Could be a long summer for Captain Carbon and the rest of them. Bumrah was practically unplayable on Friday. Pitch…
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Sorry, this site now seems defunct – says ‘for sale’. Taken over by a telemedicine group.
I don’t know who he is, Lysander. What predictions has he made?
Vicki, does Prof Harris say anything about coccyx removal? From what I’ve read, and the epidemiology is limited, there are…
… economic complexity ranking …Que? And I would argue so what?
Yes. Blamey was brilliant in WWI (under Monash’s tutelage) but after that his career was a disgrace and he was an absolute pig. There is nothing to suggest he was more adept than other Australian commanders. He viewed soldiers as stepping stones for his career. He was a careerist from the beginning. Who else berates their way into being an Officer Cadet? (That is strangely admirable).
Field Marshal Sir Thomas Albert Blamey, GBE, KCB, CMG, DSO, CStJ, ED
Sure doesn’t look like it. But he was mentioned in dispatches.
You suspect ALPBC has received some blow back, even from the rusted on. ALPBC 6am News had Miriam Margolyes vox pop trying to put some nuance around her previous comments, not even 24 hour old. Typical and disgraceful.
Ed Casesays:
April 24, 2023 at 9:11 am
Thomas Blamey won the MC at Gallipoli, dickhead.
Grabdpa Ed Simpson
Blamey was a staff member at Gallipoli. In that era, the MC was given both for gallantry in action and for efficient staff work, but Blamey never received an MC.
You need to get a few lessons in Google, or stop making things up. Or preferably both. Dickhead.
Another opportunity to win more for the ‘No’ vote.
Humphries let loose, calling Leak a victim of our “PC jackals” and “low-lifes”, and said the one funeral he’d like to attend “would be the funeral of the Human Rights Commission”.
I’d like to attend that funeral, but I’d go further, I’d bury the bones, dig them up and then burn them, because only then will I be satisfied. Further, I don’t need to remind people that in almost nine years of Coalition governments, nothing was done about the HRC……NOTHING.
Here’s a little story about the HRC and a creepy and very sinister male by the name of “Roxeanne Tickle” (hint, not HIS real name). Tickle is a biological male pretending to be a woman, and over two years ago HE attempted to join Sall Grover’s app named “Giggle”. Giggle is a social media app designed for biological women to connect, for interesting things but also for mundanely important things such as if a woman moves to a new city she can use Giggle to explore female only room mates and accommodation and other such very mundane but very important needs, specific needs biological women require. None of this is rocket science. Giggle was created as a safe space for biological women and it uses facial recognition technology which works about ninety percent of the time. Tickle, being the sinister creep HE is, attempted to join on more than one occasion and each time HE was rejected. And then….what did the creep do? HE lodged a complaint with the HRC, that the app was transphobic and “women” like him should be allowed to join. At the end of 2021, heavily pregnant, Grover received a letter from the HRC. In the letter she was required to attend a panel for mediation and, wait for it, “reeducation”. Grover refused and ignored the letter. Early last year Tickle dropped the case. But late last year, Tickle decided to pursue the case again and, because Grover refused to appear before the HRC, it’s now with the federal court and Sall Grover is going to fight this. And remember, through all of us, we’re paying for the creepy Tickle. Grover is having to crowdfund for the legal case, and she’s set up her for tech platform to raise money.
But back to the HRC, it’s good to read and hear how Peter Dutton is speaking up about woke companies…ABOUT TIME, it’s just that I have a very good memory and I do recall how, when in government, the Liberals and National did F*CK ALL to rein in woke bureaucracies such as the HRC.
I defy someone to show me examples of the HRC actually defending civil liberties.
The Ukraine war thread on Hot Copper has 131,000+ comments!
Talk about Doom Threading.
Labor never forget.
The shills are still trying to tear down the Great Man 72 years after his passing.
You know what it probably stems from?
Some Labor flack portuned Thomas Blamey to nix a Prosecution of some other Labor connected criminal during his stint as Melbourne Police Commissioner and Blamey told them to far cough.
“I defy someone to show me examples of the HRC actually defending civil liberties.”
There are none.
Hasn’t the last few years demonstrated that civil liberties aren’t human rights?
I think Blot’s take on this is wrong. Sure he was poking fun at (then 1950s) Australia but you wouldn’t say it was ever done with malice.
From BB’s paste-up above…
Who does this race-genuflecting help?
Sooner or later it will all become cliched and rather embarrassing and virtue-signallers like Qantas will quietly drop it.
He tore himself down when he insinuated his front line infantryman were cowards to their faces.
These days he’d be a military lawyer.
Perhaps more Blot than Barry in that piece.
Tintarella di Lunasays:
April 24, 2023 at 8:38 am
I aw you left a note, Tinta. 🙂
If I recall, he used to occasionally contribute at the Çat, so perhaps he found us rather than us finding him. Always a thoughtful read. The Wayback Machine’s archive seems reasonalby complete.
There are quite a few Tina McQueens hidden away in the detritus of the former Liberal Party.
But, just like in the meaningless microcosm that is my feeble branch they are ignored.
Photios was brilliant when he struck on the tactic of ‘don’t fight them, ignore them and defund them, they will eventually go away’.
And they did mostly go away which is why Tina is so important. My branch’s little group of refuseniks are ineffective but not alone it would appear. Cross branch network green shoots are appearing.
Tim Wilson’s comments! I’m searching for an acceptable unacceptable response. Janet A sure got it wrong with him.
UnAustralian. Like switching off the lights on the Big Sneakers codpiece.
Often the case.
Dotsays:
April 24, 2023 at 9:41 am
The shills are still trying to tear down the Great Man 72 years after his passing.
He tore himself down when he insinuated his front line infantryman were cowards to their faces.
These days he’d be a military lawyer.
He tore himself down when he reserved a space on his aircraft out of Greece for his son, a relatively junior officer.
IIRC, Freyberg of the NZs went out on a ship with his men.
hb bear at 0938
dutch sense of nuance
“Janet A sure got it wrong with him.”
Like many others, she also got it wrong about Turdbull.
Conservative (not sure if that’s the right word anymore but anyway)politicians warned in the 80s that the HRC would become a star chamber and they were right. I think that horrid wimmim that was in charge they is now on the UN payroll in Gevena. So many of these Marxist establishment types work for foreign interests.
He tore himself down when he insinuated his front line infantryman were cowards to their faces.
It’s an Urban Myth given life by dopes like you who couldn’t GAF about Australia and Great Australians anyway.
if blamey was in todays adf he wld be wearing red stilettos
In other Sneakers news, he got back from China this weekend. Hopefully this means Perf won’t be targeted in the first round of strikes.
“Janet A sure got it wrong with him.”
She also gets it wrong about Brittany Higgins, so either she’s as dumb as a post, or she does what she’s gotta do to keep her job.
The Evidence appears to be pointing in a certain direction …
Ed Casesays:
April 24, 2023 at 9:49 am
He tore himself down when he insinuated his front line infantryman were cowards to their faces.
It’s an Urban Myth given life by dopes like you who couldn’t GAF about Australia and Great Australians anyway.
Poor old Grandpa Ed Simpson is too stupid or ignorant to even Google Blamey’s Koitaki speech. It is amply documented.
Apparently nearly every romance movie was a “how to abuse” manual
CPS includes ‘love-bombing’ in guidance on abusive partners prosecution
Big showering of affection at beginning of relationship can be used to confuse victims and gain control, CPS warns
“Sometimes we see, particularly at the beginning of the relationship, a big showering of love and affection,” Kate Brown, national lead for domestic abuse at the CPS, said. Love-bombing behaviour, intermittently carrying out what appear to be loving acts, such as sending flowers, can constitute a manipulative step, designed to disrupt investigation and prosecution, the guidance reads. Manipulative steps can include altering behaviour when being watched or supervised.
“We do not underestimate the impact of stalking or controlling or coercive behaviour on victims who can be forced to change their daily routines, left in fear of their life and totally consumed by this offending,” Brown said. “These controlling offences can quickly escalate and that is why we’re absolutely committed to prosecuting wherever our legal test is met.”
That Potential Greatness threw a few people I recall.
Sancho Panzersays:
April 24, 2023 at 9:50 am
if blamey was in todays adf he wld be wearing red stilettos
The stilettos haven’t been made that could bear that burden.
Ed Casesays:
April 24, 2023 at 9:56 am
“Janet A sure got it wrong with him.”
She also gets it wrong about Brittany Higgins, so either she’s as dumb as a post, or she does what she’s gotta do to keep her job.
The Evidence appears to be pointing in a certain direction …
That direction being that Grandpa Ed Simpson has some kind of undisclosed personal interest in the saga of Mizzzz Knickerless. Is she a family member?
Trumble never fooled me but Howard did.
My suspicion is another unhealthy maternal fixation reviewing those security tapes. “Paging Dr Freud. Dr Freud”.
The Fleay Incident.
Major (T/ Lt. Col.) Normal L. Fleay commanded Kanga Force in the Bulolo Valley-Salamaua-Lae area of New Guinea from late April 1942, until mid January, 1943. The story of Kanga, and his command, are intriguing, but all I have the space to mention now is the D.S.O. which was controversially awarded to Fleay, and Gen. Blamey’s public defense of the same officer.
It was not unusual for commanders to be awarded a D.S.O. for their service, but both the citation for his award, and the published press interviews on his return to Australian in mid 1943, suggested that Maj. Fleay had performed deeds beyond the recorded reality. The issue was raised in N.S.W. Parliament (a member of Kanga Force had been an N.S.W. M.P. pre-war) and thus made public. General Blamey stated that he had full confidence in Fleay, and no further attention was given to the matter.
I’m uncertain if this was contemporaneous with, or just prior to, the political/public anxiety surrounding Minister Ward’s ‘Brisbane Line’ propaganda. Blamey, who I believe was kept on because both Curtin and his idol MacArthur saw in him a suitable scapegoat (MacArthur all but stated this explicitly during the Rowell Affair the previous year), needed to take such action to save himself. Any further enquiries would have revealed the semi-isolation of Kanga in 1942.
For me, (as an armchair-general two generations removed), this was the second action from Gen. Blamey that I regard as dishonourable (after Rowell; though his civilian boss had placed Blamey in an extraordinary position, and Blamey had privately defended his commanders, I believe he could have pushed harder, and perhaps even placed his career on the line).
For what it’s worth, I fall into roughly the middle-ground of the pro and anti-Blamey camps.
The tell with Waffleworth is that he eventually falls out with everyone he deals with. Met a few people like that along the way.
Hopefully this means Perf won’t be targeted in the first round of strikes.
If they drop one on Feraldton its a sacrifice Im sure hes happy to make.
Would do hundreds of millions of dollars improvements to the joint.
Prominent Dutch Philosopher and Convert Charts Her Path to the Catholic Church
Edward Pentin – April 23, 2023
AMSTERDAM — Eva Vlaardingerbroek, a popular Dutch legal philosopher and political commentator who has become well-known in recent years for her criticism of increasingly prominent social ideologies in contemporary Western society, will be received into the Catholic Church along with her father on Sunday.
One year ago:
Eva Vlaardingerbroek’s address at the Brussels National Conservatism Conference on March 23, 2022.
Svengali Simons’ gals are gifts that never stop giving
Teal independent defends failing to attend ANZAC event
Remy Varga
Teal independent MP Zoe Daniel has defended not attending an Anzac Day ceremony in her electorate Goldstein after one of her volunteers clashed with former Coalition member Tim Wilson.
Ms Daniel told the ABC said it was a shame she couldn’t attend the event in the bayside Melbourne suburb of Beaumaris and said it wasn’t appropriate to politicise Anzac Day events, which were about veterans, not her or Mr Wilson.
“I don’t think it’s appropriate to be politicising an event like this and I think it’s a bit sad what happened but at the end of the day it was a good faith gesture on my part to send a wreath to be laid and it was a good faith gesture on Peter’s behalf to lay it,” she said.
Ms Daniel missed the event because she had a commitment with her son who is a volunteer lifesaver.
She told RN one of her volunteers agreed to attend the ANZAC ceremony on her behalf to lay a wreath.
“I’m told the former member for Goldstein took the wreath and would not return it to my volunteer,” Ms Daniel said.
“There was a little bit of a remonstration and then they laid the wreath jointly and that’s what apparently happened.”
Mr Wilson on Twitter said an event volunteer offered him the wreath to lay and he was disappointed the incident was being politically spun.
“I felt obliged to do the right thing and deliver it [wreath],” he said.
“It is disappointing that this is being spun for political objectives.””
LOL, unbelievable chutzpah from the ex-ABC, far left, Donald Trump hating, Israel hating, unsavoury Teal. The Teals politicised everything in the lead up to last May’s election, and they did so to undermine and denigrate the sitting Liberals members who they later replaced. However, the voters of Goldstein deserve this, they voted for this, BUT, I’m not ready to ever absolve Timmy Wilson of engineering his own demise. Wilson clearly remains irate about being shafted last May but my message to Timbo Wilson is that you, along with the other Labor lite fools, aka Dr Katie (I love Obama) Allen, Karma Sharma, Jason Foolinsky and Rent Zimmermboy, have only yourselves to blame for losing your safe electorates, because all you did was push, push, push the Liberals leftwards and for what purpose? Well, there ended up being zero difference between you and Daniel.
By the way Timmy, further to the HRC, a body to which you were once appointed to, I don’t recall you ever speaking up for the human rights of Victorians when they were locked down and being daily bashed, beaten and bludgeoned. I don’t recall you ever saying anything about how the HRC is a venally corrupt and malfeasant organisation that does nothing to protect and promote real human rights and free speech but only pursues fashionable progressive point scoring to suit its progressive agendas. Your silence spoke volumes about you and it’s a reason why, when I heard you’d lost our seat, I laughed and laughed and laughed. But, as evidenced by your wreath laying behaviour above, you remain bitter about losing Goldstein and I suspect you fancy yourself running against Daniel in two years time. Whilst I think the seat can be returned to the Liberal fold, all I can say to Timmy is…NOT BY YOU. You had your chance and YOU F*CKED UP. The Liberals of Goldstein should find someone who believes in true Liberal values and is willing to articulate true Liberal values, because from what I saw from Timmy Wilson in parliament, HE DID NOT.
Just ask Nick Whitlam about that.
Good site prep for Oakajee.
Kind of makes me think of devious or dishonest people accusing someone of a very specific deception and everyone just looks at them with a ‘WTF’ look, wondering how they ever came up with something like that.
The answer, of course, being because it is what they would do.
Muddy and others in the discussion…my “armchair general” description wasn’t meant to deride any of you. I enjoyed the discussion, it reminded me of SincCat when you would all sit around the table, pass the port and light cigars and talk Military.
I was tempted to interject a couple of times with offers of snacks, but grandchildren pulled me away to watch Spongebob for the gazillionth time.
And now the house is quiet…much like a battlefield after the event. I waved goodbye to the last of them half an hour ago. I feel vaguely shell shocked.
Hardly news to any hardened MAFS viewers.
LOL
Less of an urban myth than the MC you posthumously awarded Blamey.
Cats in need of an emetic should consider these SBS gals’ holding forth on Barry Humphries in 2018 and currently getting a re-run on social media. Your taxes at work, Cats.
https://twitter.com/TheFeedSBS/status/1021707038416494592
Ramirez has lost the plot; his TDS is terminal. Pity because when he focuses on biden he is good.
And this tan-tracker too:
https://twitter.com/shanebazzi/status/1649757720566722561
I have written to a fellow who is involved in the Gold Coast RSL asking about the Southport dawn service events.
I’ll pass on his response, but probably not until he sobers up after ANZAC Day.
Dotbait…
Copium.
Copium laced with arselick – a deadly combination.
Motherhood on ice: lack of suitable men drives women to freeze their eggs
A lack of equal male partners, rather than career or educational ambitions, is why more women are trying to prolong their fertility
More than 150 interviews later, her research – the largest anthropological study to date into why women freeze their eggs – concluded that it was men, not women, who were the problem. The biggest driving factor for women in the US was a shortage of suitable educated men, a problem which she terms in her forthcoming book, Motherhood on Ice, the “mating gap”.
Inhorn’s research found that women freezing their eggs tended to be in their late 30s, successful high-earning professionals (in both the US and the UK, where it’s not usually covered by the NHS, it is prohibitively expensive for most) and primarily single. “They were one after another women who had been successful in their career and at the same time had been looking for a partner, but they just couldn’t find that reproductive partner.”
…
“Sometimes men would joke or insult them about their jobs or say ‘you’re smarter than I am, I can’t go out with you’. I mean, just really blatant kinds of misogyny and discrimination,” she says.
While the women may have been socialised to believe they could have a career, a family and an equal relationship, she found the men had not necessarily been raised the same way. Partnership was not high on the priorities of the men – reluctant to commit and unready for fatherhood – who the women in her study were coming across.
Then there were those who simply didn’t want to. “I learned the term ‘the Peter Pans’, you know the men who will never grow up. They may be educated men who have money and so forth, but they want to play around and have a lot of fun and may not partner at all, or may not partner well into their 40s and 50s,” she says.
…
“A lot of the people I went to graduate school with didn’t end up partnering, or they partnered in marriages that weren’t really very happy,” she says. “And what’s surprised me 30 years on is seeing the same kinds of partnership problems in this generation of women and trying to figure out: what’s gone wrong?”
The answer, Inhorn’s research found, falls into two categories. One is the “mating gap” and the other is what she describes as “reproductive waithood” – the state women are forced into by a lack of suitable male partners.
…
In her book, Inhorn writes that closing the gap between the genders will be a “critical policy challenge in the decades ahead”. But until society “fixes men”, egg freezing will remain the best reproductive option for single women in their 30s .
But in the meantime, she says, we should focus on celebrating women’s successes. “Women around the world are really doing amazing things in higher education,” she adds. “But unfortunately the downside of that is some men are not doing so well now and women are suffering for that.”
She should be sent to Afghanistan to lecture the goat shaggers on how the “status gap” gives her the sads.
Yes Wilson turned out to be a big fat flop.
Areff, those girls are as funny as a dead baby’s doll. h/t My Brother Jack
Hi Calli!
My use of the phrase was not directed at you (I’m not sure I read that comment of yours), but an admission that with no experience or qualifications in the matter at hand, my opinions are just that – opinions; though I do base them on documented evidence where available.
I’ve become more cynical and less patient/tolerant than I used to be, hence why I dropped out of the pinky-wrestling last night.
Humphries would have dined out on their imbecilic, reflexive hate.
On another related subject, there’s been talk about a definition of “Woke”. Sometimes, to define a word accurately, you have to look at its opposite and all the qualities it entails.
And that word would be “Wise”.
Gonna have to be very hardened in the future.
Netflix Dedicates a Season of Dating Show ‘The Ultimatum’ to All LGBTQIA2S+ Contestants (23 Apr)
Qwerty dating reality shows R us. On the other hand Power Rangers were pretty gay from day 1, so this next story is just what you’d expect.
Gay ‘Power Rangers’ Star Teases ‘Awesome’ LGBTQIA2S+ Content in Netflix Reunion Film (23 Apr)
Awesome isn’t exactly the word I’d use.
How’s that sexual revolution working out for ya, gals?
Did that purple Teletubby ever come out?
yes
the current partner of the s-i-l is just such a beast
a mong flamer
Via mole
The biggest driving factor for women in the US was a shortage of suitable educated men, a problem which she terms in her forthcoming book, Motherhood on Ice, the “mating gap”.
Making universities a hostile environment for men might not have been that smart a move, might it, all you frustrated would-be mummies.
The gap is in between their ears. Most white collar professionals don’t make bank unless they’re never home and they can afford to be unfaithful with women of their choosing. If you’re a software engineer at Google, who would you choose, a 23 year old secretary or a 35 year old software engineer…unless the secretary is historically significantly repulsive, you’d choose her every time. They think they’re above dating a plant operator or underground gold miner, even if they have a bullshit degree and earn minimum wage 3 days a week and do some casual academic marking in a bullshit faculty.
no military cross for blamey
but he was mentioned in dispatches
knowing the colour of the mong we should aksk who wrote the dispatches
why blamey did of course
Roger, more than a few of the younger ones realise they were sold a pup. I think the ones that were really dudded are around my vintage, to say in their 50s. Having said that, most of the girls married ( with more than a few divorces over the years). I would say only one never married with kids who really wanted to. More blokes never married (including me). One was a serial girlfriend type but most just couldn’t be bothered I suspect. A lot of this stuff is overdone.
Sad Case’s admiration for Blamey. Well, it’s what you’d expect given the ‘great soldier’ and his unblemished record of corruption, cowardice and self-promotion, attributes that resonate with Smegma Brain:
* Obliged to resign as Vic Police Commissioner for romping with a prostitute. This after his chief commissioner’s badge turned up in a brothel.
* Pissed as maggot on the retreat through Greece, with his staff car leading the charge at high speed.
* Gazumping the last seat on the last plane out of Greece for his son.
* Snaffling the films Australian cinema owners sent to entertain the troops in North Africa and providing them to Egyptian exhibitors, presumably for baksheesh
* Telling the Chocos, who stopped the Japs in NG, they had been defeated ‘by an inferior race”.
* Getting war correspondents Chester Wilmot and Osmar White booted from New Guinea for daring to0 report that Australians were ill-equipped for jungle warfare, especially in regard to their uniforms, which Blamey defended. Khaki was good enough for the Brits, good enough for Australians too.
As I said, no wonder Sad Case is a fan.
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie:
We are now landing at London’s Heathrow Airport. Have your disembarkation papers, customs’ clearances, currency control vouchers, passports, tickets, identity dockets, caMLA orders, immigration certificates, temporary visas, racial origin certificates, baggage checks, leprosy immunisation cards and security clearances ready for inspection, please.
(By the end of the fillum, the spread of leprosy was dominating newspaper headlines.)
Ill do a short version…
They may be educated men who have money and so forth, but they want to play around and have a lot of fun and may not partner at all, or may not partner well into their 40s and 50s,” she says.
“Why can I find a man who has a perfect 6 pack, can lick his own eyebrows and is an established 25 year old multimillionaire?
Because my groin petri dish is now ready to settle down.
my father served in ww2 and was a calm considered chap not given to outbursts or swearing
i think one of the very few times i heard him utter the phrase f……. c… was in relation to blamey
Yes.
Whoever put that into a kids show has deep, deep problems. And it was before the current qwerty craze too.
(I suspect you were alluding to this one, Bear. Maybe Netflix should do a reboot of your own show.)
WATCH: President Donald J. Trump Delivers Remarks at Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition’s 23rd Annual Spring Kick-Off
Am surprised (but not entirely) of the increasing number of countries we’re being told not to travel to due to muesli terror:
https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations
No real surprise that these are Sudan, Libya, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Yemen, Burkina Faso but the fact that all of these advisories have been updated in the last month would surely be a “flag” to a few news organisations?
Whereas prior to the sexual revolution most blokes married and fathered children.
It wasn’t a perfect world by any means but today’s mode of living is unsustainable.
Western societies as we know them have one foot in the grave.
And…. apologies if posted earlier but Tucker addressed the Heritage Foundation on Saturday (Sunday for us):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebG2POkoHgU&t=19s
I thought he was in better form than usual!
Ah piss off ya lycra clad weirdos! All I want is a good pushbike to get fit.
2/3 the price of the world’s fastest production motorcycle?
https://www.specialized.com/au/en/s-works-aethos—sram-red-etap-axs/p/187063
$19,600
https://www.suzukimotorcycles.com.au/range/road/hayabusa-gen-iii/
$28,190
Anyone who’s ever tried to have a beer outside on the footpath would find that Barry Mackenzie’s UK and Australia have swapped places, although too few people have noticed.
After the sheepish look I got from this kid I played squash with after I asked him how he managed getting up at 5am every day to do laps in a cold pool during winter, I always look to the mother (or the father) whenever a kid behaves obsessively about anything.
Get the Hyabusa. A good second hand one was possibly my next bike. I had decided 600cc just isn’t enough out in the country.
Why wouldn’t you exploit the Lycra louts?
Twitter is full of psychos.
“Bluey” “fat shames”…
https://7news.com.au/entertainment/tv/bluey-viewers-turn-on-hit-show-as-triggering-episode-sparks-raging-debate–c-10377166
Ukraine Official Demands Endless Streams Of Western Military Aid
Several days after Republican lawmakers penned a letter to President Biden demanding that endless military aid to Ukraine be halted, Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Melnik tweeted that Western nations need to do more.
“We are thankful to our allies for their military help. But: it is not enough,” Melnik tweeted Saturday.
He said, “Ukraine needs 10 times more to finish Russian aggression this year.” The official called on Western partners “to cross all artificial red lines & devote 1% of GDP for weapons deliveries.”
Meanwhile
PM Orbán Says US Cannot Push Hungary Into War, Rest Of Europe Be Wise To Follow His Policy
Constant attacks of the Hungarian government from U.S. Democrats do little to differentiate the U.S. from the bullying superpowers it seeks to distance itself from…
The relentless criticism by the Biden administration towards the incumbent Hungarian government is entirely disproportionate and unjustified, and does little to separate the current U.S. regime from the malign superpowers it seeks to distance itself from. Hungary’s leader recognizes this and is putting his own country’s interests ahead of those of the United States, a stance that Europe would be wise to follow.
Despite pressure from the U.S., Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said his country cannot be pushed into joining the war on the side of Ukraine.
“The United States has not given up its plan to squeeze everyone, including Hungary, into a war alliance, to go with the crowd,” Orbán told a press conference last week.
“But I have made it clear several times, and Hungarian diplomacy has also expressed this, that the will of the Hungarian people is clear, and our knowledge of history is quite solid, so we will not allow this.
“We will not allow them to squeeze us into a war. We will not send any weapons, and we will not be involved in a conflict that is not our war,” the Hungarian premier added.
Orbán made the remarks amid growing tension with the U.S. Recent disparaging remarks by David Pressman, Biden’s top diplomat in Budapest, have been dismissive of a country which, whilst remaining on many issues a conforming ally to the United States, has had the audacity to form its own view on matters unfolding on its doorstep, and opted not to become entirely subservient to U.S. interests when the two countries have vastly different worldviews and face inherently different geopolitical threats
Given the continued animosity from the U.S. towards the Orbán administration, it could be assumed that Hungary was an active belligerent nation in the conflict, and yet Budapest has complied with every anti-Russian sanction approved by the European Union, despite voicing its opposition to these actions.
As is its right, Budapest has maintained its neutrality with regard to military intervention and assistance, and has refused to change its stance despite U.S. protestations.
However, if the recent anti-Russian poster campaigns dotted across Hungary with the support of the U.S. embassy are anything to go by, it is difficult to see a reconciliation in the immediate future between the two countries, at least not while Joe Biden’s Democrats remain in the White House.
the litany of blameys sins outlined by arref was merely the starting point of the old mans rant about him
“my father served in ww2 and was a calm considered chap not given to outbursts or swearing
i think one of the very few times i heard him utter the phrase f……. c… was in relation to blamey”
Spoke to my mother this morning and I asked her what her father, who fought in NG, thought of Blamey. She said his name was never to be mentioned in the home, such was my grandfather’s loathing for the man.
blameys onlyfans
googlery and titus
sad fks
My local town ( pop. 4000) has two competing Anzac events
The traditional one with a service , a march and refreshments a the RSL
The second is a dawn “gathering” at the centre of town memorial and then onto the bowling club.
Not sure of the entire reasoning behind the second gathering but it has certainly split the town
How is the ubiquitous ‘welcome to country’ any different from the Muslim call to prayer?
u cant get a wtc performer out of bed at 0500 hrs
BuTT TiGHT HeiNeRSCHeiD…
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– The Clydesdale may sue for slander for putting a horse’s rear on his face.
PS Liked the President Xi with Joe & Hunter Glove Puppets
Watch: Ron DeSantis Releases Hilarious Commercial Trolling Trans Athletes – 34 Secs
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– In other news today a motorcyclist who identifies as a cyclist has won this year’s Tour De France.
The stunning and brave competitor beat the previous record for the event by three days.
Interviewed after the race the groundbreaking winner claimed the victory was all down to intensive training.
– Does this cyclist have one more or one fewer balls than Lance Armstrong?
Worse than pushing shit uphill. Again, they’re confusing equality with sameness. I mean, who on earth would marry their clone apart from Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull?
One is serving Bud Light?
I find a “welcome to country” on ANZAC Day insulting, to say the least.
* Obliged to resign as Vic Police Commissioner for romping with a prostitute. This after his chief commissioner’s badge turned up in a brothel.
Romping, eh?
I seem to remember you bignotin’ about a coupla your uncles in Victoria Police and a spot of Lootin’ they engaged in during the 1923 Melbourne Police Strike.
But, … romping is bad, right?
Insulting is an understatement. Marxist undermining.
Quadrant outlines Barry Humphries’ connection over the years….originally contributed in 1970.
The RSL has been skin suited. Certainly in NSW.
funny as a dead baby’s doll
From those wonderful scenes in the first half of the book when milksop Davey has been adopted by the Little Lonsdale Street (my guess at the loft’s location) bohemians and brilliantined Jack turns up in his Oxford bags to make sure his little brother’s new friends aren’t relentlessly buggering him.
Thing is, Australia no longer wants anything to do with its Jacks. They’re to be despised, while the Daveys — the insecure head-nodders at every latest fashionable trend — are the good Australians.
Two scenes always stick in mind.
Davey ruminating on the shop window of an out-of-business photography stsudio, the exhibits being yellowing pics of Diggers and dead flies, all observed under a searing Melbourne sun while the trams rattle by in the background.
And later, sitting on the roof of his suburban home and knowing that there has to be more than an unsatisfied married life with Helen and the Sandy Stone-existence that awaits him.
I wonder if they still use it as a high school text? They should. The book’s first half, mostly recollection is astonishing in its craft and economy and evocations. The second half, not so much.
Will likely start re-reading it tonight. Thanks, Calli, for the prompt.
Bud Light Puts Another Exec on ‘Leave of Absence,’ Takes More Action in Bid to Get Customers Back
Then it was announced that Bud Light’s vice president of marketing, Alissa Heinerscheid, was taking a “leave of absence” and had been replaced by Budweiser global marketing vice president Todd Allen. I think it’s fair to say that if they replace you, it’s going to be a pretty long “leave of absence” — like maybe a permanent one. If she was concerned about Bud Light being perceived as too “fratty” and not “inclusive” enough, now she has a lot of time to think about it and talk with her “professional coach” about what made her go down this ridiculous road.
What was funny about Heinerscheid’s comments about inclusivity was this picture.
#alissaheinersheid not to pile on but I have to point this out. Look at this pic of Alissa’s Bud Light team.
She talks about diversity & inclusion but I don’t see it here.
I mostly see a feminine group of white people who must be out of touch w/ reality & blue collar America.
But now there’s more action, with another head that’s been put on the chopping block.
The Wall Street Journal is now reporting that Heinerscheid’s boss Daniel Blake has also taken a “leave of absence.”
“Given the circumstances, Alissa has decided to take a leave of absence which we support,” an Anheuser-Busch spokeswoman said in an email. “Daniel has also decided to take a leave of absence.”
The company has also hired two consultants “with experience in Washington, D.C.’s conservative circles to advise the brand moving forward.”
Again, someone on this Bud Light team isn’t thinking clearly. The problem isn’t going to be solved by talking to some D.C. consultant. Listen to what the American people who are your customers are saying: it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure it out.
Bring in some of your former customer base and let them talk to you for a bit. Understand what it is they’re saying to you.
Former Anheuser-Busch executive Anson Frericks explained it in simple terms on “Fox and Friends,” saying they can’t count on Americans forgetting about this.
He said they needed to go back to being apolitical and say, “We’re not going to get involved in the environmental social governance movement because that’s not what the customer wants.”
Frericks said the company is going to have to decide “who it’s going to be accountable to.”
“There’s a more fundamental problem that’s going on right now where Anheuser-Busch has to choose who it’s going to be accountable to. … Will it be its shareholders? Or its so-called stakeholders? Let me explain. Historically, Anheuser-Busch has been accountable to its shareholders, which are people like firefighters, doctors, lawyers that invested in companies like Anheuser-Busch via 401(K)s or their pension plans,” he said.
“Over the last couple of years, there’s been organizations like BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard that have pushed this new model of stakeholder capitalism, asking companies like Anheuser-Busch to be accountable to all these so-called stakeholders, political organizations, activist organizations. And they do that by implementing ESG, or environmental social governance policies, in corporations that ask them to get involved in these controversial issues.
But unfortunately, when you try to be everything to everyone, you end up being accountable to no one.”
The former Anheuser-Busch executive urged Bud Light to remind itself what its historically loyal customers want.
“What the customer wants with Bud Light is they want to have things that bring us together. They want humor. They want the ‘Dilly Dilly’ guys. They want football. They want the things that bind us together as co-equal citizens here, not necessarily having Bud Light get involved in political controversies that tear us apart. Heck, this is one of the most apolitical brands out there, shared by Democrats and Republicans alike,” Frericks said.
Bruce of Newcastle says:
April 23, 2023 at 9:02 pm
The Yellow Peril thing seems to’ve been strongest in the 1900-20 period, but almost certainly extended into the forties.
Reading through last nights posts.
In the early 1960s at Burnside Primary School in the eastern suburbs of Adelaide, a young Speedbox, along with the entire class, was warned about the Yellow Peril (and Reds under the beds). I remember it because, as young children, we were a bit scared about this threat of hordes of ‘yellow skinned human-like’ creatures invading our peaceful area and perhaps taking away our parents/home. The idea that something (Reds) could potentially lurk under our beds was also disturbing.
So yes, it may well have been stronger in the early/mid 1900s but there were still incidences of these warnings in the 1960s – at least in my primary school in Adelaide.
To be fair, I seriously doubt it was Education Dept policy and this was probably just one of our teachers going off the reservation, but all these years later, I still remember it.
cant say fer sure in thid case
but most of these dramas are driven by a minority of pompous mongs in the rsl sub branch
Exactly. What I said over at CL’s yesterday:
Zulu.
Utterly disgusting.
Read my comment on that thread, when it appears.
not any more bud
Yeah…that’ll work.
i think the budwiser beer ppl are ripe for a how it started how its going meme
romping is bad, right?
When you’re the police commissioner, your rented female companion is naked and a fellow cop, Brophy, is shot while cavorting in the front seat with his own carnal consultant — yep, I’d say that’s less than admirable.
As to my Uncle Cyril, who volunteered with my grandfather, Wyndham, as ‘special officers’ during the 1923 police strike, I said I suspected theft was a background motive. Given his subsequent attempts to fleece a widow out of a South Melbourne hotel, the possibility of lifting a trinket or two from Dunklings would certainly have crossed his mind.
Uncle Cyril’s first court appearance
“defendant came along on the wrong side of the road… ‘Witness thought defendant “mistook him for a submairine and tried to ram him.” (Laughter.)
unless they hired homer simpson and barney gumble they got it wrong
that trove article looks like i wrote it hey
I had to do a bit of searching to find anything about Mr Blake, but he looks to be everything you might suspect.
Wow, Fox’s The History of DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR is really very good and well-made. Deserves a huge audience.
Thanks for the link, Cassie.
Imagine putting an army of chicks in charge of marketing a beer for blokes — which is what Anheuser-Busch did. Stupidity doesn’t begin to describe such an act of incompetent corporate suicide.
Sounds like the brewer’s senior executives and members of the AB board were thoroughly pussy-whipped at home before they even turned up for work.
Yes. I agree.
Bloody frightening.
Call me back when they are thousands of women like her unmarried and not famous doing the same.
Miltonfsays:
April 24, 2023 at 11:29 am
The RSL has been skin suited. Certainly in NSW.
Wasn’t Turdball’s son in law the NSW State President a few years ago? IIRC, Numbers was announcing it as a “Great Leap Forward”.
So where did this exposing small children to perversion and degeneracy originate? I know it’s being driven by the establishment but I imagine the evil idea sprung from some ejucashunal cesspit pretending to be a university.
That’s weird, I agree with Jacqui Lambie about something. Yikes.
Jacqui Lambie warns of ‘uproar’ if army is neglected in landmark defence review as she urges Labor to focus on recruitment (24 Apr)
Unfortunately that ain’t happening:
Anthony Albanese and Richard Marles unveil major military reset as they release defence strategic review (24 Apr)
The 1930’s called and want the then Labor Party defense policy back. I’m disgusted.
Some 0f Barry Humphries finest work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa_vjVrgLCQ
Whitlam’s Queen Gonorrhea and the “disabled black lesbian puppet workshop” indeed.
Correct BJ.
Gee Bruce… it’s almost like they want Australia to be destroyed…
And bloody Marles… the Neville of our generation… or a **cking idiot imho…
Oxford ‘Cancels’ England’s Patron Saint George to Appease Islam
BY RAYMOND IBRAHIM
Today, April 23, is Saint George’s Day, which used to be widely celebrated, especially in England, as George is that nation’s patron saint.
To underscore just how much things have changed between England and its patron saint, consider the following “what if” scenario offered by English historian Edward Gibbon (1737-1794). Had the Muslims won at the pivotal Battle of Tours (732 A.D.), Gibbon predicted that:
Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised people [meaning Brits would now be Muslim] the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Muhammad.
Today, of course, not only is the “revelation of Muhammad” being taught and honored at Oxford, but Christianity—including in the guise of Saint George—is being canceled for its sake. Most recently,
A decision by an Oxford university college not to celebrate St George’s Day with a formal dinner has been branded ‘barking mad.’
Magdalen College has decided against continuing an annual pre-pandemic banquet celebrating the English saint that drew together Oxford students, dons and fellows.
Instead, the only occasion the college will observe on the day is Eid al-Fitr, the Islamic festival marking the end of Ramadan.
The college will hold a formal dinner marking Eid on April 23, honouring a request made by its Muslim students.
An email from college vice president Professor Nick Stargardt … outlines plans for a ‘festive dinner’ celebrating the occasion. The invitation, sent to hundreds of students and their lecturers, adds the meal will ‘follow Muslim customs.’
Cooks will prepare a halal meat dish with no alcohol served to diners.
Oxford had for years been celebrating Saint George’s Day. Once the pandemic arrived in 2020, however, the day was (“temporarily”) suspended; and now, following that “reset,” Islam has taken its place.
This move, incidentally, is meant to appease Islam in more ways than one.
Although the patron saint of England for some seven centuries, Saint George has increasingly been a cause of concern because he “offends” Muslims. For example, according to a 2013 report,
A town [in England] has voted not to fly the flag of St George in case it offends Muslims. Radstock in Somerset has a population of 5,620, 16 of them Muslim [meaning 0. 3% of the population is Muslim]…. But a Labour councillor said the red and white cross could upset people because of its links to the Crusades.
Even the Church of England distances itself from Saint George, whom it characterizes as “too warlike and offensive to Muslims.”
Adam Creighton has written another of his perceptive analyses in The Australian today when attempting to explain why the genius of Barry Humphries is rarely seen in recent generations of Australians.
He believes, as I do, that the affluence of modern Australia has lured the young away from serious commentary and self reflection. The marketplace has promised so much more in terms of monetary rewards, and social media has lowered the depth of intellectual stimulus and exploration.
Furthermore, in an observation which will surprise many, he suggests that this intellectual decline and decay is far more apparent in Australia than most other western societies. I am shattered to have to agree.
The DSR will call for a reduction in Australia’s infantry capabilities, including tanks,
I do hope that the authors of the Review have a more sophisticated understanding of ground forces than the j’ismist who wrote this crap.
Beat me some more Master, for I must be chastised.
Labor widens lead over Coalition while both Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton suffer drop in popular support in latest poll (Sky, 24 Apr)
You can read the rest if you want. The lemmings are voting for blackouts and horrendous price increases of everything, and nothing will stop them getting their way.
Study Shows Mothers of Boys With Gender Issues Are Mental
The abstract of a scientific study undertaken in 1994 has been making the rounds on social media, and it is shocking on two levels
The first wave of shock (although not surprise) comes at you from what the study discovered: the mothers of gender dysphoric boys tend to suffer from a host of mental illnesses of their own.
The study (full text can be found here – 6 Pages), “Mothers of boys with gender identity disorder: a comparison of matched controls,” was performed by researchers Sonia Marantz and Susan Coates, both of whom are Ph.D.s. The abstract details their predictable but sad nonetheless findings:
Needless to say, women who suffer with this difficult diagnosis and don’t or can’t control their symptoms seldom keep their son’s father in the picture. The effects on a helpless child being raised by such a person must be incredibly damaging.
(And may there be a special place in hell for men who abandon their sons to depraved women who act out by feminizing and castrating their captive boys. It’s one thing to stick it in crazy and then choose not to spend your life with her — no one can blame you — but it’s another thing to abandon your own flesh and blood to such a fate. Be a man and fight for your children.)
The second shock from reading the study abstract is that it draws conclusions that no one is allowed to suggest, much less study, these days.
You look over your shoulder as you read to make sure nobody sees you. The very first few words of the piece — “This pilot study compared mothers of boys with gender identity disorder (GID) with mothers of normal boys…” — are enough these days to cost someone their job.
At that point, you are struck by the full weight of the precise extent to which discourse and honest research into this subject has been smothered, and it’s breathtaking.
You want to weep for the deliberate blinding of intellectual inquiry.
What a tragedy — for science, for the pursuit of truth, and most of all, for the children abandoned to this fate. God help them.
Good to see Avi put that policeman in his place.
While 60 per cent of aggravated burglaries remain UNSOLVED in the state, Victoria Police deploy the full force of the law against ‘harmless stoners’.
Avi Yemini CONFRONTS the biggest waste of Police resources
dont go wavin them pom poms too hard titus
when jacqui jackie says boots on the ground she means shiny arses sittin in comfortable fully paid for quarters
On the contrary: https://humanrights.gov.au/about/covid19-and-human-rights/what-commissions-view-limiting-human-rights-during-covid-19
With bad backs. And who believes anything newspoll tells you.
O…k…. so one twitter correspondent reports that all Shakespearian plays had drag queens… and that is justification for highly sexualised story book readings…
(you couldn’t make this up…)
Incidentally, I think that, in the early days, Barry Humphries was something of an acquired taste. Certainly, he was for me.
In his earlier live performances, some of which I attended, I was disturbed by his acerbic wit and his forensic stripping of cultural mannerisms and foibles. Perhaps that reflected my personal immaturity at the time, remembering that I was a country girl thrown back into city schools where I was uncomfortable for a long time.
Sancho – The guys presenting the DSR to Marles are our old friends Angus Houston and Steven Smith…
Say it son, say it! Say the word! Mmmmmm…
Vaccine injuries become the dominant theme of German reporting on the mRNA jabs, as the Covid vaccinations face unacknowledged yet ever wider cultural and social repudiation
The number of unflattering press stories has been growing since the bivalents flopped last Fall.
EUGYPPIUS – 24 APR 2023
It’s been a serious shift, the likes of which I’m not sure has unfolded in any other country. To give you a taste of it, I’ve assembled a representative selection of stories from the last eight weeks or so, in roughly reverse chronological order.
As you read through them, remember that these are all links to publications read by ordinary people;
I’ve excluded all media with overt Covid-sceptic associations.
Ol’ Stan working out how to best hustle the book – skim read to the end:
Q+A host Stan Grant has revealed his anger at the ABC over its coverage of the Queen’s death
By SOPHIE ELSWORTH
ABC presenter Stan Grant has revealed his betrayal by his employer and colleagues in the days after Queen Elizabeth II’s death and conceded the upcoming voice referendum had resulted in “deeply wounding” judgment on Indigenous Australians.
Speaking on ABC’s Radio National breakfast program on Monday, Grant – a Wiradjuri and Dharawal man – conceded he had “visceral anger” following the Queen’s death on September 8 last year, which prompted him to spend the next eight weeks writing his new book, The Queen is Dead, which looks into his Indigenous past and faith following her death.
“How dare the Queen just die and this country go into mourning, what about my own people who continue to be the most impoverished and imprisoned people,” the 59-year-old said.
“I felt in my own organisation … a sense of betrayal because the ABC, everyone donned black suits, everyone took on a referential tone.
“We know that the Prime Minister said, ‘now is not the time to talk about empire and colonisation, this is not the time to talk about the republic’, well it is always the time.
“We saw Aboriginal people being attacked because they voice another view and an angry view and they are entitled to our anger, it was time I thought to open it all up and we didn’t.”
Grant, who hosts political chatfest program Q+A, said he had met the Queen numerous times and while he had nothing against her personally, he initially didn’t participate in the ABC’s coverage of her death.
He refused to “put on a black suit and mourn”, and it wasn’t until later that he said he finally received love back from his colleagues.
“My own colleagues at the ABC who I felt betrayed by, the love that was returned, showed me that when you speak truth to history you can open people’s minds,” Grant said.
In the 16-minute interview, Karvelas asked Grant: “Did you feel that wall to wall from your colleagues at the ABC, did you get a sense that no-one got it?”
Grant replied: “Yeah, initially no-one got it”.
He said there was no attempt to accommodate him refusing to wear black clothes while on TV and the ABC’s coverage was “obsequious”.
Grant also spoke about the upcoming Indigenous voice to parliament referendum and said the debate had been “splitting people in our own community” and history had left “searing” wounds.
“There is a judgment on us in this moment, I feel as a First Nations person incredibly observed and judged and it can be a deeply wounding, lonely thing,” he told Karvelas.
“I feel as a First Nations journalist it’s hard to walk that line between being able to ask the questions, which I’m quite happy to ask of all sides, but also reflect on those answers that can cut so deep.
“Whenever we get close to the flame of our history we know that we get burned and it seers, it’s a searing wound within us.”
During the interview Grant also said colonisation and the “racial hierarchy of whiteness” had ruled across the world including in countries including Britain and the US.
“I experienced that personally as a First Nations person because my people lost our place in the world, our land, our sovereignty which we have never ceded,” he said.
“The crown, the symbol of the crown, that my people continue to suffer under and I wanted to explore the full dimensions of that and her death was a cathartic moment I thought to tear open that idea.”
Grant explained that his grandmother was a “white Australian woman living with an Aboriginal man” and she was turned away from hospital while having a child and was “constantly harassed by police to the point that it mentally broke her”.
Grant’s book, published by HarperCollins, will be released on May 3, three days before the coronation of King Charles III in London.
REPORT: German Bundeswehr now almost totally disarmed, with munitions stores sufficient to support only one or two days of fighting in the event of a serious conflict
Years of chronic under-funding and heedless aid shipments to Ukraine have left Europe’s dominant industrial power essentially undefended, and hardly anybody in government seems to care.
EUGYPPIUS – 23 APR 2023
From Welt (emphasis mine):
Although it has long been known that the Bundeswehr faces an ammunition shortfall to the tune of 20 billion Euros, confidential documents from the Federal Ministry of Defence available to Welt am Sonntag show that procurement has all but stalled. The Ministry has so far submitted hardly any major ammunition procurement proposals to the Bundestag budget committee for approval this year.
The low munitions stocks are held to be one of the greatest weaknesses of the Bundeswehr. Experts estimate that current stocks would only last for one or two days in the event of a conflict. In order to cover Bundeswehr requirements which are calculated at 20 billion Euros worth of munitions by 2031, 2.5 billion Euros would have to be purchased every year until then. …
Nothing like that amount of money has been allocated, or even can be allocated. With the exception of some guided missile purchases for Navy frigates and some future plans to buy some additional rifle rounds and Panzerhaubitze 2000 projectiles, nobody in the listless Scholz government seems to care very much.
The problem arises both from years of chronic under-funding and from heedless aid shipments to Ukraine, which Germany can ill-afford to make good.
Of 22 million small arms rounds sent east in the middle of 2022, for example, the Bundeswehr has been able to replace only 14.6 million.
One thing which would fix the hopelessly broken politics of Germany, would be an end to NATO and all associated American security guarantees.
It cannot be an accident that the decades after reunification have seen such substantial political and cultural decay. Facing no more existential threats and awash in wealth, we’ve done nothing but open our borders, pour money into windmills, mass vaccinate millions against an influenza-like seasonal respiratory virus, and put a children’s book author in charge of the economy.
If anybody actually perceived the Ukraine war as a threat to central Europe, as they often claim, we’d be rearming.
Instead, we’re giving away the last of our bullets and subsidising heat pumps.
This is the behaviour of nation that has no interest in or enthusiasm for its own future; either a real crisis shakes us awake before it’s too late, or we’re doomed.
I blame it on too much sunshine.
The Orwellian is strong in this one.
Never had sovereignty to cede in the first place…
Twitter is full of left wing psychos. They were berating Bluey! of all things for “fat shaming”.
Barking moonbattery.
Fox has done his homework and presents the story with little embellishment (except for the odd wry smile, especially over “inclusivity”) and zero hysteria.
And speaking of hysteria, it’s curious that the modern iteration was first promoted by rabid Lesbianity hiding behind the facade of feminism. It’s no surprise however that the adoption of “story hour” started in SF. Like AIDS, that once beautiful, now utterly degraded, city has much to answer for.
I loved the way he traced the history of “men in dresses” from Greece, through Rome, the middle ages and renaissance and on to the 19th century Panto…all mainstream, acceptable forms until the perversions of the late C19 and C20, when it became clear that it was being done for sexual gratification.
And so what was once the seedy preoccupation of degenerates and thrill-seeking adult audiences in speakeasys and niche theatres has now morphed into entertainment for little kiddies. Babylon Berlin to your local library story nook via The Castro.
COS IT’S GOOD FOR YOU!!!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/biden-admin-preparing-major-crackdown-on-power-plants-that-fuel-nation-s-grid/ar-AA1acdbi
On epistemological imbalance, inversion as counterargument, inattendance to the harmony of the whole, the naive acceptance of origins as explanation, and the misidentification of epiphenomena
Why I will persist in scepticism towards many exotic theories of the past three years, however morally satisfying and intuitively correct they may seem.
EUGYPPIUS
Increasingly, any post relating to Corona or the vaccines or pandemic policy attracts some readers who are very angry with me and my deficiencies. Yesterday’s piece, for example, provoked a typical retort
Others are frustrated at my alleged intent “to die on the hill of being the reasonable man who doesn’t believe any ‘crazy conspiracy theories’” and now and again I hear that I am some kind of “controlled opposition.”
It’s my practice to say what I think and let others say what they think, so I’m not going to take specific issue with anybody, let alone embark upon a new career as internet debunker. (Perish the thought.)
Instead, I want to sketch five intellectual pathologies that are worth keeping in mind when you read any commentary (including my own), because I think they bedevil not only some alt-Covid discourse, but specialised discussions in general.
I’ll call these
1) epistemological imbalance,
2) inversion as counterargument,
3) inattendance to the harmony of the whole,
4) the naive acceptance of origins as explanation, and
5) the misidentification of epiphenomena.
All are related in one way or another to adopting a narrow focus, which is necessary to see through a lot of the technocratic Science trickery at work in Corona propaganda, but which opens one to errors in other areas.
This is the behaviour of nation that has no interest in or enthusiasm for its own future; either a real crisis shakes us awake before it’s too late, or we’re doomed.
Germany, France, England all in the same boat .. prioritize aid to migrants (legal & illegal) and let your own folk suffer and now that the consequences are home to roost the troughers are looking to blame everyone but themselves …..!
Sheesh China aint backing down on its (expanded) rhetoric!!! From the WSJ:
China’s Ambassador Lu Shaye was asked on Friday on French TV whether he considered Crimea to be part of Ukraine under international law. In 2014 Russia occupied and annexed Crimea, which had been part of Ukraine since the dissolution of the Soviet empire.
Mr. Lu didn’t stop at Crimea. “Even these ex-Soviet Union countries do not have effective status, as we say, under international law because there’s no international accord to concretize their status as a sovereign country”
There’s an upside to Stan’s self-serving obsession with race and skin tone…it’ll be the final nail in Q&A’s coffin.
“Even these ex-Soviet Union countries do not have effective status, as we say, under international law because there’s no international accord to concretize their status as a sovereign country”
By that logic Russia is not a sovereign country.
Roger – I don’t dispute the lack of logic but that’s a pretty big call for someone high up in China’s Party to be saying out loud… if you read the article he talks about he fall of the USSR and these “Splinter countries” have no basis for existence… he may as well be waving a flag with Happy Putin’s face on it for the world to see.
NIH CALLS FOR VOLUNTEERS
The National Institutes of Health is recruiting volunteers for a study on the effects of having one’s testicles amputated:
The National Institutes of Health is funding a study via a women’s health grant…
“Women’s” health.
…that is recruiting people as young as 18 to uncover what it acknowledges as the “unknown” cardiovascular effects of surgically removing testicles on patients diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
The observational study is looking for 30 gender diverse biological male participants who are interested in the orchiectomy procedure, which has also been referred to as “surgical castration” in medical literature.
Because that is what it is.
But isn’t it a little late in the day to be admitting that doctors don’t know what the side effects of castration are?
Apart from the obvious, that is.
Yeah, not a way to win friends among the Baltic States. But I suspect there’s an ulterior motive in this…starting with the letter T.
Chinese Ambassador Suggests Ex-Soviet Baltic States Not Sovereign Nations (23 Apr)
I wonder what other places aren’t real nations? Nepal, Kazakhstan, Bhutan perhaps? The Koreas? India?
Mr. Lu didn’t stop at Crimea. “Even these ex-Soviet Union countries do not have effective status, as we say, under international law because there’s no international accord to concretize their status as a sovereign country”
What a load of BS. Many of those Countries were already Sovereign Countries (under International Law) before they were occupied by the Soviet Union during and at the end of the Second World War. Has Tibet always been part of China?
One of the more interesting not-a-real-nation nations is Belarus, which Putin has just given nuclear weapons to. May not’ve been such a great idea to do that.
ABC presenter Stan Grant has revealed his betrayal by his employer and colleagues in the days after Queen Elizabeth II’s death and conceded the upcoming voice referendum had resulted in “deeply wounding” judgment on Indigenous Australians.
Strange how sTan never had much to say about “heritage” when he was, as is the norm for a downtrodden 251, working OS and making lotza dosh whilst looking as white as me but no sooner does he come “home” ( not to your outback humpy, mind!) to gentrified Ultimo, whacks on the cream and running up sessions under the lamp and we(the white rest of us!) are keeping him down …
Must be tuff being “proud” earning $squillions & married to a”whitie” (2nd time around) ..
I also notice that on his CV .. Al Jazeer is missing these days ..!
JR, Bruce
It’s just a great big (public) F-You to Crimea and others.
Has China just signaled support for an escalation to Russia to recapture lost territories (which would be consistent with Xi belief on Taiwan, Tibet and other nearby countries)?
Mongolia has a moral right to Iran, Russia, China, Ukraine and half of Belarus.
Erasing Women
I’m not sure why it’s happening — perhaps it’s a backlash from the most obnoxious of the feminists and their conduct or the widespread denigration of and discrimination against white heterosexual men,
but there’s no doubt in my mind that there’s a concerted attack by the culture warriors to erase women, denigrate them, and allow them only symbolic powers — like choosing the moronic Kamala Harris as vice president instead of someone with a demonstrated and earned record of competence.
How long has it been since we’ve seen women we looked up to, like Golda Meier and Maggie Thatcher, wielding political power?
Here’s a sample of what I mean.
In 2018, we were told “believe all women” in the context of the Kavanaugh hearings, when his accuser told a fabulous story for which there was no credible evidentiary support and nothing except political bias to believe her.
Now just a few years later, an administration nominee for the Supreme Court down gets tongue-tied when asked to define “woman.”
It’s confusing. How can we give someone automatic credence based on her sex when that sex defies definition? Well, definitions other than “birthing persons” or “persons who menstruate,” but even then, some advance the notion that men (that is transmen) can give birth, and educational institutions are being forced to install free tampon dispensers in male bathrooms.
ESPN honored Lia Thomas for Women’s History Month. Thomas, as far as I know, has all his original male equipment and simply grew his hair long and donned a woman’s bathing suit to cheat women competitors who worked hard to be the best in their ranks. If you recall, Title IX was enacted to ensure women a better shot in sports competitions.
Why is it still on the books if anyone can “be” a woman?
Bud’s gorn.
They don’t even understand what they did wrong.
“Oh, we just won’t get involved in that whole environment and social responsibility thing”.
What arrogant garbage. No one (except some real weirdos) are against doing right by the environment and being socially responsible. What people don’t like is when one group’s partisan point of view of what should be done in these spaces is shoved down the throat of others as the only possible course of action.
That they don’t recognise this is the core of the problem. That they don’t think their customers are valuable human beings and hate their very existence.
Has Tibet always been part of China?
Aaaah! .. Tibet .. strange how it never comes into any dialogue involving Chinese expansion for many years .. bit like the Urghers both have had their 3 days in the media sunlight ……..!
It’s historical revisionism of events which are only 30 years old.
Those countries, inclouding Russia, all recognised each other via an accord and later a pact.
Will be interesting, to say the least, to see if there’s any correction from Beijing.
Dot, lol, just to trigger the Groogs and Munts around here… I’ll go you one further… 😛
Israel has a right to Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Syria (at least).
[Let’s not mention one certain short lived European empire. I’m not sure “our last monarch’s grandfather owned X” is really a great claim at all to square kilometres of sovereign land. Let alone your “greatest historical extent!”. France would be perhaps…”Frankish”, not French. Germany might spread through to the Volga and in Romania. Poland under other claims wouldn’t exist and Putin would be a slave for the German one party state. The fact of the matter is the English, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and Americans ought to dominate the globe on that basis along with Mongolia. Germany, Russia, China and France would be also runs. It isn’t a valid basis at all, those who consistently lost wars or won small wars at very high costs whilst being undeveloped and insular ought to appreciate what a backwards and barbarically stupid basis for claiming territory this actually is.]
The number of unflattering press stories has been growing since the bivalents flopped last Fall.
EUGYPPIUS – 24 APR 2023
I have been a great fan of this German pundit since he first began to examine the flaws in the mRNA vaccine advocacy. He is also an outstanding analyst of contemporary society.
You can read the rest if you want. The lemmings are voting for blackouts and horrendous price increases of everything, and nothing will stop them getting their way.
I’m still waiting for my $275 as it will help me to buy all the candles that I need to keep the lights on during the Blackouts from Blackout Bowen and Tennis Elbow.
https://www.facebook.com/LiberalPartyAustralia/videos/labors-275-broken-promise/387557846853542/
[The logical corollary of this is given the post WWII carve up of Europe and American and German loans to Russia post the decline of the Soviet bloc, would be that America and the UK have a moral right to control all of non WWII neutral Europe (everywhere but Sweden and Switzerland, let’s be realists about Finland and Iberia) and the former Soviet Union. The Putin regime and CCP propagandists are practically begging for an Anglo Saxon bogeyman by giving the logical framework for their own illegitimacy.]
Bruce O’ Nuke:
Duttons words put a bit differently:
“You can go to gaol for refusing to take into account shareholder value. You won’t get invited to dinner if you won’t employ people who will.”
“I’m still waiting for my $275 as it will help me..”
It’s the vibe, right?
I mean, if they weren’t in there, your bill wouldn’t go up $500, it would go up $775 instead.
Ergo, they “saved” you $275.
Simple, innit?
And if the right had done what they always have before and paid off debt instead of racking it up, well, the left would be able to plunder more of your future to make themselves look like they care.
So you see it’s the right’s fault for not paying off all the debt the left racked up, and handing the left a big debt. Bastards – how dare they!
I’ve often thought the real reason Kim Ill Fatty developed nukes isn’t because of the Souks or the US.
Chicago Mayor Warns That If Local Walmart Locations Close People Will Have Fewer Places To Shoplift
CHICAGO, IL — After Walmart announced plans to close 4 store locations in dangerous Chicago neighborhoods, Chicago Mayor-Elect Brandon Johnson issued a dire warning that this will leave many Chicagoans with fewer places to shoplift.
“Citizens of this great city have the fundamental right to steal merchandise in their own communities without resorting to traveling to other neighborhoods,”
said Johnson at a local protest against the store closings.
“If our youths don’t have a safe place to work, shop, shoplift, loot, fight, do drugs, terrorize citizens, and smash windows, they may participate in riskier shoplifting, looting, and drug-consuming in affluent communities where cops will actually bother to arrest them until my Soros-funded DA lets them back out on the street.
We can’t let this happen!”
Walmart executives insist the move is nothing personal.
“We’re just tired of our cashiers and store greeters getting beaten up and every store losing millions of dollars,” said district manager Darnell Monahan. “We’d prefer our workers not get beaten up and robbed and all that stuff. Sorry!”
At publishing time, civil rights leaders had warned that if Walmart goes through with the move, they will encourage Americans to boycott shoplifting there entirely.
“Adam Creighton has written another of his perceptive analyses in The Australian today when attempting to explain why the genius of Barry Humphries is rarely seen in recent generations of Australians.
He believes, as I do, that the affluence of modern Australia has lured the young away from serious commentary and self reflection.”
Because young Australians are so self-obsessed that they have lost any sense of humour. Comedy on TV is puerile. The last genuinely funny show on the ABC was Frontline, which sometimes made points that were quite uncomfortable. Not these days mate, might upset the kids.
The destruction being wrought by the substitution of propaganda and lies for truth and reality.
A couple of days ago I was talking to a lady from Kenya. Originally a TV news reporter with a journalism degree, but now an airline hostess. Well educated, intelligent and articulate.
Discussion was wide ranging but offered some insights into the destruction.
In conversation she admitted to being a “little bit racist” towards white people. Interesting that this could be said, because saying the reverse would be impossible. Further discussion and turns out there is no basis for any bias against white people, and the only group of people that she actually has any genuine reason for bias against is Indians. In attempted business dealings, she found them to be completely full of shit, a far from unique experience.
Also into the mix of conversation was a joke about “colonisers”, this half joke fell apart even more quickly. What was the net effect of colonisation on Kenya? Could hardly name anything detrimental, and the general conclusion by her was that “we needed civilising and educating”, colonisation had ultimately opened up a world of opportunity for her. We went on to discuss examples of the people on the ground lamenting the end of colonialism as infrastructure and law and order crumbled as formerly unified society crumbled back to tribes. Being not that familiar with Nairobi, we talked about Kinshasa, the immense crumbling port infrastructure built by the French hardly looked like an exercise in destroying a country.
On an individual level she was finding herself torn between continuing her career or settling down with her long term boyfriend and starting a family. I asked if she had anything more to prove in her career, the opportunity for a family was a ticking clock that she could ignore at the peril of ever having a family. She agreed that there was definitely a ticking clock.
The discussion pretty much mirrored current “debates” and issues in Australia. The lies and propaganda are being consistently applied.
Perhaps I am wet-behind-the-ears but I’m beginning to understand how many people felt in the 1930’s… everyone is telling you war is coming and that many countries aren’t ready for it… you’re telling me that my three boys, two of whom will be of “war age” by 2026 are going to fight in a war (regardless of how “different” it is from previous wars) that could’ve been negated by a stronger West that wasn’t focused on destroying itself?
Pretty depressing stuff…
Stan Grant just lost a few more votes for the Voice.
You have to wonder how he sleeps at night as his wife is one of those nasty oppressive white women. Who just happens to look good and is well paid.
Grant’s a nasty piece of work so would fit right in at the ABC. Great salary on the taxpayer dime while lecturing and insulting them.
The last genuinely funny show on the ABC was Frontline, which sometimes made points that were quite uncomfortable. Not these days mate, might upset the kids.
Frontline wasn’t funny, but it was PC.
The excruciatingly unfunny episode about Womens Sport not being infested with Lezzos was a standout, though.
You could say The Norman Gunston Show was funny, but even that was unintentional.
Stan’s conceit can only be explained by his ABC induced misrepresentation of reality.
“Australians regularly acknowledge the wisdom of the welders …….”. Arrogant twat. Anyone outside of the hive detests having this meaningless catechism imposed on their busy lives and schedules.
If I can do so without negative implications for me, I walk out of any event that commences with intoning the “I believe in the rainbow serpent” nonsense.
It feels gratifying to do so.
Why the Scottish name too?
Top Ender:
Who complained?
What are their complaints?
Show us the letters.
Worthy of a FOI order.
Damon, check out Utopia. From the same team as Frontline, it’s a very funny and very pointed satire of newspeak, middle management gobbledygook, crippling business admin requirements… and most of all the catastrophic waste and chaos caused by compulsory consultations.
It’s not perfect, but it’s only 90 degrees away from skewering the whole WEF stakeholder capitalism future, so it’s worth preserving.
I am not sure if I posted this revelation of Robert Malone in his substack of a few days ago. It is very important because it reproduces an exposure through Judicial Watch of the actual records of the US support and arrangements with the Wuhan lab for the original gain-of-function research in relation to viruses. Recall that such support has been vehemently denied by Fauci in all Congressional hearings.
It is believed by Malone that this evidence has immense implications.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/the-worst-atrocity-in-the-history?r=j2j4d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
“I felt in my own organisation … a sense of betrayal because the ABC, everyone donned black suits, everyone took on a referential tone.
Its REVERENTIAL TONE you utter spastic.
FFS he been drinking the boot polish again.
(funfact, grandfather who may have had a drinking problem, used to spread boot polish on a bit of stale bread before going to bed. In the morning he’d peel off the boot black and eat the alcohol soaked bread as a pick me up)
Dot:
I was thinking of this as I perused the razor offerings in IGA this morning.
Considering the few multinationals we have, with the hordes of brands, we can’t boycott all the names on the lists. What we can do is boycott the individual brands that annoy us.
Trying to eat the elephant in one mouthful is impossible and will lead to failure. We need to pick off the wounded that have made us cranky, and eat them one slice at a time.
Perhaps I am wet-behind-the-ears but I’m beginning to understand how many people felt in the 1930’s… everyone is telling you war is coming and that many countries aren’t ready for it… you’re telling me that my three boys, two of whom will be of “war age” by 2026 are going to fight in a war (regardless of how “different” it is from previous wars) that could’ve been negated by a stronger West that wasn’t focused on destroying itself?
Pretty depressing stuff…
Lysander, you are not “wet behind the ears”. It is those who are in denial in the face of quite clear historical movements who are naive. I am feeling the same despair as you. I have a 20 year old grandson & a son-in-law (still of military age) who would also probably be mobilised in the event of a war. It is so horrifying that it is bewildering.
As for the paralysis of the West in its preoccupation with affluence and digital unreality……well…….
It just has an awful inevitability about it. I know little about this “prepper” stuff. But I do know that our family is making serious efforts to make our survival possible whether we are threatened by power disruptions, civil unrest or outright war with our militant neighbour.
100% Vicki!!!
ABC presenter Stan Grant has revealed his betrayal by his employer and colleagues in the days after Queen Elizabeth II’s death and conceded the upcoming voice referendum had resulted in “deeply wounding” judgment on Indigenous Australians.
He’s almost right- a “No” vote will de damning judgement on the First Nationses Elite, as it will be a finding upon the efficacy of their policies, which in reality have been implemented ad libitum, and have been running roughshod and unopposed over their underlings, since Whitlam.
Australia needs to dump its policy of appeasement, and re-commit to integration.
The self indulgent, self pitying sludge for a highly remunerated public serpent is grotesque and obscene. A salary which is payed by money lifted from people on very modest incomes . People who have trouble paying to heat their homes.
Winston Smith says:
April 24, 2023 at 1:51 pm
I was thinking of this as I perused the razor offerings in IGA this morning. Considering the few multinationals we have, with the hordes of brands, we can’t boycott all the names on the lists. What we can do is boycott the individual brands that annoy us.
Yes. I haven’t purchased a Gillette branded item since they insulted me in 2019 with their ‘toxic masculinity’ ads. And it seems I’m not alone. Sales fell and its a matter of public record that Gillette owner Proctor and Gamble wrote down their value by $US8 billion the following year. I understand that Gillette’s sales for 2022 are still less than those achieved in 2018 (before they ran the ads in early 2019).
Winston, this stuff is interesting. We humans like it when someone says or does something nice for us. But that is fairly ephemeral in our memories.
What isn’t ephemeral is when someone insults us or harms us. Then we remember for a very long time. Grudges held until they die of old age type stuff.
You would think such elementary psychology would be ingrained into the sales & marketing divisions of such companies. But it doesn’t seem to be, since a whole bunch of them have been insulting and denigrating half their potential market recently. I don’t understand this.
Maybe it’s the dumbification of university degrees, that these kiddies (the Bud Lite lady’s boss who was sent on leave too is barely out of kiddihood also) don’t ever get a real world understanding of human nature – only that of their own species homo wokeratii.
Anybody taking any bets as to whether Lidia Thorpe shows up at an ANZAC Day service?
We need to platform Stan Grant and Lidia Thorpe. Their words are worth their weight in gold.
sTan needs an intervention and a group hug. And at the ALPBC that is saying something.
A salary which is payed by money lifted from people on very modest incomes
Man on 7 figures lecturing those on 5 figures about his oppression going down as well as can be expected then?
sTan grant not doing to badly being a professional Aboriginal.
https://www.apumone.com/stan-grant-net-worth/
Stan Grant is an Australian journalist and writer, having worked as a television news and political journalist and presenter since the 1990s. As of July 2020, Grant is also a Senior Fellow at the Australian Department of Defence, multiple government and Defence Industry-funded Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
Grant is the Charles Sturt University vice-chancellor’s chair of Australian/Indigenous Belonging as of 2021. He is known for his writing on Indigenous issues and has written and spoken extensively on his Aboriginal identity as a Wiradjuri man. He has been an ambassador of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation since 2017. Grant has authored four works of non-fiction.
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Stan Grant net worth is estimated at around $5 million. His main source of income is from his career as a journalist and writer. His salary and other earnings are over $2 million annually.
“You could say The Norman Gunston Show was funny, but even that was unintentional.”
They were ahead of their time.
Come on, Aunty Jack…
Me also. I’ve been buying froggy shaving stuff. Never bought anything but Gillette before then. Another example of a catastrophic advertising faceplant.
Only where Meth is being served.
Only $5m banked with a $2m salary?
The humbugging must be bleeding sTan dry…
I hope so, Roger. It irks me that I must pay for the slobber when I don’t watch it.
“took on a referential tone.”
Let’s call him “Suntanned Grant”, because it appropriate. The fact that this untalented, narcissistic, hypocritical, bore is provided with a media platform, paid for by you and me, encapsulates just how far this country has fallen.
Cassie of Sydney:
Could you give us a link to the kick Roxeanne Tickle In Nads Fund?
I’ve written to them but not yet got a reply.
Pauline is saying this “direct path to citizenship” for kiwis to Australia is a backdoor for other immigrants…
I honestly don’t know enough about this to comment…
Here is the link to Sall’s fundraising site.
https://gigglecrowdfund.com
You will note that Sall Grover has set up her own crowdfunding platform so that she does not have to rely on GoFundMe or other far-left sites that randomly pull crowdfunding causes they don’t like.
Alas, I fear not but let’s enjoy this moment of pure Snowcone,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EQV8yIjCn4U
I honestly don’t know enough about this to comment…
Lysander, that’s really for JC to judge.
“You would think such elementary psychology would be ingrained into the sales & marketing divisions of such companies. But it doesn’t seem to be, since a whole bunch of them have been insulting and denigrating half their potential market recently. I don’t understand this.”
Consider that big investors like Blackrock, Super funds etc, can threaten to sell off your stock if you don’t do the ESG thing as they say. If anyone dumps 10% of a companies stock, and especially if it’s a big investor, that is the trend, and your stock will tank big time. If, as CEO or whatever, you have a significant number of share options as part of your package (quite common), it’s self interest to ensure that doesn’t happen. Just doing the ESG thing is the easiest way out.
Problem is, if you make the tiniest mistake – like Bud Lite did with Dillan Mulvaney – then the customer backlash can be just as bad or even worse. Especially with a product like beer or razors – it’s easy enough to switch brands, and very hard to get people to switch back. You can permanently lose your market share – especially when , eg, a country music star changed the lyrics of his song from “sippin’ a bud” to “sippin’ a coors” and the crowd cheers it!
If you get such a backlash at your company, the best thing to do is immediately apologise and say it won’t happen again. Anhieser-Bush haven’t and that is a big, big mistake.
I like the sequence in My Brother Jack where this contrasts this to his awakening when he visits the near-derelict old mansion lived in by a city friend, his introduction to new world of people and possessions and lifestyles. Barry Humphries and George Johnson were both running from the staid suburban existences Australia offered in the 40’s and 50’s. Running from the working class, as Johnson did with regard to his brother, is harder, because you don’t take much with you. In later life, you have to go back to find it, as Johnson did with this memoir of a novel. I’ve always enjoyed it, all the way through as the story unfolds.
Johnson’s son Martin was a regular at parties around the Sydney ‘scene’ in the 60’s to 1990 when he died aged 45 of alcoholic heart failure. He lived at the Forest Lodge house of poet Terry Larsen, a good friend of ours at that time, then at the famous party house of Gilpin Street, Camperdown, with Nadia Whatley, where rowdy parties spilled over into the street. He ended up marrying the older Roseanne Bonney and travelling with both Roseanne and her daughter to Europe. This surprised me as I knew Roseanne only when she was still living with her husband Bill, a Professor of Linguistics in the 60’s, and hardly bohemian; but in those days people often quickly changed. Martin was peripatetic between Australia and Greece for much of his adulthood as well as having spent his childhood there. He seemed a sad and unsettled soul, who wore a human skeleton hand as a necklace at one time. Eventually he endured the suicides of both of his parents.
He was one of the many damaged children of parental flight to be bohemian, beatnik, creative and culturally oppositional. Not something George, his father, saw coming when he rebelled against becoming a Sandy Stone, the truth that children relish stability and security, without which they may find it difficult to their way in the world. Living up to George and Charmian’s reputations can’t have been easy for Martin while he became dependent on living their way in their shadows.