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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.

They’re building affordable housing to “solve” the problem. At 1.2 mil per unit.

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.

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.

FFS, peoples, please – no stoushes and foul abuse.

Boxing Day is for boxing.
Not boxes.

Boxing Day is for boxing.
Not boxes.

Damn, should have brought my brass knuckles…

So I need to don the white leather adidas boxing boots, BoN?

Cassie and I are bloody but unbowed.

Khawaja out for 1 off 11, batting on a road.
Didn’t some know it all pick him in a World XI the other day?

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.

They’re building affordable housing to “solve” the problem. At 1.2 mil per unit.

Cheap. They built one toilet recently. It cost $1.7 million.

Sheena
50 minutes ago
The whole idea of ” Treaty” is nonsense.
For starters the UN Declaration

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.

The feast of St. Stephen reminds Christians that the life Jesus began in a manger will end on the cross.

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.

Bert Ironmonger! Dean Rusk!

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.

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.

I languish for a 20 year old Kim Wilde rolling around in sweat.

As we all do.

DrBeauGan says:
December 26, 2022 at 7:19 pm
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.

Oh hi. I didn’t know CS Lewis wrote about string theory and dark matter.

That’s where the poop ends up!

rosie says:
December 26, 2022 at 7:22 pm
Hands up everyone who wants to read about people going to the toilet.
No need for any Germans to respond.

What were the sales of Lady Chatterly’s Lover like in Chermany?

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.

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.

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.

Sad to hear about that Rabz. Best wishes from me, if that counts for anything.

… 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.

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.

I find the idea of a faun in a scarf with a predilection to treachery far more interesting than drop dunnies in Cair Paravel.

Queen Jadis of Charn, to be precise.

Nasty piece of work.

I appreciate Mrs Beaver though. She wanted to escape the terror of the wolves, but not without her sewing machine.

😀

Follow your instincts.

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.

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 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?

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.

Otherwise you will be thinking couldof,should’ve, would’ve.

I don’t get why this is the default. No one but the attendee knows the full circumstances so there not regret it.

…may not regret it.

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?

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.

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?

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.

Native millet, or panicum, turned out to be the best all-rounder: easy to grow and harvest, easy to turn into flour and “significantly more nutritious” than wheat, lead researcher Dr Angela Pattison from the University of Sydney said. Native millet is also gluten free, she added.

The study, which involved researchers in ecology, food science, social science, marketing and business, found that native millet was the most economically viable of all the grains they tested.

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.

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.

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.

I hope that whatever happens tomorrow, you have peace on the other side. You’re a good soul.

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.

Michael J. Morrison @OfficeOfMike · 22h

Adding Zelensky as a dependent on my tax return this year.

Seems fair.

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.

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.

Asked AI if Rabz should go see his brother.

Should Rabz go see his very ill brother he doesn’t like?

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.

Terrible news. The Tele:

Health authorities are warning about potential dangers from a potent opioid — known as nitazenes — detected in heroin following a recent spike in serious overdoses on the Central Coast and Hunter Valley.

NSW Poisons Information Centre medical director associate professor Darren Roberts said heroin contaminated with a potent opioid such as a nitazene, could cause unexpected and severe overdose or death.

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.

It is important to note that it is not uncommon for viruses to emerge from animal reservoirs and be transmitted to humans.

It is important to note who fed these ideas into this program.

If ‘from a lab’, then ‘stress animal transmission’.

Mate left his wife to marry his brothers ex- wife

Gary Lyon shacks up with Billy Brownless’ missus. That must have been percolating away for a while.