Yeah mate. I am Legion LOL. Bird. Numbers, it’s all me. Faaaaark!

The Kittehs aren’t fooled. Noticed how few comments there have been? Work it out boys. We have heightened spidey senses because we have to.

I now discover that the creep making a sexualised comment to me is a confessed ex jailbird.

That’s all I have to say.

It wasn’t Bob Whittaker from Toowoomba who wrote Jelly beans in the Jungle. It was me.

I now discover that the creep making a sexualised comment to me is a confessed ex jailbird.

I don’t think that’s him. I think it is Bird, who is using the identity of a third party.

All of their writing styles are completely different. Continued ranting and Bird has gone back to form.

This is really pissing you off, isn’t it Graeme?

As for Grigory, he couldn’t help make the same sledge at KD.

At best, he’s another weirdo from the Lillipop blog or the Freedom Furniture joint.

Funny as Rabz

Zafiro
Nov 3, 2023 7:04 PM

It wasn’t Bob Whittaker from Toowoomba who wrote Jelly beans in the Jungle. It was me.

Whittaker describes his service in Vietnam which included deadly encounters with the enemy as well as humdrum service in the rear where he worked as a projectionist—a job he’d learned as a civilian teacher on a similar Bell and Howell machine. We also learn a lot about R & R in Bangkok.

Whittaker writes about his re-entry problems after coming home to Australia. He encountered many of the same sorts of prejudices that Americans did when they returned home from the Vietnam War. He had no brass band waiting for him in Toowoomba.

Whittaker says that in the book he focuses mostly on the lighter aspects of his tour of duty. But he also describes incidents of friendly fire and includes a discussion of the effects of carpet bombing on the indigenous population, as well as details about Agent Orange and what it did to the people and environment in Vietnam—and what it did to him personally. He is convinced that one of his offspring was born dead due to his extreme exposure to the highly toxic defoliant.

“More than thirty-five years later, in the summer storm season at my home in Toowoomba, the sound of distant thunder reminds me of the rumbling sound of B-52s carpet bombing suspected North Vietnamese concentrations,” Whittaker writes.

Sure buddy and you went through basic training in 1984.

Graeme is not here Dotty. FFS

I can’t imagine the lack of sanity or appetite for chaos and drama a person would have to have by baiting a forum supported by a lot of Jews after 7/10, picking a fight with everyone and possibly BW and then also being in cahoots with Bird and Col Batshit Bazi from the nudge unit.

What a truly bitter person. A left-wing Roy Cohn.

Thanks for that contribution, Dot . Numbers etc. He was a troll but deserves understanding etc

I just see History as an uncontrolled tumult … so much fanatisism … it is like watching a turbulent creek stream in Tazzie when I was a nipper. Why does that slice of water flow in that direction and another another? I couldn’t figure it out then and still cant..

I am not a troll, or trying to shut this blog down, Dot, I sincerely appreciate what you had to say about Bob/Numbers, Chill mate.

Numbers etc. He was a troll but deserves understanding etc

No he doesn’t.

He was a hypocrite
Used his wife, kid as a shield.
Should not have been enywhere near the the most vulnerable of children.
Tried to exploit the brothhood of other diggers.

Risitas on Aussie housing. He’s right you know!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaLAVTpLJME

Really you should have an AVO made against you. You have persistently harassed people here with a litany of bullshit personas. What you are doing is skirting close to fraud under s 192E (1) (b) of the Crimes Act NSW (deceptively or dishonestly causing any financial disadvantage).

Chill, Mr .

All you are achieving is proving their case and if you really want an echo chamber then use a private group on Whatsapp.

Alamak

I understand why you would say that, but:

Out of all of the successor forums to Catallaxyfiles, this is the most successful.
There are bitter clingers in other (not private) deserted forums who hate this place.
Racial vilification, libel and so on are reasons for Dover to have to shut down the blog either through litigation or law enforcement under the e-Safety Commissioner.

They’re not genuine about “a closed chat” – they want this place GONE and they’ve been at it for years, they despise many posters and they don’t understand it is a public space, but PRIVATE PROPERTY.

We cannot relinquish the discussion.. I met Ann Aly my Local member … on the doors of the Referendum .. she was all “Yes Yes Yes” and I was kinda “No” . But she isn’t stupid and worth a listen.

If we cannot make our ideas clear to those that think differently … politely …respectfully … and even if they walk away thinking we a wrong.

Are our ideas worth anything if all we do is scream at people ?

Ask Knuclke Dragger. He was in the Grunts

The pills are kicking in.

I should hope not Speedbox.
You and I know the answer but most won’t I reckon.
Who cares anyway. Guilty of trivia

@Rabz
Nov 3, 2023 7:46 PM

Also five years ago I went to Vietnam …got to speak to some Old Blokes… “You Aussies did nothing to be ashamed of” … You were fair and worthy ..

Made me swell with pride.

I went to Hue … said a prayer whilst looking at the Perfume River … and God actually spoke back to me … not often this happens.

LOL Simon Townsend was never allowed on the TV in my house, even by my mum when dad was on exercise in the field or at work, so I guess she silently disapproved as well of him.

Wonder how many other children of Viet Vets have similar experiences.

Simon Townsend was a draft dodger IIRC.

@Rockdoctor
Nov 3, 2023 8:09 PM

Well when I was in Vietrnam I got the opportunity to speak to “other children of Viet Vets” … they were of a mind to let the Dead Rest in Peace.

@Johnny Rotten
Nov 3, 2023 8:17 PM

“God actually spoke back to me … not often this happens.”

Ask Him yourself…

1. Biden asked NARA to remove Trump’s executive privilege over documents
2. NARA granted it
3. Biden declared documents reclassified
4. Biden used new classification to order Mar-A-Lago raid

If Assange ever makes it to a US court room, you should see what he’s facing.
Months ago, Greenwald outlined the process.
There will be parts of the trial where Assange & his lawyer will not even be allowed to hear certain testimony let alone question witnesses.
Most likely it will be a closed caught & all evidence given in camera & sealed for 99 years.
It literally will be a secret trial.

Conscription is a ridiculous concept.
I prefer to go back to Caesarian armies where soldiers were given a slice of the booty after a successful campaign.

@
Rabz
Nov 3, 2023 8:24 PM

None of those blokes would have lasted ten minutes in Vietnam… nor would the blokes that came home heros (and I loved) from Vietnem … have lasted ten minutes in the jungle if not for the training they got from WWII blokes who also had to contend with the jungle..

The crisis is ongoing with RepTrak’s ‘signal’ of a reputation crisis remaining and customer perceptions on key drivers more than 10 points lower than a year ago,” the presentation, also marked confidential, reads.

Here’s the thing Qantas… stop pi$$ing money down the tubes on whoever or whatever “RepTrak” is and actually start, I don’t know, serving customers.

I’m sure the guys and gals at RepTrak are just earning a living, and I’m even happy to stipulate that they do a good job.

The fact that they get any business at all is a sad indictment on corporate culture. It says “We have no idea of who our customers are or what they thinking,… we can outsource that”.

No, you can’t.

That way the only wars America fights are the ones the folks back home believe in

Vietnam went on for quite a while, not sure conscription did much to reduce public support in first 5 years or so.

Speaking of the American War – A bright, shining lie was the first major book I read on that war and it provided the context on who went to war and how the social classes are reflected in how USA fought the war. A great book.

@
pete of perth
Nov 3, 2023 8:44 PM

I was only a nipper then but that was disgusting… Sure Hate the War but the people that were put into service … no way ..

In the same way as civilians are supposed to be sanitized from conflict … so are those that wear a uniform and comply with the Law of War … they were not complicit in bringing to conflict to fruition ? They were mostly very young.

And even “If Not” …

@Alamak!
Nov 3, 2023 8:49 PM

Yes I have heard of it but confess I never read “A Bright Shining Lie” … I must redress this… Thank You for your Kindness.

The war against the Jewish people and the west
Melanie Phillips -1 hr ago

It’s as if both Stalin and Hitler are being afforded a posthumous victory

I gave some talks in America over the past weekend. What follows is a composite of what I said in them.

Excerpts:

The agenda of Hamas and its puppet-master Iran is very clear. Destroy Israel, genocide against the Jews, and then wipe out the Christian west and all unbelievers. We know this is their agenda because they say so. Repeatedly.

The greater shock, however, has been the reaction to this of an enormous number of people in the west.

There have been shocking scenes in British, American and Australian cities of massive and mostly Muslim mobs celebrating the mass murder of Jews and calling for more. Among the non-Jewish population, this genocidal hysteria is being viewed by millions more with indifference or even support, especially among the young.

Antisemitism is rampant throughout the Islamic world. This is ignored by the west, which also doesn’t understand antisemitism and thinks it’s just another form of racism rather than a uniquely deranged, paranoid and murderous creed.

.

Israel will win this battle — at terrible cost — because it is determined to survive. It fights because it understands what it is fighting for. The Jews know what they are because they are bound together as one through their roots in an ancient history; they love and value their own people and their nation; and they have risen up as one to defend them to the death. This is not true of the west, which seems instead to have decided to go the way of ancient Rome.

Hey it is 18:00 here in WA ..isnt it about time we just kick back and get proper drunk and share some music?

I firstly went to Brian Eno “French girls” he apparently got some action but me? Hey not so much …

@Rabz
Nov 3, 2023 9:14 PM

Definiltely !!! Adams never translated from radio to TV .and I fear the Vogons translated into never became remotely audible …. oops No I just said that like it was a bad thing…

But it is music time …

@Rabz
Nov 3, 2023 9:26 PM
you just rescued me from utter doom .. A flawless female voice might even possible lure me from the grave…

But Nina Hagen ? she can drag us any where she wants …

https://youtu.be/v-YzdvmD2aQ?list=RDMM

@
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Nov 3, 2023 9:39 PM

sounds good Brudda but what about a gettin pissed place ? Eh ?

@Zafiro
Nov 3, 2023 9:44 PM

Since I wasnt on the jury and havent seen all the evidence …

Amanita phalloides is one mushroom me and my enthusiastic young wild food (tripping) seekers would have avoided plain as day …but I am not on the jury …

When posted to Canberra (73 – 75) was advised not to wear a uniform on public transport.

Same in the 1980’s in Sydney. Never saw dad wear a uniform to work though he had the only car we owned at the time.

Apparently told to start wearing ribbon bar as well by his superiors early on at one posting after the war ended.

After the Canberra reunion in 1989 was when I saw the change outside of privacy like our home. Still remember the porky seven pigs motifs though, that he never hid.

Bamboo sock are the best .. and if you work FIFO , pink ones are the best , no one will dare steal them .. just that they take forever to dry

Dr Faustus
Nov 3, 2023 6:46 PM

For historical reasons it would be unwise for the Israelis to start using gas against their foes. Regardless of the efficacy, the luvvies on the Sunday talk shows would lather themselves into an orgy of smug carrying on about the optics of it all.

Death Cap mushrooms they are called in Gippsland where they are native, Mark. Look a bit like Gold Caps , but mushie heads would know the difference,

Since I wasnt on the jury and havent seen all the evidence …

Amanita phalloides is one mushroom me and my enthusiastic young wild food (tripping) seekers would have avoided plain as day …but I am not on the jury …

This reeks of week-old parrot cage newspaper.

Yeah great song by the old Schmuckley. Swim to me!

Mentioned earlier today, but (the Hun):

A second sobering-up centre will open in St Kilda when public drunkenness is decriminalised next week.

The six-bed site, the second facility for metropolitan Melbourne, will operate exclusively for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Oh my word. Apartheid via pisswreckery.

Ngwala Willumbong Aboriginal Corporation has been appointed to deliver services at the facility.

The program will operate 24 hours a day and will be staffed by outreach workers, alcohol and other drug support workers, and Aboriginal health practitioners and nurses.

There will be no rorting of this, whatsoever.

A single new 20-bed facility in Collingwood, managed by charity cohealth, will be responsible for responding to incidents across metropolitan Melbourne.

However construction delays mean the facility won’t open until later this month.

In the meantime, a six-bed trial site that has been operating in Collingwood will respond to incidents.

So according to VicGovernment, it will all be dandy because in a city of almost six million people, only 12 will be so shitfaced at any one time that they become dangers to themselves and others, and all of those 12 will be taken – by consent – to handpatter shelters where they will be no trouble whatsoever.

As the lowland Scottish would say – Brillo.

Mate of mine went to a dry out facility in Horsham. This is back in the 90s. Caught crabs. Dirty sheets etc.

Mushroom chef was ‘eccentric genius’

Turns out Erin Patterson was an air traffic controller as well as a gourmand. You would hope they had the science to identify unstable people in critical roles like that.

Air traffic control. Yeah obviously petty clever the mushroom woman.

What make me think the Labor Part is getting worried?

Xmas is coming early for the Labor party and someone named tanya might be getting a shiny new leadership when Elbow retires due to “health reasons” or some other lie.

Israel has not shut down hospitals but Hamas have used them as centres of war. International aid is getting through, but in small amounts to stop Hamas having it. Supermarkets are still open in Gaza. The bomb didn’t go off in a ‘refugee camp’ but in a suburban area harbouring Hamas terrorists where civilians had been warned by Israel to leave and stopped by Hamas from doing so. Hamas is a death cult, wanting martyrs. Get informed, Andrew.

I wrote this in response to ‘Andrew’, who said that Israel was deliberately bombing hospitals and civilian areas, shutting them down, and ‘even attacking a refugee camp’.

My comment was held ‘pending for 15 hours’ and now, 19 hours later, it is ‘rejected’.

The Oz doen’t like to publish a truthful rebuttal to a piece of Hamas propaganda mouthed by a Hamas sympathiser on their pages. Tell you a lot, I think.