Welcome to the Society of the Glorious Downticked.

A small, select group. It’s hip to be rare.

Careful calli,

Buffalo Bill from Wallsend is here, despite staying up all night LARPing as a Gary Ablett worshipper.

Time to sqqush this ” Price was at a pro Pally” story.
Look at the photos….nothing like her at all.
Just the usual suspects trying to get one back at her and hoping most will never see the photo.
Two already caught here…how many in the general population??

Privation, and no flying, is for the little people.

Judge Interrupts Just Stop Oil Protestor’s Flight to India (4 Nov)

Judge puts Just Stop Oil protestor in her place over 9,000-mile trip to India

Story by Siba Jackson

A judge has refused to delay the trial of Just Stop Oil protestors charged with storming a performance of West End musical, Les Miserables, at the request of one of the defendant who said they were flying to India.

Bill Gates Owns Multiple Jets He Calls His ‘Guilty Pleasure’ (4 Nov)

Gates now owns an impressive fleet of at least four business jets. Valued at close to $200 million, his collection includes the elite Gulfstream G650. Beyond ownership, he also runs a private aviation management company and has channeled substantial investments into the largest business jet service provider globally. …

Gates’s use of private jets has drawn scrutiny in conjunction with his vocal climate activism. Euro News reported he took 392 flights on private jets last year. … Acknowledging his jets as a “guilty pleasure,” he insists that his proactive measures in environmental philanthropy more than offset his personal carbon footprint, positioning him as part of the solution in the ongoing battle against climate change.

Brazenly shameless hypocrites.

She runs past dozens of doctors, who have no patients and all of them conveniently line the corridors.

And not a drop of blood, anywhere.

Rashida Tlaib Posts Video Pushing Genocidal Rhetoric against Jews

Turnip, the page has been taken down.

Thanks Turnip. All the pages relating to Jacinta Price at the rally have been removed. Images from the various outlets remain.

Plus this Tweet. Her whereabouts are yet to be verified, but can be proved easily.

As you say, probably sucked in by a lie, and feeling rather foolish for trusting the dopey, lying MSM yet again.

I must be a slow learner. Will try harder next time.

I see a pot o’ gold.

Quite so. A big one.

Fools rush in…

Fools rush in…

Yes.

And even bigger fools refuse to admit their mistakes.

I thought that was the trips to Lolita Island.

thought the same

Piers Morgan vs Jordan Peterson on Israel-Hamas War And His ‘Give ‘Em Hell’ Tweet

From our friends at Armstrong Legal:

These charges may be laid where:

a person has been the recipient of abusive messages, social media posts or emails from a fake profile;

celebrity or public figure has had their computer or phone hacked and had sensitive images or personal information shared online; or

a person is being stalked online by someone who is incessantly creating fake accounts, sending large numbers of messages and/or attempting to add them on various social media platforms.

These offences are serious and all carry maximum penalties of imprisonment. The most common charge for online stalking is a Commonwealth offence known as ‘Use Carriage Service to Menace, Harass or Offend’. A detailed overview of that offence, including elements of the offence and maximum penalties can be found here.

Oh dear.

From week in pictures.
I laughed.

Armstrong Legal? Is that from the same 286 computer that runs Armstrong Econom nom nom ics? How much does it cost to subscribe? Had a nice little lotto win last week so I’ve got money to burn.

Who down ticked the BANANAS?

If someone from an Army political nudge unit wants to meet with you privately to “discuss things man to man”, did they get approval for a controlled operation from the AFP Commissioner?

That would be a political scandal unto itself, however legal it may be.

‘Digital chlamydia’!

Tinder?

When I searched for the Jacinta Price story I got a broken link to News com au.

Any news outlet that published that story should now have up a major retraction and apology article as some will already be believing it and may have shared it.

It worked! I copied that image from Powerline and was able to link it. Yay.
Will repeat experiment to make sure it wasn’t a fluke.

Let’s see if Always right’s bananas turn up.

Time to sqqush this ” Price was at a pro Pally” story.
Look at the photos….nothing like her at all.

More leftist racism – the left says they all look the same,.

You want them out in the open where you can then display their gross views and use that to persuade the public – especially those on the left how their gross

And then sent back to the shit holes they came from.

Pogria the link to powerline didn’t work.

Winston

Grey Ranga, which one?

That dodgy Adams dude was 81.
Not unusual for someone to go out just sitting in a chair.

Pogria, both. All its doing is showing you from your cache not linking for us mere mortals.

Gez my dog produces Labor Super Geniuses every day.

I think she’s trying to do the Norm Macdonald thing.

I doubt that but it would be absurdly meta.

If this’d happened 78 years ago it would’ve been inconvenient!

Iwo-jima volcano: eruptions continue on island’s surface, new cone is now forming (4 Nov)

Great aerial photo of the new volcanic cone forming exactly where the USMC landing craft were, as they were running in to the beach.

Interesting observation- I looked on youtube for some Sweeney episodes- only the pilot and extracts. Full episodes on Daily Motion. Wow-British TV used to rock. John Thaw seems to chronical the decline- tough guy detective to poncie barrister.

Lizzie earlier.

The jetlag’s getting worse though, takes a week now, used to take 3 days.

I recommend no further than Noosa and back.
Maybe Port Douglas at a stretch.

Too late. We’re already booked to go up the Amazon in March.

Labor, the party of the working man. Or not (the Hun):

Blue-collar Australia is turning its back on the Albanese government, with support for the Coalition surging since the Voice referendum among tradies and Australians with vocational and TAFE educations.

In results that suggest rejection of the Voice might damage Labor’s vote at the next election, the latest RedBridge poll has found the party’s primary vote has dropped 4 per cent since August, led by a collapse in its support among working-class Australians.

Oh, Elbow. Surely growing up in a fibro houso western something something would have instilled a sense of what’s right? What’s important to the average Joe? That ordinary working class punters weren’t stupid?

Among voters with a TAFE, trade or vocational education Labor led the Coalition 36 per cent to 29 per cent on primaries. But in the poll taken last week, RedBridge found support for the major parties has flipped, with the Coalition now leading Labor on primaries among both these demographic groups.

Evidently not. The good news (for Elbow) is that the tertiary-educated ponytails like him:

In contrast, Labor’s primary vote has improved slightly among Australians with university degrees – up from 40 per cent to 41 per cent since the referendum, while the Coalition’s share of the tertiary-educated has fallen from 34 per cent to 31 per cent.

Worryingly for the government, the referendum appears to have triggered a collapse in Labor’s primary vote among people aged 35 to 49.

Attention Elbow. You are now officially in ‘the topender town’ people were talking about not all that long ago.

Well that’s embarrassing.

Mother Nature knows best when it comes to climate solutions, social media users say (Phys.org, 4 Nov)

A survey of more than a million social media posts suggests that people feel more positive about nature’s ability to solve climate change than human technology, according to new research published in the journal Global Environmental Change.

Researchers analyzing 1.5 million posts on X (formerly Twitter) using the latest artificial intelligence-driven language models found expressions of “disgust” and “fear” related to the term “geoengineering,” which is often associated with radical technology such as spraying aerosols into the atmosphere or solar space sails.
…
The authors conclude the paper with a recommendation to avoid the use of the often-misunderstood term “geoengineering,” which includes all the efforts to mitigate climate change from both technological to natural solutions.

“From our study, we’ve uncovered where the public anxiety about ‘geoengineering’ solutions is being directed,” said Debnath.

“It’s up to scientists and policymakers to either clear up these concerns and try to bring people around, or listen to the public, who at this moment are more supportive of nature-based solutions.”

So we have to call it something else to fool the proles. Okaaay.

I just watched that interview Indolent linked with John Anderson (yummy guy) interviewing Christopher Hitchins’ brother Peter. Peter is a British rationalist who reminds me of Hairy’s very moderating brother who would fall under the first tank he met. Peter thinks Israel was wrong to tackle Hamas and go into Gaza. Peter is an armchair noodle who, while he has friends in the Middle East on both sides, doesn’t really comprehend that power does lie in the barrel of a gun turret when opposing barbarians, at least until you have made your point and reduced your enemy’s capabilities. Then you negotiate.

Knuckle Dragger
Nov 5, 2023 11:36 AM
Labor, the party of the working man. Or not (the Hun):

No, no, no! This cannot be, that top political analyst, FatBoy mUnty has absolutely assured us that the outer suburbs are safe for Labor to infinity, and the Liberals should rely on regaining the Wood Duck seats as a path back to power (and those seats are going Green).

I used to rely heavily on Twitter to post daily cartoons. Then Elon made it impossible to view Twitter content without logging on (using passwords I had long forgotten).

I found nitter which lets you view twitter without logging in, just put in the name of the twitter you want to view after nitter.net e.g. nitter.net/elonmusk

On another subject, logged into a supplier’s customer support site and say Altasian for the first time in my life.

Shine On You Crazy Diamond being played on the streets of Jerusalem. The musicians are orthodox. I thought they would have steered clear of Pink Floyd given their history.

Sweeney was one of the best of British Television shows.

Followed by Arfur Daley.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Nov 5, 2023 11:48 AM
Comment, from the Oz. That’s the first I’d heard of this, any other Cats able to shed any light on this one?

Michael
2 hours ago
(Edited)
The Japanese, during the Second World War sent secret emissaries to meet with Australian officials on an Island South of occupied Dutch New Guinea as early as 1944, offering an honourable surrender to Australia, which was rejected out of hand.

Ed Case trying a different line? Previously he said that Japan was ready to surrender in 1943, now it seems that the Japanese were asking Australia to surrender in 1944?

That dodgy Adams dude was 81.
Not unusual for someone to go out just sitting in a chair.

Best I don’t sit down too much then. Keep on travelling. Suits me.

Bruce of Newcastle
Nov 5, 2023 11:40 AM

Well that’s embarrassing.

Mother Nature knows best when it comes to climate solutions, social media users say (Phys.org, 4 Nov)

At Bengello Beach, longest-running coastal study in Southern Hemisphere finds ‘nature is the best healer’
ABC

Bruce O’Nuke:

A survey of more than a million social media posts suggests that people feel more positive about nature’s ability to solve climate change than human technology, according to new research published in the journal Global Environmental Change.

The same thread of human arrogance runs through both the Gerbil Wormening Movement and the Trans Lunacy – God has made a mistake and it’s up to a certain group to correct that mistake.
Prideful arrogance from people who have been educated far beyond their intellectual capacity.

Had a comment about unintended consequences of messing with atmospheric chemistry and it mightn’t be a good idea.

Into the void it went.

At Bengello Beach, longest-running coastal study in Southern Hemisphere finds ‘nature is the best healer’

P – Good get. How dare scientists do actual empirical research and data collection! Amazing that the ABC is carrying that article. I suppose they don’t understand the implications.

Boambee John

Nov 5, 2023 11:49 AM
No, no, no! This cannot be, that top political analyst, FatBoy mUnty has absolutely assured us that the outer suburbs are safe for Labor to infinity, and the Liberals should rely on regaining the Wood Duck seats as a path back to power (and those seats are going Green).

Labor still has the opportunity to force through the transfer of power to the UN of Australia’s sovereignty under the epidemic scenario, and I doubt that the Libs will even think about cancelling it.
The Liberal Party will be sitting back, looking at the polls and thinking government will be handed to them on a silver platter.
They will do nothing to upset the system.

Grey Ranga,
when I go to the link, it still comes up with the pic. Must be because it is on my computer. I thought I had had a lightbulb moment. sigh, I had celebrated prematurely.
Can I identify as a bloke now? 😀

Go Calli go!

I hope that doesn’t mean…

😀

On John Thaw, I once heard him interviewed. His natural speaking voice was far more like his Sweeny character than Morse’s dulcet RP. For fun he tried on a few voices for the interviewer – most entertaining.

Fun fact – the series “Endeavour” which covers Morse’s early police service has an episode called “Harvest”. Apart from a naughty reference to The Wicker Man, it also featured Thaw’s wife, Sheila Hancock as a sort of wise woman/witch. If you watch the shows carefully, you’ll see lost of sly little references to the earlier series.

“Lewis” is not so reminiscent, but there are still plenty of memories caught among the dreaming spires.

Attention Elbow. You are now officially in ‘the topender town’ people were talking about not all that long ago.

mOnty and Albo: “Are we the baddies tories?”

Thaw also had a leg injury which had him dragging his foot. I believe it was permanent. Most angles were shot front-on or knee-up when he was walking. Except for one which gave it away.

Other fun fact – Kevin Whately, who played Lewis was approached for more episodes but he refused to do more than the Morse series out of respect for the original.

Favourite Morse Episode is “The Wench is Dead” a century old murder solved from a hospital bed, Lewis has to be “Moonbeams Kiss the Sea”, all about forgery and dead poets and Tolkien’s supposed banjo playing.

Barrington Pheloung did the soundtrack for all three series.

Pogria you can be a man without a dick. Does not confer map reading ability.

Bruce of Newcastle

Nov 5, 2023 11:52 AM
At least they’d be better than insects.

Can we eat our way through an exploding sea urchin problem? (Phys.org, 4 Nov)

I doubt there has ever been a species with the sheer insolence to tell the planet (Been here for 4.5 Billion years and doing fine!) that evolution, which has been in flux for all that time, is now to stop and remain unchanged for ever!
Greens: “Stop, Gaia! We command you!”
Gaia: “More pesky lifeforms that won’t shut up. Where’s the nearest comet?”

Roger

Nov 5, 2023 12:52 PM
Attention Elbow. You are now officially in ‘the topender town’ people were talking about not all that long ago.

Elbow owns 5 properties (at last count) and he’s not alone among Labor’s elite on that score.

I wonder how many his live in partner owns?

Rabid preacher in Sydney town. They live among us. Report from The Oz.

A Sydney Islamic preacher has called on Muslims to wage “jihad” and declared Australia “hypocrites” for labelling as terrorism the Hamas massacre of innocent Israels but “forgetting its dark past”, in a radical and incendiary sermon.

In late October, ‘Brother Ismail’ gave a khutbah – a traditional Islamic sermon at Al Madina Dawah Centre, southwest Sydney – that took aim at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, the federal government and intelligence service, and Islamic leaders who had criticised Jihad fighters abroad, as well as calling Jihad the “solution”.

He calls for jihad action by all Muslims. ASIO and others have been alerted.

Bettina Arndt:

Toowoomba’s Brittany Higgins Wannabee
– Another gold-digger goes after Bruce Lehrmann.