Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence, Caravaggio, 1609
Thank you, Sal.
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Carnivore diet .)
Explosive moment Clementine Ford throws legal documents over the fence as she is served a defamation concerns notice from Jane…
Here’s a Luigi link I posted earlier .. Luigi .. a memes collection .. LOL! https://twitter.com/BillboardChris/status/1782984206542340526
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It’s not over until the fat lady in the appeals court sings, Dover. I’m not sure, but it could end up in the SCOTUS?
Oi, Rabz! I listened to Hitchhikers Guide when I was working at Mt Morgan. ABC RN repeated it at 11 pm for two weeks in 1981. Which let me listen to each episode before I went on night shift. Resistance is useless!
Dave Warner should think of those poor bastards who had to bat with Graeme Wood. Then he’d know about mental health.
Another Christmas Day done and dusted…the feast will continue well into the New Year.
We were all packed into my daughter’s Sydney rental, eight adults, one teenager and five littlies wearing paper crowns and having fun. Too hot to be outside, we all clustered by the air conditioner. Much fun and good cheer. Now home again, ten under the roof.
Santa gave me a camera bag and lens hood. I can pretend to be paparazzi with the bird life.
I love Christmas and I love my family to bits!
Bless you Calli.
“Beautiful City” ~ Godspell (1973)-really beaut
China could conceivably stabilise at some point with increased domestic consumption, although no Asian economy has really managed to do that to any great extent.. What it would not do would hold out the promise of rising living standards for the hundreds of millions needed to prevent political instability.
“Bless the Lord” ~ Godspell (1973)
I’m now learning the ways of 2022 Nintendo-fu. The grandchildren have been given the new version of MarioParty.
Happy memories of their parents playing – competition is brutal! First fight – who gets to be Yoshi. 😀
How would YOU describe openly calling for the world population to be reduced by 90% or so? And doing all they can to carry through on it?
What is going WRONG with OUR HEARTS?
He is not alone there. The US and Europe are pursuing policies that are ruinous to themselves. In many respects it’s a race towards the bottom at present. Although no matter what, the US will manage to remain on top of the heap, without a doubt. But it looks all ugly over coming years.
Thanks Pogria. Truth be told, it’s either Second Childhood…or I never really grew up.
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Calli, if growing up means not being able to have fun with the little ones, then you have made the only choice possible. 🙂
Indolent,
Dean Cain’s comeback was pure mastery.
You couldn’t pay me to drink the US version (not that I’ve done much travelling lately). It’s been like that since the New Coke debacle. When they said that Classic Coke was the original version they lied. What else is new.
Join the club, Sweetie! 🙂
King Tampon is a WEF disciple. You could him its kingpin.
Ruinous to the masses, yes, but ruinous to the elites?
They don’t expect to suffer the consequences of their green policies. The rort of using “carbon credits” to “offset” the “carbon footprint” of their lifestyles is an indicator of that.
QGC has a woeful name among landholders in Queensland. If a fraction of the first hand annecdotes I have been told by drillers, wireline loggers and professionals are true, then deserved so. The buyout by British Gas did curb some of these excesses but reputations so far lost are never recovered.
On Trains, lotsa arse covering going on now hard to see that changing. Pig shooters are interesting angle, these kind of feral f@%&wits are a problem everywhere. Know of a case near Townsville where they were cutting through fences, were caught out by hidden cameras. Idiots left numberplates on & it wasn’t hard to track them.
Next radio show theme, cats.
Albums.
Here’s a taster:
Remain in Light
They don’t expect to suffer the consequences of their green policies. The rort of using “carbon credits” to “offset” the “carbon footprint” of their lifestyles is an indicator of that.
No they certainly don’t- it shows their complete disconnect from the real economy and wealth creation.
If Peter Zeihan is right, China is done and dusted. He reckons the age pyramid turned about a decade ago, and the population was over-estimated by about 200 million plus. The provincial governments lied in order to receive more funding from the central government. They’re fucked and in a very bad position. We may have already seen peak China.
That Train thing showed it certainly is another world once you leave Collins St and St Georges Tce.
The unpopularity of Harry & Meghan could be a bellwether of where the general public is heading, particularly as times get harder for ordinary people. A lot of issues involved, to be sure, but their hypocrisy is front and centre.
I dunno, I drink Coke Zero and have it a few times a week. I kept asking for Coke zero or Coke No Sugar over there and it’s not as common as here if my anecdotes are any guide. They would offer Diet Coke, which I really don’t like much.
I don’t mind their regular Coke, but I hardly ever drink it.
I hope so. Maricopa County ran a terrible election day vote. I don’t believe these tabulator errors occured during early voting in-person so it’s curious that they occur when R turnout is strongest. Also, the judge requiring that the problems needed to both intentional and determinate is his own invention. The law only requires that the problems or errors cast the election in doubt; in doubt indicates a balance of probabilities standard.
On US Coke, can confirm that it is high fructose syrup and thus crap. Always buy the Mexican Coke which is in a 250ml? glass bottle which uses sugar and tastes delicious.
The same the world over. Our role is to keep them in the lifestyle they are accustomed to.
HOP Time™.
Their monumental ahistorical ignorance is actually quite amusing. They really don’t have any idea.
JC, Dover, etc, see the comment below. Strikes me as absolutely correct.
Plenty of psychopaths in suits in corporate Australia; they’re just better at functioning in society.
Hugh is correct.
The comprehensive prevalence and easy availability of corn syrup has been blamed for the US obesity epidemic.
Cats, what say ye?
And yes, if I’ve accidentally unleashed another trucks V trains style imbroglio*, not giving a rodent’s … 🙂
*Food pyramids, paleo diets, veganism, etc
Mexican Coke, like Oz Coke, is made with Cane sugar. The only place in the US that makes Coke with Cane sugar is Dublin, Georgia. The US also forbids them from selling Dublin Coke outside the State. A lot of Dublin Coke runs are organised just like the moonshine runs over County lines. LOL! True story people. Look it up for yourselves.
Funnier still is the labelling of sugar. Here in Oz, sugar is sugar. In the States, because of the preponderance of Corn Syrup and Beet sugar, sugar from Sugar Cane has to be labelled as “Cane” sugar.
Baked goods made with Cane sugar sell for premium prices.
If you need to know how I know this stuff without ever having set foot in the US, I am a baker, it is my job to know these things.
It’s been too quiet anyway. It’s making me uncomfortable.
Can’t take a trick:
The recycling company used by Woollies et al that abruptly ceased operations recently because their business model was found to be unsustainable (rumoured that they couldn’t pay their whopping electricity bills) has just copped a few substantial fines from VIC EPA for storing plastics incorrectly.
Getting ready to celebrate my Google birthday – 1/1/1901. Usually receive a few well wishes.
Bear, you’re quite capable of causing enough controversy as it is. Just ease up on the WA references when attempting to court* a wider audience.
*PTP
Rog – stupidity heaped upon imbecility.
Zero sympathy.
Rabz,
Corn Syrup is the US version of Glucose. If you have ever tasted it, it is almost tasteless. To use Corn Syrup means having to add a phenomenal amount to make any product sweet. If using Cane sugar, you only need to add about one quarter or less to achieve the same sweetness. The taste difference though is huge.
The use of Corn syrup to sweeten everything is because growing Corn is heavily subsidised in the US. The only Cane grown in the States is in Hawaii. So, not cost effective.
If you buy a bag of what we call granulated sugar in the US, unless stated otherwise, it is made from corn and/or sugar beet. Awful stuff.
Always found woolies a very unpleasant company to deal with. Coles not too bad.
I think I’ve been quite generous to those living in “other” States. Some of us still pine for the good old days when the border actually meant something. Make the codpiece great again.
When I use an American recipe for any baked good, I have to halve the amount of sugar used unless it specifically asks for the use of Cane sugar. The same goes with any of their preserving recipes. Jams and pickles in US recipes use more than twice the amount of sugar as you would use in an Australian recipe.
I like all the states. The territories especially the ACT I despise. Tasmania got invaded by kooks from the mainland unfortunately.
This is great!
Bluey has gone Rogue!. He is even being used by the US Military for Morale. Love it!
Thanks, Pogs – I’ll have to go back to my high school chemistry classes at this rate.
The hysterical takeout from j’ismists, is basically that corn syrup is being foist en masse upon an unwitting bunch of redneck hicks by (cue spookee muzak …) eebil multi national agri corporations and it’s not good, because we don’t like looking at well upholstered personages that hold very unfashionable political views, should they do something unforgivable like wandering into our myopic worldview.
Flyover country. Give them muck.
China will grow old before it becomes rich. Mao’s one child policy had horrific effects there, well worse than our natural decline in the west.
They aren’t dumb too, unlikely to march into vassal states even though Xi is restless as the sanctions would kill them.
Also probably take a chunk out of our resources industry too but we have other customers in Asia equally as voracious.
I am not into economics but have worked & travelled widely as well having a liking for geopolitical books that Asain airports love stocking.
H B Bearsays:
December 25, 2022 at 7:48 pm
China could conceivably stabilise at some point with increased domestic consumption, although no Asian economy has really managed to do that to any great extent
Sri Lanka did; and then it went green and implemented the policies rub and tug and Turtle are going to implement here. Sri Lanka is now a basket case. Their salvation is realising the current 3rd nations are from there so all of Sri Lanka can legitimately come down here and be the fucking voice. It’ll do wonders for our cricket team.
One child policy was Deng but Mao killed millions anyway.
Geez, coming to a city near you next winter.
Anyone ever heard of this?
*Anyone heard of RSV = Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection
RSV : Most people recover in a week or two, but RSV can be serious, especially for infants and older adults. RSV is the most common cause of bronchiolitis (inflammation of the small airways in the lung) and pneumonia (infection of the lungs) in children younger than 1 year of age in the United States.
Anyone heard of RSV = Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection
Bluey has gone Rogue!.
Love it and want some now…
Mmm…if I were a betting man I’d wager that the continental USA produces roughly as much sugar cane per year as we do. But it has less market penetration domestically because in American terms the tonnages are small.
“We are horrified, horrified, we tells ya, that images of Bluey are being distorted in this way”, BBC Studios Australia and New Zealand whined …
Ta miltonf. No excuses but some of this stuff I was still a minor when implemented.
Yes, JC. Weeks ago and dismissed it as yet another braindead lamstream meeja CCP inspired beat up.
Good luck anyone attempting to catch it.
Ummmm Florida too.
“Corn Syrup is the US version of Glucose. If you have ever tasted it, it is almost tasteless. To use Corn Syrup means having to add a phenomenal amount to make any product sweet. If using Cane sugar, you only need to add about one quarter or less to achieve the same sweetness. The taste difference though is huge.
The use of Corn syrup to sweeten everything is because growing Corn is heavily subsidised in the US. The only Cane grown in the States is in Hawaii. So, not cost effective.”
Correct. Also, the use of corn syrup has been a huge factor in rise of obesity in the US over the last fifty years. Remember, corn syrup isn’t just used in “sweet things”, it’s also used in almost all refined food production in the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucrose
Sucrose is glucose + fructose in one molecule.
Here’s the Corn Syrup and High Fructose Corn Syrup story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_syrup
Actually, Hawaii is close to the smallest producer of sugar cane in the US according to this chart.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/191975/sugarcane-production-in-the-us-by-state/
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Did not know that.
Good to know.
No wonder I couldn’t stand the taste of slice bread in the US, it was so sickeningly sweet. Crusty rolls weren’t too bad.
No kidding, I’ve never tasted better bread than this place, which is near our apartment. Someone told me it’s Israeli.
The times we’ve visited the US (west of the Mississippi only – old US pal said I wasn’t missing anything to the east) bread was a sickly sweet, mainly air filled disaster. I’m a fan of German black bread.
When discussing corn syrup make the distinction between that and high fructose corn syrup.
It is all sugar and sugar is bad.
JC, I can only go by my experiences at hotel breakfasts.
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Bread in NYC certainly depends on where you live and the quality of the establishment. In my former neighbourhood, which was largely Dominicanbut in the middle of gentrifying, the local bakery produced this terrible stuff with a yellow complexion that was either cornbread or similar. But if you went to a good cafe or restaurant you were given lovely French or Italian bread that was delicious. To find a bakery that produced the latter you had to travel to more salubrious neighbourhoods on the upper east and west.
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Saw Dover’s Brazil link above, nice. Fiji has called out the army as well in another disputed election.
At 6pm & as every night Thai national anthem blares on the TV. Very polished and with a healthy offering of views of the military. No probs, standard for this region.
Just read in Bangkok Post Shinerwatra’s daughter is in line to win the election due in May. Also a political amnesty bill is in front of parliament again.
Shinerwatra’s daughter has a policy to raise the minimum wage from 300 baht to 600 baht a day. Which would pretty well much destroy the predominantly family oriented farms and small business here.
My prediction is if she wins there will be another military takeover before she goes full term. Both the monarchy and military here despise the Shinerwatra family.
For the record I am not supporting either side. The Thai army & more so monarchy are held in utmost regard especially in rural areas.
We certainly do live in interesting times.
Me White Noise:
And then you move move move …
And you push push push …
And you trip over yourself and you say to yourself …
Why am I here?
I’m here because I’ve got no f*cking choice …
Can we stop now, please?
Well, I ain’t got nothing to be scared of … 😕
’cause I love you …
Blur, with Phil Daniels on the first (hidden) track, the second of which (ambulance) is just an anthem.
From Think Tank, 2003. Golden times. 🙂
sugar is bad, mkay …
FFS, sugar is one of the joys of life.
Re Albenese and the hard lessons learnt from public housing.
I get the impression he felt not normal. – having a mother who raised him while the father went back to Italy. He was outside normal . That’s why he fitted in with the student union who ridiculed middle australia, ridiculed 2 children families and ridiculed their homes and jobs. Joining the bank union is easy – collectivisation – all way negative against management while making employees unproductive.
Try and be creative. Do what Greg Hays from Liverpool has achieved in the accounting industry.
Wong and Gillard are the same. Outside peaceful normal society and ask the question why should I live like you.
When the start earning they live in the expensive suburbs, they have children, family is not a joke anymore and of course they send their children to the expensive grammar school.
Of course like all leftist in the so called west it’s never about a cohesive vision but all about themselves.
Finally impractical.
Forgot about Fructose/Sucrose. Did not know about sugar cane in Florida. Slack research on my part.
Thanks guys for the correction.
It’s the moral dilemma the Labor Party has these days. “We live in the expensive suburbs, have several investment properties, graduate to haborside mansions, while proclaiming ourselves the party of the battlers. None of us would know a battler if we fell over one in the street, but we sneer at anyone else who dares to aspire as “coming from the big end of town.”
He’s the happiest dude on the site. Filled with a joie de vivre.
No, I’m sure you’re right. I was just presenting a contrast. As with almost everything in that God forsaken placey you will experience the worst and the best humanity has to offer – possibly within a block.
And here I was thinking ‘The Marble Rye’ episode of Seinfeld was just something thought up by ponytails.
Swim back to where? Chermany – home of men wearing lingerie, oompa-loompa bands and scat porn?
The joint’s been a wasteland since 1618 when the Thirty Years’ War started. The entire country should have been made a concreted DMZ between east and West in 1919, but oh no. The ponces at Versailles went easy on them.
his: a book
hers: packet of chocolates
also exchanged dress watches ( I got the better deal)
we hosted this year for the missus’ normally far-flung family and the day went off a treat
phased on and off from 1100 until 1800 all of it interspersed with copious quantities of beers, BiLs wines, various champagne and Tanq G&Ts with lemon, cucumber and a rosemary sprig
cheeses, salumi, olives and banderilla
prawns and oysters with a spicy russian dressing
6hr brisket, ham on the bone, chickyns roasted with fresh thyme, paprika, onion powder and salt
(hmm, two x gravy)
potato salad w dill, capers and lemon, green beans w shaved fennel and peach mostada dressing, cous cous feta, and semi-dried tomato
passionfruit and mango baked cheesecake, plum pudding, shiraz and raspberry layered jelly, real vanilla custard and ice cream and cream and more cream and ice cream
wrapped it up with hand shaken whiskey sours and iced coffees
the missus and MiL just gave up and crashed
so Im giving the Jamieson Black Barrel nudge
and hoping everybody else’s day went off as well as ours did
Albo is FOS. The media just gloss by it with their tougue baths. I have cousins who turned out with better character than him but attended schools in places like Airds & Campbelltown throughno choiceoftheir own. Oh and they did trades and now well removed from said s%$# holes.
Sorry sick of hearing about it. He is far from unique.
RSV-
Good luck anyone attempting to catch it
Sharpen up gentlemen- it will be identified by PCR all over ER and ObGyn, cured by mRNA, supplied by the pharmaceutical-political complex and subsidised by PBS.
…Oceania has always been at war with RSV
The archives of Imperial Germany have been open since the mid 1960’s. In the event of a German victory in World War 1, Great Britain and France were to be stripped of their colonial empires, Great Britain shorn of the Royal Navy, and both countries subjected to crippling reparations to prevent them ever posing a threat to Germany again.
Gillard basically turned Communist around the kitchen table. Most Liars never move beyond the 1950 sterotypes they grew up with. Conroy, Plibbers … you name them.
Mine’s a large Limeburners. “Sliante” and all good wishes for the New Year.
Albanese did the opposite of trades. He went into politics.
I hate turkey. I’ve eaten too much of it over two days, and I’ve still got lots left. *groan*.
Incredible what is happening in France.
Predictable
Diversity + Proximity = Conflict
Have these idiots never heard of flour or are they a front for (cue spookee muzak …) more nefarious activities, I asks ya?
Sacré bleu … 😕
Beaugs, if it’s any consolation, the sashimi I imbibed last night was just bloody magnifique. 🙂
KD – you do them a disservice, Squire.
That’s only when they’re not donning a pair of jackboots and marching into the Soviet Unionionion …
Not to mention my beloved Bayern München, which no team walks out against and hopes to beat.
Leavened with the odd World Cup and the world famous sporting brand adidas, which I love with a passion. The Imelda Collection consists of many, many football strips, at least eight pairs of boots (none of which I’ll ever wear on a field again) and about thirty pairs of sneakers.
This is what happens when you’re not gifted with a woife and kiddies.
At least the mortgage and redraw is looking very healthy. 😕
It’s Boxing Day already.
Johnny Rottensays:
December 26, 2022 at 12:46 am
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Not here.
Well yes. RSV used to be called pertussis but after the pertussis/diphtheria vaccine came out doctors refused to diagnose that so they employed ddx. RSV and croup were used instead. Same range of symptoms.
Diphtheria is now called strep and pharyngitis.
Now, please tell me how “they’re different ‘cos of the different germs”.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Bob Moran. Boom!
Peter Schrank.
Graeme Bandeira.
Dave Brown.
Almost nothing in the media about the hoons outside the Chaldean Catholic Church on Christmas Eve in Melbourne’s north. Burnouts, loud revving of cars, screeching tyres, blasting of horns in the street just outside the church entrance made it impossible for worshippers. This kind of low level nuisance provocation has been going on for a while now and is obviously part of our rich multi culti heritage. Similar incidents happen at Christian sites everywhere at this time. Bethlehem, for instance.
But, hey, did you hear about a white extremist knifing Kurds in Paris ?
Andy Davey.
Michael Ramirez.
Al Goodwyn.
Oops. Apologies, Tom.
Gillard basically turned Communist around the kitchen table. Most Liars never move beyond the 1950 sterotypes they grew up with. Conroy, Plibbers … you name them.
Monty.
Can I hear the sound of a thousand Berrocas fizzing?
Pogria says:
December 26, 2022 at 6:29 am
Shamefacedly, I don’t know what “Berrocas” are let alone why they are fizzing.
Google is not my friend in this instance.
Gabor says:
December 26, 2022 at 6:36 am
Now I know, the spelling, the spelling is the key, spelt with 2 “r” s leads you to a totally different page.
But, hey, did you hear about a white extremist knifing Kurds in Paris ?
The lying’s becoming absurd. Like I say every day the meja go even lower than you thought possible. What garbage they are.
Pravda/Isvestia territory now BIRM.
Here is Dr Forrest article
oh no another ‘doctor’.
Yes Gabor, spelling is key. I almost always spell it wrong myself.
Now you know, have you a Berroca fizzing in your glass? 😉
Back in my party days, Berroca and ciggies was pretty much all I lived on during weekends.
Australia is an improvement but not as much as you might hope?
Running from ISIS: The story of Monsignor Thair Sheikh
Stopped after the 2nd glass of wine yesterday- really low alcohol tolerance these days or I’m a cheap drunk
The murders of innocent, productive citizens in the Melbourne CBD in the last 5 years illustrates the malicious incompetence of Canbra.
Pogria says:
December 26, 2022 at 6:52 am
ENO is my goto if need be, but no, I start early, Christmas or no Christmas.
People need bread and croissants.
The Iraqi Christians I’ve met seem to be cleaners (gym, workplace), very nice people and very switch on.
The insidious dead hand of the climate emergency.
Drinks groups seek government intervention as glass recycling bills spiral
Read about that soft plastics recycler who had plastics stashed in multiple warehouses because they couldn’t afford to pay for energy iirc.
Those people virtuously collecting their soft plastics and taking them to the supermarket will just have to put them in the bin.
I ‘recycle’ plastic bags as bin liners, that’s about it.
#Kurd rioters continue destroy #French cities including #Marseille unopposed
Politicians and media continues to blame “far-right extremists”
It wasn’t that long ago that the Kurds were regarded by many (including, but not limited to here) as either:
1. The lone resistance on a single Hill of Hope against Gigantic Evil Forces, and a cause everyone should unite behind; or
2. Mercenary bastards with a millennia-strong tradition of self-interest and butchering anyone getting in its way.
It’s a familiar song. I reckon it’s been heard a lot more recently as well, albeit with different singers.
Now don’t forget to use blockquotes KD.
What?
Never mind.
Ms Markle has apparently been caught red handed, some story about not being taught how to curtsey but she was in an episode of Suits doing just that?
Knuckle Dragger says:
December 26, 2022 at 7:06 am
If it involves Kurds the “far-right extremists” epithet couldn’t be more wrong.
what a load of nonsense, only someone deeply deliberately ignorant would not know there were royal protocols
Fog. In Sydney. On Boxing Day. Globull warming, of course!!
Bringing your sectarian issues with you.
I don’t know why sabreman was on the streets but you know how it is with ‘Lone Wolves’.
She said the event had soured after some protestors were provoked by people making pro-Turkish gestures in a passing vehicle.
Who’d be a shopkeep on Place de Republique?
A Kurd?
Gabor
If it involves Kurds the “far-right extremists” epithet couldn’t be more wrong.
Don’t disturb the ever so preccccioussss “narrative” with reality. You will upset the fascist leftards.
I have smallgoods-related activities to engage in today. Prep work for NYE and so on.
Which is fortunate, because although in many respects Boxing Day is my Christmas I will be spared the 15 minutes of pre-Test palaver that will be yet another tribute – or series of tributes – to Shane Warne.
Enough, you cockheads. Stop milking it and let the bloke rest.
rosie, why put up links that lead to a paywall?
Re Berroca, I lived on them in my hard partying days. One of those and a bacon and egg roll for breakfast usually did the trick. (Coffee and ciggie a given).
I still take one every few days. A big hit of Vitamin B, C and a bit of zinc are a good tonic for older folks.
Incredible what is happening in France.
Predictable
Diversity + Proximity = Conflict
The frogs have only one means available of sorting out the invaders. The only means that have ever worked.
Australia’s Multicultural Future!
You can “recycle” PET bottles as cloches for seedlings. Cut them where the plastic tapers for the neck. Work a treat. This year they were useful in deterring the water hens from nipping off the new dahlia growth as it emerged tentatively from the soil. Put a weight on top and they make a mini glasshouse.
Like Pogria, I always reduce the sugar in US recipes. My teeth ache just reading the card.
Leak is on the money. Here the children are strictly limited in technology use otherwise they’d be on it all day. It does have its benefits though. Just watched the son in law and grandson doing their morning exercises – prompts from the iPhone, natch. I heard an electronic voice say “this is for strength and endurance” and had a peek – out on the porch was dad and the seven year old going through their paces!
Good times.
This is bad.
Really, really bad.
Sean Hannity, is a cunt.
https://youtu.be/xocY0V6KZPc
Hannity* slimy booster for unfettered government power, tried to get Trump to pardon Hunter Biden.
*Also a kooky Lt Col Oliver North crime denier.
Imagine being an American. The media, government and controlled opposition all hate you.
RSV is common JC. Likely it is why a lot of people develop asthma after infancy.
RSV, influenza and coronaviruses are all common and normal.
It’s all fear mongering BS.
Look at da dreaded spike! PROTEIN!
Spike proteins are common (although not ubiquitous) in the microbial world.
What we need to do is to repeal the Public Health Acts that made the last three “missing” years possible!
It’s funny isn’t it?
The left have always blamed the colonial powers for the hotbed that is the middle-east, specifically Sykes-Picot for arbitrarily drawing borders and boundaries “with little regard for ethnic, tribal, religious or linguistic considerations.”
However, when it suits their purpose of creating vote herds or destroying the traditional heritage, throwing an unworkable mix of differences together in the western world, under the heading of ‘multiculturalism’ is apparently different somehow.
Peace and stability can’t be achieved in their own countries, but apparently if we transport them to a different country and throw innumerous additional cultural differences and languages into the mix, we can apparently make it work…it’ll be just tickity-boo.
Slow learners, or just evil fucks. The very same socialists/communists who insist “we can do it better!” and “we can make it work this time”. History to such people is something to censor and distort, not learn from.
Then again, a cynic might speculate that “the iron grip of a strongman or a powerful central government” is what they yearn for, and this is the means to ensure it absolutely happens.
I have just been advised as to the reason Europe is shit.
The picture wireless just told me that UK supermarkets sold 750 million Brussels sprouts over the Christmas period.
Burn it. Burn it all.
Berocca eh?
I saw a dude eat nothing but Jack3D and booze one long weekend.
Then, it got banned because the geranium derived active ingredient is a precursor to MDMA.
That said a good watch is Count Dankula’s Mad Lad episode on Aimo Koivunen.
He accidentally downed enough Pervetin (meth) for 30 men whilst escaping the Soviets. He “tripped balls” on a vision quest Odin would have been proud of.
What paywall?
Nothing I linked this morning was paywalled for me.
Sean Hannity, is a cunt.
Murdoch offerings have always been controlled opposition in my opinion. He’s been playing mind games with us for yonks.
via Knuckle…..
and the colonel…”Vermin Fawlty”…
home of men wearing lingerie, oompa-loompa bands and scat porn?
Brussells Sprouts are excellent eating when picked at the right stage and cooked properly. Unfortunately it seems that most aussies never really learn to cook. All the vegies my mum made were boiled to death, all flavour and texture eradicated. It was the same at all me relatives and friends houses. I can honestly say that except for roasts and desserts I never had a decent home cooked meal until my 20’s. I didn’t know how good food can be till I could afford to eat at restaurants.
Wouldn’t really be Christmas without Mariah .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/LnVhGy9
Server issues or a timeout from Krampus for naughty words?
This is in the UK
These is more but you get the drift
Calli,
have you ever read an American jam recipe? They specify cup for cup measure, sometimes an extra two cups of sugar! Still don’t seem to have twigged that sugar weighs more than fruit if you use volume measures.
OZ and British thankfully use weights. These days I can work out in my head what fruit needs what amount of sugar depending on natural pectin content. There is a very good Rhubarb patch on the farm that is crying out to be made into pies, crumble and Rhubarb and Ginger jam.
I have no idea why my innocuous, notionally pro immigration but substantively anti immigration missive is verboten.
It’s actually thoughtful. May as well start posting nothing but cat memes.
🙁
Boiling vegetables to death seemed to be pretty common back in the day.
Johanna,
teen years lived on cola, kit kats and ciggies. Twenties, Berroca, coffee and ciggies. Thirties, had a child and straightened up and cooked healthy but tasty food.
Gabor, you are right. I remember Kurds being referred to as communists by our media about 40 years ago or thereabouts. Weren’t they supported by the Soviets before the collapse?
Diversity at the restaurant is fine, diversity of an entire culture leads to the above. Culture is the ‘operating system’ of your country. More than one OS creates conflict, incompatibility, friction and violence.
Think of the ‘road rules’ example – one set of road rules and everyone knows what the next person is likely to do. Multiple sets of road rules leads to confusion, ‘accidents’ and injuries.
Can I hear the sound of a thousand Berrocas fizzing?
Naah – that never worked. Boxing Day is “Hair of the Dog Day”.
Top up from yesterday and be ready for the first ball at 11:00 then the gun for the start of the race.
It’s compulsory.
No. He’s just not very bright.
The reason a million TVs are switched to another channel after Tucker Carlson is finished is to avoid Sean Hannity’s boring, monotonous schoolmarm lecture, the primary objective of which is counter-propaganda against de facto state media — CNN, CSNBC, New York Times, Washington Post.
Yesterdays tasks completed:
1) BBQ and prawns …not that European snow food – not in 35C
2) Sensible gifts for close family members
3) Catch up last 3 episodes of Yellowstone with the above (I forced my daughter to admit they obviously modelled John Dutton after me).
4) String 200m of fencing a decent interval after the above.
5) (after dark) finally ping that rabbit at 60m with a 22 headshot
🙂
Yes, Pogria. Weight for weight, and sometimes a little less sugar if the fruit is very ripe and sweet. If the natural pectin isn’t there, you can always use soaked seeds or…Jamsetta.
There. I’ve now lost all my cooking cred.
Sadly, I have not watched Tucker since he so cravenly rolled over and accepted the steal on election night…… once trust is lost….
This one, rosie:
Clicked on the link and hit a paywall.
Reading back, I agree with those who found US mass produced bread inedible, because it is so sweet. Mcdonalds burger buns used to be similar (haven’t eaten one for years, so may have changed.) A lot of US food is loaded with unnecessary calories which, to an outsider, do not improve the taste. Things like peanut butter, the aforementioned bread, and even bacon is sometimes drowned in maple syrup. No wonder they are so fat.
When I was there, Jewish delis were my go-to for lunch especially – delicious sandwiches on rye or other unsweetened breads. As for the desserts, on the rare occasions when I ordered one, I could never finish it. They were humongous.
A lot of Americans eat a huge amount of sugar as part of their normal diet. I’m not getting into the varieties of sugar debate here, because it all gets turned into glucose in the body. Nor do I think that it is toxic. But, it represents a gazillion calories a year for no good purpose.
Good shooting, duk. I loathe rabbits only slightly more than the marauding water hens. Can’t shoot anything here…all protected. Also, I wouldn’t want to wing the neighbour while he’s weeding the border.
You’re making me salivate.
Video: D.C. Whole Foods Imposes QR Code System To Shop
OK, see that you posted a good chunk of the article – which is interesting – above. Thanks.
I wonder if energy costs are affecting the recycling costs? Recycling glass requires a lot of energy, so usually the economics do not stack up.
Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, Slam McConnell for Rushing $1.7T Omnibus Vote
The Glass to give Guests (who you may dislike) to drink from
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Or
Chouggo Whiskey Gifts for Men, Old Fashioned Round Whiskey Glasses Set of 4
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COVID Vaccines linked to tragic loss of Half a Million Young American lives, according to secret CDC & Government data
Son and DiL expecting baby in April. The responsibility seems to have kicked in already. They were left leaning especially as DiL is Uni lecturer. Son was relating a problem with one of his 230 staff. The problem being solved by doing everything by the book and then telling them being woke is not a reason not to do your job and if you continue to not do your job we will cease paying you. They have also discovered that being Anglo’s doesn’t mean you are responsible for the ills of the world. DiL has found she is rascist because she requires submitted work to be in English and the person can write competently. This from someone of mixed perentage and born here. This time last year she would have been holding their hand sympathising with them. Maybe its just an age related thing but the change happened as soon as parenthood was on the horizon.
The issue with glass is it needs gas heating. So recycling is competing with electricity generation.
Meanwhile “lock the gate” is increasing, so less gas supply. Which is going to get even worse because of Albo’s price cap.
It was interesting to see one wine brand switching to polycarbonate bottles. I wasn’t going to buy them because they say “Saving the Planet” on them, and anyway that wine was fairly ordinary.
Indolent, a couple of months ago I walked into Aldi at Greenwich (UK) and was greeted with exactly the same thing. I could not shop unless I had the App on my phone.
Walked straight out again and into Sainsburys.
This is where it’s heading. I can see the big chains here adopting this within the next couple of years like the abysmal self-checkout model.
I’m curious regarding this attempted transition to QR everything…
Does that mean if you ‘forget’ your phone, or it runs out of charge, that shopping will be denied?
Also, if currency goes digital, how to people conduct transactions during a sustained power outage.??
The Once Upon A Time respected British Medical Journal publishes a paper based on survey results garnered from 4chan and reddit users.
I wonder if anyone at the BMJ considered the likelihood of being trolled.
Correct. That was my experience.
I objected and was greeted with Smirks and Dirty Looks from the gilded youths (denizens of the nearby university).
B/s talked so the money walked.
This one is more speculative because of assumed underreporting, but have a look at it in conjunction with the Haiti link I posted last night.
Experts estimate 20 million are already dead due to COVID Vaccination & over 2 billion injured
Not only did Haiti (not the most hygienic place in the world) not suffer much from Covid, but it avoided all the risks associated with the “vaccines”. Some mathematical genius could extrapolate figures from that, based on population comparisons.
It’s exactly as we said, Covid was pretty much a nothing burger. It was the mind games and deliberate fear campaigns which caused the death and destruction through homicidal treatment protocols and forced medical experimentation on whole populations. Not to mention all the mental, physical and economic harm caused by lockdowns and associated oppression.
How many of these did we see before the past couple of years? Once a year? Twice? Certainly not on a daily basis.
Executive Producer of ABC’s ‘This Week with George Stephanopoulos’ Dies Suddenly at 37
The 12 Days of Global Warming –
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/25/the-12-days-of-global-warming-2/
Mentioned the other day one local supermarkets were trialling cameras to assist shoppers at self service checkouts to reduce errors ie reduce shop stealing.
Australia is devolving into a low trust society.
All those intrusive measures are to counter rampant theft.
Tesla owner says he had to cancel Christmas plans because car would not charge in freezing weather
TheirABC’s Just In page knocked off at 8 pm last night and resumed by posting reprints from wire services at about 1 am.
Almost all of the stories posted since are either ‘lifestyle’ items that have been warehoused, or copies/rewrites from external sources. With its $1.2 bn budget, they have given 99% of the staff a few days off – or is it a ‘well-earned break.’
If (please, no) a major disaster occurred or war broke out, there would be a couple of work experience kids and a hung over ‘journalist’ on deck to cover it.
Our supposed national broadcaster is deeply asleep at the wheel.
Thanks, taxpayers!
Inflation Crisis Fail: German Foreign Minister Has ~$8k a Month Personal Stylist as Citizens Feel the Cold
So much for Al Gore’s Documentary and Alarmism. No wonder they had to change to ‘Climate Change’. LOL.
Podcast. Not exactly cheerful fare on Boxing Day.
Brian O’Shea Analyzes Shocking Details in the Omnibus Bill – With Dr. Naomi Wolf
Death, taxes and relentless doom mongering.
The entertainment industry think the death of anyone in their field of endeavour is newsworthy.
Most others don’t.
There will Never Be a Trial for FTX
I’m willing to accept this on face value. Too much dirt of their own to cover up.
It already is…
Though for me, it’s not the average person I don’t trust.
It’s every form of government employee:
Politicians, medical staff, public transport, police, education, ect..
They are the ones in society who can’t be trusted.
Why the late George H.W. Bush is the most underrated great US president
No mention of his likely direct involvement in the Kennedy assassination.
Boxing Day morning fun.
Handle fell off the roll tarp on the mother bin at 7.30. The shaft for the handle was never seated deep enough into the alloy pipe that wraps the tarp and the bolt ripped through the end of the tube.
Grind back the land on the stub shaft and then drill and grind out a longer recess for the locking groove in the pipe.
Back on the bin and loading the truck. Me very sweaty for so early.
Remember the smart meter fight here? Some states wanted to make it compulsory years ago.
Great Reset: German Govt Wants to Remote Control Home Heat, Electric Car Charge
The drag queens’ dirty little secret: Their lack of talent is intentional
A Biden and Bankman-Fried connection emerging?
Catch up last 3 episodes of Yellowstone with the above (I forced my daughter to admit they obviously modelled John Dutton after me
That would make her Beth?
The Dumpter Fire Omnibus Bill Goes From Bad to Worse in Mind-Numbing Ways
Two guys grow up together but after college one moves to NY, the other to California. Every ten years they agree to meet in Palm Springs and play golf for a weekend. They finish their round at age 30 and go to lunch…
“Where you wanna go?” “Hooters”. “Why?” “Well, you know, they got the broads, with the big racks, and the tight shorts. The legs…” “OK”.
Ten years later at 40 they play…
“Where you wanna go?” “Hooters”. “Why?” “Well, you know, they got cold beer and the big screen TVs and everybody has a little action on the games”. “OK”.
Ten years later at 50…
“Where you wanna go?” “Hooters”. “Why?” “The food is good and there is plenty of parking”. “OK”.
At 60…
“Where you wanna go?” “Hooters”. “Why?” “Wings are half price”. “OK”.
At 70…
“Where you wanna go?” “Hooters”. “Why?” “They have 6 handicapped spaces right by the door”. “OK”.
And 80…
“Where you wanna go?” “Hooters”. “Why?” “We’ve never been there before”.
Hollywood Lost More Than $500 Billion in Market Value in 2022
Good.
A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her.
– W. C. Fields