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Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence, Caravaggio, 1609
Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence, Caravaggio, 1609
Interesting article https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13825105/Former-RAF-engineer-nurse-wife-sign-British-couple-use-double-suicide-pod-Switzerland-dementia.html from two points of view. 1) Aussie Dr Phil Nitschke, who at one stage was working in…
Yeah Dover. The hootie tooties are now a major world power.Cope! I never said it’s a major world power. You…
Why would Yemen give two-shits about Gulf Arabs?
This is almost too funny.
All Bruce wanted to do was enjoy a little snow time and get his end wet. It is a tragedy.
Who decides these norms, what is customary or mora?
Again, who decides these limits? Should flying be banned or at least rejected because nature didn’t give us wings and we fly around in a aluminum can with engines attached to wings?
JC
Ed Casesays:
December 26, 2022 at 6:07 pm
Liberal has only one meaning.
Australians were tired of the My way or the Highway style of the Curtin and Chifley Governments and welcomed the inclusive approach of the Liberal Party.
Poor branding and poor candidates have caused the Liberal Party to be viewed by many as a Right Wing Party, but a coupla Terms of Labor often opens voters eyes.
You can believe Eddie’s, or you can look out the windows.
moral..
I remember reading an article in New Yorker magazine about how Pheonix brought a unit to house a homeless guy for about that number; he moved his friends in, wrecked the place and was soon back living on the street.
A particular type of dive we perfected back in high school where you would hit the water level perpendicular while tumbling the upper body forward, letting all the air out of the lungs and then sinking to the bottom settling on your back.
Pure bliss. I miss it so much, having not had a pool in the backyard since 2015.
Thanks Blackball – that was a riverting read about vfl.
That poor Collingwood player.
I often Wondered about the psycology of the game. How players could belt someone like that and have team maters retaliate.
Was it post war competition?
These players were born after ww2 and I have wondered about what was drilled into them.
Love to hear your thoughts.
How does Rodney Rottenhead’s comment impact the “rules”, Dover?
What a wimp that you are. You use the phrase FU and then you use the C word and if anyone uses it you run a fucking mile………………………..away…………………………lol
Boxing Day is for boxing.
Not boxes.
Bom, kneel, speedbox and others help.
Brother in law a geologist in Kalgoorlie tells me McCain is real. He was telling me scientist in 1910 discovered co2 traps heat,
I can’t argue against him as he is s scientist.
Help me re this, btw I am sure he watches the abc.
So I need to don the white leather adidas boxing boots, BoN? 🙂
The Kroger/Conroy clown show does not cut it with me any more, Sky. These two muppets have been well and truly overexposed, used up, burnt. In other words, they are now vomit-worthy and I click to something else. How about some new blood in 2023 to keep the channel relevant?
Damn, should have brought my brass knuckles…
Same as now.
These aren’t the limits of nature that Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and the like had in mind.
Cassie and I are bloody but unbowed.
Ease off the swearing, everyone. It is becoming too common and I’m very close to discounting the few times it might be warranted and just adding it to the block list as per the old Cat.
They really are an extremely unfunny joke, which results in the sound being quickly muted on weeknights when they blunder onto the television (Blot’s show?).
I listen to Sky of a night from the adjoining kitchen, usually because I’m preparing dinner and the ads seriously give me the proverbials.
As far as I can tell, Kroges has never uttered anything remotely insightful or interesting across the duration of his lengthy (and very) pointless existence. He’s an older uglier (allegedly) male version of that tiresome bimbecile, Annaliese Neilsen, while existing in Melbourne as opposed to roving around the US unearthing absolutely nothing of any relevance outside of the daily dumbocrat talking points that are slipped under her motel door of a morning.
As for conboy, don’t get me started.
Although I did enjoy Rita’s not so subtle hatchet job on him last week regarding the appointment of that fat f*ck Kruddles as US ambassador.
Talk about grate moments in cognitive dissonance, Cats.
They’re building affordable housing to “solve” the problem. At 1.2 mil per unit.
May I be first in line………………………..LOL
This one’s for any nautical Cats.
Oh, wonderful – and what would shooting them all cost?
Pour encourager les autres …
He’s within single figures of becoming the highest Test run scorer for the calendar year, with an average in the high 70s.
Something that neither Joe Burns nor Bert Ironmonger got close to.
Rodney, when they take the trash, make sure you’re in the bin.
No, I actually haven’t sworn since I saw the new rules
Cheap. They built one toilet recently. It cost $1.7 million.
reminds The feast of St. StephenChristians that the life Jesus began in a manger will end on the cross.
What a sweetie. She gives a damn about the UN.
The UN has as much legitimacy as their worst , most morally deplorable veto power member or member of the ‘uman rights division.
New rules
—> Damn
—-> Clark Gable intensifies
The feast of St. Stephen reminds Christians that the life Jesus began in a manger will end on the cross.
They were pretty rad. Made me consider the Navy as well as the RAAF and the Army.
Encourage appalling behaviour and find yourself drowning in much, much more of it.
Sorry (not sorry), Cats – zero sympathy. I’ve been tirelessly working as a frigging wage slave paying off an almighty mortgage (made even more expensive by the treasonous idiocy of our beloved quisling politicians) for the last twenty five years – and that’s after having been slugged ridiculous amounts of “stamp duty” whenever I might choose to move by the same parasitic knobheads, no doubt while they’re sanctimoniously bloviating about the need for more taxpayer funded “social housing”.
A mighty righteous long overdue dose of HOP Time would put a very sudden stop to this irredeemable imbecility, I tells ya. 😡
dover0beach says:
Okay, we’re doing the circles again. What are the limitations now. Who put’s up the wall.
Okay, it’s their rules you profess. Why?
rabz
Don’t bowdlerise a fank. We all love saxon English (“Anglish”) wordage, this one meaning a sheep pen.
Fank you fank you, fank you fank you.
Do ewe feel like a beaten up old wether in a fank?
Bert Ironmonger! Dean Rusk!
Pol, do you ever spend lengthy periods of time languishing in a Kampuchean jungle staring into an abyss, which subsequently stares back at you?
I’ve been reading a Narnia book to some children I know. The big question is, did they have flush toilets and toilet paper in Narnia? Or was it the long drop off a castle wall and you brought your own wash stick? The strange thing is that nobody in the entire corpus ever takes a poo or a pee. Although they have feasts.
I’m beginning to have doubts about the truth of these tales.
My last trip in one was in an F1 from our company depot at Vaucluse to Nowra with my platoon in the back. As we turned onto Bulli Pass, my driver* went pale, dropped it back into 1st and as we pick up speed says “Sir, pull the handbrake on” as she was pumping the brakes furiously. She pumped and I held the handbrake on(it kept disengaging) as if our lives depended on it. We went down that first switchback doing more than 60. Brakes were smoking and the gearbox was screaming. Went up the sand ramp. When we got out she refused to drive the PoS any further and we refused to get back in. A bus was called in and we travelled in more comfort than the rest of the battalion.
Farmer Gez, tough turnouts in that truck of yours. We could get into a game of 4 Yorkshiremen. The one I did like but also hated was the MFB ACCO Mobile Tender, not sure exactly what they were, diesels with 5000 litres of water, crew of two. Great fun once you eventually got to the fire. They had air assisted power steering, it lagged the steering by a half second or so. Going around a big sweeper on Mahoneys Rd one summer, pushing a bit to get to the job, every time I corrected the steering I would over correct because of the lag, by the time I got around the corner I was using all three lanes, took it easier after that.
Again, no heating, no cooling and the cab noise was phenomenal, they actually provided us later in its service with aircraft style headsets with microphones and speakers in them due to the noise, no one could hear the radio.
Hands up everyone who wants to read about people going to the toilet.
No need for any Germans to respond.
I languish for a 20 year old Kim Wilde rolling around in sweat.
As we all do.
Phoenix is spending $5 mil on Affordable Housing for 200 “homeless”.
A Unit over there is a Block of Units over here, a single unit is called an Apartment over there.
So, sounds like money well spent, depending on the reason for homelessness.
Dover, we really would benefit from a thread on liberalism with a definition provided by yourself.
Also, weren’t you working on a review of Deneen’s book?
(I may have missed it, if so, mea culpa.)
Then there’s that lamp near Mr. Tumnus home. I assume it’s a gas lamp from the history of how it got there. Who put in the gas supply? It should have gone out long ago. Or never been alight.
Oh hi. I didn’t know CS Lewis wrote about string theory and dark matter.
That’s where the poop ends up!
It runs off grants looking for dark matter.
What were the sales of Lady Chatterly’s Lover like in Chermany?
what about the equity part?
No, I actually haven’t sworn since I saw the new rules
That’s because you didn’t go to Spec Savers………………..You TWAT.
She’s available Dot.
Kim Wilde, 62, confirms split from husband Hal Fowler after 25 years in candid statement (22 Dec)
Looks great too!
“Ease off the swearing, everyone. It is becoming too common and I’m very close to discounting the few times it might be warranted and just adding it to the block list as per the old Cat.”
I only swear when I write about the Liberal Party of Australia.
No, I actually haven’t sworn since I saw the new rules
There were no rules you TWAT, The rules were always there………………………
I only swear when I write about the Liberal Party of Australia.
Perhaps it’s time to stop commenting on a Party you’ve never supported or voted for?
Just a thought.
OK, peoples. I apologise for the “regrettable” tenor of some of the comments above, but I am not happy (again).
Just spent the second Christmas Day in a row languishing in the cottage by myself, contemplating the navel.
My stupid bloody family made the mediocrity of yesterday even worse by blundering into the “contemplation time” to advise me that a certain sibling of mine might just be knock, knock, knocking on Hell’s* door.
This is a no win situation, Cats.
I sell out and “do the right thing” by turning up at his hospital bedside and engage in an entirely superficial “I’m here for you in your final moments on this planet” bullshit, or I just ignore them all and accept that any kind of reconciliation becomes an even more remote possibility.
Or I could turn up at the funeral and provoke “an international incident”.
To make matters worse, Miss Emily is overseas and has been incommunicado. Except I couldn’t in any correct consciousness drag her into this toxic swamp.
Any advice would be much appreciated, Cats.
*He’s not going to any heaven, in this universe or any other.
“Perhaps it’s time to stop commenting on a Party you’ve never supported or voted for?”
Oh fuck off.
Sorry Dover, that’s appropriate language.
Gez – cousin and I used to play on the CB in the cabin of the CFA Austin housed in his dads shed – we didn’t know at the time we were going out on the airwaves – got a bit of a shock when the response came in from the captain. Lost their house and outbuildings in Ash Wednesday while my uncle was out elsewhere on the truck – many inopportune stalls from petrol vaporising in the fuel lines. I recall they got a third hand Acco next.
That was stimulated by Dover’s enthusiasm for the middle ages. There is definitely a downside to living in them.
Swearing, I don’t like it except in the company of similar men, when Dover first began this fine blog, there was talk of Chesterfield couches, whiskey and polite dignified conversations. I still hang around but it’s more like going to the pub, but not the main bar, but the Ladies Lounge, unfortunately like all our once fine institutions the Ladies Lounge has devolved into something worse than the main bar.
Rabz, always a spare bedroom here for a night or two, as long as you don’t overstay. I always look forward to some conversation.
Yeah sure buddy.
Pauline Hanson isn’t allowed to criticise the Greens.
You have to be fairly dumb to fall for this gaslighting nonsense.
Sad to hear about that Rabz. Best wishes from me, if that counts for anything.
DrBeauGansays:
December 26, 2022 at 7:37 pm
Hands up everyone who wants to read about people going to the toilet.
That was stimulated by Dover’s enthusiasm for the middle ages. There is definitely a downside to living in them.
Only if they wash their hands………………………lol
Rabz go see your sibling, you aren’t going to regret doing so.
Ignore them Rabz.
Fold, and they’ll be into you like a pack of wild dogs forevermore.
Genuine opinion. If they’re not worth saving, walk away. ‘Blood is thicker than water’ works both ways.
And I don’t get quibbling about a gas lamp in a story where children can sometimes get into a different universe from the back of a wardrobe,where time doesn’t exist in the same way as ours, meet talking lions who can bring statues to life etc etc
..
Go there to score nurses.
… when Dover first began this fine blog, there was talk of Chesterfield couches, whiskey and polite dignified conversations.
Don’t recall that fantasy, but, whatever?
This blog under Davidson and since has always been light reading.
Until the Brittany Higgins affair.
A number of commenters used the blog to libel and defame Higgins in the vilest of terms.
You didn’t speak up then, so babbling about Chesterfield couches and assorted whatnots doesn’t cut it now.
Martin Armstrong shilling and trying to rehabilitate himself after stealing 3 billion USD from Japanese investors is incredibly really.
It’s amazing how he grifted onto civil liberties issues to give himself an air of credibility.
Like any good cockroach, he’ll say anything to get noticed.
The gas lamp came from London, DrBeau. It was originally a bar from a street lamp and made its way there as Narnia was “growing”.
It was hurled into the ground and grew, much like a cutting.
The gas is magical, like everything else.
The lamp near Mr. Tumnus’s home grew from the iron bar off the gas street lamp which the Witch tore off when she was in London.
I find the idea of a faun in a scarf with a predilection to treachery far more interesting than drop dunnies in Cair Paravel.
I’ll see you and raise you a Morris Commercial.
Queen Jadis of Charn, to be precise.
Nasty piece of work.
“I don’t believe in magic, but I believe in a big bang without causation”
Ooh very clever. Your brain fits in a bucket and it knows beyond any doubt theists are wrong because someone else did an experiment* with particles that not only we can’t see but pop in and out of existence.
*That cannot prove, but can falsify a null hypothesis asymptotically approaching zero probability, by design.
Great stories.
I started to reread the Magician Nephew recently but the uncle was so horrid I left off and read something else.
Must have another go at it.
Tuff choice mate. I followed the superficial path once by attending a funeral and regretted it ever since. Follow your instincts.
I appreciate Mrs Beaver though. She wanted to escape the terror of the wolves, but not without her sewing machine.
😀
And she made marmalade roll.
Rabz,
Go do your last visit.
More likely than not, the conversation will confirm your feelings and you’ll live happily ever after knowing that you did your bit, and yet, they doubled down.
That you’re even contemplating it means a final confirmation will be cathartic, and guarantee you never succumb to lingering (but unresolvable) doubt.
I speak from experience.
Regardless, the “international incident” can still happen at the funeral. The undeserved guishing praise and outright lies, can become too much.
Again, I speak from experience.
Go.
Blame me. I made you do it. If, by a slim (or more likely, wide) chance, it all turns to shyte, blame me again. With bells on.
Just…go.
I have a whole tribe of cousins on my sainted Mother’s side that are complete dunderheads. Not worth a pinch of shit, the lot of them – the sole exception being the one that died of cancer 20 years ago.
The entire crew were born and raised and live in Ballarat. That they didn’t move at the first opportunity says much. There are no fathers alive. My three aunts responsible for this travesty are, it hardly needs to be said, complete nuffers.
Dickheads all. There is a reason I stopped interacting with them decades ago, and if I were to turn up at one of their remaining funerals it would be seen for what it would be – appearance for the sake of it.
Your principles got you to this point, Rabz. Stick by them, I say.
My suspension of disbelief was never great, but it gets feebler as I age. I reread the Narnia opus and found The Last Battle revolting. Lewis had gone off his head by then.
Also…funerals are horrible. They’re meant to be, regardless of all the frills and furbelows modernity attaches to them.
Leave your expectations, whatever they are, at home. A small target is always preferable, so ditch the rondel.
I was going to swear a bit more for emphasis in that last post, but now I’m cognisant of keeping the tone up.
Consarn it.
I have morons in my family too.
No need to add to the moronity by becoming one yourself. Duty always outweighs preference. Otherwise, why would we praise those who do their duty despite their distaste?
Forgiveness has limits, Calli.
Rabz, you can either go all sentimental and ignore what your brain is telling you, or focus on what kind of rellies you actually have. They won’t stop being useless shits because sentimental women are urging you to be kind to them.
My rellies are also useless shits. We ignore each other. Works for me.
Thanks all and I mean that. Lots of conflicting opinions there. Much to contemplate.
Arks with the finger on the (still beating pulse).
I don’t need no nurses while Miss Emily is on this planet. 🙂
Err, has a bug died next to the Avatar?
Chuckle. Duty transcends sentiment.
You old softie.
Evidently not. 😕
Rabz
Mater is right.
Otherwise you will be thinking couldof,should’ve, would’ve.
Cats – I’m inclined to go and see him, for several (conflicting) reasons.
The main one being the sonorous voice of my ol’ man booming in my head – “You would take some sort of perverse pleasure in the misfortunes of others? He’s your brother – your sisters would be at your bedside should you ever suffer some similar misfortune”.
This is doing my head in. 😕
Rabz, I have been presumptuous. I don’t know what has caused the rift, and I don’t want to know. And so I’m only going on instinct…my own. And the values that have been embedded in me since childhood.
Horrible things happen in families, sometimes too difficult to ever surmount. Only you know what’s best.
I don’t get why this is the default. No one but the attendee knows the full circumstances so there not regret it.
Farmer Gez, I’ll see your Morris with this. The Rotary Hose Carriage
https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/4f72a25697f83e0308601f91
When i joined they told us not to worry about learning them as they were long out of use. Two weeks later at the old 52 in Strathmore (Woodlands St) I was sitting in the back seat of one going to a job. No water, atrocious power and handling, a positive displacement pump that was dangerous to use. In general a useless piece of rubbish. We would’ve been better off with Riga backpacks..
…may not regret it.
Wrong way to look at it, Rabz.
Remember, if you are in the right, you’re not going there for anything more noble than giving them a last chance at redemption.
Turning up isn’t necessarily giving in.
Anyway, Cats – that’s enough of that and thanks for your indulgence. I’ll shut up about it and attempt to make some sense of it tomorrow morning.
When I’m sober. Oh, give us a break – I’m on holidays, FFS. 🙂
Interesting, there were NO rules, as the rule were always there.
Stick to lifting jokes. And close the lid to the bin.
A number of commenters used the blog to libel and defame Higgins in the vilest of terms.
Does Richard Cranium have the hots for Mzzzz Knickerless?
Rabz, I kinda understand your pain. When I had cancer a couple of years back a sibling of mine didn’t visit or even call me for ten weeks. I have since reprioritised that sibling about ten rungs lower on the list of people I care about.
However, I still force myself to ring that sibling every now and then to ensure I do not echo said sibling’s poor behaviour.
If that sibling was in hospital I would visit. I would not feel happy and would bitterly whinge to my wife afterwards, but I’d still visit. Duty doesn’t make you feel better but you have less regrets later. Thinking of you, mate. You’re a decent fella.
Real Deal.. Dude, hope you’re okay these days.
He may be waiting for you to come before he feels he can shuffle off this mortal coil, Rabz.
Death is a funny thing that way, not at all like the movies.
Play it by ear.
Thanks, JC. Doctor found a nodule in August in another place, I have another scan in late March. A long wait but that may mean it’s actually nothing and I shouldn’t worry. Apparently as you age you get spots on organs just like moles on the outside. I hope that is all it is but I hate waiting. Thanks for your kind words.
Mater is no sentimental woman. Nor is Hairy, as you know, Rabz, and he just came in after dipping into the Cat and said are you going to get in touch with Rabz? Hairy thinks maybe you should go as they have put out a sort of olive branch. So I’m saying here my view that he’s your brother Rabz, and he ain’t heavy (in spite of appearances) he’s down and possibly out forever, so see him even though he’s not been fair to you. You shared a childhood, and that is about all I shared with my brother as we grew apart, but that was enough as he lay dying. I held his hand and whispered into his ear that I was here also for mum and dad who’d already passed away and Big Sis who was in hospital down south. He was totally immobile but sentient – he could only move one hand. He squezed mine with it, twice, to show affirmation. Do as Calli and Rosie say as well, go and see what happens. You will know then how bad it is and what you are well rid of if there can’t be any reconciliation. They have all hurt you badly, but that’s what it’s like with families. Sometimes they just don’t know what they are doing. Hairy says they have been conquered by irrational fear, simply that. Don’t live with regrets.
Rabz
Go see him.
I had no solace in being right, my family member “died suddenly”.
Just go.
He can’t get past all that skin. 2023 sorted and it even January yet.
… redder too
We aren’t really. You replied to an answer by neither accepting or denying what I said but asking, who decides? I simply responded by saying that the same people or institutions that decide now would decide under this other arrangement too. As to the limits now, for instance, a school will pretend a student is of the other sex, allow that student to wear clothing of the other sex, behind the back of the parents, and so on.
I’m not professing their rules because they do not all profess the same rules. I mentioned them because they don’t employ the term nature in the sense your earlier comment did. For example, glasses are not contrary to nature. It is in the nature of the eye to see so an instrument that can correct some defect in the eye is in accord with its nature. The same would be true of something that augmented some human capability and in the case of a plane it’s locomotion.
A number of commenters used the blog to libel and defame Higgins in the vilest of terms.
Facts don’t defame crotchless.
Thanks again, everyone. Looks like I’m off to see him tomorrow morning.
Something like that. Coming soon.
..
And the nurses.
All the old boomer ones have mostly retired now.
Dover
Forget the wall, forget the three old philosophers.
Just explain what you mean by liberalism in the present context. It’s not an attempt to trap you or anything.
Rabz….you need to go and see your brother.
Real – thanks, Squire.
Just explain what you mean by liberalism in the present context. It’s not an attempt to trap you or anything.
Modern liberalism is communism head prefect.
I’m not sure that’s what he means Cronkite. If you’re needed to explain some point, I’ll ask you, so don’t worry.
cohenitesays:
December 26, 2022 at 9:10 pm
Just explain what you mean by liberalism in the present context. It’s not an attempt to trap you or anything.
Modern liberalism is communism head prefect.
Not really. Communism at least claimed to care about the masses. Modern “liberalism” doesn’t even pretend to care. It is intensely focussed on benefiting the well off, while forcing those at the bottom (and middle) of the pile into a life of subservience..
Modern “liberalism” has no resemblance to the classical liberalism of Menzies.
Dinner for us now. Yummy whole trout with tarragon, done in olive oil and wrapped in foil.
One of my salads, and some new potatos, one each. We had a brunch with my brother’s son and his extended family in Nowra this morning, with much memory-trawling about times past.
Attapuss is overjoyed to see us home from the South Coast.
Glad we were coming back not going down, where the traffic was awful.
We heard on the radio that it was very bad going up north to…
Our street and others nearby to The Gap were parked out for the Sydney-Hobart start.
Luckily we had the garage as a last resort but managed street parking arriving after 3pm.
It was a lovely sunny day and obviously people had stayed on to go to the harbour beaches.
I would go.
Knuckles – 11:25 on 25/12
Took your time to reply, I be been sitting here stroking my pussy cat
Like all kraut rejects they are sent to England.
Best bakers best mechanics, best engineers, builders , musicians and organisation.
Country full of blonde hair and blue eyes.
Mix a German with another race and have a look at the gorgeous off spring – grace Kelly German with Irish, Marilyn Monroe
Krauts rule
This is interesting but is it a pipe dream?
Ignore da Pascoe. It might be really good work, but I’m sceptical.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/nov/10/australian-researchers-find-native-grasses-could-be-grown-for-human-consumption
So you’ll have your native millet (channel millet?), curly mitchell grass and kangaroo grass instead of wheat, barley and triticale?
Guardian:
Does this mean Putin is going to solidify gains then talk peace?
Rabz,
It may be your mind is made up and I can see you’ve received various pieces of advice.
The one thought I would leave with you is that forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves, not the person who gave offence. Forgiveness is simply an act of the will, one which says there is no longer any debt to be repaid and never expects the other to acknowledge their wrongdoing or even perceive it. If we wait to ‘feel’ forgiving, it may never happen.
I hope that whatever happens tomorrow, you have peace on the other side. You’re a good soul.
You are a good soul Rabz. Always enjoy your insights and humor.
Its very interesting. If it requires less water than wheat imagine growing millions of hectares of it and exporting it, building new rural towns and earning billions in FX.
Not really. Communism at least claimed to care about the masses. Modern “liberalism” doesn’t even pretend to care. It is intensely focussed on benefiting the well off, while forcing those at the bottom (and middle) of the pile into a life of subservience..
Communism/liberalism both pay lip service to the masses and great causes all of which are just methods to gain power for a few over the many. The psychology of the commie is based on his sense of superiority which doesn’t exist; because it doesn’t exist he invents great causes -racism, sexism, wokism, alarmism – to justify his superiority and claim to power. The causes undermine the democratic structure which gives power to everyone and by subverting democracy the commie gains power at the expense of the masses.
It’s elementary. Don’t guild the lily. Commies/liberals are power hungry sh.ts. They’re a disease within humanity. The problem is they have infiltrated the conservative non commie parties and done their great march through the institutions. At this stage the West is basically f..ked.
The decaying coruptocrat in the Whitehouse certainly invites foul language bacause the old thief and ‘dr’ Jill are a foul pair. Anyone who seriously suggests that PoS legitimately won in 2020 does not deserve to be taken seriously.
“almost certainly [be] going beyond Russian doctrinal guidelines”.
Maskirovka.
Communism/liberalism both pay lip service to the masses and great causes all of which are just methods to gain power for a few over the many. The psychology of the commie is based on his sense of superiority which doesn’t exist; because it doesn’t exist he invents great causes -racism, sexism, wokism, alarmism – to justify his superiority and claim to power.
yes they make up ‘problems’ (manufacture is too polite) with the aid of the meja
Try a 58 Austin that that had a cabin like a thermomix and the petrol vaporised regularly on a hot day on the way to a fire.
I’m not sure there were any gears.
I always wondered if running Avgas in these heaps of shit would have fixed the vapour lock issue. Vapour pressure in Avgas is tightly controlled to prevent vapour locks at altitude.
Rabz, go.
The constant liberation of persons from all constraints.
Dog waffle update-
Danno, the teflon dog of the southwest, is a-ok on his third night alone. My dad touched in with him christmas eve with a chicken neck, christmas day took him to their place for lunch where, true to form, he drifted back home by himself- boxing day roo shank for brekky and a ute tour of the troughs. Just had a neighbour phone me and say they could hear a real lonesome howlin’ from the homestead and was asking if she should try go comfort him but for the risk he might follow her away again… i thanked her most kindly but told her we’d most likely be home by noon tomorrow.
He’s a good dog. We’ve probobly got one more blessed generation before the spread of the west coast conurbation means a man won’t be able to leave a home unlocked and a dog untied any more.
It could, it can also mean they are using these layered defensive positions to prevent another Kharkov while deploying existing and mobilised units for an offensive. Who knows?
Rich Baris “The People’s Pundit” @Peoples_Pundit · Dec 25
The line from Baris might be LibertyQuoteworthy?
Seconded.
There is no way to get the ‘right’ answer to these kinds of human dilemmas. So much of what angers us about family disappointments lies in the shadows of our childhood.
Don’t feel pressured to go because you might regret it if you ignore the call. It’s equally possible to regret what you do in haste as much as what you don’t do out of caution for your own heart.
The decision is yours, and yours alone.
It’s summer and it’s not just the bush-fire time- the small plane crash season begins.
Michael J. Morrison @OfficeOfMike · 22h
Lots of moisture in the air down here. You notice it by the street lights.
Rabz,
I have a brother that’s trouble.
there’s no real bad blood between us.
we just went different ways
he’s hard and dangerous and I wouldn’t for instance go fishing with him
a Christmas lunch where he was, is where I wouldn’t be
but when it was time … I’d go see him
we both both came from the same place
and we’re both going the same place
The “Rent ‘a’ Riffers” in their prime:
“I made a wish …
I said it out loud … “
Ask AI if covid came from a Lab
Asked AI if Rabz should go see his brother.
AI still has some way to go, JC. 🙂
Christmas Day at my nephew’s place in Nowra is always interesting. He lives in an estate started in the 80’s and grown since then. The housing is all project homes, some with Federation bits on them, others with gables left ungarnished, but all of a type. It’s a difficult estate to navigate as everything looks similar, the roads are often cul de sacs and there are few items to note as waystations. His is an early build on a large block, with room for a caravan and a boat and three cars – ideal family living for a working family man of that vintage on a smallish wage, which most of the purchasers were and still are. The general tenre can be gauged by one tradie’s van which had sticker on it, pic of a bloke holding a beer bearing the tag line of ‘Time to get pissed’. Possibly just there for Christmas.
We hadn’t put the address in the Sporty Beamer so Hairy was doing some bold navigation from the map alone. In the middle of it a phone call came in from grandson in New York on the hands-free system which we had to take and so we lost the map and Hairy, who kept driving for the duration of it, lost his way. Thus we were maginally late for Chrissie lunch, as we did more circuits than we had to in order to arrive. We knew as we drew up into the concrete apron that Big Sis and her sixth husband had made it because we saw their electric car, which set the tone for topics to be avoided to enable Christmas cheer. Family is what you have, not what you wish for. Each of them has changed over the years, replacing the cognitive pegs by which people feel they know each other. You have feel for the newer versions, locking into the past to hold them close in tidal shifts. We love this lot for the years spent making Christmases together, for their friendliness, their honesty and for being Australian to the core. Presents galore and food to spare. My eldest son came down with us but all of my other children and grandkids were out of town by then. A Christmas lacking little ones, my nephew’s children all adults and working, and everyone else there skewing towards the older set. Different.
2 to 3 years tops and then you won’t be able to tell AI from a human. It’s that close and after that the world won’t be recognizable.
AI can’t cook
and free range hens can’t even tell the difference
Marinas gas lamp is because it ended up being dropped there from London when Narnia was being formed.
The magicians nephew has the details….
Doing the drive down for Christmas, so much easier on the new dual freeway, I couldn’t help being impressed at the way in which Christmas pulls out the crowds and reinforces everyone’s bonds of family. We all come from families, however constructed and however good, bad or indifferent. Even if absent, they live on in our heads. Families are going to be harder to shift out of consciousness than the Marxist left ever imagine, a thought I consoled myself with as we sped along with the trail of traffic. Every car seemed to be a small and compact ‘up yours’ to the familial naysayers of this world, heading out to reinforce something unspoken but deeply ingrained. Christmas is family. It starts with The Holy Family and the miracle of birth, renewal and salvation, of the linkages birth makes between families, and you just can’t beat that. As Tom said earlier, the Greatest Story Ever Told.
One of the most beautiful songs in human history, Cats.
The rim of her mouth was golden …
Her eyes were just desert sands …
But that’s not her …
That’s just the light …
It’s only an image of her …
Just a trick of the light …
lol. You can almost see the algorithms for the programmatic specificity the question returned.
Compare to Cassie’s directness of ‘go and see your brother’. Or other shared feelings and considerations offered to Rabz. No Virginia, we are not there yet. A load of AI burble is simply all bases covered.
I loved “ the last battle”
Tashlan heresy, evil cat getting its just desserts and the end of the world thrown in for free.
Some families are closer than others.
Watching the western movie Panhandle 1948, so looked up the star Rod Cameron on Wikipedia, as is my wont. Divorced his wife and married his mother in law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panhandle_(film)
As one does … 😕
Those would be some wonderful family Christmas gatherings.
Terrible news. The Tele:
Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.
Arky.
Mate left his wife to marry his brothers ex- wife (who had 3 kids with him).
I’ve known them since we were both 14 year olds, she’s 8 years older.
When the family tree becomes a Venn diagram…
There will never be another band as good as The Triffids come out of Perth. Perf punches above its weight on this score.
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I think something like that started the English reformation.
It is important to note who fed these ideas into this program.
If ‘from a lab’, then ‘stress animal transmission’.
You’d have to wonder if the brother would turn up at the hospital when the worst happened.
Gary Lyon shacks up with Billy Brownless’ missus. That must have been percolating away for a while.
John Spooner.
Morten Morland.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Matt Margolis.
Thanks. Tom.
ASSERTIVE WOMEN’S CONFERENCE
The first speaker, a lady from England, stood and said “During last year’s conference, we spoke about being more assertive with our husbands. Well, after the conference, I went home and told my husband, Barrington, that I would no longer cook for him and that he would have to do it himself”.
“After the first day, I saw nothing. The second day, I saw nothing, but on the third day, I saw that he had cooked a wonderful roast lamb”.
The crowd applauded.
The second lady from Russia, stood up and said “After last year’s conference, I went home and told my husband, Ivan, that I would no longer do his laundry and that he would have to do it himself. The first day, I saw nothing. After the second day, I saw nothing, but on the third day, I saw that he had done not only his own washing, but mine as well”.
The crowd again applauded.
The third speaker, an Aboriginal lady from Australia, stood up and said “Afta lass year’s conference, I wen ‘ome and tole dat lazy husband of mines, Dingo Jack, dat I was froo pickin up his beer cans, cookin’ his tucker and washin’ his undaweah and dat he was goin to haf to do dem himself.
The crowd went wild with applause.
She continued “Afta da first day, I nevah see nuffin. Afta da second day, I nevah see nuffin, but afta da fird day, I could see a little bit outa my leff eye”.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
– Marie Curie
Johnny Rotten says:
December 27, 2022 at 5:55 am
Didn’t you post it before already?
I must be getting old, I’ve seen these jokes told and retold with different scenarios a dozen times.
True, there are no old jokes, only old people, for a newborn every joke is new, but do you realise that there are hardly any newborns on this blog ?
Happy new year
There is No Defence to Hypersonic Missiles & Russia’s Plans to Expand
From Armstrong Economics –
“Russia announced yesterday that it will increase its military strength from 1 million to 1.5 million. The Western Press keeps putting out the propaganda that that this is all because Russia has lost momentum and many soldiers in Ukraine. I reported before that sources from Ukraine, not Russia, put the death toll at over 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers. That was also in the draft speech of the head of the EU, but it was removed to keep up the image that Ukraine is winning.
What is not being said here is that Poland has been instructed by the US to increase its military from 100,000 to 250,000 making it the largest force in NATO. It is only a 14-hour drive from Warsaw to Moscow. This in addition to NATO’s plans to incorporate Finland and Sweden, has also played a role in this decision.
The Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu declared that the country needs a force of 1.5 million “to guarantee the fulfillment of tasks to ensure Russia’s security.” China has about 2 million and the USA has about 1.4 million. North Korea has 1,280,000 active with another 600,000 in reserve. Belarus has an army of only 62,000 with 344,750 in reserve.
Currently in Russia, the regular draft, calls up 120,000 to 140,000 men twice a year for a one-year tour of compulsory service. What is becoming very obvious is that the West wants war. There is no desire for peace whatsoever. This has changed the game. The Western Press keeps just putting out propaganda about Ukraine winning, while it is ignoring the mobilization of NATO which is clearly anticipating war. This is not going to be just about Ukraine as we head into 2023. You have to be blind not to see that the West is clearly preparing for war. This is what Russia is now responding to. With Poland raising its army to 250,000, that presents a serious threat to Russia for the exceeds the active personnel in Belarus.
On top of all of this, Putin has wisely instructed that they should be studying how the weapons the US has been handing Ukraine and to regard these as valuable lessons to be learned during the fighting to modernize the armed forces. Thus, Ukraine has been an experiment to study the weapons systems of one’s opponent on both sides.
Putin also made it clear that Russia will start to deploy more hypersonic weapons, noting that the first warship equipped with state-of-the-art Zircon hypersonic missiles will be commissioned by the navy next month. There is no question that defense against Russia’s hypersonic weapons is not something that may be possible. Russia has been using some hypersonic missiles in Ukraine. It is believed among our sources that this may have been more to intimidate NATO and the United States. Obviously, the conventional wisdom has been that there is just no effective defense against hypersonic weapons. Hence, their use has been to intimidate the USA and NATO, but this does not seem to have succeeded.
The USA is exploring how to defend itself against hypersonic missiles. One theory is the exploration of “boundary layer phenomenology,” which is the idea that disrupting the airflow surrounding a hypersonic projectile may throw it off course. Disrupting the airflow may send it off course, but it will still hit something. The other hope is to deploy lower-flying networked satellites in an effort to establish a continuous targeting track of an approaching hypersonic weapon.
The reason there is no defense is that a hypersonic projectile will travel much too fast to track them because it will move from one radar aperture to another, making it virtually impossible to establish a consistent targeting track or lock.
Meanwhile, our brilliant world leaders are playing with everyone’s life all because they prefer war rather than reform whereby they might lose power.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/the-no-defense-to-hypersonic-missiles-russias-plans-to-expand/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Bette Midler says that Kyle Rittenhouse is an example of grooming
All I can say, Rabz, is if in doubt, play it with a straight bat. Second guessing people is a fool’s errand. Make of this what you will.
“Give me my shit!”
Chuckle!
Interesting that no one seems to know who is doing these attacks.
3 Washington State Electric Substations Vandalized (26 Dec)
This suggests the DHS know who it they are. But if so they aren’t naming them, which is curious.
Another thing that really pisses me off about the modern yookay is that I and my Dad would get admitted for 3 months with ‘no recourse to welfare’. Seeing Dad and Grandfather risks their lives for the mother country, that is a very poor state of affairs. And now if you turn up in a boat in Dover you get whisked off to a fancy hotel. Hate filled marxist established indeed. And boy oh boy we miss her maj. Can’t understand why her kids didn’t absorb her values.
Bruce of Newcastle says:
December 27, 2022 at 6:34 am
They know when and where you fart.
Claiming not knowing about who is doing these attacks is ridiculous.
Paris has fallen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHoM7ORqHMo
Rabz if you’re reading this, the thing about horrible family members is that ‘the leopard doesn’t change its spots’ and what ever happened before usually repeats and it all ends in tears AGAIN and AGAIN.
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Miltonf,
that has been my experience.
Englishman, African and an Aussie sitting in a restaurant, waiting for their food. They’re looking around the place and spot a man sitting by himself drinking water in the corner. After a few minutes they recognise him as Jesus Christ himself. They agree that he’s a great bloke and all chip in to buy Jesus some food.
The waiter goes over to Jesus, explains the gesture and gets the food in for him, which Jesus enjoys whole-heartedly.
After the meal, he walks over to see the three generous men. He first of all thanks them all, and shakes the hand of the Englishman.
The Englishman gets the shivers, feels all tingly etc then says “Hang about, I’ve had chronic arthritis in this wrist for 20 years, you’ve just cured it, it’s a miracle!”
Jesus smiles, then shakes the hand of the African.
“Bloomin ‘eck, you’ve cured my back! I’ve had problems with that for nearly 30 years, thank you Jesus!”
Jesus smiles, then turns to the Aussie, who looks terrified, turns and runs away knocking over tables and chairs. They all ask what’s wrong, to which the Aussie shouts “I’m on workers comp mate – Bugger off!”
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
– W. C. Fields
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Pogria says:
December 27, 2022 at 6:44 am
Far be it from me to offer advice on family matters, but if the reason for a break was serious enough, then that’s it. Unless something has changed in the meantime, and sudden health problems is hardly the reason.
Forgiveness and empathy should be given freely without coercion or obligation atherwise it’s a lie.
Mike Benz: DHS Deputized Burisma Lobbyist To Censor 22 Million Americans Over Election Fraud
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Much more to The Twitter Files: Covid Editon than this introductory thread.
Follow-up piece to come next week, featuring leading doctors & researchers from Harvard, Stanford & other institutions.
Ahaha! Bespoke! Comments are hilarious.
Dirty filthy creature-this is marxism trashing and humiliating a once great institution