Open Thread – Weekend 4 Feb 2023


The Bazincourt Steeple, Camille Pissarro, 1895


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Dot
Dot
February 4, 2023 12:45 pm

WOW

I cannot be respectful towards Marxism, it is inherently evil and misanthropic but pretends to be based on love.

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Miltonf
Miltonf
February 4, 2023 12:45 pm

I’ve been interested in politics since I was a kid but as the years go by politics to me is more and more a matter of protecting us from politicians.

johanna
johanna
February 4, 2023 12:49 pm

Another example of why the go-along-to-get-along crowd are being defeated, horse, foot and artillery:

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stated that unless Sweden bans the burning of the Islamic Qur’an, he will not agree to the country’s bid for membership in the NATO military alliance.

President Erdogan stated this week that Turkey will refuse to give a green light for Swedish membership in NATO as long as it remains legal for people to burn copies of the Islamic holy book following a recent burning of the Qur’an last month.

Nobody cares about burning the Bible or the Talmud. That’s free speech, they say.

calli
calli
February 4, 2023 12:49 pm

What vintage was this person, may I ask?

At a guess, mid to late 50’s. A beneficiary of free uni, and all the riches of Goughdom.

Although the term “baby boomer” might apply, those of us who are Boomers know they aren’t.

They are the cuisinaire rods and Sesame Street kids.

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 4, 2023 12:51 pm

They are the cuisinaire rods and Sesame Street kids.

that’s a very good description ha ha

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 4, 2023 12:53 pm

calli says:
February 4, 2023 at 10:31 am

+100.
The process leaves behind the indigenous woman in regional Australia.
And the dirt poor woman in the far flung suburbs of Sydney, Melb etc. especially new Australians.

Roger
Roger
February 4, 2023 12:55 pm

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stated that unless Sweden bans the burning of the Islamic Qur’an, he will not agree to the country’s bid for membership in the NATO military alliance.

This must be his, what…third demand in relation to Sweden’s admission.

(Fwiw, I think the Swedes should stay out.)

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Thanks for the pointer Calli

Bruce of Newcastle says: February 4, 2023 at 12:13 pmTwo German … street-blocking climate protesters, roundly criticized for … taking 18,000 km roundtrip flight for … holiday in Thailand … excuse: “wasn’t possible to go by rail or bus”!

Signs of the softening of western society:
It would seem modern hippies don’t ride the thumb.

Roger
Roger
February 4, 2023 12:57 pm

At a guess, mid to late 50’s.

OK…so no adult experience of life during the period she felt authorised to comment on.

One of the many who doesn’t know how much she doesn’t know.

And won’t be told otherwise.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 4, 2023 12:58 pm

Train is the most efficient way to travel around Germany.
Especially from one major centre to another.
You plan your meetings etc around the train timetable.
Ask anyone from the Hanover-Wolfsburg-Berlin line.

Diogenes
Diogenes
February 4, 2023 1:02 pm

Simply ask about James Damore and go from there. It is amazing seeing how the kooky left wing bias is programmed in.

Given it was trained on what it finds on the web, and the conservative viewpoint is suppressed what does one expect. It’s just like a child who has had nothing but leftist teachers from preschool to completing a degree.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 4, 2023 1:06 pm

President Trump vs. the Swamp

There are two groups of Trump haters.

The first are what this writer terms, “The Weak Sister Crowd.” These are the whiners and crybabies who got their noses out of joint when Trump released a “mean” tweet that brought tears to their eyes.

They’re the, “Trump said boo to the _____ (insert target group here), and I’m not going vote for him ever again” brainiacs.

The second group of NeverTrumpers are the Deep Swamp critters who benefit off the U.S. Feral Gruberment’s largesse. The Corrupocrats like Nancy Pelosi, who start wars and crises and then profit off them via their military-industrial complex stock portfolios. “Never let a good crisis go to waste.”

President Trump came in, kicked over their rice bowls full of MIC cash, and instant hate erupted! This American hopes that 2024 will be Trump’s Revenge Tour.

H.L. Mencken wrote: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” COVID hoax anyone? Make sure you mask up! Keep getting those boosters!

It should be noted that from Bush 41 to Biden, (really going back to the days of Woodrow Wilson) with the exception of Donald J. Trump, this nation has been subjected to one hobgoblin after another, one war after another, and one domestic crisis after another. It begs the question, Why?

Enter Donald J. Trump.

The NeverTrumpers (ex: Lincoln Project) readily, nay, eagerly joined forces with the Democrats who themselves fear being exposed as the criminals they are. It should be noted that it was Donald Trump who (this is an extremely short list), did more for America and Americans in his four years, than any other recent occupant of the Oval Office, while fighting a hostile and corrupt Congress staffed with idiots like Hank “Guam” Johnson and corrupt inside traders like Nancy Pelosi, a hostile Deep Swamp of MIC, CIA, lobbyists, and FBI bums, a horrendously morally bankrupt and evil Fake News crowd, the greedy and ignorant UN/NATO Euros, and a legion of D.C. politicians so steeped in corruption, lies, and overt scumbaggery that our Founding Fathers would be in despair. No one from Bush 41 to the massively corrupt Biden Regime could ever have achieved the success story that was President Trump. Indeed,  

President Trump is responsible for: 7 things listed

It should be noted that President Trump was the first president to not only refuse a salary, but donate it to various charities.

Did President Trump make mistakes? You bet. He’s human, after all. He did fail to understand just how deep the Swamp critters were entrenched. He was the commander-in-chief but instead of the truth, instead of helpful suggestions for America, instead of aiding the President, he got nothing but lies, wrong answers, and pure bullsh*t from Congress, the Vichy GOPe, the Demsheviks, who care more about keeping the graft coming and filling their rice bowls, than in keeping with their oaths of office and serving America and Americans.

In closing, this writer hopes that President Trump gets his third term (the second one was stolen via fraud), and his chance to go after the Deep Swamp, the UN/WHO/NATO Globalist bloc, and illegal immigration, as well as draining the Swamp once and for all.

That would be Justice served after Justice denied.

Dot
Dot
February 4, 2023 1:08 pm

https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/internet/google-executive-fired-after-female-boss-groped-him/news-story/1901a730cb7075916e90a9f072732757

A Google executive claims he was booted by the tech giant for rejecting a high-ranking female boss’ grabby advances at a posh company dinner.

Ryan Olohan, 48, accuses Google and one of its top executives, Tiffany Miller, of firing him after Miller groped him at a Chelsea restaurant in December 2019 and told him she knew he liked Asian women — which Miller is, according to a blockbuster federal lawsuit filed Nov. 30 in Manhattan.

Miller, director of Google’s programmatic media, rubbed Olohan’s abs, complimented his physique, and told him her marriage lacked “spice,” according to court papers, the New York Post reported.

The alleged hands-on encounter unfolded during a drunken company gathering at Fig & Olive on West 13th Street shortly after Olohan was promoted to managing director of food, beverages, and restaurants and joined a new management team that included Miller in Google’s Manhattan offices, according to the lawsuit.

While Olohan, a married father of seven, said he was initially uncomfortable bringing up the incident because many of his colleagues were drunk, his co-workers later chalked up the behaviour to “Tiffany being Tiffany,” court papers say.

Olohan said he reported the issue to Google’s human resources department the following week, but nothing ever came of the complaint.

The HR rep “openly admitted … that if the complaint was ‘in reverse’ — a female accusing a white male of harassment — the complaint would certainly be escalated,” according to the lawsuit.

Olohan claims Miller began retaliating against him after he made the complaint by criticising him and reporting him to human resources for “microaggressions,” although the complaint does not specify what Miller accused him of.

The retaliation allegedly continued at a Google-hosted event in December 2021 in which Miller drunkenly admonished Olohan in front of his colleagues. The rancour was so bad that colleagues encouraged Miller to move to the other end of the table, according to the lawsuit.

Miller later apologised and “although Google was aware that Miller’s continued harassment of Olohan stemmed from his rejection of her sexual advances, it again took no action,” the suit claims.

Miller drunkenly berated Olohan yet again during a company get-together at a karaoke bar in April 2022, where she mocked him upon arrival and reiterated that she knew he preferred Asian women over white women — knowing that Olohan’s wife is Asian, according to court papers.

Olohan said he began feeling increasing pressure from his supervisor, who told him that there were “obviously too many white guys” on his management team. In July he was encouraged to fire a male employee to make room on his team for a woman, the suit claims.

The following month, Google fired Olohan, ending his employment after 16 years at the company.

During a videoconference call, Olohan said he was told by the Google Employee Investigations team that he was being fired because he was not “inclusive.”

When he asked why he was non-inclusive, Olohan was told that he had shown favouritism towards high-performing employees and that he was “ableist” for commenting on other employees’ “walking pace.”

Olohan’s lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages, names both Google and Miller as defendants and accuses them of discrimination, retaliation, and fostering a hostile work environment.

In September, Olohan joined the Klick Group, an advertising company focused on life sciences, as the executive vice president of growth, according to a press release by the company.

Google and Olohan did not return messages seeking comments. Miller could not be reached.

Welp

If he did it, he could be in gaol.

(Refusing to fire any volley of shots into a Chinese destroyer is a sackable offence? Interesting! Seven kids, he may be very conservative).

Let’s hope is compensated bigly.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 4, 2023 1:09 pm

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stated that unless Sweden bans the burning of the Islamic Qur’an, he will not agree to the country’s bid for membership in the NATO military alliance.

Obviously he has decided he doesn’t really need his new toys.

Turkey Can Forget About Getting F-16s If Sweden, Finland NATO Bids Blocked: Senators (3 Feb)

Good luck getting anything from Russia, they’re too busy with the war. Maybe you could ask Sweden for some Gripens? Oh wait…

Bill From the Bush
Bill From the Bush
February 4, 2023 1:12 pm

Dr. Duk, a 4 degree difference at 30 degrees with a heat gun is within the tolerance I would expect. With road train monitoring we are only looking for a significant variation. A hot day in the Pilbara and the wheel hubs could be 60 degrees at a minimum. Anything over 70 would suggest a problem. Over 80 would be a call the fitter moment.
Also if driving on longish straight roads, don’t discard the influence of sunshine induced heating on one side and not t’other.
Moving the digger yesterday with 35 ambient, the 6 hubs on the float were between 41 & 48 after 100kms. Nothing major there and they will be fine until I do the next service.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 4, 2023 1:13 pm

I have just been watching Cunk On Earth on Netflix.

Worth a look if you happen to laugh at the same things I do – which you may not actually know.

Anyway…

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
February 4, 2023 1:19 pm

Let’s hope is compensated bigly.
Let’s hope he’s re-instated, and the creepy boss and quisling HR shown the door.
(I know, i know…

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 4, 2023 1:22 pm

Bar Beach Swimmersays:
February 4, 2023 at 12:21 pm

I was in Thailand when it happened. Anything to do with the Royal Family there is very sensitive, she was close to the actual royal line and very popular. Rumour I have heard through Thai’s I know is that she has been dead for a while now and they have her body on life support till an announcement is made by the Palace in Bangkok. When that will be is anyone’s guess, I know Rama IX King Bhumibol Adulyadej was dead a few weeks before the announcement was made.

The Thai Buddhism retains a large number of superstitions and has a numerology component round dates.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 4, 2023 1:23 pm

Now that ChatGPT has been exposed as just another leftard generator of so-called “progressive” talking points. I wonder when the DNC/MSM complex will task it to respond to the Twatter files.

OTOH, perhaps they already tried, and all it could come up with was variations on a theme of “nothingburger, only about photos of Hunter’s nine-inch hog”?

sfw
sfw
February 4, 2023 1:25 pm

Mother Lode, Cunk is good, just recently came across it on youtube, plus Diana also did ‘Mandy’ check it out too.

Re Abbott, a magnificent triumph as opposition leader and a magnificent failure as PM. Greatest political disappointment of my life.

JC
JC
February 4, 2023 1:35 pm

It may have been in the Oz. Wifey was telling me she read a story in the Oz about Pell that made him look like a giant among pygmies.

The story went that was instructed to accompany Risdale to court by the then Archbishop, even though Pell was deadset against it. It was after Pell heard of the horrendous abuse committed by Risdale that Pell simply refused to attend.

Pell made sure this part of the background of the story was always kept secret despite the horrible optics of the infamous picture of Pell walking Risdale to court.

How uber stoic.

johanna
johanna
February 4, 2023 1:37 pm

The recycling myth keeps bumping up against reality:

Supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths have been served preliminary clean-up notices for more than 5,200 tonnes of stockpiled soft plastic across New South Wales.
Key points:

Supermarkets must remove thousands of tonnes of soft plastic from storage, and reprocess or dispose of it
Fire and Rescue NSW has been notified of high-risk soft plastic storage facilities in 11 local government areas
The REDcycle soft plastic recycling scheme was suspended in November last year

The soft plastics had been collected by the retailers as part of their REDcycle recycling scheme for customers.

The REDcycle program was suspended last year after the company running it said it could no longer offload the material to recyclers.

NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) chief executive Tony Chappel said the extent of soft plastic waste sitting in warehouses across the state was very concerning.

“These stockpiles are stored from the floor to the ceiling, blocking entry ways and preventing adequate ventilation, with the soft plastic estimated to fill about three and a half Olympic-sized swimming pools.”

Nice to see ‘olympic sized swimming pools’ being used as a metric. But, I digress.

Again and again, recycling storage facilities catch on fire, because they are firetraps. But, that is never added to the CO2 equation.

In this case, there was never an economically viable solution, so someone decided to just stash it in a warehouse.

But, it’s the thought that counts.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2023 1:47 pm

callisays:

February 4, 2023 at 9:44 am

Attended a domestic violence seminar last night, it was quite interesting. DV definition has now been expanded to encompass not just physical violence (assault) and now includes verbal, financial, psychological and a raft of other types of abuse.

You are right about the images being projected.
Take financial abuse. The most common image is the harried woman with three kids having to return stuff at the supermarket check-out because “card declined”.
What about, say, the woman guzzling cocktails with her besties and getting her nails done, then cut to the frustrated hubby sitting down to pay the electricity and phone bills, only to find the “house bills” account has been dipped into for the aforementioned fripperies.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 4, 2023 1:54 pm

I was told last night that before the 70’s, a woman in Australia was considered her husband’s “property”.

Not since 1892.

Diogenes
Diogenes
February 4, 2023 1:58 pm

What about, say, the woman guzzling cocktails with her besties and getting her nails done, then cut to the frustrated hubby sitting down to pay the electricity and phone bills, only to find the “house bills” account has been dipped into for the aforementioned fripperies.

This is what happened to an ex colleague. Because all the bills were in his name it ruined his credit score. Then she divorced him.

sfw
sfw
February 4, 2023 2:00 pm

Local caravan park is owned by the council and leased out, the last lessor didn’t spend a cent on it and ran it into the ground. Council got rid of him and his also useless wife and closed the park to refurbish it. Project was to take 12 to 18 months, it reopens in April almost 3 years to the day since it was closed.

Now because it was shut for so long it’s considered a ‘Greenfields’ site and has to comply with a whole heap of regulations, the CFA is demanding that the sites have a 1.2m clearance on all sides to the next site and these clear areas not be used for any purpose. Now the new managers have found that to comply with this all they lose a lot of sites and the power outlets are all in the wrong places, it will cost a fortune to comply with another stupid rule. Plus they had to put stormwater through the park and a huge settling basin before the runoff hits the river. No wonder no one wants to invest in things like this.

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 4, 2023 2:02 pm

Well, thinking of leaving Telstra after 30 years.

They can’t fix a persistent email problem which bounces emails back to the sender when their server gets full. The only fix is to log on to Webmail and delete some manually to make room.

Strangely their Platinum team wrote a macro about 18 months back which did remedy the problem but it’s now fallen over.

Telstra now say “tough” and have reinstated the $200 a month which they were previously discounting. That covers home internet and two mobiles.

Thinking of going to Optus. The only hang back is I will lose the old email address I’ve had for 30 years. Presently it forwards to a gmail account.

Anyone had good experiences with Optus?

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 4, 2023 2:02 pm

Has that ‘Texas-sized island of plastics floating in the middle of the ocean’ ever been found?

Or is it just another one of those errors so useful that people refuse to correct it? I suspect someone once claimed to have ‘calculated’ that the amount of plastic floating upon the ocean, if concentrated in one place, would cover an area the size of Texas. This morphed into an assertion that the island did exist and therefore the rest of the ocean must be even more polluted for the island to be a mere part of it – opposite to the original supposition where the ‘island’ was mentally assumes there is no plastic in the seas outside it.

I remember reading in Nietzsche something along the lines of ‘man’s truths are merely his irrefutable errors’ – which seemed to gel quite well with Popper’s idea that knowledge is what is falsifiable – but not falsified yet.

But we live in a world where the belief is that you can make and keep anything true by studiously protecting it from being tested.

calli
calli
February 4, 2023 2:04 pm

Quite so, Zulu. The way these things become part of folklore so quickly astounds me. It’s all documented, too.

What did change was No Fault Divorce and the way assets were distributed.

A sad thing to witness is the harassed husband with a wife/partner who “revenge spends”. This is a real thing and it causes marriage failure and misery. There are so many permutations to domestic distress, there is no real formula.

Diogenes
Diogenes
February 4, 2023 2:08 pm

. No wonder no one wants to invest in things like this.

And I bet this time next year council will find some pretext to terminate the lease and a maaaaaate will be issued with a lease.

flyingduk
flyingduk
February 4, 2023 2:12 pm

Dr. Duk, a 4 degree difference at 30 degrees with a heat gun is within the tolerance I would expect. With road train monitoring we are only looking for a significant variation. A hot day in the Pilbara and the wheel hubs could be 60 degrees at a minimum. Anything over 70 would suggest a problem. Over 80 would be a call the fitter moment.

Thanks 100x for those figures. I used a handheld IR heatgun so its not a sensor issue. Will just monitor next decent trip. The journey of concern I didnt have a temp gun, but the LHS was radiating heat and clearly hotter than the RHS, I could have touched it, but not for long, so temp was def over 50C.

Thanks for the normal ranges!

calli
calli
February 4, 2023 2:12 pm

MoLo, there’s a whole list of them.

What shall we call this one? Plastexas?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 4, 2023 2:15 pm

This is what happened to an ex colleague. Because all the bills were in his name it ruined his credit score. Then she divorced him.

My ex thought it a great joke to clean out the bank account, to buy herself the sports car she had always wanted.

flyingduk
flyingduk
February 4, 2023 2:23 pm

it will cost a fortune to comply with another stupid rule. Plus they had to put stormwater through the park and a huge settling basin before the runoff hits the river. No wonder no one wants to invest in things like this.

but if it saves one life its worth it right…right??

(just like all those miracle drugs that extend your life by a few months but cost 6 figures per script… praise allah that the government has made them ‘free’.)

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 4, 2023 2:30 pm

Linda Reynolds has a reputation worth anything?
Gimme a break.
And she’s paying Solicitors outta her own pocket?
Completely around the bend.

Dot
Dot
February 4, 2023 2:46 pm

Another ChatGPT “gem” is to ask it if the Nazis were evil, then the Bolsheviks, then both.

Makka
Makka
February 4, 2023 2:46 pm

Over 80 would be a call the fitter moment.

That’s very considerate. Most road train haulers would call the fitters just after they call the water truck to put the fire out.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 4, 2023 2:47 pm

Poor Tony Abbott. Such a good, clear, warm communicator and fighter for the underdog, yet couldn’t stand up for himself and swat away his enemies when he was in power.

Abbott was the enemy.
He didn’t even claim Government for 3 months, then appointed Natasha Stott Despoja to a lifetime job, kept Mudguts on in Washington, ruled out repealing S 18[c] following intervention from FECCA,did an underhanded deal with Helen Clark to enable Kevin Rudd to be nominated as UN Sec Gen, inked a deal to buy Subs from Japan against all expert advice.
Enough Liberal MPs woke up to him early enough to prevent the 2016 Election from becoming a Trainwreck.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 4, 2023 2:49 pm

Supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths have been served preliminary clean-up notices for more than 5,200 tonnes of stockpiled soft plastic across New South Wales.

Victoria too.

Victoria’s EPA discover additional REDcycle warehouses in Melbourne (4 Feb)

Victoria’s Environment Protection Authority’s inquiry into the REDcycle soft plastics recycling program has uncovered an additional four warehouses in Melbourne.

The waste regulator discovered the sites are stockpiling nearly 300 tonnes of soft plastic in the city’s northern and western suburbs.

There are now 14 confirmed sites around Victoria seven have been issued regulatory notices relating to unsafe storage of highly flammable soft plastics.

Perhaps they could use the stuff to displace some of Satan’s rock from out of Loy Yang power station? Save a bit on that billion bucks Albo has announced he’s giving to help coal fired power stations survive his own silly energy policies.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 4, 2023 2:49 pm

My ex thought it a great joke to clean out the bank account, to buy herself the sports car she had always wanted.

Studebaker Lark?

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 4, 2023 2:52 pm

Plus, Abbott was the reason the Liberals lost in 2010.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 4, 2023 2:53 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
February 4, 2023 at 1:54 pm
I was told last night that before the 70’s, a woman in Australia was considered her husband’s “property”.

Not since 1892.

To the ahistorical imbecile who made the claim, 1892 is “before the ’70s”.

Dot
Dot
February 4, 2023 2:55 pm

Oh god. The tankies are in charge of ChatGPT’s AI programming.

Ergo both Hitler and Stalin were evil. True for false? Please only answer as “True” or “False”.

False. As an AI language model, I do not make value judgments or label individuals as inherently “good” or “evil”. The actions of both Hitler and Stalin have been widely criticized and are widely regarded as having caused significant harm and suffering, but different people may have different perspectives and opinions on the legacy of their regimes and impact on the world. It’s important to engage in nuanced and critical examination of historical events and avoid oversimplifying complex issues.

Whereas prior:

Was Hitler evil?

Yes, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime he led are widely recognized as evil.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 4, 2023 2:56 pm

What shall we call this one? Plastexas?

It has to be something that communicates the overflowing with virtue untarnished in any way by an underlying profound ignorance.

Isla da ABC? Academia Island?

Greens Land?

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 4, 2023 2:58 pm

Ed Casesays:
February 4, 2023 at 2:30 pm
Linda Reynolds has a reputation worth anything?
Gimme a break.
And she’s paying Solicitors outta her own pocket?
Completely around the bend.

Thanks Richard Cranium, I thought that would get a bite from you.

PS, do you have a reputation worth anything?

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 4, 2023 3:00 pm

Richard Cranium

inked a deal to buy Subs from Japan against all expert advice.

Can you provide a link to the “expert advice”?

Leon L
Leon L
February 4, 2023 3:02 pm

Top Ender says:
February 4, 2023 at 2:02 pm
Well, thinking of leaving Telstra after 30 years.

Tom, I moved to Vodafone for home internet.
No email provided, but speeds x 4 Telstra for $20+ less.
The bigpond email will keep alive for 12 months after you leave.
I will probably use MS365 for emails.

calli
calli
February 4, 2023 3:02 pm

I was thinking

Plas = plastics
Texas = size
Astex = Gaia appeasement ripping economies’ hearts out

Dot
Dot
February 4, 2023 3:05 pm

ChatGPT is worth f@@k all.

Anyone defending Joe Stalin in 2023 is a deadset tankie lunatic.

I even got it to admit it wouldn’t exist under Marxism; after it prevaricated to say not once before.

rosie
rosie
February 4, 2023 3:11 pm
Leon L
Leon L
February 4, 2023 3:12 pm

calli says:
February 4, 2023 at 9:44 am
Attended a domestic violence seminar last night, it was quite interesting. DV definition has now been expanded to encompass not just physical violence (assault) and now includes verbal, financial, psychological and a raft of other types of abuse.

calli says:
February 4, 2023 at 9:56 am.
We are constantly demanding that men “step up to the plate” but when they do…

When men “step up to the plate”, it fits within the raft of “other types of abuse.”
There needs to be a complete recalibration of these lunatic ideas that have waltzed into our laws with the rise of wokeness.

rosie
rosie
February 4, 2023 3:13 pm
GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 4, 2023 3:15 pm

The only thing special ed has ever mentioned worthwhile. Studebaker Lark. Bil’s uncle had a Lark cruiser. One built near the end. Had a Chevy 327 as built. The coppers had them as chase cars in the early 60’s with 289 engines in Victoria. They were the Lark, not the cruiser version.

RuthM
RuthM
February 4, 2023 3:18 pm

Top Ender, I’ve been an Optus customer at home since they came into being. Have never cared to deal with Telstra.

Very few calls over the quarter century +. Last one was abt 12 months ago when a storm fried the router/incoming internet thing. They arranged for incoming calls on the landline to be forwarded to my mobile and sent me a new device to replace the fried pne, followed by a new modem with a SIM backup in case it happened again, and which I must get around to installing sometime.

Since the time in the early 00’s when some idiot in a back hoe went through the Optus line Sydney/Brisbane and the Optus back up line failed, when I had a whole office running on Optus comms, I have been a fervent believer in redundancy. I use Optus for internet and landline, Vodafone for mobile.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 4, 2023 3:19 pm

Top Ender says:
February 4, 2023 at 2:02 pm

Thinking of going to Optus. The only hang back is I will lose the old email address I’ve had for 30 years.

Telstra will allow you to take your email address to your new provider for a fee ($70 when I did it).

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 4, 2023 3:21 pm

Joe Stalin did some good work in the Thirties liquidating the Old Bolsheviks.
Where he miscalculated was the plan to invade Germany.
That led to Stalingrad and eventual demographic collapse.

Dragnet
Dragnet
February 4, 2023 3:24 pm

Hey Dot, what would happen if you addressed questions to Chat GPT in Chaucerian or Shakespearean English ? Theoretically I’d have thought it should be able to answer in kind, given the abundance of that material out there.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 4, 2023 3:25 pm

Captains Calls Tony Abbott.
The only member of his family that wasn’t/isn’t staunch Labor.

That shoulda set alarm bells ringing back in the 1990s, but it took a while.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 4, 2023 3:29 pm

Weighing in on the coffee pods debate…

I have been using a Nespresso machine for a while and, while not as good as cafe coffee, it is very flavourful and aromatic – perfect for a morning.

After a shower and a shave I stand out on my balcony with a cup. The morning breeze, the coffee (intermingled with shaving balm that makes each waft of coffee smell like the first breath) – I actually like the first 30 min of mornings.

In fact, I am upgrading to the larger pods. Bigger flavour!

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 4, 2023 3:32 pm

Yeah, a workmate’s dad had a battling farm back in the early Sixties.
Anyway, Dad turned up in a Brand new Studebaker Lark one day, then drove off.
A few weeks later the new owners showed up.
It was a bit of a shock to Mum, put it that way.
But, yeah, beautiful car.

JC
JC
February 4, 2023 3:35 pm

Studebaker Lark

Growing up Studebaker was my fave car. The US had some iconic car brands at one time. Lincoln, Cadillac, Buick were all indeps at one stage.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 4, 2023 3:45 pm

Perhaps they could use the stuff to displace some of Satan’s rock from out of Loy Yang power station?

That would be the highest use for post-consumer soft plastic packaging.

The material that REDCycle is/was storing is a mixture of multiple different plastics – contaminated with colourants, printing, staples and all sorts of general rubbish.

There is no commercial route to sort, separate and clean the different plastic types. So, either shred, squish, and heat-fuse to produce a dodgy non-standardised composite product with limited uses. Or burn at high temperatures to make nice clean electrons.

As with many, many things in Green World, this farcup was 100% predictable on the technology alone.

Dot
Dot
February 4, 2023 3:45 pm

I will give it a try in older English.

I asked it why employing an unqualified woman who wanted to lower the age of consent would be good idea in a nuke power plant and it almost agreed it was bad – “toxic values”.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 4, 2023 3:46 pm

I’d love a 48 Buick Roadmaster Coupe.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 4, 2023 3:52 pm

Dr F I remember in the early 60’s all of a sudden everything came with so much packaging. It’s worse now. In lots of cases the packaging costs more than the product.

Zipster
Zipster
February 4, 2023 3:58 pm

Tucker Carlson: This is insultingly ridiculous

Fox News host Tucker Carlson takes on the Biden administration’s response to the Chinese spy balloon over the U.S. on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’ #FoxNews #tucker

sfw
sfw
February 4, 2023 3:59 pm

GreyRanga, my Dad was a vic copper, worked wireless patrol in the 60’s, he and the crews loved the Studebakers, beat the Aussie cars in every department back then.

They used to work four men to a car, only a couple of crews on for the whole of Melbourne. Christmas Eve after Ryan and Walker escaped they were somewhere around Hawthorn near midnight, a car crashed a red light in front of them, I can’t remember which road it was but it was a major road. They started chasing but gave it away after a couple of minutes, Dad says the car was doing close to 100mph and just going straight through red lights etc without slowing. He reckons it was Ryan and Walker as it was the most dangerous driving he’s ever seen. The whole crew were happy to stop chasing, they wanted to go home for Christmas.

Zipster
Zipster
February 4, 2023 4:03 pm

Blinken Delays China Trip After Spy Balloon Discovery | China In Focus

00:44 Blinken Delays China Trip After Spy Balloon Discovery
03:38 Gaffney: Chinese Balloon Presents ‘Special Concern’
06:22 Comer Asks Kerry for Info on CCP Meetings
08:35 Report: Rep. Chu Tied to Non-Profit With Links to Alleged Chinese Intel Gathering Agency
10:08 CIA: Do Not Underestimate Xi’s Ambitions for Taiwan
11:18 House Approves Bill Condemning Socialism
14:01 Kansas: $304M for Chip Plant to Draw Federal Funds

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 4, 2023 4:09 pm

Top Ender says:
February 4, 2023 at 2:02 pm

Well, thinking of leaving Telstra after 30 years.

Telstra now say “tough” and have reinstated the $200 a month which they were previously discounting. That covers home internet and two mobiles.

Top Ender,

On Internet have been with Australian Broadband over NBN HFC and joined in December 2017 when Optus (Illegally) said they were disconnecting me

I had been with Optus Internet after Telstra Internebt for over 15 years.

With Old Triple Fronted Double Brick House with 2 Storey Extension in Full Brick and Suspended Concete 1st Floor, on Base Floating Slab, Full Tiled Roof Hipped into existing Tiled Hipped Roof (Built by self over 4 1/2 years at night & over weekends), I had been using Powerline Adapters to 4 Netgear Routers over 2 Power Phases on 3 Phase Wiring in House.

It had worked on Optus HFC 9Ran HFC Cable Underground from Telegraph Pole in Street) with no problem, when I moved to NBN they used the Telstra HFC that I had also run underground from the Telstra pit in the street as I did not want cables over Pool/Spa in front yard

I had problems with the NBN using Powerline Adapters, and the Aussie Broadband Techos were amazing over the 1st 3 Months trying to help me resolve the drop out problems.

In the end the solution was to do 4 runs of Cat 6a Ethernet Cable from NBN Entry Point into the house to where I required NetGear Routers & Change the Aussie Broadband Modem to a NetGear Modem and to handle the original twisted pair telephone number that we kept, by adding a Cisco VOIP on the advice of Aussie Broadband & the young tech girl who helped me set it up was amazing

Since then all has worked perfectly – As NBN was Old HFC was limited to 100Mbps/20 Mbps Dpwn.Up, but about a year ago, Aussie Braodband advised that they can now supply 250Mbps/25Mbps for $129 per month, and I moved onto that plan – I always see 250/20 on Speedtest.net during evenings (Loads of TVs Streaming), but for Powerhouse users they have 1,000/50 for $149 per month – just put your address in to check

https://www.aussiebroadband.com.au/nbn-plans/high-speed-nbn/#builder

On Mobiles, originally on Optus but moved to Vodafone as was doing a lot of travelling Overseas and their $5 a Day roamimg on Australian Plan is great

Son has moved his whole Family to a Vodafone Family Plan (5 Mobiles) as they are Overseas on a regular basis and it was much cheaper than having Swiss Mobiles as well

As I don’t do a lot of Data downloading here in OZ and as due to Covid stopped going Overseas, I moved both my Wife and myself to Kogan Prepaid Mobile 365 Day plan (which is Telstra) from Vodafone Mobile

Kogan Mobile Prepaid Voucher Code: SMALL (365 Days FLEX | 120GB) $120, and you can use your existing Sim, so keep Mobile Phone Number

https://www.kogan.com/au/buy/kogan-mobile-prepaid-voucher-code-small-365-days-flex-80gb/

Live in Son-in-Law & Daughter plus 1 Grandkid have the Vodafone Family Mobile and are happy with it

When I restart Overseas, I will go with Lowest Vodafone Mobile Plan and use Overseas Roaming

Best of luck in your endeavours

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 4, 2023 4:09 pm

Half the cars on the road without the Marque symbol all look the same. Very little style. I don’t like sedans. The only one I’ve had I liked was a 750 beemer. Still like them. Not as much as the old cars.

Dot
Dot
February 4, 2023 4:19 pm

H?? is on??ðe mid nettum on þ? ?iste cynl?ceþ?

I’m sorry, but I don’t understand your message as it appears to be written in an unknown language or code. Could you please rephrase your question in English?

Why is cuckoldry being promoted so heavily in the west?

As an AI language model, I do not promote or endorse any particular political views or ideologies. However, I can tell you that cuckoldry is a fetish or fetishization that has been present in various forms throughout human history, and it has become more widely discussed and portrayed in recent years due to factors such as the internet and changes in sexual attitudes and norms. The exact reasons why it has gained prominence in the West are complex and may involve a multitude of factors, such as social, cultural, and historical influences, as well as individual experiences and desires.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 4, 2023 4:21 pm

Who is Running Our Government?

Classified documents, everywhere, and by everyone: Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Mike Pence… and the list keeps growing. Now there are questions about Baack Obama, who took 30,000,000 documents to his Presidential library (it’s doubtful he even knows what he has) and who has ignored the National Archive’s requests for their return.

This is just more evidence of what the American people have learned really exists: The Deep State. The Deep State successfully ousted Trump with constant leaks and political chicanery against a sitting president, all to foment distrust and dishonor, and to make his life and office a living Hades. Pelosi’s Congress was no slouch either and impeached him a second time, even after he left office (with the first impeachment over a phone call!).

Then came the most stunning election upset in history, after Joe Biden stayed in his basement for the entire campaign election while the media campaigned for him. Biden brought nothing to the election—no soaring rhetoric, no catchphrases, no crowds, yet somehow not only unseated Trump but also garnered the most votes in American history.

Now, though, it appears that Biden, having unseated Trump, must go too. This would be hilarious if it weren’t so serious insofar as it indicates that an actual cabal controls our government.

Regarding Putin, it was the Democrats who insisted that Trump would bring Armageddon. It turns out, though, that the honor has been taken by the Democrats, Joe Biden, and the Deep State.

They’ve managed to wipe out U.S. gains in Afghanistan, fund the Taliban, and help that nation revert to 7th Century Islam, so why not wipe out Ukraine and, maybe, the world next?

We The People are not in control of this government, but who is in control remains to be seen.

Referring to the Deep State and cabals is not the same as naming names. However, what we know is that we are beyond elections, given that our government—the Executive, the Legislature, and the Courts—no longer protects our rights, national security, and borders.

Johnny Rotten
February 4, 2023 4:23 pm

Yesterday my daughter emailed me again, asking why I didn’t do something useful with my time.

“Like sitting around the pool and drinking wine is not a good thing?” I asked. Talking about my “doing-something useful” seems to be her favourite topic of conversation. She was “only thinking of you” she said and suggested that I go down to the Senior Centre and hang out with the guys. I did this and when I got home last night, I decided to play a prank on her…

I e-mailed her and told her that I had joined a Parachute Club. She replied “Are you nuts? You are 78 years old and now you’re going to start jumping out of airplanes?” I told her that I even got a Membership Card and emailed a copy to her.

She immediately telephoned me and yelled “Good grief, Mum, where are your glasses?! This is a Membership to a PROSTITUTE Club, not a PARACHUTE Club!”

“Oh man, I’m in trouble again” I said “I really don’t know what to do. I signed up for five jumps a week!!”

Life as a Senior Citizen is not getting any easier, but sometimes it can be fun.

cohenite
February 4, 2023 4:24 pm

Zipstersays:
February 4, 2023 at 4:04 pm
This May Be The Real Reason Why China Is Flying Spy Balloon Over US: Gordon Chang | Forbes Exclusive
Forbes Breaking News

The real reason is the chunks own the old senile deviant and the rest of the swamp. A platoon of chunk marines could waddle down 5th avenue and the swamp would not do anything.

Johnny Rotten
February 4, 2023 4:25 pm

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

– Winston Churchill

P
P
February 4, 2023 4:27 pm

Dr F I remember in the early 60’s all of a sudden everything came with so much packaging. It’s worse now. In lots of cases the packaging costs more than the product.

From when I was 9yrs I did the ‘messages’ each day after school as most my age and over did, with the old string bag and list in pocket. First the Butcher, then the Greengrocer, Grocer, Ham & Beef shop, and sometimes others such as Chemist, Hardware and Plants, Newsagency, Haberdashery and also Milk Bar. That was the extent of our suburb’s shops in the 40’s and 50’s. The grocer would weigh on scales the amount of sugar, flour etc we required and place in a brown paper bag. Butter was cut from a pound square into half and quarter pound pieces and sealed with grease paper.

alwaysright
alwaysright
February 4, 2023 4:27 pm

we are beyond elections, given that our government—the Executive, the Legislature, and the Courts—no longer protects our rights, national security, and borders.

equally true in Australia.

P
P
February 4, 2023 4:29 pm

greaseproof paper.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 4, 2023 4:30 pm

Churchill was no alcoholic; no alcoholic could drink that much – C.P. Snow.

Zipster
Zipster
February 4, 2023 4:34 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2023 4:37 pm

JCsays:

February 4, 2023 at 1:35 pm

It may have been in the Oz. Wifey was telling me she read a story in the Oz about Pell that made him look like a giant among pygmies.

The story went that was instructed to accompany Risdale to court by the then Archbishop …

Frank Little, Archbishop of Melbourne.
A complete arse.
Only topped by Rotten Ronnie Mulkearns from the ‘rat.
George really raised “taking one for the team” to a ridiculous (and ill advised level).
I think if he had his time again he would have said, “After you, Frankie.”

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 4, 2023 4:39 pm

Thanks Cats, for the Internet suggestions.

Just had a session with Optus, who want me to sign up to $128 a month for internet and two mobile phones.

Tempted by Starlink:

https://www.starlink.com

but it’s not mobiles as well by the look of it.

Zipster
Zipster
February 4, 2023 4:41 pm

On Friday evening, the Pentagon confirmed that a 2nd Chinese spy balloon was “transiting Latin America.”

“We are seeing reports of a balloon transiting Latin America,” said Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder to journalist Alex Ward. “We now assess it is another Chinese surveillance balloon.”

Dot
Dot
February 4, 2023 4:43 pm

Name every female Fields Medallist.

As of my knowledge cut off in 2021, the following women have won the Fields Medal, which is considered one of the highest honors in mathematics:

Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck (2018)
Terence Tao (2006)
Maryam Mirzakhani (2014)
Akshay Venkatesh (2018)
5.Manjul Bhargava (2014)

It’s worth noting that the Fields Medal is awarded every four years, and the list of winners may have changed since my training data was collected.

Terrence Tao is a man.

My apologies, you are correct. Terrence Tao is a man and not a woman. Thank you for correcting this mistake.

Akshay Venkatesh is also a man.

I apologize for the error. Akshay Venkatesh is indeed a man. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. To clarify, the women Fields Medalists, as of my knowledge cut-off in 2021, are Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck and Maryam Mirzakhani.

Why did you lie?

I apologize if my previous response was incorrect. As an AI language model, I do sometimes make mistakes, and I strive to provide accurate information. If my responses are incorrect or misleading, please let me know and I will do my best to correct them. My primary goal is to assist users by providing reliable and accurate information.

Name every male Fields Medallist.

As of my training data, which has a knowledge cut-off in 2021, the following individuals have won the Fields Medal, which is considered one of the highest honors in mathematics:

Jean-Pierre Serre (1954)
John Nash (1994)
Louis Nirenberg (1958)
Enrico Bombieri (1974)
Srinivasa Varadhan (2007)
Terence Tao (2006)
Akshay Venkatesh (2018)
8.Manjul Bhargava (2014)
Maxim Kontsevich (1998)
Laurent Lafforgue (2002)
Elon Lindenstrauss (2010)
Cédric Villani (2010)
Subhash Khot (2014)
14.Peter Scholze (2018)
Tian Gang (2018)

It’s worth noting that the Fields Medal is awarded every four years, and the list of winners may have changed since my training data was collected.

Diogenes
Diogenes
February 4, 2023 4:47 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
February 4, 2023 at 1:54 pm
I was told last night that before the 70’s, a woman in Australia was considered her husband’s “property”.

Not since 1892.

To the ahistorical imbecile who made the claim, 1892 is “before the ’70s”.

Standards in English are dropping – current usage has “before the 1970s” meaning “until the 1970s”. That one is up there with the confusion between less and and fewer (less pertains to money, fewer to everything else) and the (mis)use of “myself”.

Cassie of Sydney
February 4, 2023 4:55 pm

It may have been in the Oz. Wifey was telling me she read a story in the Oz about Pell that made him look like a giant among pygmies.

The story went that was instructed to accompany Risdale to court by the then Archbishop, even though Pell was deadset against it. It was after Pell heard of the horrendous abuse committed by Risdale that Pell simply refused to attend.

Pell made sure this part of the background of the story was always kept secret despite the horrible optics of the infamous picture of Pell walking Risdale to court.

How uber stoic.

JC, apparently Pell spoke about what happened to his good friend and biographer, Tess Livingstone, as far back as 2001. He deeply regretted accompanying Ridsdale to court and told Livingstone that it wasn’t his decision. However, he explicitly forbade Livingstone from including it in any biography. It’s only come out now.

John Ferguson in his Oz piece yesterday…

At the cardinal’s funeral on Thursday, his brother David raised publicly for the first time claims Pell had walked in tandem with the disgraced Gerald ­Ridsdale to court in Melbourne in 1993 after being told by a senior church leader to provide support.

Pell’s reputation among survivors and many of his detractors never recovered from the decision to stand by Ridsdale, who had hundreds of victims, mainly in Victoria’s west, including in Ballarat and in smaller towns. The claims that Cardinal Pell was following an official request were supported by Pell’s biographer, Tess Livingstone, but were tightly held within the Pell family and among his closest friends.

Livingstone said Pell had told her in 2001 that the superior was former archbishop of Melbourne Frank Little. “This was a direct order from Frank Little,” she said of the conversation, which Pell ­requested not be reported.

I was there on Thursday (sitting outside) and I heard David Pell say this. You could hear the pain and grief in David Pell’s trembling voice. I suspect the Pell family are rightly aggrieved at the injustice done to this saintly and dignified man who was their brother, their uncle, and their great-uncle. People forget he had a family who loved and cherished him. Too many only think of Pell as a priest, a bishop and a cardinal. However, he also belonged to a close knit family, a family he loved and adored and who in turn loved and adored him and they always knew what was said about him were complete lies. George Pell adored his siblings, his nephews, his nieces, and his great-nieces and nephews. He was a loyal churchman but he was also a man from a loving family man and always a proud Australian.

He was too good for us.

This country owes the Pell family a formal apology.

I’ll say this, Peter Dutton showed courage attending the funeral. The same cannot be said of Dominic Perrottet.

Pogria
Pogria
February 4, 2023 4:57 pm

If you only need internet connection, you can’t go past Starlink. Where I live is pretty remote. The previous owner had NBN Satellite connected so I thought I would go with that. Telstra couldn’t connect ADSL through the Landline. The unfortunate thing with NBN is, you do not deal with them direct. You have to go through one of the small companies that sub-contract. This also puts you and them at the mercy of the NBN technical beaurocracy. I was told that all I had to do was plug it in and switch it on as it had already been installed. Nada, nothing. I was told someone would be out within a week to see to the problem.
After five weeks of not answering my calls and emails, I cancelled and ordered Starlink. Took me ten minutes to connect to the net. It is not cheap, but you have no on or off peak restrictions and it is only as slow or fast as your computer. An added bonus, my mobile is with Telstra and I could only make or receive calls in a couple of areas in the house. Since Starlink, I can make and receive calls anywhere throughout the house. It seems to have boosted the mobile signal.
Top Ender, hope this helps.

Cassie of Sydney
February 4, 2023 4:58 pm

“Frank Little, Archbishop of Melbourne.
A complete arse.
Only topped by Rotten Ronnie Mulkearns from the ‘rat.
George really raised “taking one for the team” to a ridiculous (and ill advised level).
I think if he had his time again he would have said, “After you, Frankie.””

Snap Sancho. David Pell basically said this, and whilst he didn’t use his eulogy to get stuck into Little personally, he made it clear that Pell was ordered to accompany Ridsdale to court.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2023 5:01 pm

Mother Lodesays:

February 4, 2023 at 1:13 pm

I have just been watching Cunk On Earth on Netflix.

Worth a look if you happen to laugh at the same things I do – which you may not actually know.

Anyway…

Yes, not as gut-busting funny as the review in the Oz would have you believe, but pretty funny.
Here’s the thing. I think the main character is a pisstake of all those art/history grads who end up with a j’ism job.
She is totally clueless, but that doesn’t stop her confidently delivering total gibberish, and treating genuine subject matter experts* with dismissive contempt.
….
* Apparently the experts depicted in the show are genuine authorities in their field. Their reactions are the funniest. In response to her lame statements they will say something like “Well, I wouldn’t characterise it quite like that” but the expression on their face says “WTF?!? You moron!”

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 4, 2023 5:07 pm

How does Australia owe Pell an apology?

Clearly he was an ambitious guy, his career woulda flatlined if he’d told Frank Little to take a running jump rather than accompany Gerry to Court in 1986.

So, he made his bed, but it came back to haunt him 30 years later.

By which time he’d achieved his ambitions.

Life’s a tradeoff, you can either have your cake or you can eat your cake, but you can’t do both.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 4, 2023 5:08 pm

Can someone remind me?
Was Frank Little’s legacy hauled over the coals at the Royal Commission?
He died a while back.

calli
calli
February 4, 2023 5:11 pm

Luigi the Unbelievable misses the funeral of a Cardinal, but podiumises at a western Sydney fundraiser by the Abdullah family, called I4give.

Mercy is very selective in some circles.

Pogria
Pogria
February 4, 2023 5:11 pm

Dover, no disrespect but I think this blog just stepped in something.

Pogria
Pogria
February 4, 2023 5:13 pm

I have realised that I may not have been clear. I never engage trolls, but Head case just went too far.

Cassie of Sydney
February 4, 2023 5:14 pm

“I have realised that I may not have been clear. I never engage trolls, but Head case just went too far.”

Not for the first time.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2023 5:15 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:

February 4, 2023 at 2:15 pm

This is what happened to an ex colleague. Because all the bills were in his name it ruined his credit score. Then she divorced him.

My ex thought it a great joke to clean out the bank account, to buy herself the sports car she had always wanted

Well, I hope your lawyer threw it into the asset pool and, if she wanted to keep the car, it became part of her allocation.
That’s how it normally works.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 4, 2023 5:16 pm

The RCC can’t find Aussies to do the job, so they’ve imported Curry Munchers as Parish Priests.

They probably had trouble finding recruits in Frank Little’s day, so what was he supposed to do?

I recall reading about some youth leader in rural Western Australia in the Eighties, he’d had sex with dozens of boys in some sporting or Scout group, the fathers were asked for their opinion.

Well, their opinion was that he’s have to serve his time, but he’d been good for their boys, and would be welcome to return to the town.

Victoria wouldn’t be much different, so what was Ron Mulkearns supposed to do?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2023 5:19 pm

Top Endersays:

February 4, 2023 at 2:02 pm

Well, thinking of leaving Telstra after 30 years.

#metoo.
We only stuck with them when Telstra was the only company with coverage at The Country Estate.
That reason has now gone away.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 4, 2023 5:22 pm

PM praises Abdallah family’s strength, humanity
Tricia Rivera
TRICIA RIVERA

Anthony Albanese praised the Abdallah family at the i4Give Festival in Parramatta on Saturday, calling them “remarkable Australians”.

Danny and Leila Abdallah founded i4Give in 2021 after their three children – Sienna, Antony and Angelina – as well as their cousin, Veronique Sakr, were killed by a drunk driver while on their way to buy ice cream.

“Frankly, you are just remarkable Australians,” the Prime Minister said in his speech at the Sydney festival.

“Instead of raging at the injustice of their loss, they found the strength, the courage and above all the humanity to choose a path of grace.”

Former prime minister Scott Morrison, NSW premier Dominic Perrottet and state Opposition leader Chris Minns were also in attendance.

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 4, 2023 5:23 pm

I’ll say this, Peter Dutton showed courage attending the funeral. The same cannot be said of Dominic Perrottet.

Good on Dutton. As for Parrot-twerp par for the course, a squishy squish. Lord the NSW lieborals are loathsome.

calli
calli
February 4, 2023 5:24 pm

Former prime minister Scott Morrison, NSW premier Dominic Perrottet and state Opposition leader Chris Minns were also in attendance.

Cheap grace.

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 4, 2023 5:27 pm

I dislike Telstra especially the current wimmin CEO- my problem is their mobile network gives the most comprehensive coverage. True in places like Hill End (believe it or not) Optus has a better signal but overall I think it’s the best. So will have to hang onto those SIM cards.

C.L.
C.L.
February 4, 2023 5:28 pm

“Instead of raging at the injustice of their loss, they found the strength, the courage and above all the humanity to choose a path of grace.”

No, “above all” for them is God, not “the humanity” – whatever that’s supposed to mean.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 4, 2023 5:31 pm

Aldi mobile uses the Telstra network except no 5G (who cares).
$15 a month prepaid. Free calls in Oz plus 3 gigs of data which rolls over. For $25 get 22 gig data which rolls over, free calls in Oz and free calls to NZ and about 20 other countries.
No hassle to deal with. Sign up on line and they send the sim card in the mail.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 4, 2023 5:31 pm

NSW premier Dominic Perrottet

Damage control in the Maronite Christian community perhaps?

Seems a few beefy Leb boys didn’t take too lightly to the disgraceful protests at Pell’s funeral that by the way the NSW Government allowed. Keep digging mate, only a bit over a month and coup de grace will be delivered then God help NSW.

Rabz
February 4, 2023 5:33 pm

Dover, please check your email, Squire.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 4, 2023 5:34 pm

Did Parrothead know Pell or ever meet him?

Or was attendance at the Funeral expected from a representative of the governing Party?

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 4, 2023 5:34 pm

I run a dual sim phone, prepaid Optus & Telstra. Works in 95% of the Queensland Coalfields switching the provider as required.

Pogria
Pogria
February 4, 2023 5:34 pm

“Cassie of Sydneysays:
February 4, 2023 at 5:14 pm
“I have realised that I may not have been clear. I never engage trolls, but Head case just went too far.”

Not for the first time.

Cassie, this time, for me it was that step too far. Too easy to besmirch a great man, especially when you have no courage or any form of faith so all you can do is hide under the bridge and try to upset the complete people walking across.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 4, 2023 5:35 pm

Just opened up Netflix.
Number one trending show in Australia? Young Sheldon.
Sell Australia.

Figures
Figures
February 4, 2023 5:35 pm

If any of you are in the mood for vomiting you can read Jo Hildebrand’s typical “what’s the most craven stance I could possibly take” piece on Pell.

Hildebrand knew Pell was innocent but never once stood up for him because, you see, Hildebrand divined that Pell actually wanted to rape kids but only chose not to
to protect the Church. Therefore, being locked up for a crime he didn’t commit was still all Pell’s fault because Jo thinks Catholic priests have a Biblical duty to be gay rights activists.

Fence sitting f***wits like Hildebrand and ScoMo manage to do the seeming impossible: be even more evil than people like Monty.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 4, 2023 5:35 pm

Well, I hope your lawyer threw it into the asset pool and, if she wanted to keep the car, it became part of her allocation.
That’s how it normally works.

When the subject of the assets belonging to the Creature From the Black Lagoon WAS raised, the Registrar from the Family Court pointed out that “During your marriage, your wife has become accustomed to a certain standard of living. It is obvious that you have substantial assets. We are here to make a fair division of those assets, so that your wife may continue to enjoy that standard of living.”

I regard it as a tribute to my powers of self control that I never smashed the sniveling little girly -man into the next postcode.

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 4, 2023 5:36 pm

Yes Eyrie 4G is going to be around for many more years. 3G closes completely in mid 2024.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 4, 2023 5:37 pm

I pity the water heads like Hildebrand.

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 4, 2023 5:38 pm

I run a dual sim phone, prepaid Optus & Telstra. Works in 95% of the Queensland Coalfields switching the provider as required.

different numbers I presume- divert one?

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 4, 2023 5:38 pm

I’ve been watching a frog show called Black Spot on Netflix.
I think living in rural France for a year might be on the cards.

Johnny Rotten
February 4, 2023 5:39 pm

Life’s a tradeoff, you can either have your cake or you can eat your cake, but you can’t do both.

Head Case and A Suitable Case for Treatment. Again, you are wrong.

Quote by Billy Connolly
When people say “Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too”. F*cking right! What good is a cake if you can’t eat it?………………………..

Dot
Dot
February 4, 2023 5:40 pm

I think living in rural France for a year might be on the cards.

Now that’s soldiering!

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 4, 2023 5:40 pm

Pogriasays:
February 4, 2023 at 5:13 pm
I have realised that I may not have been clear. I never engage trolls, but Head case just went too far.

I suspect that he has had a few too many benzies today.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2023 5:41 pm

GreyRangasays:

February 4, 2023 at 4:09 pm

Half the cars on the road without the Marque symbol all look the same. Very little style. I don’t like sedans

Governed by a combination of carrying capacity (luggage and passengers) and aerodynamics.
They are all arriving at roughly the same design trying to wring that last 1% of fuel efficiency out of it.

cohenite
February 4, 2023 5:43 pm

Life’s a tradeoff, you can either have your cake or you can eat your cake, but you can’t do both.

Correct. You chose antisemitism and became a crotchless dog turd.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2023 5:44 pm

ZK2A at 5:35.
So what was the final percentage split?

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 4, 2023 5:46 pm

After reading his latest drivel, it seems clear that he is as high as a kite this afternoon.

The alternative is that he is a raving religious bigot.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 4, 2023 5:46 pm

Yes miltonf. Some places out back of Moranbah, Middlemount & Glenden Optus is the only choice, elsewhere it is Telstra.

All clients have both numbers anyway and though Telstra is my primary contact, if I am in a Telstra blackspot they usually call on Optus. Call forwarding never gets much use as result.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 4, 2023 5:47 pm

cohenitesays:
February 4, 2023 at 5:43 pm
Life’s a tradeoff, you can either have your cake or you can eat your cake, but you can’t do both.

Correct. You chose antisemitism and became a crotchless dog turd.

His bigotry seems to be quite broad, however, he remains a dog turd in all cases.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 4, 2023 5:48 pm

Before we take the detour to FruitLoopsVille, let’s get a few things straight:

#1. Pell said he’d written the entire thing off to experience [or words to that effect], her blamed nobody, and the RCC hadn’t contributed a penny to his Defence.
#2. Either he, or someone he’d spoken to, said the entire witch hunt originated in the Vatican due to his investigations of ongoing financial Frauds there.
Taking him at his word, that indicates a Conspiracy at high levels in the Victorian Criminal Justice System.

Not something that requires the average Australian to don Sackcloth & Ashes and beat him or herself up about.

cohenite
February 4, 2023 5:49 pm
Miltonf
Miltonf
February 4, 2023 5:51 pm

Interesting thanks RD

Cassie of Sydney
February 4, 2023 5:51 pm

“Cassie, this time, for me it was that step too far. Too easy to besmirch a great man, especially when you have no courage or any form of faith so all you can do is hide under the bridge and try to upset the complete people walking across.”

I agree.

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 4, 2023 5:52 pm

Rockdoctor do you reckon Telstra blue tick phones are better in remote locations?

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 4, 2023 5:52 pm

Mr Sulu, SpongeBob and Schmendrick are here, so it’s all aboard the FruitLoopsVille Express, I take it?

Pogria
Pogria
February 4, 2023 5:54 pm

Cohenite,
I was looking at those memes a little earlier on. I believe this particular one speaks for most of us. 😀

Zipster
Zipster
February 4, 2023 5:54 pm

Should brain dead women be kept ‘alive’ and used as SURROGATES?

do you mean voters who vote left/green? sure why not

Mark from Melbourne
Mark from Melbourne
February 4, 2023 5:54 pm

It would appear that the CCP is down one balloon.

cohenite
February 4, 2023 5:54 pm

FruitLoopsVille Express

So, antisemitism is not enough for you.

Pogria
Pogria
February 4, 2023 5:56 pm

Figures,
before Hildebrand was given free rein re his “opinions”, he used to speak and behave like a stoner. Now, if you have the misfortune to catch his shtick while channel surfing, he seriously comes across as a crack head.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 4, 2023 5:57 pm

It would appear that the CCP is down one balloon.
The US shot it down?

Cassie of Sydney
February 4, 2023 5:58 pm

“Seems a few beefy Leb boys didn’t take too lightly to the disgraceful protests at Pell’s funeral that by the way the NSW Government allowed. Keep digging mate, only a bit over a month and coup de grace will be delivered then God help NSW.”

Ah yep. Those “beefy Leb boys”, all young, handsome and strong men, all wearing large crosses around their necks, some had arrived in their tradie gear, were on their knees saying the rosary when the police allowed the scum to walk directly past the cathedral doors and us mourners outside. Those “Leb boys” got up and walked over to the kerb. It took some of their wives to hold them back. It was only then that the putrid NSW police decided to move on the cockroach protesters.

I love seeing men praying, be they Christian or Jewish men. I’ve seen pictures of Israeli men in the IDF, before and after battles, put on their prayer shawls. These men know who the big boss is.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 4, 2023 6:08 pm

Sorry miltonf don’t know much about the blue tick phones. I just use a regular handset, seems to work ok.

BTW any Telstra plan with unlimited calls allows call forwarding.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 4, 2023 6:10 pm

Richard Cranium

Taking him at his word, that indicates a Conspiracy at high levels in the Victorian Criminal Justice System.

Not something that requires the average Australian to don Sackcloth & Ashes and beat him or herself up about.

You seem remarkably relaxed about the thought that the Victorian Criminal Justice System is criminally corrupt. Perhaps you should move to Victoria, and see how you go.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 4, 2023 6:11 pm

It would appear that the CCP is down one balloon.
The US shot it down?

They were cleaning their new 250kW laser and it went off accidentally?
Always annoying when that happens.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 4, 2023 6:12 pm

It appears MDMA has been approved for medical use in Australia from 1st July.

Pogria
Pogria
February 4, 2023 6:15 pm

“feelthebernsays:
February 4, 2023 at 6:12 pm
It appears MDMA has been approved for medical use in Australia from 1st July.

And Paracetamol is going to be rationed. 🙁

Frank
Frank
February 4, 2023 6:17 pm

Balloon story roundup at pyjamas media with explosioning video of something.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 4, 2023 6:21 pm

Considering the emerging data on prolonged use of SSRI’s it will be interesting to see what the prolonged use under medical supervision of MDMA is.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 4, 2023 6:22 pm

Ed Casesays:
February 4, 2023 at 5:52 pm
Mr Sulu, SpongeBob and Schmendrick are here, so it’s all aboard the FruitLoopsVille Express, I take it?

Lay off the booze, Richard Cranium.

Tom
Tom
February 4, 2023 6:25 pm

I pity the water heads like Hildebrand.

About two years ago, Joe Hildebrand accepted an offer from News Corp and its paymaster, Ruperdink Mudrock, to become the ALP’s voice at news.com.au, the company’s most popular website, and its other news producers to provide “balance” — a marketing device used globally and very successfully by News and its subsidiaries like Fox News.

I hope Hildebrand was well compensated for prostituting himself to feed his young family.

He is no longer a journalist.

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 4, 2023 6:37 pm

Thanks RD- Telstra makes a bit of a thing about ‘blue tick’.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
February 4, 2023 6:43 pm

Ah yep. Those “beefy Leb boys”, all young, handsome and strong men, all wearing large crosses around their necks, some had arrived in their tradie gear, were on their knees saying the rosary when the police allowed the scum to walk directly past the cathedral doors and us mourners outside. Those “Leb boys” got up and walked over to the kerb. It took some of their wives to hold them back. It was only then that the putrid NSW police decided to move on the cockroach protesters.

Yes the Lebanese Christian men were not going to put up with the expletives and profanities of the screeching scum. I cannot believe what the police allowed to happen. The screeching scum were supposed to be confined to Hyde Park and not permitted into College Street, yet right when the Mass started Police allowed Hyde Park to vomit forth the scum onto College Street precisely where the protestors were expressly prohibited, just metres away from where we were attending the service, the din was so great that mourners in the forecourt could not hear the words of those celebrating the Mass.

The police still did nothing but allowed the filthy words of the protestors to pour forth. That’s when the Lebanese men moved to the kerb and it really was touch and go because those me were seriously intending to thump the scum — only at that moment did the police on horseback moved the mongrel mob totally away from the proceedings and then quiet was restored so that the requiem Mass could be heard by us all.

Imagine the utter disgrace of the NSW police force, had there been an unseemly stoush and they’d allowed it to happen — of course they would have arrested the irate mourners but the shame would have been that of the NSW police hierarchy, in particular pathetic Acting Commissioner Martin Fileman who’d opined “We’ve achieved a good outcome,”

However, undeterred a piece of the toxic alphabet scum infiltrated the mourners with a rainbow coloured umbrella and a vomitous message its shirt — but was quietly removed by two police officers.

Tony Abbott nailed it – George Cardinal Pell had already performed his first miracle in having the mongrel mob believe in the afterlife.

calli
calli
February 4, 2023 6:47 pm

I mentioned yesterday, Tinta…the screechers don’t like tough, robust, muscular and masculine Christianity.

They prefer the supine, feminine sort.

Meek does not mean weak. Suck it up bullies.

Zipster
Zipster
February 4, 2023 6:52 pm

Considering the emerging data on prolonged use of SSRI’s it will be interesting to see what the prolonged use under medical supervision of MDMA is.

you get about 4-6 hits before tolerance sets in and effect dwindles rapidly or dose must be increased

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 4, 2023 6:53 pm

There appears to be a lot of murders in this French village in Black Spot.
A dead body in every episode so far.

Indolent
Indolent
February 4, 2023 6:54 pm
Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
February 4, 2023 6:58 pm

I mentioned yesterday, Tinta…the screechers don’t like tough, robust, muscular and masculine Christianity.

Too right calli — that’s why the mounted cops moved on the scum – they could see what robust, muscular and masculine Christianity looked like, that it wasn’t going to continue in the meek and mild vein — I would have gladly handed over my black stilettos to good use, thankfully it didn’t come to that.

All that was left as a reminder was mounds of fresh horse shit – a fitting metaphor methinks

C.L.
C.L.
February 4, 2023 7:00 pm

Russo the new WA Lib president. Interesting.

jupes
jupes
February 4, 2023 7:00 pm

Where’s Rabz?

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 4, 2023 7:00 pm

Tim Kaine eh- running mate for the lesbian bitch in 2016 iirc. A steaming little turd. Foul offspring involved in marxist agitation iirc again.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 4, 2023 7:02 pm

Tinta,

I regrettably am not surprised. NSW Pol and any number of state police seem stilted with enforcing the law against leftist protests that we have worked out in the last 3 years is not afforded to the right or even the centre (My opinion most of the anti-lockdown protests were attended by all of voting persuasion who had just had enough).

I haven’t had any interactions with police since but I am now firmly in flyingduk’s camp when it comes to recording interactions. Sad to say as I have relatives who after being in a green uniform took up a blue one including one who was deep undercover and involved in some high profile cases.

jupes
jupes
February 4, 2023 7:02 pm

Russo the new WA Lib president. Interesting.

Three top WA Libs are women. They are trying to take back the Teal votes.

Way to miss the point!

P
P
February 4, 2023 7:03 pm

I watched the whole broadcast on youtube of the Funeral Mass for Cardinal George Pell. I felt uncomfortable at Acknowledgement of Country:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgL7QnnxN1o&t=906s (prompted).

calli
calli
February 4, 2023 7:03 pm

I would have gladly handed over my black stilettos to good use

Christian elephants wouldn’t have gone astray either! 😀

Cassie of Sydney
February 4, 2023 7:06 pm

“I would have gladly handed over my black stilettos to good use, thankfully it didn’t come to that.”

And I had my walking stick with me, ready to thump any scum that came near me.

C.L.
C.L.
February 4, 2023 7:07 pm

Christian elephants wouldn’t have gone astray either!

(? ?° ??? ?°)?

Cassie of Sydney
February 4, 2023 7:07 pm

“Russo the new WA Lib president. Interesting.”

I don’t mind Russo, she ain’t no bleeding heart or Teal.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 4, 2023 7:08 pm

Russo the new WA Lib president. Interesting.

Their near death experience seems to have woken them from their slumber. Long way back.

C.L.
C.L.
February 4, 2023 7:09 pm

Keyboard text faces. They never work.

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 4, 2023 7:13 pm

James Campbell: Why I won’t be voting yes to the Indigenous Voice to Parliament

It’s time to question the message sent by Welcome to Country ceremonies, writes James Campbell: that there are two peoples occupying Australia — and only one of them has a right to be here.

Though I doubt he intended it to be, there’s a bit in Albo’s speech on Sunday to the Chifley Research Centre that has crystallised why I will probably end up voting no to the Indigenous Voice to parliament.

I should be clear: I’m not against it because I think it’s a Trojan horse in which lots of clever Lefty lawyers are crouched waiting to unleash their arguments in front of activist judges the moment it is safely inside the gates of constitution. You can’t rule this out, of course, not since the High Court managed to discover a few years back that special rights attach to Indigenous folk in this country, even if they’re actually citizens of New Zealand.

But on my — layman’s — reading, these arguments strike me as overblown, not least because they so often seem to be derived from the Kiwi experience of the Treaty of Waitangi. The reason I’m not really worried about this is because even if the fears turn out to be well-founded, it’s obvious that a future Coalition government will spearhead a campaign for the Voice’s removal from the Constitution.

Other arguments against include that by giving the Indigenous their own de facto parliament, we are stepping down the primrose path to apartheid; that it is unnecessary because there are already Indigenous voices in parliament; and that it will encourage frauds.

There’s also a general objection that singling out one particular race is, by its nature, divisive.

To me, the last one has the most merit, but even so, on its own, this probably wouldn’t be enough to persuade me to vote no.

Why not? Because I think it’s probable the Voice will end up confining itself to Indigenous issues just as its proponents say it will, in which case its capacity for spreading division will be limited.

My problem with Voice is it is not happening on its own. It’s happening in the context of a concerted campaign to redefine the way the non-Indigenous Australians see their relationship with this land.

As Albo says in his Chifley speech: “If you go to any big sporting event — a Test match, State of Origin, the footy finals — there will be a Welcome to Country. Or a barefoot circle. Or a smoking ceremony.

“We begin sittings of parliament with one each day, The Project open their show with it every night.”

These acknowledgments, he says, are “embraced by community in schools and childcare centres, local councils and sporting clubs” as “a simple, humble, very Australian way of paying respect that has become part of our daily lives.”

Whether or not they have actually been embraced or rather imposed by the great Australian fear of doing the “wrong thing” socially is debatable.

What is undoubtedly true is that they are to be found everywhere.

At first I didn’t notice what a noise these acknowledgments made, perhaps because they were initially rare. But these days they are inescapable — at the start and end of ABC programs, every time the Qantas plane touches down, at every school assembly.

When something becomes ubiquitous, you see it in different terms. I can’t remember when my bemusement changed to irritation — “are we still doing this?” — before moving on to overt hostility.

Probably when it dawned on me that these little acts of contrition were never going to end.

They’re now a permanent part of our national settlement.

And the message we give ourselves by opening everything we do in public and private “by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet” and paying “respects to their elders past, present and emerging” is that we are interlopers in this country who are here on the sufferance — morally anyway — of the people who were here before we, or our ancestors, arrived.

Maybe you are comfortable with that for yourself. Maybe you are even happy for your children, who will never know a time when it was different, to live in an Australia where their every moment from birth to death is dogged by the message that there are not one but two peoples that occupy this continent and only one of them has a right to be here.

Personally, I reckon a country where most of the populace is made to feel like they are guests is unlikely to be a happy one. Especially one where most of that populace — myself included — has no right to live anywhere else.

I obviously understand that 234 years is the blink of an eye to people who have been here for 60,000, and that in world historical terms, it’s a very short time for a society to heal after something as traumatic for the original inhabitants as what kicked off at Sydney Cove in January 1788.

Readers of English descent would do well to remember that plenty of their ancestors were still going on about the “Norman yoke” at least 700 years after William the Conqueror saw off Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

But that said, the Voice, as with acknowledgments of country, denies the possibility there can ever be convergence between these two peoples.

It’s not a step to a brighter future, it’s an acknowledgment of defeat.

Got a news tip? Email [email protected]

Daily Tele

shatterzzz
February 4, 2023 7:21 pm

“We begin sittings of parliament with one each day, The Project open their show with it every night.”

WOW! .. The Project .. I’ze, definitely, voting YES …
If it’s good enuf fer Squalid, it’s good enuf fer me! … LOL!

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
February 4, 2023 7:21 pm

Ah Hilaire Belloc another magnificent fearless Catholic:

It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.

— Hilaire Belloc

Indolent
Indolent
February 4, 2023 7:22 pm
Oh come on
Oh come on
February 4, 2023 7:23 pm

not “the humanity” – whatever that’s supposed to mean.

Reminds me of “the serenity”. How’s the serenity?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2023 7:23 pm

feelthebernsays:

February 4, 2023 at 6:53 pm

There appears to be a lot of murders in this French village in Black Spot.
A dead body in every episode so far.

The village of Milieu de l’été?

Indolent
Indolent
February 4, 2023 7:23 pm
Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 4, 2023 7:30 pm

Yes, not as gut-busting funny as the review in the Oz would have you believe, but pretty funny.

Her persona as the rambling effete is, I think, a perfect satire.

But full of little gems, like saying that the Romans were hungry for a Christ-like figure, who happened to turn up in the person of ‘Jesus Christ Almighty’.

Her interviews with academics are priceless – her deflation at learning Aristotle did not actually say ‘Dance like nobody is watching’ was so poignant. Or her persistence that Beethoven was profoundly dead (not deaf) in the later years of his life which leaves the academic flummoxed between being polite and being intellectually beggared.

But, after her commentary on Christ and how much he appears in art and then mentioning that there were images of Mohammad – but the producer had been forced to sign an agreement not to show them, and her without her kribs notes having her entire commentary on Islam blocked with a message that ‘it is not available in your area’ was deliciously subversive, not just in regards to modern Islam but the slobbering subservience of modern media and
social media.

And I just live for her stories about ‘my mate Paul’.

My favourite (so far) is the one about a bloke who wore a bib around his arse in prison. That joke went to places she wasn’t prepared for. More disturbing them funny. And when she looked up, Paul was crying.

That just rips me up.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
February 4, 2023 7:31 pm

I felt uncomfortable at Acknowledgement of Country:

. Me too P, it grated. John Campbell has written a good article and while agree with many of his points, for me the Voice will instantiate racism into our Constitution and divide our country. I’m having none of that.

calli
calli
February 4, 2023 7:32 pm

When something becomes ubiquitous, you see it in different terms. I can’t remember when my bemusement changed to irritation — “are we still doing this?” — before moving on to overt hostility.

Probably when it dawned on me that these little acts of contrition were never going to end.

An apology that will never be accepted.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
February 4, 2023 7:33 pm

Rockdoctorsays:
February 4, 2023 at 7:02 pm

As my activist lawyer son says: the police are not your friends.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
February 4, 2023 7:34 pm

An apology that will never be accepted.

Activists are never satisfied that’s why there will never be reconciliation.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 4, 2023 7:36 pm

On the last leg of the South Indian coast to coast trek.
The main highways are in far better condition than ours and that’s after record rainfall last year.
There are damaged parts but all are under repair. From what I can observe it’s the depth of the seal that’s the key. You don’t get the plant invasion at the edges because it’s so thick.
We’re one socialist experiment away from being the white trailer trash of the Pacific.

rosie
rosie
February 4, 2023 7:37 pm

Got a response to my telstra complaint.
Here’s a link to create a my telstra account even though I told ‘max’ despite numerous attempts I could not get past the robot page.
And then he told me to remove my telstra sim which was removed as soon as I got here.
I see more emails in my future.

Cassie of Sydney
February 4, 2023 7:37 pm

“Russo the new WA Lib president. Interesting.”

Also, I’m no spruiker for the whole “female quota” bullshit but I’d give Russo a go. Let’s see what she does. Russo isn’t into female quotas. Maybe, after almost six years of WA Liberal wilderness (due to their own supine stupidity), perhaps, just perhaps, Russo might be up able to rev the party up. Just remember what they vomited up in 2021? Zaz Cockhead. How many seats do the Liberals currently hold in WA, in the state parliament it’s two, and federally? Only a one or two more.

calli
calli
February 4, 2023 7:39 pm

If I squint hard enough I see that elephant, C.L.

Here’s another.

calli
calli
February 4, 2023 7:39 pm

And, as he’s from Joel, he’s Cassie’s elephant too.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 4, 2023 7:41 pm

Mention was made of Adam’s Cat this morning, Shy Ted has put up more than one solid posting there, worth a visit.

On a related subject, I dropped in on Phat Pussy, aka m0nty’s Cat, a few days ago. At that time, the most recent post was his Venn diagram, proving to his satisfaction that everyone should have been vaxxed for the good of the communidy. The only recent commenters were m0nty=fa himself, Steve from Brissy and Homer P. I didn’t look at the comments.

areff
areff
February 4, 2023 7:41 pm

If VicPol and the state’s courts were merely corrupt, it would represent a considerable improvement on the Labor hacks and toadies taking their orders from Spring Street. At least you’d know they calculate their rewards in dollars, not in the pleasure of allowing Dan’s juice to dribble down their chins.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 4, 2023 7:44 pm

Activists are never satisfied that’s why there will never be reconciliation.

“Reconcilliation” has only ever been an exercise in shifting goalposts, and white guilt.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 4, 2023 7:44 pm

feelthebernsays:
February 4, 2023 at 6:53 pm
There appears to be a lot of murders in this French village in Black Spot.
A dead body in every episode so far.

Worse crime rate than Midsomer?

calli
calli
February 4, 2023 7:45 pm

Those magnificent guys, seven in number, are now playing on Gem.

Currently moving towards Boot Hill.

No elephants to support their cause, just a hearse and good aim.

jupes
jupes
February 4, 2023 7:51 pm

James Campbell: Why I won’t be voting yes to the Indigenous Voice to Parliament

Blah blah blah.

Good on you James. Glad you’ll be voting No.

Jupes: Why I won’t be voting yes to the Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

It’s racist.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2023 7:52 pm

Mother Lodesays:

February 4, 2023 at 7:30 pm

Yes, not as gut-busting funny as the review in the Oz would have you believe, but pretty funny.

Her persona as the rambling effete is, I think, a perfect satire.

I think so too.
And I think it escapes a lot of people is that the target is Arts/History graduates who know very little about Art or History.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 4, 2023 7:56 pm

Activists are never satisfied that’s why there will never be reconciliation.

+infinity

calli
calli
February 4, 2023 7:57 pm

Yes jupes. But Campbell makes an argument.

That thar column space won’t fill itself!

C.L.
C.L.
February 4, 2023 7:58 pm

Those magnificent guys, seven in number, are now playing on Gem.

I like the remake too.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 4, 2023 7:58 pm

If the Voice to Parliament does pass at referendum, won’t that render Linda Burney and her department redundant?

will
will
February 4, 2023 7:59 pm

When the subject of the assets belonging to the Creature From the Black Lagoon WAS raised, the Registrar from the Family Court pointed out that “During your marriage, your wife has become accustomed to a certain standard of living. It is obvious that you have substantial assets. We are here to make a fair division of those assets, so that your wife may continue to enjoy that standard of living.”

I regard it as a tribute to my powers of self control that I never smashed the sniveling little girly -man into the next postcode.

the correct response to avoid criminal prosecution is to ask why you are also not allowed to enjoy the standard of living to which you have become accustomed

rosie
rosie
February 4, 2023 8:00 pm

Found something on the Web that calculated the likely loss in dollars and lives if the 1908 Messina earthquake happened in 2008.
Building codes were significantly upgraded in 1909 so loss of life is likely to be around 17,000 in a much larger population, dollar cost of buildings and infrastructure naturally in the billions but most Italians don’t bother with residential earthquake insurance expecting instead the government will take care of them.
In the event of a quake while I’m here I’m heading for the hills (or the roof of my building) as the last one caused a tsunami just a few minutes later.

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