Open Thread – Tue 28 Feb 2023


Belisarius Begging for Alms, Jacques-Louis David, 1781


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feelthebern
feelthebern
March 3, 2023 7:33 pm

Westerners need to get used to eating offal again.
It’s a modern (post WWII) thing not eating a lot more of the beast.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 3, 2023 7:39 pm

All this offal commentary is just tripe from people who haven’t the guts – the intestinal fortitude – to try new things, or rehash old things.

I can’t stomach it any more.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
March 3, 2023 7:41 pm

Westerners need to get used to eating offal again.

We will again. Can remember mum buying it as a kid because dad’s army JNCO pay barely made ends meet with multiple growing mouths to feed. Lambs liver & kidney was a common dish mum made.

We’ve been spoilt in recent times and IMO western people will turn their nose up at the bugs.

Cassie of Sydney
March 3, 2023 7:43 pm

“Westerners need to get used to eating offal again.”

Offal has always been “frugal food” and I love frugal food. I was brought up on frugal food and there was a lot of offal, such things as liver (chicken and calves), tongue, kidneys, chicken feet, stuffed chicken neck. All delicious.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 3, 2023 7:44 pm

Lamb’s fry and bacon, yum!
A staple when I was growing up.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 3, 2023 7:45 pm

I get it, its frugal eating.
But it’s also just so good for you.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 3, 2023 7:47 pm

IMO western people will turn their nose up at the bugs

I think this is one aspect of how humans work that the bug proponents have yet to properly consider.

There is zero chance an entire generation of smashed avo munchers is going to make the jump to dung beetles, let alone anyone born earlier. No staged transition. No gentle introduction.

If I’m not doing it, millions of purple-haired noodle-armed sleeve-tatted baristas and social workers aren’t doing it either.

Cassie of Sydney
March 3, 2023 7:47 pm

“I get it, its frugal eating.
But it’s also just so good for you.”

And delicious!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 3, 2023 7:54 pm
Zipster
March 3, 2023 7:54 pm

King Punishes Harry & Meghan after Vicious Attack on Camilla

NCF Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-Mankoo joins Nigel Farage on GB News to discuss King Charles’s decision to evict The Duke and Duchess of Sussex out of Frogmore Cottage on the Windsor estate.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 3, 2023 7:55 pm

I was at a wedding in HK & when the fish dish came out, the locals fought over who got the fish eyes.

Siltstone
Siltstone
March 3, 2023 7:58 pm

Ox tongue is delicious.

cohenite
March 3, 2023 7:58 pm

Littleproud reckons any Coalition Agreement going into the next Election is dependent of the Liberal Party committing to repeal any Live Export Ban.

That sounds like political sabotage to me, as well as being electorally an extremely
unpopular
Policy.

STFU crotchless. Outside of a few inner city grub and cockroach eaters and antisemites this liar/filth policy has been trialled and proven to be a disaster.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 3, 2023 8:00 pm

Payne Haas playing tonight for the Broncos.
His mum is in the clink.
Wonder how he’ll go.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 3, 2023 8:00 pm

From Frogmore to Frogless.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 3, 2023 8:01 pm

feelthebern says:
March 3, 2023 at 7:45 pm

I get it, its frugal eating.
But it’s also just so good for you.

And not just good for you:

Lamb’s fry and bacon, yum!
A staple when I was growing up.

cohenite
March 3, 2023 8:02 pm
Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
March 3, 2023 8:03 pm

I was at a wedding in HK & when the fish dish came out, the locals fought over who got the fish eyes.

LOL have you ever seen the barney over the eyes of a pig or other parts of the head by PI’s at a hangi?

I can only imagine similar.

Mate’s Thai wife was bought up on crickets, other bugs and various small mammals caught in the rice paddies. She freely admits she can eat such but now pork is affordable to even subsistence farmers no one wants to unless they have to.

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

Westerners need to get used to eating offal again.

Why?
It doesn’t keep well, loses all flavour when frozen, and may have dangerous Vitamin A content.
It’s a modern (post WWII) thing not eating a lot more of the beast.

Offal is only 3%, including viscera Fat, of the edible yield from a beef carcase.
Lungs, Hearts, Spleens used to be ground up, cooked, canned and sold as Camp Pie[settle down, SpongeBob and Mr Sulu].

Lambs brains are excellent Baby Food, I was fed them as a baby.

areff
areff
March 3, 2023 8:04 pm

I can’t stomach it any more.

You’ve lost heart, eh, KD, lack the kidney to chow down. And be warned: should you give Cats a dose of spleen, Dover will insist you change your handle to Perry Stalsis.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 3, 2023 8:08 pm

… this liar/filth policy has been trialled and proven to be a disaster.

Is there any remote, nay, infinitesimal chance that you can point out where and when this “DISASTER” occurred?

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 3, 2023 8:10 pm

Offal porn and Dad Jokes.
Fitting end to another week – time for a stiff hand sanitizer and tonic.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 3, 2023 8:11 pm

Most people would be concerned at having a suspected paedophile living in their garden. Charles must figure it will still be better than his son and daughter in law.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 3, 2023 8:12 pm

There is zero chance an entire generation of smashed avo munchers is going to make the jump to dung beetles, let alone anyone born earlier. No staged transition. No gentle introduction.

You’ll be eating it, Joffa.

Those roaches will be marketed as Brokeback Pork, in a rainbow box.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 3, 2023 8:14 pm

Most people would be concerned at having a suspected paedophile living in their garden.

Prince Andrew is a Flamer.
It runs in the family.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 3, 2023 8:16 pm

Charles must figure it will still be better than his son and daughter in law.

He should change the name to Toadmore Cottage, since the people who live in it are complete toads.

John H.
John H.
March 3, 2023 8:18 pm

Zipstersays:
March 3, 2023 at 7:47 pm
Lockheed Martin’s production hits record high | Latest World News | English News | Top News | WION

LM is laughing all the way to the White House.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 3, 2023 8:21 pm

You’ll be eating it

I doubt it, flamerspook.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 3, 2023 8:26 pm

Rockdoctorsays:

March 3, 2023 at 7:30 pm

One thumbs up for the red roo, the replacement of the B717 with the E190. Much better for cabin comfort…

Not sure how Boeing didn’t end up in court over the B717.
Looks like a total rip-off of the McDonnell Douglas MD80 / MD95.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 3, 2023 8:26 pm

Kerry Stokes will be pleased. 2mm of rain forecast for Perf next week. Should help sales of Teh Worst which is traditionally held over your head in case of rain.

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 3, 2023 8:30 pm

Not sure how Boeing didn’t end up in court over the B717.
Looks like a total rip-off of the McDonnell Douglas MD80 / MD95.

Oh FFS, it *IS* the DC9/MD80/MD95. Boeing bought McDonnell Douglas in 9995 IIRC and re-branded the aircraft. Some say MacAir took over Boeing with Boeing’s money. The MacAir exec’s wound up running Boeing which was the beginning of Boeing’s fall from grace.

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 3, 2023 8:31 pm

Sorry , 1995.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 3, 2023 8:32 pm

H B Bearsays:

March 3, 2023 at 8:26 pm

Kerry Stokes will be pleased. 2mm of rain forecast for Perf next week. Should help sales of Teh Worst which is traditionally held over your head in case of rain.

Yes.
The cocky cage market is steady but not really enough to sustain a city daily.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 3, 2023 8:33 pm

Oh FFS, it *IS* the DC9/MD80/MD95. Boeing bought McDonnell Douglas in 9995 IIRC and re-branded the aircraft.

Bwah ha ha ha.
Come in spinner!

John H.
John H.
March 3, 2023 8:38 pm

I’m fed up with so much stupidity, lies, and propaganda being promoted as news and current affairs. It is examples like this that give me some hope.

WATCH: Neglectful parents BLAMED for Alice Springs’ crime wave

This is the video Lidia Thorpe DOES NOT want you to see

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 3, 2023 8:40 pm

And it isn’t the first 717.

cohenite
March 3, 2023 8:40 pm

Is there any remote, nay, infinitesimal chance that you can point out where and when this “DISASTER” occurred?

Here it is crochless. Now you prove you’re not an antisemite, you antisemite dickhead.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 3, 2023 8:43 pm

The MacAir exec’s wound up running Boeing which was the beginning of Boeing’s fall from grace.

One observation (from the inside of both companies) is that the rot had set in long before that.
Hubris and arrogance borne out of having a virtual monopoly pretty much since the beginning of the jet age.
The real downfall was the rise of Airbus and Boeing’s failure to respond. Sitting here in 2023 and blaming management from 1995-2000 is a pathetic cop-out.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 3, 2023 8:43 pm

. Should help sales of Teh Worst which is traditionally held over your head in case of rain.

For shame! Have you no respect for that esteemed newspaper’s reputation for quality journalism?

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 3, 2023 8:43 pm

Captured fighters of Ukraine in Bahkmut.

The Russians are taking prisoners?

Roger
Roger
March 3, 2023 8:50 pm

Littleproud reckons any Coalition Agreement going into the next Election is dependent of the Liberal Party committing to repeal any Live Export Ban.

Good to see him making himself useful for a change.

Siltstone
Siltstone
March 3, 2023 8:51 pm

Avi gets around. Great work in Davos, now great work in Alice Springs. Well done Rebel News.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 3, 2023 8:51 pm

Behold Ayers Rock’s replacement (the NT News):

Hopes are high a giant Christian cross atop a mountain 220km west of Alice Springs will deliver a tourism and employment boost to the region.

You still can’t see it from the Alice Springs airport.

The cross, 14 years in the making, towers off Memory Mountain outside the nearby Haasts Bluff (Ikuntji) community.

It is the realisation of photographer Ken Duncan’s dream who has led the project since Elders first suggested the idea in 2009.

Note the capitalisation of ‘Elders’. Like ‘the Pope’.

“For them, they said it was something very important for them, because where this cross is being built, in 1923 four Indigenous Lutheran evangelists came out and spread the gospel in that area and it was quite an amazing experience out there,” he said.

Okay. But, and in a hint as to motivations:

“It was something driven by the Indigenous people, not white missionaries, so there’s a monument at the base of that mountain for those four Indigenous evangelists, and some of the Elders involved are descendants of those evangelists.”

You know where this is going.

There were plans in place to build glamping and camping facilities in the area, to accommodate multi-day trips, he said.

“People will be able to come out and do tours, at the present they’ll be guided, the only way to go up to the cross is to be guided by Aboriginal people,” he said. “And they’ll be able to tell their stories. It’s got a Christian story, and it’s got a dreamtime story.”

Ready?

“And this creates an income stream for these young people.”

Boom. Any tourism is a side hustle from the income streams generated by NT Government funding for said glamping, infrastructure to develop and maintain it along with royalties for the tens of thousands of anticipated tourists travelling to and from Haasts Bluff from Alice over ‘land that was never ceded’.

Exhibit A for this premise is the crocodile-shaped hotel in Jabiru that was handed over to local ‘Elders’ and immediately fell into disrepair, sparked by family-driven disputes to the point where it’s a massive loss. I don’t know whether it’s even open. The Memory Mountain people would be sure to have learned from this, and will demand constant government top-ups as required.

The 20 metre high cross has solar lighting, apparently, and will be switched on at Easter – along with the cash tap for the ‘Elders’.

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 3, 2023 8:53 pm

Hubris and arrogance borne out of having a virtual monopoly pretty much since the beginning of the jet age.

More garbage.
The DC-8 was a great competitor for the 707. In many ways a better aircraft with more stretch potential. See 70 series.
The 737 nearly got cancelled in the late 1960’s as it was having trouble making headway against the DC-9 which Reg Ansett reckoned was an accountant’s dream.
The DC-10 and L-1011 with 3 engines were able to do trans ocean flights where the A300 was not at the time. Boeing did not have “a near monopoly”.

Makka
Makka
March 3, 2023 8:56 pm

Volkssturm units.

A few weeks back there were vids of Uke teams nabbing males off the streets and throwing them in mini busses as part of their “recruitment” drive.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 3, 2023 8:59 pm

Dude the rescue dog, after his 11,000km adventure worthy of both a mini-series and a spin-off, is decompressing – dead to the world asleep on his blanket.

But wagging his tail nonetheless. Good dog.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 3, 2023 9:01 pm

Eyriesays:
March 3, 2023 at 6:55 pm
Ed Case, you say some dumb things but that takes the cake. Weapons grade stupidity.

To which of Richard Cranium’s previous half dozen or so comments are you referring? He’s been pretty low grade all this evening.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 3, 2023 9:03 pm

The Russians are taking prisoners?

Neither side is especially adherent to the Geneva Conventions, but they’ve been doing regular prisoner swaps. Which is a good thing, since it lowers the nastiness quotient.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 3, 2023 9:04 pm

Now you prove you’re not an antisemite, you antisemite dickhead.

Hang on a flash, Mr Sulu.

T’ other day, you were saying that failure to support israel equals Antisemitism.
Now you’re saying it’s failure to support cruelty to sheep?

JC
JC
March 3, 2023 9:05 pm

Sanchez

One observation (from the inside of both companies) is that the rot had set in long before that.

I caught a SwissAir DC10 from NYC to Geneva around 1996 or so. It was in the summer. In the summer of the very next year, a SwissAir DC10 NYC to Geneva crashed with everyone aboard deadsky. It’s likely it was the very same plane. FMD. 

The suspicion as to why it went down was that SwissAir had introduced personal entertainment screens etc. to passenger seats and the wiring caught fire. FMD.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 3, 2023 9:08 pm

Richard Cranium

Lambs brains are excellent Baby Food, I was fed them as a baby.

That might explain why you have the brains of a sheep.

JC
JC
March 3, 2023 9:10 pm

Here it is.

All 229 passengers and crew on board the MD-11 were killed, making the crash the deadliest accident in the history of Swissair and the deadliest accident involving McDonnell Douglas MD-11. IATA flight No. ICAO flight No.

Actually it was an MD11 and the crash occurred in 1998.

https://simpleflying.com/swissair-flight-111-crash-aniversary/

Rabz
March 3, 2023 9:11 pm

Cats – tomorrow night’s Radio Show.

Still stroogling for a theme, but one might be ready if no better concepts are suggested.

I’ve just about run out of genres – Wolfs has many, many more possibilities to choose from.

So let’s hear it for some theme/genre suggestions, I asks ya! 😕

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 3, 2023 9:12 pm

SpongeBob:
Eyrie reckons, as a Furry, he wouldn’t mind a six thousand mile sea voyage below deck in 50 degree heat along with 100,000 sheep overseen by Lascars.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 3, 2023 9:13 pm

That might explain why you have the brains of a sheep.

Someone had to say it.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 3, 2023 9:14 pm

Hi Rabz:
How about music made by people who finked for the FBI, MI6 etc?
I’ll start the ball rolling with Jerome Garcia and Pete Townshend.

JC
JC
March 3, 2023 9:15 pm

I heard an interesting podcast about the war and Putin today.

The podcast concluded that Putin cannot risk negotiating a settlement until the Wagner Group is decimated on the front lines. The reason is that the head of Wagner could make a play for the top job and remove Putin.

The point is that the war will continue until Putin feels the Wagner group has lost enough men to make it too hard to pose a threat.

cohenite
March 3, 2023 9:15 pm

T’ other day, you were saying that failure to support israel equals Antisemitism.
Now you’re saying it’s failure to support cruelty to sheep?

One would reach that conclusion if one had the brains of a sheep.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 3, 2023 9:17 pm

Cats – tomorrow night’s Radio Show.

Rabz – Got to be Brit pop.

Pulp’s Steve Mackey dies aged 56 after months in hospital, band remember ‘beloved friend’ (2 Mar)

It’s sad to lose all these talented musicians, especially when they’re younger than I am.

cohenite
March 3, 2023 9:17 pm

T’

What a wanker you are crotchless.

Rabz
March 3, 2023 9:18 pm

Westerners need to get used to eating offal again

Again? I’ve never had the misfortune to chow down on it in my existence.

“Let’s hoe into some offal” said no semi conscious western personage, evah …

Rabz
March 3, 2023 9:21 pm

BoN – Party Hard

“I used to try very hard to make friends with every womanage on this planet, I tells ya …”

JC
JC
March 3, 2023 9:25 pm

Westerners need to get used to eating offal again

Europeans do and love the crap. Americans and Australians refuse to eat it and for good reason too. It’s disgusting.

dopey
dopey
March 3, 2023 9:26 pm

You’ve been told before Tom. No such thing as acting captain. Smith was captain for the Test.

Rabz
March 3, 2023 9:28 pm

Americans and Australians refuse to eat it

JC, the only offal in widespread (cultural) availability in this country would be kidney.

Usually presented in what KD might refer to as a “Rat Coffin”.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 3, 2023 9:31 pm

The 737 nearly got cancelled in the late 1960’s as it was having trouble making headway against the DC-9 which Reg Ansett reckoned was an accountant’s dream.

Ah, yes.
Ansett.
Another aviation company destroyed from within, but keen to blame anyone but themselves.
The Fat, Dumb and Happy days of Australian aviation.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 3, 2023 9:31 pm

Eyrie reckons, as a Furry, he wouldn’t mind a six thousand mile sea voyage below deck in 50 degree heat along with 100,000 sheep overseen by Lascars.

The only time the temperature on those decks reaches fifty degrees, is when those lascars take a bribe from the animal liberationists to turn off the ventilation, so they have footage of thirsty sheep.

They did used to feature images of dead and distressed lambs, until it was pointed out that ewes aren’t sent on the live trade, let alone ewes in lamb, or with lambs at foot.

Frank
Frank
March 3, 2023 9:33 pm

Just a thought, I might consider visiting Ayers Rock if it had a 200m Jesus the redeemer statue on top of it.

Rabz
March 3, 2023 9:34 pm

Cats, to paraphrase Paul Walleee, that’s another “long hot summer” that’s just passed me by.

All those grand plans, dashed by circumstances beyond my control, again.

Thanks, la Nina! 😕

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 3, 2023 9:34 pm

Still stroogling for a theme, but one might be ready if no better concepts are suggested.

The time is right.
Hillbilly Jugband music 1945-1960.

Cassie of Sydney
March 3, 2023 9:37 pm

“Still stroogling for a theme, but one might be ready if no better concepts are suggested.

I’ve just about run out of genres – Wolfs has many, many more possibilities to choose from.”

What about folk music Rabzy?

Cassie of Sydney
March 3, 2023 9:38 pm

Hollywood soundtracks? I’ve been singing songs from the Sound of Music all week.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 3, 2023 9:39 pm

What about folk music Rabzy?

No way!
If you want that sort of thing, start your own music blog, Momma Cassie!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 3, 2023 9:40 pm

What next?
John Freakin’ Denver?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 3, 2023 9:41 pm

No such thing as acting captain. Smith was captain for the Test

He may have had the (c) next to his name on the team sheet, but the Peter Garrett impersonator Cheaty McSnivel (overcoming the low bar of Cummins) can only ever be described as a stand-in.

When he was captain it was a mini-Golden Age where a combination of top-order form and a series of destabilised oppositions made him look far better than he was. Indore was the pitch, which backfired on the Indians as well as the GOAT who had two backups, instead of one or none.

Frank
Frank
March 3, 2023 9:43 pm

Hillbilly Jugband music.

Roky Erickson & The Black Angels – You’re Gonna Miss Me.

Apparently in the early days the the tenor of the jug depended upon how much dope they had left in the bottom of it.

rickw
rickw
March 3, 2023 9:43 pm

Claymores, backed up by crew served weapons?

Do you think 40mm Bofors is big enough? High quality steel, scrubs up ok even after 70 years sitting out the front of an RSL.

Some naughty boys in Sydney got in trouble for buying an old patrol boat and then giving the bofors a scrub up to the point of functioning. Naturally the NSW Waterway Nazi’s took great offence at this, charged them, confiscated it, and then mounted it out the front of their HQ. Legalised theft.

A mate in Saipan has a small Japanese anti tank gun. Same deal. The bloody thing still has rifling and a functioning breech block despite 70 years in the tropical jungle. The carriage is a bit worse for wear. Recovery and refurb was actually a high school metal shop project.

rickw
rickw
March 3, 2023 9:44 pm

What next?
John Freakin’ Denver?

What’s wrong with a bit of air crash investigation?! 🙂

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 3, 2023 9:46 pm

No argument about the demise of Ansett but I was referring to the low operating costs of the DC9 and variants. The 737 was very nearly a failed program for Boeing in the late 1960’s.

rickw
rickw
March 3, 2023 9:47 pm

Just a thought, I might consider visiting Ayers Rock if it had a 200m Jesus the redeemer statue on top of it.

Sounds like a cat project to me! 100 M50 chemset bolts sound about right?

rickw
rickw
March 3, 2023 9:52 pm

Back in Maldives.

Accidentally bumped into about four levels up in CCP management at the inter airport show.

Should help get some things moving!

Frank
Frank
March 3, 2023 9:55 pm

You would need to get Opus Dei to run the gift shop of the cable car station. Zip lines for the adventure minded too might be a winner.

Rabz
March 3, 2023 9:56 pm

Hillbilly Jugband music 1945-1960
Folk music
Hollyweird soundtracks

Not quite bottom of the barrel time, Cats. Although soundtracks were essayed quite recently.

Still considering a folk night, Cass. That legendary footage of the Dylan going electric in 1965 with a Stratocaster before being denounced by a collectivist hippie (BIRM) at the Newport Folk Festival remains a seminal moment in Rock ‘n’ Roll History.

“How dare you harness electrickery!”

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 3, 2023 10:04 pm

And I was talking about the arrogance of Boeing execs in the ’90’s.
They grew up on myths like they “bet the company on the 747” and developed a level of hubris that was the cultural root of their recent woes.
Nothing to do with MD, which has become a convenient scape-goat for every cock up since.
Funny thing is, when they really did bet the company on an aircraft design (737 Max), no-one seems to want to own that one.

Cassie of Sydney
March 3, 2023 10:04 pm

“Still considering a folk night, Cass. That legendary footage of the Dylan going electric in 1965 with a Stratocaster before being denounced by a collectivist hippie (BIRM) at the Newport Folk Festival remains a seminal moment in Rock ‘n’ Roll History.”

Rabzy, what about a Leonard Cohen night? He’s one of my all time favourites.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 3, 2023 10:05 pm

Hillbilly Jugband music 1945-1960
Folk music
Hollyweird soundtracks

Not quite bottom of the barrel time, Cats. 

Hopes dashed again.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 3, 2023 10:06 pm

Not good jug, Frank.
Bad jug.

Rabz
March 3, 2023 10:08 pm

Music made by people who finked for the FBI and MI6

Jerome Garcia and the Lesh discover that “it isn’t right, is it”?

Pedro Townshend – “I always wanted to be matched with her … “

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 3, 2023 10:12 pm

rickwsays:

March 3, 2023 at 9:44 pm

What next?
John Freakin’ Denver?

What’s wrong with a bit of air crash investigation?! ?

Just looked it up.
25 years since he bought the farm.

Siltstone
Siltstone
March 3, 2023 10:15 pm

Cassie, Leonard Cohen live in London CD. Not too bloody bad, eh?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 3, 2023 10:15 pm

Mate’s Thai wife was bought up on crickets, other bugs and various small mammals caught in the rice paddies.Have been fed mice in Vietnam.
Didtn like it much, reminded me of pieon too much, greasy meat.

Rabz
March 3, 2023 10:17 pm

Still rolling over at night experiencing the jagged edges digging into the rib cage. 🙁

Now you remind me very much
Of someone that I used to know
We used to take turns at crying all night
Oh but that was so long ago

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 3, 2023 10:17 pm

IndyTeal Monique ‘Put your masks on!’ Ryan in the Hun:

Independent MP Monique Ryan has moved to shut down claims she has aspirations to become the Prime Minister saying it was “a joke”.

Suuure it was.

In an explosive affidavit from her chief of staff Sally Rugg, released on Friday, Ms Rugg recalled a meeting the pair had in November 2022.

“You don’t understand, I need to be the best, this is bigger than Kooyong,” Dr Ryan allegedly told Ms Rugg.

“I want to be the prime minister one day, and I need to know my staff are prepared to work hard for me. If you are not prepared to work as hard as I want, I will need to consider my options.”

Funny stuff. Obviously a pisstake. Everyone clowns around during the process of sacking their staff.

I assume.

Dragnet
Dragnet
March 3, 2023 10:20 pm

Bruce of Newc, there was a great little shop in a laneway off Bolton St where they made heavenly liver n bacon rolls for the lunchtime crowd.
It was my staple in 1994-97 whilst a temporary Novocastrian.

Rabz
March 3, 2023 10:22 pm

What about a Leonard Cohen night?

What about a mass extinction event brought about by an entirely unexpected meteor strike?

Dot
Dot
March 3, 2023 10:28 pm

Dude the rescue dog, after his 11,000km adventure worthy of both a mini-series and a spin-off, is decompressing – dead to the world asleep on his blanket.

But wagging his tail nonetheless. Good dog.

What were his learnings from this journey?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 3, 2023 10:31 pm

“You don’t understand, I need to be the best, this is bigger than Kooyong,” Dr Ryan allegedly told Ms Rugg.

“I want to be the prime minister one day …

Wow!
She’s the Real Teal.

Rabz
March 3, 2023 10:38 pm

“I need to be the best, this is bigger than Kooyong, this is bigger than my planet sized backside,” Ryan allegedly told Ms “Munchin’ some” Rugg.

Your “leaders”, people.

There is a reason for the existence of the concept known as “HOP Time™”.

Cassie of Sydney
March 3, 2023 10:38 pm

““You don’t understand, I need to be the best, this is bigger than Kooyong,”

She sure is “bigger than Kooyong”. Her large physical girth is equalled by her exaggerated hyperbole.

All the Teals are self entitled hypocrites but Ryan is probably the worst, although Daniel isn’t far behind.

rickw
rickw
March 3, 2023 10:40 pm

Mate’s Thai wife was bought up on crickets, other bugs and various small mammals caught in the rice paddies.

Missus tells Dad about being raised eating farm rats in Thailand. He turns green.

“Dad, that’s not a hard luck story, she loves the bloody things!”

Cassie of Sydney
March 3, 2023 10:41 pm

I suspect that before the May election last year, creepy Svengali Simon, being such a good sugar daddy, promised Lard-arse and the other Teals that not only will they hold the balance of power after the election, each one might possibly one day be PM.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 3, 2023 10:43 pm

What were his learnings from this journey?

Episode 1:

1. Do not try and nuzzle me while I am driving;
2. Do NOT whack the gearstick with a paw when nuzzling refused;
3. You can get along famously with other dogs previously unknown to you and in their own homes;
4. It is possible to chew to bits an unchewable dog bed as a contest with the aforementioned other dogs;
5. Being in the back of the ute whilst passing loaded road trains full of stock is extremely exciting; and
6. It is possible to sleep for hours while listening to Cold Chisel and Def Leppard.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 3, 2023 10:46 pm

Rabzsays:

March 3, 2023 at 10:22 pm

What about a Leonard Cohen night?

What about a mass extinction event brought about by an entirely unexpected meteor strike?

Ooooh.
You’re in trouble, Muriel.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 3, 2023 10:48 pm

Speaking of Holmes-a-Court, I watched a show on Jonestown last night.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 3, 2023 10:51 pm

creepy Svengali Simon, being such a good sugar daddy,

His mother, raised in a strongly left wing house, had difficulty coming to terms with the concept of inherited wealth…

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
March 3, 2023 10:52 pm

Dr Faustus says: March 3, 2023 at 6:42 pm

Delicious in many ways – my favourites are exactly as Pogria lays out above in her offal porn.

Dr Faustus must surely be an English northerner.
You know those northerners.
Can’t walk past a bad traffic accident without picking up some dinner.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 3, 2023 10:54 pm

And a very good evening to those just arriving on Flight LL101 from Lurkerland.

The angry cat ladies among you are asked to please return the cutlery, and report to the quarantine desk.

Dot
Dot
March 3, 2023 10:56 pm

Shit.

I am still awake from last weekend. I wonder if I will sleep for a solid 96 hours or so.

Cassie of Sydney
March 3, 2023 11:06 pm

“Sancho Panzersays:
March 3, 2023 at 10:48 pm
Speaking of Holmes-a-Court, I watched a show on Jonestown last night.”

What was the show Sancho? There’s a very good book about Jim Jones and Harvey Milk, it’s called “Cult City”, excellent read, and very disturbing.

As for Holmes a Court Jnr, I’ll reserve my words however his late father was a gangster and a crook but the luvvies of the 1980s lurrved Holmes a Court Snr because he and his grotesque wife were lefties and art collectors.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
March 3, 2023 11:07 pm

rickw says: March 3, 2023 at 9:52 pm

Accidentally bumped into about four levels up in CCP management at the inter airport show.

Ooooh! Did you remember to get an autographed copy of Covid 2.0?

Rabz
March 3, 2023 11:09 pm

Jonestown

An entirely preventable debacle.

A white collectivist presided over the deaths of 918 people, a significant proportion (i.e. the vast majority) of whom were black.

“The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project”

It all sounds so benign, Cats.

Yet, it was not.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 3, 2023 11:10 pm

Knuckles I reckon you were the rescue person not the dog. You needed something to care about.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 3, 2023 11:15 pm

Dantown a white collectivist who caused the death of over 900 elderly people. Should be summarily executed.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 3, 2023 11:18 pm

As for Holmes a Court Jnr, I’ll reserve my words however his late father was a gangster and a crook

Papa Holmes a Court should have been in the next cell to Alan Bond.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 3, 2023 11:21 pm

I care about lots of things Ranga – including, but not limited to Collingwood, cricket, poorly cooked smallgoods, little monkeys, the overdue return of the sundress, the son and heir, Little Britain, various nieces and a nephew, Archer reruns and the Wayne Harmes fit-up of 1979.

Dude just happens to be a good dog who behaved much better than expected during a two-month odyssey across this wide brown land.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
March 3, 2023 11:24 pm

Gray Connolly describes CPAC as “the Mos Eisley of grift”, LOL.
Opinion in the twitterverse is that De Santis is inculcating an anti-establishment theme and that Republican CPAC smells too establishment-y to the punters.

Rabz
March 3, 2023 11:32 pm

the overdue return of the sundress

Never went away, KD. A favoured siren’s preferred summer day wear. Behold her in an especially golden one and everything seemed to be right with the world.

#jaggededges

Johnny Rotten
March 3, 2023 11:43 pm

Dragnetsays:
March 3, 2023 at 10:20 pm
Bruce of Newc, there was a great little shop in a laneway off Bolton St where they made heavenly liver n bacon rolls for the lunchtime crowd.
It was my staple in 1994-97 whilst a temporary Novocastrian.

Dragnet. Liver and bacon is a great combination along with steak and kidney in a pie. Great Winter food on a colder day.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 3, 2023 11:46 pm

I’m talking about the daily grind Knuckles. Having a creature to care about takes your mind off immediate problems. Now, what’s a collingwood and I hope you haven’t told the Son and Hier that one day the poorly cooked smallgood stand is going to be his. When my no.2 son was 5 he asked when all my junk was going to be his. Now he doesn’t want it. I’m shattered. The good thing is my daughter wants it.

Iron Cove
Iron Cove
March 3, 2023 11:49 pm

Rabz,
I watched a wonderful show last night, Pavement at the Enmore.
How about a blog dedicated to the electric geetar?
Yeah.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 3, 2023 11:49 pm

As an extreme right wing male, I’m appalled at the toxic femininity on display in this Ryan v Rugg dispute.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 3, 2023 11:57 pm

Papa Holmes a Court should have been in the next cell to Alan Bond.

I think that is what is known in the business as a very timely death. Connell too.

rosie
rosie
March 4, 2023 12:05 am

Apparently the best thing to do around here is visit the Pueblos Blancos but in the absence of a motor vehicle not an option for me.
I did catch the bus to El Monesterio de la Rabida which is where Chrisopher Columbus negotiated his deal with the Catholic Monarchs and set off on his journey of discovery.
€3.50 includes an audio guide, don’t forget to return it and retrieve your passport.
1492 was a very busy year for Spanish royalty.
It’s well worth a visit and if you have a car, easy to drive to and get parking. Take a picnic, enjoy the view.
You can also catch a ferry to the Grand Canaries from here, 30 to 36 hours, prices from €120.
Strawberries are the main export of the little town on the other side of Rabida, Palos, I really should buy some.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 4, 2023 12:11 am

I have the theme for the music night.
Songs which prove you are secure enough in your heterosexuality to actually play them.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IslF_EyhMzg

Or just novelty songs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lCOgj9_Rcl4

Johnny Rotten
March 4, 2023 12:17 am

Dr Faustussays:
March 3, 2023 at 8:10 pm
Offal porn and Dad Jokes.
Fitting end to another week – time for a stiff hand sanitizer and tonic.

Steak and Kidney pie, and,

To get a feel for his audience, the lecturer asks “How many people here believe in ghosts?”

About 90 students raise their hands.

“Well, that’s a good start. Out of those who believe in ghosts, do any of you think you have seen a ghost?”

About 40 students raise their hands.

“That’s really good. I’m really glad you take this seriously. Has anyone here ever talked to a ghost?”

About 15 students raise their hand.

“Has anyone here ever touched a ghost?”

Three students raise their hands.

“That’s fantastic. Now let me ask you one question further… have any of you ever made love to a ghost?”

Way in the back, Ahmed raises his hand.

The professor takes off his glasses and says “Son, all the years I’ve been giving this lecture, no one has ever claimed to have made love to a ghost. You’ve got to come up here and tell us about your experience”.

The Middle Eastern student replied with a nod and a grin and began to make his way up to the podium. When he reached the front of the room, the professor asks “So, Ahmed, tell us what it’s like to have sex with a ghost?” Ahmed replied “Shit, from way back there I thought you said goats”.

johanna
johanna
March 4, 2023 12:57 am

Justice in Victoriastan, episode eleventy:

Key points:

Simiona Tuteru was facing charges of breaching national heavy vehicle laws over the crash in 2020 on the Eastern Freeway
His driver Mohinder Singh was jailed for 18 years and six months for ploughing his truck into four police officers
Supreme Court judge Lex Lasry criticised the prosecution for handling the case poorly

Supreme Court Justice Lex Lasry criticised Victoria’s Director of Public Prosecutions on Friday for acting “oppressively and unfairly” in the handling of the case against Simiona Tuteru, 51.

Mr Tuteru, who worked as a manager at transport company Connect Logistics, was facing charges of breaching national heavy vehicle laws over the crash in 2020 on the Eastern Freeway.

One of his drivers, Mohinder Singh, was jailed for 18 years and six months for ploughing his truck into the police officers as they stood in an emergency lane having pulled another driver over.

Singh was severely sleep-deprived and drug-affected on the day of the crash, and police allege that Mr Tuteru should have stopped him from driving.

Justice Lasry said despite two and a half years passing, the case was still not ready for trial, putting responsibility for that on the prosecution.

“To continue with this matter would be an abuse of process,” Justice Lasry said.

He put a stay on the proceedings, saying it was necessary to protect the integrity of the court.

“A stay is a rare and exceptional order to make,” he said.

His crime was annoying Vicpol. So they put him through the wringer for two and a half years, but never came up with a case.

Note that Lasry is a notoriously leftie judge. For him to do that, it must have been way, way out of line. No consequences for the wrongdoers, though.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity
March 4, 2023 1:44 am

His crime was annoying Vicpol. So they put him through the wringer for two and a half years, but never came up with a case.

Just chewed through all his savings, & those of his family, in legal fees.
Eye-watering penalty imposed. Let’s get back to granny-bashing

rickw
rickw
March 4, 2023 7:18 pm

His driver Mohinder Singh was jailed for 18 years and six months for ploughing his truck into four police officers

Maybe standing on the side of a busy freeway for more than an hour is a shit idea?

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