Modelling with elan.

Don’t go the full Nurse Betty claiming it was “just a cultural reference”. The intent was clear.
So, as I say … you posted it, you own it.
I am not falling for damsel in distress smelling salts/fainting couch “Wah, wah, wah … I’m being bullied” routine.

I am happy to own and apologise for my reference to Hamas. It was unnecessary.

The reference to the Dutch during World War Two was a legitimate response to the claim that the one thing that the Dutch are known for is their stoicism. Recall that this was in the context of telling Cassie to be stoic like the Dutch and to man up. No apologies at all for my response there. No apologies from Johanna to Cassie either, I note.

Going on about Nurse Betty and Wah wah wah is extremely juvenile, Sancho.
But you can be that way here, and quite the bully with it
Something in your childhood perhaps.

Brave & Duck duck go seem to still have no problem at the moment.

I got pinged yesterday by YT for the first time. YT doesn’t seem consistent yet on Brave though, it didn’t occur with other YT vids.

NYP pinged me yesterday as well. I didn’t drop the adblock as I only do that when I trust the site, and for me NYP is too Murdochy for that just yet.

NKP me mate had a Lotus Europa like Emma Peel drove. What a pile of junk. He had the early one with a Renault Gordini in it. Went ok but the finish was crap and I had so much trouble getting in and out.

Australia can’t afford a third lived experience from this incompetent woman. She has got to go and as soon as possible.

Crossie> Snap! She is not competent and should be removed along with all of the next layer down in Optus. I hate to say this, because there are many competent women in tech and management, but this CEO is only there now because she is female and connected to the “in” crowd. Its an insult to every other competent one.

albansleazey – “duuuhhh, let’s apply to the High Wynyard Toiletnesses* to magic up a get out of gaol free release of a whole bunch of violent stupid rapists, pxxdophiles and murderers who we (labore) should never have been allowed to let into this country in the first place, I tells ya!

Then, to add insult to injury to the stupid white middle class racists who bankroll us, let’s gift those unwelcome third world rapists, pxxdophiles and murderers millions each in taxpayers’ money!

Rub the right’s nose in diversity as the bLIARite’s used to say. I think the trash in canbra would have a good giggle about it actually (when the mics and cams are off).

I always found it hard to take Optus seriously. As much as I dislike Telstra, their mobile network is the better one. I always thought Optus was contrived- we had to have a compotator to Telecom so Optus was created.

Point of etiquette. Honorary stepdaughter has returned from holiday in Vietnam, and presented me with a stubby holder, with an image of the Vietnamese flag.

Should I take it to the next R.S.L. barbecue I go to?

I would imagine many of them have been there since… and would notice and not mind at all.
So I guess the old buffers are gone now, that when the returned Korea and Vietnam diggers knocked for admission, told them to p1ss off?

Sleeping Giant style “growing calls” campaign for the IDF to bend over and take it have fallen on deaf ears.

IDF leading the way and showing how. We need more deaf ears to this propaganda nonsense and the leftist attempts to sway by noise and outrage. They don’t have the numbers. One of the lessons of the Referendum. Thanks, Albo.

Hi Rabz
Eco Hmmm – within 6 weeks of the eco degree I kept thinking how is this applicable to a job.
Except for stats an and b the subjects because more unreal the further I got into the course.
Probs now is you do not need to do stats a or b – the concepts are there for the teachers only.
I will grant eco history as some use.
BTW – your link to da keef “you shouldn’t take it so hard” – for years I was moving my tv antenna around my living room to get a clear picture, last week when on my iPad i realised it’s the filum clip.

the spud King, Tony Galati. Sneakers gets a cameo
Of course he f*cking does.
McGowan’s first act as State Emperor was instructing the Supreme Court to discontinue hearing a civil case that the potato growers’ association had brought against Galati for blatant, repeated, and of course very very lucrative breaches of the Potato Production Act.
If you think WA spud growers were dills and dinosaurs, fair enough, you’re half right. But don’t tell me you’re surprised that McGowan turned out to be a high-handed autocrat as well as a toady.

In fact, I may just have to do that – I went out to the Patrol yesterday to do some shopping.
Dead.
I initially thought I must have left a door ajar and the light has stayed on and flalttened the battery. So on the charger for 5 hours and a feeble crank of the engine. Nothing. But the brake lights are on, while brakes not engaged, refuses to move from park to reverse, fuses are OK, WTF?
Then I remembered – electrical storm here a couple of days ago and there were several near misses. Perhaps a lightning strike nearby has cooked the damn thing.
Oh well – I’ll find out Monday when I can get a mechanic to have a look at it. But if it’s cooked the electrics, insurance will cover but not repair it. Hopefully.
A pity – she still had a couple of hundred k in her. Only 250,000 on the clock and in unblemished condition.
At least the tank wasn’t full. 🙂