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The Market at Gisors, Camille Pissarro, 1899

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Johnny Rotten
October 5, 2023 7:30 pm

Wakanda is onboard with Lidea

“Wankerandia” got it all wrong. With dyslexia, it is now “No Idea”.

JC
JC
October 5, 2023 7:32 pm

dover0beach
Oct 5, 2023 7:15 PM

Mark Levin is controlled opposition, loud mouthed warmonger who makes a lot of noise but as policy writes some really weak beta cuck shit that belongs in the Bush I, post Ronnie pre Newt era.

Congress feels comfortable from a radio booth.

Correct. McCarthy was trying to cut a secret deal with Dems for Ukraine following CR failure

Let me understand this. You think the 8 Republicans siding with every single Demons in the House to oust McCarthy was a good thing because all roads lead to Moscow, while forgetting that every single Demon who voted against the speaker supports support for Ukraine. This makes sense to you, Dover? It makes sense that 8 Republicans voted with Bug-Eyes and the rest of the squad including Pelosi.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 5, 2023 7:38 pm

Helen Davidson (nmrn)

Oct 5, 2023 6:53 PM

Lidia Thorpe has done more for the No campaign than any other person.

Donโ€™t know about that. Marcia Langton is giving her some pretty stiff competition.

I’ll say it again.
If the No campaign asked me to pick a team to lead the Yes campaign with the sole intent of nobbling it, I wouldn’t change much.
Maybe add a bit more Szubanski and a dash of FitzSimmons.
Perhaps a dash of Carleton, but I fussing over it now.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 5, 2023 7:38 pm

Ray Martin didnโ€™t know anything about his aboriginal ancestry

I’m sure if he asks nicely Stan Grant will tell him what formula he uses.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 5, 2023 7:42 pm

Is anyone else a member of Defence Health?

Yes and a month ago spent nearly 2 hours on hold before I gave up.

Dunno what’s going on but it’s not very reassuring for a fund “that none others can match” (Not my words, words of a competing fund when I did shop around once).

Dot
Dot
October 5, 2023 7:44 pm

Yeah I donโ€™t are about Ukraine.

These GOP speakers have been duds.

My dislike of Levin is he talks a big game but his output is super small target stuff. I bought a book of his and I didnโ€™t disagree but it was low energy.

It would be like having Senator Antic on the radio but then he ends up like Sue Boyce, totally useless and tepid.

Cassie of Sydney
October 5, 2023 7:48 pm

“We just voted in Potts Point. โ€œYesโ€ posters festooned the surroundings as far as the eye can see. It was the same when the Teals were favoured by the locals. Only one lonely brave No poster.”

I will vote tomorrow morning, also in the eastern suburbs, before I attend a medical appointment.

I tried to vote last night, thinking that pre-polling was open until 6.00 p.m. but I was informed prepolls closed at 5.30 p.m. I had arrived at St Mathias Church in Paddington at 5.45, after getting off the bus (more on the bus later), I walked across the road, and curiously, even at that late hour, there were still FIVE women milling around, wearing the ubiquitous teal coloured t-shirts emblazoned with ‘Wentworth says YES’ (or ‘Wentworth votes YES’) standing at the Oxford Street entrance to the church. I walked through, they ignored me, and I ignored them (despite a dimwit here accusing me of harassing people, for the record, I don’t harass people however if I am poked, prodded or harassed, I respond). Anyway, I walked into the polling station and the AEC man was packing up and he said polls were shut and that they open at 8.30 a.m. I said okay, thank you for letting me know, but oddly one of the YES women, wearing a teal coloured t-shirt, walked in behind me and waved to the AEC person and said “just letting you know that we’re leaving now”. I thought, how strange, I know party officials and campaigners etc aren’t allowed inside electoral stations wearing party/cause clothing and waving posters etc, question is, is that at all times or just during the hours that the polls are open?

Anyway, before the above, when I was on the bus leaving the CBD, someone I know hopped on the bus. This someone happens to be a very old chum of my mother and stepfather, he’s very well known in political and media circles. He’s in his late seventies. So, he squished down next to me, and we started chatting, firstly about the state of my stepfather’s and mother’s health etc. But then we got onto meatier stuff, and of course we talked about da Voice. He’s a conservative, and will be voting NO. He said to me how he’d voted the day before at St Mathias, and that after voting, he changed and helped out the two NO spruikers at the Church. He said that at the church that morning when he was helping out, at the one entrance, there were SIX YES spruikers, all middle aged and older women. Sitting on the bus he said, ‘you know Cassie, and I hope you won’t be offended by this’, to which I smiled and said “I won’t be offended”, and he then said how he observed closely these Wentworth women at the Wentworth polling booth, all of them middle aged or older, no doubt all of them wealthy or at least comfortable, and as he said, it was akin to being in a presence of a coven of witchy women, who all think the same, who all believe the same, who all speak the same. The really offensive thing is that they are trying to dictate to ordinary Australians, and they’re proud of it, they have zero self awareness. I agreed with him, and I said I find them repulsive, utterly repulsive.

He said he thinks Wentworth will vote YES but the referendum will go down. To which I said, we must pray.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 5, 2023 7:48 pm

H B Bear

Oct 5, 2023 7:19 PM

It confirms my widely held belief that medical doctors make the worst voters.

They get quite upset if you say they are more dependent on the government than the average houso too.

Oh, my wordy, Lordy, yes.
Yes they do.
They see themselves as hairy chested entrepreneurs but they are protected by guilds limiting the supply of positions in the industry and almost their entire income is derived from government directly or mandated by government.
Tax eaters, in other words.
And their confidence in areas outside their specialty is not matched by ability.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 5, 2023 7:50 pm

Theory regarding the McCarthy/Gaetz situation.
Not mine, but discussed on locals & twitter.

RFK Jr will announce his Independent run over the next week.
He will drag votes away from Trump in states where he needs them.
The faction of the GOP voters that are attracted to RFK Jr are 100% on board with Gaetz blowing up McCarthy.
This may be a big spoiler of RFK Jr’s announcement.
Time will tell.

Or maybe Gaetz just wanted to blow McCarthy up.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 5, 2023 7:50 pm

We just voted in Potts Point. โ€œYesโ€ posters festooned the surroundings as far as the eye can see

This won’t be won or lost in Potts Point.
That was my point earlier.
They are retreating to their strongholds as a coping mechanism.
Any Potts Point Teals out West?
I think not.

JC
JC
October 5, 2023 7:52 pm

Or maybe Gaetz just wanted to blow McCarthy up.

There’s some real personal animosity there, that goes beyond the politics, I think.

JC
JC
October 5, 2023 7:54 pm

It’s really long but a good read.

Paul Zanetti Cartoonist

NOEL FROM NOOSA – WHERE HAS ALL THE MONEY GONE?

https://twitter.com/OcarinaJones/status/1709714675473015194

Cassie of Sydney
October 5, 2023 7:57 pm

“This wonโ€™t be won or lost in Potts Point.”

Agree, just like it won’t be won or lost in Paddington/Woollahra. And thank God for that.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 5, 2023 7:58 pm

Cassie, that’s where I voted on Tuesday morning.
The Yes crew camped out closer to the bus stop.
The No crew further down the street past the church.

The Yes crew all old (boomer or boomer adjacent).
The No crew all very old.

I’m sure the mix will change on Saturday 14th.

duncanm
duncanm
October 5, 2023 7:59 pm

Watching ‘brassed off ‘.

Reminds me, somewhat ironically, that it was the left who used to care about workers, and the Tories who closed coal mines.

Topsy turvy world we live in today.

Robert Sewell
October 5, 2023 8:02 pm

Re the Mashed Potato crisis:
Could it be the type of potato?
I realise there are several, but is there one that mashes well?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 5, 2023 8:03 pm

Mr Panzer, on medical doctors:

almost their entire income is derived from government directly or mandated by government

And yet they manage to unnecessarily kill 18,000 people in this country every year.

Attention ‘doctors’:

You are people who have been to uni, and who can follow instructions on the internet.

You are not God Oracles.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
October 5, 2023 8:05 pm

Then, at 6:43pm, a third individual with the handle โ€œJonah-Yes23โ€ after his name advised, โ€œIf they are pro treaty you can say that the Uluru statement from the heart asked for this (the Voice) before treaty, if they are anti treaty you can say itโ€™s a purely advisory body.โ€

I do hope all the flip-floppers and fence-sitters are not making up their minds until polling day.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
October 5, 2023 8:06 pm

Re: the Mashed Potato crisis,

I prefer the remake, Mashed Potato Crisis Tokyo 2040.
Better animation and cooler dialogue.

Razey
Razey
October 5, 2023 8:07 pm

out of touch rich old white blokes determined to maintain the paternalistic up yours that runs the blackfella industry.

I think it’s more they will be immune or reap benefits from it.

cohenite
October 5, 2023 8:07 pm

Kenny is fuking insane; about the screech the guy is deadset nuts; it’s as though his brain is normal on every other issue but that section which deals with the screech has festered and rotted.

miltonf
miltonf
October 5, 2023 8:08 pm

Fartin always struck me as typical soft handed pudgy meja parasite. Used to have a column in the North Shore Vomit iirc.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 5, 2023 8:09 pm

From the Spectator.

PommieBarsteward 4 hours ago

“Pearson told the Press Club that once the gap had been closed, the Voice would still be needed in perpetuity to allow Aboriginal people to offer their unique perspective on any matter. To add value, as it were, to our nation. Such conceit.”
Pearson and his ilk are full of their own importance. What “unique perspective” would add any value to our nation? Can anyone enlighten me?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 5, 2023 8:09 pm

Attention โ€˜doctorsโ€™:

You are people who have been to uni, and who can follow instructions on the internet.

You areย notย God Oracles.

yeah

show em a plc for an aircon unit

wooden no wot they were lookin at

mongs

Rosie
Rosie
October 5, 2023 8:09 pm
bons
bons
October 5, 2023 8:12 pm

I just switched off Kenny.
He has never overcome his ABC roots.
Correct me, did he not also support the Covid outrage?
If he believes himself to be a kool contrarian, that is a complicated way of spelling D*ick He*ad.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 5, 2023 8:13 pm

Robert Sewell

Oct 5, 2023 8:02 PM

Re the Mashed Potato crisis:

There is no crisis.
Cook them as and when you need them.
Leftovers are no longer mashed potato.
They are input for bubble and squeak.
If the cost of electricity is a problem, sell off some iodine.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 5, 2023 8:13 pm

Another issue that McCarthy couldn’t address were the concerns that he wouldn’t use the Congressional Leadership fund to bankroll primaries against the MAGA or America First (yes there are differences) candidates.

The 8 GOP that voted with the DNC to oust him had a lot more cheering them on but not voting with them because they were scared.
The new speaker will only get the votes if there are real limitations on that electoral funding.
Which is something Gaetz doesn’t have to worry about as his family are minted so is self funding.

The Nancy Mace vote is something to dig deeper into.
MAGA & Trump went after her in the primaries yet she now votes with them?

Razey
Razey
October 5, 2023 8:14 pm

I saw this live back in the day. Ray was always a douche bag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vmvQfRsRHw

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
October 5, 2023 8:15 pm

People can you stop maligning Ray Martin.

Bolt just mentioned him and an upcoming debate amongst Aboriginals on Ch 7 Sunday.

Will be Jacinta Price, the Labor Senator M from NT, Lydia Thorpe and drum roll Ray Martin.Martin it appears has a great great grand parent who was Aboriginal. I think this makes him 12% like Megan Davis.

I hope Jacinta has no mercy and asks if he will be entitled to reparations from his 88%.

This is why rule No 1 is don’t raise what Aboriginality is. I guess Marcus Stewart was unavailable for the debate.

Should be one to watch as could be interesting.

Bear Necessities
Bear Necessities
October 5, 2023 8:15 pm

From the Spectator.

PommieBarsteward 4 hours ago

โ€œPearson told the Press Club that once the gap had been closed, the Voice would still be needed in perpetuity to allow Aboriginal people to offer their unique perspective on any matter. To add value, as it were, to our nation. Such conceit.โ€
Pearson and his ilk are full of their own importance. What โ€œunique perspectiveโ€ would add any value to our nation? Can anyone enlighten me?

Expertise in Graft and Corruption for over 50 years and getting away with it.

JC
JC
October 5, 2023 8:15 pm

cohenite
Oct 5, 2023 8:07 PM

Cronkite, can you be more specific?

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 5, 2023 8:18 pm

Noel from Noosa.
Lol.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
October 5, 2023 8:19 pm

Cook them as and when you need them.

Spoken like a public service retiree with lots of time on their hands & not much idea of how to amuse themselves.

More efficient use of time is to cook in bulk, a week, or month, in advance.

A couple of hours each day prepping & cooking is such a misuse of time that could be far better spent.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 5, 2023 8:19 pm

test internal server error irritation

Johnny Rotten
October 5, 2023 8:20 pm

duncanm
Oct 5, 2023 7:59 PM
Watching โ€˜brassed off โ€˜.

King Coal is still King Coal. We need that export money to pay for all the Welfare here.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 5, 2023 8:21 pm

Am at a loss. I cant post a comment. No naughty words so unsure what the problem is.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 5, 2023 8:21 pm

I had arrived at St Mathias Church in Paddington

Good solid olde fashioned Anglicans, hooked closely into Moore College.
I doubt they have much time for that Welby chap.

(I might’ve been a congregant once. ๐Ÿ˜€ )

JC
JC
October 5, 2023 8:21 pm

Dependency Alert.

Robert Sewell
October 5, 2023 8:22 pm

Lizzie:

David says: โ€œNever trust a computer you canโ€™t throw out the windowโ€.*

I’ve been arguing with iinet since the 24th about my new account with them. It has become fairly obvious that they send the emails I send, back to somewhere in Asia, or perhaps Mars where they sit in someone’s in tray for them to notice them.
I am bombarded with emails asking ridiculous questions, and have been given a number that Telstra reuses to connect to. I’ve tried to be a bit cunning by answering their emails they send me complaining that I don’t talk to them about problems. The problem is that they all return to an unattended mailbox and no one reads them.
Or, I can ring their 1300 number and sit on the phone for half an hour.
I ran into the very same problem with ABC Bullion a month or so ago.
The details are no longer relevant but so many answering service react to a fault, by removing you from the human stream into a “Computer Says No” dialogue. And it gets way out of hand with threats of legal cases and court, credit ratings adjustments etc. All it takes is one human in the algorithm to sort it out – or in the case of ABC – three people to work out what has gone wrong and fix it. The problem with ABC was that I was talking with techies who either couldn’t understand the problem, or were determined I was the problem and talking loudly would fix it.
And this is the cohort our National Service Officers are going to be sourced from?
These 35 year olds have no problem solving capability, but have all the self confidence in the world.

bons
bons
October 5, 2023 8:22 pm

Is anyone else a member of Defence Health?
Yes, but for the first time I am concerned.
Their new interim CEO is publishing ‘used car’ blurbs addressing issues that are irrelevant to her customer base, but are obviously important to her.
70 year old veteran’s wife will be overjoyed that the Fund will support her gender reassignment (OK exaggeration, but the vibe is there).
I’m a fraud member consequent upon my little time as a Nasho, but I have always been happy, becacuse you never had to think about Defence Health. They were always focused upon their members and safe.
I’m wondering, I’m wondering.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 5, 2023 8:22 pm

This is why rule No 1 is donโ€™t raise what Aboriginality is. I guess Marcus Stewart was unavailable for the debate.

I’m surprised Lidia Thorpe was there – what’s her claim to Aboriginal ancestry based on – an Aboriginal great grandmother?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 5, 2023 8:23 pm

People can you stop maligning Ray Martin.

No.

Indigenousness does not confer sainthood, nor a licence to preach.

Johnny Rotten
October 5, 2023 8:24 pm

โ€œPearson told the Press Club that once the gap had been closed,

The only gap that I can see is between his two ears with nothing in the way. FFS.

Rosie
Rosie
October 5, 2023 8:25 pm

I’m very surprised to hear it takes a couple of hours to make mashed potatoes.
Is cooking and freezing mashed potatoes really that economical?

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 5, 2023 8:26 pm

Another forecast strike in the books. Legend!

—-

dutchsinse:

5,841 views Premiered 99 minutes ago
The dutchess makes a rare voice appearance towards the end of this video, unfortunately her debut on the channel is under duress and extreme circumstances which required her to speak.

As for this update, the areas which were warned a few days ago (Nepal, Japan, Taiwan, Philippines) have all been struck by near M6.0 level or greater activity . Japan M6.6, Nepal M6.0 (M5.7), Taiwan M5.7, Philippines M6.4.

Japan also had a minor tsunami watch issued by the Japanese Met agency which was soon canceled. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ne

This update covers activity expected on each continent except Australia and New Zealand (ran out of time and internet got cut while live!)

Warnings issued in this update cover each region, several new warnings issued. Hopefully each location gets less than expected!

10/05/2023 — Large M6.6 Earthquake in Japan — Nepal M6.0 — Philippines M6.4 = Seismic Unrest

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 5, 2023 8:27 pm

I didnโ€™t have โ€œMashed Potato warsโ€ either. For those playing at home – Royal Blue with a ricer. If you want to impress someone leave the skin on when boiling. Definitely not a month in advance.

Bar Beach Swimmer
October 5, 2023 8:28 pm

Not the Voice

โ€œThe details donโ€™t matterโ€, said Ray,
As he gave us a wet lettuce spray,
With bluster and rant –
And some overdone cant,
Coz weโ€™re not for their cause –
weโ€™re now โ€œdickheads and โ€˜saursโ€,
But gaslighting works not on us nays.

โ€œKeep goingโ€, I now say to Ray,
The insults wonโ€™t make us obey,
Though itโ€™s claimed weโ€™re malformed-
Without treaties as norms,
But no Voice will augment –
What our nation has meant,
Australia is made for us all.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 5, 2023 8:29 pm

bons
Good to hear your rello has escaped relatively unscathed.
Just a thought.
You mentioned two things.
Firstly, that Workcover are after him, and secondly that you don’t know how it happened (although I thought you said something about welding).
Now, welding accidents are rarely equipment failure and almost invariably operator error.
What he tells Workcover is his business.
But what he admits to himself is something else. If he continues to brush it off as a freak accident, it is destined to repeat.
Just a thought borne out of being close to a few “industrial mishaps”.

Rosie
Rosie
October 5, 2023 8:29 pm

Lidia has a fair bit of indigenous heritage on her mother’s side.
Both her maternal grandparents are/were part aboriginal.
As for Ray, a late discovery.
who do you think you are

cohenite
October 5, 2023 8:30 pm

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JC
Oct 5, 2023 8:15 PM
cohenite
Oct 5, 2023 8:07 PM

Cronkite, can you be more specific?

Kenny is so emotionally invested in the screech he cannot entertain any negative opinion about it. He’s even praised the Trilby wearing POS pearson; he barely criticised thorpie justifing her latest rant because of the usual Nazi BS. He even had some bint called amada rose on who likes thorpie. Amanda’s a looker but has a brain which has been chewed on by rats.

Roger
Roger
October 5, 2023 8:31 pm

Pearson told the Press Club that once the gap had been closed, the Voice would still be needed in perpetuity to allow Aboriginal people to offer their unique perspective on any matter.

Noel Pearson is intellectually bankrupt.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
October 5, 2023 8:32 pm

Iโ€™m very surprised to hear it takes a couple of hours to make mashed potatoes.

Crikey, ever mashed a few spuds? It takes ages to mash the skin!

bons
bons
October 5, 2023 8:33 pm

Noel from Noosa.
Yep, we have seen him at Woolies occasionally. Surely he must have a personal shopper!
My lady leaves ugly bruises to my arm when I start voluably pronouncing about Pearson’s Cape York scams.
We need a better word than despicable.
Maybe Albanesable.

Bar Beach Swimmer
October 5, 2023 8:33 pm

Noel Pearson is intellectually bankrupt.

But because of the taxpayer, not financially so.

Johnny Rotten
October 5, 2023 8:34 pm

Rockdoctor
Oct 5, 2023 8:21 PM
Am at a loss. I cant post a comment. No naughty words so unsure what the problem is.

Just type “Jer Cough Cretin” and you will have no problem.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 5, 2023 8:35 pm

Guillaume Brahimi goes as far as running through a tamis but I regard that as a mere French affectation and can be safely omitted.

132andBush
132andBush
October 5, 2023 8:35 pm

Or maybe Gaetz just wanted to blow McCarthy up.

Or maybe Gaetz just can’t fellate Trump enough.

Dot
Dot
October 5, 2023 8:35 pm

More efficient use of time is to cook in bulk, a week, or month, in advance.

A week with frozen meals is doable but mashed potato for a month? Frozen scrambled eggs made a month in advance?

You can get seasonal fresh food cheaply.

Why on earth are you treating your selves to North Korean political prisonerโ€™s food?

God help you.

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 5, 2023 8:39 pm

an upcoming debate amongst Aboriginals on Ch 7 Sunday. Will be Jacinta Price, the Labor Senator M from NT, Lydia Thorpe and drum roll Ray Martin

Disappointing. Where is Geoff Clark these days? As the former supremo of ATSIC he would have a lot of insight to offer.

Hang on! Here’s the ol’ boy : “Geoff Clark outside the Warrnambool court complex. He’s pleaded not guilty to about 370 fraud related charges.” Just to make it a tribal thing: “wife Trudy Clark and son Jeremy Clark” will be joining him in the dock.

More here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11071533/Geoff-Clark-ex-ATSIC-chief-facing-2million-fraud-charges-threatens-senator-Jacinta-Price.html

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
October 5, 2023 8:40 pm

Then, at 6:43pm, a third individual with the handle โ€œJonah-Yes23โ€ after his name advised, โ€œIf they are pro treaty you can say that the Uluru statement from the heart asked for this (the Voice) before treaty, if they are anti treaty you can say itโ€™s a purely advisory body.โ€

Put ’em in a dark place
And cover them with shit,
They’re only little mushrooms,
They won’t mind a bit.

Roger
Roger
October 5, 2023 8:40 pm

As for Ray, a late discovery.
who do you think you are

In 2023 why should it matter to anyone but him?

He’s not living in a humpy by a creek on the outskirts of town.

That’s to be celebrated.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 5, 2023 8:41 pm

It will be tinned peas next. Actually got served these when we broke down and got rescued by a Main Roads grader crew. Not too bad at a push. That was a long day.

miltonf
miltonf
October 5, 2023 8:41 pm

So many grifting thugs

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 5, 2023 8:41 pm

bons at 8:22.
#metoo.
I’ve been a Defence Health member forever and I have also always regarded it as a good, solid fund. Reasonable premiums for good cover and never a glitch on payouts in the past when required.
Except one.
Last year Mrs P bought daily use contact lenses and, at the time, I thought the rebates were extraordinarily generous.
Sure enough, we eventually get a letter saying they had overpaid, but weren’t looking to recoup. OK, we were beneficiaries, but it was a sign all was not well.
I too am wondering.
Not going to bail, because it is too good.
But I am going to pay a lot more attention.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
October 5, 2023 8:42 pm

Frozen scrambled eggs made a month in advance?

The crepes with cream, the ceasar salad, & the cocktail onions skewered with a slice of parmesan stuffed olives, they’re a bit tricky.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 5, 2023 8:42 pm

1. cut a potato into bits
2. put into plastic container with some water and some butter
3. microwave for four minutes

I have no idea why Cats have a fetish about mashing them.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
October 5, 2023 8:45 pm

I have no idea why Cats have a fetish about mashing them.

The Cat is full of discerning types whose delicate palates appreciate fine foods.

Hence the discussion on pommes de terre, moulin-ized.

MatrixTransform
October 5, 2023 8:47 pm

I realise there are several, but is there one that mashes well?

try the Dutch Cream

Dot
Dot
October 5, 2023 8:49 pm

Tom Petty said it best.

You donโ€™t have to live like a refugee.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 5, 2023 8:50 pm

Funny as.
Just saw a picture on Soshul Meeja.
Jacinta Price holding up a biscuit shaped like a dinosaur, with bright green icing.
Brilliant.
It’s in the Rats of Tobruk tradition.
Take an insult and adopt it as a badge of honour.

cohenite
October 5, 2023 8:50 pm

Kenny just had Amada Stoker on who ripped the screech another arse. Kenny is not game to interrupt her.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 5, 2023 8:52 pm

Salvatore, Iron Publican

Oct 5, 2023 8:32 PM

Iโ€™m very surprised to hear it takes a couple of hours to make mashed potatoes.

Crikey, ever mashed a few spuds? It takesย agesย to mash the skin!

It might help if you cook them first.
You’re welcome.

Foxbody
Foxbody
October 5, 2023 8:54 pm

Lidia Thorpeโ€™s latest antics must be annoying Albo – I can hear him now –
โ€œ Falcon Maltese โ€œ

Bar Beach Swimmer
October 5, 2023 8:54 pm

Amanda Stoker had been doing great work tearing down Chris Kennyโ€™s constant dissembling that thereโ€™s nothing risky about the voice; pity she wasnโ€™t so committed to arguing for conservative values when she was in parliament.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
October 5, 2023 8:57 pm

It might help if you cook them first.

It’s tips like this that make the Cat worthwhile.

MatrixTransform
October 5, 2023 8:57 pm

Lidia Thorpeโ€™s latest antics must be annoying Albo

sovereign, she said

Roger
Roger
October 5, 2023 8:57 pm

Amanda Stoker had been doing great work tearing down Chris Kennyโ€™s constant dissembling that thereโ€™s nothing risky about the voice;

Atoning for past sins, so to speak.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 5, 2023 8:57 pm

try the Dutch Cream

That’s what she said.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 5, 2023 9:00 pm

try the Dutch Cream

Another pot-shot at Johanna?

132andBush
132andBush
October 5, 2023 9:01 pm

Nepal

Due to the continuous convergence of the Indian plate beneath the Eurasian plate, the entire area of Hindu-Kush-Himalaya (HKH) is hit by strong to major earthquakes frequently. As Nepal is centrally located in the HKH, hundreds of earthquakes of magnitude greater than 4 occur every year.

132andBush
132andBush
October 5, 2023 9:02 pm

try the Dutch Cream

Makes Sinse

Alamak!
October 5, 2023 9:10 pm

1. cut a potato into bits
2. put into plastic container with some water and some butter
3. microwave for four minutes

Small spuds, yes. Bigger ones require a bit more DEW to soften up.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 5, 2023 9:10 pm

Due to the continuous convergence of the Indian plate beneath the Eurasian plate, the entire area of Hindu-Kush-Himalaya (HKH) is hit by strong to major earthquakes frequently. As Nepal is centrally located in the HKH, hundreds of earthquakes of magnitude greater than 4 occur every year.

Wait!
Wut?
Are you saying these things happen, like, regularly?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 5, 2023 9:11 pm

More Frontline – oh no, hang on, it’s the National Broadcaster (the NT News):

National broadcaster the ABC defended the actions of a Four Corners crew filming a report on private security firms in the Northern Territory.

An ABC spokesman has denied a claim the organisation handed out pizza vouchers to encourage homeless Territorians to mingle with private security officers in a Darwin carpark and has also been forced to respond to an accusation its crew transported an itinerant into direct conflict situations with security guards.

There’s a Dominos at the shopping centre car park in question, which has been subject to the usual all sorts of drinking, terrorising normies and laying grogans all over the bitumen.

That car park has actual parks on two sides, which the drinkers use to pass out in after buying grog from the shopping centre.

The denial comes as Police Minister Kate Worden said if the claims were true, they would amount to โ€œappalling behaviourโ€ by the ABC.

The mail – very good mail – is the ABC crews from Ultimo were quite blatant about it, not expecting to have questions asked by people they assumed were yokels. Evidently they wandered into the shop and bought a pile of vouchers, paid for by company card.

They also apparently hired a minibus, and collected about 20 drinkers from parks and local houso joints, luring them in with the vouchers. Naturally, by the time they got there the drinkers were both shitfaced and hungry.

Nice, ABC. Real nice.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 5, 2023 9:12 pm

At last people in WA can contribute to potato conversations beyond someone trapped behind a 1950s Soviet style iron curtain. Praise be Emperor Barney for delivering us into the sunlit potato uplands.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 5, 2023 9:14 pm

Not forgetting our hirsute Spudshed freedom fighter.

Pogria
Pogria
October 5, 2023 9:14 pm

Robert,
the best mashing potato is Pontiac. No others come close. Dutch Cream is an all-rounder, not too bad, not too good. You won’t find Pontiacs in Supermarkets. A good Green grocer or Farmer’s Market is a safe bet.

I used to make mash and froze it in measured batches when I had my Baker’s Stall. the mash was a major ingredient of my gluten-free quiche pastry. Sold a few dozen quiches every Saturday. Also baked empty shells for customers who wanted to make their own fillings.

The four best potatoes are;
Pontiac for mashing, gratins.
King Edward for roasting.
Spunta, hands down THE BEST CHIPPER.
Salad Rose, waxy spud for salads and soups.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 5, 2023 9:15 pm

H B Bear

Oct 5, 2023 9:12 PM

At last people in WA can contribute to potato conversations beyond someone trapped behind a 1950s Soviet style iron curtain. Praise be Emperor Barney for delivering us into the sunlit potato uplands.

The WA Potato Marketing Board.
Man, that used to cause Infidel Tiger to pop his circuit breakers.

Megan
Megan
October 5, 2023 9:15 pm

Is anyone else a member of Defence Health?

Yes and a month ago spent nearly 2 hours on hold before I gave up.

Dunno whatโ€™s going on but itโ€™s not very reassuring for a fund โ€œthat none others can matchโ€ (Not my words, words of a competing fund when I did shop around once).

We are. Same issues. They claim it’s a massive systems upgrade but they must be using a single geriatric hamster wheel to power the servers.

We have claims we can’t submit online, we can’t access digital downloads so we can snail mail the claim and we have twice left messages that they promise to call you back and Nada. The Prince is furious…he’s had three 2 hour plus waits for no result.

Next step might be a visit to Head Office. I’d quite enjoy a day in town.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 5, 2023 9:16 pm

Spunta, hands down THE BEST CHIPPER.

PHRASING.

Robert Sewell
October 5, 2023 9:17 pm

Thanks, Rosie.
The pontiac one seems best for here.
I think the potato type was the issue.

Wally Dalรญ
Wally Dalรญ
October 5, 2023 9:18 pm

Early voting…
Spud mashing…
Sky News…
Youse are all a bunch of old f*rts

cohenite
October 5, 2023 9:18 pm

The Five with Watters, Gutfeld and the Judge is compulsory viewing. These guys are genuine conservatives. They have an aggressive leftie on named jessica tarlov who they regularly rip apart. Tarlov personifies the left: supercilious, insanely and destructively virtuous and implacably hateful of conservatism.

Mark from Melbourne
Mark from Melbourne
October 5, 2023 9:18 pm

Mashed Potato Crisis

Saw them at a club in London in, I think, the early 90s.

Bit too punk for my taste.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 5, 2023 9:18 pm

Four Corners is doing a very good Frontline impression. You would have thought they would be on their best behaviour after the Woodside CEO debacle.

MatrixTransform
October 5, 2023 9:18 pm

watching a Wes Anderson film at the moment

not anywhere near as bizarre as the OT today

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 5, 2023 9:21 pm

If youโ€™re a bit sh1tfaced Dominos is a good option. Particularly if youโ€™ve got a voucher.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 5, 2023 9:23 pm

Man, that used to cause Infidel Tiger to pop his circuit breakers.

We all struggled in our way.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
October 5, 2023 9:23 pm

The four best potatoes are;
Pontiac for mashing, gratins.
King Edward for roasting.
Spunta, hands down THE BEST CHIPPER.
Salad Rose, waxy spud for salads and soups.

So exotic, so sophisticated, so urbane.
Makes me feel so…. yokel-ish, for the the shops here sell…. potatos.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 5, 2023 9:25 pm

Might do a little guest post on what purchasing a house is like at the moment.

It could be summed up in one word, but I’ll pad it a bit.

Let’s put it this way, 90% of houses under $300,000 are being brought immediately by investors. No inspections, and unless it’s an absolute pig pit, it has 5 offers before lunchtime.

This is in a large regional town .

Rentals for a town of 30,000 are in the single/ low teens as far as availability goes.

Rental is at least $300 per week.
There was 2 units available for less, that’s it.

I think the obvious answer is to import 600,000 more people while allowing another billion in real estate to be brought by overseas people.
Working well so far.

Pogria
Pogria
October 5, 2023 9:26 pm

calli
Oct 5, 2023 7:20 PM
No Pogs. More a shin kick and shove in the playground.

Later, much later and where required, an hourโ€™s notice.

Good times.

Calli,
when in High School, did select boys receive a dose of “The Pole?”

I have often wondered since then if any of those poor boys were ever able to father children.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 5, 2023 9:27 pm

No love for the kipfler?

Salvatore, Iron Publican
October 5, 2023 9:28 pm

I think the obvious answer is to import 600,000 more people while allowing another billion in real estate to be brought by overseas people.
Working well so far.

… while simultaneously restricting the importation of temporary entry skilled workers into the regions.
Workers that would be housed by their employer & go home after a 4-yr stint.

There’s nothing so simple the ALP cannot far kit up.

Megan
Megan
October 5, 2023 9:30 pm

Here’s the email we got on August 9th. TWO freaking months later and nothing’s happened. A lot of negative online chatter in the usual places…Whirlpool forums, Product Review, Google etc.

Technology transformation update

Youโ€™re probably aware that weโ€™ve made the move to the new Defence Health website and membership platform. The system is the first of its kind in Australia and sets us up for the long term to better serve our members.

Unfortunately, the transition caused significant disruption to our operations and a higher number of calls than anticipated. Iโ€™m truly sorry for the frustration members have had in trying to contact us, or to access the Member Portal.

We still have some features to add to the new system and when it is fully functional, it will give you greater control over your membership. The updated system also strengthens our protection of your personal information.

I want to assure you there are large and dedicated teams of people working to resolve the remaining technical issues; to answer your calls and emails; and to make outstanding benefit payments on claims. And weโ€™re hiring additional people to improve response times.

Iโ€™m sorry if our service level let you down in recent weeks. It was not part of the plan. I sincerely thank you for your patience while we embed the new technology and Iโ€™m confident weโ€™ll be back on track very soon.

Kind regards

Joanne Kadlecik
Chief Executive Officer

JC
JC
October 5, 2023 9:30 pm

Incredible. Just incredible. But the wacism!

Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
ยท
9h
BREAKING: The Biden administration says there is an โ€œimmediate needโ€ to wave regulations and build a border wall as the migrant crisis spirals out of control.

Remarkable. 4 years ago this was โ€œracist.โ€ Now theyโ€™re advocating for it.

“There is presently an acute and immediateโ€ฆ

Get a load of the vid. Unreal

https://twitter.com/i/status/1709728378339705099

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 5, 2023 9:30 pm

No love for the kipfler?

Wasn’t he in the American pie movies?

Pogria
Pogria
October 5, 2023 9:31 pm

Bear,
once you’ve tasted Salad Rose, you won’t even remember the name Kipfler. ๐Ÿ˜€

JC
JC
October 5, 2023 9:32 pm
Crossie
Crossie
October 5, 2023 9:32 pm

It confirms my widely held belief that medical doctors make the worst voters.

Legend has it that their wives are the worst.

Megan
Megan
October 5, 2023 9:33 pm

Perhaps less focus on bragging about it being the first of its kind DownUnder and better attention to being the best of its kind would be more appropriate and better apprecoated by the punters whose premiums pay for your largish salary, Joanna.

You’re welcome.

Davey Boy
October 5, 2023 9:34 pm

Bolt just mentioned him and an upcoming debate amongst Aboriginals on Ch 7 Sunday.

Perhaps the old Q+A fred (that ran on the old catallaxy) could be revived as a one-off this Sunday.

That’s entertainment, for sure.

Mark from Melbourne
Mark from Melbourne
October 5, 2023 9:34 pm

No love for the kipfler?

Wasnโ€™t he in the American pie movies?

Guitarist of some sort, I think. Might have made a guest appearance.

Megan
Megan
October 5, 2023 9:35 pm

Apprecoated: auld Scots word for looked upon suspiciously while wearing a coat.

Make of that what you will.

Pogria
Pogria
October 5, 2023 9:36 pm

Mole,
didn’t you fancy Kipfler’s Mum?

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 5, 2023 9:36 pm

Megan this arrived at 5pm tonight:

Dear XXXX,

I understand that the lack of service to our members has made things far from easy. There is no denying it has been difficult and frustrating for many members over the last few months. I want to extend my heartfelt apologies for this challenging period, which I must admit, stands as one of the most trying times in our 70-year history.

As we progressively fix issues in the system, weโ€™re still receiving more calls than normal and call wait times are currently around an hour. Plus, weโ€™re receiving an increase in emails, resulting in a cascading effect of delays beyond our usual response times to your queries.

The backlog of claims is another challenge we are actively addressing by adding more temporary agents to our normal claims team. The claims are in a queue and being processed and paid as quickly as possible. I know you depend on prompt payment of claims, and I am sorry for the significant delays. We anticipate clearing this backlog by the end of October. While we do want to talk to our members, if you call us now to check on your claims progress, unfortunately, you will still encounter extended wait times.

Iโ€™ve spoken with many members and heard your feedback. To make it easier for you to log in and make a claim, our team has created some helpful video tutorials which you can access by clicking below:

Register and log in
Make an Express Claim via the Member Portal
Once again, I want to express my sincere apologies for the immense frustration this situation has caused. We are committed to making things right and restoring your trust in the quality of service we provide. Your loyalty and patience mean the world to us as we work to resolve these issues.

Kind regards

Major General Gerard Fogarty, AO (Retโ€™d)
Acting Chief Executive Officer

Small comfort as we have claims we can’t submit.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 5, 2023 9:38 pm

I used to make a potato salad for lunch. It was a Christmas standby along with the original MasterChef guyโ€™s freekah salad.

Megan
Megan
October 5, 2023 9:44 pm

As we progressively fix issues in the system, weโ€™re still receiving more calls than normal and call wait times are currently around an hour. Plus, weโ€™re receiving an increase in emails, resulting in a cascading effect of delays beyond our usual response times to your queries.

Ahahahahahahaha. Corporate code speak for “we have totally f*cked up a 70 year old, perfectly functional health fund and are drowning under an Uluru sized pile of claims/complaints and dead clients. We have absolutely no clue how we got here or how to fix it but we will call in the Major-Gen (Ret) to make it sound as if we have a fully functioning military style brigade on the march, bringing relief to you long suffering prisoners of our misfiring technology. A bit like the current ADF.”

Hilarious!

Small comfort as we have claims we canโ€™t submit.

Ditto!

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 5, 2023 9:44 pm

That would be Stifler.

Bar Beach Swimmer
October 5, 2023 9:47 pm

I think Iโ€™ll try to buy a t-shirt with a dinosaur on it.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 5, 2023 9:48 pm

Letโ€™s put it this way, 90% of houses under $300,000 are being brought immediately by investors.

There’re houses for $300k? Anywhere?! I live in the second cheapest seats in Ncl and a house a short distance away is on market for 700-750. Only Windale is cheaper than my suburb.

The rental market, it seems , is even crazier than the owner occupier market. We live in an actual continent with pop of only 25 million yet we have the most expensive houses on the planet. Go figure.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 5, 2023 9:48 pm

Plus, weโ€™re receiving an increase in emails, resulting in a cascading effect of delays beyond our usual response times to your queries.

‘Please don’t contact us, because we are drowning in a shitfight of our own making. By the way, keep paying up every fortnight.’

Pogria
Pogria
October 5, 2023 9:50 pm

That would be Stifler.

Groan, and here I was, thinking BB understood the rules of the game. sigh…
๐Ÿ˜€

Pogria
Pogria
October 5, 2023 9:54 pm

Bar Beach Swimmer
Oct 5, 2023 9:47 PM
I think Iโ€™ll try to buy a t-shirt with a dinosaur on it.

Swimmer,
a dinosaur with a dick on its head. heh

cohenite
October 5, 2023 9:56 pm

A great description of the leftie mindset (sic) which is destroying the West: Gutfeld: Luxury beliefs:

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/greg-gutfeld-social-justice-murder

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 5, 2023 9:56 pm

I think Iโ€™ll try to buy a t-shirt with a dinosaur on it.

Choose any photo, be my guest BBS! My dinos are excellent.

Yesterday did morning walk, the grey butcherbird male at the train station, who I befriended a couple months ago, brought his lady! So I handed him a chunk of mincemeat, then she also accepted a lump as well, for the very first time. They have a nest about a 100m from the train station in one of the gum trees.

Wally Dalรญ
Wally Dalรญ
October 5, 2023 9:59 pm

Democrats saying “The Border is Busted” is a cunning way to imply “Karmala Harris is Not Fit For Purpose”

Bar Beach Swimmer
October 5, 2023 10:01 pm

BoN, I particularly like the butcher bird one. But unfortunately I canโ€™t see it giving out the message a-la Ray Martin.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 5, 2023 10:03 pm

“Sliante.’

Memo to young ladies, in country hotels. If you must wear a mini skirt, wear matching coloured knickers, and don’t bend over to pick up anything less then a fifty dollar bill.

Wally Dalรญ
Wally Dalรญ
October 5, 2023 10:04 pm

Now, THIS is a magnificently baiting t-shirt.
Just enough detail to reel in the unsuspecting pinko.

Crossie
Crossie
October 5, 2023 10:09 pm

I really like The Late Debate on Sky but not with Joe Hildebrand filling in for Caleb Bond who is filling in for Sharri Markson. Hildebrand is just unwatchable, I will get back to that program if they get someone else to fill in.

Crossie
Crossie
October 5, 2023 10:15 pm

The four best potatoes are;
Pontiac for mashing, gratins.
King Edward for roasting.
Spunta, hands down THE BEST CHIPPER.
Salad Rose, waxy spud for salads and soups.

So exotic, so sophisticated, so urbane.
Makes me feel soโ€ฆ. yokel-ish, for the the shops here sellโ€ฆ. potatos.

I find kestrel potatoes the best for mashing, roasting and soups. They are not that great for salads. Kipfler is the other potato that is very tasty when roasted though only available at some greengrocers.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 5, 2023 10:15 pm

Speaking of fine dining, Mrs P booked a restaurant with a bunch of Michelin Stars in Kyoto.
The place would seat sixteen, maybe twenty, people tops.
There were four staff and four diners.
Fixed menu.
No wine list – “just tell us what you prefer and we will suggest something”.
The food was something else. Mr Michelin Star came out a few times to explain the dishes which was just as well because he had better English than a couple of the floor staff.
I was going to ask him about his mashed potato technique but it slipped my mind.

Cassie of Sydney
October 5, 2023 10:17 pm

First they came for Tommy Robinson, and everyone shrugged their shoulders and said, oh well, it’s just Tommy Robinson.

Then they came for Katie Hopkins, and everyone shrugged their shoulders and said, oh well, it’s just Katie Hopkins.

Then they came for many others, men and women with names such as Kellie-Jay Keen, Graham Linehan, Caroline Farrow, Harry Miller, Julie Burchill and so on, yet we continued to think, oh well, they’re provocateurs and trouble makers. Here in Oz, they’ve came for Kirralee Smith, Moira Deeming, Mark Latham, Ross Cameron and many others.

Now, in one fell swoop (they’re getting good at this, forget about serials killers, we now have ‘serial cancellers’), they’ve come for Laurence Fox, Dan Wootton and Calvin Robinson, with the added bonus that Laurence Fox has been arrested. Do we still say, oh well, it’s just Lozza, Dan and Calvin? Or…do we stand up and say enough, you’re not coming for my free speech?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 5, 2023 10:23 pm

We have absolutely no clue how we got here or how to fix it but we will call in the Major-Gen (Ret) to make it sound as if we have a fully functioning military style brigade on the march,

Well, now that you raise it, I did wonder about that.
Signed off …

Major General Gerard Fogarty, AO (Retโ€™d)
Acting Chief Executive Officer

I am always wary of (Ret’d)’s running around in civvy world using their military title.
If it is meant to impress it is an epic fail with me.
In fact, quite the opposite.
It screams “It’s a cock-up, but shut up, because pips on my shoulder”.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 5, 2023 10:25 pm

The four best potatoes are;
Pontiac for mashing, gratins.
King Edward for roasting.
Spunta, hands down THE BEST CHIPPER.
Salad Rose, waxy spud for salads and soups.

If only Liability Bob were here. He’d tell us which spuds were best.

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 5, 2023 10:27 pm

I apologise Pogria lol.
One of the great lines in the fillum “suck me beautiful.” Still chuckle.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 5, 2023 10:28 pm

If Major General Gerard Fogarty, AO (Retโ€™d) has braid on his sleeves my fears will be assuaged.

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 5, 2023 10:28 pm

Is Matt Le Tissier on the radar Cassie?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 5, 2023 10:29 pm

I am strangely comforted that others were also not comforted by Major General Gerard Fogarty, AO (Retโ€™d)’s “Take a Number” letter.

Cassie of Sydney
October 5, 2023 10:31 pm

“Is Matt Le Tissier on the radar Cassie?”

Yes, he’s also been cancelled, as has Morrissey.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
October 5, 2023 10:33 pm

If only Liability Bob were here. Heโ€™d tell us which spuds were best.

If one is using the preferred private-soldier’s spud-peeling technique, provided one’s bayonet is kept sharp, all those varieties should cube equally well.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 5, 2023 10:34 pm

If only Liability Bob were here. Heโ€™d tell us which spuds were best.

He’s not.
So he won’t.
Don’t tempt fate.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 5, 2023 10:36 pm

Lokk at this. Just look at Major General Gerard Fogarty’s LinkedIn:

Gerard is an accomplished Senior Executive and Non-Executive Director.

Is he now?

He was the Chief Executive Officer of Defence Health Limited for 9 years, winning multiple national customer satisfaction and employer of choice awards.

And now he’s Acting CEO. What?

Prior to this, he was a soldier and Non-Executive Director.

A Non-Executive Director. An errand boy, then.

His military career was predominately in the fields of Strategy and Leadership, and Strategic Human Resource Management.

Oh my good God. I thought he said he was a soldier.

This has to be taking the piss. It just has to be.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 5, 2023 10:37 pm

Lokk.

Goodness me.

*Look* at this.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
October 5, 2023 10:37 pm


Orโ€ฆdo we stand up and say enough, youโ€™re not coming for my free speech?

It’s not clear what you want us to do, Cassie.

I shall continue speaking my mind to anyone who will listen. The only alternative I can think of involves piano wire and lampposts; and a certain amount of clandestine organisation. Let me know if you’re up for the last.

JC
JC
October 5, 2023 10:40 pm

Purity is great, Dover. Especially when it means the Demons win the house and senate in 24 because the Republicans appear like circus clowns.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 5, 2023 10:41 pm

I am the very model of a modern Major-General
I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights Historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical

I’m very well acquainted, too, with matters Mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I’m teeming with a lot o’ news
With many cheerful facts about the square of the Hypotenuse
But I know jack-shit about running a health fund.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 5, 2023 10:45 pm

I am always wary of (Retโ€™d)โ€™s running around in civvy world using their military title.

You object to me signing myself “Lance Corporal (Unpaid, unloved, unwashed) Retired?

Gabor
Gabor
October 5, 2023 10:46 pm

I give up, infernal error.

mareeS
mareeS
October 5, 2023 10:54 pm

Cassie, 10.17pm

They keep coming, but they are over-reaching now. It’s all getting beyond hubris into hysterical “arrest everyone” territory. You named the recent arrestees, and more to come, no doubt.

I have spent my entire life in media, and I know an argument is lost when people start smiling behind their hands, then smiling openly, and then making jokes and laughing. My husband made his career on just this as a cartoonist.

I have learned to be patient and wait for the cracks, they always happen, Slowly, then suddenly.

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 5, 2023 10:58 pm
cohenite
October 5, 2023 11:00 pm

Why Laurence Fox was arrested.

It’s good to see other shitholes out shithole our shithole.

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 5, 2023 11:03 pm

All the big clubs wanted him but he remained loyal.

Luzu
Luzu
October 5, 2023 11:05 pm

The whole potato thing can be summed up this way: Eat what you like.

Russians have five vegetables that make up their diet: Carrots, cabbage, onions, beetroot and potatoes. Why? Because they can all be grown in the insanely short growing season that Russia enjoys and then stored in a sand cellar (literally a cellar filled with sand in which the vegetables are buried to preserve them.)

Borshch (there is no ‘t’ on the end – you’ve been lied to) is a gorgeous soup, full of flavour and goodness if made correctly. Russians never eat it on the first day. They are right. The flavour on day three is indescribable.

Beetroot caviar – cooked beetroot fried with onions and garlic, cooled and then slathered with mayonnaise and coated with chopped walnuts. The literal translation for walnuts from Russian is Greek nuts. I have no idea why.

Vinaigret – a salad of cooked, chopped vegetables – beetroot, carrot, potato, white onion, gherkins and tinned peas. Don’t ask me why but the peas must be tinned. It’s kind of a hangover from Soviet times when frozen peas simply didn’t exist.

Herring under an overcoat – a rather strange concoction which is rollmops covered with cooked potato, carrot, beetroot and mayonnaise. Sounds gastronomically repulsive but it works.

And dill. None of the above dishes is complete without lashings of dill. And the odd bay leaf.

JC
JC
October 5, 2023 11:15 pm

The clown circus is the Republicans doing what theyโ€™ve done for decades and expecting their supporters to continue turning out becauseโ€ฆ Demons

Yeah, and in order to demonstrate the Republican circus, as you call it, they needed every single vote from the Demons. That sounds comic if it wasn’t so tragic,
And the next Speaker will of course be looking over his shoulder for any minority group in his party ready to side with the Demons to bring him down. Fund raising of course will be great for next year’s elections. As you said, brilliant.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 5, 2023 11:17 pm

Voice referendum: Indigenous rights vote is a reckoning for Australia

The BBC. All the same old bullsh!t about Aborigines nor being counted in the census until 1971, and not having the franchise until 1962.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 5, 2023 11:18 pm

I am now intrigued by Potatonomics.
Assume I can cook two medium potatoes in, say, half a litre of water in a small saucepan vs cooking a dozen potatoes in three litres of water.
Does it take more energy to
(a) do small batches six times as required or,
(b) cook a big batch, divide it up into six portions and then reheat each small portion in a microwave as required?
Would you save anything overall?
I think we need a dedicated Potatonomics thread.

Gabor
Gabor
October 5, 2023 11:22 pm

dover0beach
Oct 5, 2023 10:57 PM

Gabor, send me the comment.

Done.

MatrixTransform
October 5, 2023 11:23 pm

In order to make a fantasy modern energy system work, a person needs a fantasy modern energy storage system too; and to pay for that a person needs modern monetary theory.

How Much Energy Storage is Enough?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 5, 2023 11:24 pm

Black Ball

Oct 5, 2023 11:03 PM

All the big clubs wanted him but he remained loyal.

Speaking of which, it appears Melbourne FC (AFL) and Clayton Oliver have kissed and made up.
I got to thinking.
What if that was all a charade?*
Several other clubs have hinted about high profile players they might trade for Oliver. Now those players aren’t quite as loyal to their clubs, having just been put on a hook and dangled in the water.

* I don’t think so. I think Oliver has been a genuine Olympic standard dickhead.

Alamak!
October 5, 2023 11:26 pm

Purity is great, Dover. Especially when it means the Demons win the house and senate in 24 because the Republicans appear like circus clowns

Say what you like about the Demz but they know how to organize and win. Even with an old duffer like Joe.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
October 5, 2023 11:27 pm

Does it take more energy to
(a) do small batches six times as required or,
(b) cook a big batch, divide it up into six portions and then reheat each small portion in a microwave as required?

Aha! Planet raper!
Thought we wouldn’t notice that there’s no mention of the food miles for the spuds.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 5, 2023 11:30 pm

Potatonomics.
I feel a PhD thesis coming on.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 5, 2023 11:32 pm

I’m thinking food miles for the six trips from the fridge to the microwave would be negligible.
But I’ll put a chapter in the thesis covering it off.

Robert Sewell
October 5, 2023 11:32 pm

Rosie:
Rosie

Oct 5, 2023 8:25 PM
Iโ€™m very surprised to hear it takes a couple of hours to make mashed potatoes.
Is cooking and freezing mashed potatoes really that economical?

It’s more – in my case – about efficiently using the inputs, mainly electricity. I very carefully watch electricity consumption – 2 hours during the day is covered by the solar panels. If you cook every day, it’s much later. Probably about 1800, when the PV panels aren’t producing much.
Time also. 7×30 minutes adds up to 3.5 hours, 2 hours at once a week is better. It takes bugger all to reheat the food via a microwave.
Living aboard a Yot for six months really teaches you about power usage.
“When you take care of the pennies, the pounds look after themselves.” Trite but true.

JC
JC
October 5, 2023 11:36 pm

What’s madness in suggesting the world is not in a spot of trouble, and the last time we saw one nation eyeing off part or parts of another was a precursor to WW2. We have the klepto or his minions threatening nuclear war every 48 hours. This is madness? What’s sanity, then?

It’s pretty incredible to read this.

Ukraine was attacked and invaded, and it’s Ukraine’s fault it happened. That’s like battered wife syndrome.

Robert Sewell
October 5, 2023 11:39 pm

Salvatore:
For those who don’t like mashing, there’s always ‘Deb’.
Normal potato $4kilo. Deb is $17.14

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 5, 2023 11:44 pm

Hmmm.
Direct solar.
That changes the Potatonomics equation somewhat.
Trouble is, mashed potato is often an accompaniment for cold weather meals, which doesn’t always fit with peak solar.
I’ll put a chapter in the thesis covering this as well.

MatrixTransform
October 5, 2023 11:44 pm

Ukraine was attacked and invaded, and itโ€™s Ukraineโ€™s fault it happened.

you forgot the question mark

MatrixTransform
October 5, 2023 11:46 pm

cold weather meals, which doesnโ€™t always fit with peak solar

good luck with the PhD

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 5, 2023 11:46 pm

JC.
Stop interrupting our Potatonomics discussion with Putin trivia.
It’s not that sort of blog.

Robert Sewell
October 5, 2023 11:52 pm

Knuckle Dragger

They also apparently hired a minibus, and collected about 20 drinkers from parks and local houso joints, luring them in with the vouchers. Naturally, by the time they got there the drinkers were both shitfaced and hungry.

Mike Willesee did a similar stunt in Wilcannia in the ?80’s.
Put a thousand dollars on the bar of the mainstreet pub, the filmed the mayhe.
Frank Sinatra was right. Media are whores.

Robert Sewell
October 5, 2023 11:55 pm

Megan:

Next step might be a visit to Head Office. Iโ€™d quite enjoy a day in town.

HA! I suspect it won’t be quiet.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
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DrBeauGan
Oct 5, 2023 8:40 PM

Put โ€™em in a dark place
And cover them with shit,
Theyโ€™re only little mushrooms,
They wonโ€™t mind a bit.

Just for a few hours at least can we STOP talking about the REFERENDUM.

Robert Sewell
October 6, 2023 12:05 am

Wokdocter:

As we progressively fix issues in the system, weโ€™re still receiving more calls than normal and call wait times are currently around an hour. Plus, weโ€™re receiving an increase in emails, resulting in a cascading effect of delays beyond our usual response times to your queries.

It sounds suspiciously like the people they didn’t take care of last month are now ringing back wanting to know why they still haven’t dealt with the problems this month.

Robert Sewell
October 6, 2023 12:13 am

Salvatore:

If one is using the preferred private-soldierโ€™s spud-peeling technique, provided oneโ€™s bayonet is kept sharp, all those varieties should cube equally well.

Horror!
Bayonet is for the enemy – it should never be used on a spud.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
October 6, 2023 1:07 am

Bayonet is for the enemy

That’s a change from going troppo, affixing it at 45 degrees to the ground, then charging at it to skewer oneself.

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 6, 2023 1:10 am

I could see Clayton Oliver moving Sancho. A poor man’s Pendlebury but with the champion leaving, is it a stretch to see Oliver in Magpies outfit?

Salvatore, Iron Publican
October 6, 2023 2:00 am

Crikey. After calling Trump every name under the sun and stating there simply isn’t the money to build a border wall, and over the past few months selling off $300 million (USD) worth of border wall parts, for $2 million
… Biden is now going to find a way to “ignore the rules” and build a wall.

Is this fair dinkum, or is it April Fool’s Day or something?

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