Open Thread – New Year’s Weekend 2023


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MatrixTransform
January 2, 2023 9:15 pm

Wow, Sancho! Eleven thumbs ups in a matter of seconds!

second time this week.

shatterzzz
January 2, 2023 9:18 pm

Watching a really old Clint Eastwood film, I saw what a truly handsome face he had.
Almost lovely.

Just finished watching THE OUTLAW JOSIE WALES hadn’t seen it since its original release .. Eastwood has to be in the top 5 all-time cowboy actors .. also downloaded the 3 “man with no name” movies for later in the week …..
TV show warning .. watched 5 episodes of the , current, country & western soapie, MONARCH (I’m a glutton for punishment kept clicking on another episode in the hope of improvement but it just gets worse!) absolutely awfie very, very weak imitation of the series NASHVILLE .. definitely not recommended .. 2/10

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 2, 2023 9:19 pm

that sentient, vengeful Siberian tiger that stalked the poacher and trashed his house before eating him out of spite

Made into a book, I believe. Little Black Sambo.

calli
calli
January 2, 2023 9:19 pm

The Nurse and the Innkeeper.

Gee you guys. Can you be any more unsubtle? And don’t batt your innocent baby blues at me. Sheesh.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 2, 2023 9:19 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0-zdkB79Wk

“El Deguello” – the bugle call signifying “No quarter to be given” played at the site of the Alamo….

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 2, 2023 9:20 pm

What Reuters would class as a “reliable source’ informed me that some Aboriginal women held that drinking while pregnant made the children smaller and easier to deliver…..
No doubt about that, if the Father was white, because of a much larger head size compared to Aborigines.
There were good reasons for laws forbidding Whites from procreating with Aborigines but the do gooders just laughed.

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Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 2, 2023 9:21 pm

Err, that is precisely what I am saying, old solder.
Airspeed, altitude and vertical speed should all be directly measured by the pitot-static system (preferably with 1-2 redundant back up systems on an airliner).
Any attempt to deduce airspeed (for any purpose) using AoA + engine thrust + something else is an interesting blackboard conundrum.
But it has no place in aircraft software, without very clear warnings and remedial actions included in pilot training.
Boeing have admitted that.
As for “Sancho and the show’s producers getting it wrong”?
That came directly from Boeing admissions.

Rabz
January 2, 2023 9:21 pm

Eleven thumbs ups in a matter of seconds!

Did not a massive Cat contretemps erupt recently over allegations of updicking impropriety?

What the verbiage above might have to do with art and beauty could be alleged to be irrelevant until this, Cats … 🙂

Dot
Dot
January 2, 2023 9:22 pm

Sweet jesus,

I always liked the monkey gags on The Simpsons, the sheer silliness of this made me laugh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MVP:_Most_Valuable_Primate

calli
calli
January 2, 2023 9:22 pm

In other news, watching Indiana Jones dispatching many…many Nazis.

Now that’s a killer for you! But a Good Guy. Until he turns into Harrison Ford.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 2, 2023 9:23 pm

I know, right.
Thanks to the lurking fan-club out there.

Dot
Dot
January 2, 2023 9:24 pm

Have you seen the ads for Air Bud 2? Looks like a good movie, I like the concept.

Well, that was nearly a botched joke.

I was gonna say “THIS TIME, HE’S GAY!!!” as a reflection of the lack of effort in modern Hollywood, but there are FOURTEEN of the &^%$ing things!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 2, 2023 9:25 pm

Did not a massive Cat contretemps erupt recently over allegations of updicking impropriety?

I think the general consensus was that such things were impossible (or at least extremely difficult) and that the most likely cause was vast armies of … how you say … lurkers.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 2, 2023 9:27 pm

God, I wish we still had a “Report Comment” button.
Man, I used to give that a belting.
Good times.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 2, 2023 9:27 pm

It cannot be cured but only managed. The key to doing this succesfully this is early diagnosis and intervention, removal of the child to a stable, loving home environment free from violence and other disruptive behaviours & the consistent provision of special social services and education thoguhtout the school years.
Roger:
This is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum.
The kid will only have an IQ less than 50.
In other words, he isn’t educable.
Once the kid has “grown up”, what then?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 2, 2023 9:31 pm

until this, Cats

For every blonde there should be a brunette.

Enya – Orinoco Flow (live 2015)

Dunno why but the track came to mind a couple days ago, and this performance shows she’s still got it.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 2, 2023 9:31 pm

Campaign for Indigenous voice to rise with grassroots effort
Senator Pat Dodson says ‘a voice means listening to local communities and local solutions’. Picture: Martin Ollman

EXCLUSIVE
By PAIGE TAYLOR
Indigenous Affairs Correspondent, WA Bureau Chief
@paigeataylor
8:52PM January 2, 2023
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Labor and Indigenous supporters of the voice will launch the Yes campaign with a “week of action” next month, including the recruitment of everyday Australians as volunteers.

Doorknocking and community barbecues will start across the nation next month in an effort to propel momentum for a successful referendum on the question of whether to amend the Constitution to guarantee the existence of an Indigenous advisory body to parliament. The Yes campaign will begin in the same week that No campaigners Warren Mundine and senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price are due in Perth to try to convince the West Australian Nationals to withdraw their support for an Indigenous voice.

Anthony Albanese’s Special Envoy for Reconciliation, Senator Pat Dodson, told The Australian the week of action “is about talking directly with Australians about why we need a voice to parliament in the Constitution”.

“A voice means listening to local communities and local solutions, changing the policies and programs that aren’t working, and improving the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people,” Senator Dodson said.

“I’ll be out there campaigning, but this will be led by the grassroots and community organisations that have been working for years to make a voice a reality.”

The Victorian Women’s Trust will support the Yes campaign using its Kitchen Table Conversations model that it famously deployed to help Cathy McGowan break the Coalition’s hold on the seat of Indi in 2013.

The trust’s executive director, Mary Crooks, predicted women, in particular, would embrace the organisation’s “Together Yes” campaign for a successful voice referendum, based on open, respectful and honest dialogue.

“It works,” she told followers in an email.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says one part of the Voice to Parliament referendum is to “just recognise… Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in our constitution” due to the fact they have not yet been afforded recognition. “Where matters directly impact Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, then More

“Together Yes will encourage huge numbers of people around the country to step up and host small group discussions about colonisation, harm and injustice; the important role of First Nations people and culture in Australia’s identity; and what it would look like to accept an invitation to walk into the future together.”

During the week of action, which is expected to start on February 20, the Uluru Dialogue campaign will launch details of its First Nations community engagement and its “yarning circles”, aimed at educating the broader Australian community who want to give clear information about the voice to colleagues, friends and community groups.

The Uluru Dialogue campaign has existed for five years and is led by Indigenous people from metropolitan, regional and remote Australia who have lobbied and worked towards a voice in the Constitution since the Uluru Statement from the Heart called for it in 1997.

The group behind the History is Calling campaign will launch a new advertisement and host community discussions around Australia in coming months.

The From the Heart initiative will launch a field campaign in Adelaide on February 23 that will rely on volunteers.

Some will make phone calls to voters or campaign door-to-door, offering information about the proposal to enshrine an Indigenous advisory body in the Constitution. Others will be encouraged to hold conversations in their workplace to “deepen understanding” of the referendum, and to discuss the agreed principles of the Indigenous voice, including that it will have no power of veto over legislation. The Prime Minister confirmed in December that the voice referendum would be held in the second half of this year.

Labor intends to introduce necessary legislation as soon as March and then support a parliamentary inquiry into the wording of the referendum question.

The No campaign has established a fundraising committee and intends to capitalise on the high profile of Senator Price.

Any cause Pat Dodson is associated with is doomed to failure…

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 2, 2023 9:33 pm

You sure about that?
Airspeed is measured by direct pitot pressure.

Yes I’m sure about that. Indicated Air Speed is measured by the pressure difference between pitot and static.
The pressure at the pitot is 1/2 x rho x TAS x TAS PLUS the static pressure, where rho is the air density and TAS is the TRUE airspeed, so you subtract the static pressure. To make things easy the usual sea level standard air density is assumed and this gives IAS. As lift and drag equations have the same terms plus two others (area and lift or drag coefficient), IAS is the useful number to pilots which is why it is used.
Measuring static pressure accurately can be difficult depending on the aircraft as you don’t want to have it vary too much from the real static pressure and you don’t want it to do horrible things as the angle of attack varies. In some aircraft it will read erroneously which is why some people think a Cessna 150 stalls at 27 knots or so. The error there is large.
Here endeth the aerodynamics lesson.

I design this stuff for a living but using electronics to get the pressures.

Rabz
January 2, 2023 9:38 pm

For the Musk – GSH essays the perils of “Capitalists in Space” … 😕

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 2, 2023 9:39 pm

Senator Pat Dodson says ‘a voice means listening to local communities and local solutions’.

I can’t remember the last time a Labor guy like Dodson listened to local communities or local solutions.
Must’ve happened once but. Almost sure it did, maybe eighty or ninety years ago.

Rabz
January 2, 2023 9:40 pm

Sacre bleu, I’m sounding like mUttley!

JC
JC
January 2, 2023 9:41 pm

Gee. go out of dinner and now I’m accused of being an accomplished liar. Oaky, let’s work on that.

Rabz
January 2, 2023 9:41 pm

LOL “when Hollyweird takes centre stage” …

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

I’m accused of being an accomplished liar. Oaky, let’s work on that.

Don’t you think you’ve already done quite enough work on obtaining that reputation?

Rabz
January 2, 2023 9:43 pm

go out of dinner and now I’m accused of being an accomplished liar

JC – you are “out for dinner”?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 2, 2023 9:47 pm

LOL “when Hollyweird takes centre stage”

Heard that too! Youtube is fun – the side bar for me currently has about twenty Enya and Gil Scott Heron tracks alternating with each other. Chalk and cheese!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 2, 2023 9:50 pm

As I said Hallward (may I call you Hallward?), no need for a long dissertation comprising mostly obsfucation around IAS and TAS etc.
Is it not true that the primary measures of airspeed, altitude and vertical speed should be derived from the pitot-static system?
And that the Angle-of-Attack indicator should have no role in measuring those parameters.
If that is not the case, can you also explain why Boeing ditched their widow-maker system (as it was on the early 737 Max)?

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 2, 2023 9:50 pm

Boeings admissions and engineering reality have little to do with each other when an issue becomes political. The Boeing board will do whatever it can to minimise damage to the shareholders. If admitting fault is it, so be it.
See the VW emissions “scandal”.
The really funny thing is that the 737 Max only just barely needed the MCAS system. It only operates when the flaps are up and nobody should ever fly that close to the flight envelope boundary in anything like normal operation. If certification wasn’t so picky it could have been left out.
Once again the MCAS fault showed up when the flaps were raised after takeoff and manifested as a trim runaway. When things go wrong right after performing an action, reverse that last action. The Ethiopian airplane drivers didn’t even reduce power or think of the trim runaway switches. The Indons didn’t either. The Indon crew that flew the aircraft the day before would have died that day except they had an actual pilot on board who knew about the trim cutout switches. Indonesian maintenance then failed to fix the problem properly even though it got signed out, leading to the crash.
Somehow this is all Boeing’s fault? Piss poor pilot training and checking combined with third world maintenance is a bad diea.

JC
JC
January 2, 2023 9:50 pm

Interesting comment here.

Seems to be a lot less effective, making it easier for an accomplished liar like JC to smear his enemies.

Smearing:

Not too long ago on this very blog, Turtlehead who then went with the blog name, Winston Smith made accusations against me going back several years. He again falsely accused me of telling on Brian-the-cop to Brian’s superior. The Turtlehead did this for years despite being told it was untrue. This was refuted by Brian many years ago and “Winston” would have been aware of the refutation. Undaunted, he tried to defame me again recently and it was only when I posted an historical link & post showing Brian’s uncompromising refutation (I wasn’t in any way involved) turtlehead experienced in my opinion, the biggest faceplant of 2022.

Here were are again with him defaming me, calling me an “accomplished liar” without a shred of evidence another than low rent , low IQ claim.

It’s true that the Driller talked about “drilling” young females, which I found to be morally degenerate for a grown man to be talking that way about what are essentially young kids. I estimate Driller’s age to be well north of 50 as he’s been trolling blogs since about 2004 from memory.
To paraphrase, or better still using Turtlehead’s description, “After all, legal is legal”, or in other words barely legal is fine too.

What Turtlehead left out was of course the context, which at the time was a debate about Prince Andrew’s shenanigans with Epstein with respect to the news coming out that a woman claiming she was in her teens had sex with him. Going from memory, the woman claimed she was 17 at the time. The age of consent was 18 in Florida. Lets assume that the Driller didn’t make a comment about “drilling” under age girls. However the bonehead made the comment suggesting that the degenerate Prince would be cheered on by the UK public for going after young girls (even if they were 18 plus). It didn’t seem to matter to him because young meat is young meat of course. I found this to be disturbingly degenerate as I don’t believe a mature man , or at least a “manly man” as Driller constantly self describes, should be talking about kids that way. Also, to suggest that the UK public would cheer him on was beyond jawdropping in lots of ways

Now let’s get back to the discussion about trannies and kids.

Trannies performing dance routines is morally degenerate even though it’s legal. A mature man talking about drilling young barely legal girls (above the age of consent) is also morally degenerate. How can a person reconcile the two in Driller’s situation? It’s a reasonable question.

Then let’s use Driller’s pub test. Driller swaggers in to the the bar at the motel a manly man and sees a bunch of fellow beer bellies sitting down. He begins to talk about drilling barely legal girls and some of those bellies have young daughters. How would that work out in the pub test I wonder.?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 2, 2023 9:51 pm

Or maybe opposites attract.

Paula Abdul – Opposites Attract

One hit wonder, but she’s done pretty ok since.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

As I said Hallward (may I call you Hallward?)

You may not.

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 2, 2023 9:55 pm

And that the Angle-of-Attack indicator should have no role in measuring those parameters

The angle of attack is the most important one. It determines useful stuff like the stall, best rate of climb and best glide. Ask the US Navy who have been using it as the primary flight instrument when bring aircraft on board a carrier. Pitot – static derived airspeed is a crude measure of angle of attack as long as you aren’t pulling g. As you ought to know , the aircraft will stall 1.414 times as fast in a 60 degree banked turn as in straight and level flight and will stall at higher speed when heavy but at the same angle of attack.

Rabz
January 2, 2023 9:56 pm

the side bar for me currently has twenty Enya and Gil Scott Heron tracks alternating with each other

Magnificent, Bruce. Revel in it, Squire. 🙂

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 2, 2023 10:00 pm

Piss poor pilot training and checking combined with third world maintenance is a bad diea.

Piss poor pilot training, eh?
Which is precisely the problem.
There was no training.
That was the point. Boeing bent the rules so far to get the Max classified as a “variant” rather than a new type for that very purpose – to avoid certification cost and time for itself, and conversion training costs for airlines.
Pretty hard to blame an airline for piss-poor training when Boeing insisted no training was necessary.
As for third-world maintenance?
One faulty A-o-A indicator shouldn’t bring a plane down.
It had no redundancy and it had no place forming part of an airspeed calculation feeding trim inputs.
Boeing have admitted that and so have the FAA.
How come you know better than them.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Wowee! Shantaram has been triggered and posted a Struth-like wordwall.
Renaming to Shanta-struth may be in order!

MatrixTransform
January 2, 2023 10:04 pm

directly measured by the pitot-static system

yr an idiot.
a wordy idiot
but definitely an idiot

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 2, 2023 10:06 pm

Pitot – static derived airspeed is a crude measure of angle of attack as long as you aren’t pulling g. 

Read and listen.
I am not saying that.
No-one is trying to use pitot-static to measure A-o-A.
Quite the opposite.
What I am saying is that a single point of failure A-o-A indicator was being used to calculate both A-o-A and deduce airspeed using other inputs and play with trim.
If the system was so smart, why didn’t it detect what you think the pilots should have seen (runaway stab trim) and cut it out after 2-3 cycles.
In other words, let the pilots fly the thing.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

… or perhaps; Strutharam!

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 2, 2023 10:07 pm

How does such a small woman fit this all in?
She’s only 5 foot 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMs1XzzJLEI

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 2, 2023 10:08 pm

Tell me more, oh Great God of Soldering, whose mere entrance to a room induces incontinence in lesser mortals.

JC
JC
January 2, 2023 10:08 pm

Speaking of mass murder, it is now generally accepted that the most prolific serial killer in the USA wasn’t Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy.
It was Charles Cullen (“The Good Nurse”) who has admitted to killing 40 patients, but it is accepted that the real number is well over 100.
Wow!
Makes you think, eh.

Chilling. I read or heard somewhere it could be closer to 200 he wasted. I had an encounter with someone that I found to be unstable. Another male nurse who was caring for my father. There were a couple of bad encounters and I asked that the prick be removed immediately and also, I didn’t want him anywhere near my father’s room. The chief nurse complied. Fortunately, I never saw him on the ward again as my dad was in hospital for a long time.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 2, 2023 10:09 pm

What does the pitot-static system do in an aircraft, oh Great God of Soldering?

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
January 2, 2023 10:10 pm

Speaking of Clint Eastwood.
Trawling through Foxtel movies recently I found one called Dangerous, featuring Mel Gibson and Clint’s son, Scott Eastwood.

Absolute shocker of a movie, do not waste your time, but it was startling to see the young Eastwood’s resemblance to his Dad both in acting style and looks.

Behold: Scott Eastwood.

Rabz
January 2, 2023 10:11 pm

I’m a womanage

You wanted pure art and beauty, Cats – behold it as the above.

Any collectivist crackpot stroogling to answer that simple question should be strapped down, Ludoviko Technik style.

They will not get it wrong ever again. 🙂

MatrixTransform
January 2, 2023 10:11 pm

and now I’m accused of being an accomplished liar

I know that for most people it seems that JC just seems to make stuff up
but to me its just another one of his admirable foibles

really, its probably just a modest way of hinting at his much deeper creativity

I consider him to be one of this forum’s chief artists but I won’t venture as to what type of artist he is
I’ll leave that up to your own imaginations as I suspect he has many more hidden talents

JC is so prolific … I really do think that the inside of his head must be a very fecund place.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 2, 2023 10:13 pm

The Good Nurse was one of the only decent things to drop on Netflix in ages.
Glass Onion is the hardest going piece of shit I’ve see in ages.

JC
JC
January 2, 2023 10:13 pm

Good work Sanchez. I think I’m taking the title away from from you know who and will now refer to you as “THE AVIATOR”.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 2, 2023 10:14 pm

There were a couple of bad encounters and I asked that the prick be removed immediately and also, I didn’t want him anywhere near my father’s room. The chief nurse complied.

The trouble is, where did he go?
To another ward?
To another hospital?
Or, in the case of Cullen, to another registration jurisdiction?
As I say, these days where Tik-Tok temperature takers are little tin Gods, what odds you would be ignored (or even disadvantaged for having complained).
I fear it would be easier for psychos like Cullen to ply his trade in 2023 than 2003.
And, as you say, he murdered 150-200 back then.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Shantastruth bestows yet another private nickname.
Anybody care enough to keep track of this crap?
Didn’t think so.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 2, 2023 10:15 pm

Cate Blanchett in The Aviator, worthy of her Oscar.
Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine, just painful.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Cate Blanchett in the nuddy, just about would make up for her wokeness.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 2, 2023 10:19 pm

JCsays:

January 2, 2023 at 10:13 pm

Good work Sanchez. I think I’m taking the title away from from you know who and will now refer to you as “THE AVIATOR”.

Please, no.
I don’t think I could carry that title.
Too much of a burden, being the resident oracle.
Let’s leave things as they are.

Rabz
January 2, 2023 10:21 pm
feelthebern
feelthebern
January 2, 2023 10:21 pm

Another good thing on Netflix is “The Stranger”.
Not sure when it came out.
Sean Harris is in it.
No spoilers, one of the best Aussie flicks I’ve seen in ages.

JC
JC
January 2, 2023 10:21 pm

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity says:
January 2, 2023 at 10:17 pm

Cate Blanchett in the nuddy, just about would make up for her wokeness.

Too old for you driller. She’s way over 18.

JC
JC
January 2, 2023 10:24 pm

Please, no.
I don’t think I could carry that title.
Too much of a burden, being the resident oracle.
Let’s leave things as they are.

Have it your way then.

MatrixTransform
January 2, 2023 10:25 pm

pitot-static

dearest sancho,
velocity pressure is velocity pressure.
and no amount of your gibber will ever change that

we could talk about metrology,

but you’d probably just do that stupid puppy thing and tilt your head from side to side to make it seem like you almost have a clue

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 2, 2023 10:27 pm

‘bern, the Dahmer series on Stanflix was painful to watch too.
Like squished roadkill.
Disgusting, but you can’t look away.
At least The Good Nurse didn’t make sandwiches out of his victims, I suppose.
That we know of, anyway.

Zipster
January 2, 2023 10:27 pm

As you ought to know , the aircraft will stall 1.414 times as fast in a 60 degree banked turn as in straight and level flight and will stall at higher speed when heavy but at the same angle of attack

yep knew that 😐

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Too old for you driller. She’s way over 18.

What is that based upon?
Are you just being a juvenile?
or are you stupid?
or are you making something up? (as an accomplished liar does)

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 2, 2023 10:28 pm

So.
No explanation from the God of Solder and Inducer of Incontinence.

Real Deal
Real Deal
January 2, 2023 10:29 pm

I think Magnum Force skewered the woke a bit better;

Hypothetically, what if Ms Grey offered to give me a private show with a donkey? What violation of the Californian Penal code would that be?

The Enforcer, Dot

Hypothetical situation, huh? All right, I’m standing on the street corner, and Mrs. Grey there comes up and propositions me. She says if I come home with her, for $5 she’ll put on an exhibition with a Shetland pony…

Mrs. Grey : If this is your idea of humor, Inspector…

Lt. Dobbs : All right, what are you trying to do here, Callahan?

Harry Callahan : I’m just trying to find out if anybody in this room knows what the hell law is being broken, besides cruelty to animals.

Magnificent movie.

132andBush
132andBush
January 2, 2023 10:29 pm

Knuckle Dragger says:
January 2, 2023 at 6:21 pm

Just catching up a bit on the day.

Would just like to say I’d give the above comment 100 upticks if I could.

And

Monty doesn’t really know the sort of person he is (BIRM).

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 2, 2023 10:30 pm

Dahmer series on Stanflix was painful to watch too.

The black woman heroine was the amalgam of two black women.
One of which was a friend of Dahmer who impeded the investigation.
She was in jail when when she heard of Dahmer’s demise & said she cried for hours after the news.
But that doesn’t fit “The Message”.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 2, 2023 10:31 pm

Have it your way then.

You can call me Captain Bigglesworth on Sundays.

Real Deal
Real Deal
January 2, 2023 10:31 pm

I got the box set of Air Crash Investigations for Christmas a few years back. Still only half way through.

MatrixTransform
January 2, 2023 10:32 pm

No explanation from the God of Solder

correct

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 2, 2023 10:33 pm

Would just like to say I’d give the above comment 100 upticks if I could.

Come on, lurkers!
Head back over the page and get ticking!

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 2, 2023 10:34 pm

Snowploughing is extremely dangerous for 51yo men due to sudden changes in weather conditions:

(…)

Ah, screw it. I’m not going to post anything. If you can’t figure out that there’s more to the story than is being presented, then there’s not much more to be said.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 2, 2023 10:38 pm

Real Dealsays:

January 2, 2023 at 10:31 pm

I got the box set of Air Crash Investigations for Christmas a few years back. Still only half way through.

It’s very predictable.
It does what it says on the box, and in order.
First there is an “Air Crash” and then there is an “Investigation”.
Nothing cryptic like “Trainspotting” which would probably be a disappointment for actual trainspotters.
It is cheaply produced TV too, judging by the number of the cast who frown, nod, shake their head or scratch their chin, but don’t say a word.

Zipster
January 2, 2023 10:38 pm

‘bern, the Dahmer series on Stanflix was painful to watch too.
Like squished roadkill.
Disgusting, but you can’t look away.

at the rate we are going corpse attracted people will be perfectly legal by 2030 with the right paperwork of course

MatrixTransform
January 2, 2023 10:40 pm

come on sancho, open up,

tell us more about all the things you know for sure

you’re not really making a clown of yourself, you’re opening yourself up to new modes of learning

Arky
January 2, 2023 10:44 pm

Ubuntu’ed out for the day.
Pros: -like the appearance.
– something different.
-free.
– basically works ok.
..
Cons: – it’s nerd shit.
– won’t play mp4s
– has a driver for the WI-Fi device installed, but it still only works intermittently.

Arky
January 2, 2023 10:48 pm

Another pro- it boots fast.

m0nty
m0nty
January 2, 2023 10:50 pm

Monty must be reading stories to his kids.

Correct, Frank. Tonight it was Little Miss Curious. Bit conceptual that one, not sure I liked the ending.

132andBush
132andBush
January 2, 2023 10:51 pm

Kean can be whatever you want him to be.

A David Koch look alike.

ie: a walking penis analog.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Correct, Frank. Tonight it was Little Miss Curious. Bit conceptual that one, not sure I liked the ending.

Did it end with sodomy, a sliced off male sex organ, or just a bloke in a dress & pantyhose chucking a spread at the kids?

Top Ender
Top Ender
January 2, 2023 10:54 pm

The Biden government’s agenda for the US military:

The U.S. Government’s Woke Training

THE WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD

The Department of Veterans Affairs has a gender gingerbread person. NASA says beware of micro-inequities. And if US Army servicewomen express “discomfort showering with a female who has male genitalia,” what’s the brass’s reply? Talk to your commanding officer, but toughen up.

These are details from hundreds of pages of diversity and inclusion training materials used by the federal government in 2021 and obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Everyone in corporate life knows such training, lampooned in the second episode of the TV show The Office. Yet taxpayers might be curious how their money is being spent to instruct the federal workforce these days.

Documents obtained via FOIA often lack context, so it’s hard to know the audience for any specific training and whether participation was voluntary or not-so-politely encouraged. With those caveats, press ahead.

Asked for its diversity training, the US Army offered three modules on transgender policy, one for “Commanders at all levels,” another for “Special Staff,” and a third for “Units and Soldiers.” Notable is a series of vignettes that cover pronoun usage, urinalysis observation, and a serviceman who wants “to discuss his newly confirmed pregnancy.” With respect to showers, schedules can be adjusted or curtains installed. But a soldier’s gender in the Army’s system governs which facilities are used. Accommodating only a transgender soldier is prohibited.

Also, stiff upper lip: “Anyone may encounter individuals in barracks, bathrooms, or shower facilities with physical characteristics of the opposite sex.” Transgender soldiers aren’t “required or expected to modify or adjust their behavior based on the fact that they do not ‘match’ other Soldiers.”

The VA’s “Managing Gender Diversity” training has sections on pronouns and embracing “gender-expansiveness.” One slide lists terms, including “gender fluid” and “pansexual,” while instructing: “List your personal ‘biases’ in the BIAS box.” A game of “PRIVILEGE BINGO” includes such items as “NO CRIMINAL RECORD,” “MILITARY EXPERIENCE,” and “MARRIED.”

A NASA training on “Allyship for Executives” says that the term “African American” is “utilized heavily in white spaces,” and it “can make Black people feel excluded as the term tends to ‘other.’” Another NASA slide series explains that inclusive leaders “are willing to be ‘uncomfortable’” in exploring “race, gender, sexual orientation” and so forth. “We have been taught to act as if we are colorblind and gender-neutral,” it adds, but “these efforts actually limit us.”

A NASA tip sheet on microaggressions gives examples that include, “Asking an Asian person to help with a Math or Science problem,” as well as saying, “America is a melting pot.” A slide deck on inclusive language suggests nixing “the poor” and substituting “people dealing with economic hardship.” A talk to a NASA center by Janice Underwood, then the state of Virginia’s chief diversity officer, urges: “Walk toward the discomfort – when patterns of white supremacy are named or questioned, predictable defensive responses will emerge.”

Ms Underwood now leads the diversity bureau at the federal Office of Personnel Management.

A Department of Homeland Security presentation on “Inclusive Diversity” says that micro-inequities can be fought by micro-affirmations. “Social and Physical Pain Produce Similar Brain Responses,” it argues, using a cartoon rendition of two brain scans.

A National Science Foundation seminar presents data about the race and gender of the NSF’s workforce, before sending participants to breakout rooms to discuss. A National Endowment for the Arts program offers definitions for terms such as “White Fragility,” “Heterosexism,” and “Misogynoir.”

Some government bodies refused to release training materials created by outside vendors, citing a FOIA exemption for “confidential” commercial information. But contracts and lists of courses can shed a little light.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provided training orders of about $313,000 for a slew of courses, such as “8 Tactics for Courageous Workplace Conversations About Race,” “Let’s Talk About Systemic Racism, Unconscious Bias and Privilege,” and “Silence is a Statement: Understanding Race in the Workplace.”

The Environmental Protection Agency’s course lists feature “Everyday Anti-Racism” and “Psychological Safety: Building a Culture of Inclusion and Innovation.” The Food and Drug Administration’s menu offers a two-hour seminar, “Checking Your Blindspot: Ways to Find and Fix Unconscious Bias.”

These examples are, well, non-inclusive. Many of the materials are dull recitations of anti-retaliation policies or polite reminders, for example, not to pet somebody’s service dog. But one lesson is that there is now a conveyor belt from academia to the diversity-industrial complex. The portmanteau “misogynoir” was coined in 2010 on a blog called Crunk Feminist Collective. Eleven years later it’s in a training for government workers.

This type of re-education was accelerated by President Biden’s 2021 executive order directing agencies to “increase the availability and use of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility training.” It’s a form of political indoctrination intended to impose woke values on the vast federal bureaucracy and U.S. military.

You’d think the agencies would be proud to post all of these materials online, where it doesn’t require a long wait and a records request to read them. But since they don’t, we thought readers might like to see their taxpayer dollars and government values at work.

The Wall Street Journal

MatrixTransform
January 2, 2023 10:56 pm

Little Miss Curious

what? … why not Little Miss Bi-Curious ?

class traitor

MatrixTransform
January 2, 2023 11:00 pm

Cons: – it’s nerd shit.

true

Bob wanted to be free from MicroTheft … I was only trying to help

dont blame just cos its like assisted suicide

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 2, 2023 11:01 pm

Asked for its diversity training, the US Army offered three modules on transgender policy, one for “Commanders at all levels,” another for “Special Staff,” and a third for “Units and Soldiers.

Sure to be of crucial interest, on Omaha Beach. The rumbles you hear in the distance are George Patton and Dwight D Eisenhower, spinning in their graves….

Arky
January 2, 2023 11:04 pm

MatrixTransform says:
January 2, 2023 at 11:00 pm
Cons: – it’s nerd shit.
true

..
Want to update a driver?
Download four different programs and follow instructions that although appearing to be in English, you just know there is some kind of smug insider incomprehensible thing going on here.
Are you shitting me?

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
January 2, 2023 11:05 pm

Asked for its diversity training, the US Army offered three modules on transgender policy, one for “Commanders at all levels,” another for “Special Staff,” and a third for “Units and Soldiers.

It will be interesting to see if this accomplishes its obvious goal of destroying the morale of the US armed forces.

m0nty
m0nty
January 2, 2023 11:06 pm

Sal, I know you’ve had a hard day with JC working you over, but try to remain calm.

MatrixTransform
January 2, 2023 11:09 pm

Are you shitting me?

well, drivers and updates should happen in the background automatically

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Sal, I know you’ve had a hard day with JC working you over, but try to remain calm.

Are you segueing from falsely accusing me of pedophilia to baselessly accusing me of doing my block?

You really aren’t much good at this.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Monty, JC hasn’t had a hope of scoring a point over me since the moment he chickened out of a bet his big mouth got him into.

After that, he is & remains, nothing.

Dot
Dot
January 2, 2023 11:19 pm

I’m just trying to find out if anybody in this room knows what the hell law is being broken, besides cruelty to animals.

Absolute classic, Real Deal.

m0nty
m0nty
January 2, 2023 11:22 pm

I will take that as a denial from you that you chase underaged tail, Sally. Good for you.

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 2, 2023 11:26 pm

Hot as a pistol!

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

I will take that as a denial from you that you chase underaged tail, Sally. Good for you.

What a stupid comment. Give yourself an uppercut with a sledgehammer.
A sick twister weirdo who advocates perverts proselytising to infants acts like he is a moral arbiter of my behaviour?
You are one sick truck.

What the effitty eff makes you even contemplate that I prey upon the underaged? You are one helluva sick bastard. Very sick.

Besides, You have yet to deny you belt hell out of your spouse.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 2, 2023 11:33 pm

I think we can trace the wussification and emasculation of this country back to the rise of the interior designer.
If any bloke needs to pay for advice as to whether to paint his house Antique USA or Lexicon Half Strength he should chop his balls off with rusty hedge clippers.
I blame Shayna Blaze.

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 2, 2023 11:34 pm

I hear young hot as a pistol ladies down BrisVegas way are gagging for well-heeled pub owners.

At least, I’m sure a pub owner posted something along those lines on the old Cat a few years ago. Pity that’s all been wiped and it only lives on in the falliable memories of those who inhabited those boards way back when.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 2, 2023 11:36 pm

Err, Sal.
You are being wound up.

JC
JC
January 2, 2023 11:37 pm

GOP “variants” or potential candidates for the 24.

It’s The Hill, so it’s very left of course.

If Trump doesn’t run, can I just make an outside low prob bet. It’s a real dark horse, but if the GOP goes establishment, you can’t go past New Hampshire, Gov. Chris Sununu

MatrixTransform
January 2, 2023 11:39 pm

I blame Shayna Blaze.

wtf is that dog doing in the house?

fmd, shayna.

keep the door bloody closed

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 2, 2023 11:40 pm

Hot. As. A. Pistol.

Ka-pow!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 2, 2023 11:42 pm

Oh come onsays:

January 2, 2023 at 11:34 pm

I hear young hot as a pistol ladies down BrisVegas way are gagging for well-heeled pub owners.

The definition of “young” is at the crux of this.
In relation to the Prince Andrew matter, the assertion was that (ahem) “drilling” ladies who were much younger than himself would boost his popularity (irrespective of whether they were “legal” or not).
This assertion proved to be woefully inaccurate.
It proved inaccurate because the very group who were being touted as likely to be supportive (middle-aged men) often had young female relatives and turned out to be the ones most likely to want to deliver a kick in the cods to Randy Andy.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

You are being wound up.

Lol, Monty is rather low-energy at winding anybody up.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Don’t try to start Sancho, you’re not even as good at it as is low-energy Monty.
Stick to your lane.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 2, 2023 11:45 pm

Monty’s positions today, in the medium of interpretive dance.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=LWfP8v-lFUY&feature=emb_title

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 2, 2023 11:46 pm

It is beyond doubt that someone is guilty of multiple counts of epic blowhardery spanning many, many years.

I make no allegations of criminal wrongdoing.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

It is beyond doubt that someone is guilty of multiple counts of epic blowhardery spanning many, many years.

You don’t think being credibly called a pathological liar is enough punishment for JC for the one night?
That he’s a blowhard goes without saying. Why pick on the poor sad sack while he’s down?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 2, 2023 11:49 pm

OCO, I think we all put a few extra PSIs in our own tyres from time to time.
But, yes, some go too far, too often.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Monty’s positions today

Objecting to perverts gyrating in front of toddlers = you’re a paedophile.
JC’s position: #I stand with Monty.

You couldn’t make up stuff like this.

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 2, 2023 11:51 pm

Um, yeah. It’s JC I was talking about.

Hot as a thousand pistols!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 2, 2023 11:52 pm

Bwah ha ha ha, Sal.
You have fallen for the old interviewing copper’s three card trick.
You have mounted a defence to something you weren’t specifically accused of.
You have the right to remain silent.

Bar Beach Swimmer
January 2, 2023 11:54 pm

Doorknocking

Can’t wait for someone to show up!

While they’ll go first with the righting of a “great wrong” – aka the never ceding sovereignty argument – I’ll counter with the current situation. That is to say: “we’re all here, now”, the result of which is that it’s too late to crack a wobbly over it.

I’ll end with a précis of what a representative democracy such as ours is: that beauteous ornament of the true voice; namely, the one person, one vote system.

But, of course, if my eloquence doth fail me then there’s always the hose.

And on the rest of the discussion today: I went to the beach, so missed the cretinous junk of those who support drag queer enticement of the innocents.

To them: stop making children into latter day Hansels and Gretels being delivered up to the grotesque and famished witches of woke perversion. If you must, seek it out for yourself.

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 2, 2023 11:54 pm

(anyone who was around at that time knows what I’m talking about)

JC
JC
January 2, 2023 11:55 pm

You couldn’t make up stuff like this.

Driller does. Most days.

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 2, 2023 11:57 pm

anyhoo, good times.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

You have the right to remain silent.

You’re so much smarter than anybody else in the room.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Aaaand here’s Shantastruth, to stand with Monty & advocate for trannies to read to infants.

JC
JC
January 2, 2023 11:59 pm

Driller, go to bed.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Shantastruth, go to bed.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 3, 2023 12:03 am

Hey, St. Ruth.

Earlier today I said there were more feral camels in this country than sheep. That little bit of berley turned out to be a great little investment. Didn’t it?

Great to see you lurking. Champ.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 3, 2023 12:03 am

Hot as a Pistol Young Thing : “Soooo. What do you do for a living?”
Him : “I’m a middle-aged publican. And I don’t sweat.”
Her : “Oooooh!” [Fade to grey. Sounds of knickers hitting the floor and bra straps snapping].
….
Things what never happened.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 3, 2023 12:04 am

JCsays:

January 2, 2023 at 11:59 pm

Driller, go to bed.

Alone.
No hot pistols.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 3, 2023 12:06 am

St Ruth is here?
Did I miss a Word Wall?

JC
JC
January 3, 2023 12:07 am

KD

Was Struphid booted? Do you know?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 3, 2023 12:08 am

While they’ll go first with the righting of a “great wrong” – aka the never ceding sovereignty argument

“You couldn’t defend that sovereignty….”

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Sancho, do you still try it on with waitresses?
Or is that just a now & again thing, on an opportunistic basis?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Did I miss a Word Wall?

Perhaps, Shantastruth got hisself all triggered & posted a pretty fair wordwall earlier this evening.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 3, 2023 12:11 am

JCsays:

January 3, 2023 at 12:07 am

KD

Was Struphid booted? Do you know?

Flounced.
As soon as ‘Socialist Globalist Denialist Traitors’, ‘Nazi-pass’ and ‘Indian Truck-stop Excrement’ went on the banned list it kind of limited him a bit.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 3, 2023 12:13 am

Was Struphid booted? Do you know?

I don’t know JC. I assumed he got tired of being wrong about everything, or he found some other people to refer to as shallow cocksmokers in person instead of online, or he’s busy busy working for Big Corporate.

He would have held court at Christmas, I reckon. Like Frank Costanza at Festivus, during the Airing of Grievances.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 3, 2023 12:15 am

Flounced.

Ah. The triple pike.

Oh well. How sad. Never mind.

JC
JC
January 3, 2023 12:17 am

He would have held court at Christmas, I reckon. Like Frank Costanza at Festivus, during the Airing of Grievances.

Can you just imagine listening to that tripe over Christmas lunch or dinner? Trapped.

The question becomes.

Do we wait for dessert or just bolt after the main meal?

JC
JC
January 3, 2023 12:21 am

AI answers

What is a blowhard.

what is a blowhard?

A blowhard is a person who talks excessively and pompously, especially about themselves or their achievements. They may come across as full of themselves, and may not always be well-informed about the subjects they speak at length about. The term is often used to describe someone who talks too much and boasts or brags excessively.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 3, 2023 12:24 am

The roadhouse grogan story had to be the most magnificently crafted, yet overt pack of lies for all of 2022.

Threw his pants out the window. Yeah righto, Walter Mitty.

JC
JC
January 3, 2023 12:25 am

The roadhouse grogan story

I missed it. Can you do a quick explanation?

JC
JC
January 3, 2023 12:26 am

AI is good value. Precision plus.

What is a blowhard publican?

A blowhard publican is a person who owns or runs a pub, and who is excessively boastful. The term “blowhard” usually refers to someone who talks a lot, especially about themselves or their own accomplishments, without having much substance or real substance behind what they are saying. It is possible that the term “blowhard publican” could be used to describe a person who talks excessively about their pub or their accomplishments as a pub owner, but who may not actually have much to show for it.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

The roadhouse grogan story had to be the most magnificently crafted

In the interests of accuracy & fair play, it must be pointed out that there was no “roadhouse grogan”
It was more a “roadhouse splatter”

Stands to reason, considering the diet behind the deed.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Shantstruth, you’re confirming everything said about you.
Seriously you dumbass, give it up.

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 3, 2023 12:43 am

A blowhard publican is a person who owns or runs a pub, and who is excessively boastful. The term “blowhard” usually refers to someone who talks a lot, especially about themselves or their own accomplishments, without having much substance or real substance behind what they are saying. It is possible that the term “blowhard publican” could be used to describe a person who talks excessively about their pub or their accomplishments as a pub owner, but who may not actually have much to show for it.

That’s both funny and reassuring. Because AI clearly has a long way to go, yet is nevertheless correct in this instance.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

That’s both funny and reassuring. Because AI clearly has a long way to go, yet is nevertheless correct in this instance.

Could well be.
Have you ever met a blowhard publican?
They exist. (As they do in every profession)

amortiser
amortiser
January 3, 2023 1:26 am

It’s mildly amusing that the 1967 referendum was held (unopposed) to remove particular and specific reference to ‘Aboriginals’ in the constitution so they were treated identically to everyone else. A reference, by the way, which was placed there so that the federal government couldn’t interfere with their ‘self-determination’.

The 1967 referendum was not held to ensure that aboriginals were treated equally to everyone else.

S51(xxvi) allowed the Commonwealth to make special laws in respect of any race except the Aboriginal race.

This allowed the commonwealth to enact race based laws like the White Australia Policy. Laws relating to aborigines were confined to the states. The 1967 referendum struck out “except the Aboriginal race” which allowed the commonwealth to make laws related to them.

A far better outcome would have been to put a referendum abolishing s51(xxvi) altogether thereby eliminating race based legislation from the Constitution.

Tom
Tom
January 3, 2023 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
January 3, 2023 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
January 3, 2023 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
January 3, 2023 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
January 3, 2023 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
January 3, 2023 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
January 3, 2023 4:08 am
bespoke
bespoke
January 3, 2023 4:54 am

Arkysays:
January 2, 2023 at 10:44 pm

You have a choice to you proprietary drivers in updates. That may help.

Mater
January 3, 2023 6:41 am

The 1967 referendum was not held to ensure that aboriginals were treated equally to everyone else.

S51(xxvi) allowed the Commonwealth to make special laws in respect of any race except the Aboriginal race.

You’re arguing both sides in these two sentences.

Once the Commonwealth COULD make special laws in respect to Aboriginals, they WERE then treated like everyone else. Equal.

“…make special laws in respect of any race except the Aboriginal race.”

You either want to be special and specifically identified in the Constitution…or you don’t. You either want to be equal…or you don’t.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 3, 2023 6:44 am

0512. Off shortly.

I hope Big Government doesn’t check my log books.

Indolent
Indolent
January 3, 2023 6:47 am
shatterzzz
January 3, 2023 6:47 am

75 years young today .. 3/4 century gone with 42 years of them a recovering alcoholic behind me …..
I couldn’t decide whether to let it slip by or ROAR it out sooo being on the extroverted side ……!
Around 2002 I bought my 1st bike at a garage sale & started riding then in 2012 as part of my “get-well’ after Cancer I added swimming to the schedule .. even tho I couldn’t recall having swam a full 50mts lap since schooldays .. anyway until 2020 I combined both into my week(s) but once the lockdown(s) from BAT FLU started I’ve kept count ……. cycling dominated due to several BAT FLU inspired pool closures & once re-opened a renovation ..
only a local Council would lock you out for close on two years then re-open for a month before closing for 4 months for renovations .. Fairfield where “great” community minds don’t meet..!
SO since the 1st day of lockdown(s) (2020) up to today I’ve completed 506 bike rides at an average of 40kms per trip & 235 swimming sessions averaging 800mts a swim , with over 100 of those swims combined into the bike rides given that I now swim in both Prairiewood & Fairfield pools due to my OAP “freebie” days and Prairiewood outdoor pool having been closed for renovations ……

Fun 75 facts : still take the same size in waist & chest measurements that I did when I was 20 .. lotza ups & downs in-between but for me, luckily, keeping it on rather than taking it off ..
Sadly .. the Clark Gable smoulder has morphed into Humphrey Bogart craggy as time has moved on .. the sun-bleached surfer locks are now “skin” tone ..
“Errol’ tho is still “Flynn” .. thankfully! .. LOL! …..

Sooooooo! .. Happy Burfday .. TO ME! …..

Mater
January 3, 2023 6:48 am

Once the Commonwealth COULD make special laws in respect to Aboriginals, they WERE then treated like everyone else. Equal.

I probably need to clarify this a little.
EQUAL, as far as the Constitution is concerned, and that the point in question when we are talking about ‘The Voice’.

I agree with your point that once the Commonwealth could make special laws, they did, and the rivers of gold started to flow.

Equality under the Constitution, and equality under legislation, are not the same thing.

Indolent
Indolent
January 3, 2023 6:54 am

Far-left NYT Admits Trump’s Massive Success With Truth Social Is Crushing Opponents: ‘Megaphone To The Word’

Who was it said yesterday that it was limiting his reach? Interesting, though, considering that you can’t even see it from outside the U.S.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 3, 2023 6:55 am

Right. Properly sorted out.

On longish trips, one requires the ability to fart with confidence.

Mater
January 3, 2023 6:57 am

A far better outcome would have been to put a referendum abolishing s51(xxvi) altogether thereby eliminating race based legislation from the Constitution.

+88 upticks

Mater
January 3, 2023 7:03 am

That reminds me.
Monty spent half the day yesterday arguing that specifically having a transvestite read to kids, meant absolutely nothing.
But if Elon Musk coincidentally uses the numerical 88 in a Twitter post, he’s suddenly an Anti-Semite.
Weird!

Indolent
Indolent
January 3, 2023 7:03 am
Indolent
Indolent
January 3, 2023 7:06 am
Gabor
Gabor
January 3, 2023 7:09 am

Mater says:
January 3, 2023 at 7:03 am

That reminds me.
Monty spent half the day yesterday arguing that specifically having a transvestite read to kids, meant absolutely nothing.

He is raking it most days, but yesterday was particularly bad.
He had no answer, unless I missed it, to why someone has to dress as a ‘queen’ to read to children.

Pogria
Pogria
January 3, 2023 7:14 am

Happy Birthday Geordie Boy!!!

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 3, 2023 7:15 am

Happy birthday Shatterzz. Some people get more downs than ups and still manage and don’t bitch about it. You’re one of those. Well done. Going to see my wonderful Aunt next month, 100. Can’t get there for her birthday. Apart from a stroke she’s always had good health. Had a very ordinary life apart from training to enter the Convent, then met my Uncle, she never wanted for anything but never wanted much. Have a great day.

miltonf
miltonf
January 3, 2023 7:15 am

‘Dr’ Jill has cheap slag written all her. Low life trash.

P
P
January 3, 2023 7:15 am

Pope emeritus Benedict to be buried in Sydney WYD 2008 vestments

Being buried in his Sydney WYD 2008 chasuble will seal a unique link between the shy, intellectual pope already considered one of the greatest pope-theologians in 2000 years, and the faithful, religious, clergy and bishops of the Catholic faith in a land Down Under.

Pogria
Pogria
January 3, 2023 7:18 am

KD, safe trip and have fun.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 3, 2023 7:25 am

KD to be on the safe side a hole in the floor is said to be a suitable measure and saves time not having to stop.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 3, 2023 7:29 am

m0ntysays:
January 2, 2023 at 11:22 pm
I will take that as a denial from you that you chase underaged tail, Sally. Good for you.

You still haven’t told us if you take your kids to Drag Queen Story Hour.

Nor explained your interest in the subject if you don’t.

rosie
rosie
January 3, 2023 7:37 am
Dot
Dot
January 3, 2023 7:41 am

A far better outcome would have been to put a referendum abolishing s51(xxvi) altogether thereby eliminating race based legislation from the Constitution.

Absolutely. There is literally no need in either a black letter law or substantive rights perspective.

Surely we’d all have been better off if Aborigines were given full and equal citizenship at Federation?

Dot
Dot
January 3, 2023 7:44 am

You still haven’t told us if you take your kids to Drag Queen Story Hour.

Nor explained your interest in the subject if you don’t.

It isn’t like this at all.

This is a “Schitt Test”.

monty is a “normie”.

normies don’t want to look like bad people.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 3, 2023 7:46 am

Dot

If m0nty=fa is a “normie”, then Australia is in a far worse state than any of us can imagine.

Tom
Tom
January 3, 2023 7:58 am

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has announced the passing of Pope Benedict, the last and final Catholic Pope.

“Pope Benedict will be remembered fondly by those who actually believe that Catholic stuff,” said Pope Francis. “I’m not sure exactly who those people are, but I’m deeply sorry for your loss.”

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 3, 2023 8:06 am

Which legacy media outlet will be the first to mention the Rasmussen poll re COVID deaths?
Surprising results for a cohort with such a high proportion of university qualifications.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 3, 2023 8:06 am

Munster thinks he’s normal. I wonder if his wife knows he’s a freak but he hides it from her. I find it hard to believe a woman could think like munty. She obviously has no standards. Then again my wife started at the bottom with me. She was never going to be disappointed but I’ve proved her wrong. I may be many things but not a freak.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 3, 2023 8:10 am

I find the recent (current) findings re the IgG4 antibody to be fascinating.
I find the lack of interest, either amplifying or debunking it be even more fascinating.

alwaysright
alwaysright
January 3, 2023 8:36 am

[Knock Knock]

Is it safe now? Have the dickheads gone?

Cassie of Sydney
January 3, 2023 8:39 am

Interesting…

NSW Liberal Democrats at impasse as feud deepens

An attempted coup has plunged the NSW Liberal Democrats into crisis ahead of the state election amid tit-for-tat allegations of financial mismanagement and claims the party’s upper house candidate is a ­“malignant cancer” who has been “verbally bullying” staff.

Former Liberal John Ruddick gained support from the Libertarian party’s membership as the party’s Legislative Council candidate in September, but became embroiled in an ­escalating dispute with members of the party’s state executive.

The divide eventually resulted in four members of the executive voting on Boxing Day to disendorse Mr Ruddick, enraging some of the party’s 320 financial members.

In response to the disendorsement, lawyer and LDP member Cameron Shamsabad drew up a petition in support of Mr Ruddick, successfully obtaining the support of the 25 per cent of financial members necessary to call a special general meeting for late January.

In his petition, Mr Shamsabad alleged members of the state executive mismanaged party ­finances, leaving the division “nearly bankrupt”, claiming it was the consequence of high administrative costs, including on hiring staff with “close personal links” to the executive.

“The disendorsement and fiscal irresponsibility is completely contrary to the core party values which you and I share,” Mr Shamsabad wrote to members.

Ross Cameron, ??a controversial former federal Liberal MP who joined the Liberal Democrats in 2021, called on the four state executive members who voted to disendorse Mr Ruddick to resign, saying their views were unrepresentative of members.

“Putsch against a member vote, with members adjudicating, was destined to fail,” he tweeted. “Feckless4 may reduce further injury – accept reality, ­resign now, let others rebuild.”

But days later state executive member Barry Reed released a scathing video presenting his version of the feud, saying Mr Ruddick was a “lazy, bullying, nasty, uncaring and hopeless campaigner” and a “malignant cancer” that needed to be removed from the party.

Mr Reed alleged Mr Ruddick had been “verbally bullying and abusing” female campaign staff, and threatened the employment of staff without authority.

“There are quite enough bullies in the NSW parliament right now without our party adding another one, in my opinion,” he said. “Especially when you consider the year-long investigation by former sex discrimination commissioner Elizabeth Broderick that found widespread bullying, harassment and misconduct in the NSW parliament. All the long-suffering voters of NSW need right now is another one.”

Mr Ruddick denied bullying. “I absolutely deny that allegation,” he told The Australian.

“It is true that in Zoom campaign meetings when they rejected my policy approach that I called them politically inexperienced and stupid. It wasn’t personal, it was political.”

The factions will head to a special general meeting less than two months from the election. The party has no representative in the NSW parliament.”

JC
JC
January 3, 2023 8:49 am

Bern

Can you explain that.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
January 3, 2023 8:52 am

A man and a woman who had never met before, but who were both married to other people, found themselves assigned to the same sleeping room on a transcontinental train.

Though initially embarrassed and uneasy over sharing a room, they were both very tired and fell asleep quickly, he in the upper berth and she in the lower.

At 1:00 AM, the man leaned down and gently woke the woman saying, Ma’am, I’m sorry to bother you, but would you be willing to reach into the closet to get me a second blanket? I’m awfully cold”.

“I have a better idea” she replied “Just for tonight, let’s pretend that were married!”

“Wow! That’s a great idea!” he exclaimed. “Good” she replied “Get your own effing’ blanket”.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
January 3, 2023 8:53 am

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

– Pablo Picasso

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
January 3, 2023 8:56 am

Ukraine Used New Year’s Even to Kill Russians in Barracks

From Armstrong Economics –

“Zelensky’s forces of the Ukrainian military had fired four long-range missiles that had been provided by the US (HIMARS) with US training to kill Russian soldiers in the barracks on New Year’s Eve. Russia says that they shot down two of the four. Just after midnight on New Year’s Day, Ukrainian missiles were fired and struck a vocational school in Makiivka that housed soldiers. Some 300 are injured and 63 are dead. While that is not supposed to be fair in war just killing soldiers in the barracks rather than on a battlefield, this war is anything but normal.

The Ukrainians used New Year’s Eve. We should be on guard now for attacks over Orthodox Christmas. Both sides will most likely attack fiercely.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/ukraine-used-new-years-even-to-kill-russians-in-barracks/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

Dot
Dot
January 3, 2023 8:57 am

Australia is in a far worse state than any of us can imagine.

To quote a great man…

If he dies, he dies.

Indolent
Indolent
January 3, 2023 8:59 am
Indolent
Indolent
January 3, 2023 9:01 am
Dot
Dot
January 3, 2023 9:01 am

Even the Wall Street Journal is printing an opinion that the vaccines might be driving the new variants.

The only gotcha here is catching out the establishment media on something they denied.

Natural immunity would do the same and we end up with less virulent diseases.

This is normal and good.

I am prepared to accept a refusal to admit errors on behalf of the government-media industrial complex if they don’t choose another three wasted years of miserable tyranny.

Indolent
Indolent
January 3, 2023 9:04 am
lotocoti
lotocoti
January 3, 2023 9:04 am

The feckin’ Oirish are finding out just how wonderful
a Greens coalition government can be.
I wonder if yer man has considered how well all those “New Oirish” will take to having their kiddies exposed to tranny lyfe.

Gabor
Gabor
January 3, 2023 9:04 am

Johnny Rotten says:
January 3, 2023 at 8:52 am

“I have a better idea” she replied “Just for tonight, let’s pretend that were married!”

“Wow! That’s a great idea!” he exclaimed. “Good” she replied “Get your own effing’ blanket”.

You didn’t finish the joke, the man got his blanket and then soundly farted.

Cassie of Sydney
January 3, 2023 9:09 am

“GreyRangasays:
January 3, 2023 at 8:06 am
Munster thinks he’s normal. “

He’s completely normal for his “ideological side”. He and his ideological side can’t even, won’t even, condemn the overt sexualisation of children. He defends the indefensible. A government could, tomorrow, enact a law making it mandatory for ALL twelve year old boys to be castrated and he would come here and somehow justify it and attack us as bigots et al for opposing it. Just wait for the police and MSM here to start using the oblique description “minor attracted people”, and he’ll be here, justifying it, saying how it’s wrong to “demonise” people and how we should be sensitive when dealing with such people.

He doesn’t think in terms of what’s right and what’s wrong, he only thinks in terms of the ideological side.

I’ve been thinking lately about the “slippery slope”. With abortion it took a few decades, with euthanasia it’s only taken a few years. You only have to look at the killing prairies of Canada to see how euthanasia is being used to cull the elderly, the isolated, the frail, the mentally unstable and the mentally and physically incapacitated, soon it’ll be offered to you as an option when you turn up at Centrelink to claim welfare. The idea of “dying with dignity” has always been a furphy, in fact euthanasia is the complete opposite of “dying with dignity”. And now it’s taken less than five years since SSM to become law for the left to start peddling drag queen story hour and the vanilla term “minor attracted people”.

They don’t even try to hide their intent anymore, it’s out there for all to see. The tragedy is that nobody, nobody is fighting this.

If you want an insight into the mind of a fascist, Monty is the perfect example. He doesn’t mind some killing, some murder, if the perpetrators have, in his own words, “legitimate grievances” and in 1939 would have been defending “Aktion T4” in Germany. It’s why he was here yesterday defending perverts reading to children, he has no moral compass.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
January 3, 2023 9:12 am
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