Ah, spellcheck, that’s always a winner. Russia was just an example in your comment. It didn’t appear to be limited…
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What on Earth…? https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/uknews/more-than-190-000-people-sign-petition-demanding-general-election/ar-AA1uDyim The date is 1 hour ago, so I assume it is today. A petition calling for…
She actively declared them and went through the process. That’s described in the story.
Liberty Squandered: The English Tradition from Magna Carta to EmpireVibhu Vikramaditya, Mises Wire, 23rd November 2024The identity of a people…
C’mon Dover, it’s obvious. The countries supporting Ukraine all have lefty governments (I regard Sunak as a lefty). The few…
Labor has been going on all yesterday and today about Woolies price gouging customers.
Now they’re supporting Woolies in a culture war against Australia Day.
If I were Woolies I wouldn’t let a single Labor pollie into their stores, you can’t trust them for a minute.
PM puts supermarket giants on notice over mega profits, gouging (11 Jan)
Cost of living and electricity prices are hurting voters? Look, squirrel!
Zali is another MP who has no idea of what is her job. What’s more the ignorant twit has the nerve to lecture the population on the meaning of debate.
My dear girl, it is not disinformation or misinformation when you don’t like the other side’s reasonable contributions. If your information has a factual base it will defeat the others’ statements. Don’t you like when the other side has better facts?
Correct.
I was about to spend a lot of money next week at Aldi, stocking up on blankets and other items.
They can go do something cruel and unusual to themselves.
What’s IGA up to? Will they be offering Australia Day items?
They rely a lot on country towns, so they bloody well should get with it.
Ironically the whole Teal political manifesto is disinformation and misinformation, since they’re all about saving a planet which isn’t threatened.
johanna
It comes from the regular male denigration of a stupid, unpleasant or nasty person as an “@rsehole”. Feel free not to join in.
Good point. I’ll ask at my local I.G.A. next time I’m there.
The Reject Shop always has lots of Australia Day merchandise. I haven’t checked this week but expect it’s the same this year.
Tut, tut Bruce, their disinformation and misinformation is for our own good.
Zumy on Twitter. Funny British dude.
Australia has taken a critical step toward acquiring 220 Tomahawk missiles with the US Congress approving the sale of a $370 million weapons systems package to fire the missile.
The Australian government last August announced it would procure the world-class long-range missile – to be one of only three nations with them – under a $1.7 billion acquisition.
The advanced weapon is seen as critical to the Australian Defence Force’s strategic plan to hold adversaries at bay at long range and is for use by the Royal Australian Navy destroyers and submarines when they are acquired later.
Daily Tele
The double ?? were the flags.
I don’t think the Minister understands the concept of citienship.
Help me here. We have the missiles, we just have to buy the ships to fire them from?
The trouble is, people with little money shop at Aldi. They have no ability whatsoever to walk away because fake “virtue”. It’s like Bud, but different. There are lots of other beer brands out there.
In Australia, the market is dominated. Two grocers hand in hand, one discount and one relatively expensive independent.
The proles are cooked.
Might be time to accuse Aldi of being moustache men.
Embalmer survey 2023: Over 75% are still seeing novel white fibrous clots
The Reject Shop always has lots of Australia Day merchandise.
Likewise the Asian “dollar”shops.
Lotsa whinging from Mansell Mark II in Hobart:
A Tasmanian Aboriginal leader has once again called on the Prime Minister to urgently change the date of Australia Day from January 26.
“It’s hurtful, it’s racist and it needs to be changed,” Nala Mansell said.
Ms Mansell said Australia was possibly the only country in the world that still held its national day of celebration on the day marking the invasion or colonisation of that country.
“It shows the world that Australia is so relentless in its denial of the injustices committed against Aboriginal people,” she said.
“The invasion of Tasmania saw nearly a whole race of people completely wiped out as a result of invasion.
and
“We had over 4000 people attend the street march and rally in nipaluna/Hobart last year and there were over 200 in Devonport.”
Population of Hobart in 2016 was 206,097. 4000 is 1.9% of that….
Meanwhile in the same article:
Do you think the date of Australia Day should be changed from January 26?
Yes 29 %
No 71 %
66 votes
Voting is still on if you can climb the Mercury paywall
Dr. John Campbell
DNA and Florida
The woke white, middle aged, poorly tertiary educated women who think racism is all about them might get drowned out by level headed Asians in future years.
Zulu, the Hobart-class destroyers can fire Tomahawk.
George
@BehizyTweets
BREAKING: The man who has been filing lawsuits in every state to get Donald Trump removed from the 2024 election ballot has been arrested & charged with filing 17 sets of false tax documents to the IRS
In total, John Anthony Castro has been charged with 33 counts of aiding the preparation of false tax returns. Prosecutors claim he ran a virtual tax preparation business that provided customers with tax returns beyond what they were actually owed, defrauding the government.
Castro announced his “campaign” for President in the Republican primary which was clearly all for show in order for the deep state to use him as a vehicle to file the ballot lawsuits (all of which have failed).
You literally cannot make this up, this guy told judges Donald Trump was a criminal when in actuality, he was a criminal
Amazing to see the hivemind has gone the full “Colesworth are our friends and saviours” at the drop of a hat.
All of a sudden the cruel, rapacious exploiter of underpaid employees and suppliers has hagiographies written that would shame mother Theresa.
Matt Walsh
@MattWalshBlog
Saw this video floating around and honestly assumed it was from 2021 until I looked closer. Nope. A whole room full of masked people in the year 2024.
Cassie of Sydney:
Have you seen the price of caltrops lately?
It must be the inflation.
Daisy Cousens
The WEF Wants To Topple Democracy | World Economic Forum
wondering why Tasmania voted no
The point is not where you can buy Australia Day merchandise, it’s the fact that our grocery chains, who once sold it at obvious profit, have decided to stop offering it for sale.
Not because it’s unprofitable, but because they deem it unpopular because they are as dumb as excrement.
We have just had a referendum that has decisively rejected this type of garbage. But they persist because their woke marketing departments are basically unteachable. Sack the lot of them and hire people who can do the job. Now.
Mike Johnson Suffers Brutal Defeat as Republicans Revolt
Your terms are acceptable sir. A better date is 22 August, when in 1770 James Cook claimed possession of Australia for His Maj George III.
They listen to losers on Reddit!
Mark down 22 August as another public holiday.
He obviously learned nothing from McCarthy’s faceplant.
Well sir FAFO, tell us when you are ready to get real.
Not one Scotch old boy but two in the anal administration. What is it with snotty nosed skools and the hard left?
I am going to repost something again because I think it is very important to the culture wars. Possibly of global significance if the Redditor was talking crap.
Not because it’s unprofitable, but because they deem it unpopular because they are as dumb as excrement.
big Australian businesses seems to hate Australia like US ones hate America. Very strange and not acceptable.
Thanks for sorting that one, Top Ender.
NOT talking crap…
Chinese manufactured Australia Day merchandise would have been ordered months ago. Some may be stuck on ships or wharves due to the ongoing “go slow” on our wharves. Asian “dollar shops” have disappeared from this country town, Reject shop remains.
I find “National Sorry Day” just as hurtful and just as racist. The date must also be changed.
Blog is slow.
Why Farmer Protests are Spreading Across Europe
And then the new date will be hurtful and will need to be changed. Stuff ’em, we will celebrate history because it has brought us a great country.
Aldi products are shonky copies of local products with names that are minimal pairs of what they copy – like Chocolate Mint Sluices, or Binghams Chicken Kevs, aren’t they?
Perhaps they will provide products for Austria Lady on June rarely 26.
Bill Ackman on Business Insider plagiarism claims.
The Silent Death by a Thousand Cuts in Manufacturing
Politifact Founder Predicts Social Media Will Be Used to ‘Suppress Misinformation’ More Often This Year
A Tasmanian Aboriginal leader
who appoint this creep as an “aboriginal leader’? The meja?
Yes, they’re determined to go after their political opponents, never the criminals.
Merrick Garland Says Department of Justice Will Speed Up the Hunt for Non-Violent January 6 Protestors
Jewish entertainers including David Schwimmer and Debra Messing excoriate the Oscars for excluding Jews from its new diversity standards brought in after George Floyd’s death
Keir Starmer found to have helped hate preacher Abu Qatada fight back against deportation
I understand why people shop at Aldi, but I’ve never been a fan. I really like my local IGA, although it is dearer.
Kimberly Aborigines would have said Mansell Mark 2’s mother had “bin eaten white bread.”
Posted again for posterity.
Of interest regarding the culture wars.
Everyone should read this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/s/v6k5KkqQqE
The reply in question. Note the transsexual flair of the poster. Political interference by the FBI and vicious slander involving literally hundreds of death threats (where are the police reports?)
——————
I help run AgainstHateSubreddits. We were responsible for getting a lot of the moderators of the largest subreddits in 2019&2020 together to demand a sitewide rule against hate speech & hate groups.
As part of that, for the past 7 years I’ve deep-dived into the history of hate groups / Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremism & Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism groups on this site, as well as studying / researching the effects of moderation standards.
Moderators aren’t (by and large) hostile. There were a large number of extremist subreddit operators, but those had mostly left the site by the end of 2021.
The propaganda about bad moderators was primarily pumped out by the extremist subreddit operators – specifically the people who operated CringeAnarchy and The_Donald.
I know this because I and people I collaborated with got invited into their backrooms, where we got front row seats to their efforts.
They left the site due to the fact that they chose to criminally harass and send death threats to Reddit employees, and Reddit dropped a hammer — and then in 2022 they largely decamped to Twitter when Elon made a bid to buy the site.
Also because of the implementation of the Moderator Code of Conduct and sanctions applied for Community Interference.
When they did, the 24/7/365 deluge of death threats, hatred, harassment, and etc largely ceased. There were still dedicated harassers; those got shut out by safety changes made to the API & to how automoderator & the sitewide antiabuse systems process notifications pushed to users.
The point of all that is this: The problem subreddit operators were invited by Reddit for the better part of a decade, but were mainly gone by now.
I loathe the “we’re going dark indefinitely / turning subreddits NSFW” “protest”, particularly because the same people who were driving CringeAnarchy and The_Donald had kept operators in place in a lot of subreddits running simple but useful bots, and those people were in turn the ones running a mod discord server, and saying “Go dark indefinitely”, “turn the subreddit to NSFW”, and encouraging moderators to dash themselves against reddit, because making reddit die is those manipulative actors’ goal.
The protest was launched to signal that Reddit needed to fix their app & not break tools & moderation collective efforts. It was hijacked.
Another part of what I’ve done over the past 7 years is research what the TOS was every year, what admin policies were, etc.
There was a time, ~10 years ago, when Spez said Nazis would not be allowed on the site. Then it sold to Wired, Ellen Pao fixed a lot of liabilities, and he came back. When he did, he had changed his view to “tackling hate is hard”, and inconsistently applying content policy.
There’s a very good possibility that coontown and the other subs in summer 2015 were closed because Joshua Ryne Goldberg was operating out of them while a federal LEO investigation was underway targeting him.
Jailbait was closed not because of the content but because ViolentAcrez was trying to hand it over to a group that was also probably under us federal LEO investigation.
It took 2 years after the sitewide rule against hate speech and hate groups, to ban MGTOW – which had been quarantined explicitly because an FBI sentencing brief on a thwarted incel spree shooter described the group as a gender-based IMVE group.
2 years and a constant campaign of reporting.
When Spez both had the userlevel privileges / group privileges to directly edit database fields and the lack of impulse control that led to him doing so … on top of ignoring how The_Donald was setting the site on fire every day and running off good faith users and communities …
I don’t think he’s actively evil. I think he just had a responsibility towards millions of users, tens of thousands of communities, investors, and etc and stood by and did nothing while evil people ran rampant — until he was forced to do something.
If I had known in 2013 what I know now, I would have steered clear of Reddit, and found ways to force UCHISPs to proactively c&p violent extremist group usage of services.
Calli, I must dispute the comment that people with little money shop at Aldi.
A glance around our local Aldi carpark gainsays that proposition. A more accurate definition is ‘people who prefer to be economical with their money’ shop at Aldi.
Oh, and of course the farmers with their four trolly monthly shop.
It is an interesting phenomena that people who you would assume should shop at Aldi because of their financial circumstances tend to stick to Colesworth and can be quite sneering about Aldi.
It is not typical perhaps but I have seen a couple of Maserati SUV’s and a bunch of Jag SUV ‘s at the local store. My old farm truck feels shamed.
Catalogues are prepared likewise. The artwork is done well in advance.
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David.
Will you be asking about the Genocide in South Africa of the White Farmers?
Or is your sense of outrage limited to Israel?
Bob Sewell…
Address supplied.
That really is precious.
His great scheme for fighting the cost of living crisis is to tell private businesses to reduce their prices even though their costs continue to go up.
When I was a child – like, Year 1 (by the modern reckoning) – I asked my Dad why we didn’t just print more money (although not in those precise words) so everyone could be a millionaire.
I think that Albo is at about that level of economic sophistication.
All that effort flensing blubber of his post-cervical hulk, and the engineers and masons pressed into service to refashion his snaggleteeth into a facsimile of a smile – but the brain for which they are meant to be ambassadors is still a low wattage vacuum tube affair.
Like an air-spoil and GT stripes on a model-T.
Oh, and a tape deck playing Tay-Tay.
So not are we only to be vilified for having extinctified Tasmanian Aborigines, but also for not listening to their current leaders.
Am I getting that right?
Any truth in the rumour that each state police force is to ‘loaned’ a handful? Vicpol already has the required launchers I believe?
to BE loaned…
*Sigh*
So much potential, so little attention to detail.
Cats! 🙂
Nah, it’s just usual Labor BS. They’re getting stick from the focus groups on cost of living and that $275 they promised to save us. So they need an Emmanuel Goldstein to ritually blame. Hence bashing Colesworth for gouging (which they ain’t really, since they’re being raped by Bowen’s electricity price due to all the fridges etc they have to run).
Voters will see through it of course, but it feeds the lefty MSM chooks. Cynical, who me?
I’m not offended by my comment being downvoted, I would like to know why though, it has been dot since I started talking about it.
If you can’t understand the original poster may have serially harassed (working with US law enforcement) and slandered people to a level of global political significance, then you should stay in your own lane.
PS – they justify keeping a subreddit regarding predation of children open.
We were just informed that the three young Kelpie thugs that have been staying with us and reducing the place to ruins are about to undertake a long journey to SA and face two years of training. Poor brats, we will miss them.
They came to us when their owners went OS because their senior dog was bitten in the inside ear by a spider and wound up in doggie hospital as a very sick lady.
Their hand announced that he wasn’t prepared to care for the young dogs without the old lady being there to keep them in line. So they came to us.
The vets have just announced that the old lady’s future lies on the retirement couch on the back verandah. Her working and training days are over because of the bite.
So the little guys are off to a niece in SA who breeds and trains working dogs. Good luck to them. She scares the hell out of me.
dot – -> done
What’s Reddit?
When I was a child – like, Year 1 (by the modern reckoning) – I asked my Dad why we didn’t just print more money (although not in those precise words) so everyone could be a millionaire.</
don’t forget the serious spectacles
For a bit more sparseness – still the greatest song in human history …
sorry I was referring to this…
All that effort flensing blubber of his post-cervical hulk, and the engineers and masons pressed into service to refashion his snaggleteeth into a facsimile of a smile
don’t forget the serious spectacles
Here is Herodotus’ account:
Apparently the chicken was Persian, which is why he recorded the story.
As of yesterday. 🙂
Here you go Rabz, this has been going around in my head all week for some reason or other.
Sneaker Pimps – 6 Underground (1996)
Ah.
Got it.
I shit you not KD what I found is a gold mine of intrigue and underhanded BS.
I’ve just seen Lisa Wilkinson’s autobiography in the bargain bin for $7.45.
RRP $45.00
Chuckle.
This might be the greatest depiction of “men without chests” Ive seen.
Hes literally like one of those funko pop dolls.
https://twitter.com/DavidShoebridge/status/1745213740474302601
Fair enough. I think I heard of it somewhere along the line, but have never actually looked at it.
I assume it’s an open slather hotbed of nuffery where anything decent gets swamped.
This intrigued me, so I looked.
Surely that’s an oversize head photoshopped onto an eight year old’s body.
KD
The little prick I quoted single handedly claims to have The_Donald subreddit booted off Reddit through some extremely dubious accusations of criminal behaviour.
Any men’s rights stuff was yeeted as being “incel male violent extremism”.
Some of their work was claimed from spamming complaints for two years straight.
You are correct though. An absolute nuff nuff.
Wilkinson has aged like wine or cheeses that reached its peak in its cheap early stages.
In the outside she is a dry grey wrinkled rind, and a bitter tart vinegar on the inside.
That’s “poorly tertiary credentialled”. They are far from being educated. Many who left school at 14 or 16 in the mid-twentieth century had far broader basic knowledge, and could read, write and add up.
Albo should send Shoebridge to Gaza to hand rat packs out to the locals. It’d be the most productive thing he’s ever done.
For those Sydney Cats who are interested, please register for this…
Australians United Against Anti-Semitism
Never Again Is Now – Sydney 4 February
Sun 4th Feb 2024, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm AEDT
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I know some have registered. It is very important that we have have thousands of people attending.
SAY NO TO JEW HATRED
The water table rising nicely in D-town, if my backyard is anything to go by.
Only 45 mm so far today, but another 300 coming in the next four days and a bit more after that.
A breath of wind by Tuesday next week, and any remaining mahoganies left standing by Cyclone Marcus in 2017 will be guts-up.
Surely that’s an oversize head photoshopped onto an eight year old’s body.
His dad was no better
The TAC is essentially comprised of her family, it would have been decided over a BBQmof illegally harvested abalone.
A bit like AusFlag and the Pedestrian Council are essentially Harold Scruby, his family, and a long-running series of government grants.
I’m in Perth and it’s too far for me to come, but I’ll be there in spirit, Cassie.
Along with a lot of other Çats, I’m sure.
Top Ender:
A big fat whinge from a member of the Aboriginal Royalty.
Still cranky about 60% of Australia telling her to piss off.
They’re not even bothering to pretend there was an “insurrection” now.
Top Ender
How about our subs? Not the 12th of Never subs, but our Collins Class.
Eagle comics. Now, there’s a blast from the past!
Heh. The penny just dropped, knowing the lead time on the Aldi catalogues. This is for the “special buys”, not the fresh stuff which is added in just before printing.
They expected “Yes” to get up. There can be no other explanation. They mis-read Australia.
I never knew that the Mekon wore red underpants before.
What’s Reddit?
It’s like Craigslist but the sex is gayer & angrier.
What’s Woollies’ excuse?
They’d taken down the Voice stuff at least 6 weeks before the referendum, having determined there were only negatives attached to supporting it.
What’s clear is that the so called elites aren’t very bright. They get their opinions and judgments from each other, reality doesn’t get a look in.
Very much like the chat robots. And m0nty.
Someone has down ticked “SAY NO TO JEW HATRED”.
I think it says a lot about that ‘someone’
Cassie, if you what to laugh in this dark times, follow Aaron Berg on twitter.
Canadian Jewish comedian living in NY.
@aaronbergcomedy
First comment, Bern
LOL, Mole – it is indeed.
It makes me marvel at how perceptive mid-20th C. sociological commentators like James Burnham & David Riesman were.
A bit cryptic, perhaps…but I’ll leave it to the initiative of those whose attention has been piqued to follow them up. Judiciously used, the internet is a wonderful resource in that regard.
How about our subs? Not the 12th of Never subs, but our Collins Class.
A decision was taken in 2022 to upgrade the Collins to be capable of firing Tomahawks during their Life of Type extension refits.
I would imagine that the nod was given by the Americans before that announcement was made…
I was 14. I got by and still do.
Perfesser Emersoni being a signal example.
Six months, lots of taxpayers’ munnee and some “recommendations” at the end the obscene ridiculous farce.
Which solves the “cost of living crisis” engineered by certain braindead socialist forkwits (BIRM).
Argentine President Javier Milei keeps on winning!
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/jan/08/feminists-under-attack-ultra-right-threat-milei-argentina-writer-exile-luciana-peker
What a load of shyte:
It’s a literal genocide!
As for that Guardian article, bursting with confected nonsense that not winning an election means your opponent automatically turns into Hitler:
It’s riddled with crap that women are oppressed unless they enslave men. If girls stand up to boys, they take their jobs? Sure buddy. Just ignore the legally enforced gender equality. Real psycho shit. No abortion means women get killed en masse too.
Delusional. Classic toxoplasmosis you can expect in South America.
I should add, hyperbolic.
He no doubt has a love of Hong Kong Money.
And yes, Rog – he has a classic Welsh Rugby players’ coiffe, saddened as we are by the recent untimely demise of JPR Williams. 😕
JPRW on the burst …
Boys, while I know that while you are definitely not gay, the subject of bottoms and poo apparently fascinates you. You just can’t help talking and ‘joking’ about it.
Fuking oath. Arses are the stuff of life.
Murray Watt is a buffoon.
Indeed, Rabz.
‘ night!
Dot
Jan 11, 2024 7:25 PM
Dot, I neither up nor down voted your post, I simply have no idea what you are on about.
Albo reckons he’s going to defuse the regional tensions by sending Penny Wong to the Middle East.
He’s right, you know.
I’ll feel a whole lot safer knowing the Wongbot is out of our country!
Get a load of this.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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15h
Do you want to fly in an airplane where they prioritized DEI hiring over your safety? That is actually happening.
Quote
James Lindsay, anti-Fascist
@ConceptualJames
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18h
Let’s have a close look at Boeing and DEI!
Boeing’s corporate filings with the SEC reveal that in beginning 2022, the annual bonus plan to reward CEO and executives for increasing profit for shareholders and prioritizing safety was changed to reward them if they hit DEI targets.
show more:
Let’s read “more”
https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1745110176372339167
Earlier, I read that competent American airline pilots are quite smart, having estimated IQs of around 120 plus. DEI programs are putting people in cockpits with estimated IQs of 80 to 90. The age of incompetence has reached the point where lives are now in danger.
Gabor
I found a twerp on Reddit who claims to have the Donald Trump supporters sub forum deleted by his harassment of them and has slandered its moderators as having committed serious crimes.
He also claimed to be working with law enforcement. He might be delusional.
Other claims were that for the past eight years, he has worked to have what he calls hate speech taken offline – MAGA Republicans, libertarians and mens rights groups. It’s a tranny, BTW, who can act like a protected class on Reddit.
Roving ambassadoress for the ME would be a great assignment for Lady Wong who is Never Wrong.
Word. That one got me to a disco classic I haven’t heard for a long while.
Cameo – Word Up (1986)
He has a really serious codpiece!
Now it’s time for a rant!
WTF HAPPENED TO SCOTLAND!!!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12945227/Fears-grow-SNPs-plan-ban-conversion-therapy-Scotland-campaigners-warn-create-chilling-effect-free-speech-criminalise-parents.html
Parents who refuse to allow their children to change gender would face up to seven years in jail under SNP plans to ban “conversion therapy”.
Hmmm.
What the f$&@ happened to the land of the Campbells, the Macdonalds, Rob Roy, The Black Watch, Hadrians Wall, the unconquerable Picts – “Invictus”, King Robert de Brus, Sir William Wallace, Admiral Bertram Ramsay and several British generals & Field Marshals like Governor Macquarie & Haig?
That’s before you get to the Scottish intellectuals; scientists, engineers, philosophers and economists who were giants among men and changed the world too, not to mention the swashbuckling Scottish explorers of the Empire.
WHAT THE F$&@ HAPPENED?!
*HBCU = Historically black colleges and universities.
Emigration and immigration.
I fervently hope that the Israelis insist that senator Wong see that 43 minute video.
What the f$&@ happened to the land of the Campbells, the Macdonalds, Rob Roy, The Black Watch, Hadrians Wall, the unconquerable Picts – “Invictus”, King Robert de Brus, Sir William Wallace, Admiral Bertram Ramsay and several British generals & Field Marshals like Governor Macquarie & Haig?
That’s before you get to the Scottish intellectuals; scientists, engineers, philosophers and economists who were giants among men and changed the world too, not to mention the swashbuckling Scottish explorers of the Empire.
Anyone with initiative or get up and go left Scotland early last century at the latest. Sir William Wallace was supposed to be a kinsman of my great grandmother for example.
Quotes are a little jumbled.
It’s All About The Money And Profile news (the Hun):
As previously reported:
But:
Uh. Hang on.
Mr Borstein works for notorious ambo-chasers Maurice Blackburn.
Ms Lattouf is a very mild, milky coffee arrangement. With a massive honker, by the way, which explains why all her profile pics are front-on.
Translated: ‘Can’t use my job to promote personal views.’ The horror.
Fat chance. Mr Bornstein:
Righto buddy.
So he wants taxpayer cash for Lattouf, taxpayer cash for him, and for Big Nose to get her job back.
Bornstein also represented SBS soccer commentator Scott McIntyre. This particular specimen married a Japanese girl and moved to Nippon, then complained on Twatter in 2015 that this country should sack Anzac Day because atomic bombs were bad and also said Australian troops committed mass rape during WW2, rather than making a more accurate statement about the Japs doing exactly that.
Bornstein arranged a settlement. After that McIntyre and his missus split up, after which he was arrested by the Japanese jacks for trying to force his way into his ex-in-laws’ joint.
Nice bloke. Good choice of clients, Bornstein.
Wrong Aaron Berg JC.
Okay thanks.
A summarised answer from Trainspotting:
It’s shite being Scottish!
We’re the lowest of the low!
The scum of the f*cking Earth!
The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash, that was shat into civilisation!
Some people hate the English, I don’t! They’re just wankers!
We, on the other hand, are colonised by wankers!
Can’t even find a decent culture to be colonised by!
We’re ruled by effete assholes!
It’s a shite state of affairs to be in Tommy,
and all the fresh air in the world won’t make any f*cking difference!
Also, they allied themselves with the French from 1295 to 1590.
That’s what happened.
Fight you ABC bastards, fight.
SBS soccer commentator Scott McIntyre.
Never heard of the creep. Another BA (Comms) no doubt.
Cassie,
I have registered. Have organised someone to shut the chooks away before dark. Will dogs be accepted? I am considering bringing my Chihuahua X along. He loves people but, he also enjoys a bit of biff, especially if someone looks the wrong way in my direction. 😀
“I was 14. I got by and still do.”
P,
when you were fourteen, your schooling was greater x 100 than the today’s average Uni graduate.
Aboriginal ownership doesn’t mean they need to turn up and do anything. It allows them to reap a royalty off someone else’s commercial enterprise.
People of Colour.
Are those at the other end of the spectrum (People of No Colour) Translucents or Transparents? Perhaps we might abbreviate those to simply ‘Trans.’ No-one else seems to be using that at the moment.
What about People of Partial Colour and People of Intense Colour (POICs)?
People Allergic to Colour?
As well as seventies Welsh rugby players, Rock Chicks are verging on the edge of extinctification, Cats – this is not a good thang. 😕
When did anyone last see a young womanage getting around like Miss Ellen in the clip above?
About the only place you might see them nowadays is the Civic Hotel on a Friday evening, not that I would ever arrange gatherings of convenience to ascertain if they have indeed yet met their figurative tarpit after the meteor strike …
oops, the “the” was superfluous.
cool burning program– what the eff is that?
It’s not fair. Someone has been checking whether they actally do anythinng productive.
Hilarious notes posted to a vid of a 50 plus old half decent looking American woman saying she can’t find the perfect man.
some of the heartless comments posted over the vid.
Get a cat.
You ignored “them” for 30 years.
The wall is a scientifically proven fact.
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1745354860151673204
Pre-Musk, this funny stuff would’ve been banned.
“What about People of Partial Colour and People of Intense Colour (POICs)?
People Allergic to Colour?”
Muddy,
I think it was last night, I caught a bit of Bolta while channel surfing. He was showing footage of another self-styled Abo Leader. A very white one of course. If I recall correctly, here name was Diane Kerr. A perfesser also, natch. She is pushing for Abo healing and medicine instead of white man crap, as she calls it.
She was whiter than most Anglos, of course. Wearing a possum skin cloak, tick. What was really funny though, she was hugely obese, had barely any teeth, but was serious about Abo stuff called “Green Weed”. Sigh…
This is curious.
The little arsehole wishes he basically denied his political enemies access to the internet at all.
It will be interesting to see how the lightworker fares against the promised AI plagiarism checks.
Dot.
Persuade yourself you are fighting demons/ Nazis and it allows you the freedom to act out your mose base desires, because you are doing ” good”.
” Sure I look at cp, molest cats and am a 200kg bed bound landwhale, but I’m fighting Nazis on the internet so I’m a good person”.
Many such cases
Monty
Sad
Low energy.
Evening
Coles via the Westfarmers fwit CEO and his vacuous teal daughter have been restricting Aus day merch for a while. Woolies and now the kraut Aldi can take a long walk off a short peir. Dutton is on fertile ground.
Okydoc. GV hwy from Strathmerton to Shep is a disgrace. Fwoar Shep has changed.
Into Bendigo tomorrow. Some backroads needed thru Barnadown to avoid the flooding round Rochester.
Night all, LOL I felt cool ss soon as the sun disappeared.
Thought it was more for the types that cry when they wank.
Outrageous! Leftist “Judge” Engoron Bars President Trump from Giving His OWN CLOSING ARGUMENT in Rigged New York Civil Trial – Also Coldly Denies Defense When They Request Delay Due to Melania Trump’s Mother’s Death
This bastard should be shot.
No, Winston, re Tomahawk from Collins-class.
A little while ago someone posted a link to a nuclear plant which had been delayed by green tape. Does anyone still have the link?
KD at 3:13.
The j’ism has no idea.
Shorter version.
If he survived he would be facing criminal charges.
Australian’s aren’t the only populace who have to suffer climate-hysteria management of dam levels which leads to flooding.
German floods exacerbated by high dam levels
We watched the movie “Society of the Snow” last night, about the 1972 plane crash in the Andes where the survivors resorted to eating the flesh of those killed to survive.
All in all, quite good, if a bit long.
My one disappointment?
I wanted one of them to say, “You know, this tastes a lot like chicken.”
If I recall correctly, here name was Diane Kerr.
Aunty Di believes that many Aboriginal people’s health problems stem from ‘a type of post-traumatic syndrome disorder’ which seeps into our culture and comes from ‘the stress and distress of being removed off country.’
I came across from Horsham this arvo.
Lots of water still lying in paddocks and everywhere looks greener than spring.
On the alleged demise of Infidel Tiger.
Something doesn’t ring true. He didn’t strike me as the type to fabricate a much younger blog persona as a blog cover.
“Where’s the wine list?”
We too watched Society of the Snow last night.
Very well done but if you know the story then maybe not worth your time.
Happens to me all the time, Dot. There are often 3 or 4 which can rise up to 6, just because it’s me I think, not because of what I say.
Curious behaviour.
On the point of Tomahawk missiles for the collins class subs H I Sutton, a supposed noted and well versed ‘expert’ in submarines has stated:
The Collins class is one of the largest non-nuclear submarines and has a relatively large weapons load. Carrying Tomahawks aboard is thus not as challenging as on smaller submarines. The adjustments to the weapons stowage and handling would be minor. The U.S. made combat system, which connects to the weapons launch, would need to be upgraded. But this is to be expected during the LOTE anyway. The Tomahawks will provide the RAN with a ‘first night’ strike capability which could be employed in both tactical and strategic scenarios.”
In the same article from May 2022 the following statements were also made:
Australia is looking at outfitting its in-service Collins-class submarines with Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles as part of their forthcoming Life of Type Extension (LOTE).
Ben Felton 18 May 2022
Additional reporting by Xavier Vavasseur
During a briefing on the sidelines of INDO PACIFIC 2022, Rear Admiral Peter Quinn, head of Navy Capability said that the Royal Australian Navy is “doing the work” to see if equipping the Collins with Tomahawk is feasible.
“We’re doing the work to look at what it would take to put Tomahawk into those [Collins class] ships”
I note that the good Rear Admiral has incorrectly called them ships…
Same as me.
Left school, left home, got a job, grew up.
It was DEI and Climate.
The Climate side was pursued mainly by two things: the development of the Wisk, and a focus on “Sustainable Aviation Fuel”. With SAF, they have basically given up thinking a large passenger plane can be powered by anything other than hydrocarbons, and are basically looking at any means of producing these hydrocarbons other than digging them up. All such means use a lot of energy to produce SAF.
BBC.
Doing its bit for morale in the cold war…
https://archive.org/details/TheWarGame_201405
I love the way the “west” chooses to nuke, but the russkies are ” forced” to retaliate.
Senior government figures are concerned that progressing decisively and overtly on the policy
…those deliberately serpentine laws were barely covered by a slimy post-facto “stakeholder consultation process”- impenetrable and unapologetically presented as a foregone conclusion.
could trigger a campaign like the one led by the Pastoralists and Graziers Association to kill off WA Labor’s Aboriginal heritage laws in 2023.
Read, would be quickly abandoned when the facade crumbled, and not even the pinkest of marxist revisionist Guardian jismists could paint a word picture of how they could be anything other than a cement-set boon for the black-washed Corporations and their solicitors.
But, Pastoralists and Graziers boo hiss!
That 53-y-o bird is hard watching. I mean, why do so many Americans seem to only put their finger on the nub of the woes of the world when they’re sitting in their cars? Do they have no private spaces where they can think and try a few alternate takes? Lovelorn botox bird could obvs do something at home, she lives by her herself after all. Maybe from the bathtub.
And what’s more…. how can the Yanks be so unhappy when their car interiors are so schmick? Tan leather, plush columns, like a 90’s Volvo, all the way. They got that right, christ knows why in a punishingly sunny country like Oz every interior surface, panel, dash, cushion, handle, strap and button is bitumen black.
Camel meat in Australia is basically disease free. Quarantine laws have ensured that.
I trust it more then beef* … .GOV requires the beef stake on your plate to be injected with all sorts of shit.
*I’ve yet to eat camel.
____
Jack Out The Back:
Regret Never Trying Camel Sausages: Harvesting Feral Camels
Sheesh, my wife is 53. 54 tomorrow. But she’s got her own teeth and … the other things which start with a T.
I don’t think that many women realize that, for reasons which give a lot of credence to evolutionary psychology, men are innately attracted to women who are born with it. And we’re fundamentally disturbed by augmented femmes.
Whereas women might be attracted to men who pile their achievements and purchases onto their persons, be it suits or jewels or muscles or tattoos, because they want to know that a man can wrestle and win and forcibly take things from the wild wild world.
All this with the assumption that men are made for women, and women are made for men. Poor Mizz 53, I don’t know if she knows why she wants what she wants. She’s talking as if she wants a man to do a lot of things that could be done by a Golden Retriever.
I wanted one of them to say, “You know, this tastes a lot like chicken.”
“Where’s the wine list?
…sides include farva beans. Our house wine is chianti. Seconds anyone?
Interesting, nothing changes in this, just new people come along.
Mark Twain’s posthumously published novel “The Mysterious Stranger” (1916) is set in 16th-century Austria, a time and place where witch hunts were rampant, leading to the persecution and execution of innocent individuals accused of involvement in the occult.
The section below presents Twain’s reflections on humanity, shaped by the considerable hardships he endured later in life.
His views on human nature are encapsulated in a poignant observation: “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
This statement underscores Twain’s perspective on people.
Statement
Alaskan airlines mishap, looks like the mounting blocks were/remained intact.
Johannes Leak.
Peter Broelman.
Christian Adams.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel #2.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Tom. Happy Friday.
God Bless Archbishhop Anthony Fisher — he’s come out swingin’ and good for him
Twain was an optimist.
Most people are kind and decent except when they are frightened. The rest are religious.
Unfortunately, most people are cowards and easily frightened. And most desperately need to belong to a gang, and can be frightened by the threat of exclusion.
We’re a pathetic species. And on average, too stupid to survive.
Yes, this is long overdue. The case against Pell was a travesty and could only have been brought in a thoroughly corrupt system. And it still is corrupt, else something would have been done about it.
Johannes Leak is a bloody genius — his cartoon today is an absolute corker. Woolworths is a disgrace it is NOT an Australian company — Woolworths International (Australia) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the South African-based, Woolworths Holdings Limited. given that it is South African racism is perhaps baked in to the organisation.
By the way I hope all gatti and gattine have gone onto the Woolies complaint department and thoroughly excoriated the decision-makers for hating Australia and Australians — what are Woolies executives? earthians perhaps?
Complaints to Woolworths – there is no email address to do this rather if you visit this page it is mostly by phone or a feedback form but jamming the phone lines wouldn’t be a bad idea or send the only email address I could find is: [email protected]: the head of HR is Joanne Canavan
from the net
Woolworths is NOT an Australian company — Woolworths International (Australia) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the South African-based, Woolworths Holdings Limited.
Yes, it is. It’s heartening to see sanity in the public press. Likewise Dennis Shanahan’s article about Pell.
I don’t expect much from ceos of large companies. They are driven by whackos in the HR Departments these days.
Twain was a depressive, possibly bipolar. Unusually common in literary creative types. Nancy Andreasen, former Prof of Psych at Harvard, did an study and found at least 1/3 of writers had a mood disorder. There’s more to unpack there and it is fascinating that creativity in all realms is associated with mental illness. In relation to Twain, whether or not we should trust his observations on humanity is a very difficult question. I certainly wouldn’t dismiss his view outright. More broadly, by what metrics do we make judgments about humanity?
Full text available, technical article.
The relationship between creativity and mood disorders
I have just sent this email off to St Mary’s Cathedral in support of His Excellency Archbishop Anthony Fisher – I hope others send emails of support too – the address is [email protected]
Tinta, I’ll have to correct you there. The South African Woolworths Holdings Limited is a department store and other retail company that used to own David Jones and still owns Country Road, Mimco, Witchery and other clothing brands. If it has a subsidiary Woolworths International (Australia) that would be the holding company for its Australian interests, which after the sale of David Jones are the Country Road brands and stores.
Woolworths Limited is an ASX-listed company that owns and operates the Woolworths supermarkets. It has no relationship to the South African company. Wikipedia, for what its worth, clearly states that the South African Woolworths and the Australian Woolworths are totally separate and have no relationship to each other.
That’s probably true of literary people. I doubt if it holds for engineers. Of course, creative people aren’t generally popular, to be everybody’s friend you have to live by clichés, so there’s a need to be solitary. But the belief that to be an individual you have to be a whacko is going to be popular among the collectivists. And they’ll easily find evidence to support their belief.
As Tinta says Leak’s Woolworths cartoon is brilliant and hopefully causes a stir in Woolworths.
Or should we say Boston Consulting group as the CEO and four of its 4 top executives have worked there.
Dutton has read the room on this one and Woolworths hopefully will see the result in their next reporting period.
If the big corporates want to play the woke game then let’s all play and spend our money accordingly.
US FAA to investigate Boeing 737 blowout. I wonder if they’ll consider what role Trump may have had.
I wonder if they’ll consider what rôle DEI may have had.
You are speaking for yourself.
So why are we at the top of the tree, BG? And surviving pretty well?
Either it is because all other species are even less able to adhere to your standards of perfection, or because there is a God that favours us.
Which do you prefer?
I take exception to the blanket term ‘mental illness.’ Was Picasso mentally ill? Mozart? Michelangelo?
OK, a lot of great writers were big drinkers, but the vast majority of big drinkers were not great writers.
It is true that artists tend to have a different perspective on things, and have messy personal lives.
What I object to is the medicalisation of their lives as being due to ‘mental illness.’ The implication is that anyone who has unconventional perspectives or lifestyles is mentally ill. That includes genuine hermits and people who prefer to stay on the move with no fixed address, for example.
A lot of artists are nutcases by Catallaxy standards, as we often highlight, but the medical profession’s and the State’s widening of the term ‘mentally ill’ should always be treated with extreme caution.
Israeli women and girls have suffered horrific sexual violence from Hamas. Where is the outrage? Guardian.