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Tough stickers.
Or as the Brits say: Slag tags.
Ben Garrison.
Gary Varvel.
Sorry to hear it, Squire. To hear of a young life ended is not good.
To try and put a positive spin on it, he’s movin’ on up … 🙂
JC
Nov 5, 2023 7:34 PM
I see that you are still troubled.
Please phone 1300 222 222
They can help you.
The war against white men is real- pale, male and stale is the marxist term.
Here’s a link to the Daylesford crash.
She needs some air.
All I Need (1998)
Fair Shake, terrible news.
How many refugees have taken up the offer?
Then this:
Muslim leader ‘Brother Ismail’ insists ‘jihad is the solution’ as he compares Palestinian ‘freedom fighters’ with white colonialism in Australia at Sydney’s Al Madina Dawah Centre
I’m taking bets as to how far a crunch is away:
6 months
1 year
18 months
The word may need to be spread in Melbourne’s outer western suburbs.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
That means pulling them down will also be a good thing.
Michael Smith ran that story, from memory I posted it upthread.
Until we start caving in collectivist skulls en masse.
Seriously – you want to take us on?
Rabz
It’s actually a pretty good theory – The planet has periods of stable evolution where little changes, then along comes something that alters the environment drastically – like a dirty great big comet travelling at 20,000Km/hr and makes a mess of the atmosphere, the water, the seas and shit, in fact makes a bloody great big hole in everything and wipes the board clean
Then another collection of bugs, rats, birds and muzzies get the opportunity to do their thing.
This time we got lucky.
Luck has nothing to do with it.
Ask any unbiased mathematician.
‘Apparently they’re expendable now’: Wind farm project to destroy koala habitat
But yeah, just watch out for the skin deep …
I remember a hearing a uni lesbian from the wimmin’s collective in 80s say ‘look at all those white males’. Not only are they evil, they are also incredibly stupid because white males would have been their co-creators. I sure feel sorry for anyone who wound up with daughters like that though.
Thank you all for your kind words. Sadness yesterday, seething today.
Having a whiskey and chilling out. Enjoying life whilst we have it. Life is good, lets not waste it.
Except for those Hamas fkers. They can burn in hell.
Boy that whiskey has a kick.
Over the last week I watched Gen V, from The Boys universe.
Unlike The Boys which is a piss take of a piss take, Gen V is an unmitigated disaster.
Unfortunately it appears they are trying to tie the two together, trying to force The Boys viewers to watch Gen V.
I’d prefer to stop watching The Boys than sit through another episode of Gen V.
Conservationists have had a few wins against ruinables in QLD recently.
I wouldn’t count the koalas out yet.
I regard hiya ejucashun as a disaster and an abomination.
Noooooooooooooooo … 🙁
No-one wants to be on the fringes of the herd.
Milt – one thing I loved about Uni was being 17 and groped by hot white lefty bimbages …
It was just primal. They couldn’t help themselves.
Oh, hang on – shouldn’t I be traumatised or somethang?
😕
Cohenite:
Put me down for 18 months. From the current newsfeeds, I reckon 2024 is going to be the Year of the Chooks Coming Home to Roost on many many fronts.
The US election debacle, The West finally getting the shits with the wokesters and Extinction Rebellion, the Australian political scene, the international muzzi going nuts scene, the power supply issue on the east coast, The Snowy 2 debacle, and my gout.
We’ll all be rooned.
So many long-fuse hand grenades have been lobbed into both the present and yet-to-be generations.
Like the whales on their annual migration right past Stockton, Birubi and Tea Gardens.
They don’t matter any more. I want to know who’s been paid off and how much. We know it’s all about bribes now.
never minded being groped
Speedbox
Nov 5, 2023 3:09 PM
My first sighting was at Product Engineering in Geelong. Everyone knew it was going to be a tough sell…
Remember Ford’s ads at the time going all touchy-feely and featuring real Ford workers™ applying their technical know-how in other settings, set to Mambo #5 and with the Live it catchphrase? Even the advertising agency avoided the elephant in the room.
I smile to see a tidy original example now, especially in base spec and with a rust-free boot lid.
miltonf
Nov 5, 2023 8:00 PM
I remember a hearing a uni lesbian from the wimmin’s collective
Now unless the said Lesbian was made by a 3 – D Printing Machine or some other Fertilisation methodology, then the Lesbian was made by a Man and a Woman with the woman having giving birth.
How about that Lezzies?
I’ve skipped the ugly duckling Ford in favour of it’s Mitsubishi counterpart – a TW Magna. My Barra-equipped ride is a Territory.
Martin Armstrong sent that as a message to someone who questioned his integrity.
Apparently the next Dr Who is going to be a black gay bloke.
Of course.
That may finally kill it off.
Please.
This afternoon I’ve binged watched Piste Noir (Black Run).
A French cop/thriller.
6 episodes, 5 good to very good before turning into a pile of shit in the last one.
Could have been great.
Beautiful scenery, the French ski fields were a character in themselves.
Hey, BoN
Some Sirens on Wheels … 🙂
Wasn’t that James Bond?
I am not sure that I am saying this.
But, I am thoroughly enjoying Bernardi’s program tonight.
He is not telling his audience what they already know like so many other conservative commentators.
His insights into the PS swamp are rapier like.
Condolences. Suicide is tragic. In the young though it is very disturbing. Sadly it is going to get worse. Suicide rates are climbing in the USA which is in part about drugs and is across the age groups. Mental health problems in the under 40’s continues a near 20 year increase in prevalence across many nations and no-one has a clear idea why but I’ll wave my hands. Suicide is often about feeling isolated and alienated. In younger ages that is terrible to deal with. Paradoxically a friend of mine recently told me that there might be an epidemic of social phobia! The COVID response has accelerated the rate but just a blip in a longer term trend. No-one knows what to do about it. In Australia massive increases in access to psych services and antidepressants are having little effect. They might be better off with EMDR. Hari and Haidt have written books on it but there is nothing new there. Social media doesn’t help and especially impacts of females who use verbal aggression as a weapon. Social media reveals there are many more sick puppies than I thought possible.
I have a 2006 Territory. it is the most reliable vehicle I have ever owned. Serviced regularly, nothing broken. I still see many on the road.
“bons
Nov 5, 2023 8:27 PM”
I think Bernardi’s programme is one of the best on Sky. He thinks and speaks outside the square….unlike the rest.
And one of the worst on Sky is Fatso Murray.
I can no longer watch him.
Bernardi’s opening salvo tonight was a tour de force, and a not so subtle smackdown of Morrison and Abbott.
Spent the early to mid 90’s spannering on a fleet of 40 odd Falcons from XFs to ELs.
Other than chewing through headlight and indicator bulbs, the only other thing they regularly did was spit all their transmission fluid out through the oil lines rubbing against the front suspension rod. The odd blown head gasket.
Sometimes the central locking would go spastic.
Great old barges.
He should publicly repent for what he did to the membership of Australian Conservatives.
Failing that he is persona non grata to me.
Russian Arms Exports – Will the Ukraine invasion tank their market share?
I hour
Russian military sales were declining before Ukraine. India bailed out of the SU 57 program and chose the French Rafale over the Mig 35. Indonesia chose the Rafale and F15EX over the latest SU range of fighters. India will keep reducing their reliance on Russian weapons and is now building the F21, a modern F16 variant. So many producers and little prospect of any of them making a decent return through overseas sales. The big winner is the F35, they can’t build those quickly enough, it will be the F16 of the 21st century.
err, JC – li’l Miss Yael does not have artificially inflated boozeys, I tells ya.
Israeli model and Rabz’ soon to be Woife Yael Shelbia featured on cover of Harper’s Bazaar … 🙂
Speaking of political dissemblers & frauds, I note Morrison and Boris Johnson have turned up in Israel.
Netanyahu has delegated Danny Danon to mind them.
I bet he’d rather be spending time with his family.
The review in the Weekend Oz I mentioned earlier:
I implore you — don’t become GWM Cannon fodder
By STEPHEN CORBY
THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN MAGAZINE
You’ve seen these people, perhaps you’ve even been these people, although I hope not. They’re the ones in the supermarket peering at the small print on the price tags, trying to work out which brand of toilet paper is cheaper per 100 sheets, or which flavour-free, saliva-sapping crackers provide the best value per dollar.
These folks, not so much price conscious as save every cent-ient beings, are the only ones I can imagine buying a GWM Cannon dual-cab pick-up truck, on the basis that it’s a very cheap car when you work out what it costs by the kilo (with a shockingly low starting price of $35,990 it comes in at just $18.32 per kg, compared to $20.56 for a Mazda CX-5 or $24.07 for a comparable Ford Ranger).
Now look, I know it’s starting to seem as if I hate all Chinese cars – GWM stands for Great Wall Motors – and it’s fair to ask whether I’m the problem, but in this case everyone else I know despised this giant, gosh-ugly blob of metal too. It obscured my house for a week; honestly, I had neighbours asking me if I was OK. And I am used to seeing a look of mild disgust on my wife’s face, but asking her to go for a drive in the Cannon made her bilious.
To be fair, my daughter, who is suddenly obsessed with bees and their wondrous waggle dancing, did become interested in the Cannon when I first took her for a drive in it, because she was convinced that the noises it was making suggested there were at least three large hives under the bonnet, and that those bees sounded both angry and tired.
Incredibly, the unforgivably awful noises that the single-turbo four-cylinder diesel engine makes are far from the worst thing about driving this Cannon, which has suspension so woeful that I had passengers begging me not to hit so many bumps… on an almost entirely smooth road. Anyone who lives in a suburb with speed humps would be well advised not to consider this GWM unless they enjoy the sensation of seasickness. The terrible ride quality isn’t the worst feature, either. Nor is the vague and rudimentary steering, accessed via a wheel that feels cheap to the point of temporary.
The eight-speed automatic transmission takes the prize because it changes gear more often than a runway model, yet with none of the sex appeal. The gearbox is forced to work so hard because it is attached to a 2.0-litre diesel engine that is the mechanical equivalent of Atlas carrying the world on his shoulders. Outputs of 120kW and 400Nm are simply not enough for a truck this big, or not enough if you want to get to your destination on the same day you left.
Physically, literally, the GWM Cannon is a lot of car for the money, because it’s absolutely enormous, with its 5.4m length making it possible to park not only in two car spaces at once, but two different suburbs.
I took it to the inner-city Sydney enclave where I used to live, possibly just to see how angry I could get, and it felt like using a boulder to go ten-pin bowling.
I also noticed that my Cannon had a snorkel, the kind that serious off-road vehicles have to allow them to ford streams or invade small island nations. But considering how thin and insubstantial the vehicle’s doors felt – often when you pull them shut they don’t close properly, and every time you do they make a sound like an aluminium can hitting a window – I’d be more likely to drive this thing into Parliament House to protest the fact that our lack of emissions standards allows diesels like this to be sold than into a body of water.
I was also somewhat stunned to discover that the tailgate cannot be locked, which seems like the kind of oversight that should get someone, somewhere, sacked.
Further research revealed, alarmingly, that the version I was driving is called the Cannon-XSR, which means that it’s the super-tough, ruggedly off-road version – a notional competitor for something like the Nissan Navara Warrior – which means that it gets features like that silly snorkel, underbody protection, “tube-style sidesteps” (and you certainly need them, and possibly oxygen assistance, to climb all the way up into it) and a locking front differential.
All this extra kit, and the notional ability to drive over boulders and smash into wilderness areas, costs extra, of course, which meant that my GWM Ute Cannon-XSR actually comes with a price tag of $52,990, which, at 1965kg, comes to $26.97 a kilogram. I don’t need to be a savvy bargain hunter to know that that is simply too much for a vehicle that feels as basic and brittle as this.
I understand – well, no I don’t, but I accept – that there are people out there who feel they must have a giant ute like this in their lives, but I would implore them not to become GWM Cannon fodder.
GWM Cannon
ENGINE: 2.0-litre four-cylinder single-turbo diesel (120kW/400Nm)
FUEL ECONOMY: 9.4 litres per 100km
TRANSMISSION: Eight-speed automatic, all-wheel drive
PRICE: $52,990
RATING: 0.5 out of 5
They’re now reduced to importing artillery shells from North Korea.
The Cover in Question …
Just gorgeous, Cats 🙂
Just note those ample eyebrows 🙂
I
Not even a real bear. Fuk ‘em.
Bam.
well, what can I say?
I must have got a lemon
swore off Fords for life after that
so much so that even though I’m charmed by the 3.0 V6 donk, I will seriously never buy a Ranger
Rabz, I expect a cover on Harper’s to look artificial. Purple eye shadow is probably normal, as is arterial blood red lipstick. But you ought to find her repulsive. She’s as plastic as they get.
She’s creepy and unnatural. Stay away from women who look anything like that.
Top Ender:
A common misconception with inner urban Greenies who think this.
Few realise that taking your air supply for the engine from higher off the road and out of the dust is much better for the air filter than down low on the engine under the bonnet.
But we won’t tell them that – we’ll just nod and smile at them instead.
THE WEEK IN PICTURES: AMERICAN KRISTALLNACHT EDITION.
Conservatives are settlers. Someone is better than no-one.
Embrace the mongrel.
(It’s under the stack of New Ideas).
Yes Beaugy, she’s just a Nurit … 🙂
Exterminate!
Huh ha. Harpers also featured trannies on the cover. 🙂
Dunno Rabz.
She looks like she may be a classical beauty. She may well be once the texta eyebrows, purple eye shadow and botox go away.
Eyes, cheekbones, jawline are the keys. No makeup whatsoever. That’s how you know – everything else is window dressing and filters.
And before everyone starts:
Yes, yes, beauty on the inside rah rah rah de rah.
Fair Shake
Loosing a kid under any circumstances is crushing. Don’t feel obligated to say something prophetic or enything at all just listen to them and do what you can to help navigate the weeks ahead. Rember there are volunteer groups setup to help. Deepest sympathy.
yeah, JC, ’cause I’m like, really into trannies … 🙁
Aesthetically Pleasing Young Womanages, thanks.
And here comes Johnny Yen (again) … 🙂
We’ll just put a question mark against the tits. Hypothetically anyway.
Over several episodes Dr. Who will then transition to a white heterosexual woman.
Nice to look at, but where is she on the hot-crazy plot?
And so desperate for Iranian drones it succumbed to their demand for the SU35 fighters.
Sacré bleu – if goils ever start looking like this, then I’m off to retire to another planet – by sundown … 😕
The AusPalis are getting really cheeky now (the Courier-Mail):
They’re complaining about the ABC under-reporting their protests. Brilliant.
Seriously – this is what an (unnamed) Pali spokeschick had to say:
‘Our Labor comrades’. Oho.
Yes. You are the suspect. Shame.
Given what Hamas did on 7th October, I’d deport every one of them. To Gaza.
Greg Kelly thinks the crunch is less than a year away; worse than 9/11:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEXm7sDGXmU
That’s not what I suggested. You brought up Harpers implying it has good looking gals on the cover. I showed that’s not always true.
Fair shake
Sure, suicide is a terrible thing. Spare a thought though for the person that collided with him and the guilt s/he may carry all their lives.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Looks like hell on earth.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
If this were Trump supporters, they’d all be arrested and given 3 years in solitary confinement with no trial.
Banana Republic.
I’d deport them to Jordan. “Palestine is Jordan. Jordan is Palestine.” Yasser Arafat.
I’ve been reporting an Egyptian hamas supporter on twitter.
He/she thought it would be jolly to post a photo of a hostage on an Israeli account I was reading so I went through and found all his 7 October atrocity pictures (there were quite a few) and reported them.
Hopefully he gets booted.
The hostage was hogtied, dressed only in his underpants lying on and surrounded by bags marked as Palestinian relief, possibly in a tunnel.
Oh no Hamas would never steal from poor Gazans.
Sorry to hear about loss of son’s school mate fair shake.
The three oldest Smith children are being buried tomorrow.
I cannot imagine what it would be like to lose even one child.
I like talking about Cricket and Horse Racing and shit-stirring and what not. Hearing Fair Shake’s tale has really upset me. Horrible mofos with that COVID nonsense. which was most severe in the world. Draconian Leftoid shithole is Victoria. Not sure that tipped the kid over, but it didn’t help.
The pali’s are getting justice, just not the way they thought. Why is it that arseholes don’t understand what its like being on the receiving end, woe is me, why are you being so mean, you hurt me more than I hurt you. Which brings me to another point. Why does the initial victim have to react with a commensurate retaliation? If someone attacks me they get whatever I consider a suitable response, not what some hand wringer thinks. These subhuman ***** have no reasoning power just unadulterated hate. They really need the Old Yeller treatment. The Israelis need to go after each and every leaders and lieutenants of humus and hezbollocks. Mossad certainly have the capability.
Reduced? Est. RU artillery fire per day is anything from 20K-60K, so 0.6M-1.8M a month. The report alleges about 1M shells from NK. Last less than 20 days at current rates of fire. More likely they are building their inventory.
Bloody hell. Alluded to earlier by Mr Panzer (the Hun):
Various people are named in the piece describing it as a ‘tragedy’.
A sporty Beemer.
This had better not be yet another half-blind geriatric with shot reflexes who held onto their licence years longer than they should have.
Taking a break from the Model A to rebuild Suzie Q, the gixxer SRAD.
She got blown off her side stand in the front yard and smashed the fairing bracket.
Been sitting for eight years with a fuelling problem. Meanwhile the inside of the tank filled with rust and putrified fuel, and the carb controls are seized. Also stuck in gear somehow.
I was storing her fairings and airbox in the shed, so they’re gone.
Waiting for parts while cleaning tank and carbs, dead fuel pump might be the original problem, so that’s on its way.
Rebuilt Carbies today, freed up butterflies and choke slides, ready to go back on bike tomoz.
Good, nostalgic fun.
I’m reading “The Quest For the Red Prince” – how the Israeli’s hunted down and killed the mastermind of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games massacre. I wonder if the copy on the shelf, at the library at MOSSAD Headquarters, has been borrowed recently?
KD.
I was speculating that the descent down Albert Street was the only possible way this could happen. This street has a right hand bend into a t-intersection onto the Midland Highway. If you go straight ahead you cross a small grassy triangular park (and probably hit a heavy bronze statue of three kids on a horse). To hit the dining area of the hotel you would have to veer left at that right hand bend.
Doesn’t make sense.
How to alienate 93.1% of the blog in one paragraph.
Yeah Sancho, it doesn;t compute to me. Unless deliberate.
Watching the cricket. There is this Indian chap Virat Kohli. He can bat.
Pound for pound that Jadeja bloke is best cricketer. Bat and ball.
Just watched The Sixth Commandment.
Initially thought it was an off the wall Midsomer Murders take off.
True story.
Chock full of Limey weirdos.
Speaking of sudden violent death …
Ricky Slater.
Any thoughts?
Who was Ricky Slater, the kid in Geelong mall?
Doddering old timers have taken to bicycles too, making life difficult for the wheelchair bound. One old guy even has an adult tricycle.
New OT up.
Politicians, having reached diminishing returns on the perennial campaign of “getting tough on hard drugs”, are now turning to the re-election strategy of “getting tough on soft pellets”. The Qld Minister for Justice, speaking from the Labor party election campaign launch at the Laser Tag Association headquarters earlier this week, stated that no guttersnipe is above the law and his government would not be bought off.
The Palace Chook regime declared the new rules would save
livesfaces, citing a recent case of an innocent bystander being blasted into soggy embarrassment in a tragic gangland drive-by gelling, the 3rd such incident this century.Speaking from a basement via encrypted Telegram channel before school with his Mum’s permission, the leader of the Kindermancheros BMX gang said “NNNNNNOOOO. I WANT MY GEL BLASTER. YOU SAID I COULD HAVE ONNEEEEE.”
The Commissioner responded that police would not be intimidated by crooks and warned detention and writing out lines awaited anybody flouting the gel blaster rules.
lol to Sancho saying this will alienate 93% of the blog.
Given that a sporty Beamer is involved, it certainly looks like a shot at my good self as one of the 93%, but at least I have Cassie’s recommendation for my careful driving home with a Beamer full of over-imbibed Cats after a nite out. When needed I am a sober and reliable driver.
This accident sounds like someone (of any age maybe) having a medical event.
Off to a dance class soon to keep those reflexes toned and firing.
It’s quite a long drive over the rats maze of the Warringah freeway.
Knuckles:
This may be one time for us to wait the requisite week until the evidence comes in.
Just back from a trip to the local waste transfer station. “Volunteers” monitoring what you throw in to the pit, hectoring you if there is something recyclable going in. FMD. And I paid $200 for this minor annoyance.