Open Thread – Mon 23 Sept 2024


The Hunt of Diana, Arnold Böcklin, 1896

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Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 23, 2024 9:12 pm

Wally Dalí
 September 23, 2024 7:19 pm

This is standard procedure during litigation:

Then “standard procedure” is bullsh*t and should be ignored.

It has a sound basis in fairness and expediting cases by settlement before court.
Assume I say something defamatory about Elon Musk.
He sues me.
I immediately see the error of my ways, apologise and make a generous settlement offer.
However, he decides he is going to break me by running a long-winded case with a battalion of lawyers racking up costs of hundreds of thousands per day.
Should I be bound to pay his costs in pursuing a settlement which is no better than I offered at the outset?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
September 23, 2024 9:18 pm

Change the caption to ” genocided” numberwang.

Ironic the ” survivors” are only around because the noble savages sold their women to them.

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Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
September 23, 2024 9:25 pm

Saw Beetlejuice 2.
(Don’t. See Beetlejuice again instead.)
Keaton can act, and lip sync, but demasculates his old original character by chasing the lame script.
Ryder spends the film in a pained rictus.
Ortega does deadpan without botox, which apparently makes her The Next Big Thing.
Bellucci is wasted, barely shares a soundstage with any other character. Theroux does a piss funny Seagal, whats-her-name does a piss funny Marina Abramovic, but, wasted on a Hallmark-schmaltzy denoument and endless hours of spoken exposition.

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hzhousewife
hzhousewife
September 23, 2024 9:42 pm

It is amusing to read of the trials of the inner city folk and their pets being held to ransom about foxes. In rural Victoria, every wild dog is a dingo, ergo untouchable. Pity the farmers.

cohenite
September 23, 2024 10:20 pm

50 minutes into Horizon An American Saga. I thought Yellowstone and its offshoots were tough.

Indolent
Indolent
September 23, 2024 10:27 pm
Indolent
Indolent
September 23, 2024 10:29 pm
Indolent
Indolent
September 23, 2024 10:33 pm
Rosie
Rosie
September 23, 2024 11:05 pm

Lots of winning for Hezbollah in southern Lebanon atm.
https://x.com/Osint613?t=b7hXdNSXQjYMw8dt4UgegQ&s=09

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
September 23, 2024 11:14 pm

With every bullet fired, they are out of pocket$. .Gov contributes nothing.

What I would like to see is the ADF become involved in helping out. In the field, in the heat, dealing with the flies and help make a dent. Millions of camels out there.

I know, wishful thinking. It would be a whole lot better compared to firing at a target at a firing range.

Just saying.

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Jack Out The Back:

Camel Control Air Mobilised

  1. Yep – introduced with the most recent wave of pre-European colonisers, both the humans and the dogs originally from South…

  2. With every bullet fired, they are out of pocket$. .Gov contributes nothing. What I would like to see is the…

  3. The usual. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-16/dingoes-protected-wild-dog-control-ends-in-north-west-victoria/103591516

  4. Lots of winning for Hezbollah in southern Lebanon atm. https://x.com/Osint613?t=b7hXdNSXQjYMw8dt4UgegQ&s=09

  5. Started watching this a couple of months ago and it’s better in small doses. Slower than a politician’s funeral but…

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