Yep rosie, i should have known that Gillard was head girl, hence the *

Are high petrol prices to become the new normal?
They are an awesome inflation driver?

mention me, indirectly
…do yourself a favour, JC… you’re make the trolling so easy

As the Mr Movies of this blog
Oi WOz, all nicknames disseminated on this blog are only granted by the grace of JC, no free-ranging

Nicknames of handles of real people*
I feel like chicken tonight.
Release the distraction Monty
* Any resemblance to persons living or blogging is purely coincidental .”

WolfmanOz

From Peter Hitchens

– The Living proof Britain was once a dignified place –

I have found it hard to start going to the cinema again, something I used to love but which I now rarely do. I think the main reason is that there have been so few films I have actively wanted to see, or even try to see. But last week I saw Living, a small, modest but powerful film featuring that lovable actor Bill Nighy.

And I do not think it would have been half so good seen from the sofa. Set in the very early 1950s, and based on a Japanese classic movie, it is very quiet and restrained, portraying a world when we British were much more like the Japanese in our formality and elaborate manners.

The price of admission is justified by the opening credits alone – archive colour film of the London of almost 70 years ago, red buses among great dark buildings, a totally British city that I just remember, now as lost as Atlantis.

And what follows is a rather moving warning to us all of how very small acts of laziness or simple negligence can do vast damage, and of how equally small acts of goodness can transform the world. Do see it.

This post is dedicated to Tim Flannery and all his dumbed-down climate followers.
It is 24 November here in S E Australia, usually a time for shorts, bathers, bbqs and outdoor dining. Not this year. Oh no.

More than 15cm of snow has already fallen in the mainland Alps and snow is expected to reach about 500 metres elevation in Tasmania, 700 metres in Victoria and 900 metres in southern NSW during Monday.

Amid this cold and windy weather, Melbourne’s temperature only felt like 3.4ºC at 9:40am on Monday. Just over an hour later, Canberra’s feels like temperature plunged to -2.9ºC as the mean wind speed reached 52 km/h.

“Let’s retire the Nazis once and for all,” he said.

“Let’s retire the Marxists once and for all,” he said.

More than 15cm of snow has already fallen in the mainland Alps and snow is expected to reach about 500 metres elevation in Tasmania, 700 metres in Victoria and 900 metres in southern NSW during Monday.

Upstate New York – Buffalo – just got 5 feet of snow ……………..

Who’s going to tell him what HOP stands for?

Just saw this at Club Grubbery but came from Dannings warehouse on Youtube (looks like originally on Telegram).

However looks like it was made a year ago. Bargain items such as :

Slugs
Red shirts
Gaslighting
If your business not quite broke we will extend the lockdown by 100%
Private security contracts
Contract tracing systems
Umlimited sick leave
Fake Facebook likes
Westgate tunnel

Where closing pubs and planting slugs is just the beginning.

Very well done.

NEW: Covid Vax Biden Admin Docs Exposed!
Judicial Watch received 1,081 pages of records from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) detailing internal discussions about myocarditis and the COVID vaccine. Other documents detail adverse “events for which a contributory effect of the vaccine could not be excluded.”

The Australian Government is committed to ensuring that Australia is the safest place to connect online.

To achieve this, the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) provides trusted and authoritative advice to Federal and State Governments and the private sector.

A highly respected public servant with a strong and long background in cyber, science, technology, national security and defence will be the new head of the ACSC.

Rachel Noble, a Linda Reynolds appointment.

That went very well, just ask the Medibank folks.

Mediabank doesn’t seem too worried by the leakage of their customers details.
They seem to have a “not my problem” attitude.

The virtues displayed by the Ripley characters were combinations of resourcefulness, tenacity, intelligence, and courage. And luck. Men do not have a monopoly on those.

These movies just reflected the systemic rot that was setting in and nobody noticed.

How do you like them apples?

Japanese apples?

Why are you still here? Oh, right. You’re just like the flouncers who publicly squeal they’ll switch countries as soon as something they don’t like happens, and expect a tsunami* of ‘Nooooo, what would we all do without you?’ commentary.

Then you don’t get that result, then you stay where you are, and then you change the subject when asked.

So – why are you still here?

*Deliberate.

A relative of a Victorian Labor candidate who has described herself as a “proud Yorta Yorta woman” has said their family has no Indigenous ancestry and has never identified as Aboriginal.

Key points:
Labor candidate for Richmond Lauren O’Dwyer has described herself as “a proud Yorta Yorta woman”
A member of Ms O’Dwyer’s family says they have never identified as Aboriginal
Yorta Yorta community members say Ms O’Dwyer has failed to engage with the Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation and the Elders Council
Lauren O’Dwyer is running for election in the battleground seat of Richmond in Melbourne’s inner north at this weekend’s state election.

The ABC understands Ms O’Dwyer said her Indigenous heritage comes from her great-grandfather, Graham Berry.

However Mr Berry’s daughter, Joan Keele, has told the ABC her father was not Aboriginal and never identified as Indigenous.

From ABC website.
Hmm so does this disqualify her?

Are high petrol prices to become the new normal?

Only until they can roll out ‘even higher prices’ … its all part of the green scam.

rosiesays:
November 21, 2022 at 1:35 pm
It was sunny, windy and zero C today in NYC. Cold as because it’s windy.

Whereas Melbourne is cold, wet and stormy.

Though not quite down to zero.

My roof has tarps over a couple of broken tiles atm, hopefully they stay in place.

Here in Seaforth Gale Winds,

Wife’s new Pool Chaise Lounge Cover torn off, but OK behind Chaise Lounge –“Leave where it is on the ground , safe where it is”

– Safe says I, as I return to glass of Pinot Grigio watching Final F1 GP Abu Dhabi on replay – then, Glass of Penfolds Bin 28 2018 as I watch post race report.

House across the road Large Pergola Covering area at side of Pool has been ripped to shreds.

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
November 21, 2022 at 2:03 pm
Labor candidate for Richmond Lauren O’Dwyer has described herself as “a proud Yorta Yorta woman”

She also describes herself as a lesbian single mum – ticked all the boxes so far….

She’s not crippled?

JCsays:
November 21, 2022 at 2:04 pm

Lordie, they’re dishonest dickheads. I can vividly recall Thanksgiving seasons when there’s ice on the sidewalk. It was so cold , the snow turned into ice.

I was in Boston for the February Blizzard of 1978

Virginia: Dad, what’s “polyamourous”?
Dad: well, once upon a time there was a girl called Pollyanna, and she believed that it was best to always look on the bright side of life …
In fact Eric Idle wrote a song about it.

She also describes herself as a lesbian single mum

I have many questions…

Front-of-thigh dreamcatcher tattoo. Always a winner.

Thats not a tattoo.
Its pubic hair.

Thats not a tattoo.
Its pubic hair.

Yeah, fair enough.

Whatever it’s catching, it’s not dreams.

I’ve lived and existed in lots of cold places, some very cold.
But I have never experienced cold like in New York.
It is different, literally chills to the bone.

Dot bait, get your dot bait here, dreamcatcher edition…

Self-proclaimed “dirty bird” Drew Barrymore has “done everything” in the bedroom.

The actress told her “Drew’s News” podcast listeners on Friday that she is currently only “dirty … in the corners of [her] mind.”

The previous month, Barrymore was not impressed by Andrew Garfield’s six-month celibacy confession — saying she could go “years” without sex.

* Skan-Ke-Ho is skanky
** Weinstein decides??
*** What a lucky chap, gets a worn out ho as shes deciding “I dont do those sorts of things anymore” and freezing her clam.
**** Poor kids, no dad, skanky ho mum whos going to teach them how to “function”.

From last week

Melbourne’s Monash University recently introduced a policy requiring students to add the message recognising traditional owners at the beginning of all assignments – or face losing marks.

But the rule has since been overturned after the engineering student made an official complaint.

The university has agreed to reinstate the original marks and says students will not be deducted in future for failing to include it.

Monash made the concession even though it argued that including it showed ‘the standard of professionalism required of an engineer in Australia’.

‘Monash respects the rights of students to respectfully and appropriately decline to provide an Acknowledgement of Country if they believe it conflicts with their right to free speech or academic freedom,’ a spokeswoman told the Herald Sun.

‘Monash will continue to encourage students to include the Acknowledgement of Country where relevant and appropriate.’

It is the second major backdown by Monash this year in linking academic grades to recognition of Aboriginal land.

Following an outcry generated by media reports the university removed the threat that students who did not complete a mandatory module on ‘Indigenous Voices’ would not be allowed to sit exams or graduate.

The university said the module was to ‘ensure students fully understand Monash values’ and ‘contribute to a society that respects Australia’s Indigenous Peoples, cultures and knowledges’.

While the institution quietly dropped the threat of denying academic awards to those who fail to complete the course, anyone who does not finish it remains locked out of Monash’s online learning system.

A spokesperson for the university confirmed Indigenous Voice remained a compulsory unit along with units on academic integrity and respectful relationships.

ABC Hobart breakfast host Ryk Goddard breached editorial standards over comments about Gina Rinehart, late father Lang Hancock

Dr Swan later apologised for his comments.

A tradie mate put his Co. tax return in along with his personal return and one for the boss. Runs a micro business, gross maybe $750k. All done through an accountant.
The ATO informed him that they had already refunded $20k to him and his wife.
He insisted that this was his return and he had no idea who they had previously given 20 k to.
The ATO then suggested that his returns be amended.
Again he insisted that there was only one set of returns and he would not amend them to include the dodgy data they had paid out on.
He is still arguing the matter, and does not know where the data hack took place. Possibilities are the ATO, MyGov, his accountant and his computer.
The only thing he’s learned so far is that the money was paid into a Melbourne bank account. He’s in Sydney.
Anyone else heard of this sort of scam?

A real lol response Mother Lode. The scammers get scammed.

In light of the drama around the Medibank breach imagine if myGov is not watertight.

CL. The papers and exercises were returned failed for resubmit.
Obviously not official exam documents, just constant low level bastardisation that me and my pals used to challenge constantly by refusing to comply with the nonsense.
Maybe all the Marist Bros morons went off to colonise Monash. The degree of stupid is similar.

Iron Cove, yes, have heard of this scam.

2 fake tax returns lodged for a young bloke on the gold coast. it was done via mygov online tax services.
His mygov password was changed, he ignored the text message, $20K refunded to a random bank account and off go the criminals.

Much easier than robbing a service station and much less stressful.

Given all of the tax payers’ money spent on advertising propaganda, it would be a small cost to provide an actual service alerting people to current scams and advising on scam avoidance.
But scams of course are only of interest to the people, not Government.

C.L. says:
November 21, 2022 at 4:14 pm

Thanks

Mole, the $20K scam mentioned above is a 3rd party scam. The ATO doesn’t show much interest, as Iron Cove suggested. It’s up to the taxpayer to pursue and sort out the mess to a large extent.

Why? Because it isn’t the ATO’s money, is it? Not my money, don’t care.

In your case I’d suspect ATO incompetence, not necessarily skullduggery.

Some nice volcano reactions you can do.

ps Megan, the 2008 edition which I purchased in the Museum at Natchez, the hometown of southern slave markets, and it cost only US$5.95. It is thick and small and fits easily and handily into a purse. I found this very useful for travel times when I had no wifi or the plane was taking off or landing and I needed a readable distraction. It’s also cleverly written, as Dickens also wrote, in a serial form so that you can digest it in readable slabs or single chapters.

It was Oscar Wilde who wrote satirically re The Old Curiosity Shop that you’d need a heart of stone not to laugh at the death of Little Nell. You might perhaps think the same about the extended death throes of the angelic Little Eva given by Mrs. Stowe to her audience. I was reminded of the whole Victorian way of child death in its most maudlin aspects, in particular those little plaster cast mementos of departed children’s limbs, hands, and feet. And of course the locks of angelic hair also feature.

The appeal made throughout this book to the hearts of mothers who knew the anguish of losing a child to death, let alone to losing one by totally legal sale to child molesters, is very staunch, occasionally very touching.

The ATO got scammed.
But months later my mate is still arguing that he doesn’t have to amend his return and wear the $20k. they incorrectly paid out to someone else.
Arses.

Cold? I’ll tell you about cold. 1981. Norway. Arctic training. Sergeant says”if you are cold and start to feel warm, you are about to die”. Some of my fellow lumaknobs went onto Arctic and Mountain warfare. I bravely decided to go with “boats and swimming “.

Oh, snap Salv!