Put by mistake at the end of the last thread.Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare October 17, 2024 7:13 pm Lizzie I could almost…
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But your Honour my client is committed to helping young people and therefore deserving of leniency. He is ultimately an…
Lizzie, unfortunately our recent American guests (from Seattle) were incorrigible Democrats. But they also are in despair re their country…
There were conservative posters back before he was first elected. They said “New Labour, New Danger”.
And Malcolm Fraser, I think?
The name’s Dib. Jihad Dib.
There’s a movie series in there somewhere.
shatterzzz
Jan 23, 2024 2:18 PM
So BRADBURY has, at last, found a mug company to better the “trough” .. set to announce his resignation and collect the lifetime rip-off from the vote-herd …!
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That’s being most unkind to Bradbury. At least he had the talent to make an Olympic final. Morrison has demonstrated no such talent even as PM to qualify for the position of tuck shop coordinator. Just another waste of space and a vote.
Dover
Please elucidate.
God, I hate this stuff.
In theory, you could get two mistrials/hung juries (2/11, 2/11) and be convicted in the third (10/11) on a rotating menu of indictments overall with sick jurors etc with 14/33 finding you guilty from the combined pools of jurors. The first two may have deliberated for days or weeks. The third and final one now could be changed to…four hours. Equivalent to a day or less of cross-examination, really.
It’s completely ridiculous given the ubiquity of the surveillance state, belief in scientism and implacable DPP with the finances of the State of NSW etc.
The intelligent solution is to stop extorting people.
Cheers, bespoke. It’s kind of you to remember; our 55th anniversary was on the 11th of this month.
No one cares, but the old cream apera was part of family recipes to make stuffing and sometimes gravy.
Since they went belly up and were taken to by the razor gang, the cream apera isn’t cream apera and the sweet sherry is close, the brown muscat seems not as high quality, despite always being a cheapo.
Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
So it’s unanimous: everyone in power, from the White House, to the hedge fund managers, to the Supreme Court of the United States has decided to destroy the country by allowing it to be invaded. That leaves the population to defend itself. Where are the men of Texas? Why aren’t they protecting their state and the nation?
From memory I think it was on the 11th. I’ve forgotten the number of years. She has though been most fortunate.
Too slow in my old age.
It isn’t strange at all, Dover.
You have to put yourself in the position of the customer and weigh the threat. There may be objective points to be made, but a business is all about customer service. Does my customer feel threatened, for instance? Am I delivering a good product by allowing my employees to have them feel so threatened?
I’ve has some wokkas who’ve been…forthright…when dealing with the customer. And the inevitable complaint. While agreeing that the complainant might have been a d*ckhead, it’s all about service.
So it was a case of tone down the language or change sites. This is not difficult stuff when running a business.
Ok, I’ll play the devel.
Has a second year humanity’s student hacked Dovers site?
Or has he secratly converted to Islam?
Bother
“Had”
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Megan:
No to a Plebiscite, no to a change of date.
If the Perpetually Aggrieved want to change they can have quiet little celebrations in their back yards.
Australia Day is Jan 26th. Not up for discussion with them. They bitch about it every bloody year, along with the Republic.
And if we wanted to change it back, there’d be a “No Way”. Their arguments only go one way – what they want.
I’m sick of arguing with these idiots who are tolerated far too often.
Good grief. I’m lucky to remember my own. And the Beloved even luckier!
I lie. It’s 48 years in March. Poor bugger.
Then it must be 5yrs since I sent you this tune which I send to you again.
JOHNNY MATHIS ~ The Twelfth Of Never
Calli, that’s one advantage living with the family: daughter always gives Best Man a heads up about approaching special event.
Damon at 1:26 pm asked for locations where they perform dog opera. Sorry, Damon. My dog’s a metalhead.
I love Eyrie‘s phrase re gubbermint:
Johnny Rotten‘s insult @ 3:01pm:
Beaker, who is now a chapter president of an OMG demands an immediate apology. (In cash).
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Record the conversations – for your own records. You can delete them later and make written records, depending on what State you are in.
Beautiful song, P.
Yes, I think it was five years ago.Thank you for your kindness. Truly you are a Cat Treasure to be admired and heeded.
Had mine on the nineteenth. Thirty three years so I was told.
We has stuffed crust pizza to celebrate.
Life is good.
Fair point Dover.
They only have to be successful once. There’s no Isabella &Ferdinand waiting in the wings.
It was never about EV vs REAL CARS. It was a trap.
I believe it is “Lab Rats” 1% OMG.
According to the FBI they are heavily involved in the meth trade and the manufacture and shipping of Disco Biscuits.
Cross them at your peril.
Congratulations to you and your wife, bespoke.
I recall your wife had some serious medical issues within past years. Hope everything is working out well for both of you.
I’ll do so by responding to Calli:
Sure, but what is crucial here, the customer’s subjective feeling or your objective assessment of whether or not the employee threatened or acted in an unpleasant manner to the customer? It can’t be both.
Married 52 years and more important things to do with her than waste time and effort here with dregs like Mark Strapon strafing the threads. If the USA is intent on knackering itself, and based on the number of bad people in positions like DAs and judges, not to mention media and upper level state governments, the USA is not going to be saved by one man. It will not be saved at all.
No, Dover, it can’t.
This is the joy of running a business…like Virgin for instance.
In the end you have to compromise.
Also…you don’t let your employees run you.
It isn’t their house on the line.
Gosh. Five minutes have passed and no rebuttal, except for the robot.
It is Delta. Owe granddaughter will spend her first night at home soon thanks to the tenacity of my wife in this long battle.
Excellent news, bespoke!
I know it has been a long and very hard battle. Enjoy your victory.
Gaza Houthi update
Make sure to follow Mark Steyn’s showdown with the odious Michael Mann at his website here.
Called up the old man to wish him well on his 97th birthday today. He’s still very much compos mentis, which is encouraging for his genetic descendants. 🙂 Still living in his and her home, still on his computer, still following the soccer and politics both local and international. His wife (my mother died long ago) is getting forgetful at 88, but so far they are doing remarkably well.
I asked him if he’d ever want to go back and live in Holland, and he said ‘of course not. It’s 3C maximum there today, and if I stepped out of the house, I’d slip on the ice and break my neck.’
Cherish them while they’re here, H/T Calli.
“My dog’s a metalhead”
So’s mine, but I love him anyway. Unfortunately he’s not fond of opera, so I have to leave him at home.
death of 21 idf in building collapse confirmed.
I hope he has ditched all that ‘experts say…’ nonsense and is enjoying his daily egg.
Daily Mail.
Michael Mansell assures us that the “British were armed to the teeth.” The convicts were issued weapons?
Joh, life comes at you fast at that age. To try to make up for his absence for their anniversary, I printed up some photos of the grandies, framed them and sent them today to Mum via some small couriers.
The future for her to cling to.
I used to take pity on my husband by asking him what he wanted for anniversary, Valentines Day, birthday and then he would say what do I want, problem solved and everybody happy. My birthday is two weeks after his so it still worked.
Salvatore, Iron Publican
Jan 23, 2024 1:59 PM
There is the explanation, look at the content of your posts that are attracting downs, if you can’t see the pattern then you are not as an astute observer as you might think.
Many who bitterly complain and protest have dozens of posts up with no dissenting down votes.
To answer the criticism of using the downtick instead of not replying with arguments, simple, most of the time it would make it personal, and would be more hurtful than a simple tick.
Pointing out personality flaws in others, as we perceive it, is not a good look on a blog where most of us are just pixels.
Not everyone is for stoushes.
And the compromise is exactly what I said.
Virgin are idiots.
You shouldn’t go out of your way to piss customers off.
Just to a pleasant, competent service provider.
Just be.
Not to.
I don’t know how they talked Danny DeVito into half the stuff he says/does in Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
He looks like he’s having more fun in this than anything else I’ve seen him in.
It ain’t looking good for the lovebirds…
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dover0beach
Jan 23, 2024 7:15 PM
Employees dont work for the Boss .. they work for them selves .. The Customers see you as a worthwhile conduit to the resources that the business you are representing presents for trade. If they are doing the customer crook you dont bad mouth the boss .. and if you did the customer will hate you ” Love the treason but hate the traighter ” … as an employee you have to play the cards straight … a crap Boss can always lose good people to the Customer …
What a memory you have!
For a couple of decades plus he was deprived of his beloved boiled breakfast egg because his idiot doctors told him that the cholesterol in them would kill him. Like many men, he greatly enjoyed his simple pleasures, and that was one of them. Bastards, ruined the start of his day for about 25 years. Oh, and bacon – practically fatal. None of that.
He now eats eggs and bacon again, but nowhere as often as he used to. They scared the daylights out of him, because he’d had a heart attack (30 years ago).
IMHO, elderly people should be able to eat whatever they want. Life is not a healthfoods gymnasium.
Driller, will just STU you blistering blowhard. The site is being gamed with ticks and you’re one of the offenders. As someone said, on Discord, you’ve accrued some pretty mighty ticks lately and most of your stupid, self-serving comments go unnoticed with almost no replies. You’re a vulnerable narcissistic idiot with zero to add. And a copycat too. Blowhard has a copyright as it only refers to you, cowboy.
Now, go attend the faux pub, you know the one, the one that lives in your delusional small mind.
Daily egg…singular, I note.
Why skimp?
Yeah…nah.
That was entirely down to Shorten.
Hmm. Yes. You don’t sound like someone from the r/antiwork subreddit.
The customers just want their product in a timely fashion, without any screw-ups, at a decent price.
Nice fake misspelling.
Yeah, I’m sure a 17-year-old kid at Maccas is going to start being an executive chef for a wealthy customer if the restaurant is mismanaged.
Another 13-hour shift begins.
Dinner party … “all the people I hire just keep evaporating…. cant find any good Help these days” ….
Oh Gosh …
Dot, check out the “Bunchers” sub Reddit.
I’m not good at word games Dover. Or just games (ask my grandies about SushiGo). Better at jigsaws.
If we are agreed, then that’s enough for me.
Ever had the chat from the Customer when the Boss gives you a lukewarm reference … Oh now that you no longer work for Bosswanker INc … I can tell you a thing or two … and they do and you get a glowing reference from the Customer and a job offer ?
In the sleeper cabin?
Explain, because perhaps I misunderstood. You suggested that a gay person could take offense at a cross or a star of D in the same way a Jew could take offense at a Pali lapel badge. I then suggested it’s a little different because neither organized Jewish nor Christian groups want shirt-lifters dead. At least that I know of. And in view of the recent melee on Oct 7th, Jews could justifiably be offended by a Pali lapel badge and feel threatened. Hamarse isn’t exactly an outside presence in Gaza, is it? It’s an organized group intent on killing Jews, as their charter explains. What am I missing?
People are offended by anything these days, while some people could be justifiably offended (and threatened) by some actual offensive stuff.
Beef Wellington, liberally coated with mushrooms I assume.
My grandfather ran his own business for 50 years, finally passed on at 103 and his daily breakfast consisted on large slabs of white bread, black pudding or bacon and a couple of large mugs of tea. Possibly could be that having control over your lifestyle and enjoying what you do might lead to longer/better life than strict diets …
Rubbish employers think that they own the market and the employees. Well they do until they don’t . But then feel so stung when it all fails to meet their expectations …
Oh The Customers !!! Oh My staff!!! I gave them so much … and now they have all deserted me .
Almak
I suspect it has more to do with genes and the ability of long life genes to counteract or ignore offensive junk thrown at them.
Can’t find it, I assume it’s about jabronis or TP.
Kodak
It’s about a fake group dating site that originated on Always Sunny that became a real thing.
Were you a Woolworths manager as well?
I’d add that Scomo campaigned very well. He’s not called “Scotty from marketing” without some reason.
He was a cleanskin in that election. He ran on his above-average marketing ability.
Alas for Scomo, at the next election he had to run on his record. This presented him with quite some difficulties in marketing.
A ten minute Aussie sci fi short.
Outbound (2023)
Worthy. You can do a great deal with not much, if you have imagination.
Shorten, however, was a disaster, particularly in Queensland.
I reiterate.
In other news, I have just read a chapter of The Invincible Girls Club to my granddaughter. Kill me now. Sludge.
There must be something better. Any titles?
Franking credits and negative gearing.
The two horsemen that got Bill.
JC – that probably helps.
Mental resilience and being happy with not much also helped I think. Many folks now expect to have everything real soon, feeding their neuroses with social media c.rap and material envy.
Not a recipe for sustained happiness IMHO.
Anne of Green gables
Lol! With an “e” of course.
Thanks Rosie.
Two points.
First, “the customer is always right”.
Second, in this modern age of “feelz”, those who push that type of behavior need to lead the way. Organisations like Qantas and Virgin (and CA, AFL and their ilk) show incredible tenderness towards the feelz of “protected” groups. They should treat everyone in the same way.
TC Kirally is looking like it will boomerang back to the coast after crossing.
JTWC & CIMSS both have a Bowen area crossing at Cat 2.
BOM persisting with a more northen crossing and haven’t named it yet.
I trust the JTWC as they seem to get it right more often than not.
Sure. The one ingredient to a long life that I often read is how a person who’s living long has few concerns and an even temperament. Likely helps.
I mentioned it a short while ago, our friend’s father who is nearing 101 just had stomach surgery to remove a cancer, and while it was iffy just after the op, the old dog is recovering and just about to head back home.
SloMo was at best a Bait & Switch for the Waffleworth types. Julie couldn’t even manage that. Spud may yet have the last laugh.
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Bruce of Newcastle
Jan 23, 2024 8:01 PM
I have been subbed to Dust since forever ago .. almost everything they do is garbage but that one was a “flash in the pan” .. there are others but all too few .. Thanks for the notice.
You can always go at least 2 3 4 years over reading age for read aloud.
Seven little Australians or the susan Cooper series, tom’s midnight garden, e e nesbit, Rosemary Manning’s dragon series, silver brumby books, my friend flicka, pollyanna, daddy long legs, Noel Streatfield, Barbara Willard, Lucy M Boston, so many lovely books for girls,
The seminal Chicken Little, calli.
ScoMo is on PM live tonight.
PM : was the 359bill subs deal worth it to secure a few bob per year in retirement?
Nan Chauncy is another fine Australian author.
I disagree. Surprise? Customers are not always right. And that attitude can send you to the wall.
A decent business is one where the product aligns with customer and provider expectations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pippi_Longstocking – funny, strong and cool (old school) character.
see article on Pippi and others: subversive heroines
Calli, the sooner you start them on the Horus Heresy the sooner you’ll get to the Drop Site Massacre.
Great bed time reading.
I’d add that Scomo campaigned very well. He’s not called “Scotty from marketing” without some reason.
Correct, unlike Turdbull who in 2016 not only refused to campaign in marginals but who also clocked off after 1.00 p.m. for lunch.
He was a cleanskin in that election. He ran on his above-average marketing ability.
Correct, the electorate were willing to give him a chance. They didn’t like Shorten.
Also, Morrison in 2019 campaigned very well, he slogged away in marginals which is why what any good campaigner should do.
Alas for Scomo, at the next election he had to run on his record. This presented him with quite some difficulties in marketing.
From May 2019 through to May 2022, he completely trashed the Liberal brand. There was no calvary in May 2022, not after what he did during those years. He was a disaster.
I agree re pippi, kids liked so much we went to Pippi Longstocking world in Sweden.
Also like moonins, Tove Jansen iirc
And old Mrs pepperpot.
All that. Tits came off as an intolerable twerp and the election was just a formality.
Rosie,
those beautiful, beautiful men. I don’t know the words in Jewish, all I can say is God Bless and God Speed.
Nicki Haley says the US can’t have Trump as POTUS because the US and the world cannot have 4 more years of chaos and strife. What a fuking insane comment: the world has been plagued by strife and chaos because of the walking corpse not Trump. During Trump’s 4 years the US and the world had peace and prosperity.
In this case, it wasn’t the product that was the problem (AFAIK, the aircraft reached its correct destination). The problem was that at least some of the staff had what might be called an attitude problem, being at a minimum insensitive to the feelings of a customer.
He had to have his “Nanna nap.”
Thanks guys. All saved for birthday purchases.
I can’t believe how horrible children’s books are these days. The children all have adult thoughts and adult words on adult themes. It’s creepy.
@ Knuckle Dragger
Jan 23, 2024 7:59 PM
“Were you a Woolworths manager as well?”
It is pointless to engage … I might say “I was” .. or I might say “I wasnt” .. but you will make it up for your self any way .. Sure the lieing is annoying but the pointlessness of it all is more mystifying … Why do you bother?
Neither of those issues played bigly in Qld, where he lost it.
Closing coal mines did, however.
Stoicism beats positive thinking and being emotive.
A couple of days ago a doctor stated that he believed the hitherto unknown secret is stress and our social and emotional health. That’s been known for decades but never stop an expert claiming priority for a discovery.
Something is breaking. At earlier ages CVD, some cancers, anxiety, depression, Alz, Parkinson’s, male infertility, and type 2 diabetes are increasing. No-one knows why. The recent generations might be the first in a very long time to experience a reduction in average lifespan. Some reports argue in the USA that began in 2015. Given the long lead time for some of these conditions about 30 years ago something started. There is a long list of possible causes. I expect over the next 5 years there will be a flurry of books addressing the issue.
Gosh NO !! The Customer isn’t always right … or why would they have contracted you services to fix there problem …
They don’t want a tongue wash … they want it fixed …
And a Customer with a working business can be told something they dont like to hear… but as a contractor you have to have got it right …
and you have to be brutal truthfull and polite ..
Else why do you even exist?
Two things, firstly, you are proving my point that the subjective feelings of the customer aren’t determinative, what are are the objective facts of the circumstance. Secondly, you’re conflating the Pali lapel with Hamas; they’re not the same. Moreover, a Palestinian could argue given events post-Oct 7 they feel subjectively threatened by the Star of David/ Israeli flag lapel. Do you really think a judge or jury in Sydney might not find this compelling?
It looks the number is 28 now, not 21.
Bungonia Bee, if you haven’t gone for the night.
Bloggie. I haven’t received any email at all from you yet, so check my email address with Dover. As Cassie has also invited you to meet-ups it might be an idea to get hers as well. Send your email to us both and one or the other of us, both if we’re lucky, should get it or at least retrieve it from the spam folder.
I remember the QLD ABC radio’s Steve Austin, at that time quite impartial, interviewing the state CFMMEU head on prime-time afternoon drive radio.
Austin pushed him to concede that the sentiment among his members was that, while the Liberals might want to attack their work conditions, Shorten wanted to attack their jobs.
John H
How does intolerance to imbeciles figure in the stoicism part of the theory? I have a distinct aversion to imbecility. Does it help a long life?
How about no flags at all apart from the one the airline is registered, simple.
Where do members of Hamas come from? Have they all migrated to Gaza from other Islamic states?
@jc
Jan 23, 2024 8:42 PM
For Shame Sir !
John H had something to say that was personal and heartfelt … but you respond with those pathetic witticisms that show you for who you are.
there is no spoon
all feelings are subjective, but some are less subjective than others. Fear of people wearing white shirts is subjective but also extremely stupid.
Come on, yes they are. 🙂
Sure, and they should after what their elected government allowed.
Dunno, as I’m not arguing a case in front of a beak and a jury. I’m just having a blog conversation with you.
It is the emotional response that matters. Being too emotionally labile is not a good thing. We can be intolerant but that doesn’t mean we have to get hot under the collar.
I’m not sure what I was expecting when I read ‘sci fi,’ but that wasn’t it. That’s not a criticism, as my knowledge of the genre consists of the only two fillums in the now bloated Star Wars franchise worth watching (Episodes IV and V of course), but as a local effort – not bad. Maybe I was expecting more of a story arc than is possible in a short film?
And here’s trans, all tanked up and ready to do what he does each evening. Show us how he was right to self-describe as the fastest lip on building sites. The tradie public intellectual.
Good rant from the Rev.
I was hoping the kid would throw a punch!
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Reverend Simon Sideways
HUGE RANT UK KIDS FORCED TO CONVERT TO ISLAM AT SCHOOL!!!!
John H, The Strap-on is trying to suggest I was being a smart-arse toward you and I wasn’t. I think you know what I was getting at. 🙂
Thanks Cassie, I’d overlooked just how hard Morrison worked on marginals.
On the last day & again on election day, Morrison visited about 6 marginal seats all over the country, speaking to voters until about the last possible minute on election day.
While Morrison was meeting as many marginal voters as possible, Shorten & his proposed cabinet had all knocked off & gone to a huge celebration banquet, including King Prawns flown in from NQ & various other delicacies for Nabobs.
Then had that carefully posed memorable boardroom photo taken of the core transition cabinet, ready to take over in 36 hours time.
@john H.
Jan 23, 2024 8:49 PM
all of the sorts of reasoning and reacting to our environment have a place and time …
Do I duck that punch .. ? Probably best to … time frame a quarter second ..
I am caught in a burn over Bush Fire …which way do I run ” Or walk … Out of the Green into the Black … we talking a minute or so … best to ignore emotion …
Do I hate My father … Time frame ? What informational resources do I have … ?
Heck Yes …
Roy Morgan polling: Australians say January 26 should be known as ‘Australia Day’, (68.5%) and say the date of Australia Day should stay on January 26
(58.5%). Only 31.5% (down 4.5%) say January 26 should be called ‘Invasion Day’.
but wait there is more:
Roy Morgan’s latest Federal voting intention poll shows ALP 52.5% cf. L-NP 47.5% in election winning lead.
Support for Labor has increased 1% to 52.5% ahead of the Coalition on 47.5% (down 1%) on a two-party preferred according to the latest Roy Morgan survey on Federal voting intention.
This week saw a confirmation of trends evident a week ago, after the ABS announced lower-than-expected inflation numbers, with ALP support increasing for a second straight week, up 1% to 32.5%, while Coalition support dropped 1% to 36%.
The Greens increased 0.5% to 12.5% and One Nation increased 0.5% to 5%. Support for Independents & Other Parties was down 1% to 14%.
“…from NQ.” The ironing!
Chuckle.
Good night.
FMD: Sharri interviewing to TDS nitwit adam creighton who opines that even if Trump beats haley the very serious criminal charges against him may bring him down. Very serious; I bet the bastard thinks the wussian dossier was real too.
faster that you
ya monotonous numb-nuts
Another way to address service personnel wearing Palestinian badges. Tell them about Palestinian homophobia, misogyny, honor killings, etc, etc. If they answer back, remind them they’re at work and their job is to ensure you have a pleasant trip, not to dispute a customer’s political views. Submit a formal complaint if they respond in any way apart from offering decent service.
then…?
Earlier:
Then don’t do it.
Yes it is.
tan
Muddy – I just thought it was a nice short story. A rope on a bit of grass and maybe a drone with some fishing line and you have mysterious! Ok, maybe they had a helicopter. They managed some CGI late in the vid but most of it you could’ve done yourself on your phone with whatever you have in the house. Yet it caught me with expectation and interest.
He!
spazz-chuck incoming
Waffleworth saw the office of PM as merely the fulfilment of his manifest destiny. Electioneering was beneath him.
Something is breaking. At earlier ages CVD, some cancers, anxiety, depression, Alz, Parkinson’s, male infertility, and type 2 diabetes are increasing. No-one knows why.
Highly processed foods.
HFCS & other added sugars.
Seed oils.
Lack of vitamin D.
I reckon that’s a start.
No one is quicker on the uptake than a self described God Oracle, Trans. You buffoon.
@john H.
Jan 23, 2024 8:49 PM
Do I still Love my wife .. she was once beautiful and got my sorry backside sorted … but now she is sick and needs help … cant even mop the floor … sometimes cant get out of bed
Time frame 25 years plus …
What do you do ?
I think you know … Brother
I bet the bastard thinks the wussian dossier was real too.
Not at all.
He’s tight with the Grayzone guys these days who were calling out that horseshit very early on.
Which begs the question, considering those guys have lost their mind over Isreal & Sharri knows who he’s hanging with, why did she have him on?
Can’t provide any evidence, but that it what my tribe (the Dutch) do. None of this wailing and throwing ourselves around at the gravesite stuff. Bit like the English stiff upper lip.
Indulging in hysteria and treating it as a good thing tends to lead to more of the same thing. People getting wound up to no constructive end, Much better to put one foot ahead of the other and get on with it.
On another note, I may have been supping a glass (OK, two) of fine Shiraz outside a local hostelry this afternoon in view of a major highway in these parts. At an intersection, so I got to view closely the endless stream of big trucks hauling sand and gravel and timber and earthmoving equipment and pipes, and in between them were the smaller trucks with all the gear that tradies require. An endles stream. Hundreds and hundreds, just on that one road.
And this dickhead government fantasises about making them all electric in a few years?
I suppose it all looks feasible from Marrickville, But in the real world, it is fantasyland.
What’s all this stuff about presents for birthdays, valentine’s day?, anniversaries. I only remember my own coz its my niece’s as well. We don’t really do presents though somehow no2 son got a trip to Japan courtesy of wife for their honeymoon which was postponed due to covid. I said, “I wouldn’t have minded going to Japan”. Oh well he says shrugging his shoulders.
@KD
My point is I dont have to lie … I never have ..but now you are here to do it for me ..
A coach once gave us a nip of Stones at three-quarter time in an under-17s inter-league match played down on the coast.
I swear, there was only one low dune between us and Antarctica, and the wind was coming directly from there at a rate of knots.
You once said so.
Bolton, why were you in jail for? What did you do?
Blight of the King Prawns?
Gair redux.
For the past 23years I have eaten 3 boiled eggs, actually steamed in a Breville Egg Cooker each day for breakfast.
I will be 84yrs old in a several days time and have no health problems, with the exception of a rise in my blood pressure and am at present on no medication.
My doctor told me this morning that the rise in my blood pressure at this stage of my life is caused by decrepit, old age.
I now have to wait to see if the presciption I received this morning will bring it down.
I love my eggs and at times have had up to 5 during a day, and I am still here.
Does Cummins see himself launching on a Pocock – erm – journey.
How long before preselection is dependant upon your last year’s stats.
As an august personage has said on this site, ‘I am so furkin sick of this sh*t”.
@jc
I was accused of date rape … I was 45 and she was of the same age … it was a pack of lies and I eventually proved it to be so .
SF short fiction is a minor art form. Think of something plausible, then tell a tale.
Here is one I heard about from my old dad, who isn’t a SF fan. But it caught him when he read it, he told me, and I later was able to find it in an anthology.
The Ruum – Arthur Porges (1953)
Indubably.
Salvatore.
True. But she was reengaged by the Trot and sent to Davos by the Trot.
I said the same thing to my colleague, the other Me262 test pilot while flying over the Ruhr in 1944. That was before I invented the Polaroid camera and started work as a bus driver.
Righto.
I doubt that very much.
Go over to michaelsmithnews and see the tonguebath Abbott gives Morrison.
No time for either of the two scumbags. Abbott strikes me as one who successfully learned how to fake sincerity. Jailer of Pauline Hanson. Nice way to do politics, Tony you scum.
I should add that this same government plans to build a gazillion homes under Net Zero in the next few years. Only electric trucks can deliver sand and gravel and timber.
Right.
Why isn’t the Coalition … oh, OK. The Uniparty.
That’s odd Graeme Bird, because the poor fellow whose identity you stole, had legal trouble from 2003 – 2007 and was single.
@jc
I know where you want to go with this … you want to trowel on the uptick lingustics and the mockery regardless of the actual facts of the matter…. you want to and try to be funny debonair and dismissive.
You are none of these things …
And you attack and piss off and talk over decent people with interesting stories to tell …
You are a bore and a loud mouth ..
You are then going to end up with a laicity style regime as in France but extended to political symbols. What then when they contradict their own policy with rainbow flags, ‘Yes’ paraphernalia, and so on?
Dot at 6:03.
Yeah, the effective double jeopardy thing after several hung juries is a problem.
I guess my main point was around the conclusion that shortening the time limit for majority verdicts from 8 hours to 4 hours was suddenly going to lead to a swag of wrongful convictions, and somehow these would be weighted heavily towards Aboriginal defendants.
OK, it’s no surprise that an Aboriginal Legal Service would run this line.
But what bugs me is that the j’ism just regurgitates the claim without asking for any evidence.
I think Alan Jones was found to be misleading by a government regulatory bureau on this question.
Are you conceding Palestine is a state? Is Hamas the West Bank too?
Guy s ? How about pack this kingergarten stuff in and just wait for interesting people to get to tell thier stories?
Bolton, you once told us you’ve been in jail and I think it would be an “interesting story” to tell us why. I’ve been meaning to ask since you posted that revelation. Also, it wouldn’t be the first time you’ve been asked when you volunteer this. What happened?
Roger Rogerson is dead, good riddance.
His actions & the overall actions of the NSW plod were straight lines from the Wran cartel.
If NSW had a Fitzgerald-type enquiry at the same time Queensland did, instead of waiting a decade to have the Wood RC into plod alone, I doubt whether Wran, Whelan etc would have gone the to grave without seeing the inside of a prison.
calli
Jan 23, 2024 8:05 PM
I reiterate.
Over the last couple of years I’ve noticed SciFi has been gradually going Woke. Stories written around global warming as if it is a fact, diminishing resources, Heterosexuality as if it’s abnormal.
One was about a company sized detachment on a spaceship that was fully on with non violent soldiers and non injurious weapons – and it wasn’t a spoof of the old style Space Marines etc. It was as if the writer was fully sold on the woke concepts.
I nearly deleted the book but continued on to see if there was going to be a punch line – non threatening, of course, and fully in touch with their feminine side.
Everyone was concerned about their speech being to abrasive… If that’s where SF is going, I’m going to reread Lucifers Hammer and The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.
@jc
I dont care to relate with such as you .
No joke, real ABC headline and accompanying story.
Dude’s had it with menopause.
ZK2A, in the early days of the Sydney colony they were faced with starvation perhaps due to no Irish having planted the praties the year before.
A substantial few convict4s were issued muskets and set to hunting roos.
There was an audit and recall a few years later; the quote I remember is that ‘of some 200 stands of arms issued, not 80 were returned.’
A ‘stand of arms’ is apparently a musket, bayonet, cartridge box and belt.
Back when civil discourse was a thing I used to be a strong Wkipedia editor of the page then known as ‘Gun Politics in Australia’. This quote showed that many of the convicts and the Establishment were working together. The possession of the arms of the Crown by a trusty was not a bad thing if it meant getting dinner in a day or two.
You could try Greg Egan. Some interesting ideas and regarded as modern day hard Scifi.
I’m hoping for a screen version of Michael Moorcock’s fantasy novels.
What a freak.
In the olden days freaks used to live private lives.
Now they start podcasts.
Calli:
Any Titles?
“The Drovers Wife”.
“Portnoys Complaint.”
Any of the Bobbsey twins books.
(I don’t know how old they are so that doesn’t help.)
I have a confession to make.
To the extent that any of Bolt On’s comments are coherent, I have been giving the sillier ones the thumbs down.
Please understand. I might have to join Thumbs Down Anonymous.
@ JC
These are the sorts of boring inflammatory and time wasting issues you bring into the conversation .. The ABC remind me ? What is that … ?
Now hush for a bit and wait to hear real people with interesting points of view … If we wanted the ABC we would be onto it but we arent .
The whole reason why discussion boards exist is so we dont have to ..
If you believe the 2020 election was a complete fraud, you can’t go past this string of tweets by America First Legal.
LITIGATION BOMBSHELL — we sued the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the censorship arm of DHS.
Our lawsuit unearthed new docs showing that the deep state knew the risks of mass mail voting in 2020 but censored these criticisms as “disinformation.”
They knew there was going to be fraud, they knew covid presented little risk and they coerced tech to censor.
You fall for the same trap education administrators and CEOs get into, Dover.
Turning something that can be easily fixed into some winded excuss for a struggle session and display of nuances.
It not unreasonable to insist staff to be neutral especially in a confined space such as an aircraft.
Cohenite:
Choked by her own words. I never trusted her or that other woman whose name I cannot remember. People were saying about two years ago she had VP potential!
They are both snakes in the grass.
Mmmyes.
Absolutes rarely hold up.
Customers who want to twist your arm to sell below cost?
Customers who abuse your staff?
Customers who threaten to post shit reviews unless you cough up freebies?
If you believe that maxim, you support Colesworth in every dispute with suppliers.
If they’re using it against indigenous folk, the intent is to use it against you. They’re counting on racism to make it happen, so treat them as individuals and stop the rot.
@john H.
Jan 23, 2024 9:46 PM
at work yesterday i kept thinking about “the Go Between ” .. such an interesting story … it starts with something like “The past is a different Country , they do things differently there” .. it is a great read.
I so loved it .. a woman who was a bit flamboyant is blammed for all sorts of mayhem where as men going off and slaughtering each other is just fine and normal …
It really is a great book ..
I’d almost trust Biden with a pre-pubescent girl over Haley, but not quite, only because Biden is a certain rock spider.
I was a secret agent astronaut before I got a job at a servo.
All the other secret agent astronauts and I used to wander about, saying profound, life-changing statements to each other. We nodded at each other, brothers in arms all undergoing unspeakable privations under the heavy hand of The Man, but it made us better people.
After the servo I was headhunted to become a lumberjack after I was busted pinching the KitKats. But was it so bad? Pinching KitKats that really belonged to The Establishment?
What do I do? What do any of us do? About anything?
Peace out, brothers.
Bolton
If you don’t like the story then move on. It’s not as though this is singularly the only one of it’s type posted here 1000 times a day. We’ve rarely interacted and because I asked you that question, you’re going bananas? If you didn’t want to be asked, you shouldn’t have posted the comment.
How dare you!
Don’t you “He!” me, champ!
@KD If the most interesting thing you have to post is trying to rake up some controversy about things I never said …
Look at your self man ?
Chuckle!
JC
Jan 23, 2024 10:02 PM
That is not the case. I don’t interact with you unless you interact with me.
I often thought his sole ambition was to get his portrait in the Great Hall.
That and leave a Signature Legacy Project behind. Unless they can free Florence the Tunnel Boring machine, he is left with the portrait.
Sigh!
I only suggested it, Bob, because I’m 99% certain it would result in the same outcome as the much more expensive referendum. Issue is the same – cave in to the indigenous victim minority or tell them we’re keeping it as is and they and their whiny woke supporters can have several years of sulking as a consequence. Plus remove our access to WTCs. That’ll learn us.
It is the case, but in this case never mind.
Lucifer’s Hammer rocked.
The split in SF and the whole woke publishers vs Baen thing is a big old story at Instapundit and Sarah Hoyt’s blog.
I really recommend Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game for a teenager of either sex.
CJ Williams ‘The Galleon‘, ‘D-Day‘ or perhaps their mermaid series might be good SF for reading to a youngster.
Just lately I have started Larry Correia’s new series with, Son of the Black Sword. Monster Hunter Nation was a good series though I got tired after a few; both are violent adult fiction though.
For another high quality story; I really enjoyed the world created in Jacqueline Carey, ‘Kushiel’s Dart‘.
Meh – First President of the Australian Republic.
I’m not arguing whether you’d be successful, I’m suggesting an administrator/ judge/ or jury could find the “Palestinian argu[ing] given events post-Oct 7 they feel subjectively threatened by the Star of David/ Israeli flag lapel” plausible?
Last thing I said to the Prince as I left just after 6pm for a roughly 90 minute jaunt across town on East Link – ‘I won’t be long, there won’t be much traffic at this time of night.’
Aha! Foiled! Did not get even 1km from my driveway. The Highway Police Witches Hat distributor had dutifully cut off the street ahead and I could see flashing lights halfway up the hill. No matter, I’m going right. Hmmm. More stationary vehicles here than normal for this time of night. Suddenly the witches hat plod looked up the road, took off running for his vehicle, grabbed an extinguisher and headed to the lights about 100 metres away where a small puff of smoke could be seen.
A silver BMW was conducting its very own self immolation in my lane, ten cars in front of me. Probably a gesture of defiance to the EVs. Took the fireys less than a minute it put it out once they got there but alas the Beemer was no more.
Lucky escape for the lady driver. She listened to the drivers around her yelling at her and exited the vehicle PDQ just as the engine bay blew the bonnet off and flames shot into the sky.
I just love free entertainment before a boring drive.
@dover0beach
Jan 23, 2024 10:18 PM
There is a much broader conversation being carried out on just such a topic .
And whose date did you violate?
…
Allegedly.
That’s not an answer. Some of the Arabs of the Levant call themselves Palestinian although there’s never been a Palestinian self governing state. Hamas recruits from the people in Gaza who call themselves Palestinians. Language tricks don’t refute that. Be honest with your devil’s advocacy.
“You buffoon.”
Matrix,
are you Buffoon The Vampire Slayer?
Do you have Angel’s phone number? 😀
No, I don’t believe it’s plausible because threatened has a meaning just as offended has a meaning and the two don’t translate into the same thing.
You may suggest a Pali could be offended by a cross or a star,( becauae they appear to be offended about the smallest thing). But threatened?
What recent threat has a Jew instigated against a pali outside of the war zone where I’m sure the IDF is not playing a ball game.
Threatened means this:
Who put the “men” in “menopause”?
(I’d prefer if we kept my menopause jokes in-house. They can be viewed as not at all funny by some).
Pigria, next time you play the little Miss “Victim” card, let’s recall the above comment. That’s before you go hunting for three burgers and a liter of coke to quench your enteral hunger and thirst.
Where was this neutrality during the plebiscite or the referendum? You, here, fall into the trap of thinking you can attack your opponent with his own weapon only to find yourself affirming the weapon but never seeing it turned against them but only yourself.
LOL