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Winterised Ford T
Dogs just love you don’t care if you fail.
Even the luxury models had to find new ways to stay mobile. ———- 1940 Peugeot 402B Gasifier Limousine Faced with…
TIK TOK, heard so much about it, had to look it up, basically it’s a video sharing social media app.…
Andrew Bolt: Brendan Kerin wants us to believe the Welcome to Country is “250,000 years old”
Brendan Kerin’s Welcome to Country at Saturday’s AFL semi-final showed the “reconciliation” movement is turning us into a nation of liars.
Kerin, from Sydney’s Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council, declared “a Welcome to Country is not a ceremony we’ve invented to cater for white people – it’s a ceremony we’ve been doing for 250,000 years.”
What? Kerin wants us to believe Aboriginals were here at least 50,000 years before our human subspecies – homo sapiens sapiens – actually evolved.
Kerin wants us to believe Aboriginals did this Welcome to Country in all that time when it was actually invented in this form in 1976 by television presenter Ernie Dingo and musician Richard Walley.
Or course, there were once other ways tribes welcomed strangers, but describing them is unwelcome today.
Dingo, himself with Aboriginal ancestors, said one involved elders taking “the sweat from under their arms and [rubbing] down the side of your shoulders so any spirits around can smell the perspiration or the odour of the local, and say, ‘He’s right, leave him alone’”.
Another was more horrific. Adolphus Peter Elkin, a professor of anthropology, detailed it in his classic The Australian Aborigines (sic): How to Understand Them, the final edition of which was published in 1964. He said tribes made peace or welcomed each other by sending over their women for sex.
Robert Hughes in his best-selling history The Fatal Shore, recorded the same: “As a mark of hospitality, wives were lent to visitors … If a woman showed the least reluctance … she would be furiously beaten or even speared.”
But such facts now seem unkind. We prefer sweet lies.
It’s why Melbourne University hired a fake Aboriginal, Bruce Pascoe, as an Enterprise Professor in Indigenous Agriculture, after Pascoe claimed in his fake history, Dark Emu, Aboriginals had actually been farmers in “towns” of 1000 people.
Who dares tell the truth? Prime Minister Anthony Albanese promotes “the stolen generations”, when our courts still haven’t identified a single child stolen from their parents just because they were Aboriginal.
He also claims Aboriginals were here for “65,000 years”, based on just one outlier study – debunked by two more – which claimed to have found a 65,000-year-old hearth.
But who cares? The science actually says 40,000 years. Albanese says 65,000. Pascoe says 100,000. Now Kerin says 250,000. The bigger the untruth, the bigger your heart in a country where truth is dead and sentiment is all.
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Amazes me that these neo-Aborigines with a lot of European ancestry haven’t bothered to read any of the science regarding the evolution and dispersal of homo sapiens, a human species that includes aboriginal Australians. They might also have some interest in the number of migrations of sapiens people that arrived in Australia, over possibly 50,000 years.
Not necessarily of your mob, mate.
Same species, just like you and me, but likely of a different cultural group.
No mention of cannibalism either, and the dire hunt for food or you die. Not an easy life, and one with many conflicts, mainly over access to women, who were treated as chattels and horribly abused.
No mention of “Whistle cocking?”
As written by Watkins Tench in his diary from 1788.
In 1961, the figure claimed was eight thousand years…
Life in a Stone Age Town. This stuff is all getting a bit silly.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/indians-made-it-to-australia-more-than-4000-years-before-the-british-1739488/
Aha, that was the first wave, the second is happening now.
A priest pronouncing on the orthodoxy of the pope.
I thought it was supposed to work the other way ’round?
😀
He IS a heretic. His bulltish pronunciations on “climate change” are a pure, unadulterated heresy.
We are taught to trust God in all things.
If The Good Lord wants the planet to warm up a bit, then he has very good reasons for it, and the pope should be totally trusting in and obeying God’s will
But the Argentine socialist heretic wants us all to pray, and act, and pay for “solutions” which are not part of God’s plan. The pope is actively rejecting God’s will and inciting others to do the same.
If that’s not heresy, then what else is it?
‘Shocking piece of legislation’: Alex Antic savages Labor’s misinformation bill
But who cares? The science actually says 40,000 years.
It’s a good article of Bolt’s pointing out the grotesque crap this fat bearded bastard and other shits like him sprout in the 3rd nation grifter industry; BUT FFS the first folks came to this shithole 47000 years ago. This is set in bones:
(PDF) Humans rather than climate the primary cause of Pleistocene megafaunal extinction in Australia (researchgate.net)
Environmental histories that span the last full glacial cycle and are representative of regional change in Australia are scarce, hampering assessment of environmental change preceding and concurrent with human dispersal on the continent ca. 47,000 years ago. Here we present a continuous 150,000-year record offshore south-western Australia and identify the timing of two critical late Pleistocene events: wide-scale ecosystem change and regional megafaunal population collapse. We establish that substantial changes in vegetation and fire regime occurred ?70,000 years ago under a climate much drier than today. We record high levels of the dung fungus Sporormiella, a proxy for herbivore biomass, from 150,000 to 45,000 years ago, then a marked decline indicating megafaunal population collapse, from 45,000 to 43,100 years ago, placing the extinctions within 4,000 years of human dispersal across Australia. These findings rule out climate change, and implicate humans, as the primary extinction cause.
I would say, without any evidence whatsoever, that the most probable cause of the extinction of the megafauna would have been killing of the young.
the young of any species is inquisitive and restless, and any easy kill for predators
What not the meteor impact that supposedly killed off the carnivores. My god science is in the hands of the different researchers all quoting different theories. Not unlike historians quoting the past with bullshit written by past historians . Some facts can be proven easily others not so much. Political leanings appear to influence some writers.
Statement Dr Reiner Fuellmich Sept 10, 2024
I’d read and heard the name, but was unaware of the efforts to get him. How extraordinary. I remain open-minded as I (almost) always am, but I’m also more open to believing that such a conspiracy is possible than I was five years ago. I never thought I’d be one of ‘THEM!’
This substack provides a short background. (Yes, I listened to the Youtube audio. Thanks, Indolent).
You Were RIGHT! Bill Gates and Tony Blair call for Digital TYRANNY!
It’s a good article of Bolt’s pointing out the grotesque crap this fat bearded bastard and other shits like him sprout in the 3rd nation grifter industry; BUT FFS the first folks came to this shithole 47000 years ago.
A white bloke is not allowed to contradict an aborigine. Or even someone who identifies as one. That’s just white supremacism.
So then why is blek supremacism acceptable and even promoted?
Science doesn’t “say” anything.
Scientists interpret data and publish hypotheses that seek to explain it.
More often than not throughout history they’ve been proven wrong by later scientists who have examined their work and the data and developed better hypotheses. Science is rarely “settled” and to suggest otherwise is counter-productive because it militates against asking questions, which is key to the scientific method.
That’s not criticising science but pointing out how it works.
We shouldn’t dogmatise science…we’ve recently seen the dangers of doing so.
And we should be very wary of governments attempting to forbid criticism of “the science” via “misinformation” legislation. Governments and their bureaucratic advisers have no monopoly on scientific truth.
‘Science’ in 1840 said that people couldn’t travel in trains above 20 miles per hour because the air would be going too fast for them to breathe.
Outstanding summary of cackles from WIP:
word-salad-v0-13sl8mlecgmd1.jpg (719×720) (powerlineblog.com)
Cronkers, the link doesn’t work. Please Learn to code.
Observer: “Monty is the biggest tard in Australia”…
David Shoebridge: ” Hold my soy latte”
https://x.com/DavidShoebridge/status/1834778799424389298
Mr Shoebridge should avoid helicopters.
No, no he should not.
‘Aggressive, drunken, lascivious, sexist’ – Bob Hawke before he was PMBy Frank BongiornoSeptember 13, 2024 — 4.00pm
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What changed when he became P.M?
How long would Hawke have lasted with mobile phones on The Love Boat?
Legend has it he had plenty to work with – if you know what I mean …
I just saw the article Roger posted about the nuclear families – posted around midday.
One of the points raised was the origin of ‘the individual’, the article citing the Greeks and the Romans.
My immediate response was ‘The Greeks, certainly. The Romans probably less so.’ But then it struck me – we know the Greek idea of the individual as an individual found its greatest expression in their philosophy. The idea that the universe orbits around each individual as the centre of the universe. Multiple ‘centres’ at the same time so each sees something slightly (or even profoundly) different.
An astounding revelation.
But then I thought – this thinking would have been concentrated in a certain class – the elite class that read Plato and bummed boys. Did the average Greek see things this way?
Did the early Church read it and made it a core expression of an idea which explained religious teachings which they then pressed upon the whole of their flock? Telling even the lowliest among them such in a way that the ancient Greeks did not bother.
It would be a bit like the marble busts and statues. The European tradition of statuary made of pure marble or limestone or bronze or whatever – unpainted an unadorned – is a sort that we sense as the most honourable and revered. Our parks feature statues of past heroes in blind material. Daubing them with colours would look silly and tacky. Painting Captain Cooks coat and eye-colours would look ridiculous to us, Graffiti, in fact. But now we learn that the Romans and Greeks DID paint their statues. (And columns, and so on.) But the Europeans accidentally created something new. The sculptings of Michelangelo are far more poignant than anything a Roman (or even a Greek) could have created. You see those statues of Augustus Caesar posing as Father of the Country and see something splendid. The Romans wouldn’t have. They painted it. Painted the eyes, the eyelashes, and God knows what traits were not depicted in shape such as skin colour. The Europeans carved figures that would make the ancients’ work look rather flat.
I always come back to Michelangelo’s ‘David’. I see exactly what Kenneth Clark saw when he described it as, below the neck just an ordinary statue of the sort that any Roman or Greek sculptor might have made. But then you come to the head and see something new, perhaps something unique to Christian tradition – the ancient statues showed faces in anger, pride, placidness, majesty, even magnanimity. But the David shows a distinctive determination and a contempt for physical discomfort. Something not just absent from the statues but the literature.
It found a place in the art because they did not know about the paint.
And here is the kicker. While your average Greek might not have had much of an idea of the primacy of the individual (while they all would certainly had a clear idea of their own individuality “I am immobilised by my pain. I fear for my children and my family – they are most important to me) there was perhaps an accidental precursor to the non-Clan corporations in Greece in the Athenian reforms by some old guy that rearranged the Athenian political system into Trittys where instead of having organic tribes from the city, the plain and the coast (who would all have had their own city, plain, or coastal prejudices) they deliberately created new tribes which were each made up of people of the three regions who now had to work together in competition with other tribes so comprised – people from the city working with people of the plain against other people of the city from a different tribe.
Even now our electoral system tries to prevent geography like the urban areas riding roughshod over less populous areas like farmers. It is why we have the senate system we have, and the Americans their electoral college.
Tyrannous people in London, NY, LA, Sydney and Melbourne hate these systems precisely because they are harder to game.
That would make the locals homo erectus. They really should think before spouting this stuff.
problem is that not many that hear it can think either
Outsiders really cut loose on this issue. Well justified. It’s terrifying.
‘Insanity’: Coalition ‘finally’ standing up to Labor’s misinformation bill
Somebody commented earlier today or yesterday that they have had enough of the welcome to country and the aboriginal activism, that the best thing to do is repeal the Native Title Act and make everyone equal.
Most Australians are equally fed up but are not able to stop the juggernaut that is being encouraged by Labor in particular and the left generally. This will likely be resolved in the next five to ten years by the very millions of migrants currently being let into the “country”.
Once the new arrivals become citizens and start voting they likewise will be disgusted by the divisions and inequality these laws and practices are facilitating and will vote to repeal the Native Title Act and disband or strip the myriad aboriginal groups, committees, councils etc of any powers.
In other words, Labor and Greens are importing the very people who will put an end to their grip on power.
If you were an inner European communist Catholic bishop electing a new pope, what would be your ideal useful idiot.
Thank you Lord, a hillbilly Peronist fascist will do just fine.
Well, there you go – from an ahistorical greenfilth imbecile who isn’t afraid to traduce St Gough – the latter being the legislative legend who gifted sewerage to Mosquebourne, freed all the indodgyknees, gave women the vote and brought the diggers back from Veitman. 😕
Modern cars are shit. Really, really shit. Engineers need to be brought, grabbed by the back of the neck, to their idiotic creations and have their heads banged against metal until they get it.
Just did the service on the missus new acquisition, a 2018 Camry. Forget that I had to bung the Model A’s body back on it’s chassis to make room in the shed for the Toyota. That’s the least of it.
It has an electronic park brake. What a stupid idea.
Are people really so lazy and useless that they can’t be bothered pulling a lever?
These are ideas searching for some clueless lady person customer.
Fine. You want, Mr Engineer, to sell cars to ladies, and gadgets that do already simple operations at the flick of a switch help you to do that.
But the switch has to be attached to two electric motors. Which attach to the rear brake cylinders. Which Arky has to spend half the day researching how to disengage without breaking them or the sensors attached thereto.
Turns out Toyota has programmed in a procedure which involves pressing the brake pedal, turning the key on and off, and lifting the park brake button up three times, down three times, all of which must be performed in correct order and timing. And the drivers door has to be open. And if you stuff it up you turn the car off and walk away to give it and you time to cool down.
After many attempts, eventually the motors disengage themselves from the brake cylinders, and the brakes can be serviced as per a normal car which a normal man might be enticed to buy in a normal world full of engineers who weren’t sadistic pricks with tiny hands, tiny, deviant minds and microscopic genitals.
Admittedly, the motors, once the extravagant dance of the ignition key, button and foot brake is complete, withdraw themselves with a satisfying whir. Pretty cool actually.
Ladies. Understand, that even though you are a fragile, semi incapacitated and delicate individual with special needs, all these little extra gizmos require motors. The automatic tailgate, the handbrake that turns itself on and off, the button operated sunroof. The seat that massages your generous arse.
These motors are responsible for the fact that your car, like you, is now obese. Also, your car will be broken beyond economic repair once these motors start to break, making your resale value and the usefulness of the vehicle to subsequent owners… doubtful. The downsides far outweigh the tiny bit of “specialness” you might feel at purchase. Just stop.
Don’t you hold back, now, Archibald. Tell us what you really think!
Great rant Arky!
Toyota used to use the Camry as a testbed for new ideas. Early 90’s they ran the engine fan on a hydraulic motor that used the bypass from the power steering pump as a driver. Beautiful little hydraulic motors but the idea didn’t catch on so they dropped it.
They are still using their electronic parking brake, so it must have passed their test panel.
Servicability is the first thing that goes when technology starts to advance and their EPB is a classic example
Enjoyed that Arky! It’s a fine advertisement for a Model A, which doesn’t have a frigging computer in it.
Tale for Arky-
Many years ago I read of an NZ farmer who surprised his neighbours by appearing with a shiny, unmarked Model A – in the 1950s, when the Model A was about 25 years old.It was much nicer than the well used Model A he had driven since it was new.
Turned out, about 1930 the farmer was very impressed with the then new Model A – a great advance on the Model T and surely the acme of cars – nothing better was possible!
He bought a pair, drove One as long as possible – then took Number Two out of careful storage and was set for the next couple of decades.
…and that’s why i drive a twenty year old Patrol.
Very little bullshit and NO FRIGGING DING DONGS.
Good to see you’ve finally noticed, Arks.
I don’t know what’s more infantilising- the Noble Savage industry expecting us to believe that pre-British australians were wise, subtle, humble and hospitable demi-nature-gods who never knew hardship nor greed… or expecting us to believe that the penultimate nations were actually a united fierce warrior race who woulda taken all youse c**** out but were tricked out if their inheritance by trickery, genocide, poisoned waterholes and biowarfare blankets.
“a united fierce warrior race”
Was there ever a “warrior race” who mounted such a futile resistance?
Is the invention of gunpowder, sold to the Chinese through maritime trade appearing in volume two of the Pascoe Chronicles?
JC
September 14, 2024 11:30 pm
This is hilarious.
JC, one of many here representative of the bourgeoisie, can plainly see what’s happening to those less fortunate and vulnerable.
On the other hand we have Monty (Comrade), fearless defender of the proletariat, who, let’s face it, couldn’t give a fat rats clacker what happens to the little people.
What I hate the most is the automatic lane guide that some cars have where it wants to wrestle you for the steering wheel if it doesn’t think you are doing it right.
Just drove a rented Opel in Europe and had to remember to disable the feature each time I started the car. It was really distressing when it kicked in while huge trucks were driving past in the opposite direction on very narrow roads.
Well Opels are crap and have been for many years.
Test.
BOM
Test 2
BOM
Steps followed, no joy.
Worked in test 2. What were you expecting?
Modern cars are shit. Really, really shit.
The Mazda CX-5 has an electronic park brake. Kinda neat actually as it never needs to be adjusted. Electric motor winds a cable on a drum. I suspect they monitor the motor current and stop it when it stalls. Cable stretch/pad wear doesn’t matter
It took awhile to adjust as we leaped 19 years of automotive tech but the driver assist features are pretty unobtrusive. Love the radar cruise control and the synthetic top down camera view for parking.
You want low tech? Get a Cessna. Makes an FJ Holden look like a riot of modern technology.
dover0beach
September 15, 2024 8:24 pm
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Indeed it did. Cheers.
I do love the SpaceX people. Was just scanning the vid of the return of the private spacewalk mission, when I saw what they had decalled on the inside of their spacecraft.
Perfect!
(From 1:55:10 in the video.)
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/im-with-elon.html
Numbers Bob is there, turning the site into how he was conscripted to fight in Vietnam…
Dover, when I highlighted BOM, is that ment to appear in the link box?
No. You type or paste in the word in the comm box. Then highlight it, and press link below, then paste the Web address in window, and save. Post.
First experience with all the bing bongs of a modern car was a rental car out of Mackay on the Peak Downs hwy. Approaching a slow vehicle between Eton’s Gap and Nebo with not a lot of room to overtake.
Made the d to go for it but had got gotten too close to the car in front that my car started backing off for without my input. Here I am after not noticing the car was washing off speed and pulling into the oncoming lane to overtake and WTF till I planted the foot and she took off before it got dangerous and I pulled in front. There were others behind me waiting to have their turn as well.
About 10km later approaching an overtaking lane same approaching a slower vehicle and it did exactly the same, till the foot was planted and I passed.
Now I was wary WTF is going on. Other side of Nebo approached another slow veh but no good for overtaking. The car started washing off speed keeping a gap that was bigger than I wanted or needed. That’s when the light bulb went on the car was doing it.
At site on handover my offsider had a giggle and asked how I didn’t know it was a safety feature and all the newer models have it. I didn’t at that time and retorted it was also bloody dangerous.
I quickly learned how to switch off these features and did it every time I had the vehicles. I think we can be too reliant on technology at times.
Or, you know, don’t be a tailgating arse.
250,000 years old
If that’s the case, then Australian aboriginals are not part of the human story, they’re a different human to the rest of us.
Is there no one in the media and in academia who is willing to stand up and say ‘enough’ of this rubbish?
This whole situation will continue, until the rest of Australia learns that “pulling the legs” of gullible “whitefellas” is considered fine sport by the Indigenous population. Such “leg pulling” was whatt led to “Welcome to Country” in the first place.
The joke, ZK2A, is well and truly over.
We’ve had a gutful.
Response to Wally’s 8:04 p.m. post:
I’ve noted previously that the black armband version of history is a spit in the face of those indigenous people at the time of European settlement who chose to adapt to radically different circumstances as best they could, and who saw the benefits the newcomers brought.
Straddling two worlds could not have been an easy task, but plenty must have done it. To ignore the trials and tribulations of those who chose to try to mesh the old with the new, is more than ignorance and arrogance: It is a conceit that anyone would or could have acted differently.
Spitting on the spirits of those 2-world straddlers is worthy of having the bone pointed. You cannot be a ‘proud’ such-and-such if you disrespect the memory of those you claim to be a descendant of. The chances are that back then, weak characters like yourself would have been cast aside, if you were lucky.
More SpaceX awesomeness.
Yes, they rode through the atmosphere back to Earth on a heatshield made of Spam.
(Vid at about 45:00.)
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 15, 2024 9:18 pm
Awaiting for approval
‘Cold blooded deviant’ walked free, killed partner Liam Mendes
3 hours ago.
Updated 1 hours ago
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A man who cut through his partner’s achilles tendon after a three decade history of assaulting women has been charged with murder after being released from prison less than a year ago, when he was sentenced to less than one-third of the maximum sentence by the Northern Territory’s chief justice.
Criminal. Maybe the judges who let them out early to re-offend should serve the remainder of the forfeited sentence when the habitual assaulter kills.
The Hyundai steering assist is pretty unobtrusive.
An Unserious Debate in Which Trump got the Strongest Play
omfg… The Voice
I’m pitching some improvements to help them attract a wider viewing audience
option 1, The Voice: death-match
everybody sings but the loser, instead of going home, gets hog-tied and grilled over open flame like Haitian long pig
the losing judge is left on an ant-hill with the camera rolling until it’s over
option 2, The Voice: Roller Derby
contenders roller skate with knuckle dusters and baseball bats at high speed … singing, obviously
the last skater who can carry a tune wins
and the judges are pooled defenseless at the end of the series to be mercilessly beaten by the contenders
It’s 10 minutes
Perhaps I need help.
Comrade Kamala comes off as caring and reasonable in this interview.
Targets grassroots in contrast to the trickle-down theory of Trump.
I suppose it all being paid for by OPM is the catch.
Marvellous editing by ABC – I see it went the other way with NBC who took out 5 minutes of Mike Johnston’s interview to make him look – bad.
Muddy, the “walks in two worlds” conceit leaves me cold… it’s an invention of the Geoff Clarks of the current day, where a massive beneficiary wants to reap the boons of the Enlightenment while claiming protected victim status at the same time.
I doubt that any of the overwhelming majority of aboriginals who left the hardships of a hunter-gatherer superstitious gentocracy and grabbed British civilization with both hands ever looked back, let alone believed that they were somehow transcending both cultures.
They had food they didn’t have to hunt for, or go hungry. Of course many would take advantage of that.
Modern cars?
Just for 12 months, I like to see a rule that every car had to be manual.
Sort out the yummy mummies trekking through wildest,deepest,unexplored Australian shopping centres in V8 Patrols, LandCruisers etc.
Rack off, modern manuals are not kind to my frozen ankle. Old tojos, however, are easy. Must be the angle of the pedals.
JD Vance admits on CNN that the Haitian cat barbeque stuff is all made up.
Christopher Rufo offered five grand for proof that the Springfield stories were true. He got some grainy footage of chickens on a grill in Dayton, with live cats prowling nearby.
You lot look like fools once again.
Meanwhile, Trump reacts with dignity and composure to an Ipsos poll where he is down six points:
This comment does not appear on realDonaldTrump’s recent Twitter timeline and that is not the avatar he currently uses.
Can you link to it directly?
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