Open Thread – Weekend 12 Nov 2022


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Zipster
Zipster
November 14, 2022 4:08 pm

I used to be in favour of feminists before they went insane. Having seen the results, I think most women shouldn’t be allowed to vote.

no downside to this at all

m0nty
m0nty
November 14, 2022 4:10 pm

It is times like these that should serve as educational material for lady Cats. The menfolk around here are not on your side.

calli
calli
November 14, 2022 4:11 pm

You all sound like pensioners at a bingo palace.

How do you know what they sound like? I certainly don’t! 😀

On some of the females here being misogynist…well, I’m pretty sure I don’t “hate” all women, I definitely dislike and avoid the nasty ones who want what I consider to be horrible things for me and my family, and for other women.

Being an Equal Opportunity ist-er the same applies to misandry and men.

As for the strange pronoun people, I don’t think there’s an equivalent “ist” word for them yet. We’ve only got as far as “phobe” which doesn’t quite cut it.

rosie
rosie
November 14, 2022 4:12 pm

If women have the vote men only have themselves to blame.

calli
calli
November 14, 2022 4:14 pm

Why would I want men on my “side”? They might be on some issues and not on others and vice versa.

I’m certainly not on the same “side” as many of them on some issues.

Wherever The Borg resides, it definitely isn’t here.

Mater
November 14, 2022 4:15 pm

It is times like these that should serve as educational material for lady Cats. The menfolk around here are not on your side.

I Dunno, Monty.
I didn’t advocate confining them to their homes, mandating a vaccine into them, destroying their children’s/grandchildren’s education, destroying their livelihoods, shooting them with rubber bullets or forcing them to wear a face covering.

As I recall, you waved the Pom-Poms for this shit, whilst I advocated for their human rights to be reinstated.

Let’s compare who’s on who’s side.

rosie
rosie
November 14, 2022 4:16 pm

Dies Monty let his children cross a busy road by themselves?
If not he’s giving ‘life advice’.

calli
calli
November 14, 2022 4:18 pm

There’s no such thing as male feminists — only doormats for bossy women.

The Beloved wanted the best for his girls, good, solid education and good careers (provided that was what they wanted too). He was also delighted when they produced grandchildren too. You could describe him as a “feminist” I suppose.

He’s definitely not a cuckold! And neither are their husbands.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 14, 2022 4:19 pm

Dover

I plan to change the email address I use here later this afternoon, and will probably go into auto-moderation. Grateful for an early release!

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 14, 2022 4:23 pm

80% not interested in more Covid restrictions for Xmas:

Is Australia’s delay in moving on from Covid embarrassing the country?

Yes, get over it already 80%
No, saving lives is important 15%
I don’t know, it’s too expensive to fly overseas to find out 4%

Daily Mail

rosie
rosie
November 14, 2022 4:25 pm

I see you, I hear you*, I don’t believe you
*poetic licence I never watch anything that features talkingdan
Daniel Andrews insists ‘no deal will be offered’ to Greens or independents should Labor fail to win majority government

calli
calli
November 14, 2022 4:26 pm

My view – there are a huuuge number of people who have terrible trouble navigating life as adults. They want to live in a state of perpetual childhood or adolescence without acquiring and of the responsibilities of adulthood.

This has come about because of poor parenting, over extended secondary education with an unrealistic expectation of tertiary entrance and the money that goes with it. In other words, a ridiculous sense of entitlement.

It isn’t specific to a political affiliation – it afflicts across the board. But it finds it’s payday in socialism, where everyone is supposedly “equal” regardless of diligence or intelligence.

Mater
November 14, 2022 4:27 pm

The Beloved wanted the best for his girls, good, solid education and good careers (provided that was what they wanted too). He was also delighted when they produced grandchildren too. You could describe him as a “feminist” I suppose.

I WOULDN’T describe him as a feminist, just a man doing his job and duty.

Male feminists are a different breed entirely.

Mater
November 14, 2022 4:28 pm

Quote fail. Sorry Calli.

Lysander
Lysander
November 14, 2022 4:30 pm

Hey Cats
advice needed.

Got some pretty shitty bloodwork back today and my body isn’t in as “great shape” as I thought it was. A number of severe issues, including heart disease (but not sure how far progressed it is until I get an MRI done, and if not too far progressed could be reversible)…

Does one tell family and/or friends as you do have the disease or do you wait and see how bad it is…

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
November 14, 2022 4:30 pm

If women have the vote men only have themselves to blame.

It looked to be a good idea at the time. JS Mill On Liberty sold me on female suffrage when I was sixteen. The old grumps said that women are unduly influenced by their emotions and can seldom handle rational thought. And they were right.

Makka
Makka
November 14, 2022 4:33 pm

It is times like these that should serve as educational material for lady Cats. The menfolk around here are not on your side.

But, this creep is?

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
November 14, 2022 4:35 pm

Calli should be allowed to vote. M0nty shouldn’t.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 14, 2022 4:36 pm

Lysander

Tell close (as defined by you) family now. Wait until you know the scale before telling more distant family and friends would be my approach.

Lysander
Lysander
November 14, 2022 4:37 pm

Thanks BJ…. I do have to tell work as I’m going to be off for a whole bunch of extra tests methinks….

It’s a strange feeling because I feel perfectly healthy (but, yes I smoke) and had a two hour run on Saturday…

calli
calli
November 14, 2022 4:38 pm

Yes, Mater. Here’s a quick definition:

Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that society prioritizes the male point of view and that women are treated unjustly in these societies.

I won’t presume to speak for him, but after a lifetime I’m pretty sure he’d approve of the first sentence simply based on his actions and words. Amusingly, he’d add “legal equality” to that.

The second sentence is where the b/s resides. It may have been so in the past, but it isn’t now. Particularly in the West.

Zipster
Zipster
November 14, 2022 4:39 pm
Speedbox
November 14, 2022 4:39 pm

Lysander says:
November 14, 2022 at 4:30 pm

Sorry to hear that, I hope it works out for you.

IMO, I wouldn’t tell anybody until I had all the details. No need for them to worry as well – it achieves nothing. When you do reveal there will, of course, be many questions and you need to be able to answer those based on diagnosis and plans for recovery.

It’s the old thing about not presenting someone with only the problem – present a problem and the solution.

Lysander
Lysander
November 14, 2022 4:41 pm

Thanks Speedy and BJ – just the wife for now….

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 14, 2022 4:41 pm

DrBeauGansays:
November 14, 2022 at 4:35 pm
Calli should be allowed to vote. M0nty shouldn’t.

Plus Cassie, Tinta, Crossie, Delta A, Helen (nmrn), BBS, Lizzie and others whom I might have overlooked via failing memory.

Plus infinity re m0nty-fa, his very existence is a monument to the existence of genetic intellectual limitations.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
November 14, 2022 4:41 pm

Anent calli’s remark about growing up.

Something I have noticed about human beans, is that some have a strong sense of reality, and others can live their lives inside a fantasy. Engineers, farmers, soldiers tend to be in the former class, literary ppl and bureaucrats in the latter.

M0nty is a prime exemplar of someone in the fantasy class. His grasp on reality is tenuous in the extreme, as he demonstrates every day.

Mater
November 14, 2022 4:41 pm

Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes.

See where it says ‘equality’? That’s for normal people like your other half.

Male feminists substitute in ‘equity’, and that’s where it all goes wrong.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 14, 2022 4:43 pm

Lysander

Being retired, I overlooked the work issue. Tell only your immediate supervisor, and emphasise your desire for medical privacy.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 14, 2022 4:44 pm

Did I see while scanning forward a comment by m0nty-fa, to the effect that he doesn’t give advice on life to his wife and children?

I suspect there are court orders involved.

His wrongology is such that it could easily be argued that his thoughts are biohazards, and even a simple ‘Good morning’ could see someone hospitalised and teetering on the precipice of death by 9:00 am.

calli
calli
November 14, 2022 4:46 pm

Bad news, Lysander. Hope and pray they’ve got it early.

My inclination is to tell the very nearest and dearest about it. As you are a Christian maybe one or two of your closest brothers so they can pray for you – this is when you need to do a bit of “God bothering”.

And no further until you get the exact condition and the remedy.

johanna
johanna
November 14, 2022 4:46 pm

I’ve owned four year old Merino sheep that were smarter then Monty.

If they were four years old, they were exceptionally bright. Merinos spend their waking hours figuring out ways to get into trouble. The survivors are the smarter ones.

I’m getting cranky about the men here blaming women for election outcomes they don’t like, while ignoring the ones they do like (Tony Abbot, Boris Johnson, Donald Trump).

Those of them who have not seen their dicks (except maybe in an upward tilted mirror) in the last decade, the ones who have strong views about the attractiveness of women – in short, the peanut gallery – have zero credibility. They are losers who women, correctly, avoid.

calli
calli
November 14, 2022 4:47 pm

And what BJ said about your work supervisor. That makes four people in total plus you.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 14, 2022 4:48 pm

But blaming single women for the environment they grew up in is unfair.

Blaming individuals, and having consequences for poor decisions is what is lacking from the “environment”.

Lets face it, seeing this slag dying in a gutter of starvation* as respectable people walk around it would have a far greater effect on “environment” than anything else you could think of.

Similar to my modest proposal for politicans who lose elections.
Nothing would focus their minds more on keeping people onside than this.

* KD your new ride awaits… Time for you to go deep, deep undercovers and find out if she has teeth down there or not.

Lysander
Lysander
November 14, 2022 4:48 pm

Thanks also Calli – (as well as BJ and Speedster), yes I have a few Christian “brothers” who are actually closer than my immediate family!

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 14, 2022 4:49 pm

Grateful for an early release!

For God’s sake, man!

It is not that kind of a blog!

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 14, 2022 4:51 pm

nder

Nearly forgot, when discussing with your work supervisor, mention the words “Commonwealth Privacy Act” somewhere in the conversation.

John H.
John H.
November 14, 2022 4:52 pm

Zipstersays:
November 14, 2022 at 4:39 pm
The FDA Has Banned NMN Supplements!

I read a study last week which argued for a big spike in cancer and metastasis risk. I expected that because one chemotherapy target is inhibiting the NAD pathway. 6 months ago I warned a friend about the possible risk. The ban is ridiculous, people can make that choice but I’m not confident most using like drugs had an understanding of the risk.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 14, 2022 4:54 pm

Not sure what Spell Wreck did with the “Lysa” that I typed before “nder”!

Dot
Dot
November 14, 2022 4:56 pm

Geez that NMN news is utter corrupt horsie poop.

GRRRR

“It’s just a type of vitamin B3!”

So basically the hype merchant patents what he hypes etc.

Razey
Razey
November 14, 2022 4:56 pm

Boambee Johnsays:
November 14, 2022 at 4:51 pm
nder

Nearly forgot, when discussing with your work supervisor, mention the words “Commonwealth Privacy Act” somewhere in the conversation.

You only need to discuss with your supervisor if you think you need support from your employer in order for you to do your job. If you can still do your job with no impact, then it’s none of their business.

MatrixTransform
November 14, 2022 5:01 pm

After a while, it becomes obvious that most Cats are misogynist to some extent – and not just the males.

looks like mUnty went to SpecSavers and got some new Intersectional lenses.

like I said the other day … Testosterone Pet

his game is a post-modern variation of Twister where it never matters what colour he spins, he can land his arse anywhere

JC
JC
November 14, 2022 5:02 pm

M0nty is a prime exemplar of someone in the fantasy class. His grasp on reality is tenuous in the extreme, as he demonstrates every day.

Well yes, transitioning to identify as a lesbian would strongly suggest he lives in a fantasy world. Sure.

m0nty
m0nty
November 14, 2022 5:03 pm

Did I see while scanning forward a comment by m0nty-fa, to the effect that he doesn’t give advice on life to his wife and children?

No, I was talking about the single women I know. I would not presume to lecture them for their personal choices, unlike the Male Mrs Mangel set here.

Lysander
Lysander
November 14, 2022 5:06 pm

Yeah I agree Razey that I don’t really need to tell work but I do have an excellent boss and it might look a bit “funny” that I’m going to need to be out of the office several times over the next few weeks for tests…

MatrixTransform
November 14, 2022 5:08 pm

FTX revealed as a Ukrainian money laundering operation amongst other things. And linked to the WEF

daFisk will be mortified, Im sure

Dot
Dot
November 14, 2022 5:09 pm

But the deriding of single women per se goes back a long way, and the history of it is very unpleasant.

Such as? Are there more than a few examples? That were systemic?

Attacking them as a group is not only counter-productive, it is offensive.

I agree.

I’m not seeing attacks on single men of the same nature.

Have you heard of bachelor taxes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_tax

Aha haha…err…

1825, State of New York:

A bill was proposed (did not pass) in the New York legislature comparing bachelors with dogs, aiming to replace the then current tax on dogs with one on bachelors instead.

rickw
rickw
November 14, 2022 5:09 pm

Anyway, it’s a FIFTEEN digit number.
FIFTEEN ferkin numbers.

It’s 15 digit because that’s what our “international obligations” says it needs to be.

m0nty
m0nty
November 14, 2022 5:10 pm

1825, State of New York:

A bill was proposed (did not pass)

LOL

rickw
rickw
November 14, 2022 5:12 pm

No, I was talking about the single women I know.

Almost certainly complete fabrication. “Single women I know of” is as close as it’s going to get.

Oh come on
Oh come on
November 14, 2022 5:13 pm

Former UFC and Bellator fighter Anthony ‘Rumble’ Johnson dies at 38 after illness

Hmm. I wonder what caused that. Well, the article goes out of its way to say what it’s not:

In September 2021, Johnson posted on Instagram that he needed “as many prayers as I can get” and was in a battle, noting it was “NOT COVID.”

Interesting how they’ve started doing this ever since a certain therapeutic treatment started to be broadly administered, and people started dying very prematurely around the same time. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

Anyhoo, so it’s not Covid. Does this exclude Covid-related causes? Anything heart-related, perhaps?

Dot
Dot
November 14, 2022 5:15 pm

It’s not not not COVID.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
November 14, 2022 5:16 pm

Uh oh. Neil Breen on 4BC just going on about how Qld needs to get vaccination rate higher as 35% not triple vaxxed. He is quadruple jabbed himself so clearly the propaganda worked on him.

Zipster
Zipster
November 14, 2022 5:17 pm

Anyway, it’s a FIFTEEN digit number.

welcome to the One World Totalitarian Government

John H.
John H.
November 14, 2022 5:19 pm

Dotsays:
November 14, 2022 at 4:56 pm
Geez that NMN news is utter corrupt horsie poop.

GRRRR

“It’s just a type of vitamin B3!”

So basically the hype merchant patents what he hypes etc.

The hype merchants went crazy over resveratrol until trials showed kidney damage. Now they are going crazy of CBD. Big Pharma is capturing the cannabinoid market.

If its mode of action was equivalent to B3 why bother taking it instead of boosting B3? I don’t know what is going on metabolome wise. The results are conflicting. My view is that the cancer problem occurs for those with micro-tumours(over 60 years of age not that uncommon) and\or precancerous cells. I’ve seen like results with beta-carotene and NAC, both shown to promote cancer development.
The effect of those two was particularly prominent for smokers\former smokers.

We make our choices DOT. Personally I don’t give a damn.

Recent studies suggest that cancer cells of many types depend on NAD+ to sustain their rapid growth and that cutting off the NAD+ supply could be an effective strategy for killing certain cancers. The data from these studies paint a more complicated picture of NAD+ and raise new questions about the diverse ways taking an NAD+-boosting supplement might influence health. “It might still slow down the aging part, but it might fuel the cancer part,” says Versha Banerji, a clinician-scientist at the University of Manitoba. “We just need to figure out more about the biology of both of those processes, to figure out how we can make people age well and also not get cancer.”

Zipster
Zipster
November 14, 2022 5:20 pm

FTX revealed as a Ukrainian money laundering operation amongst other things. And linked to the WEF

corruption in ukraine, say it isn’t so!

Zipster
Zipster
November 14, 2022 5:21 pm

Longtermism – /w GPT3, Yuval N. Harari and Will MacAskill on What we owe the future
In this video, I talk to emerson, a chatbot powered by GPT-3 language model. We talked about a hypothetical rogue AI agent that could destroy humanity. I also cover other risks, like nuclear war, dangerous pathogens, etc. I am deeply inspired by the book “What we owe the future” written by Will MacAskill, a moral philosopher and a professor at Oxford University.

John H.
John H.
November 14, 2022 5:21 pm

Dotsays:
November 14, 2022 at 5:09 pm

Have you heard of bachelor taxes?

People with no children are subsidizing the lifestyles of those with children. I hate that.

Zipster
Zipster
November 14, 2022 5:23 pm

No, I was talking about the single women I know.

checkout chicks are not women “you know” ok

MatrixTransform
November 14, 2022 5:27 pm

Those of them who have not seen their dicks (except maybe in an upward tilted mirror) in the last decade …

gawd, if I had a dollar for every time a sheila was disappointed in something I said, I’d be riding my jet-ski instead of typing this.

sfw
sfw
November 14, 2022 5:28 pm

They reckon that the chances of Labor winning in Vic are reducing, the media has finally found a voice and is asking questions but the betting odds haven’t changed much. I put $20 on the Libs a month or two ago at 7/1, on Betfair the Libs are 12.5/1 and have been around that for the last month. May put another $20 on them.

JC
JC
November 14, 2022 5:30 pm

They reckon that the chances of Labor winning in Vic are reducing,

Your odds suggest the opposite of what they’re saying.

Mater
November 14, 2022 5:30 pm

No, I was talking about the single women I know.

It’s amazing what you can learn through binoculars.

JC
JC
November 14, 2022 5:31 pm

Zipster says:
November 14, 2022 at 5:20 pm

FTX revealed as a Ukrainian money laundering operation amongst other things. And linked to the WEF

corruption in ukraine, say it isn’t so!

10% for the big guy.

Winston Smith
November 14, 2022 5:32 pm

Can we rename this edition of the Open Thread Montyzumas Revenge?

sfw
sfw
November 14, 2022 5:34 pm

JC, you’re right, maybe I shouldn’t be drinking wine as I cook dinner.

Winston Smith
November 14, 2022 5:36 pm

Lysander:

Does one tell family and/or friends as you do have the disease or do you wait and see how bad it is…

If you are needing their support, tell them.
If you can wait for a positive diagnosis then do so, because they’re going to want to know.

But you do know there’s a cure for brewers droop, don’t you?
🙂

Lysander
Lysander
November 14, 2022 5:40 pm

Lol Winston!!! 😛

Thankfully, ahem, not an issue…

JC
JC
November 14, 2022 5:41 pm

sfw, no, I didn’t mean that as catching you out. Maybe you agree with the journos in which case it’s a good deal.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 14, 2022 5:42 pm

Not sure what Spell Wreck did with the “Lysa” that I typed before “nder”!

If I may…

‘Lysa’, through its Latin cognate ‘lyse’ meaning of ‘by rupturing’ or ‘by breaking away’, likely propelled Auto-corrupt into a loop whereby it ‘lysed’ the ‘lyse’, or tore the Lysa- from Lysander.

I know. You would think they could write software that did not confuse the parts of names with Classical Latin, and from their Hellenistic Greek origins. People who write code are so uncultured.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 14, 2022 5:44 pm

Lysander I’d wait to have the MRI and see what the prognosis is. Take care mate. Did the doc give you any idea what you can do in the mean time.

Delta A
Delta A
November 14, 2022 5:49 pm

It is times like these that should serve as educational material for lady Cats. The menfolk around here are not on your side.

Oh, poor Monty.

97.3% of the Boy Cats have a secret quality which you will never know: a rollicking sense of humour. IMO, they (most of them) can be full-on outrageous, sexist, agist, ablist and any other ‘ist’ they fancy, because, bottom line: they treat the intelligent, based (and also humorous) Lady Cats with utmost respect.

I adore (most of) them.

I pity pathetic wannabees who can’t make the grade.

Gilas
Gilas
November 14, 2022 5:50 pm

Lysander says:
November 14, 2022 at 4:30 pm

Hey Cats
advice needed.

From your entry, it’s not clear what you’re referring to.. screening blood tests and MRIs usually measure different disease clusters, with different prognoses and treatment outcomes.
Heart disease is not measured by MR imaging..

I agree with other commenters overall.
However, best to know what you’re dealing with first. Understand and plan the treatment/cure trajectory before telling others, thus avoiding unnecessary anxiety.

If you need further info, please ask Dover for my email.

m0nty
m0nty
November 14, 2022 5:51 pm

97.3% of the Boy Cats have a secret quality which you will never know: a rollicking sense of humour. IMO, they (most of them) can be full-on outrageous, sexist, agist, ablist and any other ‘ist’ they fancy, because, bottom line: they treat the intelligent, based (and also humorous) Lady Cats with utmost respect.

Yeah I dunno, there’s only so much faux-ironic “actually women should make me a sammich (wink wink)” that a person can stand. After a while it ceases to be funny.

Oh come on
Oh come on
November 14, 2022 5:53 pm

Elon Musk sacks outsourced Twitter moderators hired to track hate and other harmful content

A content moderation expert tweeted on Sunday that around 3,000 contractor employees were canned

If Musk keeps chainsawing off this much dead wood, he might be able to make Twitter profitable!

Melissa Ingle, who worked at Twitter as a contractor for more than a year, was one of a number of contractors who said they were terminated without notification on Saturday….Ms Ingle, a data scientist, said she worked on the data and monitoring arm of Twitter’s civic integrity team. Her job involved writing algorithms to find political misinformation on the platform in countries such as the US, Brazil, Japan, Argentina and elsewhere.

Oh no, what will we do without algorithms that identify political misinformation? How will we know what the correct opinions are? I want to choose truth over facts but this isn’t helpful. If Musk takes over Snopes, I’ll be totally lost.

Hark at her tweet:

Laid off from Twitter on a Saturday evening. No explanation, just all access removed. Happy holidays, everyone!

You just knew she’d be a ‘happy holidays’ kind of person, didn’t you.

Lysander
Lysander
November 14, 2022 5:54 pm

Thanks Ranga. No, I’ve only seen the bloods report but which “strongly suggests” heart disease. Have spoken to a mate Doc, and he just said “yup, pretty likely with those numbers (more reds than Florida!!!)”

Gilas – sorry I presumed MRI testing but I see I was on the wrong track now…

Delta A
Delta A
November 14, 2022 5:58 pm

Being an Equal Opportunity ist-er…

Amazing, calli!

I posted my “ist” comment before I’d scrolled back and read yours.

Just another illustration that, no matter how different we all are, and what we feel about individual posters, we often end up singing from the same hymn sheet.

cohenite
November 14, 2022 6:02 pm

IMPOSSIBLE: Despite Only 17% Democrat Turnout on Election Day – Katie Hobbs and Democrats Are Winning Over 50% of Maricopa County Election Day Totals

BREAKING: Maricopa Drops SHOCKING Sunday Numbers — Claim Only 54% for Kari Lake FROM ELECTION DAY! And Independents Went to Hobbs! — STEAL IS ON

You gotta laugh. The real problem though is the sheeple. Biden cheated on a grand scale. There is cheating here but not on the same scale. Steve Hilton and Tulsi also talk about the idiocy of the GOP; cocaine mitch spending the most in any election on propping up Murkowski against Kelly Tshibaka. Kelly is a looker while murkowski looks like fricasseed version of pelosi. The point is naturally conservative women are attractive; leftie bitches be ugly in and out.

Winston Smith
November 14, 2022 6:03 pm

FTX revealed as a Ukrainian money laundering operation amongst other things. And linked to the WEF

I noticed the $40 million donation to the Democrats was quietly glossed over.

calli
calli
November 14, 2022 6:04 pm

Just looking at the situation around Orange. Vicki, I hope you are high and dry.

As for that idiot Barr on Seven and her glib “glowball warming causes rain” she can stick her snide progressive mug up her *rse. And as for the much lauded Flimflam man – he appears to be MIA.

Delta A
Delta A
November 14, 2022 6:06 pm

I WOULDN’T describe him as a feminist, just a man doing his job and duty.

Male feminists are a different breed entirely.

Yes.

cohenite
November 14, 2022 6:06 pm

Good thread. Dickless giving advice on masculinity and secret women’s business a highlight.

rosie
rosie
November 14, 2022 6:07 pm

“Johnson’s cause of death was organ failure due to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and
hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis.”

calli
calli
November 14, 2022 6:07 pm

We had rain here last night. The sand is so saturated, even the few centimetres we had pooled on the surface.

What others are going through beggars belief. And still no apology from that “even the rain that falls will never fill our dams” grifter.

MatrixTransform
November 14, 2022 6:08 pm

there’s only so much faux-ironic “actually women should make me a sammich (wink wink)” that a person can stand

you aren’t a person mUnty, you’re a caricature.

calli
calli
November 14, 2022 6:14 pm

And now the talking head on the news is squealing that the Medibank hack is “going to cause the death of millions of people”.

Seriously?

It’s on the dark web which basically no one gets into without a key. How are they going to be “killed”? No one cares about STDs and alcoholism and all the other garbage. What type of “scandals” do they imagine have any traction these days?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 14, 2022 6:21 pm

“even the rain that falls will never fill our dams”

Oh no, Calli, now they say global warming produces more rain not less.

Think storms are getting worse? Rapid rain bursts in Sydney have become at least 40% more intense in two decades (11 Nov)

Here’s who the anti-Flanneries are:

Hooman Ayat
Research Fellow, Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne

Jason Evans
Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney

Steven Sherwood
Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney

No one has yet predicted that climate change will mean climate scientists bank balances will fill to overflowing, but from what I see that’s a fair bet. I wonder what the NSW government will do with that ginormous desalination plant which isn’t being used?

Razey
Razey
November 14, 2022 6:26 pm

callisays:
November 14, 2022 at 6:14 pm
And now the talking head on the news is squealing that the Medibank hack is “going to cause the death of millions of people”.

Seriously?

It’s on the dark web which basically no one gets into without a key. How are they going to be “killed”? No one cares about STDs and alcoholism and all the other garbage. What type of “scandals” do they imagine have any traction these days?

The silver lining is that the Overlords attempts at making us all their digital slaves will get a bit more pushback. The Sheep have been spooked.

Razey
Razey
November 14, 2022 6:28 pm

Think storms are getting worse? Rapid rain bursts in Sydney have become at least 40% more intense in two decades (11 Nov)

LOL 2 decades. In geological time, not even a mouse fart. It’s meaningless.

Indolent
Indolent
November 14, 2022 6:30 pm
Mater
November 14, 2022 6:30 pm

Oh no, Calli, now they say global warming produces more rain not less.

Too much rain…climate change.
Not enough rain…climate change.
Too hot…climate change.
Too cold…climate change.
More cyclones…climate change.
Less cyclones…climate change.

Heads I win, tails you lose!

cohenite
November 14, 2022 6:31 pm

Here’s who the anti-Flanneries are:
Hooman Ayat
Research Fellow, Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne

Jason Evans
Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney

Steven Sherwood
Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney

Sherwood is an idiot. Jo has a whole page devoted to this clown’s efforts; here is an example. And one of his papers (sic) got into a 10 worse list at no 8.

Delta A
Delta A
November 14, 2022 6:32 pm

Does one tell family and/or friends as you do have the disease or do you wait and see how bad it is…

TELL!

At least, tell your wife. Together you can decide whether to tell the children and friends.

It’s no secret that I love my Best Man, husband of almost 53 years. He is extraordinary: wise, capable, educated and funny. And we share everything… except, he will never tell me when he is sick or injured. To spare me any worry, he insists. Ha!

One day several years ago, I returned from a pleasant (but unsuccessful) afternoon fishing off the Portland breakwater to find BM staggering about, flushed with raging fever. “I think,” he began lamely, “I have a needle stuck in my chest.”

Much spluttering from me, then, “How long has it been there?”

“About three weeks. I didn’t want to worry you, but now…”

He ended up in the excellent Portland hospital with staff congregating around his x-rays, enjoying the unusual sight of a four inch needle lodged firmly across the centre of his chest.

The point of this rambling anecdote is to impress the importance of telling your partner about any health issues as they arise. It’s much more traumatic for everyone to find out in an emergency situation.

How did the needle get there? Well, that’s quite a story in itself.

JC
JC
November 14, 2022 6:36 pm

I think there’s roughy 180k votes to be counted. Lake is 26,000 behind.

The breakeven is: 180,000 – 26,000 = 154,000/2 = 77,000 + 26,000 = 103,000/180,000 = 57%

Lake needs to win 57% of the votes to breakeven. Why is that too difficult?

JC
JC
November 14, 2022 6:37 pm

Sherwood is an idiot.

Tell us what you really think of him, Cronkite. Don’t sweeten it up.

rosie
rosie
November 14, 2022 6:37 pm

Will be thinking of you and your tests Lysander.

Indolent
Indolent
November 14, 2022 6:42 pm

Anyway, it’s a FIFTEEN digit number.
FIFTEEN ferkin numbers.

One World Government numbering each member of the herd?

Mater
November 14, 2022 6:44 pm

Lysander,
Tell exactly, and only, those who you need to tell in order to get the tests and final prognosis completed in a timely and efficient manner.

After that’s done, if it’s still necessary, announce it to the rest and personally thank those who helped you through the investigation stage.

Then the work begins.

The inevitable questions, when you have no answers, helps no one, especially yourself.

Best of luck. I feel your pain.

Lysander
Lysander
November 14, 2022 6:47 pm

Thanks Rosie and Mater and fellow Cats – you’re all (mostly) lovely.

Have a good night… that’s enough for me today… and I have a sneaking suspicion that my love of a good Shiraz and ciggy are going to need to take a drastic change… this evening!!!

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
November 14, 2022 6:47 pm

Good comment on Ben Fordham Facebook page :

“5 shots in two years is not a vaccination program. It is an IQ test”

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 14, 2022 6:49 pm

We’ve all seen Pulp Fiction Delta… we know how the needle got there.
“Man, what a trip!”

Delta A
Delta A
November 14, 2022 6:53 pm

That’s funny, Wally.

calli
calli
November 14, 2022 6:54 pm

I know a guy who had a fishing hook stuck in his head.

A needle in the chest sounds like a bad day at Stitch n’ Bitch.

Anchor What
Anchor What
November 14, 2022 6:56 pm

Lake needs to win 57% of the votes to breakeven. Why is that too difficult?
Probably because they are taking all that extra time to mix in more dodgy votes.

Anchor What
Anchor What
November 14, 2022 6:59 pm

After a while it ceases to be funny.
We reached that stage with Monty years ago.
DB, you own him.

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 14, 2022 7:01 pm
JC
JC
November 14, 2022 7:02 pm

Lysander, Best of luck.

Winston Smith
November 14, 2022 7:06 pm

Some bright and Cheery news for us all – Coon Cheese is going broke.

Winston Smith
November 14, 2022 7:13 pm

…but I had to go and check there weren’t any in the stockpile… nope – all Community Chest stuff.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 14, 2022 7:13 pm

ABC host questioning Desperate Dan…

This one made me laugh.

Daniel Andrews promises to bring in plans to reduce Victorian’s power bills (14 Nov)

Mr Andrew said he is not “providing an itemised quote” on how the Victorian Labor government would implement the power price reduction.

“What I’m saying is we are going to create jobs, we’re gonna replace coal with 100 per cent renewable – we are gonna embed skills as well,” Mr Andrews said in a press address on Monday.

Albo and Jimbo have effectively admitted that the $275.00 saving on electricity bills that they promised before the Federal election was a load of bollocks. So now we have Dan the Coal-killing Man promising to reduce electricity prices by doing all the same rubbish, only harder. Do people actually believe this stuff?

dopey
dopey
November 14, 2022 7:15 pm

Sydney Morning Herald. Omega Crossword.
26 Across. Annastacia Paluszczuk’s seat (5)…

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 14, 2022 7:17 pm

I was only thinking to myself this afternoon that I hadn’t seen Delta on the Cat for a while and she pops up. Not like a bad penny, whatever that is.

Cassie of Sydney
November 14, 2022 7:17 pm

Lysander, please stay strong. I would tell close family and friends. Love helps…as does faith.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 14, 2022 7:19 pm

dopey are you shore it wasn’t 2 words, fat arse.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Wally Dalí says: November 14, 2022 at 2:38 pm
Just ploughed through Director’s ID… I’d write up the saga, but the red rage as subsided and thus I realise it’s a pretty dull story.

Mum did it today, or rather one of the granddaughters came over to do it for Gran: “After all Uncle Salvo, how long can this possibly take? Haha”

Seven hours.

PeterM
PeterM
November 14, 2022 7:21 pm

arrse?

Winston Smith
November 14, 2022 7:25 pm

Bruce O’Newk:

Albo and Jimbo have effectively admitted that the $275.00 saving on electricity bills that they promised before the Federal election was a load of bollocks. So now we have Dan the Coal-killing Man promising to reduce electricity prices by doing all the same rubbish, only harder. Do people actually believe this stuff?

No.
The level of contempt our politicians have for us is only exceeded by the level of contempt we have for them.
Or vice versa…

calli
calli
November 14, 2022 7:25 pm

I was thinking of Rabz.

Arsks

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

dopey says: November 14, 2022 at 7:15 pm
Sydney Morning Herald. Omega Crossword.
26 Across. Annastacia Paluszczuk’s seat (5)…

The answer will be either Stout, Ample, Large, Broad, or possibly Baggy.

Her electorate is named Inala.

Bluey
Bluey
November 14, 2022 7:26 pm

Bruce of Newcastlesays:
November 14, 2022 at 7:13 pm
ABC host questioning Desperate Dan…

This one made me laugh.

Daniel Andrews promises to bring in plans to reduce Victorian’s power bills (14 Nov)

Mr Andrew said he is not “providing an itemised quote” on how the Victorian Labor government would implement the power price reduction.

“What I’m saying is we are going to create jobs, we’re gonna replace coal with 100 per cent renewable – we are gonna embed skills as well,” Mr Andrews said in a press address on Monday.

Albo and Jimbo have effectively admitted that the $275.00 saving on electricity bills that they promised before the Federal election was a load of bollocks. So now we have Dan the Coal-killing Man promising to reduce electricity prices by doing all the same rubbish, only harder. Do people actually believe this stuff?

I suppose not having any power would reduce the use and reduce your bill.

wivenhoe
wivenhoe
November 14, 2022 7:27 pm

Sydney Morning Herald. Omega Crossword.
26 Across. Annastacia Paluszczuk’s seat (5)…

Inala

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Lysander: All the best mate.
We’ve some experience with similar situations in my clan.
I endorse Mater’s advice (& similar).

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

If numerals are accepted in that crossword, then 2axes is a possibility.

L.B.Loveday
L.B.Loveday
November 14, 2022 7:32 pm

“Body builders would be considered Obese”.

As would Sonny Bill Williams at his awesome peak.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
November 14, 2022 7:33 pm

Lysander best wishes and another four-letter word -hope

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
November 14, 2022 7:35 pm

” If numerals are accepted in that crossword, then 2axes is a possibility.” would that be pick-axe or battle-axe

calli
calli
November 14, 2022 7:41 pm

It is interesting how advice differs from person to person. The advice we give is a window on ourselves and it’s lovely to see how different people relate to their world and how kindly it is.

It makes me like them very much indeed.

wivenhoe
wivenhoe
November 14, 2022 7:47 pm

oops, sorry Salvatore, should have read back before posting.

miltonf
miltonf
November 14, 2022 7:48 pm

Yes best wishes Lysander. Think positive and stay strong.

Brislurker
Brislurker
November 14, 2022 7:50 pm

Lysander, from experience I would wait to tell most until you have some answers. Loved ones need answers as you will also while you process the news. Your faith will be a big help. Prayers for you.

miltonf
miltonf
November 14, 2022 7:57 pm

Jeez our pollimuppets are bad but I reckon the US ones are even worse.

JC
JC
November 14, 2022 8:01 pm

How could you even consider banning fatboy? That would be like banning Mr Ed.

calli
calli
November 14, 2022 8:04 pm

Don’t ban him Dover.

I don’t fear him. He’s another window into somewhere else.

JC
JC
November 14, 2022 8:07 pm

I think it’s great for diversity and inclusion having fatboy – transitioning to obese lesian- on the site.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 14, 2022 8:09 pm

Dover at 5.10:

7h
Costa Rican John Wick

Great result. Missing a couple of no-look mag changes on the move, but it’s Costa Rica so I get it.

Roger
Roger
November 14, 2022 8:10 pm

Does one tell family and/or friends as you do have the disease or do you wait and see how bad it is…

Wait and see.

No point worrying them if it’s early stage.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 14, 2022 8:11 pm

Tom at 3.50:

There’s no such thing as male feminists — only doormats for bossy women.

Liberty quote. Mater at 4.06:

AKA Cuckolds.

Liberty quote.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 14, 2022 8:15 pm

mole at 4.48:

KD your new ride awaits… Time for you to go deep, deep undercovers and find out if she has teeth down there or not.

Ah. Clementine.

Look – I’ve been called crazy brave before, but I’m not confident even Indiana Jones would go into that tunnel.

Roger
Roger
November 14, 2022 8:16 pm

Albo and Jimbo have effectively admitted that the $275.00 saving on electricity bills that they promised before the Federal election was a load of bollocks.

They’re not called the Liars for nothing.

Meanwhile, Dutton still clings to the 0/2050 albatross about his neck.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
November 14, 2022 8:20 pm

Lysander. Can back the above tell close family, employer may want to know why all the time off for tests so helps as well but anyone else wait till you get a fuller picture. I was lucky when I had my fixes done as I was between jobs.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
November 14, 2022 8:20 pm

Oh and best of luck.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Dot says: November 14, 2022 at 4:03 pm

Zak Kirkup has joined the National Indigenous Times as the Managing Editor for Business
Zak was the former Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of Western Australia.

Now he can return to full time blogging here as Infidel Tiger Premium Content (Subscribers Only).

Is this Fair Dinkum?
If Zak Kirkup really is IT then it explains a few things. (NBD)

Cassie of Sydney
November 14, 2022 8:24 pm

“Meanwhile, Dutton still clings to the 0/2050 albatross about his neck.”

I can’t see that changing any time soon, not whilst Senator Bummingham’s has his ear.

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 14, 2022 8:24 pm

Stay strong Lysander.

dopey
dopey
November 14, 2022 8:25 pm

So it’s Inala then. Not Broad Beach, Wide Bay, Large Area, Swing Seat. Well I hope it’s a safe seat anyway.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
November 14, 2022 8:26 pm

LOL 2 decades. In geological time, not even a mouse fart. It’s meaningless.

My argument too. Lots of inconsistency in the CO2 levels to temperature and the geological record as well which points to something much neglected in climate science. The role of our star, the sun…

We just don’t know enough with not much more than 100 years of precise measurements. There new cycles in weather patterns being discovered all the time.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 14, 2022 8:26 pm

Stay strong Lysander.

Second that one, Lysander.

JC
JC
November 14, 2022 8:28 pm

Meanwhile, Dutton still clings to the 0/2050 albatross about his neck.

Folks, we have to be reasonable about this. We’re about 1% of global GDP. We don’t factor in terms of shattering global consensus. We cannot go our own way with emissions as the large economies will begin to impose emissions tariffs on Australia or some other form work around. We’re hamstrung until either the US or the EU walks away from these emission objectives. You can’t blame the Borg if he’s holding onto the 2050 deal.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

bons says:November 14, 2022 at 1:14 pm
So how is domestic violance leave initiated?
Do you have to show the employer the bruises?
Are tears sufficient?
Do you have to have a police report? If not, why not.
Is “he said hurties” sufficient.

My money is on it be “thuh feelz”
Is this any guide: (nope)

The amendments also expand the definition of family and domestic and family violence to include violent, threatening or other abusive behaviour by a current or former intimate partner of an employee, or a member of the employee’s household, in addition to a close relative, that seeks to coerce or control the employee and causes the employee harm or to be fearful.

The improved entitlement in the National Employment Standards (NES) will,
• Provide ten days of paid family and domestic violence leave in a 12-month period for full-time, part-time and casual employees.
• The leave will be paid at the employee’s full rate of pay for the hours in the period for which they were rostered and they would have worked had they not taken the leave, to minimise the financial impact of family and domestic violence.
• The leave can be taken as consecutive days, single days or a fraction of a day.
• The leave can be taken for the purposes arising from family and domestic violence which may include, but is not limited to, attending medical, legal, police or counselling appointments, attending court or other legal proceedings, accessing police services, organising alternative accommodation (including relocation), care or education arrangements for children, if it is impracticable to do so outside the employee’s ordinary hours of work.
• The leave will not accrue year to year and is not an entitlement to be paid out on separation.
• The paid leave entitlement is not available to perpetrators of family and domestic violence.

Yep, scam being perpetrated upon employers.

Roger
Roger
November 14, 2022 8:32 pm

So it’s Inala then. Not Broad Beach, Wide Bay, Large Area, Swing Seat. Well I hope it’s a safe seat anyway.

The safest in QLD, alas.

Cassie of Sydney
November 14, 2022 8:32 pm

“I occasionally have the urge to ban him but then it goes.”

No, he’s a window into utter depravity of the modern left.

Anyway, as I said yesterday, he’s only here at the moment to gloat, because he thinks his side has the ascendancy. He racks off when things aren’t going well for his side, because he’s a coward.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

bons says: November 14, 2022 at 1:14 pm
As an employer, I would be looking carefully for grounds to remove this person from my employ. The subject’s personal issues are nothing to do with the employer but under the ACTU’s insanity the employer is the new fairy godmother, perpetually liable.
Too much risk.

Ken Oath.
And here’s my favourite part:

For employers who do not yet have a policy which speaks to family and domestic violence, you may wish to consider implementing one prior to the changes taking effect next year.

They can shove such a policy up their clacker.
I do not & will not have a “family & domestic violence” policy.
Lack of a “Drug use & illegal drug” policy has got me into enough stoushes with the authorities.

With quite some relish I look forward to similar shirtfrontings over my lack of a “Family & Domestic violence” policy.

Roger
Roger
November 14, 2022 8:35 pm

You can’t blame the Borg if he’s holding onto the 2050 deal.

Yes, we can.

(Sounds like a slogan!)

Because it’s going to hollow out what’s left of Australia’s prosperity based on our competitive advantage over comparable economies.

And that’s the end of us.

JC
JC
November 14, 2022 8:39 pm

Do people recall the bun fight Trump had with the Europeans when in 2017 he walked from the agreement? They threatened to impose emission tariffs on American exports and Trump told them he would impose those tariffs in reverse. We’re too small to make threats. You can’t really blame the bald headed borg for being reluctant to walk. You can see where is coming from by suggesting we nuke up and the rancid Liars Party lied about how expensive and dangerous nuke power is. We can’t do anything unless the GOP gets back into power in Pennsylvania Ave.

JC
JC
November 14, 2022 8:40 pm

We can’t Roger as we’re too small. They would tariff us into the ground.

Roger
Roger
November 14, 2022 8:42 pm

You can see where is coming from by suggesting we nuke up…

I’d like to see some flesh on those bones before I take him seriously.

Roger
Roger
November 14, 2022 8:43 pm

We can’t Roger as we’re too small. They would tariff us into the ground.

Let’s see what the ground looks like after this northern winter.

JC
JC
November 14, 2022 8:43 pm

What we could do is what the EU countries do, which is to lie and cheat about our emissions. In a couple of years we just tell them we’re down to 1980 emission levels and we’re all good on that score. Same as the Euroweenies do.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
Nelson_Kidd-Players
November 14, 2022 8:43 pm

Roger says:
November 14, 2022 at 9:29 am

He [Ian Cook] made the point that thanks to recent legislative changes the largest donation he can accept from an individual donor is $4k (iirc), whereas Dan has access to union funds.

Victoria: State of Corruption.

Donations should only be able to be made by natural persons and once over a certain amount in a defined period be disclosed in near real time like, say, 48 hours.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 14, 2022 8:44 pm

Isn’t it funny, I was going to refresh the page after doing some more work on the reno when I noticed I had spelt sure, shore. When I was typing I couldn’t think of any other way of spelling sure except shore. Now I must be getting older coz it didn’t look right but there you go.

132andBush
132andBush
November 14, 2022 8:46 pm

m0nty says:
November 14, 2022 at 4:10 pm

It is times like these that should serve as educational material for lady Cats. The menfolk around here are not on your side.

YOU are the only dickless person around here whose side the menfolk aren’t on.

JC
JC
November 14, 2022 8:48 pm

Let’s see what the ground looks like after this northern winter.

Look, this zero thing, gerbil warming bullshit is embedded in the Euroweenies’ DNA now. The elite don’t give a rats about the cold winter and if thousands of people die. In fact, it’s a religion and mass deaths is a cost worth absorbing to these fucking morons. The only hope around this is that Trump or a Trump-like figure wins in 24 and tells the Euros to fuck off… again.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 14, 2022 8:50 pm

Wife talking to ex work colleague today. She wondered why she hadn’t seen her for a long time. Been in hospital for 7 months with phizer side effects that no one wants to talk about. She hopes to recover.

JC
JC
November 14, 2022 8:57 pm

Genius on twitter. One of Cassie’s favorite gals.

Allegra Spender
@spenderallegra
Logging native forests has to stop. They’re not only places of natural wonder, they are critical to carbon capture that protects our climate. State and federal governments must deliver on their commitments to protect our planet.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
November 14, 2022 8:57 pm

Dan Andrews rushing through experimental mandatory stair vaccine. If it saves just one vertebrae….

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
November 14, 2022 9:05 pm

Just listening to an interview of Senator Rennick.

He says that at next Federal election it is likely that he will in effect be running against Malcolm Roberts and both unlikely to make it. That is not good news as both are very good candidates and need both of them.

Zipster
Zipster
November 14, 2022 9:06 pm
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 14, 2022 9:06 pm

Dan Andrews rushing through experimental mandatory stair vaccine.

And a bicycle vaccine?
If it saves one duco scratch…

JC
JC
November 14, 2022 9:07 pm

Allegs wiki

Okay, so she scored highly VCE and went to Cambridge where she did an MA with a specialty in economics. That most likely was political economy, which is claytons economics. It’s basically leftwing, Keynesian crapola.

She was a management consultant and corporate executive before entering politics, including as managing director of her mother Carla Zampatti’s fashion label.

Early life

Spender attended Ascham School where she was head girl,[1] and achieved a UAI of 99.95. She then completed a MA in economics from the University of Cambridge, where she was at Trinity College.[2][3]

Spender started her career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company before working as a policy analyst in the UK Treasury.[4] She later volunteered as a consultant in Kenya for Technoserve and at Change Leader at London’s King’s College Hospital.[5] Spender has worked as Managing Director for her mother’s fashion label Carla Zampatti.[6][2] She was the Chair of the Sydney Renewable Power Company,[7] and the CEO of the Australian Business & Community Network (ABCN),[8] a social mobility charity that links students from low socio-economic schools and mentors from business.

I wonder how long she was a McKinsey’s. The CV gets a little murky after that because she then began working for ma’s fashion label.

miltonf
miltonf
November 14, 2022 9:08 pm

That Suspender belt tweet looks like it was written by a precocious year 4 girl.

calli
calli
November 14, 2022 9:09 pm

Spender attended Ascham School where she was head girl

Of course she was. I know how these things work.

JC
JC
November 14, 2022 9:11 pm

miltonf says:
November 14, 2022 at 9:08 pm

That Suspender belt tweet looks like it was written by a precocious year 4 girl.

She’s kinda pleasant looking in a girl next door sort of way.

calli
calli
November 14, 2022 9:12 pm

I wonder how long she was a McKinsey’s.

I wonder how long she was in Kenya. And exactly where.

JC
JC
November 14, 2022 9:12 pm

calli says:
November 14, 2022 at 9:09 pm

Spender attended Ascham School where she was head girl

Of course she was. I know how these things work.

She sounds like little Miss Goody Two-Shoes.

Razey
Razey
November 14, 2022 9:14 pm

“Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.” ~ Mark Twain

132andBush
132andBush
November 14, 2022 9:17 pm

GreyRanga says:
November 14, 2022 at 7:17 pm

I was only thinking to myself this afternoon that I hadn’t seen Delta on the Cat for a while and she pops up. Not like a bad penny, whatever that is.

She hopped in and kicked monty’s arse.

Pretty impressive when you think about it.
To be expected though.

calli
calli
November 14, 2022 9:18 pm

Mind you, a UAI of 99.95 plus the duties of head girl/prefect is pretty impressive. Very, very difficult to game that.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 14, 2022 9:23 pm

Nobody’s going to say it? Nobody?

Allll righty then…..

Spender attended Ascham School where she was head girl

PHRASING.

Razey
Razey
November 14, 2022 9:24 pm

Crypto is digital magic beans.

cohenite
November 14, 2022 9:24 pm

This Sam Bankman-Fried of the crypto firm FTX is a piece of work; he supported every woke issue including alarmism and the emorats and just before his junk firm went Chp 11 he transferred $10 billion of customer funds to his own personal account, which has now partially disappeared.

JC
JC
November 14, 2022 9:24 pm

We had a young girl working at the family business for just short of a year. She’d scored something like 99.6, was great in a particular field of sport and was accepted into Stamford on a scholarship. This kid was really really smart. She would pick up stuff at lightening speed. She was also a gerbil warming zealot. No matter what was explained about trade offs, costs and it wasn’t a given costs would outweigh the benefits, she couldn’t conceive anything else. The kids and a disturbing number of adults are wedded to this bullshit and there’s little that can be done in the short term.

Oh come on
Oh come on
November 14, 2022 9:25 pm

Yet another totally normal unexpected death:

Heather Anderson, Adelaide Crows AFLW premiership player, dies aged 28

No links to Lifeline etc in the article, so it wasn’t that.

JC
JC
November 14, 2022 9:30 pm

calli says:
November 14, 2022 at 9:18 pm

Mind you, a UAI of 99.95 plus the duties of head girl/prefect is pretty impressive. Very, very difficult to game that.

You know Calli, there’s book smart intelligence and the gut raw type that is able to analyze something and then arrive at an analytical conclusion.

I reckon the best way to describe it is say the equivalent of corporate intelligence.. someone who would do well in a large corp and there’s entrepreneurial intelligence.. someone who would be terrible in a corp environment while excelling at entrepreneurship.

calli
calli
November 14, 2022 9:35 pm

It just intrigues me that, at 44 or whatever she is, her UAI is important enough to put in a Wiki.

Sure, it’s a great achievement. So was mine and not far behind hers, but I’m just a carpenter’s daughter, heavily pregnant at exam time and I went through TAFE. In the end it’s meaningless. It’s what you do afterwards that counts.

And maybe being the Member for Wentworth is what counts.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
November 14, 2022 9:35 pm

Latest news: Dan Andrews uses special legislative powers to push through high powered semi automatic stair ban.

Dot
Dot
November 14, 2022 9:37 pm

She was also a gerbil warming zealot. No matter what was explained about trade offs, costs and it wasn’t a given costs would outweigh the benefits, she couldn’t conceive anything else. The kids and a disturbing number of adults are wedded to this bullshit and there’s little that can be done in the short term.

Send her links to Beenstock, Polder & Riegenwertz.

…and Kirk Sorensen.

(Contegration shows AGW is at least only half as bad as models make out, and there is a better way than PV solar and pinwheels).

Oh come on
Oh come on
November 14, 2022 9:37 pm

I bet the first thing the vaxx fanatics think when they learn of yet another strange incidence of an otherwise healthy young person suddenly dropping dead is ‘those anti-vaxxers are going to use this to sell their anti-science agenda’.

I don’t need to sell anything. This shit sells itself.

Dot
Dot
November 14, 2022 9:38 pm

Yet another totally normal unexpected death:

Heather Anderson, Adelaide Crows AFLW premiership player, dies aged 28

No links to Lifeline etc in the article, so it wasn’t that.

Choked on carpet?

Cassie of Sydney
November 14, 2022 9:38 pm

“Spender attended Ascham School where she was head girl,[1] and achieved a UAI of 99.95. She then completed a MA in economics from the University of Cambridge, where she was at Trinity College.[2][3]”

Of course, of course, every girl who attends Ascham achieves a UAI of 99.5. Princess Allegra da Big Spenda speaks Ascham babble and her whole existence is framed by Ascham and the eastern suburbs. She knows nothing of anywhere else and she doesn’t want to know anything. I know the Ascham babble well, I had a few female relatives who also attended Ascham and they all speak in the same way as Allegra and they all view the world just like Allegra does, which means the world stops at Pyrmont to the west and Sydney International Airport to the south.

I was quite amazed to see Allegra’s female spruikers outside Paddo markets last Saturday, the federal election is two and a half years away. Maybe she sent them there because she’d had a bad week because the MSM finally exposed her for those HUGE donations she received. Anyway, as I said to the three female Teals spruiking for Allegra outside the markets last Saturday, when they asked me if I had anything to say to Allegra, I said yes….”tell her she’s a waste of space”. They didn’t like it very much, I wonder if they passed it on?

Dot
Dot
November 14, 2022 9:40 pm

…awful lot of suicides and congenital heart defects that never existed before.

…and myocarditis going up, but having nothing at all to do with it.

It’s a Scooby Doo mystery.

Dot
Dot
November 14, 2022 9:42 pm

know the Ascham babble well, I had a few female relatives who also attended Ascham and they all speak in the same way as Allegra and they all view the world just like Allegra does, which means the world stops at Pyrmont to the west and Sydney International Airport to the south.

So many better beaches in the beaches ‘brah and also at Garie.

Sad.

Oh come on
Oh come on
November 14, 2022 9:43 pm

Rosie, the way that information is presented doesn’t raise questions for you? Kind of sketchy.

Incidentally,regarding your earlier post about the cause of death of the 38yo MMA fighter, well…death by the relatively sudden onset of a severe auto-immune disorder doesn’t really dispel any suspicions.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 14, 2022 9:44 pm

Choked on carpet?

Monkeypox claims another victim. Rack ’em up, Mr Reaper.

JC
JC
November 14, 2022 9:47 pm

every girl who attends Ascham achieves a UAI of 99.5.

Is UAI the equivalent of VCE in Victoria?

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