Open Thread – Tues 20 June 2023


The Battle of Waterloo: The British Squares Receiving the Charge of the French Cuirassiers, Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux, 1874

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thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 22, 2023 5:23 pm

I still have a newspaper clipping about my first goal playing footy.

From memory “glimpses of a future Barry Cable..threading it through the goals for his maiden score”…

With full benefit of hindsight, that hasnt aged well.

Tom
Tom
June 22, 2023 5:24 pm

Thankfully, a new internet cable connecting my iPhone to my laptop has arrived, replacing the old, worn one — three years being the new definition of “old” — so there’ll be no technological reason for cartoons not to appear at the Cat at 0400 tomorrow.

Ed Case
Ed Case
June 22, 2023 5:28 pm

The “songlines” were a very practical way of teaching small groups how to navigate their way across the land – & especially to water sources, good tucker and shelter.
That’s a prosaic explanation, plus it’s wrong.
Ley Lines are real, if Aborigines from the area say
“Don’t build there”
what’s the harm?
The only people whingeing want to turn the Country into an even bigger Quarry than it already is.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 22, 2023 5:29 pm

Barking Toadsays:
June 22, 2023 at 5:13 pm
Dogs are even better than vegemite on toast.

Cats are evil.

To quote Snoopy

“To me, Cats are the Crab Grass in the Lawn of Life”

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
June 22, 2023 5:32 pm

callisays:
June 22, 2023 at 5:03 pm
Top o’ the mornin’ Cats from beautiful Wales.

Have a squiz if you can.

MACH LOOP F35 DAY – 4K

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 22, 2023 5:35 pm

Turd Case

The only people whingeing want to turn the Country into an even bigger Quarry than it already is.

The area covered by mines in Australia is well under 1% of the total land area.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 22, 2023 5:36 pm

Been working (haruspicy on a rather elaborate spreadsheet – but the entrails were not promising).

So let me belatedly raise a bumper of Rhenish to our right Doverlord and Dovermaster for his blog-wrangling earlier today.

Lysander
Lysander
June 22, 2023 5:40 pm

BJ – chatgpt concurs;

As of September 2021, approximately 0.1% of Australia’s land mass was covered by active mines.

Vicki
June 22, 2023 5:42 pm

The “songlines” were a very practical way of teaching small groups how to navigate their way across the land – & especially to water sources, good tucker and shelter.
That’s a prosaic explanation, plus it’s wrong.
Ley Lines are real, if Aborigines from the area say
“Don’t build there”
what’s the harm?
The only people whingeing want to turn the Country into an even bigger Quarry than it already is.

What a strange man you are. So contrarian. You must have carbuncles or something worse.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
June 22, 2023 5:42 pm

Cats are evil.

I get on fine with cats. Obviously, I’m even eviler.

I get on fine with dogs too. I’m even okay with most human beings.

bespoke
bespoke
June 22, 2023 5:42 pm

Christin N. Covel pleaded no contest in February to two counts of aggravated indecent solicitation of a child. Authorities have said Covel groomed and molested the then 13-year-old girl in her classroom at Mead Middle School, 2601 E. Skinner, during and after school and on at least one field trip.

H/T instapundit.

shatterzzz
June 22, 2023 5:49 pm

Linda Burney was talking yesterday about 30 Indigenous people living in a 2 bedroom unit she visited.
Rubbish without pix proof! .. out here in SE Sydney “houso” land where the ethnics are experts at house stacking 12 (adults & kids) in a 2 bedroom joint is considered the optimum number ……..

Ed Case
Ed Case
June 22, 2023 5:50 pm

You are a carbuncle, grandma.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 22, 2023 5:52 pm

“intangible object would be something like songlines or the fact that on the top of a hill there may be a very significant spiritual site”. “It hasn’t changed. It’s just that we explicitly expressed it in the legislation,” Mr Buti said.

Asked whether a site survey conducted by a native title group today would remain valid in a year’s time, Mr Buti replied: “As (occurs) now, if something happens in the future and there is (new) Aboriginal cultural heritage, you may need to try and ensure that damage doesn’t take place”.

In other words it can be anything, or nothing you can see, anywhere, and at anytime.

This is completely ridiculous. A whole continent of hunter-gatherers cannot possibly be given these sort of rights over its land areas. Limit each defined group to three special places of sacredness and then tell them that’s their lot. It has to end somewhere far more sensible than this current legislation.
If they continue on as it is, people will refuse to give them any rights at all, so take three while you can would be my advice to these few remnants of a past occupation.

We don’t recognise every mesolithic place and artifact in Britain just because a few people still living have some old and relevant DNA. Nor every sacred Brythonic place, nor every Anglo-Saxon one.

Vicki
June 22, 2023 5:52 pm

You are a carbuncle, grandma.

?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 22, 2023 5:54 pm

Grew up with Sealyham Terriers, which my mother, along with the Breeder from Collaroy Plateau, used to take to Dog Shows around Sydney & Royal Easter Show – Carried dog in Leather Bag on Trams and Trains

As Sealyham Terriers would fight any other dog in the vicinity, as a 5 year old grew used to wading into dog fights with larger dogs, smacking both dogs on the snouts whilst getting bitten – overcame fear of dogs for life (Sealyhams were really dumb & always fought dogs much bigger than themselves)

Moved on to Poodles then Toy Poodles, found them quite intelligent and as I was involved in Dog Shows into my teens worked with a lot of different dogs, doing showing for other Dog Breeders

In own life have settled into Beagles – though Sealyhams were Dumb – Beagles – hopeless but totally lovable

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 22, 2023 5:57 pm

Personally, I’ve lost the hill that used to exist behind our old farm, which was sacred to me as I sat reading in the crooked branch the old crab apple tree down by the creek getting away from the din at home. It went for blue metal in the 1960’s. The old house and the dairy got knocked down by the F4, and the creek barely runs at all now, whereas I remember it in flood coming up almost to the dairy.

Everyone has sentiments about where they spent times past.

Give it up now, grifters who want far too much.

Lysander
Lysander
June 22, 2023 6:02 pm

Terrible. Ridsdale. But at least they didn’t try link it to Pell again…

https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/crime/dying-pedophile-priest-admits-abusing-72nd-victim-c-11058634

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 22, 2023 6:05 pm

I dunno, but if old methods of getting around are to be preserved, then should keep all of the old telegraph lines?

Instead we preserve a few telegraph stations. There’s one worth visiting north of Tennant Creek, for example. But it can’t translate as seems the case in WA for a very small group of people to say “only we have the knowledge, and we can lock up the land as we see fit.”

johanna
johanna
June 22, 2023 6:06 pm

calli, my understanding is that Wales is impoverished, ruled by Labour, enthralled by transgenderism, and the unfortunate kids who go to school there are lucky to be able to recite the alphabet.

They are still in thrall of the great leaders, whose legacy has been given the wormwood treatment.

Aneurin Bevan, a father of the NHS, local boy.

But the descendants care more about ‘pronouns’ than even understanding whcih part of speech a pronoun is.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 22, 2023 6:09 pm

You are a carbuncle, grandma.
?

Creepy Groogs gets his flash cards mixed up again. Attention to detail little buddy.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 22, 2023 6:12 pm

callisays:
June 22, 2023 at 5:03 pm
Top o’ the mornin’ Cats from beautiful Wales.

And a crwallnrydryllenw as gryewlln to you, too.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 22, 2023 6:13 pm

The “songlines” were a very practical way of teaching small groups how to navigate their way across the land – & especially to water sources, good tucker and shelter.

Yes. They may have been useful and also had stories attached. Write them down if so. But we can hardly bring back all of these songlines in any practical land-based way, nor indeed the ‘songlines’ of the non-aboriginal drovers and itinerant labourers who traversed the hot empty miles of country between jobs while making their contribution to the nation that we, and aboriginal people, are free to enjoy today.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 22, 2023 6:17 pm

The NHS.
Blessed savior of all.
Not Antibiotics etc, which were invented around the same time.

Zipster
Zipster
June 22, 2023 6:17 pm
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 22, 2023 6:18 pm

Think of Lawson’s lonely and isolated Drover’s Wife, who dressed her children in their best every Sunday and went along her own ‘songlines’ taking them for walks to alleviate the boredom and sameness of the many days spent alone, coping with whatever came along.

There are stories and tales there that should not be forgotten, even though the places are gone.
I remember seeing the last bark roofed hut of upright slabs being pulled down near the Western Highway in Colyton when I was a young girl out that way. Near us was a small area of land with broken fences where once a small church had stood, serving the people of this local area, where now along the road on which our place was situated a new group of migrants, Italian ones, were market gardening and setting their own take on the landscape. Now public housing estates do the same in those places.

miltonf
miltonf
June 22, 2023 6:18 pm

Love your travel logs Calli-more great reasons to read the cat.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 22, 2023 6:19 pm

sTans strapping himself to his indingenousness explained…
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jun/22/insiders-the-only-abc-current-affairs-show-to-grow-broadcast-audience-as-qa-numbers-collapse
Insiders is the only ABC current affairs show to grow its broadcast audience since 2019, lifting its TV numbers by 4% while Q+A dropped by 36% and Four Corners by 19%, as audiences abandoned traditional broadcast television.

The show, now in its 21st year, has bucked the trend which has seen Australian Story fall by 16% between 2019 and 2022; Foreign Correspondent by 22% and 7.30 by 4%, according to an internal presentation for executives seen by Guardian Australia.

The program to lose the biggest chunk of its audience is Q+A, which has dropped by 36% in three years – and a dramatic 58% since 2016 – and was moved from Monday to Thursday and back to Monday in an attempt to find an audience. Stan Grant, who was appointed full-time host a year ago, is on leave and it is not clear if he will return.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2023 6:19 pm

I was watching that video of the manufacture of the submersible can yesterday.
I preface this by saying I am a self-appointed amateur shed engineer, used to making things that fail (which may or may not match the qualifications of the grads employed on this project).
Knowing what we know now, three things struck me:-
1. The design of the junction between the carbon fibre tube and the titanium collars;
2. What is the construction of the tapered tail?;
3. The video of them winding on the carbon fibre shows a “bulge” around the middle, a bit like string wound roughly onto a stick. The winding on mechanism looked agricultural at best. I would imagine materials engineers would have very precise layering techniques to maximise strength – the tension of the fibre as it is laid up, relative angles of alternate layers, etc.

areff
areff
June 22, 2023 6:19 pm

Bloke who mows my lawn was moving slow today, looking weary and haggard.

What’s up?

“Auto-immune symptoms, rheumatism”

Sympathy expressed.

“It started about a month after the second vaxx.”

People need to go to jail for this global outrage.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
June 22, 2023 6:22 pm

I enjoyed him in Murder She Wrote.

I do too P, he was such a delightful rascal as Dennis Stanton. The backstory of his character was very poignant.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 22, 2023 6:23 pm

So…Cymry is the country and Cymru are the people, right?

I seem to remember Nennius(?) telling a story about a battle between a red dragon and a white dragon, which the red one won. The red dragon of Wales, and this all the ancient Britons who had lately been so diminished by others.

That is probably an extremely mangled recollection.

bons
bons
June 22, 2023 6:24 pm

Wales is a classic example of why we must develop a culture that openly examines every initiative proposed by the elite.
Blair’s devolution was ignored by the Welsh people who failed to take it seriously and certainly did not study the potential consequences. Few voted.
The consequence was a country ruled by school teachers and public servants who have made it impossible for them to be turned out.
QLD and WA are more sophisticated. They implement tyrannical policy in secret which avoids all that messy public review and debate.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2023 6:24 pm

Lysander says:
June 22, 2023 at 6:02 pm

Terrible. Ridsdale. But at least they didn’t try link it to Pell again…

Number 72, eh?
Gerald doesn’t go with guilty or not guilty any more.
He just enters a plea of “probably”.

miltonf
miltonf
June 22, 2023 6:28 pm

The consequence was a country ruled by school teachers and public servants who have made it impossible for them to be turned out.

which is probably what bLIAR intended all along- ‘job’ creation for marxist trash

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 22, 2023 6:28 pm

12 (adults & kids) in a 2 bedroom joint is considered the optimum number ……..

Yep. Quite like the old style Soviets. You got a room for a whole family. So that makes ten in a two bedder, but sticking two extras in the sitting room wouldn’t have been regarded as unlikely. Under the table would be a possibility, after the evening meal. Families sometimes also cooked and ate in their one room. Bigger than most caravans, so who could complain? And warmer than a tent.

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 22, 2023 6:31 pm

Time for gardening leave:

The associate editor of niche news website Crikey has posted a series of disgusting social media comments mocking the five men trapped on the Titan submersible.

While the world waited for news of the vessel’s fate, Cam Wilson chose to joke about how the missing adventurers might be spending what could be their last hours.

‘If you were stuck in this doomed, lost submarine, what would you do for you last 48 hours of oxygen,’ Wilson tweeted on Tuesday afternoon.

Two hours later he answered his own question with a follow-up comment: ‘A lot of you said j***ing off. The question I put to you is: What’s stopping you now?’

In another tweet that day, Wilson said: ‘It’s time to disrupt the doomed submarine market.

‘Those fat cats have had it too good for too long. I’m undercutting them by offering to cut off your oxygen supply and turn off the lights for a mere $240k.’

Wilson, an alumnus of $37,000-a-year private school Knox Grammar, primarily covers ‘internet culture and tech’ for Crikey and has previously worked for the ABC.

On Tuesday night Wilson was at it again, this time posting: ‘Gotta say, boarding a submarine for 250K only to die from suffocation in the depths of the oceans 96 hours later is NOT very padam padam.’

That last phrase is an onomatopoeic rendering of a beating heart, as well as the title of Kylie Minogue’s latest hit single, and has since taken on variously defined positive meanings.

Daily Mail

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2023 6:33 pm

miltonf says:
June 22, 2023 at 6:18 pm

Love your travel logs Calli-more great reasons to read the cat.

Yes, agreed.
As I said yesterday, there is no need to characterise Cat travelogues as “garbage”.
Lizzie’s Church rescue, calli’s Kyoto sewing needle shop, OldOzzie’s car works tours … some may love them, some may not.
If you don’t, scroll on.
I have gleaned many useful travel nuggets from reading the Cat, and I trust them, knowing they are genuine heartfelt reviews with no axe to grind.
I’d hate to see people badgered out of posting their travel experiences here.

miltonf
miltonf
June 22, 2023 6:39 pm

Wilson, an alumnus of $37,000-a-year private school Knox Grammar, primarily covers ‘internet culture and tech’ for Crikey and has previously worked for the ABC.

how come snottie nosed private skools on the north shore turn out the most repulsive leftist imaginable
?

Ed Case
Ed Case
June 22, 2023 6:41 pm

Barry Cable is entitled to the Presumption Of Innocence, you know?

BTW, how did going to The Cops work out for those girls?
35 years later, they had to sue him in Civil Court to get any justice.

miltonf
miltonf
June 22, 2023 6:42 pm

Particularly Knox and Barker

Tom
Tom
June 22, 2023 6:42 pm

QLD and WA are more sophisticated. They implement tyrannical policy in secret which avoids all that messy public review and debate.

It’s simpler than that: governments are anti-competitive monopolies that use police forces to enforce their monopolies and, because they’re monopolies, it costs them 2-3 more to provide services than it would for competitive private businesses.

Because they’re run by public service bureaucrats who know nothing about efficiency, competition and running businesses, governments rip off taxpayers with immunity because Australian taxpayers are too dumb to identify the problem — governments and monopolies.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2023 6:42 pm

Mother Lodesays:

June 22, 2023 at 5:36 pm

Been working (haruspicy on a rather elaborate spreadsheet – but the entrails were not promising).

Haruspicy?
Is that word of the day or something?
Fourth time I’ve heard it today.

Roger
Roger
June 22, 2023 6:43 pm

I spoke with a WA MP last night and the rage over the ACHA bill is huge. Liebor aint backing down though…

Let’s see. The Cookie Monster has found his inner totalitarian since Sneakers got his marching orders.

Cook’s wife is indigenous, I believe.

miltonf
miltonf
June 22, 2023 6:45 pm

Australian taxpayers are too dumb to identify the problem

oh really?- they have no effing choice.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 22, 2023 6:45 pm

I seem to remember Nennius(?) telling a story about a battle between a red dragon and a white dragon, which the red one won. The red dragon of Wales, and this all the ancient Britons who had lately been so diminished by others.

Historia Brittonum, dated circa 829. A carefully put together collation that used folkloric material to pursue the political interests of Gwynedd over Powys at that time. Said by ‘Nennius’ to be simply his dumped ‘heap’, but clearly heavily curated material. Well covered by Manchester historian, Nicholas Higham. The red and white dragon story concerned Vortigern vs Merlin Emrys, a ‘wise child’, who represented Christian Wales. Vortigern was a take on Gildas’ Superbus Tyrannus, in Welsh known as Guarthegern (in the Pillar of Eliseg, which you can still visit as I did if you brave a fence and a bull in the Valley of Llangollin. A cypher of the old All-Father in my view. He was harassed and demolished by Ambrosius (another cypher, but a Christian one) and Germanus (an early Christian saint).

I am using this cold time to write some of this stuff up. Come here to get away from it, and lookee.
Calli is in Wales and all things Welsh are on the table.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 22, 2023 6:47 pm

Is that word of the day or something?
Fourth time I’ve heard it today.

Seriously?

Well I suppose in a country with a lot of farms access to white bulls, goats, and chickens is not to be marvelled at.

Ed Case
Ed Case
June 22, 2023 6:48 pm

Barry Cable is also indigenous, I believe.
When’s he getting turfed from the Indigenous Hall Of Fame?

Pogria
Pogria
June 22, 2023 6:51 pm

Lizzie, The Drover’s Wife is one of my favourite Lawson stories. The part where she has the whole family sleep on the table because a snake has made its way into the house is memorable. She stayed awake all night until the snake showed itself and she despatched it without fear, while hanging onto her precious dog who wanted to kill the snake himself. She can’t let him do it because the dog is too precious as a working guard dog to risk losing him to snake bite.
The name of the dog always made me smile, Alligator Desolation. Tod for short.

Nemesis is my absolute favourite Henry Lawson story. Can never read it without becoming teary.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 22, 2023 6:55 pm

Cook’s wife is indigenous, I believe.

The lady describes herself as a “proud Murri woman, from Queensland,” with a grandmother who was one of the Stolen Generations.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 22, 2023 6:57 pm

Thanks, Liz.

We must hope Calli does not come back fully trained in Llap Goch.

A core tenet of Llap Goch:

It is an ANCIENT Welsh ART based on a BRILLIANTLY simple I-D-E-A, which is a SECRET. The best form of DEFENCE is ATTACK (Clausewitz) and the most VITAL element of ATTACK is SURPRISE (Oscar HAMMERstein). Therefore, the BEST way to protect yourself AGAINST any ASSAILANT is to ATTACK him before he attacks YOU… Or BETTER… BEFORE the THOUGHT of doing so has EVEN OCCURRED TO HIM!!! SO YOU MAY BE ABLE TO RENDER YOUR ASSAILANT UNCONSCIOUS BEFORE he is EVEN aware of your very existence!

P
P
June 22, 2023 6:57 pm

Senate committee poised to examine if ACT government should hold inquiry into Calvary Hospital takeover
Posted 1h ago, updated 1m ago

A previous push for the Senate to inquire into the takeover itself was voted down last week.

But on Thursday, Senator Canavan’s motion was passed with the support of the Greens.

amortiser
amortiser
June 22, 2023 6:57 pm

Sancho Panzer says:
June 22, 2023 at 6:24 pm
Lysander says:
June 22, 2023 at 6:02 pm

Terrible. Ridsdale. But at least they didn’t try link it to Pell again…
Number 72, eh?
Gerald doesn’t go with guilty or not guilty any more.
He just enters a plea of “probably”.

Risdale got extra for grabbing the complainant’s bicep. Really?

Delta A
Delta A
June 22, 2023 7:02 pm

Cold, wet and windy today; brings out my latent Masterchef.

Pumpkin and leek soup for lunch, dinner prep for my dear old Dad’s creamed chicken recipe, hot sausage rolls for the grandies when they come in cold and wet after school and homemade bacon, oats and peanut butter biscuits for the doggos.

Tomorrow’s forecast is wet and cold, too. I’m thinking cabbage and bacon soup for lunch, leftover veg patties for the after school crowd, dinner of slow-cooked pork loin with mushrooms and apples and steamed raspberry jam pud for dessert.

If we don’t get some global warming soon we’re all gonna bust the bathroom scales.

bons
bons
June 22, 2023 7:07 pm

Set another place. I’ll be there shortly.

cohenite
June 22, 2023 7:08 pm

I spoke with a WA MP last night and the rage over the ACHA bill is huge. Liebor aint backing down though…

Let’s see. The Cookie Monster has found his inner totalitarian since Sneakers got his marching orders.

Cook’s wife is indigenous, I believe.

Credlin had the Farmers’ guy on and this legislation is ridiculous even by liar standards. If some poor cocky gets a dusty 3rd nations on there to ascertain whether any culture is there, at $160 PH, it doesn’t mean, even if the dusty grifter gives the ok, that further down the track some other dusty doesn’t come onto the property to claim there was a cultural presence either overlooked at the time or which has settled in since the first go ahead. The fact that a cultural presence can be spiritual and have no physical presence makes this one of the great con jobs.

Time to oil the .303s.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
June 22, 2023 7:09 pm

Thanks Lizzie if it was me you replied to from last night.

Landed late and got the itritating geneuflection to the 3rd waves of Australian migration… FFS…

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 22, 2023 7:10 pm

What do you call this?

Insiders is the only ABC current affairs show to grow its broadcast audience since 2019, lifting its TV numbers by 4% while Q+A dropped by 36% and Four Corners by 19%, as audiences abandoned traditional broadcast television.

The show, now in its 21st year, has bucked the trend which has seen Australian Story fall by 16% between 2019 and 2022; Foreign Correspondent by 22% and 7.30 by 4%, according to an internal presentation for executives seen by Guardian Australia.

The program to lose the biggest chunk of its audience is Q+A, which has dropped by 36% in three years – and a dramatic 58% since 2016 – and was moved from Monday to Thursday and back to Monday in an attempt to find an audience.

A bloody good start.

Now take the whole thing to its logical conclusion, as so eloquently articulated by Rabz.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 22, 2023 7:13 pm

miltonfsays:
June 22, 2023 at 6:28 pm
The consequence was a country ruled by school teachers and public servants who have made it impossible for them to be turned out.

which is probably what bLIAR intended all along- ‘job’ creation for marxist trash

See also the ACT Town Council.

miltonf
miltonf
June 22, 2023 7:17 pm

absolutely BJ-wasn’t the canbra electoral system called d’Hondt? DON’T in other words.

Roger
Roger
June 22, 2023 7:18 pm

What do you call this?

Insiders is the only ABC current affairs show to grow its broadcast audience since 2019, lifting its TV numbers by 4% while Q+A dropped by 36% and Four Corners by 19%, as audiences abandoned traditional broadcast television.

I’ll say it again…the ABC as we know it will be gone by 2030.

miltonf
miltonf
June 22, 2023 7:18 pm

I suppose I have to say in Canbra’s defense that they never wanted it anyway but pollimuppetts need sinecures.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 22, 2023 7:19 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
June 22, 2023 at 6:55 pm
Cook’s wife is indigenous, I believe.

The lady describes herself as a “proud Murri woman, from Queensland,” with a grandmother who was one of the [alleged] Stolen Generations.

I have inserted the word that you inadvertently missed.

Frank
Frank
June 22, 2023 7:20 pm

I have heard it said that some chaps borrow a dog for their dating app photos.

Only the non tech inclined ones, all the rest use photoshop. For everything, just like the ladies.

miltonf
miltonf
June 22, 2023 7:25 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 22, 2023 7:25 pm

I have inserted the word that you inadvertently missed.

Good point. The younger generation around here are on about how the Voice means they’ll be compensated for being part of the Stolen Generation. None of them were born, for several years after the last of those children were removed,

MatrixTransform
June 22, 2023 7:28 pm

Look up and examine reality. Touch grass

or do what mUnty does

… touch yourself and complain that the aggregate fascist made you do it

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2023 7:35 pm

Risdale got extra for grabbing the complainant’s bicep. Really?

Err, not quite.
A little more to it than that.
Purely academic in terms of sentencing.
He is in until 2027 anyway, but I don’t think he will last that long.
I wonder if it would be “all too hard” for Hunchback if a bill came before the Parliament to keep Ridsdale in for life, rather than Denyer.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 22, 2023 7:36 pm

Credlin had the Farmers’ guy on and this legislation is ridiculous even by liar standards.

Back when I “had the farm”, there was Government money available for fencing off salt affected ground, and planting that ground to fodder shrubs. We were told it would help our case, if we had asked permission of the “traditional owners” of the land.

The “traditional owners” of the land lived hundreds of kilometers away, and had never set foot on the property in their lives.

Indolent
Indolent
June 22, 2023 7:37 pm
duncanm
duncanm
June 22, 2023 7:38 pm

Kerri Judd, KC, said there was no reasonable chance of convicting those involved with the long-running saga

would that be because some of the prosecutors that used Gobbo information (and did or should have known where it came from) are now Vic judges ?
It’ll all be buried.. deep.. in the warehouse with Wolfman’s Holy Grail.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 22, 2023 7:39 pm

Floparoos! How weird that a woke Little Mermaid and a full-on qwerty animated movie would bomb like Tsar Bomba. Unthunkable!

Disney Chief Diversity Officer Latondra Newton Quits After Pair Of Box Office Bombs (22 Jun)

Newton’s departure follows two high-profile ultra-woke box office bombs. “The Little Mermaid,” which has been a box office failure after its release last month, featured Black American singer Halle Bailey as Princess Ariel, highlighting the woke company’s desperate attempts to rewrite history. The movie needs to gross over $560 million to reach its production and marketing threshold.

This was followed by an even more catastrophic release of the Disney Pixar movie Elemental that features a non-binary character using they/them pronouns; The production, which also features characters ‘tackling’ racism and xenophobia, ranks as one of the lowest box office debuts for a Pixar movie ever. They spent around $200 million making it. It opened with a $29.5 million recoup.

Probably would’ve gone better if they’d had a younger actress to play the little mermaid. Haile Berry is ok, but at age 56 she is a little old mermaid.

I’m sad that Disney has decided to commit suicide like this. They did so much good stuff before they went insane.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 22, 2023 7:44 pm

Oops, sorry my mistake. I thought the Little Mermaid was Halle Berry, she’s actually Halle Bailey, who is only 23 not 56. As you were, I’ll just hide under a carpet in ignominy. Still sounds like a crap movie but.

Indolent
Indolent
June 22, 2023 7:46 pm
Rabz
June 22, 2023 7:47 pm

Peanuts at its best:

Tell her …”

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 22, 2023 7:49 pm

We looked after a small poodle recently for a couple of weeks. Really smart. Hadn’t been trained very well. Second day was doing everything I commanded and seemed eager to please. Recommend one. I still prefer Terriers. I like the hair and sad face. My mutt is perfect, on his last legs. He’s 16.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
June 22, 2023 7:52 pm

Wow some Sydney tpt worker at Circular Quay yelled some incomprehensible babble. Only thing I understood was the whistle…

Now looking at that monstrosity gunking up Benelong Point blocking full veiw of the opera house. How that was allowed is beyond me. Lots of brown paper bags perhaps?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 22, 2023 7:56 pm

Do young Australians actually know who Henry Lawson is. I’ve read all his work. Loved it.

Frank
Frank
June 22, 2023 7:56 pm

Met a Border Collie today that has a beanbag set up in the butchers shop. Beautiful animal that also clearly won the lottery of life.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2023 7:59 pm

I’ll say it again…the ABC as we know it will be gone by 2030.

Yes, but the Liars won’t let it wither and die.
In typical fashion they will blame the decline on Mudrock and insist that a crimp be put in place to “control the misinformation coming from the Grampians Nazis in the Mudrock press”.
We have already seen where they want to go with the redundancies last week … the Future is Digital! But curating content on Twatter and Insta will not be enough. I predict the launch of a wholly ABC owned social media platform. Content will be carefully controlled to ensure no “hate speech” and to be sure “balanced and nuanced messages aren’t lost in a cacophony of populist bigotry”.
So, pretty much like a digital version of Q&A.

miltonf
miltonf
June 22, 2023 8:02 pm

I reckon the rotten stinking ABC will be kept going on taxpayer life support for many years in the same way the deep state keeps the old thief going.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2023 8:05 pm

duncanmsays:

June 22, 2023 at 7:38 pm

Kerri Judd, KC, said there was no reasonable chance of convicting those involved with the long-running saga

would that be because some of the prosecutors that used Gobbo information (and did or should have known where it came from) are now Vic judges ?

This has got Sir Humphrey written all over it.
“Never start an enquiry if you don’t know the outcome”.
This could go anywhere.
And not just legal eagles.
Improper connections between politicians and VikPlod/DPP, albeit incidental to the Gobbo case, would no doubt be exposed.

Cassie of Sydney
June 22, 2023 8:08 pm

In my family we’ve only ever had four breeds of dogs…kelpies, cattle dogs, Australian terriers and poodles. All incredibly smart breeds, and all eccentric and brimming with character. My mother has always loved poodles, her last poodle sadly died two years ago of old age, and it devastated Mum. Of course the poodle would have her monthly grooming at a posh eastern suburbs dog salon.

My grandfather’s kelpie was notorious in the Shire, he was the bane of the Shire council dog catcher, and he always got the better of the dog catcher, still makes me laugh. My grandfather adored him.

MatrixTransform
June 22, 2023 8:15 pm

better than vegemite on toast

if you cut the crusts of the technical term is bogan hors d’oeuvres

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 22, 2023 8:17 pm

how come snottie nosed private skools on the north shore turn out the most repulsive leftist imaginable

As always, failure to bully and beat up enough.

shatterzzz
June 22, 2023 8:24 pm

If your trip getz you up into my neck of the woods, Calli, this outdoor museum is well worth a few hours .. Beamish .. a life size re-creation of 19th century Tyneside .. old buildings taken down across Tyneside and rebuilt to create a village/town atmosphere plus steam trains, trams, buses and a trip down a mine shaft ……
https://www.beamish.org.uk/

Black Ball
Black Ball
June 22, 2023 8:35 pm

I’m sure Cats and Kittehs are aware anyway, but I see Donald Trump Jr is having events with Nigel Farage and Alex Antic included. Be well worth a look.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 22, 2023 8:37 pm

Linda Burney was talking yesterday about 30 Indigenous people living in a 2 bedroom unit she visited.

Looxury.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2023 8:37 pm

H B Bearsays:

June 22, 2023 at 8:17 pm

how come snottie nosed private skools on the north shore turn out the most repulsive leftist imaginable

As always, failure to bully and beat up enough.

I normally don’t like references to prahvate schools being thrown into the mix, but I will make an exception when one of these chinless wonders adopts the “stickin’ it to da man” wukkin class shtick.
I remember seeing a lot of it when the Occupy Melbourne stuff was going on. Many angst ridden offspring of barristers and surgeons complaining about “the 1%, yah” in unmistakable Scotch-Brahton accents.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
June 22, 2023 8:39 pm
Delta A
Delta A
June 22, 2023 8:40 pm

Of course the poodle would have her monthly grooming at a posh eastern suburbs dog salon.

Exactly the same with our prissy poodle.

Kelpie pup basks in his disgusting BO and menu choices.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
June 22, 2023 8:46 pm

One of the hardest days in my life was taking my dog to the vet to be put down.

I’d got her from a barmaid at the pub I worked at when I was 18 -she was moving and couldn’t take the dog. A Kelpie cross.

17 years later I had to take her to the Vet, couldn’t eat and drink – the girl at the counter took one look at me with tears running down my face and just said “give her here, we’ll look after her”.

I went outside and sat behind the wheel of my XC Panel Van and looked at the passenger seat knowing my mate would never sit there again – bawled my eyes out.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 22, 2023 8:47 pm

Do young Australians actually know who Henry Lawson is.

The Loaded Dog is still one of the funniest short stories ever written.

Real Deal
Real Deal
June 22, 2023 8:52 pm

Old Ozzie mentioned beagles earlier. We inherited an unwanted female a few years ago. We haven’t had dogs for years but this one is adorable, though a big barker with a uncharacteristic deep bark. Everyone stops to pat her as they walk past.

All this talk about puppy dogs reminds me of all the local dogs that ran free around our primary school in the mid 70s. We kids would adore them and when the school brought the council dog catcher around, us kids would hide the dogs until he went away. I can’t imagine that would be allowed today.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 22, 2023 8:52 pm

One of the hardest days in my life was taking my dog to the vet to be put down.

Curious – whenever one of Mme Zulu’s cats has to be put down, it’s my job to take the beastie to the vet…

Black Ball
Black Ball
June 22, 2023 8:52 pm

Well well, Michael Warner reports in the Hun:

Lawyers for cyclist Ryan Meuleman have launched a Supreme Court damages claim in a dramatic escalation of the Daniel and Catherine Andrews car crash dispute.

The Herald Sun can reveal Ryan’s legal team are suing major law firm Slater & Gordon for failing to conduct “a full and proper investigation into the circumstances” of the near-fatal 2013 Blairgowrie smash.

The Premier and his wife, as well as their children, could be called to give evidence if the case proceeds to court.

In a statement of claim lodged on Thursday, Slater & Gordon, a Labor-aligned practice, is accused of failing to act in the best interests of the then-teenage bike rider and breaching its duty of care and obligations to him when negotiating his $80,000 Transport Accident Commission compensation payout.

“Had he (Ryan) been properly advised and had the claim been prepared with due, skill and diligence he could have obtained judgement and/or settlement substantially exceeding the settlement amount,” the claim says.

“The defendant (Slater & Gordon) knew or ought to have known that … the plaintiff (Ryan) suffered injuries by reason of the negligence of the driver of the car which struck his bike in the accident.”

The document also accuses Slater & Gordon of failing “to properly or at all investigate, evaluate and assess” the accident, including “possible conflicts” between sworn statements made by Mr and Mrs Andrews, Ryan’s version of events and notes taken by a triple-0 operator during the Premier’s emergency phone call from the Blairgowrie scene.

It references a Victoria Police running sheet which states that a triple-0 operator who spoke to Mr Andrews moments after the 2013 collision told officers: “My caller was one who hit PT (patient) … Says PT is around 14. Is CO (complaining of) pain but caller unsure of inj (injury) as has had to walk away to call amb (ambulance)”.

Ryan’s barrister Daryl Dealehr told the Herald Sun: “The exact words on the notes made by the triple-0 operator at the time of the call are; ‘My caller (Andrews) was one who hit PT (Ryan)’.

“Yet weeks later, Andrews tells police a very different story. His exact words were … ‘I want to make it clear – the cyclist hit our vehicle’. Both versions cannot be true.”

The statement of claim also alleges that Slater & Gordon failed to “identify the correct defendant(s) in the claim”.

The Premier and his wife have always claimed that Catherine was driving the car and that “the cyclist hit our car”.

But Mr Dealehr said the triple-0 note “could suggest Mr Andrews, and not his wife, was the driver of the car at the time of the accident”.

Victoria Police “Traffic Incident System” notes taken four days after the crash, also referenced in the court claim, reveal Ryan’s father Peter “stated that he did his own door knock and S/T (spoke to) a male who stated he heard the vehicle speed around the corner and bowl over his son”.

Legal sources have told the Herald Sun that witnesses who could be called if the matter proceeds to court are likely to include Mr and Mrs Andrews, their now adult and teenage children, police at the scene that day, the triple-0 operator who received the call from Mr Andrews as well as any witnesses who may have information relevant to the case.

Mr Dealehr said he had been assured that “under normal circumstances, this triple-0 recording will still exist, which is fortunate given its importance in this matter”.

“It is important that Slater & Gordon confirms it asked to hear the audio recording on this triple-0 call which was made by Mr Andrews moments after the crash,” he said.

“There is also no evidence I am aware of to suggest the investigating police ever asked to hear this triple-0 call.”

In April, the Herald Sun revealed a bombshell Ambulance Victoria report which detailed how the Andrews’ Ford Territory “struck” Ryan while “travelling at 40 to 60kmph” in a Blairgowrie back street on January 7, 2013, contradicting the Premier’s claims that their vehicle was “T-boned” by the bike.

The “Patient Care Report” – made by paramedics who attended the crash scene and buried for a decade – was at odds with the ­Andrews’ claims they came to a “complete stop” and “turned right from a stationary ­position” just ­“moments” before the collision.

Ryan has always insisted the ­Andrews’ car was “speeding” and “seemed to come out of nowhere” when he was struck 17m on from the Melbourne Rd and Ridley St intersection in Blairgowrie.

Secret police photographs uncovered by the Herald Sun last November revealed the extent of the damage to the front of the Andrews’ family car and its windscreen, prompting calls from a former Victorian crown prosecutor for a fresh review of the case.

Police also failed to use breathalysers at the scene.

Ryan – now 25 – and his family have condemned Mr Andrews, the then-opposition leader, for leaving the scene after calling triple-0.

Questions over why the damaged vehicle was allowed to be driven away from the crash site have also been raised.

“The car should never have been allowed to leave the scene, for two reasons: one is, it was a very serious incident and needed proper forensic assessment and two, the car was unroadworthy,” former Police Chief Commissioner Kel Glare said in April.

The family have also raised concerns over the TAC compensation process involving Slater & Gordon, during which Ryan said he was warned he could never comment on the incident.

Both of his parents insist they never engaged the law firm.

Crossie
Crossie
June 22, 2023 8:53 pm

Cook’s wife is indigenous, I believe.

The lady describes herself as a “proud Murri woman, from Queensland,” with a grandmother who was one of the [alleged] Stolen Generations.

I have inserted the word that you inadvertently missed.

I will add another correction, not stolen but rescued.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
June 22, 2023 8:54 pm
Dragnet
Dragnet
June 22, 2023 8:57 pm

Barking Toad @ 8.46
I know how you feel. In Feb 2009 took my aged incapacitated dachshund X to the vet for the green dream. 6 months later took my similarly aged and incapacitated Chihuahua X for the same. I held their paws until the jabs did their work, and the final whimpers of expiration were expressed.
In between the two events my Mum died
I’ve never owned a dog since.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 22, 2023 8:57 pm

“Daily Mail” Funny, I never thought I’d give Jackie Lambie the time of day…..

Jacqui Lambie tears into Lidia Thorpe in an astonishing Parliament bust-up: ‘I will not be called a racist’

Jacqui Lambie slams Lidia Thorpe for calling her ‘a racist’
It comes as an income management bill was put to the senate

Real Deal
Real Deal
June 22, 2023 8:58 pm

Toad earlier

I went outside and sat behind the wheel of my XC Panel Van and looked at the passenger seat knowing my mate would never sit there again – bawled my eyes out.

Pathos, Toad. I think a lot of people her would have similar stories. When I was 16, I took my 13 year old corgi cross to the vets to be put down. Buckets of tears. 43 years later I still miss that clever and resourceful dog. Thanks for telling that sad story.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2023 9:02 pm

Ed Case says:
June 22, 2023 at 6:41 pm

Barry Cable is entitled to the Presumption Of Innocence, you know?

You are confusing yourself Googlery.
Let me explain.
The Presumption of Innocence applies in Criminal Trials in Courts of Law. Let’s say … I don’t know … maybe a rape trial in the ACT Supreme Court where the evidence is flimsy, for example.
The Presumption of Innocence does not apply in granting or rescinding membership of sporting Halls of Fame.
In fact, it may surprise you to know that, when they talk about “Halls of Fame”, there aren’t even any actual halls involved. It’s just a list in someone’s bottom drawer.
You’re welcome.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
June 22, 2023 9:03 pm

ABC priorities again. An uncritical piece of hagiography about a departed titan of the Victorian Socialist Left:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-22/former-victorian-labor-mp-snappy-tom-roper-dies-aged-78/102510824

And of course they are all over the latest Ridsdale story. No complaint about that, but when are they ever going to report on Jon Stephens, the 1800+ cases in Victorian state schools, etc etc?

And they are all over that creep the Little Pebble. But their vague anti-Catholic smears conveniently forget to tell us that the creep was excommunicated and denounced by the local bishop – that good man Peter Ingham, who was 1000% on Precious Little and Rotten Ronnie Mulkearns.

Crossie
Crossie
June 22, 2023 9:04 pm

Indolent says:
June 22, 2023 at 7:36 pm
Riley Gaines effortlessly fact-checks LGBTQ+ activist’s testimony on trans athletes at Senate Judiciary

That young lady is very brave and savvy, she knows her stuff which is something lefties don’t bother about. They think if they say it then it must be true.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 22, 2023 9:17 pm

I will add another correction, not stolen but rescued.

An old friend of the family – now gone to God – spent years of his life as an officer in the old Native Welfare Department, working in Third World shitholes, for the benefit of the Indigenous. Part of his job was recommending that parents were incapable of caring for their children, and those children be removed.

His children were quite adamant “None of those children were taken away, except as the last resort!”

Crossie
Crossie
June 22, 2023 9:17 pm

There is another word none of our journalists are able to pronounce properly, this time it’s Newfoundland. They say it like it’s three separate words.

Cassie of Sydney
June 22, 2023 9:17 pm

Here in Sydney today, at NSW Parliament House, the new Lib Dem MLA John Ruddick hosted an event where Kath Deves, Sall Grover, and other women spoke in favour of women’s rights. “Neo-Nazi” (sarcasm alert) Moira Deeming also spoke.

Of course, the event in parliament house was gatecrashed by transperverts and their useful idiotic allies, all shouting, screaming and threatening the women and men in attendance.

Here’s Sall Grover’s magnificent speech today…..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw0hAtTNPTw

Tonight Peta Credlin spoke about this event on Sky, and she had on Moira and Nicolle Flint. Flint said that Julia Gillard is to blame for “actual women having less rights than transwomen” because in 2013 it was the Gillard government that passed the Gender Recognition Act. This is all true, but it begs the question, wasn’t there a Coalition government from 2013 to 2022? If so, I ask, why didn’t the Coalition government repeal Gillard’s Gender Recognition Act?

Crossie
Crossie
June 22, 2023 9:21 pm

My Canadian relatives refer to Newfoundland simply as Newfie, much like we say Tassie.

miltonf
miltonf
June 22, 2023 9:21 pm

So TAC just happened to engage Slugs and Grubbs. My God this whole stinks to high heaven.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
June 22, 2023 9:24 pm
miltonf
miltonf
June 22, 2023 9:24 pm

This is all true, but it begs the question, wasn’t there a Coalition government from 2013 to 2022?

same place they where 1996 to 2007 with Lavarch’s assault on free speech

Crossie
Crossie
June 22, 2023 9:24 pm

Flint said that Julia Gillard is to blame for “actual women having less rights than transwomen” because in 2013 it was the Gillard government that passed the Gender Recognition Act. This is all true, but it begs the question, wasn’t there a Coalition government from 2013 to 2022? If so, I ask, why didn’t the Coalition government repeal Gillard’s Gender Recognition Act?

Nicole Flint is too polite to sink the boot in the way it has been sunk into her. ScoMo could never be bothered defending her when she was attacked by the snarling pack of dogs from the other side of the chamber.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2023 9:29 pm

Black Ball at 8:52.
That is yuuuge.
Including Slugs and Bugs as defendants, with the obvious implication that they ran dead on their client in solidarity with Hunchback.
I wonder who pushed them towards Slugs and Bugs in the first place.
I mean, if I had any litigation involving a Liars politician or a union, I wouldn’t go near Slugs and Bugs or Maurice Blackburn.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 22, 2023 9:34 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTfVSIXr6U0

Here’s the most politically incorrect piece of music you’ll hear in a long time….

miltonf
miltonf
June 22, 2023 9:34 pm
miltonf
miltonf
June 22, 2023 9:36 pm

The more I look at Howard’s record and particularly his dalliance with Trumble, I realize what a phony he is.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 22, 2023 9:56 pm

Thancho when you are in Osaka a day trip to Himeji Castle and Mt Shosha Temple are well worth it. Mt Shosha featured in The Last Samurai. There is a cable car to get you there. I walked the pilgrims trail. Caught the cable down.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 22, 2023 9:58 pm

Miltonf I certainly was taken in by him for quite a while.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 22, 2023 10:03 pm

The more I look at Howard’s record and particularly his dalliance with Trumble, I realize what a phony he is.

I just see he and Malcolm Fraser as tarred with the same brush….

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
June 22, 2023 10:17 pm

Barking Toadsays:
June 22, 2023 at 8:46 pm
Thanks for sharing – loss of four-legged friends can be felt deeply and for a long time. I still miss our Stellar who was so patient and wonderful with our disabled son

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
June 22, 2023 10:18 pm

works on protocols with META/Facebook to block livestreams of protests the government deems illegal or dangerous.

It’ll be the Tiananmen Square all over again.
Reports that something happened in Martin Place yesterday are malicious rumours only circulating amongst seditious troublemakers. Now crossing to tonight’s public execution…

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2023 10:20 pm

Thanks GreyRanga but Osaka isn’t on our itinerary.
I think Rosie said she was going there, but.
As I say, all tips welcome, because I doubt this will be our last trip there.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2023 10:25 pm

miltonfsays:

June 22, 2023 at 9:21 pm

So TAC just happened to engage Slugs and Grubbs. My God this whole stinks to high heaven.

Being the highly skilled driver that I am, I have never had any interaction with the TAC.
However, I think you can choose your own lawyer.
I just wonder whether the family were incredibly naive about ALP politics and their affiliated lawyers, or someone steered them that way.

Dot
Dot
June 22, 2023 10:29 pm

It’s amazing that monty tried to tell us that capital investment isn’t related to productivity and productivity isn’t related to wages.

The trend of capital investment tracks productivity well and the smoothed productivity data tracks to hourly wages.

What is more amazing is the apparent alternative – intentionally high inflation (we’re told FP and MP do not matter), make work programmes, anti-trust for the sake of it (not outcomes-based), bilateral monopolies in labour markets and for goods and services with a social licence and no regard for capital accumulation, human capital development, employment on costs, business reinvestment rates and closed markets to foreign direct investors.

Bruce in WA
June 22, 2023 10:31 pm

The girl with next door looks.

Can You Read My Mind – Cavill Superman & Amy Adams’ Lois Lane

Beautiful — the music and the lady. Amy Adams also has (or had) one of the tightest butts in Hollywood.

MatrixTransform
June 22, 2023 10:34 pm

Here’s Sall Grover’s magnificent speech today…..

good speech from Sall.
much common sense and quite brave considering the political weight being thrown against her

thing is I’m old enough to remember when men-only spaces were under attack from poli-fem

and how for a good portion of my life, my very being and essence have been in their cross-hairs

just like youse girly-girls are under attack right now

I’m calling this a learning-moment

Indolent
Indolent
June 22, 2023 10:46 pm
Indolent
Indolent
June 22, 2023 10:49 pm
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 22, 2023 11:03 pm

Big day in smallgoods today.

Pleasing to see that bonhomie standards have been maintained.,

JC
JC
June 22, 2023 11:08 pm

and how for a good portion of my life, my very being and essence have been in their cross-hairs

Drama queen alert.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
June 22, 2023 11:14 pm

Dog watching…
this little bloke looks like a great sort. To my eye, he’s a cross with a Kelpie. Bit broader in the molars and thicker limbed.
…yes, I had tried to work it out with the owner, but I got the wrong vibe from her, and sworn to mine wife that I wouldn’t get a dog unseen from any source which was not simpatico with our beliefs about pets.
But… any Cats in Adelaide, who need a pup… I reckon he’d be an ace.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 22, 2023 11:16 pm

Needs news hamsters though. The current lot are mOntying their way to the grave.

calli
calli
June 22, 2023 11:17 pm

Thanks for the Mach Loop footage, Steve. Forgot to mention we saw (and heard) one of jets scream by on our Snowdon circuit, plus what looked suspiciously like one of the old Hercs weaving in and out.

The Bryn Celli Ddu chamber was worth the walk. It sits in a mound in front of a vast milking shed…the great herd ambled past us on their way to the second milking for the day. Four thousand years ago, in the same field, some humans were buried, and the window of the chamber was aligned to the rising midsummer sun. I went in, the place was garnished with flowers for the event.

But time goes on and the event cattle do what they always do. Munch the long green grass, low to be milked and so the cycle continues.

Copper was mined on Anglesea – there is a vast scar where the mine once thrived. I will find out more about its history…the Romans had a fort there too so it might go back that far or further.

A lot of my information is gleaned from dog walkers. They seem happy to stop and chat. The dergs, of course, always sidle up to the Beloved for a chin scratch.. they know a soft touch when they see one.

calli
calli
June 22, 2023 11:19 pm

even the cattle

It’s not quite beer o’clock but I might make an exception on account of the heat.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
June 22, 2023 11:21 pm

Thanks Tinta and others who commented on my post about my best dog friend from 35 years ago.

Have a new mate now – yet to turn 1.

A cheeky little bugger but an absolute delight to wake up to each morning.

calli
calli
June 22, 2023 11:22 pm

And Sancho, stop telling Cats that scrolling my travelogues is optional.

I will be giving everyone a test when I return, so start swotting!

MatrixTransform
June 22, 2023 11:28 pm

Drama queen alert

it was only theory

Frank
Frank
June 23, 2023 12:23 am

Pleasing to see that bonhomie standards have been maintained.,

Screw you buddy.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
June 23, 2023 12:25 am

Had to read the piece by Henry Ergas in the Oz twice to get an understanding that he is saying that K Gallagher is a carnt.

A bit long winded is Henry.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
June 23, 2023 12:28 am

Janet A would only have needed a couple of words.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
June 23, 2023 12:28 am

Janet A would only have needed a couple of words.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 23, 2023 12:28 am

I’m sure Cats and Kittehs are aware anyway, but I see Donald Trump Jr is having events with Nigel Farage and Alex Antic included. Be well worth a look.

We booked three weeks ago. Any Cats wanting to chat, please put an asterisk on your name card (if they give them). Otherwise chat around. Say meow.

bons
bons
June 23, 2023 1:47 am

Went off to watch the good old Caxton Street Band this afternoon.
They have been playing for 47 years – amazing. Still great even if sometimes they can’t remember composers’ names.

bons
bons
June 23, 2023 1:58 am

There are of course ‘Jacks’ and then those other submissive, mendicant, dependant dogs.
“Look, you can see that I’m busy”. “I’ll tell when we are going for a walk”. “And don’t stop to talk to those people with their idiot Barbie dogs”. “You can’t even get a growl out of them”.

bons
bons
June 23, 2023 2:09 am

Michael Smith had a clip (Ch 9 I think) of the truckies moving the climate narcissists off the road to Port Botany.
No wonder we are stuffed. The coverage was an advertising campaign for the brave but terrified climate heros confronting the threatening reality of people who actually work.
‘Red Neck’ and ‘Nazi’ weren’t used but the implication was clearly there.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 23, 2023 3:45 am

callisays:

June 22, 2023 at 11:22 pm

And Sancho, stop telling Cats that scrolling my travelogues is optional.

I will be giving everyone a test when I return, so start swotting!

Err, right.
The answer is Spear and Jackson #8 darning needle, right?
And you’re visiting whales.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 23, 2023 3:48 am

JCsays:

June 22, 2023 at 11:08 pm

and how for a good portion of my life, my very being and essence have been in their cross-hairs

Drama queen alert.

Paranoid drama queen, I think.
Hi, St Ruth!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 23, 2023 3:57 am

The really, really big issues.
From the Oz:

Federal MPs team up to petition Taylor Swift re Perth and Brisbane concerts.

Tom
Tom
June 23, 2023 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
June 23, 2023 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
June 23, 2023 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
June 23, 2023 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
June 23, 2023 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
June 23, 2023 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
June 23, 2023 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
June 23, 2023 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
June 23, 2023 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
June 23, 2023 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
June 23, 2023 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
June 23, 2023 4:12 am
Tom
Tom
June 23, 2023 4:13 am
Tom
Tom
June 23, 2023 4:15 am
Tom
Tom
June 23, 2023 4:16 am
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 23, 2023 4:28 am

Titan submersible found.
Well, 21% of it, at least.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Titan submersible found.
Well, 21% of it, at least.

Yea, points to the main hull being a squisheroo.

JC
JC
June 23, 2023 4:35 am

Sanchez,

I assume the people inside were found safe and just waiting for the rescuers?

Black Ball
Black Ball
June 23, 2023 4:38 am

Rita Panahi on the land of the long white cloud:

New Zealand’s embrace of new-age apartheid is going as well as you would expect.

The latest race division in the once harmonious country sees medical professionals being advised to consider whether the patient is Maori or Pacific Islander when determining if they’ll receive priority care.

The New Zealand Herald reports: “Auckland surgeons are now required to consider a patient’s ethnicity alongside other factors when deciding who should get an operation first. Several surgeons say they are upset by the policy, which was introduced in Auckland in February and gave priority to M?ori and Pacific Island patients — on the grounds that they have historically had unequal access to healthcare”.

But the racially charged environment in the country sees medical professionals reluctant to speak on the record against these racist policies. Several have spoken to media on the condition of anonymity with one surgeon calling the new measures “indefensible” and another saying they were “disgusted” by the racial rankings.

“It’s ethically challenging to treat anyone based on race, it’s their medical condition that must establish the urgency of the treatment,” the surgeon told the New Zealand Herald.

“There’s no place for elitism in medicine and the medical fraternity in this country is disturbed by these developments.”

But Health Minister Ayesha Verrall is unapologetic about giving certain ethnicities priority care.

“The reformed health system seeks to address inequities for M?ori and Pacific people who historically have a lower life expectancy and poor health outcomes,” she said. Of course the notion of personal responsibility is utterly abhorrent to the race-obsessed who want to enforce equity, not equality.

Perhaps one of the reasons why certain communities have poor health outcomes is due to the fact that some have enormous rates of obesity and morbid obesity.

According to New Zealand’s Ministry of Health “71.3 per cent of Pacific, 50.8 per cent of M?ori, 31.9 per cent of European/Other and 18.5 per cent of Asian adults obese.”

But of course tackling that issue may be deemed racially insensitive so instead Te Whatu Ora (the public health agency that replaced district health boards in NZ last year) have given advice to medical professionals that waiting times and priority medical care should differ according to racial categories.

You can call it reverse discrimination, affirmative action or equity but it’s just racism, plain and simple.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

I assume the people inside were found safe and just waiting for the rescuers?

Reports are only the landing skids & the tail fairing have been found, presumably detached from the main hull.
The main hull/capsule has not been mentioned.
“Debris field” has been mentioned, though it is not clear if this is referring to pre-existing Titanic debris.

The pressure down there is Five & a half thousand PSI.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
June 23, 2023 4:58 am

Thanks Tom. .

JC
JC
June 23, 2023 5:02 am

Yes, I gathered that before I posted the comment, Driller. You idiot, it was meant as a light response to Sanchez. Keep out of conversations please.

Gabor
Gabor
June 23, 2023 5:03 am

Fears mounting that the Titan submersible exploded, and that is the field debris found near the site of the Titanic

Must be a misspeak. At the depth it had to be an implosion, surely?
What a tragedy.

JC
JC
June 23, 2023 5:04 am

Found on the jacket of a book I picked up while browsing in a bookstore.

Cronkite wasn’t fast enough to get onto this one.

The Stars Undying
“Dazzling, transportive, boundless, precise—and dares to ask, what if Mark Antony was the hottest butch girl in space?” —Casey McQuiston, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Keep out of conversations please.

Christ you’re an ill-mannered rude prick.
Shove it up your quoit, you sack of shit.

JC
JC
June 23, 2023 5:12 am

Driller

I’m rude to you because you deserve no other treatment. You misunderstood my comment and I’m then forced to explain, which becomes a waste of time. Interacting with you is a waste of time. Now piss off and avoid speaking to me.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

I’m rude to you because you deserve no other treatment.

No, you’re rude because you’re an ill-mannered creep.

JC
JC
June 23, 2023 5:19 am

The now-missing CEO of a company that takes passengers onboard a submersible to see the site of the Titanic wreckage once told how he refused to hire ’50-year-old white guys’ with military expertise because they are not ‘inspirational.’

It’s not just go woke and go broke. it’s also go woke and say goodbye.

Who the hell would get into that killing machine when the CEO shows he’s reluctant to hire white guys? FMD.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 23, 2023 5:20 am

Found on the jacket of a book I picked up while browsing in a bookstore.

What’s this “book store” thing you speak of?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

In that video by “Sub Brief” on Youtube, the CEO, after saying he doesn’t hire “50-yo white guys” (coz stale pale boring male) but instead young dynamic graduates, because he “can’t get 60yo white guys to do anything rash” (almost his exact words)

JC
JC
June 23, 2023 5:24 am

No, you’re rude because you’re an ill-mannered creep.

Not really. I treat you like shit because that’s the only way you should be treated. You’re a garbage, totally lacking ethics so you’re treated as such. But it’s not like any of this is new to you, Driller. I hope I’m not being hurtful. Just go away.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

I treat you like shit because that’s the only way you should be treated.

No, because you’re an arrogant hubristic ill-mannered shithead.
Nothing more, nothing less.

There’s a reason you do this online, while in real life you’re a gutless turd.

JC
JC
June 23, 2023 5:28 am

How about

Go woke and watch yourself die.

JC
JC
June 23, 2023 5:32 am

No, because you’re an arrogant hubristic ill-mannered shithead.
Nothing more, nothing less.

Naaa, you’re lying as always.

There’s a reason you do this online, while in real life you’re a gutless turd.

Naaa, if people are nice to me, I’m nice back. You’re a piece of shit and will always be. That’s why we’d never meet. You’re disgusting and should never have been born. Now seriously, piss off and stop wasting time writing slabs of uninteresting crap. Stop trying to get my attention like a couple of other turds like you, my view will never change.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

You’re a piece of shit and will always be. That’s why we’d never meet.

As stated before – gutless.

As you were when called on you proclivity for betting: Turned out you were both gutless and skint.

A piece of shit (i.e. you) has no place telling me anything – get that straight.

JC
JC
June 23, 2023 5:43 am

As you were when called on you proclivity for betting: Turned out you were both gutless and skint.

Lol, that was no bet. It was a laughable shyster’s bet. Put it up and let people judge for themselves. You’re a defective dirtbag with zero ethics and scruples. That’s understating things too.

You talk about honor. This coming from a person who blowhards 99% of the time, lies his face off and posts nasty comments about people’s families who he doesn’t know. As I said, you’re a disgusting defective. Now go away. How many times do I have to repeat myself. I have no interest in interacting with you. Respect what I say and quietly get in the sewer where you reside.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

that was no bet.

When the big mouth chickens out – yep, it ain’t a bet.

I have no interest in interacting with you.

So STFU & refrain from childish abuse. Dumbass.

Respect what I say

There is nothing about a gutless little ill-manned dago that demands respect – you’ll never get any. Deal with that you snivelling coward.

JC
JC
June 23, 2023 5:55 am

Driller, you never peddled the word, dago, until you saw the two limey wogs doing so without any sanction from the blow owner. So much for courage under fire, you gutless piece of white trash filth. Everything about you is disgusting and my view will never change. Stop trying to get my attention all the time.

Dot
Dot
June 23, 2023 6:00 am

Can everyone please let the disempowered and diverse only speak about this unforeseeable submarine tragedy?

There is nothing that cisgender white guys in their fifties can say to inspire young women and people of colour to solve the problems of treating a submarine like an aviation industry problem.

Strictly speaking, it’s pretty racist of you guys to have an opinion about this.

It’s no surprise this submarine sank as a consequence of decades of unchecked global warming. It likely lost its navigation systems power relying on expensive and unreliable fossil fuels.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

you never peddled the word, dago, until you saw the two limey wogs doing so without any sanction from the blow owner.

You have no idea what I do.
Stick to your lane, cockhead.
It doesn’t matter how people talk about you, it’s not like your word would be any sort of golden bond, or there’s any personal honesty or honour in you.

Now go & welch on a bet or something.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Dot says: June 23, 2023 at 6:00 am

+1

JC
JC
June 23, 2023 6:03 am

I didn’t know what cisgender meant until Musk banned it’s use on Twitter.

…..denoting or relating to a person whose gender identity corresponds with the sex registered for them at birth; not transgender.

Why would he ban the use?

Dot
Dot
June 23, 2023 6:06 am

Only an endorsement from Chuck Norris can save Bud Light
…and he’s too busy being Chuck Norris.
Bud Light is so toxic, it would even kill Chuck Norris.

Welp, a soy-based beer was an interesting experiment to say the least.

JC
JC
June 23, 2023 6:09 am

You have no idea what I do.

Of course we do. You’re a defective dickhead with serious mental issues along with a sickly narcissistic personality disorder. Lying and blowharding illustrates some of your defects.

Stick to your lane, cockhead.

Okay

It doesn’t matter how people talk about you, it’s not like your word would be any sort of golden bond, or there’s any personal honesty or honour in you.

Sure there is, but there’s no honor in you as you’re disgustingly dishonest with a massive chip on your shoulder causing massive blowharding.

Now go & welch on a bet or something.

Lol, banks wouldn’t lend you, because you’re so dishonest.

JC
JC
June 23, 2023 6:11 am

and the plussing. Oh God.

Dot
Dot
June 23, 2023 6:15 am

You can embrace diversity, but you can’t ignore the consequences of embracing diversity

The Truth About the Titanic
Paul Joseph Watson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zvqtBhdan4

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