Just let churn reach the point where you are spending more on customer acquisition.
Open Thread – Weekend 26 Aug 2023
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Back in 2013 this is what Kevin Rudd said about Abbott…. Asked about the growing likelihood of armed conflict, Mr…
We live in a joke of a country.It’s disgraceful, but I’m not sure there’d be a different outcome anywhere else…
Sancho Panzer November 13, 2024 5:46 pmOn Spud logic (which he used on Sinc-Cat to try to say 93.1% of Americans…
I think it’s called empowering the consumer with choice.
My mother got gold card knees at age 84, just before covid. Two weeks at a rehabilitation hospital and eventually back to golf.
FFS, we need to know this why, exactly, you boring ol’ dinosaur?
Give it a rest.
Release of Bill Gates’ GM mosquitoes gets pushback in California but is it too little too late?
“I have always thought the purpose of prison was to punish criminals and protect the public from them. Now if a murder has no remorse then why are they being let out?”
Indeed, but this is a problem in many Western countries, which is that we have completely dismissed, trivialised and tossed away any notion of punishment. Many progressives want to dispense with prisons altogether, I remember a few years ago having drinks with a few people, one of the young women in attendance was studying criminal law at Sydney Uni, she was the daughter of academics, she lived in Sydney’s inner-west, and she told me she with a straight face that didn’t believe in prisons. Somewhat shocked and perplexed, I asked her what we do with murderers and serial killers such as Ivan Milat (who was still alive then), and that society has an obligation to protect its citizens, and society must punish those who commit crimes. She said that they don’t belong in prison. So I said, okay then, then you can provide lodgings for Milat and his ilk in your own home. Let’s see how long you last.
Seriously, we live in f*cked times.
Get stuffed Rabz, old Ozzie mentioned that at 78 he was putting it off, and I was offering a little encouragement.
And it’s not as if knee replacement isn’t a topic de jour.
Dancing in front of a picture of blueberries in a bowl fights climate change!
Partnership celebrated (Ncl local news, 25 Aug)
Cats’ newest shiny plaything Pat Conroy features. Why do I live here? I dunno.
“A collectivist imbecile I had the misfortune to encounter many moons ago told me that his grate grandemotherige was massacred by big white colonialist imperialists even more many moonages ago, I tells ya!
Yeah, just FOAD. You know you want to.
🙂
SLD killed toddler Courtney Morley-Clarke in 2001. He is at high-risk of committing violent, sexual crimes. He will be released under a strict supervision order
It would be very hard, being a relative of the child, if you were competent in such things, not to assassinate SLD when he eventually walked the streets…
His sentence should have finished at the end of a rope. His victims parents are still serving theirs. His victim didn’t get to choose.
No jury would convict.
Internal server error, Dover.
Trying to run a blog must be like trying to put up a neclear power plant in Marrickville.
Here’s something heartwarming about love between humans and animals.
Well, only a cynic would say that it’s simply all about dependence.
That’s not me.
Western Australia, in the mid 1960’s, the mother of a murder victim was criticized for saying that “It doesn’t matter how long (the murderer) spends in gaol, the brothers of the victim will be waiting for him when he’s released.”
The relevant Minister was outraged “Members of society have no right to take the law into their own hands.”
Sorry Rabz. I’ll stop now. 😀
Gee, thanks Mrs Andrews – knee replacements – they make a lot of sense when you’re a boomer dinobore and there are not any other more important topics on this planet.
You hitlerist slag.
Such is the nature of pineapples.
The relevant Minister was outraged “Members of society have no right to take the law into their own hands.”
But I hope they did – and hard!
err, calli – you are not the rosie.
Just hurry up and heal. You know you want to.
BTW, lots of gardening was engaged in today, Cats.
Spring is Sprung. 🙂
Locking up public land has been part of the plan for decades. We are supposed to be squeesed into high rise ghettos along the coast.
Hunting, fishing and hiking at risk due to Biden admin regulations, critics warn: ‘Politics at its worst’
Robin Monotti
@robinmonotti
It’s for the “greater good”..
LOL. Good luck with that …
There was a case in Western Australia, again back in the sixties, where a sex offender was released after serving his sentence. The father of his victim took a stock whip to him in the car park of the local pub…..
MAUREEN CALLAHAN: Outlaw, folk hero, renegade – THAT mugshot makes Trump an American martyr. Why is it that deranged liberals who loathe the ex-president help him at every turn?
Mrs Andrews?
Whatever your problem is, take it out on someone else.
I don’t see why I should be called a ‘hitlerist slag’ for making one innocuous comment about older people recovering well from knee replacements.
Then don’t tell commenters to “get stuffed”, you evil hitlerist slag …
Destruction of Rule of Law in Fani Willis’ Georgia Star Chamber
Razey:
That’s the whole point – bring in members of the most violent and unscrupulous societies on the planet and allow them to terrorise the native population so they will demand even more restrictive chains be draped on us.
H. L. Mencken
Unfortunately, our wise and clever rulers have gone one better – the savages who smash our doors in and brutalise OAPs, rape our womenfolk, and the paedophiles who should be locked up are left to roam the streets preying on our kids, are not there by accident or because it would be inhumane to lock them up for life. They are there to terrorise us. And we are stripped of the basic right of self defence.
Spring is Sprung.
Noticed the first signs of the dry to wet season transition today myself. Strong southerly but with humidity. Warmer nights too.
Haze everywhere due to the late dry season grass fires, one burning up the escarpment to Harveys Range for the last week helping with that. Still no build up of cumulus clouds on the ranges of an arvo though that is probably still 6 weeks off.
Bulk mangos growing everywhere too.
I’m enjoying a weekend in. I’m about to head out again till mid September, then a trip to Sydney for a week before more field time 🙂
Traverlog: Didn’t have to sleep at Briz airport the other nite. When the weirdo-beardo cause all sortsa kerfuffle & had caused a returned Malaysian Airlines flight to be parked on the runway at Mascot, closing down or partially closing Sydney airport for several hours.
My flight was cancelled, as discussed at the Cat. Joined the queue at the Qantas service desk, reveled in a bit of camaraderie with stranded fellow travelers, who were mostly road warriors & resigned to staying the night or whatever fate dealt them.
The crone on the Qantas service desk was quite bristly, though she calmed down when she got nothing but my naturally pleasant, calm personality back at her. I’d say she was copping a nasty time from stressed ‘dont-ya-know-who-I-am’ frequent fliers who took it all out on her for the debacle.
She was near friendly, printed me boarding passes for a flight about 2 hrs later than my cancelled one, & I went back to slurping Qantas’ gin & tonic until boarding time.
They’d cancelled one flight & stuffed all the people into the next two flights, so it was chockers. A few vacant seats here & there were filled after the door closed, by robust young men of mixed ethnicity, short haircuts & didn’t look like Australians. My first guess was correct, US soldiers in mufti. One was next to me, with that over-the-top politeness traveling US servicemen have. He was chuffed to discover from me that Qantas supplied free plonk on night flights.
Landing in Sydney. The US Army contingent benefited from being last on. All their kitbags (they’re larger than ours) came around the carousel first. The bloke who’d sat next to me embarrassingly again thanked me for “all your help” etc etc.
When the carousel eventually stopped, my bags weren’t there. Nor were those of anybody else who’d been bumped in Brisbane.
Phooey. Down to the Baggage service desk. Big line. I was 4th. Processing some of these people took ages, as many were connecting to Taipei, Phoenix Arizona, San Francisco etc & were heavily inconvenienced.
My calcluation was it’d take the desk 3 hours to process the waiting lost luggage folk.
Then one of the two old harpies on the baggage desk stood up & barked “This desk closes for the night in 45 minutes (11pm) & we won’t be here after that”
Thank you Australian unions, for your culture of service & thank you Qantas for your culture of customer service & your polite staff.
The baggage desk informed that the airport curfew was to be breached that night, due to the terrorist situation earlier, & that my bags would arrive about 11.30pm, & they’d be delivered to my hotel in town the next morning. Fine by me.
Was given pyjamas, toothbrush, soap, deodorant, razor, and laundry powder.
Took a cab to the pub I was booked at in the city. Cabbie was frothing. He’d been waiting 3 hours with no fare, thanks to the airport shutdown.
A New Australian, he’d been driving Sydney taxis for 30 years, & gave me a 15 minute education on how badly the traffic is managed in Sydney over the past couple of years.
Arriving at the pub, the front office supervisor had an Aussie accent, though looked like Lee Kuan Yew.
During the week I stayed there, I did not hear another Aussie accent from any staff, nor did I sight even one anglo-saxon (or even European) staff member. Not one.
I can’t wait to unload on the next midwit who takes me to task for sponsoring overseas in the regions, when a mega-pub in Sydney CBD doesn’t have one identifiably Australian staff member.
Dyspepsia?
I’ve been watching A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood and reflecting on Mr Rogers. No one took his place. His simple message has been swamped by a tsunami of Woke.
Anthony Fauci promotes the use of ventilators to treat covid; despite admitting more than a year ago they do more harm than good
Then how about you refraining from making unprovoked attacks on people and calling them boring old dinosaurs?
I was trying to be kind to someone!
This is what gets young people engaged with this blogue – barking mad slags screeching about really important topics such as boomer knee replacements* …
You staggeringly stupid dinobore …
*Paid for by young people
Journalist claims Maui police put him in ‘headlock’ for pressing mayor on missing kids
It’s something Calli.
It must have been quite difficult getting around on European cobble stones with that knee.
NO.
Quite so. My younger self, in HCF since the ripe old age of 16.
Well…
Kyle Rittenhouse is being sued by a dead child molester who assaulted him and was lawfully killed in self-defence.
Maybe we’re lucky in only suffering injustice instead of injustice and absurdity.
Rabz
Aug 26, 2023 6:49 PM
My mother got gold card knees at age 84, just before covid. Two weeks at a rehabilitation hospital and eventually back to golf.
FFS, we need to know this why, exactly, you boring ol’ dinosaur?
Give it a rest.
Rabz,
that was totally uncalled for and extremely uncivil
As Rosie said
Rosie
Aug 26, 2023 6:52 PM
Get stuffed Rabz, old Ozzie mentioned that at 78 he was putting it off, and I was offering a little encouragement.
Rosie
Aug 26, 2023 6:53 PM
And it’s not as if knee replacement isn’t a topic de jour.
Rosie,
Thank you for your reply – Much appreciated – My mother got gold card knees at age 84, just before covid. Two weeks at a rehabilitation hospital and eventually back to golf.
Stiffens my Wuss Backbone to finally consider
Kat A
@SaiKate108
As investors continue to run away from Pfizer/Moderna they are becoming even more desperate and brazen.
Dr Naomi Wolf reports that the FDA in all its infinite psychic wisdom has preapproved whatever booster is made next!
So much science lol
Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH™
@P_McCulloughMD
New booster for XBB1.5 has no hope of working against Eris EG5 which is a very mild and brief headcold. I am easily treating cases in my practice in vaccinated and unvaccinated. America should not line up for any more boosters.
The Voice will solve all this, won’t it?
Spring is Sprung.
Weeds have ferking sprung!
A Startling Compilation: ‘Neither Safe Nor Effective’
Hey, rosie – just f*ck off, you staggeringly stupid superstitious face nappie clad idiot.
FFS – your wrongology is legendary.
Give. It. A. Rest. 🙂
You know you want to.
Dr. Vernon Coleman. Brilliant.
THE 10 BIGGEST AND MOST DANGEROUS LIES (THEY’VE TOLD SINCE EARLY 2020)
The Voice will solve all this, won’t it?
Of course – just ask Linda. Or Sleazy
JC
Aug 26, 2023 5:47 PM
Old Ozzie
I think you get a couple of free articles per week and then goes paywall.
JC,
If that happens just turn VPN off or move to another location – works on other limit sites
Kooka day here Lizzie, I was found by my very first bird friend when I was out walking this morning. She’s about 15 but in great shape. She now has a territory a k or so north of the Cafe.
And her great granddaughter snuck in to the Cafe at dusk, she was awesomely hungry. Tried to eat my fingers, fiercely. She’s 2, born and raised here. Mum and dad want her gone though, which is why she was so hungry.
Baaa, baaaa …
You braindead sheep.
Colonel Berka.
Jurisdiction is jurisdiction.
A Plod ignores those boundaries at his/her/xe’s peril.
I don’t suppose that putting a draft Bill to Congress, so that elected representatives of the people could vote on it, rather than having anonymous, unaccountable, bureaucrats drafting a regulation, occurred to them?
Rabz – Here you go. I heard this track in my local Coles yesterday.
I Don’t Want a Lover – Texas (1990 live)
Scots babe! It was fun to have a Scottish band called Texas playing in a Coles in Australia. The musak Coles does is actually rather good.
Settle down Rabz. Abuse diminishes us.
A song for the creature “rosie”
Lost three years o’ me loife
A victorian slag is braindead
She sells her neighbores into strife
Because she only cares about
Her own worthless life
That’s the first verse – more are on the way if the evil piece of excrement does not shut up.
El Caballo – one time crappy golf course. One in a series of peculiar Perf attractions.
Gee thanks, calli – I’ll just forget about the three years of my life that were stolen from me by the likes of the “rosie”.
Yes I agree with you, but I don’t seek your foolish kiss
No more …
Don’t give them the power!
I will not kneel …
Chill, Rabz, chill.
😕
Jump Around, peoples!
How bad is my batch just morphed into how bad is my Minister for Health!
Prepare for more masks, vaccine mandates, lockdowns, curfews, social distancing, unjustified surveillance and gaslighting.
There’s an election that needs to be rigged in an English-speaking banana republic filled with Florida men, Orange oafs and ice cream-slurping old pervs.
El Caballo Blanco. Remember the advertising as a kid in Sydney of their park there.
Remember bugging parents to go there and was told flatly no. Dad worked a second job at the time as a cab driver & his boss was out at Bringelly so probably knew a bit more about it than I did at an impressionable age.
Side note, I was in primary school and our school did have a Spanish language program so suppose there was more curiosity then just a jingoistic ad. Pity I remember little of Spanish these days…
Existing as they are, North of Richmond …
calli
Same here – all my medical expences for the heart defibrillator and the transplant paid for by moi. And I still have my own cover while on the OAP, which isn’t easy sometimes.
Maui Cops Turned Cars Back Into Fire!
For the rose – yes, I lost my temper. You’ll live.
Can’t let that go by.
The Bureau – Only For Sheep (1981)
Awesome track, with lots of brass, um…brass.
How bout Cows with Guns…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPhWfSeMYHA
Rabz retorted:
Presumably the target area had to be broadened as no successful hits had been recorded on the original specific of knee replacement prognosis.
Rosie did not give any reference to the context she was replying to.
Rabz did not bother to look far for extenuating factors either.
This little fracas is what happens when low-effort posters meet each other.
Thankyou Rabz, it’s not like you.
I love backing singers, Blur’s backing singers are awesome.
Fewer backing singers.
More backing singers.
INVESTMENT BANKER: How You’re Kept Poor and Controlled
low-effort posters
While we are at it There’s always the sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYQTL-ws6p4
5 Tips To Protect Your Knees As You Age –
https://struancoleman.com/5-tips-to-protect-your-knees-as-you-age/#:~:text=Use%20targeted%20exercises%20to%20build,muscles%20help%20support%20your%20knees.
Rabz, has being elevated to guest poster status given you a … dare I say … God Oracle complex?
It’s been known to happen.
Here’s the first – Do not be afraid to lust after Brunette Sirens – they exist for a reason 🙂
Pancho – hopefully not.
Peoples are fully entitled to (figuratively) lay into me like there is no tomorrow.
C’mon Cats, you know you want to!
Rabz
Aug 26, 2023 8:23 PM
5 Tips To Protect Your Knees As You Age
Here’s the first – Do not be afraid to lust after Brunette Sirens – they exist for a reason
Nice, with a fine glass of red wine on a Saturday night.
Who are the high effort posters? Go!
Stranglers. Yes. Aural Scupture is one of those albums you keep through anything.
Ice Queen (1984)
Well, I am justifiably cranky too.
To fulfil a family duty I spent last night and today surrounded by Erkos, goatees and black skivvies.
Arty farty types being terribly arty farty at every opportunity.
With extra added Yes badges.
Sometimes high effort is revealed in the things we refrain from saying.
A rock ‘n’ roll Legend, Cats:
Waiting only for my boot heels to be a wanderin’
🙂
Desert boots? Duffle coats?
….bongo drums?
I fear therapy will be protracted and uncertain.
Well, you would be firmly in the low effort for starters.
All mouth and no trousers.
Heading off to Japan as soon as they open a Shinkansen station in Glen Waverley.
How are things at the Heavenly top table?
A query here, the mention of Abo investments gone wrong. El Caballo keeps being mentioned as one of the dodgy purchases in WA.
El Caballo Blanco was at Leppington NSW.
The WA version, which was the original, was named El Bocado. The bloke who set up both properties ended up killing himself. His name escapes me and I have had too much Vino to bother googling him.
The pedant in me. Curious though.
They are magnifique when paired with bleu 501s, Squirette .
Dr Vernon Coleman: What an absolute champion.
Seeing there’s an impromptu radio show, here’s an upbeat contribution. The spectacular location is an apartment complex called ‘La Murallo Roja’ in Calpe, Spain and the attractive lady in the clip is the singer’s wife.
River of Dreams Billy Joel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSq4B_zHqPM
Many commenters here have written about the filth SLD. The murderer of Angel Baby Courtney.
This pile of excrement is on record as stating that the first thing he wants to do when he is free, is to “lose his virginity”.
This bucket of diarrhoea obviously spent the last twenty-three years in protective custody. His rectum should be as loose as 7Nilligan’s gob. When he was legally an adult, the slime should have been placed into general population. It would have been his only chance at maybe, just maybe, developing a smidgen of empathy.
nah, who am I kidding.
My compliments on your self restraint!
Can’t pass that up.
Spain – Born To Love Her (2001)
calli
Aug 26, 2023 8:36 PM
Many upticks.
Cassie 26/8 @ 6:52
Your point is pertinent with the article in the front page of the weekend Oz.
The sicko that murdered that beautiful 3 yr old has shown no remorse.
Only one y thing to do – firing squad.
Can you imagine what that 3 yr old went through.
Hey, Miss Personage,
I would like a love like …
Me thinking of you
thinking of me
thinking of you type love …
Me telling my friends
more than I’ve ever admitted to myself
you thinking of me of me
thinking of you … 🙂
Razey raised:
I don’t want to divide posts into only high and low, there’s in-betweeners too, but I’ll say what bare minimum is needed to exceed the low effort category.
1. If responding to another commenter, name them so they can find the comment. Giving the timestamp is optional and usually not needed when recent.
2. If responding to the World Beyond The Cat, cite the source by either name or link.
3. Include a precise quote (not the entire freaking copy-pasted body) of what you’re replying to.
4. Show some evidence of independent thought that isn’t just copying and pasting click-bait headlines from elsewhere.
A low-effort poster is someone whose recent comments have skipped any of the above features.
We may all find ourselves prone to low-effort posting from time to time. The condition is recoverable.
Alice Cooper was in the news yesterday, awesomely, so I have to do a track of his I first listened to as a teenager.
Alice Cooper – Billion Dollar Babies (1973)
This is why we wear them – sacred cultural garments.
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
Lao Tzu
Have any Cats noticed the constant plugging of the “Busking for the ILF”, on SBS?
ILF is the Indigenous Literary Fund. They are fund raising for Aboriginal Literacy, which sounds reasonable considering the low rate of it throughout the Abo kids living the “Traditional”, lifestyle.
What the ILF actually is, is pushing “Traditional Languages”, in written form, in colourful books to kids who already don’t bother learning to speak and read English, which may at least benefit them in the future.
In other news a winner was declared in the Warrandyte by-election.
Sadly, the Uniparty retained power.
Rabz,
with all due respect, 😀 Lee and Wrangler beat Levi’s.
Besides, Levi’s went woke years ago. Keep up!
Sirens – thank goodness they don’t exist, Cats. 🙂
au contraire, Razey-san.
“There’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.” – Morpheus, The Matrix.
Well yes, of course.
Jeans On – Keith Urban (2002)
I’m sad. I wanted to link the Leo Sayer original, which is serious awesome, but it isn’t on the internet. I tried and I tried. So you get Keith Urban instead. Ah well.
Pogs – I’m not having it – Levis’ are like adidas – sacred cultural garments/footwear
I have seven Levi’s jackets:
Burgundy
Olive drab
Sky bleu cords (times two)
Soviet Grey
White (times two)
No real man willingly exists on this planet without a subset of the cultural garments above.
You just don’t disport yourself in public in a Canadian Tuxedo unless you just know yourself … 🙂
Son of Buckley.
Grace (1994)
Sad he drowned.
Let’s not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
– T. S. Eliot
There are childcare, in the remote communities of Western Australia, who have English as a second or third language. It’s considered more important, in the interests of their culture, for them to learn local dialects, that are virtually unknown over a hundred miles away.
BoN barracked for:
Uhhh…
…is this one of those songs where it’s best to focus on the tune and not ask questions about what the lyrics meant?
Zulu,
but, but, but, the Voice will fix that!
Rabz, tsk, tsk, tsk.
As a Rodeo girl from the seventies, Wrangler reigns supreme.
Ask John Dutton if you don’t believe! 😀
Lee was for partying.
Actually, I was very partial to home grown Amco jeans.
Colonel – nothing wrong with the lyrics. Tarts have been tarts all through history.
Riddle me this. What will the “Voice” do about the ten and twelve year old girls, who are promised to the old men of the tribe as wives, and are pregnant at fourteen?
Zule,
the Big Men get to keep the five thousand dollar baby bonus.
After a couple or three of them, they donate the young girls to their sons and/or grandsons. simples. 🙁
More Buckley, just because.
Last Goodbye
Eternal Life
ZULU! bugger, sorry for the misspelling.
BTW, how is the memsahib?
“Without You” by Badfinger? Funny, I always associated that song with Harry Nilson?
Not much changed in 60,000 years?
The Memsahib is making a slow recovery, thank you for asking. She’s demanding a Rhine cruise sooner, rather then later…
I wonder what sort of Lego character Sancho’s gonna play tonight?
Lego Builder?
I know …. Lego test pilot!
Or hang on … could be Lego Engineer
Nah actually it will probs be the old fallback he likes best … Legal Lego
Funny how the clown and his Lego friends gibber on about others claiming that they have an elevated and unhealthy sense of self importance.
Seems to be more like the other way around.
WTF?
Daily Mail is dragging out the Spanish Kiss by stating, “Sam Kerr has finally broken her silence”, to say blah blah blah, about the “furore!”.
What the bloody hell does it have to do with her, or any other team for that matter?
… greatest artist to submerge in the 90s
Zulu,
happy to hear the mending is going well. Take her on the Rhine cruise. She, and you, deserve it.
You are a good man. When my bits and pieces started to crumble, my ex gave me the boot.
Madame Zulu is fortunate. Loyalty and promise are no small thing. 😀
Who actually gives a shit bout soccer really?
Feeling the lurve, Cats! 🙂
Found out today indigenous identifying can get 1.65% residential mortgages from the Indigenous Business Agency!
Who actually gives a shit bout soccer really?
certainly lesbian soccer- is all wimmin’s soccer lesbian soccer?
Entropy
Aug 26, 2023 10:04 PM
Who actually gives a shit bout soccer really?
It’s the World Game.
“Entropy
Aug 26, 2023 10:04 PM
Who actually gives a shit bout soccer really?”
I don’t give a Rats for Guy, or Lesbian Soccer. Equally boring.
Miltonf,
SNAP!
I used to skate to that track at the Canterbury ice rink. This one too.
Mi-Sex – Computer Games (1979)
Sorry to hear that, Pogria. I was brought up to a different set of rules.
Zulu,
as was I.
Still, life goes on. I am planning my new orchard and veg garden. Have made friends anew. Deep Country really is a balm for the broken. 😀
Bruce,
that was a great blast from the past, thanks.
I used to roller skate at Mt Gravatt to “Fat Bottomed Girls”.
That song has been removed from the Queen “Best of” Album.
Hey, Miss Personage!
I’d like to get to know you
I’d like to take you out
We’d go to Wilhelm and Mary
And afterwards make out
Instead, I’m typing you a message
That I know I’ll never send
Rewriting old excuses
Delete the kisses at the end
What if it’s not meant for me? 😕
Soccer’s a good game to play- watch not so much but I don’t particularly like watching any sport. Better to play.
Jeff Buckley’s Grace album is one of the best ever. Sublime voice. Lover You Should Have Come Over. Magnificent.
When I was a l’il goil …
A penis degloving@ 5:43 … ouch!
Family friendly.
It all ended up cool for the rest.
Bullet Wound Opens Up: Man In Excruciating Pain!
, this is our last goodbye, I tells ya … 😕
Must I dream and always behold your exquisite visage …
miltonf,
the only sports I watch are Equestrian. As a lifelong “horse girl”, it is the only sport I find interesting. Also, it is the only sport where men and women compete as equals.
Although, you don’t find too many girls doing Buck jumping or Bull riding. Too smart for that!
So we blundered on up to Harlem …
Yes if that Spanish coach had been a chick I bet everything would have been apple pie.
Image.
I can only gift you everythang, baybee! 🙂
Cats – let’s have a witness 🙂
Nelson – Brunettes being the Best, again … 😕
It’s good riddance to him in that case, Pogria.
Let him get his crumbliness for it will inevitably arrive, and he can enjoy it all to himself, because now you’ve got another life and new friends. If he’s got someone else, well, she’ll find out soon enough what he’s really like. Leopards and spots there.
These words are the voice of experience in the matter of a husband taking off. It’s a horrible thing to go through, as I know from long ago, especially as I was still quite young and a new mum. but there is a way through it, and I’m glad you’re now doing well.
I remember howling my eyes out on the front porch the small unrenovated inner city house we’d just bought, and the woman over the road, an old-timer from what was still a rough area, yelled out quit your bawling, you’re not the first woman to be left and you won’t be the last either. She wasn’t wrong, quite wise really. The nice old couple two doors up the road, he was a wharfie, came down and rescued me and the kids, taking us in for a meal and some comfort.
Water under the bridge for us both now, Pogria Don’t let it come back to haunt you.
Lizzie,
thank you for the kind words and encouragement.
The one thing I have never doubted is, that it is his loss, just like his hair. Lol
Just popped in late for a look around here while Hairy catches the rest of whatever game he’s recorded. I’m returning now to another chapter of Rowan Dean in the 80’s. Fiction, he calls it, but it’s clearly fact too. An amusingly rueful look back at his Jack The Lad days in drunken long-lunch advertising.
Rabz, hope you feel better in the .morning. Evict her from your heart and toss those maudlin memories of that female personage still causing you grief and bringing you to get cranky at Rosie (or anyone) out of the blue like that. That’s not the true you. Just keep busy doing other things, meeting others.
Week In Pictures.
The Week in Pictures ‘Mugshot Edition’ – LOL
Thanks Tom – WIP – one of the best ever.
Second last pic – the newly poured slab with the duck – hahaha
That Trump history twitter account is pretty funny.
Hopefully, the last bits of the Janet Albrechtsen piece:
Giles says that in cases where investigating or prosecuting authorities have been deliberately misled – particularly where habitual offenders are concerned – police should, as a matter of public policy, prosecute complainants for making a false report.
“It is critical that these offenders are brought to justice so that the limited resources of police and prosecutors are focused on genuine complaints,” she said.
There are cases where malicious lies are concocted by a party with the sole intent to damage an accused, she said, an objective often achieved even if the defendant is exonerated.
“The accuser – even when faced with clear evidence of dishonesty – walks away from the devastation caused with the protection of anonymity and little remorse, having achieved their intended objective of publicly smearing the reputation of the accused, who is left emotionally and financially depleted.”
Kate Garside agrees. She says Ruscoe should be charged with making a false statement to police.
“As a woman, I feel that she’s just taking away from those women that are actually being affected by domestic violence. I feel that there’s too much of that happening at the moment and if people realise that there is a consequence for making false allegations, then maybe it would only be the people that are actually dealing with it that would report to police and not those that are wanting five minutes of fame or money, or just to get back at their ex-partner. But there doesn’t seem to be any ramifications for making false allegations at all.”
And if her son didn’t have those videos and recordings?
“He’d have been charged with whatever she was accusing him of. It would be her word against his, and as she said: ‘They’ll believe me. Because I’m the girl’.”
JANET ALBRECHTSEN COLUMNIST
STEPHEN RICE NSW EDITOR
Finally, after a lot of attempts. 😉
This could be Trump’s lasting legacy. Having the USSC overturn Chevron.
See
Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo 22-451.
No more will US regulators be able to fill in the gaps from ambiguous legislation to make a raft of what is effectively new and nominally unchallengeable, law by edict.
JC and bern have been talking about this for a while.
Justice Jackson won’t deliberate on Loper Bright either, she recused herself as she heard it in a lower court.
Justice Jackson won’t deliberate on Loper Bright either, she recused herself as she heard it in a lower court.
A few of them coming up.
Actually, I was very partial to home grown Amco jeans.
I had forgotten about Amco jeans. Had a few pair back in the day when I was a young fella growing up.
Yesterday I went to the Dog Festival at Olympic park.
For some reason they put the Bullmastiff association booth in a position it was surrounded by a bunch of toy breed associations.
And the few times I stopped by the pool where they were trying to get dogs to catch balls etc…not a single successful catch.
These were vetted dogs too, allegedly good at their craft.
The Weimaraner is over represented in dog product advertising.
It felt like every few product booths you’d pass they had a Weimaraner in their marketing.
Now check out the latest news from D.C.: Ashley Babbit’s killer, Capitol Police Lieutenant Michael Byrd, is getting promoted to Captain...and they call Russia a thugocracy?
the Left’s fatal flaw may be their failure to perceive that, with their over-the-top persecution of a political enemy, they’ve exposed themselves as that very system.
just like big business embracing x dressers while ripping off their customers and underpaying staff
The Tele is reporting that for the third time during 2023 a criminal trial has been abandoned in NSW.
NSW Plod has been caught out not disclosing all information.
Unbelievable.
In situations like this, the taxpayer should pick up 100% of the costs of the defendant plus a margin for their troubles.
ABC crusade against Catholic hospital continues.
What breed were they, Bern? Seems strange, unless they were using Pekingese.
Survey of the passionate few
Philippa Martyr: We don’t want bishops made in our own image, do we?
as some here sometimes point out, it’s all John Howard’s fault
ABC crusade against Catholic hospital continues.”
The ABC should now be called the ACB…”anti Catholic Broadcasting”. How long before they launch a jihad on Catholic schools?
Today’s Sunday Tele:
WHOSE FACTS ARE THE FACT
CHECKERS CHECKING?
Peta Credlin
In a rare departure from political correctness, last week, the ABC’s Media
Watch programme acknowledged that maybe, perhaps, the Uluru
Statement might be more than just one page and that the referendum
might be about more than just listening to Aboriginal people before
making decisions for them.
Which of course, it is. That’s why they didn’t want you to know what is in
the full document.
Analysing whether Facebook was justified in blocking an editorial of mine
as “False information. Checked by independent fact-checkers,” ABC host
Paul Barry conceded that while “the Uluru Statement is expressed on one
page … there are many more pages of notes and background … where
matters like a treaty and reparations are raised”.
Perhaps through gritted teeth, Barry said: “given that there may be some
point in what Credlin is saying” Facebook might have labelled it
“disputed” and should not have blacked out my Sky News declaration that
the Uluru Statement was actually a 26-page ambit claim against the
Australian people.
This rare outbreak of balance at the national broadcaster lasted scarcely 48
hours before senior management reportedly distributed advice to staff “on
how to handle misinformation in an interview”. That advice cited former
7.30 Report presenter Leigh Sales, who stated that the Uluru Statement
was indeed only one page, that the rest of it was just the “minutes from
meetings” leading up to it, and that if anyone suggested that the Uluru
Statement might exceed one page, the interviewer was to step in to correct
any such claim; because, Sales said, ABC “journalists should not be afraid
to stand up for the facts”.
Even “facts” that had been publicly contradicted, at least seven times, by
Statement architect Professor Megan Davis, before the Statement’s length
and contents became an issue, and which had been called “disputed” just
days earlier by the ABC’s own Media Watch. Give me a break! Talk about
activist journalism.
And this is just the latest example of the bias that “No” advocates will face
as the Voice campaign formally kicks off this week.
On top of all that’s happened so far, starting with the attempt to avoid
sending a for-and-against booklet to each household, the refusal to have a
constitutional convention, the refusal to fund both sides of the argument,
and the delay for months in giving the same tax deductibility to both
sides.
As seen last week, even the once scrupulously impartial Australian
Electoral Commission seems to be invested in a Yes win, by counting ticks
as formal votes in favour but not crosses as formal votes against; when
surely, if someone can’t manage something as simple as writing “yes” or
“no”, it has to be an informal vote.
And then there’s the growing evidence that Big Tech is trying to rig the
outcome by consistently describing arguments against the Voice as
“misinformation”.
With Big Tech, Big Business, Big Sport and even Big Philanthropy all
barracking for the Voice , there’ll be an avalanche of money to try to force
you to vote Yes, insisting that a constitutionally entrenched Indigenous
Voice is nothing but a modest change, and to say “no” would be
disrespectful to Aboriginal people.
The great unknown is the extent to which big money, rather than a strong
argument, can swing something as important as changing the way
government works and how citizens have their say.
Make no mistake, this referendum on the establishment of a
constitutionally entrenched Indigenous Voice is not just about recognising
Aboriginal people were here first. It’s about accepting that Aboriginal
people were so fundamentally wronged by British settlement that now,
two centuries on, they deserve a special say on anything significant that
government has to deal with.
And it’s about starting the process of treaties between Aboriginal and
non-Aboriginal Australians, with billions in compensation to come.
It’s going to be a knock-down fight because it boils down to the sort of
country we think we’re living in. Is Australia today a country we can be
proud of? Or is there a crime at the start of our national existence that has
to be atoned for, and do we do that by dividing citizens by their race?
Voice proponents, from the PM down, want to harness the undoubted
goodwill towards Aboriginal people to get voters to agree, in a short, sharp
campaign, to something we will regret on reflection.
That’s why the continuing fight over the Uluru Statement matters.
If it’s just a benign invitation for all Australians to walk together down the
path of reconciliation, the PM reckons his legacy project still has a chance,
despite its falling polls.
But if voters understand the Uluru Statement is all about Treaty and Truth,
and the Voice is just a vehicle to bring on further change, no amount of
celebrity endorsements (and taxpayer millions) will save his signature
policy.
Big Tech justifies its selective approach to “misinformation” by claiming
it only blocks material judged false by accredited “fact-checkers”. But last
week, my Sky colleague Jack Houghton exposed what appears to be its
rank one-sidedness. Of the 17 Voice posts that Facebook has recently
blocked because so-called fact-checkers regarded them as false or
misleading, all have been arguments against the Voice and none for it,
even though the Yes campaign has been loose with the truth . As reported
on Sky, Facebook claims it only blocks posts fact-checked by an
independent entity. Yet it turns out the RMIT fact-checkers, on whose
say-so Facebook has been blocking arguments against the Voice (including
my own), are funded to the tune of up to $740,000 a year by a Facebookrelated entity.
And this RMIT FactLab is no longer certified by the “International Fact
Checking Network” that is supposed to supervise and validate Facebook’s
arbiters of truth on the internet.
What’s more, the head of RMIT’s FactLab, Russell Skelton, a former ABC
journalist, has been personally re-posting pro-Voice material, including
tweets by Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney, despite Facebook
claiming that its “independent” fact-checkers don’t “advocate for or
against any policy positions”.
Another RMIT fact-checker, who’s also helped to block Sky’s page, Renee
Davidson, recently labelled Opposition Leader Peter Dutton a “fearmongering racist”.
Facebook can’t distance itself from these fact-checkers because it’s the
social media giant that keeps blocking material based on their work.
Also last week, after fact-checking became an issue, the ABC contacted
The Australian (where I am also a columnist) to deny that the national
broadcaster had anything to do with the RMIT FactLab that labelled my
first Voice editorial “misinformation”.
Yet the RMIT FactLab’s page stated it “works hand-in-hand with RMIT
ABC Fact Check – a partnership between RMIT University and the ABC that
focuses on fact-checking claims by public figures”. Skelton, the RMIT
website said, was the director of both fact-checking entities.
As of last Friday, the FactLab site had been cleansed of any reference to the
ABC and Skelton. As The Australian’s Sophie Ellsworth reported, it
explained that “we’re always updating our website … to keep up with the
rapidly changing media landscape”.
On Saturday 14 October, your vote will be as much about free speech and
what sort of transparency you will tolerate from your government as it will
be about dividing Australians by race. It is that serious
Doggie treats?
Out walking a while ago, saw a woman leading a giant Alsatian and a small Daschund. Commented to my wife how thoughtful it was for the woman to have brought lunch for the Alsatian.
Out walking a while ago, saw a woman leading a giant Alsatian and a small Daschund.
I used to walk my Weimaraner & my now ex-wife’s Chihuahua Pomeranian cross.
Guess which one was better behaved.
From Philippa’s article:
That sound you hear is the nail being firmly struck on the head.
Their job has zero to do with politics and everything to do with the spiritual life of the church. The qualification is holiness.
Thanks for linking, Rosie. And thanks for your kind words last night.
Chihuahua Pomeranian cross.
A huge dose of ‘little dog syndrome?’
A few breeds Johanna.
Kelpie’s, what looked to be Kelpie cross, a golden retriever (which why would you bother), what looked to be a staffy cross, a boxer.
I was only there in the morning so maybe they were saving a Malinois or two for later on.
The golden retriever just wanted to swim & had to be coaxed out of the pool with treats.
The object is not to close down all Catholic hospitals or schools. That would be disastrous and they know it.
The object is to force administrators in these institutions to knowingly sin by aligning policy with modern mores. Of course, that’s not front of mind in the agitators, it’s couched in words like “reform”, and “consistency”.
If the ACT government want’s to end a lease which is a contract, it has to pay compensation.
I don’t get why this isn’t being made the key point to get way from the religious argument.
Similar but different to Amistad (the movie, not Amistad the real story).
Little dog syndrome.
I have one of those. Chihuahua Foxy cross. Sounds like three dogs at once when he gets his bark on, which is regularly. Thinks he’s Gandalf stopping the Balroc. Desperate to tackle the resident wombat. sigh… Loves people and kids though.
While we’re on dogs…
Yesterday eve:
Yes, but.
I have heard it said (during Season Four of Blue Heelers) that jacks in State A can arrest a bloke who did X in State B and who is now in State A, but only if X is an offence in both States.
However, for it to be effective there needs to be an arrangement to extradite the bloke from State A to State B after the said arrest. The extradition apparently involves applications made in courts and such.
It also apparently also depends on how far the bloke went across State borders, because most jacks working on or near said borders will have been sworn in as Special Constables in the state across the border. This allows them to go deep into the other State looking for bloke who did X.
It’s not like crossing county lines on Dukes of Hazzard.
Peta, Peta, you are seriously misinformed in elevating the AEC. It has long been the place where people who had no hope of promotion anywhere else went in the hope (often fulfilled) of getting promoted. And, believe me, there are places in the APS where anyone of average intelligence can be promoted to the top if they play their cards right.
I don’t know about political interference, but I do know that they are staffed by incompetents, plus they are dead set on introducing electronic voting, with all the attendant risks.
Electronic voting would make their job easier, which is always desirable for people who don’t care about outcomes.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
– Emo Philips
From Rosie’s link @ Aug 27, 2023 7:43 AM
‘…and being in the pocket of the late Cardinal Pell…’
The pile on is/was disgusting.
Cardinal Pell did nothing wrong.
If Cardinal Pell said ‘get your weapons and saddle up girls and boys, I am going lead you through the jaws of hell and out the other side,’ I would have no hesitation following him.
And I am with the Christmas and Easter / Weddings and Funeral mob.
Lapsed.
I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.
– Rodney Dangerfield
An Inconvenient Trump: Republicans Are Living an Enormous Lie
Ukraine, Russia turns into GOP presidential flashpoint
Why would anyone want to risk their life again to enrich big pharma?
This is how much the new Pfizer COVID-19 booster vaccine costs — without insurance
as some here sometimes point out, it’s all John Howard’s fault
It’s not your circumstances that count! .. it’s where you come from! .. several families around me that haven’t been in the country anywhere near 10 years .. last couple of “families” here have NO toddlers or school age kids .. something I’ve never seen in “houso” newbies before ..!
When I moved in this estate was 95% ‘white” folk .. now there are 5 English as a 1st language homes out of 69 ……
In NSW, 56,000 households are on the waiting list for social housing, many of them waiting for more than 10 years for a permanent home,
It may simply be a question of choosing the less bad, but at this point he’s not wrong.
Putin says BRICS works for ‘global majority’
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene??
@RepMTG
Deranged leftist pleads guilty after threatening to kill me, gets to stay home all summer waiting for his sentencing trial then only goes to jail for a measly few months and doesn’t have to report until October 2nd.
But if you’re an old man who can barely walk without a cane and you threaten a Democrat, the government shows up to your house and shoots you dead.
Oh dear…
Today’s Sunday Tele:
MUSEUM BOSS FALLS ON HIS OWN
SWORD
London: The head of the British Museum has resigned and his deputy has
stepped back after one of the biggest scandals in its history over stolen
artefacts, which has prompted a police investigation.
Hartwig Fischer, the museum’s director, quit yesterday over allegations
that as many as 2000 precious jewels and gems had been stolen over 20
years and sold on eBay.
Fischer, 60, admitted that it was “evident” that the museum did not
respond “comprehensively” to warnings of thefts
Dachshunds are not lap dogs – they were bred as hunting dogs and generally have strong, assertive temperaments. Not to mention sharp teeth and a willingness to use them. They are also surprisingly quick and agile on their feet. It is a mistake to underestimate them.
I get the joke about ‘sausage dogs’, but in the unlikely event that the GS tried to eat the sausage dog, it would win but would need extensive maxillofacial and plastic surgery afterwards.