Very good.
Open Thread – Weekend 30 Dec 2023
- The more you gets the less you eats
- Open Thread – Weekend 23 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 21 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 18 Nov 2024
- From darkness to the promise of light
Ah yes Miss Hardcastle- what a horror – a lezzo Ilsa Koch
Labour is not going well… https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GdBinRcXUAABgnR.jpg Farage has won a few more council seats in by-elections in the last couple…
The Hidden Truth About Our Collapsing Birth Rates – Mads Larsen ummary In the podcast episode titled “The Hidden Truth…
Sealife is BOOMING in North West OZ. These two are not kidding when they say it is a true paradise.…
The gist of the story was they (Palestinians) sold to the Jews& moved to Jordan and then when Gaza/West bank was formed wanted their “ex” property back .. gratis
When I was in Israel I heard that this was a common occurrence. Yet few people know that these sales took place. All they are told is that Israelis “stole” their houses.
I never minded Prince Philip at all. No filter on that guy.
Remember opening some building or other and the curtains on the plaque go stuck? Made a crack about the ethnicity of the installers.
He got into strife…but only because it was true.
We’ve got a little petrol pull start genny. Just big enough to run most things (lights, fridges, freezer, wifi), but have to chose between water pump and air-con.
Gets a fair bit of use in the wet season as single radial powerline doesn’t like storms. Had a 7 hour grid outage on 21 Dec and another 3 hour outage last Friday. Passed the Powerwater guys on my way home from town driving along the line to find the fault.
The one in the rain by the folly or the second one in the field?
Even an old bat like me goes all a-flutter watching him stride purposefully across the frost-rimed paddock.
Gosh. I’m going to have to watch it again…to be sure, to be sure. Something might have changed. 😀
Her old house was next door to us. It’s just been pulled down and replaced with a concrete box. All my memories of watching her from my kitchen window sitting on her verandah bitter-faced as she brewed over the day plotting how we couldn’t talk around our kitchen tables (mine being the closest one to her) are now excised, gone.
Haven’t given her a thought for ages, and happy to never do so again.
Ahahaha! The manly Darcy gets page podium.
And so he should.
Underground car parks in big unit blocks will find the insurance prohibitive
I should not take joy in this – but I am human! A very, very Woke friend bought an apartment in an old unit bloke in the Lower North Shore. She is now facing very steep costs for said installation of charging points (which are opposed by some owners) – not to speak of insurance issues. Plus – being an old building the replacement of ageing timber windows……
But the piece de resistance…….she is a lawyer – and a very outspoken one…..and…….does not take advice herself……..
Helen Davidson (nmrn)
Dec 31, 2023 11:21 AM
Helen, I see your husband is an Epicurean of the Old School as well.
Trans
Give it a fcking rest. It’s New Year’s Eve, you buffoon. You’ve been spraying poison since last night.
If the numbers were decreasing, the having-it-each-way scaremongers would still be blaming “climate change.”
Exactly what I have heard and loved about him.
Courageous in war, for certain. But he would have been able to obliterate whole battalions of social justice warriors with a single opinion about a cup of tea.
The one in the rain by the folly or the second one in the field?
The second one.
But here is Spencer to Alex. It begins at 5min 23 secs.
I see Gillian Triggs is opining in the newspapers.
Yes, Lizzie, I agree – awful woman. I think it was at the height of the 18C debate that she gave a talk at the Sydney Institute & the debate moved to a Bill of Rights. I ventured that Australians would never accept a Bill of Rights which has so many unexpected flaws (I’m not sure they wouldn’t now) – & she was temporarily flummoxed. Didn’t last long.
King Chuck or Pesident Gillian Triggs?
I never minded Prince Philip at all. No filter on that guy.
Exactly what I have heard and loved about him.
Courageous in war, for certain. But he would have been able to obliterate whole battalions of social justice warriors with a single opinion about a cup of tea.
And Madge was great. But look at their sprogs: woke wabbits and ne’re-do-wells to a ponce/prince. Anne is the only sensible one.
Helen Davidson (nmrn)
Helen – are you the farmer who lamented her cows who died of starvation before the drought broke? It just about broke my heart as we went through scary times keeping to keep ours in dry feed. They pulled through OK – but your post had me weeping.
No. She posts as just ‘Helen’ and lives a few hundred kms out of Katherine.
I’m a retired public servant living on a small bush block near Dundee, about 100km southwest of Darwin.
Old school alright.
For quite some time the servo at Duaringa had the dine-in menu on a blackboard hanging in the kitchen servery window.
The total of the menu was Five, sometimes Six, meal choices.
One of the menu items was: Baked beans on toast.
Another, totally separate meal choice was: Spaghetti on toast.
I hope an exorcist was brought in.
Top Ender:
I’m a bit puzzled by the statement.
I have a diesel generator that provides electricity. Are there different sorts? what’s the point of a generator that runs off electricity, and provides electricity?
Yes, I realise there are LPG and petrol gensets…
What I meant – somewhat clumsily Winston – was that fossil fuel generators will eventually get banned.
Then again, what would replace them? I suppose it will be a giant battery.
Surgeon: “I’m sorry (really) Mr. Bowen I can’t fix your arterial bleed in the dark, maybe when the wind starts blowing.”
/NADT
One can always appreciate a youthfully sensual scene, and the frosty field gets my vote too, even tho’ it is now firmly in the realms of memorialising times past.
Luzu and Cassie up thread were more realistically discussing the merits of Javier Milei as an object of passion for Kittehs of a certain age. Luzu went for looks (appearance) and Cassie went for brains (intellect/wit), but obviously it has to be both, producing that spark of physicality called chemistry. Can’t say Milei does it for me, though others do, as Hairy will occasionally remark when we are watching TV.
I have tried to keep on the good side of the AGW mob (Anthropophobic Gestapo Wankers) and have set up a fan which is powered by a minature windmill. That way when the wind blows it powers a fan that blows the air. Unfortunately if the air is still the fan is still.
But pointless self-defeating gestures are a small price to pay if it allows a theoretical great white shark to theoretically rut other theoretical sharks and produce theoretical offspring.
Amiright?
Top Ender:
OK, I get it. The term ‘electric’ as opposed to ‘manual start’.
Why the Hell would a government pass a law about how a genset is started?
living on a small bush block near Dundee, about 100km southwest of Darwin
Sounds great.
An electric genset is called a battery, Winston.
Winston,
I think he is saying a gen set that runs on electricity – is powered by electricity instead of fossil fuel.
As for government having opinion – there is not a single aspect in the known universe that government doesn’t think is its business.
Even the Big Bang. The government is setting up an inquiry as to whether or not it was consensual.
If it wasn’t then there must needs be more laws and taxes.
A case of buyer beware.
It’s been on-sold for the second time, so who knows?
Top Ender:
OK – NOW I get it.
Generators will be banned. Yes, probably – these bastards have no idea what happens when arrogant, lunatic governments push their citizenry too far.
Secession is a human right!
How are they going to ban generators when they are used by farmers, builders, firefighters, etc?
It is. 🙂
Close enough to a reasonably sized regional centre with all the amenities, but far enough out that we have none of the social problems.
We have 20 acres, which is big enough that we can’t see or hear the neighbours, a couple of acres cleared around the house (actually just a one bedroom donga) and shed, and the rest just bush.
It’s an introverts dream.
Tom Wilkinson dead. He played some decent characters.
That place would be hitting the ten million dollar range now, with the rebuild. A basic old farmhouse with some water views and pretensions to grandeur when Triggs unloaded it, it was sold for six million a year ago after a million dollar interior reno was done, only for the lot to be pulled down immediately on the second sale. That’s how land value sets the pace around here.
The will just ration the supply of petrol. Don’t put it past them.
Yeah.
Peace and goodwill to all God Oracles, hey?
When I go hiking, to save weight I carry powdered water, much lighter than taking a couple of bottles of liquid. It’s easy to use – just add water.
Enabling legislation.
Do keep up.
How are they going to ban generators when they are used by farmers, builders, firefighters, etc?
IIRR, there are idiotic governments around the world that have mandated electric emergency service vehicles.
Which one is the Helen who goes to dance classes? 🙂
Charles’ vice is that he champions a retarded cause (AGW) that actually still has a lot of support in, at least, the upper echelons of society. It is sadly uncontroversial.
He is not pushing a novel outlandish theory. He is being perfectly ‘establishment’.
Now, from my point of view, if he were to immerse in the filthy cesspool of war my-ism his soul concern should be to ameliorate the costs and loss of freedoms all those harebrained government schemes are borne by ordinary Britons.
I know that the cost on Britons ought to be zero because it is rubbish science, but if you start from the premise it is real then that is what the King’s role becomes.
At some point though he is going to have to deal with the fact that AGW is nonsense and he squandered som of his royal prestige in the service to what will by then be a disgraced theory.
If he is lucky enough to have inherited some of his Mum’s smarts he will learn to shy away from big shiny baubles of political fads and stick to looking out for Britain’s interests.
LOL Katz
Is it colorless powder?
Sandgropers
RAC Arena
Not quite as monstrous as Melbadishu fed square, but still slightly hideous in the same dazzle camouflage way.
Do you have any other eyesores?
How are they going to ban generators when they are used by farmers, builders, firefighters, etc?
They will not be banned. Official use will be OK by government and quasi government organisations. Other must apply for a licence and have a genuine reason to own one. Powering your own house in the inevitable renewable energy blackouts will not be considered a genuine reason. No doubt you will need “permission to acquire”, a waiting period and the size and type of the generator will be subject to government approval.
Interesting sign at my local butcher shop:
“Please use cash”
follow by several good reasons for doing so.
So I did. Happily.
Sorry, cohenite. Spencer’s a bit grubby for my liking. And she’s too fluffy.
I liked the Knightley/Macfayden combination. More like Heathcliff and his Cathy with Georgian characteristics.
Now, there’s another love story. Cue the Kate Bush tragics.
Yeah, the biggest threat to democratic systems are middle aged white leftwing sheilas.
As with the Teals here.
Universal suffrage was a terrible idea that the Anglo-sphere pushed it onto the rest of the world.
Just get a load of these tools.
Listen to the Maine bint from 1.10 onward.
Please, I’m not referring to 100%, but why do some women go nuts in middle age?
Colonel Crispin Berka
Dec 31, 2023 2:17 PM
Sandgropers
RAC Arena
Not quite as monstrous as Melbadishu fed square, but still slightly hideous in the same dazzle camouflage way.
Do you have any other eyesores?
Horrible building. Tartarians would weep at the construction skills.
I’m a retired public servant living on a small bush block near Dundee, about 100km southwest of Darwin.
Had never heard of it- named after Crocodile Dundee apparently. Interesting. Always learn new stuff here.
I think that’s me, although dance = line dancing.
Pesident Gillian Triggs
That’s President Trigglypuff, serf!
“The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia,” said Turnbull.
Triggs was involved in the secret HRC violation of some QUT students’ human rights iirc. Those who warned that the HRC would become a star chamber were correct. Our taxes fund this poison.
On Nein Sports, tennis commentator just read the sentence “taking you back to the action at the beautiful RAC Arena…” And she actually chuckled just after saying the word beautiful.
Everybody knows the building is ugly.
They can’t keep a straight voice about it.
Given the effectiveness of propaganda, do you think it’s plausible that only one side is prone to its power? My experience suggests not given the last three years.
Trumble- little Johnie’s gift to Australia.
Predictions for 2024.
1. Liar’s Party falls below the libs in two-party preferred and Dutton equals or actually surpasses the Albanian in popularity.
2. China’s economy continues to head south and there will be a big real estate event that can’t be covered up much longer.
3. Australian economy goes into recession.
4. US economy paddles along at the bottom but not close enough to call it a recession.
5. Trump will be the nominee against Biden and wins by 10 points.
6. Ukraine and Russia head to the negotiation table.
7. Israel wins the war and a team of Gulf states begin to take over the administration of Gaza.
8. The houthi tootis cop a decent hiding.
9. Argentine stock market best performer in the world with more to go and Milei heads for Dollarization is 2025.
10. Victoria being seen as potentially defaulting on its debt in the next few years.
And Trumble is supposed to be one of our clever politicians.
So the stupid ones will probably demand we have a license to exhale CO2.
Read somewhere that while the dollar value of purchases made with cash is decreasing, very few people live 100% cash-free. Most will have used cash at markets or school fetes, give to kids for school tuck shop etc.
Not to mention the perennial favorite of paying your drug dealer. 🙂
Just get a load of these tools.
They are serious bitches. So, what motivates them?
The computer room “for indigenous students only?”
Strap up. I’m astonished at all the dickwads that attend that audience. MSM consuming knob gobblers …. QandA.
—–
Danger Dan Reviews:
It’s a Wonderful Life. D-Head Of The Year. QandA, Dan Andrews, Alan Joyce, Bill Gates
Of course not. You need to be able to tell which bottles have rehydrated water.
Eyrie:
In other words, “You will own nothing.”
The number is 13% cash usage now. Cash transporters are having serious financial difficulty and possibly going to receive support from the RBA.
Recent nonsense I heard was that we could also end up with a charge for using cash as the banks may begin charging.
Middle age?
Now, from my point of view, if he were to immerse in the filthy cesspool of
war my-ismwarmy-ism hissoulsole concern should be to ameliorate the costs and loss of freedoms…Sheesh!
Or, as auto-corrupt would likely have it, ‘She is ish’.
cohenite
Anger.
At everything.
JC projected
Mashed into houth-paste, I hope.
Katzenjammer:
Don’t the lime/orange/raspberry ones stand out?
Ah, no.
Named after Dundee in Scotland, despite the climatic differences.
Dehydrated water tastes like water, but you can add cordials if you want.
Predictions for 2024.
Too optimistic.
1 Trump imprisoned; chokes on an uncooked cabbage.
2 China invades Taiwan
3 Obama has plastic surgery and replaces biden who is fed to his dogs
4 The US goes into civil war. The North secedes and becomes part of Canada. Niki Haley takes over the South and reaches an agreement with the drug barons.
5 Rub and tug’s government officially joins the greens
6 Martial Law is declared in Australia and a national diet written by Klaus Schwab and based on insects comes into law
7 All female sporting codes accept trannies. Sonny Bill declares he is a woman and becomes joint female world boxing, wrestling and MMA champion
8 All coal power plants are closed down. Bowen declares it mandatory for everyone to wear a solar powered fan on their heads.
9 King Chuck converts to islam and mandates the wearing of the hijab.
10 Israel nukes every muslim country in the ME.
I thought so too, but not according to Wikipedia…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundee_Beach%2C_Northern_Territory
But this is a better use of rehydratable backpacking powdered liquids.
That’s quite possible.
My 11th
After Trump wins by 10 points, Demons call massive voter fraud.
2. China’s economy continues to head south and there will be a big real estate event that can’t be covered up much longer.
Yes, might be tempting for Xi to organise a distraction over Taiwan. Bump a few ships. A few teasing flyovers.
11. Dan Andrews on trial for crimes against Victoria and Victorians.
Mainline Jewish organisations don’t want to upset interfath fellowship – fools.
Yes, but it is worse than that. In the USA, UK and here in Oz, mainstream Jewish organisations, like all other organisations, have been captured by leftist activists. You only have to look at the rot that is now the ADL. It’s sad, because once upon a time the ADL, just like the SPLC and the ACLU, actually stood for something and fought good battles. No more. The ADL is now run by Jonathan Greensplatt, once an Obama acolyte and operative.
As for here in Oz, I no longer buy the AJN (Australian Jewish News) because it’s morphed into a left-wing rag. Until 7 October 2023, our Australian mainstream organisations such as the Board of Deputies here in NSW, ECAJ (Executive Council of Australian Jewry) and other state based groups had, over recent years, completely forgotten the reasons why they exist, and that is to protect/promote Australian Jewish interests and the state of Israel. Instead, they thought their brief was to spruik SSM, trans rights, and da Voice and most of them morphed into leftwing and even far-left mouthpieces*. These organisations constantly fellated left-wing politicians and commentators, yet this fellating hasn’t worked well, has it? We’ve seen since 7 October just whose side the Albanese government is on, and it isn’t the side of Australia’s Jews. Anyway, this incessant spruiking of progressivism, of left-wing politicians and of left-wing ideology alienated a large chunk in the community, namely conservative Jews, and particularly religious Jews who really don’t want to be lectured about SSM and “trans rights”. In late 2017, when the NSW Board of Deputies and the Victorian Jewish Community Council decided to unilaterally support SSM without any consultation with its members or the community, there was an outcry and the AJA (Australian Jewish Association) was set up as an organisation for right-wing/conservative Jews and to promote Israel. The AJA has recorded great growth for many reasons, firstly it is a platform for conservative Jews, and secondly and perhaps more importantly, unlike the craven, supine mainstream Jewish organisations who have gone on for years about “far-right” threats, the AJA calls out the real threat to Australian Jewry and that is….
ISLAM
For years the NSW Board of Deputies, the JCCV and other mainstream Jewish organisations have refused to utter that five letter word, for fear of upsetting the apple cart that is the multi-culti brigade, for fear of upsetting left-wing politicians, for fear of upsetting the MSM, for fear of upsetting the human rights industry, for fear of being smeared “far-right” and “racist”……….until…
7 October 2023
Perhaps I’m being unfair but I can’t help feeling that the inertia, the inaction, the outright craven capitulation of these mainstream organisations has contributed to this scenario where we now see convoys of Muslims driving through Jewish residential suburbs, intimidating and harassing Jews. Silence, and a refusal to speak the truth has empowered the Muslim community and left-wing radicals. There is no threat from Grampian Nazis, but there are major threats from people living in suburbs like Lakemba and so on. It is no different in the UK, the UK Board of Deputies is even more left-wing than here, they are paralysed by cowardice and fear. Over two years ago, in 2021, convoys of young Muslim men drove through predominantly Jewish suburbs in North London using loudspeakers to scream “f*ck Jewish mothers, rape Jewish daughters”.
THEY MEAN IT
And this is exactly what happened in Southern Israel on 7 October 2023.
We know appeasement never works. One good thing since 7 October 2023 is that some of these mainstream organisations have finally found some spine and they are beginning to talk about the elephant in the room. I suppose it is better late than never, but the NSW Board of Deputies has spent years cosying up to the Muslim community. That worked well…NOT! No Muslim community leader here in NSW has condemned the attacks of 7 October 2023. Not one, and the reason? Because they support the rape, mutilation, murder and kidnap of Jews.
* Limmud Oz is a community Jewish festival of ideas and culture, held in both Sydney and Melbourne. Years ago I would attend every year. They always had interesting speakers and discussions however I stopped attending because the stench of progressive/leftist PC wank was becoming rather noxious. It has gotten worse, it’s now a Jewish version of the Sydney/Adelaide/Canberra Writer’s festival. And when I use the word ‘noxious’, I mean it, in 2022 Limmud Oz Melbourne invited the following person to speak….
Lidia Thorpe
I kid you not. You’d think, you’d hope, that given Thorpe’s recent unapologetic support for the Hamas rapists, murderers, decapitators, slaughterers and kidnappers of Israeli men, women and children of 7 October 2023, the uber fashionable organisers of Limmud Oz might try and be a little bit more decent as to who they invite to next year’s festival. Because here’s a fact, the lines are now drawn and the Rubicon has now been crossed, there is no turning back now after 7 October, there is no room for Jew haters, fashionable or otherwise.
Lee
That’s not on the wishlist.
You’re not off to a good start.
@Winston:
“…..these bastards have no idea what happens when arrogant, lunatic governments push their citizenry.”
Oh, but they DO. They are trying to provoke “unbridled umbrage” among the peasants, by the steady application of humiliation and degradation..
Any “blowback” will be carefully “cultivated” so that “something must be done”, and the population suitably subject to “attitude adjustment” and “right-sizing”.
The eco-nazis and the eugenicists have been on the same page as the corporate and other totalitarian statists for decades.
Unfortunately, that is probably the “good news”.
And a Happy New Year to all.
Not the only time the connection between a place name and its origin required more than a little imagination.
Banks already charge for using cash. Just not all the time.
Thirty years ago NAB was charging up to 10% of the value of a cash deposit, as a ‘deposit fee’ for certain businesses to deposit cash into their bank account.
This proved .. ah … somewhat unpopular.
There is a small but significant sector of the cash economy which barters ($ = $) among itself rather than deposit/change cash at a bank.
The factors driving this are threefold:
1)To avoid bank fees for handling cash (not all are subject to fees, but they’re painful for those who have to pay)
2) Banks are not always open, or are too far away.
3) Banks often do not have sufficient cash on hand to meet a business’ change requirements.
Katzenjammer
Obviously, we didn’t punish the bastards enough after WW2.
Then co plain about the non-Muslim leftards and their hate speech, of which there are many examples.
Tom
Stalin and Lysenko smile in their graves.
[Citation required].
Our mqjor problem is that governments rarely, if ever, ask this question about proposed laws.
All that matters is the children are happy. They spin out seeing this dog, as do adults.
Cash 2.0 Great Dane-deer at The Grove 2023 (2 of 4)
Cassie of Sydney:
A slight correction, Cassie – Because they support the rape, mutilation, murder and kidnap of Jews that are not their families.”
These sorts of leaders will only stand up and defend all their people when the mobs come to their doors.
Helen – are you the farmer who lamented her cows who died of starvation before the drought broke?
No. She posts as just ‘Helen’ and lives a few hundred kms out of Katherine.
Thanks HD. I have not read any of her posts lately.
Conduct a statistical investigation.
What percentage of the nuttier ones are single and/or childless? To what extent is the nuttiness ameliorated by the existence of nephews/nieces? How many nephews/nieces are necessary to reduce the nuttiness?
JC
Dec 31, 2023 2:28 PM
Please, I’m not referring to 100%, but why do some women go nuts in middle age?
I suspect it’s because, suddenly, the kids are independent & leaving home. Husbands are nearing retiring age and/or spend long hours at work & OS. I suspect that they wonder what life has in store for them.
BTW menopause also sends some women crazy.
I wonder what the Oz package will contain?
“Just wanted to let you know….I received my 2023 Social Security Stimulus Package.
It contained two tomato seeds, pancake mix, two discount coupons to KFC, a “Biden
Build Back Better” bumper sticker, a prayer rug, a Biden Speech Decoder Ring, a machine
to blow smoke up my ass, a case of Bud Light, and a “Blame it on Trump” poster for the front yard.
The directions were in Spanish.
Yours should arrive soon.”
Via Ace. 😀
Women don’t get nuttier as they age.
It’s just that you notice it more as their looks fade
Referring to KFC,
My cousin went off for Christmas lunch to his inlaws (wife’s sister and husband).
He’s still livid, as they offered up re-heated KFC for Christmas dinner. FMD.
Does your donga have a window made from the windscreen of a Land Rover, complete with wipers, is it named “Bilonga Mick”, and how far is it to Jaba Point?
Boambee John:
What about the sub set of women who can’t have children? Those ones seemed to me to be well balanced* – sometimes a little sad, but they either adopted or worked around it without going weird.
*There were several on staff at the Home. They seemed OK except for two of them who should have been locked up with Ivan Milat.
Not quite. They will call “Fraud” around a week before the election.
Read somewhere that while the dollar value of purchases made with cash is decreasing, very few people live 100% cash-free. Most will have used cash at markets or school fetes, give to kids for school tuck shop etc.
ColesWorths can take a lot of the blame for card use .. where I am both have a 6 to 1 ratio when it comes to self serve machines .. so you use a card rather than stand in line waiting for the cash acceptor to become available …….
Oh, but they DO. They are trying to provoke “unbridled umbrage” among the peasants, by the steady application of humiliation and degradation..
Any “blowback” will be carefully “cultivated” so that “something must be done”, and the population suitably subject to “attitude adjustment” and “right-sizing”.
Yep. Jan 6 as a set up was as obvious as tits on a bull. And that’s the main problem with Trump. He is a straight shooter and I don’t think he really appreciates the duplicity of the fukers against him.
BTW menopause also sends some women crazy.
Crazier.
Rumours abound about his escape to Bolivia.
Multiculti getting a workout in SE London.
Brit cops doing a bang up job, as usual.
Helen’s grim commentaries pushed me to ocercome my doubts and become serious about joining the local efforts to create a fodder bank system to help defend rural producers from current and future Morrissons hell bent in destroying rural Australia.
This district produces a lot of fodder, mostly for on-farm consumption, so the concept of each property, including the corporates, carrying additional fodder as a decentralised bank was doable in terms of capacity and cost.
Of course, the ‘paved with good intentions’ law applied. Seasons have been generally favourable and there has been virtually no demand for emergency support. With no demand, the reserve has to be dumped.
It is a true Catch 22 situation. To their credit however the local producers have agreed to continue with the program.
Our betters will never forgive Australians for voting No. Sydney’s fire works tonight will ‘heavily revolve around First Nation resilience and indigenous themes”. What a way to bring in the New Year. Melbourne’s will probably go the QWERTY route.
12. Dan falls down staircase in Rio.
Pogria:
There’s not one mention of “Islam” or “Muslim”.
The grenade phenomenon so prevalent in the Nordic countries will soon transfer to England.
The two biggest CIT (cash-in-transit) companies in Australia have been given permission to merge by the ACCC.
Without that merger, there would have been no armoured vehicles/armed guards to move money within Australia as neither of the two would have survived the current economic times intact.
Now that they have an effective monopoly, the bigger clients (banks/Woolworths/Coles/precious cargo) will have to pay whatever is asked.
Onto whom do you think the costs will be passed?
It is on mine, J.C.
It will be a very long time, if ever, before Victoria recovers from Dan Andrews’ depredations.
They’ve used all their powder on the phantom far right, even had Nazi symbols and gestures made illegal just in time for October 7th. All that mythical secret Zionist power behind western governments can’t stop the genocidal Islamo-leftist triumphant takeover of public spaces.
Good God no!! Please do not give my husband more ideas!
We bought a brand new demountable, with some minor customisation to add some addional kitchen cupboards and locate the bathroom slightly differently. They delivered and installed it on our block and all we had to do was connect up plumbing and electricity.
https://demountablesaleshire.com.au/demountable-homes/
Cyclist who was run down by an Australian driver in Bolivia describes the driver as a hunchback with black rimmed glasses.
I’m predicting an even more ‘interesting’ year in 2024. The 2023 trends are only going to increase/ worsen. Multipolarity will increase. Russia’s position in Ukraine will strengthen further. NATO as a bloc will be further undermined. Same for the EU, economically and diplomatically. In the ME, Israel won’t achieve its stated objectives or restore ‘deterrence’, will be politically isolated, and will likely face a continued economic blockade in the Red Sea. Iran’s position is likely to improve, as will that of its allies, while the Gulf States and Egypt are likely to have problems domestically or renegotiate some modus vivendi with Iran and its allies. China is going to go on as it does. Politically, the Anglophone centre-right will go on as it normally does, unable to repudiate its liberalism, it will maintain its ‘let’s move leftward but not too quickly’ approach.
Thank you Helen Davidson for your interesting comments this afternoon. I’ve enjoyed finding about the area and its history.
Dundee Beach, Darwin Part 1
https://campr.com.au/touring-dundee-beach-darwin/
Best Fishing Charter – Dundee Beach, Darwin Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg_rAh1bvhs
I guess it figures that the silliest Cafe Bruce bird story should occur on the last day of an extremely silly year. I was outside half an hour ago trying to get the northern magpies’ two kids more friendly and the cockies weren’t happy for being ignored. So one landed on my head. Okaay. I’m getting used to this. I reached up and handed him a bit of bread, whereupon he balanced on one leg on the summit so he could hold the bread in his other hand.
Then out of the blue a second cockie landed on my shoulder. Unfazed I handed her a bit of bread too. I have never had two wild cockies perch on me before, and certainly not both of them whilst balancing on one foot. I knew when the top cockie had finished his bit of bread because I felt his other set of claws on my scalp, so I gave him the last morsel of bread I had and he balanced again so he could eat it as well. I didn’t have my camera though.
This one is cheesy but nevertheless it’s a superb selfie-with-eagle:
Bald Eagle Lands on Man’s Shoulder After Man Prayed for a Closer Look (Gateway Pundit, 28 Dec)
Why are people burning mosques in Iran?
Because Islam is the source of problems Iranians are facing.
That’s pretty depressing Dover, I hope you are wrong.
Was hoping for a stealth camp tonight. A gazilllion people alongside the AVON.
I couldn’t ever park.
Sick of city life!
even park…
I’m back … . Petros, I read the study. They did almost the exact opposite of the studies you are thinking about. They used activated Tregs which are suppressor cells. That’s why I found it impressive because it prevents the microglia shifting into an amoeboid state and the imaging demonstrated that happened. They did their homework because the result reflects other animal studies where stripping the microglia out of the brain reduces amyloid loading. There is a great deal to unpack here and this is not the place for that. I might blog it at some point but I already have too many posts to compile.
When I heard about the infamous T cell activation study for Alz I knew that was going to be a disaster. Activated CD 8 cells in the CNS can cause huge damage. Of the 300 in the trial, 12 died.
Predictions for 2024.
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5. Trump will be the nominee against Biden and wins by 10 points.
11. In a premeditated switch reminiscent of what happened at the 1983 Australian election, Biden karks it and is replaced as Dem candidate by Michelle Obama a week before the vote. The Dems romp home controlling both houses of congress. Diplomatic relations with Iran and construction of a gulag begin the next day.
I note another Cassie pejorative. Is there a day goes by when she isn’t insulting someone? She is ticked off because she made up some stuff about the popularity of the royals and I proved her dead wrong. We all get corrected, don’t get uppity about that.
Hope you all have a wonderful 2024. I look forward to mostly spectating the mostly entertaining banter here.
My 24 predictions.
1. The Aukus agreement is torn up when it’s revealed that ASIO is being secretly run from a bunker below Auburn Mosque.
2. Rub and Tug takes an extended trip to Beijing where he is passed around the senior party leadership to be paddled on the bare arse and rogered by a giant panda.
3. Javier Milei dies in a mysterious commercial airline incident that involves aliens.
4. Trump is jailed for jaywalking during a televised rally and is imprisoned in the same cell they used for Jeffrey Epstein, the cctv has a missing period and well you can guess the rest.
5. President Biden chokes on a Hokies pokie icecream and suffers serious brain damage, he has trouble saying anything coherent but the dems press on anyway to the eternal frustration of Kamala, he’s re-elected with 95% of the vote in the most fair election ever.
6. Penny Wong decides to resign from the senate and run for a lower house seat where the incumbent died in an unfortunate accident at a climate protest. She wins the seat but is immediately forced to share a portfolio with Chris Bowen and her popularity suffers. She tries to team up with Tanya Pliberserk to roll Rub and Tug, but he arranges a tub of Hokie Pokie ice cream from Scranton for both of them.
7. Rugby Australia continues to snub pacific island players, they all go back to their respective countries or play rugby league, no one notices because union is stuffed.
8. The rub and tug government goes ahead with a treaty and truth telling. It’s somewhat awkward because the truth is so alien to the entire labour movement.
9. Elon Musk, is the only name on the Epstein Island list.
9. Elon Musk, is the only name on the Epstein Island list. He walks away from all his enterprises and sets up house on the moon.
Have any Cats ever heard of a musical instrument called a Handpan?
It’s actually quite lovely to listen to. Enjoy.
I can make no predictions. I will only say that, the one thing we humans got right was making dogs our friends.
Oh dear, the sneerer is upset.
My only hope for 2024 is that the hostages are freed and return home.
I want nothing else.
While on predictions for 2024:
John Ruddick has some “out there” prediction of a role for Michelle Obama in the presidential candidacy :
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/12/michelle-2024/
Lizzie, with her advertising background, should enjoy this. 😀
But wait, there’s more!
I will only say that, the one thing we humans got right was making dogs our friends.
Absolutely!
Oh noes! Calli’s down dickus is missing her. Lol.
Doesn’t like music or dogs. quelle surprise.
Cassie, speaking of dogs… 😀
This is probably set-up, seriously, I hope it is for real.
I would buy from him.
The worthless carcasses, of the leaders of Hamas, are devoured by dogs, in the main street of Gaza?
Have any Cats ever heard of a musical instrument called a Handpan?
Search for Trinidad steel bands. They were made from left over military 44 gallon oil drums.
Mother Lode, Charles will be long dead by the time this boondoggle has been defeated. William will have to decide at some stage to abandon it and start supporting and promoting real science.
Car ads – The Mercedes AA Electric Car
Colin Firth was the best Darcy, not even Olivier comes close.
Son who moved to the Gold Coast hinterland a few weeks ago has been without power for 6 days. It came back on this afternoon. Power lines have not been repaired yet so they’ve brought in some big-bugger generators. He was only telling me last week how he was enjoying living a more sustainable lifestyle.
Katzenjammer,
that EV ad was a hoot. Thanks for the info on the Handpan. I had never ever heard of them. Beautiful sound.
It has been commented online and on Fox News that the Democrats constant mantra about saving democracy is similar to the Vietnam war crime where the excuse was that US soldiers had to destroy a village in order to save it.
As to most of these secretaries of state, no mystery really, they are affirmative action appointments, talent and ability had nothing to do with it. As such these women are very dangerous as they are full of themselves, not even aware of their stupidity.
Zulu, I thought you liked dogs!
Hamarse carcasses need to be fed to pigs and hyenas.
I may have mentioned this before, a friend did law at Sydney Uni at the same time as Turnbull. Apparently he was a lightweight, a show pony and full of himself. It looks like maturity has passed him by.
mal should have got them out to Australia for his snowy river boondoggle
I may have mentioned this before, a friend did law at Sydney Uni at the same time as Turnbull. Apparently he was a lightweight, a show pony and full of himself. It looks like maturity has passed him by.
Yes, I also know someone who did law with the Turd and he says the same.
I cannot help but think that
JoeAli in Iran has more appetitie for secularism than our imports. Granted in Iran Ali’s secular world there are only Muslims (unless they are old enough to remember before the revolution), but he will have long gagged on the putrified taste of state Islamism.I would think our self-imports came from lower strata and lower castes of the societies they fled, abhoring the hierarchy that was there. But now they are here they are not at the bottom – we have the cream of the septic tank – and they now feel they can occupy the upper ranks of a copy of the society they knew.
They did not flee Islamism. They fled their lowly standing in it.
There will be more fervour for the Umm-ahhh, or Ahmpit, or whatever they call Allah’s shithole dominion on Earth, among those who fled Islamist countries to fester in our suburbs than can be found among the people in the courtries they left.
And, seriously, is shaving so forking hard?
Wishing Cats and Kittehs a happy New Year. I’m in NZ on a cycling tour in Otago spending NYE in the middle of nowhere while my wife does a hike of Milford Sound also in the middle of nowhere.
Just watched one of the commercial TV networks news and weather. I was astonished that the white woman who did the weather was, shall we say, a little bit plus sized.
But what irritated me no end is that every weather description also had Maori words and phrases. Not just for Maori place names that we know but for all the other English names places. She also went on in Maori for other phrases that I had not a clue about.
I know the ABC has been welcoming people to Wangal etc for a while, but this will just get worse. Obviously English is not seen as lingua franca any longer. Obviously a coloniser language.
Dry Bones – New Year
Helen, by the time cash is outlawed all narcotics will be legalised so purchasers are not discriminated against. Of course, arthritis pain relief medications will still be stringently rationed.
“So, what motivates them?”
Same thing that motivates women to dominate education and the “social services”, and
Invincibility syndrome. Used to be known as “mother knows best.”
Hamas is succeeding at playing the West for fools
Dr. John Campbell with Professor Angus Dalgleish.
The Death of Science
‘Police recording lists of citizens who’ve committed wrongthink is deeply sinister & authoritarian’
and a happy new year to both the bishop and the pawn
Four incidents in Tennant Creek overnight reported on by the NT News:
1) …a 61-year-old wheelchair-bound man allegedly being assaulted by a group who forced their way into his home at 2am Saturday.
Mr Edginton said the group smashed the sliding door and the man had to barricade himself in his bedroom while phoning 000.
2) In a separate incident, a 48-year-old was hospitalised after he was allegedly assaulted with a star picket in the early hours of the morning by a group of men who were checking the door lock of his home on Leichhardt Street.
3) … the assault of a 66-year-old man whose caravan was broken into by five males who then assaulted him with iron bars and robbed him, and
4) the violent invasion of a family’s home in Boag Court.
In that incident, four males including three youths and an adult forced entry to a residence by smashing a window and once inside a male occupant of the house was struck across the shoulder with a broomstick by the adult offender, who then demanded the resident hand over his car keys and wallet.
The three youths then attempted to enter a room where the man’s wife and children were hiding, but they were able to push back and keep the door closed.
The group then ransacked the premises before fleeing and stealing a 2007 Mitsubishi 380 with NT registration 989922.
This is in a town of 3,080 people with IIRR 44 police – the biggest concentration of police resources per capita in Oz.
Professor compares Harvard to medieval dictatorship: This is the ‘tip of the iceberg’
Right-to-carry.
Now!
Bill Gates DEFENDS Chinese Communist Dictatorship
Dover, you are correct with respect to the current US administration however, this will change if Trump wins the election next year. Even if it’s not Trump but another Republican, the reaction and response will be different to the Biden/Obama regime.
Sal, you aren’t ALLOWED to shoot aspiring rappers….
Is there anything distinctive missing from those brief reports? Or is it a very egalitarian town where constituents of all demographic cohorts partake equally as both perpetuators and victims of crimes.
That needs to change.
Castle doctrine laws. Now!
Mother Lode:
Interesting concept.
What about the other cultures?
Very perceptive, Katzenjammer.
Opposing skin groups and such. Back it in.
I have received notification that on Sunday 4 February 2024 there will be a rally in Sydney against Jew hatred. It is being organised by Never Again, which comprises Christians of all denominations and Christian leaders who are partnering with Israelis and Jews to STOP JEW HATRED.
I invite ALL Sydney Cats and Kittens who care about the Jewish people and Israel to attend.
I hope to see thousands of Christians, Jews, agnostics, and atheists attend. In London last month, nearly 100,000 people walked to protest Jew hatred. Whilst I don’t expect that number here, I dream of 20,000 people.
I will provide further details closer to the time.
Trucks v Trains news (the Tele):
This is flat as a tack country as far as the eye can see. There is also a pic of the train, or its remnants. Most of it is shipping containers stacked two high.
Impossible to miss, in other words.
The what?
I don’t necessarily want to wade into the ‘old people shouldn’t drive’ thing again – even though it’s relevant – but there is no way a 75 year old, regardless of how fit and active he thinks he is, should be in charge of a road train.
Up to 60 metres long and over 135 tonnes. No.
Right, the phantom down ticker downticks my comment about a rally against Jew hatred.
Says it all.
The whole Big Spycatcher Case was pumped up beyond belief, mostly by Trumble himself.
Another of the Sydney clique who fell into a barrel of cash.
Speaking of which.
It’s that time of the year again, for the spontaneous combustion of heavily insured printing works.
Bruce, that man got a response from God, loud and clear.
Cassie, I can’t be there, but, if “Never Again” accepts donations, I’d like to tip in a few quid?
more hamas winning
Bug wunds and pussing down, eh?
Oh, and to the phantom down ticker, may the fleas of a thousand camels infest your crotch, and may your arms be too short to scratch.
Salvatore, Iron Publican
Castle doctrine and stand your ground, as well.
The problem is that the police have a monopoly on legal force in Australia, and they will defend that monopoly right even if it costs you your life.
Can you tell who advises of these rallies? I’m not on their lists.
Zulu,
Try this….
https://www.neveragainisnow.com.au
Crossie, I don’t believe this. The limitations here are not one of will but of capacity/ capability, etc. It’s not just war that is the pursuit of politics by other means, so to, is diplomacy.
Dundee Beach is a popular fishing spot an hour and a half SW of Darwin. I worked at this pub/roadhouse/motel near there. Funny as.
Owner bloke was badass and real. A self made man. He had these two massive crocodiles in a secure fenced dam out the back. 6pm every evening he would go out and feed the horrible things. It was a tourist attraction type of caper. Those native geese you get up there was the main tucker.
Sent Len Buckeridge to his deathbed. Which would have resulted in more than a few tinnies being cracked around town.
Found it – Never Again
Katz, I was sent it by a friend…
https://www.neveragainisnow.com.au
I usually get my stuff through the State Zionist Council.
I want Christians to lead this.
Hear this…
SAY NO TO JEW HATRED
Been out. Forgot about NYE, we sent apologies weeks ago to friends re a dinner as we thought we might be down the coast, but Big Sis called off. We will watch fireworks from home, may not even bother to go with neighbours to the reserve this year as we are both tired from Christmas festivities. We only just managed to sneak in home via the roundabout on Old South Head Road at 6.10pm, which about six cops were just starting to seal off. All other roads in were already closed, with no attendant to let residents through. Happens every NYE. No point really in inviting people here if they can’t park. Streets are already parked out, and people wandering everywhere in groups carrying stashes of alcohol. Just checked our main gates were closed, don’t want revellers carousing in the garden falling down the stairs drunk. NYE and Boxing Day Syd to Hobart are two no-go days of the year here.
A few years back we were coming back from a NYE party after midnite and Hairy ran the barricades between the witches hats where one had fallen over and rolled a bit. There were no repercussions, guess no-one saw him.
Happy New Year to all Cats and Kittehs.
Feb 4th in the brand new diary now, Cassie.
Bug wunds and pussing down, eh?
Well yes, that too.
Most of the locals speak with a slight kiwi affectation. However, none of them speak in that atrocious way St Jacinda used to drawl.
Why can’t they just speak Australian like we all do?
Thin Blue Line news (the Hun):
This will almost certainly have happened when she loaded up prior to heading out, and she’s put a digit through the trigger guard while slotting el pistola into the holster.
I say this because I have heard tell of this exact scenario occurring on prior occasions – occasions plural, and all of them involving chickie cops.
No no they said, lowering standards has not resulted in inferior cops tasked to protect the weak.
Hey Dover – check your email, please …
Within ten years, Australia’s ‘official’ language will be an amalgam of the most politically-strong indig language groups, with a few token words from the runners-up thrown in as a result of the (very expensive and lengthy) taxpayer-funded Language Reparations Process.
English will still continue in use, of course, but the new, hybrid indig language will be a source of lotsa free munni via the ‘commitment’ of various authorities (and big corporate sucks) to utilise it as a primary communications tool. There’ll be massive ‘public education’ campaigns to familiarise the ordinary scum, and it will be a compulsory language in state schooling.
Dover, I think it’s a matter of will and power. Diplomacy and politics are fine but you have to have the might behind it when persuasion doesn’t work. The current admin refuses to use its military and financial power but that doesn’t mean that another admin will not do so.
Because we have the flattest vowels on the planet. Not a skill picked up by foreigners – for example, see the many woeful attempts by hollyweirdos to imitate Ozzie accents – and yes, streep you evil ol’ slag – I’m looking at you. Which is also why we can imitate accented English effortlessly.
If there’s one thing I remember about primary school it was barking out repeatedly, “A E I O U”. That and memorising times tables.
Quite frankly, I’m grateful for both of the above. Well done, you tasteless otherwise utterly useless hideously monstrous seventies tachers*.
*Deliberate.
Well, it’s been a mixed old year; a few bright spots but some as horrid as I can remember.
In all the noise, the Cat has been a source of information, an opportunity for reflection, and a place to enjoy opinions, insights, and bawbees offered by thoughtful people.
Thank you dover.
Thank you posters.
Happy (or at least happier) New Year to you and yours.