Open Thread – Tues 25 July 2023


The Choice of Hercules, Annibale Carracci, 1596

973 responses to “Open Thread – Tues 25 July 2023”

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  1. John H. Avatar
    John H.

    Robert Sewell
    Jul 26, 2023 7:42 PM
    JC
    Jul 26, 2023 4:46 PM
    Sanchez

    How 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.

  2. Cassie of Sydney Avatar
    Cassie of Sydney

    “Robert Sewell”

    Good to see you Robert.

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  3. dover0beach Avatar

    Armchair Warlord
    @ArmchairW
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    5h
    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.

    Let’s talk about it. ??

    Not in the news for obvious reasons.

  4. Mother Lode Avatar
    Mother Lode

    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 time

    Oh, 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    – Outdated social mores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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  5. Mother Lode Avatar
    Mother Lode

    Sod Auto-corrupt!

    Fer cryin’ out loud!

  6. Mother Lode Avatar
    Mother Lode

    The Russian Army just blasted open a 12-kilometer hole in the Ukrainian front line

    Closer than an asteroid, I suppose.

  7. bespoke Avatar
    bespoke

    John H

    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.

  8. cohenite Avatar
    cohenite

    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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  9. Indolent Avatar
    Indolent

    Dr. John Campbell on Vitamin D deficiency.

    Common deficiency and dementia

  10. Johnny Rotten Avatar

    Mother Lode
    Jul 26, 2023 8:15 PM
    The Russian Army just blasted open a 12-kilometer hole in the Ukrainian front line

    And your link to the evidence is where? Please post asap.

  11. Mother Lode Avatar
    Mother Lode

    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.

  12. Robert Sewell Avatar

    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.
    Could have really done without the civilised nastiness.

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  13. Bar Beach Swimmer Avatar
    Bar Beach Swimmer

    Bishop is one of the few women who would make Barbie look overweight.

    And sound like a Nobel Prize winner.

  14. Bourne1879 Avatar
    Bourne1879

    For those on Twitter you may have noted Toowoomba trending.

    Involves a case where the defendant cant be mentioned but a quick search on Twitter and you will find plenty of hints and even direct mentions of the name.

    This message will self destruct in 5 seconds.

  15. Robert Sewell Avatar

    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.
    Did she make a full recovery?

  16. thefrollickingmole Avatar
    thefrollickingmole

    Numbers was buggering the cow in Toowoomba?

    Oh George not the livestock
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1a33sr9UGvo

  17. Sancho Panzer Avatar
    Sancho Panzer

    Be careful, too much iodine can cause Hashimoto’s Disease, an autoimmune attack on the thyroid.

    Surely not?
    There’s too much of a good thing?

  18. Bruce of Newcastle Avatar
    Bruce of Newcastle

    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.

  19. bespoke Avatar
    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.

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  20. John H. Avatar
    John H.

    Sancho Panzer
    Jul 26, 2023 8:42 PM
    Be careful, too much iodine can cause Hashimoto’s Disease, an autoimmune attack on the thyroid.

    Surely not?
    There’s too much of a good thing?

    I’m more concerned about my lack of bad things. It’s time to get the mutations and inflammaging ramped up.

  21. Bar Beach Swimmer Avatar
    Bar Beach Swimmer

    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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  22. Mother Lode Avatar
    Mother Lode

    And your link to the evidence is where? Please post asap.

    The quote was from a tweet (or an ‘X’, depending on whether it was copied from a laptop or a hand-held device).

    I made my comment in light of the posts about blasting asteroids to get to all the minerally goodness inside.

  23. thefrollickingmole Avatar
    thefrollickingmole

    This is obviously a plot by Hollywood to discredit the writers in their strike action.

    https://twitter.com/StarTrek/status/1682857446036086784

  24. Rosie Avatar
    Rosie

    Figured that Toowoomba conundrum out last year.
    Could be a chancer making a false allegation because someone was in the news.

  25. Steve trickler Avatar
    Steve trickler

    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]

  26. cohenite Avatar
    cohenite

    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.

  27. Mother Lode Avatar
    Mother Lode

    I wonder if the old sepia pictures of San Francisco obliterate the contrast between the faeces and the foreground?

    Hence the nickname, the Whiffy City.

  28. dover0beach Avatar

    Is that because it never happened?

    It’s on Deep State map. Look west of Svatove, across the Zherebets River. All of that area in last week.

  29. Old Lefty Avatar
    Old Lefty

    Dane Alison Rose = woke version of Yes Prime Minister’s Sir Desmond Glazebrook?

  30. Bar Beach Swimmer Avatar
    Bar Beach Swimmer

    “My Barbie doll was foreign minister Barbie so it just goes to show that Barbie can be anything, including foreign minister,” she said.

    Does she not see the irony in that statement?

  31. Mother Lode Avatar
    Mother Lode

    “My Barbie doll was foreign minister Barbie so it just goes to show that Barbie can be anything, including foreign minister,” she said.

    Well if she did not have ‘Prime Minister Barbie’ then she should lay off blaming the Liberal Party men for her not getting the top gig.

    She did it to herself.

  32. Steve trickler Avatar
    Steve trickler

    Perfect harmony and chemistry between these two. Reading the comments from various clips, a lot of people are just discovering this song in 2023.

    Chris Norman, Suzi Quatro – Stumblin’ in (Official Video)

  33. hzhousewife Avatar
    hzhousewife

    Sky cannot afford to have wall to wall No Voicers, Kenny is “proof” the Sky is NOT the ABC, who only present one side. He’s the fall guy. We won’t watch him.

  34. chrisl Avatar
    chrisl

    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 !

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  35. Sancho Panzer Avatar
    Sancho Panzer

    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.

  36. Colonel Crispin Berka Avatar
    Colonel Crispin Berka

    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?

  37. Dot Avatar

    Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
    A kiddley divey too, wouldn’t you?
    Yes! Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
    A kiddley divey too, wouldn’t you?

    Shut up. Where’s my garmonbozia, warm cream guy?

  38. Bruce of Newcastle Avatar
    Bruce of Newcastle

    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.

  39. Sancho Panzer Avatar
    Sancho Panzer

    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).
    FMD.

  40. Dot Avatar

    So it’s corruption then…

    (ZWORP!)

    (I am reorganising the NATO…)

  41. Rosie Avatar
    Rosie

    Anyone who’s political views on ‘inclusiveness’ don’t align with ours is excluded.
    Good to see some jumping up and down by the government over this.

    It said that to have Mr Farage as a customer was not consistent with Coutts’ “position as an inclusive organisation” given his “publicly stated views”.

  42. feelthebern Avatar
    feelthebern

    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.

  43. John H. Avatar
    John H.

    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.

  44. The Beer whisperer Avatar
    The Beer whisperer

    Could have really done without the civilised nastiness.

    What sort of person salivates over dead family members? Some people are sick. Sorry, many people are sick.

  45. feelthebern Avatar
    feelthebern

    Channel surfing tonight & some great movies on.
    Killing them Softly is such a great movie.
    so is No Country for Old Men.
    and a little bit of the Total Recall remake (which should have been named something else as it was a great sci fi movie but not a patch on the original).

  46. Sancho Panzer Avatar
    Sancho Panzer

    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?
    Simon knows stuff.

  47. The Beer whisperer Avatar
    The Beer whisperer

    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.

  48. Razey Avatar
    Razey

    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 time

    It’s ok, he identifies as a gay trans sheep. It’s all perfectly moral and legit.

  49. Sancho Panzer Avatar
    Sancho Panzer

    Rosie at 10:10.
    Summink happened fast.
    That report was 13 hours ago and it reads like chairman Sir Desmond Glazebrook (h/t whoever revived that one) was in “wet lettuce slap, possible trimming of bonus” mode.
    Nek minnit, goneski.

  50. Sancho Panzer Avatar
    Sancho Panzer

    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.
    F-cking leeches.

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  51. Muddy Avatar
    Muddy

    Future headlines?
    Secret Premiers’ Blackout List – Andrews Chooses to Switch Off Aged Care.

    Nation Already Renamed – Too Late says Emperor Albanese.

    Non-Indigenous to Receive Invader Status on New Passports.

    Petrol Hand Pumps Mandatory Under Latest Climate Change Rules.

  52. Muddy Avatar
    Muddy

    The inVoice is pretty insensitive to the hearing impaired.

  53. dover0beach Avatar

    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.

  54. Sancho Panzer Avatar
    Sancho Panzer

    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.
    But I think we can expect some heavy scrutiny of their repayment performance now.

  55. OldOzzie Avatar
    OldOzzie

    chrisl
    Jul 26, 2023 9:37 PM

    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 !

    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

  56. Gabor Avatar
    Gabor

    The Beer whisperer
    Jul 26, 2023 10:17 PM

    Could have really done without the civilised nastiness.

    What sort of person salivates over dead family members? Some people are sick. Sorry, many people are sick.

    What am I missing? Didn’t detect any ‘salivating’ in his post.

  57. OldOzzie Avatar
    OldOzzie

    Bruce of Newcastle Avatar
    Bruce of Newcastle
    Jul 26, 2023 9:59 PM

    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.

    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?

  58. H B Bear Avatar
    H B Bear

    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.

  59. Sancho Panzer Avatar
    Sancho Panzer

    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.
    Let’s just say some of the risk management practices there offended his Eastern sensibilities.

  60. OldOzzie Avatar
    OldOzzie

    Aussies unleash as councillor holds meeting entirely in Mandarin Chinese without any English translation

    . Western Sydney councilor accused of ‘reverse racism’
    . Recent community meeting was held solely in Mandarin
    . Non-Mandarin speaking residents refused a translation

    When 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.

  61. Crossie Avatar
    Crossie

    Western Sydney councilor accused of ‘reverse racism’
    . Recent community meeting was held solely in Mandarin
    . Non-Mandarin speaking residents refused a translation

    There is no such thing as reverse racism, it just racism.

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  62. Gabor Avatar
    Gabor

    Crossie
    Jul 27, 2023 12:08 AM

    Western Sydney councilor accused of ‘reverse racism’
    . Recent community meeting was held solely in Mandarin
    . Non-Mandarin speaking residents refused a translation

    There 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.

  63. Robert Sewell Avatar

    Sancho Panzer:

    Surely not?
    There’s too much of a good thing?

    Don’t be so flippant – Hashimotos Disease is a nasty little bugger of an illness. The major issue is you don’t know how bad it will get until it’s over.

  64. Robert Sewell Avatar

    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.

  65. Robert Sewell Avatar

    https://youtu.be/QfzoTerpRP4
    From the Australian Armour & Artillery Museum.
    The final episode of the Grant tank restoration.

  66. Kneel Avatar
    Kneel

    “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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