In the Crimea. After a Rain, Fyodor Vasilyev, 1873
1,825 thoughts on “Open Thread- Weekend 6 May 2023”
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
May 8, 2023 at 6:01 pm
My great great great grandfathers were transportees for crimes so trivial these days they’d barely get a fine
My father’s ancestors were Scottish crofters. They were evicted from their smallholdings during the Highland clearances, marched to the nearest seaport under guard, and “put aboard” to Australia. They made good.
You must admit, though, clearing the peasants out has made the Highlands a far more amenable place for fly fishing and grouse shooting.
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Fauci Claims He Never Mandated Lockdowns or School Closures
“The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday that COVID-19 is no longer a health emergency. The globalists have climate change and a coming world war – COVID is no longer needed as a tool for control. They achieved the goal of destabilizing the economy for years to come and determined what portion of the population would blindly obey their ever-changing rules. The people responsible for the COVID mandates that destroyed the global economy are now coming under fire.
The most vocal proponents of COVID began backtracking their stance a few weeks before the WHO’s announcement. I reported how Canada’s PM Justin Trudeau insisted he never mandated vaccinations. Anthony Fauci, the face of the pandemic, denies shutting down schools and businesses. “Show me a school that I shut down and show me a factory that I shut down. Never. I never did,” he lied. “I gave a public-health recommendation that echoed the CDC’s recommendation, and people made a decision based on that,” he said, noting that he “happened to be perceived as the personification of the recommendations.”
Does he really think he can gaslight the world into believing he didn’t force vaccination, mask, and lockdown mandates? He went on a world tour, appearing at all hours on our TVs and radios for three years to tell us that we’d all die if we didn’t obey his commands.
Fauci also said he never demonized the fringe minority who refused to take the vaccine. “I never criticized the people who had to make the decisions one way or the other,” Fauci said. Thousands did not have a decision. COVID has become one of the most dividing tools in modern times. “Anti-vaxxers” were considered domestic terrorists who were killing their neighbors by failing to comply.
Fauci lied and people died. He is being exposed as a fraud but the current administration would never allow their COVID mascot to face charges.”
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Bacon fed j’smist
Nice one, HB Bear!
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Never missed a real estate “for sale” sign she couldn’t direct the Comcar to0!
Uh huh.
Albanese owns 6 rental properties and you live in a 3 bedroom Commission house in Sydney with your cat for $50/week.
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No mention of how this will affect enrolments at CD University….
The man accused of murdering an international student during a home invasion in Millner last week has had his charges heard in court for the first time.
Brendan Kantilla, 29, faced Darwin Local Court Monday morning charged with murder, aggravated burglary and theft.
He was not granted bail and the case was adjourned to July 12.
Police allege Kantilla broke into the Trower Rd sharehouse in the early hours of Wednesday morning and assaulted Bangladeshi student Md Isfaqur Rahman.
The 23-year-old, also known as Sifat, was discovered on his bed with critical head trauma by his housemates after they heard the sound of someone in their yard.
Mr Rahman was rushed to Royal Darwin Hospital where he died on Thursday.
Kantilla was arrested shortly after police were called to the scene about 4.25am.
Outcry from the Top End’s Bangladeshi and international student community has been strong.
The Bangladesh Association of the NT Inc.’s has released a seven-point plan to make the Territory safer for travellers.
Almost 1500 people have signed the association’s petition calling for the government and local leaders to work with the police and justice system to bring down crime.
The plan includes safer accommodation and public transport, calling for more transit officers on the road.
Increasing surveillance, police presence and patrols in residential and public areas is another key request.
The group has called for more support for victims of crime, including counselling and financial assistance, and better education in the community about the impact of crime and the importance of reporting suspicious behaviour.
They have also cited a need for increased resources and funding for community-based programs that address the root causes of crime, including poverty, substance abuse, and mental health.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles sent a letter to the association’s president, Abdus Sattar, after Mr Rahman’s death, extending condolences and saying “this is not the Territory we want to share with the world”.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the young international student, his family, his housemates, his friends and the Bangladeshi community, here in Darwin and back home,” she said.
Mr Sattar thanked Ms Fyles and called for swift measures to be taken.
“Please take immediate action to remove violence from the Territory and make it a better place which we call home,” he said on social media.
Mr Rahman arrived in the NT from Bangladesh just three months ago to study a Masters in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Charles Darwin University.
NT News
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Claiming a dodgy tax deduction to inspect the rental property is as Australian as a Hills Hoist in the backyard.
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Nice to see Rita Panahi confront Michael Kroger about Pesutto/Deeming.
Too tame by half. The simpering, pip pippering kroger personifies the wretched cowards of the libs. Defending proscuitto and the rest of the shitheads is pathetic and criticising Deeming for daring to sue the bastards was the pits. I now believe Moira has withdrawn her suit but proscuitto has officially supported the expulsion motion. Rita should have asked kroger where his balls were and whether he was transitioning.
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On the subject of bacon, I dips me lid to the blogger who, on the day after the High Court freed Pell, captioned a hatchet-faxed photo of Chief Justice Ferguson of Victoria with ‘Would you like some bacon to go with the egg on your face, Ma’am?’
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‘hatchet-faced’!
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The horrible tatts, the awful piercings, and clothes that appear to have come from a Bangkok hooker’s ‘do not buy’ pile.
Thought we’d exhausted the topic of Julie Bishop et. al. at the coronation.
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Time to cook something for Hairy’s dinner. I am still full of savories, delicate sandwiches and heaps of cake from an arvo tea today for a friend turning 70 so won’t eat much if anything. All the dancing girls were there in a private home and we all had a great time, without alcohol. Being alcohol free is not usually the case but the birthday girl doesn’t drink and I think people respected this by not bringing alcohol. So many women brought some very fine home cookery on a plate. My expensive contribution, purchased in Double Bay on the way, was yummy, but the home-cooked stuff has a desired authenticity. These approximately twenty girls vie somewhat competitively to bring the plate offering that is most quickly emptied. There is something charmingly country and old-style about that and some are excellent cooks. A few, like me, opt out and purchase something, or bring fruit. Some of us also add a present of flowers, a pot plant a scented candle as well as our ‘door’ money for the main cake and candles. As usual at these events there was so much food left over and we all took a selection home to our hubbies (or children) in some thoughtfully provided little boxes.
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Sally Rugg’s case against Monique Ryan, touted by the activist’s lawyer as having implications for every Australian worker who has been asked to work unreasonable additional hours, has quietly settled out of court.
Ms Rugg reached an in-principle agreement with her teal MP former boss and the commonwealth on April 28, accepting an offer of about $100,000 to abandon her claim.
Neither Dr Ryan nor the government were required to admit fault, and all parties have agreed to pay their own legal costs, which in the case of Dr Ryan and the government means they will be covered by the taxpayer.
Oz
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You must admit, though, clearing the peasants out has made the Highlands a far more amenable place for fly fishing and grouse shooting.
We were contemplating a serviced apartment, in Oban, with the Tobermorey whisky distillery, in close proximity…
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You must admit, though, clearing the peasants out has made the Highlands a far more amenable place for fly fishing and grouse shooting.
NO, Mrs Stencho Pantyhose, Who would admit that? You T.W.A.T. And I am English by birth. You sound just like Jerk Off Cretin and a Clown to boot. P&ss off to another Blog.
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Who in the hell would want to live in a Croft anyway? In such a. Cold place?
I bet those Highlanders thanked the British government for sending them to Australia in the end.
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Yeah but so much for property rights
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… has quietly settled out of court.
Which, outside the public service and the Parliamentary triangle, would render her unemployable. I expect she will resume after a few weeks in Bali.
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The antics of these disgusting people, their contempt for taxpayers show taxation is outright theft. Demanding money with menaces.
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Yeah but so much for property rights
Havent you heard? The petrol sniffers own everything.
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I bet those Highlanders thanked the British government for sending them to Australia in the end.
I did hear that the British powers that be once said that they should have gone to Australia and left the convicts behind.
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BBC reported that the Texas shooter was a “right wing extremist”.
Fact check please!
Entropysays:
May 8, 2023 at 8:11 pm
Who in the hell would want to live in a Croft anyway? In such a. Cold place?
I bet those Highlanders thanked the British government for sending them to Australia in the end.
Strange that as the Norwegians didn’t mind the cold. Nor did the Swedes or the Finns or the Danes or the Picts or the Northern English or anyone else for that matter. Saxons, Angles, Jutes, etc, etc, etc.
Who in the hell would want to live in a desert with not much water and have a Dreamtime while they roasted. And waited for the White Fellas to turn up in Big Ships with loads and loads of free moneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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JCsays:
May 8, 2023 at 8:26 pm
I love it how you don’t read my posts but somehow have an opinion. You T.W.A.T
On yer’ bike…………………And don’t forget the ‘elmet…………………..
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Daily Mail.
Read Lisa Wilkinson’s private emails to top prosecutor pleading for him to publicly clear her name over disastrous Brittany Higgins Logies speech – but he IGNORED her
Lisa Wilkinson thought her Logies speech was OK
Left out Bruce Lehrmann’s name, his charge, and trial details
DPP thought she was ‘bragging’ about Logies nomination
“I also want to express my pride and gratitude for the millions of people who serve, in the forces, in classrooms, hospital wards and local communities,” William continued. “I wish I could mention you all. Your service inspires us, and tonight we celebrate you too.”
Who fed your miserable hides?
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Calli:
It’s not me doing the uptick zero thing.
JC is claiming his suspicions merely to goad me into addressing him so he can scream abuse because he’s taking a drubbing in the stock market. This is his sixth attempt in the last 2 months. It isn’t working for him:
I just learned this zero thing from the weekend discussion . I suspect those two blog pests, wodney and the turtlehead have been doing this for ages.
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Dr. David Martin contending that SARS was actively created to target people. The first part is 2 min and the second is about a minute and a half.
One of the most destructive patents in history was filed in 2002 by UNC Chapel Hill. This facilitated the creation of SARS-CoV-1 and was the Gain of Function tool that Anthony Fauci and the NAID used to create the weapon known as COVID-19.
Wilkinson is a ‘no body’ now. Along with her dick head ‘Partner’ with the red bandage around his head. Good riddance to the both of those Tossers. Australia is better off without them. Along with the KRudd, Gizzard and the Waffler from Wooly Whara……….lol
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I know that Winston. It never crossed my mind.
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Knuckle Dragger:
They don’t do it to feed a child, they do it to make a point – or more correctly, start an argument using the child as a human shield.
Perfect – “Look at me look at me how dare you look at me.” That should be one word for these harridans.
Feminists wanting the next generation to look like tarts – which is how many of them behaved – validate their own behaviour.
Or whatever. I really don’t care. Like ugly cars, I can just ignore ugly people.
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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
May 8, 2023 at 8:02 pm
Time to cook something for Hairy’s dinner. I am still full of savories, delicate sandwiches and heaps of cake from an arvo tea today for a friend turning 70 so won’t eat much if anything.
So when did you transition?
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I just learned this zero thing from the weekend discussion . I suspect those two blog pests, wodney and the turtlehead have been doing this for ages.
I do believe it is because Jerk Off is a short arse and his/her/it/whatever Engrish is Farked. Just saying……………………………………I could say more but I will get banned……………..by the Modder.
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Lizzie: If the Liberals can’t see this…
Bizarrely, as I noted a few days ago, the object now seems to be to gain the votes of the smallest possible demographic/interest group. It seems counter-intuitive, no?
#Liberalssixfeetdeep.
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They have also cited a need for increased resources and funding for community-based programs that address the root causes of crime, including poverty, substance abuse, and mental health.
If the powers will not protect people but let violent scum get worse until they take lives, then the powers are responsible for what comes.
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On June 21, 2021, Mr Drumgold was handed a police brief that described Ms Higgins as “evasive, unco-operative and manipulative” and concluded: “Investigators have serious concerns in relation to the strength and reliability of her evidence but also more importantly her mental health and how any future prosecution may affect her wellbeing.”
The AFP brief was part of a bundle of documents called the Investigative Review Documents, known informally as the Moller report after one of the officers in charge of the investigation, Detective Superintendent Scott Moller.
The existence of the Moller report was first reported in The Australian in December, which revealed that senior police officers on the Higgins case believed there was insufficient evidence to prosecute Mr Lehrmann but could not stop Mr Drumgold from proceeding because “there is too much political interference”.
The full Moller report, now released by the inquiry in Steven Whybrow’s statement, catalogues dozens of discrepancies and “identified issues” in Ms Higgins’s evidence, among them whether she was as drunk as she claimed on the night of the incident, whether she had any romantic interaction with Mr Lehrmann earlier at the 88MPH bar, the placement of her dress when found the next morning by security guards, her repeated failure to hand over her phone to police and questions about the provenance of a photo she claimed to have taken of a bruise caused during the alleged assault.
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Earlier:
You must admit, though, clearing the peasants out has made the Highlands a far more amenable place for fly fishing and grouse shooting.
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NO, Mrs Stencho Pantyhose, Who would admit that? You T.W.A.T. And I am English by birth.
Not really something to hang your hat on. Whether you were you were from Cornwall or not (as you keep mentioning), you must agree that removing the peasantry gouging around in the dirt is better for everyone.
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mem:
Just enough wind to make ends meet at the moment, but if it drops it’s whoopsie time.
73% provided by filthy hydrocarbins.
Wind has gone up 2% in the last hour.
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On June 21, 2021, Mr Drumgold was handed a police brief that described Ms Higgins as “evasive, unco-operative and manipulative” and concluded: “Investigators have serious concerns in relation to the strength and reliability of her evidence
And that should have been the end of it.
Drumgold mistakenly saw an opportunity to become the Cochrane of his era, but because he was used to being a big dog in the little yard of furious agreement between political allies, he underestimated the impact his rank stupidity would have when scrutinised by normal people.
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• Ms Higgins said she was “10/10 drunk” but Parliament House CCTV footage showed her interacting with security staff, smiling and laughing, with no signs of being unwell.
• Ms Higgins declined to provide her phone on numerous occasions despite being aware of its importance to the investigation.
• Police discovered texts on Ms Higgins’ phone that said “I’m clearing out my phone ahead of police” and “F..k it, if they (AFP) want to play hardball, I’ll cry on The Project again because of this sort of treatment”.
• There were doubts about the provenance of the photos Ms Higgins said she took of a bruise to her leg from an alleged assault.
• A witness claimed Ms Higgins and former boyfriend Ben Dillaway had sex on multiple occasions in the same office in which she alleged she was assaulted.
The police documents also list troubling issues with Mr Lehrmann’s versions, including:
• The version of events did not seem plausible and the suggestion two people entered an office at that time of evening and had no further interaction seemed unlikely.
• He denied having drinks in the office. Notes of Fiona Brown taken at the time showed he conceded he was drinking whiskey and had two glasses while chatting with Ms Higgins.
It was the many allegations of discrepancies in Ms Higgins’ claims that led Mr Drumgold to question whether the AFP had decided early in the investigation not to charge Mr Lehrmann.
In his statement, Mr Drumgold was highly critical of AFP officers over their focus on discrepancies in Ms Higgins’ rape allegations and their concern about her mental health, despite his decision to abandon a retrial over concerns for her health.
He told one colleague the officers were guilty of either “unsophisticated corruption” or “atomic-level stupidity”.
We also saw worrying trends in psychology, sociology, anthropology, and all of the social sciences, but at the time it was considered extremely controversial and even unfair to suggest the “soft sciences” were infected with Woke Marxism. Today, that’s completely out the window. Everything is touched by the putrefying finger of Woke corruption. Major medical journals, engineering journals, virtually all education journals, and even premier science journals like Nature routinely publish undeniably Woke “scholarship.”
Just by the way, I visited IMDB today as I was curious about a few character actors on TV serials and guess what. They’ve gone all wobbly on sex, apparently unable to distinguish whether someone is an aunt or an uncle so showing both. I felt dirty just being there.
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Steve trickled 8/5 @ 1.51am
The Vernon Coleman article hits the nail on the head. Watching the coronation, watching Charles I kept thinking of a man with failings , like me, like everyone else. But I got the feeling he did not treat the mass or the arch bishop seriously.
Nor the customs nor their traditions. The highlight was the choir.
As the article states it was all about him and not for the country.
The Middleton or the Spenser family are the future , the females are the future of the crown and of England and it’s standards.
What were all those American Entertainers there. Where was the best orchestra in England, their opera singers , their orators pitching their poetry and great literature.
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Isn’t it Vicki?
I was just wondering how you got to the preposterous suggestion that now is the age where the only acceptable way to feed a new baby in public was via a bottle.
Not to mention the fake premise that women everywhere are making spectacles of themselves which started this discussion.
Victorian Bar vice president called to resign over Indigenous voice to parliament stance
Victorian Bar Council vice-president Elizabeth Bennett SC is facing mounting pressure to resign, following revelations she signed a motion urging the association to publicly back the Indigenous voice to parliament.
Ms Bennett and two other council members, Colin Mandy SC and Fiona Livingston-Clark, signed their names to a motion proposing the Bar issue its public and unwavering support for Anthony Albanese’s proposed voice model.
The motion called for a special general meeting of all 2200 state Bar members, at which they would vote on a motion that stated: “The Victorian Bar considered that the amendment proposed by the Bill for an Act to alter the Constitution is sound, appropriate and compatible with Australia’s system of representative and responsible government which would be enhanced by addition of the voice.”
But senior Bar members told The Australian that by attaching her name to the motion, Ms Bennett had “undermined her independence” as Bar Council vice-president, and should therefore resign immediately.
“It’s deeply concerning that somebody who has adopted a certain ideological position remains as vice-president of the Bar,” said one member, who asked to remain anonymous.
“People like Elizabeth Bennett have a view of supporting equality and diversity, but only if it is people who agree with them. This is not the Bar I joined. She should step down.”
As vice-president of the Bar Council, Ms Bennett automatically holds a position on the silk selection committee, referring applicants to the Chief Justice to become senior counsel.
Some Bar members said her decision to publicly back the voice could inhibit anyone applying for silk from giving their view on the issue, fearing that it may clash with hers.
“It’s extremely concerning for anybody applying for silk, and would have a chilling effect on applicants expressing their view, if that doesn’t reinforce her view,” the same member said. “It shows a lack of understanding or respect for the Bar Council process.”
Another Bar member, who also said Ms Bennett should resign, added: “By attaching her name to a petition essentially advocating a yes vote, she has lost any sense of impartiality.”
But Ms Bennett told The Australian she respected “the right of all members of the Victorian Bar to take a position on the voice”.
Steven Trickler
I apologise for the spelling of your name – auto correct.
What hit me about the coronation I was comparing Queen Elizabeth to King Charles.
To me there is no comparison.
Queen Elizabeth was corrinated as queen in her 20s. Big responsibility and she kept her head down and was a great role model.
What occurred to me was successful people I know started out in the 70 and 80s did the following- got married early under 25 , children before 30, went out to start their own business in their 20s.
Responsibility, confidence in one’s self and a adventurous outlook, nothing is perfect which stops you from having a go.
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And I bet there’s no objection from the same cohort to deliberate exposure of substantial cleavage.
If people are going to say public breastfeeding is unacceptable then perhaps they should also demand an end to the bikini and low cut clothing, all sorts.
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Music and theft news (the Hun):
Iconic Collingwood pub The Tote has officially been saved from developers and will remain “a live music venue forever” after a 3000-person-strong community crowd-funding campaign raised a mammoth $3m.
That’s a whole pile of other people’s power tools flogged off at the Smith Street Cash Converters.
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On the issue of breast feeding – some years ago, in Perth, three generations were sitting at a table in a food court. Junior was very quietly, and discreetly being fed. The bogans at the next table realized what was going on, and were leering and nudging each other…Grandmother said very clearly and calmly “What do you think a woman’s breasts are for, in the first place ?”
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NASA openly and casually discussing stratospheric aerosol spraying and geoengineering by regular planes.
Yeah, I proposed this in 2006. I actually asked and received approval from the company legal advisor.
It’s cheap and effective, far more than anything else. But then I read up on global warming and found the whole thing was garbage. So I didn’t bother doing anything more about it.
I’m sort of amused that nearly two decades later they’re pushing what I proposed to fix something which isn’t happening. I’d appreciate the black humour, except there’s so much money and so many lives at stake. We’re governed by idiots.
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Mr. Squiggle, the Solo Man, Norm from Life, Be In It, and the ghost of Ned Kelly himself, are the latest Australian legends to publicly support a Yes vote for The Vise. Our most famous marsupial, Skippy, has not yet commented, and the head-on-a-stick who once stood for Federal Parliament under a pseudonym, Dickie Knee, is recovering from a nasty accident with a pencil sharpener, but stated via his agent, that “I’ve spent my whole life being supported by someone else, so if others want the satisfaction of a warm hand, why not?”
Grumpy old men rule – “Don’t kill, him, Pug, just don’t kill him!”
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Drumgold mistakenly saw an opportunity to become the Cochrane of his era, but because he was used to being a big dog in the little yard of furious agreement between political allies, he underestimated the impact his rank stupidity would have when scrutinised by normal people.
Roger mentioned earlier that he had underestimated the stupidity of Drumgold.
Something which is almost impossible to avoid.
It wasn’t the possibility of scrutiny by normal people which bothered him because he never thought that would happen.
He thought the club would protect him.
How’s that working out?
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Iconic Collingwood pub The Tote has officially been saved from developers and will remain “a live music venue forever” after a 3000-person-strong community crowd-funding campaign raised a mammoth $3m.
Well, maybe.
It seems a couple of likely types reckoned it was worth $6 meg.
They claimed to have $3 meg and wanted to raise the remaining $3 meg via crowd funding.
They did this via a platform called “Pozsible”(?) which seems to run on pledges rather than hard donations (like GoFundMe).
The pub supposedly then goes into a trust to be kept as a “live music venue”.
Not sure how cast iron that is.
Could we trot out a Truckie Troubadour to belt out “Convoy” every Saturday arvo to satisfy the live music requirement?
Last I heard (on 3AW) the owner wanted $6.5 meg.
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BTW I think this is the third time this century The Tote has been saved.
It is a shithole.
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An extraordinary marital shitfight on Succession tonight between Shiv and Tom. Worthy of Bergman in Scenes from a Marriage, or Taylor and Burton in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe. Disturbing but compelling watching. I’m glad that this is the last series. I can’t take too much more of it.
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Had some pretty good times at the Tote in the nineties. More correctly, some pretty bad times that were enjoyable.
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Anyway, “Sliante” to all you horrible mob.
We are waiting for the latest round of test results for Mme Zulu, and I’m punishing the single malt.
Night, all.
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Looks like things not going so well for Drumhold.
Good.
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My dance friends’ gatherings seem to be my equivalent of Calli’s ‘Stitch and Bitch’. That’s likely not well understood here. What is important there is being accepted simply for oneself. Over years.
From the Courier Mail
The NRL will become Australia’s first major footy code to back the “yes” campaign in the Voice to Parliament referendum, with officials to confirm their position ahead of the league’s Indigenous round.
It can be exclusively revealed the NRL is preparing to announce its support for the Voice on Tuesday, following the Australian Olympic Committee and Tennis Australia as the latest sporting body to throw its support behind the proposal to enshrine an Aboriginal and Torres Strait advisory body in the constitution.
It is understood player groups were due to be briefed ahead of the announcement, which comes two weeks before the NRL’s Indigenous round.
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But I got the feeling he did not treat the mass or the arch bishop seriously.
Nor the customs nor their traditions. The highlight was the choir.
As the article states it was all about him and not for the country.
The king was both humble and reverential, participating fully in custom and tradition going back well over a thousand years. Service to his country was the essence of it at all times. He is not a Roman Catholic and the communion is symbolic, not transubstantiation as in the Roman Catholic mass. People have given their lives over that difference; respect it.
The Middleton or the Spenser family are the future , the females are the future of the crown and of England and it’s standards. What were all those American Entertainers there. Where was the best orchestra in England, their opera singers , their orators pitching their poetry and great literature.
The affinal relationships (the Middletons and Spensers) are just that, relationships drawn by marriage and while each side makes a contribution to the children and perhaps their upbringing the central element is the Crown inherited by patrilineal descent. Females may inherit it but the House line stays the same. The Gospel Singers were African (Christianity is growing strongly there) and other singers included some beautiful individually sung pieces, as well as the choir (one of Britain’s best) singing from a repertoire that ranged across the full tradition of Western church music. The poetry of the bible and the protestant book of common prayer will do me.
There is a lot of nark in the sort of commentary in these quotes. Unworthy.
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The orchestral support was excellent. A buoyant Pomp and Circumstance march saw the Royals out.
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In his incendiary November letter to ACT chief police office Neil Gaughan, DPP Shane Drumgold said he wanted a public inquiry into the police handling of Brittany Higgins’ rape allegations against Bruce Lehrmann. He’s got that, and so much more than he surely bargained for.
Sir Humphrey’s golden rule …
“Never start an enquiry if you don’t know the outcome.”
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rights?
if breast-feeding has to become chest-feeding to satisfy a million idiots
You must admit, though, clearing the peasants out has made the Highlands a far more amenable place for fly fishing and grouse shooting.
Fauci Claims He Never Mandated Lockdowns or School Closures
“The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday that COVID-19 is no longer a health emergency. The globalists have climate change and a coming world war – COVID is no longer needed as a tool for control. They achieved the goal of destabilizing the economy for years to come and determined what portion of the population would blindly obey their ever-changing rules. The people responsible for the COVID mandates that destroyed the global economy are now coming under fire.
The most vocal proponents of COVID began backtracking their stance a few weeks before the WHO’s announcement. I reported how Canada’s PM Justin Trudeau insisted he never mandated vaccinations. Anthony Fauci, the face of the pandemic, denies shutting down schools and businesses. “Show me a school that I shut down and show me a factory that I shut down. Never. I never did,” he lied. “I gave a public-health recommendation that echoed the CDC’s recommendation, and people made a decision based on that,” he said, noting that he “happened to be perceived as the personification of the recommendations.”
Does he really think he can gaslight the world into believing he didn’t force vaccination, mask, and lockdown mandates? He went on a world tour, appearing at all hours on our TVs and radios for three years to tell us that we’d all die if we didn’t obey his commands.
Fauci also said he never demonized the fringe minority who refused to take the vaccine. “I never criticized the people who had to make the decisions one way or the other,” Fauci said. Thousands did not have a decision. COVID has become one of the most dividing tools in modern times. “Anti-vaxxers” were considered domestic terrorists who were killing their neighbors by failing to comply.
Fauci lied and people died. He is being exposed as a fraud but the current administration would never allow their COVID mascot to face charges.”
Bacon fed j’smist
Nice one, HB Bear!
Never missed a real estate “for sale” sign she couldn’t direct the Comcar to0!
Uh huh.
Albanese owns 6 rental properties and you live in a 3 bedroom Commission house in Sydney with your cat for $50/week.
No mention of how this will affect enrolments at CD University….
The man accused of murdering an international student during a home invasion in Millner last week has had his charges heard in court for the first time.
Brendan Kantilla, 29, faced Darwin Local Court Monday morning charged with murder, aggravated burglary and theft.
He was not granted bail and the case was adjourned to July 12.
Police allege Kantilla broke into the Trower Rd sharehouse in the early hours of Wednesday morning and assaulted Bangladeshi student Md Isfaqur Rahman.
The 23-year-old, also known as Sifat, was discovered on his bed with critical head trauma by his housemates after they heard the sound of someone in their yard.
Mr Rahman was rushed to Royal Darwin Hospital where he died on Thursday.
Kantilla was arrested shortly after police were called to the scene about 4.25am.
Outcry from the Top End’s Bangladeshi and international student community has been strong.
The Bangladesh Association of the NT Inc.’s has released a seven-point plan to make the Territory safer for travellers.
Almost 1500 people have signed the association’s petition calling for the government and local leaders to work with the police and justice system to bring down crime.
The plan includes safer accommodation and public transport, calling for more transit officers on the road.
Increasing surveillance, police presence and patrols in residential and public areas is another key request.
The group has called for more support for victims of crime, including counselling and financial assistance, and better education in the community about the impact of crime and the importance of reporting suspicious behaviour.
They have also cited a need for increased resources and funding for community-based programs that address the root causes of crime, including poverty, substance abuse, and mental health.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles sent a letter to the association’s president, Abdus Sattar, after Mr Rahman’s death, extending condolences and saying “this is not the Territory we want to share with the world”.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the young international student, his family, his housemates, his friends and the Bangladeshi community, here in Darwin and back home,” she said.
Mr Sattar thanked Ms Fyles and called for swift measures to be taken.
“Please take immediate action to remove violence from the Territory and make it a better place which we call home,” he said on social media.
Mr Rahman arrived in the NT from Bangladesh just three months ago to study a Masters in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Charles Darwin University.
NT News
Claiming a dodgy tax deduction to inspect the rental property is as Australian as a Hills Hoist in the backyard.
Nice to see Rita Panahi confront Michael Kroger about Pesutto/Deeming.
Too tame by half. The simpering, pip pippering kroger personifies the wretched cowards of the libs. Defending proscuitto and the rest of the shitheads is pathetic and criticising Deeming for daring to sue the bastards was the pits. I now believe Moira has withdrawn her suit but proscuitto has officially supported the expulsion motion. Rita should have asked kroger where his balls were and whether he was transitioning.
On the subject of bacon, I dips me lid to the blogger who, on the day after the High Court freed Pell, captioned a hatchet-faxed photo of Chief Justice Ferguson of Victoria with ‘Would you like some bacon to go with the egg on your face, Ma’am?’
‘hatchet-faced’!
Thought we’d exhausted the topic of Julie Bishop et. al. at the coronation.
Time to cook something for Hairy’s dinner. I am still full of savories, delicate sandwiches and heaps of cake from an arvo tea today for a friend turning 70 so won’t eat much if anything. All the dancing girls were there in a private home and we all had a great time, without alcohol. Being alcohol free is not usually the case but the birthday girl doesn’t drink and I think people respected this by not bringing alcohol. So many women brought some very fine home cookery on a plate. My expensive contribution, purchased in Double Bay on the way, was yummy, but the home-cooked stuff has a desired authenticity. These approximately twenty girls vie somewhat competitively to bring the plate offering that is most quickly emptied. There is something charmingly country and old-style about that and some are excellent cooks. A few, like me, opt out and purchase something, or bring fruit. Some of us also add a present of flowers, a pot plant a scented candle as well as our ‘door’ money for the main cake and candles. As usual at these events there was so much food left over and we all took a selection home to our hubbies (or children) in some thoughtfully provided little boxes.
Sally Rugg’s case against Monique Ryan, touted by the activist’s lawyer as having implications for every Australian worker who has been asked to work unreasonable additional hours, has quietly settled out of court.
Ms Rugg reached an in-principle agreement with her teal MP former boss and the commonwealth on April 28, accepting an offer of about $100,000 to abandon her claim.
Neither Dr Ryan nor the government were required to admit fault, and all parties have agreed to pay their own legal costs, which in the case of Dr Ryan and the government means they will be covered by the taxpayer.
Oz
We were contemplating a serviced apartment, in Oban, with the Tobermorey whisky distillery, in close proximity…
You must admit, though, clearing the peasants out has made the Highlands a far more amenable place for fly fishing and grouse shooting.
NO, Mrs Stencho Pantyhose, Who would admit that? You T.W.A.T. And I am English by birth. You sound just like Jerk Off Cretin and a Clown to boot. P&ss off to another Blog.
Who in the hell would want to live in a Croft anyway? In such a. Cold place?
I bet those Highlanders thanked the British government for sending them to Australia in the end.
Yeah but so much for property rights
Which, outside the public service and the Parliamentary triangle, would render her unemployable. I expect she will resume after a few weeks in Bali.
The antics of these disgusting people, their contempt for taxpayers show taxation is outright theft. Demanding money with menaces.
Havent you heard? The petrol sniffers own everything.
I bet those Highlanders thanked the British government for sending them to Australia in the end.
I did hear that the British powers that be once said that they should have gone to Australia and left the convicts behind.
You mean the Mexican gang member?
Get a load of Marty’s used condom directing traffic on this blog.
Andrew Bridgen and Fraser Myers clash in fiery debate on Covid vaccine harms
Entropysays:
May 8, 2023 at 8:11 pm
Who in the hell would want to live in a Croft anyway? In such a. Cold place?
I bet those Highlanders thanked the British government for sending them to Australia in the end.
Strange that as the Norwegians didn’t mind the cold. Nor did the Swedes or the Finns or the Danes or the Picts or the Northern English or anyone else for that matter. Saxons, Angles, Jutes, etc, etc, etc.
Who in the hell would want to live in a desert with not much water and have a Dreamtime while they roasted. And waited for the White Fellas to turn up in Big Ships with loads and loads of free moneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
JCsays:
May 8, 2023 at 8:26 pm
I love it how you don’t read my posts but somehow have an opinion. You T.W.A.T
On yer’ bike…………………And don’t forget the ‘elmet…………………..
Daily Mail.
The COVID vaccines have an estimated death rate >1,000 higher than the acceptable safe limit
Watching the Coronation concert.
“I also want to express my pride and gratitude for the millions of people who serve, in the forces, in classrooms, hospital wards and local communities,” William continued. “I wish I could mention you all. Your service inspires us, and tonight we celebrate you too.”
Who fed your miserable hides?
Calli:
It’s not me doing the uptick zero thing.
JC is claiming his suspicions merely to goad me into addressing him so he can scream abuse because he’s taking a drubbing in the stock market. This is his sixth attempt in the last 2 months. It isn’t working for him:
Dr. David Martin contending that SARS was actively created to target people. The first part is 2 min and the second is about a minute and a half.
Dr. David Martin
@DrDMartinWorld
One of the most destructive patents in history was filed in 2002 by UNC Chapel Hill. This facilitated the creation of SARS-CoV-1 and was the Gain of Function tool that Anthony Fauci and the NAID used to create the weapon known as COVID-19.
Everyone need to be aware of this.
Part 2
Wilkinson is a ‘no body’ now. Along with her dick head ‘Partner’ with the red bandage around his head. Good riddance to the both of those Tossers. Australia is better off without them. Along with the KRudd, Gizzard and the Waffler from Wooly Whara……….lol
I know that Winston. It never crossed my mind.
Knuckle Dragger:
Perfect – “Look at me look at me how dare you look at me.” That should be one word for these harridans.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Another “W” for the conspiracy theorists!
NASA openly and casually discussing stratospheric aerosol spraying and geoengineering by regular planes.
And speaking of the leetle grey cells…I’m miffed that Poirot has been replaced by the nein footy numbskulls. And they were bumped for the royal galah.
Morse and Lewis must suffice.
Dr. John Campbell interview (on Rumble)
Dr. Malhotra and big pharma questions
Feminists wanting the next generation to look like tarts – which is how many of them behaved – validate their own behaviour.
Or whatever. I really don’t care. Like ugly cars, I can just ignore ugly people.
So when did you transition?
I just learned this zero thing from the weekend discussion . I suspect those two blog pests, wodney and the turtlehead have been doing this for ages.
I do believe it is because Jerk Off is a short arse and his/her/it/whatever Engrish is Farked. Just saying……………………………………I could say more but I will get banned……………..by the Modder.
Lizzie: If the Liberals can’t see this…
Bizarrely, as I noted a few days ago, the object now seems to be to gain the votes of the smallest possible demographic/interest group. It seems counter-intuitive, no?
#Liberalssixfeetdeep.
If the powers will not protect people but let violent scum get worse until they take lives, then the powers are responsible for what comes.
Earlier:
Not really something to hang your hat on. Whether you were you were from Cornwall or not (as you keep mentioning), you must agree that removing the peasantry gouging around in the dirt is better for everyone.
mem:
73% provided by filthy hydrocarbins.
Wind has gone up 2% in the last hour.
And that should have been the end of it.
Drumgold mistakenly saw an opportunity to become the Cochrane of his era, but because he was used to being a big dog in the little yard of furious agreement between political allies, he underestimated the impact his rank stupidity would have when scrutinised by normal people.
Where Did All The “Trust the Science” People Go?
ZK2A:
The arrow of atomic level stupidity appears to be going two ways.
NADT.
Woke Identity Marxism Video: The Reformers: A New Film About the Grievance Studies Affair
Just by the way, I visited IMDB today as I was curious about a few character actors on TV serials and guess what. They’ve gone all wobbly on sex, apparently unable to distinguish whether someone is an aunt or an uncle so showing both. I felt dirty just being there.
Steve trickled 8/5 @ 1.51am
The Vernon Coleman article hits the nail on the head. Watching the coronation, watching Charles I kept thinking of a man with failings , like me, like everyone else. But I got the feeling he did not treat the mass or the arch bishop seriously.
Nor the customs nor their traditions. The highlight was the choir.
As the article states it was all about him and not for the country.
The Middleton or the Spenser family are the future , the females are the future of the crown and of England and it’s standards.
What were all those American Entertainers there. Where was the best orchestra in England, their opera singers , their orators pitching their poetry and great literature.
Isn’t it Vicki?
I was just wondering how you got to the preposterous suggestion that now is the age where the only acceptable way to feed a new baby in public was via a bottle.
Not to mention the fake premise that women everywhere are making spectacles of themselves which started this discussion.
Lots of doing and no believing.
The Protestant Coronation through Catholic Eyes
Victorian Bar vice president called to resign over Indigenous voice to parliament stance
Victorian Bar Council vice-president Elizabeth Bennett SC is facing mounting pressure to resign, following revelations she signed a motion urging the association to publicly back the Indigenous voice to parliament.
Ms Bennett and two other council members, Colin Mandy SC and Fiona Livingston-Clark, signed their names to a motion proposing the Bar issue its public and unwavering support for Anthony Albanese’s proposed voice model.
The motion called for a special general meeting of all 2200 state Bar members, at which they would vote on a motion that stated: “The Victorian Bar considered that the amendment proposed by the Bill for an Act to alter the Constitution is sound, appropriate and compatible with Australia’s system of representative and responsible government which would be enhanced by addition of the voice.”
But senior Bar members told The Australian that by attaching her name to the motion, Ms Bennett had “undermined her independence” as Bar Council vice-president, and should therefore resign immediately.
“It’s deeply concerning that somebody who has adopted a certain ideological position remains as vice-president of the Bar,” said one member, who asked to remain anonymous.
“People like Elizabeth Bennett have a view of supporting equality and diversity, but only if it is people who agree with them. This is not the Bar I joined. She should step down.”
As vice-president of the Bar Council, Ms Bennett automatically holds a position on the silk selection committee, referring applicants to the Chief Justice to become senior counsel.
Some Bar members said her decision to publicly back the voice could inhibit anyone applying for silk from giving their view on the issue, fearing that it may clash with hers.
“It’s extremely concerning for anybody applying for silk, and would have a chilling effect on applicants expressing their view, if that doesn’t reinforce her view,” the same member said. “It shows a lack of understanding or respect for the Bar Council process.”
Another Bar member, who also said Ms Bennett should resign, added: “By attaching her name to a petition essentially advocating a yes vote, she has lost any sense of impartiality.”
But Ms Bennett told The Australian she respected “the right of all members of the Victorian Bar to take a position on the voice”.
Oz, with interestingly comments open – overwhelmingly negative towards Ms B
Steven Trickler
I apologise for the spelling of your name – auto correct.
What hit me about the coronation I was comparing Queen Elizabeth to King Charles.
To me there is no comparison.
Queen Elizabeth was corrinated as queen in her 20s. Big responsibility and she kept her head down and was a great role model.
What occurred to me was successful people I know started out in the 70 and 80s did the following- got married early under 25 , children before 30, went out to start their own business in their 20s.
Responsibility, confidence in one’s self and a adventurous outlook, nothing is perfect which stops you from having a go.
And I bet there’s no objection from the same cohort to deliberate exposure of substantial cleavage.
If people are going to say public breastfeeding is unacceptable then perhaps they should also demand an end to the bikini and low cut clothing, all sorts.
Music and theft news (the Hun):
That’s a whole pile of other people’s power tools flogged off at the Smith Street Cash Converters.
On the issue of breast feeding – some years ago, in Perth, three generations were sitting at a table in a food court. Junior was very quietly, and discreetly being fed. The bogans at the next table realized what was going on, and were leering and nudging each other…Grandmother said very clearly and calmly “What do you think a woman’s breasts are for, in the first place ?”
Yeah, I proposed this in 2006. I actually asked and received approval from the company legal advisor.
It’s cheap and effective, far more than anything else. But then I read up on global warming and found the whole thing was garbage. So I didn’t bother doing anything more about it.
I’m sort of amused that nearly two decades later they’re pushing what I proposed to fix something which isn’t happening. I’d appreciate the black humour, except there’s so much money and so many lives at stake. We’re governed by idiots.
Grumpy old men rule – “Don’t kill, him, Pug, just don’t kill him!”
Roger mentioned earlier that he had underestimated the stupidity of Drumgold.
Something which is almost impossible to avoid.
It wasn’t the possibility of scrutiny by normal people which bothered him because he never thought that would happen.
He thought the club would protect him.
How’s that working out?
Well, maybe.
It seems a couple of likely types reckoned it was worth $6 meg.
They claimed to have $3 meg and wanted to raise the remaining $3 meg via crowd funding.
They did this via a platform called “Pozsible”(?) which seems to run on pledges rather than hard donations (like GoFundMe).
The pub supposedly then goes into a trust to be kept as a “live music venue”.
Not sure how cast iron that is.
Could we trot out a Truckie Troubadour to belt out “Convoy” every Saturday arvo to satisfy the live music requirement?
Last I heard (on 3AW) the owner wanted $6.5 meg.
BTW I think this is the third time this century The Tote has been saved.
It is a shithole.
An extraordinary marital shitfight on Succession tonight between Shiv and Tom. Worthy of Bergman in Scenes from a Marriage, or Taylor and Burton in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe. Disturbing but compelling watching. I’m glad that this is the last series. I can’t take too much more of it.
Had some pretty good times at the Tote in the nineties. More correctly, some pretty bad times that were enjoyable.
Anyway, “Sliante” to all you horrible mob.
We are waiting for the latest round of test results for Mme Zulu, and I’m punishing the single malt.
Night, all.
Looks like things not going so well for Drumhold.
Good.
My dance friends’ gatherings seem to be my equivalent of Calli’s ‘Stitch and Bitch’. That’s likely not well understood here. What is important there is being accepted simply for oneself. Over years.
From the Courier Mail
The NRL will become Australia’s first major footy code to back the “yes” campaign in the Voice to Parliament referendum, with officials to confirm their position ahead of the league’s Indigenous round.
It can be exclusively revealed the NRL is preparing to announce its support for the Voice on Tuesday, following the Australian Olympic Committee and Tennis Australia as the latest sporting body to throw its support behind the proposal to enshrine an Aboriginal and Torres Strait advisory body in the constitution.
It is understood player groups were due to be briefed ahead of the announcement, which comes two weeks before the NRL’s Indigenous round.
The king was both humble and reverential, participating fully in custom and tradition going back well over a thousand years. Service to his country was the essence of it at all times. He is not a Roman Catholic and the communion is symbolic, not transubstantiation as in the Roman Catholic mass. People have given their lives over that difference; respect it.
The affinal relationships (the Middletons and Spensers) are just that, relationships drawn by marriage and while each side makes a contribution to the children and perhaps their upbringing the central element is the Crown inherited by patrilineal descent. Females may inherit it but the House line stays the same. The Gospel Singers were African (Christianity is growing strongly there) and other singers included some beautiful individually sung pieces, as well as the choir (one of Britain’s best) singing from a repertoire that ranged across the full tradition of Western church music. The poetry of the bible and the protestant book of common prayer will do me.
There is a lot of nark in the sort of commentary in these quotes. Unworthy.
The orchestral support was excellent. A buoyant Pomp and Circumstance march saw the Royals out.
Sir Humphrey’s golden rule …
“Never start an enquiry if you don’t know the outcome.”
rights?
if breast-feeding has to become chest-feeding to satisfy a million idiots
then flyingduk can drive as fast as he wants
and chuck rocks as fancy takes him
non secateur
sorry … a million and one