Wow impressive and he still won 😀
Wow impressive and he still won 😀
Old fashioned I know, but for violent crime and theft, the riding crop across the arse. We could save them…
Does the disability support pension impact the NDIS? Just regurgitating from a site but it appears it may not. However…
There is a company in Canada rebuilding these classics with turbo-prop propulsion; quieter and more reliable, for starters. Interestingly, several…
Correct. In hindsight the Thatcherites and Reaganites and Howard etc etc were very happy to put class warfare above common…
Why should the ccp care? They’ll make it easier for the oldies to die off quickly. Help them do it cheaply. And there will always be some youngsters and babies.
Roger
Mar 1, 2024 8:12 PM
Their demographics suggest otherwise.
I don’t really think that’s relevant to the long term plan. It’s not as if China will become a nation of a billion octogenarians.
100 million military age men/women. 200 million. 300 million. With vast economic clout and manufacturing base to match – much of which is either produced for the West (and others) or is copied.
Coupled with new alliances such as BRICS and others, whilst bullying smaller nations. The West will always be one alliance whilst the East is forging ahead with another and then there is India and parts of Africa and the ME. Today we would say that most of South America is a basket case – but in 50 years? China is developing a foot in all camps and their modus operandi is a mix of coercion, ideology matching, spying, infiltration or money.
But most of all, this is a long term game. Adjustments will occur from time to time and ‘bumps in the road’ will happen, but the overall pathway and goal is unwavering.
Top Ender.
Do you know of anyone in Canberra who would be willing to visit the National Archives office there and copy a list of specific files for me please? I would be willing to pay them for their time and any reasonable expenses. I will also be specific about the folders or files required.
I’m not yet ready (I need to save my small change for a little longer), but am seeking an idea of whether the project I have in mind will be viable or not.
Cheers.
Saw it Megan and all the small businesses wiped out Bulleen rd before turning on to Manningham rd, so much so I missed the lights and ended up heading towards Templestowe before doing a u turn near the Yarra Club also closed. They’ve also assumed some of the Simpson Barracks training areas, DoD should have told Dan to go jump!
Guess overpaid sinecures for the CMFEU maaatttes trumps all hey. I did some research before and discovered there was a different route to the east of this one that didn’t make the cut and may still be needed. Eastern Fwy apparently going to 20 lanes where it merges. Short of assuming a whole lot more land I am miffed how it can be achieved and will be probably ugly to navigate.
These very same blockheads are now demonstrating to all and sundry why the DEI must die.
Er…if present trends continue they will.
Their present average age is c. 40.
And their young women aren’t interested in marrying or having babies.
I’ve heard speculation that this is what SARS-CoV-2 was intended to do.
Roger:
The correct quote is “Pneumonia – the old mans friend.” But yes, I would think it must be deliberate – they need him out of the way in a very non assassination way.
They can always follow Canada’s example where everyone who isn’t well is offered euthanasia if they can’t wait for treatment.
Speedbox, don’t ever get me wrong. If I make a negative comment on “Russia,” it’s always meant to mean the Putin regime, which I don’t like. I have no bad feelings towards the Russian people and see Ukrainians and Russians as broadly the same. But even people of the same stock at times want to pursue different directions.
Can you define “reasonable”? Are we talking airfares, accommodation, a slap up meal and FREE booze? If so, I might know someone.
I’m old enough to create my own phrases, Winston.
Death is no friend.
You forgot the ‘entertainment allowance’ Arma.
They both want to kill each other, so they have that in common I guess.
For about 35 years the communists enforced a one child policy and now that is coming back to bite them. Uh huh. The key word here is: communist. They can mandate whatever they like. Offer money/glory/housing for those who have three or more children. Threaten dire social credit scores for those who refuse to comply. Restrict work opportunities, ban OS travel, send your family to the far west unless you do the right thing and breed.
As communists, there are plenty of levers to pull. Don’t think like an Australian – think like a communist dictator.
Oh, FFS you lot.
It was a regular advertisement in the 60’s in the personal columns. “Come home – all is forgiven.”
God only know what it was all about, but it was a throw away line that the sender and the receiver knew of what it was about.
Influence. A growing or a stable population can mean a healthy and stable economy, which is important if you want to ensure your nation carries weight in the world. Japan in the 80s was the second largest economy in the world. they had some influence, albeit not as raucous as the Chinese. A country of old geezers loses dynamism, and China is fast becoming the largest nursing home in the world.
The young women aren’t interested in Xi’s incentives.
Real Deal
Because it doesn’t work and hands the blog over to him whenever he has a bad week on the stock exchange.
Don’t think we haven’t tried the scroll by wheel.
“It costs too much to give kids a decent life. The stuff they teach at school is propaganda, so I’d want to send them to an international school or abroad. But I can’t afford that,” said Kongkong, a 26-year-old researcher who swears she will not have children.
The last generation.
Chinese citizens are losing a fortune on the real estate market. China is now aiming for food independence. It has sequestered agricultural land for future use and is encouraging young people to return to the country and grow stuff. Good luck with that, hasn’t worked anywhere else.
Japanese and South Korean, women across the world, are losing interest in being stuck at home. That’s typical of human nature, when a person is exposed to a lifestyle that offers so much(career, money, travel, entertainment), asking them to give that up, even if the alternative is a biological imperative, is somewhat optimistic. It is an example of human behavior that I find so strange, the ability to transcend the most biological imperative of a species. Our frontal lobes will be our extinction.
You’re a nice bloke, Roger. It’s a terrible handicap in understanding how evil bastards work.
Young women can be forced to have babies whether interested or not.
The Australian stock market closes at a record high. More champagne, anyone?
More importantly, Japan reached a standard of living where, even though the population is falling and doing so quite dramatically, the country is wealthy enough on a per capita basis to take care of its elderly by drawing down savings.
The Chinese population is not wealthy enough to emulate Japan and especially so with the old geezer avalanche coming at them.
Per capita incomes
Japan: 44,570 PPP dollars
China: 19,160 PPP dollars
China is now getting close to peaking and reaching the stage where GDP growth becomes minuscule to negative, like Japan.
It seems nobody on Sky knows how to pronounce Mardi Gras, they are all pronouncing it like grass, even Jack Houghton. The ignorance of the young is glaringly obvious.
JC, this is pretty much my philosophy.
Those three are the mental giants of the site. I don’t know how the site could survive without their unique input.
Most of the young chinese are out here infesting our universities on student visas.
Then easily converted into citizenship apparently.
It will be fascinating to watch the mental contortions of the leftards when The Handmaids Tale becomes CCP policy.
The forgotten PMs Harold Holt and John Gorton, Liberal Party, ended Australia’s conscription and our time in Vietnam. My husband served 1966-7, just saying.
Gough the imposter had nothing to do with Vietnami, He is a fraud who should die in history.
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Indeed it does, which is why I never had any (that I know of).
Every western country on this planet (and presumably a few on other planets elsewhere) are toast.
The massive long overdue civilisational collapse will happen in our lifetimes.
Soon, would be my ever so ‘umble prediction.
This unrepentant invasion of incompetent western “nations” by stupid violent arrogant entitled unemployable welfare hoovering z-grade third world imbeciles will continue for as long as it needs to, until the entire ridiculous potemkin global village (with idiots a plenty) collapses under the weight of its massive myriad absurdities.
Hopefully, I’ll be existing in a safe remote space when this inevitable event occurs, Cats. 🙂
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I’m only too proud to say I despised the useless fraud, and his gang of champagne socialists.
It can’t work. That’s just Doc thinking he’s doing equations ignoring the human element. You need a ratio of 2.1 to maintain population stability.
Okay, the CCP demands all sheilas have a kid. That still gets them to 1. Two kids? Naaa.
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There is a possibility of a Brave New World in say 100 years time. And the use of Robots.
Meme!
At least 3 required JC. It would be a disaster. An unwanted child is going to be neglected if not abused. A generation of dysfunctional adults, increased crime, psychopathy, and mental illness. I don’t think the CCP will go down route. If it did there would be a huge surge in hysterectomies.
The one child policy was relatively easy to control. If a woman was found to be pregnant a second time around, she’d be forced to have an abortion and that was the end of it. Third time, the same.
You can’t force people to have kids as it would turn out to be impossible to implement for the reasons you suggest.
dover0beach
Stalin said after the war this ability to shift 50 Divisions from the High Command reserves 2000km over the rail network north to south and back again was key to the Russian ability to outnumber and overwhelm Germany at various parts of the front.
Many Russian wartime railways were temporary – laid on sleepers directly on the ground. No ballast required or used. The trains were slow, but they kept the fronts supplied.
And imagine the grey market in the morning after pill.
Hollyweird always essays preposterous scenarios where imaginary non-collectivist societies exploit the wombs of womanages to portray whatever staggeringly stupid ideas might have passed fleetingly through the former’s cavernous empty skulls.
As for good ol’ china, the “one child policy” has produced outcomes that are not exactly ideal, as even Greg “green as envy and existing in a garbage bin” Sheridini could hysterically allege.
You want a “handmaids tale”, Hollyweirdos?
Go and look up the result of collectivism as imposed on various previously functional societies, ever.
You’ll hopefully notice the same results, although given how staggeringly stupid you are, this is not a given.
Hint – low birthrates, gettin’ ever lower … 😕
Could it be like Australia, an obsession only held by a minority?
Cope!
I got it Winston
The media thrives on theatre – provide it (willingly or otherwise), and they will pay attention to you, at least for 30 seconds.
The majority of the population is still controlled by the provision of circus entertainment. It is the media which allows us to be entertained in safety and comfort.
Former POTUS Trump knows the value of entertainment to feed the masses. Conservatives? Mime artists in rigor mortis.
Learn or perish.
Putin is not keen on what has been happening to the West in the last 30 years, and which has been rapidly accelerating lately. You know, all the kooky leftist destruction we complain about day in, day out. Globohomo would love to get it’s claws into Russia. But that won’t be happening on Putin’s watch. He also laughs at Climate Change.
It was perfectly possible to give children a decent Catholic education, holidays, health care, extra curriculum activities etc throughout the nineties and zeros, even on a comparatively low income.
My two married daughters both work part or full time and have four little children between them, both own a house with a mortgage, neither say it’s impossible.
Australia isn’t China.
Always good to see Jack with is dad. Watching them drop camels is not fun to watch. However, there are millions out there running amok and culling has to be done.
Many from around the world want to join. Jack has stated if he did so, his insurance premiums would go through the roof.
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Jack Out The Back:
Mustering Interrupted again!
The Russians aren’t going to use their best equipment in the first stages of a war. They realise they are going to lose equipment at a rapid rate, it doesn’t have to be it’s best stuff.
The T90 has probably been issued to it’s interior troops, just like it did with the T34.
Germany thought it was going to be up against T26’s.
The T34 was a bloody nasty surprise.
Read “Inside the Soviet Army” by Victor Suvorov. It gives the Russian war fighting philosophy a good look.
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Why are you making it a fundamentally flawed (binary argument?
If you despise the western “Globohomo” why would you therefore have to love Putin?
Anyone able to cut/paste the piece by Stephn Rice in the Oz about the slapper payout? If it’s been done I’ll scroll back
Looking at you ZK2A 🙂
Winston
Stalin said after the war this ability to shift 50 Divisions from the High Command reserves 2000km over the rail network north to south and back again was key to the Russian ability to outnumber and overwhelm Germany at various parts of the front.
The Soviet Union produced just 446 locomotives during the war, with only 92 of those being built between 1942 and 1945. In total, 92.7% of the wartime supply of railroad equipment by the USSR was provided by the US through Lend-Lease. including 1,911 locomotives and 11,225 railcars.
They would have struggled without that support.
The exponential decline of this country can be traced back to St Goug’s feral election win in December 1972.
He was a man that had some achievements before becoming PM. The most obvious being that he was an air navigator in the RAAF for four years during World War II. He was a barrasite following the war.
He was a literal contemporary of my ol’ man and my uncle, the latter of whom practised as a GP in Cabramatta from the fifties onwards. I remember my aunt telling me that she used to see Madge shopping in the local supermarket in the late sixties and early seventies.
I have very mixed feelings about St Goug. At least he got out there and risked his house sized backside defending this country.
As for every other loathsome quisling labore imbecile since, fugggeddabboooddittt … 😡
More a case of The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Speedbox, don’t ever get me wrong. If I make a negative comment on “Russia,” it’s always meant to mean the Putin regime, which I don’t like. I have no bad feelings towards the Russian people and see Ukrainians and Russians as broadly the same. But even people of the same stock at times want to pursue different directions.
I missed your comment until Crossie made a remark.
I’ve never thought your Russia comments were directed at ‘the people’. It has always been clear to me that your venom is directed at Putin specifically, and his regime.
Its inevitable results, not so much.
Your wish is my command, oh Barking Toad……
Could be interesting:
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And the media is cheering it on.
Stanley Bruce, Earle Page, and John Gorton all saw active service – Page and Gorton were both wounded.
Cats, unless any of you can suggest a better theme*, tomorrow night’s radio show will essay the big fat glitter covered 3:00am in the RA showgrounds bleeding obvious.
Here’s a hint …
*FFS, please do 😕
Haha – thank you.
Most here cannot. It’s just as well, no doubt.
Boambee John:
Do ships these days still use Bunker Oil or Diesel?
Doesn’t Bunker oil have to be heated before it can flow to the engine?
Something classical for the radio show would be nice. Mozart?
Reading Simon Heffer’s excellent history “Staring at God: Britain in the Great War.”
“August 5th, 1914, (The day after the declaration of war) Webley and Scott, purveyors of service revolvers to the officer class, increased the price from 5 guineas to 10 pounds, outraging Members of Parliament.” (Page 91.)
Western allied “aid” to the soviet union in WW2 was a war crime, as far as I’m concerned.
The western allies (being staggeringly stupid, again) should have sat back and watched those two totalitarian states tear each other to pieces.
Stalin was jointly responsible for WW2 in Europe. His cowardice and expediency enabled the germans to overrun most of western Europe in 1940.
Talk about backing the wrong horse (again).
JC
Mar 1, 2024 9:39 PM
The one child policy was relatively easy to control. If a woman was found to be pregnant a second time around, she’d be forced to have an abortion and that was the end of it. Third time, the same. You can’t force people to have kids as it would turn out to be impossible to implement…..
Bless your cotton socks.
For the reasons I laid out upthread. To repeat: The key word here is communist. They can mandate whatever they like. Offer money/glory/housing for those who have three or more children. Threaten dire social credit scores for those who refuse to comply. Restrict work opportunities, ban OS travel, send your family to the far west unless you do the right thing and breed. As communists, there are plenty of levers to pull. Don’t think like an Australian – think like a communist dictator.
JC – imagine this. You are the supreme lord of all you survey. Literally the power of life and death. You deign to allow some free choice in some matters but ultimately, you can force people to live and work when and where you tell them. You can control their movements in country, and forbid them to leave. A word from you and parents/grandparents can be whisked away. You can seize or grant property. You control the police, the military, the courts of law and the bureaucracy of government. All of your minions are solidly in line behind you. You brook no opposition. Your word can be, literally, law.
But, you notice all is not well with your nation’s demographics. Breed you command and feed/educate all your children. In your magnificence, you offer a reward for those who comply. Think of the power you have over recalcitrants. Make an example of the first few and the others will fall into line.
it’s the shitty carpet
the smell of toilet lollies wafting through from the dunnies
and the sound of pokies from the other room
bad music on Saturday nights
bar stool philosophy
and sports-ball on TV with the sound turned down
deep fried schnitzel with chips
and empty kegs left in the street next morning
opens at 11 am
We frequent very different styles of pub.
Veev ler difrence, or something.
geez SpeedBox … that’s basically JC’s wet-dream
are you saying that you actually have quality music in yr pub?
Waking up next morning, with the hangover from Hell “Cheez, Miss, what was your name again?”
Pubs ain’t for music, bloke.
ZKTA, men like you and the spouse are the spine of Oz, and our kids out in the mining zones are carrying it on.
The lights come on, the band stops playing, the couple having a quick “How’s your father” in the corner are thrown out, the lights go out, the band goes on?
Having been into eleventy-eleven dozen pubs in my life, I don’t recall even one with …. carpet … on the floor.
I’ve put 2 floors into a pub, carpet wasn’t either of them, nor did it enter my head, for even a millisecond, to lay down carpet.
Thank you, MareeS, all the best to you, and yours.
Cats, this is what we like to see and hear in our beloved rowdy public bar – Eddles, as I overheard him in the other bar, on the Dunkley Bye election:
16%? Bring it on!
As for Eddles’ crystal ball allegedly being “faulty”, tune in this time tomorrow evening, Cats.
You know you might just like to, I tells ya! 🙂
nothing posh
not one of those tile clad leagues clubs in NSW that’s more like a fish-bowl or a swimming pool
I’m fondly recalling memories of our favorite below street level Melbourne bars of years past
where pagers didn’t work and the carpet was sticky
or the Punter’s Club Fitzroy where the music was awesome but you could feel the squelch under-foot
Total mystery why some of us don’t lay down carpet. 😉
As “the couple” are being removed from the (obviously respectable) premises:
“Yeah, but I lerve the Suzanne, I tells ya – even when she’s allegedly being bad! :)”
Geez Sal my drinking hole in rural NSW (from age 16 to 19) even had carpet up the walls in one of the two bars.
Not doing a Lizzie, but this evening we had a boozy catch-up between the spouse and old mate, both Vietnam vets 1966-7, and all of us media types in our afterwards careers.
One hates Trump, I really rate Trump. He hates Dutton, I think Dutton has possibilities. He hates Albo, so we are 100% there. Husband drew a nice cartoon of dreadful politicians gathered in the same room.
Tom would like it, but old boy won’t let me share. (His cartoons are known in the Black And White Artists Society,)
Some do. There’s various reasons why. They’re a real bastard after a few years, rotting base being the main problem.
In addition to anything else, they’re a real bastard to get blood out of, particularly if there’s a few litres of it gone into the carpet & been there for 12 hours or more.
I’m sure I’ve drank in pubs where the floor is carpet, just that I don’t recall any of late.
Poland – considered post WW1 to be an obscenitee by the germans and russians and subsequently smashed out of all recognition as of ’39.
WW1 working it’s magic, again.
If I wanted to make an enemy of mine cower in their dunlop volleys, I’d simply state the following: We’re going to go all “Brest Litovsk” on your house sized backside, Squire.
Do a “Lizzie” all you like MareeS, some of us get quite a lot out of living vicariously.
Besides, it is a bluddee fool who cannot learn something from everybody they meet.
Sal,
I’m sure your establishment is first rate … for Queensland
but this is Melb … just saying that unless there’s a little bit of grunge then its hard to be comfortable and enjoy a pot
on a serious note … Melb not that long ago had some dastardly dives
if The Cat is a bar … it reminds me a lot of that
it can be pretty skanky in here
f*cking apostrophes undermining my totally objective recounting of various historical events, yet again!
But the USSR didn’t control alcoholism, Putin hasn’t controlled corruption, many regimes can’t improve quality control or creativity, China hasn’t controlled real estate stupidity and it is too late to fix much of that damage. The West has implemented many measures to boost breeding but without success. Behavior is malleable but let’s not commit the behaviorist error of thinking behavior always modifiable through inter-response intervals, aversion training, positive and negative reinforcement and whatever else magic tools they claim to have(most behaviorists never thought that) . If what you say is possible a great many social problems would be controlled. Make an example of a few and the rest learn better how not to get caught.
ps … deliberately avoiding blood in the carpet jokes
Matrix: There’s pubs aplenty on TV & in movies in Australia. Many of these scenes are shot inside actual pubs.
The only depiction I recall of a pub/pubs where the TV made it feel like a pub, was the series Stingers (1998-2004) a cops & robbers type show set in Melbourne.
The pub scenes in that show are the only ones I’ve ever seen that felt fair dinkum, instead of a carboard cut-out or a faked movie set.
??? I’m struggling to see a joke angle to this.
I feel like the Chaser boys, when challenged on why they didn’t make skits of Labor politicians doing stupid things, they were genuinely puzzled & responded that how can they do a send-up of Labor pollies, as Labor pollies don’t do stupid things.
Zzzzz …. 😕
Why is the existence or otherwise of hideous (and very sticky) pub carpet a subject of discussion on this evening’s open thread, FFS?
Speedbox
Mar 1, 2024 10:42 PM
Exactly – and very reminiscent of the Biden governments treatment of the Jan 6th tourists.
Salvatore, Iron Publican
Mar 1, 2024 11:02 PM
The best ones have sawdust.
Tomorrow’s radio show should not be about Mozart – as some philistine suggested – but about Chopin.
When we could be identifying one of the many hundreds of current and previous labore members of parliament that have sold this country to the CCP for much much less than 30 pieces of silver.
Consequently, there is no such creature as an “Ozzie”, Cats.
Get used to it. 😡
Sal, that was the f#@k bar; the second was the fight bar, floor to ceiling tile.
Not that the punters particularly respected the demarcation.
In 1980 found myself on the other side of a bar in Redfern. Not for the light hearted!
Saw the last of the SP bookie world. Took a few calls, held a bit of cash. A different world.
I have control over your arousal levels. Behaviorism 1, CBT 0
Isn’t that more the School of Arts hall, rather than the pub?
Circa mid/late ’80s. The Waterside (cnr Flinders and King). Markillies (Flinders, near cnr of Spencer) and Savoy Tavern (cnr Spencer and Bourke). They were some serious dives. Used to work around that end of town for a while. Savoy had carpet.
It’s been a long day – awoke early after having a nightmare about – it’s the truth! – carpet.
I raced into Longreach just in time to save myself from a nasty mistake.
But now I’m going to bed.
✓ ✓
Part-time bovver boy, earlier:
Your MX5?
Your what?
Do you mean…. your Miata?
Oh my lord.
I always knew “Rage Against The Machine” were commie bastards, this seals it for me:
Lars von Retriever’s North Korean Army Band Jamboree: Killing In The Name Of
New OT up.
omfg … even the DJ’s getting cranky
Salvatore, send me your pub location, I can guarantee you a funny night at the bar. Spouse and I are good value, life well lived on land and sea, we wonder how we ever did it and so do our kids.
I keep promising to write a book, but I’m a journalist, he’s an artist, and our backstory is too ridiculous to put on paper. There aren’t enough trees.m
Jesus H Christ
This one is put together even better:
Lars von Retriever: North Korean Army Band Jamboree: I Want To Break Free, with cute Juche-Pop Idols.
all early openers too.
me and a mate used to play pool for money after-hours at the Waterside
… it was a thing
Really?
Really?
Dot, where on earth did you dig up that music?
Kim fleetingly looks human.
Not an expert, but unless they are using coal, sails or electric, some kind of liquid fuel seems essential.
Bunker oil might (again I don’t know) to be head, but in the climate of the Red Sea, would probably seep into the holds if there are leaks in the fuel lines.
In either case, wise men might be a little careful approaching a potential bomb, even for a good salvage price.
Muddy.
Do you know of anyone in Canberra who would be willing to visit the National Archives office there and copy a list of specific files for me please?
That’s not how they work these days.
1. find the file online
2. if it’s digitised you can read it online
3. if not, follow the links and pay a set fee – about $25
4. they will email you when it’s found and photographed and placed online.
5. now read online.
Cheers.