2nd. Can’t remember the last time I had a podium.
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Good morning!
Bruce still swinging for the stands.
Just look at the state of this filthy skank. Just look at it (the Tele): The mother of murdered schoolgirl…
Yikes
How I hate electric fences. Just arrived at farm & decided to shut a gate to one of the paddocks & noticed a “click click” from adjacent fence. Obviously a “short”. Should have gone back to machinery shed & switched off the system. Didn’t, and copped a 7,000 volt whack through my arm (on the gate). Lucky there was a short, as normal voltage is 8,000.
Fell to ground screaming – as women do. And cows, as usual, were startled. probably thought – “She’s done it again!” Last time they gathered around my screaming self – as my foot was tangled up ib the actual shorted wire.
Husband, meanwhile, just sitting in Landcruiser (we had just arrived) – barely curious at what I was doing on the ground.
Now watching practice 3 for Japan Grand Prix. I think the electrocution has helped my crook neck!
Angry Kez should read her own link carefully.
Are they EVs? Doesn’t appear so.
and
I’ll link Kez’s so people can get a clearer idea.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/gadgets/the-ticking-time-bombs-inside-aussie-homes-sparking-a-rising-number-of-fires/news-story/c0416873d79d4413ac03de942e10107d
I got harangued by a couple of EV owners last week at a social function. Both live in high rise apartment buildings and own EVs as status symbols rather than for environmental reasons. Once we got the EV evangelism out of the way they started whingeing about how the body corporates in their buildings wouldn’t allow the installation of fast charging stations in the basement car parks. Apparently there are major costs involved both in internal wiring (to allow the charger to be controlled and metered from the owner’s apartment) and provision of a high voltage substation to allow many simultaneous EVs to be charged. The fire hazard was the elephant in the room. One of them was working himself up into a state of righteous indignation and talking about litigation against the body corp as a test case to benefit all EV owners in future.
I remained silent and thought about the stability of the nation’s popcorn supply
Caution – Health warning!
JC at 12:49.
As you allude to, the site talking about vehicle fires could be a total EV gaslighting up.
Are they counting all the petrol cars burnt on Maui as “ICE car fires”.
In any case, it is about severity, intensity and “extinguishability”.
I’ll bet if my petrol sporty Beemer had a wiring short and caught fire in my brick garage it would only damage the vehicle.
If a lithium car battery ignited though, it might be curtains for the house.
Could be true, Sanchez, but I’m responding to the claim that the world is ablaze because of EVs and the claim doesn’t appear to be true.
Moreover, we would have seen reports that the insurers are ratcheting up premiums on EVs and I don’t believe they have.
LOL Sancho. You have no such mate. Didn’t happen.
97,000 people there, and zero reports of booing.
Face it, Sam Newman and his mates Avi and Rukshan are irrelevant.
Would it though? I’m not a combustion engineer and I’m sure someone will soon claim they are, but if a 60 liter tank caught the burns, I’m sure that would leave a mark.
How can you tell the difference between a 7 and 8 kV shock? I’ve never met anyone who could do that and I’ve known a lot of sparkies, engineers and technicians. Admittedly the subject doesn’t come up very often 🙂
Dover – Ukraine are in beast mode at the moment, they just want to bleed Russia white. It’s very Slavic. If they can wheedle enough cruise missiles out of the West the Black Sea Fleet will have to go onto the IUCN Red List of endangered species.
You will recall that I’ve said the Great Offensive™ is more about managing the sugar daddies than achieving breakthroughs. The Ukies aren’t stupid, they can read a sat pic. For months the Russians have been laying minefields and digging entrenchment lines like moles on speed.
One other point I’d like to make. If lithium batteries were so dangerous and caught fire so easily, I suspect airlines would be voicing concerns about the huge number lithium charged contraptions people take on planes. Sure we hear about someone’s iphone smoking up a storm every couple of years, but it’s freaking rare.
A four year investigation kinda puts a kibosh on they went after Brand because of his covid stand, doesn’t it?
Lol.. I do, Fatboy so why wouldn’t Sanchez.
“Brian”, was a former Channel 7 CEO back in the 90s and I see the old buzzard at the coffee shop most days. Nicest old dude you could meet.
m0nty
Sep 23, 2023 1:06 PM
It was taped at 6:30 with effects likes in the outer muted.
A mate at Channel Seven told me that was the plan.
LOL Sancho. You have no such mate. Didn’t happen.
97,000 people there, and zero reports of booing.
Face it, Sam Newman and his mates Avi and Rukshan are irrelevant.
You are irrelevant, F-head!
Just reading an article on Menendez.Apparetly Hunter wanted to lobby him for some dodgy clients.
The article pointed out that GWB had appointed Hunter to the board of Amtrak.
Unbelievable.
Do you think if there was actual booing and Seven tried to hide it, at least one of the 97,000 in attendance might have spilled the beans, perhaps with some phone video?
Nup, that is a very dumb conspiracy theory, easily dismissed as the fevered imaginings of a loser.
Not really considering (at least two of) the claims are fraudulent and they still went ahead with it last week.
BTW
Baron Lancaster was the British Minister of Defence. “But he was an Army engineer!” doesn’t cut it unless you’re proposing a second deep state which undermines the first.
Don’t go all Ed Case on me, Cats!
If they put four years in to it, they were always going run with it.
It’s very consistent with #metoo, isn’t it?
couple of months ago at 0730 in the morning
was turning left off St Kilda Rd in front of the Art Centre
fire truck with sirens to my right and he wants to go left in front of me.
which it does
then it abruptly crosses the tram tracks
and there right beside the Art Centre
there’s an electric scooter on the footpath with smoke and flames shooting out of it
Nice.
The perpetually-terrified fantasy footballing basement dweller living off someone else’s assets is calling other people irrelevant.
You don’t know that at all.
I glanced through Google and the reasons appear to be similar on different sites, but not one site mentioned the added risk of fire due to lithium batteries. It’s about 20% more expensive to insure one of these things.
According to the ICA, factors contributing to the higher average premium cost for insuring EVs compared to ICE cars include:
Monty’s happy that the Stasi like climate of dobbers and squeakers at the footy were enough to ensure decorum.
After all who wants to be ” the face of hate”, lose their job, be hounded by the media and banned from their club/ membership when they can simply write NO in the box in 3 weeks time.
Because the full Stasi experience was waiting.
And Monty approves.
JC
Gizmodo is as credible as Slate, Cassidy Hutchinson, Christine Blazey Ford, Julie Swetnick, Anita Hill and Sandra Fluke.
Okay , thanks Dot, but who is Sandra Fluke?
They may want to. But squandering thousands of lives hurled against Russian in depth defenses seems a strange way to go about bleeding Russia.
The Queensland Fire Service has advised that they will not attempt to extinguish EV fires in underground garages.
Taking account of that, the BC insurance broker has suggested that when the current policy comes up for renewal, we will likely be self-insuring EV’s parked in the basement garages – or paying a special risk excess.
The lawyer on the BC Committee has pointed to the appropriate scheme bylaws and the potential consequences of taking a known risk to the detriment of others.
Unlike politically obsessed leftards, most sporting fans prefer to separate sport and politics.
Then there is the Gestapo effect of having the fascist Thought Police scanning the crowd. But fascists like you just lurrrrve that.
How can you tell the difference between a 7 and 8 kV shock?
Vagabond, I asked husband how many volts on the fence & he said 8,000 normally, but probably 7,000 since it had a short. I know nothing about these things, but he was an electrical engineer in his youth.
Yesterday evening, replete with Collingwood-related satisfaction I was relaxing in the cot, ready for snoozing when I was involuntarily rearranged somewhat. The bed shifted, and me with it.
It went for about 30 seconds or so. I waited to see if it would continue or get worse – it did neither, so I resumed zed collection.
The NT News:
I have a question:
Why was this not predicted somehow?
Marine insurance companies are paying close attention to EV transport. See this article from a shipping publication.
Biden say attack, we attack. Maybe we attack not so attackishly though. Oops, sorry. Do better next time. Soonest! Can we have some Abrams now? Please?
Wash and repeat.
It will be.
Tomorrow.
The only thing Ukraine are bleeding white is themselves.
JC
She was not asked to testify under oath.
Like the miracle 9 year old kid who needed an abortion, who can conveniently never be identified, but no police report was ever filed.
Jarrah went spastic when I suggested that Rush Limbaugh was right and taxpayers shouldn’t have to buy people contraceptives.
Dr.
A large number of CBD carparks are subterranean. Are they banning EVs? I haven’t heard of this and I’m sure they would’ve acted sooner if there was an issue. Their insurers would have been on their backs like flies.
Oh yeah. I remember that. He really spazzed out.
Dot
Check it out. The Minister for the Armed Forces is not the equivalent of our Minister for Defence, that is the Secretary of State for Defence.
His only intelligence related posting seems to have been Deputy Commander of 77th Brigade, as a Territorial officer (at much the same time as he was The Minister for the Armed Forces).
Makka – I should’ve included this link, which is blackest of black comedy.
US Pressuring Ukraine For ‘Decisive Breakthrough’ & More Aggressive Tactics: WaPo (20 Jul)
There’s a cost to managing sugar daddies. I’m sad for the poor guys in the trenches on both sides who have to endure such misery while the insiders all get rich. It’s obscene.
Instead of worrying about the stability of the Australian Popcorn Market, I was thinking of the dire need of a $5 & $10 coin.
Now hear me out.
Grandneice lost her first tooth and due to inflation, the original silver coin is no longer acceptable. I think a sixpence for a molar and thruppence for the smaller ones were the going rate when I lost mine.
My suggestion is that a $5 coin with a tungsten core – similar to the look of the $2 coin would do the trick. Tungsten is reasonably inexpensive, and would add a perceptible weight to the coin. And if it were black then this would be for the black keys on a Fairy Piano.
The $10 coin could be similar in design, but larger.
As an added bonus, the seignorige(sp?) would bring in a significant sum to the government – $1 Billion for the $5 coin, and $2 Billion for the ten.
Just think of my musings as a service to the community, the government, and children everywhere. Win Win Win.
Not for the Tooth Fairy, inflation is wrecking the Fairy Piano Market with cheap imports from China cutting into profit margins, and forcing fairy populations into other more profitable but illegal markets – Fairy Dust, Fairy Prostitution – (Blush) – and fairy kidnappings.
Should I present this course of action to Our Luigi, in the hope that the lost and ignored Fairy Mob is somehow protected from the Market Failure that is casting them into marginalisation?
Only a Major General, brigade commander and Deputy Minister for Defence equivalent & a life peer.
At best, it is literally the establishment working to fraudulently prosecute, impoverish and cancel someone who is no longer their pet lunatic.
Thanks vr.
Haha. You should stop fooling yourself with Russian propaganda Dover. The Russian Army is looking very pale at the moment, which is why they’ve taken to seducing Cubans with fake job offers. The Ukies of course aren’t any better, but the desperation of the Russian Army for more warm bodies is a tell – when Russia has three times the population of Ukraine.
1/. The US population is on board & thrilled with trannies being in their face. (this is Monty logic)
2/. Anybody who says anything is fired, debanked, sued, bashed, cancelled, gets thousands of 1-star reviews on their business, has a screaming mob outside their house. etc.
3/. Bud Lite gets into bed with a tranny. The US population simply stops buying Bud Lite.
4/. Football stadiums are video surveilled for anybody booing when an indigenous or coloured player happens to be so much as scratching their nose.
5/. Offenders are summarily evicted from the stadium, are questioned by police, perhaps at some length. They are stripped of membership of the football club & barred for life from attending a football match.
6/. Booing the WTC must be viewed through the above prisms.
If lithium batteries were so dangerous and caught fire so easily, I suspect airlines would be voicing concerns about the huge number lithium charged contraptions people take on planes. Sure we hear about someone’s iphone smoking up a storm every couple of years, but it’s freaking rare.
It’s a scale issue: a large lithium battery is much more unstable than a small lithium battery. The reason is simple: lithium is an inherently unstable metal; the more lithium you have the more instability you have.
The ABC investigates, finds the half dozen-strong Australian white supremacist community is the driving force behind the surging No vote:
How Australian white supremacists used a 40-year-old documentary to divide voters on the Voice
Also, the Australian Communist Party’s a No, apparently. That’s another half dozen votes in the No column.
The ABC is getting desperate.
Every Weekend Australian it’s the same: 1 comment rejected and four comments kept pending since early morning
I think someone in there doesn’t what I write
Ps
Chris Kenny and Greg Craven are practically begging for yes votes but Kenny is beginning to turn quite nasty
Dr Faustus
Sep 23, 2023 11:33 AM
Our body corporate has been advised that excluded event, or special risk premiums is imminent for EV fire damage in building insurance. This is driven more by the consequences of the difficulty in extinguishing the fire than the frequency of occurrence.
This will become more common I suspect. I have previously noted on the Cat that I own/ride an electric scooter and have been doing so for several years and wonder whether the major source of the problem is the junk that is routinely available via second hand markets.
Used and abused second hand scooters from ‘no name’ manufacturers with mismatched rechargers are readily for sale. In the city, I see people ride their scooters over gutters and generally mistreat the device but will take it home and plug it in.
A fire in a Brisbane suburb a few weeks ago resulted in the total loss of the house property. Vision of the aftermath showed 4 charred scooters that, it seems, had all been charging simultaneously off a non-earthed power board.
I don’t doubt there is the occasional ‘rogue’ scooter that is poorly manufactured from new and is a potential fire risk – and the no name stuff is junk – but I wouldn’t buy a second hand scooter, of any brand, under any circumstances. You just don’t know how the previous owner treated it.
Imagine countering so-called ‘propaganda’ with a Time article rebooted by Yahoo.
Incidentally it turns out that 6 Russian guys were indeed shot up by the Azeri Army this week. You expressed scepticism at the time Dover.
Russian submarine commander is machine-gunned to death by Azerbaijan forces during peacekeeping mission (22 Sep)
The interesting thing was who the Russians had doing the peacekeeping work: a nuclear submarine commander and a chem war guy. Not exactly the sort of officers you’d expect to stand between two hostile armies. The Azeris don’t seem to’ve been too deterred by the Russia peacekeepers. Shortly after this incident the Azeris did indeed win all the marbles. NK is now part of Azerbaijan again, and I have no idea what that will mean for the ethnic Armenian Christians in the province. Probably not good.
One downtick and no upticks?
Why are people so unkind?
No one cares about the poor innocent Fairy Piano wukkas, cast out onto the streets, doing tricks for a pittance, selling their fragile bodies for Men of All Genders to satisfy their Beastly Lusts upon?
Being forced into selling drugs like Fairy Dust with their horrific damage to fairy dental health, and allowing teenage fairies to steal Dwarvish eScooters and maiming themselves as they run into gumtrees, evicting Snugglepot and Cuddlepie from their homes and allowing the evil Banksia men to do evil Banksia men stuff.
I find it difficult to believe that Catallaxy Files has slipped so far behind in the Humanitarian Stakes.
*snif*
Give the Fairies a Voice!
Or at least a $4/hr pay rise.
Maybe, but where’s this issue showing up with Evs as the stats suggest they’re even safer than ice cars?
But then, there’s the link about scooters and e-bikes frequently catching fire. Perhaps batteries aren’t all built with the same care. Dunno.
In the same article Angry Kez posted it suggested there’s a big increase in scooter and bike fires while EV fires are rare. You’re a scientist, Cronkite. You figure it out.
If the polls are correct, the Yes people should be calling for the referendum to be cancelled. It’s going to be a bloodbath for them.
As for the accuracy of the polls – they’re reporting No has a 14 point lead over Yes. That’s such a big margin that if Yes ultimately gets up, the pollsters would be ruined. Unless something drastically changes between now and referendum day which shrinks No’s lead which shows up in the polls, but I can’t possibly see what that could be. The Yes campaign isn’t cutting through where it needs to and it doesn’t have enough time to reset and recalibrate.
Ultimately, I think this one is going down for the same reason the republic vote failed. Bad question, bad model.
Boambee John,
Dineage husband, the Major General previously worked for the 77th Brigade up until July 2020.
77th has attracted a lot of attention in recent years and this extract from Wiki might explain why:
“Wired described the brigade as a “psychological operations unit responsible for ‘non-lethal’ warfare that reportedly uses social media to “control the narrative”, as well as disseminating UK government-friendly podcasts and videos”.
Warfare Today says of the brigade that it is a combined regular army and reserve unit “for non-lethal warfare and behavioural influence”, based at Denison Barracks, Hermitage, Berkshire.”
So his wife writing to Rumble to shut down Brand is certainly of interest considering what her husband was doing on the early part of Covid.
If you go to Jikkyleaks on Twitter you will find out more.
Chris Kenny and Greg Craven are practically begging for yes votes but Kenny is beginning to turn quite nasty
Kenny gets a blow job from marcia for every yes vote he gets. You’d be nasty too.
Thanks Michael Smith News:
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/09/would-you-buy-a-used-car-or-a-referendum-proposal-from-this-man.html#comments
Spit and lies is all this useless creature can produce.
What a laff our legal system is .. FFS! .. Yesterday not only were she & the kids full names and address published in the media but lotza pix included .. ! but today, pixilated pix’ and “can’t be named for legal reasons” ……. Oz ya’ve stepped in it!
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/sydney-s-four-missing-kids-mum-is-charged-with-abducting-at-least-two-of-her-children/ar-AA1h5EsQ?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=375d61c406f94511ae5e7f85277f4ac0&ei=31
Keep fooling yourself Dover, that’s fine by me. The Cuban recruitment thing has widely reported. That was just the first hit I got when looking for the story I’d seen this week. I would think you’d at least have a look for yourself too, to verify such stories before you shot the messenger. Messenger shooting is very Russian, as I’m sure Putin’s guys understand exquisitely.
“Respectful silence”?
ROFLMAO.
Far more likely people are worried about the fascist AFL thought police coming down on them like a ton of bricks.
Maybe, but where’s this issue showing up with Evs as the stats suggest they’re even safer than ice cars?
Those stats are the same ones dickless uses.
http://www.newgeography.com/content/007169-ev-battery-fires-do-not-bode-well-projected-sales
Bad question, bad model.
Or maybe, just a bad idea.
OCO:
The polls are correct – but Luigi doesn’t care. Because he knows they will win.
Why?
Because he has the winning margins in his pocket – they will cheat.
It’s the only answer that works.
Luigi has the opportunity to impose a divisive, race based rule on Australia that will enable him to fracture our society.
Why wouldn’t he cheat?
He will cheat and you will all wake up the next day with an Apartheid Government. What are you going to do?
Cubans forced to fight in Ukraine (DDG search results)
Hundreds of story links. Does seem to be a thing. Weird that. Every media outlet except Breitbart – but DDG doesn’t disgorge Breitbart links, they’re haram.
OCO
Pity no real betting agencies are touching it but the one I have found is below and showing very short odds to No:
https://www.bluebet.com.au/sports/Politics/142/Australian-Referendums/The-Voice-Referendum/The-Voice-Referendum/1192045/All-Markets
Going to be a deserved whitewash by the looks.
Kenny gets a blow job from marcia
As a special treat when he’s been especially good she takes her dentures out
This is a family blog, peoples.
Well, I hadn’t seen it reported or discussed anywhere, and when I asked you couldn’t even remember where you’d seen it.
Well, I don’t think it’s in anyone’s interest for Muslim extremists to start ethnically cleansing that part of the world. Those people tend to cause a boatload of problems for their own governments, not just for their non-Muslim neighbours.
Bottom line is Armenia pinched NK from Azerbaijan after the USSR collapsed and Armenia was (relatively) strong and Azerbaijan was weak. Now the tables have turned and, unsurprisingly, Azerbaijan wants its land back and will take it if it has to. Not our business.
Uh oh!
It’s not intelligence, it’s only disinformation though, right!?
LOL!
How’s he going to do that?
Holy moley:
This might be the bigger scandal rather than the op they ran.
This is what happens when you run out of combat arms officers due to attrition.
I read the story, Bruce of N. They mentioned “hundreds” of Cubans. An earth-shattering number. Still, I never fired a shot, and even if I had, people firing shots themselves shouldn’t appear surprised.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/breaking-big-wisconsin-legislation-introduced-eliminate-eric-system/
Interesting in terms of the ability to enable Democrat cheating.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/oh-great-three-confirmed-cases-tuberculosis-reported-among/
Despite occasional lapses in commonsense and self-preservation led by incompetent pollsters (Brexit, Trump in 2016, etc), bookies hate losing money.
No’s current odds ($1.18) still aren’t Winks-esque and I expect No will start on October 14 at under $1.10.
I would be surprised if Yes gets more than 30% because Uncle Luigi isn’t a retail politician’s bottom.
Calli asks:
No, whereas Part II is obviously made of heroic couplets (rhymed iambic pentameter), Part I is Hudibrastic (rhymed iambic tetrameter), usually considered innately comic, but formatted as prose.
He’s back.
🙂
Fire Rescue Victoria said: “Victoria’s fire services are responding to an average of one significant lithium-ion battery fire each week, and this trend is expected to increase.” (My bold.)
For the record, this is my post at 12.34 pm. I posted no link.
Great to see you, Deadman! Please don’t be a stranger.
*According to Fire Rescue Victoria*
Dover – I did find the story again later that day, but not in directly linkable form. (I could if pressed get it up. I won’t though since you’d just hate where I saw it…
😀 ) But that is immaterial since it has now been verified. Sad for the guys, they were serving their country, and attempting to keep the two sides apart.
As I said at the time it looked like the Azeris had chosen that time to move for the whole kit and kaboodle. Which they got in two days, since the Russians caved. At least they tried though.
We do seem to be moving to a time where frozen conflicts like NK are becoming unfrozen again. There’re a few signs coming out of Syria that a similar phase change might occur there too. The evolving geopolitical environment doesn’t bode especially well for peace on Earth.
Rockdoctor
Sep 23, 2023 2:38 PM
Pity no real betting agencies are touching it but the one I have found is below and showing very short odds to No:
https://www.bluebet.com.au/sports/Politics/142/Australian-Referendums/The-Voice-Referendum/The-Voice-Referendum/1192045/All-Markets
Going to be a deserved whitewash by the looks.
It was 5.15 last week – now 4.25 for Yes. That is a big change in a week. I am betting on a October Surprise. The Yes mob are: the usual Tealish ladies trying to be relevant, blokes trying to be sensitive, under 20 year olds because, well “who wouldn’t want them to have a Voice?”, public servants who want to keep their jobs, 5% aboriginal blood uni professors. But in the background are the supersmart PR execs and political hacks who will pull a stunt on the last week, three days before the vote. It will be 100% emotional, hit all the social media, leading story in all the news (and take more than a week to find the truth and expose the BS).
I can bet they have it ready to go. The question is ‘what will it be?’
Actually the odds have shortened a little. Last week it was $1.11 for No and $5.65 for yes.
I hope you’re right . Let’s hope it just a blip.
Kenosha County Eye has reported Gaige Grosskreutz who has now changed his name legally to Paul Prediger was hit by a car in Milwaukee.
Grosskreutz made national headlines after he was shot in the bicep by Kyle Rittenhouse after he pointed a gun at Rittenhouse during the BLM riots in Kenosha.
In the report, the Kenosha County Eye shared that Grosskreutz suffered a lacerated liver and several broken bones after he was hit by a car while walking on a crosswalk in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/man-who-pulled-gun-kyle-rittenhouse-gets-hit/
A “Nudge Unit”?
Sensible military organisations should keep psychological warfare organisations separate from intelligence to minimise internal confusion.
A measure of desperation, more like. It’ll be interesting to see if North Koreans show up on the front line, given the obvious match up between Nork and Russian needs.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/vegas-teen-brags-he-will-be-jail-30/
Idiot probably believes it too.
Ain’t he in for a rude awakening?!
Thanks Deadman. It was a fun read.
My prediction…
“Grampians Garage Nasti” “beats up” a young indig girl, putting her in hospital with “life threatening injuries”, only to have a “miracle” occur and she suffers no I’ll effects. Nastie is charged, suppression order on everything but somehow it never gets to trial.
His Major General’s posting is as Director of Reservers. This is a long way from being “C”.
It’s springtime!*
* Not for Hitler.
Just after the Big Sleep.
His life experience to date will have taught him so. The system will have treated his prior anti-white crimes as of a lesser severity than if they were done to a stray dog.
He’ll be shocked, surprised, angered & puzzled by the u-turn the system is about to pull on him.
Monty is very much like Tom Parsons in 1984, believing that his ardour to conform means means he is safe.
I think Orwell had correctly divined the sort of stunted obsequious person that would thrive under a collectivist but centralised ideology. They pursuance themselves that there is a tacit agreement between the themselves and the party where loyalty is rewarded with safety. There isn’t of course. The party sees only its own needs and to be noticed is to be condemned.
Death penalty looks quite likely. It’d’ve been creepy if the kid’s name was Dillinger, since Heinlein in Starship Troopers foresaw this type of thing with precision, in the History and Moral Philosophy subtheme.
Upper Middle Class presumably? Perhaps married into some assets.
“Respectful silence” during the WTC dross at the MCG.
Hohohoho
“Terrified silence” would be closer to the mark. One “boo” and a swarthy security guard would be crash tackling you.
.. ???
What, who, or whatever, pray tell, is this starship troopers so often mentioned on this blog?
AEMO is an interesting picture atm
Despite solar being 32% of the mix, Hydrocarbins are still 58% of the generation.
He will cheat as follows:
1/3 of the population is on the postal ballot register.
All postal ballots are placed in the custody of Computershare after AusPost and prior to counting.
Computershare was founded by Chris Morris who established the the Morris Family Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Morris Group that makes impact investments in food security, sustainable agriculture, and protection and restoration of the environment.
There is no supervision of the ballots by anyone from the No case during their time at Computershare.
They will be switched. Every. Last. One. Computershare has the culture and the ability to do it.
Even a strong No case cannot beat 30% of ballots switched to Yes. Even if some don’t vote by post, envelopes will be ‘found’
This is why you will lose, and be surprised.
SATP – I always reread Starship Troopers and Forever War together. They’re like two sides of a coin.
Right now human society looks a lot more like Forever War than Starship Troopers. Which isn’t promising.
Wow.
Surprised the Oz is allowing comments.
I haven’t heard of anyone banning EV’s from apartment garages.
However, the Queensland Fire Service does have its knickers in a knot about EV’s in underground car parks. We’ve recently been advised that the QFES will not attempt to extinguish fires in underground garages fitted with an EV charger, or containing an EV. The reason given is safety of responders trying to dump tonnes of water on an erratically burning, possibly electrifying, toxic smoke producing, fire in awkward confined spaces.
If this is a permanent restriction (as opposed to some industrial stunt), then no doubt the insurance market will respond. Risk is a product of probability and outcome; the probability of an EV fire is the same as it ever was (low), but if the outcome now is an EV blazing away in the basement for several hours, while the Firies stand by and keep watch, it has just got significantly worse.
Which is why we are advised that insurers for our Queensland building are likely to respond with premium or cover.
Boambee,
I did not say he was C as my post clearly indicated he worked there until July 2020. He must have done a good job as he was promoted to Brigadier in August and a couple of months later was appointed a Lord.
His wife in early 2020 was the Minister for Digital as well as Culture. In view of his 77th role not a good look.
However Wiki has updated her entry with the following:
The letter prompted her fellow Conservative Philip Davies MP who is a former member of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee to publish an opinion piece backing Rumble’s refusal and wrote:
“We simply cannot have a situation where whenever anyone has allegations made about them, they instantly have their livelihood removed from them by a self-appointed lynch mob.
We believe in the rule of law in this country for good reason, and everyone – including select committee members (perhaps especially select committee members) – should remember that.”
Davies accused Dineage of breaking protocol “I should also point out that whilst the letter has Caroline’s name at the bottom of it as Chairman, normal protocol requires that all letters from select committees are agreed upon by the whole committee before being sent…” and called for Dineage to apologise: “Caroline Dinenage should apologise on behalf of the committee for the wording of the letter, and acknowledge that expressing concern at Russell Brand’s continued employment was inappropriate.”
Good to see an MP with a bit of common sense.
from apartment garages or CBD carparks.
Not just the system, the reinforcement of his social demographic will have been powerful.
He looks to be particularly stupid, so likely has swallowed all the “whites are scum, haha” that’s been going on in his circle, manifested in consequence-free activities like the knockout game, random looting of retailers, bashing of random derros, muggings, porch pirating, etc.
This self-reinforcing is very powerful.
A bunch of dickheads, about as intelligent as that pair look to be, broke into the pub just after closing time one night & brutally worked over several of the staff, putting one into a coma in hospital for weeks. (The urgent nightime aero-medical evacuation alone cost north of $25,000)
CCTV recorded the whole thing perfectly. The edit I made of it was almost of the quality of a multiple-camera angle TV show.
As with anything, it took the cops ages (weeks IIRC) to get around to arresting anyone.
In that time the culprits realised they’d gone too far & were in hot water. Panicked at first, they put their heads together & came up with a story they believed would exonerate them:
They’d seen my father inside the building, he was a paedophile*, so they were justified in breaking in to “get” him.
When the challenger sub was squished diving on the Titanic, it was revealed that 125 milliseconds are required for the brain to realise what is happening.
Their story lasted 3 milliseconds when they tried it on the cops.
They needn’t have worried.** Most of them weren’t even sent for trial. Those who were did not receive a conviction.
(* their words & a most unfounded allegation, at the time “paedophile” had supplanted “wanker” as the nastiest word the hoods of the town knew, & use of it was in their world instant social obliteration – alas the law takes its cue from parliament, not the words of the town thugs. “Paedophile” lasted about a year before “wanker” came back into common use, probably because half of them couldn’t reliable pronounce the word & even fewer if any could spell it.)
(** this despite the CCTV evidence being so good that cops from other towns were dropping in to my office unannounced asking to see it, they’d view it with their jaws agape, with comments like “This is GOLD. I’ve been in the job 25 years & never seen anything this good”.
Goes to show what can be achieved by a corrupt police prosecutor who is covering for the son of a Senior Sergeant)
“Face it, Sam Newman and his mates Avi and Rukshan are irrelevant.”
Nah, and unlike you, they don’t get off on violence towards women.
I backed Steparty thank you Farmer Gez. I’d have backed it last time but didnt want to log into TAB account from overseas.
Supplementary question:
In addition to Starship Troopers, what or who, is Forever War?
From context am I correct in presuming them to be books?
Last week Triple-J *news* was reporting how many 100s of thousands more Aboriginals, and people aged 18-25, are enrolled to vote in this referendum compared to the 1999 referendum.
Hmm, so the rolls loaded with people who are either too naive to know why it’s a bad idea, or stand to directly benefit from it, is the main reason Yes is expected by Yes to win. Not a lot of intellectual probing of the persuasiveness of their argument.
Won’t be a problem in a few weeks. Just yet.
As in the US, 95%+ of Australian public servants vote for ALP-Filth, but I’m not convinced the desire to cheat is so far advanced in Australia that the AEC would change a referendum result that doesn’t change the national balance of power — i.e., 95% ALP-Filth state and federal.
Much more likely that another unpopular, failed ALP leader who waited in line for the prime ministership will be spat out by Australia’s increasingly Italian leadership merry-go-round.
Courier Mail has an article up about rallies in Brisbane today.
Daily Telegraph online title starts off with “Wild scenes” but the following article makes no mention of anything “wild” happening.
Just watched 2 bookmarked vids and thanks Cats for providing them.
1st one was Avi & Rukshan with Sam Newman. Can’t see where Sam walked back from his call as widely reported MSM misinformation atm.
2nd was the co-Governance in NZ. A warning of what’s coming our way should the referendum gets up…
Vicki
Sep 23, 2023 12:59 PM
How I hate electric fences. Just arrived at farm & decided to shut a gate to one of the paddocks & noticed a “click click” from adjacent fence. Obviously a “short”. Should have gone back to machinery shed & switched off the system. Didn’t, and copped a 7,000 volt whack through my arm (on the gate). Lucky there was a short, as normal voltage is 8,000.
Now watching practice 3 for Japan Grand Prix. I think the electrocution has helped my crook neck!
Vicki,
Watch Electric Fences – They Bite
Having watched Practice 3 Replay Japan Grand Prix – Watching Pre Qualifying Japan at the moment – Norris vs Max will be interesting, with Bundy & Pepsi Max
One thing is certain about the referendum: not matter the result, bad boy blubby Albo will cry.
I didn’t claim that you said that. I simply pointed out that many references have been made to him being a Major General, but that Director of Reserves is a long way from being a spook.
Farmer Gez, your mates are buying the beers tonight.
I usually don’t put the Caulfield Guineas in the calendar.
But after that Prelude & that Golden Rose, it’s getting set to be one of the races of the spring.
But, but, but Cdl Pell is a monster because he shared accommodation with Ridsdale.
Unless you genuinely think you have a chance at winning the Everest, the 3 year olds should head to Melbourne for the Guineas.
At least you won’t have the split the winnings like you do with the Everest.
Where Angry Karen excerpted her paragraph.
I bolded the comment about EVs.
It’s not the AEC. It’s Computershare. The AEC is just looking the other way.
Plausible deniability in spades. The AEC of the Ticks and Crosses? Not biassed? Think again.
Look at Computershare’s pinko investing ecosystem.
Seems the “Gay Pride” mob marched in support of the “YES” brigade. Nasty, cruel minds, such as mine, could have fun coining slogans for such a march…
Starship Troopers, Salvatore, is a crossover novel by Robert Heinlein, one of the “Big Four” of 20th century “hard” science fiction writing. That is, SF with a solid basis in physics and technology.
Heinlein, very much a patriotic conservative American (1907-1988), was a very popular writer of “juveniles” – SF aimed at young males. He wrote a lot of science fiction stories and novels, but with Starship Troopers his publisher rejected it as being too violent. He went elsewhere and made a successful change into writing SF for adults.
The book follows the adventures of a young man, off to war against “The Bugs” in a society where the only people who can vote are those who have done military service.
Lithium-ion batteries are “amazing devices” capable of storing 10 times more energy than a conventional battery, used in everything from phones to electric cars and power plants, Paul Christensen, an electrochemistry professor at Newcastle University in the UK, said.
“But in my view, the penetration of these fantastic devices into all levels of our society has far outstripped our knowledge of the risks and hazards,” Professor Christensen said.
“I’m not trying to demonise them at all. They’re regarded as essential in our fight to decarbonise the planet.”
There you have it: another smart guy completely fuked in the head because of carbonitism.
The Forever War is a novel by Joe Haldeman, an American Vietnam War veteran.
Like Starship Troopers, it follows the adventures of one young male soldier. He takes part, over several years, as a trooper, then as an officer, in a seemingly endless war against an alien civilisation.
One interesting aspect is due to the physics of space-time travel his starship jumps through interstellar space means many decades pass on Earth while he spends only years fighting. On one trip back to Earth he discovers homosexuality is now encouraged as a means of keeping the population down.
A side narrative follows his romance with a female soldier separated from him by her duty in other starships.
An excellent book followed by two mediocre sequels. Haldeman is still around and had quite a successful career as an SF writer.
Who had Canada & India going to war on their 2023 bingo card?
Everything that’s wrong with the yookay
Is this correct?
Here’s Autoweek.
Scooters and E bikes can be a problem because of faulty engineering.
https://www.autoweek.com/news/a44938407/battery-electric-vehicle-car-fires/
Only one response to this query
???
What, who, or whatever, pray tell, is this starship troopers so often mentioned on this blog?
Would you like to know more
https://www.google.com/search?q=starship+know+more&oq=starship+know+more&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIICAEQABgWGB4yCAgCEAAYFhgeMggIAxAAGBYYHjIKCAQQABiGAxiKBTIKCAUQABiGAxiKBTIKCAYQABiGAxiKBdIBCDcwMDJqMGo3qAIAsAIA&client=ms-android-tcl-rvo2b&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:231c9fa8,vid:qjxof3MM7l4,st:0
Is there a NO rally in Melbourne today?
If so, how long before those mysterious Grampian Nazis turn up and are ushered through by Vic Plod to mingle with NO voters?
I always found forever war too ham fisted a Vietnam analogy.
Thank you TE. Science fiction I’ve never gone near. I’m as blind to it as I am to advertising.
Ray Bradbury we had to read at school, & I had no objection to it, finding it miles better than some of the crap we had to read (notable example: Catcher in the Rye & Catch-22, which was so bad I didn’t read it & winged the exam by guessing)
Also read lots of Raymond E Feist as an adult, then again that’s not SF so much as fantasy.
Again, thank you. I’ve never heard of either book, or author, & likely won’t ever encounter them apart from on this blog. 60 metres or more of bookshelf in my house notwithstanding.
Airports! We flew Qatar Airlines for the first time, from Singapore to Milan and happy to report that this airline has attentive service and good quality food for all. We slept well stretched out in a half-empty Economy along three seats each for much of the 8 hours it took to arrive at Doha in the UAE. They’d offered us a discount upgrade to Business for $4000 extra prior to boarding and we were glad we’d refused, because the carrels looked like mini black-walled prisons as we walked by them into Economy.
Doha airport was a shock, because although there were many unused airbridge docks we drew up a long way fromm the terminal and had to descend perilous stairs a long way down from the top of this plane, with me at 81 carrying a 10kg cabin case and wearing a 5kg backpack trying to avoid doing a Joe Biden on the stairs.
Doha is in an univiting flat land of desert, the airport is building extensions, and it was 40 degrees outside, so into a bus to the terminal way in the distance. After a 1.5 hour transit we boarded another plane bussed even further out around the extensions, and had a similar climb up stairs back in. We’d also lucked out on seat space, as it was full, but still daytime and only 5.5hours to go, so we watched movies (can recommend ‘Living’ as an excellent evocation of 50’s London) and were soon in Milan. Business carrels on this flight were the opposite of the last, they had no privacy at all. Just letting youse all know, what you get in Busines is variable.
We waited In Milan airport for an hour for our luggage to arrive, a waste of time because we were five minutes walk from the waiting comfort of our room at the Airport Sheraton. Meantime, crowds of Muslim women with hordes of children from the flight crowded out each end of the side of the moving luggage carrier where we waited. They had truly huge amounts of luggage, seemingly 8 pieces each for some, offloaded from the moving track by the fully-gowned women and a couple of their men while other men stood around. The luggage pieces were all heavily shrink wrapped almost into balls with no visible handles and thus diffucult for baggage handlers to manage. Some Muslim women were hauling and kick-rolling theirs off the track and along to the carts.
Suddenly, just in time, I noticed an overladen cart coming our way at high speed unmanned and out of control, and yelled watch out, jumping aside myself as our cabin bags were sent flying as the cart banged to a stop into the moving track. I could then see that it had been propelled at top speed by two little running boys behind it pushing it, aged around eight and ten, and having a great old game. Whare are your parents? I demanded angrily, saying also this is not a game.
No sign of the parents in the groups at either end, and no care whatsoever as to what their children were up to. I knew this because previously I had seen a baby placed in a baggage cart in the handbag place at the top and another boy try to jump up and pull the otherwise empty cart along, and the whole thing had toppled over, with the baby’s head being caught against the floor and undeneath the pushing rail at the front which was on its neck. The boy had a sore leg and a woman eventually extricated the howling baby and tried to calm it.
Then a blonde female official came up to us, having seen our hand baggage sent flying, and said some new baggage had arrived and was being taken off the tracks on the other side so maybe ours would now be there. This was done it seems to avoid more problems with the Muslim crowds on our side. She walked with us and we found our two suitcases and she said the baggage was late due to so many ‘pieces’ being on board. Why can’t they stick to regulations, be made to do so? I asked this Italian woman about the general fracas. Oh, she said airily, by way of explanation and seeming apology, ‘it’s cultural’.
Hasn’t Italy got a culture too? I replied waspishly, and she look astonished that I had said the quiet part out loud. No wonder Georgia Meloni is doing so well in the polls.
Anyone who has travelled on an aircraft recently may have noticed a new addition to the safety warnings. You are informed that should you drop your mobile device into/between a seat you should call for immediate assistance from the cabin crew and not try to recover it yourself.
Introduced after passengers who accidentally dropped their phones between seats and attempted recovery by adjusting the seat to try to reach them resulting in the phone getting crushed and spontaneously combusting.
Not an ideal scenario at 35,000 feet. Or on the ground.
Steparty
The old town will be up and about tonight.
Bush bred, trained and mostly owned.
As I said, he’s a gun.
EVs have been around for a long time:
EVs are for girls, gas cars are for boys
This is a pro EV article so the author is an idiot. He has no self awareness:
Parts of that story sound all too familiar. Back then, drivers of gas cars would carry extra cans of fuel with them on long journeys to improve their range, but EV drivers couldn’t do the same. The EV industry faced problems with infrastructure and range – it’s an issue we still face today, but it was even more pronounced back then. With most families, even wealthy ones, lacking electricity in their homes, it was inconvenient to own a car that was so difficult to drive far.
To that you can add the fact that EVs are made with rare Earths. Which means you either accept only 1 in a million people will be able to have one because of the scarcity of resources or you drown in a bath of delusion.
Rare earths aren’t rare, Cronkite.
The problem with rare earths is that they’re disgusting to process they cause terrible environmental problems and should only be processed in places like China. 🙂
For those thinking that concern about the risk of Li-ion batteries is overcooked.
The 3 funniest novels and I mean laugh out loud and cack yourself are:
Puckoon
Catch 22
The Sot-weed Factor.
The book “Starship Troopers” was a classic of literature – the film was rubbish, of the first order.
Neodymium, dysprosium and terbium.
Let’s now move onto the recent medical discoveries.
Between cost and demand, the latest breed of weight-loss drugs could transform healthcare in the U.S.—for good and ill.
By Josh Nathan-Kazis
Between cost and demand, the latest breed of weight-loss drugs could transform healthcare in the U.S.—for good and ill.
By Josh Nathan-Kazis
Updated September 21, 2023 / Original September 21, 2023
Novo Nordisk
I don’t get these weight loss drugs. Sure, they may be able to reduce weight for fat slobs, but if someone is downing 6 burgers a day including fries etc, s/he may thin out but the effect on the body will show up in different ways.
Let’s hear from those who actually know what they are talking about.
https://www.frv.vic.gov.au/victorian-fire-agencies-and-regulator-urge-caution-over-lithium-ion-battery-fire-risks
Salvatore, if you’re ever going to read the best SF they are both worth pursuing. There are an enormous number of very bad SF novels out there, but those two books were both very original and very thought-provoking. The Heinlein in particular argues for a type of society many Cats would find refreshing: it would reward hard work, offer societal control only to those who wanted to perform a civic duty, and punish criminals.
I used to read a lot of SF, and indeed wrote some post-graduate papers on it, but gave it away a long time ago as being full of dross. However I have a shelf full of the excellent stuff.
Others worth reading:
Niven and Pournelle: The Mote in God’s Eye, Footfall, and The Legacy of Heorot.
Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke are worth a look, but they both have failures and outstanding books. There is also the occasional novel which comes along that offers a different perspective on humanity’s future. For example Andre Norton’s The Beast Master, Carl Sagan’s Contact, Jack Finney’s Time and Again, and Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz.
I write this now a day later. We have picked up a large black SUV to cope with the autostrada where cars whip along at often more than the 130km speed limit, and we joined the six lane highway that leads, as all good roads are said to do, to Rome. We hoved off just above Tuscany to traverse the spectacular Appenine mountain pass over to Spezia, which is an old naval port town on the Mediterranean. Beyond it is a high peninsula headland where our accommodation sits at the very top of the viewpoint, with a trendy tourist town at the base of the climb up. As it was getting late, and a call to our accommodation discovered there was no food up there, and we didn’t fancy the drive back down and up in the dark, we picked up some pickled octipus, cheeses, a salad, wine and other picnic dinner goodies, and headed uphill.
The road was horrendous, narrow, rough with potholes, with ravine edges, with no pull away areas for passing traffic, entailing backing away to a possible, just possible, area of passing. They didn’t mention this part on Booking.Com. Then, a sharp steep poorly angled turn up to a parking area, an eagle’s view and a renovated farmhouse barn of a room with 14ft ceilings, Roman arches, artistically chipped away plaster and a decent bed. We ambled down with some whiskey to enjoy the garden and sit to view through ancient grapevine stems under a trellace covered with their output the dusk descending on the ancient waters and lit up town below. Starlit at the last.
Alligator Blood (J: D. Oliver; T: Waterhouse-Bott) wins the group 1 Underwood Stakes ($750,000, 1800m).
You’re such a worry wart, Cronkers.
We’re fine.
Hasn’t been explored for commerical quantities elsewhere.
John Scalzi’s “Old Man’s War” series – you have to be over 70 to enlist, you can never return to Earth, but you get a new body……
Catch 22
One of my favourites.
apologies for my spelling errors. Too busy now to change them.
We’re on the move to Tuscany this morning, more hilltops, likely more properly-spelled octopus under another trellis. Or some other foodie delights.
JC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucagon-like_peptide-1
Look at the physiological functions. It is a wonder drug thus far.
Gai Waterhouse says she dreams every day of winning the Australasian weight-for-age championship, the $5 million W.S. Cox Plate at Moonee Valley. That sounds like Alligator Blood, winner of today’s group 1 Underwood Stakes at Caulfield, is headed there after the Turnbull Stakes at Flemington.
The point is that GLP -1 drugs do increase satiety and this curb appetite, as well as increase insulin production & increase glucose uptake into muscles, among many other things.
Skinny unhealthy people instead of fat ones.
Angry Karen first excerpted link specifically mentioned that EV fires are rare.
Here:
The piece was talking about scooters and bikes.
His second attempt to satisfy his cognitive dissonance is also talking about the same things and not EVs. I can appreciate the problem though. Scooters, bikes and cars all have one thing in common. They travel on wheels, and consequently they’re all the same.
Okay, they’re an appetite suppressant also. I understood they quickened the metabolic response to fat burn. Instead of 6 burgers a day and fries, it will cut it down by 20%? 🙂
An “Aboriginal elder” who can’t do welcome to country and problem glasses singing the national anthem.
Pig’s whistle don.
This nation needs normalcy, Carlton and John Elliot more than ever.
son, damn you autocorrect!
Watching AFL Lions v Blues. Had the WTC volume off. That black fella he looked funny with all that crap on his head.
Carn the Blues!
1 0 6
Torn.
Every fibre of my being is hardwired to cheer every failure of the silver spoon dilettantes that are Caaaarlton.
However, the Pies have a terrible history against Brisbane in Grand Finals, and so I must hope that the Blues get the chockies – so that sweet and just vengeance for the 1979 Wayne Harmes fit-up may come to pass.
I simply cannot be bothered arguing with someone who has a serious comprehension problem. A problem highlighted over and over again on these pages for months.
The link again: https://www.frv.vic.gov.au/victorian-fire-agencies-and-regulator-urge-caution-over-lithium-ion-battery-fire-risks.
Once more, I posted no link. I posted no article. I referred only to Fire Rescue Victoria. Funny about that!
The book “Starship Troopers” was a classic of literature – the film was rubbish, of the first order.
I thought the movie was superior trash and pretty true to the book. The aliens were genuine aliens, the mixed sex troops had a fine time consistent with Heinlein’s repressed sexuality, the special effects were great and the direction had its tongue firmly up its clacker.
That cat @ 4:35 runs amok!
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steveinman:
Instant Justice & Epic Fail Videos
Let’s now move onto the recent medical discoveries.
HP moves into 4 Corners mode.
If it works, don’t fix it. The October Surprise will be a re-run of the emotional prodding that put Kamahl over the line, but repackaged for a broader group of the over 40s.
Exactly how, logically, the imputed evil intentions of one J.Cook 200 years ago, even if they were true, would be sufficient to justify today a new racist institution, packed full of radicals hellbent on land use veto power and reparations, is an argument destined to remain MIA. Don’t ask awkward questions, just choke up and tick Yes.
He was leaning No because supposedly he had insufficient knowledge on what First Nations people had faced. Is he leaning Yes because he still has insufficient knowledge on what First Nations people do today?
Does he realise the InVoice could only help the aboriginals of today and cannot reanimate the dead?
Most aboriginals live a westernised lifestyle in towns. They assimilated into the settlers’ system – which represents them through Parliament at least as badly as it represents the rest of us. 🙂 Where’s the gap, where’s the oppression, where’s the lack of representation, and where’s their resentment of it all? What problem would the InVoice actually solve?
More importantly, what do the ringleaders of the Makarrata agenda intend as the future Australian society? What state of social relations do they aim for?
If they intend to use the InVoice and the Makarrata to reverse assimilation, they intend ultimately for two sets of laws to operate across the land, almost a second country. If they are not intending to use their special privileges to do that, they are wanting racist privileges within the current mainstream system, to which the virtually unanimous answer should be No.
The question of assimilation or separatism is the really thorny issue which should be asked on the referendum, because every other aboriginal community problem cannot be resolved without a firm direction on that question.
Vive la difference , of perspective.
I found it so dreadful I read only a handful of pages, never mind that we had to read it for school.
Well said!
Cliff Notes.
It’s what the radio rental literature teachers want as canned answers and the books are shyte.
I’ll barrack for Carlton, then. Poor sods, bound to lose.
It was the Beloved’s father’s team – when he enlisted he ended up with a Melbourne company, all of them Blues supporters. So he followed suit.
😀
$&@“ing Cloud Street.
Not today, chief.
“Changing my mind wasn’t too difficult, because the No was a flippant ‘no’. It was not an educated No,” he said.
“I think the whole idea – what really reduced me to tears was, for the first time this Tuesday, I learnt that the British wanted to wipe out the black race as though they were vermin. I just couldn’t – even now as I say it, I want to choke.
What a moron. King George’s instructions to Gov Phillips:
You are to endeavour by every possible means to open an Intercourse with the
Natives and to conciliate their affections, enjoining all Our Subjects to live in amity and kindness with them. And if any of Our Subjects shall wantonly destroy them, or give them any unnecessary Interruption in the exercise of their several occupations. It is our Will and Pleasure that you do cause such offenders to be brought to punishment according to the degree of the Offence.
I will not be surprised by a Yes vote because of the money and force behind the agitprop and the stupidity of the sheeple.
Stories my Nanna told me!
I don’t know whether the exact term is “company” or “unit”. Whatever they were, they were all older than him. He always got to carry the flag on ANZAC Day as all his compatriots got older and frailer. This was in Sydney, the Melbourne turnout was much larger, naturally.
Whenever Carlton is mentioned, I picture him in his grey boiler suit, smile on his dial, pouring Hill of Grace at Sunday lunch. We had no idea how good that wine was…but he did.
Really? The Marines decided to disobey explicit orders from the King?
I don’t think so.
Sorry, cohenite. Should have refreshed. Too much waxing lyrical over Henschke vino.
Hush your mouth, Calli. It’s early.
PS: Carlton’s coach, Michael Voss, captained the Brisbane Bears when they were unbeatable at the Gabba, where tonight’s match is being played.
I learnt that the British wanted to wipe out the black race as though they were vermin.
By the time the Brits got to Australia, they were more interested in a tax base.
Sure they wanted an underclass.
And convicts were the slave class.
Having a race based slave class was considered outdated by the Brits by then.
Kahmahl doesn’t seem to like Australia- why did he come here then?
The “British” were the most successful colonialist imperialists in human history for a reason, you f*cking ingrate – they civilised rather than slaughtered the many colourful races they conquered.
You’ve been lied to, you moron.
By collectivists, who are far, far more evil than your imaginary “British”.
What have the British ever done for us?
Thank you TE for the recommendations. Not sure I’ll ever have time to branch out into reading sci fi.
Once was the time I was a novel-a-day man, regardless of the novel, even Gone with the Wind.
Alas career (i.e. holding down a job) intervened, then along came TV & other things to occupy time, hobbies & other pastimes that occupy time that would once have been spent reading.
I’ll not get read in my lifetime half the books I’ve gathered. Example: I’ve lotsa books by a Tom Lewis. They look great on the office shelf. Haven’t yet had clear enough decks to actually read even one of them.
Sci Fi is likely to remain off my list.
I see the downticker is busy.
Looking at the graphic, it resembles a crouching dog, leaving a dropping. Go for it, Fido!
It’s my aim, in retirement, to read all the books I’ve gathered.
calli – you’ll conquer your alleged problem, with some recent advances in medical technology.
We dinobores need to stick together, in case of a massive asteroid event. 🙂
I would have thought someone, who was born in Kuala Lumpar, would have some idea of the record of British colonialism.
I took the except, Googled it and it came up with the fist link to a Hun story in which the para was included. Here:
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=%E2%80%9CVictoria%E2%80%99s+fire+services+are+responding+to+an+average+of+one+significant+lithium-ion+battery+fire+each+week%2C+and+this+trend+is+expected+to+increase.%E2%80%9D
Next time it would be a great idea to link.
In any event, both the Hun piece, which referenced the Fire Vic excerpt and Fire Vic itself aren’t talking talking about EVs. They’re discussing problems with scooters and bikes.
The Hun mentioned how EV fires have been a rare incidence.
BS.
Kamahl was never going to vote No. A Malaysian born of Tamil descent- so much legacy colonial loathing in that mix.
This was a Yes setup from the very start-“Newly enlightened black man changes his vote because of terrible British Colonialism”
A part of me isn’t entirely sure the Kamahl “indecision”, choice of No, then U-turn to “Yes” wasn’t carefully choreographed in advance.
Then again, Kamahl has (how to phrase this?) has never been among those who are candidates for membership of Mensa.
Snap, Makka
Of, course, Rabz! On the strength of my “embellishment” birthday card, the Beloved booked an extension of our holiday next year. Including a final dinner in Venice.
A sense of humour goes a long way, even for Dinobores.
So Australia gave him a singing career and TV show iirc and that’s his level of gratitude.