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Open Thread – Mon 18 Dec 2023
- The more you gets the less you eats
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- From darkness to the promise of light
Pam will reform the department not by blowing up the DOJ but by doing it in a responsible way by…
Global boiling advocates are nuts: example 1: Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos Pour Millions into a ‘Climate Vaccine’ for Cows…
@julie_kelly2 I just spoke with John Lauro, President Trump’s attorney in the J6 case in Washington, about the nomination of…
DOGE this an aristocracy fails in the matrix
Only in regard to Vatican II, Lys.
Johnny Rotten
Dec 19, 2023 7:06 PM
So, where is the evidence of being a crook? Where is it? You Tosser. Where is it?
And This Poster does not like ‘ Junior Cretin’. So tell me why not..
Maybe because Junior Cretin puts money into the Blog.
That’s right Bushie and Israel have already announced they will not negotiate with them re Biden’s proposal. The Times of Israel is a reasonable source for info which I read a lot and I always take note of what Israeli TV journalist Caroline Glick has to say. Plus Melanie Phillips.
Indeed – hence why “although perhaps a little more than annoyance.”
At the most efficient freight rate, a VLCC carrying 2 million barrels currently charters at US$90k to $100k/day – so the extra journey time costs around US$1 million – or 50¢/bbl landed.
Considerably more for smaller carriers.
So, not nothing – but not like a million bbl/d taken out of the market.
Man, I’m seriously thinking of becoming Jewish! I have the Shemma on my front door, on my gold ring, I pray Jewish psalms everyday and even a kippah! ?”
No piggy allowed, no shellfish, no milk and meat, separate pots and utensils for meat and dairy. And the biggest thing, if you’re not circumcised, you will have to be circumcised as an adult male.
I have a friend, who now lives in Israel (he’s married to an Israeli girl). He converted over thirty years ago, he was the son of a Jew (who died when he was young) and he was brought up a Christian by his mother. Alas, he was not circumcised as a baby so when he decided to convert, after much study and living a Jewish life, he had to be circumcised in a hospital by a doctor and then…..wait for it…..when he went before the Beth Din (all men) for his final test he had to drop his pants for them to make sure that his foreskin was gonski!
LOL. Are ya sure you wanna convert?
I missed this from Terry McCrann. A fine evisceration from 10 days ago:
I have moved back to Gordon’s London Dry Gin and Schweppes tonic with a slice of lemon, the tipple I cut my teeth on countless years ago. Sick of boutique gins and feverish tonics and bits of cucumber.
It’s a tough old gin and I don’t mind it. This week, anyway.
All good Rog.
I’m extremely naive about many of the intricacies at play here that I’ve rattled off from a layman’s perspective. I am extremely ignorant in comparison of the points that Ratzinger made!!! (and unfortunately have to run as I’m the lead Cantor for a nativity play tonight!).
Stay cool Cats.
Oh, JC and JR. Get a room.
It wouldn’t be just a depression in the West alone. If major oil installations went up in a plume the entire world would be in a huge downturn. Ironically, the US wouldn’t be as badly off being energy independent. In a situation like that, US oil exports would be curtailed by the government in order to keep domestic prices down. We’re talking end of times stuff here and markets don’t believe that.
Lastly, Yemen would exist.
Finished it. All set now to grapple with making a chicken curry.
Have purchased a pak with the makings all raw and twiggy so it might even have a hint of authenticity.
Ahem, cough. got me on that last one! I’ll stick with conservative catholicism! 🙂
Polite Civilization is just another machine whose Operating Manual was written in Blood .. Much like other machines involving KE = 1/2 M. V ^2 .. but even then most will require good judgement ..
Much an all as I prefer ..the more complex discussion (with little comprehensible outcome ) .. I kinda like the Arithmetic … perspective …
More Civilization ? Less Blood.
Not for quite a while I suspect, give how the college of Cardinals is currently aligned. Quite unlikely to be friendly towards George, I suspect.
On the other hand the arraignment of Mr Becciu could just about be regarded as a miracle, so that counts towards Pell’s account perhaps…
In our discussion last nite, Hairy said that Trump would have already bombed the installations in Yemen when they first tried it on in the Red Sea.
A powerful and decisive America is what is currently missing.
No-one who should be scared is currently scared.
Johnny..
There are a few people on this blog who massively promote themselves, constantly put themselves at the centre of everything, and never met a situation that they couldn’t insert themselves, intimately, into.
Sometimes I feel JC goes a bot over the top in his approach to them.
But there is nothing, nothing that JC could do or say which would make me feel sorry for you. You offer nothing, spamming the blog with grifting Armstrong refuse. The “jokes” you repost could be found easily on an archive of alt.jokes from the 1990.
The blog owner asked you to stop making those sorts of dishonest accusations. He’s also asked you to stop using the c word and the various permutations you’ve tried to come up with.
Zero ethics. A crook. A small time limey crook.
@BoN
we get scant resources when it come to the Truth , or otherwise , of Man’s Transgressions against His Community or God …
I cannot see Justice done in that conviction …
With surplus tanker capacity at present that is not a terrifying thing.
But the closure of the Canal after the 1967 six-day war caused apparently complete substitution of West Australian apples by South African production. My town’s packing shed closed down, the orchards fell fallow and apples were free to pick for a good few years, until the Government paid a subsidy for pulling out the orchards.
All gone, three out of four towns no longer in the orchard business.
@BoN
Which I why I DONT want to see Pell made any sort of martyr or ridiculous Passon Play .. Pell got no better or worse than any on else … Catholic or Not … that got torn to shreds …
Peace .
Hoarding, making do, resignation. self-preservation and poverty.
Then mobs and social breakdown. And more socialism to cure it all.
Black Ball asked:
Catatonia?
Seriously.
Dover
The scary things you’re suggesting are eminently reasonable. There’s risk in the Middle East. However, there are factors you should also consider.
The things you’re suggesting could happen are also going through the minds of the oil market players and the market is a discounting mechanism.
At times , even in very adverse situations prices don’t head in the expected direction.
Who’s to say that the market shouldn’t be much lower if the Yemen situation was hanging over it as the current levels of supply could be swamping demand?
Hard to say. If a ship now makes 6 trips does that +10 days per trip mean it only can manage 5. What impact does that have on the economy?
Climate change alarm is exaggerated, we should not demonise oil and gas: Elon Musk
Trump is number one on the left’s hit list but Elon is not far behind the big guy. If either Trump or Elon or both get a stray bullet it will be on for young and old.
There are so many indicators that that Australia is rooted: Australia tittering on the edge of recession: terrorist interference with oil supplies; the importation of many unvetted potential palli terrorists; imminent blackouts from turtle’s actions, and in that respect an interesting analysis of the AEMO’s failure to stop this:
BLACKOUTS HAVE MANY CONSEQUENCES – THE AEMO IS IN WONDERLAND THE CEO MUST RESIGN
Urgh I should edit. I’m hopeless at such things.
Btw the Iceland volcano has been doing very nice things, especially since it has managed so far to miss everything important. The Blue Lagoon, the power station and Grindavik all look to be in good shape, so long as it doesn’t get too excitable.
The start of the Grindavík 2023 eruption (23 minute video)
Remarkable work from the webcam person, they caught the start of it then zoomed in and focused. The last 10 minutes are fascinating with giant fire fountains and new fissures opening up as the ground to either side splits open.
@ BON .. Pell retained His Dignity … if you ever have to walks those shoes Brother hope .. you manage so modest a show of courage.
JC
Dec 19, 2023 7:21 PM
Maybe because Junior Cretin puts money into the Blog.
The blog owner asked you to stop making those sorts of dishonest accusations.
The Blog Owner has never asked me to do anything of the sort. You on the on the other hand have been abusing everyone that you don’t like here over and over again,
You are a serial abuser.
NEXT
Cheer up, Terry.
Dumbo has assured all workers a pay rise my mid-year.
Just don’t mention productivity.
Depends on the cost of shipping. I haven’t looked yet, but the cost of cargo transport can move 200% in a month. Is there a shortage or surplus in that shipping sector at the moment?
The blog owner asked you to stop making those sorts of dishonest accusations.
OK Junior, show me.
Hehe, Mark, I’m one of those knuckle dragging Calvinists. George Pell was a Christian and an extraordinary man though. Vale.
Excess capacity of refineries, the AUD/USD and Russia, etc responding to demand explains a lot of the movement or lack thereof of both petrol/diesel and oil.
The filth in Canbra, the filth in Dublin, the filth in Ottawa all seem to be operating fromt eh same handbook- mass migration, attacks on farmers etc etc.
In Iran when discussing that aspect with Muslim colleagues lightheartedly keen to put conversion before us, we aussies were approved when we said ‘Well THAT would not be a problem!’ We explained it was quite common for our generation; maybe a health thing after military service of the previous generations?
I was quite surprised when our own firstborn was (so to speak) on the chopping block, and the doc told us that these days pretty much ONLY Jewish babies got circumcised.
Christopher Moltisanti always had it rough.
Freight shipping seems sort of stable at the moment.
https://fearnpulse.com/#1
Look at the charts.
Go here, Wodney.
Johnny Rotten
Dec 19, 2023 7:33 PM
The blog owner asked you to stop making those sorts of dishonest accusations.
He did not so don’t hide behind Dover. You farking wimp and pathetic cretin.
You are just a piece of shite and who is a pathetic bully. Fat Pizza OK.
What a poor person you are.
This bloke should be out.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/19/daniel-duggan-home-detention-appeal-pilot-flight-risk
Daniel Duggan asks to be released from jail and detained at home as he fights extradition to US
Australian pilot accused of training Chinese military denies he is a flight risk in letter requesting NSW home detention
Screw the Yanks, and dreyfuss, the dickhead.
The federal attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, has approved Duggan’s extradition request, meaning Duggan will be handed over to the US unless his legal team can prove his extradition is unlawful.
electric scooter or bike or something caught fire on Level 11 of a building in Sth Melb this morning too
dunno the details
high rise apartment car parks are filling up with Teslas
sooner or later events like this will stop being trivial news snippets
Finally! My favourite part of the year!
Hockey Mask Time(TM).
He sure did. Ask him, you limey crook. Go ahead.
Baltic dry index is usually good for shipping news and to see where prices are going.
Nowhere much yet seems to be the answer, but soon.
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/baltic
Meanwhile, freight rates are expected to rise due to disruptions in Red Sea routes caused by multiple attacks from Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi movement in recent weeks. The threats to carriers around Egypt’s Suez Canal may pressure freight rates from Asia to Europe or to the United States East Coast as ships take alternative, longer routes,” said Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Lee Klaskow.
That has to be a Northern Territory newspaper headline.
Um…!?
Is he being prosecuted by the IRS?
JC
Dec 19, 2023 7:40 PM
The blog owner asked you to stop making those sorts of dishonest accusations.
He did not so don’t hide behind Dover. You farking wimp and pathetic cretin.
You were hiding behind other posters like Calli. You are the farking Crook.
Mole
That’s the dry goods freight and not oil. But have a look at the drop from the 4 Dec to 19th. It’s 32% drop in freight cost in a few days!
Ask him, Wodney. Dare ya. 🙂
This is both funny and immensely stupid at the same time, and in equal part.
Do you really want to cast negative aspersions on blog management – that the aforementioned management allows ‘cash for comment’ while you continually push demonstrable lies from a convicted fraud who spent 11 years in the bin for fleecing the helpless?
As noted earlier upthread, your ‘jokes’ are 40 years old and easily available by watching any repeat of ‘On The Buses’, yet you put them up in the apparent belief that a) you thought of them, and b) nobody else has heard of them.
Everything about you screams fake, and you wonder why you’re not taken seriously.
‘I am 70’
‘I am from England (all of it, apparently, due to your rampant mixing of dialects)’
‘I have a sexy Asian wife’
‘I have orgies on the weekends’
‘I was a part-time bovver boy’
I will now refer to you as ‘Mrs Slocum’.
What can the US do that it hasn’t already done in the last decade via its allies in the Gulf. If you think it can go to the finish of the escalation ladder directly you need to calm down. Any major escalation brings all the Yemeni allies into the equation.
MatrixTransform
Dec 19, 2023 7:41 PM
More EV awesomeness
Give an EV to Junior Cretin and lets see how it works…………………Or NOT. LOL
@BON you know I am an unrecalcitrant beliver in Nothing “Alles Quatch” as thos ghastly Huns have repeatedly invoked!!
Evidence …
Presumption of Innocence…
Due Process !!
That kinda out moded boring stuff ..,.
If I cant have that than then ? Early Roxy Music .. ? Hey not walking out of here empty … 😉
Hey “More than This ?” … what do we Leftie Scrotes hope for this from our betters?
@BON … https://youtu.be/5RhkwOmT7gI
Dover
If those Yemini morons hit major Mid East oil installations they’d get a pass, would they?
Calm down? I’m not the one putting up quasi end of times ideas. I’m suggesting there’s nothing you’ve said that oil market players haven’t thought about and yet the price is where it is.
You appear to have a soft spot for those Yemeni idiots. 🙂
and here I was thinking dover was a heathen for not making his own guacamole
pancetta … chorizo? no! no! no!
better not include prawns … [quickly googles] … what the actual… !!
ffs … and no cheese on a meatballs?
whew!
at least it isn’t all bad news
Here you go Mark.
Rock Of Ages – Brian Ferry (1977)
Ripper album. Rock of Ages is of course also a famous hymn.
JC
Dec 19, 2023 7:49 PM
The blog owner asked you to stop making those sorts of dishonest accusations.
When, and show me Dick Head.
JC
I was thinking panamaxes were oil, obviously not.
The shipping world is weird, Ive tried following it for a while when working at the salt mine, but only sometimes did shipping seen to reflect worldwide news of some sort.
JC
Dec 19, 2023 7:55 PM
Wheras – You are Just A Pompous Windbag…………..LOL
@KD .. “This is both funny and immensely stupid at the same time, and in equal part.”
Even if the bloke is neither or both… cut him some slack .. He is just another Human being upon whom you just have no God Given Right to charge in …
But I know you have already passed Ultimate Judgement on Me .. given your impromptu to pass judgement on us all…
Wouldn’t want that on my shoulders if I U understood what it meant …
Can’t be just that. If trips are fewer, unless other ships pick up the slack, fewer goods/commodities are being delivered.
Including Russia?
JC
Dec 19, 2023 7:49 PM
The blog owner asked you to stop making those sorts of dishonest accusations.
You little Fat Arse Big Nose Maffioso Crook cannot back up anything. Maybe your Fat Arse but that is all.
What’s the current slack in the market? Baltic Dry dropped 32% in just over two weeks, possibly suggesting some slack in that sector?
The link I posted earlier suggests a small tightening in oil freight costs, but time will tell.
Ah, no. I most certainly do not ‘pass judgement’ on everyone.
Okay then, but cut me some slack because that sentence doesn’t make sense. Which is unsurprising.
Dover
Wodney wants to know if you posted a comment asking people to stop making aspersions about cash for comments etc.
Don’t believe him, but he reckons he didn’t see it. Could you elaborate, for the two bit limey crook.
Lysander Christian Bros in Victoria are very tainted by allowing a group of paedophile to operate for years, shifting them around after complaints.
They aren’t the church.
Judaism is my second favourite religion.
Easy way to maximize oil carrying capacity would be to ban everything but 98 octane. Storage, mileage, price watch, everything is distorted by watering down the punch for p*ssy 92.
@BON … I normally check my sourceds because I am so Unreliable these days …
But I wanna Say ENO amd Bowie … (forgive me if this it tottal bolocks ) We Brother ENO and someone … Likely Bowie … went into the Studio and Just Did an unrelenting “Pete and Dud … ” .. No bust from charachter …
See … the Ambience follows you around the room … ” there is a thing about being part of a Culture … firstly you have to realize you are there …
Never said that, but you seem to think there are no rungs between doing nothing and nuking.
I’m putting up plausible scenarios. When I brought up this weeks ago it was largely fobbed off, now we have a maritime operation involving 2 carrier groups off the coast. Whatever the market is thinking, it’s entirely possible they have miscalculated.
JC
Dec 19, 2023 7:49 PM
The blog owner asked you to stop making those sorts of dishonest accusations.
This is where you have serious delusions of all sorts of things including grandeur. But then again what is new with a Plonker like you.
You DOPE
And the Blog Owner never asked me such thing.
@BON I Love ENO to shreds.. He is very much like minded to Me .. he just gave up omn trying to be clever (I had never really ventured that conjecture ) ..But ENO just knew enough about Science to know how much cleverer than he would have to be to be remotely worthwhile…
I SO love His Music…
and His humility …
He asked all of us, you dishonest, filthy little crook.
@BON … ~ you know I am ~gagging ~ for ENO …
Mark – I can’t help with Eno or Bowie, I’ve never been into the music scene except as a listener. Maybe Roger or Rabz could swap stories with you!
As to ambience…
Love in Motion w/ Christina Amphlett – Icehouse (1992)
“Never said that”? I never suggested you did. However, you did posit the possibility that those imbeciles have the means to attack major oil installations across the Mid East and I replied that if they did, they would no longer be alive.
What if you’re miscalculating by over-reaching?
Re Yemen, no.
Roger
You’ll find that in just about every PS/Union interface.
There’s a steady flow of people between the Union and the government Industry – It was really obvious in WA a decade or so ago – in one remote hospital up north, the entire Regional Administration had, essentially, moved from head office of the different unions to take over the Area Health Board.
And that, Virginia, is why the problems Australia faces are unfixable.
Just get a load of these two grifters heading into the European winter in their summer whites.
@ Bruce of Newcastle … me niether … I was only a teenager … and I still had the gift of clear hearing, then .. and we all had our “enthusiasms’ … Chrissie was good .. but not Punk enough for me .. But back then wasnt everything AMAZING !! ??
Not making a Big Deal of it ..
Surely our “enthusiasms” should inform our lives for as long as we can sustain them ?
Peace …
Mmmyes.
The cover-up defence joins half a dozen Ten employees under the bus. At least as far as Brown goes. And, as the Oz journo asks, if it didn’t involve Brown, who did it involve?
This is awkward.
Both Toad and Ten have insisted that the primary thrust of the program was about the cover up and “No HR department”.
Now that Toad and her lawyer have abandoned that, they haven’t got much. Toad isn’t running a truth defence (Ten is), so what does her defence now consist of? That there was significant public interest in a “he said, she said” allegation of rape between two half-pissed junior public servants which warranted half an hour in prime time?
Judaism is my second favourite religion.
Christianity is my second favourite religion.
I generally like Hindus, not sure about Hinduism though, all those gods, ridiculous.
He asked all of us, you dishonest, filthy little crook.
Asked who Tosser?
she passes out
Doubt that if the blow was any good.
I described the scenario a week or so ago.
She does a line, has a bad reaction & starts vomiting her guts up.
That’s when BL does a runner.
And by the time she’s emptied her guts, she’s exhausted, then crashes.
I’ve seen it happen.
Over to you Blog Owner, Take the money from the Fat Pizza Arsehole or allow free speech. Over to you. Otherwise it could be said that you have been bought.
Their ABC firing well…. from news.com
ABC Melbourne has forfeited a recent recovery, dropping 1.4 points to a 6.6 per cent share of Melbourne’s radio market in the eighth and final GfK survey for 2023, while 3AW once again finished the year on top.
After a strong survey seven, which saw ABC Radio Melbourne breakfast host Sammy J jump to a 10.1 per cent share, his show experienced a similar drop with almost two percentage points wiped off, falling back to an 8.2 per cent share.
Back in the day I remember the Cat being a place for robust intelligent , but kindly conversation.
What has it turned into now ?
For shame people …
Whacky world of islam:
France: Migrant rapes pro-migration activist, then she is ‘shocked’ to see him on the street
Sweden: Muslim migrants who urinated on and gang-raped woman won’t be deported, court says they have ‘integrated’
And the really scary one:
51% of Americans ages 18-24 think solution to Palestinian conflict is for ‘Israel to be ended and given to Hamas’
The accusation that JC gets some sort of preferential treatment here because he chips in to help with the running costs is more a slight directed at Dover than JC.
Dover has already explicitly denied this and asked that you cease and desist from this bullshit.
You have effectively called Dover a liar.
Which makes you a c-nt as well as a crook.
…………………………………………… LOL!!
A really great cute owl.
@Barking Toad … The ABC is now a cesspit of lies and propaganda .(Maybe it was once something else, but that is a different conversation) . i only look to it now to see what we are supposed to believe … ~spit ~
Still pretending to be a part-time bovver boy, I see.
Trying to freaten people.
Go service the lady boy, you dodgy prick.
That was fun.
Bald and Bankrupt:
England, one of the world’s richest nations. But not everyone gets to enjoy the benefits of being born here. Just 60 miles from the bright lights of London is Jaywick which is statistically the most deprived town in the nation. I visited with my friends @BackpackerBen and @TimmyKarter for a weekend by the beach. Join us!
Thanks to the staff at the Black Rock restaurant in Clacton who looked after us and the great people of Clacton and Jaywick.
Transcript
Holidaying In England’s Most Deprived Town
I’m not convinced by the explanations so far on the current oil price. It simply doesn’t reflect the sort of prudence you would expect.
There are issues with storage in a few key parts of the supply chain.
Ie, there isn’t any.
After the April/May 2020 storage disaster, I reckon risk departments are all over this.
Back in the day I remember the Cat being a place for robust intelligent , but kindly conversation.
That was only because I was doing my thesis entitled: I think therefore I eat.
Just wow.
The first sentence doesn’t make a scrap of sense.
Otherwise? Otherwise, Dover can be bought for asking and then accepting donations to keep the blog going? Woddenhead is a disgusting pos.
Johnny Rotten
Dec 19, 2023 8:42 PM
He asked all of us, you dishonest, filthy little crook.
So Dover, the Blog Owner, did you ask of every Poster? I bet that he/she.it/whatever didn’t.
JC, do you even know or try to find out what they are capable of or do you think calling them imbeciles is sufficient? Re the latter, how do you think the US will do that?
You are not obliged to be here.
@cohenite Oh so humble ? I am sure your PhD must have amounted to something ( I truly hope it did)
And We all do the best we can with what we have.
The Cat was, back then a worthwhile, endevour … I am not making a point … just so say I saw it then and i see it now ..
I have no investment … I am just seeing how it all worked out ..
And now a direct slur on management.
Once again, for the eternally retarded – this august journal of record is not a city park where any methed-up derro can rock up and yell about 1985 supercomputers.
This. Place. Is. Private. Property. And. You. Are. A. Guest.
It’s sufficient enough to describe them? Sure.
Let me say, that I accept your assertion they would be capable of blowing up major oil installations. My question is what happens then?
It wouldn’t be just the US that would destroy them.
Mrs Slocum – un-deprive this town and return.
With a decent supply of kippers.
@ Boambee John … Indeed none of Us are obliged to be anywhere … But there weere one discussion groups i once took pride on being involved in ..
I am not taking any of you to task … I am just making an observation about the changeability of things…
Also, and I have never made, any secret of this , It interests me to see the perspective youy fokllks now have on Geopolitics…. I am never here to say you are right or wrong .. never pretended otherwise .. Just interested to see how the conversation has changed …
Also to ALL .. this foul language is unforgivable … These controversies … no matter how much they capture your passion require Civil and Polite discourse.
Woddenhead
I’ve made exactly $300 donation to the blog this year becsuse the owner nicely ask people to chip in to keep the place going. I’ve done so every year. Perhaps, if you think the blog owner jumps over chairs to get to such a donation and accepts cash for comment, you could donate a similar sum, and by your repulsive, crooked limey logic, you too would receive the same treatment.
Let’s see you get the wallet out now, champ.
Take a look at this:
“Hamas [the subhuman filth, as I like to call them] confirm that the tunnel in northern Gaza belongs to them and state that Israel arrived late after the mission was completed [7 Oct massacre]”
Whilst in English Hamas and its affiliated “news” outlets are begging the world for a ceasefire, they are still celebrating the 7 Oct when addressing their Arab audience
JC
Dec 19, 2023 8:23 PM
You DOPE
And the Blog Owner never asked me such thing.
He asked all of us, you dishonest, filthy little crook.
See hoe this Dick Head works. He asked all of of us,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,LOL. That’s like Joe Biden asking all of us. What a Crock and what a CROOK he is………….
@
Knucle Dragger
“This. Place. Is. Private. Property. And. You. Are. A. Guest.” …
Indeed !!
Much and all as we may have had controversies I am totally with you on this one …
WE are guests in this forum .. and MUST behave with good manners .. We are under a notional “roof ” and must comport ourself with good manners..
Will comment for cash.
Woddenhead.
Make the donation!
Yes, he made a comment without signaling anyone out.
I think it’s time for a diaper clean-up as you’ve lost it.
(You really appear to struggle to keep up when not posting bilge from the convicted fraud and stupid jokes.)
You may want to put the Pimms No.1 Cup down, Mrs Slocum.
Perhaps a joke would lighten the mood. Preferably one about the scrawny, drizzle-preferring Poms requiring assistance from this wide brown land to save their country in not one, but two world wars.
Mitchell Starc just got signed to the Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL (that’s cricket, Mrs Slocum) for $4.4 million dollars.
For ten weeks’ work.
Unbelievable.
IPL cash would have kept Bill Lawry in pigeons for decades. Which would have spared us all.
Fer cripes’ sake people, would you keep it down? Some of us are trying to categorise their belly-button lint collection, but with all this air-slapping, it’s difficult to differentiate between the freckled and the speckled!
*Huff*
@ Knuckle Dragger
I know I have told stories of me as a nipper being schooled by whisky breathed Old Bugger that were … sadly in a place to relate stories about Not Being Australian ..in so far as were are being fooled…. NOT to belive the Bullshit in the Media … but it wasn’t a Joke then … and nothing I could ever forget …
I post this in humility .. I only know what I was told then … and have heard nothing more compelling since …
Peace …
Good on him! The Indians like their cricket and they can increasingly afford to pay for excellent entertainment.
We Aussies will be the poor white trash feeding their system, quite soon.
I speak of WWI and so did they …
Starting to sound like Faulty
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/bureau-of-meteorology-warnings-to-far-north-qld-residents-delayed-during-intense-flooding-despite-local-council-being-notified-hours-beforehand/news-story/6c8b28f193b6bb1087d6f2f2c4bf1de5
BOM deserves all the stick it gets with this one. I’ll link underneath an article put up Saturday evening with a so called senior meteorologist from the BOM carrying on about Jasper reforming (It was stalled over the cape) and fulminating about hey not out of the unusual December temperatures for Australia. What he should have been doing is telling people especially adjacent to the Barron R, Mossman R and probably every low area north of Cairns to get out when half a metre of rain has fallen on the Kuranda Range that has to drain somewhere.
The BOM has good forecasting ability, I’ve seen it with Mining Companies I’ve worked with who pay for it, we even had a qualified pilot at one project who had a log in to the aviation portal which was much better that what we plebs see. So why the need to push a barrow at a time when there’s a real threat at hand? Reduced crew for Christmas perhaps?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12870179/cyclone-jasper-queensland-heatwave-floods.html
Anatomy of a Broken Hearted Pom.
* Process worker.
Just like I’ve never watched morning television, and just like I’ve never drunk a can of coke in my life, I have never watched The Project. I never will. But from reading websites and news items since the tawdry Hoggins story broke back in early 2021, my understanding is that the big, whopper nub/premise of the whole Higgins allegations aired by the Amphibian of Mosman was that there was some grand conspiracy and cover up by the dastardly Liberal government. So, reading this tonight filled me with some schadenfreude, it an exchange between Justice Michael Lee and Ms Sue Chrysanthou
“Can I proceed on the basis that no submission will be made Ms Brown was a knowing participant in a systemic cover-up of a rape?” he asked.
There was a pause as Ms Chrysanthou took stock of this question.
It was only last week that her client had sat in the same witness box and told the Federal Court she believed Brown, former chief of staff to then-minister Linda Reynolds was “getting instructions from the prime minister’s office” and it followed she and Reynolds were “knowing participants in a systemic cover-up”.
“You’d agree that it would be wicked conduct, being involved in the systemic cover-up of a rape allegation?” Lee had asked.
“Yeah, it was about keeping the details away from the media,” Wilkinson replied.
Those words may have flashed through Chrysanthou’s mind as she considered her response.
“Not for the purposes of these proceedings, your Honour,” she agreed after a long moment, there would be no submission that Brown was engaged in a systematic cover-up of the rape.
My understanding was that the so called cover up was the basis for the whole politically charged vendetta against Morrison and the Liberals, the bullshit that they had a women problem, the bullshit that they didn’t care about women being sexually assaulted and on and on it went. The campaign undermined and tarnished Morrison and his government right up until May 2022, mainly because Morrison was so utterly inept and spineless in dealing with this vicious ideological vendetta, all started by a grotesque and very dodgy Amphibian from Mosman. No wonder Labor were laughing, the only person who thought the whole thing was obscene was Kimberly Kitching, now dead, we know what the Labor coven of witches did to her.
From day one it was obvious to me that it was all a complete crock of shit. It’s now a grand canyon of shit.
I am finding surprising overlap with the terms used for my toe-jam catalogue.
@ Sancho Panzer
I have seen such changes of Heart .. in the mining Industry … Unsufferable Union blokes that gave everyone no end of grief… .. they went back to “Blighty ” and came back changed Men … after they saw what that fanatic idiocy … and such destruction had wrought on where they came from …. after that they were more interested in looking after the blokes …. right well who they were and what mattered to Us … Hrd Lessons well learned but at least they did …
Really? Cass you have to at least try Coke Zero. Just once and they also come in a small can now.
And an ultimate F U being the wearing of white at the airport.
I detest the wearing of white as it has been happening in Parliament and other places, and every time she wears white I email Peta Credlin about it.
I have had the most wonderful day, starting with Best Man informing me that Christmas Day weather prediction is 19 C max; perfect for serious feasting. Then I came out to my desk to find it covered in ribbons, with a beautifully wrapped birthday present. Chanel #5. My favourite.
Then phone calls, messages, cards and more presents. And strict instructions that I’m not allowed in the ‘Great Hall’ until 5.00 PM, where we found drinkies with Granddaughter #1’s special charcuterie board and many bottles of fizz.
Dinner was superb, I seem to recall. Things were a tad foggy by then. Dessert floats through my memory as a fluffy, fabulous blend of pavlova and new season’s berries. But, TBH, we only came for the entertainment. (Ha ha.)
Unreal! What an incredibly talented bunch I have generated. We eventually left with ‘Piano Man’ ringing in our ears, along with so many expressions of love that I am truly humbled.
They’re onto Blues Brothers now. This could take some time.
Well-scraped toes and on life goes, Mother.
Trump wouldn’t hit the Houthi’s directly, but he would put the Iranians in a full court press economically and/or slice and dice a Republican Guard commander to achieve the same outcomes.
I can certainly believe Brittnah attempting to swallow something other than Roses chocolates that caused her to spew and BL to flee. Yuk.
Has anyone seen my pussy? Captain Peacock?
Delta A,
Congrats and Best Wishes.
You are truly blest.
I would have said testpattern (!) but the taste in music is unsurprisingly avian.
Bruce, Britt and Molly.
I’ve said my piece.
But what are they going to do that hasn’t been tried and failed in the last 10 years?
As mentioned earlier by Dr Faustus: “two plumpies off to get ruthlessly wood ducked”. The consensus being that the locals will make a not insubstantial meal of them both.
I know, P, and I thank God every day.
Thanks for you kind wishes. Another birthday, another year older.
Who cares? 🙂
They got caught out once but probably now have so many SAM installations that a paper plane couldn’t get through. Patriot networks are very effective.
As an old army friend of mine said: you can’t win a war from the air alone. Saudi Arabia has some of the best US ground attack aircraft and munitions but still can’t get the job done. Short of an invasion, no-one will.
Descartes was horrified to learn that people exist who don’t think.
Rode a tram this morning down Victoria St, Richmond. I remember it in the 90s as a street of thriving Vietnamese restaurants and other businesses. Now, you pass shopfront after shopfront shuttered or blank windowed with just bare walls and scraps of broken shopfittings gathering dust. Lurid graffiti everywhere, thick and heavy, all over the roll down shutters and the roof frontages. A good 65% of the street in the stretch where it was busiest once is like this now. It’s ugly and hard.
JC
Dec 19, 2023 9:49 PM
and just like I’ve never drunk a can of coke in my life,
I try to keep out of commenting about others’ culinary habits* but I tried every kind of coke and I personally find all of them revolting.
*exception, drinking cans of Woodstock, how do they do it?
Reposted for excellence – Faustus, apropos of Brih-nee, the Bruce lookalike and their Euro adventure:
Yes indeed. That is good.
@ Delta A
“Who cares? ?”
Well I for one ….
Even If you cannot see that Christ is Our redeemer ? Would it not be a worthwhile exploration to consider what a “Redeemer ” might look like if one might possibly exist … ?
Even If there is no such thing …
Perhaps the mere consideration of what One might look like, makes for Hope … ?
Peace
He spent a few days in an oven to come up with his one liner, after all that he got it the wrong way round.
Went to a restaurant in Chadstone shopping centre after work today. Plenty of car parks available. I was v surprised. I expected it to be full in the run up to Christmas. Is something going on ? Or is it the calm before the shopping rush? Hmmm…
OK Smart and Profound words from me … OK I admit … we are all but Flesh ..
https://youtu.be/PVSKgXY3xHs
Purely hypothetical question…
You are located in an inner city Melbourne area which is redistributing its Council wards.
For historical reasons, because of that redistribution, it turns out that you are actually now in a position to run – and win – for Councillor next year. You can pretty much lock in 20% of the vote in a FPP election before you even start.
You would be consigning yourself to four years of toil amongst the stupid and leftist (BIRM).
You would probably do no good, except at the margins, because this is a leftist Council, and always will be I reckon. Currently, the Socialist Left provide the main source of common sense. No, truly.
Do you (a) ask someone to knock some sense into you or (b) buy popcorn, Dan Murphy’s shares and do something incredibly stupid?
@ Frank
“Cogito Ero Sum… ”
Must have been tricky to get a gig as a Mathematician way back then … I would have put my hands up as a Farrier … But then, like now ,blokes lacking ambition or imaginatiion ,had a hard scrabble of it … ?
Many happy returns* and all the best for the future, Delta.
* I don’t know what that means. Presumably the easy exchange of inappropriate gifts?
@mark from Melbourne
I see your misery and can only feel compassion …
One word :
?ubrówka …
but it must be drawn from the freezer … in tiny glasses …
also Tip to the Wise … Leave the bison outside .. 😉
What more can the US do to Iran economically beyond the current boycott? What would killing another IRGC commander achieve? Probably escalatory strikes on US bases in Syria and Iraq. So what do you do after that? Attack Iranian assets in Iran. What’s their next move?
Britnah decamping to the land of foie gras, camembert, beignets and potatoes fried in duck fat.
I predict it will end badly.
Cogito, ergo dumb
Delta A,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmM1ATJgQE4
Mark from Melbourne.
The answer is (d). Infiltrate, and try to out-extreme the extremists*, using the experience to write a ‘strictly fictional’ book afterwards.
* I mean that literally. e.g. Advocate that 100% ruinables is not enough. Everyone wants 100%, but does that show commitment? NO! etc. etc. Push the absurdity envelope (within legal bounds, of course).
Deep fried camembert.
The Albanese government’s decision not to send a naval ship to the Red Sea is a devastating indictment of our military incompetence and perhaps a turning point in modern Australian history.
Not for decades have we been so radically unprepared militarily, and incapable, as we are now.
There is one overriding reason we can’t send a ship. None of the 10 operational surface fleet vessels we allegedly have available (seven Anzac frigates currently operational and three air warfare destroyers) has any counter-drone defence capabilities.
The Houthi rebels in Yemen are firing drones at ships. We could shoot these drones down with our fabulously expensive anti-ship missiles, each of them vastly more expensive than drones, but very soon, say in a day and a half, an Anzac frigate would run out of such missiles and have to sail all the way back to Australia to replenish. The Houthis have armed drones. The Australian Defence Force does not have in its entire order of battle one single armed drone.
Oz – Greg Sheridan
@Dover Beach
Iran have been getting ready for this since forever… Not playing for sides here … despite the full “hhoopla” Project Ukraine wound up being the utter disaster we all knew it would be … Here is a thought ?
How’s about we dont do it .. ? The West can wait them out …
Peace ?
Muddy, I had not considered the publishing options thereafter, I have to admit!
It is a gift horse.
Try sling-shots. I believe the Israelis might have some used manuals lying about and could even offer training at discounted rate.
Soleimani, BTW, was the key figure in defeating Al Nusra/ ISIL in Syria and Iraq. Absolutely dumb move offing him. It won’t be forgotten either.
@ Dover Beach
The way things are shaping up youngsters are all “Pro Palli” and as we get older things will get stickier … If we Go Now ..we meet the same snare .. The Isrealis have already lied to gain the Informtaional Battle Space .. and are demonstrably failing .. just like Ukraine …these conflicts wont be lost or won by the good graces of CNN ..
This conflict will continue to be a generational Gordian Knot …
Fair enough.
—-
Steve Inman:
All Lives Splatter So Move
@Dover Beach …
None of this ends nicely or soon … May the Almighty Have Mercy ..
Soleimani, BTW, was the key figure in defeating Al Nusra/ ISIL in Syria
Which allowed Russia to come in; which was its purpose not protecting the West against the ISIS vermin.
But what are they going to do that hasn’t been tried and failed in the last 10 years?
Trump neutered iran, china, russia and the mutant in NK.
Dover – I don’t think Iran is as sanctioned as we may imagine, certainly post Trump. The euros were actively sidestepping them anyway and under Biden any sanctions have tended to be against specific individuals and groups.
Not suggesting any action is consequence free, just making the point that Trump demonstrated a preference towards targeting the root cause economically rather than the puppet in isolation militarily.
Which would achieve nothing, absolutely nothing. The Iranians are already moving their economy to align with Russia and China and there is little Trump could do to harm them further without blowing up the massively indebted USA economy.
Here is a different strategy, try doing the opposite. Trump could fly to Tehran and offer them a deal based on market access, democratic opening and removal of IRGC from Lebanon and Yemen plus extra benefits for nuclear inspections. Offering a good enough deal would split the government in Iran(plsu IRGC) vs the people and make the end of the Mullahs come much faster.
Trump is mad enough to do this and it might be the move that changes the game in ME. Saudis would be opposed ofc, but who cares.
Nihilistic Aliens
I have a sudden hankering for Doritos.
@Dover Beach …
I thank you Good Sir a well considered evaluation of this situation .. I thank you for not being sucked into simplistic or belligerent option … It sure isnt Easy Brother !!
Good flogging. Well deserved.
Steve Inman:
And the mullahs would jump at this?
Oops, link
One Man vs Antifa
Probably not, its the very last thing they would want to see. USA as the eternal enemy is the only political game they can use to stay in power.
It might be done with meetings in Dubai or Qatar followed by a trip to Tehran where Trump would be welcomed by millions.
Alamak.
The Hiden administration has been doing lots to calm down the Mullahs. It’s got them nowhere.
ISIS was never about ‘the West’. ISIS was largely a tool to be used against Hezbollah, Syria/Assad, the new regime in Iraq, and Iran. Russia was already tied to the Syrian regime before that. They have an important military near Latakia. They were never going to let anything happen in Syria that would lose them that base.
They don’t look like neutered at the moment.
Arm the opposition, which should’ve been done a long time ago.
JC
Dec 19, 2023 11:24 PM
Alamak.
If they wanted democracy, nothing to stop them.
Equally, since they don’t want it, it takes some tremendous persuasion or more likely force to remove them.
Unlike Iraq, the Persians now would welcome democracy, probably even the return the son of the late Shah.
That revolution led by Khomeini was fomented from the west and the youth got carried away, they have learned their lesson now.
The problem for Trump in this scenario is no one would trust the US. Reputation is in the shitter, diplomatically. Also, as you said in paragraph above, they see their future in Eurasia, whether its in BRICS, or some other forum. The regime will see no positive in aligning with the West if it also means having to be smothered with the secular liberal values.
So you want another Syria/ Iraq situation emerging in Iran with an guest appearance by ISIS. Let me tell you now, only an idiot in Iran would want this scenario to play out.
@dover0beach
You so have a grip on all this … I am sure it brings you no Joy . nor me … none to be had it seems? but thank you for helping me at least understand the situation .. Bless You Good Sir ..
I’m talking a grand bargain, something yuge that the Iranian people would want more than their current govt. Decades of sanctions and threats have not done anything to change the game.
That would simply lead to a crackdown and lots of dead people while the Mullahs would just say “see what USA made us do?”
There seem to be several. Which one is the “banger” ?
True on USA and trust. But the change would/should be targeted at the people and not the leaders. Most Iranians would like to be a normal country with liberal democracy given the chance.
RIP UN.
Sure, the Iranian population who despise the mullahs would welcome Sunni extremists no less with open arms.
Why?
Dover, in what parallel universe where Iran is largely Shia Muslim would welcome anything like something resembling ISIS? It’s not even the one next to ours.
New OT up.
“Earth tilt and orbit are non-linear.”
No, they ARE linear.
Non-linear means there is a discontinuity.
An example might be the brakes on your car – under everyday driving, these are “linear” in that the more pressure you apply, the quicker the car will stop. However, if you exceed the available grip of the tyres to the road surface, the wheels will lock up (stop turning), in which case using less brake pressure will in fact allow the wheels to start turning again, which will reduce stopping distance compared to locked wheels.
Regardless, multi-variate linear systems can easily be chaotic – an example would be a “double pendulum”, see such animations as:
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?&q=double+pendulum&&mid=2E67F29A9351F78F05572E67F29A9351F78F0557&&FORM=VRDGAR
Climate is chaotic for the same reason – the “tilt” of the earth changes as well as precesses (summer solstice happens at different place in orbit as the north pole “wobbles” around), solar output changes, and tides change over several lunar cycles.
There are also other forces at work as well, some secondary to the above, and some we may not even know about as yet.
Plus, of course, human changes – not just to atmospheric chemical composition (aerosols, CO2 etc), but also land use and land cover changes.
Although each can be considered “linear”, as per the above “double pendulum”, the combined affects is chaotic.
“Obela products are delicious, you won’t need a refund.”
The chipotle hummus is awesome!
Memo to the Bobster:
Our next Bill of Rights will include :
#3 The Right to Privacy.
Roger
Your comment that Islam is the biggest coloniser in the world.
How does that compare to communism. Russia, Eastern Europe, China, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Burma, loas,South America , Africa.
Which is this lesser evil?
BTW your mention of that South African author from the early 20th century provided insightful rearing. I agree with him – the leftie crowd are hedonists obsessed with sex and substances.
Lizzie
Londons Gordon gin – most important – it’s cheaper than Aussie boutique gin.
The Japanese GINS IN Daniele Murchellos are so smooth.
Black ball 19/12/23 @ 7:12
I am glad you posted Terrys article. Looking back at December, this is the slowest December I have experienced. Slower than December 2016.
It is surprising we have survived so long since 2008 especially with energy, employment laws and the public service creep – now wave of public service effect on private industry.
The effect of idiot labor decisions Palachook , Andrews, Wheatherall, which are billions of dollars wasted I could never understand why we have not crashed before.
The Comm games – the s idiot snub at England and the dislocation that it has caused is amazing.
Black ball 19/12 @ 7:12
I forgot to mention NDIS.
Seriously as a male who would do any of these tasks.
All the male jobs are disappearing, mining, energy, agriculture, construction, manufacturing.
I have allways been told I am a fish out of water in my job, but wow the size and strength of males doing caring NDIS jobs never surprises me.
And the ndis organisers to find people for caring jobs is stunning.
We are an amendicat society.