Open Thread – Mon 13 Nov 2023
1,635 responses to “Open Thread – Mon 13 Nov 2023”
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Here you go Mark – this is where Bar Beach Swimmer lives, from above. The beach is Bar Beach, the city is Ncl and the updrafts are perfect. 😀
Newcastle Coastal Flight (2020)
It’s a nice thing to go to a cafe on those beaches, have lunch, and watch the gliders in action.
No glider action over the Cafe, I am on the NW shore of Lake Mac, the thermals and the terrain aren’t conducive sadly,
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Yeah, dunno.
Whatever it was it was an affectation which was hiding something more sinister.Saaay what!?
You whack, cracker.
This is Nino Brown’s town.
New Danistan City, baby!
Time to subvert the local library and put Anders Brevik’s manifesto in the young adult section.
PS
It’s happening, anons!
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Well, here’s my day’s tally: one pile-on starting, and I hope finishing, on page 5 of the Cat, that’s the negative. The positive is that Hairy and I went to a special lighting sale this arvo and purchased an Italian Murano glass chandelier for over our dining table. We’d decided the plain white glass pendant currently there was very boring. I also fell in love with an elaborate and very colourful bohemian glass chandelier with Swarovski and Murano features, rather Art Nouveau. It’s a work of art in itself, I was saying breathlessly. Get that too, says Hairy. We’ll decide what goes where later. So we got it. You only live once.
A little retail therapy never goes astray. We had lunch out too.
Thank you for listening, Cats. You know you can’t keep me down. 🙂
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Just upticking is a sighn of anti semitisam apparently.
weaponised like crazy
by people with a sinister but craftily hidden agenda
we’ll have the whole Mata-Catallaxy crew here any minute now to explain their theories about pattern recognition, how hearsay is all the proof you need, and why paranoia is the best medicine
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ffs … standing against Palestine is enough to get you named as ‘literally, worserer than Hitler” these days
Thats just the sort of thing Hitler would say.
Also I was today years old when I found out there are turtles living in Wiluna.
Had to go and play around with a malfunctioning generator at an abandoned pit, pit has a lot of water in it.
Amazed to see dozens of these little critters swimming about in the water.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-17/summer-rains-awaken-dormant-desert-turtles/8281174Talking to another bloke and he has counted over 100 there, then after a big rain the place is empty as they take off in the wet.
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Despite the events of 7 October 2023, when almost 1500 Jews were raped, slaughtered, butchered, defiled, kidnapped into Gaza, on the Sabbath (it was also Simchas Torah), in mass murder not seen since the Holocaust.
Despite what I witnessed on 9 October 2023 at Town Hall Sydney, when I saw children wearing mock suicide vests at a protest where Muslims and leftists came out to protest Israel, despite the bodies scattered across southern Israel still being warm.
Despite being told that Monday night 9 October 2023 by NSW Police for Sydney Jews to steer clear of the Sydney CBD, therefore making it Judenfrei.
Despite seeing the footage of what ensued that night when NSW Police personally escorted Muslims and leftists down to the Sydney Opera House, and then stood and watched those ‘protesters” screech out “kill the Jews” and “gas the Jews”.
Despite seeing, week after week, massive protests on the streets of Sydney, Melbourne, London, NYC, LA, San Francisco, protests where leftist and Muslim ‘protesters’ screech out death to Jews, shout the genocidal cry that is “from the river to the sea”, carry placards with utterly offensive and obscene comparisons, such as claiming that Gaza is like Auschwitz.
Despite watching this federal government speak with forked tongues when it comes to condemning Jew hatred, yet being the gaslighting weasels they are, insisting that we also have to be mindful of “Islamophobia”.
Despite watching what happened last Friday night on the holy Sabbath, when well over hundred Muslims and leftists went to a Jewish suburb in Melbourne, a suburb I know well, and stood outside a synagogue intimidating Jewish residents and screeching Jew hatred.
Despite seeing the scenes of those Muslim ISIS loving bikies, led by a former terrorist, with yet another NSW police escort, make their way from Lidcombe to Coogee, to intimidate the Jews of the eastern suburbs.
Despite on Sunday afternoon coming face to face with the Palestinian protesters in Sydney’s CBD, and I can assure everyone, it was not a pretty spectacle.
Despite all of the above, despite the ongoing intimidation, despite the endless gaslighting, despite the major threats against my community (and I know this for a fact), despite the astronomical Jew hatred, at levels not seen since the 1930s and 1940s, despite all of this………………I’ve got a grip, I still get up every day, I still go to work, I cook, I bake, I hug my sister’s dogs, I care for my mother, I speak to friends, I laugh, in fact after the rally on Sunday for the hostages, a group of us went and had coffee and we laughed and laughed and laughed.
I’ll just say this, nobody knows what it is like, to know you have to be Jewish. You can sympathise, you can feel feel empathy and we are grateful to those of you who do, but you have no idea of how we Jews feel, of the fear we Jews feel because it is in our DNA. Two thousand years of persecution, pogroms, expulsions, slaughter, forced conversions and so on was bottled up in a genie bottle, but the events of 7 October 2023 has opened that bottle and the genie of Jew hatred is well and truly out.
Thanks Lizzie. I’ll also reiterate my comment from early this morning, which is what elicited the response from Johanna, a response that so here many seem to approve of. It was about the UK, and I’d written that it’s likely finished, I think the weekly protests on the streets of the UK’s major cities attest to the fact that the UK has serious problems with Islam. I stand by that comment from this morning.
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“Bar Beach” Never heard it
Plus Nobbys it’s main surfing beach in Ncl.
Newcastle is funny. I’ve lived and worked here like thirty years and getting anyone to transfer to Ncl for work is like arm twisting with a big monkey wrench. Yet every time they grit their teeth and actually move to Ncl they love it and retire here. It’s weird.
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Matrix I assure you mine turtles are merely celebrating dal erm der, um whatever hindi celebration has just passed.
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Mark – My front lawn isn’t big enough for a RV, and your conveyance would be rapidly covered by guano and regurgitated fig seeds. Like my aircraft carrier. I need to wash it: it’s looking pretty grotty right now.
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I imagine many of our Jewish friends are in something akin to a state of grief.
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I saw on Sky last night, during the Caulfield abomination, a presumably pro- palli chap cross the road belligerently towards an older Jewish gentleman.
It may have been the camera angle, but it seemed to me the pro- palli chap lost a lot of interest and enthusiasm and staggered off in a semi daze after receiving what looked a lot like a right cross. -
sancho’s characterization is both convenient, after all TG isnt here to defend himself
Oh, right.
So we must refrain from giving it to neo-Nazi fan-bois because … in absentia.
Give it a break, dickhead.
He was a complete f-ckwit, cheering on Anders Brievik’s mass murder of kids at a youth festival based on their political beliefs.
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Mark – the currawongs eat the figs from my neighbour’s fig tree and upchuck the seeds everywhere, including on my car. It is fun since most of them are tame, so they land in front of me and look slightly crosseyed. I wait. Sure enough after minute or two they chunder a lump of fig seeds, then turn their gaze to me. “Yes, thanks, I’d like some mince now!” Which I hand to them. I have fig seedlings growing all over the place. That’s what my lawnmower is for.
I’m off to feed some brushtails, who are bouncing on my tin roof as I type.
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Cassie, Douglas Murray in the interview with Caroline Glick that I linked above has similar feelings of dismay about Britain, and also France and Germany. The discussion between the two about how these events are felt by Jewish people everywhere might also make you feel among friends. They contextualise their discussion by interspersing reference to various writings that they use to make sense of it all. I took a quiet hour with it, and you may enjoy to do that too.
Chin up, love, I’ve been reduced to shakes and tears over far less important things here and you have made a strong and dignified response. You are bearing up well, and as you’ve reminded us, Jews even managed to laugh and crack a joke in the camps. Until starvation and typhus left them too frail and wordless.
I look forward to better days, when Israel does what Douglas Murray suggests at the conclusion to this talk. He sees the next task after winning is for Israel to certain its Chosen People that Israel can defend them for all time; a shepherd to the flock. Douglas also stresses the West must rediscover its Judeo-Christian origins, where Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s recent conversion to Christianity leads the way.
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Mak Siccar
Nov 14, 2023 6:12 PMInVoice referendum. National turnout was just shy of 90%. Thus, approx 1.7 M didn’t vote.
About the same as last years federal election I think.
I wonder if there are a million or more people in this country, so disgusted with what happened during covid that they’ve turned their backs on the entire political system for good?
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Trading Places is 40 years old.
Some great quotes.Billy Ray Valentine: This is a practical joke, right, brother?
[the chauffeur shakes his head]
Billy Ray Valentine: Then these dudes are a couple of faggots then, huh?
[the chauffeur shakes his head again]Billy Ray Valentine: Oh, I’d love to help you man, but I ain’t seen nothing since I stepped on that landmine in Vietcong back in ’72. It was rough, very painful.
Officer Reynolds: You were in ‘Nam? So were we. Where?
Billy Ray Valentine: I was in… Sang Bang… Dang Gong… I was all over the place, basically a lot of places, a lot of places. -
He was a complete f-ckwit, cheering on Anders Brievik’s mass murder of kids at a youth festival based on their political beliefs.”
I remember how he compared Rosie, Lizzie and me to those French women who’d collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. Those French women had their heads shaved after the liberation as punishment. Apparently, because we’d had the Covid jab, we’d also “collaborated” and he wrote that we also needed to have our heads shaved as punishment. A real charmer
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Bar Beach Swimmer
Nov 14, 2023 6:36 PM
MT @ 6:14pm
What governments did to the people during the Covid lockdowns, especially in Victoria, was enough to break some people apart.
In TG’s case, he was of working age – not old – and iirc unattached. Trying to keep afloat financially and emotionally in such pressure cooker conditions would not have been easy for anyone
WTF are you talking about?
He frickin’ worked full-time in construction right through Covid as an “essential wukka”. Something he was happy to brag about whilst others were sitting at home watching their businesses evaporate and trying to home-school their kids.
And, as Bespoke points out, he showed signs of this pre-Covid.
Here’s the thing.
He only lost his job in construction post-Covid and couldn’t get another one.
Let that sink in.
Couldn’t get a job in construction in Melbourne in 2022.
Reading the tea-leaves, he got the arse the very first day his post-Covid protected status disappeared.
His cards were marked.
Why do you reckon that was?
Smoko room neo-Nazi chatter perhaps?
As for being “not old”, if you think he was 18, my mail is you are out by 15-20 years.
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The reality was that TailGunner thought Brievik “had the right idea” in dealing with young people who didn’t share his political views.
That is, hunting and shooting dead 77 kids at a youth camp.
And this wasn’t just a random late night drunken rant. He repeated it over several weeks in one form or another, often accompanied by increasingly unhinged links.
He isn’t so far removed from those swivel-eyed loons screaming “Gas the Jews” in Sydney a couple of weeks ago.
He owns that.
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FMD
An Indigenous health leader and self-dubbed “accidental CEO” Janine Mohamed has been named the Australian of the Year for Victoria.
The 49-year-old Narungga Kaurna woman was announced as the recipient of the prestigious accolade at a ceremony held at the National Gallery of Victoria on Tuesday night.
The other recipients for the Victorian Australian of the Year awards were also named.
Animal justice advocate Glenys Oogjes was named the 2024 Senior Australian of the Year for Victoria.
Registered nurse and founder of Albury Wodonga Multicultural Community Events Inc, Bhakta Bahadur Bhattarai was dubbed 2024 Young Australian of the Year for Victoria.
And Betul Tuna, co-founder of Point of Difference Studio, is the 2024 Local Hero for Victoria.
They will join those from the other states and territories for the national awards to be announced on January 25 next year.
Ms Mohamed was recognised for longstanding work with the Lowitja Institute in Melbourne, a community health campaign and research institution.
Sharing the news of her nomination last week, she thanked the “anonymous person” who put her forward for the award.
“This nomination means so much to me, my family and the communities that have championed the work of cultural safety and anti-racism with me since 1998,” she wrote in a post on LinkedIn.
“My motivation to restore and improve the health outcomes and life experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples was ignited by my strong and resilient Nanna, who raised me and through witnessing both the excellent and shockingly bad parts of life that she experienced.
“My passion for change has never been about personal accolades but about the joy of seeing the wins, outcomes and real choices for mob and the wider Australian community … But this is a really nice surprise.”
Initially studying nursing at the University of South Australia before moving to Melbourne in 2019, Ms Mohamed has worked to promote health policy and research, in order to boost health outcomes for Indigenous people.
Ms Mohamed was also awarded the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity Fellowship in 2019, and a Distinguished Fellowship by The George Institute for Global Health Australia in 2021.
She also holds a honorary Doctorate of Nursing from Edith Cowan University.
Kind readers already know the useless nature of university degrees now. But how useless is an honorary degree fer phuck sake?
And Ms Mohamed? Get out of town and keep phucking orf. It’s almost a nod and wink for what’s happening now. -
Back from the goff course. Not Royal Portsea, where Mr Andrews has been embarrassed out of even applying for membership.
Predictably, and in all likelihood due to relevance deprivation over the last week or so, the bored have turned up looking for stoushes.
Just now:
The reality was that TailGunner thought Brievik “had the right idea” in dealing with young people who didn’t share his political views.
That is, hunting and shooting dead 77 kids at a youth camp.Correct. That is exactly what he did, and deserved every single keystroke of opprobrium he got in return, until he pissed off.
And this wasn’t just a random late night drunken rant. He repeated it over several weeks in one form or another, often accompanied by increasingly unhinged links.
Yes indeedy. The ‘I’m a bonged-up construction bloke hehe, look at the chicks’ was a straight-up slap across the chops to every single other person here who was banned from doing anything, including leaving their house in the Terror. And he laughed at them.
A piece of shit, probably going Radio Rental as well, but in any case looking out for him and him alone.
‘Oh but you never met him’
Seriously. According to the people who post here, those who have met the switch-flicking God Oracle have not walked away with the highest of opinions either.
Now awaiting a chorus of ‘mong/wanking/Nietzche/mong/have you worked it out yet’, performed entirely by a choir of transgender children with spina bifida.
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Yes indeedy. The ‘I’m a bonged-up construction bloke hehe, look at the chicks’ was a straight-up slap across the chops to every single other person here who was banned from doing anything, including leaving their house in the Terror. And he laughed at them.
Until the first day came post-Covid for construction companies to release anyone who (ahem) “wasn’t best fit for the ongoing needs of the organisation”* and he got rissoled.
Then the laffin’ stopped.
And the Nazism started (or, rather, increased in pitch and volume).
As I say, it speaks volumes that this bloke, allegedly with years of experience, couldn’t get a construction job in Melbourne in 2022.
FMD, an un-trained monkey who could fog up a mirror could get a job as an air-con tech.
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Moral outrage, simply untrue: Marcia Langton slams Blak sovereignty’s Palestine stance
exclusive
By paige taylor
Indigenous Affairs Correspondent, WA Bureau Chief
@paigeataylor
9:27PM November 14, 2023
1 CommentDistinguished Indigenous leader Marcia Langton has condemned the “Blak sovereignty” movement’s proposition that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians feel solidarity with Palestinians as “simply untrue”, saying there is very little that is comparable in the two peoples’ situations.
Professor Langton offered a withering assessment of the pro-Palestinian strand of the Indigenous rights movement after Australia Palestine Advocacy Network president Nasser Mashni wore a pin with both Aboriginal and Palestinian flags on his jacket during a discussion of the Israel-Hamas war on ABC’s Q&A program on Monday night.
It follows a decision by independent senator Lidia Thorpe – the voice of the Blak sovereignty movement in parliament – to announce on social media last month: “I stand with Palestine!”
Read NextJewish leaders such as Liberal MP Julian Leeser and prominent lawyer Mark Leibler were longtime and vocal supporters of the campaign for an Indigenous voice to parliament, which remote Indigenous communities mostly supported on referendum day but which the Blak sovereignty movement vocally opposed.
Professor Langton is the first Indigenous campaigner for the voice to write in the mainstream media about the Israel-Hamas war. Writing in The Australian on Wednesday, Professor Langton begins by describing the loss of thousands of lives in Gaza as unjustifiable. She condemns Hamas and says she is horrified and deeply saddened by the loss of lives in the Levant, the Israelis who were murdered and kidnapped by Hamas and the innocent Palestinians who are being used as human shields by Hamas.
“As an Indigenous Australian, I can have little effect in stopping these horrors but it is necessary to be clear about a few matters,” she writes.
“‘Blak sovereignty’ advocates have entwined two extraordinary propositions – one that is simply untrue and one that is a moral outrage.
“First, they claim that ‘Indigenous Australians feel solidarity with Palestinians’. This is false; it is the view of a tiny few, if put in those words. Most of us are aware of the complexity and that there is very little comparable in our respective situations, other than our humanity.
“Second, they refuse to condemn Hamas. I am aghast and embarrassed. They do not speak for me. I fear and loathe the possibility of further loss of life in this terrible crisis.
“I fear also that our multicultural society is being torn apart by people deluded about terrorism who have used their protests as a cover for anti-Semitism. Our Jewish and Palestinian communities deserve respect and compassion. I do not support the violence we have seen in Australia recently as a result of this conflict.”
Professor Langton is categorical that Hamas are terrorists and that Palestinian Islamic Jihad are terrorists.
Marcia Langton? Where do I know that name from?
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Knuckle Dragger
Nov 14, 2023 10:10 PM
Funny how everything’s a joke, until it affects the jokers personally.
Then the dial spins from one to eleventy really, really quick.
‘I’m all right, Jack. Oh, wait. Fruit picking’s my only option.
‘It must be someone else’s fault.’
His hero shows similar traits:-
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A “Ten Pound Pom” I worked with, had been one of the British tankies who liberated Belsen. Was that all fake?
My grandfather ended up as a HM Land Forces motor pool Sgt after D Day and as he could speak German, got moved out of transport and into intel – he helped officers interrogate war criminals (he was a smart bugger and autodidact, became a pharmacist on the UK soldier scholarship or whatever it was post war). He was a civilian peeler (also got kicked out of an Anglican seminary and recused to marry grandma) pre war so that might have helped. Another horrifying part of his job in the transport pool was arranging for some of the dead to be given proper burials as Monty came into Bergen Belsen etc.
For the Holocaust to be a lie, tens of millions needed to commit to such a lie and all of the pre war and contemporaneous German records had to be faked by the Germans. It’s an insane idea.
If they didn’t commit war crimes and crimes against humanity, why did they rely on the Nuremberg defence?
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A “Ten Pound Pom” I worked with, had been one of the British tankies who liberated Belsen. Was that all fake?
I was far from alone in pointing out the well established facts of the Holocaust. Tailgunner stopped pushing his argument when he saw the reaction he was getting. That he put it up at all damned him in my eyes.
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Megan
Nov 14, 2023 10:27 PM
Unless there is some kind of holographic wizardry or witchcraft going on, I have seen TG and MT in the same room. Twice.
Impossible to mistake one for other.
No-one suggested that.
God Oracle is trying to deflect his way out of his defence of the Neo-Nazi as being “just a confused, naughty boy”.
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My beautiful chandelier of the Art Nouveau type was only one of two – a seven candle one and a five candle one. The seven candle one, says the owner of this closing down end-of-an-era shop, was Marcia HInes; so many high-end specialty shops in Double Bay and Rose Bay of this type are getting shoved out by ‘progress’. She’s end of an era too. Like me, I guess.
I like to think on it. It is something unique and beautiful. Like buying a piece of jewellery. It made my day, which actually really did need making after page 5 here.
Just sayin’..
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Going back now to watch the series on Sky on the Liberals. I thought I’d hate it, but am watching it with Hairy. It’s not too bad and very interesting to relive those moments in time. Everyone looks younger. Golly gosh. Scott Morrison, can’t forgive him for Net Zero, nevertheless comes across as badly done by. The whole Kimbeley Kitchen and Nickerless thing. Awful. Stupid Scott not looking at sub judice though.
Late Debate next, soon. We are on time delay. Like life after 80. Time delay.
Love ya all. Some of youse anyway.
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I’d fly up to gatecrash
Always welcome, Megan. Nex time maybe. It’s at Rabz’s cottage if you change your mind. Or should the dratted epidural gets cancelled. If not, I hope it works well for you.
Bring the Scicilian Prince for more tales of Italian life.
We are already missing Italy. I think my chandeliers have something to do with that.
I want an Italian villa like the one we lorded it in for three days. Never going to get one though. Making do with Murano glass.
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Sancho Panzer
You should watch “Pepsi, Where’s My Jet?”.
Epic marketing failure to asterisk an outlandish rewards offer.Thank you, just did. Great story. I deal with Yanks all the time and this was spot on. Marketing is just the art of telling lies without feeling guilty. Unis have courses on it. Astounding.
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I said earlier that bolta had interviewed david karoly who had been infecting kiddies with climate change bullshit. In fact it was this old bastard: nick abel; he looks like he presented: an inbred, tooth decay ridden piece of shit.
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JohnJJJ.
They did spin the story out a bit (as streaming services are wont to do).
But it was an interesting story with some (ahem) “larger than life” characters.
A simple asterisk and fine-print disclaimer could have prevented it all.
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Yeah, get a room fellers. Please.
And miss the comedy? Nah.
I share the opinions of many and disagree with just as many, but this robust defence of a giggling, serial-killer sympathiser who had no skin in the same when it counted, and when said defence is led by a cryptic all-knowing God Oracle – well, this requires some level of opposition.
Yeah nah. You back that type of statement, expect some commentary.
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KD, nobody much gives a toss about TailGunner & never did.
He’s had more mention tonight from Stencho than he’s ever had.The bloke was way too full on for most people, & apart from a coterie of followers, nobody much had anything to do with him.
I’ve no idea if anything said about him tonight is true or not, as I plain did not ever pay that much attention to him.
Scoring points in absentia over a long departed Cat isn’t a spectator sport.
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Yeah nah. You back that type of statement, expect some commentary.
Correct.
I am not sure when “no longer around to defend himself” became a defence for Nazism.
Adolf Eichmann would probably be pleased to hear about that statute of limitations.
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Speaking of aircraft being faster than trains…
For 2 Weeks, Switzerland Has A Rail Replacement Helicopter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFgsUVF82OEyour only real option is to hop on the Braunwaldbahn, a mountain-climbing funicular railway that connects Braunwald with the main line trains down in Linthal. Or at least it would do if they were running at the moment. But the question is: what happens if the Braunwaldbahn itself needs to go down for repairs?
€7.20 for a helicopter flight through the Alps. Limited time only.
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Always welcome, Megan. Nex time maybe. It’s at Rabz’s cottage if you change your mind. Or should the dratted epidural gets cancelled. If not, I hope it works well for you.
Would love another weekend in Sydney catching up with you lot would be the icing on the cake. Keep me in the loop.
And yes, should the epidural be cancelled I’ll be looking at flights. Or maybe even the train…love trains for the very reasons Bruce of Newk enumerated earlier.
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I’ve no idea if anything said about him tonight is true or not, as I plain did not ever pay that much attention to him
Okay. Well, this is true:
1. He made much of being ‘essential’ and employed (and paid) when hundreds of thousands of people in his State alone weren’t so lucky;
2. As soon as he had skin in the game, i.e. ‘released’ at the first opportunity by his employer, it was someone else’s fault and he immediately dived straight into the Nuffer Pool deep end;
3. From there it was a short step to the avowed Nazi-affiliated mass murders of people in and barely out of their teens was not only acceptable but right; and
4. I didn’t bring it up. Someone else did, and also mentioned how good a bloke he was on the strength of meeting him.People who were paying attention then, picked this up now.
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Just to be clear, I was not defending TG at all. Simply stating a fact. I was not around much at the time his meltdown occurred so I cannot comment. I saw no sign of any of that when I encountered him in person. It’s hardly surprising that the stress of Afdanistan at that particular time would reveal people’s true colours. Still no excuse.
I have no time at all for apologists of Nazism, mass murderers or terrorists.
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4. I didn’t bring it up. Someone else did, and also mentioned how good a bloke he was on the strength of meeting him.
Further, that anyone who had not met him was disqualified from forming a view on the disgusting shit he peddled.
It seems he was “young* and naive” and just “a good brownshirt who had lost his way”.
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Knuckle Dragger Nov 14, 2023 11:33 PM
You’ve mistaken me for someone who cares a fig for TG.
There’s been more posted about him (& scrolled past) than anybody would ever want/need/care to know.He was too full on for me, on top of which I never really paid any attention to him.
If we’re going to spend half a thread rehashing departed Cats, I’d rather talk about ones who made a more positive & nuanced contribution.
Eg, Daddy Dave. What ever happened to him?
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Andrew who?
The former Prince Andrew. Who else?
No wonder the shit for brains doesn’t like bringing up the past.
The prince andrew will be adored comment would have to go down as one of the 5 best face plants in the history of the blog.
He actually wanted a citation a few weeks ago.
The only citation he didn’t need was the “I’m for labor royalty” stock.
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What this blog needs is more frontline hotelier tales.
Something like this plot-line …
1. I got audited by XYZ Government Department.
2. They sent out a couple of smart-arsey city slicker kids (played by Indians)
3. These kids tried to pull some gotcha on me.
4. I pointed out the relevant section of the XYZ Legislation, proving them wrong and sent them packing with their tales between their legs.
5. The Department Head rang me to apologise and offered compensation.
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Sancho Panzer
Nov 15, 2023 12:22 AM
What this blog needs is ……………………….How Mrs Stencho Pantyhose is now getting on with those recently arrived Muzzies living next door. Are they learning English yet?. A great language invented by those lovely English BTW.
Stuff like that. Really incisive stuff and all that.
The Blog awaits.
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In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it’s worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.
– Salman Rushdie
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In 1943, the swastika flew over the Norwegian Parliament.
Today, that little forecourt is pasted with Palestinian flags.
Beside the fortress there is an odd little memorial. It comprises a scattered grouping of empty chairs. During the occupation, hundreds of Norwegian Jews were rounded up and transported to Germany from the nearby dock. The chairs represent the few who returned. It’s one of the most poignant memorials I have ever seen.
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Hang on, I thought Alamack! was bird, himself?
I could never reach that sublime level of trolling. At least, not without my trusty AI side-kick.
on TG, it appears the forum is missing a convenient hate-figure to pile on and TG (or Monty?) was the last, good troll people miss the most. Strange how people need something or someone to hate on.
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You mean like Neo-Nazis and their irrational hatred of … well … nearly everyone eventually?
Seems like a vast store of hate would be needed to oppose ‘nearly everyone’.
I hate people who talk loudly on public transport. There, I said it. And will refuse to recant even if offered googol amounts of upticks.
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