Dark Forest, Ivan Shishkin, 1890
All the old school has footage run out. I love watching again though. All we get today is sh*t from…
Open Thread – Weekend 19 Nov 2022
- Open Thread – Christmas Day 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 23 Dec 2024
- No, it is not all of the above, stupid!
- Open Thread – Weekend 21 Dec 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 19 Dec 2024
I reckon Musk would give it a crack, within genuine Thunderbirds…
It was certainly a great introduction to his career.
I never got in to Thunderbirds…
A tad damp indeed.
As for weather, many hard working people are being shafted by the glowbull warmening over the last few months. People have lost homes, outbuildings, fences, stock and crops. And more rain is coming.
Luckily the Queanbeyan River is in a fairly deep cutting for a lot of its course around town. The main town and houses are out of reach.
But, the weather maps are not promising. Weak highs and rows and rows of lows. Rain coming in from both north and south. Months of it.
It is a timely reminder that the anecdotes (local character Stan says he has never seen anything like it) beloved of climate alarmists and TheirABC (BIRM) are not even a sparrowfart in climate history.
What is happening now has happened before, and will happen again.
mUnty channelling his inner Groogs. At least he won’t fail Econs 101.
Just been battling Telstra over an email outage – again – about 11 such complaints over four years.
But on the way to the Complaints page, what can be seen?
Support for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander customers
Contact First Nations Connect to have your complaint managed by our dedicated support team.
Racial discrimination is alive and well at Telstra!
If you aren’t having comments rejected at Teh Paywallian are you even trying?
Saxon Davidson. With a name like that he should be on Love Island instead of doing Arts.
Apparently there’s a Minister of Health and Aged Care. I hadn’t heard of him hitherto.
Former government created ‘crisis’ in general practice: Butler (21 Nov)
Just about the very first thing he and Albo did on getting the keys was to remove the requirement for immigrant doctors to serve time in rural communities. And now he’s claiming the Coalition caused the difficulty of seeing a GP. Sheesh.
The Good News Continues
Retired ex-Disney boss Bob Iger makes sensational RETURN as entertainment giant’s CEO, as his successor Bob Chapek is FIRED after firm’s share price cratered following row with Ron DeSantis over ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill
. Bob Iger has returned as the CEO of The Walt Disney Company, following the apparent firing of his underperforming successor
. The company announced Iger’s reappointment Sunday night, putting an end to the 11-month reign of his handpicked heir and longtime lieutenant, Bob Chapek
. Iger has worked for Disney for more than four decades – including 15 years as its CEO before he sensationally left just 11 months ago
. The entertainment giant’s former boss Chapek, 62, quit the role after coming under fire for his management as Disney share prices plummeted
Bombshell report alleges Biden family had 150+ suspicious bank activity flags
You can find a pub at most major shopping centres as retail dies in the arse like FTA TV. Just make sure your park takes you straight past the front door.
2022.11.20 About That Missle That Fell In Poland . . .
Selective Outrage: Media Covers LGBTQ Nightclub Shooting, but Ignores Attempted Murder of 25 Sheriff’s Recruits
Makes Bowen look good.
Some snow in Jindabyne today.
Doesn’t often happen, even in winter, but it’s the second time in a couple of weeks.
NYT Contributor Tweets Out that Colorado Springs Shooter Was on FBI’s Radar Following Bomb Attack – Then Quickly Deletes It
Rightly or wrongly, I voted 1 Liberal. Greens/Labor dead last.
I fought in the COVID war, just on the other side
Makes me think about striking a real bronze medal. A meme medal as it were.
Presented to real Australian’s with a conspicuous resistance to Government COVID Tyranny.
Please provide design suggestions. (Serious ones, no Kek!). Something under stated like a civil service medal.
Please provide list of potential recipients.
The PR possibilities for rubbing the Totalitarian Fascists faces in their own dog shit are endless!!!
I don’t know about that Monty, Saxon isn’t bad looking and with a decent high profile job plus ambitions he probably does all right.
Love Island is possibly the only place you would be over qualified with a BA.
H.B. Bear,
too true and I have been trying — I rarely comment these day because I rarely look at the Oz let alone comment but every comment made in the last 6 months, bar one a couple of months ago, has been rejected so I am successfully trying.
Monty are you saying most young women on campus these days are tofu-brained Stepford Spinsters?
Sounds like it.
Going to be a BIG shortage of cats in twenty or thirty years.
Through a very diligent friend I have acquired a Pure Bloods 2022 hoodie. But I think a medal, small but classy would be brilliant.
Tinta – try aim for a 50:50 ratio. I’ve had a few get through that bring a wry smile.
Trump, by the data, still has magic touch
Democrats, Democrat water carriers in the media and members of the Republican Party who’d like Donald Trump to exit, stage right, and quit the political limelight would have it believed the midterms were unkind to conservative candidates seeking reelection who also — a la DJT — dared to disagree with the results of the 2020 White House race.
But data shows differently.
By the numbers, Trump-supporting, election-denying and Trump-endorsed congressional candidates won big at the ballot box.
By the numbers, Trump-supporting, election-denying and Trump-endorsed congressional candidates won big at the ballot box.
According to OpenSecrets.org, of the 124 House members who refused to certify Joe Biden’s victory and who sought reelection this year, 118 won. Yes, many ran in solidly Republican areas; true, some didn’t face stiff competition. But that doesn’t change the fact that “[o]verall, the vast majority of House election objectors running for reelection with Trump’s endorsement won their races,” OpenSecrets.org wrote.
Trump’s lost his touch — we’re told.
Trump’s shiny star has faded — we’re to believe.
Yet in House races, the numbers show quite the opposite.
“An overwhelmingly majority of the 129 Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives who voted against certifying the 2020 election results ran for reelection in 2022, with more than 95% of those who ran winning their bids,” OpenSecrets.org wrote.
That was beneath the headline, “2020 election objectors overwhelmingly won reelection, but largely raised less money than the average incumbent Republican,” OpenSecrets.org wrote.
So what’s it all mean?
It means that these Trump-backed congressional candidates who to this day have doubts about the 2020 election results won big at the ballot boxes — and won without having to raise much money, to boot.
It means that Americans in large pockets of the nation see election integrity as a top issue.
It means that the media and Democrats and RINOs and Trump haters are selectively picking midterm numbers and purposely skewing polls to push a narrative that Republican voters are overwhelmingly weary of The Donald and want somebody else to run in 2024 — a point of view that curiously ignores common sense. How ‘bout those rallies? Polls may say this, but Trump’s ability to pack a stadium say that. Americans, after all, generally don’t flock to a loser.
But more than anything, it means this: No matter how hard the anti-Trump faction tries to show Trump’s days are at an end, American conservatives don’t really agree.
Trump still has a magic touch that can win him the White House in 2024.
So, not much luck with the ladies then? Poor young fella.
Only Betas need to capitulate on their politics to score. Something you are no doubt very familiar with.
Making the movie “The Battle of Britain”
Our mUnty sister being catty again?
Huzzah !
Salvatore:
No, you can’t claim this one.
The sound of dollies hitting the floor after ejection from the pram has been going on since last Friday when – I suspect – someone realised they’d done their arse on the market.
For over a week the dollies have been flying,and I doubt they’re going to stop this week.
But, they’re not my problem. These chestnuts belong to the Blogmeister and he has to deal with them.
“When tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty” –
H/T google translate
But I think a medal, small but classy would be brilliant.
Maybe just the Southern Cross and a small inscription: “Resisted Government COVID 19 Tyranny”
Admirable H.B. Bear but these days I just can’t be bothered
A technician working on a problem at my place once told me to use the special phone number for “Indigenous Support” (probably now renamed “First Nations Support”)
I phoned it for the next few problems – got amazing response, with actual results instead of the usual wasted hours on hold & nothing changes.
On Top of Record Inflation and Energy Shortages, Germany is Now Looking at Meat Shortages Thanks to Government Regulations
Cum tyrannis lex fit, resistentia fit officium
Yes! COVID-19 on the bottom arc, above on the top arc.
Actually he is blaming the right people, but he is very out in his timing. The rot started during the Howard years when in its infinite wisdom the govt decided to restrict Medicare provider IDs.
Potential medal manufacturer:
https://www.designawards.net.au/award-types/custom-medals-sydney-melbourne/
No way! The shops I spend time in usually have a College of Knowledge.
Best one was in Brigham City, Utah. Patchwork shop with a park bench by the counter. On the park bench, reclining languidly with legs crossed was a skeleton. “A husband waiting for his wife to emerge from the Bargain Basement?” I enquired.
Not quite getting Aussie humour, I was told it was for Halloween. But on the strength of that, “himself” was going to stay there permanently.
My little addition to the humorous world of textiles.
The ADF stuff on the RHS is genuine and often harder to earn that the LHS stuff – eg Infantry Combat Badge, Meritorious Unit Citation etc
Only extremely Oh, FFS. This is not Facechook or Instagram.
Why do you imagine that anyone cares about your mundane daily routine? Is it because you are extra special?
Good Lord.
This is a blog. It contains lots of random activities that people tell about: bird feeding, shopping, farming, gardening, bedsox. I am simply happy to be alive at 80, tits still good (since you ask), dancing, enjoying myself, travelling at a pace of steam, and home in one piece and not dead yet(which is what I was implicitly saying to those, unlike you, who might have an interest in an update).
Learn to scroll, you are being quite silly about me.
I sometimes wear an upside down red ensign on the lapel, where the OAM etc goes
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
“The Band-Aid Has Been Ripped Off”: 30% of Parents Now Question the Entire Vaccine Schedule.
90% of parents still say “no thanks” to C19 shots for their young children.
The Establishment commentariat in the media are thrilled that Xi allowed Albo to kiss his feet. They said things like – ‘this is the beginning of a meaningful dialogue’, and ‘at last, a leader who knows how to engage with China.’
Well, yes, regarding the latter.
Sickmaking.
Tell me about it.
(And not just with regard to the issue under discussion.)
Problem – only half of the blockquote there. But Cats you know who it is and what it is about. And what I think of it.
Johanna, can you please take this sort of commentary about me to the Duelling Thread, where you may happily exert your bile and I won’t be there to say a word about it?
Efrat Fenigson
@efenigson
The amazing Dr. Vandana Shiva on Bill Gates in 2015: “He’s a nobody”!
Yep – Latin would be pretentious.
ps Joh, I have upticked a lot of your comments recently for they have been well worth reading.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
I hope she’s ok. Another climate change victim collapses on camera.
I sometimes wear an upside down red ensign on the lapel, where the OAM etc goes
Southern Cross over inverted Australian flag. Symbology: Distress of Australia and The Peoples ultimate triumph over that distress.
There’s another shop in Paducah, Kentucky. Biggest patchwork shop in the world is the claim.
A row of benches out the front for the guys to sit on and whittle sticks and read the paper. Big mistake. They can’t keep their eyes on what their womenfolk are spending in that den of temptation. The Beloved, wheeling the shopping trolley, was in great demand and was in danger of being kidnapped. I knew his game plan though.
Ran into an elderly lady this morning in Coles. She was buying one item: a dog log.
“For the kookaburras, she said, I’d run out.”
She and hubby live in a flat at the other end of my street. After a while it became clear in the conversation that she was feeding the exact same kookas I was.
There’s no loyalty in the bird world, it’s a jungle.
Potential design:
“Resisted Government COVID 19 Tyranny” arcing over the top. Southern Cross centre, rising above an inverted Australian flag.
Small size, bronze.
This maybe relates to the idea of parallel society. Leave the fuckwits to fuckwit. Carry on without them. Rub their faces in their stupidity, tyranny and fascism at every opportunity.
“Isn’t that the problem with wind turbines? You need an external sync if the system falls over?”
Yep, that’s true of all “renewables” including wind & solar. They all need to be connected to an existing transmission grid – a.k.a “infinite busbars” – to provide a frequency reference and an energy load. Once all the thermal stations are gone the only source of frequency stability from rotational inertia will be hydro stations. There’s no substitute for heavy lumps of steel spinning synchronously like big flywheels . If they are offline then keeping the grid stable will be a very complex computerised exercise, further complicated by long transmission lines once they attempt “rewiring the nation”. We’re in for uncomfortable times.
Small town USA is a great way to see the country. Driving through the guts of the place gives you a whole different perspective.
In many ways Australia is the same. Found that out earlier this year on our big loop. The cities are another country. They do things differently there.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccinations
Katerina Upham, Robert Peel Cross & two bars, Commissioner of QPlod is wearing Seven ribbons on the Clayton’s side of her shit.
At least one is for turning up to work on time.
New York Police Department has a total of Nine awards for exceptional service by police officers. Only three are awarded without being shot at or nearly killed on duty (the NYPD definition of “officer’s life at risk” may be significantly tighter than the QPlod definition.
Almost nobody in the NYPD would be wearing as much fruit salad on their shirt as is Commissioner Upham, Peel Cross & lotsa bars.
Can confirm, having visited a city.
Gillard iirc despite head girling took a very very long time to complete her degree in Melbour … [zzzzzz] …
She clearly though had a certain something.
Yeah.
She’d root like a rattlesnake.
Apart from that, she had some charm and brains, plus an instinct for the Main Chance [Waterfront dispute].
Any suggestions as to how Penny Wong rose to Foreign Minister?
“Good Lord.
This is a blog. It contains lots of random activities that people tell about: bird feeding, shopping, farming, gardening, bedsox. I am simply happy to be alive at 80, tits still good (since you ask), dancing, enjoying myself, travelling at a pace of steam, and home in one piece and not dead yet(which is what I was implicitly saying to those, unlike you, who might have an interest in an update).”
Nicely said Lizzie. Your travelogues made great reading too.
On reflection, Bruce, dog log is probably more nutritious for the birds than plain mince. It will have all the guts and bone in there that they don’t dare put in the stuff for human consumption.
I will investigate further.
I scroll all the time – the trolls and their enablers. That sometimes leaves slim pickings. Then we have an elderly, vain, silly woman who boasts about her boobs and imagines that we care about her daily routine and her conversations with her [let’s at least avoid derogatory comments about a commenter’s] spouse (taken on trust – poor bloke). As if anyone would wonder why she is our Gloria Swanson.
Sad and deluded. And, don’t start on about your ancient academic record again, or I will remind you of when I got 100/100 for Arithmetic in Third Class.
I for one wouldn’t go back to living in a major city for quids.
Medals are limited in utility. Can only rarely be worn without looking like the village idiot (or an imposter).
A better option is a small, discrete, inoffensive lapel pin (of appropriate design) which can be worn on many modes of dress, and recognised by those who matter.
Not as garish as a pussy hat, and less predictable than a rainbow coloured lanyard for your work swipe card!
The “Mask and Needle”.
Such design features may run afoul of the Victorian law against Nazzi imagery.
Though it’ll be alright once the Liberal Party get elected & rescind all Dan Andrews’ stupid laws.
Further to the “c-unt” word, I don’t like it but I recently watched on Youtube the comedian Count Dankula being roasted by many of his friends. The roast was early last month in Scotland and the always clever Dominic Frisby (someone I’ve long found to be very funny) wrote and recited this for Dankula’s roast.
Watch, listen and laugh…
IT PAYS TO BE A C*NT – Dominic Frisby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCJwbs62cxA
Frisby is very clever.
Vaccine Disaster: Myopericarditis Rates off the Charts – 23,300 Suspected Cases Per Million!
Vagabond, my hope is that it is they who are in for the most uncomfortable times. As soon as it becomes clear what a nightmare their ‘sytstem’ is then the big electoral kick out can’t be far behind?
I personally would put up with considerable discomfort if this might bring it on sooner than later.
Surely too sometime soon the big industrial users are going to start getting very anxious indeed.
Crossed Needles. We can dub it ‘The Fright’s Cross’
Science for Hire – A Gary Null Production
Dr Peter is awsome, like a dog with a bone. Impossible to stop him.
Perhaps: Can of pepper spray crossed with a truncheon, superimposed over the word “Freedom” broken in half.
“I scroll all the time – the trolls and their enablers. That sometimes leaves slim pickings. Then we have an elderly, vain, silly woman who boasts about her boobs and imagines that we care about her daily routine and her conversations with her beta spouse (taken on trust – poor bloke). As if anyone would wonder why she is our Gloria Swanson.”
Poor Johanna, she probably hasn’t had much human contact today which is why she just has to lash out at Lizzie. I wonder what interesting thing Johanna’s done today? Probably not a lot, just a lonely fag in a Queanbeyan motel room. Sad.
Johanna, I have just reported your comment above. It has no place on this Open Thread.
It will only get worse, as has happened before, if you continue in this vein.
You are being deliberately insulting, attempting to create silly memes about me to no good purpose.
Quelle surprise, Lizzie’s pal Cassie turns up to support her.
As if that somehow adds substance.
Wait for the next time someone criticises Cassie for Lizzie to turn up.
The Eastern Suburbs Sisterhood.
Merit based, of course.
And deeply rooted in the current experience of average people, none of whom can afford to live where you do.
“The Eastern Suburbs Sisterhood.”
LOL…oh the jealousy, you really are a nasty pathetic old woman.
Go get a life.
I went to Stitch n’ Bitch today. An Equal Opportunity workplace.
“Merit based, of course.
And deeply rooted in the current experience of average people, none of whom can afford to live where you do.”
Jealousy confirmed.
Calli – For that reason I’m sparing with the kookas so that they will forage. Works, since I saw the young helper arrive with a baby bluetongue a couple days ago, and a worm this morning. The kookas appear to’ve moved back into the Cafe nestbox after failing in their first attempt in a tree up the road.
What’s causing a 67% reduction in Australian birth rates?
Malcolm Roberts
I literally laughed out loud. 🙂
It was always apparent that you have no sense of humour, but this takes the cake.
The Plot Thickens: FTX Was HEAVY Into Funding “Vaccine” Research, Biotech Engineering and Other Globalist Depopulation Agendas
Cassie, I think the best thing to do when this sort of trouble arises on the blog is to report the relevant comment to Dover. There is no point in engaging with Johanna when she gets into this vindictive mode. Gloria Swanson has nothing to do with me, nor do Johanna’s arithmetic scores, and all of the other tired old stuff she goes on about. It is not satire, it is nonsense.
Joh, you are better than this. Over to you, Dover.
Do you think anyone in government or the media understands this principle? If not we are screwed.
Excellent comment, Tinta.
Also the Kookas are the neighbourhood hoodlums. They bash up the other birds for their food.
No match for the lorikeets though. They are the Ninjas of the bird world.
“Joh, you are better than this.”
Sadly, she’s not.
It’s a staggering lack of insight.
Nobody -at least as far as I’ve seen – has noted that it is Xi who has changed his stance or bothered to ask why, and not just in regard to Albanese/Australia.
Faggotism and the clotshots.
Bit late to the topic, but didn’t Winston design a logo that could be incorporated?
Cripes the Cat moves quickly! I paused to comment on Tinta’s excellent post at 6:08 pm, and suddenly it’s almost 7:30.
Whew! Just had a little head-spin.
Health bureaucrats are just making it up as they go along – Senate Estimates 10.11.22
Senator Gerard Rennick
Thanks Delta A – much appreciated
m0ntysays:
November 21, 2022 at 6:08 pm
Saxon is currently studying a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne, majoring in Politics. He has noticed and is disappointed by the lack of intellectual diversity he experiences on campus.
So, not much luck with the ladies then? Poor young fella.
Eventually, if he is unlucky, he might manage to marry into the upper middle class, become a j’ismist, and run a fantasy cricket website.
The QLD Energy Minister has just initiated an inquiry into the reliability of the grid “moving forward”.
It follows on from several critical failures at a central QLD power station attibuted by the union to running the units too hard to meet demand in peak times in lieu of capacity that has been taken off-line ahead of schedule.
I’m yet to see the terms of reference, and the combination of unions and the Labor government doesn’t exactly inspire confidence (although in this instance the unions are contradicting government), but if they can just get an electrical engineer or two to testify to how the grid actually operates and why renewables present such a challenge i tmight yet lead to some inconvenient truths being told.
There you have it folks, the end stage of long term, excessive cognitive dissonance…snark!
She’d root like a rattlesnake.
Correct crotchless. She left a trail of spent dicks and shrivelled sacks as she floated to the top on a pile of frenchies, soiled sheets and knackered unionists. It’s a pity Joan Crawford is with the worms as she would have been perfect to play her in a movie, titled perhaps: The Slapper: the ups and downs of politics.
Ruh roh. I think two of those might be mine. Add wheelchair commuting.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
November 21, 2022 at 6:25 pm
Going to be a BIG shortage of cats in twenty or thirty years.
With the fascist left/WEF/UN (BIRM) push for plant and insect based foods, all the cats will have been eaten.
And a blog that nobody posts to?
And not one dam to catch all this bountilful water which we are, gratefully or otherwise, receiving.
In a few years, when the cyclical El Nino returns and we are facing drought again, I’m going to (again) contact state and federal pollies on both sides, charging them with gross dereliction of duty for not drought-proofing our country when they had the chance. Reckless idiots!
Reckless fools who voted for them!
Why isn’t SA Health investigating the massive spike in cardiac events in young South Australians?
Senator Alex Antic
Who comes up with the names for these Bills? I’m thinking of running as an Independent just to introduce my “Unicorn Handjob” Bill.
Purse-lipped ‘unfortunately’ recommendations to Dover seem to be ‘all de rage’ to Dover.
One of the scourges of blogs is that they split into groups of people who know each other.
There does seem to be a group (perhaps two or more) people who have very specific prohibitions.
They are always with us.
“I, therefore, implore the Government to urgently legislate truth in advertising reform.”
If Zali Steggles or Allegra da Big Spenda seriously think that any government will bring in effective laws against deceptive political advertising, they are even more deluded than seems humanly possible.
sounds like a dance-move rather than serious policy
… but it’d probably get up
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
November 21, 2022 at 7:34 pm
Eventually, if he is unlucky, he might manage to marry into the upper middle class, become a j’ismist, and run a fantasy cricket website.
And a blog that nobody posts to?
How long is it since m0nty=fa put a post up at Phat Pussy? Perhaps he could do something on the Nuremberg Code?
but the referendum would not succeed on goodwill alone.
Because every time it look like goodwill will carry the day WAR or one of the execrable cement Nigels of the Aboriginal industry open their gobs.
Now that’s a real murder.
Just saw a lovely young woman on Andrew Bolt targeted in a recent 60 Minutes program – Renee Heath – by none other than Tara ‘I have no shame’ Brown, famous for her exploits in Lebanon where 60 Minutes tried to kidnap two children from a Beirut Street – credibility ZERO – integrity – ZERO
Cry me a river. Knuckle Dragger, you will be interested in this nugget.
David Warner has unloaded on Cricket Australia for the “traumatising” delay in making the code of conduct changes which have opened the door the batting star to overturn his lifetime leadership ban.
On Monday CA confirmed it had approved changes to its code allowing players to “apply to have long-term sanctions modified” and Warner will take up the offer in order to either overturn or at least change the terms of the ban handed down for his role in the sandpaper scandal in 2018.
But for Warner the changes have come nine months too late, having first been mooted in February, and the 35-year-old launched on the process that he said made it look like “I am campaigning, which I am not.”
“That’s where it’s been disappointing it’s taken this long to get to where it has,” Warner said in Melbourne on Monday.
“It was brought up in I think February this year. So it’s been drawn out it’s you know it’s traumatic for me and my family and everyone else that was involved in it. We haven’t needed to go back into that detail, we don’t need to relive what happened.
“I think it’s just about being fair that at the end of the day, I’m not a criminal. You should get a right of appeal at some stage you know.
“I understand that they put a ban in place but banning someone for life I think is a bit harsh. So it’s just an opportunity to come out and actually, you know, show that I’m actually remorseful. I’ve done my time to get back into the Australian cricket setup.
“You know what, what happened happened and now we’ve done our best to move on and put our best foot forward and do the best we can for Australian cricket. So it’s been disappointing. But yeah, hopefully a decision can be made and we can just move forward.”
Warner was scathing of the fact it took “four days” to investigate and then ban him for his actions in cape Town in 2018, but so long for CA to alter its own rules.
“Yeah, it‘s one of those challenging ones where I feel like it’s all been it’s all about me now campaigning. That’s what it looks like. And it’s totally not that,” he said.
“And it’s frustrating because we could have, you know, done this about nine months ago when it was first brought up. It’s unfortunate that obviously Finchy retired and then they sort of fast track it in their own way.
“It‘s a tad disappointing that when you make a decision in 2018, it’s in four days, and then this takes nine months. . But it’s good to get in a position where we are now today.”
Davey Boy, you should be counting your lucky stars you are playing at all you mong. I’d happily have Joe Burns in before you.
Mater at 5.16:
Won’t be waiting for long, so I hear.
We should start our own blog, Bear.
“Wings Beneath My Wheels”. Whaddya reckon?
The man hired to preform that kidnap planned for those children to be taken to the harbor, and gotten out of the country, ASAP. 60 Minutes wanted the children taken to their home to film the tender reunion of mother and children. They then wanted to film Tara Brown phoning her husband, to tell him she had the children. The Lebanese cops traced the call, and the rest was history….
It might be a pretty small market. A Top Gear spoof might fly.
Just had a Facetime with our three little grandies in Queensland.
We will be going up there in early December for our Christmas visit.
We sent them postcards from the US which we left with my cousin to post by putting them in his own letterbox with the little red flag up to denote that there is a pick up required. I was amazed to hear that was the system for the US post. Don’t know what happened after that because the 5 year old has just got hers (posted two weeks ago) and the eight year old is looking disappointed that she didn’t get one, so we we were glad we could tell her it must be on its way.
The baby is growing so fast, he’s now two, and when my daughter says who’s coming to visit soon he shouts out Santa!! And Grandma and Grandpa, shriek the girls. The eldest has a school award coming up on the Tuesday after the weekend we’re staying, so we have just extended our trip till then.
You have to have a turbo on the wheels. And a foxtail.
I have always understood the left breast to be for military and national medals. Carroll has the National Service Medal (vertical Orange and Blue Stripes) which I think is open to emergency services for 15 years service. The green and yellow one is for the last big bushfire event a couple of years back.
I’m not sure about the others there. I’d have to look them up.
On her right breast she has the Comm Games Medal at the top, the next one (nearest her tie is the G20 Medal. I think she also has some diligent and ethical conduct medal/s (10 years). I’m not sure if they are the same for all emergency services in Qld. I don’t recognise the rest. They may be Police ones only.
Some were a bit blurry, she may have the ‘Mud Medal’ for the 2011 floods as well.
But once you get up high in rank you get medals for hanging around.
You’re joking.
Shirley.
Bags I’m Jeremy.
60 Minutes now handles all current affairs not involving hidden camera washing machine repairs. George Fungus and The Perfumed Steamroller it ain’t.
Will they be game to wear it?
They didn’t have the guts to wear name tags.
“The man hired to preform that kidnap planned for those children to be taken to the harbor, and gotten out of the country, ASAP. 60 Minutes wanted the children taken to their home to film the tender reunion of mother and children. They then wanted to film Tara Brown phoning her husband, to tell him she had the children. The Lebanese cops traced the call, and the rest was history….”
Another factor for the Beirut police efficiency is that the children’s father wasn’t some Leb peasant. No, he was from Lebanon’s most prominent Shia family. He’s a cousin of Nabih Berri, who’s Lebanon’s leading Shia politician.
The is a guy in East Vic Park with a full rain tent and about 20 Australian flags. He could be on the first episode. As the Stig.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katarina_Carroll
OldOzzie says:
November 21, 2022 at 9:03 am
You’d expect them to be nearly three-times better than a Mitsubishi 380, but may be disappointed.
In Summary: Four medals for… Turning up to work.
Coz diligence & ethical conduct is so unexpected & rare in QPlod that you actually get a medal for it.
F. M. D.
Joh, happy to meet up with you in a coffee shop anytime in Canberra or in Sydney.
I enjoy your tales of life in Queyanbeyan and we do not have to be enemies. I hope you can soon tell friends on this blog where your next steps are for living arrangements, or maybe you have settled in for a longer motel stay. People here like you and think well of your comments in general, and I am sorry if my comments sometimes annoy you (but I can’t be anything else, too late for me to change, lol.)
Anyway, I’m heading for my second G & T. Always an improvement
We’re going to watch Bolt now. 🙂
The Nixon medal would surely be an enamelled burger. And crossed chips rampant.
Ordinarily I’d back any sportsperson going up against administrators.
But in this instance I find myself reluctasnt to do so.
I suspect I’m not the only one.
Mounted atop a curved scroll with the motto: “I couldn’t miss dinner“
Apparently Renee Heath has consulted lawyers. Good. I think she needs to take legal action against Nine.
Davy would be well advised to move to India, play IPL and start a career as a back up dancer. Candice must be handling the media.
I just used Google translate for the inscription.
Apparently that’s Latin for “I had to eat”.
I didn’t know the father was that high up the food chain.
It didn’t make for a pretty picture – Tara Brown and the film crew, freed on bail, flying home, swilling champagne in business class, while their hirelings stayed in a Lebanese tronk.
Mc:
I did this one – see my Gravatar above – or here.
But first, a brief explanation because some found it not obvious:
.1 The ‘Jewish’ emblem was created to single out enemies of the state for exclusion in normal society.
.2 The symbol in the middle is the Biological Hazard Trefoil similar to the Radiation Hazard Trefoil.
.3 Incorporation of the two symbols is to define the wearer as a person who has been placed outside the normal societal Rights and Privileges. Its purpose is exclusionary.
I had about twenty shirts made up with the symbol – Trademark is held by Vistaprint and you have my permission to have it applied in whatever manner you want.
Just ask Dover for my email address if necessary I’m happy to give what rights I do have, free to all and sundry.
Do not expect people to understand the symbolism.
A Chinese youth unveils overseas Chinese secret police stations/There are at least 54 worldwide
This young man, Wang Jingyu, is one of the targets of the Chinese Communist Party’s overseas manhunt. In the hunt for him, the Chinese Communist Party CCP has used not only the police force in China but has activated its overseas police force. In China, the phone number to call the police is “110”, so the CCP’s overseas police are also known as the “Overseas 110 Agency”.
Lizzie, great concilliar post at 8.15pm.
Reminds me of a proverb. “A gentle answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger. The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge, but the mouth of the fool gushes folly. Proverbs 15:1&2.
Not Titus.
In the pub dunny.
“I didn’t know the father was that high up the food chain.
Yes, which is why the Beirut police acted quickly. Channel Nine also went into Southern Beirut, Shite stronghold, to nab the children. Even Mossad would think twice about that.
https://conservativebrief.com/certify-68441/?utm_source=CB&utm_medium=DJD
The Fat Lady hasn’t sung yet.
Just watched the Bolt segment. She handled herself very well.
I hope she sues the buttocks off 60 minutes.
Nelson-Kidd-Players:
You’re walking a bloody fine line there, young feller, when you diss the Mighty 380.
You certainly need to know what you’re doing once you start playing funny buggers in the Middle East. Playing in white shorts is a big disadvantage.
Nine/Fauxfacts litigation success rate is up there with the ALPBC. Certainly worth a crack.
It should be like criminal charges, what was relevant at the time of the offence
“Just watched the Bolt segment. She handled herself very well.
I hope she sues the buttocks off 60 minutes.”
I’ve just watched it. She’s very impressive and given what she’s endured over the last few days by scum at The Age and 60 Minutes, she’s very composed and dignified.
Carpe Jugulum I have sent ok to Dover, A new building inspector on site today to find all current building problems. Not sure if I told you that last inspector told me that eaves had not been attached properly and causing water damage to skirting boards . Waterproofing under balconies a big query on condition.also. This week photos being taken of leak damage and mould in apartments None of this has been costed before tender accepted by O CC . On current affairs , insurance company said they did not cover damage done before building was bought so wondering how does that effect owners who bought apartments not off the plan but second, even third hand with building faults.From time of completion .
News
SAS veteran Ben Roberts-Smith wants war crime investigator’s diary, court told
Perry DuffinNCA NewsWire
Mon, 21 November 2022 2:56PM
There are markers symbolic of the health of the West: Trump being hounded and cheated showed a deep sickness; the Hunchback winning and BRS losing will be a cancer in the guts.
West Australian “independent” Kate Chaney is weighing into the treatment of detainees in the Western Australian Juvenile justice system – she wants the Federal Government to intervene.
The general thread of comments from the great unwashed is “How many juvenile detainees can you put up at your house?”
Panahi just eviscerated Lisa Wilkinsag.
Stirring stuff.
Sounds like Steggles is pushing for censorship for wrongthink. Speaks volumes about the burgers of Mosman that they would elect such a grotesque waste of space. Spupid and nasty. Another effing lawyer too.
Link me.
Turn the television on. Turn the channel to Skah.
Go back in time 25 minutes.
Just watching Rita Panahi, if you want to know what’s wrong with the young in this country, she’s interviewed a young man, about 25, in the leafy well heeled suburb of Sandringham, he says as follows (I kid you not).
Rita….”what are the big issues for you in this election?”
Young man…”umm, mainly the economy and the state of climate change, you’ve seen all the rain recently, it’s not good you know, I want the sunshine and the rain, not only the rain”…..and then he laughs like a 10 year old.
Rita….”do you think your vote can impact the weather?”
Young man…”I’d like to think that if the right party gets in, it can make a good change”.
Fuuuuuuuuuck, this country is stuffed.
rare picture of JC about to give a speech
I’ve loved the Finnish sheild, which has crowned lion, rampant with a longsword, trampling the curved sabre of the eastern dark.
Maybe the boxing kangaroo, joey in pouch, with sheep attendant?
Once your rampant you’re on a winner.
Empty chestbeaters who proclaimed loud and long about ‘leaving’ something, then when it came time to put the cash where the pie hole is, stopped wailing about it and changed the subject (the Tele):
Of course he was. And:
Of course she was. And:
Of course he is. And:
Of course he was. These loud, squealy, non-follow-throughers are everywhere.
…. have been pressing f5 every sixty seconds to see if Trump has posted anything to Twitter.
Lol. They’re refreshing his Twitter stream faster than my dog scoffs mince.
Westminster system has been ‘trashed’ in Victoria: Jeff Kennett
Former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett says the Westminster system in Victoria has been “trashed” since 2014 when Labor used public money through red shirts to “gain an electoral advantage”.
He said Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews treats the public as though they exist to serve him, “rather than he serve the public”.
“We may have been a strong government, we had an agenda, people may have disagreed or agreed with our policies, but we worked within the Westminster system,” Mr Kennett told Sky News host Chris Kenny.
“We were accountable, we gave answers, we didn’t rule as one man, we never shut down the state, we never stopped children going to playgrounds.”
Trump’s account has been reinstated, he’s now got over 82 million followers but so far has resisted the temptation to tweet.
Applied to Twitter to have my Twitter account restored.
We’ll see what happens.
I don’t even remember why it was insta-deleted.
“Breach of Twitter standards” is all I remember. Whatever it was, it wasn’t worth the total & complete deletion that happened.
Currently the account is “permanently suspended”.
It’s worse than that, any account that logs on from the same mac address is also insta-deleted, as is any account that logs on from that same browser if I’m logged into my browser account, regardless of which ISP or mac address it is.
I called VidPlod “You mongrel bastards” or somesuch (didn’t use any language as vile as is seen on the Cat, simply used language leftys were using on me all day every day. So assumed that was Twitter standard.
Mistake. Turns out it wasn’t the language used, but the political philosophy, that mattered.
This is the sort of deletion reserved for purveyors of child pron, or purveyors of children. (Two genres that the offended silicon valley nerds did not bother to moderate)
Yes, I know about the Scamwatch website. I have been attempting to force it to be more readily accessible for years.
Scams are a serious threat that effect every member of the community. The threat deserves the same or more Govt publicity/advertising effort as the meaningless woke crap that is promoted to us on a daily basis.
The issue needs to be presented up front to the community. A hidden away website does not cut it. The potential victims are unlikely to know that they can “seek and you will learn” as you so pompously declared. They have not been informed that the website even exists.
And please, leave out the patronising crap. My comment was in regard to community protection, not as you chose to assume, my ignorance of the subject.
Your commentary is a metaphor for the total failure of Govt to inform the people of how to protect themselves from scams. “But, but, there is a website”.
I am involved in policy lobbying for genuine Govt action.
Elon clearly thinks Trump tweeting will be very good for business.
Don’t think he’ll be much bothered by the absence of Simon Chapman, Tesla driver, 13.6k followers (he’s made his money from you simple simon)
crude
The Nixon medal would surely be an enamelled burger. And crossed chips rampant.
Mounted atop a curved scroll with the motto: “I couldn’t miss dinner”
There is massive meme medal potential to stick it to the useless fascists that supposedly run this country!
resisted the temptation to tweet.
Good man, he’d be wise to keep off and let his newly revealed past tweet record speak.
Tho i’d love to see a simple “anyone for covfefe?”
Mater, good idea on the lapel pin!
Maybe the come as a set?! Medal for those FU moments and lapel pin as a more discreet option.
I was thinking that awarding medals to likes of Roberts, Antic etc. would be wonderful opportunities to promote reflection on this monstrous government destruction.
Ultimately we need to get Australian’s to privately acknowledge that the vast majority were duped by government propaganda.
rickw: The motto should be amended. Calli (upthread) points out the actual terminology used was the more direct, far less ambiguous, & much less flowery:
I had to eat.
When the presidential race starts in earnest he should and most likely will come back, for the same reasons as last time, he bypasses the msm interpretations and speaks directly to voters in real time.
Speaking directly to 82 million people?
Priceless.
Or $8 a month.
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Lathe of the week for NSW Cats. Vevor 7X14 mini lathe new in box, half price:
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/emerton/power-tools/vevor-mini-metal-milling-lathe/1304456548
G’day Cats. Currently alongside in Rabaul on Pacific Encounter. A few observations.
1. Sometimes I’m just plain fucking embarrassed to be Australian. OK, so we’re on P(lain)&O(rdinary) but that’s no excuse for the appalling behaviout we’ve seen: thongs, boardies and sleeveless tops in the dining room; see-through swimwear (female) in one of the bars; two men so drunk they could only cling to the railing and vomit over the side — and then go back for more beer; a “man” in the dining room swearing at his wife/partner, giving her the finger, then standing and miming pulling out his willy and pissing all over her; young women going ashore in skirts so tight and short a good five centimetres of their crutch was hanging below the hem.
2. Covid hysteria is alive and well and living in state government boarding/cruising regulations. ID photos, vax certificates (Oz and international), RAT and/or PCR test and bloody masks! When it’s 34 deg C and 88% humidity a bloody mask is suffocating.
And before any of the usual suspects jump all over me about being vaxed just to cruise … NO! I did it because the people I love most in this world asked me to. End of story.
Very telling.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=died%20suddenly
Fury as Anthony Albanese signs Australia up to a $2trillion fund to pay poor countries affected by climate change: ‘Start helping Australian families instead of giving away their money’
Daily Mail
Bruce.
If there is 5 cm dangling below the skirt…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pS2-wMuh99A&feature=emb_rel_end
Yes, that did occur to me. I was going to make some gutted rabbit jokes, but then stopped myself due to the necessity of maintaining decorum.
2 highlights from Geller and Jihad Watch:
NYC: Leftist Muslim lawyer who firebombed police car gets light sentence after Biden regime intervenes on her behalf
Uncounted Votes Discoverd On Memory Card Flips Election Race In Georgia
You know the details.
Classy. I remember an American woman with her kid trying to bribe their way into cutting in front of a bunch of Australians outside a famous temple in Kyoto. No way were they having it! Git in liiiine.
It’s ok KD, I think you got away with the smashed wombat reference
One cringy moment I remember was on a trip in Nara. In Nara, they have free roaming deer around the city which you can feed crackers. I was milling about feeding em, and out of the blue I her a woman cry out in a thick ‘Gillard’ accent ‘ That deer poked me in the arrrrrrrse’. Gawwwwd, I was thinking.
Once in New York I was picking up a bagel and coffee from a little hole-in-the-wall on my way to the stock exchange, and I heard a voice behind me say “oi house husband, do you have any waffles?”
so cringe
Just watching a few sky news au vids. Man, Victoria has become extremely toxic under the Hunchbacks reign of terror. Outside the voting area today, the people handing how to vote cards were almost insanely shill, the lot of them. I have never seen that level of in your face madness, ever. My prediction is that no matter who ‘gets in’, Victoria is going to crash and burn. There is absolutely no doubt.
The greatest scandal in medical history….
(the reality unfolding before our very eyes.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG8ay2jsdPs
Rennick digging in.
In a just world, half these fuckers would be in prison and the other half executed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGnYjaMXV-E
You’re the fucking Nazi!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCFbtzOLeQY
Had two backpackers come in for work today- nice blokes, poms, telling me they were due to drive to Melbourne for new years’ eve. They sensed me giving them the ol ‘ Roger Moore eyebrow, though I didn’t say anything… “Bluddy heck, every-woon we’ve told for the last year has said the same thing, what on earth do you want to go to Victoria for?”
Melbourne in particular has plummeted from the achingly cool place to be, to beyond the pale, an outcast and an outlier. It won’t show up on the Most Livable polls, cos those things are bought and paid for, but it’s seriously being shunned by the cool kids.
Roberts digging in:
67% reduction in birth rates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CE6UDf-n4Y
People are getting kind of pissed with the Gestapo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz4VyytDX1g
@ 2:10 … cracked me up
Very hard for an actual NAZI to get any oxygen these days. Adolf would struggle.
Once, in my role as humble employee of a motel, I was loading particularly soiled sheets from the room of a guest (marked on the housekeeping report as “difficult”) I heard an Australian accent say to one of the female staff “You sack of shit, I drink only ‘Billy’ brand coffee from Italy, you should have known that you arsehole, I’m reporting you to the Manager.
The voice belonged to a Danny De Vito lookalike, wearing ironed chinos & tasselled loafers.
Name on the booking was: “Shantaram, Karen”
So cringe.
Amazing unboxing video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JvUikvx0N4
Looking at a Deutz-Fahr… 90hp, low centre of gravity, nice balance of levers and buttons, no ad-blue, lotsa factory hydraulics.
Talk me out of it, someone.