Open Thread – Christmas Weekend 2022


Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence, Caravaggio, 1609


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JC
JC
December 26, 2022 6:14 pm

I gave a condensed version above: the rejection of all norms, whether customary or moral.

Who decides these norms, what is customary or mora?

It’s the rejection of limits imposed by nature and/or society.

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?

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 26, 2022 6:18 pm

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.

JC
JC
December 26, 2022 6:19 pm

moral..

will
will
December 26, 2022 6:19 pm

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.

Rabz
December 26, 2022 6:26 pm

Diving into a cold pool brings back memories of …

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.

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
December 26, 2022 6:30 pm

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.

Johnny Rotten
December 26, 2022 6:33 pm

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

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 26, 2022 6:33 pm

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

Boxing Day is for boxing.
Not boxes.

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
December 26, 2022 6:34 pm

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.

Rabz
December 26, 2022 6:36 pm

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

JMH
JMH
December 26, 2022 6:39 pm

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?

Plasmamortar
Plasmamortar
December 26, 2022 6:39 pm

Boxing Day is for boxing.
Not boxes.

Damn, should have brought my brass knuckles…

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 26, 2022 6:47 pm

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

Cassie and I are bloody but unbowed.

Rabz
December 26, 2022 6:52 pm

The Kroger/Conroy clown show does not cut it with me any more, Sky. These two muppets

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.

Johnny Rotten
December 26, 2022 6:55 pm

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

May I be first in line………………………..LOL

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 26, 2022 6:55 pm

This one’s for any nautical Cats.

Watch the iconic Navy recruitment ad that promised budding sailors they’d be ‘wet, homesick and frightened’ and was so successful they had to stop running it – but would it convince anyone to don a uniform today?

The RAN’s ‘Pride of the Fleet’ recruitment campaign screened in cinemas in 1982
The commercial promised sailors they would be ‘wet, homesick and frightened’
Song was written by Mike Brady who had a huge hit in 1979 with Up There Cazaly
‘Pride of the Fleet’ was so successful it inspired thousands of Australians to join 

Rabz
December 26, 2022 7:01 pm

“The homeless industrial complex”. She says how LA wanted to clear Venice Beach boardwalk of 200 homeless so paid 5 million to do so. That’s $25,000 per bum. They’re building affordable housing to “solve” the problem. At 1.2 mil per unit.

Oh, wonderful – and what would shooting them all cost?

Pour encourager les autres …

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 26, 2022 7:02 pm

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.

JC
JC
December 26, 2022 7:04 pm

Johnny Rotten says:
December 26, 2022 at 6:33 pm

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

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

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 26, 2022 7:04 pm

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.

P
P
December 26, 2022 7:05 pm

Hot cross buns hit supermarket shelves one day after Christmas (Sky News, 26 Dec)

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

Dot
Dot
December 26, 2022 7:05 pm

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.

Dot
Dot
December 26, 2022 7:06 pm

New rules
—> Damn
—-> Clark Gable intensifies

P
P
December 26, 2022 7:07 pm

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

Dot
Dot
December 26, 2022 7:07 pm

Watch the iconic Navy recruitment ad that promised budding sailors they’d be ‘wet, homesick and frightened’ and was so successful they had to stop running it

They were pretty rad. Made me consider the Navy as well as the RAAF and the Army.

Rabz
December 26, 2022 7:09 pm

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. 😡

JC
JC
December 26, 2022 7:09 pm

dover0beach says:

Same as now.

Okay, we’re doing the circles again. What are the limitations now. Who put’s up the wall.

These aren’t the limits of nature that Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and the like had in mind.

Okay, it’s their rules you profess. Why?

Dot
Dot
December 26, 2022 7:10 pm

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.

Dot
Dot
December 26, 2022 7:12 pm

Encourage appalling behaviour and find yourself drowning in much, much more of it.

Do ewe feel like a beaten up old wether in a fank?

Dot
Dot
December 26, 2022 7:15 pm

Bert Ironmonger! Dean Rusk!

Rabz
December 26, 2022 7:15 pm

Pol, do you ever spend lengthy periods of time languishing in a Kampuchean jungle staring into an abyss, which subsequently stares back at you?

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
December 26, 2022 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.

Diogenes
Diogenes
December 26, 2022 7:21 pm

Talking of ACCOs, I joined the MFB in 82, at Brunswick we had an ACCO 1510

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.

sfw
sfw
December 26, 2022 7:21 pm

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.

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rosie
rosie
December 26, 2022 7:22 pm

Hands up everyone who wants to read about people going to the toilet.
No need for any Germans to respond.

Dot
Dot
December 26, 2022 7:22 pm

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

As we all do.

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 26, 2022 7:22 pm

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.

Roger
Roger
December 26, 2022 7:24 pm

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.)

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
December 26, 2022 7:24 pm

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.

Dot
Dot
December 26, 2022 7:25 pm

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!

Dot
Dot
December 26, 2022 7:26 pm

Who put in the gas supply?

It runs off grants looking for dark matter.

Dot
Dot
December 26, 2022 7:28 pm

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?

Zipster
December 26, 2022 7:31 pm

I gave a condensed version above: the rejection of all norms, whether customary or moral. It isn’t animism that is driving sex reassignment surgery, surrogacy for same-sex couples or singles, and so on. It’s the rejection of limits imposed by nature and/or society.

what about the equity part?

Johnny Rotten
December 26, 2022 7:32 pm

No, I actually haven’t sworn since I saw the new rules

That’s because you didn’t go to Spec Savers………………..You TWAT.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 26, 2022 7:33 pm

I languish for a 20 year old Kim Wilde rolling around in sweat.
As we all do.

She’s available Dot.

Kim Wilde, 62, confirms split from husband Hal Fowler after 25 years in candid statement (22 Dec)

Looks great too!

Cassie of Sydney
December 26, 2022 7:33 pm

“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.

Johnny Rotten
December 26, 2022 7:35 pm

No, I actually haven’t sworn since I saw the new rules

There were no rules you TWAT, The rules were always there………………………

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 26, 2022 7:36 pm

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.

Rabz
December 26, 2022 7:36 pm

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.

Cassie of Sydney
December 26, 2022 7:37 pm

“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.

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
December 26, 2022 7:37 pm

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.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
December 26, 2022 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.

sfw
sfw
December 26, 2022 7:38 pm

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.

sfw
sfw
December 26, 2022 7:40 pm

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.

Dot
Dot
December 26, 2022 7:41 pm

“Perhaps it’s time to stop commenting on a Party you’ve never supported or voted for?”

Yeah sure buddy.

Pauline Hanson isn’t allowed to criticise the Greens.

You have to be fairly dumb to fall for this gaslighting nonsense.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 26, 2022 7:43 pm

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

Johnny Rotten
December 26, 2022 7:44 pm

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

rosie
rosie
December 26, 2022 7:45 pm

Rabz go see your sibling, you aren’t going to regret doing so.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 26, 2022 7:47 pm

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.

rosie
rosie
December 26, 2022 7:48 pm

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

Arky
December 26, 2022 7:48 pm

Any advice would be much appreciated, Cats.

..
Go there to score nurses.

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 26, 2022 7:50 pm

… 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.

Dot
Dot
December 26, 2022 7:52 pm

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.

calli
calli
December 26, 2022 7:55 pm

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.

Top Ender
Top Ender
December 26, 2022 7:57 pm

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.

calli
calli
December 26, 2022 7:59 pm

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

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 26, 2022 7:59 pm

Farmer Gezsays:

December 26, 2022 at 5:41 pm

An Acco 1510 V8 petrol you say sfw.
Typical shiny arsed MFB.
Try a 58 Austin …

I’ll see you and raise you a Morris Commercial.

calli
calli
December 26, 2022 8:00 pm

Queen Jadis of Charn, to be precise.

Nasty piece of work.

Dot
Dot
December 26, 2022 8:00 pm

“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.

rosie
rosie
December 26, 2022 8:02 pm

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.

bespoke
bespoke
December 26, 2022 8:02 pm

Rabzsays:
December 26, 2022 at 7:36 pm

Tuff choice mate. I followed the superficial path once by attending a funeral and regretted it ever since. Follow your instincts.

calli
calli
December 26, 2022 8:03 pm

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

😀

rosie
rosie
December 26, 2022 8:05 pm

And she made marmalade roll.

Mater
December 26, 2022 8:08 pm

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.

calli
calli
December 26, 2022 8:08 pm

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.

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.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 26, 2022 8:08 pm

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.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
December 26, 2022 8:11 pm

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

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.

calli
calli
December 26, 2022 8:12 pm

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.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 26, 2022 8:13 pm

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.

calli
calli
December 26, 2022 8:17 pm

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?

bespoke
bespoke
December 26, 2022 8:18 pm

Forgiveness has limits, Calli.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
December 26, 2022 8:18 pm

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.

`
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December 26, 2022 8:19 pm

Thanks all and I mean that. Lots of conflicting opinions there. Much to contemplate.

Go there to score nurses.

Arks with the finger on the (still beating pulse).

I don’t need no nurses while Miss Emily is on this planet. 🙂

Rabz
December 26, 2022 8:20 pm

Err, has a bug died next to the Avatar?

calli
calli
December 26, 2022 8:20 pm

sentimental women

Chuckle. Duty transcends sentiment.

You old softie.

Rabz
December 26, 2022 8:20 pm

Evidently not. 😕

Leon L
Leon L
December 26, 2022 8:25 pm

Rabz

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

Rabz
December 26, 2022 8:29 pm

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. 😕

calli
calli
December 26, 2022 8:31 pm

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.

bespoke
bespoke
December 26, 2022 8:32 pm

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.

sfw
sfw
December 26, 2022 8:33 pm

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..

bespoke
bespoke
December 26, 2022 8:33 pm

…may not regret it.

Mater
December 26, 2022 8:35 pm

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.

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.

Rabz
December 26, 2022 8:36 pm

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. 🙂

JC
JC
December 26, 2022 8:37 pm

There were no rules you TWAT, The rules were always there………………………

Interesting, there were NO rules, as the rule were always there.

Stick to lifting jokes. And close the lid to the bin.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 26, 2022 8:38 pm

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?

Real Deal
Real Deal
December 26, 2022 8:39 pm

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.

JC
JC
December 26, 2022 8:40 pm

Real Deal.. Dude, hope you’re okay these days.

Roger
Roger
December 26, 2022 8:41 pm

Any advice would be much appreciated, Cats.

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.

Real Deal
Real Deal
December 26, 2022 8:45 pm

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.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
December 26, 2022 8:45 pm

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.

JC
JC
December 26, 2022 8:46 pm

Rabz

Go see him.

Dot
Dot
December 26, 2022 8:46 pm

I had no solace in being right, my family member “died suddenly”.

Just go.

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 26, 2022 8:49 pm

Does Richard Cranium have the hots for Mzzzz Knickerless?

He can’t get past all that skin. 2023 sorted and it even January yet.

MatrixTransform
December 26, 2022 8:51 pm

Blood is thicker than water

… redder too

cohenite
December 26, 2022 8:56 pm

A number of commenters used the blog to libel and defame Higgins in the vilest of terms.

Facts don’t defame crotchless.

Rabz
December 26, 2022 8:58 pm

Thanks again, everyone. Looks like I’m off to see him tomorrow morning.

Arky
December 26, 2022 9:00 pm

Looks like I’m off to see him

..
And the nurses.
All the old boomer ones have mostly retired now.

JC
JC
December 26, 2022 9:01 pm

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.

Cassie of Sydney
December 26, 2022 9:03 pm

Rabz….you need to go and see your brother.

Rabz
December 26, 2022 9:07 pm

Real Deal says: December 26, 2022 at 8:39 pm

Real – thanks, Squire.

cohenite
December 26, 2022 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.

JC
JC
December 26, 2022 9:13 pm

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.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 26, 2022 9:22 pm

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.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
December 26, 2022 9:29 pm

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.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 26, 2022 9:32 pm

Any advice would be much appreciated, Cats.

I would go.

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
December 26, 2022 9:32 pm

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

Dot
Dot
December 26, 2022 9:35 pm

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?

Dot
Dot
December 26, 2022 9:40 pm

Guardian:

The UK’s Ministry of Defence says Russian troops have focused mainly on constructing defensive positions along many sections of the frontline in Ukraine since October.

This includes laying additional fields of anti-tank and anti-personnel mines, it said in its latest intelligence update, which would “almost certainly [be] going beyond Russian doctrinal guidelines”.

Does this mean Putin is going to solidify gains then talk peace?

Luzu
December 26, 2022 9:43 pm

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.

miltonf
miltonf
December 26, 2022 9:44 pm

You are a good soul Rabz. Always enjoy your insights and humor.

Dot
Dot
December 26, 2022 9:45 pm

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.

cohenite
December 26, 2022 9:46 pm

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.

miltonf
miltonf
December 26, 2022 9:50 pm

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.

Eyrie
Eyrie
December 26, 2022 9:54 pm

“almost certainly [be] going beyond Russian doctrinal guidelines”.

Maskirovka.

miltonf
miltonf
December 26, 2022 9:55 pm

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

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 26, 2022 10:13 pm

Ute missiles in line for Top End protection
EXCLUSIVE
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Foreign Affairs and Defence Correspondent
@bennpackham
10:04PM December 26, 2022
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A new missile system the Albanese government is considering purchasing could protect most of Australia’s Top End from enemy ships with just six Bushmaster-mounted launch units.

The mobile Naval Strike ­Missile launchers could provide coastal defence and be deployed to Pacific islands in a conflict to cover Australia’s naval ­approaches.

The government’s defence strategic review is examining the “StrikeMaster” system, which can launch a pair of ship-killing NSMs over ranges of at least 250km, ­delivering a potent “area denial” capability.
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Australia has lagged for years in acquiring mobile missile launchers and is scrambling to catch up as Defence Minister Richard Marles calls for new weapons systems to threaten an adversary “much further from our shores”.

The Norwegian-designed NSM is widely used by Western navies and has already been ­ordered for Australia’s Hobart-class air warfare destroyers and Anzac frigates.

Mobile NSM launch units are also operated by the US Marine Corp, mounted on remote-­control tactical vehicles that can be deployed across the Indo-­Pacific to wreak havoc with enemy shipping.

StrikeMaster – designed by the Australian subsidiaries of Norway’s Kongsberg Defence and French-owned Thales – incorporates a twin-pack NSM launcher mounted on an Australian-made Bushmaster ute.

The mobile batteries would be operated by the army in a new role for the service, which has long been passed over for hi-tech capabilities as the lion’s share of new investment has gone to the navy and air force.

Kongsberg has proposed the StrikeMaster to the defence strategic review led by Stephen Smith and Angus Houston, which is looking to fast-track the acquisition of new strike options amid China’s rapid militarisation and decades-long delivery timelines for the ADF’s next-generation submarines and frigates.
 
 

“The great thing about these is you can drive them anywhere and they are easy to transport by air and sea,” Kongsberg Defence Australia general manager John Fry said.

“This is something you put on an island or in northern Australia and it will provide significant coverage. It requires only a few personnel; the effect generated is persistent, and the launcher is difficult to find.”

The missile itself is stealthy, “very clever”, and designed to defeat highly-defended maritime targets. “It has automatic, autonomous target recognition so can actually identify ships down to particular classes,” Mr Fry said.

The system’s potential application in northern Australia can be seen by plotting the NSM’s unclassified range of 250km on a map supplied by the ADF showing the passage of Chinese warships through the Timor and Arafura seas and Torres Strait in February.

It shows six StrikeMaster units operating from mainland sites in Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland could threaten enemy vessels charting a similar course.

rickw
rickw
December 26, 2022 10:16 pm

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.

rickw
rickw
December 26, 2022 10:16 pm

Rabz, go.

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
December 26, 2022 10:19 pm

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.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
December 26, 2022 10:28 pm

Rich Baris “The People’s Pundit” @Peoples_Pundit · Dec 25

The lack of recourse for one side to address legitimate grievances should be the primary cause for concern.
Jefferson was very clear about what happens to every society when it denies one side remedy via legal and institutional options.
It’s the natural course and it’s tragic.
Quote Tweet
David Giglio @DavidGiglioCA · Dec 25

When you have a legal system where judges are afraid to rule against one side of the political spectrum or the media narrative because they fear riots and for their own safety, you‘ve officially lost your Republic.

The line from Baris might be LibertyQuoteworthy?

Megan
Megan
December 26, 2022 10:31 pm

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.

JC
JC
December 26, 2022 10:45 pm

It’s summer and it’s not just the bush-fire time- the small plane crash season begins.

A fire has broken out in southwest Sydney following a suspected plane crash.

The scene of the accident is reportedly in dense bushland near Appin Road at Appin, with police confirming an aircraft is missing in the area. #9News

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
December 26, 2022 10:47 pm

Michael J. Morrison @OfficeOfMike · 22h

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

Seems fair.

MatrixTransform
December 26, 2022 11:05 pm

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

Rabz
December 26, 2022 11:10 pm

The “Rent ‘a’ Riffers” in their prime:

I made a wish …
I said it out loud …

JC
JC
December 26, 2022 11:14 pm

Ask AI if covid came from a Lab

Did Covid come from the Wuhan lab?

There is ongoing debate and investigation about the origins of the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) virus, which is the virus that causes the disease called coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Some early reports suggested that the virus may have originated at a seafood market in Wuhan, China, while others have suggested that it may have originated in bats and was transmitted to humans through another animal.

There has also been speculation that the virus may have originated in a laboratory, possibly in Wuhan. However, there is currently no conclusive evidence to support this theory and it remains a subject of investigation. It is important to note that it is not uncommon for viruses to emerge from animal reservoirs and be transmitted to humans.

JC
JC
December 26, 2022 11:16 pm

Asked AI if Rabz should go see his brother.

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

It is ultimately up to Rabz to decide whether or not to visit his ill brother. Factors that could influence this decision might include the nature of the relationship between the two brothers, the severity of the illness, and any potential risks or complications associated with the visit.

If Rabz is unsure about what to do, it might be helpful for him to consider seeking advice from a trusted friend, family member, or healthcare professional. It may also be helpful for Rabz to consider seeking support for his own feelings about the situation, whether through therapy or other means.

Ultimately, the most important thing is for Rabz to make a decision that feels right for him and that takes into account the well-being of both himself and his brother.

Rabz
December 26, 2022 11:23 pm

If the Rabz is unsure about what to do, it might be helpful for him to consider seeking advice from a trusted friend, family member, healthcare professional, or a bunch of personages on a political commentary blogue …

AI still has some way to go, JC. 🙂

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
December 26, 2022 11:24 pm

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.

JC
JC
December 26, 2022 11:28 pm

AI still has some way to go, JC. ?

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.

MatrixTransform
December 26, 2022 11:35 pm

AI can’t cook
and free range hens can’t even tell the difference

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 26, 2022 11:41 pm

Marinas gas lamp is because it ended up being dropped there from London when Narnia was being formed.

The magicians nephew has the details….

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
December 26, 2022 11:42 pm

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.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
December 26, 2022 11:50 pm

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.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 26, 2022 11:50 pm

I loved “ the last battle”

Tashlan heresy, evil cat getting its just desserts and the end of the world thrown in for free.

Arky
December 26, 2022 11:51 pm

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.

Arky
December 26, 2022 11:51 pm
Rabz
December 26, 2022 11:52 pm

Divorced his wife and married his mother in law

As one does … 😕

Arky
December 26, 2022 11:53 pm

Those would be some wonderful family Christmas gatherings.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 26, 2022 11:57 pm

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.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 26, 2022 11:58 pm

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…

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 26, 2022 11:58 pm

There will never be another band as good as The Triffids come out of Perth. Perf punches above its weight on this score.

Arky
December 27, 2022 12:06 am

Mate left his wife to marry his brothers ex- wife

..
I think something like that started the English reformation.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
December 27, 2022 12:11 am

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’.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 27, 2022 12:28 am

Mate left his wife to marry his brothers ex- wife

You’d have to wonder if the brother would turn up at the hospital when the worst happened.

Jorge
Jorge
December 27, 2022 12:36 am

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.

Tom
Tom
December 27, 2022 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
December 27, 2022 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
December 27, 2022 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
December 27, 2022 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
December 27, 2022 4:06 am
DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
December 27, 2022 4:21 am

Thanks. Tom.

Johnny Rotten
December 27, 2022 5:55 am

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”.

Johnny Rotten
December 27, 2022 5:56 am

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

Gabor
Gabor
December 27, 2022 6:13 am

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

Johnny Rotten
December 27, 2022 6:21 am

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

bespoke
bespoke
December 27, 2022 6:22 am
The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
December 27, 2022 6:26 am

Any advice would be much appreciated, Cats.

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.

bespoke
bespoke
December 27, 2022 6:29 am

“Give me my shit!”

Chuckle!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 27, 2022 6:34 am

Interesting that no one seems to know who is doing these attacks.

3 Washington State Electric Substations Vandalized (26 Dec)

Vandalism at three power substations in western Washington early Sunday initially cut power to about 14,000 utility customers, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office said.

In January, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security report warned that domestic extremists have been developing “credible, specific plans” to attack electricity infrastructure since at least 2020.

This suggests the DHS know who it they are. But if so they aren’t naming them, which is curious.

miltonf
miltonf
December 27, 2022 6:37 am

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.

Gabor
Gabor
December 27, 2022 6:38 am

Bruce of Newcastle says:
December 27, 2022 at 6:34 am

Interesting that no one seems to know who is doing these attacks.

They know when and where you fart.
Claiming not knowing about who is doing these attacks is ridiculous.

rickw
rickw
December 27, 2022 6:39 am
miltonf
miltonf
December 27, 2022 6:40 am

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.

Indolent
Indolent
December 27, 2022 6:41 am
Indolent
Indolent
December 27, 2022 6:42 am
Indolent
Indolent
December 27, 2022 6:43 am
Pogria
Pogria
December 27, 2022 6:44 am

Miltonf,
that has been my experience.

Johnny Rotten
December 27, 2022 6:45 am

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!”

Johnny Rotten
December 27, 2022 6:47 am

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

– W. C. Fields

Indolent
Indolent
December 27, 2022 6:47 am
Gabor
Gabor
December 27, 2022 6:50 am

Pogria says:
December 27, 2022 at 6:44 am

that has been my experience.

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.

bespoke
bespoke
December 27, 2022 6:51 am

Forgiveness and empathy should be given freely without coercion or obligation atherwise it’s a lie.

calli
calli
December 27, 2022 6:56 am

Ahaha! Bespoke! Comments are hilarious.

I think I dated her.

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