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His name is Cash. Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Canoga Park Block Party 2024
Gotta start somewhere, even if it is second…
Am I lucky this morning?
Bugger me, Pearson ain’t that bright*.
What’s an Aboriginal word for “meal”? Or “home”? Or “family”?
Or “invitation”? If he is trying to remind Australians of the abject poverty, loveless male gerontocracy and stone-age foraging existence of man on this continent before The British arrived, he’s doing a slap-up job.
*or hungry
(for food, not money obvs)
Dover, I was responding to a comment you posted, which I think came from Twitter about those big bad pharma companies. I posted it on some other thread in error.
I’m re-posting it here.
Dover
When you have, NPR, The Guardian, New York Times, Vanity Fair and every other leftwing publications in the US, blaming Purdue Pharma for Opioid deaths, it’s always a good idea to seek a second opinion (pun intended).
And how would these factions respond to such an intervention? This would be a recipe for disaster.
This should be out of quotes.
Pharma is there to sell meds. The firewall between the patient and pharma is the doctor and that’s where the real hidden blame lies. I’m not buying that Purdue was the baddy. Those drugs are under prescription. The only reason Purdue was literally gassed, is because that’s where the money was. Unfortunately the American legal system has a habit of going after where the money-pot resides.
And, I’m not buying the bullshit that Purdue oversold to the Docs. The medical profession is the group that should have taken the entire blame.
GreyRanga
Grey Ranga, I said that two years ago and was labelled as a nutcase that was bringing the blog to the attention of the authorities, and that I should be banned.
Had a squiz at this mighty piece of technology today – the Antikythera Mechanism.
It’s basically a two thousand year old geared device, thought to be the world’s first analogue computer. The display has it in several pieces as recovered. It gave predictions for moon activity, planet positions in the sky, eclipses etc.
“Clever chaps, those ancient Greeks” would be the understatement of a millennium.
Indigenous people are tools. They’ve been hammered, chipped, thrown about, and left out in the elements to rust for … how many decades now? For at least 50 years, their own elites have been wielding them in a very successful effort to carve out an aristocratic living (producing little, and largely living off the toil of others) for a selective, superior ‘breed.’ The only way for the ‘tools’ to become more valued, is for them to injure* their masters: cease to be handled submissively; refuse to produce the results demanded of them.
* NOT an incitement to physical violence.
Sure, the medical profession has a measure of blame in this but arguing that pharma bears no responsibility because it is entirely driven by profit and the medical profession has the responsibility of reigning in pharma’s drive for profit is just ridiculous. Both pharma and the medical profession are under a duty of care to patients/ clients. If either of them fail to properly undertake that obligation they are rightly penalized by the courts for any injuries that follow.
Ukraine Desperate to Start World War III
“The Ukrainians carried out a mass attack with 20 kamikaze drones against the Pskov air base 700 km from the border with Ukraine and 30 km from Estonia. The drones hit an airport near Russia’s border with Estonia and Latvia, causing a huge blaze and damaging four Il-76 military transport planes, which can carry heavy machinery and troops, the Russian state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency officials.
The development is very serious. Either the Ukrainian attack was made through the Baltic States’ air space, which is, therefore, NATO, or, as some believe, they were fired from Estonia, pointing the finger at Ukraine, which has not confirmed or denied the attack. Either way, this is becoming a war between NATO and Russia, which means the Neocons are working hard to achieve their Christmas give – World War III.
Even Orbán of Hungary has come out and said that the US needs to call back Trump. “That’s the only way out. Call back Trump.” He knows that the Neocons have staged a coup of the United States, and they are achieving their dream – World War III and the personal destruction of Russia.
Meanwhile, as hedge funds lose their shirt and the live savings of their clients because of their bearish bias against the dollar, never before has the dollar been used as extensively in international payments as it is today. There is even a revolt internally at the famed Goldman Sachs. Just about everyone is bashing David Solomon from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, and The Economist.
Despite this talk of de-dollarization, the losses have been massive. The use of the euro, on the other hand, has plummeted, as SWIFT data shows. More and more serious institutions have been reaching out to us and have come to their own conclusions that the Euro is on life-support. It cannot survive while NATO ramps up war.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/ukraine/ukraine-desperate-to-start-world-war-iii/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
The US Dollar will reign supreme as it is the Best of a very Bad Lot.
It’s actually ridiculous in the way you characterize it.The medical profession has zero… zero.. responsibility to Pharma. The medical profession’s only concern is that of the patient.
Pharma has a duty of care by constantly reviewing if the medication functions properly and all side effects are investigated. Pharma has zero duty of care if the medic is over prescribing. Take that up with the medical profession and individual doctors.
If either of them fail to properly undertake that obligation they are rightly penalized by the courts for any injuries that follow.
“Most Australians have never had us over for a meal. They don’t know who we are,” he said.
FMD did Pearson really say this? Maybe not be an insufferable jackass and you may well get an invite.
Lentils hit $1,000 tonne today.
They were bobbing around the high seven hundreds for months and then the climb started a couple of weeks ago.
I could pretend that holding stock was a smart move on my part but in reality it was pure procrastination.
Not all of them are principled though the problem there is that those are also just RINOs and much less interested in winning overall, only their own success.
LOL, the medical profession basically go out free and the financial liability and reputational destruction was absorbed by the family with the controlling stake in Purdue.
Please explain!
Trump doesn’t do anything for personal gratification; he works on principles. His presidency was the most principled of any government, anywhere, ever. He has made enormous sacrifices. Narcissicists do not do that. People confuse his blunt manner and his great wit with self preoccupation. Knowing your capacity is not narcissism. The best of people have honest opinions about themselves. But even a genius like Trump under-estimated the true self absorption and corruption he had to face. And also the % of sheeple.
Cronkite
Did he bang the porn star or not? Nothing to do with the narcissist claim.
Remarkable how close the Greeks were to the two instruments which gave humans the oceans: the sextant (for latitude) and the clock (for longitude). With only a bit of naval architecture we here in Australia could all be speaking Greek.
Or Phoenician, given how far Hanno the Navigator got.
Pharma has a duty of care by constantly reviewing if the medication functions properly and all side effects are investigated.
LOL. If you believe that then you live in Sictoria. Oh you do. FFS
Canada is a scary place these days. In light of the above and jailing the priest how are they different from communist China?
What is a woman?
Australia’s first female PM can’t say what a woman is (27 Aug)
Love it because it’s so accurate.
I may live in Sictoria, whereas you live with an Asian she-male, but what’s living in Victoria or living with an Asian she-male have to do with the argument?
Absolutely nothing, because you have nothing else to add. Go ask Marty’s AI for a reply.
Bruce of Newcastle
Aug 31, 2023 3:28 PM
Had a squiz at this mighty piece of technology today – the Antikythera Mechanism.
Remarkable how close the Greeks were to the two instruments which gave humans the oceans: the sextant (for latitude) and the clock (for longitude). With only a bit of naval architecture we here in Australia could all be speaking Greek.
Or Phoenician, given how far Hanno the Navigator got.
And it was the Poms that done it once again – What a clever bunch of people/navigators – They even bumped into the Great Southern Land………………….Well done Captain Cook.
https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/harrisons-clocks-longitude-problem
Ridiculous, because you are referring to health if it were truly laissez faire.
The regulatory state has been captured by private interests.
Mr Rotten – We got Vasco Da Gama and Bartolomeu Diaz in primary school. Portuguese navigators. These days all the kids get are endless repeats of Rabbitproof Fence.
Notorious Twiggie Forrest is in the Australian on another grant-seeding tour, lecturing us on “Global Steaming”.
As soon as I can think of a respectable lay-up for “Ceviche Weather Events”, imma write in to the editor.
Use and abuse of opioids has been freaking know for 8000 years according to this piece. It’s not as though the medical profession were dealing with something knew.
That family was absolutely bulldozed.
An 8,000-year History of Use and Abuse of Opium and Opioids: How That Matters For A Successful Control Of The Epidemic
h/t Neurology journal.
Let’s leave aside your concern with my interpretation. The claim against Purdue wasn’t merely about over-prescription (which falls on the doctor) but that Purdue underestimated the dosage or duration of dosage that would avoid addiction. That it corrupted the process of approval with the FDA, and so on. That failure and corruption falls on Purdue, not the medical profession or doctors concerned.
Bruce of Newcastle
Aug 31, 2023 3:42 PM
Mr Rotten – We got Vasco Da Gama and Bartolomeu Diaz in primary school. Portuguese navigators. These days all the kids get are endless repeats of Rabbitproof Fence.
Keep speaking those languages then. English is the way now.
How about learning those 300 + indig languages as the way to progress. That should help you no end.
I notice that The Australian has been officially captured by the climate cult. Its new business editor is none other than its former chief renewables spruiker Perry Williams.
In other words, 100% of the mainstream Australian media is now officially on board with the escalation of the cost of living through skyrocketing electricity bills to placate the athiest climate gods.
Try penetratrating that Malthusian wall with science and reason and journalism in the public interest.
With the craziness of the current administration you could say the same of the US.
I shouldn’t, but I will because you asked so nicely. 🙂
And the FDA had no idea of the amount of opioid that would cause problems? It’s possibly the oldest form of med known to humans. I’m calling bullshit.
Oh Please. See above.
What corruption eggsactly? You’re calling an FDA approved drug corruptly introduced? Do you realize from about the beginning of the century to around 2010, there was a strong movement for pain to be medically abolished? See the above blurb I posted.
As I said, the family and Purdue was just buried by bullshit.
Johnny Rotten
Aug 31, 2023 3:42 PM
JC
Aug 31, 2023 3:35 PM
More cwap from the Sictorian living in a Failed State.
Keep voting for the Hunchback please. You short ar*e and maybe a pygmy to boot.
Maybe also a lady girl at 5 foot 2 inches short at a stretch. LOL.
T.W.A.T.
Lysander
Aug 31, 2023 2:42 PM
Most pundit have said destabilising Putin would be silly given nuclear arsenals and mafia boss/corruptokrapts in Russia would make this a volatile situation for not just Russia, but the world…
I thought this too but then, if this happen (or looked likely to happen) you could send in UN troops and other NATO and non-NATO support forces into Russia if we were told it was breaking down into civil war, rebellion, factions etc…?
Russia could be in utter turmoil (even civil war) but non-Russian troops on Russian soil would galvanize the assorted factions into fighting the ‘invaders’. Tens of millions of Russians would rise up (remembering that privately owned firearms are relatively common and almost all men have military training) and it would be a bloodbath. Not to mention whoever had control of the tactical nuclear weapons.
They would fight the ‘common enemy’, then whoever was left over, would either go back to fighting each other or come to some kind of settlement that preserved Mother Russia. Ultimately, Russians would say ‘we did this to ourselves’ and accept it – but never will they accept any kind of foreign force.
I think more and more Americans are realising that they are in trouble and I hope enough Democrats are among them to either cross the aisle and vote Republican or sit it out so that they can’t blame themselves later for what ensues.
“The Quest for the Red Prince “, by Michael Bar – Zohar, makes interesting reading.
Seems that, just before the Second World War, hundreds, if not thousands, of the members of wealthy, powerful Palestinian families, who supported co-existence with the Joos, were murdered on the orders of the Grand Mufti of Jeruselum, one Haj Amin el Husseini – the spiritual head of the Mooslimes of Palestine.
This charming specimen went on to volunteer to serve one Adolf Eichmann as Eichmann’s “adviser on Jewish questions” and seek a guarantee from another top Nazi, one Adolf Hitler that, in the event of a Nazi victory, “The Jews of Palestine will be yours.”
JC I’ve raised the same argument regarding who does the prescribing. I have also expressed astonishment at the gullibility of doctors who believed the claim that the new opioids were not addictive. However most GPs don’t read the literature, at best they read the abstracts, editorials and approved treatments; all of which can be very misleading. Most of ’em know bugger all about molecular biology. The doctors have to share some of the blame in this. Far too many of them didn’t do their homework and placed too much faith in drug company reps.
As I have previously stated, the US is a drug addled nation. I have no idea why that is the case but time and again I have been surprised at the number of drugs being prescribed to children.
It’s not just drugs, some reports claim up to 20% of US citizens use or have used psychotherapy. Psychotherapy can work but a lot of it is woo.
It is important to remember that the opioid crisis is very much a US phenomenon. There is something about USA culture that creates large numbers of sick puppies. For example, while suicide rates in all countries have remained stable in the USA it keeps rising. If that doesn’t make the nation wake up and realise it has gone seriously astray I don’t know what will.
JC
Aug 31, 2023 3:35 PM
LOL. If you believe that then you live in Sictoria. Oh you do. FFS
I may live in Sictoria, whereas you live with an Asian she-male, but what’s living in Victoria or living with an Asian she-male have to do with the argument?
Absolutely nothing, because you have nothing else to add. Go ask Marty’s AI for a reply.
LOL, What a short bottomed plonker you are. Please keep taking those anti arrogance pills. They seem to be taking a while to work so please double the dose. That may well work for you in time. And for the rest of us on this Blog. You Pompous Windbag.
Not sure about that, but then coming from a limy wog, it doesn’t surprise me you’d make up something about a persons physical characteristics rather than the argument presented. Now piss, you lowrent limy grub.
Opiods appear to have differing scales of addiction.
They were caught suborning the medical officer that reviewed OxyContin:
Dead to rights.
See above. They were in on it up to their necks.
John H
If any doc didn’t know opioids are very addictive then it falls on them for being professionally negligent especially about a med that has been around for literally thousands of years. And they kept prescribing it too. How was Purdue at fault? Also, keep in mind there was a strong official movement to essentially eliminate all forms of pain over the period.
Yes. The Ukies have been very aware of that, so much so that the whole border from Kiev to east of Kharkov has been left unmolested. Except for that “Russian dissidents” thing they wheeled out a couple months ago.
The recent increase in drone attacks on Russian targets seems very carefully calibrated too, I think. The cover for it is the Russian strategic drone and Kalibr strikes on Ukie targets, especially Kiev and Odessa. This stuff is interesting since the politics are so closely driving the military tactics.
I’m not seeing much promising about any of this. An eye for an eye is all very well, but it tends to result in a lot of people without eyes.
Ultimately, Russians would say ‘we did this to ourselves’ and accept it – but never will they accept any kind of foreign force.
Tucker’s interview with Victor Orban explains this clearly and the Russian mindset. From the perspective of sharing a border and living under Soviet rule. (30 mins)
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1696643892253466712
Okay, and the FDA had no idea about this scale?
They’re selling pain relief under freaking prescription. Of course they were in up to their necks.
News at 4 on Channel Stokes sez Barry O’Farrell is campaigning for Teh Voice. Another useless moron.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Aug 31, 2023 12:57 PM
‘Maintain the love’: Pearson call to Yes campaigners
Rosie Lewis
Noting Indigenous people made up just three per cent of the population, Mr Pearson they hadn’t been in the homes of most Australians.
“Most Australians have never had us over for a meal. They don’t know who we are,” he said.
The emotive BS is all these bastards have, now going into overdrive, even for a fat f@ck grifter like Pearson.
Why should anyone invite anyone else “over for a meal”? Unless it’s because they are friends or respected colleagues etc..
It certainly does not happen if the prospective invitee is a chronic grifter, whinger, aggressively resentful loafer who is never satisfied at decades of misplaced generosity by incompetent Uniparty governments.
They could obtain some sorely-lacking goodwill instead by inviting us, the ones who have actually extended civilizational and financial favours to them, for a meal instead.
What a demented cretin!
If you’re in a position of authority (leadership/management), and facing scrutiny over your performance, a sure-fire (if temporary) defensive behaviour is to point the finger at others, especially those below you.
This is what indigenous leadership is doing with the inVoice: providing a distraction from their own repeated failures/incompetence/money laundering over a prolonged period, hoping it will distract their employers (the Australian taxpayers) long enough for them to think of another digression.
Not sure about that, but then coming from a limy wog, it doesn’t surprise me you’d make up something about a persons physical characteristics rather than the argument presented. Now piss, you lowrent limy grub.
LOL. Go back to the USA and use the word limey. It doesn’t work here you T.W.A.T. And you are the wog. I am the Pom – John the Pom in fact and proud of it you short bottomed wap person.
Sictoria desrves you along with Chair Person Dan the not so Man.
And the Capital of Sictoria was 1 dollar. Not now as it is BROKE.
Harsh, but fair.
Did he bang the porn star or not? Nothing to do with the narcissist claim.
No. She worked as a meeter and greeter at one of his casinos. She was turning tricks and black mailing the high rollers. He wanted to call the cops but the high rollers didn’t want that so he did a deed of agreement with the skank; some of my clients have done similar. A grifter will be extorting them. You advise there is no case but it will tie them up for a couple of years and will cost X which they will never recover because the grifters are impecunious. So with Stormy and her piss off money. This agreement was tested in a superior court to the current NY one where that fat bastard bragg is indicting Trump and by the UE EC; both of which found in Trump’s favour and the court actually awarded costs against the whore which she cannot pay.
If there was a decent media all this bullshit would be known
From the Oz today
Pretty obvious to most Cats, but good to see it in the Oz.
Seems to be a new policy at the Oz of just sitting on comments.I have had several comments “pending ” for about 10 hours.
If they are accepted now the whole point is lost.
Looks like shadow banning on twitter
You don’t decide what works or not, Wodney. Now go kiss the convicted Leavenworth con’s arse.
JC, the only people you don’t want to blame here is the corporation that failed to test OxyContin, that paid off the medical examiner at the FDA, and then promoted it to doctors ceaselessly without any concern about the effects their products were having on clients while underselling its addictive potential in order to widen its potential market.
All these spruikers are comfortably situated, well paid and living in inner cities. They will not feel the effects of their actions until everyone else is already economically under water. This whole thing is class-based. The kids have the ideology pushed at them at school but they shed it when they become adults and come face to face with economic reality as they try to establish themselves in life.
Stormy’s big mistake was to not get knocked up.
Hunter may’ve gotten out of serious alimony (sweet deal, funny that) but Trump would’ve been up for millions. Stormy should take up pole dancing.
Haha, I got a server error when I used the word “pregnant”, but the comment went through when I changed it to “knocked up”.
It’s a bit more complicated than that (in Australia.)
The heads of agencies are now hired and fired by Ministers, and I think that is fair enough, but it is those below who stay on.
On one hand, Ministers – especially brand new ones – will never admit how many times their careers have been saved after they have mouthed off or done stupid things, thanks to their bureaucrats. As far as I know, this has never been used against them.
Having been involved in one or two of those exercises myself, I can assure readers that if there is a limit to the stupidity or cupidity of Ministers, I never found it.
The job is to support the elected Minister, and before you all go crazy, consider the alternative.
I do agree with the insightful comment above along the lines that any senior public servant who finds him/herself in the spotlight because of something they said is a fool.
As I have said here before, the AEC is a repository for people who have no hope of getting promoted anywhere else.
Dover
The bit about meeting in a hotel is typical prosecutorial theatre that just meant to persuade a dumb juror.
Meetings are very often held in hotels in the US, which also have conference rooms for hire.
Helping to write a report can mean thousands of things. The fact he was hired also.
What were the exact FDA protocols for meetings with pharma? Do you know?
Also, did anyone at the FDA review that report and if so, why was it left the way it was?
Makka
Aug 31, 2023 4:09 PM
Tucker’s interview with Victor Orban explains this clearly and the Russian mindset.
Yeah, seen that. And Orban is correct. The ‘west’ doesn’t understand the Russian mindset. Russians will never give up Russia. Ever. On the Cat somebody once said that ‘not all Russians love Putin but all Russians love Russia’ and that is 100% true.
Further to Orban’s comments, he remarked that this is why Russia has a leaning towards a ‘keep the country together’ stance over a ‘personal freedom’ stance because the latter cannot be allowed to interfere with the former – and this is the way that Russians want it. Russians are free to travel, work and largely live as they please but the glue that binds them is their love of the country.
Excellent NO meme from the Australian taxpayers Association ..
https://ibb.co/PjBdYKm
JC,
Can’t believe you are spending so much time defending Purdue.
Dover beat me to it by mentioning Dr Wright. A read of Wikipedia clearly shows Purdue corrupted the system and lied about the addictiveness of the drug. Their whole business stank to high heaven and they showed contempt for the safety of the public in the way they promoted it just for the money.
Have not watched Painkillers but a doco called The Pharmacist on Netflix is worth a look. Dopesick on Disney also good.
Having seen a huge amount of information on the recent vaccines I believe we are in a similar scenario with the C19 jabs and their approval and hiding / suppression of adverse events. The CDC, FDA, TGA are still encouraging jabs and ignoring any adverse reports. However the big difference was nobody was mandated to take Purdue products.
Because as we all know taking 5 jabs is a sign they are effective. NOT. Plus if the TGA has no interest to follow up with vaccine injured then not really a problem if don’t record the evidence.
FDA requires testing and over testing for new drugs sent to the general market. There are exceptions as we know.
The US is replete with folks moving from government to the private sector and in reverse.
They promoted a perfectly legal drug and while you previously said doctors are not blameless you’re now making out here they too were victims. They’re not as they’re to blame.
You realise the drug is still around, right?
News at 4 on Channel Stokes sez Barry O’Farrell is campaigning for Teh Voice. Another useless moron.
He’s hoping for an invite to the local park gathering and sharing the flask …… LOL!
Looks like we didn’t miss anyone of importance when he was forced to resign.
I bet next up will be Mike Baird, followed by Beryl Gladyshlokian.
Bourne
I never believe controversial docos because they only present one side.
Did you know there was a very strong movement to introduce drugs that would eliminate pain at the time . Read my first excerpt on the subject and focus on the backtracking by the commission and the pressure groups involved.
Then come back to me.
The family should to compensated for this bullshit. It was the equivalent of a pile on and I hate pile ons.
And Mike Baird too.
Purple party is purple.
It’s nice of the Paywallian to provide such reasoned academic analysis — a proposition it knows will never happen as Australian energy policy is now being directed not by engineers, but by ideologues trying to persuade the public it should be happy with crippling electricity bills because shut up.
There’s absolutely no danger for the foreseeable future that our electricity system will be designed by electrical engineers who know what they’re doing.
Bruce of Newcastle
Aug 31, 2023 4:33 PM
Stormy should take up pole dancing.
Not after that botched boobs job..
However, she might get some alms to return to the dressing room.
Do they understand our mindset? Do they really believe NATO is itching to invade when by any reasonable analysis that is a disaster for the world?
Lol yeah, it’s a crazy freaking place and that’s why I say Australia is like a dutiful wife. Generous, loving, dependable but just a tiny bit boring. America is the wild and crazy but totally gorgeous mistress.
Quite so. It is being designed by bureaucrats who have no idea what they are doing, and not the faintest idea of how ignorant they are. It’s the way we do things these days.
Great call Crossie, except you missed the mark by three days…
The funniest thing is his conversion to da Voice™ was so unimportant to the MSM it sank without trace.
Gilas
How long has the medical profession known opioids are very addictive?
Gilas – wouldn’t give Hunter Biden pause. He seems somewhat oversexed.
Would you have been among those who were slavering about the prospect of a civil war after Trump’s defeat in 2020?
A civil war is possibly the worst thing that can happen to a nation. The human, economic and political cost is very high.
Is the Sudan your ideal model of statehood? What is wrong with you?
Peter Greagg
Aug 31, 2023 4:29 PM
From the Oz today
The government is gambling our energy future on a flawed plan
It must also be pointed out that the costs to agriculture, the environment and amenity are given no cost in the AEMO/CSIRO modelling. They are planning an area the size of Tasmania to be covered in renewables and the chosen zones are almost entirely on our most productive arable land.
Our politicians speak of tapping into our huge solar and wind resources without ever mentioning that exploiting resource is only achievable by degrading our food and fibre supply.
When you add this to the water theft that they have planned for the Murray Darling Basin system, you can only assume that we have successfully bred a bureaucracy that is too stupid to feed itself.
That is the pain as the 5th vital sign movement. The huge mistake was to perceive pain purely as a physical phenomenon. Again, a USA phenomenon, always thinking drugs are the solution to their physical and psychic pain.
Yep, back in the fourteenth century, my day according to JC (lol), we got world explorers including Captain Cook, and also the European explorers of the Australian Continent, starting with Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth sticking to the ridges of the blue mountains, and moving on to Flinders and his cat Trim in the Tom Thumb, and then Burke and Wills in the blazing outback deserts. We knew our country, back then, and all the little stories about the pioneers that made it interesting.
We also got maps, lots of them. Every school had them in one of the rooms where ‘geography’ was taught, with a pole for pulling these large maps down individually from the ceiling to display all the Empire Pink, the pole then used for pointing out the various features of the world we in Australia were part of, or (another pull, another map) showing the routes taken in Australia by all the explorers. We learned about aborigines too. This included instruction on aboriginal traditional life, the bark shelters, the kangaroo hunting, the fishing, and the Coroborees. It all sounded like fun. Aboriginal kids weren’t any different to the rest of us. It was all news to them too. We had picture books of Governor Phillip being friendly to the ‘manly’ natives, and were shown the chart which depicted hanging for white man killing a black man, and black man killing a white man. Enlightenment values prevailed in our understanding of why Australia was settled, and how some convicts and aborigines became good citizens and made Australia great. In the end they all mixed in with ‘the settlers’ and the wool growers. We had picture cards of paintings of settlers, and the wool shed. We sang Waltzing Matilda and learned about rich Squatters. The baddies hunting down the poor swaggie. (There were still occasional swagmen in Western Sydney back then, in from Kempsey, sometimes aboriginal, but many old white men too).
We had Empire Day, and raising and lowering The Flag (only ever one flag!), and Assembly on Fridays, and a Sports Carnival with races – including sack races and egg and spoon races and three-legged races where everyone got to join in and fall over laughing. We lined up on the sticky melting asphalt in summer and slippery iced asphalt in winter, and marched into class to the music of Colonel Bogey on a loudspeaker. We were a Housing Commission and poor rural farming area, with a new lot of kids called Bolts, WW2 refugees who quickly learned the English we taught them in the playground. We had doorstep jam sandwiches gone hard for our lunches and warm free milk piled high in crates in the sun since 7am, a welcome drink which most of us polished off at ‘playtime’ for our breakfasts. Left overs were a bit sour by lunchtime but we fought over those too. Our uniforms were whatever we turned up in. By the time High School began for me, in 1954, in a new building in Penrith, we all had to become modern children in uniforms and shoes. Socks were my downfall. Full of holes mine were, and too big (hand me downs) so they ended up more under my feet than on them, becoming a sodden mess as the cardboard over the holes in my shoes let in the rain.
Of course those who lived in a shoebox on the road had it worse. 🙂
Bruce of Newcastle
Aug 31, 2023 4:08 PM
The recent increase in drone attacks on Russian targets seems very carefully calibrated too, I think.
My understanding is that the Americans have been crystal clear to the Ukies about wide-spread attacks on Russian soil – namely, NO. That is why the USA and others have provided missiles with relatively short/mid range (max say, 450kms). The Ukies are arming a few dissident groups with a couple of drones now and then but they are low powered and cause relatively minor damage.
Putin has been near obsessive with maintaining a business-as-usual approach for the ordinary people in Russia. The shops and schools are open, people go about their daily lives, work etc. but if long range missiles rain down on Moscow, it will be impossible to contain the calls for full mobilisation from the hard liners in the Kremlin and, probably just as bad, from the ordinary people.
To say the obvious, a fully mobilised Russia represents an exceedingly dangerous global threat. So, the west has the problem of containing the conflict within Ukraine’s borders. Not that I ever give the US State Department and US DoD much credit, but at least somebody has thought through the implications if this conflict is allowed to get out of control. Even so, it is well known that there are those in the Kremlin who openly suggest the use of tactical ‘battlefield’ nuclear weapons to finish the Ukies once and for all.
The whole thing is bad and I wish it wasn’t happening, but if it must, then for the love of God keep it localised because even though we are 15,000kms away, in a worst case scenario, that won’t save us.
Dot at 2:18 – nice summary. What a fkn mess.
Cash!
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at Laguna Beach 10
Muddy:
Indigenous people are tools. They’ve been hammered, chipped, thrown about, and left out in the elements to rust for … how many decades now? For at least 50 years, their own elites have been wielding them in a very successful effort to carve out an aristocratic living (producing little, and largely living off the toil of others) for a selective, superior ‘breed.’
Wot Muddy said.
With multiple upticks.
Wonder what the backstory is that sees the former Mr Julia Gillard up in front of a magistrate? Seems a bit whiffy.
johanna
Aug 31, 2023 4:36 PM
It’s a bit more complicated than that (in Australia.)
The heads of agencies are now hired and fired by Ministers, and I think that is fair enough, but it is those below who stay on.
Yes, that may well be a real problem.
Adams and North (In the Interests of the People) have been following the Senate Inquiry into ASIC which, for some mysterious, indescribably obscure reason, is not being reported in the media.
Replayed here is the 15-minutes opening statement of the previous ASIC Chair, James Shipton, who claims he was cruelly victimised by staffers below him (!!) and that he received no support from the previous minister Fried-Chicken-Burger, nor Treasury (to which ASIC reports).
By golly! He even considered suicide (violins playing effusively in the background..).
Imagine, one of the most senior level Pubic Serpents, directly responsible to the Minister, playing the victim card, ostensibly to avoid the retrospective red-hot-poker.
This, in a situation where collusion and political interference, extending all the way to AnAl, has already been alleged.
Accountabilty, in the Australian Bureaucracy, is fully extinct.
Apropos of nothing important, I decided to check whether Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing” had fallen victim to Fag censorship. I am glad to report, it hasn’t. The original version is still available.
This is the verse I thought would be eviscerated:-
Yay!
Lizzie @ 5.08pm – Though younger than you I was blessed with all of that, except Empire day, it’d gone by the wayside by the early seventies. We were a country school in the depths of the Mid North Coast. We even had the pull-down maps, they were awesome! But the rich history of the colonial period, and the explorers like Henry the Navigator and Burke and Wills instilled into me a love for history. I can still recall the lesson we had in Geography about sand dunes and how they were formed.
All that then sat and sat and sat for fifty years, as I was busy. Now though I am not busy, and can read about such endeavours. Lots of good stuff out there for want of a pair of eyeballs.
Of course those who lived in a shoebox on the road had it worse. ?
# dozen uptix, Lizzie ..!
remember them dayz well from the County Durham coalfields, late ’50s/early ’60s ..
the holes in the shoes with cardboard/newspaper inserts were no match for Geordie winters .. Back then you suffered with the sodden socks all day rather than the ridicule of being sockless .. Our “playground” showed no mercy to wimps .. LOL!
At least, our milk was still pretty good by lunchtime … LOL!
But the rich history of the colonial period, and the explorers like Henry the Navigator and Burke and Wills instilled into me a love for history.
I’ve got a copy of Captain Cook’s Voyages 1768-1779 on the bookshelf …..
https://ibb.co/NSWs7Jv
I remember when my mother gave my only shoes to a travelling hobo.
/Liability Bob
JC
Aug 31, 2023 4:56 PM
How long has the medical profession known opioids are very addictive?
It was long-established textbook knowledge in the 1970s.
Famous 19th-C neurologists like Charcot were well aware of opioid side-effects when treating neuropathies. IIRC, even Freud wrote about the psychotropic effects of morphia.
The problems with Purdue were:
1) They misrepresented the dose-response effects of oxycodone, in its various formulations (while the corrupt FDA looked the other way) in their marketing to docs, who should have known better.
2) They had plenty of $$$. All good when the scapegoating started in earnest.
That’s not to exculpate the frauds with “M.D.” after their name.
pfft.
My childhood inserts were made of gravel.
It was so cold Dad had to get the neighbour constantly pregnant just so we could have warm milk.
Bruce of Newcastle
Aug 31, 2023 4:57 PM
Not after that botched boobs job.
wouldn’t give Hunter Biden pause. He seems somewhat oversexed.
Undoubtedly, 1000% true, however, I tought we were talking about her in the Trumpian context.
Take a look at a map of NATO’s advance eastward since the collapse of Soviet Russia.
From the Arctic to the Black Sea, NATO has moved steadily east with each NATO country able to host nuclear weapons. Do you think the US would appreciate say Canada aligning with China and hosting nuclear capability along it’s long northern border? NATO is at the borders of Russia, despite assurances in the 90’s this would not happen.
Since the Cold War days, Russia has believed that the west wants to break it up. Remove Russia from the maps. After the collapse of the USSR and communism followed by the 10-15 years of utter squalid chaos and panic caused by idiotically brutal cold turkey “capitalism” experiments (really nothing more than looting of national assets) were applied, led by western “consultants” (aiding oligarchs), cheered on by Clinton, Bush, The Queen , Blair et al- Russians of all stripes had their already deep mistrust of the west confirmed. Very painfully. The quality of life (already meager) for the average Russian crashed between 1985 and 1998 ish. Following the collapse of communism, Yeltsin became a disaster for the Russian people, but for the west he was the solution , better than communism. The west backed Yeltsin until the alcoholic couldn’t function. All the while the oligarchs were stripping Russia of her wealth. Russians first experience “capitalism” almost cost them their country and their very survival.
When Yeltsin handed over to Putin ,Russia was barely functioning as a state. It was more a collection of mafia gangs and robber barons. Over time, Putin stabilized the headlong crash the country was experiencing. He restored stability in society, the economy and public order. Commerce and foreign investment grew. Absolutely Putin is not popular in the west but he has the confidence the majority of the Russian people , for what they see as saving their nation from total collapse, chaos and anarchy.
A collapse that many Russians believe was cheered on and aided by the west.
So, to your question ” Do they really believe NATO is itching to invade “- try to see it from the Russian perspective. They don’t trust the West ie NATO. They see NATO barreling east to their borders with nukes in tow. They see a war mongering US , led by neo-cons creating bloody wars all through the ME and Nth Africa.
And look what the West has become with our embrace of this cult of Green/LGBTQ/Trans garbage , censorship, surveillance, woke media etc. Look at recent and current Western leaders like Biden the Old Pervert, Creepy Trudeau, Johnson, the Clinton Crime Gang, war monger Bush, the commo Magic Negro. The neocons running DC now. Would YOU trust any of this crowd’s promises of security for YOUR people, YOUR Nation?
I suspect not.
Bruce of Newcastle
Aug 31, 2023 4:57 PM
Not after that botched boobs job.
wouldn’t give Hunter Biden pause. He seems somewhat oversexed.
Undoubtedly, 1000% true, however, I thought we were talking about her in the Trumpian context.
Oh come on.
I’m getting an Internal Server Error on a comment about Mike Baird. There is nothing in the comment could possibly be construed as suspect.
What’s going on?
Cold?
We had to use the family’s Sunday lamb cutlet to chip the ice off our Lord of t’Manor’s horse in exchange for a Tim Tam, which we chopped up with an axe for Christmas.
Cold? Ah’ll give ye cold son!
And that was summer!
The quaintarse leprechaun??
Blockquote fail
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Aug 31, 2023 5:08 PM
Being just two school years ahead of you I find this very good comment accurate.
I’ll just add that by the end of primary school every girl could recite
Dorothea Mackellar’s My Country.
Have a cuppa tea a Bex and a good lie down. Bex were addictive to the point a renal transplant at a Sydney hospital lost her new kidney by continuing her Bex addiction.
A couple of times in winter we had to chip into the ice on top to drink ours, Shaterzzz.
It was below freezing some mornings out on the western plains in those days. We used to walk from the Commission houses down to Queen Street and across the wilderness of South Creek, often as not in flood. Some of us had the frozen milk early when we arrived, like an icy-pop, till they caught us at it. Six of the best on the hand for the boys and in the corner facing the wall till the bell rang for the girls. I think I got two on the hand at one time, but maybe that just a memory of sympathy for the boys.
Not too much tree cover and the paddocks covered with white frost as I fed the pigs before school. We used to walk up to Mt. Druitt station for the train, crossing Ropes Creek first, that one quite dangerous too walking along a fallen log as our bridge with a Globite case in hand, one finger on the wonky lock for mine because it was also a hand me down. I was thirteen, and in second year high school by then.
If dad was in a good mood (I now recognise he suffered bipolar disorder) we would plead with him to drive us in the old Austin lorry, which he would do if he had to buy something in Penrith. His dog sat in the cabin with him and us kids sat on the flat tray of the lorry, no sides. We hung on tight to the cabin mounts. No-one thought anything of it. Lots of kids travelled like that in utes. Fewer on a flat bed top.
Sorry. That sounded truculent, and it wasn’t meant to be. I’ve saved it, so hopefully have more success later.
John H.
Aug 31, 2023 4:53 PM
Do they understand our mindset? Do they really believe NATO is itching to invade when by any reasonable analysis that is a disaster for the world?
This topic has been the subject of assorted posts and countless comments. No, it isn’t as simple as NATO ‘wanting’ to invade Russia but rather this needs to be looked at through the prism of the Cold War, NATO’s eastward expansion, the stated aim to de-federalize (break up) the Russian Federation and the west’s continued disregard for what Russia sees as its legitimate national security concerns.
There are a few other reasons linked to Russia’s recent (last 30 year) history but fundamentally Russians have a deep seated distrust of the west (read USA) and although there is no ‘fear’ per se of NATO actually marching across the Russian border, they see it as more of a constant destabilisation and isolation campaign. The west was cock-a-hoop when the USSR collapsed which subsequently led to several former USSR satellites becoming part of NATO. Numerous politicians in the USA have openly mused about the same thing happening if the Russian Federation can be dissolved. If you look on the internet there are even maps of how the Federation will be carved up.
But, Hell will freeze over before the Russian people and government will allow such a thing to occur. And God help us all if some of the hawks* in NATO decide that invasion of Russia is viable. Globally, those who are left will live in caves, sharpen sticks into spears and throw rocks at the mutants.
* People often talk about the hardliners in the Kremlin and there are several, but there are also a number in NATO who continue to harbour the idea that a pre-emptive and massive strike can disable Russia before it could respond. Absurd idea of course but never assign the belligerent military stance solely to Russia.
Inserts????
Luxury! We had to tape razor blades to our feet.
SlugGate news – Hot Button Sutton paying the piper (the Hun):
And:
But – Sutton’s mouthpiece:
He would have been less devastated receiving the sling from the Victorian Government-funded contractors who were immediately given the hospital gig after I Cook was dumped.
The Dandy Council health inspector was, shall we say, at the centre of allegations that a slug was planted using a species of invertebrate found nowhere near the factory, and that was wrapped in a tissue in the inspector’s pocket.
Extremely interesting that that matter was settled.
Calli, can you send me the comment by email? Will look at it late tonight.
I see Qantas is up before the ACCC for all sorts of deceptive behaviour.
So proud our national carrier is reduced to this. Thanks Leprechaun.
If the Leprechaun concentrated on the business and not on all the SJW posturing, we might have a national carrier we could be proud of.
Snap Makka. You must type faster than me. 🙂
(plus I’m guilty of re-writes).
Dover, it wasn’t that earth shattering. Let me try again rather than taking up your time.
Nope. I’ll email it so you can do a diagnosis. Take your time. My heavily armoured ego remains unaffected. 😀
Baird sounds like the slang for someone who helps to cover up someone else’s “persuasion” or indiscretions.
Drawing a slightly long bow on this one, but hard to tell what kind of people run editorial process these days and what their top 10 language issues might be.
Speedbox:
And very well put by Orban.
“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.” Russian national interest is something the West cannot understand.
The tired and depressed housewife’s friend, Win.
One woman in the Housing Commission had been on them for years and died of kidney failure when I was about eight. I remember mum saying they were blaming the Bex but people still took them. Mum saved her ‘chemist money’ for Agarol, ‘for my bowels’, she told us. She lived on it. We had cod liver oil but only when we were sick, she trusted it as it was free for children in Britain during the war. And Bonnington’s Irish Moss for our cough, moss being part of her Welsh folk medicine, if we were too bad to go to school and get ‘out of her hair’. You had to be half dead to avoid being sent to school in those days. Lots of mothers (not mine, dad put his foot down) at that time were starting to work in the new factories in the ‘factory area’ and kids went to school with handkerchiefs loaded with yellow and green snot. We had one teacher who refused to let any of us come within four feet of her.
Sounds like one for (No) Slugs & Grubs.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare> Don’t forget Vicks Vaporub which solves all known ailments related to coughing, sneezing and general winter woes for kids. A bargain.
Major Offshore Wind Company Takes Huge Losses After Struggling To Get More Biden Bucks
Wifey reckons the polls are showing the YES vote is winning. Is that correct? Last polls I saw here at the Cat showed the states were 50/50.
Johanna:
Do not start that bullshit with me.
I have never ‘slavered after the prospect of a Civil War.’ Anyone who does is a fool. A civil war is the worst kind of war to have. There is no safe ground, and the weak have no rights.
Keep your insults to yourself.
Dan the CFMEU Man is screwed. And so is Victoria.
Premier Andrews rejects alarming energy warning (Sky mainpage headline, 31 Aug)
LOL green as grass AEMO is now conservative every year, and puts everything in conservative terms? Well when you are as lefty as Mr CFMEU I suppose Great Stalin would look like a conservative too.
And in 2050, the Leftards will be making movies asking: Nobody knows why we went to war against Russia (aka WWI).
Hardships. There’s an article in this week’s Speccie which could tear your heart up. Titled “Ukraine’s real killing fields” it investigates why two-thirds of Ukraine’s injured soldiers die while waiting for first aid. The newly-trained emergency medics also have to be combatants, and the journey from the war site is fraught all the way to distant hospital. Russia targets the medic convoys beyond the war site as well as on it. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy and corruption in Ukraine mean that good quality emergency first aid paks often aren’t available, shunted off elsewhere for profit. Poorer quality paks may be used. Good tourniquets, that save limbs as well as stop bleeding, are needed as many die from poor control of bleeding from shattered limbs. Bad tourniquets are sometimes worse than none. Also, medics are trained for bullet wounds, but not for explosive wounds, which are far more severe. Add to that the bureaucracy of form filling required to get a new transport vehicle to replace one blown up or to get new supplies, and delays are routine. It all seems a terrible mess.
A pointless loss of life when a territorial solution could have been negotiated long ago?
Formatting fixedly:
Robert Sewell
Aug 31, 2023 5:13 PM
Muddy:
Wot Muddy said.
With multiple upticks.
If we ever had to choose between a sub to The Australian and one to The Spectator, we’d go for the Speccie any day. I really enjoy the writing of known columnists, the variety of perspectives (even those I disagree with), the range of information offered, and the review sections for books, movies, art and even theatre (not such a fan of that these days).
I toss out the old copies after a month or so but always feel I am throwing away gems.
Important for Noel Pearson to stop digging that hole. Daily Telegraph:
Pearson is entirely correct. There are opportunities for work and resettlement away from the shitholes like Arukun and Tennant Creek and Alice Springs. But we don’t need the voice to do this. Get off your arse and be productive.
And Friends is one of the worst series ever. Change my mind
We would always hold on to our IPA and Quadrant subs. I regard these as rather like donations to a very good cause. And the bonus is the IPA Mag plus events, and of course, the hard copy of the Quaddie arriving on time every month as well as the online availability. I keep these hard copies of Quadrant in my bookshelf. May donate them later to a library or similar.
Russia actually has worse combat medical support than Ukraine.
That’s been clear all through this unpleasantness. Their medikits are shit.
The main issue though is neither side can use medivac due to abundant manpads.
And Friends is one of the worst series ever. Change my mind
never watched it and don’t think I missed anything. Nor Seinfeld nor sex in the city. All yuk imo.
Pie in the Sky was the last good TV show. Watching Softly Softly Task Force on YouTube- some are really good.
Never watched ‘Friends’, Black Ball, although my daughter loved it in her teens.
We still enjoy re-runs of ‘Frazier’ though from that era, even ‘Seinfeld’. Fun farce and satire even though framed by the leftism of that day.
Their medikits are shit.
how do you know this?
I can never pass by a stray episode of ‘Porridge’ either. Even though I know them all well, the laughs still keep coming for me.
Seen them several times. Captured kit.
As Black Ball says, they have no need to pass the buck or blame historical wrongs right now. Change your mindset. Especially if as we hope The Voice goes down.
Go and get work somewhere. It’s what everyone else has to do.
What is the solution Johanna if the demons keep cheating? Please tell us. I’ll come round and eat your lunch year in year out, you complain to plod, they do nothing. When the justice system supports the felon there is only two things to do. Put up with it or take the law into your own hands. Simplistic yes. What are you prepared to do?
On the Russian side there’s a callousness to 200s and 300s that goes ‘way back to the Great War. It’s still ingrained in the culture. Manpower in Russia is bottomless, except these days it isn’t.
The Ukies are a fraction better since they knew from day one they were going to have a manpower problem. Some Western combat medicine practice has infused into their mindset. Not a lot, but some.
The IT Crowd- for a sitcom, surprisingly capricious in the laff palette. Catch up with it if you haven’t seen it.
Conservatives do support it. Just not in the context of a Voice which will do everything in its power to keep the blame game going and the coffers of sit-down money flowing.
IT Crowd always funny. Still.
Dr. John Campbell
Pirola panic
Daily Mail. Let’s see Albo explain that one away
BB
In NQ Noel is considered the best of a worst bunch. He has in the past railed against the institutionalised welfare and the above is more sense.
Pity he normally goes and wipes it all out saying something stupid in the next breath, which he is guaranteed to do sooner or later.
Funny too one of the young fellas on site was talking about the second break in he had the other day and the cops just told him after filing the number to don’t even bother calling them if nothing is stolen, just give the kid a flogging & drag him into the street. Apparently their hands are tied and nothing will come of it. Also had to give blood at a local collection centre for cholesterol recently, every window in the place was cracked or even partially shattered. Nurse reckons it is getting worse and the glaziers don’t even replace till it is totally gone. They just use contact to shore up the window.
I reckon in Townsville, Cairns and other crime affected centres here the no vote will look more like one of Saddam Hussein’s elections, or maybe close to it anyway.
JC, as others have noted here, Australian leftoids follow whatever’s going on in the USA.
But a No vote won’t end the left’s control of the government. So I don’t think Australian lefties — unlike American lefties in 2020 faced with the Trump threat — are prepared to die on the blackfella referendum hill.
I just don’t think Australian lefties are desperate enough to defend their prevailing political power with electoral cheating.
Lizzie saw your comments about Bendigo a few days ago- you get a surprise when you see how massive it is especially coming in on the train from Echuca. The CBD is really something- not called Vienna in the bush for nothing. Australia is amazing with our despicable political class doing its best to wreck it – especially canbra.
Friday Night Dinner. Jewish family Brit sitcom. Nutty but fun.
Lizzie-
I’ve found my Argentina diary, I’ll type out my recollections later tonight
I will assume you have drawn a comparison between Seinfeld and Friends through ignorance. That’s OK. I doubt I have seen anything more than a couple of minutes of Friends other than by accident.
+++ for this one. A kind of humour that seems to have been cancelled these days.
Not sure if this has been posted.
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Lysander
Aug 31, 2023 6:24 PM
And in 2050, the Leftards will be making movies asking: Nobody knows why we went to war against Russia (aka WWI).
In a worst case scenario, in 2050 people might be asking that question but I doubt there will be any movie making – unless you’re referring to a sequence of carvings on the cave walls.
Two of the clans in this district have been feuding since the mid 1960’s. Local glazier reckons it’s really good for business every time it kicks off, again.
Seinfeld was a very clever and funny series with some high quality character actors. Jerry Stiller and Estelle Harris were magnificent.
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lol speedy!!
Btw – The IT Crowd… awesome! ?
James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
Why are people parading around with these foolish things strapped across their faces? Read the warning.
We knew this at the time but it was simply swept under the carpet. If I remember correctly, someone involved actually died.
Tucker Carlson claims Barack Obama enjoyed smoking CRACK and having gay sex – but that nobody reported it ahead of 2008 election
Funny series television, American, Rules of Engagement. Still cracks me up.
Best British Comedy in the last 30 years, see if you can find a copy of “Coupling”.
Don’t go anywhere near the Yank version.
If you are fortunate enough to find a DVD of Coupling, don’t bother watching the third series. That was only made to tie up some loose ends.
If any Cats know “Coupling”, they will know this line, “I’m not an Amputator”.
And don’t forget “The Giggle Loop”.
Eva Vlaardingerbroek joins Mark Steyn to discuss Sweden’s anti-lockdown policy
I dunno about this betting site.
It’s currently pricing
YES at $4.2
No at $1.22
If it’s legit, then the betting is showing
Yes at 24%
No at 82%
CIA Covers Up Nord Stream Bombing & Corruption Continues in Ukraine – Seymour Hersh
Blue Bet has it a YES @ $3.47
NO @ 1#.27
I wonder if the liars threatened the big betting houses because Sportsbet and other big players don’t appear to holding a market for The Squeal.
Alex Berenson
VERY URGENT: The mRNA Covid jabs damage immune responses to other viruses in children, a new study finds
Has there existed a functional, substantial society in history where the social structure was ‘flat’ and to which all members contributed equally and derived equal rewards?
Yet, the intimation of ‘yes’ (I refuse to capitalise) advocates for the inVoice is that indigenous Australians will ALL benefit, and ALL be equally compensated?
I know; how dare I be so cynical about human nature?
Elite: “the socially superior part of society … a group of persons who by virtue of position or education exercise much power or influence … French élite, from Old French eslite, from feminine of eslit, past participle of eslire to choose, from Latin eligere [Merrium-Webster dictionary online].”
should read $1.27
Lizzie,
I can’t top your frozen milk and holey shoes anecdote, but, as a fellow houso, and migrant to boot, which came with it’s own set of “rules”, I will add my own.
Although our shoes may have pinched, hand-me-downs, they were reasonable waterproof. My tale of woe growing up is Toilet Paper.
Mum shopped once a fortnight because Dad was paid that way. When the bog rolls ran out, newspaper was used. Owieeeeee! No matter how well you thought you had crumpled it, there would always be a very sharp, folded piece that would slice through the tender part between your “cheeks”.
If Dad managed to secrete a few work rolls into his kit and bring them home, it wasn’t much better as, this was the era of Public Toilet Paper that was like grease proof. It crackled and folded itself into sharp, pointy bits just like newsprint.
Still wonder how our poor bottoms survived the sixties. (D
Animal cruelty.
“Coupling” – YES! The first two series particularly.
Series Three and Four saw several of the characters become more neurotic than entertaining. My favourite character was the socially inept Scottish bloke (I forget his name).
“Speedbox
Aug 31, 2023 6:00 PM”
Well said, I wish I could uptick you.
Geez I miss upticks.
Peter Dutton is finally showing signs of Liberal principle and resolve
And Friends is one of the worst series ever. Change my mind
My 3 daughters (adults now) can just about recite word-for-word every episode when they are re-watching the DVDs ……
“never watched it and don’t think I missed anything. Nor Seinfeld nor sex in the city. All yuk imo.”
Seinfeld was excellent. The others such as Friends…utter crap.
I also liked Frasier.
Sometimes when reading this blog I’m reminded of Seinfeld.
Muddy.
It was Jeffrey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAS-DIt7ZaY
ps, there was no fourth series. Only half a third series.
Don’t forget, “the Zone has a New King!”
While we’re chatting about televison. If any Cats are testing their new Hairshirts, or have overindulged in LSD, the Ugly, Lesbian Ghost Busters is on FTA tonight. 😀
Pat Turner has a point in saying that a federal government will be forced to listen. Thr High Court could easily find that the right to give advice involves an obligation to take the advice into bona fide consideration. (This obligation might attach to every exercise of executive/administrative power too.) Delay in decision making can increase costs, and enable political manoeuvring.
This also true of a delay in providing the advice in the first place.
A shambles awaits if s 129 goes into the Constitution.
A warning from Senator Babet
Central bank digital currency.
It’s the thought that counts Cassie. 🙂
Cronkite has to be Nooman , you’re Elaine, Dot is Kramer, Bear is George. That leaves Jerry.
Sanchez is Jerry.
I think Coupling popularised the “unflushable”
…big ups
Hot brainy pommy chicks in the complementary set of blonde, redhead n brunette
Let’s not forget, “the Melty Man!!!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs1zz4zZhdM
Unheard of luxury
The boys in our primary school turned up barefoot
Lol
I also adore Curb Your Enthusiasm.
I can still watch Seinfeld episodes that I’ve seen many times, such as the Bubble Boy, The Limo, the Soup Nazi, the Lip Reader, the Puffy Shirt and so many others, and I can be on the floor laughing so much that I struggle to breathe. That’s real comedy.
Cronkite has to be Nooman , you’re Elaine, Dot is Kramer, Bear is George. That leaves Jerry.”
LOL
oops, my bad.
The Ugly Lesbian Ghost Busters is on tomorrow night.
Apologies to any Cats who put on their “comfy” pants. 😀
Cronkite has to be Nooman , you’re Elaine, Dot is Kramer, Bear is George. That leaves Jerry.
You’re Frank Costanza.
There was a kernel of truth to the Soup Nazi. There was a joint around West 56th Street that served the best union soup in the world. The joint got a reputation for throwing out customers for various reasons. He actually said not “soup for you” in a thick accent as I recall reading about it. His customer abuse was legendary. I had soup from there, but never went in.
Recall the episode where Frank accidentally met up with his Korean girlfriend from his time in the Korean war? He fell in love again.
Dot is a guy?
The first series, which I doubt ever screened in Australia at the time (c. 1989), has been replaying on fta lately.
The elements of its later success are all there, but they haven’t yet come together in a compelling fashion and the actors don’t yet own their characters.
If you were a TV exec, you might well have passed on it, especially given the criticism that it would have no appeal outside NYC. Credit to those who saw the potential and persisted with it.
Thank God I haven’t watched TV for over 30 years.
Recall the place Eliane worked at and the made up silly stories relating to the item of clothing they were selling in a catalogue? J Peterman. That actually was a real catalogue we used to receive and laugh about the ridiculous stories they attached to a pair of pants or a dress.
Typical story in the catalogue.
Thanks, Wally.
We don’t have as much time there as we’d hoped though. We have to return with only 2.5 weeks from Rio to Santiago via BA. Probably just a short hop into the interior.
But love to get your reminiscences anyway. Will culturally situate it all for us.
Is anyone up for snooker?
I remember ‘Coupling’ now.
Total weedy knob Pommy shite.