Tom Stiglich.
Open Thread – Wed 27 Dec 2023
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- Open Thread – Mon 9 Sept 2024
Matt Margolis.
Brett Lethbridge.
Peter Broelman.
Mark Knight.
If you eat a lot of calories you’re going to become fat and exercise isn’t going to compensate because big eaters will never do enough exercise. Except you of course.
That’s a unique perspective.
No wonder you go for the muscled up “cute owls”. You’re a lawyer. No lawyer is ever bulked up unless their looking in a zoom mirror, in which case your head would look like 3 times the size. Does it?
and wifey doesn’t either since she thinks it’s sinful to eat more than 20 calories a day.
She’s right.
Apart from specific locusts/ And naturally a few rabbis can’t agree about which species they are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher_locust
You’ve got spuds.
You’ve got a deep fryer.
You’ve got a knife.
I know WA has buggered its spud supply, but at least we never fumbled the obvious method to make the ultimate fried potato treat, the chip.
And Dusty with Dame Edna –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QnVA-Wwx7k
One of the scholars plagiarized by Gay, like Gay is a middle-aged black woman.
And she is not happy about what Gay has done at all.
Pfft…people making up sins.
As if there aren’t enough actual ones to avoid.
No lawyer is ever bulked up unless their looking in a zoom mirror, in which case your head would look like 3 times the size. Does it?
A select band of lawyers take a muscled approach to their briefs; literally. You’d be surprised at the effect of a flexing of the pecs and the popping of a couple of buttons can have on a Judge; especially a lady one.
3 times the size of what?
lol
Salvatore 26/12 @ 6:47pm
Salvatore agree with all you said except laying the blame for the decline of manufacturing on management.
Do you know how hard it is to run a business with what you described and then have union labour.
There is violence, or when you are going to work in your uniform you are physically attacked or if you are recognised as working in that business you have to have eyes in the back of your head as you will be attacked or intimidated at the shops.
Management allways get it, but you have people against a large number of people emotionally fuelled by a hate filled union rep who can’t wait to make a name for themselves.
The meeja and entertainment industry degrade manufacturing as a dirty and mind numbing boring job.
Manufacturing is the base for the IT industry, from Joseph Cartwrights spinning Jenny to Facebook which was set up to grade chicks.
Manufacturing is creative, muscular mathematical, scientific.
None of those words could describe Hawke or Keating,
On a talent show a few yrs ago, a male contestant said he worked in a call centre which he said was demeaning.
Good on him, just like ndis and working for charities is demeaning.these are familial or social functions.
The Whyalla Steel mills, the entitlements would have bankrupted the entire group.
And now set up a business don’t bother.
Here’s a cute owl lady lawyer in her heels before putting on her suit to go to court.
Try eating them raw, out of high longitude fjord deltas, Scotland, Norway. Oh my lord, they even pulse as you go nom nom nom….
When I was training the tuna industry divers in Port Lincoln in the mid ’90’s they brought as many scallops to the surface as they could stick up their wetsuits during most dives. I had never tried them raw before but saw them doing it and decided to give them a try… Absolutely magnificent. The best of the best. Not sure I would eat them raw out of a shop, but straight out of the ocean – every time…
Nope. Not opening the link.
Once bitten, twice shy.
So you’ve never battered a fish fillet?
There’s a very narrow, but very deep, audience for She-Hulk, Attorney-At-Law.
…now I realize, for the fans of Owls, watching with the mute button on.
With my eyesight slowly deteriorating I prefer the Kindle on my iPad where I can make the text as large as I like. I still buy a hard copy of a book I have on Kindle as I like to have both.
I am in the same position as many other Cats with bulging bookshelves. For some time now I have weeded the less treasured books and stored them in plastic boxes in the garage and shed. At some point I will have to look though these again and discard what I can do without.
BTW
Howard and Corrigans taking on the wharfie was one of the greatest efforts in Australian economic history.
You saw what happened.Compare that to the pilots strike – everyone was against the pilots and on the street the pilots job was easy, it was a joke really.
Ok smart arse you try to do that job, that includes you Hawke Keating and the entire labor party.
Great become a bank employee or join the entertainment reality bending industry.
You have just been Litt Up
Cohenite – she seems to be wearing her briefs…
Nope, I’ve never battered a fish fillet. Or a spud fillet either, for that matter…
Oily fish, mackerel, swordfish, herring, definite no-no.
Drier white fish and flake, or to make whiting go further, maybe.
Making home made chips. Sea salts and pepper rule the roost. Anyone with variant recipes, feel free to chime in. I’ve got 50kg to get through.
Salvo,
thank you for the support. It seems I am this evening’s winner of the JC Tombola. It’s been a while. I’ll get a book. I’ll need something to keep me occupied during the boring bits.
Fish and chips tomorrow as it’s FRY Day……………..lol
I will get down to Half Circular Quay and have a pint or two at the Paragon and then fish and chips. Luverleeeeee.
Steve,
re your chip making, use animal fat. You can’t get the flavour or the crunch, any other way. And, make sure you use old crop, floury potatoes.
Justice Peter Mahon. His big mistake was including the phrase ‘an orchestrated litany of lies’ in reference to AirNZ’s blatant cover up.
It seriously upset Piggy Muldoon and spelt the end of Mahon’s illustrious career. Shunned by colleagues. Long term friendships blown away. He was, it’s certain, a man of much honour.
There is a very interesting doco (Impact Erebus Two) of the work of Captain Gordon Vette who assisted Mahon. He refused to toe the company line and went deeply into the phenomenon of white-out that obscured Erebus even on a clear day and his work on psychological factors in the develop if cockpit management training.. Well worth a watch.
There was an ugly side to it though.
We went over to a nearby town one day and witnessed a local moron abusing some old bloke sitting in the passenger seat of a car. “We don’t want no people from Shelbyville here!”. The old bloke obviously had dementia. I had a crack at this dickhead and he started having a go back at me.
Nek minnit, another very, very large bloke (who I assumed to be the old bloke’s son) turned up and enquired what this idiot’s problem was.
Things quietened down at that point.
Another day I heard some goose from our town ringing Nanny Neil Mitchell declaring that he knew people from Melbourne were in town.
“How do you know?” says Neil.
“By their numberplates” says dickhead.
“Huh?” says Neil.
“They have those things around their numberplates from Melbourne car dealers”.
Oh, right.
People like me who lived there and bought their car in Melbourne were furriners.
I took the dealer stickers off the car straight away. This moron sounded like he might key furriner cars or deflate tyres.
It was a variation on “Queensssland hostibals are for Queenssslanders”.
I don’t disagree with you Louis, however that was not written by me.
You will note that at the top I state that I’m posting a comment that was written on Catallaxy about Eight years ago, to my embarrassment I’m unable to recall who is the author.
pogria
It’s deceptive. “Beautification” work in the 1980s totally altered the landscape. About a third of the names on the cairn are incorrect, and the flawed research in the 1980s didn’t discover others of the 32 burials known from later research. The trees planted in that 1980s project have all died from being waterlogged in the heavy rain year. A conservation management plan is currently being prepared to determine how to handle the cemetery for the future.
It’s one of only two exclusive historic Jewish cemeteries in NSW, Goulburn (burials 1844 to 1943) and Maitland (burials 1849 to 1934), both listed as state heritage sites.
When you believe Trudeau could not sink lower…
Pogria, I didn’t believe your initial comment that the town was closed down and people needed permission to access their own homes -at least from an official point. I also found it irritating that you believe people with money should be so audacious as the want to spend it in anyway they wanted.
I don’t understand why you would take this so personally and then having to thank Driller out of spite.
Blogs are places were views and ideas are contested. If you don’t like that, then shove it.
where..
Clearly you aren’t up with the latest in Court power dressing.
It’s the pantsuit, as worn by the Toad.
Blogs are places were views and ideas are contested. If you don’t like that, then shove it.
And as Mrs Stencho Pantyhose always says –
Sure.
It would be of invaluable assistance to that philosophy were you to ever have an idea.
Katzenjammer,
thankyou for telling me that. Obviously, I would have no way of knowing that. I saw the dead trees. I was thinking to myself that, if they can be removed, perhaps replaced a few with some trees or bushes from Israel.
A little foxy greeted me when I stepped out of my car. He was a very practised greeter. After I had made much of him, I looked at the tag on his collar. It stated, as much as I can recall, “please do not worry about me, I am not lost, I know my way home”.
Will the mistakes be rectified?
It would be an invaluable assistance, if you STFU and stopped trolling around making pointless comments in an attempt to sound smart and sexy. You haven’t in the 15 years or so, you’ve trolled various blogs.
Bill Grainger- “My Dhal”, one of the things I do which gets repeat requests
-2 tblspoons ghee, medium heat, small pan
Add-
-1 red onion, slcied fine but long bits
-big thumb of ginger, grated
-2 garlic cloves, grated
-1 large green chili, fine dice
-1 tsp sea salt
-1 tsp cumin, toasted and crushed a bit
Stir for 10 min, until onion is soft -add
-1 cup red lentils
-3 cups water- lower heat a bit, 20 min, until thick
Fold in 1 tbsp lime juice and chopped coriander stem
-bowl it up, olive oil on top and garnish w coriander leaves
Handle gently, magically textural, always delicious.
With what? An idle, lazy flick of the finger or with…you know..those things called arguments?
Louis Litt
Dec 28, 2023 9:00 PM
BTW
I wouldn’t be a pilot for all the tea in China.
The shift work, the bureaucracy, the endless boring detail of keeping up with the endless frigging boring demands of the arseholes on a 9 – 5 job mentality, sod that for a lark.
Blogs are places were views
More poor Engrish. The word is ‘where’ not ‘were’. Back to school in February 2024 it seems.
All those billions of dollars spent on ‘Ejucashion’ and where is this country? Farked it would seem. LOL.
“Apart from specific locusts/ And naturally a few rabbis can’t agree about which species they are.”
Katz, my understanding is that there is no rabbi alive today that would know.
Diet – be it kosher or halal – does not confer spiritual grace. For food simply goes into and passes out of the body.
But it is what comes out of the heart and mouth that matters.
Shift work?
Should planes only fly from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm and set down for lunch and morning tea.
You mean, like following ATC directions?
Can you define what sort of demands you are talking about?
This now counts as an argument nowadays too.
Incredible contributions. And the upfingered salute went up even before the comment was posted. 🙂
My grandmother lived in Rainbow St, Randwick. George Miller’s mum was a friend and they would catch up there. We visited as children. My mind’s eye has snapshots of her house and walking to Coogee beach. Australia was a good place in the seventies. Crikey it’s changed. Bloody depressing thinking about it.
JC:
Pardon me for thinking that this one was a place where you could scream abuse at people who disagreed with you, while sheltering behind the fact that no one was able to give you the hiding you obviously never got from your dad for being a prick.
SFLs alert. Daily Telegraph:
A dog’s breakfast. FMD
Incredible contributions. And the upfingered salute went up even before the comment was posted. ?
LOL. Not only should you get to SpecSavers but you should see a Doctor of some sort.
You have paranoia written all over your Fat Face. Not a good look at all.
Pardon me for thinking that this one was a place where you could scream abuse at people who disagreed with you, while sheltering behind the fact that no one was able to give you the hiding you obviously never got from your dad for being a prick.
And so very well said Sir. But then again, did Junior Cretin ever know his/her/its/whatever Dad?
Reference earlier today to Warner and his sandpaper antics.
Truth is, ball tampering was invented by Poms going back as far as Trueman, mainly because they couldn’t get the Kooka to swing in Australia.
The thing is, the Aussies refused to jack up about it because Bradman and his pals didn’t want to make a fuss with the egg and bacon tie chaps at Lords.
This persisted with the ACB long after Bradman shuffled off.
Sancho – deliberately misreading what I wrote is standard for you.
No reasonable person would assume what you said is what I meant.
Don’t you have any better tricks?
I see the ‘ideas man’ isn’t exactly getting his material from meetings of clandestine philosophy clubs in Paris.
Am I a prick, Turtehead or just a simple soul that doesn’t tolerate stupid people, outright frauds, or crooks? Now that you’re engaging me again. Your most recent comment is really stupid.
I understand that piloting may not suit you, but “perhaps” not for the reason you suggested. Did you consider the fact that a commercial pilot (of a heavy jet) requires a minimum IQ level, which you’ve never exhibited? I presume you’re referring to commercial airline pilots?
Also
Forgive me for asking, but doesn’t the above exactly describe (male) nursing?
Christmas this year was our Darby and Joan event as the kids all reported to the in-laws.
It was actually lovely. Oysters mid afternoon, seafood later. and a planned flight up to the farm in the evening transporting Madam’s production line output of magnifjicant summer fruit pies.
An embarrassed pilot called to announce that he was a touch, a-hum, please blow in the bag sir, and couldn’ take us.
No problem The pies were for our district Boxing Day get together which we have come to treasure.
A fantastic day with bush families. It wasn’t a case of banning woke rubbish, it simply did not exist within the paradigm. Real world matters predominated. (Psst – don’t mention Bowen).
You are a prick.
Nor from a broken down motel on Mud Island.
Wow. Commercial pilots have to sit an IQ test to get their flying licence.
Not many people know that.
The NSW Liberal Party shamefully judged Gareth Ward guilty before any trial had taken place, and tossed him out of the party.
The electors of Kiama judged Gareth Ward innocent until proven guilty, and accordingly they reelected him.
I was not surprised Ward won the seat again. Apparently he is a popular and well liked member. His treatment by Parrothead/Kean and others, in the dying days of the NSW Liberal government, was shameful.
Methinks the voters of Kiama got it right in March 2023.
Another pointless comment.
I wouldn’t be a pilot for all the tea in China.
I’d put up with it, for the amount of bonking which apparently comes with the epaulettes.
Translation: You’re red faced from having posted something you now suspect you’ll not be able to provide a source.
You’re judging by your own standards. You may have a tendency to latch onto a peripheral aspect & badger it to death believing you’re proving something.
Actually: There’s a widespread contumelious disregard for your commentary.
Nobody is much interested in dissecting your poorly thought out drivel looking for a peripheral gotcha.
Mind reading in combo with another pointless, useless comment.
Sancho Panzer
Dec 28, 2023 9:43 PM
Mrs Stencho Pantyhose. Even if that was true. Why did the dickhead Aussies cheat when there were so many cameras around the Ground? Are some Aussie cricket players thick these daze? Or greedy? Or stupid? Or dumb?
Please get back to me in due course with your considered response. And please don’t blame it on those old excuses………………
pogria – re the Jewish cemetery at Goulburn
Future ideas include interpretive info panels about the congregation and the cemetery, and a memorial for the unmarked graves. Heritage issues often needs to consider reasons for significance and against that what should and can be preserved. The 1980s “overlay” of the landscaping enters a lot of complications where it’s unrelated to the usage of the site in the time of the congregation. The trees all need to be removed, and the whole surrounding valley is earmarked by the council for industrial development. Landscaping will need to take into consideration how the cemetery sits in that changed environment.
Because you’re in the district and maybe interested in local history, please make contact if you want to be kept informed about it. A website for a few pioneer period cemeteries was established recently for the Friends of Goulburn Historic Cemeteries by a volunteer, funded by a funeral company. of Goulburn
https://www.goulburnhistoriccemeteries.org/
You’ve most certainly never shown a “contumelious disregard” and neither are your two amigos.
Have you ever had an original thought, Driller? Juan Peron started that nonsense and you’ve quickly latched on like the unoriginal bullshit artist you’ve always been.
Thank you very much, indeed, Megan. I’m bookmarking that doco, to watch later.
Salvo,
“contumelious”, what an absolutely cromulent word!
Seriously, I have never seen or heard that word before.
Will definitely add it to my conversations. 😀
We’re swamped in “ideas” by the soul who suggested we all swap ideas.
He’s real jet-pilot level IQ so far. Impressive.
Cass – so you’re saying Garth* Ward got “me-too’d”?
And no Cats – I have no o’pinion on the matter, except that he’s a gliberal member.
Sky certainly didn’t take long to unceremoniously punt him once the allegedlee alleged allegations became public.
But, yeah – Teats Peanuthead.
*Deliberate …
If I was a pilot, I wouldn’t even bother with flight plans.
I’d fly under bridges, take detours en route to destinations to look at things I wanted to look at and fly as high or as low as I liked.
I bet I wouldn’t get into trouble either. Everyone would applaud me, especially the hundreds of other pilots taking off from or landing at the places I was supposed to go.
I quoted your own words back at you.
Verbatim.
I think when the words were pulled apart and questioned it illustrated that the original statement was really quite silly.
Katzenjammer,
I was planning to email tomorrow. Am genuinely interested in seeing how it goes. I have a nursery background, one of my many former lives, and may be of help if you need volunteers on the gardening part.
Bookmmark it. You might forget. He uses it every day.
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Appreciate the kind words, Driller.
If I was a pilot
Ahem, if I were a pilot
Ground crew for you. Low IQ bad grammer folk don’t get a look in the cockpit.
Golly gosh!
You’d be a free-range Biggles if it wasn’t for all this blasted red-tape!
Cassie
At least we have a valid objection to not eating fried spiders and cockroach laksa. But a dragonfy on a slice of cucumber and a petunia petal on a jatz bikkie could look quite appertising.
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If you do that, then it’s obviously a lie, according to our Caribbean turtle.
Until the eschewing of the knives and forks …
One can only fly so close the Sun, KD, or in your case, too low to the groond … 😕
JC
Dec 28, 2023 9:48 PM
Am I a prick, Turtehead or just a simple soul that doesn’t tolerate stupid people, outright frauds, or crooks? Now that you’re engaging me again. Your most recent comment is really stupid.
You are the farking crook on this website. So crooked that you could not lay down straight in bed.
Every time it is you who starts the ‘Argy Bargy’ and NEVER owns up to it. Maybe because you have a mental problem of some sort. Who knows?
Anyway, you should STFU and let others have their say here.
“Blogs are places were views and ideas are contested”
Did you really post that with the wrong ‘were’ instead of ‘where’? And you are supposed to be Edjucated in Sictoria.? Good grief. This country is farked if that is the case with Dick heads like you running around the place.
Well, what are you going to do when a load of Posters contest you? Abuse them as usual? You T.W.A.T.
Well, we don’t tolerate simple people like you. So Fark off now and don’t come back.
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Nikki, Tulsi, Candace- on yer bikes.
Trump’s running mate will be Ivanka Trump.
You know I’m right.
Was, were, where. How does good grammar help when someone is posting random paras?
To own up to something, a male first has to be a man.
That is sufficient information to work out why “prick” doesn’t own up.
That sounds like some sorta fancy book larnin’ thing.
It’s only flying a plane packed with fuel and people. Free speech! Murica! Straya! Army tanks!
I found a world so new … 🙂
When brunette womanages are just the best – Gold they, are …
Who is ‘we’?
Also, what does T.W.A.T. stand for? It’s an abbreviation, Dr Grammarly.
Woddenhead.
You’re self describing. You become introspective like this when you’re drunk, which appears to be most of the day now.
Doesn’t make a lot of sense to hire a woman all of a sudden.
Accusing others of what you’re doing yourself is a quaint attempt at deflection.
As a pub owner?
Except when there’s a bit o’ li’l Miss Vlaardingerbroekage goin’ on, Cats! 🙂
Dual introspection now.
I think the Don is intentionally keeping Ivanka out of the picture as much as possible now to keep her physically safe and as an option for a future candidacy. Don Jnr not so much, I hope they travel separately.
Frank, that was in the paper on Boxing Day.
It defies belief that the ALP could be that ruddy stupid.
JC
Dec 28, 2023 10:35 PM
You do need to try harder. You Mafioso bully and crook.
And BTW my English is way better than yours. Lucky that they let me in the country to help teach the locals.
Upthread there was talk about bolognese with milk added. Traditional bolognese has no milk. It actually has very few ingredients. Bolognese has been around since before tomatoes came to Italy. It is, at its most basic, minced or finely chopped meat, can be a combination of meats, browned, with onion, garlic was optional, stock if available, salt and pepper. Onions sauteed, meat browned, stock, water if needed, perhaps a splash of wine, then very slowly simmered, often overnight. A modern modification is a spoon or two of tomato paste.
Milk in bolognese is a relatively recent concept. It does add a silky smoothness to the sauce and made it more palatable for children. Milk is also used to soak stale bread that is then used in meatballs.
I had been trying to replicate a smooth, creamy tomato soup I had enjoyed, for ages. Tried all sorts of recipes, but none were quite what I wanted. Finally chanced across the ONE! Once you have made your basic soup of onions, sugo, stock and seasonings, you simmer a couple of potatoes in the soup. Then blitz it ’til smooth. That was it! The spuds gave it the creamy smoothness I had never been able to replicate.
I experimented further one day and used Kumara instead of spuds. Added a splash of Balsamic, and a new star was born. Use whatever seasonings you enjoy, add anchovies, mmmmmmm. If you want to add dairy, but keep kosher/pareve, use veg stock instead of beef etc.
Supposed to have been a Lufthansa pilot, way back when, who lost his temper about having to speak English to the control tower at Frankfurt.
“I an a German national, flying an aircraft registered to a German airline, over German territory. Why should I have to speak English, to the tower?”
A veddy, veddy pukka, cut glass English accent cut in
“Because, my deah fellow, your side lost the fooking war!”
Let’s summarize
1. Pogria threw a hissyfit when questioned about the outlandish claim Byron Bay was closed down in the 90s
2, Driller checked the syns page for “scorn” (on Google) and came up with a new word. Pogs was thrilled. There’s love in the air.
3. Turtlehead calls me a prick for some reason
4. Waffle finds a gram error.
5. The limey crook wants to remain relevant and is therefore very critical of a mispelled word.
6. Turtlehead reckons piloting is for losers.
What about a whole industry – manufactured stone – being destroyed by the stroke of a pen. Has there been any pushback about that?
You become introspective like this when you’re drunk, which appears to be most of the day now.
My goodness. Your powers of perception are amazing. Just by dribbling on your keyboard you are able to make such stupid comments.
Figures from a Fat Mafioso Bully and Pompous Windbag such as your self.
So, are you ready to be contested by loads of Posters on this Blog and to NOT abuse them?
No. I didn’t think so.
Wonder why it came to be known as the cockpit.
DC_Draino
@DC_Draino
Russian textbooks are now teaching children that the 2020 election in America was rigged and that Joe Biden’s family has corrupt “commercial interests in Ukraine”
Meanwhile, American textbooks are teaching children that men can get pregnant
I’m reading my book.
JC
Dec 28, 2023 10:51 PM
Let’s summarize
As in. Let us summarise without a z –
You are a Pompous Windbag.
Zaid Jilani
@ZaidJilani
The White House signals to Politico that the war in Ukraine will end through negotiation, probably by giving up territory, something which if you said 6 months ago made you Putin’s right hand man
Funny that, I don’t continually post bilge from a convicted fraud and defend doing so as well as referring to the criminal as a “top bloke”.
I left out the “h” in “where”, which was subsequently corrected a comment or two below and he’s been making hay out of it ever since.
The most insightful, thoughtful thinker here.
A privilege to have him.
Yet another contretemps, Cats! 🙁
Well sod that – let’s have some Pretenders:
Stop your Sobbin‘ …
Talk o’ the Town …
Daily Mail. I’d say the Israelis just about had this bloke..
No, you thundered that this is not possible & announced that hippies blocking roads is illegal & road users are entitled to plough straight on through.
We look forward to you demonstrating this “right to use the road” when hippies next block a road in Melbourne.
No need to tell us how is works out for you, Channel 9 News will do a more than adequate job of that.
You learned a new word & assume, like a Downs Syndrome patient, that if you don’t know or use a word then nobody else does either.
Jet-pilot level IQ.
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Total mystery why anybody would call you that.
Yes.
And you’re a dishonest fraud.
If you ceased making such errors, they wouldn’t be able to be found.
2,000 miles …
Translation: You’re smarting at being identified as this site’s worst speller.
Another pointless comment.
At last, in idea to “discuss”.
Sanchez
You missed a dot on that last comment. Careful, because someone will pick you up on it.
Oh dear, your tourettes has relapsed into another outburst.
Despite years of rattling on, you’ve never demonstrated either a fraud or dishonesty.
(a fancy way of saying you’ve proved to be full of shit)
This is tiresome. So unimaginative. You’ve no new material.
Just like Hamas, fire rocket, get belted by Israel, fire rocket, get belted harder by Israel, etc.
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That’s better.
Driller
Stop trying to sound intelligent. It doesn’t work and never has. It’s also really unpleasant to watch.
Are you intelligent? I don’t mean super smart Jet-pilot level intelligent (of course) nobody would expect you to be that smart.
Intelligence manifesting itself as continual unhinged personal abuse…. mmm yeah, nah. Not doing much to help the outside observer believe there’s any intelligence there.
Unhinged is someone trolling into other people’s conversations, making pointless comments and then acting hurt because it’s shown to be so. Really unhinged is pretending to own a pub and lying about it for 20 years. That’s some levels even above obnoxious blowharding.
You’re boring now, so have to last word.
Go!
Bologna is a good marker- south, milk appears in ragu, which is beef based- north, it’s pork n beans.
Ragu al’la Bolognese- literally, meat sauce as like the Bologna peeps- definitely milk in.
Italy’s not a real country, anyway.
Has anybody ever done that? Do you know of anybody who’s ever done that?
You’re into hypotheticals? Do carry on, this can go wherever you want it to.
(As with anything that you makeup as you go)
“That’s been our theory of the case throughout”
White House speak with forked tongue. I hope someone in the MSM has the humility to call them out.
Wally
Every town or region has a unique method for preparing meat sauce. The catch-all for meat sauces with a tomato basis is bologna sauce. According to a recent article in the Oz, bologna sauce is the most popular home-cooked meal in Australia. Every household has their own unique recipe for creating it, which can even be made without milk! Would you believe that? No milk.
Why, because you say so?
Hey, I know what I can waffle about- Movies I’ve been forced to watch!
ah … i missed my chance to visit with Mum and Aldo
trust me, there was little left of kosher in the old man
he’d eat the fat before he ate the bacon
Before becoming famous Oliver did time with an Italian guy and I think at River Cafe. The stuff he does now is just rubbish – ask Uncle Roger.
Barbie.
First up- if it weren’t for Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, it would be a lite ham baguette de merde. There is essentially no plot- i would bet that it was largely improvised, and cut down to scenes what got test audience titters.
The opening scene where young girls smash dolls after being mesmerised by yuge, camp Barbie apparition is totes satanic. Helen Mirren, who seeps in and out of narration in a way which I’m sure she’s embarrased about, seems oblivious that girls have merely swapped infantile dolls which they play with, feed, dress and dream about an incarnation of, with a sexually mature doll which they play with, feed, dress, and dream about an incarnation of. I wonder, the Lesbian lobby must be all for this, not to mention the depopulation mob.
(And now they shop for their dolls. Or, get their providers to shop for them. Endlessly. There’s a scene later where “iconic” outfits are displayed and named in a series, to all intents like pop-up ads on Ebay).
Ken wants Barbie, even though he doesn’t really know why. He wants her attention, her praise, her presence in for a sleepover. It’s not sexual per se, it’s really more the yearning of a boy for his mother. Is it meant to portray Ken, archetype male, as essentially immature? He’s definitely a figure of fun, I think the actors have fun with it. The Barbie population has triumphs of shafting the Kens straight after they’ve committed to monogamous relationships, and triumph again by having an engineered low-turnout vote for the Toyland constitution. More weird than profound. If it’s metaphorical, it’s too vague to “zing”.
Much is made of Barbie crying tears when she faces the real world, to her tender amazement. Whereas Ken cries in Toyland, constantly.
I think Margot Robbie does the real-world scenes sans make-up.
Ryan Gosling is too much of a character- ie, wrinkly- to pull off Ken. Next to asian ageless Ken Jong Un and some bloke called Alan who is plumply gay, he looks like suede next to silk. But, he has all the best lines, or, as I suspect the improv, he’s written himself into what should be top billing.
The day-noo-mont of the fillum has Margo Barbie rejecting the predestination of Man and Wife, espousing eternal singledom… and going to a gynaecologist.
Deeply weird.
Of course it’s a country. It was a country at the time of Christ, actually even before. Italy, or Rome (as it was known) was a country, unified by the Romans 200 or 300 years before His birth. When the Roman empire fell it was broken up and took a long long to regroup.
does a snake’s fart raise dust?
According to a recent article in the Oz
yeah… I win.
The originalist makes a dash from family stories and recipes to general trolling.
Fish and chips tomorrow as it’s FRY Day……………..lol
On our way to Yorke Peninsula SA for a holiday stay with friends. Decided to leave surf board behind this trip. The Oz reporting a teenager was taken at the surf beach I would normally go to. Taken by 4m Great White when he was with about 20 other surfers. Ouch! Thats a really downer for his festive season.
In his honour fish and chips tomorrow.
You win because you believe the story told Bolognese sauce is the most popular home dish in Australia is wrong? Why so?
Here’s a map of Roman Italy at the passing of Augustus. Kind of looks similar to what’s around now give or take a few kilometers
hey JC … down-ticks are gamed right?
tosser
queue the spazz- chuck
that’s the way JC … backspace
Both are, Trans. Both those pointing up and down. What’s your pointless point anyway, genius?
try to think of something witty
c’mon … you can do it
Try? I’d sound like you crashing every time.
Here’s How Super Hornets Just Shot Down Houthi Drones
Who thought that the US Navy might able to stop those incredibly advanced Houthi Drones? One pilot took out 5 drones.
John H
There’s one thing about the US military that a lot of people don’t appear to understand. It’s remarkably adept at innovating on the go. Adapting to sudden need for change is something its mastered.
loL
g’night fnuckwit
More pity trolling tomorrow?
While people were fretting and dreaming up the worst we knew the USA
would find a solution. I’m tired of people arguing the US military is weak and ineffectual.
In the USA there are 3 projects to develop hypersonic recoverable aircraft flying. Prototypes with engines combing turbo fan, RAM, and SCRAM with continuous rotating combustion. Those engines will revolutionise military aircraft by combining incredible speed with much longer ranges at higher altitudes. The biggest problem with these aircraft will be the limited physiological ability of humans to cope with that level of performance.
John H
Do you think they would have reasonable imaging where the bulk of their missile assets are by now?
… lol.
(Dover asked me to ease up on the dotting and LOLing. It is slowing the site down).
Maybe we need a special “Woe is me Melancholia” thread?
An ace in one flight.
“One pilot took out 5 drones”
Don’t know JC. Satellites are over-rated. The US probably has the assets but those little drones are easily hidden and can be launched from anywhere.
That doesn’t matter so much because modern radars are very capable of detecting small slow moving drones and drones are very easy targets. The biggest problem is the expense. They could be shot down with cannons on the F18s but they are using missiles, all of which are much more expensive than the drones, most US missiles in millions, sidewinders $400,000 each. However air to air missiles have a limited shelf life and the USA has thousands of missiles. It is estimated that USA has 14,000 AMRAAMS and those missiles have already been superseded by the meteor and AIM 260. It was laughable to read people arguing the USA was depleting its munition stocks. Ukraine’s HIMARS could go for years shooting AMRAAMS and probably will because the USA will now transition to the 260 and Peregrine missiles.
Doesn’t that mean that the Woddenhead would “suffer” that restriction too? The crook is blasting the site with (self-laughing) dots 23/7 (it appears sleeps for an hour a day).
Look, it’s got to do with respect for the blog owner.
It’s an arrogant Pommy git thing, innit?
Sure, but there is a radius from where they can be launched and the imaging wouldn’t be used to track down drones, but from the likely places where they’re launched. Eventually, they have to be taken out, I guess.
Should the US be arming the South to the teeth now?
Headline below from the Australian. Gee, I hope ASIO can redeploy some of their resources from the Melbourne Neo Nazis who like to play dress up. Looks like the Israeli Australians causing trouble again.
“Hezbollah and Israel: Security agencies on martyr alert at home”.
Oh wait. Could be those “religion of peace” types.
The limey crook shows an inordinate amount of respect to Marty-the-fraud though.
It’s the old limey chip on both shoulders showing through. He definitely has issues. He was proudly boasting about drinking at around 4 in the morning. Perfectly normal behavior. Shouldn’t turn heads at all.
Drones can be launched from anywhere. The whole fracas about this was yet another example of people being sucked in by media reports declaring the end of life as we know it. Escitalopram might help.
JC
Dec 28, 2023 8:38 PM
If you eat a lot of calories you’re going to become fat and exercise isn’t going to compensate because big eaters will never do enough exercise. Except you of course.
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I can eat whatever I want and not put on a gram of fat. Weird.
My metabolic state is unusual.
I’ve known people like you. They shite me to tears because I can look at a cookie … . Perhaps you have a much higher percentage of brown fat than the rest of us, or a higher basal metabolic rate, or an APOE 2 genotype. I’m guessing, you are lucky.
John H.
Dec 29, 2023 2:24 AM
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Lucky?
Psoriasis is giving me grief at the moment. The new wonder drugs from Big-Pharma have about two pages of side effects … f*ck that.
It’s a battle.
I stand corrected. That’s a bummer Steve.
At least think about trying the drugs. Side effect listings include everything, even ones that occur in a very few people. Experiment, see what happens.
John H.
Dec 29, 2023 3:42 AM
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I’ll go back to the topical steroids.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Brett Lethbridge #2.
Matt Margolis.
Chip Bok.
Chip Bok #2.
meet George Galloway
Been watching some Classic Countdown, with mixed results. This edition was about the 80s.
It became very clear that Generation Me! Me! Me! edited this episode when The Church got 20 seconds and ‘What About Me’ got played in full, followed by a dance number about ‘Mickey’ that I’ve never heard of. What About Me is the siren song of the brats.
TheirABC’s commitment to rewriting history is unabashed. There was a longish tribute to No Fixed Address, who were pretty awful. There have been and are several good Aboriginal bands, but NFA are not on that list. OTOH, they bleated incoherently about ‘justice’ and all that … nuff said.
Reading back about recipies, spag bol is one of the world’s great dishes because everyone has their own version, and many of them are very good.
Mine is not kosher, because frying meat in butter makes for magnificent flavour. Any pasta will do, but spaghetti and macaroni are best. No cheese.
250g quality beef, finely minced, no big lumps of fat
1 large onion, preferably brown, diced about 1 cm
Butter (see below)
Salt and pepper
Maggi seasoning
Can of top quality tomato puree (e.g. Leggo’s)
Tablespoon of tomato paste, as above
Pinch of chilli flakes
Chopped sour gherkins, preferably Nova or Polskie Ogorskie
Sliced fresh tomatoes
Method:
Season mince with plenty of salt, pepper and Maggi seasoning, mix thoroughly and roll into small balls if you have the time and energy.
In a heavy based pan, drop in a slice of butter from the paper pack at least 2cm thick on high heat. The base must be thoroughly covered, not just coated – don’t be stingy. When it hits mid brown, drop in the meat, and using a wooden spoon, break it up as it fries – obviously doesn’t apply to meatballs.
Keep frying and breaking up on high/medium heat until you end up with pieces about the size of small meatballs colored medium and dark brown.
Add your chopped onion, stir frequently, add more butter if needed. When the onion is transluscent going brown, add the tomato puree, tomato paste, a tiny pinch of chili flakes, another round of salt, pepper, Maggi seasoning and a can of water.
Simmer for at least 20 minutes, stir now and then. Cook pasta to suit – it can’t be simmered too long.
Mix pasta and sauce together before serving, topped with chopped gherkins and slices of fresh tomato. A sprinkle of Maggi seasoning is good.
The acid on top is much better than sludgy cheese.
It’s almost my mother’s Dutch recipe, with tweaks. The Maggi seasoning (comes in a shaker bottle) comes from the Indonesian colonial connection, and it makes a big difference. It’s an umami product which you also see in Vietnamese cuisine.
All hail spag bol, probably the most unifying dish in human history! 🙂
(Agree Johanna above.)
Trump has lifted the lid on how corrupt the USA institutions have become. Even if he doesn’t get that second term, he has done extremely valuable work.
Steve, as I’ve been saying for a while, those 20 year old mountains of fat (usually female) cannot just be because of junk food. I and my contemporaries at that age could not have got that big no matter how hard we tried,
There is something else happening here, may be medical, may be environmental or something else.
Media bleating again about “uninvolved civilian casualties” in Gaza.
Most of them were/are Hamas supporters. Their children are brought up to hate the Israelis.
How quickly they forget the uninvolved civilians murdered most brutally in person by Hamas fighters in October, and the hostages taken, which is also an act of unforgiveable barbarity.
The Gazans have for far too long sown the wind, and now they are reaping the whirlwind.
Academia news. Hun:
How dare you? Going after the sacred Greta?
Looks like not a lot of academic freedom going on as Prof Timming says. Definitely not like James Cook University where people get canned for releasing papers showing climate change is largely not happening.
Believe there is one Marcia Langton on RMITs books who should be shown the door for her racism. Or is that academic freedom?
I notice that TheirABC online is dripping with stories about suffering in Gaza.
Just imagine what their covereage of WWII would have been if they had modern technology.
Perhaps we should have taken the hint about media covereage in Vietnam.
Leak again! What a champion.
That child named “Failure” bears an uncanny resemblance. 😀
Sky is nearly as bad.
Today’s Tele:
ADULTS AND SCHOOLS ARE FAILING TO TEACH OUR
KIDS
KEVIN – DONNELLY
29 Dec 2023
A survey by the Australian Council for Educational Research showing students are suffering unacceptable levels of stress, anxiety, loneliness and being short tempered is a wakeup call for parents, schools and society in general.
The survey involves approximately 500,000 primary and secondary students and, between 2018 and 2023, shows there has been a significant decline in students’ wellbeing and the ability to overcome adversity.
Adults are failing in their responsibility to teach children optimism, resilience and the ability to deal with anxiety and stress.
According to the survey, 32 per cent of primary school children feel very bad for long periods of time,
up from 25 per cent in 2018, and 43 per cent agree their feelings are easily hurt, up from 38 per cent in 2018.
Equally as disturbing is 29 per cent of students feel they cannot control their temper, up from 23 per cent.
The responses for secondary school students also paint a bleak picture.
In relation to feeling stressed, 53 per cent say yes, up from 46 per cent, 25 per cent say they feel lonely, an increase of three per cent, while 25 per cent agree they can be anti-social.
The situation has become so bad, the adolescent psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg is quoted as saying: “In my 30 years in the field I’ve never seen anything like the level of stress and anxiety that today’s children and adolescents are going through.”
While there’s no doubt the years of Covid-19 induced lockdowns and school closures have had a negative impact on students’ emotional and psychological wellbeing, there’s also no doubt parents and schools are failing to teach young people how to be resilient and how to cope with setbacks and adversity.
Instead of closeting children in a protective cocoon, parents must allow their children to be free range and give them the opportunity to take risks and to stand on their own two feet.
An essential part of childhood is experiencing failure and pain and having the courage and conviction not to give in.
Get rid of the safety net around the trampoline, a child only needs to fall off once to realise the need to be careful.
Stop driving your child to school in the oversize SUV that takes up half the street — walking or riding a bike teaches independence.
Shut down the child’s mobile phone, get rid of screens and the computer before bed-time and read your child adventurous myths and fables like The Iliad and The Odyssey, Beowulf And The Grendel and Boudicca The Celtic Queen, who rebelled against the Romans.
Such stories teach courage and bravery and even though the odds are against the heroes and the end result might not be a good one, it’s more important to keep fighting and not to give up hope.
Aesop’s fables and children’s books like the Narnia trilogy are also vital as they instil emotional and psychological resilience.
Schools are also to blame for the high rates of young people suffering mental illness and emotional distress.
Today’s progressive approach to education puts students centre stage, bans failing anyone as it’s bad for their self-esteem and argues it’s wrong to be competitive and to strive for success.
In cushioning students from ever failing and reducing all to the same level of mediocrity, where near enough is good enough, schools fail to prepare young people for the harsh realities of the real world where they will be judged and made to realise there are winners and losers.
Society must also take responsibility. The all-pervasive Woke ideology based on victimhood and identity politics promotes the belief if you are one of the nominated groups, including women, migrants, working class, LGBTIQA+ and Aboriginal students, you are not responsible for underachieving or failing to cope.
Instead of taking personal responsibility and working hard to overcome disadvantage, so-called victim groups are given a free card and told society is inherently racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic and classist and that they have every right to feel anxious and depressed.
In banishing religion and any sense of the spiritual and transcendent, extreme secularism also adds to anxiety, depression and debilitating stress.
Religion offers direction and meaning and provides solace and reassurance in an uncertain, challenging and difficult world.
As argued by the psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankel, who survived being imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, those prisoners who had the best chance of survival were those who drew on something profound and transcendent.
Frankel writes: “The consciousness of one’s inner value is anchored in higher, more spiritual things, it cannot be shaken by camp life.”
A society characterised by materialism, ego and self-interest where a person’s worth is measured by his or her celebratory status offers nothing of lasting value or worth.
Dr Kevin Donnelly is a senior fellow at the ACU’s PM Glynn Institute.
Only have to look at the leftard banning and/or rewriting of the Dr Seuss and Enid Blyton books, nursery rhymes and the old Walt Disney classic movies to name a few.
As well as the fvking ‘victim mentality.’
The list goes on.
Just catching up and see that “The Proceedings of the Australian Society of potato Preparation’ continued long after I
fell drunken over the balcony railing while shouting at an aeroplane passing overhead and could only be retrieved by the efforts of a fire fighting crew and their equipmentlogged off.Well, for those of you who have air fryers, my sister tried her hand at duck fat potatoes with hers, and they turned out pretty damn fine.
Parboiled, shaken about to burr the edges, tipped into a bowl to have melted duck fat poured over, shaken to coat the potatoes, and in they went. Taken out half way through to get re-coated in duck fat and put back in.
Lighter than cooking them in the oven. Delicious.
Johanna when we were young we walked more, we didn’t eat the volume they do today, there wasn’t the amount of sugar in food, the food wasn’t as processed as now and we were always doing stuff instead of watching someone else doing it. Whether that is reason is anyone’s guess but it certainly has to contribute. Went out for dinner recently, I congratulated the owner on the smaller servings. The quality and taste was what we went for not how much we could shove down our throats.
Beerie, the news is full of some wanker wanting his moment in the sun telling us we’re all gonna die* coz I said so. *add current reason till the next news cycle.
Wow, I hope the blades didn’t fall on anyone. They’re huge.
https://twitter.com/Dedicated_Being/status/1740329649492885551
Mother Lode
Dec 29, 2023 7:12 AM
‘…my sister tried her hand at duck fat potatoes with hers, and they turned out pretty damn fine.’
Same same with my little sister. She says that she only cooks duck fat potatoes at Christmas time because ‘bugger the expense…I don’t care how much duck fat costs, its once a year and we are having duck fat potatoes for Christmas lunch.’
Telling them constantly that the world will end in a few years due to climate change will do that. They don’t have the capacity as adults do to ignore the hype so they succumb to the fear mongering. A psychologist who can’t figure that out should also be ignored.
A BOM representative on the ABC (female of course) just gave long excuse for getting their failure to predict the catastrophic rain event in QLD. No reference to the fact that the failure of BOM to give accurate forecasts is a common occurrence, as farmers know.
But it is good to see them getting a boot from the community. As I have said here before – we use YR – a Norwegian service of all places! It provides, of course, a global service.
Given Luigi the Unbelievable’s own sketchy paternity, Leak’s cartoon of Luigi denying paternity of mini-me Luigi is hilarious.
And BTW the BOM bint insisted that big rain events occur during EL Nino events. Well that’s news to us in relation to the last one in the years of the big Drought.
Bruce of Newcastle
Dec 29, 2023 7:22 AM
Wow, I hope the blades didn’t fall on anyone. They’re huge.
Yes, but however there is something satisfying about seeing one of those things beating and/or burning itself to death.
GreyRanga
Dec 29, 2023 7:15 AM
Yep.
Yapping, paranoid parents will transfer their own anxieties onto their children as well. There appears to be no filter on the types on conversations conducted in front of children anymore.
There was once “adult conversation”, usually politics or current affairs or religion, and “children conversation”, sports, hobbies, tv programs. It was a done thing in my parents’ home, repeated in my own. The children had to be out of the room before any of it started. At least home was carefree.
They, in their turn, try to protect the grandchildren. But the schoolyards are full of other children parroting unsuitable nonsense picked up from loose lips at home. You can’t protect them forever.
Just scanning the news about recent deaths…
Shark attack in SA
Kayaker drowned in Port Phillip Bay
Tree branch kills camper
Hang glider killed in NE Vic
Campers washed away at Buchan caves
People in storm drain washed away in QLD
Four drown on beaches in NSW
Lotsa things can kill ya in Australia !