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Ben Garrison.
Gary Varvel.
Hilarious. Ta Matey. 🙂
Tom Stiglich.
We’ve made using them illegal or punitive.
We the people haven’t done it Dotty Dot of Dottiness. The donkeys in charge of the Feral Guv’ment and State Guv’ments/Territories have dun’ it.
calli
Aug 11, 2023 1:59 PM
Steve…is he picking up the leaves with a leaf blower?
Justifiable homicide.
That reminds of a movie, lovely lady … I’ll go a check. 5km walk first.
and check…
Modest contraction with a small bump in ’21 but that disappeared almost completely in ’22 -raising less than they did in ’17 – and is going further south in ’23.
bet on carbon, specifically fossil fuels, and you won’t go wrong.
One interesting funds you may be able to access:
– Strive U.S. Energy ETF (yes, its Vivek…)
Is there a managed fund or ETF that holds low-ESG score companies. Sort of like an UNethical fund?
You can do it yourself and construct your own Investment Portfolio. Simple really. Just follow your own conviction.
ESG is Economic Suicide Guaranteed. Along with Build Back Worse. LOL.
Rocketman is getting itchy fingers:
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/10/asia/north-korea-top-general-replaced-intl-hnk-ml/index.html as North Korea told to “prepare for war”
From the Hun.
“Did you do it.”
Allegedly.
Add the overlay that the instructor was a “Weekend Warrior” reservist with a Tom Cruise complex.
Pity the gung-ho fckwit took others with him.
I did read somewhere (and may be wrong). That the CVR transcript revealed that there was some acrimonious argument in the cockpit when they knew they were lost.
Crossie:
Exactly. Any nation filled with illegals on public money only has to stop the payments and they will leave. Nearly all of them anyway – the rest are making enough illegally to stay.
Sancho
I see that my “deliberately provocative” comment has caused an interesting discussion.
It was about that time that I realised that the internal politics of careers caused a lot of problems in Defence. I know, I am a slow learner.
PS, the RAAF reservist on the 707, was he always Qantas, or did he start in the RAAF, then head to supposedly greener pastures at Qantas, but manage to sneak up the reserve promotion stream?
Rocketman is getting itchy fingers:
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/10/asia/north-korea-top-general-replaced-intl-hnk-ml/index.html as North Korea told to “prepare for war”
Oh? Teaming up with Xi?
You’re being too circumspect.
Who keeps on voting them in?
Um?
???
Did I wake up in a strange and messed up reality?
Germany: Daycares Introducing Sex Rooms for Toddlers to Get Naked and Touch Each Other (Not Satire)
What’s the catchphrase…”wow, just wow”?
I suggest every Member of Parliament be strapped to a (Hotel) bar randomly picked every Friday night. With someone from the upper echelons of the pubic service to talk to them.
Just so they can be made aware of how much we dislike them.
No other reason. Just because.
For those interested, Gina Rinehart has sponsored a series of national telecasts, one in every state, to discuss the current problems in the bush called The Bush Summit. I discovered this program only today -& watched part of the NSW telecast via the internet. It is very well put together – as you would expect – & is simple to view. You can register your interest and submit questions in real time to the speakers. You can only participate in person in the current state.
https://bushsummit.splashthat.com/?utm_source=TheAustralian&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Editorial&utm_content=TA_DAILY_AM-CUR_02&net_sub_id=284221075&type=free_text_block&position=8&overallPos=16
That should have read “You can ALSO participate in person…”!!!
What’s with the requirement for a senior public serpent?
Mushrooms for lunch today: two big field mushies, fried in butter, served on a sourdough crouton (Frog for slices of bread, buttered both sides and frizzled in the sandwich press) spread with olive tapenade (Frog for Greek dried olives, pits removed, blitzed with a splash of olive oil).
Meanwhile. The Mrs Mushroom tragedy is making headlines in the UK:
Tragic twist in deadly mushroom lunch tale: Australian woman cooked meal to ‘win back her estranged husband and convince his parents she was good enough’ before three were killed from eating death caps in her beef wellington
Possibly not too convincing.
But tip top sub editing.
I suggest every Member of Parliament be strapped to a (Hotel) bar randomly picked every Friday night. With someone from the upper echelons of the pubic service to talk to them.
Robert, I responded (by email) to a newsletter “thingy” of my local (Sydney) state MP (Tim James, Willoughby) & telling him that if he wanted to get reelected he needed to return to sound Liberal values. I promptly received a telephone call from his office manager saying that he wanted to speak with me & could I attend at his office.
Would I ??? Damn oath!! I have an appointment with him next week. Will let you know what transpires.
Dot
Aug 11, 2023 3:06 PM
Um?
???
Did I wake up in a strange and messed up reality?
Dot, we all wake up every morning to a “strange and messed up reality”. This is why I read this blog – to convince myself that the western world IS indeed “gone to Gowings”……it is not just me that sees it…..
It could be called Vox Publicus and be made mandatory for all reps to get their public emoluments paid.
100 x thumbsup.
Curious, isn’t it? This afternoon I did my online refresher course for WWC registration. Compulsory for anyone in a leadership/pastoral role in the church.
What is described here would be classified as a Notifiable Offence and I would be required (and quite happy) to phone the police.
Dot
Aug 11, 2023 3:02 PM
We the people haven’t done it. The donkeys in charge of the Feral Guv’ment and State Guv’ments/Territories have dun’ it.
Who keeps on voting them in?
Plonkers like you maybe. You know that they will always break their Erection promises.
I live in the Sydney CBD and only a Lefty will get in. Tanya Plebersuck is the local Federal Member with a Greenie as the State Member and Clover No More is the Mayor.
For the ‘InVoice’ though, it will be a Big Fat NO from me. Tennis Elbow has blown it Big Time.
“Robert, I responded (by email) to a newsletter “thingy” of my local (Sydney) state MP (Tim James, Willoughby) “
Vicki, Tim’s okay, not a bad guy. The problem for Tim though is that his seat is now Teal Green. After Glad’s demise he only won by a few votes and I think in March, he only just scraped through. Every election he’ll face a local green “Liberal lite” independent, so I just don’t know how long he’ll last, which is sad because he’s a nice guy.
It all confirms my belief that the Liberal Party, if it has any future, must walk away from electorates like Willoughby (state) and North Sydney (federal).
Australian Senator Gerard Rennick: “I see no reason why we shouldn’t have a public bank.”
Anybody not recall when Ken Henry happened into the pub in Jericho Qld, (pop. circa 200) & got into discussion with a local business operator, & was shocked to learn all the different ways barbed fencing wire could be taxed?
He’d had no idea & was until that moment utterly clueless as to the vagaries of taxation on farm business inputs.
These wallies are so far removed from the reality of operating a business, holding down a job, paying your bills, living in suburban/regional Australia that, like he, they’re gobsmacked & chattering in wonder like a 6yo girl telling mummy how many eggs were in the chookyard.
These wallies believe they’re our best & brightest. 🙂
They should be strapped to a random public bar every Friday night, to handle all-comers.
VicPol have dropped the most serious if the charges they had laid against the former Mrs Setka:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-11/emma-walters-john-setka-serious-charges-dropped/102718930
The process is the punishment? And the real offence? Daring to be the ex Mrs Setka?
johnny maga
@_johnnymaga
CNN just found out the party of Reagan is now firmly the party of Trump
Voters tell a defeated looking John King:
– The election was stolen
– The prosecution of Trump is a sham
– The US shouldn’t support Ukraine
You love to see it
If strapping them to a public bar doesn’t work, perhaps they could be nailed to one.
The Guardian
There’s far more scientific fraud than anyone wants to admit
Anyone who thinks green tinged social democracy isn’t popular is deluded.
At best, the libertarian, populist or conservative desire is about 25% – equal to the rusted on ALP and Liberal voters each.
There is about 16% of the people who vote like us and there is 18% (roughly) who are not enrolled, don’t bother voting or vote informal. There’s no guarantee they would break majorly to our side.
There is a possibility that we might get a plurality one day but it is wishful thinking right now. A majority to actually form government is a giant task on top of that.
You have to accept the reality that Kevin Rudd was the most popular Prime Minister we have ever had (and Howard was going off the deep end at the time) and his popularity lasted far past his election.
Of course he does. We don’t want the hoi polloi sticking their oar in. It might interfere with our plans.
CNN Guest Calls Small Donors ‘One Of The Biggest Problems For Democracy,’ Praises Wealthy Elite
National Survey: Ron DeSantis Drops to Third Place in GOP Primary
EPA’s New Climate Rule Would Cause Rolling Blackouts In Huge Swath Of America, Analysis Finds
Governments / Universities Secretly Studied COVID Vaccine Before Rollout: Shots Killed 100% of Mice and Monkeys
One of the comments below the Covid Vaccine Studies link above points out that it’s more old news. That this was known two years ago. And that’s correct, it was. Even before that.
Senator Malcolm Roberts doing stellar work.
No more indemnity – we will chase you until you are held accountable!
Is this something to do with women’s cage wrestling?
Best Tom’s toon:
To bring the utter stupidity, if not criminality, of much of their “advice” to politicians into close focus. Say, as close as the knuckles on other drinkers’ hands.
Working With Children.
Although my role is with much older people…horrid old ladies like myself. 😀
But the general rules of abuse and influence still apply. All spelled out in the training.
This is an area where jelly might have some crossover. Wrestling, delicious snacks and dentures.
I’m beginning to grasp the genius of this concept.
Reminds me of a section in the book Brave New World, where the some senior official, conducting a tour for a group of new students, to an area where small children play sexual games. He astounds them when he explains that before Ford it was considered shocking for children to be involved in erotic games.
Remember the people in Germany who introduced this see themselves as the Alpha Plus caste, and just about everyone else Gammas or Deltas, or on the right Epsilons.
Yeah, no.
Indolent
Aug 11, 2023 3:38 PM
Australian Senator Gerard Rennick: “I see no reason why we shouldn’t have a public bank.”
Australia did and it was the CBA. And who floated it on the Stockmarket? The LayBore Partee that’s who. Along with ‘Quaint Arse’ and CSL. Great Business people.
There is always the Reserve Bank though. Any buyers?
Salvatore, Iron Publican
To order the drinks while the MoP is getting educated into the realities of life on the ground.
Salvatore, Iron Publican
There’s a picture forming in my mind that only beer will remove.
The problem for Tim though is that his seat is now Teal Green. After Glad’s demise he only won by a few votes and I think in March, he only just scraped through. Every election he’ll face a local green “Liberal lite” independent
Cassie, I am not as sure that his seat (Glad’s electorate) is as Teal or Green as North Sydney or Mosman. There are a lot of traditional families in places like Northbridge, Castlecrag, Willoughby, Naremburn and so on. I don’t think the demographics are quite the same.
Australian Senator Gerard Rennick: “I see no reason why we shouldn’t have a public bank.”
Me either. It would solve the problem for the elderly for whom even credit cards are “new fangled”. These people need traditional banking services, the continuation of cheques for transactions, and access to cash.
At the moment our seniors are being cold-heartedly ignored by the financial sector. These are the people who laid the foundation for the riches of the banking sector. It eats me up to watch them being mocked and pushed aside.
Interesting that in Queensland you don’t have to do any form of training or refreshment. It’s just a criminal history, police and DOCS check – if you’re not on a register, you’re good to go.
Reminds me of a section in the book Brave New World, where the some senior official, conducting a tour for a group of new students, to an area where small children play sexual games
It’s extraordinary how Huxley and Orwell foresaw the wickedness of what was to come. Much was prefaced by the totalitarian regimes, but so much was so very prescient. I always struggle to comprehend pure evil.
Biden Announces By 2025 All Wildfires Must Be Electric
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1689773628210970624
Oh dear.
Yes, that’s a very nasty thought.
Thanks to exposure to the moral quagmire of the Fabian Society.
Not forgetting the Rural Bank of NSW, which became the State Bank of NSW before privatisation.
Oi!
This is more like it.
They should be strapped to a random public bar every Friday night, to handle all-comers.
There’s a picture forming in my mind that only beer will remove.
Blue oyster bar?
So the government can debank anybody they don’t like without having to go through an intermediary?
How about the government make a law that nobody can be debanked? Even criminals in prisons have a right to a bank account therefore nobody can be treated differently.
Amazing that the LNP bank is a Labor man.
You would not mind, Delta.
Your conditioning would have convinced you that, for example, “Alphas have to think about really hard stuff. They always have to solve problems. You are so glad you are not an Alpha.”
“Betas have to do difficult technical work all day long. You would just die of boredom. You are so happy you are not a Beta.”
And so on until finally:
Orangeman bad. I am glad I am not an Epsilon.
Or enable what is happening in other countries, the capacity to offer banking services by non-banks.
People need banking services, not banks.
JC
Aug 11, 2023 5:06 PM
This is more like it.
The three Amigos without the hats. Destroyers of Australia. And on Taxpayer funded lifetime pensions or Tennis Elbow will be when he is booted out in 2025. Crooks. FFS.
A bit of discussion on military-type reservists this afternoon, including but not limited to:
I believe that being a reservist is a good thing, although I am not one myself. Learn some skills in your spare time which could conceivably one day be of use to someone other than yourself, and all that.
However:
As much as the ADF spruiks this sort of thing, it is effectively a hobby for which you are paid by your actual employer.
As such, never ever believe your own press, and especially never ever form the view that you are anywhere near as good as the professionals who do that sort of thing for a living.
Learn from them, sure, if the opportunity presents itself, but don’t ever think you’re on par with or exceeding their skill sets.
Stevie T at 2.14:
Oh.
I knew it.
Also:
SOME reservists unfortunately develop a hero complex, in the manner of SOME volunteer firefighters. These people wreck the broader reputations of both organisations.
I distinctly recall some commenters late on ExCat and early on FlashCat, and in the early stages of the covid shitfight running stories along the lines of:
‘My mate’s a reservist. He got a letter in the mail saying he may have to report for duty. And to get his affairs in order. He says it’s pretty serious, but can’t say too much. Official Secrets Act and all that.’
Of course, that was and remains first-class, commercial-grade horseshit.
Credit cards have existed in Australia since 1974. They’re like a reusable chequebook you can’t bounce, float or write blank.
We have had ATM/key/debit cards for ages (since at least EFTPOS in the early 1990s) ATMs are tap and touch screen and couldn’t be easier to use.
There is nothing stopping you from using cash in most instances outside of large purchases and carrying your own pocketbook and a calculator.
Short of using cheques if the power goes down, people can sign proforma sales contracts which are effectively IOUs authorising a (debit or credit) card transaction. A cheque is merely a fully funded IOU a bank has promised to facilitate.
Indolent
Aug 11, 2023 3:54 PM
UPFRIGGIN’TICK.
Bring them back. Dover.
Vicki
Aug 11, 2023 4:25 PM
Australian Senator Gerard Rennick: “I see no reason why we shouldn’t have a public bank.”
I concur with Vicki’s full post.
Would have “upticked” but – alas.
JMH
Aug 11, 2023 5:40 PM
Indolent
Aug 11, 2023 3:54 PM
Senator Malcolm Roberts doing stellar work.
UPFRIGGIN’TICK.
Bring them back. Dover.
LOL. If upticks then let’s have downticks,
What we really need is more institutional separation in the finance industry. It would end the “too big to fail” problem that caused the GFC. It’s been 15 years and we still haven’t fixed that problem.
Johnny Rotten
Aug 11, 2023 5:48 PM
JMH
Aug 11, 2023 5:40 PM
Indolent
Aug 11, 2023 3:54 PM
Been done to death, let it be Indolent.
J. Rotten:
Yeah, why not? Should sort the wheat from the grass! 🙂
They’re basically communists. Each one leaves the job of cleaning up to someone else.
What we really need is more institutional separation in the finance industry. It would end the “too big to fail” problem that caused the GFC. It’s been 15 years and we still haven’t fixed that problem.
The alleged GFC was caused by speculation and greed. Try and legislate for that.
John Donne (1572-1631):
Send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
A poet writes a 4 – 5 – 4 death haiku?
How avant-garde.
Dr Faustus
Aug 11, 2023 4:29 PM
Working With Children.
Interesting that in Queensland you don’t have to do any form of training or refreshment. It’s just a criminal history, police and DOCS check – if you’re not on a register, you’re good to go.
True, though churches (at least the Presbyterian Church does and I would imagine most if not all other denominations do too) has annual on-line training for all Blue Card holders. This is even if you have no contact with children (etc Sunday School etc) but hold a position in a church.
I would think that most secular organisations would have some sort of training but with the sort of things we are hearing I wonder if it is more “how to.”
I agree that the Blue Card system is pretty weak overall.
From the big yellow and black bastard:
We may block purchases from certain websites or merchants if we have reason to believe:
– the products or services contain offensive material;
I always look to banks that were bailed out by the taxpayer for moral guidance.
Johnny Rotten
Aug 11, 2023 4:11 PM
Indolent
Aug 11, 2023 3:38 PM
There is always the Reserve Bank though. Any buyers?
I thought the Rothchilds already owned it along with every other reserve bank in the world?
Oh god.
Donne was the Austin Powers of his time.
Strap in, people.
Here we go, yet again.
Oh yes. I do agree. However, Austin Powers is/was a moronic screen capture.
LOL. If upticks then let’s have downticks
Yeah, why not? Should sort the wheat from the grass! ?
The Jo Nova Blog has no problem with upticks and downticks. Are the Cats here Pussies or what?
And it’s the wheat from the chaff BTW………..Lol
That sounded like sarcasm.
Off you go then.
Be sure to take your toby jug, knotted hankie and Mick Jagger-signed bedazzler pants with you.
Knuckle Dragger
Aug 11, 2023 6:10 PM
I thought the R********s already owned it along with every other reserve bank in the world?
And strange that when the Reserve Bank of Australia pays a dividend (when it makes money that is) to the Australian Feral Guv’ment and not to the R people.
Very strange that. Are you one of these Conspiracy people perchance? I bet that you believe in the Gold Standard.
I’m certain it was.
Perchance not, you muddled-up old kipper-fancier.
I was quoting someone else.
The Jo Nova Blog has no problem with upticks and downticks
Off you go then.
You probably have so many ticks on you that you couldn’t stand any downticks. Feral.
The gold standard delivered international macroeconomic stability and decades of growth that eliminated the underclass in the West.
I have no idea what this has to do with bizarre Jewish conspiracy theories.
None can overcome my Cloak of Upticks.
As opposed to native? Because by your own definition you’re the introduced species, not me.
Perchance not, you muddled-up old kipper-fancier.
Kippers with poached eggs for Breakfast. Tops. Empires were made of it. Still speaking English or one of the 300 local languages? LOL.
LOL – you foiled my leg rope tactic JR! Go stand in the corner and hang your head in shame! 🙂
The Swedes look good in this match against Japan. A long way still to go though.
Smelly empires. If only the Empire in question had soap in it instead of cardigan waistcoats, gravel beaches and fish pudding we’d all be better off.
check the data and you’ll find that gold had its bubbles, like every asset dug out of ground, and it played no part in eliminating the underclass. That was down to improved plumbing, extended education and technology applied to consumer products.
Will never forget our RSM on the night we were commissioned (6 of us)…
“Congratulations Sirs, but remember you are now qualified to lead 33 men to their deaths.” Sobering words indeed!
LOL – you foiled my leg rope tactic JR! Go stand in the corner and hang your head in shame! ?
Apologies but I could not resist it. No offence meant BTW.
In the ‘nawty’ corner I go then. LOL.
“Australian Senator Gerard Rennick: “I see no reason why we shouldn’t have a public bank.””
I know this will rankle some here but I agree with Rennick.
Kippers are better than roll mops. Both fall under the general classification of cat food. If you can’t find something better for breakfast you’ve wasted your ten pounds.
Same here. Use the Post Office as a base or perhaps run on state by state basis if its too hard.
I know there are risks but the Oligopoly we have is holding back the country and collecting excess profits while failing to provide service coverage.
If governments shouldn’t own media companies they shouldn’t own banks, airlines, blood companies either. CSL has benefited greatly from being freed of the dead hand of government. CBA and the Mangy Roo less so.
Alamak!
Aug 11, 2023 6:33 PM
check the data and you’ll find that gold had its bubbles, like every asset dug out of ground, and it played no part in eliminating the underclass. That was down to improved plumbing, extended education and technology applied to consumer products.
I agree. The wealth of a Nation is in its people and what they can achieve by hard work and with their brains. Money in ancient times was sea shells, rice, and all sorts of stuff. The Gold Bugs are just a whole load of wannabees. Sad really because Gold and Silver are still valuable but not money for transacting with on a daily basis.
“Cassie, I am not as sure that his seat (Glad’s electorate) is as Teal or Green as North Sydney or Mosman. There are a lot of traditional families in places like Northbridge, Castlecrag, Willoughby, Naremburn and so on. I don’t think the demographics are quite the same.”
Maybe, however the demographics are changing. Remember Tim James only scraped through in the seat after Glad vacated and in this year’s state election.
Tonight I ran into Dave Sharma at the supermarket. I said hi. He’s a nice man, quite vanilla when you speak to him, however I don’t feel sorry for him for losing his seat, nothing personal but he represented everything wrong with the Liberals under Scumbag….however, it’s still just a hunch, and I might be wrong come 2025 (for which you can all hold me to account) but I think most if not all of the Teals will be one hit wonders.
Did it really though? It didn’t eliminate recessions and don’t forget, that economies were doing really well if they experienced growth rates of .5% to GDP when currencies were fully convertible to gold.
If you’re going to essentially harden monetary policy by gluing it to gold you’d better make sure, government spending is balanced, labor markets are flexible and labor rates are market determined, prices of goods and services free from any government influence.
Monetary policy that is glued to gold requires all those things I mentioned.
Don’t overdo it Kez, you’re so tightly wound up, one down-tick alone would send you to a psych unit for some well needed “rest and rec”.
H B Bear
Aug 11, 2023 6:36 PM
Kippers are better than roll mops. Both fall under the general classification of cat food. If you can’t find something better for breakfast you’ve wasted your ten pounds.
Ha, ha, ha. As I have explained many times on this pussy cat site, I paid my own way here in 1976 when the assisted passage for British migrants was long gone and over with. You had so many British here that Gough got the collywobbles. Tosser. Look it up and learn somefink’.
You do. You can pay most bills at the Post Office.
Does anyone think paper currency will still be in use by 2100? I’m not suggesting the big currencies will survive, but whatever it is, people won’t be carrying notes around in their wallets.
Imagine the Liar’s Party playing around with a “public bank” and the mess they will leave.
This one’s for Cassie.
Took delivery of Saul David’s account of “Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport.”
Don’t ever fvck with the I.D.F!
Why would you need separation, 2 dogs? I’ve never understood this argument because the GFC wasn’t caused by brokerage and banking being under the same holding company umbrella. It was caused by a sudden and vicious bout of deflation as a result of central bank mismanagement destabilizing the financial system.
I’m still laughing at the Babylon Bee’s take on USA women’s soccer from a couple of days ago
Megan Rapinoe Gets New Job With Galactic Empire Training Stormtroopers To Shoot
Knuckle Dragger
Aug 11, 2023 6:32 PM
Yes. and you could always speak french. Sacre Bleu !!!!!!
dragueur d’articulation……….LOL.
JC> Provide payment channels via PO + Chemists + RSL and payment processing via any company capable and connect large payment providers to RTGS. That will enable 95% of banking services people need.
Whinging Pom
noun
British person. Their natural state is to complain about the weather and immigrants. This is fueled, in part, by a deep-seated feeling that they should still rule the world.
Orright guv, innit?
Also a deep-seated feeling they should be French. Dilettante wannabe Eurotrash.
An asset bubble that came to an end and exposed banks that did not take care of ALM and Liquidity as they should. banking 101 in other words.
Big exodus of musos just now as our House Buddies head off to a major gig. Grandson is staying behind with us to watch The Blues Brothers for the 325 th time*.
We were privileged to hear the auditions this afternoon. Such beautiful music and voices, my opinion prejudiced not in the slightest by a Granny’s perception. Now for the doorstop rib-eye steak that best man is tending.
To quote our emminently perspicacious bespoke: life is good.
*May be traces of exaggeration. It just feels like 325 times.
Regular soccer is pretty freaking boring. No game should regularly end as nil all, one apiece for 90 minutes divided by 2. But how boring could women’s soccer be. Who could watch such a ridiculous game.
I’m not down on female sports at all. Female UFC and boxing is great because there’s always a knockout. Women’s tennis is actually more watchable than the men because there are far more rallies due to upper body strength issues. Men’s tennis has become a game of smashing the serve with a metal racket and either preventing or causing a weak return.
These blokes are mental!
It sh*ts all over the Monaco GP ( Most boring race on the globe )
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Oh, what asset bubble was that, that you’re drawing attention to without mentioning that asset bubble?
Apologies if already posted. Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain.
Does anyone think paper currency will still be in use by 2100? I’m not suggesting the big currencies will survive, but whatever it is, people won’t be carrying notes around in their wallets.
Go to Africa and many other places. They love US paper dollars. Go to Sydney’s China Town. They love paper money.
Maybe Crypto one day. But by 2100 it will be a far different World. Yuan anyone?
JC
Aug 11, 2023 6:46 PM
Yeah, why not? Should sort the wheat from the grass! ?
Bwahahahaha. In comes the stalker.
Dover, please ban JC (and his heirs and successors, in perpetuity) for posting this. It is nearly as bad as that horrible I Love Rock and Roll clip.
That’s a half truth.
Let’s try to have the same outcome WITHOUT macroeconomic stability.
You won’t get as much investment in new capital or consumer goods production with high and/or unpredictable inflation.
There isn’t an example of a significant increase in living standards with macroeconomic instability as an antecedent.
The internal price mechanism, intentional or not was marvellous.
The most stable country macroeconomic ally in the recent past was Panama – it had no central bank.
https://mises.org/library/panama-has-no-central-bank
Outside of COVID, their GDP growth has been high and sustained.
Let’s be sane here and agree with the Washington consensus: three cheers for macroeconomic stability. Hip hip hurrah!
Knuckle Dragger
Aug 11, 2023 6:59 PM
You are not very smart at all. A Pom is English and not just British. Call a Scotsman (British) a Pom and you will get your teeth (if you have any) knocked out. Call a Welshman (British) a Pom and you will lose the rest of your teeth. Call a Northern Irishman (British) a Pom and you will be blown sky high.
I can see why you like the handle Knuckle Dragger. ‘Dragueur d’articulation’ in french. The most obnoxious people in the World who were saved in 2 World Wars by the British Commonwealth. Such an arrogant ungrateful people.
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He could have been arrested easily and without violence. He was obese and barely able to walk unassisted. This hit on him was executed to make Americans afraid. Mostly it’s made people upset at the Stasi.
Dollarization comes from necessity because of currency debauchery in these countries. Neither Africa nor South America are a good example considering factors like backwardness.
Sure, but these examples are exceptions that don’t prove the rule.
Yuan? Why would anyone in their right mind hold Yuan when you don’t know if the regime will simply take your assets, and that’s that. That’s not to suggest, US is perfect as we’ve seen with the remarkable attack on people’s wealth/assets who happened to be Russian.
At least there’s an 80% chance of getting your money back in the US, UK , Switzerland etc. I used to say 95% until the actions against the Russians.
The idea that the Yuan, which has pretty strong capital controls could become a freely accepted reserve currency is amusing.
If China allowed the Yuan to become freely convertible, the mountain of money wanting to leave to be invested in Western countries would be the size of Everest on the first day.
I can’t imagine a single rational human being wanting to move money to China.
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I don’t know, if it’s changed. Around 2006 I went to China and converted some Australian Dollars into Yuan. either here at the airport or there. I can’t recall.
I always take some cash in case the card doesn’t work.
Anyways. on the way back I wanted to convert the yuan back to Aussie at the airport. You weren’t allowed to because of exchange control – even for a foreigner. In other words the screwed you.
Alamak
Where’s that bubble, bubble-boy?
In a resort at Coffs, half-way to Brisbane. Not our usual place, which is easy, and has lifts. Booked this one sight unseen, just for a change, and it turns out to be a major complex where you book in at one place, get handed a map, and you’re on your own to drive to where you belong. Ocean view, so that means three flights of stairs up with your luggage, no lift. They text you your room key number. As reception had my Drivers Licence I played the age card. Can we get help with the luggage. She texted her son who was busy and he texted his dad, so we three ‘oldies’ managed the luggage together. Makes one long for the days of the simple motel.
The whole idea of a Central Bank was as a Lender of Last Resort. That is what the Bank of England was when it first started. Now, a Central Bank/Reserve Bank has to deal with inflation, unemployment and all sorts of shite which it was never designed for.
Meanwhile, and a great example of this is the US Guv’ment as it spends money like a drunken sailor and blames the Federal Reserve for all of the US problems. Look in the mirror you corrupt ‘Pollies’. YOU are the PROBLEM. FFS. Stop spending money that you don’t have.
The same with Tennis Elbow and the other Commies here.
Delta A, strap in!
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I can’t imagine a single rational human being wanting to move money to China.
Of course not JC as you and I will be long gone by then. Did anyone in 1949 see China where it is now?
Central banks generally curve ball the “maximum employment” remit by arguing that currency stability must be primary before you can aspire to full employment. No one really disputes that.
The one objective of the major central banks is maintaining the inflation rate below target.
The proponent of the English Empire, as opposed to the more commonly known British Empire:
I can’t tell. You Poms all look the same. Pasty, and either spindly or morbidly obese.
There’s that public school mentality again.
Doubt it. Your nation of shopkeepers was saved from being turned into a German car park – twice – by the denizens of this wide brown land.
You don’t like the blog because people don’t accept your apparent innate superiority, drawn from an attachment to grifters (Armstrong) and pouves (Jagger). You don’t like the people in this country for the same reasons.
Off you trot then. Nothing holding you back.
By the way, the ‘English Empire’ consists of lichen and drizzle. And the island of Jersey.
Whoops, should read…
maintaining the inflation rate at target.
Please Explain has come of age as top notch satire.
Oh, and:
Ah yes, the English.
Renowned for their dentistry.
My word it has. The last line of that clip was first rate.
J.R:
Damn straight.
I believe in Gold in much the same way a Baptist believes in Jesus.
https://youtu.be/pWAHO3Dc9OU
Interesting aircraft video.
Lizzie – I hope you visited the Big Banana. It’s an important icon.
(I grew up on the mid nth coast, Nambucca Hds and Kendall. Pretty good part of the world. And yes a friend of our family owned an actual banana plantation. Hard work!)
From a leading travel blog:
Ahahahaaaaaa.
I can’t tell. You Poms all look the same. Pasty, and either spindly or morbidly obese.
You are so well balanced with a chip on both shoulders.
Sure but that doesn’t mean all predictions for the longish future are worth zero. I think it’s an easy prediction to make that paper currencies will be gone by 2100 in the developed world. or at least what is considered the developed world by then. I reckon possibly what.. 80% of transactions these days are digitally based? I write perhaps 20 cheques a year and only do that to piss them off. ATO, land tax, rates.
Hope you bring back up ticks Dover. The site has lost its excitement and interaction. I am not able to contribute much at the moment in terms of written comments but would dearly like to give those that make pertinent and researched comments encouragement. Besides I love seeing someone’s comments get well deserved approbation. A dead silence speaks for itself, so no need for down ticks.
I can’t tell. You Poms all look the same. Pasty, and either spindly or morbidly obese.
LOL. Go into yer’ local watering hole and have a good look at the beached whales hanging off of the pokie machines. LOL. Obese is being too kind. They are fat farkers. Probably just like you.
From Vice, on the Poms and their food:
Oh dear.
Seriously, this Vice site is gold. On Poms and complaining:
Bonobo monkeys. Funny ’cause it’s true.
I write perhaps 20 cheques a year and only do that to piss them off. ATO, land tax, rates.
I do something similar and just love paying by cash. They don’t like it up em’ when you do that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGjQqEG-FdQ
Was that a complaint from a Pom?
How unusual.
Knuckle Dragger
Aug 11, 2023 8:02 PM
You are the only one moaning here. And you are not very good at it either.
Someone did in 1988, which is something I’ll never forget and that was 35 years ago.
I recall reading an interview (in Barron’s) with a fund manager. The fund manager was talking about recent things happening in China at the time. He talked about Deng Xiaoping’s recent moves to open and deregulate the Chinese economy. There was one thing that always stuck in my mind. He mentioned that one of Deng’s objectives was to ensure that every Chinese person had the ability to scoff down an egg for breakfast. The fund manger figured out that there wouldn’t be enough eggs in the world at the time to satisfy that sort of demand.
Knuckle Dragger
Aug 11, 2023 8:05 PM
They are fat farkers.
Was that a complaint from a Pom?
No. It was a compliment. Are you a fat farker?
You wouldn’t say that if you had a chicken tikka in front of you.
You know. Your national dish.
JC
Aug 11, 2023 8:07 PM
Did anyone in 1949 see China where it is now?
Someone did in 1988, which is something I’ll never forget and that was 35 years ago.
Yes, but not in 1949. By 1988 Mao was gone and Deng saw the future for China.
You wouldn’t say that if you had a chicken tikka in front of you.
You know. Your national dish.
Fish and chips for me. You can have snags and snags.
Pommy style curries are the best thing about the place. Usually served up by some Bangladeshi who would be driving for Toll if they were in Oz.
We first visited the Big Banana on our honeymoon, summer, 1969. 50 years later we returned to find that nothing had changed much, apart from acres more banana trees.
Love Coffs.
If you’re looking for a disappointing meal, try the full English breakfast at a Pommy caff.
It is so refreshing to have some banter here at night without some of the abuse that seems to happen often times.
Ahahaha! JC posts a horrid Turdbull “selfie” with Krudd and Elbow…
and my internet crashed!
Now to backtrack…did I miss anything?
The Big Banana is pretty small. The Big Merino is more like it. I tried to take in a few big things on my road trip back to Perf. Remember being disappointed by the Big Prawn too.
If you’re looking for a disappointing meal, try the full English breakfast at a Pommy caff.
LOL. The Grace Hotel in Sydney does a lovely full English Breakfast. Black pudding and kippers as well. Luverleeeeeeeee.
I was looking at recipes for tikka masala just this afternoon. According to my go-to cook for all things culinary:
That photo. I’ve been wondering.
Is Toto a hostage? I still worry about Reuben. He looked uncomfortable too.
Cod (or kippers) and potatoes. Got it.
Remember being disappointed by the Big Prawn too.
Well, that’s the Kevin Rudd for you.
Mem,
particularly well stated. I agree.
By the way, how are you travelling?
a British aristocrat was served Chicken Tikka (chicken on skewers chargrilled in a tandoor) and sent it back to the kitchen, complaining it was dry
A Britisher? Complaining?
Nooooo!
Australian cafes are miles ahead of anything you’ll find in the UK. No wonder Starbucks still operates there serving US dishwater.
Bear,
someone stole the Big Prawns’ head a couple of days ago. 😀
Imagine living nearby and having that thing looking at you through the bedroom windows. Apparently it was lit up at night.
My nephew-in-law works for us at the family business. Great kid, who was a little lost and the parents asked if I could hire him. He did civil engineering but doesn’t want to go into that field. He’s living at his sister’s place. who last year graduated (or whatever they call it) as a general surgeon. She’s 32. He told me that he hasn’t seen her for most of this week because she gets home at midnight and leaves around 5 in the morning to get to work at 6 am. She’s getting perhaps 4 hours sleep and then expected to cut crap out of people and not kill them. All that on 4 hours sleep? If this is common practice, it’s really dangerous.
I got stuck in Coffs for a few days when my bike battery died. They were running a tarmac rally around the surrounds. Some good roads for fanging from memory.
calli
Aug 11, 2023 8:19 PM
Ahahaha! JC posts a horrid Turdbull “selfie” with Krudd and Elbow…
and my internet crashed!
Don’t panic Mr. Mainwaring. I have a backup on the Cloud.
The British do two meals well – breakfast and afternoon tea.
Bear – the movie Michael has Big Things as a subtheme. I should watch it again, it was a gentle and warm comedy. Here in Ncl we are blessed by the Big Mosquito, which figures.
Knuckle Dragger
Aug 11, 2023 8:26 PM
A Neanderthal – Knuckle Dragger – who doesn’t like the English and speaks English. Kind of sad really.
I hate breakfast. I can’t stand seeing people scoffing down food in the morning. I even despise the word.
But, is there anything in his world better than tea and scones (butter and jam) in the afternoon. I can’t think of a better treat. Coffee and a canoli comes close but it doesn’t doesn’t quite make it.
calli
Aug 11, 2023 8:34 PM
The British do two meals well – breakfast and afternoon tea.
Thank you calli. Now I know why I am so slim and trim at age 70 years and not a fat farker. LOL.
I stayed in a motel near the Big Prawn one night.
My eldest son was conceived that night with the Big Prawns blessing.
A while back, some very rash punters placed bets on Collingwood to win this year’s premiership. One was for K100. The other for $1m.
Christmas coming early for the books.
They do breakfast so well that Hobbits have Second Breakfast. And I suppose Elevenses is really an early afternoon tea.
Everything else is either boiled or fried to death. Apart from The Roast. Now that is another speciality which has found its way southwards. One of the easiest meals for a crowd.
That is so peculiar even I am lost for words.
I hate breakfast. I can’t stand seeing people scoffing down food in the morning. I even despise the word.
The word is derived from the phrase ‘break the fast’. After sleeping overnight you needed food in the morning when you woke up. No need for any scoffing at all. Unless some people were pigs. Oink, oink.
I love the English.
As long as they’re not moaning like an unpaid ladyboy.
The average Cat knows WTF is going on.
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