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Christmastide has 12 days, Lizzie.
Tom
Jan 1, 2024 10:57 AM
Noticing a statistically significant presence of hot older women in suburban hardware stores, psychologists identify a phenomenon known as the Bunnings-Cougar effect.
Beery, many thanks for posting Tim Blair’s 2024 predictions. He’s a master. Lots of laughing out loud.
TOM!! Warnings please. I nearly found out how difficult it is to clean coleslaw off a monitor.
There was a bit on the 6PM News about how the road toll is creeping up after a number of years. I wonder if this is a factor.? Won’t be in the simple fatalities are they are often in a Landcruiser or S series Merc and not the Hyundai Getz they hit.
Yes, doesn’t bear dwelling on.
Perhaps that’s why Nick coyly danced around it.
Leftys love giving it to the Arts.
dover0beach
Yep.
All the shit of the last decade is slowly aggregating toward a super shitstorm around August this year.
Or not.
To all the Cats and Kittehs, farewell to the burdens of 2023 and hello to the hopes for 2024. I hope for the disappearance of the desperate downticker.
I guess the back fence tittle tattle about Prince Frederick was just that, back fence tittle tattle.
There’s surely a book in here somewhere…
How two of Australia’s most celebrated luvvies devised the policy framework for the hellish disaster of remote indigenous settlements.
Fond wishes to all of you. Your company has brightened my life with your cleverness, your generosity and your sense of the comic side of life.
As for 2024, I think it is tighten your seatbelts.
Bourke must have ordered his thugs and letter boxes to stay home last night
Mussies terrifying families on NYE is obviously too much of a bad look even for the antebellum bolsheviks to laugh off.
I didn’t believe that they would have been able to resist the opportunity. It couldn’t have been in response to police pressure, the NSWaffen are fully behind Jew hating and are totally disinterested in the concerns of the mere populace.
Yes Roger one thing I love about Italy, the Christmas mangers will still all be in place for me to enjoy in mid January.
I’m going to miss being able to celebrate the feast of the Epiphany over there this year, a public holiday.
Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God – 1st January 2024
First reading at Mass today – Numbers 6:22-27
The Lord spoke to Moses and said, ‘Say this to Aaron and his sons: “This is how you are to bless the sons of Israel. You shall say to them:
May the Lord bless you and keep you.
May the Lord let his face shine on you and be gracious to you.
May the Lord uncover his face to you and bring you peace.”
This is how they are to call down my name on the sons of Israel, and I will bless them.’
five and a half years for NY hate crime
tensions between Biden and Netanyahu about the day after the war.
Undoubtedly.
I absolutely get that the elderly need to get around to place to place from time to time, as it secures their feelings of independence and all that sort of thing. However, that should not come at the expense of everyone else minding their own business on the road.
There are very few families (mine included) that have not had the experience of an Uncle Graeme (replete with bowlo hat and giant wraparound sunglasses) or Aunt Dawn (blue rinse and coke-bottle specs) peering over the steering wheel of the Toyota Crown or Fairlane as they wobble from point A to point B, and who very gently refuse to put their own immediate family in the car if Graeme or Dawn is in the pilot’s seat.
The 75-year-old mentioned earlier was in charge of a road train. A road train, and who in all likelihood tried to beat the actual train through a crossing. That’s a next-level arrangement which should garner no sympathy from anyone.
If you’re over 70 – mandatory testing every 12 months, at a minimum.
I realise that this may be ‘too much bureaucracy’ for some, but still.
more lies
Re possum pest:
Virtually the only way short of shooting it – which you can’t do in an urban area – is a possum trap. You should be able to get this from one of the agricultural/produce stores in your vicinity or get one online.
Bait it with possum delicacies (fruits etc). If you catch one of the critters, take it a hell of a long way away & let it out in the bush.
To be served in chains, on bread and water. The bread may be stale, but he will be allowed all the water he can drink.
I think cultural Christians should be encouraged to follow the church year, especially the festival part, which is essentially the story of Jesus. They’ll learn much & be enriched thereby. They might even continue after Pentecost, when the focus is on the teaching of Jesus. Culture, as they say, is downstream from religion, and at present we need to reconnect with the roots of our culture.
Technically, Christmas lasts until the 2nd of February, Candlemas, the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple.
We used to leave our tree and decorations up until we knew our sons were safely back at their boarding school in England and the holiday was over for the family. They still stay up until I am good and ready to put them away and I refuse to be bullied by anyone who tries to tell me it’s ‘unlucky’ to have them up after the Epiphany on the 6th of January. It’s a lot of effort to put them up and we both like to enjoy them as long as possible, especially in this strange and depressing time.
Wishing a better NY to all here and prayers especially for our Jewish friends.
First, the referendum poleaxed Luigi’s hopes for reelection. With the realisation that Labor has no answers to what ails this country, increasingly it will become an electorate-wide “had-it” moment.
I hope you’re right BBS. It’ll be interesting to see what the results are in the forthcoming by-election in Dunkley. The Liberals held the electorate from 1996 through to 2016, when it was lost in the great Turnbull mudslide of that year. I think the deceased Labor member was personally popular. Whether Labor can hold the seat, given Sleazy’s unpopularity, and whether the Liberals can win it remains to be seen. Whatever, it’ll be interesting to watch the outcome. Labor’s win in Aston last April was a fluke.
good news
I,m thinking of buying a new set of wheels very soon and to keep in ‘sweet’ with our trading partners i,m looking at chinese models. They buy 1.5 tonne of iron ore and I buy 1.5 tonne of car back. Seems like a fair swap to me. The Hunglong SUV looks phat with a ‘balls and all’ upgrade.
Louis Litt
Jan 1, 2024 12:26 PM
Noted two rats run along the fence then jump into the undergrowth of the neighbours yards.
All help welcomed.
When I was a kid we had possums partying in our roof cavity. The old man borrowed a neighbour’s tom cat. Didn’t feed it and left it in the roof for a few nights. The possums never returned. The cat was very happy. Use nature to combat nature. Old First Nation saying…. actually…… I made it up.
It would work with the Shia and Sunni as well. Use one to keep the other at bay.
“We have to learn from the people who have had stewardship of our land for over 60,000 years,” he said. “We need to do that now, for example, with the Indigenous-led savanna burning carbon credit system. And there are many more examples where we could do better.”
Well, Bowen (the ignorant fool) had better tell the bureaucratic chiefs of the RFS & the NPWS about that because they flatly refuse to allow back burning pre Summer in parkland to reduce fuel loads.
When touring in the NT we were always amused to witness the large-scale patch burning – smoke on the horizon in every direction. They don’t worry about “carbon pollution” when it is done by indigenous rangers.
Oh the hypocrisy and ambivalence of the Climate Change fanatics – none of which that idiot Bowen can recognise.
Stand by for a “baby boom” in nine months…
she was Nugget Coomb’s lover at the time
Surely, aspirational ? They were both well past it. Judith was deaf and Nugget delusional.
Now, we can look forward to Australia Day .. whoops Invasion Day… and the lockstep Debbie Downers trying to ruin it for everyone else.
I loved this, thank you JC…
One astonishing thing I read the other day was this.
John Tyler , the 10th US president was born in 1790.
He still has a grandson who is alive at the age of 95.
President Tyler had a kid when he was 68 and this son had a child when he was 75.
The grandson was born in 1928. The grandson is also related to Pocahontas on his mother’s. A walking petrol dish
About a decade ago I remember reading in the Oz or somewhere how a woman had just passed away who’d been married to a Confederate Civil War Veteran. I love historical connections like this. We are never far removed from history.
calli
I’m not a pessimist, Calli. I’m a realist and I believe Australia in particular and the West in general is in real strife.
The place is like a bikie party and Australia is run by a 16 year old girl who is utterly convinced she can drink and smoke herself into oblivion, do whatever she wants and thinks she will wake up in the morning without a hangover and intact body.
We are the parents who are expected to deal with the mess in the morning – at home, in the ICU, or in the morgue.
Considering the bombing in Gaza I’m not condemning locals cheering Hamas rockets.
I suppose his point is most Gazans support Hamas.
why wouldn’t they
From the Oz…
Jewish doctor attacked returning from morning walk in Brighton
A 76-year-old Jewish doctor has been violently assaulted as he returned home from a morning walk early on New Year’s Day in the affluent bayside Melbourne suburb of Brighton.
State MP for Brighton, James Newbury, said he had been contacted by family of the “much loved” and well-known doctor, who has been hospitalised having sustained repeated attacks to his head in the alleged incident, which is said to have occurred in Bay St.
“The attacker followed him home, and tried to smash his way into glass doors and threaten further violence,” Mr Newbury said.
He said police had attended the scene and made an arrest.
Victoria Police have been contacted for comment.
It is not clear whether the incident was racially or religiously motivated, but it comes amid a dramatic spike in anti-Semitic incidents on Victorian streets since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7.
Recently released Victoria police figures showed there had been 153 incidents recorded by police as involving anti-Semitic or anti-Israel behaviour between October 7 and December 20, compared with 28 reports of anti-Islamic or anti-Palestine incidents.
Accounting for the lower Jewish population (46,645 Victorians identified as Jewish in the 2021 census, compared with 273,028 who identified as Muslim), the statistics mean Jewish Victorians were 32 times more likely than Muslim Victorians to face racism or discrimination over the period.
Police made 32 arrests relating to anti-Semitic or anti-Israel incidents between October 7 and December 20, compared with three relating to anti-Islamic and anti-Palestine incidents.”
A road train, and who in all likelihood tried to beat the actual train through a crossing.
I’ve seen level crossings where the lights and boom aren’t out of the way until the train is a kilometer away departing. Wonder why people try to beat the train to the crossing?
Like the roadworks bs where the resume normal speed isn’t until at least half a kilometer past the “roadworks” which may be just some people working in the paddock next to the road.
(The Oz)
Pedant that I am, I read the last sentence as saying “It was either racially motivated or it was religiously motivated. No other theories are being entertained.”
700 US navy personal looking for property in Rockingham, Safety Bay area. With the Aussie $ at 68 cents we could put the price of houses up 30% and they would,nt notice. Its a win win people.
Regarding cars and trains a mate now deceased was a train driver.Said closest he came was at a crossing in rural Victoria.Car parked two cars back decided to get through the crossing by going round other parked cars.Missed the train by a whisker.
People are nuts.
Marty, if front of his IBM supercomputer having a discussion with “Montrose”, his sentient AI.
Because they’re dickheads who value two extra minutes over being crushed by thousands of tonnes of train?
It’s basic risk versus reward. In this case, the reward is not having to stop for two minutes, or even ten given the nature of this particular train. The risk is:
1. You die;
2. Your selfishness closes an entire highway for every other road user for hours if not days;
3. Other people – in this case, the train drivers – die; and
4. Firies and ambos and jacks are compelled to visit the scene of your idiocy, thus preventing them from stopping people breaking into cars or your house, putting your kitchen fire out or going to Nanna who’s had another fall or a heart attack.
Did you even see the picture of this crossing? There’s a link upthread.
Old School Conservative
Jan 1, 2024 1:55 PM
Is the doctor still in practice?
If so, there could be a reason other than what you propose, not trivialising the attack whatever the reason.
Don’t have a reference, but when it was announced Confederate veterans would be entitled to pensions, under certain circumstances, there was a rush of weddings between young women and “old and the bold” veterans of the Confederate Army.
It’s very hard to understand how the US/Brits are going to deal with Yemen now that they’ve withdrawn the USS Bataan, Carter Hall and now USS Ford.
Cats in the roof works well.
To keep possums out of your trees, spiky stuff that gets stuck in fur, also works. e.g. dry pomegranate branches, climbing rose cuttings (vicious), razor ribbon etc.
If all else fails, solution 12G is an option for some.
A brilliant column.
Just the way to kick start 2024, with a laugh-a-minute read of one of Australia’s finest newspaper men.
Successful Invasion Day
Louis Litt, bunny trap, set with some apple, garden fork to despatch possum. If you don’t take the terminal solution it’ll keep coming back. Black rubbish bag, dump it in troublesome neighbours bin. Tell no one.
JC, is “Montrose” the long form of monty?
So he thought she was a beauty and she didn’t have to listen to his ramblings?
No wonder it went on so long…25 years, reportedly.
Brilliant turn of phrase and yet so true.
It wasn’t a “revelation”, it was an assertion, supported only by out of context quotes and wild extrapolations from a few rocks in a creek bed and some sticks piled up in a pyramid.
As for the woke canard that Tolkien was a racist, he received a letter in the late 30s from a German publisher wanting to translate The Hobbit but first wanting assurance about Tolkien’s antecedents. Tolkien replied that, if his correspondent wanted to know if JRRT had Jewish ancestry, he regretted to inform him that he had no blood ties he knew of with that marvellous race.
Well, bash him then. It is perhaps a slightly unorthodox theory but through such percussive technique a couple of neurones in his brain might be brought into collision and, in glancing off each other like a microscopic hammer against a microscopic anvil, produce a spark of a new thought. One he had not been programmed with.
It is downright irritating watching him and his caste rattling off things and then coming to a full stop teasingly before the next obvious point, deftly sidestepping it to keep on message.
Pascoe has ‘unearthed the knowledge’ – the word ‘evidence’ is just crying out to be spoken – but it never is.
Knowledge without evidence.
Who could forget Hawke’s immortal line to Beazley after a meeting to consider Kernot’s slither into the Liars:
“We need to know, is Gareth slipping her a length? “
That’s an old tradition, Annie.
As Lizzie is Anglican (iirc) I thought we should go by the official CofE calendar.
A chemical engineer, Harrison Ruffin Tyler was an extremely successful industrial entrepreneur, retiring in 2000. He is named for President Harrison – to whom he is also related. The old President’s home – Sherwood Forest Plantation – is still owned by the family.
From the ABC article about the truck/train crash:
Oh, FFS. Have a blub on your own time, sport. What is wrong with our managers that they have to do a display of ‘stolen grief’ every time an accident happens?
Nothing happened to you, O’Donnell, just shut up and get on with the job without trying to steal some of the sympathy due to these two poor buggers families.
Possum got into our roof space, we had been hearing noises on the roof and camera had caught it running along the fence. Called Council for help and they recommended a trapper who duly came with trap. He knew where possum could be evicted to, out of our range. We then got eaves and tiles inspected and fixed, no more trouble.
KD
Already done that several times.
Reality bites.
Their new best friends, the Palestinians, will soon disabuse them of that delusion once they gain levers of power after defeating all the the other “visitors”.
She would have needed to be blind as well!
PS, Nugget was always delusional.
Accident investigators are mystified. They have combed the wreckage looking for unauthorised floor holes, gearboxes encrusted with faeces and discarded vindaloo containers. So far they haven’t come up with anything.
The startling conclusion might be that the driver wasn’t a sub-continental.
Jorge, in case you haven’t seen it, I responded to your comment about doctrine at the end of the Christmas Day thread.
Only 33 today (so far), but 70+% humidity.
It has been so warmly moist over such a period of time here that the outdoor (under the back verandah) Fock box has to reset itself almost daily.
As with RD over in the Ville, it looks like the sprinklers will be coming out in January.
Unprecedented, for at least the last 30,000 years.
Not yet. My decorations stay on the full Twelve Days Of Christmas.
So the Liberal government of the day put him in charge of aboriginal affairs.
I suppose they imagined he couldn’t really do any harm Then Gough came along.
KD, I read recently that trucking companies are finding it near impossible to get drivers for all size of trucks.
Younger drivers are not keen on enforced absences from home, lowish wages, the boring nature of the job, difficult and enforced timeframes, loneliness and the sedentary lifestyle.
I don’t have an answer but truck operators seem to caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.
There was an excellent ad on TV a few years ago. A young bloke approached the crossing as the boom came down, decided not to run the crossing.
As the train went past, his future life was projected on it. Girl friend, marriage, kids, their schooling, university, daughter’s marriage, grand kids … A simple and clear message.
Err, this one wasn’t departing, champ.
It was arriving.
At speed.
Fully laden.
So what’s this dickhead’s excuse?
My wife wanted to take down decorations on Boxing Day. I thought that was extreme until a friend said he wanted to do it after Christmas lunch, on his theory the tree had served its purpose which was to identify where to locate presents on Christmas morning.
I pushed it out 1 day more just for laughs.
So much rain here – what happened to El Nino?
Start of another year – one wishes for the end of wars (or perhaps the need for wars, the present Israel fight is very much understood) and return of civilians.
Returning now to the occasional reading here – mostly am tired of blog fights and the wasted time skipping them. I wish you all a safe and joyous new year.
I posted the Tyler story, partially because I knew CL would love it, if he hadn’t seen it before. 🙂
Reminds me of the English lord who died in 1970, who was claimed to be the last person whose father was born in the 18th century (1790 from memory).
https://americanliterature.com/author/hh-munro-saki/short-story/the-hen
I will admit the only thing I have heard about Ella Wheeler Wilcox is as the name of the cocktail in Saki’s (Hector Hugh Monroe’s) short story The Hen.
I pleasant read for those inclined toward stories told with impish mischievousness about the upper strata of Edwardian society.
– The Telegraph
If you’ve been wondering why the EU late last year decided it was time to put a halt to ‘irregular immigration’, here’s your answer. They scared of the “populists.”
I bet dollars to donuts, most people who agree with this superstitious claptrap also happen to be atheists.
You are right Annie, I remember from my childhood that the church Christmas decorations remained until Candlemas even though we took our own tree down on the 12th day.
They’re
Particularly the bishops.
Took us out to the parents place for an evening swim – well, it was all rolling green hills, horse country with immaculate white fences and the pool had a pool house where we could change and shower after, drinks and nibbles were sent down from the house, parents came down briefly, I can’t remember their professions but we were nicely interrogated as to provenance and education! I think we went to a jazz club later. Great experience.
Roger
They get it so badly wrong that it must be deliberate.
We have all our mainland states run by Communists. Are they trying to bankrupt the economy?
It as well known Nugget was plugging Judith. Wright was a limpid activist who expressed her nonsense in banal rhymes and images the Pythons would taunt as Simple Simon met a pie man and kicked him in the arse. Consider Five Senses, arguably her most famous poem:
Now my five senses
gather into a meaning
all acts, all presences;
and as a lily gathers
the elements together,
in me this dark and shining,
that stillness and that moving,
these shapes that spring from nothing,
become a rhythm that dances,
a pure design.
While I’m in my five senses
they send me spinning
all sounds and silences,
all shape and colour
as thread for that weaver,
whose web within me growing
follows beyond my knowing
some pattern sprung from nothing-
a rhythm that dances
and is not mine.
If poetry is wine this is Ben Ean posturing as vintage Romantic. Not only would she have voted Yes in rub and tug’s great shit show, she would be an ardent member of the filth.
I suspect this is just a stalling announcement with no real intent to stem the flow of weird beard freeloaders.
My prediction is that, by the end of 2024, the only deportations will be a couple of dozen orthodox rabbis back to Israel and Christians back to the USA and Canada.
Weird beard deportations will be approximately zero.
“Hard-right.”
LOL.
I wouldn’t mind having to do a proficiency test. Reverse/parallel parking, basic road rules, roundabouts, intersections, the lot.
Probably more feasible every 2-3 years, after say, 80, every year.
I see horrors here in God’s waiting room. People who can’t even park straight.
The train was 1.8 kilometres long.
Assume the bureaucracy warrior upthread is right and the signal triggers (upstream and downstream) are 1 kilometre from the crossing, and the train is travelling at about 110 kmh.
The front of the train triggers the signal.
It then takes a touch over 30 seconds to reach the crossing and another interval of 30 seconds for the locos to cross the downstream signal point.
Then about 60 seconds for the caboose to cross the downstream signal switch and the Bing-Bong! stops.
A touch over two minutes in a two day trip.
A f-cking maroon.
Goddamn Injuns!
I agree.
A rello on Mrs Panzer’s side is in his 80’s and is largely incapacitated after tumbling off a ladder, taking a risk he had been warned not to take.
I had thought he would come to grief in a motor car and I was admonished for questioning his driving behaviour when he was having one of his Toad of Toad Hall “joys of motoring” episodes on narrow winding streets in the wet.
He clearly thought he was a 25 year old Fangio, but the number of scrapes and dings in his various cars told me he might not be.
At least no-one else was hurt in the ladder dive.
I’m serious about this. I’ve often wondered through last year if the cops are keeping a missing persons register around a reasonable vicinity of Crazy Karen’s rural hovel. I’m convinced the numbers would be off the charts in a 100k radius. Speech/writing patterns suggest something is seriously out of step with normal chatter and behavior. It’s beyond weird and this has been going on since the time Crazy Karen was latching on to Liz.
Quenthland news (the Courier-Mail):
Ah. Someone spiked my drink.
That old chestnut.
Perth Trader
Any particular reason for the $A being up to 68 cents US? It was 63 cents late October.
A rello on Mrs Panzer’s side is in his 80’s and is largely incapacitated after tumbling off a ladder, taking a risk he had been warned not to take.”
What is it about people in their 80’s wanting to get on a ladder? The other day my mother was babbling on about wanting to get on a ladder. She’s been warned not to.
GreyRanga
Grey Ranga, are you Gabs husband?
The Oz:
Doesn’t sound like a racially motivated crime. Just regular loon stuff. 🙂
More likely tolerance than belief. Atheists have to be tolerant because there is so much superstitious claptrap. The Good News is that atheists are winning because superstitious claptrap is fading away.
Even so, he attacked a person who was concerned with his welfare and Vicpol will let him go to appear on summons. We’re better off without Vicpol.
Happy New Year, Cats. Thanks, Dover, for providing this excellent site for this eclectic and eccentric clowder.
I am cautiously optimistic about 2024.
Last year saw the first effective blows against WOKE with BudLight, Disney and certain retail outlets reeling after consumer pushbacks. The assault on free speech also suffered a setback with Elon Musk acquiring Twitter, now X. Plus, the decisive rejection of the referendum on October 14 was a heartening assertion that Australians can see through the hype of sports’ stars, superstars and politicians and ignore the guilt trips to arrive at the right answer.
Being frequently grounded I don’t meet or socialise with a wide range of people, but many of those with whom I do interact seem to have become more cynical and distrusting of ‘authorities’ and particularly, of Government. The talk of masks and boosters brings a grim, “They’d better not try that again.” Hardship caused by the cost of living crisis – and Government indifference/ineptitude to alleviate it – is eroding the importance of climate change and building resentment towards the multi $billion demands for even more renewables.
Nationally, globalism – the great reset, OWG, open borders – is drawing increasing criticism, even derision, from a few conservative journalists, but it’s a hot topic among the great unwashed, particularly as more come to learn of it. Mr K Schwab might be quite surprised to learn that, along with eating bugs, the concept is quite unpopular.
However, the main reason for my renewed hope is Peter Dutton. Yes, yes, I know. I’ve been vocal about not voting for the Liberals these past half dozen years, but in Dutton, I’m seeing signs of conviction and an emerging backbone. He made a measured stand against the October referendum then, having appointed Jacinta Nampijinpa Price as Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians, he took a back seat and allowed her and Nyunggai Warren Mundine to be the faces of the campaign.
He was quick to support Israel, citing them as “Australia’s long-standing ally.” He was equally explicit in denouncing Hamas and their atrocities against Israel. Earlier in the year, he slammed the government takeover of Calvary hospital as ‘an attack on religion.’
His only faux pas thus far was his statement that, if returned to office, the Liberals would hold another referendum during first term. However, by October 16 he was already walking that back, declaring that ‘Australians are over referendums for now.’ That suggests to me that he is more in touch with the everyday man or woman than Labor is.
In any event, I’m prepared to give him a go. But I’ll have no qualms turfing him if he should snuff out my tiny spark of optimism for 2024.
Many thanks, Roger. 2023 seems like another country already.
If I get out my passport and journey back there I recall it was a joust sparked by the idea of the church changing its ‘canon’. Which canon was never clarified though I think we were going with beliefs. Scripture, too. You were suggesting things were far more unsettled and confused than I if I remember correctly and that after the smoke of battle with Martin Luther had cleared could we see things more clearly. In other words it wasn’t until the 1550s that we can use the word canon with assurance. I may be putting words into your mouth here but I’m sure you will correct any liberties. One of the delights of the Cat is the theological jousts.
On the subject of truck driving etc, is there a reason the trains aren’t an answer?
Can someone ban Winston for using 2 banned words?
Sancho Panzer
Jan 1, 2024 3:36 PM
The train was 1.8 kilometres long.
Anybody hazard a guess at the total gross weight of train and freight?
Lee:
These stupid bastards wouldn’t know a Hard Right government was up them until the helicopter blades gave them a haircut.
Great comment, Delta.
I’ve always believed the slippery slope view of the world is ,well, slippery. It’s slippery until it meets a double brick wall as we saw with the ref.
I’d also add the hope that Milei succeeds. It’s one of the most important factors going forward, because if he does, it could add tremendous tail winds to reformist ideology around the world. Fingers crossed. I think there is underestimation of the importance of this election win.
Elbow’s very keen on all things indigenous.
Elbow touches itself at night. Thinks it’s bleck.
New missus is in the spare room.
Rubbing the bud.
It obviously doesn’t work, or all lefties would choke to death.
I see horrors here in God’s waiting room. People who can’t even park straight.
Often dusky with little or no English. But they can a student visa.
And an Uber permit.
“get” ffs!
5,000 tons, am I close?
alwaysright
Damn. I thought I got away with it.
No.
I’d have a crack at 300,000 tons.
Actually huge news.
The deep state hates men that don’t want to get married and pay more taxes.
This is supported by Saudi Arabia as a broader war on masculinity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCain_Institute
Funding of the institute comes from a variety of individuals, foundations, and corporations, including Wal-Mart Stores, FedEx, Saudi Arabia,[5] and hedge fund owner Paul E. Singer. Some of the funders have business before Congress, but during his life McCain’s representative said such actions would not affect his votes.[6]
Now this
https://twitter.com/bx_on_x/status/1732258844854595618
MASSIVE! The US Dept of Homeland Security paid nearly $700,000 to a counter-terrorism NGO to “intercept and divert” Twitter/X traffic away from specific individuals in the manosphere.
@RationalMale
,
@Cobratate
,
@FreshandFitPod
among others were specifcally named as targets.
The DHS TVTP grant funding was given to Arizona State University, home of the McCain Institute. The purpose of the grant was to design a native tool to be used on Twitter to effectively suppress individuals in the manosphere by diverting their audiences away from their content towards “counter-messaging” content – websites, podcasts and creators curated by the McCain Institute to counter “hate speech and misinformation.”
The US government has named the manosphere as one of the biggest terror threats facing the US. They claim this broad network is the main cause of (extremely isolated) acts of incel-related violence.
The conflation of incels with the broader manosphere as a justification for targeted counterterrorism ops, which can include aggressive surveillance and censorship, is part of a disturbing trend. The ever-broadening definitions of “terrorism” and “extremism” put forth by the US government poses a very real threat to the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens.
EVEN WORSE – The grant application and resulting reports suggest a large-scale collaboration of tech giants, NGOs and US government agencies to design and implement tools to counter hate and disinformation by diverting web traffic away from specific individuals and communities deemed harmful.
What is “harmful content” according to the US government? White supremacy, anti-government views, foreign terror orgs (ie. ISIS), and the manosphere are the top 4 terror threats, according to the McCain Institute.
Wright was a limpid activist who expressed her nonsense in banal rhymes and images the Pythons would taunt as Simple Simon met a pie man and kicked him in the arse.
Enough. Judith Wright had political beliefs I don’t share & an unfortunate taste in men. But some of her poetry is sublime. She read the Australian landscape from her heart. Off to my bookshelf I go…….these are short excerpts from some:
One of my favourites – “Child & Wattle Tree” a quotation:
“ Round as the sun is the golden tree.
Its honey dust sifts down among the light
to cover me and my hot blood
and my heart hiding like a sad bird
among its birds and shadows….
…………………
The tree I am lying beneath is the tree of my heart,
and my heart moves like a dark bird
among its birds and shadows”
and
“Eroded Hills”
These hills my father’s father stripped,
and beggars to the winter wind
they crouch like shoulders naked and whipped-
humble, abandoned, out of mind.
“Bora Ring”
The song is gone; the dance
is secret with the dancers in the earth,
the rival useless, and the tribal story
lost in an alien tale.
Only the rider’s heart
halts at a sightless shadow, an unsaid word
that fastens in the blood the ancient curse,
the fear as old as Cain.
and for Bruce of Newcastle:
“Birds”
Whatever the bird is, is perfect in the bird
Weapon kestrel hard as a blade’s curve,
thrush round as a mother or a full drop of water,
fruit-green parrot wise in his shrieking swerve –
all are what bird is and so not reach beyond bird.
Teh webs:
IF the train in question was 1.8 km long instead of 7.35 km (25%-ish), then a reasonable estimate is 25,000 tonnes. However, as most of the freight was shipping containers stacked two high it may well be more.
Either way, it highlights the idiocy of ‘well I’ll just sneak in before that 25,000 tonnes moving at 100kph gets here, even though I can clearly see it and I’m driving a road train, and which I will misjudge its length because don’t sass me young feller.’
broader war on masculinity*
*In the west.
Trucks, truck drivers, duty hours, logbooks, mermaids lying in wait by the roadside, roadworks, etc. Safetyism putting lengthy delays on level crossings when there is clearly no danger as the train is gone and departing, roadwork speed limits when nobody is actually working on the road and there is no sign that any work was actually done on the road. Crank up the aggravation factor enough and people take chances.
They’re looking for husbands. There was a trend for a while where women on Tik Tok told each other advice to go to those places to find a husband.
It’s okay.
We have the leadership of Joe Biden and he has a plan.
1. That crossing is so remote there may not have been a level crossing with a boom. In fact, because the geography is so flat to the horizon a 25,000 tonne train moving at 100kph is unmissable so a boom (to most people) was probably unnecessary.
2. As mentioned upthread, the train was not departing. It was arriving.
There is a difference between bureaucracy and idiocy. ‘Safetyism’ has nothing to do with it.
In this case it has all the hallmarks of a cranky old man driving a road train he should have been nowhere near, and who thought he knew better because don’t sass me young feller, and who instead killed two people.
Ball room dancing Hootie Tootie style taking the world by storm.
Wait for it:
‘oh yeah nah yeah but roadworks’
Eyrie
Pulled up on the Pacific Highway several years ago because a tree was being felled. (I don’t remember the actual heights/distances at the time but estimation is close enough to illustrate the point.) Tree 5 metres tall. Distance from road 10 meters.
Yes, piss people off enough and they WILL get bloody cranky and take chances.
We have the leadership of Joe Biden and he has a plan.
And wearing Pop’s Pads.
I bought a new modem the other day – 16 page instruction manual. First 8 pages were safety directions.
And they wonder why people don’t read them anymore. It’s the Safety Councils version of “Welcome to Country.” Most just ignore it as bullshit.
Enough.
Wright was a poseur, whose lack of talent was ignored because of her association with leftie and greenie views about nature and 3rd nations.
The song is gone; the dance
is secret with the dancers in the earth,
the rival useless, and the tribal story
lost in an alien tale.
Only the rider’s heart
halts at a sightless shadow, an unsaid word
that fastens in the blood the ancient curse,
the fear as old as Cain.
I think that was the plot for The Last Wave. Apart from the whiny guilt it makes no sense at all. Ancient curse my arse.
If a smoking ceremony is all that is required, surely the nation is now fully cleansed and without malevolent spirits of any type, thus rendering unnecessary any other symbolic act (Sorry Day, NAIDOC Week, referenda/treaty, etc.?)
The fact we are still apparently chockers with bad spirits means that either (a). We’ve been paying for dodgy (possibly Chinese-made?) gum leaves in these ceremonies, or (b). The negative spirits possess supernatural projection skills.
I consider myself fairly open-minded when it comes to a hybrid ancient-modern culture (which is what most cultures are, right?), but this repeated ritual of stabbing the nation in the face with a stonefish barb, for which the stone-stabbers are paid handsomely (and applauded as performative genius), has to be one of the most malignant pathologies of homo electus [sic?].
For clarity – I believe the ANZ standards around roadworks and people working near roads are stupid, and I also believe that certain councils add on another level of distance and time ‘just to be safe’, in order to appease their insurers and/or risk management people.
However – this has nothing to do with the original event, which is as described – an old man driving a road train in front of a real train which killed two people on the real train.
On terrain where you could see for miles in any direction, and where within 24 hours he was charged with dangerous driving causing death – a charge, I have heard, usually only laid after weeks of scene reconstruction and interviewing of witnesses.
The nanny state’s responsible for a lot of things – but not this.
John H
Are the Muslims aware of this developing situation?
How many road safety signs are there per kilometer of roadway? And at what point are there enough warning signs that the drivers attention is being diverted from the actual driving?
The classic – to me- was a huge emerald green sign at the end of a 5 kilometer stretch of straight road. 10m x 6m, the damn thing. It was oriented back down the roadway and on high beam, the reflected light blinded oncoming traffic. Even on low beam, you had to shade your eyes with your hand to see if anything was coming your way because at night their headlights made them effectively invisible to oncoming traffic.
This is no longer about road safety – this is about a bureaucracy gone mad and only listening to itself and its advisors.
That crossing is so remote there may not have been a level crossing with a boom
Yep, take at look on Google Earth. I can’t see if there are lights. The crossing is at
32 10 12 S 140 38 15 E. It has been 40 years since I’ve driven that road although I did it a few times over the early 1980’s. Last time I did that road 9 years ago it was at about 2000 feet AGL and trains were not an issue.
Before condemning the truckie and his age some questions arise:
Day/night/dawn/dusk?
First trip on that road in a semi/roadtrain?
Truckie running late for reasons beyond his control?
Now take another look at Google Earth and see the human factors trap.
I don’t think the atheists are winning. With the decline of Christianity, what we are seeing is a revival of every ignorant superstition that floats around. See Bowen and Albo for examples.
I much prefer Christianity. It was far more intelligent and insightful into the human condition. Yes, it has its superstitious elements. That was why it was so popular.
I quite enjoyed that short story, ML. Upper class manners as a conflict mediation strategy. ?
Hopefully low probability but in putting the old year to bed last night in conversation around the BBQ the prospect of Andrews potentially having a tilt at Dunkley came up.
I think if he could get a nod for a ministry or cabinet position if successful he would seriously consider it. The Federal left might also see him as a counter balance to Shorten in VIC also.
Wright was a poseur, whose lack of talent was ignored because of her association with leftie and greenie views about nature and 3rd nations.
Nonsense, cohenite.
I was a bona fide “leftie” when Wright’s poetry was front & forward in the English departments of the universities & I have no recollection at all of any discussion or acknowledgment of her political views during my years studying English at Sydney University. It wasn’t until many years later that I even learned of her relationship with Nugget Coombes.
Ok- help – just come back from lunch with BIL who is a Leo who trained as a geologist and works in Kalgoorlie in the mines who believes in man made climate change. He went off at 100km an hour that oceans when evaporation does not release co2 but stores co2. He rolled off a study by a scientist in Adelaide from 1917 that concluded mining and fossil fuels were causing global warming. He said at the same time there was a scientist in Hawaii that was conducting the same experiment with the same conclusion.
I had know answer – he then rolled on to the Great Barrier Reef was dying by bleaching – I raised coral reefs like heat and oxygen but he said they were branching and shrinking. I disagreed saying that Great Barrier Reef was expanding southward and there were scientists who have written on this. His reply if it’s not in a scientific journal it’s not trusted it’s not even science – what about Peter Ridd – he had not heard of him
Help
Oh dear. Sorry, Deadman. I’ll see myself out.
“About a decade ago I remember reading in the Oz or somewhere how a woman had just passed away who’d been married to a Confederate Civil War Veteran”
About 6 decades ago I read my first Russian novel. So what?
Look…let’s just say Judith Wright was no A. D. Hope and leave it at that.
😀
I’d suggest you google Bindarrah and look at the crash site and the angle that highway crosses the rail line.
It’s one of those crossings that unsights you one way. You should come be a dead stop at a spot like that.
Ariel views of terrain give you no idea of obstacles that block vision from a distance. Shouldn’t have happened if the driver had pulled up but it’s a road train and getting the thing back up to a decent speed takes ages.
For whatever reason it seems he didn’t see the train or too late to pull the rig up.
His fault without doubt but it looks a bugger of a crossing.
LL, most of the geologists I know think AGW is a crock of shit. Your BIL needs to read more widely.
Has anyone else here gone down the Razzlekhan BTC Bitfinex 4.5 bn USD fraud/tasteless “art” rabbit hole?
She’s simply awful.
Here is her “art”:
Razzlekhan – Versace Bedouin
“The motherph’ckin Crocodile of Wall Street”
Proof that being gangsta or a billionaire doesn’t make you cool or stylish.
I don’t believe she grew up poor either. Both of her parents worked government jobs for the Feds or California – in a small town in the Upper Sacramento Valley.
KD:
Worth repeating.
How often do discussions quickly miss the main point? Mostly, of course, because the political class and assorted hangers-on – deliberately want to change the subject and shift the focus.
So, fine, discuss the overuse of safety if you want. But what happened to these two workers – who were sons/husbands/brothers/uncles/nephews, should not have happened.
RIP
I take it you don’t get out much, John?
Sounds like something Raymond J Bartholomeuz (the beret wearing poet who appeared on Hey Hey it’s Saturday looks for link ..https://youtu.be/jvbhyb9C-oQ?feature=shared ) would declaim.
Ahhh, arguing with an individual experiencing an altered state of consciousness. Sounds an enjoyable way to spend one’s time. My point: Is this a winnable debate in the short term? Or, will it require a longer-term, layer-by-layer investment from you?
At first glance, I don’t think there’s a quick response to your dilemma. I’d suggest that it isn’t the content of the message your BiL rejects, but the sender; Nothing but a source he already trusts to confirm his present philosophy will be acceptable to him. Anything that contradicts what he understands (and thus damages his ego), will be ignored, downplayed, or labelled as illegitimate.
If you’re up for a challenge, you might try to ascertain WHY he believes what he does re. gerbil worming, so you might tailor future conversations. If you want entertainment, find a way to agree with him (use his ego), and then take it to a ludicrous level, re policies (giant umbrellas to block out the sun).
The experts of fact and rationality have not yet mastered how to tackle this, Louis. Good luck.
Crossing has Flashing lights, with an additional set of flashing light prior to the curve. Also additional fixed signs warning of rail crossing.
Direct link to the east-going approach.
The single most important interview I’ve ever done: former Kaiser nurse Gail Macrae
I’ll correct any mistakes; liberties you embark on at your own risk.
Winston – I once estimated it at about 2 tonnes of steel per kilometre for all the road signs, although that’s for suburban Newcastle.
Nah, they don’t get distracted, they just ignore them.
Drivers with authority issues blamed for road toll increase (Tele, 31 Dec, paywalled)
Once stupid regulations and crap build up to a certain level an increasingly large proportion of the population hit their limit of tolerance. After which they no longer give a shit.
Yep Barry
He should have stopped, particularly on such an angled approach.
I would still be making a noise to have the crossing squared up.
Leo’s a wanker.
So glad the driver hit the brakes. Champion!
She or he is mint!
Woodcock dances to Stayin Alive
Mystical elements, yes, but I wouldn’t be inclined to call them superstitious.
Maybe I just don’t recognise the superstitious elements.
Apropos of nothing, an interesting phrase [my bolding] from a Lloyd Billingsley piece over at Powerline, re former Prez. Obama:
… his transformative role as national undertaker.
Wait.
He’s called what?
The surname is Adelaide, but the first names are pure Nimbin.
I think the current and very fashionable pagan cult of climate change and its various tenets, one of which is that wind and solar will provide the earth with endless energy, is superficial claptrap.
I think the current and very fashionable pagan cult of transgenderism, where advocates insist a person can be born in the wrong body, where Mengele type doctors are cutting off and mutilating the genitals and breasts of young teenagers, where a male pervert can insist that just because he puts on a a wig, dress and lipstick then that makes him a woman, is superficial claptrap.
LL, go back to basics. Your BIL has been captured by a popular new religion for athiests.
Ask your BIL about the “science” that proves a trace gas, CO2, which is 40 parts per million of the atmosphere, is driving global temperature.
It’s a fantasy invented by people looking for an excuse to hate the human race.
As a geologist, your BIL is in a minority looking for an excuse not to rock the boat for himself professionally and for his family.
It sounds to me he hasn’t thought in through and has become intellectually lazy — because that is now being rewarded by his bosses and the scientific establishment.
Louis – The GBR currently has a record high level of coral cover.
Climate change causes another year of record highest ever coral cover on Earth’s largest reef (10 Aug)
Nothing the climate bedwetters claim is true. There’s been no real warming since the turn of the century since we’re bouncing along the top of the 60 year cycle. When that changes phase we’ll be into a thirty year cooling period.
The poles aren’t melting either.
So, fine, discuss the overuse of safety if you want
The point is that the overuse of safety can easily become counterproductive and get you an actual reduction in safety. Machines and systems should be designed to take into account the orneriness of human beings.
Sometimes though, there is nothing that can be done. I’ve seen and heard of enough dumb pilot tricks in aviation. Rarely does someone die who basically did everything right. Some years ago some dumbo flew down a creek back of the Gold Coast. Hit powerline, killed his 11 year old girl passenger. IIRC he was charged with manslaughter but found not guilty.
Back to the accident at hand – If you have a straight road and a straight railway line you can fairly readily see if a collision is about to occur as the targets are stationary in each others field of view (although I believe wide open road intersections have higher accident rates than ones which are more obscured). In this case the road does a sweeping curve which means the road traffic is accelerating towards the centre of the curve. The aforementioned case does not hold and things get much more difficult and it looks like a clean miss right until the point of collision or too late. I know several people, some not alive any longer, who have had mid air collisions in gliders because of this problem when someone gets it wrong joining a thermal.
Sunshine Coast, eh…Noosa by any chance?
Where Adelaide meets Nimbin.
Twenty has a “t”. Can someone enlighten me as to when it was authorised to disappear the “t” from the word twenty in audio stories. In audio weather broadcasts. In audio everything. Why is it so? Surely not a reflection on our educational standards. Is it?
bureaucracy gone mad
Yep, it is simply shifting risk. The basis of the modern managerial world. Learn how to do this and the world is your oyester.
Yes it does.
I agree with this.
I’ve lost count of the times I’ve been infuriated by some upstart weather chick saying it was going to be ‘Wenty seven degrees’.
I suspect you’re each using superstition in a different sense.
It pays to define terms at the beginning of a discussion.
John Anderson’s podcasts, and particularly the guests he has on a very good. The trouble is that they go on for an hour or so, and who has the time. I just listened to his most recent with an American foreign policy expert.
The Ukrainian Financial Panic
“I have warned that Zelensky will go down in history as the evil ruler he truly is. And for those who constantly want to pretend this is Russian propaganda, tell that to the 500,000 Ukrainian soldiers who are dead and all the broken homes Zelensky has left behind, along with the 8 to 10 million who have fled Ukraine. Worse still, he is making it a criminal act to flee the country and avoid his draft to justify the EU arresting Ukrainians and deporting them back to be sent to their death on the front lines.
The idea of ??drafting another 500,000 Ukrainians to be sacrificed on this Neocon Altar for nothing more than a territorial grab of the Donbas is causing absolute panic sweeping the country. Zelensky’s penalties are to be introduced for those who refuse to comply. Ukraine’s financial system is on the brink of collapse. Our Ukrainian sources are reporting that there has been a run on ATMs in Ukraine. Apparently, Ukrainians have withdrawn about a billion dollars from their accounts in a single day! We are looking at a financial crisis unfolding in the Ukrainian banking and financial system thanks to Zelensky’s legislation intended to force conscription to raise another 500,000 people to be sent to the frontline. As part of this bill, Zelensky intends to isolate people who evade the draft by removing them from carrying out any financial transactions or selling property.
As a result of Zelensky’s proposed law, Ukrainians are in a state of panic. They have been plundering their accounts and are now hoarding cash and abandoning the banks. Our model warns that Ukraine will NEVER succeed in this war, and it may no longer even survive as a nation-state post-2026. Indeed, 2026 is showing up on both the ECM for Ukraine as well as on the ECM based entirely on the beginning of this proxy war against Russia. Zelensky’s new law also lowered the age and introduced three months of basic training for 18 to 25-year-olds.
The conscription age is to be lowered from 27 to 25 years;
The introduction of basic three-months-long military training for all Ukrainian citizens aged 18 to 25 in every educational establishment;
The introduction of optional military service for persons aged under 25 who were not able to complete basic military training;
It does not matter how many Ukrainians Zelensky throws into this meat grinder. Ukraine will NEVER prevail over Russia. The West knew this would be the outcome. They were simply using Ukraine to weaken Russia for the kill, which they hoped would be delivered by NATO. That is why they are now prodding the Baltic states to wage war with Russia to justify NATO troops to engage Russia head-on. Financial support is waning because they know Ukraine is just cannon fodder.
Zelensky is becoming perhaps the most hated Ukrainian leader to date. I would not put it past a coup unfolding with his assassination that they would probably try to blame on Putin. Many in the government now see that this has never been about protecting the Ukrainian people. Even the local Ukrainian Press published a story about how Boris Johnson came from England to kill any peace deal. This has been nothing about just sacrificing Ukrainians to weaken Russia.
When we compare the Ukrainian and Russian currencies, we can see that the critical climax of the Ukrainian financial crisis appears to be by March, which is the time of the Russian election. We may see this push to raise another 500,000 Ukrainians to be sent to the front lines as the driving force that coincides with the Russian election, whereas May 7th is the swearing-in date of the next term for the President of Russia.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/ukraine/the-ukrainian-financial-panic/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
From the Hun
Next Strain of COVID Might Cause Heart Failure
“Some scientists have warned a new strain of COVID-19 could cause potential heart issues. This new strain, known as JN.1, will reduce cardiac function in many people, according to the report. GB News has reported that Japan’s top research institute, Riken, has issued a stark warning that the ACE2 receptors that the coronavirus attaches to within human cells are normally found in the heart. However, this is only a proof-of-concept study of the possibility of SARS-CoV-2 infection of the heart that could result in heart failure.
Clearly, there has been a connection between the vaccines and severe heart problems. This new strain JN.1 has been infecting several countries, including the US, UK, China, and India, in recent weeks.
Maybe it is time for a REAL independent investigation of who created COVID in a lab carried out, NOT by some government agency. It will now forever be with us, mutating every season.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/disease/next-strain-of-covid-might-cause-heart-failure/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RS
Twenny for twenty in Victoria. I doubt the Communist state is an outlier. It disgusts me.
John Anderson’s podcasts, and particularly the guests he has on a very good.
Yep, they’re excellent, as are the podcasts of Gad Saad, Peter Boghossian and Triggernometry. The New Culture Forum and Andrew Gold.
There are others too.
John Anderson is also very handsome!
Re the Great Barrier Reef being killeded due to the hot water: Can we not simply BEACH the reef?
You know, drag it out of the water (O.K., so that’s a sizeable job, but surely worth it), so it isn’t being boiled any longer?
Why has no-one considered this very simple option yet? As I understand it, there are plenty of deserted beaches, including islands, which could perform the storage function until the towed icebergs cool things down enough to return the coral.
Think of the employment opportunities!
KD at 4:38
Mmmyes.
Constant whingeing about cars occupying any piece of roadway within a kilometre in front of him, because “don’t these f-ckers know that it takes me 200 metres to stop?”
Advice he clearly ignored for himself.
Ukrainians will suddenly remember he was born a Jew, although that doesn’t appear to matter in any way to him. But it will be part of the package to dump him.
Judith Wright makes the vogons look good.
Meds time.
It uses “disgust me” in every comment. Watch
I have always liked Judith Wright’s poetry.
This is the second reference I’ve seen to VicPol releasing an alleged violent offender on summons in a week.
What percentage of VicPol’s time is subsequently spent obtaining and executing arrest warrants for people who fail to turn up in court?
Wright’s poetry disgusts me.
Even with a Babel fish interpreter.
😀
We don’t know which passed through the rail crossing first. Did the truck hit the side of the first part of train, or was the truck half way across the track when it was hit by the front of the train. What format was the truck – B-Double or four part road train or something else, ???
The rail and road run in parallel except for the crossing loop. On long flat regions it can be hard to judge how faraway a distant vehicle is that’s coming towards you.
Google map
Razzlekhan is likely a Vogon.
“Vacuum cleaner” by Razzlekhan
Take it from me.
It gets worse.
Engage the Infinite Improbability Drive!
I’d rather be a sofa than read that.
His chat with Douglas Murray posted about a month ago is excellent.
All the decent podcasts have episodes in excess of an hour.
Ramanujan reckoned the goddess Lakshmi whispered sweet mathematical knowledge into his ears.
The inventor of the PCR test.
https://medium.com/@telesmablooorb/3-5-23-the-glowing-raccoon-566e513cbf87
Yeah, I know vr. I guess his aren’t that frequent so it’s worthwhile listening to the lot.
JMH,
we mustn’t forget Thirdy and Fordy, also, how long has it been since you have heard, apart from yourself I hope, anyone say “going to or want to”? It’s all “gonna and wanna”. aaargh!
Upper class manners as a conflict mediation strategy. ?
100%. I have worked around the world and couldn’t agree more.
Manners are a way to relate in public when your are unsure.
Soviets got rid of them because they had the new rruth. Israelis got rid of them as the 1930 German were so well spoken.
Wait a few years Muddy. When the next ice age comes sea level will fall about 130 metres. Then the GBR will be like a gigantic wall stretching from Torres Strait to Rocky.
The coral atolls in the South Pacific would be a sight to see, like gigantic limestone castles 100 metres high sticking out of the ocean.
Roger
Jan 1, 2024 5:46 PM
I’ll correct any mistakes; liberties you embark on at your own risk.
The scriptural canon was agreed upon centuries before Martin Luther dipped his oar in. If you’re asserting that errors and misunderstandings had contaminated church teaching before Luther could we have some specifics ? Usury ? Indulgences ?
The fat chick is very annoying – always encouraging bad behaviour from the mentally ill
I also adore the poetry of Pablo Neruda, who was a Marxist.
Oh well.
Help
Push him out of the car. I hope it;s an EV
Yeah, yeah we’ve heard it all before here, Biggles.
“Logbook entries made me do it!”
Well, we’ve tried to explain this. The train was arriving not departing. That is why it snapped off 2/3 of the B-triple and left the train looking like an upturned toy-box.
Oh, right.
So maybe … just maybe … he had to stop for something the day before, or a week ago, which justifies this stupidity.
Two contributory factors you missed:-
1. Arrogant old c-nt;
2. Speed (as in, amphetamines, not kmh).
It wasn’t until the Council of Trent that it was dogmatically promulgated. Prior to that it remained an open question whether some books were in or out. Thus to this day the canons of Rome and Eastern Orthodoxy differ, as does the Protestant canon, which in regard to the OT is what would have been used by Jesus and is indeed used by Jewish folk today, i.e. the Tanakh.
Sure; I’ll try and work something up tomorrow.
Incidentally, Luther represents the German Reformation, there were others such as the English and Swiss Reformations which have different historical nexuses.
Did it contain the obligatory “for external use only” warning?
The crossing had flashing lights.
And Bing-Bong bells.
The aerial shot shows the road design being a long s-bend which starts and ends at a shallow angle to the track, and turns to cross it at right angles.
If you went to sleep approaching the crossing you would end up in the rough.
The ground shot shows the terrain is as flat as a shit-carter’s hat.
You. Could. Not. Miss. A. Double-decker. Freight. Train.
Unless you were juiced up on speed.
Which you had to take because roadworks.
And logbook.
Poetry wars. Michael Wilding denouncing Les Murray as a ‘Papist stooge.’
Got very nasty.
I guess in the matter of trains vs trucks, trains win each and every time, amirite?
It might have been one of those mixed marriages.