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I see m0ron deflecting again, throwing out distraction squirrels while his DEI deviant team continue to ruin our economy and…
I see m0ron deflecting again, throwing out distraction squirrels while his DEI deviant team continue to ruin our economy and…
But, but, how will the fem skipper be able to watch the Kardashians without the dish? Priorities people! 😀
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“Eighteen Days inn October” contains the statement that, on October 20th, 1973, an Israeli pilot named Giora Even notched his…
SP @ 8:34pm
+1000
I’ve had a reduction.
Yep.
It’s cardigans at full blast with some prescription meds mixed with red or scotch. The only missing element is ‘if I were 30 years younger I’d….’
Ed October was different. Flat out incitement, looking to tease out wacisty Grampian Nazi commentary from the weak before going on the squeal.
A failed enabler.
Thanks.
But, please.
No plussing.
It sets JC off.
The midget cheat has left the playing fields of Blighty for the last time, as reported just now.
Thankfully and amazingly, he didn’t have the colossal effrontery to raise his bat as he left the ground.
Hopefully he knows it’s over.
My ears were burning, and I was wondering why they were burning, and so reading upthread I came cross something I wrote earlier this year…
“every word Vijaya Gadde says is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.””
I stand by that statement about Vijaya Gadde. She blatantly lied on Joe Rogan about Meghan Murphy’s banning from Twitter, which she was behind. It was Gadde who turned Twitter into her own personal progressive sewer, banning conservatives left, right and centre, in fact banning anyone from the right of centre whose opinions she disliked
However, under no circumstances was I referring to people of the subcontinent as a whole. I like Indians and Bangladeshis. As for lying, people of all ethnicities/cultures lie, sadly it’s part of the human condition, and it’s not confined to any race. As for Gadde’s lies, they weren’t due to her ethnicity, they were a result of her progressive politics. Progressivism is a lie and progressives lie.
I know who I regard as credible, and it ain’t Marcia Langton.
I don’t know about this blog – I don’t come here that often – but it is apparent from his comments on C.L.’s blog that Ed has a visceral hatred of women (especially conservatives and those in the Liberal Party), unless your name happens to be Brittany or Katy Gallagher or other Labor types.
Just been watching white “Voice architect” Megan Davis on Sky News wailing about losing the referendum.
When are they going to do something about fat chicks?
The Dark Emu/Bruce Pascoe fabrications and the stoush between Langton and Walshe and Sutton is funny because Walshe and Sutton are old school lefties.
I do always enjoy it when the left eat their own.
Cassie
Just to be very clear, the comment I posted had zero to do with you and it was clear that you were singling out the nasty piece of work, and not 1.2 billion people. I even made emphasis in a subsequent comment to highlight this.
You made a comment about that individual. Turtlehead decided to topper that by 1.2 billion which was what I was highlight.
…and being unwilling “to debate historical records”…
Anything by Daisy Bates or is it all strictly the modern version of historical records?
She’s a horrible old grifter, fellated far above her station.
But is Sutton and co had any real pushback the time was 40 years ago when they were in a position to call out the crap
She would have been ideal as the wicked queen in the new Snow White film.
I have never seen anyone look as visibly bitter and sour as she does all the time.
“Just to be very clear, the comment I posted had zero to do with you and it was clear that you were singling out the nasty piece of work, and not 1.2 billion people. I even made emphasis in a subsequent comment to highlight this.”
I know that JC.
Okay then, but calling out over a billion people ugly liars doesn’t reach your disgust level then, which is my point.
You’d think the Greens would put a Bill up or something. Massive carbon factories, they are.
C.L.s blog raising the issue “Do we have to display the Aboriginal and T.S.I. flag while announcing the deaths of AUSTRALIAN servicemen?”
Let me finally get to the point. The great thing about the Right is that you don’t see so much naked tribalism as you do and we’re currently witnessing on the Left. Always call out feral bullshit and not take sides by excusing yours.
Quite apart from anything else, if you are spouting “defending fweedom and democwacy” and simultaneously advocating bulk summary execution of your opponents, you’ve kind of missed the point.
Bit like the clown who spent months bitching and moaning about Dan’s Lockdowns being enforced by a compliant Police Force (and fair enough).
But, nek minnit, he is cheering on street executions of drug dealers President Duterte in the Philippines because it “fixed the drug problem”.
Did it though?
If you’re prepared to endorse the summary execution of 3,300 people (half of whom were killed by “unknown assailants”), you are probably not above fudging drug crime statistics.
It now emerges that many of the “drug executions” were simply score-settling between rivals.
So.
8 o’clock curfew? … Huge infringement of rights.
3,300 summary executions? … meh.
The toll has been estimated as high as 30,000 or more.
That is the difference.
Calling out the poor behaviour of an individual cannot be characterised as racism.
I’m chuffed by people’s concern for the blog but repeating comments you believe could be construed as actionable, privately or publicly, again and again, and in several threads is probably not helpful.
A fact that certain interest groups do not readily accept, when a first nations has been slung out of the pub.
Perhaps if the offending comments didn’t appear in the first place, Dover, the opportunity to repeat them would be limited.
Oh like what “interest groups” eggsactly?
Say you’re not making shit up again for self serving blowhard reasons. Say it ain’t so. Not tonight.
this is the possibly the most idiotic thing I’ve heard all year
are you working it out yet Dover?
Citation required.
+1
Trans
I wouldn’t reverse those two enlightening comments if I were you.
Citation required.
Please. Nobody here was offended. Are you suggesting self censorship to pre empt complaints. Let’s not put a dampener on freedom to offend. It’s what makes this place so entertaining and lively.
Most definitely citation required.
Regarding the health & reputation of the blog, I believe it’s important to consider patterns, rather than isolated incidents.
Most of us who are human have moments of frustration or exasperation.
Oh okay.
Nobody, not one of the indig posters here was offended by the naval/agriculture/political/sporting/jacaranda/corflute’s comments about IQs of 60.
Are you sure? How do you know?
Agreed. Putting berley out to tempt the weak is a whole different bag of sweaty cats.
The lesbians are killing it.
That is how the debate is always framed: The single progressive narrative vs racists.
There can never be two views arguing points of merit.
And Langton saying Sutton has not read historical records? The historical records have underwritten the hunter-gatherer view for a couple of centuries. Pascoe’s spin is novel distortions and far-fetched interpretations of topography to summon up imagined fields of grain, silos, towns, observatories, and science.
So, first grow a dick & balls, then be here when next we’ve reason to sling out a first nations.
Use your people skills on the ensuing …er… situation. Call ’em a few names, like you do in here – should work?
Nah.
For mine it’s ‘god oracle’ and people shit their pants when I come into the room’.
That will never get old.
LOL, Muds, you’re such a one trick pony.
Would regurgitating such frustrations or exasperation several times fit in as patterns or just “collectively” as isolated incidences? I’m only asking because you know I believe you’re as straight as the Eyre Highway in these matters.
KD, that one may be true.
Has anybody actually done a verifiable “contents of pants” inspection after whorevver it is enters a room?
Zackerly…….
Driller
Oh so someone needs to grow a dick and balls and get over to the motel quick pronto to see it in action?
But, it still doesn’t satisfy the citation required to provide evidence to your assertion. As in the past and not some time in the future.
You mean like dago? That should work down here too. To use your old axiom (sort of), try that here bloke, and you’ be arse kicked back up to the Queersland border with a foot in your fat mouth.
KD can the Aussies make the required total (384). Run rate seems to have slowed.
That’s been marked for the comment of the year. It’s a shoe in for the asshat of the year award. Not given every year either. The comment has to earn it first like the Nobel.
No.
Just cease and desist from making outrageous assertions that we need to execute lefties by the cattletruck load, especially when the mincing poodle making the threat is all mouth and no trousers and has no ability or will to carry out the threat anyway.
Except if the lefties are on their last legs and can be despatched by tying a reef knot in their IV.
Yes. Yes they can. Just under 150 to get, with two sessions left to play. The 384 total will be the sixth highest fourth-innings run chase in Test history, should the rain not intrude.
Seven wickets in the shed. It should be all right.
If it gets down to the wire (which I won’t be awake to see), I ask that Todd Murphy hit the winning runs with seven minutes left.
Yes, you.
It will.
You’ll think of more apt words – your people skills & good manners will guide you to some appropriate terminology.
You haven’t got what it takes.
I’ve mentioned before that regular people shouldn’t take this gerbil warming anxiety simply as amusing. It’s quite real. When you see Greta Thumbnail acting hysterically about gerbiling, don’t discount this as she and countless others have been brainwashed to believe it and they’re absolutely panicked. This facet of mental illness is very, very real.
Read on. In the WSJ today the report is that people are suffering severe mental illness from this scam.
Or should have been six wickets in the shed..
That mungbean Stokes didn’t control the pill before he smacked it with his knee and grassed it.
Rangas. They’ll disappoint you every time.
in the name of ‘saving’ the forum
… are you working it out yet ?
I dunno.
I just shit my dacks.
I’m just not used to being in the presence of a God Oracle.
It’s pretty scary.
I mean, we’ve all seen the odd Oracle, and some claim to have had apparitions of God.
But a God Oracle all in one go?
Just too much.
Oh, and has anyone got some high quality building site banter for me?
The plumber is coming tomorrow and he loves good banter.
I just can’t do it right, though.
Youse wouldn’t get it
haven’t worked it out
told youse
now go and buy some striped paint and a skyhook
Engage him in a discussion about waterproofing.
Oh, stop it you.
I just shit my pants again.
Huh, but isn’t it you? Blowharding, bignoting, bullshitting, being a fraud, making strange assertions and then getting bitchy about being asked to provide a few crumbs of evidence. Even one crumb.
In an ideal world, shouldn’t that read as, “It has”. That is, you have provided evidence for your assertion?
Have you ever tried self awareness? Of course you haven’t because a lonely old psychopath doesn’t.
Perhaps, but you should try your own “pub test” and come down south. Start the blowharding and bignoting bullshit and when those strangers don’t believe your nonsense, try out the dago reply. It would work. As I said, you’d have a boot going up your arse, it would hang out of your mouth as you arrived back at the Queersland, before you could say, “help mummy”
*Citations required.
You haven’t got what it takes.
You’ve initiated talk of personal violence, and doubled down by alluding to it multiple times. Are you trying to get this blog noticed?
Trans
The sincere altruism just oozes.
I can see it now. You have the beard so don’t worry about that. There’s the white linen tunic and we improvise on the Yarra. Lots of loaves and fishes.
listen to these clowns.
they cant do or say anything useful or thoughtful
it’s all just derivative self-referential gibber.
a broken record
…are you working it out yet?
Any chance of the ACT Shire Council burying the Sofronoff report permanently just evaporated.
They’re noted for many things.
Edifying comments are not among those things.
It’s like I’ve logged into a Barbie group.
I’ve seen more maturity exhibited by a yard full of speyed cows.
How cute is this.
1.
2.
3.
Only after you, Cowboy.
You’ve been triggered again, now shoo. Go tend the bedding in the motel.
… have they flogged themselves out yet ?
that was very thoughtful
and very useful
top stuff
not gibber
thanks
And that is the big mouth backpedalling.
Long overdue.
Trans, stop using words out of context. Derivative? Of what, you idiot. What’s it doorivatiff of?
You mean like:
worked it out yet
or
flogged themselves out yet
The lack of god oracle respect here really is astounding.
Hey Sal.
Did you see the latest polling on public figures in the UK?
Prince Andrew is popular with 13% of the population.
It seems his under-age drilling isn’t as popular as some might imagine.
13%.
That’s pretty low.
Although, to be fair, not the worst.
The Yorkshire Ripper is on 9% and Jimmy Saville on 11%.
I’m confused, does that mean nobody has groganed in their duds yet?
I know.
It gives me the shits.
Again.
Crikey, that’s not genre I’ve ever paid any attention to*, or was even aware of.
(* nor am I ever likely to)
Speaking of which … it is capital “G” and capital “O”.
God Oracle.
Hundreds of years from now, historians will conclude that the failure to recognise the genius of control panel switch manipulators resulted in the fall of western civilisation.
Drills
Did you read the comment I made earlier, paraphrasing you : Prince Andrew will shine through the Epstein entanglement and be more popular than ever, and was without doubt, one of the worst predictions ever made on an Ozblog.
It would be nice, thoughtful and well mannered of you to apologize for this appalling prediction. Another example of massive blowharding gone wrongsky. In fact I’m beginning to think your second name is Wrongsky as in Driller or Sal Wrongsky
Well, maybe you should.
Do you think Prince Andrew is on his way back?
Surely the Firm will forgive and forget, eh?
I mean, a 14 million pound compo payout wouldn’t sour things would it?
Who is “Drills”?
No.
His way back to where?
Why does he interest you so?
You may not be up to date, Chilla is the King.
(Happy to help)
Citation required?
very droll
and derivative
writing code to switch off at max temp and on at min temp
v hard
and flipping baffles for air flow
tough as man
ai will never replace it
… still not flogged out yet?
They may have changed hands.
I’m sensing a little free-floating angst, perhaps even aggression. Did something unpleasant happen here today?
An absolute must see!
Catturd ™
@catturd2
This is awesome.
Because of claims made here that his forays into little girls undies would not put a dint in his popularity.
Quite the contrary.
We were assured that red-blooded males would think he was a top bloke.
And here we are.
The Firm has had to cut a cheque for gazillions in compo and legals.
He is less popular than syphilis.
And he is now the Chief Deer Counter in the top paddock at Balmoral to keep him out of sight.
Travelling beautifully.
KD
I have to say, that has been one of the best performances I’ve seen in quite a while. Man, you have talent. Not quite God Oracle talent of course. You can’t beat building site quick lip.
Dunno Alamak.
I just got here & yeah, there’s some angst from the yobbos in the cheap seats.
We’d have to scroll back to see what’s put the noogoora under their saddlecloth.
Let us know what you find.
Any word on Rolf ?
Fascinating.
Do you have a reference (i.e. citation) for him making forays into “little girls” undies?
Or are you trying to get this blog noticed?
Meme
Rolf is neck-and-neck with Prince Andrew.
Which makes a lot of sense.
Birds of a feather.
Amazing graph and very good thread.
Conversation
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Don’t worry y’all … after today’s Devon Archer hearing …
@SpeakerMcCarthy
may, could, maybe, perhaps, if Venus aligns with Mars, if Saturn aligns with the Sun, and if he wins the lottery, just might, if conditions are perfect, might consider an impeachment “inquiry”
The beauty of Bazball is that it frees up plenty of time for rain breaks.
Yes.
The Firm paid out (ahem) … a King’s Ransom … to settle just such a case.
It has been reported widely in the press world-wide, so there is precisely zero legal danger in mentioning it.
Today I had to go to control panel in Windows 11 to trim my SSDs because for some reason that isn’t happening automatically even though I ticked the box. Microsoft is the beginning of the end!
Settling privately = a full admission of guilt?
You sure you want to run with this?
We’ve got a … Watto … on the phone.
Oh God.
Ford Will Lose $4.5 Billion On EVs This Year, Up From $2.1 Billion Last Year
Raining in England. Once again.
Farter time. Just before that, though – anecdote o’clock.
I have worked on sites as a brickie’s labourer, a builder’s labourer and the hardest work of them all, a plumber’s labourer – both in country Vicco and the larger city-towns.
On each site, from time to time, a ‘god oracle’ type would appear – usually after the actual work had been done. This was invariably a fat dude with a stringy beard who wouldn’t shut his trap from the moment he left the ute until he got back in it 45 minutes later after doing five minutes of work and regaling everyone within earshot about his magnificence.
He’d been everywhere, and done everything. Knew all the tricks. Knew ‘influential people’. Had the inside running on what was what. A big picture, ideas man.
After telling everyone – regardless of trade – what they’d been doing wrong, and while standing around usually with a durrie hanging out of the gob, he’d have a look inside all the eskies on site for free beer before eventually leaving.
Unknownst to the god oracle type, he was universally regarded as a cockhead by everyone else, and subject to considerable ridicule after he left.
Just goes to show. Times change, but people never do.
Microsoft takes ticked boxes as a serving suggestion only.
You called?
Hi Sal,
do you think the Sao has finally been covered, or is it simply nap time for Bill and Ben? 😀
I had one here recently.
I employed a brickie for my insurance job.
One day his nemesis – Gazza, the self proclaimed best brickie in the West – turns up and spends half an hour telling us how much he was making, how many thousand bricks he could lay in a week, picking non-existent faults with the way my bloke was attacking the job, yada, yada.
Later that day the renderer dropped by.
My brickie (man of few words says), “Was talking to Gazza earlier.
(Pause)
Well, truth be told, actually I was listening to Gazza.”
They both laughed.
Indolent
Ford actually went past earnings expectations by reporting income of 70 odd cents a share.
The market expects Ford and other to lose money on the EV side as they uptool for this segment.
To paraphrase the great one & only Zulu Kilo Two Alpha, that’s a new keyboard & a flask of fine Parisian Earl Grey you owe me.
To a civil standard, totally.
14 million quids worth of totally.
Absolutely.
Now mummy has been carted down The Mall on the gun carriage, Randy Andy isn’t suing anyone.
Especially not for the underage girl trafficking stuff.
And I think he has drawn his last bail-out from The Firm’s coffers.
Sal, I’m quite fond of Earl Grey.
You’ve never been involved in litigation.
Lucky you.
The Lived Experience top 40 on the charts
Check out the Daily Mail article about all future VIC schools will have Aboriginal names. Major brainwashing so the kids know who owns the land.
He is becoming Miss Haversham of the home counties and will be sighted every five years or so during some rainy carpark opening if he behaves
He is 1000% farked, in other words.
there we go
seems the flogging has abated to relatively normal level again
low traffic?
lack of commentators?
contributors can’t be bothered?
…you working it out yet?
That’s quite some optimism there – do they have any basis for assuming the population is going to stick around in the state-of-oppression & breed?
Not even car park ribbon cutting.
Counting the deer at Balmoral is his thing for the next ten years, at least.
His movements might be curtailed somewhat anyway.
He would be very, very foolish to even think about traveling to the US.
What odds a sealed indictment awaits should he set foot in the US?
Hmm. I’ve never acquired the taste for it.
Parisian Earl Grey really should be named “French Blue” (& sometimes is) it has no claim (thankfully) to the name “Earl Grey”
Well, liven things up with a bit of worksite banter, God Oracle.
Doesn’t have to be your best material.
Just a bit of warm-up stuff.
Come on.
You know you want to.
I recently read big bro threw him out of his big house and into a cottage like home.
Trans, you’re so judgy this evening.
OK, let’s talk about summink interesting.
How about HVAC PLC programming?
That should sell.
sorry …seems like there’s still quiet a bit of wank left in the wankers yet
Let’s hope they’re just changing hands from left to right, & not playing doubles.
I think Randy Andy didn’t have anything like the ready cash to pay the girl out.
That would be a way of King Chuck taking it out of his hide.
Hey, I wonder if Randy fell below the minimum balance at Coutts and got turfed, like Nigel?
…you working it out yet?
I don’t mind French Earl Grey, a little too floral though, so I blend it with straight Earl Grey. As Goldilocks says, just right.
Seems the Flowerpot Men have had their Ribena and are refreshed.
He sold his chalet in Switzerland for a decent sum, but not sure it made up for it.
Why, what did you shove in?
I’ll go with that. Thanks for the tip.
I’ll use it to extend any Earl Grey I end up with. I’m too cheap to actually toss any tea, even if it may not be precisely to taste.
Good idea.
I never understood this one.
We had Google HVAC Thermo wall units called Nests installed in the US. I can’t understand why Google would enter that sort of market. What’s possibly in it for them? It’s really neat, I can control the temps from here.
Sal,
as the constipated Clerk said, “I think I’ll work this one out with a pencil”.
when Pinocchio wanks
does he get splinters?
You’re such a little bitch at times, Drillsie.
Andy Pandy sold his continental shack for 20 million quid, & paid 12 million to the little slapper.
He’s now regretting this & was last heard of considering his options re clawing it back.
To enter the deal in the first place he was either a supreme dumbass, badly advised, or totally & completely inexperienced in such matters & badly, very badly, misled by the bowler hats – possibly with Mu-mah subtly prodding him in the wrong direction.
Nobody cares much anyway.
…you working it out yet?
Whoops, a bit of the pillow talk between Heckle & Jeckle has made it out onto the blog.
Discretion, please – we’re not that interested in what you two get up to. Just make sure you remember whose turn it is to wear the pyjama shorts back-to-front.
Apparently worth 18 million quid.
But split 50:50 with Fergie, and mortgaged big-time.
Reported he might have netted 5 mill out of that.
I am guessing The Firm tipped in 10 meg minimum.
Alas he couldn’t budget.
Matrix,
your Pinocchio question placed a picture in my mind of two grown men tugging each others noses and wondering why they “cant get no, satisfaction”. 😀
He’s rooted then.
Pheasant & game patrol at Balmoral is his gig for life.
He shouldn’t complain, millions are worse off & would swap with him in a heartbeat.
Plus he’s still got his health, the bracing country air will be a tonic for his bitterness.
Yo, bignose, are you sure you’re doing it right? Errors are understandable when the nose is the longest appendage ye’ve got.
Alas he couldn’t budget.
snork! There goes my keyboard.
LoL … led by the nose JC … you are such a stupid fkn bull
Not quite correct sums there champ.
Are you sure you want to go there?
I mean, she lives in North Queensssland and, who knows, she might fancy owning a back-packers.
If the freehold was yours to lose, that is.
Hey Driller
Earlier this year, I read a piece sent to me, that talked about litigation between a motel owner and the health department. The motel owner hired a law firm to get him out of the quagmire. He basically folded like a cheap tent and accepted all the terms and conditions set by the health authorities. By the sounds of it, one would put their lives at risk staying in the infested dump and better off living in the turd infested street in SF. Would that mean the motel was accepting guilt in running a filthy dump? Thoughts?
Did you hear about this sordid story?
Scroll up, champ.
Please explain, champ.
so derivative
mongs
Who is “Driller”?
On his old blog, he said he owned the leasehold. Here, he reckons he’s the landowner. Go figure.
Motel owner, who you appear to know quite well.
Time to change hands again.
I’ve no idea who you may mean.
Unless recollection fails me, I know only one motel owner, & that is a very arm’s length relationship, I haven’t seen or heard of him in more than 10 years.
Much as I’d like to help, I’m unable to.
Low-Fat Diets and Low-Carbohydrate Diets – The Secret to a Longer Life?
Huge prospective study. Study is open access and linked. Haven’t read it so won’t discuss it.
John H
Are magnesium tablets good for you?
No. Tell us more.
This isn’t the first case of a Victorian moving to mighty Qld & bringing their Danistan ethics with them.
It won’t be the last either, alas.
Lot of evidence to suggest helpful. Clear correlation between magnesium status and longevity. Trick is finding the right supplement because so many give us the runs and are poorly absorbed. Mg citrate is apparently very good. Mg threonate is often regarded as the best. Mg taurate is my favourite because topping up the amino acid taurine is also a good idea.
Finding a trusted brand is a hassle. JC I purchase supplements from iHerb. I don’t use supplements on a regular basis but I have been taking Mg for 20 years.
We don’t need to take it every day but maintaining good Mg status is very important.
https://healthnews.com/nutrition/vitamins-and-supplements/magnesium-types-and-benefits/
Sorry KD.
No Murphy miracle.
Gone for 18.
9 down.
54 to get.
Hazlewood and Carey.
And that is it.
Engerland win by 50 runs.
After going off prematurely yesterday, finally: happy birthday racehorsies!
(Day 4, virtual internet jail. Thanks, Telstra. Hooefully, it gets fixed today)
RFK Jr will be live with Jimmy Dore this morning.
You can stream via youtube or watch the lot later on Rumble.
Youtube seems to be ok with a lot of live streams as long as they aren’t later uploaded to the channel.
I’m sure it’s a loop hole that will be shut down closer to the 2024 election.
KD is right about plumber’s labourer being the hardest work. Dig ups and pipe clearance, often in difficult conditions and impossible sites. And stinky also.
With landscape, you’re usually doing so much renovation and damage you can get machines in, even narrow access ones. Brickies’ labouring is repetitive, mix the mud, carry the mud, stack the bricks, lift the boards, rinse and repeat.
On God Oracling…who has usurped my position? The cheek!
I was planning on watching the girls play Canada, but for some reason I thought it was tonight.
As I didn’t watch it I can not comment on the tactics employed.
Were the Aussies that good, or were the Canadians that bad?
Indonesian president getting the red carpet treatment in China.
Indonesia bans live beef imports from a handful of Australian suppliers.
I am sure the two are unrelated.
I am also sure the US subs are going to be worth every penny and all Australians will benefit, not just a range of former politicians getting employed by US defence contractors or the consultancy ecosystem.
I see the papers have England “winning by losing” again.
Australia retains the Ashes. The End.
Authorities are trying to work out what happened to the tragic loss of the Taipan helicopter. Maybe they should ask the crew of the Chinese ship which has been spying on the exercises off the QLD coast.
If Lyon was available it would have been a comfortable 3-1.
Bazball is a good spinner’s wet dream.
I take it the Aussies won. Bugger! If they had lost, we would have heard no more of the World Cup.
Well, yes. However:
That last Test in particular signalled a team plateaued for some time, and that is about to go into decline.
An aging pair of openers, of whom neither will see a Test two years from now, a mentally fragile number 3 and an ex-skipper at 4 showing signs of going into a Joe Burns-esque slump at the end of his own career.
Two of the stable of four pace bowlers are now cotton-woolled and rotated to stop them snapping in half, and an ‘old man’ injury to the best off-spinner in the world who will consequently never be at his best again.
As icing on the Imminent Failure Cake, there is also a fast bowler as captain without the wherewithal to adequately skipper a team that fires on five or six cylinders, because he hasn’t had to do anything when they charge ahead on all eight – which are becoming increasingly rare occasions.
Travis Head will be the next skipper. Start building a team around him, Green, Marsh, Carey (for the moment) and Murphy, and start building it now.
Whether they retained the Ashes or not – you can’t chase 150 runs with seven wickets in hand, then lose 6/70 while failing to do it and still hold your heads up.
A cracker of a column by Greg Sheridan in the Oz this morning. He savages Defence the government for its decision not to revamp our defence capability in any meaningful way. It is flags a devastating state of helplessness in the face of a militant China.
I am an oracle……about some things!
Quadrant are promoting a Youtube video on ev’s by John Cadogan, it’s good, trouble with John is the promo pic on the image for all his videos, he has one eye screwed up and looks like a wanker.
If he spoke a little better and looked less like he just got out of bed, I’m sure his subscriber base would grow. I know that I’m not the only one to think this, it’s a pity but I just can’t stand the sight of him on the promo’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ9-mW-cmdE&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo
I don’t watch on purpose because I’m a jinx, noted on many occasions. Whenever I watch a game or a match the team or player I support loses. When I change channels and check later they have won or are winning. So obviously I didn’t watch last night.
KD, I appreciate your crickit expertise and agree with the team decline. They’ve held on to duds for far too long, like an ageing dowager pretending that a brighter shade of lipstick will hide the wrinkles.
My objection was with the “every child deserves a prize” mentality.
And another thing…at least the Americans had the decency to surrender the Auld Mug to the PYC all those years ago.
A one line news story.
Vegan Influencer Starves To Death.
Vicki, He savages Defence the government for its decision not to revamp our defence capability in any meaningful way.
Our defence force is just there to provide a framework should we need to scale up for actual warfare. It has too many holes to be effective with the number of troops we have, regardless of the weapons system they are supplied with.
We have the worst recruitment and retention probems in the lifetime of our armed forces. So much so, our men and women are allowed, nay, encouraged to flit from one role to another .. just as long as they stay in. That leaves the services with a lack of depth, no one becomes truly expert before they move off to do something more interesting till that bores them. You become a “man manager” in the Army now at rank of Corporal, or in the navy, Petty Officer, and are no longer “hands on” whatever task you are in. Our actual practitioners of the skills are low rank and only doing it for a couple of years, till they become managers or move to another area to start over. (that’s part of the retention program by the way)
Note, nearly all the training is done by contractors these days, by crusty highly skilled old people who gained experience the old way of spending their service life in one niche area.
Airforce? Our Airforce just wants to be the US Airforce when it grows up. Do they do anything here apart from the absolute bare minimum? They garner the majority of defence funding because they put their smart people in Canberra to do exactly that. Army is always the loser because they put their best out there leading people, their dropouts get to go to office jobs.
The most sought after role in the RAAF is not on this continent, it is as an exchange person to the USA.
If it comes to war, were not going to project naval power, way too small and it would be all over in minutes.
We will have to defend, with a poor Army and top of the range air power, that should last an hour or so given the state of anti air defence the Chinese and Russians have built while we squandered our investment in high tech toys. The project disasters just keep coming, with zero repurcussions for the public service procurement people in Canberra.
Don’t get me started!
Gotta luv the Left ..!
A eulogy for sTan & he ain’t even exited the building!
If your into sob stories dun wiv true luv .. click!….. if you ain’t scroll on by …… LOL!
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/stan-grant-and-i-have-different-views-but-australia-has-silenced-another-indigenous-voice/ar-AA1ezraD?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=72090329651f497d8ea684715d39c190&ei=41
RPYC please calli.
Does this mean if the Liberal party got voted in again in Victoria native forest logging could return?
Labor’s destruction of the Victorian timber industry threatens forests
It’s a moral victory.
You’ll find the conditions in the MCC rulebook under ‘Spirit of Cricket.’
But you’d have to be English to parse it in that manner.
crocodile story
Rosie, if the Libs were somehow placed in power in Vic tomorrow, they wouldn’t change any of Dan’s laws or policies. They would be stopping gas, stopping logging and carrying out all of Dan’s projects. I truly can’t think of any area where they would be better.
The only thing that can help Victoria is a new party or a complete cleanout of the Liberal Party, the executive and all the politicians and replace with people with strength, courage and principles.
Meant ‘Wouldn’t be stopping’ not would, sorry.
another crocodile story
two crocodiles in this one
Tesltra harassing dead people, or rather their bereaved loved ones.
Are Australian corporate executives bereft of decency or just plain dumb (or both)?
The nanny state strikes! .. Let’s ban ALL tractors, not just oldies .. back to the horse & plough .. ya knoze ya wantz too .. safety first! .. LOL!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-01/old-tractor-ban-recommended-after-death-of-father-and-son/102670386
The army, based on my observations treats low ranks like rubbish.
Poor quality housing in high rent locations, rubbish pay, moving from state to state putting enormous pressure on families
I wouldn’t recommend it as a career.
He is facing cancellation amirite? Daily Telegraph:
There’s more to come, seems like these blokes had a good chinwag.
Look for the non-apology apology where ‘he was taken out of context’ etc.
Both Roger. Dead souls with management ‘degrees’
Billie I have an extended family member ex airforce who is now a contractor. Doesn’t go to the lunches nor dinners nor the trips overseas but in his sphere of influence they don’t do anything without his say-so. They haven’t a clue. Most people here will have come across the same thing everywhere they have worked.
shatterzz, that Tan Grant story was a hoot.
First, the author admits to having Tan envy because of his high profile.
Then, she complains that he was asking for Aborigines to get ‘the Australian dream’ (which, BTW, Tan has in spades), presumably because she wants them all living in gunyahs in the bush.
Finally, she admits to having some sympathy for him because he is now a victim of racism after he stomped off from Q&A.
FFS, who gets to announce that they will no longer perform their very well paid job and gets to sulk indefinitely on full pay? If that’s racism, millions of Australian workers would love to experience it.
And yes, the media dutifully licking the arse of Biden.
Dziedzic’s “hot mic” incident throws some light on the complacency and groupthink that prevails among ABC journalists.
BIRM.
What a waste of education resources ..! we have kids entering HS who can’t read & write English but is the emphasis on teaching English important .. NO .. it’s, apparently, important to learn about a dead culture & their languages (all 251, I’m assuming) than English which is needed to get you thru your daily life ..
What is 251 ‘culture” other than a guide to how to do SFA for 60 000 years and then spend the next 250 years whingeing that it is all one bloke, Captain Cook’s fault ..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12356363/All-Victorias-new-public-schools-ditch-English-names-favour-Aboriginal-titles-bid-ensure-children-recognise-lands-traditional-owners.html
The demise of Defence was so visible. It commenced when the PS bribed senior officers with obscene salaries. Careerist conformity became the only pathway to the big bucks.
To prosper it was not sufficient to tolerate the PS destroying defence culture, they had to be active and agressive agents for the woke destruction.
Should we survive the coming holocaust, historians will devote volumes to attempting to understand how the Defence People Group could possibly have occurred.
The answer is obvious. Greed and an outdated career management system based upon patronage. The rot starts early. ADFA is a corporate poison that needs to be removed.
If you are interested in the origins of the ‘aunties’ and ‘uncles’ in the current version of Aboriginal history, Shy Ted has written an interesting post at Adam’s.
They’ve been lied to their entire lives. Why do they deserve to be scammed!?
“That kid deserved irreversible gender reassignment and a likely future suicide!”
…?
If only Victorian traditional owners would agree about who were the traditional owners.
I actively work as an anti recruiter, especially for young men.
After COVID mania and the “menstrual leave” ads with the girls on the APCs/IFVs, normality has had enough.
You would be very naive as a young man to join up. You’re just going to get screwed. Plus you are fighting for enslavement and second class citizenship.
No.