboriginals is roughly twice
the volume of that in caucasian brains. It holds in both sexes. Here is
the reference: Klekamp et al (1994) Morphometric study on the postnatal
growth of the visual cortex of Australian Aborigines and Caucasians. J.
Brain Research 35(4):541-548. This correlates very well with several
studies which have shown higher scores in visual acuity among aboriginals
(see in particular, Kearins (1981) Cogn. Psychol. 13:434-460. This occurs
in peoples whose brain weights are significantly smaller than those for
caucasians. The authors are very very careful not to rule out nutrition
and growth factors, but for my part I have difficulty in NOT believing
that the main factor is neurogenetic, since the difference is very great
and nutritional diffderence do not normally ’cause’ such a magnitiude of
structural difference. (See also Reidel et al 1994 on the postnatal
growth of the cerebral cortex in Aboriginals in the same journal, issue,
pps. 531-540., which makes a strong case for nutritional factors in such
growth.)


The problem with the nutrition argument is that it doesn’t explain the larger visual cortex. There are only so many stem cells so the larger visual cortex suggests, albeit faintly, that other regions of the brain may have missed out. For example, the frontal lobes are the last to mature.

There is a distinct bias in the research community against the issues raised above. The only reason that Prof came to my defense was because I was presenting good data but being attacked by all and sundry. He came to my defense and everyone shut up.

Sorry for the long post. There is so much here to unpack that I prefer to avoid it but you did ask … .

Tom
Tom
October 26, 2022 6:33 pm

This Labor Govt is heading us in the direction of a command economy, where they have an increasing say (through regulation, taxes and policies) in the pricing of certain good and services.

Elbow and his lieutenants are still trying to run the planned economy of the Trotskyists and Leninists who turned Russia into the doomed experiment of the Soviet Union a century ago.

They simply will not accept the failure of of the fascist planned economy, so they’re trying to cripple it with “renewable” energy and the impoverishment it will produce.

bons
bons
October 26, 2022 6:34 pm

Enviro lunacy is an embedded Scottish characteristic. Perhaps they view it as the latest boondoggle for ripping off the Sassenach.
I’ve quit watching a number of rather good Scottish nature shows because the climate claims were incessent and idiotic.
“Due to climate change” must be a required assertion in every Scottish program.

Winston Smith
October 26, 2022 6:34 pm

Will:

The medical sector is exempt under the proposed regulations

I didn’t know that, Will. But thanks for the first LOL of the day.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 26, 2022 6:35 pm

Geez the OT requires more care than walking barefoot through the Hay truckstop at midnight during a blackout.

MatrixTransform
October 26, 2022 6:39 pm

the Hay truckstop at midnight during a blackout.

*phrasing

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 26, 2022 6:40 pm

But at the very top around Putin in Moscow it is the ruthless Security apparatus backing Putin. And if Putin is to be removed, it will be these thugs that will sort out the new leadership of Russia, not a flourish of democracy.

I suspect the biggest danger is from the military. He has replaced a lot of generals, and militaries tend to be just as prone to cliques as business and the security services. If a coalition of general officers stages a putsch then the thugs and also the ex-KGB clique around Putin will get purged firmly.

The same dynamics apply in the US and Turkey. Erdogan has been purging Kamalist officers for so long that he now has total control over the military. The Democrats have been purging the US officer corps for 14 years now (Trump’s presidency might’ve slowed it, but he was ‘way too busy to reverse the process). By contrast when the Muslim Brotherhood took over Egypt they only had a year or two of exerting control over the Egyptian military – which was insufficient, since Gen. Sisi booted Morsi out and took over.

A problem for Russia right now is the higher level of the military officer class is in intense flux as Putin tries like Lincoln to find a winning general. But by stirring them up like this he risks a revolt from the guys he’s fired. There’s always a McClellan.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 26, 2022 6:40 pm

Channel Nein.
“Overweight women feel fat-shamed if they go to the GP and are told to lose weight.”
Apparently it isn’t a case of energy intake vs energy burnt. It includes “social and environmental” factors.
Yeah, nah.
If calories in minus calories out > zero, weight accumulates.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 26, 2022 6:40 pm

Elbow and his lieutenants are still trying to run the planned economy of the Trotskyists and Leninists who turned Russia into the doomed experiment of the Soviet Union a century ago.

I have full faith that Albo and Goose Springsteen’s Chief of Staff will get the electricity market under control.

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 26, 2022 6:41 pm

‘The pays 33,000 per year…’
Could it be ‘she’ Ed or is it another pronoun?
Now please provideth the evidence for this assertion, or is another lactose allergy episode?

Winston Smith
October 26, 2022 6:41 pm

Mother Load:

But he wasn’t representing the people of Manly. He was representing activists and rent seekers to the people of Manly. There was no one speaking on the people of Manly’s behalf.

If you don’t mind, could I use your reply on my FB site? (Total Readership of 1.5) It’s a cracker of a reply…

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 26, 2022 6:43 pm

It’s not the No 5 Tractor Factory after all.

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 26, 2022 6:43 pm

Hay truck stops. Don’t disparage them, assisted many in need

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 26, 2022 6:45 pm

Poms 5/105 after 14.3 overs.
Need 158 to beat the Paddies.
Rain stops play.
I suspect Mr Duckworth and Mr Lewis would be favouring the Green team if it gets called off.

Chris
Chris
October 26, 2022 6:47 pm

I long suspected Opal was Avgas without the lead that is normally added in. They can take the lead out of Avgas anytime. My Lycoming doesn’t need it and the oil will stay cleaner.
Avgas, the hydrocarbon part is largely iso octane. Automotive unleaded has a fair bit of aromatics in it and god only knows what else.

I am long years behind, but when my Dad was flying across Australia last (about 1983) we were very worried about 100/130 Avgas having lead enough to eat your valves and pistons. The Lycoming o-235 was made for 80 octane avgas. Running it on good clean Super was much preferred to the 100/130.
Is there a good safe fuel for 80 octane motors now?

Razey
Razey
October 26, 2022 6:48 pm

Excess young deaths, UK and US

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqnCz_PD6Pk

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 26, 2022 6:48 pm

I get the joke of course but it’s a nice little town. Football against them was always shit.
The junior lads played Aussie Rules on Saturday but the Union on the Sunday. If you weren’t beeboppin and steppin (HT George Costanza) then you were thrown to the turf, stood on and left to cough up blood.*
Very good club, South Hay a great pub near one of the aforementioned road houses.

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 26, 2022 6:49 pm

*Hyperbowl

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 26, 2022 6:50 pm

Does ANYBODY understand Duckworth Lewis? Harder than explaining LBW to a chick.

Winston Smith
October 26, 2022 6:51 pm

Gilas:

In a just society they’d be scheduled in mental asylums, forced on regular depot-antipsychotic preparations and excluded from interacting with normal humans until successfully treated.
Or… better still… arrested, convicted and sent to forced labour in deep mines, supporting normal society until they rot.

Instead, could we arrange a one for one swap in the Congo Cobalt mines?
I’d gladly take on a couple of those poor bugger kids in exchange for us sending a couple of these morons to replace them.

Gab
Gab
October 26, 2022 6:54 pm

”As Canada expands euthanasia to kill the mentally ill it demonstrates that a little bit of legal killing inevitably leads to more and more and more. If you are tempted by the seductive ‘right to die’ read how Canada became a world leader in euthanasia…”

And some say there’s no such thing as the slippery slope. LOL

John H.
John H.
October 26, 2022 6:54 pm

dover0beachsays:
October 26, 2022 at 6:01 pm
If a man who repeatedly threatened the use of nukes is a moderate…

Can someone actually quote what Putin has said here? All I’ve ever heard him say is nothing more than that they will only ever be used if there is an existential threat to the Russian Federation, which is pretty much consistent with what everyone else with nukes says anyway

He said it in relation to the current battles. It clearly was a threat against Ukraine. When was the last time you heard a national leader threaten the use of nukes?

bespoke
bespoke
October 26, 2022 6:55 pm

 (Total Readership of 1.5)

Is the other one a midget, Winston.

Razey
Razey
October 26, 2022 6:58 pm

Gabsays:
October 26, 2022 at 6:54 pm
”As Canada expands euthanasia to kill the mentally ill it demonstrates that a little bit of legal killing inevitably leads to more and more and more. If you are tempted by the seductive ‘right to die’ read how Canada became a world leader in euthanasia…”

And some say there’s no such thing as the slippery slope. LOL

And who could forget this case:

Elderly Woman Resisted Being Euthanized, So Her Family Held Her Down

https://www.lifenews.com/2018/11/14/elderly-woman-resisted-being-euthanized-so-her-family-held-her-down-now-doc-under-investigation/

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