Reekie, Glasgow, John Atkinson Grimshaw, late 1800s
1,524 thoughts on “Open Thread – Weekend 13 May 2023”
Hmmm, upon thinking it over, if Razey were not an Aussie as I perhaps naively assumed, then I’d be a bit toey about an ‘outsider’ criticising my country, though I do believe there is a kernel of truth* in the statement at issue. Perhaps that’s hypocritical?
Eh.
*I’m inclined to believe that a variety of factors influenced people to submit during the covidiocy, rather than an all-encompassing lack of intellect.
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Digger at 7.41:
Appreciated.
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…everyone I know who resisted the Batflu Panic Reset is street smart. Intelligence has just about nothing to do with intellect, when the rubber hits the road.
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… everyone I know who resisted the Batflu Panic Reset is street smart. Intelligence has just about nothing to do with intellect, when the rubber hits the road.
I don’t mind admitting that my decision to advise my family and myself to not touch the vaccines came largely from very sage advice and information I read on the Cat…
For that I am eternally grateful and have been a very vocal anti mRNA and Viral Vector vaccine ever since…
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Thanks for the info on the updates to the Patriots, Digger.
Makes the story about downing a Russian missile more plausible.
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Biden did Robert Byrd’s eulogy. He is the absolute last person who should ever bring up “white supremacy”.
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Joshua Gorringe, the general manager of the Mithaka Aboriginal Corporation in western Queensland, says a priority for a future Mithaka treaty with the state would be the right to block resources projects on their traditional land.
Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships Minister Craig Crawford told The Australian that First Nations groups could put “anything on the table” during treaty negotiations.
I’m just about to retire after 40 years involved in the increasingly complicated process of exploring and developing resource projects in Australia. The geology is there in abundance – as is the social and political grit in the wheels.
I say go for it.
Go nuts.
This is an experiential learning threshold. Where urban Australians get the opportunity to significantly reduce their standard of living for a while – as they check out whether massive wealth transfer and racial preference delivers the folkloric dividend they expect.
The possibility of working out and testing the consequences from first principles seems to have gone.
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I’m inclined to believe that a variety of factors influenced people to submit during the covidiocy, rather than an all-encompassing lack of intellect.
I think a lack of the moral courage to ignore peer pressure was a component. Also the laziness to not investigate the facts and numbers.
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Makes the story about downing a Russian missile more plausible.
It was always plausible. The information has been posted here multiple times today.
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As a kid growing up in the 50s in (very) working class East Victoria Park:
• homemade gings – heavy duty jobs with car tube rubber AND, later, much more lightweight weapons with bricklayer’s wire connectors (?), multiple heavy-duty lacky bands and using sheet lead cut into 10mm x 10mm squares. Several in the holder had a “shotgun” effect at close range. Nanna employed us to hammer the green-eyes devastating her figs. We did so — but she was less than pleased that the lead “shot” had also shredded her tree and wreaked more havoc on the figs than the birds. Later, used with quandong nuts in a game of “Take the fort” up and down a sandhill. One of those in the middle of the forehead was quite … ummm … devastating. DAMHIK.
• rocket wars – tiny penny rockets, launched from bottle necks, in pitched battles across the back yard
• cracker guns — Dad never did find out why his car pump split at the neck. (Hint: 6d bomb; cotton wool and scrunched paper wadding, tombola marble, more wadding. Straight through a mate’s letterbox and one side of the dustbin.
• Later, mini-crossbows with handmade stock using jelly rubber for propulsion, firing homemade darts with sharpened nail points
• Mate’s old, well-worn Daisy airgun, with a drop or two of diesel added into the cavity in the base of the pellet. Did nothing for accuracy, but the flame/smoke was occasionally spectacular. Fired at Airfix model aeroplanes hanging by fishing line and spun from his Mum’s rotary clothes hoist. Spin it and run like buggery.
Good times, good times.
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Where urban Australians get the opportunity to significantly reduce their standard of living for a while
I’m off to an Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act workshop to learn how turning our back on science, common law, the Magna Carta, freehold title etc and granting a deliberately hermetic caste of swindlers unlimited access to our farmland and agricultural production is going to deliver absolution to the Horrors of Colonialism.
I’ll let you know how the non-urban Australians get along, we’re up against the wall first.
Dr Faustus> Sadly it looks like a decade or two of learning the hard way regarding destruction of a productive, modern economy by the Voice && Net Zero climate policies. I don’t see anything but complete failure changing peoples minds.
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Bruce in WA> You had some very cool forms of kids weaponry indeed. We tried slingshots, bolt bombs, exploding hairspray cans at the local rubbish dump, molotov bottles. Tell my sons about this kind of play and they don’t believe it. 😉
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Sfw we’ve all heard the same anecdote. With you it struck a cord. I thought it it funny. You didn’t laugh. It’ll make you go blind, so I’ve heard.
Good luck rickw. My nephew lives there. Runs 3 Architecture offices overseas from there.
Quite right Kamala.
ZK2A kruddy is a Doctor, dontcha know!
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DrF I hope you have something to keep the brain going in retirement. I’ve seen too many fall apart with a lack of interest in anything but work related subjects. Wife’s Granddad was MD of a large Stock Co. After retirement nobody paid attention to him as beforehand he ruled the roost. Depression set in rapidly. Physically in great nick, mentally he didn’t know what to do.
Nothing yet kn the Austrslisn about the Durham report
Hmmm, upon thinking it over, if Razey were not an Aussie as I perhaps naively assumed, then I’d be a bit toey about an ‘outsider’ criticising my country, though I do believe there is a kernel of truth* in the statement at issue. Perhaps that’s hypocritical?
Eh.
*I’m inclined to believe that a variety of factors influenced people to submit during the covidiocy, rather than an all-encompassing lack of intellect.
Digger at 7.41:
Appreciated.
…everyone I know who resisted the Batflu Panic Reset is street smart. Intelligence has just about nothing to do with intellect, when the rubber hits the road.
… everyone I know who resisted the Batflu Panic Reset is street smart. Intelligence has just about nothing to do with intellect, when the rubber hits the road.
I don’t mind admitting that my decision to advise my family and myself to not touch the vaccines came largely from very sage advice and information I read on the Cat…
For that I am eternally grateful and have been a very vocal anti mRNA and Viral Vector vaccine ever since…
Thanks for the info on the updates to the Patriots, Digger.
Makes the story about downing a Russian missile more plausible.
Biden did Robert Byrd’s eulogy. He is the absolute last person who should ever bring up “white supremacy”.
I’m just about to retire after 40 years involved in the increasingly complicated process of exploring and developing resource projects in Australia. The geology is there in abundance – as is the social and political grit in the wheels.
I say go for it.
Go nuts.
This is an experiential learning threshold. Where urban Australians get the opportunity to significantly reduce their standard of living for a while – as they check out whether massive wealth transfer and racial preference delivers the folkloric dividend they expect.
The possibility of working out and testing the consequences from first principles seems to have gone.
I think a lack of the moral courage to ignore peer pressure was a component. Also the laziness to not investigate the facts and numbers.
It was always plausible. The information has been posted here multiple times today.
As a kid growing up in the 50s in (very) working class East Victoria Park:
• homemade gings – heavy duty jobs with car tube rubber AND, later, much more lightweight weapons with bricklayer’s wire connectors (?), multiple heavy-duty lacky bands and using sheet lead cut into 10mm x 10mm squares. Several in the holder had a “shotgun” effect at close range. Nanna employed us to hammer the green-eyes devastating her figs. We did so — but she was less than pleased that the lead “shot” had also shredded her tree and wreaked more havoc on the figs than the birds. Later, used with quandong nuts in a game of “Take the fort” up and down a sandhill. One of those in the middle of the forehead was quite … ummm … devastating. DAMHIK.
• rocket wars – tiny penny rockets, launched from bottle necks, in pitched battles across the back yard
• cracker guns — Dad never did find out why his car pump split at the neck. (Hint: 6d bomb; cotton wool and scrunched paper wadding, tombola marble, more wadding. Straight through a mate’s letterbox and one side of the dustbin.
• Later, mini-crossbows with handmade stock using jelly rubber for propulsion, firing homemade darts with sharpened nail points
• Mate’s old, well-worn Daisy airgun, with a drop or two of diesel added into the cavity in the base of the pellet. Did nothing for accuracy, but the flame/smoke was occasionally spectacular. Fired at Airfix model aeroplanes hanging by fishing line and spun from his Mum’s rotary clothes hoist. Spin it and run like buggery.
Good times, good times.
Where urban Australians get the opportunity to significantly reduce their standard of living for a while
I’m off to an Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act workshop to learn how turning our back on science, common law, the Magna Carta, freehold title etc and granting a deliberately hermetic caste of swindlers unlimited access to our farmland and agricultural production is going to deliver absolution to the Horrors of Colonialism.
I’ll let you know how the non-urban Australians get along, we’re up against the wall first.
Crikey! That tweet by Rudd is so weird I was sure it was a parody Twitter account. I’m still not convinced it isn’t a parody account.
What-a-wanker.
Champagne comedy- the fact I had to double check adds to the belly laugh.
Cats called “Ching Ching” and “Me Me Me” were perfect
Chris Bowen getting pushback on his nuclear energy lies.
But Bowen gets support from the usual suspects.
Dr Faustus> Sadly it looks like a decade or two of learning the hard way regarding destruction of a productive, modern economy by the Voice && Net Zero climate policies. I don’t see anything but complete failure changing peoples minds.
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Bruce in WA> You had some very cool forms of kids weaponry indeed. We tried slingshots, bolt bombs, exploding hairspray cans at the local rubbish dump, molotov bottles. Tell my sons about this kind of play and they don’t believe it. 😉
Sfw we’ve all heard the same anecdote. With you it struck a cord. I thought it it funny. You didn’t laugh. It’ll make you go blind, so I’ve heard.
Good luck rickw. My nephew lives there. Runs 3 Architecture offices overseas from there.
Quite right Kamala.
ZK2A kruddy is a Doctor, dontcha know!
DrF I hope you have something to keep the brain going in retirement. I’ve seen too many fall apart with a lack of interest in anything but work related subjects. Wife’s Granddad was MD of a large Stock Co. After retirement nobody paid attention to him as beforehand he ruled the roost. Depression set in rapidly. Physically in great nick, mentally he didn’t know what to do.
Nothing yet kn the Austrslisn about the Durham report