1,660 thoughts on “Open Thread – Weekend 3 Dec 2022”

  1. Lâmb Report.

    Ten minutes searing, 20 mins at 170C fan forced, 20 minutes rest under foil.

    It was a monster, but cooked up like a dream. Four serves worth, at least. As usual, the still baa-ing bits were in the centre, so it was a dish for all tastes. Good. Different.

    😀

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  2. Albo has the crud. I wonder how many times he’s been jabbed?

    Anthony Albanese contracts COVID-19: Prime Minister says he will be isolating and working from home after positive PCR test (Sky News, 5 Dec)

    Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has tested positive to COVID-19 for a second time this year.

    Mr Albanese announced on Monday he had returned a positive result on a PCR test. He said he will be isolating but will continue working from home.

    Twice this year so far, eh. I wonder who he caught it from this time?

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  3. Michael Tracey
    @mtracey
    Chuck Todd just casually asserts today that like Trump, Putin is an anti-semite. Cites no evidence whatsoever for this — Putin has long been reputed as the *opposite* of an anti-semite, having actually gone out of his way to *reject* strains of anti-semitism in Russian society

    Chuck Todd is a mendacious prick.

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  4. Ten miles. You try to keep up twenty miles for more than one day, or with weaker cattle, & see how you go. Where the farq do you get this “Twenty miles a day” from?

    What a stupid comment.

    Two excerpts from a google search tell us that you’re either wrong or just plain lying as usual.

    3yo hangs on for dear life to a monkey grip atop a tired old pensioner (sometimes on a lead behind a grown-up’s horse) & pretends they’re part of the action.

    As an all day thing, sun up to sundown a three-year old on the back of a horse? For days on end? Bullshit.

    If your experience has revealed a better way to bring along a 3yo with a mob of cattle, we’re all ears.

    Oh, we’re doing a present day invocation of The Sundowners are we. Dad was a Robert Mitchum?
    You’re so freaking dishonest.

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  5. Majority of the Labor government hope The Voice referendum result will be NO. Why would they want to deal with the new powers of Many Nations
    PM will be able to tearfully say he put his heart and soul into it

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  6. Dan’s going to be such a drag on Eblow’s government he may have to be rolled internally.

    Suspect Steven Conroy is waiting for the call. The Vic Liars Caucus are a bunch of pussies. They’ve seen what happened to Somurek

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  7. The thought has crossed my mind that maybe Hungary was better off in the eastern block. Fuck the EU is evil.

    It’s a shame Furedi didn’t even mention the key ‘reforms’ Brussels wants to see in Hungary; to wit, the full trans-homosexual, anti-Christianity agenda

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  8. Opinion
    Urgent changes needed to halt new ‘stolen generation’
    Sue-Anne Hunter
    Deputy chair of the Yoorrook Justice Commission
    December 5, 2022 — 11.39am

    So leave the kids in situ? Sounds like a plan. The Stolen generations movement appallingly slanders social workers and families of yesteryear – the eras lefties- who helped neglected kids.

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  9. The child protection and youth justice systems are operating as an inextricably linked pipeline: from child protection to youth justice to the adult justice system

    If only there was some sort of trigger event or cycle of events occurring BEFORE the kids end up in child protection or the prison system.
    As it is the government just swoops down out of the sky and steals pickanninnies from their mother breast… or something.

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  10. If you have COVID-19 and cough next to someone from 8 inches away, wearing a cotton mask will reduce the amount of virus you transmit to that person by 36 times, Howard found.

    Numerically impossible. If you reduce ANYTHING, including transmission of a virus, by a factor if ONE, then you have NOTHING. If the dickhead Howard believes you can reduce the transmission by more than a factor of ONE then all he has done is display his absolute ignorance.

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  11. I think Kevin Costner would be more Brokeback Mountain than Dances with Wolves.. Which reminds me I must follow up my Australia Council grant application for an Australian adaptation starring Warren Entsch.

    It’s a little known fact that they were planning a sequel where two Maine lobster fishermen get lost at sea and try to find their way to Port while exploring their sexuality. The film was going to explore the medical consequences of male to male sexuality.

    It was to be called “Brokeback Passage”.

    Think about it.

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  12. C.L., if you’re still lurking…

    Thanks for the “readings” at your blog. They take me back to my youth.

    Sometimes there’s a hair’s breadth between Catholics and Anglicans. And seeing the days of the Church Calendar celebrated in Scripture is one of them. God bless you, dear friend.

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  13. This is the left, the team mOron fully and wholeheartedly supports;

    Childers said there appears to be an erosion of the penalty for p3dophilia in California. He referenced a Daily Mail expose that showed thousands of convicted p3dophiles in California are being released from prison less than a year after being convicted of rape, sodomy, and sexual abuse of children under 14.

    California’s Senate Bill 145, passed in 2020, expanded a law allowing judges discretion when considering whether those engaged in gay sex with minors should register as sex offenders.

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/general-public-unaware-of-push-to-normalize-pedophilia-in-culture-and-academia_4899696.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=ZeroHedge&src_src=partner&src_cmp=ZeroHedge

    The left and how they play with words;

    “Mom who hunts down p3dophiles says its unthinkable to call them ‘minor-attracted persons‘”

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  14. Wow they actually went there. Interfering in the market that they themselves have perverted due to “renewable” subsidy mining. We knew they were going to mess with gas but thermal coal… Couple of phone conversations I had today the word blindsided was used, reminds me of Rudd’s MRRT. Swan was at least smart enough to target profits but these guys are going the full on socialism path.

    As others have said unintended consequences. Don’t think Albo is emulating Whitlam, more like Atlee in the post war UK.

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  15. Interestingly most of the guys who ride bikes grew up fanging around farms in their youth, although most have swapped to something more age appropriate, a big bore BMW or something. My half brother was still getting around on a Japanese thumper but at least he had swapped in an Ohlins rear shock.

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  16. Couple of phone conversations I had today the word blindsided was used, reminds me of Rudd’s MRRT

    Yep. Positively Whitlamesque.

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  17. but these guys are going the full on socialism path

    eat the bugs, own nothing, be happy

    … make sure you bring a beanie and scarf

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  18. Still on the 15-20 miles!
    The little kids would be up on the old stock horses bringing up the rear. They would never be placed at the front or the side of the herd. Mum would either be riding alongside or she’d be keeping an eye on them from the wagon.
    They weren’t left out there for more than an hour or two. As for little kids not being able to ride for long, poking along on a quiet horse is no ordeal.

    When I was seventeen, I worked for a family who bred Herefords and Stock Horses. They also played Polo. The granddaughters’ fourth birthday was due and I had to work on a small pony, about ten hands, that was to be her birthday present. He wasn’t bad, just hadn’t been used for a couple of years.

    That kid could ride so well, she put me to shame. She was also already swinging a miniature Polo mallet with precision. She could also out swear me, much to my surprise. Country kids are TOUGH.

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  19. Chuck Todd just casually asserts today that like Trump, Putin is an anti-semite.

    Evil liar, there’re no other words that fit. Trump has a Jewish family and arranged the Abraham Accords. Which Biden is currently undermining.

    He places great emphasis on friendship, but unfortunately his “friends” have often not turned out to be that. Kanye may be mentally ill but he is also disingenuous and disloyal.

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  20. Urgent changes needed to halt new ‘stolen generation’

    we must preserve barely out of the stone age culture for future generations to gawk at

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  21. Bob,

    I test loaded an i3 Intel NUC and it worked like a charm

    your package is now en route

    hope your target device is a 64-bit machine

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  22. Gottliebsen has a column on Albo’s brain fart in Teh Paywallian. Naturally he isn’t particularly complimentary.

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  23. H B Bear says:
    December 5, 2022 at 6:17 pm
    Hunter gathering is where it’s at.

    With 10% for the Big Guy.

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  24. hope your target device is a 64-bit machine

    The thought of him trying to install it on an Atary isn’t totally out there.

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  25. Donald Trump is NOT an anti-Semite, in fact, Trump is a philo-Semite.

    I always find it amusing when progressive Jew haters call Trump an anti-Semite. There’s one here.

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  26. Where does this leave Albanese’s promise that Australia would feed the world?

    Maybe he was thinking along the lines of feeding the World Australian insects. I know that there are plenty of cockroaches in Federal/State/Territory Parliaments…………………………

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  27. Opinion
    Urgent changes needed to halt new ‘stolen generation’
    Sue-Anne Hunter
    Deputy chair of the Yoorrook Justice Commission
    December 5, 2022 — 11.39am

    Case here, in the Wild West, where an Aboriginal child was removed from an abusive family, and, in the name of “preserving the culture,” was resettled with another Aboriginal family….where they were also abused……

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  28. Colonel Crispin Berka:

    I also suspect the Dems (uppercase) communicated their preferences over the story’s circulation to their Twitter buddies, but without “the receipts” (as they say) this is only hypothesis.

    The term “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest” comes to mind.

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  29. Bolt is now interviewing an Aboriginal woman from the NSW north coast about Mount Warning now not only being for Aboriginals but only Aboriginal men.

    First, I have no sympathy for any of them. Second, she is the most blonde woman I have ever seen and it’s not just grey, looks very Nordic but I’m supposed to believe in her aboriginality. Ah of course, professional Aboriginal, not necessarily Aboriginal Aboriginal.

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  30. Bolta interviewing some blue eyed blonde proud 3rd generations bint called stella wheildon about the banning of the punters from going to Mt Warning. She is circumspect about the general ban and more concerned that the big symbolic phallus was part of secret women’s business.

    I wonder how a party which had policies for banning alarmism being taught in schools, building new coal, nuke and gas, removing all land title rights and making 2 genders compulsory would go?

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  31. Woke Royals Bend Knee For Ngozi Fulani

    Apparently her name is really Marlene Headley.

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  32. JC says: December 5, 2022 at 6:42 pm

    Another stupid comment.
    Not ill-informed, or misguided. Stupid.

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  33. … more concerned that the big symbolic phallus was part of secret women’s business.

    Might want to give Perf and the Big Sneakers a miss then.

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  34. … more concerned that the big symbolic phallus was part of secret women’s business.

    Sorta looks like some faction of women have been left out of the moola flowing from Mt. Warning.
    They’ve been banging on a bit around the ridges about how it was closed on false information from “some men’s group” etc etc.

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  35. Bolta interviewing some blue eyed blonde proud 3rd generations bint

    But she can still complain about being “discriminated against” because she’s black?

    What a world!

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  36. Mum would either be riding alongside or she’d be keeping an eye on them from the wagon.

    Great great grandfather was Irish with a short fuse, easily lit. His daughters wore divided skirts, and rode astride, when such conduct was not thought “ladylike.” Ladies rode sidesaddle, but “I’m not ruining any good horse by putting one of those monstrosities on it’s back.

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  37. Sounds like Snowy 2.0 is going see WA based engineering firm Clough going to God. Another Waffleworth success story. A couple of guys from school started there after Uni. They were twins and one of them was scary smart.

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  38. Woke Royals Bend Knee For Ngozi Fulani

    Apparently her name is really Marlene Headley.

    Fulani is a common surname in Nigeria.

    Quite plausible, then, that that’s where the lady’s ancestors originated.

    Which mgiht explain why she choose it to replace her Afro-Caribbean Anglo name.

    Lady Hussey might have been more tactful, but it seems Ms. Fulani might also have been more forthcoming about her origins, which in other contexts she is certainly not shy about.

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  39. Reports from friends of a power outage (bleckout) in SW Sydney today (Sefton to be precise)

    From about 1:30pm to 2:15pm

    Temp in SW Sydney hit high 30’s (Celsius)

    peak a/c demand time?

    If Mr shatterzz is around, did you notice anything in your neck of the SW Sydney woods? ( Fairfield )

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  40. “I’m not ruining any good horse by putting one of those monstrosities on it’s back.

    Apparently it was tough on them. Sidesaddle horses had a considerably shorter working life than regular horses.
    I used to think my Great-Grandmother was a feeble near-deaf old thing who knitted & darned all day. Wasn’t impressed. Until my Grandfather informed me that when she was a teenager Great Grandma & one of her (many) brothers used to break horses together around the district. He broke them to the saddle or shaft, she specialised in sidesaddle.

    I knew I’d never measure up to that, not as long as I lived.

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  41. For Cat fans of the Podcast of the Lotus Eaters there are two rippers up at the moment:
    . A National Eulogy by Connor discusses the destruction of his family dynasty from the East End – it makes you want to climb into the screen and hurt someone – it even features the role of the ‘Call the Midwife’ culture.
    . Doc Holliday. Beau’s usual exhaustive (anal) exploration of the minutiae of history applied to a gun slinger. Great stuff.

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  42. Lady Hussey might have been more tactful, but it seems Ms. Fulani might also have been more forthcoming about her origins, which in other contexts she is certainly not shy about.

    Apparently Marlene Headley, alias Ngozi Fulani, turned up at the Buck House shindig clad in a leopardskin number & bunging on her idea of an “African” accent when she spoke. (Whatever that may mean).

    This may have assisted Lady Hussey to assume the muttering tribeswoman clad in animal skins (apparently she looked more like a witchdoctor than a charity executive) was not from a couple of suburbs away.

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  43. I used to think my Great-Grandmother was a feeble near-deaf old thing who knitted & darned all day.

    Great grandmother achieved fame by hitting a would be house-breaker over the head with a rolling pin – he slumped, stunned, to the floor, she and her daughter bound him with the cord of the electric iron, and rang the coppers. He was well known to them, and they are supposed to have been laughing so much they could barely make the arrest.

    This was a lady, born in the year of Custer’s Last Stand, and lived to watch the moon landings.

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  44. Fulani is a common surname in Nigeria.
    It’s her husband’s surname.

    Quite plausible, then, that that’s where the lady’s ancestors originated.
    Unlikely, the Fulani were slavers.

    Which mgiht explain why she choose it to replace her Afro-Caribbean Anglo name.
    You’re trying too hard.

  45. Webuild pulls the pin on deal to rescue Clough, sending the contractor into administration

    By Nick Evans
    Resource Writer
    @perrybwilliams ?
    8:25PM December 5, 2022
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    West Australian contractor Clough has collapsed after a takeover by Italy’s Webuild fell through less than four weeks after a deal was initially struck.

    The decision may spark a fresh crisis for the federal government’s Snowy Hydro 2.0 expansion given Clough and Webuild are in a joint venture to build the energy project, and Clough owed its joint venture partner about $88m at the end of June, from a previously undisclosed $167m loan dating back to the 2021 financial year.

    Italy’s Webuild stepped in on November 8 to rescue the company in a deal that would have saved one of Australia’s oldest engineering companies from falling into administration.
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    On Monday, Webuild said the conditional sale would not progress, and it would not offer Clough the $30m loan needed to keep the company afloat.

    “On 8 November 2022 Webuild announced the entry into a conditional sale and purchase agreement with Murray & Roberts relating to the acquisition by Webuild of the entire share capital of the Australian company Clough Limited,” it said in a statement.

    “Webuild now announces that the parties have jointly determined and agreed that there is no reasonable prospect of that acquisition proceeding through to a successful completion.

    “The parties have therefore unconditionally agreed to terminate the SPA with immediate effect.”

    Clough’s South African parent, Murray & Roberts, told shareholders on Monday Clough’s directors had called in Deloitte Australia as voluntary administrators as a result of the deal’s collapse.

    “In the absence of the interim loan, however, the board of directors of Clough have been left with no choice but to place Clough and its subsidiaries under voluntary administration in Australia with immediate effect,” the company said.

    New accounts show Clough borrowed more than $167m from Webuild as its financial woes on the Snowy 2.0 contract deepened, with the company slumping to a $375.3m loss and a $304m working capital deficit for the 12 months to June 30.

    Clough has not previously disclosed the $167.7m loan from the joint venture, but its latest accounts show it took the loan in the 2021 financial year, after the pandemic slowed work.

    Clough’s latest financial accounts show that almost $88m was still outstanding on the advance from Webuild at June 30.

    A spokeswoman for Clough said there had been no previous need to disclose the loan under accounting standards followed by the company.

    “The loan information to Salini Clough Joint Venture (Snowy) was recorded in the balance sheet on previous accounts as there was no requirement to itemise related party transactions. Clough is now required to prepare general purpose financial statements that require this type of disclosure,” she said.

    The Snowy contract – initially worth $5.1bn – was badly disrupted by the pandemic and the joint venture is believed to still be haggling with Snowy Hydro over claims worth up to $2.2bn.

    Financial statements filed with the corporate regulator show the depth of Clough’s financial problems in the lead-up to a November agreement to sell itself to Webuild, with the company bleeding $145m in cash through the financial year and booking a massive financial loss.

    In July, Clough chief executive Peter Bennett told staff that the company was debt free and was expected to book earnings of about $35m for the financial year when its accounts were finalised. Mr Bennett told said the company was “debt free” in May, after The Australian first reported that Clough was attempting to find new financing arrangements.

    Clough held only $71m in cash in accounts it controlled at June 30, according to financial filings, with another $30.3m held by “joint arrangements”. That is down from Clough-held cash of $198.9m at June 2021, with $47.4m held in joint arrangement.

    Clough’s accountants, PwC, noted that the company’s ability to keep operating depended on Webuild successfully acquiring the contractor.

    “The group recorded a loss after tax and interest of $375.3m, incurred a net cash outflow from operating activities of $29m for the year ended 30 June 2022 and, as at that date, had a net working capital deficit of $304.8m,” a note from PwC auditors reads.

    The accounts show that Clough booked a $48.1m loss before interest, tax, depreciation amortisation and impairments for the year, with its statutory loss blowing out to $375.3m after the company wrote off $268.3m of a $346.9m debt owned by its South African parent company.

    Although it has been written down, that debt could also spark the collapse of Murray & Roberts in South Africa, given Clough noted the full amount was still “legally outstanding” in its accounts.

    In early November Murray & Roberts blamed Clough’s problems on “margin deterioration” at two of the company’s key contracts, the $420m Waitsia gas project in WA and a $1bn chemicals plant in the US. At the time the South African contractor said Clough would be forced to reverse profits previously declared at the two contracts.

    Clough’s financial statements confirm both are now loss-making, with the company stripping $112m in revenue from the two contracts, declaring $18m in “onerous contract” provisions, and writing down $11.4m in goodwill associated with its work on the projects.

    “The resulting impact of the above adjusting events are a reduction to profit after tax of $159.1m and net assets of $162.5m, the difference attributable to foreign exchange movements,” say Clough’s accounts.

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  46. This was a lady, born in the year of Custer’s Last Stand, and lived to watch the moon landings.

    Great Grandmother was 15 yrs younger than that. Though lived to the moon landings & jet age.
    Her large flock of brothers, not sure how many there were, was significantly reduced in number by 1919. IIRC only one was fit for farming/forestry work (or horsebreaking) ever again.

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  47. What a coincidence:

    Michael Tracey
    @mtracey
    ·
    3h
    The “nothingburger” crowd must’ve missed this one. Jim Baker had previously been at the heart of Russiagate chicanery as General Counsel of the FBI. Then, serendipitously, he’s hired by Twitter — and is right at the heart of their internal process on Russia-related censorship
    Quote Tweet

    Matt Taibbi
    @mtaibbi
    ·
    Dec 3
    28. To which former Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker again seems to advise staying the non-course, because “caution is warranted”:

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  48. This may have assisted Lady Hussey to assume the muttering tribeswoman clad in animal skins (apparently she looked more like a witchdoctor than a charity executive) was not from a couple of suburbs away.

    Whether that’s true of not ,I’d be inclined to give someone of Lady Hussey’s vintage and record of service a pass on this and quietly suggest that perhaps it was time she enjoyed some downtime during her golden years.

    Evidently Prince William thought it best to capitulate to the race baiters and make an example of her, which is disappointing if not predictable. And it only sets him up for more shakedowns in the future.

    What he and his advisers don’t realise is that the opponents he is attempting to placate are not reasonable people acting in good faith but will only be satisfied when the monarchy is dissolved completely.

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  49. What he and his advisers don’t realise is that the opponents he is attempting to placate are not reasonable people acting in good faith but will only be satisfied when the monarchy is dissolved completely.

    +1
    The bitch was wearing a wire. As you do when going to tea.

    (the full details of Ms. Headley/Fulani’s attire/accent etc have been all over pommy twitter)

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  50. Marlene Headley, alias Ngozi Fulani
    is a piece of shit

    And the “royals”, root and branch have been royally conned.

    She’s made a fool of the King and the Heir.

    Didn’t take much, did it?

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  51. Lady Hussey might have been more tactful

    I still don’t understand why asking someone where they are from is considered to be bad manners. I know people tend to get antsy about it but the question is an expression of interest and hardly consists of some racial slight. Seems to be about bullying people that are trying to be friendly.

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  52. I had my nails done today, and the pretty young woman sitting opposite me doing my nails was clearly from somewhere in Asia and had an accent so, I asked her….

    “Where are you from?”

    She answered…”Vietnam”

    And I then asked….”North or South Vietnam?”

    She answered… “South Vietnam, from “Ho Chi Minh City” and I said “Saigon”, and she smiled and said “yes, that is its real name”.

    We then proceeded to have an interesting conversation about South Vietnam, the Vietnam war, how her grandparents, who were business owners in 1975 when the Communists took over, were deemed class traitors and spent time in prison. She described how she has lots of relatives in the US, France and here in Oz. She then said how much she hates communism and loves the freedom here and I thought to myself, maybe there is hope for this country, from people like her, who come here, work hard, are aspirational. It’s her vote the Liberal Party should be courting.

    And when my nails were done (they look fab, painted “duck egg blue”), I walked back to the office and I thought to myself, that’s what happens when you ask someone “where are you from”, you end up having a wonderful conversations with a woman who is an asset to this country, and that was poor Lady Susan’s bad luck, she tried to have a conversation with a hideous, narcissistic, vulgar, parasitic, UK loathing Marxist race grifter.

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  53. Civil contractors and contract miners are often 1 project away from oblivion. Better it is done in private as Multiplex found out to their detriment.

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  54. Helen says: December 2, 2022 at 11:57 pm
    William is 40 years old and old enough to know fake from fact, right from wrong.
    He chose to take the easy way out. He let Grannies best and loyal friend take the fall for him.
    Hiding behind the skirts of an old woman. Contemptuous.

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  55. “Zipstersays:
    December 5, 2022 at 8:51 pm
    Marlene Headley, alias Ngozi Fulani

    is a piece of shit”

    Correct, and that’s probably still too complimentary.

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  56. Cassie of Sydney says: December 2, 2022 at 7:36 pm
    As for Prince William, jumping on the bandwagon and demanding Lady Susan’s resignation, he’s going to have to tread very carefully here. If he wants to ally himself with woke progressive ideology, an ideology that hates the monarchy and agitates for its collapse, then William will reap a nasty whirlwind, which is a future of no crown for his son and if not a cellar in Ekaterinburg, then he and his family will find themselves exiles roaming the globe, like so many of their European relatives did after the collapse of the monarchies following the two world wars. In fact, that was the story of Phillip’s Greek and Russian families, perhaps the late Prince Phillip should have given his grandson some history lessons. Phillip lost over 18 members of his family to the Bolshevik revolutionaries, all brutally murdered.

    The support for the monarchy lies in middle England, who are seeing their country trashed by progressivism. If William abandons them, the monarchy falls.

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  57. Well yes, Cassie.

    Why couldn’t George III and Prinny work that out? It isn’t as if you couldn’t Google her.

    Dumb and Dumber.

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  58. “What he and his advisers don’t realise is that the opponents he is attempting to placate are not reasonable people acting in good faith but will only be satisfied when the monarchy is dissolved completely.”

    Indeed, and I wrote as much the other day. The royals are treading on very thin ice.

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  59. Fulani is a common surname in Nigeria.
    It’s her husband’s surname

    Anything’s possible, particurlay when Ms. Fulani herself is not that forthcoming with details.

    In any case, Ngozi is a Swahili name.

    And I must say, it’s encouraging to see you attempt too argue on the basis of facts rather than your usual modus operandi, Ed.

    I’ll count that as a minor victory. Stick to it now, though!

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  60. Indeed, and I wrote as much the other day.

    I missed that, Cassie.

    I wouldn’t really miss the Windsors not that Elizabeth and Philip are gone, but that doesn’t mean I’d welcome what and who replaces them.

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  61. Oh and I was reminded of something today, in relation to Prince Chilla and Prince William throwing Lady Susan under the bus, someone who’s served the royal family for over sixty years, a woman who is William’s godmother (and I think a cousin of his late mother, Diana), I was reminded of Chilla’s great-grandfather King George V, who threw the Tsar and his family under the Bolshevik bus in 1917. Kerensky asked the British government if they’d grant the Tsar, his wife (who was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and basically British) and their five children a safe haven in the UK, but King Georgy Porgie panicked and said no. They have form.

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  62. Roger says: December 5, 2022 at 9:10 pm
    Indeed, and I wrote as much the other day.
    I missed that, Cassie.

    Reposted (by me) @ 9.03pm
    For your reading pleasure.

    Nails it. Prince Bill would be well advised to reflect on the direction he’s opting to follow.

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  63. “Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
    December 5, 2022 at 9:03 pm”

    Thanks Sal.

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  64. ZK2A sad to see Clough fall over. Harold gave us use of an office in Mount Street for peppercorn rent for 18 months. No other charges, just happy to someone have a go. He still gave us work as well.

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  65. Justine Trudeau C21 is banning “weapons of war”. ie hunting rifles. What are they afraid of? The fact is WEF stooges are waging war on western civilisation and are scared shitless of a little blowback.

    So far these turds are attempting to boil the frog slowly , one tiny step at a time, with plausible deniability. At some point enough people are going to wake up. That’s what they are terrified of.

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  66. You would say King Chuck and Prince Bill are probably 50:50 at driving the monarchy over a cliff. Physically they are the equivalent of Madam Tussauds although they play an important role in a constitutional sense.

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  67. She answered… “South Vietnam, from “Ho Chi Minh City” and I said “Saigon”, and she smiled and said “yes, that is its real name”.

    Wonderful.
    Also: Constantinople.

    Love the Vietnamese people. Utterly disgusting that Paul Kelly and Labor crumb maiden Troy Bramston wrote thousands of words last week lionising Whitlam but neither mentioned his infamous belief (“f-cking Vietnamese Balts”) that refugees fleeing the communists could drown or be shot before he approved their entry into Australia. God bless the memory of Sir John Kerr.

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  68. William is 40 years old and old enough to know fake from fact, right from wrong.
    He chose to take the easy way out. He let Grannies best and loyal friend take the fall for him.
    Hiding behind the skirts of an old woman. Contemptuous.

    I agree. Lady Susan was being set up, and William should have seen that and stood by her Charles too.
    What on earth is wrong with an eighty-three year old being interested in the origin of the non-white woman wearing an African style of costume at a charity event for Caribbean victims of domestic violence? What indeed would there be wrong with a forty-three year old woman asking the same? Or anyone? A loyal older lady is being ridiculed and removed for being normal and polite. Ageist and sexist, to say the least. And not even vaguely ‘racist’.

    I think most of Britain is on her side, not that of these timid Royals. An apology and restitution is due.

    Toughen up Royals on this or Cassie will be right. You goose will be cooked by Marxists.

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  69. C.L., if you’re still lurking…

    Thanks for the “readings” at your blog. They take me back to my youth.

    Sometimes there’s a hair’s breadth between Catholics and Anglicans. And seeing the days of the Church Calendar celebrated in Scripture is one of them. God bless you, dear friend.

    Thank you, Calli. 🙂

    Dad always had a Columban Mission Society calendar in our kitchen and I always took an interest in the saints’ days and the Scripture readings for daily Mass. Little things can be very influential – more so than grandiose “synods.”

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  70. William is 40 years old and old enough to know fake from fact, right from wrong.
    He chose to take the easy way out. He let Grannies best and loyal friend take the fall for him.
    Hiding behind the skirts of an old woman. Contemptuous.

    Majorly this.

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  71. I still don’t understand why asking someone where they are from is considered to be bad manners.

    Indeed. Imagine, if after finding out where the race baiter had came from, the old lady had told her to fuck off to where she came from.

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  72. This was a lady, born in the year of Custer’s Last Stand, and lived to watch the moon landings.

    Mrs A’s Grandfather was born the same year as Custer’s Last Stand. And her grandmother 3 years later in 1879. No, that’s not a “typo”. They were her grandparents (not her “great” grandparents).

    Mrs A celebrated her birthday 3 days ago, at the “ripe old age” of 56. I’m her “toy boy” (but not by much – months not years).

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  73. What on earth is wrong with an eighty-three year old being interested in the origin of the non-white woman wearing an African style of costume at a charity event for Caribbean victims of domestic violence?
    She’s been a Lady in waiting for 62 years.
    Nice old dears don’t get selected for this type of work.
    Dress Code for these events includes National Dress, but not Disco Gear.
    Her name badge was also obscured by her hair.
    Hussey acted in a polite but firm way to ascertain just who Fulani was.
    She’s probably a Lezzo too, which is likely the real reason King Chazza wants her gone.

  74. My dear husband.

    We go across Brisbane to my daughter’s genteel but contemporary lifetstyle world of grey-and-white ‘raised’ old Queenslanders turned now into mansions with pools, gardens, mud rooms and butler’s pantries, getting there via the Clem Jones tunnel. On entry to this dark tunnel from the spaghetti overpasses one is met by a range of instructions, do this, don’t do that (especially ‘avoid changing lanes’ repeated constantly), turn on radio, take care etc. Worse than in any Sydney tunnel. You just changed lanes for the second time with no good reason, I point out to Hairy, who replies that he is a freedom loving New South Welshman and shall behave accordingly.

    Sitting here just now in the splendour of spaciousness and a soft Brisbane night I less than gently break wind, for our meal has been a good one, encouraging digestion. Lucky there is noone around to hear that, I say across the table on which we are both entertaining ourselves separately on the net for the evening, our daughter and son in law having retired to continue online working, as they do, now the children are abed. He looks up mildly, and merely comments that a tree falls in the forest.

    He is a master of understatement and I do love him very much for that.

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  75. “She’s probably a Lezzo too, which is likely the real reason King Chazza wants her gone.”

    Actually she’s not a “Lezzo”, Dick Ed. She was happily married to the late Marmaduke Hussey (who was not a “flamer”) and is a mother of several children.

    Lady Susan was one of the late Queen’s best friends.

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  76. No it’s unnatural

    while the pasta boiled

    basil
    which came planted in little pots that we gave a serious haircut before putting the root ball and stems into the veggie patch.

    Reckon finally it may be warm enough for them to prosper.

    a cast iron pan full of pine nuts took a couple of minutes to toast.
    3 cloves of crushed garlic
    a handful of parmesan
    one big lemon juiced
    a pinch of salt … a proper pinch
    and enough last season olive oil to make the emulsion
    then a touch more salt

    finished with the left over grated parmesan, a smattering of the babiest of baby basil leaves, and freshly ground pepper medley

    was ok … not as good as frozen pies but, decent enough

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  77. Sitting here just now in the splendour of spaciousness and a soft Brisbane night I less than gently break wind

    “Better an empty house, then a bad tenant” as my grandfather used to say.

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  78. Cassie of Sydneysays:
    December 5, 2022 at 9:02 pm
    I had my nails done today, and the pretty young woman sitting opposite me doing my nails was clearly from somewhere in Asia and had an accent so, I asked her….

    “Where are you from?”

    She answered…”Vietnam”

    And I then asked….”North or South Vietnam?”

    She answered… “South Vietnam, from “Ho Chi Minh City” and I said “Saigon”, and she smiled and said “yes, that is its real name”.

    and that was poor Lady Susan’s bad luck, she tried to have a conversation with a hideous, narcissistic, vulgar, parasitic, UK loathing Marxist race grifter.

    You mean a Black African who makes up 3.4% of the UK Population, and in America, the Black Amish who make up 13% of the population (but majority of Crime per head of Population), and who have been left behind by Vietnamese, Korean, Cambodian, Chinese, Thai, Indian, even Pakistani immigrants etc, who work and succeed whilst the Black Amish whinge about never succeeding, but never seem to want to return to Africa, where their African Forebears rounded them up and sold them into Slavery,

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  79. Push for Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold to go over Lehrmann rape trial

    Exclusive
    By JANET ALBRECHTSEN
    Columnist
    @jkalbrechtsen

    A leading Canberra criminal lawyer has called for the resignation of ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold SC and an investigation by the ACT Integrity Commission into the decision to prosecute Bruce Lehrmann for the rape of Brittany Higgins.

    Peter Woodhouse, the managing partner of Aulich lawyers, said an investigation by the Integrity Commission was needed after revelations by The Weekend Australian that police believed there was insufficient evidence to prosecute Mr Lehrmann, but could not stop the DPP from doing so because “there is too much political interference”.

    The police reservations about prosecuting Mr Lehrmann were expressed in diary notes made by the ACT Police Manager of Criminal Investigations, Detective Superintendent Scott Moller, and in executive briefing notes made by investigators, which included serious concern for the mental health and ­wellbeing of Ms Higgins.

    Last week, Mr Drumgold withdrew the charges against Mr Lehrmann, citing concerns for Ms Higgins’ mental health.

    On Sunday, Mr Drumgold was reported to have expressed “serious concern about the potentially unlawful sharing of police material” after publication of the documents by The Australian.

    Mr Woodhouse said the Integrity Commission “needs to explore whether Mr Drumgold let his own thirst for media ­attention or own political affiliations cloud what is supposed to be his independent judgment in such matters”.

    He said it was “astounding” that Mr Drumgold had announced the decision via press conference and asked whether the DPP was “hoping to get on the front foot and was attempting to pre-emptively cover his backside, knowing this fallout and the exposure of the rift between his office and ACT police was coming”.

    At his press conference on Friday, Mr Drumgold stood by his belief that there were reasonable prospects of securing a conviction in the case.

    However, according to Mr Woodhouse, “what is abundantly clear is that there does not seem to be anybody in the ACT legal system, outside of Mr Drumgold’s office, who shared that view, including senior ­members of criminal investigations in ACT policing”.

    “The DPP in jurisdictions such as ours are supposed to be politically independent.”

    Mr Woodhouse notes that Mr Drumgold has tenure until December 2025, designed to allow him to operate without political interference, and can be ­removed from office only in exceptional ­circumstances.

    “If Mr Drumgold’s decision to prosecute Mr Lehmann has been influenced in any way by political pressure, his position as ACT DPP is not sustainable and he must ­resign. It appears the ACT system is irreparably broken and there is only one way to quickly fix it and to restore public faith in the ­criminal justice system in the ACT. Shane Drumgold must resign as ACT DPP.

    The claims of political interference in the case come from notes Superintendent Moller made of a conversation with his boss, ACT Deputy Chief Police Officer (DCPO) Michael Chew, on June 17 last year while discussing the ­Higgins/Lehrmann sexual assault case.

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  80. When someone really liked the boss of Balenciaga.

    “The Arts” has always been a “meat grinder” for kids. Doesn’t matter if it’s Hollywood or Vogue or whatever else. Promises of “fame and fortune” (usually encouraged by mentally unstable parents). Pretty much every kid who ends up famous, ends up fucked in the head. Pity the ones who don’t become famous (the majority). It’s an incredibly sick industry, full of sickos.

    Now we have social media, you can x the victims by the millions.

    Tic Tok is aptly named. It’s counting down the seconds until Western society completely implodes under the weight of its own vanity and idiocy.

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  81. Furrin muck.
    Throw that shit out and have a nice curry, souvlaki, chicken yakatori or something else properly Australian.

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  82. Throw that shit out and have a nice curry

    oh, I got a lamb curry recipe that will have you weeping

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  83. Dickless not returned from his quest to find proof Trump tried to censor anyone as obuma, clinton, biden, the techs, the demorats all did.

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  84. page 86 reduce private car ownership to zero

    page 87 reduce private jets and yachts to zero

    Oh wait. I might have misread that one.

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  85. A leading Canberra criminal lawyer has called for the resignation of ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold SC and an investigation by the ACT Integrity Commission into the decision to prosecute Bruce Lehrmann for the rape of Brittany Higgins.

    I claim boasting rights to calling out Drumgold’s motives two years ago at Old Cat.
    Yay me.

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  86. https://www.arup.com/perspectives/publications/research/section/the-future-of-urban-consumption-in-a-1-5c-world

    read the report and see what they plan. “consumption interventions”. page 78 ambitious targets:
    reduce meat consumption to zero.
    reduce dairy consumption to zero

    How do they plan to do this? they will price dairy and meat out of reach of most people. NZ is introducing a tax on livestock emissions, Netherlands is buying up farms to shut them down. prices will steadily go up and consumption will forced down.
    bugs and fake meat will be all that the great unwashed will be able to afford.

    they are quietly building dystopian Logan’s Run civilisation in plain sight.

    No wonder Russia’s government needs to be destroyed.

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  87. page 82 only 3 items of clothing per person per year

    digital currency is the only way they can enforce this. we are doomed, nothing short of military intervention will restore freedom and liberty which have been quietly assassinated under the guise of a pandemic.

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  88. Miranda Devine Retweeted

    Clinton Foundation Whistleblowers @CFWBers · 1h
    “Rogue FBI employees within the Washington Field Office buried the laptop . . . “
    If there is one commentary to read re Twitter censoring Hunter Biden laptop 👇
    FBI warned Twitter of Hunter Biden ‘hack’ before censoring The Post

    Miranda Devine’s article reveals an FBI Agent had close ties to both the DNC and Twitter’s lawyer (Baker).

    How many meat patties are in this nothingburger?

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  89. Turfing members of the justice system for political patronage might be a thread you don’t want to start pulling. Especially in the ACT and Victoriastan.

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  90. What’s been missed in the EV debate and the inability of the grid to support a full fleet replacement of ICE cars to EVs is that they have no plans to do so. What they are planning is to slash private car ownership entirely. the non ambitious target is 190 cars/1000ppl. In Australia that is currently about 800/1000

    So they intend to slash car ownership by 75%

    again who signed up for this???? when was any of these lunatic ideas put to the vote?

    democracy has died quietly in the dark.

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  91. Private car ownership doesn’t make sense if you live in a major international city with a half way decent mass transport system. Which rules out Sydney and Melbournibad. Unless your apartment had its own parking you could forget bringing a car into even relatively small places like San Sebastian. Even the concept of “owning” a car as we know it has gone in the UK with new car ads carrying a monthly “ownership” charge through various financing structures.

  92. Jorge says: December 5, 2022 at 12:28 pm
    The big deficiency in that cattle drive was surely in economists.
    After you reach your destination, then what ?
    You’re a long way from your market.

    Jorge; did you mean “economics”?

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  93. Even the concept of “owning” a car as we know it has gone in the UK with new car ads carrying a monthly “ownership” charge through various financing structures.

    There is more than one way to skin a cat.

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  94. There really seems to be a disconnect between Rural/City areas these days. “Fly Over Country” as the elite like to call it.

    A good old fashioned siege might be in order.

    Oh wait. Too late. Supply chains are already being cut from within.

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  95. H B Bear says:
    December 6, 2022 at 12:14 am
    Private car ownership doesn’t make sense if you live in a major international city with a half way decent mass transport system. Which rules out Sydney and Melbournibad. Unless your apartment had its own parking you could forget bringing a car into even relatively small places like San Sebastian. Even the concept of “owning” a car as we know it has gone in the UK with new car ads carrying a monthly “ownership” charge through various financing structures.

    I didn’t own a car for the first 4 years of living in NYC and never really missed it until we bought a weekender and needed personal wheels.
    I’ve been in nyc approaching a month now. I hired a car to get out of town, used a bus once (so gay, right) and rest, “subwayed”. Haven’t missed a car.

  96. Cassie of Sydneysays:
    December 5, 2022 at 9:46 pm
    “Love the Vietnamese people. “

    Me too, a gift to this country.

    Yes and the Vietnamese people don’t call it ‘The Vietnam War’, they call it ‘The American War’.

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  97. C.L:

    William is 40 years old and old enough to know fake from fact, right from wrong.
    He chose to take the easy way out. He let Grannies best and loyal friend take the fall for him.
    Hiding behind the skirts of an old woman. Contemptuous.

    William is as sleazy as his grandmum was gracious.
    I hope the prick ends up broke and homeless.

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  98. Aussie Bush Etiquette is recognised throughout the civilised world but we all need to be reminded from time to time.

    IN GENERAL:
    1. Never take an open stubby to a job interview.
    2. Always identify people in your paddocks before shooting at them.
    3. It’s tacky to take an Esky to church.
    4. If you have to vacuum the bed, it’s time to change the sheets.
    5. Even if you’re certain you’re included in the will, it’s rude to take your ute and trailer to the funeral.

    EATING OUT:
    1. When decanting wine from the box, tilt the paper cup and pour slowly so as not to bruise the wine.
    2. If drinking directly from the bottle, hold it with only one hand.

    ENTERTAINING AT HOME:
    1. A centrepiece for the table should never be anything prepared by a taxidermist.
    2. Don’t allow the dog to eat at the table, no matter how good his manners.

    PERSONAL HYGIENE:
    1. While ears need to be cleaned regularly, this should be done in private, using one’s OWN ute keys.
    2. Even if you live alone, deodorant isn’t a waste of money.
    3. Extensive use of deodorant can only delay bathing by a few days.
    4. Dirt and grease under the fingernails is a no-no, it alters the taste of finger foods and if you are a woman it can draw attention away from your jewellery.

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  99. MatrixTransformsays:
    December 5, 2022 at 10:53 pm
    Throw that shit out and have a nice curry

    oh, I got a lamb curry recipe that will have you weeping

    Best Lamb iv eaten was killed less then an hour before. It was so good I didn’t reach for the BBQ source.

  100. Only up to point 1, and I’ve already got issues with this bullshit.

    1. Never take an open stubby to a job interview.

    WTF. Why wouldn’t you take in an open stubby? It’s a signal to your new employer that you have almost finished your six pack. Time to “open up the corporate fridge”. If your dickhead “new boss” hadn’t been shuffling papers about, you wouldn’t have had to spend 20 minutes of your valuable time chatting up his Secretary.

    Next.

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  101. This is bullshit.

    2. Always identify people in your paddocks before shooting at them.

    What are you going to do? Phone the fuckers? Do you have their number?

    Shoot first. Ask questions later.

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  102. 3. It’s tacky to take an Esky to church.

    Obvious typo here. “Tacky” is meant to read “Classy”.

    Tisk. Tisk.

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  103. 4. If you have to vacuum the bed, it’s time to change the sheets.

    That’s a Sheliahs job.

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  104. Correct.

    5. Even if you’re certain you’re included in the will, it’s rude to take your ute and trailer to the funeral.

    I’m assuming you are talking about inside the Church? The graveyard is OK. Yes?

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  105. When decanting wine from the box, tilt the paper cup and pour slowly so as not to bruise the wine.

    Excellent advice.

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  106. This needs clarification.

    If drinking directly from the bottle, hold it with only one hand.

    Depends wether you are still on the river bank, or driving a car.

    The former is two hands, the latter is one hand. Safety first.

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  107. Correct.

    A centrepiece for the table should never be anything prepared by a taxidermist.

    Handy Tip: “Or a mortician”. I learnt that lesson the hard way.

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  108. Don’t allow the dog to eat at the table, no matter how good his manners.

    Meh. Depends on which guests the Wolfhounds want to eat.

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  109. Sal, yeh was idly wondering about the business side of running cattle in such a remote spot with only overlanding as a way to get to market.
    Did they envisage shipping as a future option ? Also Asia/ Europe a bit closer than the East coast.

  110. Incorrect.

    While ears need to be cleaned regularly, this should be done in private, using one’s OWN ute keys.

    Use a guests car keys, or rifle through his missus’s handbag. Tampons are much softer on the earlobes than the cold hard steel of a car key.

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  111. This is total bullshit. No comment required.

    Even if you live alone, deodorant isn’t a waste of money.

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  112. Zipster

    bugs and fake meat will be all that the great unwashed will be able to afford.

    Nah. there’ll always be Soylent Green. m0nty=fa, carefully processed, would feed a couple of suburbs for a week.

  113. Extensive use of deodorant can only delay bathing by a few days.

    Yeah. Yeah. Nah.

    Plonk your head in the piss trough. No one’s going to be worried about your lower “body odour”.

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  114. Absolutely correct.

    Dirt and grease under the fingernails is a no-no, it alters the taste of finger foods and if you are a woman it can draw attention away from your jewellery.

    That’s disgusting. Total deal breaker when a Sheliah has dirty fingernails. Ewww..

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  115. Pogriasays:
    December 6, 2022 at 6:35 am
    JR, that is brilliant! I am going to hang a copy in my kitchen.

    There are more to be revealed. Just stay tuned to this Station……………………

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  116. Indian Chief ‘Two Eagles’ was asked by a white government official “You have observed the white man for 90 years. You’ve seen his wars and his technological advances. You’ve seen his progress, and the damage he’s done”.

    The Chief nodded in agreement.

    The official continued “Considering all these events, in your opinion, where did the white man go wrong?”

    The Chief stared at the government official for over a minute and then calmly replied. “When white man find land, Indians running it, no taxes, no debt, plenty buffalo, plenty beaver, clean water. Women did all the work, Medicine man free. Indian man spend all day hunting and fishing; all night having sex”. Then the chief leaned back and smiled. “Only white man dumb enough to think he could improve system like that”.

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