My favourite Madison Avenue story: I was walking along the famous old street on a cold January day in 1990…
Open Thread – Weekend 22 July 2023
- TULIP versus ruinous Labor
- Open Thread – Weekend 18 May 2024
- Bumtree #15
- Bumtree #14
- Open Thread – Thurs 16 May 2024
Week In Pictures.
Dover, Ive just sent you an email. And it’s half last one, so I’m off to bed.
Scroll on warning for those who prefer not to read a travellers ramblings. Given we had decided to opt for…
There is no negotiating with sub human, low IQ barbarians. Continue the offensive until there is no movement… no other…
In Working Out Well news:
Tensions emerge between state and federal governments over Australia’s energy grid roadmap
That should be a worry for anyone with the ability to cross the road unassisted.
Although, apparently not for Queensland’s Mick de Brenni – arguably the second stupidest of Palacechook’s Cabinet;
The agency he refers to is AEMO (60% prop. C. Bowen.)
They walk amongst us.
Turkish Airlines grounded before launch as Minister delays air rights
Ayesha de Kretser – Senior reporter
One of the world’s biggest airlines, Turkish Airlines, has been forced to put its plans of expanding services into Australia indefinitely on hold after it failed to win government approval in time for an expected launch of highly sought after capacity to Europe from Melbourne and Sydney.
The setback appears at odds with the Albanese government’s objective of fostering airline competition, after it knocked back Qatar’s application to send more flights to Australia.
At a gala event in Melbourne on Friday, the chairman of Turkish Airlines, Ahmet Bolat, told The Australian Financial Review that the airline had encountered “legal issues” that stopped a formal announcement being made on the night.
“There are some legal issues that we have to solve between the Turkish government and the Australian government, but today in the meeting the [Melbourne Airport owner Asia Pacific Airports Corporation] mentioned that they are on the issue,” Mr Bolat said.
Turkish Airlines currently flies to the most destinations of any airline in the world, and had been expected to name Melbourne as the 130th at the event.
Turkish Airlines has the right to land four flights a week under an existing bilateral agreement between Australia and Turkey, but Mr Bolat said the airline is trying to expand its air rights to 14 flights a week or daily services to Melbourne and Sydney.
He said Turkish Airlines also needs “fifth freedoms”, or the right to sell tickets between Melbourne and Singapore, and Sydney and Singapore, as well as the longer Melbourne- and Sydney-to-Istanbul via Singapore fares, for the service to make commercial sense. This had caused some hesitance on the airline’s part.
“In the 42 hours [that it takes to fly to Australia and back] I can fly to Miami twice. I’m sorry to say that is more profitable than flying to Sydney and Melbourne,” Mr Bolat said, on the basis that the necessary fifth freedoms are out of reach.
Turkish Airlines chairman Ahmet Bolat says the negotiations are continuing. Eamon Gallagher
While sources close to Qantas indicated the airline did not oppose Turkish Airlines’ expansion, the federal government did not answer questions about why it is not trying to help lower the cost of flying for Australians.
European airfares have remained stubbornly high, although somewhat cheaper than they were at their peak in 2022.
The delay comes hot on the heels of a decision by Federal Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development Minister Catherine King to kybosh Qatar Airways’ plans to double flights into Sydney and Melbourne, a move that some sources in the industry said would have reduced the cost of flying to Europe by as much as $1000.
Ms King did not answer questions about why the Labor government has stopped two airlines from adding capacity into Europe from Australia in as many weeks, at a time when international carriers have been unable to meet demand, and capacity remains at 80 per cent to 90 per cent of pre-COVID-19 levels.
“The Australian government continues to contribute to the prosperity and wellbeing of all Australians by fostering a viable, competitive and safe aviation industry,” Ms King said in a statement.
Istanbul is a hub connecting passengers to airports throughout Europe, as well as Africa and the Americas, and Mr Bolat said he was confident that Australians could transit to most destinations in the world within two and a half hours of arrival.
“You don’t see people sleeping in our airport in Istanbul,” he said.
Mr Bolat said the airline had not yet decided whether to fly non-stop from Melbourne to Istanbul when it takes delivery of new ultra-long-haul A350s or Dreamliner aircraft, expressing reservations that anyone would want to spend 17 hours flying non-stop.
“We might continue with this stopping in Singapore even if we have the ultra-long haul aircraft if the passenger prefers that,” he said.
Mr Bolat confirmed Turkish Airlines would not receive the aircraft until after Qantas takes delivery of new Airbus A350-1000 XLR planes that have additional fuel tanks and can fly 22-hours non-stop from Melbourne and Sydney to New York and London, as part of Project Sunrise at the end of 2025.
Qantas plans to charge a 30 per cent premium for the point-to-point or non-stop flights, adding as much as $400 million a year to its earnings profile.
Victorian minister for public transport, as well as industry and innovation and manufacturing, Ben Carroll, told the 500-person event on Friday night that Turkish Airlines adding flights would expand high-valued exports, with the state’s governor Linda Dessau visiting Turkey in April to grow connectivity.
“We also know that an important part of the aircraft is underneath of it and for freight opportunities, with Victoria being the food and fibre capital, being the defence capital, being the advanced manufacturing capital, there is an enormous amount of opportunity,” he said in a speech.
Mr Carroll declined to answer questions around the federal approvals process, but said the state has been lobbying hard to secure the rights. “We’re very committed to getting Turkey and Turkish Airlines here though,” Mr Carroll told the Financial Review on the sidelines of the event.
Give up on the racism, Case.
Daily temperatures around Sydney can vary by 10 degrees: How does your suburb compare?
One in seven Sydney suburbs is in dire need of more tree canopy cover, and the lack of heat-mitigating shade is worst in the city’s poorest areas and in the new estates where nature has been razed for development.
The places with the least canopy cover – which include Fairfield, Merrylands and newer parts of the Hills – are up to 10 degrees hotter than heavily vegetated areas, figures from the NSW Department of Planning show.
The data comes as a heat catastrophe smothers the northern hemisphere; Europe and Japan face record temperatures, the United States swelters, and smoke from wildfires in Canada infects the air breathed by 70 million people.
Suburban canopy tree cover and temperature differences
Good I live in Suburb with 40-100 Tree Canopy
and Urban Heat Island 4 Plus NE Sea Breezes (Gales) in Summer
Oops Link Daily temperatures around Sydney can vary by 10 degrees: How does your suburb compare?
Disgusting! And offensively racist.
Racist is the bird call of the fake Left Labor shill, and I’m hearing a lot of it this morning.
Googlery finds it repulsive that a person might choose to have sex with someone who is:-
(a) not on the same branch of the family tree; and
(b) alive.
Bourne1879
Jul 24, 2023 8:43 AM
Leak cartoons are brilliant at summing up the Voice promoters. There has been much wailing on Twitter about how unfair it is to use Yes campaigners own words to help the No side.
Like Libs of Tik Tok.
Paradoxically, people hack into trees if they are over-shadowing their roof-top Gaia panels.
Utter bulls**t.
The Elbow regime is blocking Turkish Airlines request to fly into Sydney and Melbourne because it plans to operate initially via Jakarta and the Qantas lobbyists in Canberra are desperate to protect QF’s daily Sydney-Jakarta A330-200 service.
Turkish has a popular business class service and there would be plenty of business class traffic if there was a third alternative apart from QF and Garuda.
Qantas funnels all of its Jakarta traffic via SYD and does not even fly MEL-CGK.
The Elbow regime is an old-fashioned protectionist trade union government and sees airline competition as a malign influence moderating wages under Australian union awards.
rosie
Jul 24, 2023 8:58 AM
After that, we would be asking how are aboriginals going to muster up trillions of dollars to pay whites.
Exactly.
…and we do not accept ‘welcome to country and/or smoking ceremonies as payment.’
Ukrainian AD failure. BTW, there is a difference between failure and indiscriminate.
The Elbow regime is blocking Turkish Airlines request to fly into Sydney and Melbourne because it plans to operate initially via Jakarta and the Qantas lobbyists in Canberra are desperate to protect QF’s daily Sydney-Jakarta A330-200 service.
They recently blocked Qatar Airlines application. Communist scum.
More Joys from Multi Cultural Immigration
French teen left disfigured by ‘Maghreb’ youth mob who attacked her with broken glass for wearing ‘immoral’ crop top on night out
The 19-year-old victim was hospitalized after the attack and required 50 stitches. The youths took issue with her choice of clothing as she enjoyed a date night with her boyfriend in Toulouse.
A French teenager was hospitalized after an attack by a group of youths who had taken issue with her choice of clothing on a night out left her face disfigured.
The attack occurred in the early hours of Wednesday morning when the 19-year-old victim, named as Nissan, was on a date with her boyfriend in the southern French city of Toulouse.
At around 3 a.m. on Boulevard Lazare Carnot, the pair were accosted by four youths who accused the teen of being dressed inappropriately. She was wearing a crop top, which the mob claimed to be immoral.
The group, comprising two boys and two girls aged between 14 and 17, was described by the victim as being “Maghreb,” originating from Northwest Africa.
The couple were set upon by youths who attacked the girl with shards of broken glass, causing life-changing injuries to her face, back and arms, French news outlet La Depeche reported.
Her boyfriend also sustained several injuries as he attempted to defend his partner.
Video surveillance operators spotted the attack in real time and alerted the authorities, who were swiftly dispatched to the scene. Upon their arrival, the victim was covered in blood and required immediate medical attention.
Nissan was treated at the scene by emergency responders before being transferred to Hospital Purpan in Toulouse. She required around 50 stitches for the multiple wounds inflicted.
Her attackers were located not far from the scene, arrested, and placed in police custody.
According to local reports, the quartet were already known to the authorities.
They are expected to be indicted for the grievous attack following a referral to the juvenile prosecutor’s office.
Nissan took to social media on Thursday to post photos of her injuries.
“It’s gratuitous violence. For a trivial reason, this woman was the target of incomparable violence,” a source close to the investigation told La Depeche.
Now come on Sancho, without the musky tang of formaldehyde to sharpen the anticipation how could you expect Ed Mong to perform?
$2 shop Irving.
dover0beach
Jul 24, 2023 12:41 PM
Discriminately bombing cathedrals then?
Russian Strike on Odesa Leaves One Dead, Dozens Injured and Historic Cathedral Badly Damaged (23 Jul)
Ukrainian AD failure. BTW, there is a difference between failure and indiscriminate.
Dover,
I believe the Russians
Kiev’s ‘incompetence’ to blame for damage to Odessa cathedral – Moscow
The largest Orthodox church in the city was likely hit by a Ukrainian missile, the Russian military has said
In a statement on Sunday, the ministry said that “the information disseminated by the Kiev regime about the Transfiguration Cathedral in the city of Odessa being hit by [Russian] high-precision weapons does not correspond to reality.” It added that all Russian strikes successfully hit military facilities in the region that were located “at a safe distance from the temple complex.”
Officials also stressed that “the planning of high-precision strikes against the military and terrorist infrastructure of the Kiev regime is carried out based on carefully vetted and confirmed information” in a bid to avoid hitting the civilian population as well as cultural sites.
The ministry added that the footage from the scene suggests that “the most likely cause for the destruction of [the cathedral] was the fall of a Ukrainian anti-aircraft guided missile.”
The incident could have been caused by the “incompetent actions” of personnel managing Ukrainian air defense systems which Kiev deliberately deploys in civilian-populated areas, it added.
As I said in thread above
Supported by the Following which seems to have been the Russian Approach throughout the War
Source: https://tntradiolive.podbean.com/
Russian war correspondents reporting on the opening missile barrages against Odessa last week confirm this targeting. When a grain storage terminal was hit, Boris Rozhin (“Colonel Cassad”) reported “an important detail, despite all the tantrums in Ukraine and [NATO], even according to official Ukrainian data, there are no civilian deaths.
Despite the large number of incoming. This indicates the high accuracy of the strikes and once again shows that the Russian Federation does not purposefully strike at the civilian population. Unlike the Ukraine.”
Plus
“Map of missile and drone strikes against targets in Odessa as published in Ukraine.
Once again, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that with all the wealth of destructive means involved, not a single civilian was killed during the strikes.
They operated like clockwork.”
The Australian government continues to contribute to the prosperity and wellbeing of all Australians
Sure.
OldOzzie
Jul 24, 2023 12:47 PM
More Joys from Multi Cultural Immigration
Black muslims. A boon to the world!
Turd Case
What is the bird call of the genuine Left Labor shill? IQ 60?
Subtle Gaslighting here.
The victim could also be described as “Maghreb” youth rather than French teen.
Or the attackers could bne described as French teens.
It would be more consistent.
I grew up in a little town called Mullumbimby meaning small round hill — which was the small round hill opposite our house. T
. That small round hill was Mount Chincogan – which according to research supposedly means ‘northward-facing male genitals’, and that the area had a ‘likely use as a fertility site’. Nice – according to the locals there was a time that the ‘hill’ was less than 1,000 feet so wasn’t strictly a ‘mount’ so they built it up a few feet to make it so. There used to be a run to the top of the hill each year but was abandoned I think due to private property considerations and legal liabilities stemming therefrom.
“I am hypothesising that if (S – K) > 4, Pr > 1.5 and Ch > 6 (on a scale of 10), then V will be greater than 0.9.”
While the casual observer may nod sagely, the professional will note that Ch is, alas, subjective – a scorching vindaloo may seem Ch 10 to some, but more a more butter chicken like Ch 1 to others. This lack of rigour and objectivity results in a recommendation not to publish until such time as the author can provide an objective Ch number that take account of Ct (curry tolerance).
The same objection also applies to Pr – Pt also needs some objective measure and to be included. This multivariate subjectivity renders the calculation unusable in real life – this reviewer has personally experienced ( K – S ) > 8, Pr >> 1.5 and Ch > 7, yet had V = 0. In such cases, one must also consider De (explosive Diarrhea), which tends to be inversely proportion to V, while still remaining proportional to Ptot and Ch.
Clearly, this topic is complex and requires further research and considerably more funding – all donations gratefully received.
Mullum – an unfriendly little place.
Worked with a bloke years ago who stopped there for a beer on the drive up to Brisbane.
Some local picked him, they adjourned out the back, where the local was knocked out.
My workmate got 6 months Gaol, it was the Mayor’s son.
Head Case reverts to “tales his nanna told him” about Mullumbimby.
Pity he couldn’t find something more substantive than such tales to justify his many unsupported assertions about aboriginal deaths during the so-called “Frontier Wars”.
$2 shop Irving.
With a fake Groucho Marx moustache.
It’s known as Mullum, Skidmark.
Ever been there?
Citation needed.
It’s not on Wiki.
Do the jacarandas flower there as prolifically as they do in Peshawar?
PS, try to improve the standard of your purported insults. You have been going downhill since you gave up on Sponge Bob.
One in seven Sydney suburbs is in dire need of more tree canopy cover, and the lack of heat-mitigating shade is worst in the city’s poorest areas and in the new estates where nature has been razed for development.
I saw an item on the news last night reporting this issue. The reporter was standing on a street in Cremorne (it appeared) suggesting that such suburbs enjoyed far more trees than those in the western suburbs.
Now there well may be may new suburban developments in the outer west where tree development is in progress. But I defy anyone to claim that many suburbs in the west – such as Penrith, St.Marys, Werrington and others in the area lack trees. Quite the contrary, there are vast swathes of bushland, as well as well developed parkland throughout the area.
PS, try to improve the standard of your purported insults. You have been going downhill since you gave up on Sponge Bob.
Why?
Clearly, you’re not bothered, isn’t that a Win/Win situation?
To be replaced by Patricia Karvelas, as I predicted.
Chuckle.
They really want to kill off that show.
Black muslims. A boon to the world!
Or,
Black Muslims. A boom (bomb) to the world.
Anthony Albanese’s concert-T shirt and Jodie Haydon’s LinkedIn posts dramatically contradict the PM’s claim a treaty won’t come after the Voice
. PM wore a ‘Voice, Treaty, Truth’ t-shirt
. Partner Jodie Haydon supports Uluru Statement
. Now Albo denies Voice will lead to a treaty
As I said the other day, the most productive Qantas profit centre is the Chairman’s Lounge, which grants automatic entry to Federal pollies.
The blocking of Qatar and Turkiyeieyei* Airlines shows up the desparation in the Q exec suite.
They are drinking their own bath-water about the customer loyalty Australians have for the flea-bitten ‘roo.
A big chunk of the ‘loyalty’ is driven by two things. Firstly, people redeeming FF points on international flights, the FF points having been accumulated via bloated QF domestic fares paid for by their employer. Secondly is the naive older traveller (aged 65+) who believes Q is the one safe airline to fly. A bit of a variation on the ‘knife and fork’ joke often bandied about here.
We have flown overseas nearly every year between 2010-2020, and are about to resume travelling again. Not one of those flights have been on Q, because they are simply too expensive. We rarely even look now, but they always seem to be 30% – 50% more expensive.
* Original Aboriginal place name for Turkey.
That’s true for many things, Sancho, but in the travel realm I am enjoying reprising some of Asia that I’ve visited before. So much has happened for instance in Singapore which I’ve kept pace with about every ten years since the 70’s, and now in Malaysia. I’ve only been here once before, in 2001 to a business meeting stuck in Kuala Lumpur accompanying Hairy and apart from the social meet-ups for spouses I don’t recall much of it. Now, the new airport is full and teaming, the Sami Sami hotel which is attached is what Hairy calls classic Asian marbled glitz and glam as we are dropped there with our luggage by the little golf buggy. The reception hall, full of hanging glittery stuff and black marble columns on the walls rising to a domed ceiling air-craft hanger height is meant to wow. The women dress up in Asian couture with off-the-shoulder swathes and pleats and tucks the like of which you never see in Australia these days.
The next day we head from the airport to Kuala Lumpur to … the bus station. The concierge persuades us to hire the hotel limo instead of a taxi and the limo driver says why don’t you hire a driver to go up to the Cameron Highlands, our destination. The bus station is apparently very infra dig. We wanted to do it the local way (there is no train or plane), we say, while he proceeds to point out features of the long drive in to the city and says this is how useful drivers can be.
Everywhere, there are new 40 story high rise apartment blocks going up, and very little on the 30km drive in is left of the old kampong style villages. A few townhouse developments, known as ‘land properties’ are titled to land, but most people live in these towering new apartments that fill the vista as far as you can see, land for which is becoming scarce now due to the palm oil and rubber plantation economy which is land hungry. Some of the close together towers are joined by air bridges at the top – for fire escape, says the driver, as I count five towers on the horizon so linked.
I also see signage and roadside advertising that is a handy fill in to cultural concerns, with pretty hijab’d ladies spruiking cosmetics and the men enjoying special cigars.
One building carries the sign Business School, offered most helpfully I thought by Help University. I’ll be they don’t teach that woke acronym of diversity, inclusion etc there, I say to Hairy. He whispers that lgtbtqui2+x is probably not taught anywhere in Malaysia. Then Help University probably beats Wharton and Harvard hands down on turning out business people of calibre, I whisper back, while the driver busies himself telling us about corruption in high places and how the current president (a good guy) has been illegally jailed twice before now coming to power at last. We didn’t mention Trump, although the temptation was great, as our driver was also telling us that the rain (it’s the monsoon season) was also due to climate change and we didn’t relish being turfed out for bad opinions. The politics here is complex.
The bus station was a swarming ants’ nest travellers, all Malaysian, but no letterboxes in sight, about 20 of women wearing hijabs. All was confusion and clutter, lot of electronic boards but with no-one to ask about our bus not being on them. I began to regret not dumping our tickets and taking on a driver, but once on the bus I wouldn’t have wanted to do the journey any other way. It took four hours, and the last hour was all hairpin bends with a lot of oncoming traffic. The bus had a big claxton horn and we owned the road. To think Hairy once contemplated hiring a car and driving himself; if you do this trip, take the bus.
The bus makes a comfort stop half way after two hours. Hairy disappeared into a green sign with a man on it in the row of shops and I wandered into a green sign with a hijabed female head on it. Inside women were washing their feet and I realised it was some Islamic thing, so I backed out of the doorway on seeing this, and found the female toilet. The stalls were all two-foot on the floor ones and swampy where women had spray themselves with that unhygienic hose thingo. I’ve been in worse, years ago in Indonesia where the floor was pure mixed sh*t, but this one still ponged. I hitched up my trousers before lowering them somewhat, did a pee, a kleenex dab as European women do, and paddled out. Erk. The bus itself was very modern and comfortable, albeit decorated with fringed swathes of blue transparent curtains along the top of the windows and with light fancy curtains imprinted with a fern design covering the rest of the windows, curtains you could loop back to see out. The velvet carpet-style coverings of the seats was RSL style psychedelia circa 1973, neon greens pinks and reds in wild circles and squares, an extraordinary contrast to the delicate window material and styling. These buses are very cheap and are the main mode of intercity transport, with a few village stops on the way.
Malaysia is not third world in the old sense any more. It is on the go, and modern Asia now.
. so he’s a furriner — where’s his visa? By heaven these people are such wankers
scalloped swathes, was searing for that semicircular word.
Also should be 20% of females in hijabs, but of course not all were Islamic, plenty of Chinese in Malaysia to, and Indians who aren’t all Muslim. It is clearly a strongly Islamic country though. Mecca arrows are everywhere.
searching, not searing. Me and my keyboard.
We are in a five star hotel now the town of Cameron Highlands, which was once the governing place of the Raj during the hot season when everyone decamped up here out of the heat. The weather is pleasant and we’re heading out for lunch.
Crikey, Lizzie.
That is getting perilously close to a … you know … travelogue.
Be careful you don’t cross that line.
I had a thought.
Who will pay the pensions of the crippl d soldiers in the Ukraine?
Russkies have their piss poor “ go die in a hole” pensions, but what would the Ukies have?
Massive loss of working aged men, a ( presumably) much smaller state and resources and an EU/ NATO which will dump them faster than Ted Kennedy leaving a car that’s gone off a bridge.
Could they have any claim against the EU for pensions?
Hey, Sophie Elsworth at the Paywallian. You’ve buried the lead:
The ABC’s owners (us) are being fitted up for Britnah Higgins-style payout so sTan Grant never has to work again, just sit back for the rest of his life in a gold-plated armchair courtesy of taxpayers, mourning what he had expected would be his participation in an even bigger scam, the Voice, defeated in the great apartheid referendum of 2023.
I first went there, on holiday, in the early 1990’s. The locals practiced a fairly relaxed brand of Islam then.
Well, well, would ya lookee here.
I just checked the Q website.
Business Class to London in November $4,500.
Business Class to Tokyo in September just under $4,000 (via HK, codeshare with Cathay from HK).
I better go back and check if there isn’t some Q-lurk I am missing.
Is it one-way, or quoted in GBP or USD, for example.
Well, after the long goodbyes from the Snowcones, Red Kezza, Quentin Dumpster and their assorted family trust owned production companies, it would be racist not to extend the same courtesies to sTan.
The Cat seems to have spent the morning wading through eugenics/racial superiority swill.
It’s almost as if someone is rather naughtily positioning the blog to be officially recognized as a popular meeting place for Gay Grampian Garage Nasties in tight shorts.
That answer is coming up on my butcher’s paper too.
Much as I am loath to advocate bannings, I think it is something Dover might consider.
Incidentally, it is “Gariwerd”, not Grampians.
I don’t know if the local tribe had a word for “Nazis”.
Hmmm.
Bargain Q fares seem to have … poof! … evaporated.
The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.
– Marty Feldman
In all fairness that may have something to do with the country’s name sounding like ‘catarrh’.
Lucky they are phlegmatic about it.
Very good.
Fauci Commits Perjury Before Congress?
You are going to Jail !
https://youtu.be/3d5nnQ7m00E
Note to Ed. You are in moderation for the time being.
No more happy endings for Sleazy.
Luck of the Irish. The Mangy Roo lives another day.
i saw what you did there Mother Lode – very droll
When it comes to Blackout Bowen and the spit-sprinkler I think the German word ‘sitzpinkler’ is most applicable to those two dimwits. Neither are what I regard as essentially masculine. Most unattractive and then they open their mouths, making it infinitely worse.
Thankyou Dover. Just disgusting.
Here TheirABC goes again with the lies:
They have been corrected on this numerous times, to no avail it seems.
Those of us who have tried to have simple factual inaccuracies about the climate corrected know the feeling. I’m not talking about disputed theories here, just undisputed measurements.
Have a look at the Corrections page sometime if you want a good laugh.
Tintarella di Luna
Jul 24, 2023 3:01 PM
When it comes to Blackout Bowen and the spit-sprinkler I think the German word ‘sitzpinkler’ is most applicable to those two dimwits.
Perhaps I should have noticed earlier, but it takes only the relocation of two letters to downgrade a midwit to a dimwit.
Thanks Tinta.
He does lower the tone from time to time.
Tom
Jul 24, 2023 12:34 PM
I’ve flown with Turkish several times either at the front or down the back. Great airline.
The blog owner has noticed that the Cat’s most active troll isn’t here to discuss ideas, but simply to make an a***hole of himself.
Trolls are like naughty children begging their parents to spank them for smearing the toilet wall with faeces. Eventually, the parent must either act or allow the child the freedom to become a delinquent.
Thankfully, the Dover Cat has never been an echo chamber, but the trolls constantly dare us to ban a***holes who come here only to make nuisances of themselves.
Those hot pants of hers were so damned tight, I could hardly breathe.
– Benny Hill
Now waiting for a poster to appear with Ed-esque traits and predilections (gypsum, HMAS Sydney, Joe Burns) yet with a different handle.
Suggestions:
Moon Gravity
Stradivarius
All Our Gummint Belong To Us
Davey
The Public Service Is Not A Waste Of Space
My problem with Ed was that the persona smelt off, edgy on race but sooky elsewhere, and then thought that he might be laying a trap suggested he was more trouble then he was worth.
We have flown overseas nearly every year between 2010-2020, and are about to resume travelling again. Not one of those flights have been on Q, because they are simply too expensive.
Ditto, Sancho. We developed a particular dislike of QANTAS after it became the domain of GMs who didn’t give a stuff about its history. We have mostly flown Singapore, as we have been in the frequent flyer scheme. But their partners these days are better – eg Suisse, which although not as fancy, is streets ahead in efficiency – as you would expect. Once we took a 1st Class ticket offer with Gulf Air to Bahrain (we were travelling on to Oman) which was hysterically bad (told lobster was on the dinner menu – for a total of 8 passengers – then told it was all taken!). By the time we had to return home, Gulf no longer flew to Australia – but they gave us 1st Class tickets on Cathay – now that was fantastic! Krug and caviar almost as soon as you got in your seat.
Doubt if we will do much more travelling. Crowds expanding every year, & we have seen most of what we want to see. One of the sad things about travel everywhere is that things are rarely as good as you remember! I want some places to remain etched in my memory as the glorious spots that they were – even the terrifying roads in the Middle East (eg the Tizi n’Tichna Pass in Morocco) !
Putrefying lotion will do that, every day of the week.
Bingo. He and Munty bait to then inform to the overlords. The modern day Stasi.
Latest US political gossip:
Former President Donald Trump has reacted to a potential idea of a sit-down interview with former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson, calling it an “interesting” idea.
Trump made the comment on his social media platform, Truth Social, reposting another user’s idea of doing the interview on the same night the Republican party holds its 2024 primary debate.
It’s unclear if Trump will attend the debate, as he has stated in the past he does not believe he needs to while he maintains a large polling lead.
“Interesting?” Trump wrote. “So many people have suggested this!”
Trump’s comment comes just a month before the first Republican party primary debate on Aug. 23 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which will be hosted by Fox News anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum.
Ahead of the debate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), seen by many to be Trump’s biggest challenger in the primary, confirmed that he will attend the debate.
Vivek Ramaswamy, another candidate in the GOP 2024 primary race, stated Saturday that he met the criteria needed to participate in the debate, and will sign the Republican National Committee candidate pledge vowing to support the party’s nominee for president, regardless of who it is.
Looks like Great Grandad was determined to get in a set of squats.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12329741/Anytime-Fitness-chaos-Collingwood-man-kicks-door-tries-access-24-7-gym-Melbourne.html
Top o’ the mornin’ Cats!
The long road back starts today…Bordeaux to CDG (zzzzzz…), CDG to Heathrow then back to Sydney via Singapore.
We lob in on Thursday morning local time, having spent around 48 hours in transit (hopefully getting a little shut-eye on the way). And now I find I’m off to Grandparents Day at school before we finally get home.
And Rosie, I’m never going to trust Google and “Temporarily Closed” again (device already set to local time). 🙂
Zombie Grandparents Day.
I’m having a mental blank: what’s the name of the Twitter account that talks about skinning and gutting society’s institutions? As the left’s bible, Google offers no clue …
Although the latter would overtop the former in stature, they are ghosts when it comes to moral substance.
I know the ones I would want in my corner.
Didn’t two of his sock puppets get booted off Sinclair’s Cat? One for stalking a Kitteh?
WaPo lost $100 million last year. Just goes to show people are turned off and don’t subscribe to a fake news site.
Bezos says he’s going to spend more time there. I wouldn’t bother. Close it down and save money. It’s gone.
Tom, I think Iowahawk made the observation on how the Left guts institutions.
Tom:
Iowahawk.
Tom
Iowahawk
I picked Ed- mongs tactic a while back.
1: be a tard
2: more frequently drop racist etc stuff in which, because people are ignoring his tardation, stay unchallenged on the site
3: I’m assuming this is then scraped up by some deranged leftist to “ prove” we are all racist/ nazis etc.
And I’m not blaming people for ignoring him. Everyone gets sick of seeing obvious bait refuted time and time again.
But it only takes a handful of “ Abbos are all sub 60 iq” passages uncommented on to get the stuff it’s after.
Grattan Institute sez noise levels are to high for students in open learning classrooms to concentrate on work or listening to instruction from the teacher. File under horse has already bolted. FMD
But it only takes a handful of “ Abbos are all sub 60 iq” passages uncommented on to get the stuff it’s after.
He needs to make himself feel superior to someone at least. Pity he’s failing.
Rugbyskier, frollickingmole and Knuckle Dragger: of course it was iowahawk. Thanks!
Daily Tele woke kids have a lame hit piece up on Gary Johns for having wrongthink about the voice and Indigenous problems etc. Usual suspects have lined up to condemn him. There’ll be a lot more of this kind of thing.
Ed is now posting merrily over at CL’s blog!
His latest bit of “wisdom” there:
But according to Ed, Brittany’s allegations (not caught on film, like the assault on Bolt) do “pass the sniff test”!
100 upticks Dover.
As I say, I am not in favour of bannings normally, but I agree with Dr F*.
The overt racism seems aimed at destroying this place.
And, even if that is not the case, it is out of order anyway. More the sort of thing you might see from the Rednecks at the Furniture Store really.
….
* And I have the workings to prove it.
Gary Johns? One time Minister in the Keating Reign of Terror?
As Cats have reminded me, it was Iowahawk who reminded us how the fascist left guts and skins our most trusted institutions (Paywallian):
The radical Elbow regime is systematically destroying the remaining government institutions — like the Productivity Commission — that used to have public trust.
Oh. Looks like I missed the character “Great Reveal” and subsequent smiting.
It was always a test of just how far to go before enough was enough. At least he laid off me for a change…next one will be back on form.
Special Ed’s MO certainly bore an unseemly resemblance to a couple of smelly socks. Really need IP addresses to be sure.
Vicki at 3:56.
We have flown (from memory) Singapore, Air NZ, Swiss, Austrian, Cathay, Etihad, Emirates, yada yada.
But not Q.
We just pick the best fare out of what we think are good airlines, and Q never gets close.
FMD.
I heard a Q-shill on 3AW a few weeks back gushing about “How fantaaastic it is to step on the plane for the trip home and hear an Aussie accent.”
Yeah, nah.
I’m not paying $2-$3k overs when I could just wait 10-12 hours to hear a surly, disinterested Aussie voice at Tullamarine customs.
Bear, it was pretty obvious to a few of us. Like walking around this area of Bordeaux, the meter hits eleventy and you tread carefully. It shouldn’t have to be like that, but that’s the interwebs.
On souvenirs, I’m afraid nothing local will be returning home.
I drank it last night.
Productivity Commission used to be pretty solid. Going the way of Treasury.
The French don’t do leetle plastic bags. Me either. When dogsitting the dog knew to head deep into the gardens before snapping one off.
I like my Westpac/Q FFPs. Until the buggers limited them to 250,000 per card. So now I “like” my AMEX FFPs better. And I get twice as many.
The perquisites of being the business “bank”. Not for much longer, so we’ll make hay while the sun shines.
The trip back is BA. Not ideal, but the best seats we could get on the day. A mix of B/PE. Best flight so far was FC with JAL. I thought I would die from food.
The parasite, having been evicted from its food source, seeks another host body.
Lucky bugger, Calli. You’re in the capital of the world’s best wine.
Wish I was there.
PS: I hope you can afford the freight on several cases of the good stuff.
PPS: James Martin’s French Adventure coming up on SBS Food in less than half an hour. Mmmm.
When dogsitting the dog knew to head deep into the gardens before snapping one off.
And there we have it. Proof bears really do crap in the woods.
Couldn’t you have gone before taking the dog for a walk?
The Australian reporting Prof van Wrongselen suffers a setback in the Federal Court over a contractual matter over his departure from Channel Ten.
I’m guilty of flying Qantas, nor all the time, but points and pay is usually a good deal (much better than trying to book frequent flyer seats plus you get more points)
As for revisiting, for various reasons including taking different travelling companions who want to see places I’ve already visited, and for whom I’m very happy to act as travel guide, I’ve been to some places more than once, and maybe more than five times.
Rome, Paris, London, Chicago, Los Angeles, Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon, Seville, Granada and San Sebastian are all on that list, probably a few others.
The only one I’ve sworn never to return to is LA.
The others I’m always happy to see again.
Oh Jeez Louise, another institution stomped on by the Liars Party.
Tom, it’s another of those “never go back” stories.
I would far prefer to have a memory of the Beloved and me quaffing top quality vino at our little flat’s laminex table and eating something hot from the boulangerie than sweating over a home cooked dinner and not enjoying it half as much.
Just about to leave for the airport and gazing over our little French balcony (an open window with a railing) at the ancient townhouses behind. A cat has its breakfast on a window ledge three storeys up, twisting to return through the narrow window like a dancer. The twin towers of the “clock gate” loom in the background, slate covered romanesque cones, in the centre a gilded lion weathervane sits still on its pivot. The rain has finally caught up with us.
He’s rent capping now? Dan Lenin is really doing well.
In Walking the Plank news:
Kathryn Campbell, senior public servant in Robodebt scheme, resigns from Department of Defence
Well, that’s AUKUS.
Family member gets so many airpoints from paying the fuel bill with business credit card can take family round the world twice a year. I was surprised the company let him pay by credit card.
Going back to San Sebastian next year (knee willing) plus a few other places in Spain. Also Rome, which always has something more.
Just on Christmas, I’m off again to the northern lights and Christmas markets. Germany in another season (last visit was in late summer).
When the points run out, it’s over. A good innings.
Bald sprog matt kean comes out to denigrate Gary John’s suggestion that those grifters claiming 3rd nations benefits should be DNA tested:
Gary Johns faces calls to resign from no voice campaign over ‘offensive’ comments
The article is in the turdball times so the calls come from the usual dickheads.
Good one Frolics
Calli
Isn’t the air travel a smaller part of the overall cost of tourism in the way you appear to be doing it?
I counted taxi fares alone to and from Melb and JFk alone was over 400 bucks.
May have been reported here in the last 36 hours but I noted on the dead tree version of the Hun yesterday that Andrews is going to tax holidaymakers on interstate trips here. Or as is government speak that JC outlined not long ago, ‘everything is on the table’.
Just unreal. How dare anyone doubt their word.
This The Squeal thing is really getting hot. The Yessers appear a little panicked because it’s not going to get through.
I wouldn’t discount cheating though.
Ha! The cat has come out again to look at me. It’s a small tabby and clearly prefers the perils of the sill to the flat. Being an intelligent animal it has worked out how to keep out of the rain.
Meanwhile, CNN is shrieking about the perils of hot weather. “Strange Heat” it’s called this time. Look after pets, wear a hat, stay out of the sun. Thanks Captain Obvious. And…reports of shoes getting hot and the uppers separating from the soles. The horror!
I remember the thongs sticking to the footpath in summer when I was a child. Idiots.
Yep Calli I’m going to Jan Feb in Europe again I think.
Haven’t booked anything, might be taking a family member, see how we go in Japan first.
I would like to explore the middle and west of Sicily and outside of Valletta in Malta then skip over to Spain again and maybe train up to the north west where I’ve not yet been, then back across the top of Spain (I love that train trip) to copy cat in Bergerac.
BB
They’re worried about the debt situation, which is being added to as a large number of projects are yet near complete.
If the rating agencies move against Vic, We and Dan Lenin are freaking toast. The nixxing of the Commonwealth Games is really concerning because it could be an indicator to the debt situation. Dan Lenin wouldn’t have yanked them away unless there was an issue I think.
Skybus or get mUnty to do a drop off.
I have very limited money. Also, I prefer to stay in well priced accommodation rather than four-five star. Also, we rarely do the silver service (or even the stainless steel service) restaurant scene, preferring bistros, brasseries and the like.
In other words, I’m a budget traveller. Getting airfares for nothing allows me to travel extensively and well. I’m too old for backpacking!
Apparently tunnel workers are pocketing up to $320,000 PA.
Nice work if you can get it.
On taxis, the concierge has warned of an eye-watering 60 euro tariff. Oh well. I’m not going to drag the suitcases there. 🙂
Victoriastanis are in the boiling frog mode – where they will be for the next 20 years. Party’s over folks.
Vicki, I can understand your feeling of not wanting to go back to precious travel memories, Sancho too, but each time we set off I still feel that same old thrill of the new, even though the hassles are exponential. Just seeing new things is invigorating, even if some things have changed, and especially so if hitting places where I’ve never been before. Seeing life dizzy by in often hidden corners of the world reminds one of how many different people and cultures live on this planet. It’s humbling, and exciting, all at the same time. And it stops time from simply disappearing. You live every minute of it when travelling.
I would still travel even if Hairy wasn’t around, but do less of it, and differently, for he is the one who leads boldly into uncertainties in difficult bus stations while I follow. I am merely the one who irritatingly suggests I think I can see a man over there we could ask. Who, it turns out, does know.
My strength is also in contingency planning. I take ‘unnecessary’ casho, and very handy it has been here in the Cameron Highlands where everything except hotels – the taxis, shops, the street-front restaurants – all take only cash. We picked up a pile of ringgits for some of my cash today, because Hairy’s card cash-out was refused by an Islamic banking machine. Bugger it, just cash my cash, I say. And we’ll use my spare credit card with another bank, another of my contingency plans, if yours plays up in Penang, which it probably won’t. This seems to be Highlands specific.
The Highlands are full of French people and lots of French families with kids.
No idea why. We sat next to an Australian French couple at lunch today and they had no idea why either. It’s a haven for back-packers, obviously on some circuit.
An officious French woman in our 5-star hotel was critiquing, in a very patronising way, the hotel’s best British Restaurant food. We cook differently in France, we pay it so much more attention, I heard her say. So I said to the waitress in my best British tones not to worry about her critique because some of the worst food I’ve ever had was in France, and actually chef’s version of British Shepherd’s Pie which I’d just polished off was excellent. She beamed in response.
France, still in many ways the old enemy. Specially after watching (parts of) Dunkirk again on the plane, priming myself with the Bulldog spirit.
This is not a travelogue, Sancho, and contains no literary intent This is just me, tuning in ta see watcha all up to, knocking out some general observational trivia to fill up empty space in a comment box. However, this plateau 1500 metres high-up ringed by mountains, discovered at the end of a donkey track by a Mr. Cameron in 1925, is spectacularly lovely. With its now tea-grown covered hillsides, mock-Tudor Britishness, rambling golf course and other faded glories of a Raj Hill Station, it does deserve better descriptors.
Somerset Maugham has probably got the field well covered anyway, in terms of the feeling and the tone of the place and the steamy jungles from which it provides escape. Up here for the season, boring old menfolk left behind still administering on the foetid coasts, while the cat’s away the little lady mice would play, and play, with the young subalterns escorting them and providing security, until one night at the club … etc.
I think we will take that High Tea tomorrow.
What freaking party?
That’s so old. I recently heard it’s 350K
I agree JC, it must be worse than said otherwise dicktator dan would’nt have pulled the pin. Another few Bill wasn’t going to make any difference. How do you like your goose.
I used to use the YHAs when fanging around on the bike – which usually made me the smelliest person there anyway. A couple of the purpose built ones weren’t bad if there wasn’t anyone else there.
JC you weren’t invited if you have to ask. If the union wukka’s are on 350k how much are the union bosses getting?
I can see the end. Dan Lenin resigns to pursue a quieter life, such as driving Lindsay Fox’s limo, and a sheila takes the job as the fall gal. The Liars usually had hand over the reigns to a sheila to take the fall.
Just saw Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning. Really impressive dumb movie: non stop crap. But at least its non-woke. The plot for want of a better word consists of an AI which wants to rule humans on account of climate change and the various nations want to control the AI on account of climate change. Cruise/Ethan says bullshit to that and proceeds to fall off cliffs regularly and tear up half of Venice. It’s been out just over a week and has proceeds of $370 mill against a $290 mill budget so it should be a nice earner. By way of comparison the latest really unimpressive dumb and woke Indiana Jones shit-fest has $335 mill against a $300 mill budget after nearly 4 weeks. Go woke go broke.
Gosh, our PM and his current squeeze, whatever her name is, are quite the radical pair. Attending Bully Bragg and Midnight Oil concerts, it must be quite nostalgic for Sleazy when he attends these concerts wearing activist t-shirts. I suppose, whilst he dances the night away at such concerts, he can recall those long ago days when he went around “fighting Tories”. However, despite the pair’s radical politics, neither Sleazy nor whatever her name is, do “chic” very well so I can’t imagine either of them ever receiving an invitation to a left bank salon or a Manhattan soiree. After all, even left bank and Manhattan radicals have standards.
The Oz is reporting….”Tony Abbott blasts PM’s voice ‘not about a treaty’ line
Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott has slammed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for claiming the voice was “not about a treaty” with Indigenous Australians, as a video resurfaced of the Prime Minister wearing a “Voice, Treaty, Truth” T-shirt.
The Prime Minister made the statement last week in a fiery conversation with radio host Ben Fordham on Sydney’s 2GB, becoming frustrated with questioning as he sought to set out the case for the referendum.
“I just say to you and I say to your listeners, read the question you are going to be asked about. It’s not about treaty, it’s not about compensation. It’s just about listening in order to get better governance,” Mr Albanese said.
In an interview with Mr Abbott on Monday, Fordham referred to a video shared by the Daily Mail in October 2022, where the Prime Minister wore the Midnight Oil’s “Voice, Treaty, Truth” T-shirt to their concert.
“Last week Anthony Albanese was here and he said to me that this is not about treaty but over the weekend someone sent me a video of the Prime Minister dancing at the Midnight Oil concert wearing a T-shirt that says ‘Voice, Treaty, Truth’,” Mr Fordham said.
Mr Abbott, replied: “Indeed. And I suppose this is the problem when you turn yourself into a billboard,” Mr Abbott said on the same program on Monday morning.
“And quite apart from anything the Prime Minister chose to wear at a concert, I go back to that initial statement he made as Prime Minister. The new government is committed to the Uluru statement from the Heart in full – in other words, voice, treaty, truth in full.
“It was, as I said, a moment of amnesia for the Prime Minister to deny here in this chair last week that the voice had anything to do with treaty. It has everything to do with treaty.
“The whole point of having a voice, if the activists are to be believed, is to start the treaty making process, and government minister’s have said as much.”
When the Prime Minister was asked in May if the voice would lead to a treaty and truth-telling, he said: “They are very much a part of the next phase, if you like”.
Supporters of an Indigenous voice have also said the body must be established so it can negotiate treaty.
The Prime Minister told 2GB last week, people should “not raise red herrings” and rejected suggestions he shouldn’t risk constitutional recognition for a “mildly popular voice”.
“We’re having a crack here … There isn’t one person (who worked on the Uluru statement) saying we shouldn’t do this. They’re saying this is an opportunity for Australians.”
Meanwhile, the Daily Mail is reporting that Sleazy the Word Slusher’s squeeze, whatever her name is, once posted a comment on her Linkedin page, where she wrote…
‘For me this week I commit to reading again the ‘Uluru Statement from the Heart’ it has three themes: Voice. Treaty. Voice.’
‘We so desperately need a First Nations voice to parliament … it would become an institution of lasting significance for First Nations and all of Australia’.
In one post last year, she shared a cartoon of an Aboriginal rights protester with the caption: ‘Sovereignty has never been ceded. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land. #ulurustatementfromtheheart #treaty #changethedate’, in which she appears to advocate for a treaty.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12329759/The-explosive-three-word-slogan-Anthony-Albanese-partner-embraced-promoting-treaty-Voice-backs-away-it.html
Typical boomer and geriatric rock behaviour.
The trouble with Amex FF is a lot of merchants add a fee, so you are effectively buying the points.
Oh, and when they say they aren’t adding it for a B2B transaction?
Trust me.
They are.
Whether it is economical to “buy” the points, I don’t know.
Yeah, sure, because we should award those liars out to game the system.
And there will be many who have no scruples about gaming it.
This reminds me of the outrage from the left after the Boxing Day tsunami, when John Howard offered umpteen millions of dollars of Australian taxpayer money to devastated Indonesia.
What angered the left was that Howard demanded a proper accounting of where exactly all the money was going to, not an unreasonable demand toward a country noted for corruption.
Black Ball, like all communist revolutionaries, Dictator Dan thinks you can keep screwing the ideological enemy, capitalism, without the free market reacting to the government’s confiscation of the wealth being generated by the free market.
Herr Andrews is creating a no-go zone for private investment that will eventually kill the taxation revenue on which he depends.
Like all communists, Andrews is cunning, but not very smart.
The Labor state government will eventually be thrown out and replaced briefly by the SFLs before the utopians are reinstated.
For the Victorian communist proletariat, the government creates wealth using the people’s money, doncha know.
Poor dumb schmucks.
Ha, I’ll tell my source JC.
The T word ain’t going to help the Yes cause outside Ultimo and Newtown.
Have they lost their enthusiasm for equity in outcomes?
The role of the inVoice is to cement the incontestable reign of a new aristocratic class, (and to redefine the concept of slavery).
(Were ‘commoners’ destined to receive more than scant benefit, one would expect the ‘Yes, or else’ campaign to be more focused on regional or remote individuals or families, and what the changes would mean to their quality of life. I imagine this ‘everyday Bob & Bindy’ approach might be more successful).
Dictator Dan is well known as a misogynist (which doesn’t bother leftists, coming from him).
And that’s not just because he has pushed more than a few female colleagues under a bus when he bears responsibility.
Elbow is 60 going on 16.
My hairdresser was worrying that her €3400 euro on a travel money card wouldn’t be enough for 4 weeks.
I said you’re going to need some cash, you’re not going to be buying coffees or granitas by card, so she reckoned another €2000 in cash.
Nooooo.
I took €800 cash for 9 weeks and came home with about €40. That and credit card for train tickets, the odd meal, some souvenirs and supermarkets.
My taxi in Melbourne is my youngest son though I now usually Uber to the airport in Paris last time I trammed and trained, super easy from the burb where I was staying and €14.
The only thing I can hope for is the tossers who vote for the liars are the hardest hurt. They are slow learners so probably won’t notice.
Australia doesn’t really allow much in the way of tax arbitrage- especially compared to the US. That doesn’t apply to setting up businesses on the East Coast. Workers Comp, IR, stamp duty, transport. It all adds up. Victoriastan will be out of the game for a couple of decades. They will pick up natural growth from an established population and that’s it. Anything discretionary, forget it.
Melbourne tower dwellers awarded compensation over illegal lockdown.
Andrews refused to apologise despite Ombudsman’s recommendation.
Victorians up for $5m+.
Small beer compared to $500m+ for the Games, I suppose.
Can you imagine?
But it’s okay because they have them uptheworkas in focus for their beneficence.
I know it costs the taxpayer but those tower lockdowns were a particular disgrace.
I know it costs the taxpayer but those tower lockdowns were a particular disgrace.
Only a psychopath could inflict such a thing on others.
Bear, the family business thing I co-own, was handed a 43% increase for the year’s WorkSafe premium.
It was on the news the other night and Dan said he makes no apologies for ensuring the pool is “sustainable”. I wonder if it means like 30% more injuries after allowing for the annual inflation rate?
Incidentally, we’ve never had a claim.
Yes, they were.
I was pointing out the cost of Andrews’s arrogance.
They would likely have negotiated a smaller settlement if that was forthcoming.
The apology, I meant.
Yeah, I once talked to a mate who worked at Q when staff got airfares for, I think, 10% or 20% of face value, saying how tasty that deal was.
He pointed out that, whilst it was handy, it wasn’t a free holiday.
Just looked at a couple of holidays we have taken, and the upcoming one to Japan.
Travelling front-ish in the aircraft, airfares are around 30-35% of the total (depends on length of holiday, obviously).
If you went economy, I reckon that would drop below 20%.
I always allow airport pick-up at 50.
Fifty of whatever the local currency is.
Some classic insults to lift the tone of the joint:
1. “I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play;
Bring a friend, if you have one.”
George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill.
“Cannot possibly attend first night, I will attend the second…If there is one.”
– Winston Churchill, in response.
2. A member of Parliament to Disraeli: “Sir, you will either die on the gallows, or of some unspeakable disease.”
· “That depends, Sir,” said Disraeli, “whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.”
3. “He had delusions of adequacy.” – Walter Kerr
4. “I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”
– Clarence Darrow
5. “He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”
– William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).
6.”Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time reading it.”
– Moses Hadas
7. “I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
– Mark Twain
8. “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends..”
– Oscar Wilde
9. “I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here.”
– Stephen Bishop
10.”He is a self-made man and worships his creator.”
– John Bright
11. “I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.”
– Irvin S. Cobb
12. “He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others.”
– Samuel Johnson
13. “He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.”
– Paul Keating
14. “In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.”
– Charles, Count Talleyrand
15. “He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.”
– Forrest Tucker
16. “Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”
– Mark Twain
17. “His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.”
– Mae West
18. “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”
– Oscar Wilde
19. “He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts… For support rather than illumination.”
– Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
20. “He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.”
– Billy Wilder
21. “I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.”
– Groucho Marx.
22.”He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
– Winston Churchill
Andrews’ reneging on the Commonwealth Games:
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/sport/2023/07/games/
I liked this one, Cronkite.
It reminded what a Hollywood honcho once said about attending the funeral of another Hollywood honcho.
It something like
Yeah, he was always good at giving people what they really wanted to see.
Milton, political psychopaths like Andrews not only believe they won’t be blamed for their incompetence, but that the rules don’t apply to them.
Andrews’ rule relies not only on double standards, but on acceptance of them by voters.
In all the industries I’ve worked in have never ever seen or heard about accidents that weren’t caused by workers doing stupid things. No amount of training or regulation beats stupid.
Agree there are hard core Dickhead lovers out there. I’ve had the misfortune to meet some of them. Thick as shit in the neck of a bog and nasty to boot. They tend to inhabit the dark heart of gubmint and semi gubmint instrumentalities.
You know, Alan sort of bumbled his way into being right.
His tweet
If he comparing it to COVID, he’s kinda suggesting Gerbil warming is no biggie.
‘The Perfect Crime’: Tech Companies Are Manipulating Our Elections and Indoctrinating Our Children — How We Can Stop Them
I’ve read accounts of that interchange being between John Wilkes – founding member of the Hellfire Club, and John Montague, Earl of Sandwich.
One of the good things about Uber, you now get flat rate taxi fares from places like CDG.
No more beating around the bush.
Two things going on there I reckon.
Firstly, the burgeoning claims for “soft” stuff like bullying, mis-gendering, yada, yada.
Secondly, he is setting it up for a surplus, which will produce a dividend straight into Treasury. This will be buried on page 458 of the Workcover annual report released on Grand Final eve next year.
Alan Kohler needs to have a quiet chat with Xi then.
You’re reading him very charitably, JC.
First, They Came for Your Gas Stove. Now They’re Coming for Your Hot Water Heater.
Reference.
“Anyone who can get Xxxxx to work for them will be extremely fortunate.”
Will the European Union Devolve into a Group of Third-World Countries?
Chatting with Bill Maher
Chief Nerd
@TheChiefNerd
Jordan Peterson on How Tyranny Forms & the Importance of Comedians
“A totalitarian state occurs when everyone lies about absolutely everything all the time”
Workers Comp is usually one of the first signs that the people in charge don’t know what they’re doing. Also vehicle licensing and compulsory third party. WA got hit with a WA Inc levy for a few years there till the books looked a bit more healthy.
SURPRISE!
Premier Andrews backflips on forced redundancies for 4,000 public servants in Victoria
Robin Monotti
@robinmonotti
For 3 years we heard the denialists drone the mantra “correlation is not causation” whenever someone collapsed shortly after a Covid injection.
Now, at every sign of summer or of any fire: IT’S CLIMATE CHANGE! GLOBAL WARMING!!
Supposedly, an officer’s confidential report.
“This officer’s troops would follow him anywhere, if only out of curiosity.”
As I’ve said before, we have Monash (aka the sewer) and Melbourne unis thank for this abomination in Spring St.
Dr John Campbell
Excess deaths, lack of debate
not only believe they won’t be blamed for their incompetence,
We continue to fool ourselves with the belief that non-accountability applies only to poollies.
That myth was created by the Public Service who are the source of all of Australia’s problems.
Robodebt is an exemplar but is only the one that got away.
The PS are a criminal gfang.
Insurance offers plenty of scope for fiddles because the accounts are full of provisions, hollow logs and historical assets. The sort of temptations irresistible to politicians on a 3 or 4 year electoral cycle. See also: FAI and HIH.
Not sure all the APS will escape Robodebt. Hope I’m not proved wrong.
Speaking of which, that Campbell woman has resigned.
A welcome development, but she shouldn’t be made a scapegoat for political failures.
Michael Gove ADMITS He’s Changed His Mind On Net Zero
How to Identify & Resist Manipulation Techniques of Behavioural Scientists, Governments & Big Tech
There’s enough blame for everyone. SloMo, Porter and Robert are hardly setting the world on fire post politics. You would be flat out trying to give SloMo away I reckon.
Shouldn’t be allowed to dig at all?
Inherently ridiculous.
What priceless precious irreplaceable Aboriginal artefacts are there going to be found?
Apparently most sites are ‘surface scatters’ of ‘chipped stone, and sometimes animal bone, shell, , charcoal, hearth stones, clay balls and ochre’.
Farage vs Coutts
And if you are on 1100 square metres in the burbs it’s going to have been bulldozed and dug and tramped a thousand times already.
Thanks for the 1945 link, Bruce.
The “priceless, precious irreplaceable Aboriginal artifacts” at the Juankan caves were some bones, sharpened sticks and pieces of charcoal.
Tonight on Blot, Andrew Blot asked Gary Johns the following question in regards to John’s book “The Burden of Culture”…
“Are you sorry about anything you’ve written in the book?
Johns replied..
“Oh no, not at all”.
That’s how you stand up to scream, shouts and screeches to silence you from the left, particularly when one those sanctimonious screamers, shouters and screechers is that north shore poisonous frog by the name of Matt Keen Green.
Hmmm
Never noticed Amber Herd bumping cocaine during her trial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW1-qAm7gNA&feature=youtu.be
These cops are lying pricks. Pro-child mutilation cop stole drugs and nearly died.
Thank the lord no one trusts them any more.
Transdermal patches are slow-release. If it was dry crystals it would be even slower. Contact highs are basically BS.
https://youtu.be/s_pRi37yLBQ
Who would downvote Cassie’s last comment? She’s right and so is Gary Johns.
“No, I won’t resign, facts don’t care about your feelings…”
Section 129 of the constitution would merely give the Commonwealth another body it can control whilst it could almost never be wound up.
It won’t help any particular community group, let alone the indigenous.
“Who would downvote Cassie’s last comment? “
One of the goblins that lurks here.
I brought two copies of that book. One’s sitting on my library shelf, the other is doing the rounds of all the unrepentant rednecks I know.
And that’s not just because he has pushed more than a few female colleagues under a bus when he bears responsibility.
Jacinta Allan should be nervous
Ed might be in moderation, but that probably does not prevent him from “Down Voting” comments?
Just had a quick squiz of this interview with Bettina Arndt. She’s a strong lady with all the BS she has been put through. As for wanting to be male teacher today …f*ck that. One accusation from a skank are you are thrown to the wolves. Career over.
Will watch in full at a later date.
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The Unshackled:
WilmsFront Feature – The Unravelling of MeToo2.0 with Bettina Arndt
Consuegra, Don Quixote and “Tilting at Windmills”
One of the world’s oldest novels, written by Cervantes, originates from this area: “Don Quixote and Sancho, mounted on a donkey, set out. In their first adventure, Don Quixote mistakes a field of windmills for giants and attempts to fight them but finally concludes that a magician must have turned the giants into windmills.”
The quaint historic town of Consuegra is home to an impressive attraction of 12 white tower windmills, used for grinding grain. Situated on a windy ridge with its own medieval castle (just a tower for a garrison) surrounded by the plains of Castilla-La Mancha. They were used until 1980‘s and most are still operational.
We also visited Tembleque and its famous Plaza Mayor (Square) – a fabulous example of Castilian architecture, following the design of old open-air theatres. On top, there are two floors with corridors that are held up by wooden pillars, white washed facades, “and the scandrels of the rails are decorated with the cross of Saint John”, says spain.com. Stunning!
We ate some rolls in the town square, along with some men of the village. A nearby town had some murals of Don Quixote and a lovely church.
Dot, leave Amber Heard alone.