Open Thread – Weekend 7 Jan 2023


Nightly Walk of the Monks to the Mountain Monastery Athos, Hermann Corrodi, 1888


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Makka
Makka
January 8, 2023 3:04 pm

AMX-10 RC light tanks

Marketing spin; they aren’t even tanks. More like armored cars – the rubber tyred variety.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 8, 2023 3:04 pm

Assuming all Grants Hoovers, Affirmative Action Grifters, subsidised interest chiselers hafta show some Proof of Aboriginality,
anyone with the power to sign off on a Certificate Of Aboriginality has the keys to the gold mine.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 8, 2023 3:06 pm

Pascoe is to the University of Melbournibad as van Wrongselen is to the University of Wesern Australia. Another reason their annual begging bowl pamphlet goes straight in the bin.

Roger
Roger
January 8, 2023 3:06 pm

Switzerland set to destroy millions of doses of covid vax after it couldn’t offload them to Africa.

Makka
Makka
January 8, 2023 3:08 pm

Very light tank. Kyiv Post seems unimpressed;

Developed during the 1970s and – a little surprisingly – still currently serving with the French army, the AMX-10 is a wheeled vehicle with a 105 mm cannon that was outdated by the latter stages of the Cold War, optics allowing gunners to hit targets out to about 1,500 meters, and aluminum armor thick enough to keep out shell splinters, most machine gun bullets and small cannon shells, but nothing bigger.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 8, 2023 3:10 pm

m0ntysays:
January 8, 2023 at 2:16 pm
“How Can Anyone Take This Charlatan Seriously” should be the title of every article in Quadrant and the Spectator.

m0nty=fa.

Two points. First, that is because Quadrant and the Spectator often include articles about the idiocies of leftards, who are almost all charlatans. Second, calling a Labor “Icon” like Kim Beazley a charlatan might get you unpersonned.

PS, is this an example of you in your new, “angry meatsuit”? Or did you mean meathead?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 8, 2023 3:12 pm

Would have loved to see him try to get in a APC turret, turret plug comes to mind.

There is alleged to be footage somewhere, marked “never to be released, showing Beazo, wearing his specially tailored camouflage uniform, wedged in the turret hatch of a Leopard tank, having to be extracted by his flunkies.

Makka
Makka
January 8, 2023 3:15 pm

You idiot, mOron. Frogs are cleaning out the sheds of Cold War relics they’ll never use, making way for their modern materiel that they are ramping up in production. CL is correct. You ,as usual, are wrong.

I wonder how many Ukes will volunteer to man an aluminium “ronson” in battle against the Russ?

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 8, 2023 3:17 pm

Dutton doing well to link Albo to The Voice. …going down with the ship.

rosie
rosie
January 8, 2023 3:20 pm

That’s interesting Roger, appears it’s a mix of local languages and pirate.
75 million speakers apparently.
My guess was based on UK political correctness pandering to an outspoken minority

west African pidgin

alwaysright
alwaysright
January 8, 2023 3:23 pm

testing.

calli
calli
January 8, 2023 3:24 pm

It’s so close to English it might as well be written in English. The BBC simply looks ridiculous.

Cassie of Sydney
January 8, 2023 3:28 pm

Just got back from seeing “The Lost King” about the story behind the discovery of Richard III’s bones in a Leicester carpark. It’s a very good film, highly recommended. I really liked it.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 8, 2023 3:28 pm

callisays:
January 8, 2023 at 3:24 pm
It’s so close to English it might as well be written in English. The BBC simply looks ridiculous.

But not quite as ridiculous as Their ABC actually is.

Roger
Roger
January 8, 2023 3:32 pm

My guess was based on UK political correctness pandering to an outspoken minority

Understandable. Young English people of Caribbean descent are actually doing quite well by all the indicators. So well they’re more likely to get into a university than a young white English person, from where they can afford to indulge in woke politics and call for statues of their benefactors to be torn down. The horror!

Woolfe
Woolfe
January 8, 2023 3:33 pm

Anyone noticed that the socialist work experience censors in the Paywallian comments section seem to be letting more robust comments through?

Cassie of Sydney
January 8, 2023 3:36 pm

““How Can Anyone Take This Charlatan Seriously” should be the title of every article in Quadrant and the Spectator.”

Okay then, as long as every comment you post here has the title “How Can Anyone take this Charlatan Seriously”.

Pogria
Pogria
January 8, 2023 3:42 pm
Indolent
Indolent
January 8, 2023 3:58 pm

This was linked at the Jikkyleaks site mentioned by Bourne1879. It’s an Australian site which really seems to get into the nitty gritty of the jabs.

Your immune system on the edge.

calli
calli
January 8, 2023 3:59 pm

I have a magnificent Seville orange tree (for orange sauce and authentic marmalade).

It has been so cold the thing hasn’t flowered. 🙁

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 8, 2023 4:09 pm

callisays:

January 8, 2023 at 3:24 pm

It’s so close to English it might as well be written in English. The BBC simply looks ridiculous.

Remember the Aboriginal interpreter for Sneakers McGowan during Covid?
And was it Nelson Mandela’s funeral where we had an imposter doing the sign language?

Vicki
Vicki
January 8, 2023 4:12 pm

Rockdoctorsays:
January 8, 2023 at 2:25 pm
So landlords may not soon to be able to set their rules for tenants it seems.

Reckon “we aint seen nothin’ yet”. If we see an increase in mortgage defaults in 2023 (likely if interest rates rise significantly) there will be even greater pressure on the rental market – which has already been affected by the cessation of large scale immigration during the Covid years. The Labor government will almost certainly move to further protect tenants in various ways.

Already tenancy agreements are very specific concerning what”rules” can be enforced. While many people think that landlords have a clear run – the actual tenancy laws already very much protect tenants. For example, significant notice must be given of rent increase at the end of a fixed term tenancy & if this is not given (eg if self managed & “missed”) an increase cannot be subsequently implemented. Tenants can also challenge rent increases in tribunals. Anyone who has had a savvy tenant who has caused significant loss to a landlord via damage and/or unpaid rent(which the bond may not cover) will know that the image of the downtrodden tenant does not always accord with reality.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 8, 2023 4:13 pm

callisays:

January 8, 2023 at 3:59 pm

I have a magnificent Seville orange tree (for orange sauce and authentic marmalade).

I think I saw somewhere that the orange was originally used in the middle east as an ornamental plant, for it’s blossom and scent.
The hybridising for sweet fruit was Spanish innovation I think.

Top Ender
Top Ender
January 8, 2023 4:19 pm

Will check out The Lost King, Cassie – thanks.

When last in the UK, we went and had a look at the actual grave site – it’s still open and covered in heavy glass. The Brits have built a tourist centre around it.

Richard is buried in the cathedral over the road in a very impressive raised tomb.

miltonf
miltonf
January 8, 2023 4:25 pm

Beazley is a big fat greazy turd who’s never had a real job and never seen a shot fired in anger. The fat filth was never in the services but did a course at Oxford. Beazley is the dregs of the middle class his father was talking about. Just f*ck off fart boy slim. F*ck right off.

Digger
Digger
January 8, 2023 4:30 pm

“He confessed to doing cocaine, smoking cannabis and taking mushrooms”

War service and allegedly killing 25 enemy counts for nothing when the fundamental character traits of self control and self respect are given way to the voluntary taking of mind altering narcotics…

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 8, 2023 4:35 pm

No visas for families of Afghan ADF personnel
Amaani Siddeek
AMAANI SIDDEEK

The families of Afghans who joined the Australian Defence Force to fight against the Taliban are living in fear for their lives because the Australian government refuses to process any visas from Afghanistan, The Daily Telegraph has reported.

Speaking with The Daily Telegraph, Afghan interpreter Abed said his family had been left to live in limbo after he risked their lives to join the ADF.

“They are living on the edge of a knife,” Abed said.

“The Taliban are looking at my family like they are the No.1 enemy … just last year in September my family received a threat letter from the Taliban, their house was looted.”

After escaping in 2014 with his wife and children, Abed said he was led to believe his remaining family would be treated as high priority visas, instead Abed’s lawyers were told by Home Affairs that no one in ­Afghanistan would be granted a visa, no matter their connection to Australia.

This comes after The Daily telegraph also revealed that Afghan army generals who fought alongside Australians were being targeted and killed with the Australian Government having failed to provide protection for a three-star general believed to have already been handed over to the Taliban.

John H.
John H.
January 8, 2023 4:37 pm

Diggersays:
January 8, 2023 at 4:30 pm
“He confessed to doing cocaine, smoking cannabis and taking mushrooms”

War service and allegedly killing 25 enemy counts for nothing when the fundamental character traits of self control and self respect are given way to the voluntary taking of mind altering narcotics…

He’d be more coherent that way.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 8, 2023 4:39 pm

Beazley (ironically) personified the small target strategy. He came up short as Howard rained cash on whatever demographic Loughnane told him the Lieborals needed that election. Superannuants, families, women. Whoever was needed.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 8, 2023 4:42 pm

The English upper class do cocaine. I’m shocked. Shocked I say.

calli
calli
January 8, 2023 4:43 pm

The fruit from my Seville orange is as sour as- you’d never eat it. But it makes perfect marmalade.

And yes, it is decorative. Great orange globes, slightly flattened at the poles. And the scent of the flowers is lovely.

My Meyer lemon set fruit, but the cold made it all drop. The only thing that appears to endure is the blood orange. Even the Tahiti lime has some fruit on it, also set very early in the season.

calli
calli
January 8, 2023 4:44 pm

Gosh. Maybe he needs the publishing money for his habit. It would explain the erratic behaviour.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 8, 2023 4:46 pm

My Meyer lemon set fruit, but the cold made it all drop. The only thing that appears to endure is the blood orange. Even the Tahiti lime has some fruit on it, also set very early in the season.

That reminds me.
It is getting close to G&T time.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 8, 2023 4:47 pm

Young English people of Caribbean descent are actually doing quite well by all the indicators.
What indicators.
Apart from leading knife attacks, it’s a sorry story for the descendants of the Windrush Generation.

miltonf
miltonf
January 8, 2023 4:48 pm

Aussie Valencias are my favorite oranges. Unbeatable.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 8, 2023 4:49 pm

Apparently we are supposed to take Captain (ret’d) Sooky McCheaty at his word when he says he has taken a catch cleanly above the ground.
Yeah, nah.

Johnny Rotten
January 8, 2023 4:49 pm

A lawyer died and arrived at the pearly gates. To his dismay, there were thousands of people ahead of him in line to see St. Peter. But, to his surprise, St. Peter left his desk at the gate and came down the long line to where the lawyer was standing. St. Peter greeted him warmly. Then St. Peter and one of his assistants took the lawyer by the hands and guided him up to the front of the line into a comfortable chair by his desk. The lawyer said “I don’t mind all this attention, but what makes me so special?” St. Peter replied “Well, I’ve added up all the hours for which you billed your clients, and by my calculation you must be about 193 years old!”

Three guys talk in a bar. Two discuss how they are king in their castles and how much their wives respect them. The third guy remains quiet. Finally, one guy turns to the quiet guy and asks “What about you? Do you rule your roost?” The quiet guy says “Well, just the other night, my wife came to me on her hands and knees”. “What happened then?” they ask. “She said, ‘Get out from under the bed and fight like a man.’”

Johnny Rotten
January 8, 2023 4:50 pm

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.

– Laurence J. Peter

miltonf
miltonf
January 8, 2023 4:51 pm

What a mean little face Captain (ret’d) Sooky McCheaty has. That soft descended-from-norman-conquistadors sort of face.

calli
calli
January 8, 2023 4:52 pm

They are good, milton. Not popular for retail because they always have that tinge of green, even when completely ripe and sweet.

The navels they bring in from California are something else too. Sweet and juicy. Also full of Greta angering carbin miles too.

JC
JC
January 8, 2023 4:54 pm

You know, in the 80s I distinctly recall Ireland was considered the poorest country in Europe and the Irish were referred to as the Africans of Europe because of their relative poverty. Now it’s the 3rd richest per cap after Luxembourg and Singapore. Incredible. turnaround.

https://www.worlddata.info/richest-countries.php

miltonf
miltonf
January 8, 2023 4:54 pm

Yes Calli they are slightly green now that you mention it. Super easy to peal too.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 8, 2023 4:55 pm

The navels they bring in from California are something else too. Sweet and juicy. Also full of Greta angering carbin miles too.

Yep, patriotism goes out the window when it comes to orange buying.

JC
JC
January 8, 2023 4:56 pm

If only Luxembourg, Singapore and Ireland had manufacturing and made stuff. If only.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 8, 2023 4:56 pm

Still not ready for Chinese garlic though.

Makka
Makka
January 8, 2023 4:57 pm

No visas for families of Afghan ADF personnel

I’m somewhat conflicted on this but if they have been serving with the ADF for a good while and legit combat ADF personnel in-country can vouch for them, then this is a low dog act IMO. We can’t just leave them to the wolves.

JC
JC
January 8, 2023 4:59 pm

So much for black folks being unable to make it.

Bermuda $85,192 per cap is no. 5.

Australia at no.19 is frankly an embarrassment. Per cap is $55,000. We should be no.1 by far.

miltonf
miltonf
January 8, 2023 4:59 pm

I though Luxembourg made steel.

JC
JC
January 8, 2023 5:00 pm

then this is a low dog act IMO. We can’t just leave them to the wolves.

They would vote Right leaning. The Liars wouldn’t have a bar of them.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 8, 2023 5:01 pm

I wouldn’t put too much faith in Irish economic stats. Lots of profits get booked there for EU tax purposes. It’s not quite a peat bog but it’s not Switzerland either. Nice place to play golf in summer.

Makka
Makka
January 8, 2023 5:01 pm

Bermuda $85,192 per cap is no. 5.

They must be counting the Trillions stashed in their offshore banks. The resort workers don’t see any of that.

calli
calli
January 8, 2023 5:02 pm

Bear, I would baulk at anything grown in a Chinese field. Brrrrrr.

JMH
JMH
January 8, 2023 5:04 pm

The Bear @ 3.17 pm

Dutton doing well to link Albo to The Voice. …going down with the ship.

We can only hope Dutton doesn’t capitulate. Not that I have any intention of voting Lib/Nat while my arse points to the ground, anyway.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 8, 2023 5:07 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
January 8, 2023 at 4:35 pm
No visas for families of Afghan ADF personnel
Amaani Siddeek
AMAANI SIDDEEK

These Afghans did not “join” the ADF, they were in the Afghan forces and served with the ADF, as did many Vietnamese in the 1960s and 1970s. The LTGEN also was not in the ADF, and any connection to ADF operations would have been fairly tenuous.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 8, 2023 5:07 pm

Spanish garlic wasn’t bad from memory although I didn’t mind paying a premium for the local stuff.

JC
JC
January 8, 2023 5:07 pm

I thought Luxembourg made steel.

It does, but it’s mostly banking and other services like Insurance. You know, I’d actually remove Lux from the number 1 spot because they have a ton of foreign workers who travel there by day and head home literally to a foreign country every evening. Consequently their production gets mixed in with the locals and grosses up their GDP and therefore per capita. I’d remove that part of the GDP to obtain a better picture. Same goes for Switzerland and Lichtenstein.

CIA fact book suggests Lux is strongly services oriented.

GDP – composition, by sector of origin

agriculture: 0.3% (2017 est.)

industry: 12.8% (2017 est.)

services: 86.9% (2017 est.)

https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/luxembourg/#economy

JMH
JMH
January 8, 2023 5:09 pm

H B Bearsays:
January 8, 2023 at 4:56 pm

Still not ready for Chinese garlic though.

Grow your own. Bloody easy and there a quite a few Australian outlets where you can source your bulbs. Garlic doesn’t take a lot of room.

John Brumble
John Brumble
January 8, 2023 5:10 pm

Smith has been standing too far back all day. Perhaps if NSW players had to play a bit of shield cricket to be selected like everyone else, he’d know you had to get closer as the SCG pitch stops being a road and starts it’s fairly wuick journey to “rubbish mess”.

Robert Sewell
January 8, 2023 5:12 pm

Roger:

Ah, our chance to see what grievous sin for which Australia’s elite will be horsewhipping us over the next 12 months…

You’d think these idiots, hating Australia as much as they do, would just piss off to one of the Woke Nations at the very first chance.
Buy no, they have to keep bloody nagging at out multi hued failures across the entire spectrum of human behaviour.
Even if they didn’t piss off, you’d expect they might just shut up for a couple of weeks, but no.
Every frigging chance they get, they nag nag nag.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 8, 2023 5:13 pm

Dutton should also leap on Albo’s refusal to provide funds to the ‘No’ case. The constitution is higher than the government. Changes to it must have a mandate from the people.

But Aalborg will only let one side be told so, if they succeed, they will have just used the referendum as an empty protocol to get Australians to rubber stamp a Labour policy where they actually have no business.

And worse, Albo and Labor would be happy to do this with no idea as to the details as to what they are waving through.

JC
JC
January 8, 2023 5:13 pm

They must be counting the Trillions stashed in their offshore banks. The resort workers don’t see any of that.

Not any more. You can’t stash money in tax havens anymore thanks to the Americans.

You been there? We used to go to see clients and it’s only about 1 1/2 out of NY. I think it’s just beside one of the Carolinas in the Atlantic. It felt like the folks there were doing pretty well. In any event, you do what you can to play to your strengths. Even if you believe they’re “just” a tax haven you also have to consider the fact that tax “haveners” are prepared to put their money there, which by definition means they see the joint as stable.

Robert Sewell
January 8, 2023 5:14 pm

Grey Ranga:

Millable timber

Is there such a thing in Australia any more?
Whatever happened to our timber industry? I’ll tell you – insatiable Greens, gutless politicians, and a bureaucracy that wants to get invited to the ‘right’ parties.
HBBear:

You don’t have to be from WA to think the Federation needs work. But it doesn’t hurt.

It needs a lot of work, but you wouldn’t trust this lot of arseholes to manage anything.

JC
JC
January 8, 2023 5:15 pm

The Bermudian weather is great too. The Island is slap bang under the jet stream carrying warm air all the way to the Welsh coast. It’s great weather and some of the beaches are great too.

John Brumble
John Brumble
January 8, 2023 5:15 pm

Smith has been too far back all day. Perhaps if NSW players needed to play a few more games of shield cricket before being handed their baggy green like everyone else, he’d know you have to move up as the SCG makes it’s change from complete road to variable-bounce rubbish.

Makka
Makka
January 8, 2023 5:19 pm

Are you sure JC?

The Bahamas is definitely considered a tax haven first and foremost because there is no personal income tax. There is also no Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance or Gift Tax, nor are there any wealth taxes or taxes on share dividends and interest

In terms of growth, size and market share, the Bahamas is often considered one of the world’s leading centers for offshore banking. The country has between 300 and 400 registered offshore banks and trusts.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
January 8, 2023 5:21 pm

Sancho Panzer says:
January 8, 2023 at 4:49 pm
Apparently we are supposed to take Captain (ret’d) Sooky McCheaty at his word when he says he has taken a catch cleanly above the ground.
Yeah, nah.

I prefer the explanation from Kiwi Ian Smith – since the pitch has been built up over the years with layers of top soil it is higher than the outfield. The camera angle doesn’t show the bottom of Smith’s boots because they, and the legitimate catch, are hidden by the crown of the wicket square.
Yeah, it should have been goooorne. We wuz robbed.

JC
JC
January 8, 2023 5:25 pm

Makka

You can live there as a tax exile. I thought you were suggesting that foreigners parked their money there and lived elsewhere.

I always got the impression the folks there were pretty well off. The towns and major city are nice and clean. Also, the tourism there is of the wealthy type because it’s really expensive.

Look, these are my impressions during the 90s.

miltonf
miltonf
January 8, 2023 5:27 pm

Doesn’t Trumble bank in the Bahamas or Bermuda? Not exactly a gritty man of the people.

RuthM
RuthM
January 8, 2023 5:28 pm

Re Monks on Mt Athos
Following Calli’s reports on her Croatian travels prompted me to track down Patrick Leigh Fermor’s “the Broken Road”, the third and last book of his trip from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul in the 1930s, when he was 19. Why? You ask. Well it’s all vaguely Balkanish when viewed from here; however he does mention Croatia but doesn’t actually go into modern day Croatia, and I enjoyed reading the first two books.

This third book was published after PLF’s death in 2011(?) and his literary executors had to finish the story of the trip from what was left behind. At the end of the story of the trip to Isranbul is included the record of PLF’s journey around the monastries of Mt Athos, of which he left behind copius notes, contemporaneous with his visit.

All interesting, very much a male only environment, where even female animals are banned, so presumably no milk, no eggs He described an awkward moment at one of the monasteries when, shaking hands with a monk, his hand was held rather longer than was comfortable. He managed to get out of the situation, but remarked that, given the circumstances, it was not surprising there was some hint of “abnormality”. The book was published around 2013, I doubt it would get through with that reference in 2023.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 8, 2023 5:30 pm

Dutton should also leap on Albo’s refusal to provide funds to the ‘No’ case.
That’s the last thing he should do, since it taints him as a Partisan, something Dutton has been very careful to avoid.
Albanese has gotta come good with the facts, and until he does The Voice is an unknown quantity and has to be turned down.

I’d say The Australian will be wall to wall Voice by Australia Day and Peak Ethnic Group Leaders will be leading the charge.

JC
JC
January 8, 2023 5:31 pm

Bermuda Salary
Annual Salary Monthly Pay
Top Earners $167,500 $13,958
75th Percentile $120,000 $10,000
Average $113,216 $9,434
25th Percentile $76,500 $6,375

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 8, 2023 5:32 pm

Last day of the holidays.

Eye fillet with red wine jus, and a bottle of Pauillac.

Dot
Dot
January 8, 2023 5:33 pm

miltonf says:
January 8, 2023 at 4:25 pm
Beazley is a big fat greazy turd who’s never had a real job and never seen a shot fired in anger. The fat filth was never in the services but did a course at Oxford. Beazley is the dregs of the middle class his father was talking about. Just f*ck off fart boy slim. F*ck right off.

He is the most acceptable ALP or LNP leader post 1972 to me.

If he’s awful, the rest are nightmare fuel.

Dot
Dot
January 8, 2023 5:34 pm

Is WA copper Pommynese a form of da Pigin langwig?

Cassie of Sydney
January 8, 2023 5:35 pm

“Patrick Leigh Fermor”

My favourite travel writer.

Dot
Dot
January 8, 2023 5:37 pm

If only Harry did more cocaine.

He could have met a nice model who wanted to retire to the Cotswolds and have many, many children and help an avuncular DCI arrest a shockingly high moida rate…oh wait that’s my fantasy.

Rabz
January 8, 2023 5:37 pm

Wood pellet shortage forces UK households to burn cat litter

Truly, Cats – we exist in the stupidest age in human history. The headline above should be a parody, not reality.

Yet here we are, in thrall to a preposterous animist idiocy that quite frankly, after nearly 34 years defies any logical description.

But yeah, collectivists are supposedly the clever ones among us.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 8, 2023 5:38 pm

H B Bearsays:

January 8, 2023 at 5:07 pm

Spanish garlic wasn’t bad from memory although I didn’t mind paying a premium for the local stuff.

I do not know what that stuff is that they pass off as garlic from Chai-nah in the supermarkets, but it tastes nothing like the stuff we grow at home.

miltonf
miltonf
January 8, 2023 5:38 pm

Fart boy slim never actually made it PM Dot so you don’t really know.

Dot
Dot
January 8, 2023 5:38 pm

Aussie Imperial Mandarins >> Aussie Valencias

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
January 8, 2023 5:39 pm

Dr John Campbell has a further post about his previous day Swindon myocarditis post. Within 12 hours of his first post Swindon Health contacted the original guy who did the FOI and submitted corrected figures. Gone from one extreme to the other.

The new figures basically showed very few figures for each year since 2019. One total figure went from 59,000 to 344 ! The new stats show no impact of virus or vax on stats at all.

He then went on to show information by NIH about pericarditis / myocarditis as a side effect of Covid. Then states Swindon seems very lucky to have had zero impact. Suggests might want to investigate Swindon info.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 8, 2023 5:41 pm

Patrick Leigh Fermor”

My favourite travel writer.

Served with the Resistance on Crete – Achieved a certain amount of fame by kidnapping the commander of German forces on Crete, and getting him off that island.

miltonf
miltonf
January 8, 2023 5:43 pm

I haven’t visited Britain since the start of the bLIAR era nor have I visited Romania but, from what I’m reading about 2020s Yookay, it reminds me of the end of the Ceau?escu era in Romania.

JC
JC
January 8, 2023 5:43 pm

Dot says:
January 8, 2023 at 5:41 pm

It’s over for the Eurocels

https://www.statista.com/statistics/612207/divorce-rates-in-european-countries-per-100-marriages/

Jeez, 91.5% of marriages end up in divorce in Portugal? Why bother getting married?

Dot
Dot
January 8, 2023 5:44 pm

No one other urinalists have ever claimed the AMX – 10 is a tank.

IFV
Armoured car

Used for reconnaissance, skirmishing or a platform for old SAM systems such as the Roland IIRC?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 8, 2023 5:45 pm

Surely the next step for them is to transition, with daily updates on Instagram.
Meghan will become Morgan, with a big brown bushy beard.
Harry will become Harriet, the first Royal tranny.
Netflix will do a gushy series on the story.

Dot
Dot
January 8, 2023 5:45 pm

other than

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 8, 2023 5:46 pm

Been watching “The Monster of Wall Street” on Netflix.
About Bernie Madoff.
Very good, and presents some interesting takes on who benefited.
But no spoilers for now.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 8, 2023 5:51 pm

After it’s been legalled and through Netflix management I would be surprised if it bears any resemblance to reality. Unless you count the Kardashians as reality.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
January 8, 2023 5:53 pm

Been watching National Cycling Championships from Ballarat via SBS. Great race but the woke ads on SBS make be sick. As someone mentioned earlier the left never rest.

Dot
Dot
January 8, 2023 5:54 pm

for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and health

Ought to mean something during a crisis. I think it’s meant to.

2dogs
January 8, 2023 5:55 pm

Dutton should also leap on Albo’s refusal to provide funds to the ‘No’ case.

No, the Nationals should start high court proceedings.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
January 8, 2023 5:55 pm

Last day of holidays as well. Been a great couple of weeks. Worth a couple of beers tonite to steady me for the year ahead.

Dot
Dot
January 8, 2023 5:57 pm

the Nationals

LOL

They grew a backbone, got called Nazis and shut up.

Rabz
January 8, 2023 5:57 pm

Cat’s, this morning’s Rolling Stone’s execrable and monstrously self indulgent “greatest 200 warblers of all time” did manage to get at least several things correct.

Aretha at No 1.

Also – sacré bleu! How was I never previously aware of this femme fatale fille?

She makes la Birkin look some trashy hired help.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 8, 2023 5:57 pm

Bruce of N

Meghan will become Morgan, with a big brown bushy beard.

Doesn’t she already have such?

Indolent
Indolent
January 8, 2023 5:58 pm
Rabz
January 8, 2023 5:59 pm

When too many apostrophes are barely enough, I tells ya! 😕

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 8, 2023 6:02 pm

H B Bearsays:

January 8, 2023 at 5:51 pm

After it’s been legalled and through Netflix management …

Madoff?
I don’t think legal risk is such a biggy.
Most of the key players are dead.
Madoff, his two sons, his right hand man CFO, and his biggest client who is suspected of tumbling Madoff’s scheme and milking it.
All dead.

JC
JC
January 8, 2023 6:04 pm

Except the wife. I can’t imagine she didn’t know what was going on.

calli
calli
January 8, 2023 6:04 pm

Our Covid Crisis! screams Seven News.

Apparently it’s “millions” of swimming lessons missed because of the pandemic. Result – children at risk of drowning.

No, you dissembling numpties. It wasn’t because of the “pandemic”. It was all down to YOU and your ilk, desperate for a crisis, and lockdowns and housebound misery. Incessantly pushing draconian government measures with not a peep of dissent or question, YOU failed to do your job, becoming a mouthpiece for propaganda.

Indolent
Indolent
January 8, 2023 6:06 pm
Dot
Dot
January 8, 2023 6:08 pm

Result – children at risk of drowning.

It doesn’t take forever to learn how to swim.

Hey, maybe watch your own kids.

Frank
Frank
January 8, 2023 6:10 pm

“Still not ready for Chinese garlic though.”

Eating anything made in China counts as an extreme sport in my opinion. Those big bags of peeled garlic do look pretty cheap though, something to consider when littering in from of a Bain Marie at the takeaway shoppe.

Frank
Frank
January 8, 2023 6:11 pm

when loitering in front of

spell check is my frend

Robert Sewell
January 8, 2023 6:11 pm

Something for a Sunday:
Rods from God.
Pretty much the definitive KO of the idea.

Robert Sewell
January 8, 2023 6:13 pm

Boambee John:
The dead hand of communism. No-one wants to fall foul of a new Hundred Flowers campaign.
There’s nothing like 30 million dead to make one aware of the perils of being the nail that stuck its head up.

Frank
Frank
January 8, 2023 6:14 pm

“Meghan will become Morgan, with a big brown bushy beard.”

Markle become Mirkin.

bons
bons
January 8, 2023 6:17 pm

Calli,
Lots of Seville blossom here but no pollen.
Thems what know about these things claim that the excessive rain has prevented the uptake of K.
Assiduous application of sulphate of potash achieved nothing.
Same situation with the limes and passionfruit.
Bizarly, there are no bees which are normally in plague numbers.
I need to pay more Gaia tax obviously.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 8, 2023 6:18 pm

Except the wife. I can’t imagine she didn’t know what was going on.

Hard to say. Many of them genuinely don’t have a clue. My sister and BIL would fall into that category – except for a period where she checked the credit card balance before going to the supermarket. Just a distant memory now as he comes home having bought another 60 foot boat for the Christmas holidays. Just sign what is put in front of them.

Rabz
January 8, 2023 6:21 pm

Shake – glad you enjoyed them – I’ve got one more week to go.

My tailor is going to be working overtime next week. Not to mention fishing the suits out of the wardrobe and assessing the damage after three years of barely being worn. The dry cleaning bills are likely to be astronomical. Just hope the moths haven’t been too busy. 🙁

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 8, 2023 6:22 pm

Those big bags of peeled garlic do look pretty cheap though, something to consider when littering in from of a Bain Marie at the takeaway shoppe.

Don’t mention the frozen Vietnamese prawns. Hopefully the wok works some special magic. Always pass on the pangolin soup.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 8, 2023 6:26 pm

“Meghan will become Morgan, with a big brown bushy beard.”

She’s already got a pair of balls from somebody who wasn’t using them.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 8, 2023 6:31 pm

Rods from God.

Rakurai. I’m rereading the Safehold series atm, now in fact (with some chardy to assist).

JMH
JMH
January 8, 2023 6:31 pm

Franksays:
January 8, 2023 at 6:10 pm
“Still not ready for Chinese garlic though.”

Eating anything made in China counts as an extreme sport in my opinion. Those big bags of peeled garlic do look pretty cheap though, something to consider when littering in from of a Bain Marie at the takeaway shoppe.

Just don’t do it and also be very very careful as to what you consume that’s made in NZ This might mean McCains. Check the packaging. NZ have chucked their food standards into the sewer to remain on good terms with the CCP.

Cassie of Sydney
January 8, 2023 6:33 pm

I was having a conversation yesterday with my mother and sister about the last three years of Covid and I said, “you know, from day one Craig Kelly was right, about antivirals, vaccines, lockdowns. Perhaps Kerryn Phelps could, if not apologise to Craig Kelly, then acknowledge publicly that Kelly was right. Remember how he was demonised by the MSM? Remember how Scumbag sided with the left against Kelly?

Jorge
Jorge
January 8, 2023 6:34 pm

Cassie of Sydney says:
January 8, 2023 at 5:35 pm
“Patrick Leigh Fermor”

My favourite travel writer.

I’ve tried to like him but ….. I find him an insufferable, old fashioned pommy snob.

I would rather go with Jonathan Raban or prickly old Paul Theroux

Robert Sewell
January 8, 2023 6:34 pm

Old Ozzie:

Perhaps Australia need some of these – seem better value & more bank for Buck that our current purchase

I’m reminded of the “Night Witches” in the Russo/German war.
Capable of night flight, close to the ground – finding campfires of German soldiers and, with turned off engines, capable of gliding over and dropping small bombs on them.
It doesn’t have to be fast and sexy to do the job – just capable.
And our arms procurers have forgotten that.

johanna
johanna
January 8, 2023 6:38 pm

Yep, it’s going to be a poor crop for a lot of fruit trees. The cumquat tree outside my door had dozens and dozens of fruit last season. This year, due to cold, miserable weather, there were hardly any flowers. What’s more, even when there were flowers, there were no bees because of the wind and cold.

On another topic, yesterday I mentioned how much TheirABC hates Summernats, having given it zero coverage despite it being the largest car event in the country.

Well, we finally got a story now that it’s over:

The 35th Summernats was the biggest yet, with record crowd and entrant numbers, but the annual car festival has been marred by poor behaviour from a group of attendees overnight.

This year’s festival was a sell-out, with more than 120,000 people attending during the four days at Exhibition Park in Canberra (EPIC), and vehicle entrants capped at a record 2,700.

Crowd favourites such as the burnout and mullet competitions also attracted record entrants.

But the festival’s cruise circuit at EPIC was closed early at 6pm on Saturday night due to antisocial behaviour.

[snip]

Four arrests were made, including one for assaulting a police officer, two for being intoxicated and disorderly, and one for breach of bail.

Three traffic infringement notices were issued and one caution was given.

Yep, it was mayhem. The other 119,990 attendees were shaking in their thongs all weekend. 🙂

Rabz
January 8, 2023 6:42 pm

the “Night Witches” in the Russo/German war

Fantastic scene in Generation War when the brothers’ camp is bombed by the night witches after spotting Freidhelm’s cigarette light. Which subsequently earned him a severe beating from his kamaraden, overseen by his brother.

Diogenes
Diogenes
January 8, 2023 6:44 pm

Two discuss how they are king in their castles and how much their wives respect them

I am the undisputed head of my household. Sadly Mrs D is the “neck”, the head can only go where the neck points it. 🙁

rickw
rickw
January 8, 2023 6:47 pm

The families of Afghans who joined the Australian Defence Force to fight against the Taliban are living in fear for their lives because the Australian government refuses to process any visas from Afghanistan

Australia:

People who put their neck on the line to help Australia? NO WAY!

People who left Australia to be ISIS Bitches? HELL YES!

We are so f’cked.

rosie
rosie
January 8, 2023 6:47 pm

Plenty of bees here, one has to run the gauntlet to the front door at my mother’s place.
Bees loving on lamb’s ears.

rosie
rosie
January 8, 2023 6:49 pm

On the other hand the rosellas are nicking my apples before they are much bigger than cherries.
I might have to cover a couple just to see if they can ripen properly.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 8, 2023 6:51 pm

Summernats is excellent. It was always interesting to me that the festival of the donk should happen in a deep green-lefty city like Canberra, even before trolling was invented.

Btw, people are still buying donks.

Big utes and 4WDs dominate new car sales in 2022 (6 Jan)

Only 3.6% of Aussies are buying electric golfcarts, and that’s probably fleet sales not ordinary punters.

Frank
Frank
January 8, 2023 6:57 pm

On the other hand the rosellas are nicking my apples before they are much bigger than cherries.

If you want to grow fruit to eat get a greenhouse, otherwise it is just a good way to attract birds to the garden. Birds are good, those white mesh bags over trees, not so much.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 8, 2023 6:59 pm

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/01/ill-be-celebrating-australia-day-love.html

Senator Lidia Thorpe has opened her mouth on the subject of Australia Day.

calli
calli
January 8, 2023 6:59 pm

Planted a heap of dahlia tubers and day lilies around the fruit trees as the bees just love the pollen rich flowers. Likewise brugmansia. There are usually a large number of the busy little things buzzing about.

The problem was actually getting any flowers. The few that bloomed were pollinated, produced tiny fruit which promptly fell off in the cold. I appreciate the endless rain has depleted the soil, which is sand here so needs boosting up constantly at the best of times.

Glowball warming. Perhaps Greta’s scowls have worked and the sun is afeared.

Frank
Frank
January 8, 2023 7:03 pm

Summernats still has pit girls this year? They were trying to get rid of them once. Come to think of it, that is probably why the ABC dislike the event so much, it offends their fierce heterosexual tendencies.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 8, 2023 7:04 pm

The Pale Blue Eye is a good movie that could have been a great movie.
Bale is great but the guys who plays Poe is even better.
Odd that Fetterman (yes that Fetterman makes a cameo).

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 8, 2023 7:07 pm

JCsays:

January 8, 2023 at 6:04 pm

Except the wife. I can’t imagine she didn’t know what was going on.

Ruth Madoff?
I struggle to believe that her and the two sons were completely ignorant of it.
They probably didn’t know it ran into tens of billions, but I reckon they knew Bernie was skating on thin ice and cutting a few corners.

calli
calli
January 8, 2023 7:07 pm

The bane of my life are these buggers. They are bent on destroying my clumps of bromeliads, nipping off all the new growth.

To add insult to injury, the mongrels hopped onto the front porch today and pooed all over the mat. Grrrrrr.

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 8, 2023 7:09 pm

Senator Lidia Thorpe

Is an idiot who needs to be removed from the Senate. Why is she there when she plainly hates Australia?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 8, 2023 7:11 pm

Rabz earlier.

The dry cleaning bills are likely to be astronomical. Just hope the moths haven’t been too busy. 

Throw some Chinese garlic in the wardrobe.

rosie
rosie
January 8, 2023 7:12 pm

I wasn’t going to net the entire tree just cover a few individual fruit.

Zipster
January 8, 2023 7:12 pm

The new figures basically showed very few figures for each year since 2019. One total figure went from 59,000 to 344 ! The new stats show no impact of virus or vax on stats at all.

great news, seems we are at china level data reliability

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 8, 2023 7:13 pm

Is an idiot who needs to be removed from the Senate. Why is she there when she plainly hates Australia?

For shame, BB , don’t you understand that the good, the holy, the saintly Greens see her as a fit and proper person to represent their constituents?

Cassie of Sydney
January 8, 2023 7:13 pm

“Ruth Madoff?
I struggle to believe that her and the two sons were completely ignorant of it.
They probably didn’t know it ran into tens of billions, but I reckon they knew Bernie was skating on thin ice and cutting a few corners.”

Agree.

A friend of mine in NYC lost her job at the company she worked at when the Madoff Ponzi scheme imploded. She would later say that she’d been “Madoffed”.

Cassie of Sydney
January 8, 2023 7:14 pm

“Is an idiot who needs to be removed from the Senate. Why is she there when she plainly hates Australia?”

I note that the SFLs haven’t bothered moving a censure motion against her.

Cassie of Sydney
January 8, 2023 7:15 pm

To me the problem isn’t Thorpe per se, the problem is that people vote for the Greens.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 8, 2023 7:18 pm

dover0beachsays:

January 8, 2023 at 6:53 pm

Lost all my pears and peaches to possums. Still, the figs and passionfruit are doing well.

Apples are gone. Soft and brown before they developed.
Second year pear has 10-12 healthy fruit.
Apricot didn’t set fruit at all.
Peach looked to have terminal curly leaf but recovered with some growth and fruit.
Fruit farming is a total raffle.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 8, 2023 7:19 pm

Fruit netting day tomorrow.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 8, 2023 7:22 pm

A friend of mine in NYC lost her job at the company she worked at when the Madoff Ponzi scheme imploded. She would later say that she’d been “Madoffed”.

Yes.
They used to say “Bernie Madoff with the cash”.

Roger
Roger
January 8, 2023 7:23 pm

Senator Lidia Thorpe

Is an idiot who needs to be removed from the Senate. Why is she there when she plainly hates Australia?

T do as much damage as she can, presumably.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 8, 2023 7:30 pm

Brother and his fambalam took off to their holiday house on the coast yesterday. Minding the house.

He has a pool, enclosed by those half inch thick glass panels with clamp mounts on the tiles. About three hours ago I was standing around out the back when one of the panels decided to explode. And I mean ex-ploooode.

Three hours of cleaning up glass. Aside from the glass in the pool – that’s my bro’s gig for when he gets back. He is extremely unhappy – that’s the second one in two years.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 8, 2023 7:34 pm

Cassie, the Madoff doco is interesting in the way it looks at how he exploited the insularity – if that is the right word – of the Jewish community in Palm Beach.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
January 8, 2023 7:35 pm

Wow. No wonder Queensland Prisons are revolving doors. Who are these effwits?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11609081/Prisons-boss-calls-healing-rehabilitation-centres-crime-spree-kids.html

Put halfway houses next to Mr Hamburger and Rallings. Lastly why is the minister entraining a hasbeen like Hamburger?

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 8, 2023 7:36 pm

JMH

Just don’t do it and also be very very careful as to what you consume that’s made in NZ This might mean McCains.

We abandoned McCains about two years ago, after a bag of frozen chips tasted foul. Now we cut up fresh spuds, DIY rules.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 8, 2023 7:38 pm

About three hours ago I was standing around out the back when one of the panels decided to explode. And I mean ex-ploooode.

We had one do that a few years ago at the City Penthouse.
Balcony panel just popped on a cold night. They are, as you say, supposed to shatter into lots of tiny pieces. Except when they have glazing film attached. Then big chunks hang together and plummet to earth.
I was told it was quite common.

Frank
Frank
January 8, 2023 7:40 pm

I note that the SFLs haven’t bothered moving a censure motion against her.

Not hard to imagine that they might think it worth more for her to continue.

Cassie of Sydney
January 8, 2023 7:41 pm

“Sancho Panzersays:
January 8, 2023 at 7:34 pm
Cassie, the Madoff doco is interesting in the way it looks at how he exploited the insularity – if that is the right word – of the Jewish community in Palm Beach.”

Yep, “insularity” is the correct word. Madoff was an expert schmoozer, particularly within the Jewish communities across the east coast of the USA and in Israel. Many, many people were “Madoffed”.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 8, 2023 7:42 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
January 8, 2023 at 7:13 pm
Is an idiot who needs to be removed from the Senate. Why is she there when she plainly hates Australia?

For shame, BB , don’t you understand that the good, the holy, the saintly Greens see her as a fit and proper person to represent their constituents?

Well, she does share the hatred of Australia with the rest of the Slime. But she forgets that she is there to represent all of her state, not just her party members.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 8, 2023 7:43 pm

This stuff has film on it but it didn’t stop it shattering into billions upon trillions of pieces. Maddeningly time-consuming.

Hard broom. Soft broom. Vacuum (including the lawn, using SIL’s vacuum cleaner with the head unit off). Full wheelie bin.

I won’t empty the vacuum bag. She’ll be pleased to see how much work I did.

Roger
Roger
January 8, 2023 7:48 pm

Wow. No wonder Queensland Prisons are revolving doors. Who are these effwits?

Former high ranking state public servants, that’s who (you knew that, but…)

It’s a shallow talent pool.

Rabz
January 8, 2023 7:48 pm

KD, Pancho – I’m assuming the “shattering” may be due to sudden (or other) temperature changes?

Otherwise why would it explode?

There’s a lot to be said for avoiding glass wherever possible. All my coffee tables are glass as is my kitchen table. Looks wonderful until it doesn’t. 😕

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 8, 2023 7:51 pm

Rabz:

It was in the sun, but I would imagine it’s in the sun every day.

Bro (when passing on the news via phone) said the bloke who re-installed the last one said on average one every 40 panels goes at some point.

That’s far too high for my liking. On top of that, apparently they’re supposed to have been treated for ‘heat’.

Rabz
January 8, 2023 7:51 pm

One of my mate’s glass dining table is “pre shattered”.

Making more sense by the minute.

Roger
Roger
January 8, 2023 7:52 pm

I was told it was quite common.

Mmm…but why?

My money would be on a manufacturing defect or corners cut in regard to specs (Chinese manufacture?). That or incorrect installation.

Rabz
January 8, 2023 7:53 pm

Apostrophes really are a f*cking scourge designed to make you look careless, if not downright stupid.

Begone, ye li’l ticks, I tells ya! 😡

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 8, 2023 7:56 pm

Yep, “insularity” is the correct word. Madoff was an expert schmoozer, particularly within the Jewish communities across the east coast of the USA and in Israel. Many, many people were “Madoffed”.

Yeah, he created this air of exclusivity, that you were somehow privileged to get in. He actually suckered some people into desperately throwing more and more money at him by feigning indifference, or treating their initial application moneys (often multi millions) as too insignificant to be bothered with.
He basically super-charged the Ponzi in four distinct phases:-
.1 Localised around NYC and the North East, and predominantly Jewish;
.2 The Jewish community in Palm Beach;
.3 US hedge funds;
.4 Finally, European hedge funds and private banks.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 8, 2023 7:56 pm

My brushtails have vanished. They do that from time to time when there’s a shortage of males – the females have the territory: the itinerant males are much more likely to suffer something fatal, like a powerful owl, or a car on a road. When that happens the females get the itch and go off to find another one.

The cockies of the Cafe have evolved a taste for lemons, courtesy of neighbour across the road. At first one or two would dismember the lemons for the seeds inside, then they acquired a taste for the lemon flesh also. But not the sweeter mandarins on the next tree. Why the local cockies like eating lemons not mandarins is a mystery, but they do, and I continually have bits of lemon dropped onto my lawn. We did have a lot of success with a net, but the neighbour doesn’t really particularly like lemons, and likes birds, so they have a free rein this year.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 8, 2023 7:57 pm

Oishikatta.

Dot
Dot
January 8, 2023 8:00 pm

‘splodey pool glass.

Fark. I would be more worried about that than kiddies not learnin’ how to swim through a thoroughly grant funded PLC owned by the local swim charity President.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
January 8, 2023 8:02 pm

Sorry Rog, I live in an city with the real world results of their said policies. Amount of CCTV popping up is indicative.

BTW. Hope you are mending well.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 8, 2023 8:07 pm

Ouch, my feet hurt. Yesterday we travelled on public transport to the Tate Modern in London to meet up with my delightful but autistic thirteen year old grandson and his very sophisticated American photojournalist mother, who 14 years ago briefly had a relationship with my mildly autistic eldest son. Mother and son were stopping over on their way to Paris, where she was an artist in residence there before he was born. London trains are on extremly disruptive rolling strikes and there were only limited services from only a few suburban hubs. A meticulous cross-country planning operation on Transport Apps managed by Hairy and his brother with whom we are staying in Richmond got us by bus to Barnes station to train it into Waterloo and then on a tube to Embankment but then the whole operation fell apart. A new notice just up declared a sudden shut down on about half the tube lines, including the Circle Line which was part of ‘the plan’.

We’ll have to walk along the Embankment, says Hairy, and up to the Greyfriars Bridge to get over the river to the Tate Modern in the old Battersea Power Station. So off we set at a brisk pace to make our meet up in the Turbine Room entrance there, for there we no obvious buses or taxis. It was about 2km, and while an ok walk usually it was horrible in the mild rain and with my snowboots on, as they were a bit tight after the flight a couple of days ago.

London seemed almost empty. Except for the few running tubes which were jam-packed, and unpleasant enough for my little grandson to faint and have to be carried off, to his mother’s distress, which of course made them late too. Eventually, we met up to eat at the restaurant in the Tate which has the best view over the river and across to St. Pauls. Grandson was fascinated , he’s into history. The Brits seem to be very much in Coping with the Blitz mode. I do wonder though how long this spirit will last. The Tate Modern was absolutely packed too, as so many other attractions and shops were closed as business was not brisk. Just what London needs after lockdowns.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 8, 2023 8:16 pm

London seemed almost empty. Except for the few running tubes which were jam-packed

Not altogether surprising since the greens have discovered a new tax for the holy planet.

Drivers warned over new Clean Air Zones in British cities – is where you live on the list? (8 Jan)

DRIVERS are being warned that new Clean Air Zones are coming and that they could be fine for driving in them.

The zones require that you have a new enough car – those with cars of a certain age will be sent fines in the post.

Drivers in London already face charges if they wish to enter the capital’s low and ultra low emission zones (ULEZ).

Five other UK cities have already introduced clean air zones too, but three more are due to start in the coming weeks and months.

Currently, Bath, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol and Portsmouth all have the zones.

If you drive a dastardly internal combustion engined car into one of the pristine ULEZes you have sinned. Get out of the cities Poms, while you still can.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 8, 2023 8:31 pm

The only thing worse than the Tube in winter is the Tube in summer.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 8, 2023 8:33 pm

Dover – the blog is busted again.
Mother Load has a comment newer than my one from 8:16pm but nothing I can do lets me see it.
It’s the same issue that happened some while ago with weird caching problems.

win
win
January 8, 2023 8:34 pm

Possums dont stand a chance against a flock of devious sulphur crested cockatoos. There normal diet are the lemons one bight per fruit but the fruit fly got there first this year ,next on the seasonal menu are the passionfruit where a look out is posted on the tallest gum tree and in silence they sit like white jewels on the fence taking one bight out of every passionfruit on the vine. Its now summer and they are shrieking to each other in delight as they crash into the foliage to plunder the macadamia nut trees. You cant see them to do unspeakable things to them but you hear the nuts dropping They only eat the outer green casing, and drop the rest onto the ground which prevents the kernal from maturing .With the unusual amount of rain it was a bumper crop .

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 8, 2023 8:34 pm

Grab a Boris bike.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 8, 2023 8:36 pm

If I click on a comment on the sidebar I get KD’s comment at 7:43 pm. Nothing later than that.
Same problem as we had before.

Roger
Roger
January 8, 2023 8:38 pm

Sorry Rog, I live in an city with the real world results of their said policies. Amount of CCTV popping up is indicative.

I know. I’m afraid there’s little point in CCTV if, once identified & arrested, the magistrates are going to recycle the kids onto the streets. And the kids know that. In my neck of the woods, or in the local metropolis, to be exact, they’ve been known to strike a pose for the camera.

BTW. Hope you are mending well.

That was t.i.c. in regard to a previous comment about Roger Moore and me. Don’t worry, you didn’t miss much. But thanks for the well wishes!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 8, 2023 8:39 pm

Bruce of Newcastlesays:

January 8, 2023 at 8:36 pm

If I click on a comment on the sidebar I get KD’s comment at 7:43 pm

I blame the upticks.

Roger
Roger
January 8, 2023 8:42 pm

If I click on a comment on the sidebar I get KD’s comment at 7:43 pm. Nothing later than that.
Same problem as we had before.

It’s also very slow.

(Or maybe that’s my computer.)

Not complaining, dover, just informing.

cohenite
January 8, 2023 8:43 pm

Also – sacré bleu! How was I never previously aware of this femme fatale fille?

Cripes, she looks like the percussionist in a boy band. You complain about my taste head prefect; look at Rabz’s.

For a bit of balance here is a cute owl.

Roger
Roger
January 8, 2023 8:44 pm

Get out of the cities Poms, while you still can.

They are, Bruce.

It’s a trend.

At least two popular TV shows are based on it.

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
January 8, 2023 8:47 pm

Rabz – I recall Don Lane had a liking for glass coffee tables too !

Frank
Frank
January 8, 2023 8:48 pm

cohenite, is there something you need to tell us? Perhaps a latent fetish for being beaten up by butch women in bikinis that your therapist needs to be informed of? Do you need help? It is OK to talk about it, you are among friends here.

Robert Sewell
January 8, 2023 8:50 pm

Tom:
Whatever it takes: let’s make it more difficult to own and rent retail property. Marxism 101.

Were I a landlord, I’d be looking at getting out of the market and realising the gains I’d made over the last few years.
And the renters? “Where are all the rentals going?”
The Labor Party is getting ready to benefit from the discord they’ve just created. “We’ll need a new governing body to deal with this new problem we just discovered.”

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 8, 2023 8:52 pm

Franksays:

January 8, 2023 at 8:48 pm

cohenite, is there something you need to tell us? Perhaps a latent fetish for being beaten up by butch women in bikinis that your therapist needs to be informed of? 

Nothing latent about it.

Robert Sewell
January 8, 2023 8:54 pm

Rabz:

KD, Pancho – I’m assuming the “shattering” may be due to sudden (or other) temperature changes?
Otherwise why would it explode?

Stress from tension build up in the brackets? It’s fine until the point is reached where there’s no further give in the fittings. While temperature may be the contributor, lots of other factors as well – Cheap Chinese shit glass?

cohenite
January 8, 2023 8:55 pm

Nothing latent about it.

Correct.

Frank
Frank
January 8, 2023 8:58 pm

“Nothing latent about it.”

Something to do with the legal fraternity?

Rabz
January 8, 2023 8:58 pm

“He confessed to doing cocaine, smoking cannabis and taking mushrooms”

Much like every other young person (i.e. 91.3%) of his generation and generations before his.

Screechee headlines: “Formerly young person admits to taking illicit substances decades ago”

And most people on the planet, a rodent’s they did not give.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 8, 2023 9:01 pm

‘tension build up in the brackets?’

Potentially. Really not sure. The last panel that went kaboom was a different one. Might be a combo deal.

One thing’s for sure – if I was the bro I’d be thinking up ways to get the lot replaced, gratis.

Robert Sewell
January 8, 2023 9:01 pm

I’ll believe there’s a problem with drugs in the workforce when the politicians get drug tested like our miners.
Until then, pissing off is as good a reply as any.

Rabz
January 8, 2023 9:03 pm

I recall Don Lane had a liking for glass coffee tables too!

One of human history’s most supremely useless unfunny and hideously uglee dinobores.

Which made him a perfect fit for braindead FTA commercial television in this country in that most monstrous of ages, the nineteen seventies.

flyingduk
flyingduk
January 8, 2023 9:04 pm

Possums dont stand a chance against a flock of devious sulphur crested cockatoos

I have been getting visits by flocks of hundreds of white cockies at my new estate. The spend a few hours in the paddock and when I inspect I find they have dug up quite large areas – 10 or 15 m in diameter. I presume they are looking for seeds but I had no idea they could do so much earth moving.

Roger
Roger
January 8, 2023 9:07 pm

One thing’s for sure – if I was the bro I’d be thinking up ways to get the lot replaced, gratis.

Nothing is gratis…someone (or a lot of someones) pays for it.

cohenite
January 8, 2023 9:08 pm

Australian muzzie/isis bint gets a guernsey in the latest edition of the whacky world of islam:

Australia: Returned Islamic State bride charged with traveling to Syria for jihad

Rabz
January 8, 2023 9:08 pm

devious sulphur crested cockatoos

The destruction they can wreak in a very short time has to be seen to be believed, as Dr Duk has just discovered.

Luzu
January 8, 2023 9:08 pm

Well, Cats and Kittehs, I’ve gone and done it. I have joined a dating website, the same one on which my sister met my future BIL.

Wish me luck!

Or alternatively, if you know of a handsome, well-built, intelligent, funny, hard-working man between 50 and 55 (and grandfathers are very welcome), let me know*

*Dover, not wanting to use you as a dating middleman or anything….

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