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Chinese New Year decorations/celebration: Admirable, and Australian.
Australia Day decorations/celebration: Racist, Hateful, Triggering, and (incredibly) un-Australian.
Important distinction.
You forgot sexy.
This is just embarrassing.
Australia is the home of stupid things done badly. Interdicting Serbians for FFS.
Regular service resumes at Your ALPBC as the Executive Producers come back from their WEBs. Climate Council calls picking up.
It is also the difference between democracy and dictatorship. And it is a difference that every elected officials should know in their bones.
No. They have NFI.
Chinese New Year decorations/celebration: Admirable, and Australian.
You forgot Diwali you racist!!
Every shit stained third world event is to be celebrated in Australia.
A day celebrating the founding of a formerly great nation, not so much.
JCsays:
January 24, 2023 at 9:26 am
Does anyone have a good explanation or read how, after what Trump went through, Hiden kept a stash of government documents in his garage and other places?
Wouldn’t even low reasoning ability suggest he should have got rid of it? And quickly.
It’s unfathomable.
I doubt that the senile old goat even remembered that he had stolen the documents.
Djokovic slaps Di Minaur on and off the court:
Not content with wiping the floor with Alex de Minaur on the court Novak Djokovic saved a brutal swipe for the Aussie in his post match press conference.
Djokovic lost just five games in a devastatingly good display to win the fourth round clash on Rod Laver Arena 6-2, 6-1, 6-2 in little over two hours.
With a 10th Melbourne slam title beckoning it is hard to see who in the draw may topple the Serbian star who set up a last eight clash with Andrey Rublev.
It was after the match that the salt was rubbed into Demon’s wounds.
Asked why he defeated de Minaur “so convincingly”, Djokovic said: “Because I wanted to.”
The fourth seed said he was determined not to give de Minaur a way into the match and ensure he was not pushed beyond three sets.
“I cannot say I’m sorry that you haven’t watched the longer match to be honest. I really wanted to win straight sets,” he said.
“Obviously you never know what is going to happen on the court. Once you’re on the court obviously you’ve got to deal with a lot of things that are on and off the court … I felt maybe he was a bit more nervous towards the end of the second and beginning of the first. I felt like it’s my opportunity to try to capitalise on those chances.
“Tennis is a very quick, very dynamic sport. Things can change in a matter of moment, matter of points. Kept my focus all the way through. Just played the best match of this year so far.”
But the most brutal swipe came in the post-match press conference during which Djokovic was reminded about dde Minaur’s comments about his deportation in 2022.
Twelve months ago, Demon said everyone was tired of the “circus” and that Djokovic had “taken a lot of spotlight away from us competitors”.
“Look, Australians have gone through a lot. There’s no secret about that. They’ve had it very tough. They’ve done a lot of work to protect themselves and their borders,” de Minaur said.
“When you’re coming in, as well as every other tennis player, if you wanted to come to the country, you had to be double vaccinated. It was up to him, his choices, his judgment. Here we are.”
Seems Djokovic has a good memory of who said what about him and the debacle.
“I don’t have any relationship with him,” Djokovic said on Monday night.
“I respect him as a rival, a colleague, as I respect everyone. I have no problem contacting him, congratulating him, etc. But I don’t have any other relationship. I don’t have any communication with him. He showed in 2022 what he thinks about me.”
Hardest hit, those idiot Fanatics
The Voice is surely going to be a boon for permanent Canbra. Imagine all of the jobs there that are going to be needed to provide admin, governance etc.. support to it. Highly unlikely many jobs will be outside of Canbra and highly prejudicial to have the Voice based in Canbra anyway…
No. They have NFI.
Joe Hildebrand wrote these paragraphs
One for Dot.
Chinese gamers bid sad farewell to ‘World of Warcraft’ (23 Jan)
Gold farming boiler rooms will be bereft, although I suppose these days they mostly mine for Bitcoin.
Uh oh!
I wonder if anyone remebers Nelson Mandela’s promise, before black majority rule that ” it won’t be the day after Black Majority Rule, it may take a year, it may take five years, but you’ll all be driving a B.M.W. one day!
Yep … sparky said he had to install it if i wanted the genny to run the power and the lights
“I respect him as a rival, a colleague, as I respect everyone. I have no problem contacting him, congratulating him, etc. But I don’t have any other relationship. I don’t have any communication with him. He showed in 2022 what he thinks about me.”
Seems to me that Djokovic referred to De Minaur with courtesy and respect. Which is more than Di Minaur accorded him in 2022. Djokovic argued that his natural immunity (having contracted what was probably the the Wuhan strain in 2020) afforded him protection from Covid & he had medical opinion to support him, which had initially been accepted by AO officials before it became a political issue.
it won’t be the day after Black Majority Rule, it may take a year, it may take five years, but you’ll all be driving a B.M.W. one day!
My Brit mate had worked there since he was quite young. When this started, he sold everything and moved to Australia. I used to think he was slightly racist, now I think he was a genius.
Sometimes pulling up stumps and moving is the only way of avoiding an impeding disaster. Hmmmm.
If all it takes to clean up Alice Springs is a visit from PM Luigi the Unbelievable of the Immaculate Dentata, then surely by leaving him there the problem is solved. How easy was that.
My Hindu staff have always called it “Deepavali” (official name) in real life they refer to it as: “Deeper Worries” – because it costs so much to celebrate.
They always give me a half-litre or so of curried dry watermelon dog-treat looking things to “snack” on.
Manfully I accept & nibble some, displaying the depth of my acting talent by convincing them I love the stuff (this worked so well they upped the ante to a half litre tub, from the original half-a-dozen bits)
They’ve now taken to offering to give me an authentic Thaipusam experience. Not on your nelly fellers – I’m not making a kebab of my cheeks.
Sometimes pulling up stumps and moving is the only way of avoiding an impeding disaster. Hmmmm.
Europe 1938-39. Argentina would have looked pretty good.
“When you’re coming in, as well as every other tennis player, if you wanted to come to the country, you had to be double vaccinated. It was up to him, his choices, his judgment. Here we are.”
Sounds like de Minaur is the rosie of tennis.
This is an absolutely amazing article:
RTWT.
If he just came straight out and said the voice was a stupid idea, the ABC and the MSM would just lambast him as raaaaacist and ordinary Australians, conditioned like Pavlov’s dogs to drop to the floor in abject submission merely at the word, would vote for the thing so no one will call them racist.
Didnt stop their ABCcess this morning.
A Lib stooge on “oh but i do support it” he earnestly implored while whatever spokes-harpy the ABC had dredged up was castigating him for not effectively buying a pig in a poke.
‘You have to pass the constitutional amendment to see what will be legislated based on guidelines we might or might not follow”.
Where are the libs who are saying no.
They are displaying classic jellyback shit which is why weve gone from “no carbin tax” to “ok you can shut everything down, make people live in the pods and eat the bugs, but slower” in less than 20 years.
Shit ideas done slowly are shit ideas.
Shit ideas are shit at every stage of their implementation, which is why they should be called shit and not entertained right from the start.
We have thousands of professional Aborigine funded by taxpayer munni to delegitimize the Australian state.
All because no-one said “Giving henry reynolds a platform in university to print political shit in place of research is a shit idea- shut it down”.
Albo has a quick trip to Alice Springs, then what?
How are any of the issues addressed?
Intergenerational poverty.
Intergenerational alcohol, drug & sexual abuse.
The kids don’t stand a chance because when their parents were kids they didn’t stand a chance.
There is no quick path back from this.
And the political & media class doesn’t have the stomach for any of the potential solutions.
“I picked him up at the airport, um, brought him to my clinic and provided for him,” meaning she euthanized him.
Who would have thought you could spin being a serial killer into a legitimate business.
Looks like the Boca Chica team just did a wet dress rehearsal on the Starship/Superheavy stack that may have gone to T – 0.
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=56074.1040
H B Bearsays:
January 24, 2023 at 11:13 am
Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn
As Manuel would say, “Que?”
Possibly a descendant of a well known German WW II night fighter pilot of that name?
Will he tell the citizens of Alice Springs how he was raised in public housing by a single mum?
Sometimes pulling up stumps and moving is the only way of avoiding an impeding disaster. Hmmmm.
We may see the start of some reverse migration. A Greek friend, who came to Australia as a child many decades ago, is seriously thinking of pulling up stumps to live in a holiday house she built for her children on an island in the Aegean. She and her family worked hard and were very successful in their professions. She is appalled at the Wokeness of current Australian society.
Rogersays:
January 24, 2023 at 11:16 am
You never let us down 5 large buses in town this morning They have taken the kids away Before our guests arrive
1. With consent of parents?
2. What inducements were offered?
3. Where have these indigenous children been “removed” to?
Inquiring minds…
New “Stolen Generation”?
You suspect Djokovic‘s views would be bit different having a beer with his mates. And they would be entitled to be. Another one under SloMo’s bus.
‘You have to pass the constitutional amendment to see what will be legislated based on guidelines we might or might not follow”.
Reminds me of Pelosi said with the Affordable Care Act : We have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV7dDSgbaQ0
With all the information about how bad the stabs really are finally starting to leak out through the MSM, there will still be people who will line up for their BOHICA stabs.
I have a friend like that. No matter what, she has received every booster that has come along, keeps testing herself, has also been on a course of that super expensive stand in for Ivermectin and still believes “our” Government wouldn’t do anything to harm us.
To finally start accepting that you may be a dupe is too terrifying to contemplate. Hence the fervent belief that the stabs are kosher.
A Greek friend, who came to Australia as a child many decades ago, is seriously thinking of pulling up stumps to live in a holiday house she built for her children on an island in the Aegean.
I told my oldest daughter to get off her backside and get her Greek passport. She is fluent and they already have a holiday house out of Thessaloniki.
I was surprised at how I unf’cked by government covid policy Athens was on my recent visit.
In Australia?
Are you rewriting history?
Covid was not rampant in Australia in 2020, it was practically non existent, it wasn’t rampant until the various state governments ended the majority of lockdown measures in late 2021 and Omicron was the predominant variant.
dover0beachsays:
January 24, 2023 at 10:31 am
Boomers didn’t destroy the SFL.
The current clowns are post boomer and are best classified as lobbyists, grifters and opportunists.
It’s the boomers who are voting against the filth.
Please. The problems with the LNP are longstanding and cut across the generations.
Both true but QLD Boomers got Palacechook across the line because ‘she kept them safe’ during the government pandemic. The SFLNP’s (LNP in Qld) didn’t help themselves with their me too response.
What is this crap?
When did I even support mandates or ‘protecting our borders’ or the deportation of Djokovic ?
Another pathetic gaslight.
Whole of Sth America is going right down the toilet.
Report: Socialist Argentina and Brazil Plan Joint South American Currency (23 Jan)
Stolen elections have consequences.
Which Countries Are The Most Polarized? (22 Jan)
Peru Closes Famed Machu Picchu Ruins, Tourists Trapped, As Anti-Govt Unrest Spreads (23 Jan)
Add that Columbia’s prez is a complete far-leftist nutter, Ecuador is a dump, Chile is going further socialist and there’s not much to stop the whole place turning into greater Venezuela.
For some reason I don’t understand voters keep on being seduced by leftist lies. No different here of course.
To be clear Rickw, stop lying about what I’ve said or believe.
Not sure whats so great about Greece compared to Oz- a vassal of the EU.
a special picture for you
Salvatore, in K.D.’s absence, may I say…
PHRASING!!
Europe 1938-39. Argentina would have looked pretty good.
Whole of Sth America is going right down the toilet.
Sure, BoN but Europe went down the shitter, round the s bend and ended up in the overflowing sewage farm. Everything is relative. Missing WW2 in Europe was a good idea.
they all start to look the same after a while….
Anyone who has employed South American backpackers is acutely aware that it is no accident that South America is a series of economic basket cases.
All people & all cultures are not alike.
Rogersays:
January 24, 2023 at 11:05 am
I’m interested in what others think.
Spot on, cassie; West is a joke.
The ADC can issue a press release on his views which could prompt some much needed discussion.
Banning people because of their unsavoury views is a political tool that should be used sparingly in democratic societies.
I agree. Sunlight is the best cure. And eloquent replies that show these people and their beliefs up for what they are. The only problem I can see is that 18C would protect certain groups (such as the religion of pieces) to come and sprout their ideology but now being able to be rebutted because racism. It is all one way traffic at the moment where pro-life etc can get banned. Get rid of 18C and let ‘er rip.
speaking of AI
Unsettling Party Images Have People Talking…
Thar she blows!!
What is this crap?
When did I even support mandates or ‘protecting our borders’ or the deportation of Djokovic ?
No, but De Minaur’s comments are in line with your own “suffer the consequences” comment. F’cking step up and own it.
I’m not convinced either Milton.
I remember a customer, a lawyer by trade, telling me she had to pay bribes to doctors to get her mother medical treatment in Greece.
apparently still normal
Epic grinding lads. WOW basically lasted for 18 years IIRC.
GG and f.
“What is this crap?
When did I even support mandates or ‘protecting our borders’ or the deportation of Djokovic ?
Another pathetic gaslight.”
Agree, you never did. The only person here who supports mandates, protecting borders and the deportation of Djokovic was Monty.
as lug as you keep out of Peru cause of its current troubles, the Australian peso goes a long way in South America.
ooray and up she rises
Not sure whats so great about Greece compared to Oz- a vassal of the EU.
I would have said the same until I went there recently. Athens almost looked like nothing happened. When I was in Thessaloniki doing my audit, in conversation it came up that I had been terminated for refusing the vax. Rather than the bewildered wide eyed look I get in Australia (am I in the presence of a lunatic?!), I get “compadre!”, half of us aren’t vaccinated! This is a basic human right! What they did to you is a disgrace! Conversation gets more and more animated and contains less and less English. (Similar reaction from former co workers in Athens).
What interests me most is the attitude of The People. If The People have the right attitude, anything can be fixed.
As I said lying/gaslighting.
I’ve addressed this deliberate misinterpretation of what I’ve said before.
I don’t recall ever using the expression suffering the consequences in relation to mandates.
I did once say when someone claims, like St Thomas More, to hold a principle, that in doing so, they usually accept there might be a negative consequence. That doesn’t mean I endorsed Henry VIIII having him murdered.
speaking of AI
I like the ceiling that Later chap has on his lab/man-cave.
Reminds me of Bruce Wayne’s bunker in the Dark Knight.
The EU has just crashed the canola oilseed market for Australia as they have mandated a stop canola being used for bio fuels.
Why?
I’m sure you know.
We should have declared war on the EU when they first set up the trade throttling common market. The bastards in Brussels have been shitting on our farmers for fifty years.
Lucky the farm boys buried in Belgium don’t know the arseholes they saved weren’t worthy of the effort.
Eyriesays:
January 24, 2023 at 12:28 pm
Sometimes pulling up stumps and moving is the only way of avoiding an impeding disaster. Hmmmm.
Europe 1938-39. Argentina would have looked pretty good.
Apparently Argentina looked good for some from 1945 on….
Not Science but the lowest common demoninator – people.
XR – the guy went bust – so now everyone is dragged down to hie level.
It also highlights the age old behaviour of women – emoured with a male with power. So much for your feminism.
Thhttps://open.substack.com/pub/bariweiss/p/climate-activism-has-a-cult-problem?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=webe Free Press
Agree, you never did. The only person here who supports mandates, protecting borders and the deportation of Djokovic was Monty.
See my previous comment Cassie. The parallel wasn’t about any of these things. It was about the“suffer the consequences” attitude.
Thank you Cassie.
The Delusional Elite Think They’re “Saving The World” | Dennis Prager
John Anderson
I didn’t tell anyone to ‘suffer the consequences’.
I’ve addressed this deliberate misinterpretation of what I’ve said before.
I don’t recall ever using the expression suffering the consequences in relation to mandates.
Mater has posted the link previously. You would like it posted again?
Seems like some people here really need to convince themselves that everything here is no good. The Germaine Greer syndrome birm.
Same old “Black Nation of Islam” shit.
Seems like some people here really need to convince themselves that everything here is no good. The Germaine Greer syndrome birm.
Not one of my Greek counterparts lost their jobs due to a vaccine mandate. How’s that for starters? We can also do a Malmo, let’s spend a night roaming the streets of Melbourne and then Athens. We can then decide which one is completely f’cked! 🙂
Earth’s inner core may be reversing rotation, study suggests
Look to be clear I have nothing but admiration for people who stick by their principles, even if I don’t agree with them.
I know one young man still excluded from his health professional role as a consequence of refusing to be vaccinated for covid.
The CEO of Telstra has announced they will be working on Australia Day.
Look for a cavalcade of z-lister Australia business types turn the virtue signalling up to eleventy.
Am I the only one here who doesn’t have a holiday home in the Greek islands?
Anyway enjoy the Maldives your welcome to it. I lost my job too a number of years ago and managed to find another one. No interest in visiting Athens. Been to Rome and thought it was quite good.
A lot of good people in Melbourne sitting with me right now
It’s official.
Working on Australia Day is the new “Current Thing”.
I wonder what the sticker they’ll add on twitter & LinkedIn.
From Doovers post above.
..
Compare and contrast:
-Himmler.
They really are despicable ‘bern. So Telstra employees don’t get a public holiday?
That’ll make a change from the other 364 days for their call centre.
The people who hate Australia Day won’t be working on that day.
They don’t work most days.
I really would like to get Telstra and Westpac right out of my life.
A nice bit of virtue signaling.
But I wonder what will happen to those who take the day off?
Actually, I don’t wonder at all.
bullshit, no one at Telstra actually works
One advantage of having a holiday house in Greece is that I hear you can pay the local tradies in vine leaves.
It’s extraordinary how big business is fully on board with cultural Marxism.
No! And I don’t own one anywhere.
40 foot motorhome but that is not the same.
I thought Marx wanted to destroy capitalism
The temperature anomaly for SE Australia is as much as 10 degrees below normal for this time in January.
Climate change has a diabolical cunning.
Umm…. perhaps our experiences differ markedly of what is a Thaipusam ceremony.
Authenticity check: If it occurs in a bathhouse, with only yourself & Indian men present, it ain’t a Thaipusam ceremony.
(This tip is very useful & works for many other ethnic celebrations & is an invaluable tool for clueless Anglosphere who are hankering to exhibit how down & cool they are with multiculturalism)
No. However my barber does, plus several vineyards, groves, & orchards.
I’m in the wrong business.
Cancelled my SMH subscription after 4 months. Asked for my reason I said I did not expect the SMH to be a left wing propaganda sheet.
They offered me a 50% reduction to stay for 6 months, no thanks.
What a joke they are.
rickw.
I got the impression that you eventually got vaxxed, but got fired anyway.
If so, how did that work?
I think you said the other day that you suspected they planned redundancies anyway, and this just saved the package payments?
OK, reinstatement isn’t going to happen, but have you put it on them for redundancy, putting it about that if legal discovery turns up emails linking redundancy and vax sackings it could end badly for them?
Australia Day is marked for death
Alexander Voltz – Spectator Australia – 23 January 2023
I urge and beg all readers to take a stand this January 26: to share a beer with mates, to celebrate the incredible gift that is the Commonwealth of Australia, and to maturely yet forcefully write any local, state, or federal politician who refuses to decry the anarchistic, entitled behaviour of a very loud, very dangerous minority.
Vicki
That’s not really surprising about Greeks heading back. It’s a thing in the Greek community. They’re very patriotic and appear to have a real love of the old country. I could think of worse places to live. American pals – the wife was of Greek origin- have a summer place on an island and it’s gorgeous.
We visited Chile twice in the 80’s to visit folks that we had worked with in India.
I knew nothing about Chile. Our acquaitences were incredibly generous taking us through Patagonia and the Andes. We soon became uncomfortable when we realised that Chile had a substantial underclass, a servant and labourer class who were not far above a slave class.
Returning in 86 at their request to attend their son’s wedding we became convinced that this was a society racing towards a revolution.
Outwardly welcoming and generous, but they were colonialists who were ignorant of the reality that their behaviour would bring them down.
The democracy decades appeared to gainsaid our views but it couldn’t last and is now a disaster.
Woke TV reboot bombs: Now the 3rd-worst-rated show on IMDB
It’s not often when a piece of media comes out that is so wretched, offensive and tasteless that seemingly everyone — whether they’re far left or the far right, men or women, old or young — ends up unified in their collective disdain for it.
In today’s hyper-divisive climate, it would seem almost impossible to create such a product, yet that appears to be exactly what HBO Max’s ballyhooed “Scooby-Doo” re-imagining, “Velma,” is.
“If I were a citizen of Switzerland today, I’d demand the entire city of Davos be thoroughly scrubbed with a Brillo pad.
Then dipped in hand sanitizer.
Then burned to the ground.
But then again, I’m not a Swiss citizen who is probably freezing right now because of the lack of heating gas or oil, so I can devote time to being creative.”
Matthew Noto has an excellent read on his blog. The above is part of it, it gets better. It is a little long but, if you have time, well worth the read.
Boambee John:
Possibly a descendant of a well known German WW II night fighter pilot of that name?
His biography available from Independent Books ISBN 3 7758 1279 2 “Laurels for Prince Wittgenstein” by Werner P. Roell.
An interesting story – who’d want to be a Luftwaffe pilot in the last three years of the war? He ended up with Gallands JG44.
“Cancelled my SMH subscription after 4 months.”
What made you take up the subscription in the first place?
Prince Wittgenstein
Was he the one known as The Ghost of St.Trond?
I was wondering that too Cassie. I stopped reading the Sydney morning vomit decades ago.
Driller, not for nothing, paying these kids with fajitas and such for a full days work – dude, you’re not going to get motivated motel workers. Just saying.
Arky, January 24, 2023 at 1:38 pm.
That.
The bigger question is, why on earth do right wing governments continue to allow universal suffrage and why do they allow people to get away with incessant virtue signalling?
Cut off electricity to just one Greens electorate and there will be a massive shift to the Right.
I had an Indian work colleague who gave us some insights into Diwali. He said it combined his 3 favourite things: food, alcohol and fireworks. Whats not to love about that.
Whatever happened to ‘nuke the entire site from orbit …. to be sure…’?
https://youtu.be/aCbfMkh940Q
Australia to make over $700 Million investment in sea mines | Latest News | WION
“The Department of Defense awarded a multi-year grant worth $3 million to EcoHealth Alliance – the company at the center of the Wuhan lab leak theory.
Starting on Dec. 12, 2022, and ending on Dec. 11, 2025, the Department of Defense will give $3 million in funding to EcoHealth Alliance, according to USA Spending – the official source for spending data for the U.S. government.
EcoHealth Alliance will utilize the multi-million-dollar grant to “reduce the threat of viral spillover from wildlife in the Philippines.”
Me too. But I miss Peter Hartcher. I don’t agree with many of his Leftie views, but his determined exposee of the influence of China in western governments over the years has been terrific.
“Watch a German Leopard 2 tank carry a beer and not spill a drop
The tank can do more than balance a drink, and that’s why Ukraine wants it so bad.”
“In 1986 Germany unveiled the Leopard 2 tank, a new model that became popular with NATO nations for its firepower, speed and accuracy. The German Bundeswehr released a video showing off the tank’s capabilities, including firing its main 120mm gun while on the go. But the standout moment comes roughly a minute and a 40 seconds into the video, where a soldier fills a stein with beer and balances it on the end of the gun. ”
Watch it here. Scroll down a little.
Tucker Carlson: Antifa is back in force
Pogriasays:
January 24, 2023 at 2:13 pm
“If I were a citizen of Switzerland today, I’d demand the entire city of Davos be thoroughly scrubbed with a Brillo pad.
Then dipped in hand sanitizer.
Then burned to the ground.
A poster here once put up the link to Nukemap. I have it in my favourites. Whenever I feel anger at our betters an SS18 or Tsar Bomba over Davos gives me a smile.
Eyrie:
I just had a quick scan through the book, but no reference to “The Ghost of St Trond” although it was the operational area of many of his 83 4 engine bomber kills.
We’re even offering a Peanut M&M a Nut removal.
I love The Babylon Bee!
Perplexed of Brisbanesays:
January 24, 2023 at 2:50 pm
I hear you. 😀
Shantaram fabricates another fable:
*citation needed.
*citation needed.
*citation needed.
*citation needed.
You’re not very good at this.
Stick to things you’re good at, like predicting there won’t be any interest rate rises in 2022.
Just get a load of this. Get a load of it.
I’ve nothing to go on, but I reckon her tenure ends midway through the year. Something often blows up with the wokiest.
They’ll need to. Starlink is cutting their grass.
Telstra may prove to be too unwieldy to adapt to the threat from Musk.
If Telstra ain’t careful, Musky over the next ten years or more will reduce the useless bastards back to the size of a minnow Vodaphone.
Australia day, always was always will be.
What crummy mediocrities these corporate ‘leaders’ are.
Driller
I’ve had a lot of experience living and working with South Americans. North Americans may not like the foot traffic across the border, but having said that, there’s no negative sentiment about South Americans’ work ethic. Maybe, just maybe ( or more accurately, through observation), you’re just a real shitty boss, and people don’t like working with you. What do North Americans know?
Of course, someone living in a mosquito infested shithole would have a great deal of lived experience dealing with South Americans. The place is overrun with them.
You big-mouthed bonehead, always trying to sound relevant.
How shit is this…
Their West Australian write an article on why Australia Day should be moved.
Then (!) they write a new article on the article they wrote before.
https://www.perthnow.com.au/opinion/editorials/australia-day-the-west-australians-powerful-editorial-on-why-january-26-date-must-change–c-9542423
How does… GGF sound.
Miltonfsays:
January 24, 2023 at 1:49 pm
It’s extraordinary how big business is fully on board with cultural Marxism.
They see it as a step on the path to fascism, their true objective.
Well, since weekends (Sunday in particular) was granted as a day off to observe the Sabbath, I look forward to the woke mob working 7 days a week.
This will be even less representative & less accurate as your experience with Australians, a country & culture about which you know sfa.
*still no citations – we know why. Heh.
Yesterday a 72 year old American with Vietnamese heritage with a spotless record takes his gun to a hall and kills 11 people (another one died today).
Today a 67 year old American with Chinese heritage with a spotless record takes his gun to work and kills 7 people.
WTF is happening.
Oh yeah, fitting into the Australian workplace culture would be so, so much more difficult than North America. As I said, you continually make blowhard comments because you’re desperate to be relevant and when challenged you go into dissembling mode. I’m done being nice to you. Done!
Robert S and Eyrie
Its most highest scoring German night fighter pilot, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer (121 air victories, most of them on night) was referred to as “the Ghost of St. Trond” by British Bomber crews that flew over Germany on night attacks raids.
Imagine how much this worries me.
*still no citations – we know why. Heh!
Albo springs into action!
The disappearance of a 30-year-old Alice Springs woman is being treated as a homicide after Northern Territory Police failed to locate the mother during a 15-day search.
Angie Fuller, pictured, was last seen in Alice Springs at 6.40pm on January 9, driving a red Toyota Corolla, which was found abandoned 12 hours later on Tanami Rd, northwest of Alice Springs.
Her disappearance comes as a worsening crime wave grips the town, with Anthony Albanese touching down in Alice Springs around 2pm local time to observe the crisis firsthand.
Uh oh!
Cue Albo riffing his Italian heritage, wearing a raincoat in summer and smoking a cigar whilst cross eyed.
Lol, coming from someone whose “workplace” was somewhere everybody sat on their arse all day – the greatest injury risk being RSI from lifting a coffee cup.
You faceplanted, badly, this week when trying to opine on working men in Australia. WTF makes you think you know anything about work?
Ho Lee Fuk
Another Asian pensioner loses it California.
How about your “citationless” and stupid comment about South American workers, you donkey brains? Is there ever a time you don’t lead with your chin and when you receive a decent whack, you get all upset and fragile.
What’s with the “heh” anyway. Who have you lifted that from?
STFU and go clean the pool, you idiot.
Also, does Greece have reciprocal rights for the Aussie pension?
Thanks, Boambee John.
They’ll be coming for ANZAC Day before we know it.
Krugman has beclowned himself in the NYT today.
It’s paywalled.
Keep in mind RBA chief Lowe studied under Krugman.
Yep, the RBA is in good hands.
The Oz is reporting that Hobart Council last night voted “to hold citizenship ceremonies three days either side of January 26 – but not on the day itself“. This is a deliberate slap in the face to ordinary Australians and to new migrants to this country. Also in The Oz, I read the news about the Telstra CEO, a female who clearly likes to spend her time virtue signalling rather than focusing on the company’s performance and profit. My own company has also decided that people can choose to work on Australia Day.
Slowly but surely, the reality of 26 January as Australia Day is being eroded, sabotaged, diminished, undermined and whittled down. All of this is very, very deliberate. And please don’t think that this incessant denigration of Australia’s national day has anything to do with the date of 26 January. NO. It has nothing, I repeat nothing, to do with 26 January. We could change the date to 26 July, to 15 May, to 22 August, to 1 November, and yet it still wouldn’t satisfy the activist class. We’ve had Sorry Day, Reconciliation Day, NAIDOC week, NAIDOC month and on and on it goes. When will it end? But you see, I know what they want. They want is to undermine this country and undermine non-indigenous Australians, that is you and me, to slowly chip away at the national fabric, to belittle us, to negate us, to ridicule and smear those who arrived post 1788, those men and women who built this country up to be (or it was) a successful, democratic, wealthy nation. I believe they want to make us serfs, second class citizens in our own country. They want to deny us a VOICE. As evidenced by the polls, most Australians want to keep 26 January as our national day but you wouldn’t know it, because clearly our Voice doesn’t matter, our Voice doesn’t count. We are being denied a Voice. No Voice for you and no Voice for me.
Seriously, Sal.
Paying backpackers in fajitas?
Come on, man.
I think I know where all those shitty reviews for the hostel come from. Sure, a lot will be genuinely aggrieved customers, but a decent proportion will be ripped off backpackers squaring the ledger.
At 7:1 the US will lose this war.
132andBushsays:
January 24, 2023 at 3:53 pm
They’ll be coming for ANZAC Day before we know it.
They’ve been after ANZAC Day for at least a decade.
Where is the Great Ubuntu today with another dissertation on AI?
*citation needed.
*citation needed.
You’re not very good at this. Serious question, are you still unwiped? Or are you now a clean one?
Krugman is saying the Congressional Budget Office can be disregarded as it’s being too bearish & has a history of this.
As several fintwits have highlighted, the Congressional Budget office has been too optimistic every single year since 2000.
Krugman should know this.
The Albo has landed! I repeat the Albo has landed!
Her arm, clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Dotbait from the waters…..
I’m a single mother – want to give me a hand with the groceries?
As I haul multiple shopping bags from my boot, while my toddler skitters between parked cars, my neighbour nods hello from his back porch, while ashing his cigarette.*
Each week – despite knowing that I am a solo mother by choice with a donor-conceived son and no partner at home **– my neighbour watches me teeter inside, a leaning tower of motherhood with hefty bags and a yelling child attached to my shins. I smile brightly and say hello, but my mind is a static of expletives: why doesn’t he offer to f—— help?!***
…
If this were a town square, a hundred years ago, my neighbour would no doubt get off his arse and help carry my bags or watch my child while I do the return trip to get the second load.****
…
I’m part of a movement that is trying to reclaim a village-model of parenting. As American author and solo mum Mikki Morrissette writes, “The goal of a single parent is not to raise our children alone. The goal is to consciously create the village in which we and our children will thrive.”*****
…
As a single parent, I’m not the only one who could benefit from more support. Married straights, queer couples, single dads, foster parents, grandparents – all of us gain from raising our children collectively.******
…
At this point you might be thinking: I’m here, I’m willing to help.******* Let me tell you how. Offer to carry shopping inside. Put a child into a car seat. Lift a pram up the stairs. Ask a mother if she needs to go to the bathroom (alone, without a child-barnacle) before you part ways. Pick up some groceries or coffee on your way over (we’ll pay you back, we promise).
If you’re sitting at home scrolling away your evening then relocate your screen time to my place so that I can step into the night air as my child sleeps. Make concrete suggestions: food or furniture assemblage or taking my son to the playground for an hour.********
…
What will you get out of it? You will get the giggling hilarity of my toddler as he hurls himself onto your back; you will gain a sense that we are all part of a messy, connected family. You will be inoculated against loneliness. You’ll know that you’re needed and required and loved; that you have a purpose, a part, in this sacred and shit-smeared job.
You are here to raise a child, to teach it about words and weather and the crime of double-dipping. You can show a kid how to be in the world – to teach him to be a person who stands up from his porch and asks, “Need a hand?”*********
* Chad Caddington the 3rd approves.
** Help- my decisions had consequences!!
*** Not my vagina – not my problem.
**** Actually more likely youd be shunned and your child removed to a family unable to have their own you shameless fallen woman you!
***** Tell me you need a husband without telling me you want a husband
****** They are called “families”. Mum-dad-extended family and grandparents.
******* nope nope nope
******** She would have been at home in the Antebellum South.
********* Strangely enough “access to my vagina/a loving relationship with a worthwhile woman” doesnt factor into it.
So Dot, when are you going to man up and be her simp?
I don’t think repeating “citation required” on high rotation is evidence that the bot is sentient.
Yeah, lol. The great philanthropist and backpacker benefactor
The job ad says.
Only the other day, it was like he was reciting a modern version of the Grapes of Wrath with itinerant workers looking for a feed in the dust bowl. Lord almighty, please make it stop.
I don’t think we’ve had our daily dose of Armstrong scamonomics today either.
Very disappointing.
Has the self-aware Big Website taken up golf?
While channel surfing, I came across The Block episode when the COVID scare started.
They showed the portentious broadcasts of SloMo and Greggie Hunt about how the Apocalypse was imminent, but trust us to save you.
Note, The Block is filmed in Victoriastan.
They sent the contestants (but not the consrtuction workers) home for six weeks. Mouthpiece ‘Scottie’ said that he’d spoken to both State and Commonwealth Ministers about their plight.
Hats in the air, woo hoo, they were granted an exemption to continue the series and associated construction. Meanwhile, all around, local small businesses shuttered up and went broke.
Yep, they were ‘all in this together’ in Danistan.
When I was a kid my father had the same model D7.
We loved it, & in later years used to play on it.
It was however a minnow alongside the scrub-pulling D9’s & TD21’s that abounded at the time.
Thanks for the memory. It’s like looking at a ghost.
“Australia is why” says Telstra in their marketing, ad nauseam
“Australia Day is a painful reminder” says the diversity hire CEO
flip-flopped brains, the lot of them
(btw has there been innovation of any sort at all seen from them lately?)
once upon a time, along with everyone else, Telstra celebrated Australia Day
cos if he helped he’d be posted on twitter as a creep.
There’s an easy way to avoid it: Provide a source for your assertations.
Otherwise it’s just bullshit.
Your choice.
Which is exactly what it was like at the time.
You haven’t got what it takes to do that.
Looking for a news source from my old home town. Still looking.
I’ve reached a settlement with the brickie.
Artisanal burnt Basque cheesecake for the base eight hours.
Any overtime to be paid at three Portugese tarts per hour.
It’s an Iberian EBA.
Everybody I know who has a dog usually calls him “Rover” or “Spot”. I call mine Sex. Now, Sex has been very embarrassing to me. When I went to the City Hall to renew the dog’s license, I told the clerk that I would like a license for Sex. He said “I would like to have one too!” Then I said “But she is a dog!” He said he didn’t care what she looked like. I said “You don’t understand… I have had Sex since I was nine years old”. He replied “You must have been quite a strong boy”.
When I decided to get married, I told the minister that I would like to have Sex at the wedding. He told me to wait until after the wedding was over. I said “But Sex has played a big part in my life and my whole world revolves around Sex”. He said he didn’t want to hear about my personal life and would not marry us in his church. I told him everyone would enjoy having Sex at the wedding. The next day we were married at the Justice of the Peace. My family was barred from the church from then on.
When my wife and I went on our honeymoon, I took the dog with me. When we checked into the motel, I told the clerk that I wanted a room for me and my wife and a special room for Sex. He said that every room in the motel is a place for sex. I said “You don’t understand. Sex keeps me awake at night”. The clerk said “Me too!”
One day I entered Sex in a contest. But before the competition began, the dog ran away. Another contestant asked me why I was just looking around. I told him that I was going to have Sex in the contest. He said that I should have sold my own tickets. “You don’t understand” I said “I hoped to have Sex on TV”. He called me a show off.
When my wife and I separated, we went to court to fight for custody of the dog. I said “Your Honor, I had Sex before I was married but Sex left me after I was married”. The Judge said “Same here!”
Last night Sex ran off again. I spent hours looking all over for her. A cop came over and asked me what I was doing in the alley at 4 o’clock in the morning. I said “I’m looking for Sex”.
My case comes up next Thursday. Well now I’ve been thrown in jail, been divorced and had more damn troubles with that dog than I ever foresaw. Why just the other day when I went for my first session with the psychiatrist, she asked me “What seems to be the trouble?” I replied “Sex has been my best friend all my life but now it has left me for ever. I can’t live any longer being so lonely”. and the doctor said “Look mister, you should understand that sex isn’t a man’s best friend so go get yourself a dog”.
No. That’s what daddy government is for. You know: the government you voted into power.
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of those riches.
– Adam Smith
Nah. Some people just love medical procedures focusing on themselves. They may be hypochondriacs (we have a notable one here) or just narcissists. Either way, it’s all about them.
They would be the same if there was no government involvement, although realising their desire for attention might be somewhat curbed by the cost. 🙂
On ghosts.
40-odd years ago I worked for Thiess – based briefly at the Archerfield workshops.
In those days Joh would regularly phone Les, as mates do, to see if Les could have one of the workshop apprentices have a quick look at some piece of machinery that had ‘stopped running’.
On this one occasion the low loader turned up with a postwar D4, no visible paint under the rust, hoses perished away, one complete set of tracks missing, and a small tree growing out of the dirt filling the cockpit. The thing went back a few months later, bright yellow, in operating condition – worth $50,000.
In those days Queensland could get a new hospital, delivered on budget, inside two years.
Just another quiet night in Chicago. It actually looks like movie scene.
I’ll do it. Are they good looking?
I’m a single mother – want to give me a hand with the groceries?
Ask ‘Albo’. Apparently he knows all there is to know about that stuff.
Albo no doubt advised by his er, advisers that this is an opportune time to spruik Teh Voice. “If we had the voice, none of these ills would afflict Alice Springs!” he would thunder in Churchillian tones.
Here We Go Again – Altering the Formula for CPI
From Armstrong Economics –
“There are some who are claiming that the revision of the CPI is to help the Federal Reserve stop fighting inflation. This is typical for Americans who only watch the Fed and nothing else. The formula for the CPI has been routinely altered. Real Estate used to be included but when that was rising too much, they replaced that with rents. When rents started rising, they replaced them with controlled rents.
This is NOT about helping the Fed to lower rates or stop raising rates as the majority seem to be touting. Powell at the Fed is not that stupid and this will have ZERO impact on Fed decisions going forward. This is all about government spending which is a far greater problem than worrying about the pressure of the Fed. Virtually EVERY program is automatically INDEXED to CPI. Thus, agencies’ budgets are automatically increased each year based on the CPI. Your taxes are indexed to the CPI. By reducing the CPI, they collect more taxes! There is NOBODY in Congress or at the Bureau of Labor Statistics that gives the Fed a second thought.
Even if we look at inflation using the pre-1980 formulas, the CPI is approaching 10%! When we calculate inflation by eliminating everything that is really irrelevant and focusing on food, energy, transportation, and taxation, which they do not consider at all, the reality of our number came in at 32% for 2022. That is a far cry from the official number. This is simply calculated by Socrates from an unbiased perspective. Thank you, COVID & the Russian Sanctions. What a new wonderful world the Biden Administration has created. The largest increase was obvious fuel between gasoline and diesel used in trucking and homes averaging 65%+, eggs were up nearly 50%, flour rose by 25%, cooking oil 23%, Butter was up 35%, Chicken by 14%, and Rice by 18%. If we throw in toothpicks, paperclips, etc, then the more we can include the lower the inflation rate. We do not include rent or real estate. Our number is far more accurate to the daily living expenses than the near 10% level of the government. They also do not include sales taxes. The national average rise in rental rates was 7.8%, in Florida it was 8.5%, and in NYC 1.5% which has controlled rents.
When I would buy a desktop IBM XT during the 1980s, it was always about $7,000 for a top-of-the-line. Today, that cost has come down significantly. Obviously, we do not buy computers every week. Should that really be part of a formula? The BLS has made so many revisions to the CPI over the decades it is really a political tool these days.
Back in the ’90s, our staff was dissecting every statistic. We discovered that they were overstating economic growth because they counted government employees twice. The total all personal income, and then government spending. I called the head of the BLS and asked surely this had to be backed out somewhere for hiring government employees to increase GDP rather than the private sector. They reviewed it and finally just said – no comment.
The idea that this latest revision of using one year as a weight instead of two will allow the Fed to stop tightening is really the rantings of people who only look at the Fed for everything clue. There is a lot more incentive behind this revision and the Fed was not a consideration.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/inflation/here-we-go-again-altering-the-formula-for-cpi/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Remember Denis Kireev, the Ukrainian negotiator killed in the first week of the war by the SBU and dumped on the sidewalk? Well, in a recent interview, the head of GUR (Ukrainian military intelligence), Budanov, said that Kireev was GUR and was deliberately trying to buy time in the negotiations. Stunning admission.
Can’t stand the Block. To much confected melodrama. I built two of the contestants there first PC when they were young.
What, hadn’t they heard about the Grampians then ?
Sal,
South Indians, especially Tamilians/Tamils, refer to Diwali as Deepavali. North Indians go with Diwali.
Krugman’s effort was amusing.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from the people who are not fighting.
– George Orwell
@ miltonF:
“It’s extraordinary how big business is fully on board with cultural Marxism.”
Corporate statism?
Nothing new; Hugo Boss designed the outfits for the last lot, too.
Thank you, vr.
Back in God’s country.
The sign out the front of town still says ‘Birthplace of Nick Cave’. Cave would absolutely hate this place.
Peru’s tax and administration office set on fire, protestors demand the resignation of president WION
When I was a kid, I forget exactly where I think between Moura & Bilo, we were camped for the night within cooee of where Theiss Bros were working bulldozers for some project.
Sometime around 1am – 3am they changed the tracks on three D9’s (or whatever big brutes they were working)
A team of blokes turned up, set up floodlights, laid out the new tracks, walked the Nines out of their tracks onto the new tracks, tightened the new tracks, & left, taking the floodlights. (I presume they loaded & took the old tracks, I forget)
Three D9’s, tracks changed, in the dark, between midnight & 3am, all done in something like an hour (it may have been less).
There was no wasted movement. I’d heard of Theiss Bros & now I knew why they were talked about.
(everybody called them “Teece” – I didn’t see the spelling until I was almost an adult & did not recognise “Theiss” when I did see it)
Things happened when Theiss Bros were involved.
Legendary man.
AT THIS POINT, CHARLENE RECOGNISED THAT SHE HAD F&^%KED UP.
Oh lordy lordy! I will never ran away again from the plantation, massah!
When she BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP
[Dot – PLEASE do not write messages like that here, this is family friendly blog – Dover.]
…
Charlene 1.0 – stunning, brave, empowered.
Charlene 2.0 – turns out this is hard. Someone else please sort this out.
Yeah.
Because:-
(a) they’re not his sprogs; and
(b) if he makes any attempt to help he is a 50:50 chance to cop a “Oi! Leave me f***in’ kids alone ya f***in’ dirty old perv or I’ll call the cops!”
If women can do anything/everything …. why don’t they?
Further respect to old mate if he smoked a whole Petit Turbo listening to Lunatic Fringe, Twilight Zone, Veteran of the Psychic Wars, Perfect Strangers, The House that Jack Built and The Thing That Should Not Be.
Hey I smoke slowly and I’d have a scotch too, watching Sharralleene put the groceries and Lekwanda Le Bron James away for the evening.
TFM:
“Do I smell the stench of entitlement with no obligation to return any benefit, in the air?”
Why yes, yes I do!
Sydney Morning Herald. $4.00 weekdays, $5.00 Saturday. Just worth it for the crosswords. The letters page is worth it in that it is reveals daily the stupidity of leftists.
Interesting week really in Ukraine. Several senior advisors, ministers, and regional heads resigning, the Interior Minister and his senior staff dying in a helicopter accident, Zelensky banning travel by ministers, etc. overseas, and barely a peep about this in our media. Imagine the speculation if this happened in Russia.
Russian Oligarchs suicide out of buildings overseas.
Things happened when Theiss Bros were involved.
Uh, it’s Thiess, you idiot.
Thiess appears to be a Prussian name, those Prussians knew how to make stuff happen.
Of course, Poles have been camping in Prussia since 1920, which is why nothing has happened there since.
Nonsense of the week and its only Tuesday but apparently sovereign rights are to be fought between Scotland and UK over gender rights. It’s not the War of the Roses but the War of the Posers. And all promulgated by the usual suspects, the ABC. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-24/gender-bill-battle-puts-scotland-and-uk-parliaments-at-odds/101867540
Russian Oligarchs suicide out of buildings overseas.
Sure.
Ukrainians Oligarchs are keeping very well, it’s the Ukraine Cabinet Ministers who appear to have an uncertain future.
did he have to give himself a handjob?
Nonsense of the week and its only Tuesday but apparently sovereign rights are to be fought between Scotland and UK over gender rights. It’s not the War of the Roses but the War of the Posers. And all promulgated by the usual suspects, the ABC.
The hollow men- TS Eliot didn’t know how right he was. Where the hell did they find Stugeon? I find it hard to believe something so ghastly exists.
Beside oligarchs not being members of the government, you just proved my point. Also, the other amusing thing about speculation re these oligarchs and mysterious deaths is that like other Mafioso, they may have got themselves in a spot of bother and given the Frankie Five Angels option. Who knows?
“despite knowing that I am a solo mother by choice with a donor-conceived son and no partner at home”
A pog then, by the sounds of it. He probably wanted to avoid leading her on.