Open Thread – Easter Weekend 8 April 2023
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Or wished not to be found for various reasons, probably related to actions during the war. Hence, change name, join the Foreign Legion, and get anonymity and later French citizenship after (IIRC) five years of “honourable” service
French counter intelligence began weeding out anybody with too bad a record for actions during WW 2 after 1947.
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Per wikipedia:
There are three airworthy Bristol Fighters as of 2007 (and several replicas):
– The Shuttleworth Collection contains one airworthy F.2B Fighter, identity D8096, that still flies during the British summer.[30]
– The Canada Aviation and Space Museum, in Ottawa, Ontario, owns a second example, D-7889.[31]
– The New Zealand film director Peter Jackson owns D-8084, which flies from the Hood Aerodrome, in Masterson. The Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre, at Omaka Aerodrome, Blenheim holds a second, original fuselage. -
rickwsays:
April 8, 2023 at 6:49 pm
Little Bloke has got quite into knights, legionaries etc. courtesy of a present his sister brought him.
Right now he’s up on the farm practicing horse riding, archery, driving and fire lighting.
Thinking of maybe buying him repro helmet from one of the era’s and then we can work on the rest.
Remembering the fun of making my own armour and mail from old header sheet metal and fencing wire!Been there, dun that .. Newcastle Keep, trip home, October 2013
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Donald Trump, Tiberius Gracchus, And America’s Imminent End
Could you, perhaps, as a sop to we that are less desperate for anything that confirms our prejudices, as deigning to the groundless needs of those of us who are not swayed by merely consonant opinions as distilled into headlines, at the very least, include a pivotal passage to supply a gist of an argument rather than a copy/paste of a spectacular but unsupported headlines.
You do know the at the Gracchi failed, don’t you? I assume the writers knew, but did you?
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I love it when someone speaking on behalf of a whole people attracts 10 votes.
Mao’s Red Guards must have had this kind of spittle flecked insanity.
Replying to
@Studio10au
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@yumichild
@Studio10au@yumichild
Our people DEMAND AN ON AIR public apology from that white rich trash by the name of Kerri Ann Kennelly tomorrow. Just her and the Camera looking straight into the camera telling every Aboriginal in Australia how sorry she is that she DID OFFEND US TODAY.
SACK KERRI ANN
90%
BAN STUDIO 10 FROM AIRING
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10 votes
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Top Endersays:
April 8, 2023 at 8:34 pm
Who owns the Bristol Fighter?Dunno. Apparently it appeared in the movie Dead Heat (Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin). Today it was still wearing the colours of the Mounties. Marvin has to chase Bronson through the Canadian wilderness.
Probably not Peter Jackson’s then.
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rosiesays:
April 8, 2023 at 8:49 pm
And it matters, because there is a big difference between two accusers, one of whom retracted and subsequently died …
Is “retracted” the right word.
J’s mate never made any accusation which would be retracted later.
“Denied” is perhaps the word.
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Got to pay for the Abo’s and trans surgeries somehow.
Aboriginal issues are rather a thorny issue in this part of the world. Leaving aside the issue of the local being prosecuted for building a culvert on his own land, and upsetting some mythical serpent or other, the local elders are claiming that the ‘old people” passed on the story of the massacre of a group of Noongar women and children, by police and settlers, in the early days of this district. Anybody asking questions about forensic evidence of such an atrocity, is accused of not respecting Noongar oral history…
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Anheuser-Busch reference for anyone who wants to boycott the hell out of the stupid arseholes.
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I am close friends with two ladies from the Portuguese community. There English is not very good. They did not know anything about the Referendum on the Voice. I explained it to them this way:
You must vote No otherwise:
1. those who claim to be Aboriginal (be it 1/16th or 10%) they will get two votes while you only get one.
2. They will then get you to pay rent on the property you have paid for.
3. There will be nothing that can be done about it because it will be our Constitution which elected members of Parliament can’t go against or change.They were suitably horrified.
I will tell them again and for them to tell all their friends and families.
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The Port Adelaide Car Thieves beat the Sydney Mincers.
Mincers player has a shot on the siren to win. Looks on line to score and he starts having gay sex with a team-mate on the ground. Mincers players run off the goal line to join the orgy with the ball still in flight. Ball fades on the breeze and is punched off the line by Car Thieves defender. Who might have struggled if the celebrating Mincers had still been at their post to block him.
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the go-to for a Force 10 hangover is Filet-o-Fish, large chips, large chocolate thickshake
Followed by a snifter or two before bed at 11.30. Bad dreams at 12.15 and a “roiling” stomach at 12.30am. Laying in bed for an hour thinking “will I or won’t I” Followed by a groggy run to the dunny.
Then a voluminous technicolour yawn or four that manages to coat the commode and assorted seat with about 3 litres of Campbells chunky chicken and corn soup. That soup-like substance is mixed with chocolate dairy fish pieces that manage to find their way into the tiling grout and the hinges on the toilet seat.
Be sure to wash the room with the garden house and pine-o-clean the next morning as the dry stuff is like getting burnt omelette off a frypan.
A bit like mothers and childbirth you forget so easily and repeat the scenario next week. Only this time its Hawaiian Pizza.
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Sack your accountant.
He discovered the loophole in the Tax Act, that saved me over six figures, running a farm, with an off farm income….
Phone rang, way back when…
“Zulu Kilo, it’s Fred Nerk from the Australian Taxation Office. Your farm ran at a loss last year.”
“Yeah, in the middle of the worst drought since 1914, you show me a farm in the Eastern Wheatbelt of Western Australia that ran at a profit.”
“Oh, when does your business plan show your farm returning to profit?”
“When the drought breaks. When it rains.”
“Sorry, what’s rain got to do with the issue?”
Held the phone at arm’s length, and swore in three languages…..
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Miltonfsays:
April 8, 2023 at 10:32 pm
Yes it is marketing suicide so why do they do it?
Because currently it is better to have your CV boast “developed transgender awareness campaign for Anheuser-Busch” than “increased sales of Anheuser-Busch products in the x region by 3% p.a. over three years“.
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They risk pissing off 50-60% or more of their existing customer base to appease a less than 1% population segment who drink pink cocktails or craft beers at best.
Lion-Nathan’s XXXX been thru same. I mentioned a few months back about their new woke advertising campaign that seemed pitched to a demographic that would never been seen with a XXXX stubby in hand let alone a Mr Fourex sticker on their personal automobile. Seemed like a dead end to me as a long time resident of NQ.
However I note that message has lately been toned down to “give a XXXX.” Guess sales matter in the end.
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Pissing off most of your customers contradicts basic marketing and economics.
Most corporations have given LGPTQIYHIIFVNKGCBJJ direct access to senior management. This means that all manner of f’cking patently obscene and stupid ideas can take flight.
I bet this is the origin of this massive screw up, LGPTQI / senior management wankfest ploughs head long into the freight train of reality.
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These corporates actually believe their own spin. They think that 80-90% of their customers think the same way.
“Hey, nobody in the office disagrees. All our focus groups gave it the thumbs up.”
When sales take a hit, it is a real shock.
A bit like Marcia Langton drinking her own bath-water. She genuinely believes that people will be devastated if they take away “Welcome to Country”.
When she is in the corporate box at the MCG, she can’t hear them in the outer muttering, “Not more of this shit!”. -
Because they hired woke executives to whom abusing their positions to force normalization of this perversion on the public is a higher duty than their fiduciary one to the shareholders.
The oil industry executives used to be chemical and mechanical engineers that came up through the ranks. Now they’re business or marketing degree holders with a masters in woke.
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Mincers players run off the goal line to join the orgy with the ball still in flight. Ball fades on the breeze and is punched off the line by Car Thieves defender. Who might have struggled if the celebrating Mincers had still been at their post to block him.
One of the great moments in football. Brilliant to watch.
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Regarding the whole “Welcome to Country issue.”
I was at boarding school, in Geraldton, in 1971/72/73 with one Ernie Dingo. His boarding fees, school uniforms, textbooks, and all expenses, up to, and including pocket money were paid for by the taxpayer.
My father worked very hard to educate his sons…… why should your education be paid for, on the grounds of race?
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Transgender Cyclist Booted From Women’s Championship After Female Competitors Threaten Boycott
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Rep. James Comer
@RepJamesComerThe media was so excited about the prospect of seeing the former President in handcuffs, fingerprinted, & having a mug shot that they never thought about the possibility that this was a political stunt.
They now see that this is a waste of time & taxpayer dollars.
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However I note that message has lately been toned down to “give a XXXX.” Guess sales matter in the end.
Lion’s volume, XXXX in particular, has been in the toilet for several years.
This collapse of sales volume preceded the recent woke ad campaign that wasn’t even about beer.When I say their volume is down, I mean down like a skydiver who forgot his parachute.
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Varya Galkina, a smart and studious 10-year-old, began getting into trouble with her schoolteachers in Moscow last September, a few weeks into the new academic year.
First, they noticed she was regularly skipping the new Russian patriotism classes that had just been added to the national curriculum. Then they spotted that she had set a pro-Ukraine symbol as her profile picture on WhatsApp.
Varya was a star pupil, so her mother, mathematician Elena Jolicoeur, thought little of the fuss — until one morning in October, when she received a sudden call from school: her daughter had been detained by the police.
What do you expect from scum like Putin? He’s an “ex” KGB Lt. Col.
His ilk should have been treated like pariahs as the Stasi creeps were outed in a reunified Germany.
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Marcia. Bitter and twisted; dumb and wrong. Feel sorry for Jacinta: smart, brave and right.
The description you’re giving here (which I agree with) still suggests that Marcia deserves pity. Jacinta is doing great, despite the odds stacked against her. Why feel sorry for her? Marcia has the unqualified backing of the Establishment as has received all of the baubles and blandishments such backing attracts. And yet she remains miserable. I do feel sorry for her.
Who would you rather be – Marcia or Jacinta? It’s not a hard choice from my perspective.
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Varya Galkina, a smart and studious 10-year-old, began getting into trouble with her schoolteachers in Moscow last September, a few weeks into the new academic year.
First, they noticed she was regularly skipping the new Russian patriotism classes that had just been added to the national curriculum. Then they spotted that she had set a pro-Ukraine symbol as her profile picture on WhatsApp
Always be wary when they’re busting out tales of some exceptional individual child who shows unwavering devotion to The Cause and suffers as a result.
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Drug trafficking charge dropped against Dances with Wolves actor Nathan Chasing Horse
Dude looks like a lady.
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dover0beach says:
April 9, 2023 at 1:05 amIf only Stalin knew.
LOL.He knew alright, of course not of individual cases, why should he?
As Sir H Appleby said about commissions of inquiry, they are like trains, you lay down the tracks and they follow them.
Same for political guidelines for the enforcers.Happens here and now, people just don’t connect, they still think police over-react and Dan A knows nothing about it or disapproves?
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Week In Pictures. Thanks, Zatara.
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Funny how this comes out at Easter when no one is paying attention to Canberra.
Low-middle income earners face major pay cuts as Treasurer Jim Chalmers signals end of tax offset (8 Apr)
“More than 10 million Australians struggling with the cost of living crisis will face one of the largest tax increases in history.
According to a report from Nine papers, Treasurer Jim Chalmers will not extend the Low-Middle-Income Tax Offset (LMITO) when the federal budget is delivered in May.
This means those earning under $126,000 a year will suffer a $1,500 hit to their hip pocket and a person earning $100,000 will be $1,200 worse off.
People taking home $50,000 a year will suffer a 3.4 per cent or $29 per week cut in their after-tax income while those earning $90,000 will cop a 2.1 per cent hit.
The LMITO, which costs the budget $11 billion a year, was introduced for the 2018-2019 financial year as part of the first stage of the Turnbull government’s three-stage tax cuts.”
So low to middle income taxpayers are getting a ferocious tax rise? Funny how I didn’t notice this being mentioned by Labor in the run up to the election. Good and hard, proles, good and hard.
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While our stupid government runs ads recommending a booster shot, the Swiss government has withdrawn all vaccine recommendations!
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Boambee John says:
April 8, 2023 at 1:18 pm
Via Black Ball
The research, which surveyed 93 former MPs, found most ex-parliamentarians struggled to find work, with some unemployed for years.
That’s because once they have been out of office for a few months their previous contacts are worthless, and they have no other sellable skills (tongue bathing is a skill in limited demand).I couldn’t resist commenting on this from earlier yesterday. Ex-pollies acquire an inflated image of themselves while in parliament that they are worth far more than anyone else and deserve a high position once they are back among us.
Parliament is like an expensive holiday paid by someone else so when they get back home pollies should return to their prior job or profession. Anything more I consider as corruption.
No wonder they find it hard to get a job when turfed out by the voters, who wants to give a job to someone who lied in public and looked down on everybody else?
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So low to middle income taxpayers are getting a ferocious tax rise? Funny how I didn’t notice this being mentioned by Labor in the run up to the election.
It was a policy entirely designed and implemented by the Libs to be temporary and to expire now. Labor has not tinkered with it at all. Nice try at pinning it on Chalmers though.
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More on my earlier comment about ex-pollies careers after parliament and their unemployability. What employer would want to give Lidia Thorpe a job? Or Jackie Lambie? In any capacity. The less known a politician the more likely I would employ them. Media prominence means that they are destructive to any other cause but their own.
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One for Monty since he’s here.
Notes on the Twitter Files (21) | Power Line (8 Apr)
Rather amusing after your “gotcha” yesterday. Is that the smell of fear I detect from MSNBC?
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Oh look, the pervert apologist is here, up early in the morning. Yesterday he rudely described us here as a bunch of “cranks, losers in life whose chickens are now coming home to roost electorally.” And there was more! He described us as “irrelevant“.
It is odd, though, how he likes to spend a lot of time among us “cranks and losers in life“.
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I wonder how one defines “cranks and losers in life”?
Low income? Lack of intellectual curiosity? Inability to form deep, lasting relationships with others? Addiction?
I read this blog every day because it is peopled with wise men and women from all walks of life. I find I have learnt so much, been challenged in many areas and have received countless nuggets of wisdom. Most of all, I feel as if I am part of a conversation that ebbs and flows, goes in multiple directions, occasionally derails but always entertains and often edifies.
If this is what it is to be a bunch of cranks and losers in life, it doesn’t seem all that bad. Indeed, I would be honoured to be counted as one. From proud deplorable to proud crank and loser in life just like that! Thanks, Monty!
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“The very first time a tranny showed up in womens sport the women should have walked. They only have themselves to blame. Going along with something coz of personal discomfort if you don’t doesn’t work. Expecting someone else to come to your rescue is a lack of conviction.”
I don’t disagree but some young women are being compelled. Those young college girls who competed against the pervert and cheat Lia Thomas last year were threatened with expulsion and so on. They did have doubts and misgivings. Riley Gaines, physically attacked a few days ago at San Fran University by trans perverts, is now speaking up. She has spoken about how she and her team mates were gagged, threatened and coerced, they did have strong misgivings and doubts but were silenced.
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I see Hassan trying to tie up Taibbi over Musk’s supposed support of censorship in India directed by Modi.
Hassan’s anti Modi stance is well known and supported by the left media and wet conservatives.
I have visited India regularly for over twenty years and have noticed the rise of the full burqa amongst young Muslim women.
This is counter to my other observation that women increasingly noticeable in all aspects of social, political and business life in India.
The Indians I’ve spoken to quietly say it’s not a good sign and they fear a repeat of the murderous chaos of partition.
You don’t have to be a fan of Modi to know that he sees the retrograde trend in the Muslim community and wants to stop it before it creates nationwide conflicts. -
The very first time a tranny showed up in womens sport the women should have walked. They only have themselves to blame
That’s because the ladeeees failed to recognise the ‘transition’ from a one-off, tokenistic ‘aren’t you a bit sweet, trying so hard with your obvious problems’ bloke in a skirt, to Lia Thomas, Hannah Mouncey and MMA blokes cage fighting girls and fracturing their skulls.
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Zatarasays:
April 8, 2023 at 10:50 pm
Yes it is marketing suicide so why do they do it?Because they hired woke executives to whom abusing their positions to force normalization of this perversion on the public is a higher duty than their fiduciary one to the shareholders.
Can shareholders sue for failure of fiduciary duty?
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Victorian ALP knows their goose is cooked at the next election.
They also know how unemployable they are.
Their value on the open market is about half minimum wage. (i.e. they’d be about half as good as a backpacker at pushing a broom in a coffee shop)Corporate boards are full of former politicians who have friends there, particularly industry super funds. It is likely to get worse as corporations become more woke.
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Good ad by Marjorie Taylor Greene about biden’s pedoism:
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Crossie says:
April 9, 2023 at 6:48 amBoambee John says:
April 8, 2023 at 1:18 pm
Via Black Ball
The research, which surveyed 93 former MPs, found most ex-parliamentarians struggled to find work, with some unemployed for years.
That’s because once they have been out of office for a few months their previous contacts are worthless, and they have no other sellable skills (tongue bathing is a skill in limited demand).I couldn’t resist commenting on this from earlier yesterday. Ex-pollies acquire an inflated image of themselves while in parliament that they are worth far more than anyone else and deserve a high position once they are back among us.
Parliament is like an expensive holiday paid by someone else so when they get back home pollies should return to their prior job or profession. Anything more I consider as corruption.
No wonder they find it hard to get a job when turfed out by the voters, who wants to give a job to someone who lied in public and looked down on everybody else?
Two things.
One, why on earth should politicians who lose their jobs for whatever reason be given special treatment? Lots of people lose their jobs through no fault of their own. They get another job, or go on the dole. Giving politicians special treatment just widens the gulf between them and the people they are supposed to represent.
Two, a local member who has been doing his/her job properly should have built up a reservoir of goodwill in the electorate. There should be lots of people who can testify to that person’s diligence and commitment and good faith. It shouldn’t be hard for that person to get another job.
I rather suspect that the unemployed ex-politicians are refusing jobs that pay less and have less perks than they are used to.
Welcome to the real world, parasites.
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