Open Thread – Fri 16 Feb 2024


Tea Drinking in a Tavern, Viktor Vasnetsov, 1874

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Pogria
Pogria
February 16, 2024 8:03 pm

My two cents worth to the 2%. Never stabbed, never tested. I was in the fortunate position that I was not going to starve or be kicked out of my house. I feel for the people that were forced to have the stabs. “My body, My Choice”, only if you want to abort your child.

But I will NEVER forgive the @#$%&$# Police.

Bespoke
Bespoke
February 16, 2024 8:04 pm

When challenged they respond that they can’t be touched as they are bi polar.

I got told the same about a kid with “hyper active” at school.

The enabling been going on for a long time.

Digger
Digger
February 16, 2024 8:05 pm

If willis and her stud are not struck off and this shit case against Trump also thrown out then this is the nail in the coffin of the US.

Grab the hammer….

Dot
Dot
February 16, 2024 8:05 pm

“My body, My Choice”, only if you want to abort your child.

Hey! I was told that was an extreme point of view when I said it!

Roger
Roger
February 16, 2024 8:06 pm

Also kids who claim to be bi polar who spend the day abusing the teachers yelling and throwing chairs.When challenged they respond that they can’t be touched as they are bi polar.

Surely the first step would be to require a medical certificate to that effect?

The kids have already identified so privacy isn’t an issue.

If certified, off to special school where extra resources are available.

cohenite
February 16, 2024 8:07 pm

This is the foreperson (sic), emily kohrs, of the Fulton County grand jury which indicted Trump. Fani fuking willis fought to have emily’s report kept from the public. Look at emily’s interview (there are many of them, the bitch loved her moment of fame) and you know why fani wanted what emily said kept from the public.

You look at the people who are prosecuting Trump and thy are, every one of them, the most corrupt, certifiable fukwits going around; but the msm is o blame because it sides with these lunatics.

Zatara
Zatara
February 16, 2024 8:10 pm

Last August, the PRC shut down the export of 2 important rare earth metals used in semiconductor manufacture: gallium and germanium.

Ouch. Whatever will the west do?

American Rare Earths Inc announced that the reserves near Wheatland dramatically surpass the Asian nation’s 44 million metric tons, saying it ‘exceeded our wildest dreams’ after drilling only about 25 percent of the property.

The newly disclosed figure of 2.34 billion metric tons of rare earth minerals found southwest of Wheatland, Wyoming by American Rare Earths Inc. could dwarf in size the 1.2 million metric ton estimates in northeastern Wyoming that one of its competitors claimed was one of the biggest discoveries in the world.

“This exceeded our wildest dreams, and we only drilled on about 25% of the property,” said Donald Swartz, CEO of American Rare Earths.

Boom, as they say.

Muddy
Muddy
February 16, 2024 8:14 pm

Indolent
Feb 16, 2024 4:12 PM

I keep thinking Neil Oliver can’t get any better. And he keeps surprising me. His latest is absolutely brilliant.

Neil Oliver:
On the aged in care homes during the covidocy (at least initially):

… dosed up on midazelam and morphine and hustled to the exit of life.

What if there was no deadly disease at all? … What if Covid was actually nothing new? Just more of the usual rebranded as something new? Given a scary new name. What if? What if all we got were not the consequences of a new disease, but the effects of the measures that were put in place … What if there was no pandemic at all, just a fiction, that enabled people with an agenda to take over the world? To erase freedom. To censure inconvenient truth. To demonise an awkward minority of people that [sic] wouldn’t comply?

Oliver is musing aloud, of course, and he mentions both The Great War and, briefly, Russia-Ukraine and the Klimate Krisis.

Though I’m extremely bitter about the past several years, and truly believe there is NO political party worth supporting (Why do WE support THEM by the way?), I’m also as yet unconvinced by the secret-cadre-of-puppeteers theory.

If you can understand Neil’s accent, he is definitely worth a watch, however.

Bespoke
Bespoke
February 16, 2024 8:20 pm
Muddy
Muddy
February 16, 2024 8:23 pm

Any thoughts from the political pundits here about Reform UK?
Is this Ukip redux?

Muddy
Muddy
February 16, 2024 8:25 pm

Ben Habib, Reform UK, Northamptonshire:

When I joined Reform UK, I joined it to obliterate the Tory party, but they’ve beaten me to it.

Roger
Roger
February 16, 2024 8:28 pm

Any thoughts from the political pundits here about Reform UK?
Is this Ukip redux?

Polling at 10% presently, Muddy.

Not UKIP, but enough to seriously worry the Tories.

It’s as though the UK is about one election cycle behind France, Germany & the Netherlands.

Muddy
Muddy
February 16, 2024 8:33 pm

Ben Habib:

Anyone who wants to put Labour into office needs their head examined, quite frankly.

A Muddy-tweek: Any Australian who wants to put either Labor-Zero OR the Coalition *Spit* into office, needs to … [Fill in the blank].

Bespoke
Bespoke
February 16, 2024 8:37 pm
Salvatore, Iron Publican
February 16, 2024 8:37 pm

A Muddy-tweek: Any Australian who wants to put either Labor-Zero OR the Coalition *Spit* into office, needs to … [Fill in the blank].

%#10003; %#10003;

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 16, 2024 8:41 pm

A Muddy-tweek: Any Australian who wants to put either Labor-Zero OR the Coalition *Spit* into office, needs to … [Fill in the blank].

[Lay off the bottle?]

[Get a life?]

Salvatore, Iron Publican
February 16, 2024 8:43 pm

Phooey, confused % for & (how silly of me) 🤦 🤦 🤦

caveman
caveman
February 16, 2024 8:46 pm

NRL’s Indigenous vs Maori . Surely team White Man should be included and make it a Tri- Series or would that be too wacisit.

Muddy
Muddy
February 16, 2024 8:47 pm

Pogria
Feb 16, 2024 8:03 PM

But I will NEVER forgive the @#$%&$# Police.

Ditto, but my list is MUCH longer.
Apart from perhaps a handful of politicians, who were vilified and ignored by the FilthFilter, not one community organisation or institution that I can think of, raise even timid questions, let alone objections. Those whom, during ‘normal times’ claimed ‘I/we speak for such-and-such…’ simply vanished.

Name the organisation/institution … I have no respect for any of them now. NONE. They all metaphorically spat in my face and screamed ‘Rodent!!!!!’ so eff them all. I will grudgingly, with the greatest of difficulty (and resentment), interact with those individuals and organisations only if is vital for my interests. None of them, however, will receive my support – financial or otherwise – ever again.

I’ve learned that to hang onto hate and bitterness is damaging only to oneself, but I am absolutely committed to a detached, silent resentment towards the Legion of Covidiots who rejected me and others when we needed support the most.

They still roam free, deluded but pristine in their moral purity. I gaze with cold vengeance at their silhouettes.

Bespoke
Bespoke
February 16, 2024 8:54 pm

I’ve learned that to hang onto hate and bitterness is damaging only to oneself

No your family and freinds suffers too. Not saying forgive or forget. Muddy. But not letting them get to you is the best revenge.

JC
JC
February 16, 2024 8:58 pm

Oh, Dear Lord.

‘The marriage was dying, and I did not want to die with it’

Kathy Lette’s pic in the oz

and

this

John H.
John H.
February 16, 2024 9:02 pm

I’ve learned that to hang onto hate and bitterness is damaging only to oneself

Doesn’t have to be. Hate can be fun. I have in mind one particular person I currently hate and am highly motivated to make his life a misery. Schadenfreude is a wonderful thing.

miltonf
miltonf
February 16, 2024 9:04 pm

JC I really didn’t need that 🙂

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 16, 2024 9:10 pm

Breaking: 3 Hamas Terrorists Caught Alive, They Participated in Oct 7 Israel Massacre | TOI News

Should imagine the Israeli interrogation teams will be inviting them to confess all…

cohenite
February 16, 2024 9:11 pm

JC
Feb 16, 2024 8:58 PM
Oh, Dear Lord.

‘The marriage was dying, and I did not want to die with it’

Kathy Lette’s pic in the oz

and

this

FFS will give a decent warning.

Crossie
Crossie
February 16, 2024 9:17 pm

China has 2363 coal plants and is building 1171 more, a total of 3536.

Australia is planning to shut down it’s six remaining coal power plants in order to save the world!

But we have geniuses like Chris Bowen who know better.

cohenite
February 16, 2024 9:18 pm

Indolent
Feb 16, 2024 9:01 PM
Breaking: 3 Hamas Terrorists Caught Alive, They Participated in Oct 7 Israel Massacre | TOI News

Inbred scum; the only issue is a 9mm with or without pig fat on it.

Rosie
Rosie
February 16, 2024 9:18 pm

Yes, the Israelis will get them a cup of coffee and they will spill their guts.
That’s how Hamas terrorists do.
It was Hamas surrenderees that revealed where the two recently released hostages were.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 16, 2024 9:19 pm

Also tells mum she has furries in her classes. Kids who identify as dogs or cats and answer only with a bark or miaow and spend all day pretending to be animals.

What? No featheries? That’s birdist!

Send the kids to me, I can help them get their heads in the right place.

Zafiro
Zafiro
February 16, 2024 9:22 pm

PM of UK is a currymuncher. Mayor of London is a Moslem currymuncher. Back when I was a kid growing up in the70s and 80s that type of shit never entered your mind. WTF is going on?

Crossie
Crossie
February 16, 2024 9:22 pm

Dear Lidia
Whitefella won.
Blakfella lost.
Too bad.
So sad.

Oh, you sign the surrender here, and here. Treaty? What’s that?

ZK2A, we will have to do this in the end and repeal The Native Title Act and take all the land back. The indigenous will have to work for their living like the rest of us.

Rosie
Rosie
February 16, 2024 9:22 pm
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 16, 2024 9:25 pm

The newly disclosed figure of 2.34 billion metric tons of rare earth minerals found southwest of Wheatland, Wyoming by American Rare Earths Inc. could dwarf in size the 1.2 million metric ton estimates in northeastern Wyoming that one of its competitors claimed was one of the biggest discoveries in the world.

Chickenfeed.

Olympic Dam has 1% REE in their 8.8 billion tonnes of ore.

If BHP ever announced they were thinking of recovering the REE the price would immediately crater.

They don’t bother since it’s already one of the largest copper, uranium and gold mines in the world. I’ve seen the metallurgical reports though, it’d be easy to do: one extra process step on their U plant circuit.

Indolent
Indolent
February 16, 2024 9:28 pm

Name the organisation/institution … I have no respect for any of them now. NONE.

In general terms I agree with you. I gave away the IPA because they carried on as usual and didn’t say a word about the tyranny we were being subjected to. However, they are now fighting against the “misinformation” bill and, despite the past, that is something worth supporting.

Rosie
Rosie
February 16, 2024 9:29 pm
Delta A
Delta A
February 16, 2024 9:30 pm

JMH
Feb 16, 2024 6:45 PM

You obviously know who’s side I’m on, DrDB.

Oh, my goodness!

I’m not sure who should be more embarrassed by that sad remark: you, or DB.

Bespoke
Bespoke
February 16, 2024 9:30 pm

Did you work at the met plant a Roxby, BoN?

Rabz
February 16, 2024 9:32 pm

The chinese government is illegitimate

Except when they’re bankrolling your glampsite in a Kampuchean jungle, eh, Pol? 🙂

Rosie
Rosie
February 16, 2024 9:37 pm
Crossie
Crossie
February 16, 2024 9:41 pm

Zafiro
Feb 16, 2024 9:22 PM
PM of UK is a currymuncher. Mayor of London is a Moslem currymuncher. Back when I was a kid growing up in the70s and 80s that type of shit never entered your mind. WTF is going on?

You have left out Scotland whose First Minister is an Arab. The Brits have been conquered.

Rosie
Rosie
February 16, 2024 9:56 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 16, 2024 9:58 pm

Daily Mail.

Man is mauled to death by a lion after climbing into its enclosure and trying to take a selfie with it

Prahlad Gujjar, 38, climbed over a 25-ft fence to take a selfie with a lion
He was mauled to death by Dongalpur the lion at a zoo in Andhra Pradesh, India
Authorities are looking into whether the man was inebriated at the time

Rosie
Rosie
February 16, 2024 9:59 pm
Rosie
Rosie
February 16, 2024 10:01 pm
Rosie
Rosie
February 16, 2024 10:08 pm
Rosie
Rosie
February 16, 2024 10:09 pm
Muddy
Muddy
February 16, 2024 10:15 pm

This is my third attempt at acknowledging Roger’s comment above to my query regarding Reform U.K.

Fingers crossed …

Bespoke
Bespoke
February 16, 2024 10:25 pm

Students in a Seattle English class were told that their love of reading and writing is a characteristic of “white supremacy,” in the latest Seattle Public Schools high school controversy. The lesson plan has one local father speaking out, calling it “educational malpractice.”

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 16, 2024 10:26 pm

Anyway, Sliante to you mob. The investment portfolio is looking rather healthy, and I’m indulging a weakness for good books and good single malt.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 16, 2024 10:29 pm

Sorry, if a weakness for the written word is “White supremacy”, blame my Boer heritage.

Rabz
Rabz
February 16, 2024 10:44 pm

Why am I in moderation, Dover?

Or do I need to wheel out the many, many St Ruth style conspiracy hypotheses?

And no, I will not be afraid to mention the possible involvement of the CIA, the KGB and extra terrestrials, I tells ya!

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 16, 2024 10:45 pm

A belief in the massive superiority of ‘white’, i.e. european culture over any of the alternatives is not the result of indoctrination. It’s just the bleeding obvious.

JC
JC
February 16, 2024 10:48 pm

Big surprise.

Russia’s Alexei Navalny, a fierce anticorruption campaigner who galvanized the country’s political opposition, has died in prison, Russian news agencies reported Friday.

The cause of his death was still being established, said prison authorities, cited by Russian news agency TASS.

Navalny had been serving sentences in a penal colony amounting to more than 30 years on various charges. He was 47 years old.

At least he didn’t accidently fall out of a hotel terrace.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 17, 2024 12:55 am

First time I’ve been able to access the blog for over a couple of hours

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  2. a religious and political minority, a privileged minority given special rights by this increasingly shithole of a country, is yet…

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