The Luncheon, Claude Monet, 1873
Incredible – but as Calli notes – chronologically, it hangs together. I hope Gaetz gets to take revenge on the…
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I am sad that I’ll miss my lot at Christmas, though it will be good to catch up with Hairy’s…
I watched a doco about how US freight companies operate a while back. They deliver anywhere in the US within…
Huh. Biden will chalk this up to his incumbency !
Rebel News HQ: Ezra Levant warns Charlie Kirk about freedom of the press in Canada after shocking arrest
Spack off, Grigory.
All you’ve done is fling up dust and trouble about the Trains since the news first broke.
You are an embarrassment to trolls.
Go to it, gypsum-snorter.
Prompted by Pogria, [who is yet to forward to me the “best Pea & Ham soup receipe ever” (Grrrrr…..)] I’ve been doing a little reading on the fondly remembered Len Evans.
He states that for some shindig or other, 500 ducks were roasted. This resulted in enough duck soup for three people (I’d have tried to make off with the booty, so as to have duck soup for me, three times)
Apparently the most divine duck soup possible.
I’ve since been idly wondering how I can find an excuse to roast a couple of hundred ducks, & see what he was talking about.
The blighter really can write in such a way that before you’re a paragraph in, you’re almost inclined to immediately have a go at preparing for yourself whatever dish he’s writing about.
Happy to never talk to you again, but it has to work both ways, champ.
Oh, I can as you’re confusing a general intolerance for someone who lies, bullshits and blowards.
For a psychopathic narcissist, it always is.
Indeed. My sister and brother in law (neither of whom will blight my life ever again) used to be tachers of the collectivist persuasion.
Until they had to flee taching as it had literally become hazardous to their health.
Five years later they’d become property developers and multi millionaires. Nowadays my sister exists as a fitter version of Edie/Patsy of Ab Fab. Right down to the twenty five year ol’ figure and the endless guzzling of Bollinger while slumming it in Clifton Gardens (Hint – FitzSimians and his slag would give anything to exist there, as opposed to where they are).
A real policeman would say to a real politician, “fuck you, they’re your constituents, you do the welfare check”. Things would be pre-Convid in a week. And there’d be lots of job vacancies for politicians. But few applicants.
JC, when are flying back into that shithole, NYC?
Bloke, your ability to deduce something is possibly the worst I’ve ever encountered.
As said before, you’re bloody clueless when you stray outside your lane.
You may lack the self-awareness to realise this.
My workday begins at the time of the first crisis (anywhere from 6am – 10am) & ends about 3am. Every day of my life.
For your benefit I’ll state something (again) I do not drink liquor.
(this is not the same as teetotal)
food
could talk about food all day
tonite I marinated lamb back-straps in a mix of rosemary, oil, dijon, berry jam, preserved lemon, salt, vinegar and a little parmesan.
pan-fried on cast-iron that I’ve been seasoning for 30 years
served w roast potatoes and a greek salad.
the best part comes tomorrow when the left-overs are chopped finely and laid on pizza bases smothered in sugo and baby spinach.
Dotted with feta and garnished with lemon juice and salt before being done in the smoker over charcoal.
home-made tsatizki for the finish
BiL’s pinot should wash it down just fine
Bloke? Is this some sort of new term from the islands. WTF? We if all stayed in our lane you would still be repairing fences and I guess blogging about it here too. Imagine that.
Oh okay, so you’re a crisis manager. I get it. But, how often does a crisis occur as you’re frankly here every evening and early morning stoushing away, joining pile ons without the “look” of someone saving the world through crisis management Forgive me, but I think you’re lying again, which means this is going nowhere.
Which islands?
World’s largest island actually. It is an Australian form men use to address each other. Understandable that you find it unfamiliar.
Business owner/operator.
Are you really this clueless, or are you …… stoush trolling?
Do I have to report you?
As my old boss used to say:
“It’s tough out there!”
What a stupid comment.
I’ve never told a lie on the Cat. Ever.
You’re bloody stupid to believe otherwise.
(As said upthread, you’re really are totally clueless when you stray outside your lane)
Perhaps this would be a good moment for you to heed your own advice and… far cough?
After all, you’re always the innocent party & never ever start anything.
shit … just checked
we only have Pet Franc left
we’ll have to cope
Frankly, I cannot think of anything more absurd than the ABC celebrating a Christmas tradition by singing a carol in an obsolete aboriginal language, one that is as far removed from Christianity as it is possible to imagine.
We all experience our own special hardships.
I feel for you.
JCsays:
December 17, 2022 at 10:24 pm
Do take care, bloke.
You’re lucky you’re so employable, Ed. Every village needs an Ed. You could move anywhere.
Silent Night in the original Noongar?
Men? Men don’t lie, exaggerate, bullshit and blowhard. At least men further south. It could be something in the northern latitudes but I can’t ask you to verify this because you can’t be trusted.
Forgive me, clarify as I’ve understood you’re an employee of the motel.
Go ahead, you don’t need my permission. I feel honored that you asked though.
Steak and rise, matrix.
I did nothing about it because I was out all day. Which is why my response to Bird was delayed.
It’s not a cop out at all. I’m only concerned with abuse that threatens to poison the thread.
By popular demand more titles for the jaded:
Shanty Girl: she craved new and violent pleasures; she found them all in Shanty Town
Lingerie LTD: can a girl in the lingerie racket keep her decency even while she sheds her clothes?
Girl on the Canvas: a scorching novel of the love them and paint them art world; of anxious to undress girls who knock down studio doors; and of Lissa whose luscious body kindled fiery, colourful desires.
Sherry: the shocking story of a bewitching redhead whose husband forced her to degrade herself: with other men!
Dover’s Blog Dover’s Rules. Thankyou Dover.
Why is this comment stupid. Your claim without back-up is really stupid.
That’s a lie just . You really can’t help yourself.
That you lie? I’d be bloody stupid if I didn’t and that applies to everyone else.
Yes, we recall the GST episode. Business operator, best motel employee north of Gympie tell’s us a fucked up story about how to handle GST. Epic. You should never have left your lane, you dunce.
No, you spoke to me first, so piss and don’t don’t talk me again. End it here, dickhead. Let’s see some crisis management.
Yep I am.
Said no one to anyone, evah.
Although I do remember Tim Blair figuratively flaying the FitzSimians for employing that utterly ridiculous archaic term*.
*Which no one wishing to maintain their dignity would ever willingly employ in any context, whatsoever.
today
I orchestrated an attack on JC (because Liz is an easy mark)
so far it has 11 up-ticks which must be utterly demoralizing to my target
all I said was a single a line
a one-liner! … that’s so fucking nek lebel
I don’t think youse comprehend the skill and deviousness required to achieve this sort of thing
and anyway, then I spent most of my night up-ticking myself (cos I can’t really cook and also I have slaves to do the washing up)
best attack-commenter evah
up-ticked myself just now
because Im special
JC – FFS – just calm down and listen to this li’l ditty by your favourite rock ‘n’ roller … 🙂
You know you want to.
Dover, you are very tolerant to let the mentally ill keep commenting here.
Tolerance is not always a virtue.
Rabz
Have you have thought about what she looks like? I always reckoned she had that Monroe look.
Where on earth did you get that idea from?
I’ve only ever said I am a publican.
I’ve specifically stated in other discussions that motels are a different game & I don’t understand it.
Hallward, you’d be first out the door.
For Luigi the Munificent:
Born to run (out of other peoples’ money) …
Victoria, or rather Melbourne, being the part of the country that is least culturally Australian, may not use the term ‘bloke’.
I’ve even encountered Melbourne ppl who do not use the phrase “Gooday” when they interact with random strangers.
Perhaps they’re all just “Cookers” in Melbourne?
Dover, you are very tolerant to let the mentally ill keep commenting here.
Tolerance is not always a virtue.
That’s the saddest fucking thing I’ve ever read.
Does your mother still dress you?
Like Miss Emily, who prefers to be chauffeured around, which I’m only too willing to do. Preferably while she’s gone full Grace Kelly. 🙂
At once? Surely they’d get dehydrated or something after an hour or two of that.
Your recollection is inconsistent with what screenshots reveal.
Meaning you’re telling a “story Shantaram made up” (again)
You get belted more than a red-headed step-child. Stay in your lane.
Ed, come here, there is some breakfast on your face. Stand still whilst I wipe your face with my hanky and spittle. Now wave to all of your friends on the bus.
Ed, we know why you feel hurt and excluded years later. Please let the girl and the Bichon Frise go unharmed!
Gez,
Ouch!
Without doubt the most costly item in terms of repair and downtime with modern harvesters is the electronics.
Mechanical stuff you can head off at the pass, electrics just fail with little or no warning.
you have to do a training course in Vic before you can use the word bloke
…its sensitive
Reddit will have an experiential based answer (perhaps several), Quora will tell you why you are wrong (near certainly with many answers).
It wasn’t a “welfare check”, Ted. By definition, you can’t do a “welfare check” on a “missing person”. How do you do a “welfare check” on someone when you don’t know where they are?
I’m still unsure where the term “welfare check” originated from. It’s either from the Police directly, or that the media just decided to report it as a “Welfare Check”. My hunch is that it originated from the Police/Media Liaison Officer.
“Welfare Check” seems to be a much more “sensitive term”, something that was “conjured up” once the “shit hit the fan”, and the public were wanting information. Six people dead. People want to know why?
Bear in mind that there would be “cultural sensitivities” heavily involved here. In this particular case, the Aboriginal community doesn’t seem too fazed. Problem out of the way as far as they are concerned.
Anyone else remember the Redfern Riots? Very different.
I guess my point is this. For whatever reason “welfare check” was the chosen narrative. It’s not true. It can’t possibly be true.
Hit the pokes
Have some smokes
Chat with the blokes
Get some free cokes
The CEO of 6PR, at 10.10:
I was just thinking about that while outside, watching the cloud seeding HAARP planes and rocks that were really trees thus proving that both the Bible and all of recorded history is wrong.
Yeah nah nah yeah nah nah yeah.
Im warming to Ed.
The downside to modern computer/electrics in a farm machine.
Bloke I worked for ran 3 x MF760 & while I’m plucking this out of the air, they’d have done 2 hours in the shed being worked on for every hour they operated. (or that’s what it seemed like)
Almost never lost an operating hour*, as the shed hours were done in the off-season. His view was they’re going to spend that much time being worked on, either do it at your convenience while the crop grows, or you’ll be doing it in the middle of harvest.
They got plenty of work, as each year they’d walk all the way down to Victoria (dunno if they ever crossed the river) & low-loader home. There was probably worthwhile money in contract harvesting in those times.
* IIRC the only time he lost operating hours was 4 hours on one machine, during the night one night in northern NSW. An impressive record. I didn’t feel fit to be in the company of someone so capable.
..
In common use, but probably not among a certain sector of private school educated demographic.
Not all, not all, but some.
Not to do with geography, but social background.
The differences in word usage between locations and demographic around Enzed and Australia are of great interest.
My old man used to call those adjustable wrenches “Shifting spanners” or “shifters”. When I used that term in my apprenticeship in NZ they insisted that they were called “crescent” spanners. When I came to Australia they were once again referred to as “shifters”. I don’t know if the old man picked up the term shifters from his time in the merchant marine or if it was from further back in the family history given we were 8n Australia in the 1800s.
Bloke is a good one too. Used in NZ when referring to a third party, I didn’t hear it used when talking directly to someone, as in “How you doing bloke”? Until I joined the reserves. I thought that might be a more recent thing.
One I haven’t heard for a time is calling everyone Harry. “Gidday Harry”. The old man had a variation of that where he would call us “Herbert”. I think that was a thing in his generation.
I’ll go out on a limb here & guess they don’t call each other “Buck” either?
For those who pay attention to dialect, “Bood” “Bungy” & “Jooga” are northern equivalents of “Bloke”
(There may be others, such terms tend to be quite regional north of Capricorn)
Driller, you completed destroyed the story about the GST. You tried to make yourself appear smarter than you really are and faceplanted into a pancake. You can try any revisionist bullshit as you want, but it’s there’ What’s the link as I didn’t keep it unfortunately.
Crikey, you’re bringing back long buried memories with that one.
Haven’t heard it used for yonks.
Arks, one I haven’t heard for a time is calling everyone Squire. “Top o’ the morning to ya, Squire”.
The ol’ man had a variation of that where he would call us “infuriating idiots”.
Those were the days. 🙂
You’re the one telling the tale.
Back it up.
You’ve a significant record, perhaps an unbroken one, of all your stories turning out to be nothing more than “stories Shantaram told”
Repeating something over & over, then saying “it has been mentioned on the cat often” does not make it true.
This would be, among a crowded field of failings, one of your bigger & more noticeable failings.
Just trying to help, to save you future embarrassment.
i remember that JC
and the way I see it in context is
nice hit, you clever bastard
was just funny at the time
Sal … if you remember it
all I ever meant was
change the way you look at it.
It is an article of faith that soccer is counterproductive shit. The World Cup continues to dispel any doubts on the matter.
However, in case anyone has any remaining hopes for this disgraceful pastime (the Hun):
Invented by flogs for flogs, and watched by other flogs who pay money to be bigger flogs.
..
Dad had something like that too. “Stop that or I’ll give you a clip around the ear”.
That and “Let’s go Herbert”.
No problem. You kept the screenshots, you said. What’s the date on the comments.
Thanks.
This is not going very well for you so far.
I’ll order popcorn.
WTF are you babbling on about?
Lol. But of course.
JC,
why?
why the fuck do feel the need to be right?
the more you try to be right, the more wrong you are
I don’t think you understand how tolerant this forum is of your personality
Further to this, why didn’t the Police immediately come out and say “The media are reporting we were attending for a “welfare check”. This is incorrect”.
They didn’t. They could have dispelled the “disinformation” immediately (had they wanted to).
In some ways, this is somewhat reminiscent of recent US events (Twitter), whereby the authorities and the press work “hand in hand”. I’m not saying that’s a “bad thing” entirely when both parties are working towards “calming the farm” and ensuring “justice is done”. Catching a killer or whatever. The Press and the Police.
The problem in the US is that the authorities (politicians) and press are working “hand in hand” to destroy their political enemies (along with the Police).
I’ve got no problem with the Police and Press taking the same side (or opposite sides). Or Politicians taking the same side as Police (or opposite sides).
What I do have a problem is when the Press take the same side as the Politicians in power. That is antithetical to their job description. They are lackeys, not journalists.
Shantaram: Perhaps if you posted your recollection, in as much detail as you can muster.
That should be entertaining enough for a few belly laughs.
Keep in mind that thread ran for a couple of days, & evolved considerably over that time. Be sure to follow the twists & turns all the way.
Amen to that.
Nobody else has been the topic of at least two general discussion two threads on the topic of whether they should be banned.
An exquisite English Brunette goes a barking
“I feel your heat
I never want to let you go
Horizons meet
I’m standing here to let you know …”
My best pie?
About 8 years old in the playground eating soggy jam sandwiches for lunch with my mates.
Little lord Flaunteroys mum gave him money for a pie and sauce and he decides to taunt us with it.
Pretty much “ nyaa nyaa I’ve got a yummy pie and you are all poor plebs”.
It looked great. Square, golden pastry, smear of tomato sauce glistening like a lovers promise…
He was getting into the “ wanna bite… naaah” stage of taunting when god himself intervened, obviously incensed at the injustice of it all.
A bird flew over and laid a perfect splatter of shit right on the pie top.
And lord flaunteroy started to cry.
Life is occasionally beautiful that way.
Let’s us know when you and your pals begin to run the site. After all it went Publick House did so great.
Hmmm
Not a welfare check, it’s a missing person matter but we know they’re there and possibly dangerous, but we send in more officers than usual, however, we send inexperienced officers and without the heavy stuff?
This civilian is bamboozled.
Good thing I am likely getting blotto tomorrow.
Why?
I’ve never commented on banning anybody.
No one here takes pies seriously.
Then a flying pig-mole-pigeon shits all over my benign little project.
You cannot see it anymore.
There is a reason for that.
golly, yet more power outages. More than one would expect. And it’s damn cold in sydenee & surrounds right now.
https://twitter.com/Ausgrid/status/1604076458439102464
Beverley Park, Carlton, Kogarah (south parts of Sydenee, Linda “the Voice” Burney’s feral electorate, lol)
https://twitter.com/Ausgrid/status/1604089410626019328
Mangrove Mountain, Narara, Niagara Park (ongoing since the morning, up near Gosford, central coast – houso land)
Curious
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-17/qld-police-shooting-nathaniel-train-rammed-border-dumped-guns/101783696
Welfare check?
I am starting to think the “heroic tributes” are a way to cover the arses of senior police brass.
Now this I cannot abide by. Look thinks killing your neighbour is Christian, so all Christians get smeared.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/police-killer-gareth-train-warned-officers-to-stay-away-in-paranoid-video-trove-20221216-p5c6ys.html
1. Gaslight the fuck out of anyone who lost their jobs due to Gladys’ vaccine mandate which was a pathetic cover up for her corrupt lover, Daryl Maguire.
2. Extreme Christian beliefs? No. “Christian Extreme Beliefs”.
Fuck these people writing these dishonest articles. They cannot help push an agenda.
Many of the claims in the trove are absurd, (is that so, huh?)
Err, why? How about we simply treat claims on their merit and not by authority?
I hope his claims were BS. I hope it wasn’t his lack of medication “talking”.
Look —> kooks
Knuckle Draggersays:
December 17, 2022 at 11:17 pm
Did you purchase a shirt?
Tickler
You have a very exaggerated view of the big Apple. Have you been there !
Pies? In WA …
don’t mind the Pinjarra Bakery, or
the Bindoon Bakehaus (we were there just two days ago, although I think their pasties are superior and their Thai/Vietnamese Beef Noodle Salad is to die for!)
For my own health and sanity, I try to distance myself from certain world events. but every now and then, one slips through to the keeper.
OK, everyone gone nigh-nighs. See you blokes and blokettes [sic] later. Gotta turn the Chrissie lights off.
JCsays:
December 18, 2022 at 12:35 am
Tickler
You have a very exaggerated view of the big Apple. Have you been there !
No, I haven’t. Did you have the to balls travel outside your comfort zone?
……Did you have the balls to travel outside your comfort zone?
JC, next time your back at the place, check underneath.
Children of the Revolution, reaping the rewards.
Mrs A’s parents worked there for 19 years (and she lived there until she was 14). They got kicked out in 1979 with all the other “foreigners”.
The Shah had just a few public executions the entire time they were there, with all of them being convicted rapists. Amazingly, the crime rate was incredibly low.
A stint in Evin prison was enough to discourage other serious criminals. The mosques sorted out the thieves. People tend to notice blokes walking around missing a hand. It sends a message. Very safe for “law abiding citizens”.
Having said that, “Western Decadence” destroyed the place. Freedom and strict religion can’t coexist together. It’s either “one or the other”. There is very little “middle ground”, other than “law and order” (and how strictly that is interpreted).
The worlds problems isn’t so much to do about religion. Everyone knows the difference between “good and evil”, and “right and wrong”. It’s all about how religion and politics is used to usurp power by directing your moral compass.
Week In Pictures.
Why bother (and spend) going to Bali?
We have plenty of beaches (complete with bikini girls) and eateries of all sorts here.
Beechworth Bakery used to be ok when it was just one shop, now that they’ve expanded their pies are rubbish. The bakery in the main street of Yackandandah has great chunky pies.
My Dad was a motor mechanic by trade, he always called them shifters and so does everyone I know. He also disparaged anyone who used them, mechanics only use spanners, never shifters. Shifters along with stillsons were for plumbers and the like.
Thanks Tom.
Time to entrigger the Cat again. Same argument, this time the old fashioned version.
You’re welcome. Have a nice day.
sfw says:
December 18, 2022 at 6:30 am
Absolutely, sfw.
No self-respecting proper mechanic would dream of using shifters, never mind those monstrosities plumbers use.
Chuckle!
I second the Beechworth opinion. Recently went to their Healesville outlet.
Rubbish that had been sitting in the warmer way too long.
Just watched footage of the soccer fiasco last night and whilst I’ve every sympathy for the injured goalkeeper I can’t quite believe he thought throwing a live flare back into the crowd wouldn’t provoke a reaction …… un-bloody-believable and aviodable ..!
media’s quick to blame the “fans” but if someone threw something that dangerous at me I’d react as well .. throwing a flare onto the pitch is bloody annoying, throwing a flare at folk is dangerous … FFS!
Why go to Bali? So I can spend 24 hrs or so lying in my own bodily excretion in the shower. You know it makes sense.
Stop shifting the narrative.
To a home mechanic, they are “adjustable hammers”.
Mater, Dad loved hammers, the Number 1 adjustment tool.
Anyone remember the old Australian version of Family Feud? The major prize was a week in Ballarat, the running joke was that second prize was two weeks in Ballarat.
I picked up a hitchhiker once. He asked if I wasn’t worried that he might be a serial killer. I was like, nah, what are the odds of two serial killers being in the same car at the same time? . . .
wot Megyn said
Abc
Micro party MPs with less than 3 per cent of the primary vote have once again been elected to Victoria’s upper house, prompting renewed calls for the unique group voting system to be scrapped.
The Greens say boo hoo
Pies…
Without doubt ‘Bourkies Bake House’ in Woodend is towards the top of the list.
Worth getting off the Calder (on the way down) to experience.
A vanilla slice to die for, too.
POTS, a debilitating heart condition, is linked to Covid and, to a lesser degree, vaccines
Good news for UK travellers
Airport security 100ml liquid rule to be scrapped
Or persuaders.
At the National Art Gallery in Dublin, a husband and wife were staring at a portrait that had them completely confused. The painting depicted three black men totally naked sitting on a park bench. Two of the figures had black willies, but the one in the middle had a pink willie.
The curator of the gallery realised that they were having trouble interpreting the painting and offered his assessment. He went on for over half an hour explaining how it depicted the sexual emasculation of black men in a predominately white, patriarchal society.
“In fact” he pointed out “some serious critics believe that the pink willie also reflects the cultural and sociological oppression experienced by gay men in contemporary society”.
After the curator left, an Irishman, approached the couple and said “Would you like to know what the painting is really about?” “Now why would you claim to be more of an expert than the curator of the gallery?” asked the couple. “Because I’m the guy who painted it” he replied.
“In fact, there are no black men depicted at all. They’re just three Irish coal miners. The guy in the middle went home for lunch”.
Spanners are preferred when you put a three foot piece of pipe on the end for extra leverage. Tends to wreck shifters.
An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
– Confucius
Good joke Johnny.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: The CIA’s Murder of My Uncle Was a Coup d-Etat From Which Democracy Has Never Recovered
Gez
Grape crop looking very thin and only two blocks pre sold.
Indeed it is.
Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán Declares War on EU: “Time to Drain the Swamp”
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: The 2021 Maricopa Audit Proved After Three Days that the 2020 Election in Arizona Was Uncertifiable
This they’re willing to riot over in Melbourne. Personal freedom not so much.
Fans storm field, attack goalie at Australian soccer match
AWFUL: Pelosi and Schumer Brag on CNN About Ambushing Trump: ‘She Set Him Up So I Could Go in for the Kill’
I heard a bloke on rural news say mildew had wrecked his grape crop.
It was flooded and he couldn’t get the fungicides on. A few good grapes at the end of rows but the rest was rubbish.
Blackouts Could Hit Texas on Christmas as Arctic Blast Threatens Grid
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene??
@RepMTG
@Walmart many of your customers in my district are reaching out to me about sex toys being sold in your Dalton store.
They’re extremely upset and absolutely horrified that sex toys are being sold openly right next to children’s toothbrushes!
This is grooming.
Actuaries raise alarm that Australians are unexpectedly dying at incredibly high rate
Thanks Indolent, here’s a link to the original story as well. Just in case the expose folds soon.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/excess-deaths-in-2022-incredibly-high-at-13-per-cent/news-story/2a33dfeeb7476765da4e237c59f59bf7
Official Documents prove the Biden Administration & other “Elected” Governments are under the control of a Shadow Government that has built a sinister Global Vaccine Regime
knockometer
UK Gov. Report demands closure of all Airports by 2050 to meet “Climate Change” Targets & fuels fears of ‘Climate Lockdowns’
That means us, too. I’ve always said that global warming is a death cult.
Are there any real charities left in Australia? Or are they all just vehicles to provide jobs and wealth for those who run them?
“Guide Dogs Victoria delivered just 40 guide dogs last financial year – the same number as a decade ago – despite receiving over $21 million in revenue.”
https://theklaxon.com.au/guide-dogs-victoria-delivers-woeful-results/
Why can’t we talk about any of the sudden deaths?
israeli government “lost the agreement” with pfizer for covid vaccines
the pandemic of lost data and lost contracts is truly going global
Dare to call it treason? Elon Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’ expose conspiracy between FBI, CIA agents and Big Tech to sway election results
Good mourning.
Calli has said something incredibly repulsive yesterday.
She was halled up on it by numerous people like Shy Ted, Rick W and myself.
Yet only those people.
And that is my entire point and the reason silly old bints like Lizzie the trophy wife thinks I have changed.
I have not.
But I can assure you I am seeing nso many people turn into not only good nazis but aggressive ones here that pointing it out makes me the enemy.
Much more so than Monty…which should tell you all you need to know about that.
We look at this particular thread and it’s obvious society is breaking down, and this blog reflects that.
And all were meant to be right wingers.
Would Frau Calli have ever said something so disgusting and utterly stupid before 2020…or more importantly, before she took the jab?
It’s not about Calli either.
It’s about a lot of things that go unsaid here, and is so obvious to the sane.
This psych ops by global governance on the people of the world means those who submitted will end up running on emotion.
Will end up hating the people who didn’t.
Will dismiss their righteous anger as nothing, and they should, (in Callis…and many other’s view), just get on with it.
Move on, nothing to see here.
I pick out so much.
For example, choo choo disappears.
This blog is his life.
Anyone with half a brain knows he’s either dead or bloody sick.
But no one asks and he just pops up and doesn’t give reasons.
I’m sure he’ll invent one now.
However no one was interested or DARED ask him.
Calli is also dead wrong about Shy Ted.
He is not the odd man out as Calli suggests, as she now runs on emotion.
This blog is not the whole world.
Calli puts an alternative view into the “extreme right wing fringe element” in her mind and doesn’t even know she’s doing it, and expresses it publically.
Is there anyone here yet to see denialism?
Prepare For Another Outbreak As Bill Gates Launches ‘Catastrophic Contagion’ Pandemic Preparedness Exercise, A Sequel To His Now-Infamous ‘Event 201’
Health chiefs call attention to risks of myocarditis/ pericarditis in children “within 14 days of Pfizer Covid jabs”
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
This is an official vaccination campaign of the city of Vienna aimed at encouraging the youth population to get boosted
It is disturbing that threats of violence are used and considered legitimate. In this video, the mascot Boosta kidnaps a teenager to force her to get vaxxed.
Dinesh D’Souza
@DineshDSouza
The mainstream media can’t risk covering #TwitterFiles. If they admit rampant collusion between govt agencies and Twitter, they’ll have to inquire about Facebook, YouTube, Apple, Google. The whole censorship regime would unravel. Better to pretend nothing’s happening!
@elonmusk
On a lighter note.
KD , the boofhead who can’t read, mixed the two stories regarding crapping Indians through holes in the sleeper with the story of the shit hole hole Australia is regards the shit in Hay, so as to pronounce me a racist…
I am not a racist, but I’m definitely a “culturalist”
I don’t like Hip hop.
Neither would Charlie Pride.
(A bit of fuel for the Urban Bigots)
Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
After doxing innocents, trying to get them suspended & canceled, & celebrating efforts to shutdown their livelihoods for years, the sheer victimhood on display by media personalities for being locked out of Twitter for a few hours is amazing.
You ain’t exactly Nelson Mandela!
I bet that the Elites will still have Private Jets and Private Airfields.
Maybe the RAF should bring back the ‘Jump Jets’ or have more modern ones developed. Also, have a few Aircraft Carriers moored around the UK to be used by other War Planes. Have these idiots that prepared this Guv’ment Report thought things through?
The Russians and Chinese must be laughing their heads off………………………..
Tell me what I said that was so repulsive Struth.
And this time quote me.
St Ruth is repulsive.
Look how we have become.
Look at JC.
If he gets called a wog…he wants to sue.
Seriously.
I get called a red neck hick by him first,……I don’t want to sue, because sticks and stones….names can never hurt me.
But lets think about going back in time.
You could call your best mate a dumb dago bastard while still fighting for him in a blue down the pub.
Yet we’ve let nothing offend us.
It’s truly a fall to cultural Marxism to let language offend you.
Why?
Because it doesn’t really offend you, and if it does, offend right back.
Don’t ask big government to sort out who is wrong by the names called in a play ground.
That’s exactly what they want.
I come from an Australia where the worst abuse was from your mates, cutting, observant,humerous take downs of one’s self, yet knowing they had your back the whole time.
What a fucking great country we had.
This is Tucker’s take on Catturd’s spat with Adam Kinzinger.
Hodgetwins
@hodgetwins
This is funny af .@catturd2
You may have noticed, Catturd is one of my favourite sites.
Adverse events in Pfizer trial may have been underreported by 10X or more
You’ve obviously never been to the beach in August.
And you get into trouble ordering a hamburger and beer on room service for lunch by the pool when you’re supposed to be at work.
Disgusting.
Fucking disgusting.
You’re not the same girl you were.
Ruthy not happy.
Which is why I said here when all of this was being discussed days ago that Cats “should do Dover a favour” and come out strongly against this violent shoot-out by some truthers during legitimate discussions of what motivated them. I thought it was self-evident: the more comments there are refusing to accept the shootings as in any way justified, the more Catallaxy can be seen to be the place of good sense from a centre-right perspective that it actually is. Dover may well have to argue this case sometime against leftist ‘fortifiers’ who would close it down. Currently it is one of the few places in Australia where people may speak freely, and not always agreeing with each other, about political, historical and scientific matters of concern to those holding centre-right opinions. Notably, it has always condemned criminal violence and has upheld the rule of law.
Good mourning. *click*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_Ladin_Determined_To_Strike_in_US
I see we have discussion on “adjustable hammers”.
These devices have a similar effect to the cold weather.
They tighten nuts.
boom tish
Nice bunch of cherries you’ve picked there.
Let’s just bookend that, shall we?
Sounds a bit different now, doesn’t it?
https://17sog.substack.com/p/the-president-king
I wrote a decent missive at 12:10 AM this morning re the Trains.
There seems to more going on than is packaged for sound bytes.
If you weren’t in denial…..
You’d know quite plainly that making sure all travel and cooking and everything is done with electricity is purely about control.
For many years corporations have found it more profitable to pay off politicians to give them the stolen money of taxpayers.
You are paying them to make you fat, and then you are paying them to pretend to cure you, etc, not directly but indirectly..
A sick and dying western population is a financial windfall.
One I haven’t heard for a time is calling everyone Harry. “Gidday Harry”
“Cop that one, Harry”, in a sporting contest, when a difficult result is successfully obtained?
No.
It was in answer to something Zippy said earlier. We to’d and fro’d a bit.
You don’t have to agree with me. By all means, if you feel aggrieved enough, you can dress up in cammo, lay in wait for some coppers and shoot them. Then, having winged one, go and finish the job as she begs for her life.
Normal people do that all the time.
See how hyperbole works?
calli has always been pro life and hasn’t changed a bit.
Struphid.
Lol, where did I suggest you ought to be sued!
I don’t really care what you call me, but I was highlighting that your racist abuse should be called out the same way you complained that I call you the c word.
And if you weren’t in denial you’d laugh at “elections” being held in a communist country being legit.
But everything is tickety boo and above board.
So if only the unvaxxed would shut up….sort of what Calli was getting at.
Now off to watch Outsiders.
For as much of it as I can stand, as being jabbed (maybe not Rowan) they are still two years behind the eight ball.
You threatened me with legal action for calling you a wog, you big sook.
Now fuck off, I’m outa here, you great idiot greasy little spag twirling, Valiant driving spick.
FMD.
Keep going, you’ve got another foot.
You know, it shouldn’t have happened, I didn’t know it happened until reading about it at an American website. Good to see it did though.
The fans reacting to a bad executive decision to take the final to Sydney.
The goalie took a whack in the head for a good reason. Someone flew a flair into the pitch. The punk goalie the took it and threw the flair into the crowd. I’d also be pissed off.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/wild-scene-in-aussie-football-mass-pitch-invasion-and-goalkeeper-attacked/
Only Black & Gold Woodies left?
Good news indeed for travellers (but too late for us for January). As more employees return to work in security screening those long security queues will lesson. We were in one over 500m long at Heathrow in May, the length of the hall downstairs and then the same upstairs. The irony is that these new xray machines will be in place to lessen queues just as the climate madness starts to crack down on the number of flights.
It’s just a game.
Throwing bins at the soccer is now a riot and no longer fair comment?
Actually soccer isn’t a game.
What the hell have I said that isn’t true?
Did none of that happen? Was the uploaded gloating video a CGI construct? Are the police and the neighbour not really dead?
Is there some oogga boogga deep state chicanery going on that I missed?
Finally!!!
Lol, I haven’t ever said I’d sue you, you small brained mammal. It was actually you who threatened me because I call you struphid Train and that you’re sounding more and more unhinged. When you made that threat I reminded you that you can’t sue if you’re travelling under an alias.
Go have a shower after you change faulty’s diaper. He stinks.
Calli
Where there’s life, there’s hope.
Then President Ronald Reagan appeared at the celebrations for Bob Hope’s 100th birthday, and finished his talk with the words “Where there is life, there is Hope.”
Seems that in the information age, we are flooded with datum.
In a way my missing of this is like what Bush did. He was forewarned of an Al Qaida attack on America.
The response to this failure ironically was to allow the surveillance state per Total Information Awareness to blossom into hundreds of poisonous fruits.
He should have used force first after showing this off at the UN.
We’re still dealing with the surveillance state overreach now.
Bear
The goalie appears to have started it. The prick threw a flair into the crowd , which is actually very dangerous. The fans were pissed and they should be.
I feel like Michael McCormack after a day on the kava.
Rioting at the soccer should be strictly along ethnic lines. In Australia at least. Unless it’s the World Cup.
Are there any real charities left in Australia? Or are they all just vehicles to provide jobs and wealth for those who run them?
“Guide Dogs Victoria delivered just 40 guide dogs last financial year – the same number as a decade ago – despite receiving over $21 million in revenue.””
The problem nowadays is the money that’s spent on administration, which has surged over the past two decades. It doesn’t detract from the worthiness of the charity. I give to five different charities. Also, the staff of most if not all of these charities today are paid, they aren’t volunteers. Guide Dogs NSW is a worthwhile charity. They don’t receive any government funding, they rely on private donations.
rosiesays:
December 18, 2022 at 7:32 am
Abc
Micro party MPs with less than 3 per cent of the primary vote have once again been elected to Victoria’s upper house, prompting renewed calls for the unique group voting system to be scrapped.
Their ABC isn’t fussed much about micro party MPs with less than 3 percent of the primary vote, it is annoyed that some of them do not bow down before Their ABC.
dot Johnson is right!
Struthpid should go into politics. Fit right in. Only I know whats good for you. Abuse people who don’t agree with you for their own reasons like feeding their family and keeping a roof over their head and didn’t have a Hartley to sell that they loved but couldn’t eat. Most of them didn’t sit on the couch while their missus supported them except for munty and bitch about nobody listening to you coz only you are right. Go sell some furniture. You’re so smart you think being called a redneck is rascist. As bigger sook as the cheating Captain Cricket.
Bush was far worse than left wing lunatics like Michael Moore ever said so.
1. Fails to pre emptively take the fight to Al Qaida.
2. Starts another war in Iraq.
3. Massively expands the surveillance state, which wouldn’t have helped; seemingly, he was overwhelmed with data.
4. Shits on his rivals as weak, effeminate and incapable of dealing with terrorists.
5. Gets re-elected as a “strong national defense President”.
Just awful.
Adjustable wenches have always been called shifties (except in South Australia where they are called potato scallops), and all the pie shops mentioned here in the last 24 hours are shit.
“Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
December 18, 2022 at 8:56 am”
Well said Lizzie.
Libertarians warned about the Patriot Act. Few listened.
calli I’m surprised you missed Bird’s faultyless explanation in detail yesterday. I am woke now. Graham has shown me the way. Nothing in my past was my doing. I am truly awake to what is relly happening. Must be off now to the furniture shop with the other fruitcakes.
it isn’t harassment when they say it isn’t
its just doing their jobs to the fullest extent possible
always property or power
reckon this time it was power
I don’t have a dog in this fight
all I can say is that none of it adds up
it aint a gift despite the packaging
I will wager that somebody who shouldn’t have actually decided to sacrifice some rookies
the whole thing stinks
Haven’t had the opportunity to comment for many months, do however have a quick scroll through most days.
And, as things are rather busy again for myself from now through Easter I would like to wish Dover and all who post (along with those who read but may not comment) a very Merry Christmas and an exciting new year.
My sincere wish is that all have the opportunity to spend special time with loved ones and friends, and live with HOPEFULNESS for the future rather than hopelessness.
Being 70 myself I refuse to stop doing what I do and will not bow down to tyrants, as the saying goes;
“I would rather die standing up, then living on my knees”
Have a wonderful time everyone and perhaps be a special Santa to someone or even yourself.
YOU VOTED AGAINST THE PATRIOT ACT
Yes, I’ve read Franklin and I’m not retarded.
True. I always thought Gore would’ve been the better choice.
Thancho a kiwi I knew years ago had only arrived, went to get fish and chips, saw the cheap price of scallops, ordered a dozen and chips. Came as quite a surprise as they didn’t have potato scallops over there at the time.
The Cat really needs a dedicated Adelaide correspondent.
Agree Dot and Bush never criticised O’Bumma- both on the same side really
Just unbelievable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_Ladin_Determined_To_Strike_in_US
He had a great bludge with Shark Bay Salt doing maintenance. Get sent out to the loading jetty to work but had to wait while loading continued. Always took fishing tackle. He lived on snapper.
This DC party invite shows all the money to be made off the Ukraine war
A Ukrainian Embassy reception, sponsored by America’s biggest weapons makers.
Dec 16, 2022, 7:00am EST
The invitation said the quiet part out loud.
The Ukrainian Embassy hosted a reception last week in honor of the 31st anniversary of the country’s armed services. Events like this are part of the social calendar of Washington’s smart set, with hobnobbing diplomats, think tankers, journalists, and US officials. Guests took photos with the Ukrainian ambassador. Even Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley showed up.
But there was something so overt it led some observers to laugh out loud at the gathering’s invitation.
The logos of military contractors Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Pratt & Whitney, and Lockheed Martin were emblazoned on the invitation as the event’s sponsors, below the official Ukrainian emblems and elegant blue script that said the Ukrainian ambassador and defense attaché “request the pleasure of your company.”
“It’s really bizarre to me that they would put that on an invitation,” one think tank expert told me. “The fact that they don’t feel sheepish about it, that’s interesting,” explained an academic. (Both spoke on the condition of anonymity and regularly attend embassy events in Washington.)
That Ukraine and those US military contractors have a strong relationship isn’t surprising. America’s allies and partners around the world bought some $50 billion in US weapons last year. These four companies produce some of the most high-profile missile defense systems and anti-tank missiles that President Joe Biden has sent to Ukraine since Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded in February.
Neither is it surprising that Ukraine’s government, which says its country has already suffered hundreds of billions of dollars in damage, might not want to deplete its coffers.
But the explicit sponsorship indicates how intimate major military contractors have become with Ukraine, and how much they stand to gain from the war.
The invitation is a clear expression of how the war in Ukraine has been good for business.
“Guide Dogs Victoria delivered just 40 guide dogs last financial year – the same number as a decade ago – despite receiving over $21 million in revenue.”
That’s an insanely bad ROI. What’s the staff to dog ratio? 5:1?
Bear if you’re going to advertise it’ll need to be a Co-respondent.
Loss made me choose to forgive people.
As for hope – I can hope for hope.
We have insanely priced housing (for example Kaleen [part of greater Belconnen], ACT had a 4 bed, 3 car house recently sell for 2.2 mn – formerly a middle class suburb with some housos) and political machinations show the future will be increasingly misandric; stand up for your sons.
I stopped off in the Adelaide hills for a few days with a cousin but it was really quite pleasant but there wasn’t any writers festivals on.
Gray Connolly Retweeted
OurCofELike
@OurCofELike
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Dec 17
I understand that the King asked for this poem by ?
@malcolmguite
? to be read at the Royal Carol Service. It deserves to be read everywhere this Christmas.
https://twitter.com/OurCofELike/status/1603757647433433088
LOL Want a job at the ATO?
The logos of military contractors Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Pratt & Whitney, and Lockheed Martin were emblazoned on the invitation as the event’s sponsors, below the official Ukrainian emblems and elegant blue script that said the Ukrainian ambassador and defense attaché “request the pleasure of your company.”
They really should get serious and start running this war like NBA and FIFA would. Combat footage interspersed with advertisements: “Uke of the week is sponsored by Raytheon, for all your surface to air missile needs!”
The ABC were strangely silent on this when Fiona Patten and Andy Meddick were voting through Dan Xi-Man’s pandemic laws, having both been elected on a primary vote of three poofteenths of bugger all.