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Governments solution to anti-Semitism on campus. More toothless bureaucrats: https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/student-ombudsman-to-help-fight-antisemitism-at-universities-education-minister-clare-says/news-story/69f37a446f592d573842dc15228836ce
Nope. Rooting leads to dancing.
With no Milei.
Sky news reporter last night complaining about Israel’s treatment of the Hamas prisoners.
Apparently circulating pick of all the man books is torture
Downtickers are enthusiastic fans of the Nutbush.
Undeniable.
Calli:
Mmmmm.
Jelly.
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
– George Washington
David Penberthy is generally to be avoided.
However, this little para in his piece this morning about the midget left-handed houso ranga cheat, and in which he backs Mitchell Johnson’s valid question as to why Warner’s being given a ‘farewell tour’ is a nugget for the ages:
Yes, Mr Penberthy. Yes.
Who had the US being invaded by giant flying spiders on their 2023 bingo card?
Giant 8in spiders from China are set to invade the US: Black and yellow critters seen parachuting through the air on the east coast – and will soon hit New York and New Jersey (7 Dec)
Sounds like something from Pratchett’s The Last Continent.
Sprinkling glitter on turds;
Labor to scale back migration
What the fck are you on about?
Have you been into the iodine again?
JC was responding directly to GMH’s unhinged assertion that JC got a rails run here because he donated.
Could I level the same allegation at you?
That Dover tolerates you only because you donate?
Tweedledee QC parachutes in to represent Tweedledum.
Same lectern thumping indignant frothing as Mark Dreyfus QC at a press conference.
The Woman in the Hamas Video Is My Daughter.
Dealers must love them. Never a C class.
Couldn’t prevent the detainee debacle, thinks she can solve this.
“Harrowing footage” of Pali prisoners – in their underpants! Hands tied!
Definitely .. “harrowing” .. ! ..I’d have been happier with kneeling .. bags over heads atop a 6foot deep trench ……..
Mitchell Johnson is right.
Sandpaper Dave should have been sacked and banned for life.
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H B Bear
Dec 9, 2023 10:41 AM
Country nightclubs do have an air of bacchanalian pleasures not readily available in an urban environment.
Its called meth Mr Bear, meth.
Seriously a rellie owned the only nightclub in Feraldton, he ended up shutting it down as a massive loss maker.
Everyone wired to the gills before they enter the door, council wankery and bugger all drink sales.
He tried to really go all out on the club, bringing in some interstate DJs of some repute and so on, didnt matter the meth and dunny water brigade were the mainstay of customers.
Im fairly firmly of the opinion the only nightclubs in existence serve to launder drug money.
Sandpaper Dave should have been sacked and banned for life.
Geraldton is always a step too far.
The latest hot take is ” ScOTt MORRissON hid the tape of Briteknees RApe!!!” on twatter.
The Saffies mask stunt was the best response. Mitch Johnson should become an honorary ambassador.
Heartbreaking.
Pouges chap had a decent sendoff.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2023/dec/08/shane-macgowan-funeral-procession-in-pictures
A lot more of this has to happen: Salty ripping into californication business owner who voted for biden, newsome and some soros DA wonders why he keeps getting robbed and nothing happens to the black/immigrant/mexican crooks.
People who support alarmism get no electricity
People who support hamas/islam get beheaded
People who support communism get a hammer and sickle shoved up their arse
People who support trannies get their tits/dicks cut off
and so on.
JC,
You idiot:
You need to consider the consequences of this ridiculous vendetta you have against people who stand up to your bullshit and abuse, and against me in particular.
Please.
Get it right.
It’s a part-time bovver boy.
Presumably Saturday and Sunday mornings.
dover should be paying us
all the bon mots and clever banter
a bunch of shining wits
Productive immigrants don’t require “social services”. That’s what jobs are for.
Mr Spooner arrives, stage left.
At least she will be able to afford to buy knickers…
On the painting of JFK, didn’t like it much. Firstly, it resembled the “essence” of the sitter in much the same way Leak’s toons represent the “essence” of Albo.
Yes, you recognise the subject, but it tells you no more than what you already know.
Once she’d established identity, she got bored and just slapped in the rest to form a human and a background. Meh.
The Great Barrier Reef is NOT dying. However, the Guardian is slowly, slowly.
By Jo Nova
18 months ago the coral on John Brewer Reef was dead according to The Guardian, but Jennifer Marohasy, Peter Ridd and Rowan Dean took the risk of going back to the same dead reef to make a short documentary on it and found the same coral, 80 kilometers offshore and it, and the whole area around it, is flourishing.
According to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park authority, the area was surveyed in April 2022 and the damage was classed as “severe”. According to them, 60-90% of the reef was bleached. It was so bad that when the Sydney Morning Herald wrote about “500 kilometers of severe bleaching” it was John Brewer Reef that they picked for the feature photo.
Just like The Guardian:
https://vimeo.com/889619238
Jeez Sancho, you will need some lip balm shortly for all the JC kiss arsing you do here. It’s sickening at times. Either that or you are the most obvious sockie since Grig’s many incarnations. FFS.
That can be true Bespoke but there is a way to overcome that problem. Hard work, as I have repeatedly stated the goal is to keep reading and aim for consistency at multiple levels of analysis. I have long joked that there is so much biomedical literature one can provide references to run any argument to suit a personal bias. That isn’t an intractable problem but it is a very difficult problem.
They are not forcing anyone to eat in a particular way. They are arguing against the food lobby and the typical Western diet. A study can’t force anyone to do anything.
Unlike so much other dietary advice there are no extremes there, no need to eliminate fats or carbs or specific foods or a cabinet of supplements or fasting but rather to find an appropriate balance.
It is not possible to be truly skeptical unless we have done the prior hard work. Without that work we are being cynical. In relation to health though there is one metric: how our bodies respond to different lifestyles. By what metrics can we dismiss claims on any subject? Intuition? How do we know if someone knows what they are arguing about? What we saw on a youtube channel that seems to make sense? In these days it is fashionable to bash experts. Who then should we trust? Someone on a forum who keeps posting on a subject and abusing anyone who disagrees with them? We are often exercising faith in authority figures; one escape being consistency across differing domains of analysis.
The public health implications are enormous and there is already data supporting their argument. Such a huge increase in dementia, diabetes, obesity, and MetS will incur huge societal costs. Social media is replete with people fussing over how other people live and most of that is just personal bias. This study is about a society eating its way into very serious problems.
Sigh. There I was, trying to be the pineapple of politeness. And it wees on my shoe for my trouble.
Johnjjj
Understood, John. But a martyr is still a dead man. And if he’s been killed by a woman or chucked in a hole with a pig, they also believe all bets are off. So who would want to be the next useless son?
Reason #243 why one should never wear Croc shoes.
I hope Gerry Adams, Nick Cave and Johnny Depp remembered to pray for the repose of his soul.
Related:
My favourite YouTube homilist, Fr Brendan Kilcoyne:
Last “Rights”: The Decline of the Catholic Funeral.
The invasion of “…lots of pagan bullshit…”
Gerry Adams – was recently served up one of the better comebacks on Twitter you’d ever see. It was more or less a Leak cartoon, in text form.
It’s been “going on” for 1700 years in one form or another. Our forebears God bless them , knew how to deal with prior moslem invasions and incursions. Our modern traitorous scumbag leaders have waved them in, now we have them among us and multiplying like a plague of mice.
Just remember that our very own skankerhood, made up of the likes of Hideous Thorpe, Chlamydia Ford, Laura Shingle and all the rest of the Jew hating skanks think that the Nazis who gang raped Naama Levy are heroes.
Is that all? You mean bugger, JC.
How do you feel about the Turtlehead, Driller double act, Makka? Two lonely Anzac’s who met up at Lone Pine.
Cheers .
I watched that, C.L. He’s right. Superficial comfort, short lived, useless.
Never a C class. GLC 6.3 wagon, Volvo wagon and Audi wagon.
Dear me, the “clear air” on migration issues may have hit another snag.
BREAKING NEWS Sixth immigration detainee arrested after High Court ruling freed more than 140 people including hardened criminals
A sixth ex-immigration detainee has been arrested
More than 140 detainees were released after a High Court decision
READ MORE: Fifth person arrested after immigration ruling
Word of the Day!
Mad Karen reckons that’s enough to have Dover sell his soul for money.
What do you think should be a decent sum, Doc? Let’s try to be specific, without the relativist nosnense you someone go on with.
KD earlier re Sandpaper Dave
Snort, cackle.
I reckon the humus muzzies with man boobs should be guarded by the Female IDF. Add to the humiliation.
Who has an interest in killing the people that set up what they did? That’s all we have to go on.
calli
Give me a call in 18 months, I’ll replace it. One of the six I have growing is now reserved – and named – for you. I call it the Calli Reverse Pineapple of Dog Wee.
You may prefer a new name.
🙂
Makka
Dec 9, 2023 10:34 AM
Good Lord, but air travel around this country has become a fkg nightmare. Does any plane ever run on time anymore?
If the plane leaves within 3 hours of scheduled departure, consider it on time. This is the new Australian way.
JC
Dec 9, 2023 11:05 AM
Hurt? Moi? Give it a rest. Stupid comments from you aimed at me is like water off of a duck’s back.
So, still working on the ‘evidence’ to prove me a crook? Keep looking and get along to Specsavers while you are at it.
You are the crook for making up false allegations.
Get back to NYC which is falling apart as I speak. Marty says so as well. Cop that you Pompous Windbag and Fat Pizza Person with the Big Nose (Nosy Parker) and Fat Arse.
Makka
Dec 9, 2023 12:26 PM
Jeez Sancho, you will need some lip balm shortly for all the JC kiss arsing you do here. It’s sickening at times. Either that or you are the most obvious sockie since Grig’s many incarnations. FFS.
Mrs Stencho Pantyhose, the Junior Cretin arse licker. LOL.
IMO, a good column by Greg Craven
Wordle in two.
You go, girrl!
From, I think, Old Ozzie’s post earlier, and worth repeating.
I think this is another “green shoots” sign of the Waning of Woke. If a judge had made that remark about “feelz” to a #metoo 2-3 years ago, there would have been “growing calls” for him to be stood down.
It’s a matter of what people can afford, JC. For someone on a pension a widow’s mite would be enough. For someone with a New York penthouse, several thousand a year would be reasonable.
If we’re doing anecdotes.
I’ve generally found Asians to be mostly nice but reserved people, especially Chinese. In my experience, they’re actually inoffensive. Their only problem is that they can’t drive and have very little in the way of spatial skills.
On the other hand, my experience with Russians (off the boat from Russia) is that they’ve just been let of the pig stye to associate with human beings. And I’m actually being kind. I saw some shit in Portugal that would level people open-mouthed.
One Russian bitch was holding up her hands and screaming out “service, service” to a waitress while she was serving other people. She later came up to us and said it was par for the course with nice Russian folk.
What was even funnier than the mask stunt itself was The Cheat and The Toilet Scrubber demanding Saffie authorities “doooo something”.
Which resulted in sales of masks doubling the following day.
Just noticed a brouhaha is going on about donations. They’re entirely voluntary and no preferences arise from it. Let’s end the matter in toto there, please.
Roger
Dec 9, 2023 11:10 AM
For example, it did not take Debbie Terry (UQ)…
I’m detecting a trend “in this space.”
QUT’s first female VC has just deleted merit from its hiring policy, opting for more “inclusive” selection criteria including gender and ethnicity.
Yeah, who?
Top women. Top. Women!
Dietary ‘science’ makes astrology look good.
Among the numerous problems, of which individual differences is a huge one, is the assumption that there is anything useful to say about diet apart from obvious things like that living on chips and coca-cola is not going to be good for anyone.
For example, the War on Salt clearly does not apply to the long-lived Japanese, who consume far more than the Puritans in the West say is a way of avoiding premature death from heart disease. Then there are the also long-lived Scandinavians and ditto many northern Europeans, who have traditionally eaten a lot of fat (and plenty of salt as well.)
The seekers of Truth about diet are always looking for magic bullets and killer poisons.
As our lifespans keep increasing, the food control freaks in the health Establishment keep insisting that five servings of vegetables a day are absolutely necessary, and the fact that only vegetarians actually do this does not deter them.
On and on it goes. Food faddism has a long and totally unscientific history.
That said, obesity is indeed a serious problem, but the causes are multifactorial, IMHO. Some people just eat too much, some really do have a genetic predisposition to put on weight easily, some bodies are predisposed to a certain diet via centuries of natural selection and react badly to a different diet.
But, looking at the landwhales around town, mostly youngish women, I do wonder if there is something like a virus at work as well. There is something wrong with their metabolisms.
At their age, I couldn’t have got that big no matter how hard I tried. And I didn’t exercise, ate and drank whatever I wanted, and never put on an ounce on my slim frame. The same went for almost all of my contemporaries.
Oh, and as others have reported, the Killer Heatwave is a fizzer here. While TheirABC ran a story not long ago about how it was going to be 37C, at 1 pm it’s just under 30C, and we had a big thunderstorm (described as a ‘freak’ storm, natch) overnight which cooled everything down.
Maybe there’s a weather nerd out there who will start compiling forecasts vs actual temps – it would be useful information.
Nurse Betty.
Consequences?
Which would be what exactly?
How do you know they weren’t Ukrainian?
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Should be based on usage.
Anyone pasting dozens of stupid comments per hour documenting in great detail every notion that enters their bounce from their dinner arrangements to their hot take on the latest article they speed misread to their emotional response to other readers lack of enthusiasm for all of the above…
I never suggested otherwise, if that’s what you’re intimating.
Penthouse? Really? Doc, don’t get caught up in that socialist nonsense about how much one can afford if they can afford more than a pensioner. I give what I believe is my fair due. Would I pay more than what Murdoch asks for the WSJ? I think of it as a subscription and if others also gave to the site it would be more durable.
I don’t think Dover would be throwing himself over a table to get to that kind of money, which is what the roadside skunk was suggesting and has been for quite a while now.
How much have you donated?
Not interested. And neither should you IMO. The bile in some personal insults are unnecessarily vicious and ugly. That’s what I feel.
Thefrolickingmoll:
Obviously they think the Australian Law is a joke and unenforceable. Or is that what they’ve been told by the Social Workers? I think the notes and interviews by the SW need to be aired to the courts that will now hear their cases.
Based upon the lived experience of two years working in the kitchen of a chinese restaurant, I know there is among them, spatial skill aplenty. Razor sharp, fast moving, excellent hand-eye coordination.
Having been up multi-storey bamboo scaffolding, & observed the manner in which those are negotiated by the chinese construction site workers, it is accurate to say some Chinese have spatial skills aplenty.
Juan, have you donated or do you have to ask permission?
As for stupid comments, I have to say, that rejoinder from you, the other day was one of the worst I’ve ever read. I actually felt embarrassed for you. Libertarians are joined at the hip with No Oil protestors. Are you living under a fcking rock or some sort of parallel universe where libertarians are close cousins of the Greens? You really are a delusional idiot.
Great point. The kitchen is a great tell for spatial skills.
Who is “us”?
Greg Craven needs to get out more and mix with ordinary Australians.
Re the Kennedy portrait, at the end of this article there is a reproduction of one of the most colourful versions. It’s extraordinary. Really great.
FMD.
An old family friend on Mrs P’s side (who has thankfully been culled from the Christmas card list) was a shocker.
She used to multi-skill by continuing to hold court at the table whilst simultaneously raising her hand and clicking her fingers at waiters without even bothering to make eye contact.
F-cking embarassing.
I couldn’t guess what might have been done to her food out the back.
I made a point of never ordering what she ordered.
Were my circles restricted to office johnnies working in metro CBDs, I may well form the opinion that Anglo-Saxons can be great dinner party company, excellent at knowing whether or not one is supposed to eat the roast partridge before or after the side dish of lark’s tonges in aspic, but they have zero ability to stick to a buckjumping rodeo bronc.
I don’t think anyone but a couple of loons thought otherwise.
Why Elaine de Kooning’s Portrait of JFK Broke All the Rules
But you are really because you wouldn’t have made that comment highlighting one side,.
There was a great deal made by the previous owner of the blog. Turtlehead broke that agreement after a few months as he has no discipline like and teenage girl.
I actually begged him once to stop talking to me- either groveling or otherwise. He never took that deal and hence this is where we are.
Who is “us”?
Greg Craven needs to get out more and mix with ordinary Australians.
Roger, I think that was a rhetorical expression only. I would be surprised if Craven believes that Australians in general are anti-Semitic. Like many of us, he is horrified that any Australian, other than those of ME political and familial associations would support Hamas by association – although the demonstrations have revealed the few that do.
FIFY.
But no it is not a “test”
Spatial skills are a requirement for entry. Working kitchens are not a “Haw! Johnny Chee chopped off only one finger today, he’s learning his spatial skills“
Sancho, was this her before the sex change?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zgTcrZ5030
I broke no agreement, dickhead.
Delta A
Bloody intellectuals.
At the QLD airport about to board to Perth… plane broken. Nav system kapput. Need a new plane. Perhaps 2hrs delay.
Obviously Virgin need a bigger hammer
I assume that is a backhander directed at Wodney and his Armstrong-spam.
But what about commentary on their Ford jalopy restoration, or how hard it is to get spare parts posted to you, or taking a whole day to paint one side of a rusty motorbike?
Should that attract a premium?
That’s why the banks were racing to lend you money?
As for kitchens, Driller if the reviews are anything to go by, you and “the team”, if there is one, really really need to spruce up on those “spatials”.
They told you “perhaps 2hrs”
Approaching the 2hrs mark, expect to be informed the “new plane” is “being readied” with “engineers working on it right now”
Russian manners can be really despicable. I once watched a planeload (Fokker F28 sized) of Russian males completely ignore a young woman struggling with a new born and her luggage in sub-zero conditions across an icy tarmac. After making a few trips back and forth to get her , her stuff and mine inside, her father came up to me inside the terminal and thanked me profusely. Every man/woman for themselves in Russia was my impression. That was the 2000’s. It may have eased up somewhat but they were exiting 70 years of brutality , oppression and indifference.
What reviews?
Stop saying I broke an agreement, dickhead.
Just noticed a brouhaha is going on about donations. They’re entirely voluntary and no preferences arise from it.
I missed any instructions re procedure for donations. Could you post today DB?
Mole at 1:21.
Not quite.
More like this.
lol
And mainland Chinese haven’t? You may have accidentally caught onto something. All Hong Kong Chinese people that I’ve ever met have been the nicest folks that anyone could imagine. They’re courteous, polite with a sense of decency. However, they’re spatial skills are left wanting too. 🙂
The brutality thing could be right.
Then he should say so.
As it is, it’s the premise for the whole piece.
It’s not only lazy thinking masquerading as profundity (which is annoying enough), it’s also a form of collectivism.
I am down at Bulli for a cricket tournament involving my grand niece.
We were promised instant death and dessication due to the ‘furnace like’ temperatures. The organisers even considered cancelling.
It is a beautiful hot summer day with a cooling sea breeze. Shade and the beach are popular as usual in December, but the young kids are quite happy out in the field.
It is the weak indoctrinated parents who are panicking. Not one of them has said that it is just a hot summer day, they are babbling the stupid that they were told by the media.
Less so the country folks.
The constant attacks against Australians’ “give it a go, just get on with it ” culture are criminal. Panick on order is the new culture.
We are all living in a f*ken woke classroom with betas, snowflakes and scammers as teachers.
Chuckle.
They live free in your head, sad.
Driller
You run that shitshow just like you comport yourself here, which is why you’re a total loser. Now STFU and stop ruining discussions. Head off to the Furniture store where you belong.
Sancho is not a side. Commenting that the boi wonder will get chapped lips from kissing your arse isn’t a side. It’s an observation of the habitually pathetic. Anyway, you asked, I told you. Don’t make this another bloody feud.
Difficult to beat that for a self-description. The only question is, will you take your own advice & stfu?
My friends of white Russian descent who’ve been to Russia post-1990 have remarked on the coarseness of Russian life, including the way the language is spoken. It was a shock to them that the Russian manners and language that their teachers passed on to them in Saturday morning ‘Russian school’ no longer existed in Russia itself.
The Cat is not a Karl Marx fan club.
Are cut fingers really an issue in kitchens using pre-selected “microwave in the bag” meals bought in by PFD and the like?
Surely you’ll be able to answer that after you next prepare a “home cooked” meal.
I was very tempted to write an email to this lady.
Research shows noisy miner birds are bullying forest birds from urban area (Phys.org, 8 Dec)
My noisies have changed over the years – they now completely ignore currawongs and kookaburras, and no longer persecute even blue faced honeyeaters, who normally are deadly rivals seeing both species inhabit the same niche.
True though the small birds like thornbills, willy wagtails and fantails aren’t able to survive alongside the noisies, but that’s the situation with currawongs too. Currawongs cheerfully eat the small birds, and I’ve even had to rescue noisy chicks from them a few times. The nearby reserve with lantana and dense ti tree scrub though has lots of small birds – and no noisies or currawongs.
I decided not to send her a note as that could result in quite a can of worms. She has a PhD to get and upsetting applecarts at the last minute probably wouldn’t go down well.
Travel advice sought from cats familiar with Italy. Spending a week in Feb and splitting it between Milan (3 nights) and Rome (4 nights). It’s my first time in Italy.
A few questions;
1. Is that too many days in those locations?
2. What does one do in Milan apart from visiting the Duomo?
3. Re. Rome, apart from the Vatican, Pantheon, Trevi fountain, what else does one do?
Any recommendations on hotels is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Mind your own business.
If you’re there, Gez.
Were you involved in that little bit of excitement just north of Donald?
Last day or so by the looks.
WTF was he doing in a Chinese kitchen is the real question? Imagine this boofhead “wokking” around like he owned the place cooking up some bok choy.
Why after your comment mine wasn’t enough?
Found a plane… paint work faded.
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
– Mark Twain
My 2c;
Avoid the blacks and the underground. Try a day trip to Portafino for the beauty and superb seafood. The Duomo in evening candlelight is unforgettable.
In westernized Chinese:
Sinophile.
In all seriousness JC is correct when it comes to driving. I used to work in Anglesea and commute from southern Geelong. Pre-Covid there were lots of Chinese tourists on the road in hire cars. A Chinese drivers licence should not be valid in Australia.
I heard they get their licence by passing a computer test, not actually having to demonstrate that they can drive a car.
Queensland Coal. BHP & Rio Tinto all divested recently. Ditto Mitsui Corporation for the Japs, heard rumblings from Mitsubishi (who is in cahoots with the remaining BHP holdings) lately as well. Vale got out about 10 years ago in Oz.
Stanmore & Pembroke been buying up a lot of tenements coming on to the market.
The site’s most “out & proud” libertarian is puzzled when he encounters someone who has actually exercised their libertarian right to choose their own employment.
Wow. Just wow.
Hairy Festerpenis gets a smackdown on twitter.
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No genocide nor apartheid in Israel. Gaza has ruled itself since the withdrawal of Israel in 2005. Hamas has fired thousands of missiles of against Israel. The 7th Oct Hamas broke the truce by invading Israel, killing, gang raping, torturing, mutilating, kidnapping civilians.
A computer test would still be legitimately obtained.
It is not unknown (i.e. may be endemic) to payoff the licence issuer & received a black market licence.
Much easier than having to demonstrate driving proficiency or exhibit a knowledge of traffic rules.
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I could never in a million years would’ve believed that a racially superior being such as yourself ( Labor royalty no less) could’ve worked in a Chinese kitchen.
Libertarianism doesn’t mean you can’t have an opinion on someone, no matter how lowly.
Put the NT police been down and read the Constitution of Liberty.
citation required.
There are many aspects of life “west of Strathfield” (i.e. Australia) which would puzzle you.
I give to the IPA annually about twice what you send Dover. I rate this site as more valuable to me than the IPA.
I don’t see the Çat as just a subscription service to me. I think it has substantial general benefit to the nation. Partly because it sets a splendid example of tolerance of all sorts of people.
Nor does it mean you’re in any way absolved of being a moron for exhibiting a idiotic “opinion”.
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
– Confucius
Last 24 hours:
Vr, your four nights in Rome will flash by. There is so much to do and see there you will have to cull. Make sure you leave a day for the Vatican, and another for the antiquities. And have another day just mooching around and seeing what happens – perhaps a trip across the Tiber to Trastevere. There is also a day trip to Hadrian’s Villa if you like that sort of thing.
Milan 3 nights – yes, you will want to visit the majestic cathedral, and don’t forget to pre-book Santa Maria delle Grazie for a viewing of The Last Supper. You must book, don’t just show up. There’s also shopping in the Galleria. Take your credit cards! You can also do a day trip up to Como, hop on the ferry for a lake tour and hop off at lovely Bellaggio. In fine weather, it’s superb.
Have fun!
Actually, I wasn’t the person who articulated the issue with Asian drivers. Came across my mind at times, but it was Steve Sailer going on about it for ages about what horrible drivers they were and how their spatial skills are pretty bad. In fact, I recall some of the evidence he posted about it.
Spatial skills are exactly the same as hand eye coordination. Driller, you’re confused again.
“Again”? @_@
Yet Chinese are able to negotiate multi-storey bamboo scaffolding & work efficiently in Chinese restaurant kitchens.
Both require excellent hand-eye coordination.
A bit of time in a Chinese martial arts school, when there’s no novices about, would lay to rest any inclination to opine they’re not capable of hand-eye coordination.
Sorry, the trip to Como would be by train. Allow an hour each way.
For the site’s rationalist that doesn’t make any sense. But there you go, whoever sense it had to in the first place.
Asian drivers haven’t a clue how wide their vehicle is. In confined areas like car parking or narrow streets they will occupy double what width they need to get around or turn corners. Then when they they are utterly confused or scared , they stop dead and expect other drivers to solve their stupidity.
What’s that have to do with spatial skills, you idiot? Spatial and hand eye are not the same thing, as I said earlier. You’re one confused babbling doofus. Go clean some mould.
Here’s a typical day trip out from Rome to Tivoli. You get two gardens plus lunch. Some of them pick you up at your hotel, others like this have a meeting point.
Or you can make your way there if you have a car and your wits about you for the Italian drivers!
Spatial skills aren’t exactly the same as hand eye coordination. Driller, you’re confused again.
13 degrees and 31 mm rain with much more to come.
I have mentioned previously the disparity between the BoM station (one km away) and private weather stations in the area, ours included. All read in excess of 30 mm, whereas BoM reads 23 mm. This disparity occurs with temps (BoM 1/2 degree higher today) and wind speeds, too.
BoM was out of commission during our last inundation. Perhaps the repairman was slack, or out of his depth. Whatever, it is on these dubious readings that BoM bases its reports.
Sal, they might be ok with maneuvering their own body, but once they have to maneuver via a steering wheel they have no clue. Watch a Chinese parallel park. It’s beyond painful.
The IRGC also nabbed two oil tankers in the Gulf.
Last time they messed with such things Reagan sank half their navy.
Ukrainians? Hardly. They speak Russian.
Or just simply stop on a left turn with absolutely no impediment and then stop again once the car has turned and the left turn was masterfully executed.
Watching anyone parallel park these days is painful. Sometimes I just grit my teeth and wait for the bang.
I wonder if the plethora of cameras and sensors has resulted in a dearth of natural skill. Unless you use it, you lose it.
Used to be tremendous sport to walk down to Chinatown in Little Bourke Street, where the Parallel Parking Olympics would be in full swing.
I’ve been to my local beach in southern Sydney this morning, it was delightful.
Hot, yes of course.
That’s what the water is for.
I’m currently cooling my heels at a caff across the road from the beach.
I’ll probably go back to thr beach in another hour or so for another swim.
I’m alright Jack ??
Try moving in a 3-dimensional scaffold, see if there’s any spatial skill required.
Then do very hot stoves & sharp knives in a confined space.
Get back to us after that, instead of making shittup.
vr, I would consider Florence instead of Milan.
But, it you must go to Milan, allow $10 or more for coffee at the more trendy spots.
Global boiling is happening in Sydney today.
I just love the heat.
Sal.
Are you saying “your” kitchen is a poorly designed death-trap?
+1
Sticking to a strict disciplined process isn’t what you think it is.
One of the biggest tell of the ages. 🙂
This will have to go to archives for its sheer level of stupidity.
Go try it on The Struthfactor. I’m sure it would be hugely impressed.
Agreed. I can do travel tips for Firenze too. See, I even call it by its Italian name because I’m a poseur. 😀
I’m here Bush
A fire on the Borung at the Swan Hill intersection.
The nephew went as crew on the local tanker. He said it started right on the edge of the road and the flames were higher than the side of the truck as they ran the edge with the truck’s water cannon blasting the fire front. Crop and stubble involved.
Not far from where the grifters plan to build a 500,000 volt transmission line. The CFA commander wrote an article for local newspapers saying grass/crop fires don’t get above two meters high and the smoke is not heavy enough to arc a line. The nephew said the flames were over three metres high and the smoke was very dense.
We’re seriously thinking of writing a letter to the state government stating we will now longer recognise our command structure since it is politicised and therefore compromised, which means they are not representing our genuine concerns that building thousands of Kms of new lines actions the state represents a vastly increased fire risk and an impediment to firefighting.
The pricks need removing and we’re in the mood.
Global cooling down here in a big way. Only Melbourne can go from 34 to 17 overnight and it’s perfectly normal.
It’s not the 80s anymore.
With any online question commencing with “Are you saying…” what follows is almost always a fabrication by the author.
As it is with this question of yours.
And someone FFS must instruct Chinese drivers when they get their licence here that their blinker does NOT automatically grant right of way. Nor does it activate a protective force field.
From way back this morning……..
Sprinkling glitter on turds;
Description of Labor policy.
That is a farking keeper!
Classic example of posting on something the poster knows nothing about so makes it up.
Perhaps for your next work of cluelessness you could write on how to stick to a rodeo saddle bronc.
He is unfortunately. The rooms too, could end up giving you mould related diseases, some of which can be fatal.
Doesn’t care, as he’s more interested in trying to start blog stoushes that he never wins anyway.
Citations required.
These Chinese scaffolders; You sure they weren’t Filipino?
I’m trying to think of Chinese labourers/tradies I have come across in Aus, and can’t. They is all white collar.
Hi to Calli’s downticker!
PS: Do you send money to Hamas?
You’re okay with posting some of the motel reviews and then squealing that it’s doxxing?
BoN, the modern world of eco-experts is full of nutters. Some wish that no plant or critter had ever or will ever become extinct, an absurd position which is rarely questioned on a logical basis.
A lot of them take a snapshot of critters/plants, and declare that this is the norm. From now on, everything will be measured against it. This handily provides jobs for them.
Ludicrous. Ignorant.
As for Currawongs, once or twice a year we get a convention of Currawongs here. Dozens and dozens of them, perching on the top of buildings, flying around, calling like mad.
I think Queanbeyan is a Currawong dating site. 🙂
Back in the day before Changi had it’s new airport, all the scaffolding in Singa’s was bamboo. And the best, coldest and cheapest beer could be found at the Cricket Club. Anyway, you could see hordes of Chinese back then navigating their scaffolds. And I don’t mean this pejoratively; they moved with great agility and dexterity- like monkeys born in the trees. Fascinating sight.
Kershaw’s “.. from the German view” books work is very good.
So good that I put one of his books down & have never picked it up again. Too depressing.
It was in the middle of a stinking drought, his book had many, far too many, parallels. Probably the only time I’ve put down a book for being too good.
I wonder what the death toll is.
You’ve no idea where my place is, dickhead.
Furthermore:
1) My place is not a motel.
2) Even if it was, online review sites have only ever recognised me as a restaurant.
3) Online reviews for my place no longer exist. If any are out there, nobody is able to find them.
4) It is anybody’s guess why reviews cannot be found. I’ve no idea.
5) the only reviews that ever did exist for my place were utterly clueless and uninformative restaurant reviews by Grey Nomads, giving 4 or 5 stars. (this is not a positive)
Geez, Peta Credlin be Peta scrollin pretty soon.
Whoops, belay my second last. I confused Robert Kershaw, author of “from the German view” WWII books, with a totally different bloke: Ian Kershaw, author of “from the German view” WWII books.
Total mystery how anybody could have made that bungling error.
Yeah, Singapore was quite different back then.
Driller, stop the bullshit as enough is enough now after 20 years of making shit up that you’re a pub owner. Perhaps you are in virtual reality, wearing goggles but not the real world.
Every freaking establishment purporting to rent out rooms has reviews and your shithole would be no different.
Enough of the lying.
Very sure.
1) They were Chinese race.
2) They spoke in colloquial, very colloquial, Cantonese language.
She made him look like a smug prat.
He’s not lying. No different from Turnbull:
Citation required.
Your faith in the infallibility of the internet is touching.
The chicken little effect:
What you mean is, every place you’ve stayed at, or looked up, has reviews. If it don’t happen to you, it don’t happen.
Stop faceplanting.
This is Angela Mollard, a purportedly ‘serious columnist’ for Newscorpse, who aptly demonstrates why she should not be taken as having any gravitas whatsoever (the Tele):
Speaking of trivia:
Listen up toots. You’re a single mother who hooked up with a bloke, who is now supporting your offspring (as well as the father, who is in all likelihood also paying child support which no doubt assists your mortgage payments).
You are extremely fortunate not to be referred to as the ‘ball and chain’ or ‘handbrake’*. Stop it.
*Or, as someone here referred to some time ago in a third hand sense, as ‘fully depreciated’.
So Matt was right about him all along. Good for Matt.
This!
Tom how are feeling after your op? A lot better I hope.
BoN
Where do woodswallows go at certain times of the year?
We see the dusky and white browed birds in profusion at times and then not at all.
The white browed are very pretty birds.
The best way to be temporary is keep behaving like an entitled whining Karen so that he no longer wants you to “squeeze.”
You removed the blog, Public House from the Internet, which is where you made claims of being a pub owner. False ones it turns out too. 20 freaking years of narcissistic bullshit
Put it back up, FFS.
In Le Carre’s Honourable Schoolboy book, set in 1970s Hong Kong, the bamboo scaffolding is mentioned several times. This was a boom period where it was non-stop construction everywhere.
The red herring of the death rate, which is impossible to prove one way or the other, is irrelevant. Claiming that Chinese people have no spatial ability is relevant.
Oh, and there are plenty of Chinese companies selling trades like plastering – see The Block for examples.
Farmer Gez: Totally support your proposed letter to the Sultans of the Fire Brigade. You’re not the only local brigade considering it.
Recent fires here led to near blows, between farmers, with generations of experience in beating fires, & the uniformed & salaried hi-viz union professionals.
At the crux of it: The salaried blow-ins are vehemently & blindly opposed to backburning.
I brought up the death rate, but it wasn’t suggestive of lack of spatial skills. It was to do with the flimsy looking bamboo scaffolding that doesn’t look safe.
I think it’s fair to say that on average, Chinese may lessor spatial skills than Westerners. This doesn’t mean, like some people here immediately twig to, that no Chinese person has great spatial skills. When we’re talking about big populations we’re really talking averages.
have…
How about saying to him – look, I don’t like being called your ‘squeeze.’ Please don’t do it.
To which, if he has any decency and sense of self preservation, he will say ‘OK, sorry, won’t happen again.’
But no, it has to be turned into a drama and an article.
He should run. Fast. Away.
From James Woods feed;
https://twitter.com/leslibless/status/1732824006061940846
Comedy acts must remain dynamic & fresh.
Isn’t it about time you picked a new theme? That one is becoming as repetitive & tiresome as your alter ego’s constant harping on about Struth or Tailgunna.
We’re seriously thinking of writing a letter to the state government stating we will now longer recognise our command structure since it is politicised and therefore compromised, which means they are not representing our genuine concerns that building thousands of Kms of new lines actions the state represents a vastly increased fire risk and an impediment to firefighting.
The pricks need removing and we’re in the mood.
Yea Gez! All these bureaucratic structures need cleaning out of timeservers and ladder climbers – the RFS another example. The rank & file risk their lives 24/7, while most of the salaried chiefs knock off at 5pm.
Johanna its the Koreans mostly doing building work.
It really doesn’t matter if people embellish or make up what they do or have done in real life. The Cat, old and new, is like a pub where people can banter about things, exaggerate, etc. If someone is exaggerating their conquest or catch in a pub you play along with it or laugh to yourself or make the occasional gag.