I have an opinion on this. IT’S NOT POPULAR.
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NKP, the vote to reinstate Moira Deeming comes first — before the leadership vote.
Re. the Victorian Liberal leadership spill The female politician should be asked how her policies will be different to that…
From the ANU too. Yuk.
What is GAE? (just to help an uncool kid out here)
Could see the fire from our office block (I am high up). Massive, massive.
Quite so.
Stan’s career has been mostly SBS, overseas and more recently the ABC.
Your average Aussie might be hard placed to name him.
I agree, doesn’t help though.
The terms of reference were tightly controlled. I doubt Albo could contain it if it looks like Federal involvement moves beyond speculation but you never know.
Er…my wife is flying into Sydney tomorrow and staying somewhere near Central.
Should I be concerned?
“A chap I know used to have a habit of getting blind drunk then taking his kit off.
He grew out of it by his late 20’s but it was not uncommon for someone to cover him with a blanket after he had passed out naked.
Pretty sure that wasn’t evidentiary support of anything.”
Indeed, I’ve heard similar tales. In the 1960s my uncle, then a student studying at Sydney University, got very very drunk and managed to stumble on a train back to his parent’s home in the shire. He got off the train, managed to walk to my grandparents house, took off his clothes, lay naked on the front lawn and went to sleep. My grandmother discovered him in the morning. Needless to say, she was shocked.
“Should I be concerned?”
No, it was a derelict block. I hope no one was inside. I have never seen such smoke or flames.
The fire was in a heritage listed old hat factory. Building slated for re-development as a hotel.
OK, thanks Cassie.
I remember last time I was in Sydney staying in Kent St and looking down on a derelict building…frankly I was surprised such still existed in the CBD.
So it was asking for it then?
Ah…we have a few of those in Brisbane’s CBD.
Stayed in what was once a hardware store on the last visit to Babylon by the Brisbane when my wife wanted a break from the country estate (cough).
Very spacious rooms with the highest ceilings I’ve ever seen.
Whenever some momentum is going in right direction some moron pops up to derail it, Drf.
Lol. Seven News interviewing the most entertaining witness I’ve ever heard!
Well done, madam! She even did sound effects.
Good stuff.
My wife’s aunt – last surviving sister of five – is visiting from the US, probably for the last time, so she’s going down to catch up with her and family.
some pretty good pics of Sydney fire here:
https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/a-major-fire-has-broken-out-near-sydneys-central-station-c-10767675
Hey, you leave that on the floor and it’s open season.
Perhaps…..
It could have been……
Well….
Put away.
2nd story on 9 Brisbane. After the story about the Poowoomba copper run over the other day
AND:
in the immortal words of that bloke in the TV ad years ago:
‘Before ya staaart…’
I meant that obviously any bloke in the house would have done the ironing, and put it away. That way, chicks wouldn’t get up in the middle of the night and piss all over it.
Great save.
The United Spot:
1:36
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feelthebernsays:
May 25, 2023 at 5:15 pm
Romani stocktake down Surry Hills way.
Near Central.
Heritage listed; or at least it used to be.
It doesn’t take much for an old building to fall into an economic state. Vast areas of Perf above the ground floor retail are vacant. A particularly large and special area might make a historic restoration work – such as the old Treasury building which used to house the Stamps Office, a regular port of call when outside clerking. I guess it’s no different to the usual renovate or demolish decision.
😀
Let’s just say somnambulism and a little too much good cheer don’t mix well with laundry. Guess it would have been worse had the night walker visited the home office.
Ren and Stimpy and electric fences.
A chap I know used to have a habit of getting blind drunk then taking his kit off.
Sometimes you just feel hot and have to do something about it!
ZK2A:
Lydia is a loose cannon in the historical sense of the words.
Keep her in the enemy front line where she will continue to do do damage to her own side.
Cassie of Sydney:
If it was that bad, should the firies be looking at the presence of accelerants? Just a thought.
Mind you, you didn’t see the fire that ensued at my last birthday cake conflagration…
Had a friend wake up and walk into a flatmate’s bedroom while drunk before proceeding to lift up a towel that was hanging over a chair thinking it was the toilet seat. Apparently the shouting woke him up before anything drastic happened.
Watching Modi’s finger licker in Parliament, moaning about the opposition.
Where is our thirty billion dollars a year going, Albo?
Thirty billion.
And Dutton is the “bad guy”?
Let’s not be too harsh in rushing to judgment. Just getting to bed some nights was an achievement in the good old days.
Whatever happened to the people who corrected the headlines?
This reminds me of the old Farmers building burning down in Sydney.
All those buildings that stored wool and the wood was saturated with lanolin…
Shearing shed party, one night, way back when. The drink was flowing freely, a young couple conceived a grand passion for each other, and decided to consummate that passion, then and there. He went outside to empty his bladder – guess who pizzed over an electric fence in the dark…..
Worse still is when you get up in the morning and, trying to be unobtrusive for others, piss on the side of the bowl – only to have them look up unappreciatively from eating their cereal.
Renewable Energy Zones.
In addition to providing reliable clean energy for NSW consumers, the REZs will help service the growing energy needs of emerging green manufacturing, energy intensive agriculture and export market opportunities. This makes REZs the ideal place to both generate and use renewable energy and affords the regional communities hosting these zones with substantial opportunities to capitalise on and share in the benefits of the energy transformation.
Translation:
– forcing renewable power infrastructure on rural communities.
– allowing big foreign energy companies a free go at gobbling up any land they can lay their hands on.
– ‘hosting’ means coercive state power will be used to access land from unwilling farmers.
– renewable energy companies don’t produce a damn thing that can be exported but instead take land out of production that already grow export commodities with an existing value adding industry.
– green manufacturing is a term pulled straight out of a public servants arse.
– rural communities won’t be capitalising on green electricity anymore than they do with coal generated power. It’s an input not a product.
– NSW consumers will get more expensive power and will also be paying massive transmission cost increases because of the ten billion dollar build that has to be recouped from customers.
– AEMO will be arbitraging between the generators and the retailers as they do in Victoria as well as charging grid access fees to generators. Who do you think will be getting the revenue that flows from this? Hint – AEMO is owned by government.
-big power industry players in Sydney mapped out these zones and conducted zero consultation with anyone within the rural areas chosen.
This is a monumental money pit in the making. It’s Stalinist in planning and crony capitalist in operation.
Pay up suckers.
Saddest thing for me is that his TV shows when I was a kid were amazing.
He did a thing where he’d tell a story and then paint a huge painting on the fly.
Size of a bed sheet or even bigger. Large buckets of paint and a four inch brush. In a few minutes he would do a marvelous impressionist painting that these days could sell for a huge amount. Really seriously good art, and done with panache and style live on TV. Then he’d sing a song about the topic of the painting. I think genius comes with giant sized flaws. Harris had both.
It took one Tweet for Elon Musk to level TruthSocia
It wouldn’t be any different under Dutton.
That being said, Elbow’s currying favour with Modi will come back to haunt him.
(Currying…you see what I did there?)
NSW Chief Justice Andrew Bell has ticked off one of his judges for sending an email to Nationals MP Pat Conaghan that called his views on the Voice “disgusting”, paternalistic and racist.
Justice Ian Harrison wrote to Mr Conaghan at 8.45am on Wednesday via his Supreme Court email account. Its contents were later revealed by The Australian.
Justice Harrison was not available for comment, but Chief Justice Bell issued a short statement on Thursday morning.
“It is generally prudent for judges to avoid making public statements on topics of political or public controversy,” he said.
“Justice Harrison’s email to Mr Conaghan was not a public statement nor intended for public consumption.”
Justice Harrison is a former president of the NSW Bar Association who has been on the bench since 2007. He recently presided over the trial of Christopher Dawson, who was sentenced to 18 years’ jail for the murder of his wife Lynette in 1982.
In his email, the judge told Mr Conaghan that his speech to parliament on Tuesday – the MP said the Voice “divides the nation arbitrarily on the lines of race” and would offer no practical benefits – was “the lowest ebb in my day”.
“I appreciate that you are a member of Mr [David] Littleproud’s party, one of the first publicly to support the NO vote,” Justice Harrison wrote.
“I despaired when he announced that decision, replete as it was with the perpetuation of institutional abuse of Australia’s First Nations people. You [sic] speech last night only increased my despair.”
Justice Harrison expressed his “complete sadness, not that you have predictably taken the stand that you have, but that you obviously do not understand or appreciate the depths of paternalism and racism that oozed from your words”.
“Your argument is predicated upon the position that the Voice will add nothing practical to the lives of indigenous Australians.
“We can argue about that forever, but I will not do so here. However, what is so subtly disgusting about your contention is that it promotes the counterfeit spectre of harm to the Australian community while ignoring the immense and patently harmless symbolic benefit that recognition of the Voice will give to a long-neglected section of our society.
“There are no sleeping constitutional issues here. It is a simple matter of human decency. Your position, and the position of your party, is niggardly and cruel and mean-spirited. It is patently based upon a political stance that is indecent in its ignorance. May you live long enough, and acquire sufficient wisdom and self-awareness, to be ashamed of yourself.”
Mr Conaghan, a former solicitor and member of the joint select committee for the Voice, told The Australian he was “astounded” by the email,
He said he was seeking legal advice on whether there had been any breach of the separation of powers.
Imagine after the screech gets passed a dispute between a landowner and the local tribe who have come around and told the land-owner to piss off comes before this wig. He should be stood down immediately.
This is getting into Truth or Dare territory.
Tomorrow night guys. Always best hidden on the end of the thread.
Not the Scientologist’s building then. Ah well. It was the narrow one on the corner. I don’t know if they still are in it but they’d accost us students as we were on the way to uni.
Hmmmm. Does that sort of stuff have a name?
Romani stocktake? A Melbourne accountant I used to know called it a Jewish stocktake.
He was Jewish.
Not as good as this guy 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QCgqQdmr0M
Except that Dutton hasn’t pinned his prestige on a stupid referendum, based on a lie, and utterly opaque in consequences.
I think Jewish is the preferred racial slur. Pretty common with heritage pubs when the turnover falls away.
ahh
stocktake-fire
Far be it from me to perpetuate unjust stereotypes, but I don’t think the Romani have ever been into shopkeeping in a big way.
Razey, the Beloved has been known to race up the sleepy streets of a north west Sydney suburb in nothing but his polka dot shorts (read undies) in pursuit of a bicycle thief.
Who later turned out to have a cache of firearms.
I don’t know which would have been worse – baled up at gunpoint or arrested for indecent exposure. 😀
True, calli, but you referenced the $30b expenditure on indigenous affairs.
Praise me! I need my ego stroked.
AFP Commissioner reveals Gen Z need vastly more praise from supervisors than the previous two generations (Sky News 25 May)
Snowflakes gotta snowflake. And here we boomers get pilloried constantly! Maybe younger generations will be a tad regretful once we’re gone and they have to deal with these amazingly entitled kiddies without any further help.
Calli
Or the cutlery drawer?
Gangs stealing meat from supermarkets?
And the local police, usually zealous in their pursuit of infringements of the most minor aspects of the law, always seem to be philosophical about it.
Funny that.
This “romani-stocktake” type comment must be southern or urban dialect. IRL I’ve only ever heard it called the Red Steer, eg: “Didja hear that Jacko from the Commerical up in Ironbark has gone and put the red steer through the joint?”
Keep talking, Albo!
Following the Presidential campaign announced by Ron DeBackstabbis, Orange Man referred to him as “Rob” instead of Ron, putting DeBackstabbis in the same category of Mick Trumble.
Call me cynical, but I suspect Dutton’s opposition to the Voice is purely political.
The cost of insurance drives some “unexplained” fires. The ruthless bastards cut no slack during lockdown either, it was pay yer premiums, pay ’em in full, or have yer cover revoked.
There’s no choice on that one, coz insurance revoked = your life is down the drain.
oh … snap!
Lol. Run out of Silvo?
Taking the old “spit and polish” thing a bit far.
Juvenile ABC & SBS are highlighting negative Twitter tags after DeSantis announced his nomination.
‘De Saster’
Grow up you lazy stupid millennials.
On a little cogitation…it might be how you tell the plate from the solid stuff.
As for Dutton and political expediency….how DARE you!
And stocktakes…the immediate reaction from a certain person in this household was of the Inscrutable kind. It mist be a regional thing.
Ahem, Roger, politics is purely political. It’s what they do for a living.
Dutton isn’t shining, but he isn’t stuffing up either.
He’s going OK.
Daily Mail.
June 1st. I hope he is awarded gazillions.
Post the Deen Brothers, Brisbane used to have a tendency towards surprising fires in well-located but inconvenient and heritage-listed buildings.
The Council seems to have largely controlled this phenomenon by making it the invariable practice that, when a HL building unexpectedly burns down, the owner can rebuild exactly as was, or wait 15 years for a DA to be considered – and then only if based on restoration of the shell.
Currently there are at least two on the waiting list – one of which has apparently sent the former owner to the wall.
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When Democracy Falls: Canada’s Descent into Fascism – James Rickards
Give it right back, BoN. Its not just cathartic it thinkens the skin.
My boys aren’t snowflakes because of cross generation ribbing.
Neil Oliver: ‘….if you control the land & the food production you control the people!’
Like the old Broadway hotel near the Gabba?
Because price controls *dont* lead to shortages – like the one we already have?
House Republican ‘Speechless’ After Senior FBI Official Admits Not Reading Durham Report
Biden Admin Tells Planned Parenthood How to Discuss Sex With Teens Behind Parents’ Backs
I see my shtick is too subtle.
You’d have thought I’d have learned by now.
No wonder I didn’t make it in show business.
😀
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I noticed roger. But I averted my eyes.
As a lady should.
As nice as it is to see older style architecture, heritage listing is just another level of red tape and government control that limits what an ‘owner’ is allowed to do with what is supposedly their property.
If the owner can’t build what they want, the land will remain vacant once cleared.
Maybe they want to capitalise on the location with medium to high density apartments?
This would be a prime location, but you’re not allowed to…
This adds fuel to the fire of our sky-rocketing home prices in our major cities.
The heart of the issue here is that existing residents don’t want new housing (reduces their home values)
And don’t want old buildings torn down because they like looking at them…
Post the Deen Brothers, Brisbane used to have a tendency towards surprising fires in well-located but inconvenient and heritage-listed buildings.
Yes some aspects of the Bjelke-Petersen era weren’t that good.
The North Face Follows the Lead of Bud Light and Target in Revolting Normal People
Bless you, dear lady.
And good night.
Yeah, no.
Again.
Zero evidence until Eddles cajoles or if necessary bludgeons out of the CCP the CCTV footage from inside Reynolds’ office on the morning in question and then hands it over to those legendary legal luminaries in Scamberra.
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Young people get drunk & take their clothes off.
Doesn’t mean adult relations have been had.
Our (soon to be immediate) future in Gumba-Wumba Veneztraliastan.
Biden Admin Considering Banning Chocolate Milk For Children
Fred Pascoe (traditional owner in top end) defends the Voice as such:
* It’s not divisive.
* It’s only an advisory body, has no veto.
* There are no programmes that will be run by The Voice.
* This should be good for aboriginals economically, not just politically…
* But it won’t reignite rivers of gold being sent from Canberra to aboriginals communities.
* It will allow aboriginals to partake of funding already provided and participate in the economy around them.
* The “executive government” portion of the referendum question is there to allow the Voice to be more effective by… sending their advice direct to the public service and avoiding the parliament.
Never let it be said I didn’t give the other side a chance to explain it to me.
Classic.
——
Danger Dan Reviews:
It’s like he’s time travelled.
When comedy becomes a documentary. Ronnie Barker
You have to wonder what is going through the brains of these people, if they have brains. Which I’m unsure about. Tofu maybe. They’re supposed to be selling stuff but they seem to want to piss off all their customers.
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Obviously the North Face thing has come after he wrote this column, but it doesn’t change his conclusion. Rather it underlines it.
Australia stands on the edge of the precipice that South Africa has leapt off.
The only winner is Socialist International.
You stupid, stupid bastards.
Isn’t Albo on record as saying it would be a bold Government that ignored the advice of the Voice?
Post the Deen Brothers, Brisbane used to have a tendency towards surprising fires in well-located but inconvenient and heritage-listed buildings.
Yes some aspects of the Bjelke-Petersen era weren’t that good.
What’s bad about that? If people want to keep the old buildings, nothing stopping them clubbing together and shelling out the shekels until the owner smiles.
Bucolic Fiefdom
ie … shit-hole
Calli:
Yes, Calli.
It’s called Fascism.
And the Reichstag is burning.
Calli:
He did, however, miss out on an opportunity to snaffle a cache of firearms that were untraceable. Or sort of untraceable.
Quite apt!
A block away from my work. Some very unusual noises were emanating from the site of the fire.
A derelict heritage listed building in Sleazy Hills has gone up in flames. Colour me completely unsurprised.
Did you hear about the three Italian Furniture stores on Parramatta Rd in Ashfield in the mid 2000s?
They all burned to the ground.
The end.
Bill P:
Perhaps we need to just be silent at this point?
Or I may be …..
No, just leave it.
See also “Idiocracy”.
rabz
Your comment was so good I liked it into the shadow realm. Sorry squire.
Stay a while. Try the buffalo pho!
Nelson Mandela’s fan club went to great lengths to deny the fact that he’d been on the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party….
Arguably.
Or the Red Hill Skate Arena.
I think as the economy goes backwards with hordes of Indian scab labour taking all the houses & jobs, people will vote No as punishment to the Marxist overlords.
Doc Faustus:
I bought a series of the BBC show that had a sheilah sent to an unsolved crimes unit built around a few old codgers. One episode had them reminiscing about an insurance scammer called “Pat the Rat”. He’d catch a rat, douse it in petroleum jelly and set fire to it. It would run through the overinsured building, setting fire to everything and when the insurance blokes looked through the wreck, they’d find a dead rat. That was it.
Dead rat and payout.
Astonishing rise in atrial fibrillation says BHF
Once it goes in the Constitution what Albo (or any other PM thinks) is next to irrelevant.
Not Fascism.
Touting for foreign companies to exploit your land and de facto tax the citizens with the complicity of government has an African feel.
Congo Capitalism perhaps.
The Clock Hotel in Surrey Hills seemed to have issues with several spot fires spontaneously starting in the basement. The open air drugs market in the back room and a creatively sourced goods bazar upstairs was obviously not paying the bills.
Razey.
Scab labour
That’s a red card for using Pommy shop steward language on the Cat.
Ongoing excess deaths in Canada
We had a local barber shop go up in flames over the back fence one night a few years ago now. The local detectives were in earnest conversation with a number of men of Middle Eastern appearance when I wandered past to get a morning coffee the following morning. Not sure whether anything came of it.
Dunno if we can sledge the subcontinentals as “scab labour”, Razey. Every ethnic Indian I know are on long shifts, hard working, dedicated swots, and with a long-term view of business growth. Well dressed, well spoken, trim, men are shaved and the wimmin uninked. Bogan skips can go whistle in the dole queue as far as I’m concerned.
Prof Sucharit Bhakdi was up on charges of “hate speech”.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
An important update from Dr Mark Trozzi
Prof Sucharit Bhakdi is free!
This is the type of “hate speech” he indulged in
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
In honor of the great Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi news today.
“They Have Broken Every Rule of The Nuremberg Code”
“The Nuremberg Code States Anything That Is Being Used Under Experimental Use MUST BE STOPPED If There Is A Clear Indication Of Any Harm or Death”
Not with the millions of them Sleazy has lined up. Watch what happens.
Why go to Uni in Australia when you can just purchase a degree online from a ‘university’ in India. After all, Sleazy reckons they are equivalent now.
One other thing. Indians are very good at taking over certain areas once one of the their bro’s gets to the top. It all turns Indian. Similar to the Chinese I suppose.
glowie
There’s a hell of a lot better chance of Indians assimilating than Chinese.
Indians don’t trust government and each other mostly – not a bad trait.
Indian money owns most of the roadhouses along Great Eastern Highway, here, and they’ve just brought my local I.G.A.
Daily Mail.
been watching The Old Man
liking … much pathos well written and acted.
a single scene where the old man’s dressing himself and the camera just lingered a little too long on the socks
…cracked me up
Seems the female tourist was German – why did I assume she was Australian?
Johanna, the Bar Council has been split on the issue with the Yes side marginally having the numbers to force a vote to be taken of the 2,200 members to see whether any position should be taken on the voice.
Retired Judge Terrence Cole from the NSW appeals court has come out against the voice too.
I have read of some others but don’t have handy references – certainly many barristers are against it.
I haven’t had dinner with a High Court Judge now for over twenty years, but I used to when Hairy was working in Sydney. He’s now retired. We are no longer friendly with judges we used to share BBQ’s at our place with then. I still know and speak to some barristers.
Hope that answers your concerns. Others may have more info on how legal eagles roll these days.
37 years on the microwave National -brand oven.
Still going strong.
I have been busy writing all arvo on some dating issues in the work of Gildas. Getting it down on paper at least. Hairy calling dinner right now. Can’t spend my life sorting out issues raised here.
been watching The Old Man
It’s on fu.king Disney though.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
May 25, 2023 at 2:53 pm
The conditions claimed by Constable Frizzel as providing some evidentiary support to a rape allegation are outrageous
When the security guard asked Brittany if she wanted medical attention or an ambulance, she declined…..
That would make the security guard a suspect as well. He confirms he was there when she was naked. There is no such confirmation that Lehrmann was.
Kelvinator fridge and freezer ( separate units ) from 1986.
Still going strong.
That would make the security guard a suspect as well.
Ah, no.
I agree, Tom.
If nothing else, Dutton deserves Kudos for finally starting the nuclear conversation in Australia. No-one had dared mention it before. Now, there are opeds and articles on the subject almost every day, with surprisingly little argument from the Labor/Greens.
Aha.
Blockquote fail.
$160 second hand dishwasher ( albeit a bit loud when in operation ) from ??? … I think 2000?
Still going strong.
1974 Massey Ferguson 135… still pulling like a clydesdale, purring like a cat.
But sitting there in that little consulting room in a town about three hours from the NSW- Queensland border, listening to Harry, all I felt was shame.
And there’s the problem; he should feel anger at the black and white activists who use the 3rd nations as ideological tools.
I’ll finish up with Zeducation’s woke madness; it’s not as putrid as This Week in Culture but anyone who thinks Western society is not terminally decadent can watch it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsWl7DKCRwQ
Delta.
If nothing else, Dutton deserves Kudos for finally starting the nuclear conversation in Australia.
Hello.
Has he come out yet and gone on the attack against the CAGW fraud? I do not think he has? So, to promote nuclear on a fraud in order to reduce emissions to placate retards … he can go jump in a lake with concrete boots. If he has, can people point me to it. It should be a good read.
We should immediately build USC coal plants using our coal reserves and ultimately nuclear in the future. We do not do it based on frauds. I am 100% pro nuke for the record.
Until that admission, he can f-off!
( :
I don’t know how excellent medical services can be provided to every ‘River Town’ in Australia. If I lived somewhere where there were very few jobs and a serious lack of services I needed to access, I’d seriously consider living, not in ‘River Town’.
The government cannot fix everything, it can’t even fix most things, the voice cannot fix the problems in rural and remote areas.
What to do?
Steve trickler says:
May 25, 2023 at 9:01 pm
Had one in the shop, same age, best we ever had just the right size too, but had to get rid of it because it was showing rust or peeling paint? in one corner and the health inspector wasn’t happy with it.
Fair enough.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says: May 25, 2023 at 7:50 pm
All our options are on the Table Mountain.
Gaborsays:
May 25, 2023 at 10:06 pm
No rust here. The amount of microwave ovens you see on the verges with council collections is astonishing.
Yes.
Sure, others maybe got off lighter or perhaps didn’t draw the media scrutiny.
That does not alter the fact that he was a grub in the Jimmy Saville mould, albeit not as brazen or prolific.
Their M.O. was identical.
Exploiting their fame to get access to and prey on under-age girls.
Mark Dice:
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Oh, I forgot about that Disney thing.
The Crazy Old Mole got on for a 30 day trial especially for this because she heard it was bloke friendly.
Bruuuuu of Newcastle 25/5 @ 11:12
That was amazing
I can’t describe how amazing it is in English I am about to explode into full throttle Duetsch
New Tricks. One of my favourite shows.
Tina:
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome • We Don’t Need Another Hero • Tina Turner
Point Cook on the slave trade map.
It’s the cultural influence of James Cook. Change the name! Now!
Aboriginal Elder writes to state government to request children be stolen.
Ever heard of controlled opposition?
Tim Young
@TimRunsHisMouth
Target stock is plummeting.
This is what happens when you groom children, then double down by hiring a satanist to promote your products.
If you’re taking part in the #targetboycott, hold the line…
Rasmussen Reports
@Rasmussen_Poll
Non-Scientific Twitter Polling. But remarkably similar.
at least in Australia you’re not forced to share lottery winnings with the government (which is the only reason this scheme even existed)
Savanah Hernandez
@sav_says_
INSIDE LOOK: Photos from the inside of the ROW NYC, a hotel housing up to 5,000 illegal immigrants in NYC.
My whistleblower shared that the migrants have daily housekeeping but the rooms are always trashed and alcohol and drugs are a constant issue:
I leapt to an entirely different conclusion dot but point, James Cook is clearly the real villain here.
Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
JUST IN – Germany, Europe’s largest economy with a center-left green-liberal government, officially enters recession.
dover, THANK you for the Egon Schiele header for this thread. My artist has pounced on it and LOVES the structure and lines and colour for all those trained artist reasons!
I get to just say “I might not know much about art but damn I like this!”
Buitengebieden
@buitengebieden
Never ending story..
looking forward to kangaroo grass and yabbies
Tina Turner and Mark Knopfler – he wrote Private Dancer and Tina took it to massive heights.
Foreign Affair – Tina Turner feat. Mark Knopfler
Wicki 25/5 @ 3.05
Your comment re older men lusting after younger women.
I find this difficult – there is a age difference you don’t go out of 4 yrs.
I have daughters in the 20s – as a result I can’t find them lustful – cant do it.
In my 50s I did find women in this age bracket and older in the 60s with grey hair attractive – lustful.
That’s the way it is.
I like to hear what other blokes think .
Audio is good.
Tina Turner Private Dancer Live 1990
I’ve just read back thread from where I stopped just before dinner to answer Johanna’s comment, which I note has now been upticked by four people who think her slagging off at me was valuable. It wasn’t and still isn’t. Quite unnecessary actually.
Just want to say thanks to those who have added the names of a couple of other Judges who have come out against the voice. I knew I’d read of more than those top of mind when I made my not unreasonable comment on the news of the day, for the Bar Report issue and its resolution in being put to a vote had featured today in the press, having been bubbling along now for some weeks.
The police officer charged with assaulting a 95-year-old great-grandmother allegedly said “No, bugger it” before Tasering her.
Clare Nowland’s grieving family said she died on Wednesday after she was Tasered and knocked unconscious at her aged care facility in Cooma last week.
A police investigation considered the sequence of events that led to Senior Constable Kristian White, 33, being charged with recklessly causing grievous bodily harm, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault.
It is understood the female acting sergeant who was with him will not be charged, but may face disciplinary action for possibly failing to de-escalate the situation.
Staff at the Yallambee Lodge aged care facility in the Snowy Mountains had called emergency services for assistance after dementia sufferer Ms Nowland had been holding a steak knife in the early hours of Wednesday, May 17.
Ambulance officers also attended the scene and were attempting to persuade Ms Nowland to hand over the knife when she slowly got to her feet. Senior Constable White put on slash-proof gloves.
The popular great-grandmother, who weighed just 43kg, used her walker to approach the officers with the knife in her right hand.
The female officer is understood to have said: “I can take it (the knife) off her.”
Sen Const White then allegedly sparked the Taser in warning as Ms Nowland raised her right hand with the knife still in it.
Police believe that, exasperated, Sen Const White then allegedly said “No, bugger it,” and fired the Taser, shocking Ms Nowland, who fell backwards, hitting her head and fracturing her skull.
The officer then said: “Got her, grab it.”
Cass, remind me to tell you my story one day about my drinks with a certain female High Court Judge.
Nothing salacious, but indicative of her character and entitled approach. Not for publication of course.
Thanks, Johanna, for reminding me of those days. Your uptickers are also good for a laugh.
It is understood the female acting sergeant who was with him will not be charged, but may face disciplinary action for possibly failing to de-escalate the situation.
How very underwhelming. We wonder why cops are generally held in disdain these days.
We’re heading for bed, nearly at the end of another ‘found’ TV series. One more episode to go. This show is on Netflix, and called Transatlantic. Only one series of 7 episodes. Set in the south of France just before the US joined the war, it tells the story of the many displaced persons, mainly Jewish, seeking visas to the US and being aided by a US group living in Marseilles. It’s an extravaganza which you have to get used to, but the themes are deadly serious. The settings are perfectly lovely, very French traditional, and you can get swept up in the scenic joy of it all, only to come back to earth with a thump when something unpleasant happens. Lots of sex, including cross-racial black and white bodies in the act, also some homosexual kissing, but it is not unrealistic in the context and doesn’t seem at all woke.
The 40’s fashions, somewhat exaggerated, are set into dioramas to die for, so are the architectural exteriors and the splashy interiors, the bone dry countryside a great contrast as 40’s mercedes and beamers plow through long dusty roads, plus there is a scrumptiously arty party in an old mansion where lots of hair gets let down. Stay with it and you will reap rewards.
Dickless downtickers.
For shame.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Steve Kelley.
Tom Stiglich.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
The female officer is understood to have said: “I can take it (the knife) off her.”
In situations like this, all the body cam footage should be released promptly.
Enough of this gate keeping of information.
Satya Nadella isn’t given the credit he deserves.
Last December, Peter Lee, who oversees Microsoft’s sprawling research efforts, was briefing Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, and his deputies about a series of tests Microsoft had conducted of GPT-4, the then-unreleased new artificial intelligence large-language model built by OpenAI. Lee told Nadella Microsoft’s researchers were blown away by the model’s ability to understand conversational language and generate humanlike answers, and they believed it showed sparks of artificial general intelligence—capabilities on par with those of a human mind.
But Nadella abruptly cut off Lee midsentence, demanding to know how OpenAI had managed to surpass the capabilities of the AI project Microsoft’s 1,500-person research team had been working on for decades. “OpenAI built this with 250 people,” Nadella said, according to Lee, who is executive vice president and head of Microsoft Research. “Why do we have Microsoft Research at all?”
If a migrant family buys a business (supermarket, service station etc) and runs it, pays taxes, employs people, why would anyone have a problem with that?
The vendor would have had a commercial sales process & if the new Australian was the successful bidder they should be congratulated for backing themselves.
In the question lies the answer.
For me young lasses are more a work of art, well a lot of them anyway. Face pearcings and tatts…nope.
Aust is probably one of the few counties in the world where “windfall gains” such as from gambling, are not taxed as income.
Aust is probably one of the few counties in the world where “windfall gains” such as from gambling, are not taxed as income.
“If climate skeptics got $8m in funding from anywhere, the media would be all over it. But when one of the core groups of the media world sells out journalism to politically motivated vested interests most of the most lauded reporters in the world won’t even notice…“
AP sells out. This is why we are getting so many climate disaster stories.
Via Jo Nova
An Australian company that was a shareholder in the Dominion Voting parent announced it’s cut of the loot after all legal fees.
It looks like the lawyers took between 30-40% of the gross payout.
Still reading about it.
There are quite a few transformer-based LLM models out there but openai have managed to optimise theirs faster and better than any one else.
Sometimes having a large effort on research makes it harder to change course when a breakthrough happens, like GPT 3.5 and 4.0.
Jay Valentine:
“ The 2022 stolen Arizona governor’s election is an ideal template for 2024 — and it is equally a mirror reflection, with all the moving parts, of 2020.
This week, Kari Lake lost, again, in a court that wouldn’t have given her a victory had 240,000 citizens signed affidavits saying their ballots were stolen and changed at gunpoint.
The courtroom exhibits may not have swayed the jurists, but those signature mismatches showed plenty of evidence that Kari Lake’s election was stolen by a lack of signature verification — and more.
Kari Lake’s election is the template for important American elections from now on.”
Some sad news.
Fury as Chinese scavengers desecrate war graves of 840 Royal Navy sailors killed in WW2 (25 May)
Not a small operation, the salvage ship is enormous. Well if the Chinese are willing to poison babies with melamine to save some money on baby formula production you can see why they wouldn’t care about people who helped them defend against the Japanese. I’m disgusted.
The unprofessional behaviour of AEMO continues. A proposed path for the VNI West transmission line has now been changed. Instead of heading from Stawell to just west of Echuca, it now exits Vic near Barham.
This was just released today. The landholders in the new path would have no idea they are included.
Dan Andrews said six weeks is enough time for consultation in his usual prick style – not if you found out today it isn’t.
It’s a very expensive circus.
And manifestos of killers.
Douche who presented the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act harped on again and again about long consultation process. And co-design, stakeholder engagement- all weasel words designed to present a unilateral and irreversible grab for assets by the ruling class as a voluntary scouts jamboree.
Aslo said time and again that the new act was actually only just replacing the 1972 act. After a fair few prompts establishing that it also replaced riparian rights, effectively re-started Native Title contests, and more or less ended freehold title as we’ve known it for eight hundred years, I said out loud that it was effectively an act of siezing assets and grabbing an endless lein on industry.
“It is understood the female acting sergeant who was with him will not be charged, but may face disciplinary action for possibly failing to de-escalate the situation.”
Dunno about NSW but in Vic there was a lot of training for police in de escalation. It was the goal of almost all situations where things could get worse. Vicpol and the Gov threw all that away during the covid madness, maybe they did the same in NSW.
I’m still struggling with this doctor’s geography. That would locate it on the centre line of either the Dumaresque, MacIntyre or Barwon. I can only presume he means halfway between Sydney and the Queensland border.
In addition, anyone living in remote Australia has little opportunity to get the type of health services available in the big cities.
But it also poses and reinforces the same question I asked last night. Where is that 30 billion dollars per annum going exactly?
I was wondering about Dr Shame, will he dedicate his life to providing medical services to the good people of River Town, or after a year or so will he be back in Big City?