Fatbergs in Wembley? Maybe it will be an oat milk latte for me too.

Occasionally I have boarded the Orient Express and gazed upon the people of Wembley, Wembley Downs, Mount Lawley and once as far as Baldivis (though the camel was never the same afterward).

Fatbergs were not in evidence.

Those suburbs are more likely to yield hot singletons in designer exercise wear, or man-bunned scooter riders with large chai lattes. Baldivis? They might move there after the divorce.

I hypothestulate that the fault lies in the digestive tract of the sewage system of older areas…

The only Maori word I know is Koteanga for car aerial.

Roger I agree about the banning of peat. It should only be used for Malt whiskey. Got to get serious about this.

Pesutto is a dripping wet idiot who has been talking about the SFLs’ need to be Labor light for years.

Not to mention a rolled gold imbecile.

He lets Dan Andrews set the agenda from which he dare not stray lest he differentiate the Liberals from Labor.

Andrews likely set up the women’s movement to be labelled Nazis by having a small group pretend to be Nazis in the vicinity of them, opposing a group of counter-protestors who were their to oppose and abuse the women’s protest.

How did the Nazis know the trans activists were there? Why did the police give the Nazis a free pass? Why didn’t the Nazis have swastikas? Why were they faceless?

More importantly though – who benefitted?

Andrews. He got his Nazi slur which every leftist in the country instantly followed, creating a narrative that only Nazis oppose radical trans activists, moving the Victorian Overton Window radically left, and the Gliberals fell for it hook, line and sinker.

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but the real conspiracy theory is claiming the women’s group were in cahoots with the Nazis without any evidence whatsoever. Leftards saying it “backfired” supports my assertion that Andrews benefited, from their own mouths.

Their conspiracy theory is false, mine is more plausible.

Andrews now has not only the public service in his pocket, but the police, fireys, and the actual opposition.

Victoria is now a one party state.

Rand Paul staffer stabbed in D.C. with ‘life-threatening injuries

The Left are under the delusion that they can take the conflict hot and win.

The only Maori word I know is Koteanga for car aerial.

Let me guess, derivative of coat hanger, because when some bro snaps off the original that’s what you use?!

From Bar Beach Swimmer:

Bespoke: This is why I can’t alie with the old guard feminist as some have done, Delta. They built the totem poll thinking they will always be on top. They started the demonisation of masculinity. This should not be forgotten.

Whatever happened in the 1970s is no reason for women of today to take one for the team.

I was a child in the 70s. But that logic would have me and those younger, or not even born at that time, to be the ones who must be put at risk, and not those women who wanted to “lord it over men”.

And what about women of that generation who were not part of that? Women like my mother and my aunts, as well as my many older female cousins? None of them behaved in that way – so why, along with my generation, and those who would come after, should they, and we, be made accountable and held up for such treatment?

How long would this go on for? It sounds too much like collectivism with the odour of guilt reparations swirling about.

Society and culture evolve. Sometimes that evolutionary process may end up a dead end, or worse. In this case, the “worse” of radical feminism, then, to the toxic transgender power grabs of now.

Feminism in the late 60s and 70s was a very broad ‘church’ indeed. You had everything from the pretty mild Womens Electoral Lobby to the separatist lesbians, who wanted to live a life totally devoid of XY people.

Interestingly, there was never much in the way of practical or other support from the men in Gay Liberation and its offshoots. Indeed, many of them actively disliked radical lesbians in particular. That’s not to say that there weren’t some very good interpersonal relationships at ground level. But when it came to politics, the men were not very engaged.

It doesn’t surprise me that the culture that adored drag queens and disliked lesbians is now openly anti-women.

As BBS said, it is wrong to punish a whole class of people because of what some of them did when many others were not involved or even actively opposed. I don’t think that you have to be a radical feminist to insist that intact males be banned from women’s changerooms, toilets, domestic violence shelters and so on. Indeed, it is hard to comprehend why this is even under discussion.

Kneelsays:
March 28, 2023 at 12:41 pm
Posted on the ol’ fred:

“Anti” as in reverse, not “anti” is in opposed to.
See?
Now it makes sense.
They WANT fascism, they just want to be the ones “on top”.
Simples.

The correct spelling is “Ante-fa”, they arrive and fascism follows.

Kneelsays:
March 28, 2023 at 10:39 am
“Either montypox is a really idiotic useful idiot or is not arguing in good faith. Maybe doing a st ruth.”

And we need it, regardless of what you may think of the man or his posted writings (I don’t say “beliefs” because I am not convinced they ARE his beliefs…)

I disagree re ” if you engage without name calling, he will at least attempt an argument”. I spent quite some time and posted many comments on the SincCat, trying to get a straight answer from him re the atrocities of communism. He resolutely refused to even acknowledge they happened, and would never explicitly condemn them.

Beautiful Howa lathe in Thailand. Only down side is that they have what I think is called an A2 spindle nose.

http://www.mitsuwathailand.com/howa-sangyo-lathe-strong-650.html

The Left are under the delusion that they can take the conflict hot and win.

Shakespeare (New Puffin version): First thing, we er,disbar all the Soros prosecutors.

Why are conservatives always chuffed when a “liberally minded” person acknowledges reality?

We are content to receive the crumbs that fall from the table. It’s ridiculous and weak.

other than guns

I’m going to stop you there.

Mass shootings includes non fatal shootings drive bys etc.
The sub-set ‘School Shootings’ numbers in 2023 aren’t quite as high.
Not surprisingly President Biden didn’t hold a press conference on the majority of these other mass shootings.

Probably because it’s black gang members lighting up other black people in the ghetto areas of Chicago and Detroit….

Oh wait, I said the quiet part out loud…

The common thread is guns, rosie. It is not hard to understand.

I can’t get that link to work

The ageing men of my town have become insubordinate. They whisper revolt and speak of the freedoms that once were. They will not go gently into that good night. They are making plans, always making plans.
Rebellion foments in their HQ like mould in a geriatric’s sock drawer. It was built as a place to foster camaraderie. No one predicted they would hunker down in there (sans women, natch) to hatch their anarchist schemes.
When I heard they’d planned a regatta I guessed they missed the salt air, the roll of the open sea, duelling with Hardy and Bertram in the wilds of The Pacific beneath taut canvas. Their regatta would be youth momentarily regained, a bracing voyage back into the past. Then I noticed their boats were to be no longer than 60 centimetres. A model boat regatta on the mouth of The Erskine River – old geezers ankle-deep in brine twiddling joysticks the size of cornichons and barking orders at crews no bigger, or realer, than Tinker Bell.
1 of 3 27/03/2023, 4:58 pm

Authorities on high alert as old blokes float their boats https://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/authorities…
Thankfully, GORCAPA (Great Ocean Road Coast and Parks Authority) got onto them early. Apparently that authority monitors community newsletters and Facebook groups and such, essentially spying on coastal citizens so they can’t just willy-nilly swim, sail or sing without permission. GORCAPA sent an event application to the old sailors with six pages of questions to answer. GORCAPA want a risk assessment done. I understand this. In places the delta of The Erskine River is deep enough to bog a corgi, and quite the deathtrap for dachshunds.
GORCAPA’s event application asks: What is the description/purpose of the event. (sic) What are you trying to achieve? Who is your target audience?
What are you trying to achieve? The question is existential in nature but might be answered simply and truthfully by writing, “I’m trying to beat Bob this year. He’s a canny yachtsman, old Bob. And we’ll all be trying to beat Louis, who sails a foot-long replica of Australia II that doubles as a hat rack when not afloat. It’s galling to be outsailed by a hat rack.”
Another question reads: Have you discusses (sic) your event with any of the following authorities? Dept. of Transport. Vic Police. Ambulance Victoria. DEWLP. Parks Victoria. Marine Safety. Other. “Hello, is that the police? Never mind the meth epidemic. Shut up and listen. I want to discuss short boats at length.”
GORCAPA claims this septuagenarians’ regatta is an “event” for which its permission is required. I know a lawyer who has tried and failed to get a definition of “event” from GORCAPA. If it considers your outing an “event” its permission is required, and you can expect to pay a fee.
2 of 3 27/03/2023, 4:58 pm

Authorities on high alert as old blokes float their boats https://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/authorities…
The authority is run out of Torquay, a town that has become a type of dude ranch for surfers
and a proving ground for bureaucratic monsters. Many a budding public servant comes into Anyone able to see the dawn of dystopia in a regatta of toys is a gifted bureaucrat, and the
their full mastery of perfectly irrelevant matters in Torquay. Every building there is grey. person running the inquiry into the elderly mariners of Lorne will be shire president before
They walk grey dogs and think grey thoughts and when they defecate it is so grey you’d think too long, I’ve no doubt. But if their idea of lawlessness is puny craft captained by landlocked
they’d shat out their brains. Maybe they have.
boomers wearing garish Crocs while their BPMs redline in the frenzy of a tacking duel the
size of needlepoint, well … mine isn’t. My own idea of dystopia is a country where a couple of friends decide to get together to sail little boats, but the authorities are watching, and demand to know what they’re up to. What are you trying to achieve? “Fun” seems an inadequate, almost embarrassing, response in these times. The authority isn’t handing out any more permits for fun, anyway.
So I don’t know if Lorne’s flock of Captains Sparrow will strap on their eye patches, raise the Jolly Roger, and launch their craft this Easter. A night in the caboose with a dodgy prostate is hard time. We are more likely, those of us with the right kind of vision, to see a ghostly flotilla of wrecked dreams afloat on The Erskine this Resurrection Sunday. Let GORCAPA demand a fee for that.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan sent a letter Monday to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen seeking an explanation for why journalist Matt Taibbi received an unannounced home visit from an IRS agent.

Nothing to see here, move on.

[Lehrmann] was speaking on the topic of the dissolution of standards of journalism, and could only cite (it seemed to me) social media as the cause.

that’s pretty historically ignorant.. people have been bemoaning the falling standards of journalism and media for a hundred years.

If anything, the standards of mass media and ‘journalism’ set the benchmark for the behaviour of people on social media; the celebration and publication of that which should be private (grief, shame, etc).

Peter Frampton @peterframpton

I have posted this before but ..

26 years ago, a gunman entered Dunblane Primary School in Scotland, killing 16 kids and a teacher. The UK govt responded by enacting tight gun control legislation. In the 9400+ days since, there have been a total of O school shootings in the UK.

m0ntysays:
March 28, 2023 at 3:01 pm
Peter Frampton @peterframpton

26 years ago, a gunman entered Dunblane Primary School in Scotland, killing 16 kids and a teacher. The UK govt responded by enacting tight gun control legislation. In the 9400+ days since, there have been a total of O school shootings in the UK.

Serious question, m0nty=fa. How many were there in the 9400+ days before?

Darren Bunquere @bunquere

Every single school, mall, church and workplace in the UK is a gun-free zone and yet school shootings stopped forever when gun controls were brought on after the Dunblane massacre. Parkland and Columbine had armed guards, they weren’t “gun free”.

Monty.

Heres the previous years tolls.

So far this year /decade (2020): 0
2010–2019: 0
2000–2009: 0
1990–1999: 1, with 17 deaths
1980–1989: 0
1970–1979: 0
1960–1969: 0
1950–1959: 0
1940–1949: 0, a school was bombed in the Blitz killing 38

One event in over 70 years.
Why no shootings in the 50 previous years?

You fat dickless tool.

m0nty=fa

Same question re knife crimes in malls, churches, workplaces.

Below from The Oz.
Simple, a union free workplace. Pretty sure the pay is going to be ridiculous.

“The union movement is at odds with Labor over the government’s nuclear submarine plan, with ACTU president Michele O’Neil declaring today that unions backed a “nuclear free defence policy”.

Ms O’Neil said the policy was a longstanding one, and the union movement was seeking more detail from the government on the AUKUS plan so ACTU affiliates could discuss the policy.

“The ACTU has a longstanding policy of opposition to nuclear power, nuclear waste and proliferation,” Ms O’Neil told the National Press Club.

“And we also have a longstanding policy position that supports a nuclear free defence policy.

Hallie Scruggs, daughter of pastor, among victims in Nashville school shooting

Peter Frampton @peterframpton

I have posted this before but ..

26 years ago, a gunman entered Dunblane Primary School in Scotland, killing 16 kids and a teacher. The UK govt responded by enacting tight gun control legislation. In the 9400+ days since, there have been a total of O school shootings in the UK.

Yes, and there were zero in the UK before Dunblane.
And there were zero before the copycat series in Australia started with the Milperra Massacre a misnamed bikie shoot-out the seed event for Australian imitators. Media coverage of Dunblane was pretty obviously the final inspiration for the Port Arthur killer, but he got his guns following previous media advice about ‘loopholes’.

After the 1996 laws were passed and the orgy of media and Government hate for the people who didn’t do it had subsided into the warm glow of the Sydney Olympics, a leftist female senator partnered with ABC to spruik the idea that normal pistol club licensing was a ‘loophole’. For no obvious reason an international student at that time got pistol licenses; it is rumoured that fear of accusations of racism were the reason he was supported by the pistol club as weird people usually are not supported. And at the height of media hysteria about the Washington snipers (themselves retarded black activist copycats inspired by the 9/11 murders) that same international student committed a multiple shooting at Monash University.

Leftists deny responsibility for unintended effects because their intentions are pure; but their actions are seething with hate for their political opponents. They would rather many innocents die than accidentally let a Kulak have his life.

I am a man. Simple. I do not consider myself as one (which makes it sound like it is an opinion) or see myself as one – there is no intermediary act that reveals man-ness to me. I am a man. That is how normal people speak.

I was born a woman (‘another little split arse’ said my nanna, who delivered me at home, where my father was desperate for a son) and I grew up as a girl, a young adult human female, who became a woman, an adult human female. I particularly ‘became a woman’ when I had my first menstruation aged nearly 13. All real women go through this biological rite of passage, a little more intense than a young boy’s growing penis awareness I suspect.

As a woman I had mostly socially sanctioned sexual intercourse with males and gave birth to four live children (not all at once!). This also reaffirmed that I was a woman, as did continual menstruation until menopause, which also reaffirmed that part of my life as a woman was ‘changing’; a time of reflection and renewal as a woman looking back and looking forward.

I am a woman. It is a lived biological experience to be a woman.
No man can do it. Ever.

Menstruation is our definitive signal that we are women. Our receptive genitals flag our reproductive purpose. Childbirth ‘fleshes’ it out. Breastfeeding reinforces it. Trannie tinkering can only imitate it.

Menstruation is our first definitive signal that we are women. So sad that many young girls today are resistant to welcoming with pride all that follows on from that, and are impressed to ‘trans’ to men.

“The ACTU has a longstanding policy of opposition to nuclear power, nuclear waste and proliferation,” Ms O’Neil told the National Press Club.

“And we also have a longstanding policy position that supports a nuclear free defence policy.

In which electorate was the ACTU elected?

What’s with M?0ri, Arky?

Apparently you also can’t put Maori words in the dictionary, cos white power etc.

Just saw a sign asking supermarket customers to return their “trundler” to the correct place in the car park.

chrislsays:
March 28, 2023 at 2:42 pm

Many thanks for an enjoyable read chrisl. May the greys sail on – and raise middle digits.

I say again: it is more important to activists and their journalist partners to take from the innocent who are their political opponents, than to achieve the supposed violence prevention aims of their gun control legislation.
It is a product of their thinking pattern; construct a way of perceiving themselves as ‘the just and the good’ and those who disagree as evil.
Then any action is justified purely because their side want it. If it includes injustice against political opponents but no real benefit, too bad they deserved it.
The innocent deserved it.

Along with a few bits re Antifa I put this up at the end of this old thread this morning re someoen’s comment re Sat’dy nite. Always forget that the thread renews on Tuesdays. This is worth a look, so here it is again.

TV screenshots from Saturday night, contrasting the stark difference in ethnic makeup between supporters of the Greens & of One Nation.

It’s Earth Hour every night on the Korean peninsula.

On the Northern half of it, that is.

“Audrey Hale, 28, is a transgender woman and alumnus of the school who wrote out her plans in a detailed manifesto.”

Wait, what?
If it’s a cock in a frock, it’s called a transgender woman. Why then, isn’t a chick with no dick called a transgender man?

“Police say the 28-year-old suspected of killing six people at a Christian school Monday actually had another location chosen but decided to forego it because it had a higher level of security.”

Breitbart has the story.

Opinions munty?

Kesgrave schoolboy shooting: Teenager detained for attempted murder

Jacob Talbot-Lummis, 16, wounded his victim, who was aged 15 at the time, as he was leaving home for school in Kesgrave, Suffolk, on 7 September 2020.

Of course being on the way to school doesn’t count when an agenda bubble is at risk of being popped. That “tight gun control legislation” some are bragging about must only apply to school grounds because that evil gun recognized the loophole and hunted him down elsewhere.

For Black Ball.

Sorry, I polished off the Moet last night. True story.

Letter today from Chetna Mahadik of the IPA, on the sorry state of Australian education.

I spent a year of my life in London. I remember quite distinctly the first time I found myself feeling sorry for the British people. I was travelling in a London tube (the city’s metro) scanning through The Evening Standard newspaper when I came across yet another article hectoring the English about a harmless national tradition by finding some meandering connection to colonisation.

I remember wondering how it must shrink the spirit of a people to never be allowed to take pride in their history, culture, and identity. Growing up in India, I never had to worry about that. My schools, teachers, and community had no qualms instilling the idea in me that – despite our current problems and historical misdeeds – we were essentially a good country. To grow up without such certainty in your own essential goodness must be so destructive to the soul.

Sadly, as the latest IPA research report, De-educating Australia: How the National Curriculum is Failing Australian Children, reveals the National Curriculum is determined to teach Australian children that they shouldn’t take any unadulterated pride or joy in modern Australia’s history or achievements.

The report is authored by Dr Bella d’Abrera, Director of the IPA’s Foundations of Western Civilisation Program, and Colleen Harkin, National Manager of the IPA’s Class Action program.

Bella and Colleen have carefully examined the version 9 of the National Curriculum, which was rolled out this year by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), and they show how year upon year and subject upon subject, the same message is drilled into our children – Australia’s history is one continuous tale of dispossession, oppression, and genocide of Indigenous Australians, and our material prosperity is based on the abuse of the environment.

This relentless indoctrination is achieved through the cross-curriculum priorities of ‘Sustainability’ (which is really a distorted version of the climate change narrative) and ‘Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures’, which require that these issues are embedded in the teaching of all other subjects, be it physical education, history, science, or maths.

So it is that young Prep children find themselves rapping about sustainability before they have even learnt the alphabet.

To further sap their confidence, our children are taught to put their faith in the vague idea of global citizenship as against a clear and concise national citizenship. The problem is that while national citizenship holds within itself both rights and responsibilities, global citizenship asks our children to take on the responsibility for all of humanity without offering any meaningful rights in return.

In the report’s conclusion, Bella and Colleen capture the essence of the new National Curriculum:

They [ACARA] have created a curriculum that will elicit feelings of guilt about the past, anger about the present, and sheer terror about the future.
So can we save Western Civilisation?
I am so happy to follow up my introduction with just the perfect antidote to the doom and gloom promoted by the National Curriculum. Smart people around the world and from many different backgrounds are speaking up against this indoctrination of children in the English-speaking world.

Last Thursday, IPA Senior Fellow John Roskam spoke to one such unlikely defender of the heritage of Western culture, Marie Kawthar Daouda, a lecturer at the Oriel College at Oxford University, for IPA Encounters. In the hour-long conversation, Marie, a woman of African descent who grew up in Morocco, mounted an eloquent and powerful defence of the intellectual heritage of Western Civilisation – Chaucer, Shakespeare and Homer should be studied and understood because they are powerful works of art which help us understand the human condition. They have as much to offer to children growing up in Morocco, as they have to young children growing up in the UK, US, and Australia.

As a woman of Indian heritage who nevertheless defends Western Civilisation, the conversation helped me understand better why I do what I do. Speaking up for Shakespeare doesn’t mean denigrating the Ramayana (an ancient Indian text Indians take pride in). They are all gifts to humanity and should be cherished.

Thanks Pogria. It looks like she opted for the place she knew which also happened to have low security.

A real hero. Tell me again who the true victims are.

Also, if the creature was “transitioning” F to M, was she on a raft of male hormones? And who the hell prescribed them?

Security videos of the Nashville shooter

Note the official Nashville Police account ‘dead-naming’ the hell out her.

“Active shooter Audrey Elizabeth Hale”

“Frampton did not mention that a surge in attacks with bladed weapons, like knives, followed the adoption of restrictive gun controls in the UK.

The House of Commons Library also noted “In the year ending March 2022 there were 261 homicides (currently recorded) using a sharp instrument, including knives and broken bottles.”

So, in the true spirit of leftard dishonesty, m0nty=fa quietly left out the bit about a huge increase in knife crime after Dunblane, in a vain attempt to strengthen a pathetically weak argument.

He is too historically ignorant to comprehend that murderers will find a weapon. If a gun is not available, they will choose a knife, or poison, or a rope. He cannot even consider the possibility that focusing on known target groups could help, because at least some of the potential groups are leftard “pets” (the mentally ill, particular ethnicities or religious groups, other leftards).

Weaker than the proverbial, dishonest as the day is long, ignorant. And they are his good points.

Re Bendigo at Easter, Mater has texted me that he has to go interstate on urgent family business so won’t be organising any meet up of Cats there. Sad, but as I told him, family comes first.

If any local Cat or Kitteh there is wanting to meet up sometime on Easter Saturday (only non-Opera day for us) best to get in touch with me, getting email from Dover. We can meet somewhere in town Sat arvo or evening. Otherwise Hairy and I will hit the Bendigo High Life, just the two of us.

I’ll take a book. 🙂

A comment there from a Republican senator speculating on whether the ‘trans’ woman who wished to be called Aiden was under drugs and/or had a large amount of circulating testosterone artificially in her body.

Boambee John,
with your comment regarding if someone wants to kill, they will find a weapon, any weapon. Iirc, in the nineties in NZ, a particularly nasty piece of sh*t killed seven members of his family, including three children I think it was, with a softball bat.
Where there’s a will…

Dot says:
March 28, 2023 at 4:43 pm

Another factor in chewing on electoral stats is the non-enrolment rate.

1.7% in NSW.

Okay, now add in blank and informal votes for the LC.

8.57%

Green/LNP/ALP LC primary vote: 70.09 out of all valid votes cast.

Split among four parties, the Opposition, Government and Government cross bench partners, this is what the ACTUAL mandate is, as a % of voters.

59.83%

It’s less than 2/3.

It’s less than 60% of us. Across four parties that form two coalitions! It is FIFTY something per cent!

It would be interesting to see what level of support the four main parties get in addition to other parties due to compulsory voting. Does anyone have a figure? I think Federally it would have more of an effect because of compulsory preferences.

muntsac holidays in New York.

The 65 year old Baby Daniel wasn’t a loony, not even deeply confused. Just a transexual of a rare subspecies. Ask m0nty.