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Mmmm. Food for thought.
No frost, but it was cold enough. Lit up the fire to run all day.
Gillard certainly loved a slush fund. Next best thing to buried cash in the backyard. Nothing much changes.
THIS WEEK IN CULTURE #193 (rumble.com) An early clip shows that grotesque thing and member of the squad, pressley, the…
The hookers and harlots of Australia call for the elimination of the State of Israel?
I wonder if Higgins and Wilkinson are still in cahoots.
I feel your heat …
Don’t wanna take a chance
On your paper romance … 😕
Ahem! Scots Guards & Hong Kong Chinese laundrymen (several of whom were killed in action in the Falklands)
The two battalions of the Parachute Regiment that saw action in the Falklands contained men from both the Isle of Man and quite a few Channel Islanders.
Twice? Why not stop at one? I call it a bare-faced lie. Once again she said, he said. Besides, where is the injury?
Yes, we were all waiting for that with ‘bated breath.
Stupid bint.
Miss Planet
And on and on and on … 🙂
I sometimes wonder what the chat logs of the WhatsApp accounts of the handbag hitsquad contain! Along with Louise Milligan and associates!
Turns out that WhatsApp isn’t secure at all with the CIA hacking tools!
I wouldn’t want to be wearing their wellingtons!
(I also ponder at times the legality of a secret security/military political nudge unit in Australia. Hmmmm I think there’s a lesson in that for all of us)!
Come on Brittany, explain how you didn’t commit perjury as insinuated in the Moller memo.
I only hope no one thinks of you poorly.
Now here was an opportunity for nation building, looking after our national security interests and correcting the Libs’ mistake yet he gives it a pass. The man is definitely not that into us.
secret security/military political nudge unit in Australia
The one Trumble cribbed from the Poms?
I wonder if Dave is still handling media strategy or whether he’s given it away after last time?
Nazi Death Marches on SBS. Harrowing and quite stunning to think it could well be happening again.
The shofar.
Joshua 6
😀
Oh. And also the bagpipes.
Voodoo Chile …
The more an individual aligns their identity with a political\religious\scientific\ideological position, the greater the risk they will lose objectivity. Demographics and propaganda are the wrong reference frames and ironically invoking those concepts is possibly representative of a loss of objectivity. That risk can be, and often is, independent of an individual’s position and intelligence. It is one reason why Nietzsche wrote:
He was dead wrong about the cost which is why so many people lose their objectivity. We evolved to belong much moreso than to be truth seekers. Psychologically it is much better to belong than be alone. BTW, the physicist Szilard noted a similiar problem.
Gotta admit, being in a nightclub where the techno is up to similar decibels as an artillery battery in the middle of a fire mission, and telling airheaded bimbos who’ve had 15 Vodka Cruisers that your name is Bryce Lehrmann is one helluva sneaky stealthing trick.
He’s sneaky, she’d never have guessed who he was from that subterfuge.
Dunno, starting to wonder whether the new front on Bruce is to draw him away from his lawsuits.
Totally wouldn’t be surprised if his accuser had communications with people involved in the first attempt to skewer him hence the application for her phone records…
Calli, you do great work!
The Great Highland Bagpipe isn’t called an instrument of war without very good reason.
There’s a 3-part documentary series about piping in the military by such a name, not sure if it’s on streaming, or just DVD. Likely on YouTube somewhere.
Well worth a watch.
Rahab thought differently. (See Joshua reference).
She got her spot in a remarkable family tree for her efforts, and for picking the winning side.
Keating, Carr, Burke et al – it is a character test. Bye bye.
Don’t forget you can do some amazing tours from a cruise ship port.
My new mousepad is now The Tomb of the Diver, from Paestum, near Salerno.
He is metaphorically ‘diving’ from the settled land of temples across the Styx into the land of eternal nature. Paestum itself with its huge temples was well worth making the effort to see.
What about the full length ball gown with sequins? The idea was to dazzle your opponent with luxury!
Lizzie, there will never be a ‘next time’s ever. I had expectations of this cruise and I must say it’s exceeded them in every way.
TE, it’s P&O, ship is called ‘Pacific Adventure ‘, misadventure would be apt. I forgot to mention the rules, you’re treated like children, I’d like a bottle of scotch or similar in the room, not permitted. You can only get one drink at a time anywhere on the ship, you can take it to your room but you have to go back for a refill, plus no doubles served.
I’d rather be at Frying Pan catching trout.
For those that don’t know – the moniker, Rabz, is an Ozzie contraction of Rabbi.
Yes, I’m not as learned.
But, I do have two Yarmulkes in the Roundel pattern.
Just wish I knew where the f*ck they are languishing in the cottage 😕
So I can go out and proudly wear them. 🙂
Because it’s Sunday – Shall we gather at the River – hymn
Australia’s spooks have a bad record.
Funding the PA and Gaza (“Hamas”).
Putting a gag order on a bloke for whistleblowing about the Feds under Lil Johnny trying to steal East Timorese oil, who we “helped” liberate.
The whole thing needs to be gutted, starting at the top.
Who makes the decisions have more in common with Saddam Hussein than your average citizen.
In the Museum of the Celts that we visited on our recent road trip, not far from Bolzano on Italy’s South Tyrol, which is also the town of Oetzi the Iceman’s museum, you can see an excellent replica of a Celtic Carnyx (beside the remnants of a real one), a dragon ended horn that rattled and created a weird loud noise. They charged into battle with these, putting fear even into stout Roman warrior hearts.
Steve, the Beloved and I have always taken bottles of scotch and gin onto our Cunard cruises. Customers, if they want, can bring on boxes of vino – naturally they are charged corkage, but that’s fine, to be expected.
Also, you have to dress appropriately, which for an old duck like me is nice. The last cruise out of Southampton had lots of geriatrics on board, therefore lots of mobility devices. I was a bit put out, but the Beloved set me straight – at least they’re out and about having fun. The guy at the table next to us could hardly see, but he was out there for tours and such…also he was an aeronautic engineer, so very interesting to talk to.
Like most things in life, it is what you make it. I’m off on a similar cruise in late Feb next year ex. Sydney. It might be auite different to the ones I’m used to, even though it’s on Queen Elizabeth. I shall report warts and all, natch! 😀
Rabz, I remember the yarmulke gravatar. Yes, I’ve been blogging that long.
Why? An anon source cited in a story on a regular MSM site wouldn’t carry less credence than an anon individual with a Twitter feed. You obviously think it’s funny because it disagrees with your view. Let me give you a few examples.
At the beginning of the war, your anon twitter feeds were poo-pooing reports on how atrociously the Russians were doing, and we were beijng told by your sources that, in fact, the great Soviet armies were defeating those Ukrainian Nazis like they were swatting flies. I distinctly recall you putting up a Twitter sources trying to counter that 40-mile traffic jam. It was baloney we were told. It wasn’t and the Russians were pushed back.
A few weeks ago, you cited the Aristocrat, suggesting that there were credit issues in the large bank sector of the US banking system because the head of credit at Wells had committed suicide. Just below the story, community notes corrected the piece, saying the suicide had occurred in January this year, and it obviously was some personal issue he was having and absolutely zero to do with the bank. Did he apologize for publishing bullshit? So when I say Twitter is equally as unreliable as the MSM, I have a point. You may not agree with it, but it’s not silly.
There you go again, giving credit to an anonymous Twitter troll without any backup. If the number of US injuries was as notable as the Twitter feed says, it would’ve come out. You can’t stop njews like that leaking either from the base or the German hospital.
At this very moment, when emotions and tension are at 10/10, the US withdraws from Syria, and Iraq won’t be perceived as a weakness. Are you kidding?
In any event, we need to see further evidence of those large causalities you linked to.
Your Twitter feeds keep mentioning this, particularly in reference to arms, yet when I mentioned to you that we just don’t really know what the US has in stockpile unless the government gives clearance to release the information, you also suggested I was being silly.
Who’s watching—China or Russia?
China imports 40% of its oil from the Middle East and has no chance of protecting the farther sea lanes. Russia has become a veritable laughing stock in terms of conventional warfare, which is why Putin is threatening the West with nuclear weapons every 48 hours. So, who’s watching, Vanuatu?
Scroll back, petal. You’ve missed some.
Slacktivist!
Calli, no personal drinks of any kind permitted, everything must be purchased on board, all bags and luggage thoroughly checked.
Who makes the decisions have more in common with Saddam Hussein than your average citizen.
which sums up canbra- amply illustrated on 14/10
I subscribe to NO religion. I endorse this comment. It is my wish that Gaza is levelled to powder.
For those that don’t know – the moniker, Rabz, is an Ozzie contraction of Rabbi.
thought so- wasn’t sure if your moniker was a target or a kippah though
Russia is being supplied by North Korea who ransomed the world and Clinton caved and sent food etc so the lunatic dynasty didn’t start armageddon.
Russia’s economy is very strong and totally not a joke.
Calli, the geriatrics take their mobility machines everywhere, Inc the tender transfers and buses. The other day in Tonga the old rusted bus had 6 walkers and an electric machine down the aisle, it took almost 15 minutes each time to load/unload the machines and their owners, the tenders were even worse.
Yes. Pauline has lost it. No more ON preferences from me.
Heard a lot of bad things about cruises which is why I’ve never been on one.
Further to mentioning the cruise next year, I’m hoping to get over to the Presbyterian college near Luganville. Firstly because the mishos are known to me, also because the college is a stone’s throw from where my family had a plantation and where my mother was born.
I have a photo of her in her baby dress with the island of Tangoa in the background.
It will be like a circle completing its circumference. I have a great love in my heart for Vanuatu, even though I have never been there. Hopefully the summer cyclones will be quiet.
The South Park episode also has digs at the MCU multiverse thing.
And the background music is in the style of those big budget flops Disney makes.
I will say no more. But the music thing might be overlooked otherwise.
P & O are noted for ‘bogan’ cruises. Try another cruise line.
Re the alcohol, cruises make money from alcohol sales and some do not let you bring your own on board. More recently, many lines now allow your own alcohol in cabin (Oceania, our last cruise, had no problem with our large bottle of Scotch), and plenty offer special package deals on drinks. P & O may have special reasons to avoid too much in-room drinking; their passengers have form for riotous behaviour there, and one sex-party murder. Bad vibes, nothing like this on Cunard, Holland America, Oceania. On all cruises we’ve taken we’ve always brought back to the ship some small bottles of hooch from ports of call for the cabin, and no-one’s cared. We tend to drink with meals, and then in the piano bar, pre or post meals, listening to music, chatting and taking one drink after another. It works. Nightcaps in the cabin (stateroom as it is termed) either our stuff or theirs. We sometimes bring back two beers to the cabin. Hairy drinks mine as well if he’s ‘thirsty’. 🙂
And:
I am not anti-gero, but I’ll say it.
That is not a holiday.
For $16K, that is absolutely not a holiday.
For $16K you could buy a very decent campervan, tow it out of the yard, take it to a cliff overlooking the ocean, and then set it on fire before pushing it off said cliff and then going on a golf trip with the boys next to a casino. That would provide more satisfaction – on a number of levels – than that experience.
SW- it sounds worse than Countrylink or TrainsNSW!
Milt, Yarmulkes personally handcrafted for me by a young womanage* who is no longer among my family. 🙁
*as she will always be remembered …
Modern caravans do seem to be very good- the older ones are ghastly.
I was lent one when I went to the Great Synagogue as a High School student.
Okay. Our two week cruise on QE cost us $6.8k. Balcony, choose your room. Tours extra, if so desired. Some we booked, others declined.
I’m a cheapskate, but I like comfort, a window and a place outside to park myself. So an unimpeded view balcony, the higher up the better.
Israel-Hamas: ‘Insistence on INTERVENTION has created CHAOS’ | Douglas Macgregor
Who else is there among Hollyweirdos who can just freely lay in as they do?
Legends.
You would have found the same on any other P&O ship as you would on any of the Carnival, Princess, Celebrity, Royal Caribbean and Disney ships based here in Oz for a regular sailing season, as they all follow our RSA rules.
Ships that visit once or twice a season as part of a world cruise don’t seem to feel the need, or are not required, to follow them.
There is is heirarchy of cruise lines and the first 3 aforementioned are marketed to different segments. P&O to oldies , and are normally cheaper, Princess to families , and Carnival to younger people.
You want a boozed up cruise, and by that I mean lots of drunken 20somethings, try a 3 day cruise on any cruise line
So glad you understand the cruising industry, Lizzy – so we don’t have to.
The fun police want to invade everything so it’s guaranteed we can’t enjoy our lives.
LOL. The Australian ruling class thugocracy is hilarious — in a sinister kind of way.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
RIP Matthew Perry – dead at 54.
HUGE NEWS! Ford CEO Just SHUT DOWN EV Production!
Family First for me now.
Bikies, who are more likely to be Lebos than anything, might have something to do with that.
LOL cruises. Never did one but plenty of mates did, especially out of Sydney on those 3 day ones mentioned above.
In my younger days we used to refer to P&O Fairstar as the Fu&$ship, if you couldn’t get laid there then you never will…
He didn’t deserve that, despite being a Hollyweirdo …
The Welsh Guards were on the landing ship Sir Galahad, attacked by Argy aircraft, 32 Guards and 16 others were killed.
me, I, I , me, me, me, I, me, me, me, I, me, I, me, me, me.
From Rosie, earlier:
If true, and they have initiated the offer, then h@m@s must feel the need to stall for time.
Is time necessary for
(a). resupply or reorganisation, or
(b). the stoking of internal division within Isr@el, or increasing international pressure?
Appearing in Friends doesn’t warrant a capital punishment. Not really anyway.
Friend of mine after he marched out from Singleton was posted to a Battalion that had a Falklands Vet who had transferred from the Brit army.
Apart from the few Viet Vet WO’s left the expat Pom the only other war veteran. Said he was a very imposing figure and didn’t muck around, much like the Viet Vets.
The most beautiful goil in the woild …
Biblical … 😕
Pauline is an AEC vote subsidy harvesting machine. Ashby has convinced her to “broaden her appeal” (and increase the take) by playing up to the poove vote, of which she will get approximately 0.000000012%.
Trying to negotiate for pipeline from Myanmar to China, trying to negotiate for a canal across the Malaysian strait, has developed a naval port in Pakistan with an extensive road and rail linkage to China but that will never be enough. That is only one problem China is facing, it has many others. Can’t feed itself,. needs various resources to maintain its economy, enemies to the north, south, east and west. China risk overblown for political purposes.
You mean the Russian economy and productivity so good they are hauling 60 year old tanks out of storage, using ancient Mig 31s to carry even more ancient repurposed medium range nuke Kinzhai missiles, using s300 air to air missiles as ground attack weapons, has hunkered down in fear of a nazi drug addled offensive against its miserable gains, its Black Sea flagship taken out by ancient anti-ship missiles, it’s port devastated by a few missiles because it couldn’t defend the s400 installation from a few men who travelled a couple of hundred kilometres in rubber boats? Is that what you mean?
Keating would be thrown off a tall building in Gaza.
Funny how he’s not offering any support for Israel.
To be expected though.
All she had to (not) do was say nothing when Latho sounded off.
well that was an very interesting read
in the West Bank and even mentions the Younger Dryas
oops … forgot the link to Jericho
Li’l Miss Maggie and her Hollyweirdettes … 🙂
Funny how he’s not offering any support for Israel.
not like he needs he votes in Blaxland anymore though I’m told his driver was an arab.
How long would the pipelines take to build even with slave labor? 🙂
A large percentage of its protein comes from Brazil. That supply chain would work incredibly well in a war.
Eyebrows need a decent wax.
John H.
I don’t understand what you mean by ‘the wrong reference frames,’ John.
My God Parents went on a cruise from Perth to Malaysia iirc and had a horrible time.
Muddy.
Some people have a very loud air horn outside of their safe room. The noise is said to be unbearable.
The new, so called Velocity trains here in Vic have a loud and piercing horn.
There are no decibel limits in a war zone.
I suppose the real question that needs to be answered, apropos of cruise ships and experiences therein, is:
What was the ratio of upside down pineapple signs on cabin doors?
Exxxxplain.
It’s an Eastern promise,
It’s a pot of gold
The oldest story that’s ever been told …
Hong Kong Money …
The clocks?
Window into his heart.
Paul Keating declines to sign former Prime Ministers’ joint statement supporting Israel and condemning Hamas (29 Oct)
You just failed your life test Paul.
err, JC – goils have eyebrows
These things happen …
Cutely groomed eyebrows, sure. Not the Amazon jungle.
My favourite fictional Israeli heroine is Miriam Rosen in The Man in the Glass Booth
Snap OldOzzie, I should’ve scrolled back. The New Cat has been slow for me so I didn’t.
Sorry, JC. I didn’t mean to be so autobiographical. The cruise comment called for experiences.
Always been ahead of the pack for me and that will continue.
Well, his time would be up.
Calli
No problem. I missed the comment anyway and don’t know what you’re referring to.
Williams was complaining about this cruise well before he boarded – in fact, weeks before. If he didn’t want to go, he could’ve made that choice. He’s been whining since this morning about this raft voyage. If he hates it so much, he could disembark at the next port and catch a flight back home.
Unlike all you compulsive globetrotters I have only done two cruises.
The first was to the popular beach resort of Vaung Tau on the luxury liner HMAS SYDNEY. The food wasn’t bad and we got our two cans per day. Sharing a cabin with 60 other tourists had its moments. The shore tour was definitely forgettable.
My second was on the Ice ship MV NELLA DAN to downtown Morson. An absolute ‘boys own adventure’ once the lethal Sourthern Ocean seasickness came to an end. Luxury the NELLA certainly was not. Memorable – but I shed no tears when she hit a rock and sank.
I lost interest in cruising after those experiences. For me, the getting there is more attractive than the journey.
Mawson for God’s sake.
Thanks, Goanna.
I was thinking of something similar to this:
What’s an LRAD? Explaining the ‘sonic weapons’ police use for crowd control and communication but wondering if there was anything with a military application that could be used in a subterranean context when it was uncertain if hostages were present and at risk if lethal force was applied.
Cats – I’m not having it – l’il Miss Yael, thank you very much, I tells ya! 🙂
calli
We cut short a holiday one time and since then I’ve never wanted to or been allowed to book anything. If it were up to me, I wouldn’t travel as I really don’t like it and hate hotels.
I once booked a holiday to the American Virgin Islands and cut the trip short because it was disgusting. Never visit that shithole.
it means the people inside would be open to a bit of ‘keys in the fruit bowl’ activity.
Understanding why we fall prey to bad ideas is much more primary than demographics and propaganda. It is a very common human failing that is better addressed by learning about human behavior. Trying to understand human behavior is fraught with peril, all of us stumble there. It can’t be done just through psychology. There are many perspectives we need to address when thinking about human behavior, including plain old common sense. Some things are just obvious. For example, all my adult life I have observed that the more people identify with an idea, the more resistant they are to that idea being challenged. As Planck lamented scientific progress is one grave at a time.
Surely not as bad as this.
Equally horrid in the flesh I’m afraid.
Family First doesn’t exist anymore. Refusing to even preference One Nation because of a school formal is IMO pretty silly.
I’ll be in Oslo in two weeks. It is now 0 degrees. Those Northern Lights had better be good!
‘BONKERS progressive agenda!’: Unilever CEO ditches WOKE causes | Mark Dolan reacts
Cats:
To live in fear
Is not to live at all …
Tigger warning: Miss Ellie is not blessed with ample eyebrows, but she is blessed with some impressive li’l cupcakes 🙂
Going back to where it all began…Jamaica.
Dr. No (1962)
Stands up well! I had a listen to the opening song for SPECTRE just now – haven’t watched that one and I lasted about 30 seconds of the insipid androgynous rubbish allegedly called a Bond theme. Bring back some good old gratuitous sex and violence!
More on SouthPark
Wow, even in inflated present day dollars, this is real money for cartoons.
Ruperdink Mudrock’s designated Australian ALP whore Joe Hildebrand is disgracing himself on Sky News.
Why can’t he just admit he’s being paid to barrack for the ALP?
Hildebrand is a coward — the Walter Duranty of Australian journalism and a disgrace to the profession.
UK citizen doctor in Gaza for family holiday says they are worse off than hostages and if he gave his name Israel might target him. Suggested the UK should have bombed civilian parts of Belfast after IRA bombings, because apparently exactly the same.
JC reveals himself as the obnoxious person he is, a would be bully who for some reason decides on a target and then does his best to insult and denigrate them for no reason at all except personal pleasure. The drink makes it worse. He’s just a gutless pain in the arse, not worth worrying about.
He did his best on others and for some months turned his attention to me, like other people who wish to dominate he does his best to hurt and insult, he refers to me as “Williams” just the schoolyard bullies, next step will be his worn out “turtlehead”, when I get that I know he will be at the bottom of his toolkit.
I don’t worry about him, I would just prefer he scroll past my odd post and find himself another way to fulfill his need of dominance.
The Man In The Glass Booth (1975, Arthur Hiller)
Hi, Graeme.
Hence the strategic importance of hostages. Otherwise, after securing surface control, Israel would be pumping nitrogen foam to be carried along with the ventilation current to asphyxiate the bastards.
So, not a cute owl then. Wise choice.
Williams
I’m not bullying you, you former VicPol bully. I’m just pointing out that if you hate the rafting trip so much, you should get off and go home. I can’t see how that’s bullying, but of course we need to recognise the fact that, as a former Vicpol, you would make shit up at the drop of a hat on any innocent person.
And it’s the reverse of what you say, Williams. It was only last week when you made a snide comment about me for no reason at all. If you don’t like receiving, then don’t serve the ball because I will return it, but unlike you with lies and crap, I just focus on the facts. Stop whining and get off the freaking raft, you Vicpol piker. Seriously, how many people did you send to prison by lying about them?
Fun watching them evolve. From Russia With Love brought lovely ladies in bikinies to the title sequence. Goldfinger added a stonkingly good song by Shirley Bassey. Thunderball then undressed the ladies…with the rather notorious Tom Jones singing the song. 😀
From Russia with Love Opening Title Sequence (1963)
Goldfinger title sequence (1964)
Thunderball Opening Title Sequence (1965)
Evolution in action, in a nice way.
Has Bird visited? Did I miss something?
The Critical Drinker, observing the portrayal of Bond by Daniel Craig as a morose, troubled, doubt-filled fellow, showed that Craig was probably the only man alive who didn’t want to be James Bond.
miltonf
Oct 29, 2023 6:13 PM
Heard a lot of bad things about cruises which is why I’ve never been on one.
miltonf
only been on one ocean cruise as Wife gets seasick (though Relief Band has worked)
other than Son renting Yacht Jurata for a week 10 passengers 16 Crew out of Antibes to Monaco across to Corsica, Sardinia – Toys, Food presentation amazing and Relaxing (good grog)
Prior to that 5 Star Nile Cruise 2011 with Memphis Tours
The Ocean Cruise 2019 was Azamara Pursuit from Athens to Venice via the Greek Isles to Venice – a port every day and only around 700 passengers – food & restaurants excellent – only 5 kids, mainly under 70s and not many Americans
Eddie Jones says to ARU, you can’t fire me because I quit.
Russian engineers designed a brilliant rocket engine which the Kremlin cancelled too soon. USA scientists found out about it and brought it to fruition.
50 minutes.
These Rocket Engines Are A Scientific Miracle
Tom – SW has been visiting the Cat for many many years. His gravatar is one of the very best!
John H.
Oct 29, 2023 7:21 PM
Thanks, John.
I’ll continue pondering, as it exercises my spongy matter if nothing else.
I still feel that “Mark Bolton” is Bird.
What “claims to justice” does Hamas have? They’re certifiable homicidal maniacs.
I’m not sure you came to this with a completely open mind.
Firstly, the story put about that Cruise companies x-ray bags for contraband booze is a bit exaggerated. Any vetting of luggage would be focused on genuine security risks (weapons etc). Sure, if you’ve got a crate of Scotch in your luggage you might get pinged. The whole story is to encourage sale of on-board drinks, either by direct sale or pre-paid package.
Secondly, if I didn’t bring booze on board, I would have made it my mission on Day 1 to ferry glasses of my favourite tipple back to my cabin until I had accumulated a decent stash. What to store it in? Well, bring on a couple of bottles of Lucozade and a plastic funnel. Mark the bottles “Diabetic. For medical use. Do not touch.”
Discard contents and use them to store your accumulated booze.
No-one would dare touch them.
Why not turn this stupid stuff around into a game?
depressing lancet article suggesting hamas will only be replaced by another generation of haters
Of course I’m really into gorgeous li’l brunettes with luxe eyebrows, I tells ya … 🙂
Call centre operators taking on the kipper enthusiasts in the World Cup.
Call centre dudes are 2/27.
Kohli gone for 0.
who is Jason Hinkle?
Pol, a personage is generally what he/she might feel themselves to be.
Squire “Bolt On” is performing well at this point.
Feel free to ask him/she/it a question about “fractional reserve banking” and then sit back. 🙂
We may be just about to find out, Squirette …
Mark Bolton is not Bird. A while back he wrote under a nick I’ll call MH. You can guess.
One of the very best Bonds fillums. The everlasting Roger Moore:
Live and Let Die • Theme Song • Paul McCartney and Wings (1973)
I had to put this up Because.
A knight to remember: Sir Paul delivers all the hits and more (SMH, 28 Oct)
Well done Sir! Fifty years later wowing Sydney.
I’ve never drunk a can of coke in my life and I never will.
I’ve never been on a cruise in my life and I will never, well maybe a very, very plush one.
About eight years ago, an old friend of mine (a man) had a relationship with a complete dingbat. This friend had been wanting to break it off, but like from an episode of Seinfeld or Curb your Enthusiasm, he liked the sex, and so he kept on making excuses, unable to find the courage to sever the relationship! Anyway, the dingbat badgered him to go on one of those bogan weekend cruises that leaves Sydney on a Friday and returns on a Monday….he relented and he went. He said to me later that the weekend was torture, the cruise was torture, the boat was torture, the girlfriend was torture, everything was torture, at one stage he wanted to jump off the ship because he was unable to get away from the dingbat, every time he’d try and lose her, she’d find him, there was simply NO escape. He described to me how the ship was full bogans, and how at breakfast, lunch and dinner, there’d be a stampede to the smorgasbord, one of which nearly crushed him. But there was a happy ending to this cruise, so dreadful was the weekend that when the ship berthed back in Sydney on the Monday…..he found his courage and he ended the relationship!
Andrew Bolt:
Bugger the inquiry. Rabz the joint.
favourite palliwood star in a couple more home movies.
Melbourne shenanigans:
FMD
The ending was Seinfeldian.
Gold!
The perfect song for a relaxin’ Sunday evenin’ Cats! 🙂
Does that mean you’ve never drunk coke even out of a glass? Cass! Dudette!
We got a Cunard brochure with the paper last week.
The prices looked incredibly cheap, even for a decent sized cabin with a balcony.
We are not generally cruise types – don’t like the pile on/pile “hit and run” type tourism.
But we are thinking about something like 7-14-7.
Seven days independent travel, fourteen days cruise, then seven days independent travel.
Get a grip on y’sel , lassie.
Israeli representative on Bernardi making an incredible point: pallis are in numbers in surrounding muzzie nations where they are treated as slaves and subject to mass murder such as in Syria where Assad murdered over 300,000. The white activists in the West don’t give a rats about this which means their current outrage is anti-semitism pure and simple. They are hamas groupies and should be pilloried and removed from any position in society.
About eight years ago, an old friend of mine (a man) had a relationship with a complete dingbat. This friend had been wanting to break it off, but like from an episode of Seinfeld or Curb your Enthusiasm, he liked the sex, and so he kept on making excuses, unable to find the courage to sever the relationship!
Dingbat sex; the best!
Jump Around, Cats!
Presumably an above average intelligence man, yet evidently he can’t join the dots to work out who is actually responsible for their situation: Hamas.
The vuvuzela, drove me to war back in 2010 soccer World Cup when I worked in a place with sport tv on most of the day.
Senator Chuck Grassley Outlines Details of FBI HQ Running National Coverup Operation to Protect Biden Family from Investigation
Bagpipes.
Sorry, could not resist.
Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
Ep. 34 Of all of Biden’s crimes, backing the Ukrainian government as it throws priests in jail may be the most revealing.
If the pineapples are on every cabin door can they be upended by mischievous passers by ? It all sounds like a plot from a Carry On movie.
Whacky world of Islam: Jihad Watch:
Israel releases video of Hamas turning one of Gaza’s biggest medical centers into headquarter for terror
Killers of Israelis Have Been Hailed As ‘Martyrs’ and ‘Heroes’ For Years Now
Germany: Pro-Hamas demonstrator screams ‘I want Adolf Hitler back, that’s my opinion. I’m for Hitler, gas the Jews.’
Gateshead Institute:
[O]ne young seminarian, Brother Na’aman, 25, who was on the verge of completing his priesthood training, was burned alive. Police were contacted even before the attack, but came only after the terrorists had fled. — Morning Star News, September 8, 2023, Nigeria.
“They then proceeded to separate Christians from Muslims, apparently based on their names and ethnicity. They opened fire on the Christians, riddling them with bullets.” — acninternational.org, September 21, 2023, Mozambique.
Continuing with that theme, I don’t suppose the “pro-Palestinian” rallies held today in Sydney and Melbourne protested Hamas’s refusal to let civilians evacuate from target areas or their refusal to release essential supplies from their stockpiles for humanitarian relief.
It’s a tell.
You’ve joined my club. Ha!
Mark Bolton isnt “The Bird ” … Not even sure what that DIety might be ..but all I know is that you are waiting for the Second coming or Some such …
All I ever do, and have ever claimed to do is to look to well connected Blogs to see if I can glean the bit of the jig saw puzzle i am missing ..
I used to just scroll hard hoping for a crumb ..with You Giys but decided to make myself known.. to put my “toe in the water ” so to speak ..
Part of this is nostalgia.. back int the day you people put me onto so much good stuff… But that was then and this is now…
I don’t take issue with back of the cereal box politics or the Plastic dinosaur free gift…
I have sauropods aplenty …
I am not “The Bird” you crave…
Right now …
I wanna destroy pallyweirdo passersby
‘cos I wanna be
Anarchy …
It is the only way to be! 🙂
From Rosie’s 8:04 p.m. link to a Lancet (*smirk*) article:
As I questioned yesterday, at what age does a child become an adult? If the quoted figures are correct, it would not be surprising, given that 97% of the g@z@n [I refuse to capitalise] population is below the age of 65.
I don’t know where to start with the above extract.
Oh dear.
Blot does well to finger The Green-Left Radio (now Half) Hour formerly known as AM. Along with Four Corners it is neck and neck demonstrating how far the ALPBC has fallen.
MatrixTransform
Oct 29, 2023 5:09 PM
Is there such a thing as a sound-based weapon?
Yep.
LRAD – Long Range Acoustic Hailing Devices
Fun, baybee!
Li’l Jack Horner
Sittin’ in a corner
This ain’t funnee
But he took his munnee
and sniffed it up his proboscis
I tells ya! 🙂
Rabz, you’re cruel.
Daily Mail. Seems Higgins the knicker-less has put her foot in it, properly!
Well BB, as they saying the classics “was he pushed or did he fall”.
A lot of both – pressure from RA to go and the opportunities for him elsewhere.
I wouldn’t be surprised if RA greased the wheels of the Japanese decision makers for them to come up with a deal for Eddie. Perhaps more tours to Japan, pathway development for Japanese players. A lot cheaper than paying out Eddies contract. (approx $4million at this moment.
The rent ‘a’ riffers imploring us to:
Stop the Sobbing …
What I really hoped for was someone with an inkling into the choreography of the emerging …metastasizing conflict … Armed Conflict is Conflict and requires mettle or competence or a drizzle into a lead death. I find propaganda much more interesting than Combat itself. How the Propaganda is deployed? How gullible you have to be to be caught with in it’s sway …
Folks … in so far as you might be wasting your time already … dont worry that I am The Bird … What ever that creature may be … well it aint me and I have no clue what you are on about…
Further to this, I found the answers to my questions elselsewhere and all you Guys provided me with was a Petrie Dish example of a …. well what you might expect to find ..
I am not trying to engage in the sort of “badinage” that seems to provide the lift beneath you’re wings…
https://youtu.be/a98umoWh7VU
+1
Naarn? Meanjin ?
Only to be heard on the ABC.
On the ground they’re a bit more creative.
South Morang? South Morong please.
Geelong ? Geetroit.
Coburg North ? CoNo.
Don’t google that last. It has another meaning in another language.
It’s her forte.
one of the true good Roger Moore bond films.
Jane Fleming as the love interest, Yaphet Kotto – menacing baddie. Drugs, sex, intrigue. What more could you want?
Knickerless, knickerless,
Don’t be so ridiculous.
Can’t help himself. Houso is always further inciting stoushes. The former SAS officer.
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By the way Dot. Driller lied about owning a pub in Jimboomba. There’s only one pub there owned by MCM Hotels, a Woolworths subsidiary. Several folks over at Discord showed it was a lie.
Trailer only.
Is the United States becoming a police state? Incredibly the answer is yes, and both sides of the aisle agree. The only difference is that each accuses the other of seeking to establish a police state. Who’s right? This film resolves the question by defining what a police state is, and showing how it got started, how it operates, and who’s in charge. Working with Dan Bongino, Dinesh D’Souza has created his scariest and timeliest film!
Police State – A Film by Dinesh D’Souza
Oh – and Gloria Hendry, Geoffrey Holder (that tall dude who later narrated Charlie and the Chocolate factory), Sheriff Pepper and a double decker bus chase!
Were I in charge of the SFLs I’d want to know who hired this airheaded bimbo as an advisor.
Every time she opens her trap, in or out of the witness box, she’s never given any cause to believe she’d be worth any more than $16.53 per hour making tea & taking biscuits from the Arnott’s packet to place them on a saucer.
Brittany is not a details person.
Quite so.
I seem to remember telling a story here about a dickhead truckie cutting me off in traffic and exhibiting road-ragey behaviour. Of course, St Ruth jumped to the defence of the dickhead and Williams chimed in with, “Well, if I was around, I would have pulled you over and given you one with the lot”.
And this at a time during Kung Flu when he was also joining in the chorus of complaints about VikPol excesses.
Excesses which are derived directly from a “one with the lot” mindset (i.e. loading up someone you take a dislike to with fictitious or grossly exaggerated charges).
Here’s a thought.
Grow a pair.
It’s not a prison hulk. If you don’t like it, f-ckin’ get off.
Stop pity trolling around here because of your inability to explain to your nearest and dearest that you’d rather not go sailing the seven seas.
At the Corrs concert in Sydney. Gates opened at 6, and three hours of warm up acts!
Just get on with it!
For good ol’ Yarks and BoN – Squire Paul McDonkey
Jet …
Here you go Mark.
The Byrds – So You Want To Be A Rock ‘n’ Roll Star (1967)
It’s a long way to the shop if you want a sausage roll.
Oof.
That’s effectively what it comes down to, but ‘oof’ all the same.
Noice. In a just world every single accusation he ever made ought to be examined closely. If he would do that, imagine the bigger stuff when this clown was strutting around in a uniform?
Tomorrow never knows* …
And
Let forever be …
*In glorious mono, it is xining …
It is a good test “chewy bone Oh” … Why would i want to be disruptive and belligerent as apparently this “Bird” upon whom you so rhapsodize over? Why would any one … buggered if I know
I didnt find what I wanted with you people i.e. usefull information contempory Geopolitical … I measured the temperature … the exhaust gas .. so to speak ..
But what I did find was some kindly and gentle people that reassured me that some gentle manners still exist.
To those, Thank You Kindly for the Pleasure of you’re company ..
Peace …
Anyway “Sliante” to you mob.
In honor of the anniversary of my birth, Mme Zulu and I had lunch at one of our old favourite eateries in the Swan Valley – it’s been some time since we last ate there. An excellent meal, some seriously good red wine, and top quality service. The afternoon has had a somewhat rosy hue since.
Cono is, of course, c**t in Spanish.
But it has that special wiggly thing above the ‘n’.
Some Johnny Rotten. Not our Johnny Rotten.
Public Image Ltd. – Penge (Apr 2023)
Rather good.
The Stuka had a siren that was supposed to terrify ground troops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0DdqRmGcBc
Holy Sh*t! Those bones @7:41
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Jon Levi:
Kali Yuga (the last age)
Dingbat sex; the best!
Better than Owl Towelling?
Happy Birthday and many happy returns, Zulu
Geez. You’d rather go on a cruise.
Best wishes for what remains of the auspicious day, Zulu.
For those who want a bit of splendid entertainment and a vision of why the US was once great and how evil should be dealt with the movie of Deadwood is hard to go by.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4943998/
Many Happy returns and blessing to you and Mme. Zulu.
I only mentioned Jimbooba as a gentle dig at Sal for living in the middle of nowhere.
ZK2A…please share the name of the venue. Looking for somewhere for a similar occasion here in the West. Many thanks
Glorious vid. She must’ve gone through the choreography a dozen times since all her instances are slightly different. Only one answer:
Weapon Of Choice (2001)
Very well then.
Please tell us what “claims to justice” you think Hamas actually has, it seems ridiculous.
Just spent the family daily ABC 8¢ on watching Joanna Lumley’s Spice Trail Adventure.
Lord, she’s an impressive human of the theatrical persuasion.
In the Swan Valley – Mandoon Estate, and Pinelli’s Winery Restaurant are two of the best.
Reminded me a bit of that puffed up ambo (now ex-ambo) who put on his God cap and let that woman die in the dirt in Maryborough.
I’ll bet he pity-trolled around every front bar in Maryborough constantly about his “frontline wukka PTSD” and the “tough calls” he’s had to make.
But, when push comes to shove, tries to push his workmates under the bus for his decision to let someone die rather than get the knees of his pants dirty.
Lion at work.
Mouse at home.
I have done 3 cruises. The muster station drill is a roll call of who will not make it if we had to abandon ship in haste.