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Open Thread – Weekend 26 Nov 2022
1,854 responses to “Open Thread – Weekend 26 Nov 2022”
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P platers in this part of the world are a danger to traffic. Most of them drive SUV’s and they haven’t a fvcking clue……
Ditto here, Zulu.
Young player in a P plated BMW a few days ago didn’t check his blind spot before changing lanes and would have collected me but for a swift application of my brakes. He did wave an apology but I hope he learned a lesson never to be forgotten.
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From Geller: so applicable to LNP here:
This is how the left wins. They always take real world strategic steps while the right does nothing.
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WA drivers are shitheads. There is no other way to describe it. Selfish, arrogant, unaware, unsafe, ditzy and getting worse all the time.
And it’s not just the kids in hatchbacks, ladies who lunch in Audis and Prado pajeros either- it’s truckies and tradesmen who should know a lot better. Their suburban and rural give-a-shit rush routines are deadly, it’s only the dry and flat conditions which both allow them to try it on, and allow them to get away with near-death swerves.
Just today I pulled up to a dead stop with sixty-odd slippery shorn sheep in a crate trailer as a semi with a wide load demountable came round a heavily timbered bend- I saw his amber beacons on and saw the fuckup about to happen, and slotted my trailer off to the side. He belted on through, only maybe took his foot off for a half-second. -
World Cup News:
Apologies, but this is via Blair* in the Tele. It’s lifted from a bloke called Rory Sutherland in The Spectator talking about socka:
At a physical level, behind the glitz, football is to rugby what Riverdance is to Rogers and Astaire: a self-imposed disability disguised as a skill.
At a philosophical level, there is no sport where the line between intention and luck is more blurred.
A self-imposed disability disguised as a skill. Beautifully accurate.
*New Blair, not the Old Blair where if you posted 1000 times you could just make stuff up while on benders.
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Here yar, Mr. Sulu.
Norm MacDonald talking cocks for 6:04. -
miltonfsays:
November 28, 2022 at 6:37 pm
Fuck economics is a bullshit ‘profession’It doesn’t have to be like this.
The RBA have destroyed their credibility.
Read von Mises and you’ll never go wrong!
What made me give up was that people wanted me to lie for them and me to lie to them.
Being a cynic is the greatest model you will ever have.
Double inflation, unemployment and projected government costings.
Halve economic growth and employment data.
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there needs to be a recall mechanism to get this filth activist out of the legal system
Indeed but if we had an actual opposition that would have sniffed scandal and gone after her at the same time her bagman husband was being hauled over the coals. She had $300k invested in said company and I find it hard to believe a woman of her stature and profession being totally oblivious to the conflict of interest going on or her husbands odious past dealings. That leads to integrity in my mind.
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H1 wheat at 4.5 t/Ha?
That’s not so humble bragging.You take your wins when & where you can get them.
Except for the intervention of Big Fella God & his watering can, it could just have easily have been 0.0 t/Ha, dust blowing everywhere, & asshole bankers getting smartmouthy about the overdraft.Good to read Zulu, I know how sweet it is to be cutting that thick & hard.
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Lemme guess what he says.
The Liberal Party have got to embrace Conservatism, build Nuclear Power, reintroduce Corporal Punishment in Schools and be more Diverse.
And put Labor above The Greens on the How To Votes.How’d I go?
Pretty close?Just the first bit. Apparently M. Guy should have embraced the anti-vaxxers, spoken at their rallies, stood side by side with them and raised fists in unison, basically merged with the Freedom Party. So I guess I know who Roger actually voted for.
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cohenite says:
November 28, 2022 at 8:14 pmThe POS who handed down the Clive Palmer Judgment said this:
“With declining demand for thermal coal, there is a real prospect the mine will not be viable throughout its projected life and not all the economic benefits will be realised,” Ms Kingham said.
Why is that her business?
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Have checked out the latest version of the First Nations sub fleet.
It was solar-powered, to be in keeping with care for Country. Of course.
For some reason the batteries aren’t enough to make them go properly. Top Secret technology but rumour has it they were 250 D-cells wired in series.
The FN Tech Division is working on Mk IV. (Roman numeral appropriation but someone kept re-arranging the row of rocks.) Improvement in that Mk III was C-cells, etc.
Will let you know further but success is on the horizon – Admiral Pascoe is going to help out.
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P platers in this part of the world are a danger to traffic
Here too, which probably led to the voluntary “R” plates in NSW.
Australian service and repair company mycar Tyre & Auto, formerly Kmart Tyre & Auto, has launched “R Plates”, also known as “Return Plates”, to identify drivers returning to the road after an incident, to ?help encourage extra consideration for drivers recovering from trauma.
The idea is the plates will encourage empathy from other road users, so the returning drivers feel less pressure as they adapt to being back behind the wheel. (9News)
Not endorsed by government yet.I predict yahoos will target anyone showing R plates.
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Wodger:
Young player in a P plated BMW a few days ago didn’t check his blind spot before changing lanes and would have collected me but for a swift application of my brakes. He did wave an apology but I hope he learned a lesson never to be forgotten.
Unfortunately the lesson learned was probably “When I stuff up, others will have made allowances so bad things won’t happen.”
Which is why I stated:.2 Far too many Australian drivers brake instead of just ramming the idiots who do idiotic things.
Harsh but fair.
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A warning to all you – be careful about drink driving as we are getting close to Christmas. The Police are out there in numbers checking on people. Last night I was out for a few drinks. One thing led to another and I had a few too many beers. Not a good idea. Knowing I was over the limit, I decided to leave my car where it was and took a bus home. Sure enough, I passed a Police control where they were pulling over drivers and performing breathalyser tests. Because I was in a bus they just waved it past. I arrived home safely and without incident, which was a real surprise as I’ve never driven a bus before and I am not even sure where I got it from…
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Soros Confessed to Confiscating Holocaust Victims’ Assets Without Remorse
From Armstrong Economics –
“George Soros’ father was a successful lawyer in Budapest during World War II. As Hungarian Jews, the Soros family was able to evade capture by siding with the Nazis. In this 1998 “60 Minutes” interview, Soros proudly admits that he helped to confiscate all the worldly belongings of the Jews and other holocaust victims while pretending to be an adopted Christian boy.
“I had no sense of guilt,” Soros said after admitting he does not believe in God. He repeatedly tells the reporter that he is simply amoral and feels absolutely no remorse for the horrible acts he has committed. Soros coldly described confiscating assets from his fellow Jews as akin to trading the markets. The assets would have been confiscated regardless, he said, and it did not matter if he was the one carrying out orders from the Third Reich.
Soros made it clear to the interviewer that he identifies as an amoral man and would never apologize for his actions as he does not believe he did anything wrong. Soros was able to sort through the belongings of innocent families and process his actions as simply a revenue generator for the government. He appears amused that he was able to outsmart the Nazis and escape persecution and execution, unlike the others who are beneath him, like us, the Great Unwashed. This is a glimpse into the mind of the people at the top who call for regulations and will gladly sit back and watch the world burn if it benefits them in the slightest.”
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H B Bearsays:
November 28, 2022 at 9:07 pmTo be fair, a lot of them are actually taking a shit. Try it. Gives new meaning to laying a couple of strips.
Rogersays:
November 28, 2022 at 9:26 pm
To be honest, when I venture into the local metropolis its not the subcontinentals who concern me as much as the P platers.IMHO I’ve found P platers fall into three types: the ratbags that drive like loonies and keep losing their licence, so they end up on their ‘P’s well into their 20’s, those that would be indistinguishable from ‘experienced’ drivers except for the ‘P’ plates and those that are so conscious of losing their precious four points that they are over-cautious and become a hazard.
The bottom line is, from all the descriptions posters have put up, we are all pretty crap drivers. It seems all we can do is try not to give any angst to our fellow drivers while avoiding the urge to ram them.
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But,but renewables are cheap right?
Investment in German and EU industrial projects such as battery-cell factories will be unfeasible if the region’s policy makers fail to control ballooning energy prices in the long-term, the head of Volkswagen AG’s namesake brand said.
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