Also learnt today that my SIL has Jewish “descent”, if that is even a thing. Apparently her maternal great grandmother…
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Remembering the TITANIC .. the “iceberg” defends itself .. LOL! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP5bu9hLH9E&t=85s
Al Smith dinner speeches: Donald Trump delivers remarks at the Al Smith dinner (youtube.com) Pretty funny stuff!!!
That is outrageous.
Order of Australia hasn’t meant anything since 1992, when Quentin Dempster was awarded one for services rendered to leftwing broadcasting…
I have reflected on it and came away reflecting that you’re a fraudulent blowhard, with zero to add. I’m being nice here too.
Now, if you have a topical subject to bring up let’s hear it, otherwise go clean those filth ridden rooms because for the past 24 hours all you and the feral have done is try to cause strife. You’re a fraud with zero to add.
I heard a story once.
Three cockus frockuses, heavily made up, high heels et cetera, yet including five o’clock shadows were standing at a corner in Errol Street in North Melbourne. All they were missing were the fruit salad hats.
This was in the mid-90s.
The jacks turn up in a Ford Longreach divisional van, a three-on-the-tree type, and stop right next to them. One of the coppers winds the window down, sticks his elbow out and says ‘G-day fellas. Where you off to?’
Apparently the howling that ensued broke every window on the block before said jacks drive off, pissing themselves laughing.
Simpler times. Better times.
Allegedly.
The problem with the above is the idea that the skills and machinery currently engaged in production of consumer products can be easily transferred to the production of artillery shells, tanks, etc. It just can’t. The structure of the US economy that enabled this in the ’30s and ’40s is dead and gone.
Comment, from the Oz, about an article on “Welcome to Country.”
Narcissistic personality disorder.
appearing to have an inflated sense of self-importance (enormous tick)
fostering a fantasy world to boost their sense of grandeur (huge tick)
needing constant praise and admiration. (tick)
having a sense of entitlement. (tick)
taking advantage of others or exploiting people without shame or guilt (tick)
not recognizing or caring about the needs of others (tick)
demeaning or bullying others (tick)
monopolizing conversations (big tick)
Driller, Come on down.
“and also pleased it wasn’t a muz trying to rape her, but one of “our boys”, which makes it so much better.”
Oh noes! He’s gone Bulk Brittany on me! Making up stuff and accusing me of it.
Oh noes!
It’s wet enough in Victoria to extinguish an EV fire.
806 comment so far, NOT ONE in support of “Welcome to Country.”
Progs
You came up with the bullshit that the guy’s face was blurred and (you) could tell from his beard he wasn’t a christian. You have the insight and analytical abilities of a retarded gnat.
And you still haven’t walked back the bullshit that “big money” walked into Byron Bay and ruined the place. As though the place was better before when unwashed hippies resided there letting their kids shit in supermarket aisles and leaving it. “Big money” improved the place and makes it more pleasant. Stick you weird socialist views up you know where.
Lastly, if you join a posse expect a reaction.
Insults aside, that is quite an educational link. Although I have to say i found it a little strange that the term Vagina Dentata was referred to as some kind of homily we should all be familiar with.. I would note, however, it’s interesting that phenomena occurred in several cultures and which ones too.
A summary of the evidence against the COVID vaccines
And on this topic, I’m reposting the interview with Bret Weinstein in case anyone has missed it. He set out the position re Covid and more generally quite extraordinarily well. The hour just flew past.
Interestingly, I tried to share it with various acquaintances by email and most came but rejected for “spam”. No problem when I changed the link to TinyURL, though.
“To me, the main issue is that the Umpire has been sidelined by technology.”
Yep.
Two points:
1) Keen supporters of any team do not want to know they lost fair and square – they want to know the ref was blind/biased etc and their team had the game “stolen”;
2) Referees are also now professional athletes, and like all others they should be paid based on performance.
Once it became clear that “video referees” did not and could not provide “perfect” umpiring every time, then they should have been abolished.
Should be:
The referee/umpire is GOD on the field, with no replays etc.
They are “scored” on their performance after the match, and their contract for the next season has their pay adjusted appropriately. We can argue about the exact process this involves, but this system makes the best referees/umpires get the most important matches as well as the best pay, and incentivises them to become good at making tough choices with limited information in real time. It also makes the games “flow” better.
How dare these parasitic meja mediocrities like trinca lecture us. The death of the legacy meja can’t come soon enough. Another BA. Of course.
Mole
Ackman.. They went after his wife no less and she’s been accused of plagiarism during her time at MIT.
This just got real personal and he won’t stop. He’s worth 4 bill and some of it is going to take senior academia down.
[I should add that I haven’t seen any confirmation of the initial claim, ‘withdrawing from northern Gaza”. All I’ve seen with quick look is ‘completion of military goals’ in that area. It may, however, be the case that they are worried by events in northern Israel.]
“Last week as I stood on the ancient land of Mungo National Park in far western NSW”
While you were in Mungo Park did you ask your guide about “Mungo Man” and Mungo Woman” and where they have they buried the evidence that they preceded the so called “First Nations”.
Don’t know if I posted this last night but wow:
Oh. My. God!
The Gotchas just keep coming!
Help me Obi Wan, you’re my last hope.
Military analysts have long known there are serious problems in the Russian military and the Ukraine war has made that very obvious. John H
Yes John, this is why the Ukrainian Army is doing so well at the moment, ……, right?
You must have missed Zaluhznyi’s speech last week, where he stated that
“he has no troops” and that perhaps, the Ukraine MP’s, should be sent to the front line, along with 70 year olds and 17 year olds, plus any other Uke people, male or female, who they can “Press gang” into service.
In Jan 2022, Ukraine had the biggest Army in Europe. Where did that go?
Clearly, like Knuckle Dragger, Katz, Lizzie and all the others who live in a parallel universe on this blog and have no experience or knowledge of “Affaires de Militaire”, you will be surprised when the helicopters start vacating the “special people” from the rooftops in Kiev, to avoid execution.
Not by “les Russe”, but by the Ukrainian people, who have had just about reached the limit of their patience.
A Peace deal was negotiated and signed by the clown puppet, in April 2022.
Boris “the buffoon” Johnson, then jetted in and guaranteed the clown puppet, that the West would supply all of his military needs.
This ridiculous assumption is now falling apart at the seems and 400,000 additional dead Ukrainians can thank Boris for their demise.
Ukraine will not get such a generous offer when St Volodymyr the Pure is finally removed.
Logistics wins wars. Russia has outproduced the West massively and now, the West has nothing more to give, eg the UK has sent ALL of its mobile arty pieces and Germany is in the same boat. How are those sanctions going again?????
Poland will take the Western portion of Ukraine around Lvov and the Ukraine state, that has lost at least 15 million refugees, (who will never return), will cease to exist.
It will be just another failed state, who stupidly believed the “siren songs” of
Victoria Nuland, Von der Crazy, Michel et al.
All in all, a pretty good effort by the clown puppet.
Who wants to be helped by the West next, ……., okay Taiwan, you’re up.
If it wasn’t such an horrendously sickening outcome for Ukraine, this would be a clown show.
But is the claim true?
Someone doesn’t take it very well when they’re corrected.
Let it go you dickhead. You were wrong, suck it up.
Men own up to their careless mistakes. (Something for you to reflect upon)
Ackman.. They went after his wife no less and she’s been accused of plagiarism during her time at MIT.
Reading through his post, at least 1/2 of the “plagiarisms” his wife is accused of appear to be using wiki definitions of terms in common use for clarity.
He does appear to have the resources and possibly the will the get a lot of heads on plates.
Im going out on a limb here and guessing the demonrats will call for a banning of AI to check academic papers because… racism… or any other reason youd like to mention.
He must be on target as hes receiving flack from exactly where youd be expecting it to come from.
Wife of financier who called for Harvard head’s exit faces plagiarism allegations
After Claudine Gay was ousted amid accusations of plagiarism, Neri Oxman was accused of copying from Wikipedia in dissertation
The other day at Mungo Park
I asked ‘bout those who left their mark
From one whose tribe themselves left none
He called me a racist white krunt.*
* Scansion and rhyme are white patriarchal.
. 100% I had such a discussion almost 40 years ago with a heaviliy pregnant friend of whom I asked whether she would have her son baptised. She said the same thing – he can choose later. To which I said: well how to you teach someone the difference between a ham sandwich and a shit sandwich when they’ve tasted neither — she had no come back
Sadly her son died of a drug overdose — the backstory of how it was she became with child is very sad too — the child/boy/man never had a prayer.
China is well invested in Africa where the possibility of internecine violence is much higher than in the Arab world. Military and policing equipment for governments to suppress their populations if required is supplied.
You have likely heard the phrase “anarcho-tyranny,” originally coined by Sam Francis thirty years ago. He put it best when he described it as:
Essentially a kind of Hegelian synthesis of what appear to be dialectical opposites: the combination of oppressive government power against the innocent and the law-abiding and, simultaneously, a grotesque paralysis of the ability or the will to use that power to carry out basic public duties such as protection or public safety. And, it is characteristic of anarcho-tyranny that it not only fails to punish criminals and enforce legitimate order but also criminalizes the innocent.
Just today on the left’s new favorite holiday, Washington, D.C. attorney Matthew Graves announced the scope of the DOJ’s persecution of people present on January 6th will expand to everybody who was at the Capitol but did not enter (provided here by ALX on TwitterX), right as the FBI arrested three other participants.
Could be London, Washington or Melbourne. Same playbook. Not a coincidence.
“Langton’s deeper message about the importance of the voice and the welcome to Indigenous Australians was largely lost.”
lost?
Pfft .. that message never existed (in my opinion) the veiled threats I certainly heard though, sadly not followed through on.
My BS alarm goes off whenever I hear or read these messages blaksplaining reasons for various things.
It’s clearly childish fantasy and fabrication.
The whole Welcome thing has it’s own story anyway and it is not new (Canadian or North American at least isn’t it?). Like dot painting and such, they are cultural appropriation and not duly recognised and declared as such.
Talking about plagerism, these take the cake!
NAB skimming 10%on cash deposits.
That wasn’t a mistake but another one of the huge blowhard lies.
Men? How about bush pigs.
Its didn’t have to be like this
You could have saved her Dot
This is the future you chose.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/06/two-single-friends-one-radical-plan-why-im-having-a-child-with-my-gay-best-mate
Iheld my breath as the sonographer pressed the probe into my belly. I could see something promising on the screen but needed to hear the expert say it before I could believe it. “There’s the heartbeat,” she said, and relief flooded through me. Next to me Tom, the baby’s father, squeezed my hand as tears rolled down my cheek.
We probably looked like any other happy couple the sonographer saw that day, about to embark on parenthood for the first time. But Tom isn’t my partner; he’s my best friend. We’re both single, he’s gay and soon we’re going to be platonically co-parenting that little bean on the screen together after years of separately experiencing the pain and longing of childlessness.
…
Research has shown that a lack of a suitable partner is a common reason why women end up permanently childless.
…
The turkey baster method of conception actually involves a specimen pot and a syringe. I ordered a kit online, although we didn’t need anything fancy. Most people assumed that the process would be awkward as hell. Instead, it was hilarious. On the first try, Tom came over before work and headed up to my bathroom with the empty pot. When he came back down, he gave me the filled pot and said: “I think this is what you’re after.” We couldn’t stop laughing and as I was seeing him out, I forgot I was holding the pot and soon realised I was chatting away and waving it around in full view of my neighbours. After he left, I took it up to my bedroom and used the syringe before putting my legs up against the wall, in case gravity helped the process. We tried seven times over eight days and laughed so much each time.
Seems to be. She’s apologised and said she will correct it. She wasn’t a player though, which is the problem.
Now, there’s something to ponder over from a recent poster, or, rather imposter –
This is called a Boomerang –
Narcissistic personality disorder.
Still, some people can exhibit narcissistic characteristics without being diagnosed with NPD. These might include:
appearing to have an inflated sense of self-importance (enormous tick)
fostering a fantasy world to boost their sense of grandeur (huge tick)
needing constant praise and admiration. (tick)
having a sense of entitlement. (tick)
taking advantage of others or exploiting people without shame or guilt (tick)
not recognizing or caring about the needs of others (tick)
demeaning or bullying others (tick)
monopolizing conversations (big tick)
Junior Cretin, come on down. Oh, so you are already down (and out).
“Langton’s deeper message about the importance of the voice and the welcome to Indigenous Australians was largely lost.”
You need a BA from UWA to be attuned to such things. As I’ve said before, Menzies’ acceptance of the Murray Report has been very very bad for Australia. Tax payer funded nest of marxist wreckers.
You know, if we all gave up meth for 2024 that would be awesome.
Ackman.. They went after his wife no less and she’s been accused of plagiarism during her time at MIT.
This just got real personal and he won’t stop. He’s worth 4 bill and some of it is going to take senior academia down.
It is a war.
Apologies as ever if this has been posted (I think it’s two days old now):
Judicial Watch Files $30 Million Wrongful Death Lawsuit against U.S. Government on behalf of Ashli Babbitt’s Husband and Estate
(Though I don’t follow them regularly, Judicial Watch has performed a valiant and largely unheralded role over the past half a dozen years using the legal system to acquire documents in various high profile political issues).
And while we are at it, performative over-the-top self-righteousness is worse than meth.
My broken is blabbering on, seems to be experiencing assburn from his face plants over the past couple of days.
Flicking spittle at all & sundry, exercising his right to abuse others, while whining like a Hamas pussy if he cops (well deserved) return fire.
Ho hum. Some things never change.
Ackman’s leverage… I wonder if he could jailbreak Obama’s university publication records.
How about disease-ridden sewer rats? That’s what that thing is. A good acid bath would be appropriate.
Menzies couldn’t see the cultural revolution that was over the horizon. But he shoul;d have stuck with his philosophical instincts to keep the Commonwealth out of what were state institutions at the time.
Boeing’s current problems with the 737 all stem from its decision two decades ago to discontinue production of its hot-selling narrowbody, the Boeing 757.
After Boeing moved its headquarters from Seattle to Chicago and took control of the company away from its engineers, Boeing started cost-cutting.
One of the first decisions of the Chicago-based accountants was to shut down production of the 757 and attempt to jam demand for its narrowbodies into the 1960s-designed 737, which was so small the size of its underwing engines are too small to compete with the larger – and higher – Airbus A320/321 from Toulouse in France.
Fast-forward 20 years and Airbus’s A321, seating 180 to 230 passengers, is the world’s hottest-selling narrowbody – mainly because it has made available a 100-tonne MTOW (maximum takeoff weight) long-range version, the same as the discontinued Boeing 757.
Because Boeing is now run by accountants who know nothing about engineering, it is disappearing up its own arse and has handed market dominance to Airbus.
Raised this recently, a nearby lefty stated that no president ever has had their university exam results, level of achievement, uni coursework, papers etc, allowed into the public domain. They were adamant that this is all kept secret, for every president & there is nothing special or sinister about Obama’s uni stuff being sealed.
He won the room. Due to well-rehearsed delivery & nobody present having any facts at their fingertips.
Obama didn’t publish anything while at university.
He wasn’t a brilliant scholar.
It’s like an inspiring manifesto. An attack on the white ants in the citadel of academa that’s corrupting the minds of our current and future generations.
https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1743792224020619450
I thought Bush Jr had his uni stuff waved around by the gotcha media at some time. But I am too lazy to look it up.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
I’m considering working that into a nice needlepoint for the pool room. Thinking bright colours, a bit of lurex thread, maybe a little vinyl applique.
As for Mrs Ackman, why worry? Her husband’s worth a billion and he’s mad as a hornet. Sometimes there just isn’t enough popcorn.
Not so much neo-colonialism, as real colonialism? Complete with local satraps, then? Fun times ahead for Emperor XI, particularly when the locals refuse to either repay the loans, or hand over the infrastructure.
Agree Roger. I think Ming had the best intentions. I am very disillusioned with ‘higher education’. I used to think a professor was a scholar. It’s a dirty word in my lexicon now.
Usually only a PhD thesis gets published.
Or perhaps a sole or jointly authored paper in a journal.
No doubt…both abroad and at home.
I undertake to eschew performative over-the-top self-righteousness on the Cat, including otherwise deserving cases, for all of January 2024.
Cassie…
Dont watch this.
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1743740997232640150?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1743740997232640150%7Ctwgr%5E67f9b3c63c3aad189e58216c03ba103c6411923d%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F625480%2F
Its unbelievable.
Wodney joins the other bush pigs. Soon, Crazy Karen will be demanding bans.
Driller won’t explain the inexplicable nonsense how NAB was raking in 10% on deposits in the 90s. Another example of blowhard bullshit, and Wodney spamming the site with dross from a convicted fraud.
Perfectly normal. Four hurt, pained ferals running on Lowgrade Spite 95.
They had ne ceremony because they lacked that concept.
Folks ,
I trust you have already involved yourselves in this …
But if you haven’t, you should consider it ..
https://julesonthebeach.substack.com/p/a-covid-19-royal-commission-the-terms
Wukkas in Melbourne gave the Beaconsfield Burrower Hell … but that was never nearly enough …
There are deserving cases, I agree, but I won’t break my vow. And its a bit far for even indirect fire.
Hahahahahahaha
I spoke to late. It’s here. Angry as all hell and about to brake loose.
He’d have fun with “Dr” Biden’s dissertation.
On the C. frockus, I reckon we could go full throttle taxonomy with that Genus.
C. frockus ssp. lycrus
C. frockus “Mardi Gras”
C. frockus x flamboyant
So far a sub-species, a cultivar and an interspecific hybrid. This is fun!
Serial killer, John Wyane Gacey was disappearing the bodies with acid baths. This is how disturbed it is. Count the missing in 100 K radius.
Calli, every time I see the “Wallet Wizard” ad on TV, I think of you.
You’ve so nailed Jim Chalmers and the Elbow circus.
Thanks.
Oh, this needs another run. (Thanks JR) Question: Did the rancid ghoul author this itself, or have the words been plagiarised? Addition of tick references aside.
Narcissistic personality disorder.
Still, some people can exhibit narcissistic characteristics without being diagnosed with NPD. These might include:
appearing to have an inflated sense of self-importance (enormous tick)
fostering a fantasy world to boost their sense of grandeur (huge tick)
needing constant praise and admiration. (tick)
having a sense of entitlement. (tick)
taking advantage of others or exploiting people without shame or guilt (tick)
not recognizing or caring about the needs of others (tick)
demeaning or bullying others (tick)
monopolizing conversations (big tick)
Back in the day the Cat liked a bit of rough and tumble and it was mostly witty and well intentioned and crrried a spur ..
… Certainly not boring and incomprehensible …
It was like a sprinkle of Chilli on the Chocolate cake …
But this is a major departure …
It is a kindergarten hissy fit mud fight … not enobling.
Specimen of fruit; how fast can we twig, and leave?
Just looking back on this news of DefSec Austin in hospital without the WH being informed, his Deputy on holiday, as the situation in the ME escalates, who is actually running the show? Is it actually Blinken?
@chris
Jan 7, 2024 5:16 PM
upticked you… gosh darned if I know … I only imbibe bananas …
Wating the ~punch line~
Missed the block quotes, Crazy Karen.
Great catch.
Now go run the acid bath and stick yourself in there you feral.
Pretty clear that the geriatric is operating like an overcoat and hat full of unconstrained minions.
Some time ago, I became bored with the resident sewer rat and out of consideration for the decent posters here, I decided to scroll the thing. Well, I am fed up with having to do maintenance on my scroll wheel which is wearing out fast. I will not leave it to others here to continue to highlight just how despised this filthy thing is.
Oh. Okay.
Transparent as one of my freshly cleaned windows.
This is not the blog you seek.
@jc
Jan 7, 2024 5:19 PM
that is an appallingly nasty thing to say and you need to have a look in the mirror Mate.. It issnt manly .. it isnt gracefull .. it issnt contributing anything to an intelligent conversation … WAY out of line ..
Get a grip Man !
Reposted for excellence:
Yes.
Sorry Mark, I was riffing on
Add to the taxonomy a description of these fruits and nuts. If you twig that its nuts, you might then leave.
A professor used to be a scholar, now the title is given out to politically connected people with no more than a bachelor’s degree, if that. See “Perfesser” “Shit happens”, as an example.
Then we have the proliferation on “adjunct” professors, assistant professors, and possibly assistant adjuncts (or is that adjunct assistants).
Undoubtedly, there are still genuine scholars out there, but it is becoming impossible to separate the gold from the dross.
Whoever is No. 3 at Defense.
Crazy Karen
Give it a go.. don’t hold back. I’m game. Careful with the acid.
You disturbed dickhead.
This is nothing compared to stoushes of the past on this august journal of record.
Comparatively, it is Corinthian leather, cigars and select beverages, and ‘I say old chap, I must challenge that assertion’.
All good Chris. I imagine most of the dietary requirements could be categorised as “eats roots and leaves”..
As for the musings on bananas…you might care to Google the genus.
Bill Ackman is today’s main character.
Never be the main character.
Back into the sewer from whence you came, rat. Off you plop.
My guess would be Valerie Jarrett, just as she did during the two Obama terms. She was all in for Iran then and that seems also to be the Biden policy. I think Blinken is just a messenger.
Enough about the newcat.
Chris
Jan 7, 2024 5:26 PM
I only caught this bus at the last stop… forgive me my impudence… as to fruit ? …my most confrontational and disturbing encounter was in the Markets of Vietnam… I just bought a few of them because I liked the color … some were blindingly delicious … others utterly inedible…
Stranger in a Strange Land ?
And up pops m0nty like the devil in the panto! And twirling his sagacious mustachios!
I must admit to enjoying someone having a go at the pompous academics. He might just be doing it as a publicity stunt to get an AI business going. But it does have a “Musk-ish” flair about it.
LOl. Such a bigmouth bush pig with a toothless bite.
Loved last evening’s comment.
Israel should tell the US to piss off. Thoughtful , inspiring even.
@ Chris
Jan 7, 2024 5:26 PM
and as to Nuts … ? I prefer to remain silent. 😉
A good friend, since deceased, went to Ag college. A classmate (female), was nicknamed Twigs.
And many of their acquaintance earned the title ‘wombat’ for the night, because of embracing that that diet.
I suggest C. Frockus, however, would not find much on offer.
Undoubtedly, there are still genuine scholars out there, but it is becoming impossible to separate the gold from the dross.
agree- I tend to classify Unis as either (1) were once ok or (2) never any good eg Macquarie or Latrobe or Flinders.
Ronnie RAAF at 4.26:
I believe this particular issue was already sorted, and that it was established that a certain someone has had plenty of experience in airconditioned demountables and Officers’ Messes, but absolutely zero actual on-ground combat nous – aside, of course, from the theory taught at ADFA, aka ‘Tool School’.
You are interpreting what was said in pressers as fact. I am not putting myself forward as a contemporary expert in this field of endeavour whatsoever, but you’re embarrassing yourself and the entire Firefly family.
It is unsurprising that you refer to footage shot almost 50 years ago from an entirely different conflict to illustrate your point. I bet you were a big Soldier of Fortune magazine collector.
Chris, you would find a cohort in Hort. At least there definitely were back in the 90’s.
C. frockus “Aligned”
Pleasant, happy chaps for the most part. Drew the line at cross dressing though. Or so I imagined.
What! You’re still on the surface? Get into that sewer, you diseased rodent.
Re my comment last night, gargoyle – I was on the money that’s why you cannot counter it. Now f/off and get into the bath. It’s lovely and warm.
I disagree with Macquarie lumped in with the dross. Their law degree, running concurrently with the Arts/Science major, was taken up by other Universities. Why add it on as an extra? It didn’t make sense.
If you were doing a combined degree, why not start the subjects in first year?
Don’t know what they’re doing now. Probably something useless.
Chris
Jan 7, 2024 5:26 PM
Mate this joke is tottally sailing over my head and I bless you for making it . aaaaaaI might catch up ? I might not ..but any way it is a ~giggle~
Well played Sir !! 😉
I thought at one stage Macquarie law skool was considered so mediocre that the overseeing body (DEET or something?) recommended it be closed down. I also heard half the faculty didn’t talk to the other half or was that philosophy at Sydney?
Ouch.
Do we even need Universities anymore ? I flatter myself that I have been able to gain a reasonable education from reading books and lately on the Internet.
I once knew a bloke …a miner… lewft school at .. who knows how young … ? But he kept reading .. end of a hard days work he would read and educate Himself He would hold forth over smoko .. about all sorts of outrageous notions.. and AFAIK was mostly right ..
Just He never pronounced “Nietzsche” … or any other of the players correctly …
I loved that Man … Len .. his arms were more muscled than my legs…
Len … you bottler !
It may well have been, milton. I remember some argy-bargy going on there once. The sandstones have always robbed the smaller institutions because cachet. They’re welcome to it.
My view is it’s what you do after you get that fancy piece of paper that counts.
It speaks like that to all the victims. Is it the sewer or the acid bath?
Be consistent porky. It’s either rodent or gargoyle.
Gacey, you don’t have any..
1. The US is no longer a superpower.
This level of stupid can’t be countered with a rational rebuttal.
2. Israel should tell the US to piss off.
US is Israel’s largest trade partner. It’s arms supplies such as spare parts for its air-force come from the US to pick one example, you woke moron. The US provides lots of financial support.
This is why you why the only comments youpost are always confined to abuse, rightwing wokism and agreeing with people. You offer zero
How many bodies have you placed in the acid, Gacey?
When I was at University (Curtain) and one or two at UWA … there were some bright star lecturers… Brilliant people… but a scant minority … the rest were tottal waste of time and good petrol…
Griffith.
My view is it’s what you do after you get that fancy piece of paper that counts.
yes- think and not make thoughts your aim
In the middle of a war against an existential threat and Crazy Karen suggests Israel should tell the US to “piss off”. When Israel would need the US the most. This thoughtful woke intellectual then demands a rebuttal. FMD.
Odd thing about people who inhabit parallel universes – I’ve not made any comment here about Ukraine and Russia, not offered any military analysis of any conflict. If there’s a point to this in that other universe please keep it there – this one isn’t interested.
thefrollickingmole
Jan 7, 2024 5:00 PM
Cassie…
Its unbelievable.
All too believable and I’m not surprised. Canada under Turdeau is a shithole.
As for the NSWaffen Police, I now loathe them. They are despicable. At every rally here in Sydney put on by the Jewish community since the pogrom of 7 October, the organisers always make a point of thanking the NSW Police in attendance.
I will not thank them, that’s the job of the police, to protect us. But I now regard them as willing accomplices to Jew hatred. So no, I will not thank them, instead I hiss at them.
Listen up, twerp. You have a success score of a big fat zero with those posters you have taken on with your vitriolic spite, including me. We own your arse.
Re. Israel and the US. The US must support Israel for obvious reasons. Undermining Israel’s strategy regarding the current war is what a typically two-faced regime will do. Wouldn’t have happened under Trump but the walking corpse being manipulated by Obama is an entirely different ballgame.
One of my step dads often said “nothing wrong with a bit religion”.
He was a Catholic with three kids from his previous marriage.
@ JC
Jan 7, 2024 6:00 PM
What is it with you and Killer Clowns and Acid … ? That isnt the way it unfolded …
And even if it way why put such conjecture in your conversational “power pack” ?
Please Mate … for your own best interests…. climb down from these horribly unhealthy themes ..
Take a walk in the Sunshine Brother !
Milton, I’ve watched so many children, and parents, turn themselves inside out to get into the “prestigious” Unis. Some of the stuff is ruthless and heartbreaking.
My youngest sat for entrance into Medicine, either at Sydney or UNSW. She was incredibly clever, but just didn’t make the cut. From memory, the exam was conducted somewhere near Harold Park, and I sat outside in the car while she did her stuff.
Now…she’s a multimillionaire. Completely different field. In the end, it isn’t about passing exams. It’s about talent and drive and hard work and luck.
Never be the main character.
Something you’ll never have to worry about dickless.
“Sovereign citizen” with false plates has novel excuse:
When asked whether she was registered to drive in Victoria Ms Fisher stated there were no Australian states, just ‘Terra Australis’.
Daily Mail
@ Katzenjammer
Jan 7, 2024 6:08 PM
Nor have I … There is no likely hood of a rational discussion on these matters… But it is interesting the mechanisms these people use to avoid such.
You don’t even own the trailer in which you live in.
That’s not the point you made, you cretin. Israel has to work, even with the Hiden administration, because they’re not in any position to tell the US to “piss off”. They have to tip toe around a hideous (like you) administration and hope to God, there’s a change in November. They have to play a difficult diplomatic game with an administration beholden to the far left , which hates Israel.
You also ignored the fact that you suggested the US in no longer a superpower.
Largest GDP in the world, largest professional military in the world. Most soft power influence in the world. Economy that is going along nicely in relative terms, but according to a bush pig, it’s no longer a superpower. Go run an acid bath and stick you head in, you oxygen thief.
Congratulations, you have achieved your ambition. You are so far down the cast list that the Dolly Grip is ahead of you.
Getting the impression from the IDF account that northern Gaza is considered done from the point of view of eliminated senior commanders and many others, many surrendered fighters, blown up tunnels and hamas infrastructure, a lot of bulldozing and the creation of a 1 km exclusion zone along the border.
Of course there might be a few who’ve faded into the gen pop.
eliminated
Had a few university types around for sundowners NYE. Having one of those uni types-type conversations, ranging around all sorts at once, from childrearing to ag and vet chemicals to whether christian ethics were based on logic to tennis to tattoos to why the hell are kids all railroaded into six-year debased university “courses” these days anyway?
All came to a head when I was absently scratching at my forearms where I’d been rashly dipping into some chemical or other, although I hadn’t mixed anything for months, and one bird says “that fluid blistering and particle exudation is a lot more like a lazer tattoo removal scar…”
Eventually worked out that it was where I’d been stuffing abalone up the sleeves of my rashie, and they’d been chewing away while introducing their own pretty wild and broad slimy microbiota to my delicate flesh.
So, Cassie, maybe Yaweh is right about shellfish after all…
Mmm. Nor I.
I’ve actually made a point of not commenting with assumed authority on NATO or Russia’s armour, drones, capabilities, manpower, conscription (or not), infantry tactics or whether this was a new Somme, as some have claimed.
Not long after the conflict began, I did put forth the view that the Ukraine was a pub tart leading two blokes on at the same time (NATO/the US and Russia), and will end up getting right-hooked by both as she tries to get between them in the carpark.
Still, you can’t fault (apparently) the reasoning of Ronnie RAAF, who was once spoken to during a lecture about the battle of Austerlitz.
It’s about talent and drive and hard work and luck.
100%- more than one way to skin a cat and life can take many unexpected turns some of them very good. I think credentialism has got a lot worse though but I also get the feeling that having a trade is much more highly regarded than it used to be. That could also be due to the people I hang out with these days.
Rosie, when are you off to Europe? Or are you already there? 🙂
Listen up again, you moron. It WAS the point I made. The US IS NO LONGER the superpower it once was. Now it’s either plopping back into the sewer from which you crawled out of or into a nice, warm bath. Take your pick. You are onto another hiding. Either go back and resume commenting on stuff you may know or comment on stuff where you are so out of your depth, it’s bloody funny. Take your pick.
JC
Jan 7, 2024 6:19 PM
ever been to Vietnam and talked to NVA vets? wanna know what .. they had four fifths of bugger all and still made “Yankee Go Home” .. USA USA … !!!
I reckon what is really worrying them is that he specs on the tin wont work out to be waht the equipment is actually capable off…. OH Gosh there go our Sales figures !!
I’d put that in 8pt font if I was him. Hard to see Chaney getting over the line again (although I was wrong last time).
She seems nice.
And many of her commentors have taken time out from scribbling in crayon to der sturmer to support her.
Teresa
@pepedownunder
Jew leaves Australia to fight for his true homeland: Israel.
Remember, a Jew is a Jew is a Jew is a Jew; his tribe and his “people” are above all other things to him.
In other words, he was a Jew living in Australia, and never an Australian.
This is why no Jew can be trusted when it comes to Israel.
Source: https://t.me/lucas_gage_official/240
The education faculty at Macquarie was like this in 1978, bunch of useless wankers the lot of them. On the plus side, my life at MacU made me decide to do a quickie programming course in 1981 and got into it through the ACS’s Computer Industry Training Program.
Not sure why people discount Blinken. He’s the one constantly in the ME at present.
I have to write things twice because the ghoul has a major comprehension problem. I’ll leave it at that.
folks ! can you keep this discussion civil?
When I was at University (Curtain)
Um…try CURTIN.
GreyRanga at 2:55
Yellow card – bear pun.
Applause from over here in the cheap seats.
When I was at University (Curtain)
Um…try CURTIN.
“Tech”.
I thought you asked who was standing in for Austin?
These departments are siloed.
FMD frollicking, you hang out with some right ones don’t you.
Also, and apropos of Ronnie:
Spoken in the language of the greatest surrender monkeys on the planet.
It is well known that the popping of champagne corks in the RAAF officers’ mess is misinterpreted, and immediately followed by white bedsheets being hung out of the nearest window.
I also heard half the faculty didn’t talk to the other half
More like 80% hate 20%. Back in the 90s I did a Masters which required some residency at the Uni of Qld. Saddam had just invaded Kuwait. My supervisor had the temerity to say the US coalition to boot him out was a good idea. He was roundly condemned by almost the entire faculty, which included having notes put under his office door at night.
“Tech”.
True…W A I T.
Do not click.
Mark, self-righteous condemnation is more habit-forming than meth. They are caught in a spiral of addiction; pray they may get clean.
Ahhh…pinpointed.
Although I do remember ructions in Law. But that might have been for other reasons.
Dover Beach:
It’s part of the military arrogance of our leaders that “We can build 200 tonne capacity Haulpacks in this ultramodern factory” translates into M1A3 tanks. Especially when the factory has a fully refurbished Russian T34/85 tearing up the production line before the first M1A3 rolls out the gate.
The “come as you are” war has obviously been left out of our generals and political geniuses vocabulary.
Thanks for the warning, bespoke. I won’t.
JC
Jan 7, 2024 3:34 PM
Projection. Sheer and utter projection, you idiot.
Pogria:
It’s his superpower. His ONLY superpower.
And they were right.
But likely for the wrong reasons.
@ Chris
Jan 7, 2024 6:39 PM
Amen Brother ! I have seen both and in either swipe with that “Vice” a Man loses his teeth … and his wife and his house and his job … and everything. .
If only we could do something to remove that blight !!??
Oops…wrong invasion.
I’ll see myself out.
<blockquote>When I was at University (Curtain)
Um…try CURTIN.
It was the Curtain School of Textiles (Spotlight Campus).
🙂
132andBush
Jan 7, 2024 1:47 PM
Basically it is the Bell curve. You need Christianity to take care of the people who need reassurance and stability. These make the best Christians. But without faith they are the very ones who will allow Islam to proliferate.
Can you expand on this a bit?
Sure. Probably not the best time , Sunday afternoon, all the chores are done, and half a bottle of red. But I can rise to the occasion.
In my experience of Muz, Jews and Christians, most people use religion as a guide, particularly for their children. It provides an ethical basis for marriage, bringing up kids and inheritance. Particularly for kids, what is good and bad is not innate. Everyone needs this. It is the basis of society surviving.
But there are the extremities of the Bell curve that take it all literally instead of parables. The Christians who do this are just annoying, the Jews keep to themselves, but the Muz must create trouble.
Without religion the middle of the curve have nothing as a guide. Humanism is verbal froth. Once again this is about bringing up children. For example: the Sodom and Gomorrah story. The only way for society to exist is to breed. The queer must be silent and live in their nether world. No one cares if there are poofters. There have been forever. But keep it away from kids.
Anyway in this humanist ethical vacuum, Islam is the answer for a lot of lost souls.
It is a public religion. What you do in private is your own. Surprisingly in Islamic countries, poofs are tolerated as long as it is not public or affect the production of children. If it is public, well you know the results.
So when the centre of the Bell curve loses faith, first they have nothing to oppose Islam and so tolerate its growth. Then they will convert.
Damn! I clicked!
I have no self-control.
This is the comment, I mocked yesterday, this was the comment the oxygen thief asked me to respond to. Twice.
He posted a partial qualifier because he realized the highlighted above is too ridiculous for any consideration.
The head and deputy head were feuding and the faculty was split over Piaget vs Vygotsky.
I must admit I loved doing the courses leading to German and Medieval Studies majors, French and the compulsory other Arts courses not so much. Pulled the pin with 18 months to go.
Oh yes. My favourite bit. I planned to major but the trials of motherhood got in the way. I have zero regrets. My children and grandchildren are quite sufficient.
Bespoke
You converting to a cute owls appreciation society as well?
The beauty of the Warrumbungles- I love Australia.
@ Chris
Jan 7, 2024 6:39 PM
Since you have a definite opinion on both self congratulatory obscurantism … and Meth ?
Have you ever played with that drug? It is a shocker. It will creep into your life so seemingly benignly …a little “Pick me up” … and once it has you in it’s jaws it will thrash the Life out of you …
I bailed at week 3 …got out before the wave broke… … It is Satan’s Dandruff.
I Loathe that substance.
Calli,
I thought it was creative. 😀
Kneel:
I agree with what you said, but was trying to make the point about “The umpire may be wrong*, but is never maliciously wrong.**”
Take for an example an election, where there appears to be some errors that deliver a decision that is unexpected. There may be some disputes in the counting, but at the end the scrutineers are trusted and the results are accepted.(Part 1*)
That’s an example of the first part.
An example of the second is the US last election,(Part2* )and it has damaged their society profoundly.
(Not very well put, but the guts of it is there. Hopefully the gentle reader can make sense of it)
They’re still prosecuting Dreyfus.
Those stabbings in Melbourne: no name as yet but signs of mental health issues say cops.
Locations might suggest his thinking. Southbank near casino, King St (night clubs), St Kilda (Babylon).
Don’t rule out Presbyterians just yet.
No!!
The utilitarian theory of religion is getting a fair run here recently.
Few practising Christians subscribe to it; most are somewhere on the spectrum of actual faith, annoying as that may be to armchair commentators.
And a word of advice…if you do front up to church on Sunday, don’t tell the poor padre/priest/pastor you’re there to take up the battle against Islam. Tell him you’d like to reconnect with your faith.
Similar to other non kosher foods like pigs, emus, elephants, cockroaches – shell fish are not designed for external application. Yaweh didn’t think it necessary to print that warning on their containers.
@Roger
Jan 7, 2024 7:03 PM
Fair call … I don’t have to “reconnect with my Faith” but it might be nice to have a civil conversation with my Priest… who ever he might be now days … but really I have else on my “To Do” … my Faith is Fine …
My Bond with the Almighty through my Savior Jesus is working kinda OK now. I dont need the intersession of any presumptive earthly Authority …
Jesus is just Alright by Me …
Proof: do not believe anything you see on the Internet.
I was holding my tongue.
😀
Surely people this teasing of our “brethren of the diminutive millinery” about arcane proscriptions on eating shell fish…
People .. it isnt funny … it isnt relevant..
We are better than this …
M
On the plus side, my life at MacU made me decide to do a quickie programming course in 1981 and got into it through the ACS’s Computer Industry Training Program.
Yes I think that was the time to get into IT. I often thought of quitting uni and going with Control Data Institute. Not sure how those skills would have lasted into the PC-Internet age. Who knows? Adult apprenticeship was the best thing I did.
dover0beach
Jan 7, 2024 4:26 PM
Who knows, but the important part is that now it’s personal and time to remember the old Oriental saying “When leaving on a mission of vengeance, dig two graves.”
That’s great, Mark.
Just remember the local Christian church of your denomination is there and could benefit from another person in the pews occasionally.
Really funny.
Ackman threatening to set up an AI screening outfit to run over thousands and thousands of academic papers looking for plagiarism.
I think many, many bottoms will be twitching in the halls of academe, including the Top Table.
Mr Bolton, apropos of the glass barbie:
Called it.
Unlike “people of the maximum headgear”, aka their wymminses, the People of the Minimum Headgear are more than capable of accepting teasing and returning serve.
And are quite hilarious when doing so.
This is not the blog you seek.
Delta, there was an extraneous r in Proof.
From this atheist’s point of view, you’re all nuts, but the Christian nuts are nicer than the Muslim nuts. Mostly.
Sanchez
Sounds like a nothingburger.
Bard
We did the cruise Valparaiso to Buenos Aries. Flying back to Santiago (near Valparaiso port) is a spectacular flight through the middle of the Andes. I guess it is pretty much the same the other way, over to pick up the cruise at Buenos Aries. Whichever way, a lot of meat is on the menu.
Some fine old hotels in both places. And a great trip round the horne or thru the Straits, depending on the weather. Beagle passage was foggy, narrow and scarey.
A look at Tierra del Fuego too. And Ushuaia, the kick off to the Antarctic where graffiti on the wharf welcomes you to Los Malvinos.
@ miltonf
Jan 7, 2024 7:18 PM
Absolutely Mate! We get out of Tech and we think we know it all .. and we kinda do! ..as far as it goes .. but a fortnight later everything has changed … and every forrtnight from there on it is a completely different game …
It is like being a tyre fitter on a moving vehicle. No way can you keep it all happening unless you are in the “Industry” and even then you have to be in the right “Industry”
…No Way can any Teaching Institutions keep you where you need to be …
BUT if they did thier job properly you understand the Fundamental Physical principled wherein you need to understand to fix that machine … That Never changes. …
Mt Lawley TAFE tought me Electronics. I am Proud of them and They are proud of Me ..
JC
Jan 7, 2024 4:35 PM
How can you not understand that calling half the readership on a blog infantile names, just diminishes your own message?
How can you be so damned tin eared?
se7en reports https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxx4tRwGavI bananabender faith in Qld-Health has dropped from 50% to 16% in last 4 years.
CrisisFully fully exploiting crisis, hoping to win election on back of ramping ambulances and long wait-lists.
Wise man say, ambulance chasers in Queensland get flat nose.
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; And lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he shall direct thy paths.
Proverbs 3:5-6 KJV
Also as you are well aware, John Cleese has done some excellent clips on youtube re C S Lewis. Always a good go to.
I had a friend who was a marine scientist in Tassie in the seventies, he once analysed Derwent River oysters. They were typically 5% zinc, some up to 10%. Shellfish do hyperaccumulate such things, which seems ro’ve caused the Minamata disaster.
We’ve cleaned up a lot of such things nowadays, but shellfish and high end aquatic predators like sharks and tuna do accumulate metals.
LOL! I just over-pressed my iPad button and it came up with a strange swirly icon in the lower right hand corner.
Conversing with the Beloved, I said, “You are right!”.
This thing replied, “Glad to hear it.”
Eeek! I’m being monitored by my iPad. 😀
No.
They haven’t produced a single tank and are importing North Korean artillery shells.
In NSW Techs used to train professional engineers- you were an ASTC- Associate of Sydney Technical College
@ Knuckle Dragger
Jan 7, 2024 7:21 PM
Furkin Furkin … Old Mate Much and all as we may have sniped on each other .. if you hate Meth … and have seen what it has done … we can put aside any childish bullshit and get that scourge out … As to How ? I have no idea. I know a lot more than most about how it works and infiltrates into our community ..
It is lethal ..
I dont need the intersession of any presumptive earthly Authority …
Actually, you do.
1. Get baptised
2. Get your sins forgiven
3. Eat His body and drink His blood or it’s death
4. Do the will of His father
Found this cool old ad.
Clint and Nancy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-0OeOFuNXs
And learn to spell.
Yes Mark you get a piece of paper but as Calli said too, it’s only the beginning. If you are fortunate enough to be in an absorbing sort of job, you learn every day, even in you 40s, 50s and 60s!
@ P
Jan 7, 2024 7:29 PM
Indeed the “Screwtape Letters” Much like the Days of Sail we really got it right before it got squashed under a bulldozer… ”
THX for you kind reply ..
Do you, now?
There is no such thing as an ex-heroin, or ex-meth addict.
And quoting the Doobies doesn’t cut it.
And that’s the final hook I’ll bite at. The bait is off.
Pogria, with your farmwork you couldn’t never be bulk anything. Bet you could still land a good bit of biff too, if anyone were to insult you to your face rather than being an internet hero. If anyone called me fat (and some unkind people who haven’t seen me for three years might note a less-notched-in belt) they would get a fat lip for their trouble. I do weights twice a week to keep my arms in very good nick for hauling down 10kg suitcases from airline overhead bins. Useful to have muscles still.
Have to rely on brain muscles online though. 🙂
‘Here we were, following a history of genocide, dispossession, ignorance and exclusion, with the gap widening because of the policy failures and harmful acts of parliament, mostly under the Coalition, in a country we had civilised for tens of thousands of years, suddenly expected to answer for all these wrongs as if we were the perpetrators ourselves.’
I’ll say it again, I’m absolutely baffled that Australia got so close to handing these mercenary midwit race grifters the keys to the corporation. In contrast to the relatively fresh-faced bovva brutha Mayo, the decades-interred ruling caste of Langton, Pearson, Perkins and Dodson were indeed the reason why a fair few fence-sitters finally saw that a “proud” culture of grievance and humbug will only perpetuate itself.
Keep Voice in mind every time the snake oil of Welcome To Country is thrown into your eyes… it’s a meth hit which will only drag everyone down.
Skinsuit?
Over a thousand comments on this article so far – NOT ONE in support.
Not fitting a dummy door panel correctly and doing it so badly it fails two months after rolling off the line?
Not sure we can lay the blame for shit manufacturing practices at Everett on the merger with MacDonnell Douglas 27 (that’s twenty seven) years ago.
Boeing engineers and manufacturing staff own this shit … the dodgy software they tried to slip through on the MAX which killed some 350 people, now maybe forgetting a couple of hundred rivets on a plug panel.