Open Thread – Tue 22 Nov 2022


Canvassing for Votes, William Hogarth, 1755


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local oaf
November 23, 2022 2:01 pm

2000 Mules, if you can dig it out from behind a paywall somewhere

Widely available on bittorrent sites. 🙂

JC
JC
November 23, 2022 2:02 pm

Musk fired this doofus. He’s demanding an apology – watch.

https://twitter.com/damienslash/status/1595156524787437568

calli
calli
November 23, 2022 2:06 pm

Is that for real? So hard to tell these days.

Damien Slash a bald Titania McGrath?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 23, 2022 2:09 pm

Former Premier Carmen Lawrence lashes Banksia Hill ‘tick-a-box’ response, Mark McGowan’s raise-the-age stance
Rebecca Le MayThe West Australian
Wed, 23 November 2022 9:16AM

Australia’s first female premier has lashed the McGowan Government for its handling of WA’s youth justice crisis, saying its hastily convened perfunctory meeting amid mounting outrage over the latest Banksia Hill scandal flies in the face of Federal Labor’s reconciliation agenda.

The 90-minute emergency summit of high-ranking officials will be held today.

After it’s short length was announced — and roundly criticised — last week, Premier Mark McGowan said it could run longer if needed.

Carmen Lawrence, who was also the nation’s first State treasurer, said the “tick-a-box” response to shocking footage of a 14-year-old detainee being hogtied by custodial officers appeared tone-deaf and insubstantial.

“It’s the first step you take before you do something serious,” the former Labor leader told The West Australian.

“You might want to pick a few people’s brains but they should have included prominent Aboriginal people and said ‘look we’ve got a problem here, we need to have a proper public policy process’.

“You don’t do it behind closed doors. You can’t do it by excluding the group who are most affected.

“The idea of a Voice to Parliament, the Australian community has finally woken up to the fact that we act every day in ways that are not necessarily sensitive to the needs and interests of Indigenous Australians and it’s time to stop that.

“The local Opposition figures … frankly, they seem to be more empathic than the (State) Government is at the moment.”

Professor Lawrence’s comments came before last-minute invitations were extended to First Nations representatives.

Carmen Lawrence says she’s shocked by the Labor leader’s outright refusal to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14, while his Banksia Hill crisis meeting invitation list flies in the face of the Voice.

The University of WA School of Psychological Science emeritus professor said there were critical issues at stake that were not being understood and she was “quite shocked” by Mr McGowan’s rejection of calls to raise the age of criminal responsibility from just 10 currently to 14 “under any circumstances”.

Fourteen was “the bare minimum”, Professor Lawrence said, given what was known about developing brains and social responses at that age.

Umm, Dr Lawrence, the “Voice” hasn’t passed any referendum, just yet!

Robert Sewell aka Bob the Boozer from Barcaldine.

TFM:

Caro and the caromites seem to think the real world adjusts to suit their foibles.
In actual fact they just added another weight to the scale against employing a young lady for a job in the first place.

As in the above from Duncanm:

And here enters one of the alarming facts of our cultural condition. It is the “spoiled child” psychology which appears in all urban populations. This malady, described by Ortega y Gasset in The Revolt of the Masses, afflicts any people who have lived so long in an artificial environment that they have lost a sense of the difficulty of things. Their institutionalized world is a product of toil and discipline: of this they are no longer aware. Like the children of rich parents, they have been pampered by the labor and self-denial of those who went before; they begin to think that luxuries, though unearned, are rightfully theirs.”

Which is why I keep coming back to “Learn the hard way, or the other hard way.”

Razey
Razey
November 23, 2022 2:15 pm

JMHsays:
November 23, 2022 at 1:43 pm
The Liberals are furiously harvesting email addresses. I have just received one from “Matt” Guy begging me for a donation. I have never willingly subscribed to receive emails from the Libs. I have had occasion to email my local member, but unsubscribed from the email list some time ago. Obviously, my addy is still on their database. Unsubscribed – again and email binned!

It’s not just them. UAP is giving me the shits!

Robert Sewell aka Bob the Boozer from Barcaldine.

Pedro the Loafer:

Blinking at a cat.
That really adds to the sum of human knowledge.
I am enlightened.

Slow blinking, Pedro.
There’s a deep nuance you are missing out on…

Jorge
Jorge
November 23, 2022 2:41 pm

After the referendum is knocked back, Labor will just ignore the result and go ahead anyway. Because racists.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 23, 2022 2:42 pm

Gold plated poles and wires news.

Electric truck stops will need as much power as a small town (22 Nov)

“As more electric trucks hit the road, the projected power needs for a big truck stop by 2035 will equal that of a small town.

Even the authors who planned the study were caught off guard by how quickly highway power demands will change. A connection to the grid that can handle more than 5 megawatts takes up to eight years to build, at a cost tens of millions of dollars. If power upgrades don’t start soon, the transition to electric vehicles — let alone electric trucks — will quickly be constrained by a grid unprepared for the demand, warned Bart Franey, vice president of clean energy development at National Grid.”

It’s amusing that greens like this guy are only now starting to comprehend what Cats have been discussing for a decade.

Jorge
Jorge
November 23, 2022 2:43 pm

Set up a consultative body that is, not change the constitution.

mem
mem
November 23, 2022 2:45 pm

flyingduksays:
November 23, 2022 at 1:31 pm
It’s getting to the point, as FlyingDuk found, that you almost have to put yourself under your own total surveillance not merely to prove what attacks were attempted upon you, but to prove your alibi about what you didn’t do.
Fortunately, my earlier visit, from SAPOL, taught me the necessity of ALWAYS filming any interaction with the police,

https://rumble.com/vp8bxl-senior-australian-military-doctor-visited-by-police-after-contacting-mp-abo.html
The body language from the SAPOL was classic. At least he’d heard of the Nuremberg Trials even if he didn’t know what they were about. Hat’s off to you for maintaining your composure and pursuing your rights. It would make a great training video, but not sure for whom these days. I might have once said for aspiring cadets to the Human Rights Commission. Alas its independence was compromised some time ago, as exemplified by the views of the former Commissioner Gillian Triggs – “Sadly you can say what you like around the kitchen table at home” fame.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 23, 2022 2:49 pm

Set up a consultative body that is, not change the constitution.

Which will be what, the fifth attempt to set up a “Voice?”

Tom
Tom
November 23, 2022 2:51 pm

The mostly male homosexual industrial complex was never going to be satisfied with winning the gay “marriage” campaign five years. Their target was always gaining access to children amd grooming them for sex.

So they took over the “trans” movement and transferred the gay “marriage” campaign war chest to the new campaign intimidating and demonising anyone who opposes their sexualisation of children.

And, of course, their new propaganda campaign has the total and unqualified support of 90% of the American news media, which is now smearing parents trying to protect children as bigots.

It’s fascinating that among the activists opposing the poofter industrial complex’s latest evil is a lesbian from the group Gays Against Grooming on today’s Tucker Carlson Tonight.

Robert Sewell aka Bob the Boozer from Barcaldine.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1595034139186454528
So who will be the parents of the children born in these artificial wombs?
Who will do the nurturing, schooling, etc?
The State?
Horrifying.
Who will be ‘allowed’ – yes allowed – to have children this way?
This will be a paedophiles paradise.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 23, 2022 3:03 pm

For Western Australian Cats – Carmen Lawrence – remember her?- has weighed into the issue of juvenile detention. Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse!

Must be getting close unless we hear from the Mayor of the City of Fremantle or Vincent.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 23, 2022 3:08 pm

Being criticised by Carmen Lawrence is like being criticised by the UN, it means you are on the right track. Who said Sneakers was Left wing?

Zipster
November 23, 2022 3:09 pm

Excess deaths, lack of data
Dr. John Campbell
Australia, Key statistics
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/hea
In 2022, there were 111,008 deaths that occurred by 31 July,

and were registered by 30 September, which is 16,375

(17.3%) more than the historical average.

In July there were 17,936 deaths,

2,503 (16.2%) above the historical average.

There were 300 (22.5%) fewer deaths due to COVID-19 in August than July.

Zipster
November 23, 2022 3:14 pm

clean energy

energy is neither clean nor dirty

Hugh
November 23, 2022 3:20 pm

I am also late, but congratulations Duk on your victory.

I had been looking for an excuse to crack a nice bottle of something, and now I have found it.

cohenite
November 23, 2022 3:21 pm

Musk fired this doofus. He’s demanding an apology – watch.

https://twitter.com/damienslash/status/1595156524787437568

Must be taking the piss. No one can be this stupid.

Kneel
Kneel
November 23, 2022 3:23 pm

” I recall once when CSIRO were told by the government they had to get 30% of the budget from the private sector.”

I was working there at the time. It doesn’t sound unreasonable at first look, that 30%. Until you realise that by the time you add in all the overheads, it amounts to about 50% at the individual research project level, which I don’t think was the actual intent, but was certainly the reality.

Couple of things I suggested (that they poo-pooed) was to get lots of small stuff, and to give the people paying an option on IP – $x for 1 year exclusive, then we publish, $2x for 2 years exclusive and $5x for “it’s all yours”. Nope. They were always gonna publish on it, and they only wanted the big contracts, and only for what they actually wanted to do anyway.

I left when my 2 year contract expired, even though they offered me a permanent position – couldn’t stand the BS and the intellectual snobbery (the pressure to get a degree was intense, even though I didn’t need one to do my job – it was more so they could brag about how [over] qualified all the staff were)

Hugh
November 23, 2022 3:34 pm

So dropping C-bombs is frowned upon, but discussing Jane Caro on the rag is just dandy?

Good to know.

duncanm
duncanm
November 23, 2022 3:37 pm

Bruce of Newcastlesays:
November 23, 2022 at 2:42 pm
Gold plated poles and wires news.

Electric truck stops will need as much power as a small town (22 Nov)

“As more electric trucks hit the road, the projected power needs for a big truck stop by 2035 will equal that of a small town.

Even the authors who planned the study were caught off guard by how quickly highway power demands will change. A connection to the grid that can handle more than 5 megawatts takes up to eight years to build, at a cost tens of millions of dollars. If power upgrades don’t start soon, the transition to electric vehicles — let alone electric trucks — will quickly be constrained by a grid unprepared for the demand, warned Bart Franey, vice president of clean energy development at National Grid.”

It’s amusing that greens like this guy are only now starting to comprehend what Cats have been discussing for a decade.

this is at the ‘fucking derrrr’ level of understanding for these mongs.

A typical suburban (not even a truckstop) fuel station has tens of thousands of litres of fuel. Filled weekly.

Here’s a small rural servo selling 60-70kl/month. This one in Dubbo is 170 kl/month

170kl of diesel is 6.5 PJ, or 1.8 GWh.

Assuming we need an equivalent dose of electrical energy, that’s 2.5MW at 100% duty cycle 24/7. If plug (charging) time is only 50%, then its 5MW.

As has been pointed out to anyone that will listen, approximately half of our total energy consumption is liquid fuels for transport. You’d need to basically double the energy generation capacity of the country, and add infrastructure to suit (high capacity, low duty cycle circuits for household charging, and monster capacity high duty cycle circuits for all the charging stations).

50 Tesla supercharger stalls in a station is 12.5 MW.

Their proposed Megacharger stall has a capacity of 1MW.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 23, 2022 3:41 pm

So, simultaneously the Left are saying-
we need to be nicer to violent offenders, so let’s raise the age of criminal responsibility
we need to be nicer to muslims, so let’s waive culpability for the ISIS brides
we need to Believe All Women, so let’s waive habeas corpus and in-camera testimony and cross-examination
we need to convict more men, so let’s run a +4 cancellation bench for the jury so that we can winnow out anyone who looks like they’re on the reasonably doubtful side of beyond reasonable doubt. …and a majority verdict is a-OK too if it means we get to send him down.
Got to give it to them, the Lizard People know how to manouevre. Or maybe it’s a damning reflection on our own traditions, convictions and attention spans that the process of criminal law has gone the way of … well, gone the way of the rest of our Common Law rights.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 23, 2022 3:42 pm

Its worth mentioning Sneakers discomfort with the kids locked up issue is despite his banning of JPs from hearing bail etc and installing 4 new justices with a fairly monolithic career background (ALS in particular)

This was supposed to lead to the sunlit uplands of keeping more indigenous out of jails/lockups as the pale stale males of the JPs were obviously being racist..

Strange how it hasnt worked out that way.
In most cases the kids locked up are at the “last resort” of numerous agencies.

Frank
Frank
November 23, 2022 3:54 pm

“Anyway, we beat Lavatory Rodeo and their urban bugmen bigots into submission.”

At the first sniff of Murdoch’s money he sold out immediately.

Bill From the Bush
Bill From the Bush
November 23, 2022 3:57 pm

The fucked up logic from the ex Twitter “fact checker” is exactly the same logic that allowed Dictator Dan and his comrade McShitstain , to deny forcing the kill shot on people through their mandates.
It must be a genetic flaw with leftists.
Hopefully there will be a MRNA vaccine for it in the near future.

Frank
Frank
November 23, 2022 4:05 pm

“Must be taking the piss. No one can be this stupid.”

His twitter handle is Damian Soylash so taking the piss it is.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 23, 2022 4:11 pm

WA juvenile Aboriginal incarceration is a pure media play. Commencing with Our ALPBC naturally. Four Corners is now worse than Australian Story at its worst.

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 23, 2022 4:17 pm

Watching the replay of the Frogs and Shockeroos, Les Bleus could have put 7 on their hapless opposition. Men against boys.
The top players of France have 10s of millions thrown at them per annum. Mbappe will secure the biggest transfer fee to Real Madrid in short time. At 23 years of age.
Dembele, Giroud, Greizmann, Rabiot all at the top clubs.
Compare to the blokes in the green and gold. A League just doesn’t cut it. But they sent some strongly worded missives to the Qatari hierarchy, so there’s something.
On another note, is Craig Foster transitioning?

Kneel
Kneel
November 23, 2022 4:23 pm

“Cameras recorded both the owner’s face and the cat’s face,…”

Dogs have owners – cats have staff.

As per the sign at the local vet – “There’s no snooze button on a cat that wants breakfast”. Although, in fairness, mine appears to understand “It’s too early” – she goes away for 5-15 minutes when you say that.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 23, 2022 4:23 pm

On another note, is Craig Foster transitioning?

Your guess is as good as mine. Should enable SBS to tick a few boxes either way.

Robert Sewell aka Bob the Boozer from Barcaldine.

I’ve been without a printer for a month or so after the last one shit itself with two sets of replacement cartridges waiting.
Cranky as buggery, I’ve bought a cheap as chips Brother Mono Laser printer.
Asked if they came with a dust cover:

I am not sure what ” dust cover” is as I have never heard of this.

I’m either dealing with a complete idiot or an incomplete AI.
It’s not an easy bet – I’m still tossing coins.

Cassie of Sydney
November 23, 2022 4:31 pm

“It’s fascinating that among the activists opposing the poofter industrial complex’s latest evil is a lesbian from the group Gays Against Grooming on today’s Tucker Carlson Tonight.”

Gays against Grooming was one of the groups shut down by PayPal in September….for no good reason.

Speaking of PayPay, after over three weeks of trying, I was finally able to close my account. Good riddance to PayPal.

Cassie of Sydney
November 23, 2022 4:40 pm

“So the Colorado shooter is a non-binary schizo who was arrested in connection with a bomb threat last year”

I’ll just amend that slightly, to suit the progressive narrative.

So the Colorado shooter is a far-right non-binary MAGA supporting schizo Nazi who was arrested in connection with a bomb threat last year

calli
calli
November 23, 2022 4:44 pm

I’m not surprised, Dover. They showed a photo of him and I thought “lone white male”, which is fair enough and exactly what they wanted.

Then everything appeared to go quiet. My first thought was, not a MAGA or an NRA member then, ie. class enemy.

Ran on to a lover’s tiff or something from the gay or trans weirdness vault.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 23, 2022 4:44 pm

“New South Wales nurses and midwives staged a walkout on Wednesday calling for understaffing and worker burnout to be addressed and for the three per cent wage increase cap to be removed to match skyrocketing inflation

The midwives might want to tread lightly if the current ~20% fall in the birth rate persists. Still, I’m ‘sure its nothing’.

calli
calli
November 23, 2022 4:45 pm

Ahaha! Cassie got there first. The moment these buggers go quiet, you know they’re trying to protect the narrative.

duncanm
duncanm
November 23, 2022 4:47 pm
Black Ball
Black Ball
November 23, 2022 4:52 pm

Knuckles I don’t think West Indies will return to their halcyon days anytime soon. Against the PM’s XI, Harris and Renshaw have put on a century opening stand.

cohenite
November 23, 2022 5:09 pm

Great intro by Gutfeld about the woke alarmists and left activists generally:

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/greg-gutfeld-climate-change-activists-win-over-no-one-stunts

cohenite
November 23, 2022 5:14 pm

And Kenny excellent in pointing out the latest CSIRO/BOM State of the Climate report is bullshit.

Mater
November 23, 2022 5:15 pm

Fourteen was “the bare minimum”, Professor Lawrence said, given what was known about developing brains and social responses at that age.

And yet, New Zealand’s Supreme Court seems intent on lowering the voting age to include these yet-to-be-fully-developed brains.

How obvious can they be.
We want to age of criminal responsibility to be higher – because their brain isn’t fully developed.
We want to voting age to be lower – because their brain isn’t fully developed.

I give you compulsory underage voting, the leftist wet dream.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 23, 2022 5:16 pm

Duncanm,

I noticed, among the all the #StayWoke shirts a number of grey shirts with the circle-D logo.

Democrat party shirts.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 23, 2022 5:16 pm

Not a serious country, part 345 of an infinite series…
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/nov/23/labor-drops-plan-to-reduce-access-to-disability-pension-for-drug-and-alcohol-related-conditions

We pay more money to people to be drug fucked than we do to “ordinary” unemployed.

The Albanese government has backed down from a controversial proposal that would have made it harder for people with drug and alcohol-related conditions to get access to the disability support pension.

But it is still facing calls to do more to address longstanding problems with the design of the disability pension, amid record levels of people on jobseeker living with a disability.

How long before being a raging alkie gets you on the NDIS as well?

Razey
Razey
November 23, 2022 5:22 pm

Hughsays:
November 23, 2022 at 3:34 pm
So dropping C-bombs is frowned upon, but discussing Jane Caro on the rag is just dandy?

Good to know.

‘Swear word’ bedwetters should go and find an anti free speech blog.

Indolent
Indolent
November 23, 2022 5:22 pm
calli
calli
November 23, 2022 5:24 pm

How long before being a raging alkie gets you on the NDIS as well?

Yet if you’re a 91y/o part pensioner with buggered hips and renal failure you can’t get a house cleaner, let alone anything else.

calli
calli
November 23, 2022 5:26 pm

But, hey, you can get a “Needs Assessor”* at the drop of a hat!

*BA (Social Services) Oak Leaf and Bar.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 23, 2022 5:27 pm

WA juvenile Aboriginal incarceration is a pure media play. Commencing with Our ALPBC naturally. Four Corners is now worse than Australian Story at its worst.

From memory, weren’t the ALS beating their chests that “Prison was the last resort for Aboriginal people?”

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 23, 2022 5:28 pm

Democrat party shirts.

Donations from Twitterati to the Dems second highest by proportion of all major IT companies.

Dems 98.7%
GOP 1.3%

Only Netflix is higher at 99.6%, which says a lot about their products.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 23, 2022 5:28 pm

Yet if you’re a 91y/o part pensioner with buggered hips and renal failure you can’t get a house cleaner, let alone anything else.

Thats because you are selfish in keeping the home you brought, paid for, raised a family in and have lived in all your life from a needy property developer to smash down and turn into a nice high density prole box x 6.

You wicked, wicked old lady.

Sylvester the cat
Sylvester the cat
November 23, 2022 5:28 pm

energy is neither clean nor dirty

Sylvester’s energy cleaning kit is available at a special price to politicians and gullible voters.

calli
calli
November 23, 2022 5:28 pm

Sometimes I despise this country. Increasingly, I don’t think about it at all.

Indolent
Indolent
November 23, 2022 5:32 pm
thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 23, 2022 5:33 pm

Hughsays:
November 23, 2022 at 3:34 pm
So dropping C-bombs is frowned upon, but discussing Jane Caro on the rag is just dandy?

Good to know.

Dear Hugh.
The person discussing jane Caros bleeding vag was…. JANE CARO.
Quite a plot twist I know.
What followed here was people mocking/criticizing and commenting on JANE CAROS article.

calli
calli
November 23, 2022 5:34 pm

It isn’t even that, mole. Cats know I want to clean their house and I have done so for weeks. But they don’t like it…it’s pride. An outsider is different.

But you just can’t get them. Even the people with holiday lets are in trouble.

The government just wants the elderly to die. They don’t say it, of course. The object of it all is ticket clipping on the way out.

calli
calli
November 23, 2022 5:35 pm

Oops. Ambiguity alert!

No, I don’t want to clean your houses!

Only if you pay me. Mates rates.

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 23, 2022 5:42 pm

BA (Social Services) Oak Leaf and Bar.

Ivy League institution these days

calli
calli
November 23, 2022 5:47 pm

I saw what you did there BB. 😀

calli
calli
November 23, 2022 6:08 pm

And again, don’t get me wrong. I’m not cap in hand for services paid for by your (and my) taxes.

The government is constantly spruiking and preening over the supply of these services. We see the ads every single night on FTA TV. But they don’t exist. Or they do exist, but in very small dribs and drabs.

It’s a lie.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 23, 2022 6:16 pm

Swear word’ bedwetters should go and find an anti free speech blog.

Go fuck yourself Razey san.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
November 23, 2022 6:25 pm

A true Clown World Short video.
Watch from 0:40 – 0:55

https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1594915271201804288?cxt=HHwWgMCiraW_o6IsAAAA

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 23, 2022 6:29 pm

The Albanese government has backed down from a controversial proposal that would have made it harder for people with drug and alcohol-related conditions to get access to the disability support pension.

It beggars belief that they even considered it.
Men with proven Alcohol problems on the DSP is a key Labor voting demographic in Qld.
I kid you not.

Zipster
November 23, 2022 6:33 pm

Buffett Sells Chinese Ev Maker Stock 3x This Month; U.S. Defense Chiefs Warn China About Taiwan
00:58 U.S. Defense Chiefs Warn China About Taiwan
02:00 Buffett Sells Chinese Ev Maker Stock 3x This Month
02:39 TSMC to Make Cutting Edge Microchips at Arizona Plant
04:13 Chinese Anti-Taiwan Scholar Swears Off Twitter
05:46 Apple Daily Staff Plead Guilty to Collusion in Hong Kong
07:04 Former Nato General: Growing Anxiety Over Chinese Stake in German Port
08:34 Discontent Rises Over COVID-19 Policy in Beijing
10:01 Chinese Citizens Act Against Lockdown Measures
10:34 South Korea Urges China to Restrain North Korea
11:16 Industrial Factory Fire Kills 38 in China
12:09 China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America: Pillsbury

Zipster
November 23, 2022 6:37 pm
Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
November 23, 2022 6:40 pm

On another note, is Craig Foster transitioning?

A mere shadow, he is so withered, wizen, whining and woke – saw him recently and he just looked shocking, he needs some red meat as well as some and red pilling.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
November 23, 2022 6:44 pm

Sam Harris Makes Nonsense Argument AGAINST Free Speech On Twitter

Sam Harris has shown himself to be Nothing/Nowhere Man for all his high-falutin’ philosophical arguments he finally outed himself as a complete dickhead, is he now trying to somehow justify his position arguing that only some speech is free — what a nong — so full of himself he’s become a real ‘X – spurt’

Lysander
Lysander
November 23, 2022 6:44 pm

Someone send Craig Foster some socks!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 23, 2022 6:47 pm

02:00 Buffett Sells Chinese Ev Maker Stock 3x This Month

Not surprising. The brutality of supply and demand is kicking in. Lithium is through the roof and into orbit. That’s not going to change because mines and refineries take many years to be built. The numbers on lithium requirements are staggering:

The Daily Chart: Greenies Need to Take More Lithium | Power Line (17 Nov)

One look at that graph and you can see the greens are in lala land when it comes to EV pricing. Simple economics are going to make the prices uncompetitive for decades.

Roger
Roger
November 23, 2022 6:48 pm

Yet if you’re a 91y/o part pensioner with buggered hips and renal failure you can’t get a house cleaner, let alone anything else.

I know a 70 y.o. part pensioner who gets her lawn mowed courtesy the tax payer.

You need the omniscience of the Almighty to work out how this all works…or doesn’t for some people.

Patrick Kelly
Patrick Kelly
November 23, 2022 6:48 pm

Cut and paste from my FB page:

NSW Police are clearly not happy with the way the Victorian Police surged to the top of the Brutality, Thuggery and Authoritarianism table during Covid. On Tuesday they mounted their campaign to challenge for the title. Mr Danny Lim, a well known eccentric and 78 year old character around Sydney was making his usual protests about whatever. Let”s go to the tape:
“Two officers allegedly threw Mr Lim headfirst into the ground and arrested him after they claimed he “failed to comply” with police orders. He was then taken to St Vincent’s Hospital in a critical condition… Mr Lim appeared to be forced face first into the ground by officers who were grabbing him with each arm … [Mr Lim is in ST Vincent’s Hospital with] Black eye, subdural haematoma and condition serious. Will be assessed re (regarding) brain bleeding by neurosurgeon tomorrow (Wednesday).”
Well done lads. Keep up this form and you might make the playoffs.

Indolent
Indolent
November 23, 2022 6:50 pm

If anyone is interested. My favourite entertainer of all time. Quite a shindig they threw for him. David Niven was the host and, unfortunately, he was already suffering from the neurological disease which killed him within a couple of years.

A Salute To Fred Astaire (American Film Institute – April 10th 1981)

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 23, 2022 6:51 pm

On Taiwan [Formosa/Nationalist China], the Larry Romanoff article mentioned earlier states that when Chiang Kai-Shek fled the mainland for Taiwan in 1949, he took the entire Chinese Treasury [Gold & Silver] with him.
Anyway, the Yanks convinced him to move it to the [cue Spooky Music]
Federal Reserve for “safekeeping”, which he did.
Later on, when Taiwan needed the dosh, the Yanks denied ever having it.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 23, 2022 6:55 pm

Is Spooky Music the CIA house band Groogs?

Razey
Razey
November 23, 2022 7:02 pm

H B Bearsays:
November 23, 2022 at 6:16 pm
Swear word’ bedwetters should go and find an anti free speech blog.

Go fuck yourself Razey san.

You fuck of back to your safe space cunt.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 23, 2022 7:06 pm

Other interesting stuff [tho not as interesting as Jane Caro’s Twitter feed]
is the U.S. Silver buyback of 1934.
Now, everyone here has heard of FDR’s compulsory acquisition of all privately held Gold in America at $35/Oz, when the price was $20, but they went after Silver at 3x the market price.
Anyway, China had been on the Silver Standard for Centuries, but this action wrecked the Chinese Economy and forced them off the Silver Standard.
Don’t arsk me for Links either, it’s all footnoted.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 23, 2022 7:08 pm

You fuck of back to your safe space cunt.
Uh,Razey, Bear lives in a Den, he keeps the Brown Muscatel in the safe.

Cassie of Sydney
November 23, 2022 7:16 pm

“NSW Police are clearly not happy with the way the Victorian Police surged to the top of the Brutality, Thuggery and Authoritarianism table during Covid. On Tuesday they mounted their campaign to challenge for the title. Mr Danny Lim, a well known eccentric and 78 year old character around Sydney was making his usual protests about whatever. Let”s go to the tape:

“Two officers allegedly threw Mr Lim headfirst into the ground and arrested him after they claimed he “failed to comply” with police orders. He was then taken to St Vincent’s Hospital in a critical condition… Mr Lim appeared to be forced face first into the ground by officers who were grabbing him with each arm … [Mr Lim is in ST Vincent’s Hospital with] Black eye, subdural haematoma and condition serious. Will be assessed re (regarding) brain bleeding by neurosurgeon tomorrow (Wednesday).”
Well done lads. Keep up this form and you might make the playoffs.”

We still don’t know the full facts of the incident, if the police used excessive force with Lim and if they were out of order then the police should be held to account. However a few years ago Lim was involved in a similar physical stoush with police and he is actually quite reactive and aggressive.

I love the tame language used to describe Lim. I work in Sydney’s CBD and over the years I’ve seen a lot of Danny Lim. He isn’t some quaint “well known eccentric and 78 year old character around Sydney making his usual protests about whatever”. He frequently walks around Sydney’s CBD carrying extremely offensive and sometimes libelous placards. I remember a few years ago he was draped in a poster that called Tony Abbott a “fuckwit”, he’s also carried similar rude signs about other conservative politicians. When confronted, he’s quite aggressive. His posters almost always contain the word “c-nt”. Many people have complained to the police.

Anyway, whilst I hope Mr Lim will be okay, as I said above, if the police used excessive force then they should be disciplined however perhaps it’s time for Mr Lim to retire from walking around draped in rude and offensive placards and instead go and play MahJong.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 23, 2022 7:18 pm

This appears to be a Fake Stoush, since both Bear and Razey have so much in common [they’re both idiots], but, just in case it’s legit, here’s the Link to The Duelling [sic] Thread.

JMH
JMH
November 23, 2022 7:26 pm

Kneelsays:
November 23, 2022 at 4:23 pm
“Cameras recorded both the owner’s face and the cat’s face,…”

Dogs have owners – cats have staff.

As per the sign at the local vet – “There’s no snooze button on a cat that wants breakfast”. Although, in fairness, mine appears to understand “It’s too early” – she goes away for 5-15 minutes when you say that.

My over-sized and over-qualified Oriental x can easily see where my feet are and wraps his rather large paws around one of them. Translated, this means “Don’t pretend because I know you are not dead; the birds are singing; it’s dawn; get up now and give me my breakfast or you know what will happen next”! If I don’t want my foot or leg mauled, I do as instructed! This cat is a major reason why I am not wanting to die any time soon. He kills me laughing with his daily antics.

JMH
JMH
November 23, 2022 7:30 pm

My over-sized and over-qualified Oriental x can easily see where my feet are and wraps

This is how that should have read: My over-sized and over-qualified Oriental x can easily see where my feet are as he sits on the floor at the bottom of the bed and wraps..

MatrixTransform
November 23, 2022 7:36 pm
Ed Case
Ed Case
November 23, 2022 7:38 pm

Does the cat do funny stuff, JMH?
If so, post some vids.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 23, 2022 7:40 pm

Does this Fake Stoushing have any connection to good ol’ Sancho’s [much appreciated] sudden disappearance from the Blog?

Patrick Kelly
Patrick Kelly
November 23, 2022 7:42 pm

All good Cassie. However if two serving police officers need to end up subduing a 78 year old to the extent that he ends up in hospital, that fails the sniff test as far as I’m concerned.

Indolent
Indolent
November 23, 2022 7:43 pm
Indolent
Indolent
November 23, 2022 7:45 pm

Accused Colorado Gay Bar Shooter Is Non-Binary, Uses They/Them Pronouns: Attorney

Would someone care to explain to me what “non-binary” is supposed to mean?

cohenite
November 23, 2022 7:46 pm
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 23, 2022 7:46 pm

You fuck of back to your safe space cu

That ‘safe space’ is clearly not a ‘spelling space’. You can see the impotent rage hammering through the pixels.

Once again – why aren’t you in Japan? Oh. Just mouthing off, as you do while swearing at old women. Got it.

You can just picture the testosterone pumping out his ears. Lightweight.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 23, 2022 7:47 pm

Razey san-o-san.

There is no free speech on private property. You are as free as the blog owner (not speaking for him) allows you, or me or anyone else here to be.

MatrixTransform
November 23, 2022 7:49 pm

explain to me what “non-binary” is supposed to mean?

safety ON
safety OFF

…whatevs

cohenite
November 23, 2022 7:52 pm

Accused Colorado Gay Bar Shooter Is Non-Binary, Uses They/Them Pronouns: Attorney

Would someone care to explain to me what “non-binary” is supposed to mean?

It means you have to execute him twice.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 23, 2022 7:52 pm

Would someone care to explain to me what “non-binary” is supposed to mean?

Means he’s a gay guy who shot up a gay bar.
Hence the MSM is going amazingly quiet.

Bear Necessities
Bear Necessities
November 23, 2022 7:54 pm

explain to me what “non-binary” is supposed to mean?

Has a serious mental health condition.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 23, 2022 7:56 pm

Oi- I quite like Sancho.
By which I mean, I like him a lot more than his alter-ego, NYSE Karen.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 23, 2022 8:01 pm

Sancho is also known as Struth and Rosie.
He hasn’t gone away, but the uber creepy Sancho persona may have been culled.

Robert Sewell aka Bob the Boozer from Barcaldine.

Calli:

The government just wants the elderly to die. They don’t say it, of course. The object of it all is ticket clipping on the way out.

A person would be justified – considering what has happened to our society over the last two years – to believe the continued push to remove pain relievers from the market is more about making old people with stuffed joints and arthritis, suffer more so they go down the euthanasia route.
And no, I wouldn’t put it past our politicians to push for easier suicide treatments.
Just look at the Tucker monologue. These people believe they are doing good. Look at the earnestness on the faces. They believe in the righteousness of their mission to mutilate 2 year old children.
We need a Nuremberg III trial commenced.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 23, 2022 8:02 pm

And Matrix Transform.
That’s his most Sancho-Like character.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 23, 2022 8:03 pm

From the Hun

Why cops didn’t breath test at scene of Andrews’ 2013 crash

Secret documents reveal the reason police gave for failing to breath test Catherine Andrews at the scene of the crash that almost killed a teenage cyclist.
Michael Warner
3 min read
November 23, 2022 – 6:00PM

Ryan Meuleman spent 10 days in hospital after he was in a crash with a car driven by then State Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews’ wife Catherine at Blairgow

Secret police documents reveal the mother of a teenage cyclist who almost died in a collision with Daniel Andrews’ car questioned the Premier and his wife’s version of events in a meeting with investigators 10 days after the crash.

Hand-written police notes show Ryan Meuleman’s mum, Sonia Johnstone, asked police why no breathalyser test was conducted at the scene and whether the driver was “possibly on the phone/distracted” or speeding.

According to the notes, the Meuleman family was told a breath test was not taken because in the “opinion” of a senior constable, the driver did not appear “affected by alcohol”.

The police investigation notes are included in a legal file handed over by major law firm Slater & Gordon — which acted for Ryan in the aftermath of the 2013 crash — to his new legal team and have been released by the family.

Notes of the exchange between Ryan’s mother and police on January 17, 2013, were heavily redacted in documents previously released under Freedom of Information.

But Ryan’s barrister John Ribbands said the file provided by Slater & Gordon raised more questions than answers about the crash.

Mr Ribbands has also questioned why Slater & Gordon has not handed over some parts of Ryan’s file, which the law firm claims are privileged.

It remains unclear how Slater & Gordon became involved in the matter with both of Ryan’s parents saying they never engaged the firm.

“I’m trying to provide my client with advice in circumstances which are mired in murkiness,” Mr Ribbands told the Herald Sun.

“There are conflicting accounts about the circumstances of the accident, there are unexplained shortcomings in the police response, and there is uncertainty as to how solicitors came to be involved at that time.

“In trying to clear up that murkiness we seem to be confronted with more of the same.

“I have read the file from the former solicitors and there are a number of questions that arise, the most puzzling of which is their claim for privilege.

“I do not understand the basis for their contention that there are parts of Ryan’s file that are subject to privilege and even more troubling, they have not disclosed the nature of those documents which they wish to keep confidential.

“There’s a lot about this matter that just doesn’t add up.”

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 23, 2022 8:03 pm

Sancho is also known as Struth and Rosie.

I am Sancho.

Roger
Roger
November 23, 2022 8:04 pm

However if two serving police officers need to end up subduing a 78 year old to the extent that he ends up in hospital, that fails the sniff test as far as I’m concerned.

I watched the video. I think the police could have handled the situation better but I don’t think the injuries he sustained were intentionally inflicted. If Mr. Lim, with his offensive sign attached, had obliged when lawfully asked to leave private property we wouldn’t be talking about it now.

MatrixTransform
November 23, 2022 8:05 pm

And Matrix Transform.
That’s his most Sancho-Like character.

Ive been un-masked … by a complete and utter cunt

see … I am Razey too

MatrixTransform
November 23, 2022 8:05 pm

I am Sancho

snap

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 23, 2022 8:06 pm

I hate leaving our tabby Attapuss (not his real name, lol) whenever we go away as he is timid with strangers and hates men except for Hairy, with whom he has a ‘talking’ relationship. Recently my eldest son has cat sat for us, and it has taken our whole six week’s absense for Attapuss to come round and interact with him in any way. Today I have spent some time updating our list of cat sitters to call upon instead of bothering some family member with the task of moving in to our place for the duration. I only take female sitters who are cat besotted, and there is no shortage of them for a free holiday at ours near the beach.

There are a couple of good House Sitting sites that include pet care, btw, for those needing a sitter. Areff mentioned here that one of his big tasks before going to the US was making sure his little cat Elsie was well cared for. My son sent me regular videos of Attapuss slowly coming round to playing with his toys again so that I didn’t get too guilty at being away. Attapuss is also one of those cats with no snooze button when he decides it’s time for brekkie.

cohenite
November 23, 2022 8:07 pm

He hasn’t gone away, but the uber creepy Sancho persona may have been culled.

Stop projecting crotchless.

Cassie of Sydney
November 23, 2022 8:08 pm

“If Mr. Lim, with his offensive sign attached, had obliged when lawfully asked to leave private property we wouldn’t be talking about it now.”

Correct….and Lim has form with his behaviour.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 23, 2022 8:10 pm

It’s not hard to run over a cyclist at South Portsea, the streets there are like a maze.
However, why bring this up in an Election Week?
It just creates sympathy among women voters for Mrs Andrews, which translates into 4 more years for Labor.

calli
calli
November 23, 2022 8:11 pm

I’m going to the naughty corner with this, but…

The elderly can sometimes be difficult. If there’s an impairment, the they can sometimes be violent.

Big, burly policemen are just that…big and burly. If the old bloke has ended up in St Vincent’s, and his injuries are as described, and the police caused that…shame on them. He “resisted” I suppose.

I don’t give a stuff about his rude placards.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 23, 2022 8:11 pm

Echoes of Chappaquidick on the Peninsula? Luckily the Chairman can count on VicPlod.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 23, 2022 8:12 pm

At publishing time, the Taliban had already resumed using Twitter, stating in a tweet, “After pausing for much of the weekend to assess our concerns, The Taliban is resuming its activity on Twitter as we continue to monitor the situation.”
As well as stonking satire, the Bee also does the subtle knife quite nicely.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 23, 2022 8:13 pm

All of this fruity biff stuff lately has tickled my sense of black humour quite a lot.

Re the bodycam footage which has apparently leaked from the Paul Pelosi hammer duel: this is what the poor journo at NBC unwisely mentioned in her/its story, that Mr Pelosi had opened the door for plod then went back inside only to get into the hammer fight with perp. She/it was fired for disclosing this actual truth. Now it’s come out, but I doubt the journo will get her job back (I’m uncertain of her gender). More likely she’ll be cast into a volcano to appease the Pelosis.

Got to love the modern Left, they do decadence at a level far above the likes of Nero and Caligula.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 23, 2022 8:13 pm

How about those jacarandas at Portsea?

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 23, 2022 8:14 pm

Lim’s only hope is if he has his own video footage, a la Dr Duk.

Roger
Roger
November 23, 2022 8:15 pm

Would someone care to explain to me what “non-binary” is supposed to mean?

Not identifying as exclusively male or female.

Given the rare biological incidence of such cases, in previous and saner times it would have been listed in the DSM as a mental disorder.

Roger
Roger
November 23, 2022 8:16 pm

Lim’s only hope is if he has his own video footage, a la Dr Duk.

It’s not even in the same ballpark.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 23, 2022 8:17 pm

A farming family we know has had a double tragedy.
The husband and wife have both died of a stroke within two months of each other. In their late fifties, otherwise lean and fit.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 23, 2022 8:18 pm

Portsea?
Do you mean North Blairgowrie?

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 23, 2022 8:19 pm

I am Sancho.

I am Spartacus!

calli
calli
November 23, 2022 8:20 pm

Speaking of rude sandwich boards

I wonder what Wolfman has for us tomorrow.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 23, 2022 8:23 pm

Do you mean North Blairgowrie?

Better reGroogle that one.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 23, 2022 8:27 pm

Anyone who listened to Mrs Andrews’ statement about the crash wouldn’t have a great deal of sympathy.
Fifteen and on a bike gets mums thinking of their own darling boys. The Hun has played this very well by introducing the victims mother into the storyline.
It a winner Ed, you haven’t a clue.

WolfmanOz
November 23, 2022 8:27 pm

calli says:
November 23, 2022 at 8:20 pm
Speaking of rude sandwich boards…

I wonder what Wolfman has for us tomorrow.

Be patient . . . post has been submitted this evening to Dover.

Cassie of Sydney
November 23, 2022 8:27 pm

So lard-arse Ryan, the member for Kooyong, is spruiking for 16 year olds to be given the vote.

If that was to eventuate, then I’ll never bother voting again. It will mean permanent far-left governments being elected. The Liberals won’t stand a chance.

Labor, in government for only six months, hasn’t been shy in pushing through its agendas. Where is Dutton and the stupid fucking Liberals?

If the next Newspoll has Labor and Sleazy still riding high, I’ll call bullshit.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 23, 2022 8:28 pm

Maybe Sancho has pulled a Hammy?

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 23, 2022 8:31 pm

Gez – I think I’m a bit lucky to be here. The rest of you can all suffer in ya jocks.

calli
calli
November 23, 2022 8:32 pm

I’m still waiting for his death to be announced with glee.

Tick tock.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 23, 2022 8:36 pm

I speculated yesterday, half facetiously, that the Colorado shooter might be a tranny pissed off that gays didn’t credit his touted proclivity.

Tranny was not quite the right word. What I had in mind was that gays are as certain of the male/female sex dichotomy as straights.

A straight man likes women. A straight woman likes men. A gay man likes men, and gay women like women. They know what they are and know what they like: a gay man knows he is a man who likes men. He knows he is not a woman who likes men.

Trannies in fact would also be clear on the distinction between male and female – but thinking they are one betrayed by possessing the anatomy of the other.

It is the newer ‘sex is fluid’ ones that have the trouble. And such a person would surely insist they were not binary.

I might have been on to something in my prognostication.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 23, 2022 8:40 pm

Senator Kerrynne Liddle warns of huge rise in Indigenous heritage claims

Paige Taylor
INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT
@paigeataylor
6 minutes ago November 23, 2022
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Liberal Senator Kerrynne Liddle claims the long-accepted test to establish whether a person is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Australian is being “tinkered with” in favour of self-identification.

Senator Liddle, an Arrernte woman from Alice Springs, told parliament on Wednesday she was concerned that an “astonishing” increase in the number of Australians who consider themselves Indigenous would have consequences for government policies and programs and the people who needed them most.

The South Australian senator made her remarks as a regional NSW land council pushes for Labor’s proposed National Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate what it says is the scandal of non-Indigenous people and organisations claiming contracts, jobs and benefits ­intended for ­Aboriginal Australians.

Darkinjung Local Aboriginal Land Council chief executive Brendan Moyle has asked the joint select committee on the ­National Anti-Corruption Commission Bill to insist the watchdog has a mandate to pursue what he says are clever workarounds by enterprising individuals.

Mr Moyle believes some government agencies are accepting statutory declarations from job applicants as proof of Aboriginality, a breach of rules in departments that are supposed to abide by the accepted three-part test.

That three-part test says a person is Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander if they have Indigenous heritage – sometimes this is confirmed in writing by a land council or other Indigenous organisation – if they consider themselves Indigenous and if the community in which they live accepts they are .

Senator Liddle said the test was not perfect but there was no evidence that it was broken, nor was she aware that it had become irrelevant.

“I am alarmed at tinkering with this definition and its impact and consequences for program and service delivery for the people who need it most,” Senator Liddle told parliament.

“There should be no place in government or in policy for a self-identification test or for fluidity in the definition, depending on program or policy application.

“With self-identification, there’s no validation, no accountability. It counts people who should not be counted; it relies on the box-ticker having a moral compass.

“It risks greater access to specialist services by charlatans to those services designed for the those who need it most.

“It fails, fails, fails every test.”

Ms Liddle cited the most recent most recent Census which showed an increase in the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians that was far greater than the birthrate. On June 30, 2021, there were 984,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, 3.8 per cent of the Australian population. This is an increase of 185,600 people – or 23.2 per cent – since June 30, 2016.

“That is possibly explained by the reply email sent from Ancestry tracing sites that tell people they are indeed Indigenous through a relative where there is no lived connection, no lived experience, no life experience and not for maybe even more than a century,” she said.

“What should be occurring is accountability of the government its agencies and community organisations ensuring the bona fides of Indigenous claims and we better get it right before we ask Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to elect representatives to the Voice, should that be successful at referendum.”

Better get in before the “Voice” referendum?

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
November 23, 2022 8:40 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
November 23, 2022 at 8:03 pm
From the Hun

Why cops didn’t breath test at scene of Andrews’ 2013 crash

Sounding like the Gillard files and Craig Tomsons ice cream receipt

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
November 23, 2022 8:41 pm

And if Sam Harris wasn’t bad enough, we had ‘Professor’ Catherine Lumby – best known as an apologist for the porn industry – arguing in the former Fauxfacts media today against free speech on Twitter. Porn, on the other hand, is progressive: doing it for Uncle Joe and Uncle Ho.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 23, 2022 8:44 pm

Fifteen and on a bike gets mums thinking of their own darling boys.
Uh, the problem Demographic is Single Woman, no kids.
To these people, Mrs Andrews is above reproach because:
She’s had kids!
The Hun has played this very well by introducing the victims mother into the storyline.
The Hun is Murdoch, and if Murdoch thinks Andrews has a chance, he’ll pull out all stops for him.
It a winner Ed, you haven’t a clue.
It’s the Economy, stupid.
Throwing mud has lost plenty of Elections, yet to win one.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 23, 2022 8:44 pm

Aboriginal ancestry goes the way of dolphin safe tuna.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 23, 2022 8:45 pm

That is absolutely scandalous stuff from the Hun.

We have a police officer who decided, that’s because someone didn’t appear affected by alcohol, they didn’t need to be tested. Seriously? Besides, I suspect anybody about mid range, after an accident, with the adrenaline charge, does not appear as affected.

then there is Slugs and Grubs. The Labour law, firm, which seems to have no record of having been contracted to the case. Moreover, while supposedly representing the interests of the victim, I wonder if the cook the report stating that the driver had not been tested and explored possibilities of malfeasance by the police, in service to their purported client, or looking for ways to ascertain whether might have been demonstrated likely intoxicated to win their client a greater award.

The whole thing stinks.

miltonf
miltonf
November 23, 2022 8:46 pm

Lumby eh?-yuk. I remember reading her vomit making anti man poison back in the long gone days when I read the Sydney Morning Vomit.

miltonf
miltonf
November 23, 2022 8:46 pm

Don’t even know who Sam Harris is.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 23, 2022 8:47 pm

Groogs, you’re part of the Victoriastan Lieboral’s brains trust aren’t you?

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 23, 2022 8:50 pm

Mother Lode – all we need to find out was Gillard was the Partner in charge and the file has gone missing.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 23, 2022 8:50 pm

Labor, in government for only six months, hasn’t been shy in pushing through its agendas. Where is Dutton and the stupid fucking Liberals?
Dutton’s run Labor ragged on the IR Bill and the promised $275 Annual Reduction in Electricity Bills.
Have you been asleep for 6 months?

Bluey
Bluey
November 23, 2022 8:52 pm

Mother Lodesays:
November 23, 2022 at 8:45 pm
That is absolutely scandalous stuff from the Hun.

We have a police officer who decided, that’s because someone didn’t appear affected by alcohol, they didn’t need to be tested. Seriously? Besides, I suspect anybody about mid range, after an accident, with the adrenaline charge, does not appear as affected.

then there is Slugs and Grubs. The Labour law, firm, which seems to have no record of having been contracted to the case. Moreover, while supposedly representing the interests of the victim, I wonder if the cook the report stating that the driver had not been tested and explored possibilities of malfeasance by the police, in service to their purported client, or looking for ways to ascertain whether might have been demonstrated likely intoxicated to win their client a greater award.

The whole thing stinks.

I know I’ve appeared stone cold sober and I wouldn’t have passed a breath test. Let alone dedicated alcoholics.

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 23, 2022 8:56 pm

As far as I know – Knuckles? – it is mandatory to break test everyone involved in a crash where the police are called/arrive.

Happened to me when got crashed into by a lady some years back. She was so obviously in the wrong the copper apologised that he had to do it, but fair enough.

Ol’ Dan’s second name isn’t Kennedy is it?

Davey Boy
Davey Boy
November 23, 2022 8:56 pm

A chart to identify and atone for all your sins
aka Australian Curriculum – Department of Education

Jorge
Jorge
November 23, 2022 8:59 pm

Indolent, thanks for the AFI tribute to Fred Astaire.

There’s a trotting tipster in Melbourne by name of Ray Huxley who may or may not be still around. He tells some good stories of FA in Melbourne for the filming of On the Beach in 1959. Fred was big racing fan and while was here bought and raced a horse with a local trainer. He was a regular with Gregory Peck at the Sat night trots at the Showgrounds which used to be the major entertainment for many Australians back when we knew who we were. As you probably know, Fred’s wife Robyn was a champion jockey in the States.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 23, 2022 9:01 pm

So single women without kids worship married women with kids whatever they do.
Do you know any women Ed?

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 23, 2022 9:10 pm

“Calling Constable Rolfe – are you free?”

NT Police will deploy an extra 40 officers to crime-plagued Alice Springs to help combat the ongoing surge in criminal offending across the township.

Commissioner Jamie Chalker said it was his intention to “flood” the Alice Springs CBD to curb offending and track down known repeat offenders.

The move comes off the back of an urgent message to Red Centre residents early on Tuesday morning, warning them to leave the CBD if possible after two allegedly stolen vehicles were reported to be driving dangerously.

Commissioner Chalker defended the social media post, suggesting the situation had been under control and was an attempt to ensure public safety.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 23, 2022 9:13 pm

So single women without kids worship married women with kids whatever they do.
Look, I understand that you’re only here to shill for Labor, so there’s no point in encouraging your stupidity.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 23, 2022 9:15 pm

I still don’t understand how Andrews was allowed to drive an obviously unroadworthy vehicle full of kids away from the scene of a serious accident.
Skipping a breath test is not good but allowing this to happen without sanction is beyond belief.

Mater
November 23, 2022 9:20 pm

Do you know any women Ed?

Of course he does did. He has the souvenirs to prove it.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 23, 2022 9:21 pm

Is there an actual court case on foot or is Teh Hun just drip feeding this as an attempted favour to their fellow Victoriastanis?

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
November 23, 2022 9:22 pm

Ballpark Roger… i’m saying nothing about the league of either incident, i’m just pointing out that if Mr Lim wants to make any contest about his treatment at the hands of police, then video evidence is his only hope.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 23, 2022 9:24 pm

it is mandatory to break test everyone involved in a crash where the police are called/arrive.

It is mandatory. You don’t get to say ‘well she didn’t look pissed’. You do not have that option. It’s not just in Victoria, it’s everywhere. Apparently.

You especially really truly and for reals do not have that option where someone has been injured, and absolutely especially not where someone ends up in hospital. Allegedly.

The only time, and I mean only time this is not followed is where the driver ends up in hospital, where bloods are taken. On a mandatory basis.

Not testing a driver in an accident where someone else is critically injured is called perverting the course of justice, and I would be extremely interested to know why that particular copper’s name has not been released via FOI or any other means.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
November 23, 2022 9:25 pm

Skipping a breath test is not good but allowing this to happen without sanction is beyond belief.

If you are of the opinion that the plod are merely the enforcement arm of the state and totally corrupt, it’s entirely believable.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 23, 2022 9:26 pm

Skipping a breath test is not good but allowing this to happen without sanction is beyond belief.

Which is another thing you are absolutely prohibited from doing, or allowing someone else to do.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 23, 2022 9:30 pm

Murdoch is [wrongly, in my opinion] associated with the Liberals and Nationals in the Public mind.
No one’s gonna vote Liberal because Mrs Andrews got off a DUI Charge, but plenty will vote Labor if the perception is that the Liberals are slinging mud at the bloke’s wife.

Mater
November 23, 2022 9:32 pm

but plenty will vote Labor if the perception is that the Liberals are slinging mud at the bloke’s wife.

But she’s a spook.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 23, 2022 9:34 pm

it is mandatory to break test everyone involved
Danny Lim.
Break Tested.
Failed the test.

sfw
sfw
November 23, 2022 9:34 pm

Betfair still good odds for the Libs but getting tighter.

Labor

1.12
$965

1.13
$417

1.14
$3146

1.15
$2328

1.16
$4890

1.17
$1701

Coalition

7
$100

7.2
$37

7.6
$387

7.8
$50

8
$797

8.2
$916

Any Other Party

200
$42

610
$43

1000
$13

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 23, 2022 9:52 pm

Ed
Quite a few women will be thinking that Mrs Andrews should have told her husband to stop being an arsehole and the fawning admiration is sickening and fake.

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
November 23, 2022 9:55 pm

What are the nurses striking for that they’ve previously had?

Oh, that’s right, nothing at all. No specific agenda that any media would question.

Some stupid bint today claimed they were fighting for “da communidy” as though patients give a flying fuck about anything but getting treated promptly and humanely.

The complete absence of actual reasons or even excuses tells me very loudly that it’s all about being an election year. Pure extortion.

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
November 23, 2022 9:59 pm

Of course he does. He has the souvenirs* to prove it.

*Skins

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 23, 2022 10:27 pm

If any further proof were required that spending OPM (in this case, Holmes a Court’s) requires little actual thought or a business model (the Tele):

A Teal independent who lost the 2022 federal election has rebranded herself as the “Shadow Representative for Bradfield” while cutting the ribbon for a brand new “shadow” electorate office.

Failed independent Nicolette Boele made the bizarre announcement on Twitter and her website and shared pictures of her outside her new office along with Climate 200’s Simon Holmes a Court — Climate 200 donated millions of dollars to the campaigns of Teal candidates in the May election.

She also revealed she intends to run again at the next federal election.

Of course she is.

“I’m proud to cut the ribbon on Australia’s first Shadow Representative Electoral Office right here in Bradfield,” Ms Boele said while urging people to sign up to her new bulletin.

Zipster
November 23, 2022 10:29 pm

but plenty will vote Labor if the perception is that the Liberals are slinging mud at the bloke’s wife.

if these are the issues people decide to vote on, then democracy is a farce

Indolent
Indolent
November 23, 2022 10:31 pm
Robert Sewell aka Bob the Boozer from Barcaldine.

Mater:

Do you know any women Ed?

Of course he does did. He has the souvenirs to prove it.

Do Not Need To Know Any More.
*Shudder*

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 23, 2022 10:38 pm

Move over, Bruce Pascoe. There’s a new contender for grant cash in town:

A Tasmanian academic has accused the Australian War Memorial of failing to honour Indigenous Australians killed in “frontier war” conflicts between British soldiers and settlers and Aboriginals because “(its) board is full of bemedalled men and they probably jangle as they walk.”

The claim was made by Professor Henry Reynolds, who also said that as many as 100,000 Aboriginals were killed in the fighting, at the National Press Club as part of a talk with filmmaker Rachel Perkins to promote a taxpayer funded SBS series, The Australian Wars.

“Extremely important work in Queensland is suggesting that the death toll (there) alone may have been 100,000 … the death toll overall in the frontier wars approaches perhaps 100,000,” Mr Reynolds alleged.

This, of course, is complete rubbish. The true figure is likely to be 750,000,000.

Geez, getting to be a professor must be easy. I might give it a run.

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
November 23, 2022 10:49 pm

“Professor” was once a respected title.

Not any more. Look at some other dickheads and grifters calling themselves “Professor”;
Henry Reynolds,
Julia Gillard,
Carmen Laurence,
Mike Daube (WA anti smoking loon)
etc. etc.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 23, 2022 11:03 pm

“University” was once a respected institution, too

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 23, 2022 11:09 pm

if these are the issues people decide to vote on, then democracy is a farce

I’ve met people who voted Labor in 1983 because “Bob Hawke had charisma!”

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 23, 2022 11:15 pm

the death toll overall in the frontier wars approaches perhaps 100,000,” Mr Reynolds alleged.

Where’s the archaeological evidence of any such slaughter?

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 23, 2022 11:18 pm

I’ll admit WA doesn’t bat too far down the list in the hopeless Leftist academic stakes (or should that be bats too far down?). Prof van Wrongselen is one of ours too. If Sneakers comes through with the funding the School of Wrongology should be a literal no brainer.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 23, 2022 11:23 pm

Richard Dennisssssss and The Ponds Institute get a guernsey on the ALPBC 7pm “News” in Perf. Australia’s leading independent think tank and Australia’s most trusted news source. All for free. How lucky are we?

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 23, 2022 11:29 pm

I’ve met people who voted Labor in 1983 because “Bob Hawke had charisma!”

I’m sure it was nothing a course of antibiotics wouldn’t fix. Did his wife know?

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
November 23, 2022 11:29 pm

Died Suddenly quotes two stats which undermine its whole doomer message.
First that 114 million Americans had gotten at least one C19 jab. [44:31]
Then Kirsch extrapolates from 14000 VAERS deaths [44:41] with assumed 1% reporting rate [44:51] that probably 1.4 million Americans died from the jab. [44:55]
Putting them together, that’s probably a 1.22% death rate from the jab. And the vast majority of jabbees have had this more than a year ago, 7 months longer than Kirsch & Co’s estimate of 5 months for most deaths.
So that’s worse than the disease itself, but that’s not the end of the world the way they make it out to be.

The 1 successful pregnancy in 270 jabbed mothers is the apocalyptic part of the Pfizer data, which does deserve some explaining. Whether that is temporary post-jab or a permanent fertility change is another good question, which is probably being answered by new pregnancies from this point onwards.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity
November 23, 2022 11:33 pm

The Danny Lim incident unfolded thus:

Fairfax press:
The owner of the Queen Victoria Building asked him to leave the building.
He refused.
The owner called the cops.
Cops turned up.

Mobile phone video from one of the many passing shoppers:
Cops spoke with Mr. Lim.
Cops told Mr. Lim he was under arrest.
Cops attempted to handcuff Mr. Lim.
Mr. Lim began bellowing in the manner of a mental health patient.
Cops grappled with Mr. Lim & were unsuccessful in their attempts to apply handcuffs to him.
In the course of his struggles with police Mr. Lim leaned forward, such that his centre of gravity tilted & he was on his way to the floor.
As Mr. Lim was falling, cops capitalised on the fall by performed a (particularly inept) leg sweep, ensuring Mr. Lim fell over.
Mr. Lim landed on the tiled pedestrian concourse, his point of contact was his right cheek.
Mr. Lim’s right cheek & skull will have absorbed the entire impact of his body weight multiplied by his momentum, multiplied by any forced cops applied to his torso after performing the leg-sweep.
Cops pounced onto Mr. Lim, presumably to apply handcuffs, before backing off when it quickly became apparent he was badly hurt.

Salvatore’s opinion:
The building owner was entitled to ask Mr. Lim to leave their private property.
The building owner’s request to Mr. Lim to leave was a lawful request.
The building owner was justified in summoning the police.
Mr. Lim was acting unlawfully by refusing to leave when requested by the building owner.
Mr. Lim was acting unlawfully by refusing a (presumed) police directive to leave the building.
It is unlikely that arresting Mr. Lim was the default option of the two police officers (unless a legacy matter is in the mix, eg outstanding warrants or somesuch)
Mr. Lim was acting unlawfully by struggling with police (i.e. resisting)
Why the police elected to (try to) handcuff Mr. Lim is a matter for speculation, they certainly did not need to, they’d have been capable of carrying the old goat by the elbows all the way to the police station.

That two serving police officers were incapable of slapping the bracelets onto a scrawny 80yo defies belief.
That two serving police officers were incapable of grappling with a doddering old goat of 80yrs without tripping him to the ground & bonking his head fit to cause a serious brain injury is a mind-boggling degree of ineptness.

Robert Sewell aka Bob the Boozer from Barcaldine.

Umm Dover Beach, I’m still in purgatory.

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 23, 2022 11:40 pm

A teacher turned Greens senator has blasted Pauline Hanson’s push to ban transgender issues from being taught in schools.

The One Nation leader managed to revive her 2020 bill after it was rejected by a committee two years ago, and it was debated in the Senate on Wednesday.

Senator Hanson’s grievances with the education system included ‘Marxism’, critical race theory and ‘climate change prophecies of doom’ being taught along with ‘gender fluidity’.

Her bill demanded Education Department bureaucrats draw up a ‘balanced’ curriculum and that schools only get government funding if their states passed laws banning ‘indoctrination’.

Rookie senator Penny Allman-Payne, who was a high school teacher for almost 30 years including teaching sex ed, said the bill was an insult to teachers.

‘It’s not about balance. It’s about hate and propaganda,’ she said.

The former head of humanities said school curriculum was based in truth and science and teachers delivered it.

Complete with pix of said hyphenated senator, whose crewcut would do a US Marine proud

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 23, 2022 11:43 pm
H B Bear
H B Bear
November 23, 2022 11:45 pm

The last thing Australian democracy needs is ex school teachers in the Senate. Speaking personally, I think ex school teachers shouldn’t be seen anywhere except perhaps cray pots.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity
November 23, 2022 11:51 pm

From TE’s link, in the “Who is Danny Lim” section:

[he] won the Sexist Remarks Ernie Award for telling a Judge to buy a vibrator so she could ‘stop screwing with the people of Strathfield and screw herself instead’.

I’m sorta in two minds about him now. Anyone who said that to a judge can’t be all bad.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 23, 2022 11:54 pm

He sounds like a stupid old bugger. Which is still not a good reason for driving his head into a concrete floor.

Robert Sewell aka Bob the Boozer from Barcaldine.

From the Epoch Times:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/not-the-bees-varroa-mite-madness_4880837.html?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=copy&rs=SHRGQLJM

Australia was (until recently) the sole major honey-producer in the world free from Varroa mites (also known as “varroa destructors”) after New Zealand fell to infection in 2000.

It has been four months since a Varroa mite infection on the east coast triggered Australia’s biosecurity procedures, during which 15 to 45 million bees were culled by the state of New South Wales (NSW).

“Most of my beekeeper friends (myself included) have assumed that by being a registered beekeeper, the team responsible for the euthanisation would already have our details. In the middle of October, I worried about why it was taking so long to be contacted and phoned the DPI, who redirected me to the Exotic Plant & Pest Hotline—it was only then done I realised they had no idea our 58 beehives in the Toronto area existed. From what I can tell, it seems the DPI isn’t sharing registered beekeepers’ details and instead relying on them to self-report. Given that multiple friends of mine were also waiting to be contacted, I expect many more would be in the same situation and not realise they have to self-report.”

And as usual, the government body responsible for co ordinating the response is going overboard while also sitting on it’s arse waiting for everyone else to sort it out. Difficult to imagine, but they manage it.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
November 24, 2022 12:04 am

H B Bear says: November 23, 2022 at 11:45 pm

Speaking personally, I think ex school teachers shouldn’t be seen anywhere except perhaps cray pots.

That’s a bit harsh.
Humphrey, show me on the dolly where the bad teacher touched you.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 24, 2022 12:08 am

The Ernie awards are still more prestigious than a Walkley. Yet another institution destroyed by the Left.

Horas
Horas
November 24, 2022 12:13 am

Absolutely fucken nailed it Flying Duk at 11.06 am.
To the detriment of society the morons running the show can’t or won’t recognise what’s in front of them.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
November 24, 2022 12:24 am

Below from Ben Fordham Facebook page. Well done Ben. Keep the pressure up. I would call that 0.2% BS as only based on what reported to TGA. It is not in TGA interests to admit issues with the vax which is why they stonewall all questions.

We have a big story to share with you tomorrow.
I‘m going to introduce you to 18 year old Monica Eskander.
Monica is one of the unlucky people who suffered an adverse reaction from the coronavirus vaccine.
She wrote to me recently:
“I had to get the jab to sit my HSC exams.
“When I received my 1st dose I suffered the heart condition pericarditis.
“I was on treatment for 6 months straight and had severe pains.
“The irony of all ironies, I was too sick to sit my HSC.
“After hearing you talk about it recently felt like speaking up.”
We’ve seen copies of Monica’s medical records, which confirm she suffered:
“Pericarditis in the context of recent COVID vaccine.”
Only last week- one of Australia’s top advisors on immunisation offered an interesting observation.
ATAGI member Professor Allen Cheng said:
“Vaccinations are beneficial and protective, even for younger people.
“But the more doses you get… the less benefit you derive from them.
“And then we start to worry about causing side effects.”
According to Federal Government data- the odds of a side effect from the COVID jab are 0.2%.
But that doesn’t mean these people should be ignored.
We’ve been doing our best to give them a voice.
We’ll talk to Monica at 8:15am AEDT on Thursday.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
November 24, 2022 12:49 am

Just gone up on the Courier Mail. No comments allowed. Wonder why.
A good example of how the propaganda machine works.

Research finds many Australians ignore Covid-19 warnings despite spike in cases

Nearly two-thirds of Australians are still complacent about the risk of Covid-19 infection despite a spike in case numbers and the emergence of new variants, a report has found. As a string of new Covid-19 warnings (Note : from the very enthusiastic jab pushers) ramp up across the country, a research survey conducted by Pfizer Australia found 60 per cent of Australians believed Covid-19 was a thing of the past.

The data compares community sentiment to how Australians were feeling a year ago when Covid-19 was rampant across the states and territories, borders were shut and many people were in and out of lockdown. The research also found 61 per cent of people were less concerned about the impact of Covid-19 in their community, while about 46 per cent felt less concerned about their personal risk of serious illness.

Health experts have urged people to work from home where they can. University of Sydney infectious diseases specialist and paediatrician Robert Booy said complacency during the current wave was concerning. (Note : that would be the same Dr Booy who is now appearing on Pfizzer anti viral ads on 2GB along with Ita Buttrose).

“Protection against Covid-19 infection requires several steps, including ensuring your vaccinations are up to date (more $$$$$$$’s) , practising Covid-safe behaviours and ensuring if you do test positive to Covid, you act fast by talking to your GP to learn if antiviral medicines are right for you,” (more $$$$$$$’s) Professor Booy said.

“Recent federal government data has shown Covid-19 still poses a very real risk to the health of our communities as we move into a new wave of infections, specifically to those at higher risk of serious illness.” (Note : I thought the data was the latest versions are less severe and evade vaccines but hey lets not detract from the narrative).

Recent government data for the week ending November 15 reported 75,590 cases of Covid-19 across Australia, with an average of 10,799 cases per day. This represents a 38.3 per cent increase compared with the previous week. There were 27,869 people across NSW diagnosed with Covid-19 during the same period.

Professor Booy said early testing was still the best measure for proper treatment and containment of the virus. Last week, NSW Health changed its Covid-19 risk rating from green to amber, while Covid cases in NSW and Victoria have doubled in just a fortnight. Queensland also changed its Covid-19 risk rating from green to amber earlier this month.

“The fact that one in three Australians are less likely to test for Covid-19 when they experience symptoms or consult their GP if they test positive compared to a year ago is of concern,” Professor Booy said. “Testing earlier means people can seek medical advice sooner and can access antiviral medicines faster if they are eligible.”

The Actuaries Institute’s Covid-19 Mortality Working Group estimates deaths from Covid-19 in the first 10 months of 2022 are approximately 9800. (Note : with Covid and avergae age mid 80’s with comorbidities – wonder why they never mention that part).

This makes Covid-19 the third leading cause of death in Australia for January-October 2022. It is expected to also be the third leading cause of death across the whole of 2022. Pfizer country medical director Krishan Thiru (Note : no conflict of interest whatsover $$$$$$) said many communities were still experiencing the impact of Covid-19.

“These insights show that we need to bring Covid-19 back on the radar of Australians and we want to play our part in helping raise public awareness of the risk Covid-19 still poses and the role we all can play in helping protect ourselves and those most at risk,” Dr Thiru said.

Hearts4heart Founder Tanya Hall urged Australians to remain vigilant, especially those who remain in high risk areas or categories. “This research shows that one in five of those at higher risk, like those over 70, those with health conditions like heart disease, lung disease or diabetes, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are less likely to test or see a GP if they experience Covid-19 symptoms,” she said.

“These people are more likely to suffer serious illness, including hospitalisation, from Covid-19, so it’s important these groups act fast by speaking to their GP if they test positive.”

Seems Pfizzer must be getting desperate to keep it going as now having radio ads and kindly conducting impartial research so we know what is good for us.

JC
JC
November 24, 2022 1:09 am

The most captivating late night cat blogging.

Late hour with the battered hubbies
The driller with his incredible Lim story demonstrating again how bad language is selective.

The rooster. Who knows what he’s babbling on about.

And of course the waffles who’s really here to talk about tractors.

Hopefully the Driller and the waffler will share vids with tractor engines starting up.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity
November 24, 2022 1:20 am

Apropos of schoolteachers, & of young women leaning politically woke, because: sans critical thinking ability;

Yesterday, realising I may have been a touch rusty, I appointed myself to work a couple of hours of public bar. (It was so much fun I stayed for six hours.)

A group of a dozen or so schoolteachers came in for a few drinks. The group included plentyfella female type schoolteachers.
Don’t know who was the more surprised; Them “How did you know we were schoolteachers?” (Lol, they’re so clueless at times), or me, cos schoolteachers entering a public bar is outside my experience & I have never before in my life seen a group of schoolteachers in a public bar. Ever. (Seriously)
(Though it should be noted this particular flock of precious nightingales made sure they sat as far as possible from the bar, & likewise from anybody else)

Two of the girly teachers, when ordering a drink (forget what, but it was served in a spirit glass full of ice) & they asked for a straw.

Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh, I just love questions like that from the ultra-woke caste.

“Sorry ladies, straws are illegal” (I tried to not smirk)
Brief pause while their cogs turned.
“You should have metal straws available” (in a weak voice, coz even they could see the problem with metal straws)
“Ladies, cleaning metal straws uses lots of caustic chemicals & water (I thought that one up on the spot)”
They sorta nodded at this, especially when I started banging on with making up stuff about the hygiene issues with sterilising metal straws)
“Ladies, plastic straws are best, coz they’re single use, thus hygienic, cheap, & it’s easy to have lots of them on hand.” (almost in a gloating tone of voice)

Pause, while they processed this & grasped for a riposte.
“Oh yes, but plastic straws are sooo bad for the environment” (with a suitably woke smirk)
“I’m shocked to hear that. Just how do you ladies dispose of your used straws?”

Total silence.

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