Open Thread – Weekend 28 Jan 2023


Sailboat at Le Petit-Gennevilliers, Claude Monet, 1874


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cohenite
January 29, 2023 5:46 pm

Less than 0.01% of Iran’s population is Jewish. They’re lab specimans. The Lavon Incident of 1955 was a false flag incident.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
January 29, 2023 5:46 pm

Well said Cassie,

The only disagreement I have is that the God of Abraham is not the God of the Muslims. He should be because of their descent from Ishmael but he isn’t. Satan under the non de plume of Allah is their god. It is only the mercy of the true and living God that keeps them from being utterly destroyed at the hands of their master.

If they ever wake up and realise they have been deceived, that would be a great day.

PS
I read once that the ‘never again’ call is taken as an oath by graduates of the Israeli armoured corps and that they were flown to the top of Masada to take it. I don’t know if it is true but what a way to swear commitment to the defence of your nation and people.

Chris
Chris
January 29, 2023 5:50 pm

I have become a “conspiracy theorist” clearly. I have to relax more.

We have to relax more, while noting that many or all of the ‘conspiracy theories’ of the last three years seem to have been validated.
Big change since the days of Joe Vialls and the loony right’s response to the Howard gun laws. Back then the conspiracies were easy – SHOUTY CAPS and assuming the consequent all over.
Now, you have to compare inconvenient assertions to the talking points from today’s PM/Presidential press conference and check if the asserter has been un-personned by a minority group or any allies.
Yesterday’s talking points won’t cut it, and it takes a long time to check the unpersonners output. Far simpler to call for unpersonning the speaker yourself.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 29, 2023 5:51 pm

Less than 0.01% of Iran’s population is Jewish.
Okay, and they’re doing very well.
They’re lab specimans.
That’s a creepy comment, would you like to elaborate?
The Lavon Incident of 1955 was a false flag incident.
Correct, although I shoulda said Lavon Affair,named for the Knesset Cabinet Minister who gave the order.

eric hinton
eric hinton
January 29, 2023 5:54 pm
cohenite
January 29, 2023 5:56 pm

That’s a creepy comment, would you like to elaborate?

I like everything I do with you crotchless. How do you think the Jews in mullah land are treated?

Dot
Dot
January 29, 2023 5:57 pm

Satan under the non de plume of Allah is their god.

It is the Arab word literally meaning god. I like what Lewis wrote in The Last Battle on the matter. Mio dios isn’t the god of the Spainiards. An earnest person is still a good person really.

Every time a person sims, it is in theory, satanic; more so when they have a hatred of humanity in their hearts.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 29, 2023 5:57 pm

The left want a race war.

They have calculated that it will give them a brief, short term game.

They don’t worry about long term consequences.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 29, 2023 5:58 pm

They’re treated very well, as I’m sure you are aware.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 29, 2023 5:59 pm

Gain. Not game.

I swear, English is Siri’s second language.

Or third or fourth.

cohenite
January 29, 2023 6:02 pm

They’re treated very well, as I’m sure you are aware.

I guess they would say that: 1948 population > 100,000. Today best estimate ~6-8000. A thriving population!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 29, 2023 6:02 pm

I read once that the ‘never again’ call is taken as an oath by graduates of the Israeli armoured corps and that they were flown to the top of Masada to take it

Israeli soldiers swear an oath, by torchlight, that “Masada shall not fall again.”

JC
JC
January 29, 2023 6:05 pm

The turtlehead must be all excited with what’s going on in Iran. Thank God for the iodine.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 29, 2023 6:12 pm

Richard Cranium still sucking himself?

Mother has told him about this after the last lot of physio bills. And that embarrassing episode at the health insurer.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
January 29, 2023 6:13 pm

m0nty says: January 29, 2023 at 4:57 pm

ChatGPT can’t do dioramas.

m0nty upset that he can’t use ChatGPT to cheat on his exams.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 29, 2023 6:15 pm

dover0beachsays:
January 29, 2023 at 5:56 pm
Translation: db doesn’t like what is happening.

How do you know a drone factory was hit, Monty?

m0nty=fa is a drone?

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 29, 2023 6:16 pm

“A devastating decline of an extra 4 million tonnes more than in the 2016/17 season”

LOL Parrots probably eat more than that each year.

Indolent
Indolent
January 29, 2023 6:17 pm

Gonzalo Lira making a lot of sense.

2023.01.28 The West Has Lost Already

Indolent
Indolent
January 29, 2023 6:19 pm

I wish the climate crazies would read this.

Are You Really Against Fossil Fuels? Read This Before You Answer

Zipster
January 29, 2023 6:19 pm

Richard Cranium still sucking himself?

ah! thats what the silicon sleeve for his dyson is for

Indolent
Indolent
January 29, 2023 6:19 pm
Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
January 29, 2023 6:24 pm

There’s been all this scuttlebutt in recent months over whether Ukraine has secret biological genetic experimentation labs. Of course they do. Really the proof has been in plain sight for at least 4 years. The Ukrainian tennis player Dayana Yastremska was clearly engineered in a lab to very exacting specifications.

Robert Sewell
January 29, 2023 6:27 pm

Zipster:

Head of NATO Military Committee Admiral Rob Bauer: NATO Is Ready for a Direct Confrontation with Russia

You stupid bastards. You stupid, stupid, bastards*.

*NATO, Zipster – not your good self.

Rabz
January 29, 2023 6:29 pm

This is about as seriously as you can take them.

All together now, Cats:

You will own nothing
You will exist in a pod
You will eat the bugs
You will be happy …
Or else … 🙁

m0nty
m0nty
January 29, 2023 6:30 pm

Such sounds are now heard in Hamadan ?
The #Iranian media write:
– the drone factory in Tabriz was destroyed
– the ammunition factory in Isfahan ?
– BC warehouse in Mallard ?
? Factory with Shaheds may already be destroyed,- media
– 5 Iranian military bases were bombed

https://twitter.com/albafella1/status/1619508114327482369?s=46&t=EMD0IhB_Qf3E21fn9jBn2g

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
January 29, 2023 6:33 pm

Head of NATO Military Committee Admiral Rob Bauer: NATO Is Ready for a Direct Confrontation with Russia.

If I were Putin, I’d be seriously considering nuking London and Washington.

Rabz
January 29, 2023 6:34 pm

NATO Is Ready for a Direct Confrontation with Russia

Exactly where are all the collectivist peacemongers now?

Vanished up their fundaments, presumably (again).

Something you evidently will not hear them tunelessly bellowing … 😕

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
January 29, 2023 6:35 pm

If I were Putin, I’d be seriously considering nuking London and Washington.

Which would improve both places immeasurably.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 29, 2023 6:36 pm

Marquee Moon

Sumptuous track! The major riff is excellent. Reminds me of Calexico’s track Pepita, which is rather neat.
I haven’t heard much of Television.

Rabz
January 29, 2023 6:37 pm

My goodness that film clip is a signal example of the perils of bad drugs, Cats … 😕

Just don’t do it, you poor crazy kids!

Rabz
January 29, 2023 6:38 pm

Marquee Moon

Eric, you legend.

JC
JC
January 29, 2023 6:40 pm

DrBeauGan says:
January 29, 2023 at 6:33 pm
Head of NATO Military Committee Admiral Rob Bauer: NATO Is Ready for a Direct Confrontation with Russia.
If I were Putin, I’d be seriously considering nuking London and Washington.

Is that because only Putin and other kleptos should make direct, continual contact threats against the West?

JC
JC
January 29, 2023 6:43 pm

Whoops

direct threats

Miltonf
Miltonf
January 29, 2023 6:44 pm
sfw
sfw
January 29, 2023 6:45 pm

Can the word ‘Turtlehead’ please be banned. There’s no need for it and it seems to excite the author of the expression. We all have limited vocabularies but I really don’t want to see that again.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 29, 2023 6:46 pm

Nuking Chelsea and South Ken you’d only hit Russians and Arabs anyway. A few Americans who could be identified by the Harrods bags.

Miltonf
Miltonf
January 29, 2023 6:46 pm

Ha ha Loosley’s a neo con now?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 29, 2023 6:47 pm

Something you evidently will not hear them tunelessly bellowing … ?

Here you go Rabz.

Yoko Ono Booked To Yodel At Next Year’s WEF Summit (22 Jan)

JC
JC
January 29, 2023 6:53 pm

How positively Australian asking for a ban, sfw.

Tell u,s you’ve seen Wodney Woddenhead’s daily barrages against people here and the crude names he uses. Have you ever complained? No of course not. Then STFU.

cohenite
January 29, 2023 6:53 pm

If I were Putin, I’d be seriously considering nuking London and Washington.

Washington maybe but there’s some nice buildings in London. How about some dump in Ireland?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Come in spinner!

Roger
Roger
January 29, 2023 6:54 pm

I haven’t heard much of Television.

Marquee Moon the album is a classic, Bruce.

I first heard it in 1977 and played it through this afternoon on hearing of Verlaine’s death.

It’s one of those albums…the first time you hear it you go, “So what…”; the second time it’s “Oh wait…” and the third time it’s “Oh, wow…”.

I might crank up the amp later and run through the Marquee Moon riffs; I could use the practice and the wife is away, so… 😀

JC
JC
January 29, 2023 6:56 pm

Lol.

cohenite
January 29, 2023 6:57 pm

Heartland’s latest guest list. Headed by Lauren Boebert, second in looks only to Tulsi. Great bunch of nerds and eggheads as well.

JC
JC
January 29, 2023 6:58 pm

This is when Turts goes hyper posting comments every couple of minutes.

JC
JC
January 29, 2023 7:01 pm

Pray for me.

🙂

132andBush
132andBush
January 29, 2023 7:06 pm

How do you know a drone factory was hit, Monty?

By the bomb fragments whizzing past his head?

Rabz
January 29, 2023 7:08 pm

I might crank up the amp later and run through the Marquee Moon riffs

Rog, I can play those riffs on the Strat.

With “That’s Entertainment” to follow shortly afterwards.

Robert Sewell
January 29, 2023 7:13 pm

Oh Come On:

Putin’s view of Russian national interests involves annexation of sovereign lands of most of its neighbours

m0nty has said things like this on many occasions. I always ask him for evidence that Putin holds the view m0nts attributes to him. m0nts has never been able to provide any. I don’t suppose this occasion will be any different.

In a very limited way, Monty has a point – he just uses the wrong words.
It’s been obvious since 1945 that The SU & Russia regard it’s neighbours as a sort of glacis plate where all the fighting will take place and the damage occurs. Casualties there are of no consequence. Deploying forces forward of your own positions isn’t where you put your own defences.

Indolent
Indolent
January 29, 2023 7:15 pm
cohenite
January 29, 2023 7:19 pm

FMD, cummins is a woke POS; thick as a brick, arrogant and bog ignorant. Is there a sport, entertainment or any otherwise social activity that is not infected by brain dead shitheads.

In other news Noa Tishby, Israeli lass, on the palestinian terrorist attacks. I’m making Noa an honorary cute owl.

Just remember when dickless criticises Israel his anti-semitism covers this cute owl.

Indolent
Indolent
January 29, 2023 7:19 pm

HM Treasury website call for applications for Head of Central Bank Digital Currency

It’s happening!

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 29, 2023 7:20 pm

A. It was a novel vaccine developed in less than a year—with no study of long term effects.

Wrong.

B. It was “mRNA technology”—which regularly killed off all the test animals.

Wrong.
There never was a Covid/19 Virus.
There’s only the WMD aka the Vaccine.

P
P
January 29, 2023 7:20 pm

Yoko Ono Booked To Yodel At Next Year’s WEF Summit (22 Jan)

Frank Ifield was very popular here in the late ’50s and early ’60s.
Today he lives in Dural NSW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LybSS4amIS0

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 29, 2023 7:21 pm

Oh m0nty, you’re such a joker.

Russia: LOL we can buy max materiel from Iran and nobody is going to poke the bear

Israel: hahaha drone strikes on Iranian factories go brrrrrrrm

Any confirmation that this is actually what happened? Nope, you’re just passing off tales you have no clue about as fact. No doubt you still believe the Ghost of Kiev is still up there single-handedly shielding Ukraine’s capital.

If you don’t wish to appear such a credulous dope as you have again done in this instance, here’s a tip for sorting through wartime propaganda – when the story is just a bit too neat and tidy in its presentation, you should be maximally cautious in your treatment of it.

Okay, monts. Let’s walk through this together. It’s not impossible that Israel has hit Iranian targets within Iran. However, which targets?

field marshal m0nts: Umm oh you know, the…er…Iran’s drone factories.

Iran’s drone factories? Why the drone factories? Aren’t there other more valuable sites that Israel would want to target?

Israeli-Iranian conflict specialist m0nts: Well, you know, Iran’s drones have been in the news lately.

But why would Israel target Iran’s drone factories?

Geopolitical grand strategist m0nts: Well, you know, I heard they were making drones to send to Russia and that sure is a sexy story… damn, this is writing itself!

But if these factories are making drones for Russia as you claim, wouldn’t preventing the Russians from taking delivery of these drones really piss off the Russians? Why would the Israelis want to jeopardise their stable and constructive relationship with Russia ? How does it profit the Israelis from ‘poking the bear’ and attacking facilities that provide minimal threat to Israel, whilst neglecting other facilities that are far more credible threats to Israel? This makes no sense. What if Russia agreed to supply Iran with an S-300 air defence network Iran has asked for in order to prevent such a strike from happening again? That seems like it would be a fairly predictable Russian reaction if your happy story is true. Such a network would massively complicate any planned Israeli air strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Do you think the Israelis are so stupid that they would limit their future options in dealing with what they regard as an existential threat in return for…nothing of any significance?

Global threat assessment analyst m0nts – oh well, you know, the US probs egged them on and Israel is like always bombing Iran and stuff. Poke the bear drone goes brrrm vatnik lol pwned

(Incidentally, your unoriginal attempt to be a 4chan memester is a fail. Not a surprise)

Robert Sewell
January 29, 2023 7:23 pm

Morsie:

Anyone read Chalmers in the Oz.He is setting out to remake our society and capitalism in his preferred image.
Unbelievable but true.

I’m in the process of exchanging my gold holdings from Secure Storage to physical gold.
It’s obvious where the A$ is headed. Any precious metals are now at risk of confiscation in worthless currency.

Indolent
Indolent
January 29, 2023 7:24 pm

Richard Vobes interviews Andrew Bridgen, who was thrown out of the UK Conservative Party for raising concerns about the vaccines.

The man who wouldn’t stay silent!

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
January 29, 2023 7:25 pm

More censorship by omission. The Project Veritas sting on Walker has been completely scrubbed from the Internet.

BS!

Roger
Roger
January 29, 2023 7:26 pm

Rog, I can play those riffs on the Strat.

Mixolydian mode in D, iirc Rabz.

Roger
Roger
January 29, 2023 7:27 pm

The title song, that is.

JC
JC
January 29, 2023 7:28 pm

Steve trickler says:
January 29, 2023 at 7:25 pm

More censorship by omission. The Project Veritas sting on Walker has been completely scrubbed from the Internet.

BS!

Errsactly. It took me 13.3 seconds to find it on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas/status/1618405890612420609

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 29, 2023 7:29 pm

JCsays:

January 29, 2023 at 5:03 pm

On second thoughts, I don’t think Iran could close the Straits since China would object and the governments are extremely tight. Unless the Iranians go absolutely spazzo.

You say that like the spazzo option is unlikely.

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 29, 2023 7:30 pm

https://twitter.com/albafella1/status/1619508114327482369

And this is a credible source because…was it the Ukraine flags in the bio, m0nts? Of course it was!

cohenite
January 29, 2023 7:32 pm

More cute owl, Noa. The lady is as smart and brave as she is gorgeous.

Makes your wispy French gamins look like after-thoughts head prefect.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 29, 2023 7:34 pm

Been listening to obscure tracks from Single Gun Theory and LCD Sound System. Speaking of riffs the latter has a ripper in this track, which is also a fine tribute to Daft Punk.

LCD Sound System – Daft Punk Is Playing At My House

Makka
Makka
January 29, 2023 7:35 pm

Air Force General Predicts U.S. Will Be At War With China In 2025: ‘I Hope I Am Wrong’

The kiddy groomer In Chief and his woke military minions whipping up patriotic fervor ahead of the elections.

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 29, 2023 7:36 pm

It’s been obvious since 1945 that The SU & Russia regard it’s neighbours as a sort of glacis plate where all the fighting will take place and the damage occurs

I don’t think it’s that obvious. The USSR =/= Russia, for a start.

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 29, 2023 7:36 pm

So after giving Australia Day the Khyber Pass, Tennis Australia decide to have some dweeb yodel the national anthem.
Can’t have it both ways flogs.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
January 29, 2023 7:37 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
January 29, 2023 at 6:02 pm
I read once that the ‘never again’ call is taken as an oath by graduates of the Israeli armoured corps and that they were flown to the top of Masada to take it

Israeli soldiers swear an oath, by torchlight, that “Masada shall not fall again.”

Thanks Zulu for the clarification. I knew I had the gist of it but obviously not the correct context.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 29, 2023 7:38 pm

Powerline btw had a perfect musical cartoon this morning, in the WIP.

(May not work for some browsers.)

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 29, 2023 7:39 pm

Headed by Lauren Boebert, second in looks only to Tulsi.

She’s got Tulsi covered

m0nty
m0nty
January 29, 2023 7:40 pm

OCO, the Iranian media has been saying that drone factories were targeted, there are rafts of tweets about that. The originals are of course in Arabic and on live TV, bit hard to repost that stuff so quickly.

Iran’s drone factories? Why the drone factories? Aren’t there other more valuable sites that Israel would want to target?

They also reportedly targeted ammo dumps, oil infrastructure and nuke facilities. It wasn’t just about drones, but that was part of it if reports are to be believed. Fog of war, first casualty is truth, I get all that, but something big has obviously happened and this looks like the best early theory.

How does it profit the Israelis from ‘poking the bear’ and attacking facilities that provide minimal threat to Israel, whilst neglecting other facilities that are far more credible threats to Israel? This makes no sense.

Israel’s greatest enemy is Iran. Iran has allied itself with Russia, and is getting paid lots of money to provide arms, money that will in part get funneled back to terrorism. Israel has struck a blow against Iran’s future capacity to fund its terrorist activities against Israeli interests.

What if Russia agreed to supply Iran with an S-300 air defence network Iran has asked for in order to prevent such a strike from happening again? That seems like it would be a fairly predictable Russian reaction if your happy story is true. Such a network would massively complicate any planned Israeli air strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Do you think the Israelis are so stupid that they would limit their future options in dealing with what they regard as an existential threat in return for…nothing of any significance?

Easier said than done. That may be the next step, sure, but I reckon the Israelis would have anticipated that and would be ready for it.

Plenty of variables and plenty of Rumsfeld’s knowns and unknowns of course, but the Yanks and Israelis have just made a big move and one would assume they’ve got a plan for the inevitable Iran and/or Russian reactions.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
January 29, 2023 7:41 pm

Israelis generally act in self interest.

I’d say the Iranian drones were becoming more than a nuisance in Israel than it was prepared to tolerate. The terrorist attacks just gave them the justification to execute a plan that was probably already on the drawing board. Hence the strikes.

I’m not reading anymore into it than that at the moment.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 29, 2023 7:44 pm

Thanks Zulu for the clarification.

My pleasure.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 29, 2023 7:45 pm

I’m off to buy a couple of liters of iodine, Listerine and 50 liters of kero blue.

I get iodine and Listerine, but kero?
Is that for cocktail hour?

Rabz
January 29, 2023 7:45 pm

Headline from this WiP:

Economists finally have a good excuse for being wrong (again) …

Yeah, never, suckers. 🙂

Robert Sewell
January 29, 2023 7:47 pm

ZK2A:

I’m betting on death duties, and a wealth tax, in the interests of “fairness.”

No.
There will need to be a crisis before they would be game to do any such thing.
Therefore – 1 Crisis coming up. I’m thinking of a currency crisis when China decides she has enough of our gas carbins, coal and iron ore. They’ll dump our currency that is propping it up.
Should see the A$ at the US$0.25 -0.30

And yes, JC. I’ll keep a record of exactly what I wrote because I reckon in a weeks time you’ll do what you usually do – rewrite and take out of context (lie) whatever I’ve written. Just to score a point.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
January 29, 2023 7:47 pm

Observation today.

Woolworths that had no Australia Day merch is festooned with Happy Lunar New Year posters. In NQ with our massive Chicom presence (sarc) of all places. Seems they too welcome our new Chinese overlords…

cohenite
January 29, 2023 7:49 pm

She’s got Tulsi covered

Politically sure. I wouldn’t like to live on the difference otherwise.

Lauren.

Tulsi.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 29, 2023 7:49 pm

Israelis generally act in self interest.

If they did that they’d nuke Monty.

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 29, 2023 7:50 pm

Australia Day is on its last legs. From what I can see, not enough people who care about it care enough to reject shifting the date. This will be presented and accepted as a ‘compromise’ between the status quo and getting rid of Australia Day altogether, even though changing the date will have that effect and is what they wanted all along.

I could be wrong. Perhaps there will be a resurgence in the holiday’s popularity and the events it commemorates, as was the case with ANZAC Day in the late 1990s-early 2000s.

I don’t really see that much in modern Australia worth celebrating. Kind of a pathetic country, really. I’d only oppose changing the national day because it’s something the Left wants.

Rabz
January 29, 2023 7:50 pm

As for the Betty and Wilma Reimagining, Sacré Bleu! 😕

Frank
Frank
January 29, 2023 7:50 pm

ChatGPT can’t do dioramas.

A good indication of why first semester economics was so taxing.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

cohenite says: January 29, 2023 at 7:49 pm
She’s got Tulsi covered
Politically sure. I wouldn’t like to live on the difference otherwise.
Lauren.
Tulsi.

For a fair comparison, post a photo of Tulsi from an unflattering angle, showing thickness of thighs.

Makka
Makka
January 29, 2023 7:58 pm

From what I can see, not enough people who care about it care enough to reject shifting the date.

There’s no real case for changing the date. Similar to the Voice getting up;

Nearly two-thirds say January 26 should be called Australia Day, according to poll
A majority of people have said that January 26 should be known as Australia Day.

https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/nearly-twothirds-say-january-26-should-be-called-australia-day-according-to-poll/news-story/43338eb122d9f664a87ce179e3308297

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
January 29, 2023 8:00 pm

Rockdoctorsays:
January 29, 2023 at 7:41 pm
Israelis generally act in self interest.

Translation: We have no choice but to use everything at our disposal to defend our nation as we are surrounded by 200 million plus fanatics who want to kill us for no other reason than we exist.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 29, 2023 8:00 pm

Rabzsays:
January 29, 2023 at 6:34 pm
NATO Is Ready for a Direct Confrontation with Russia

Exactly where are all the collectivist peacemongers now?

Vanished up their fundaments, presumably (again).

Remember CND? Remember when they demonstrated for years outside Greenham Common? Now, like m0nty=fa, their lineal descendant, they are gagging for a Great (possibly nuclear) War Against Wussian Imperialism.

But not rushing to enlist for said war.

Indolent
Indolent
January 29, 2023 8:01 pm

Errsactly. It took me 13.3 seconds to find it on Twitter.

Try to find it on YouTube. I think the point there was not so much the sting, but scrubbing all reference to Jordan Walker himself.

Arky
January 29, 2023 8:01 pm

The expansionary evil empire overrunning neighbouring counties, headed by an ex KGB officer and threatening the world with nuclear annihilation isn’t the Soviet Union.
..
It’s just a rebranding.
And one that most of the stinking commie little cockheads regret making.
This is the nation that murdered and enslaved millions of their own, and systematically exported their evil ideology around the world to murder roughly a hundred million. A HUNDRED MILLION, more.
From Cambodia to Korea, from Cuba to China,
These sick fkn Ruskie bastards haven’t changed. They’ve just deployed cyber warfare to convince you your own nations are worse than them and thus not worth defending.
Another of their old tricks wrapped up in new technology and with a whole new little cohort of Jane Fonda types doing their bidding.

Miltonf
Miltonf
January 29, 2023 8:04 pm

Maybe you should go over there and fight them then arky seeing you hate them so much.

Razey
Razey
January 29, 2023 8:04 pm

LOL. Arky has clearly been brainwashed by MSM.

Miltonf
Miltonf
January 29, 2023 8:05 pm

or is that for other people and other people’s kids. Arky W Bush.

Gabor
Gabor
January 29, 2023 8:05 pm

OK, watching the open at a mate’s place. We don’t have a TV, could use the PC but it’s better with company.
Serious question regarding adverts, is the proportion of POC in the ads really indicative of the real mix in the population?

Maybe those watching TV regularly don’t notice it anymore?

Indolent
Indolent
January 29, 2023 8:06 pm

The interview with Andrew Bridgen is absolutely outstanding. Not just about the jab but him and his background. Highly articulate and down to earth. We could use a lot more like him. And with a successful business background.

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 29, 2023 8:06 pm

I don’t really see that much in modern Australia worth celebrating. Kind of a pathetic country, really. I’d only oppose changing the national day because it’s something the Left wants.

There’s plenty worth celebrating in this country. This site for starters. 🙂
Australia’s way of life are under attack yes. But I see enough here from contributors that it isn’t over. Their values being passed onto their descendants like hard work and saving for rainy days.
Yes I have been despondent about our fortunes but in my mind, people are changing, ever slightly, their minds about vax for instance and many of my bowls mates are questioning why they did it.
The antics of the bloke at some Australia Day protest with his inflammatory language and that of Lidia Thorpe will certainly affect Teh Voice referendum in the negative.
First there must be acknowledgement of war against the Left. We are there and it must be fought tooth and nail.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 29, 2023 8:07 pm

Remember CND? Remember when they demonstrated for years outside Greenham Common?

Funded by the CCCP. Allegedly.
The climate movement has certainly been funded by China and Russia.
Putin and Xi aren’t dumb, and know a good return on investment when they see it.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 29, 2023 8:08 pm

I could be wrong. Perhaps there will be a resurgence in the holiday’s popularity and the events it commemorates, as was the case with ANZAC Day in the late 1990s-early 2000s.

I’m wondering if the picture will change if the “Voice” referendum is defeated?

Bar Beach Swimmer
January 29, 2023 8:09 pm

I know the Uko-Russian War, Luigi’s Voice and Jimmy Keating’s re-imagined economy are the big stories but I’m interested in a personal hygiene habit at the mo.

On the ABC website is a report about ear buds being a real problem on the beaches down Warrnambool way.

Under the title of the piece As single-use plastic ban starts in Victoria, shoppers tackle waste, recycling issues at the source
…is this little story.

Plastic ‘never goes away’ Colleen Hughson spends most days collecting rubbish from beaches across Warrnambool.

What she finds the most is single-use plastics, especially cotton bud stems and plastic straws.

She has collected more than 30,000 cotton buds in the past five years.

I find this story intriguing. The reason being, I spend a bit of time at the beach – yes, I know, I’m in a different state and swimming in a different ocean, but seaborne rubbish is as concerning over here as it obviously is in Warrnambool. But I have never seen any cotton buds on any beach I’ve ever had a swim at. Is there something unusual about this little corner of paradise? How do cotton buds get into the ocean, I thought? Reading further the claim is that people flush cotton buds down the toilet, which then end up in the sea.

This claim strikes me as dubious. With 30,000 collected in five years, should have had the sewerage works upgrade their processes. But it seems not.

Over here, our local waterboard is pretty damn good at sewage processing. Once, I went to an open day at the sewerage works. The treatment processes are so robust that I’d question whether anything could get past all the stages in the process, a single cotton bud included let alone 30,000 of them, to be then dumped from the ocean outfall.

Either the Warrnambool treatment works is pretty hopeless or the story is questionable and is about undermining further the use of plastics.

Which brings me to the personal hygiene question – if you use cotton buds, do you flush them down the toilet?

To answer, just give me an uptick. (I know, I’ll have commenters claim this is a dodgy way to get upticks, but it is what it is?)

Rabz
January 29, 2023 8:10 pm

Cronks, I would have thought that the Tishby was a bit too curvaceous for you.

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 29, 2023 8:10 pm

The honourary Australian Tsitsipas, getting bent over by the great Djokovic

Makka
Makka
January 29, 2023 8:10 pm

These sick fkn Ruskie bastards haven’t changed.

I lived there for 2 1/2 years and traveled from the Arctic down to the stans. With my family. Worked alongside and met many Russians. We enjoyed every minute of it and made some wonderful Russian friends. My daughter was made to feel thoroughly welcomed at her Russian kindy. They are different from us, much to do with their horrible history. Very distant until they know you.

Russian anxiety over western intentions to destroy their nation, break it up , is well founded as it turns out. Meanwhile the deviant sick bastards in the WH enjoy support from wankers like you.

Just an alternate POV. You are full of shit Arky, always have been.

Rabz
January 29, 2023 8:13 pm

She has collected more than 30,000 cotton buds in the past five years

OCD really does terrible things to idiots.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 29, 2023 8:13 pm

There seem to be a disturbing number of people here who are keen for the big red nuke button to be pushed.

Arky
January 29, 2023 8:15 pm

Miltonf says:
January 29, 2023 at 8:04 pm
Maybe you should go over there and fight them then arky seeing you hate them so much

..
If my country asked me to go, I’d go.
Just like I put my hand up for deployment in the past, and regret not being up to the standard at that time to make the cut.
I was a pretty poor infantry soldier.
But I’d go if asked, even now in my fifties with a family.
But I think, eventually, this war will come to us.

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 29, 2023 8:15 pm

Which brings me to the personal hygiene question – if you use cotton buds, do you flush them down the toilet?

Disposed of in multi use plastic bags for me. Always use as many times as needed for shopping then as bin liner.

Razey
Razey
January 29, 2023 8:16 pm

the “Voice” referendum is defeated?

You guys are so naïve. Still believing in the system.

It only matters who does the counting. There is Zero chance of the voice being defeated.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
January 29, 2023 8:16 pm

Quick colour survey says the Greeks are in the corporate box, the Serbs out on the kerb. One hell of a street party coming up.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 29, 2023 8:16 pm

Plastic ‘never goes away’ Colleen Hughson spends most days collecting rubbish from beaches across Warrnambool.

Haha.

Bacteria are eating plastic dumped in the sea (23 Jan)

The mystery of where plastic goes after it is dumped in the ocean has long puzzled scientists. … Now scientists believe they have solved at least part of the riddle. Bacteria are eating it.

A new study by the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) has proven that the widespread bug bacterium Rhodococcus ruber digests plastic, turning it into carbon dioxide and other harmless substances.

I have no problem with Ms Hughson wasting her time collecting plastic in Warnambool. It would keep her from doing anything really dangerous, like agitating for banning cows or something.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
January 29, 2023 8:17 pm

Rockdoctorsays:
January 29, 2023 at 7:41 pm
Israelis generally act in self interest.

PS. My previous post was not having a dig or disagreeing with you Rockdoctor. I thought your statement was a brilliant piece of understatement of the Israelis.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 29, 2023 8:17 pm

BBS

Any cotton buds we use go i to the general waste. Why risk having to call a plumber, probably at an expensive time of the week, by flushing them?

Stephen Williams
Stephen Williams
January 29, 2023 8:17 pm

I know that sticks and stones break bones but names will never hurt me. I live by it, it’s just that I’m sick and tired of a few posters that do only that. Your business I guess, it only reveals how shallow some are at some level.

I love great wit and a cutting remark is all for the good, but repetitive name calling is reminiscent of school bullies who don’t have much outside of muscles, and so the little wit they do have, they keep using, because there’s not much else there.

Razey
Razey
January 29, 2023 8:17 pm

But I’d go if asked, even now in my fifties with a family.

LOL. Ok internet tough guy.

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 29, 2023 8:18 pm

The bags I mean, not the buds

Arky
January 29, 2023 8:19 pm

Makka says:
January 29, 2023 at 8:10 pm
These sick fkn Ruskie bastards haven’t changed.
I lived there for 2 1/2 years and traveled from the Arctic down to the stans. With my family. Worked alongside and met many Russians. We enjoyed every minute of it and made some wonderful Russian friends

..
I have worked alongside Iraqis, Russians, mainland Chinese.
All lovely people.
That has nothing to do with people regimes or the danger they have posed to us for most of recent history.
This isn’t long gone, forgotten history.
The regimes they spawned still exist and kill.
They are still run by the same types who ran them through the Cold War.
They’re still up to the same old games.

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 29, 2023 8:21 pm

Lol the honourary Greek Mark Philippoussis in the crowd.
Unfulfilled talent that bloke, like Kyrgios now.

Roger
Roger
January 29, 2023 8:21 pm

She has collected more than 30,000 cotton buds in the past five years

OCD really does terrible things to idiots.

On the bright side, it keeps her from glueing herself to a metropolitan road somewhere.

Rabz
January 29, 2023 8:21 pm

There seem to be a disturbing number of people here who are keen for the big red nuke button to be pushed

Hence the “Guest Perfesser in Residence” Post at the Henry Kissinger Peace Academy – shocking as it may seem, Cats, it is not a coincidence. 🙂

Lets out best Buck Turgidson/Dr Evil/Blofeld/Standartenführer Schwab laugh …

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
January 29, 2023 8:22 pm

Phillypoopoo spent ten years without dropping out of the top 20… I’d reckon he’s at peace with his record.

Indolent
Indolent
January 29, 2023 8:25 pm
Arky
January 29, 2023 8:25 pm

Razey says:
January 29, 2023 at 8:17 pm
But I’d go if asked, even now in my fifties with a family.
LOL. Ok internet tough guy.

..
What does that even mean?
I was asked,the question, I gave my response.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
January 29, 2023 8:25 pm

Plastic ‘never goes away’ Colleen Hughson spends most days collecting rubbish from beaches across Warrnambool.

What she finds the most is single-use plastics, especially cotton bud stems and plastic straws.

She has collected more than 30,000 cotton buds in the past five years.

BBS, I call absolute horse manure on this claim. Like you when I was in NSW I visited Merewether Beach a bit, never saw a bag in the surf.

Back in NQ I have seen very little washed up rubbish in Cleveland or Halifax Bays, never any plastic bags. Usually cut ropes or even coal at times but even that is not much.

The whole single use plastic was a scam from the start for countries like Australia. Supermarkets are now making a killing for something that used to be given away and the ACCC has the hide to chase gas companies for choosing not to sell gas locally because of jug ears doofus’s gas price cap.

Coleen appears to have had her whole career propped up courtesy of the taxpayer. Nice if you can get it.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 29, 2023 8:26 pm

Champers little excerpt in the dead tree Australian today.

His big “hot take” on fixing people targeting freely without government coercion or interference is to start at the top of the food chain.

Big business leaders must buckle down and run their businesses to work hand in glove with the government.
Lots and lots of munni from taxpayers and near monopolies as your smaller, non compliant competition are shut down.

The government will be in the business of telling you how much you should make in profit.

Expect super funds to be co-opted into green boondoggles.

It Whitlam time!!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9jykIqQxEOw

Makka
Makka
January 29, 2023 8:26 pm

They are still run by the same types who ran them through the Cold War.

Not really. The latest regime in the WH is a new breed of creep , whose propaganda you seem to be swallowing whole.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 29, 2023 8:27 pm

I’ll add that sulfate reducing bacteria are widespread and are why oil spills are actually pretty harmless. At least in warmer parts of the ocean like the Gulf of Mexico.

SRBs eat hydrocarbons like oil and polyethylene, fueled by sulfate in sea water, to produce energy and more bacteria. They’re used industrially for effluent treatment – you feed them with a bit of ethanol and they eat the sulfate in the wastewater, thereby dropping out heavy metal sulfates. Extremely efficient process.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
January 29, 2023 8:27 pm

All’s good perplexed. It was taken as you intended.

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 29, 2023 8:28 pm

Phillypoopoo spent ten years without dropping out of the top 20… I’d reckon he’s at peace with his record.

Maybe and a great stat you mention Wally. He did win a Davis Cup for Australia but I think should have won multiple slams.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 29, 2023 8:28 pm

Boambee Johnsays:

January 29, 2023 at 8:17 pm

BBS

Any cotton buds we use go i to the general waste. Why risk having to call a plumber, probably at an expensive time of the week, by flushing them?

I call bullshit.
Sewerage plants filter for solids of that size. The biggest complaint with plastics is stuff which makes into rivers and oceans via stormwater (straws etc). Most cotton buds are used indoors, so would most likely end up in the rubbish bin or in the sewer, but not stormwater.
And, as you say, flushing stuff with a length which is 80% of the diameter of a sewer pipe is asking for trouble.

Makka
Makka
January 29, 2023 8:29 pm

I have worked alongside Iraqis, Russians, mainland Chinese.

Who hasn’t. But not lived in those places, I take it. So pretty much meaningless.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 29, 2023 8:30 pm

Snap RockDoctor.

Bar Beach Swimmer
January 29, 2023 8:31 pm

BJ,
the whole idea is dubious – why would anyone use how many litres of water to get rid of one? And, as you point out, maybe it might play up with the plumbing. Clearly the people of Warrnambool are not only not environmentally conscious but they waste water and take risks with their plumbing.

BB, I knew what you were trying to say.

BoN, maybe you can send that story to their ABC to stop the poor dears from hyperventilating.

Rabz, pointing out another facet to this guff.

Roger
Roger
January 29, 2023 8:34 pm

The whole single use plastic was a scam from the start for countries like Australia.

Undoubtedly.

That being said, the last time I was in the Whitsundays the seaward shore of the island we were staying on was littered with plastic items. Upon inspection, where identification was possible, most seemed likely to be of Asian origin. Refuse from fishing fleets, I presumed.

Razey
Razey
January 29, 2023 8:34 pm

Dr. John Campbell on the Pfizer Press Release

John is getting closer to being banned. He’s come full circle on the clot shots.

Arky
January 29, 2023 8:35 pm

Makka says:
January 29, 2023 at 8:26 pm
They are still run by the same types who ran them through the Cold War.
Not really. The latest regime in the WH is a new breed of creep , whose propaganda you seem to be swallowing whole.

..
I don’t watch anything coming out of the White House or its media arms.
I mostly browse here and the links provided, plus a few channels on YouTube I trust.
My information comes from reading copious amounts of history, especially about the the Soviet Union and Red China and general military history.
I recommend Martin Amis “Koba” as a start on the first.
Again, address my points. How different to the Soviet Union are they when they are again expanding towards Western Europe, again threatening nuclear proliferation, nuclear war and again subverting the West through all these moronic propaganda accounts.
How would we respond if Biden, as shit as he is, said anything like what Putin did hinting at using nukes?
It unimaginable that ANY US president would do that.

bons
bons
January 29, 2023 8:36 pm

There is only one conservative politican with the charisma, communiction skills and knowledge to lead the repressed in a fight back against big government – Canavan has the skills to mobilise us ordinary folk.
But, HTF do we dig him out of his burrow and make him assume the leadership role that he was born to.

Bar Beach Swimmer
January 29, 2023 8:36 pm

Djokovic doing what he does best.

(Scummo at home grinding his teeth.)

Cassie of Sydney
January 29, 2023 8:38 pm

“There is only one conservative politican with the charisma, communiction skills and knowledge to lead the repressed in a fight back against big government – Canavan has the skills to mobilise us ordinary folk.”

Agree 100%.

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 29, 2023 8:39 pm

the Iranian media has been saying that drone factories were targeted, there are rafts of tweets about that. The originals are of course in Arabic

You know Iranians speak Farsi, right?

Anyway, what you have are some tweets saying it’s all over Iranian media. Not really the same thing.

something big has obviously happened and this looks like the best early theory.

It is not at all obvious that something big has happened, and your “early theory” is unimaginative.

Iran … is getting paid lots of money to provide arms

Another lazy assumption. How do you know this is the case?

Easier said than done.

Easier said than done? How do you know this to be the case? Iran and Russia are separated only by the Caspian Sea. It wouldn’t be especially difficult for Russia to quickly assemble a decent air defence network in Iran.

That may be the next step, sure, but I reckon the Israelis would have anticipated that and would be ready for it

Now this is easier said than done, but reckon all you like. It’s yet another heroic assumption completely lacking in specifics.

Your “best early theory” involves Israel torching a valuable bilateral relationship for no tangible gain.

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 29, 2023 8:40 pm

That being said, the last time I was in the Whitsundays the seaward shore of the island we were staying on was littered with plastic items. Upon inspection, where identification was possible, most seemed likely to be of Asian origin. Refuse from fishing fleets, I presumed.

Helped fly a Cessna 185 from Perth to South Australia in 1983. The cliffs bit on the Nullarbor was done below clifftop height ( not my choice, I wouldn’t have done that but I did figure we had enough speed to pull up and land/crash on top). Noted the odd bits of plastic refuse at the base of the cliffs. Looked like stuff off boats.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 29, 2023 8:41 pm

Someone postulating here the other day about scrapping second serves in tennis.
Possibly a good idea.
Maybe just ditch it for tie-breakers (which is a relatively modern invention anyway).
And maybe at deuce too. If the game gets to 40-40, it becomes sudden-death. No second serve, and whoever wins the point wins the game.
Trouble is, if the big serve goes out of the game, we will see a lot more bat-shit boring baseline rallies.

Arky
January 29, 2023 8:42 pm

You’ve collectively spat the dummy because of one dodgy election and because a few bored and idiotic housewives looking for validation are taking their poor bloody kids to see perverts cavort in drag.
And because of that you’ve gone the full Jane Fonda.
The only Fonderesque thing left for you that you haven’t done is drape yourself over a Soviet AA gun.

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 29, 2023 8:42 pm

3 of Australia’s greatest in attendance. Laver, Rosewall and Newcombe.

Rabz
January 29, 2023 8:42 pm

the ‘Poo should have won multiple slams

Vanquished by Pat Rafter (the defending champion) in the US Open Final in ’98 and Federer at Wimbledon in 2003.

Rafter should have won more than two Grand Slams – he was a finalist at Wombledon in two successive years, I remember watching the 2001 final (played on the extra Monday), an absolute epic against the Ivanisivech – a prototype Djoker.

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 29, 2023 8:44 pm

(Scummo at home grinding his teeth.)

Idiot Alex Hawke sez hi

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 29, 2023 8:46 pm

Yes I have been despondent about our fortunes but in my mind, people are changing, ever slightly, their minds about vax for instance and many of my bowls mates are questioning why they did it.

Well, I hope you’re right. However, I can’t unsee the meek, submissive way the vast majority of Australians complied with the Covid tyranny – and richly rewarded its worst tyrants. Talk about Stockholm Syndrome.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 29, 2023 8:46 pm

I know that sticks and stones break bones but names will never hurt me …
Names can be hurtful, Stephen.
Cohenite is on the verge of a breakdown over being called:
Mr Sulu.
However, the reason Turtlehead is called Turtlehead, is that …….
…. he’s a Turtlehead.

Robert Sewell
January 29, 2023 8:47 pm

Dot;

You might have 5 – 6 short essay questions, from 11 topics, virtually none of them matched the correct diagrams to each topic, despite being perfect; with absolutely no written English that made any sense (even in relation to the diagrams they used), they all got zeroes.

Excellent stuff, Dot.
These maleducated drones are going to go into industry designing aircraft we and our families fly in.
They need sorting.

Bar Beach Swimmer
January 29, 2023 8:47 pm

BBS, I call absolute horse manure on this claim. Like you when I was in NSW I visited Merewether Beach a bit, never saw a bag in the surf.

RD, unlike our beaches, don’t think I’ll head to Warrnambool to take a dip. The way to go to undermine your tourist industry. (Question: does anyone go there apart from eco-warriors?)

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
January 29, 2023 8:48 pm

Tits-have-rash versus NoVaxx,
Novaxx took a while to get started. Kept hitting the ball out in the first set. Must be all that saline he’s been injected with, ruining his eyesight.
Tits-have-rash is pushing back in 2nd set, now getting some cheeky shots in such as a drop shot that was not working at all for him last week. But his edge now is really half due to Novaxx making some rare errors.

Roger
Roger
January 29, 2023 8:48 pm

Noted the odd bits of plastic refuse at the base of the cliffs. Looked like stuff off boats.

This was c. 8-10 years ago, Eyrie; and it wasn’t odd bits, it was a like a carpet of refuse washed up. It shocked me at the time as I’d never seen anything like it in Australia.

Maybe something to do with currents, but also (more likely?) the increased activity of Chinese fishing fleets in our waters.

Razey
Razey
January 29, 2023 8:49 pm

Well, I hope you’re right. However, I can’t unsee the meek, submissive way the vast majority of Australians complied with the Covid tyranny

Worse. Many enjoyed it. A lot of them would have loved to see the freedom fighters in concentration camps forever.

rosie
rosie
January 29, 2023 8:50 pm

I don’t understand the nuttery about the UK going to polymer notes.
More why has it taken them so long?
Paper notes can be swapped for new at appropriate institutions.
I don’t recall Australia allowing both paper and polymer for any length of time when we transitioned.
First saw this as a Martin Armstrong beat up a few months ago.
I’m under the general impression too that a lot of the decline in cash use has been fairly organic.
I know lots of people who rarely use cash, and haven’t done so for a long time, as a matter of convenience.
been a slow change over since 2016

Rabz
January 29, 2023 8:50 pm

a few bored and idiotic hausfrau

Fade to (Soviet) grey

Zipster
January 29, 2023 8:54 pm

Despite its professed humanitarian mission in Ukraine, the mozart group is a private military company training Ukrainian soldiers to ‘kill Russians.’ Big confession by Mozart group founder and CEO Andrew Milburn on RT News. The group founder said that training of Ukrainian soldiers are taking place close to the front lines as per NATO’s parameters. Founded by former U.S Marine Corps Commanders Andrew Milburn & Andrew Bain last March, the Mozart Group has been described as West’s answer to Russia’s private army Wagner group by many. Watch this report for more information.

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 29, 2023 8:56 pm

I don’t understand the nuttery about the UK going to polymer notes.
More why has it taken them so long?
Paper notes can be swapped for new at appropriate institutions.

You don’t think you won’t be tracked, videoed and face recognised every time you do this?
Ma’am you’ve just swapped over $10,000 of cash for the new notes at various banks. Pray tell, where did it come from?

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 29, 2023 8:56 pm

Ed Casesays:
January 29, 2023 at 8:46 pm
I know that sticks and stones break bones but names will never hurt me …
Names can be hurtful, Stephen.
Cohenite is on the verge of a breakdown over being called:
Mr Sulu.
However, the reason Turtlehead is called Turtlehead, is that …….
…. he’s a Turtlehead.

And the reason that you are called Richard Cranium is that ….. you are a Dick Head.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 29, 2023 8:56 pm

Tides are the big thing. You can have miles of coast with bugger all and bays chockers.
Found a chunk of amergris on one once. But at the time didn’t know what it was and left it behind.
Spewing.

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 29, 2023 8:57 pm

Well, I hope you’re right. However, I can’t unsee the meek, submissive way the vast majority of Australians complied with the Covid tyranny

Look at the way the guns got handed in.

Robert Sewell
January 29, 2023 8:58 pm

Dot:
Just a quick run through Westpac $400,000 @ 3% = $1687
Westpac $400,000 @8% = 2936
Westpac $400,000 @ 14% = $4740
And if the Geniuses at the Treasury get their way, $400,000 @ 17.5% =$5866

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 29, 2023 8:58 pm

SpongeBob is triggered?

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
January 29, 2023 8:58 pm

Trouble is, if the big serve goes out of the game, we will see a lot more bat-shit boring baseline rallies.
Er, did that come out right Thancho? I’d reckon the opposite is true, cos it would get the receiver a metre closer in the first place.

Rabz
January 29, 2023 8:58 pm

There is only one conservative politician with the charisma, communication skills and knowledge to lead the repressed in a fight back against big government – Canavan has the skills to mobilise us ordinary folk

Collectivist stupidity, hypocrisy and unrelenting idiocy is a (very) target rich environment.

Yet we have only about three politicians in our national legislature (of 150) out there railing against it.

Canavan
Antic
Pauline

Any others?

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 29, 2023 8:59 pm

Still nothing from m0nty=fa about the Twatter Files showing that the “Wussian bots boosting Trump” were mostly neither Wussian, nor bots.

Sad, low energy.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
January 29, 2023 9:00 pm

Just finished an Indian home cooked meal Odisha style.
Indians are like Italians – feed you until you’re ready to burst.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 29, 2023 9:00 pm

So many, many Indonesian things at the abrholos islands

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 29, 2023 9:01 pm

Ed Casesays:
January 29, 2023 at 8:58 pm
SpongeBob is triggered?

Keep on sucking, eventually you will make it.

Makka
Makka
January 29, 2023 9:01 pm

Again, address my points.

Scroll up. I’m not repeating myself for you.

Roger
Roger
January 29, 2023 9:03 pm

Any others?

QLD senator Gerard Rennick is generally good value.

cohenite
January 29, 2023 9:04 pm

Cohenite is on the verge of a breakdown over being called:
Mr Sulu.

I sleep with him under my pillow.

calli
calli
January 29, 2023 9:05 pm

Reading further the claim is that people flush cotton buds down the toilet, which then end up in the sea.

Bull. The screens at the treatment works catch the solids. And a horrid lot of solids they are.

Sounds like an attention seeker.

Zipster
January 29, 2023 9:06 pm

Army spied on lockdown critics: Sceptics, including our own Peter Hitchens, long suspected they were under surveillance. Now we’ve obtained official records that prove they were right all along
A shadowy Army unit secretly spied on British citizens who criticised the Government’s Covid lockdown policies, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Military operatives in the UK’s ‘information warfare’ brigade were part of a sinister operation that targeted politicians and high-profile journalists who raised doubts about the official pandemic response.

They compiled dossiers on public figures such as ex-Minister David Davis, who questioned the modelling behind alarming death toll predictions, as well as journalists such as Peter Hitchens and Toby Young. Their dissenting views were then reported back to No 10.

Dot
Dot
January 29, 2023 9:07 pm

Russian anxiety over western intentions to destroy their nation, break it up , is well founded as it turns out.

No one wants to break up Russia except for President Xi.

Unless Putin thinks Poland supplying arms to Ukraine as to remain independent is “breaking up Russia”.

No one in the west would even want to break up Russia. I doubt you could find any even a handful of proposals imagining this.

calli
calli
January 29, 2023 9:07 pm

I wonder if she’s counted the number of condoms and tampons she’s collected on the shoreline.

Of course cottonbuds are the Next Big Thing after drinking straws.

Zipster
January 29, 2023 9:08 pm

has dots account been hacked?

Cassie of Sydney
January 29, 2023 9:09 pm

“Canavan
Antic
Pauline

Any others?”

Rennick
Roberts
Price
Liddle
Pitt

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

I know lots of people who rarely use cash, and haven’t done so for a long time, as a matter of convenience.

Likewise.
Cash can never go away however. My town currently is in its 4th day of total & complete failure of telephone (& consequently internet) services.
ATMs & eftpos totally inoperable. Only those who already have cash on their person are able to buy groceries, fast food, grog, etc.
It is the public serpent caste who are caught out the most, coz those airheads actually believed Scummo’s bulldust about cash being not necessary in the “modern” economy.

This “electronic money” concept is going to be progressively more & more fun as renewable energy blackouts become more common.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 29, 2023 9:09 pm

Any others?

I did once think Andrew Hastie was on the list.

Gabor
Gabor
January 29, 2023 9:10 pm

thefrollickingmole says:
January 29, 2023 at 8:56 pm

Tides are the big thing. You can have miles of coast with bugger all and bays chockers.
Found a chunk of amergris on one once. But at the time didn’t know what it was and left it behind.

No great loss.
Can’t sell or keep it in Australia.

Spewing.

Yes, that what it is, whale spew.

Cassie of Sydney
January 29, 2023 9:10 pm

“Rogersays:
January 29, 2023 at 9:03 pm”

Snap Roger.

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 29, 2023 9:10 pm
Plasmamortar
Plasmamortar
January 29, 2023 9:10 pm

I wonder if she’s counted the number of condoms and tampons she’s collected on the shoreline.

Of course cottonbuds are the Next Big Thing after drinking straws.

Maybe there’ll be a government initiative to get people picking cotton again?? 😉

Work the beaches, plenty of fresh air and exercise

Rabz
January 29, 2023 9:12 pm

I don’t understand the nuttery about the UK going to polymer notes

I’ve built up a large stock of cash over the last two or so years (and yes, Cats, it is buried in the backyard under the Elvis Shrine) just in case of an EMP or a major system meltdown.

The problem with the polymer notes (or even paper ones) is that our beloved government could render them worthless at the stroke of a pen.

Pretty much all of my wealth (including the cottage as it’s mortgaged) apart from various very illiquid assets, exists on paper.

What that foul communist wooftah turdeaux pulled on the truckers in canadia is a mere foretaste.

So yeah, Real by Reel (1977).

In this secret time, invading on our privacy
Unknowing we mime, we play for the ministry
They can film you in bed
Or when you take a bath
They can tape every cry
They can tape every laugh
They can turn you around so you won’t know what’s

Real by reel
Busy little bees recording everything you feel
On real by reel
Documented down like rats
They’re catching up on every squeal
On real by reel
Real by reel by real by

In this hidden time, ignorance may help you to cope
Rehearsing for crimes, as extras in government cinemascope
They can film you at work
Or when they let you play
They can tape what you think
They can tape what you say
They can’t blur your I.D. so you won’t know what’s

Now I lay me down to sleep
Knowing that your lenses peep
Now I eat my daily bread
And into the tape spool I’ll be fed …

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
January 29, 2023 9:14 pm

But I’d go if asked, even now in my fifties with a family.

I wouldn’t. Getting shot at to keep Zelensky in power looks a really bad idea to me. Like getting shot at to keep luigi in power.

No thanks.

Arky
January 29, 2023 9:14 pm

The question underlying every response is this:
Is western civilisation as it exists today worth defending?
Is the civilisation that just locked down its citizens, bullied and threatened them to get injected with some weird RNA crap worth saving?
Is the civilisation lead by a nation that oversaw that absolute abortion of a 2020 election where one party used the excuse of a plandemic to rort mail in ballots worth fighting for?
Is the civilisation that blunders from one failed intervention on the world stage to another with apparently good intentions, but for which the suspicion is some of the motivation is private profit, from Korea and Vietnam to the Bay of Pigs and Kuwait, from Afghanistan and Iraq to the Taiwan Straits and Ukraine, worth defending?
Is the civilisation that aborts hundreds of thousands of babies a year worth saving?
Is the civilisation that has allowed its academy to be infiltrated by Marxist idiots worth saving?
Is the civilisation that spends an extraordinary amount of time peering up its own fundamental contemplating race and gender, past sins and endless grievances worth saving?
And the answer to that depressing list is this: What is your alternative?
You have no alternative. All you have is God’s work of fighting all the above with all your might and defending this wonderful civilisation that gave us such brilliant lives of opportunity and happiness.

Dunny Brush
Dunny Brush
January 29, 2023 9:14 pm

Re that idiotic claim about ear buds at the bool: vic beaches outside of the bay are mostly pristine, and anything west of Cape Otway especially so. The volume of water that flushes around there is astonishing. Green loons: they will lie about anything for the cause.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
January 29, 2023 9:15 pm

Melbourne crowd gee’ing up Tsitsipas between serves.
I can’t get with that.
Australia has severed roots with our good-mannered inheritance of temperance and respect. Even the linen suits are mouthy bogans.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 29, 2023 9:16 pm

Wally Dalísays:
January 29, 2023 at 8:58 pm
Trouble is, if the big serve goes out of the game, we will see a lot more bat-shit boring baseline rallies.
Er, did that come out right Thancho? I’d reckon the opposite is true, cos it would get the receiver a metre closer in the first place.

Dunno.
Uncharted Territory.
Yeah, the receiver might stand closer, but then risks being aced by the odd quick one.

Robert Sewell
January 29, 2023 9:17 pm

Cassie:

I should also add another thing, I’ve never met an Iranian that I haven’t liked. They are wonderful people and are warm, open and tolerant. Most are secular, they loathe the mullahs and if they are religious, they aren’t extremists.

They may not be extremists, Cassie, but like the Germans, Japanese, and Italians in WW2 they armed, fed, and supported the ones who were slaughtering innocents.
This is why I believe the Iranian people need to be told “Remove your government. It threatens us and murders our people who do not harm them. Remove the government of the Mullahs or we will nuke every city with a population above half a million. You have a week.”
Israel is losing the tolerance war. You cannot continue to have your citizens murdered at the current rate because Iran and Islam can afford to lose one martyr for every 7 Jews.
The world in the Middle East already hates Israel. The world will stand by and watch the holocaust – again – while they wring their hands in mock grief “How could this happen again?” they will wail.
Let them hate Israel – you cannot stop them from doing that. But make them fear you as well.
What has Israel got to lose, FFS?

Jorge
Jorge
January 29, 2023 9:21 pm

Black Ball says:
January 29, 2023 at 7:36 pm
So after giving Australia Day the Khyber Pass, Tennis Australia decide to have some dweeb yodel the national anthem.
Can’t have it both ways flogs.

Couldn’t help noticing the use of the ‘their’ pronoun by the court side announcer when the players came out.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
January 29, 2023 9:21 pm

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
January 29, 2023 at 9:09 pm

Tropical Cyclones are no different. Business that can are sometimes open the day after the blow, cash only though. After Yasi even in Townsville the mobile towers failed after a spell without power, batteries and generators finally ran dry.

All up here we all know to keep a stash of cash when we go on cyclone watch. Technology allows me to do things I never would have dreamed about in the middle of nowhere as an undergrad but at the end of the day is fallible. It is prudent to always have a backstop.

Dot
Dot
January 29, 2023 9:22 pm

A half hearted web search shows Russians being the primary parties discussing any form of breaking up Russia.

From a Russian ex pat who works for Bloomberg

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/energy/is-breaking-up-russia-the-only-way-to-end-its-imperialism/2022/06/01/e1962c3e-e170-11ec-ae64-6b23e5155b62_story.html

Viktor Suslov, a top economist at the Russian Academy of Sciences, has built up a body of work showing how this happens. In a 2018 paper, he and his collaborators argued that Russia’s Central Federal Region, which includes Moscow, acts like a black hole that absorbs about 35% more resources from other regions than it gives back. Siberia, the Ural region, the Far East and the Northwest (which includes St. Petersburg) each contribute 10% to 13% more than they receive. Unsurprisingly, Suslov is based in Novosibirsk, the center of one of the regions whose lifeblood is drained by the great Moscow pump.

Zipster
January 29, 2023 9:23 pm

‘Affront To Every American’: 25 States Sue Biden Department Of Labor Over Woke Investing Rules
Over two dozen states filed a lawsuit against the Department of Labor (DOL) Thursday, claiming its recent ruling on plan fiduciaries prioritizes woke Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing over protecting the retirement savings of millions of Americans.

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