Don’t have to sell me, I saw them at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. Very very good.
Open Thread – Weekend 2 March 2024
- Bumtree #16
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- Guest Post: Wally Dali- Archibald Prize predictions
- TULIP versus ruinous Labor
- Open Thread – Weekend 18 May 2024
Well, it’s Vincent Namatjira, past winner- that’s who it is. I know he’s bumbling around the likeness of some other…
except possibly this one by JJ’s greatest follower … “in the gallery”
okie funk doesn’t get any better …
Why not Dover? Hamas have been claiming the pilot was a Jew by the name of Eli Kopter. He probably…
Good luck with that Alf Garnett.
Speaking of the music of those heady days, I see The Animals are embarked on a farewell tour of Australia.
The only original member is the drummer, who won the rights to use the name from Eric Burdon.
Part of his winning argument was that Burdon used to style the band ‘Eric Burdon and The Animals’. So, the drummer argued and the judge agreed, without Eric Burdon, it’s just The Animals.
Last I saw IGA still carries Norco, which is what I buy if I go to my local IGA. It’s nice milk.
Best to steer clear of milk business and politics Roger. Bashing the supermarkets is certainly flavour of the month. Even Wilkie and Katter have got in on the act.
Strange reading the discussion on China’s demographic problem in the OOT when it is in many respects the same in other Asian countries and the West.
Straya going down a Kiwi hole in the crikkit.
6/127. Marsh, a golden duck. Green’s going to have to carry the innings again.
On the upside, on yesterday’s form Sooky McCheat appears to be turning into Joe Burns.
That it is.
They still do a gold top with cream like the old days too.
Sigh.
The context was China’s plans for world domination if it can and regional hegemony for sure.
Always look for context.
Roger
Mar 2, 2024 11:49 AM
Nice try. WW1 and WW2 broke the UK.
You don’t say.
’twas a joke!
A few notables returned their MBEs in protest when The Beatles got theirs.
Yes and I know it was a joke. Correct, and it caused a right old ‘barney’ at the time. The Colonel Blimps of Old Empire were not very happy.
Black History is QUEER History!
The More Info That Surfaces About The J6 Pipe Bombs, The More It Doesn’t Add Up.
This is the sleeper issue of the whole 6 Jan concept.
Milton, and Newcastle!
Dang…
My target was inner city Sydneysiders selling out to Big Milk with nary a thought for their countrymen labouring from dawn to dusk in the verdant paddocks of the north coast.
Roger
Mar 2, 2024 11:59 AM
Last I saw IGA still carries Norco, which is what I buy if I go to my local IGA. It’s nice milk.
That it is.
They still do a gold top with cream like the old days too.
Sigh.
The best milk that I have tasted recently was in Queenstown NZ while on holiday there in May last year. Very creamy milk.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer was very pleased with the lads from Liverpool though.
I think they were paying 90% tax at the time.
The MBEs were a thank you.
Kroges won’t stump up for a pair? Entirely unsurprising.
I will happily concede that NZ dairy is generally superior to ours in my experience, as is their lamb.
Sooky Mc’Cheat is fine but now I prefer Cryon di Telly. I pine for the days of Desmond Haynes and Gordon Greenidge. Can’t think of any opening pair better.
At some point it would have to choose at least one of these fronts for a decisive operation and for the life of me, the Russian Pacific Coast would be the dumbest to choose, given the distances, terrain, weather, etc.
I think a front on the Russian Pacific Coast would immediately turn Ukraine into a ‘we will address that later’ scenario. Such a move would not be designed as a victory step, simply as a massive ask for Russia to address two fronts thousands of kilometres apart with a far different purely military structure and capacity. Bring the US into that and it becomes a nightmare for Russia.
NATO (Europe) has enormous capacity to step up to the plate for war time production that would dwarf Russian efforts. They have 10 Armoured vehicle manufacturers, 10 military aerospace manufacturers, many artillery and small arms manufacturers, 750 million population, massively larger financial capacity, combined air forces and navy which are not at play in Ukraine.
James O’Keefe BANNED from Equinox Gym FOR LIFE because he taped that POS judge engoron when he was creeping out young women in their gyms.
Damn straight.
The same applies to other Asian countries and the West. SK is projected to drop to 38M from 51M by 2070 but, again, strangely these projections are never or hardly at all factored into analyses about Chinese pretensions to world or regional domination. As you say, context matters.
Without wanting to unleash the dogs of war – aka, what may have been the reason for the end of the ticks and, I hasten to add, I only surmise, having been absent then – but can we have at the very least ticks for Tom’s Toons? There’s some real crackers this morning that should attract a visible admiration from us for them and for Tom. Just sayin…
On the toons, Leak, of course, and Knight, and that great Spycatcher one + the end of McConnell as the water boy of the Demonrats!
I think they were paying 90% tax at the time.
It was 19s6d in the pound. The Beatles wrote a song about it lol
A woman called the florist shop to complain.
She had just sent flowers to her daughter who had relocated her business because it was booming and needed to expand.
“I ordered these flowers for her,” the woman said, “and what you delivered had on the card ‘Our Deepest Sympathy.’ What do you have to say?”
There was complete silence.
“Well???” she asked again.
“Sorry,” the florist replied, “I was just thinking of the flowers we sent to the funeral home with the tag ‘Best of Luck In Your New Location.’”
Good luck Peter and Muddy.
Cats, apologies but there won’t be a radio show tonight. I’m totally bereft of ideas for themes – and no, the Sodom and Gomorrah theme was never a goer.
amortiser
Mar 2, 2024 12:16 PM
I think they were paying 90% tax at the time.
It was 19s6d in the pound. The Beatles wrote a song about it lol
Yes and so did the Kinks – Sunny Afternoon –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-cLaPUOtzU
Saw “The Animals” live at the “Comb And Cutter” in Blacktown – and lived to tell the tale….
A long sorded story behind that BBS that surpassed enything MAFS could produce.
“The rich were to be taxed until their eyes bled.”
The name of the speaker escapes me.
Supermarkets prefer their own brand milk (most products actually). It allows them to change suppliers whenever it suits.
According to the lyrics it was 19s in the pound.
UK private member’s bill outlawing homosexual conversion therapy fell at first hurdle overnight as the debate “timed out” in the House of Commons, effectively relegating the proposed legislation to the dustbin.
China doesn’t allow country shoppers to flood in and then do all that NDIS and aged care work. That means Han people have to do it.
Yes it is possible to counteract the baby bust with immigration, but as we know there’s a cost. The question that China is now answering is whether that cost is better than the cost of not allowing in country shoppers. It’s interesting to watch demographics in action.
Very few countries have attempted the real answer, which is to incentivize marriage, families and births…except Hungary.
Post war Britain was certainly no fun.
Mrs TE was into the TV series Call the Midwife for a while, and I chased up the autobiography of the nurse who wrote the original book.
Jennifer Worth was her name. The book was basically a memoir, and depicts Britain in the 1950s. It’s very readable and very descriptive. Britain was an appalling place to live by the sound of it, especially in the cities. I forget her name for the flats in which thousands lived, but they often had no inside bathrooms, little heating, and in many places families were living basically in one room.
I note a few articles in The Spectator along the lines of “why can’t the UK do anything properly any more?” and fully see their point, but life post-war was very bad there by many accounts. On a perosnal note my parents lived in London, and I was born there, and we emigrated when I was seven. The olds reckoned moving to Oz was the best thing they ever did.
How dare you!
Me, too.
On that, I’m wondering when another batsman argued that his sacrifice was to rise up the order to protect the younger, new chums in the team, despite them being presumably picked on their own merit. (Of course, there maybe one, somewhere, sometime…)
Ian “I can’t hear a f*#king thing” Chappell once pointed out that if Greenidge appeared to be injured, the opposition were then up for an impossible task – i.e. trying to get him out.
Those Windies teams up until about the mid nineties were absolutely terrifying – although their abuse of the rules and spirit of the game did grate somewhat.
Two key rule changes disrupted them slightly, the ninety over a day rule and the restriction on bouncers allowed per over.
miltonf
Mar 2, 2024 10:22 AM
Coffs Harbour is on the slide down. The Sydneysider retirees who got out of Sydney and went to the major coastal cities have brought their politics with them. Coffs has elected a mob of Greenies – what they didn’t tell anyone they were greenies? That’s a surprise – who immediately put up a $70 million admin building, and are now raising rates to pay for it along with more and more restrictions and regulations to enact their political and social beliefs.
Coffs is becoming a Green Shithole.
thefrollickingmole
That balloon keeps inflating, when will it stop? Perhaps when the South Pacific Peso reaches 45c US.
Rabz, I always enjoyed rickw’s daily dig at numbers war songs.
Invade Russia’s Far East? Putin has said that that is across the nuclear threshold. He could promise just to nuke say, Berlin in retaliation and leave the rest of Europe and the USA alone. Are Paris and Washington going to risk being nuked on account of Berlin?
Bespoke, and hence the reason why I confessed to having no knowledge of what did em in
It may be just as well if wars in future will be able to be fought remotely, but occupying territory won may present a problem. I think we will actually see the de facto borders of nation states in Asia receding with locals migrating to the population centres. Geopolitical stability is not the norm in human history.
An interesting approach. Used to be known as the Hygiene Hypothesis and was popular long before the microbiome became such a prominent issue in research. The Hygiene Hypothesis was mostly about how the immune system was developed during childhood. Play in the dirt kids. I haven’t seen it mentioned in years but I don’t read that much any more.
The microbiome has a big influence on our immune responses. It is generally not appreciated that so much immune activity occurs in the gut(70-80%)
Autoimmune diseases are on the rise, in the USA early onset dementia is increasing and other pathological conditions are occurring at younger ages. Too much processed food, too much fructose. There is some research suggesting additives in processed food irritate the microbiome.
Rabz, perhaps some inspiration here…
https://www.aimm.edu/blog/most-popular-themes-in-songs
Roger
Have they gotten around to sacking the entire advertising department yet?
Had a bit of catching up to do. Which it probably has by now. Suspect you would have been better off in Sydney or Melbourne over 10 years.
Thank you. Added to my watchlist. Alas the watchlist is heavier than my bookshelf. Always looking for something that is “good watching”
Will swap you with “Black Snow” on Stan. Filmed in Proserpine a couple of years ago & ignore by me on the basis it is Australian written & made thus is batshit boring.
Actually it is well-written (possibly a first for Australia) & keeps you guessing right until the end, with each episode (there’s 6) ending with an excellent cliff-hanger.
Though Australian, it is very American in style – either because it is aimed at the American market, or because the urbanites behind it are so unfamiliar with Australian culture (non-urban culture that is) that they’ve no idea of the dynamics & presumed it is the same as in “small town America” TV shows.
It stars that rooster (can’t recall his name) who played Major Harry Smith in Danger Close, & has Kim Gyngell as the Sheriff (may as well pin on a star, give him a two-tone uniform, and call him ‘Sheriff’, as his role has nothing in common with that of a Qld Police Officer-in-Charge.)
Favourite part: The “Australian” town uses US telephone numbers.
On the Salvatore scale of watchability (with zero = total crap & 10 = you’ll call in sick so you can finish binge-watching it) it rates 8+, possibly a 9.
Chopin.
Thanks BBS. The hardest part of the radio show posts is trying to write an intro.
Someone mentioned classical music last night, which would be fine except I know nothing about it and never (willingly) listen to it.
I’m not sure its the nightmare for Russia you imagine. How many troops are the US going to use? How many are they prepared to lose? Can these be replaced if at all in the current environment? What are their objectives in Eastern Russia going to be? Are US troops in large numbers in the area going to be tolerated by China or NK? How would they logistically support troops if they advance into the interior?
Is this reflected in the fact that the Brits, for example, are already looking to offload one of their new carriers because they can’t afforded to keep it?
Faarkin funny. Just fantastic commentary.
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Steve Inman:
Savage Cats
Watched the first couple of series with my wife.
We switched off when woke began to creep in.
Until then it was one of the few decent shows on FTA.
I am him!
DoverBeach:
There’s a point reached when losses of gear and supplies by rail becomes too much and the tanks get put on low loaders and driven to the front. A truck, unlike a train, can be parked off road if necessary.
Go back to WW2 and the Allies resupply efforts after they overran most of France etc – they had destroyed most of the French Rail network and used trucks instead. The Red Ball Express.
I’m totally bereft of ideas for themes
Music for driving in MX5s.
Vengaboys
East 17
Tears for Fears
Pet Shop Boys
George Michael’s Christmas album
You’re welcome.
Blockquote fail.
I was thinking of Last Christmas and went all wonky.
Heavy metal.
The Daily Chart: Heavy Metal Madness | Power Line (1 Mar)
There you go, a linear relationship between national happiness and heavy metal bands per capita. Unsurprisingly Finland is far and away the highest in both categories.
ditto Roger. Seduced by the eminently watchable Jenny Agutter whom the camera loves.
Dunkley by-election, Cats – can the gliberals win it?
I so want to see these disgusting, incompetent labore idiots start to (figuratively) have their house sized backsides punted into the next postcode, after being (figuratively) mercilessly bashed with Louisville Sluggers.
Crudlin was bandying about some interesting stats this week on by-election results – the swings against governments recently have been miniscule.
Labore’s polling in Dunkley must be dreadful, given their self-evident panic and ridiculous (premature) excuses.
Britain was an appalling place to live
My Da came out in the mid 50s. When he stepped off the boat he said to the immigration officer ‘How do you do’. IO responded ‘Gidday Jim, welcome to Australia, we’ve plenty of need for tradesmen.’
Twas the first time he recalled being addressed by his first name, was able to enter homes via the front when working. He felt he had thrown off the British class system for good and loved it.
Rabz, it doesn’t have to be long.
But if war, then you could go with…
war is hell, but there are some great songs that mark well the territory
Roger:
I grew up on Norco products.
Even up to the age of 8, I thought they were the only people in Australia who could get the cows to straddle the bottles. I did wonder about the West Australian milk market and how the cows got to Lismore twice a day, but.
Yes, I thought she was very good in it, hz.
You’ve misunderstood Dover. The invader of the Russian East isn’t the US.
Xi Jinping’s plan to annex Russian territory is there for all to see (Mar 2023)
Japan also wants back those islands the Russians have been sitting on for eighty years.
Hey.
It’s Woman In Chains, not Welcome to the Pleasure Dome.
Dot – that Norko military rendition of “Killing in the name of” was absolutely bloody hilarious.
Does anyone care?
I certainly don’t.
Then you’re an idiot
The US, from bases in Japan, could take out all the major Russian facilities. Vladivostok is gone, as the Kurils and Kamchatka. China looks north and sees all that oil and increased access to the Arctic with more oil to grab. The US doesn’t have to occupy, but is stuck with the problem of potentially doing China a big favour.
None of this will happen because NATO has no designs on invading Russia because that would be a disaster. NATO can destroy Russia’s military but the end result could be China’s expansion.
Russia’s enemy in the Far East will be China, not the US. And that will be a nightmare for Russia.
I wonder what this chick thinks about autoimmune diseases.
https://www.instagram.com/rawveganfoodchef/?hl=en
Civil strife is always on the far horizon, right up until the moment it isn’t, O Pantsless One.
Here’s one from the archives – “Any nation is just 3 meals away from a revolution.”
Study finds daily fiber supplement improves older adults’ brain function in just 12 weeks
Enough to make me a Jungian DOT. I only just read the above link before flipping back here. Microbiome management is best done with plant food.
Is Avdeevka still holding?
Muddy is doing God’s work. Anyone who is able to readily assist is God’s own assistant.
Furthermore, we should look inward to who in the Cat collective is able to speak & write “government” and assist the Commonwealth to bestow a grant upon Muddy.
God-tier memes about Chelsea Clinton.
Pointing fingers
Easy mistake
Winston Smith
Mar 2, 2024 1:10 PM
H B Bear
Mar 2, 2024 11:50 AM
But have no fear, the solutions WILL be enacted when enough shit has hit the fan to stir the peasantry into action.
Good luck with that Alf Garnett.
Civil strife is always on the far horizon, right up until the moment it isn’t, O Pantsless One.
Here’s one from the archives – “Any nation is just 3 meals away from a revolution.”
Exactly. Just have a look at the history of every Revolution or Uprising. Saying, “Let them eat cake” was not a very good idea. Was she a blonde?
…
…
…
… and not dying of malnutrition!
Except, she never said it, you idiot.
Go check Socrates, or ask Marty to.
Muddy – are you prepared to be legally transgendered and also have a racial awakening?
Nope, I am not. Both advocate net zero. Both parties should be Rabzed.
Basically the Libs and Labor are essentially indistinguishable. On the balance I’d prefer Labor since that’d get the collapse over with sooner so we could rebuild.
Bruce of N, re China/Russia.
Snap.
Amen.
That sonar scan rattled me.
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SOLVED: Missing 24-year-old Jacob VanZant Found
On the upside, on yesterday’s form Sooky McCheat appears to be turning into Joe Burns
So what does this make Labuschagne? The Jimmy Adams body double?
A guy is staggering in the heat of the southwest desert in the USA in the 19th century. He stumbles into a small town and a man asks him “why don’t you buy a horse?” The guy says “I don’t have much money”. So the local man introduces him to a horse seller and asks if he has any affordable horses. The seller says “Well, I have one for $20 and another for $10…The guy says “What’s the difference?” and the seller says, “Well, a preacher man had this horse, and he just died so his wife asked me to sell it. It’s a good horse; it just responds to unusual commands is all.” So the guy says, “OK, I’ll take the cheaper one!” He pays the money, gets on the horse and says “Giddyup!” The horse doesn’t move, so the seller says, “No, no! If you want it go, you say ‘Oh, Lord’ and when you want it stop, you say ‘Amen.” “Oh, OK!” The guys nudges the horse with his knees and says, “Oh, Lord”, and the horse takes off at a dead run. The guy sees a cliff looming ahead, and he screams in panic: “Whoa! Whoa! STOP!” but the horse keeps running. At the last second, the guy remembers and screams “Amen!!!” The horse stops at the very edge of the cliff, and the guy wipes his brow and says, “ WHEW, OH LORD!”
BJ – The Chinese have long memories. I’ve mentioned the 1860 Treaty of Peking a couple times, but they also have a chip on both shoulders still from the Opium Wars twenty years before that. Xi has even gone off on the Poms about that episode.
China also claims large swathes of India too, of course. So far it’s a bit of a toss up whether the therrmonuclear device that destroys Beijing will be Russian, American or Indian. Probably not Pommy though since their sub launched missiles don’t work.
JC
Mar 2, 2024 1:21 PM
Ah so the Stoush Nurse is now awake. FFS. You Wooden Top.
Get back in yer’ box and lie down and take a Bex.
And for the Stoush Nurse who loves NYC –
US Market Closings:
Dow advanced 90.99 points or 0.23% to 39,087.38
S&P 500 advanced 40.81 points or 0.8% to 5,137.08
Nasdaq advanced 183.02 points or 1.14% to 16,274.94
Russell 2000 advanced 21.55 points or 1.05% to 2,076.39
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/market-talk/market-talk-march-1-2024/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Bruce of Newcastle
Mar 2, 2024 1:39 PM
Didn’t the Opium Wars start when China – who had found a lucrative trade with GB over tea – decided to quadruple their prices?
…and the poms said “Fair enough” and showed them that when you have a contract, you cannot just break it because.
It’s very Arabic, isn’t it? FAFO, then complain because the finding out process isn’t always something you were counting on?
China loves portraying itself as a victim even when it is the aggressor.
And the police will fight them tooth and nail.
Just had my comment accepted over at the Oz, who are running a sycophantic article about the Garma Festval. It is nauseating claptrap in the extreme:
It has since grown to become the country’s premier Indigenous cultural and political event, and is usually sold out. In 2023, more than 5000 people came through the gate over the five days and last December Garma was rated as one of the top world events, says Bowden, up there with the Day of the Dead in Mexico, the Tour de France and Diwali in India.
The comments under the article are overwhelmingly negative, and being accepted. Maybe the moderator hates the journalist. Quite a few are pointing out that a) the festival is subsided overwhelmingly by government, and b) it also costs about $3k to get in, for which you get a camping site.
My comment was:
Topend Sports says “The Tour de France cycle race…number of spectators at recent events is estimated to be 12 to 15 million.”
To equate Garma with that is virtue-signalling to the extreme.
Join the arse-kicking if you can here.
They hate the normal society because it refuses to change along with them. The normals are a constant reminder to the weirdos that no matter how they try they will not be the new normal.
Winston – I have a book on my to do pile called “The Chinese Opium Wars” by Jack Beeching. So if you want an answer you’ll have to wait for me to get around to reading it… 😀
I don’t understand why the UK isn’t excited by the potential of being a few degrees warmer. It’s climate change supporters clear love snow, sleet, ice, rain and high speed winds.
What does this actually achieve? Nothing.
The Russian military is going to be larger, already is, post-this war than after. NATO is winning.
Well people still listen to and study, and play (professionals and amateurs) him 170+ years after he died.
His Nocturnes are magnificent. The Claudio Arrau renditions I have are easily my favourite album. Here is Arrau’s version of the Prelude in C-sharp minor.
Rabz, would it not be an idea to make the radio shows into dedicated threads. It would allow you to give context to the selections and give people a means to go back to themes and specific tracks.
Also, when stumped, try things like ‘Shittest music from the 80’s’ for example. I would think it would trigger a lot of chatter leading to great songs possibly only identified by such circuitous thinking.
Just a thought.
Revisit an old theme with different music choices.
The snout sniffeth another trough. Courier Mail:
Again the Teals are far from independent. Fark orf girls.
It’s a charmed life Cats and Kittehs upon ascension to ‘serve’ your constituents, where your own interests supercede.
Sort of makes a mockery of his farewell speech. FMD
Why War is Inevitable & the Outcome
“One of the basic rules of war is that you always keep two fronts going simultaneously. The first is the obvious battlefield. However, the second is communication. Suppose you DO NOT keep communication open through the back channels. In that case, there is NEVER the possibility of PEACE, and the war then becomes concluded only when one side is obliterated. This is what has taken place, and the demonizing of Putin is HIGHLY dangerous, for it shows there is no intention of peace. You cannot keep calling someone a piece of shit publicly and then expect the people to accept a reversal of that policy.
Demonizing an opponent is to create hatred that leads your troops to be willing to die for some greater good. Field Marshall Goring explained it well when he was on trial at Nuremberg. You always denounce the peacemakers as conspiracy theorists, or as Nuland is calling the anti-war Republicans – “Putin’s wing of the Republican Party.” Victoria Nuland is the real Commander & Chief, not Biden, who is directing this war. She has made clear that she has absolutely no intention of stopping the war. The Neocons have spent their entire lives drooling at the thought of conquering Russia and China. When Communism fell, they never changed their view. When Ronald Reagan wanted to meet with Gorbachev, sensing that Russia wanted to end Communism, the Neocons objected, and I can tell you they told him, “You can never trust a Russian.” Reagan refused to listen and met with Gorbachev, and the Berlin Wall collapsed.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/china/why-war-in-inevitable-the-outcome/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
As cleared for posting by Mrs Stencho Pantyhose, one of the two self appointed Blog Milk Monitors. The other one had no input.
People need to stop fantasising about a war between China and Russia. Not going to happen. The only winner from such an event is the West. They need each other and they are stronger allied than as enemies.
I am reminded of a C line by J.B.S. Haldane.
Government is not merely more malign and incompetent than we imagine, but even more malign and incompetent than we can imagine.
Which goes to show there’s no accounting for taste.
Just kiddin’.
Quite possibly, but I’m reminded of what eugyppius wrote earlier this week, summing it up thus: “Yes, the people in governments are malign, but the much bigger problem is their stupidity.”
That is a good example with which to illustrate that correlation is not causation. Either that or to demonstrate how easy it is to mislead people with statistics.
“People are sick of it.”
I’m sick of that ghastly woman
Johnny Rotten
Mar 2, 2024 1:41 PM
No one has ever suggested JC could be a nurse – it takes at least a modicum of genuine empathy. Something JC has never demonstrated.
the woman shouted at Mr Conroy
a labor bitch- a really foul breed
A retired pilot takes his little granddaughter on an aeroplane for the first time in her life. He wants to make it special for her so he asks if they can visit the cockpit but the cabin attendant tells them for security reasons that is no longer possible. The girl is very disappointed but her grandfather suggests instead of going to see the captain, she could write him a letter. She likes the idea and is soon at work writing the following:
Dear Captain,
My name is Samantha and I am sitting in seat number 33E. This is my first time on a plane and I think your plane is very nice and the lady in the blue dress gave me some orange juice and some crayons and a colouring book and its very nice and thank you very much for taking us today and my grandpa says good cross wind take-off but make sure you don’t fark up the landing.
Crossie
Mar 2, 2024 1:48 PM
Oh yes, We’ve noticed that.
One day, the Police will have to decide whose side they are on in all the Western societies. Tyranny or Freedom?
It will be a very uncomfortable position for them to be in…
I thought dairy was mostly down south coast, between Nowra and Bega.
You obviously weren’t watching Victoria the last couple of years. They seemed quite comfortable.
Next time why not just have an Open Mike evening? Let people link what they like and explain their choices.
Yep.
Elbow is running a mile from the enraged Dunkley mortgage belt and the Liars and the Filth refused to even turn up at this week’s Sky News byelection special.
A distinct last-days-of-empire feel about Dunkley and Elbow’s prime ministership.
So true.
continually shouted over by Labor volunteers and sceptical voters
these people really need to be put in their place- they certainly don’t like debate. kunts.
sceptical voters– yeah sure
Just as well as I was about to demand satisfaction – iPods at 20 paces.
Actually there is another idea Rabz, comparing covers with originals of songs.
Norco is based in Lismore and was est. at Byron Bay in 1895. Lovely dairy country in the north coast hinterland. In the 1970s they won the “milk war” and the right to distribute across NSW & in recent decades they’ve bought up SE QLD producers as well.
Winston Smith
Mar 2, 2024 2:13 PM
Apparently, Junior wanted to be a Male Nurse. As posted on this very Blog by the poster/imposter in the last week or so. Just after the post of “I’m bored, lonely, depressed, bored, lonely, depressed, etc, etc, etc,……………..”
Thank you Mother Lode. Through decent speakers that is really something.
Labor seem to be wheeling out their goon squad
Upticked in my mind.
Labor seem to be wheeling out their goon squad
Was thinking same, completely unacceptable but the media reports I’ve read seem to be understating the ugliness of it.
The NRL geo tracks the ticket sales for the games in Vegas.
They are making a big thing about tickets being purchased from all around the world including Afghanistan of all places.
Someone probably didn’t change their VPN back over before they bought tickets.
We’re probably not far away from politicians not appearing in public without security, as in the UK. And I’m referring to backbenchers, not cabinet members. As if it wasn’t hard enough to speak to your local member as it is.
My sister and brother are there.
It’s more likely that a US invasion of Siberia. I’ve heard a lot of crazy stuff in my time but none so out there as that. Mind you Russia has been talking about getting Alaska back lately, so there’re some pretty weird ideas floating around right now.
The US and the UK have had supposedly race based riots for decades. I won’t be holding my breath.
One of the finest pieces of film music:
Bernard Herrmann — Carlotta’s Portrait (Vertigo, 1958)
On Albo’s birthday party – I wonder what the Liar internal polling has been saying?
Scott Morrison’s departure has renewed calls for sweeping reforms to the rules that govern post-political life.
Return to tradition…
Id pay money to see the ALP front benchers line up to sup on Albos sin apples.
https://www.dublincity.ie/library/blog/human-sacrifice-ancient-ireland#:~:text=The%20aim%20was%20to%20dethrone,this%20world%20or%20the%20next.%22
“Sucking a king’s nipples was a gesture of submission in ancient Ireland,” says Kelly. “Cutting them would have made him incapable of kingship in this world or the next.”
/C’mon Penny, mmmmmmm
Old Croghan man had holes cut through his upper arms through which ropes were inserted to restrain him, after which he was repeatedly stabbed, had his nipples sliced off, and was then cut in half. Clonycavan man was disemboweled and suffered three blows to the head with an axe, once across his body, and then had his nipples removed too.
Would solve the problems of pensions/lobbying etc as well.
I’m not a great Chopin fan, but that was delightful.
A huge improvement on the ghastly rackets most here seem to think is music. And which is only marginally better than rap.
Alaska was a good buy. Props to whoever did that deal.
The same thing happened in Eastern Europe during the fall of communism. When the commo authorities saw the police abandoned them they knew it was over, they didn’t even try it with the army as the result would have been the same.
Very true. The Euroweenies know they haven’t the collective guts to start and conduct a kinetic war with Russia. Sending ammo and arms, ok. Sending tens of thousands to the slaughter in a Russian meat grinder, not so much. No fun getting shredded by Russian artillery while your local rep back home is concerning themselves with the latest LGBTQI heartbreaks or how your sister lives in fear from the surge in rapes by Sub- Saharans.
Others call it free speech.
One passing voter shouted at the driver of the vehicle, saying he was “spreading misinformation”.
voter eh- just fuk off- using the latest misnomer for free speech so beloved by canbra
Dover, nothing will happen or rather there will be no improvement until after the US election. If Democrats win the world is screwed. If Trump and Republicans win he will simply say everyone calm down, let’s do a deal.
The new definition of “misinformation”: anything that a leftard doesn’t like.
Heres the thing.
If Trump is elected and ends the war in Ukraine, he will be denounced and probably impeached again as a “traitor” for letting down St Vlodimir.
Because theres no settlement now which doesnt end without Vlad getting most of what his objectives were.
Which means the tens of thousands of lives and billions in gear and damage have achieved nil outside the Raytheon etc share prices.
I cant see a “win” for Trump if the war keeps going
President Andrew Johnson. Just after the US civil war. IIRC he got into a lot of domestic strife over the “costly blunder”
IIRC it was about $7 million bucks.
In my earlier life as a young man of adventure & rather unadvisable personal economic decisions, I shared a room in a foreign country with (& worked with) a Russian labourer for the big end of a year, when our language got to the point we could talk to each other on non-work related esoteric subjects, he mentioned how unpopular Catherine (at the time the Tsar’s root on the side – later the Empress) was for urging the Tsar to give Alaska to USA.
He was shocked to learn that Alaska had not been a gift & USA had paid for it with lotsa cash to Russia. (Those balkan wars don’t finance themselves)
It’s a nonsense claim.
“Put Labor last” is an exhortation.
It’s not in the indicative mood, so it’s not presenting information for a voter’s evaluation, nor is it misinformation masquerading as such.
Seward’s folly.
Another example of how a government decision/policy takes time to show if it’s a disaster or a master stroke.
I suspect he’ll be settling for considerably less than the objectives outlined in his ‘casus belli’ speech. A partition with peacekeepers is not off the table as an interim solution.
People forget that Trump held Putin at bay during his whole administration and I would guess he will do so again.
If Trump wins the election so will a majority of Republican congress people and senators which means there will be no impeachments. Besides, American public has turned away from the Ukrainian war and want it resolved ASAP.
The Bad Santa impersonator and convicted felon, providing geopolitical insights and military tactics using his experience of being cornholed by Bubba for eleven years, and as posted earlier:
That is in fact one of the basic ‘do nots’ of warfare, as countless kings, emperors and dictators have learnt to their cost.
Perhaps Mr Armstrong could contribute more accurate posts about not accepting cigarettes from other prisoners early in one’s sentence, or how to get a job in the prison kitchen.
Hugh
Mar 2, 2024 2:44 PM
One of the finest pieces of film music:
Bernard Herrmann — Carlotta’s Portrait (Vertigo, 1958)
Alfred Hitchcock was a Master Director. I still like the theme music from Dr. Zhivago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcth3ccFHh0
Knuckle Dragger
Mar 2, 2024 3:21 PM
Neanderthal person as always into the fray –
And as Mrs Stencho Panthose is always saying –
Sure……………………..
He’s already got more. BTW, WSJ reconfirmed the deal that was on the table overnight, which you doubted previously.
Always talk to the police, even without legal representation.
Always represent yourself in court.
Always do your own electrical, plumbing, gasfitting & roof plumbing.
Oil changes aren’t necessary in modern cars.
Don’t worry about squatters, they’ll just go away when you ignore them.
Always leave kids and dogs in locked cars in summer.
Don’t worry about fire risks or incompatible chemicals. Live a little!
Always invade Russia, especially during winter.
Ignore the high ground.
To the enemy and one’s self gives no insight.
To win without fighting is for cowards who only imagine they project force.
The Central Powers won the First World War.
Hitler was a military genius.
9/11 and 7/10 were inside jobs. I saw Warty Fartstrong say this on Zeee Media.
It must be true!
TO KNOW the enemy etc.
If the public has ‘turned away’, what can he do beyond what has already been done?
Australia doesn’t even bother to chart on the headbanger-happiness chart.
Top of the slope is the Finno-Urgic-Nordic axis of Finland, Sweden and Norway. Still in the headspace of a technical musical tradition and a school culture which tolerates no paskaa, although a Marxist putsch of the sector has meant Finland has decided to take a death dive off that sensible solid grounding.
Norway’s crowning glory is Kvelertak. Magnificent, brainy, playful, masters of the medium and with an instinct for good times.
Florida governor vetoes bill banning social media for those under 16
How did they expect to enforce this?
Rabz,
What about songs with a girl’s name in the title?
Martin Armstrong’s experience in financial matters – ‘This is how to go to prison for eleven years’.
Marting Armstrong’s experience in how to fight a European war, or any war for that matter – ‘Uhhh’.
Absolutely cannot be denied.
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A young man met a beautiful girl and agreed to spend the night with her for $500. So they did. Before he left, he told her that he did not have any cash with him, but that he would have his secretary write a check and mail it to her, calling the payment “RENT FOR APARTMENT.” On the way to his office he regretted what he had promised, deciding that the whole event was not worth the price. So, he had his secretary send a check for $250 and enclosed the following note:
Dear Madam,
Enclosed find a checque in the amount of $250 for rent of your apartment. I am not sending the amount agreed upon because when I rented the apartment I was under the impression that:
1) it had never been occupied
2) that there was plenty of heat
3) that it was small enough to make me cozy and feel at home.
Last night, however, I found it had been previously occupied, that there was no heat, and it was entirely too large.
Upon receipt of the note, the girl immediately returned the cheque for $250 with the following note:
Dear Sir,
First of all, I cannot understand how you expect a beautiful apartment to remain unoccupied indefinitely. As for the heat, there is heat if you know how to turn it on.
Regarding the space, the apartment is, indeed, of regular size, but if you don’t have enough furniture to fill it, please don’t blame the landlady!
✗ ✗ ✗
KD: It’d be a really good idea to at least have a skim through the posted comment you believe you’re correcting. A really good idea. 😉
Knuckle Dragger
Mar 2, 2024 3:42 PM
Neanderthal person as always into the fray –
Martin Armstrong’s experience in financial matters – ‘This is how to go to prison for eleven years’.
So, someone goes to jail and serves the time. And you have a problem with that?
Warty Fartstrong lost over 1 bn USD in client funds and went to gaol for it.
He should shut up and live out the rest of his days playing golf in quiet ignominy.
Worst people in existence stake out worst headgear as their hill to die on.
Was his Hugo Boss uniform at the dry cleaners or something?
Victorian Socialists
@vic_socialists
Not even 9am on polling day in Dunkley and already one of our volunteers has been asked by the AEC booth manager to take off their keffiyeh ‘for the comfort of all voters’ after a complaint. We will NOT be complying with this request.
So, someone goes to jail and serves the time. And you have a problem with that?
And BTW, it was for Civil Contempt of Court. And NOT a criminal conviction. Look it up when you have some time and are in anyway interested.
That’s a lot of money and I imagine many of those clients suffered greatly and were impoverished as a result.
Only if they continue to provide ‘financial advice’ for money.
Yes Sal, I am aware the ‘second front’ the prisoner mentioned was communication-based. Goebbels didn’t really have a win with that either. In the Ukraine circumstance, ‘communication’ appears to be shouting matches between groups of equally-challenged wokelings demanding that other people Do Something.
A piece of shit, quoting a piece of shit, defending another piece of shit, to run cover for a modern piece of shit.
A golfer is driving his golf cart when it gets turned over in an accident. A beautiful woman who lives in a house beside the golf course witnesses the accident and comes to pull the driver out of the golf cart’s wreckage. “Oh you poor thing,” she says, “why don’t you come up to my house and I’ll get you some water.”
“I don’t know, ma’am, I don’t think my wife would like it very much,” replies the golfer.
“Oh come on, it’s just a glass of water,” she says, so he accepts and they go to her house.
As he sits on her sofa drinking her water, she says “Would you like something a bit stronger? Brandy, perhaps?”
To which the golfer replies “Oh no, ma’am, that’s awfully kind, but I don’t think my wife would like it very much.”
“Don’t worry about her,” says the beautiful woman, “it’s just one drink…”
“Well, I suppose one drink wouldn’t hurt,” says the golfer. The woman goes to the bar and returns with a glass of brandy.
As the golfer is drinking, the woman says “I don’t suppose you’d like to go up to my bedroom and fool around?”
The golfer says “Oh no ma’am, I know my wife wouldn’t like that!”
“Oh come on,” says the woman, “she’ll never know. Where is your wife, anyway?”
“Probably still trapped in the golf cart,” says the golfer.
Dot
Mar 2, 2024 3:54 PM
More academic rubbish from the Blog’s resident academic.
Bovver Boy (part time):
Here you go – once again:
$700 million dollar fraud, and that’s only what he copped to. Had he not agreed to plea guilty and save himself dying in jail, this particular scam artist would still be in the bin.
I’m not interested in defending pieces of shit who steal one billion dollars (or make losses and fraudulently hide these losses to attract more investors), send investors to the wall (destroying families, causing suicides) and technically go unpunished, who then slither out of gaol to offer “advice” and whacko theories about 9/11 and 7/10 being “inside jobs”.
We will NOT be complying with this request.
Soooo was this richard cranium removed by the police? If not why not?
That would be our Doomlord, not me, you facile inbred moron.
Outstanding point.
Bovver boy (part time) – do you think, based on the advice of your hero and mentor, that 9/11 and 7/10 were inside jobs?
Enquiring minds, and so on.
In hindsight, I really shouldn’t have asked that question.
Mr Rotten being an MX5 driver, any answer will probably involve a) conscription, and b) Hello Kitty stickers, which are mandated to be prominently displayed on any MX5.
Looks like fani the fuker may win despite rooting her man before he was engaged, misappropriating government funds and committing perjury if the Judge accepts that while there is a preponderance of evidence against her none of it means the standard of proof. However kunts like her are held to a higher legal standard than joe blow which is what she was doing to her black stud in any event.
If she gets off its another nail in the coffin.
A piece of shit, quoting a piece of shit, defending another piece of shit, to run cover for a modern piece of shit.
Liberty Quote
He was indeed. Hard to pick a favourite, but Rear Window would have to be close.
It is good. Bit of an earworm for me actually.
Bzzzzzt. Incorrect.
Edvard Grieg was the correct answer, but I would have settled for Burzum. 😉
When too many preposterous conspiracy hypotheses are barely enough, Cats!
War & the ECM
QUESTION: You have been the only analyst who has been correct that there would be no recession that just about everyone had forecast for the last two years. A friend turned me on to you and said mainstream media will never quote you because you do not play by their rules.
I had to present to our board and explain why we needed to switch to your services. They were impressed with your track record. The number one question that arose was that you said there is no recession until after May 7th. The latest statistics from the Atlanta Federal Reserve’s real-time GDP tracker have climbed back up to 3.1% for February, confirming your model has been correct all along. There has been no retreat in consumer confidence in February.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/war-the-ecm-2/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Only 2 Paras. The SAS will turn up next. LOL.
Vlad the shirtless did say he preferred Biden as Trump was unpredictable.
Roof plumbing?
Guttering, downpipes, etc.
Nothing can possibly go wrong.
err, funnily enough, this simple solution to an intractable problem is very difficult for me to disagree with, cats.
I want labore to lose so there’s some good ol’ “audible in space” squawking and very messy subsequent blame apportionment.
And yes, there will now be a radio show this evening – the theme will be “our favourite new tunes”.
Funnily enough, I’ll be flat out thinking of one, let alone two. 😕
(not so) Mysterious fatal accidents are us. 🙂
Lodes, it’s an excellent idea, although we should give tonight’s concept a try and then next month’s (i.e. April 2024) radio show can essay your suggestion.
My new favourite tunes, rabz.
Killing In The Name Of and I Want To Break Free.
The US did undergo a recession in the first half of 2022, so this is false before any forecasts are considered.
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-growth
That’s the definition – two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth.
The sad thing is Farting Wartstrong has such a high degree of hubris he doesn’t understand he could be wrong, so his made-up client testimonials never have to be checked for their accuracy.
Exquisite.
Tasty Nork chick on the lectric gee-tar as well.
I would have liked to see a Viking clap sequence from the audience, however, rather than the standard one.
Ahem …
A black Strat, thanks KD, no doubt imported from the US of A.
KD
Two of the NK-Pop singers in white are clearly better lookers, but they don’t have much airtime. Must be in the elite pleasure squad too. The other gals are just trophy wives of the blokes running the munitions plant.
AKA, the “Joy Division“.
Woddenhead is lying of course. Covering up for his lord, Marty.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwizxcP_89SEAxWJ2TgGHUkOCS4QFnoECCgQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sec.gov%2Ffiles%2Flitigation%2Fopinions%2F2009%2Fia-2926.pdf&usg=AOvVaw3pXpkt5asqQsWWZkQrcdlD&opi=89978449