Cabins along the Loing Canal, Sunlight Effect, Alfred Sisley, 1896
2,141 thoughts on “Open Thread – Tue 27 Dec 2022”
The Murderers are Sudanese.
Do you have a congenital defect that prevents you ever telling the truth?
What are your new year resolutions crotchless.
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I wasn’t aware that Patrice Newell was aboriginal.
She had no idea either until comparatively recently, through her mother and grandmother Maria Johanna Austin who was born
in Framlingham.
Not as if Adams knew he’d married an Aboriginal woman.
Handy though as a Trump card.
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Yep, you suspect Newell didn’t come across her proud indigenous heritage out digging for yams on country. More likely over canapes at a writers festival as a +1.
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Just think about this, Newell is paraded by her partner and the progressive MSM as “indigenous” whereas Jacinta Price and Kerrynne Liddle are routinely smeared and derided despite the fact that they ARE indigenous and both have lived in indigenous communities.
You just can’t make this shit up.
The meja is evil. Filled with poisonous imbeciles with zero accomplishments.
Last night with the neighbours was fun. We have large land and have seven abutting neighbours on its perimeters. We had a good time gossiping about all the other neighbours, sharing who was doing what.
And our hostess was off: did you know that the mother-in-law at next but one parks her Bentley in the street around the wrong way round, always. So entitled! And what about the chap over the other side who is affecting the pacemaker of the old widow by firing up the engines on his noisy Lambourghini in that courtyard of theirs just under her bedroom window. Who needs three cars, he has three there! and his wife has two – she’s nice though, further declares our hostess in this neighbourly stream of consciousness, while serving up delicious French nibbles in artful displays. From Parisi’s, she says, you do know Parisi’s don’t you? And what sort of place is going up next door now that they’ve ripped the top off it? Oh, the prices, the prices. They paid six million for it and now it’s a shell. They do that you know. But what could they do? The bedrooms were so small and had mould, all that sandstone was damp. The estate agent rang me about the place on the corner, she continues on. It got fifteen million, and why would I care about that, I asked him? These estate agents, they only see you as a prospective sale. Dreadful people.
My turn then: Oh, didn’t you know, further down offered to buy our orchard but we refused.
Our hostess: Never! Did they really? Thank goodness you refused; you did refuse didn’t you?
Present were also some of the family’s Gen Y, in their thirties, very open and friendly young people. Working in software provision and hotel management. Heads screwed on right, and all railing against political correctness and pronoun stupidity. So there is plenty of fire in the younger ones still. Hairy points out that these really nice ones were all in the private sector. The hotel guy was having moans about being unable to get trained staff, and the problems of training them up. He’d just read the riot act to them about general grunge and slackness but said he couldn’t go too far, or they’d leave. He was the one who nearly fell off his chair when it came up that I was eighty. Not even sixty! he exclaimed, while Hairy brushed it off by joking – and no expense spared. Hostess, a thespian of a certain age, simply asked me outright then for the name and phone number of my surgeon. Text it to me later, she coo’s. I am looking for a good one. So many of them overdo things, she flutters, as the conversation moved to the shared family of Kookaburra’s and where they were nesting. She is lending me a book about feeding and caring for urban birds. Thus concluded a very pleasant Vaucluse night around her new outdoor furniture.
Against protests, we left to entice more salmon paste down Attapuss’s gullet and change his tray ready for garbage night.
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alwaysrightsays:
December 30, 2022 at 4:26 pm
Scars, now scars can be sexy.
Come up to my abode sometime and I will show you my scars.
“Not me though. I can’t believe I haven’t had it. “
JC, not that you’re aware of. Same with me, I haven’t had Covid either however I may have and not known it
If I had not needed emergency ambulance transport to hospital for a completely unrelated medical problem, I would never have known I had it. Ditto, the SP.
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Indolent says:
December 30, 2022 at 6:19 pm
The White Supremacist Origins of Exercise,
Anyone who can write this with a straight face is not a serious author: I was also really moved speaking to gay men who had lived through HIV/AIDS and talked about how they exercised to display that they had a healthy body at a moment when there was so much homophobia
Also, any writer who analyses fitness trends in the 1970’s without giving James Fixx a big shout out has not done their research.
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This useless clown is still going.
Jeremy Maluta
PRGuy
@PRGuy17
Won’t wear a mask, because “freedom”, but will demand kids accused of non-violent crimes be locked up for 10 years because there’s a 1 in 30,000,000 chance one day they might become killers ?
Ah, Queensland.
9:21 PM · Dec 29, 2022
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An (honors!) graduate of the Columbia skool of germalism.
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I was also really moved speaking to gay men who had lived through HIV/AIDS and talked about how they exercised to display that they had a healthy body at a moment when there was so much homophobia
The problem wasn’t so much the exercise but rather the sauna afterwards.
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Jeremy Malutawho?
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Here is what the new QLD law proposal is regarding sentencing. I don’t really support changing laws as if they were properly applied anyway…but points 2. – 4, are not particularly objectionable and are likely very popular.
Increasing the maximum penalty for stealing a car from 7 years to 10 years’ imprisonment
A more severe penalty of 14 years if the offence is committed at night, where the offender uses violence or threatens violence, is armed or pretends to be armed, is in company or damages or threatens to damage any property
Amend the Youth Justice Act requiring courts to take into account previous bail history, criminal activity and track record when sentencing
Increased penalties for criminals who have boasted about these crimes on social media.
Nothing to do with locking up poor accused, non convicted kiddies for ten years because “they might become murderers”.
In other words, fat bastard Jeremy Maluta is totally wrong, again.
-A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales. The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small. The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible. The little girl said “When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah”. The teacher asked “What if Jonah went to hell?” The little girl replied “Then you ask him”.
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The people, from my experience, in Fitzroy-Brunswick really are stupid and nasty as you might imagine.
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Shouldn’t generalize I know.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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…we are creating inclusive, vibrant and healthy neighbourhoods
Never mind the wall & checkpoint.
You get used to it after while.
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Thay look reasonable, Dot. Similar to what people are trying to do in SA.
Bigly self pwnage from Cher.
2022: Damn anti vaxxers told me not take flu vaccine. Damn their oily hides! I am sufferrin’ succotash!
2020: No fkn way am I taking a vaccine that fatty Drumpf is bypassing the third safety trial on! 150k deaths last months “it is what is”, ergo Fatty Drumpf’s fault!
Much talk about bullion backed sovereign digital currency blockchained.
Personal digital wallet.
I’m sceptical about digital currency and the possibility of evil manipulation.
Very interesting.
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Why do Russian tycoons keep falling to their deaths?
The Russian embassy in New Delhi reportedly organised the local cremation of the two recent unfortunates post-haste.
Which is odd because the Russian Orthodox Church forbids cremation.
If only Putin knew…
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calli says:
December 30, 2022 at 5:34 pm
I can imagine the horror some parents confronted when their fresh-faced 18 year old daughter came home with ink on her arm/leg/shoulder etc.
I know what it’s like. A long…long time ago a certain child came home with her tongue pierced.
I said nothing. Went upstairs, had a good cry
In her late teens one of my daughters came home and showed me her pierced bellybutton with a ring in it. I refused to react and sure enough within six months she took out the ring. When I asked why she said it was getting caught in her clothes.
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Much talk about bullion backed sovereign digital currency blockchained.
There was an Australian scammer in the UAE, resident in the Shangri La Hotel, doing people over on this about 5 years ago.
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Are we witnessing the dismantling of the privately owned western central banks?
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…we are creating inclusive, vibrant and healthy neighbourhoods
That requires absolute and complete alignment with our views…..
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custardsays:
December 30, 2022 at 8:13 pm
Are we witnessing the dismantling of the privately owned western central banks?
I think so.
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calli says: December 30, 2022 at 5:34 pm
I can imagine the horror some parents confronted when their fresh-faced 18 year old daughter came home with ink on her arm/leg/shoulder etc.
Around here they know bluddee well that within 30 seconds of a tattoo sighting the disc-grinder will be coming out & won’t go back into the shelf until the tattoo is gone.
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Around here they know bluddee well that within 30 seconds of a tattoo sighting the disc-grinder will be coming out & won’t go back into the shelf until the tattoo is gone.
Way back when, I would cite you the withering scorn of certain officers, when they discovered that some of the younger members had had themselves tattooed with the unit insignia…..
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I grew up with a fellow student from school who ultimately joined the Australian army and then was in the rebels outlaw motorcycle gang.
When imprisoned for offences he was told, get rid of those tattoos or we’ll get them with a belt sander.
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“In her late teens one of my daughters came home and showed me her pierced bellybutton with a ring in it. I refused to react and sure enough within six months she took out the ring. When I asked why she said it was getting caught in her clothes.”
I knew a woman in her forties who got her nose pierced. I asked her what it was like and she said it was painful. Anyway, the nose stud kept on falling out, and then one day at the beach with friends (including me), she went swimming and it fell out into the water, gone forever. I tried not to laugh.
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This is for Bruce of Newcastle. A flock of cockatoos has been munching on my cypress tree for two days now. Broken off or bitten off twigs are carpeting the paving underneath the tree. The cockies are eating the tiny cones/seeds that are all over the tree.
I leave the birds to it as they have been doing this every few months for a few years now though it is rather tiresome having to sweep up the discarded twigs.
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My beef with “modelling” as it appears to be done is the “if only we had more information our models would be better”. Well, durrrr.
“Modelling” is a term that has been thoroughly corrupted. In mechanical engineering, modelling of a simple structure such as a beam had to align almost perfectly with a real live test of the beam. From there you could model a more complex structure with the beams to avoid building and testing the more complex structure. If you didn’t have model validation in your submission you got an F.
Even in solid mechanics it was quite difficult to get a model to emulate the real world. Vertical loading on an empty coke can versus the model would give very different results. The model had no imperfections to initiate the real world collapse mechanism.
Most of the current modelling gets an F because there is no model validation of any description.
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I have just re-watched the movie Air Force One.
I decided to dip into IMDB to check when the movie was made, suspecting it was made by a fawning Hollywood to amplify the majesty and heroism of the President because a Democrat was currently in the White House. (And, indeed, it was released in 1997.)
I then popped in to look at the trivia and found this:
In December 2015, Donald Trump revealed his admiration for “Harrison Ford on the plane … He stood up for America.” When Ford was told during a television interview of Trump’s compliment, he turned to the camera and said “Donald, it was just a movie. Things like this don’t happen in real life.”
In December 2015 Trump had announced his candidacy but had not been elected.
What a mean spirited turd Ford is. Trump had not even done anything yet. All he had done is made speeches about resuscitating the traditional American spirit.
Pity Ford did not say it one year later, when events already underway had unfolded further. Trump could have responded “And you only pretended to be President. I actually know what I am talking about. #HasbeenHarrison #FordFaker”.
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Don’t have a reference, but apparently, one on the biggest items of elective surgery on the British National Health service is removal of unwanted tattoos..
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Funny to reflect on how vile a person Bill actually was before and during office, what a monstrous being his wife was and is, and what a strange creature their daughter is – bred from their genes but without their demonic strength. She is their shadow and when they go so will she.
Oh, and imagine a movie about the US President in the age of Biden!
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“In her late teens one of my daughters came home and showed me her pierced bellybutton with a ring in it. I refused to react and sure enough within six months she took out the ring. When I asked why she said it was getting caught in her clothes.”
Long lost nasty hot female friend saw me in the supermarket, ran up and leapt at me and gave me a hug. Went to put her down but she refused to let go. Are you going to let go? No!! My belly button ring is caught in your belt buckle!!
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I’ve never understood why people do the ink and tattoos
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Tulsi filling in for Tucker. What a woman. She should run as Trump’s VP.
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Mother Lodesays:
December 30, 2022 at 8:42 pm
I have just re-watched the movie Air Force One.
I decided to dip into IMDB to check when the movie was made, suspecting it was made by a fawning Hollywood to amplify the majesty and heroism of the President because a Democrat was currently in the White House. (And, indeed, it was released in 1997.)
Wag the Dog seemed also to be based (not very loosely) on Clinton as president.
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I leave the birds to it as they have been doing this every few months for a few years now though it is rather tiresome having to sweep up the discarded twigs.
Punt gun.
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Is Tulsi a sleeper?
Punt gun.
rickw, that’s your answer for everything.
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“All models are wrong, but some are useful”
George E. P. Box
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Lord Of The Rings on again. What a trilogy it is. Just superb
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custard says:
December 30, 2022 at 8:54 pm
Is Tulsi a sleeper?
I think so.
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What is a punt gun?
The only weapons I have access to are my grandsons’ nerf guns.
Black Ball says:December 30, 2022 at 8:58 pm
Lord Of The Rings on again. What a trilogy it is. Just superb
I’ll try to give it a go one of these days.
Was determined to watch it when it came out in cinemas, coz of the NZ scenery it apparently contained.
Alas I found it so incredibly boring that I fell asleep within 20 minutes. Not just in LOTR, but each installment.
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Watched the first forty minutes of Bridge on the River Kwai.
What a load of sh-t.
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And not just because watching any Alec Guinness movie now I expect sand people or R2D2 to pop out at any time he is speaking.
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What is a punt gun?
Almost a cannon.
10 foot barrel, 2 inch diameter barrel, fires a half kilo of shot. Wikipedia is your friend on this one.
Well she’s a WEF ‘young leader’. Maybe she changed. She did call the Clinton bitch out- ‘the queen of warmongers’. I don’t know,
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Watched the first forty minutes of Bridge on the River Kwai.
What a load of sh-t.
Too right mate, hardly any of it is about bridge building, there’s all this faffing on about other stuff, load of cobblers. *sniff*
Also it should be Bridge Over The River Kwai, you don’t build a bridge on a river, that’s called a pontoon, innit.
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Alas I found it so incredibly boring that I fell asleep
Ex-wife’s appraisal: “Another effing elf already”
She fell asleep too
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Why is our western political class so evil? Where they always that way? I can’t image Barton or Lyons wanting to destroy our livelihoods or even Wran for that matter
They’re completely amoral and in the “modern world” they don’t think there are any real consequences.
If they keep f’cking people I think they will be in for a nasty surprise on consequences.
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bred from their genes
Well, Hillary’s anyway. Webb Hubbell gave at the office.
Don’t forget, Bill had mumps after puberty and, considerate sort, would comfort his victims after biting their lower lip and forcing them backward until horizontal by assuring them as he departed that they couldn’t get pregnant.
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rickw, that’s your answer for everything.
Name one situation that a punt gun can’t fix!
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Crossie – I’ve had an upswing of cockies coming by the Cafe over the last three weeks or so. I think the drier weather plus demands from hungry kiddies has got them to change priority. Maybe six or eight today, whereas a few weeks ago I was only getting my one regular – who has a wonky wing and has been coming each day for the last ten years (she/he is eccentric: in all that time has accepted bread from my hand three times only, whereas other cockies are instant friends. Go figure.)
Last couple days out walking I’ve also had a cockie spot me, fly down to a nearby perch and accept a bit of bread. They’re very good at recognising individual humans.
All this after half a year of no cockies.
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Alas I found it so incredibly boring that I fell asleep
It was frustrating, coz I really wanted to watch it.
In those days you fell asleep you missed it.
Streaming will be an invaluable therapy tool for helping me through my LOTR somnambulism problem.
Is Tulsi a sleeper?
She can sleep next to me anytime.
And so what if she is: they all are so you might as well have the gorgeous ones.
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Cohenite:
Tulsi filling in for Tucker. What a woman. She should run as Trump’s VP.
I’ve already had my say about Tulsi.
If the Republicans are stupid enough to fall for that trick like they did for Pence, they deserve everything they get.
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Name one situation that a punt gun can’t fix!
One or two would be quite handy for home security.
Christmas Day burglars would tripwire the one aimed at the door they entered through, & the discussion would be focused around how many there were, not what colour they were.
The “arrest” would require not a couple of pairs of handcuffs & a paddy wagon, but spatulas & buckets.
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Custard:
Is Tulsi a sleeper?
Yes.
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Why is our western political class so evil?
They reflect the times.
(And it’s not just the western political class.)
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fly down to a nearby perch and accept a bit of bread. They’re very good at recognising individual humans.
..
Or as they refer to them among themselves, individual suckers..
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Name one situation that a punt gun can’t fix!
Energy network collapse due to supply constraints 🙁
Although it’s probably perfectly capable of causing that issue 🙂
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Almost a cannon.
10 foot barrel, 2 inch diameter barrel, fires a half kilo of shot.
Like a Swivel Gun.
Used to repel boarders.
That or a garden hose.
Cockies hate the hose.
rickwsays:
December 30, 2022 at 8:53 pm
I leave the birds to it as they have been doing this every few months for a few years now though it is rather tiresome having to sweep up the discarded twigs.
Punt gun.
Any damn gun big enough to take out hundreds at a time. Sulphur Crested Cockatoos are the most vile creatures ever spawned by my beloved country. The only bird I loathe more than Indian Mynahs.
Also it should be Bridge Over The River Kwai, you don’t build a bridge on a river, that’s called a pontoon, innit.
No.
It’s called a Pontoon Bridge.
Still a Bridge.
As an expert military mind, one who’s au fait with all things Russian/Ukrainian, I’m surprised this one got past you.
One more blunder like this, and the Cat collective will be forced to remove your Field Marshal’s Baton.
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The Punt Gun is the ideal weapon for taking out Cockies.
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The Witches of Eastwick is a fun movie and the seduction scene between Jack and Cher is a classic bit of BS:
If the Republicans are stupid enough to fall for that trick like they did for Pence, they deserve everything they get.
Like I said all the other sleepers are ugly; go with the gorgeous ones: it’s either Tulsi or Kari; or both. Trump could have 2 VPs! Kari would keep Tulsi on the S&N; and Tulsi would look great.
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Had not been to Club Grubbery for a while. Just had a look at their Facebook page and they had an interview 5 days ago with Dr’s Mark Hobart and William Bay (both Dr’s fighting AHPRA). In the text above it says :
“Tonight as we finished filming this episode, we were advised by AFL Solicitors that the TGA has admitted that two children aged 7 and 9 both suffered a cardiac arrest AND SADLY DIED post jab and these have been officially recorder as Vaxxine Injuries”.
For those who dont know AFL Solicitors is lawyer Tony Nicolic who has represented mandate cases and has good contacts.
I just listened to a 27 DEC interview with Dr Phillip Altman on TNT Radio show Jason Q and Citizen. He does mention three significant recent events (ie. Pfizer admission, Dr Karyn Phelps and partner injuries and recent discovery that vaccines were controlled by USA Dept of Defence – Altman has recently written about this in Spectator mag). However he did not mention the two kids deaths which seems odd.
Had a quick look at TGA site and cant see a reference to this (report ending 15 DEC still says 14 vaccine deaths so far and none under 21).
Anybody else seen anything about 2 kids dying from vax.
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Thanks to those who sent good wishes for my 16yr old grandson who had open heart surgery on the 21 December.
He is now home from hospital and rang me today. The Ross Procedure appears to have gone well but it will be a long convalescence. He will go for X-rays on Tuesday next week to check fluid on the lungs and be checked by the local GP on Wednesday.
Thank you for all for your kind words here.
why I say western is they universally despise their own countries, in fact they don’t seem to believe countries should exist at all (except to levy taxes to pay their salaries of course). Consider Justine’s ‘post nation’.
I explained to my son once that, shooting ducks on the water was NOT sporting. He asked “why not?”.
I explained to him the difference between hunting and a sure thing. Not sure if he understood. From what I have seen and read, I think Australia and NZ are the only countries that give ducks a sporting chance. Happy to be corrected.
I think Australia and NZ are the only countries that give ducks a sporting chance.
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Never give a duck a gun.
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MatrixTransform says:
December 30, 2022 at 9:31 pm
a short film about Tango
I’m only 5 minutes into this riveting piece Covid, Tango and the Lagom way yet am already furious at the soft censorship of YouTube and the Oz government who insist on having a warning of sorts at the bottom of the screen – COVID 19. Get the latest information from the Department of Health about Covid 19
Bastards.
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Watched the first forty minutes of Bridge on the River Kwai.
What a load of sh-t.
A relative of mine, by marriage, was one of the Dutch Prisoners of war who built that bridge. “Bridge on the River Kwai” was the only war film he ever watched, post war, and his opinion was caustic, to say the least.
‘That bridge was built by Australian and Dutch Prisoners of war. There wasn’t a whistling Pommy within a hundred miles of the bridge.”
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MatrixTransformsays:
December 30, 2022 at 9:31 pm
a short film about Tango
Cheers.
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Adams IIRR made a motes from collecting jokes and putting them into a joke book. Then number 2, 3 and so on.
All other people’s work, and most of them would not get a pass in today’s woke society.
Robert Graves relates, in his book The White Goddess, how sailors in the Hellenistic and Classical periods would tattoo a five-pointed star on the mons veneris which, in chiromancy, was the fleshy mound at the base of the thumb and sacred to Venus/Aphrodite. The five pointed star invoked Venus/Aphrodite, goddess of the sea (she was born from the spume*of the waves).
It was a supplication to Venus/Aphrodite, pleading for her favour as they plied the seas.
I suspect tattoos originally mostly religious in nature, petitioning a deity, attesting loyalty to a guild or a society or a tribe (which always has a religious character – the idea of nature being merely the confluence of blind, dispassionate and universal laws was centuries away and conceptually beyond the furthest horizons. In the ancient world breaking an egg meant there must be a frikkin’ god of broken frikkin’ eggs!)
Later, when the ooga-booga was burned away by the previously unimaginably infinite dominion and power of the Christian God tattoos still gave form to loyalties that transcended the individual – to regiments, to brotherhoods, and even street gangs.
But now they are not even that. They are just body graphics. Not very good ones. A great tattoo is still a shitty drawing – compared to the range of artwork that co-exists in the world. A single coffee table book will contain more and better images than any ink stained carcass. And without requiring anyone to pull their shirt up or pull down their underpants from over their butt.
As for belief, we live in an age when belief is almost unknown among the lower orders. It is not that that they know better. Not that they know more science. They don’t. They are pig ignorant. They don’t understand the scientific idea of gravity. But they don’t even believe in gravity. They don’t even conceptualise it. They don’t believe in gravity any more than a dog does.
A rainbow pony on their right butt cheek is surely the nadir of every human faculty.
Probably an easy shag, but.
* I knew I could flummox Siri with that one. BITCHES!!!
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Interesting fact: Bloke who wrote Bridge on Kwai, Pierre Boulle, also wrote Planet of the Apes. Both those books are rubbish, almost unreadable. Yet each was the basis for a first-rate flick — both books are unreadable and yet made much better flicks.
Arky is wrong about Kwai — David Lean at his best, just so long as you treat as a story and not history.
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It’s raining kids and the Queensland shire of Paroo blooming
By Charlie Peel
Rural reporter
@charliepeeled ?
10:00PM December 30, 2022
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It’s a hot December afternoon on a sheep station 20km out of the outback town of Cunnamulla and there are kids everywhere.
They’re in the pool, running on the lawn, climbing over trees and swing sets and grazing from a picnic table laden with chips, dips and biscuits.
Everywhere there are kids there’s a mum or two stationed nearby, chatting casually and keeping a keen eye on the children as they move about Kahmoo Station yard.
There are six mums and more than a dozen kids on the green lawn, catching up and toasting the end of the year.
It seems like a lot of children for a tiny outback town, but this is only a fraction of them.
In all, the kids of the Paroo shire in southwestern Queensland are the product of the highest fertility rate in the country.
Australian Bureau of Statistics data, released in October, shows the shire, with a population of about 1700, had a fertility rate in 2021 of 3.42 per cent, more than double the national average of 1.7 per cent.
“There must be something in the bore water,” says one of the mums, Amy Palmer, who was raised in Quilpie and, like many her age, moved back from the city to raise her own children.
Charlie, 4, and Alice, 2, are among 70 children registered to attend the daycare centre in town, which is so overrun there’s a waiting list to get in. Then there’s the more informal daycare, co-ordinated over WhatsApp by a group of mums representing more than 50 young kids.
“You comment on the group, ‘who wants to go to the park?’, and you just hope that not everyone turns up,” Palmer says.
“That’s a lot of kids to keep an eye on. We are the ultimate village that watches.”
The booming fertility rate is particularly astonishing given that when the nine-year drought in western Queensland was biting hardest in 2018, the Paroo shire population had dropped about 40 per cent.
It seems the kids have come down with the life-bringing rain and the reinvigorated Warrego River over the past few years.
After a particularly good 2022 with well-above-average rain, the shire was officially declared drought free on December 1.
Brisbane-born and raised Fran Reid, who lives on Kahmoo Station, says the driving force behind the baby boom is young mums and dads on sheep and cattle properties.
She met her husband in Brisbane and moved out to his family farm six years ago.
“All these boys have come back to run the family farms and they’ve brought their wives with them,” she says. “Most of the kids are living on properties but there’s a handful in town as well.
“We’ve all had kids now so I expect the birthrate will have to slow down soon.”
Reid, who works as a nurse in town and plans to open a cafe with Palmer, says the population boom and the end of the drought have boosted the local economy.
“It’s a good time to be out here,” she says.
While the number of Cunnamulla kids is growing, the local hospital’s birthing wing has been quiet since it was closed in 2008, and most of them have been born in either Brisbane or Toowoomba, more than 600km away.
When Justine Campbell moved to Paroo shire as a young mother she was one of few. She’s watched, happily, as the ranks have swelled, bringing a massive support network and willing cohort of friends for the other youngsters.
“My husband and I came here at the end of the last drought in 2009 and there was no one here,” Campbell says. “I didn’t know how long we’d stick it out for. I’m just so thankful for the way it has happened and to have so many other mums around. Now all I worry about is in 15 years’ time we will all be worrying about which of the kids are at the pub.”
Warrego MP Ann Leahy says generational change and a strong agricultural sector rejuvenated by rain are behind the Paroo baby boom.
“You find that young people come back into the district and you just end up with a whole bunch of new people and new families,” Leahy says. “That’s what’s happened and we are seeing that generational change.
“They stick together and help each other and I think that gives that sense of community that actually inspires people to look at that area as a place they want to have as their future home.”
Paroo Mayor Suzette Beresford says the influx of children is hard to miss in the main street of Cunnamulla.
“There’s a lot of littlies in the town, but even then I was surprised that we’ve got the highest (birthrate) percentage in Australia,” she says. “We’ve watched it grow and grow, and it’s a good sight and a healthy environment.
“The businesses benefit from any new people … there’s lots of new people in the shire, which is great to see.”
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Arky is wrong about Kwai
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The only sympathetic character in the whole thing is the Japanese colonel, and I thought he was a bit of a softcock.
just so long as you treat as a story and not history.
..
Yeah, but it’s not just a story, 22% of those working on the Thai Burma rail died, from disease, malnutrition, executions and over work.
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David Lean at his best, just so long as you treat as a story and not history.
So, how do you deal with those who think, for example, “Gallipoli” and “Breaker Morant” are history, because they’ve seen the film?
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Zulu,
don’t forget the recent film version of the Enigma. The Yanks were the ones that captured and decoded it!
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The scene where the Japanese Colonel gives them the day off and the Red Cross parcels.
And the poms all rush over to the truck and start tearing up the parcels and then one of them rolls his eyes and says “He’s given us our own Red Cross parcels”.
Ridiculous scene.
By the way, the contents of British Red Cross parcels:
During World War II, The British Joint War Organisation sent standard food parcels, invalid food parcels, medical supplies, educational books and recreational materials to prisoners of war worldwide. During the conflict, over 20 million standard food parcels were sent.[19] Typical contents of such a parcel included:
4 oz (110 g) packet of tea
Tin of cocoa powder
Bar of milk or plain chocolate (often Cadbury Dairy Milk Fruit & Nut chocolate, or a similar product)
Tinned pudding
Tin of meat roll
Tin of processed cheese
Tin of condensed milk (Klim—a Canadian instant milk beverage—or else Carnation or Nestle brand)
Tin of dried eggs
Tin of sardines or herrings
Tin of preserve
Tin of margarine
Tin of sugar
Tin of vegetables
Tin of biscuits
Bar of soap
Tin of 50 cigarettes or tobacco (sent separately—usually Player’s brand cigarettes, or Digger flake pipe tobacco).
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The Yanks were the ones that captured and decoded it!
The first of these was an American war movie, U-571, released in 2000, about a U.S. submarine trying to capture an Enigma machine from a German U-boat. Briskly directed and well paced by Jonathan Mostow ( Terminator 3 and Surrogates), a good script from David Ayer, future director of Training Day and Fury. The movie had excellent technical values (it won an Oscar for best sound), finely detailed submarine sets and is throughly entertaining.The scenes inside the U-Boat are convincingly claustrophic, and the seaborne operation to seize the submarine’s Enigma is detailed and exciting, culminating in a tense and convincing climax. Dr.Lawrence Suid,an academic historian of naval warfare has praised U-571 as “probably the most exciting submarine movie ever made.”
Although U-571 received good reviews and a good box-office reception in the USA,
it was viciously received by many naval veterans and journalists in the United Kingdom , who derisively pointed out that in fact British naval units , not American, were the first to capture an intact Enigma machine from from a U-Boat in 1941. (HMS Bulldog forced U-110 to the surface , the German crew abandoned her, believing it was sinking, and a British boarding party entered the submarine, taking the Enigma and German naval codes.) In fact, the final seconds of the film include an acknowledgement that the capturing of the Enigma machine and its codebooks from a German submarine had been achieved earlier by a British naval expedition.
So heated did the argument become that the British Prime Minister Tony Blair agreed with a questioner in the House of Commons that the film was “an affront” to British sailors. President Clinton tried to calm things down by writing a letter declaring that the movie was fiction, not history. In the midst of the uproar, Davbid Balme, the British naval officer who courageously led the boarding party that seized the Enigma from the abandoned and presumably sinking U-110, called the movie “a great film.” However, six years after the film was made its writer, David Ayer, declared that he “did not feel good” about the movie’s depiction of Americans, not British, obtaining the Enigma machine in the way shown in the film.”It was a distortion.”
The Allies captured a total fifteen Enigma machines from U-boats during the war. All but two were seized by British units. The Royal Canadian Navy captured one and the American navy took over a Machine from U-Boat (U-505), in 1944. This episode seized the submarine and its crew intact as well. In fact, you can see U-505, a magnificent vessel, on display today at the Chicago Museum of Science and Technology.
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U571 was a deformed monstrosity of a crap film.
Apparently a crew of about 7 is optimal to run a sub.
Single engine German fighters patrolling in the middle of the Atlantic to strafe them.
Single boxheads destroyer in the middle of the Atlantic as well.
Silly boxheads. Instead of diving and running they should have fired a torpedo bow on to a charging enemy…
Tate bros reappear on Tucker, claiming no charges laid?
???
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I did not say anything of the sort
it is implied
and you implied it yourself
Bullshit I did, Matrix. I play my science with a straight bat.
You are making things up now to suit your own prejudices.
You are not worth arguing with.
In the Dover-approved lingo, may I kindly suggest that you ‘sod’ off.
If I write about the neighbourhood I live in, btw, it is tongue in cheek.
But I’d hardly expect you and the politics of envy cabal to have the nous to fathom that.
You are not big on either comprehension or ironic and nuanced amusement.
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Oh, and Matrix, you are very bad at science.
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???
No, it has been deboonked?
…and also, “everyone on the internet” just loves Greta Thunberg.
“But it’s just a tax thing”
Which is why two Britons and two Romanians appear to be held, with the cops seeking 30 days to detain and question them?
Everyone is just talking smack.
The internet generally is no more reliable than a Reddit true crime subreddit.
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Then there is a pizza box.
???
Are we being trolled?
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I have even seen people claim Tate was caught on a wiretap saying there was money laundering and that is the issue.
Curiouser and curiouser.
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Vicki, and Arky. Thanks for your comments on modelling. I agree with both of you.
Modelling is always heuristic, never reality, and gathering sufficient useful information to construct a reasonable simulacra with any sort of predictive power is in most cases a fool’s errand. However, good enough models can at least produce guidelines for discussion at the pub.
Plenty of those fools errand boys in Ferguson’s climate clinic at Imperial College in London, a place that once had good reputation (I know because Hairy has one of his post-grad quals from there, from the 1970’s). Ferguson’s the one who got the UK’s Mad Cow Disease impacts hopelessly wrong and then went to even greater heights of predictive numerology with his modelling of the spread of Covid. His mistakes were so elementary that it is unbelievable how impressed British authorities were with them.
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We watched two more episodes of Fauda tonight. It really is bloody good.
Doran is a hunk of male gorgeousness. Always welcome.
And so to bed.
Bullshit I did, Matrix.
potty mouth
I play my science with a straight bat.
any time you can science us all up
would be a good time.
anything except one more idiotic appeal to authority
now for instance?
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a pizza box.
???
there was pizza
but nobody swallowed
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Oh, and Matrix, you are very bad at science.
And a lot of women with tatts are bad at Domestic Science.
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alright Lizzy seems I’ve got under yr skin again.
how about this … ?
when you wake tomorrow with all your wits about you
complete the circle and tell everybody what you really think about present-vax and future-vax.
to round it out … be sure to touch on the socio-economics as well
dont waffle on about past-vax and make it all muddy again
use your verbosity for good, instead of evil
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Lizzie, do try not to sound like The Queen of Hearts all the time it makes you seem like a 2-dimensional caricature of an otherwise normal person
The jabs do not work except to kill a lot of healthy people. Time to pull this shit off the shelf. I never got the jab and never got the ‘Rona either.
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MORE LOGIC FROM AN UNCLUTTERED MIND
-A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child’s work. As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was. The girl replied “I’m drawing God”. The teacher paused and said “But no one knows what God looks like”. Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied “They will in a minute”……………..
anything except one more idiotic appeal to authority
Good morning. My wits and I are here, just as they were last night.
Unlike some who shall remain witless, I am a very light imbiber of enjoyable juices.
My ‘authority’ is simply that of good scientific method. It is all that I ask of evidence. But I have no intention of pulling apart over thousands of papers on this site, just for Matrix. Give me a break.
What I will reiterate here is that good scientific method has been strongly politicised by the left, especially with regard to matters climatic and with regard to Covid, and it has also been politicised by those who for various reasons (some better than others) deny that childhood vaccinations (and vaccinations of any sort) have value and have saved lives. So in those matters we are in murky waters where science drowns. And who knows, perhaps that is where science sadly is headed; into the fog. Popper cannot rest easy in his grave as the canon of falsifiabililty is pulled down along with more corporal icons. For the rest of it, what’s left of it, as I have emphasised, there are gold standard scientific studies and others that are less valid – plus some that have no scientific credibility. I have tried to outline the sort of coverage that would constitute a reasonable scientific credibility. That is all that any individual on a blog can do. Leave the rest to hand wavers and/or learned journals.
I have always said that the Covid vaccinations, on their temporary ’emergency’ approvals, have some dubious science behind them with regard to both safety and efficacy; a lot that has been elided is now emerging re Pfizer’s testing. I’ve said that without this emergency label these vaxxes would not have passed scientific muster for population use (I noted that the Swine ‘Flu vaxx did not and was withdrawn). The Covid vax impact on this epidemic is still under assessment, as are the genuine vaccination damages, and some countries are removing or limiting their approval of them as well as providing compensation for specific damages. That is about as far as anyone can argue at this stage. It has all become hugely political and will remain so until all data is properly examined and published (which may be never).
I encourage others to make their own assessments, eschewing hysterias and looking for well-sourced denominators as well as inclusive numerators on risk factors, which is what I did for personal use, researching treatments too, which were also politicised. All vaccinations carry risk, it is the extent and nature of the risk that is the trade-off vs any protective effect. For instance, I won’t have another Covid ‘booster’ nor anything mRNA, but I had the shingles vaxx recently and take the ‘flu vax still.
Also to note – vaccinations work far less well on the elderly immune system. A point to consider re those multi-jabbed elderly who are still keeling over with multiple Covid infections. In old age, face it, something’s going to get you eventually.
That said, immunology is a fascinating subject. Good luck with your studies on it, Duk.
Paradigm shifts are always hard to initiate. And some deserve to fail. Then – a breakthrough!
And now to travel. We leave on Tuesday for Singapore then the UK. After that Copenhagen, Finnish Lappland, Scotland, and back home via Korea. I want to catch up with Hairy but I never will now, because we always travel together these days. On Sinc’s Cities Index of Travels which he did last nite (sneaking in here on the Cat, he was, checking up on me spending too much time here with ‘that look on your face’, lol) he comes out with a solid 78 to my 69. And he’s moaning that he’s done many more that aren’t included, as they’re in more out-of-the-way places like Asia, South America, the Middle East and Africa. Me too, I smile, me too.
My ‘authority’ is simply that of good scientific method.
and … she’s goes with the appeal to authority
But I have no intention of pulling apart over thousands of papers on this site
do us a favour and post the links to the thousands of papers here .
you did book-mark them didn’t you?
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SOS – I was out yesterday.
Geologist bro in law working in Kalgoorlie says in 1910 scientists discovered co2 traps heat – maglev is happening.
Revisited this on web and everything says co2 traps heat and causes mmgw.
Help all you scientist out there in cat land
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Help all you scientist out there in cat land
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Of a scientist. Only a maths teacher.
Ask him what he means by “traps heat”.
Whatever he says, in reply ask him what is so special about the bandwidth of the electromagnetic spectrum that CO2 absorbs in comparison to, say, water vapour.
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Then ask him how he intends for us to mitigate the effects of water vapour, given that there is so much of it and it absorbs so much more heat than CO2.
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says co2 traps heat and causes mmgw
I wonder what the temperature is on Mars right now?
The Murderers are Sudanese.
Do you have a congenital defect that prevents you ever telling the truth?
What are your new year resolutions crotchless.
I wasn’t aware that Patrice Newell was aboriginal.
She had no idea either until comparatively recently, through her mother and grandmother Maria Johanna Austin who was born
in Framlingham.
Not as if Adams knew he’d married an Aboriginal woman.
Handy though as a Trump card.
Yep, you suspect Newell didn’t come across her proud indigenous heritage out digging for yams on country. More likely over canapes at a writers festival as a +1.
Just think about this, Newell is paraded by her partner and the progressive MSM as “indigenous” whereas Jacinta Price and Kerrynne Liddle are routinely smeared and derided despite the fact that they ARE indigenous and both have lived in indigenous communities.
You just can’t make this shit up.
The meja is evil. Filled with poisonous imbeciles with zero accomplishments.
My public healthcare worker survey results: Myocarditis rates up >10X post-vax
“I wasn’t aware that Patrice Newell was aboriginal.”
As far as I’m concerned she isn’t, she has indigenous heritage.
A joke.
they spelled communism wrong
You mean like this
Get Ready For The ’15-Minute City’ From The World Economic Forum That Just May Make You A Prisoner Of The New Climate Change Zones They’re Creating
Last night with the neighbours was fun. We have large land and have seven abutting neighbours on its perimeters. We had a good time gossiping about all the other neighbours, sharing who was doing what.
And our hostess was off: did you know that the mother-in-law at next but one parks her Bentley in the street around the wrong way round, always. So entitled! And what about the chap over the other side who is affecting the pacemaker of the old widow by firing up the engines on his noisy Lambourghini in that courtyard of theirs just under her bedroom window. Who needs three cars, he has three there! and his wife has two – she’s nice though, further declares our hostess in this neighbourly stream of consciousness, while serving up delicious French nibbles in artful displays. From Parisi’s, she says, you do know Parisi’s don’t you? And what sort of place is going up next door now that they’ve ripped the top off it? Oh, the prices, the prices. They paid six million for it and now it’s a shell. They do that you know. But what could they do? The bedrooms were so small and had mould, all that sandstone was damp. The estate agent rang me about the place on the corner, she continues on. It got fifteen million, and why would I care about that, I asked him? These estate agents, they only see you as a prospective sale. Dreadful people.
My turn then: Oh, didn’t you know, further down offered to buy our orchard but we refused.
Our hostess: Never! Did they really? Thank goodness you refused; you did refuse didn’t you?
Present were also some of the family’s Gen Y, in their thirties, very open and friendly young people. Working in software provision and hotel management. Heads screwed on right, and all railing against political correctness and pronoun stupidity. So there is plenty of fire in the younger ones still. Hairy points out that these really nice ones were all in the private sector. The hotel guy was having moans about being unable to get trained staff, and the problems of training them up. He’d just read the riot act to them about general grunge and slackness but said he couldn’t go too far, or they’d leave. He was the one who nearly fell off his chair when it came up that I was eighty. Not even sixty! he exclaimed, while Hairy brushed it off by joking – and no expense spared. Hostess, a thespian of a certain age, simply asked me outright then for the name and phone number of my surgeon. Text it to me later, she coo’s. I am looking for a good one. So many of them overdo things, she flutters, as the conversation moved to the shared family of Kookaburra’s and where they were nesting. She is lending me a book about feeding and caring for urban birds. Thus concluded a very pleasant Vaucluse night around her new outdoor furniture.
Against protests, we left to entice more salmon paste down Attapuss’s gullet and change his tray ready for garbage night.
alwaysrightsays:
December 30, 2022 at 4:26 pm
Scars, now scars can be sexy.
Come up to my abode sometime and I will show you my scars.
If I do that, will it end up like this?😉
If I had not needed emergency ambulance transport to hospital for a completely unrelated medical problem, I would never have known I had it. Ditto, the SP.
Anyone who can write this with a straight face is not a serious author:
I was also really moved speaking to gay men who had lived through HIV/AIDS and talked about how they exercised to display that they had a healthy body at a moment when there was so much homophobia
Also, any writer who analyses fitness trends in the 1970’s without giving James Fixx a big shout out has not done their research.
This useless clown is still going.
Jeremy Maluta
PRGuy
@PRGuy17
Won’t wear a mask, because “freedom”, but will demand kids accused of non-violent crimes be locked up for 10 years because there’s a 1 in 30,000,000 chance one day they might become killers ?
Ah, Queensland.
9:21 PM · Dec 29, 2022
An (honors!) graduate of the Columbia skool of germalism.
The problem wasn’t so much the exercise but rather the sauna afterwards.
Jeremy Malutawho?
Here is what the new QLD law proposal is regarding sentencing. I don’t really support changing laws as if they were properly applied anyway…but points 2. – 4, are not particularly objectionable and are likely very popular.
Increasing the maximum penalty for stealing a car from 7 years to 10 years’ imprisonment
A more severe penalty of 14 years if the offence is committed at night, where the offender uses violence or threatens violence, is armed or pretends to be armed, is in company or damages or threatens to damage any property
Amend the Youth Justice Act requiring courts to take into account previous bail history, criminal activity and track record when sentencing
Increased penalties for criminals who have boasted about these crimes on social media.
Nothing to do with locking up poor accused, non convicted kiddies for ten years because “they might become murderers”.
In other words, fat bastard Jeremy Maluta is totally wrong, again.
PRGuy17, miltf.
The king of Dan Andrews army of suckholes.
nobody laugh now but I found a home video of little smutley growing up and doing what he does best….
OK never heard of him, guess I was lucky.
LOGIC FROM AN UNCLUTTERED MIND
-A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales. The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small. The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible. The little girl said “When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah”. The teacher asked “What if Jonah went to hell?” The little girl replied “Then you ask him”.
The people, from my experience, in Fitzroy-Brunswick really are stupid and nasty as you might imagine.
Shouldn’t generalize I know.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Never mind the wall & checkpoint.
You get used to it after while.
Thay look reasonable, Dot. Similar to what people are trying to do in SA.
Bigly self pwnage from Cher.
2022: Damn anti vaxxers told me not take flu vaccine. Damn their oily hides! I am sufferrin’ succotash!
2020: No fkn way am I taking a vaccine that fatty Drumpf is bypassing the third safety trial on! 150k deaths last months “it is what is”, ergo Fatty Drumpf’s fault!
https://youtu.be/uB71ra2Q5A8
Chuckle!
Putin needs their money?
rainbow barbed-wire
I’m surprised she hasn’t stormed off.
some pretty good comments on Cher’s twitter
looks like once it was Bidenvaxx she was all in.
Much talk about bullion backed sovereign digital currency blockchained.
Personal digital wallet.
I’m sceptical about digital currency and the possibility of evil manipulation.
Very interesting.
The Russian embassy in New Delhi reportedly organised the local cremation of the two recent unfortunates post-haste.
Which is odd because the Russian Orthodox Church forbids cremation.
If only Putin knew…
In her late teens one of my daughters came home and showed me her pierced bellybutton with a ring in it. I refused to react and sure enough within six months she took out the ring. When I asked why she said it was getting caught in her clothes.
Much talk about bullion backed sovereign digital currency blockchained.
There was an Australian scammer in the UAE, resident in the Shangri La Hotel, doing people over on this about 5 years ago.
Are we witnessing the dismantling of the privately owned western central banks?
…we are creating inclusive, vibrant and healthy neighbourhoods
That requires absolute and complete alignment with our views…..
I think so.
Around here they know bluddee well that within 30 seconds of a tattoo sighting the disc-grinder will be coming out & won’t go back into the shelf until the tattoo is gone.
I grew up with a fellow student from school who ultimately joined the Australian army and then was in the rebels outlaw motorcycle gang.
When imprisoned for offences he was told, get rid of those tattoos or we’ll get them with a belt sander.
“In her late teens one of my daughters came home and showed me her pierced bellybutton with a ring in it. I refused to react and sure enough within six months she took out the ring. When I asked why she said it was getting caught in her clothes.”
I knew a woman in her forties who got her nose pierced. I asked her what it was like and she said it was painful. Anyway, the nose stud kept on falling out, and then one day at the beach with friends (including me), she went swimming and it fell out into the water, gone forever. I tried not to laugh.
This is for Bruce of Newcastle. A flock of cockatoos has been munching on my cypress tree for two days now. Broken off or bitten off twigs are carpeting the paving underneath the tree. The cockies are eating the tiny cones/seeds that are all over the tree.
I leave the birds to it as they have been doing this every few months for a few years now though it is rather tiresome having to sweep up the discarded twigs.
My beef with “modelling” as it appears to be done is the “if only we had more information our models would be better”. Well, durrrr.
“Modelling” is a term that has been thoroughly corrupted. In mechanical engineering, modelling of a simple structure such as a beam had to align almost perfectly with a real live test of the beam. From there you could model a more complex structure with the beams to avoid building and testing the more complex structure. If you didn’t have model validation in your submission you got an F.
Even in solid mechanics it was quite difficult to get a model to emulate the real world. Vertical loading on an empty coke can versus the model would give very different results. The model had no imperfections to initiate the real world collapse mechanism.
Most of the current modelling gets an F because there is no model validation of any description.
I have just re-watched the movie Air Force One.
I decided to dip into IMDB to check when the movie was made, suspecting it was made by a fawning Hollywood to amplify the majesty and heroism of the President because a Democrat was currently in the White House. (And, indeed, it was released in 1997.)
I then popped in to look at the trivia and found this:
In December 2015 Trump had announced his candidacy but had not been elected.
What a mean spirited turd Ford is. Trump had not even done anything yet. All he had done is made speeches about resuscitating the traditional American spirit.
Pity Ford did not say it one year later, when events already underway had unfolded further. Trump could have responded “And you only pretended to be President. I actually know what I am talking about. #HasbeenHarrison #FordFaker”.
Don’t have a reference, but apparently, one on the biggest items of elective surgery on the British National Health service is removal of unwanted tattoos..
Funny to reflect on how vile a person Bill actually was before and during office, what a monstrous being his wife was and is, and what a strange creature their daughter is – bred from their genes but without their demonic strength. She is their shadow and when they go so will she.
Oh, and imagine a movie about the US President in the age of Biden!
“In her late teens one of my daughters came home and showed me her pierced bellybutton with a ring in it. I refused to react and sure enough within six months she took out the ring. When I asked why she said it was getting caught in her clothes.”
Long lost nasty hot female friend saw me in the supermarket, ran up and leapt at me and gave me a hug. Went to put her down but she refused to let go. Are you going to let go? No!! My belly button ring is caught in your belt buckle!!
I’ve never understood why people do the ink and tattoos
Tulsi filling in for Tucker. What a woman. She should run as Trump’s VP.
Mother Lodesays:
December 30, 2022 at 8:42 pm
I have just re-watched the movie Air Force One.
I decided to dip into IMDB to check when the movie was made, suspecting it was made by a fawning Hollywood to amplify the majesty and heroism of the President because a Democrat was currently in the White House. (And, indeed, it was released in 1997.)
Wag the Dog seemed also to be based (not very loosely) on Clinton as president.
I leave the birds to it as they have been doing this every few months for a few years now though it is rather tiresome having to sweep up the discarded twigs.
Punt gun.
Is Tulsi a sleeper?
rickw, that’s your answer for everything.
“All models are wrong, but some are useful”
George E. P. Box
Lord Of The Rings on again. What a trilogy it is. Just superb
I think so.
What is a punt gun?
The only weapons I have access to are my grandsons’ nerf guns.
I’ll try to give it a go one of these days.
Was determined to watch it when it came out in cinemas, coz of the NZ scenery it apparently contained.
Alas I found it so incredibly boring that I fell asleep within 20 minutes. Not just in LOTR, but each installment.
Watched the first forty minutes of Bridge on the River Kwai.
What a load of sh-t.
And not just because watching any Alec Guinness movie now I expect sand people or R2D2 to pop out at any time he is speaking.
Almost a cannon.
10 foot barrel, 2 inch diameter barrel, fires a half kilo of shot.
Wikipedia is your friend on this one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punt_gun
Is Tulsi a sleeper?
Well she’s a WEF ‘young leader’. Maybe she changed. She did call the Clinton bitch out- ‘the queen of warmongers’. I don’t know,
Too right mate, hardly any of it is about bridge building, there’s all this faffing on about other stuff, load of cobblers. *sniff*
Also it should be Bridge Over The River Kwai, you don’t build a bridge on a river, that’s called a pontoon, innit.
Alas I found it so incredibly boring that I fell asleep
Ex-wife’s appraisal: “Another effing elf already”
She fell asleep too
Why is our western political class so evil? Where they always that way? I can’t image Barton or Lyons wanting to destroy our livelihoods or even Wran for that matter
They’re completely amoral and in the “modern world” they don’t think there are any real consequences.
If they keep f’cking people I think they will be in for a nasty surprise on consequences.
bred from their genes
Well, Hillary’s anyway. Webb Hubbell gave at the office.
Don’t forget, Bill had mumps after puberty and, considerate sort, would comfort his victims after biting their lower lip and forcing them backward until horizontal by assuring them as he departed that they couldn’t get pregnant.
rickw, that’s your answer for everything.
Name one situation that a punt gun can’t fix!
Crossie – I’ve had an upswing of cockies coming by the Cafe over the last three weeks or so. I think the drier weather plus demands from hungry kiddies has got them to change priority. Maybe six or eight today, whereas a few weeks ago I was only getting my one regular – who has a wonky wing and has been coming each day for the last ten years (she/he is eccentric: in all that time has accepted bread from my hand three times only, whereas other cockies are instant friends. Go figure.)
Last couple days out walking I’ve also had a cockie spot me, fly down to a nearby perch and accept a bit of bread. They’re very good at recognising individual humans.
All this after half a year of no cockies.
It was frustrating, coz I really wanted to watch it.
In those days you fell asleep you missed it.
Streaming will be an invaluable therapy tool for helping me through my LOTR somnambulism problem.
Is Tulsi a sleeper?
She can sleep next to me anytime.
And so what if she is: they all are so you might as well have the gorgeous ones.
Cohenite:
I’ve already had my say about Tulsi.
If the Republicans are stupid enough to fall for that trick like they did for Pence, they deserve everything they get.
One or two would be quite handy for home security.
Christmas Day burglars would tripwire the one aimed at the door they entered through, & the discussion would be focused around how many there were, not what colour they were.
The “arrest” would require not a couple of pairs of handcuffs & a paddy wagon, but spatulas & buckets.
Custard:
Yes.
They reflect the times.
(And it’s not just the western political class.)
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Or as they refer to them among themselves, individual suckers..
Energy network collapse due to supply constraints 🙁
Although it’s probably perfectly capable of causing that issue 🙂
Like a Swivel Gun.
Used to repel boarders.
That or a garden hose.
Cockies hate the hose.
rickwsays:
December 30, 2022 at 8:53 pm
I leave the birds to it as they have been doing this every few months for a few years now though it is rather tiresome having to sweep up the discarded twigs.
Punt gun.
Any damn gun big enough to take out hundreds at a time. Sulphur Crested Cockatoos are the most vile creatures ever spawned by my beloved country. The only bird I loathe more than Indian Mynahs.
a short film about Tango
No.
It’s called a Pontoon Bridge.
Still a Bridge.
As an expert military mind, one who’s au fait with all things Russian/Ukrainian, I’m surprised this one got past you.
One more blunder like this, and the Cat collective will be forced to remove your Field Marshal’s Baton.
The Punt Gun is the ideal weapon for taking out Cockies.
The Witches of Eastwick is a fun movie and the seduction scene between Jack and Cher is a classic bit of BS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmNOn6feiYg
I’ve already had my say about Tulsi.
Well, it’s settled then.
If the Republicans are stupid enough to fall for that trick like they did for Pence, they deserve everything they get.
Like I said all the other sleepers are ugly; go with the gorgeous ones: it’s either Tulsi or Kari; or both. Trump could have 2 VPs! Kari would keep Tulsi on the S&N; and Tulsi would look great.
Had not been to Club Grubbery for a while. Just had a look at their Facebook page and they had an interview 5 days ago with Dr’s Mark Hobart and William Bay (both Dr’s fighting AHPRA). In the text above it says :
“Tonight as we finished filming this episode, we were advised by AFL Solicitors that the TGA has admitted that two children aged 7 and 9 both suffered a cardiac arrest AND SADLY DIED post jab and these have been officially recorder as Vaxxine Injuries”.
For those who dont know AFL Solicitors is lawyer Tony Nicolic who has represented mandate cases and has good contacts.
I just listened to a 27 DEC interview with Dr Phillip Altman on TNT Radio show Jason Q and Citizen. He does mention three significant recent events (ie. Pfizer admission, Dr Karyn Phelps and partner injuries and recent discovery that vaccines were controlled by USA Dept of Defence – Altman has recently written about this in Spectator mag). However he did not mention the two kids deaths which seems odd.
Had a quick look at TGA site and cant see a reference to this (report ending 15 DEC still says 14 vaccine deaths so far and none under 21).
Anybody else seen anything about 2 kids dying from vax.
Thanks to those who sent good wishes for my 16yr old grandson who had open heart surgery on the 21 December.
He is now home from hospital and rang me today. The Ross Procedure appears to have gone well but it will be a long convalescence. He will go for X-rays on Tuesday next week to check fluid on the lungs and be checked by the local GP on Wednesday.
Thank you for all for your kind words here.
UK MOD crated Meteor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6xo-t_dIGI
uk is doomed
Christmas Special: Exposing Woke Students’ Gender Nonsense
(And it’s not just the western political class.)
why I say western is they universally despise their own countries, in fact they don’t seem to believe countries should exist at all (except to levy taxes to pay their salaries of course). Consider Justine’s ‘post nation’.
A more in depth description of Punt Guns.Actually, I was surprised to hear that they are still legal, albeit slightly modified, in the UK.
I explained to my son once that, shooting ducks on the water was NOT sporting. He asked “why not?”.
I explained to him the difference between hunting and a sure thing. Not sure if he understood. From what I have seen and read, I think Australia and NZ are the only countries that give ducks a sporting chance. Happy to be corrected.
I prefer them awake, but thats just me….
Taiwan extends compulsory military service from 4 months to 1 year
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Never give a duck a gun.
I’m only 5 minutes into this riveting piece Covid, Tango and the Lagom way yet am already furious at the soft censorship of YouTube and the Oz government who insist on having a warning of sorts at the bottom of the screen – COVID 19. Get the latest information from the Department of Health about Covid 19
Bastards.
A relative of mine, by marriage, was one of the Dutch Prisoners of war who built that bridge. “Bridge on the River Kwai” was the only war film he ever watched, post war, and his opinion was caustic, to say the least.
‘That bridge was built by Australian and Dutch Prisoners of war. There wasn’t a whistling Pommy within a hundred miles of the bridge.”
Cheers.
Adams IIRR made a motes from collecting jokes and putting them into a joke book. Then number 2, 3 and so on.
All other people’s work, and most of them would not get a pass in today’s woke society.
Basically Phil should give the money back.
Motza not motes!
https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/260364422177359027/
Robert Graves relates, in his book The White Goddess, how sailors in the Hellenistic and Classical periods would tattoo a five-pointed star on the mons veneris which, in chiromancy, was the fleshy mound at the base of the thumb and sacred to Venus/Aphrodite. The five pointed star invoked Venus/Aphrodite, goddess of the sea (she was born from the spume*of the waves).
It was a supplication to Venus/Aphrodite, pleading for her favour as they plied the seas.
I suspect tattoos originally mostly religious in nature, petitioning a deity, attesting loyalty to a guild or a society or a tribe (which always has a religious character – the idea of nature being merely the confluence of blind, dispassionate and universal laws was centuries away and conceptually beyond the furthest horizons. In the ancient world breaking an egg meant there must be a frikkin’ god of broken frikkin’ eggs!)
Later, when the ooga-booga was burned away by the previously unimaginably infinite dominion and power of the Christian God tattoos still gave form to loyalties that transcended the individual – to regiments, to brotherhoods, and even street gangs.
But now they are not even that. They are just body graphics. Not very good ones. A great tattoo is still a shitty drawing – compared to the range of artwork that co-exists in the world. A single coffee table book will contain more and better images than any ink stained carcass. And without requiring anyone to pull their shirt up or pull down their underpants from over their butt.
As for belief, we live in an age when belief is almost unknown among the lower orders. It is not that that they know better. Not that they know more science. They don’t. They are pig ignorant. They don’t understand the scientific idea of gravity. But they don’t even believe in gravity. They don’t even conceptualise it. They don’t believe in gravity any more than a dog does.
A rainbow pony on their right butt cheek is surely the nadir of every human faculty.
Probably an easy shag, but.
* I knew I could flummox Siri with that one. BITCHES!!!
Interesting fact: Bloke who wrote Bridge on Kwai, Pierre Boulle, also wrote Planet of the Apes. Both those books are rubbish, almost unreadable. Yet each was the basis for a first-rate flick — both books are unreadable and yet made much better flicks.
Arky is wrong about Kwai — David Lean at his best, just so long as you treat as a story and not history.
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The only sympathetic character in the whole thing is the Japanese colonel, and I thought he was a bit of a softcock.
Rise of Woke Hero.
(Micheal Knowles)
Very interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC3TuxsK-g4
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Yeah, but it’s not just a story, 22% of those working on the Thai Burma rail died, from disease, malnutrition, executions and over work.
So, how do you deal with those who think, for example, “Gallipoli” and “Breaker Morant” are history, because they’ve seen the film?
Zulu,
don’t forget the recent film version of the Enigma. The Yanks were the ones that captured and decoded it!
The scene where the Japanese Colonel gives them the day off and the Red Cross parcels.
And the poms all rush over to the truck and start tearing up the parcels and then one of them rolls his eyes and says “He’s given us our own Red Cross parcels”.
Ridiculous scene.
By the way, the contents of British Red Cross parcels:
Haven’t seen that one.
Ww2 Red Cross package:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPzHdeUIwN8
How do you deal with them, ZKTA?
You don’t. They’re idiots
Zulu,
U571.
The first of these was an American war movie, U-571, released in 2000, about a U.S. submarine trying to capture an Enigma machine from a German U-boat. Briskly directed and well paced by Jonathan Mostow ( Terminator 3 and Surrogates), a good script from David Ayer, future director of Training Day and Fury. The movie had excellent technical values (it won an Oscar for best sound), finely detailed submarine sets and is throughly entertaining.The scenes inside the U-Boat are convincingly claustrophic, and the seaborne operation to seize the submarine’s Enigma is detailed and exciting, culminating in a tense and convincing climax. Dr.Lawrence Suid,an academic historian of naval warfare has praised U-571 as “probably the most exciting submarine movie ever made.”
Although U-571 received good reviews and a good box-office reception in the USA,
it was viciously received by many naval veterans and journalists in the United Kingdom , who derisively pointed out that in fact British naval units , not American, were the first to capture an intact Enigma machine from from a U-Boat in 1941. (HMS Bulldog forced U-110 to the surface , the German crew abandoned her, believing it was sinking, and a British boarding party entered the submarine, taking the Enigma and German naval codes.) In fact, the final seconds of the film include an acknowledgement that the capturing of the Enigma machine and its codebooks from a German submarine had been achieved earlier by a British naval expedition.
So heated did the argument become that the British Prime Minister Tony Blair agreed with a questioner in the House of Commons that the film was “an affront” to British sailors. President Clinton tried to calm things down by writing a letter declaring that the movie was fiction, not history. In the midst of the uproar, Davbid Balme, the British naval officer who courageously led the boarding party that seized the Enigma from the abandoned and presumably sinking U-110, called the movie “a great film.” However, six years after the film was made its writer, David Ayer, declared that he “did not feel good” about the movie’s depiction of Americans, not British, obtaining the Enigma machine in the way shown in the film.”It was a distortion.”
The Allies captured a total fifteen Enigma machines from U-boats during the war. All but two were seized by British units. The Royal Canadian Navy captured one and the American navy took over a Machine from U-Boat (U-505), in 1944. This episode seized the submarine and its crew intact as well. In fact, you can see U-505, a magnificent vessel, on display today at the Chicago Museum of Science and Technology.
U571 was a deformed monstrosity of a crap film.
Apparently a crew of about 7 is optimal to run a sub.
Single engine German fighters patrolling in the middle of the Atlantic to strafe them.
Single boxheads destroyer in the middle of the Atlantic as well.
Silly boxheads. Instead of diving and running they should have fired a torpedo bow on to a charging enemy…
It’s the anti Das Boot
Libertango – on 4 guitars
Libertango – in a black dress and high heels
Tate bros reappear on Tucker, claiming no charges laid?
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Bullshit I did, Matrix. I play my science with a straight bat.
You are making things up now to suit your own prejudices.
You are not worth arguing with.
In the Dover-approved lingo, may I kindly suggest that you ‘sod’ off.
If I write about the neighbourhood I live in, btw, it is tongue in cheek.
But I’d hardly expect you and the politics of envy cabal to have the nous to fathom that.
You are not big on either comprehension or ironic and nuanced amusement.
Oh, and Matrix, you are very bad at science.
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No, it has been deboonked?
…and also, “everyone on the internet” just loves Greta Thunberg.
“But it’s just a tax thing”
Which is why two Britons and two Romanians appear to be held, with the cops seeking 30 days to detain and question them?
Everyone is just talking smack.
The internet generally is no more reliable than a Reddit true crime subreddit.
Then there is a pizza box.
???
Are we being trolled?
I have even seen people claim Tate was caught on a wiretap saying there was money laundering and that is the issue.
Curiouser and curiouser.
Vicki, and Arky. Thanks for your comments on modelling. I agree with both of you.
Modelling is always heuristic, never reality, and gathering sufficient useful information to construct a reasonable simulacra with any sort of predictive power is in most cases a fool’s errand. However, good enough models can at least produce guidelines for discussion at the pub.
Plenty of those fools errand boys in Ferguson’s climate clinic at Imperial College in London, a place that once had good reputation (I know because Hairy has one of his post-grad quals from there, from the 1970’s). Ferguson’s the one who got the UK’s Mad Cow Disease impacts hopelessly wrong and then went to even greater heights of predictive numerology with his modelling of the spread of Covid. His mistakes were so elementary that it is unbelievable how impressed British authorities were with them.
We watched two more episodes of Fauda tonight. It really is bloody good.
Doran is a hunk of male gorgeousness. Always welcome.
And so to bed.
potty mouth
any time you can science us all up
would be a good time.
anything except one more idiotic appeal to authority
now for instance?
there was pizza
but nobody swallowed
Oh, and Matrix, you are very bad at science.
And a lot of women with tatts are bad at Domestic Science.
alright Lizzy seems I’ve got under yr skin again.
how about this … ?
when you wake tomorrow with all your wits about you
complete the circle and tell everybody what you really think about present-vax and future-vax.
to round it out … be sure to touch on the socio-economics as well
dont waffle on about past-vax and make it all muddy again
use your verbosity for good, instead of evil
Lizzie, do try not to sound like The Queen of Hearts all the time it makes you seem like a 2-dimensional caricature of an otherwise normal person
The jabs do not work except to kill a lot of healthy people. Time to pull this shit off the shelf. I never got the jab and never got the ‘Rona either.
MORE LOGIC FROM AN UNCLUTTERED MIND
-A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child’s work. As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was. The girl replied “I’m drawing God”. The teacher paused and said “But no one knows what God looks like”. Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied “They will in a minute”……………..
What’s in the Daily Mail today?
With any luck, your Death Notice…………………
A Warby essay at Helen Dale’s substack.
Seems like a pretty good description of the behaviour and tactics of warriors for this cause or that.
Social justice as social leverage
Is social justice advancing our evolution or gaming it?
Good morning. My wits and I are here, just as they were last night.
Unlike some who shall remain witless, I am a very light imbiber of enjoyable juices.
My ‘authority’ is simply that of good scientific method. It is all that I ask of evidence. But I have no intention of pulling apart over thousands of papers on this site, just for Matrix. Give me a break.
What I will reiterate here is that good scientific method has been strongly politicised by the left, especially with regard to matters climatic and with regard to Covid, and it has also been politicised by those who for various reasons (some better than others) deny that childhood vaccinations (and vaccinations of any sort) have value and have saved lives. So in those matters we are in murky waters where science drowns. And who knows, perhaps that is where science sadly is headed; into the fog. Popper cannot rest easy in his grave as the canon of falsifiabililty is pulled down along with more corporal icons. For the rest of it, what’s left of it, as I have emphasised, there are gold standard scientific studies and others that are less valid – plus some that have no scientific credibility. I have tried to outline the sort of coverage that would constitute a reasonable scientific credibility. That is all that any individual on a blog can do. Leave the rest to hand wavers and/or learned journals.
I have always said that the Covid vaccinations, on their temporary ’emergency’ approvals, have some dubious science behind them with regard to both safety and efficacy; a lot that has been elided is now emerging re Pfizer’s testing. I’ve said that without this emergency label these vaxxes would not have passed scientific muster for population use (I noted that the Swine ‘Flu vaxx did not and was withdrawn). The Covid vax impact on this epidemic is still under assessment, as are the genuine vaccination damages, and some countries are removing or limiting their approval of them as well as providing compensation for specific damages. That is about as far as anyone can argue at this stage. It has all become hugely political and will remain so until all data is properly examined and published (which may be never).
I encourage others to make their own assessments, eschewing hysterias and looking for well-sourced denominators as well as inclusive numerators on risk factors, which is what I did for personal use, researching treatments too, which were also politicised. All vaccinations carry risk, it is the extent and nature of the risk that is the trade-off vs any protective effect. For instance, I won’t have another Covid ‘booster’ nor anything mRNA, but I had the shingles vaxx recently and take the ‘flu vax still.
Also to note – vaccinations work far less well on the elderly immune system. A point to consider re those multi-jabbed elderly who are still keeling over with multiple Covid infections. In old age, face it, something’s going to get you eventually.
That said, immunology is a fascinating subject. Good luck with your studies on it, Duk.
Paradigm shifts are always hard to initiate. And some deserve to fail. Then – a breakthrough!
And now to travel. We leave on Tuesday for Singapore then the UK. After that Copenhagen, Finnish Lappland, Scotland, and back home via Korea. I want to catch up with Hairy but I never will now, because we always travel together these days. On Sinc’s Cities Index of Travels which he did last nite (sneaking in here on the Cat, he was, checking up on me spending too much time here with ‘that look on your face’, lol) he comes out with a solid 78 to my 69. And he’s moaning that he’s done many more that aren’t included, as they’re in more out-of-the-way places like Asia, South America, the Middle East and Africa. Me too, I smile, me too.
and … she’s goes with the appeal to authority
do us a favour and post the links to the thousands of papers here .
you did book-mark them didn’t you?
SOS – I was out yesterday.
Geologist bro in law working in Kalgoorlie says in 1910 scientists discovered co2 traps heat – maglev is happening.
Revisited this on web and everything says co2 traps heat and causes mmgw.
Help all you scientist out there in cat land
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Of a scientist. Only a maths teacher.
Ask him what he means by “traps heat”.
Whatever he says, in reply ask him what is so special about the bandwidth of the electromagnetic spectrum that CO2 absorbs in comparison to, say, water vapour.
Then ask him how he intends for us to mitigate the effects of water vapour, given that there is so much of it and it absorbs so much more heat than CO2.
I wonder what the temperature is on Mars right now?
Errr – new fred, peeps.
the new thread is boring
… too much bon homie