Open Thread – Tues 25 July 2023
973 responses to “Open Thread – Tues 25 July 2023”
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Robert Sewell
Jul 26, 2023 7:42 PM
JC
Jul 26, 2023 4:46 PM
SanchezHow are you doing with the iodine stock. I’m running pretty low at the moment. Can you spare a couple of liters?
Funny you should mention that, JC. I took delivery of 3 packs of Iostat – Potassium Iodide tabs 130mg from Survival Supplies Australia – a bit pricey at $35 a pack. Not really worth it for old people like you and me, but for people below 50 who still use a bit of iodine to keep their Thyroid gland happy, it’s essential.
Instructions are given as well as doses for youngsters who require a lot more than us by weight to block the uptake of radioactive iodine.
I’ve spoken to a few pharmacists to find out if there’s a stocking regime or even if there’s a program that will be activated to ensure availability under certain conditions. The ability of any government to get blocking doses of iodine to non city areas is not even worth considering.
I’m also chasing up Lugols iodine solution which is a formulation for people who have had a goitre removal operation. Just waiting for an expiry date reply from the seller.
I’ll keep you posted.Be careful, too much iodine can cause Hashimoto’s Disease, an autoimmune attack on the thyroid.
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Armchair Warlord
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The Russian Army just blasted open a 12-kilometer hole in the Ukrainian front line and captured more terrain in a week than Ukraine has in the last two months of their counteroffensive.Not in the news for obvious reasons.
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A man broke into a high school’s milking shed
While there he committed acts of bestiality
He was on a five-day ice bender at the timeOh, feel cryin’ out loud.
Do we have to go back over this again every time!
– Love is love.
– Right side of history
– International pariah
– All the models
– White supremacy
– Outdated social mores
– Made in China
Right? I trust I have made my point.
Don’t make me have to explain it all again!
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It is equally unfair to do it to Bungjourno, no matter what you might think of him
That’s the little johnnie/every so called conservative position; pretend there are rules. There are none. You smash the left and when they splutter you smash them again. Metaphorically of course. I am not for the minute suggesting you actually hit anyone with a hickory axe handle.
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How are you doing with the iodine stock.
Fun fact!
In the movie Full Metal Jacket there is a scene in a helicopter with a guy firing the machine gun onto the paddies below.
There is an urban myth that he is shouting out “Get some! Get some!”
What?
He was, of course, shouting “Gypsum! Gypsum!” The people he was shooting at were gypsum farmers, and a lot was being smuggled to some bad guy called Charlie.
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Cassie of Sydney
Jul 26, 2023 8:10 PM
“Robert Sewell”Good to see you Robert.
Thanks Cassie. We found another branch of the family that we’d lost when us kids were put into the Home, but it took a death in their family to draw the relationship out.
Lot’s of bad blood when a cousin realised they had to share a near 8 figure inheritance with us, who hadn’t been forgotten by the Uncle.
I thought it was a good chance to discover new people we were related to, but was rebuffed.
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Bespoke:
My wife was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Disease and autoimmune after she almost died from meningococcal meningitis. Her brain sweld up and was comatose for over a week.
That’s a terrible time to go through, sitting at the bedside and not knowing how bad it will get.
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Numbers was buggering the cow in Toowoomba?
Oh George not the livestock
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Not in the news for obvious reasons.
Is that because it never happened?
You’ll have to translate the place names for us. I can’t read cyrillic. I suppose I could go geolocate that place on Goolag maps, but I’m too busy playing a computer game. Perhaps you could give us more detail for this interesting development.
Yes, I’m not seeing any references on the net, but Elon still won’t let me see Twitter oops X feeds that I’d bookmarked. So there’s that.
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On Chris Kenny. He’s just finished yet another diatribe about those who do not support the InVoice and how great it will be if it gets up.
Perhaps he’s been taken over by aliens – or he’s a ventriloquist’s dummy – and is being forced to repeat the most stupid, naive rubbish.
All that’s left now, is for his head to start moving right to left and back again, like one of those clowns at a side show, to confirm he’s lost all control of his faculties.
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This is obviously a plot by Hollywood to discredit the writers in their strike action.
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These clips are fantastic snapshots in time. Checkout what happens @3:09. Does it remind you of someone? ( :
Wonderful New York in the early 1900s in color! [A.I. enhanced & colorized]
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On Chris Kenny. He’s just finished yet another diatribe about those who do not support the InVoice and how great it will be if it gets up.
It’s strange: on every other leftie BS from climate change, ruinables to gender crap he is spot on. It’s as though his brain still has a little sliver of leftoid brain cell from his time with turdball. Perhaps an intervention and exorcism is in order.
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Perfect harmony and chemistry between these two. Reading the comments from various clips, a lot of people are just discovering this song in 2023.
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cohenite
Jul 26, 2023 8:55 PM
On Chris Kenny. He’s just finished yet another diatribe about those who do not support the InVoice and how great it will be if it gets up.
It’s strange: on every other leftie BS from climate change, ruinables to gender crap he is spot on. It’s as though his brain still has a little sliver of leftoid brain cell from his time with turdball.
They all perceive themselves as Mini-Me MLKs who want to “be on the right side of history”.
And, like Sheridan, he has spent too long talking to Canbra people and ends up believing the rest of the country gives a shit about what they natter earnestly about over their almond lattes in Canbra. -
John H, what do you think of the dog kidney cell incubated flu vaccines that are being dished out to everyone aged 9 – 65 at the moment?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4514150/Surely by implication the quadrivalent jabs being given to kiddies under the NIP and to people over 65, and not described as “cell-based”, must be the old egg-based ones?
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All of that area in last week.
Sounds big! Four kilometres.
At least something is getting into the MSM. Newsweek now has a mention too.
We should thank Big Serge and Simplicius for these glorious reports of Russian manly advances.I love the propaganda from both sides. It is like the climate and Covid rubbish, totally unbelieveable but reported gravely with po faces. Anyone know if Comical Ali is still alive? He’d be in great demand.
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Old Lefty
Jul 26, 2023 9:12 PM
Dane Alison Rose = woke version of Yes Prime Minister’s Sir Desmond Glazebrook?
Yes.
The 2023 version of sound chaps from a good school sorting things out over lunch at the club.
The thing is, NatWest isn’t just regulated by the UK gummint.
They still own nearly half of it after bailing it out (as RBS).
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Anyone who’s political views on ‘inclusiveness’ don’t align with ours is excluded.
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Colonel Crispin Berka
Jul 26, 2023 9:51 PM
John H, what do you think of the dog kidney cell incubated flu vaccines that are being dished out to everyone aged 9 – 65 at the moment?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4514150/Surely by implication the quadrivalent jabs being given to kiddies under the NIP and to people over 65, and not described as “cell-based”, must be the old egg-based ones?
No idea. Don’t get the flu shot, don’t get the flu. The embryonated egg based vaccines are relatively inefficient, hence the shift.
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feelthebern
Jul 26, 2023 10:10 PM
Late to the party but 730 had a story on the DPP (or do they call it the OPP down there) & the Simon Overland protection racket.
I didn’t see it on account of having drilled a hole through “2” on the dial on the HMV to avoid watching that shit.
Anything useful?
Incidentally, after he left VikPol he did five years with the Tassie DoJ and resigned at the end of his five year term (i.e. got marching orders).
He then went to Wittlesea Council on the outskirts of Melbourne. Put on gardening leave then rissoled after two years.
Ask yourself.
Why are they running interference for a long gone nobody?
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Ticked another one off the bucket list today….
A hot lap of Bathurst!!
Ok it was in the Ute and there was a 60 kph speed limit
And there was a police car circling
But I did it !There was a fatality there today. No witnesses, but the dead man from a caved in front end suggests a speed well north of 60kph.
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Those articles on NatWest are sickening.
Issuing demands to “de-carbonise”, throwing money at ruinables with gay abandon, hand-wringing about the “reputational damage” having Farage as a client might do.
This bank only exists because of the enforced generosity of the UK taxpayer, bailing them out with a GBP 20 billion equity stake, which the government seems to be having trouble selling down.
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This is interesting. An AI generated trailer for “Barbenheimer”, the Movie.
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Sounds big! Four kilometres.
Is a bridgehead roughly 4 km deep and 12 km long across a river that has no significant natural obstacle until the Oskil River in the west that will if reached (1) split in two Ukrainian forces east of the Oskil and (2) make the position of the Ukrainians at Krasny Lyman difficult, insignificant? I don’t think so.
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I will get the butcher’s paper out in the morning but it appears that RBS/NatWest has been the worst performing of the UK 2008 bank bailouts … daylight second.
They got roughly one-third of the 130 bn bailout money.
The entire bailout regime is net cash positive, with all participating banks in the black in terms of capital repaid and other fees contributed.
Except one.
NatWest.
Still in the hole to the tune of $30 bn.
I wouldn’t mind betting that, up until now, this has been regarded as sunk cost by the government and long forgotten by the public.
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chrisl
Jul 26, 2023 9:37 PMTicked another one off the bucket list today….
A hot lap of Bathurst!!Ok it was in the Ute and there was a 60 kph speed limit
And there was a police car circling
But I did it !My Kids gave a birthday present to me of a couple of Hot laps with John Bowe in Racing Holden in Front Seat in Feburuary 2017 – slightly damp so quite interesting
Made me appreciated the Guy John Keran, I used to navigate for in Works Volvo Team in 60s with his crash in Holden Torana XU1 in 1970
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Bruce of Newcastle
Jul 26, 2023 9:59 PMAll of that area in last week.
Sounds big! Four kilometres.
At least something is getting into the MSM. Newsweek now has a mention too.
We should thank Big Serge and Simplicius for these glorious reports of Russian manly advances.
I love the propaganda from both sides. It is like the climate and Covid rubbish, totally unbelieveable but reported gravely with po faces. Anyone know if Comical Ali is still alive? He’d be in great demand.
BON,
I am curious – do you think Ukraine/America/NATO are winning in Ukraine?
Have you read
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/russia-raises-stakes-with-bold-strike
Fully?
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I will get the butcher’s paper out in the morning but it appears that RBS/NatWest has been the worst performing of the UK 2008 bank bailouts
RBS had Bankwest (the old R&I) for a while. Till the RBA thought it was a good idea that the Commonwealth bought it. More than a few feathers ruffled in the West through that process.
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RBS had Bankwest (the old R&I) for a while. Till the RBA thought it was a good idea that the Commonwealth bought it. More than a few feathers ruffled in the West through that process
A mate worked for a couple of the Big Four banks in Melbourne and overseas, then spent a little time at Bankwest.
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. Western Sydney councilor accused of ‘reverse racism’
. Recent community meeting was held solely in Mandarin
. Non-Mandarin speaking residents refused a translationWhen locals arrived at a meeting conducted by Councillor Kun Huang, many were shocked to discover it was being held only in Mandarin, 2GB’s Ben Fordham reports.
Non-Mandarin speakers sat in silence for about 20 minutes before a man stood up and asked if they could be provided with an English translation.
Cumberland City Councillor Steve Christou, who also attended the meeting, also spoke up on behalf of non-Mandarin speakers.
‘We’re here because we want the community united on this, not certain sections of the community where we are divided,’ he says in audio from the meeting.
‘The whole community needs to be united and informed.’
‘We did mention, that this presentation is in Chinese,’ a man responds.
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Crossie
Jul 27, 2023 12:08 AMWestern Sydney councilor accused of ‘reverse racism’
. Recent community meeting was held solely in Mandarin
. Non-Mandarin speaking residents refused a translationThere is no such thing as reverse racism, it just racism.
I don’t understand how such a thing could happen in the first place?
I can only assume that it was supposed to be a private meeting for Chinese speaking residents to explain what’s going on that affects them.Was it made clear though for everyone else, so that they don’t need to attend?
I’m being generous here and take it as a misunderstanding.
Something that a few years ago would’ve been unthinkable.Give an inch … comes to mind, once a certain % in numbers is achieved attitudes change.
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Bespoke:
Some brain function and a crook eye, Robert. She can’t work enymore but is enjoying being a house wife and advocate for victims of crime.
Good outcome – as I’ve just explained to SP, the uncertainty of the severity of the disease creates an almost unbearable burden on the relations – every setback creates a whiplash low, and every improvement brings on the “Is this just a reprieve?” worry.
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https://youtu.be/QfzoTerpRP4
From the Australian Armour & Artillery Museum.
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“Industries in space are a leap too far at the moment.”
Some processes work better in zero G – certain chemical reactions, for example.
Other processes are impossible to make in a gravity well but can be done in zero G – foamed metals, for example.
Having these valuable processes in low Earth orbit would be a good kick-start to mining an asteroid. That, I believe, is the sort of path that Elon Musk sees – get reasonably cheap and reliable transport to space and then start making money off it. Then go to Mars or the asteroid belt and so on once you have gotten it fairly routine to send people and materials into orbit and already have a significant warehouse/factory/habitat/resources in orbit.Of course, at that point you want to think about trying to make a “space elevator” – an asteroid in geosynchronous orbit with a tether that reaches the earths surface. Then you can just “climb up” the tether to get to space. The big issue is finding a tether material strong enough and light enough to do the job, but we’ll figure it out if we live long enough.
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