1,587 thoughts on “Open Thread – Weekend 15 April 2023”
In breaking news…
UK PM Rishi Sunak has declared that women don’t have penises.
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Nothing but a straw-boater and a checked waistcoat?
Headwear can often prove to be a problem.
UK PM Rishi Sunak has declared that women don’t have penises.
Now THAT would have been an interesting focus group.
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“UK PM Rishi Sunak has declared that women don’t have penises.”
What a far-right, white supremacist Nazi.
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Lets go back to basics. A 1 Mt mine laid in front of a carrier in a restricted waterway a few days before the fleet goes through will be undetectable.
There’s the problem Winston. It has to be laid in front of the carrier.
Minefields are statistical equations. The ocean is big. Really really big. You can do them by guessing where a ship needs to go then lay a minefield in that location. But with 1 Mt nukes? You’ll swiftly run out of money, and uranium, trying to do that.
Stealthy underwater drones are a way to go, yes, but a Mach 10 missile is going to be quite hard to stop. Sometimes brute force beats stealth.
Time to succeed then.
We did secede once. Or, at least we voted to, but the bugmen weren’t having it.
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The potential to disrupt economic and other activity on land and sea conducted by non-indigenous folk is already real, as was recently demonstrated with the closure of an NT fishery at short notice.
It will only be amplified by the Voice.
Marxist wrecking which is its main purpose.
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Curiously strip clubs are quite rigorous in maintaining dress standards
For the most part, this is correct. Keeping away the riff-raff, while at the same time letting in those more likely to recreate with the odd nose beer – and therefore more likely to spend cash on the lappies.
In recent years, however, the King Street strip in the Melbourne CBD seemed to have a ‘no TapOut T-shirt, no entry’ code.
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No, bolta is still a piece of shit. The and that emaciated ostrich sheridan agree that Marjorie Taylor Green is symptomatic of a rising tide of right wing extremism.
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UK PM Rishi Sunak has declared that women don’t have penises.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is, for the first time, not returning our calls.
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caveman says:
April 17, 2023 at 5:34 pm
Sharri must have it in for Deves. Odd interview, not a fan of Sharri.
Sharri was good on a couple of issues and was given her current gig on the strength of that. As soon as she bared her teeth at conservatives I stopped watching.
Mosman councillor Libby Moline has taken aim at Mosman High School students who she claims are often glued to their phones while crossing busy streets outside the Military Rd campus.
All this disparagement of the Waugal – which I know as The Rainbow Serpent.
I love this guy! I have a beautiful bark painting of the big fella in a perspex frame at the farm. Our valley is often called the “valley of the rainbow serpent” as we have a frequent rainbow form in the middle of the valley – which, from our perspective, appears in our middle paddock.
I instinctively feel it is the omen of good times. Don’t know whether this conforms to the mob’s beliefs.
I instinctively feel it is the omen of good times.
Mr Maddox, who the Waugul/Rainbow Serpent is dragging through the courts, may not share that view.
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Japan’s leaders have tried numerous pro-natalist policies to arrest the decline. This includes more money for child care, longer maternity and paternity leave, and paying mothers a lump-sum of 500,000 yen (about $3,700) per baby. Nothing has worked.
No imagination, didn’t try cheaper beer. I remember Akko, Yuko and Hira getting quite feisty on free beers courtesy of me, Akko in particular. The fact that I remember their names is an indicator!
Indolent says:
April 17, 2023 at 7:46 pm
When I first heard about this the other day I seriously wondered if it wasn’t a missile. I wouldn’t put it past them.
‘Explosion kills 18,000 cows,’ reports say, and no questions asked
It was collected methane, 18,000 cows make a lot of it. I would first investigate the ventilation system.
Indolent says:
April 17, 2023 at 7:54 pm
The Fed, Bank of America and Hordes of Corporate CEOs Are All Warning That a Recession Will Happen This Year
So what are they doing about it? Aren’t they responsible at least partially?
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John H:
By making tertiary studies more inclusive we have unleashed generations of sheep who claim moral and intellectual superiority over the rest of us. Problem is, at present they are winning.
Then they will inherit an intellectual desert and call it ‘woke’.
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The prosecution’s statement of facts states that any alteration to the Waugul’s home could scare it from the water, causing it to dry up
What two bob lawyer presented this fairy story to the court as a “statement of fact” and why didn’t the court clerk tell the fool to bugger off and throw nearby objects at the clown as he ran for cover?
I cannot believe this is a serious court case.
We are doomed.
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Format fail. The italics are mine.
The Wagyl spooked me.
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‘Explosion kills 18,000 cows,’ reports say, and no questions asked
That’s a lot of cows, an awful lot of cows.
For the sake of efficiency, cleanup might involve the crew that took care of that whale with dynamite.
What two bob lawyer presented this fairy story to the court as a “statement of fact” …
If they get Bruce Pascoe up as an expert witness hold on to your hats.
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Kenny has been showing the footage of some ugly old sheila calling Dutton’s remarks a dog act. He’s blathering on about how the ALPBC is calling for Dutton and Jacinta to report child abuse to the Police.
What’s the point when even the Magistrates up there state that “when a twelve year old girl asks for a smoke from a group of abo men in their twenties, she knows what to expect”.
When the Great Man, Fred Hollows was working in Queensland to try and fix dreadful eye diseases which were endemic amongst the local Abos, the Queensland Government stopped any reporting on The Great Man’s Work as, if the information became Public Knowledge, it could “hurt Tourism” in their state. This was in the Seventies. Nothing has changed. The “White Abos” would love to ring-fence the darker ones ala “Planet of the Apes” to use when necessary for their own ends. They don’t give a rat-f#ck how many of those children die from neglect, rape, bashings, venereal disease etc. They are zoological exhibits to be used when expedient.
I will try to find the info that I read years ago about the number of children under the age of ten whom suffered from any STD you have ever heard of and then some. This was over forty years ago. There were also eyewitness accounts of ten year olds running down 3-5 year olds to sexually abuse them because that’s all they ever knew themselves. In the street, not caring who saw them.
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The Wagyl spooked me.
Run!
No, not to the water!
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Mr Maddox, who the Waugul/Rainbow Serpent is dragging through the courts, may not share that view.
What did the duck say?
Bad Luck.
He’s pissed off The Waugul.
What’s the real story on this bloke?
I’m thinkin’ he’s built formwork for a causeway, then poured 250 cubes of crete in, thinkin’ I’ll show The Waugul who’s boss roun’ heeyah.
The latest in the Brittany saga should be quite useful for anyone needing a refresher in criminal procedure. Or in Groogs case, some much needed basics.
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When the Great Man, Fred Hollows was working in Queensland to try and fix dreadful eye diseases which were endemic amongst the local Abos, …
What was great about him, apart from being a relentless publicity hound?
Anyway, it’s Trachoma.
Called Sandy Blight, caused by a diet of sugar, simple carbs, and not much else.
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Polymath status confirmed then.
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There is no running from the Wagyl. It is now 3000kms long.
He/she/it/they/them first popped up in the old Swan Brewery in Perth on land reclaimed by debbil- debbil whitey and since then has been spotted at numerous exploration sites, mine sites, cattle stations and up North as far as the Ord River and the (now closed) Argyle diamond mine.
The Wagyl can be soothed with liberal applications of Munni.
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Bruce O’Nuke: The Stonefish torpedo/mine.
If we have them, I cannot see why China or Russia do not have them.
Couple one to a 400Kt nuke. Put it in a restricted waterway like the straits of Malacca, or the Sunda Strait where US carrier fleets route from Pacific to Indian Ocean.
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Was it The Waugul that stopped Forrest building a feedlot that dumped effluent into a pristine river?
In a move that should come as no surprise, Twiggy has now replaced the wagyl at the old Swan Brewery.
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Was it The Waugul that stopped Forrest building a feedlot that dumped effluent into a pristine river?
No. You’re thinking of Captain Detmers.
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He found a scab Waugul to do the job for half the price?
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Couple one to a 400Kt nuke. Put it in a restricted waterway like the straits of Malacca, or the Sunda Strait where US carrier fleets route from Pacific to Indian Ocean.
No US admiral worth the brains of a sea cucumber would sail through the Sunda Strait in war time.
There’s a lot of sea. Especially for ships using nuclear propulsion.
The Russians’ Poseidon system is a potential game changer though. Although MAD still works, which I’m sure Mr P and Mr X are entirely aware of.
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Winston
Lets go back to basics. A 1 Mt mine laid in front of a carrier in a restricted waterway a few days before the fleet goes through will be undetectable. Mines can be set to detect and identify a particular ships noise as a routine addition.
1 Mt even a mile away from a carrier will set up a tsunami that will sink it.
Failing that, a 400Kt warhead on a torpedo once launched will sink anything near it.
So while everyone is looking for hypersonic ‘carrier killers’ the vulnerability is under the waves and nearly silent.
Using nukes that big is excessive. A wake-homing torpedo with a large HE warhead will do the job quite adequately.
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The collection of essays “The Young Menzies:Success, Failure, Resilence 1894 – 1942” makes good reading.
Most Australians know how Menzies acquired his nickname “PigIron Bob”, during a dispute over the loading of pig iron bound for Japan, in 1938. It seems that, when the strikers wrote to John Curtin, seeking support, he talked to them “like they were naughty boys” and told them that, if Labor was in Government, “they would still have to load the pig iron. Pages 104 – 105.
On 9th May, 1939, well after Germany’s invasion of Czechoslovakia, Curtin argued that he understood how the German people could accept that National Socialism had delivered them economic safety, when the people of the democracies were queuing for the dole. Pages 105 – 6.
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I’m thinkin’ he’s built formwork for a causeway, then poured 250 cubes of crete in, thinkin’
Of gypsum, sure. Poisoned that waterway to all get out.
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Grandpa Ed Simpson
He’s pissed off The Waugul.
What’s the real story on this bloke?
I’m thinkin’ he’s built formwork for a causeway, then poured 250 cubes of crete in, thinkin’
You are not capable of thinkin’. All that you can do is troll, mindlessly.
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Bruce O’Nuke:
No US admiral worth the brains of a sea cucumber would sail through the Sunda Strait in war time.
There’s a lot of sea. Especially for ships using nuclear propulsion.
We’re not at war Bruce.
Think it through – the Chinese are getting pissed off at the Freedom of Navigation ships going between Taiwan and China.
What better way to stymie them than to have a US Carrier Fleet have an ‘accident’ in a restricted waterway, claim the US is too careless with its nukes and forbid the FoN exercises between China and Taiwan? All the nations in those waterways would ban all military shipping immediately.
China wins and the US gets the blame for the explosion.
It’s about plausible deniability for China.
I’m sure Sun Tzu has a rule for this kind of subterfuge.
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1,000,000 Wild Cubes
A Calcium Carbonate River Runs Through It
Kings in Cement Castles
A Town Called Portland
Gypsymipolli
Odd Angry Shotcreter
The Chant of Jimmie Labourer
40,000 mPa
M*E*S*H
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Was it 400 cubes?
Of gypsum, sure. Poisoned that waterway to all get out.
Small bit of science. The asteroid that did for the dinosaurs fell onto a vast layer of gypsum.
Which turned into SO2 gas and occluded the atmosphere for some years.
Chemistry is paleontology.
The Albanese Government has been very clear that they are committed to implementing the full Uluru Statement, which includes “Treaty” and “Truth Telling”. Attorney General Mark Dreyfus said the Voice was a “first step” towards those things.
And thanks to the Freedom of Information Act we can now see what’s in the package deal.
It’s proof that the Voice really is about division, it really is about putting race at the centre of our politics, and it puts us on a path to dismantling Australia as we know it.
The FOI revealed the secret documents from the Uluru Dialogues that informed the Referendum Council’s final report and the Uluru Statement from the Heart which is the justification for the divisive Voice referendum.
“Me bin see that big (Name deleted), and all his mob, rode down to the waterhole, and they just shot the blackfellas, just the same way you’d shoot a dog.”
Er, (Name deleted) had been dead for two years at the time..
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Just saw that Harold Scruby has been scammed out of $700,000. I call it poetic justice as this man has campaigned to lower speed limits throughout the city which resulted in millions in fines.
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Judge’s secrecy call on Bruce Lehrmann legal application
By Stephen Rice
NSW Editor
@riceyontheroad
9:25PM April 17, 2023
In an unusual move, the judge who presided over Bruce Lehrmann’s rape trial published her reasons on Monday for continuing to suppress material about the case even after the trial had been abandoned.
On December 2, on the day chief prosecutor Shane Drumgold said the trial would not continue out of concerns for Ms Higgins’ mental health, ACT Supreme Court Chief Justice Lucy McCallum suppressed the nature of an application made by Mr Lehrmann’s then counsel, Arthur Moses.
The application was made by Mr Lehrmann’s lawyers on November 22, supported by an affidavit, after the trial was abandoned due to juror misconduct but before the DPP announced on December 2 he would not retry Mr Lehrmann.
Justice McCallum made orders prohibiting publication of the content of the application and the affidavit. She said there was “a cogent reason” for continuing the suppression order – namely, Ms Higgins’ medical condition.
“I have no doubt that any further exacerbation of the level of media attention directed to her carries a risk to her life,” Justice McCallum said.
“Based on my assessment of the application and the affidavit, it is my firm view publication of that material would give the media a new story or a new slant that would inevitably result in further harm to the complainant (Ms Higgins).”
It is unclear why Justice McCallum chose to publish her reasons on Monday, more than four months after making the order. It is also unclear why Justice McCallum has continued a non-publication order about the nature of the November application some five months later.
Several senior criminal lawyers told The Australian they were surprised the suppression orders over the nature of the application, and the material to support it, remained in place.
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Perth Cats-
any must-do’s for kids in the city these holidays?
Method: aimless channel surfing – without any scientific or statistical rigour applied.
Medium: Television, both FTA & Sky
Search: Reality TV
Conclusion: Every channel has tonight run – seemingly on endless loop – the latest episode of the unscripted but fair dinkum Real Senators of the Australian Parliament.
Except one channel – guess which channel has not mentioned the Melbourne statement from the Arse?
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Caught the Sharri Markson interview with Catherine Deves. She was clearly out to attack Deves and might as well have been the ABC.
Not impressed with Markson and not much interest to listen to her show.
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Perth Cats-
any must-do’s for kids in the city these holidays?
Stay out of my way.
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Plenty of lumps under the Brittany rug (no pun intended).
The Senate is the actually the closest thing to Constitutionally recognised reality TV. Proportional representation MAFS.
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Bourne1879 says: April 17, 2023 at 11:12 pm
Caught the Sharri Markson interview with Catherine Deves. She was clearly out to attack Deves and might as well have been the ABC.
Just caught up with it myself.
Ms. Markson went for her like a rabid dog. She certainly went waaaay beyond “holding a politician (candidate) to account”. Quentin Dempster will be jealous.
You’re not wrong, Mrs. Deves would have gotten a much fairer hearing from the ABC.
I read the Scruby article. He took them to court and recovered his money.
Beware chasing ‘green’ investments on the internet.
Seems a lot of people think they are too cluey to bother going into their bank branch or speak to a financial adviser about investing their money just need to speak on the phone to people called ‘Mark Taylor’ or ‘Dave Warner’ with plummy English accents.
That Doris took CBA on re her $260,000 and lost.
I think most,if not all, tellers would be very reluctant to transfer $260,000 to a random account for a customer.
We aren’t told exactly how she organised the transfer.
We don’t need a Geelong Fast Rail or an Airport Fast Rail.
All the Andrews Rail projects are green fantasies anyhow.
How’s the loopy loop one going?
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Samantha Ratnam
@SamanthaRatnam
The Victorian Labor Government has a choice in this State Budget.
They can slash vital health services and axe public sector jobs, or they can make the profiteering big banks and corporations pay their fair share.
Far from a difficult decision. #Spring
Greens for the smarts, shareholders should pay Victorian income taxes!
Big Bank! Big Corp! Big Bad!
Incidentally I suspect Ms Thorpe, respected elder, mother and grandmother has more money to spend now she’s no longer a Green iirc they tithe their elected representatives.
Also no surprise she has limited assets, was declared bankrupt in 2013 with $700,000 in debt (might have been spouse caused).
In breaking news…
UK PM Rishi Sunak has declared that women don’t have penises.
Headwear can often prove to be a problem.
Now THAT would have been an interesting focus group.
“UK PM Rishi Sunak has declared that women don’t have penises.”
What a far-right, white supremacist Nazi.
There’s the problem Winston. It has to be laid in front of the carrier.
Minefields are statistical equations. The ocean is big. Really really big. You can do them by guessing where a ship needs to go then lay a minefield in that location. But with 1 Mt nukes? You’ll swiftly run out of money, and uranium, trying to do that.
Stealthy underwater drones are a way to go, yes, but a Mach 10 missile is going to be quite hard to stop. Sometimes brute force beats stealth.
I love John H’s garbled arguments from authority
who says AI can’t wank?
Meme
Time to succeed then.
We did secede once. Or, at least we voted to, but the bugmen weren’t having it.
The potential to disrupt economic and other activity on land and sea conducted by non-indigenous folk is already real, as was recently demonstrated with the closure of an NT fishery at short notice.
It will only be amplified by the Voice.
Marxist wrecking which is its main purpose.
For the most part, this is correct. Keeping away the riff-raff, while at the same time letting in those more likely to recreate with the odd nose beer – and therefore more likely to spend cash on the lappies.
In recent years, however, the King Street strip in the Melbourne CBD seemed to have a ‘no TapOut T-shirt, no entry’ code.
No, bolta is still a piece of shit. The and that emaciated ostrich sheridan agree that Marjorie Taylor Green is symptomatic of a rising tide of right wing extremism.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is, for the first time, not returning our calls.
Sharri was good on a couple of issues and was given her current gig on the strength of that. As soon as she bared her teeth at conservatives I stopped watching.
His journey into understanding reality.
Dr John Campbell’s Descent into Darkness
Female teacher at £20,000-a-year girls’ school is forced to apologise to pupils for saying ‘Good afternoon, girls’
Mosman councillor Libby Moline has taken aim at Mosman High School students who she claims are often glued to their phones while crossing busy streets outside the Military Rd campus.
Go Libby!
Racial Consciousness
@Nature_and_Race
If there is any real fight left in our people at all,
We’re going to start seeing typically good people start doing some very bad things.
I can’t fathom a world where you can steal other people’s children without putting your own life in serious danger.
Sir Keir says only 99.9% of women don’t have penises.
He got in trouble for that.
Possibly the most likely place to be caught in a drive-by after Friday drinks.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
It’s official: Douglas Murray is a complete whore for the Cosmopolitan Leadership Class.
A despicable individual, truly.
Assume everything he says is a lie—including “Hello”.
When I first heard about this the other day I seriously wondered if it wasn’t a missile. I wouldn’t put it past them.
‘Explosion kills 18,000 cows,’ reports say, and no questions asked
Kennedy family backing Biden over their own in 2024 Dem primary: report
Op-Ed: Brainwashing 101: Univ. Of PA Women’s Studies Hosting “Radical Playdate” For 5-Through-9-Year-Olds To Explore Gender Identity
All this disparagement of the Waugal – which I know as The Rainbow Serpent.
I love this guy! I have a beautiful bark painting of the big fella in a perspex frame at the farm. Our valley is often called the “valley of the rainbow serpent” as we have a frequent rainbow form in the middle of the valley – which, from our perspective, appears in our middle paddock.
I instinctively feel it is the omen of good times. Don’t know whether this conforms to the mob’s beliefs.
‘Passionate’ teen took his own life after feeling ‘helpless’ over climate crisis
It’s Not Transphobia
The Fed, Bank of America and Hordes of Corporate CEOs Are All Warning That a Recession Will Happen This Year
Mr Maddox, who the Waugul/Rainbow Serpent is dragging through the courts, may not share that view.
Japan’s leaders have tried numerous pro-natalist policies to arrest the decline. This includes more money for child care, longer maternity and paternity leave, and paying mothers a lump-sum of 500,000 yen (about $3,700) per baby. Nothing has worked.
No imagination, didn’t try cheaper beer. I remember Akko, Yuko and Hira getting quite feisty on free beers courtesy of me, Akko in particular. The fact that I remember their names is an indicator!
UK’s largest teacher’s union demands schools support drag queen story time, set up LGBT spaces
Murals with drawings of Christ and Virgin Mary discovered in northern Sudan
No punch line, I’m afraid.
Rishi Sunak says 100% of women do not have a penis
H B Bear says:
April 17, 2023 at 6:56 pm
Number of comments would half immediately.
Document Leaks Indicate Extent of U.S. Electronic Snooping
“Does Dovercat have a policy on posting while drunk? Enquiring minds and all that …”
Pissed as the proverbial newt right now. Still know who’s crap and who’s not. Sharri Markson sucks.
Going back to my previous comment, Rita better watch her back.
Secretly?
TRUMP WAS RIGHT: U.S. APPEARS TO BE SECRETLY HEADED TO WAR WITH RUSSIA AS CHINA STEPS IN
After the ‘Voice’ gets up, all land will be converted to 99 year leases then handed back to the freeloading Abo’s.
You will own nothing and be happy.
Not surprising since Athanasius kept on being exiled there.
Currently Sudan is experiencing a small war.
Sudan battles intensify on 3rd day; civilian deaths reach 97 (17 Apr)
There can be only one!
It was collected methane, 18,000 cows make a lot of it. I would first investigate the ventilation system.
So what are they doing about it? Aren’t they responsible at least partially?
John H:
Then they will inherit an intellectual desert and call it ‘woke’.
The prosecution’s statement of facts states that any alteration to the Waugul’s home could scare it from the water, causing it to dry up
Format fail. The italics are mine.
The Wagyl spooked me.
That’s a lot of cows, an awful lot of cows.
For the sake of efficiency, cleanup might involve the crew that took care of that whale with dynamite.
If they get Bruce Pascoe up as an expert witness hold on to your hats.
Kenny has been showing the footage of some ugly old sheila calling Dutton’s remarks a dog act. He’s blathering on about how the ALPBC is calling for Dutton and Jacinta to report child abuse to the Police.
What’s the point when even the Magistrates up there state that “when a twelve year old girl asks for a smoke from a group of abo men in their twenties, she knows what to expect”.
When the Great Man, Fred Hollows was working in Queensland to try and fix dreadful eye diseases which were endemic amongst the local Abos, the Queensland Government stopped any reporting on The Great Man’s Work as, if the information became Public Knowledge, it could “hurt Tourism” in their state. This was in the Seventies. Nothing has changed. The “White Abos” would love to ring-fence the darker ones ala “Planet of the Apes” to use when necessary for their own ends. They don’t give a rat-f#ck how many of those children die from neglect, rape, bashings, venereal disease etc. They are zoological exhibits to be used when expedient.
I will try to find the info that I read years ago about the number of children under the age of ten whom suffered from any STD you have ever heard of and then some. This was over forty years ago. There were also eyewitness accounts of ten year olds running down 3-5 year olds to sexually abuse them because that’s all they ever knew themselves. In the street, not caring who saw them.
Run!
No, not to the water!
Mr Maddox, who the Waugul/Rainbow Serpent is dragging through the courts, may not share that view.
What did the duck say?
Bad Luck.
He’s pissed off The Waugul.
What’s the real story on this bloke?
I’m thinkin’ he’s built formwork for a causeway, then poured 250 cubes of crete in, thinkin’
I’ll show The Waugul who’s boss roun’ heeyah.
The latest in the Brittany saga should be quite useful for anyone needing a refresher in criminal procedure. Or in Groogs case, some much needed basics.
When the Great Man, Fred Hollows was working in Queensland to try and fix dreadful eye diseases which were endemic amongst the local Abos, …
What was great about him, apart from being a relentless publicity hound?
Anyway, it’s Trachoma.
Called Sandy Blight, caused by a diet of sugar, simple carbs, and not much else.
Polymath status confirmed then.
There is no running from the Wagyl. It is now 3000kms long.
He/she/it/they/them first popped up in the old Swan Brewery in Perth on land reclaimed by debbil- debbil whitey and since then has been spotted at numerous exploration sites, mine sites, cattle stations and up North as far as the Ord River and the (now closed) Argyle diamond mine.
The Wagyl can be soothed with liberal applications of Munni.
Bruce O’Nuke:
The Stonefish torpedo/mine.
If we have them, I cannot see why China or Russia do not have them.
Couple one to a 400Kt nuke. Put it in a restricted waterway like the straits of Malacca, or the Sunda Strait where US carrier fleets route from Pacific to Indian Ocean.
Was it The Waugul that stopped Forrest building a feedlot that dumped effluent into a pristine river?
In a move that should come as no surprise, Twiggy has now replaced the wagyl at the old Swan Brewery.
No. You’re thinking of Captain Detmers.
He found a scab Waugul to do the job for half the price?
No US admiral worth the brains of a sea cucumber would sail through the Sunda Strait in war time.
There’s a lot of sea. Especially for ships using nuclear propulsion.
The Russians’ Poseidon system is a potential game changer though. Although MAD still works, which I’m sure Mr P and Mr X are entirely aware of.
Winston
Lets go back to basics. A 1 Mt mine laid in front of a carrier in a restricted waterway a few days before the fleet goes through will be undetectable. Mines can be set to detect and identify a particular ships noise as a routine addition.
1 Mt even a mile away from a carrier will set up a tsunami that will sink it.
Failing that, a 400Kt warhead on a torpedo once launched will sink anything near it.
So while everyone is looking for hypersonic ‘carrier killers’ the vulnerability is under the waves and nearly silent.
Using nukes that big is excessive. A wake-homing torpedo with a large HE warhead will do the job quite adequately.
The collection of essays “The Young Menzies:Success, Failure, Resilence 1894 – 1942” makes good reading.
Most Australians know how Menzies acquired his nickname “PigIron Bob”, during a dispute over the loading of pig iron bound for Japan, in 1938. It seems that, when the strikers wrote to John Curtin, seeking support, he talked to them “like they were naughty boys” and told them that, if Labor was in Government, “they would still have to load the pig iron. Pages 104 – 105.
On 9th May, 1939, well after Germany’s invasion of Czechoslovakia, Curtin argued that he understood how the German people could accept that National Socialism had delivered them economic safety, when the people of the democracies were queuing for the dole. Pages 105 – 6.
You really do know fvck all, Grogarly.
2023.04.16 Poisoning The Well
Was it 400 cubes?
Factcheck status: True
Of gypsum, sure. Poisoned that waterway to all get out.
Grandpa Ed Simpson
He’s pissed off The Waugul.
What’s the real story on this bloke?
I’m thinkin’ he’s built formwork for a causeway, then poured 250 cubes of crete in, thinkin’
You are not capable of thinkin’. All that you can do is troll, mindlessly.
Bruce O’Nuke:
We’re not at war Bruce.
Think it through – the Chinese are getting pissed off at the Freedom of Navigation ships going between Taiwan and China.
What better way to stymie them than to have a US Carrier Fleet have an ‘accident’ in a restricted waterway, claim the US is too careless with its nukes and forbid the FoN exercises between China and Taiwan? All the nations in those waterways would ban all military shipping immediately.
China wins and the US gets the blame for the explosion.
It’s about plausible deniability for China.
I’m sure Sun Tzu has a rule for this kind of subterfuge.
1,000,000 Wild Cubes
A Calcium Carbonate River Runs Through It
Kings in Cement Castles
A Town Called Portland
Gypsymipolli
Odd Angry Shotcreter
The Chant of Jimmie Labourer
40,000 mPa
M*E*S*H
Small bit of science. The asteroid that did for the dinosaurs fell onto a vast layer of gypsum.
Which turned into SO2 gas and occluded the atmosphere for some years.
Chemistry is paleontology.
The first big step towards division – (FOI) 17/04/2023
Great fun, Great Plains rifle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHQlbbBUtyk
Who’s truth? Stories my Nanna told me?
“Me bin see that big (Name deleted), and all his mob, rode down to the waterhole, and they just shot the blackfellas, just the same way you’d shoot a dog.”
Er, (Name deleted) had been dead for two years at the time..
Just saw that Harold Scruby has been scammed out of $700,000. I call it poetic justice as this man has campaigned to lower speed limits throughout the city which resulted in millions in fines.
Perth Cats-
any must-do’s for kids in the city these holidays?
Method: aimless channel surfing – without any scientific or statistical rigour applied.
Medium: Television, both FTA & Sky
Search: Reality TV
Conclusion: Every channel has tonight run – seemingly on endless loop – the latest episode of the unscripted but fair dinkum Real Senators of the Australian Parliament.
Except one channel – guess which channel has not mentioned the Melbourne statement from the Arse?
Caught the Sharri Markson interview with Catherine Deves. She was clearly out to attack Deves and might as well have been the ABC.
Not impressed with Markson and not much interest to listen to her show.
Stay out of my way.
Plenty of lumps under the Brittany rug (no pun intended).
The Senate is the actually the closest thing to Constitutionally recognised reality TV. Proportional representation MAFS.
Just caught up with it myself.
Ms. Markson went for her like a rabid dog. She certainly went waaaay beyond “holding a politician (candidate) to account”. Quentin Dempster will be jealous.
You’re not wrong, Mrs. Deves would have gotten a much fairer hearing from the ABC.
Cash and Rowdy.
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Chatsworth Blockfest 2023 (2 of 5)
I read the Scruby article. He took them to court and recovered his money.
Beware chasing ‘green’ investments on the internet.
Seems a lot of people think they are too cluey to bother going into their bank branch or speak to a financial adviser about investing their money just need to speak on the phone to people called ‘Mark Taylor’ or ‘Dave Warner’ with plummy English accents.
That Doris took CBA on re her $260,000 and lost.
I think most,if not all, tellers would be very reluctant to transfer $260,000 to a random account for a customer.
We aren’t told exactly how she organised the transfer.
‘The Cuts Guy’
Victoria budget expected to slash spending on infrastructure, public service and health at the Guardian.
We don’t need a Geelong Fast Rail or an Airport Fast Rail.
All the Andrews Rail projects are green fantasies anyhow.
How’s the loopy loop one going?
Greens for the smarts, shareholders should pay Victorian income taxes!
Big Bank! Big Corp! Big Bad!
Incidentally I suspect Ms Thorpe, respected elder, mother and grandmother has more money to spend now she’s no longer a Green iirc they tithe their elected representatives.
Also no surprise she has limited assets, was declared bankrupt in 2013 with $700,000 in debt (might have been spouse caused).