(Late night reading- extract from a 1992 Viz.) … “Surely, if we are able to put a man on the…
Open Thread – Fri 23 Feb 2024
Listened to this while we munched on pinchos last night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNp6y7aYa-s Ages since I heard it last. *warning* peak hair…
reflexive woke backlash
Oh. On first reading, Kamahl giving her a bit of “The Best Is Yet To Come!” sounded pretty lit.
Australian entertainer Kamahl has been charged with stalking This should get his mind off the Trump-hate anyway. For those who may…
Steve trickler
Feb 23, 2024 11:43 AM
A sh*t day yesterday.
Holy smoke Steve. That, and the motorcycle incident – a sh*t day indeed.
Well done, Lysander.
Climate finance providers? You could easily assume that if you want rain you just pay for it and the same again for sunshine or wind.
Germans still have too much money to throw around.
Ooh, you are awful but I like you.
Conservative electorate.
Tom
Feb 23, 2024 10:17 AM
Is there a measure that shows just how much taxes are raised + loans that have to be paid back by government from taxes in the future divided by the population of Australia?
I’m not an economist so I can’t tell. I assume that at some point it becomes a really weird number or ratio or percentage.
A primer into basic stuff would be helpful, but not too technical.
I’m amused that BHP’s proposed desal plant in Spencer’s Gulf, which used to be the evillest thing in the known universe (according to greenies), is now a glorious hymn of praise to Gaia.
‘Substantial’: SA desalination plant to generate $5 billion for local economy (Sky News, 23 Feb)
This come to Jesus moment regarding Olympic Dam is more than amusing. Labor in South Venestralia seems to gone off the nuclear reservation. Paging a Mr Bowen!
Oops, Portia, forgot to include the clip that goes with my comment.
Ooh, you are awful but I like you.
Dot, the Reddit IPO has dropped.
Commentary below.
Reddit dropped its IPO prospectus Thursday, laying out what we already reported: decent sales growth (21%) and narrowing losses in 2023, with still a solid cash burn ($84 million last year). It also showed Reddit’s hopes and dreams, in the form of a $193 million stock grant package for CEO Steve Huffman. That’s chunky—a larger estimated grant size than Airbnb’s Brian Chesky, Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong or Dropbox’s Drew Houston got at IPO, even though their companies were bigger.
Huffman will have to steadily increase the company’s market capitalization from $5 billion to $25 billion over the next several years to amass much of the grant, so it’s no sure thing. But it’s clear the board wants to reward Huffman, who co-founded the company 19 years ago before leaving and coming back when it was trying to become a real business. Reddit’s largest shareholder, Condé Nast owner Advance Publications, also agreed to cede its voting rights to Huffman, elevating his voting power from 3.5% to 37%.
Plenty of questions remain for investors to pick through over the coming months: A lot of Reddit’s user growth is coming from less valuable logged-out users—those who haven’t signed up for an account—arriving via Google searches. Is that a sustainable way to grow? The company showed off a deal with an artificial intelligence company to license its data, giving it an extra $64 million of revenue this coming year, it estimates. That’s likely to represent only a single-digit revenue boost. Is there really more of that pot of money to come?
But Reddit may have lucked out that the IPO door closed just as it was preparing to go public a few years ago. That allowed it to get itself in better financial shape while it was still private, out of the glare of public investors. The company even showed a profit in the fourth quarter last year, if you squint a bit and exclude interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and stock-based compensation expenses.
All up, Reddit and Huffman will be hoping the market overlooks the company’s flaws and gives a beloved, rebellious internet forum a chance to prove it can make shareholders rich.
State level finances are clunky. You need to go to the PDFs that are published weekly. The South Australian one is difficult to find.
I looked about a year ago and we were at 63% gross debt to GDP.
What matters is if the debt to GDP ratio multiplied by the debt rate is exceeds real growth.
It can get so large and depress GDP to the point where is runaway debt.
What do you do at 400% debt to GDP and debt is 7.5%? You’re spending 30% of GDP on paying down government debt.
Portia = Pogria. I give up.
In other words, bullshit.
I missed a few weeks’ chatter on here…
Did the towndickers stop the votes?
Reddit sold its content to an AI company. Chances are that the AI company will use that content better than Reddit has until now or ever will. Reddit is worth nothing excepot for one or two more content sales in the 10-20M range. Same applies to Stack Overflow content & future.
some tendentious eructations seen here over downticks & upticks. temporary pause in the eternal tick wars until DB shares a new set of weapons-grade reviewing to all parties. watch this space!
Consumption taxes, value added taxes….all noise.
.1 Just keep taxing income less.
.2 More efficient use of taxpayer money (ie cancel the subs deal for starters & cap taxpayer funded pensions of public servants).
.3 Increase taxes on assets.
Reddit has a value.
I have zero idea what it is or how to unlock it.
there is a good clue for Reddit actual value in the second sentence you wrote.
Ah, ok. Upticks are good cos you can like a comment without having to respond. Even a downtick every now and then is good. But the towndickers who “frequent” those vacant spaces, like the ghouls they are, were getting a bit ridick.
And/or the need for the youth to seek jobs in the mainland.
yeah, exactly.
socialist /green solution – downticks are heavy on the environment and should be allowed under quota system with Chief Downticks Officer and team assigning based on race/gender/special factors.
free market solution – allow downticks to be traded at marginal cost, readers should be aware of the possibility of downticks flooding the market. caveat reader!
Lysander, it’s nice that you received a letter… but the unsaid truth is that the entire staff, program, stock, work culture, and raisin debt of the WA Museum Baardip Boodja Truth Telling On Country has been wholly captured by the Gramscians.
I’d even chalk the CEO up as a Fabian.
People forget having only upticks created just as much confected drama.
Indeed Wally, I’ll concede that but still gladly accept that I got a taxpayer lefty love-in cancelled.
The fact that the CEO worked for the infamous University of East Anglia (“Climategate”) speaks volumes.
“There could be scope for a 5 – 10% income tax with a 100k TFT.”
20% with a TFT of 75% of AWE (indexed annually or bi-annually), no deductions.
This is a “progressive” tax system, because:
at 75% of AWE you pay no tax – none.
at 100% of AWE, you pay effective rate of 5%
at 200% of AWE, you pay effective rate of 12%
at 1,000% of AWE, you pay effective rate of 20%
(all give or take a bit on the percentages side)
Best of all, if you are a blue collar slob, you know exactly how much extra tax you will be paying, regardless of how many hours overtime you do – at worst, you will get 80% of the money.
For business, exactly the same BUT your deductions are allowed – present evidence of goods/services provided by any entity that pays tax in Australia (pay slip, tax invoice etc), you do NOT pay ANY tax on that amount. This means: spend money in the local economy, don’t pay tax on it because it is providing local jobs and local demand.
Replace the existing tax system with that and watch the economy start growing, wages rising, downward pressure on prices (ie, more competition), industries return etc etc.
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Verily, I must assert my dissent in a resplendent and magniloquent fashion, for I cannot in good conscience align my beliefs with your own, as the murmurings of my soul doth profess a discordant melody in opposition to the symphony of your opinion. **shrieks in agony**
Curtains close.
(that was an attempt a confected drama. apologies to all operas)
The bloke is a jet. I haven’t watched a film in a long time that has freaked me the f*ck out. This entire Backroom series is crazy. Check it out.
I spent a day with BACKROOMS CREATOR KANE PIXELS
dover0beach
Feb 23, 2024 12:40 PM
Arnaud Bertrand
@RnaudBertrand
I can’t shake the feeling a lot of this drop is a consequence of the Ukraine war, with people realizing being the site of a proxy war between two great powers isn’t something pleasant to aim for…
Indeed. Even the dimmest bulb (in any country) should be able to discern that the US and her allies often have only modest interest in the country where the fighting will actually take place. That country is merely a pawn in a far bigger geo-political issue.
The people of Taiwan must have noted the property destruction and loss of life in Ukraine and it wouldn’t fill me with comfort (if I was living in Taiwan) that the USA will ride to my rescue in a confrontation with China.
Funny though.
Actual music from REAL musicians!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMyITAxbe30
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in opera its considered an impressive exit to fall off a mountain.
No no mole.
No need for indexation.
For every 1% of inflation, 10 RBA staff are invited to a special summer retreat in rural Sweden with its own bluffs, sacred groves and legal hallucinogens, with a one way ticket.
Strictly for animal lovers. there are some very cute vids on Youtube but this one’s hard to beat.
Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
If goons like Fani Willis and Letitia James can rig a presidential election, then obviously we’re done. But what can we do about it?
Steve trickler
Same here at Julia Creek from a drug focked dickhead stationhand. Prick king hit me several times in the left eye – what he didn’t know is the eye socket in the lower aspect is in reality a blow out panel that will fracture before pressures in the eye from a sudden blow rise enough to cause damage to the internal structure of said eyeball.
(That’s how it was explained to me.)
The human body has some marvellous defence mechanisms!
CBS seizes confidential files of fired reporter pursuing Hunter Biden laptop story in ‘unprecedented’ move: sources
Winston Smith
Feb 23, 2024 11:15 AM
Sadly at the stage where it is ‘stop the world…I want to get off.’
Eyrie
I got a set – even after 2 weeks, it wouldn’t work. Frigging useless.
It’s now sitting in a box in the garage gathering dust.
$200+ per month?
Sod off.
Some of the Same News Outlets Warning About ‘Disinformation’ Are Taking Millions To Print Chinese Propaganda
Kneel:
My opinion is that a tradie who can buy a ute that costs $80K and can trade it in after 3 years to do a job that a $40k ute can do for 10 years, shows the system is responding to the wrong signals and need a bloody big overhaul.
Well done Indolent at 1.55 pm.
Happy Friday.
So, in effect there are still mandates, but it’s O.K. because there’s no national mandate. It’s just do as you please, and never mind the consequences to others.
What COVID ‘Vaccine’ Mandates?
My cousin did that. He died in a Cuban hospital. I met him a couple times. Larger than life character.
Crossie, I don’t mind being called Portia. Quite a lovely old fashioned name.
I knew what you meant. 😀
More Evil Rabbits. Soon, the bikkie won’t be enough. The child’s throat will be too tempting. aaarrrgh!
I doff my hat to you Lysander. As they say, silence is consent. Too many of us, myself included, mumble to ourselves whilst we should be taking it to them like you.
Winston,
1. You did mount the router indoors and connect to a known good power point. Nearly 50 years in electronics taught me to check the power supplies first.
2. The antenna part needs to see the sky.
Once all this is done you install the Starlink app on your PC and run it. It should find the signal from the router.
Let us know.
I had a piece of floating bone from a fractured left eye socket, which I received while conducting some business in the early 90s. Had it for about ten years – I could push it about with a finger in moments where I was bored or being pensive.
On reflection, I supposed it could have eventually travelled into the ticker or brain and killed me, but it didn’t. So there’s that.
This Blog does not need Up Thumbs or Down Thumbs. That only get manipulated by the Blog Wreckers.
and drummers
Bent copper used his work pistol to kill the two blokes. Then takes it back to the station and places it in safe.
This story is really fooked. The bent copper had to have been a DEI hire. In the last two days, his work description has gone from “general duties”, to “Specialist Police Unit.”
Small wonder our Police “Force”, has become like a scene from Cabaret.
“On reflection, I supposed it could have eventually travelled into the ticker or brain and killed me, but it didn’t. So there’s that.”
KD,
how do you know it hasn’t?
Steve, I’ll my a joke at yoour expense. True, mate of mine got hit by a van, hacd lots of plastic surgery to his face. When we saw him again al we said was why didn’t they make you better looking. Even he laughed. Hope you get better quickly.
Thanks Mem!
(Imaginary uptick ticked) 🙂
Lysander,
what mem said, plus 1,000.
Neil Oliver: ‘They Want Blood & Julian Assange!
Just arrived back in the country, had to sit near Swiftys. 5 teeny girls with mum and dad. Dad did not look excited.
It gets better. Surely there’s a SBS mini-series in this (the Tele):
That would be Glock, with a capital G.
‘glock gun’. Oh my lord. There are four imbeciles with their names to this piece.
It would appear he’d taken it out of the station for the purpose. That does seem to rule out ‘mental ‘elf’ and ‘crime of passion’ defences.
Oh ho ho ho. Glorious. This will be some sort of homo keys-in-the-fruit-bowl pineapple-sign-on-the-door arrangement.
‘dated’. PHRASING.
Lamarre, by the way, and being a slightly scrawny chinless type, has the appearance of a C grade Andrew Tate.
Settle young lady.
It’s not a competition.
Because I am still alive.
I’m still trying to catch up on the recent Alabama Supreme Court decision on human embryos used in IVF. Seems legitimately important but interesting to see some people losing their shit about it.
Thanks also Pogria.
Unlike many public serpents, the ones that “last longer” in their 5-year tenures (or are moved into other 5-year tenures/extensions) are those that know that electoral “wipe outs” of Oppositions are often reversed* in a relatively short time.
Back in the day, when I worked for the “throne of power,” I had the pleasure of calling at least one Chair of a Government Commission to inform them that their services were no longer required. I also helped have one DG’s tenure cut short. Sadly, this represented about 0.5% of the entire WA senior exec service.
*Sicktoria being the exception to the rule.
Bespoke, I’m a 10,000 times more humble than you think.
Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.
Expect a press council complaint about using the picture of the shooter cop (alleged shooter cop) in his NSW plod uniform in the mardi gras parade.
KD,
it’s all in the delivery. 😀
Bespoke,
you’re not the boss of me!
I’ll take the “young Lady”, though.
You’re an idiot bern, taxes on assets I’ve paid for on post tax income. The joy of owning something that I have to keep paying for. Obviously you own nothing classed as an asset. You’re as bad as Luigi.
Lysander,
it’s a shame we can’t put a giant Karcher through the Pubic Serpents.
Handsom boy is attending a private Katy Perry concert at the Pratt’s mansion in Studley Park on the weekend. Wonder if his son is going and will use his Qantas Chairman’s Lounge pass. Fighting Tories. That’s what he does.
I’ll allow you to keep thinking that.
Homo relationship breakdown every bit as toxic as hetero ones, if not more. BIL picked up a 60 foot Maritimo out of one. Even got a free carton because the two pooves couldn’t bear to look at it to clear it out. I think it was moved on at a profit, possibly the only person ever to have made money owning a boat.
It was reported yesterday that the junior Plodster was the son of a senior NSW Lady-Plod.
No reference to this in subsequent reports.
No doubt Plod Media has been pulling strings to play this down.
Sure the shooter wasn’t Hedley Lamarr, I can just see Harvey Korman doing it.
Starlink is offering rural Aussies a money back if not satisfied
Interested to hear from anyone with experience with Starling – does it allow your phone to be used all over the world, or is it satellite to modem in the home based? Or what?
(Travelling quite a bit around the world these days and getting sick of Optus non-global roaming)
Might be a bit awkward if he runs into Peanut Head. Might struggle to find a Tory there.
+1
Have a great afternoon and weekend Cats. Believe it or not, I have a date with The Enemy this afternoon (not about to dox myself but let’s just say a “{non-judicial} person of the Crown”) about a particular project problem…
Will we see loud fence ribbons outside this school in Ballarat?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-23/ballarat-high-teacher-damien-woods-jailed-sex-abuse/103502476
Of course not! It’s the wrong sort of school.
He’d rather be attending the Swifty show in sequins. One day truth will out …
Great to see Warhammer lore being explored by this august blog of record.
So Neanderthal Man, how many shirt lifters will be around once the Hamas refugees get here after being given their express approval visas by Tennis Elbow?
That was Starlink, not Starling. Clarice Starling was not asked her opinion.
Interested to hear from anyone with experience with Starling – does it allow your phone to be used all over the world, or is it satellite to modem in the home based? Or what?
No. It is home based internet for remote areas. Which in Australia aren’t all that remote. You can pay a little extra to have it on your mobile home while moving around. Popular with grey Nomads.
They are working on cellphone to satellite and are in fact testing it.
All I know who have it are happy except Winston.
If the past few weeks on this site have established one thing, it is that nobody else cares what either Jughead or Archie think.
The junior plod is also being referred to as a “TV star”. Star? Minor level personality who seems best known for taking selfies with celebrities. Used his service weapon? Who’s a smart boy then? Left a bullet casing at the scene. Who’s a smart boy? Dumped lots of the victim’s bloodied clothes and other items such as a wallet and very expensive watch in one industrial rubbish bin. Who’s a smart boy? Had a relationship with one of the victims and has a logged history (by one victim and friends) of stalking the victims. Who’s a smart boy?
There’s more, but you get the drift. He might as well have waited for the cops to turn up. And won’t he be popular when he gets to Long Bay. Homosexual AND ex-police.
Kneel at 1.33 m
Too many paras. Please report to Mrs Stench Pantyhose for your breeches.
Regarding the cop and his Glock.
It is my understanding he is uniformed cop and his gun was stored in a safe locker at police station. He had obviously returned it after the crime.
Can somebody explain to me how he can just go to station and take out his gun when not on duty. Would he be only one who has access to the locker and would there be a record each time took out and returned? What is to stop cop taking it home after knock off duty ?
They found a shell at crime scene. Is there a system of checking officers have their gun and complete number of rounds? How often?
Either way seems like he was not very good at evidence and the general rule that you don’t leave your shell at the scene. Clearly not watched many cop shows.
Don’t think he was ever going to make Detective.
I see SBS lionizing the Islamophobe, Navalniy. I wonder how that sits with their Arab audience?
Waiting for my bus at Sydney airport. Whoever said Asian ladies don’t have good bums I beg to differ. A Korean Airlines crew just walked past. Mmmmmm. And that wasn’t the blokes.
It was reported yesterday that the junior Plodster was the son of a senior NSW Lady-Plod.
Wow.
Just wow.
I’m sure there will be lots of questions (and very few public answers) around NSW service revolvers practices and procedures.
Feelthebern at 12.58 pm
Nice try but linking paras does not absolve you of tule 303. Go straight to Jail and bo not pass GO or collect the 200 South Pacific Pesos.
I’ve got just the thing. My late husband’s Karcher is so powerful it strips the stencilling from concrete.
Cheers Eyrie!
Brunhilde of Newcastle? A large person falling off a mountain to finally die in Cuban hospital sounds like a decent operatic plot.
Winston Smith
Feb 23, 2024 2:06 PM
I dropped both of them and I hope both have a nice few nights in hospital. The camera at the the station will vindicate me. I was tempted too kick both in head. I’d probably in jail.
They hit me first.
Interested to hear from anyone with experience with Starling – does it allow your phone to be used all over the world, or is it satellite to modem in the home based? Or what?
We don’t use Starlink ( our area is considered “remote”). We use Activ-8, & have been generally happy with it. The only reservation about Starlink I have heard – is that if you DO have a problem, it is not easy to contact Starlink for help.
Bourne1879
Feb 23, 2024 3:36 PM
Regarding the cop and his Glock.
They found a shell at crime scene. Is there a system of checking officers have their gun and complete number of rounds? How often?
Many years ago I heard that the police test fire every weapon and retain the expended bullet and casing. Those details are entered into a database so, if required, they can match the discharged bullet and casing.
Ex police Cats may know whether that information is accurate but is what I was told years ago.
NSW Police will charge officer Beau Lamarre with two counts of murder over the disapparance of former TV reporter Jesse Baird and his current partner Luke Davies.
Ah pooftas: can’t live with them, can’t live without them.
In other woke news:
FBI Investigating Illinois Democrat Mayor Tiffany Henyard for Abuse of Power After She Shut Down Businesses That Don’t Donate to Her
What is about black leftie skanks in power: fani, letitia, cackles, this thing.
Seems strange without a Cassia or a Calli around.
clarification: test fire every police service weapon (not every weapon generally).
Just been contacted by a well known insurance company & told that, because their documentation has been found (by whom???) to be “not as clear as it could have been, we are ….wait for it….getting a refund of over one hundred dollars!
Has the ACCC been scrutinising insurance companies?
Well, well….
He’d rather be attending the Swifty show in sequins. One day truth will out …
So, you’re saying when rub and tug went to the brothel it was a gay one?
Alamak – I can’t say more as he was pretty well known. Nice guy for a lefty.
Timing is everything…..
‘Fantastic celebration’: PM Anthony Albanese lauds launch of Qtopia, Australia’s first queer history museum
The opening of Qtopia — Australia’s first LGBTQIA+ museum — is a mark of how far society has come, says Anthony Albanese as it opens its doors at the old Darlinghurst Police Station.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese can tell a joke.
The Labor leader had people in stitches of laughter as he regaled the audience at the launch of Qtopia Sydney with tales of his early days as an ally of the queer community.
The centre has is on the site of the old Darlinghurst Police Station, where protesters in 1978 were locked up for being part of what then became known as the first Mardi Gras.
“The fact that it is in the old Darlinghurst Police Station at (community advocate and the late ACON President) Chris Gration’s farewell I sang a song that we learnt at that time in the early 1980s, it was to Edelweiss, it was called Anal-weiss,” Mr Albanese said.
“I won’t see a mass stampede by singing it here for you, but it began with, ‘Anal-weiss, it’s not nice, Darlinghurst cops will get you’. And that was in the early 1980s that we learnt that song.”
Daily Tele
We have starlink at home in the northern goldfields as well as a mobile unit in the Pilbara. No problems at all setting up and using. Support, if needed, is all email based.
Came up as “Stinky” when first set up and needed to change wifi id.
Roaming unit runs off 12 volt if needed. Wifi calling on phones means no excuses for not calling in on schedule.
Previously had Helstra conection in the goldfields and it was slow most of the time, even slower early evening when everyone was on line.
Setup is a plug and play thing for the hardware and the rest is done via the app on the phone.
Old Lefty at 3:23.
From the link …
Oh, right.
Abused the student because funding cuts.
Well, that is totally understandable.
I think – according to what I may have heard – it depends on where you are. Some States you had to check out your shooter (on duty, of course) with a bloke in charge of all the gear, and then check it back in at knock off.
Apparently some places now have individual safes in larger armouries for them, and if you have swipe card access to the station you could – in theory – come in on your day off or something, go into the armoury and take it out.
You’d be discovered afterwards during the audit process, though, but the horse would have bolted well and truly.
This is probably a better system, but in limited defence of the jacks not all of them are sufficiently stupid and/or Radio Rental to stalk their gay lovers then kill them and their current squeezes before driving them to Newcastle to an ex-cop’s house.
We really need to get Kyle and Jackie O to get PM to sing Anal Weiss on air.
To not sing it would be a slur on the gay community.
“Prove you’re not a homophobe by sleeping with three twinks”
Speedbox:
It’s the individual characteristics of the firearm that leave identifiable marks on shell casings and expended rounds. If they test fired every pistol and then kept the round and casing they’d need (for example in NSW) to keep 20,000 of each, AND then they would have to search through each one IF they suspected a jack was involved in moida by rat-tat-tat.
If there was that suspicion, all they’d need to do would be to seize said shooter and then test-fire it and compare weapon, expended round and – if necessary – casing.
Once again, sub-par recruiting for the wrong reasons.
There’s more. Apparently he’s a hyphen as well (the Courier-Mail):
Lamarre-Condon. Probably from Adelaide then.
KD,
Would the armoury be manned (or personed as the case may be !) ? I presume there is other equipment stored in armouries that should need signing out in case of various emergencies.
It is obvious that a major part of this inquiry will involve the access to guns by police and the security and supervision and checking.
This case reveals a serious systematic problem.
However you can understand there are more important issues like the latest diversity equity and inclusion briefings and policy papers plus Mardi Gras planning. Got to get your priorities right if going to get ahead in modern policing.
Eyrie:
Eyrie
Feb 23, 2024 2:39 PM
Yep, did all that. The problem was that there was no way I could install to computer – an iPad was necessary. I don’t have an iPad and getting one or similar was going to cost an extra $60 per month for something I had no use for, and the extra cost made the entire process exorbitantly expensive.
Not a problem – they didn’t charge me for the dish and router and the NBN setup I have is acceptable – mostly.
Once they found the shell it was only a matter of time before they got him. Never mind all the stalking clues.
Knuckle Dragger
Feb 23, 2024 4:15 PM
Yeah, fair enough. Your methodology makes more sense. As I mentioned, only what I heard.
I am NOT saying this person is one and the same.
However – there is an Alyce Condon, who is a ‘Finance Manager’ for NSW Plod, and who is not a copper but part of the civilian infrastructure.
And who lives in Newcastle.
Beau Lamarre-Condom?
Honestly, what chance did he have of a normal life?
Happened in Sydney.
What happens in Sydney, stays in Sydney. Nothin to do with us good folks here in Adelaide!
As mentioned, I think it depends on where you are. Yes there is probably other stuff in there like rifles and ballistic vests and what-have-you.
Also as mentioned, these things are incredibly rare. If (for example) you have a station with 150 jacks on the roster, working three road units for day, arvo and night shifts over a 24 hour period – that’s nine units plus maybe a Sergeant for each shift.
So, twelve people go into armouries each day, grab their stuff and put it back. At that station. Maybe more if there are other units in that building.
That’s 24 in-and-outs. Per day. 168 per week. Over 8,700 times per year, at one station alone.
It’s like a truck driver going into the yard on his day off, grabbing a set of keys and deliberately driving a B-double into an orphanage. The fault’s with the nuffer, not the system.
I hope that the final letter of his name is not a typo for an adjacent letter in the alphabet (and on the keyboard).
Why are our cops carrying sidearm on an average tuesday anyhoo?
Oh that’s right, the Claremont Serial Killer was at large 25 years ago, i forgot about that.
Carry on carrying, then, Constable Care.
‘Completely surreal’: Metal detectorist unearths 1,500-year-old gold ring in Denmark
Baba
Snap!
BON> discretion is a good thing for these kind of scenarios.
Really quite something.
Regarding Starlink, I have mentioned here before how happy I am with the service. It is only three pieces, Dish, mini dish for wifi in the house and cable. Four pieces for me as my old computer doesn’t have wifi capability, so needed a plug in.
It took me ten minutes to set it up and begin surfing. There is no need for technical help as the only things that can go wrong are if one of the 3 or 4 pieces break. Then, you order another piece. I have been using it for over a year now and have never had a problem. Of course, if the power goes, so does the link. I did have it mounted on my roof so I didn’t trip over it in the yard.
The added bonus with Starlink, it strengthens your mobile signal. Because I live in a hundred year old stone-walled cottage, I couldn’t make or receive calls everywhere in the house. With Starlink, no problem. Also, when I have had tradies, visitors here with mobiles other than Telstra, they could not make or receive calls. Now, no problem.
I love Starlink. Am so looking forward to when they get the phone system going.
The left want the kids.
https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/1760508516685812037
I use Starlink on the boat, if i head offshore it works without problems, i am talking over 100nm offshore with a good signal, i can run the navigation suite with no issues on battery or an aft wind generator.
The man is a genius
Good choice Pogria.
That is a horror show, i hope those people die in pain and alone, expect no mercy.
well that was a cut & paste fvkup
I hate my laptop
This aged well.
Yes, that’s the link text on ABC Just In.
And it hates you, Carpe.
I’m liking the new chilled atmosphere. The sandwich ladies are a bit slow though. Lift ya game!
If you can’t shake a feeling and are compelled to draw conclusions from that feeling you have failed to engage your analytic faculties.
It should start with public toilet cubicle walls with holes at the appropriate height.
Alyce Condon
Beau Lamarre-Condon
Brother and sister?
This garbage enableism paints all victoms as potential perpetrators.
It is an ‘anal vice‘ you preposterous collapsing vortex of undergrad bolshevism, plastic surgery, cosmetic orthodontics, and progressive buzzwords.
I will bet that there is a part of his brain actually dedicated to storing and spewing out said buzzwords. He is an ‘ally’ now, is he? Sheesh!
Carpe,
snork!
The previous owner of my place had NBN, and she had no end of trouble. I tried to go with NBN, they said yeah, you’re good to go, just plug in. Three months later, and many many, “we’ll have a technician out there next week, I gave up and ordered Starlink.
The package arrived three days later and I connected that afternoon.
Bespoke,
the trannys took over the tea cart.
He’s clearly drawing a conclusion given certain facts.
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The hyphens who aren’t quite gay enough are sent to Sydney or Canbra.
Some of these interactive museums are a bit much.
Adelaide pooftas get chucked in the Torrens. Why break with tradition?
Some here may remember my efforts to get a copy of Windows Office and the resultant efforts to install it.
The people who presented themselves as German, but were HQ’d in Thailand have refunded my money.
Today a receipt for a mobile phone – an Apple iPhone15 pro has appeared in my emails. Cost $649.99 + Shipping $20.00
They aren’t going to send me a phone – no no no. They’re going to authorise a shipper to send me one.
Aren’t they nice?
Here’s the problem. I haven’t ordered one, I have no idea who these idiots are but they have my account details of the refund from WinandOffice.
I am now on the interminable phone line to the Commonwealth to sort it out. I suspect it’s just a pay on bill scam, but I’m over these dickheads.
39 minutes on hold at Commonwealth Security. The line has dropped out.
Perhaps the Productivity Commission can total up the time wasted by people waiting on line?
Cohenite at 5:35.
From the SMH link.
Has Albo got himself into a Tay-tay concert?
In my shoulders, hands, and scrunched eyes I can already feel the cringe of him trying to pull off a little dance, desperate to show that he is not just an old fogey, and he ‘gets it’ with the kids.
Trump does little dances too, also awkward, but he does them because he is the star of the show. And it drives progressives nuts, which would not be his motivation but makes for a pretty sweet sort of bonus.
Despite at 5.19 pm
You need a better laptop. My laptop dancer is so Farking hot. Yeah Baby as Austin powers would say !!!!!!!
Despoke I mean. Silly auto text.
Does this mean no police float in the Mardi Gras parade?
Nice cooling rain in the Sydney CBD right now.
Bourne1879
I’d bet he was in line for the next Detective job going – guess who his mummy is?
Vikki Campion:
A Glock in a frock?
and
and
Crushing it, fake Pom. Absolutely crushing it.
Sorry.
High heeled footsteps, I suspect.
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Bourne1879
Feb 23, 2024 3:36 PM
A few quick passes with a heavy duty brass brush on a drill will get rid of any matching scratches on the shot fired out of the glock gun if he did that before he shot his bottom buddy. Of course, failing to retrieve his brass was amateurish, untidy, and destructive to his story.
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I wonder if the argument will be unveiled at trial that his obvious indifference to such concerns can only be symptomatic of some psychotic break and he cannot be held responsible for his actions.
Normal programming has resumed in the crikkit.
Straya are 6/122 after 11 overs against UnZud.
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Knuckle Dragger:
Most small town – 1 cop Stations just have a 4 or 8 gun cabinet.
A couple I’ve seen just had multiple weapons put in any way they’d fit, ammo the same. Or just left in the boot of the Divvy Van. 🙂
Yes.
Another general rule is you don’t shoot two people in the same house (after having arguments with them so loud the neighbours can hear it) with either .40 calibre or 9mm rounds, leaving blood in such quantities that it seeps through floorboards before loading the bodies into a distinctive white van and driving it to your sister’s house, and then returning the shooter – which you shouldn’t have accessed, being on ‘sick leave’ – to the police station armoury where you most assuredly will be captured on CCTV.
The closest most stupid murderer I can think of is that Wales-Smith chap (I think) who killed his parents in their garage, then washed the blood off in the driveway in full view of the neighbours before loading them into a trailer he rented with his own credit card and then getting bogged after half-burying them because it was too hard digging a hole big enough,
The flight attendant, the TV presenter and the police officer.
3/5 of The Village People.
Cefalu.
Not seen much yet. The coastline train trip was, as always here, spectacular, was met at the station by Mrs Host, who speaks only Italian and German, so far as I know, then met at home by English speaking son who put my suitcase in their motorised hoist to lift it up to their second floor balcony. They must have installed it for sending up groceries etc, daughter was up top driving it.
It’s a modern enough four storey block but no lift but nice wide well lit stairs.
I’m in what I’m guessing is a granny flat in a common private entry area with their own apartment. Son took the opportunity to practice his English with me, with some discussion about the English word towel which he now pronounces with an Australian accent. He also demonstrated via his phone that the mosiac of Christ in the cathedral in Cefalu is more beautiful than the one in Monreale. I agreed, of course. Also told me all three cathedrals Monreale, Palermo and Cefalu were unesco world heritage listed and as visiting unesco world heritage listed sites is always on my to do list, I was pleased to know.
Outside again I explored stage right with a dropped pin map taking me on a peculiar circuitous route across wasteland to the gourmet supermarket.
Europe has a dazzling array of supermarket chains, this one is called ‘Deco’ mood lit it was a bit upmarket.
I was miffed the self service checkout automatically added 1c for a plastic bag for my bananas, even though I’d stuck the price sticker on the skin but shall get over it, eventually.
The old town is to the left, I shall wander around this morning.
The famous ‘Rocca’ is dauntingly high. I can only see a stone fence and a citadel so it doesn’t look the original inhabitants lived up there.
This morning should reveal how climbable it is, maybe after a fortifying coffee, hoping, maybe, cefaluians prefer their lifts out of doors.
Carpe Jugulum
Feb 23, 2024 5:13 PM
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Feb 23, 2024 5:04 PM
For a moment, I thought you were supporting my efforts of failing to install Starlink.
Disappointment ++.
So DEI has worked out well, with a mentally unstable pouvre knocking a could of people off
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Don’t worry Thancho they’ll have been through the rest of them.
Winston – It’s irritating. I got one from myGov yesterday that looked imperious. So I logged onto myGov and sure enough I’d forgotten to do a couple of pink forms. I zeroed them out and submitted them since I’m not bothering doing any work these days.
Then checked back at the email…sure enough, it was a scam email. I never click on links anyway but it was pretty neat and convincing. Lots of less alert people would be taken in by such emails I think.
Glock in a frock. Ha
Good Lord.
The mob across the street have just pulled up. They’ve gone into house and left the new dog in the vehicle – windows are down a bit and the engine still running so assumption is that the aircon is on.
The vehicle is rocking as the dog jumps around the inside of the car. So far I haven’t seen it but it’s started barking. I thought it was yelping. But it’s not. It’s barking.
No. It’s squeaking.
Just stuck its head through the gap of the window, and now it’s squeaking as it dangles from it’s neck.
Perhaps I should go and help?
No, I shouldn’t be a busy body.
Ten minutes later and the rat is still squeaking. Just not as loudly.
I should film this for Utube.
Wales-King KD.
And you forget the bit where he wrapped the bodies in the distinctive kids plastic swimming pool.
And didn’t get the sedative dosage nearly right.
My mail at the time was that a couple of Homicide detectives were convinced that he had been set up, because they couldn’t believe that anyone would leave a trail like that.
Premeditated … yes.
Planned … no.
Watchdog Consumers
Rowan Dean, The Spectator
Part I
The news that Brad Banducci is stepping down as CEO of supermarket giant Woolworths is to be warmly welcomed. This decision follows what has been described as a ‘shocker’ of a ‘train wreck’ interview he gave to the ABC Four Corners program this week. In reality, there was nothing particularly shocking about the interview other than it highlighted yet another business leader behaving in a manner typical of so many of today’s elites: thin-skinned, sneering and arrogant.
When confronted with criticism of the dominant duopoly of Coles and Woolies, Mr Banducci – or ‘Brad’ as he preferred to be known to his staff, a one-word name akin to ‘Elvis’ or ‘Madonna’ – dismissed critic Rod Sims for being ‘retired’ before having a hissy fit, playing the victim, asking for his snide put-down to be deleted from the interview and then storming out, only to be persuaded by his PR team to return and continue the interview like some spoiled child.
A genuinely shocking interview would have been one in which a CEO of Woolworths or Coles owned up to their poor treatment of suppliers, low-quality grocery products in a country blessed with quality farming land, outrageous pricing structures and treating consumers like sheep as we are forced into increasingly onerous methods of paying. The typical supermarket these days is largely staffed not by helpful, friendly and efficient checkout chicks but by automated tills patrolled by one or two officious types herding ever-lengthening and disgruntled queues of customers into self-serving payment pens. For all the phony advertising campaigns about friendly supermarket staff, it is clear that the future we are being ‘nudged’ towards is one of fully automated stores devoid of staff where we pay for the privilege of doing all the work ourselves. No thanks.
Her real title should be Commissioner for Censorship. But it’s all for your safety, of course. Infuriating.
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Part II
Indeed, the Amazon stores of Britain are literally staffless, and rely entirely on digital identification linked to bank accounts. The customer enters the locked store by being scanned, takes whatever products they want and the total is deducted from the individual’s bank account. These innovations have been predominantly driven due to the out-of-control shoplifting plaguing many modern cities; itself driven by leftist anti-law-and-order policies and high immigration. Although this high-tech approach may appeal to lazy inner-city wokesters and Millennials, it doesn’t take an episode of Black Mirror to imagine how dangerous this dystopian world will surely become. To be sure, if this is what consumers really want, then let them have it. But what is clear from repeated visits to our supermarkets and other retail giants is that we are increasingly being coerced or tricked into adopting this digital/surveillance model, more for their bottom line than for our convenience. Facial recognition technology is now used by many large retailers.
Meanwhile, in the fake world of ESG economics, driven by monolithic hedge funds such as BlackRock and Vanguard, companies artificially inflate their share value by pandering to leftist ‘social justice’ causes rather than through the old-fashioned idea of keeping the customer satisfied. Thus, building brand value nowadays is done by running ads supporting the Voice, gay marriage or climate change instead of attempting to build a brand by offering loyal customers better service and/or better products.
It is most likely that the fiasco for which South African ‘Brad’ will always be remembered – cancelling Australia Day at Woolies – was driven by blindly adhering to the ‘Reconciliation Action Plan’ that Woolworths and most Australian corporations have naively signed up to, rather than the slippery argument posited at the time about market forces. (Supermarkets discontinue unprofitable lines and products all the time, normally without any fanfare at all. To make a public announcement about Australia Day merchandise being discontinued due to poor sales was clearly virtue-signalling of the most dim-witted kind).
As with Alan Joyce before him, and no doubt many more to come, ‘Brad’ is a victim of his own hubris. In the end, customers get fed up with being treated like mugs and vent their displeasure in the only way they can – by shopping elsewhere. In what has become known as the ‘Bud Light’ or ‘go woke, go broke’ phenomenon, consumers are now reacting to the patronising left-wing political preaching of corporations which does not align with their own values. This is to be encouraged. Whether it’s the aisles and aisles of LGBTQ rubbish filling up crowded racks during ‘Pride’ week or month, the pushing of ‘sustainable’ products for which their is no natural demand (plant-based meat, anyone? Nope) or the endlessly irritating intrusion of identity politics into everyday life (‘We acknowledge the traditional owners of this airport terminal/reclaimed runway/office building/shopping mall/cinema chain, etc, etc.) consumers must use the only means at their disposal to say when enough is enough. Go somewhere else.
Good riddance, Brad. Good riddance, Alan. And let woke corporate Australia be warned: consumers are watching and if you don’t change your tune rapidly, you will be next.
Andrew Lawrence excoriating parliamentarians for pandering to Islamists.
It ends now.
The Dangling Rat Story Continues:
It’s now 32 minutes and the rat is suspiciously quiet. The ‘parents’ have finally left the ‘ouse, giggling over something.
Giggles turn to shouts of dismay, as mum sees the rat dangling from the passenger window.
Car drives off.
Well that’s the entertainment for Friday over. I wish I could have slipped a camera into the car but that would have meant winding the window down, and incidentally allowing the rat to breathe.
Also breaking and entering.
Knuckledragger: Wales-King. Disappointing Matthew the hairdresser also hired the trailer from the nearest servo. And bought the rope on his credit card. And didn’t give his mother and step father enough sleeping pills in the soup to finish them off.
Sorry Sancho – missed your update. I know a few people involved in Wales-King thing who reckon nobody was surprised he killed his mother.
Wales-King.
Yes.
Effectively starts at about four and a half minutes.
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C’mon hamsters!
You can do it!
Good riddance, Brad. Good riddance, Alan. And let woke corporate Australia be warned: consumers are watching and if you don’t change your tune rapidly, you will be next.
Agreed Roger. But the trouble is that these guys depart with zillions.
India up to their old tricks,first day pitch spinning keeping low becoming unplayable.
“in opera its considered an impressive exit to fall off a mountain”
Finland did an impressive Tosca.
Not much we can do about that unless we’re WW shareholders, Vicki.
That was Rowan Dean, btw (in case you missed the first part).
It is becoming tedious, I’m tired of always having to do the Ctrl AC trick.
Sounds like the old joke about the bloke who murdered both parents, then begged the Court for mercy, on the grounds that he was an orphan.
Cooking, cleaning, maybe some basic chem, physical fitness and sensible scheduling- I’d die of embarrassment if my kids killed me and I’d never taught them the basics of body disposal.