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Open Thread – Weekend 10 Dec 2022
1,485 responses to “Open Thread – Weekend 10 Dec 2022”
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Russians With Attitude
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Orthodox lady: “We sing prayers in church, not anthems”
Activists: “But you’re in Ukraine!”Praying continues
Activist: “They keep on with their ‘Jesus Lord’! Do you even know the national anthem? Go back to Russia!”
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Ukrainian activists interrupting a Ukrainian Orthodox service, trying to force them to stop praying & start singing the Ukrainian national anthem insteadUnbelievable. Keep in mind, this is the Ukraine-aligned Orthodox Church.
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Here We Go! Bill Gates, Johns Hopkins, & the WHO Just Simulated Another Pandemic
Pandemics are like white supremacists, the supply isn’t keeping up with demand.
Authorities are urging indoor masking in major cities as the ‘tripledemic’ rages (12 Dec)
Public health officials are revisiting the topic of indoor masking, as three highly contagious respiratory viruses take hold during the holiday season.
That sounds terrible! A raging tripledemic! I wonder what the viruses are?
Over the past few weeks, a surge in cases of COVID, the flu and respiratory syncytial virus — known as RSV — has been sickening millions of Americans, overwhelming emergency rooms and even causing a cold medicine shortage. The triple threat has been called a “tripledemic” by some health experts.
Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, noted this past week that the simultaneous combination of viruses has been straining healthcare systems across the country.
Omicron, flu and a cold virus. Okaaay. Obviously Armageddon. We should panic and put masks on immediately!
These people are total fascist fruitloops.
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It’s pretty sick when mOron is so desperate to defend his deviant lot who post this kind of filth;
https://twitter.com/LeftismForU/status/1602204261194022912/photo/1
And this is the human scum who judged and censored others ie normies.
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m0ntysays:
December 12, 2022 at 8:13 pm
This is a selection of historical tweets from one mOron’s lot who was instrumental in getting Trump banned from Twitter and who ran cover for Biden in the mid-terms. What a creep;https://twitter.com/LeftismForU/status/1601718301625024512
He seemed like a perfectly normal young man with a healthy sense of self-deprecating humour, who happened to be gay.
You lot turn into screeching harridans at a moment’s notice, don’t you. Your frightbat routine isn’t fooling anyone. You are trying to pretend that just because he is gay means he is a closet rock spider. Homophobic rubbish.
If you wanted to know how far m0nty=fa would go to defend one of his ilk, this gives an indication, but does not necessarily set the outer limits.
The fascist left, defending the indefensible when it is their side.
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Can I make a suggestion? I know Cronkite has given it 5 / 5 stars but he’s always a late comer.
Not at all. I was advocating Deadwood while you were busy shorting.
Yellowstone is magnificent. It’s about basic US values which include what I would call pragmatic conservatism: John Dutton and his family exalt the land but recognise it must be used and that nature is not benevolent. The concept of family is the other pillar of this show. It’s about as unwoke as you can get and its sentimentality comes with a smack in the mouth every time.
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Under the government’s just announced new covid regime for 2023 you’ll need a GP referral just to access a PCR test.
The virus will be treated “like any other respiratory disease outbreak.”
In other words, they’re going to do what they should have done in the beginning according to then existing pandemic protocols.
I suppose we should be grateful, but without a measure of justice for the damage done by the politicians and the epidemiologsts and health bureaucrats who advised them it feels like a hollow victory.
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Pathetic that we’ve reached a point where this is a serious threat.
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If you wanted to know how far m0nty=fa would go to defend one of his ilk
he’s pretty fucking stupid
generally mUnty likes to play Mr Guilt By Association
and is forever on this forum saying stupid shit like “if you defend x, then you’re a bad person”you’ll never be able back outta this mUnty … ever
does your wife know that you defend pederasts ?
sorry … does your wife know that you champion the rights of queer fuckers to negotiate sex with kiddies online?
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Two police officers allegedly shot dead at Queensland property
Two police officers are dead after they came under attack, reportedly by gunmen wearing camouflage, on the western Darling Downs. -
Parachutist who leapt from edge of space dies aged 94
By Will Pavia
The Times
5:35PM December 12, 2022
2 CommentsJoseph Kittinger Jr was a decorated fighter pilot, a prisoner of war who survived 11 months in the “Hanoi Hilton” and a balloonist who set a world record by flying 3200km across America while ditching all his ballast, landing in his underwear.
These were not nearly his most talked-about adventures. Colonel Kittinger, whose death at the age of 94 was announced at the weekend, was best known as the longtime record holder for the highest parachute jump: a leap into the unknown at the start of the space age to test whether anyone could survive outside an aircraft 30km above the earth.
In 1960, after rising in a gondola beneath a helium balloon to 31,333m above New Mexico, he stepped out and almost reached the speed of sound before the lower atmosphere slowed his descent and he could open his chute.
It was the last of three experimental jumps to test whether military pilots might survive an ejection in the stratosphere. “Some people say never volunteer,” Colonel Kittinger told Forbes magazine years later. “I say always volunteer. Every great thing I ever did was because I volunteered. I’d be in a room and the boss would say we need a volunteer for this and I’d be the only one to stick my hand up. I’d think: ‘Gosh, what’s wrong with me?’ But I ended up with some very interesting projects.”
John Mica, 79, a former congressman, said his friend Colonel Kittinger died from lung cancer. The US Parachute Association hailed the colonel’s “long, lonely leap”, which set a record that stood for 52 years until 2012 when Felix Baumgartner, an Austrian skydiver, jumped from 38,969m with Colonel Kittinger serving as an adviser.
Colonel Kittinger had cheated death, however, on one of his three jumps in 1960. A stabiliser chute became tangled round his neck as he fell and he passed out. He woke again when a reserve chute opened a mile above the ground. He said he thought he was dead but when he saw the parachute’s canopy above him he realised that he was “impossibly, wonderfully, alive”.
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I had a lunch today at the pub
the food was shiite but the company was good.there are some forums where your’e like a god and people hang on yr every word.
parts of my little world are like that
I’m the old man
the oracle
the bloke that makes people shit themselves when I enter the roomthe two younger guys, business partners, both have young kids
they’re like proto-me
one of those guys … I remember when he was a toddler
and I know his old man
and my business partner is still close friends with him too.the young guns bought the political subjects up
they held forth on topics controversial.
you know the ones that mUnty defends
and speaking of the ‘real-world’
let’s just say that these young entrepreneurs are not exactly on-board with munty’s version of reality
in any way what-so-everI just added a few measured stoic truths … and they lapped that shit up.
mUnty your ilk needn’t worry about me
… we all know who’s gonna cut off yr balls and bury you
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Roger:
Reports a California lab has achieved a fusion “breakthrough”.
Early days, but I’m hoping against hope it’s true, if only because it could make windmills and solar panels economically redundant and see some bad people lose a lot of money.I’ll wait for them to start hooking up the lines first.
Even if Aliens were to turn up tomorrow and offer to sell us Zero Point Energy generators powerful enough to run a household, government would not allow us to have them unless they could control the off/on switch.
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C.L.says:
December 12, 2022 at 9:25 pm
Rita P really hammered Chris Smith on her show.
He should never come back to Sky, she says.
Her furious demeanor suggests that whatever happened was pretty bad.”Yes, watched it too. Rita is usually quite circumspect, I suspect Smith’s behaviour wasn’t wasn’t pleasant.
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I think Zippy posted on this upstream a bit earlier:
Sky News host Paul Murray says multiple police officers have been shot in an altercation with potentially two gunmen in the Western Downs in Queensland.
Two officers have been killed in the incident, according to the Courier Mail.
Multiple police officers shot during incident in Wieambilla, Queensland -
hahahah…
Why wont the serfs shiver in the dark and cold to save the planet Janet???
The rising cost of powering and heating homes is spawning the least efficient forms of energy back into the game.
This was supposed to be the year Ireland got serious about protecting its bogs but some of those hopes are wafting up in smoke as households burn peat to save on energy bills.
The soaring cost of oil and gas has reinvigorated the ancient practice of cutting and burning turf, a fuel that hurts the environment but can save a family thousands of euros, especially as temperatures drop to freezing.
Earlier this year the government introduced curbs to peat cutting to protect Ireland’s bogs – which are important carbon sinks and sources of biodiversity – but Europe’s energy crisis has boosted what is supposed to be an anachronism. It costs approximately €500 to heat a household with peat for a year versus several thousand euros for more climate-friendly sources of energy.…
In other news, water wet/fire burn…
Niall Ó Brolcháin, a researcher at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at the National University of Ireland, said consumers faced a pinch point. “The financial factor is a much stronger motivation than saving the planet. People are facing an immediate crisis.”
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Schadenboner, its not just for breakfast anymore
Meanwhile people across Europe are turning to solid fuels, with Germany experiencing a wave of thefts of trees and woodpiles in forests.
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I have very serious doubts this chap is correct in his final assumption.
Marc Ó Cathasaigh, a member of parliament with the Green party, which is part of the ruling coalition, also cited anecdotal evidence of increased turf cutting. Though hard to quantify it represented a “step backwards”, he said. “Our bogs are important for carbon sequestration, water management and biodiversity. They are much more valuable to us as bogs rather than as fuel.”…
At last, some green jobs!!!
For some there is an upside: Germany’s 21,000 chimney sweeps have reported a boom in business – a quadrupling in some areas – as householders install and rehabilitate fireplaces. -
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Speedbox says: December 12, 2022 at 3:45 pm
Many years ago I owned a vending machine business. Had lots of machines and in those days it was all cash via coins (before note/card readers). At the end of each day I would have a few of those bank issued cloth bags full of coins that I would lug home and had to count out the coins into those small bank issued plastic bags.The operator of the vending machine run who handled my pool tables & jukebox did the run in an F350, fully kitted out with lockboxes under the tray.
(This would be quite some years ago)His harvest was gold coins only & he was carrying a helluva lot of $2 and $1 coins. The lockboxes kept them secure & helped distribute the weight for better travelling (the run was a couple of thousand km)
He had the machinery to sort, count, & bag the coins. I used to swap him for $50 notes for most of his load, this helped us both. He’d have enough coins by the end of the run & his bank (NAB) was at the time penalising customers for depositing coins – (at the peak assholery point they charged 10% of coins deposited as a fee.)
He operation of the tables & jukeboxes down to a smooth art. Timers on them would reveal the date/time of any event (eg vandalism to a jukebox). On occasion this timestamp was sufficient info for a mine to know who was in the frame for the vandalism & sack them.
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Speedbox says: December 12, 2022 at 3:45 pm
In those days the bank used to weigh my bags of coins and compare that weight with bags of their own. But I was always bemused because the scales weren’t electronic – it looked like somebody had brought their mother’s kitchen scales to work.Never saw balance scales used in a bank. I’d have been around in those days, but too poor to be a commercial customer, especially with coins.
Can image they were razor sharp accurate – I’ve used similar scales to measure powder for hand-loading ammo. Weights that are nothing more than a shaving of aluminium (or so they seem)
One day years ago I was in the queue at a bank & in front of me was someone with a vending machine business making a wheelbarrow-sized deposit in coin of every denomination.
It was painfully slow as the teller was opening every bag andhandcounting it.Eventually the manager came out & said, way too loud coz we all heard it, “Farq this! Just count a couple of bags & if they balance correctly, just accept the rest at face value, if there’s any shortages it’ll be the loss of whichever customer gets them in a change order, farq this, this is bullsheet, farq”
He was right & I agree with him, though he shouldn’t have said it so loud, as there was bound to be some snowflake listening who found his attitude a bit too confrontational.
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In those days the bank used to weigh my bags of coins and compare that weight with bags of their own. But I was always bemused because the scales weren’t electronic – it looked like somebody had brought their mother’s kitchen scales to work.
Speedbox, I can see the possible reason. In those those days, fitting out every branch with a new gizmo would have cost a few bickies. Then imagine the maintenance cost because it’s always a good idea to provision when humans and fairly delicate machines interact. Sometimes near enough is just good enough, if you know what I mean.
Cost of fitting out every branch: circa $2,000
(or a fraction of what they waste of furniture when they toss out perfectly good desks & chairs coz head office orders an unneeded replacement)Maintenance cost: circa zero.
Any suggestion “near enough is good enough” can come only from one who has neither used nor has any idea of the accuracy of balance scales or electronic coin & note scales.
Both methods are extremely accurate. The electronic scales are however much faster & have the ability to print reports.Banks were very late adopters of coin/note weighing technology. I’d have been using electronic scales for nearly ten years before banks dragged their tired elephantine carcase into the 21st century & got some.
It was frustrating to watch tellers count by hand, taking up to 3/4 of an hour (okay in extreme) to count & recount with at times endless errors (tellers ain’t what they used to be) what I’d counted correctly in a couple of minutes. -
Key details curated by me from the Courier Mail (Brisbane)
Article posted 20 mins ago:Two police officers and a member of the public have been killed after they were ambushed on the western Darling Downs, understood to be by two gunmen wearing camouflage.
The police officers killed in the execution-style shooting are a 29-year-old male and 26-year-old female.
After they were shot, it’s understood the gunmen stood over the officers and fired further rounds into them again.Four police officers attended an incident on Wains Rd, Wieambilla, south of Chinchilla about 4.40pm.
Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll, addressing the media tonight, said the offenders were yet to be taken into custody.
Two officers managed to escape.
A male officer suffered a gunshot wound to the leg and was rushed to Chinchilla Hospital.
A female officer who managed to escape was forced to hide on the property before she was rescued by back-up officers.It was also understood a fire was also lit at the property.
The Special Emergency Response Team has been sent into the property.
The bodies of the two officers have been retrieved by a large contingent of police.The officers were sent to the property relating to a missing persons report.
It’s understood the request to attend the property was made by New South Wales Police for a missing person’s case. -
Here it is in clear, for those who find italics painful to read:
(from the Courier Mail)Two police officers and a member of the public have been killed after they were ambushed on the western Darling Downs, understood to be by two gunmen wearing camouflage.
The police officers killed are a 29-year-old male and 26-year-old female.
After they were shot, it’s understood the gunmen stood over the officers and fired further rounds into them.Four police officers attended an incident on Wains Rd, Wieambilla, south of Chinchilla about 4.40pm.
Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll said the offenders were yet to be taken into custody.
Two officers managed to escape.
A male officer suffered a gunshot wound to the leg and was rushed to Chinchilla Hospital.
A female officer who managed to escape was forced to hide on the property before she was rescued by back-up officers.
It’s understood police-issued Glocks were taken from the officers after they were shot.
It was also understood a fire was also lit at the property.
The Special Emergency Response Team has been sent into the property.
The bodies of the two officers have been retrieved by a large contingent of police.
The officers were sent to the property relating to a missing persons report.
It’s understood the request to attend the property was made by New South Wales Police for a missing person’s case.
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Crikey, these bastards really meant it:
4 x police officers approach the house. (2 x male, 2 x female)
When the police draw near, 2 x baddies from the house open fire.
3 x police are wounded by the gunfire & fall to the ground.
1 x police (girl) bolts into the surrounding timber.2 x baddies walk up to the wounded cops laying on the ground.
2 x baddies stand over the wounded cops & shoot them dead.1 x wounded cop manages to wriggle away to the car & drives away, raises alarm.
1 x girl cop is somewhere in the surrounding timber.
2 x baddies set the bush afire, so the girl cop either comes out to be shot, or burns.
Shitloads of other cops turn up (some time may have passed) rescue girl copper & recover the dead police.
1 x neighbour has managed to somehow get shot dead in all this gunfire.
2 x baddies still on the run.
These bastards really mean business alright.
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Two years ago I would have had great sympathy for the Police killed. After covid and the actions of Australian police not so much. I won’t forget the police’s total disdain for citizens over the last 2 years.
Qld police weren’t quite as bad as the NSW & Vic mongrels.
However, everything is relative, I’ve at least one (possibly more) videos of QPlod body slamming a middle class suburban housewife to the ground – for walking her dog around the block, just like she’d always done.
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Indolentsays:
December 12, 2022 at 11:12 pm
Brilliant. These morons are that shit scared of dying from ‘climate change’ they now want to starve everyone to death into saving the planet.The people actually running things are well aware that climate change is a fake. This is what you could call engineered famine.
Don’t leftards still babble on occasionally about ther eeeeevvviillll Poms “engineering” the 1943 Bengal famine? Yet here they are, engineering a bigger famine of their own.
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Where there is smoke, there is fire! The big question nobody is asking is who appointed one of these deranged psychopaths as a principal of a kids school? Has that person/those people still have a job? If so, why? How many other unstable lunatics are in charge of kids at school? Why no concentrated demand for a public inquiry (think Royal Commission into child abuse?) inflicted by education bureaucrats promoting sociopaths into kids schools?
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The oracle. The god.
FMD.
MatrixTransform says:
December 12, 2022 at 9:37 pmI had a lunch today at the pub
the food was shiite but the company was good.there are some forums where your’e like a god and people hang on yr every word.
parts of my little world are like that
I’m the old man
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Where there is smoke, there is fire! The big question nobody is asking is who appointed one of these deranged psychopaths as a principal of a kids school?
if you read the comments from ppl at his school, he was well respected and liked. clearly these ppl were pushed beyond their ability to cope and struck out at what they considered the representative of their condition.
maybe they weren’t smart enough to question some of the wilder conspiracies, but every day we see the media call ppl conspiracy theorists over what we know are gov nudging, psy ops and just plain lies.
many ppl on social media are quite happy to say never forget, never forgive, but its just meaningless words because the ppl in power don’t give a shit, are not scared of you and have enough sheep to get re-elected. and even if one side does get kicked out the other side is just as pathetic.
the ppl in power are not interested in having any fingers pointed at them, will never take any responsibility and will just abuse the incident to keep pushing their unstated political agendas, just like they do with everything.
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